{"text":"Amazon's latest covid 19 self-test is now up for the users\nAmazon is now selling its covid 19 test kit directly to customers, whose results will be displayed on the amazon diagnostic website, which was initially designed for Amazon employees.\nThe test is on sale for $39.99 with one day delivery and free delivery in some areas .\nHow does the test work?\nFor using this test, a patient swabs their own nose at home and places it in a box with a prepaid shipping return label. The swabs are then sent to a centralized lab. This was primarily used only for Amazon employees but now is available for everyone in the US.\nThe in-house test is the newest Amazon expansion into healthcare. Recently the company started offering its telehealth and at-home health program to other than its own employees in march.\nThrough the Amazon pharmacy program they are also offering medication for six months at $6.\nFor more news: Instagram reveals what influences its algorithm\ncoronavirus vaccinecovid-19\nDivya Manmode\nHey I am Divya Manmode . I am a doctor by profession and writer by heart. Stay tuned for fresh articles.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home>columns>How I See Music \/ Music as a Vessel\nHow I See Music \/ Music as a Vessel\nPosted-on December 1, 2021 December 1, 2021 By lineBylineWRGW_MusicEditor\nBY OLIVER KOGOD\/\/\nOftentimes, I try to convince myself that there is more to the world than music. I know it's true. The songs I consume are only a small sliver of what's out there. Yet, despite the attempt to convince myself, I still have trouble seeing the world in a non-music lens. Everything, to me, is music-related.\nI think a lot about music. What it means, its role (if it has one), why I like it so much, etc. The third topic is what I want to focus on. I feel as though something that permeates my life in so many ways deserves examination. And the examination would be valuable for myself and other music lovers, and maybe even for people who interact with the world through a music lens like I do.\nWhy I like music goes hand in hand with how I see music. The two topics are closely tangled together.\nI see music as a container. Each song, album, artist, genre, era, playlist, sound is a vessel. The vessels are not completely empty nor are they completely full. The space that is already filled is the meaning inherent to the music. A song, for instance, has ascribed meaning put there by the artist. The meaning can be found anywhere in the music, such as the lyrics, the instrumental, the tone, the sounds, the subtext of the words, etc.\nWhat I love most about music is not the meanings put into the music by the artist, rather it is the meanings we as listeners put into the music ourselves. We usually do this individually on our own, or sometimes in groups. Our personal meanings fill up the empty space in the vessel.\nFor me, my personal meanings of music are generally saved through memories. Memories are associated with specific songs. Hearing these special songs brings a rush of past experiences that make up who I am. The songs capture that time and place and put them into a contained recording that I can access at any time. I like that songs can capture these experiences and wrap them up so beautifully.\nMusic as memories (and memories as music) bring about two benefits that add to why I love music so much. First off, music memories serve as documentation for the past. Songs become archives that record past events and experiences. Playlists full of these special songs become history books. The music records your personal history. I think this is both cool and useful in saving past experiences and telling stories.\nSecondly, music memories are great in taking you to different places. I see music as the Great Relocator. Music is capable of moving its listeners. I'm not talking about physically moving people, although it can inspire dance and movement. Rather, I mean music lifting listeners up from where they're at and bringing them far distances away. In my life, for example, I am sitting here writing this down. But the moment I press play on Turnstile's \"Mystery,\" I am no longer here. The surroundings here aren't what I experience. I am standing on top of my favorite hill back home in San Francisco overlooking the city on a crisp, clear morning (a beautiful memory). Or if I decide to listen to the Neil Young song \"Cowgirl In The Sand\" (the live at Massey Hall 1971 version), I am driving on a rainy, dark highway in Central California with my friend Marcus coming home from a wonderful visit of old friends (another beautiful memory). This is what I mean. Music can transport us to different times and places. When I'm listening to one of those special-to-me songs, my body may be here where you see it, but am I really here? You know? Music takes me off into a different world.\nI put on a song and close my eyes. There are a few questions that I ask myself. Where does this song take me? What do I see\/sense around me? I love asking these questions with other people as we listen to music as a group. It's exciting to hear the places and times that they are taken to. The answers to the questions bring up the associations, both to memories and to unknown possibilities, that we hold with certain music.\nThese associations are the personal meanings that fill up the rest of the space in the vessel that I see as music. Thinking of music as memory-filled vessels is definitely not the only way to see it. But it's a perspective that I've held onto and one that has enhanced my listening and lived experiences. It has also challenged me to examine my notions surrounding music, this intangible unexplainable medium that I love so deeply.\nLike in life, there is never just one way to see something. Music is the same. I offered my vision but it is not the only or best way. Just keep listening. -OK\nCategoriescolumns Returning the GiftTags,column kogod\nPrevious PostPrev Article Daddy's Beemer on Going Back on Tour and the School of Rock Inspiration\nNext PostNext Article An Interview With Runnner","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Friends remember kind Tony\nTRIBUTES have been paid to a 43-year-old Shotwick businessman who died after a sudden illness.\nTony Reynolds, whose numerous business interests included The Brook Meadow Hotel in Childer Thornton, was laid to rest last Thursday at St Nicholas' Parish Church in Burton.\nHe is survived by wife Penny, daughter Jen, mother Sonia, stepmother Heidi and sisters Sally and Gill.\nHis close friend and colleague Stephen Yip, founder of the Liverpool-based children's charity KIND, fondly recalls 'a big man in every sense of the word'.\nMr Reynolds, who was born in Liverpool, was a trustee of KIND and committed to giving something back to the community in which he was born.\nMr Yip added: 'In his 43 years, Tony achieved a tremendous amount, both in the business and personal sense.\n'He was the founder of AE Reynolds and the family were the first Honda dealers in the UK. Tony developed the company into one of the biggest Honda dealers in England.\n'He also developed other business interests, including The Brook Meadow Hotel, Tony's Restaurant and a number of petrol stations in Hooton and Liverpool.' But despite his heavy business workload, Mr Reynolds dedicated much of his time to others.\nMr Yip said: 'As a trustee of KIND for the last 15 years, he helped to provide many disadvantaged and deprived local children with an opportunity to experience another side of life and to show that they and life do have more to offer.\n'His drive and enthusiasm helped to secure and establish the charity for the future. Tony was also heavily involved in his daughter's local junior school.\n'Tony was a big man in every sense of the word and will be missed by all who knew and loved him.'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Covid-19 Support Fund\nnaar veiling\nFlu fact sheet for parents increases vaccination rate in children\nYoung children are more likely to suffer severe, even life-threatening complications from the flu, but only around half of children in the US get the flu vaccine.\nA cheap and simple pamphlet about the flu, handed to parents in their pediatrician's waiting room, can have a significant impact on increasing the uptake of the flu vaccine, a new study from researchers at Columbia University has found.\nThe study\u2014a randomized, controlled clinical trial\u2014is one of the first to look at the effect of educational information on influenza vaccination rates in children.\n\"Parents' concerns and misperceptions about vaccines are on the rise,\" says Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics and population and family health at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and senior author on the paper. \"But previous studies have shown that offering information to disprove vaccine myths, in some cases, only reinforces parents' beliefs about vaccination and can even reduce the number of vaccine-hesitant parents who intend to get their kids vaccinated.\"\nInfluenza spreads easily and affects about 8% of children each year. In young children, especially those under 2 years of age, the flu is more likely to cause pneumonia and severe inflammatory responses, which can result in hospitalization and even death.\nThe best way to prevent influenza is with the influenza vaccine, aka 'flu shot,' and both the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics recommend annual flu vaccination for children age 6 months and up.\n\"In our study, we hoped to identify educational content that would encourage parents to get their children vaccinated against the flu,\" says Vanessa P. Scott, MD, first author who was previously a general academic pediatrics fellow at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and is currently an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at University of California San Diego.\nWhat the Study Found\nThe study included 400 parent-and-child pairs at pediatric clinics in northern Manhattan. The parents answered a brief questionnaire to assess their attitudes toward the flu shot and their intent to vaccinate. One-third received a one-page handout with local information about the flu, another third received a one-page handout with national information about the flu, and the rest received usual care (no handout). Both handouts emphasized the risk of getting the flu, the seriousness of the disease, and vaccine effectiveness. Providers were unaware of the parent's study participation.\nGreat American Cleanup 2019\nSU4SU\ninfo@su4su.sr\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 SU4SU. All Rights Reserved.\nCarefully crafted by The Back Lot.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Managing IP launched its official Rising Stars list for 2021!\nManaging IP launched its official Rising Stars list for 2021. This special publication, produced by IP STARS research team, recognizes some of the best up-and-coming intellectual property practitioners, based on the information obtained during the research for the 2021 edition of IP STARS rankings and MIP Awards program. This year, it features more than 50 jurisdictions.\nZMP at Rising Stars list for 2021\nZMP is proud to present three of its recognized 2021 Stars:\nMarija Marki\u0107evi\u0107 Pijevi\u0107 \u2013 Trademark Star, Patent Star\nMarija Marki\u0107evi\u0107 Pijevi\u0107 is Head of ZMP Serbia who joined the firm in 1997. Marija has over 20 years' experience in trademark and patent prosecution and litigation matters. She has extensive experience in providing legal assistance to domestic and international clients on all matters relating to IP rights and unfair competition, as well as dispute resolution. She manages domestic clients' IP portfolios with a proactive and strategic approach to their rights' protection and enforcement.\nVladimir Marenovi\u0107 \u2013 Trademark Star, Patent Star\nVladimir Marenovi\u0107 is Head of ZMP legal department. He is a senior associate who has worked in ZMP for fifteen years. Vladimir has extensive experience in advising international clients on all matters relating to copyright, trademarks, designs, domains and unfair competition. Through his career he specialized in IP litigation. Today, he oversees enforcement matters in all the countries of the region, providing expert advice and legal assistance in counterfeiting matters among others.\nIvana Kne\u017eevi\u0107 \u2013 Trademark Star\nIvana Kne\u017eevi\u0107 is Patent & Trademark Attorney in ZMP Croatia who joined ZMP in 2012. She has over 10 years' experience in trademark prosecution and anti-counterfeiting matters. Ivana is the point of contact for many of the firm's largest clients in customs and anti-counterfeiting matters, providing them with immediate service that draws on her extensive knowledge of customs legislation in the region's jurisdictions. In addition, she oversees IP matters in Croatia, providing expert advice and legal assistance in all matters related to IP.\nCongratulations to all the practitioners ranked this year, especially to our very own Stars!\n#MIPRisingStars\nINTA Committee Appointments for the 2022-2023 term\nBig congratulations to five ZMP Attorneys appointed to INTA Committees for the 2022\u20132023 term: Djura Mijatovic, Mina Jovanovic, Joanna Szota, Tsvetomira Vasileva and Ivana Knezevic. This year, more than 3,900 member volunteers applied to serve on INTA committees, which is why we are extremely proud of this success!\nZMP Attorneys in the Inta committee appointments for the 2022-2023 term\nOur Managing Partner, Djura Mijatovic, for the second consecutive term, was appointed to the Unreal Campaign Committee which advances INTA's consumer awareness initiative designed to educate young consumers about the importance of trademarks and brands and the dangers of counterfeit products.\nMina Jovanovic, Attorney-at-Law from our Belgrade office, as a part of Professional Development Committee, will work on identifying resources and programs developed by INTA or from external sources to cultivate the substantive and dynamic skills of all levels and types of IP practitioners.\nWithin the Trademark Office Practices Committee, Joanna Szota, Polish Patent & Trademark Attorney, will evaluate and suggest improvements to trademark office practices, procedures, operations, and regulations at the national, regional, and international levels, and will monitor and analyze trademark office developments in various jurisdictions.\nTsvetomira Vasileva, Bulgarian Trademark Attorney, through the Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee will have the task of developing and advocating INTA policy on the balanced protection of famous and well-known marks. The Committee monitors and analyzes developments in treaties, cases, legislation, and regulation in various jurisdictions, and proposes policy recommendations to the Board.\nIvana Knezevic, Croatian Patent & Trademark Attorney, as a part of the Parallel Imports Committee will work on developing and advocating INTA policy on the balanced protection against parallel imports. The Committee monitors and analyzes developments in treaties, cases, legislation, and regulations in various jurisdictions, and proposes policy recommendations to the Board.\nWe are very confident that our Attorneys, with their efforts and dedication, will support and contribute to INTA policies in their areas of expertise, and make a difference in achieving INTA objectives!\nDjura Mijatovi\u0107 and Vladimir Marenovic included in WIPR Leaders 2021\nWe are pleased to announce that two ZMP's Team members are recognized by the 2021 edition of WIPR Leaders:\nDjura Mijatovic \u2013 Managing Partner\nVladimir Marenovic \u2013 Senior Associate\nYou can find more information in this link: http:\/\/bit.ly\/WIPRLeaders21 Continue reading \"Djura Mijatovi\u0107 and Vladimir Marenovic included in WIPR Leaders 2021\"\nZMP recommended by WTR 1000 in 11 jurisdictions\nWe are proud to announce that ZMP has, once again, been recognized by the WTR 1000. With the addition of our newest office in Poland, ZMP's recognition now spans across eleven jurisdictions in Central-Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.\nContinue reading \"ZMP recommended by WTR 1000 in 11 jurisdictions\"\nThis newsletter is to inform you that EU trademarks and Community Designs registered and, where applicable, the Community Designs published following a deferral of publication before the end of the transition period of 31 December 2020, will be automatically converted into comparable UK registrations. Article 56 of the Withdrawal Agreement requires that the UK takes measures to ensure the continued protection of registered trademarks and designs designating the EU pursuant to the Madrid\/Hague system respectively.\nOwners of comparable marks will pay renewal fees to the UKIPO and the EUIPO or WIPO.\nFor those rights which are still pending, there will be a nine months period (from January to September 2021) during which the interested Applicants should request a comparable Application in the UK.\nAs from 1 January 2021 (unless there is an extension of the transitional period), EUTMs and Community Designs will no longer include the UK. This is of particular relevance for all the pending conflicts in the EU which involve prior UK rights.\nPlease feel free to contact us at admin@zm-p.com to determine whether any action is needed to preserve the scope of protection of your pending matters, and to resolve any doubts you may have regarding the impact of Brexit on your present cases involving any UK prior rights on the territory of the European Union.\nZivko Mijatovic & Partners\nYou can contact us here\nOn June 9, 2020, the Commercial court in Montenegro issued a pivotal decision in a single colour trademark infringement case.\nContinue reading \"The Commercial Court in Montenegro Passed an Important Decision on Infringement of a Single Colour Trademark Registration\"\nRomania \u2013 Amendments to the Law on Trademarks and Geographical Indications entered into force on 13.07.2020\nLaw no. 112\/2020 amending and supplementing Law no. 84\/1998 on Trademarks and Geographical Indications (the \"Law\") entered into force on 13.07.2020. The scope of the Law is to transpose Directive (EU) 2015\/2436 into national law. The most important changes introduced by the Law can be summarized as follows:\nContinue reading \"Romania \u2013 Amendments to the Law on Trademarks and Geographical Indications entered into force on 13.07.2020\"\nMina Jovanovi\u0107 3rd prize winner 2020 ECTA\nOn behalf of \u017divko Mijatovi\u0107 and Partners, we are delighted to announce that our very own Mina Jovanovi\u0107, has been elected as a 3rd prize winner of the 2020 ECTA Awards' Student Category, for her publication entitled:\n\"The originality requirement in EU and U.S., different approaches and implementation in practice\".\nWith a PhD degree from Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, MA degree from King's College, London, and the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, besides being a very seasoned litigator, Mina is involved in academia as well. She is also a recipient of INTA's Tomorrow's Leader Award for the year 2018. We are very proud of her achievements so far and eagerly await for the new ones, both professional and scholarly.\nYou can find fore information about 3rd prize winner 2020 ECTA in the following link:\nhttps:\/\/ecta.org\/en\/latest-news-detail\/news\/ecta-award-2020-winners\/\nVladimir Marenovic included in WIPR Leaders 2020\nZMP is pleased to anounce that Vladimir Marenovic, from our Serbian office, has been named in the new edition of WIPR Leaders 2020. The international directory has recognized Vladimir Marenovic as one of the leader patent and trademark practitioners around the world, and we are very proud about this designation.\nContinue reading \"Vladimir Marenovic included in WIPR Leaders 2020\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Full Day Experiences\nHalf Day Experiences\nMidnight Rome Tour\nItalian food culture \u2013 Spaghetti carbonara\nPost by Michele\nThis post has been written following a logical path that over the years has led me to understand and appreciate much better the cultural wonders of Italy.\nOn the side you'll find a Table of contents.\nBelow you'll find a Table of contents.\nI advise you to read all the paragraphs in their order and I invite you to leave your comment at the bottom of the page, perhaps with useful information and curiosities about this and other typical Italian dishes. Enjoy the reading.\nSpaghetti carbonara: a myth of Italian cuisine\nIn search of the origins of carbonara sauce\nThe real history of Spaghetti carbonara between myths and legends\nSpaghetti carbonara recipe\nLittle secrets to prepare a superb Spaghetti carbonara\nSpaghetti carbonara is certainly one of the most traditional dish of the Italian cuisine.\nParticularly common in the central part of Italy, carbonara sauce is probably the most difficult of the pasta seasonings.\nThere is a lot to be said about the origin of spaghetti carbonara (in Italian, Spaghetti alla carbonara) which, like many other italian foods, has a really interesting history.\nYou will surely know, for example, that Italy, known for its pasta with tomato sauce, would not have this gastronomic reputation if Marco Polo's navigation had not led him to know the \"golden apple\" (this is the literary translation of tomato)as well as for soy spaghetti (noodles) or potatoes whose transformation led to the creation of famous specialties of traditional Italian cuisine.\nWell, even spaghetti carbonara seems to be actually the result of these migrations and cultural imports of which Italy is certainly jealous and appreciated guardian.\nGiven the premise on Marco Polo, if I say that this dish is traditional of Chinese cuisine I would lie unashamedly but one thing is certain; the recipe for pasta alla carbonara only appears after the Second World War and, in this case, sees nothing less than American soldiers as protagonists.\nOMG, Spaghetti alla carbonara is well known to be a Roman traditional dish. Is a myth collapsing?\nI am pervaded by a chill of cold !!\nIn fact, leafing through the historical documents of Italian cuisine we do not find a trace of spaghetti alla carbonara in the Talisman of Happiness, written by Ada Boni in 1930 in which all the recipes of the Roman culinary tradition are registered.\nInstead, the spaghetti carbonara recipe seems to have been published for the first time in 1952 in an American gastronomic guide entitled \"An extraordinary guide to what's cooking on Chicago's Near North Side\", written by Patricia Bront\u00e9.\nThe first appearance of carbonara sauce on an Italian cuisine publication, although the ingredients are NOT ABSOLUTELY those of carbonara spaghetti known today, seems to date back to 1954. The ingredients reported in this version of spaghetti carbonara are: egg , bacon, Gruyere and garlic.\nNo, no, no !!! Italian pride rebels.\nOnly in 1955 in the \"Lady in the kitchen\", Italian cookbook written by Felix Dess\u00ec, spaghetti carbonara is presented in a version more similar to today, with the presence of eggs, pepper, parmesan.\nOver the years, other ingredients such as: wine, garlic, onion, parsley, pepper, chilli pepper find space in the carbonara spaghetti recipe but the definitive consecration of the carbonara spaghetti as a national recipe takes place with the publication in Luigi Carnacina's recipe book \"La grande cucina \" dated 1960.\nFor the first time, pork cheek is introduced, replacing the bacon, and the cream that will often be present in the carbonara sauce recipe until the end of the 80s.\nIn today's version, as recognized in Italy, spaghetti carbonara recipe includes four simple ingredients masterfully combined with each other: egg, pecorino and pork cheek with a generous sprinkle of black pepper.\nThe true origins of this fantastic italian recipe are not entirely clear.\nSomeone wants carbonara sauce to take its name from the Abruzzese lumberjacks who collected wood to make coal, others that it was the typical dish of shepherds in transhumance or that it was a typical dish of Roman cuisine at the time of the carbonari but, according to the most accredited sources, the history of spaghetti carbonara seems to be linked to the Americans and the Second World War.\nIn fact, it seems that the traditional dishes in use at the time had been enriched with meat to satisfy the wishes of Americans, who have always been great consumers of meat.\nBut what was the local tradition of Italian cuisine?\nLet's introduce some data so that the probable origin of spaghetti carbonara is more easy to undertsand.\nPasta carbonara is now recognized as a typical dish of Roman cuisine but in reality linked to the gastronomic culture of two Italian regions: Lazio (the region of which Rome is the capital) and Abruzzo.\nBoth these regions are crossed by the Apennines, a gentle mountain range where in the past abundant flocks of sheep passed to spend the winter in the coastal plains of the south, in particular in the Region of Puglia, and then returned in spring on the fresh and greener meadows of the Apennine heights of central Italy, in particular of the Abruzzo region.\nAnd it is precisely in central Italy, where the sheep fed in the spring, that there is a higher consumption of the famous pecorino, a cheese made from sheep's milk.\nSomeone therefore claims that during the Second World War on the Reinhard line, between Lazio, Molise and Campania, bacon was added to the pasta \"ovo e cacio\", a typical dish of Abruzzo cuisine, to please Americans who have always been great consumers of meat. But still today the most accredited, documented and never denied version is that of Renato Gualandi.\nThis young chef from Bologna was hired in September 1944 to prepare a lunch on the occasion of the meeting between the English Eighth Army and the American Fifth Army in the newly liberated city of Riccione. In his memories Gualandi quotes: \"The Americans had fantastic bacon, delicious milk cream, cheese and egg red powder. I put it all together and served this pasta to the generals and officers for dinner. At the last moment I decided to put black pepper which gave off an excellent flavor.\"\nSubsequently, from September 1944 to April 1945, Gualandi was hired as a cook for the American troops in Rome and it seems that it was then that the fame and use of Spaghetti carbonara spread in the capital and became a traditional italian dish.\n350 gr.\/ 0.88 pounds of spaghetti\n120 gr.\/ 0.250 pounds of pork cheek\n50 gr. \/ 0.11 pounds of Roman pecorino\nBlack pepper as wished\nBoil the water for the pasta.\nIn the meantime, cut the bacon into thin slices (2mm. \/0.08 inches) and then into strips of 5mm \/ 0.20 inches) and cook over low heat until it becomes crispy.\nSeparately, beat the eggs, add the pecorino and stretch with 40 gr \/2.5 ounces of water. Mix with a whisk so that the eggs become creamy and salty.\nWhen the pasta water boils, add sea salt and cook the pasta. Drain the pasta and saute it in the pan whit the pork cheek to allow the absorption of the pork cheek fat and flavour by the pasta.\nTurn off the heat, add the mixture of eggs and pecorino and mix everything quickly avoiding the formation of lumps (the scrambled eggs effect).\nIf strictly necessary, to maintain the right creaminess, add just a little cooking water. Sprinkle fresh black pepper as wished and serve warm.\nThis is the creamy Spaghetti carbonara you are looking for.\nThis is the scrambled eggs result you should avoid.\nTo prepare the carbonara it takes long pasta. Green light for bavette or bucatini, but the pasta indicated for carbonara sauce is spaghetti.\nThe pork cheek, with the more delicate flavor of the bacon, should be cut into strips and cooked on a low heat until it becomes slightly crispy.\nBtw, nobody kills you if if cut the pork cheek in little cubes.\nWhen you saute the past with the pork cheek the pasta has to look shining and slightly creamy, no dry, no wet. If necessary, at this stage fire is still on and you can use just a little boiling water to reach your target. Add the eggs only after switching off the fire.\nThe use of bacon, smoked bacon, cream and other ingredients other than eggs, pecorino, pork cheek and pepper, although endorsed by some cooking manuals, is not strictly philological.\nSpaghetti carbonara is not a day after dish. Do not try to heat them but, in the very rare case you get some left over, do not throw them away. Even a couple of days later you can beat some eggs, mix with pasta and cook in a pan with a drizzle of olive oil. You will get an excellent Frittata to serve, ad example with a fresh tomatoes salad.\nIvano Bruno, also known as Eylife (Enjoy Your Life), is the owner of Olivetreehill.com, an awarded B&B just outside Rome.\nSince 2006, with his finnish wife Terhi, successfully hosts travelers from all over the world with whom he shares the passion for the culture and the history of its country which determine that incredible variety of colors, flavors and emotions that make Italy a country loved all over the world. According to them there is a more sustainable, cheap, safe and exciting way to discover the italian beauty.\nA passionate local host is certainly a keypoint.\nBookmark this page for later reference. If you find this post useful, please add your comments below and share it with your friends and the person you love.\nCorrado D'Avanza\ni stayed with Ivano in 2007 and 2017.I had a great time. Go there it is great-30 minutes from Rome termini\ncorrado d'avanza\nIvano Bruno\nHi Corrado, thank you for promoting us.\nWe are looking forward to see you and the \"kids\". A warm hug to everbody. Ciao, Ivano\nSharon Leetch\nThank you so much for this! Really looking forward to trying this later on this week!\nYou are welcome, Sharon.\nEnjoy and let me know how was it. \ud83d\ude09\nPearl Kaine Kowal\nI able to find good information from this article. Pearl Kaine Kowal\nI followed your recipe for spaghetti carbonara and the results were excellent! So delicious!\nI like that your recipe is very specific and easy to follow.\nWe've never been to Olive Tree Hill , so next time we are in Rome we hope to visit you.\nI hope you are doing well and staying safe during this terrible pandemic.\nHi Mary, we are happy you enjoyed it!\nCarbonara is so good, if you are able do not turn it in a \"scrambled eggs pasta\".\nStay tune soon will be some more recipes coming.\nIn the main time follow us on https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/olivetreehillrome\/ and whenever in Italy don't forget to join us.\nYou'll not regret it, I promise.\nCiao, Ivano\ninfo@olivetreehill.com\neylife\nWebsite redesigned with and the collaboration of a great group of people. \u2013 Made in Zagarolo, Italy | Olive Tree Hill \u00a9 2017\nWe use cookies to make sure you can have the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we assume that you will be happy.OkRead more...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Azarenka defeats Pegula in straight sets to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open | Australian Open 2023\nlike Victoria Azarenka Holding on to one of her biggest wins of the past decade, it gave her a stratospheric reminder of why she's achieved so much. Roaming inside the baseline, Azarenka relentlessly grabbed the ball early on and applied constant choking pressure.\nHer relentless strength resulted in a massive win both times Australian Open Championship The champion knocked out third seed Jessica Pegula 6-4 6-1 to return to the semi-finals for the first time since 2013.\n\"I knew I had to play fast, I had to not give her the chance to step in, I had to manipulate it,\" she said. \"I made some really interesting slides. I was like: You're doing the right thing. Even if it sounds like crap, it's okay. It's the right way to do it.\"\nPegula has been one of the fittest players in her line-up after sweeping past her four opponents to reach her third consecutive quarter-final at the Australian Open without dropping a set. But in an arena so important to Azarenka's career, the pressure she placed overwhelmed Pegula.\n\"She did exactly what she wanted to do,\" Pegula said. \"She was executing it really well. Hitting the ball deep, taking it early, changing the direction of the ball.\"\nA decade after Azarenka reached No. 1 in the world and faced Serena Williams in the world's biggest final, scenes like this were rare. After she took maternity leave in 2016 and gave birth to her son, Leo, she struggled with personal problems, including a custody battle, and consistently failed to rediscover her old form.\nAzarenka seemed to have reached a turning point when she arrived 2020 US Open FinalHowever, the push she hoped he would bring never materialised. This is the second time she has reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam since 2016 and her second semi-final since 2013.\nAzarenka attributes some of her recent problems to the stress and anxiety that followed her on the field last season. She said that she was not mentally prepared to play high level tennis, very afraid of failure. After the match, the 33-year-old was enthusiastic and candid about the journey it took him to feel good on the field.\n\"I don't think you recognize her right away,\" she said. \"It builds up until you get to a really bad point where nothing makes sense. You kind of feel lost. I was at a point where I didn't find anything to feel good about myself, not even a single sentence.\"\n\"I broke some rackets after my match in Ostrava [where she lost in the first round in October]. That was a very difficult moment for me.\"\nSince then, she has worked on learning how to process the feelings and thoughts she has in high stress situations. \"I kept trying to take one small step forward, another challenge, and another step forward. I learned how to start building a process step by step instead of jumping to conclusions in a situation, jumping to a conclusion or to a goal, and really focusing on the step by step, which is very difficult. It takes a lot of work and daily work.\"\nThe best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads up on the weekend's action\nPrivacy notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online advertisements, and content funded by third parties. For more information see our privacy policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and Google privacy policy And Terms of Service Implementation.\nAzarenka title here in 2012 It proved to be a defining moment in her career as she reached No. 1 and embarked on a 26-game winning streak before She successfully defended her title. During that second round of the title, medical deadline During her semi-final against Sloane Stephens she became controversial. The backlash left mental scars that took a decade to move from.\nJessica Pegula (left) congratulates Victoria Azarenka on her quarter-final finish. Image: shutterstock\n\"It was one of the worst things I've been through in my career, the way I was treated after that moment, the way I had to explain myself until 10:30 p.m. because people didn't want to believe me,\" she said. \"I was thinking about it. It took me 10 years to get over it. I finally got over it.\"\nTen years after her last Australian Open semi-final, she will face Azarenka Wimbledon Champion, Elena Rybakina, After the Kazakh followed her fourth-round win over world No. 1 Iga Swiatek, she beat former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-4 to reach her second Grand Slam semifinal.\nSee also Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy launch new golf tournament\nChrome for Android introduces a redesign of the address bar\nA radio signal 9 billion light-years away: what it means and where it came from","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Type a keyword to begin your search\nCraft Scotland\nCraft Directory\nCraft Community\nNew to Craft Scotland?\nTapestry Triptych celebrates Arbroath & Scotland's History\nThe Declaration of Arbroath Tapestry Triptych\nCreated and conceived over four years between 2016 and 2020, the Declaration of Arbroath Tapestry Triptych captures the legacy of this key historical document, which celebrated its 700-year anniversary in April 2020.\nLorna Ross tells us how the project came to be, the details of creating this collective tapestry and its contemporary wooden frame by Angus Ross.\nBased in Perthshire, Angus Ross is best known as a designer and maker of exquisite, sculptural furniture with a sense of movement and flow. He has been innovating with wood for almost thirty years and remains curious about the possibilities of our local timber. Angus participated in renowned Collect in 2019 and 2020 with Craft Scotland and has a piece in the permanent Scottish Design Galleries collection at the V&A Dundee.\nLorna Ross has been working with Angus Ross for the last decade, mostly writing on behalf of their studio-workshop team. Lorna felt privileged to watch the tapestry evolve since May 2018.\nRead on to learn about the challenges and rewards of creating this unique craft object in celebration of the Declaration of Arbroath and Scotland's rich history.\nTell us more about how The Declaration of Arbroath Tapestry Triptych project started?\nThe Declaration of Arbroath Tapestry Triptych is an incredible, collaborative craft object made to celebrate the 700-year anniversary of this important document of Scottish history. The tapestry design is by Andrew Crummy, with stitching by the Red Lichties Stitching Group and frame by Angus Ross.\nThe Declaration of Arbroath is a letter dated 6 April 1320 addressed to the Pope and asking him to recognise Scotland's independence and acknowledge Robert the Bruce as the country's lawful king. It was written in Latin and was sealed by eight earls and about forty barons. It is thought to have influenced the writing of constitutions across the world, including the Constitution of the United States.\nThe tapestry began in 2016 when Linda Walker gathered a group of experienced, talented stitchers and friends to work on a new tapestry that would bring the Declaration of Arbroath to life. The stitchers were Linda Walker, Patricia Beaton, Anne Marie Bray, Rena Freeburn, Janette Nairn, Alice Sim, Jessy Smart, Mary Stephen and Margaret Wynne. Together, they set themselves the enormous challenge of creating a tapestry that would be equal to the height of embroidery in medieval times.\nLinda approached Andrew Crummy, the artist for the Great Tapestry of Scotland, to design the panel. After a year of research, supported by local historian Norman Atkinson, the first panel was designed, as a pencil drawing on linen.\nResearching medieval stitching led Linda to approach Christine Riley from the Royal School of Needlework to guide them for a couple of sessions. Christine stayed for the duration of the project when stitchers met in every three weeks.\nThe central panel of the Tapestry Triptych, details of the key Declaration's text stitched in shorthand with metallic thread\nHow did the tapestry evolve, and what are some of its most significant features?\nAndrew Crummy encouraged the stitchers to be creative and express their own ideas particularly in the blank sections in the design. Christine, Linda and the stitchers made collective decisions on the appropriate stitch and materials for every section of the tapestry. An example was their decision to write the key passage from the declaration in shorthand.\nThe embroidery is three-dimensional and multi-layered with laidwork, couching, crewel-work, interpretive embroidery, and gold and silver work. The stitchers were very experienced, having sewn since childhood, and most developed their skills in the Embroiderers Guild, and in their professional lives. They also developed their skills further throughout the project, and all said they enjoyed the collective effort in a friendly and supportive group.\nThe left panel depicts fishing and medicinal plants in the abbey garden, and the right panel shows a tradesman, representing all the medieval trades who built the Abbey and the knights who took the Declaration to the Pope in France. Repeated elements are the wax seals of the nobles who \"signed\" the letter, the Arbroath Oslins - apples brought to the abbey and unique to Arbroath - and the stitchers also \"signed\" the tapestry with secret symbols.\nLeft: Folding frame of right panel \/ Right: details of the left panel (with secret signatures)\nRed Lichties Stitchers with Andrew Crummy and Angus Ross\nCan you tell us more about Angus Ross' involvement with the tapestry project and the evolution of the triptych frame?\nLinda asked Angus Ross to design and make a frame which would allow the tapestry to tour in November 2017. Angus suggested a folding, free-standing, triptych based on the sailing boat that left Arbroath to transport the Declaration to the Pope. The design was agreed in May 2018, and this meant that two more panels had to be designed and stitched. These new panels made it possible to tell the wider story of medieval Arbroath.\nAfter over 2,800 stitching hours the tapestry was completed in December 2019 by which time it was so spectacular it was immediately taken into the permanent collection of Historic Environment Scotland to be on permanent display in the Visitors Centre of Arbroath Abbey. However, this meant the design for a free-standing frame with a dramatic steam-bent prow was abandoned, and materials became the focus of the new design for a cabinet.\nThe wood used in Angus' work was of specific historical importance. Historian Norman Atkinson knew of a tree associated with Robert the Bruce and that may provide timber, this was The Bruce Oak, thought to be the oldest oak tree in Scotland at about 600-800 years old.\nThis well-documented tree grew by Strathleven House near Glasgow, the site of a manor house built by Robert the Bruce who was known for tree planting and possibly even knew this tree. A fire led to its collapse in 2004 and some salvaged burr was generously donated to be used in the cabinet. The ancient burr oak provided beautiful, highly figured dark wood that has been carved into a prow-like shape for the base of the triptych and for finials and lock spacers.\nThe cabinet was made by Angus Ross and Steven Gray and finished days before lockdown in March 2020. The doorknobs are turned apple wood, the interior is Scottish oak, and the exterior of the cabinet is made in Scottish sycamore. This modest, plain, pale wood is suggestive of sailcloth and provides a total contrast to the jewel like interior. 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{"text":"5 Thanksgiving Movies From the 1940's to 2000's\nNovember 19, 2018 by watkinsT Leave a Comment\nThanksgiving is such a great time for enjoying family and friends, recognizing the many blessings we should be thankful for and even watching a favorite holiday flick. The five films below, all centered around Thanksgiving, will warm your heart and prepare you for the holidays.\n1. Miracle on 34th Street (1947) \u2013 While we often think of Christmas with this classic film, the story actually takes place between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in New York City. The movie focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. This film will not only make you appreciate the joy of Thanksgiving, but get you in the mood for Christmas.\nPhoto Credit: Kocojim\n2. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973) \u2013 When Peppermint Patty and her friends convince Charlie Brown to serve a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, Woodstock and Snoopy must come to his aid. Creative dishes like buttered toast and popcorn are highlighted, and Snoopy lends his innate charm to the special day. The gang gather around a ping-pong table for their unique feast, and the true meaning of Thanksgiving is revealed. This is a classic film the entire family will enjoy.\nPhoto Credit: M. D'Evreux\n3. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) \u2013 The story follows control-freak Neal Page (Steve Martin) as he meets chatty Del Griffith (John Candy) after his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a snowstorm. The duo's attempt to return from a business trip in time for Thanksgiving dinner leads to self-discovery. Together they must overcome the craziness of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.\nPhoto Credit: Joe Cool 007\n4. Home for the Holidays (1995) \u2013 This comedy-drama was directed by Jodie Foster, and boasts an all-star cast which includes Robert Downey Jr., Dylan McDermott and Claire Danes as they delve into the stresses of gathering with one's family during the holidays. After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family and that's when the antics heat up. This is definitely an entertaining Thanksgiving movie.\n5. The Blind Side (2009) \u2013 Sandra Bullock plays the wealthy, no-nonsense, Southern mom Leigh Anne Tuohy who takes in a homeless football prodigy Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), who eventually becomes a first-round NFL draft pick. The movie is based on a true story and does a great job at bringing together a family. 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Tinseltown Mom Interviews What' Popular!\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinseltownmom.com\" title=\"Tinseltown Mom\"><img src=\"https:\/\/tinseltownmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/grab.png\" alt=\"Tinseltown Mom\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\nEva Amurri Martino's Coffee Cake\nParenting Expert Jo Frost Shares Tips on How to Help Kids Be More Confident Around Water\nMartha Stewart's Filled Fourth of July Strawberries\nCelebrities and Their Parents at Around the Same Age (Video)\nJessica Alba Gives Tour of Her Gorgeous Dream House!\nNaya Rivera's 8 Secrets to Getting Flawless Eyelashes\nDaphne Oz and Hilaria Baldwin Share Their Best Post-Baby Body Tips\nDania Ramirez's Grilled Corn with Queso Fresco\nTony and Lauren Dungy Discuss Motivation Behind New Book, \"We Chose You: A Book About Adoption, Family and Forever Love.\" (Interview)\nRachel Zoe's Advice on What to Wear on a Job Interview\nIn Honor Of Memorial Day: We Celebrate 5 Brave Celebrity Moms\nThese Hollywood Moms Were Bathing-Suit Beauties in the 1980's","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New iBot Wheelchair from Toyota and Deka\nMay 23, 2016 By Jack M. Robinson Leave a Comment\nA New Generation of iBot Wheelchair Will Be Launched by Toyota and Deka\nSTATES CHRONICLE \u2013 A new motorized iBot wheelchair is the project of a partnership between Toyota Motor North America and Deka Research and Development. The two companies have just signed a collaboration to create a new type of iBot wheelchair.\nThis wheelchair will be the second generation of iBot, a concept of mobility assistance for the physically impaired.\nDeka is a company specializing in \"creative solutions for modern problems;\" with this new agreement the company can complete the developmental process for the next generation iBot wheelchair. The founder of Deka is Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway and a 2014 FDA-approved arm replacement mind-controlled prosthetic.\nThe agreement between Dean's company and the Japanese corporation involves licensing balanced technologies held by Deka that Toyota will use for medical, rehabilitative treatments and probably other purposes.\nThe first concept of the wheelchair was marketed 16 years ago, but because of its prohibiting $25,000 price tag, the production was forced to cancel in 2009.\nThis new device comes with two sets of wheels that can operate in two configurations. Instead of the conventional design of two bigger wheels balanced by a smaller set, this novelty concept comes with two identical electric driven all-terrain built wheels. Another one of iBot's motors raises the user at six feet height level, approximately 1.8 meters.\nAt the moment, even the most high-tech wheelchairs don't have the technology Deka wants to build into the iBot wheelchair. Most wheelchairs on the market have issues with the rigid frame or the wheels that prevent users from having a relatively ordinary life. The majority of them also require home adjustments.\nThe Segway inventor wants to see its life-long dream become a reality with this new iBot wheelchair concept and eliminate all the issues the motorized wheelchairs have. Kamen says the collaboration with Toyota is the result of both companies sharing the same vision of \"making mobility available\" to as many people as possible.\nThe last decade has brought changes to our urban environments to adapt to the physically impaired, but we still have a long way to go to complete the challenges of those of us having a physically restricted lifestyle.\nDean's dream of bringing the next generation high-tech iBot wheelchair to market might be the answer to the freedom and flexibility prayers of a lot of people.\nImage Source: Wereblog\nFiled Under: Technology Tagged With: Deka Toyota partnership, home adjustments for wheelchairs, medical rehabilitative therapy, six feet level wheelchair, X balancing technology, X iBot wheelchair, X mobility assistance, X motorized wheelchair, X new iBot wheelchair concept, X Segway inventor, X wheels with motors\nAbout Jack M. Robinson\nJack enjoys keeping abreast of everything connected to economic indicators. A School of Journalism, Michigan State University graduate, he loves covering monetary policy and company financials and has a particular interest in writing about the latest gadgets.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Twitter Files For Initial Public Offering\nRENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:\nNPR's business news begins with hashtag, IPO.\n(SOUNDBITE OF THEME MUSIC)\nMONTAGNE: Twitter has filed for its initial public stock offering. It made the announcement yesterday with a tweet. Interested investors will have to wait a while to see what's in the filing because the company submitted the plan confidentially.\nNPR's Laura Sydell reports.\nLAURA SYDELL, BYLINE: Though we can't see it, chances are good that Twitter's filing is longer than 140 characters. Twitter was able to file confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission under a statute passed in 2012, aimed at companies with less than a billion dollars in revenue.\nStephen Diamond, a professor at Santa Clara University Law School, says the idea is that it allows what are called emerging companies an opportunity to fix filing mistakes before facing public scrutiny.\nSTEPHEN DIAMOND: Then during the confidential review process under way with the SEC, Twitter could work out those problems.\nSYDELL: Twitter's choice to use this strategy may have something to do with what happened when Facebook publicly filed for its IPO.\nDIAMOND: The problem was that as Facebook was rolling out the prospectus for its IPO, its business model was running into problems - particularly with respect to advertising revenues generated by mobile.\nSYDELL: Diamond says Facebook was then in the embarrassing position of having to make changes to its filing with the press and public watching.\nThe law that let Twitter stay confidential is called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups. The idea behind the law was to encourage companies to go public by diminishing some of the paperwork connected with the process.\nBut the downside says Columbia Law Professor John Coffee is that without the extra public scrutiny businesses may actually be emboldened to overstate their profits.\nJOHN COFFEE: Remember that the SEC is a body that's underfunded, overworked and strained to its capacity. They don't catch everything.\nSYDELL: Twitter doesn't have to reveal its filing until 21 days before it goes on the road to answer questions for investors. But, it will be able to say that the SEC didn't find any problems. The actual date of the public offering has not been announced.\nLaura Sydell, NPR News, San Francisco. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.\nMorning EditionMorning Edition","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Seeking Global Income in a Negative Rate World\nNegative real benchmark bond yields don't leave much upside for most bonds, but dividend-paying equities remain a good option for yield-seeking investors.\nDividend Investing in a Low Rate Environment\nFor yield-seeking investors, dividend-paying stocks may present a compelling risk-adjusted return opportunity over bonds.\nThornburg's Blog\nA window into how we think about risk, reward, and the myriad factors that drive risk-adjusted returns in all global markets.\nALL GLOBAL EQUITY INTERNATIONAL EQUITY DOMESTIC EQUITY\nGLOBAL FIXED INCOME TAX-EXEMPT BOND ALTERNATIVES\nJune 2019 [Brian McMahon, Vice Chairman and CIO]\nBrian McMahon\nVice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer\nAs chief investment officer, Brian McMahon is responsible for Thornburg Investment Management's overall investment activity. He also co-manages Thornburg's global equity portfolios.\nBrian served as president of the firm from 1997 to 2015 and CEO from 2008 to 2015 and was promoted to vice chairman in 2016. He managed Thornburg's laddered bond portfolios from their inceptions from 1984 until 2000 and remains actively involved in securities analysis for various Thornburg managed portfolios.\nBrian holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in economics and Russian studies from the University of Virginia. After receiving his MBA, Brian joined Norwest Bank in 1979, and held various corporate finance positions before joining Thornburg Investment Management as chief investment officer in 1984.\nApril 2019 [Josh Yafa\nJosh Yafa\nDirector of Client Portfolio Management\nJosh Yafa is director of client portfolio management for Thornburg Investment Management. In this role, Josh heads a team of portfolio specialists responsible for the external-facing articulation of investment philosophy, process, performance, and positioning to clients across all channels. Additionally, the team executes all internal-facing product management activities for the firm's strategies.\nBefore joining Thornburg, Josh was a product manager covering global fixed income for Franklin Templeton Investments in San Mateo, California. At Franklin Templeton, Josh served as a client-facing proxy portfolio manager for the firm's largest strategies. Prior to this, Josh spent five years in the private investment management division at Barclays and Lehman Brothers in San Francisco.\nJosh holds an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management and a BA with honors in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently registered with FINRA with a Series 7 and 66.\njyafa@thornburg.com\nand Josh Rubin]\nJosh Rubin\nJosh Rubin is an associate portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management. He joined Thornburg in 2017 as a client portfolio manager, supporting the global strategies, and transitioned to his role as associate portfolio manager in 2018.\nBefore joining Thornburg, Josh held several positions at Driehaus Capital Management in Chicago, including portfolio manager of the global, U.S. large-cap, and U.S. mid-cap equity strategies, and assistant portfolio manager responsible for emerging markets. Prior to Driehaus, Josh co-managed the emerging markets equity strategy at Marsico Capital Management in Denver, where he was also a senior analyst covering global companies across sectors. He began his career in finance as an investment banker in the fixed income division of George K. Baum & Company in Denver.\nJosh holds a BSFS in international politics from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.\nQ&A With Jason Brady: When the Model Says \"Buy,\" Beware\nFebruary 2019 [Jason Brady, President and CEO]\nJason Brady, CFA\nJason Brady is president and CEO of Thornburg Investment Management. He is responsible for the company's overall strategy and direction. He is also the head of the firm's global fixed income investment team and a portfolio manager on multiple strategies. He joined the firm in 2006, was made portfolio manager and managing director in 2007, and president and CEO in 2016. His book Income Investing: An Intelligent Approach to Profiting from Bonds, Stocks and Money Markets is a step-by-step guide to income investing.\nJason holds a BA with honors in English and environmental biology from Dartmouth College, and an MBA with concentrations in analytical finance and accounting from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is a CFA charterholder. Prior to joining Thornburg, Jason was a portfolio manager with Fortis Investments in Boston, and has held various positions at Fidelity Investments and Lehman Brothers.\nBack tests and limited data sets don't create a solid foundation for future returns, or obviate the need for judgment around select risk exposures and portfolio construction.\nChina Pivots to Face an Imperfect Storm\nDecember 2018 [Charles Wilson, PhD]\nCharles Wilson, PhD\nPortfolio Manager and Managing Director\nCharlie Wilson is portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management. He joined the firm in 2012 as \u00adassociate portfolio \u00admanager and was promoted to portfolio manager in 2014.\nCharlie earned a BS in geology from the University of Arizona in Tucson and a PhD in geophysics from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Prior to joining Thornburg, Charlie served as co-portfolio manager for Marsico Capital Management in Denver, Colorado. He was responsible for portfolio investments across multiple strategies and geographies, with specialization in materials, energy, technology, and payments sectors.\nDeveloping World Fund\nInstitutional Strategies\/Separately Managed Accounts*\nDeveloping World Strategy\n* All strategies may not be available as separately managed accounts.\nEven before the trade conflict arose, China's economy was slowing on a hangover from prior stimulus. But Beijing is now drawing from a new playbook to foment healthier growth.\nBeware High Yield's Siren Song\nSeptember 2018 [Charles Roth]\nCharles Roth\nGlobal Markets Editor\nCharles Roth is global markets editor for Thornburg Investment Management. Prior to joining Thornburg in 2013, Charles was an assistant managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires, the Wall Street Journal's real-time financial news and analysis division, where he oversaw its bureaus in Latin America as well as the New York\u2013based emerging markets group. He had previously served as a senior writer in the emerging markets group, bureau chief in Venezuela, and staff reporter in Malaysia.\nCharles earned BA degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MA from the Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperaci\u00f3n at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali.\nHigh-yield credit has had a banner 2018 as technical flows, fundamental factors, and good economic growth aligned. But its buoyant performance could quickly capsize under the overall growth of the debt market, tight spreads, lofty net leverage, event risk, and a tidal wave of coming maturities. While there's certainly reason to recommend select exposures in the segment, a highly asymmetric broader risk\/reward profile shouldn't be underestimated\nEndowment Spending Policy\nApril 2018 [Firm Insights]\nA spending plan can help retirees balance the desire to maintain a consistent lifestyle with the need to preserve assets for a retirement that could last 30 to 40 years. How should the spending amount change over time? A plan that accounts for fluctuations in market performance may be prudent.\nThe Laddered Bond Portfolio\n2018 [Bond Funds]\nMany financial advisors recommend bonds and bond funds as a part of their clients' investment portfolios, both for their perceived safety and yield. However, not all bonds and bond funds are the same, and investors are often lured by higher yields into high-risk bond strategies, only to expose themselves to increased losses..\nBuilding a Cash Flow Reserve Ladder\nMarch 2018 [Firm Insights]\nHow do retirees avoid selling their hard-earned retirement assets at the wrong time? The all-important \"buy low and sell high\" discipline is out of reach when forced to sell in a bear market. A cash flow reserve ladder can provide the needed stability and flexibility.\nThe Value of Dividends in Retirement\nOver the past eighty-seven years, dividends have accounted for over 40% of the total return for the S&P 500 Index. The importance of dividends has been an often overlooked part of investing, but will continue to come to the forefront as baby boomers prepare for retirement and look for high and growing income-generating investments.\nESG Momentum Stocks: Sustainable Investing's Diamonds in the Rough\nUpdated July 2018 [Charles Roth]\nA company's efforts to improve its sustainability are often a better gauge of future success than its current ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) score.\nNavigating the Economic and Market Crosscurrents to Come\nJanuary 2018 [Jason Brady, CFA]\nWhy are U.S. financial conditions easing as the Fed tightens monetary policy? Is the Phillips Curve finally showing signs of life? Are ETFs liquid? What are today's challenges to portfolio construction and asset allocation? Thornburg CEO Jason Brady answers these questions, and more.\n2018 and Beyond: Riding Disruptive Innovation's Return Curve\nDisruptive technology is reshaping the world, driving efficiency and productivity up and costs down across all sectors of the economy. Companies that don't keep up will be left behind. Which are leading the charge? Which are adapting? Which stand to benefit?\nActive Investment Synthesis: No Boundary, Comparative Advantage, Collaborative Success\nUpdated January 2018 [Firm Insights]\nWhile deep industry knowledge is very important, investment outcomes are even more important. We believe the interdisciplinary approach leads to better investment decisions because we're evaluating opportunities across sectors, geographies, industries.\nMutual Funds PDF\nUnlocking Relative Value: Optimizing Team Structure for Multi-Sector Fixed Income Investing\nSeptember 2017 [Jeff Klingelhofer, CFA,\nJeff Klingelhofer, CFA\nJeff Klingelhofer is portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management. He joined the firm in 2010, then was promoted to associate portfolio manager in 2012. In 2015, Jeff was made portfolio manager and managing director.\nJeff earned a BA in economics with a minor in business from the University of California at Irvine, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2010. He is also a CFA charterholder. Prior to joining Thornburg Investment Management, Jeff spent four years with PIMCO, where he was responsible for monitoring portfolio leverage and risk tolerances. Jeff also worked as a commercial mortgage-backed securities intern with ratings agency DBRS, and interned with the CalPERS alternative assets team.\nLow Duration Income Fund\nSummit Fund\nLimited Term U.S. Government Fund\nLimited Term Income Fund\nStrategic Income Fund\nLow Duration Income Strategy\nMultisector Opportunistic Strategy\nLimited Term Income Strategy\nLimited Term U.S. Government Strategy\nJosh Yafa,\nGlobal Fixed Income]\nFlexible cross-asset oriented investment teams are positioned to assess fundamentals and valuations across discreet asset classes, facilitating relative value tradeoffs and improving the potential for superior risk-adjusted returns.\nInside Thornburg Long\/Short Equity Fund\nAugust 2017 Updated June 2018 [Connor Browne, CFA,\nConnor Browne, CFA\nConnor Browne is portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management. Connor joined the firm in 2001 as an associate portfolio manager and was promoted to portfolio \u00admanager in 2006.\nConnor graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a BA in economics and a certificate in finance. He is a CFA charterholder.\nValue Fund\nLong\/Short Equity Fund\nU.S. Equity Strategy\nLong\/Short Equity Strategy\nLong Short Equity Fund]\nPortfolio Manager Connor Browne sits down for a Q&A to discuss Thornburg's new liquid alternative product.\nThe Elevated Risks of Safe Stocks\nNormally safe, dividend-paying stocks have attracted major inflows, spiking prices. But their now elevated valuation multiples aren't supported by earnings growth. The risks of a correction in these \"expensive defensives\" are running increasingly high as the threat of rising interest rates grows.\nSustainable Investing as Performance Investing\nUpdated March 2018[Better World International]\nEmpirical evidence demonstrates that Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing can outperform non-ESG strategies over time.\nThe Benefits of Active Bond Laddering\nUpdated March 2018 [Christopher Ryon, CFA,\nChristopher Ryon, CFA\nChristopher Ryon is portfolio manager for Thornburg Investment Management. He joined Thornburg as associate portfolio manager in 2008 and was named portfolio manager in 2009.\nChris holds a BS from Villanova University, an MBA from Drexel University, and is a CFA charterholder. Chris has over 30 years of experience in the investment management field. Before joining Thornburg, he served as head of the long municipal bond group for Vanguard Funds, where he oversaw the management of more than $45 billion in 12 intermediate- and long-term municipal bond funds.\nIn 2013, Chris was selected as a member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's (MSRB) board of directors.\nIntermediate Municipal Fund\nNew Mexico Intermediate Municipal Fund\nCalifornia Limited Term Municipal Fund\nLimited Term Municipal Fund\nStrategic Municipal Income Fund\nNew York Intermediate Municipal Fund\nLow Duration Municipal Fund\nIntermediate Term Municipal Strategy\nLimited Term Municipal Strategy\nStrategic Municipal Income Strategy\nLow Duration Municipal Strategy\nTax-Exempt Bonds]\nOne of the tools we use at Thornburg to manage fixed income is laddering. Laddering is not exclusively a passive investment strategy. Rather, it is simply one of many techniques managers have at their disposal to control duration. See how a hypothetical ladder structure outperforms barbell structure over a 16-year period.\nBefore investing, carefully consider the Fund's investment goals, risks, charges, and expenses. For a prospectus or summary prospectus containing this and other information, contact your financial advisor or visit thornburg.com. Read them carefully before investing.\nThere is no guarantee that the investment objectives will be met.\nAny securities, sectors, or countries mentioned are for illustration purposes only. Holdings are subject to change. Under no circumstances does the information contained within represent a recommendation to buy or sell any security.\nPlease see our glossary for a definition of terms.\nThornburg mutual funds are distributed by Thornburg Securities Corporation.\nThornburg Investment Management, Inc. mutual funds are sold through investment professionals including investment advisors, brokerage firms, bank trust departments, trust companies and certain other financial intermediaries. Thornburg Securities Corporation (TSC) does not act as broker of record for investors.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The hosting contract for American Cancer Society - North Central Region - Southfield\/Detroit expired on 9-January-2023. Please contact websupport@greatergiving.com for further information.\nFor more than 100 years the American Cancer Society has been leading the fight to end the pain and suffering of cancer, and this year we are unveiling something brand new. Cure-a-Con is our first-ever comic and entertainment convention, taking place at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek, Michigan on November 10th, 11th, and 12th. Proceeds raised through this event will help us fight cancer by funding cancer research and by providing services for those individuals who are facing the disease right now.\nkevin.kuykendoll@cancer.org\nLegal and Privacy State Fundraising Notices About ACS\n\u00a9 2023 American Cancer Society, Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rocking the Boat: Damage to Ee...\nJournal article 808 views 77 downloads\nRocking the Boat: Damage to Eelgrass by Swinging Boat Moorings\nRichard Unsworth , Beth Williams, Benjamin L. Jones, Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth\nFrontiers in Plant Science, Volume: 8\nThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).\nDOI (Published version): 10.3389\/fpls.2017.01309\nSeagrass meadows commonly reside in shallow sheltered embayments typical of the locations that provide an attractive option for mooring boats. Given the potential for boat moorings to result in disturbance to the seabed due to repeated physical impact, these moorings may present a significant threat...\nFrontiers in Plant Science\nSeagrass meadows commonly reside in shallow sheltered embayments typical of the locations that provide an attractive option for mooring boats. Given the potential for boat moorings to result in disturbance to the seabed due to repeated physical impact, these moorings may present a significant threat to seagrass meadows. The seagrass Zostera marina (known as eelgrass) is extensive across the northern hemisphere, forming critical fisheries habitat and creating efficient long-term stores of carbon in sediments. Although boat moorings have been documented to impact seagrasses, studies to date have been conducted on the slow growing Posidonia species' rather than the fast growing and rapidly reproducing Z. marina that may have a higher capacity to resist and recover from repeated disturbance. In the present study we examine swinging chain boat moorings in seagrass meadows across a range of sites in the United Kingdom to determine whether such moorings have a negative impact on the seagrass Zostera marina at the local and meadow scale. We provide conclusive evidence from multiple sites that Z. marina is damaged by swinging chain moorings leading to a loss of at least 6 ha of United Kingdom seagrass. Each swinging chain mooring was found to result in the loss of 122 m2 of seagrass. Loss is restricted to the area surrounding the mooring and the impact does not appear to translate to a meadow scale. This loss of United Kingdom seagrass from boat moorings is small but significant at a local scale. This is because it fragments existing meadows and ultimately reduces their resilience to other stressors. Boat moorings are prevalent in seagrass globally and it is likely this impairs their ecosystem functioning. Given the extensive ecosystem service value of seagrasses in terms of factors such as carbon storage and fish habitat such loss is of cause for concern. This indicates the need for the widespread use of seagrass friendly mooring systems in and around seagrass.\nUnravelling the Spatial and Temporal Plasticity of Eelgrass Meadows\nby: Chiara Bertelli, et al.\nBlue Carbon Storage Capacity of Temperate Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Meadows\nby: John Griffin, et al.\nLatitude, temperature, and habitat complexity predict predation pressure in eelgrass beds across the Northern Hemisphere\nFatalities in recreational boating and sub-aqua diving\nby: Stephen Roberts\nBoat-generated turbulence as a potential source of mortality among copepods\nby: Kam Tang","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New Hope for TPS Recipients From Four Countries, Including Haiti\nInImmigration News\nIn an unexpected move, the Trump administration has extended temporary protection status (TPS) for Nicaraguan, Sudanese, Salvadoran and Haitian immigrants already in the United States. The extension was announced on February 28, 2019, by the Department of Homeland Security and will extend TPS until January 2020. Over 300,000 people will be affected by this extension, which was prompted by a preliminary injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California. Individuals from other countries, however, will not benefit from this decision, which is limited only to immigrants from the four countries listed.\nNo Help for Venezuelan Refugees\nImmigrants and refugees fleeing the horrifying conditions currently in place in Venezuela are hoping that similar protections will be extended to them. To date, however, no such plans have been announced by the Trump Administration or the Department of Homeland Security. For these individuals and others worried about their ability to remain in the U.S. legally, working with a qualified and experienced Miami immigration lawyer is often the most practical approach to dealing with visa issues and other problems related to immigration in our area.\nWhy You Need the Right Miami Immigration Lawyer\nConsulting with a qualified and knowledgeable Miami immigration lawyer is the best way to address issues with visa applications, requests for asylum and other problems relating to your immigration status. Your attorney will work with you and your family to determine the best approach for requesting asylum, applying for a work permit or other visa and for ensuring your ability to remain in the U.S. legally.\nHelp For Nicaraguan, Sudanese, Salvadorans & Haitian Immigrants\nIf you need the help of a qualified and knowledgeable Miami immigration lawyer, Pozo Goldstein can provide you with the best and most practical options for your situation. Our Miami immigration law firm includes two former immigration prosecutors and a former judge, which gives us the knowledge and expertise needed to ensure the best possible outcomes for your case. Call us today at 305-856-0400 to schedule a free consultation in our Miami office. We look forward to the opportunity to help you pursue your own American dream.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WAY BACK THEN\nFrom Liverpool sixties hit band The Fourmost with their non-stop performance of the hit songs of the sixties. They received a standing ovation the last time they appeared here\nFrom London, The Temple Brothers who won the winners final of the UK's top tribute acts, with their superb tribute to the Everly Brothers.\nMajella Brady will be performing a selection of her songs of Ireland she has recorded through the years\nGerry 'Dougie' Breslin and Stevie Carlin with their sing a long sets of legendary Irish folk music.\nYOUNG FARMERS GALA EVENING","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"John Wayne 377 by Andy Warhol\nby Andy Warhol\nArtist: Andy Warhol\nFrame: Framed with PlexiGlass\nArt Movements: pop art\nEdition: Edition of 250\nPrice: $ POA\nMore original art and limited edition prints available at Revolver Gallery HERE\nView all Andy Warhol art for sale HERE\nTitle: John Wayne 377 Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board. Year: 1986 Size: 36\" x 36\u2033 Edition: Edition of 250, 50 AP, 15 PP, 15 HC, 10 numbered in Roman numerals, signed and numbered in pencil. Portfolio of 10. Andy Warhol created John Wayne 377 in 1986 for his Cowboys and Indians portfolio. John Wayne was an iconic fixture in films about the American west and represented the ideal leading macho man in Hollywood's prime. Many considered him an All-American hero. Warhol was fascinated by celebrity myths and the ways in which stories are represented by the media. This allure led Warhol to create his series Cowboys and Indians portfolio as a statement to the myth of the American West. He took recognizable images of western tokens, such as this image of John Wayne, interspersed them with images of Native American culture in his ironic commentary on the mythologizing of the historic West. Warhol's depiction of John Wayne completely removes him from his true identity, Marion Mitchell Morrison, instead remembering him only as the heroic cowboy, gun in hand. Andy Warhol's Cowboys and Indians and John Wayne represent the ahistorical interpretation of the American West that continues to dominate in American popular culture.\nAndy Warhol Biography Painter, Filmmaker (1928\u20131987) Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a Illustrator Andy Warhol was one of the most prolific and popular artists of his time, using both avant-garde and highly commercial sensibilities. wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.\nRevolver Gallery\nAddress: 8641 W Sunset Blvd\nCA USA\nOther Artworks by Andy Warhol from this gallery\n$ POA\nLouis Brandeis (Unique)\nJane Fonda TP FS IIB 378 by Andy Warhol\nThe Witch 261by Andy Warhol\nSatyric Festival Song 387 by Andy Warhol\nGeronimo 384 by Andy Warhol\nMuhammad Ali (FS II.182)\nAll Artworks by Andy Warhol\nLiz (II.7)\nLeslie Sacks Gallery","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Economy & Politics\u203a\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in Sweden 2015\nPublished by Statista Research Department, Jun 24, 2015\nThis statistic shows the results of a survey on the level of concern residents have over the monitoring of their everyday activities in public spaces in Sweden as of March 2015. It was found that 9 percent of respondents reported that they were fairly concerned.\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces (street, metro, airport, etc.) in Sweden as of March 2015\nShare of respondents\nFebruary 28 to March 9, 2015\nFace-to-face interview\nOriginal survey question was phrased as follows:\n\"Nowadays, many of our everyday activities are recorded in different ways, such as through cameras, payment cards, websites, etc. How concerned or not are you about that?\"\n\"In a public space (street, metro, airport, etc.)\"\nAnnual business confidence index for the industrial sector in EU 2008-2022\nGDP growth forecast: Western Europe, U.S., U.K. and Germany 2010-2023\nAnnual business confidence index for the industrial sector Sweden 2008-2022\nAnnual business confidence index for the service sector Sweden 2008-2022\nStatistics on \"Economic Outlook Sweden\"\nGross domestic product (GDP) in Sweden 2021\nGross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in Sweden 2025\nDistribution of gross domestic product (GDP) across economic sectors Sweden 2019\nUnemployment rate in Sweden 2020\nInflation rate in Sweden 2025\nIndustry revenue of \"manufacture of motor vehicles\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"manufacture of paper and paperboard\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"manufacture of basic iron, steel, ferro-alloys\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"sawmilling and planing of wood\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"manufacture of kitchen furniture\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"rental and operating of own or leased real estate\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"engineering activities, related technical consultancy\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"business and other management consultancy activities\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nRestaurants and mobile food service activities revenue in Sweden 2010-2022\nIndustry revenue of \"tour operator activities\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nAnnual business confidence index for the retail sector Sweden 2008-2022\nIndustry revenue of \"sale of cars and light motor vehicles\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"retail sale in non-specialised stores with food\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"retail sale of clothing in specialised stores\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nIndustry revenue of \"retail sale of furniture, lighting equipment\" in Sweden 2012-2024\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in Denmark 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in Spain 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in France 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in the UK 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in Germany 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in the EU 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in Finland 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in the UK 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in Sweden 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in the EU 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in Finland 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in France 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in Denmark 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in Spain 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in Germany 2015\nConcern about surveillance in public spaces in the Netherlands 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in private spaces in the Benelux 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in the Benelux 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance in public spaces in Belgium 2015\nLevel of concern about surveillance via payment cards in Sweden 2015\nSweden European Union Germany Norway Finland\nEuropean Commission. (June 24, 2015). Level of concern about surveillance in public spaces (street, metro, airport, etc.) in Sweden as of March 2015 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 18, 2021, from https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/601825\/level-of-concern-about-surveillance-in-public-spaces-in-sweden\/\nEuropean Commission. \"Level of concern about surveillance in public spaces (street, metro, airport, etc.) in Sweden as of March 2015.\" Chart. June 24, 2015. Statista. Accessed January 18, 2021. https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/601825\/level-of-concern-about-surveillance-in-public-spaces-in-sweden\/\nEuropean Commission. (2015). Level of concern about surveillance in public spaces (street, metro, airport, etc.) in Sweden as of March 2015. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 18, 2021. https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/601825\/level-of-concern-about-surveillance-in-public-spaces-in-sweden\/\nEuropean Commission. \"Level of Concern about Surveillance in Public Spaces (Street, Metro, Airport, Etc.) in Sweden as of March 2015.\" Statista, Statista Inc., 24 Jun 2015, https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/601825\/level-of-concern-about-surveillance-in-public-spaces-in-sweden\/\nEuropean Commission, Level of concern about surveillance in public spaces (street, metro, airport, etc.) in Sweden as of March 2015 Statista, https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/601825\/level-of-concern-about-surveillance-in-public-spaces-in-sweden\/ (last visited January 18, 2021)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Penn State Scranton chancellor, campus honored for child advocacy efforts\nDUNMORE, Pa. \u2014 Penn State Scranton and Chancellor Marwan A. Wafa were recently honored by one of northeast Pennsylvania's preeminent child abuse intervention centers.\nAt its recent Cocktails by Moonlight fundraiser, the Children's Advocacy Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania (CAC\/NEPA) presented Wafa and several other community leaders with awards for distinction as child advocates.\nMarwan Wafa, chancellor of Penn State Scranton, and the Scranton campus were honored by the Children's Advocacy Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania for their child advocacy efforts.\nThe event was held April 26 at POSH at the Scranton Club in downtown Scranton. April was National Child Abuse Prevention Month.\nThe other honorees were: Deborah Rothenberg, Wayne County first assistant district attorney; Dr. Mel Wolk and the Ronald McDonald House of Scranton; and Scranton Preparatory School senior Lauren Golden.\n\"Dr. Wafa is such a great community collaborator,\" said Mary Ann LaPorta, executive director of CAC\/NEPA. \"His total being just radiates positivity. And he's always so warm and welcoming.\"\nWafa and the campus received CAC\/NEPA's Distinguished Service Award in recognition of the campus' Child Maltreatment and Advocacy minor.\nBoth Penn State Scranton and University Park offer the cooperative minor, which is available to human development and family studies (HDFS), nursing and psychology students.\nCourses at Penn State Scranton are taught by Janet Melnick, associate teaching professor of HDFS and program coordinator; Melissa LaBuda, assistant teaching professor of HDFS; Parminder Parmar, associate professor of HDFS; and Allison Tomczyk, instructor in nursing.\nCurrently, there are 14 students enrolled in the minor, with additional students who haven't declared a minor yet also taking coursework, according to Melnick, who co-coordinates the minor with Michael Evans, assistant chief academic officer and associate teaching professor of nursing at Penn State Scranton.\n\"It is imperative HDFS, nursing and psychology students have an understanding of the causes, treatments and practice methodologies for working with victims of child abuse. It enhances our curriculum in all of these areas and forges an alliance with the community,\" Melnick said. \"Our students are prepared to identify and work with victims of child abuse and neglect and that is a win-win for everyone.\"\n\"It's important for these degree programs to have this as part of the curriculum, so that when our graduates are out in the world, they've been exposed to this,\" Wafa added.\nThrough the minor, the campus has developed a close partnership with CAC\/NEPA. LaPorta and her staff regularly give presentations on campus throughout the school year, and a number of Penn State Scranton students have done internships at CAC\/NEPA. That list includes alumna Lynn Pacheco, who now works at CAC\/NEPA as a child victim advocate.\n\"Nothing is more important than education, and to know that these students will be front-line responders who will know how to talk to kids is so powerful,\" LaPorta said. \"They're really getting a head start.\"\nNow 21 years into its existence, CAC\/NEPA has assisted more than 15,000 child and adolescent victims of abuse and neglect.\nThe center operates on a multidisciplinary approach that involves law enforcement and child protection agency professionals as a means of more effectively serving victims.\nLaPorta often uses a quote to put the center's mission in perspective: \"We cannot change what has already happened. But we can change what happens next.\" That adage aligns perfectly with Wafa's aspirations for the campus minor.\n\"It has become a part of the culture of the campus to bring awareness to this sad situation that we have to deal with,\" Wafa said.\n\"But, what can we do to bring a larger scale of awareness to this big problem? How do we protect children? How do we educate those who will become parents? We need to try to prevent it before the fact, because who knows the deep wounds that abuse victims carry with them throughout their lives. It's awareness, and then prevention.\"\nRecent alumna helps others as an ESL teacher, credits peer tutoring experience\nPenn State Scranton named as a 2022-23 Pa. National Guard-friendly school\nPenn State Scranton dedicates new Engineering Building\nInternational, domestic students visit D.C. for Global Engagement trip\nScranton campus hosts congressman, NSF director to discuss STEM education\nState Rep. Jonathan Fritz receives Friend of Penn State Legislative Award","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America\nSearch FAQs All HHS Sites\nFont Size Print Download Reader HHS Home|About HHS|Contact Us\nHIPAA Frequent Questions > State Law\nHIPAA Frequent Questions\nAbout the Privacy Rule\nAuthorization Use & Disclosure\nCompliance Dates\nLimited Use and Disclosure\nNotice and Other Individual Rights\nPermitted Use and Disclosure\nPersonal Representatives and Minors\nProviders and Other Covered Entities\nUnder what circumstances will HHS grant a State law preemption exception determination?\nThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may, upon specific request from a State or other entity or person, issue a determination that a contrary State law which meets certain criteria will not be preempted by the Federal requirements. Only State laws that are \"contrary\" to the Federal requirements are eligible for an exemption determination. As defined by HIPAA's Administrative Simplification Rules, \"contrary\" means that it would be impossible for a covered entity to comply with both the State and Federal requirements, or that the State law is an obstacle to accomplishing the full purposes and objectives of the Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA. See 45 C.F.R. 160.202.\nA contrary State law is not preempted by the Federal requirements if the Secretary or designated HHS official determines that the request meets one or more of the following criteria, which are set forth in 45 C.F.R. 160.203(a):\nThe provision of State law is necessary\nto prevent fraud and abuse related to the provision of or payment for health care,\nto ensure appropriate State regulation of insurance and health plans to the extent expressly authorized by statute or regulation,\nfor State reporting on health care delivery and costs, or\nfor purposes of serving a compelling public health, safety, or welfare need, and, if a Privacy Rule provision is at issue, if the Secretary determines that the intrusion into privacy is warranted when balanced against the need to be served; or\nThe principal purpose of the provision of State law is to regulate the manufacture, registration, distribution, dispensing, or other control of any controlled substances (as defined in 21 U.S.C. 802), or that is deemed a controlled substance by State law.\nThus, States and other persons may request in writing that HHS except certain contrary provisions of State law from preemption by the Privacy Rule. The request for exception must explain how the State law in question is actually contrary to the Federal requirements, and how the contrary State law meets one or more of the specific criteria for which exceptions may be granted. Title 45 C.F.R. Part 160, Subpart B, sets forth the specific requirements related to preemption of State law and the criteria and process for requesting exception determinations.\nHHS will not make determinations as to whether a provision of State law is \"more stringent\" than a provision of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and will not determine whether a provision is \"contrary\" to the Privacy Rule, except in the context of, and as necessary to, making an exception determination.\nSee 45 C.F.R. Part 160, Subpart B, for specific requirements related to preemption of State law. An unofficial version of the Privacy Rule and the preemption requirements may be accessed at http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/ocr\/combinedregtext.pdf (PDF - 2.8MB).\nDate Created: 03\/12\/2003\nHHS Home | HHS Frequent Questions Home | Contacting HHS | Accessibility | Freedom of Information Act | Disclaimers | Helping America's Youth\nU.S. Department of Health & Human Services \u00b7 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. \u00b7 Washington, D.C. 20201","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The First Presbyterian Church U. S. A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, et al. v. John Doe\nfrom the Supreme Court of Oklahoma\nSee other cases from Oklahoma.\nReply of petitioners First Presbyterian Church U.S.A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, et al. filed. (Distributed)\nBrief amici curiae of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, et al. filed.\nBrief amicus curiae of Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund filed.\nBrief amicus curiae of Oklahoma Wesleyan University filed.\nBlanket Consent filed by Petitioners, First Presbyterian Church U.S.A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, et al.\nMotion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 19, 2018.\nMotion to extend the time to file a response from November 19, 2018 to December 19, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.\nApplication (18A188) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until October 4, 2018.\nApplication (18A188) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 2, 2018 to October 4, 2018, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.\nFirst Presbyterian Church U.S.A. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, et al., Petitioner, represented by Paul D. Clement\nJohn Doe, Respondent, represented by Michael B. Kimberly\nConservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, Amicus Curiae, represented by Herbert William Titus\nOklahoma Wesleyan University, Amicus Curiae, represented by Mark David Spencer\nThe Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Stewards Ministries, Amicus Curiae, represented by Thomas Henderson Dupree Jr.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Balmain's Creative Director Olivier Rousteing Announces 'See Now, Buy Now' Plans\nBy Donovan | April 20, 2016 0 Comments\nEva Chen, Suzy and Olivier Rousteing.\nEva Chen (Head of Fashion Partnerships at Instagram) and Olivier Rousteing (Balmain's creative director) spoke to a large audience on day one of the Cond\u00e9 Nast International Luxury Conference in Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday to debate the impact social media has on the industry.\nRousteing also discussed, for the first time, his feelings about \"see now, buy now.\" He's all for it and I'm not shocked at all because fashion has evolved, has always been about the future and social media has also become a big part of the fashion industry. You could literally watch an entire runway show on Instagram.\nRousteing on using Instagram for storytelling and the influence of the social site:\n\"You're right, it's storytelling,\" Rousteing said, explaining his original reason to join the platform. \"At the beginning I was the Balmain baby and now Balmain is my baby. It was important back then to use Instagram to invite people to discover who I am. I'm adopted, I came from an orphanage, and I wanted to show people that dreams can come true; to give a positive message and say that if you believe in yourself and you believe in a dream it can happen.\"\n\"You can reach so many people through Instagram,\" Rousteing continued. \"Now, after a show I can invite people to understand the Balmain world. If they want the Balmain world they can have it and follow; if they don't like it, they can unfollow.\"\nRousteing on 'see now, buy now' plans:\n\"I believe in see-now-buy-now \u2013 we have to stay connected and go faster,\" revealed Rousteing. \"We are probably going to head for see-now-buy-now, for sure. But it's important to keep key pieces that you will sell later and also have pieces that are available immediately after the show. It's good to have a mix of price points too. And I believe that Instagram and couture can work together \u2013 you can invite people to discover how you work. With Instagram I can push and explain the details.\"\n\"A lot of designers are showing the detail through Instagram,\" added Chen \"Designers also use long-form explanations \u2013 which are becoming increasingly popular \u2013 that allow them to explain what inspires them. Marc Jacobs, instead of telling the audience who the model was and photographer was, took the time to explain why each model meant something to the campaign, which gave his followers a closer connection.\"\nLast February, French fashion's governing organization \u2014 the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de la Couture du Pr\u00eat-\u00e0-Porter des Couturiers et des Cr\u00e9ateurs de Mode \u2014 had considered and rejected the idea of \"see now, buy now\" collections to which several British and American brands have already converted, according to a report in WWD. The federation president Ralph Toledano argued that not only are clients accustomed to waiting for collections to hit stores, but the wait increases their desire for the product.\nBurberry is adopted the \"see now, buy now\" model (see it here).\nPhotos Credit: InDigital\nSource: Vogue UK\nBalmain's Creative Director Olivier Rousteing Shot The Brand's Fall\/Winter 2017 Campaign\nCreative Director: Olivier Rousteing Talks Balmain For H&M\nBalmain To Return To The Paris Couture Runways\nCollaboration: Victoria's Secret x Balmain Paris\nBeauty News: The L'Or\u00e9al Paris x Balmain Paris Lipstick Ad Campaign\n#BalmainTakesLA: Monica Brown Wears An Ensemble From Balmain's Pre-Fall & Fall Ready-To-Wear 2017 Collections\nRelated ItemsBalmainBalmain's Creative Director Olivier Rousteing Announces 'See Now Buy Now' PlansCreative Directordon bleekEva ChenOlivier RousteingSee Now Buy Now'\nDonovan is the CEO and Editor-In-Chief of www.dmfashionbook.com. For all general inquiries please email don@dmfashionbook.com Donovan has a BA in Journalism & Media Studies from the prestigious Rutgers University. He's currently studying entertainment and fashion law.\n\u2190 Previous Story House Of Chanel Denies Karl Lagerfeld's Retirement Rumors\nNext Story \u2192 Joey Bada$$ For SSENSE; Talks His Calvin Klein Ad, Pro Era Clothing Line, Personal Style Evolving, Music & More\nTeyana Taylor Speaks On Her PrettyLittleThing Creative Director Role\nGabriela Hearst Is Chlo\u00e9's New Creative Director\nIt Is Being Reported That Fausto Puglisi Is Roberto Cavalli's New Creative Director","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dubai: Tourism up\nUAE: DubaiTourism\nTourism is cementing its position as one of the leaders of Dubai's economic recovery from the global recession, as a burgeoning holiday trade leads to growing numbers of tourist arrivals that help to fill the new hotels. Lingering uncertainty in the wider market, however, could give pause to rapid hotel development.\nThe industry has posted strong numbers so far this year, with arrivals, room occupancy and time of stay totals all up on the 2011 figures. Data issued by the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) at the beginning of October showed more than 5m guests checked into the emirate's hotels in the first half of the year, a 10% improvement on the performance in the opening six months of 2011.\nEven more significantly for the rest of the tourism and hospitality industry, those guests were staying longer and bringing in more revenue, according to the DTCM's director general, Khalid bin Sulayem.\n\"Guest nights of Dubai hotel facilities amounted to 19.2m in the first half of this year, an increase of 18% against first-half 2011,\" he said during a tourism congress on October 1. \"Likewise, revenues of both Dubai hotels and hotel apartments in the first six months of the year amounted to $2.66bn, a rise of 22% in comparison to the same period in 2011.\"\nThese improved figures suggest that tourism is starting to fulfil the objectives set for it in Dubai's medium-term development plans, which envisage the industry becoming one of the main pillars of the economy. A recent report by Standard Chartered Bank said that tourism, along with trade and services, was one of the sectors driving the economy forward, with this momentum likely to be maintained through the rest of this year and beyond.\nStandard Chartered analyst Shady Shaher says that the tourism sector is benefitting from the emirate's stability in light of ongoing challenges in the region, benefits that are flowing back into the economy. \"In 2012 we expect total tourist arrivals into Dubai to grow by 11% year-on-year to 10m, with hotel occupancy rates likely to improve to 87%,\" he said on October 9. \"A growing stock of hotel rooms should cap room rates, ensuring a steady flow of tourists to the emirate. We expect GCC tourists to be one of the largest growth segments into the year end.\"\nBut while recent events in the region certainly have contributed to the sector's growth, they do not explain the whole story, Sulayem told OBG. \"While the Arab Spring has contributed positively to the tourism sector, it would be incorrect to solely attribute our growth to that phenomenon. Current and future growth of tourism in Dubai will more broadly depend on our ability to diversify the segment, both in terms of product offering and marketing strategy,\" Sulayem said.\nLooking further down the track, next year could see more measured growth for the hospitality component of the industry, with new hotel openings having the potential to dilute occupancy rates. In 2012 the number of hotel rooms in the market has increased by 8.3%, reaching 58,750 rooms, Gerald Lawless, the president and CEO of Jumeirah Group, told OBG.\nAccording to Peter Goddard, the managing director of TRI Hospitality Consulting in Dubai, there are a number of new top-end hotels set to open their doors in 2013, which will drain off some of the flow of visitors to existing establishments. \"The outlook for hotels in Dubai into 2013 appears to be buoyant, albeit with a relatively stable or marginally reduced occupancy levels due to the anticipated increase in supply,\" he told Gulf News in late September. \"The recent recovery in Dubai's tourism and hotel demand and a renewed confidence in its real estate and other growth sectors appear to be encouraging developers to restart planned or stalled developments.\"\nThe trick for the industry will be to maintain this steady growth without giving way to excesses such as bringing too much new accommodation stock onto the market in the short term. A managed approach, one that takes into account the more immediate impact of a potential second bout of economic crisis stemming from Europe, would keep supply and demand in balance. Bringing too many new rooms on line too quickly could push room rates down, negating the advantage of higher arrival numbers.\nRegister for free Economic News Updates on UAE: Dubai\nThe Report: Abu Dhabi 2020\nRead our Abu Dhabi 2020 Economic Report and Investment Analysis online or purchase from our online store\nFeatured Sectors in UAE: Dubai:\nUAE: Dubai Financial Services\nUAE: Dubai ICT\nUAE: Dubai Energy\nUAE: Dubai Industry\nFeatured Countries in Tourism:\nOman Tourism\nPhilippines Tourism\nMalaysia Tourism\nPremium Content: UAE: Dubai and Tourism\nChapter | Tourism from The Report: Dubai 2020\nOverview | Stay for the hospitality: A new strategy places the already robust sector on a path to sustained growth and firm footing from The Report: Dubai 2020\nInterview | Making its mark: Jose Silva, CEO, Jumeirah Group, on leveraging the impact of Expo 2020 and the need to offer new experiences from The Report: Dubai 2020\nOverview | Room to manoeuvre: The hospitality sector is expanding and evolving to support growing numbers of international travellers from The Report: Dubai 2020\nIn The Middle East\nCovid-19 and tourism: can domestic travel address the slump in...\nWith the coronavirus pandemic causing the closure of national borders and the suspension of international travel, governments in emerging markets have begun to explore whether domestic tourism can...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Toolbar items\nAdministration menu\nFlexSlider Examples\nFlexSlider examples menu\nUser account actions\nSupport usMy Account Created with Sketch.\nMonthly Notices of the RAS (MNRAS)\nGeophysical Journal International (GJI)\nRAS Techniques & Instruments (RASTI)\nEditorial Boards & Team\nRAS Bicentennial Event\nNAM 2022\nRAS Meetings\nExternal Meetings\nPublic Lectures & Events\nFriends of the RAS Events\nPoster Display\nVisiting & Using the Library\nTreasures from the Library & Archives\nAwards, Medals and Prizes\nGrants for Studies in Astronomy and Geophysics\nOutreach Map\nRAS200\nAbout the RAS\nA&G\nLatest A&G Articles\nContact A&G Editor\nFellows Membership\nFriends of the RAS\nImpact & Industry\nCommunity & Demographics\nConsultative Forums\nSuperBIT: A Low-cost Balloon-Borne Telescope To Rival Hubble\nThe SuperBIT balloon in flight, above NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Texas, in June 2016.\nRichard Massey \/ Durham University\nAttribution (CC BY 4.0)\nDurham, Toronto and Princeton Universities have teamed up with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to build a new kind of astronomical telescope. SuperBIT flies above 99.5% of the Earth's atmosphere, carried by a helium balloon the size of a football stadium. The telescope will make its operational debut next April and when deployed should obtain high-resolution images rivalling those of the Hubble Space Telescope. Mohamed Shaaban, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, will describe SuperBIT in his talk today (Wednesday 21 July) at the online RAS National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2021).\nSuperBIT's final preparations for launch from Timmins Stratospheric Balloon Base Canada, in September 2019.\nSteven Benton, Princeton University\nLight from a distant galaxy can travel for billions of years to reach our telescopes. In the final fraction of a second, the light has to pass through the Earth's swirling, turbulent atmosphere. Our view of the universe becomes blurred. Observatories on the ground are built at high altitude sites to overcome some of this, but until now only placing a telescope in space escapes the effect of the atmosphere.\nThe Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (or SuperBIT) has a 0.5 metre diameter mirror and is carried to 40km altitude by a helium balloon with a volume of 532,000 cubic metres, about the size of a football stadium.\nIts final test flight in 2019 demonstrated extraordinary pointing stability, with variation of less than one thirty-six thousandth of a degree for more than an hour. This should enable a telescope to obtain images as sharp as those from the Hubble Space Telescope.\nNobody has done this before, not only because it is exceedingly difficult, but also because balloons could stay aloft for only a few nights: too short for an ambitious experiment. However, NASA recently developed 'superpressure' balloons able to contain helium for months. SuperBIT is scheduled to launch on the next long duration balloon, from Wanaka, New Zealand, in April. Carried by seasonally stable winds, it will circumnavigate the Earth several times - imaging the sky all night, then using solar panels to recharge its batteries during the day.\nWith a budget for construction and operation for the first telescope of US$5 million (\u00a33.62 million), SuperBIT cost almost 1000 times less than a similar satellite. Not only are balloons cheaper than rocket fuel, but the ability to return the payload to Earth and relaunch it means that its design has been tweaked and improved over several test flights. Satellites must work first time, so typically have (phenomenally expensive) redundancy, and decade-old technology that had to be space-qualified by the previous mission. Modern digital cameras improve every year - so the development team bought the cutting-edge camera for SuperBIT's latest test flight a few weeks before launch. This space telescope will continue to be upgradable, or have new instruments on every future flight.\nA SuperBIT optical and ultraviolet composite image of the 'Pillars of Creation', trunks of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Serpens.\nSuperBIT team, from Romualdez et al. (2018) SPIE 10702\nIn the longer term, the Hubble Space Telescope will not be repaired again when it inevitably fails. For 20 years after that, European Space Agency\/NASA missions will enable imaging only at infrared wavelengths (like the James Webb Space Telescope due to launch this autumn), or a single optical band (like the Euclid observatory due to launch next year).\nBy then SuperBIT will be the only facility in the world capable of high-resolution multicolour optical and ultraviolet observations. The team already has funding to design an upgrade from SuperBIT's 0.5 metre aperture telescope to 1.5 metres (the maximum carrying capacity of the balloon is a telescope with a mirror about 2 metres across). Boosting light gathering power tenfold, combined with its wider angle lens and more megapixels, will make this larger instrument even better than Hubble. The cheap cost even makes it possible to have a fleet of space telescopes offering time to astronomers around the world.\n\"New balloon technology makes visiting space cheap, easy, and environmentally friendly,\" said Shaaban. \"SuperBIT can be continually reconfigured and upgraded, but its first mission will watch the largest particle accelerators in the Universe: collisions between clusters of galaxies.\"\nThe science goal for the 2022 flight is to measure the properties of dark matter particles. Although dark matter is invisible, astronomers map the way it bends rays of light, a technique known as gravitational lensing. SuperBIT will test whether dark matter slows down during collisions. No particle colliders on Earth can accelerate dark matter, but this is a key signature predicted by theories that might explain recent observations of weirdly behaving muons.\n\"Cavemen could smash rocks together, to see what they're made of,\" added Prof. Richard Massey of Durham University. \"SuperBIT is looking for the crunch of dark matter. It's the same experiment, you just need a space telescope to see it.\"\nFootage of SuperBIT's second test flight from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Texas, in June 2016. The first segment is speeded up, time-lapse footage of preparation for flight. The second part runs at a normal rate, showing the launch and flight itself. Credit: Richard Massey, Javier Romualdez and the SuperBIT team.\nAnita Heward\nMob: +44 (0)7756 034 243\nnam-press@ras.ac.uk\nDr Morgan Hollis\nDr Robert Massey\nVittoria D'Alessio\nvda26@bath.ac.uk\nScience contacts\nMohamed Shabaan\n(time zone 5 hours behind UK)\nm.shaaban@mail.utoronto.ca\nProf Richard Massey\nr.j.massey@durham.ac.uk\nImages, videos and captions\nSuperBIT's final preparations for launch from Timmins Stratospheric Balloon Base Canada, in September 2019 (Credit: Steven Benton, Princeton University).\nhttps:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/5q33y59upmnwps9\/AABL8H8v4VmicxjFRGsjLAaZa?dl=0&preview=SuperBIT_test_flight_2.mp4\nhttps:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/5q33y59upmnwps9\/AABL8H8v4VmicxjFRGsjLAaZa?dl=0&preview=SuperBIT_in_flight.jpg\nThe SuperBIT balloon in flight, above NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, Texas, in June 2016. Credit: Richard Massey (Durham University).\nhttps:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/5q33y59upmnwps9\/AABL8H8v4VmicxjFRGsjLAaZa?dl=0&preview=SuperBIT_pillarsofcreation_optical%2BUV.png\nA SuperBIT optical and ultraviolet composite image of the 'Pillars of Creation', trunks of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Serpens. Credit: SuperBIT team, from Romualdez et al. (2018) SPIE 10702.\nAbout the National Astronomy Meeting\nThe Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2021) will take place online from 19 - 23 July 2021. Bringing together around 850 astronomers and space scientists, the conference is the largest annual professional astronomy and space science event in the UK, and sees leading researchers from around the world presenting their latest work.\nNAM 2021 incorporates the annual meetings of the Magnetosphere Ionosphere Solar-Terrestrial (MIST) and UK Solar Physics (UKSP) groups. The conference is principally sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the University of Bath.\nFollow NAM 2021 on Twitter\nAbout the Royal Astronomical Society\nThe Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), founded in 1820, encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science. The RAS organises scientific meetings, publishes international research and review journals, recognizes outstanding achievements by the award of medals and prizes, maintains an extensive library, supports education through grants and outreach activities and represents UK astronomy nationally and internationally. Its more than 4,000 members (Fellows), a third based overseas, include scientific researchers in universities, observatories and laboratories as well as historians of astronomy and others.\nFollow the RAS on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube\nDownload the RAS Supermassive podcast\nAbout the Science and Technology Facilities Council\nThe Science and Technology Facilities Council is part of UK Research and Innovation \u2013 the UK body which works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish. STFC funds and supports research in particle and nuclear physics, astronomy, gravitational research and astrophysics, and space science and also operates a network of five national laboratories as well as supporting UK research at a number of international research facilities including CERN, FERMILAB and the ESO telescopes in Chile. STFC is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground-based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.\nSTFC's Astronomy and Space Science programme provides support for a wide range of facilities, research groups and individuals in order to investigate some of the highest priority questions in astrophysics, cosmology and solar system science. STFC's astronomy and space science programme is delivered through grant funding for research activities, and also through support of technical activities at STFC's UK Astronomy Technology Centre and RAL Space at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. STFC also supports UK astronomy through the international European Southern Observatory.\nFollow STFC on Twitter\nAbout the University of Bath\nThe University of Bath is one of the UK's leading universities both in terms of research and our reputation for excellence in teaching, learning and graduate prospects.\nThe University is rated Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), the Government's assessment of teaching quality in universities, meaning its teaching is of the highest quality in the UK.\nIn the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 research assessment 87 per cent of our research was defined as 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'. From developing fuel efficient cars of the future, to identifying infectious diseases more quickly, or working to improve the lives of female farmers in West Africa, research from Bath is making a difference around the world. Find out more\nWell established as a nurturing environment for enterprising minds, Bath is ranked highly in all national league tables. We are ranked 6th in the UK by The Guardian University Guide 2021, and 9th in The Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021 and 10th in the Complete University Guide 2021. Our sports offering was rated as being in the world's top 10 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject in 2021.\nAbout Durham University\nDurham University is a globally outstanding centre of teaching and research based in historic Durham City in the UK. We are a collegiate university committed to inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham and in the world.\nWe conduct boundary-breaking research that improves lives globally and we are ranked as a world top 100 university with an international reputation in research and education (QS World University Rankings 2021.)\nWe are a member of the Russell Group of leading research-intensive UK universities and we are consistently ranked as a top 10 university in national league tables (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, Guardian University Guide and The Complete University Guide).\nMore information about Durham University.\nSubmitted by Robert Massey on Fri, 16\/07\/2021 - 15:42\nRoyal Astronomical Society reveals 2022 award winners\nBlack hole at centre of Milky Way unpredictable and chaotic\nQuadrantids Offer Winter Meteor Spectacle\nDr Sheila Kanani awarded MBE\nJames Webb Space Telescope is on its way!\nNo: RC000446\nReport Links\nCopyright Royal Astronomical Society 1996-2021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Let's Be Civil: The Supreme Court of North Carolina Issues Two Important Civil Opinions and Grants Discretionary Review in Four More\nLet's Be Civil: The Supreme Court of North Carolina Issues Two Important Civil Opinions and Grants Discretionary Review in Four More\nBy Matthew Nis Leerberg on August 29, 2013\nPosted in Business Law, North Carolina Supreme Court, Petitions for Discretionary Review\nIn a big day for civil litigation, the Supreme Court of North Carolina on Wednesday issued a watershed opinion limiting the scope of actions under Chapter 75 (the Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act) and a significant decision favoring arbitration agreements. Most surprising, however, was the Court's granting of discretionary review in four civil cases of substantial importance to business and other civil interests. Remember, review has historically been granted in such civil \"PDRs\" only about 5% of the time.\nThe issues in those four cases touch upon the Planned Community Act, the limits on domesticating judgments from other states, property taxation for non-profits that run low-income housing, and the existence of a fiduciary duty between a financial lender and a borrower. Whew! I'll be as brief as possible in giving you my take on these six actions by our Supreme Court.\n1. Bumpers v. Community Bank of Northern Virginia (Chapter 75\u2013Unfair and Deceptive Practices)\nHOLDINGS: Misrepresentation claims under Chapter 75 require a showing of detrimental reliance. The Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act will generally not allow an \"excessive pricing\" claim.\nBumpers is back (see our other posts related to Bumpers here and here). In a wide-ranging opinion that promises to be the starting point for any Chapter 75 case going forward, Justice Newby, speaking for a majority of the Court, writes that a claim of unfair and deceptive practices under Chapter 75 based on an alleged misrepresentation \"require[s] the plaintiff to demonstrate reliance on the misrepresentation in order to show the necessary proximate cause.\" Such reliance must be detrimental to the plaintiff, i.e., it must be \"(1) actual reliance and (2) reasonable reliance.\" The Court held that because reliance is such a fact-specific inquiry, the plaintiffs' Chapter 75 \/ misrepresentation claims in Bumpers (relating to certain allegedly excessive fees charged by a lender in closing personal loans to plaintiffs) should have been sent to a jury, not decided in favor of the plaintiffs at summary judgment.\nThe Court also held that this case does not present an actionable \"excessive pricing\" claim under Chapter 75. The Court left open, however, the possibility that the \"catchall\" provision in section 75-1.1 might, in the right case, capture an excessive pricing claim.\nMany congratulations to friend-of-the-blog Matt Sawchak on his victory in the appeal.\n2. HCW Retirement and Financial Services, LLC v. HCW Employee Benefit Services, LLC (Arbitration Agreements)\nHOLDING: A right to arbitrate a claim is not waived by engaging in litigation procedures that, in the arbitration setting, would only be available in the discretion of the arbitrator.\nThe decision in HCW Retirement continues the federal and state trend favoring arbitration agreements. In HCW Retirement, the Supreme Court limited the circumstances in which a party with a valid arbitration agreement might inadvertently \"waive\" the right to arbitrate by participating in litigation in the courts on the arbitrable claim. The dispute in HCW Retirement included several claims among multiple parties. The individual defendants moved to compel arbitration on those claims. While the motion was pending, the parties engaged in some discovery on the non-arbitrable claims. The parties moving to compel arbitration also veered into matters relating to the arbitrable claims for about an hour during a ten-hour deposition of one of the plaintiffs. The trial court later denied the motion to compel arbitration, finding that the individual defendants had waived their right to arbitrate by litigating the very claims they asked to be sent to arbitration.\nThe Supreme Court reversed, holding that the non-moving party bears a heavy burden in proving that the litigation of the arbitrable claims prejudiced him. Specifically, even though party depositions are not granted as a matter of right in most arbitration proceedings, they are often allowed in the discretion of the arbitrator. Because it is possible, then, that the individual defendants would have been allowed to depose the plaintiff in the arbitration forum, plaintiff could not show that he was necessarily prejudiced by the discussion of the arbitrable claims during his deposition.\n3. The Glens of Ironduff Property Owners Association, Inc. v. John E. Daly (Planned Community Act)\nKEY QUESTION: Is the statute of repose for actions by a homeowners association against a developer tolled during the period of declarant control?\nIn The Glens of Ironduff, the Supreme Court has granted discretionary review to analyze a fascinating issue arising under the Uniform Planned Community Act, Chapter 47F of the North Carolina General Statutes. The plaintiff homeowners association had filed a claim against the residential developer for allegedly shoddy construction of a road that is now falling into a nearby creek. Under the Act, however, the developer (called the \"declarant\") has control over the homeowner association during the development of the neighborhood. Because the statute of limitations on any claim against the developer by the homeowners association may otherwise run during the so-called period of \"declarant control,\" the Act contains a provision that tolls the statute of limitations until after the declarant turns over control of the homeowners association to the residents.\nBut what about the statute of repose? While statutes of limitations bar claims on procedural grounds and are therefore often subject to tolling, equity, and the like, statutes of repose bar claims on substantive grounds and are generally more rigid. The tolling statute only applies, on its face, to \"statutes of limitation,\" not statutes of repose. The Court of Appeals applied the plain language of the statute and found that the statute of repose was not tolled, and barred the homeowners association's claim against the developer.\nThe issue for review is whether the statute should also toll the statute of repose, since the developer could in theory wait out the statute and thereby escape a lawsuit by the homeowners association for any alleged wrongdoing in developing the neighborhood.\n4. Dallaire v. Bank of America, N.A. (Fiduciary Duties Between Lender and Borrower)\nKEY QUESTIONS: Does a lender owe a fiduciary duty to a borrower when the lender offers legal advice, and should the question of whether the advice was \"legal advice\" be decided by the court or a jury?\nIn Dallaire, the plaintiffs allege that they relied on advice by a loan officer of the defendant bank that the refinancing loan for which they were applying would be \"first priority\" over other loans they had that were subject to in an ongoing bankruptcy proceeding. The advice turned out to be wrong, allegedly causing the plaintiffs injury.\nThe plaintiffs sued under several theories, including a claim that the bank had improperly offered legal advice and in so doing had created a fiduciary duty in fact. The Court of Appeals decided that the claim was not suited for summary judgment and could go to a jury.\nIn its petition for discretionary review, the bank argued that, first, a lender should never, or almost never, owe a fiduciary duty to a borrower. The bank also argued that the question of whether the loan officer offered legal advice is a legal question, not a fact question. Finally, the bank warns of the ramifications if loan officers and other bank employees have to always be on guard not to say anything that could be construed as legal advice.\n5. DOCRX, Inc. v. EMI Services of North Carolina, LLC (Full Faith and Credit Clause)\nKEY QUESTION: Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause require a North Carolina court to recognize and domesticate a foreign judgment from another state, when that judgment was procured by intrinsic fraud?\nIn DOCRX, the plaintiff sought a default judgment in Alabama against the defendant. With the defendant not present in the courtroom, the plaintiff allegedly fabricated a damages figure that was eight times as large as what could be supported by the evidence. The court entered the default judgment as requested.\nThe plaintiff then sought to domesticate the judgment in North Carolina. This time, the defendant appeared, filing a motion under Rule 60(b)(3) for relief from the foreign judgment because it was procured by fraud. Plaintiff argued that, at most, the defendant was alleging \"intrinsic\" fraud (i.e., fraud during the foreign proceedings themselves) and not \"extrinsic\" fraud. Plaintiff argued that the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution requires North Carolina courts to accept a foreign judgment obtained through intrinsic fraud, even though Rule 60(b)(3) on its face allows relief for \"[f]raud (whether heretofore denominated intrinsic or extrinsic).\"\nThe trial court and Court of Appeals agreed, allowing the foreign judgment to be domesticated. The defendant has been granted discretionary review by the Supreme Court of North Carolina.\n6. In Re Appeal of Blue Ridge Housing (Property Taxation on Low Income Housing)\nKEY QUESTION: Does a non-profit entity's management and control of a low-income housing development constitute \"ownership\" under a statute exempting such developments from local property taxation, where for-profit investors hold a 99.9% ownership stake in the development as part of a plan by the non-profit entity to take advantage of federal low income housing tax credits?\nBlue Ridge Housing deals with the \"Low Income Housing Tax Credit,\" a federal subsidy used to spur the development of affordable housing. The quirk with the tax credit is that most organizations developing affordable housing are organized under section 501(c)(3), meaning they do not pay taxes to begin with. Without a tax bill, a tax credit doesn't do you much good. For this reason, it is quite typical for non-profit organizations to set up a for-profit affiliate and to seek investors for the affiliate. The tax credits are then used to offset federal tax liability that the for-profit investors bring with them.\nThese complicated corporate gymnastics achieve their purpose under the federal tax code, but how do they affect the question of whether low-income housing is subject to local property tax? This is the central question in Blue Ridge Housing. A North Carolina statute exempts real property used for low-income housing from taxation if it is \"owned\" by a non-profit entity. There's the rub, though, because the housing units were majority owned by the for-profit affiliate. More to the point, the housing development was 99.9% owned by the for-profit entity and 0.1% owned by the non-profit entity.\nThe Court of Appeals, however, peeked behind the formal structure to assess the reality of what the non-profit organization was trying to accomplish. To get there, the Court developed a factor analysis that looks at whether such a 0.1% owner can still be considered an \"owner\" under the statute. Here, because the non-profit entity was the managing member of the entity that owned the housing units, and because it had the option to purchase the investors' share after 15 years, and because of the overarching purpose of the enterprise, the non-profit entity could be considered an \"owner\" under the statute, and the housing units should be exempt from property taxation.\nThe County petitioned for review, which has been granted.\nBottom line: stay tuned for more civil decisions from the Supreme Court of North Carolina. We'll keep a close eye on the Court and keep you up to date.\n\u2013Matt Leerberg\nTags: Business Litigation, Civil Appeals, north carolina supreme court, Petitions for Discretionary Review\nRead more about Matthew Nis Leerberg\nAssign Of Things To Come?\nSupreme Court Gets Down to Business\u2014Business Court Cases, That Is\nTraps in North Carolina Business Court Appeals: Collected for You in One Place\nA Perfect Storm (Part I): How One Business Court Order's Pathway To Appellate Review Is To Two Different Courts.\nNC Supreme Court to Address whether Auditors Owe Fiduciary Duties to Clients","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Since 2009, Sunday TV Shows Have Not Quoted A Single Scientist On Climate Change\nFlickr\/CC BY 2.0\nPeople Are Not Hearing From Scientists on These Issues\nFor science, what matters is data. But for policy, you need to influence public opinion, and sadly, there's often a rift between what the scientific data shows and what public opinion knows. Part of the blame for that probably lays with the media, who's job it is - among other things - to relay information from scientists to most people. For democracy to work well, an informed citizenry is crucial.\nWell, when it comes to issues that have to do with our planet's climate, the media isn't doing such a great job. Media watchdog Media Matters has been monitor the amount of coverage given to climate since 2009, and despite 2012 being the hottest year on record in the U.S., the numbers are rather disheartening.\n\u00a9 James Lawrence Powell (with permission)\nMedia Matters writes:\nSunday Show Coverage Continued To Decline. Since 2009, climate coverage on the Sunday shows has declined every year. In 2012, the Sunday shows spent less than 8 minutes on climate change, down from 9 minutes in 2011, 21 minutes in 2010, and over an hour in 2009. The vast majority of coverage -- 89 percent -- was driven by politics, and none was driven by scientific findings.\nThat last part is important too. It's fine to discuss the politics, but the science should get airtime too.\nIn Four Years, Sunday Shows Have Not Quoted A Single Scientist On Climate Change. Of those who were asked about climate change on the Sunday shows, 54 percent were media figures, 31 percent were politicians and not one was a scientist or climate expert.\nThat's the crux of the issue. Scientists might not always be the most telegenic people, but this is just crazy. There's this huge issue that will impact everybody on this planet and people aren't getting information from those who know this topic best and have spent years of their lives doing advanced studies in the field. This has to change!\nVia MediaMatters\nSee also: 2012 Was Hottest Year on Record for U.S. Lower 48 States, Says NOAA\nFor science, what matters is data. But for policy, you need to influence public opinion, and sadly, there's often a rift between what the scientific data shows and what public opinion knows.\n2012 Was Hottest Year on Record for U.S. Lower 48 States, Says NOAA\nNow's the Time to Act on Climate, Writes MIT's Technology Review in...\nMost Important Pie Chart You'll See Today: 13,950 Peer-Reviewed Sci...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Who wrote my old 55?\nWhat Tom Waits song did the Eagles cover?\nWho owns OL 55 rights?\nDid Tom Waits wrote OL 55?\nWho sang the song OL 55?\nWhat album is OL 55?\nWhat year did OL 55 come out?\nWhat Eagles album was OL 55 on?\nWho wrote looking for an echo?\nWho sang lead on the Eagles OL 55?\nWho sings on the border by the Eagles?\nWhen was looking for an echo released?\nWhen did Ol 55 by eagles come out?\nWhen did the Eagles cover Ol'55 by Tom Waits?\nWhat's the meaning of the Eagles song Ol'55?\nWho was the original singer of Ol'55?\nOl' 55\/Lyricists\nOl' '55\nIn a 1975 interview, Waits was critical of the Eagles' cover version of his song, admitting that he was \"not that particularly crazy about (their) rendition of it \u2026\u2026Ol' '55.\nGenre Folk\nLabel Asylum\nSongwriter(s) Tom Waits\nTo continue honoring the late Jon Huber, also known as wrestler Brodie Lee, AEW President Tony Khan has bought the rights to Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55\u2032. Jon Huber, also known as AEW wrestler Brodie Lee, recently died at the age of 41 due to a non-COVID-19-related lung condition.\nOl' '55\/Composers\nOl' 55\/Artists\nOl' 55\/Album\nOl' 55\/Released\nRichard Reicheg\nLooking for an Echo\/Composers\nOn the Border\/Artists\nLooking for an Echo\/Released\nThis song was originally written and recorded in 1973 by Tom Waits, the American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. It was released on his debut album, Closing Time.\nIt was released on his debut album, Closing Time. The Eagles covered \"Ol' '55\" in 1974, with lead vocals by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, and pedal steel guitar by Al Perkins. Waits himself said that he didn't care for the Eagles cover of his song, calling it \"antiseptic.\" But Tom Waits isn't an easy person to please.\nThe Literal meaning is about driving his old truck home after hooking up. The Deeper meaning is about death after having lived a full life, and going to Heaven. There was an error. Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. Don't have an account?\nCouldn't find anything. This song was originally written and recorded in 1973 by Tom Waits, the American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. It was released on his debut album, Closing Time. The Eagles covered \"Ol' '55\" in 1974, with lead vocals by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, and pedal steel guitar by Al Perkins.\nHow do you do special moves in injustice gods among us?\nIs Delivery Dudes still in business?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Send Flowers for Martha\nMartha Ann Spigner\nRecommend Martha's obituary to your friends\nObituary of Martha Ann Spigner\nMartha Ann Ware Spigner, 96, of Lynchburg, VA and formerly of Charlottesville, VA, passed away Monday, January 31, 2022 at Westminster Canterbury in Lynchburg. She was preceded in death by her husband, John L. Spigner.\nBorn December 3, 1925, in Amherst County, VA, she was a daughter of the late Rupert M. Ware and Lucille Bowles Ware. Martha was a retired Registered Nurse having worked at Martha Jefferson Hospital and University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville and later at Lynchburg General Hospital and Westminster Canterbury in Lynchburg, as a Nursing Supervisor. She was a member of the former Rivermont Ave. Baptist Church. She loved gardening, knitting and watching the humming birds. Most of all she loved spending time with her family.\nShe is survived by one son, David Lockridge Spigner and his wife, Kerry, of Lynchburg; one daughter, Vicki S. Mathews and her husband, Jerry, of Charlottesville; one brother, Johnny Ware and his wife, Diane, of Gladstone, VA; eleven grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.\nA service will be held at a later date and will be announced.\nMemorial contributions may be made to the American Red Cross or a charity of your choice.\nDiuguid Wiggington Road Chapel, 434-385-8900, is serving the family.\nTo send on-line condolences, please go to www.diuguidfuneralservice.com.\nTo send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Martha Spigner, please visit Tribute Store","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home 1 Faces of Discovery Restoring memory creation in older or damaged brains\nRestoring memory creation in older or damaged brains\nMarcelo Wood, senior author of the study and UCI's Francisco J. Ayala Chair in Neurobiology & Behavior, will present the findings on Feb. 16 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2018 meeting. Courtesy of UCI's Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences\nAging or impaired brains can once again form lasting memories if an enzyme that applies the brakes too hard on a key gene is lifted, according to University of California, Irvine neurobiologists.\n\"What we've discovered is that if we free up that DNA again, now the aging brain can form long-term memories normally,\" said senior author Marcelo Wood, UCI's Francisco J. Ayala Chair in Neurobiology & Behavior, who will present the findings at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting, in Austin, Texas. \"In order to form a long-term memory, you have to turn specific genes on. In most young brains, that happens easily, but as we get older and our brain gets older, we have trouble with that.\"\nThat's because the 6 feet of DNA spooled tightly into every cell in our bodies has a harder time releasing itself as needed, he explained. Like many body parts, \"it's no longer as flexible as it used to be.\" The stiffness in this case is due to a molecular brake pad called histone deacetylase 3, or HDAC3, that has become \"overeager\" in the aged brain and is compacting the material too hard, blocking the release of a gene called Period1. Removing HDAC3 restores flexibility and allows internal cell machinery to access Period1 to begin forming new memories.\nResearchers had previously theorized that the loss of transcription and encoding functions in older brains was due to deteriorating core circadian clocks. But Wood and his team, notably postdoctoral fellow Janine Kwapis, found that the ability to create lasting memories was linked to a different process \u2013 the overly aggressive enzyme blocking the release of Period1 \u2013 in the same hippocampus region of the brain.\nThat's potentially good news for developing treatments. \"New drugs targeting HDAC3 could provide an exciting avenue to allow older people to improve memory formation,\" Wood said.\nLearn more: UCI cracks code to restoring memory creation in older or damaged brains\nThe Latest on: Memory restoration\nFriends begin restoring Wright Twp. ice rink in Kahlau's memory - Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice\nThe golden age of golf course renovation and restoration - usatoday.com\nEvents will honor memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but most will be virtual - Chicago Tribune\nObituary: Paul G. Roy | Lewiston Sun Journal - Lewiston Sun Journal\nEpic Jaguar D-Type restoration provides trip down memory lane for Northamptonshire family of engineers - Northampton Chronicle and Echo\nRiverside group creates fund in memory of Bob Stockton - Press-Enterprise\nEugene NELSON Obituary (1939 - 2021) - Spokesman-Review - Legacy.com\nHeritage Protection Committee to measure Syuyumbike's leaning angle - Realnoe vremya\nDonation to Friends of Epler Schoolhouse now to be used for restoration efforts - bctv.org\nBiden urges restoring decency after 'assault' on democracy - WWSB\nThe golden age of golf course renovation and restoration\nThere's a segment of art fans who regularly demand the Mona Lisa be cleaned and restored. It's a touchy debate. If the painting were to be restored, it might better represent what Leonardo da Vinci ...\nFriends begin restoring Wright Twp. ice rink in Kahlau's memory\nMcCune, a 2018 Crestwood graduate, said he was determined to make restoration of the rink happen ... they can play an ice hockey game there in memory of Kahlau and Madry.\nLiberal Democrats will not campaign to rejoin the EU but will seek restoration of free movement, Ed Davey says\nHowever, they would be voting on maintaining the closest possible relationship with the EU following Brexit, the leader told Andrew Marr on Sunday ...\nRARE Restoration Offers Seat Weaving of All Types\nCheck out the latest business promotion from one of your neighbors. (The views expressed in this post are the author's own.) ...\nEvents will honor memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but most will be virtual\nFor years, events like Waukegan Township's Dreamers' breakfast, a celebration organized by the North Shore Baptist Ministers' Alliance and the Day of Service at the Waukegan Public Library drew large ...\nEpic Jaguar D-Type restoration provides trip down memory lane for Northamptonshire family of engineers\nRestoring classic cars is nothing new for Gary Pearson, who runs a Northamptonshire engineering firm set up by his father. The sights and sounds of mechanical tinkering have filled his ears since he ...\nLeading Seagrass Experts Co-author Paper on Eelgrass Establishment\nCSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) announced today that Dr. Mark Fonseca, CSA Vice President Science, is a co-author in collaboration with colleagues from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS; ...\nA look back at the strange year that was 2020, part 2\nWhile many of us don't want to relive 2020, let's take a look at some of the events and people that made the news last year.\nBiden urges restoring decency after 'assault' on democracy\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is calling for the restoration of \"simple decency\" after a mob incited by his predecessor stormed the U.S. Capitol and delayed Congress from certifying Biden's election victo ...\nRestoration of Epler Schoolhouse takes leap forward\nA $100,000 donation, previously earmarked toward the cost of moving Epler's Schoolhouse to the Berks Heritage Center will now be redirected toward restoration of the historic one-room school.\nTags: memorymemory restorationuniversity of california irvine\nFast and energy-saving encryption for the internet of things\nA thermal resonator could enable continuous years-long operation of remote sensing systems without requiring other power sources or batteries\nMaking enzyme chemical processing greener, cheaper and far more efficient\nBlocking malaria transmission in mosquitoes\nResearchers eliminate brain tumors without damaging cognition\nCombining AI and nanoparticle printing for cancer cell analysis will enable low cost diagnostics in developing countries\nA promising new anode material enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely recharged within minutes for thousands of cycles","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Law Breaking News\nLatest law breaking news from around the world\nYou are here: Home \/ Archives for Increased cancer risk from ct scan\nIncreased cancer risk from ct scan\nWatch: Child Accidentally Scanned By Baggage X-Ray Machine At Railway Station\nA bizarre video circulated on social media showed a child getting crawling into a baggage x-ray machine at a railway station in Zhongshan, China. In this photo, a coast guard inspector uses an X-ray machine to scan baggage at Manila's pier, Philippines, June 16, 2006. Photo: Getty Images\/ Jay Directo \u2026 [Read more...] about Watch: Child Accidentally Scanned By Baggage X-Ray Machine At Railway Station\nFiled Under: World security check, railway station, baggage x-ray machine, child, china, chinese railway station, train station, guangdong province, zhongshan, World, sunderland railway station, butterworth railway station car park, who railway station, which railway station is near to mumbai international airport, which railway station is near to goa, where is railway station in goa, where is railway station at manchester airport, autobiography of howrah railway station, leicester west bridge railway station, cheshunt railway station, hazrat nizamuddin railway station nearest metro station, hazrat nizamuddin railway station to new delhi railway station, kirkcudbright railway station, shastri nagar metro station to sarai rohilla railway station, scans x ray mri, thiruvananthapuram zoo to railway station, dalbeattie nearest railway station, who accidentally discovered x rays, platforms in new delhi railway station, otford railway station car park, for taj mahal which is the nearest railway station, garstang town railway station, where is tinsukia railway station, nearest metro station to nizamuddin railway station, faridabad railway station nearest metro station, pratap nagar metro station to sarai rohilla railway station, scanning x-ray microscope, scanning x-ray diffraction microscopy, which is nearest metro station from nizamuddin railway station, warangal station railway station\n'Defects' are so common that we're all abnormal\n\u00b7 June 3, 2018 \u00b7\nSome types of accidental findings are particularly common. Liver lesions, for example, appear in 10 to 14 percent of CT scans. According to other research, asymptomatic and unexpected thyroid tumors show up in 67 percent of people who get ultrasound imaging and in 15 percent of people who get CTs or MRIs of the neck. 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The standard of care that applies to a particular medical decision or procedure must be established by experts who practice in the applicable medical specialty. For example, if the claim is that a radiologist delayed the diagnosis and treatment of a patient's cancer by failing to properly interpret a finding on a CT scan, the plaintiff must present testimony from an expert radiologist as to what the standard of care required of the defendant radiologist under the circumstances. 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{"text":"Living on Her Own\n\"This was nothing new to me,\" Glenda said.\nWhen she moved into Calvary Women's Services, it was not the first time she had been homeless. She was not surprised by the \"house rules\" at Calvary, like abiding by a curfew and maintaining a clean bedroom. She said those things were \"not a big deal\" for her.\nStill, when she arrived Glenda was quiet and cautious. \"I'm always quiet at first,\" she said. \"I have to get to know who is alright, who isn't alright. I don't share much in meetings. I don't want all my feelings to come out.\"\nThe first time Glenda became homeless was when she became seriously ill. She was hospitalized for weeks and lost her job as a result. Her situation is an all-too-common one in the District, and she had to leave her apartment.\nGlenda fought alcoholism for decades and has been sober ever since coming to Calvary. She chuckled softly about the dangerous ways that she once chose to spend her time. \"I've had my days,\" she acknowledged.\nHer outlook on her future seems hard and matter-of-fact. Glenda knows there are people in her life that \"aren't alright,\" and who she must avoid in order to stay sober and focused. Some of those people are family members. Many of her friends have been killed. \"I'm living on my own,\" she said quietly.\nThe small, studio apartment she moved into recently will give her privacy, but her hopes are set on a larger apartment next year. She pays her rent entirely with the income she earns through her full-time job, which she has maintained for more than seven months. Hopefully homelessness is behind her for good.\nchronic homelessness employment homelessness housing\n25 Years at Calvary\nI'm excited to celebrate my 25th anniversary as Chief Executive Officer of Calvary Women's Services. It is a privilege to lead an organization dedicated to empowering women to transform their liv\u2026\nCalvary News Read Post\nCalvary Women's Services Opens New Housing\u2026\nPhotos taken of the new Reach Up site during move-in day. WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Calvary Women's Services today announced the opening of a new housing program, Reach Up. As winter approaches and tempe\u2026\nPress Releases Read Post\nVolunteer Spotlight: Ezell Battle\nEzell Battle has joined us this fall through the Oramenta Newsome Fellowship at our partner organization, LISC (the Local Initiatives Support Corporation). With her background in human services work,\u2026\nVolunteer Spotlight Read Post","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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To find out more read our updated Use of Cookies policy and our updated Privacy policy.\nWrite on Art\nArt Detective\nWhy support Art UK?\nFor collections\nCollection images and copyright\nCurations and content\nShop and commercial\nCollection care and research\nMarketing your collection\nRegister to access personalised features\nI agree to the Art UK terms and conditions and privacy policy\nMy details can be shared with selected Art UK Partners\nSign up to the Art UK newsletter\nDante Gabriel Rossetti\t(1828\u20131882)\nPhoto credit: Tate\nSend information to Art Detective\nHow you can use this image\nThis image is available to be shared and re-used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND).\nYou can reproduce this image for non-commercial purposes and you are not able to change or modify it in any way.\nWherever you reproduce the image you must attribute the original creators (acknowledge the original artist(s) and the person\/organisation that took the photograph of the work) and any other rights holders.\nReview our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find more images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.\nAdd or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the 'Notes' section of your account.\nRossetti explained the subject of Proserpine in a letter to W. A. Turner, who bought a version of the picture in 1877: 'The figure represents Proserpine as Empress of Hades. After she was conveyed by Pluto to his realm, and became his bride, her mother Ceres importuned Jupiter for her return to earth, and he was prevailed on to consent to this, provided only she had not partaken of any of the fruits of Hades.\nIt was found, however, that she had eaten one grain of a pomegranate, and this enchained her to her new empire and destiny. She is represented in a gloomy corridor of her palace, with the fatal fruit in her hand. As she passes, a gleam strikes on the wall behind her form some inlet suddenly opened, and admitting for a moment the light of the upper world; and she glances furtively towards it, immersed in thought'. (W. Sharp, 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and Study', London 1882, p.236) The subject was suggested to the artist by William Morris, whose wife Jane was the model for this and many other works by Rossetti. Her own life bore similarities to that of the captive goddess, and the painting could be seen as much a portrait of Jane as a representation of Proserpine. By all accounts, Mrs Morris was not a happy woman and Morris was a cold husband. Jane enjoyed an intimate relationship with Rossetti which spanned decades. Rossetti painted 'Proserpine' while staying with the couple at Kelmscott. Eight oil versions were made, most meeting with disaster of one sort or another. This, the seventh, was painted for the Liverpool shipping magnate F. R. Leyland, as a replacement for a previous version which was damaged in transit. Various symbols contained in the painting include the pomegranate, which signifies captivity and marriage, and the incense-burner, the attribute of a goddess. The decorative quality of the picture is accentuated by the curve of the ivy spray, a symbol of clinging memory, which is echoed in Proserpine's arm and the rich folds of drapery. The painting is inscribed with the artist's signature and date on a scroll at lower left: 'DANTE GABRIELE ROSSETTI RITRASSE NEL CAPODANNO DEL 1874' ('Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted this at the beginning of 1874'). Rossetti, who was also a poet, wrote a sonnet for the painting, inscribing it in Italian on the picture and in English on the frame: 'Afar away the light that brings cold cheer Unto this wall, \u2013 one instant and no more Admitted at my distant palace-door. Afar the flowers of Enna from this drear Dire fruit, which, tasted once, must thrall me here. Afar those skies from this Tartarean grey That chills me: and afar, how far away, The nights that shall be from the days that were. Afar from mine own self I seem, and wing Strange ways in thought, and listen for a sign: And still some heart unto some soul doth pine, (Whose sounds mine inner sense in fain to bring, Continually together murmuring,) \u2013 \"Woe's me for thee, unhappy Proserpine!\" The frame, designed by Rossetti, is decorated with roundels which resemble a section through a pomegranate. Further reading: Virginia Surtees, 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828\u20131882. The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9' \u2013 23, Oxford 1971, I, pp.131\u2013134 Leslie Parris (ed.), 'The Pre-Raphaelites', exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1984, reprinted 1994, pp.231\u2013232 Terry Riggs February 1998\nRead more on Tate Britain\nH 125.1 x W 61 cm\nPresented by W. Graham Robertson 1940\nInscription description\ndate inscribed\nThings:\nDress (2,425)\nGown (1,140)\nHair (5,927)\nIvy (118)\nScroll (152)\nProserpine (2)\nProserpine (rossetti Painting) (0)\nYou can help us tag artworks on Tagger. 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{"text":"Category: Group Assignment\nApril 15, 2018 April 15, 2018 cienlee2015Leave a comment\nIn Week 7, we watched and discussed McDonald's Canada's \"Our Food Your Questions\" program. Prof @qkyujinshim taught us about how messages should be self-serving, transparent radically and be real-time relevant. This reminded me of a similar campaign done by McDonald's Singapore through brand journalism in making their fast food hipster\/restaurant worthy.\nThis video taps on the zero moment of truth as many viewers have already eaten McDonald's multiple times and the imaginative possibility of constructing their own or following the 'hacks' would impact their decision making process when they are choosing between fast food or are looking for an enjoyable experience.\nHere's a similar campaign to the one by McDonald's Canada, done in Singapore:\nIn class, we watched an IKEA ad to show the differences between traditional media and digital media. I felt that it was interesting and inspiring for IKEA to make their \"makeover ideas\" video with elements of traditional media seen in how it builds the brand image.\nIKEA subtly communicates that it is a progressive company through treating the gay and african-american couple as any other family unit and couple. This will be received well by customers who are sensitive to such social issues and build more brand affinity as they will see IKEA as a representative of their beliefs and values.\nOH CHA CHA (G1 \u2013 Group 7)\nNovember 30, 2017 November 30, 2017 samanthachua2014Leave a comment\nHellooo there! Samantha here, representing Group 7 (Shandy, Jing Yi, Jeslyn & Mary). Here's a brief recap of our project for those of you who missed it \ud83d\ude42\nFor a long post ahead\u2026\nG2 \u2013 Group 6: Wing Zone\nNovember 25, 2017 November 25, 2017 Emily Lee Shi HuiLeave a comment\nHi Everyone! \ud83d\ude42 This is Group 6 and here's a summary of our social media strategies for Wing Zone.\nIntroducing the mouth-watering Wing Zone\u2026\nWing Zone is a casual-dining restaurant chain originally founded in 1991 in Atlanta, the United States of America, which later expanded to have franchises in other countries including Singapore.\nThere are currently 3 outlets in Singapore \u2013 Bugis, Buangkok and Paya Lebar.\nWing Zone prides itself in its ABC values:\nBranding as \"the only place where flavorholics unite\"\nCustomization of flavours from its 15 unique award-winning flavours provided\nIts current customer segmentation is as following:\nOur recommended target segment for our social media campaigns would be students.\nStudents remain to be a highly valued segment as they have a high customer lifetime value, and their purchasing power is expected to increase once they enter the workforce.\nIt would be highly beneficial for Wing Zone to capture this segment of the market and to secure trial and create loyalty among the students before they graduate.\nSocial Media Situation:\nSome statistics\u2026\nFacebook and Instagram are the main platforms leveraged by Wing Zone. Its likes and following may appear to be better than Wing Stop but it is lagging behind Wing Stop in terms of the engagement level on both Facebook and Instagram.\nInteresting survey findings\u2026\n1. Low Relevance of Marketing in the Local Context\nTo better understand customers' current view point of Wing Zone's social media, we asked customers questions based on the 3 major incentives for following Wing Zone's social media.\nWe found that the factor \"Relevance of Marketing in the Local Context\" scored the lowest and is also very significant in determining customer satisfaction in social media.\nHence, we propose for Wing Zone to differentiate itself from Wing Stop by improving the relevance of its social media marketing. This can be done through creating promotions for local festivities, such as Chinese New Year, Valentine's' Day and local football matches.\n2. Low Brand Awareness and Trial\nWing Zone has the lowest brand awareness and trial among the 3 brands. This is not surprising since it is less established than the other 2 in Singapore and has limited accessibility.\nAs our recommended target audience is the students, we propose to attract students near the Bugis outlet from SMU, SOTA, NAFA and Lasalle, to try out Wing Zone.\nThis can be done through the \"Zoning out in Class Campaign\", which seeks to generate hype among students.\n3. Lack of Brand Perception as a \"fun\" brand\nComparing between Wing Zone and Wing Stop, Wing Zone is positioned further from the origin on the attributes \"Fresh\" and \"Flavourful\". This reflects that Wing Zone trumps Wing Stop in these aspects.\nSince Wing Zone brands itself as the place for \"flavorholics\", being \"Flavourful\" is a potential point of differentiation from Wingstop.\nWing Zone is positioned behind Wing Stop in terms of \"Fun\".\nIn line with the students' consumer behaviour and Wing Zone's value proposition, we propose to increase the brand perception of Wing Zone as \"Flavourful\" and \"Fun\".\n4. Confusion between Wing Zone and Wing Stop\nThere is often confusion between Wing Zone and Wing Stop due to the similarity in their brand names and offerings. We found that almost half of these respondents could not differentiate between the 2 brands.\n5. Lack of Awareness of its 15 Flavours\nMore than half of the respindents could not name beyond the 3 popular flavours, which as Honey Q, Liquid Gold and Smokin Q.\nAs Wing Zone's large variety of flavours is its unique value proposition, we propose to increase the awareness of Wing Zone's 15 flavours through the \"Guess the Flavour\" campaign.\nWith our primary and secondary findings, we derive the project goals and strategies:\nSocial Media Strategies:\n1. Calendar of Local Events \u2013 CNY, Valentines' Day, Football Matches\nWe propose to improve the relevance of Wing Zone's marketing in the local context through the three widely celebrated local festivities \u2013 CNY, Valentines' Day and Football Matches.\nWing Zone has 15 flavors available. During the 15 days of Chinese New Year (CNY), Wing Zone will select a particular flavor as \"Flavor of the Day\" and create a post on its Instagram page to promote and increase awareness of its 15 flavors.\nValentine's Day is one of the most popular events in Singapore, especially among tertiary students. We propose the idea of creating a special \"Chicken Bouquet\" inspired by viral posts of similar food bouquets that gained popularity on social media platforms like Tumblr and Twitter.\nThis \"Chicken Bouquet\" or a heart-shaped tin of chicken will be available as a special on the week of Valentine's Day and can be delivered.\nSimilar to the Wing Zone menu, the flavour of wings can be chosen from any of Wing Zone's 15 flavors. This could possibly garner many shares on social media.\nMass emails can also be sent to institutions such as SMU and SOTA to spread awareness about this campaign within tertiary institutions. Customers can order by filling in the Google Form provided:\nRecipients are also strongly encouraged to feature their gifts on Instagram with hashtags like #WingZoneVDay to promote the limited-edition release of such a concept.\nThe \"Match-of-the-Week\" Campaign will focus on the two most compelling matches each week featuring popular teams (eg. Liverpool and Manchester United).\nCustomers will be encouraged to vote on Wing Zone's Insta-story poll about which team will win.\nEach week, a customer who correctly predicts the winner of the chosen matches would get a \"Party-Pack\" (a 6-pax bundle) from Wing Zone.\n2. \"Guess the Flavour\" Campaign\nThe \"Guess the flavor\" campaign aims to allow customers to explore the different flavors Wing Zone has got to offer.\nAs an incentive to drive participation, attractive rewards such as \"3-months worth of Wing Zone vouchers\" will be offered to winners.\nThe timeline for this campaign is one month, after which the answer to the question will be revealed and prizes are awarded to the top three winners.\n3. \"Zoning out in Class\" Campaign\nAs the confusion between Wing Zone and Wing Stop has proven to be a common issue, we propose the \"Zoning out in Class\" campaign, which aims to generate hype among students, so whenever students see their friends zoning out in class, they think of Wing Zone.\nTo participate, one simply needs to take a picture of their friends \"zoning out\" in class or work, upload and tag their friends on Instagram and hashtag \"#ZoneOutWingZone\".\nParticipants can visit any of Wing Zone's outlets to collect their free chicken wings. Each participant can redeem 2 wings.\nGoal Metrics:\nFrom the recommendations proposed, our campaigns aim to:\nIncrease Brand Awareness and trial by 10%\nIncrease Net Promoter Score by 5%\nShift Wing Zone's position on the Brand Perception Map upwards and leftwards\nIncrease brand perception of Wing Zone as a \"fun\", \"unique\" and \"flavourful\" brand\nWishing everyone all the best! \ud83d\ude42\n(Nathanael, Jia Wen, Cheryl, Natasha, Emily)\nG2 Group 5: The Big Cheese\nNovember 24, 2017 sjonasnevin2015Leave a comment\nFor our latest project, we aimed to develop a practical and hands-on social media strategy for the young company The Big Cheese (TBC). The new f&b concept is focused on customizable takeout Mac & Cheese, and located at Sunshine Plaza in Singapore. The company aims to offer a cheap and convenient solution for all the busy students of the surrounding (arts) universities and young workers around town.\nCurrently, the company does not have a social media strategy in place. Therefore, we developed three strategies that will highlight TBC's unique selling points (cheap, convenient, and customizable), and engage their target audience.\nSocial Media Listening: Can you hear me?\nTo get a better picture of TBC's current shortcomings on social media, we decided to track their social media performance using an 8-month time frame from February to September of 2017. From this, we obtained the following insights:\nThere is little activity and presence on social media\nThere is no clear message strategy in place (content is static and boring)\nThere is a lack of customer engagement through social media (little to no interactions from customers in terms of likes and comments)\nSecondary Research: digging deeper\nTo better understand TBC's target audience (millennials 18-34 years old), we conducted secondary research and came to the following insights:\nMillennials tend to follow their peers when it comes to making purchase decisions\nMillennials value brands that tailor strategies based upon their interest\nMillennials are used to convenience and increasingly use food delivery apps and instant messaging to order food (for takeout)\nPlan of action!\nBased on the social media listening and secondary research conducted, our proposed strategies will carry the overarching theme of customer engagement. This would be done through increasing brand awareness and the brand equity of TBC, while humanizing the brand as well.\nStrategy 1: Mac-and-Choose Campaign\nMac 'N' Choose is TBC's primary social media campaign for the year 2018 and our specific objective for the campaign is to increase the brand equity of TBC. For TBC to improve its brand equity through Mac 'N' Choose, the campaign should ensure two things:\nThe campaign's central theme should be based on the organization's unique selling proposition of customization which gives TBC a competitive edge ahead of their rivals.\nThe campaign should be customer inclusive as that can increase the organisation's online customer engagement.\nThis strategy consists of revamping TBC content through both offline and online channels. Firstly, TBC can change the \"Make-A-Mac\" section of the Menu to \"Mac 'N' Choose\" and include an item called \"Mac 'N' Choose of the Month \u2013 The ___ (Person's name who makes the best Mac 'N' Choose for the month)\". Secondly, TBC can make a poster for the boundary wall outside the restaurant with an aesthetic display of the words \"Mac 'N' Choose\" to leverage on the success of instaworthy walls.\nStrategy 2: The Big Cheese x TYC Streetwear T-shirt Design Contest\nThis strategy involves the collaboration between a Singaporean art collective called Tell Your Children (TYC) studios and TBC. Basically, TBC would host a streetwear t-shirt design competition in between the 3 neighboring arts schools which are School of The Art (SOTA), Lasalle College of the Arts, and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). This contest would enable TBC to engage their target audience and draw a lot of attention. TYC would be invited to be part of the judging panel as well as advisers for students to make their designs into a reality.\nThis contest would require students to create a t-shirt with the theme of TBC and top winners will be awarded cash prizes. Students will be given a month to send in their designs and thereafter, TYC Studios would pick the top designs. There would be a workshop for TYC studios to mingle with the selected winners to discuss designs and provide some tips to improve their designs. Lastly, top designs will be posted on the Facebook page where both students and the general public can vote for their favourite designs.\nIn order to boost such participation and engagement, a school-specific hashtag for each of the 3 schools (SOTA: SOTAxBigCheese; NAFA: NAFAxBigCheese; Lasalle: LasallexBigCheese) will be created. It would be mentioned in each post on the social media platforms that the more hashtags that is seen from each school in the comment section, the higher the chance for them to win the competition.\nStrategy 3: SayCheese Telegram Bot\nOn examining TBC's operations, we see that the prospective cheese lover must make his\/her way down to the store, queue up, place the order, wait for the Mac N'Cheese to be prepared and then make his way back to the eating destination. Through our third social media strategy of using messaging channels as tools of ordering, we aim to decrease waiting times and optimize operations, increase customer engagement and ultimately, build a strong and unique brand equity. This objective will be achieved by capitalizing on the social media connect of Telegram, a popular messaging platform amongst the students.\nThe manual process of queuing up for a takeout meal deterred many customers from eating at TBC, as sourced through our conversation with the owner, as well as some existing customers. In accordance with the central theme of Customer Engagement for our social media strategies, we would be using Telegram as a platform for customers to place an order through TBC's own user-interactive bot.\nHow does the Bot work?\nThis Telegram bot (Username- theBigCheese_bot), would be the forum where the customers would get the menu options displayed, select their desired ingredients and then receive an estimated time in which their order would be complete. To lend the process a more personal feel, and associate the brand with some human-like qualities, the Telegram bot would not send out automated messages confirming the order and providing the code number. Instead, we are personalizing the company as a friend.\nOur proposed strategies aim to equip TBC with strategies that would ease its navigation through the social media landscape. By identifying the characteristics of the target audience of millennials, and the mistakes in their current social media strategies, the strategies proposed serves as a guide to revamp their messaging strategy and maximize their reach. As the main objective is customer engagement, we believe these strategies serves its purpose and might lead to the development of long-term relationships with their customers.\n(G2) Group 7 \u2013 Obsession fuelled by social media\nNovember 24, 2017 Irdina Atikah Binte ZainalabidinLeave a comment\nWe're Group 7 from Prof's G2 class, and we chose to do an academic research for our project instead! The topic in question is \"From fans to 'super-fans': How does social media encourage the obsessive behaviour of super-fans?\".\nWe were interested in this topic as celebrity obsession is almost becoming the norm in most countries, as evidenced by the various television programmes dedicated to celebrity news and the rise in popularity of reality shows. Moreover, the current social media era has introduced a new branch to this celebrity obsession \u2013 obsession over well-known online personalities. These individuals are able to gain fame through content creation on online platforms such as YouTube and Instagram, and thus have earned themselves a mass following of adoring fans. Some of which are deemed to be super-fans, defined as individuals who have \"an extreme or obsessive admiration for a particular person or thing\" (Oxford Dictionaries, w.y.), as they have been documented to display obsessive behaviour and go the extra mile to connect with these online celebrities. As such, we wanted to find out why some fans of lifestyle Youtubers tend to go the extra mile in their adoration of the latter, especially when these online personalities are essentially just average people like us.\nWe chose lifestyle Youtubers \u2013 Youtubers whose content revolve around sharing about their lives through video blogs (or 'vlogs' as it is more commonly known) \u2013 as their viewers would have an in-depth look into their personal lives since it is made for content. In order to get a more comprehensive view, we selected three well-known lifestyle Youtubers in the UK, the US and Europe, which are Zoella, Jake Paul and Enzo Knol respectively. They all have fans who have displayed obsessive behaviour and hence are suitable candidates to be examined in our project.\n1. Zoella\nZoe Elizabeth Sugg, best known by her YouTube username Zoella, is a fashion, beauty and lifestyle vlogger and author based in the UK. To date, Zoella has over 12 million YouTube subscribers and has amassed over one billion video views. The majority of her viewers hover at around 18 \u2013 25 years of age. Her debut novel, \"Girl Online\" broke records of highest first week sales with 78 thousand hard copies sold (Harding, 2016). Zoella also has her own line of beauty products.\nAs Britain's most powerful social media celebrity (Baxter-Wright, 2017), Zoella has had her fair share of super-fans. She routinely faced privacy intrusion from fans who showed up at her house after tracking down her home address. As a sufferer of anxiety attacks, Zoella addressed the problem in a YouTube video. Nonetheless, super-fans continued to show up, turning Zoella's home into an actual tourist stop for tour groups (Brooks, 2016). Zoella and her boyfriend have since moved to a quieter private estate equipped with extensive security measures (Baxter-Wright, 2017). In August 2017, Zoella, her boyfriend and brother launched their merchandise line. The trio made an appearance on the day of the launch of their pop-up store but were forced to leave early when the crowd situation was considered dangerous by local police. The team had to be escorted out (Wood, 2017).\n2. Jake Paul\nJake Joseph Paul, most commonly known as Jake Paul, is a 20-year-old YouTuber based in the US. Jake Paul first rose to fame through a now-defunct video application called Vine. Jake Paul had two billion plays on the app and over five million followers, which contributed to his landing of an acting role on Disney Channel (Bizaardvark, 2017). After Vine shut down, Jake Paul moved to YouTube and has since gained nearly 11.5 million subscribers.\nJake Paul has publicly posted his home address online, which inevitably caused his young fans to flock to his house. Fans have been seen loitering outside of the Team 10 house, the residence of which Jake Paul and other YouTubers share. These super-fans loiter in groups outside of the house to compare knowledge of his life, chant his name, take selfies to share on social media and dare each other to go closer towards his property line until they are halted by the security guard (Mic, 2017). The act of 'pilgriming' to Jake Paul's house to get a glimpse of him and his team has somehow become a rite of passage for his fans from all over the US. The ruckus caused by Jake Paul's stunts and fans waiting outside his house have attracted criticism from his neighbours, to which were met by defensive comments by his fans (Mic, 2017).\n3. Enzo Knol\nEnzo Erkelens, best known as Enzo Knol, is a famous Dutch lifestyle YouTuber. He first started vlogging in 2011, and since then has consistently uploaded gaming videos and vlogs. Enzo gained national popularity when he uploaded a video of him accidentally breaking his arm while filming (Knol, 2014) as national news media used it as an example to illustrate how dangerous it was to record oneself while doing something. Since then, Enzo has nearly two million subscribers on YouTube and a total of one and a half billion video views. Enzo owns a clothing brand called 'Knol Power' and even has his own wax sculpture in Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam (Madame Tussauds, w.y.). With such popularity and a significant fanbase, Enzo has the biggest YouTube channel in the Netherlands (Enzo Knol, w.y.).\nThere have been multiple cases that show Enzo's fans displaying obsessive behaviour towards him. In 2014, Enzo held a fan meeting at Utrecht central station which attracted flocks of adoring fans. However, the fan meeting was cut short by the police as it was beginning to get chaotic and dangerous (Duic, 2014). In another case of fan obsession, Enzo was spotted at his friend's house by a fan and within minutes of the information being shared on social media, the street was swarmed with fans. They were documented to be screaming and crying at the possible sight of Enzo. Again, the police were called to handle the chaos and escort Enzo out of the situation safely (Loo, 2017). The most recent example showing unhealthy fan behaviour would be the period when Enzo and his long-term girlfriend broke up. His girlfriend is a familiar face to Enzo's viewers as she has been frequently featured in Enzo's videos over the years. When the news about the break up became public, fans were heartbroken and could be seen commenting their disbelief and sadness over the news on his social media platforms. As Enzo was already considered a national celebrity, the news of the breakup was televised on national media channels and newspapers (Taha, 2017).\nObsession fuelled by social media\nConsidering the above, it is clear that celebrity obsession does not only entail adoration for traditional celebrities such as those that are established in the entertainment industry. With social media platforms allowing individuals to rise to fame through content creation, these online personalities are able to gain a following of super-fans comparable to that of traditional celebrities. According to several studies among American teenagers, \"relatability and attainability are two of the biggest reasons teenagers are impacted by YouTubers\" (Westenberg, 2016). As these YouTubers are essentially average individuals like the viewer, this makes them significantly more relatable than traditional mass media celebrities. Thus, the following paragraphs will investigate the contributions of YouTubers' excessive sharing on social media and celebrity worship of the fans. The section will also examine how the aforementioned factors strengthen the formation of parasocial relationships, all of which have been made possible by social media.\n1. Excessive Sharing\nWith the transparency that social media allows, obsession over online celebrities have been made easier. SNS thrive on information uploaded and shared by users, which cause them to have the tendency to excessively share information online. The reason behind oversharing is psychological, and thus has been exacerbated by social media. Nadkarni and Hoffman (2012) found that many use social media \"to satisfy their needs for belonging and self-presentation\" and that the content shared \"are fulfilling social needs to connect with others, gain acceptance, and present an online version of oneself, either accurate or idealized\". This is especially true for the YouTubers in question, since their living is earned through creating content on SNS and the content has to be relatable enough to keep fans interested. Vlogs that document the YouTubers day-to-day lives are often uploaded as content and enable viewers to keep track of what the YouTuber is doing. Also, it is common to find videos that consist of the YouTubers sharing information that are considered to be private. For example, Zoella and Jake Paul have both uploaded videos of them giving tours of their homes (Deyes, 2016 & Paul, 2017). Moreover, question and answer videos also allow their viewers to know more information about them. Although the information shared may not be of high importance, the combined content uploaded to YouTube and their other SNS accounts provide viewers a more detailed idea of who the YouTuber is.\nConsequently, this tendency of YouTubers to excessively share information online provides an avenue for super-fans to fixate over them. Every tweet, picture or video posted on social media regardless of its content removes a layer of privacy for the online personality and allows their fans to feel more connected. This abundance of personal information does more harm than good especially if the YouTubers have fans that tend to go the extra mile in their adoration. This can be particularly seen in the example mentioned above, where fans are seen to be camping outside Zoella's and Jake Paul's homes (Cockroft, 2015 & Lorenz, 2017). It is irrefutable that the videos sharing personal information and vlogs containing snippets of the YouTubers' home environment made it easier for super-fans to track them down. This ties in with the theory of social exchange which emphasizes the \"importance to a cost and reward assessment, where a parasocial interaction with a media personality would have a high reward and low-cost exchange\" (Ballantine and Martin, 2005). Fans are able to get a lot out of the relationship with minimal effort, as they are constantly being rewarded with the abundance of content that the YouTubers put online. Thus, for super-fans, this over-sharing epidemic feeds their obsessive behaviour and enables them to continue with it.\n2. Celebrity Worship\nExisting literature on celebrity worship discusses the phenomenon as a spectrum, where on one end the fan is merely passionate and on the other end, the fan's obsession borders on psychopathological (Sansone & Sansone, 2014). This spectrum can be characterised in three stages (Houran, Lange & McCutcheon, 2002). In the case of YouTube vloggers, fans in the first stage are identified as those who actively seek out information about vloggers, but purely for an entertainment purpose. The majority of YouTube viewers fall into this category. Their interaction with the vloggers are passive and ends when they have finished consuming the content; they recognise the vloggers as a means to satisfy an entertainment need. In the second stage, fans are known to begin to perceive a parasocial relationship with the vlogger, as elaborated in the previous section. An example of such a behaviour can be seen in a fan video addressed to Zoella. In it, a young girl declares that she is not a stalker, but that Zoella is like a sister to her. The fan also believes that Zoella cares about her. Her video closes off with a plea for Zoella to respond by sending her a private video reply. Fans in the third stage are described to have \"excessive empathy with the celebrity's successes and failures, over-identify with the celebrity, and obsessively follow the details of a celebrity's life\" (Houran, Lange & McCutcheon, 2002). This includes stalking the vloggers openly in public as was the case with Enzo, or turning up at Jake Paul's residence and camping out just to see him (Lorenz, 2017).\nWith the progression in each stage, the fan feels a greater degree of closeness with the celebrity. This may lead to a sense of entitlement on the fan's part that he or she should be privy to the celebrity's private life. This could in part be fuelled by the prevalence of fan pages and teams dedicated to the vloggers. In relevance to fan pages, social platforms such as Tumblr and Instagram enable fans to engage with vlogger-related content endlessly if they want to, due to the platforms' infinite scroll function. It arguably allows fans to immerse themselves with no indication that they should stop consuming the media, potentially trapping them if they do not have the self-discipline to stop the scrolling on their own. Further, established vloggers have incredibly unified fan bases that refer to themselves by their team names. For instance, Jake Paul's fans call themselves Jake Paulers and have anthems written by the vlogger himself. Zoella's fans identify as Sugglets, with multiple quizzes online that people can take to determine how true a fan they are. Enzo's fans call themselves Knolpowers. These names serve to fuel the fandom as fans are able to connect with one another online and validate each other's behaviour through social influence, thus potentially escalating fans further up the celebrity worship scale and normalising stage 2 or 3 behaviours.\n3. Parasocial Relationship\nThe combination of the two factors explained above contributes to the formation of relationships formed between the fan and YouTuber through constant interaction. This is known as a parasocial relationship, defined as essentially \"imagined relationships that tend to be experienced as real\" between a fan and mass media figure (Roberts, 2007). Though parasocial relationships are often used to describe connections that fans form with traditional celebrities, it is unsurprising to see that those relationships are also being created with online personalities given the latter's rise in popularity. Recent studies have found that \"people in digital environments may come to know more people parasocially than directly through interpersonal contact\" (Chen, 2014). With social media, it is significantly easier for fans to form relationships with their online idols. Interactions between the YouTubers and their fans can be commonly seen by how YouTubers interact with them through their various SNS, usually by replying fans' tweets and comments. Furthermore, online personalities are known to organize meet-and-greet events that give their viewers the opportunity to see them up close and personal. All three of the YouTubers have organized fan meetings, which often attract fans in large volumes. Thus, this elucidates how fans are now able to connect with their idols on a more personal scale than before.\nThrough frequent exposure with these online personalities, the viewers \"come to feel that they know [them] from their appearance, gestures, conversations, and conduct, despite having had no direct communication with them\" (Sylvia Caryle, w.y.). Social media-based parasocial relationships are more salient as these online personalities consistently share content of themselves on the Internet, which provides fans with an avenue to fixate on. As mentioned earlier through the explanation of the social exchange theory, the content put out by the vloggers serve as rewards to the viewers and hence keeps them interested. This constant provision of content coupled with the frequent interaction that the fans get from the YouTubers strengthens the parasocial relationships formed. Hence, this separates social media-based parasocial relationships from traditional celebrity-fan relationships considering how social media has allowed for the former to appear less one-sided. With the distance between the online personality and the fan becoming seemingly closer due to social media, it is inevitable that some fans start to develop obsessive behaviours towards their subject of obsession.\n1. Influence of Youtubers on fans\nA study conducted by The University of Twente (2016) found that YouTubers do have significant influence on their fans, whether positive or negative. This is especially so for the younger fans. Examples of positive influence are evidenced through the good feedback received on YouTube videos that talk about problems not commonly shared in public. For example, Zoella openly discusses her problem of suffering from panic attacks in videos and shares her experiences with her viewers. After noting the positive reception garnered from such videos, she started a collaboration with Mind, a charity which helps people with mental health problems. Together, they strive to raise awareness on mental health and make the world a safer environment that permits issues of mental health to be a discussable topic (Audley, 2014). Be that as it may, the more impressionable fan base is susceptible to copying the bad behaviour that some YouTubers portray in their videos. YouTubers such as Jake Paul who produce controversial videos involving dangerous stunts promote recklessness and pose as bad examples to their fans. As it has been acknowledged that fans view YouTubers as their role model and attach value to the statements they make, YouTubers thus need to be highly careful of what they share on social media (University of Twente, 2016).\nConsidering the above, YouTubers can use their SNS to educate their fans on the correct behaviour. For example, YouTuber Julien Solomita uploaded a video telling his fans to not invade his privacy after encountering a fan outside of his house. He discouraged such behaviour and proposed other alternatives to those who want to meet him, such as at organised fan meetings. This approach should also be adopted by other YouTubers so that their fans are able to distinguish between socially appropriate and incorrect behaviour.\nFurthermore, YouTubers do have an influence on the opinion of their followers about brands and products. The most used way of 'advertising' is through popular YouTubers. The reason for this is because they are seen as authentic when reviewing a product or brand (Influencer Marketing, 2012). Followers do believe that the recommendations or negative opinions of the YouTubers are honest and more credible than marketer-sponsored information provided by the brand itself. YouTubers are viewed as more honest and transparent to their followers. Firstly, they use particular hashtags like #ad or #spon to indicate when the content or product is sponsored. Secondly, because they perceive YouTubers as equals, followers feel more related to them; YouTubers are seen as people who are only creating unique content on the internet. Their popularity is gained because of their personalities, unique talents and creativity, which followers also strive to achieve (Bentley, Earls & O'Brien, 2011). The intimate stories about their personal lives make them seem even more trustworthy and approachable.\nIn essence, YouTubers do have significant influence on their followers regarding both behaviour and opinions as detailed above. However, as this influence can be both positive and negative, YouTubers need to display correct behaviour since impressionable followers are prone to follow the behaviour of popular YouTubers. It is therefore essential that YouTubers are aware of the influence they have on their followers and act or produce content responsibly with this in mind.\nBased on the above, things must be done in order to prevent fans from taking their adoration of these online personalities to unhealthy levels.\nFirstly, not all vloggers are positive role models like Zoella who inspire and advocate meaningful causes (Doyle, 2016). Secondly, the physical safety of children may be compromised as well due to the normalisation of over-sharing private information. Excessively revealing personal details such as their home location or daily activities could make them easy targets for online predators (Doyle, 2016). To give an example, 71% of schoolchildren publicly share their school and hometown (Helliwell, 2017) and 17% stated that they have ever been contacted online by a stranger, which made them uncomfortable and scared (KidsHealth, w.y.). Lastly, a staggering 95% of teens have been exposed to cruel behaviour on social media, such as live streaming of violent acts on platforms such as Facebook (Helliwell, 2017).\nThese exemplify the fact that parents and schools have an integral part to play in teaching children about social media. At the most basic level, parents may choose to restrict the kind of content their children have access to at home through YouTube's privacy and settings page. This is commonly employed by schools although its effectiveness has been challenged (The Atlantic, 2016). Instead of simply filtering content for their children, parents can opt to educate their children to spur behavioural changes. Websites such as ParentInfo or Internet Safe Training provide tips on how parents can approach abstract concepts as such \"positive\" and \"negative\" online behaviour and content to teach their children to be more discerning netizens. By using education in tandem with monitoring, children can be independent in their online activities and understand the risks that come with certain behaviours. Schools are often second homes to children and educators can thus be another channel through which children learn how to use the Internet, and especially SNS, in a more safe and responsible way. Cyber safety courses that are integrated into the curriculum have to be updated to keep in line with the ever-evolving online world as well. Children ought to be taught from a young age how to identify negative behaviours as well as how to respond to them when they encounter the negative behaviours online. For instance, should a child see a violent act being carried out on a live streaming platform, they should be taught to report it immediately instead of being helpless viewers.\nChildren have to be taught that the online world is merely a part of their real life instead of it being their entire life. With that knowledge, they should be discerning in their actions online as they may have repercussions in real life.\nTo conclude, the project explains how social media has fuelled the obsessive behaviour of fans towards online celebrities. Social media has allowed average individuals to rise to fame through content creation, and those who rose to fame are able to gain a following of super-fans. The analysis reveals that given how social media has created a glass window into the lives of its users especially for online personalities, fans are able to get a detailed overview of who the latter really is. Social media can be likened to a form of tracking device on their idols due to the YouTubers' excessive sharing of content and constant updates. In connection with the social exchange theory, the excessive sharing of content by YouTubers gives fans a reward of the interaction with minimal effort, as they are constantly being rewarded with the abundance of content that the YouTubers put online. Fans may form feelings of familiarity and affection towards them and form relationships with these online idols. With social media bridging the gap between the fans and the YouTubers, social media-based parasocial relationships are less one-sided as it has allowed the connection to be closer.\nThe analysis points out that YouTubers do have an influence on not only the behaviour of the followers, but also on the opinions of them. Followers perceive YouTubers to be more honest and trustworthy than a brand-produced advertisement. Teenagers admire YouTubers, and it is therefore important that the YouTubers are aware of the significant influence they have on the behaviour and opinions of their followers. At the same time, it is important that the parents make the teenagers aware of how to interact on social media platforms. In summary, the project underlines the fact that social networking sites are merely mediums for users. It must thus be acknowledged that because these sites can be used either positively or negatively, online personalities and fans alike must utilise these platforms wisely.\nThank you for reading! Hope you enjoyed our project \ud83d\ude42\nG2, Group 7 (Myra, Irdina, Sophie, Daphne and Quynh Huong)\nNovember 24, 2017 November 24, 2017 Irdina Atikah Binte ZainalabidinLeave a comment\n(G2) Group 1 \u2013 SPCA\nNovember 24, 2017 xinkaiongLeave a comment\nGroup 1 from G2 here! \ud83d\ude42 We are going to share with you our social media strategy for our selected organization \u2013 SPCA.\nIntroduction of SPCA\nThe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) was created in the 1800s with the objective of preventing animal abuse and to promote kindness to animals. They provide various animal welfare services to the community such as the 24-hour emergency animal rescue, foster care for young animals and educating of youths in schools. SPCA is a non-governmental organization (NGO) so they rely on donations from the public to continue their role as an animal protector in Singapore.\nSPCA's Current Problems\nTo further analyze SPCA's current situation, we conducted an interview with the Deputy Executive Director, Selina Sebastian to find out the current problems that SPCA is currently facing. Some of the issues include overcrowding, insufficient reserves, lack of transparency and underutilization of social media.\nBased on the above internal and external analyses of SPCA, the research question is: How might SPCA improve its social media presence in order to establish favorable, long-term relationships with its target stakeholders to increase monetary donations?\nCritical Analysis of Social Media Strategy\nTo get an idea of SPCA's social media engagement, Synthesio was used to search for mentions from 19 September 2016 to 28 September 2017 to maximize the coverage we could analyze. The search returned 2351 results, of which 823 were available for public viewing. From our results, we can see that the biggest share of voice is found on Facebook at 41.98%. This corroborates with the pattern in social media following across SPCA's social media platforms. It is, however, interesting to note forums such as Hardwarezone had a substantial share of voice of 22.81% in the documented period. Through observation of the forum postings, people mention SPCA most often in discussions on animal abuse or abandonment.\nBased on observations on SPCA's social media it is posited that the biggest pitfall of SPCA's current social media practices is the existence of cross-posting without consideration for the medium. This has resulted in a waste of resources as SPCA manages a multitude of social media platforms which largely lack engagement with its stakeholders. According to McLuhan's The Medium is the Message, any medium will introduce a new scale to issues. The various social media platforms were rolled out with the intent to serve different purposes, and thus it would be inefficient and ineffective to not tailor-make content for better interactions online. For example, Twitter is designed as a platform to share short messages in less than 140 characters. SPCA's Twitter profile, however, automatically shares its Facebook posts instead. The lack of brevity in SPCA's tweets defies the purpose of Twitter, especially when content is duplicated across platforms. It is thus little wonder that SPCA's tweets garner on average no more than 6 interactions per tweet.\nIt is also observed that SPCA does not engage in two-way communication, only responding to queries and apologizing for poor customer service in comments and reviews. As a non-profit organization, it is imperative for SPCA to build rapport with its stakeholders, to ensure continued support and increase funding for its operations. As Deputy Executive Director Selina Sebastian puts it, people are more receptive to giving to an organization when they see the good work that has been done. This means that SPCA needs to increase its social media engagement by inviting its followers to participate in meaningful conversations so as to truly understand what they value and view as 'good work'.\nDue to their limited budget available for communication efforts, SPCA embraces the free internet channels to share its good work. In the face of scarce resources, it is hence critical for the organization to improve its social media strategies and presence in order to be able to achieve its goal of building up fund reserves.\nMain Goal and Objectives for SPCA\nOur main goal is to help SPCA to increase monetary donations from individuals. This is because SPCA's financial reserves currently stand at a single year's operating costs, instead of the recommended 3 years. Despite that, SPCA does not actively seek individual donations on social media. Additionally, it is easier for SPCA to reach out to corporates for large donations. As such, it is key for SPCA to ramp up efforts in attracting individual donors to contribute to the financial resources needed to help the animals under its care. It is also proposed that the individual donations received will be allocated to the animals while corporate donations are used for the organization's sustenance instead in order to increase individuals' willingness to donate.\nTherefore, we proposed three main objectives for our recommended strategies for SPCA.\n1) To increase monetary donations from individuals by 8% that approximates to $28,2402\n2) To increase SPCA's favorability in the public's eye to increase the sustainability of donations\n3) To increase followers by 5,000 on Facebook and 4,000 on Instagram.\nOur target audience is Singaporean individuals between 25 to 44 years old and are animal lovers. According to the Digital Influence Lab, Singaporeans between the ages of 25 to 34 are the most active social media users in Singapore with the rate of 96%. However, we are also considering Singaporeans between the ages of 35 to 44 as they have the second highest active social media users rate of 93%. Moreover, according to the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC), the latter age group produces the highest donation rate of 85% than other age groups. Additionally, our primary target audiences have to be animal lovers as they are more likely to empathize animals and in turn, are more willing to change their donation behaviors and attitudes.\nProposed Strategies\nTarget Audience Framework\nRecommended strategies and tactics\nLet's SPCA (Save, Protect, Cherish Animals)\nLet's SPCA is a peer-to-peer campaign movement that aims to increase SPCA's social media followers by increasing awareness of SPCA's mission to stop animal cruelty. Such movements have proven to be effective in garnering public attention. It is envisioned that the potential virility of such a campaign can be leveraged upon to spread a positive framing of SPCA to those unfamiliar with the organization.\nLet's SPCA requires individuals to take a picture with their pets and\/or hold a sign that says \"I am against animal cruelty\" or \"I say no to animal cruelty,\" as illustrated below. This picture would then be posted to their Instagram or Facebook with the caption \"Let's SPCA\" and \"Join the against-animal-cruelty community on SPCA's facebook\". The captions allow the public to recognize SPCA's involvement in the campaign and increase web traffic to its Facebook page. To spread the campaign, participants will have to tag three friends to participate and join the community. If more people mention or tag SPCA, it makes their account more accessible to the public.\nLet's SPCA will first collaborate with animal-loving local celebrities and influencers in Singapore for the campaign to gain hype online. This is because according to the Social Network Theory, celebrities have high centrality to help this campaign to reach out to more people. A suggested celebrity to kick off the campaign would be Desmond Tan, who is recognized as a strong animal advocate, as seen from his co-initiated campaign for deserted animals called \"Blue Socks\". Secondly, marketing efforts by SPCA are needed to spread awareness of this campaign amongst their followers as well. Additionally, the time frame for this campaign is the entire six months to maximize participation from the target audience in 'Segment 1'.\nBeLive in SPCA\nBeLive in SPCA intends to increase interactivity between the organisation and Segment 2 to increase inclination to donate. It also combats slacktivism \u2013 the use of small actions online to show support for causes by making the simple action of sending gifts through BeLive a tangible effort in supporting animal welfare.\nLive streaming was identified as a suitable platform as it has risen to be a global phenomenon over the past 2 years, accounting for 66% of online traffic (Mortensen, 2016). In recent months, live streaming has evolved to allow the sending of virtual gifts that can be converted into real currency. The live streaming industry has since become highly profitable, raking in billions annually. In Singapore, companies such as BeLive have jumped on the bandwagon to provide their own platform for local online personalities to interact with their fans. Therefore, this could be an opportunity for SPCA to engage its followers and subtly put forth the donation appeal with original content that shows how donations will be used for the welfare of the animals.\nIn collaboration with BeLive Singapore, SPCA will hold fortnightly live streams where viewers will be able to send donations in the form of virtual gifts. The live stream campaign will start off by tasking the hosts to complete a series of activities which will only be considered complete if the specified number of virtual gifts is reached. A benchmark for the desired hosts would once again be Desmond Tan. SPCA will also send a representative of its organization to host the stream together with the personality to remind viewers that the streams are an SPCA initiative. Ideally, the representative should be engaging and a familiar spokesperson of SPCA, such as Suresh Sundramurthi. In subsequent installments, donations from the previous streams will be used to purchase items such as food and shampoo for the animals of SPCA in an effort to increase transparency of fund use.\nPurrfect Friend\nPurrfect Friend is an online activity that allows the public to \"adopt\" a pet virtually and offer real-time help. This increases the responsibility and commitment a Purrfect Friend participant feels towards the animals and cause, increasing their motivation to donate. In addition, funds usage is more transparent through this strategy, assuring donors that their contributions will directly impact their selected animal.\nPurrfect Friend requires SPCA to create a page on their website and list the top 20 animals that have been at SPCA for more than 2 years. We chose these animals for this pilot initiative because of these animals, according to Sebastian (2017), have a low likelihood of getting adopted. Therefore, we would like to use the donations garnered from this initiative to first help the animals who are in greater need.\nOn the page, each listed animal will have a meter at the side as illustrated below. The meter shows the current amount of donations an animal receives and should receive each month based on their individual needs. After each month, any leftover donations will be carried over to the following month's meter to maintain transparency. In addition, each listed animal will have a profile for potential donors to know them better and increase emotional attachment through the use of ethos.\nTo increase the donors' engagement with their Purrfect pets, these animals will star in the BeLive streams and weekly videos that will be uploaded onto their profile page. As 6 months is a very short period of time, Purrfect Friend is a pilot initiative for the listed animals and if this campaign is successful after 6 months, more animals will be listed up on the web page.\nWoof Got Mail\n\"Woof got mail!\" is the sending of a personalized Electronic card (E-card) to members of Segment 3 in appreciation of their contributions to SPCA. This is done in line with how people are motivated to donate again after receiving recognition. Since SPCA relies heavily on sustainable donations, a strong and positive relationship with donors is vital. This strategy will hence convey SPCA's sincere gratitude to each contribution, as any amount goes a long way in helping the animals.\nCurrently, SPCA's donation platforms only display a simple thank you message after each transaction. To demonstrate sincerity and appreciation, \"Woof got mail!\" will allow all donors to receive a personalized E-card via email, which can be retrieved from SPCA's database. The E-card will be addressed personally to these donors within 1 working day and inform them about how the donations will contribute to SPCA's operations.\nWoof Got Featured\nAs an extension of \"Woof got mail!\", this strategy leverages on the donors' desire to feel appreciated for their contributions. For \"Woof got featured!\", we also make use of SPCA's social media to feature their current donors by creating a photo mosaic in a public display of gratitude for their contributions.\n\"Woof got featured!\" requires SPCA to create a photo mosaic that features SPCA's current donors' photos on Facebook. The mosaic is created by collating all the individual donors' photos as seen below. The large share of voice of SPCA's Facebook page allows for wider reach of this initiative. The many mosaic creating tools online allow SPCA to select one that best suits their needs. For instance, SPCA could use Mosaically, which is a platform to create a mosaic with hundreds of photos with a low cost.\nTo further increase transparency, the Facebook post can also include the overview of the funds breakdown while directing interested users to SPCA's annual report for a detailed version. This step is vital for SPCA because transparency is a motivating factor for millennial donors to continue donating.\nWith a social cause centered around social media platforms, slacktivism might still occur. It could serve as a barrier to the campaign objectives as our target audience might remain unmoved and not get involved with the proposed activities. This will, in turn, prohibit the increase in donations and sustenance in donorship in long term.\nSecondly, with many strategies and tactics in place, there is a potential lack of manpower in SPCA. As an NGO, they are faced with limited staff, let alone staff with technological expertise. The execution of certain strategies may prove a challenge. Despite this, Sebastian mentioned that SPCA has numerous volunteers available who consist of well-equipped and highly-expertised technological and communications individuals.\nLastly, having tested only 2 of the 5 tactics through a focus group sharing, we are unable to determine the possible effectiveness of the other tactics due to time-constraint and the lack of reach.\nWhile it's crucial for non-profit organizations such as SPCA to amass donations for the sustenance of its operations, it is critical to communicate SPCA's commitment to mitigating animal abuse and abandonment. Through the proposed social media strategies, SPCA will be able to convey this message while simultaneously demonstrating an understanding of donor motivations and desires, aiding in its conquest to establish favorable long-term relationships with its donors.\nWe hope that the proposed use of less conventional social media platforms can generate conversations about SPCA within the animal-loving community. This will help us to spread SPCA's work through positive word-of-mouth, and create much-needed hype for the strategies to gain traction. If these strategies prove to be useful within the proposed 6 month implementation period, SPCA could consider the continuation of the campaign and cement its position as a leading advocate against animal cruelty.\nIf you've read on despite the post being so long, give yourself a pat on a back. Thank you for reading. \ud83d\ude42\nOur group will also like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Shim and our TA, May, for the past semester of hard work.\nAll the best for all your finals and may all of you have a great Winter break after this. Take care, everyone!\nSigning off,\nG2, Group 1 (Daphne, Dora, Lynn, Jiapo and Xin Kai)\nGroup 5 \u2013 Suunto Singapore\nApril 14, 2017 April 15, 2017 Crystal WongLeave a comment\nHere's a follow up on our project \ud83d\ude42\nFounded in 1936, Suunto is a Finnish manufacturer of sports instruments for adventurers worldwide. Suunto's product line ranges from premium sports watches to accessories that aid in various sports such as diving, climbing, and triathlons. In Singapore, Suunto's merchandise are available at sports retailers such as World Sports and Royal Sporting House.\nInternationally, Suunto is a highly-recognised brand, with a substantial following of 382,245 fans on its global Facebook page (@Suunto). These fans receive frequent updates regarding Suunto's partnerships, brand ambassadors, and product information.\nSingapore is a promising market for Suunto as tech wearables such as sports watches are becoming increasingly popular, with a 69% increase in retail volume in 2016 (Euromonitor, 2016). However, Suunto has been unable to fulfil its business potential in Singapore, as our conversations with the company reveal that consumer awareness and sales levels remain low.\nSuunto Singapore believes that social media can help them achieve their business goals. The trend of sharing fitness tips on social media, coupled with Singaporeans' high mobile and internet penetration rates have led to increased integration of social media with fitness (Euromonitor, 2016). Additionally, sports and fitness enthusiasts are the main sharers of fitness information on social media (Euromonitor, 2016) thus indicating how social media can raise awareness of sports-related wearable technology.\nThus, our project seeks to answer the following research question: How Suunto can use social media to increase brand awareness among athletes and sports enthusiasts, so as to forge a strong community around the brand and increase sales in the long run.\nCurrently, Suunto Singapore targets male athletes between the ages of 18 to 30-years-old that exercise two to six times a week, for at least three hours each. Based on this information and further research, our group expanded the target audience to include females and water sports enthusiasts. This is because of the growing number of women who have an interest in sports and fitness (Euromonitor, 2015), as well as Suunto's core competency in dive computers that give it a competitive advantage in manufacturing watches for water sports.\nOur primary research comprised of 19 in-depth interviews and an observational study. For the in-depth interviews, we interviewed individuals who considered themselves as sports enthusiasts for an average of 20 minutes each, guiding them through a structured discussion on their awareness of sports watch brands, current lifestyle, and social media usage. We then conducted an observational study at MacRitchie Reservoir Park to gain insights on the social media usage patterns of sports watch users and non-users. Their opinions assisted us in identifying strengths and weaknesses of Suunto's current social media strategy.\nIn-depth Interviews (IDIs)\nWe started the interviews by asking broad questions to gain insights from our participants and progressed to more in-depth questions targeting their perceptions on sports watches and their social media habits. To glean a better representative of each segment, participants included male and female users and non-users of sports watch brands, from various income groups.\nMost IDI participants had positive perceptions of sports watches and would use one if it can enhance their trainings. However, only 21% of the participants have heard of Suunto, compared to 74% who have heard of Garmin and 26% who have heard of Polar. This suggests that Suunto has very low brand awareness compared to its main competitor, Garmin.\nAs for social media habits, 94% of the participants use Facebook as their main social media channel, mainly to keep up with the latest news and trends. The high usage rates can be attributed to positive network effects as there are more than 1.23 billion daily active users, thus making Facebook the most popular social network worldwide (Statista, n.d.). Hence, Facebook is an important platform in increasing consumer awareness of Suunto, and our group will utilize a pull strategy to attract users to the page.\nAdditionally, 84% of participants also mentioned Instagram as one of their most frequently used social media channels. Participants explained that while they use Facebook to gain general information, Instagram is used to share photos and personal milestones with a smaller, more intimate circle of contacts. This helped our group understand how target users' media habits differ across platforms. We will thus include Instagram in Suunto's social media campaign as it can help us reach consumers on a more personal level.\nNext, 47% of participants also listed Snapchat as one of their most frequently used social media platforms. Participants explained that Snapchat is used to post photos and videos that are less visually aesthetic, such as funny faces or mundane everyday scenes. A small percentage of participants also highlighted that they enjoyed reading listicles in Snapchat's 'Discover' section, which are published by Snapchat's content partners. As such, we can capitalize on this small but substantial percentage of users by pushing out relevant information on sports and fitness.\nLastly, most participants said they would follow brands online if these brands had engaging stories and attractive giveaways. Therefore, we should capitalize on Suunto's rich history in manufacturing diving computers to establish trust in their product quality, modernize this story to be more relatable to consumers' needs, and carry out periodic giveaways to further engage consumers.\nWe observed 200 runners at MacRitchie Reservoir Park to find out the percentage of sports enthusiasts who own a sports watch, and among these, who owns a Suunto watch. 61 runners (30%) use a sports watch to track key workout statistics. Out of those 61 runners, only 1.5% had a Suunto watch while others used watches from competitor brands Garmin (64%), Polar (18%), Fitbit (13%), and Timex (3%). In terms of social media habits, out of the 61 people who wore sports watches, 90% of them also engaged with their mobile phone. Out of these 55 mobile phones users, 54 were surfing social media platforms on their phone, with 70% using Facebook and 30% using Instagram.\nFacebook boasts 3.5 million active users every month in Singapore, and is used to keep updated on the latest product and brand offerings (Kantar TNS, 2015). Majority of Singaporeans (60%) used a search engine to aid them in their purchase decisions (Google Barometer, 2014), with Facebook ranked among the top three search engine\/social media sites that Singaporeans used to do so (Alexa, 2015).\nThe number of Instagram users in Singapore has been growing steadily every year, from 51% in 2014 to 63% in 2016. 85% of Instagram users in the APAC region are aged between 16 to 24-years-old. Instagram users cite the appeal of highly-curated, beautifully-edited pictures as the reason for using the platform (Lawrence, 2016).\nMeanwhile, Snapchat usage in Singapore has doubled from 19% in 2015 to 37% in 2016 (Lawrence, 2016). An analysis of Snapchat usage found that the platform is best for \"raw, in-the-moment, humorous\" content (Lawrence, 2016). Furthermore, Snapchat's user demographics comprise of 70% females (Macmillan, 2013), and 71% of users are under 34-years-old (Reisinger, 2015). More than half (58%) of Snapchat users in the APAC region are aged between 16 to 24-years-old (Lawrence, 2016), thus falling within Suunto's target audience.\nWith the increase in Singaporeans' adoption of these platforms, brands can more easily access and engage with their target audience. However, 22% of consumers in Singapore ignore online content from brands, because they perceive such efforts as invasive (Lawrence, 2016). Thus, brand content must be integrated naturally into the platform, be tailored specifically to the chosen platform, and offer content that provides value to consumers.\nMore engaging content can be produced through collaboration with online influencers, with almost half of consumers aged 16 to 24-years-old (40%) saying that they trust what other people say about brands rather than official sources such as brand websites (Lawrence, 2016).\nPremium Sports Watches\nGarmin is Suunto's closest competitor in Singapore due to their similar product offerings and pricing strategies in the field of premium sports watches. Known for its GPS technology in industries such as auto motives and aviation, its venture into wearable technology has greatly increased competition in the sports watch industry (Anderson, 2013).\nAlthough Polar is also considered as a close competitor of Suunto (Hall, 2016), due to their lack of social media presence in Singapore, Polar will not be included in this competitor analysis.\nBoth Suunto and Garmin have a social media presence in Singapore. Both brands have a Facebook page, but only Garmin has a local Instagram account.\nSuunto Singapore's Facebook presence is markedly less established when compared with Garmin. While Suunto has 380,000+ followers on its old Facebook page (@SgSuunto) and 2300+ followers on its current Facebook page (@Singapore.Suunto), both still trail behind Garmin, which has 1,500,000+ followers on its Singapore page (@GarminSG).\nUnlike Suunto, Garmin has localised its social media strategy and expanded its content beyond product promotion and general events. Garmin's more engaging social media strategy has helped the brand achieve top-of-mind-awareness as noted during our IDIs, and a strong social media presence in Singapore (Socialbakers, 2017a).\nComparing Suunto's content with Garmin's, the latter shares articles, fitness tips, and their brand ambassadors' lifestyle and training insights to facilitate interaction and engagement with consumers, resulting in approximately 264 interactions per week compared to Suunto's 24.\nAs mentioned previously, Suunto does not have a Singapore-based Instagram account. Garmin, however, has a Singapore-based Instagram page (@GarminSG) with 2,466 followers. From December 2016 to March 2017, a total of 77 posts were uploaded, amounting to approximately six posts a week.\nGarmin's page enjoys an average of 440 interactions per week (Socialbakers, 2017b), and publishes targeted, consistent, and localised content in tandem with their Facebook page.\nNot having an Instagram page means that Suunto is not reaching a large swathe of its target audience, especially millennials (19 to 29-year-olds), who are very active on Instagram (Pew Research Center, 2015). As our primary research also finds that Instagram is among the most popular social media platforms for sports-related content, Suunto is clearly forfeiting a significant opportunity to reach and engage with its target audience.\nActivity Tracker Watches\nIn addition to competing with premium sport watch brands, Suunto also competes with activity tracker watch brands such as Fitbit, Samsung, and Apple. As both Samsung Gear and Apple Watch do not have a social media presence in Singapore, our evaluation will only include Fitbit Singapore.\nFitbit has a dedicated local account on Facebook (@FitbitSG), which has garnered over 1,894,018 fans as of March 2017 (Fitbitsg, 2017). The page features regular updates, with at least one post per day. Content ranges from product updates to health, fitness, and nutrition tips. Unlike Garmin, Fitbit appeals to the mass market and does not demonstrate a localised strategy. However, as Suunto is a premium sports watch brand with a niche market, it should develop a localised strategy like Garmin's to enable its target audience to better identify with the brand (Omuus, 2016).\nSimilar to Suunto, Fitbit does not have an Instagram account in Singapore. Hence, with respect to its competitor's social media strategies, Suunto should take necessary actions to stay competitive.\nCURRENT SOCIAL MEDIA EFFORTS\nHaving evaluated Suunto's social media efforts using the data obtained from Socialbakers (December 2016 to March 2017), these are our findings:\nFacebook is the only social media platform Suunto utilizes in Singapore. In mid-2016, Suunto Singapore moved from its old Facebook page (@SgSuunto) to (@Singapore.Suunto). However, while its active Facebook page has only 2300 fans, the inactive, yet verified page has approximately 165-times more followers (SgSuunto, 2017), which may cause confusion among current and potential fans. Also, by only being present on Facebook, Suunto loses opportunities to build better relations with its target audience, who are active on other platforms.\nFrequency of Posts\nSuunto only published 14 Facebook posts in the three-month-period, posting approximately once a week. While social media can build brand awareness and foster consumer engagement, Suunto's limited and irregular posting prevents them from reaping these benefits.\nQuality of Posts\nSuunto posts two types of content: product promotions and event updates. Posts on product updates comprise of product photos with a lengthy caption and website link, while event updates feature the Suunto Fitness Group (SFG). Currently, these posts only comprise the event date, time, and location, without any follow-up photos or videos to document the session. Although these posts are relevant to the brand, they are not engaging, and instead come across as generic and lacking in variety. Additionally, Suunto has not adopted a localised social media strategy, which could make the brand unappealing to locals.\nOver the three-month-period, (@Singapore.Suunto) received an average of only 24 interactions per week. Promoted posts represented 104 of the share of interactions, while organic and undetected amount to 55 and 150 respectively. This shows that Suunto adopts an unappealing one-way social media strategy, without providing opportunities for user interaction. Additionally, the lack of localised or varied content results in poor reach and engagement levels among Singaporean users.\nEVALUATION OF CURRENT SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY\nAccording to Hutter et al. (2013), a brand's social media presence is important in increasing consumer's brand awareness, word-of-mouth, and ultimately, drives consumer purchase intentions. However, Suunto's current level of brand awareness is very poor, with 85% of IDI participants being unaware of the brand. This problem is exacerbated by having two locally-based Facebook pages. The lack of clear communication regarding the transition to the new page may prevent interested users from following Suunto on Facebook. Thus, Suunto needs to clearly designate the page that fans should follow by deleting the old page and getting the new page officially verified, so that users who search for Suunto Singapore will be directed to the new page.\nIn terms of engagement, Suunto's current social media strategy does not sufficiently engage its fans as they do not produce content that inspire discussion amongst followers and promote two-way interaction. Also, as Suunto currently does not have local Instagram and Snapchat accounts, they should create both accounts before implementing the following social media strategies, as these are the second and third most popular platforms among their target audience.\nPROPOSED SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY\nTo increase brand awareness and create opportunities for user interaction and engagement, we will use brand storytelling to highlight (1) Suunto's expertise as a pioneer in its field, (2) how Suunto makes its users 'stronger together' and (3) Suunto's value of inclusivity. These three main facets can create a cohesive brand story for Suunto \u2013 a brand that has the expertise to help sports and fitness enthusiasts train better.\nAs such, we devised three strategies to be organically implemented across Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, the three most popular social media channels used by Suunto's target audience.\nOur first strategy, Suunto Heritage, emphasises Suunto's rich history of pioneering dive technology before having diversified into premium technologies for other sports such as running and mountaineering. By effectively communicating their heritage, premium brands can improve consumer perception and increase purchase intentions, as consumers of premium goods associate brands with a long, rich history with expertise in producing superior products (Chelminski & DeFanti, 2016). In addition, 42% of IDI participants mentioned that a brand's history was one of the factors influencing their purchase decisions. Thus, by communicating their rich heritage, Suunto can differentiate itself from competitors and gain awareness amongst target consumers.\nSecondly, our Stronger with Suunto strategy aims to convey product benefits that resonate with our target audience, through emotional motivators. Social media influencers will be engaged to push information regarding Suunto's products and launch conversations regarding the functionality of Suunto watches. This form of native advertising can increase product awareness and the credibility of our marketing message (Gerberich, 2017) by demonstrating how Suunto's products are crucial in the enhancement of a user's training experience (Morrison, 2015). This can result in more fully-connected customers, who are 52% more valuable to brands in terms of purchase and usage frequency (Leemon, Magids & Zorfas, 2015). Therefore, highlighting how users can be stronger with Suunto's products can increase product awareness and opportunities to engage with the target audience.\nLastly, highlighting Suunto's brand image as inclusive can appeal to all types of individuals, increasing the likelihood of brand patronage. This is in line with Suunto's defining strength \u2013 its wide range of products catering to all kinds of sports. By building on Suunto's value of inclusivity through targeting users across sports and genders, Suunto's diverse target audience can better identify with the brand. Once consumers identify with the brand, brand loyalty and positive word-of-mouth increases (Han, Kim & Park, 2001). Indeed, 57% of IDI participants mentioned that they were attracted to brand stories that they could identify with. As such, Suunto's story can centre around inclusivity, and how gender, physical disabilities, and other characteristics are not barriers to greatness, but can be instead seen as a uniting force to conquer new territories with the help of Suunto products. With a greater number of users interested in the brand, Suunto can build an online community who are united and interested to engage with the brand.\nThrough a cohesive brand story, our target audience will be able to identify Suunto as a brand with the best expertise to help all sports and fitness enthusiasts train better.\nSuunto Heritage\nTo increase interest and brand awareness among competitive athletes and sports enthusiasts.\nDifferentiate Suunto from other sports watch brands such as Garmin and Polar.\nSuunto Heritage utilizes a pull strategy with a mix of videos, pictures, and infographics to increase current and potential consumers' understanding of Suunto by featuring Suunto's rich history of innovation.\nTime Period: April 2017 \u2013 June 2017\nGoals for Facebook are in percentages as it builds on Suunto's existing fans and views, while goals for Instagram and Snapchat are in numbers as Suunto does not have existing Instagram and Snapchat accounts.\nA video providing an overview on the milestones of Suunto's sports watches over the years will be released to mark the start of the campaign.\nSubsequently, text content such as articles and infographics on Suunto's heritage will be posted weekly to showcase past Suunto watch models and how they were made. This provides consumers with a deeper understanding of the expertise behind Suunto's product development.\nHigh-definition pictures will be posted on Instagram weekly, with each picture featuring a vintage sports watch, a historical figure, or watch-making process, along with an insightful caption. Users will be invited to visit Facebook to read the full article.\nAs IDIs have shown that consumers enjoy discovering short, interesting titbits of content on Snapchat, snaps will be posted on Suunto's Snapchat to celebrate the brand's milestone anniversaries.\nStronger with Suunto\nIncrease product awareness and interest among current and potential Suunto users\nPromote engagement between Suunto and the target audience\nStronger with Suunto taps into local influencers' existing clout in the sporting community to reach out to current and potential of Suunto watches, with the goal of increasing product awareness and engagement.\nThe influencers for this strategy are chosen based on their betweenness and closeness to our target audience and their embodiment of Suunto's core values of \"Innovation\", \"Determination\" and \"Inclusivity\". The high betweenness quotient will increase the reach of Suunto's social media efforts, while high closeness allows Suunto to more effectively call for action and collect feedback from the target audience.\nInfluencer Selection\nYip Pin Xiu embodies Suunto's spirit of conquering new territories by showing that an indomitable spirit can overcome any obstacle. By partnering with her, Suunto will be making a clear statement that we are inclusive and support athletes of all backgrounds. Pin Xiu is also a good fit for Suunto because Suunto's aqua watches can significantly improve her training by keeping track of her physiology and training progress.\nTimothee Yap's role as a student-athlete will resonate with a large percentage of Suunto's target audience and his massive 16.4k reach on Instagram will significantly boost Suunto's reach on social media. Furthermore, Suunto's land watches will be helpful in tracking his training variables and in planning his recovery sessions.\nProduct reviews, blog posts, listicles and media coverage of Suunto's influencers will be shared on Facebook, with content published thrice weekly.\nPaid content such as product features and reviews from tech-focused content portals like TechCrunch and RunnersWorld aim to increase product awareness among users seeking information on Suunto's products. The links can also promote engagement in the form of shares and comments among Suunto users.\nIn-house content will mainly be focused on informational articles on Suunto's products. These articles can be taken from Suunto's global editorial team, and if necessary, be repackaged for the Singaporean market by localizing the content. Additionally, Suunto can engage in brand journalism and content marketing by publishing content such as posts highlighting the functionality of Suunto watches. Suunto can also exhibit thought leadership by producing original articles such as \"How exercise increases happiness\", that are less sales-focused but still introduce Suunto's business while branding them as a fitness and sports expert. By producing such content, Suunto can increase product awareness and engage with consumers experiencing the zero-moment-of-truth (ZMOT) purchase behaviour (Lecinski, 2011). This is validated by our primary research, with our IDIs revealing that Suunto's target audience use social media to collect information before making a purchase. Thus, Suunto must increase their social media reach to build interest amongst consumers and create brand awareness, which can lead to an increase in product sales.\nGeneral content includes news articles about general fitness, land, and aqua sports, in addition to local athletes' achievements that can double as media coverage of Suunto's influencers. This provides an additional avenue for Suunto to engage with current and potential users, as the inspirational nature of these articles is likely to invite likes and shares beyond Suunto's current follower base.\nBased on IDIs, 78% of participants mentioned that they would be attracted to social media campaigns offering giveaways, and that they will not only be motivated to contribute, but will also tell their friends about the giveaways.\nAs such, Timothee and Pin Xiu will each promote a single monthly giveaway with two posts per week, using the #strongerwithsuunto hashtag to promote Suunto's Spartan Ultra watch as the prize.\nThis incentive can increase engagement between Suunto and our target audience. According to the Social Exchange Theory (Emerson, 1976), consumers will interact with brands only if the benefits outweigh the costs of doing so. Thus, providing watches as prizes greatly increases the expected benefit of the interaction, while inspiring word-of-mouth around the brand.\nAlongside the giveaways, content detailing the functionalities of products will be posted to increase product awareness and encourage discussion among fans. These posts can also nurture fandomization, where fans who take pride in being part of the Suunto community will not only engage in apprenticeship behaviour to educate new fans, but also be motivated to prove their ownership of the brand by interacting with posts and sharing their thoughts and knowledge (Netzer, 2016).\nSnapchat will complement Stronger with Suunto's Facebook and Instagram content by encouraging the conversion of views into sales. Sunny, Suunto's Snapchat personality, will helm Suunto's Snapchat, as IDIs found that consumers usually follow personalities instead of brands on Snapchat. Sunny will share fitness tips every Friday for the Fitness Friday campaign, share promotional codes for the Mega-Sale Monday campaign, and announce new product launches for the Sneak Peek Saturday campaign.\nSuunto Tribe\nRetain new and existing fans through social media engagement\nBuild an online community around the Suunto brand\nTo promote sustainable interest in Suunto after the Suunto Heritage and Stronger with Suunto campaigns, our third strategy builds an online community around sports, fitness, and the Suunto brand. Continual engagement by encouraging community interaction can strengthen loyalty to the Suunto brand.\nPin Xiu and Timothee can initiate the creation of the online community, Suunto Tribe. Suunto's social media platforms will be a dialog Magnet to increase conversation, grow network effects, increase word-of-mouth, and strengthen brand loyalty by sharing stories of training with their teammates while using Suunto products.\nTime Period: June 2017 \u2013 August 2017\nAs Suunto will be active on all three social media platforms by the start of the Suunto Tribe strategy, all goals are in percentages as they build on existing fans and views.\nMonthly live streams in the form of AMA(ask-me-anything) s with Pin Xiu and Timothee will be held on Suunto's Facebook page, where they will answer questions and share how Suunto watches enhance their training performance.\nSuunto can set questions centred around the campaign themes of inclusivity and being stronger together. Additionally, besides asking questions and finding out more about their favourite influencers, Suunto fans can forge community bonds by posting comments and interacting with other users on the page.\nPicture posts on Instagram with the hashtag #suuntotribe can foster a community spirit among existing Suunto followers, while motivating potential users to switch to Suunto for its positive and inclusive community. Users will be encouraged to share pictures accompanied with captions about how Suunto enhances their trainings and can find like-minded Suunto users by tapping on the hashtag #suuntotribe.\nPin Xiu and Timothee will feature in picture posts on their own as well as Suunto's Instagram page discussing topics such as \"Why I love my #suuntotribe\". Photos of them exercising will be accompanied by anecdotes on why they feel that Suunto nurtures a sense of community and togetherness.\nTo foster two-way interaction on these posts and to promote Suunto's complementary accessories, Suunto can tap into the Social Exchange Theory (Emerson, 1976) by hosting weekly giveaways to motivate users to share their own stories in response to the influencers' posts. Users with especially engaging posts will receive a Suunto accessory to enhance their training.\nSnapchat will complement Suunto Tribe's Facebook and Instagram content and establish a personal relationship with viewers.\nSunny Search will be held weekly, where Suunto's Snapchat personality, Sunny, will post a snap at an unidentified running route and invite viewers to guess the location of the route by replying to the snap. The answer will be revealed the following Wednesday through an aesthetic picture post on Instagram, thus capitalizing on the different strengths of Suunto's platforms. This strategy can increase brand identity by humanising the brand, and utilizes the Psychological Ownership Theory (Pierce, Kostova & Dirks, 2001), which states that users enjoy a feeling of validation from providing their opinions to the community, to encourage replies and guesses to Sunny Search despite the lack of extrinsic rewards.\nTakeover Tuesday allows prominent sports influencers to take over Suunto's Snapchat account for one day every fortnight. These takeovers provide viewers with exclusive, personal insights into the influencer's daily life, and shows them being part of the Suunto Tribe by incorporating Suunto watches in their workout.\nTo attract participants for the SFGs, Suunto can post snaps of attendees using Suunto watches during training, and emphasise the sense of community and camaraderie. This allows viewers to see the Suunto products at work and witness the #suuntotribe spirit as attendees exercise and bond together. To sustain engagement, Suunto can invite surprise guests, such as the influencers, to take part in the SFGs, and highlight new running routes, diving spots, and fitness tips that emerge in each session.\nAll strategies will be evaluated on a whole based on their reach, frequency and quality of posts, as well as engagement at the end of the stipulated campaign period to determine its success.\nBased on our research, the proposed strategies will lead to a significant improvement in Suunto's social media content. An improvement in content quality, frequency, and online interactions can reinforce Suunto's brand and increase reach and consumer engagement. As the recommended strategies were developed to capitalize on Suunto's strengths and give Suunto a competitive advantage over its competitors, both in the short-term (through Suunto Heritage and Stronger with Suunto), and the long-term (through Suunto Tribe), our group is confident that the implementation and constant evaluation of our strategies will lead to Suunto's increased online presence and sales in the Singapore market.\nLast but not least, our group would like to thank Prof Shim for the valuable and engaging lessons, Pui Fang for answering our queries so earnestly and writing the weekly summaries that came in very handy in our preparation for finals and everyone else in the class for your insightful questions during class and the friendliness shown whenever we asked for help \ud83d\ude42\nCrystal,Jun Yong, Nicole, Samantha, Theodora","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Tannahill Weavers\nThe Tannahill Weavers | Friday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m. | Doors open at 7 p.m.*\nTickets: $25 members, $30 not-yet-members; $15 students (13+)\nFogartyville Tickets Here!\nBorn of a session in Paisley, Scotland, and named for the town's historic weaving industry and local poet laureate Robert Tannahill, The Tannahill Weavers have made an international name for their special brand of Celtic music, blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms. As one of the world's premier traditional Celtic bands, their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fire-driven instrumentals, topical songs, original ballads and lullabies, and humorous tales of life in Scotland.\nIn 2021 they have been joined by exciting piper and fiddle player Iain MacGillivray, who is also Scotland's youngest Clan leader. Iain, a fluent Gaelic speaker, has worked on such exciting productions as Outlander and Men in Kilts, and has performed for a huge list of stars and dignitaries in recent years. As the band celebrate the nomination of their 18th recording, \u00d2rach (\"Golden\" in Gaelic) as album of the year, and themselves as band of the year, they are firmly established as one of the premier groups on the concert stage. From reflective ballads to footstomping reels and jigs, the variety and range of the material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively Celtic spirits.\nPaid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax revenues\n**The Kumquat Kitchen will be open for dinner. Beverages and snacks will also be available for purchase. No outside food or drinks, please.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Strategy & Management \u00bb\nTata Motors Limited\nTata Consultancy Services Limited\nTata Consultancy Services (TCS)\nTata Consultancy\nRajesh Gopinathan\nN chandra\nit ites\nTata chairman N Chandrasekaran earned Rs 30 crore in FY17\nAs CEO of TCS, Chandrasekaran earned Rs 2.4 crore in basic salary, Rs 25 crore as commission and Rs 2.7 crore in allowances in addition to certain perquisites.ET Bureau | May 30, 2017, 09:25 IST\nBENGALURU: Former Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO and current Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran earned a little over Rs 30 crore in FY17, a majority of which was in the form of commission, the company's annual report showed.\nCurrent CEO Rajesh Gopinathan, who took over the role in February, earned Rs 6.2 crore, while current chief operating officer (COO) NG Subramaniam earned Rs 6.1crore. These numbers are not necessarily comparable to the previous year's figure because the executives moved to their new roles in the second half of February.\nIn his role as CEO of TCS, Chandrasekaran earned Rs 2.4 crore in basic salary, Rs 25 crore as commission and Rs 2.7 crore in allowances in addition to certain perquisites.\nThis represents a hike of over 17 per cent over FY16. In FY16, Chandrasekaran earned over Rs 25 crore and made an additional Rs 10 crore as part of a one-time special bonus.\nChandrasekaran's salary as chairman of Tata Sons is yet to be determined. Chandrasekaran will get a basic salary of up to Rs 4.8 crore a year with an additional variable component of 200 per cent, or Rs 9.6 crore, based on his and the company's performance, ET has previously reported.\nIn addition to these, he is eligible to get commission from the company.\nCEO Gopinathan will also see his salary increase. From a current basic salary of Rs 7.5 lakhs a month, he could earn as much as Rs 15 lakhs a month, taking his basic pay to Rs 1.2 crore a year. He is also eligible for perquisites and allowances upto a maximum of 55 per cent of his basic pay. He is also eligible for a commission.\nIT executive pay has come under increased scrutiny after Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy said Infosys' pay hikes for senior execu-\ntives were against the culture of the company. Infosys executives are paid more than those at Tata Consultancy Services, though their compensation in largely weighted towards stock-based performance incentives that vest over a period of four years.\nInfosys CEO Vishal Sikka's total compensation in FY17 was about Rs 43 crore, lower than the Rs 48.73 crore he earned in FY16.\nTags : Strategy & Management, Tata Sons, Tata Motors Limited, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Infosys Limited, TCS, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Consultancy, Rajesh Gopinathan, N chandra, it ites, Infosys\nMost Read in Strategy & Management\nHow Thomas Cook aligned its IT strategy to cater to millennials","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Daily News Bytes: Disney Casts Mulan, Lasseter Scandal Unfolds, & More\nFebruary Highlights: Disney's Animated TV & Streaming Debuts\nBeloved Disney Animator Dale Baer Dies Age 70\nMercedes Milligan\nLiu Yifei to Star in Disney's Live-Action 'Mulan'\nThe multitalented actress, musician and singer also known as Crystal Liu seems the perfect choice to lead the film, which will blend inspirations from the 1998 animated feature and the classic Chinese ballad. Liu has recently appeared in Pearl Harbor drama The Chinese Widow, action flick Ip Man 3 and supernatural detective adventure Lawless Kingdom. The new Mulan is being directed by Niki Caro (The Zookeeper's Wife, Whale Rider).\nFresh Details Emerge of John Lasseter's Behavior, Quetions Arise About How Much Disney Knew\nPer Deadline: \"There's evidence Disney may well have been aware of troubling behavior on the part of the digital animation pioneer. Indeed the Pixar co-founder attended some wrap parties with a handler to ensure he would not engage in inappropriate conduct with women, say two people with direct knowledge of the situation.\" \u2026 The House of Mouse may need to be renamed Monsters, Inc.\nAnimator Joan Gratz Embraces Technology to Create Her Newest Films\nOPB's Katrina Sarson talks to the Portland \"clay painting\" animator on the evolution of her technique, from Oscar winning short Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (1992) through commissioned work to her recent works Puffer Girl and Primal Flux.\nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Visegrad Animation Forum\nThe 6th edition of CEE's leading animation pitch event is seeking in-development projects in the Short Film (< 20 min.) and Series\/TV Specials (web\/TV formats and films over 20 mins.) Deadline: January 31, 2018. The event is slated for May 1-3 in Trebon, Czech Republic.\nWINNERS: Royal Television Society Craft and Design Awards 2017\nThe Effects \u2013 Digital award went to the crew of One of Us for their work on The Crown (Netflix), and the team of Rob Heath, John Cryer, Shizuka Hata & Rachel Warr scored the Trails & Packaging prize for their animated, silhouette puppet-inspired work for Film4's \"Film Fear\" event.\nRelated Topics:Disney, Film4, Ip Man 3, Joan Gratz, John Cryer, John Lasseter, Lawless Kingdom, Liu Yifei, Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase, Mulan, Netflix, Niki Caro, One of Us, Primal Flux, Puffer Girl, Rachel Warr, Rob Heath, Royal Television Society Craft and Design Awards 2017, Shizuka Hata, The Chinese Widow, The Crown, The Zookeeper's Wife, Visegrad Animation Forum, Whale Rider\nBTS: Cartoon Network Africa Imagination Studios Shorts\nRobert Winthrop Named EVP Physical Prod for DreamWorks Animation TV","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Muslim Brotherhood Calls for Overthrow Of Egyptian Government\nPopulation incited to 'strive for the complete elimination of the criminal and murderous regime'\nSupporters of the Muslim Brotherhood chant slogans against the Egyptian court ruling of the death sentence for ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi over a mass prison break during the country's 2011 uprising, while holding a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 16 \/ AP\nEmma-Jo Morris - June 23, 2015 12:05 PM\nA document released in late May by pro-Muslim Brotherhood clerics incited the Egyptian population to \"strive for the complete elimination\" of their current government, according to a new report.\nCalling the military-backed government a \"criminal and murderous regime,\" the radical clerics said public figures associated with it should be put to death, in accordance with Sharia law. The document also demands the release of Morsi, who it refers to as the \"legitimate elected president.\"\nIt \"stresses that anyone proved to be involved in killing innocent people is guilty of murder and must be subjected to the relevant Sharia punishment, and this includes judges, media figures, and politicians,\" according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.\nThe document was endorsed by 10 pro-Muslim Brotherhood religious bodies from across the Muslim world and more than a half-million people have shown support of the proposition on the Egypt Call website. The document calls for the people of Egypt to engage in a violent uprising in retaliation for the violation of Sharia by the sitting government.\n\"According to the Sharia, it is the duty of the ummah\u2014its leaders and its people\u2014to oppose this regime and strive for its complete elimination by all legitimate means, in order to protect the principles of the ummah and the supreme goals of Islam,\" the document says.\nIt lists some actions by the administration that cannot be accepted by the population, such as aligning itself with Israel.\n\"Striking an alliance with the Zionist aggressors [and] protecting and defending them, while showing hostility to the Palestinian resistance, conspiring against it and besieging it by destroying Sinai and deporting its people\u2014all these constitute treason against the faith and the homeland and contempt for the way of the Prophet,\" the document says.\nThe Muslim Brotherhood emphasized that the directives of Sharia must be adhered to, \"no matter how much sacrifice\" is required, MEMRI reported.\nImmediately after the document was released, Dar Al-Ifta, Egypt's primary fatwa-issuing body, called the document, \"incitement against Egypt and its institutions in a desperate attempt to undermine [Egypt's] stability and security.\"\nIt \"warned people not to heed the clerics' calls to kill innocent Egyptians, noting that the Prophet forbade incitement to murder,\" MEMRI said of Dar Al-Ifta's statement.\nThe April 6 movement, a group in opposition of the current Egyptian regime, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, released a statement that it opposes \"any hint of [advocating] violence\" and to \"adhere to the path of non-violence and not to be swayed by these calls,\" a message to all Egyptians, regardless of affiliation.\nThis entry was posted in National Security and tagged Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood. Bookmark the permalink.\nEmma-Jo Morris is a Washington Free Beacon summer intern.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arts+CultureNews\nTextDominique Sisley\nA LGBT high school is opening in America\nApparently the educational safe space will be the 'first of its kind'\nCarrying on 2015's rising trend of educational safe spaces, Georgia is opening its first ever high school for LGBT youth.\nThe Pride School Atlanta will apparently be aimed at children aged between five to 18, and will offer support to students who have been bullied over their sexual orientation, or confused about their gender identity. According to the Associated Press, the concept was thought up by Christian Zsilavetz \u2013 a trans teacher who wanted to help stop children from feeling \"different\".\n\"Kids have full permission to be themselves \u2013 as well as educators,\" he told the agency. \"Where there's no wondering, 'Is this teacher going to be a person for me to be myself with?' This is a place where they can just open up and be the best person they can be.\"\nSet to open in 2016, the Pride School has already sparked national debate about the best scholastic approach for LGBT youth. Given recent controversies in some American schools \u2013 from transgender toilet issues to hate group protests \u2013 it may help offer a more 'normal' and accepting high school experience for struggling students. That said, it could also work the other way \u2013 encouraging more division, and less understanding for people outside the LGBT experience.\n\"I think right now what a lot of students face is separate-but-equal education in the public schools... This is a place where they can just open up and be the best person they can be\" \u2013 Christian Zsilavetz\n\"There's a number of kids who come from the South ... migrating to places like New York and other cities because they feel like it's more tolerant for them,\" explained Ross Murray, GLAAD's programs director, global and U.S. South. \"I think having a school like this in Atlanta... it means it's much more regionally connected. If a student does need a place where they can be safe from bullying, from peers who want to harass or harm them, they're not going to have to travel tons of distance to do that.\"\nRecent findings in the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's 2013 National School Climate Survey show that 56 per cent of LGBT students will face issues at school because of their sexuality, with 71 per cent being exposed to homophobic language. In southern US states like Georgia, harassment figures like this rocket up to 90 per cent.\n\"When (LGBT) kids can see you, when they know that they can come to you, they're less likely to die (or be suicidal), for one,\" summarised Zsilavetz. \"They're less likely to get pregnant, when they don't really want to get pregnant. They're less likely to get into drugs and alcohol and into depression.\"\n\"I think right now what a lot of students face is separate-but-equal education in the public schools,\" he added. \"Because if you can't go to the bathroom all day and you can't use the locker room and you're bullied in the classroom and the teachers aren't standing up for you, you don't have a full seat at the table.\"\nArts+CultureNewsLGBTQ+gaytranshigh-schoolAmerica","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Team to Saints' Fans: Don't become Louisiassholes\nWritten by Marty Graw\tMonday, 05 April 2010\nNew Orleans Saints' officials pleaded with its fan base to \"not be like this guy,\" who had moments before tattooed the Saints logo on his balls.\nAfter defeating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV, the New Orleans Saints and their energized fan base took to the streets of their beleaguered city for some well-deserved celebrations.\nBut after the team's victory parade, when they showed off their new trophy to their adoring fans, team ownership and management had some cautious words for their fans.\n\"Please, please don't become so obnoxious with our success that the rest of the country learns to hate us,\" warned team owner Tom Benson. \"You may not remember this, but it wasn't that long ago that the country was really happy for the out-of-nowhere Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. We were all relieved when the Red Sox ended the Curse of the Bambino and won the World Series.\n\"But their fans reacted to success to poorly, they're all know as Massholes now,\" he noted. \"Don't let that happen to us. Don't become Louisiassholes.\"\nHead coach Sean Payton then assured the crowd that star quarterback Drew Brees was prohibited from appearing in more than one commercial at a time, and under no circumstances would they involve any type of cookie or Donald Trump. He also insisted that supermodels be forbidden from training camp, and Terrell Owens would be given a restraining order from even mentioning playing for the Saints.\n\"So just use some restraint out there,\" added Payton. \"If two knuckleheads are arguing whether Brady or Manning is the best quarterback, don't scream 'Brees would kick both of their asses' or 'who won the Super Bowl, bitch?!' Drew knows he won. You know he's good. So just say 'Both Brady and Manning are excellent. Good luck next year.'\"\n\"Remember,\" added New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, \"the country felt sorry for us and was happy we won. But as crazy as this sounds, they think we're even now for Hurricane Katrina. They figure one big football game evens out the karma of all the death and destruction and misery of that disaster.\n\"We act like Colts or Cowboys or Pats fans, and they'll hate us too. It's just how it is,\" he concluded.\nNaturally, 95 percent of the fans in attendance immediately proceeded to yell obscenities at the mere mention of the other sports teams, as a chant of \"Saints Rule! Manning Sucks!\" erupted across the city.\nToyota President Commits Harry Caray, Having Trouble with Accent\nOscar Mayer Changes Slogan, Abandons Wiener Name\nRepublican Leaders Urging All Its Candidates to Sign 'I Will Never Say the Word 'Rape' Under Any Circumstances' Pledge\nToyota Can't Get Trunk to Close, Offering Bungee Chords\nOsama Punk'd! SEALs Posed as Crew for MTV Cribs: Pakistan\nTiger Woods Signs New Endorsement Deals\nCity Council Approves WalSheens; Pharmacy\/Porn Emporium to Open on Lincoln\nSteamboat's New Outdoor Theater Named No. 1 Sub-Zero Music Venue in North America","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Actuary: The magazine of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries - return to the homepage\nVisit The Actuary Magazine on Facebook\nVisit The Actuary Magazine on LinkedIn\nVisit @TheActuaryMag on Twitter\nVisit the website of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries\nPredictions by The Actuary\nCEO Comment\nIFoA News\nPeople & Social News\nPresident Comment\nRisk & ERM\nRegulation Standards\nThe Actuary Issues\nTianjin explosions cause Zurich to pull out of RSA takeover\nOpen-access content 21st September 2015\nSwiss insurer Zurich has announced it will not seek to acquire RSA following losses from the Tianjin explosions and \"weaker than expected profitability\" in its general insurance business.\nZurich said its losses from a series of explosions in Tianjin in mid August had been estimated at $275m (\u00a3177m). However, the final cost of payouts remained uncertain.\nIn addition to the Tianjin explosions, the Swiss insurer expected weak profitability in its non-life business in the first half of the year would continue in the third quarter.\nThe firm has recently completed its reserve reviews and these indicated \"a likely negative impact\" of around $300m (\u00a3193m) due to car insurance liabilities in the US and other lines of business.\nKristof Terryn, the insurer's general insurance CEO, is conducting an \"in-depth\" review of the business.\nThe company expected a loss in general insurance of around $200m (\u00a3129m) in the third quarter, but said a further update would be provided in its third quarter results, due to be released on 5 November.\nZurich said it had terminated talks with RSA over a possible offer due to \"the recent deterioration in the trading performance\".\nLast month it made an offer of \u00a35.6bn for the British insurer. The board of RSA Group recommended accept the offer of 550 pence per share.\nFollowing the announcement this morning RSA shares have dropped to 406.2 pence each. Last Friday its shares were trading at 510 pence.\nRSA said Zurich's interest in the acquisition was \"unsolicited\" and Zurich's decision not to proceed with the takeover was not related to the due diligence process.\n\"Zurich has confirmed to RSA that the due diligence findings were in line with their expectations and, while the process had not been finally concluded, they had not found anything that would have prevented them from proceeding with the transaction on the terms announced on 25 August 2015,\" RSA said in a statement.\nThis article appeared in our September 2015 issue of The Actuary.\nClick here to view this issue\nIFRS 17 consultant\nWealth Investment Associate Manager\nEdinburgh, Scotland \/ West Midlands, England, Birmingham \/ England, London\n\u00a340000 - \u00a355000 per annum + bonus + benefits\nLloyd's Managing Agency - Actuarial Analyst\nUp to \u00a365000 per annum + benefits\nSubscribe to The Actuary\nReceive the print edition straight to your door\nThe Actuary on LinkedIn\n@TheActuaryMag on Twitter\nFacebook: The Actuary Magazine\nThe Actuary\nAbout IFoA\nBecome an actuary\nIFoA Events\nSubscribe to The Actuary Magazine\nThe Actuary Jobs\nActuarial job search\nPensions jobs\nGeneral insurance jobs\nSolvency II jobs\n\u00a9 2020 The Actuary. The Actuary is published on behalf of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries by Redactive Publishing Limited, Level 5, 78 Chamber Street, London, E1 8BL. Tel: 020 7880 6200","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Ananya Panday Deepika Padukone Editors Pick Movie Review News Siddhant Chaturvedi Gehraiyaan Movie Review - Critics\nGehraiyaan Movie Review - Critics\nAddatoday 2\/13\/2022 11:04:00 AM Ananya Panday, Deepika Padukone, Editors Pick, Movie Review, News, Siddhant Chaturvedi,\nList of Gehraiyaan Movie Reviews from various popular critics and news portals. Kindly bookmark this page to check all the reviews which will be updated accordingly.\nStar Cast - Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday\nDirector - Shakun Batra\nRelease Date - 11 February 2022 on Amazon Prime Video\nTotal Reviews - 18\nAverage Score - 2.92\/5\nOverall Word of Mouth (Critics) - Mixed to Positive!\n1. Times of India -\nRating Score -> 3.5\/5\nWhat does stick out like a sore thumb here is the film's length and its lack of clarity. The story digresses heavily in the latter half and makes you wonder where it is headed. With a runtime of 2 hours 28 minutes, it does get a tad monotonous and tiring. Overall, the film has some lovely lingering moments. If you want to look beyond the usual, Gehraiyaan definitely has depth that's worthy of being explored.\nClick this link for details\n2. Hindustan Times -\nRating Score -> n\/a\nGehraiyaan moves past the length of 'necklines and hemlines' of the outfits the actors have worn in the film and it's the depth of the narrative, story and the emotions that you connect with. Watch it for Deepika because she truly has outdone herself, once again.\n3. Indian Express -\nRating Score -> 2\/5\nDeepika Padukone, Ananya Panday film is too designed, choppy. The foursome of Deepika Padukone, Ananya Panday, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Dhairya Karwa should have been a throbbing hot mess, but the film doesn't go deep enough.\n4. Deccan Herald -\nDharma Productions, a banner that redefined the tenets of the war drama with the classy yet gripping Shershaah, does the same with the romance genre with Gehraiyaan. The film, unlike a Kuch Kuch Hota Hai or a 96, is anything but a celebration of sugar-coated love. The romantic sequences are as realistic as can be, something that is accomplished by the intelligent use of 'silences'. It is, however, the final half an hour that proves to be Gehraiyaan's biggest surprise as what unfolds is completely different from anything one could have expected. The twist has 'shock value' and blends with the narrative quite well.\n5. DNA -\nDeepika Padukone is the soul of the film. Padukone grabs your attention from the first scene itself. Alisha gets anxious, and she suffers panic attacks, and Deepika proved her acting mettle in these moments. Siddhant Chaturvedi is also a surprise package. His role as a selfish fiance is been layered with various elements. Ananya as Tia is a sweetheart, and you'll feel bad for her. Panday has put sincere efforts in keeping the film together, and Tia will be considered as her career-best performance.\n6. Zee News -\nDirector Shakun Batra is clearly inspired - Hollywood and South Korean style of filming and presentation can be felt but it comes as a breather. However, the pace sometimes distracts and its ungratifying climax makes it a curious case of writing. Watch Gehraiyaan to explore human relations from a third-person perspective - a window into 'their' lives unravelling secrets, lies and lingering moments of love.\n7. Gulf News -\n'Gehraiyaan' is a stirring portrait of regrets and redemption, all the while playing a cat-and-mouse game with its viewers. Just when you think it's a familiar tale of illicit love, shame, and guilt between Alisha and Zain \u2014 both who are in committed relationships with their respective partners played by Panday and Dhairya Karwa \u2014 the film veers into another direction. Its shift of pace and meditative mood feels abrupt, but you still stay with them.\n8. Khaleej Times -\nGehraiyaan in many ways is an uncomfortable watch, throwing up questions about the role of destiny and choice in one's life. While some lucky ones like Khanna (Shah) are able to make peace with the past, for certain other characters it is not so easy to break the shackles of genes and therein lies the conundrum - are you defined by destiny or the choices you believe you are making? Gehraiyaan leaves one grappling with questions of one's own, long after the waves have receded.\n9. Komal Nahta -\nOn the whole, Gehraiyaan is for the youngsters, the millennials. It is good that the film has been premiered on an OTT platform because it is, in every sense, a film for the digital platform. Of course, the orthodox audience will not appreciate the film.\n10. News 18 -\nBatra, who has co-written the script, has very little new to offer, and the film, which runs for 130 minutes \u2013 when it could have wound up in 90 \u2013 often seems repetitive. There is a lot of style, yes, but no substance. We see gorgeous women dressed sexily, and Alisha's yoga demonstration appears to be all about titillation.\n11. Anupama Chopra -\nIn Hannah and Her Sisters, a film that Shakun cites as a major influence, a character describes the heart as a 'very, very resilient little muscle.' Gehraiyaan is a testament to that. The film never reaches the poetic heights it aspires to. But it is an intriguing excursion into the unfathomable and ultimately unknowable depths that men and women contain within them.\n12. NDTV -\nDeepika takes to her role like a fish to water and stamps her presence on the film. Siddhant, in contrast, wears an expression that vacillates between hangdog and deadpan - one is barely distinguishable from the other - and is hardly the ideal foil to his infinitely more malleable co-star. The complexities of the scarred Zain - he is suave, sweet-talking and palpably flawed - are way out of Siddhant Chaturvedi's league.\n13. Rediff -\nDeepika Padukone found her groove a while ago. But when a performance feels like a person, it's artistry at an altogether different level. As Alisha, she's raw yet polished, fierce yet soft, volatile yet suppressed, a woman willing to flex herself in every sense of the word. She embodies to perfection the Gehraiyaan in the title.\n14. The Hindu -\nBoth Deepika and Siddhant have been able to portray the emotions of being with somebody who is both the ailment and the cure. In a tailor-made role, Deepika is effortless in portraying both the sassy and vulnerable aspects of Alisha. More than just its gleam, Gehraiyaan needs to be relished for its deeper meanings and heartfelt performances.\n15. Mid-Day -\nGehraiyaan taps into the same Indian demographic, going through its longest phase of emergent adulthood, which could even be a permanent state \u2014 where couples live together, rather than get marry early. They imagine a future together, yes; but aren't necessarily bound by it.\n16. The Guardian -\nRomance in your 30s is no puppy-love business: youthful idealism ebbs with each passing year, while regrets gradually encroach. Setting sail in the muddy waters of modern relationships, Shakun Batra's star-studded Hindi drama shows that infidelity is never a simple affair.\n17. The Week -\nAn Amazon original, Gehraiyaan, is a 150-minute film which seems to have been scripted to suit the stars. However, all the four leads come up with tepid performances, lacking any sort of charisma.\n18. Outlook -\nWhile the story looks like an honest exploration of the highs and lows of complexities in human relationships, it painfully misses the point of including the circumstances and the privileges that come along with it. Acknowledging the privilege to be able to delve into flurry of emotions that are a result of complex human relationships, especially in a country like India, where majority don't have that luxury, is completely missing from the film, which otherwise, tries to paint an empathetic picture of infidelity.\nTags Ananya Panday Deepika Padukone Editors Pick Movie Review News Siddhant Chaturvedi\nLabel: Ananya Panday, Deepika Padukone, Editors Pick, Movie Review, News, Siddhant Chaturvedi\nMadan Marwah February 12, 2022 at 5:32\u202fPM\nEnjoyed reading the extracts of reviews. Thanks.\nanika February 20, 2022 at 5:02\u202fPM\nA bad taste joke, without the elementary logic of connecting with the audience, emanating from people like Shakun, Karan,Dar Gai,Apoorva unmarried, sick, who was joined by Deepika out of stupidity for money with her image and three weak young people in terms of acting. 1 hour and 48 minutes of advertising for bikinis and rudimentary scenes without attraction. Disappointing, disgusting, execrable.\nShershaah the total budget of the film was INR 55 crore. Shershaah is a superhit movie on the OTT platform. Thus, the total collection of the film is about 185.43 Crore,TOTAL, and the film is Superhit.\nShershaah was the most viewed content on Amazon Prime for over two weeks and became the most viewed movie on Amazon Prime =OTT\nGehraiyaan after 1 month is 92.48 Crore,TOTAL, until now=OTT\nGangubai Kathiawadi IN THEATRES after almost 3 weeks,until now=157.22 Crore, Total.\nA little comparasion","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Staff & Volunteers\nANTaR values all its staff and volunteers. We have a team of talented and passionate staff and volunteers who work to achieve social change in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.\nNational Director - Paul Wright\nPaul Wright has nearly 2 decades of experience working in both Government and non-government sectors \u2013 covering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, health, immigration and social services.\nPaul studied politics and international relations at the University of Canberra and has a Masters of Strategic Studies from the Australian National University.\nMost recently, Paul was the Executive Officer for the Close the Gap Campaign Secretariat and the National Health Leadership Forum at the Australian Human Rights Commission.\nNational Development Manager - Michael Andersen\nMichael Andersen has 19 years experience in fundraising, communications and senior managment for a range of not for profits in Australia and the UK.\nDonor Support and Program Officer - Position Vacant\nFinance Officer - Wayne Willis\nRegular Volunteers\nWe rely on a core group of volunteers who help us on a regular basis including:\nWendy Rayner, Sue Downes and Patrick Lesslie.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"March 17th - 21st, 2022 - San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico\nSan Miguel Tango Festival\nRaquel & Maxi\nwww.maxiraqueltango.com\nMaxi Copello\nDuring his childhood, tango was a part of Maxi\u00b4s everyday life. He would follow his father to the theaters, and sit in the soundbooth, watching the show with awe and admiration. After the show, Copello would to take him to eat pizza at the restaurant \"Tio Felipe\" where he would listen enthralled as the old milongueros shared their stories, until he could no longer keep his eyes open and he slowly drifted to sleep surrounded by the smokey air and the sound of laughter.\nAs a teenager, he dedicated most of his time to studying movie direction. Initially, tango was just a family anecdote. However, little by little, his interest took him to start watching his father's videos, and then trying himself what he was observing. This way curiosity, or genes, were stronger than him and he began taking secret classes, skipping his sports training.\nBetween childhood stories, cinema, sport and some videos, his biggest passion developed and took over his life.\n\u200bRaquel Makow\nRaquel was born in San Francisco, California, in the spring of 1991. She was raised by a father from Buenos Aires and a mother from New York. From a little girl she was exposed to art and culture. She began dancing Jazz, Ballet and Ballroom at the age of 10. In time she began to focus more in Ballroom (International Latin style) which includes Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble and Jive.\nAt 15 she began participating in competitions, which led her to travel all throughout the US and later on throughout Europe. That same year Raquel traveled to Buenos Aires to visit her family. On that trip she took her first clases of Tango and attended her first milonga, La Viruta. It was in that moment that she felt her first tango embrace and she entered a different world, a world of pleasure, forgetting everything in that moment and falling in love with Tango. After she returned to her life in San Francisco, to her world of Ballroom, a demanding environment of competitions, sparkles and lights. But she took with her the memory and sensation of that night in the milonga, something that forever remained engraved in her heart.\nAt 19, Raquel moved to Portugal to dance with an accomplished and well known Ballroom dancer. Together they earned the title of National Portuguese Champions in 2011. Raquel later continued her Ballroom career in the Czech Republic and Canada winning other international titles. However, despite her success, something was missing in her life, and without that her soul was not complete at the end of the day. She never forgot that feeling that dancing Tango gave her. And more and more each day, she yearned to dance Tango and to feel that sweet embrace from the milonga. Her days would dissolve in songs from Carlos Gardel to Juan D'Arienzo, and she felt a need to dance Tango that she no longer could resist. So in 2013 she decided to abandon Ballroom to move to Buenos Aires and dedicate herself to Tango. She went to Buenos Aires without work and without knowing the life she would lead, all in search a feeling that Tango gave her.\nIn Buenos Aires, she dedicated her days to studying Tango, practicing, going out the milongas and giving 100% of herself to Tango. It was and continues to be a rewarding and at the same time frustrating journey. She discovered that Tango is a much deeper art form that you cannot cover up with lights and tricks. In Tango one truly has to open him\/herself up to their partner and connect from a much more intimate place than in other dances. Raquel learned more about herself in her process of studying and dancing Tango. In Buenos Aires, she also worked as a Ballroom judge and coach of the best competitive couples in Argentina and Uruguay.\nThen one calm weeknight in May of 2015, Raquel Makow and Maxi Copello met each other for the first time at the famous milonga at Sal\u00f3n Canning. They spent the whole night dancing with other people until the early hours of the morning when the people trickled out one by one, and the dance floor slowly emptied. The only people left were the late night milongueros and the two of them.\nRaquel stayed still in her seat for the first time all night. Maxi finally had his opportunity. He caught her eye, invited her to dance with a cabeceo, and together they walked on to the dance floor. Maxi embraced Raquel, and she closed her eyes feeling and listening to each thing that Maxi told her with his body. In that instant, they got to know each much deeper than they could ever have with words. Something magic occurred that made Raquel feel the way she felt her very first time she ever danced in the milonga. She suddenly entered in another world, losing notion of time or space. Following her intuition, Raquel knew in that moment that she had found her soulmate in dance. From then on, Maxi and Raquel dance together professionally and share the same dream to dance, create art, and to convey to others their love of Tango.\n\u00a9 2022 San Miguel Tango Festival All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Public Schools in Jersey City, NJ\nBest Fit Climate Cost of Living (Low to High) Cost of Living (High to Low) Education Quality Outcomes\n(36) Elementary School\n(13) High School\n(29) Middle School\n(52) Public\n(14) Public Charter\n(1) Dream Preparatory Charter High School\n(2) Hudson County Vocational\n(38) Jersey City\n(1) Jersey City Community Charter\n(1) Jersey City Golden Door Charter School\n(1) Learning Community Charter School\n(1) Liberty Academy Charter School\n(1) Office of Education Juvenile Justice Commission\n(1) Schomburg Charter School\n(1) Soaring Heights Charter School\n(1) The Ethical Community Charter School\n(1) University Academy Charter School\n(1) Alternative\n(1) Vocational\n(52) Coeducational\nDiscover & research the 52 Public schools in Jersey City, NJ. Narrow by grade level, religious affiliation, and sports offered and get advice from other parents on Noodle.\nDr. Ronald Mc Nair Academy High School\n123 Coles St, Jersey City, NJ 07302\nDr. Ronald Mc Nair Academy High School is a coeducational public school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\nInstitution Type: Public Setting: Suburban District: Jersey City\nCornelia F Bradford 16\n96 Sussex St, Jersey City, NJ 07302\nCornelia F Bradford 16 is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 5. learn more\nFrank R Conwell No. 3\n111 Bright St, Jersey City, NJ 07302\nFrank R Conwell No. 3 is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 5. learn more\n60 Crescent Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07304\nLincoln is a coeducational public charter school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\nInstitution Type: Public, Public Charter Setting: Suburban District: Jersey City\nDr. Charles P Defuccio 39\n214 Plainfield Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306\nDr. Charles P Defuccio 39 is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 8. learn more\nWilliam L Dickinson\n2 Palisade Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306\nWilliam L Dickinson is a coeducational public school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more\nJames F Murray 38\n339 Stegman Parkway, Jersey City, NJ 07305\nJames F Murray 38 is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 8. learn more\nMartin L King Jr. No. 11\n886 Bergen Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306\nMartin L King Jr. No. 11 is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 8. learn more\n59 Wilkinson Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305\nCenter for the Arts is a coeducational public charter school for students in grades 6 through 8. learn more\nCharles E Trefurt No. 8\n96 Franklin St, Jersey City, NJ 07306\nCharles E Trefurt No. 8 is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 5. learn more\nFranklin L Williams Middle School No7\n222 Laidlaw Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306\nFranklin L Williams Middle School No7 is a coeducational public school for students in grades 6 through 8. learn more\n160 Danforth Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305\nNumber 20 is a coeducational public school for students in grades Pre-K through 5. learn more\nFacts About Public Schools in Jersey City, NJ\nThere are 52 Public Schools in Jersey City, NJ.\nBrowse Public Schools in Jersey City, NJ by Type\nSchools in Jersey City, NJ\nBrowse Public Schools in Jersey City, NJ by City\nPublic Schools in New Jersey","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery (Compact Disc)\nBy Thad Ziolkowski, Joe Knezevich (Read by)\nIn this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them. Addiction is arguably the dominant feature of contemporary life: sex, gambling, exercise, eating, shopping, Internet use--there's virtually no pleasurable activity that can't morph into a destructive obsession. For Americans under the age of fifty-five, the leading cause of death is drug overdose. But there is another side of addiction.\nIn some instances, the very activities that can lead to addiction can also lead out of it. As neurologists have recently discovered, surfing is a kind of study in the mechanism of addiction, delivering dopamine to the pleasure center of the brain and reshaping priorities and desire in a feedback loop of narrowing focus. Thad Ziolkowski knows this dynamic intimately. A lifelong surfer, he has been surrounded by addiction since his boyhood. In this unique, groundbreaking book, part addiction memoir, part sociological study, part spiritual odyssey, Ziolkowski dismantles the myth of surfing as a radiantly wholesome lifestyle immune to the darker temptations of the culture and discovers among the rubble a new way to understand and ultimately overcome addiction.\nCombining his own story with insights from scientists, progressive thinkers and the experiences of top surfers and addicts from around the world, Ziolkowski shows how getting on a board and catching a wave is a unique and deeply instructive means of riding out of the darkness and back into the light. Yet while surfing is his salvation, its lessons can applied to other activities that can pull us free from the lethal undertow of addiction and save lives.\nPublication Date: July 6th, 2021\nPsychopathology - Addiction\nWater Sports - Surfing\nKobo eBook (July 6th, 2021): $17.99\nHardcover (July 6th, 2021): $26.99\nMP3 CD (July 6th, 2021): $39.99","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ben Ainslie and Lijia Xu Named 2012 ISAF Rolex World Sailors Of The Year\nBen Ainslie (GBR) and Lijia Xu (CHN) were named the male and female winners of the 2012 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards at a ceremony held at the Mansion House, Dublin, Ireland this evening.\nPhoto: Rolex\/Kurt Arrigo\nFour-time Olympic Gold medallist Ben Ainslie commented: \"Winning the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year award is a huge honour, especially for everyone who has helped me. There is a huge team in the background from family, friends, coaches and sponsors who helped make it happen. It is a huge honour to be part of such a group of exceptional sailors who were put forward for this award.\"\nIt is the fourth time that Ainslie has been named ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year, following titles gained in 1998, 2002 and 2008. Ainslie is the most successful Olympic sailor of all time. The 35-year old's achievement at London 2012 elevated him to five Olympic medals (four gold, one silver), surpassing Rolex Testimonee Paul Elvstr\u00f8m (DEN), winner of four gold medals between 1948 and 1960.\nLijia Xu, Laser Radial Gold Medallist at London 2012, expressed her delight at becoming only the second Asian athlete to be crowned ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year and spoke of her passion for the sport: \"Sailing has given me the chance to chase my dreams and the stage to show my potential. It has provided me with the opportunity to see, feel and explore the world. Sailing leads me to a path of a better life, a life full of vitality, excitement and joyful experiences.\"\nIn August, Xu became the first Chinese, and indeed Asian, sailor to win an Olympic Gold medal in a dinghy sailing boat.\nLabels: Photo: Rolex \/ Kurt Arrigo\nOracle Team USA Red Bull Youth America's Cup Selec...\nArtemis Racing take to the Bay on lucky November 1...\nStunning Start For Vende Globe Fleet\nBen Ainslie, ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year -...\nBen Ainslie and Lijia Xu Named 2012 ISAF Rolex Wor...\n18ft Skiffs AEG 3-Buoys Challenge, Race 4 - Sydney...\nACCIONA 100% EcoPowered: Vend\u00e9e Globe 2012 (EN)\nArtemis Racing launch AC72\nArtemis Racing Launches AC72\nLoick Peyron Joins Artemis Racing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature\nFarah Jasmine Griffin\nA PBS NewsHour Best Book of the Year\nA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction\nA brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers.\nFarah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase \"read until you understand,\" a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the magnificence of Black life.\nGriffin has spent years rooted in the culture of Black genius and the legacy of books that her father left her. A beloved professor, she has devoted herself to passing these works and their wisdom on to generations of students.\nHere, she shares a lifetime of discoveries: the ideas that inspired the stunning oratory of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X, the soulful music of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, the daring literature of Phillis Wheatley and Toni Morrison, the inventive artistry of Romare Bearden, and many more. Exploring these works through such themes as justice, rage, self-determination, beauty, joy, and mercy allows her to move from her aunt's love of yellow roses to Gil Scott-Heron's \"Winter in America.\"\nGriffin entwines memoir, history, and art while she keeps her finger on the pulse of the present, asking us to grapple with the continuing struggle for Black freedom and the ongoing project that is American democracy. She challenges us to reckon with our commitment to all the nation's inhabitants and our responsibilities to all humanity.\nPUBLISHERS WEEKLY JUL 12, 2021\n\"What might an engagement with literature written by Black Americans teach us about the United States and its quest for democracy,\" asks Griffin (Uptown Conversations), a comparative literature and African American studies professor at Columbia University, in this remarkable triptych. Blending memoir, political musings, and literary criticism, Griffin considers novelists, essayists, poets, and musicians as she recounts growing up Black and embracing her community. In \"The Question of Mercy,\" poet Phillis Wheatley's concept of mercy (which \"brings her Christianity\") meets Toni Morrison's (as it relates to freedom). \"Rage and Resistance\" recounts how Griffin discovered the poet Frances E.W. Harper, who set her \"on the path to becoming a scholar,\" \"The Quest for Justice\" explores representations of justice in Black literature recalls the killing of Philando Castile, and \"Black Freedom and the Idea(l) of America\" studies the writings of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X and pinpoints their influence on Barack Obama. Throughout, Griffin writes with learned poignance: \"Our writers and our organizers make poetry of the rage. They have been working, building, creating, envisioning, showing us how to live like the future we are hoping to build is already here.\" Perfect for literature lovers, this survey and its moving insights will stick with readers well after the last page is turned.\nW.W. Norton & Company, Inc.\nMore Books by Farah Jasmine Griffin\nAnn Petry: The Street, The Narrows (LOA #314)\nClawing at the Limits of Cool\nUptown Conversation\nIn Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays\n\"Who Set You Flowin'?\"\nThe Source of Self-Regard","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DOROTHY APRIL SIMONSON\nOffer Condolences or Memory Make a donation to CancerCare Manitoba Foundation\nIt is with greatest sadness that the family of Dorothy Simonson, of Stonewall, Manitoba formerly from Grosse Isle, Manitoba for 35 years, announces her passing on May 31, 2021, at Rosewood Lodge at the age of 79.\nDorothy will be remembered by her daughter Bev Schofield, son-in-law Terry and grandson Kyle; her brothers, Ted (Joy) and Carl (Edie), and many nieces and nephews.\nDorothy was predeceased by her parents, Torger and Martha Simonson, son Wesley Hannah, \"he always had a special place near to her heart, she lost him far too soon\"; spouse Ken Belbin, her brothers and sisters: Viola, Gord, Astrid, Gary, Doug and Lloyd.\nDorothy loved her country music, baseball, hockey and all sports. Mom kept track of everyone's birthdays and special occasions. Mom was very meticulous about her yard and house in Grosse Isle. It was her pride and joy, always tending to her gardens and lawn. Coffee was always on at Mom's house for anyone that wanted to stop by and visit. She will be greatly missed by so many friends, family and neighbours.\nMom spent most of her time in Teulon Hospital and Rosewood Lodge in the last year. Special thanks to everyone that provided such loving care to her. Also, Mallory the song you wrote Mom when she left Teulon had us all in tears. Thank you so much. It meant so much to her. Thank you, Doctor Hicks, for always putting a smile on Mom's face.\nIn the last three weeks we have face timed, speaker called, window visited and relayed messages on how much she is loved. Yuli and Lina played their violins outside Mom's window. It was so special to her. Mom's last wish a year ago was to say goodbye to friends and family. I think we have. Thank you so much everyone who sat inside or outside Mom's window at such a difficult time.\n\"In the last three weeks I have got to spend a lot of time with Mom holding her hand. I am so grateful to have spent so much time with her. Love you Mom. Rest in Peace, love you always.\" Bev\nA special message from Kyle - \"With Grandma's health issues starting during the Pandemic that added so many extra challenges. She was such a strong woman and knows how much her family and friends love her. While I was away for 14 weeks in Kingston, I talked to her every weekend over the phone to tell her about my training as she always wanted to know what I was learning and I was really happy to make her proud. My last time going to visit her she was not doing well. I wasn't able to visit in the same room as her for way too long and for it to be under these circumstances made it hard. I held her hand and sat with her. At first, she was confused for the first hour and seeing her in this state was heart breaking.\nWhat I am grateful for is after one of the times after I told her I loved her she became alert and responsive and we were able to talk for awhile and this last conversation I'll hold in my heart forever. Goodbye Grandma, I love you and I miss you.\"\nA small family interment will take place at Woodlands Cemetery and also Hillside Cemetery in Portage la Prairie. A celebration of Dorothy's life will take place when Covid restrictions are lifted and gatherings are permitted.\nIn lieu of flowers, donations can be made to: Rosewood Lodge Personal Care Home in Memory of Dorothy Simonson, 513 - 1st Avenue N., Stonewall, MB R0C 2Z0 or Coffeehouse to end cancer at CancerCare Manitoba Foundation, http:\/\/support.cancercarefdn.mb.ca\/goto\/Coffeehouse2021\nFollow the links, donate now in memory of Dorothy Simonson.\nMake a donation to","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pub Chef Passion\nPASSIONATE IN LIFE, PASSIONATE IN WORK, WE ARE ALL PUB CHEFS\nAcorn Awards 2019 \u2013 Entries Now Open!\nCalling all young Chefs! This year, The Caterer, alongside the headline sponsor CH&Co, are once again looking to recognise and reward the 30 of brightest, rising stars in the hospitality industry. Past winners have represented all areas of the sector, having been nominated by their peers for demonstrating excellence in their sector. There are only\u2026\nAward Success for Apprentice Chef\nThomas Martin receives his award from Nicola Thornton-Scott, Assistant principal of NPTC Group of Colleges Apprentice chef Thomas Martin, 22, was named Foundation Apprentice of the Year at the prestigious Apprenticeship Awards Cymru held at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport on November 9. He said \"I'm absolutely elated. This award means the world to me\u2026.\nPARLIAMENTARY PUB CHEF OF THE YEAR FINALISTS ANNOUNCED\nEight shortlisted finalists for the Parliamentary Pub Chef and Parliamentary Young Pub Chef of the Year have been announced after the rigorous judging on Friday 8th December whittled down the best UK pub chefs from over 130 MP nominations. The competition run by the British Beer & Pub Association and the All Party Parliamentary\u2026\nApprenticeship Award Won by Greene King\nGreene King wins apprenticeship award: Brewer and retailer Greene King has won the best apprenticeship category at the Training Journal Awards, which celebrate and recognise the best in learning and development practices. The awards, now in their 12th year, recognise the \"ingenuity, creativity, passion and hard work of learning and development professionals from around the\u2026\nParliamentary Pub Chef of the Year Awards Judging and Big Cook Off dates confirmed\nParliamentary Pub Chef of the Year Awards dates confirmed The Parliamentary Pub Chef of the Year Awards competition dates have now been revealed, with the first round of judging due to take place this week. HTTPS:\/\/WWW.MORNINGADVERTISER.CO.UK\/ARTICLE\/2017\/12\/04\/PARLIAMENTARY-PUB-CHEF-OF-THE-YEAR-AWARDS-DATES-CONFIRMED 04-Dec-2017 By Nikkie Sutton\nStonegate Pubs' executive chef Kevin Steppe to judge Tabasco Hot Chef Competition\nTwo young Telford chefs in running for a national award Two young chefs from Telford have reached the national semi-finals of a 'hot chef' cookery competition \u2013 and are in with a chance of having their dishes featured on pub food menus across the UK. Young Telford College chefs Liam Wassell and Dayna Nielsen,\u2026\nAsian Curry Awards winners revealed\nAsian Curry Awards winners revealed: The winners of the seventh have been revealed, with Michelin-starred Benares' Atul Kochhar named Chef of the Year. The awards, organised by the Asian Catering Federation, saw Quilon scoop the Asian Fine Dining accolade while Kricket was named Best Newcomer. Outside London, The Chilli Pickle in Brighton was named Best Casual Dining\u2026\nMichelin reveals pubs of the year\nMichelin reveals pubs of the year: A pub in Buckinghamshire where it is believed the Great Train Robbery was planned has claimed top spot in the Michelin Eating Out In Pubs Guide 2018. The Pointer in the village of Brill is owned by David and Fiona Howden, who also have a 240-acre farm where they raise\u2026\nBBPA Pub Chef of the Year competition \u2013 nomination deadline extended to 7th November\nThe BBPA's Parliamentary Pub Chef of the Year competition is still open for entries, with the deadline now extended to Tuesday, 7th November. Pub chefs who think they have what it takes to win the title are being urged to get involved. Whilst MPs are the nominators in the competition, pubs can help the process\u2026\nTASTE THE FUTURE\nSo much more than just a competition. Nestl\u00e9 Professional\u00ae Toque d'Or\u00ae provides real life challenges that inform, test and push both students and apprentices in the most exciting ways. By linking education with industry, Toque d'Or presents a series of unique experiences which bridge the gap between the classroom and exciting reality of industry. The competition\u2026\nArchives Select Month September 2020 August 2020 May 2020 March 2020 February 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 February 2017 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00bb Home \/ News \/ Heaven's Vault set to open later this year\nHeaven's Vault set to open later this year\nWritten by Jack Allin \u2014 March 3, 2018 at 10:28\nBest known for its choice-based interactive stories like 80 Days and Steve Jackson's Sorcery!, indie UK studio inkle is now setting its sights on their first graphic adventure in the form of Heaven's Vault.\nPlayers will control Aliya Elasra, an archeologist who travels with her robot sidekick Six in search of a missing robotocist to \"the Nebula, an ancient network of scattered moons.\" There the two of you will \"discover lost sites, freely explore ancient ruins, and translate the inscriptions you find to unlock the secrets of the Nebula's forgotten past.\" An entire unique language has been created exclusively for this game, and \"the ancient glyphs you'll encounter as you explore all have meanings. These meanings combine into words, and the words form the fragments and phrases you'll find inscribed on the scattered artefacts and ruins of the Nebula.\" Translating this \"lost language of the ancients\" is no linear, pretermined matter, however, as each inscription contributes to \"a massive interlocking puzzle with a unique narrative twist: the translations you choose feed back into story, changing Aliya's ideas about what she's uncovered. But be warned \u2013 you'll never know for sure if your guesses are correct.\"\nYou will guide Aliya through diverse locations like \"ruined palaces, desert moons, market towns and thriving farming villages,\" presented in semi-realistic backgrounds and more stylized characters. You can navigate this open world environment in a non-linear fashion that \"allows you to approach the story in any order, with every choice you make and every path you follow (or don't follow) feeding into what happens next.\" Along the way you will meet a variety of characters, including Yazi, the \"labourer out for revenge against his former employer by any means; or Huang, the bookish nerd with a crush; or Mina, the heiress keen to escape her over-bearing father.\" You'll soon find that \"some are friendly, some are cautious, and some are out to con you \u2013 but whoever they are, they will remember everything you say and do. Remember: everyone in the Nebula wants something.\"\nThere is no firm release date yet for Heaven's Vault, but adventurous epigraphists should have the game in hand on Windows, Mac and PS4 sometime this year, with an iOS version to follow later. To learn more about the game in the meantime, be sure to check out the official website.\nHeaven's Vault (2019)\ninkle Full Game Details\nMetal Slug: The Ultimate History\nYou might also want to know about\nConspiracy! cracked open on Steam for Windows PC\nRead more January 21, 2021\nRemastered Death off the Cuff makes scheduled release on Steam\nDevelopment on Catie in MeowmeowLand purring right along\n\u00bb Latest game announcements","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Advisor Project\nIndustry Insights: Employment Outlook for Financial Advisors\n\"Industry Insights\" covers trends in the financial planning industry.\nAs has been the case for several years now, the outlook for financial advisors appears rather favorable. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook:\n\"Employment of personal financial advisors is projected to grow 15 percent from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the average for all occupations\u2026Job prospects for personal financial advisors should be relatively favorable, compared with prospects in other financial sector occupations. Those who obtain certification will likely have the best prospects.\"\nOf course, the thought has been that robo-advisors will take some jobs. The OOH continues:\n\"The emergence of \"robo-advisors,\" computer programs that provide automated investment advice based on user inputs, will partially temper demand for personal financial advisors. However, the impact of this technology should be limited as consumers continue turning to human advisors for more complex and specialized investment advice over the next 10 years.\"\nIndustry expert Michael Kitces also believes the demand for advisors continues to outpace supply:\n\"And the rising talent shortage is increasingly evident in the latest industry benchmarking data of the 2018 InvestmentNews Compensation and Staffing study, which shows that advisory firms are being forced to hire Service advisors from outside the industry and poach Lead advisors from competing firms just to fulfill their talent needs, due to the lack of up-and-coming next-generation Support advisors. And the shortfall is especially evident amongst the largest independent advisory firms that are experiencing the fastest growth rates and are overwhelmingly seeking to hire Support and Service advisors to deepen their bench.\nBy Benjamin Daniel No Comments\nIndustry Insights: Licenses Needed for Each Type of Business Model\nWeekend Content for New Financial Planners (March 28, 2020)\nIndustry Insights: Stock Market Participation Rates\nJan 29, 2023 Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 28-29, 2023)\nJan 08, 2023 Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 7-8, 2023)\nJan 01, 2023 Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (December 31, 2022 \u2013 January 1, 2023)\nCFP Curriculum Discussion Questions\nCFP Curriculum Recaps\nFinancial Planning Articles\nWeekend Content for New Planners","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Sixth International Conference on Nonlinear Mechanics (ICNM-VI) >\tCHEN\nEffects of Length on Aerodynamics of High Speed Train Models\nY. CHEN, Z. YANG, W. WANG, Z. GAO\nEffects of length on train aerodynamics were investigated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The numerical study was used to obtain the aerodynamic forces and the flow field of various length models. A comparison of aerodynamic drags among these models, and investigation of the flow field causing these differences were made. The drag coefficient of head cars basically unchanged. As the turbulence boundary layer thickness grows, the drag coefficient of each middle car along flow direction decreased slightly both in pressure and viscous. The drag coefficient of tail cars decreased about 10% from 2 cars to 4 cars model. The antisymmetry helical vortex occurs close to the ground, and extends a considerable distance into the train wake. The distance of vortex cores remain constant within 0.4l, and get closer after 0.6l behind the tail cars. The results indicate 2 cars model can represent longer train in wind tunnel test and the correction is required","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Verdict expected in mass Turkey trial of 'coup ringleaders'\nUS based cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, US. File photo\/ Reuters\nA Turkish court is set to hand down verdicts on Thursday to more than 220 suspects in one of the biggest trials relating to the 2016 failed overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\nThe trial of 224 suspects including more than two dozen former generals began in May 2017 in the country's largest courtroom inside a prison complex in Sincan, Ankara.\nThe space was purpose-built to hear coup-related trials and has room for 1,558 people.\nAmong the suspects is US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey accuses of ordering the attempted putsch which left hundreds dead and thousands more injured.\nGulen strongly denies the claims. Turkey has failed to secure his extradition.\nThe charges against the main suspects include \"violating the constitution\", \"using coercion and violence in an attempt to overthrow\" parliament and the Turkish government, \"martyring 250 citizens\" and \"attempting to kill 2,735 citizens.\"\nThe prosecutor last month sought 252 aggravated \u2014 without parole \u2014 life sentences against nearly 40 suspects, local media reported. Such sentences carry harsher prison conditions.\nThe suspects also each face 55,880 years in jail on the charge of injuring 2,558 civilians and 177 security personnel, state news agency Anadolu reported.\nSince July 2016, tens of thousands of people have been arrested over alleged links to the coup under a two-year state of emergency which ended last year.\nBut nationwide raids by police have continued and there are almost daily reports of public prosecutors issuing detention warrants for suspects over Gulen ties.\nNearly 290 coup-linked court cases have been launched, 261 of which ended with 3,239 defendants convicted, according to justice ministry figures.\nTwenty-six generals are among those on trial, including former air force chief Akin Ozturk and Mehmet Disli, the brother of former ruling party lawmaker Saban Disli, who since September has served as Turkey's ambassador to the Netherlands.\nAnother suspect is colonel Ali Yazici, Erdogan's former military aide, as well as Lieutenant Colonel Levent Turkkan, who was the aide to then Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar. Akar was appointed defence minister in July 2018.\nOf the suspects, 176 are in jail while 35 have been freed pending trial and 13 suspects including Gulen are still sought for arrest, according to Anadolu.\nThe prosecutor in May requested 12 unnamed suspects be acquitted and that the case of the 13 fugitives be separated from the main coup ringleaders' trial.\nDozens of those on trial are accused of being members of the \"Peace At Home Council\", the name the plotters apparently gave themselves on the night of the coup attempt.\nThe failed overthrow left 248 people dead, according to the Turkish presidency, not including 24 coup-plotters killed on the night.\nLast month during a hearing, Ozturk told the court that claims he was a member of the council and a senior figure in the Gulen movement were \"lies.\"\n\"For 34 months, I have tried to prove my innocence,\" Ozturk said. Many of the suspects during the two years of hearings have denied any links to Gulen or the coup.\nTurkey Court Coup Recep Tayyip Erdogan Fethullah Gulen US\nTurkey orders arrest of 128 military personnel over suspected Gulen links: Anadolu\nTurkey has ordered the arrest of 128 military personnel over suspected links to the network accused by Ankara of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday.\nUS refusal to give F-35s to Turkey would be 'robbery': Erdogan\nA refusal by the United States to hand over to Turkey the F-35 fighters jets which it has bought would be \"robbery,\" media reports on Thursday cited President Tayyip Erdogan as saying in a dispute over\nTurkey's Erdogan says no setbacks in S-400 deal with Russia\nTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday there were no setbacks in a deal to procure Russian S-400 missile defence systems, and added that \"eyes are on the delivery process,\" expected in the first half of July.\nTurkey's Erdogan says Trump may visit in July: Report\nUS President Donald Trump may visit Turkey in July, Turkey's President Tayip Erdogan said in an interview in Japan where he will attend the G20 summit and is expected to meet with his American counterpart.\nRestoring arms embargo on Libyan groups is priority: EU\nEuropean Union (EU) foreign ministers discussed on Monday how to wield influence \"more forcefully\" in Libya and restore an arms embargo against the country's warring parties.\n3,771 proclaimed Islam at Dubai centre last year\nAs part of its commitment to promote tolerant values of Islam in Dubai, Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Islamic Culture of the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai (IACAD) announced the proclamation of 3,771 new Muslims in 2019.\nAD Police launch 'We Care for You' service\nIn an attempt to increase customer happiness for the people of determination, the Abu Dhabi Police launched a new reporting service, under the slogan \"We Care for You\", as part of the aim to facilitate and enhance police services.\nModern technology makes falcon event extraordinary\nAdvanced technology plays an important role in falconry, said Mohammed Abdullah Bin Dalmook, Director of Corporate Support at the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Heritage Center (HHC).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rare whale calving season starts well off Florida coast\nSAVANNAH, Ga. -- The endangered right whales that breed off the Florida coast appear to be off to a good calving season, experts say.\nThree babies have already been confirmed and another two have been tentatively spotted.\n\"It's good to have moms and calves early because then we know we're going to have some,\" said Tricia Naessig, right whale survey coordinator for the Wildlife Trust. The whales bring forth their young off the coasts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.\nNaessig and other researchers fly aerial surveys, looking for right whales along the coast from December through March. Her team tentatively identified the fourth and fifth deliveries Thursday off the coast of Georgia. The third baby was confirmed Tuesday off the Altamaha Sound. The other two were sighted Dec. 5 off northeastern Florida.\nResearchers sometimes do not see babies until the end of December or early January.\nBy early this week, about 30 right whales had been sighted in southeastern U.S. waters, said Amy Knowlton, research scientist with the New England Aquarium.\nNorth Atlantic right whales are among the most endangered large whales, with only an estimated 400 remaining. But even that figure is good news; it was recently bumped up from 350.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"English Lakes Blog\nNews & Stories from English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues\nJapan Earthquake and Tsunami\nPosted on 14th March 2011 1st June 2017 Categories +1\nA massive earthquake, the seventh largest recorded in history, struck the east coast of Japan on Friday 11th March. While the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami have passed, the recovery and mourning have just begun. The disaster could become the most expensive earthquake in history.\nNow, more than ever, the Japanese people need our help and support.\nBritish Red Cross is taking donations online. Alternatively, if you wish to send postal donations further information and print out postal forms are available to download.\nhttp:\/\/www.redcross.org.uk\/Donate-Now\/Make-a-single-donation\/Japan-Tsunami-Appeal\nSave the Children UK is taking online donations and credit and debit card donations over the phone. Call +44 (0)20 7012 6400. Lines are open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.\nhttp:\/\/www.savethechildren.org.uk\/en\/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-appeal.htm\nDonation though JustGiving. Shelter Box provide shelter, warmth and dignity to the families made homeless by crisis. The disaster relief charity immediately mobilised, with an initial Shelter Box Response Team heading to the affected region within hours of the catastrophe striking. Donations can be made though just giving via credit\/debit card or PayPal.\nhttp:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/shelterbox-japan\nGlobal Giving is also accepting donations online via credit\/debit card, PayPal and cheque. Global Giving are working with International Medical Corps, Save the Children, and other organizations on the ground.\nhttp:\/\/www.globalgiving.co.uk\/pr\/6500\/proj6443a.html\nMapAction has been deployed to Japan to help with Tsunami aid efforts. They are accepting donations online to product and print maps of the effected areas. MapAction deploy teams of geographical experts the minute disaster breaks. They draw up new maps on a daily basis, showing aid organisations where people are most in need. The first maps may even be drawn up in the air, en-route to the emergency, so they're ready to print and distribute as soon as the team lands.\nhttp:\/\/www.seethedifference.org\/charities\/mapaction\/emergency-deployment-in-disaster-zones\nDonations can also be made to the Japanese Red Cross through Google's Crisis Response site, which also offers resources and information about the disaster.\nGoogle Crisis Response Page:\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/crisisresponse\/japanquake2011.html\nBBC News Updates from Japan:\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-12711226\nInformation from Twitter:\nhttp:\/\/blog.twitter.jp\/2011\/03\/blog-post_12.html\n7 Simple Ways to Help:\nhttp:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/03\/13\/japan-earthquake-tsunami-help-donate\/\nUpdated 15\/03\/11: Added Global Giving\nUpdated 16\/03\/11: Added MapAction\nIf you know of any other charities accepting donations for aid relief in Japan please let us know and we will include them in this list.\nTagged DNM\nPublished by English Lakes Digital Marketing\nView all posts by English Lakes Digital Marketing\nOnesimus director commentates on Asian Games to audience of 500 million\nEnglish Lakes 2011 Awards\nLeisure & Events\nWriters, Literature & Arts\nCheck Hotel Availability\nEnglish Lakes Main Site","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keith Getty on Lessons from the Life of Queen Elizabeth II\nSeptember 19, 2022 | Keith Getty\nMore By Keith Getty\nThe Coronavirus Cannot Keep Us from Singing\nDuring Quarantine, Become a Singing Family\nNew Song: 'Christ Our Hope in Life and Death'\n10 Reasons Your Church Should Sing Psalms\nSing the Psalms\nI was outside relaxing with friends on September 8, when we heard the news of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's passing. The four of us\u2014including a British church denomination leader, a Royal fine artist, and a previous chief operating officer of the Royal Albert Hall\u2014spent some time reflecting on her extraordinary life.\nIt was particularly moving as each of us had interacted with the Queen, albeit briefly, during our lifetimes. My only face-to-face meeting was near the end of her life, at an award ceremony at Holyrood. She had taken ill two days previously and I feared she would not be well enough to meet. I was such a huge fan that I had delayed receiving the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire honor for over fifteen months just to ensure she was the presenter.\nThankfully, and despite being in her early nineties, she faithfully appeared and stood for hours shaking hands, chatting even for a few minutes with enthusiasm and humor about the idea of a modern hymn writer.\nWhile no human is ever perfect, there is much in Queen Elizabeth II's life for us to learn from and be thankful for.\nLiturgy-Shaped Life\nHaving just come off a conference last week focused on liturgy, it is interesting to consider how the rhythms of her life and worship framed her extraordinary consistency. In the wake of a changing world, fading empire, and painful family dysfunction that played out under public scrutiny, she was deeply committed to Sunday worship (when her busy schedule and weighty responsibilities may have seemed like a valid excuse to miss). She was a person of the Bible and the prayer book, loved traditions and rhythms in life, and was quick to practice repentance for her mistakes\u2014both in private and public.\nPassion and Vision\nShe was also a person of passion and vision. She was far more than just the \"steady hand\" she was often made out to be, tackling change and societal challenges\u2014from economic inequality to racism\u2014with clarity and grace. She loved the arts and beauty, had a deep understanding of how history forms us, and a unique vision and ability to re-energize Britain and a commonwealth of nations carrying deep hurt. She had a twinkle in her eye that spoke of a keen interest in people and an authentic joy. There was a sense that beneath the pomp and ceremony which characterized her 96 years, Elizabeth II was a real person with real loves, real faith, and real hope.\nOne of the lessons Elizabeth's life offers the contemporary church is a testimony of finishing well. It's a beautiful thing to watch a leader's life unfold as hers did, with virtue, dignity, and grace to the end. At a time when so many leaders\u2014even within the church\u2014do not finish well, their lives and ministries tainted by sin and scandal, Elizabeth's well-run race reminds us to hold fast in faithfulness.\nOur recent Sing! conference featured three speakers facing the last years of their lives, inspiring us to stay faithful, not to waste time, and to keep growing in passion for the Lord. Joni Eareckson Tada's parting words to us\u2014\"see you on the other side\"\u2014ring in my ears. I can't help but reflect on those for whom this is not the case.\nAt a time when so many leaders\u2014even within the church\u2014do not finish well, their lives and ministries tainted by sin and scandal, Elizabeth's well-run race reminds us to hold fast in faithfulness.\nI paged through Oscar Wilde's De Profundis on Thursday with songwriters as they popped in to say goodbye to our family. Written at the end of his life, Wilde admits \"I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to cry aloud from the house-top . . . I ended in horrible disgrace.\"\nThe De Profundis is based on Psalm 130 (\"Out of the depths I cry. . .\") but Wilde's is a hopeless testimony despite such natural God given creative genius.\nContrast that with Joni Tada. Also contrast it with Queen Elizabeth II, who from the turn of the century spoke more openly and fearlessly about her faith until she died, once saying: \"Although we are capable of great acts of kindness, history teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves\u2014from our recklessness or our greed. God sent into the world a unique person\u2014neither a philosopher nor a general, important though they are, but a Savior, with the power to forgive.\"\nFrom Age to Age Endure\nA few days before the Queen's death, in honor of the recent 70th anniversary celebration of the Queen's coronation, we opened Sing! with the Psalm 100 arrangement by Vaughan Williams (\"All People That on Earth Do Dwell\"), written for the Queen's enthronement in 1953. It was a spine-tingling moment that increased in its significance with the happenings of the following days. Watch the video below, and may it inspire you to sing to the Lord with cheerful voice today, and until that day:\nFor why the Lord our God is good.\nHis mercy is forever sure.\nHis truth at all times firmly stood\nAnd shall from age to age endure.\nKeith Getty and his wife, Kristyn, have been at the forefront of the modern hymn movement over the past decade, bridging the gap between the traditional and the contemporary. In 2018, Keith received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, marking the first time the award has been given to an individual in the world of contemporary church music.\n2 Why I Chose the Church with Worn-Out Bathrooms\n3 Do You Need Counseling? 6 Questions to Help You Discern\nEliza Huie\n4 Is God OK with Genocide?\nJosh Butler\n5 The Scandal of the American Evangelical Intellectual\nTheology of Middle-Earth\nLouis Markos","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pakistan's call for action against JuA alone 'ambiguous'\nPakistan's response to the deadly bombing at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in Sehwan has brought to surface an important albeit ambiguous aspect of the government policy when Afghanistan was asked to take action only against the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, according to a report by BBC Urdu.\nPutting a question mark on the effectiveness of the military operation Zarb-e-Azb, the report claims that the government was surprised by the recent wave of terror attacks, as it had assumed that terrorists were now only capable of conducting odd terror attacks instead of a full-scale onslaught they have launched in recent days. This assumption seems to have stemmed from their false belief that the Zarb-e-Azb operation had decimated terror outfits operating in Pakistan.\nThe report questions why the government had only demanded operations against Jamaat-ul-Ahrar from the neighbouring Afghan government, when the deadliest of attacks in the past week had been the one in Sehwan which was claimed by the self-styled Islamic State also known as Daesh even though the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar had claimed responsibility for a number of attacks including the ones in Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta.\nOn Friday (yesterday), PM's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz talked to the Afghan national security advisor in relation to the attack and asked him to take immediate action against the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar. There was no mention of either the Taliban or Islamic State, however.\nThe report claims that this could mean one of two things, either that the government does not accept the claims made by the Islamic State or that Sartaj Aziz had prepared for this phone call before the Sehwan attack. This would make it seem that the government believes that ridding itself of one terrorist organisation will solve the terror problem.\nHeavily critical of the government, the report goes on to describe how the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar had offered to make an alliance with other terror outfits and that numerous experts have said there is room for such an alliance. The government' silence in regards to the IS is thus all the more neglectful.\nConcluding its claims, the report admits that the size of terrorist attacks has often varied and the real question that needs to be answered is why there has been an evident acceleration in the frequency of attacks.\nSehwan blast\nPrevious article2,327 suspected seminaries sealed countrywide under NAP\nNext articleAfghan refugees facilitated recent Lahore, Peshawar attacks: Nisar\nJUI-F chief was given 'lollipop' upon his return from Islamabad, says Firdous\nLondon flats in use of Justice Isa's wife, SC told\nCourt extends Abbasi, Ismail's judicial remand till Dec 3\nContact us: [email protected]oday.com.pk\nPPP govt not be allowed to delay general election: Nawaz\nKarachi law and order problem has become a political issue: PM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Recovering fraternit\u00e9 in the Works of Rousseau\nEnglish and Creative Writing\nElectronic data\nRecovering Fraternite\u00b4 in the Works of Rousseau\nRights statement: Copyright \u00a9 1996 by The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. All rights reserved.\nFinal published version, 208 KB, PDF document\nAvailable under license: CC BY-NC: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License\nhttp:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/eighteenth-century_studies\/v029\/29.2denman.html\nRecovering fraternit\u00e9 in the Works of Rousseau: Jean-Jacques's Lost Brother\nRecovering fraternit\u00e9 in the Works of Rousseau : Jean-Jacques's Lost Brother. \/ Denman, Kamilla.\nIn: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, 1995, p. 191-210.\nDenman, K 1995, 'Recovering fraternit\u00e9 in the Works of Rousseau: Jean-Jacques's Lost Brother', Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 191-210. <http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/eighteenth-century_studies\/v029\/29.2denman.html>\nDenman, K. (1995). Recovering fraternit\u00e9 in the Works of Rousseau: Jean-Jacques's Lost Brother. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 29(2), 191-210. http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/eighteenth-century_studies\/v029\/29.2denman.html\nDenman K. Recovering fraternit\u00e9 in the Works of Rousseau: Jean-Jacques's Lost Brother. Eighteenth-Century Studies. 1995;29(2):191-210.\nDenman, Kamilla. \/ Recovering fraternit\u00e9 in the Works of Rousseau : Jean-Jacques's Lost Brother. In: Eighteenth-Century Studies. 1995 ; Vol. 29, No. 2. pp. 191-210.\n@article{a4df708c165f4617bb9d9e011aec3307,\ntitle = \"Recovering fraternit{\\'e} in the Works of Rousseau: Jean-Jacques{\\textquoteright}s Lost Brother\",\nauthor = \"Kamilla Denman\",\nnote = \"Copyright {\\textcopyright} 1996 by The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. All rights reserved.\",\njournal = \"Eighteenth-Century Studies\",\npublisher = \"Johns Hopkins University Press\",\nT1 - Recovering fraternit\u00e9 in the Works of Rousseau\nT2 - Jean-Jacques's Lost Brother\nAU - Denman, Kamilla\nN1 - Copyright \u00a9 1996 by The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. All rights reserved.\nJO - Eighteenth-Century Studies\nJF - Eighteenth-Century Studies","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Naval War College president steps down\nJune 11, 2019 | Associated Press via U.S. News and World Report\nThe president of the U.S. Naval War College says he is stepping down.\nThe announcement by Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley on Monday came after the Navy announced he was being reassigned pending the outcome of an inspector general investigation.\nBismarck State College president to retire next year\nBismarck State College President Larry Skogen will call it quits next year.\nCampus food service gives back\nWhen a trio of students at Christopher Newport University in Virginia wanted to start a program to collect leftover food from the dining halls each night and deliver it to [\u2026]\nExpanding academic initiatives through consortia\nCreating new academic initiatives with other institutions relies on three key ingredients: interest in the program from faculty and students; commitment from each campus administration; and a reasonable opportunity for [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"India is the World's Preferred Outsourcing Destination\nTo stay ahead of competition, control cost, increase quality, reduce time\u2013to\u2013market and offer innovative solutions, your company can consider outsourcing. You can get access to all of the above benefits by outsourcing to India. Over the years, India has made a name for itself in the outsourcing market by providing quality solutions at a low cost. Today, India is one of the ten fastest growing economies in the world.\nIn a recent survey conducted in the US, 82% of US\u2013based companies have voted for India as their first and most preferred choice for software outsourcing. Though other outsourcing destinations like China or the Philippines also offer low cost services and fast turnaround time, it is only talent\u2013rich India that provides unmatched quality and has the largest number of skilled resources in almost every field.\nGone are the days when only back\u2013end work such as data entry and customer support was outsourced to India. India, with its state\u2013of\u2013the\u2013art technology can now handle complex turnkey projects, such as the maintenance of legacy systems, business intelligence, system integration, business process re\u2013engineering or e\u2013commerce.\nThe benefits of doing business with India\nIndia's investment friendly policies, forward\u2013thinking reforms, higher disposable incomes and rising middle class have made it an attractive outsourcing destination for foreign investors. When you do business with India, you can be sure to experience these key benefits:\nYou get to work with enthusiastic and career\u2013focused Indians, who constantly upgrade their skills through training and certificate programs\nYou will not face any language or communication barriers as over 350 million people in India are fluent in the English language. India has been successful in the outsourcing industry mainly because of the fluency with which Indians speak English.\nYou get access to a huge talent pool of experienced specialists. The high value placed on education in India has resulted in a highly educated workforce who have experience and knowledge in varied fields\nYou will face fewer cultural challenges when you share new business ideas and endeavors with Indians, as they are always open to new ideas and opportunities\nYou get dedicated employees to work for you, as many Indians work eight hour shifts for six days a week. Indians also willingly work around the clock to compensate for the time difference between India and the US or UK. Only India can give you access to committed employees who are more than willing to work long shifts over odd hours\nIndia's strength lies in its huge talent pool of resources\nOn a yearly basis, 3.1 million students graduate from Indian universities in various fields such as software programming, accounting or law\nCurrently India has 2, 297 engineering colleges that graduate 500, 000 engineering students every year\nOn a yearly basis, India produces 300,000 post\u2013graduates\nIndia can give you access to young talent, as more than half of India's population is below the age of 25. Over 60% in Indians are in the age group of 15\u201359\nThe higher education system in India is the world's third largest, after China and the US\nEvery year in India, 19 million Indian students get enrolled in high schools, while 10 million join pre\u2013graduate degree courses\nIndia currently has 100 deemed universities, 215 state universities, 13 national institutions and 20 central universities. There are 16000 colleges spread across India\nThe Indian Institutes of Technology enroll about 8000 students every year\nThe number of private and government medical colleges in India is currently 275, permitting a significant increase in medical outsourcing\nIndia has a stable Government\nIndia is a safe haven for outsourcers as it has a stable government which has taken several initiatives over the years to promote India as an outsourcing destination:\nThe IT sector is one of the top five priorities of the Government of India\nThe Indian Government has implemented the \"National IT Task Force\" 108 point Action Plan to promote the growth of Information Technology in India\nIndia's government has set up a Ministry of Information Technology to quickly approve and implement IT projects and also to streamline the regulatory process in India\nIn May 2000, the Indian Parliament passed an Information Technology Bill, known as the IT Act 2000. This bill doles out severe punishment to cyber criminals and has also brought e\u2013commerce within the purview of the Indian law. India is now one among the 12 nations that has cyber laws\nTo promote software development in India, the Indian Government has permitted and approved 100% foreign equity. The Government of India has also encouraged Indian software technology parks to offer incentives and concessions to foreign investors\nWhy choose India over other outsourcing destinations?\nIndia is the only outsourcing destination that exports software to 95 countries across the world. Software exports from India are growing at a rate of 40\u201350% every year\n15 Indian companies (out of 23 such software companies in the world) have attained the impressive SEI\u2013CMM Level 5 certification\nRecent research conducted by the NASSCOM (National Association of Software Services Companies) has indicated that India will soon have the world's highest number of ISO\u20139000 software companies\nIndia has been ranked the third\u2013best country in Asia, with excellent investment potential\nContact us to start outsourcing to India today.\nWould you be interested in talking to us about your requirements?\ngeneral.info@outsource2india.com\nSelect your country* Others USA Canada UK Australia Singapore Japan Russia India UAE Saudi Arabia Bangladesh Belarus Bouvet Island British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Burma Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegowina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cambodia Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Curacao Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Equatorial Guinea Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland France France, Metropolitan French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern and Antarctic Lands Gabon Republic Gambia Gaza Strip Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guernsey Guatemala Guinea Guinea Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard Island and McDonald Islands Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Isle of Man Italy Jersey Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Islands Puerto Rico Poland Portugal Qatar Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Barthelemy Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia and the Islands South Korea Spain Sri Lanka St. Helena St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Pierre and Miquelon Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United States Minor Outlying Islands Ukraine Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands Wallis and Futuna Islands West Bank Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe\nSubmit the details\nAssured call back in 24 hours\nHave specific requirements? 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{"text":"Categories: 2012 Session Notes, First\nDealing with Silos Inside Nonprofit Organizations\nCompeting Priorities and Not Feeling Focused\nThe Nonprofit 2.0 session on \"Dealing with Silos Inside Nonprofit Organizations\" was packed with lots of discussion about staff managing competing priorities. \"We suffer from initiative-itis,\" said one nonprofit campaigner.\" For example staff is feeling pressure to constantly send out appeals to different email lists about a variety of campaigns and priorities. Is this really the right strategy for nonprofits? Who at the organization can help set the priorities and not say \"yes\" to everything? Is it senior leadership? Do campaigners need to take a more active role and push back? Having to manage so many priorities makes it difficult to get the real work done day to day.\nAdvice From Group Members.\nCan you talk to senior leadership about focusing on 3-5 campaign priorities for the year and make an organizational commitment to stick to it? Can you gather evidence from other organizations who have been successful operating this way and show the ROI?\nCan you bring in a consultant to reinforce what staff is already saying? Sometimes a consultants advice resonates with senior leadership.\nCompetition and Branding\nRegional organizations that have several chapters across the country are struggling to see the big picture of working together to acheive the organization's mission. They compete with each other, instead of collaborate.\nBecause there are so many chapters, several staff is running different programs and they don't connect it to the larger mission. Some of these organizations are also struggling with having a unified brand. One chapter even designed their own logo\nAdvice group member gave.\nProvide website and branding templates to the affiliates. This will make it much easier on the local chapters and help the organization scale nationally. \"It's a groundswell,\" said Michael Kusie of Hillel International. Organizations like National Wildlife Federation developed a branding committee to develop brand guidelines that all departments must use.\nAlternatively, a group member said you could stop trying to act like the \"brand police\" and develop guidelines that are very flexible.\nManaging Failure\nDo we ask the right questions after we failed? Why did it fail? Was it because of lack of resources and capacity issues? Was the organization working on too many issues at the same time and campaigns got diluted? Did we burn out our constituents? You need to answer these questions honestly and openly.\nOne group member, suggested that before a campaign launches ask the team, \"why would this fail?\" Answering this can help you poke holes in the campaign.\nBuilding Connections Inside the Organization\nHow do organizations get people excited about being a part of the organization? Sure, the mission inspires most staff, but internal politics can make people feel frustrated with their jobs. A couple of the organizations in this session have tried to address this by doing fun staff activities at the organization. For example:\nHosting victory parties after they won a campaign. Even a small win is cause for a party.\nScavenger hunts across the organization. One of the organizations has even done this with their regional chapters and teams are comprised of staff from different locations.\nJeopardy-like games.\nVolunteer days","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ India News \/ Stakes high for Digvijay, Uma Bharti\nStakes high for Digvijay, Uma Bharti\nDigvijay Singh has already announced that he won?t seek any post for 10 years if he fails to lead the Congress to victory.\nUpdated on Oct 16, 2003 07:54 PM IST\nPTI | ByPress Trust of India, Bhopal\nWith the Congress and BJP locked in a \"do or die\" battle for the crucial December 1 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, stakes are very high for their respective leaders, Chief Minister Digvijay Singh and Uma Bharti.\nThe Chief Minister has already announced that he would not seek any post for 10 years if he fails to lead the Congress to victory for the third time in the assembly elections since November 1993.\nSingh has also said time and again that after being Chief Minister for two successive terms, if he cannot lead his party to victory then it would mean that he is thoroughly incompetent.\nAlthough Bharti has made no such announcement, there is no doubt that a defeat for the BJP in the assembly elections would be a big blow to her political career.\nBharti maintains that there is no need for her to make any such announcement since she is fully confident that the BJP would win the elections and make sure that Singh does not become the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for a third consecutive term.\nBharti's main charge against Digvijay Singh is that he has done nothing for the development of the state during the 10 years he has been Chief Minister.\nThe BJP leader who has been named as her party's chief ministerial candidate also charges Singh with having made false promises which he did nothing to fulfil.\nBharti alleges that Singh is the \"most corrupt\" Chief Minister in the country although she has not given any proof to substantiate her allegations.\nSingh denies all these charges and says that a lot of good work was done in Madhya Pradesh during his chief ministership.\nHe points out that this was evident from the fact that the Madhya Pradesh government received some awards even at the international level for schemes and initiatives undertaken by it.\nSoon after the BJP won last December's assembly elections in Gujarat, Singh claimed that the BJP may foment communal riots in Madhya Pradesh with an eye on the assembly polls.\nThis was strongly denied by BJP leaders, who claimed that it is Singh who may engineer communal riots to divert the people's attention from the alleged failures of his government.\nThis war of words between the two parties which have been traditional rivals in Madhya Pradesh has been going on and with the dates for the next assembly elections having been already announced, it is now a testing time for both of them.\nFor quite long, there has been virtually a two-party system in Madhya Pradesh with the Congress and BJP alone mattering in the poll arena.\nBut in these elections, a number of other parties including the Nationalist Congress Party, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party are thinking of flexing their muscles.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This article is in response to How to plot the life cycle of a product. Click here to view the lesson plan.\n\"A pinch-me moment\": Spin Master buys Rubik's Brand for $50 million\nBusiness & Entrepreneurship\t| In the News\t| October 27, 2020\nOn paper, the Rubik's Cube doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun: It was first patented as a \"spatial logic toy,\" and the puzzle was so frustrating that its own inventor was unable to solve it for more than a month. But nearly 40 years after the Cube's global launch, Toronto-based Spin Master Corp. is paying roughly US$50-million to acquire Britain-based Rubik's Brand Ltd., which owns the rights to the toy phenomenon.\nSpin Master, which already owns toy and entertainment brands including Paw Patrol, Gund, Bakugan and Etch A Sketch, announced its acquisition of Rubik's Brand on Tuesday.\n\"It's kind of a pinch-me moment, to be able to buy Rubik's Cube,\" Anton Rabie, Spin Master's chairman, co-founder and co-chief executive officer, said in an interview. \"We love the global nature of it. We're really expanding our games business globally, and this gives us a lot of leverage.\"\nWhile interest in the cube has gone up and down over the decades, it has been growing in recent years. Rubik's Brand now sells between five million and 10 million units per year across its range of toys \u2013 which includes the original cube as well as variations (such as a pyramid, Rubik's-theme board games, a simplified two-by-two-square version, and more diabolical five-by-fives). Since its inception, Rubik's has sold more than 450 million units around the world.\nThe original cube was invented behind the Iron Curtain in 1974, when Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik was looking for a way to teach his students about three-dimensional movement. He called it the \"Buvos Kocka\" or Magic Cube. The toy did not launch globally until 1980, after toy marketer Tom Kremer saw it at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair, signed a worldwide distribution licence and convinced the American toy distributor Ideal Toy Co. to release it more widely.\nIdeal's marketing strategy was to play up how difficult the puzzle was to solve. (\"I had trouble with it,\" the Spin Master chairman admits.) Millions of customers took the bait, and the cube became a full-blown fad. It also spawned plenty of fakes.\n\"We have no concern about the knockoffs,\" Mr. Rabie said. \"The brand name is so strong, people want the brand even if you put it next to a counterfeit on the shelf.\"\nPrivately held Rubik's Brand contacted Spin Master in January as it began looking for a buyer. Since then, puzzle sales have surged as lockdowns during the novel coronavirus pandemic kept people at home and looking for entertainment.\nGames, puzzles, activities and plush toys accounted for 27 per cent of Spin Master's gross product sales last year, and have risen to 30 per cent because of increased demand during the pandemic.\nPuzzle sales rose 109 per cent in Canada from March to September compared to the same period last year, according to research firm the NPD Group Inc. However, NPD says sales in the \"brain teaser\" category, which includes games such as Rubik's Cube, have declined so far this year by 17 per cent. According to Rubik's Brand, however, the worldwide demand for its products has surged during the pandemic.\n\"We were already on a growth trajectory. But we have seen quite a significant impact over the past few months,\" said Rubik's Brand CEO Christoph Bettin. While some see the brand as a throwback \u2013 \"I remember that\" and \"Is that still around?\" are common reactions Mr. Bettin hears when people find out where he works \u2013 it continues to have appeal, he said. This summer, Netflix launched a short documentary, The Speed Cubers, about the world of competitive Rubik's Cube solvers.\nMr. Bettin was brought in to lead the company in early 2019, after European private-equity firm Bancroft Investment bought a minority stake. The Kremer family and Mr. Rubik are shareholders as well, and will continue to consult with Spin Master on the business.\nThe Canadian company has continued to work with other founders of brands it has acquired, including Gund and Hedbanz, Mr. Rabie said. The goal for Rubik's Brand is to continue to grow the business, including developing more digital game options. The company has only \"dipped its toe\" into digital gaming thus far, Mr. Bettin said.\nAfter the deal closes, the Rubik's Brand operations will move from their current headquarters in London to the Long Island City, N.Y., office where Spin Master's games team is based. The transaction is expected to close in early January.\n\"We believe 50 years from now, it will be as popular as it is today,\" Mr. Rabie said.\nSUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON\nRETAILING REPORTER\nThe Globe and Mail, October 27, 2020\nAlso in Business & Entrepreneurship\nBroadcast deal hurting NHL as Canadian dollar declines\nIn the News | April 21, 2015","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"By\tChris Eades\t September 19, 2018\nActress Melissa Claire Egan, beloved by soap fans for her roles as Chelsea Lawson on The Young and the Restless and Annie Lavery on All My Children, has opened up about the miscarriage she suffered back in January of 2018 in the hopes that it will help others going through the same heartbreak.\nThis picture was taken on January 18, 2018. My husband took this picture an hour after my D&C surgery, after I had suffered a miscarriage at 8 weeks. I'm very candid about my miscarriage with my friends and family and speak openly about it to anyone that asks if we want kids. It's never been a secret. And I was so lucky to have my incredible husband and best friends and family in the world there for me, every step of the way. It's so hard, and takes such a toll on you emotionally and physically, hormonally, all of it. But I hadn't shared it publicly. Not for any particular reason, I just hadn't. Then recently a friend that I don't see often told me that sadly she had suffered one as well. She seemed almost relieved when I told her I had the same experience. She told me she had felt alone and like a failure, and less-than, because she hadn't heard other people speak about it. This made me SO SAD, and made me want to share my story. With anyone and everyone. Just so no one feels alone. I promise you you're not alone. Also, @carrieunderwood's recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning was so beautiful and had me in tears. I was in the thick of my last and final days on Y&R at the time, so I feel her pain over having to \"cry pretty.\" (only a very small group of people knew at the show, and they could not have been more wonderful and took great care of me). I also got such strength from @hilarieburton and @claireholt's posts last year. They were so open and honest and supportive and I really admire that and am grateful. So now I'm happy to do the same. Please don't feel alone. Or like a failure. You're everything, and I'm here with you. Much love\ud83d\udc9b\nA post shared by Melissa Claire Egan (@missyclaireegan) on Sep 18, 2018 at 2:59pm PDT\n\"This picture was taken on January 18, 2018,\" she said of the photo of her giving a groggy thumbs up from her hospital bed. \"My husband took this picture an hour after my D&C surgery, after I had suffered a miscarriage at eight weeks.\"\nEgan admitted that while she freely discussed the experience with those close to her, she and husband Matt Katrosar hadn't yet shared it with the world. \"I'm very candid about my miscarriage with my friends and family and speak openly about it to anyone that asks if we want kids,\" she explained. \"It's never been a secret. And I was so lucky to have my incredible husband and best friends and family there for me every step of the way. It's so hard, and takes such a toll on you emotionally and physically, hormonally, all of it. But I hadn't shared it publicly. Not for any particular reason \u2014 I just hadn't.\n\"Then recently a friend that I don't see often told me that sadly she had suffered one as well,\" Egan continued. \"She seemed almost relieved when I told her I had the same experience. She told me she had felt alone and like a failure, and less-than, because she hadn't heard other people speak about it. This made me so sad and made me want to share my story. With anyone and everyone. Just so no one feels alone. I promise you you're not alone.\"\nThe actress also admitted to being inspired by other celebrities who had shared their own personal stories. \"Carrie Underwood's recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning was so beautiful and had me in tears,\" Egan revealed. \"I was in the thick of my last and final days on Y&R at the time, so I feel her pain over having to 'cry pretty.' Only a very small group of people knew at the show, and they could not have been more wonderful and took great care of me. I also got such strength from Hilarie Burton and Claire Holt's posts last year. They were so open and honest and supportive and I really admire that and am grateful. So now I'm happy to do the same. Please don't feel alone. Or like a failure. You're everything, and I'm here with you. Much love.\"\nOur hearts go out to Egan for her heartbreaking loss, and we hope that her inspiring words help others who have experienced the same find comfort and support.\nThis article originally appeared on our sister site, CBS Soaps in Depth.\nMore From CBS Soaps In Depth\nWhat Happened to Paul on the Young and the Restless?\nTammin Sursok Announces Her Pregnancy\nEric Braeden Is Taking a Month Off From the Young and the Restless","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Category Archives: Working with Experts\nThe potential bias of an expert witness is not usually a ground for excluding expert testimony. Bias goes to credibility and credibility is for the jury, not the trial judge, to determine. Before an expert can be excluded for bias, the bias must generally be so obvious that a judge can say as a matter of law that the witness is an unreliable source of information.\nOn the other hand, the bias of a witness is always a relevant issue in a trial. Lawyers generally rely on cross-examination as a tool to expose bias. However, the maxim that lawyers should not ask a question unless they know the answer should motivate lawyers to discover evidence of bias before the expert witness takes the stand.\nFinancial Bias\nUnless an expert witness has a personal relationship with a party or a political axe to grind, an expert's financial incentive to give favorable testimony is usually the strongest evidence of potential bias. The extent to which claims of financial bias are likely to sway a jury depends on the facts of the case.\nJuries understand that expert witnesses are paid for their time. Everyone understands that being paid to testify creates a risk that the expert will slant testimony to favor the party paying the expert's fee. That risk is captured in the German proverb, \"Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.\"\nWhen each side calls a retained expert, however, the risk that experts will be viewed as hired guns tends to offset. One study suggests that the \"hired gun\" perception is strongest when an expert testifies frequently and earns substantial compensation from giving expert testimony. The study also concludes that juries are most likely to view an expert as biased when they don't understand the expert's testimony.\nLawyers can minimize the \"hired gun effect\" by assuring that the expert's testimony is easy for the jury to comprehend. When juries think that an expert is making sense, they are less likely to dismiss expert testimony as the product of bias.\nDiscovery of Financial Bias\nThe Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require retained experts to disclose the amount of compensation they are being paid for their services \"in the case.\" A closer question is the extent to which a party can discover compensation paid to an expert, either by the same or a different party, in other cases.\nCourts often draw a distinction between discovery of a party's financial relationship with an expert and an expert's income from broader employment as an expert witness. The issue has frequently arisen in cases involving independent medical examinations (IMEs) performed by doctors who are hired repeatedly by insurance companies. A jury might view a doctor's substantial income from repeated testimony for the same insurance company as evidence that the doctor can be counted on to favor that insurance company. Allowing broad discovery of an expert's income, however, arguably has a chilling effect on the willingness of professionals to act as experts.\nCourts have attempted to balance an expert's right to financial privacy against a party's right to discover evidence of bias. An Arizona court, for example, concluded that it was inappropriate to use a subpoena duces tecum to obtain financial records before taking the deposition of a medical expert who performed an IME for an insurance company. The court viewed the \"exhaustive\" request for production of financial records, including tax returns, as unduly burdensome, at least as an \"opening salvo\" in discovery. The court concluded that the plaintiff's lawyers should first pursue less intrusive avenues of discovery that might produce bias-related evidence.\nA leading decision in Florida followed a similar analysis. The appellate court allowed a defense physician to be questioned about compensation paid for testimony in the plaintiff's case. The court decided that a lawyer may also ask a defense expert who performs IMEs about the percentage of his or her income that was earned from testifying as an expert and the percentage earned from treating patients. Lawyers in Florida can ask for an approximation of the time the expert spends working as an expert witness, but cannot ask how much income the expert earns, either from all sources or from work as an expert witness. Another Florida decision gave lawyers greater latitude to inquire about historical income earned from the party in a case, as opposed to income earned from all work as an expert witness.\nWhen courts limit discovery to relatively vague information offered during depositions (such as the percentage of time the witness devotes to work as an expert), whether the witness answers those questions truthfully can be difficult to determine in the absence of financial document discovery. The Arizona court offered a partial remedy to that problem by suggesting that financial document discovery might be appropriate when an expert is evasive, uncooperative, or untruthful. How parties can determine that answers are untruthful in the absence of financial document discovery is unclear.\nOther courts take a more liberal approach to discovery. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court permitted interrogatories seeking discovery of all expert income earned each year during the past three years. A Kentucky court held that doctors who testify for insurance companies can be asked about the total amount of income they earn from performing IMEs. A Tennessee court agreed with courts \"that have allowed expert witnesses to be questioned about the amount of income they earn from their forensic activities.\" That court upheld a judge's order for discovery of financial documents that would be filed under seal with the trial court to permit the judge to determine whether a recalcitrant doctor's deposition testimony about his income was truthful.\nDiscovering financial information that might suggest the bias of a testifying expert is easier in some states than in others. Lawyers need to have a firm grasp of relevant court decisions in the jurisdiction that hears the case before they make a plan to uncover evidence of an expert's potential financial bias.\nExpert Accuses Munsch Hardt Of Reusing His Old Reports\nA telephone systems expert witness and a telecommunications company have accused a Texas-based law firm of reusing expert witness reports to deceive Telephone Consumer Protection Act plaintiffs.\nThe Dispute\nTelephone systems expert witness Aaron Woolfson and the telecommunications company that he founded, TelSwitch, Inc., claim that Texas-based law firm Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC misused recycled testimony in order to mislead complainants into cheap settlements. Woolfson claims that Munsch Hardt reused his old expert reports to convince complainants that Texan retail furniture and appliance outlet company Conn had retained Woolfson's for its bill collection arbitration cases. Woolfson argues that this violates the confidentiality of arbitration proceedings and constitutes an infringement of protected work.\nWoolfson's allegations include copyright infringement, unfair business practices, and quantum meruit.\nPrior Expert Opinion\nWoolfson is the founder of telecommunications company TelSwitch. He has over 25 years of experience as an innovator in his field and is often consulted as an expert in issues related to allegations of violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA). The Telephone Consumer Protection Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by George H. W. Bush as an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934. The TCPA prohibits most \"robocalls,\" including unsolicited and pre-recorded telemarketing calls made to landline home phone lines. It also prohibits autodialed and prerecorded calls and text to your personal cell phone numbers.\nWoolfson has consulted or testified as an expert in over 1,000 largely TCPA related cases. In 2016, he was retained by Conn in a lawsuit in which former customers alleged harassment via Conn debt collectors. His November 2016 expert opinion in an arbitration case concluded that the calls made from Conn calls did not constitute a TCPA violation.\nWoolfson has stated that no expert report had been given to the defendants since April 2017 and permission to reuse these previous expert reports was never granted.\nReusing the Expert Opinions\nIn July 2020, over three years after Woolfson provided an expert report to Conn, Woolfson received an email from attorney David McGlothin of the Kazerouni Law Group, APC inquiring as to whether Woolfson was available for deposition. Woolfson was shocked to find that his previous report had been altered and submitted as a new expert report authored by him in the \"Hernandez Matter.\" Woolfson had no knowledge of the case, nor had had any contact with Conn or knowledge of their updated phone systems. However, Munsch Hardt claimed that Woolfson had granted Conn full rights to his expert opinion for use \"in any future matters.\"\nWoolfson and Telswitch have since found reason to believe that Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC may have submitted outdated expert reports in dozens or even hundreds of cases \u2014 without permission \u2014 for their own profit.\nWoolfson and Telswitch have filed a lawsuit against Conn Appliances and Munsch Hardt in United States District Court Northern District of California alleging that they deliberately committed copyright infringement. Woolfson and Telswitch are seeking an injunction against further false reporting of testimony, payment of damages, lost consultation pay, and legal fees.\nUsing Expert Witnesses in Arbitration Proceedings\nArbitration clauses are common in commercial contracts. Some employment agreements and user agreements (the online contracts that consumers never read before clicking \"I agree\") also contain arbitration clauses.\nArbitration has been promoted as a cost-effective alternative to courtroom litigation. That may or may not be true. The filing fee to start an arbitration can be considerably larger than the fee for filing a lawsuit. Arbitrators charge a daily fee; judges are paid by the public. Court reporters charge the same fee for depositions, whether the discovery is conducted in a civil action or an arbitration.\nOn the other hand, the motions that extend civil litigation are usually curtailed in arbitration. Cases generally proceed more quickly in arbitration, resulting in lower attorneys' fees for clients who pay lawyers by the hour.\nExpert Witness Disclosure and Discovery in Arbitration Proceedings\nPlaintiffs frequently ask an expert witness to evaluate a case before they decide whether the case is worth pursuing. For example, when a consumer purchases a product from an online vendor that injures the consumer, a lawyer might want an engineer to examine and test the product to decide whether the product's design made it unreasonably dangerous. A lawyer may rely on that opinion when they lawyer decides to bring a product liability case.\nIn federal court, a consulting expert's opinion is not usually discoverable. If the lawyer wants the expert to testify in court, however, the lawyer must disclose the expert and the expert must prepare a report that complies with federal rules. Communication between the expert and a lawyer might be shielded from discovery, but \u2014 as is true of the rule shielding the opinions of a consulting expert \u2014 courts have created a minefield of exceptions that may expose experts to broader discovery than a party anticipates.\nDisclosure of experts tends to be less strict in arbitration proceedings. Arbitration agreements often limit discovery. They might do so expressly or by requiring adherence to arbitration rules that streamline discovery (such as the JAMS Comprehensive Arbitration Rules & Procedures).\nThe JAMS rules require a document exchange and the identification of witnesses, including experts. They require production of \"any written expert reports that may be introduced at the Arbitration Hearing\" but they do not require experts to prepare reports. The rules also allow the deposition of experts by agreement or for good cause. The absence of an expert report may be good cause for taking the expert's deposition.\nWhen the agreement is silent, arbitrators control discovery. They generally require document exchanges, but they might not permit depositions or require experts to prepare reports.\nThe limited disclosure and discovery rules in arbitration might be an advantage for parties who use expert witnesses. Lawyers may be able to speak more freely with consulting experts. Lawyers may also be more confident that documents prepared by an expert for the expert's own use will be protected from discovery.\nAdmissibility of Expert Opinions\nIn federal court, litigants must satisfy the Daubert standard before an expert witness can testify. Federal judges interpret Daubert inconsistently, making it difficult to predict whether an expert opinion will be admitted.\nState courts follow their own standards. They often modify the Daubert or Frye standards or create a hybrid rule. Litigants are challenged to assure that expert testimony fits within a state's standard of admissibility.\nUnless the arbitration agreement imposes a particular standard on the admission of expert testimony, arbitrators are likely to consider the testimony of an expert without considering admissibility of the expert's opinion. Daubert factors that address the reliability of the expert's methodology or the sufficiency of the facts that inform the expert's opinion will generally determine the weight the arbitrator gives to the expert's opinion rather than the opinion's admissibility.\nAdvantages of Expert Testimony in Arbitration\nIn jury trials, lawyers prepare experts to explain technical language in simplified language. While experts may want to use technical jargon to enhance their credibility, they need to help jurors understand their jargon so that jurors do not become lost in the complex analysis that underlies the expert's opinion.\nArbitrators are often chosen because they have experience deciding cases within a particular field. An arbitrator who has heard experts testify in similar cases will not necessarily need a \"simplified\" version of an expert's reasoning. While jurors who do not understand an expert's testimony cannot ask for clarification, an arbitrator is free to do so. Arbitration may therefore streamline an expert's testimony while making it more likely that the decision-maker understands the expert's opinion.\nWhat Is the Difference Between a Retained and Non-Retained Expert Witness?\nCourts and rule-makers have categorized expert witnesses in ways that can be confusing. Placing an expert witness into the correct category can make the difference between a lawyer's ability to use an expert at trial and a judge's decision to exclude the expert's testimony.\nDiffering terminology used by state and federal courts contributes to the confusion. Federal courts draw a distinction between retained and non-retained experts. State courts sometimes refer to a non-retained expert as a hybrid witness. In both state and federal courts, the distinction between a fact witness and an expert witness is not always clear. The procedural rules that govern disclosure and expert reports depend on classifying the witness correctly.\nFact Witnesses\nCourts generally agree that a fact witness is someone who bases testimony on observation and personal knowledge. Fact witnesses testify about things they perceived. \"I saw the blue car cross the centerline and collide with the red car\" is fact testimony.\nFact testimony is usually given by lay witnesses, but witnesses who have expertise that does not inform their testimony can also give fact testimony. Whether the witness has specialized knowledge does not affect his or her status as a fact witness. A chemist or an economist who testifies about a car crossing a centerline and causing a collision does not become an expert witness simply because she has an advanced degree.\nA jury needs no specialized knowledge to understand the testimony of a fact witness. Since fact witnesses are typically testifying about things that they perceived, fact witnesses do not usually give opinions. An exception to that rule allows lay witnesses to give rational opinions based on common experience if the opinion would help the jury understand the evidence. \"He seemed angry,\" an opinion based on attitude and tone of voice, is an example of a lay opinion that some courts regard as admissible if the person's anger is relevant to the case.\nAn expert witness offers opinions based on the expert's specialized knowledge, training, or experience rather than the expert's own perception of facts. An accident reconstruction expert who did not see the blue car cross the centerline and crash into the red car can use the location of debris, gouges in pavement, vehicle damage, and the final resting places of the two vehicles to form the opinion that the blue car crossed the centerline.\nUnlike lay witnesses, experts can express opinions if the opinions would help the jury decide an issue that is relevant to the case. Every jurisdiction requires the expert to be qualified to render an opinion. Whether a qualified expert's relevant testimony is admissible depends upon whether it satisfies the controlling standard in state or federal court. The Daubert standard applies in federal court, while states typically rely on their own version of the Daubert standard, the Frye standard, or a hybrid standard.\nThe line between an expert and a fact witness can be muddied when an expert discusses facts that are not within the common knowledge of lay jurors. For example, a treating physician will often explain the injuries for which an accident victim was treated. A physician who discusses the significance of a ruptured spleen will probably explain the function of an organ that most people don't understand.\nCourts typically classify treating physicians as fact witnesses, even when their explanation of the facts depends on their specialized knowledge. When a treating physician offers a prognosis, however, the physician is offering an opinion, not stating facts. How to classify a treating physician who offers opinions about the need for future healthcare is a tricky question.\nRetained vs. Non-Retained Experts\nIn federal court, a treating physician who will offer opinions is usually classified as a non-retained expert. A non-retained expert is not hired for the specific purpose of giving expert testimony. A treating physician is hired to treat a patient. Asking that physician to testify about opinions that the physician formed in the course of treating the patient does not make the physician a retained expert because the physician was not retained for that purpose.\nAs one court explained, a physician is only \"retained\" if the physician's testimony is not based on opinions that the physician formed while treating the patient. Thus, a treating physician who expresses an opinion about causation that is based on the physician's observations has not been retained for the purpose of litigation. On the other hand, a physician who is retained to review medical reports and other evidence regarding a patient the physician did not treat is classified as a retained expert.\nWhile the distinction between retained and non-retained experts usually arises when a treating physician offers an opinion, it can apply to other experts, as well. In the case linked above, the court concluded that the defendant's former CFO, although hired and paid to offer expert opinions, was a non-retained expert because his testimony was limited to opinions that were based on observations he made while employed by the defendant.\nWhether a witness is retained or non-retained is not always clear. For example, when a physician saw a patient only once, three years after an accident, assessed his injuries, and prepared a treatment plan, the absence of any ongoing treatment convinced a court that the physician was retained for the purpose of litigation. The physician offered an opinion as to whether the plaintiff's injuries were caused in the car accident that was the subject of the litigation or in an earlier car accident. Since the physician formed his opinion by reviewing x-rays taken after the first accident, at a time when the physician was not treating the patient, the physician did not base his causation opinion on observations made in the course of treatment. He was therefore a retained expert.\nWhy Does the Designation Matter?\nIn federal court, the Rules of Civil Procedure require disclosure of all testifying experts, whether they are retained or non-retained. The rules governing disclosure of expert opinions, however, are quite different.\nRule 26 requires a retained expert to prepare a written report that includes all opinions the witness will express at trial, the reasons that underlie those opinions, and the facts or data that the witness considered in forming them. Federal courts often bar the testimony of retained experts who write insufficient reports.\nRule 26 does not require a non-retained expert to prepare a report. Instead, the lawyer who plans to call the expert as a witness must disclose the expert's identity as well as the subject matter of the witness' testimony and a summary of the facts and opinions to which the expert is expected to testify.\nState courts that do not pattern their disclosure requirements on Rule 26 may impose different obligations. State courts sometimes refer to a non-retained expert as a hybrid witness. Whether retained and non-retained (hybrid) witnesses and their opinions must be disclosed, and whether the disclosure requirements differ, is a question lawyers can only answer by reviewing the state's rules of civil procedure, relevant caselaw, and the court's scheduling order.\nHow to Choose an Expert Witness\nExpert witnesses testify in more than half of all civil trials. In state court trials, experts tend to be doctors testifying in personal injury cases. In federal trials, less than half of expert witnesses are medical professionals.\nIn some cases, the choice of an expert is dictated by circumstances. In personal injury trials, treating physicians may testify as fact witnesses, but they are often in the best position to give expert opinions about a patient's prognosis and future health care needs.\nWhen parties retain an expert who has no prior knowledge of the case, they may have the opportunity to choose among several potential experts. In a routine case, that choice may be dictated by geography and budget. It might not be cost-effective for a plaintiff in Florida to retain an expert in California. A Florida defendant, on the other hand, might want to create a settlement incentive by retaining a California expert and driving up discovery costs.\nAssuming that multiple experts are available who fit within a party's budget, the choice of an expert depends on several factors. A lawyer's favorable past experience with an expert might be a decisive factor, but juries may view an expert as the lawyer's \"hired gun\" if the same expert testifies repeatedly for the same lawyer.\nWhen choosing among experts who have no prior relationship with the lawyer, intuition can pay a role. Unfortunately, intuition is a less than perfect yardstick for measuring an expert's likely performance. Lawyers can benefit from research that will inform the lawyer's choice.\nAn expert's credentials and experience are important, but they might only be important as a threshold. Jurors will probably discount the testimony of a witness who clearly isn't qualified to give an opinion, but jurors do not defer to the opinions of an expert simply because the expert has strong credentials. One study of jury deliberations using mock juries found that jurors consider an expert's credentials and expertise, but spend the bulk of their time deciding whether the expert's testimony is accurate.\nThe study concluded that credentials are \"a peripheral cue\" that juries may rely upon to accept an expert's opinion, \"all other things being equal.\" The study suggests that jurors scrutinize the quality of an expert's opinions rather than deferring to the expert's opinions simply because they come from an authoritative source.\nLaw Professor Andrew Jurs studied juror perceptions of expert witnesses. Jurs surveyed jurors who had actually deliberated in trials that featured expert testimony.\nJurs found that an expert's \"impressive academic credentials\" were important to 61{d61575bddc780c1d4ab39ab904bf25755f3b8d1434703a303cf443ba00f43fa4} of the surveyed jurors. However, 81{d61575bddc780c1d4ab39ab904bf25755f3b8d1434703a303cf443ba00f43fa4} considered it important that the expert was \"a leading expert in the field.\"\nWhen Jurs surveyed the experts who testified in those cases, he discovered that experts overvalued academic credentials as a factor that would be important to jurors. Conversely, they undervalued being a \"leading expert.\"\nLawyers should certainly select experts who are qualified to express opinions, but should not expect jurors to accept an expert's opinion simply because the expert has strong credentials. If there is evidence that would allow a witness to be characterized as \"a leading expert in the field,\" however, that expert might be preferable to witnesses who are less prestigious.\nJurs found that \"the most important trait for an expert is the ability to convey technical information in a nontechnical way.\" Jurs' survey revealed that 94{d61575bddc780c1d4ab39ab904bf25755f3b8d1434703a303cf443ba00f43fa4} of jurors valued the expert's ability to explain testimony in ways that the jurors understood.\nJurs' finding does not mean that an expert should \"dumb down\" testimony in a way that jurors will regard as condescending. Jurs cites other studies suggesting that experts enhance their credibility by using technical jargon. The key is to explain jargon using language that jurors can understand.\nThe research suggests that lawyers should review reports that experts have written in other cases to determine whether the experts were able to convey opinions in a way that laypersons are likely to understand. Assessing an expert's communication skills, however, goes beyond the expert's ability to write an accessible report.\nWhen lawyers interview experts, they should try to get a sense of the expert's ability to communicate in nontechnical language. Questions like \"How do you explain this concept to juries?\" will give the lawyer a feel for the expert's ability to make complex information comprehensible to lay jurors.\nReviewing transcripts of prior testimony will give the lawyer a sense of whether the expert communicates clearly and whether the witness becomes rattled during cross-examination. Finally, lawyers should talk to other lawyers who have used the expert to get a sense of how effectively the expert is able to communicate technical opinions in nontechnical ways.\nThe least important of the factors Jurs studied was the expert's physical appearance. The expert's \"pleasing personality\" was also relatively unimportant to jurors. Hiring an attractive and friendly expert is less important than hiring a qualified expert who has strong communication skills.\nMost of the jurors told Jurs that they were not concerned about the fees charged by experts. They expected experts to be paid and they did not expert experts to be impartial. Beginning with the premise that experts are likely to be partial to the party that hired them, jurors tended to set aside questions of bias and examined the expert's opinions on their merits.\nAccording to Jurs, communication is the key to effective expert testimony. A qualified expert who is a skilled communicator will usually be a lawyer's best choice.\nWhat Every Lawyer Needs to Know about Experts Daubert Standard Reports\nThe Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require experts to prepare a written report if they are retained to testify. State rules may or may not impose the same obligation. Even when state rules do not demand production of a report, a judge's scheduling order might require a testifying expert to do so.\nLawyers often tell the expert that they need a report, advise the expert of the deadline for its production, and await the result. If an expert has a track record of writing excellent expert reports, further guidance may not be necessary. In most cases, however, a lawyer should remind the expert of the need to describe the expert's methodology in detail.\nIn federal court, every report must include:\n(i) a complete statement of all opinions the witness will express and the basis and reasons for them;\n(ii) the facts or data considered by the witness in forming them;\n(iii) any exhibits that will be used to summarize or support them;\n(iv) the witness's qualifications, including a list of all publications authored in the previous 10 years;\n(v) a list of all other cases in which, during the previous 4 years, the witness testified as an expert at trial or by deposition; and\n(vi) a statement of the compensation to be paid for the study and testimony in the case.\nLawyers should make certain to provide an expert witness with a list of the report's required contents. If the governing state rule differs from the federal rule, lawyers should make sure the expert follows the applicable rule.\nDescription of Methodology\nWhile the federal rule does not use the word \"methodology,\" the Daubert decision requires experts to base their opinions on reliable methods. Describing the expert's methodology \u2014 the process by which the expert formed opinions \u2014 is an essential part of explaining the \"basis and reasons for\" each opinion the expert will express.\nWhen judges decide that expert testimony is inadmissible, they usually conclude that the expert report failed to describe a reliable methodology. Experts may take it for granted that they use reasonable methods to arrive at opinions, but the Daubert decision requires experts to \"show their work.\"\nExperts should provide a step-by-step description of the process by which they formed each opinion. For example, it isn't enough for an accident reconstruction engineer to write \"I examined the accident scene and determined that the defendant's car was traveling at 80 mph when the collision occurred.\" That's a statement of an opinion, not an explanation of the methodology that produced the opinion.\nInstead, the expert should describe the observations she made at the accident scene, including measurements of skid marks, the distances that accident debris traveled from the point of impact, and any other facts that inform her opinion. The expert should then explain the principles of physics that the expert used to make conclusions about the vehicle's speed. The expert should describe the mathematical calculations that establish the relationship between the facts and the expert's conclusion about the vehicle's speed. Describing the process that the expert followed to reach an opinion is usually the most important part of an expert report.\nAs another example, a vocational expert who assesses future employability should explain the sources of information (including doctor's reports, the injury victim's work history and education, and interviews) that inform the expert's opinions about work limitations. The expert should then describe the method used to assess job availability, including consultation with databases that describe jobs in the economy that a person with the victim's limitations can perform. The report should cite evidence that those methods are traditionally used by vocational experts to form opinions about employability.\nEstablishing the Reliability of a Methodology\nSupreme Court decisions that address reliability have focused on scientific opinions. They describe factors that scientists have identified as affecting experimental reliability. Have the study results been published and peer reviewed? Have other scientists replicated the results? Was the experiment conducted according to accepted standards? Did the experimental procedure have a known error rate? Is there a consensus within the relevant scientific community concerning the validity of the results of studies that inform an expert's opinion?\nWhen an expert's opinion is based on an assessment of scientific studies, the expert establishes reliability by discussing all of the relevant studies, by explaining why some of those studies produced more reliable results than others, and by articulating the reasoning that guided the expert's acceptance of particular study results. Cherry-picking results that support the expert's opinion while ignoring less favorable results is not a sign of reliability.\nMany experts offer opinions outside the realm of \"hard science.\" While judicial decisions that focus on scientific opinions do not necessarily fit well with opinions that do not derive from experimental studies, some judges are inflexible in their insistence that experts should always discuss error rates and other reliability factors that simply don't apply to the expert's analysis. Experts should take care to explain why their methodologies are reliable, even when the methodologies are not based on an analysis of experimental studies.\nFor example, an expert in the History of Science provided an expert opinion about the validity of Michael Mann's climate change studies in Mann's lawsuit claiming that he was defamed by bloggers. The expert testified that her methodology was \"reading and thinking.\" The court concluded that \"reading and thinking\" is not an expert methodology because everyone, including jurors, can read and think.\nThe expert could have explained that, throughout history, scientists have identified specific methodologies that produce reliable results. She could have identified those scientists and explained why the scientific community embraced the scientific method and rejected alternative means of forming opinions. She could then have explained whether Mann followed the scientific method, comparing his work to the expectations of scientists who have developed and refined that method over the years.\nThe expert likely had that literature review in mind when she talked about \"reading and thinking,\" but she didn't show her work. By condensing the process of evaluating literature into the phrase \"reading and thinking,\" the expert failed to persuade the judge that she used a reliable methodology to evaluate Mann's work.\nThere is little doubt that the expert was qualified to opine about the reliability of Mann's methods. She likely thought that her own method \u2014 identifying the factors that determine reliability and applying those factors to Mann's research \u2014 was self-evident. The court's rejection of her testimony should be a lesson to lawyers about the need to remind experts that their reports must identify a detailed methodology and must explain why the methodology is reliable.\nScreening Experts for Conflicts of Interest and Bias\nLawyers must consider several factors when they choose an expert witness. The expert's qualifications, reputation, and ability to communicate effectively are key considerations. The expert's location and the lawyer's budget are practical issues.\nThe potential for a conflict of interest is a factor that lawyers tend to forget. Fortunately, actual conflicts are rare. Experts are also challenged when they allegedly show a clear bias for the party that hired them. While those challenges are not usually successful, lawyers need to think about the issue of bias before retaining an expert witness.\nCourts are reluctant to disqualify experts based on perceived conflicts or claims of bias. Courts tend to view those issues as going to credibility rather than admissibility.\nEven if a potential conflict does not bar an expert from testifying, lawyers want to hire credible experts. Lawyers need to consider possible challenges to an expert's credibility based on perceived conflicts or allegations of bias. Screening experts for conflicts and bias should therefore be part of the lawyer's assessment of potential experts.\nPrior Work for an Adverse Party\nCourts have the power to exclude an expert's testimony when the expert has provided services to the opposing party. Courts exercise their power to bar the testimony of an expert who has \"switched sides\" when they deem it necessary \"to protect the integrity of the adversary process, protect privileges that otherwise may be breached, and promote public confidence in the legal system.\"\nWhether the expert will be disqualified generally depends on whether the expert received confidential information from the party that is relevant to the current lawsuit. A lawyer's mental impression of the strengths and weaknesses of relevant claims against that lawyer's client is an example of confidential information.\nWhen there is a dispute about the expert's receipt of confidential information, courts ask whether it was reasonable for the adverse party to believe that it had entered into a confidential relationship with the expert. If so, they examine the evidence to decide whether confidential information was actually shared with the expert.\nLawyers need to balance the risk of conflict against the reality that hiring an expert who was once retained by the opposing party may be advantageous. An expert's willingness to work for both sides might be seen as evidence of the expert's impartiality. Of course, it might also be seen as evidence that the expert is a \"hired gun,\" but that is a challenge facing every retained expert in every case.\nWhen an expert has worked for the adverse party, lawyers nevertheless need to be wary. There is always a risk that the opposing party will claim that it shared confidential information with the expert. A lawyer will need to explore the expert's relationship with the opposing party in detail and will need to assess the risk that the expert might be disqualified. If that risk is significant, the lawyer should consider whether conflict-free experts with similar qualifications are available.\nThe screening process should start by asking the expert whether she has any past experience with the adverse party or its lawyers. Conducting an online search for cases in which the expert testified will provide at least partial confirmation that the expert has no conflict. Still, since experts do not always testify and since it is difficult to learn of past employment as consulting experts, it is important to have a candid conversation with a potential expert witness about any contact the expert has had with an opposing party, even if the expert did not testify for that party.\nBias is often alleged by an opposing party. An expert's consistent employment by a particular industry or group of litigants might give rise to claims of bias, but those claims are attacks on credibility that juries should resolve.\nBias may also be reflected in unreliable methodologies or a selective application of facts. Courts might disqualify experts for bias indirectly by applying the Daubert standard more strictly when there is evidence that bias may have affected the reliability of an expert's conclusions.\nSome courts have suggested that experts who base opinions on experiments or research done outside the context of litigation are more likely to produce reliable results than experts who are hired by a particular industry or group to form opinions that are specific to a lawsuit. After Daubert was remanded to the Ninth Circuit, Judge Kozinski wrote that \"experts whose findings flow from existing research are less likely to have been biased toward a particular conclusion by the promise of remuneration; when an expert prepares reports and findings before being hired as a witness, that record will limit the degree to which he can tailor his testimony to serve a party's interests.\"\nThat line of thought suggests that courts might be more inclined to exclude experts when they have not conducted research or expressed opinions about a particular subject before they are hired to present expert testimony. Selecting an expert who has researched a scientific question outside the context of litigation might therefore avoid claims of bias.\nStill, the fact that an expert has not conducted research prior to being retained does not mean that the expert's methodology will be tainted by bias. Courts are more likely to be troubled when, for example, an expert prepares peer-reviewed writings and fails to disclose \"her potential bias because of her direct involvement in litigation in the . . . cases on which she reported.\"\nExperts may also demonstrate bias when they prepare reports that contradict prior writings or testimony given in other cases if the contradictions cannot be explained by the differing facts that the expert considered. To screen against potential claims of bias, lawyers should always review an expert's past writings and testimony to determine whether it might conflict with opinions the expert will be asked to express.\nLate Disclosure of Underlying Data Does Not Bar Damages Expert from Testifying\nPlaintiffs in wrongful death cases routinely ask expert witnesses to compute the loss of the victim's anticipated contributions to a family. The experts generally rely on past earnings as part of their analysis. Whether the belated disclosure of that data renders an expert's opinions unreliable or otherwise requires exclusion of the expert's opinion was the issue in a recent federal case in the District of Nevada.\nNickles and Dimes, Inc., a company that owns and operates amusement arcades in shopping malls, employed Charles Wyman as a route manager. Wyman was electrocuted while servicing a \"claw\" game machine in Las Vegas. The machine was manufactured by and purchased from Smart Industries Corporation.\nUnbeknownst to Wyman, the claw machine was electrically charged because a power wire and a grounding wire inside the machine were reversed. Wyman was in contact with the electrified machine for about ten minutes before a firefighter unplugged it. Wyman died without recovering consciousness.\nWyman's estate, several of his surviving family members, and the company that insured Nickles and Dimes filed lawsuits against Smart and other entities for wrongful death. All of the lawsuits were eventually removed to federal court and consolidated.\nSome claims have been settled or dismissed. The remaining liability question is whether the claw machine left the factory in a defective condition. The disputed damages issue relates to lost financial support arising from Wyman's death.\nExpert Report\nTerrence Clauretie prepared a preliminary expert report on behalf of the Wyman family members. His report calculated the financial support Wyman would have contributed to his family if he had not died. That report was disclosed within the time set by the court's scheduling order.\nYears after the preliminary report was filed, Smart moved to strike Clauretie as an expert witness. Smart complained that the expert report was incomplete when it was filed because Clauretie did not produce income records in support of the report. Smart also complained that the family members did not provide income records in discovery and that the income information Clauretie reviewed was so vaguely described that Smart could not \"discern with certainty\" the information he received.\nThe family members responded that the preliminary report made clear that it was based on incomplete information and that additional information would be provided later. The preliminary report stated that the final calculation was unlikely to differ significantly from the preliminary calculation.\nAfter discovery closed, Clauretie received tax information from 2011 to 2013 and prepared a supplemental report that included a final estimate of loss. The final estimate did not differ from the preliminary estimate.\nSmart's Objections\nSmart premised its motion to strike on the argument that a preliminary report does not contain a \"complete statement\" of all the expert's opinions as required by Rule 26(a)(2)(B). It also argued that Clauretie's preliminary report did not include all facts and data he considered or exhibits that would be used to support his opinions.\nSmart also objected that Clauretie based his report on statistical data regarding average households rather than Wylie's actual income. That methodology, in Smart's review, is unreliable and rendered his opinion speculative.\nSmart conceded that Clauretie may have reviewed tax information before he prepared his preliminary opinion but complained that it did not know what information he reviewed. Smart asked the court to strike Clauretie as an expert witness because it could not conduct meaningful discovery of the facts that supported his final opinion.\nReliability Is a \"Flexible Concept\"\nThe district court reviewed Clauretie's opinions for relevance and reliability. Clauretie's calculation of lost financial support was obviously relevant to an award of damages in a wrongful death case.\nUnlike judges who view themselves as the ultimate authority on reliability, the court recognized that its job was not to determine whether the expert's opinions are sound but whether the expert used a sound methodology to arrive at those opinions.\nThe court also recognized that reliability is \"a flexible concept.\" The court recognized that experts are not required to use a perfect methodology, or even the best methodology. Experts have discretion to choose among various reliable methodologies. Whether that choice affects the reliability of their opinions is for the jury to decide.\nThe district defined its gatekeeping role as screening out \"nonsense opinions.\" It is not the court's job to reject impeachable opinions. Unless the expert \"lacks good grounds\" for an opinion, it is opposing counsel's job to expose weaknesses in the expert's analysis through cross-examination, and it is the jury's job to decide whether to accept or reject the opinion.\nReliability of Clauretie's Opinions\nThe court rejected the argument that Clauretie failed to identify the facts upon which he based his opinion. The preliminary report identified the substantial information upon which it was based, including Clauretie's review of tax returns from 2014 and 2015.\nThe court also rejected Smart's claim that it never received those tax returns. The returns were attached to a disclosure that the plaintiffs filed but later withdrew after Smart objected that it was filed after the discovery deadline expired. The court did not allow Smart to pretend that it never received the tax returns. Since discovery was later reopened, Smart could have asked to depose Clauretie concerning his reliance on those tax returns.\nThe preliminary report indicated that earlier tax returns were not likely to change Clauretie's opinion significantly. After Clauretie received the 2011 to 2013 tax returns, he prepared a brief supplemental report and confirmed that the additional data did not change his calculation. Nothing in that sequence of events, including the belated disclosure of the 2014 and 2015 tax returns, rendered Clauretie's opinion unreliable.\nLate Disclosure\nThe court also considered whether the belated filing of Clauretie's supplemental report justified striking him as an expert witness. Rule 26 requires expert reports to be filed within the time designated by the court. While Rule 26(e) permits supplemental reports, that rule does not create a loophole that permits experts to file incomplete reports before the disclosure deadline.\nRule 37 generally requires the exclusion at trial of opinions and data not included in the report that Rule 26 requires. The court recognized that the rule nevertheless permits relief from its \"harsh requirements\" when a failure to disclose was substantially justified or harmless. In addition, the rule authorizes the court to impose sanctions that are less harsh than the exclusion of evidence.\nDifferent judges apply Rule 37 in different ways. Judges who take a mechanistic approach require strict adherence to deadlines and believe that courts should rarely decline to exclude expert evidence when the rule is violated. Judges who believe that cases should usually be decided on their merits by juries, not by judges as a sanction for rules violations, are more inclined to exercise their discretion to avoid harsh results.\nThe court agreed that the plaintiffs offered no satisfactory explanation for their late production of either set of tax returns. While the belated disclosure might not have been entirely harmless, if only because the delayed resolution of a case is theoretically harmful to the administration of justice, the court decided that \"the public policy favoring disposition of cases on their merits and the availability of less drastic sanctions\" weighed against striking Clauretie as an expert witness.\nWhile Smart did not benefit from timely production of the tax returns, it did receive the preliminary expert report on time. That report incorporated a number of exhibits and explained how Clauretie arrived at his opinions. Smart had the tax returns before discovery was reopened. It manufactured its own prejudice by failing to take Cluaretie's deposition so it could question him about the tax returns. Nor did Smart move to compel disclosure of the tax returns.\nThe court noted that Smart was not required to take Clauretie's deposition or to move to compel disclosure of documents that Rule 26 requires to be produced. At the same time, Smart was not in a position to argue that it was harmed when it knew of Clauretie's opinions, had his report, and had the opportunity to depose him. Smart could not claim to have been surprised by Clauretie's opinions since they did not change from the time the preliminary report was filed. Since Smart received the tax returns before a trial date had even been set, the exclusion of Clauretie's testimony would be an unduly harsh sanction.\nThe court decided that a lesser sanction than exclusion was appropriate. It allowed Smart to take Clauretie's deposition and required the Wymans to pay all expenses associated with it. It also required the Wymans to pay attorneys' fees associated with the motion to strike.\nThe district court judge wisely avoided a knee-jerk response to belated discovery disclosures. The judge's ruling was tailored to the lack of harm associated with the late disclosure.\nLawyers should understand that some judges are more concerned with enforcing their scheduling orders than with producing just results. Experts and the lawyers who hire them should always do their utmost to either (1) produce reports and data relied upon to support opinions by the date set in the court's scheduling order, or (2) move for an extension of time to produce that data with a showing of good cause for the delay. Violating a rule and hoping that the judge will not impose a harsh sanction is never a good strategy.\nThe Psychological Impact of Remote Testimony on Expert Witnesses\nThe latest pandemic surge is causing a new round of trial delays and courthouse closures in some parts of the country. Lawyers can only guess when the \"new normal\" will arrive. Defining a post-pandemic \"normal\" may be just as challenging as working during a pandemic.\nRemote deposition testimony has become common. It took time for lawyers and court reporters to work the kinks out of remote deposition technology and procedures, but most lawyers have adjusted to the change. Whether remote depositions should continue after the pandemic is a subject of debate. Positions may change from case to case, depending on whether a remote deposition is likely to be helpful or harmful to the lawyer's client.\nCourts have routinely conducted hearings remotely, although permitting a trial witness to testify from a remote location is less common. The federal rule permits remote trial testimony in civil cases \"for good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards.\" Whether the pandemic constitutes good cause or compelling circumstances is a question that courts decide on a case-by-case basis.\nProcedural rules in arbitration tend to be more relaxed than court rules. While the rules that govern arbitration proceedings differ, the most common sets of rules vest the arbitrator with considerable discretion to take testimony remotely.\nImpact on Expert Witnesses\nLawyers view remote testimony in terms of strategy. They might not give much thought to the psychological impact of remote testimony upon a testifying expert. A report by the Berkeley Research Group examines \"the possible psychological impact of different 'hearing' environments\" upon participants in arbitration proceedings, including expert witnesses. BRG is a global consulting firm that provides services to clients in a variety of industries.\nThe report is based on interviews with participants in arbitration hearings that used remote technology. After spending a few months overcoming glitches in that technology, participants generally developed a favorable impression of remote hearings.\nExpert witnesses, in particular, had a positive response to remote hearings. Testifying from the expert's home or office places experts at ease. The experts believed that the familiar setting allowed them to consider questions more thoughtfully, free from the distractions that are inevitable in a crowded conference room or courtroom.\nThe report also highlights the perceived benefit of \"the additional virtual barrier between the expert witness providing evidence and those tasked with cross-examination.\" The report suggests that attempts \"to place pressure on and unnerve\" expert witnesses were less effective when the lawyer could not confront the witness in a face-to-face setting. It's difficult to badger a witness from afar.\nExperts who testify in person may feel bullied by aggressive cross-examination tactics. While remote testimony may be a disadvantage for lawyers who want to rattle experts during cross-examination, it is fair to ask whether intimidation is a tactic that promotes just results. A witness might be more likely to give thoughtful and reasoned answers when aggressive cross-examination tactics are offset by distance.\nOn the other hand, comfort cuts both ways. When a cross-examining lawyer cannot intimidate a witness, a better tactic may be to lull the witness into a false sense of security. Remote testimony can seem like a one-on-one conversation between the witness and the lawyer. Witnesses may be tempted to say too much, forgetting the standard admonition to answer only the question that was asked and not to volunteer information.\nPreparing the Expert for Remote Testimony\nExperts also noted that in-person depositions are usually accompanied by in-person meetings with the lawyer who prepares them to testify. Experts found that meeting in person results in more thorough preparation. A mock cross-examination is more likely to build confidence when it is conducted in person. Preparing in person also contributes to strong communication and reduces the risk that the expert and the lawyer who retained the expert will not be on the same page when the expert testifies.\nThe report suggests that experts and lawyers both benefit from meeting in person to prepare the expert's testimony. Even when a hearing or deposition is conducted remotely, it may be sensible to meet in person when the time comes to prepare the expert to testify.\nPsychologists have identified \"Zoom fatigue\" as a potential drawback of remote proceedings. Staring at a screen is less engaging than watching witnesses testify in person. An arbitrator's mind might start to wander after hours of watching an expert give less-than-scintillating testimony about technical issues. Lawyers should keep \"zoom fatigue\" in mind by breaking up lengthy hearing testimony into a series of shorter answers to help keep the judge or arbitrator engaged.\nImpact on Outcomes\nStudy participants were divided in their opinion about the impact of remote testimony on hearing outcomes. Some believed that the hearing environment has an impact on the decision-making process. Most participants believed that the professionalism of judges, lawyers, and expert witnesses overcomes the disadvantages of remote testimony.\nExpert witnesses did not view remote testimony as changing the nature of their testimony or the way that testimony would be perceived. Experts believed they had adapted to remote testimony with ease.\nThe key takeaway from the BRG report is that expert witnesses benefit from in-person preparation even when they testify remotely. Lawyers may have a better outcome when they meet with an expert witness in person to prepare the expert's testimony.\nCourt Requires Dual-Hat Expert to Produce Materials He Created as a Consulting Expert\nSome lawsuits repeatedly showcase the nuances of the federal rules governing expert testimony. The multi-district litigation involving C.R. Bard's mesh products has produced multiple rulings that offer guidance to lawyers who rely on expert testimony in federal court. The latest ruling sheds light on the circumstances under which dual-hat experts must disclose the materials they prepare when they form opinions.\nSteven Johns is one of thousands of plaintiffs who sued C.R. Bard after suffering injuries allegedly caused by defects in the company's polypropylene hernia mesh products. Those lawsuits have been joined in multidistrict litigation. Johns' lawsuit is the first \"bellwether\" case that will be tried. Last year, an ExpertPages blog discussed the court's decision to admit the testimony of Johns' causation expert.\nJohns contends that the company's Ventralight ST mesh device is defective. The mesh was implanted in Johns to repair a hernia. Johns had a gap in the layer of connective tissue called the fascia. The mesh implant was intended to close that gap.\nOne side of the Ventralight ST mesh is coated. The side with \"ST coating\" is placed against an organ, such as the patient's bowels. The uncoated polypropyIene side is placed over the gap in the fascia.\nThe coating is intended to delay resorption of the mesh into the organ. The plaintiffs allege that the mesh resorbs too quickly, exposing organs to damage caused by the bare polypropylene. Johns alleges that after his hernia repair, he developed adhesions in a fatty structure associated with the bowel called the omentum. Johns attributes the adhesions to the defective mesh.\nCompeting Expert Testimony\nBard intends to present the expert testimony of Stephen Badylak, who examined photomicrographs of slides from Bard's clinical animal study on the Ventralight ST. Bard wants Badylak to testify that the ST coating remained on the mesh device 28 days after it is implanted. The testimony is arguably important because the plaintiffs contend that the coating was generally gone within a week.\nThe plaintiffs had hired Tamas Nagy to conduct a similar analysis. Nagy reviewed slides from the animal study, took photomicrographs of the slides, reviewed them using a score sheet (as did Badylak), and made notes of his findings. After consulting with Nagy, the plaintiffs represented that Nagy would not offer any expert opinions.\nNagy did not prepare an expert report. On that basis, the defendants moved to strike him as an expert. The parties disputed whether the plaintiffs properly redesignated Nagy as a consulting rather than a testifying expert. The court took no immediate action on the motion to strike Nagy.\nIn a second supplemental expert report, Badylak advanced his opinion about the presence of ST coating after 28 days of implantation. The plaintiffs challenged the admissibility of Badylak's opinion. The court determined that Badylak's methodology was sufficiently reliable to permit his testimony.\nThe court also allowed the plaintiffs to call Nagy as a rebuttal expert to challenge Badylak's conclusion that coating remained after 28 days. Based on that ruling, the court denied the motion to strike Nagy as an expert.\nNagy re-reviewed the slides and prepared a rebuttal expert report. When Bard deposed him, he failed to produce materials related to his initial review of the slides, including his photomicrographs, notes, and score sheets. Bard then paused the deposition and moved to compel production of those materials.\nMotion to Compel\nThe court began with the proposition that an opposing party is entitled to production of all materials \"considered\" by an expert before or while forming an expert opinion, whether or not the expert relies on those materials in the expert's report. An expert \"considers\" materials when the expert receives, reads, reviews, or authors those materials, provided that their subject matter relates to the opinions that the expert expresses. The party resisting disclosure bears the burden of showing that the expert did not consider the materials.\nNagy testified that he re-reviewed the photomicrographs before he produced his rebuttal report. He therefore \"considered\" them in connection with the opinions he formed. There seems to be little dispute that Nagy's photomicrographs were discoverable.\nNagy authored his notes and score sheets. Since those documents relate to the general subject matter of the opinions Nagy expressed in his rebuttal report, the court began by asking whether the plaintiffs met their burden of showing that Nagy did not consider them in reaching the opinions he expressed.\nNagy testified that he did not need to re-score the score sheets when he formed his rebuttal opinion. The court did not regard Nagy's testimony as a denial that he considered the original score sheets when he formed the opinions expressed in his rebuttal report. In any event, an expert's denial that he considered certain data or facts does not control the dispute because the defendants are not required to believe an expert's testimony.\nThe court also rejected the plaintiffs' assertion that Nagy made the notes and score sheets during his initial review for an unrelated purpose \u2014 to examine the degree of inflammatory response in the tissue. Nagy's rebuttal report discussed inflammatory response as evidence that the ST coating was or was not present on the mesh, suggesting that his first and second review did not address entirely different subjects. Ambiguity about the scope of the first analysis made the notes and score sheets discoverable.\nWork Product Objections\nThe plaintiffs also resisted production of the notes and score sheets on the ground that they are not discoverable \"facts and data.\" The plaintiffs argued that the notes and score sheets contain Nagy's interpretation of and commentary about the slides he reviewed and are thus work product that is protected from discovery.\nThe court declined to make an expert's thought processes \"categorically undiscoverable.\" Nagy testified that the notes represented his visual observations of the slides. Since \"visual observation\" was the testing process that Nagy employed, the court did not see how else Nagy could capture the presence or absence of the characteristics he observed. The notes and score sheets were therefore discoverable \"facts and data.\"\nTo the extent that the attorney work-product privilege protects communications between an expert and an attorney, it does not extend to an expert's own development of the opinions he expressed. The attorney work-product privilege protects an attorney's mental impressions, not those of an expert. Since no attorney's mental impressions or legal theories were reflected in the score sheets or notes, they were not entitled to work-product protection.\nDual Hat Expert\nPerhaps the most meaningful challenge to the production of Nagy's notes and score sheets was rooted in the notion that Nagy was a consulting expert when he created those materials and only became a testifying expert when it became necessary to rebut Badylak's report. A non-testifying, consulting expert is generally immune from discovery. Redesignation as a testifying expert does not cause a loss of immunity as to materials that were considered \"uniquely\" in the expert's role as a consultant.\nThe court concluded that the plaintiffs failed to carry their burden of demonstrating that Nagy prepared his original notes and score sheets \"uniquely\" in his role as a consulting expert. The court did not believe that Nagy could \"draw a line in the sand\" between information he considered in a consulting context and information he considered when he formed his rebuttal opinions. Given the similarity of the subject matter that Nagy was asked to draw conclusions about as a consultant and later as a testifying witness, and given that his conclusions in each instance were based on a review of the same slides, the court thought it likely that Nagy's score sheets and notes were not \"unique\" to the work he performed as a consulting expert.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pakistan - news and travelling\n900 HIV-positive children were reused by syringes by doctors\nOctober 27, 2019 by Edna Cooper\nNearly 900 children in a Pakistani city test positive for HIV after a pediatrician reuses an infected syringe.\nAbout 200 adults have also tested positive for the virus since the outbreak in Ratodero broke out in April.\nHealth officials fear the actual number of people infected with HIV could be much higher, as less than a quarter of the 200,000 city residents tested so far.\nDoctor checking for children\nThe outbreak of HIV infection is thought to have originated from Muzaffar Ghanghro, a pediatrician who reused infected needles. He was arrested on charges of negligence and manslaughter after patients accused him of repeatedly reusing syringes.\nImtiaz Jalbani, a father of six children treated by a pediatrician, told the New York Times that Dr. Ghanghro had collected an old needle from the bin for use with his 6-year-old son. He was later diagnosed with HIV positive. When Jalbani denounced it, the doctor said the father was too poor to pay for a new needle. Jalbani four children all tested positive for HIV and the two youngest died.\nAnother parent with three children who became infected with HIV after being treated by Dr. Ghanghro told Reuters that the doctor used the same infected needle for 50 children.\nDr. Ghanghro has not yet been convicted, though the law refuses to bail people accused of reusing syringes. He is currently a family doctor at a public hospital on the outskirts of the city after renewing his medical certificate. He denied all accusations and asserted his innocence.\nAlthough the initial investigation by police and health officials concluded that the main cause of the HIV transmission was due to Dr. Ganguro negligence and carelessness, officials said that this was not the case. sole cause.\nNot only did Ratodero doctors reuse syringes, but barbers also used the same razor for many customers and roadside dentists pulled out patients with disinfected instruments. These have led to an increase in the number of HIV infections.\nAt present, there is a limited awareness of Pakistani people about HIV virus, and many people are concerned that the disease can be transmitted through casual contact. Nearly 900 children living with HIV were shunned by their friends and forced to sit in isolation at school. Some parents said they fear the virus will spread through physical contact with their children.\nLack of knowledge about HIV \/ AIDS is not uncommon in communities across Pakistan. In Pakistan, the number of HIV infections has doubled since 2010 to 160,000.\nAccording to a joint United Nations program on HIV and AIDS, there are currently about 600,000 unqualified doctors operating illegally in the country, 270,000 of them in Sindh province, where the city of Ratodero is located.\nThe Pakistani government has responded to this crisis by closing the doors of illegal doctors and blood banks. But as media attention diminished, some clinics began to reopen.\nPosted in: Pakistan news\tTagged: HIV, Pakistan, pakistan news\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Pakistan - news and travelling.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"LivePrayer\nThe First Global Prayer Meeting\nDONATE SIGN UP\nAbout LivePrayer\nAbout Bill Keller\nMinistry Results\nThe Jonah Project\n9-11 Christian Center\nCall To Salvation\nFounder's Testimony\nGiving Testimony\nMiracle Center\nThe Lie Of Islam\nThe Mormon Cult\nThe LivePrayer Show\nWatch The Show\nLivePrayer Television\nLivePrayer Radio\nBubba The Love Sponge\nRead Prayer Wall\nPost to Prayer Wall\nRead Prayers\nFor Our Leaders\nPost Prayers\nPray For Our Country\nLive Prayer Church\nHome Resources Bible Study Bible Dictionary\nEnter a person or place name or word below for detailed definitions, information, and history with scriptural references.\n(King James Version)\nbitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, under divine direction, cast into the fountain \"a certain tree\" which took away its bitterness, so that the people drank of it. This was probably the 'Ain Hawarah, where there are still several springs of water that are very \"bitter,\" distant some 47 miles from 'Ayun Mousa.\nLivePrayer was founded for the sole purpose of having a site on the internet where people can go 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for prayer. The entire core mission of LivePrayer is to give those who are hurting... HOPE.\nLivePrayer Church, Inc.\n6660 46th Avenue North\nSt Petersburg, Florida 33709\nE-mail: bkeller@liveprayer.com\nClick here to invite friends and family\nto experience the LivePrayer website.\nPray For Leaders\nLivePrayer Church\nReceive our daily devotional and Stay Connected to LivePrayer\n(C)opyright 1999 - 2021, LivePrayer Church, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Robin Roberts hosting first night of NFL Draft\nNEW YORK, NY \u2013 AUGUST 26: TV personality Robin Roberts attends the 13th Annual USTA Serves Opening Night Gala at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 26, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant\/Getty Images)\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Robin Roberts is returning to sports for one night, hosting ABC's coverage of the first round of the NFL draft on April 25.\nThe \"Good Morning America\" co-host was with ESPN from 1990 until 2005. She helped cover the draft and was a regular part of \"NFL PrimeTime.\"\nWhile ESPN's broadcast will focus on the Xs and Os of draft prospects, as well as how they will fit with their new teams, ABC's coverage will be geared more toward looking at what players overcame to get drafted as well as the role of their families along the way.\nRoberts will be joined by the \"ESPN College GameDay\" crew for the coverage. This is the second year the draft will be on network television. Fox teamed with NFL Network for the first two nights last year.\nThe NFL draft will take place April 25-27 in Nashville.\nMore NFL Draft Stories\nOhio State quarterback Justin Fields declares for NFL draft\nby NBC4 staff \/ Jan 18, 2021\nCOLUMBUS (WCMH) \u2014 Justin Fields made official Monday what had been expected, that the quarterback will leave Ohio State after his junior season and make himself available for the NFL draft.\nFields, 6 feet 3 and 228 pounds from Kennesaw, Georgia, leaves Ohio State with a 20-2 record as the starter after transferring from Georgia before the 2019 season. He announced his decision in a post on social media.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Canterbury Trails Homes For Sale\nCanterbury Trails Listings\nNew Listing - 6 days online\n1608 Canon Yeomans Trail\nCanterbury Trails Sec 02 Subdivision\n1445 Sir Thopas Trail\n11200 Canterbury Tales Lane\nCanterbury Trails, in MLS area SWE is in Southwest Austin zip code, 78748, where it lies near the southern edge of Travis County. Bordered by Manchaca Drive, Slaughter Creek, a 13-acre greenbelt, it is just over a mile from the intersection of Manchaca Road and Slaughter Drive.\nLike Olympic Hills just to its south, Canterbury Trails appears to have been established as a example of what can be built when pairing a reasonable family budget with a desire to reside in a quality-built home in southwest Austin's beautiful rolling hills.\nOnce ground was broken for the Canterbury Trails project, little time was wasted in completing the subdivision. All of the houses there were built between 1999 and 2001, making it a good option for anyone seeking newer construction in a neighborhood with a slightly more established feel.\nNestled close to other desired neighborhoods such as Southland Oaks and Shady Hollow, Canterbury Trails benefits from all that has been set in place for those older communities\u2014from nearby dining and entertainment to a great selection of family shopping opportunities and nearby employers. Canterbury Trails is only a twenty-minute commute to downtown, making this southwest Austin subdivision a convenient solution.\nHEB, Albertsons, and Randall's provide for all grocery shopping needs, and nearby movie theaters, bowling alleys, and hangouts make it possible to achieve both productivity and relaxation without going too far from home. The same applies for dining. Some of Austin's favorite eateries\u2014such as Caf\u00e9 1626 and the Galaxy Caf\u00e9\u2014are only a couple of miles away.\nCanterbury Trails has the benefit of being bordered by a 13-acre greenbelt. Admired for its springtime wildflowers, and accessible through the community park, it is a favored spot for hikers, bikers, and joggers.\nLot sizes in Canterbury Trails range from .10 acres to .29 acres, but a standard lot would be right around .14 acres, but 45 feet by 125 feet pretty standard for the neighborhood. That's 5,625 square feet for a typical lot.\nAs is common in the area, Canterbury Trails is all single family homes with no condo options. Houses are typically constructed of three-sides masonry\u2014typically brick, but some native stone facades are mixed in as well. Almost all houses in Canterbury Trails are three bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, with variable square footages ranging from 1,422 square feet to 1,860 square feet. Prices range from $157,000 for the smallest to $192,000 for a house on the larger end of the spectrum.\nView Listings by School\nMenchaca Elementary\nAkins High","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Daily Content Archive as of Tuesday, January 14, 2020\nhttps:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/_\/archive.htm?d=1\/14\/2020\nDaily Content Archive\n(as of Tuesday, January 14, 2020)\nso-called\nDefinition: (adjective) Doubtful or suspect.\nSynonyms: alleged, supposed\nUsage: The so-called master detective tripped over the murder weapon just as he was declaring the case insolvable.\nDefining the Future Perfect\nWe use the future perfect tense to say that something will finish or be completed at a specific point in the future. We also often include durations of time to indicate how long something has been happening once a future moment in time is reached. Can you identify the future perfect in the following sentence? \"This June, I will have lived in New York for four years.\"\tMore...\nThe Angora Rabbit\nA popular pet of 18th-century French royalty, the Angora rabbit is a striking-looking variety of domestic rabbit that resembles a large, fluffy snowball. Its long, silky wool is valued for its softness and fluffiness and is often used in knit apparel like sweaters. It is important that these rabbits are regularly groomed and have their wool harvested; otherwise their coats can become matted or be ingested by the animal and cause digestive problems. How big can Angora rabbits get?\tMore...\nTeenage Heiress Lesley Whittle Kidnapped from Bedroom (1975)\nDubbed the \"Black Panther,\" Donald Neilson terrorized the UK in the 1970s. Initially a burglar, he began breaking into sub-post offices and murdering workers. He then kidnapped his youngest victim, 17-year-old heiress Lesley Whittle, for a ransom of \u00a350,000. Police ineptitude plagued the case, and the ransom money was not delivered by the demanded deadline. Months later, Whittle's emaciated body was found hanging from a wire at the bottom of a drainage shaft. How was Neilson captured?\tMore...\nHugh Lofting (1886)\nLofting was a British-born author and illustrator best known for his classic children's books about Doctor Dolittle\u2014a gentle, eccentric physician who shuns human patients in favor of animals, whereupon he learns to speak the language of animals. A civil engineer-turned-writer, Lofting created the Dolittle character to entertain his children in letters he sent home from the front during WWI. He published his stories after the war and won the prestigious Newbery Medal. What else did he write?\tMore...\nAffection is the broadest basis of good in life.\nGeorge Eliot (1819-1880)\non the down low\n\u2014 In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge; being known only by a select few people. More...\nFeast of the Ass (2022)\nThis festival recalling the flight of the Holy Family (Jesus, Mary, and Joseph) into Egypt to escape King Herod reached its peak during the Middle Ages in France. It was customary to have a girl carrying a baby and riding an elaborately decorated ass led through the streets to the church. But the celebration gradually took on comic overtones, with the priest and congregation imitating the braying of an ass during the service and the ass itself being led into the church. By the 15th century the feast was nothing more than an occasion for laughter and was suppressed by the Church.\tMore...\nToday's topic: integrity\nintegrity - Data's consistency and freedom from corruption. More...\nmoral turpitude - Evil character or lack of integrity. More...\nprobity - Integrity, uprightness of character. More...\nprove - From Latin probare, meaning \"to test,\" it is literally to \"make (something) honest.\" More...\nDecember '21\nSeptember '21\nJuly '21\nJune '21\nMarch '21\nFebruary '21","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dontario Drummond College sports College football Sports Football Matt Corral John Plumlee Emmanuel Forbes John Rhys Plumlee Will Rogers Martin Emerson Nathaniel Watson Collin Duncan Aaron Brule Keidron Smith Jake Springer Jo'quavious Marks Randy Charlton Felicia Pearson Snoop Conner Braylon Sanders Lane Kiffin Mike Leach Jonathan Mingo Nathan Pickering Jerrion Ealy Jaden Walley Save SpA Bowl Championship Series Sugar Bowl Game\nMississippi State SEC Mississippi Big 12 Baylor\nOle Miss at Mississippi State 11\/25\/2021\nMississippi wide receiver Dontario Drummond (11) leaps over a fallen Mississippi defender for a first down during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) passes against Mississippi State during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi wide receiver John Rhys Plumlee (10) is pushed out of bounds by Mississippi State cornerback Emmanuel Forbes (13) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi State quarterback Will Rogers (2) passes against Mississippi during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) tries to get around Mississippi State cornerback Martin Emerson (1) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) attempts to pass as he is tackled by Mississippi State's Nathaniel Watson during the first half of an NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi wide receiver Dontario Drummond (11) runs past Mississippi State linebacker Aaron Brule (3) and safety Collin Duncan (19) after a pass reception during the first half of an NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi State running back Jo'quavious Marks (7) attempts to run past Mississippi defensive backs Keidron Smith (20) and Jake Springer (1) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi wide receiver Dontario Drummond (11) leaps over fallen Mississippi safety Jalen Green for a first down during the first half of an NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) is corralled by Mississippi State defensive end Randy Charlton (5) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi running back Snoop Conner (24) scores on a 1-yard rush as Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) reacts during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi players celebrate their win over Mississippi State and their retaining of the \"Golden Egg\" trophy following an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi quarterback Matt Corral howls following an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi wide receiver Braylon Sanders (13) and quarterback Matt Corral hoist the \"Golden Egg\" trophy following an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi coach Lane Kiffin talks with defensive back Jake Springer following the team's NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi State coach Mike Leach gestures to players during an NCAA college football game against Mississippi, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi running back Snoop Conner (24) attempts to run past a Mississippi State defender during the second half of an NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nCORRECTS WIDE RECEIVER'S ID - Mississippi State safety Collin Duncan (19) interferes with Mississippi wide receiver Dontario Drummond (11) as he reaches for a pass during the second half of their NCA A college football game, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Duncan was charged for the infraction as Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) celebrates his second-half, 4-yard touchdown run with wide receiver Braylon Sanders (13) during an NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) sprints for a 4-yard touchdown against Mississippi State during an NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi running back Jerrion Ealy (9) dives into the end zone past Mississippi State defensive tackle Nathan Pickering (22) for an 11-yard touchdown on a pass reception during the second half of their NCAA college football game, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi State wide receiver Jaden Walley (11) scores an 11-yard touchdown on a pass reception as Mississippi defensive back AJ Finley tries to tackle him during an NCAA college football game Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nMississippi coach Lane Kiffin calls out to players during the second half of the team's NCAA college football game against Mississippi State, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi won 31-21. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)\nFILE - Mississippi quarterback Matt Corral (2) passes against Mississippi State during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Starkville, Miss. The Southeastern Conference's most prolific offense clashes with one of the better defenses in the Big 12 when No. 8 Mississippi meets sixth-ranked Baylor in the Sugar Bowl. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis, File)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Report: Compuware's private equity owner exploring sale\nJC Reindl\nThe private equity firm that bought Detroit-based Compuware more than five years ago is exploring a sale of the mainframe software company, according to a media report.\nBloomberg media reported that Compuware's owner, Thoma Bravo, is working with a financial adviser for a potential sale that could value Compuware at about $2 billion. The private equity firm has not made any final decision, the report said, and could possibly decide to hold onto the company.\nThe news is not a surprise because private equity firms typically sell their acquisition targets within five years after making a lot of changes, a process that some have compared to flipping a house.\nA Compuware spokeswoman declined comment Friday. A Thoma Bravo spokesman also wouldn't comment.\nThoma Bravo bought Compuware in late 2014 in a $2.4-billion leverage buyout. During the sale, Compuware sold its prominent 15-story headquarters building near Campus Martius for $142 million to Meridian Health and businessman Dan Gilbert's Bedrock real estate firm.\nThe untold tale of Compuware, Karmanos and a bitter breakup\nFor years, Compuware was the largest technology company in Michigan and closely associated with its cofounder, Peter Karmanos, who relocated the firm from Farmington Hills to downtown Detroit in 2003.\nThe company constructed its Detroit headquarters building \u2014 long known as the \"Compuware Building\" \u2014 at a cost of $350 million. It was the first major business to move from the suburbs to downtown Detroit in the 2000s, preceding the later arrival of Quicken Loans.\nKarmanos has had no involvement with Compuware since the sale, although in 2016 he did win a $16.5 million arbitration award from the company that stemmed from the company's 2013 decision to fire him and strip him of vested stock options.\nThe company is still situated in the building, but is down to just one floor, according to Crain's Detroit. Chris O'Malley has been the company's chief executive officer since the sale.\nThe Compuware Building is now known as One Campus Martius.\nAt its peak back in 2000, Compuware was a publicly traded company and employed as many as 15,000 people around the globe. But revenue gradually declined and the head count fell to 3,000 by early 2014, with about 1,200 still in metro Detroit.\nCompuware no longer discloses its employee head count, but between 500 and 1,000 employees are believed to work there now.\nOne of Thoma Bravo's first acts was to split the company by selling its Massachusetts-based Dynatrace software division. Dynatrace went on to have an initial public offering last year.\nContactJC Reindl: 313-222-6631 or jcreindl@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @jcreindl. Read more on business and sign up for our business newsletter.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Michael David Cromeens\nOctober 6, 1947 - June 8, 2019\nTo follow Michael's Story, enter your email.\nBack to Michael's story\nMichael David Cromeens passed away on June 8, 2019, in Mineral Wells, Texas.\nGraveside service is 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 11, at Woodland Park Cemetery, 3600 South Oak Avenue, Mineral Wells, Texas. Lunch will follow at 11:30 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 300 N.W. 4th Avenue, Mineral Wells, Texas, with a memorial service following at 1 p.m. Visitation is 5-7 p.m. Monday, June 10, at Baum-Carlock-Bumgardner Funeral Home, 302 W. Hubbard Street, Mineral Wells, Texas.\nHe was born October 6, 1947, in Dallas, Texas to Estelle and Moe Cromeens. He moved to Mineral Wells in 1973. Growing up, Mike developed a lifetime love for baseball, building an impressive collection of baseball cards, which culminated in an autographed Mickey Mantle ball. He had a magnificent amateur baseball career, beginning with local Dallas Little League and retiring after a triumphant few seasons with the First Presbyterian Church League.\nAfter graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1965, he eventually made his way to Tyler Junior College, where he continued to bat out of his league and met his wife of 49 years Gail Hayes Cromeens. During his courtship he won over his future in laws with an ability of doing the splits in the air and touching his toes.\nAfter earning his Bachelor of Business Administration from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, he began a successful business career. He managed ranching operations, petroleum exploration, feed stores, and a John Deere dealership, all the while working alongside his beloved father, Moe. Ever the gambler, he took a keen interest in stocks and investing, which recently included his investment in the Crazy Water Hotel project. Although early aptitude tests indicated that his future career would be as a forest service\/fire watchman, he successfully tested and joined the ranks of MENSA, a fact he lorded over his family for years. In his 50s Mike, under the tutelage of lifetime friend, Zeke Foster, learned the art of woodworking. Throughout the years he graduated from making small bowls, boxes and cutting boards to fine furniture. Several pieces of his won Grand Champion at the Palo Pinto County Fair. Many of his friends and family will enjoy these pieces for years to come.\nMike was a loving father, never turning down an opportunity to play catch, go plinking or fishing. He loved riding around with his boys looking at the country. A favorite pastime of his was pheasant hunting with his sons in Gruver, Texas. Mike was a wonderful grandfather, having recently built his grandsons their own \"Huck Finn\" island with bridge and dock. He enjoyed watching them play and fish in the water or the mud, depending on drought conditions. He enjoyed hearing their stories about the sports they were involved in and always stressed the importance of doing well in school. Mike's daughters-in-law were very fond of their father-in-law, as he was of them. They quickly developed an easy and loving relationship with each other and they loved to joke and rib each other with their wit and stories.\nMike is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Gail; sons, Scott and wife, Tera, and Brian and wife, Maggie; grandsons, Sterling and Hayes Cromeens, Halie Gear, Tyler, and Sierra, Alex and Minerva Gear; sister, Paula and husband, Frank; brother, Steve and wife, Jenny; Uncle William Cromeens; aunts, Billye Cromeens, Bobbye Cromeens, Betty Holt, Beth Roberson and Nell Ruthrauff; and numerous nieces, nephews, devoted extended family and loyal friends.\nHe was preceded in death by his mother, Estelle; father, Moe; his loving stepmother, Gloria; and brother, Doug.\nPallbearers are Don Crawford, Weldon Glidewell, Larry Ivy, Mike Radford, Richard Stuart and Tony Street. Honorary pallbearers are his grandsons Hayes and Sterling Cromeens, Nathan Buschow, Wes Ellis, Tyler Gear, Mike Gremminger, Tom Key, Bobby Joe Mann, Clarence McDonald, Davis Pickinpaugh Mike Pruitt, and Fred Wilson.\nA special thank you to the ladies who sat with Mike during his stay at Palo Pinto Nursing and Rehab Ashley Davis, Schauntay Edwards, Cindy Lockwood, Katie Pruitt and Mary Rietmann and to the therapists who took care of Mike during his stay, Chelsea Ball, Hannah Dickerson and Davis Pickinpaugh.\nIn lieu of flowers donations may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 300 N.W. 4th Avenue, Mineral Wells, TX 76067.\nTo plant a tree in memory of Michael David Cromeens, please visit Tribute Store.\nof Michael\nBaum-Carlock-Bumgardner Funeral Home\nThe guestbook expires on September 08, 2019.\nDavid Holub\nOur deepest sympathy extended to all of the family. Prayers.\nDick and Lana\nWe love you all and are in our thoughts and prayers. So sorry we can't be there will be in spirit\nSending prayers for family\nTODD HAMILTON","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"OF COURSE: Quentin Tarantino Blames Police Brutality On WHITE SUPREMACY (VIDEO)\nby Assistant Editor November 5, 2015\nFilmmaker Quentin Tarantino recently came under fire for calling police officers \"murderers\" at an anti-cop rally.\nThousands of cops across the country launched a boycott of his movies as a result.\nLast night, he appeared on MSNBC but did little to diffuse the controversy. In fact, he seemed mentally unstable as he invoked \"white supremacy\" as a problem in law enforcement.\nIan Hanchett of Breitbart reports:\nDirector Quentin Tarantino defended his comments that have triggered boycotts from police unions, and argued police brutality \"ultimately what I feel is a problem of white supremacy in this country\" on Wednesday's \"All In with Chris Hayes\" on MSNBC.\nTarantino explained his statement that triggered the boycott by saying, \"Well, we were at a rally that was dealing with unarmed people, mostly black and brown, who have been shot and killed, or beaten, or strangled by the police, and I was obviously referring to the people in those type of situations. I was referring to Eric Garner. I was referring to Sam DuBose. I was referring to Antonio [Lopez Guzman]. I was referring to Tamir Rice. That's what I was referring to.\"\u2026\nTarantino was then asked how he ended up attending the march. He answered that the group who put in, #RiseUpOctober, \"got in touch with me, because I had made statements in some interviews, you know, along the way, that had suggested that I'm on their side when it comes to this issue of, you know, ultimately what I feel is a problem of white supremacy in this country.\"\nHere's the video, via the FOX News Insider:\nKeep digging that hole, Quentin.\n(Image:Source)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Inside Publications\nInside Northside Subscription\nInside Northside\nInside New Orleans\nWelcome to the Northshore\nArt with Meaning: Cover Artist Julie Silvers\nby Linda Dautreuil, photos by Candra George\nJULIE SILVER SURROUNDS herself with art. In a light-filled room, she overlooks manicured gardens accenting the architecture of Pio Lyons and contemporary sculptures by Arthur Silverman, Steve Martin and other noted Louisiana artists. Indoors, the collection of \"high and low\" or whatever strikes her as \"art filled with soul,\" is interspersed with her own sculptures and paintings from various stages in her life and artistic career.\nHer philosophy has always been \"when I sold one, I bought one.\" The result has been the accumulation of an impressive range of artwork. As intriguing as such a strategy may be, the collection also reveals her interest in the artist as model in contemporary art. The figurative painting by Blake Boyd is one of several images by painters and photographers whose works include Silvers as model. Others are more specific in keeping with contemporary portraits and include images of Silvers and her family or Silvers' photographs of her daughter, Taylor. The integration of Silvers as collector, maker and model fascinates.\nDeveloping skills in the visual arts early in life is common for many artists, even those who may not have formal instruction. Observation, a desire to make things, imaginative expression, creative problem solving and exposure to the visual arts provide a good start. Julie Silvers was raised in in a home where her mother, Susan Wittenberg, actively pursued studio life as an abstract painter in New Orleans. Julie attributes her awareness and love of contemporary visual arts to the many hours she spent watching her mother work. A large painting by Wittenberg, one of many throughout the Silvers home, provides a focal point in the sitting room adjacent to the spacious foyer. Natural light animates the bright colors and atmospheric qualities of the abstract expressionist forms and shapes populating the canvas surface. Silvers describes a special appreciation for the accomplishments of her mother as an artist. \"She worked very hard and participated in numerous exhibitions in New Orleans and various places in Louisiana and Mississippi. Her dedication extended beyond the studio. I remember not only watching her paint, but I also remember helping her transport and install her paintings in venues around the city. As a young person, I am not sure I fully appreciated why she worked so diligently.\"\nWhat Silvers always knew was that she loved all forms of art and especially crafts when she was a student attending Isidore Newman School. \"I loved to doodle on paper, in books, even on clothing and fabrics. I was especially interested in the nude and the female form. Abstract Expressionism represented another generation. In some ways I wanted to be myself, not a copy of my mother. I considered being a lawyer, then changed course and graduated from Tulane with an undergraduate degree in social sciences, and later, an MSA in social work, all totally different career paths from the arts. By the '80s, however, I was entranced with Pop Art. I suspected a change was on the way.\"\nContinuing the tour of the Silvers collection reveals an artist intensely interested in the visual arts as an intrinsic part of her everyday life. Approaching her indoor studio, the experience is an eclectic blending of works by established as well as lesser-known artists whose works were purchased from galleries, art markets, interior designers and individuals from Louisiana, other cities around the country and Europe. All were selected with a discerning eye and a fondness for \"art with meaning.\" \"There is no background art here,\" she says with a smile. \"I like to feel a connection to the work\u2014my own as well as the artwork in the collection. I like work that has vitality\u2014open, almost primitive and childlike in application.\"\nSilvers' studio is spacious but not pristine. It is a fully functional working space that is obviously in operation, with ample views of the outdoors and a small courtyard for breaks during the workday. A large kiln is easily accessible and expected in the workspace of an artist whose ceramic figurative sculpture, abstract fine\/functional vessels and large- and small-scale totems appeal to a broad audience. Her process working with clay evolved over a 30-year period, coinciding with a decision to pursue sculpture and painting with a serious intent to exhibit. \"Making art requires opening up to experience. I don't have a formal background in art. I learned my skills through observations of art, the figure and nature. I took a few classes and workshops along the way, but I have always had a strong feeling about the kind of work I like and the kind of work I want to make. I follow my intuition. I use whatever is available, because there is beauty to be explored in so many ordinary things.\"\nIt is not surprising that Silvers loves to travel, and she admits it is essential in her process. \"When you travel, you learn and grow,\" she says. I am influenced by a world view that includes what is going on not only in painting and sculpture but also in fashion and music. I travel to New York several times a year. I am receptive to the feeling of creative energy I experience there, and I feel recharged when I return.\"\nWhereas sculptures and many functional vessels by Silvers do not rely on color, it is the neutrality of the white or black clay that emphasizes the form, textures and patterning characteristic of her style. Her paintings and her recent works in ceramics have many qualities in common, but the light, whimsical color palette she uses in a two-dimensional format adds a different flavor to organic shapes and repeating patterns brightly rendered.\nIt was after Hurricane Katrina that Silvers began making paintings with the idea of exploring her early figurative doodles and embracing the example set by her mother. The response to these pieces was overwhelming. She recalls that she was discovered by a Houston Gallery while unloading a collection of paintings for an exhibition in Texas. \"A person I never met before asked to see the works as I pulled them out of my car. As a result of that chance encounter, I exhibited and sold them all. More recently, my work has been exhibited in Laura Rathe Fine Art Houston and at my first New York exhibition, hosted by Ezair Gallery. Over the years, I have been affiliated with several galleries in New Orleans. In 2015, I decided to take the next step. During White Linen Night, I hosted the grand opening of my first gallery, which was on Julia Street, Julie Silvers Art.\" The premier reception gave full rein to the intensity of Silvers' vision. The gallery was filled with art, music and fashion. \"The crowds were huge that evening,\" she recalls. \"It was a great feeling to be a part of that energy.\"\nThen came another opportunity, one that clarified her goals in a way she had not considered. Silvers received an invitation to exhibit in the Southern Style Show House and to be a featured speaker among a select group of artists and designers in the Southern Style Now Festival. In her presentation, she described entering a new phase in her life and career. \"I spoke of discovering a sense of myself through my work and of gaining confidence as opportunities presented themselves. I decided to invest in myself. I devised a plan, a marketing strategy, opened my gallery and I maintain a steady work ethic in my studio. I realize my love of all forms of art is my strength. I ignore negative ideas separating craft and fine art, and I use all of my skills in making paintings and sculptures. Many women commented that hearing my story empowered them to move forward with their ideas. That was very gratifying for me.\"\nToday, Silvers' gallery is located on Magazine Street. Bringing her artwork onto the six-mile-long stretch between the Garden District and Uptown has been a dream come true. \"This move has been great for me. The excitement on Magazine is palpable\u2014so many wonderful artists, restaurants and shops\u2014it feels right. It feels like I am home.\"\nSilvers work is exhibited at Julie Silvers Art, 3714 Magazine Street, New Orleans. More information may be found at juliesilvers.com.\nLushness and Lines: Cover Artist Nancy Hirsch Lassen\nAdvocates of the Arts: Collectors Tim and Jan Lantrip\nA Creative Mind: Cover Artist Cindy Trist\nUplifting Motifs: Cover Artist Marianne Angeli Rodriguez\nColorful Inspiration: Cover Artist Jessica King-Bernard\nGet the latest from Inside Northside in your INBox twice a month!\nYes, I would like to receive emails from Inside Northside. (You can unsubscribe anytime)\nBy submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Inside Publications, PO Box 1948, Mandeville, LA, 70470, http:\/\/insidepub.com. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe\u00ae link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact\nNorth of Your Expectations\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 Inside Publications\nGet more from Inside Publications\nWant to know the latest? 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{"text":"The Master's Academy International\nTraining Church Leaders Worldwide\nDonate to TMAI\nRead Field Reports\nInvolve Your Church\nMinistry Distinctives\nExpository Preaching Certificate\nThe TMAI member school in the Middle East exists to strengthen churches in the Arabic-speaking world by training pastors, elders, and other teachers to preach God's Word expositionally.\nDue to the sensitive nature of this ministry, public information is restricted. Please contact the TMAI Home Office for more information.\nTMAI has shown me that expository preaching is for men who are willing to study hard, give relevant application to today's world, and deliver with zeal God's living Word. There is a need today in the churches for expository preaching, and few are the men who are willing to give their sweat and tears.\nA.H., Graduate\nLargest Religions\nworldpopulationreview.com and joshuaproject.net\nThe Middle East is a region of countries located in West Asia extending into Africa. It is made up of 17 different countries with many different ethnic groups: Arabs, Bengalis, Egyptians, Filipinos, Jews, Hindus, Greeks, Sri Lankans, Sikhs and Pakistanis. Its estimated population of over 411 million includes 13 million Arab migrants.\nThe religious background of this region is very diverse. Many major religions originated in this region, such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Islam is the most practiced religion across the region, although this does vary by country. One region, for example, has over 40% of the population that follows Christianity.\nThere are five main languages: Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish and Berber. Arabic is the most spoken language in Middle Eastern countries, with Persian being the second most. In many Middle Eastern countries, English is taught and used as a second language.\nNominal Christians make up approximately 5% of the total Middle Eastern population, down from 20% in the early 20th century.\nGive to this School\n13248 Roscoe Blvd\ninfo@tmai.org\nClick for Donation Mailing Address\nAffiliate Ministries\nFind a Member School\nTMAI is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization.\n\u00a9 2021 The Master's Academy International \u00b7 Website By Maffrine LaConte\nCherif Arif\nCherif Arif was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. He got an MBS from the National Theological College and Graduate School (NTCGS) in Cairo, Egypt; an MDiv. from Maranatha Baptist Seminary, Wisconsin; a ThM from TMS; and is now working on a PhD at TMS. He has served as a professor at NTCGS since 2011, both in Cairo and other locations: Jordan and Lebanon. He is now working on an exegetical\/pastoral commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes in Arabic. He desires to continue serving by equipping pastors and leaders and writing exegetical\/theological works in Arabic for the church in the Middle East. \"My heart is that many in this area of the world come to the saving faith in our God and Lord Jesus Christ.\"\nRodney Andersen\nRodney Andersen is grateful to have grown up at Grace Community Church (GCC) under the ministry of John MacArthur. After working as an engineer for many years, Rodney left that career to pursue missions. After graduating from The Master's Seminary in 2012, he and his family were sent by GCC to serve as missionaries in China until 2018 when he was called to return to GCC to train new missionaries. He currently serves as the Director for Grace Ministries International (GMI), the international missions department of Grace Community Church (GCC). Rodney and his wife, Glenna, have two children.\nAleksey Kolomiytsev\nOver the last 30 years, Aleksey Kolomiytsev has been involved in pastoral ministry in Russia and other Russian-speaking countries. He has also led Word of Grace Bible Institute for 22 years and has served as senior pastor at Word of Grace Bible Church or the last 18 years. Aleksey's focus in ministry is spreading the influence of expository preaching, as well as preparing preachers in the Russian-speaking world. His wife Tanya has been faithfully supporting him in ministry over the last 35 years.\nNick Kalena\nNick Kalena has been serving in Berlin, Germany, for six years. He moved with his wife, Jodi, and their six children from Mission Viejo, CA, in the summer of 2014 to work for the European Bible Training Center. Since then he has been serving in and is now the director of the EBTC's Biblical Counseling Program. Alongside of EBTC ministry, he joined a church planting team in 2016 that started the Eckstein Gemeinde Berlin. One year later, Nick and the two church planters from the planting team were ordained as elders. Nick's ministry focus at the EBTC and at the Eckstein Gemeinde is counseling and discipleship. He enjoys bringing people to God's Word to help them grow in their knowledge of the Son of God.\nAlexey Prokopenko\nAlexey Prokopenko has served as a professor at Samara Center for Biblical Training since 2007 and as pastor of Transfiguration Baptist Church in Samara, Russia, since 2012. He has earned degrees from Medical University of Samara (MD) and The Master's Seminary (PhD). Alexey has authored several books in the Russian language, including commentaries on Genesis and Ruth, as well as annotated translations of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. He currently serves as pastor of a new church plant in his home city. Alexey and his wife Kate have two beautiful children.\nJoshua Mack\nJoshua and his family recently moved back to the United States after serving for 14 years in South Africa, where they planted Living Hope Church, began the African Bible Training Center, and started the Muphamuzi Baby Home. He now serves as pastor at Cornerstone Bible Church in Fullerton, California, while continuing to mentor teachers at various African Bible Training Centers. He is particularly passionate about providing solid theological resources in under-resourced areas. He is the author of Compasssion: Seeing with Jesus Eyes and the co-author of several other books. He received his M.A. and M.Div from The Master's University and Seminary, and D.Min from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.\nDave Beakley\nBoth David and his wife Carol were raised in Arizona, and after following David's career in High Tech manufacturing, the Lord called David to ministry and he graduated from The Master's Seminary in 2002. Six weeks after graduating, David, Carol, and their four children were sent out by Grace Community Church as missionaries to South Africa. David was eventually selected by South Africans to serve as the Academic Dean of Christ Seminary, as well as an elder at Christ Baptist Church. He then earned his PhD at the University of Potchefstroom in 2014. His wife Carol also serves in Christ Baptist Church teaching various women's Bible Studies and discipling women. He also serves as the TMAI African Regional Coordinator and the GMI Regional Missions Shepherd for Africa.\nChristian Andresen\nChristian and his wife Sheryl moved back to Germany over twenty years ago and started the European Bible Training Center (EBTC) in Berlin to train up nationals for pastoral and missionary work and strengthen the local churches. As president of the ever-growing EBTC, Christian oversees the school in Berlin and its extensions in Germany, Switzerland and Austria as well as its publishing ministry. He also serves as one of the pastors at Eckstein Gemeinde Berlin, a four-year-old church plant at the heart of Berlin, and is eager to invest in church-planting ministries across Europe through his role as Regional Shepherd at Grace Ministries International. Christian and Sheryl have four wonderful grown-up children and several grandchildren.\nCarlos Montoya\nCarlos Montoya is President of Ministerios Evang\u00e9licos de Las Americas (MEDA), a TMAI pastoral training center located in Siguatepeque, Honduras. MEDA's main program is The Seminary for Expository Preaching (SEPE) where its motto is Training men to Preach Christ with Power, Passion and Precision. He also serves as a pastor at Iglesia Bautista Betania.\nHe has a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He then studied at Dallas Theological Seminary, receiving his MABS in 1989, and married his bride Lori the same year. After several years, Carlos felt the need to study the original languages, leading him to attend The Master's Seminary, graduating in 1999. The Montoya family moved to Honduras in 2001. He and Lori have 7 children and 5 grandchildren.\nFaly Ravoahangy\nFaly Ravoahangy, a graduate of The Master's Seminary currently enrolled in their Doctor of Ministry program, is the founder and Managing Director of Madagascar 3M, a ministry started in 2017, aiming to come alongside the existing structures and to be involved in identifying, training and equipping men to study, obey and teach God's Word. Ultimately, Madagascar 3M desires to open a Bible-teaching seminary, focusing on expository preaching, so to develop a new generation of godly church leaders in francophone Africa.\nFaly is also part of the eldership team and a teaching pastor at Ankadivato Biblical Baptist Church in Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar. He is married to Lily and they are blessed with 5 children.\nDavid Robles\nDavid Robles serves as the teaching pastor of Iglesia Evangelica de Leon and is the founding president of Berea Seminary, Spain. He has a wide teaching and preaching ministry throughout Spain, Europe, Latin America and the USA. David is a graduate of Multnomah Biblical Seminary and The Master\u00b4s Seminary. He and his wife, Loida, have three daughters.\nRuben Videira\nRuben Videira graduated from The Master's Seminary with his M.Div. in 2011 and Th.M. in 2014. The same year he moved to Le\u00f3n, Spain, with his family, to serve at the Evangelical Church of Leon and the Berea Seminary. At the seminary he serves as the Academic Dean and professor of Hermeneutics, Bible Exposition and Theology, and at the church his ministry focuses on preaching and discipling. He has been married to Jenn since 2010, and the Lord has blessed them with Oliver (2013), Eden (2015), Caleb (2016), and Zoe (2018).\nGreg White was sent out by Grace Community Church in 1992 to serve the Evangelical churches of Ukraine. Over the past 28 years he has had the privilege to be a part of 2 church plants and the start and development of 2 seminaries. Greg is pastor of Grace Bible Church, Chief Academic Officer of Grace Bible Seminary in Kyiv, Ukraine, Regional Pastor of Eurasia for Grace Ministries International and Liaison & Consultant, Eurasia for The Master's Academy International. Beside his administrative responsibilities, Greg also is a professor in the area of New Testament at Grace Bible Seminary and the European Bible Center, Berlin, Germany. Greg is married to Hue Chon and has 3 grown children and 2 grandchildren who live in Southern California.\nBoth David and his wife Carol were raised in Arizona, and after following David's career in High Tech manufacturing, the Lord called David to ministry and he graduated from The Master's Seminary in 2002. Just six weeks after graduating, David, Carol, and their four children were sent out by Grace Community Church as missionaries to South Africa, where David served as a lecturer at Christ Seminary in the city of Polokwane. During that time, David eventually was selected by the nationals to serve as the Academic Dean as well as an elder at Christ Baptist Church. He also earned his PhD at the University of Potchefstroom in 2014. His wife Carol also serves in Christ Baptist Church teaching various women's Bible Studies and discipling women. The children were all raised in South Africa and are now living as adults in the USA. Currently, David is the Senior Pastor (teaching pastor) of Christ Baptist Church, the Academic Dean of Christ Seminary, teaches various courses in Christ Seminary, and he also serves as the TMAI African Regional Coordinator and the GMI Regional Missions Shepherd for Africa. He and his family have been serving in South Africa for over 18 years.\nCOVID-19 Updates: CARES Act Giving Information","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"China's Tencent Extends NBA Digital Partnership\nThe China deal becomes the basketball league's biggest international digital partnership.\nBy Clifford Coonan\nClifford Coonan\nMore Stories by Clifford Coonan\nChina's Bona Film Group Reports 58 Percent Profit Growth in Second Quarter\nChina's Top Film Companies Report Strong First Half Revenue, Earnings Growth Despite Stock Slide\nWarner Bros. Talking to China Media Capital About Local Language Co-Productions (Report)\nNBA Finals Heat Spurs June 16 - H 2014\nAP Photo\/David J. Phillip\nChinese online giant Tencent has signed a deal with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to extend their partnership in China by five years and create the league's largest international digital partnership.\nUnder the deal, which takes effect from July 1, Tencent will become the exclusive official digital partner of the NBA in China and will feature a record number of live NBA games, as well as enhanced programming and highlights.\n\"The NBA represents both a widely-followed sport and an active healthy way of life in China,\" Martin Lau, president of Tencent said in a statement. \"This multi-year agreement enables us to bring substantially more NBA games and content to consumers than has even been available in the past, and we look forward to working with the NBA league, teams and players to further enhance the sport's profile and popularity.\"\nRupert Grint Says Playing Ron Weasley in 'Harry Potter' Franchise for a Decade \"Was Quite Suffocating\"\nThere are more than 300 million people who play basketball in China, retired Houston Rockets player Yao Ming is still one of the most popular people in the country, and there are statues of U.S. ballers in public parks.\nRead More NBA Renews TV Rights Deals With Turner Broadcasting, Disney\nThe programming will include NBA preseason and regular-season games, NBA All-Star, the NBA Playoffs, The Finals, NBA Summer League and the NBA Draft.\n\"NBA fans in China are among the most passionate and knowledgeable basketball fans in the world, and we are thrilled to expand our partnership with Tencent,\" said NBA commissioner Adam Silver. \"Tencent is one of the most innovative, leading brands in China, and their extensive reach will give our fans unparalleled access to the league and its teams.\"\nChinese fans can access the games through Tencent's NBA sections on Tencent's services, which include QQ, Weixin, Tencent Video app and Tencent News app.\nNBA China CEO David Shoemaker said: \"As the popularity of the NBA continues to soar in China, our fans will receive unprecedented NBA content, interactive gaming, customized communities, and merchandise on QQ.com, Weixin, Tencent Video and News apps, and other Tencent platforms throughout the year.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Adam Schiff Explains the Recent History of the Second Amendment\nBy streiff | Feb 06, 2018 9:30 AM ET\nRep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks after a closed meeting on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)\nDespite being an obvious mental defective, Adam Schiff continues to lumber through the countryside, frightening the peasantry, molesting the livestock, and being feted by never-Trump pundits of all persuasions.\nLast week he was at the University of Pennsylvania and he gave us some valuable insights on not only how he sees Americans, but how he views the Constitution.\nSchiff told a University of Pennsylvania audience that much of the Russian content posted during the 2016 election \"was just content designed to pit us against each other, to exploit our divisions.\"\nSchiff says the Russians parroted Black Lives Matter online to broaden America's racial divide, and also pushed gun rights.\nIt is easy to understand why the Russians pushed what appears to be a Marxist-Leninist AstroTurf group dedicated to making the cop-on-the-beat the enemy, but why did they push gun rights, something that is enshrined in the Constitution and upheld by the US Supreme Court despite numerous attacks?\n\"They also trumpeted the Second Amendment,\" Schiff said. \"Apparently, the Russians are very big fans of our Second Amendment. They don't particularly want a Second Amendment of their own, but they're really glad that we have one. The Russians would be thrilled if we were doing nothing but killing each other every day, and sadly we are.\"\nA few thoughts on all of this horsesh**.\nJust because alleged Russian controlled social media accounts are pushing a theme, doesn't invalidate the theme and it doesn't mean people holding that belief are helping Russia or influenced by Russia. There are a lot of people, myself among them, who believe that our police forces have become far too militarized over time. A lot of us hold the view that policing in poor minority neighborhoods, and in downscale white neighborhoods is often a lot more adversarial and violent than need be. Some folks, with whom I do not agree, seek to de-police minority neighborhoods. Holding any of those views is the legitimate prerogative of American citizens. Just because Russia sees them as a fault line says nothing about anything other than Russia seeing an advantage.\nThe Democrats have been trying desperately to tie gun rights, in general, and the NRA, in particular, to Russia. They realize how much the NRA endorsement helped Trump in 2016 and they want to neutralize the NRA in 2018 and 2020 by labeling them a Russian influenced organization. Ron Wyden is demanding the FBI investigate the NRA for just that reason. That is what Schiff is up to here. He's saying a) there is no legitimate reason for gun ownership, other than slaughtering innocent bystanders and b) the gun rights movement is basically a creation of the Russians.\nThe Democrats, along with many of the people who are knee-jerk opponents of Trump, are taking the path of delegitimizing legitimate points of view by tying those points of view to alleged Russian social media influence. It won't work and the people who are doing this should be driven from public life.\nFormer infantry officer, CGSC grad and Army Operations Center alumnus.\nRedState member since 2004. Follow me on Twitter.\nRead more by streiff\nTags: ADAM SCHIFF CALIFORNIA GUN RIGHTS SECOND AMENDMENT\nBillionaire NBA Guy Gets Caught Telling the Truth.\nFormer Trump Officials Plot to Block Donald's Return to White House\nSacramento Woman Who Bilked $2.75 Mil in CA Employment Fraud Faces More Charges, and That's Not the Half of It\nJennifer Oliver O'Connell\nThe Biden Administration Wastes Another Week on a Voting Bill No One Wants\nJoe Cunningham\nBernie Sanders Endorses Primary Challenges to Senators Sinema and Manchin\nT.LaDuke\nGalaxy-Brains Find the Real Culprit Behind Russia's Aggression Under Joe Biden: Donald Trump\nBonchie\nMask Story About Sotomayor and Gorsuch Was Utter Bunk From the Liberal Media\nNick Arama\nBrianna Kupfer's Councilman Mike Bonin Opposes 'Criminalizing Homelessness,' But Asked to Have a 'Trespasser' Removed From in Front of His Office\nJennifer Van Laar\nLatest RCP polling average puts Biden at a 'new low'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to Live Better, Longer\nOmega-3 Fatty Acids: Landing the Big Fish of Body Health\nThere's nothing fishy about the benefits of omega-3s. Years of research suggest that vision, lung function, immune system performance, and even sperm count can all be improved by omega-3s. O\nItchy Heads: It's National Head Lice Prevention Month\nDo you know how to prevent head lice infestations? Or what to do if you find the critters?\nApple Picking, a Perfect Fall Activity\nApple picking could be a good outing to take this fall, as it lends itself to social distancing.\nGaming with Friends Can Combat Loneliness\nVideos are often thought of as being a waste of time, but there may be some benefits to online gaming, such as social connections to combat loneliness.\nThat Rush You Get Hearing a Favorite Tune Is Real\nYou knew this but science wants to confirm it: Listening to favorite music could release that pleasure-loving, possible chill-creating hormone called dopamine.\nLove Social Media? You Could Scroll into Trouble\nHow does social media make you feel? This new study shows how your Facebook feed may be affecting your emotional health.\nTechnology & the Business of Medicine\nHealthcare, Policy & Governance\nBreaking News and Trends\nLatest Coronavirus (Covid-19) News\nUS \/ World\nPolicy \/ Biz\nYour At-Home Dental Toolkit\nDental Hygiene Month is almost over, but we're back with tips for keeping your mouth healthy at home.\nDid You Know These 9 Facts About Heart Attacks?\nDid you know that a heart attack isn't the same thing as a cardiac arrest? Or that women can have different heart attack symptoms? This slideshow shares some information you might find helpful.\nHas the Real Power of Solar Energy Arrived?\nOver the next decade, the International Energy Agency expects renewable energy to account for 80% of the world's power consumption.\nFlower Power Is Real: Hair Ornament Elicits Positive Emotion, Fosters Social Relationships Among Strangers\nMay 8, 2014 12:48 PM By Lizette Borreli @lizcelineb l.borreli@medicaldaily.com\nWearing or holding flowers may actually drive strangers to help you, a study finds. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock\nIn life we encounter several situations where we need a helping hand, whether we don't have enough change for public transportation or we need to hitchhike because of car troubles. These times of hardship can be remedied with a simple gift from Mother Nature: flowers. We use them to convey compassion, happiness, romance, or regret. Now, according to a recent study published in Psychological Reports, simply wearing flowers in your hair may actually increase the chances a stranger will help you, such as getting free bus fare.\nFlowers have been cultivated for more than 5,000 years, but there is limited knowledge about the effects of this behavior. However, while plants have evolved to induce several behavioral responses in a wide variety of species, according to an article \"An Environmental Approach to Positive Emotion: Flowers,\" published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, scientists believe they have rapidly evolved to encourage positive emotion in humans, too.\nA team of French psychologists, Jordy Stefan and Nicolas Gu\u00e9guen of the Universite de Bretagne-Sud, sought to investigate whether flowers can increase positive responses to an explicit request for help. Two 19-year-old women, who were either wearing barrettes with or without a flower, were recruited to request bus fare from a total of 240 male and female strangers, who appeared to be in their thirties. The women were placed in areas with heavy pedestrian traffic in two different parts of town in the city of Lorient, south coast of Brittany in the south of France.\nThe women were told to alternate between wearing no hair ornament or a barrette with a synthetic red rose attached. The hair ornament had a diameter of seven centimeters, or nearly three inches, and it was clearly visible to the strangers they approached. The women approached 120 people each, while smiling and politely asking, \"Excuse me, sir\/madame, would you happen to have a euro for the bus?\" according to Pacific Standard Magazine.\nThe findings revealed the pedestrians responded positively giving bus fare 76.7 percent of the time when the woman was wearing the flower, compared to only 50.8 percent of the time when the participants were without it. In regard to the gender of the strangers, \"both men and women more readily helped those with the hair ornamentation,\" wrote the French researchers. They suggest the sight of the flower encouraged people to stop for a moment to chat with the woman, and therefore, increased the likelihood that they would give her the bus fare.\nThe results for this French study are in line with other studies that have found exposure to flowers can elicit positive emotions and help social relationships. A 2012 study published in the North American Journal of Psychology, found flowers could positively influence female motorist behavior when hitchhikers held flowers, since environmental cues can have an influence on individual behavior. The researchers believed due to the positive effect of flowers on women, female motorists would be more inclined to stop and offer a ride to a male holding flowers while hitchhiking. The males did solicit a higher response in the number of male and female drivers who stopped to offer a ride while the men held the flowers.\nThese studies suggest that flower power is in fact real, and it can produce positive emotions such as sympathy and connectedness. Flowers can reinforce positive social behavior, socio-economic acts such as social greeting patterns, and even memories of social events.\nGu\u00e9guen N and Stefan J. Effect of Hair Ornament on Helping. Psychological Reports. 2014.\nGu\u00e9guen, N, Meineri S, Stefan, J. \"Say it with Flowers\"...to Female Drivers: Hitchhikers Holding Flowers and Driver Behavior. North American Journal of Psychology. 2012.\nRead More: Top 18 Best Weight Loss Pills For Women In 2020\nRead More: 9 Amazing Facts About Protein Coffee and How It Can Change Your Life\n\u00a9 2021 Medical Daily LLC. All rights reserved.\nMedical Daily is for informational purposes and should not be considered medical advice, diagnosis or treatment recommendation. Read more.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Essay about The Role of Ethnicity in Literature\nRating: Better Essays\nThough it has become less of an issue in recent times, distrust of foreigners has always been an issue. This can be easily observed in Willa Cather's My \u00c1ntonia. Within the first few pages, a statement is made about 'alienating foreigners'. Jake, a friend and fellow traveler, tells the main character, Jim, that while \u00c1ntonia Shimerda has \"pretty brown eyes\u2026\", he points out that you are \"\u2026likely to get diseases from foreigners.\" Jim's first impression of the Bohemians is that they are illiterate, uneducated, disease-carrying people. Even after Jim learns to accept the Bohemians' culture, the society around him continues to look down upon the immigrants, proving throughout the book that a culture with outsiders will always scorn those outsiders until they accept the same values and morals.\nFor instance, on page 16, Otto Fuchs, an Austrian friend, tells Jim's grandmother that due to politics, \"Bohemians has a natural distrust of Austrians\", regarding, of course, the distinct conflict that began WWI. When the Burdens finally meet the Shimerdas at their run-down home, everyone is surprised by \u00c1ntonia's eagerness and impulsiveness. While the Shimerdas are accepting of each other, the Nebraskan-Americans are taken aback by the strange culture with which they're now living. Even \u00c1ntonia notices and tells Jim that while life will \"be easy for [him]\u2026 [It] will be hard for us,\" because the Shimerdas are immigrants. \u00c1ntonia even sees that as a young girl, people will not be accepting of her family or herself just because they come from a different culture.\nAs she ages, Tony Shimerda begins to accept more and more of the \"American Way\", even going so far as to change her name from \"\u00c1ntonia\" to \"Tony\", a less Czech-sounding name. I...\n...uld have sold organs on the black market. However, the fact that they were Jewish seemed to play a vital role in the story for many people. Although it isn't fair to bring up religion or nationality when the topic at hand is regarding something completely different such as illegal activity or a fatherless baby, human nature seems to prey upon it.\nThat is, regardless of what people see, they can always find something to dislike in a foreigner solely because their idea of a model citizen is different than their own. When Tony works hard on a farm to help her family, people see her as a 'man-like woman'. When she plays the part of a girl, people see her as unhelpful. Though she finally ends with an affectionate and happy family, her memories that she shares with Jim all show that the society she lives in has much different morals and values than her own heritage.\nRace, Ethnicity, Art and Film Essay\n- This paper tries to analyze race relations, ethnicity and how art and film relates to these social issues in their cultural context. Art and film have played vital roles in advocating for a society free of ethnicity and racism. Using vivid descriptions and evidence of both text and a movie this paper seeks to relate accordingly the concerned issues and factors affecting these social vices. It will demonstrate race and ethnic tendencies in diverse cultural contexts. As a demographic phenomenon, ethnicity is belonging to a specific ethnic group possessing distinct culture and common origin.... [tags: Film Studies]\nEffects of Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity on a Child Essay\n- The socioeconomic status of a family and their ethnicity has a substantial effect on their child's early learning and determines how much their child will accomplish through life. Life events from before birth to three years old will have significant impact on brain development (Nelson, 1999). Socioeconomic status limits how much a family could provide to aid a child's development. Middle-class families can better prepare their children with opportunities for success than families with low household income.... [tags: family, academic achievement, behavior]\nThe Leader, Authentic Leadership, And Race Ethnicity And Gender Social Identity\n- Servant Leadership, Authentic Leadership, and Race-Ethnicity and Gender Social Identity Effective leadership, commonly regarded as both a learned skill and innate ability, is an essential characteristic of successful organizations (Northouse, 2016). Great leaders are said to define purpose, create a vision for the future, set high ethical standards, and guide their organizations through many circumstances and into new directions (Morrill, 2007; Parris & Peachey, 2012). Leadership is also described as complex \u2013 it can mean different things to different people.... [tags: Leadership, Gender, Gender role, Gender identity]\nEssay on The Role of Multicultural Literature\n- ... In addition, Rosenblatt indicates that it is impossible for a reader to fully comprehend a text except through \"seeing, memories and association\"(Rosenblatt,1978). The meaning that the reader constructs from the text is called the poem. The poem is vital to how a reader's attitude toward reading and writing is developed, which ultimately affects their literacy skills and academic grades. By using multicultural literature, it allows the reader to \" receive affirmation of themselves and their culture through literature\" (Bieger, 1995\/1996), and create a connection with the text using their background knowledge (Norton 1978).... [tags: English as a second language]\nEssay on Literature Review : ' Double System Theory '\n- LITERATURE REVIEW AND FEMINISIT THEORY Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional or philosophical dissertation. It helps to explain the main nature of gender inequality. It further explains the social roles of women in the society such as education, communication, philosophy, sociology and so on (Chodrow, Nancy 1991). Feminist theory helps to analyze gender inequality and its themes which are discrimination, sexual objectification, oppression, stereotyping and so on.... [tags: Gender, Gender role, Feminism, Sociology]\nDecolonization, Nationalism, Imagining and Representing Communities: A review of Post-Colonial Literature\n- In the course of Colonization, the world was divided into binary categories of the colonizer and colonized. These binary groups were based on a division of class, gender, race, ethnicity and the oppression of cultural traditions. Traditions of language, religion, labor, and social values were based on theologies of the colonizers, enforced upon the colonized. These binaries can be associated with the Manichean binaries discussed by Frantz Fanon in his book entitled The Wretched of the Earth. In Post-Coloniality, societies gain independence either through diplomatic political transitions or violent revolutions against the occupying force.... [tags: Literature Review]\nCultural Diversity in Early America Essay\n- When studying the stories about the lives of early Americans, the discovery of just how culturally diverse they were cannot be missed. Such richness and history in the making, yet such sadness as we read the powerful lines that tell their story. With the great influential writers such as Bryant, Irving and Cooper, whom set stage for all during the Romantic Period between 1830-1865 to the young brilliant novelists who followed with such stamina, passion and strength, such as Hawthorn, Simms and Melvin; how could one not explode with great learning, as their souls were laid out for us to bear.... [tags: religion, ethnicity, gender]\nPsy A633 Tests And Measures Assignment 3a Brief Clinical Assessment Questionnaire\n- PSY A633 Tests and Measures Assignment 3A Brief Clinical Assessment Questionnaire MEIM The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) by Phinney (1992) was originally published in the following article: The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure: A new scale for use with adolescents and young adults from diverse groups. The reason for original development was to produce a scale that could be used with diverse samples of adolescents and young adults and that would permit assessment and comparison of ethnic identity and its correlates both within and across groups.... [tags: Ethnic group, Race, Nation, Ethnicity]\nThe Role Of Gender And Gender Roles Essay\n- The Role of Gender Although women still confront many leadership-related challenges, recent research articles try to present leadership as a phenomenon that is primarily gender neutral. This can be accounted to the way researchers operationalize gender by observing the behavior of men or women or by the self-report of their subjects. They call this aspect of gender sociodemographic gender. However, gender is much more than sociodemographic gender, it is a multidimensional and multilevel phenomenon which has intrapsychic aspects like \"gender schemas and stereotypes, gender-role identity, and gender-role traits, attitudes, values\" to include the manner \"men and women interact\" (Ayman & Korabik... [tags: Leadership, Gender, Sociology, Geert Hofstede]\nManaging Diversity Essay\n- Managing Diversity As we enter the new millenium, diversity in the workforce is rapidly increasing. Businesses and organizations are living up to the great melting pot image the United States has always been popular for. Employees now reflect a diversity of cultural perspectives, ethnic backgrounds, ages, genders, physical abilities, and levels of education. This wave of multiculturalism is here to stay and cannot be ignored. It is in need of attention in order to uphold the well-being and success of businesses and organizations all over the country.... [tags: Ethnicity Racial Races Papers]\nThe Unknown Citizen, Richard Cory and I'm nobody! Who are you?\nPericles Biography\nThe Impact of Media on Society\nTexas Gambling: The Morality vs Legality of Casino Gambling\nThe Role of Soliloquy's in Othello\nThe Role of DNA in Cloning","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brexit became a reality on 1 January 2021, after an 11-month transition period that has been overshadowed by the Covid-19 pandemic.\nNow that the United Kingdom has left the European Union it is sailing in unchartered waters. It will need to re-establish its relationships with the E.U. and the rest of the world in areas including diplomacy, customs and taxation, professional services, free movement of people and capital, and the border with the Republic of Ireland.\nBrexit will affect Hong Kong businesses that have operations in the U.K., and possibly those operating in the E.U., as the departure of Britain will impact the rest of the bloc.\nLooking ahead, what role does the U.K. hope to take on the world stage? With freedom from E.U. regulations, can Britain become a \"Singapore of the West\" as some Brexit campaigners had suggested?\nIn the first of a series of events on post-Brexit Britain, Paul McComb, Director General Trade & Investment at the Department for International Trade at the British Consulate-General Hong Kong, will discuss the U.K.'s plans on developing its post-Brexit relations with the E.U. and beyond.\nHe will be joined by Mark McFarland, International Consulting Economist, who will provide his views on the U.K. business sectors' take on the post-Brexit era and how businesses in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area might manage the short to mid-term transition.\nRegister for this webinar to gain a deeper understanding of latest developments and prospects for the U.K. after it has left the E.U.\nUpon successful registration, members will receive a confirmation email with a specific link to access the webinar two working days before the event. Please familiarize yourself with the usage of Zoom before the event.\nPaul McComb is Director General of Trade and Investment in Hong Kong and Macau in the Department for International Trade; with responsibility for trade promotion, inward and outward investment, trade policy and market access arrangements. Prior to this, Paul was the Department's Director of Transition, with responsibility for establishing the new Department after the UK's decision to leave the European Union.\nPaul is a career civil servant and has held a number of senior positions including four years on the Operations Board of the UK's Jobcentre Plus, Managing Director at UK Trade & Investment and Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.\nPaul holds an MA (Social Policy) from York University, an MSc (Crime Risk Management) from the University of Leicester and BSc (Computer Science) from the Open University. He is married and has two children.\nVenue This seminar will take place online\nEnquiries Kari Yu\nEmail: kari@chamber.org.hk\nFee Members @ HK$100 \/ Non-Members @ HK$200\n- The registration fee is non-refundable for this event.\n- No refund will be made for last minute cancellations or no-shows. If the booking is cancelled at least 3 working days before the event, and in such cases the refund will be subjected to a 10% administration fee, or HK$100 deduction, whichever is higher.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Man arrested over fatal Orakei crash\n9 Feb, 2013 9:45pm 2 minutes to read\nTwo hospitalised for suspected smoke inhalation\n10 Feb, 2013 10:40am Quick Read\nMemory of land occupation endures\n10 Feb, 2013 5:30am\nThe Maunganui Bluff dispute was a sad episode in the lives of the people caught up in it. Photo \/ NZ Herald\nBy: Edward Rooney\nRegional News Editor, NZ Herald\nedward.rooney@nzherald.co.nz\nIn the midst of turmoil over Maori land in 1987, it was still possible to enjoy an idyllic childhood as a tomboy, beachcombing the shorelines of Omarere Beach and Kai Iwi lakes.\nJanaya Rehu remembers less about being with her nan and her great-aunt at the occupation of a Maunganui Bluff - farmland owned by Allan Titford and his family - than happily skipping along sand dunes.\nNow 34, Rehu says she didn't understand the complexities around the property dispute at the time. \"I was probably too young to absorb what was going on but I do remember it was a really traumatic time. The farmer was causing this uproar and a Maori carving was cut down.\n\"We lived further down at Omarere but my nan and Aunt Kitty had ties to the land and there we were. There were a lot of land claims going on at the time.\"\nStill, the tense days of occupation aren't the enduring memories for Rehu, now a mother-of-three living in Wellington.\n\"When I think back about those times, I remember more than anything standing on the sand dunes. I was such a tomboy, just out there scratching around the beaches.\n\"I don't remember the photograph being taken or being in the newspaper.\"\nBut she knows the picture well. A large print of it held pride of place on her nan's lounge wall and it was passed to her when her nan died.\n\"We tried to get it restored but the restorers refused because of the copyright stamp on the back of it.\"\nThe dispute over the land lasted nearly a decade. Titford bought the 570ha near Waipoua Forest in 1986 and it wasn't until 1995 that he was persuaded to accept $3.25 million in compensation for his farm, which was bought from him and handed back to Maori. The Titfords moved to Australia.\nForeigners may hold tenth of our land, says unionist\n23 Oct, 2012 5:30am\nCalls for Maori flag in schools\n7 Feb, 2013 6:30pm\nDame Anne Salmond: Let's look after our beautiful land\n8 Feb, 2013 5:30am\nRehu was adopted by her grandparents under the customary whangai practice after her mother was struck by a car and disabled. After her grandparents died, she took over her mother's care. This week, she started a new job as a personal assistant.\nShe says she's still saddened by reports of land disputes in the north.\n\"I moved to Wellington when I was 13, but I still get upset when I hear about it still going on. I do believe it's just about money for some of them and that's why it's still going on.\n\"It's really sad that so much energy and time, which could be spent living, is wasted on this.\"\nAllan Titford said this week he is still bitter about the conflict over his farm. He received only $850,000 of the compensation, he says. \"I was never treated fairly and that's why I am not a farmer today.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Shellyne Rodriguez\nBiography Selected Works Viewing Room Art Fairs News\nShellyne Rodriguez, 2022\nShellyne Rodriguez (b. 1977) is a Bronx-based artist, educator, historian, writer, and community organizer who works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture. Rodriguez stewards the histories and stories of people that have shaped her lived experience, describing her practice as \"the depiction and archiving of spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.\" Through her multidisciplinary practice, Rodriguez documents the ways in which the diverse social fabric of the South Bronx is rewoven as the people and cultures coexist. Rodriguez utilizes language as well as cultural and sociopolitical references to create unified portraits of individuals from various communities formed in what she describes as the \"periphery of empire.\" Engaging with the legacy of the Ashcan School, who bore witness to the rise of the modern metropolis and depicted how the poor and working class in New York enclaves were transformed by this, Rodriguez views figures such as Alice Neel, Jane Dickson, and Martin Wong as an extension of this tradition and situates her practice alongside them. Rodriguez earned her MFA from Hunter College in studio art and her BFA in visual and critical studies from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been shown at The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY; Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY; Casa Warmu, Quito, Ecuador; Queens Museum, New York, NY; and El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, among others. Rodriguez has held residencies at Hunter College, New York, NY and the Shandaken Project, Catskills, NY. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College, and a teaching artist at the Bronx Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.\nLives and works in Bronx, NY\nM.F.A. Studio Art, Hunter College, New York, NY\nB.F.A. Visual & Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY\nShellyne Rodriguez: 80 Blocks From Tiffany's: The Insistence of Life on the Periphery of Empire, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (online)\nFragmentacion, Remix y Reinvento, curated by Maria A. Garcia, Casa Warmu, Quito, Ecuador\nShellyne Rodriguez and Danielle De Jesus: Siempre En La Calle, Calder\u00f3n, New York, NY\nWhat is Here is Open, Selections from the Trash Collection, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY\nPasado y Presente: Art after the Young Lords 1969-2019, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY\nPELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity, curated by Shellyne Rodriguez, The Latinx Project, New York University, New York, NY\nOriginal Language, curated by Natasha Marie Llorens, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY\nBronx Now!, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY\nFOUR, We Buy Gold, Sargent's Daughter, New York NY\nHER ART WILL BE CANNIBAL, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY\nLiving Proof, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY\nCiticien, Defend Puerto Rico, New York, NY\nBLACK FOLK presents: Reclaimed Rage; Resistance, BronxArtSpace, New York, NY\nMovement Is Rising: Demystify, Destroy, Rebuild!, The Museum of Impact, Newark, NJ\nWe Still Imagine, Make and Read Books, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY\nPower to the People, Art Connects, New York, Queens, NY\nWindow Project 4: Rest in Power, #BlackBrownIndigenousSolidarity, Queens Museum (offsite at Immigrant Movement International Corona), Queens, NY\nWild Seeds, Temporary Agency, Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY\nAfter the Firmaments Crash Down... What?, Thomas Hunter Space, Hunter College, New York, NY\nPower, Protest, and Resistance: The Art of Revolution, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY\niPRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY\nSublime of the Mundane, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY\nClorox\/Envy, Stillhouse Group, Brooklyn, N\nWhen You Cut Into The Present, The Future Leaks Out, No Longer Empty, Bronx, NY\nNew Work New York MFA Biennial, Brooklyn, NY\nImmediate Female, Judith Charles Gallery, NY\nRespond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY\nRESIDENCIES & AWARDS\nRobert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellow\nInaugural Artist in Residence, Latinx Project, NYU\nPublic Sculpture Percent for Art Commission, Bronx, NY\nFinalist for the June Jordan Fellowship at Columbia University\nRema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee\nGuest artist, IMI Corona, Queens Museum\nArtist-in-Residence, Sculpture Department, Hunter College\nShandaken Project Residency, Catskills, NY\nEmily Harvey Foundation, Petrossiants, A., and Rosales, J. \"Diversity of Aesthetics,\" New York, NY.\nRodriguez, Shellyne. \"Cake Vol. 1,\" Printed Matter, 2013.\nStoop, 2022\nceramic relief\n18 1\/2 x 15 x 9 ins.\nEnga\u00f1o y Desenga\u00f1o, 2022\n15 x 18 x 2 ins.\nLibation, 2022\n16 1\/2 x 11 3\/4 x 1\/2 ins.\nCornered, 2022\nIndia and Bangladesh on Pugsley Avenue, 2021\ncolor pencil on paper\n54 x 40 1\/2 ins.\nWe Took the Kids Outside, 2021\nBooth D12 December 1 - December 3, 2022\nP\u00b7P\u00b7O\u00b7W to Represent Shellyne Rodriguez\nP\u00b7P\u00b7O\u00b7W is pleased to announce the representation of Bronx-based artist, educator, writer, intellectual, and community organizer, Shellyne Rodriguez.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Diction Domain - Voice Diction Resources for Singers\nChoose a Topic Asian Celtic DD RESOURCE English Germanic languages Greek French Hebrew IPA RESOURCES Italian Latin Other Languages Scandinavian Slavic Languages Spanish SUPERSITE Links We Like\nThe Sounds of Italian\nThe Sounds of German\nThe Sounds of French\nThe Sounds of Latin\nTranscription Samples\nDiction FAQ\nIPA ASCII Equivalents\nAbout the Diction Domain\nAbout the Diction Divas\nCredits\/Legal\nYvonne Dechance's Frequently Asked Questions\nabout Studying Voice Diction\nOriginal Copyright 1994; revised 1997, 2002, 2008 by Dr. Yvonne R. Dechance--none of the questions and answers contained on this webpage may be reprinted without permission. Questions and Answers marked with an * in the Question Index are reprinted from the \"I Hate Diction\" Q & A help files of PhoneticismTM 1.2 and have been specially adapted by the author for use at The Diction Domain. All contents copyright 1994; 1997-2008 by Yvonne R. Dechance.\nGeneral Diction-related questions\nHow important is good diction?*\nWhat should I expect to get out of studying voice diction?*\nWhat if I'm not good at learning languages?*\nWhy are diction classes so boring\/difficult?*\nWhat if I'm really having trouble with voice diction?*\nIs voice diction related to linguistics?*\nHow is singing diction different than speaking diction?*\nWhy is it when I'm concentrating on my diction it's hard to sing well?*\nHow does vowel modification affect diction?*\nIf so much of diction gets modified for singing, why so much fuss about good classroom diction?*\nHelp! How do I memorize all those diction rules, and why should I even try?*\nHow much of this diction stuff will apply to what I really want to do?*\nWhat sources should I start with?*\nWhy don't all the sources agree in their transcriptions?*\nWhat do all those weird terms like fricative mean, and why should I care?*\nWhat are the differences between articulation, pronunciation, enunciation and diction?*\nInternational Phonetic Alphabet-related questions\nWhat is IPA?\nWhy should I bother learning the IPA symbols, especially the funny-looking ones? Why not just write words the way they sound to me?*\nWhy should I study all this phonetic stuff? Can't I just learn from hearing my teacher, or from a recording?*\nHow can I display IPA fonts on the Internet and my web-pages?\nQ: How important is good diction?\nA: Sounding authentic in a foreign language, communicating with an audience, and avoiding major embarrassment (more on that later!) -- certainly these suggest that good diction should be a goal of every singer. Consider also the words of Pierre Bernac:\n\"Obviously the literary text deserves the same care, the same scrupulous accuracy, in short the same respect that is demanded by the musical text. This respect will be manifested in the first place on the purely technical level, by means of the concern with articulation and pronunciation. In so far as the vocal difficulties and the tessitura permit, the poetic text must be perfectly intelligible. This is a matter of elementary politeness to the listener, and of fundamental honesty to the poet\"(Pierre Bernac, The Interpretation of French Song, p.3).\nQ: What should I expect to get out of studying voice diction?\nA: The real answer: You should learn how to sound convincing and confident when singing foreign texts, even if you don't speak a word of the language (conversationally, that is!).\nAlong the way, you should expect to make mistakes, acknowledge your failures gracefully, and learn from them. I know a terrific opera singer who sang a closed vowel instead of an open vowel while singing in German for a German-speaking audience -- the resulting change in meaning was so dramatic that the audience nearly howled the opera to a standstill. Far better to make such an error in the classroom than on the stage.\nI was lucky enough to be in the room when a young singer mispronounced a French word while singing for M. G\u00e9rard Souzay. At the end of the song the he told the soprano what she had actually sung (it is not fit to print), studied her horrified expression and wiped tears of laughter from his eyes as he said to the class \"I should not have told her.\"\nNever underestimate the power of language.\nQ: What if I'm not good at learning languages?\nA: Well, here's the tough answer: get good at them. Languages are at the heart of what we singers do.\nRemember, no-one starts out with equal ability in 7 or more languages, but patience and practice will go a long way toward acquiring it.\nQ: Why are diction classes so boring\/difficult?\nA: Yes, go ahead, dare to ask the tough questions. If anyone out there found diction class to be fascinating, write me and tell me how, then send your diction instructor a note of appreciation. Or a Ferrari.:-)\nLet's face it, voice diction is a tough course. All of a sudden you're expected to learn a large set of symbols you've never seen before. When was the last time that happened to you -- a Russian course maybe, or perhaps those giant alphabets on the kindergarten walls come to mind! Add to that enough seemingly contradictory rules of transcription to fill a college linguistics course curriculum. What a combination.\nPlus, there's another aspect of the voice diction class that's often overlooked or underestimated -- the students are often (painfully) aware of each other's ability levels. There's no anonymity in the diction classroom -- you're reading out loud, repeating things, probably even singing in front of the class. Let's be honest, this classroom has a kind of stage in it, so it's going to have the stage's moments of competition and camaraderie. Some students will rise to the occasion; others will want to hide under chairs. Even the \"stars\" will not always welcome the attention -- it takes a lot of energy to perform in front of people, and that's exactly what's required in the diction classroom.\nBut I think the hardest part is that there are so many different things that must be learned, and each person in the class is going to learn them with various rates of comprehension and success. This also seems to add an often unbearable amount of tension and stress to the exams. I observed a group preparing to walk into a voice diction exam -- some huddled in depressed groups, while others screamed their frustration, and one obvious \"star\" crammed frantically and muttered \"Oh god, I've got to know it all.\" Pretty comical to witness, except that my classmates and I were exactly the same way before our diction tests.\nIf you recognize the diction classroom environment for what it is, allow for other students' struggles as well as your own, and above all keep in mind why you're taking the course, a lot of anxiety can be overcome or avoided altogether.\nQ: What if I'm really having trouble with voice diction?\nA: Try to figure out which specific areas you're having the most trouble with, and focus your study time and\/or seek extra help.\nListen to singers who have excellent diction.\nStudy the language or attend a conversation group; it really does help.\nWork with your studio teacher on diction in addition to your studies with your diction instructor.\nApply what you're learning to the repertoire you're currently working on.\nSmile-- how many semesters could it be?;-) Besides, some famous singers have had, well, less-than-perfect diction.\nPray you never have to teach diction, or create a diction resource!\nQ: Is voice diction related to linguistics?\nA: Yes, but it's both more specialized and less exact at the same time. Linguistic studies are concerned with exact, detailed pronunciation and transcription: they use narrow transcription full of highly specialized IPA symbols.\nVoice diction uses broad transcription, which uses a simplified set of phoneme symbols, and aims for a reasonably authentic, understandable pronunciation. This pronunciation may then be modified to suit the demands of the music or the needs of the voice.\nQ: How is singing diction different than speaking diction?\nA: They start out basically the same, but most of the guidelines for sung diction are based on the guidelines for what's known as poetic declamation. Especially in French, the way poetry is read differs from ordinary speech. For instance, there are more required liaisons in poetic declamation (and thus in singing) than there are in speech.\nSecond, some changes occur precisely because we are singing the language. We may for instance modify some pronunciations because the pitches they are sung to are either high or difficult. And some spoken sounds, like the Parisian \"r,\" are changed to make them more pleasing to the ear.\nQ: Why is it when I'm concentrating on my diction it's hard to sing well?\nA: When you're first learning voice diction it's easy to concentrate too much on pronunciation, articulation, etc. and not enough on singing techniques. As you gain confidence with your diction skills, you should be able to balance the text to the vocal line, so you can sound resonant, maintain a good singing \"line\" and modify as necessary for those especially difficult notes that we all must face. See also vowel modification.\nQ: If so much of diction gets modified for singing, why so much fuss about good classroom diction?\nA: You must first know how to pronounce and articulate the word without modification, before you attempt to modify it. You must also be able to recognize when what an audience (or your recording) is hearing sounds correct, because when diction and vocal technique work together what the audience hears is the word correctly pronounced. See also vowel modification.\nQ: How does vowel modification affect diction?\nA: Ideally, vowel modification should enhance comprehension for the listener. The tricky part is, in voice diction studies, you will first be asked to speak sounds and words correctly, and then you'll often be asked to modify them for singing--both to accomodate higher pitches and to achieve a pleasing tone throughout your range. Three voice pedagogues in particular have addressed this matter most eloquently. The first is John Moriarty, who wrote that \"... detailed instructions about position of tongue, lips, jaw, etc., are for the purpose of leading the singer to a discovery of the authentic vowel sounds. After they have been securely established, the singer will perhaps wish [to put less emphasis on the purely physical aspects of these vowel formations, and will wish] to adapt the formations to his method of vocal production. If the production is at all honest, it should be possible to effect this adaptation without sacrificing the identity of the vowels\" (John Moriarty, Diction, p. 23).\nMeribeth Bunch addresses the actual changes vowels undergo as they are sung, particularly in the extremes of range.\"Hundreds of books are concerned with the phonetics and descriptions of spoken vowels (and consonants). However, differences occur when vowels are sung, partially because of the extended range of pitch used in singing compared with that of speaking. A singer ascending a scale requires certain shifts of resonance which are usually achieved by a modification of the vowel sound. On the highest pitches, most vowels are modified... to create more resonating space in the pharynx. The resulting physical appearances of the tongue and mouth are not the same as the patterns described in the texts on speech, although the sung vowels somehow are still perceived correctly by the listener\" (Meribeth Bunch, Dynamics of the Singing Voice, p. 89).\nFinally, Barbara Doscher summed up the realities of adapting spoken voice diction to the requirements of singing when she stated:\n\"Modified vowels are often more intelligible than pure vowels. That statement is difficult for singers to believe. What they 'know' cognitively interferes with what they feel, and they logically cannot believe that altered vowels sound anything like the spoken word\" (Barbara Doscher, The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice, p. 130).\nYou can learn to sing vowels that sound good and are clear to an audience, and they will be based upon the vowels you learn in voice diction studies; your voice teacher is your best resource for making any necessary adjustments. Be assured that the time you spend correcting and refining your spoken diction will not be time wasted.\nQ: Help! How do I memorize all those diction rules, and why should I even try?\nA: Well, first of all, if your diction class is anything like mine, you'll need to know some of the \"rules\" in order to pass the final exam! More importantly (at least in the long run), you won't really learn the rules until you start using them to make decisions. Like what symbols to use in transcription, and why. Or by trying to figure out why authors made certain transcription choices in their books and articles.\nRemember, all \"rules\" are merely guidelines: different diction books have slightly different sets of rules, and exceptions are inherent in every language. But the more you practice making choices and working with song texts in transcription, the more knowledgable you'll become.\nQ: How much of this diction stuff will apply to what I really want to do?\nA: Well, if you want to become a diction teacher, you've got it made! (What, no hands raised?) Assuming you probably want to sing, then this stuff can really get you out of a jam, or into some really interesting repertoire. Want to sing in Russian, or Scandinavian, or whatever, but don't speak the language? Get someone who does to make you an IPA transcription. You may still need some serious coaching, but it will speed your learning process along considerably.\nWhat if you're singing in a language you're fairly comfortable with, like French for instance? You'll still come across words and names and all sorts of odd phrases you'll have no idea how to pronounce. That's when you'll be glad you can read books like the Coffin Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias, or your phonetic dictionaries. Start collecting those reference books early; you never know when you'll need them.\nQ: What sources should I start with?\nA: Well, you're here, and that's an excellent place to start. A good college course in voice diction is always a good idea if one is available to you. Berton Coffin's Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias is probably the best-known collection of IPA transcriptions. It's not perfect but it's still one of the biggest reference sources we have. Specialty books are slowly becoming available, such as Claire Rohinsky's The Singer's Debussy, which covers all of the songs Debussy wrote, and our own Diction Diva Dr. Magner's books Phonetic Readings of Brahms Lieder and Phonetic Readings of Schubert Lieder. Companies like Leyerle Publications and Alfred Publishing Company are now publishing growing collections of song anthologies which include phonetic transcriptions; what was considered unusual a few years ago is rapidly becoming a selling feature. You might start by building your library around the composers and genres you like best, then branching out.\nThe other main sources are voice diction texts and phonetic dictionaries. These texts are probably some of the most frequently used for voice diction classes:\nJoan Wall, Diction for Singers: A Concise Reference for English, Italian, Latin, German, French and Spanish Pronunciation\nMarcie Stapp, The Singer's Guide to Languages\nJ. Moriarty, Diction Italian, Latin, French, German...the Sounds and 81 Exercises for Singing Them\nThomas Grubb, Singing in French: A Manual of French Diction and French Vocal Repertoire\nIn addition, Adler's Phonetics and Diction in Singing is not as easy to read, but it contains a lot of valuable information. As for phonetic dictionaries, buy the best ones you can (make sure they use the International Phonetic Alphabet) then guard them with your life! A good phonetic dictionary is worth its weight in gold.\nQ: Why don't all the sources agree in their transcriptions?\nA: To begin with, transcribing involves a large set of \"rules\" (but you probably knew that!) and a certain amount of judgement calls. In general, the older a book is, the more likely the transcribing style may be unique to the author. In recent years, song text transcription has become a lot more standardized in format, syllabic division, etc.\nAlso, the IPA has been revised. Some books use the older symbols and some have adopted the newer symbols. These symbols are usually not radically different (like using a nasal closed o instead of the older nasal open o symbol) but it can be confusing at first if you don't realize they mean the same thing.\nQ: What do all those weird terms like fricative mean, and why should I care?\nA: Words like fricative, alveolar, palatal, glottal, etc. have been borrowed from linguistics. While it's true they may not be the most important thing you'll ever learn in a diction class, they can be quite informative. All of those terms refer to how or where a sound is formed. So if you're having trouble making a certain sound, check out its description, follow the \"directions\" and see if the sound improves. Often it will.\nQ: What are the differences between articulation, pronunciation, enunciation and diction?\nA: You've probably heard all of these terms before, but have you ever thought about what they really mean? To a certain degree these terms are interchangeable, especially when one considers the definitions below, from The New Webster's Dictionary of the English Language: Deluxe Encyclopedic Edition. USA: Delair, 1984:\nArticulate is derived from \"joints.\" It means \"to utter by intelligent and appropriate movement of the vocal organs; to enunciate, pronounce, or speak clearly\" (p. 57).\nTo pronounce is \"to articulate, as phrases or words; to utter, as letters or words, in a specified manner\" (p. 763).\nTo enunciate is \"to utter or pronounce, especially in a particular manner\" (p. 328).\nDiction refers to \"one's manner of voicing sounds in speaking or singing; enunciation\" (p. 278).\nIn studio voice training, you've probably been told to change a word's pronunciation, or to enunciate more clearly. In studying voice diction, you'll also hear a lot about articulation and of course, diction. The best definition I've found comes from Charles Lindsley's Fundamentals of Singing:\n\"The term articulation refers to the actions of the glottis, lips, tongue, teeth, hard palate, velum (soft palate), and jaws that combine to form word sounds. Diction is the precise formation and arrangement of these sounds into language patterns that accurately convey both the literary and the musical meaning of a song. If a song is sung with poor diction (faulty articulation of vowels and consonants), much more than the literary meaning is lost; the quality of the singing voice is also impaired, resulting in a musical loss\" (p. 62).\nQ: What is IPA?\nA: IPA stands for the International Phonetic Alphabet, a vast collection of linguistic symbols in which each symbol represents a single sound. An IPA transcription is a visual representation of a sound, word, phrase or (for our purposes) a songtext. For instance, the word cat would be represented or transcribed in IPA as [k ae t], and IPA phoneme sets exist for nearly all the world's languages. Singers and teachers of diction use a small set of the symbols or phonemes from the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe foreign language texts for study and polishing of pronunciation.\nQ: Why should I bother learning the IPA symbols, especially the funny-looking ones? Why not just write words the way they sound to me?\nA: Sure, some of the IPA symbols look pretty strange, but there are some definite advantages to using them. First, other people will be able to read and make sense out of them -- people like voice teachers and coaches, linguists and other language specialists. In other words, IPA communicates. Second, the IPA is consistent. A symbol always stands for the same basic sound, regardless of context or language. Third, it's clear. What a word \"sounds like\" to you today may not make any sense to you later when you try to remember what you meant by a bunch of strange scribble. At least you can always look up what your transcription should sound like.\nIt's true that the IPA is not a shortcut, as so many people claim. Sometimes the transcription is longer than the original word. But it's the best way we've found to communicate some pretty complex ideas about sounds.\nQ: Why should I study all this phonetic stuff? Can't I just learn from hearing my teacher, or from a recording?\nA: Most voice students begin learning about diction from their studio teachers and\/or recordings. But then you're only as accurate as your sources, and you're limited to what's available.\nNon-phonetic sources can be helpful; that's why so many of them have been included as references in The Diction Domain. But IPA is still the tool of choice for most diction classes and professors. I've known too many singers who were \"coached\" through every song or opera text they ever sang -- what a waste of everyone's time. Coaches, when you're lucky enough to have access to them, should be helping you to fine-tune your pronunciation or accent, not playing what we call Polly Parrot. Also, the day will come for most singers when they get an opportunity to sing something unusual, perhaps a Russian art song, a Parisian ballad, ancient music or \"new music,\" for which coaches may not be readily available. A phonetic transcription can be a professional lifesaver, or at least a timesaver, in these cases.\nI encourage my students to think of all aspects of voice training (including diction!) as a tool belt -- gather up all the tools you can, because someday you'll have to do most of the work yourself.\nQ: How do I display IPA fonts on the Internet?\nA: You have three options:\nIPA Display Options\nInstructions & Additional Information\nDisplay the phonemes in Unicode. The IPA phonemes are displayed and placed on the page just like regular alphabet characters, using whatever font size is needed.\nPros: IPA and non-IPA characters flow together naturally; very professional-looking results; the most flexible and accessible option.\nCons: Installing the fonts and keyboard software can be awkward; tedious to enter invidual phonemes; all readers must have a Unicode-compatible IPA font installed on your computer.\nExcellent instructions are provided by Professor J.C. Wells.\nDisplay the phonemes using their ASCII-equivalents. This method doesn't use the actual IPA phonemes but rather approximations that can be typed in the standard Western\/Latin alphabet (A through Z, a through z, plus a few punctuation characters).\nPros: Can be read without any special fonts installed; quick and easy to type.\nCons: Does not use the true IPA phonemes; can be confusing to anyone not familiar with this system.\nThe Diction Domain provides an ASCII Equivalency Scheme specifically for singers. Four additional systems for ASCII-equivalents are available from Dr. H. Quene.\nDisplay the phonemes as image screen captures. After you complete the IPA transcription on your computer (using method #1 above) you create image files of each sound\/word\/line and display those files to your readers.\nPros: Does not require readers to have special fonts installed.\nCons: Text does not flow; complicates web page layout; even more tedious than Method #1.\nSee the instructions for Method #1. You will also need some mechanism for creating image files of the final product, such as Snagit for Windows or the built-in capabilities in Mac OS X.\nLegal Statement and Site Credits \u2022 Copyright 1997-2023 by Candace Magner and Yvonne Dechance \u2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Education, Program and Community Development \u00b7 Greentown Labs Headquarters, Greentown Houston \u00b7 Hybrid Remote\nGreentown Labs Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Senior Program Manager\nHow did you hear about this position?*\nI was referred by someone\nI noticed the opening while browsing your website\nI heard about it from Positively Partners\nI saw the posting on a third-party job board\nBy whom were you referred? (optional)\nWhich job board did you find us on? (optional)\nWhat are your preferred pronouns (eg. she\/her, he\/him, they\/their)? *\nLocations*\nGreentown Labs Headquarters\nGreentown Houston\nI have read the Privacy Policy and confirm that Positively Partners store my personal details to be able to process my job application.\nThe service for handling recruitments and simplifying the hiring process (the \"Service\") is powered by Teamtailor on behalf of Positively Partners (\"Controller\" \"we\" \"us\" etc.). It is important that the persons using the Service (\"Users\") feel safe with, and are informed about, how we handle User's personal data in the recruitment process. We strive to maintain the highest possible standard regarding the protection of personal data. We process, manage, use, and protect User's Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy (\"Privacy Policy\").\nThe personal data collected through the Service is stored and processed inside the EU\/EEA, such third country that is considered by the European Commission to have an adequate level of protection, or processed by such suppliers that have entered into such binding agreements that fully complies with the lawfulness of third country transfers (as Privacy Shield) or to other supplies where the adequate safeguards are in order to protect the rights of the data subjects whose data is transferred. To obtain documentation regarding such adequate safeguards, contact us using the Contact details listed in 9.\nIf a User does not object, in writing, to the processing of their personal data, the personal data will be stored and processed by us as long as we deem it necessary with regards to the purposes stated above. Note that an applicant (User) may be interesting for future recruitment and for this purpose we may store Users' Personal Data until they are no longer of value as potential recruitments. If you as a User wish not to have your Personal Data processed for this purpose (future recruitment) please contact us using the contact details in paragraph 9.\nUsers have the right to request information about the personal data that is processed by us, by notifying in writing, us using the contact details below under paragraph 9 below. Users have the right to one (1) copy of the processed personal data which belongs to them without any charge. For further demanded copies, Controller has a right to charge a reasonable fee on the basis of the administrative costs for such demand.\nUsers have the right to, if necessary, rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning that User, via a written request, using the contact details in paragraph 9 below.\nFor questions, further information about our handling of personal data or for contact with us in other matters, please use the below stated contact details; Positively Partners afarber@positivelypartners.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UK: Hospital failed to comply with Data Protection Act\nPatient data shared without permission.\nVal Skelton\nThe UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled that the London Royal Free Hospital failed to comply with legislation when it shared patient data with Google's AI division DeepMind.\nThe data was to be used in developing a health app. However, the patients whose data was shared had never agreed that their private medical data could be used in this way.\nThe Information Commissioner acknowledged the potential of using patient data but stated \"the price of innovation does not need to be the erosion of fundamental privacy rights.\"\nThe ICO published additional lessons learned for other organisations. These include the importance of understanding \u2013 and complying with \u2013 information legislation.\nThe Hospital was not fined, but has committed to changing the way it handles patient data.\nSource ITProPortal.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Update at 12:01 a.m.: Leroy McNish, an 80-year-old Rochester man who went missing Tuesday afternoon, has been located, the Rochester Police Department announced.\nMcNish was located after a taxi brought him from Genesee Street to his home. He is \"safe and sound,\" police said.\n\"A citizen called 911 reporting they helped an \"elderly man\" onto a bus,\" police said in an earlier email.\n\"Thanks to all of you who helped us get the word out,\" police concluded.\nOriginal story: The Rochester Police Department is seeking the public's help in locating a missing man who made be in need of medical attention.\nPolice said 80-year-old Leroy McNish is a missing \"vulnerable adult with dementia.\"\nMcNish is 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. He has gray hair, brown eyes, and wears glasses.\nHe was last seen on Greenlane Drive, near Clifford Avenue, in the city of Rochester around 3 p.m. Tuesday.\nHe is believed to be on foot, police said.\nWCLEVELAND@Gannett.com\nPhelps woman indicted in theft of $1.3 million from Finger Lakes Conveyors\nGreece man faces 14 felonies after guns, drugs seized from his home","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Page 1 of 1 | Total Records : 20 | 1 - 20\nWith 2.2 million Afghans feared to be on the move, UN agency to begin tracking displacements, aid relief\nAmid concerns of a severe humanitarian crisis induced by sudden return home of hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees and undocumented citizens, coupled with conflict-induced displacement, the...\nWelfare organization empowers breadwinner women\nSome 180,000 breadwinner women across the country are currently supported by the State Welfare Organization, said Habibollah Masoudi-Farid, the deputy director of the organization.\nUrging 'bold decisions' to end Yemen conflict, UN envoy says viable peace plan within reach\nAmid attacks and counter-attacks in Yemen, those seeking a military solution will only prolong the suffering caused by the war, allow the terrorist threat to grow and deepen the challenges that...\nUNICEF: Over 20 Million in Yemen in Need of Aid\nTEHRAN (FNA)- Eighty percent of Yemen's population, or more than 20 million people, need some form of humanitarian assistance as the Saudi-led coalition airstrikes ravage the impoverished country,...\nUN refugee agency focuses on sheltering displaced as Iraqi offensive moves to west Mosul\nThe United Nations refugee agency is focusing efforts on camp construction in and around the Iraqi city of Mosul, where renewed fighting could displace up to 250,000 people.\nUN aid chief urges global action as starvation, famine loom for 20 million across four countries\nJust back from Kenya, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia \u2013 countries that are facing or are at risk of famine \u2013 the top United Nations humanitarian official urged the international community for...\nThousands flee as Iraqi forces advance on ISIL-held Tal Afar \u2013 UN\nThe top United Nations humanitarian official in Iraq has warned against the consequences of displacement as thousands of civilians are expected to flee from Tal Afar and surrounding communities...\nSyria: UNICEF calls for unimpeded aid access to children in besieged Deir ez-Zor\nThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today called for unimpeded and unconditional access to children in the besieged city of Deir ez-Zor, noting that they have not received regular...\nSouth Sudan: UN official calls for unfettered relief access to avert further catastrophe\nWith hundreds of thousands in need of assistance in famine-struck parts of South Sudan and rising insecurity hampering relief work, a senior United Nations relief official in the country has called...\nSouth Sudan now world's fastest growing refugee crisis \u2013 UN refugee agency\nThe number of South Sudanese fleeing their homes is \"alarming,\" the United Nations refugee agency said, announcing that 1.6 million people have either been displaced or fled to neighbouring...\nIraq: UN health agency delivers medical aid to newly retaken areas of Mosul\nThe United Nations health agency has delivered medical supplies to parts of eastern Mosul, the Iraqi city liberated from the Islamic State (ISIL), where clinics are receiving an influx of people in...\nIraq: UN aid agencies preparing for 'all scenarios' as western Mosul military operations set to begin\nWith military operations to retake western Mosul starting, United Nations humanitarian agencies in Iraq are rushing to prepare for the humanitarian impact of the fighting amid grave concerns that...\nIn Bangladesh, UN aid chief urges scaling up response for Rohingya refugee crisis\nWith over half a million Rohingya refugees having fled their homes in Myanmar since violence erupted in late August, the top United Nations humanitarian official has underscored that the solution...\nHumanitarian actors need safe, unhindered access to help Yemen avert famine \u2013 UN aid chief\nThe people of crisis-torn Yemen urgently need humanitarian assistance and protection, especially in the north of the country where there is a threat of famine, the United Nations Emergency Relief...\nHalf of Central African Republic's people need aid; Security Council discusses peace operations\nSenior officials called for strong political support and adequate resources for the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic (CAR), where half of the population urgently...\nGuterres pledges UN support to Iraqi Government, people in Mosul; $562M needed in aid\nFollowing Iraqi Government's declaration that its forces have liberated the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres...\nFunding shortfall jeopardizes humanitarian response in Yemen, UN aid chief warns\nEfforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, currently the world's largest, are being hampered by insufficient funding and other challenges, the top United Nations relief official warned.\nDisplaced amid Mosul offensive, close to 10,000 children in urgent need of aid, says UNICEF\n20,700 people have been displaced since the operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from terrorists started on 17 October, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said, estimating that...\nCentral African Republic: UN cites 'dire' situation for children; amid threats, some aid work suspended\nFour international humanitarian organizations have temporarily suspended activities in northern Central African Republic (CAR) after dozens of attacks on aid workers in the region, the United...\nAid workers race to contain Yemen cholera outbreak, UN agencies report\nA \"race\" is under way to contain the cholera epidemic in Yemen where 20 out of 22 governorates are affected, United Nations agencies said.\n<< First Page < Previous Page 1 Next Page > Last Page >>","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Department Role\nThe City's Planning Department plays a key role by helping shape Jurupa Valley's future. It develops policies which guide how, when and where the City grows and reviews new development through zoning, land use and environmental goals and policies. Planning administers programs to help achieve community goals and advises City decision-makers on land use, housing, design, and other important community issues.\nUnder the direction of the Planning Director, who is appointed by and is responsible to the City Manager, the Planning Department assists Jurupa Valley citizens, developers, property owners and visitors with their planning questions and development proposals. Our mission is to serve all persons in a positive and courteous manner and help ensure that Jurupa Valley continues to be a healthy, safe, attractive, and enjoyable place to live, work, play, or visit.\nPlanning Defined\nPlanning helps ensure the orderly and safe development of communities and neighborhoods. It does this by applying land use goals and policies, zoning, and other development standards that help shape new and existing development. Planning staff works with City Building and Engineering staff to review development proposals for compliance with adopted standards and encourages citizens, business and property owners, neighborhood groups, civic groups, and other community stakeholders to participate in the planning process, attend public land use hearings and help identify community goals and values.\nThe Planning Department also prepares and oversees reports that study the environmental effects of development projects and identify ways of avoiding environmental damage, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).\nLand & Design\nThe City has adopted laws that regulate the use of land and the design of most commercial and housing projects. The purpose of these laws is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of Jurupa Valley residents and visitors. Laws, such as the Zoning Regulations, architectural review requirements, and Subdivision Regulations, require that people submit applications for project approval to the Community Development Department.\nThe review evaluates the proposals for consistency with the City's General Plan and all other applicable plans and regulations.\nOur mission is to serve Jurupa Valley citizens in a positive and courteous manner and to help ensure that Jurupa Valley continues to be a healthy, safe, attractive, friendly and enjoyable place to live, work or visit. We help plan the City's form, growth, and character and work with citizens to protect health and safety, protect and enhance the community's environment and quality of life, and promote economic health.\nMaps & City Documents\nThe City of Jurupa Valley is building its library of online documents and will add to this site as documents are revised and new public documents become available. These documents are available for purchase at City Hall, or may be downloaded from the City website.\nDo I need a Planning permit?\nHow long does it take to get a planning permit?\nWhat type of approval will I need for my business?\nThomas G Merrell, AICP\ntmerrell@jurupavalley.org\n8930 Limonite Avenue\nJurupa Valley, CA 92509\n8930 Limonite Avenue Jurupa Valley CA 92509\nCurrent Planning \/ Development Review\nPlanning Applications & Forms\nAnnexation & Appeals\nCertificate of Substantial Conformance\nConditional Use Permit (CUP)\nDevelopment Standards & Review\nGeneral Plan Amendment\nHome Occupation Permit\nLot Line Adjustment & Lot Merger\nMinor Subdivision (Parcel Map)\nPre-Application Review & Rezoning\nSecond Unit Permit & Setback Adjustments\nSite Development Permits & Specific Plan\nStandard Subdivision\nTemporary Events & Time Extensions\nProjects Requiring a Permit\nJurupa Valley City Hall\nCity Hall Phone: 951-332-6464\nInspections: 951-332-0790\nPublic Information & Notices\nCity Documents & Forms\nHealthy Jurupa Valley\nCity Hall Hours: Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm\nCounter Hours: 8 am to Noon\n(Closed weekends & holidays)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Beefheart: Shiny Beast of Thought\nfoolish_Paeter \u2022 July 27th, 2003\nDon Van Vliet (alias Captain Beefheart) is most (in)famous for his music, music that you either love or hate. I could say something about him being one of the most important composers of the 20th century, but that would just be my opinion. I will say that anyone not acquainted with his playful, inventive work is missing out on something.\nBeing a huge fan, it's hard for me to write about Don Van Vliet and keep it down to a short article. He was an artist on so many levels: a sculptor, a painter, a musician, a poet. I will refer to him simply as \"Don,\" as \"Captain Beefheart\" does not really represent the whole man (as Don once said, \"It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even own a boat\").\nHe was born Donald Vliet (no \"Van\" then; he later added that) to parents Glen and Sue in Glendale, CA, 1941. From the very start, Don rejected American traditions and culture, preferring to go about things his own way. He called his mother Sue, saying that \"mother\" was too cold and formal of a word. He developed an interest in nature very early and began sculpting (at his youngest ages, out of soap) every animal he had ever seen or could find a picture of in an encyclopedia or dictionary, and some he imagined. His distrust towards mankind began when he discovered that many of his favourites were already extinct. At age 3, his parents took him to see the La Brea Tar Pits, and, in hopes of seeing a dinosaur on the way down, he attempted to jump in but was caught before making it over the railing.\nDon claims he never went to school. Ever (\"if you wanna be a different fish, you gotta jump out of the school\"). He spent his days holed up in his room sculpting, vacuuming hair from the cat to give his sculptures fur, and having his mother slide meals in through a slot in the door. He appeared on a TV show with his sculptures along with Portuguese sculptor Antonio Rodriguez, who discovered him. At age 13 he was offered a 6-year art scholarship in Portugal, but his parents wouldn't allow it, saying \"All artists are queers,\" and then they took him and moved to Lancaster in the Mojave Desert.\nIt was in the desert at high school age (since Don denies ever attending school) that Don met Frank Zappa. Zappa was walking about in a graveyard (next to the school) and Don offered him a ride home. They became friends, and it was Zappa who got Don involved in music. Together they comprised a band called The Soots and did nothing aside from record some songs. It was from one of these songs and a screenplay written by Zappa that the name \"Captain Beefheart\" emerged. In a 1982 appearance on the Late Show, Don said it came about because he has a \"beef in his heart\" with mankind and the way they treat each other & nature.\nZappa pushed Don to get serious with music, and Don got together a group of musicians, forming Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. They became a local hit with a powerful version of Bo Diddley's \"Diddy Wah Diddy.\" They played blues and Rolling Stones covers mainly. Don began playing harmonica a lot, because at first his singing wasn't very good; however, it rapidly improved.\nEventually came the first album, 1967's Safe As Milk, featuring a 16-year old Ry Cooder. It was 60's blues rock, but not unaffected by Don's unique creative vision. It included a bumper sticker, two of which John Lennon had on display in his apartment. Also, the inner jacket contained the words \"MAY THE BABY JESUS SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND OPEN YOUR MIND\" and \"CAUTION: ELECTRICITY MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH.\" \"Electricity,\" the album's most innovative track, made such use of Don's allegedly 5-and-a-half octave voice (I'm not disputing, but he later also claimed 7 octaves) that he destroyed a $1200 microphone. On this track, Don insisted on avoiding the usual 4\/4 rhythm because he thought it was corny. Also, just before the time came to record it, Don changed the drum line to a set of shifting, syncopated patterns unlike anything that had ever been heard in rock and roll; drummer John French stepped up to the challenge incredibly well. \"Electricity\" was a harbinger of the coming storm.\nBefore it was time to work on the next album, the Magic Band lineup changed almost entirely, which would end up happening many more times. However, the music was pretty much unnaffected, because it all originated from Don (well, on Safe As Milk, guitarists Ry Cooder and Alex Snouffer were given quite a bit of freedom, and Cooder is actually credited with some arrangements). Knowing absolutely nothing about music theory, Don had to communicate melodies to his band through whistling, humming, or harmonica, and it proved to be a lot of work, because he demanded that the compositions be played exactly as he wanted them.\nThe next recording sessions were meant to be for a double album, but ended up being two different records: Strictly Personal (with a jacket designed to look like a brown paper wrapper with stamps attached, addresses handwritten on, and \"Strictly Personal\" stamped on; a reference to mailed pornography packaging), which was phased by the producer and then released, all without the permission of Don or the band, prompting their quitting from the label; and Mirror Man, which was sold to another company for release. Mirror Man is regarded by fans as Beefheart at his bluesiest; it consists of four long, lumbering songs with lots of improvisation. One song, \"Tarotplane,\" features Don wailing on a shenai, which is essentially an East Asian musette. Strictly Personal was more \"far-out,\" more \"psychedelic,\" but only a hint of what was to come next. Songs continually moved away from the normal 4\/4 rhythm, carried along greatly by John French's mind-boggling skill with a drum set. However, Don stil clung to his blues roots, borrowing musical phrases from actual blues songs in songs such as \"Ah Feel Like Ahcid\" and \"Gimme Dat Harp Boy.\" One song, \"Beatle Bones 'n Smokin' Stones,\" which I interpret to be about the apocalypse, actually irked John Lennon with its \"strawberry feels [sic] forever\" refrain.\nBy this time, there were producers and managers ready to, as Don said, \"throw money at me if I would 'just sing the blues.'\" They wanted Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to be just a blues rock band, they wanted an American answer to the Rolling Stones. And Don certainly could've competed in that arena; but he didn't go for it. His \"baby,\" as he often referred to his creative muse, wouldn't let him.\nDon got a house in Woodland Hills and was given a piano as a gift. A new Magic Band lineup accompanied him to live in the Woodland Hills house. This lineup is regarded as THE Magic Band by most fans, and is quite possibly the most important. It consisted of Bill Harkleroad and Jeff Cotton on guitars, Mark Boston on bass, and John French on drums. Don gave them stagenames: Zoot Horn Rollo, Antennae Jimmy Semens, Rockette Morton, and Drumbo, respectively. This lineup is important because they were the band at ground zero when IT happened.\nDon began writing songs on piano, which John French transcribed, and the band split up into parts between each other. It was extremely difficult work; the parts were strange, with all preconceived notions of music thrown out the door (Harkleroad remembers thinking \"where are all the blues tunes?\"). It didn't help matters that Don didn't understand how difficult they were to play, and would berate the musicians to no end for playing them wrong. He would tell them to play a part, then say they played it wrong, it goes like this; then he had them play it until they got it right, and to the other musicians each version sounded the same. Sometimes the parts required playing 7 notes at once, which is of course impossible on a 6-stringed guitar; but it took a while to make Don realize this.\nThe writing was quick. Don claimed that he did the whole thing in 8 hours straight, one session at the piano, which is a total lie. But it was quick. It was the learning on the musicians' behalf that took a lot of work. They rehearsed on every available day. They were only allowed to leave for shopping. When it started, the whole thing was okay; but Don's dark side began to reveal itself. Frustrated, Don became a slave-driver. At one point, Harkleroad attempted to escape. Jeff Cotton became keeper of the lyrics, and would be forced to recite in a high-pitched voice until his throat bled (that could be some hyperbole in the account). There were what Harkleroad called brainwashing sessions, in which Don would pick a member of the band and treat him as the enemy of the day, keep him awake on coffee for hours, accuse him of trying to sabotage the music and ruin everyone's chances of success, and basically just torture him mentally to the point where he was saying \"OK, OK, I'll do anything you say!\" The only thing that kept the band from quitting was a deep admiration for Don's creativity and art, and knowing that they were doing something that had never been done before; they had to put Don's paranoia and neurotic bullshit aside. Which is exactly what it was. Don was later diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.\nAfter about six months of constant rehearsal (by everyone but Don, who almost never rehearsed with the band), Don decided that they were ready to record. They were signed to the Straight label on Warner Brothers. Frank Zappa produced, and started to record the album at the house, but Don objected and demanded it be done in an actual studio. So Zappa allowed the band 8 hours to do about 70 minutes worth of backing tracks, and they did it in 6. When time came to add the vocals, Don couldn't stand the headphones, and so only had the leakage through the windows of the recording room to go by. Of course, as soon as he opened his mouth he couldn't hear anything.\nThe result of all this was the 1969 lumbering 80-minute 2-disc watershed monster Trout Mask Replica. This album marked the outer limits of rock and roll. The twin guitars played gloriously complicated angular counterpoint, rooted in the blues but injected with jazz and expelled into an alternate universe. The bass was nothing more than a guitar with lower strings. The drums were a melody instrument, and yet, every instrument on the record was a rhythm instrument. Each instrument played in a different time signature. Don's skronk saxophone antics blew across the arrangements like insane gusts of wind; his vocals were improvised, the lyrics not even memorised (he referred to them from a book). The notions of normal beats, melodies, and chord changes were thrown out the window in favour of shapes, aural sculpting. There were no straight lines; this was natural music (look in nature and tell me if you see any straight lines). The lyrics were full of playful exercises in free-association & word images, filled with such delicious lines as \"an oriole sang like an orange, his breast full of worms\/and his tail clawed the evenin' like a hammer\" and \"the white ice horse melted like uh spot uh silver well.\" The titles say it all. \"Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish.\" \"Ant Man Bee.\" \"Hobo Chang Ba.\"\nNot surprisingly (to everyone but Don), TMR didn't sell. One reporter remarked that it sounded like a blues band being pushed down a flight of stairs. Others have said that if your favourite part of going to see an orchestra is the part where they're all tuning up, you'll love this record. Some said it sounded like it was being played backwards. Many people assumed that they were just playing random notes. So many have listened and turned away from the caucaphony, saying \"this is awful!\"\nBut they missed the point. To say that Trout Mask Replica sounds like it is played backwards is to assume that Neil Diamond plays forwards. \"There's no pleasant melodies,\" (actually, there's one, at the end, but everyone neglects that fact) \"there's no rhythm, there's no form!\" listeners may scream. Well, since when has \"music\" meant something with a pleasant melody, an easily danceable rhythm, and a predictable form? I challenge that music is nothing but organised sound, and the level of organisation may vary. People listen to TMR and say \"that's not music!\" If I'm not mistaken, people also said that Marcelle Duchamp's work wasn't art. Heck, they said Monet wasn't art, they said Matisse wasn't art. It's a bit more difficult now to find someone who agrees with those statements now. They may not like it, but they'll concede that it's art. For some reason, people are willing to accept abstractness in visual art, but not music. Well, that's exactly what TMR is, abstract music. And if Dadaism is all about the spirit of play, then I will be more specific and say that TMR is Dada rock.\nSome of the lyrics on TMR are serious. \"Dachau Blues,\" \"Ant Man Bee,\" and \"Veteran's Day Poppy\" all contain messages about the evils of war; \"Frownland\" is like \"Are You Experienced?\" taken to a deeper level; \"Moonlight on Vermont\" and \"My Human Gets Me Blues\" reflect Don's disgust with organised religion; \"Wild Life\" and \"Steal Softly Thru Snow\" have shades of the naturalism and ecology that runs throughout Don's body of work, going all the way back to \"Plastic Factory\" from Safe As Milk.\nIt was after TMR that Don met Jan Jenkins at a party, and had her move in with him. She was a fan of his music and was 12 years younger than him. They were married shortly, and remain married today. In a short documentary made in 1980, when asked what was most important to him, Don answered \"My wife. Definitely my wife. Sorry, girls. I'm taken.\" Jan brought an organization to Don's life of which he was incapable, keeping track of his enormous catalogue of work (Don wrote hundreds of pages every day) and providing emotional support. Also after TMR, Don and the band all quit doing drugs (although Don would periodically lapse). For the band, it was a necessity for playing the music. For Don, it was just a decision that he didn't want to do it anymore. Although I think Jan had something to do with it.\nFollowing TMR, the band (including Victor \"The Mascara Snake\" Haydn, Don's cousin, who has some spoken parts and plays bass clarinet on one track) played one show, and then started working on another album. At one point, Don became angry with John French for some reason (one of his paranoid neurotic moments) and threw him down a half flight of stairs, telling him to \"take a walk.\" So he did, and Don replaced him with a hippy-in-the-park-with-bongos drummer who couldn't handle the parts, who Don christened \"Drumbo,\" as though he could conceal the fact that French was gone. The \"Fake Drumbo\" also got in a fight with Jeff Cotton, breaking several of Cotton's ribs, so Cotton quit. Eventually, former Mothers of Invention drummer Art Tripp III (named Ed Marimba by Don) filled in, and French came back, so they had two drummers (when Tripp wasn't playing marimba) with very different styles, creating an unparalleled explosive sound. The next record was written on piano like TMR, but conditions for the band were slightly better. It was entitled Lick My Decals Off, Baby, and was just as weird as TMR, but shorter. It contains Harkleroad's finest hour, the complex guitar solo piece \"One Red Rose That I Mean,\" and a beautiful guitar and bass duet entitled \"Peon,\" which was an exact replication of a once-through piano piece played by Don. Also on the album is the ecological warning \"Petrified Forest,\" my favourite lyrically. Don wrote a surreal TV commercial for the album, but it was banned by the local stations, who said the title was \"obscene.\" This album is considered by many to be Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's finest, but is sadly the only one out of print. The Decals tour (which also featured TMR material) was arguably Beefheart's best and was full of bizarre theatrics. They picked up Elliot Ingber to replace Jeff Cotton, and Don named him Winged Eel Fingerling. It was also during this time that Don's career as a painter began. His first exhibit was in England, and showcased a set of black and white paintings he had done while on the tour.\nAfter Decals, John French again quit, which resulted in a necessity for making the music simpler; despite his immense talent, Art Tripp found it too difficult to play drums in French's style. Plus, the far-out records weren't selling and Harkleroad & Mark Boston almost starved to death. So Don put away his piano, again relying on his harmonica and his voice, used his sax sparingly, and allowed the band more freedom (but it was still a pain in the ass working with Don). Songs were composed loosely and then hammered out in lengthy jams. The next two albums were slower (Harkleroad hates the first one, says it made him feel like a zombie playing it), more basic blues-rock albums, but were still Beefheart; meaning that they were still \"weird.\" These were Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot, and contained such fun classics as \"Big Eyed Beans from Venus\" and \"I'm Gonna Booglarize Ya, Baby,\" the short, surreal accompanied poem \"Golden Birdies,\" and the instrumental \"Alice in Blunderland\" in which Ingber was given complete freedom on the guitar.\nBoth albums had limited success, and Don finally decided to \"go commercial\" (actually, the working plan for the past three albums was to try to be more commercial, to not scare listeners away so much; although Decals came nowhere near that idea). The next album was Unconditionally Guaranteed, on which Don allowed producers to sugarcoat the music with overdubs. As soon as the record was finished, the entire Magic Band quit, and Don was forced to play the tour with a pickup band from Vegas who were used to accompanying lounge acts; they weren't capable of playing real Magic Band music. This became known by fans as the Tragic Band. Don recorded one album with them, Bluejeans and Moonbeams, his darkest hour. Don put his imagination on a tight leash, trying to make a commercially acceptable record. And he acted it up in interviews; he praised this new band as \"the best batch yet,\" and pushed the tepid new album, acting very enthusiastic about the whole thing. The magic was gone. It's depressing, it's an artist practically selling his soul, and it's all made worse by the fact that it didn't work. These albums didn't sell either.\n(Well, okay, Moonbeams isn't all that bad. It's actually some good music, but in comparison to the rest of the Beefheart catologue, it's bad.)\nAfter the failure of Bluejeans and Moonbeams, Don took a hiatus from music, until Frank Zappa approached him with an offer. The friendship between the two had been all but broken after the failure of TMR, which Don blamed on Zappa's shoddy production (I happen to like the production, but oh well). Zappa asked Don to sing and play on the Bongo Fury tour, and Don obliged. Don got another record deal put together a new Magic Band and wrote (with the piano again) and recorded the album Bat Chain Puller, which was never (legitimately; somehow, someone's selling it under the title Dust Sucker) released. The Bat Chain lineup did, however, play a few live shows.\nAfter a few changes in band lineup, Don wrote 6 new songs and took 6 from Bat Chain Puller, and released Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) on Virgin, marking his \"comeback\" and the return of the magic. Half the songs are fairly \"normal,\" as if Don was saying \"Listen, I AM capable of normal music,\" but for the most part, Beefheart was back, and the music was \"weird\" again. This album showcased such wonders as the carnival(ium) party song \"Tropical Hot Dog Night\" and a Beefheart twist on the old farmer-defeats-the-devil theme \"The Floppy Boot Stomp.\" Also included is \"Bat Chain Puller,\" a rhythmic track that paints vibrant images of a rainstorm and an unearthly, surreal train (which I interpret to be an evil entity equivalent to Moloch in \"Howl\"). The drum part on that track provides the rainstorm all by itself; it's drummer Robert Williams playing a reproduction of a recording made by Don of the windshield wipers on his Volvo. \"When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy\" is a strange track. If you read the lyrics, they sound kind of lame, especially by Beefheart standards; and then when you hear them in the context of the music the first time, it's disturbing, sounds Oedipal; but repeated listening reveals it to be a chilling rumination of mortality. And then there's \"Apes-Ma,\" a bone-chilling warning to mankind. It's so short, I'll just quote the whole thing:\nApes-Ma, Apes-Ma\nRemember when you were young Apes-Ma?\nAnd you used to break out of your cage?\nWell you know that you're not\nStrong enough to do that anymore now\nAnd Apes-Ma... The little girl that\nNamed you years ago died now\nAnd you're older Apes-Ma\nRemember when she named you\nAnd it was in the paper Apes-Ma?\nYou're eating too much\nAnd going to the bathroom too much Apes-Ma\nAnd Apes-Ma, your cage isn't getting any bigger Apes-Ma\nBy this time (late '70s, early '80s), Beefheart influence had spread all over music, and especially the punk\/new wave movement. Groups like the B-52's, Devo, Pere Ubu, Public Image Ltd., and Talking Heads all cited Beefheart influence and praised the man's music. Don was uninterested. \"Why should I look through my own vomit?\" he said. He also didn't like that the punk movement that drew so much from TMR was clinging to that same old 4\/4 rhythm, that \"mama's heartbeat\" as Don put it.\nDon's music in this period was also more structured and accessible, but not in any cliched way. What I mean is that it was more controlled, less rambly and bulbous. But this doesn't mean it lost any edge. In fact, the next album, 1980's Doc at the Radar Station, proves it. The music may be simpler, but the sound and lyrics are so much harsher that many people have difficulty listening to it even if they've been listening to TMR. Titles like \"Ashtray Heart\" and \"Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on My Knee\" tell the story. However, there are \"quieter\" moments, such as the sterling guitar solo \"Flavour Bud Living.\" The Doc band was basically the Shiny Beast band, but without the AMAZING Bruce Fowler on trombone (who achieves things I didn't even know were Possible on the trombone; listen to Shiny Beast. There's only one horn sound that's not his trombone, and that's Don's unmistakeable sax skronks on \"Suction Prints\"). This band played on Saturday Night Live twice one night, playing \"Hot Head\" and \"Ashtray Heart\" from Doc. It was a horrible episode (I saw a re-run), but the performance by the band was excellent, and superior to the album versions of the songs (in my opinion).\nAfter the Doc tour, Don went to work in 1982 on the next album, with mostly the same musicians. By this time, Don was doing cocaine, and his voice was beginning to suffer from it. John French chalks the cocaine use up to fear, he believes that Don already knew by that time that he had the disease that would later prevent him from ever coming out of retirement. He was also getting tired of the music business, especially after asking Zappa for the rights to One (just ONE) song from the original Bat Chain Puller and being denied. Don proceeded to go home, take a hit of marijuana, turn on the tape recorder, sit at the piano, and crank out \"Skeleton Makes Good,\" one of my favourites lyrically, in time for the album deadline. The album was titled Ice Cream for Crow, and a music video was shot for the title track. The video was rejected by MTV for being \"too weird,\" so Don went on the Late Show and had the video shown.\nThere was no tour following ICFC. Don decided he was sick of the music business and went full time into painting. This makes ICFC his final album, and I can't think of anything better to end with. The album has a sort of sad bleakness to it, full of farewell. And the photograph on the cover breaks my heart every time. It's beautiful.\nHis paintings are wonderfully imaginative, wild little things, that look like his music sounds. He had several exhibits, but nothing recently. He now lives reclusively in a trailer in the Mojave Desert. He will never perform again; h e is taken with an illness that prevents him from it. Everyone is very quiet about the exact nature of his illness, but it is apparently multiple sclerosis.\nThe secret of Don's creativity has always been childishness. Long ago, he decided not to grow up. So he didn't, and he remained creatively free. This also left him without a normal concept of reality or any way of dealing functionally with society, which is probably responsible for the neurotic way he treated his musicians (but it must be said that he never forced them to stay; they could have quit at any time), but the wonderful body of work it resulted in is well worth it. It also resulted in him being a beautiful and deeply interesting human being, which is more than can be said about some other people with a \"normal concept of reality.\"\nI kinda get the feeling that I didn't describe the music well enough, but, how do you describe it in words? All I can say is, \"go buy it and listen.\" I dream of a world where everyone owns a copy of TMR and plays it enough so that it grows on them (which it does) if they didn't like it at first. I will leave you with some quotes from Don Van Vliet's mouth, and then some links you can check out if you want to read more.\n\"You should know by the kindness of uh dog the way uh human should be.\"\n\"Why would I want to do something like anyone else? Then I'd just be contributing to the sameness of things. I say, Lick my decals off, baby!\"\n\"Modern man keeps wanting to graduate, but they graduate in the areas that seem to be so solitary instead of the kind areas, like dolphins graduating across the horizon into the sun. Man graduates with no sand and sun and water. I think more children should play with mudpies, but that's out now.\"\n\"The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.\"\n\"I don't like music; I like sounds. Because Music is just black ants running across white paper.\"\n\"People use funny toilet paper because it means they're rich if it's perfumed. I think perfumed toilet paper causes rectal cancer. You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use.\"\n\"I became a vegetarian because I couldn't imagine biting an animal and spitting out the fur and eating the meat. I said, why should I bite an animal? But then why should I bite a vegetable, it's the same thing. I eventually resigned myself to the fact that I had to eat something to survive.\"\n\"Be kind, man -- don't be mankind.\"\nThe Captain Beefheart Radar Station: excellent site, loaded with interviews (text And streaming audio) & lyrics & record info & pictures of the paintings. You can also watch the \"Ice Cream for Crow\" video, the Lick My Decals Off, Baby commercial, the SNL performance, both of Don's Late Show appearances, and a segment about Don from a 1980 biography show, which includes an interview with Don. And a bizarre clip of Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band's feet.\nThe Captain Beefheart Timeline: last I checked, this was down. But it was great. Chronicled everything Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band did from beginning to end. Most of the info in this article came from this site; everything else came from the Radar Station.\nTrout Mask Replica Replica: this is a little tribute I did.\nNo Responses to \"Beefheart: Shiny Beast of Thought\"\nTed Joans\nby Sean Daniel Singer Friday, January 12, 1996 08:21 am\nTed Joans was born Theodore Jones on July 4, 1928 on a riverboat in Cairo, Illinois. His father, a riverboat entertainer, put him off the boat in Memphis at age twelve and gave him a trumpet. He is a painter, a trumpeter, and a poet.\nEcclesiastes, A Book in the Bible\nby Bill Ectric Sunday, March 16, 2003 08:49 am\nBill Ectric ponders his favorite book of the Bible.\nCruelty, Revolution, and Deviance: Rimbaud and Artaud as Ideology Critique\nby Matthew Landis Saturday, June 21, 2003 02:52 am\nThe performer is no longer the object of the spectator, but rather her\/his confessor. The spectator's emotional response should be induced by a confrontational, violent experience.\nJim Morrison: A \"Serious\" Poet?\nby William Cook Saturday, July 12, 2003 09:48 pm\nAn extensive study of the poetic influences, traditions and radical ideals about nature, modernism, shamanism and native culture that inspired Doors singer and lyricist Jim Morrison.\nStrictly Business by EPMD\nby Levi Asher Monday, September 4, 2006 10:53 pm\nWhy EPMD's \"Strictly Business\" is the most beautiful hiphop record of all time.\nPoker and Postmodernism: The Cards I'm Playing\nby Levi Asher Monday, January 15, 2007 04:36 pm\nWhat do Texas Hold'em poker and postmodern literature have in common, and how does a song by the Who help explain it?\nLay Down Your Weary Tune\nby Levi Asher Monday, February 11, 2008 05:58 pm\nAppreciating a little known Bob Dylan nature lyric from 1963.\nFINDING THE INTERNET\nby Levi Asher Wednesday, January 21, 2009 01:03 am\nChapter 2 of Levi Asher's Silicon Alley memoir. Summer 1993: How I became a computer programmer ... Why I was working on Wall Street ... A co-worker alerts me to the existence of the Internet.\nGershwin and Heyward's Porgy and Bess\nby Michael Norris Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:09 pm\nGeorge Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess' was based on a novel by DuBose Heyward. Porgy was a best seller in the late 1920s. Gershwin read the book and thought it would be the perfect vehicle for an American folk opera that he had been planning to compose. He contacted Heyward ...\nCLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE WEB KIND\nby Levi Asher Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:58 pm\nChapter 4 of Levi Asher's memoir of the Internet Industry. Fall\/Winter 1994: Going on a radio show ... Hanging out on Usenet ... Meeting a whole lot of new friends, \"creatures of the web\".\nAmerican Sages: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pete Seeger\nby Levi Asher Tuesday, March 24, 2009 09:03 am\nAppreciating two elder statesmen of cool, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pete Seeger.\nModernism: Picasso, Helvetica, Chairman Mao and the Who\nby Levi Asher Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:09 am\nIt doesn't make much sense to talk about Postmodernism unless we talk about Modernism first. What does the word mean, and what do Pablo Picasso, Chairman Mao, the Helvetica font and the Who have in common?\nby Levi Asher Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:26 pm\nLizzie Skurnick's delightful 'Shelf Discovery' explores the adolescent literature of today's now-grown generation -- but why the exclusive emphasis on female readers? Boys read the same books ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"On the Screen\nDebate welcomes new season\nAdria Watson\nRichard Stanfield\nJoshua Wood, jwood@lmcexperience.com\nThe LMC debate team has grown this semester with a burst of new members. Last week's practice hosted a massive 26 participants, with 16 newcomers.\nDebate Team Coach Kasey Gardner said the team was comprised of around 16 people,\" which means the team has grown by 10.\nCo-Coach Marie Arcidiacono explained that the increased size of the team is great for practice. \"We can immediately start running rounds,\" said Arcidiacono.\nShe further explained that the typical practice consists of a short lecture, then debates and feedback. Returning team member Richard Stanfield shared Arcidiacono's excitement, indicating that he is \"excited the class is so large!\"\nThe influx of students has also been met with the appearance of a new coach. Professor of Political Science David Zimny retired, and Prof. Edward Haven has joined the debate team this year to fill in as a volunteer coach, bringing his philosophical expertise to the arena.\nAt its core, debate is about pitting great minds against one another in a collaborative and competitive learning environment.\nThere are multiple styles of debate, and what style the team competes in varies from college to college. The LMC debate team uses British Parliamentary format, commonly shortened to BP or worlds. BP focuses on large-scale issues, and aims to make the debates accessible to the audience by avoiding technical language and obscure facts.\nTeams are presented the motion, a kind of prompt, and the side they will argue for only a short 15 minutes before the debate. Each team is comprised of two teams of two debaters. The individual pairs are not allowed to plan together, and must adapt their arguments as the debate progresses.\nStanfield notes that one of the key aspects of the practices is \"training to look at things from more than one perspective.\" He also added that, \"World's, more than other debates\u2026 focuses on arguing a good argument,\" as opposed to a more jargon-filled speech.\nHaven explained that, because BP asks broad questions, often times students are posed with \"what should we do\" scenarios. \"It's important to have flexibility,\" Haven added. \"You need to be able to pivot your moral argument as a response.\"\nThe team's first debate will be at Dominican University in San Rafael, Nov. 4 and 5. Students interested in the debate team are encouraged to enroll in Speech 160, or drop by practice, Wednesday in room CC1-115, 4-7 p.m.\nAdria Watson, Editor in Chief\nEnter your email address below to receive our daily email updates\nDo you trust there was no foul play in the election results?\nReader Opinion Policy\nThe Experience welcomes Letters to the Editor and Guest Columns. All members of the LMC community \u2014 students, faculty and staff \u2014 are encouraged to write.\nIf you are interested in expressing your opinions, bring your submissions to room CC3-301. You may also send them electronically through the Experience online website lmcexperience.com.\nLetters and columns must be typed, signed and include a phone number for verification. They may be edited for clarity, content taste and length at the editor's discretion.\nNew chancellor brings valuable community college experience\nPolice reformation begins with better education\nCollege collaborating with Tesla to create opportunities\nExperience staff win awards\nCollege offers ingredients to make holiday special\nCOVID affecting communities of color at a higher rate\nChallengers defeat incumbents in race for trustee\nCommunity comes to campus to celebrate Halloween\nLessons from the 2016 presidential election\nCars in costumes on campus\nThe student news site of Los Medanos College","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Story From MidHudson Regional Hospital: MidHudson Regional Hospital welcomes longtime local orthopedic surgeon\nMidHudson Regional Hospital welcomes longtime local orthopedic surgeon William O. Thompson\nMidHudson Regional Hospital welcomes longtime local orthopedic surgeon MidHudson Regional Hospital welcomes longtime local orthopedic surgeon William O. Thompson Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: https:\/\/www.poughkeepsiejournal.com\/story\/sponsor-story\/mid-hudson-regional-hospital\/2019\/06\/13\/midhudson-regional-hospital-welcomes-longtime-local-orthopedic-surgeon\/1418158001\/\nStory from\nMidHudson Regional Hospital welcomes longtime local orthopedic surgeon\nMidHudson Regional Hospital Published 6:00 a.m. ET June 13, 2019 | Updated 2:49 p.m. ET Nov. 5, 2019\nDr. William O. Thompson specializes in arthritis treatment and sports medicine, including arthroscopic surgery, arthroscopic shoulder reconstruction and joint replacement. (Photo: MidHudson Regional Hospital)\nMidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), welcomes longtime local orthopedic surgeon William O. Thompson, M.D., FAAOS, to the hospital's medical staff.\nDr. Thompson \u2014 certified by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, with a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine by the ABOS \u2014 practices at WMCHealth's Advanced Orthopaedics office in MidHudson Regional Hospital's Atrium, 1 Webster Ave., Suite 502, in Poughkeepsie. The office's phone number is 845-896-4178.\nBefore joining Advanced Orthopaedics, Dr. Thompson practiced at Advantage Orthopaedics in Poughkeepsie since 2001.\nDr. Thompson served as the Mets' assistant team physician from 1997\u20131998, was the Marist College Athletics Department's team physician from 1997\u20132000 and was the Vassar College Department of Athletics & Physical Education team physician from 1998\u20132015.\nOriginally from Kingston, Dr. Thompson received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery internship through Pitt Med at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a research fellowship at Pitt Med and an orthopedic surgery residency at UPMC. Dr. Thompson was also an orthopedic surgery clinical instructor at Pitt Med.\nHe followed his Pittsburgh training with a sports medicine and shoulder surgery fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.\nHis special interests now are in arthritis and sports medicine, including arthroscopic surgery, arthroscopic shoulder reconstruction and joint replacement.\nDr. Thompson lives in Saugerties and is an avid triathlete, completing many Ironman triathlons and national and international marathons since 2008.\nAbout MidHudson Regional Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network\nMidHudson Regional Hospital, located in Poughkeepsie, New York, is home to the mid-Hudson Valley's most advanced healthcare services. This 243-bed facility cares for more than 10,000 inpatients annually while performing hundreds of thousands of outpatient procedures each year. MidHudson Regional Hospital operates the area's only ACS-verified Level II trauma center, is home to the Redl Center for Cancer Care and Center for Robotic Surgery, and operates one of the busiest emergency departments in the region, with most patients seeing a healthcare provider in 30 minutes or less. For more information on MidHudson Regional Hospital, visit MidHudsonRegional.org or follow the hospital at Facebook.com\/MidHudsonRegional and Twitter.com\/MidHudsonRH.\nAbout Westchester Medical Center Health Network\nThe Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region's only acute care children's hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit WMCHealth.org.\nMembers of the editorial and news staff of the USA TODAY Network were not involved in the creation of this content.\nRead or Share this story: https:\/\/www.poughkeepsiejournal.com\/story\/sponsor-story\/mid-hudson-regional-hospital\/2019\/06\/13\/midhudson-regional-hospital-welcomes-longtime-local-orthopedic-surgeon\/1418158001\/\nMHRH Health Content\nLt. Gov. 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{"text":"Dr. Seuss' The Lorax\nThe imaginative world of Dr. Seuss comes to life like never before in this visually spectacular adventure from the creators of Despicable Me! Twelve-year-old Ted will do anything to find a real live Truffula Tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams. As he embarks on his journey, Ted discovers the incredible story of the Lorax, a grumpy but charming creature who speaks for the trees. Featuring the voice talents of Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Rob Riggle, Jenny Slate, and Betty White, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is filled with hilarious fun for everyone!\nChris Meledandri\nJanet Healy\nCinco Paul\nKen Daurio\nDanny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Rob Riggle, Jenny Slate, Betty White, Nasim Pedrad, Stephen Tobolowsky\nCritics Consensus: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is cute and funny enough but the moral simplicity of the book gets lost with the zany Hollywood production values.\nThe man otherwise known as Dr. Seuss has been injured by Hollywood.\nBowling Green Daily News\nMicheal Compton\nA storybook come to life. It works really well thanks to the keen visual eyes of Renaud and Balda.\nCineVue\nIts execution lacks a great deal of finesse and too often opts for methods that cheapen the overal...\nHeyUGuys\nJamie Neish\nWhile director Chris Renaud's experienced animation-orientated eye may account for some of its suc...\nEasy Reader (California)\nNeely Swanson\nThe animation is absolutely eye-popping with super bright neon colors.\nFortunately, there were lots of kids at the screening. You gotta watch 'em. They were giggling, si...\nCinema Sight\nWesley Lovell\nIt's heart is in the right place, but the execution isn't quite what it needs to be to excel.\nDaily Star (UK)\nAndy Lea\nThe flat, non-rhyming dialogue and mainly dull new characters don't feel particularly Seussian. Bu...\nBilly Tatum\nDr. Seuss' The Lorax is an entertaining and cautionary tale that stays true to the spirit of the g...\nWitney Seibold\nThree minutes of substance, 91 minutes of shrill filler.\nDr. Seuss classic is cute, but watch for product tie-ins.\nParents need to know that this animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved tale of The Lorax is age-appropriate for younger kids; there's little scary stuff, and the pro-environmental message is a positive one. The main issue here is really the movie's huge number of consumerist tie-ins -- at least 70 different marketing promotions. For an anti-materialism story to advertise so many products to kids and their parents sends a particularly confusing message. Still, the movie itself -- like the original story -- promotes conservation and protecting the environment. Kids will leave the film wanting to do more to help the natural world ... too bad that take-away will be diluted by the onslaught of available merchandise with the Lorax's bright-orange image on it.\nEducational Value\nPositive Role Models\nViolence & Scariness\nGenre:Family, Comedy\nRelease Date:March 2, 2012\nIllumination Presents: Dr. Seuss' The Grinch\nThe Ant Bully\nThe Little Vampire\nCamp Nowhere\nMr. Peabody & Sherman\nZebra in the Kitchen\nDoctor Dolittle 2\nDr. Seuss: The Lorax","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: karl urban\nRiddick Official Motion Comic \u2013 Blindsided\nFor those looking forward to the upcoming Riddick movie, there's a little prequel you should probably watch first. It's what's known as a Motion Comic, which is basically video short made up of animated cells. Picking things up where Chronicles of Riddick left off, it tells of what happened that sent Riddick from the seat of Lord Marshall to a remote corner of the universe, once again reprising his role as a wanted man.\nLet me be clear, this is not a fan made video. This is a studio-approved short and stars Vin Diesel and Karl Urban, providing the vocals for Riddick and Lord Vaako. And I can honestly say, its not bad. Like many people, I was wondering how the movie makers would tackle the issue of Riddick's ascension to the Necromonger throne and how he went from that to basically reliving the plot from Pitch Black.\nI mean, it's not every day you become leader of an apocalyptic army. And you don't just go from that to being a fugitive again, right? So with this short filling the narrative gap, fans will pretty much be set for the upcoming movie. Though I'm not sure I'm going to be seeing the movie when it comes out, I do feel prepared for it now!\nBy storiesbywilliamsin Movies, Sci-Fi, Video August 22, 2013 August 23, 2013 223 Words2 Comments\nNew Movie Trailers: Catching Fire and Riddick\nIt's been a boon week for movie news and previews, and I've found myself quite behind on a few things. Good thing it's not my job to stay current, otherwise I would have been fired a long time ago! But as a genre fan, I feel the need to keep up with sci-fi news and pass it on whenever possible. And lately, the big news items have had to do with upcoming adaptations, sequels, relaunches, or all of the above.\nSo to save some time I thought I'd do a two-fer trailer post today and feature the newest trailers for Catching Fire and Riddick. Though I'm sure the former needs no explanation, for those who haven't read or seen The Hunger Games, this would be the much-anticipated sequel. Still trying to finish this book myself, mainly because I promised I'd review the whole trilogy. Still, the plot for this one is really quite clear.\nAfter winning the 74th annual Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta are called upon to do the Victory Tour, an event which occurs between games and showcases the winners. During the tour, Katniss is made aware of how their victory has inspired dissent, which puts her in a compromising position. Between fulfilling her role as a symbol of resistance and keeping up appearances, there's plenty of high drama to be had!\nAs for the latter, this would the latest installment in that particular Vin Diesel antihero engine known as the Riddick franchise. It began with Pitch Black, a movie who's script was originally proposed for Alien 3 but rejected in favor of the whole prison planet plot. It went on to become a cult classic, spawning the much higher-budget Chronicles of Riddick.\nIn this third installment, its clear the movie makers have decided to recycle the plot from the first movie and have once again put Riddick on some remote planet where he is being pursued by Bounty Hunters and Necromongers. No sooner is he captured that hostile aliens show up and they all have to work together to survive. As he said in first movie, \"It ain't me you gotta worry about now.\" At least Karl Urban is back, and Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from BSG) is part of the cast!\nCatching Fire is set to be released on November 22, 2013, while Riddick will be premiering on September 6th. Enjoy!\nBy storiesbywilliamsin Movies, Sci-Fi, Video August 22, 2013 418 Words7 Comments\nDredd 2012\nHey all! My apologies for my absence of late, but life has been very busy on the teaching front. Cold season always brings big stretches of busy work, and I've been on call steadily for the past three weeks. Luckily, I find myself with a day or two to catch up on other things, and so I decided I'd get back on this horse and start things off right.\nToday, I'd like to share a review of a movie I recently enjoyed, the summer remake known as Dredd. Based on the graphic novel Judge Dredd, this movie was an attempt by writer John Wagner and director Pete Travis to reboot the franchise after the semi-disastrous 1995 adaptation that starred Sylvester Stallone.\nThough the film failed to recoup its production budget at the box office, which was expected, it was reviewed much more favorably than the original and earned a small following. What's more, it is expected the movie will continue to gross now that it is released on DVD and will be available on cable and home movie providers.\nThe movie opens in the streets of Mega City One, a post-apocalyptic urban environment that stretches from Boston to Washington DC. Dredd's voice provides voiceover, describing the urban environment in all its bloody, crowded, and dirty glory. We then cut to a scene where Dredd (Karl Urban) is pursuing three criminals that have been spotted by an aerial drone. A tense chase ensues, during which time multiple civilians are killed. After taking out their vehicle and chasing the last man into a Block \u2013 one of the cities many massive apartment structures \u2013 Dredd concludes that the men were carrying a new drug known as Slo-Mo.\nWe then cut to Peach Trees, another major block, where we meet Ma-Ma (Lena Headey). She is a notorious crime boss that runs Peach Trees and is responsible for the manufacture of Slo-Mo, and who is plotting to expand production and bring it to the rest of the city. We get a glimpse into just how ruthless she is when she dispenses justice against three men who have been dealing in their Block and that she decides to make an example of. This consists of skinning them and then dropping from the top floor to the bottom level, but first giving them a hit of Slo-Mo so it will seem imperceptibly long.\nDredd is then called back to the Grand Hall of Justice to inspect a new recruit named Cassandra Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), who is reportedly a psychic. She and Dredd are dispatched to Peach Trees as part of her final evaluation to investigate the dead bodies. After the paramedic examines them, he explains that they all had Slo-Mo in their system, and gives them a rundown on who Ma-Ma is and how she came to be the master of the Block.\nThey then proceed to the nearest distribution center on the Block and take it down, securing one of Ma-Ma's men (Kay) in the process. Anderson probes his mind and deduces he was the one who threw the men over the balcony and they decide to take him in for interrogation. When word reaches Ma-Ma, she has her thugs seize control of building security and lock the entire Block down, which consists of external shields closing in around the structure to resist a nuclear blast. All communications with the outside are cut off, and Ma-Ma announces over the PA system that she wants the Judges killed.\nDredd and Anderson begin fighting their way through several groups of armed residents with Kay in tow. Eventually, Ma-Ma orders her men to bring out their greatest weapon, a bunch of Vulcan cannons, and use them to shoot up an entire level. Dredd and Anderson narrowly survive by breaching the outer wall and calling for help, and Dredd then tosses Caleb, one of Ma-Mas henchmen over the balcony in full view of her. Down below, two Judges show up on the scene, but are unable to get through the Block's sealed walls, and Ma-Ma's hacker insists this is all part of a security drill.\nRetreating to a school house, Dredd concludes that Ma-Ma is desperate to kill Kay to keep him for revealing her secrets and begins beating him. Anderson intervenes and begins mind probing him instead, learning that Peach Trees is the center for the production and distribution of Slo-Mo. Shortly thereafter, Dredd and Anderson are distracted by some armed teens, which allows Kay to kidnap Anderson and escape using the freight elevator to get to the top levels.\nDredd continues to work his way towards the top, prompting Ma-Ma to call in four corrupt Judges. They relieve the men at the front, enter without incident, and agree to take down Dredd for one million credits. Meanwhile, Kay attempts to kill Anderson using her gun, and loses his hand in the process. She escapes and begins working her way down, and becomes a target of the crooked Judges as well. Between the two of them, they manage to take out all four and meet up in the Slo-Mo production lab. Dredd is wounded by Lex, the last of the Judges, but Anderson saves him and the two carry on.\nAfter finding Ma-Ma's hacker, they manage to obtain the code from him to her private cell. Rather than Judge him, Anderson sees that the man only worked for Ma-Ma out of fear, and that she was the one who took his eyes, forcing him to get bionic enhancements. She lets him go, even though Dredd tells her it could result in an \"automatic fail\". She responds by saying she was already taken hostage and her gun was confiscated, which is also grounds for an a fail grade, and they move on.\nThey finally reach Ma-Ma's cell and take out the last of her men, though Anderson is also wounded in the process. Ma-Ma then tells Dredd she has the upper levels lined with explosives and the detonator is mounted on her wrist. If her heart stops, the device will go off and everyone in the top 50 floors will die. Dredd shoots her in the stomach and responds by saying the he doubts the device has a range that can reach from the ground floor to the top, and Judges her. Sentencing her to death, he gives her a hit of Slo-Mo and tosses her from the balcony. She falls in slow motion to her death, and the building doesn't blow up.\nConvening with reinforcements and paramedics below, Anderson hands her shield to Dredd and walks away. However, when the Chief Judge comes to him and asks how she did, he replied that she passed. The movie then ends with Dredd providing voice over once again, about how the city is a corrupt mess, and the only thing standing between it and total chaos are the Judges.\nConsistent with what I heard in advance, this movie was actually pretty good. And even though it didn't do well at the box office, the result of the meme working against it, I can see it developing a cult following and becoming something of a personal classic to many in the coming years. Despite some flaws, such as the excessive gore and some self-indulgent special effects, it had some noticeable signs of quality.\nFor starters, the look and feel of the Megacity environment was pretty awesome. The gritty, grimy nature comes through immediately, and without any of the overdone campiness of the original movie. Rather than shooting it in a massively constructed environment with flying cars and lavish costumes, the movie is shot in Cape Town and Johannesburg and uses real locations as a backdrop and relies on CGI and models only to supplement the already dense and dirty urban environment.\nAnd of course there was the attention to detail with the centerpiece of the movie, the building known as Peach Trees. As a Mega City Block, this building is essentially an arcology where all the basic needs of the residents are taken care of in-house. This includes schools, medical care, food, entertainment, and all of these were illustrated at one point or another in the film. And you'll notice that in all cases, their was graffiti on the walls, garbage on the floor, and metal bars on everything, signifying just how dirty and dangerous the environments are.\nAnd I really enjoyed the whole \"lock down\" procedure, which was more than just a convenient plot tool. In a world where nuclear holocaust has already taken place and every Block acts as a self-sustaining arcology, the concept of shield walls was just plain genius in my mind. Visually it was quite cool, but it also made perfect sense and it beautifully illustrated the shock mentality and survivalist instincts that are so common to this world.\nAnd of course the movie was thematically consistent. On the one hand, you had the nature of the city, which was packed to the brim with 800 million people and with a homicide rate of 1700 people a day. Whereas Dredd is the perfect symbol of social fascism in this context, a man who has little faith in people and absolute veneration of the law, Anderson is the bright-eyed rookie who wants to help people and believes there is good to be found, even in an overcrowded block like Peach Trees.\nThese archetypes are offset by characters such as Ma-Ma and Lex, the leader of the crooked Judge. As her back story presents it, Ma-Ma is essentially a sociopathic product of the Mega City environment, a former prostitute who killed her pimp after he cut up her face and who has been on a non-stop mission ever since to bring her own sense of order to the city. Lex, meanwhile, is an embittered veteran who has lost all faith in the system and helping people and is simply looking out for number one.\nThrough it all, Dredd is softened somewhat by his encounter with the corrupt Judges and Anderson's gentleness. Naturally, his war of ideology with Ma-Ma ends with him taking her out, but not before a long battle of wills takes place. This is exemplified by the way the two dual for control over the hearts and minds of people in Peach Tree. Whereas Ma-Ma uses their fear to obtain their help in hunting Dredd, Dredd fights back with his unflinching dedication to take her down and anybody who gets in the way. Ultimately, Dredd wins in part because Ma-Ma's insanity and willingness to kill her own convince people to keep out of the way and let Dredd do his job.\nWhat's more, the movie was well cast. Karl Urban fits the bill as the surly, sour-faced Judge who never shows his face and is never to be found doing anything other than his job. And Thirlby pulls off the role of the green, untested rookie who comes through in the end quite well. And Lena Headey, whom fans know from 300, the Sarah Conner Chronicles, and (best of all) as Cersei Lannister from a the HBO adaptation of A Game of Thrones, was also very convincing as Ma-Ma.\nI was surprised really, seeing as how the previews kind of lent the impression that her role was overdone or just too plain evil. But it is a testament to this woman's ability to act that she pulls off the psychotic crime boss who knows no mercy. Somehow, between her cut up face, evil eyes and bloody grin, you become convinced she was a victim who turned her abuse into complete madness and shouldn't be messed with! What's more, Urban's usual combination of deadpan frowns and monotone voice worked in his favor, much like how Keannu Reeves same combination of method and monotone allowed him to pull of Neo.\nAnd of course, there were the visual effects. There are those who would say that this movie was just an ultra-violent gorefest with overblown special effects. But to that, I'd say it was a lot more genuine that the original, and much of the gore and violence was appropriate given the setting and tone of the movie. Mega City One is a massively overcrowded, decaying cesspool of humanity, where thousands of murders happen a day and human bodies are recycled for food and goods.\nSuch a place is neither safe nor sanitary, and violence is a constant, pervasive element. And sure, the concept of Slo-Mo may very well have been an excuse to employ some over the top 3D and slow motion sequences. But after watching the movie, I was forced to admit, it was a pretty damn good one! In the end, you can't help but feel that these two factors are somewhat excessive but still appropriate.\nNaturally, the original movie tried to gloss over this since they wanted to give it as wide an appeal as possible. This failed, as much of the material was just too adult for kids, but the tone and feel of it was too cartoony to be taken seriously. Basically, the movie tried to hedge its bets and ended up flopping for it. But this time around, the directors and producers were going for a cult appeal and stuck to their guns, which I have to respect. By aiming for a smaller range of consumers and a less broad appeal, they were able to keep the movie honest and truer to the source material.\nIn short, I give it a 7.5\/10. And man, I want to see more of Mega City One! That urban landscape had a kick-ass art team putting it together! I'd recommend the movie for that much alone, especially to fans of the Blade Runner, urban noire and post-apocalyptic series', but the rest of the movie is fun watching too. So get it and contribute to the cult following people. The producers still need to recoup their dough!\nBy storiesbywilliamsin Comics, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi January 23, 2013 January 23, 2013 2,316 Words6 Comments\n2012: the Year of Reboots\nIf you've been paying attention to the trailer circuit lately, you might have noticed some new previews making the rounds. A few weeks ago, it was the trailer for the reboot of Spider-Man, this time with the prefix \"The Amazing\". Shortly thereafter, a new trailer came out previewing the relaunch of the 1990 movie Total Recall, this time starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale. And now, there's a third trailer making the rounds. This last one previews a relaunch of the 1994 Judge Dredd, the one-time Stallone vehicle that will star sci-fi\/fantasy veteran Karl Urban and Lena Headey, who's fame is exploding due to her role as Cersei in Game of Thrones.\nWhat do all these movies have in common? Well, for one, they are relaunches of relatively recent movies. Second, all these movies are scheduled for relaunch in 2012. That means for anyone old enough to have seen the originals, this summer is going to be jammed packed with remakes of movies they've already seen\u2026 I'm thinking Hollywood needs to just come out and admit that they have no new ideas left!\nNow to be fair, some of these movies can get away with being remade. The original Total Recall came out 22 years ago, but for most people in my generation, it was a hit while we were tweens. I can't imagine many people are going to be seeing it for more than the nostalgic appeal, even if it is packed with headliners. And you can just tell that casting it with Ferrell, Biel and Beckinsale and pitching it as a big FX romp was done to ensure it has a big draw. Still, expect people to comparing it endlessly to the Schwarzenegger original!\nDredd is even more recent, with most fans of the comic being the age of majority when it came out. But a relaunch of this movie seems good given that the last one was such a disappointment. But judging by the trailers, it seems like just another excuse to shoot something in 3D. The storyline also looks pretty contained, focusing on a single mission rather than the larger picture of Mega City One, the Judges and the irony of trusting quasi-fascists to bring order to a chaotic society.\nAnd Spider-Man? Hell, the third movie in that trilogy aired just five years ago! And the original was produced when, in 2002? That's just a ten year gap between this new one and the first of the originals! Isn't there a statute of limitations on this kind of thing? Why does this movie even need to be remade, and now of all times? The others featured perfectly good CGI effects and good story lines, and was ably acted by Toby McGuire and Kirsten Dunst. And of course, most people seeing this one already saw all the others.\nSo really, what possible reason is there for making this version? I have heard some people speculate that it's because they want to include Spider-Man in the next Avengers movie. So\u2026 what happened to Toby McGuire? Is he too old? Was he not returning the studios calls? Did he say there was no POSSIBLE way he'd ever do a Spider-Man movie again? Is that why they're doing this, so people won't be surprised when a new guy shows up to play Spidey in Avengers 2? That seems silly!\nOh Hollywood. When did you lose your way? Was it the money, the phoniness, the mountains and mountains of blow? Yeah, I'm betting somewhere between the money and the nose candy, you all just went a little batty and stopped being able to come up with new ideas. So here's a few ideas. Hire some new people. Pitch to new writers. Try making something though-provoking and avant-garde. Do something other than throw up the same old formulaic crap and rebooting old concepts!\nAnd before you make the excuse that audiences are stupid and won't buy into something half-way decent and brainy, might I remind that you guys pioneered those low expectations in the first place? Were it not for you constantly trying to appeal to the lowest-common denominator, you wouldn't be in this creative tailspin. You might say this trend is the end result of underestimating the intelligence of the average person for so very long. Them chickens roosting in your backyard seem to have brought a batch of avian flu with them! In short, Hollywood, back your shit up, get your shit together, and then get your shit off our floor!\nSorry, that got a little rant-y towards the end there. But for me, this is just the straw that broke the camels back. I'd like to see some better movies, and these guys are the one making it hard for independent producers and studios simply because they suck up so much money and produce so much PR. Still, I might see one of these movies. During Prometheus, my wife was more than impressed by the preview for Total Recall, so we'll see. If I seem stupider once I get back, blame Hollywood!\nBy storiesbywilliamsin Movies, Video June 21, 2012 June 22, 2012 877 Words12 Comments\nMore Badasses!\nLast time, my list was already going kind of long with everyone from Alucard to Private Vasquez. So I thought I might make a second installment and include all the people I couldn't, and break the mold a little by venturing outside of the world of science fiction. But as usual, the only real criteria is sheer badassness, those people who went above and beyond at kicking ass, keeping their cool and staying alive when all around them was dying or exploding! So here they are, the other badasses who deserve recognition for all their awesomeness!\nBill Kilgore:\n\"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like \u2026 victory.\"\nThese are the words that soldier, surfing enthusiast and notorious badass Lt. Col Bill Kilgore is most remembered for. A seminal character is the 1979 epic war film Apocalypse Now, Kilgore was the commander of the an Air Cavalry brigade that was responsible for getting special agent Capt. Benjamin L. Willard and his PT Boat escort up the Mekong River. This he did by assaulting a company of Viet Cong that was controlling the mouth of the river, flying in low in attack choppers to the tune of \"Flight of the Valkyries\" by Wagner, blowing the shit out of everything, distributing death cards on the corpses of the enemy, and then ordering his men to surf on the breaking waves!\nThat's right, in the midst of enemy fire, he disembarked on the Mekong Delta and told his men that it was either \"fight or surf\". When told that this was too risky, Kilgore replied simply that \"if I say it's safe, it's safe!\" He would also remark in the midst of it that \"Charlie don't surf!\" Loved by his men and feared by his enemies, Kilgore combined balls, daring, eccentricity and wry humor into one package. As if this wasn't enough, Kilgore seemed to lament the fact that one day, the war would end. And why not? With no asses to kick and no death to defy, men like him would surely run out of things to do and die from boredom.\nAnd as Willard himself remarked in his journal, Kilgore had a certain aura about him, as if nothing could touch him. Yes, given his indifference to explosions and bullets' ability to miss him, Kilgore could only strike audiences as crazy, invincible, or some odd combination of both. But given his reputation, I wouldn't be surprised if Kilgore survived the war and went on kicking ass until the day he died. I'm sure there's even shrines somewhere along the Mekong river that are dedicated to him!\nBo:\nMan, demon hunting has been growing in popularity in recent years! And with more and more heroines taking to the stage, its also been getting a lot sexier! This is especially true of Bo, the an ass-kicking vixen of Lost Girl and a leather-wearing succubus to boot! Much like her male peers, Blade and D, she is a supernatural being with mixed origins who uses her abilities to help those in need. Largely, this consists of hunting other supernatural beings who prey on the innocent and just like to stir shit up. In addition to her leather getup, her weapons of choice appear to be traditional in nature, crossbows and blades rather than guns.\nWorking with the only real friend she's known since discovering her true identity, Bo and Kenzi run a sort of Fae\/Human detective agency where they investigate paranormal events and learn more about the world she comes from. In the course of learning about her true origins, Bo is brought face to face with the Fae world and its particular struggles. After being told that she must choose between \"the light or the dark\" of the Fae world, Bo chooses instead to remain neutral and fight for humanity, largely out of loyalty to her friend.\nIn time, she meets and develops relationships with other beings, like the wolf-shifter Dyson, who holds down a day job as a police detective, and a human doctor named Lauren. These relationships, in addition to the nature of her job, allows Bo to keep one foot in both worlds, which seems to be the natural resolution to her predicament (i.e. having \"lost\" her humanity years before).\nBryan Mills:\n\"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.\"\nJust as Ellen Ripley taught never to come between a mother and her child, Mills taught us never to come between a father and his daughter. Yes, with the release of Taken in 2008, we were all indebted to Liam Neeson for proving that a retired father-figure can still be the biggest badass on the block! Within ninety-six hours of learning that his daughter had been kidnapped, Mills flew to Paris and took down an entire Albanian mob ring and all those involved in their human smuggling. And part of what made it so damn cool was how effortless he made it look!\nAfter spending years honing his skills with the CIA, a job which eventually cost him his job and custody of his daughter, Mills quit his job and moved to LA to be closer to her. However, things went awry when his daughter decided to take a trip to Europe to follow U2 on tour and ended up being kidnapped by a bunch of sex-slave traffickers. Thus the very thing that cost him a life with his daughter would allow him to bring her back home safe and sound! Not only was he able to deduce the identity of her kidnappers from a single phone call, he was also able to determine who amongst the authorities were on the take from them, where the bad guys safe houses were, and who they were doing business with. Not bad for an old man!\nBut really, the scene that took the cake for me was when he walked right into one of the Albanian mobs hideouts, impersonating a French government agent, and extorted the bad guys for more money!\nAwesome, especially when you consider that it was all an act so that he could find out which amongst them was the guy he had a phone conversation with. And once he knew, he says so cooly, \"You don't remember me? We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you.\" Then proceeds to take them all out with his bare hands and their own guns! Oh, and that torture scene afterwards, where he hooks up Marko to the power grid? It was so good, I feel the need to quote his opening threat in full:\n\"You know, we used to outsource this kind of thing. But what we found was the countries we outsourced to had unreliable power grids. Very Third World. You'd turn on a switch \u2013 power wouldn't come on, and then tempers would get short. People would resort to pulling fingernails. Acid drips on bare skin. The whole exercise would become counterproductive. But here, the power's stable. Here, there's a nice even flow. Here, you can flip a switch and the power stays on all day.\"\nBad-Ass! If only Mills and Ripley could get together and make a baby, that kid would be the safest, most badassed kid in the world!\nDirty Harry:\n\"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do ya, punk?\" One of the most quoted lines in Hollywood history. You almost forget that the man saying it was threatening to blow the head off some thug with an empty .44 magnum. And this was after he single-handedly foiled a bank robbery. Yes, this scene not only made Clint Eastwood's career, it also immortalized Inspector Harry Callahan as one of the baddest dudes of all time!\nWorking for the SFPD, Inspector Callahan became the template for an entire generation of movie cop. Nicknamed \"Dirty\" because of his reputation for crossing boundaries in order to get the bad guy, Callahan was also a man of deep principles who believed very strongly in what he was doing. Always, his weapon of choice was his trusty .44 magnum service revolver, a gun that is notorious for packing an incredibly punch! Though he might use other weapons in the course of duty, or just his bare hands, the magnum was always the gun he is seen wielding in iconic images.\nOften condemned by higher ups and authorities for being a \"rogue\" or \"loose cannon\", he was in fact the kind of guy who only broke the rules \u2013 including his own \u2013 when it was absolutely necessary. And when it came right down to it, his rough exterior hid a semi-tortured soul that longed for a world in which life was simpler, people were civil, and no one committed grisly crimes. But as long as they still did, he was prepared to whip out his gun and shoot them up!\nSounds like a cliche now doesn't it? Well, that's because Eastwood established it as a household theme! Callahan was, for all intents and purposes, the original bad-boy cop, willing to bend, grease and even break the rules in order to take down the criminal psychopaths and avenge the victims of violent crime. But always, he loved what he did, and was a hell of a lot more committed than the pencil-pushing bosses and red-tape bureaucrats who complained about his methods! (Whoa, speaking of cliches!)\nJohn McClain:\nThe man who put the hard in Die Hard! Unlike most of his peers, Detective John McClain of the NYPD was good at taking down bad guys not because of his big brain or super human fighting skills, but because of his raw, unrelenting determination. Relying on a cop's instincts, a strong sense of duty and the desire to protect the ones he loved, McClain triumphed over criminals and terrorists through persistence and his refusal to just roll over and die. Basically, he was like an itch they couldn't scratch, slowly driving them mad until they lost all control and died in a fiery explosion or a spectacular fall.\nA veteran cop with the NYPD, McClain established his reputation as a badass by taking down twelve terrorists in LA who decided to celebrate Christmas by seizing control of a multinational corporate building and taking its employees (including his wife) hostage.\nThis reputation was further cemented when, on the following Christmas, a bunch of paramilitary goons decided to hold an airport hostage so they could fly a Central American war criminal in safely and then ferry him away. His third stint involved stopping a former East German infiltration expert-turned mercenary who also happened to be the brother of Hans Gruber (his first victim) . Last, but not least, he managed to foil a bunch of cyber terrorists who chose July 4th to stage a massive heist involving \"fire sale\"ing the US economy and all its utilities. Again and again, McClain brought them down by enduring endless beatings, running around, and getting there just in time to screw up some element of their plan.\nIn this way, McClain did demonstrate a sort of subtle genius by being able to get under the bad guy's skin. In all cases, the criminals he was dealing with were adept at planning and manipulation, relying on fear, feints and bluffs that would make their opponents play into their hands. Intrinsic to their plans was a sense of control, ensuring that all things went according to schedule so they could get in and get out without being caught. By putting himself at the center of things and constantly gumming up the works, McClain robbed them of this control, thus making them act rashly and stupidly until their plans unraveled. But of course, the bad guys were always on the verge of getting away when McClain finally did them in, ensuring that things stayed suspenseful until the end.\nTragically, his commitment to badassery and being in the wrong place at the wrong time cost him his marriage and pretty much alienated him from his daughter. It also led to a love-hate relationship with the bottle and a 401k that had seen better days. And though it seemed like time had run out on his marriage, John was ultimately able to rebuild things with his daughter, mainly because he saved her life! And, as predicted, she was pretty ballsy and tough herself. Guess the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree\nRambo:\nMuch like Dirty Harry, John Rambo is one of those heroes that has been imitated so many times over the years that he's become somewhat of a cliche. However, if one were to dig deep beneath all the merchandizing, knock-offs, and half-assed imitations, one finds an original creation who was quite the badass indeed. And like most of Stallone's roles, there was some real substance to this character before a series of sequels buried it under a mountain of cliches and repetitive plotlines.\nBorn to a Navajo father and Italian\/German mother, Rambo enlisted in the army at an early age and was sent to Vietnam where he served two tours: one as a regular solider and another with the Green Berets. After being taken prisoner and tortured, he escaped and deployed one last time. After all that, Rambo returned to the US to find that people had turned against the war and hated him for being a veteran. This led to a severe case of PTSD and some serious trouble with the law.\nIn the original novel, Rambo was arrested, escaped from jail and became the target of a manhunt. This ended with his death in a secluded wood after he had taken down several officers and National Guardsmen. In the movie however, Rambo doesn't die but surrenders, speaking of the horrors he's witnessed and lamenting how he cannot return to a normal, civilian life. He then is taken to jail where he remained until the second movie came out.\nIn the sequels, Rambo finds a sort of resolution to his conflict by returning to active duty, again and again. Ultimately, it seems that the solution to his inability to reintegrate into a peaceful lifestyle is to embrace a life of violence, but for the sake of helping those in need.\nHis first redeployment (in First Blood, Part II) is to his old stomping grounds of Vietnam where he is tasked with rescuing POW's who never made it home. His second is to Afghanistan, where Soviet forces have taken his old friend and mentor Col. Trautman prisoner and he and a bunch of mujaheddin warriors must break into the camp to save him. In the fourth and final installment, Rambo comes out of retirement one last time to help a bunch of missionaries who have been taken hostage by the military Junta in Myanmar\/Burma. In every case, Rambo racks up the kills, relying on his trusty bow and arrow, M60, KBAR knife, and any machinegun he can get his hands on to eviscerate, carve, punch holes in or blow the bad guys away!\nYes, as I said, things got pretty cliche with this series, relying on the latest news sensation and the repetitive theme of an old warrior returning to what he knows to make the carnage seem emotionally accessible. But who the hell cared? If there was one thing Rambo was good at, it was kicking some serious ass and it didn't really matter who's it was! In the end, they fell by the hundreds, overwhelmed by his mighty arsenal and signature sneer!\nRaylan Givens:\nWhat do you get when you cross a cowboy with a Federal Marshall? Why, Raylan Givens, of course! The star of the hit series Justified, Raylan Givens is a no-nonsense, gun-toting, wisecracking lawman who seems to have learned the art of law enforcement from guys like John Wayne and Dirty Harry. Much like his predecessors, he has a penchant for breaking the rules and pissing off his superiors in order to reign in the bad guys. But of course, no one can fire him because he's just too damn good!\nBorn to a criminal family in Harlan County, Kentucky, Raylan joined the Marines in order to get away from the drugs, criminals and white supremacists that his hometown was known for. After becoming an expert in small arms and the quick draw, he enlisted with the US Marshalls and became a law man. Known for his accuracy, fast hands, tendency to wind up shooting people and signature cowbow hat, Raylan quickly earned the reputation of being a \"cowbow\", both in terms of appearance and sensibilities. Naturally, he would be the first to say that he tries to resolve things peacefully, but somehow, violence keeps breaking out.\nAfter a \"justified shoot\" involving an arms dealer whom Raylan told to leave Miami in 24 hours or risk getting shot on sight, Raylan was transferred back to his home state of Kentucky. Here, he found the county of his youth overrun by the Oxycontin trade, prostitution, and violence, often involving people he used to call family and friends. More often than not, Raylan is forced to reign in people who are much like him, people who he could have easily become if he had made slightly different choices (echoes of Garry Cooper there!).\nXena:\nDon't ask me how I managed to forget Xena last time around! This iconic, heroine, warrior-princess, inspirational figure is someone without whom no list of inspirational badasses should even be written! So I amend my previous mistake, and include her here and now. I knew not what I did, please don't send me hate mail. Moving on\u2026\nXena is without a doubt one of the most popular heroines to come out of popular culture and fantasy\/sci-fi in recent decades. Tough, smart, and sassed mouth, she is anything but prim and proper and has been generally known to kick some serious ass and look good while doing it. Whether she's high-kicking, wielding that Chakram (throwing disc), slashing through bad guys with her sword, or just leering at people with those eyes, Xena is to badass heroines what AC\/DC is to classic rock. In short, it's dam hard to imagine one without the other! Originally appearing in the series Hercules as a villain, Xena went on to become his friend and lover and even earned herself a spin-off which did better and ran longer than its forebear.\nHer own back story begins with her as a pirate and criminal, until she met and was double-crossed by a young, ambitious Roman officer named Julius Caesar (played by none other than Karl Urban). After surviving his brutal betrayal, she went to the East and joined some warlords, losing herself in revenge and violence until she tired of it and returned to the west. Here, she continued warring and raiding, until she met a demi-God named Hercules whom she initially tried to kill, but soon joined forces with him in order to defeat a warlord who had taken control of her army.\nIn time, she and Hercules had a love affair and she decided to change her ways. Nicknamed the \"warrior-princess\", she soon teamed up with a young woman named Gabrielle who she taught to fight. Together, the two began roaming the lands of the ancient world, seeking out injustice and fighting for what was right. As she fights the forces of evil, Xena must also fight the forces of her own past, striving to resist the temptation to return to her old ways. Oftentimes, Gabrielle's friendship and company prove to be the difference between resisting and succumbing.\nSounds cheesy, no? But it's also pretty effective. In addition to being a hero to women and young girls everywhere, Xena's relationship with Gabrielle has proven to be an inspiration to the lesbian community who claim that this powerful bond is a prime example of love which transcends gender norms or social mores. So in addition to her trademark war cry, disc-throwing and swashbuckling skills, Xena is a hero for being brave in a way that has nothing to do with ass-kicking or weapons. She is brave just for being true to herself and not giving a damn what anybody else thinks!\nOkay, now that I've paid homage to all these badass icons, I think I got what I need to draw some tentative conclusions. Basically, it seems to me that all of them share certain characteristics that set them apart and make them so damn unforgettable. So if you want to be badass like them, you better start thinking about adapting some of the following to your repertoire:\nRoguish Personality: Whether we are talking about detectives, mercenaries, or freelance hunters, it seems that in order to be badass, you need to be willing to break the rules a little. Things like convention, regulations, and red tape are the kind of things that inspire annoyance, tediousness and the desire for you to do something outlandish and possibly reckless. Screw what other people think, you know what needs to be done and someone's got to do it! If not you, then who?\nStrong Values: But it's not enough to simply break the rules. There has to be a higher purpose to what you are doing to justify this disregard for procedure and discipline. Basically, you need to have a strong commitment to what is right and know the difference between simply following orders and doing what needs to be done. After all, people following orders led to some of the worst crimes and miscarriages of justice in history! You gotta see the big picture and circumvent those who don't sometimes, otherwise shit can happen!\nMad Skills: Whether you're weapon of choice is a gun, a sword, some high-tech device, or just your hands and feet, you need to practice hard and be good at what you do! No hero has ever excelled by being lazy or neglectful of their basic fighting skills. You don't need to be the best, mind you. Many a time you will confront someone who is more skilled than you are. But in these cases, your wits and your righteousness will overcome. Hell, you may even find yourself being rescued by a sidekick or someone you thought was against you. Heroes are good like that. They have friends and helpers where the bad-guys do not \ud83d\ude09\nTroubled Past: Let's face it, all this ass-kicking and smart-ass talk can't conceal the fact that you've got some demons! Hell, all heroes do. Perhaps you're struggling with your past, perhaps you're not 100% okay with where you came from. But whatever the case, you know that ultimate resolution will come only through confrontation. Only by facing those who best embody your fears and demons will you prevail over the darkness you hold inside. But don't do it too quickly! Chances are, you'll become boring once you've vanquished your enemies and found inner peace!\nWell that's my assessment at least. But of course, if you are a true badass, you aren't going to follow MY rules are you? Of course not! So take what you will from these \"guidelines\" and find your own path to badassery. For no matter what people may tell you, badasses are all rugged individuals at heart. If everybody did it, it would cease to be badass wouldn't it?\nBy storiesbywilliamsin Movies April 17, 2012 April 17, 2012 4,046 Words8 Comments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Will All Wheel Drive Save the Sedan?\nCar makers are adding some of the features that people love about SUVs and applying them to their smaller, squatter counterparts.\nEdmunds.com says that more than 63 percent of the new vehicles sold last year were SUVs or trucks, which is no surprise to automakers who have spent the last few years slashing their small car models to line up with the market.\nBut they're not ready to fully let go just yet. According to Bloomberg, automakers have a plan to save some of their dying sedan models, but it's not exactly novel: a recent report says car makers are adding some of the features that people love about SUVs and applying them to their smaller, squatter counterparts.\nOne of these more sought after details is all wheel drive and if everybody wants it, then the Toyota Prius should have it, right? And the Mazda 6 and Nissan Altima, a few of the sedans that have lived to tell the tale of the great SUV craze of the 21st century.\nAll wheel drive and four wheel drive used to matter to only those enthusiasts who really liked to offroad -- or the casual driver who lived in a particularly slippery or snow-covered terrain. There was a time where using it came with a fuel economy penalty that most drivers didn't find to be worth it.\nBut today, low gas prices make that less of a hurdle. Add that to the fact that technology has caught up a bit and, according to Toyota, there is no fuel economy penalty with its Prius. It says at 50 MPG combined, using an all-wheel-drive Prius is as -- or more -- efficient than driving most other front wheel drive vehicles.\nBloomberg says the latest effort from more mainstream carmakers and models have taken the feature from more niche and luxury sedans and attempted to democratize it. Rumor has it that Fiat Chrysler is even looking to put all wheel on its Pacifica minivan. The more the merrier, right?\nDetails Emerge on Mustang-Inspired CUV\nFord Dumps All-But-Two Cars\nDealer Sues Toyota Over Prius\nGM May Ax Six Models","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jump to: SynonymsCommon NamesEconomic ImportanceDistributional RangeReferencesOther Web ReferencesImages\nTaxon: Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S. F. Blake\nSymphoricarpos\nCaprifolioideae\nRhodora 16:118. 1914\n20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.\n26 (20 active, 5 available) in National Plant Germplasm System (Map)\nOther conspecific taxa:\nSymphoricarpos albus var. albus (0 accessions)\nSymphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus (1 accessions)\n(=) Symphoricarpos racemosus Michx.\ncommon snowberry (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat) - English\nsnowberry (Source: Hortus 3) - English\nwaxberry (Source: Hortus 3) - English\nsymphorine blanche (Source: Zander ed17) - French\ngew\u00f6hnliche Schneebeere (Source: Zander Ency) - German\nKnallerbsenstrauch (Source: Zander Ency) - German\nEnvironmental: erosion control (for mine reclamation fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2002) ornamental; revegetator (for mine reclamation fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2002) wildlife habitat (for mine reclamation fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2002)\nVertebrate poisons: mammals; mammals\nSUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada, [Northwest Territories] United States [Alaska]\nEASTERN CANADA: Canada [Ontario, Qu\u00e9bec]\nWESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan]\nNORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio (n.), Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont]\nNORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin]\nNORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]\nSOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]\nCooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning Note: poisonous\nEilers, L. J. & D. M. Roosa. 1994. The vascular plants of Iowa\nEnglert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators\nErhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der gro\u00dfe Zander: Enzyklop\u00e4die der Pflanzennamen\nGleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2\nHara, H. 1983. A revision of Caprifoliaceae of Japan with reference to allied plants in other districts and the Adoxaceae. Ginkgoana 5:101.\nHarrington, H. 1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado.\nHitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955-1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.\nJones, G. N. 1940. A monograph of the genus Symphoricarpos. J. Arnold Arbor. 21:214-218.\nKr\u00fcssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgeh\u00f6lze. 1976)\nLampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants Note: poisonous\nMagee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.\nMcGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.\nMunro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).\nOhio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967-. The vascular flora of Ohio.\nRadford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.\nRehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.\nStrausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.\nVoss, E. 1972-. Michigan flora.\nWelsh, S. L. & G. Moore. 1973. Utah plants\nCheck other web resources for Symphoricarpos albus (L.) S. F. Blake :\nPLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories\nBONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:\nICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Symphoricarpos albus cultivars\nSeed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Anthropology Arts and Humanities Astronomy Biology Chemistry Economics Law Medicine Physics Politics and International Studies Technology Miscellaneous\nSign up today and be among the first to get notified about new videos\nEmbedded video code\nPaul Schempp\nHow Does Shadow Banking Influence Financial Stability?\nPaul Schempp How Does Shadow Banking Influence Financial Stability?\nBrowse for more\nPaul Schempp is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn (Germany). He holds a PhD from Bonn Graduate School of Economics. In his research he concentrates on financial economics and applied microeconomics. For his work on liquidity provision by banks, shadow banks and the government, and the implications for financial stability Schempp was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck society.\nArea of Research\nFinancial Economics, Banking, Applied Microeconomic Theory\nStephan Luck and Paul Schempp. \"Outside Liquidity, Rollover Risk, and Government Bonds.\" MPI Collective Goods Preprint (in press) (2014).\nBibTeXEndNoteRISXMLMARCRTF\nStephan Luck and Paul Schempp. \"Sovereign Defaults, Bank Runs, and Contagion.\" MPI Collective Goods Preprint (in press) (2014).\nStephan Luck and Paul Schempp. \"Banks, Shadow Banking, and Fragility.\" ECB Working Paper No. 1726 (2014).\nStephan Luck and Paul Schempp. \"Regulatory Arbitrage and Systemic Liquidity Risk.\" Unpublished (2015).\nAcademic and Professional Positions\nMax Planck Society (more details)\nMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods\nVisiting PhD Student\nPhD Program in Economics\nUniversity of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t Bonn)\nBonn Graduate School of Economics\n- Otto Hahn Medal (2016)\n- Best Poster Award at the 1st ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal for the Project \"Banks, Shadow Banking, and Fragility\" (joint work with Stephan Luck) (2014)\n- Scholarship of the \"Max Planck Gesellschaft\" (2013-2014)\n- Scholarship of the \"Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft\" (German Research Foundation) (2009-2012)\n- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2008-2009)\n\u00a9 Maximilian D\u00f6rrbecker\n\"The Max Planck Society is Germany's most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it on a par with the best and most prestigious research institutions worldwide. The more than 15,000 publications each year in internationally renowned scientific journals are proof of the outstanding research work conducted at Max Planck Institutes \u2013 and many of those articles are among the most-cited publications in the relevant field.\" (Source)\n\"Many goods are not obviously best provided by unregulated markets. This does not necessarily imply that government does a better job. But research can do society a service in defining why markets have a hard time with some goods, and in comparing institutional arrangements aiming at their provision. In a precise way, the problem is defined by the concept of public goods. Capitalising on the theory of mechanism design, it can be further improved. Using experimental methods, it can be put into perspective. Yet some social dilemmas are better analysed in alternative categories. It may even be preferable to start analytically from the political decision to intervene into markets. The institute tackles these questions from the combined perspectives of economics, law and psychology. While the institute started with applications from environmental problems, current work focuses on antitrust, regulation and financial stability.\" (Source)\nIn the banking model of maturity transformation presented in this video, the features of the shadow banking sector and its influences on financial stability are analyzed. As PAUL SCHEMPP explains, the model shows that banks and shadow banks can co-exist without harm to the financial sector as long as the shadow banking sector is small. However, liquidity guarantees from banks to shadow banks and a growing shadow banking sector increase the risk of bank runs.\nLT Video Publication DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.21036\/LTPUB10003\nBanks, Shadow Banking, and Fragility\nStephan Luck and Paul Schempp\nECB Working Paper\nEarlier Draft\nStephan Luck; Paul Schempp\nStephan Luck and Paul Schempp. \"Banks, Shadow Banking, and Fragility.\" Unpublished\nViral V. Acharya, Philipp Schnabl and Gustavo Suarez. \"Securitization Without Risk Transfer.\" Journal of Financial Economics 107 (2013): 515-536.\nAntoine Martin, David Skeie and Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden. \"Repo Runs.\" Review of Financial Studies 27 (2014): 957-989.\nArvind Krishnamurthy, Stefan Nagel and Dmitry Orlov. \"Sizing Up Repo.\" The Journal of Finance 69 (2014): 2381-2417.\nAdam Copeland, Antoine Martin and Michael Walker. \"Repo Runs: Evidence from the Tri-Party Repo Market.\" The Journal of Finance 69 (2014): 2343-2380.\nA Ground-breaking Scientific Revolution\nBeyond Videos\nAn Alarming Challenge for Society\nIf I Had a Second Life\nA Personal Reading Recommendation\nSee what Paul Schempp recommends for reading.\nGet more information on the institution where Paul Schempp is doing research.\nQuoting the original publication? 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{"text":"It seems that nowadays if you do not wear the latest fashion or follow the latest guru you are not fit to be considered a fully functioning member of society. Of course, most smart people know that the opposite is true: to succeed at the highest levels within any sphere requires adherence to what works best, and feels right, for the individual, that individuality of style and intent support personal growth, self satisfaction and goal attainment. So, to lose weight in the \"fastest time possible\" it is best, it appears, to find an approach that works most effectively for you and to hell with what the marketing hype suggests and what sheep-like masses of followers say.\nIf you're among the 30% of Americans who sleep less than six hours a night, here's one simple way to whittle your waistline: catch more Zs. A 16-year study of almost 70,000 women found that those who slept five hours or less a night were 30% more likely to gain 30 or more pounds than those who slept 7 hours. The National Institutes of Health suggest adults sleep seven to eight hours a night.\nWith those seeking weight loss increasingly bombarded with fad diets, people are now preparing a bewildering array of food combinations and eating either massive quantities of these or tiny servings which, in both cases, will only hamper weight loss efforts. Fad diets usually only work - if at all - over the short term, though there are some that have become quite popular and are used by many. Many of these diets, however, are so nutritionally restrictive that they can only be maintained for a short period before the dieter relents and eventually regains that which they lost.\nMost forms of sustained lower intensity exercise will suffice here: stationary cycling, fast walking and the stepper machine being the best forms. Running is too tough on the joints and typically will burn a greater degree more muscle than will the lower impact forms of cardio, as mentioned here. So, if you can get out of bed before 7.00am and complete 45 minutes of moderate intensity cardio three times per week you will almost certainly be on the path to permanent weight loss. Probably the best reason for adopting such an approach is the fact it is relatively easy to maintain; once waking earlier becomes routine, morning cardio will not only burn fat, guaranteed - no need for any money back promises here - but will awaken your mind and set you up perfectly for the day ahead.\nA number of athletes told us that they don't abandon heavy free-weight workouts when trying to get cut. \"I've lifted weights for over 10 years,\" says Louisville personal trainer Lindsay Cappotelli, \"and I've found that heavy weights lifted for 5-8 reps with a focus on big lifts like the squat, deadlift, and bench press has worked best for me. You always hear, 'Train with light weights for high reps to burn fat,' but I've found the opposite to be true.\"\nInstead of satisfying your sweet tooth with some refined sugar, turn to berries and enjoy a slimmer waistline in no time. Berries are loaded with antioxidants, which can help reduce inflammation throughout the body, and research from the University of Michigan reveals that rats given a berry-rich diet shaved off a significant proportion of their belly fat when compared to a control group. Berries like strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries are also loaded with resveratrol, an antioxidant pigment that has been linked to reductions in belly fat and a reduced risk of dementia, to boot.\nEat a 500 calorie deficit. To lose weight, you should calculate how much calories you're burning per day and eat around 300-500 calories less than that. However, be careful not to restrict yourself too much. On average women should eat no less than 1500 calories a day and men no less than 1700.[12] You must be careful with this! You should not starve yourself; that will make you sick and feel miserable.\n\"Your body has been starving all night long, and it needs nutrients to rebuild itself,\" says Matarazzo. \"If you just catch something quick on the run instead of eating a full meal, it negatively impacts your workout, and everything else you do during the day.\" Eat sufficient protein (30-40g), a complex carbohydrate, like oatmeal, and a piece of fruit to start your day off right. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dzWc0JTsPhg","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Media Coverage Lacking Until it Shows What Abortion Really Is\nOpinion | Maria Vitale Gallagher | Aug 26, 2012 | 11:23AM | Washington, DC\nWhen I was in journalism school in college, a professor told us would-be scribes that journalists don't tell people what to think\u2014they tell people what to think about. In other words, the enterprising reporter places a spotlight on issues that matter, that spark meaningful dialogue that helps to address our nation's most pressing concerns. The objective journalist does not promote a particular point of view, but surveys the landscape, collecting viewpoints that can be shared with the electorate.\nUnfortunately, in the feeding frenzy that results from 24-hour news coverage and the cut-throat quest for ratings, much of our daily news diet consists of something along the lines of trending topics on Twitter\u2014not much in the way of sustenance, but plenty of sizzle.\nIn recent days, the news has been saturated with stories about abortion and the 2012 election. But I would argue that, despite the seemingly non-stop, breathless coverage, the real issue of abortion has not been covered at all.\nLet me explain. Student journalists are taught never to assume. While you are not to insult the intelligence of your audience, you are not to assume that they know all there is to know about a subject. In fact, they may know darn little.\nAs an example, let's take the issue of fracking. Strong feelings exist on both sides of this issue. Yet, mention the word, and some educated people may say, \"Huh?\" That would explain why, for instance, a Washington Post article on the subject, in its very first line, explains that fracking is the fracturing of shale rock that gives rise to natural gas.\nBut in news stories about abortion, you don't see or hear a definition of the term. It's assumed we all know what it is. But how many people really do know?\nI do not recall any of my science textbooks in school explaining the procedure of abortion. At the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, where I work, we receive essays each year from junior high and high school students for our annual writing contest. Invariably, we will see essays from 7th graders who, after researching abortion, exclaim something to the effect that \"I can't believe this is going on\" and \"How can this be legal?\"\nEven purportedly reputable polling on the issue of abortion cannot be trusted. A recent CNN poll asked, \"Do you think abortion should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?\"\nAgain, for purposes of discussion, let's substitute the word \"fracking\" for \"abortion\" in the poll question. A respondent's first response might be, \"What exactly is fracking?\"\nCLICK LIKE IF YOU'RE PRO-LIFE!\nIf the CNN poll question were re-phrased to include a definition of abortion, would the results be the same? Of course, then the issue becomes: How is the definition derived? If the terminology comes from an organization, such as Planned Parenthood, which receives money from the practice of abortion, the language would be suspect.\nThe news has been filled with stories about abortion recently. But not really. Until there is in-depth coverage of what abortion really is\u2014and its real effects on women, both born and unborn\u2014the news reports are just a bunch of words strung together, which do not fulfill the requirements of Journalism 101.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Recent Legal News\nAttorney Robert Hatten Selected as a \"Super Lawyer\" for 2012\n(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 14, 2011 ) Newport News, Virginia Attorney Robert R. Hatten of Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein has been selected as a Super Lawyer for 2012, an honor bestowed to only 5% of all practicing attorneys. This is the 7th consecutive time Mr. Hatten has been chosen by Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding attorneys from more than 70 areas of practice.\nAttorneys who are chosen as Super Lawyers are put through a rigorous and multi-phase rating process, which is based on peer nominations and evaluations, as well as third-party research. The selection process begins with the creation of a candidate pool, in which lawyers are entered after they are nominated by a peer or discovered during the Star Search process. Next, the research department at Super Lawyers examines each candidate on 12 indicators of career achievements and peer recognition including but not limited to the following: verdicts and settlements; honors and awards; scholarly lectures and writings; special licenses and certifications; and representative clients. Next, during the blue ribbon review, candidates are categorized according to their main practice area; those with the most number of points from the previous rounds are selected to the blue ribbon panel. Panelists are then given a list of candidates from their area of practice to review and provide a rating based on a one-to-ten scale. Lastly, during the final selection, candidates are categorized into four groups, based on firm size. Attorneys with the most number of points from each category are chosen as Super Lawyers.\nRobert R. Hatten has again prevailed through this rigorous screening process and will be included in the 2012 edition of Super Lawyers magazine, which is published in every state and reaches more than 13 million readers. To learn more about Robert R. Hatten and the professional achievements and peer recognition which have yielded him this exclusive honor, please visit http:\/\/www.pwhd.com\/ and http:\/\/www.asbestosclaims.org\/ today.\nAbout Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein, L.C.\nPatten, Wornom, Hatten, & Diamonstein, L.C. is a law firm with history, experience and unique qualities. The firm's lawyers have successfully combined the traditional practice of a full service private law firm with the specialized experience of a boutique litigation practice. Focusing on asbestos and mesothelioma litigation, mass torts, and products liability, PWHD is dedicated to fulfilling the legal needs of businesses and individuals. Visit PWHD online at PWHD.com and AsbestosClaims.org to learn more.\nRobert Hatten\npressrelease@lawyercentral.com\nSource: EmailWire.Com\nSubscribe to LegalLaw247.Com Newsletter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Modifieds James Civali Headlines RACE22 Radio for May 6, 2019\nModifieds\nJames Civali Headlines RACE22 Radio for May 6, 2019\nAfter a week off last week, episode 16 of RACE22 Radio will hit the airwaves Monday night at 6:30pm and will be headlined by Modified driver James Civali.\nCivali, known as the \"One Man Taliban\", is competing full-time at Bowman Gray Stadium this season. In the season opener where he was the talk of the 200-lap Modified race after using the chrome horn to make his way to the front of the field. Civali will join RACE22 Radio host and founder of RACE22.com, Langley Austin along with his co-hosts Roger Johnson and \"Crazy\" Corey Latham in the studio at Performancenter Racing Warehouse in Statesville, NC for a long-form sit down to talk about his racing career, competing at Bowman Gray and much more.\nThe guys will also talk about the races of the last two weekends around the region including Bowman Gray Stadium's wild Sportsman and Modified openers, the grand reopening of Motor Mile Speedway, CARS Tour at Ace Speedway and all the rest of the action from around the region.\nRACE22 Radio will be broadcast live via Facebook Live and will be available soon after the live airing on RACE22.com's new Podcast platform which is available via these channels; Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, PocketCasts, RadioPublic, Stitcher and will be available soon on more platforms. If it's not available on your favorite platform email podcast@race22.com to let us know and we'll work on making it available there as well.\nJoin us Monday night at 6:30pm for this week's episode of RACE22 Radio exclusively on RACE22.com. If you want to come and see the show live it's free to do so and is recorded from the shop at Performancenter Racing Warehouse in Statesville, NC.\nCover photo by Brenda Jane Photography.\nJames Civali\nrace22 radio\nPrevious articleCarroll's Hard Luck Continues on the CARS Tour\nNext articleVirginia Triple Crown To Pay For First, Second and Third","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Harry Batterbee\nSir Harry Fagg Batterbee GCMG KCVO (19 September 1880 \u2013 25 August 1976) was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat and the first British High Commissioner to New Zealand.[1]\nBatterbee was born in 1880 in Faversham, Kent in his parents' house at 62 Newton Road.[2] His father, Napoleon Batterbee, born in Lambeth, London, was the son of a compositor, and had come to Faversham in 1859 to teach at the District National Schools, which reportedly had a Europe-wide reputation for its excellent premises and progressive methods. Harry's mother, Sarah Elizabeth (n\u00e9e Fagg), was from a family of local grocers.\nIn 1890, Harry started his education at Faversham Grammar School (now Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Faversham) and from there won a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford.[1] His stature, standing 6 ft 4 in, lent itself to an excellent sporting reputation.\nBatterbee was a career civil servant. He entered the Civil Service after graduating eventually specialising in handling Government relations with what were known as the Dominions of the British Empire. His diplomatic career began in 1905 in the Colonial Office in London.[3] He was the private secretary to Walter Long MP, Secretary of State for the Colonies, during the First World War and during the 1920s he was political secretary for two major Imperial tours. The first tour was the 1923-24 'Empire Cruise' of a battle squadron of Royal Navy vessels led by HMS Hood; the second was the 1927 Duke of York's tour of Australia and New Zealand. He was appointed KCVO (Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order) after this tour. At this time he was placed in a new Whitehall department as one of the original members of the Dominions Office.[3] In 1930 he became the Assistant Permanent Undersecretary of State for Dominion Affairs to his brother-in-law and fellow alumnus of Hertford College, Oxford, Sir Edward Harding with whom he served until 1939 (Batterbee was married to Harding's sister).[4]\nHe and Harding wielded considerable influence from this office. In both 1930 and 1937 Batterbee acted as deputy secretary at the Imperial Conferences held in London; the latter of which was the last of its kind. In addition he carried out sensitive and largely unreported missions, such as to Newfoundland in 1933, after its government had collapsed under the weight of a severe financial crisis leading the British authorities to resume control of its affairs.\nDuring this period he negotiated with \u00c9amon de Valera, the Prime Minister of Ireland which was then known still as a Dominion. Valera strenuously worked towards gaining full independence and at one point Batterbee tried to stop British plans to impose import duties on Irish farm produce. Although he failed in the short term, duties were lifted after a couple of years. Domestically, Sir Harry reportedly played an important part in resolving the crisis that arose when King Edward VIII was advised that he should abdicate if he wished to pursue his plans to marry Mrs Simpson.\nIn 1939, Harding was appointed the British High Commissioner to South Africa and at the same time Batterbee took up office as the first British High Commissioner to New Zealand[5] having been appointed as such on 27 July 1938. His appointment eased relations with New Zealand which was increasingly unwilling to use the Governor as an intermediary between its own government and that of the United Kingdom. The Second World War broke out soon afterward, and given its reach into the Pacific, it was not until its conclusion that Batterbee was finally able to retire. Batterbee was able to maintain a long-cultured network of correspondents even in wartime conditions where telegrams were largely restricted to matters of the highest urgency.[3] His correspondents included Whitehall mandarins, fellow High Commissioners and soon-to-be Ambassadors, family and friends, ordinary citizens of the Empire.[3]\nSir Harry retired from the Civil Service in 1945 and began a period that was to last almost as long as his working life. He became Chairman of the British Antarctic Survey, which became the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge and even had a mountain range in Antarctica named after him. He also became a governor of his old Faversham school, and from 1961 to 1967 was chairman of the governors. He moved back to the town of his birth and joined the Faversham Society where he was instrumental in the struggle to avert Kent County Council plans to give the town an inner ring road.\nHe died in 1976 and was buried at Faversham Parish Church in September 1976.[1]\nList of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to New Zealand\nDiplomatic posts\nposition created in 1939 British High Commissioner to\nSir Patrick Duff\n1 2 3 \"Sir Harry Batterbee\". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 26 August 1976.\n\u2191 Dr Arthur Percival, Director, Fleur de Lis Heritage Centre, Faversham, Sir Harry Batterbee GCMG KCVO MA, published on Faversham.org > History > People > Sir Harry Batterbee GCMG KCVO MA\n1 2 3 4 Andrew Stewart, Sir Harry Batterbee's World: A Model Imperial Network, Defence Studies Department, King's College London\n\u2191 Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin, For God's sake, go!: an autobiography page 30, (Publisher:Smythe), 1972\n\u2191 Nicholas Mansergh, Survey of British Commonwealth affairs: problems of wartime co-operation and post-war change 1939-1952, 1968, (Routledge), ISBN 0-7146-1496-3, ISBN 978-0-7146-1496-0\nThis article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5\/4\/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution\/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ballantine IPA, Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI\nI heard once that the oaked barrel aged version of this brew was never sold, but gifted to only the best customers and distributors. I also heard that the gifted version of this beer was the inspiration for the modern day Burton Baton from Dogfish Head. Is there any truth to these claims?\nhttp:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/08\/13\/pabst-to-bring-back-ballantine-ipa\/14013995\/\nGoing hipster, Pabst resurrecting Ballantine IPA\nMike Snider, USA Today\nPabst is making another old-school beer move by resurrecting a classic brand, Ballantine India Pale Ale.\nFirst brewed in 1878 at Ballantine Brewing Co., in Newark, N.J., the legendary beer in its original hoppy form was phased out in the '70s as big-brand lagers overwhelmed the marketplace. (A watered-down version remained on the market until the mid-'90s.)\nNow Pabst Brewing, which has 30 beers including Old Style, Schlitz and Lone Star in its lineup, hopes to make a hit out of the revived beer at a time when flagship Pabst Blue Ribbon, or PBR, has been adopted by hipsters as cheap, cool and nostalgic.\nWhen Ballantine IPA arrives in stores in six packs and 750-milliliter bottles next month, \"We are hoping that the current (Pabst Blue Ribbon) consumers will embrace the Ballantine IPA,\" said Pabst master brewer Greg Deuhs.\nAt the same time, Deuhs did a lot of work to create a brew that could also seduce craft beer drinkers, who are always craving new and often hoppy experiences. \"When I came on board,\" he says, \"one of my challenges was, how do we get into the craft business? I said that we already have the answer: Ballantine IPA.\" Pabst has owned the brand since its 1975 acquisition of Falstaff.\nThe IPA will be available in nine northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, including New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland.\nAppealing to the growing craft beer market as well as to hipsters and mainstream consumers could mean success for Ballantine IPA. While overall beer consumption fell nearly 2% last year in the $100 billion beer market, craft beer consumption grew 17% and accounted for $14.3 billion, according to the Brewers Association.\nIn re-creating Ballantine IPA, Deuhs had no original recipe or company notes to fall back on. Instead, he relied on analytic reports from as far back as the '30s that tracked the ale's attributes (alcohol, bitterness, gravity level). He also researched what ingredients were likely used, historical accounts of the beer and beer lovers' remembrances.\nAfter about two years of brewing test batches, he began pilot production trials at Cold Spring (Minn.) Brewing Co., which makes its own Third St. Brewhouse beers and contracts out its brewing capacity for other producers. \"We wanted to make it as authentic as possible and a true craft beer,\" Deuhs says.\nThe IPA uses four different malts and eight different hops, as well as hop oil to finish it off. American oak chips are used in the process, harking back to the oak and cypress barrels used for the original beer.\nAs for Ballantine's taste, \"The beer has a nice malt\/hop balance, and leans more toward the hoppy side of the fence and not at all the malty-British-IPA balance I anticipated,\" says Bil Corcoran who runs My Beer Buzz, an online beer site and podcast, and has tasted it. \"I thought it was a really enjoyable and distinct IPA. \u2026 I do think they will draw in both the current craft beer drinker who appreciates a good IPA as well as the craft beer newbies who appreciate the historical or family links the Ballantine name carries.\"\n2 comments on \"Ballantine IPA, Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, WI\"\nkurtlo\nBurton Baton is one of my top 3 brews. Love it!!\nMe too, Burton Baton is one of my favorites. I'd love to hear from Dogfish Head regarding its origins.\nThis entry was posted on August 26, 2014 by DuffBrew in Uncategorized.\nhttps:\/\/wp.me\/p2JGQY-GB","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Fans\nSubculture Lost & Found: Liverpool\nLiverpool's lost past and newly found musical places\nLiverpool's current Cavern Club. Photo: Eddie Bernard, Public Domain\nFrom The Cavern and Eric's to The Invisible Wind Factory. We take a look at some of Liverpool's lost past of quirky venues and newly founded musical hangouts.\nIt's near impossible not to mention The Cavern in a discussion about Liverpool's musical history. There's no denying the part the club had to play in The Beatles' story if nothing else, but it is possibly an unpopular truth that the current Cavern Club is not the original venue known for The Beatles' first UK gigs following their return from their residence in Hamburg. Opening as a jazz club in 1957, the cellar that housed the club was demolished in 1973 to make way for the Merseyrail Underground Rail Loop. In 1984 The Cavern was rebuilt in the image of the original, using bricks reclaimed from the original cellar with the backing of a Liverpool F.C. footballer. The new Cavern was closed due to financial troubles in 1989, but was reopened '91 and still functions to this day as a venue, but, despite famous performances by Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, and Paul McCartney, the club now leads a sort of dual life as venue and tourist attraction, with the latter function compromising the former.\nEric's\nJust around the corner from The Cavern, Eric's was the enterprise of Roger Eagle who bought a warehouse in 1974 and turned it into a venue, discouraging the bands that played there from comparing themselves to The Beatles and the preceding scene. Quickly becoming a countercultural hub, Eric's was hosting the like of The Clash and Sex Pistols by 1977. The venue sadly closed in 1980 amidst the financial and political turmoils of the time. The club was reopened under the name Brady's but closed within a year. Read more about Eric's in our feature by Josh Ray here.\nEric's, Liverpool\nMore brand than venue, Cream was the famous club night that took place at Liverpool's Nation nightclub. Cream was the runaway success, and hence it's the name that has stuck in dance music culture's collective memory. James Barton, Darren Hughes and Andy Carroll (a former DJ at Brady's) were the DJs that instigated Cream. The events grew into one of the most recognised names in house music across its ten years (1992-2002) with visiting DJs including Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, Carl Cox, Roger Sanchez, Graeme Park, Brandon Block, Andy Weatherall and early sets from The Chemical Brothers. Nation was demolished as part of the development of 447 apartments taking its place in Liverpool's Wolstenholme Square, but the Cream brand lives on as Creamfields festival.\nThe Kazimer\nFalling foul of the same Wolstenholme Square development as Nation, The Kazimer closed its doors in 2016. The ambitious art scene driven club opened in 2008 taking over a previously run-down venue space and turned it into a unique nightlife experience with themed nights bringing together elements of clubbing, live performance, theatre, installation, fine art and more. The club was demolished in 2016 going out on a high with a Space age themed NYE party. Thankfully though this wasn't quite the end for Kazimer (more about that later).\nThe Invisible Wind Factory\nAfter the loss of their venue, Kazimier Productions moved on from their Wolstenholme Square location to undertake an even more ambitious project. The Invisible Wind Factory is described by Kazimier as 'a cultural themepark of the future'. The North Docks factory building now houses a venue, a rehearsal space, a music studio, electronics workshop - the list goes on. Making use of the space afforded to them by the move IWF is a long way from The Cavern, and will challenge some people's ideas of what a music venue is, but with its vibrant unconventional approach it certainly stands out from the competition on a national scale.\nEBGBS\nFor those that want something more Cavern like, EBGBS bears some resemblance to the aforementioned underground club, not least its cellar location and brick arches, though its name seems to make reference to the iconic New York venue CBGB. Pulled Apart By Horses, Whenyoung, Goat Girl and Twisted Wheel are just a few of the names currently filling the billings.\nDROP the DumBULLS\nA DIY creative space and studio housed in a previously unused 140 year old pub in Liverpool's North Docklands, DROP the DumBULLS' manifesto is to make unused spaces available to those wishing to make things of use. News stories recently put a question mark over the future of the enterprise, with some confusion as to whether or not the building was to be included in a redevelopment of the location aimed at encouraging creative independents to set up in the area.\n24 Kitchen Street\nHeading up the creative hub around Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, 24 Kitchen Street is a thriving multi-use space that hosts independent gigs, club nights, art exhibitions, spoken word nights and more. With its reassuringly informal warehouse feel it lends itself especially well to underground dance but the programming has something for everyone, from indie discos to theme nights celebrating key artists. You can also get a pizza there if you're hungry.\n24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool. Photo: Samantha Milligan\nAn outdoor space with a contemporary Berlin biergarten vibe, Constellations also resides in the city's Baltic Triangle. Its relaxed atmosphere has been the backdrop for recent events as diverse as exhibitions for North West photography collective Disparity, through to lending its space to the Positive Vibrations Baltic Triangle Reggae Festival, which saw Lee Scratch Perry grace its stage. The programming at Constellations goes far beyond just gigs. Its listings are the stuff that perfect countercultural summer evenings are made of.\nConstellations, Liverpool\nThe Shipping Forecast\nWhile some have been judgy of The Shipping Forecast's enthusiasm for craft beers and Americanised menus full of Instagram ready burgers, the fact remains that this venue took back a space that was previously occupied by a nationwide chain of '70s theme pubs. The pub is now the kind of place where Goat Girl, the Wytches, Slaves and Don Letts have recently drawn crowds, and that is no bad thing. The Shipping Forecast might not be underground, but it's certainly a success of independence over highstreet homogeny. The flexible multi-levelled open space lends itself to different sizes and types of event - from gigs to DJ sets and more.\nThe Shipping Forecast, Liverpool\nJoin the Fred Perry mailing list to gain exclusive access","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"On Day 2, Eagles Can Satisfy Needs\nOnce projected as a top 5 draft pick, Geno Smith slid through and out of the first round on Thursday night and is now the top story for rounds two and three. He is the marquee player still on the board, along with Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o. Both could be around for quite a while in the second round.\nThe feeling here is that the Eagles have other needs to fill, other cravings to satisfy, than to select Smith in the second round. Do they love him? If they do, by all means go get him with the 35th overall selection.\nOtherwise, stay away. Why take a \"flier\" on a player at a premium position who you don't really love? The Eagles did their homework on Smith -- they worked him out privately and had him in to the NovaCare Complex for a visit -- so they have a working understanding of what he's all about.\nSmith was prolific at West Virginia, but there seems to be something that is turning off the NFL personnel departments and coaches. Is his attitude right? Is he a leader? Were his stats inflated at West Virginia in a dink-and-dunk system?\nWhatever it is, Smith was the Day 1 tragic fall from grace. He's still on the board as the draft starts on Friday, as is Te'o, and the Eagles could very well take one or both of them with their picks in rounds two and three.\nThe Eagles could also be in position to move back in the second round and accumulate some extra picks. They have options and they are going to think through every consideration.\nSo what will they do? As it always works, the team has small groupings of players it likes for each round, and within those groups the Eagles rank their preferences. If they stay in place at the top of each round, the Eagles will get their hands on some very fine football players, and the value is strong at positions like safety, defensive line, tight end and wide receiver.\nA move back provides more ammunition for the Eagles to gain extra draft picks and add depth to the roster. There are a ton of very good players on the board. The Eagles have a great opportunity to bolster this roster.\nBut will they take Smith, the star from West Virginia? I guess I say I would be surprised if it happened. I think head coach Chip Kelly liked what he saw from both Michael Vick and Nick Foles, and it wouldn't shock me if the Eagles stay away from the position throughout the draft.\nAs for Te'o, he's a talented inside linebacker who had a marvelous career at Notre Dame, and if the Eagles move back in the second round maybe he's an option. I just don't see him at 35.\nWhere will the Eagles go, then? I will throw out the guess that the Eagles add either a defensive lineman or a safety with that pick, and then see what their options are in the third round. A trade down is absolutely an option. General manager Howie Roseman has been talking to teams throughout the weeks and has a list of scenarios to ponder.\nThe goal of Day 2 in the draft is to help this football team, no matter where. Defense? Sure. Pieces for the offense? I think a wide receiver, a tight end, and even a running back could be a possibility before too long.\nThe word is that the strength of this draft is in the middle rounds, so here we are. Expect a lot of trades in these two rounds. Expect the Eagles to be right in the thick of things.\nBut Smith? I say no, but that is no inside information. That's just a feeling that I have. Something is missing from the Geno Smith file, something substantial enough that the first round came and went and he's still available.\nThe week of words, from the players\nAs the Eagles prepare for their trip to Tampa Bay, let's recap what the players had to say about the upcoming Wild Card matchup with the Bucs.\nLocked in: Jalen Hurts is no stranger to the big stage\nThe second-year quarterback is a much different player than the one the Bucs saw back in Week 6.\nThe Tom Brady Factor: 'A big-time challenge' awaits the Eagles' defense\nThe Eagles got to see the quarterback up close back in Week 6. A lot has changed since then, but the mission remains the same against a player who has seen it all.\nAn appreciation of Jeff Stoutland and the Eagles' marvelous offensive line\nA look at the maestro of the O-line and some insight into the process that allows his position group to be a strength of this team.\nEagles will face the Buccaneers in the Wild Card Round\nThe Eagles finish the regular season as the No. 7 seed and will travel to face the defending Super Bowl Champions next Sunday at 1 PM on FOX.\nOpening drive presents short-term and future potential for Eagles\nWith 10 players inactive and another 11 on the Reserve\/COVID-19 list, the Eagles got to feature young players in spotlight roles in the regular-season finale.\nChasing a dream: The 'craziest underdog' Cameron Malveaux gets another chance Saturday night\nWhile it remains to be seen how Head Coach Nick Sirianni will handle the starters, Malveaux savors the opportunity to suit up once again.\nGreg Ward epitomizes the Eagles' team-first mentality\nHis role isn't as expansive as last year, but the wide receiver has been a reliable presence both on and off the field.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Search Results for: Toyota\nToyota Rumion: Certainly a car on which to ruminate\u2026\nOctober 13, 2021 January 8, 2022 les stephenson\nJOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2013 The Avanza was Toyota SA's first budget people mover. It came with compact dimensions, simple \u2013 but fuel-efficient \u2013 engines, and seven-seats. The automaker says they found favour with business and leisure buyers. It lasted for two generations, replaced now by the Rumion which, Toyota told The Corner, \"comes with a\u2026 Continue reading Toyota Rumion: Certainly a car on which to ruminate\u2026\nToyota goes for its guns to answer criminals\nAugust 12, 2021 les stephenson\nBased on Toyota Hilux single-cab to carry eightAK47 assault rifle protection for cabin and canopyHomologated to 3499kg gross vehicle massSix seats and aircon in the canopyWindow gun ports and escape hatch JOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2013 SVI Engineering, a specialist manufacturer of armoured products, has created a cost-effective, anti-riot solution in the form of a converted\u2026 Continue reading Toyota goes for its guns to answer criminals\nFarewell to Toyota SA's Dr Johan van Zyl\nAugust 1, 2021 August 12, 2021 les stephenson\nDURBAN, South Africa \u2013 It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Dr Johan van Zyl on Friday evening, 30 July 2021. \"The Doc\", as he was affectionately known, had an uncanny sense of knowing just what consumers want and he was able to instill this thinking in all his\u2026 Continue reading Farewell to Toyota SA's Dr Johan van Zyl\nToyota GR 86: April '21 launch, SA in 2022\nApril 10, 2021 April 10, 2021 les stephenson\nNew coupe \"true to fun character of GT86 predecessor'Light weight, low centre of gravity, agile handlingThird model in Toyota's line-up of global GR sport cars CAPE TOWN, South Africa \u2013 An all-new Toyota GR 86 made its world debut in early April 2021 via an online event hosted by Toyota Gazoo Racing and Subaru Corporation.\u2026 Continue reading Toyota GR 86: April '21 launch, SA in 2022\nCruiser comeback! Toyota reverses on rugged all- (or no) roader\nFebruary 27, 2021 les stephenson\nJOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2013 Toyota's Land Cruiser 70-series needs no introduction, having etched an enviable reputation among off-roading enthusiasts, game rangers, farmers, and other utility vehicle-minded users. The rugged construction and infallible Toyota engines have earned it the reputation of \"it just keeps going\". The 70-series is available as a bakkie (79), station-wagon (76), and wagon (78).\u2026 Continue reading Cruiser comeback! Toyota reverses on rugged all- (or no) roader\nHey parents, big prizes for kids' Toyota 'Dream Car' art\nFebruary 8, 2021 February 8, 2021 les stephenson\nJOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2013 Toyota SA has opened t entries for the 15th annual Toyota Dream Car Art Contest and is inviting entries from children younger than 15 years up to the closing date of March 31 2021. The contest is intended to encourage youngsters to explore their creativity and \"transport their imagination beyond our\u2026 Continue reading Hey parents, big prizes for kids' Toyota 'Dream Car' art\nAWD Toyota GR Yaris: Car of the Year for 2021?\nDecember 3, 2020 December 3, 2020 les stephenson\nWill join GR Supra in Toyota's GR portfolioFirst turbocharged Toyota AWD in SASpiritual successor to the Celica GT-FOUR JOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2013 Toyota's GR Yaris, expected in South Africa in early 2021, is said to have all the credentials for competition success given that it has a new 200kW\/370Nm 1.6-litre turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine \u2013\u2026 Continue reading AWD Toyota GR Yaris: Car of the Year for 2021?\n2020 Toyota Agya: (Another) new dawn for SA minicars\nNovember 25, 2020 November 25, 2020 les stephenson\nJOHANNESBURG, South Africa \u2013 If South Africans have grown accustomed to the concept of \"together but apart\" over the past year then a joint-mobility venture that will reunite families, fun, and value has arrived. 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{"text":"Alarming football statistic has San Diego parents talking\nA new study on concussions suggests players who suffered repeated blows to the head, even minor ones, ran the greatest risk of problems later in life. These findings are not only attracting attenti...\nAuthor: Richard Allyn, Reporter\nPublished: 11:00 AM PDT September 19, 2015\nSAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - A new study on concussions suggests players who suffered repeated blows to the head, even minor ones, ran the greatest risk of problems later in life. These findings are not only attracting attention on the national league-level, but on the local football fields, as well.\nWhen Cleveland Browns' quarterback Josh McCown was \"helicoptered'' into the end zone last Sunday by Jets linebacker Demario Davis, the NFL swiftly ruled him out of the game for an injury not exclusive to professional players.\nFor San Diego mom Annette Grimes, whose two teen-aged sons play high school football, that risk of a serious head injury is always a concern.\n\"We pray every single time. I've just been fortunate,\" Grimes said. \"It's a game, it is still a game no matter how much everybody loves it. We want you to still be alive and continue doing what you do best,\" she said.\nA concern highlighted by the results of a recent study carried out at Boston University found that 96 percent of former NFL players, who were examined, proved to have suffered from a degenerative brain disease known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE.\nIt's believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head, which can lead to memory loss, depression and dementia. It's the same condition that former Charger Junior Seau, who killed himself in 2012, suffered from.\nCTE is now serving as the inspiration for an upcoming major motion picture called \"Concussion\", starring Will Smith.\nPhil Grooms, who is an athletic trainer for Morse High School in Skyline, says that virtually all schools nationwide follow a strict protocol for any student athlete, who is even suspected of sustaining a head injury. They are immediately removed from the game, and closely monitored for any symptoms of a concussion.\n\"The bottom line is, they are high school children and they have a whole big life ahead of them. Nothing compared to being impaired for the rest of your life,\" Grooms said.\nIn response to the new study, a spokesman for the NFL said, \"We are dedicated to making football safer and continue to take steps to protect players, including rule changes, advanced sideline technology, and expanded medical resources.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"War as it really is\nApril 14, 2008 By urbanora in Non-fiction, Online videos, War\nGerman prisoners of war in Donald C. Thompson's War As It Really Is (1916), from http:\/\/www.realmilitaryflix.com\nRealmilitaryflix is the ungainly name for a remarkable new source of online video. The site has been put together by US Air Force combat camera veteran John Corry, who began building up a collection of war films while producing a television series in 1991. The site comprises 650 films (with 1,200 more promised by the end of the year), and ranges from the First World War to Iraq and Afghanistan today. Military enthusiasts can scour the decades of conflict; here at the Bioscope we concentrate on the silent material from the 1914-1918 conflict, which is significant enough in itself.\nThere are some thirty titles so far, most of them American official films of one kind or another, shot by the U.S. Signal Corps or produced by the propaganda outfit, the Committee on Public Information. Care has been taken to give correct titles and to determine dates, locations and regiments. I've not yet had the chance to view them all, but here's a quick guide to some of the highlights:\nActualities of the World War\nRealmilitary flix says \"If you only watch one WWI film, make it this one\", and it's not far wrong. This dynamic four-part compilation was made up of American military film after the war, and the material was expertly edited to form a general narrative of American participation in the war 1917-1918. Its correct title appears to be Flashes of Action, and the National Archives and Records Administration's ARC catalogue identifies it as c.1921 (many of these films of this site are duplicated in NARA, and some of the descriptions come from NARA's records). It is filled with vivid scenes of the kind we expect to see of the war, leavened with plenty of human detail.\nThis 1916 production is a single person's effort \u2013 the redoubtable Donald C. Thompson, an independent and resourceful American cameraman who filmed British, French, Belgian, Russian and German troops over 1914-1916, speaking volumes for his diplomatic abilities. He was with the French army at Verdun, where he was wounded, and from which conflict much of this film derives. The quality of the footage is evident throughout, while some of it is startling \u2013 apparently close shots of trench warfare (one should always be suspicious of footage where the cameraman would have been in peril e.g. being positioned above the trenches), the shooting of a spy (before and after), and shots of corpses and skeletons.\nGerman Film of the WWI Sea Commerce Raider \"Moewe\"\nThis, as it says, is a German-produced film, made in 1917, which was captured by the Allies and subsequently released as The Notorious Cruise of the Raider 'Moewe'. It follows the German raider ship Moewe as it captures Allied shipping, several examples of which are shown sinking. Its breezy tone comes over as all the more startling having the matter-of-fact titles translated into English.\nBritish WWI Film on the Mideast and other Naval Operations\nThis is British official film taken in Palestine and Mesopotamia 1917-1918. There is some very impressive footage here, including a gunboat firing on the Tigris and striking aerial photography of a British convoy at sea. It ends with famous, iconic footage of General Allenby entering Jerusalem in December 1917, with fleeting glimpses of Lawrence of Arabia (in military uniform), if you know where to look.\nT.E. Lawrence and General Allenby, shown in British WWI Film on the Mideast and other Naval Operations, from http:\/\/www.realmilitaryflix.com\nAnd there's much more: demonstrations of gas warfare, the operation of observation balloons, the construction of dummy soldiers as camouflage, radio operations, black troops, and the peace treaty negotations at Versailles in 1919. As indicated, one should always take care assessing the authenticity of war footage from this era \u2013 the cameramen were frequently brave, but they were severely limited by both equipment and army officialdom, and of course had to preserve their own lives. Overly dramatic footage (always consider where the cameraman was positioned when the film was taken and then ask why he wasn't killed) may show genuine action but may equally have been staged. That said, there seems relatively little fakery here, just much startling footage intercut with skilfully-shot scenes of the mundanities of warfare which somehow bring it home all the more to us today.\nAll of the titles are available in Flash, and look OK blown up to full screen. One notable last point to make \u2013 all of the contemporary films of the war are shown silent. Go explore.\n\u00ab Eight days in Bologna\nImmersive video \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Petr Korpusenko: \"2020 will see us carrying out even more integrations with new partners worldwide\"\nTVBET presented its leading live games including Keno, JokerBet, 1Bet, and Backgammon at this year's ICE London, while the company also demonstrated its new turn-key Betting Shop solution. Casino Review spoke to CEO Petr Korpusenko about the company's big plans for 2020.\nCasino Review: Which products and solutions did you present at this year's ICE?\nPetr Korpusenko: At ICE we demonstrated four of our live studios, two of which were streaming directly to our website, allowing players to place bets in real-time.\nWith our live studios, we've really bridged the gap between betting and live casino games. One of our aims for this year's ICE was to highlight the quality of our overall product offering, and in particular our cutting-edge streaming technology.\nWe now have 11 different fast live games including Wheel of Fortune, PokerBet, War of Elements, 5Bet, Lucky6, 7Bet, Keno, JokerBet, 21Bet, 1Bet, and BackgammonBet, so we really have something for everyone.\nThe games' fast pace is one of their USPs. A single game lasts around three minutes, during which customers can place their bets live or in advance on up to 10 future events.\nAdditionally, all TVBET's products are GLI-certified, offering operators and players alike an extra level of confidence and security.\nWe also presented our turn-key Betting Shop solution at ICE. We had our employees on-hand on our stand accepting bets via handheld devices and printing betting slips. It really served to underline the flexibility of the solution which can work anywhere. We were the only company presenting this kind of all-in-one, turn-key solution at this year's show. Thus, operators anywhere in the world can receive our games broadcast directly from our studios in real time. Our team is also in the process of actively developing the streaming UI. The point is to show four games in split-screen at the same time and switch them automatically when one pause to the next that is just starting. Accordingly, this will keep operators free of unnecessary selection process among the wide spectrum of our live-games, while players can follow their favourite products.\nCR: What are some of the other elements or features that distinguish TVBET's product offering?\nPK: We are currently leaders in supplying live studio games for bookmakers and our solutions offer a number of unique elements. Our partners have access to a wide variety of innovative features such as three-level jackpots, cashback, and bonuses. I can honestly say that no one else in the industry is doing anything like it.\nI would also note that our games have really helped bookmakers offset seasonality in sports competitions. A number of our partners have reported the big difference our live-games have made to their revenues during the off-season.\nCR: Which jurisdictions do you operate in?\nPK: We're currently operating across four continents: Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America. It's an ongoing process, we already have a lot of countries covered, but every month we're seeing new partners from all around the world. In the last year we made 105 integrations and it's important to highlight that 2019 was our first full year of commercial operations, so in that sense we've really hit the ground running. Breaking that figure down, we're talking about an average of around nine integrations a month. That's something we're very proud of.\nHowever, in business, one cannot stand still, you've always got to keep moving forward and focused on scaling new heights. With that in mind, I'm confident that 2020 will see us carrying out even more integrations with new partners worldwide.\nCR: In addition to your live games, you also offer your Betting Bar solution, could you tell us a bit more about this?\nPK: Betting Bar is definitely something we'll be spotlighting in 2020. The Betting Bar concept was created for the land-based casino industry and allows visitors to enjoy TVBET's live games in a relaxing bar environment, while it also includes versatile live lottery games.\nWe believe that Betting Bar will help attract new players to a casino, particularly those who love betting on sports, but, at the same time, it will also appeal to those who enjoy traditional casino games.\nBetting Bar is equipped with modern LED screens which can display games, promotions and special offers, such as three-level jackpots, cashback, or promo coupons, all of which help an operator to further boost bets, and thus their revenue.\nWe've now created several bespoke Betting Bars, customised for each of the casinos we're working with and designed to meet the needs of operators in a particular market, whether that be Asia, Latin America or Europe.\nCR: What are some of your other plans for 2020?\nPK: I'm going to let you in on a big exclusive: this year we'll be launching TVBET Casino offering live casino content. This is a big step for us, but based on our success last year, we're confident that 2020 will be another outstanding year for TVBET.\nMarc Lawton","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1803 B St, Colorado Springs, CO 80906\nWe Love Insurance\n3D Dental Imaging\nEarly Cavity Detection\nMeet Ralph Parkin, DMD\nMeet Rachel Espinoza, DDS\nTMD Therapy (Jaw Pain)\nYour Child's First Exam\nChildren & Orthodontics\nClearCorrect\u2122\nDental Implants \u2013 Mini\nGum Lift\nImplant-Supported Bridges\nOraspa\u2122 Dental Relaxation\nBone loss following the loss of a tooth is inevitable. When you lose a tooth, the bone in your jaw no longer receives pressure signals when you bite down. Without these signals, the bone doesn't get stimulated to keep regenerating & the body starts to resorb the bone material.\nAfter tooth loss, this process starts immediately & progresses quite quickly: a year after tooth loss, a patient may have already lost up to a quarter of their bone width where the tooth used to be. The rapidity of bone loss is one the reasons it is important to have a plan to replace a lost tooth as soon as possible after loss.\nThankfully, dental implants can help prevent further bone loss because the titanium root structure reintroduces biting forces to your jawbone. However, if a good amount of bone loss has already taken place, bone grafting may be necessary in order to build up enough of a foundation for the implant to take hold.\nWhat Is Bone Grafting?\nBone grafting is a surgical procedure that replaces missing bone that has been lost following the removal or loss of an adult tooth. Bone grafting usually takes place as a preliminary treatment before tooth replacement using dental implants.\nWhile bone grafting is a fairly involved kind of oral surgery, it's a procedure that makes it possible for more patients with a variety of dental situations to permanently replace their teeth. Not so long ago, patients who had lost significant amounts of bone due to missing teeth were told they weren't eligible for dental implants. These patients were limited to less ideal or naturalistic solutions, such as bridges or dentures. Thankfully, dental technology & techniques have advanced so that bone grafting is a commonplace procedure that opens up a whole new world of beautiful & functional smiles to patients in need.\nThe details of a bone grafting procedure depend on the patient's individual situation. Factors that determine the approach we take include where the bone grafting is taking place & how much time has passed since the missing tooth was removed. Bone grafting can occur immediately after a tooth extraction if necessary.\nThink of a graft as a patch that fills in for missing material. In dental bone grafting, the materials that can be used are the patient's own bone, donor bone from another person, animal bone, or a synthetic material. In all cases, the grafting material itself is not intended to fill the gap permanently, but to provide a foundation that encourages the patient's own bone to re-grow into that space.\nAt the start of the procedure, an incision is made in the gums to expose the bone. Then, the bone surface is prepared & the transplanted material is placed. If your own bone is used, it is usually taken from another part of the jawbone, often near the back in the region of wisdom teeth. Finally, the bone graft is protected by the placement of a collagen membrane & the gums are closed back up with small sutures.\nDiscomfort after bone grafting is usually reported as minimal by patients. Over-the-counter anti-inflammatory painkillers, such as ibuprofen (Advil\u00ae), are usually all that's needed to control pain during the recovery period. Depending on your health situation, we may also prescribe antibiotics as a precaution against infection. After the bone grafting procedure, we will monitor the healing & bone regeneration process. 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At our community-focused practice, your comfort & satisfaction come first. We look forward to meeting you soon & developing a relationship with you to build the bridge toward long-term trust & successful dental care. Ralph Parkin, DMD & his team invite you to see why our patients can't stop smiling!\n\u00a9 2021 Cheyenne Mountain Dental Care All rights reserved Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions\nWe are located at 1803 B St, Colorado Springs, CO 80906 just south of the World Arena. Please use the map below to find directions to our office. If you have any questions, please call us at 719-576-1730.\nEnter your starting address:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"One of the first films to include hackers in its plotline, Sneakers was referenced by both experts as an instance where cybersecurity was both accessible and realistic to viewers. The heart of the story -- that technology could decrypt everything -- made people think about a question we still face: What if there were no digital secrets?\nSneakers highlights the multi-disciplinary approach someone could take to exploit a bank, Devost explains. It walks viewers through a hacker's steps of breaking into alarm systems and testing system security. It shows how calls can be rerouted to different locations around the world.\nCommercial encryption algorithms also play a role, albeit in a dramatized way. Viewers learn about the concept of a \"master key\" and the realistic implication of that key being used to steal money and sensitive information. The film also sheds light on social engineering.\n\"It gave us a lot of examples back in the '90s when we were trying to explain social engineering,\" says Cobb. \"We could explain it with Sneakers.\"\n(Image: Iunewind via Shutterstock)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tyson Chandler: Jeremy Lin wasn't able to run the Knicks' offense\nby Steve DelVecchio\nWhen Jeremy Lin first took over for the Knicks last season, things appeared to be going quite well. After struggling mightily to start the year, New York ripped off seven straight wins and became one of the hottest teams in the league when Lin was inserted into the lineup. Despite that success, Tyson Chandler says he didn't quite have a handle on the offense.\n\"Baron was hurt and Jeremy was a young point guard who was just learning and figuring out an offense,\" Chandler told the NY Post. \"It was nothing against them and it was definitely nothing against Baron. Jeremy was a young point guard who was inexperienced, who brought a great light to the organization. But as far as being able to run the offense and putting players in the right position he just wasn't there. We got some veteran point guards that are capable of doing that.\"\nMany point guards have succeeded in Mike D'Antoni's offensive scheme, so perhaps Lin's high scoring totals and ability to take over games was a direct product of that. He may not have been the best at getting everyone involved, but overall the team seemed to do quite well when he was in the lineup.\nIn reality, Lin is gone now so Chandler can't be talking about how much better the team was with him. They have no choice but to move forward, and expressing confidence in the current roster rather than dwelling on the past is probably the right thing to do.\nWill Muschamp could land staff role at Georgia?\nFormer South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp is looking for a new job, and there's increasing speculation he may find one at his alma mater.\nAccording to multiple reports, Muschamp has been seen frequently at Georgia's footba\nReport: Mike Singletary interviews for Bears defensive coordinator job\nThe Chicago Bears have brought in a somewhat surprising name to interview for their vacant defensive coordinator job.\nAccording to Adam Jahns and Kevin Fishbain of The Athletic, the Bears interviewed franchise legend Mike Singletary for th\nJeff Passan, radio host Craig Carton in big feud over Jared Porter story\nWFAN radio host Craig Carton has been highly critical this week of the way ESPN handled its bombshell story about former New York Mets general manager Jared Porter. Now, what began as some on-air criticism from Carton has turned into a rat\nTyreek Hill explains why he shoved receivers coach Greg Lewis\nTyreek Hill's shove of wide receivers coach Greg Lewis was seen by some as a sign of disrespect and insubordination, but Hill said Wednesday it's nothing like that at all.\nThe Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver shoved Lewis after\nMichael Brantley ends up signing with Astros, not Blue Jays\nMichael Brantley is not leaving the Houston Astros for the Toronto Blue Jays, after all.\nMultiple reports on Tuesday morning claimed the Blue Jays and Brantley were in agreement on a three-year deal. It was then reported that the deal was\nBruce Arians has funny quote about keeping Buccaneers focused\nThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers are one win away from reaching the Super Bowl, but don't tell that to Bruce Arians.\nThe Buccaneers coach made clear Wednesday that he wants his team focused on the NFC Championship against the Green Bay Packe","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sports Tennis Women's netters fall to No. 45 Rice\nSportsTennis\nWomen's netters fall to No. 45 Rice\nBy D'Andre Smith\nThe Lady Eagles tennis team claimed a victory in the opening round of the 2016 Conference USA Tennis Championship with a 4-1 win over University of Texas at El Paso the morning of April 21. However, the team fell in the next round to eventual conference champion Rice at the Adams Tennis Complex in Murfeesboro, Tennessee.\nSouthern Miss opened the matchup with a 1-0 lead after capturing the doubles point. Carolin Drescher and Alex Kitchen extended their winning streak to 11 with a 6-2 win against Vivienne Kulicke and Duda Santos. Tjasa Jerse and Elena Roca battled Raven Bennett and Dephne Visscher to a 7-6 win.\nKitchen added another point for the Lady Eagles with a 6-1, 6-2 win. UTEP got its first point of the match when Santos downed Rikeetha Pereira with a 6-2, 6-3 to get the score to 2-1.\nSouthern Miss closed with Roca claiming a 6-3, 6-3 win against Bennett and Drescher clinching a three-set win against Kulicke 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.\nWith Southern Miss' over UTEP, the team advanced to face No. 2 seed and No. 45 nationally-ranked Rice in the next round.\nThe Owls took the early lead, winning a pair of doubles matches. Drescher and Kitchen had their 11-match winning streak snapped with a 6-2 loss to Emily Smith and Katherine Ip. Jerse and Roca lost a 6-3 decision to Solomiya Zinko and Savannah Durkin. Pereira and Claudia Castella were leading 4-3 against Lindsey Hodge and Alison Ho when their match was called.\nOn the singles side, Rice won the first three taking the match win. Castella lost to Ho by the score of 6-1, 6-1. Kitchen lost a 6-2, 6-1 decision to Ip, while Jerse fell to Durkin 6-0, 6-2.\nThe Lady Eagles finished with a 17-4-1 record on the season. It is their best finish to a season since 2007.\nPrevious articleGolden Eagles remain first in C-USA standings\nNext articleSupport for Cruz equals support for marginalization\nD'Andre Smith\nWomen's tennis remains undefeated with win at Troy\nAfter a rainout at Alabama State on Feb. 15,...\nMakayla Puckett - February 22, 2019\nWomen's tennis opens season with three consecutive wins\nThe Southern Miss women's tennis team started its 2019...\nSerena Williams' loss shows her humanity\nDuring the 2018 US Open on Sept. 8, the...\nAlyssa Bass - September 13, 2018\nMen's Tennis earns win over DePaul\nThe Southern Miss men's tennis team earned its tenth...\nGrant Chighizola - March 26, 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Julphar profit up 15% to Dh230m\nJulphar Chairman Sheikh Faisal Bin Saqr Al Qassimi chairs Julphar meeting (SUPPLIED)\nPublished Sunday, February 23, 2014\nJulphar, Ras Al Khaimah-based pharmaceutical products producer and distributor, on Sunday said its profits in 2013 rose 14.9 per cent to Dh230.4 million while revenues increased 15.4 per cent year-on-year to Dh1.362 billion.\nSales during the year were driven by the private market sales which saw a yoy growth of 19.4 per cent.\nJulphar Chairman, Sheikh Faisal Bin Saqr Al Qassimi, said: \"The UAE is driving forward healthcare expansion at an international level and Julphar is proud to play a significant role in shaping the future of our industry. As the first and largest Emirati Pharmaceutical Company, we are positioned to help create a truly global platform for quality healthcare.\n\"We extend our thanks to our Government, Customers, Board of Directors and financial institutions, employees and all other stakeholders for their whole-hearted and continued support and contribution in the success of Julphar.\"\nThe company continued to show robust operational performance during 2013.\nGross profit during 2013 was Dh820.7 million, up 17.7 per cent. Operating profit totaled Dh235.9 million, up 8.6 per cent. Operating profit margin during the period was a robust 17.3 per cent. Profit for the year was Dh230.4 million, up 14.9 per cent yoy.\nGVG Krishna, CFO of Julphar, said: \"2013 has been another great year for the company. The sales mix has seen some shifts during the year. In the private market segment, while our traditional strongholds KSA, the UAE, Iraq and Lebanon have continued to see strong double-digit growth, Kuwait, Oman and Morocco too saw a strong demand for our products. In the tender segment, on the other hand, Libya, Jordan, Ethiopia and Yemen showed strong performance\".","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/Memorial Day\/\nThe Pentagon Insignia Ornament\nPRODUCT ID : whco052514b5\nDuring the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, the 24,000 civilian and military personnel in Washington, D.C. was spread out among 17 buildings. Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell came up with the idea and was then given the task to design and build a building to house the United States Department of Defense in one location.\nThe five-story reinforced concrete building has five concentric pentagonal rings connected by 10 radial corridors with light wells in between and a 6-acre interior center court.\nCompleted on January 15, 1943, the Pentagon, located in SE Arlington County, Virginia, is one of the largest office buildings in the world with 3,705,793 square feet of floor space covering 29 acres. In 1998 renovations were started to modernize the Pentagon and to make the building a more secure structure.\nOn Tuesday, September 11, 2001, an airplane under the control of terrorists crashed into the Pentagon destroying a portion of the building and killing 125 individuals. The Pentagon was repaired within a year and a memorial was built on the crash site.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Sin Problem \u2013 By Howard Miller\nThe Fact of Sin\nHumanity no longer able, in the vernacular of the sea, to box the compass of moral direction, we cannot take too much for granted in the discussion of spiritual problems. The very term \"spiritual\" itself, once pertinent and meaningful, has long since been broadened to an almost unbelievable comprehensiveness. It no longer refers merely to the inner nature of man and his vital relation to Deity, but rather often hides a multitude of ethical cant. It is now quite a common thing to hear prominent speakers refer to the most common values of life as spiritual qualities thereby ignoring those deeper and genuine spiritual facts.\nSin is a strange term to modern thinking, a misnomer in modern speech. In the old-fashioned days, sin meant the violation of God's love and law. It included antagonism toward a finely fibered social fabric, but now sin is out of date. Professed intellectuality states plainly and boldly that the moral conceptions of the past were too highly colored with pagan superstition and were crudely unscientific; that now in this day of research and brilliant discovery in the several branches of science we should no longer undignify humanity with references to sin and its behavior. It is now superiority and inferiority complexes, various forms of mania, glandular reaction, yes even \"the worm striving to be God,\" the growing pains of evolution, mutation of chemical change. Yet the awful fact of sin still stares man hideously in the face. It is written in his every act and deed. Its sharp talons still cling Cruelly to his human flesh and spirit.\nBy multiplied means Satan has endeavored to obscure that awful stroke that unbalanced the human race. It would be superfluous for one to endeavor to recount his zealous and untiring efforts, and although his attack has shifted through the centuries past, his supreme objective has ever been the same-a bald denial of sin. [1]\nWhat the world needs today beyond all else is a renewed conception of sin. Sin has become too common. A proper sense of sin is the balance wheel of good society. Truly did Dr. Parker say, \"Jesus Christ cannot be understood until sin is understood.\" It is of little use to point men to a Saviour when they have nothing to be saved from. To such the cross of Christ is but an overwrought spectacle, a bit of pagan mysticism. To such, religious ardor and faith are either the reflex of pagan superstition or the crudity of an underdeveloped mentality. what a challenge there is for a revival of preaching against sin and its horrors in this present hour of human experience! Uncertain trumpets fill many pulpits of the land looking askance at one who would raise the voice of alarm. A so-called social gospel and religious education without a Christ eases the conscience of the well-to-do while its tepid touch brings only indifference from the multitudes of common people. The world at large today is not only immoral but is unmoral as well.\nBut when the excruciating consciousness of sin and its terror flashes upon a human heart for the first time, the dim and colorless outline of Calvary is suddenly changed to a scene eloquent with hope encircled with the rainbow of God's promise to a despairing soul. It is then the soul rises to its greatest heights of spiritual capacity and appreciation, grasping a well-nigh incomprehensible sense of eternal truth that can express itself only in the words of the poet:\nWhen I survey the wondrous Cross On which the Prince of Glory died,\nMy richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride.\nWere the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small, Love so amazing, so divine Demands my life, my soul, my all.\nThere is but One who really understands sin, and that is God. If we could look through His eyes and see sin as He sees it, how our hearts would burn within us! If our hearts could beat with His own, how our spirits would be wrung with anguish as we look upon sin's cruel dominion over men! Surely a cry to God for a glimpse of the awfulness of sin is a proper plea for a human heart. There is at least one reason for the insipidness of the modern pulpit \u2014 a well-nigh total absence of warning of the consequences of sin. There is at least one reason for the appalling listlessness of the pew today \u2014 the lack of a vision of sin.\nThere are two experiences in the life of our Lord which reveal to us with tremendous force the exceeding sinfulness of sin. It is here, at least, that we can see sin through the eyes of Deity. The first is that scene which the scripture describes with those words, \"Jesus wept.\" What soul-stirring words! There He stood over against the tomb of a beloved friend, that of Lazarus. Why did He weep thus? Was it from a heart of sympathy and yearning tenderness for those two precious heartbroken sisters? True, He was moved by their grief as He is yet moved by our grief and touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but this was not the reason He wept for He knew in a moment of time that Lazarus would again stand forth in their midst. Did He weep for the friends of Lazarus? Yes, but far greater was His grief than this. He wept when He saw personified in Lazarus the devastation of sin. God weeping over the havoc of sin! Jesus saw the tombs of the centuries in that one concrete instance. He saw the stroke that had unbalanced the human race. He saw its sweeping scourge as it leaped from decade to decade, from century to century until every creature had felt the awful sting. We are all kin. Sin is a contagion so virulent that it leaves its smirch at birth. David caught a fleeting glimpse that day in his own horrible act as he cried, \"In sin did my mother conceive me!\" Educational barriers cannot impede it. Mountains of gold cannot isolate it. Moral restraint cannot check it. On, on through the centuries it sweeps with horrible malignancy.\nDr. A. T. Pierson used to tell an incident filled with pathos which but faintly visualizes the awfulness of sin. A terrible plague had swept through a community until death was everywhere. There was no time for decent burial but rather bodies were heaped in trenches in rough boxes and funeral trains passed wearily all the day through. At last the plague subsided. An investigation ensued. The beginnings of the dreadful plague were at last traced back to a one-time happy home. All had been swept away except two heartbroken souls. The verdict of the authorities was finally reached and this unfortunate home was compelled to bear even more. The two remaining members of the home were informed that the building would have to be burned and they themselves could leave only under the strictest surveillance. They must leave all behind. Bowing before the dictate of the law they left with every appearance of obedience to the welfare of the community. Shortly after, the plague broke out again. Startled and shocked the authorities endeavored to trace down the cause only to learn that the two members of the home had carried away secretly a tiny pillow. They had longed for a tie to the memories of the past little realizing that there lurked within that pillow millions of tiny germs that would again bring havoc and death. This touching instance but illustrates the virulency and devastation of the curse of sin. Jesus was weeping that day over the devastation of sin.\nAgain we see Him in the garden. He had left the disciples yonder. Mark gives us the record in the fourteenth chapter of his Gospel. \"He began to be sore amazed.\" Luther said these words were to him the most astonishing in the whole Bible. It was sin that sore amazed Him. He was now looking into the depths of sin. He had wept over sin as He had seen its awful and terrific sweep. He had watched its hellish duplicity as it worked before Him in the Pharisaism of His day, but now as sin was actually placed upon Him, \"He was sore amazed.\" As its yawning chasm opened before Him, as He felt the awful stench and blast upon His holy face, as He felt the quaking sands beneath His feet, as He gazed into the black abyss of the depraved heart of humanity, \"He was sore amazed.\" He had seen angels of light transformed into demons of the night. He had seen man bearing the very image of God degraded to the level of the beast, but now as sin drew up close to Him, and His own heart assumed the curse, \"He was sore amazed.\"\nJohn Wesley said that the fundamental difference between natural and revealed religion was in their respective doctrines of man. Natural religion says that both good and ill reside within, that \"There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.\" So with a hearty cultivation of the good, eventually the evil will be routed. However, revealed religion says, \"There is none that doeth good, no not one.\" . . . . \"All we like sheep have gone astray and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.\" \"Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. . . . Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen\" (Rom. 1:19-25). Sin has not only touched the acts of man but has poisoned and palsied his very nature till he cannot do aught but miss the mark of the perfect will of God. \"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.\"\nShall we be so vain and blindly presumptuous as to deny this cruel reality? Look upon the hillsides and in the vales and see the cities of the dead, the silent sentinels guarding the past. Every limping step, every shriveled arm, every smothered groan, every piercing cry is but the shrieking evidence of the awful presence of sin amongst the children of men. How truly does the Word of God cry out, \"the whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain until now.\"\nDeny sin? How blind and foolish for us to deny its awful fact! Gaze upon the bloody trail across the pages of time! Blood trickling warm in the fresh footprints of the first human pair! The blood of Abel crying from the very ground! The martyrdom of the saints! The inquisition! The French revolution! It is blood,blood, blood, all the way along. Watch its crimson tide creeping higher and higher each century accumulating an awful carnage of woe until that great Apocalypse and revelation of the Christ of God when, in the words of the Scripture, the blood shall be even to the bridles of the horses. Sin is the most cruel, the most real fact of human experience.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Volant Charitable Trust\nOpen Grants Programme\nFunding Criteria\nEligibility for the Open Grants Programme\nFind out more about the application process, including whether your organisation is eligible to apply\nWe know how much work goes into making an application and the Trustees are keen to help charities as much as possible prior to submitting your request for funding.\nIn order to make sure that your project is a good fit with the Volant Trust's areas of funding, please read our FAQs, criteria for funding and how the application process works below.\nDo you accept applications from individuals?\nNo, The Volant Trust only accepts applications from registered charities, community interest companies and community organisations.\nWe need funding for equipment. Will you provide funding towards this?\nNo, the Volant Trust does not generally provide funds for capital expenditure. It specifically gives funding towards project and administrative core costs.\nWill you accept an application for one of your 'Other Funding' areas?\nNo, these awards are made at the sole discretion of the Trustees.\nDo you fund projects from across the UK?\nOur Open Grants programme is only open to projects taking place in Scotland, whose beneficiaries are based there too.\nIs there a limit to the value of grants awarded?\nFor the Open Grants programme, The Volant Trust seeks to fund projects in Scotland that will make a real difference to the beneficiaries. We deliver a funding programme which makes multi-year awards (for up to three years) of \u00a315,000 or less per annum. For the other areas of funding any grants are made at the sole discretion of the Trustees.\nWill you accept applications for fund raising campaigns or to support us in our fundraising activities?\nNo, The Volant Trust will only support specific projects and it does not support general fundraising activities.\nCan we make an application for funding to then distribute to others in the form of grants or Bursaries?\nNo, The Volant Trust will only support projects or core costs that will support organisations to deliver work to support our specific programme areas.\nDo you provide funding retrospectively?\nNo, The Volant Trust does not cover costs already incurred or activities which have already taken place.\nAm I eligible to apply?\nIf you have read through the FAQs and still think you are eligible to apply, please complete our Eligibility Checklist for the Open Grants Programme to help you to determine whether your project meets our funding criteria.\nOur criteria for funding\nOur Open Grants programme will consider one-off projects or multi-year applications. Only in exceptional circumstances will grants exceed three years.\nWe are keen to support work that will make a lasting difference with awards made at any level up to a maximum limit of \u00a315,000 per year.\nHow the application process works\nAll applications are handled by Foundation Scotland, an independent grant making charity, and must be submitted via their website. There are two stages to the application process. Firstly, all applicants are required to complete an initial enquiry form outlining their project. Then once reviewed, you may be invited to submit a full application.\nEligibility checklist\nTo help you to determine whether your project meets our funding criteria we've put together a short series of questions.\n1. Is your organisation a registered charity, community interest company, community organisation or social enterprise? (Please note, we do not accept applications from individuals)\n2. Is your charity, or the project for which you are applying for funding, directly concerned with the alleviation of social deprivation, particularly among women and children?\n3. Does your project take place in Scotland?\n4. Are all of the beneficiaries of your project based in Scotland?\n5. Is your application for funding towards one or more of the following:\na. Project costs\nb. Running costs\nc. Core costs\nIf you answered 'Yes' to all 5 questions, your project may be eligible for funding.\nPlease note: we receive far more applications than we are able to fund, so even if you meet the criteria this is not a guarantee that we will be able to support your project, as competition for funding is high.\nApply now via\nFoundation Scotland\nOr close window\n\u00a9 2016-2022 THE VOLANT CHARITABLE TRUST\nScottish Charity Number SC030790\nVolant and The Volant Charitable Trust are trademarks owned by Turcan Connell (Trustees) as nominee for and on behalf of the Trustees of Volant\nWe use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from this website.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"With the original lineup of Duran Duran reunited for a new album and tour, the timing seems right for the reissue of 1982's Rio.\nWith the original lineup of Duran Duran reunited for a new album and tour, the timing seems right for the reissue of 1982's Rio. The album has been remastered for this enhanced CD, which also features three of the band's influential videos: \"Hungry Like the Wolf,\" \"Rio,\" and \"Save a Prayer.\" In addition, the enhanced portion contains a photo gallery and notations by Duran Duran's Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes. A limited-edition version of the CD reissue (only 7,500 copies in the U.S.) is packaged in a mini-gatefold similar to the original vinyl album. \"Lonely in Your Nightmare,\" \"Save a Prayer,\" and \"The Chauffeur\" show the band in a mysterious mood, but the danceable pop tracks (the title cut, \"Hungry Like the Wolf,\" \"My Own Way\") embody the exuberant sex appeal that enabled the band to first take the world by storm. More than a trip down memory lane, Rio reminds us how a band with the right package\u2014songs plus image\u2014at the right time can have it all.\u2014CH","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"San Diego Sets The Sun On Sonora With 8-5 Win\nThe 14-time champion San Diego Sockers used a balanced scoring attack and solid goalkeeping to defeat their playoff nemesis Sonora 8-5 before 2,233 at Valley View Casino Center. San Diego (6-0) remains undefeated early in the season and has a three-game lead in the Pacific Division.\nSonora started the game with an early goal by Anibal Echeverria at 1:59. However, less than a minute later Eddie Velez tallied his first goal of the season to tie the game at 1-1. Hiram Ruiz scored off a pass from Erick Tovar to put San Diego up for good at the 5:31 mark of the first. The Sockers extended their lead to three on goals from Brian Farber and Matt Clare to end the period at 4-1. In the second period, Sonora cut the lead in half on a goal by Franck Tayou.\nBoth teams added two goals each in the third period. The Sockers struck for their goals in the middle of the quarter. Kraig Chiles raised his point streak to six games with a power-play goal, and Brandon Escoto found the back of the net off a helper from Ze Roberto. Chiles leads the team with 13 goals and 18 points.\nChris Toth made 15 saves during the game and several big saves in the fourth to maintain the Sockers lead. The Soles made the crowd uneasy when they scored 1:54 into the final period, but San Diego responded only 17 seconds later when Tovar notched his first goal of the game. Cesar Cerda added an empty-net goal to ice the game.\nThe Sockers will play the Turlock Express at Valley View Casino Center on Sunday, December 17, 5:05 p.m. It will be Star Wars Night, and the first 2,000 fans will receive a free pair of Light Sabre Bam-Bam Sticks. Parking is always free ($15 value), courtesy of the team. Gates open at 4:00 p.m.\nTHREE STARS OF THE GAME: 1. Toth, 15 saves 2. Tovar, 1 goal, 1 assist 3. Clare, 1 goal, 1 assist\nNEXT THREE MATCHES: Dec. 17 vs Turlock I Dec. 22 @ Ontario I Jan. 5 @ Turlock\nSTREAK: Won 6 FORM: WWWWWW\nView Video Highlights","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Oil soars near 5% as U.S. delays tariffs on some Chinese goods\nNEW YORK (Reuters) \u2013 Oil prices on Tuesday jumped by the most so far this year after the United States said it would delay imposing a 10% tariff on certain Chinese products, easing concerns over a global trade war that has pummeled the market in recent months.\nFILE PHOTO: A view of an oil refinery off the coast of Singapore March 14, 2008. REUTERS\/Vivek Prakash\nThe Chinese products include laptops and cellphones. The tariffs had been scheduled to start next month.\n\"The U.S.-China trade war has caused energy demand growth to take a big hit. Any glimmer of hope revives the prospects for a more positive demand landscape,\" said John Kilduff, partner at energy hedge fund Again Capital Management in New York.\nBrent LCOc1 futures rose $2.73, or 4.7%, to settle at $61.30 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 gained $2.17, or 4.0%, to settle at $57.10.\nThat was the biggest daily percentage gain for Brent since December when the contract gained 7.9%.\nOil prices pared some of their gains in post-settlement trade after data from industry group the American Petroleum Institute (API) showed U.S. crude stocks unexpectedly rose last week.\nCrude inventories climbed 3.7 million barrels to 443 million, compared with analysts' expectations for a decrease of 2.8 million barrels, the API said.\nU.S. government data on crude stocks is due on Wednesday morning.\nSince falling to their lowest levels since January on Aug. 7, Brent has gained 9% and WTI 12%. That bigger gain in WTI over the past four days briefly cut Brent's premium over WTI WTCLc1-LCOc1 to its lowest since March 2018.\nThe Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Tuesday that U.S. and Chinese trade officials spoke on the phone and agreed to talk again within two weeks.\n\"The possibility that the United States and China can get the trade talks on track \u2026 is raising hopes that they might actually get some type of deal,\" said Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago.\n\"That's why we are seeing this big rebound in prices,\" Flynn said.\nBefore the U.S. announcement about the tariff delay, Brent futures were still trading about 20% below the 2019 high they hit in April.\nIn addition to the cooling of the U.S.-China trade war, analysts said prices were propped up by expectations U.S. crude inventories declined last week and a belief Saudi Arabia will stick with production cuts.\nIn the United States, analysts forecasts crude stockpiles fell by 2.8 million barrels last week, according to a Reuters poll.\n\"If we get the drawdown in (U.S.) inventory that most people are looking for, that is going to get the market a lot tighter,\" said Flynn at Price Futures.\nFILE PHOTO: An Aramco oil tank is seen at the Production facility at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oilfield in the Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia May 22, 2018. Picture taken May 22, 2018. REUTERS\/Ahmed Jadallah\nSaudi Arabia, the de facto leader of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), last week said it planned to keep its crude exports below 7 million barrels per day (bpd) in August and September to help drain global oil inventories. OPEC and its allies, known as OPEC+, have agreed to cut 1.2 million bpd of production since Jan. 1.\nThe kingdom's plan to float its national oil company Saudi Aramco in what could be the world's largest initial public offering (IPO) gives it further impetus to boost prices.\n\"Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies standing firm on their commitment to the OPEC+ output-cut agreement has supported prices,\" said Abhishek Kumar, head of analytics at Interfax Energy in London.\nAdditional reporting by Ron Bousso in London, Roslan Khasawneh in Singapore and Laila Kearney in New York; Editing by Marguerita Choy and David Goodman\nFacebook is getting a new Design | Branex\nForget Fake News \u2014 It's Fake Traffic You Need to Worry About\n7 Reasons Why SEO Matters for Every Startup\nElvira Gavrilova, the Chief Editor of Fincoff, interviewed Princess Camilla of Bourbon-Two Sicilies\nVan Gogh Had Many Friends, and Even a Girlfriend. A New Show Seeks to Debunk the Myth of the 'Lonely, Tormented Artist'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Deloitte Discovery's global capabilities\nGoing beyond borders to move our clients ahead\n\u200bAround the world, Deloitte Discovery helps global organizations solve their toughest discovery challenges and improve their discovery processes, programs, and technology. We provide the full spectrum of information governance, computer forensics, Discovery, complex analytics, and document review services. In helping our clients, we bring agile teams with diverse cultural backgrounds and in-depth experience, specialized technical and industry capabilities, and an innovative use of data and emerging technology to uncover possibilities that others fail to find.\n\u200bDeloitte Discovery services and capabilities\nDeloitte Discovery combines the highly specialized skills of Deloitte's people, its highly developed technologies, and the power of the Deloitte global network to provide deeper insights and smarter, more efficient solutions so clients can control costs and mitigate risks during the discovery process. Deloitte's network of member firms has been providing discovery services for nearly 30 years to clients on six continents across five core services: discovery consulting, collection, processing, hosting, and review.\nDownload the guide to learn more about Deloitte Discovery's global services and capabilities.\nDeloitte\u200b Discovery's Global Guide\nDeloitte Discovery has an exceptional team of professionals throughout the Americas, with technology and cross-border abilities to assist with global solutions. For example, to better serve our clients in the evolving Latin American market, the Deloitte Latin American Countries Organization (Deloitte LATCO) was established as a regional organization to unify our firms in that area; with nearly 4,500 professionals distributed among 25 offices in 15 countries.\nDeloitte Discovery's America teams also have access to market-leading technology. Some examples of this include Deloitte Canada's National Discovery & Analytic Centre (NDAC) and Deloitte United States' Electronic Discovery Solutions Center (EDSC). The NDAC is the largest private analytic lab in Canada for conducting computer forensic, Discovery and analytic insight engagements. The EDSC is the centerpiece of the discovery operations in the United States and is Deloitte-owned and managed in Nashville, Tennessee. The EDSC is dedicated to handling processing and hosting for all US client projects. It was built to meet key Tier III and Tier IV data center specifications, and currently houses more than 1,000 servers providing 5 petabytes of dedicated storage.\nAmericas locations include:\nAregentina and Latin America\nCaribbean & Bermuda Countries\nEurope, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)\nThe Deloitte Discovery team has a strong presence throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Some examples of this include:\nThe Deloitte Center of Excellence for Discovery and Computer Forensics (The Center) for mainland Europe, located in the Netherlands, is the largest hosting hub practice with dedicated Discovery professionals. The award-winning Center has multiple quality, sustainability, and security certifications and is one of the most highly sustainable data centers in Europe.\nDeloitte Discovery's United Kingdom team has deep capabilities in new areas such as Computer Assisted Review where they have demonstrated to clients the benefits in both cost and risk of adopting this technology. They have also pioneered new service offerings such as Assisted Redaction and Audio Discovery so that clients are able to benefit from our investment with reduced costs through more efficient review. Additionally, the United Kingdom is the site of one of our European data center hubs with robust data processing and hosting facilities in dual data centers, geographically dispersed in East and West London.\nThe Deloitte Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) firm is the largest and oldest indigenous public accounting firms in the Middle East, having been in the region for 85 years. Our Deloitte Discovery team is part of the largest Forensic practice in the region with more than 50 specialists.\nEMEA locations include:\n\u200bDenmark\n\u200bGermany\n\u200bIreland\n\u200bItaly\nMiddle East and Northern Africa\nSouth Africa and Central Africa\n\u200bSwitzerland\n\u200bUnited Kingdom\nDeloitte Discovery is well represented in the Asia Pacific region. Some highlights of this team's capabliities include:\nDeloitte Discovery is centrally located to collect and process data in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, with five discovery labs in Australia and one in New Zealand. The Deloitte Discovery team in Australia has provided specialized Discovery services to clients since 1998, and has a demonstrated track record of delivering Discovery services in disputes and regulatory investigations. Their services include the use of sound forensic technology practices to collect, preserve, and process data required for the Discovery process or potential use as evidence in legal proceedings.\nDeloitte Discovery's China facilities include two secure, purpose-built discovery labs located on Deloitte premises in Hong Kong and Shanghai. These labs feature logged restricted access, and a stand-alone, segregated, and highly secure IT infrastructure. Each data center has a separate discovery and data analysis network, along with offsite storage of evidence files.\nThe Deloitte Japan team provides technology-driven solutions that address each step of the EDRM, from forensic collections designed and conducted to capture all structured and unstructured data residing on disparate systems in a legally defensible manner, to assisting with data processing and analysis with cutting-edge tools and techniques. This team is well-versed in addressing the complex challenges of dealing with Japanese language and the issues presented by East Asian double byte character sets.\nAsia Pacific locations include:\n\u200bJapan\n\u200bKorea\nLatest news from @Deloitte\nDeloitte EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy\nDiscovery Insights\nAbout Deloitte in Iraq\nDeloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UdK private company limited by guarantee (\"DTTL\"), its network of member firms, and their related entities. DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities. DTTL (also referred to as \"Deloitte Global\") does not provide services to clients. Please see About Deloitte to learn more about our global network of member firms.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The priest was Akan. He had been born Akan, and was deeply superstitious. The idea of Odomankoma appealed to him.\nThe idea that there was a great inventor up there was something that made sense. The idea of someone pulling their strings, was something that was more believable. And so, from his early childhood, Brother Nana Kanu had wholeheartedly devoted himself to the faith.\nAs it so happened, Brother Kanu was the first of the skeptics to leave while the king was speaking. He felt the king was foolish for enforcing the religion on the people, and that the people would just revolt in opposition to this imposition.\nHis move was not unnoticed. Hidden from the eyes of all, the assassin watched him leave.\nBrother Kanu walked down down the gravel streets of Ashanti towards is church.\nAlmost everyone was still near the palace, and so the silence would help him think.\nTill lately, he had been worrying a lot about death. Now 53 years of age, he guessed he had around a couple of years left in him.\nThe priest had been worrying about death for quite a while now. He enjoyed the luxury of life, and he didn't want to go. The priest wondered how he would go, where would he go? Was there any way to survive?\nAfter a while, in the deathly silence of the church, the priest arose from the shadows to set home.\nLittle did he notice that he was being followed. Unnoticed by him, the assassin followed him to his inn. Hers was the room above his, and it would be time to finish the task she set forth for.\nThe priest walked inside his room, and went to his cot. He was about to lay down, when he heard the glass window crack open. shards of glass fell inside the room.\nThere was someone outside. The priest walked up to the window, trying not to step on the jarring glass that was all over the floor. He looked out, and saw a rope hanging.\nHe took a few steps behind in shock.\n\"Aargh. Damn it, I forgot about the glass\" he muttered as he clutched his foot in pain.\nHe walked up to the table, to drink a glass of water, when he noticed something in the water.\nIt was slightly murky in texture. He sniffed at it, slightly vary. Was someone trying to poison him?\nHe went down to the bed, suddenly very scared. He should inform someone, but who was there? Everyone was at the palace, listening to that dratted king lecture on about Satan.\nIt was almost evening, and the last rays of light were going out, as the priest lay down to go to bed.\nLittle did he know that death was soon to come to him. The very thing he feared was almost here, and he was going to leave.\nThe assassin crept in, silently. She made sure not to step on the glass. She took out her dagger, and walked up to bed. She wanted to see his face, his expressions as she slit his throat. She wanted to feel his fear, she wanted to see how he met death.\nMuch to her surprise, he was ready for her, but he wasn't ready to experience death.\nShe sat him up against the wall, the dagger in one hand.\n\"Is your Odomankoma going to save you now?\" She mocked.\n\"Please, please\" He grovelled, begging her to release him. But she was adamant, she couldn't feel pity now. She couldn't afford to lose out now. She had to complete this task.\n\"Say hello to the reaper from me.\" She said, and quietly slit his throat. His eyes went wide, as blood gushed out of the opening.\nShe waited for the life to pass out of him, as she sat down as far away from him. She felt exhilarated, accomplished. The high priest would be pleased with her.\nBrother Kanu was feeling terrified, he could feel the void closing in on him. His time was up. Memories flashed through his eyes, the first time he had picked up the holy book. He remembered his mother, his father. They were all long dead now. He took in some air one last time, and closed his eyes. In that one split second, he saw the reaper. Scythe in hand, ready to take his soul.\nThe assassin watched as he closed his eyes, the life leaving the priests body. Her task was complete. She bent across his body, and retrieved her dagger which was on the floor. She had some more work to do now.\nShe took her dagger in one hand and walked up to the wall opposite to the cot. There was blood on the dagger, and that was what she was going to use to draw the pentacle on the wall. It wasn't in her instructions, but she felt that it would be better to do so.\nShe scraped out a pentacle on the wall. The wall was quite soft, so it was pretty easy. Now all she had to do was fill the spaces with blood, or make them red to make the scene more gruesome.\nEveryone knew that Brother Kanu had been skeptical of the king, so this would send across a sure message to other skeptics out there. Do not mess with Satan.\nShe took up a cloth, tied it around her hand and rubbed it across the dagger. Blood smeared onto the cloth, and she rubbed it against the pentacle shape on the wall. The red in it symbolized Satan. Her task was complete.\nShe sat down, she wondered whether or not to write anything. She soon decided to do it.\nTh\u00ef\u0161 \u00ed\u0160 wh\u00c5\u0141 h\u00c3\u00de\u00fe\u00e8n\u0160.\nHer scrawl wasn't so good, but the shew as new to this. She would have preferred to write in the ancient Satanic language, but unfortunately she didn't know it. She had a lot to learn.\nThe assassin crept towards the window. It was time to leave, the satanists were meeting in a while, and it was her time to be there. She took of her mask, letting her face feel some fresh air. She had to go away from here before someone started suspecting things. She had to leave this inn at once.\nShe went to her room, by the rope she had used to get in. She took her stuff, covered her face again, and left. She didn't look back. She wondered how this murder was going to be taken, but she didn't want to find. She walked out onto the street. It was time.\nShe had defied everything her father had set on her. She was finally free, or well almost free. Her father was a slave of the king's father. Naturally, she had been forced into slavery as well. But there had been a choice, an actual choice. And he had given her away. He had sold her, his only daughter.\nHe had sold her into slavery, so that he himself escaped it. His own daughter.\nAll because he had to pursue his stupid faith.\nAnd today, she had killed him. Her own father, the person who had bound her. She was finally free.\nBooks Similar to 'Fifty Shades of Grey'\nBooks Similar to 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'\nBooks Located in School\nBooks Similar to Sarah J. 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{"text":"Posted inCrime & Safety\nBrothers charged after 5 bank robberies\nBerkeleyside broke the news Sunday about two men tied to a bank robbery in February. Monday, authorities said the brothers from Oakland have actually been tied to five bank heists.\nby Emilie Raguso March 27, 2017, 6:25 p.m. October 4, 2022\nPolice say two brothers who robbed this bank in Berkeley in February also hit four other Bay Area banks. Image: Google Maps\nBerkeleyside broke the news Sunday about two men tied to a Berkeley bank robbery in February. Monday, authorities said the men \u2014 brothers from Oakland with felony records \u2014 have actually been tied to five Bay Area bank robberies dating back to November.\nIn all five cases, an armed robber wearing a security guard uniform demanded money from the banks, which were in Berkeley, Oakland, Fremont and Alameda. According to court papers, the duo netted more than $40,000 from the heists. One of the brothers, 53-year-old Russell Bartlow, has a prior conviction from 1999 for armed bank robbery, which sent him to prison.\nBerkeley investigators became aware of the case in February when a man with a gun in a security guard uniform robbed a bank on Solano Avenue. The man wore a distinctive security jacket, described by police as black with a gold embroidered badge. He approached one of the tellers and demanded cash at gunpoint, BPD said in a prepared statement Monday. The man then ran off down Colusa Avenue and police were unable to catch him.\nAs they worked the case, detectives learned about three other \"similar\" robberies, according to court papers obtained by Berkeleyside. The first one took place Nov. 19 in Oakland at a Chase branch, followed by the robbery of an Alameda Citibank on Dec. 10, and a robbery at Bank of the West in Oakland on Jan. 23.\nPolice said they were able to piece together suspect and vehicle description from witness statements and security footage. That led them to zero in on a White Dodge Challenger identified by police as the \"getaway car.\" OPD stopped the Challenger in January for a vehicle code violation, and because it had been linked to the robberies, police said. Ultimately, that day, OPD let the driver, 36-year-old Jerron Bartlow, leave with a warning.\nInvestigators continued to look into the younger Bartlow, learning about his movements, vehicles and associates, according to court papers. At one point, detectives saw an older man park a Toyota outside the younger man's home, in the 2000 block of 100th Avenue in Oakland, and let himself inside with a key. Police found out that the registered owner of the Toyota was Russell Bartlow, and found that a prior booking photograph \"showed that he looked very similar to the suspect seen on the security video\" from one of the Oakland cases. Investigators also learned, at that time, that the elder Bartlow was on federal probation for bank robbery.\nPolice looked deeper into the Bartlows and learned they had both been on days off from work during four of the five robberies. In the other case, there was a two-hour gap between a robbery and the start of Russell Bartlow's work day, police wrote.\nOn March 18, BPD became aware of a fifth bank robbery, this time in Fremont, \"with the same described suspect wearing the same Security guard uniform armed with a silver semi-automatic handgun,\" police wrote in court papers.\nLast week Wednesday, Berkeley investigators served a search warrant on 100th Avenue, at a residence identified in court papers as the home of both brothers. During the search, police said they found a security guard jacket, black pants and black shoes, and two handguns, \"all items consistent with what Russell used during the commission of the Bank Robberies,\" police wrote.\nDuring police interviews, investigators say Jerron Bartlow admitted that a masked man in a security guard uniform \u2014 seen in surveillance footage \u2014 looked like his brother, though the younger Bartlow himself denied being involved in any robberies.\nThe men have been charged by the Alameda County district attorney's office with 13 felonies including armed robbery, use or possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of heroin for sale. (Jerron Bartlow is facing fewer armed robbery charges, and no drug charges.)\nThe younger Bartlow has one prior conviction, in 2009 in Alameda County, for possession of cocaine base for sale.\nHis older brother has seven felony convictions dating back to 1985 related to drug sales, commercial burglary, robbery and armed bank robbery. The most recent conviction was in 1999.\nThe elder Bartlow, whose listed occupation is a student, is being held on a combined $2.22 million bail. The younger Bartlow, a truck driver, is being held on $410,000 bail, according to online records from the Alameda County sheriff's office. They are being held at Santa Rita Jail and were scheduled for arraignment Monday.\nThe men are set to enter pleas April 10 at 9 a.m. at the Ren\u00e9 C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland.\nIn its prepared statement, BPD thanked the FBI as well as investigators from Oakland, Alameda and Fremont, \"for the teamwork\" which led to the arrests.\nMonday, BPD spokesman Sgt. Andrew Frankel described bank robberies in the city as \"very infrequent.\"\n\"It just doesn't happen here all that often anymore,\" he said.\nIn 30 days, police have arrested 12 tied to robbery cases, including bank heist\nBerkeley police on the scene after bank robbery, manhunt underway\nBerkeley police release dramatic bank robbery video; ask for help to find culprit\nBreaking: Wells Fargo robbed; police on the scene\nTagged: Bank robbery, Berkeley Police, Guns, Home: Lead, North Berkeley, Robberies, Solano Avenue\nEmilie Raguso\nemilie@berkeleyscanner.com\nEmilie Raguso (former senior editor, news) joined Berkeleyside in 2012 and covered politics, public safety and development until her departure in 2022. In 2017, Emilie was named Journalist... More by Emilie Raguso","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Towards Justice > Who We Are > Our Board\nBarry Baer, Treasurer\nBarry Baer is a full time financial management operator and advisor with extensive experience as a Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of public, private and not for profit entities. With over 40 plus years of experience, he also serves on various boards of companies and not for profits as a volunteer. Barry is the CFO of NeoMedia Technologies, Inc where he provides financial, organizational, and operational advice to CEO and staff and ensures compliance with SEC regulations and guidance. Barry also serves as the CFO at Mind Life Institute, Max Katz Bag Company, and Financial Advisor at Action Marketing Group\/12foot6. Barry spent much of his career in the military, where he rose to the rank of Colonel. Barry holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Colorado and is a CPA (inactive-Indiana). He is married with two grown children and five grandchildren.\nNina DiSalvo, Director\nNina comes to Towards Justice from Governor Cuomo's administration in New York State, where she served as Special Counsel to the Secretary of State. In that capacity, Nina worked to create the New York State Office for New Americans, the Empire State Fellows Program, and the Regional Economic Development Councils. Nina also managed various divisions within the New York State Department of State, represented the Secretary on boards and commissions, and adjudicated administrative appeals related to occupational licensure. Prior to joining New York State government, Nina was a lawyer associated with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where she dedicated substantial time to employment law litigation. Nina has also served on the Junior Advisory Board to Her Justice in New York City, worked as a research fellow with human rights organizations in Argentina, and taught high school in rural Puerto Rico. Nina is fluent in Spanish and English, and grew up between upstate New York, Puerto Rico, and the Turks and Caicos islands. Nina received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, and her Bachelor of Arts in government and Latin American studies from Wesleyan University. Nina is on the board of directors of the Community Resource Center and is admitted to practice law in New York and Colorado.\nBrian Gonzales, Director\nIn 2008, Brian Gonzales founded The Law Offices of Brian D. Gonzales to dedicate himself to the vindication of workers' rights. Mr. Gonzales' practice concentrates on representing employees in collective and class action cases to recover overtime pay, stolen tips and other unpaid wages. He has represented thousands of workers in Colorado and throughout the United States, recovering millions of dollars in compensation and forcing companies to bring pay policies into compliance with the law. Prior to founding his firm, Mr. Gonzales was an associate in the complex litigation department of Gibson,Dunn & Crutcher, LLP and subsequently joined a group of Gibson, Dunn attorneys in founding the Denver law firm known as Fognani & Faught, PLLC. Mr. Gonzales earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Kansas in 1992 and, in 1996, earned a law degree from the University of Michigan. He is admitted to practice in Texas and Colorado.\nDavid Lopez, Director\nDavid Lopez is a Partner at Outten and Golden and the attorney-in-charge at the firm's Washington, DC office. Mr. Lopez is Co-chair of the Discrimination & Retaliation Practice Group. Mr. Lopez served as General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from April 8, 2010 until December 9, 2016 \u2013 the longest serving General Counsel of the agency. Mr. Lopez was nominated twice by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2010 and 2014. Mr. Lopez is the first EEOC field trial attorney to be appointed as the agency's General Counsel. As General Counsel, Mr. Lopez was in charge of the Commission's litigation program, overseeing the agency's 15 Regional Attorneys and a staff of more than 325 lawyers and legal professionals who conduct or support Commission litigation in district and appellate courts across the country. He has served at the Commission in various capacities for the past 22 years, including as Supervisory Trial Attorney in the Phoenix District Office and Special Assistant to then-Chairman Gilbert F. Casellas. Mr. Lopez has been a Lecturer-in-Law at Harvard Law School and an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Law Center.\nPrior to joining the EEOC, Mr. Lopez was a Senior Trial Attorney with the Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC. Between 1988 and 1991, Mr. Lopez was an Associate with Spiegel and McDiarmid in Washington, DC. Mr. Lopez obtained his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988 and graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University in 1985, with a B.S. in Political Science. Mr. Lopez is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, as well as the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association and the College of Labor Employment Lawyers.\nCamila Sosman Palmer, Secretary\nCamila is an attorney at Elkind Alterman Harston PC, an immigration law firm in downtown Denver. She joined the firm in October 2011, after completing a two year clerkship with the Denver Immigration Court, through the Attorney General's Honors Program. Prior to working at the Immigration Court, Camila was a staff attorney at The Door's Legal Services Center in New York City, where she represented immigrant youth before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Executive Office for Immigration Review, as well as in New York State family courts. Camila earned her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 2007, where she completed externships with the employment unit at Greater Boston Legal Services, with the Immigrant Defense Project in New York City, and with the U.S. District Court for the Federal District of Puerto Rico. Before entering law school, Camila taught high school Spanish in Washington, DC, was as an immigration paralegal at Ayuda, Inc., and worked on refugee resettlement issues for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in San Jose, Costa Rica. Camila received her bachelor's degree from Middlebury College in 1998 and is fluent in Spanish. She is admitted to the New York Bar and is a member of the Colorado Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.\nJeff Williams, President\nJeff Williams is Assistant General Counsel at Cordant Health Solutions, and was previously in-house counsel at DaVita Inc., and an associate attorney at Taylor | Anderson LLP in Denver and Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP in New York. Jeff was also selected to serve as the Willkie Pro Bono Extern to Her Justice, a legal services organization that represents victims of domestic violence in family and immigration law matters. Prior to joining the bar, Jeff taught seventh grade history in Los Angeles through Teach for America. Jeff received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law and his bachelor of arts from Hamilton College.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Makes This Show so Special?\nAs you are reading this, you may be saying to yourself, \"Yeah, it was a good show, but what makes it different from any other show?\" And that is a good question, especially if you are considering using the show as a theme for an informal Bible study. Why is this show special? I think Mr. Idelson said it very well when he stated that the show was about man's humanity to man. The show itself is very funny, but the characters are not laughing at each other, they are laughing with each other. How many times did Barney mess up only to have Andy come to his rescue. And not only to get Barney out of trouble, but to get him out of trouble while paying special care not to hurt his feelings. Throughout all the relationships developed during the show, you really got the feeling that the people genuinely cared for each other.\nI believe another reason the show is special is a result of the natural talent of the actors and actresses that played the parts. They had a certain chemistry between them that I doubt will ever be duplicated. The show was extremely funny, but there were very few jokes. The writers weren't out to get quick laughs with lame jokes as is the case with many of the current shows today. The humor was in the situations, and the characters' reactions to those situations. Who can forget Barney's monologue on the selfishness of Giraffes while explaining to Opie why it was OK for the dogs to be out in the thunderstorm (Dogs, Dogs, Dogs), or the look on Andy's face when Barney explains that he bought his parents a septic tank for their anniversary (Barney's First Car), or Barney, Goober, and Floyd trying to contact the mystical Count Ist Van Telecky in the back room of the Court House (Three Wishes for Opie).\nI also believe the show was a success because it made us feel at home. Even though there was never a \"real\" Mayberry, we all felt very comfortable there. We all wanted to go to Mayberry just to sit in the courthouse and share a cup of coffee with Andy and Barney, or go home to one of Aunt Bee's Sunday dinners, or even sit on the porch while Andy played the guitar and sang \"Church in the Wildwood\". Which brings me to another point of why the show was special - the music.\nAndy Griffith made it a point to include music in the series wherever he could. Whether it was rehearsing with the town band, practicing with Barney and the choir, or singing \"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms\" at Charlene Darling's mountain wedding, the music was there. On several occasions the show featured the talented folk music group, The Dillards. Of course we knew them as the Darlings with Briscoe Darling (Denver Pyle) as the patriarch. It was obvious that Andy Griffith considered the music a very important part of the series. His love for music is still evident today with his recent release of two award winning gospel music albums.\nWhy the Show is Special to Me\nWhy the Show Makes Sense for a Bible Class\nPreparing for the Class","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Academic Dress - Definition of Clothing Apparel Search\nFashion Schools Clothing Education Guide Skirt Factory Dress Factory Fashion Directory Definition List Fashion Industry News Clothing Industry Glossary\nIf you are ready to graduate from high school or a university, you may need graduation clothing. Most importantly, you will need a cap & gown for graduation. Before buying a set, check with your school to see if they order them for you.\nAcademic dress or academical dress is traditional clothing worn specifically in academic settings. It is more commonly seen nowadays only at graduation ceremonies, but in former times academic dress was, and to a lesser extent in many ancient universities still is, worn on a daily basis. This article deals chiefly with academic dress in the English-speaking world.\nAcademic dress in most universities in the Commonwealth is derived from the academic dress of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which themselves are a development of academic and clerical dress common throughout the medieval universities of Europe. In the United States, however, academic dress has also been influenced by the academic dress of continental Europe.\nAcademic dress today generally consists of a gown, hood and sometimes a cap (either a mortarboard or a bonnet). When wearing academic dress, it is usual to dress formally and soberly beneath the gown; so, for example, males would typically wear a dark lounge suit with a white shirt and tie, or military or national dress, and females would wear equivalent attire.\nBritish academic dress\nThe gown\nThe modern gown is derived from the roba worn under the cappa clausa, a garment resembling a long black cape. In early medieval times, all students at the universities were in at least minor orders, and were required to wear the cappa or other clerical dress, and restricted to clothes of black or other dark color.\nThe gowns most commonly worn, that of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA), are substantially the same throughout the English-speaking world. Both are traditionally made of black stuff, or cloth, (although occasionally the gown is dyed in one of the college's colors) and have the material at the back of the gown gathered into a yoke. The BA gown has bell-shaped sleeves, while the MA gown has long sleeves closed at the end, with the arm passing through a slit above the elbow. In the Commonwealth, gowns are worn open, while in the United States it has become common for gowns to close at the front, as did the original roba.\nUndergraduates at many older universities also wear gowns; the most common is a smaller knee-length version of the BA gown. In some ancient Scottish universities the undergraduate's gown is red.\nDress and Undress\nSince medieval times, doctors, like bishops and cardinals, have been authorised to wear garments of brighter colors such as scarlet, purple or red. In many older universities, doctors have scarlet dress gowns or robes which are worn on special occasions (for example, at graduation ceremonies and on certain festivals of the Christian calendar), as well as a black undress gowns which is worn on ordinary occasions. In Oxford, as well as full dress and undress gowns, there is a third form of dress, the Convocation habit or chemir , which is a scarlet sleeveless garment worn over the black gown, with the sleeves of the gown pulled through the armholes of the chemir. This is worn at meetings of Convocation or Congregation, including at degree ceremonies by non-graduands.\nThe academic cap or square, commonly known as the \"mortarboard\", has come to be symbolic of academia, and can be worn by graduates and undergraduates alike. It is a flat square hat with a tassel suspended from a button in the top center of the board. Properly worn, the cap is parallel to the ground, though some people, especially women, wear it angled back.\nThe mortarboard may also be referred to as a trencher cap (or simply trencher). In many universities, holders of doctorates wear a soft rounded headpiece known as a Tudor bonnet, rather than a trencher.\nAs with other forms of headgear, academic caps are not generally worn indoors by men (other than by the Chancellor or other high officials), but are usually carried. In some graduation ceremonies caps have been dispensed of altogether for men, being issued only to women, who do wear them indoors. This has led to urban legends in a number of universities in the United Kingdom which have as a common theme that idea that the wearing of the cap was abandoned in protest at the admission of women to the university. This story is told at the University of Cambridge, the University of Bristol, the University of Durham, and the University of St Andrews, among others.\nThe hood was originally a functional civilian garment, worn to shield the head from the elements. In the English tradition, it has developed to an often bright and decorative garment worn only on special occasions. It is also worn by the clergy of the Church of England in choir dress over the surplice.\nThe traditional hood consists of a cape and a cowl, as in the full Cambridge shape. In Oxford, the bachelors' and masters' hoods have lost their cape. Various other British universities have different shapes and patterns of hoods, in some cases corresponding to the pattern current at the ancient universities at the time when they were founded, and in others representing a completely new design.\nThe color and lining of hoods in academic dress represents the status of the wearer. In many Commonwealth universities bachelors wear hoods edged or lined with white rabbit fur, while masters wear hoods lined with colored silk (originally ermine or other expensive fur). Doctors' hoods are normally made of scarlet cloth and lined with colored silk. Undergraduates do not normally wear hoods, but some have adopted the black unlined literates' hood worn by Anglican clergymen without degrees.\nAs well as deriving from British academic dress, academic dress in the United States has been influenced by the academic dress traditions of continental Europe. There is an Inter-Collegiate code which sets out a detailed uniform scheme of academic dress, but not all colleges follow it.\nBachelors' and masters' gowns in the United States are similar to their counterparts in the United Kingdom, but are worn closed.\nDoctoral robes are typically black, although some schools use robes in the school's colors. In general, doctoral gowns are similar to the gowns worn by master's graduates, with the addition of velvet stripes across the sleeves and running down the front of the gown, tinted with the disciplinary color for the degree received. The robes have full sleeves trimmed with bands of velvet instead of the bell sleeves of the master's gown. Some gowns open more at the front to display a tie or cravat, while others take an almost cape-like form.\nIn the US, academic dress is rarely worn outside commencement ceremonies. In many American schools, the color of the hood represents the school or department that the wearer is graduating from. A number of other items, cords or sashes, may be also seen worn, representing various academic achievements.\nThe tassel worn on the mortarboard may indicate the university's colors, or the colors of the specific college or discipline from which the student is graduating. There is in some universities a practice of moving the tassel from one side to the other on graduating, but this is a modern innovation which would be impractical out of doors due to the vagaries of the wind. However, this mark of transition to graduate status has the benefit of taking less time than more traditional indicators such as the conferring of the hood (which is done at some Scottish universities), or a complete change of dress partway through the ceremony (as at Oxford).\nInter-Collegiate colors\nThe colors allocated to the various academic disciplines have been largely standardized, and are:\nAgriculture - Maize\nArts, Letters, Humanities - White\nBusiness - Tan\nCommerce, Accountancy, Business - Drab\nDentistry - Lilac\nEconomics - Copper\nEducation - Light Blue\nEngineering - Orange\nFine Arts - Brown\nForestry - Russet\nJournalism - Crimson\nLaw - Purple\nLibrary Science - Lemon\nMedicine - Green\nMusic - Pink\nNursing - Apricot\nOratory (Speech) - Silver Gray\nPharmacy - Olive Green\nPhilosophy - Dark Blue\nPhysical Education - Sage Green\nPublic Administration - Peacock Blue\nPublic Health - Salmon Pink\nScience - Golden Yellow\nSocial Work - Citron\nTheology - Scarlet\nVeterinary Science - Gray\nIf you are ready to graduate, you may be tired of reading. However, it may be helpful to read up on issues relevant to graduation (graduation books on Amazon.\nThe following articles describe in more detail on the academic dress schemes and usages of various universities:\nAcademic dress of the University of Bristol\nAcademic dress of Cambridge University\nAcademic dress of Durham University\nAcademic dress of the University of Hertfordshire\nAcademic dress of the University of London\nAcademic dress at Loughborough University\nAcademic dress of Oxford University\nAcademic dress of the University of Wales\nAcademic dress of the University of Wales, Lampeter\nCap & Gown Retailers (Graduation Clothing)\nSearch the internet for additional Textile & Clothing definitions and Glossaries.\nfabric & Textile Industry Definitions\nFashion Terms \/ Fashion History \/ Fashion Designers \/ Fashion Brands etc.\nDye & Dyeing Industry Terms\nEmbroidery & Embroidery Industry Terms\nfibers & fiber Industry Definitions\nSewing Terms & Definitions\nyarns & yarn Industry Definitions\nHat & Headwear Definitions\nShipping Industry Freight Definitions\nAcademic Scarf\nArtistic Dress Movement\nEvening Dress (White Tie)\nCourt Dress\nPant Definition\nTrouser Definition\nThe above article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ( https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/academic_dress). 8\/5\/05\nFashion Industry Fashion Models","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Case of the Day \u2013 Monday, March 15, 2021\nWhen is a tree not a tree?\nToday's case has nothing to do with trees, unless you count those awful faux-tree cellphone towers many cities are requiring cellphone carriers to erect. While not arboriculture related, today's decision illustrates the danger of stretching causation, a risk that has reared its ugly head in tree liability cases before (as we shall see tomorrow).\nCaptain Robert Johnson was a jailer at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina. As a correctional officer, Mr. Johnson was responsible \u2013 among other duties \u2013 for seizing cellphones and other contraband from inmates.\nIn March 2010, an assailant entered Mr. Johnson's home and shot him six times in the chest and stomach. His wife, Mary Johnson, witnessed the attack. Mr. Johnson survived but underwent many surgeries and months of rehabilitation.\nThe U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina concluded after a thorough investigation that a group of inmates ordered the attack in retaliation for Mr. Johnson's confiscation of their contraband cellphones and other goods. The U.S. Attorney found that an unnamed inmate had used a cellphone to communicate with the shooter, Sean Echols. That inmate also paid Echols. Echols eventually pled guilty to conspiracy to use interstate facilities in murder-for-hire under federal law.\nThis is where the case begins to provide a lesson for those of us interested in negligence. One would think that the wrongdoers would be sued \u2013 the conspirators, the shooter \u2013 but the Johnsons knew full well that the inmates didn't have anything, and the shooter, who's now serving 20 years, was unlikely to have much of a pocketbook, either. The challenge for the Johnsons' attorney was to find someone with a deep pocket.\nHe found someone (or several someones). Let's shoot the messenger, or \u2013 in this case \u2013 the people who owned the medium used to delivered the conspirators' messages. Using a \"but for\" analysis that would have impressed Mrs. Palsgraf, the Johnsons' lawyer figured that but for the fact that cellphone towers were located near the prison, there wouldn't have been any cellphone calls from the prison, and thus, no one could have called the shooter to importune him to shoot Capt. Johnson. For that matter, without cellphones, the prisoners wouldn't have been stirred up to begin with. So who should we sue? The cellphone companies, of course, as well as the guy who owns the land the cell towers are sitting on, just for good measure.\nOf course, this kind of attenuated reasoning is what makes fat people sue McDonalds for selling Big Macs (no Big Macs, no temptation, no overeating, no fat people), or why a man sued Walmart because a plastic bag of groceries split in the parking lot, a can of LaChoy chow mein fell on his wife's foot, the foot became infected and she died. Really.\nIt's too bad Capt. Johnson got shot, and we're all glad he recovered. But to conclude that cell carriers should pay is to stretch causation to the absurd. I blame the Johnsons' lawyer, who should have known better. Perhaps a copy of Prosser on Torts should fall out of his briefcase onto his foot, and\u2026 well, you get it.\nJohnson v. American Towers, LLC, 781 F.3d 693 (4th Cir., 2015). Robert Johnson, a prison guard in Bishopville, South Carolina, was shot multiple times in his home. The ensuing investigation revealed that the attack was ordered by an inmate at the prison where Mr. Johnson worked, using a contraband cellphone. Mr. Johnson survived the attack and, with his wife, later brought suit. The Johnsons did not, however, sue the typical defendants \u2013 the shooter, a prison inmate or an employee. Rather, the Johnsons sued several cellular phone service providers and owners of cell phone towers, seeking to recover under state-law negligence and loss of consortium theories. The Johnsons alleged that the cell providers \"were aware of the illegal use of cellphones by inmates using signals emitted and received at the defendants' towers\" and that \"this use created an unreasonable risk of harm.\" According to the Johnsons, the defendants failed to take steps to curb illegal cellphone use.\nIn the district court's view, \"the Johnsons' argument suggests only a desire to conduct a fishing expedition to determine if there is any factual basis for asserting claims against any Defendants\u2026 This is not enough.\" Thus, the trial court dismissed the case on several technical issues, the most significant of which was that the complaint, even if true, could not make the cellphone companies liable.\nThe Johnsons appealed.\nHeld: The Johnsons' claims fail due to the \"speculative nature of their allegations.\"\nThe Court of Appeals reviews rulings on motions to dismiss de novo, accepting all the factual allegations in the complaint as true, and drawing all reasonable inferences in the Johnsons' favor.\nEven reviewing the lower court's decision according to this relaxed standard, the Court concluded that \"the Johnsons have failed to allege sufficient facts to set forth a plausible claim for relief.\" A complaint must be dismissed if it does not allege enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face. A properly pleaded complaint must offer more than \"'naked assertions' devoid of 'further factual enhancement.'\" A claim has facial plausibility when the plaintiff pleads factual content that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged. In other words, a complaint must include \"more than an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation.\"\nThe Johnsons' complaint contained the bare assertion that \"an inmate at the prison using a cellphone ordered a coconspirator outside of the prison to kill Captain Johnson.\" The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Johnsons had failed to offer \"any further factual enhancement to support their claims against the Defendants. For example, the Johnsons' complaint does not identify the wireless service provider who carried the alleged call or when the alleged call occurred. Without more factual allegations, it is impossible for a district court to assess the Johnsons' claims.\"\nThe Court said that the complaint would leave the cellphone carriers unable to determine whether it carried the alleged call without more identifying information.\nThe appellate court said that the Johnsons were free to file a new lawsuit if they could come up with additional information, because the district court dismissed the complaint without prejudice. However, \"as currently drafted\u2026 the complaint resembles a prohibited fishing expedition rather than a properly pleaded complaint.\"\n\u2190 Case of the Day \u2013 Friday, March 12, 2021\nCase of the Day \u2013 Tuesday, March 16, 2021 \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fruit pickers being paid $3 an hour 'disgraceful'\nAn investigation has found backpackers working in the fruit picking industry are being paid as little as $3 per hour. The McKell Institute probe of conditions in the Coffs Harbour region of New South Wales found people were being offered just $60 a day to work on blueberry farms. Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said the rate of pay was \"unacceptable\" and \"disgraceful\". \"It's disgraceful, there's no other way you can sugar-coat it,\" he told Sky News. \"What needs to happen is those small minority that bend the rules and cut corners and exploit people need to be weeded out,\" he told Sky News. \"It actually destroys the reputation of agricultural work, and that's not what we want, the vast majority do the right thing.\" The Australian Workers Union has demanded a royal commission into conditions among fruit-picking workers. When asked if he would support a royal commission, Mr Littleproud said \"you never say never to a royal commission\". National Farmers' Federation said the bad conduct is among \"very few\" employers and threatens to tarnish the reputation of the majority of growers.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Italy interior minister calls for repatriation of Tunisian migrants\nhttps:\/\/www.meforum.org\/islamist-watch\/56971\/italy-interior-minister-calls-for-repatriation\nItalian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday called for all Tunisians who are in his country illegally to be repatriated and for illicit migration to be \"blocked\", during a visit to Tunis.\nThe hardline Italian minister spoke following a meeting with Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi, and several days after Italy's government adopted a series of measures promising to limit clandestine immigration.\n\"The priority was to block the hundreds of thousands of uncontrolled arrivals that we have received these last years,\" Salvini said during a joint press conference with his Tunisian counterpart Hichem Fourati.\n\"We are working with the Tunisian authorities to...escort to Tunisia those who come from Tunisia\", the Italian minister said.\nRead the complete original version of this item...\nreceive the latest by email: subscribe to the free mef mailing list","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Klay Thompson's Hot Streak and Other Warriors Trends and Stats to Know\nBy Grant Liffmann\t\u2022 Published February 7, 2019 \u2022 Updated on February 7, 2019 at 6:46 pm\nIt's crazy, I know. An article that has nothing to do with speculation on where Kevin Durant will end up next season.\nInstead, let's focus on the season at hand and the Warriors' trends and statistics that are worth knowing at this very moment.\nThe Warriors go as Klay goes\nThe Warriors have won 14 of their last 16 games. What changed?\nWell, 17 games ago the Warriors lost to the Portland Trail Blazers, as Klay Thompson only hit six of 19 shots and only two of his nine shots from deep. This was the final nail on the coffin on a rough 14-game stretch in which the Warriors only won eight games. During that stretch, Klay averaged under 18 points per game, on sub-40 percent shooting from the field and 30 percent from deep. The frustration from Klay was mounting, and questions started about how long the \"slump\" would last.\nTo many, the Warriors' success is directly related to Steph Curry's productivity, and the same can be said for Kevin Durant. But to me, the real indicator of success is when Klay is shooting well. Curry and Durant will draw double-teams and make the opposing team strategize to get the ball out of their hands.\nIn doing so, the ball will often end up with Klay, so it is up to him to spread the floor and make the defense pay.\nOver the last 16 games, pay they have. Klay has been on fire, scoring an average of 24.3 points, on an outstanding 55 percent from the field and 51 percent from three-point land. And the Warriors' record has reflected it.\nLooney's better AFTER Boogie's return\nJustifiably so, there were question marks regarding Kevon Looney's role once DeMarcus Cousins returned. Looney had replaced the injured Damian Jones in the starting lineup and had played very well in Jones' absence. Looney had issues competing defensively against large bruising centers, but other than that, Looney was everything the Warriors could have asked for.\nHe attacked the rim, showed great burst, defended smaller guards when forced into a switch, scrapped for rebounds especially on the offensive end, and even showed a newly confident jumper. So with Boogie's return and Looney's return back to a bench role, there were fears that his newfound aggressiveness would fade away coinciding with diminishing playing time.\nIt could not have gone differently. Before Boogie's return, Looney was averaging 21 minutes per game, scoring 6.6 points on 63 percent shooting and 6 rebounds. In the 8 games since the return, Looney is averaging nearly 21 minutes per game, scoring 8.8 points on 60 percent shooting and 6.3 rebounds. His assertiveness has taken a leap and he no longer fears taking contact or getting blocked under the hoop. He uses his length and growing explosiveness to attack the rim.\nThe best way to summarize this change can be seen in this statistical comparison: In 66 games last season, Looney dunked the ball 39 times. This season in 53 games played, he has 80 dunks. Looney is blossoming, and he is STILL the youngest player on the team at only 23 years old.\n[RELATED: Looney opens up about 'low point' in NBA career]\nShaun Livingston is back\nWe have looked into how Klay's turnaround was a catalyst for the Warriors winning 14 of 16 games, but let's also check out Shaun Livingston's impact on the second unit. The 33-year old veteran had a slow start to the season for his standards.\nOver his first 26 games played, sprinkled with missed games due to minor injuries, he averaged 16 minutes per game, scoring 4.4 points on 43 percent shooting. The shooting percentage was the most concerning, as Livingston in his Warriors career has shot a great 52 percent from the field, with his lethal mid-range game and his pogo-stick type hops.\nWas Livingston finally over the hill and starting his decline?\nNope. Not yet. Shaun has turned it on during the Warriors' successful 16-game stretch.\nShaun has played fewer minutes than before, averaging 13.5 minutes per game but has raised his scoring to 4.8 points and most importantly, an exceptional increase in efficiency to 62 percent shooting. It seems like he is finally playing healthy, pushing the tempo and hunting shots.\nHe has solidified the second unit alongside a resurgent Andre Iguodala, pushing the Warriors to reach new levels offensively.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Network Working Group\nG. Camarillo\nA. Johnston\nConference Establishment Using Request-Contained Lists\nin the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)\nThis document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the \"Internet Official Protocol Standards\" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.\nThis document describes how to create a conference using SIP URI-list services. In particular, it describes a mechanism that allows a User Agent Client to provide a conference server with the initial list of participants using an INVITE-contained URI list.\n3. User Agent Client Procedures ....................................2\n3.1. Response Handling ..........................................2\n3.2. Re-INVITE Request Generation ...............................3\n4. URI-List Document Format ........................................3\n5. Conference Server Procedures ....................................5\n5.1. Re-INVITE Request Handling .................................6\n6. Example .........................................................6\n7. Security Considerations ........................................10\n8. IANA Considerations ............................................10\n9. Acknowledgments ................................................11\nSection 5.4 of [RFC4579] describes how to create a conference using ad hoc SIP [RFC3261] methods. The client sends an INVITE request to a conference factory URI and receives the actual conference URI, which contains the \"isfocus\" feature tag, in the Contact header field of a response -- typically a 200 (OK) response.\nOnce the UAC (User Agent Client) obtains the conference URI, it can add participants to the newly created conference in several ways, which are described in [RFC4579].\nSome environments have tough requirements regarding conference establishment time. They require the UAC to be able to request the creation of an ad hoc conference and to provide the conference server with the initial set of participants in a single operation. This document describes how to meet this requirement using the mechanism to transport URI lists in SIP messages described in [RFC5363].\nThe key words \"MUST\", \"MUST NOT\", \"REQUIRED\", \"SHALL\", \"SHALL NOT\", \"SHOULD\", \"SHOULD NOT\", \"RECOMMENDED\", \"MAY\", and \"OPTIONAL\" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].\n3. User Agent Client Procedures\nA UAC that wants to include the set of initial participants in its initial INVITE request to create an ad hoc conference adds a body whose disposition type is 'recipient-list', as defined in [RFC5363], with a URI list that contains the participants that the UAC wants the conference server to invite. Additionally, the UAC MUST include the 'recipient-list-invite' option-tag (which is registered with the IANA in Section 8) in a Require header field. The UAC sends this INVITE request to the conference factory URI.\nThe INVITE transaction is also part of an offer\/answer exchange that will establish a session between the UAC and the conference server, as specified in [RFC4579]. Therefore, the INVITE request may need to carry a multipart body: a session description and a URI list.\n3.1. Response Handling\nThe status code in the response to the INVITE request does not provide any information about whether or not the conference server was able to bring the users in the URI list into the conference. That is, a 200 (OK) response means that the conference was created successfully, that the UAC that generated the INVITE request is in the conference, and that the server understood the URI list. If the UAC wishes to obtain information about the status of other users in the conference, it SHOULD use general conference mechanisms, such as the conference package, which is defined in [RFC4575].\n3.2. Re-INVITE Request Generation\nThe previous sections have specified how to include a URI list in an initial INVITE request to a conference server. Once the INVITE- initiated dialog between the UAC and the conference server has been established, the UAC can send subsequent INVITE requests (typically referred to as re-INVITE requests) to the conference server to, for example, modify the characteristics of the media exchanged with the server.\nAt this point, there are no semantics associated with 'recipient- list' bodies in re-INVITE requests (although future extensions may define them). Therefore, UACs SHOULD NOT include 'recipient-list' bodies in re-INVITE requests sent to a conference server.\nNote that a difference between an initial INVITE request and a re-INVITE request is that while the initial INVITE request is sent to the conference factory URI, the re-INVITE request is sent to the URI provided by the server in a Contact header field when the dialog was established. Therefore, from the UAC's point of view, the resource identified by the former URI supports 'recipient- list' bodies, while the resource identified by the latter does not support them.\n4. URI-List Document Format\nAs described in [RFC5363], specifications of individual URI-list services, like the conferencing service described here, need to specify a default format for 'recipient-list' bodies used within the particular service.\nThe default format for 'recipient-list' bodies for conferencing UAs (User Agents) is the XML resource list format (which is specified in [RFC4826]) extended with the \"Extensible Markup Language (XML) Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists\" [RFC5364]. Consequently, conferencing UACs generating 'recipient- list' bodies MUST support both of these formats and MAY support other formats. Conferencing servers able to handle 'recipient-list' bodies MUST support both of these formats and MAY support other formats.\nAs described in \"Extensible Markup Language (XML) Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists\" [RFC5364], each URI can be tagged with a 'copyControl' attribute set to either \"to\", \"cc\", or \"bcc\", indicating the role in which the recipient will get the INVITE request. Additionally, URIs can be tagged with the 'anonymize' attribute to prevent the conference server from disclosing the target URI in a URI list.\nIn addition, \"Extensible Markup Language (XML) Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists\" [RFC5364] defines a 'recipient-list-history' body that contains the list of recipients. The default format for 'recipient-list-history' bodies for conferencing UAs is also the XML resource list document format specified in [RFC4826] extended with \"Extensible Markup Language (XML) Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists\" [RFC5364]. Consequently, conferencing UACs able to generate 'recipient-list-history' bodies MUST support these formats and MAY support others. Conferencing UAs able to understand 'recipient-list-history' MUST support these formats and MAY support others. Conferencing servers able to handle 'recipient-list-history' bodies MUST support these formats and MAY support others.\nNevertheless, the XML resource list document specified in [RFC4826] provides features, such as hierarchical lists and the ability to include entries by reference relative to the XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) root URI, that are not needed by the conferencing service defined in this document, which only needs to transfer a flat list of URIs between a UA (User Agent) and the conference server. Therefore, when using the default resource list document, conferencing UAs SHOULD use flat lists (i.e., no hierarchical lists) and SHOULD NOT use <entry-ref> elements. A conference factory application receiving a URI list with more information than what has just been described MAY discard all the extra information.\nFigure 1 shows an example of a flat list that follows the XML resource list document (specified in [RFC4826]) extended with \"Extensible Markup Language (XML) Format Extension for Representing Copy Control Attributes in Resource Lists\" [RFC5364].\n<resource-lists xmlns=\"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:resource-lists\"\nxmlns:cp=\"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:copycontrol\">\n<list>\n<entry uri=\"sip:bill@example.com\" cp:copyControl=\"to\"  \/>\n<entry uri=\"sip:joe@example.org\" cp:copyControl=\"cc\" \/>\n<entry uri=\"sip:ted@example.net\" cp:copyControl=\"bcc\" \/>\n<\/list>\n<\/resource-lists>\nFigure 1: URI list\n5. Conference Server Procedures\nConference servers that are able to receive and process INVITE requests with a 'recipient-list' body SHOULD include a 'recipient- list-invite' option-tag in a Supported header field when responding to OPTIONS requests.\nOn reception of an INVITE request containing a 'recipient-list' body as described in Section 3, a conference server MUST follow the rules described in [RFC4579] to create ad hoc conferences. Once the ad hoc conference is created, the conference server SHOULD attempt to add the participants in the URI list to the conference as if their addition had been requested using any of the methods described in [RFC4579].\nThe INVITE transaction is also part of an offer\/answer exchange that will establish a session between the UAC and the conference server, as specified in [RFC4579]. Therefore, the INVITE request may carry a multipart body: a session description and a URI list.\nOnce the conference server has created the ad hoc conference and has attempted to add the initial set of participants, the conference server behaves as a regular conference server and MUST follow the rules in [RFC4579].\nThe incoming INVITE request will contain a URI-list body or reference (as specified in [RFC5363]) with the actual list of recipients. If this URI list includes resources tagged with the 'copyControl' attribute set to a value of \"to\" or \"cc\", the conference server SHOULD include a URI list in each of the outgoing INVITE requests. This list SHOULD be formatted according to the XML format for representing resource lists (specified in [RFC4826]) and the copyControl extension specified in [RFC5364].\nThe URI-list service MUST follow the procedures specified in [RFC5364] with respect to the handling of the 'anonymize', 'count', and 'copyControl' attributes.\nIf the conference server includes a URI list in an outgoing INVITE request, it MUST include a Content-Disposition header field (which is specified in [RFC2183]) with the value set to 'recipient-list- history' and a 'handling' parameter (as specified in [RFC3204]) set to \"optional\".\n5.1. Re-INVITE Request Handling\nAt this point, there are no semantics associated with 'recipient- list' bodies in re-INVITE requests (although future extensions may define them). Therefore, a conference server receiving a re-INVITE request with a 'recipient-list' body and, consequently, a 'recipient-list-invite' option-tag, following standard SIP procedures, rejects it with a 420 (Bad Extension), which carries an Unsupported header field listing the 'recipient-list-invite' option- tag.\nThis is because the resource identified by the conference URI does not actually support this extension. On the other hand, the resource identified by the conference factory URI does support this extension and, consequently, would include the 'recipient- list-invite' option-tag in, for example, responses to OPTIONS requests.\n6. Example\nFigure 2 shows an example of operation. A UAC sends an INVITE request (F1) that contains an SDP body and a URI list to the conference server. The conference server answers with a 200 (OK) response and generates an INVITE request to each of the UASs (User Agent Servers) identified by the URIs included in the URI list. The conference server includes SDP and a manipulated URI list in each of the outgoing INVITE requests.\n+--------+        +---------+      +--------+ +--------+ +--------+\n|SIP UAC |        | confer. |      |SIP UAS | |SIP UAS | |SIP UAS |\n|        |        | server  |      |   1    | |   2    | |   n    |\n|                  |               |          |          |\n| F1 INVITE        |               |          |          |\n| ---------------->|               |          |          |\n| F2 200 OK        |               |          |          |\n|<---------------- |  F3 INVITE    |          |          |\n|                  | ------------->|          |          |\n|                  |  F4 INVITE    |          |          |\n|                  | ------------------------>|          |\n|                  | ----------------------------------->|\n|                  |  F6 200 OK    |          |          |\n|                  |<------------- |          |          |\n|                  |<------------------------ |          |\n|                  |<----------------------------------- |\nFigure 2: Example of operation\nFigure 3 shows an example of the INVITE request F1, which carries a multipart\/mixed body composed of two other bodies: an application\/sdp body that describes the session and an application\/resource-lists+xml body that contains the list of target URIs.\nINVITE sip:conf-fact@example.com SIP\/2.0\nVia: SIP\/2.0\/TCP atlanta.example.com\n;branch=z9hG4bKhjhs8ass83\nMax-Forwards: 70\nTo: \"Conf Factory\" <sip:conf-fact@example.com>\nFrom: Alice <sip:alice@example.com>;tag=32331\nCall-ID: d432fa84b4c76e66710\nCSeq: 1 INVITE\nContact: <sip:alice@atlanta.example.com>\nAllow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, BYE, REFER\nAllow-Events: dialog\nAccept: application\/sdp, message\/sipfrag\nRequire: recipient-list-invite\nContent-Type: multipart\/mixed;boundary=\"boundary1\"\n--boundary1\nContent-Type: application\/sdp\no=alice 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 atlanta.example.com\ns=-\nc=IN IP4 192.0.2.1\nt=0 0\nm=audio 20000 RTP\/AVP 0\na=rtpmap:0 PCMU\/8000\nm=video 20002 RTP\/AVP 31\na=rtpmap:31 H261\/90000\nContent-Type: application\/resource-lists+xml\nContent-Disposition: recipient-list\n<entry uri=\"sip:bill@example.com\" cp:copyControl=\"to\" \/>\n<entry uri=\"sip:randy@example.net\" cp:copyControl=\"to\"\ncp:anonymize=\"true\"\/>\n<entry uri=\"sip:eddy@example.com\" cp:copyControl=\"to\"\n<entry uri=\"sip:carol@example.net\" cp:copyControl=\"cc\"\n<entry uri=\"sip:andy@example.com\" cp:copyControl=\"bcc\" \/>\n--boundary1--\nFigure 3: INVITE request received at the conference server\nThe INVITE requests F3, F4, and F5 are similar in nature. All those INVITE requests contain a multipart\/mixed body that is composed of two other bodies: an application\/sdp body describing the session and an application\/resource-lists+xml containing the list of recipients. The application\/resource-lists+xml bodies are not equal to the application\/resource-lists+xml included in the received INVITE request F1, because the conference server has anonymized those URIs tagged with the 'anonymize' attribute and has removed those URIs tagged with a \"bcc\" 'copyControl' attribute. Figure 4 shows an example of the message F3.\nINVITE sip:bill@example.com SIP\/2.0\nVia: SIP\/2.0\/TCP conference.example.com\n;branch=z9hG4bKhjhs8as454\nTo: <sip:bill@example.com>\nFrom: Conference Server <sip:conf34@example.com>;tag=234332\nCall-ID: 389sn189dasdf\nContact: <sip:conf34@conference.example.com>;isfocus\nAllow-Events: dialog, conference\no=conf 2890844343 2890844343 IN IP4 conference.example.com\nContent-Disposition: recipient-list-history; handling=optional\n<entry uri=\"sip:anonymous@anonymous.invalid\" cp:copyControl=\"to\"\ncp:count=\"2\"\/>\n<entry uri=\"sip:anonymous@anonymous.invalid\" cp:copyControl=\"cc\"\nFigure 4: INVITE request sent by the conference server\nThis document discusses setup of SIP conferences using a request- contained URI list. Both conferencing and URI-list services have specific security requirements, which are summarized here. Conferences generally have authorization rules about who can or cannot join a conference, what type of media can or cannot be used, etc. This information is used by the focus to admit or deny participation in a conference. It is RECOMMENDED that these types of authorization rules be used to provide security for a SIP conference.\nFor this authorization information to be used, the focus needs to be able to authenticate potential participants. Normal SIP mechanisms, including Digest authentication and certificates, can be used. These conference-specific security requirements are discussed further in the requirements and framework documents -- [RFC4245] and [RFC4353].\nFor conference creation using a list, there are some additional security considerations. \"Framework and Security Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) URI-List Services\" [RFC5363] discusses issues related to SIP URI-list services. Given that a conference server sending INVITE requests to a set of users acts as a URI-list service, implementations of conference servers that handle lists MUST follow the security-related rules in [RFC5363]. These rules include opt-in lists and mandatory authentication and authorization of clients.\nThis document defines the 'recipient-list-invite' SIP option-tag. It has been registered in the Option Tags subregistry under the SIP parameter registry. The following is the description used in the registration:\n+------------------------+------------------------------+-----------+\n| Name                   | Description                  | Reference |\n| recipient-list-invite  | The body contains a list of  | [RFC5366] |\n|                        | URIs that indicates the      |           |\n|                        | recipients of the SIP INVITE |           |\n|                        | request                      |           |\nTable 1: Registration of the 'recipient-list-invite' option-tag\nin SIP\n9. Acknowledgments\nCullen Jennings, Hisham Khartabil, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Keith Drage provided useful comments on this document. Miguel Garcia- Martin assembled the dependencies to the 'copyControl' attribute extension.\n[RFC2183]  Troost, R., Dorner, S., and K. Moore, Ed., \"Communicating\nPresentation Information in Internet Messages: The\nContent-Disposition Header Field\", RFC 2183, August 1997.\n[RFC3204]  Zimmerer, E., Peterson, J., Vemuri, A., Ong, L., Audet,\nF., Watson, M., and M. Zonoun, \"MIME media types for ISUP\nand QSIG Objects\", RFC 3204, December 2001.\n[RFC4579]  Johnston, A. and O. Levin, \"Session Initiation Protocol\n(SIP) Call Control - Conferencing for User Agents\", BCP\n119, RFC 4579, August 2006.\n[RFC4826]  Rosenberg, J., \"Extensible Markup Language (XML) Formats\nfor Representing Resource Lists\", RFC 4826, May 2007.\n[RFC5363]  Camarillo, G. and A.B. Roach, \"Framework and Security\nConsiderations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) URI-\nList Services\", RFC 5363, October 2008.\n[RFC5364]  Garcia-Martin, M. and G. Camarillo, \"Extensible Markup\nLanguage (XML) Format Extension for Representing Copy\nControl Attributes in Resource Lists\", RFC 5364, October\n[RFC4245]  Levin, O. and R. Even, \"High-Level Requirements for\nTightly Coupled SIP Conferencing\", RFC 4245, November\n[RFC4353]  Rosenberg, J., \"A Framework for Conferencing with the\nSession Initiation Protocol (SIP)\", RFC 4353, February\n[RFC4575]  Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., and O. Levin, Ed., \"A\nSession Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for\nConference State\", RFC 4575, August 2006.\nGonzalo Camarillo\nHirsalantie 11\nJorvas  02420\nEMail: Gonzalo.Camarillo@ericsson.com\nSt. Louis, MO  63124\nalan@sipstation.com\nCopyright \u00a9 The IETF Trust (2008).\nThis document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights.\nThis document and the information contained herein are provided on an \"AS IS\" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE\/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY, THE IETF TRUST AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.\nThe IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. 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{"text":"Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii: First Childhood Home High-Rise Rental Unit of a U.S. President\nBarack Obama, America's 44th President, lived in a 10th-floor apartment with his grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, from 1971 to 1979, the year he finished high school. His mom and he rented other dwellings on Oahu prior to their interlude in Indonesia, after his mother's remarriage. Obama's grandmother remained in the building until her death, just before her grandson's 2008 election.\nPunahou Circle Apartments\n1617 S. Beretania St., Honolulu, Oahu, HI\nSouth of Hwy H1, on the way towards Waikiki. SE corner of Punahou St. and Beretania St.\nPrivate property. Visible from the street. Local health policies may affect hours and access.\nVisitor Tips and News About First Childhood Home High-Rise Rental Unit of a U.S. President\nFirst Childhood Home Of A U.S. President That is High-Rise Rental Unit\nThis was one of Barack's childhood homes where he lived with his grandparents. He actually had a few childhood homes, I believe, but this seems to be the childhood home with the most significance. He had his Punahou School graduation ceremony across the street at the Central Union Church lawn. What's interesting is that there are many religions in the area. There's a Buddhist Temple next door, a Baptist Church a block away, and the Central Union Church across the street.\n[Matt Lopez, 10\/27\/2020]\nRoadside Presidents App for iPhone. Find this attraction and more: museums, birthplaces, graves of the Chief Execs, first ladies, pets, assassins and wannabes. Prez bios and oddball trivia. Available on the App Store.\nBaskin-Robbins Where Obama Worked, Honolulu, Oahu, HI - < 1 mi.\nMcKinley with Fantasy Treaty of Annexation, Honolulu, Oahu, HI - < 1 mi.\nElvis Aloha Statue, Honolulu, Oahu, HI - 1 mi.\nIolani Palace and Coronation Pavilion, Honolulu, Oahu, HI - 2 mi.\nMap and Plan Your Own Roadside Adventure ...Try My Sights\nHawaii Latest Tips and Stories\nWhere The Shaka Was Invented, Kahuku, Hawaii\nMcBryde Sugar Plantation Cemetery, Eleele, Kauai, Hawaii\n!!! [NEEDS FEATUROID] Grave of Charles Lindbergh, Hana, Maui, Hawaii\nGiant Shrimp Mailbox, Kilauea, Hawaii\nFirst Childhood Home Of A U.S. President That is High-Rise Rental Unit, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Motion picture content rating system\n(Redirected from Motion picture rating system)\nA motion picture content rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content. A particular issued rating can be called a certification, classification, certificate or rating. Most countries have some form of rating system, typically carrying age recommendations in an advisory or restrictive capacity ranging up to adulthood, and are often given in lieu of censorship. In some jurisdictions the legal obligation of administering the rating may be imposed on movie theaters.\nIn countries such as Australia and Singapore, an official government body decides on ratings; in other countries, such as the United States, it is done by industry committees with little if any official government status. In most countries, however, films that are considered morally offensive have been censored, restricted, or banned. Even if the film rating system has no legal consequences, and a film has not explicitly been restricted or banned, there are usually laws forbidding certain films, or forbidding minors to view them.\nThe influence of specific factors in deciding a rating varies from country to country. In countries such as the United States, films with strong sexual content tend to be restricted to older viewers, though those same films are very often considered suitable for all ages in countries such as France and Germany. In contrast, films with violent content which would be rated leniently in the United States and Australia are often subject to high ratings and sometimes even censorship in countries such as Germany and Finland.\nOther factors may or may not influence the classification process, such as being set within a non-fictional historical context, whether the film glorifies violence or drug use, whether said violence or drug use is carried out by the protagonist, with whom the viewer should empathize, or by the antagonist. In Germany, for example, films depicting explicit war violence in a real war context (such as the Second World War) are handled more leniently than films with purely fictional settings.\nA film may be produced with a particular rating in mind. It may be re-edited if the desired rating is not obtained, especially to avoid a higher rating than intended. A film may also be re-edited to produce an alternate version for other countries.\n\u2039 The template below (Horizontal TOC) is being considered for merging. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. \u203a\nComparison tableEdit\nA comparison of current film rating systems, showing age on the horizontal axis. Note however that the specific criteria used in assigning a classification can vary widely from one country to another. Thus a color code or age range cannot be directly compared from one country to another.\nWhite \u2013 No restrictions: Suitable for all ages \/ Aimed at young audiences \/ Exempt \/ Not rated \/ No applicable rating.\nYellow \u2013 No restrictions: Parental guidance is suggested for designated age range.\nPurple \u2013 No restrictions: Not recommended for a younger audience but not restricted.\nRed \u2013 Restricted: Parental accompaniment required for younger audiences.\nBlack \u2013 Prohibitive: Exclusively for older audience \/ Restricted to licensed premises \/ Purchase age-restricted \/ Banned.\nATP +13 +16 +18 N\/A\nG MA15+ R18+ RC\nPG M X18+ Exempt\nUnrestricted 6 8 10 12 14 16 N\/A\nCAT.1 CAT.2 N\/A\nL 10 12 14 16 18 N\/A\nB C D X N\/A\n(outside Quebec)\nG 14A R E\nPG 18A 18A Prohibited\n(inside Quebec)\nG G (Not suitable for young children) 13 16 18 Exempt\n18 (Explicit sexuality) Refused classification\nTE 7 14 18 Educational\nSuitable for all ages Banned\nT 7 12 15 18 Prohibited\nA 7 F\n11 \/ 15 11 15\nL MS-6 MS-12 K-14 K-16 N\/A\nPERE K-12\nS 7 7 12 12 16 16 18 N\/A\nU -12 -16 -18 Prohibited\n0 6 16 18 Educational\n12 12 Unrated\nUnrestricted 13 17 18 N\/A\nI III Exempt\nIIA\/IIB\nKN 6 12 16 18 N\/A\nL 6 9 12 16 16 N\/A\nU UA A S\nSU 13+ 17+ 21+ N\/A\nN\/A G PG 12A 15A 16 18 N\/A\nT VM14 VM18 N\/A\nG PG-13 T-16 T-16 A-18 N\/A\nG PG-12 R15+ R18+ N\/A\n\u041a \u0411\u0410\/\u041114\/\u041516 \u041114 \u041516 \u041518 HA N\/A\nU 7+ 12+ 16+ 18+ N\/A\nU P13 18 Banned\nG 12+ 15+ 18+ PU\nPG 18+R\nU 12A 15 18 Not fit for exhibition\nPG 12\nA B B-15 C N\/A\nAA N\/A D\nAL 6 9 12 16 N\/A\nG R13 R15 R16 R18 R\nPG RP13 RP16 RP18 Exempt\nG 12 15 18 RE\nPG 12A\nA 6 12 12 18 Not approved\nG R-13 R-16 R-18 X\nA M\/ 3\/6\/12\/14\/16\/18 M\/6 M\/12 M\/14 M\/16 M\/18 N\/A\nM\/3 M\/6 M\/12 M\/14 M\/16 M\/18\nM\/18-P\nAG N-15 IM-18 IC\nAP-12 N\/A IM-18-XXX\n0+ 6+ 12+ 16+ 18+ Refused classification\nG PG13 NC16 M18 R21 Exempt\nA 7\u20139PG 7\u20139PG 10\u201312PG 10\u201312PG 13 16 18 XX\nPG X18\nALL 12 15 R Restricted screening N\/A\nAPTA 7 12 16 18 N\/A\nPel\u00edcula X\nBtl 7 15 15 N\/A\n0 6 6 12 12 16 16 Unrated N\/A\nN\/A 18 18\n0+ 6+ 6+ 15+ 18+ N\/A\nN\/A 12+\nG 13 15 18 20 Banned\nGenel \u0130zleyici Kitlesi\n(English: General Audience) 7+ 13+ 15+ 18+ Refused classification\n7A 13A 15A Educational purposes\nG PG13 PG15 18+ N\/A\nPG 15+\nUc U PG 12A 15 18 Rejected\n12 R18 Exempt\nG PG-13 R NC-17 Not rated\n(San Crist\u00f3bal municipality)\nA B C D N\/A\n(Baruta municipality)\n(Maracaibo municipality)\nN\/A A B C\nP C13 C16 C18 N\/A\nArgentinaEdit\nThrough its Advisory Commission of Cinematographic Exhibition (Comisi\u00f3n Asesora de Exhibici\u00f3n Cinematogr\u00e1fica) the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) issues ratings for films based on the following categories:[1]\nCategories of the Argentinian classification system\nATP: Suitable for all ages, ATP stands for \"Apta (para) Todo P\u00fablico\", meaning \"for all public\"\n+13: Suitable for 13-year-olds and over. Children under the age of 13 are admitted if accompanied by an adult.\n+16: Suitable for 16-year-olds and over.\nC: Suitable for 18-year-olds and over. Restricted to specially licensed venues.\nAustraliaEdit\nMain article: Australian Classification Board\nThe Classification Board and Classification Review Board are government-funded organizations which classify all films that are released for public exhibition.[2][3]\nThe Australian classifications\nAdvisory categories\nGeneral (G) \u2013 General. The content is very mild in impact. The G classification is suitable for everyone.\nParental Guidance (PG) \u2013 Parental guidance recommended. The content is mild in impact. It is not recommended for viewing or playing by persons under 15 without guidance from parents or guardians.\nMature (M) \u2013 Recommended for mature audiences. The content is moderate in impact. Children under 15 may legally access this material because it is an advisory category. However, M classified films and computer games may include classifiable elements such as violence and nudity of moderate impact that are not recommended for children under 15 years.\nMature Accompanied (MA15+) \u2013 Not suitable for people under 15. Under 15s must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian. The content is strong in impact.\nRestricted (R18+) \u2013 Restricted to 18 years and over. The content is high in impact. Despite this category being legally restricted, in Queensland the restriction is not applicable to persons under 2.[4]\nAdult film categories\nRestricted (X18+) \u2013 Restricted to 18 years and over. This classification is a special and legally restricted category which contains only sexually explicit content. That is, material which shows actual sexual intercourse and other sexual activity between consenting adults. X18+ films are only available for sale or hire in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.\nRC \u2013 Refused Classification. Banned from sale or hire in the country and cannot be legally imported. Films are rated RC if their content is very high in impact and exceeds the guidelines.\nFilms intended to inform, educate or instruct or concerned with sport, religion or music are exempt from classification provided they do not contain material that would result in an \"M\" rating or higher if submitted for classification.[5]\nAustriaEdit\nMotion pictures are rated by the Austrian Board of Media Classification (ABMC) for the Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur). The recommendations made by the ABMC are generally not legally binding and there are nine sets of state laws on the cinema sector with different age provisions.[6] The only exception is in the case of \"16\" rated films, since under Austrian law there is a legal age restriction on certain types of content i.e. discrimination, sexual abuse, glorification of violence etc.[7] In addition to the ABMC's age recommendations, in the state of Vienna children under the age of 6 are only permitted to attend public film performances if they are accompanied.[8]\nThe AMBC issues age recommendation from the following categories:\nUnrestricted \u2013 Released for all age groups.\n6+ \u2013 Released for children from age 6.\n10+ \u2013 Released for children from age 10.\n14+ \u2013 Released from age 14.\n16+ \u2013 Released from age 16. Restricted classification.\nBelgiumEdit\nThere are only two classifications for films publicly exhibited in Belgium issued by the Inter-Community Commission for Film Rating (Dutch: Intergemeenschapscommissie voor de Filmkeuring; French: Commission Intercommunautaire de Contr\u00f4le des Films). Films are prohibited to minors under the age of 16 unless passed by the commission. There is no mandatory rating system for video formats but 90% of video distribution abides by the voluntary Belgium Video Federation. It is basically the same as the system for theatrical exhibition, but also provides a \"12\" rating.[9]\nCAT.1: (Kinderen Toegelaten [KT]; Enfants Admis [EA]) \u2013 Suitable for all.\nCAT.2: (Kinderen Niet Toegelaten [KNT]; Enfants Non Admis [ENA]) \u2013 Prohibited for people younger than 16.\nBrazilEdit\nMain article: Brazilian advisory rating system\nAll films that are exhibited in public or released on a home video format in Brazil must be submitted for classification to the advisory rating (Classifica\u00e7\u00e3o Indicativa, abbreviated ClassInd), which is run by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice (Minist\u00e9rio da Justi\u00e7a).[10][11] Anyone below the film's minimum age can watch it if accompanied by the parent or guardian who is at least 18 years old, except for those rated \"Not recommended for ages under 18\", which, by law, are strictly prohibited from viewing by people under 18.[12][13] Unlike many countries, the ClassInd does not have any legal right to ban, demand cuts or refuse to rate any movie.[14]\nFilm classification symbols used in Brazil.\nThe ClassInd uses the following system:\nL: Livre (General): Do not expose children to potentially harmful content.\n10: N\u00e3o recomendado para menores de 10 anos (Not recommended for minors under 10): Violent content or inappropriate language to children, even if of a less intensity.\n12: N\u00e3o recomendado para menores de 12 anos (Not recommended for minors under 12): Scenes can include physical aggression, use of legal drugs and sexual innuendo.\n14: N\u00e3o recomendado para menores de 14 anos (Not recommended for minors under 14): More violent material, stronger sex references and\/or nudity.\n16: N\u00e3o recomendado para menores de 16 anos (Not recommended for minors under 16): Scenes featuring production, trafficking and\/or use of illegal drugs, hyper-realistic sex, sexual violence, abortion, torture, mutilation, suicide, trivialization of violence and death penalty.\n18: N\u00e3o recomendado para menores de 18 anos (Not recommended for minors under 18): Adults only. Scenes featuring explicit sex, incest, pedophilia, praising of the use of illegal drugs and violence of a strong imagery impact.\nThere are also operational descriptions of attenuating and aggravating elements that can interfere on the final rating.\nBulgariaEdit\nThe Bulgarian film rating system is defined in the Film Industry Act of 2003 and administered by the National Film Rating Committee.[15][16]\nA \u2013 Recommended for children.\nB \u2013 No age restrictions.\nC \u2013 Not recommended for children under 12. No persons under 12 shall be admitted unless accompanied by an adult.\nD \u2013 Prohibited for persons under 16.\nX \u2013 Prohibited for persons under 18, for licensed venues only.\nCanadaEdit\nMain articles: Canadian motion picture rating system and Canadian Home Video Rating System\nFilm ratings in Canada are a provincial responsibility, and each province has its own legislation, rules and regulations regarding rating, exhibition and admission. Ratings are required for theatrical exhibition, but not all provinces require classification for home video.[17] In the past there was a wide range of rating categories and practices in the various provinces; however, the seven rating systems\u2014with the exception of Quebec\u2014now all use categories and logos derived from the Canadian Home Video Rating System (CHVRS).[18]\nClassifications used outside QuebecEdit\nCanadian rating labels used outside Quebec.\nThe categories are mostly identical to the CHVRS with a few minor variations. In the provinces that require classification of video formats, supply of 14A and 18A films is restricted to customers above those ages.[19] In the case of theater exhibition, children are admitted to 14A and 18A films in the Manitoba and Maritime provinces if accompanied by an adult, although admittance is restricted to children over the age of 14 in the case of 18A films.[20][21] Likewise, British Columbia,[22] Saskatchewan (administered by the British Columbia Film Classification Office),[18] Alberta and Ontario also admit children to 14A and 18A films if accompanied, but do not impose an age restriction on 18A films.[23][24] The Maritimes and British Columbia (along with Saskatchewan) also provide an \"A\" classification for adult content.[21][22] Some provinces, such as Nova Scotia, reserve the right to prohibit films altogether.[21]\nIn general, the categories are:[19]\nG \u2013 Suitable for viewing by all ages.\nPG \u2013 Parental guidance advised.\n14A \u2013 Suitable for people 14 years of age or older. Those under 14 should view with an adult. No rental or purchase by those under 14. Parents cautioned. (Formerly \"Adult Accompaniment (14)\" in the Maritimes)[21][25]\n18A \u2013 Suitable for people 18 years of age or older. Those under 18 should view with an adult. Additionally, in certain provinces there is a mandatory age restriction of 14 years. No rental or purchase by those under 18. Parents strongly cautioned.\nR \u2013 Restricted to 18 years and over. No rental or purchase by those under 18. Content not suitable for minors.\nA \u2013 Adult. Film is not suitable for viewers under 18 years of age. (Formerly \"Explicit Material (XXX)\" in the Maritimes)[21][25]\nE \u2013 Exempt.\nClassifications used in QuebecEdit\nFurther information: R\u00e9gie du cin\u00e9ma (Quebec)\nThe rating labels used by R\u00e9gie du cin\u00e9ma.\nIn Quebec, the R\u00e9gie du cin\u00e9ma rates all films and videos. The R\u00e9gie is a governmental agency overseen by the Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communications;[26] its purview devolves from the Cinema Act (chapter C-18.1).[27] In some cases the R\u00e9gie du cin\u00e9ma may refuse to provide a classification, effectively banning the film. Educational and sports films are exempt from classification.[28]\nG: Visa g\u00e9n\u00e9ral (General Rating) \u2013 May be viewed, rented or purchased by persons of all ages. If a film carrying a \"G\" rating might offend the sensibilities of a child under 8 years of age, \"Not suitable for young children\" is appended to the classification.\n13+: 13 ans et plus (13 years and over) \u2013 May be viewed, rented or purchased only by children 13 years of age or over. Children under 13 may be admitted only if accompanied by an adult.\n16+: 16 ans et plus (16 years and over) \u2013 May be viewed, rented or purchased only by children 16 years of age or over.\n18+: 18 ans et plus (18 years and over) \u2013 May be viewed, rented or purchased only by adults 18 years of age or over. If a film contains real and explicit sexual activity \"Explicit sexuality\" is appended to the classification, and in the retail video industry storeowners are required to place the film in a room reserved for adults.\nChileEdit\nFilms are classified by the Council of Cinematographic Classification (Consejo de Calificaci\u00f3n Cinematogr\u00e1fica) which is a central agency under the Ministry of Education.[29] In 2002 legislation was enacted which reversed the ban on all 1,090 films that had previously been banned in Chile.[30]\nThe age ratings are:[29]\nTodo Espectador \u2013 General audience.\nInconveniente para menores de 7 a\u00f1os \u2013 Not suitable for children younger than 7 years.\nMayores de 14 a\u00f1os \u2013 Over 14 years old.\nThe age ratings may also be supplemented by the following content categories:\nContenido educativo \u2013 Educational content.\nContenido pornogr\u00e1fico \u2013 Pornographic content.\nContenido excesivamente violento \u2013 Excessively violent content.\nPornographic films may only be exhibited at venues licensed for that purpose. Minors are not admitted to films with pornographic or excessively violent content.[29]\nChinaEdit\nSee also: Film censorship in China\nChina does not have a rating system. Only films that are passed as \"suitable for all ages\" are released although some exhibitors have introduced informal ratings.[31][32] A March 2017 effective law on film does require non-violations of the lawful rights and interests of minors (Chinese: \u672a\u6210\u5e74\u4eba) or harming the physical and psychological health of minors.[33] However, in an interview with China Central Television in the same month, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television's film chief Mr. Zhang Hongsen said it was inaccurate for the media to label the guideline for minors as manual\/euphemistic classification and it was a misinterpretation or over-interpretation of the new law.[34][35]\nColombiaEdit\nAs of June 22, 2005, the Ministry of Culture issued its new rating system.[36][37][38] The classifications are:\nT: For general audiences.\n7: Advisory.\n12: Advisory.\n15: Restricted.\nX: Pornographic content.\nProhibited: Contains elements that incite or advocate crime.\nDenmarkEdit\nIn Denmark, the Media Council for Children and Young People currently rates films.[39] Films do not have to be submitted for a rating and in such instances must be labelled a \"15\" (restricted to people aged 15 and above).[40] Children aged 7 and above may attend any performance\u2014including those restricted to older audiences\u2014if they are accompanied by an adult.[41]\nThe Danish ratings administered by the Media Council for Children and Young People\nA \u2013 Suitable for a general audience.\n7 \u2013 Not recommended for children under 7.\n11 \u2013 For ages 11 and up.\nF \u2013 Exempt from classification.\nEstoniaEdit\nFilm classification in Estonia is regulated by the Child Welfare Act.[42]\nPERE \u2013 Family Film.\nL \u2013 Allowed to all.\nMS-6 \u2013 Not recommended for under 6.\nMS-12 \u2013 Not recommended for under 12.\nK-12 \u2013 Prohibited for under 12 unless accompanied by an adult.\nFinlandEdit\nFilms in Finland are classified by the National Audiovisual Institute. A minor up to 3 years younger than the age limit is permitted to see a film in a cinema when accompanied by an adult, except for 18-rated films. Films with an age rating may contain an additional marker for violence, sex, fear, or substance abuse. The ratings are as follows:[43]\nS (Finnish) or T (Swedish) \u2013 For all ages.\n7 \u2013 Over 7 years.\n12 \u2013 Over 12 years.\n18 \u2013 Adults only.\nFranceEdit\nFurther information: Censorship in France \u00a7 Cinema\nPrior to showing in theaters, a distribution certificate must be obtained from the Ministry of Culture. The Minister will decide which certificate to issue based on a recommendation by the National Center of Cinematography and the moving image (CNC) classification. In some cases films may be classified as \"pornographic films or those containing an incitement to violence\" or completely prohibited from screening.[44] A certificate will be granted from the following:\nU (Tous publics) \u2013 Certificate authorising the screening of the film to all members of the public.\n-12 \u2013 Certificate prohibiting the screening of the film to minors under 12.\nInterdiction (prohibition) \u2013 Certificate totally prohibiting the screening of the film.\nGermanyEdit\nThe Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (FSK) ratings.\nThe Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (Voluntary Self-Regulation of the Film Industry, FSK) has a film ratings system under which films are classified. All the ratings contain the phrase \"gem\u00e4\u00df \u00a714 JuSchG\" (in accordance with \u00a714 of the Youth Protection Law), signifying that they are legally binding for minors. Cinemas may legally exhibit films without a classification but minors are prohibited from such screenings.[45]\nOhne Altersbeschr\u00e4nkung (FSK 0): no age restriction (white sign).\nFreigegeben ab 6 Jahren (FSK 6): released to ages 6 and older, nobody under this age admitted (yellow sign).\nFreigegeben ab 12 Jahren (FSK 12): released to ages 12 and older; children who are at least age 6 may be admitted with parental accompaniment (green sign).\nFreigegeben ab 16 Jahren (FSK 16): released to ages 16 and older, nobody under this age admitted (blue sign).\nKeine Jugendfreigabe (FSK 18): \"no youth admitted\", adults only. (red sign).\nInfoprogramm or Lehrprogramm: \"educational programming\". This rating is not issued by the FSK, but may be self-applied to films seeking to educate their audience (e.g. documentaries, instructional films, etc.). Films with this rating may be sold without any age restriction provided they do not contain any material \"evidently harmful to the development of children and youths\".[46]\nThe FSK rating also limits the time of the day in which the movie may be aired on free-to-air TV stations to a time frame between 22:00 (FSK 16) or 23:00 (FSK 18) and 6:00. Stations are permitted to broadcast films not approved for audiences under 12 at their own discretion.[47]\nGreeceEdit\nAll publicly released films must be submitted to the Youth Committee for classification.[9] There are four categories:\nUnrestricted \u2013 No restrictions (The film does not contain violence, drug abuse, or sexual content).\n13 \u2013 The film may contain mild violence and adult themes. Suitable for people aged 13 and above.\n17 \u2013 The film may contain violence, drug abuse, and softcore pornographic scenes. An ID card certifying the age is required in all Greek cinemas and video rental shops in order to get a cinema ticket or rent a video of a \"17\" rated film. Not permitted to young people under the age of 17.\n18 \u2013 Not permitted to people under the age of 18.\nHong KongEdit\nMain article: Hong Kong motion picture rating system\nFilms intended for public exhibition have to be submitted to the Director of Film, Newspaper and Article Administration, who is the Film Censorship Authority (FCA) under the Ordinance, for approval. Films approved for public exhibition are then either classified or exempted from classification.[48][49]\nHong Kong ratings administered by the Film Censorship Authority\nI \u2013 Suitable for all ages. (circle sign).\nIIA \u2013 Not suitable for children. (square sign).\nIIB \u2013 Not suitable for young persons and children.\nIII \u2013 for persons aged 18 or above only. (triangle sign).\nOf the four levels, Levels I, IIA, and IIB are unrestricted. Only Level III is a restricted category and regulated by the government.\nHungaryEdit\nThe Hungarian ratings administered by the National Media and Infocommunications Authority\nHungarian ratings are decided by the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH):[50]\nKN (korhat\u00e1r n\u00e9lk\u00fcl) \u2013 Unrestricted or exempt.\n6 \u2013 Not recommended below age of 6.\n12 \u2013 Not recommended below age of 12.\nX \u2013 Restricted below 18, for adults only.\nThe current one is the third motion picture rating system in Hungary. The first system existed between 1965 and 2004, and was administered by the Ministry for National Cultural Heritage and its predecessors. Its categories were \"Without age restriction\", \"Not recommended below age of 14\", \"Above age of 16 only\", and \"Above age of 18 only\". A second system was introduced in 2004 which was overhauled in 2011 in favour of the current system. Its categories\u2014given by the National Film Office\u2014were \"Without age restriction\", \"Parental guidance suggested below age of 12\", \"Not recommended below age of 16\", \"Not recommended below age of 18\", and \"For adults only\".[51]\nIcelandEdit\nSince July 1, 2006, FR\u00cdSK (short for F\u00e9lag r\u00e9tthafa \u00ed sj\u00f3nvarps- og kvikmyndai\u00f0na\u00f0i) has replaced the Kvikmyndasko\u00f0un system in Iceland. In October 2013, FR\u00cdSK announced that it was adopting a new system similar to the Netherlands' Kijkwijzer at least through 2016.[52] The Icelandic ratings system also provides an \"18\" rating in addition to the Kijkwijzer ratings.[53] Under Icelandic law, minors aged 14-years-old and over may be admitted to a film carrying a higher age rating if accompanied by an adult.[54]\nL: All ages.\n6: Not suitable for children under 6 years.\n12: Not suitable for children under 12 years.\nIndiaEdit\nThe Indian ratings administered by the Central Board of Film Certification\nIn India, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is responsible for certifying films meant for public exhibition.[55]\nU \u2013 Unrestricted public exhibition.\nUA \u2013 Unrestricted public exhibition, but with parental guidance for children below the age of 12 years.\nA \u2013 Restricted to adults.\nS \u2013 Restricted to any special class of persons.\nIndonesiaEdit\nMotion pictures shown in Indonesia must undergo reviewing by the Indonesian Film Censorship Board. Other than issuing certificates, the LSF\/IFCB also reviews and issues permits for film-related advertising, such as movie trailers and posters. LSF has the authority to cut scenes from films. Films passed for exhibition are awarded one of the following classifications:[56]\nSU (Semua Umur): All ages.\n13+: Suitable for ages 13 and above.\nIrelandEdit\nAll films that are exhibited in public or released on a home video format must be submitted for classification to the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO).[57][58]\nCinema ratings\nVideo ratings\nG (General) \u2013 Suitable for children of school going age (note: children can be enrolled in school from the age of 4).\nPG (Parental Guidance) \u2013 Suitable for children over the age of 8. Parental guidance is recommended for children under the age of 12.\n12A, 12 \u2013 Suitable for viewers of 12 and over. Younger children may be admitted to the film at cinemas if accompanied by an adult; on home video younger viewers are not permitted to purchase\/rent even if under supervision.\n15A, 15 \u2013 Suitable for viewers of 15 and over. Younger viewers may be admitted to the film at cinemas if accompanied by an adult; on home video younger viewers are not permitted to purchase\/rent the video.\n16 (cinema only) \u2013 Suitable for viewers of 16 and over. Younger viewers are not admitted.\n18 \u2013 Suitable only for adults. Viewers under 18 are not admitted at cinemas or permitted to purchase\/rent the video.\nItalyEdit\nIn Italy the rating system of the films is currently disciplined by the law n\u00b0 161 of 21 april 1962. All films aimed to be shown in Italy are classified by the Committee for the Theatrical Review of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities into one of the following categories:[59]\nT (pellicola per tutti): All ages admitted.\nVM14 (vietato ai minori di 14 anni): No admittance for children under 14.\nBefore 1962, the Royal Decree n\u00b0 1848 of 6 November 1926 established that the films that obtained the clearance could be classified for all ages (T) or forbidden to children under 16 years (VM16).\nJamaicaEdit\nFilm classification in Jamaica is a requirement of the Cinematograph Act of 1913, which also established the Cinematograph Authority.[60]\nG (General Audiences): Appropriate for all ages.\nPG (only applied occasionally).\nPG-13: Children 12 years and under must be accompanied by parent\/guardian.\nT-16: Teenagers 14 & 15 will be admitted in the company of an adult.\nA-18: No one under the age of 18 years will be admitted.\nJapanEdit\nA Japanese film rating regulator known as Eirin (\u6620\u502b) [full-name: Eiga Rinri Kanri Iinkai (\u6620\u753b\u502b\u7406\u7ba1\u7406\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a)] has a film classification system under which films are classified into one of four categories. The categories have been in use since 1 May 1998.[61][62]\nEirin ratings\nG: General, suitable for all ages.\nPG-12: Parental guidance requested for young people under 12 years.\nR15+: No one under 15 admitted.\nKazakhstanEdit\nIn Kazakhstan, films are rated by the Committee for Culture of the Ministry for Culture and Information.[63]\n\u041a: Film is allowed for any audience.\n\u0411\u0410: Permitted for children over the age of 12 only.\n\u041114: Supervision by parents required for children the age of 12-13.\n\u041516: Supervision by parents required for children the age of 12-15.\n\u041518: For viewers aged over 18.\n\u041d\u0410: For viewers aged over 21. Restricted to licensed venues between 10 pm and 6 am local time.\nLatviaEdit\nIn Latvia it is the duty of the producer of a film or distributor to assign a rating according to a pre-determined set of criteria. All publicly exhibited films, visual recordings and films broadcast over television and electronic networks must be classified.[64]\nU (universal audience) \u2013 Suitable for persons of all age groups.\n7+: Suitable for a person who has reached at least 7 years of age.\n12+: Suitable for a person who has reached at least 12 years of age.\n18+: Not suitable for a minor (prohibited to people under 18).\nMalaysiaEdit\nSee also: Censorship in Malaysia\nHistorically, film censorship in Malaysia was carried out by police under the Theatre Ordinance 1908. In 1954 the Film Censorship Board (LPF) was created to censor films distributed across Malaysia in accordance with the Cinematograph Films Act 1952, and later the Film Censorship Act 2002.[65] Malaysia's motion picture rating system was introduced in 1953, initially classifying films either for General Audiences (Tontonan Umum) or For Adults Only (Untuk Orang Dewasa Sahaja), and in 1996 these classifications were changed to U and four different 18 categories. In mid-April 2010, the four 18 categories were deprecated, and was simplified to just 18. In late 2008, the PG13 classification was introduced, which was changed to P13 in 2012.[66]\nMalaysian film classification logos used since January 2012\nUpon viewing the board will assign one of three categories to the film:[67]\nLulus Bersih (Passed Clean [i.e. without cuts])\nLulus Dengan Pengubahan (Passed with Edits\/Cuts)\nTidak Diluluskan Untuk Tayangan (Not Approved for Screening)\nShould a film be approved, the Board then assigns the film a classification. As of 2012 the ratings are:[66]\nU (Umum) - No age limit.\nP13 (Penjaga) \u2013 Viewers under 13 years of age need parental\/guardian supervision while viewing.\n18 \u2013 Only for viewers aged 18 and above.\nMaldivesEdit\nFilm in the Maldives are classified by the National Bureau of Classification. Certificates issued are based on the following categories:[68]\nMaldive film classifications\nG \u2013 Suitable for all ages.\nPG \u2013 Parental guidance.\n12+ \u2013 For ages 12 and above.\n15+ \u2013 Suitable for ages 15 and above.\n18+R \u2013 Suitable for ages 18 and above. Restricted.\nPU \u2013 For professional use only.\nMaltaEdit\nAs of 2012, films in Malta are classified by the Film Board in accordance with the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts Act.[69] As part of an overhaul in 2013 the \"14\" and \"16\" age classifications were replaced by \"12A\" and \"15\"; the \"PG\" rating was redefined while \"U\", \"12\" and \"18\" were retained in their existing form.[70]\nIf the film is deemed \"fit for exhibition\" it will be awarded one of the following classifications:\nU (Universal) \u2013 Suitable for all.\nPG (Parental Guidance) \u2013 General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children.\n12A \u2013 Suitable for persons of 12 years and over: Provided that persons younger than 12 years may attend only when accompanied by an adult.\n12 \u2013 Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over.\n15 \u2013 Suitable for persons of 15 years and over.\nMexicoEdit\nThe General Directorate of Radio, Television and Cinematography (in Spanish, Direcci\u00f3n General de Radio, Televisi\u00f3n y Cinematograf\u00eda) is the issuer of ratings for motion pictures. The RTC is an agency of the Department of State (Secretar\u00eda de Gobernaci\u00f3n). It has its own classification system, as follows:[71][72]\nAA Informative-only rating: Understandable for children under 7 years.\nA Information-only rating: For all age groups.\nB Information-only rating: For adolescents 12 years and older.\nB-15 Information-only rating: Not recommended for children under 15.\nC Restrictive rating: For adults 18 and older.\nD Restrictive rating: Adult movies (legally prohibited to those under 18 years of age).\nNetherlandsEdit\nIn the Netherlands, the Kijkwijzer system is used, which is executed by the Netherlands Institute for the Classification of Audiovisual Media (NICAM). Under Dutch law children are admitted to films carrying an age rating if accompanied by an adult except in the case of \"16\" rated films.[73][74]\nThe Kijkwijzer ratings used in the Netherlands\nAl: All ages.\n6: Potentially harmful to children under 6 years.\n12: Potentially harmful to children under 12 years; broadcasting is not allowed before 8:00 pm.\n16: Potentially harmful to (and not allowed for) children under 16 years; broadcasting is not allowed before 10:00 pm.\nMostly, these icons are used along with other symbols, displaying if a movie contains violence, sexual content, frightening scenes, drug or alcohol abuse, discrimination, or coarse language. These symbols are also used for TV-programs in the Netherlands.\nNew ZealandEdit\nNew Zealand Ratings\nThe Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 gives the Office of Film and Literature Classification the power to classify publications into three categories: unrestricted, restricted, or \"objectionable\" (banned).[75][76] With a few exceptions, films, videos, DVDs and restricted computer games must carry a label before being offered for supply or exhibited to the public.[77][78]\nIn 2017 the Office of Film and Literature Classification created a special RP18 rating for online content in response to the Netflix television series, 13 Reasons Why. The new classification reflects concerns raised with 17 and 18 year olds in New Zealand being at a higher risk of suicide.[79][80][81] The current ratings are:[82]\nG: Anyone can be shown or sold this.\nPG: Films and games with a PG label can be sold, hired, or shown to anyone. The PG label means guidance from a parent or guardian is recommended for younger viewers.\nM: Films and games with an M label can be sold, hired, or shown to anyone. Films with an M label are more suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over.[83][84]\nR13: Restricted to persons 13 years and over.\nRP13: Restricted to persons 13 years and over unless accompanied by a Parent\/Guardian.\nRP18: Restricted to persons 18 years and over unless accompanied by a Parent\/Guardian (online content only).\nR: Restricted exclusively to a certain audience.\nNigeriaEdit\nThe National Film and Video Censors Board classifies films, videos, DVDs, and VCDs. Classifications carrying an age rating are legally restricted, although the \"15\" and \"18\" classifications do not apply to people below 2 years of age.[85] The categories are:\nG : Suitable for viewing by persons of all ages.\nPG : Parental Guidance advised.\n12 : Not suitable for people under the age of 12.\n12A : Not suitable for people under the age of 12. A child must be accompanied by an adult to view the film.\n15 : Not suitable for persons under the age of 15.\n18 : Not suitable for people under the 18.\nRE : Films which fall under this category are to be exhibited and distributed only in specially licensed premises.\nNorwayEdit\nThe Norwegian Media Authority (Medietilsynet) sets the age limits on films to be exhibited in Norway. Films not submitted to the Media Authority for classification carry a mandatory age rating of \"18\".[86]\nThe following age limits apply to films to be shown in cinemas:[86]\nA \u2013 Suitable for all.\n6 \u2013 6 years (no restriction for children accompanied by an adult).\n9 \u2013 9 years (children down to 6 years accompanied by an adult).\n12 \u2013 12 years (children down to 9 years accompanied by an adult).\n15 \u2013 15 years (young down to 12 years accompanied by an adult).\n18 \u2013 18 years (absolute lower limit).\nThe Media Authority has no power to ban films but must not classify films which they consider contravene Norwegian criminal law.[87]\nPhilippinesEdit\nThe rating labels used in the Philippines\nIn the Philippines, motion pictures, along with television programs, are rated by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, a special agency of the Office of the President. As of 2012, the Board uses six classification ratings.[88]\nG (General Audiences) \u2013 Viewers of all ages are admitted.\nPG (Parental Guidance) \u2013 Viewers below 13 years old must be accompanied by a parent or supervising adult.\nR-13 (Restricted-13) \u2013 Only viewers who are 13 years old and above can be admitted.\nX (Not For Public Exhibition) \u2013 \"X-rated\" films are not suitable for public exhibition.\nPolandEdit\nRatings in Poland are not set by any board or advisory body. Prior to 1989 the applicable age ratings were \"no age limit\", \"over 7\", \"over 12\", \"over 15\" and \"over 18\" and were set by The General Committee of Cinematography. Since 1989 there is no official classification system, with age ratings being self-prescriptive and set by the distributors. In case of television, the supervisory body \u2013 Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (KRRiT, The National Council of Radio Broadcasting and Television) can impose fines upon those responsible for improper rating of a broadcast, or lack of it.[89]\nPortugalEdit\nMovies are rated in Portugal by the Comiss\u00e3o de Classifica\u00e7\u00e3o de Espect\u00e1culos of the Ministry of Culture. In cinemas the ratings are mandatory (subject to parental guidance) whereas for video releases they are merely advisory, except in the case of pornographic content.[90] Children under the age of 3 were previously prohibited from public film performances, but a special category was introduced for this age group when the classification system was overhauled in 2014. A category for 14-year-olds was also introduced, and the lowest age rating was dropped from 4 years of age to 3.[91][92] The categories are the following:[92]\nPara todos os p\u00fablicos \u2013 For all the public (especially designed for children under 3 years of age).\nM\/3 Passed for viewers aged 3 and older.\nM\/12 Passed for viewers aged 12 and older.\nP Special rating supplementary to the M\/18 age rating denoting \"pornography\".\nRomaniaEdit\nRatings in Romania are set by the National Center of Cinematography (Romanian: Centrul Na\u021bional al Cinematografiei) (CNC)[93].\nAG (audien\u021b\u0103 general\u0103) \u2013 General audience.\nAP-12 (acordul p\u0103rin\u021bilor pentru copiii sub 12 ani) \u2013 Parental guidance for children under 12.\nN-15 (nerecomandat tinerilor sub 15 ani) \u2013 Not recommended for children under 15.\nIM-18 (interzis minorilor) \u2013 Prohibited to minors under 18.\nIM-18-XXX (interzis minorilor \u0219i proiec\u021biei cu public) \u2013 Prohibited to minors under 18 and projection with a public.\nIC (interdic\u021bie de comunicare) \u2013 Prohibition of communication.\nRussiaEdit\nSee also: On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development\nSince 2012 the rating appears inside circles, which indicate age restrictions followed by a plus(+), and appears in most shows, including TV and Internet shows in Russian.[94][95]\nRussian rating system\nThe indication shown:\n0+ \u2013 All ages are admitted.\n6+ \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0434\u0435\u0442\u0435\u0439 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0448\u0435 6 \u043b\u0435\u0442 (For children over 6 years) \u2013 Unsuitable for children under 6.\n12+ \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0434\u0435\u0442\u0435\u0439 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0448\u0435 12 \u043b\u0435\u0442 (For children over 12 years) \u2013 Unsuitable for children under 12.\n18+ \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0449\u0435\u043d\u043e \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0434\u0435\u0442\u0435\u0439 (Prohibited for children) \u2013 Prohibited for children under 18.\n\u0424\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043c\u044b, \u043a\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0440\u044b\u043c \u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430\u043d\u043e \u0432 \u043a\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0444\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 (Refused classification) \u2013 Banned.\nSingaporeEdit\nFilm classification in Singapore was introduced on 1 July 1991 and comes under the jurisdiction of the Board of Film Censors (BFC), currently part of the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA). There were three ratings originally: G (General), PG (Parental Guidance) and R (Restricted to 18 years and above). Prior to then films were either approved or effectively banned. Since then, there have been several alterations to the ratings over the years. In September 1991, a Restricted (Artistic) (R(A)) rating was introduced to replaced the previous R-rating so as to allow the screening of certain art-house films which would otherwise have been banned without said rating, with an increased age restriction set at 21 years of age.[96] The R(A) rating has since been replaced by NC16 (No Children under 16), M18 (Mature 18) and R21 (Restricted 21). A PG13 (Parental Guidance 13) rating, introduced in 2011, is the latest rating to be introduced. The G, PG and PG13 ratings are advisory while NC16, M18 and R21 carry age restrictions. Video ratings are mostly the same as the cinema ratings, except only go up to M18. Some titles, such as documentaries, children's programmes and sports programmes may be exempt from classification on video, but all titles must be classified for public theatrical exhibition.[97][98]\nThe revised Singapore film rating system which took effect 15 July 2011\nG: General \u2013 Suitable for all ages.\nPG: Parental Guidance \u2013 Suitable for all but parents should guide their young..\nPG13: Parental Guidance 13 \u2013 Suitable for persons aged 13 and above (Parents are strongly cautioned to exercise discretion in permitting viewing by pre-teens and early teens without parent\/guardian supervision).\nNC16: No Children Under 16 \u2013 Suitable for persons aged 16 and above.\nM18: Mature 18 \u2013 Suitable for persons aged 18 and above.\nR21: Restricted 21 \u2013 Suitable for adults aged 21 and above (restricted to licensed cinemas).\nSouth AfricaEdit\nIn South Africa, films are classified by the Film and Publication Board.[99] Distributors and exhibitors are legally compelled to comply with the age ratings.[100] All broadcasters, cinemas and distributors of DVD\/video and computer games must comply with the following:\nThe FPB's rating categories and descriptors\nA: Suitable for all.\nPG: Parental Guidance\n7\u20139PG: Not suitable for children under the age of 7. Children aged 7\u20139 years old may not be admitted unless accompanied by an adult.\n10\u201312PG: Not suitable for children under the age of 10. Children aged 10\u201312 years old may not be admitted unless accompanied by an adult.\n13: Not suitable for children under the age of 13.\n16: Not suitable for persons under the age of 16.\nX18: No one under 18 admitted; restricted to licensed adult premises.\nXX: Must not be distributed or exhibited in public.\nThere are also sub-descriptors used with some of the ratings:\nS for sex.\nL for language.\nV for violence.\nP for prejudice.\nN for nudity.\nH for horror.\nD for substance abuse.\nSV for sexual violence.\nSouth KoreaEdit\nKMRB ratings\nThe Korea Media Rating Board (\uc601\uc0c1\ubb3c\ub4f1\uae09\uc704\uc6d0\ud68c) in Seoul divides licensed films into the following categories:[101][102]\nAll (\uc804\uccb4 \uad00\ub78c\uac00) \u2013 Film suitable for all ages.\n12 (12\uc138 \uc774\uc0c1 \uad00\ub78c\uac00) \u2013 Film intended for audiences 12 and over. Underage audiences accompanied by a parent or guardian are allowed.\nR (\uccad\uc18c\ub144 \uad00\ub78c\ubd88\uac00) \u2013 No one under 18 is allowed to watch this film.\nRestricted Screening (\uc81c\ud55c\uc0c1\uc601\uac00) \u2013 Film needs a certain restriction in screening or advertisement as it is considered a highly bad influence to universal human dignity, social value, good customs or national emotion due to excessive expression of nudity, violence, social behavior, etc (technically not an age restriction but films with this rating may only be screened at \"adults only\" theaters, with the age of majority set at 19).\nSpainEdit\nAll films to be commercially released in Spain in any medium must be submitted to the ICAA (Instituto de Cinematograf\u00eda y Artes Audiovisuales - Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts Institute). Classifications are advisory except for X-rated films, which are restricted to specially licensed venues. A supplementary classification, \"Especialmente Recomendada para la Infancia\" (Especially recommended for children), is sometimes appended to the lowest two classifications.[103] Another supplementary classification, \"Especialmente recomendada para el fomento de la igualdad de g\u00e9nero\" (Especially recommended for the promotion of gender equality), is sometimes appended to any of the classifications except the last one.[104]\nSpanish classifications\nAPTA(i) \u2013 General admission.\n7(i) \u2013 Not recommended for audiences under 7.\n12 \u2013 Not recommended for audiences under 12.\nPel\u00edcula X \u2013 Prohibited for audiences under 18 (may only be shown in premises where adult films are screened).\nSwedenEdit\nThe Swedish Media Council (\"Statens medier\u00e5d\") is a government agency with the aims to reduce the risk of harmful media influences among minors and to empower minors as conscious media users.[105] The classification bestowed on a film should not be viewed as recommendations on the suitability for children, as the law the council operates under (SFS 2010:1882) only mandates them to assess the relative risk to children's well-being. It is not a legal requirement to submit a film to the Media Council.[106] The councils classification only applies to public exhibition, and the law does not require classification of home media.[107]\nThe following categories are used:[108][109]\nBtl (Barntill\u00e5ten) \u2013 All ages.\n7 \u2013 Children under the age of 7, who are accompanied by an adult, are admitted to films that have been passed for children from the age of 7.\n11 \u2013 Children over the age of 7, who are accompanied by an adult, are admitted to films that have been passed for children from the age of 11.\nNot Approved\/15 \u2013 Children over the age of 11, who are accompanied by an adult, are admitted to films with a 15-year limit.[110]\nSwitzerlandEdit\nFurther information: \u00a7 Germany\nSwitzerland has adopted Germany's Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (Voluntary Self-Regulation of the Film Industry, FSK). Under Swiss law, however, children up to two years younger than the age recommendations will be admitted if accompanied by a person invested with parental authority.[111]\nTaiwanEdit\nFrom 1994 until 2015, the Government Information Office (GIO) classified films into four categories (General Audience\/Protected\/Parental Guidance\/Restricted) pursuant to its issued Regulations Governing the Classification of Motion Pictures of the Republic of China (\u96fb\u5f71\u7247\u5206\u7d1a\u8655\u7406\u8fa6\u6cd5 in traditional Chinese):[112] The \"Parental Guidance\" rating previously prohibited viewing by children under the age of 12 and required adolescents aged 12\u201317 to be accompanied by an adult. In 2015, the \"Parental Guidance\" rating was further divided into two categories: one that prohibits children under the age of 12 and one that prohibits adolescents under the age of 15.[113][114][115]\nThe revised Taiwan motion picture rating system which took effect from 16 Oct 2015.\n0+: \u666e\u904d\u7d1a(\u666e) (General Audience) \u2013 Viewing is permitted for audiences of all ages.\n6+: \u4fdd\u8b77\u7d1a(\u8b77) (Protected) \u2013 Viewing is not permitted for children under 6; children between 6 and 11 shall be accompanied and given guidance by parents, teachers, seniors, or adult relatives or friends.\n12+: \u8f14\u5c0e\u5341\u4e8c\u6b72\u7d1a(\u8f1412) (Parental Guidance 12) \u2013 Viewing is not permitted for children under 12.\n15+: \u8f14\u5c0e\u5341\u4e94\u6b72\u7d1a(\u8f1415) (Parental Guidance 15) \u2013 Viewing is not permitted for those under 15.\n18+: \u9650\u5236\u7d1a(\u9650) (Restricted) \u2013 Viewing is not permitted for those under 18.\nThailandEdit\nA motion picture rating system was proposed in the Film and Video Act of 2007, and was passed on December 20, 2007 by the Thai military-appointed National Legislative Assembly, replacing laws which had been in place since 1930. The draft law was met with resistance from the film industry and independent filmmakers. Activists had hoped for a less-restrictive approach; however, films are still subject to censorship, or can be banned from release altogether if the film is deemed to \"undermine or disrupt social order and moral decency, or might impact national security or the pride of the nation\".[116]\nThe ratings were put into effect in August 2009.[117] They are as follows:\nP \u2013 Educational.\nG \u2013 General audience.\n13 \u2013 Suitable for viewers aged 13 years and over.\n20 \u2013 Content is unsuitable for viewers aged under 20.\nBanned \u2013 Films that are not allowed to screen publicly in Thailand.\nTurkeyEdit\nIn Turkey, movies to be shown in cinemas are rated by the Evaluation and Classification Board of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. All films to be made commercially available must be classified, except in the case of educational films which are labeled as \"for educational purposes\" instead. The board also has the power to refuse classification in extreme cases (producers and distributors can submit an edited version of a movie to the board but edited versions may also be rejected if still deemed inappropriate); in this case, the movie will be banned with the exception of special artistic activities like fairs, festivals, feasts and carnivals.[118][119]\nGenel \u0130zleyici Kitlesi \u2013 General audience.\n7+ \u2013 Suitable for viewers aged 7 and over.\n7A \u2013 Viewers under the age of 7 may watch with accompanying family members.\n13+ \u2013 Suitable for viewers aged 13 and over.\n13A \u2013 Viewers under the age of 13 may watch with accompanying family members.\nUnited Arab EmiratesEdit\nThe Ministry of Information of the United Arab Emirates classifies all films, which cinemas must abide by.[120][121]\nG \u2013 For public viewing, suitable for all age groups.\nPG \u2013 For public viewing, with adult supervision.\nPG13 \u2013 Persons below 13 allowed with adult supervisions.\n15+ \u2013 Ages 15 and above only.\nUnited KingdomEdit\nSee also: British Board of Film Classification, History of British film certificates, and Video Recordings Act 1984\nUK film classification certificates. Uc is deprecated.\nThe British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) classifies films to be publicly exhibited in the United Kingdom, although statutory powers remain with local councils which can overrule any of the BBFC's decisions. Since 1984, the BBFC also classifies films made commercially available though a home video format. If the BBFC refuses a classification this effectively amounts to a ban (although local councils retain the legal right to overturn it in the case of cinema exhibition). The BBFC's regulatory powers do not extend to the Internet, so a film they have banned on physical media can still be made available via streaming media\/video on demand. Videos designed to inform, educate or instruct or concerned with sport, religion or music are exempt from classification; exempt films may be marked as \"E\", but this is not an official label.[122][123]\nThe current BBFC system is:[124]\nUc \u2013 Especially suitable for pre-school children. The category is now retired, although older video works still in circulation may carry the label.[125]\nU (Universal) - Suitable for all. A U-rated film should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over.\nPG (Parental Guidance) - General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children. A PG-rated film should not unsettle a child aged around eight or older.\n12A - Cinema release suitable for 12 years and over. No one younger than 12 may see a 12A-rated film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult.\n12 \u2013 Video release suitable for 12 years and over. Video recordings with this rating are not to be supplied to anyone below that age even if under supervision.\n15 - Suitable only for 15 years and older. No-one under 15 is allowed to see a 15-rated film at the cinema or buy\/rent a 15-rated video.\n18 - Suitable only for adults. No-one under 18 is allowed to see an 18-rated film at the cinema or buy\/rent an 18-rated video.\nR18 (Restricted 18) - Adult works for licensed premises only. The R18 category is a special and legally restricted classification primarily for explicit works of consenting sex or strong fetish material involving adults. Films may only be shown to adults in specially licensed cinemas, and video works may be supplied to adults only in licensed sex shops. R18-rated video works may not be supplied by mail order.\nUnited StatesEdit\nMain article: Motion Picture Association of America film rating system\nIn the United States of America, film classification is a voluntary process with the ratings issued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) via the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA).[126][127] The system was established in 1968, but the version listed below is the most recent revision, having been in effect since 1990.[128] An unrated film is often informally denoted by \"NR\" in newspapers and so forth.[129]\nG (General Audiences) \u2013 All ages admitted.\nPG (Parental Guidance Suggested) \u2013 Some material may not be suitable for children.\nPG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) \u2013 Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.\nR (Restricted) \u2013 Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.\nNC-17 (Adults Only) \u2013 No one 17 and under admitted.\nVenezuelaEdit\nAge ratings are divided into several categories. 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{"text":"7 May 2014updated 28 May 2014 9:56am\nOf course there is a north-south divide \u2013 and of course it matters\nThe claim that the only divide that matters is between the rich and the poor ignores the unequal distribution of political power.\nBy James Maxwell\n(Photo By A general view over Tower Bridge and the River Thames from the reception of the Shangri-La Hotel at the Shard in London. Photograph: Getty Images.)\nWriting in the Guardian on Monday, Owen Jones attacked the idea that English politics is split along north-south lines as a \"myth\" and a \"distraction\". Given rates of poverty and inequality in the south of England are as high as they are in the north (higher, in some cases), \"how much really divides the call centre worker in Hull [from] the supermarket shelf-stacker in Chelmsford?\", Jones asked.\nIt's a legitimate point, and one familiar to anyone involved in the debate over Scottish independence. One of the clich\u00e9s of Scottish unionism \u2013 particularly Scottish Labour unionism \u2013 is that a worker on minimum wage in Dundee has more in common with another minimum wage worker in Manchester than he or she does with a top-rate tax-payer in Edinburgh.\nThe premise of this argument \u2013 that working people across Britain share a basic set of interests \u2013 is sound. But the conclusion Jones and others tend to reach for \u2013 that \"soft\" constitutional issues are irrelevant when set against \"hard\" political and economic ones \u2013 isn't. There seems to me to be a fairly obvious relationship between the structure of the British state (sclerotic and heavily centralised) and the structure of the British economy (sclerotic and heavily centralised).\nTo begin with, a wealth of evidence confirms that London and the south east benefit disproportionately from the spending decisions of the UK government.\nLast year, analysis by IPPR North showed that the coalition's planned 2015\/16 departmental cuts would reduce public expenditure by \u00a357 per person in the north east of England compared to \u00a343 per person in London and \u00a339 per person in the south east. (It stands to reason that areas with high levels of public sector employment will suffer more from austerity than areas with lower levels of public sector employment.) IPPR North has also warned that UK transport expenditure is dangerously skewed in London's favour. In 2011, it found that upward of 80 per cent of all planned transport spending was earmarked for projects in the capital and its surrounding areas. In addition, London gets an excessively large slice of UK arts and culture funding \u2013 15 times more than other English regions, according to one recent estimate.\nWestminster's obsession with London reflects the broader trajectory of UK economic policy over the last 35 years. Since the 1980s, efforts by successive UK governments to control inflation and protect the value of the pound have squeezed British manufacturing, the bulk of which is (or was) located in northern England and Scotland, at the same time as boosting London-based financial services. In 1998, Eddie George, Mervyn King's predecessor as Governor of the Bank of England, basically admitted as much when he said job losses in the north were a \"price worth paying\" for curbing inflation in the south.\nThe consequences of this financialised, London-led growth strategy are plain to see: with just 13 per cent of the UK's population, London now accounts for almost a quarter (22.4 per cent) of the UK's total economic output \u2013 more than the north west (9.4 per cent), Yorkshire and Humber (6.7 per cent) and the north east (3 per cent) combined. Despite the financial crisis, there is no sign of this trend changing anytime soon. As the Guardian's economics editor, Larry Elliot, has written: \"In the three years from 2010 to 2012 \u2013 a period marked by weak growth and austerity \u2013 London accounted for 10 times as many private sector jobs as any other [British] city.\"\nJones acknowledges that the UK economy is imbalanced but then fails to connect the dots. Like Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (more so, in fact), the English regions are powerless to pursue any economic strategy that deviates from the turbo-charged, free-market model championed by Westminster. But by devolving power away from London, other parts of the UK could begin to tackle the disparities created by the uneven distribution of British growth.\nMore to the point, the disproportionate attention the south receives from British policy-makers is one of the driving forces behind the UK's present constitutional crisis. I doubt there would be the same appetite for independence among low-income Scots if the UK economy still looked capable of providing decent, secure, properly paid jobs for Scottish workers.\nJones is, of course, right to say the real dividing line in British politics is between \"those who have wealth and power, and those who do not\". I think everyone's pretty much agreed on that. But it's hardly a coincidence that so much of Britain's wealth and power is concentrated in one place.\nJames Maxwell\nWhy is everything going wrong for the Scottish Yes campaign?\nThe SNP can't duck the monarchy debate forever\nThe trouble with Gordon Brown\nMore power for communities can't just mean more power for councils\n\"National renewal\" does not come cheap\nLabour must be radical on public service reform","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bellaire Home Claimed by Fire Leaves Family Out in the Cold\nby: Tate Blanchard\nPosted: Feb 3, 2015 \/ 05:25 PM EST \/ Updated: Feb 6, 2015 \/ 05:25 PM EST\nAn early morning fire, on Tuesday, leaves one Bellaire home a total loss. Crews battled for hours not only the flames but bitterly cold temperatures.\nIt was a much different scene on Trumbull Street in Bellaire during the afternoon. Only a few fire fighters were still there and\nthe charred remains of what used to be a home, could clearly be seen. Smoke and steam continued to roll out from the ash, a few small flames continued to burn as the Bellaire Volunteer Fire Department brought in a bulldozer to smother the last few hot spots.\nRelated Story: Crews Respond to Full Involved Structure Fire in Bellaire\nFire Chief, Bill Swoyer, believed the fire started in one of the bedrooms on the second floor. He also said the bitter cold temperatures made things even more dangerous as the water quickly froze.\nAnother issue they encountered was trying to find a working hydrant.\n\"We know that we have issues with hydrants and we're trying to get them repaired, there's no finances to get them replaced,\" Swoyer said. \"I believe the village has allocated funds for five new hydrants this Spring. The hydrant that we did hit is the last one in the line coming up here and there's nothing else in this area with more structures up this hill here.\"\nOne neighbor, Fleda Ross, expressed how sorry she was for the family; \"It's a shame that they lost everything that they have; the family is glad everyone was okay, no one was hurt in doing the fire and everyone got out okay and the only thing they're upset about is their grandmother and aunt's ashes were in the house,\" said Ross.\nThe house was situated less than five feet from Ross' home and she too left her house with her son and their dogs until the fire was completely extinguished, in fear that it may have spread. Ross said her neighbors are now looking for a place to go with their three dogs.\nThe family is staying with friends temporarily. Clothing donations are being accepted for the two men and one woman who lived there. Both men wear 34-34 pants with L and XL shirts, and the woman wears size 16 pants with XL shirts.\nFire Chief Swoyer noted how well the Village helped as they brought salt to dissolve some of the ice as crews from Bellaire, Martins Ferry, The Spirit of 76, and OR&W, fought the fire with care provided by the Salvation Army Canteen.The State Fire Marshal's Office was also called in to investigate.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SoftBank Splashes $400M Investment on OPay at $2 Billion Valuation\nWhen Opay launched in Nigeria in 2018, it came in really hard. The startup came in backed by a $50 million investment (the highest raised by a Nigeria-based fintech startup, at the time) raised by its parent company, Opera.\nOpay, however, put that money to good use. The mobile money provider has done incredible numbers and achieved tremendous results in different areas like market penetration (spreading rapidly around Nigeria), transactions processed, number of users, and number of offline agents. For instance, OPay says it processed around $1.4 billion in payments in October 2020 in Nigeria, and that figure quickly rose to $2 billion by the end of the Q4, of the same year.\nA couple of months back, we reported that the Nigeria-based, Chinese-backed fintech platform, was in talks to raise up to $400 million in Series C funding at a $1.5billion valuation. We can now confirm that Opay has finally completed this funding round. Bloomberg reported that the $400 million investment round was led by Softbank Vision fund 2.\nOther investors that participated in this round include Sequoia Capital China, Redpoint China, Source Code Capital, and Softbank Ventures Asia. DragonBall Capital and 3W Capital also took part in the round. This is interesting because this marks Softbank's first investment in Africa \u2013 joining the already long list of high-profile investors scrambling for the right startups on the continent to back.\nIn the early days, Opay was well known for its ride-hailing and bike-hailing services. But following the ban on bike-hailing in some parts of Nigeria, Opay focused its attention solely on the financial sector.\nRelated Article: Tricycle ride-hailing platform \u2013 OTrike launched by OPay in Nigeria\nOpay Expansion Plan\nSoftbank's aim with this investment is to help Opay grow and expand into other emerging markets.\nPer Bloomberg, Kentaro Matsui, a SoftBank Group Corp. managing director said, \"We believe our investment will help the company extend its offering to adjacent markets and replicate its successful business model in Egypt and other countries in the region.\"\nWe hope, with this latest funding round, Opay can replicate this success in other emerging markets on the continent. You should check out the list of all startups in Africa that have attained unicorn status.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"January 7, 2017 by The Colonel News\nFull-time Colonel, Part-time Hero\nPhoto provided by Jimmy Fitzmaurice\nLedyard senior and volunteer firefighter Jimmy Fitzmaurice had a hectic day after leaving school early on Dec. 15 around lunchtime to assist with the fire that had started at a recycling building on Lorenz Parkway. Many units responded and struggled to fight the fire as it lasted most of the day.\n\"There was a lot of other fire departments helping out because this was a pretty big fire,\" Fitzmaurice said. \"All the water we used to put it out covered the ground and froze the ground. So yes it was a lot of work. But also a challenge, but a fun challenge.\"\nDespite that challenge, Fitzmaurice made the best of it and put in his all to help his team defeat the fire.\n\"I've been a vol firefighter for about a year and half,\" Fitzmaurice said. \"I joined because I wanted to try something new and challenge myself and meet new friends. The firehouse has let me meet new friends. I enjoy learning. There is always something to do at the firehouse, ranging from cleaning the fire trucks to doing forcible entry.\"\nMost Colonels put on their sports shoes to play a game after school, but some put on their work boots to help better the town and improve the community.\nCorrynne Medina, Staff Writer\nSenior Corrynne Medina is a staff writer for the 2016-2017 Colonel. She plays varsity basketball and softball and participates in Young Marines. After graduation, she will be going into the United States Marine Corps.\nPosted in FEATURESTagged FEATURES, students\nPrevious 2016 Report Card\nNext Which LHS Teacher Are You Most Like?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Features > Alton Towers > Article\nThe Top 5 Rides and Attractions at Alton Towers\nBy Nick Sim, Monday, June 3, 2013 10:00\nAlton Towers, the UK's most popular theme park, boasts a huge line-up of rides and attractions. This includes a diverse selection of major roller coasters, several dark rides and a variety of child-friendly attractions. But which are the best?\nLast year, we launched our extensive theme park guides. Since then, hundreds of readers have rated and reviewed attractions at Alton Towers, providing a unique glimpse into which are the most highly-regarded among theme park fans. As we're focusing on Alton Towers as our \"Park of the Month\" for June, in this article we run-down the top 5 rides at the park, as rated by Theme Park Tourist readers.\n5. Duel: The Haunted House Strikes Back!\nIn 2002, Alton Towers opted to revamp its ageing Haunted House ride. Retaining the spooky exterior and the people-mover ride system, it added a new laser gun system and renamed the attraction as Duel: The Haunted House Strikes Back!. The backstory revolves around the disappearance of a genetic surgeon who once lived at the house, who appears to have left behind an army of gun-wielding zombies.\nGuests are challenged to blast the undead back into the grave, by shooting at glowing green and orange targets. Duel: The Haunted House Strikes Back! is one of the best family rides at Alton Towers, with the added bonus of having a high capacity that ensures long queues are rare. Kids and adults alike will have a great time blasting away at the targets, and the re-ride value is incredibly high due to the challenge of trying to top your best score (or that of your partner \/ sibling \/ children\/ friends!). The main downside is the sheer number of targets, which detracts somewhat from the underlying plot of trying to shoot zombies.\nFull details: Duel: The Haunted House Strikes Back! guide\n4. Rita\nInstalled in 2005 at a cost of \u00a38 million, Rita sprawls across the Dark Forest area of Alton Towers. The Intamin accelerator coaster's opening launch section fires riders up to a top speed of 62 miles per hour in just 2.2 seconds, sending them careening around a series of high-speed corners and hills.\nRita is very similar in style to Stealth at Thorpe Park, which we rate as one of the UK's best roller coasters. However, whereas part of the thrill of riding Stealth comes from being blasted up a 205-feet-tall tower and plummeting back to earth, Rita's height is severely constrained by the planning restrictions applied to Alton Towers. A number of other twists and turns are designed to compensate for this, and do so to some degree. Despite the opening of Thirteen in 2010, readers rate Rita as the strongest coaster in the Dark Forest area, but a notch below classics such as Nemesis and Oblivion.\nFull details: Rita guide\nWhen it opened back in 2002, Air was the world's first Bolliger & Mabillard Flying Coaster. Guests board the ride in a seated position, but the seats rotate to leave them facing the ground before the ride enters its opening lift hill. After plunging down its first drop and a 180-degree bend, they then twist and turn around an undulating circuit featuring several inversions.\nAir is still the only ride of its type in the UK, and its innovative ride system really does offer a spectacular feeling of flight. More than a decade after its debut, it still draws large crowds, although it hasn't attained the same legendary status as nearby Nemesis. The most disappointing aspect of Air is the dull second half of the circuit, which is exacerbated by the total absence of theming around the ride. Surely a ride that simulates flying should offer guests a flight \"over\" something more than blades of grass and the occasional patch of concrete? Nevertheless, Air is still one of the stand-out rides in the park's line-up.\nFull details: Air guide\n2. Oblivion\nOblivion was another \"world's first\" roller coaster for Alton Towers back in 1998, in this case the world's first vertical drop roller coaster. It still dominates the futuristic X-Sector area of Alton Towers, with its steep lift hill and screaming riders. The ride hits a top speed of 68 miles per hour at the base of the drop, and then races around a wide bend before hitting the brakes at the end of a short 1,222-feet circuit.\nThe major criticism aimed at Oblivion is that its circuit is simply too short to rival other major coasters, including other B&M Dive Machines such as SheiKra at Busch Gardens Tampa. We don't agree with this assessment \u2013 what Oblivion lacks in lengthy and variety, it makes up through the sheer strength of its terrifying, adrenaline-rush-inducing first drop. Anything that was added afterwards would simply be an anti-climax.\nFull story: Oblivion\n1. Nemesis\nWhen it opened back in 1994, Nemesis was a statement of intent from Alton Towers. The popular family destination was determined to transform itself into a world-class theme park, and it started that process by installing the first B&M Inverted Coaster in Europe. It has since become one of the world's most highly-regarded coasters, regularly featuring in \"top 10\" lists put together by enthusiasts - and being rated as Alton Towers #1 attraction by Theme Park Tourist's readers.\nUpon leaving the station, the train climbs to the top of Nemesis' lift hill, which peaks just below the tree line. It then turns 90 degrees and descends into the valley below, hitting a top speed of 50 miles per hour. Following the first drop are a barrel roll, downwards helix and inline twist, leading up to an intense vertical loop. The ride finishes with a further barrel roll before returning to the station.\nThe first of Alton Towers' major roller coasters, Nemesis is still by far the best. The ride's strength is its use of its setting, with riders able to see the ground rushing close beneath their feet. This makes the coaster seem much faster than it actually is, making perfect use of the inverted coaster format.\nFull details: Nemesis guide\nAnd one more...\nWith The Smiler only having opened last week, there hasn't been time yet for many of our readers to rate and review it. But rest assured, the 14-inversion beast looks set to be one of the park's headliners for many years to come.\nFull details: The Smiler guide\nWhat are your favourites?\nDisagree with the rankings above? Let us know what your favourite Alton Towers rides and attractions are by adding your own ratings and reviews.\nThe History of Disney Theme Parks...in 130 Classic Photos\nThe 7 Most Incredible Theme Park Ride Systems Ever Devised\n7 Secrets of Expert Disney Pin Traders\nThe 25 Most Incredible Theme Park Animatronics On Earth\nSubmitted by Balhatchet on Monday, June 03, 2013 11:28\nVery strange list of 'best' rides as voted for by users of this site, in my opinion, considering that the majority of enthusiasts that I'm aware of really aren't whatsoever fond of Rita, and are iffy about the Haunted House's conversion into Duel.\nPersonally I'd rank Smiler, Oblivion, Th13teen, Hex and Sub Terra as my favourite rides at the park, so it's interesting how people have such differing views on the same rides and attractions!\nSubmitted by Nick on Monday, June 03, 2013 13:05\nUnderstood, although in most cases these are based on 100+ rankings. Not all from \"enthusiasts\", of course!\nFor me, Nemesis is way out in front as the best ride. And Sub-Terra is the worst attraction in the entire park.\nYou can honestly say that you find Sub Terra to be a less desirable experience than Charlie or Submission? I think that's a tad harsh. :P\nSubmitted by Nick on Tuesday, June 04, 2013 17:37\nYes I can :-)\nFor the audience they are intended for (kids and thrill-seeking teenagers respectively), Charlie and Submission do a job. Sub-Terra fails on every level for me. It's just a poorly-themed drop tower with a bunch of shouty staff members surrounding it.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ENERGY FEATURED\nNSE counsels youths on clean, renewable energy\n26th September 2021 27th September 2021 admin\nMrs Ebele Okeke, Chairman Board of Fellows, Nigerian Society of Engineers, has urged youths to utilise their creative and innovative capacities to utilise clean energy and develop energy efficient infrastructure to tackle climate change.\nOkeke, also former Head of Civil Service of the Federation, stated this at the 2021 Valerie Agberagba Clean, Renewable and Energy Efficiency Competition (CREEC) and Public Lecture, in Abuja.\nShe said that the youths should also be involved in climate change issues to enable the tackling of the nation's environmental challenges.\nAccording to her, one thing we need to know is that whatever policies and strategies we are putting in place now; we have to ensure that they are sustainable for future generations.\n\"This will make the youths to benefit from it and that is what engineers are planning, so that even when they are doing the planning they, are thinking of generations to come.\n\"It is the generations to come that will benefit from what is being put in place by the engineers.\n\"One thing we know is that for the Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved, engineers should be involved and that means that it must be for the younger generations to be able to key into whatever policy that is being put in place.\n\"The youths are the ones to implement the policy, enjoy the policy, and build on the policy.\n\"We saw that talking about climate change to adults, they already have a mindset on what they want to do, so we are talking of the future generation who will engage the environmental policy that will help to address climate change and other environmental issues,'' she said.\nMrs Lynda Elesa, Chairperson, National Institution of Environmental Engineers, (NIEE), Abuja Chapter, said that the theme of the programme was: \"Sustainable city''.\nElesa said that the programme would bring in industry, government and private institutions, non-governmental organisations and academia to discuss environmental challenges.\n\"The discussion will also incorporate scientific and engineering solutions to their businesses, the energy sector and other sectors of the economy, towards sustainable national development.\n\"The project is aimed at spurring children to use their creative and innovative capacities to utilise clean and renewable energy, develop energy efficient infrastructure and equipment as well as climate change solutions.\n\"This competition will help the students test their knowledge of energy efficiency, clean and renewable energy. It will also help to know how their designs, science, engineering, and knowledge stack up against their peers.\n\"It is our desire that young and innovative engineers, town planners, energy experts and other professionals will emerge as a result of this exposure.\n\"The overall aim of this programme is that the contestants will become change-makers in their own communities and the nation at large,'' she said.\nElesa said that the institution, in collaboration with Global Awareness for Development Initiative (GLADI), was committed to promoting environmental sustainability in the country.\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that seven schools in the FCT emerged in the Valerie Agberagba Clean, Renewable and Energy Efficiency Competition (CREEC).\nGovernment Junior Secondary School, Karu took first position in the competition, Government Junior Secondary School, Zone 1, Wuse, took second, while the third position was won by Government Junior Secondary School Karshi.\nMrs Valerie Agberagba, past Vice President, World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO), congratulated the schools and advised them to ensure they made good use of their talents.\nAgberagba said that the theme of the programme was \"sustainable city\" aimed at making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable in the country.\nShe added that the students should, therefore, ensure that they worked hard to achieve a sustainable environment for a better Nigeria.\nMr Sobande Paul, GSS Karu, Basic Studies Teacher, who spoke on behalf of other schools, appreciated the NIEE for organising the competition.\nMiss Benita Nkemakonam, a student of GSS Karu also thanked the organisers for the opportunity given to the schools to participate in the competition.\nBy Vivian Emoni\n\u2190 Iraq emerges 134 Party to Minamata Convention on mercury\nUN climate body, firm launch online carbon footprint calculator \u2192\nVenezuela ratifies Paris Agreement, becomes 154th Party\n24th July 2017 Admin Comments Off on Venezuela ratifies Paris Agreement, becomes 154th Party\nFifth UN Environment Assembly to focus on nature, elects new President\n9th March 2020 admin Comments Off on Fifth UN Environment Assembly to focus on nature, elects new President\nMarshall Islands ratifies Kigali Agreement\n28th February 2017 Admin Comments Off on Marshall Islands ratifies Kigali Agreement","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Theses and Dissertations > Graduate Theses and Dissertations > 13562\nMicro\/nano scale surface roughness tailoring and its effect on microfluidic flow\nJing Ren, Iowa State UniversityFollow\nSriram Sundararajan\nThe rapid growth of applications of lab-on-chip and bio-MEMES (Micro-electro-mechanical systems), arranging from cell culture and drug delivery to the microscale energy harvesting, microelectronics cooling, requires an understanding of microfluidic flow. Surface roughness, even at micro and nano scale, both deterministic and random, is considered an important parameter to affect fluid flow at the microscale. Over the past several decades, a variety of studies have been carried out on the impact of surface roughness on microfluidic flow behavior, including pressure drop, friction factor, heat transfer, laminar-turbulent transition, etc. However, most of the current studies focus on the large, deterministic roughness with patterned shapes formed by micromachining or microfabrication techniques. The effect of micro\/nano scale random roughness on micro fluid flow remains relatively unexplored. As the size of microfluidic chip shrinks, the effect of realistic surface roughness on the microchannel walls cannot be simply ignored. In this work, the effect of realistic random surface roughness on fluid flow at the microscale was investigated through experiment and numerical simulation.\nMethods for roughness generation were explored. Chemical wet etching was used to vary the surface roughness on glass substrate. The evolution of roughness with etching parameters and the surface distribution was studied to provide a better understanding of random roughness characterization. In addition to this study, a hybrid surface tailoring process combining particle masking and reactive ion etching was developed to generate and control roughness on quartz substrate. A mathematical model was built to predict the roughness parameters, which was validated by the Atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurement. It was proved mathematically that the process is able to produce a random surface with controllable amplitude and spatial parameters.\nBased on the surface tailoring techniques, microfluidic devices were fabricated with desired surface roughness inside. This was made possible through incorporating the chemical wet etching treatment to the microfluidic device fabrication. The device is made from PDMS and glass substrate using soft lithography. Different levels of roughness were generated on the glass substrates for the study.\nMicro particle image velocimetry (microPIV) was utilized as an analysis tool for the microfluidic flow characterization inside rough channels. Measurement was carried out on both Newtonian fluid (deionized water) and non-Newtonian fluid (dilute xanthan gum solution) at low flow rate condition. The roughness data obtained from optical profilometry was integrated with Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) to resolve the effect of the realistic nanoscale roughness. This work demonstrated that realistic random surface roughness, even at the nanoscale, has a measurable effect on microfluidic flow. This effect can be characterized through microPIV measurement and full-scale coupled experimental-computational analysis. Particularly, this study provides promising potential of surface roughness harness for respective lab-on-chip applications, such as chemical mixing, cell manipulation and drug delivery, etc.\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.31274\/etd-180810-3279\nJing Ren\nRen, Jing, \"Micro\/nano scale surface roughness tailoring and its effect on microfluidic flow\" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 13562.\nhttps:\/\/lib.dr.iastate.edu\/etd\/13562","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Watch a Limp Bizkit fan cover Rage Against The Machine and sit in Fred Durst's Dad Vibes throne\nBy Liz Scarlett\nFred Durst recruited a Limp Bizkit fan to duet on Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name, before letting him chill on-stage in the Dad Vibes arm chair\n(Image credit: YouTube)\nLimp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst recruited a fan to duet with him on stage for a cover of Rage Against The Machine's classic floor-filler Killing In The Name at a recent US show.\nThe fan was also granted permission to sit in the Dad Vibes throne, aka the La-Z Boy recliner the band feature on stage as part of their new \"domesticated\" image.\nAlthough the gig took place earlier this month, back on May 7, we've only just stumbled upon the footage, but we're flagging it up now, because, well, it's pretty unmissable.\nAs part of his band's ongoing Still Sucks summer tour, Durst has been opening every show sitting in the big, crusty-looking recliner, before playing around with a retro TV remote in stereotypical fatherly fashion, and kicking off into the song Dad Vibes.\nAlongside Durst's new silver wig, the band have adopted another prop to represent this domestic new era, including a 25ft blow up doll that looks like a housewife from the 1950s, with a vacuum cleaner in its hand and a Marlboro ciggie in its mouth.\nJust before inviting the fan onstage at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Durst announces that it's time for some \"Karaoke-e-e-e,\" and spits out a few bars of the Rage hit.\nThen, after selecting a member of the audience \u2013 who rocks up in a prime Limp Bizkit era backwards red-cap and chains, no less \u2013 the pair dive into the song together, trading verses and coming together for the chorus. The fan in question is also quite the performer, and can be seen stomping around the stage and for some reason, even grabbing his crotch.\nFollowing the duet, Durst raises the fan's arms up and closes in for a hug. Then, he invites \"The Loco\" to hang out backstage, before shortly changing his mind and offering him the chance to chill on the Dad Vibes La-Z-Boy.\n\"This is your seat right here. Just relax. Jus' relax. That's my man right there, he was going hard as fuck,\" the frontman says admiringly, while offering up a selection of beverages.\nWe imagine for this one lucky fan, it was a show to remember.\nCheck out the footage below:\nLiz Scarlett\nLiz works on keeping the Louder sites up to date with the latest news from the world of rock and metal. Prior to joining Louder as a full time staff writer, she completed a Diploma with the National Council for the Training of Journalists and received a First Class Honours Degree in Popular Music Journalism. She enjoys writing about anything from neo-glam rock to stoner, doom and progressive metal, and loves celebrating women in music.\nApparently, this is what metal sounds like to people who don't like metal (starring a dog, a duck and a horny turtle)\nThe 10 best Sleep Token songs\nMimi Barks' new video for Saw looks like a snuff movie and might just haunt your dreams\nThe Internet has decided that Sleep Token are metal's sexiest new band\nListen to Ghost's brand new version of Spillways featuring Def Leppard's Joe Elliott","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sir William Turners 6th Form \/ Redcar and Cleveland College, Redcar Lane\nPosted on January 6, 2011 by chris.twigg\nNot a building with any aesthetic beauty or history, but a lot of locals including myself passed through.\nThe Sir William Turners 6th Form was built around 1975 when the Sir William Turner's School for boys and the Cleveland Grammar School for girls merged. Via further merger it became part of Redcar & Cleveland College in 1994.\nThese photos were taken during the auctioning off of the buildings fixtures and fittings in late 2008 before it was demolished in early 2009 to make for housing (that was never built due to the global financial meltdown)\nA couple of interesting items that were in the building but I don't recall being for sale were the college shield and foundation stone from the original Coatham Road Sir William Turners School. I'm not sure what became of them\nThis entry was posted in Redcar, Too Late by chris.twigg. Bookmark the permalink.\n4 thoughts on \"Sir William Turners 6th Form \/ Redcar and Cleveland College, Redcar Lane\"\nGemma Woodhead on August 2, 2013 at 11:15 am said:\nThe building work on the houses has recently started and there is around 8 houses built so far.\nLynda ALLAN MBE on September 9, 2017 at 2:32 pm said:\nSad to see that my college has gone. I was one of the first year of students at Willy Turners\nPeter Sotheran on June 28, 2019 at 12:47 pm said:\nThe ceramic crest (lower picture) is in storage at Sir Wm Turner's Almshouses, pending possible re-use on their site.\nThe foundation stone stands outside the main entrance of Redcar & Cleveland College which houses the SWT Learning & Resource Centre (Library!) and the SWT Lecture Theatre \u2013 both funded from the proceeds of the sale of the former 6th Form College site. The name lives on!\nPeter Sotheran,Chairman, Sir Wm Turner Foundation. June 2019\nSteve Moses on July 6, 2020 at 4:42 pm said:\nThis building was erected in 1967 as James Mackinlay Secondary Modern, replacing the old Aske road site. The school was renamed Saltscar Comprehensive in 1975 and moved to what had previously been Sir William Turner's Grammar school on Corporation road. The Redcar Lane site then became the sixth form college.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"North Point Library\nSollers Point Library\nEagle on Vacation\nBleacher Bum\nWeddings, Engagements and Anniversaries\nPolice & Court\nDistrict Court Report\nMystery Beauty\nDundalk, MD (21222)\nSunny. High 36F. Winds NNW at 10 to 15 mph..\nThis memorial was made for Trinity Brooks. It was set up in the spot where she was fatally struck by an oncoming vehicle.\nPhoto by Mike Ursery\nTrinity Brooks was fatally struck on a sidewalk alongside Delvale Avenue on Dec. 2.\nPhoto used with permission from Tara Ann Reinhardt.\nA candlelight vigil was held for Trinity Lynn Brooks on Delvale Avenue on Dec. 6. Brooks was fatally stuck by a vehicle driven by Jennifer Jones on Dec. 2. Charging documents said Jones smelled of alcohol, and nearly 100 200-ml liquor bottles were found inside her vehicle.\nA second memorial was set up in a yard next to Delvale Avenue.\nfeatured top story\nRemembering Trinity\nBy Mike Ursery mursery@chespub.com\nCandlelight shined just as bright as street lights on Delvale Avenue on Dec. 6, as family, friends and neighbors held a candlelight vigil in memory of Trinity Lynn Brooks.\nBrooks, 15, was the victim of a fatal car accident on Dec. 3. Jennifer Jones, 30, from Millersville, lost control of the 2006 Nissan Altima she was driving, driving onto a sidewalk and then a resident's backyard, but not before fatally striking Brooks on the sidewalk.\n\"I hope and pray (Jones) serves life in prison,\" Gennie Scarff, Brooks' grandmother, said at the vigil. \"I'm never going to see her again and it's not fair to me.\"\nDozens of people, some neighbors, some from surrounding neighborhoods, and others from various places around Dundalk, showed up to show support for Trinity's family. One person played a song he recorded in Trinity's memory. Family members and friends recounted memories and expressed their sorrow after her loss.\n\"It's amazing. It shows everyone how much my granddaughter showed love,\" Scarff told local media. \"All these people came here for her. They're all supporting the family, and they all tell us she didn't deserve this.\"\nCharging documents show that just before 5:30 p.m., Jones was driving south on Delvale Avenue at a high rate of speed, according to an eyewitness. Jones swerved and jumped the sidewalk, fatally striking Brooks, before driving through a fence and into a backyard at 1814 Marshall Rd. Her 2006 Nissan Altima continued through more backyards before finally settling at 1814 Marshall Rd.\nBrooks was pronounced dead at the scene. Jones, on the other hand, was found unconscious inside her vehicle. First responders noted that she smelled an odor of alcohol, according to charging documents. Charging documents also said that a firefighter believed Jones was under the influence of an opioid and administered Narcan.\nCharging documents show that authorities recovered two empty 200-mL bottles of Fireball 66 proof whiskey, and found 92 200-ml bottles of \"99 brand\" liquor in the floorboard of the vehicle. A glass pipe with marijuana and a substance believed to be heroin was found in her pocket. Several pill bottles labeled Bupropion and Hydrochloride were also found.\nAccording to charging documents, Jones told police she began drinking at 10 a.m. that morning and did not stop drinking until five minutes before the crash. She was told by a medic that she hit a pedestrian. Jones is from Millersville, according to charging documents. She told authorities she was on her way to Sparrows Point to pick up her boyfriend, but did not know why she was going in the opposite direction of Sparrows Point, according to charging documents.\nA trip to the grocery store\nTrinity's mother, Tara Ann Reinhardt, told The Dundalk Eagle that she had sent Trinity to the grocery store that evening to buy cat food and ice cream. Her last words to her family: \"Bye. I love you.\"\nShe walked to Weis Market, located at 7200 Holabird Ave. She was fatally struck while returning to her home. Reinhardt said she was returning home on foot from a separate shopping trip, and that's when she saw first responder vehicles on Delvale Avenue.\n\"I could tell by the way traffic was turning up the road that they had the road (Delvale Avenue\" closed off,\" Reinhardt said.\nReinhardt said Trinity's father had mentioned that he had hoped no one was injured. She said she thought of Trinity because she was walking down that same path.\n\"Then we're rushing down here to see if it was her,\" Reinhardt said. \"The cops weren't really talking to us, so we couldn't find out.\"\nReinhardt said it was confirmed after 9 p.m. that Trinity was the victim at the scene. She and her husband originally went to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center because they overheard someone mention the name of that hospital at the scene. Reinhardt said that when they arrived, they received the phone call that Trinity was deceased. Jones was transported to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.\n\"We knew it was her because we saw the stuff that she bought laying on the ground,\" Reinhardt said. \"They wouldn't let us nowhere near. They wouldn't talk to us, and said they weren't ready to talk yet. 'We can reassure you that it wasn't your daughter' is what one officer kept telling us.\"\nReinhardt said that she initially sensed something was wrong because she tried calling Trinity on her cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail, something out of the ordinary. There were times when she would call and Trinity didn't answer, but the call never went straight to voicemail, she said.\nIt was easy to see the impact that us as older brothers had,\" Xavior Reinhardt, Trinity's older brother, said.\nThe second-oldest in a family of five siblings, Xavior Reinhardt told this newspaper about the impact he had on his \"baby sister.\" He listens to punk rock, and he said she went through a similar phase at one point.\n\"She started listening to my music,\" Xavior said. \"She started dying her hair black. She was going through the punk rock phase and that's how I live my life. I loved coming to visit her, and she would ask me, 'What are you listening to now? What are you wearing now? I like your hat. Can I have that hat?'\"\nThe hat Xavior talked about bears the name Avenged Sevenfold. He said that he wore it when he went to visit his family in Dundalk two months ago. She told them that she liked the hat. Xavior said that Trinity wore the hat when she was buried on Dec. 10.\nThe middle child in a family of five siblings, and the only girl among the five, Xavior said Trinity was a \"spice of feminism in a brutal brotherhood.\" Her death was especially hard for a father who lost his baby girl, Xavior said.\n\"She was like a second mother to all of us,\" Xavior said. \"She always had some kind words to say, and something smart to say, something I never would have thought of. She gave advice that she was way too young to give. I'll miss that about her. She was smart beyond her years.\nAustin Brooks, Trinity's oldest brother, said Trinity was kind-hearted and always put others before herself. She always tried to help everyone, even if it hurt her in the end.\n\"No matter what it was or what it was about, she always tried to do the right thing,\" Austin said. \"She'd give her last, even give the shirt off her back if she had to.\"\nXavior agreed about Trinity's kind-hearted and thoughtful nature.\n\"That little girl would have found every reason in the world to forgive this woman,\" Xavior said. (Trinity) would try to find reason with her, to try to find out what she was going through. Why she was in such a hurry. Why she was drinking so much, and why she had a problem. She would forgive this woman, and she would defend her without a second thought.\"\nRyan Davis, one of Trinity's friends, is a senior at Dundalk High School. He has been friends with her for a year-and-a-half.\n\"She was more than just a friend,\" Davis said. \"She was loyal. She was passionate. Even on her worst days, she would come in and be like 'today is not my day,' but when someone else was upset she would talk to them. She would make their day even though she was going through the worst. She always was outgoing and helped everybody out.\"\nTrinity was a freshman at Dundalk High School. She was an athlete on the girls track and field team. She practiced baton handoffs, a part of relay races, before leaving school that day. It would be the last thing she would do at Dundalk High.\nTrying to move forward\nThe support for Trinity's family is way beyond those who showed up at the vigil. Reinhardt said the family home has had several visitors since Trinity passed. People stop by to deliver food and to offer their condolences, she said.\nMultiple gofundme's were started to cover funeral expenses. Reinhardt said that adding to visitors at the family home, she has received messages showing support on social media, and has received several friend requests on Facebook.\n\"I feel overwhelmed. A good feeling overwhelmed, with all of the support from the Dundalk community,\" Reinhardt said. \"I've only lived in Dundalk since 2015. I haven't had a tragic situation show me, as much as this, how the community really comes together.\"\nAustin said the family sits and jokes the way Trinity would joke with them, and they all try to smile like Trinity would smile. They continue to care for her pet turtle. They are trying to enjoy life the way she would enjoy life, he said.\n\"(The support) is heartwarming,\" Austin said. \"It shows how much love she gave out and how much is being sent back her way.\"\nThe vigil was held at the exact spot on Delvale Avenue where Trinity was struck. The family placed pictures of her along the fence. Some who attended brought flowers. Tea candles were placed on the ground in front of the fence, spelling \"TRINITY.\"\nBeyond the fence is a second memorial. More candles and flowers are placed on the ground. Next to them is a big plush teddy bear with a red ribbon around its neck, tied into a bow. It's the spot where Trinity landed after being fatally struck.\nAs for Jones, she was charged by Baltimore County Police with vehicular manslaughter, a felony. She is being held without bond at the Baltimore County Department of Corrections. Her trial is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2020.\n\"She made the immoral choice to get behind the wheel of her car after a day of drinking,\" Xavior said. \"Wrong time. Wrong place and it cost me my baby sister. I can't hate her because it's not in my heart. It's not in my family's heart and it's not in my sister's heart to hate somebody. She needs help. She needs to sober up, and she needs to feel the guilt and the consequences of her actions. There's no justice in the world that will bring her back to me. There is no amount of tears that will bring her back to me. This woman needs to feel the regret of waking up every day and realizing that she took this young girl's life.\"\nXavior Reinhardt\nAustin Brooks\nThe Dundalk Eagle\nTo view our latest e-Edition click the title above.\nDundalk Eagle eNews\nTop headlines sent directly to your inbox. 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{"text":"Stance of tourism dept vindicated, says Parulekar\nBeaches of Goa\nHow can anyone take the word of the tourism minister? He has no clue what he talks about and says \u2026this is just another of his big proclamations. The Lokayukta verdict is awaited .\nhttp:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/goa\/Stance-of-tourism-dept-vindicated-says-Parulekar\/articleshow\/53309303.cms\nTourism minister Dilip Parulekar has claimed that his department's stand on the beach cleaning contract being devoid of any irregularities, whatsoever, has been vindicated by the latest report of the director of vigilance.\n\"All the procedures were abided for the tender and there were no irregularities. The allegations were levelled without any base and have been proved to be false,\" said Parulekar, in a written statement to the media along with the copy of the vigilance director's status report.\nDirector of vigilance had called for a status report in response to a letter from the registrar, Goa Lokayukta, on the complaint filed by Aires Rodrigues, an advocate, alleging a multi-crore scam in the tender of comprehensive management of Goa's beaches, raising the number of issues and demanded to register a first information report against many persons. The status report says that the complaint was without any supportive evidence vis-a-vis charges of corruption.\nAlso, the allegations of failure to supervise beach cleaning activity, be it on the part of the tourism department or the beach cleaning agency, were sans any concrete proof and do not fall within the purview of the Prevention of Corruption Act.\nAs regards to accusations of quantum of payment for beach cleaning now as compared to the past and the release of payments by the tourism department, the report states that those are technical aspects that have to be probed into by the technical wing.\nNewer PostVasco awaits to to be Goa's port of tourism\nOlder PostRibandar ups the ante against casino vessel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All student emails\nSupport for you during COVID-19\nExams, assessments and results\nTeaching periods\nDisability and accessibility\nIT and printing support\nSpirituality and faith\nSupport for sexual harassment and assault\nUWA Health and Medical Services\nClub and societies\nSafe community\nUWA Child Care Services\nUWA Innovation Academy\nCo-curricular programs and activities\nWork Integrated Learning placements\nClimate change law lecture raises over $7000 for bushfires\n04\/02\/2020 | 2 mins\nThe UWA Law School and the Law Society of WA, with the support of the WA community, held a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) fundraiser at the University Club of Western Australia on Thursday 30 January to raise money for the Australian Red Cross' bushfire efforts.\nOver 220 attendees and donors from the Perth legal and wider community contributed more than $7,600 to the Australian Red Cross's bushfire appeal through this event.\n\"Like so many other Australians, my heart went out to the victims of the bushfires and I wanted to do something to help them.\" said Dr Marilyn Bromberg, who curated the event.\n\"Curating a fundraiser to raise money for the Australian Red Cross bushfire relief seemed like the most practical way that I could help. I am very grateful and proud that the WA legal community gave the event such tremendous support.\"\nProfessor Robyn Carroll from the UWA Law School welcomed attendees and the two speakers. The Honourable Robert French AC, Chancellor, alumnus and Law School Adjunct Professor, made opening remarks about climate change litigation and climate change law expert Associate Professor David Hodgkinson delivered the lecture, providing background to climate change law and policy in Australia over recent decades. He discussed current efforts to establish regulatory mechanisms to address climate change and examined the relationship between climate change and the recent Australian bushfires.\nFollowing an informative Q&A the President of the Law Society of WA Nicholas van Hattem thanked the organisers, speakers, donors and the many WA law associations who supported the event.\nRead the Honourable Robert French AC's opening remarks and his Francis Burt Oration paper from 2019 on 'The law in a climate of change'.\nPlease wait, related news loading...\nPlease wait, topics loading...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Is There Enough LGBT News to Sustain a Huge Marketplace?\nDavid Badash in the Huffington Post has taken his earlier work on the future of LGBT news sites (from his blog the New Civil Rights Movement) to a larger audience. It relies on a story at the Nieman Labs on whether it is possible to be too niche when it comes to news, focusing specifically on LGBT news sites.\nBadash's thesis is that online LGBT news sites live in perilous times and that the turnover recently inside the online world may have a larger implication on whether LGBT news sites can survive.\nIs there a future for the gay news and politics sites and blogs that focus on and advocate for the LGBT community, or will we continue to see them consolidate \u2014 or just disappear? Why are so many gay news sites finding it so challenging to stay afloat? Are advertisers leery of being associated with distinctly gay sites? Is this niche just too \"niche?\"\n\"Whether corporate-run or a one person shop, the outlook for gay news blogs is that most of them are not turning a satisfying profit,\" writes Nikki Usher, at Harvard's own niche journalism site, Neiman Journalism Lab, in a recent article, \"How niche is too niche? The case of gay news blogs.\"\nPublishers of gay news sites\u2009talk about the issues Usher's piece raises: inconsistent advertising and few advertising network options, and lack of support from LGBT organizations. While visits at many LGBT sites are growing, most journalists and bloggers work very hard to attract and keep each and every reader.\nBadash suggests that readers, advertisers, and the activist left need to support online LGBT news sites and that without that support, we could see more turnover. Included is an interesting set of quotes from Bil Browning of Bilerico Project and Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend on the relationship between the activist community and the LGBT online world.\n\"The right wing has no problem using its 'wing nut welfare' to amplify its messaging through politically compatible blogs,\" says Pam's House Blend's Pam Spaulding. \"The left is at once averse to that model but also queasy about what any blogger might say that is off-message or not 'safe,' and thus don't want to make that investment in the blogs as part of overall movement support. That activist\/reader reticence, along with the current feeble support through ads and direct fundraising campaigns, will never raise enough money to make LGBT-focused blogs sustainable.\"\nBil Browning, founder and publisher of Bilerico, agrees. \"While conservatives are funding right-wing Internet sites, blogs, and pundits to the hilt, the left has abandoned progressive citizen journalists since Obama's election,\" says Browning. \"For LGBT news and political analysis sites, this tightfistedness on the part of Democrats, LGBT and other progressive organizations, and large funders has resulted in quite a bit of belt tightening.\"\nMany serious LGBT news and analysis sites are consolidating, reducing staff, or going out of existence entirely. Browning feels that \"at this point, the left and LGBT leaders should be investing in our sites as an inexpensive way of moving their message, but instead they expect citizen journalists to work for solely altruistic reasons. Just because we believe in the same ideals doesn't mean we don't need to eat and pay our rent, too.\"\nWhile there's a lot there that makes people whetted to the traditional media model cringe\u2013working with political activists, funding from progressive organizations\u2013to me the larger question is whether even relying on progressive organizations for funding will work or whether there is just only so much room in the marketplace for LGBT news and opinion.\nI get most of my LGBT news via Twitter, RSS feeds, and Facebook. I'm constantly struck by how similar the news is from various sources\u2013traditional online news, connected to brick-and-mortar news outlets, and opinion. At the end of the day, it seems like there are only a few national stories worth reporting on and the rest is filler.\nCall me a cynic, but I'm just not that interested in the \"It Gets Better\" video by the baristas at a Starbucks in WeHo. I'm not sure news consumers really want a constant stream of tidbits about D-list conservative activists that are unknown outside of the conservative fringe and the LGBT blogosphere. Frankly, writing about every utterance coming from inconsequential candidates like Rick Santorum just doesn't seem to meet the news threshold. And don't get me started on celebrity news.\nSo is there also a news gap? Has the turnover in the LGBT news world occurred because they can't survive and don't have enough support, or is it because there just isn't enough news to sustain?\nWe are welcoming some new bloggers to this blog and I hope their debuts will take on some of the questions raised by Badash.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Record share of Americans are unmarried \u2013 even though most want to say 'I do'\nAmong Americans ages 25 to 34, 49 percent have never been married, according to census data compiled by Pew. The result can be greater financial challenges, economists say.\nMelanie Stetson Freeman\/The Christian Science\nBride and groom Emily and Joey Schonlau pose for photos in front of the Sacred Heart Church immediately after their ceremony, in 2009.\nBy Mark Trumbull Staff writer\n@MarkTCSM\nFor Americans ages 25 to 34, the likelihood of being unmarried is four times greater today than it was in 1960 \u2013 a trend that is reshaping the economics of household life.\nIt's not that the younger generations have lost all interest in marriage. But the actual prevalence of marriage has declined, reaching a record low according to a new survey.\nThe result, economists say, is greater financial challenges for households including unmarried couples and single parents with children.\nHere are the latest numbers:\nSome 1 in 5 adults over 24 has never been married, according to 2012 Census data compiled by the Pew Research Center. And if you narrow the focus to ages 25 to 34, fully 49 percent have never been married, a figure that stood at 12 percent in 1960.\nIn part, many Americans see a positive side to the longstanding trend of decline in marriage. The social stigmatization of being single or in a cohabiting relationship has greatly eased.\nBut the financial toll of less marriage, and later marriage, is significant, economists say \u2013 ranging from lower living standards to diminished opportunities for children.\n\"Married people are happier, healthier, and wealthier than their unmarried counterparts \u2013 even after adjusting for some obvious differences between the two groups,\" writes Brookings Institution scholar Isabel Sawhill in a new book, \"Generation Unbound.\"\nThe consequences of the decline in marriage for children are even more important, Ms. Sawhill argues. Not only are 40 percent of US births today happening outside marriage, but most of those are also unplanned, she says \u2013 circumstances that are \"too frequently accompanied by a less-than-favorable environment for the child.\"\nBrighter prospects for individual households would help the whole economy, too, affecting things like taxpayer costs for antipoverty programs and remedial support at schools.\nWhat's the answer to these economic challenges?\nImproving the marriage rate is a possibility. Polling by the Pew Research Center found that young adults generally still aspire to marriage. Only 4 percent of never-married adults ages 25 to 34 say they don't want to get married, the center reported Wednesday.\nOne stumbling block lately has been a weakened job market. Among that younger age group, there are 91 employed men for every 100 women, whereas in 1960 that ratio was 139 employed men per 100 women, according to Pew.\nSo strengthening overall job creation and job training could help improve the pace of \"I do\" vows \u2013 even as it boosts the economy more broadly for others.\nIt's possible, too, that targeted marriage-promotion efforts, perhaps led by churches and other civic institutions, could help revive marriage rates over the long term.\nWhatever happens, Sawhill takes it as a given that rates of childbirth outside marriage will be higher than in the past. With that in view, she argues for a parallel focus on supporting successful parenthood \u2013 whatever the marital status of the parents \u2013 such as by promoting low-maintenance forms of birth control that have proved effective at reducing unwanted pregnancies.\nReligion in public life: another political divide that's growing\nSaving Money Who pays? With money matters, traditional gender roles stick.\nPolitics Voices Tables turning on GOP, social issues now benefiting Democrats","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SFF GEEK\nSFF Components\nGraphics Cards (GPUs)\nPower Supplies (PSUs)\nGEEEK\nSsupd\nGEEEK shows off its G1 aluminum small form factor PC case\nTaiwan-based GEEEK has shown off its first aluminum small form factor (SFF) PC case, the G1, in the first round of images. The case appears to take on the size of GEEK's acrylic A50 PLUS case with the build quality of the expensive DAN Cases A4.\nThe first image shown off by GEEEK was a shot of a silver and black G1 case with the side panels off and no components inside. From the image, we can see it follows the same two-chamber design that separates the graphics card from the rest of the components while forgoing USB and audio ports on the front.\nTo keep the design clean and minimalistic, the front has been left with a single button that will allow you to turn the PC on, off, and restart it with a long press. Looking inside of the case, we can see it uses an aluminum spine that supports an ITX motherboard and power supply with a cutout on the back for what looks to be a two-slot GPU.\nThe cage-like component appears to be the SSD caddy, which will allow you to add two 2.5\u2033 drives to the computer with the ability to add SSDs or HDDs. The side panels appear to screw on with similar thumbscrews to GEEEK's previous cases but will likely have rubber added to prevent scratches from appearing.\nLooking at the second image shared on Twitter, we get to see the GPU side of the case this time. The spine of the PC looks to come out a little to the edge of the case to support the PCI-E riser cable for the GPU, while doubling as a spot for the only GEEEK logo to be added.\nThe case's legs also appear to raise it slightly higher than the A50 PLUS to allow for more airflow from a possible fan that could be added in. Looking at the vents on the case, you can see GEEEK has chosen to go with the more aesthetically pleasing circular holes rather than, the more efficient hexagons on previous cases.\nCategorized as Cases Tagged GEEEK, GEEEK G1\nBy Josh Spires\nJosh has been a senior editor for the last few years, focusing on drones and related technologies. During this time, he grew interested in small form factor PCs and decided to launch SFF GEEK \u2013 a website focused on the topic.\nView all of Josh Spires's posts.\nDRONENR\nJosh Spires","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Hello and welcome back to my private email about the life and times of the ultra MAGA. I've been sending this email for a full year now\u2014Puck turned one this week!\u2014and it's been, to put it lightly, insane how the movement has evolved in the time since Donald Trump's exile from Washington.\nToday, we're looking at the most ultra MAGA guy I've seen yet on the national stage, even more MAGA than Trump himself: Doug Mastriano, the election-denying, January 6th-attending G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate who, as one Pennsylvania strategist described him to me, \"truly believes that God is talking to him.\" He's far outside of the realm of a normal Republican, even in these extremist times, and seems to be actively rebuffing all opportunities for mainstream acceptance. Is this a clever strategy, or is it evidence of a hyperactive MAGA amygdala at play?\nDoug Mastriano's Snowflake Strategy\nAfter crashing through a G.O.P. primary, Mastriano's fringey brand of Q-inflected, hyper-MAGA politics has been a harder sell with general election voters. The Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate hasn't made things easier by insulating himself from the very media outlets he needs to win.\nTINA NGUYEN\nAmong the more fringe candidates who muscled their way onto the sputtering G.O.P. rocket ship this year, Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, might be the purest of MAGA true believers: an election-denying, vaccine-dismissing, QAnon-espousing, self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and Confederate cosplayer. As Larry Ceisler, a Philly-based political communications strategist told me about Mastriano, \"He truly believes that God is talking to him. And God wants him to run MAGA.\" Ceisler is a Democrat, but he's not wrong: Mastriano led a prayer session on Jan 5., 2021, calling on God to help Trump \"seize the power.\" The next day, he marched on the Capitol.\nMastriano's radical brand of post-Trumpian politics has been a tough sell with Pennsylvania's general election voters. After beating nine less zany Republican rivals with a whopping 42.3 percent of the primary vote, Mastriano is now lagging his Democratic rival, the state attorney general Josh Shapiro, by somewhere between 3 and 11 points, depending on the poll. That's worse than expected given the G.O.P.'s structural advantages this cycle, but it's basically in line with Dr. Mehmet Oz's performance against John Fetterman, also in Pennsylvania. And, frankly, it's still within striking distance of Shapiro, especially if the polls are off. Mastriano still has time, in theory, to modulate some of his hard-right positions, as Blake Masters has done in Arizona, or to engage traditional media, to capture the moderate voters he needs.\nBut Mastriano, thus far, has evidenced zero ability to pivot. He barely has a relationship with the Republican Governors Association, the organization that's supposed to be working on his behalf, and he's been downright hostile toward the mainstream press\u2014not just national outlets like The New York Times, but also local television and radio stations in Pennsylvania. Instead, he's deliberately limited his media exposure to digital livestreams with far right internet personalities, such as Real America's Voice and the Chris Stigall Show, and appearances on Newsmax, OAN and Steve Bannon's War Room. His campaign rallies are functionally closed to the press. He's beefed with Breitbart and ignored Fox News, very occasionally talking to their digital team but otherwise ignoring their cable arm.\nThe closest that any non-MAGA journalist has gotten to interviewing Mastriano was when the Washington Examiner's national political columnist, Salena Zito, approached Mastriano at a Turning Point USA rally that he held with Ron DeSantis in August. Initially waved through by a Turning Point representative, Zito immediately found herself blocked by a Mastriano staffer. \"He said, 'Well, you're not going to talk to Mastriano. That's not happening today. You've not been nice to him,'\" Zito told me. She wasn't surprised: like dozens of other journalists covering the Pennsylvania governor's race\u2014both national and local\u2014Zito had already experienced the pointy end of the Mastriano campaign's non-press strategy. Indeed, there have been numerous reports of journalists being explicitly barred from entering his rallies by armed security, and shoved out of Mastriano's path, to say nothing of having requests for comment even returned. (True to form, the Mastriano campaign did not respond to my requests for comment.)\nI was surprised because Zito, who's also a columnist for the New York Post, is hardly the stereotypical Fake News stooge. In fact, she's drawn mainstream scorn and Never-Trump hatred, as well as praise from outlets like The Federalist, for her sympathetic profiles of Trump voters. Nevertheless, earlier in the summer Zito had committed the apparently unforgivable sin of writing a column asking why Mastriano was avoiding the media. The affront had not been forgotten two months later when she was stiff-armed by the Mastriano staffer, who told Zito that the campaign would reconsider her access to the candidate if she was \"nicer\" in the future. Zito was baffled. \"I'm like, this is not a transactional relationship,\" she told me. \"I mean, our job is to ask the questions that voters want to know.\"\n\"What Is He Hiding?\"\nThe bunker media strategy may have worked in Mastriano's favor during the G.O.P. primaries. While he faced more than a dozen candidates in the primary, several of whom were pro-Trump stalwarts like Rep. Lou Barletta, Mastriano took his campaign off the grid with a grassroots coalition of election skeptics and QAnon sympathizers, cultivated largely on Facebook. In the end, he trounced his more moderate opponents, despite several of them dropping out in a last-minute bid to coalesce around an establishment challenger. A belated endorsement from Donald Trump helped seal the deal.\nAnd Mastriano has kept to that strategy, so far, during the general election, even going so far as to refuse to attend any debates unless he can pick the moderator himself. Last week, he posted a video on his Facebook page with a screenshot of an article titled \"Doug Mastriano's Ghosting of Media in PA Guv Race Brilliant, Working: Experts.\" (Replied one follower: \"Stick to it Doug! It's working!\")\nThe safe-space strategy, I'm told, was the brainchild of Mark Serrano, the C.E.O. of the conservative firm Proactive Communications, which also consulted on Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. But if it's supposed to reflect the middle-fingers-to-the-media ethos of the MAGA movement's leader, it also has a massive blind spot. \"Even Donald Trump engaged with the news media day in and day out. In fact, he relished it, even though he argued and battled with them every chance he had,\" noted Jim Schultz, a former Trump White House counsel and a Pennsylvania Republican supporting Shapiro. \"Mastriano's apparent strategy of ignoring the news media and insulating himself from any accountability makes no sense. The question everyone should have is 'what is he hiding?'\"\nIt's a hard question to answer, for that very reason. Mastriano's media quarantine on conspiracy island has forced journalists to make near-herculean efforts to dredge up info on the would-be governor, such as scouring fringe websites that are practically unknown outside of MAGA world. (Have you ever heard of The Wendy Bell Show?) The result has helped to insulate Mastriano's public profile as a suit-and-tie-wearing gubernatorial candidate from his downright nutty private life. (Mastriano spoke at an event for a church that worships the AR-15 assault rifle, for example.)\nAnd for a certain number of voters, it's working. There are plenty of Republicans in Pennsylvania who are fine closing their eyes and pulling the lever for the guy with the R next to his name, and the less they know about him, the better. But Mastriano's refusal to engage with the press, and his aversion to traditional television advertising, has also given Shapiro endless opportunities to define his opponent. \"They're not allowing Mastriano to normalize himself,\" Ceisler told me, referring to Democratic attacks. \"That's why they keep pushing out the anti-Semitic stuff, the Confederate stuff, all of that.\"\nWith six weeks in the race left, it's unclear whether Mastriano can get over the near-infinite number of hurdles in his way\u2014a severe lack of money, a paltry ad budget, a record of insanity miles long\u2014or even get out of his own way. If there's a silver lining for Republicans, it's that Mastriano won't necessarily drag down Oz, or vice versa, since Pennsylvania allows voters to split their votes across multiple parties on the same ballot. \"I was just out in Somerset County and Westmoreland County, and I saw signs that had Shapiro and Oz in them,\" Zito told me. Good news for Oz, perhaps, but it's hardly the portent that the G.O.P. needs.\nFOUR STORIES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT\nThe Putin Opposition\nThe doyenne of Russian independent journalism reflects on the dark mood in Moscow.\nJULIA IOFFE\nApple's Pixar Fantasy\nIf 'Luck' was a flop, what does that tell us about Apple TV+\u2014and streaming writ large?\nJULIA ALEXANDER\nThiel vs. McConnell\nFresh reporting on the Blake-Mitch-Thiel love triangle.\nTEDDY SCHLEIFER\nThe Semafor Kickoff\nDylan and Peter articulate the prevailing views on the soon-to-be-lauched medico.\nPETER HAMBY & DYLAN BYERS\nYou received this message because you signed up to receive emails from Puck.\nWas this email forwarded to you?\nSign up for Puck here.\nPuck is published by Heat Media LLC.\n217 W 17th St.\nFor support, just reply to this e-mail.\nFor brand partnerships, email ads@puck.news\nSEE THE ARCHIVES","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Authors & Books >\nSeattle Reads >\nAbout Seattle Reads: 2020\nWe are delighted to announce the 2020 featured work: \"There There\" by Tommy Orange (Vintage Books, 2018).\nAbout \"There There\"\nAbout Tommy Orange\nSeattle Reads Books and Information for Book Clubs\nTommy Orange's shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American\u2014grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.\nHailed as an instant classic, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, utterly contemporary and always unforgettable.\nView this book in our catalog\nTommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, and won the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Pen\/Hemingway Award. There There was also longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California.\nTommy Orange will visit Seattle May 16-17, 2020. More details to come soon.\nBook group kits of There There will be available to reserve in mid-January. Book groups already registered with The Seattle Public Library may reserve their kits then. A limited number of additional copies of Orange's book will be available at all Library locations for informal borrowing by community book groups and individuals.\nBooks & E-Books\nYour Next 5 Books\nGet books on your device\nView Seattle Reads Podcasts\nWe thank our sponsor for their generous support\nand The Wallace Foundation, with additional support from media sponsors The Seattle Times and KUOW 94.9 Public Radio, and Vintage Books.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Lacrimal Gland\nRevision as of 09:04, April 1, 2020 by Michael.Yen (Talk | contribs)\nJacqueline Ng, MD\nCat Nguyen Burkat, MD FACS, Jacqueline Ng, MD, Jonathan Kim MD, Marcus M. Marcet, MD, Michael T Yen, MD, Paul O. Phelps, MD, FACS and Todd Mondzelewski, MD\nJonathan Kim MD, Paul O. Phelps, MD, FACS\nby Jonathan Kim MD on March 31, 2020.\nAdenoid Cystic Carcinoma\n2.2 Histologic diagnosis\n3.1 Treatment\n3.2 Follow up\nLacrimal gland tumors comprise about 10% of all space-occupying orbital tumors. About 20% of solid lacrimal gland tumors are of epithelial origin, with about 45% being malignant. Of the malignant epithelial lacrimal gland tumors, about 60% are adenoid cystic carcinomas, and these most often involve the orbital lobe of the lacrimal gland.\nAdenoid cystic carcinoma generally presents in young or middle-aged adults with a mean age of 40 years, but can occur in the first decade of life. There is a slight predilection for women. Diagnosis of adenoid cystic carcinoma generally occurs within 6 months of presenting signs and symptoms.\nGiven the superotemporal location of the lacrimal gland in the orbit, often the initial presenting sign is proptosis with inferior and nasal deviation of the globe (Fig. 1). Pain from bone and nerve invasion by this unencapsulated tumor is a distinguishing feature from benign lesions, which tend to be slowly progressive without pain. Nerve invasion may also present with frontotemporal hypoesthesia. Patients may also present with \"S-shaped\" blepharoptosis, diplopia, and ocular motility deficits.\nComputed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may demonstrate an ovoid soft tissue mass in the superotemporal orbit with irregular margins and possible bony erosion even while the tumor is small. Focal calcifications may also be present (Fig. 2A, 2B).\nFig. 1: Proptosis and globe dystopia from left lacrimal gland adenoid cystic carcinoma.\nFig. 2: (A) Coronal CT of an adenoid cystic carcinoma with irregular mass arising from the left anterior superotemporal orbit with possible focal calcification. (B) Axial CT of an adenoid cystic carcinoma invading the left lateral orbital wall (arrow).\nHistologic diagnosis\nIf there is any suggestion from clinical work-up that a lacrimal gland mass is malignant, excisional biopsy at minimum is strongly recommended to prevent further seeding of tumor cells in the orbit. Fine needle aspiration biopsy has been proposed in the literature and may be more appropriate for unresectable tumors, but should be limited to institutions with experienced cytopathologists.\nOn histology, the tumor is defined by bland appearing, but malignant epithelial cells clearly delineated from adjacent connective tissue. The tumor can present in several subtypes including cribiform (Swiss cheese), sclerosing, basaloid, comedocarcinoma, and tubular (ductal).\nThe cribiform variant is the most common and consists of lobules with circular pools of mucin (Fig. 3). The sclerosing variant consists of elongated cords of epithelial cells with a dense hyalinized stroma. The basaloid variant is poorly differentiated with large basophilic nuclei and scant cytoplasm in solid epithelial lobules (Fig. 4). This variant has been thought to have a poorer prognosis than the other variants. The comedocarcinoma variant is composed of epithelial lobules with large foci of central necrosis. The tubular variant is made up of elongated epithelial tubules lined by two to three layers of cells.\nFig. 3: Cribriform variant\nFig. 4: Basaloid variant\nDifferential diagnosis includes lymphoma, and other inflammatory conditions including chronic dacryoadenitis, reactive lymphoid hyperplasia, sarcoidosis, Sj\u00f6gren's syndrome (Mikulicz disease), lipogranuloma, and dacryops. Pleomorphic adenoma is also an important differential and is the most common lacrimal gland tumor. Pleomorphic adenoma is a benign lacrimal gland tumor, typically painless, but has the potential for malignant transformation. Pleomorphic adenoma (benign mixed tumor) can also demonstrate bony orbital expansion on imaging as well. Also on the differential are other malignant epithelial tumors of the lacrimal gland. Of the malignant epithelial lacrimal tumors 20% are pleomorphic adenocarcinoma, 10% are primary adenocarcinoma, and 5% are mucoepidermoid carcinoma.\nTreatment continues to be controversial. Many authorities today will often initiate surgery (orbital exenteration vs globe-sparing resection) with or without bone removal and adjuvant radiotherapy (external beam or proton beam therapy). The decision for exenteration may depend on involvement of the orbital apex and extension beyond the orbit. Removal of bone is usually guided by radiologic evidence of bony involvement or intraoperative abnormal bony structures. Radiotherapy is often initiated in cases of perineural invasion. Radiation therapy may also prolong long-term survival. Other less studied modalities of treatment include intraaterial chemotherapy and brachytherapy. Over the past decade, there has been a trend toward an emphasis on adjuvant treatments (rather than surgery alone) such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Most centers currently rely on a combination of all available modalities to reduce local surgical morbidity (when appropriate), combined with adjuvant therapies in an attempt to improve survival rates.\nThere have been numerous studies looking at outcomes with different modalities of treatment.\nIn one study by Ahmed and Esmaeli, a retrospective review of 53 cases of adenoid cystic carcinoma were classified according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer Classification to evaluate predictive outcomes of treatment and local recurrence. The study concluded that prognosis was worse for patients with >T3 tumors (Fig. 5) with higher incidence of recurrence and metastasis despite aggressive treatment. Poor outcome was also noted in patients who had basaloid variant and perineural invasion. For patients with >T3 tumors, local recurrence was higher in patients treated with globe preserving surgery compared to those who underwent orbital exenteration and radiotherapy. Earlier studies by Wright, Rose, and Garner on 38 patients from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, and Font, Smith, and Bryan on 21 patients with adenoid cystic carcinoma seemed to also favor aggressive surgical intervention with radiotherapy. Ahmed and Esmaeli attempted to distinguish more advanced tumors from less invasive tumors, and although the study was less conclusive for <T3 tumors, globe preserving surgery with radiotherapy seemed to provide local and regional control.\nIn cases of advanced tumors with high risk of recurrence, neoadjuvent intraarterial chemotherapy with cisplatin and doxorubicin has been used with exenteration and irradiation. In a small study by Tse et al comparing additional intraarterial cytoreductive chemotherapy in 9 patients compared to conventional surgery and radiotherapy, the study concluded that the 5-year carcinoma specific death rate (16.7% compared with 57.1% respectively) and recurrence rate (23.8% compared with 71.4% respectively) was significantly lower in patients treated with intraarterial cytoreductive chemotherapy. Although adjuvant chemoradiation is often routinely employed in other head and neck tumors, there is limited data on the efficacy of this modality in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland.\nIn cases where minimal residual tumor remains after surgical intervention, brachytherapy with iodine-125 (I-125) plaques has also been used. In a small study by Shields et al of 4 patients with microscopic residual tumor after excision, brachytherapy with I-125 plaques with a target dose of 50 Gray was applied. Of the 4 patients, 3 had tumor control while one patient required exenteration for recurrence separate from the area of treatment.\nAlthough promising initial data, there is currently insufficient conclusive data on this modality of treatment.\nFig. 5: American Joint Committee on Cancer Classification of Carcinoma of the Lacrimal Gland.\nCareful follow-up is critical in patients diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma given the tendency for local and regional recurrence and metastasis despite aggressive treatment.\nAdenoid cystic carcinoma has a poor overall prognosis, compounded by the limited number of studies available given the rarity of the entity and lack of consensus in treatment approach.\nLiterature has cited predictors for prognosis including basaloid variant, tumor stage, perineural invasion, age, and presence of apoptotic markers. The often cited study by Gamel and Font indicated a 5-year survival rate for basaloid variant was only 21% as compared to other variants where the survival rate was 71%. Similar findings have been noted in subsequent studies. Multiple studies have also concluded that more advanced tumors, especially with neural invasion results in a poorer prognosis with higher likelihood of recurrence and metastasis even with invasive treatment. However, in one case by Tellado et al, 11 cases of adenoid cystic carcinoma in patients 18 years or younger demonstrated that younger patients had a better prognosis possibly due to less aggressive histology including less basaloid variant and less perineural invasion. In another study by Strianese, the presence of apoptotic markers with down-regulation of p53 and up-regulation of Bcl-2 was also associated with worse prognosis and survival rates.\nhttp:\/\/www.oculist.net\/downaton502\/prof\/ebook\/duanes\/pages\/v9\/v9c017.html#orbi\nhttp:\/\/www.images.missionforvisionusa.org\/anatomy\/2006\/08\/what-is-adenoid-cystic-carcinoma-of.html\nAhmad SM, Esmaeli B, Williams M, et al. American Joint Committee on Cancer classification predicts outcome of patients with lacrimal gland adenoid cystic carcinoma. Ophthalmology 2009 Jun; 116(6): 1210-15.\nBartley G, Harris GJ. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland: Is there a cure\u2026yet? Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2002 Sep;18(5):315-8.\nBernardini FP, Devoto MH, Croxatto JO. Epithelial tumors of the lacrimal gland: an update. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2008 Sep; 19(5): 409-13.\nEsmaeli B, Ahmadi MA, Youssef A et al. Outcomes in Patients with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Lacrimal Gland. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2004 Jan;20(1):22-6.\nEsmaeli B. Golio D, Kies M, DeMonte F. Surgical management of locally advanced adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2006 Sep-Oct;22(5):366-70.\nFont RL, Smith SL, Bryan RG. Malignant epithelial tumors of the lacrimal gland: a clinic-pathologic study of 21 cases. Arch Ophthalmol. 1998 May; 116(5): 613-16.\nGamel JW, Font RL. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland: the clinical significance of a basaloid histologic pattern. Human Pathol 1982 Mar; 13(3): 219-25.\nShields JA, Shields CL, Epstein JA, Scartozzi R, Eagle RC. Primary epithelial malignancies of the lacrimal gland: The 2003 Ramon L. Font Lecture. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2004 Jan; 20(1): 10-21.\nShields JA, Shields CL, Freire JE et al. Plaque Radiotherapy for Selected Orbital Malignancies: Preliminary Observations: The 2002 Montgomery Lecture, Part 2. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003 Mar;19(2):91-5.\nStrianese D, Baldi G, Staibano S, et al. Expression of apoptosis-related markers in malignant epithelial tumors of the lacrimal gland and their relation to clinical outcome. Br J Ophthalmol. 2007 Sept; 91(9): 1239-43.\nTellado MV, McLean IW, Specht CS, Varga J. Adenoid cystic carcinomas of the lacrimal gland in childhood and adolescence. Ophthalmology 1997 Oct; 104(10): 1622\u20135.\nTse DT, Benedetto P, Dubovy S et al. Clinical analysis of the effect of intraarterial cytoreductive chemotherapy in the treatment of lacrimal gland adenoid cystic carcinoma. Am J Ophthalmol 2006 Jan; 141:44-53.\nWright JE, Rose GE, Garner A. Primary malignant neoplasms of the lacrimal gland. Br J Ophthalmol 1992 Jul; 76(7): 401\u20137.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/eyewiki.org\/w\/index.php?title=Adenoid_Cystic_Carcinoma_of_the_Lacrimal_Gland&oldid=54318\"\nOculoplastics\/Orbit\nOncology\/Pathology","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Politics In Spires Schools\nOxPol \/ December 11, 2013 \/ 0\nThe divide between subjects taught in the school classroom and university-level research is often exaggerated. Someone between 16-18 would be familiar with many themes addressed by Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). Still, some content, and especially research methods, would be completely new. Articles published in this series are part of a pilot scheme to bridge this divide. Recently, postgraduates from the DPIR visited schools to discuss its research programme with 16-18 year-old students taking courses in government and politics. The conversation pointed to many similarities. All A-level Politics courses aim to develop critical awareness of the nature of politics and increase understanding of the structures of authority and power. This is also true of University research. These \u2026\nInterview with Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace\nOxPol \/ July 18, 2014 \/ 1\nMargaret Macmillan, Professor of International History at the University of Oxford and Warden of St Anthony's College, discusses her new book 'The War That Ended Peace' with DPhil student Katharine Brooks. The book is a re-examination of the causes of World War One and seeks to answer the question of why the long peace preceding 1914 failed to hold. Katharine asks what Professor Macmillan felt she has been able to add to our understandings of World War One, what parallels can be drawn from 1914 to 2014 and why academia still fails to come to an agreement on the causes of this most important of world events.\nThe Trouble with Standards in Public Life\nDavid Hine \/ January 13, 2014 \/ 0\nIn the United Kingdom, thanks to the powerful influence of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, we tend to see public ethics primarily in positive terms: as standards to be upheld not as criminal corruption to be prevented. The Committee's approach has been built on four key elements: high-level principles; codes of conduct for each area of public life; mechanisms of independent scrutiny; and education and training in the values implied by the principles and codes. Unfortunately, however, the focus on \"standards\" creates an ever-expanding public-ethics agenda. It builds on a challenging, if intuitively persuasive, premise: that we really can identify what, in its most recent Inquiry, the Committee called \"best practice in promoting good behaviour in public life\". Too frequently it seems we fail to do so. The more we discuss \"standards\" the more we see the gap between theory and reality. Public organisations have regularly failed to deliver on basic standards of provision \u2013 for example in health or social care \u2013 and then concealed their failures. Public-private partnerships have revealed manifest unaddressed conflicts of interest. At senior levels blame avoidance is a regular feature of the policy process. As a result, we are still struggling to identify what, in cultural terms, works to uphold a cultural approach to ethics and integrity.\n'We were just using different words to mean the same thing': Exploring the affective norms of political party manifestos\nSpyros Kosmidis \/ January 9, 2014 \/ 0\nThis is a research project that aspires to measure and understand the affective norms of political discourse. We already know that political parties propose policies to persuade the electorate. In fact, all else being equal, the party developing the most persuasive set of policies will win the election. But, we also know that persuasion is not only about numbers, policy proposals and goals. Rhetoric has an affective aspect that is difficult to measure and understand. How do political parties present their policies to make them more appealing and persuasive? And, how can political scientists extract these pieces of information? With respect to the first question, we argue that on top of the programmatic content of political texts, political parties use emotional appeals to convince that their policies are superior. To measure that we examine how affective political rhetoric is through a content analysis of political language.\nProtecting Civilians\nHugo Slim \/ January 6, 2014 \/ 1\nIt feels wrong to watch the news about Syria and the Central African Republic night after night without seeing any effective international action being taken to stop the killing, displacement and rape. After millions of civilians were killed in the Second World War, the United Nations was set up specifically \"to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war\". So why doesn't it? Hugo Slim investigates the current state of international politics regarding the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect.\nThe Prospect of Scottish Independence\nJim Gallagher \/ January 4, 2014 \/ 0\nIn September 2014 there will be a referendum in Scotland about whether to leave the United Kingdom, and if Scotland votes yes that will signal the end of a 300 year union. How has it come to this, what would Scottish independence mean, and what's going to happen? Jim Gallagher, Gwilym Gibbon research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, examines the potential consequences of a 'yes' vote both for an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK.\nRethinking Europe in a Non-European World\nThe international landscape is changing. The emergence of new and powerful global players such as China, India and Brazil lessens Europe's traditionally strong position on the international stage. One of the questions facing European policy-makers today is thus how Europe can exert influence in an increasingly globalised world despite its comparative decline in military strength and economic capacity vis-a-vis the new emerging powers. In the mid 200s at the University of Oxford, a group of researchers, led by Kalypso Nicolaidis, founded the research project RENEW \u2013 Rethinking Europe in a Non-European world \u2013 in order to address precisely this question as well as to reflect more widely on Europe's role in a changing world order.\nWhat would change if the voting age was lowered to 16?\nJames Tilley \/ December 26, 2013 \/ 1\nThis autumn, in his speech to the Labour party conference, Ed Miliband called for the voting age to be lowered to 16. This follows legislation by the SNP government in Scotland to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence. Explanations of the merits of extending the franchise to younger people normally begin with statements such as 'if someone's old enough to X\u2026' with X replaced by 'marry', 'go to war', 'pay taxes' and so on. We might note that these are, at best, weak arguments since 16 year olds can only marry and join the army with their parents' permission and even 5 year olds pay tax in the form of VAT when their pocket money is translated into sweets.[1] Either way, it seems likely that the SNP's decision was not really based on the merits of the case and was simply a narrow electoral consideration. Young people are generally in favour of Scottish independence, so allowing them to vote will increase the proportion of people voting yes. It seems reasonable to think that this is also the major reason why the Labour party is now interested in lowering the voting age in general elections to 16. Young people are seen as more likely to vote Labour, so allowing them to vote will boost Labour's prospects in future elections. What is never quite clear is whether these are sensible conclusions. Would the entrance of 16 and 17 year olds into the electorate make much difference?\nYesterday's Tomorrows \u2013 What Happened to the Future of Government?\nRuth Dixon , Christopher Hood \/ December 23, 2013 \/ 0\nChristopher Hood and Ruth Dixon explain the results of their recent project aiming to assess the effects of successive efforts to reform the executive government (the 'state machine') of the UK over the past thirty years. This project explores how those reforms played out, and how far they delivered on what had been claimed and expected of them. How much 'leaner and meaner' was the state machine after a generation of such changes? Such an exploration is not only an interesting study in its own right; it is also significant for assessing the prospects for the future of government in the coming decades, for example in assessing how government changed in the periods of cutbacks in the 1980s and early 1990s in the context of what is likely to be a period of prolonged fiscal restraint in the 2010s.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \u2192 KySEA Blog \u2192 2012 \u2192 July \u2192 12 \u2192 Solar energy put to work on Hart County farms\nRegenEn Solar\n\"KySEA is one of the most important organizations for clean energy in Kentucky!\" - Dan Hoffman\nby Nancy Reinhart \u2014 last modified Jul 12, 2012 02:05 PM\n\"If anyone tells you solar energy doesn't work in Kentucky, they are wrong. It's all about a balance of what you use and what you produce,\" says Sam Avery.\nAnd he has the proof. His farmhouse in Upton, Kentucky, touts several solar features, including a water heater, thermal heating system and rooftop photovoltaic panels.\nSam and his wife, Bonnie, built the house in 1978, shortly after purchasing the tract of land in Hart County. Along with a couple dozen friends, they did so as a part of the \"back to the land\" movement. Sam incorporated passive and active solar into the design of the home from the start.\nElectricity-free hydraulic pump sends 10 gallons of water per hour to the house from the nearby stream\n\"These things just seemed common sense to me when I built the house,\" Sam said to a crowd of 35 that gathered at his farmhouse on Friday, July 6. A mix of farmers and friends toured the farm to learn about how each of the home's renewable energy systems works.\nSeveral people climbed up on the roof to see the solar panels and the large tank in the attic peak that holds the home's hot water. Another group walked down the hill to understand how the electric-free hydraulic pump that brings water up the hill from a nearby stream works.\nThrough his business Avery and Sun, Sam, a trained installer, has put solar systems on other homes in the area as well. Two years ago, he installed a system on the home of neighbors Wendy and Dennis Price that produces as much electricity as they use.\nWendy likes how easily the solar panels replaced their reliance on coal-burning grid-based electricity. \"You don't notice anything different at all, except a few clicks at dawn and dusk when the system comes on and turns off,\" she said.\nEveryone at the party was a customer of EKPC's rural electric cooperatives \u2013 living in either the Nolin RECC or Farmers RECC district. As a result, the group was particularly interested to learn about efforts to Renew East Kentucky, a campaign to shift the rural electric co-ops toward a culture of energy efficiency and renewable energy.\nSam noted that getting involved in reforming local electric co-ops is a good place to start advocating for clean energy. \"As you know, the co-ops are in fact democratic. But as long as the lights go on, most people don't think about the fact that we are owners of them,\" Sam said.\nThe Averys also encouraged people to understand more about the source of their electricity by lobbying their legislators for better state clean energy policy.\nHaving joined the Kentucky Sustainable Energy Alliance as a business member, Sam has been particularly active in advocating for the Clean Energy Opportunity Act, a bill in the Kentucky legislature that would establish a renewable and efficiency portfolio standard and feed-in tariffs for Kentucky.\nSam described himself to the crowd as someone who is not a \"joiner.\" But he said he continues to volunteer his time around clean energy advocacy because he believes it will work.\n\"It takes people organized, people writing letters, it takes time. We'll have progressive energy legislation in this state \u2013 we will have it.\"\nFacts about the Avery farmhouse:\nInsulation layer outside of stone walls creates a thermal wrap\nLarge windowed front foyer is heated by passive solar and provides an energy efficient air buffer\nSolar thermal collector provides \u00bd the home's heat and heats a below-ground greenhouse\nHas solar hot water heater\nRooftop solar panels produce 16 kilowatt hours per day in peak conditions (more than the home uses)\nSend this |\nPrint this |\nRussell ATC Center Wind Turbine\nIn May 2008, a host of Russell Area Technology Center students and electrical technology instructor Doug Keaton gathered around a 60-foot tall, 1-kilowatt wind turbine to celebrate its opening operation. Using electricity generated by the turbine is just one part of Russell ATC's larger plan to reduce the school's energy costs by 25%.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Scourged by Kevin Hearne (2018, Audiobook)\nPublished by Del Rey. Read by Luke Daniels. Produced by Random House Audio.\nUnchained from fate, the Norse gods Loki and Hel are ready to unleash Ragnarok, a.k.a. the Apocalypse, upon the earth. They've made allies on the darker side of many pantheons, and there's a globe-spanning battle brewing that ancient Druid Atticus O'Sullivan will be hard-pressed to survive, much less win.\nListen time: About 9 hours, 5\/22-23. (At 120% speed.)\nThis is the ninth and allegedly final book in the Iron Druid Chronicles.\nAt this point in the series, we all know what we're going to get, and this book is no different. There is one slight change, however, in that there are three different POVs interwoven throughout the book: Atticus, of course, but also Granny-wail (whose name I have literally no idea how to write, as I've never seen it written down), and Owen. It is essentially three different stories woven together into one book, because the three druids each have their own separate tasks to complete.\nPrevious books have only dabbled with occasional secondary POVs. This one takes them all on full force, and it's a bit of a shift in tone. Not unpleasant, just different.\nOberon is sidelined for much of the book, for reasons that make perfect sense in the situation, but his perspective is sorely missed. We miss him as much as Atticus does.\nAs for the story itself, I hate to say it but I found it somewhat uninteresting and anticlimactic. The vast majority of the book describes a gigantic battle on three fronts, and as such, most of the text is about fighting, and that gets old. I honestly don't care about fighting techniques or which hand is used to block which punch from which direction, in this book, or any other. There isn't much in the way of character development. It is basically just one last, large-scale battle which brings back many of the side characters we've seen in the previous eight books for various cameos. Honestly it felt like a very short book.\nStill, I found it to be a satisfactory ending, if not particularly grand or noteworthy. Without spoiling too much, I didn't feel much of any emotion one way or another at how it ended. In fact, it didn't really \"end\"-thanks to the final epilogue, there is no reason Hearne couldn't pick things up again sometime in the future and keep going. To be honest, I feel like Hearne just got bored writing these books and wanted to do something else, and I can certainly sympathize with that. The latter books felt almost like he was contractually obligated to write them, and didn't have quite the same zest and zeal as the initial three or four books.\nI will say though that I have appreciated how the series from beginning to end has shown a broad and varied view of many different cultures' religious pantheons, both historical and modern. I feel like I've learned a lot from reading these books, and been exposed to a lot of things I might not otherwise have been. The ninth and final book is no different, giving us a glimpse of The Monkey King and the culture surrounding him, something that I might have laughed about as a joke prior to this book, but is actually a real Chinese legend.\nLuke Daniels' reading was, as always, fantastic. Even if the text is not all that interesting, he is able to make it sound interesting with his tremendous array of voices. I can't even imagine reading these books as plain text now.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apple's newest ad makes a haunting plea to take climate change seriously\nBy Patrick Kulp 2017-06-08 03:37:55 UTC\nApple's latest commercial is advertising the Earth.\nIn a rare topical turn for the company, the ad makes a lofty appeal for environmentalism at a moment when such efforts face historic threats from Donald Trump's administration.\nSEE ALSO: Apple will soon block autoplay videos and data tracking in Safari\n\"Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand,\" the late astronomer Carl Sagan says in the ad's voiceover. \"It underscores the responsibility to deal more cleanly with one another and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known.\"\nClimate change is never explicitly mentioned. Nor are any of the many other problems the planet's facing. But the gist is clear, and the broad language actually packs a bigger punch.\nThe ad debuted during Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night.\nApple is not exactly the most modest company, and it has a long tradition of grandiose commercials with an air of self-importance that borders on self-parody.\nThat tone works much better when applied to climate change's colossal existential threat to life on Earth than, say, the Apple Pencil.\nApple can also put its money where its mouth is. It's positioned acting on climate change as a core value of the company. It already powers nearly all its data centers, offices and retail stores worldwide with renewable energy sources, and is working to clean up its vast supply chain in developing nations such as China. Cook personally called President Donald Trump to try to persuade him to remain in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, an entreaty which did not succeed.\nThe timely cause is a departure from Apple's usual apolitical marketing. While CEO Tim Cook often comments on the topics of the day, Apple mostly sat out the growing trend towards social commentary in advertising until now.\nDecision to withdraw from the #ParisAgreeement was wrong for our planet. Apple is committed to fight climate change and we will never waver.\n\u2014 Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 2, 2017\nThe ad isn't pure altruism, of course; it's also a continuation of Apple's \"Shot on iPhone\" campaign that pulls from user footage to show off the device's camera.\nWATCH: Apple ruined the MacBook Pro charging cable \u2014 this magnetic adapter will make it all better\nTopics: Activism, Apple, big-tech-companies, Business, Climate","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Better than money in the bank?\nInvesting in classic cars for some feels like mixing business with pleasure. But with bank interest rates and stocks and shares on a rocky road since 2008, the old car market has been buoyant and investment cash flows into the sector.\nIf your budget doesn't quite stretch to a mint Miura, here are our top tips for appreciating classics below \u00a310,000. The key at this level, where the car will be used, is to buy well. A poor car will cost money rather than make it. Watch out for our advice on what to ask buyers to ensure you buy well - on the blog shortly.\nAt Great Escape Classic Car Hire we watch the classic car market daily to spot cars that our customers will want to hire. And we buy and sell classics for our fleet all the time. With \u00a310,000 in your pocket here are out top picks for appreciating classics in 2012. Let us know what you think at http:\/\/www.greatescapecars.co.uk\/ or call 01527 893733.\n1. Jaguar XJ6\/XJ12 Series 1\nThe lovely old Series 1 XJ Jaguar has been slumbering for a while, stuck in the shadow of the iconic Jaguar Mk2. But as a new breed of buyers enter the market, who grew up with the younger car, it's the Jaguar XJ that is appreciating. Values for good XJs have skyrocketed over the last 12 months but there are plenty about so there are still lots of well priced cars. We think that XJs will go the same way as Jaguar Mk2s. The safe money is in a Series 1 (with the bigger radiator grille) with the 5.3 litre engine but the 4.2 is also worth a look. If your budget is tighter look at a Series 2 - the same car but with a smaller grille and for some reason less loved (misguided concerns about BL build quality that no longer apply after 40 years). We think this strange prejudice will mellow and prices will balance.\n2. VW Golf GTI Mk1\nThe original hot hatch has been promising to appreciate for some time. There are surprisingly few unmolested, well maintained examples of the veedub around, which is seeing values for good cars increase. 12 months ago \u00a33,000 would have bought a good one, now it's closer to \u00a35,000. We think they'll go higher as buyers appreciate their reliability, useability and sheer capability. And with more children of the 1980s entering the nostalgia market for 'cars they grew up with' we expect demand for good cars to increase.\n3. Peugeot 205 GTI\nWhile we're on the subject of hot hatches, the more youthful 205 GTI is ripe for investment. Like the Golf, good cars are rare and now command serious premiums - this is usually a sign that the car is on the up. While average cars can be found for less than \u00a31,000, decent 205 GTIs are around \u00a34,000, significantly up on 12 months ago. Like the VW Golf, nostalgia will fuel this market.\n4. BMW 6-Series Mark 1\nThe shark-nose Beemer coupe of the 1980s has lurked in the shadow of the earlier CS coupe for years. We're not sure why - it's a great looking car that's reliable and backed by a decent club and specialist repair network. The ones to go for are the M635, 635 or the Highline. There are plenty about and values have still to rise. We think they'll follow the CS, which has appreciated dramatically in recent years, despite expensive rebuild costs that don't really apply to the better built later car. Although beware - all 6-Series cars rust.\n5. Jaguar XK8\nIn the world of youngtimer classics, not many people would put their money into a Jaguar as a sure fire investment. The big cats usually take years and years to climb out of the old banger world. But we think the elegant XK8 coupe and convertible are different because they look so good - plus the Jaguar brand is seriously on the up at the moment. We are already seeing a lot of hire demand in these cars, up significantly year on year, which suggests that interest is there. The reliability and sheer useability of these cars gives them very broad appeal. Good cars are already starting to rise, we expect that to continue as demand for decent cars outstrips supply.\nGreat Escape Classic Car Hire has 4 out of 5 of these cars (all except the XJ6 sadly) available to hire from one of our 8 UK locations. To find try before you buy call 01527 893733 or visit http:\/\/www.greatescapecars.co.uk.\nclassic car hire classic car investments Jaguar xj6 peugeot 205 gti VW Golf GTI\nJames said\u2026\nEven most of the people used to buy the cars for traveling purposes for one thing is sure that you can also buy the cars for trading purposes as well.\nIf you are in Dubai and you are willing to buy a used car for any purpose, then free classified website can be a best choice to buy or sell. I have found this website one of the impressive platform when it comes to uae cars for sale.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dianne Feinstein pushes bill to ban 205 'assault weapons,' limit magazine size\nJen Krausz\nThe Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted this week to pass a pair of gun-control measures widely opposed by the GOP.\nNot to be outdone, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has introduced a bill that would ban more than 200 so-called assault weapons, Breitbart reported.\n\"This bill saves lives\"\nAlong with the support of 34 Senate Democrats who co-sponsored the legislation, Feinstein also wants to ban ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds as well as bump stocks, which were banned in 2019.\nUnder the proposal, current owners of the banned weapons would be allowed to keep them, but transferring ownership to someone else would require an FBI background check.\nClaiming the measure would \"save lives,\" Feinstein said that the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 would replace a previous ban that expired 17 years ago. Critics, on the other hand, say her numbers are wrong and doubt the bill would save any lives at all.\n\"It's been 17 years since the original Assault Weapons Ban expired, and the plague of gun violence continues to grow in this country,\" the California Democrat said. \"To be clear, this bill saves lives.\"\nDuring the decade in which the ban was in place, she claimed that \"gun massacres declined by 37% compared with the decade before\" and upon its expiration, \"the number of massacres rose by 183%.\"\n\"Too small for reliable measurement\"\nAccording to the National Institute of Justice, however, the prior ban did little to reduce crime.\n\"The ban's effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement,\" a report from the institute determined.\nFor her part, Feinstein did not include citations about where she got her numbers. Data from 2011 showed that just over one-tenth of one percent of deaths were attributed to assault weapons.\nOf course, the same party pushing for more gun control is the same group that has moved to effectively shut down our society indefinitely in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.\nLaw-abiding gun owners and freedom-loving Americans across the nation are sure to wonder where Democrats might end their attempt to curtail constitutional freedoms and, with control of Congress and the White House, stop pushing through highly partisan legislation and executive orders.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Accueil > Printer-friendly > Printer-friendly\nRoad Widening and Reconstruction Eglinton Avenue East at Brentcliffe Road \u2013 South Side\nThu, 2020-06-11\nORIGINAL POST: MAY 8, 2020\nRoad Widening and Reconstruction\nEglinton Avenue East at Brentcliffe Road \u2013 South Side\nAs part of construction of the future surface alignment for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, crews will be performing road widening and reconstruction activities on the south side of Eglinton Avenue East between Brentcliffe Road and the West Don River Bridge. Activities include road widening, curb and sidewalk construction, wet utility relocations and electrical works. Work will take place early May through to early July 2020.\nRoad works on the south side of Eglinton Avenue East will continue through to early July 2020.\nWork may occur from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday.\nThe contractor may not always work during the permitted hours but may do so at its discretion.\nWork may be rescheduled due to weather conditions or unforeseen circumstances.\nCrews will be widening and reconstructing the south side of Eglinton Avenue, east of Brentcliffe Road.\nCrews will be relocating wet utilities, reconstructing curbs and sidewalks and completing electrical works for street lighting.\nConstruction activities include:\n- Concrete removal\n- Excavation\n- Concrete works\n- Backfill\n- Compaction\n- Paving\n- Streetlight installation\nNoise and vibration from construction equipment and vehicles can be expected.\nSite lighting may be required.\nIn addition to construction activity, residents can expect to see equipment and material storage within designated work zones.\nTRAFFIC, PEDESTRIAN AND TTC DETAILS\nThere will be no impacts to the existing traffic configuration.\nThe east crosswalk at the Brentcliffe Road and Eglinton Ave East intersection will remain closed.\nThe pedestrian walkway on the south side of Eglinton Avenue East will remain available for the duration of these works.\nNo changes to existing TTC stop locations.\nTravelling Smart during Construction\nTravel delays are expected with the Crosstown construction. Please allow extra time for your journey. Traffic will be extra heavy at peak periods during the Crosstown construction. When possible, please travel during the off-peak period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.\nSign up for e-mail updates at www.thecrosstown.ca\/sign-up [1] or download the Crosstown traffic app to get real-time traffic and transit information for the Eglinton corridor\nBrentcliffe Road [2]\nDroits d'auteur \u00a9 [year] - Metrolinx\nSource URL: http:\/\/thecrosstown.ca\/fr\/news-media\/whats-new\/road-widening-and-reconstruction-eglinton-avenue-east-at-brentcliffe-road-south\n[2] http:\/\/thecrosstown.ca\/fr\/news-media\/whats-new\/brentcliffe-road\n[3] http:\/\/thecrosstown.ca\/fr\/news-media\/whats-new\/construction-updates","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Articles tagged j4\nReport Back from Denver's Restore the 4th & Boycott the Palm: Police Targeting Protesters, Police Assault, Threats of Rape\nPosted 6 years ago on July 7, 2013, 10:03 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt\nTags: denver, j4, restore the fourth\nvia OccupyDenver:\nIt's been said by some that Occupy Denver does not give the Denver Police Department the respect they deserve. To that end we would ask what respect should we give to a violent and patriarchal institution that serves only those in power and uses threats of rape to try to intimidate into silence those who dissent? DPD has no respect for the people whom they purport to \"protect and serve\" nor any allegiance to the constitution for which they \"swore\" an oath to uphold. DPD has a long and ongoing history of violence, corruption, operating with impunity and zero accountability. At Denver's Restore The Fourth Amendment March on July 4th Dist. 6 Officer Mark Moore assaulted a woman by running into her, and over her foot with a motorcycle. DPD then wrongfully arrested her, and one other person. This is not the first time Officer Moore has done this. On October 14th 2011 he ran over another protestor's foot with a motorcycle. For more info on this thug please visit West Denver Copwatch. For videos of the protest click here and here.\nOn July 5th 2013 at approximately 5:45 p.m. Catherine Keffer arrived at Boycott the Palm. Here is Catherine's account:\n\"There were already several other protesters actively expressing their disapproval of The Palm's support of the Urban Camping Ban. There were also approximately 7 DPD officers and Sgt. Ortega present. Myself and Alex Pickruhn were on the corner of 17th and Arapahoe holding a banner and passing out fliers.\nWe walked back around to the main protest area. As we walked by there were 4 officers on motorcycles. They were met with verbal frustrations over their continued misconduct and abuse of power. One officer said to Mr. Pickruhn, 'I hope that your mother is raped so that I can respond to the call to help her.'\nWe continued to protest at The Palm until approximately 9:20 p.m. at which point we left to walk down the 16th Street Mall towards the ArtWalk. We noticed two officers in a cruiser that had been parked at Boycott the Palm. They noticed us, made eye contact and continued driving. We saw them turn around on the mall and begin following us, but they were still a block away so we were unsure what they were doing. As we were crossing the crosswalk, the same cruiser sped up past us and turned into the next alleyway. We continued walking. As we approached the alley one of the officers lunged at us, grabbing Mr. Pickruhn saying \"come here\". Mr. Pickruhn was forced to the ground, put in handcuffs and taken into the alley, out of visible sight. They immediately searched him and all of his possessions, forming a wall of officers to block what was happening in the alley from me and any other people walking by.\nWhile all of this was happening Sgt. Ortega pulled up in a cruiser, parked in the middle of the mall and approached me, attempting to grab my wrist. I immediately put my hands up and asked repeatedly if I was being detained. Sgt. Ortega only said that I was with someone who threatened his officer and that I could be detained but they never actually detained me. I was told that if we would have conducted ourselves more \"professionally\" this wouldn't be happening. I was also told that Sgt. Ortega and other officers would harass me as long as I continued to conduct myself in this manner. My wallet was in the backpack that was being carried by Mr. Pickruhn at the time. Sgt. Ortega asked if I wanted it back but demanded an apology for my behavior in order to get it.\nUpon searching Mr. Pickruhn, the officers found marijuana which he is legal to have. The Denver officers claimed that it was for distribution and arrested him. They also seized all of our money, which wasn't very much, and put it in evidence rather than in his personal property. Mr. Pickruhn was arrested and transported to the Denver City Jail.\nAt approximately 12:55 a.m. I was on the 16th street mall charging my phone in hopes of accepting Alex Pickruhn's call from jail. As I sat there alone, the 2 officers on motorcycles that were there earlier at Boycott the Palm, one of them is Officer McGrail and the other unknown, drove up, parking approximately 5 feet from where I was sitting. They stayed there, stared at me, wouldn't say anything to me and didn't leave until after I left with a concerned friend who had walked up.\nAt approximately 1:15, July 6th, I spoke with Alex Pickruhn via video phone at the city jail. Mr. Pickruhn told me he was threatened by DPD that they were going to find me and \"get me alone\", while he was in jail the night before. Knowing that i am his girlfriend, it was clear what they were implying. I have safe places to stay and friends. I am actively seeking assistance in raising $350 to post bond tonight so that he will be released tomorrow morning after going through pretrial services. Any other donations for legal costs would be greatly appreciated\"\nAlex Pickruhn has no official charges against him, he is being held on $2000 bail for felony investigation for possession with intent to distribute when he was originally stopped for allegedly verbally threatening an officer even though the only threats came from the police officers themselves. He has told the Occupy Denver Legal Support Team that he is being mistreated in jail and is concerned for his safety. We are collecting funds to post bond and get him released as quickly as possible. Please click here for our legal fund donation page if you are able to help.\nThe 2 arrested during the Restore the 4th March were released on bond thank you to everyone who donated!\nWhether you are protesting the erosion of our rights both constitutional and innate, or boycotting a classist restaurant that supported making homelessness illegal there is no excuse for us to allow DPD or any \"law enforcement\" to threaten, harass, and assault members of the community. If DPD can't get their cops under control then police abolition is inevitable. When the corporately run government can decide they can overrule your rights, we can decide to overrule the government.\nChicago, July 4: Block Party to Fight Austerity at Rahm's House\nPosted 6 years ago on July 3, 2013, 7:48 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt\nTags: chicago, austerity, j4\nEdit: 7\/4, 5pm CT: Video clips added\nChicagoans Gather to Protest Budget Cuts, Corporate Welfare, Call for One Term Mayor\nThis 4th of July, Chicagoans opposed to Mayor Emanuel's extreme budget cuts to public services, and policies of corporate welfare, will peacefully converge at the Mayor's house, at 4228 N Hermitage, to speak out against these austerity measures and celebrate citywide resistance to his mayorship.\n\"At a time when working people are already struggling to make ends meet, Mayor Emanuel is eliminating thousands of jobs across the city every year,\" says Greg Goodman, event organizer. \"The loss of these jobs throws families and communities even further into crisis, and creates a chain effect that ripples out to negatively impact an ever growing number of Chicagoans. In the midst of all this, Rahm is systematically dismantling the social programs that ordinary people rely on to help them through times of crisis, and selling our public institutions and resources off to corporate profiteers.\"\nAfter gathering at Chase Park (Ashland and Leland) at 12pm on July 4th, Chicagoans fed up with Mayor Emanuel's austerity plans will hold a peaceful block party on his street (4200 block of Hermitage). The event will include music, dancing, and speakers.\n\"People who are barely getting by are being punished for the mistakes of the super-rich,\" says local organizer Kelly Hayes. \"That's what austerity is. We're going to let Mayor Emanuel know we didn't create this crisis, and we're not going to pay for it.\"\nThurs, July 4: Block Party to Fight Austerity at Rahm's House\n12pm: Gather at Chase Park, Ashland & Leland\n12:30pm: March to Rahm's House, 4228 N Hermitage\n1pm: Press Conference\nFor live updates, follow: @constantnatalie @baburrealer @bullhorngirl @gregrgoodman #OneTermMayor #RahmParty on Twitter.\nConcurrently, Restore the Fourth Chicago will be gathering at noon in Daley Plaza. For more information: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/418849661562573\/. In addition, Occupy Chicago is marching to STOP NSA SURVEILLANCE! Saturday, July 6, 1PM in Federal Plaza. For more info on that: http:\/\/occupychi.org\/2013\/06\/25\/stop-nsa-surveillance-march-76-1pm-federal-plaza\nWhat's Up with Restore the Fourth? An Interview with a National Organizer\nTags: j4, restore the fourth, interview\nRestore the Fourth is a growing grassroots movement organizing nationwide pro-privacy rallies for July 4th, 2013. With July 4th just around the corner, we took the opportunity to interview Jett \u2014a national organizer\u2014 to find out more about what's up with #restorethe4th.\nFirst, an open-ended question: what does Restore the Fourth mean to you personally?\nTo me, Restore the Fourth is symbolic. The protests are taking place on July 4th, a date that commemorates the founding of a new country with new ideals free from oppression. Privacy rights aren't only respected when the government feels like it, and they can't simply be thrown away in the name of stopping crime. They're universal, inherent to every person, American or not.\nDo you see Restore the Fourth as only about Edward Snowden and PRISM, or is it about broader issues of privacy and state surveillance?\nWhile Restore the Fourth as a movement was first created in light of Snowden and the NSA's PRISM scandal, we were never intended to be specifically about that. We're dedicated to focusing on overarching issues of privacy, both digitally and in the real world.\nPeople of color are unjustly targeted through programs such as \"stop and frisk\" and the extensive monitoring of Arab and Muslim communities. Are these issues for Restore the Fourth?\nPolicies and tactics such as 'stop and frisk', that are employed by various police forces, are very much a concern for our organization. They're arguably in violation of the 4th amendment of the United States, which protects from unreasonable searches and seizures. I believe that, moving forward, these may very well be issues at the forefront of our minds.\nWhat would you say to occupiers and other activists who have been victims of intense federal, police, and even corporate surveillance?\nProtect yourself. You may not be able to shake the surveillance, but you will be able to take steps in protecting yourself, your family and your private life from unnecessary surveillance. Secure your communications, strengthen your passwords, and check out http:\/\/prism-break.org\/ for some privacy-secure alternatives to popular software.\nRestore the Fourth is an American-based movement, but the U.S. and other nations are engaged in widespread surveillance of non-Americans all over the world. How do you feel we should go about building global solidarity around privacy rights?\nAs I've mentioned previously, I believe that there are a certain set of rights inherent to all humans on this planet - privacy and safety from surveillance being one of them. On a global level, it's a bit more difficult to secure privacy rights, specifically because different jurisdictions have different laws and customs. Ideally, a network of support would be the best - people in China fighting for privacy rights with those in America supporting them, and vice versa.\nAnonymous, anarchists, occupiers, and others are also planning diverse actions for July 4th. How do you distinguish Restore the Fourth as a tactical approach? Do you expect Restore the Fourth rallies will be safe events for people looking to avoid police violence and arrest?\nBeing non-partisan, Restore the Fourth doesn't officially endorse any other groups, but we very much welcome their support. So far, we've worked very closely with occupiers, and their support has been tremendous. I fully expect the protests to be safe for people of any affiliation from arrest, so long as no acts of violence occur.\nIn addition to turning out for Thursday's rallies, what else can people do to show support and get involved? Are there any resources you'd like to share?\nThere are many things that people can do to help out our movement - spread the news on social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), share our hashtag (#RestoreThe4th), or simply tell your friends and family. We also have a page of resources on our website with flyers\/posters\/etc. if you'd like to get involved that way: http:\/\/www.restorethefourth.net\/resources\/\nIt looks like we'll see a good turnout Thursday, but what happens after July 4th? Are there further actions being planned?\nThis movement started only a few weeks ago, and since then we've experienced exponential growth and progress. Since the movement is still very young, plans diverge in the long term on what we hope to achieve. Personally, I'd like to see a combination of legislative and litigative action (something like what the ACLU does), and others want to see further plans of action. With organizations such as the BORDC, stopwatching.us and the EFF behind us, I feel that we can achieve all of this and much more.\nNYC: Restore the Fourth!\nTags: nyc, j4, restore the fourth\nvia RestoreTheFourthNYC:\nUnder the banner of a grassroots nonpartisan organization called Restore the Fourth, thousands will be gathering on the 4th of July in dozens of cities across the United States to demand an end to unconstitutional governmental surveillance programs that violate the 4th Amendment rights of Americans.\nIn New York City, 4th Amendment rights issues go well beyond those recently revealed unconstitutional NSA spying programs. In addition to the national goal of seeking an end to these programs, we demand New York City stop all search and surveillance policies that target groups based on their race, religion, or political views. We demand an end to \"Stop and Frisk,\" which targets people of color across the city, and an end to the discriminatory surveillance of Muslim Americans by the NYPD.\nThe rally on the 4th of July will begin at noon around Union Square South. We will march to Federal Hall. Despite the fact a permit will not be filed for this march, it is the intention of Restore the Fourth that the march be nonviolent and lawful. Since we expect to have attendees from all backgrounds and age groups, we want this event be safe for everyone involved without the risk of police violence and arrest.\nWe request that you share with your friends our Restore the Fourth NYC Facebook page and Event page for the march:\nFacebook Page: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/restorethe4thnyc\/\nRally\/March Event Page: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/378073495627134\/\nIn addition, we're holding organizational meeting on Wednesday, July 3rd, at 8:00pm in Washington Square Park by the Garibaldi statue on the East side of the park. We will discuss the direction of the movement in the weeks beyond the 4th of July as well as any last-minute details for the march.\nWe hope to see you at our meeting, and if not, at our rally to Restore the Fourth!\nMore Restore the Fourth NYC Information:\nhttp:\/\/restorethefourthnyc.org\/\n@Restorethe4thNY\nrestorethefourthnyc@gmail.com\nMore Restore the Fourth Information:\nhttp:\/\/www.restorethefourth.net\/\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RestoreTheFourth\n@Restore_the4th\n\"#restorethe4th\"\nJuly 4th: Liberate Space from the Surveillance State!\nPosted 6 years ago on June 18, 2013, 8:38 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt\nTags: j4, nsa\nLiberate Space - July 4th - Cities Everywhere - Be Daring\nIn a few weeks, on July 4th we call on all individuals to blockade, disrupt and disobey the architecture of repression in their own cities. We act against the surveillance state not because it has overstepped an imaginary line, we rebel against it for the simple fact that it is designed to intimidate, imprison and demoralize us. We act against it because we know that politicians, corporations and the ruling class will never listen or change. We know that it is up to us to be disobedient, that direct action is the only road to freedom.\nThere is no better time than now to push forth an initiative which calls out the surveillance state for what it is; a web of police, prisons and politicians designed to protect the wealthy. At a time of upheaval and massive repression worldwide we don't ask for permission, we recognize that those who grant us permission are those that spy on us at the same time. The world we fight for is a world free from politicians, states and security agencies.\nOn July 4th we call on individuals and groups to gather in the busy thoroughfares, parks and squares in your town. We suggest an overnight occupation designed to call out and confront the means in which surveillance is carried out. This could simply be holding a sign in front of a camera, your tactics are only limited by creativity. It is important to not fall into the marching around in circles trap. We hold our space in a busy area on the 4th because this is where people, commerce and surveillance are.\nCirculate Widely Create Your Own Event Write A Call To Action\n-Valley Anarchist Circle","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Her Rides\nTHE RACE TO SAVE LIVES \u2013 #SAVEIT4THETRACK By John Hammer\nTHE RACE TO SAVE LIVES \u2013 #SAVEIT4THETRACK\nBy John Hammer\nWe start today's story with a game of word association. I say \"Mom of three\" and you say\u2026\nI won't fault you for thinking \"minivan\" or \"soccermobile,\" I would have done the same. But then, you've not met Rose Chadwick yet. Rose is the force behind \"Save It 4 The Track,\" an organization that's getting folks with the need for speed off the street and on the track.\n\"It started because a person from my club was street racing,\" she says. That ended tragically when the racer caused a crash, killing three innocent people. From that sobering moment on, Rose knew she had to do something. She'd been taking her Challenger Scat Pack (a 392 Shaker!) to the track for quite some time and with her outgoing personality, it wasn't tough to get folks to come with her. Rose says, \"The people at Irwindale Speedway pulled me aside and said 'We see you bring a crowd every week, let's work together.'\" So she started hosting themed events: Challenger Night, Girls Night, Imports vs. America and so on\u2026they were really fun and very successful.\n\"It's about education,\" Rose says. Changing perceptions is difficult when you see Hollywood putting out movies that glorify dangerous behavior. TV shows like Street Outlaws anger her. \"It's not reality, don't buy into it. It is illegal, simple as that,\" she points out. I can hear the frustration in her voice as we talk. She's so passionate about getting folks off the streets and on the track. \"I hate hearing these young guys complain that they don't have a few extra bucks to go to the track\u2026but they've got a PlayStation.\" So how does she plan on changing that mindset? \"I'd love to have a national presence,\" she tells me. \"I want to get in the schools and teach them (about the dangers of street racing). I want to do for street racing what the anti-smoking campaign did for cigarettes and make it 'uncool'. I have my work cut out.\"\nAs I pointed out, she's not your ordinary mom of three. \"I'm a girl with a fetish for designer purses and fast cars!\" she says laughing loudly. And to that end, she recently took delivery of her new Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae Demon, #1169. \"I'm not going to lie, it still scares me,\" she says. She admits that when someone pulls up next to her and tries to egg her on, it's a challenge to NOT throw the hammer down. Then she looks up at the SaveIt4TheTrack decal in her mirror\u2026a reminder of what she preaches. She's big on personal responsibility if you're going to own a performance car: \"Laws have not caught up to the horsepower. Street cars are MUCH faster than they were back 20, 30, 40 years ago.\"\nEven someone as deeply rooted in the safe exploration of speed can find it biting back: \"I was filming a segment for a documentary, launching my car at the drag strip\u2026and it fishtailed on me.\" But on a closed course, the danger was minimal and a great demonstration of how quickly things can turn. \"I use that video on our website to show how things can go wrong fast and why it's so important to SaveIt4TheTrack.\"\nWe applaud what Rose is doing and encourage you to respect the vehicles and the people around you. Street racing is dangerous and illegal, but thanks to folks like Rose, it's easier than ever to get on track and safely explore the capabilities of your car.\nTo learn more, visit www.dodgegarage.com.\nDBA Rose Chadwick\n2016 All Rights Reserved. Developed by Nerds - 789 inc. | Accessibility Statement","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017\nFIFA U-20 World Cup 2017\nCha: My boyhood dream was to become a Taeguk Warrior\nYoungsters playing in the schoolyards from Seoul to Busan ritually re-enact moments from Korea Republic's fairytale run to the semi-finals of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea\/Japan\u2122. Park Jisung's volley against Portugal in the group stages and subsequent hug with Guus Hiddink, Ahn Junghwan's golden goal against Italy and captain Hong Myungbo's winning penalty against Iker Casillas and Spain are among the moments that will live forever in the country's collective memory. However, before the days of Park, Hong or Ahn, there was a player who paved the way for Korean football to make the next step on the global stage and one whose name will be synonymous with Asian football forever: Cha Bumkun\nAffectionately nicknamed, Cha Boom, he was a pioneer as the first ever Korea Republic footballer to be signed by a European club - Darmstadt in 1978 - playing for Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen for the majority of his career. Cha is also an example of success experienced by playing for the national team's youth ranks. This is precisely why his role as vice-chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017 could not be better suited for anyone else. Not only is Cha a great example for aspiring professionals to look up to for his on-field excellence, his humility and discipline (he famously only received one yellow card in his whole career) are attributes for every young professional to try and emulate.\nTo mark 100 days to go to the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017, *FIFA.com *sat down for an exclusive chat with one of the all-time great Taeguk Warriors to look ahead to the tournament and reflect on his career.\nFIFA.com: Not only are you seen as one of the greatest players in Korea Republic's history, but you have a personal connection to the U-20 level. What do you remember from your first days breaking through the South Korean national team system?\nCha Bumkun: I joined the youth national team when I was in high school. I was just a country boy who never even had a chance to get on an airplane, and then I became a youth international and flew to Japan [to take part in the 1971 AFC U-19 Championship]. I cannot express what I felt in words because it was my boyhood dream to become a Taeguk Warrior. Everything was fresh and new, as it was my first international tournament and it was my first flight as well. I can still remember that particular scent I could smell inside the apartment for the athletes \u2013 one that I'd never smelt before in the world.\nYou become nervous when you go to some new places. Everything was new when I became an international, so I was very excited and scared as well. In the opening match, I couldn't even stand straight as my legs were shaking and I couldn't see anything literally. I can't remember how I ran for 90 minutes, either. It got better as we went on, but I broke my nose in the semi-finals against Japan and missed the final. After the tournament, I could feel the experience and senses had broadened my vision, while I could also have the confidence and will for a new challenge. I realised that I could grow up as a player through such experiences in major competitions.\n*What were some key lessons you learned as a youth international that stuck with you for the rest of your successful career? *\nThe first thing was that it is very important to rack up experience by playing against players from other countries. And then I learned that I could raise my game and build up my confidence by fighting against stronger sides. After the youth championship, I was up against stronger opponents at senior level, who were tougher and faster. Everything I did without any problem at youth level was different when I took on stronger teams and I could feel myself upgraded through the experience. I think it's really important for young players to learn football sense and skills by taking on good opponents at the international level, because I felt I grew up through such tournaments.\nWhat motivated you to get to the senior team while you were a youth player? What did it take?\nIt was my boyhood dream to become a Taeguk Warrior, because I [my family] was so poor. After I've become an international, then I began to dream of becoming a world-class player. Such goals have helped me stimulate myself and overcome the difficulties. If you don't have goals, dreams or hopes, you cannot deal with such demanding trainings or procedures.\nI had a dream, so I was a bit different from other players: while they were having a rest, I got up early in the morning to go out running and to practice what I didn't do well. That was possible because I had a dream, and that's why I tell young players to have a dream. What I dreamt of, eventually came true \u2013 I was dreaming of playing in the German Bundesliga while watching the games on television. One day a coach from Germany came to tell me 'You can make it. Why don't you come over?' That's what happened. Dreams come true.\nIf you don't have goals, dreams or hopes, you cannot deal with such demanding trainings or procedures.\nYou were known for your heading ability and pace with the ball at your feet. Are there any players you see in football that remind you of yourself?\nWhen I see Son Heungmin play, he tries to break down the opposition defence with audacious dribbling \u2013 which reminds me of my playing days. [Korea Republic forward] Hwang Heechan also reminds me of myself when he penetrates through the defensive line, although his finishing style is a bit different from mine. Such explosive, solo runs, as you can see from [Cristiano] Ronaldo nowadays, I see them from those two Korean players who can create and finish by themselves.\nWhat's most important for U-20 players: developing as a player or learning to work on a team and in different systems of play?\nFootball is not an individual sport. Basically you have to play well together. But the important thing is that you should have your own colour within the team. That's what the team want from you: express your colour clearly, know what you do best. Korean football, for example, is about speed, breaking into the opposition defence \u2013 that's what the fans want to see as well, because that's your colour. It's very important to show them what kind of player you are in the first place, and then the organisation of the team can be adjusted according to such colours.\nWould you say it's nearly as important to learn from losses as it is wins at the U-20 level?\nI cannot express too much the importance of trying to win. But at the same time, young players should learn from losing even though they'd given their best. When I first went to Germany, I'd never played for a professional side and the league system was one that I'd never experienced before. I don't quite remember losing a game in Korea, or on the Asian stage. But in Germany, when I first lost a game, I felt like the sky was falling down and I could barely eat because of the thought that I lost, while the other guys seemed to be cool about it and move on for the next match.\nI soon realised that they were building up their experience and know-how through the defeats, and growing up internally. For young players, and for seniors as well, winning is not everything, but losing itself could be a good lesson to become a better player. Of course, you have to do your best to win but even if you lost you've got to learn something from it.\nFIFA U-20 World Cup on Facebook\nAhn & Park: Make the most of the experience\nLegends Ahn and Park appointed Korea 2017 ambassadors\nShin Taeyong: I aim to instil confidence in players\nGeneral ticket sales for Korea Republic 2017 kick off","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Google and Android Chromebook What's the definition of insanity again?\nGoogle and Android\nWhat's the definition of insanity again?\nBy Jim Szymanski -\nOh, that's right.\nLast week a reporter from The Verge shared a personal dilemma with her readers. Her parents had gone through three (sub-$400) Windows laptops over the past two years that broke down for one reason or another. She was looking for a replacement that would meet Mom's needs. Like with most Moms, the device would need to; browse the Web, login to Facebook, send\/receive email and maybe work with documents. Not much more than that. One absolute requirement though was that the replacement could not cost more than $400. The reporter happened to have a Toshiba Satellite NB15T Netbook and Toshiba Chromebook for review and decided to do a bit of a showdown. It should be noted the the reporter admitted; she uses a MacBook, and she was very familiar with all the Google services. Being a Verge story, I don't need to go any further. By now Mom is working through the Chromebook learning curve. Good luck with that.\nNow, what the loving daughter should have done was stop the insanity after the second laptop failure, and replaced it with something expected to last more than a year. Aside from the ASUS notebook I picked up on a whim, all of my laptops and notebooks, including my first; a Toshiba in 1995, cost in excess of $2000. And aside from routine hard drive replacements, they all lasted from 4 to 10 years, and still had value when I parted with them. Even that beasty 1.5\" thick Toshiba. None ever need service. You get what you pay for.\nNoting the temporary insanity after the second failure, Mom would have been better served this time around with maybe a Yoga 11S, despite her insisting that she did not want a tablet. Touch screen, maybe 8GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD, and an i5 or i7 4th Gen Processor. And a subscription to Webroot for sure. Mom would have been in PC heaven (figuratively only) for the next three years. And when she did warm up to the idea of a tablet, she would already have one. I know, $800 vs. $400. But this is a pay me now or pay me later thing, isn't it. Already spent $1000-$1200 in the past two years and the Chromebook was going to add another $299. Right? Said daughter could have convinced Mom that it was a review model she got discounted through the office. That would have been a nice thing, and the right thing, to do.\nWith that said, and without going too far off topic, why is Microsoft always the bad guy when talking about these sub-$300\/$400 laptops? It's the OEMs who make this crap, that gives Windows a bad reputation. Microsoft could raise the minimum standards for PCs but OEMs would never tolerate that. They like selling you a new machine a few weeks after the warranty expires on the last one. To them, that's good business. And they wonder why PC sales are down. And why iPad sales went through the roof. And why Chromebooks are beginning to garner some interest. What I want to know is how Home Depot can get away with selling you a Ryobi Reciprocating Saw for $89, when down the block you can buy a Porter Cable TigerSaw for about $179. They both work. By that I mean with the Ryobi, you can struggle, teeth chattering, cutting through your work, like Smyth with his Web Apps, or Simmons with his Chromebooks. Or you can let the TigerSaw do the work for you, like cutting butter with a hot knife. And 10 or 20 years from now, that TigerSaw will still be out in your garage, ready to do its job. Time to stop the insanity.\nI think this sums it up.\nPrevious article\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af\nNext articleNo 930 or is the rumor mill just working overtime?\nJim Szymanski\nMicrosoft releasing the Surface RT round 2\nDuoLingo is better on Windows Phone\nA view from the desktop.\nConsole and PC Gaming\nThe kinect is dead.\nAndroid's Minecraft app recruiting children for botnet army. Enlist today!\nThe Windows Phone Failed Experiment\nRam March 31, 2014 at 12:16 pm\nThe Verge = Morons Summit. Their reporters and most of the commenters are alike. And bashing and hating Microsoft is new cultural trend.\nChris Leiter April 1, 2014 at 9:04 am\nShould have told them to get MacBooks. Everyone in my family has switched to Macs except my younger brother (still PC gaming his days away), and no one asks for tech support, complains of slowdown, or has any issues worth mentioning \u2013 ever. My kids love theirs, my wife loves hers, my sister, who hates computers, loves her MacMini and her iMac at work, and my parents have had macs for ever. Windows creates more problems than it solves IMO.\nJim Szymanski April 1, 2014 at 9:48 am\nWhich helps to prove my point. If you spend $1000+ for a computer, you shouldn't expect to have any problems. Maybe that's why I have had such good results these past 20 years. If you spend less than $300, all bets are off.\nI am learning to adjust my recommendation from simply, \"buy an X\" to, \"buy a good X\". Case in point. I really like Canon Inkjets. Designs are good, software is smart, ink is reasonable, easy to setup. Very reliable. When I buy, I usually get the top of the line-latest model for $129-$169. Recommended to a friend and she got a $59 base model. Not quite the same thing. She's somewhat happy, but I was disappointed in its setup and performance. You do get what you pay for, most of the time.\nChris Leiter April 5, 2014 at 9:13 pm\nMy next printer (a little off topic, but recently relevant) will be one of those new HPs that have the endless ink service where they automatically ship you ink.\nMom's 70th, Getting Her a Chromebook\nDoug Simmons -","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Waymo Self-Driving Cars Have Driven 16 Million Kilometres\nThe Ride-Hailing Company Is Steadily Achieving Near-Perfect Autonomy.\nOctober 24, 2018 October 24, 2018 | in Latest News| by Martin Alva\nHome \u00bb News \u00bb Waymo Self-Driving Cars Have Driven 16 Million Kilometres\nAlphabet Corporation's self-driving car company Waymo recently announced its vehicles have driven more than 16 million kilometres (10 million miles) on public roads. The news comes ahead of the company preparing to launch a commercial ride-hailing service with fleets of autonomous vehicles.\nWaymo's testing rounds began with a handful of kilometres driven each day, exploding over the past few years. The company announced last Wednesday that its autonomous vehicles have driven more than 16 million kilometres on public roads in the United States. The company had logged almost 13 million kilometres in July and a little more than six million in November 2017. Simply put, Waymo's testing rate is proliferating.\nThe self-driving cars contributing to the grand total were logged in 25 cities, prominently in Google's hometown of Mountain View, California and in the greater Phoenix area where Waymo launched an early rider program to chauffeur passengers around the city. More than 400 early riders currently use the Waymo app and ride around in the company's autonomous Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans.\nThe progress Waymo has achieved on public roads can be put down to its investment in simulation, according to John Krafcik, Chief Executive Officer of the company. Extensive simulation testing will see the company hit more than 11 billion kilometres of virtual testing by the end of October.\nThe Waymo testing locations across the United States are rapidly increasing in number, currently standing at 25.\nIn a post on Medium elaborating on Waymo simulation testing, Krafcik wrote, \"In simulation, we can recreate any encounter we have on the road and make situations even more challenging through 'fuzzing'.\" He further continued, \"We can test new skills, refine existing ones, and practice extremely rare encounters, constantly challenging, verifying, and validating our software. We can learn exponentially through this combination of driving on public roads and simulation.\"\nOf course, merely spinning the odometer is not enough for autonomous cars. Companies like Cruise and Waymo with sizable fleets of self-driving cars have been challenged to develop self-driving cars that are capable of safely navigating complex urban environments, all the while fitting in with millions of human drivers on the public roads. It's not always smooth sailing, for the cars are cautious by design (or software), sometimes causing traffic to rack up behind them. In such instances, a human driver is required to take manual control of the car to rectify the situation.\n\"Today, our cars are programmed to be cautious and courteous above all, because that's the safest thing to do,\" Krafcik wrote. \"We're working on striking the balance between this and being assertive as we master manoeuvres that are tough for everyone on the road. For example, merging lanes in fast-moving traffic requires a driver to be both assertive enough to complete the manoeuvre without causing others to brake and smooth enough to feel pleasant to our passengers.\"\nAs is clear from the graph, Waymo is rapidly picking up the pace when it comes to testing its autonomous cars on public roads.\nFor now, Waymo cars are more circumspect and prefer taking the safer route even if that means adding a few more minutes to the trip, says Krafcik. The next 16 million kilometres will be devoted to making the service more convenient and efficient. Waymo is currently working to improve its routes, pick-ups, and drop-offs. Company engineers are also applying advanced artificial intelligence and new sensing systems developed in-house to tackle complex weather conditions like heavy rain and snow.\nNvidia Becomes First Autonomous Tech Supplier To Release Self-Driving Safety Report\nAll-New Cadillac 2.0-Litre Engine Will Debut On The XT4","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Phil Mickelson wants 50,000 signatures, pledge for acts of kindness to return to Detroit\n[July 2, 2021: Tod Leonard]\nWith the constant cheers that echoed around Phil Mickelson on Friday at Detroit Golf Club, you wouldn't have known that a day earlier he had all but said he was going to abandon the Rocket Mortgage Classic.\nMickelson, appearing in his first Rocket Mortgage, was miffed on Thursday when a story in The Detroit News used a 2018 court filing to publish a story involving a mob-connected bookie who owed Mickelson and friends $500,000 for a bet. Mickelson called the story \"very opportunistic and selfish, and irresponsible.\" Asked if he would return to play in the tournament, he said, \"I don't see me coming back.\"\nThat sentiment took a decided turn on Friday after Mickelson narrowly made the cut for the weekend. He was asked if anything with tournament officials or fans had changed his mind, and, apparently, there was a very unique circumstance that might do just that.\n\"The people were awesome; they were so nice,\" Mickelson said. \"So I would say this: I don't want to be divisive. I didn't like the way that felt with the reporter. The people here were so nice that I'll make a deal with them. There's a guy named Mike Sullivan that's trying to raise 50,000 signatures. If he gets 50,000 and all of those 50,000 agree to do one random act of kindness for another member of the community, I'm in.\n\"I just think that this tournament has sponsors, from Rocket Mortgage to a lot of the local sponsors, to a lot of the people in the community, that are trying to come together and do something good for the community. If the members of the community will come together, I would love to be back, but what I won't tolerate is that kind of divisive attitude from that particular reporter.\"\nSullivan, a co-founder of the Metro Detroit Golfers organization, started a GoFundMe page after Mickelson's comments on Thursday. He dubbed it, \"Bring Phil Mickelson back to Detroit in 2022!\"\nSullivan wrote, \"Unfortunately Phil Mickelson announced he won't be coming back to Detroit for the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic, due to some nasty and negative coverage about him in The Detroit News from something 23 years ago. It was an irrelevant story and clearly just clickbait.\n\"And now our GREAT Detroit sports fans are suffering for it.\"\nThen Sullivan said Mickelson told him personally that he would reconsider if 50,000 signatures were gathered. \"He said 'Maybe' with a crying face laughing emoji,\" Sullivan wrote. \"But close enough!\"\nThere apparently is something more in it for Mickelson than good karma. Sullivan reported that for every person who donates $3.13 or more (313 is Detroit area code), he would give half to the Phil Mickelson Foundation and the other half to the Rocket Mortgage \"Change the Course\" initiative.\nTags: #Good_News, #Kindness, #Charity, #Sports, #Golf, #The_Brighter_Side_of_News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"No Place Like Holmes\nThe Diogenes Club Library\nThe Howard Ostrom Holmes and Watson Collection\nThe Musgrave Media Museum Opens\nToday I open a new wing to the site that I hope you enjoy - The Musgrave Media Museum. This part of the site is dedicated to the showcasing and archiving of unique, obscure, or rare Sherlock Holmes clips (and sometimes full features) from television, film, and commercials of yesteryears.\nThe reason I have also decided upon making this is that so much Holmes stuff is everywhere. Unless you know what you are looking for, you might never discover some of these gems. It would be nice to have it in one easy place.\nAt the moment it is divided into 4 different main categories, and then by decade (where appropriate) but the intention will be for it grow to include further sections.\nSome sections are much less populated than others, but this will be\nbe a constant work on progress with new clips, shows, and films being added on a regular basis.\nThese videos are only going to remain visible on Youtube for a limited time. I will soon be moving them to an unlisted state, but you will still be able to view them through this site. This will help prevent them being taken down like many sadly end up.\nOf course, much thanks must be given to Howard Ostrom for his research in uncovering these in the first place! We hope to create a a near as we can definitive online classic video archive for Holmes fans to enjoy for years to come.\nPlease check it out here and check back regularly for updates too!\nIf you would like to help support the project and the greater No Place Like Holmes works, please consider supporting me on Patreon.\n\"No Place Like Holmes\" was founded by Ross K Foad in 2009. It hosts a multitude of video goodness for Sherlock Holmes fans in the form of its episodic Web Drama Comedy Series NPLH.\nIt also features documentaries, essays of a Holmesian nature, and series\/film adaptations of Doyle's other works.\nOn top of this it is also the virtual host to the SH A-Z index, the most comprehensive collation guide to every Sherlock Holmes actor ever.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"We Are Better Together\nSeries: Rookie Read-About Civics\nby Ann Bonwill\nChildren's Press\nAges 6 \u2013 7 . Grades 1 \u2013 2\nThe Rookie Read about Civics series helps children become productive citizens by presenting core civic knowledge in a fun and engaging way. Each book features include critical-thinking questions; a civics in action feature that encourages kids to put what they've learned into practice; a civics checklist; glossary; and more.\nHow are we alike? How are we different? Why is it important to celebrate what we share and what makes us unique? In We Are Better Together readers will think critically about diversity, friendship, and coming together. Features include critical-thinking questions; a civics in action feature that encourages kids to put what they've learned into practice; a civics checklist; glossary; and more.\nAnn Bonwill\nAnn Bonwill started writing stories as soon as she could hold a crayon. She earned her psychology degree at the College of William and Mary, and went on to earn her master's degree in social work. Ann published her first book while staying in England. She enjoys writing children's books. Ann lives in Virginia, U.S.A.\nCooperation and Teamwork\nTolerance and Acceptance\n32pp. | 6 x 7\n32pp. | 5-\u215e x 7\nThe Pros of Cons\nby Alison Cherry, Lindsay Ribar, Michelle Schusterman\nTales from the Forest\nby Jeremy Strong, Illustrated By Rebecca Bagley","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"$1,000,000Montr\u00e9al woman now a millionaire thanks to Gagnant \u00e0 vie\nPrint this press release\nMontr\u00e9al, April 12, 2019 \u2014 Montr\u00e9al resident Danielle Lavoie scratched her way to a big win, taking home Gagnant \u00e0 vie's top prize of $1,000 a day for life. Instead of the annuity, the winner decided to opt for the one-time lump-sum prize of $1,000,000.\nLottery: Gagnant \u00e0 vie\nPrize: $1,000,000 (one-time lump sum)\nCategory: Grand prize\nClaim date: April 9, 2019\nWinner's place of residence: Montr\u00e9al\nRetailer: Super C (1400 Boulevard Alphonse-Desjardins, L\u00e9vis)\nThe retailer will receive a $10,000 commission, equal to 1% of the lump-sum prize.\nClaim centre: Loto-Qu\u00e9bec head office in Montr\u00e9al\nThe Gagnant \u00e0 vie scratch ticket was a gift from Danielle's aunt, whom she's been helping out for some time.\nRight before scratching the ticket, Danielle jokingly told her: \"You may not know this yet, but you're looking at a millionaire!\"\nDanielle consulted with her financial advisor before she chose to opt for the $1,000,000 lump-sum prize.\nThe win came at just the right time\u2014on the eve of Danielle's retirement!\nAbout Loto-Qu\u00e9bec\nLoto-Qu\u00e9bec's mission is to responsibly and efficiently manage games of chance in a controlled and measured fashion, in the interest of all Quebecers. Entertainment is at the heart of its activities. From January 1 to April 9, 2019, Loto-Qu\u00e9bec has paid out 27 prizes of $1,000,000 or more and made 16 millionaires. Gagnant \u00e0 vie and Grande Vie lotteries have provided 4 lucky winners with a lifetime annuity. All the winners of large prizes are listed on the Winners page of the Lotteries site.\nPatrice Lavoie\nCorporate Director, Public Affairs, Press Relations and Social Media\npatrice.lavoie@loto-quebec.com\ntwitter.com\/patricelavoie\nDanny Racine\nCommunications Advisor\ndanny.racine@loto-quebec.com\nFacebook facebook.com\/LotoQuebecLoteries\nTwitter twitter.com\/LotoQuebec Hashtag: #lotoquebec\nInstagram instagram.com\/lotoquebec_officiel\/\nYoutube youtube.com\/LotoQuebecLoteries","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Builders revive NSB townhouse community\nKATIE DEZES katie.dezes@news-jrnl.com\nNEW SMYRNA BEACH \u2014 Another housing project stalled by the Great Recession has come back to life.\nHawks Cove, a planned townhouse community in New Smyrna Beach that began in 2006, was put on hold by its original developer in 2008 with only 15 of the 69 planned units built.\nThe project site sat in limbo for years until its purchase by a new developer, Port Orange-based JMLC Development, in late 2012.\nThe company began building townhouses at Hawks Cove early last year and to date has completed 19 units in multiple buildings, each with 5 to 7 units.\nThanks to the improving economy, Lonn Stuckwish, JMLC's co-owner, said his company expects to sell and build the remaining 35 townhouses within two years.\n\"The buildings have been selling as fast as we have been completing them,\" said Stuckwish, who runs JMLC with business partner Joe Richart.\nScott Yurchison, a real estate agent with Collado Real Estate, said all of the townhomes built so far at Hawks Cove have been sold.\nWith prices ranging from $164,900 to $170,400, pre-sales are set to begin in July for units in a new building currently under construction at Hawks Cove.\nStuckwish and Richart are veteran builders who began working together in Indiana in the mid-1990s.\nRichart relocated to Florida a couple of years ago and runs JMLC's day-to-day operations while Stuckwish maintains his primary residence in Indiana.\nRichart said he began looking for development opportunities locally when he saw the housing market turning for the better.\n\"It was an area we already had some experience in and we thought we could produce a good quality product in a market that was beginning to show a comeback,\" Stuckwish said.\nStuckwish and Richart found what they were seeking in the idle Hawks Cove project.\nJMLC is not the only company to restart a project shelved during the recession.\nSandy Burke Bishop, executive director of the Volusia Building Industry Association, said several partially built subdivisions have been sold to new builders in recent years.\n\"There are 50 percent fewer available (today) than there was three years ago,\" she said, referring to vacant house lots.\nDorice Soroka, owner of Builder's Exchange and Reprographics in Daytona Beach, said she, too, has seen a trend of dormant building projects start back up again.\n\"Unfortunately, a lot of the projects in the planning stage in the last seven to eight years have been discontinued,\" said Soroka, whose company tracks building permit activity in several counties including Volusia and Flagler.\nSoroka said she has seen a significant increase in site-plan applications locally in the past year.\nStuckwish said he and Richart bought Hawks Cove because New Smyrna Beach has many advantages they believe will attract home buyers.\nLocated off of State Road 44, Hawks Cove is five minutes from the beach, and close to stores and restaurants, yet far enough inland to offer price advantages compared with comparable new homes along the coast, Stuckwish said.\nStuckwish said he and Richart would like to pursue more projects in New Smyrna Beach. \"It's an area with great potential growth,\" he said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tim October 27, 1967 January 1, 2022\n'They hand you this program brochure that proclaims \"A Great Novel Becomes A Great Motion Picture \u2026\" Bullshit.'\nKiss my ass, Hardy. Gene has little time for Frederic Raphael's and John Schlesinger's 'Far From the Madding Crowd', which did well commercially at home in the UK but was a famous misfire in the US\u2026\nGene Youngblood, legendary reviewer and cultural theorist who died in April 2021, began a series of film reviews in the LA Free Press in 1967. Many of these reviews formed the basis of parts of his book 'Expanded Cinema' which is now seen widely as a foundational document of post-psychedelic cinema. Blackmass Movies is proud to begin the process of collecting Youngblood's reviews in one place for the first time. Youngblood's TV interview with a young George Lucas is here.\nGENE YOUNGBLOOD\nI paid $4 to see \"Far From the Madding Crowd\" at the Fox Wilshire Theater. I walked out half-way through. I haven't walked out on a film in years; it was a depressing experience.\nLeaving that pompous, gold-leafed auditorium and walking alone into the night, I felt like an unrequited lover: I love the movies very much, but they do not love me back; they want only to take my money; they want my body, not my mind. I was sad.\nI walked along listening to the metronome clop-clop of my boot-heels on the pavement, thinking how that $4 would have paid for the new Buffalo Springfield album I'm going to buy. And then, inevitably, a blinding montage of movie-critic thoughts flashed through my mind.\nI realized, suddenly and with a tinge of regret, that the more I learn about movies the fewer movies I can enjoy. Knowledge is like a pyramid; broader and solid at the base, narrower and precarious at the pinnacle. The higher one climbs up the pyramid of knowledge, the more restricted is one's range of interest \u2014 until everything is focused on that far-away peak of perfection that is the goal and the nemesis of every artist. Like Hemingway's tiger, frozen on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, you never reach the top. And you start wondering why you're even trying. And then you die.\nTo the extent that I function as a movie critic, I function in contradiction to my own idealistic concept of the profession. Here is the reason: I believe a critic should serve only to illuminate and expand public knowledge of a given artistic medium (all criticism, after all, is supposed to be constructive). However, such a critic is only as effective as the works of art being produced. Not having the intuitive foresight of the artist, the critic knows only what he dislikes: he is not aware of what he likes until the artist shows it to him; otherwise the critic himself would be the artist (as sometimes happens.)\nThe conclusion, therefore, is that the non-artist critic, in order to constructively expand and inform public appreciation of his chosen art, should only give \"good\" reviews; that is, he should completely ignore films he doesn't like, because they do not offer sufficient material for illumination of the art. This is the chief difference between the \"reviewer\" and the critic.\nThere is, however, a major drawback to this concept: about 90 per cent of the films being produced are not important enough for serious criticism; the critic would end up discussing only about two or three films a year, but the public would continue filling plastic-Gothic edifices like the Fox Wilshire, reacting like Pavlov's dog to every cheap, sentimental-commericial ploy an arc can project. So, against my better judgment, I write \"bad\" reviews about movies I don't like and don't respect. I think it's a waste of time, but I care too much about the public image of films to let it pass.\nAnother thought that struck me just before I walked out on \"Far From the Madding Crowd\" is how alienated I am from the general consensus of movie goers, the popcorn-munching, cartoon-loving, idol-worshiping status-quo.\nAs the audience reacted with oohs and aahs and giggles and gasps to each triggering manipulation in the film, I became increasingly aware of an enormous communication gap \u2014 which also is a generation gap \u2014 that is fundamentally the cause of my cinematic angst. For instance, this movie is loaded with irrelevant, obligatory shots of animals: animals being cute, animals being loyal, animals being cruel. It reminded me of writing for The Herald-Examiner: if the murder victim had a pet dog, mention it in the lead. So there I was blanching at all this base sentimentality while the audience reacted on cue: gasping when a crazed sheepdog urges his flock over a cliff in an utterly meaningless scene; giggling when the camera pauses on a hog's wet snoot in an equally meaningless barnyard.\nWho am I to say people aren't supposed to enjoy this kind of shallow indulgence? Who am I to say that Frederic Raphael and John Schlesinger and Joseph Janni aren't supposed to cater to universal yet non-constructive tendencies in a mass audience? I am no one. So I excused myself and sidestepped out of the theater, folding my notebook and capping my penlight with an air of bewildered resignation.\nBut once outside, in air unsullied by the breath of stale, predictable laughter, I realized my mistake: I was succumbing to the same human temptation to which filmmakers like Schlesinger and critics like Charles Champlin and Bosley Crowther already have surrendered; I was allowing myself to be swayed by public opinion; I was addressing my would-be review to the movie-goers and not to the movies; my concern was not with the art of cinema, as it should be, but rather with the art of audience manipulation. Surely Godard or Brakhage or Antonioni or Welles do not do this when they create. I was ashamed of myself.\nTherefore, the following half-review of \"Far From the Madding Crowd\" represents nothing more or less than one man's view of cinema, hopefully a responsible and sincere view, offered as a votive effort toward the perpetuation and refinement of the most powerful art form the world ever has known: I can't bear to see it defiled, yet it is with every screening of this despicable movie, and with every word uttered by the soulless, evil advertising specialists who tell us we ought to spend $4 to see it.\nNotes of a cinephile: Electronic media has outmoded the written word, as well as movies based on the written word. \"Far From the Madding Crowd\" is based not only on literature, but the most dated, stilted literature one could imagine. They hand you this program brochure that proclaims \"A Great Novel Becomes A Great Motion Picture\u2026\" Bullshit. This film is a throwback to the 30s and beyond \u2014 in cinematic technique, in emotional content, in social significance: the unifying factor being that all three are totally absent.\nThere is a peculiar notion among chic screenwriters that archaic, non-colloquial dialogue (i.e. neo-Shakespearean) automatically connotes profundity, meaning. \"Beckett\" and \"A Man For All Seasons\" belong in that bag, along with \"Madding Crowd.\" But the entire premise is false; it's a hoax, and you're conscious of it once you realize that you're reacting to dialogue specifically designed to elicit a response: that's not cinema. Word games belong in Pinter plays, or on scrabble boards. Jack Nicholson's screenplay for \"The Trip\" contains some of the smoothest, most unpretentious dialogue to be heard in a Hollywood film in years. Yet the ad-men would have a tough time supporting copy like \"A Great Trip Becomes A Great Motion Picture\u2026\"\nAccording to Mr. Champlin of the Times: \"In the anthology of films of surpassing visual majesty and excitement, MGM's 'Far From the Madding Crowd' now takes its place. It joins such varied works as 'A Man For All Seasons,' 'Dr. Zhivago,' 'Lawrence of Arabia'\u2026\"\nWith this kind of criticism going on in major newspapers, it's a miracle that true visual creativity, such as the works of Antonioni, Fellini, Truffaut, Bergman, receive due appreciation. Let's remember that Schlesinger and his cinematographer, Nicholas Roeg, did not create the locations (\"valid and photogenic,\" according to the brochure) in the English countryside where the \"wonderful pastoral scenes\" (helpful brochure again) were photographed. God made these places. Schlesinger and Roeg merely took millions of dollars and the finest 70mm equipment available and shot them. What kind of accomplishment is that? With today's equipment and unlimited resources, who couldn't compile a picturesque movie? In fact, it's a disgrace when a modern-day film is not of \"surpassing visual majesty,\" because there's a lot of that in our world.\nThe only kind of visual artwork to be respected is that in which the artist (or artist-cinematographer) CREATES beauty where none is to be found. Gianni di Venanzo or Raoul Coutard or Stan Brakhage or Subrata Mitra or Carlo di Palma are men whose visual perceptivity adds something to reality; they can elicit from a setting that ambivalent metaphysicalness, that magical \"sense of place\" that is absent from the shallow calendar art of \"Madding Crowd,\" \"Lawrence,\" \"Zhivago\" and all the rest, including pseudo \"art films\" like \"A Man and A Woman.\"\nThe same applies to the use of \"unique\" faces in this movie: given time and an army of auditioners, who couldn't come up with several hundred wizened, weathered or otherwise irregular faces? But who cares? What does it mean? Fellini is the master of this, and with him it means something, because he has an uncanny genius for selecting the face that virtually embodies a given mood or atmosphere. In \"Madding Crowd\" it's more like a parade of sideshow freaks for no pertinent effect.\nThen there is Schlesinger's pseudo-arty directorial style. It consists of bleeding every sequence for every forced camera angle possible. For example, there is a scene in which a horse-cart pulls away from an old woman standing in the middle of the road, tearfully waving goodbye. First there is a master shot of the cart and the woman, then a subjective shot, with the camera backing away from the woman, then a reverse-angle longshot of the woman watching the cart vanish in the gathering dusk: that's really milking a scene for all it's worth\u2014both cinematically and emotionally, except that the scene isn't worth it, nor the entire film, for that matter.\nI was reminded instantly of a similar sequence in Antonioni's \"Il Grido\" \u2014 Steve Cochran and his little girl leaving town on the back of a horsecart. A brief but stunning shot with the camera on the car, looking over their shoulders as they gaze at the diminishing horizon. The scene is both visually and thematically effective, since the road has been used in earlier sequences as a symbolic metaphor of emotional alienation.\nThere also is that matter of \"characterization\" and \"acting.\" Here I will say only that midway through the film I could predict everything that was going to happen. I felt I'd seen these characters a thousand times before, heard the same formula dialogue on an endless loop, felt the same dull reaction to the same dull events, ad infinitum. So I left, just when a storm was about to wipe out Julie Christie's \u2014 I mean Bathsheba Everdene's \u2014 sheep ranch. And I really don't care if it did or not.\nThis ad appeared on page 22 alongside Gene's review.\nPrevious 'Reflections' A Golden Eye Sore \u2013 Gene Youngblood \u2013 LA Free Press\nNext UCLA Student Films Communicate Actual Student Experience, Concerns \u2013 Gene Youngblood \u2013 LA Free Press","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hereford Chiropractic Clinic\n(01432) 352 928 call our friendly staff for an appointment\nOur Chiropractors\nHelen Nunn BSc(Hons)Chiro DC PgCert\nHelen graduated from the Anglo European College of Chiropractic in July 1991, and started her career in Worcester, before setting up the Hereford Chiropractic Clinic in 1992.\nSince the clinic started in St Martins Street in 1992 nearly 10,000 people have been treated. Due to the growth of the practice they have had to move to larger premises twice; first to Southbank Road in 1996, then again to its current location on East Street in 2004. Hereford Chiropractic Clinic has a catchment area of over 60 miles.\nHelen is proud of the fact that most patients are recommended by their families, friends and colleagues who have benefited from Chiropractic care.\nOnce treatment has been completed, Helen believes that people should take responsibility for their own health with exercise. She looks after her own spine with a combination of yoga, pilates, and gym work to strengthen her spine and maintain flexibility.\nHelen teaches and supports newly qualified chiropractors in their first year of practice, is registered with the General Chiropractic Council (GCC), and a is member of the British Chiropractic Association (BCA).\nStephanie Wilson BSc(Hons)Chiro DC PgCert\nSteph was born and bred in Hereford and joined Hereford Chiropractic Clinic in 2002, after graduating from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic.\nSteph enjoys all aspects of Chiropractic, from the delicate babies, to the intricate sports injuries. She also enjoys all aspects of farming life from sheep farming to horse riding.\nSteph is registered with the General Chiropractic Council (GCC), and a member of the British Chiropractic Association (BCA).\nGlen Hillier BSc(Hons)Chiro DC PgCert\nGlen has been a valued member of our team since January 2008, he graduated from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic in 2006 and enjoyed a good working reputation in Bournemouth and Fordingbridge, before moving to Wales.\nSince moving back to Wales to start a family Glen has established himself both in private practice and teaching. Glen currently works in private practice in both Hereford and Merthyr as well as teaching anatomy to first year Chiropractic students and supervising final year students;which allows him to give a little back to the next generation of Chiropractors.\n\"I first experienced Chiropractic as a 13 year old boy, who after 2 weeks of not being able to lift my head up past 45 degrees (following play fighting with a friend) had my neck adjusted and stood upright straight away. I knew I had to learn how to do that!!!\"\n\"I did not fully appreciate the significance of the treatment at the time, but after studying Chiropractic, I now know that if I had not had that adjustment done it is highly likely that I would have significant degeneration at the base of my neck and chronic headaches.\"\n\"I am very happy to be able to pass on the benefits of Chiropractic to you, so you can enjoy a better quality of life\"\nGlen is registered with the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) and a member of the British Chiropractic Association (BCA), the oldest chiropractic association in the world.\nChiropractic Links\nGeneral Health Links\nHolistic Massage","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Democratic (sic) Party Kills All Hope of Progressive Recapture\nNew Hillaryite Rule Locks Out Sanders, Any Others the DNC Won't Ok as Real Democrats, Thus Formalizing the Party's Hatred of Reformers\n'\"We just came off a devastating presidential loss in 2016. It would seem to me the actual impetus would be to expand the Democratic Party. I just for the life of me don't see any motivation for this beyond personal spite,' Mark Longabaugh, a senior adviser to Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, told Yahoo News.'I scratch my head and ask why they would want to make the party more narrow and more exclusive.' Other progressives echoed Longabaugh's critique of the new rule on social media, with many noting that such restrictions could demobilize large constituencies that are disaffected with both major political parties...'Democrats don't want Bernie-Most-Popular-Politician-In-America-Sanders running for President, but they're perfectly fine with Mark-Raise-The-Social-Security-Retirement-Age-Warner, because although he commonly votes with Republicans, he IDs as a Democrat...'''\nSee also: \"The Democratic National Committee's rules and bylaws committee adopted a new rule on Friday that would prevent outsiders like Bernie Sanders from seeking the party's nomination in the 2020 presidential race. The move seems to be the latest salvo in the ongoing jockeying over the party's future that emerged following the...bitter primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Sanders in 2016... the move could only have been motivated by lingering animus from the primary race between Clinton and Sanders.\"\nComment: despite the false pseudo-Left optimism by which these reports attempt to soften the Democratic (sic) National Committee's terminal blow to any rational hope for a progressive takeover of the party, by this new rule the DNC awards itself the absolute power to determine who is and is not a real Democrat. The rule therefore locks in ideological cement overshoes the party's suicidal, already thoroughly documented malice toward Sanders. It also radically expands the party's hateful efforts to exclude all would-be reformers, a brazenly pro-Republican purge exemplified by its maliciously triumphant slandering of Laura Moser. Thus once again we are taught our only possible exit from JesuNazi theocracy is the formation of a genuinely socialist -- and genuinely revolutionary -- party of the Working Class. Indeed the Democrats' fuck-you message to all of us in the 99 Percent was never clearer -- so unmistakable (and such an unmistakable endorsement of Capitalist malevolence) -- even those in the deepest depths of denial can no longer reject it.\nAnd Here is Always Insightful Paul Street to Tell Us Why the Democrats So Ruled\n\"The reigning corporate Democrats would rather lose to the right, even to a proto-fascistic white nationalist and eco-exterminist right, than lose to the left, even to a mildly progressive social democratic left within their own party.\"\nComment: Street's essay -- though it is entirely too pseudo-Leftish for my taste -- was written before approval of the DNC's rule to exclude progressive reformers, but it explains perfectly why the rule was enacted and -- most importantly -- why those of us on the Real Left should forever abandon any (1930s\/Stalinist) notion of infiltrating the Democratic (sic) Party and attempting to make it the mechanism of our national redemption.\nAdditional late-night insight: today's Democratic (sic) Party -- in an exceptionally grotesque example of Orwelliano-Machiavellian deception proven by its ever-more-fawning obedience to its Capitalist masters -- is now the Republican Party's most colossally ambitious false-flag operation ever. It positions the Democrats as a Fifth Column to bolster by discouragement the more obvious Republican effort to shrink voter turnout even as the illusion of two parties helps perpetuate the apocalyptic Big Lie of \"American democracy.\" (Please remember where you read this hypothesis first: on Dispatches' weekend update, 9 June 2018.)\nT\/P Regime Resumes Obama's Anti-First Amendment War on Journalists\n\"Now we know that the Justice Department secretly seized the phone and email records of Ali Watkins, a New York Times reporter, in a leak investigation involving a former Senate staffer. It is the first time the Trump administration is known to have engaged in such an aggressive tactic against a reporter, and it is exactly the kind of press surveillance at which the Obama administration excelled. For years, conservatives attacked Obama for using such tactics to spy on reporters. Of course, there was no outcry from the right on Friday over Trump's willingness to do the same thing.\"\nWhy We Must \"Beware the Democrats and Their Good Billionaires\"\n\"(Starbucks) Executive Chairman Howard Schultz...(fashioned) for himself a shining reputation as a moral capitalist... As a result, he's become that favored species of Democratic Party hacks: the Good Billionaire...Schultz has political ambitions, perhaps presidential ones. He almost certainly would have been Hillary Clinton's secretary of labor...And let's be honest:The psychopathic acquisitiveness required to actively hoard $3 billion is a close relative of the titanic self-regard and absolute megalomania that drive most presidential candidates...On CNBC, Schultz worried that the Democratic Party has drifted too far to the left...and identified the national debt as the great crisis of our time...There you have it..(worsening) austerity, but with a few rainbow flags and diversity seminars. America's shining, post-Trumpian future.\"\nG7 Summit Reveals Europe's Intensifying Hostility to U.S. JesuNazi Imperialism\n\"This weekend's summit of the G7 is the most contentious meeting in the body's 43-year history. It has revealed deep and growing fissures between the United States and its European allies...Looming over the summit is Trump's June 1 decision to impose sweeping tariffs of up to 25 percent on steel and aluminum imports from the EU and other countries...At the same time, Trump has opened the prospect of cooling off the United States' two other major geopolitical conflict areas: with North Korea, including a US-North Korean summit scheduled in Singapore immediately after the conclusion of the G7, and with Russia, to which Trump held out the prospect of regaining membership in the G7 after it was ejected in 2014...However, as with the (Nazi) fractured geopolitics of the 1930s, the 'deals' offered by Trump to one or another country are merely the prelude to military conflict. War is on the horizon, though it is not yet clear between whom.\"\nPoll Shows Seattle Citizenry's Growing Contempt and Hatred of Homeless People\n\"Seattle residents are not only deeply dissatisfied with how the Seattle City Council has addressed homelessness, but also less willing than they used to be to sign off on new taxes to address the problem, according to a poll of 800 likely voters conducted in March that Crosscut has obtained...Those familiar with the results, who requested anonymity to discuss private polling, were stunned: It's the first time anyone can recall the usually generous Seattle voters being overwhelmingly skeptical of additional taxation...a shift from just 18 months prior, when voters responded more positively to the idea of increasing spending on homelessness...\"\nSee also: \"The campaign to repeal the recently approved (housing-for-homeless-people) tax has gathered more than 20,000 valid signatures...more than what the campaign needs to put a referendum on the ballot next fall, leaving it to voters to decide whether to keep or repeal the tax.\"\nComment: having had the profound misfortune to have resided in Seattle from 1972 through 1976, I know too well the malicious hypocrisy of the majority of its white residents. Thanks to the courageousness of the late Walter Crowley, I also know of the breathtaking racism, bourgeois socioeconomic bigotry and anti-Jewish malice exposed by the still-officially-secret polling that explained the self-destructive defeat of the Forward Thrust subway proposal as precipitated not as much by the so-called Boeing Bust as by the white Seattleites' decision to listen to their Inner Fascists. (Walter told me of the poll and its results during an otherwise-social late-1970s J&M Cafe conversation that for a moment became the deepest of what in journalism is known as \"deep background\" briefing. Thus I promised him I would never write about it as long as he was alive, but now that he is dead [and sorely missed], there is no remaining reason for me to keep silent about his disclosures.) Hence given how the old, clandestine poll results inadvertently predict the new poll's results, I would judge Seattle's alleged change of heart toward homeless people to be nothing more than a 21st Century version of the \"we-don'-wanna-be-another-Jew-York\/yeah-we're-closet-Nazis-deal-with-it-fuck-you\" exclamation like the ones of 1968 and 1970, albeit without the never-more-than-whispered \"Zieg Heil\" asserted quite so loudly.\nHow Elite Colleges Protect Their Young Aristocrats from Police-State Savagery\n\"American police...(are) militarized...occupying forces for America's poor neighborhoods, not unlike the American military abroad. If one lives in America and is poor, especially black and poor, the police are your oppressor, not your protector...Encountering a police officer, let alone confronting one for their injustice, is a dangerous activity for many in this country. The poor have been abandoned by our government yet they are arrested for petty and necessary crimes done to survive. Once in the system it is even harder to make a legal living and people have no choice but to turn to alternative methods of survival. The police in this country consistently use a call to them as an excuse to hit the victim with a crime of their own. The right to protest is considered a criminal offense, as evidenced by Standing Rock and the protests against President Trump. ICE is becoming an increasingly insidious force that obtains people in extraordinarily inhumane conditions.On the other hand, you have elite college campuses that aim to protect their students of crimes at all costs.\"\nNew Evidence in RFK Murder Prompts Demands for Reopening Case\n\"Robert Kennedy was shot on June 5 and died June 6, 1968, fifty years ago today. A new examination of evidence is forcing human rights organizations -- including the (Organization of American States) -- to consider probing the case.\"\nSee also: \"We now live in a country that would be unrecognizable to anyone who died prior to 1968.\"\nThe Empire Escalates Its Efforts to Drag Assange into a Death Chamber\n\"One day after Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Mar\u00eda Fernanda Espinosa declared that her government would continue blocking WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange from all communications and deny him any personal visitors, she was elected president of the United Nations General Assembly...There is little doubt that the treatment of Assange...is the outcome of pressure and threats by the US and other powers. Washington is demanding Assange's head...to silence him while Washington (seeks) his extradition to stand trial on espionage charges that potentially carry the death penalty.\"\nMillennials Favor Unions Over Corporations\n\"Pew Research Center has just released its annual survey on public opinion and unions in the United States. As in the last few years, the general public views the decline of organized labor negatively.... Sixty-eight percent of people aged 18-29 said they have positive views of unions, while just 46 percent of young people said the same of corporations.\"\nLast Words (I): Eulogies for Anthony Bourdain\n\"Anthony Bourdain was the only major American celebrity who succeeded in depicting publicly the Palestinians as rational, caring human beings rather than as irrationally angry 'inciters' to violence. He was the anti-Bernard Lewis. Lewis smeared the world's 1.8 billion Muslims with the charge of 'Islamic Rage' (as though large swathes of humankind are angry for no reason). Bourdain said, 'The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinians, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity.'\"\nSee also: \"Anthony Bourdain, who was found dead Friday in an apparent suicide, opened his viewers' eyes to issues within and beyond the borders of the United States through food. He also championed many of the communities that affected his work in the kitchen and on screen. Whether it was global poverty, systemic racism in the United States or sexual abuse of women in the workplace, Bourdain frequently used the publicity he earned through his celebrity to draw attention to the issues affecting the people behind the food that he brought into Americans' living rooms. Here are some examples...\"\nWith heartfelt thanks to my dear friend and comrade Brie, who in a poignantly teachable moment told me of Bourdain's significance in her own life and then opened my eyes as to his significance for the rest of our species.\nAnd here is Brie's own tribute to him: \"Anthony Bourdain taught me from a young age that food is love and a way to connect with others when language-barriers are present. It's a way to respect and honor your elders and your younger comrades too. He taught me that food is what can bring us together when we think that there is no common ground to be found. Food is also love, service, honor and much more. It's what binds us together and fuels our bodies, minds and souls for the fight we all face daily -- and I'll always treasure the ways Tony Bourdain taught me to serve my comrades and community with love, dignity and respect. For that alone I mourn the loss of a man I never had the pleasure of meeting.\"\nLast Words (II): Cossacks Dare Verbalize what All Warriors Secretly Know\n\"There's something dashing and soulful about Russian folk music, especially when it originates with the Cossacks, Russia's warriors of the steppe. This is perhaps the most famous Cossack song, sung at dinners, concerts and campfires. It's a song about a love that is always just out of reach, a strange mix of longing and recklessness. Listen to it. You won't regret it.\" (The lyrics translated to English are here.)\nLB\/9 June 2018\nPosted at 02:37 AM in Austerity as Genocide , Censorship, Current Affairs, Disabled People , Environmental crisis, Healthcare, History, Immigration, LGBTQ , Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Music, Poor People, Religion, Science, Seniors , Television, Visual art, Weblogs, White Supremacy | Permalink | Comments (0)\nOfficial Protection of Violently Racist, Often Murderous Cops Shows the World the True Magnitude of U.S. Nazi-Mindedness\nFederally Militarized Police Add Middle-Class Minorities to Target List\n\"Another day, another black man violently assaulted by five rogue police officers for the ever-increasing crime of BWB (breathing while black). This time it was NBA player Sterling Brown...It's hardly news that people of color are continually harassed, but what's been making the news lately is the frequency with which upwardly mobile, middle-class people of color are being targeted. From the two black men waiting for a friend at a Philadelphia Starbucks, to a black Yale graduate student napping in her dorm's common room, to three black women facing down seven cop cars and a helicopter as they checked out out of an Airbnb house they were renting...there is an overlooked long-lasting collateral damage to the black community's faith in the promise of the American dream and the sinister effect on their children that is much worse than that single assault.\"\nSee also: \"I am speaking for Dontre Hamilton of Milwaukee, Laquan McDonald of Chicago, Stephon Clark of Sacramento, Eric Garner of New York and the list goes on...The common denominator in all of these (killings) has been racism towards the minority community...The lack of repercussions for the police officers involved in so many of these cases is...a slap in the face to the victims' families and communities.\"\nAnd this: \"American police shoot and kill far more people than their peers in other countries...(but) are almost never prosecuted and convicted for use of force.\"\nPlus this: \"The technology giant Amazon is providing police agencies and private intelligence contractors in the United States with facial recognition and video tracking algorithms to (intensify) mass surveillance on the population.\"\nComment: I posted the above material as this weekend-update's lead story because, once again, we cannot comprehend the true horror of the Empire's domestic and foreign agendas without first examining the capabilities and intentions demonstrated by its ever-expanding catalogue of atrocities.\nThese newest outrages -- clearly another expansion of the Empire's lifelong, 242-year history of hate-motivated, often genocidal persecution of non-whites -- are precisely what prove \"American Democracy\" to have never been more than a Big Lie.\nWhat further condemns the United States -- what defines it as a nation ever-more-dictatorially ruled by a multi-generation cabal of Nazi-minded Capitalist overlords -- was first revealed in 1934 by exposure of the too-powerful-to-prosecute\/too-rich-to-jail One Percenters who formulated the Bankers' Plot.\nBut now, 85 years later, the cabal's once-thwarted lust for the savagery of Nazi governance is methodically approaching fulfillment in the Trump\/Pence Regime.\nIt should therefore surprise none of us that the regime's sadistic intensification of signature expressions of its hatred of non-whites -- especially the ever-more-commonplace police violence against Blacks, Hispanics and First Nations people -- is now expanding to include even those minority folk who were hitherto granted some protection by bourgeois occupations and appearance.\nSignificantly, this ongoing expansion of official USian hatefulness ominously parallels Hitler's step-by-step intensification of Germany's official hatred of its own doomed minorities. `\nMeanwhile the ever-more-obvious JesuNazism of the Empire's rulers underscores the apocalyptic nature of their schemes for global conquest and environmental destruction, thereby redefining the Big Lie of \"American Democracy\" into the most potentially terminal Big Lie in all human existence.\nBut I have to disagree with those comrades whose focus on class warfare unfortunately blinds them to the bottomlessly sociopathic nature of the white-supremacist hatred of Blacks, Hispanics, First Nations people and Asiatics. To minimize how race hatred drives the USian Empire's domestic and foreign policy is tantamount to minimizing how hatred of Jewish, Slavic and Roma people drove the German Nazis' domestic and foreign policy. To reason that such murderous moral imbecility is the byproduct of class struggle alone is like trying to comprehend a mass murder without reference to the murderer's psychological state; it does nothing to address the hideous truth that a seemingly irremediable hatred of non-whites has become -- especially since the advent of the Abrahamic forms of patriarchy -- the defining characteristic of nearly the entire Caucasian race. In this context, the woeful inadequacy of the class-struggle-only analysis is emphatically demonstrated by how racist malice prevails even within groups and nationalities of whites who, theoretically, have long been securely affluent enough to have cleansed themselves of fear and loathing toward people of color.\nWhich is most assuredly not to reduce the importance of class struggle; it is instead an urgent plea to continue our examination of intersectionality -- how various forms of bigotry and hatred combine and interact synergistically, rather as if its victims are trapped in the middle of intersections and \"hit by cars from many sides.\" As the Combahee River Collective asserted in 1977, \"...Although we are in essential agreement with Marx's theory as it applied to the very specific economic relationships he analyzed, we know that his analysis must be extended further...\"\nThis is especially true if one is to understand the unique role of hatred in the formulation of governmental policy, whether in Hitler's Third Reich or the emergent Fourth Reich of the Imperial United States.\nMeanwhile Our Species Has Already Destroyed Most Earthly Life\n\"Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world's 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. Yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants, while livestock kept by humans abounds.\"\nWhen the Empire Inflicts \"Regime Change,\" Murderous Chaos Often Results\n\"When the United States uses its impressive military machine to topple a tyrant...it's impossible to predict the course of the chaos that follows. Fracture a society, it seems, and the most nefarious (and well-armed) actors often rise to the top: militiamen, criminal elements, Islamists and sociopaths of various stripes...Still, Washington never seems to learn. Since October 2001, our military has been ordered to topple at least three sovereign governments\u2014those of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya\u2014and is theoretically seeking to overthrow another regime in Syria. Republican and Democratic presidents alike have ordered these ill-advised operations, demonstrating the striking bipartisanship of American militarism. Let us, then, take a tour of the tragic outcomes unfolding today in each of these victims of U.S.-imposed regime change.\"\nSee also: \"The question is: has the Trump administration already made a decision to go to war with Iran?...several developments have come together to suggest that the rationale for using sanctions to force a re-negotiation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is cover for an eventual military assault by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia aimed at regime change in Teheran.\"\nAnd this: \"...national security adviser John Bolton, the formidable chairman of the new 'war cabinet,' was never agreeable to the idea of U.S.-North Korean diplomacy.\"\nComment: I for one believe the murderous chaos is deliberate -- another of the many forms of genocide by which the Empire seeks to ensure Earth and all its resources remain under forever under Capitalist control.\nDemocrats Again Show True Colors in Votes to Enable Warmongers, Banksters\n\"While the world responds with alarm over President Donald Trump's...(cancellation of) diplomatic talks with North Korea scheduled for next month\u2014(talks) which aimed to ease rising nuclear tensions\u2014131 Democrats in the U.S. House joined with the overwhelming majority of Republicans to pass a $717 billion Pentagon spending bill that includes massive expansion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal\" (emphasis added). The roll-call vote is here.\nAnd: \"Handing President Donald Trump a major legislative victory and delivering a huge gift to Wall Street banks on the very same day (these banks) reported record-shattering profits, 33 House Democrats joined nearly every Republican...in passing a deregulatory measure that independent analysts say will significantly increase the risk of another financial crisis.\"\nComment: two entirely predictable fuck-off-and-die betrayals of the 99 Percent by the Democratic (sic) faction of the One Capitalist Party of Two Names (OCPOTN) provide yet another illustration of how \"American Democracy\" is by far the most potentially deadly of all humanity's Big Lies.\nDespite the fact Washington state's Puget Sound area with its five major military bases is already the most target-rich environment on this planet, Tacoma-area representatives Adam Smith and Derek Kilmer voted to sate the imperial war machine's thirst for blood money by approving the Trump\/Pence Regime's bring-on-the-apocalypse budget. So did Puget Sound Democrats Suzan DelBene, Rick Larsen, and Denny Heck, all five (predictably) joining with their state's four Republican representatives.\nThe one Washington state Democrat with the courage to vote against the let's-make-Earth-a-bug-planet measure was Pramila Jayapal; obviously she is the only Washington representative who understands that expanding the thermonuclear capabilities of the submarines based at Bangor will not protect her beloved Evergreen State from reduction to a black-and-brown radioactive wasteland. (Disclosure: I salute and applaud Ms. Jayapal for her bravery on this war-machine budget issue, though I nevertheless emphatically oppose her schemes for forcibly disarming all civilian firearms owners. )\nWhile Larsen was the only Washington state Democrat to also vote for unleashing Capitalism's most predatory banksters, the unspoken message of the two bills is nevertheless clear: the One Percent and its Ruling Class Vassals are now -- as a growing number of regime's former opponents forgive its premature disclosures of Capitalism's ultimate Evil -- predictably uniting behind its JesuNazi agenda.\nEmpire Escalates Its Campaign to Enslave Venezuela and Steal Its Petroleum\n\"Of particular interest to the United States is Venezuela, who is full of oil. They want the oil and anyone who doesn't give it to them is illegitimate. But there are people in Venezuela too. And they have been wonderfully resilient in response to U.S. power. This was why it was such good news that Nicol\u00e1s Maduro won reelection in Venezuela.\"\nMore Genocide: Bureaucrats OK $7 Billion Cut in Children's Health Program\nThe Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday approved President Donald Trump's 'despicable' proposal to slash more than $7 billion from the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which helps impoverished families provide healthcare to their kids. The approval came by way of a GAO report delivered to Congress early Tuesday. The cuts to CHIP are part of a broader plan by the Trump administration to cancel $15.3 billion in previously approved funding.\nMainstream Media Propaganda Machine Ignores Poor People's Campaign\n\"The Poor People's Campaign remains invisible to much of America. Corporate media have chosen to dismiss this call for a national moral revival, but the establishment will not be able to ignore the growing community that is calling for it much longer.\"\nSee also: \"The Art of Resistance.\"\nActivist Blames West Virginia's Wretchedness on \"Corporate Domination\"\n\"West Virginia has the highest rate of obesity in the country. The highest rate of smoking. The highest rate of drug overdose deaths. Why? Corporate domination of the state...(says) Stephen Smith...director of the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Family Coalition.\"\nIndia's Massacre of Environmental Protestors Exemplifies Capitalism in Action\n\"The barbarity of social life and class relations in contemporary India were laid bare in Tuesday's police massacre of working people demanding the closure of a copper smelter that has long befouled Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, polluting its groundwater and environs with toxic chemicals. The massacre...left 12 people dead and more than 60 others injured...\"\nHistory Shows Invasion of Russia Would Be \"Military Nightmare\"\n\"The Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) recently examined the most difficult countries in the world to invade, which include Russia, Switzerland, and New Zealand. The paper said an invasion of Russia would become a 'military nightmare' for foreign armed forces. While SvD did not define who precisely that enemy would be, our suspicions point to the countries intertwined with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).\"\nCan Resurrected Indian Country Today Maintain Editorial Independence?\n\"SCRAPPY AND RESILIENT as the population it covers, a reinvented Indian Country Today recently announced its return after a nine-month hiatus...(but) ICT's comeback brings with it concerns for the publication's editorial independence.\"\nDespite JesuNazi Hate-Mongering, Support for Gay Marriage Rises to 67%\n\"Sixty-seven percent of Americans support same-sex marriage -- the highest level in Gallup's trend. In each of the past three annual polls, Gallup has recorded three-percentage point increases among Americans who say same-sex marriages should be legally valid. The current figure is up 40 percentage points from the 27 percent who supported gay marriage when Gallup first polled on the question in 1996.\"\nGeorgians Pick First-Ever Black Gubernatorial Nominee\n\"Stacey Abrams...became the first Black nominee for governor in Georgia by either party.\"\nTwo Petitions from UltraViolet: (Please Sign Each One)\n\"The Trump administration is about to literally BAN the word abortion from the doctor's office. Yes, you read that right. For clinics and hospitals that accept dollars from the Title X program--the nation's program for affordable birth control and reproductive health care--doctors, nurses, and other health care providers would be banned from providing, counseling on, or referring any patient for an abortion. Even if it was needed to protect a woman's health or save her life. Even if she asked.\"\n\"Did you know that Target, which boasts a family-friendly brand, provides employees who've just given birth just two weeks of paid leave? It's neither enough to recover from childbirth or medically advisable to keep a newborn away from her mother. This year, big companies like Starbucks, CVS Pharmacy, and Walmart caved to organized public pressure and are now allowing their employees meaningful paid time off to take care of their newborns. Combined, that's millions of people finally gaining access to essential parental leave time. If we push Target, the second largest retail employer in the United States, to follow, we can win paid family leave for hundreds of thousands more people...\"\nLast Words: a Flicker of Optimism in This Darkest of All Human Eras\n\"Thousands of teachers and students are walking out of schools, marching in the streets, and raising their hands and signs in protest against the war on education. Most recently, South Carolina has joined the wave of teachers' protests and strikes taking place across the nation. In the age of illiberal democracy and the growing fascism of the Trump administration, the unimaginable has once again become imaginable as teachers inspired and energized by a dynamic willingness to fight for their rights and the rights of their students are exercising bold expressions of political power. The power of collective resistance is being mounted in full force against a neoliberal logic that unabashedly insists that the rule of the market is more important than the needs of teachers, students, young people, the poor and those deemed disposable by those with power in our society. Teachers are tired of being relentless victims of a casino capitalism...\"\nPosted at 01:12 AM in Austerity as Genocide , Censorship, Current Affairs, Environmental crisis, Film, Healthcare, History, Immigration, LGBTQ , Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Music, Photography, Poor People, Religion, Science, Television, Visual art, Web\/Tech, Weblogs, White Supremacy | Permalink | Comments (0)\nTrump\/Pence War on Black Dissidents Claims First Victim\nNORMALLY I ORDER the linked reports in Dispatches in accordance with news values that were mine as a daily newspaper news editor or telegraph editor. This is to say international news generally outranks all but the most significant local news, and crisis, scandal or disaster outranks everything else unless it is a positive story about some development (such as an increase in the minimum wage) that benefits us all. But those criteria vanish down the proverbial toilet in the face of the following story, which, though it is about the victimization of one man, nevertheless exemplifies the stark, Gestapo-type terror with which the JesuNazi Trump\/Pence Regime threatens us all. Indeed it is a wake-up call of the most alarming sort -- precisely why I have chosen it to lead this edition of \"Weekend Update\":\nRakem Balogun, who lost his home and more while incarcerated, is believed to be the first person targeted and prosecuted under a secretive US surveillance effort to track so-called 'black identity extremists.' In a leaked August 2017 report from the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit, officials claimed that there had been a 'resurgence in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity' stemming from African Americans' 'perceptions of police brutality.'\"\nComment: obviously Mr. Balogun is but the first victim in the JesuNazi regime's Gestapo-inspired terrorizing of dissenters, in which context we dast not forget the words of Martin Niem\u00f6ller, \"first they came for the socialists...\"\nFight to Save Net Neutrality Requires Only One More Affirmative Vote\n\"Democrats on Wednesday officially filed a petition to force a vote in the Senate to save net neutrality. With a single Republican supporting the effort, only one vote is needed to advance a resolution that may one day soon reinstate the net neutrality rules overturned by the FCC last year.\" Please use this story's clickable form to contact your senators.\nDemocratic (sic) Party's Closet Fascists Urge CIA Torture Queen's Approval\n\"Sen. Joe Donnelly on Saturday became the second Democrat to announce he will cast his vote in favor of CIA director nominee Gina Haspel -- boosting her prospects of being confirmed...West Virginia's Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat in a state that voted for Mr. Trump by the greatest margin, has also voiced his support for Haspel.\"\nComment: yes, it's a Mainstream Media story, but its weekend timing is guaranteed to obscure it, hence the above link to its text.\nTrump\/Pence Rules Change Encourages Rape of Transgender Prisoners\n\"In a policy shift LGBTQ rights groups denounced as 'a deliberate recipe for violence against transgender people,' the Trump administration on Friday rolled back rules allowing transgender prisoners to use facilities that match their gender identity and instructed federal officials to use 'biological sex' in determining housing assignments.\nComment: precisely as an LGBTQ advocate said in response to this newest example of the Trump\/Pence Regime's JesuNazi sadism, \"the administration is clearly prepared to encourage federal prisons to violate federal law and advance its own inhumane agenda.\"\nHow Intensifying Grassroots Fascism Bolsters USian World Conquest Agenda\n\"In the wake of the invasion of Iraq, the bombing of Libya, the support of rebel groups against Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and the support of a Saudi-led war of aggression in Yemen, the question on everyone's mind at this time is a terrible one: has the United States now committed itself to violent regime change in Iran? Imperialism and militarism, now dominant as cultural values in the United States, will make another war seem attractive to many Americans...The U.S. is a country where nearly two-thirds of the population support torture against suspect terrorists, and where more than forty percent of Americans think it was the 'right decision' to invade Iraq in 2003\u2013a war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands, produced millions of refugees, led to the rise of ISIS, and was done in blatant violation of international law.\"\nSee also: \"The US is...becoming self-isolated, with full support only from Israel and Saudi Arabia...marginalising and humiliating France, Germany and UK.\"\nAnd this: \"I can tell you from firsthand experience, that I've seen this before. Our government is laying the groundwork for yet another war. Be on the lookout for several things. First, Trump is going to begin shouting about the \"threat\" from Iran. It will become a daily mantra. He'll argue that Iran is actively hostile and poses an immediate danger to the United States.\"\nAlso this: \"In the wake of Donald Trump's thoroughly unsurprising decision to scuttle the Iran nuclear accord, two countries that may be most in the hot seat are Germany and Russia. The big question now is whether their mutual discomfort leads them to find common cause.\"\nPlus this: \"Trump's proposals to corral Europe into joining U.S. foreign policy on Iran may lead to a severe backlash by EU firms and politicians, especially advocates of a stronger independent European foreign policy.\"\n$tock $urge Proves Prescription Drug Lords Own Trump\/Pence Regime\n\"Topher Spiro, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, argued that a major reason pharma stocks rose as Trump formally announced his plan is because the president placed blame for high U.S. drug prices on the low prices in nations with 'socialized healthcare'\u2014exonerating American drug giants from any blame for soaring costs...Instead of tackling high U.S. prices, Trump effectively promised to work to 'boost prices abroad,' which is the drug industry's 'number one priority,' Spiro notes.\"\nSee related petition, which -- despite the fact it will do no good -- we should nevertheless sign as an act of protest: \"Trump ran on a promise to let Medicare negotiate aggressively, which would lower prices for everyone. Today, he's abandoned that promise. Donald Trump's cowardice in blocking Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices is more proof that he works for the drug industry not the people...Stand with Social Security Works and demand immediate action by Congress to address the national crisis of skyrocketing drug prices...Sign the petition today!\" (With thanks to TigerLille1 for sending me the link.)\nTrump Going Full Fascist for Midterm Elections\n\"Donald Trump's rally in Elkhart, Indiana Thursday night was the latest in a series of campaign-style events where he is testing out a political appeal of a fascistic character. It follows similar events over the past two months, all in the industrial Midwest: a rally in Moon Township in the Pittsburgh suburbs on March 10; a rally in Washington Township, Michigan, in the Macomb County suburbs of Detroit, on April 28; and a fundraising appearance in suburban Cleveland on May 5.\"\nUSian Threats May Subject Assange to Kangaroo Court Death-Penalty Trial\n\"Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador's foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities.\"\nLatest Body Count in Israel's Palestinian Genocide: 1 Dead, 700 Wounded \"One Palestinian protestor was killed and at least 700 wounded by the Israeli military on the seventh consecutive Friday of demonstrations at the Israeli border fence with Gaza. \"See also: \"The Gaza border protests...should also be appreciated in (the) context (of) Palestine's own factionalism and infighting.\"\nKansas, Oklahoma JesuNazis Pass Theocratic Child-Adoption Restrictions\n\"State legislatures in both Kansas and Oklahoma passed bills last Thursday (Senate Bill 284 in Kansas and Senate Bill 1140 in Oklahoma) that would allow state-funded child-placing agencies to use religion to justify denying children homes and discriminating against prospective parents. Both bills would allow child-placing agencies to refuse to perform, assist or participate in any child placement in the name of religion. That means agencies that receive state funding could discriminate against prospective adoptive and foster parents because they are a same-sex couple, are interfaith, were previously divorced or are a different faith than the agency. Agencies would be able to ignore the best interest of the child \u2013 the bedrock standard for placing children.\"\nTrump\/Pence Attorney General Gleefully Escalates His War on Poor People\n\"Ever since his days as an Alabama prosecutor during the War on Drugs era, Trump's attorney general has been dead set on cracking down on poor people in a return to tough-on-crime law enforcement. There probably has been no better week for the fulfillment of that agenda than this one.\"\nCheated by Neoliberal Academia, Students Question Higher (Priced) Education\n\"What's the point of four years of rigorous studying, of amassing student loans, of backbreaking night and weekend jobs, if there are almost zero job prospects out there? And, worse, what is their money going toward if not the kind of quality education they have been promised? With most classes no longer being taught by professors but by graduate students or adjunct teachers, (students) find the US educational system to be a scam...(because) universities today follow profit-maximizing strategies...in labor management, that closely mirror those of private businesses.\"\nPatriarchy = Capitalism = Women and Sex as Commodities = Misogynistic Murder\n\"...at the bottom of the incel worldview: sex is a commodity, accumulation of this commodity enhances a man's status, and every man has a right to accumulation, but women are in some mysterious way obstacles to this, and they are therefore the enemy as well as the commodity...(incel males) are furious at their own low status, but don't question (how Capitalism) allocates status and commodifies us all in ways that are painful and dehumanizing.\"\nSee also: \"Basically, incels cannot get laid and they violently loathe anyone who can.\"\nPlus this: \"A teenage girl in India has been raped and burned alive by her attacker - the third instance of such an attack in the same week.\"\nComment: patriarchy -- itself as much an incentive to murder as its economic offspring Capitalism -- expresses itself with the same sadistically deadly misogyny everywhere on our planet. Note again my not-entirely facetious observation that if there were such thing as space aliens, the introduction of patriarchy (via talking snakes, burning bushes and fiery wheels) would obviously be the interstellar equivalent of the smallpox-infected blankets employed by Europeans during the genocidal extermination of First Nations people.\nWithout Irresistible Mass Movement, Progressive Efforts Are Probably Doomed\n\"During the Great Depression massive organizing efforts and protest movements were necessary just to reform the two-party system. New Deal history strongly suggests that the current...debate is largely a waste of time until we organize movements powerful enough to upset the existing order.\"\nSee also: \"Ralph Nader argues the (Democratic [sic] Party) must stop searching for scapegoats and start fighting for a bold and progressive agenda.\"\nAnd this: \"...Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday let it be known once again that the Democratic Party risks another round of failure unless it embraces the kind of bold, progressive agenda that can unite the working class and upend the normalization of big-money politics and oligarchic rule that helped usher President Donald Trump into office.\"\nFilm Review: the Apocalyptic Horrors of Capitalism\n\"As part of its special series celebrating the 200thbirthday of Karl Marx between May 18-22, the Anthology Film Archives will be screening Capitalism, a 320-minute, six-part documentary that is both supremely intelligent and briskly entertaining, on May 20th at 3:45. Directed by Ilan Ziv, the founder of Icarus Films, it is like no other film I have ever seen about the horror we face in our daily lives that is much more frightening than slasher movies like Halloween or Friday the Thirteenth. After all, the idea of nuclear holocaust or global warming\u2014just two of the threats we face from an economic system gone mad\u2014are not something a plucky hero or heroine in a John Carpenter movie can stave off.\"\nLast Words I: How Crosscut's Censorship Encourages Public School Illiteracy\nA major, profusly illustrated story in Crosscut, an online Seattle daily that formerly seemed genuinely committed to fairness in making editorial space available to Left-leaning reporters and comment-thread contributors, commendably published a student's piece detailing how she and her classmates struggle against public-school downsizing. But -- seemingly in cooperation with the Trump\/Pence Regime's ever-expanding, Gestapo-like campaign to forcibly silence any and all dissent in the imperial homeland -- the crowd-funded and therefore theoretically independent publication suppressed the comment in which I criticized its editors' failure to correct the glaring example of modern-day illiteracy that contaminated the story's lead paragraphs:\n\"...when budget cuts left my (Seattle) school, The Center School, at risk of losing its art department...me and a few friends got together...\" (emphasis added)\nThis was the first time in many years of occasional but often outspokenly Marxian comment-thread contributions the publication has attempted to silence me.\nI say \"attempted\" because the censored text follows, defiantly reprinted exactly as I submitted it:\nWhy did a Crosscut copy editor fail to correct the glaringly illiterate grammatical error (\"...me and a few friends got together...\") in Christine Cornell's second graf? Was the editor who overlooked that obvious blunder merely asleep at the proverbial switch, or was there clandestine intent to undermine Ms. Cornell's heartfelt plea that we the people recapture the public schools from the Neoliberal foes of universal education?\nWhichever, the sadly revealing magnitude of Ms. Cornell's mistake -- an inability to distinguish between nominative and objective forms of personal pronouns (a failure proper schooling would have remedied no later than fifth grade) -- is itself testimony to the depth of the abyss into which public education has been hurled by Neoliberal austerity policies.\nMs. Cornell is thus revealed -- no doubt to her own mortification -- as a victim of the very policies she protests. Worse, she is victimized in ways she herself has not yet learned to recognize. This is no fault of her own; it is a nationally ruinous failure for which we the people are ourselves most grievously at fault. And it matters not whether we are paralyzed by cowardice, ignorance and indifference or mobilized by Christian fanaticism and prosperity-gospel greed. All of those conditions facilitate and accelerate the methodical destruction of our once-envied system of free public education.\nI therefore hope Ms. Cornell will soon realize the staggering cutbacks imposed on U.S. public-school funding are not socioeconomic or political coincidence; they are instead the expression of very specific Capitalist policies maliciously crafted to serve three particularly vicious Ayn Rand objectives. These are: (A)-relieving the Capitalists and their Ruling Class vassals of school taxes (thereby further increasing their already murderously obscene profits); (B)-imposing compulsory school privatization (thereby eliminating free education as a right and permanently reducing it to a weaponized privilege of wealth, precisely the irremediable perversion of purpose that already defines U.S. health care); and (C)-creating a methodically dumbed-down citizenry for whom access to genuinely effective education -- that is, education capable of lifting one out of the ever-expanding miasma of USian poverty, ignorance, alienation and disenfranchisement -- is to become the exclusive possession of no more than 10 percent of the population, i.e., our One Percent overlords and their wholly owned political, professional and managerial subordinates.\nSadly Ms. Cornell seems to have remained oblivious to the fact the elected officials to whom she appeals for redress -- Democratic (sic) and Republican alike -- are the very malefactors who are inflicting the wounds she so rightfully decries. Again this is not her fault; it is rather proof of how the USian propaganda apparatus far exceeds in its intellect-neutralizing effectiveness even the mind-crippling restraints demanded by the late Josef Goebbels.\nEventually though Ms. Cornell will no doubt learn that \"American democracy\" is amongst the very biggest of the Big Lies with which our species has habitually anesthetized itself. The bitter, statistically proven truth is that U.S. elected officials serve only the demands of their Capitalist masters -- which means they are hellbent on tyrannizing everyone else. Pleading with such moral imbeciles to re-fund public education is ultimately nothing more than wasted time and breath. Even when the Capitalists are frightened into humanitarian reforms, they will always subvert and repeal them as soon as they can.\nThe terrible truth is that Capitalism cannot ever be reformed. That's because the Capitalists' sole purpose is the maximization and fulfillment of their own greed -- precisely the lesson repeatedly taught us by the notably bipartisan destruction of the New Deal, which at its height made life in this country -- especially for white people -- indescribably less wretched than it is today.\nThus in these times because of the near-total authority by which the Capitalists and their vassals command the economic and political systems, an advocate's time is better spent organizing economy-crippling strikes and massive protests in the streets. Yes, our overlords in their frenzied tantrums of frustrated greed will then undoubtedly unleash their militarized police to respond with the same maximum murderousness they already routinely employ against non-white minorities. But once that happens -- as it did for example at Kent State University and Jackson State College in 1970 -- our overlords will have (again) revealed the ultimate, no-holds-barred evil of their bottomless avarice and its mandate for self-protective brutality.\nAnd perhaps, with the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin now achieving what may well be an all-time U.S. popularity amongst younger readers, the deadly lessons of Kent and Jackson will not be so fearfully and hastily discarded. At least Ms. Cornell and her fellow victims may come to recognize what is being done to them and why it is being done. Its purpose is to hasten Capitalism's (inevitable) metamorphosis into a uniquely modern form of fascism, in reality -- for all of us save its plutocratic beneficiaries -- a death-dealing combination of credit-card serfdom, for-profit prison slavery, police-state terrorism, potentially apocalyptic warmongering and inevitably apocalyptic, definitively misogynistic hatred and contempt for our Mother Earth.\nThat said, and despite being educationally deprived, Ms. Cornell demonstrates commendable courage, passion and skill at advocacy. But if she is to further empower her ability to speak for herself and her peers, she should take a remedial course in English grammar (which in any case she will most assuredly need for college-level work).\nFar more usefully -- because the education curtailments she fights are manifestations of class war (i.e.. the Rich \"trickling down\" on all the rest of us) -- she should familiarize herself with Marxism, starting of course with The Communist Manifesto and its bold, eternally correct assertion that all of us who are not part of the One Percent and its vassalage \"have nothing to lose but (our) chains.\"\nMs. Cornell might even find an inspiring role-model or two in the uniquely pivotal role of women in the Russian revolutions of 1917 and again in the unprecedented courageousness of the Soviet victory over Nazism c.1941-1945.\nIn any case I wish the very best to Christine Cornell, to her colleagues and to the cause they represent -- a cause we the people must again make our own if we are ever to experience the powerful collective and individual rewards of the liberties pledged us by our now-nearly nullified Bill of Rights.\nLast Words II: Museum Finalizes Plans to Honor Native American Veterans\n\"...the memorial would be dedicated to the spirit, bravery and sacrifice of Native American soldiers across United States history, and would serve as a place of solace and communion for Native American veterans and their loved ones. Now, the submission period has closed, and (the National Museum of the American Indian) has winnowed the pool of designs down to five possibilities.\" With thanks to TigerLille1 for sending me the link to one of this weekend's very few positive stories.\nLB\/12 May 2018.\nPosted at 10:54 PM in Austerity as Genocide , Censorship, Current Affairs, Environmental crisis, Film, Healthcare, History, Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Poor People, Religion, Science, Visual art, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)\n14-21 February 2018: Darkness of Dystopia, Flares of Defiance\n'Hate Speech' Posters Spearhead JesuNazi Offensive in Tacoma Area\nOne of the JesuNazi posters pasted on walls and utility poles in Tacoma. (Photograph by KD \u00a9 2018.)\nBy Ryley Knowles\nTHE WHITE NATIONALIST GROUP Patriot Front has slapped up recruiting posters at seven locations in Tacoma, Washington. Photographs of the posters -- see example above -- were published on 18 February in Washington Front, Patriot Front's Twitter for their Washington-state activities.\nPatriot Front is a white supremacist group that, according to its website and manifesto, believes America belongs exclusively to its white European settlers. The group is based in Texas and led by 19-year-old Thomas Ryan Rousseau.\nSpawned by the neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America, Patriot Front was formed in the wake of the 'Unite The Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on 11 and 12 August 2017.\nJames Fields Jr, who is accused of driving his car into a group of anti-fascist protesters at the rally and murdering Heather Heyer, was photographed marching only a few feet from Thomas Ryan Rousseau earlier that day. Rousseau claims Fields was not a Patriot Front member and had merely asked to march with them.\nPatriot Front has plastered its propaganda in Washington state three times this year. The first two incidents were in Gig Harbor, a coastal town about one mile from Tacoma. Each poster asks, \"Will your speech be hate speech?\" -- with the phrase 'hate speech' partially erased. One was pasted on a utility shed near the Tacoma Dome. The others are on utility poles in or around the downtown Tacoma area.\nThe posters feature Patriot Front's iconography, a stylized fasces similar to that used by Italian fascists under Mussolini. It is surrounded by thirteen stars and promotes their website, bloodandsoil.com. \"Blood and soil\" is a German Nazi slogan, popularized by Adolph Hitler, that sums up the goals of a white ethnostate: an aggressively militarized nation with a racially exclusive population.\n(Dispatches welcomes Ryley Knowles, a freelance journalist who lives in the Pacific Northwest, to our expanding roster of contributors.)\n(Editor's Note: when italicized and enclosed by quotation marks, the following texts are indicative passages taken directly from their hyperlinked URLs. Each passage is limited to less than 200 words in compliance with present U.S. copyright law.)\nMore on the JesuNazi Onslaught in the Pacific Northwest and Elsewhere\n\"...the Atomwaffen Division, a tiny paramilitary neo-Nazi group that has been linked to the suspects in at least five killings in the United States. It is among the most violent groups on the far-right...Researchers believe that some cells are based in Texas and Florida, (with)...others in Washington, near the Seattle area, and Richmond, Va. But details about the group are difficult to confirm.\" Comment: the unfettered existence of armed and openly murderous groups such as Atomwaffen -- too often protected by the U.S. authorities at all levels -- is precisely why all genuine Leftists should regard any weakening of the Second Amendment as a matter of life and death and therefore oppose \"gun control\" as a euphemism for forcible disarmament of the proletariat. Regardless of our particular ideologies -- Marxist, democratic socialist, anarchist, even reformist -- we are all equally in jeopardy of the JesuNazis adding our names to their kill lists. In which context note the lessons taught us by the Deacons for Defense.\n\"Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges. Filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) last week, the lawsuit against DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Karl Racine in the US Attorney's office seeks information about the relationship between the prosecutors and police and right-wing political groups.'The police here are really serving the political goals of these far-right organisations,' Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director and constitutional rights lawyer at PCJF, told Al Jazeera. 'We are seeing a pattern of this taking place around the country,' she said. 'While there have always been members of police departments who have acted out in abusive and racist behaviour against the civilian population, we're now seeing it at an institutional level.'\"\n\"(To build a) philosophical fascist system that was more appealing to Baby Boomers raised on New Left and post-colonial rhetoric...far-right philosophers...decided to reframe fascist values and ideas in the language of popular national liberation struggles...Organizations like Identity Evropa have already been doing this for almost two years, focusing primarily on college-age men...Operation Homeland will expand that pool, becoming another organization that will work as an independent organization and movement.\" Comment: the USian culture of \"manufactured illiteracy\" and violent anti-intellectuality has already guaranteed the fascists' success. The question now is how to resist a toxic infestation that's spreading like deadly nightshade in an abandoned garden.\n\"While men debated in legislative chambers and listened to challenges on the bench, women headed to school cafeterias, playgrounds and PTA meetings, doing the bulk of the behind-the-scenes work of supporting the politics of segregation. White women organized precinct gatherings to pressure their politicians to uphold Jim Crow laws. They transformed their homes into centers of bureaucratic efficiency \u2014 copying fliers, assigning neighborhoods for petition drives and scheduling protest shifts at elementary schools and bus garages. It was also women who shaped the way segregation, white supremacy and ideas about racial identity were knitted into the fabric of their communities.\" Comment: White women are nearly as hatefully racist as white males. For example, note that 53 percent of white women -- including 45 percent of white women with college degrees -- voted the JesuNazi Trump\/Pence Regime into the White House.\n\"Trump is worse than almost anyone imagined, and while his critics across the ideological spectrum have begun to go after him, they rarely focus on how dangerous he is, hesitant to argue that he is not only the enemy of democracy, but symptomatic of the powerful political, economic and cultural forces shaping the new US fascism.\"\nOn the Absolute Necessity of Revolutionary Leadership by Oppressed Minorities\n\"...the Combahee River Collective Statement...made a case for understanding how racism, sexism, class oppression, and homophobia are all connected:...'If black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression'...when it comes to electoral politics, even 'progressive' leaders too often leave out those whose lives fall at the intersections of discrimination, such as poor black women or undocumented LGBTQ youth. Under the Trump administration, these groups are meanwhile overtly targeted...White-dominated, ostensibly \"progressive\" feminism...continues to miss the mark on respecting and centering those women who arguably have the most to lose, such as women of color, transgender women and trans women of color in particular...We can see this disregard...in their voting patterns today, from the 57% of white women who voted for Trump...to the 63% of white women in the 2017 Alabama Senate special election who voted for Roy Moore...\" Comment: how many times must it be said we cannot make a successful revolution unless we follow the leadership of those who are the most oppressed and therefore have the most to gain by throwing off the shackles of patriarchy, racism and sexism implicit in Capitalism?\n\"Amid the #MeToo movement across the country, the formation of the Silence Breakers, first reported by Crosscut, and their public appearances this week have brought home the reckoning with how women are treated inside the City of Seattle. But the group's discussions have also gone beyond sexual harassment, folding in concerns about intimidation, toxicity and racial discrimination in the workplace.\" Comment: once again the Big Lie of \"progressive Seattle\" is laid bare by its victims of class warfare, misogyny and racism.\n\"I'm too weary from watching well-meaning souls on TV who talk earnestly about gun control without admitting what we all know in some dank corner of our souls: the prime source of mass murder in this world, whether it's in the tree-lined small towns of America or the hamlets of Viet Nam or the drone-blasted deserts of Yemen, is racism. Racism armed with napalm, racism kitted out with bump-stocks and huge magazines, racism poisoning the waters of Flint\u2014the pathogens float easily around the country and the globe, like windblown dandelion puffs. It's the only disease that is terminal for other people, not one's-self.\"\n...we live in a racist country that hasn't figured it out yet. And it's always important to bring attention to it, even if it angers some people.\" Comment: hear, hear!\nTrump\/Pence Genocide Scheme Now Criminalizes Humanitarianism\n\"Based on data, No More Deaths reports that water jugs were destroyed more than twice a week on average. In other words, border patrol are condemning people to death and punishing those who stand in the way of this homicide...Also in the file of punished good deeds: feeding the homeless. This too has been an ongoing attempt at government sanctioned slow homicide. Between 2013 and 2015 alone, 26 cities passed food-sharing bans...\" Comment: The USian Empire's methodology of post-deathcamp genocide goes far beyond deliberately murderous cuts in socioeconomic stipends and services and includes making humanitarianism itself a crime, especially when the humanitarianism's intended beneficiaries are targeted minorities.\n\"The (Trump\/Pence Regime's) changes at the Department of Health and Human Services represent 'rapid destruction of so much of the progress on LGBT health,' said Kellan Baker, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health who worked with HHS on LGBT issues for nearly a decade. It's only a matter of time before all the gains made under the Obama administration are reversed...Christian conservatives are noticing, and specifically praising, the reversals...\" Comment: JesuNazi theocracy marches on.\n\"Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The suit was filed on behalf of a same-sex couple who says they were denied the opportunity to serve as foster parents for refugee youth because, according to the lawsuit, they don't 'mirror the Holy Family'...Lambda's lawsuit claims that HHS\u2014a federal agency currently run by Republican donor and pharmaceutical exec Alex Azar\u2014is violating the Constitution by allowing USCCB to impose a religious test on applicants.\"\n\"Bad Bureaucracies Are Fraying the Social Safety Net.\" The headline tells the story. Comment: the author carefully omits any acknowledgement of the bad bureaucrats who deliberately design the bad bureaucracies to function as weapons of oppression. These include the real \"Welfare Queens\" -- the regally powerful, mostly white female welfare executives whose primary function is to justify -- often by the dictates of white bourgeois feminism -- the imposition of elaborate schemes for denial of stipends and services. Equally culpable are the legions of caseworkers who for various ideological reasons, typically religious fanaticism and\/or reactionary politics, consider themselves gatekeepers rather than aid-facilitators.\n\"...20 percent of US children live in families with incomes below 50 percent of the national median income. In the Nordic countries, the same number is 3.6 percent to 6.7 percent depending on the country...But that's not the only peculiar thing about America's income distribution for children...While the Nordic distribution looks like a bell curve with the overwhelming majority of kids clustered near the middle, the American distribution is a pyramid.\" Comment: The pyramid in question, with our overlords and their Ruling Class executives, professionals, bureaucrats, generals and politicians at the top and everyone else beneath their boot-heels at the bottom, is the classic portrait of Capitalist tyranny. It is also a classic portrait of \"trickle-down\" economics, with the One Percenters and their Ruling Class vassals congratulating themselves and smirking with malicious glee as they piss on all the rest of us and wantonly befoul our Motherland the Earth.\n\"'Shame': 12 Democrats Join With House GOP to Attack Americans With Disabilities Act.\" The headline tells the story. Comment: none of the 12 were from Washington state.\n\"A concrete analysis of the explosive contradictions of contemporary capitalist globalization demonstrates that...the paternalistic 'pro-immigrant' discourse of corporate liberals and the multicultural elite (does not challenge) the structures allowing for the exploitation and oppression of immigrants and migrant workers.\"\n\"Interviews with scores of state officials, legal-services advocates and labor specialists indicate that the failure to enforce minimum wages touches every corner of the country, but is especially acute in the six states that have no investigators probing wage violations at all.\"\n\"The Washington Post has long had a hostile attitude toward unions, which it expresses in both its opinion and news sections.\"\n\"Instead of urgent relief and uplift, most people in Obama's America were confronted with stagnating or worsening conditions at work, growing debts and a rising cost of living, alongside ongoing injustices such as police brutality and mass deportations. The groundswell of hope and optimism gave way to painful disillusionment and demoralization, which paved the way for the Trump disaster. But the road to Trump was long and winding, extending back over the reigns of two Bushes, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter--through a 40-year ruling class offensive to constrict the conditions of working class existence, which came to be known by the name of 'neoliberalism.'\" Comment: a broader perspective on how and why the Trump\/Pence Regime is fulfilling the inevitable transformation of U.S. Capitalism into JesuNazism, a metamorphosis that began with the Bankers' Plot of 1933-34.\n\"...on Thursday, the (Federal Communications Commission) will finally publish its rule to revoke network neutrality protections...the repeal will be published on the Federal Register, the official ledger of federal agency rules. It will become the rule of the land 60 days after publication, upon which time internet service providers will be able to block or throttle access to websites or charge websites a fee to reach users at faster speeds.\" Comment: the result will be economic and technological censorship that is intentionally devastating to minorities. Precisely as demonstrated by the fact polls show 83 percent public support for net neutrality -- this in contrast to the failed and therefore demonstrably delusional efforts to reverse this particularly odious manifestation of the Trump\/Pence Regime's malevolently JesuNazi tyranny -- the notion the U.S. is governed by \"democratic process\" is thus proven to be one of the most devastating Big Lies in Capitalism's arsenal of weaponized deceptions.\nWill the Capitalists Victimize Us with Another (Profit-Taking) Recession?\n\"Trump's multi-trillion dollar tax cuts for business, investors and the wealthiest 1 percent, plus his annual trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, plus his phony real estate industry handouts that parade as infrastructure spending together will lead the U.S. economy into recession, most likely in early 2019. Here's the scenario:\"\n'''Many analysts pointed to a seemingly unusual cause for the (stock market) turbulence: rising wages'...No, it's not an 'unusual' cause at all. When we start doing better\u2014when wages start going up\u2013Wall Streeters shit themselves. This is the norm. They only celebrate when we're fucked, when workers don't have the ability to demand better wages, better treatment, health care, coffee breaks and less handsy bosses. Stock markets around the world panic when the workers are strong.\"\n\"The events of the past two weeks, with the largest fall in markets since the crisis of 2008, raising the spectre of an even bigger disaster than that of a decade ago, have provided a damning exposure of (Capitalism's) entire ideological framework...The lie, which forms the basis of all bourgeois economics, that somehow the growth of capitalist economy can, at least in the long run, provide the road to advancement for the mass of humanity, the working class, the producers of all wealth, has been exposed. It has been laid bare by the fact that signs of economic growth and a growing movement of workers against the decline in living standards have raised the prospect of a new financial disaster, even more serious than that of a decade ago.\"\nThe Empire Revises Its Big Lies of War Mongering to Target Russia\n\"The indictments (of 13 Russian nationals) are primarily aimed at providing The New York Times, Washington Post, and major broadcast media outlets with fodder for their claim of massive Russian involvement in US politics...The campaign has been used to justify a regime of Internet censorship and condition the population for war against Russia...The American population does not need Vladimir Putin to undermine 'public confidence in democracy.' After all, as Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said after a visit to the United States last year, 'There is no other developed country where so many voters are disenfranchised \u2026 and where ordinary voters ultimately have so little impact on political outcomes.'\" Update: more details of the fraud, including how it duplicates the Big Lie that justified the neo-colonial conquest of Iraq, are here.\nRelevant Miscellany: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly and Sometimes the Inspiring\n\"Anti-choice protest tactics are on trial in New York amid a marked uptick in violence against abortion providers and clinics.\"\n\"Oxfam, a confederation of charitable organizations focused on alleviating global poverty, is reeling under reports that staff members in several parts of the world engaged in sexual misconduct, including using underage prostitutes. Allegations of a cover-up (have) worsened the situation.\" Comment: patriarchy in action, whether Abrahamic or otherwise, in which context remember that the artificial hierarchy imposed by male supremacy is the ideological grandfather of Capitalism.\n\"Khudoberdi Nurmatov, a journalist and LGBT activist who was detained by Russian authorities last year for violating migration laws, was granted (Russian) court permission to go to Germany after he faced deportation back to his native Uzbekistan...He originally migrated to Russia in order to escape imprisonment and persecution.\" Comment: Whether in the name of Uzbeki Islam or Russian Orthodoxy, Nurmatov is a victim of Abrahamic religion and its defining hatreds of women, LGBTQ people and non-believers. Kudos to modern-day Germany for giving him sanctuary.\n\"Thomas, as a crucial vote on the Supreme Court, holds incredible power over women's rights, workplace, reproductive, and otherwise. His worldview, with its consistent objectification of women, is the one that's shaping the contours of what's possible for women in America today, more than that of just about any man alive, save for his fellow justices. And given the evidence that's come out in the years since, it's also time to raise the possibility of impeachment...because of the lies he told, repeatedly and under oath, saying he had never talked to Hill about porn or to other women who worked with him about risqu\u00e9 subject matter.\" Comment: the impeachment of Justice Thomas could help save us from JesuNazism, especially in a post-Trump\/Pence environment.\nHistory Lesson: Colonial Massachusetts Was Ruled by a Christian Taliban\n\"There were many subgroups that certainly didn't enjoy life in early Colonial Massachusetts: religious dissidents, agnostics, free thinkers and, well, assertive women. We've all heard of the infamous Salem Witch Trials, but nearly four decades earlier the widow Ann Hibbins* was executed, hung for witchcraft, after having the audacity to complain that hired carpenters had overcharged her for a remodeling job on her house...All told, 344 citizens were accused of witchcraft in 17th-century Massachusetts...Here there was a direct connection between the Puritan religion and the cruelty seen in the Pequot War and King Philip's War. In the Pequot War, Massachusetts militiamen attacked a native fort at Mystic, Connecticut, and through fire and fury burned alive 400 to 700 Indians, mostly women and children. The survivors were sold as slaves...From the 'City on a Hill' it is but a short journey to Manifest Destiny and the conquest of a continent...\" Comment: and it's an equally short journey from the white supremacist rationale for continental conquest to the \"master race\" concept of \"American Exceptionalism\" that fuels the Empire's apocalyptic schemes of JesuNazi world conquest today. Once again, welcome to the Fourth Reich.\n*The text erroneously misspells the victim's name as \"Higgins,\" obviously -- given the proximity of 'b' and 'g' on the standard keyboard, a typographical error. Hence my correction.\nMore History, This Time as Archaeology\n\"Archeological finds show that Slavs have been living in Crimea for five millennia.\"\nA Challenge, Especially for Believers in the Big Lie of \"Democratic Process\"\nWhich of these two movements will achieve approved of its demands, and which will fail abysmally? The renewed push for so-called \"gun control\" (actually the newest manifestation of the fearful, 20th Century effort by the Capitalist Ruling Class to impose forcible civilian disarmament on a proletariat increasingly inclined toward socialist revolution)? Or the growing demand for \"Improved Medicare for All\" (actually the newest manifestation of a 70-year, life-and-death struggle between those of us who favor healthcare as a human right versus the deliberately genocidal Ruling Class policy of retaining healthcare as a privilege of wealth)? While present-day support for each movement is difficult to track -- polls show variations in wording of the relevant questions produce different, sometimes widely varying results -- available results (see here and here) suggest each movement is favored by approximately 60 percent of the electorate. But which -- if either -- movement will win? My guess is the advocates of forcible disarmament will win at least moderate victories, especially in the imposition of regulations that will further restrict firearms ownership amongst the regime's targeted minorities, while the advocates of healthcare as a human right will suffer yet another total defeat. Such is U.S. Capitalism as it metamorphoses into JesuNazism.\nLB\/21 February 2018\nPosted at 12:47 AM in Austerity as Genocide , Books, Current Affairs, Disabled People , Healthcare, Healthcare as a right not a privilege, History, Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Photography, Poor People, Religion, Science, Seniors , Visual art, Web\/Tech, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (1)\nDystopia Dominates, but There's Some Good News Too\nImperial Warmongering Continues; Cubans Thrive as Puerto Ricans Suffer\n\"The Trump administration's new National Defense Strategy is being touted as a sea change in U.S. foreign policy, a shift from the 'war on terrorism' to 'great power competition,' a line that would not be out of place in the years leading up to World War I...The problem with designating 'great powers' as your adversaries is that they might just take your word for it and respond accordingly.\"\n\"How absurd \u2014 remove an elected president with a military coup to restore democracy? Does that pass the straight face test? This refrain of Rubio and Tillerson seems to be the nonsensical public position of US policy. The US has been seeking regime change in Venezuela since Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998. Trump joined Presidents Obama and Bush before him in continuing efforts to change the government and put in place a US-friendly oligarch government.\"\n\"The arrival of 415 members of the U.S. Air Force in Panama has been described by social organizations and media outlets as a 'silent invasion'...a strategic move to carry out military action in Venezuela.\"\n\"...the Bush administration went to war with Afghanistan on October 7, 2001...Lacking a stated reason to be in Afghanistan, the US stayed. And the US is still there. And the US is complicit in the deaths of a million or more Afghans, and complicit in the forced exodus of more than five million Afghans, and complicit in the devastation of Afghanistan culturally, politically, militarily, and economically. Only US delusions survive more or less intact.\"\n\"Ignoring Calls for Peace Effort, Pence Refused to Engage With North Koreans at Olympic Games\": the headline tells the whole story as USian warmongering continues. Why? Because war is the Empire's most dependably profitable export.\n\"Cuba was hit by Hurricane Irma, a category 5 hurricane, on September 8, 2017. Two weeks weeks later, on September 20th, Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane. In Cuba, the electricity was restored to the entire island within a few weeks. In Puerto Rico, over four months after Maria nearly 40 percent of the island is still without power. The scandal-plagued response to the hurricane on the part of the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments exposes the operation of disaster capitalism at its worst.\"\nMore Genocide and Oppression; Workers Unionize; Antifa Mobilizes\n\"The White House...calls for $1.7 trillion in cuts to crucial safety net programs over the next decade -- including $237 billion in cuts to Medicare alone.\" Comment: cuts of this magnitude -- also a $300+ billion cut to Medicaid; a $213 billion cut to food stamps; a $21 billion cut to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF); and a $72 billion cut to disability programs -- are intended to facilitate mass murder without the controversy associated with death camps, which have become unfashionable. Yet few dare call it genocide.\n\"Life expectancy in the US has fallen for the second year in a row...educational performance weakened, social divides (including income inequality) widened, middle class incomes stagnated, and poverty rates exceeded those of most rich countries...\" Comment: again, few dare say it, but the declining life expectancy is obviously post-deathcamp genocide in action.\n\"If the Democrats were alarmed by Trump's obscene tax cuts, they and all their 2018 congressional candidates would be campaigning on a (sincere) promise to repeal them, not just a few parts of them. (They're longtime champions of corporate tax cuts, so they won't want to disturb them much if at all.) They would also be promising to repeal the obscene Bush tax cuts that Barack Obama and his Democratic congressional majority extended in 2010.\"\n\"Trump is only a symptom of the economic, political and ideological rot at the heart of casino capitalism, with its growing authoritarianism and social and political injustices that have been festering in the United States with great intensity since the late 1970s. It was at that point in US history when both political parties decided that matters of community, the public good, the general welfare and democracy itself were a threat to the fundamental beliefs of the financial elite and the institutions driving casino capitalism...(and thereby imposed) a climate of terror and repression that is the essence of fascism.\"\n\"The system would remain in place even if the Democratic Party attained a majority; and should that circumstance arise, the system will set tight limits to unwelcome changes, as if foreshadowed in the timidity of the current Democratic proposals for reform.\"\nHilton Stamford workers defeated the company's vicious anti-union campaign by voting 110 to 5 for the union. \"Beyond the life-changing victory for the workers and their families, the Stamford hotel workers used an organizing formula different from anything most unions use today, ferociously overcoming the challenges most unions face.\" Comment: Bypassing union bureaucracies and returning to the worker-to-worker organizing model of the 1930s, the Hilton Stamford workers achieved the allegedly impossible -- thereby providing a vital lesson for the entire 99 Percent.\n\"The centrality of self-defense can never be forgotten when we discuss 'aggressive' responses to fascism. Fascism is inherently aggression, inherently violence, inherently death.\"\n\"The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) counted over 100 people killed or injured by alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called 'alt-right'...the movement as it's known today can largely be traced back to 2012 and 2013 when two major events occurred: the killing of the black teenager Trayvon Martin and the so-called Gamergate controversy where female game developers and journalists were systematically threatened with rape and death.\"\n\"Staffers at Seattle's most prominent National Public Radio affiliate are getting a union. In a card check this week, KUOW reporters, producers, and other staffers overwhelmingly elected to join SAG-AFTRA, a union representing radio and TV journalists across the country...At the heart of their fight: making sure KUOW staff can afford to live in the increasingly expensive city they cover.\"\n\"Washington, DC, police and federal prosecutors have been collaborating with notorious right-wing groups known for fascist statements and using doctored videos to ambush their targets in an attempt to convict and jail protesters from President Trump's inauguration...There is a long history of police working with right-wing groups to subvert the organizing and speech rights of social justice groups.\n\"A statewide meeting of the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia (AFT-WV) and the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA) in Flatwoods on Sunday announced that county-by-county balloting showed overwhelming support throughout the state for a teachers' strike...West Virginia teachers, (are) now paid 48th lowest out of 50 states in the United States...\"\nBurlington, Vermont community members mustered with one day's notice on February 10 to break up a hatefest by the white supremacist group known as Patriot Front.\n\"A new anti-fascist website tracks the location and activities of people affiliated with Daily Stormer, one of the largest neo-Nazi websites in the United States. Launched on January 28, FashMaps is an activist-run initiative that seeks to inform local communities about the presence and gatherings of neo-Nazis in their area.\"\n\"When West Virginia House of Delegates candidate Lissa Lucas decided to take a stand against Big Oil's pernicious political influence last week by rattling off the names of state lawmakers receiving massive campaign donations from the fossil fuel industry, she was swiftly and forcefully silenced...forcibly removed from the hearing by security.\"\n\"Five people were arrested at a College Republicans rally on the University of Washington campus Saturday that attracted a large crowd of protesters..The UW student Republicans invited conservative group Patriot Prayer to speak at their 'Freedom Rally' in Red Square...They were joined by several members of the Proud Boys, a group that has been referred to as alt-right, as well as Patriot Prayer supporters and conservative students. Some of those attending the rally wore red caps with President Donald Trump's slogan 'Make America Great Again' on them.\" Comment: bad reporting -- or more likely censorship -- mostly concealed the political affiliations of those who were arrested. But perusal of a half-dozen news reports indicated the only people taken into custody were anti-fascists. Which is precisely what one would anticipate, given the clandestine cop-JesuNazi alliance).\n\"The White House...released a disappointing package of...transportation budget cuts, including once again advancing plans to gut Amtrak's long-distance services by cutting $757 million from the annual Amtrak grant.\"\nThe headline tells the story: \"Theater Died So Athletics Could Live at Washington State University.\" Comment: another example of how Capitalist academia collaborates in the making of Moron Nation.\n\"In 35 states, it's legal for cops to detain and have sex with someone in their custody. Is your state one of them?\" (See map: Washington state is not.)\nWhy Jackson, Mississippi May Not Be as Progressive as Claimed\nAlternet tells us \"Cooperation Jackson is one of the most important stories for those of us struggling for social justice, for human emancipation and self-determination, and for a solidarity economics as a base for working class political struggle and the fight against the systematic economic strangulation.\" But Black Agenda Report reveals that Jackson's mostly Black police force is nearly as murderous as its white racist forerunners: \"In the last few months Jackson's supposedly radical mayor has lifted residency requirements for city police officers, and remained silent on a wave of officer involved shootings.\" Comment: while the Alternet piece is typical of what one might expect from a white\/reformist website, the BAR essay includes a thought-provoking and therefore vital analysis of the causes of crime and the relation of USian cops to the imperial homeland's many oppressed peoples.\nActs of Love: from a Mother, for Creatures of Our Motherland the Earth\n\"Romy McCloskey's late mother said butterflies were a sign she would always be with her. Decades later, those words inspired McCloskey to perform a remarkable act\": successfully repairing the broken wing of a Monarch butterfly. Note: perhaps eerily, some Celtic myth regards butterflies as the souls of the dead.\nTelling Our Stories: Some Notes on Effective AgitProp Techniques\nTHE WEBSITE POPULAR RESISTANCE, one of our better sources of real news (and therefore relentlessly censored by the Google Gestapo), ran a piece on 12 February entitled \"Understanding How Media Protects the Status Quo.\" It cited several examples of deliberately distorted reporting, particularly in picture captions, but failed to focus as closely as it might have on a few simple but demonstrably effective tactics to prevent or at least minimize such distortions. Hence I posted the following response, here slightly edited and somewhat enlarged for clarity:\n(Note: readers will need to open the link to the original article, as my remarks refer to photographs therein.)\nSpeaking as an elderly media professional (55-plus years behind typewriter, keyboard and camera, a dozen significant editorial awards and commendations, picture credits including Paris Match and Newsweek) -- the points about clear messaging on protest banners and picket signs cannot be stressed too emphatically, particularly in a realm wherein the anti-intellectual, anti-historical, anti-political agenda of Capitalism and corporate-run schools has made near-illiteracy a tragic proletarian norm.\nEvery protest group should therefore include an editorial collective. Its primary purpose would be to make sure the protest's message is expressed with maxim impact -- without any misspelled or misused words -- and when necessary to provide individuals to serve as press contacts, thereby avoiding inflammatory remarks by agent provocateurs and misrepresentation by dunderheads. The collective would also document the demonstration itself, preferably with both video and still photography, thereby providing a record of events that could prove decisive in combating hostile propaganda.\nRule of thumb, banners and picket signs should be so succinct that when they are photographed, no explanatory caption is needed. In this context, note the second picture from the top in the \"Status Quo\" article: the \"No 2 SROS\" picket signs are utterly incomprehensible to anyone not intimately familiar with the protest, and perfectly exemplify the sorts of slogans that should be avoided at all costs.\nThis of course also requires photographers who can recognize and capture telling images, a task at which the photographers of the first three images in this report not only failed, but failed abysmally. Had those images been brought to me when I was a city editor and\/or a news and picture editor, I'd have dropped them in the garbage and rebuked their makers for wasting my time and their film.\nTurning again to the second (\"No 2 SROS\") photo, the photographer's ultimate error was failing to focus on the large yellow banner in the picture's lower left corner, the message on which, \"Get Cops Out Of Schools,\" could have told the whole story in one memorable image.\nRule of thumb, photographers should always strive to include the reportorial five Ws -- who, what, when, where, why (and sometimes how) -- in their images. I know this is not always possible, but I also know embracing it as a conscious purpose always leads to better pictures.\nBy contrast, the bottom two pictures in this report are at least adequate. The next to the last picture is actually quite good, though better framing would have made it more immediately obvious the protest was aimed at the bank. The last image is excellent protest portraiture but needs an explanatory caption to put it in context. Again, more thoughtful framing might have helped.\nThat said, the overall quality of USian photojournalism today is disgraceful. This is no doubt in large measure because corporate-censored academia, aware that real photojournalism is always at least implicitly anti-Capitalist, is suppressing the work of our greatest photojournalists -- e.g., Gene Smith, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Jacob Riis, et al. But if you're not exposed to the masters and their masterworks -- and I who taught photography in two colleges am astounded by the number of younger photographers who tell me they have been denied such access -- you'll never be able to achieve the requisite mastery yourself. And that inability -- not the photographer's fault but the result of an especially insidious form of censorship -- is precisely what serves our JesuNazi overlords.\nThe other factor in the present-day dearth of USian photo quality is the extent to which dependence on technology has replaced visual mindfulness. Just as fully automatic firearms discourage careful aiming, so do fully automatic cameras discourage mindful image selection and careful composition.\nLastly, as a veteran of the alternative press of the late 1960s and early-to-middle 1970s, I cannot but bristle at the name \"Unicorn Riot.\" It is the most damning example of self-discrediting I have yet encountered. It says -- indeed it shrieks -- \"don't take us seriously.\" But given the organization's overt connections to the anarchist movement (which serves the Ruling Class both as the Empire's most effective agent provocateurs and by reinforcing Capitalism's vicious anti-intellectualism), given too the organization's less obvious connections to the Democratic (sic) Party and its pseudo-Left mechanism of reinforcing Capitalism by co-optation and betrayal, perhaps the self-discrediting function of its name is part of Unicorn Riot's mission.\nLB (with contributions from TigerLille1)\/15 February 2018\nPosted at 11:02 PM in Austerity as Genocide , Books, Current Affairs, Disabled People , Film, History, Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Photography, Poor People, Religion, Science, Seniors , Visual art, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)\nDispatches Lives! Here by Permission Is the Full Text of Black Agenda Report's Thought Provoking Essay on Intersectionality\nFIRST, MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE TO the tech support women at Typepad, my blog server, for showing me how to bypass my dead word processing system and assemble, edit and write Dispatches directly on my website at dispatchesfromdystopia.net. Without such expert help -- especially that most recently provided by Anna D. -- I would remain but a lost child in the alien, glitch-haunted forests of Pancomputerdemonium. (The Nurdly consensus is I was not hacked; instead, attempting to run Open Office 4.1.1 in Windows 10, I was yet another of the innumerable victims in Microfuck's ongoing war against open-source software.) Hence this special, catch-up edition of Dispatches, including much of what was to have been 8 February's post but was lost in the WP demise.\nNOW LET'S GET TO WORK. As friends, Communist Labor Party comrades and even some kinfolk will attest, I have argued for many years we USian whites will never overthrow Capitalism until we not only join in heartfelt solidarity with our minority sisters and brothers but fully accept minority leadership and thereby take to heart the pivotal lessons, strategic and tactical, these seasoned veterans of extended class-struggle are uniquely qualified to teach us all.\nNor is my stance unique. In the personal sense it was shaped by my late father -- ironically a skilled teacher despite the psychological brutality and sadism that made him an abysmally unfit parent -- who fervently believed the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement would, in his words, \"force the United States to at long last live up to its democratic potential.\" (A few years later, I would for a time hold the same view of the Women's Liberation Movement, believing its original Marxism could save us from Capitalism's march toward fascism.) But my pivotal moment in this thinking was shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, when Canadian media laid bare a purported Committee for State Security (KGB) estimate of U.S. revolutionary potential in the late 1960s. It concluded that amongst most USian whites, the vast majority of whom were from comfortable bourgeois or petite bourgeois backgrounds, revolution was no more than a passing fad, while within the viciously oppressed African-American, Hispanic and First Nations communities, as well as within a tiny segment of the white Working Class, revolution was correctly viewed as a matter of survival. Hence while the KGB analysts evaluated the revolutionary potential of the Caucasian community as near absolute zero, it rated the revolutionary potential of the minority communities as quite high, though it simultaneously concluded these communities were of themselves too small to qualify for clandestine Soviet assistance.\n(Note I write of this KGB analysis from memory; the reportage in question, which appeared in print c. 1992-1993, as I recall in Maclean's Magazine, has either never been referenced on the Internet or has been disappeared down the Orwellian memory hole, though I suspect it could yet be confirmed by any researcher who had access to a major Canadian library.)\nIn any case, the implicit conclusion is obvious: either we whites learn to listen to our Black, Hispanic and First Nations sisters and brothers, or we remain slaves forever. After all, is not listening the first step toward building solidarity? Thus the following, the best (i.e., most thought-provoking) essay on intersectionality I have yet read, reprinted in full with permission from its author, Black Agenda Report Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon, to whom my most sincere thanks.\nLooking Down That Deep Hole: Parasitic Intersectionality and Toxic Afro-Pessimism, Part 2\nBy Bruce A. Dixon\nWHEN I TOOK A swipe at intersectionality last week, declaring that it was a hole, that afro-pessimism was a shovel and it was high time to stop digging, some friends and comrades were displeased. As far as they were concerned, questioning intersectionality amounted to a frontal attack on the place of women in the struggle against capital, patriarchy, white supremacy and empire, utterly inconsistent with my own politics and that of Black Agenda Report. I also threw some rocks at afro-pessimism, which I labeled the nappy headed step child of intersectionality, to the disappointment of its defenders, some of them friends and comrades too. Additionally neither group admits to understanding why I lumped them together, so I'm taking this opportunity to clarify both critiques and what joins them.\n\"The second intersectionality according to Smith, is rooted in post-structuralism which categorically rejects socialism and class analysis...\"\nIntersectionality is a termed coined by California law professor Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw in 1989 in her attempt to convince her fellow officers of the court to refine anti-discrimination law by incorporating the recognition of multiple overlapping oppressions into anti-discrimination law. While the term hasn't made much headway the last three decades in the arguments of lawyers or the decisions of judges, it's become a pervasive buzzword with multiple meanings in the realms of politics and the nonprofit industrial complex.\nNowadays, and perhaps from the start, as Sharon Smith explains in an indispensable August 2017 Socialist Worker article titled \"A Marxist Case for Intersectionality ,\" there are two separate, distinct and mutually incompatible intersectionalities. The first, she says is firmly in the camp of the real left, those who oppose and aim to overthrow capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy and empire \u2013 not two or three out of four but all four. This tradition, which puts intersectionality in the context of class analysis and class struggle goes back at least to Claudia Jones in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and the Cohambee River Collective in the 1970s, although neither of these ever heard or uttered the word \"intersectional.\" The second intersectionality according to Smith, is rooted in post-structuralism which categorically rejects socialism and class analysis, and downgrades the importance of class struggle at most to something coequal in importance with ageism, ableism and speciesism. With no anchor in class struggle, and emphasizing the oppressed experience of individuals and non-class groups this kind of intersectionalism acts to perpetuate the division of the US left and wannabe left into squabbling constituency groups vying for attention, funding and acknowledgement of whose cause is the most righteous. With neither the means nor the inclination to contend for power, this intersectionalist emphasis on individual experience and deeds has given rise to atrocities like callout culture .\nUnfortunately this second version of intersectionality is nearly hegemonic among self defined radicals and even liberals in the academy. Since it's vigorously promoted by sectors of corporate media and the funders of the nonprofit industrial complex , it's likely to remain so for the forseeable future. Worse still, since class conscious and class oriented formations neither dominate or even figure prominently in the US left, the class struggle intersectionalists are seriously handicapped at playing the game they say they want to play. Add to this the fact that some left feminists doggedly insist on using the same name for themselves as the anti-socialist, anti-class struggle intersectionalists who have a far broader reach and bigger microphones, and we have what can only be described as a hot mess.\n\"...the term intersectionality has become a kind of brood parasite. It mimics just enough of left feminist rhetoric to deceive the unwary...\"\nZoologists identify about a hundred species of birds they call brood parasites . A brood parasite lays its egg in the nest of a host species, and it counts on fooling the host mom into hatching, feeding and raising the hostile alien offspring. Evolution has engineered the parasite chick to out-eat, out-compete or simply butcher its nest mates. The parasite chicks often grow bigger than both parents put together while still being fed in the nest. In the context of the real left, the community of those aiming to overthrow capital, patriarchy, white supremacy and empire \u2013 not two or three out of four but all four, the term intersectionality has become a kind of brood parasite. It mimics just enough of left feminist rhetoric and branding to deceive the unwary and ensnare many bright, serious and sincere leftists into defending and promoting its fundamentally hostile project.\nMelissa Harris-Perry was lauded as a leading intersectionlist at the same time she aggressively defended the government's right to intercept and record every email, text message, phone call and electronic brain fart on the planet and store them for future inspection. DemocracyNow, which has given more air time to intersectionality than perhaps anybody, refused to cover the lynching and ethnic cleansing of black Libyans during Obama's 2012 war on that unhappy country even though they had a correspondent on the ground. To this day DemocracyNow dependably spouts US propaganda justifying Obama's and Trump's war on Syria. Angela Davis gets credit for being a leading proponent of intersectionality too, even though like hordes of other intersectionalists, she lost her mind over Barack Obama. All these people are examples of intersectionalists, with bigger audiences and far more visibility than left feminists are likely to achieve any time soon. When bona fide left feminists defend the word intersectionality and call themselves intersectional they confuse the lazy, the naive or unwary, they surrender their own credibility to the anti-socialist intersectionalists, and they provide protective cover to the eggs of these brood parasites. It doesn't have to work that way.\nIn the natural world brood parasites have been around for millions of years, long enough for hosts to evolve defenses against them. Birds defensively mark their eggs and their chicks to distinguish them from hostile parasites. Sometimes they stand watch to sound the alarm at the presence of intruders and strange eggs, and more. These are lessons left feminists might do well to emulate. You defeat a brood parasite not by adopting its name, but by making it easier, not harder to distinguish the parasite from the real thing. Real left feminists will never get as many professorships, grants, media outlets and TED Talks as the anti-socialist intersectionalists. They invented the term anyway, for their own reasons not yours. Get over it. The real left can't get intersectionality back and there was never a time when they had exclusive possession of it anyhow. Claudia Jones and the Cohambee comrades made themselves perfectly well understood without it.\nThere's no shortage of sharp, erudite left feminists who can if they want, come up with some new terminology that will allow ordinary people to distinguish between the anti-socialist intersectionalist project and authentic left feminism without a six paragraph discourse on postmoderism and post-structuralism. We cannot wait on natural selection to take care of this for us. At the risk of being that cis het guy who offers unsolicited advice to woman comrades, I respectfully suggest this is something that needs to happen real soon.\n\"Like the dominant version of intersectionality afro-pessimism is pretty explicitly anti-socialist and anti-class struggle...\"\nI said last week that afro pessimism was a stepchild of intersectionality. Like the dominant version of intersectionality, afro-pessimism is pretty explicitly anti-socialist and anti-class struggle. It's about centering (the woke intersectional word for putting something first and last and ignoring all else) the totality of anti-blackness, the permanent war against black bodies, black aspirations, black lives, black livelihoods and black dreams. Sounds a lot like Ta-Nehisi Coates. Like intersectionality, afro-pessimism is not a theory. Like intersectionality, it only describes and does not explain. Like the prevailing flavor of intersectionality, it enjoys considerable support in the academy and mimics enough \"woke\" rhetoric to deceive the unwary into imagining afro-pessimism is some new kind of emancipatory project, that it prescribes or informs solutions and strategies to tackle real world stuff, even though its foremost proponent Frank Wilderson says it does not.\nThe only instance where afro pessimism seems to have anything prescriptive to say about how struggle ought to be conducted in the real world is afro-pessisms's consistent disparagement of the possibility of achieving anything in coalition with anybody who ain't black. It's never worked before, the afro-pessimists say, trotting out a long historical list of times and places white \"allies\" turned tail and defected from the cause of their black compatriots. But since in just about every instance neither the fickle white allies nor the black formations in question were class-based, class oriented or led by the working class it's hard to see how things could have turned out differently. It's a problem the Green Party, which I'm part of, has to this day. If the state, the media and the so-called economy are contraptions a particular class uses to rule the rest of us, how do you contend for power when you don't have a class analysis, or even recognize the importance of class? Nobody can be a dependable ally, a steady rock on either side of an alliance contending for power without a class analysis and an understanding of how power is exercised.\nClearly, the afro-pessimist injunction against working with non-blacks is a prescription for impotence. People of African descent are 13% of the US population. Slavery didn't end until the political moment when a plurality of white people sided with blacks to end it. Reconstruction folded only when that plurality was shrunken, disarmed and shattered. Jim Crow also ended at the political moment that a plurality of whites took the same side as blacks to kill it. But afro-pessimists, even the ones who talk about reparations, rule coalitions off the table period exclamation point. How they plan to achieve that without cultivating and working with non-black political partners is anybody's guess. But I misspoke-- Afro-pessimists do not plan. They engage, they propose, they put on a show making the point that nobody is or ever was as oppressed as they are, all in the same self-involved spirit of post structuralist intersectionality. Their shtick isn't even unique; there's a queer pessimist discourse that sounds a lot like Frank Wilderson or Ta-Nehisi Coates on whatever drug is the opposite of speed.\nTellingly there was no queer pessimism in the early 1980s, when gay men (and even greater numbers of straight black women) were dying like flies from then untreatable HIV-AIDS. People were too busy fighting for their lives then, just as our own ancestors in the 1950s, the 40s, and prior decades had no time for anything like afro-pessimism when Africans in America could be lynched with impunity and Jim Crow was an everyday reality. Queer pessimism only emerged after drug therapies enabled people to live decades with HIV-AIDS. Similarly afro-pessimism only surfaced after enough black faces got comfy spots in the academy.\nA few years ago a young comrade in school somewhere told me his professor was insisting that Europeans colonized Africa and maybe the Americas too not because they wanted land, slaves, gold and empire, but because they feared and\/or envied the sexual potency of all those outa control black bodies. After I stopped laughing, I assured my young friend this was errant nonsense and I didn't think about it any more. Now I know this is part of a concept Jared Sexton and Frank Wilderson and other afro-pessimist academics call, presumably with straight faces, \"libidinal economy .\"\nTa Nehisi Coates has fashioned a lucrative and prestigious career out of that stuff, although I doubt he would call himself an afro-pessimist. Nice work if you can get it. I really believe the afro-pessimist shtick is about one-upping Coates. It's working well for him, maybe it will work for them too.\n(Bruce A. Dixon can be reached via email at bruce.dixon(at)georgiagreenparty.org., also via Twitter @brucedixon.)\n\"(An) intra-Korean deal could open a new path to negotiations between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs and a final settlement of the Korean War\u2014if Donald Trump is willing to take such an off-ramp from the crisis. But it's not just Kim Jong Un who has taken the diplomatic initiative to open such a path out of the crisis. Moon Jae-in has been working to advance such a compromise since he was inaugurated as South Korean president last May.\" (Significantly, any reportage on the Moon proposal...has thus far been suppressed by the war-mongering U.S. mainstream media propaganda apparatus.)\nAnother example of U.S. law enforcement helping JesuNazis and other white supremacist groups target anti-fascist activists and anti-Trump\/Pence Regime protesters.\nSeventy-three Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 36 Democratic Senators joined with Republicans...to pass a two-year spending bill that does nothing to protect immigrant communities and throws undocumented 'Dreamers' under the bus.\" NOTE: Amongst these Democrats, who by their votes have abandoned all pretense of being anything other than fascists, white-supremacist imperialists (and therefore JesuNazi sympathizers), are Washington state's Senator Patty Murry and Rep. Denny Heck.\n\"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a notice outlining extraordinary plans by the social media company to monitor all the postings and messages of its users, censor independent journalism, and use artificial intelligence (AI) to report users to the police and intelligence agencies.\"\n\"From its earliest establishment in America, capitalism has been guilty of enriching its private fortunes out of the most savage robbery of the Negro people and the most ruthless exploitation of the labor power of Negro working people, both during the era of chattel slavery, and throughout the span of the century since emancipation.\"\n\"The most cynically brilliant outcome of the 'blame Russia' campaign has been to neuter left activism by focusing the attack on Donald Trump rather than the interests he represents. As evidence, the proportion of Goldman Sachs alumni in Mr. Trump's administration approximates that in Mr. Obama's and what was expected for Mrs. Clinton's. If the problem is Donald Trump, then the solution is 'not Trump.' However, if the problem is that the rich substantially control American political outcomes, how would electing 'not Trump' bring about resolution?\"\n\"What were more than 7,000 'doughboys' (U.S. soldiers) doing in Siberia at the end of the First World War?\"\n\"The political crisis in South Africa derives from the failure of Zuma and the leadership of the ANC to actually oust white monopoly capital from the commanding heights of the economy, after nearly a quarter century in nominal power. Instead, they have fatted a new class of Black bourgeoisie, most of them ANC-connected, as junior partners with the white monopolists through the government's Black Economic Empowerment policies.\"\n\"Elizabeth's New Life Center is part of 'a collaborative effort within the state of Ohio to provide abstinence education to students through in-school programming,' according to the organization's website. It is the regional coordinator for the 'Ohio Adolescent Health Centers' collaborative program and had received four years of funding from the Ohio Department of Health in 2011. A Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion case study on the collaborative notes that it uses 'sexual risk avoidance strategies' and is paid for 'with federal funding provided through the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant (aka Title V).' Comment: JesuNazi theocracy marches on.\nRecovered from the hitherto-lost text of 8 February 2018:\n\"These days, Trump mocks Schumer as \"Cryin' Chuck\" on Twitter and Schumer paints Trump as an unreasonable negotiator who \"won't take yes for an answer.\" But the two have had a close working relationship over years that belies whatever harsh words they exchange today. One example: Schumer has received more donations from Trump across his career than any other sitting member of Congress.\"\n\"A quiet coup d'\u00e9tat has taken place in Connecticut. The legislature has effectively turned over control of the state to Wall Street.\"\n\"...white people who are more prejudiced toward black people are also significantly more opposed to welfare.\"\n\"In the U.S. the absolute majority of the working masses, deprived of elementary rights to survival, are hovering in the abyss of nightmare.\"\n\"Which is more frightening? The destruction of the environment and the climate that sustain human civilization as we have known it? Or the collapse of democracy and the rise of endless war and fascism?\"\n\"(The Trump\/Pence Regime) has announced that as of January 31 it will stop distributing food and water to residents of Puerto Rico...Politically, the short shrift Trump has given Puerto Rico in the face of the ruinous intensity of Hurricane Maria only adds to the evidence of his bigotry. This will... help him with the white nationalists he has clasped close to his chest.\"\n\"When Puerto Rico's governor Ricardo Rossell\u00f3 announced last week his plan to privatize the nation's largest electric utility, he justified the move as a remedy to the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe being inflicted upon the population... (the utility) was deliberately run into the ground, starved of resources, and allowed to mire in corruption. Meanwhile American capital, abstaining from investment in the productive forces of Puerto Rico, instead offered indebtedness, fully conscious that this would lead toward default and set the stage for the looting of public property.\"\n\"Consumed with a Coke versus Pepsi ideological battle, framed within an uncontested arena of historicized nationalism, most Americans, and the political parties to which they owe allegiance, are magnificently unprepared to grapple with their nation's irrelevance in defending them from the unfolding realities of our geo-historical moment; even less, to comprehend the apparent acts of war being waged by non-human forces \u2013 forces with which we must now find an accommodation.\"\n\"What Trump and his GOP backers want is ethnic cleansing.\"\n\"This new narrative of FBI integrity and neutrality is predicated on the assumption that most of the public has forgotten or is unaware of the notorious history of the FBI and its founder, J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover was a racist anti-Semite and fascist sympathizer. He shared his obsessive anti-communism and anti-Semitism with Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's Gestapo chief, who Hoover corresponded with personally and kept on the FBI's mailing list right up until the eve of the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939.\"\n\"Tobacco changed the entire dynamic of colonization and control in North America. Finally, there was money to be made. The Englishmen shipped the newest vice eastward and pulled a handsome profit in return. Our beloved forefathers were early drug dealers...soon 'blackness' became inseparably associated with slavery and the lowest of social classes.\"\n\"It's unclear exactly how many kids in the U.S. are malnourished, but there's some disturbing evidence: A quarter of toddlers don't receive enough iron, 1 in 5 children are obese, 1 in 6 households with children are food-insecure, and over half of infants participate in the federal Women, Infants, and Children program for supplemental nutrition.\"\n\"An outspoken neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier is set to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat.\"\n\"Nearly one in three disabled undergraduate women experiences sexual violence.\"\n\"The Trump administration approved Indiana's request requiring some Medicaid recipients to work to get benefits on Friday, meaning thousands of people in the state could soon be without health insurance...Indiana is the second state whose Medicaid changes have been approved, following Kentucky in January. A handful of other states have also sought federal permission to amend their Medicaid programs, from adding work rules to mandating drug tests.\" Comment: Obviously, an example of the Capitalist\/JesuNazi post-deathcamp methodology of genocide.\n\"Republican Congressman Invited a Holocaust Denier to Be His Guest at the State of the Union Address.\" Comment: the headline tells the whole story: like the proverbial birds of a feather, Nazis flock together.\n\"In 2016, 45 million people did not fill their prescriptions because of cost, half of them are becoming even sicker because they do not have access to medication. Please sign this petition in support of common sense policies to lower drug prices in America and expand access to lower cost medication from pharmacies in other countries.\" NOTE: I am not so foolish as to believe the Capitalists and their JesuNazi puppets can be swayed by petition, but I nevertheless post this item because the prohibitive cost of prescription drugs is another perfect example of the post-deathcamp methods of genocide employed our overlords.\nIN MEMORIAM: a statue of Hungarian-born U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the U.S. Congress, was unveiled Thursday in Budapest as those attending praised the man known for his advocacy of democracy and human rights around the world.\nLB (with help from TigerLille1)\/ 8-10 February 2018.\nPosted at 10:46 PM in Austerity as Genocide , Current Affairs, Disabled People , History, Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Poor People, Religion, Science, Seniors , Visual art, Web\/Tech, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (1)\nEven After a Year of Nightmares Come True, It Seems None Dare Admit the Ultimate Horror of the Trump\/Pence Regime: That Its Seizure of Our Species' Most Malevolently Apocalyptic Empire Is Tantamount to Nazi Conquest of the Entire World\nFACE IT, PEOPLE: the Empire's global thermonuclear omnipotence and its better-dead-than-Red moral imbecility means that 72 years after the presumably victorious end of World War II, the Nazis have in fact conquered our entire planet.\nAnd until we acknowledge this as-yet unspeakable fact, our efforts to build an effective resistance movement will forever be undone by our craven refusal to confront the admittedly horrific truth of our circumstances.\nThe pivotal question of our time \u2013 by far the most potentially apocalyptic of all human eras \u2013 is whether we will remain lost in our present fog of self-deluding euphemisms and\/or inescapably trapped by our Big Lies of outright denial and thus in either case paralyzed by the deliberately suppressed, none-dare-say-it-aloud JesuNazi reality of the Trump\/Pence Regime and the viciously white-supremacist, fanatically Christian tyranny by which it has already captured 24 of the 50 U.S. state governments.\nWe should never allow ourselves to be deceived by the fact China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria and a few other nations continue to courageously defy the USian global Fourth Reich. Here again the awful truth is that all these allegedly independent nations combined possess nothing approaching the thermonuclear might of the United States and its imperial subject-nations in Europe and the Middle East. Nor have Russia, China et al developed effective countermeasures to neutralize the JesuNazi fanaticism we know will prompt the Donald or his successors to nuke Earth to a bug planet were defeat ever to threaten the One Empire Under God.\nIn which context Hitler's final remarks are especially revealing.\nThe combination of the death of the Soviet Union and Wall Street's permanent nullification of the People's Republic of China means there is \u2013 at least at present \u2013 literally no effective antidote to the JesuNazi takeover of the USian empire and its resultant global conquest. It is a process that illustrates perfectly how Capitalism inevitably metamorphoses into fascism. It was begun in 1934 by the never-prosecuted, too-rich-to-jail Bankers' Plot conspirators. It resumed in post-war 1945 when the closet fascists in the federal government and their more outspokenly fascist overlords in Big Business granted sanctuary to legions of German Nazi war criminals. And after 11 years of political murders* set the U.S. on an irreversibly pro-fascist course, the process was finalized by the Democratic (sic) Party's clandestine (but now obvious) efforts to ensure the Trump\/Pence victory. The result was the ultimate and probably permanent triumph of JesuNazism, the uniquely Christian, theocratic, white-supremacist form of fascism that now defines the United States and its global empire.\nIn other words, the Trump\/Pence Regime is anything but an anomaly. It is in fact the logical outcome of an 83-year effort by at least three consecutive generations of our One Percent overlords, first their failed effort to make the United States the dominant partner in what became the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, next their overwhelmingly successful effort to make the USian Empire what it is today, the global Fourth Reich.\nWhich brings me to a point on which there is enormous disagreement within the real (i.e., Marxist) Left: whether the support of a foreign power is one of the essential prerequisites of successful revolution. Arguing from the evidence provided by history, I maintain there are four such prerequisites: ideological solidarity and discipline; charismatic leadership; technological mastery; and foreign support (as by Bourbon France in the U.S. Revolution; as by the German Empire in the Russian Revolutions of 1917; as by the Soviet Union in the North Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and Cuban revolutions; as by Cuba in the ongoing Venezuelan and Mexican revolutions.) Others disagree, often vehemently, arguing for example that the French Revolution of 1789 and the present-day Venezuelan and Mexican revolutions illustrate the potential of success even without significant foreign support.\nInterestingly enough, a recent poll shows 58 percent of the Russian citizenry favors restoration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.\nWhile I have long recognized and applauded the revolutionary potential of U.S. minority communities, I have no illusions about my fellow USian whites, the vast majority of whom are too malevolently self-centered, racist, sexist, cowardly and\/or ignorant to dependably participate in even the mildest forms of protest. Hence I fear that without another Russian Revolution \u2013 that is, without re-creation of the U.S.S.R., the old Comintern and most of all the Red Army \u2013 there is no hope, now or ever, of escaping the JesuNazi tyranny of what thanks to USian total surveillance and drone strikes is in fact becoming Concentration Camp Earth.\nAnd even with Soviet renewal, our only hope would lie in the genuinely miraculous prospect a re-radicalized Soviet military might somehow avert the thermonuclear, better-dead-than-Red apocalypse by which the Empire intends to murder the entire planet if USian hegemony is ever seriously threatened.\nYes that is how bad it is \u2013 infinitely worse, infinitely more hopeless, than anything in previous human history. And given the maliciously paralytic legacies of identity politics \u2013 especially the obnoxiously shallow socioeconomic irrelevancies force-fed to audiences in today's Moron Nation as \"sexy\" (i.e., \"revolutionary\") art \u2013 I frankly doubt our species, or for that matter the habitability of our planet, will survive.\nAs I said via Reader Supported News, \"what we are witnessing in the Trump\/Pence Regime is (A)-the end, forever, of the United States as we knew it; (B)-in all probability the end, forever, of Mother Earth as we knew her and (C)-at the very least, the final victory of Nazism over Homo sapiens sapiens and therefore the end of whatever might have remained of our species' potential benevolence. And no, there is not one scintilla of rational hopefulness remaining to us \u2013 not as long as our moral imbecile president is allowed to keep his Christian End Times finger on the thermonuclear and\/or environmental apocalypse buttons. We have reached that point in our nationhood wherein we literally have nothing left to lose save our own lives...\"\n*Lest we forget: President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1963); Malcolm X (1964); Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., (1968); Presidential Candidate and Sen. Robert Francis Kennedy (1968); Fred Hampton and Mark Clark (1969); Allison B. Krause, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, William Knox Schroeder and Sandra Lee Scheuer (Kent State University, 1970); Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green (Jackson State College, 1970); and Karen Silkwood (1974).\nIs USian JesuNazism \u2013 at Least as Malevolent as German Nazi Anti-Semitism \u2013 to Be the Ultimate Form of Moron Nation Governance?\nDESPITE MY EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCES as a civil rights activist (1963-1964); despite my invariably unpleasant and occasionally violent encounters with racism as a \"race traitor\" who dared have public love affairs with Black women in 1966, 1970 and 1979; and despite the examples of white Christian bigotry I repeatedly witnessed as a near-lifelong member of the working press, I doubt I recognized the true magnitude of USian race hatred until a Pew Poll revealed that fully 77 percent of the Caucasian citizenry refused to acknowledge the murderous racism expressed by the Bush Regime's genocidal abandonment of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.\nI was, like most native-born USians, reflexively loathe \u2013 even in the face of decades of utterly damning evidence \u2013 to admit the now obviously irremediable influence of white supremacy on Moron Nation's ever-more-definitive politics of moral imbecility.\nBut subsequent disclosures, as here and here, have since convinced me the USian JesuNazi white majority is even more murderously bigoted than its German Nazi forebears. Never mind that death camps have become unfashionable; the same deadly purpose is fulfilled \u2013 with far less potential for public outrage \u2013 by the USian policy of deliberately genocidal cuts in health care, reproductive medicine, affordable housing, unemployment compensation, food stamps and all other social services.\nThe 85-year, multi-generational persistence of such efforts proves that white racism, like German Nazi antisemitism, cannot be unlearned; it can only be outlawed, severely punished and (perhaps) thereby eventually exterminated.\nObviously the same is true of the theocratic Christian fanaticism that provides the \"Jesu\" element in JesuNazism.\nThus what we face here in the Trump\/Pence Homeland is a unique combination of class war, race war and religious war \u2013 a one-two-three punch that is obviously history's final answer to Benjamin Franklin's famous challenge to all future USian generations: \"a republic, if you can keep it,\" which clearly we could not, most likely not only to our own national demise but to the doom of our species and our planet as well.\nUrgent: Olympia Democrats Consider Granting Imperial Military Commanders Absolute Authority Over State's Land-Use Policies\nTHANKS TO TRUTHOUT for scooping the world on the Washington State legislature's House Bill 2341, a hitherto-unreported Democratic (sic) Party stealth dictatorship measure that would grant military commanders absolute, unchallengeable authority over land use anywhere in the state including on all private property.\nCritics of HB2341 note it \"blatantly violates several of the most basic, well understood, and important provisions of the Washington and United States Constitutions.\"\nThus it (again) reveals the Democrats' role as co-conspirators in the imposition of unabashed JesuNazi tyranny on the USian Homeland.\nSponsored by Federal Way Representative Kristine Reeves (D-30th) and endorsed by Democratic (sic) Governor Jay Inslee, the outrageously oppressive measure is almost certain to become law.\nAmongst the unlimited powers it would give local military commanders is the right to arbitrarily prohibit marijuana farming anywhere in Washington state even were it otherwise legal under state and federal law.\nWhich surely makes me wonder: is HB2341 yet another example of the back-room collaboration between Democrats and Republicans to ensure the permanence of JesuNazi governance?\nPersonal Note: On the Perverse Blessings of Temporary Disability\nAS MOST READERS KNOW, a momentary lapse into astonishing (and astonishingly painful) stupidity on the evening of 7 January left me home-bound with badly torn hip ligaments, a massively bruised pelvis and buttocks-to-ankle hematoma.\nWhile these injuries are healing a bit more quickly than anticipated, the seemingly lesser afflictions of presumably healed congestive heart failure leg-ulcers torn open by the fall have become so disabling, I remain not only a prisoner in my own dwelling but an indescribably thankful recipient of regular in-home wound care.\nWhile most of this genuinely caring care is generously provided by Communist Labor Party comrades and a few neighbors to all of whom I am endlessly grateful, some of it is of necessity provided by medical professionals. This latter mode of treatment has left me owing Kaiser-Permanente a non-negotiable debt that already tops $170 and will therefore in all probability eventually bankrupt me.\n(Last year K-P bought out Group Health Cooperative, which had been my Washington state health insurer since 1972.)\nThough I have (of course) applied to K-P for financial aid, the genocidal realities of Neoliberal Capitalism \u2013 in which health care is permanently defined as a privilege of wealth rather than as a human right \u2013 means that despite my sub-poverty Social Security pension, my aid request will most likely be denied.\nThat said, the immobility and relative isolation forced on me by these now stubbornly weepy leg ulcers has given me a genuine bonus of contemplative hours out of which I have formulated my realistically pessimistic estimate of our nation's, species' and planet's future.\nWhile it is true that as I near my 78th birthday, I have forever abandoned any and all rational hope of ever again witnessing any genuinely revolutionary or even reformist progress here inside the ever-more-tyrannical Fourth Reich, it is also true I yet refuse to be defined by victimization and trauma, which means I remain as committed as ever to making whatever small contributions I might yet make to the process of revolution.\nHence by 1 February I hope to have Dispatches back on its weekly schedule.\nAs Jean Paul Sartre discovered for himself during the French Resistance, to continue the struggle even when it seems hopeless can become an ultimate act of personal liberation.\nLB\/25 January 2018.\nPosted at 10:46 AM in Austerity as Genocide , Books, Current Affairs, Disabled People , Film, History, Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Music, Poor People, Religion, Science, Seniors , Visual art, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (1)\nCongress Joins U.S. War on First Amendment Freedoms\nSen. Grassley Blames Russians for Agitating Black Rebelliousness\nAnti-abortion fanatic shrieks biblical invective at a Planned Parenthood patient in Tacoma.\n(Photograph by Loren Bliss \u00a9 2017)\n(Note: the following story has undoubtedly received some [probably misleading] coverage by the Mainstream Media propaganda apparatus, but the linked reports below, mostly from World Socialist Web Site, cleave through the disinformation to give us a much more complete picture of what actually obtains as the Empire mentally goose-steps ever more rapidly toward unabashed JesuNazism. Also: as of today I am again changing Dispatches' publication schedule, this necessitated by changes in the schedules of some of my other obligations. Henceforth new material will be posted every Wednesday evening or very early Thursday morning. My apology for any inconvenience so imposed.\/LB)\nCLAIMING \"CIVIL WAR,\" the capitalist owners of the imperial USian government and their political puppets in Congress have launched a bipartisan assault on our few remaining First Amendment freedoms.\nAn earlier WSWS story, relevant for its slightly different focus, is here.\nSignificantly, this sudden, dramatic escalation of efforts at censorship and suppression of anti-Capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-theocratic activism is jointly led by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democratic (sic) Sen. Diane Feinstein.\nThe Trump\/Pence Regime itself has already unleashed its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) secret police against African-American activists and has long encouraged supporters to attack its opponents in a variety of other ways. Combined with the decision by pro-regime social-media and Internet monopolists to suppress allegedly subversive websites and journalists, these developments lend credibility both to fears the regime intends to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law to facilitate mass arrests and\/or that it is preparing to start World War III.\nThese fears are intensified by the fact the regime's newest tyrannies were actually begun in 2016 by Democrats who were then the regime's (alleged) opponents but are now its obvious allies.\nRemember it was Democratic (sic) Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton who advocated thermonuclear war against Russia and China, while Republican Donald Trump promised he would seek world peace while launching what amounts to a latter-day pogrom against minorities and immigrants, thereby confining the empire's savagery to the homeland.\nThe de facto pogrom began as soon as the regime took office, with skyrocketing immigration arrests and presidential encouragement of police brutality.\nNow the collaboration of the two parties on domestic-oppression measures suggests the proverbial fix \u2013 in this instance some sort of secret, tyranny-enhancing agreement between the two Capitalist parties \u2013 was probably in place long before the Trump\/Pence inauguration last January. Proof we are all, as never before (unless we were combat-zone soldiers), in dire and potentially deadly jeopardy. (See also \"God's Own Death Squad,\" below.)\nTrump\/Pence Warmongers Ban South Korean Peace Activists, canceling their visas as the Empire's massive military build-up continues. Look at a map of the region to see how its geography mandates that a thermonuclear attack on North Korea will, because of radiation and fallout, unavoidably be an attack on Russia and China as well. Hence World War III. Hence the apocalypse we all dread and the JesuNazis all welcome. Hence the reduction of our beloved Earth to a bug planet. Hence kiss your ass good-bye. Hence The End. (Because of the personalities involved, this confrontation is infinitely more terrifying than the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which I was 22 years old, married to my first wife and just back from nearly two years Regular Army service in Korea. In fact our troop transport, the USNS Sultan, was shadowed by a Soviet sub from the time we left Pearl Harbor until we entered San Francisco Bay maybe five days later. It was September and the missile crisis was still secret; when the sub surfaced 600 yards or so off our port side to charge her batteries, which she did two or three times, the Soviet sailors always waved at us and we U.S. soldiers always waved back, though in retrospect I have no doubt the sub's orders were to sink us \u2013 nearly 4,000 soldiers \u2013 the instant war began.) (These personal details are based entirely on memory as all my journals from that era \u2013 all my Korea photographs too \u2013 were destroyed in the 1983 fire.)\nNurses' Union Denounces Trump\/Pence Abandonment of Puerto Rico, says the regime is knowingly leaving hurricane victims to die. A related story is here.\nJesuNazi Death Threats Bar Congresswoman from Congress. Never in my 77-plus years have I heard of anything like this happening in the USian Homeland. In banana republics, yes of course, but never here in the United States. More proof the brazen, regime-encouraged malevolence of our enemies is truly beyond description. (Again see \"God's Own Death Squad,\" below.)\nContrasting Police Responses as Drivers Use Motor Vehicles as Anti-Personnel Weapons: Muslim man in Manhattan legitimately arrested as terrorist, white man in California coddled by cops. For more on the California incident, go here.\nConflict in Catalonia: two situation reports from Spain, here and here.\nGenocide in Burma: the killing of Rohingya people continues despite the Empire's pro forma (i.e., meaningless) protests.\nTrump Posed to Appoint Four Theocracy-Minded Judges who will undoubtedly do everything in their (considerable) power to advance the JesuNazi agenda. Another warning as to how truly awful our circumstances are. (See also \"God's Own Death Squad,\" below.)\nIf Money Co-Opts, Does Big Money Co-Opt Completely? See here and here. I thought long and hard before I posted these two stories because of their potential divisiveness. Finally I concluded the fact they each publicly raise the all-important co-optation issue gives them must-post newsworthiness. Such is the sometimes-troubling duty of an editor. Nevertheless I apologize to anyone who is offended by my decision.\nOn Mothering a Black Son in a Realm Where Blacks Are Targets. A testament of a Black woman's maternal courage, its prose written with such compellingly poetic skill it made me cry. May we all have such loving mothers, as I most certainly did not. (Yes, some of my tears were undoubtedly tears of envy.)\nThe Struggle in the South: a situation report from Middle Tennessee.\nImprisoned Immigrant Teen Finally Wins Her Abortion. This story did get a little Mainstream Media coverage, but Dispatches has followed it closely, so I'm posting it here in case you didn't see or hear the outcome.\nViciously Deceptive \"Clinic\" Lures Unwary Abortion-Seekers to Relentless Abuse: the magnitude of the JesuNazis' newest lies equals the magnitude of their misogynistic hatred. (See photo above.)\nHurricane Recovery by LGBTQ People in the JesuNazi Theocracy of Texas: how art and solidarity heals, a useful lesson for every one of us regardless of how we define ourselves.\nA Realistic Retrospective on the 2016 Election: The advent of the Trump\/Pence Regime has most likely sealed our doom \u2013 my opinion, not the linked author's \u2013 but as he says, had Hillary been elected we'd probably already be nothing more than radioactive dust, so at least we're getting more time in which to taste the exquisiteness of life. (Yeah, even for me, an arthritic cripple for whom pain has become as much a part of consciousness as breathing.)\nPeace Activist Cindy Sheehan, Now Studying Lenin, damns the Democrats' blame-Russia warmongering, notes how the party has become a Capitalist tool for betrayal of the 99 Percent.\nSoviet Sub Captain Honored for Defying Launch Order, thereby averting World War III. Would an USian officer dare do likewise? I think not. Nor would the Empire's soldiers dare disobey an order to massacre unarmed USian civilians. All available evidence indicates that we USians \u2013 contrary to the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 (who shot their officers rather than fire on unarmed demonstrators) \u2013 live in a realm peopled mostly by obedient Adolf Eichmanns.\nTwo Interesting Reports on the Kennedy Assassination Papers, here and here, the latter revealing undeniable but long-suppressed proof the president was targeted by at least two shooters.\nOn the Relevance of the Soviet Revolution: \"Taking state power is a serious enterprise: it requires a workers' army to defend the country from national and international capitalists.\"\nKnowing Our Enemy: More on the USian Empire as God's Own Death Squad\nWHY DOES MAINSTREAM MEDIA refuse to acknowledge the Trump\/Pence Regime's wildly accelerating conversion of the white-supremacist U.S. empire into a militantly doomsday-minded thermonuclear Christian theocracy?\nWhy do we the people continue to deny that our imperial overlords truly believe their sadistic god commands them to conquer the entire planet and subjugate its peoples at least as violently as their forebears massacred the First Nations of North America and vaporized the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?\nThe answers to both these questions become obvious once the questions themselves are viewed in their proper sociopolitical and historical contexts.\nJeff Sharlet exposed the theocratic agenda of the U.S. Ruling Class nearly a decade ago in The Family: the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper: 2008). As many Dispatches readers already know, it is a properly frightening revelation of how a generously-financed Christian conspiracy that began in the 1934 is succeeding \u2013 not just with the Republican Party's enthusiastic sponsorship but with the clandestine assistance of the Democratic (sic) Party as well \u2013 in imposing Christian theocracy on the United States.\n(We should ask: is it coincidence this corporate-funded ChristoFascist effort began in 1934, the same year the Bankers' Plot failed to make the U.S. a partner in what was to become the Rome\/Berlin\/Tokyo Axis?) (See also here.)\nThough Sharlet's pivotal work on the Empire's theocratic core was published nearly a decade ago, subsequent events have since elevated it and two earlier but closely related works to the stature of superbly well-reasoned prophetic analysis. One is Chris Hedges' American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press: 2006). The other \u2013 the best of the three for historical documentation \u2013 is Kevin Phillips' American Theocracy: the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (Viking: 2006).\nThe Christian fanaticism Sharlet, Hedges and Phillips decry \u2013 which began its boiled-frog climb to technologically enabled Trump\/Pence omnipotence long before the politicians of both Capitalist parties formalized the thrust toward theocracy by adding the phrase \"under God\" to the Pledge of Allegiance \u2013 has triumphed not only by obliterating the few remnants of USian liberty but by threatening human survival in a manner unprecedented in our species' 300,000-year history.\nWhat makes the threat so deadly dangerous is the thoroughly documented JesuNazi belief, as expressed by George the Second and later by a Trumpist pastor, that self-inflicted apocalypse \u2013 whether by thermonuclear warfare, Capitalist ecocide or both \u2013 is the essential precursor to Jesus's return to Earth.\nAnd the danger is far more immediate than many of us dare admit. It is intensified to near infinity by our Mainstream Media's concealment of just how unspeakably jeopardized life itself has become under Capitalism's (always biblical) agenda and how the Trump\/Pence Regime has escalated this jeopardy to almost certain fulfillment by declaring its genocidal, ecocidal, ultimately apocalyptic agenda to now be the summum bonum of the Empire's foreign and domestic policy, which our theocratic overlords and their JesuNazi followers believe is divinely ordained.\nNor is there any rational hope the Democratic (sic) Party might birth any significant rethinking of these policies. As Sharlet points out in The Family, \"The difference between the two parties, economically, theologically, is one of degrees, not principles.\" (p. 384-385)\nHedges, as if he were anticipating Sharlet's work, had already noted the mindset that would propel the Trump\/Pence Regime into terminally apocalyptic power: \"And the congregation gathering today in this church waits for the final welcome relief of the purgative of violence, the vast cleansing that will lift them into the heavens, and leave the world they despise, the one they ruined or that was ruined for them, to be racked by plagues and flood and fire until it, and all those they blame for the debacle of their lives, are consumed and destroyed by God.\" (American Fascists, p. 183).\nWhile the people Hedges describes in this passage are mostly members of the Working Class, the same intensity of hatefulness, albeit without the goading of financial desperation, defines the white-supremacist executives and professionals who were by far the largest faction of Trump\/Pence voters.\nPhillips adds a bit of the historical perspective that makes his work especially valuable: \"The essential political preconditions (for theocracy) fell into place in the late 1980s and 1990s with the emergence of the Republican party as a powerful vehicle for religiosity and church influence, while state Republican parties, most conspicuously in the South and Southwest...set out in varying degrees the radical political theology of the Christian Reconstruction movement, the tenets of which range from using the Bible as a basis for domestic law to emphasizing religious schools and women's subordination to men.\" (American Theocracy, pgs. 232-233)\n\"The Christian Reconstructionist movement...proclaims ambitions that range from replacing public schools with religious education to imposing biblical law and limiting the franchise to male Christians...Most Americans, having never heard of Christian Reconstructionism, likely assume it has only fringe status. The groups that monitor such activists \u2013 Theocracy Watch...the First Amendment Foundation...Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and others \u2013 take the movement more seriously...\" (ibid., p. 243)\nMeanwhile a Center for Inquiry report notes the federal government loses \"over $71 billion per year\" in religious tax exemptions, much of which underwrites pro-theocracy proselytizing. Susan Jacoby, one of the many sources cited by the report, puts it thusly: the question is why \"church authorities adhering to a deeply conservative brand of Christianity . . . get to use taxpayer money to further their parochial agenda.\"\nThe answer to Jacoby's question is also the answer to the question that opened our know-the-enemy discussion. The government that grants the tax exemptions to finance the theocratic onslaught and the Mainstream Media that refuses to report the magnitude of the theocratic threat (or even acknowledge its existence) are owned by the same cabal of One Percenters.\nWhich further confirms the formerly unthinkable truth collectively revealed by Phillips, Hedges and Sharlet \u2013 that the USian Empire was clandestinely a sword-of-the-Lord theocracy when Trump and Pence took control. Their job, no doubt scripted years ago by the sons and grandsons of the original Bankers' Plot conspirators, is to do exactly what they have been doing since Inauguration Day: that is, releasing the theocracy from its proverbial closet and ascertaining we the people of the 99 Percent are either its captives or its corpses.\nIn other words, whether as individuals or a species we are well and truly FUBAR. As to why so many of us remain in such self-destructively stubborn denial of that fact, I suspect it is mostly a manifestation of the classically USian imbecility of hope \u2013 the same self-protective \"ideological bubble\" of all-will-be-well fantasy that fostered the extended refusal to recognize Obama the Orator was in fact Barack the Betrayer.\nPlus if we accept the unmitigated horror of our circumstances \u2013 that we are already targets in a holy war \u2013 we will each have to modify our thinking accordingly, never again forgetting we are opposed not only by the theocratic state but by the lynch-mob fanaticism of its civilian and paramilitary allies.\nThus like Red Army soldiers in the earliest months of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, our circumstances are bound to radically worsen before there is even the smallest chance of compelling their improvement.\nIf You're in or Near London, There's an Amedeo Modigliani Retrospective \u2013 dates to be announced \u2013 planned by the Tate Modern, which is essentially the British equivalent of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Meanwhile thanks to an organization called Artsy, the mission of which is to make the viewing of great art readily available to all the peoples of the world, here's a collection of Modigliani's work. Here too, from the visual treat cupboard of Artsy's online magazine, is an interesting study of how and why women and men differ in their approaches to shooting selfies. Indulge. Enjoy. Relish. As the LGBTQ community of Houston discovered (see \"Hurricane Recovery,\" above), art is healing even when one is menaced by the jackboots of the JesuNazis, as indeed \u2013 given the Empire's ever-more-apocalyptic global reach \u2013 all genuine humans now are.\nLB, with contributions from TigerLille\/ 24 October-1 November 2017.\nPosted at 01:08 AM in Austerity as Genocide , Books, Current Affairs, Disabled People , History, Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Photography, Poor People, Religion, Science, Seniors , Visual art, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)\nSuppression of Sexuality Is JesuNazis' Ultimate Purpose\nAnd Far Too Many of Us Underestimate Their Fanaticism and Power\nA CLASH OF SIGNS AND SLOGANS: Tacoma Clinic Defense versus screaming JesuNazis. The JesuNazis admit their real purpose is to re-criminalize sexuality, and they often damn TCD members as \"abominations in the eyes of the lord.\" (Photograph by Loren Bliss \u00a9 2017)\nTHE WORST PARENTAL BEATINGS I ever received as a child \u2013 a succession of three savage assaults that left me so bruised I was not allowed to attend school until the blemishes had faded to near-invisibility \u2013 were punishment for having dared study comparative anatomy with other neighborhood children. I was seven years old. My father administered the beatings as my stepmother cheered him on. The fact he was a presumably enlightened Marxist made no difference at all in the depth to which he had absorbed the sadistic anti-sexual hatefulness that is undoubtedly the darkest, most malevolent aspect of the patriarchal psychosis that defines USian consciousness \u2013 the festering Abrahamic malevolence now again gleefully resurrected and writ into law and decree by the Trump\/Pence Regime, maliciously applauded by every JesuNazi voter and undoubtedly endorsed, often secretly, by an overwhelmingly vast majority of other USians as well.\nIronically I was never more than a peripheral participant in the comparative-anatomy studies for which I was so brutally punished. Pants-down research was vaguely uncomfortable for me because we \u2013 a group of kids ages six to eight, three boys, three girls \u2013 conducted our classes in the black-widow, scorpion and poisonous-centipede infested spaces under houses raised two feet off the sandy ground in accordance with wartime 1940s Floridian construction standards. After our activities were discovered \u2013 perhaps another story for another time \u2013 I was repeatedly beaten until I falsely confessed I had been the chief instigator of such sexual studiousness as had obtained in the Lake Forest neighborhood of Jacksonville c. 1945-1947. My father beat me first with a one-inch hickory dowel, which he broke over my legs. Then he whipped me with a garrison belt. Finally, after he beat me with a steel ruler, I stopped telling the truth and gave him and my stepmother, an allegedly lapsed Southern Baptist, the I'm-an-evil-pervert confession they demanded, thereby confirming my parents' implicitly hateful Loren-is-a-monster fantasy. Thus were the punitively miserable conditions of my life determined until, as an 18-year-old University of Tennessee student, I was hired through the UT employment office as a motel night clerk. That job and my entry into newspaper journalism two years earlier were the greatest blessings of my teenage life. Journalism gave me a permanent sense of purpose, while the motel rescued me from the prison of my father's household and got me a dwelling that was truly my own.\nI remember I was not surprised by the beatings. While at age seven I was certainly not sophisticated enough to recognize the wounds inflicted by the fanatical anti-sex hatefulness that defines Abrahamic religion cannot ever be healed \u2013 that wisdom was granted me by a (very) brief affair with the rebellious daughter of a Church of God preacher late in my 23rd year \u2013 I was nevertheless bright enough to recognize the total rejection expressed by my father's judicially overruled attempt to abandon me in a Virginia state orphanage after my violently schizophrenic mother attempted to murder us both. This was in 1945, eerily enough on the Summer Solstice Eve. My father's reasoning was of course that given my genetically defective mother, I too was genetically defective, and from that moment onward \u2013 despite our father-son closeness in prior years \u2013 I was literally a despised child, or as I came to think of myself after a beloved English Setter was euthanized for protecting me from a stepmotherly assault,\"a dog nobody wanted.\"\nSuch trauma \u2013 as a result of which much of my teenage sexuality was edged with reflexive fear \u2013 cannot ever be overcome, though the exquisite joy of sex had purged it from my conscious mind and presumably neutralized (most of) its crippling influence well before my 21st birthday. But the anti-sex torment the Trump\/Pence Regime is sadistically inflicting on an imprisoned 17-year-old in Texas, the young woman known to the courts and the mostly porno-minded public as \"J.D.,\" somehow brought all that 1947 horror back into infuriatingly vivid recollection, including the fact that for at least a decade after 1947 my internal dialogues always labeled those horrific events as having taken place \"last spring,\" thereby acknowledging, if only to myself (and never to even one of the half-dozen shrinks in whose offices I sought redemption c. 1962-1989), that some part of me had died in the spring of 1947, some part of me for which that spring was literally my \"last spring\" ever.\nAll of which is preface to my 21 October post on a Reader Supported News comment thread \u2013 a post that, not surprisingly given its unapologetic anti-Capitalist, anti-patriarchy, anti-Christian, implicitly anti-Judaic and anti-Muslim anger, was withheld for nearly three days. Obviously this was in service to some site-censor's Abrahamic conviction that by posting it so absurdly late no one would read it \u2013 a lack of readership which at 0237 hrs 25 October 2017 is proven by the absence of response. (Note too how the censor \u2013 or censors \u2013 offer the belated posting, including a falsified date\/time signature, in an effort to hide RSN's censorship: a maliciously sneaky Big Lie the calculated deviousness of which is tellingly reminiscent of the pro-Hillary disinformation the site knowingly propagated during the 2016 presidential election campaign \u2013 the potency of such deception effectively patented by the post-Kennedy Democratic [sic] Party and brought to perfection by Barack the Betrayer in the ultimate Big Lie of \"change we can believe in.\")\nHere then is the text the RSN censor \u2013 or censors \u2013 found objectionable enough to delay:\nThe Trump\/Pence Regime's methodical victimization of J.D. is far more than just another of the innumerable for-profit atrocities that define USian policy at home and abroad.\nIts viciousness tells us how white Christian theocratic governance bodes unending horror for any of us who dare reject the Abrahamic doctrine of the Heavenly F\u00fchrer, the deity said to celebrate our species' deadliest genocides as obedience \"under god,\" the divine sadist of whom Hitler was merely (another) earthly personification.\nBut here we also find the ultimate significance of the physical and psychological torture the Trump\/Pence Regime is so gleefully inflicting on a hapless teenage girl. The regime has literally weaponized the content of J.D.'s womb, turning it into a cancer that threatens to destroy this young woman's entire life.\nThus we are again confronted by the bottomless malevolence of the JesuNazi agenda and its apostolic regime. Indeed \u2013 recognizing the indescribable magnitude of racial, sexual and theological hatefulness implicit in this atrocity \u2013 I find it increasingly difficult to doubt the fanatical Trump\/Pence Christians are already plotting the mass arrest of anyone denounced as a heretic, atheist or agnostic.\nMeanwhile may we all empathize with J.D., and may our empathy then mature into action.\nWriting to RSN's 1500-character limit, I cut two paragraphs from my original draft:\nToo bad Moron Nation continues to view the Trump\/Pence triumph as just another GOPorker victory \u2013 when it is the (probably irremediable) triumph of white Christian theocracy as the official ideology of the United States \u2013 in no small measure because of the Democratic (sic) Party's countenance and collaboration.\nMore to the point, the government-under-god's persecution of J.D. is exactly the sort of atrocity that prompts me, a 77-year-old cripple \u2013 my afflictions including advanced congestive heart failure and painfully debilitating osteoarthritis \u2013 to regularly participate in Tacoma's relatively small but disciplined, determined and therefore reasonably effective abortion-clinic defense. Physical wreck that I am, the presence of my camera and my obviously disabled geriatric self nevertheless seemingly helps deter the woman-haters' notorious penchant for violence.\nWhich also explains why I regard the continuing reports on J.D.'s plight as ultimate revelations of the truly indescribable viciousness that has now \u2013 with the white majority's enthusiastic endorsement of the Trump\/Pence Regime and its theocratic Christian tyranny \u2013 become the sole (and soul) defining characteristic of the Imperial United States. I therefore give you Rewire's unflinchingly truthful portraits of the anti-sex hatefulness at the core of \"our democracy\" and \"one nation under god,\" here, here and here. I urge you to read each of these reports, carefully, contemplatively and particularly with regard to their broader implications. There is also this from TruthDig, a far more thoughtful analysis of the viciously misogynistic Trump\/Pence Regime atrocity I reported here a week ago.\nNo widely recognized writer dares say it, but I cannot doubt such frenzied antagonism toward human sexuality is at the core of the homicidal psychosis that fuels the Empire's accelerating rush toward apocalypse \u2013 the final death-dealing assertion of Abrahamic patriarchy's infinitely murderous hatred of women, femaleness, Mother Earth and ultimately life itself. Wilhelm Reich was methodically ruined by the USian authorities in retaliation for expressing a similar notion. Since then, albeit cunningly camouflaged by the grievously limited but pornographically magnified realm of the so-called \"sexual revolution,\" the defining USian hatred of sexuality has grown so relentlessly suicidal it is no longer just \"better dead than Red\"; it is now \"better slayed than laid\" or some maximally misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic equivalent thereof.\nBut most of us are too much in craven denial to acknowledge that those who claim to speak with the voice of their god when they damn sexually active women, LGBTQ people and abortion-clinic defenders as \"abominations\" are the apostles of a credo so deadly dark it will soon destroy the entire world with exactly the same brutally casual sadism that in 1956 condemned Reich to die in prison and burned his books and now 61 years later is just as methodically using the 17-year-old J.D.'s pregnancy to destroy her. While the entire situation is rationally terrifying, its most terrifying aspect is its implicit prognosis: that the indescribable toxicity of Abrahamic religion \u2013 the limitless hatefulness which psychologically murders a young girl \u2013 is but a microcosm of the selfsame inconceivable venomousness that \u2013 I am now absolutely certain \u2013 will exterminate our species, reduce our world to a bug planet and do it with exactly the same glee expressed by its torture of J.D., its de facto murder of Reich and the annihilation of nearly all his work.\nLest we forget, femaleness is the source of life; therefore \u2013 to slightly rephrase what I said above \u2013 to despise femaleness is to despise life itself. Thus the Abrahamic god is most assuredly not a god of love; he is instead revealed as the god of pure unadulterated hatred \u2013 the one and only genuine Biblical truth whether in the Old Testament, the New Testament or the Qur'an. Moreover this god's hatred is so vastly bottomless no human can possibly measure it or even adequately approach it by analogy save perhaps by pointing out that if the weapons of war as waged by patriarchy are in fact substitutes for the invasive penis \u2013 note the patriarchal psycholinguistics of shouting \"fuck you\" or \"up your ass\" as the symbolic rape of one's enemy \u2013 then surely a maximum-megaton thermonuclear blast is the ultimate patriarchal orgasm.\nSexual assault is thus obviously the interpersonal equivalent of the Empire's genocidal efforts at home (as in the murderous abandonment of Puerto Rico) and abroad (as in 201,013 dead Iraqi civilians or the anticipated \"total destruction\" of 25 million women, children and men if the Empire carries out its thermonuclear threat against North Korea). Sexual assault is the USian microcosm; wars of conquest are the macrocosm. The psychodynamics of conquest \u2013 the hostile invasion of one human's body or the hostile invasion of the homeland of 25 million humans \u2013 are identical in either case. Again, such is patriarchy, whether as invasive, sneeringly boastful \"we came, we saw, he died\" imperialism or the equally sneering, equally boastful \"grab-em-by-the-pussy\" misogyny so obviously relished by President Trump or the more clandestine misogyny routinely inflicted by Harvey Weinstein, James Toback and countless other obscenely wealthy, maliciously powerful and violently patriarchal authority figures. All of which proves not just David Rosen's point \u2013 that male sexual violence is \"as American as cherry pie\" \u2013 but that misogynistic violence is the defining characteristic of the vast majority of USian interpersonal relations and therefore defines the Empire itself. The intensity of this violence has become so normalized there is even a purely psychological version of it in the shaping of popular culture.\nSuch is the hegemony the women's movement correctly labeled \"rape culture.\" In other words this particular strain of misogyny is the interpersonal version of the imperialist impulse expressed by the Mai Lai massacre. Nor is it any coincidence we are the source of about 75 percent of the planet's serial killers. For supportive evidence see the story I originally planned as a separate post headlined \"Patriarchy is the Plutocracy of the Penis,\" here, plus related stories here and here.\nWhich somehow underscores the significance of the fact an international poll of women adjudges Moscow to be the planet's safest city.\nThis Week's News Should Be Titled \"Drowning in Dystopia\"\n(Its presentation is foreshortened because there are so many items and I have so little time.)\nThe Empire Prepares to Put Its Nuclear Bombers on 24-Hour Alert for the first time since 1991.\nWorld Champion Killer Cops, 782 (and Counting), a vitally informative Chris Hedges lamentation.\nIs the U.S. Becoming a Military Dictatorship? A World Socialist Web Site analysis says it is.\nConfusion and Chaos as Mind Control, the psychological tactics for keeping us all on the Hamster wheel in the rat maze of Capitalism.\nWhy We're Well and Truly Fucked: \"...we've become a nation suffering from full on psychosis...\"\nHow Loss of Ideological Analysis Destroyed the Left, a potentially terminal wound inflicted by the collapse of the Soviet Union.\nDemocratic (sic) Party Raking in the Bucks, significant here as an index to its success at co-opting (and thereby betraying) the nation's Leftward surge.\nDon't Ever Imagine the JesuNazis Are Stupid; this scheme demonstrates their grasp of Machiavellian tactics.\nLGBTQ Folks Arming, Training for Self Defense; Upstate New York group inspires nationwide action.\nAuthorities Did Not Warn California Fire Victims and survivors demand to know why.\nSpain Goes Full Fascist on Catalonia, will occupy it with troops as if it were conquered territory.\nEstimated Death Toll in Puerto Rico Hits 450, but the imperial authorities say it's only 48.\nUSian Life Expectancy Drops, another indication of the genocidal consequences of Capitalism.\nIn One State Alone, 840,000 Children Will Be Victimized by the Democratic (sic) and Republican refusal to renew CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program.\nKiller Hepatitis-A Epidemic Sweeping California, homeless people at greatest risk.\nTrumpcare for Veterans Will Fatten Medical Profiteers but no doubt destroy the quality of care.\nGoogle Escalates Its Censorship, thereby implicitly declaring its support for the Trump\/Pence Regime and its JesuNazi agenda.\nIs the Imperial War Machine Fucking with the Weather? Here's an anthology of authorative evidence.\nNext Time Someone Touts Bernie Sanders, refer them to this mini-biography by Paul Street.\nDid Trump Save Professional Football? The culmination of the resultant brouhaha \"not only soothed fears that a disrupted season lay in the NFL's future, but gave those fans tacit permission to keep on enjoying the games without being too disturbed about brain trauma on the field, collusion in the front office, or demands for racial justice.\"\nThe Hidden Class-War Element in the Las Vegas Massacre. Schoolmate says shooter was an angry, embittered, rebellious teen.\nBut Here's a Feel-Good Episode in Our Hidden History:\nHow Russia Saved the United States in 1863: the little-known, oft-suppressed story of how Tsar Alexander II's support for the federal union saved it from British and French invasion.\nLB w\/several contributions from Tigerlille, 17-24 October 2017\nPosted at 04:30 AM in Austerity as Genocide , Current Affairs, Disabled People , History, Memoirs, Minorities, Misogyny, Photography, Poor People, Religion, Science, Seniors , Visual art, Web\/Tech, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LBC\/IRN\nAbout the Genres\nSearch LBC\/IRN for\n'\"Arab states\"' in Keywords\nNew Search (LBC\/IRN)\nSearch for: in All fields Title Description Contributors Keywords Tape barcode Clip ID\nAND OR NOT in All fields Title Description Contributors Keywords Tape barcode Clip ID\nDate range Year: 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 to 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 \u00ab Reset date\nGenre: -- Any Genre -- Advertisement Biography Book review Competition Consumer advice Debate Discussion Documentary Drama Election Broadcast Election coverage Feature Fiction Film review Interview Jingle Music News bulletin News report Non-fiction Obituary Parliamentary debate Party political broadcast Phone-in Poetry Press conference Public information Serial Special Speech Talk show Technical Trailer Tribute Vox pop About genres \u00bb\nSort by: Date (oldest first) Date (newest first) Title Relevance\n1-10 of 159 results | Page 1 of 16\n\u2039 Prev12345Next \u203a\nSort results by Date (oldest first) Date (newest first) Title Relevance\nBen-Gurion on occupied territories (1974)\nInterview with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion on giving up territories won by Israel during the 1967 war and possibilities for peace. Interviewer not identified. Sound is in mono.\nLBC IRN Radio Online Audio\nKissinger on Middle East (1975)\nUS Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Middle East peace efforts\nWaldheim on Middle East (1975)\nKurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations on prospects for peace in the Middle East.\nEgyptian President Sadat on peace process (1975)\nPresident Anwar Sadat of Egypt talking about the prospects for peace in the Middle East.\nIsraeli \/ Arab peace proposals (1975)\nIsraeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin gives an address stating Israel are ready for peace talks with the Arabs. An agreement must be signed and face to face meetings between the Egyptians and the Israelis...\nPeople in politics (1975)\nDiscussion; Interview\nPeople in Politics show. Yitzhak Rabin talking to Ian Gardiner in Israel reflects on his task as Prime Minister when Israel is facing a testing time following the Yom Kippur war and also on his political...\nAriel Sharon on his new party (1977)\nBrian Hayes interviews General Ariel Sharon about the formation of his new political party in Israel and explains the framework of Israeli party politics.\nBritish Leyland slush fund (1977)\nInterview; News report\nAnthony Cadman(?), businessman, speaks about trade practices in Middle Eastern countries that include accepting additional payments or handouts for contracts, whether this is bribery, and how it would not be...\nArab-Africa Summit (1977)\nReport on the Arab-Africa Summit in Cairo. Includes summaries of statements by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt; Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius; William Eteki Mboumoua, Secretary General of...\nAnwar Sadat speech to Knesset, the Israeli Parliament (1977)\nSpecial; Speech\nA live translation of the speech made by President Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, during his trip to Israel, addressing the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, on 20\/11\/77. This was the first time an Arab...\nYou are currently searching in LBC\/IRN. Search all the BUFVC's collections for '\"Arab states\"' in All fields.\nRadio: 159 Remove\nAudio: 159 Remove","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fri, 08 January 2021 at 9:48 pm\nSee Why Alex Trebek's Goodbye from 'Jeopardy' Was Even More Heartbreaking Than We Expected\nAlex Trebek's final episode of Jeopardy aired tonight and the final moments of the half-hour were even more heartbreaking than we expected.\nThe longtime host filmed his final episode of the quiz show just 10 days before his death and he clearly expected to be back at work to do more episodes.\n\"Thank you ladies and gentlemen for spending the time with us. We'll see you again next week,\" Alex said in the clip.\nRight after the send-off, the show cut to a farewell tribute for Alex that featured clips of him from his 37 seasons with the show. The montage ended with a title card that said, \"Dedicated to Alex Trebek. Forever in our hearts. Always our inspiration.\"\nClick inside to watch the video now\u2026\nIt's heartbreaking to know that Alex was ready to film more episodes of the show before he passed away.\nThe show will indeed return next week with former champion Ken Jennings as the guest host. A second guest host has already been announced.\nPosted to: Alex Trebek, Jeopardy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to Listen to Syracuse Orange Games on Radio & Streaming Online (NCAA FB Radio)\nWhere can I hear Syracuse University Orange football games streaming online or on the radio?\nby Doug K. Updated November 28, 2018\nSyracuse Orange Fan Shop\nYou can listen to Syracuse Orange football games on the radio or streaming online. The Syracuse Orange football games can be heard in Syracuse at WTKW 99.5 FM. The Orangemen can also be heard on the radio at a number of NY radio stations (see full Orange radio network stations below).\nListen to Syracuse Orange Games on Mobile Device\nAndroid: To listen to Syracuse Orange games on your Android phone, Android tablet and Kindle Fire, you'll want to download the TuneIn Radio app for Android. The TuneIn radio app allows you to stream live radio station feeds right to your device so you can listen to tons of college football games on your phone.\nApple: To listen to Syracuse Orangemen games on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad you'll want to download the TuneIn radio app.\nHere's where you can listen to Syracuse Orange college football games on the radio:\nSyracuse Orange Radio Network\nCity Call Letters Frequency Lacrosse\nSyracuse WTKW-FM 99.5 X\nSyracuse WTLA-AM 1200\nSyracuse WTLA-FM 97.7\nAlbany WGY-AM 810\nAlbany WGY-FM 103.1\nAlbany WOFX-AM 980\nAuburn WAUB-AM\/WAUB-FM 1590\/98.1\nBinghamton WEBO-AM 133\nBinghamton WEBO-FM 107.9\nBranchport WFLR-FM 96.9\nBuffalo WWKB-AM 1520\nBurlington, VT WVMT-AM 620\nCanandaigua WCGR-AM 1550\nCanandaigua WCGR-FM 104.5\nCorning WENI-AM 1450\nCortland WXHC-FM 101.5\nElmira WENY-AM 1230\nGeneva WGVA-AM 1240\nGeneva WGVA-FM 96.1\nIthaca WPIE-AM 1160\nMassena WYBG-AM 1050\nMelrose Park WAUB-FM 98.1\nNew York City WNYM-AM 970\nNewark WACK-AM 1420\nOswego WTKV-FM 105.5\nRochester WHAM-AM 1180\nRochester WHTK-AM 1280\nRochester WHTK-FM 107.3\nUtica WOUR-FM 96.9\nWatertown WNER-AM 1410 X\nWatertown WTNY-AM 790\nMORE: football, college football, syracuse orange, syracuse orange football\nHow to Listen to Notre Dame Fighting Irish Radio & Stream Football Games Online (NCAA FB Radio)\nNotre Dame Fighting Irish Notre Dame Fan Shop You can listen to live Notre Dame Fighting Irish football games on the radio or streaming online. The Notre Dame Blue and Gold football games can be streamed online for free at WSBT Radio 960-AM or Sunny 101.5... more \u00bb\nHow to Listen to Michigan State Spartans Radio & Stream Football Games Live Online (NCAA FB Radi\nMichigan State Spartans Michigan State Spartans Fan Shop You can listen to live Michigan State Spartans football games on the radio or streaming online. The MSU Spartans football games can be streamed online for free at WJR 760-AM. Follow all the Spartan... more \u00bb\nHow to Listen to Syracuse Orange Basketball Games on Radio Network (NCAAB Radio)\nHere's where you can listen to Syracuse Orange basketball games on the radio. more \u00bb\nHow to Listen Alabama Crimson Tide Radio - Stream Football Games Live Online (NCAA FB Radio)\nAlabama Crimson Tide Alabama Crimson Tide Fan Shop The Crimson Tide Sports Network broadcasts every play of Alabama football games and can be heard across the entire state of Alabama and throughout the south. The Crimson Tide Sports Network, includes more... more \u00bb\nHow to Listen to Oregon Ducks Radio & Stream Football Games Live Online (NCAA FB Radio)\nOregon Ducks Football Oregon Ducks Fan Shop You can listen to live Oregon Ducks college football games on the radio locally in Eugene on the Ducks flagship stations 590 AM KUGN, KUJZ 95.3 FM or in Portland on KFXX 1080 AM. The Oregon Ducks football games... more \u00bb\nHow to Listen to Ohio State Buckeyes Radio & Stream Football Games Live Online (NCAA FB Radio)\nOhio State Buckeyes Ohio State Buckeyes Fan Shop You can listen to live Ohio State Buckeyes games on the radio at the Buckeyes flagship radio stations WBNS 97.1 The Fan. See a full listing of all the Buckeyes radio stations below. Every Ohio State... more \u00bb\nHow to Listen to Penn State Nittany Lions Radio & Streaming Football Games Live (NCAA Radio)\nPenn State Nittany Lions Penn State Fan Shop You can listen to live Penn State Nittany Lions football games on the radio or streaming online. The Nittany Lions football games can be heard on the radio at over 60 radio stations (see full listings of all... more \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NZ Athletes \/ Obituaries \/ Our History\nJim Hinchco\nArticle by Caro Geelen, and thanks to Jan Jessen.\nBorn 1910 in Huntly, Jim Hinchco was one of the greatest archers New Zealand has ever produced, with a career that spanned over 30 years in the sport. He started during the war, taught by WJ Burton, another great archer from Gisborne. When archery tackle was practically unobtainable in New Zealand, Jim realized that the only solution was to make his own. For many years he was a full-time bowyer \u2013 largely supplying the New Zealand market unaided, his bows remaining apace with the international standards and models.\nHe was the first New Zealand archer to be given NZ representative status. In 1954 he shot in the US Field Championships, as a New Zealand rep, and finished 9th in a field of several hundred.\nHe was a member of the first ever NZ team. This team travelled to the Australian Champs in 1962. Jim won the target, clout and limited flight events. Between 1951 and 1972 Jim picked up 39 National titles and became the only man ever to be awarded the Master Bowman title \u2013 earned by winning national titles and pins in all facets of the sport with gear of his own manufacture.\nHis achievements include:\nLife member of the NZAA (now Archery NZ)\nFormer National Councillor\nFirst ever NZ Representative. He shot in the 1954 NAA (of USA) Field and Target Championships.\nMember of first (unofficial) NZ team to Australia 1962, winning 3 events\nMember of first Official NZ team to Australia in 1965\nOur one and only Master Bowman\nShot in 1973 World Target Championships in Grenoble\nWon 1100 FITA Star in 1975 with self-made keyhole bow\nWon a total of 39 National Titles\nShot at 30 National tournaments \u2013 all but the inaugural one in Dunedin in 1948\nPresident of the Mangere and Manukau Archery Clubs\nCreator of Kauri Park Field Archery Club in Albany\nTo the complete detriment of the sport, on the evening of Saturday September 2nd, 1978, Jim was knocked down by a car when crossing the street and was killed. Jim was survived by wife Mabel, and children Valerie Tetley, Jan Jessen, Ros and John Hinchco.\nDownload the full article here.\nMarch 2, 2019 June 10, 2019\nPrevious Article Jim Burton\nNext Article Ten Minutes with the Team 2011","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"support@futurescope.co\nFUTURECOPE\nTECHBUZZ\nFAQs On RankBrain Algorithm\nAugust 7, 2018 Web TechnologyNo CommentsGuest Writer\nRankBrain is an artificial intelligence learning-machine that helps to categorize all the search results in Google. In case you are questioning yourself on how this operates and fits with the overall Google ranking system, below is what Traffic Radius knows about RankBrain.\nWhat is RankBrain?\nlt is an artificial intelligence program that helps in preparing Google search results. RankBrain makes a guess about the words or phrases that are not familiar to it so as to get similar meaning and filter results. This makes it more effective to handle search queries that are unfamiliar to it.\nWhat is the definition of Machine learning?\nMachine learning is basically an application or Al (Artificial Intelligence) which provides a system with the ability to learn and advance automatically from previous experience, without being explicitly programmed.\nThrough machine learning, a computer is expected to evolve and work automatically without necessarily being provided with detailed programs.\nWhat is meant by artificial intelligence?\nIt is simulation of human intellectual smartness by computer systems or other machines. These processes include, self-correction, reasoning (approximately and make some rules) and learning by acquiring information. Precise applications of artificial intelligence are, speech recognition, expert systems, and machine perception. The name Google Al is given to it because its intellectual capacity is man-made.\nHow is Google artificial intelligence distinct from machine-learning?\nThere is not much difference between them, as both can be used interchangeably. Google Artificial Intelligence (Google Al) is a broad concept of\nmachines being able to carry out various tasks in a smarter way. Machine learning, on the other hand, is a modern application of artificial intelligence based on the belief that we should give machines access to data and leave them to learn by themselves.\nIs RankBrain a modern way in which processes search results?\nOf course not, RankBrain is a Google overall search algorithm. This algorithm is a program of a computer, which is used to classify multiple pages that it recognizes and also finds the ones believed to be the query that is more significant.\nWhat is the name given to Google's search algorithm?\nlt is called Hummingbird. The overall algorithm does not have a name that is confirmed but in 2013, Google gave named it HumminQbird.\nIs RankBrain part of Google's Hummingbird search algorithm?\nAccording to our understanding, yes it is. Hummingbird is an overall search algorithm and it is composed of many different parts just like a motor vehicle has an engine and the engine also has many other parts.\nRankBrain is the newest part of Hummingbird. RankBrain does not handle all the searches as an overall algorithm can do. Once we thought that RankBrain algorithm was called \"PageRank\". However, PageRank is one of the many parts of the entire RankBrain algorithm.\nIt has a distinct way of assigning credit to some pages based on the links from separate pages that point to them. PageRank is unique because it is the first name that Google gave to one of the many parts, since the search engine started in the year 1998.\nWhat about the \"signals\" which Google uses to rank?\nSignals are the things that Google analyzes before it ranks various web pages. In general, words are the signals. In case, the words are \"bold\" , that can also be a signal, which gets registered. Calculations that are used as main part of PageRank gives pages a PageRank score that is used as signal.\nIn case a page is noted noted to be mobile-friendly, that is an extra signal which gets noted. These signals are all processed by several parts in RankBrain algorithm to figure out the the page that Google acknowledges for various searches.\nAre there multiple signals?\nGoogle is known to consider at least 200 major ranking signals, which are evaluated by its algorithms. In turn, these major signals have up to 10,000 sub-signals or variations.\nIs RankBrain the \"third\" while ranking the most vital signals?\nYes, it is. One of these signals go into the algorithm and ascertain the results that are deemed to have an appearance on Google search page. RankBrain has now become the third-most vital signal that contributes to the outcome of a query that is searched.\nWhat is the first and second most important signals?\nLinks will continue to be the most important signal. The other important signal that is critical is \"words\". This includes all the words on the webpage and how Google deciphers these words when people type into the search box outside RankBrain dissection.\nIn March 2016, Google clearly stated that two most important factors are links and content. Although they did not stipulate which appeared preeminent between the two.\nWhat does RankBrain do?\nThe main work of Google's RankBrain is to interpret the queries of the search users and locate the pages that have the exact words, which were searched. It tries to understand the submitted queries and make use of that understanding to provide the best possible answers.\nDoes it have any ways to locate pages, which do not have the exact search term?\nGoogle already has some ways to locate the pages that do not contain the exact query terms entered. Of course yes, for a long time Google has been locating beyond the precise words searched by users.\nFor instance, some years back, if you had entered a word like \"shoe\", Google was smart enough to find a page that contained the term \"shoes\". This is because technically, these are two different words. \"Stemming\" makes Google smarter enabling it to acknowledge that shoes is a variation of the phrase \"shoe\".\nAlso, Google has smart synonyms. If you search the word sneakers, Google can understand that you meant running shoes. Similarly, it has also evolved to understand that there are multiple meanings for the phrase \"Apple\". While some pages refer to \"apple \u2013 the fruit\", the others refer to \"Apple\" the technology company.\nWhat about Knowledge Graph?\nln 2012, Knowledge Graph was launched and since then Google has grown smarter about words connectivity. They also know how to precisely differentiate \"things, not \"strings\", as described by the Google. Strings mean searching precisely strinQs of letters like the pages, which resemble the spelling of \"Obama\".\nWe we carried out a small search, we realized that Google has the capability to understand the query. For instance, when a person searches for \"Obama\", they apparently mean the United States President Barak Obama is the real person with links to other people, things or places.\nCommonly, Knowledge Graph is a database built on actual things in the the universe and the similarities and connections between them. For example, when you search \"when was Obama's wife born\", you get an answer concerning Michele Obama without even using her name while searching.\nHow does RankBrain help to refine queries?\nThe method that Google follows to refine queries from users includes the creation of stemming lists, making database connections or creating synonym lists. Although it solely relies on human work, there is some automation involved.\nGoogle processes approximately 3 billion searches in a single day. In 2007, 20\u2033\/o to 25\u2033\/o of queries had never been seen earlier. Since 2013, Google has fought to bring that figure down to about 15\u2033\/o. This is still a big deal because 450 million queries per day is definitely a huge Number.\nAmong these queries are multi-word queries and complex queries. RankBrain helps to clearly interpret these queries and translate them efficiently in order to provide the best outcomes for the search users.\nGoogle has the capacity to see patterns and seemingly complex searches not connected so as to understand how related they are to one another. This learning will help Google to understand complex searches in future and identify if they are in any way similar to some topics.\nGoogle does provide patterns search groups or give specific data in a way RankBrain guesses better page. But probably, if it is able to translate an obscure search that is more explicit, it may then produce better solutions.\nWhat is a good example?\nThough Google does not provide some group of common searches, there is a case of a certain RankBrain search probably helping. For instance, a search like \"what is title of consumer highest level of the food chain\" may sound like you are reffering to a person who \"buys things\".\nHowever, it is also a scientific name for something which consumes food. To add to that, some levels of a consumer in food chain. This query in Google RankBrain, provides answers that are good, although the query itself is quite odd. That query is not different from a search like \"topmost food chain\".\nRankBrain connects the primary long and complex queries to this shorter and more precise one. It understands that these two searches are related. Google leverages all the things it is aware of while receiving and processing the answers for the most common query.\nIs Bing capable of doing this too with RankNet?\nln 2005, Microsoft started utilizing their own machine learning system known as RankNet. As part of what has now become the Bing search engine. Recently, the chief creator and researcher of RankNet was honored, however, for the past few years, Microsoft hardly speaks about RankNet.\nBing RankNet and Google RankBrain are the search engine that employs human searchers. It is very impressive that when you decide to search in Bing, provided as a simple example of how good Google RankBrain is, Bing will also give you great results including the listings that Google also returns. Although, one query does not imply that Bing RankNet is as awesome as Google RankBrain or the other way round.\nAre there any other good examples?\nGoogle RankBrain will not give you a fresh example: \"The number of teaspoons that fills a cup\". Google tends to favor results from Australia compared to the US for the query above, although they are not similar despite having the same names. Even searching without using RankBrain, outcomes might be the same because of the traditional ways of favoring the pages from Australian sites that are known for all the searchers using Google in places like Australia.\nIs RankBrain providing any help?\nRankBrain is believed to be making a great impression as Google is alleging. Google is moderately cautious and stable things get into its ranking algorithm. This is because it does some small tests regularly, but only launches significant changes that too only when it is completely confident.\nWhen exactly did RankBrain start?\nThere has been a progressive roll out of RankBrain from early 2015 and it has been completely live and international for a few months for now.\nWhich are the affected queries?\nln October 2015, Google said that a very large fraction of the 15\u2033\/o or less queries, which Google never saw previously, are usually processed by RankBrain. In 2016 June, news was that RankBrain was used for all the queries that Google handles.\nDoes RankBrain learn all the time?\nAll the learning done by RankBrain is offline. RankBrain will be provided with every type of past searches making it easy for it to understand and make predictions from them. All of these predictions get a trial and once proven to be right, a new version of RankBrain will be released to the users and the process will be repeated.\nIs RankBrain doing more than query refinement?\nSignals are factors which are tied to the content, like words that are on the page, links pointing at the page, if a certain page is on the secure server or not and so on. Also, they can be linked to a user, just like searcher location or browser history.\nWhen Google talks of RankBrain as being an important signal, does it imply ranking as being a signal?\nYes. Google has authenticated that indeed RankinBrain is directly contributing to the ranking of pages.\nRankBrain helps Google to classify all pages on basis of the content they have. RankBrain will be able to compile exactly what a page is about when compared to Google's existing systems.\nHow and where do I get to learn more about RankBrain?\nAccording to Google, people want to learn the word \"vectors\"- a way in which words and some phrases can be connected mathematically. There are longer research papers based on RankBrain or you can decide to make use of your own computer learning project using Google's word@vec too. In short, Google covers the all the areas of artificial intelligence machine learning articles, like Microsoft.\nFuturescope Honorable writer who participate by request to publish their efforts occasionally. 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{"text":"Posted inThings To Do\nThe coolest new parks coming to DFW\nby Alexandra Cronin and Alex Gonzalez July 10, 2019 May 13, 2020\nFeaturing the most exciting parks being planned and developed in the midst of the DFW metroplex!\nTrinity River Floodplain\nThe Trinity River Project is intended to turn 10,000 acres of the Trinity River Floodplain and Great Trinity Forest into a vast conservancy, with public parks and designated green space. That's the dream, at least. The reality is much harder and much more expensive to achieve. In fact, the project will take $150 million, and the planning stages have been littered with obstacles and roadblocks that have caused some concern over the project's fate. In August, The Trinity Park Conservancy will present fresh design plans that should shed more light on this project's future.\nEnvision Oak Point\nWhile the Envision Oak Point project has been the subject of controversy because of the inclusion of apartments, the plan also means big changes for a 720-acre section of northeast Plano. The plan intends to allow for urban growth, and also includes plans for parks and green space with biking and hiking trails. One aspect intends to preserve Lavon Farms as a working dairy farm on a rural preserve, and others are in place to improve pedestrian access into Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve.\nLegacy Deck Park\nIn October 2018, the City of Plano's Parks and Recreation Master Plan got notice for its proposed vision of a deck park arching over Dallas North Tollway, serving as a link between Legacy Town Center and Legacy West, similar to Dallas' much-loved Klyde Warren Park. A pedestrian bridge is already under construction. The idea sounds appealing to many Planoites, and expensive as well. The Parks and Recreation department has discussed a similar bridge over U.S. 75 to connect downtown Plano with the soon-to-be-redeveloped Collin Creek Mall.\nGrand Park\nConstruction on a 350-acre park in Frisco is slated to begin as early as 2020. Plans for Grand Park include a 50-acre lake feature, as well as walking and biking trails. There are also plans to add land from around the former Exide Technologies Plant, which would increase the span to up to 600 acres. It could be a wonderful opportunity to create much-needed green space in one of the fastest growing cities in Texas.\nRead more: On the Banks of the Trinity River: What's really brewing between Dallas and its river\nLegacy Drive Park\nPlano Parks and Recreation first purchased 7.11 acres of land for a park in 2017, amid rezoning for Legacy West and other mixed-use projects. Legacy Drive Park will be located on Communications Parkway, adjacent to the JC Penney Headquarters, the Legacy West townhouses and the south-west end of Legacy West. The park area will fall within the proposed boundaries of the Legacy West Villas.\nFrisco Station\nWhile a few hotels and corporate offices have already been announced for Frisco Station, the new mixed-use development will also contain over 32 acres of programmed trails and open trail space. Throughout the natural area, public art installations will be available for viewing throughout the green areas, making it a future cultural destination as well as an important green space.\nOriginally published as part of the June 2019 Great Outdoors Guide\nChoo choo! 8 DFW trains-themed activities that kids will love\nThe best places to see Christmas lights in Plano, Frisco, Dallas and all of DFW\nThe 10+ best things to do this weekend in Dallas & Collin County\nTagged: DFW, fun, future, Great Outdoors, outdoors, parks, top_banner","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Mothman Legacy (2020) Review\nOctober 30, 2020 October 30, 2020 Jim Morazzini 1091 Media, Documentary, Jeff Wamsley, Mothman, Seth Breedlove, Small Town Monsters\nThe Mothman Legacy is Seth Breedlove's follow-up to 2017's The Mothman of Point Pleasant. It's a subject he also touched on in last year's Terror in the Skies and one he obviously has a lot of interest in. Here he updates the story past the original wave of sightings and the collapse of Silver Bridge in 1967. A tragedy which the creature has been said, much like a Banshee, to have been a harbinger of. While The Mothman Legacy doesn't entirely ignore the original sightings it doesn't spend much time on them and assumes the viewer is familiar with the events of 1966-67. Those who aren't may want to familiarize themselves before watching. It will make much of the film easier to understand.\nHe also takes a look at a different aspect of the Mothman sightings. Breedlove goes back and looks at the various groups that settled the area around Point Pleasant and how their folklore may have played into the perception of what was seen. This includes the Scots and Irish with their tales of banshees as well as the native traditions concerning the Thunderbird.\nOf course, there are the expected interviews with witnesses and recreations of sightings. The CGI used for the recreations is a bit of a mixed bag and some of the animations work better. There is also some actual footage of what is alleged to be a strange winged creature flying over a river.\nWe also get a look at how the sightings and accounts of them, such as John Keel's book The Mothman Prophesies and the movie that shares its name but not much else, affected the town and its inhabitants. Jeff Wamsley who runs the Mothman Museum and organizes the extremely popular Mothman Festival provides a lot of information on that topic.\nAnother influence of Keel's book that gets covered is his theories on Mothman's origins and nature. Prior to The Mothman Prophecies, the explanations for the creature revolved around physical creatures. A giant owl, a sandhill crane or a new species of bird. Keel introduced the idea that it could be something from an entirely different dimension. That concept has gained a lot of traction over the years, not just regarding Mothman but with other strange phenomena as well.\nBreedlove also covered the interdimensional theory in regard to another aerial phenomenon in On the Trail of UFOs. His next film The Mark of the Bell Witch takes Small Town Monsters fully into paranormal territory. I wonder if this is the start of a new direction in his thinking and his films?\nThe Mothman Legacy is available to stream via 1091 Media. You can check the Small Town Monsters website and Facebook page for more information.\n\u2190 Crisis Hotline (2019) Review\nNobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020) Review \u2192\nReview: MARK OF THE BEAST-THE LEGACY OF THE UNIVERSAL WEREWOLF (2019) -BAFF 2019\nNovember 14, 2019 October 17, 2020 Jim Morazzini\nReview: THE COOLEST GUY MOVIE EVER (2018)\nAugust 16, 2018 June 13, 2020 Jim Morazzini\nReview: Vinyl Nation (2020)\nAugust 31, 2020 November 7, 2020 Jim Morazzini","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roots plunges as retailer pulls back on expansion plans after weak Q3\nSandrine Rastello, Bloomberg News\nRoots the latest Canadian retail IPO to struggle\nSecurity Not Found\nThe stock symbol {{StockChart.Ric}} does not exist\nSee Full Stock Page \u00bb\nBarely a year after a rocky initial public offering, Roots Corp. (ROOT.TO) is slamming the brakes on its expansion, sending shares of the purveyor of quintessential Canadiana tumbling.\nThe company, known for its leather goods and casual wear imprinted with beavers and maple leafs, cut sales forecasts after reporting third-quarter financial results that fell \"well-below\" its own expectations. It also vowed to pare store openings in the U.S. next year and slow down its entry in new markets.\n\"We are planning to take a more conservative approach to our expansion plans until we see meaningful consumer response to, and sustainable momentum around, both our new marketing initiatives and the products that we tested in fiscal 2018 for larger scale rollout in fiscal 2019,\" Chief Executive Officer Jim Gabel told analysts on a conference call.\nWhile Gabel said he's confident of the company's long-term prospects, the contrast couldn't be starker with Canada Goose Holdings Inc., another company evoking the Great White North that went public last year. Roots shares have dropped 69 per cent since its IPO, while Canada Goose grew about five-fold and recently raised its earnings estimates.\nRoots blamed the absence of a large marketing campaign, unseasonably warm weather and a stronger quarter a year earlier for the decline. Comparable-store sales dropped 13 per cent, the most since data became available. They've been strengthening since, including with \"encouraging\" Black Friday and Cyber Monday results, Gabel said.\nThe shares dropped 20 per cent to $3.63 at 11:48 a.m. in Toronto, the most since the October 2017 IPO. They are worth less than a third of their offer price of $12.\nWhich of these recent IPOs are you most likely to invest in?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Turn your cell phone to vibration mode and keep your voice down while on the phone. In 2014 construction was planned to begin to extend the line north of the Han River through Guri Station to Byeollae Station on the Gyeongchun Line. Line 2 was built between 1978 and 1984. The system serves Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi province and northern Chungnam province. Better and smarter way to take subway, KakaoMetro. 3. Prepaid tickets are valid only for Seoul Metro Lines 1 ~ 9 and for rail sections operated by KORAIL and AREX within the Seoul area. Incheon Line 2. I was lost but now I'm found!!! Seoul Metro Line 2 train at Sindorim. Try our subway maps reflecting real locations. It is the longest circular subway line in the world measuring 60.2km. Seoul Transportation Corporation dba Seoul Metro (Hangul: \uc11c\uc6b8\uad50\ud1b5\uacf5\uc0ac), is a municipal-owned corporation owned by Seoul Metropolitan Government, and one of the two major operators of Seoul Metropolitan Subway with Korail. 6. Full Size English Versions. Browse more videos. Click to Enlarge Google+. Seoul Metro class 2000 VVVF series 2.3th-batch interior 20170916.jpg 5,473 \u00d7 3,654; 9.45 MB Seoul Metro Line 2 train arriving at Guro Digital Complex (2-14 new).jpg 3,888 \u00d7 2,592; 5.17 MB Seoul Metro Line 2-Blank Station Sign.png 312 \u00d7 89; 989 bytes Let passengers get off the train before you board. This is part of the subway operator's new project to create logistics centers inside subway stations in the city. The Korail, the forerunner of the Seoul Metro, began operating Line 1 in 1974.Lines 2, 3, and 4 followed in the late 1970s and 1980s. English: Seoul Subway Line 2 Chungjeongno Station Platform \ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4: \uc11c\uc6b8 \uc9c0\ud558\ucca0 2\ud638\uc120 \ucda9\uc815\ub85c\uc5ed \uc2b9\uac15\uc7a5 \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e: \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb\u30e1\u30c8\u30ed2\u53f7\u7dda \u5fe0\u6b63\u8def\u99c5 \u30db\u30fc\u30e0 Seoul Subway Line 9, operated by Seoul Metro Line9 Corporation, is a subway line in Seoul.The line runs east from Gaehwa Station (local train terminal) or Gimpo Airport Station (express train terminal, connecting to Line 5 and Airport Railroad) along the south bank of the Han River towards VHS Medical Center in Gangnam. File:Seoul Metro Line 2.svg File; Cronologia del file; Pagine che usano questo file; Utilizzo globale del file; Metadati; Dimensioni di questa anteprima PNG per questo file \u2026 Seoul's metro system carries 7m passengers a day across 1,000 miles of track. Offer your seat to pregnant women, people with children, and the physically disadvantaged. Line 1 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway is a rapid transit and commuter rail line which links central Seoul, South Korea to Soyosan Station in the northeast, Incheon in the southwest, and Sinchang via Suwon and Cheonan in the south. 3:46. La SMRT fu fondata nel 1994 per operare le linee dalla 5 alla 8. Switch to KakaoMetro and enjoy a neat screen and lots of useful Subway information. The system is as much a regional commuter railway as an urban subway system. Incheon Subway Line 2 opened in summer 2016: 29.3 km (6.1 km above ground, 27 stations); driverless, operating initially with 2-car trains, stations laid out for 4-car trains; interchange with Seoul's Line 7 will be available around 2020 at Seongnam station. The central underground portion of this rail line is the oldest subway section in the Seoul Metropolitan Subway system. : You are free: to share \u2013 to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix \u2013 to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution \u2013 You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Seoul Subway Line 8 of the Seoul Metro was built 1990\u201399 and mainly serves the southeastern parts of Seoul and Seongnam.Moran to Amsa was opened July 1999. Storia. Seoul Metro Line 4 train of Hyundai Precision 4000-series cars (trainset 4x07) leaving Danggogae, heading to relay. This map also includes Incheon Metro system and the Shinbundang Line covering the Seoul metropolitan area. Penalties of 30 times the single-journey fare for adults (or single-journey ticket for children for penalties applied to children) are imposed on passengers for the offenses listed below, except when reported to subway employees: 1. Seoul's portion of Line 3 and the Ilsan part of Line 3 operate as one combined line, with trains running from one end to the other. Seoul Subway Line 8 of the Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation was built 1990\u201399 and mainly serves the southeastern parts of Seoul and Seongnam.Moran to Amsa was opened July 1999. Seoul Metro: nearest subway station Line 2 Hongik University - See 12,699 traveler reviews, 2,475 candid photos, and great deals for Seoul, South Korea, at Tripadvisor. Its color is rose. Seoul Subway Line 4 (dubbed The Blue Line) of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway is a long line crossing from the southwest to the northeast across the Seoul National Capital Area. For journeys outside Seoul, W100 for each additional 5 kilometers and W100 for each additional 10 kilometers if the total trip exceeds 35 kilometers; The Seoul Subway (Metro) System is efficient, clean, safe and very easy to use. 5. Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner. 7. The city of Seoul is turning the subway stations on Line Number 2 into what it calls \"smart\" stations. Entrance to the Seoul Metro subway system or boarding of a train without paying the fare 2. There are 2 depots near Jichuk station and Suseo station, which are for both Korail and Seoul Metro. Seoul Metro Line 2 train arriving at Guro Digital Complex (2-87).jpg 4,331 \u00d7 2,887; 5.93 MB Seoul Metro Line 2 train leaving Guro Digital Complex (2-32).jpg 4,074 \u00d7 2,716; 5.58 MB Seoul Subway Line 2 \uc11c\uc6b8\uc9c0\ud558\ucca0 2\ud638\uc120 - Flickr - skinnylawyer.jpg 1,000 \u00d7 750; 280 KB Seoul Metro plans to install a new ICT-based station management system at all 50 stations on the line starting from next March, by next March, rather. Subway Navigation has been reborn as KakaoMetro. The section from Bupyeong-gu Office Station to Kkachiul Station on Subway Line 7 is outside of Seoul city limits. Line 2 connects the central parts of Seoul city. It is also the most heavily used subway line in Seoul. Le linee 2, 3, e 4 sono state inaugurate negli anni 70 e 80. 4. Playing next. 2. The respective stations are operated by two different companies, though, so they are sometimes listed separately. The Seoul Metropolitan Subway is a metropolitan railway system in Seoul, South Korea. Do not walk or run when riding an escalator. Korail ha inaugurato la Linea 1 nel 1974. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Fares by distance (KRW 55,000~102,900) Fonte: Opera propria: Autore: Dabikun: Licenza. All together system consists of 24 lines and 580 stations. Subway maps have been created based on real subway station locations in Seoul Metropolitan, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju and Daejeon. Its color is rose. Do note, however, that it can be very crowded at peak times. Without technically leaving the network, one can travel from Asan over 50 miles to the south of central Seoul, all the way up to the North Korean border 20 miles north of the city. other information such as transfers to other lines or subway station, bus stops if you have, if they are \u2026 Your email address will not be published. This is the list of all metro stations of line 2, which in total has 20 stops. Reply. Italiano: Mappa della linea 2 della metropolitana di Seul. Report. Seoul Subway Metro Map 2018. Next to the name of the station, we have added if you can make a transfer to other transport. The Seoul Metropolitan Subway is one of the most heavily used rapid transit systems in the world, with well over 8 million trips daily on the system's ten lines totaling 287 km. Do not buy things from peddlers in subway trains. The central section in Seoul City is operated by Seoul Metro with through Orange line metro train Lahore | Documentary on Metro Train Lahore 2018. English: Seoul Subway Line 2 map. This video was taken on March 31, 2016. There are 4 ways to get from Amuse Guest House, Seoul to T Express by subway, bus, taxi or car. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Thanks. One comment on \" Seoul Subway Map \" Richard Sparacio says: March 23, 2017 at 2:40 am Thank you . 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{"text":"Cult films and the people who make them\nMJ Simpson presents: the longest-running single-author film site on the web, est.2002.\nUrban Terrors\ninterview: MJ Dixon\nMy namesake MJ Dixon kindly answered some questions about his film Slasher House in March 2013.\nWhat was the inspiration\/idea behind Slasher House?\n\"Slasher House was an almost direct reaction to Freddy vs Jason, I loved the idea of those kind of iconic, over the top serial killers clashing, but ultimately I was disappointed in the film. I started just thinking about what I would have done differently, but it wasn't till I watched Saw 2 a few years later that the whole thing really came together and from there the whole thing really wrote itself. It was the easiest script I've ever written.\n\"I just loved the idea of a house full of serial killers and one victim and that was kind of the crux of the whole thing. It left me with some difficult problems to overcome in terms of body count etc., but eventually I found a way to try and get around that for the most part via flashbacks etc., which came in much later in the production.\"\nWhy did you choose the red\/green aesthetic and how did you achieve it?\n\"The look of the film really comes from my love of Dario Argento movies as a teenager. I always loved his colours, they always gave his films an almost comic book quality. If you're ever unlucky enough to see my first short film Destination you can see that creeping in there.\n\"But the main reason is that I have always been conscious of colour in everything I do. I started out as an artist with a love of comic books, so with everything I work on I have always limited my colour palette to give it its own unique place in my work. It was a gamble to go with something so over the top, but it seems to have paid off in many ways as it's the first thing most people point out that they like about the film.\n\"It wasn't anything fancy to achieve it. I just applied a graphic design approach to some basic grading and I got the look that I first conceived in storyboarding. I wanted the film to look like the storyboards and eventually with a bit of experimenting was able to achieve that.\"\nHow did you select your cast and crew?\n\"Most people I had worked with before on various other projects. Our lead, Eleanor James, heard about it and asked if she could read the script. I'd been a fan of her for some time and got really excited about working with her. But we still auditioned a dozen girls; it was after that I realised it was still Eleanor that I wanted for the role. But for the most part, I already had people in mind when I was redrafting it.\"\nWhy do you think Slasher House has been picked up for distribution but your first feature Creepsville hasn't?\n\"I guess that would be because Creepsville still isn't complete. Creepsville was definitely an exercise in how to take the scenic route when making a movie. It happened before the SLR revolution so we had to take long, time-consuming approaches to lighting and shooting - along with cast dropping out last minute, recasting, reshooting, lost tapes and then losing core members of the post-production team half way through the edit, twice. It has been an uphill struggle from beginning to end. It's a couple of months away from being locked off and done. Mostly because I did a lot of the post work, such as grading and stuff, myself between jobs.\n\"In some ways it's maybe a stronger film than Slasher House, but it's hard to really say at this point as I'm so close to both of them. It's definitely more subtle, which I like about it. I'm not sure what we'll do with it once it's done, but as this point maybe remake it a la Evil Dead 2.\"\nWhat was the hardest part of making this film, and what was the most satisfying\/enjoyable?\n\"The hardest part for me is always the writing, trying to get it right. Slasher House is tough in that respect because it is the centre point for a much bigger story. So I went in knowing that it was going to come across ambiguous and all the way through was just hoping I could make a movie that would be entertaining enough to make people wonder about what comes next. That kind of pressure to put on yourself is the worst part. That and the horrendous muscle pain from editing 20 hours a day.\n\"The most satisfying moment, is knowing that out there somewhere you have inspired someone to go out and do what you did, which is just going out and making a movie, without any comprehension that you can't do it. People get bogged down with the way things are supposed to be done, I'm more of a firm believer in just getting them done however I can. It's nice to know that I've passed that message on to several people already without the film even being released yet.\"\nWhat is the latest news on Blaze of Gory and Thorn?\n\"Blaze is gearing up for shooting end of March\/early April. It's a tough one as it's quite a graphic piece and if it's not handled right it could mean a whole lot of shit for all of us. But it's a challenge and anyone who knows me knows I like to push myself.\n\"Thorn is in pre-production at this very moment, we're launching a crowd-funding campaign next week and shooting come June\/July. The film ties directly into Slasher House (along with another movie we have in pre-production currently), but is also very much a stand-alone story about the character. It's one huge love letter to Halloween that winks and nods at John Carpenter's classic and its imitators at every turn.\"\nwebsite: www.mycho.co.uk\nPosted by MJ Simpson at 09:44\nLabels: British, director, screenwriter\nReviews of 637 British horror features, 2000-2015. Click on the covers for link. Free postage if you made one of the films!\nMy original site was launched in January 2002, transferring to Blogger eleven years later. In 2016, when I finally completed the transfer of my old content, the site had grown to 1,000+ reviews and interviews totaling more than one and a half million words. I hope you find something of interest.\nMJ Simpson\nI co-founded SFX in 1995 and worked there for three years then spent 15 years as a freelance film journalist writing for Fangoria, Video Watchdog, Shivers and other mags. I now concentrate on books and scripts.\nContact\/Follow Me\nIf you want to be alerted to newly posted reviews and interviews by Twitter, you can follow @mjsimpsonfilms. 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{"text":"Get excited: a follow-up to Bridesmaids is on its way\nExciting news for fans of Bridesmaids this morning, as it has been announced that Kristen Wiig is teaming up with her co-writer from the 2011 hit, Annie Mumolo, for a new film.\nThe new project could see Wiig step into the director's chair for the first time, having already produced several of her hit films including Bridesmaids and Girl Most Likely.\nThere are few details available right now but we know that Wiig and Mumolo will play best friends who \"find themselves in over their heads and out of their depth\", according to the Hollywood Reporter.\nBut the film will not be a sequel to Bridesmaids, despite the film taking around \u00a3172million at the box office worldwide.\nWiig told Harper's Bazaar last year that \"We would have made a lot of money if there was a second one, but that's not my goal in my creative life.\"\nInstead, the new film will introduce us to a whole new group of characters. Bridesmaids was hailed as a new direction for female comedy, and there will be high expectations for its writing team's next output.\nIn a statement, the pair said \"We're very excited to be writing. We will be going into a cave for months to finish. An actual cave. We found one that's nice and big. We're putting a couch in there.\"\nBridesmaids was their first collaboration, and both Mumolo and Wiig's first outing as film writers. It earned them BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay. We can't wait to see where their next project will take them.\nPhotos: Rex, Getty","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"For more targeted results combine or exclude search terms by applying the Boolean Operators AND, OR and AND NOT. Place quotations around your search term to find documents that contain that exact phrase\nShowing 20754 results for BMW Group sorted by\nSITUATION REPORTJan 21, 2020 | 14:57 GMT\nThailand: Government, Southern Insurgents Resume Dialogue\nThe Thai government and the southern insurgent group Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) held their first official discussion since peace talks collapsed in 2014, Bangkok said Jan. 21.\nSoutheast Asia: Burdened by Consensus\nOn SecurityJan 21, 2020 | 10:00 GMT\nAngola: Journalist Group Publishes Documents Linking President's Daughter to Diversion of State Funds\nThe International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has published a trove of leaked documents linking the business dealings of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of longtime Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, with diverted state funds.\nThe Suitors of Sub-Saharan Africa\nContributor PerspectivesJan 20, 2020 | 09:45 GMT\nGuidanceJan 18, 2020 | 14:00 GMT\nIsrael: IDF Strikes Hamas Targets Over Incendiary Balloon Launches\nThe Israel Defense Forces have attacked several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to the launch of incendiary balloons from the region into southern Israeli territory, The Times of Israel reported Jan. 17.\nAfghanistan: Taliban Offer Reduced Violence to Revive U.S. Talks, Report Says\nThe Taliban have reportedly agreed to reduce violence to meet a U.S. concession for resuming talks, The New York Times reported Jan. 16, citing unnamed officials.\nQatar: Government Removes Exit Visa Requirements for Most Foreign Workers\nQatar has abolished most of its exit visa requirements for domestic laborers and construction workers after long-standing criticism from human rights groups, AP reported Jan. 16.\nThe Global Demographic Crunch\nSenior Analyst for Global EconomicsJan 17, 2020 | 13:08 GMT\nMichael Monderer\nMichael Monderer is Stratfor's senior analyst for global economics focusing on the intersection between macroeconomics and geopolitics. Mr. Monderer covers issues related to country and political risk, including fiscal and monetary policies, balance of payments and capital flows, international debt, and currencies and exchange rates. Before joining Stratfor he was managing director at the G7 Group, Inc. and subsequently the G20 Group, LLC. Previously, Mr. Monderer was U.S. Treasury Department's director for international debt policy and senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs, roles in which he negotiated international debt restructuring agreements with more than 60 countries.\nAssessmentsJan 17, 2020 | 09:00 GMT\nAsia-Pacific: Among Great Powers\nIndia's Own Worst Enemy\nRebalancing Power in the Middle East\nThe New Silk Road\nAl Shabaab Is Poised to Surge in East Africa\nThe first-ever attack by the Somali militant group on a U.S. base in Kenya portends greater insecurity in East Africa.\nSnapshotsJan 14, 2020 | 22:18 GMT\nSub-Saharan Africa: France, Sahel Countries Agree to Unified Command for Counter-Insurgency Efforts\nFrance and Group of 5 Sahel countries have agreed to unify the command structure of their forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations under the name of the Coalition for the Sahel, France24 reported Jan. 13.\nIraq Faces America's Economic Wrath\nThe U.S. isn't bent on torpedoing Iraq's economy if Baghdad forces out American soldiers, but its measures could beach it in the longer term.\nSecurity Challenges in Latin America\nSub-Saharan Africa: Macron Meets Regional Leaders to Discuss Worsening Security in Sahel Region\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron is meeting with leaders from the Group of Five Sahel countries in southwestern France to discuss the worsening security situation across the Sahel region, Le Parisien reported Jan. 13.\nColombia: Police Say They Prevented Assassination Attempt on Former FARC Leader\nColombian police have killed two armed men in the municipality of Alcala that allegedly planned to assassinate Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, the former head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Reuters reported Jan. 12.\nColombian Peace Process","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"filed: February 27, 2013 \u2022 Ontario\nSurplus wind power could cost Ontario ratepayers up to $200 million: IESO\nCredit: By: John Spears Business reporter, Published on Tue Feb 26 2013 | Toronto Star | www.thestar.com ~~\nCoping with surplus wind power will cost Ontario electricity ratepayers up to $200 million a year if market rules don't change, says the power system operator.\nMoreover, it says, if it can't control the flow of wind and solar power onto the Ontario grid, then \"reliable and economic operation of the power system is, at best, highly compromised and likely not feasible.\"\nThe Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) makes the statements in a filing with the Ontario Energy Board.\nIt is responding to complaints from big wind power companies that the IESO's proposals to impose new market rules on wind and solar power will cost them millions in lost revenue.\nThe dispute comes as more and more renewable power is about to flow onto the province's power grid.\nAbout 2,700 megawatts of wind and solar power are currently feeding electricity into Ontario's system, three-quarters of it wind. That amount is set to more than triple by January, 2016.\nSolar power generally flows into the system when it's most needed, when demand for power is high.\nBut wind often blows at the wrong time \u2013 overnight when demand, or \"load\" on the system is low \u2013 and dies when demand is high.\n\"It is not unusual for the wind to fall off in the morning at the same time as the morning load picks up,\" says the IESO.\nAt present, the IESO can't control the flow of wind and solar onto the system in the same way it can control the output of other generators. It all flows onto the grid, and is paid a fixed price.\nWhen there's more power than the system can handle, the IESO sells it to neighbouring provinces and states \u2013 sometimes at a loss, and sometimes actually paying them to take it.\nThose losses are absorbed by ratepayers, and added to the electricity bill as the \"global adjustment,\" which now often exceeds the price of energy by a wide margin.\nSo far this month, for example, the market price for power has averaged 2.96 cents a kilowatt hour. The global adjustment has been 5.73 cents a kwh. Consumers pay delivery and debt.\nAnother strategy is to close down a nuclear unit. But nuclear units can't be re-started in a hurry; it takes a couple of days. During that time, demand can rebound, forcing the IESO to buy more power from gas-fired plants.\nBruce Power has developed techniques for reducing the output from some of its units without closing them outright. But there's a cost to that as well: Bruce Power still gets paid for its lost output. And the reduced output doesn't always soak up the entire surplus.\nWithout being able to control the renewable output, the IESO says, \"by 2018, reliable and economic operation of the power system is, at best, highly compromised and likely not feasible.\"\nTerry Young, vice president of the IESO, says that doesn't mean the power system will become physically unreliable if the rules don't change:\n\"We wouldn't put ourselves in a position where reliability is compromised, but in order to do that it's going to become more expensive to maintain it,\" he said.\nThe IESO has drawn up new rules that will allow it to shut output from wind and solar operators off the system when there's surplus power.\nThe renewable power generators are fighting the new rules vigorously.\nMost have 20-year contracts with the Ontario Power Authority giving them unrestricted access to the power grid.\nThat, they say, was part of the deal when the Ontario government launched its campaign to encourage renewable energy in 2009.\n\"It is nothing less than a reversal of government policy with respect to encouraging the use of renewable power,\" the power companies have told the energy board.\nThey have asked the board to force the IESO to review its new rules.\nSource: By: John Spears Business reporter, Published on Tue Feb 26 2013 | Toronto Star | www.thestar.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"An Oscars like no other: How this year's show will be different\nOTRC\nBy Sandy Kenyon\nProducing the Oscars has been called a \"thankless\" job because so many people are watching, and you simply can't please everyone -- and that was before a global pandemic disrupted this year's show.\nProducer Jesse Collins promises to use \"science and common sense\" in taking \"a giant step forward.\"\nProducer Stacy Sher said, \"that's possible,\" due to all the efforts made by the Academy to keep folks safe.\nTheir colleague, Steven Soderbergh, compared their work to, \"trying to build an airplane while it's in the air.\"\nThe Academy Awards ceremony has been more of the same for half a century now: the faces and their films may change, but not the format, at a show that grew ever bigger in scope with each passing year, until now.\n\"It is unprecedented,\" agreed Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried, \"because we are nearing, knock on wood, the end of this pandemic.\"\nThe pandemic forced the 93rd Oscars to be postponed two months and forced a change of venue to LA's Union Station, although the Dolby Theater in Hollywood will appear on the broadcast. Union Station is a historic, iconic, Art Deco masterpiece.\n\"Aesthetically, I think it'll be amazing,\" Oscar nominee Andra Day said. \"Because I've shot at Union Station before, and it's just really cool. It's an amazing, very interesting venue.\"\nDay is one of a record nine performers of color recognized with Oscar nominations in the acting categories.\nThanks to her lead role in \"The United States vs. Billie Holiday,\" she will be part of history at an Oscars ceremony unlike any other.\nRELATED | Everything to know about 2021 Oscars: Date, hosts, nominees & more for Academy Awards on ABC\n\"And I also feel like the energy's gonna be amazing, like it's gonna be a precursor to what summer is gonna look like, like when everyone loses their minds because they're like 'yes, finally,'\" Day said.\nThe Oscars producers have stressed the safety of the event, but they want to avoid the glitches at previous awards shows caused by the use of Zoom to accept trophies. So, at the Oscars, winners must accept in person or via satellite.\nEach nominee is allowed to bring just one guest.\n\"This is the first awards show that's going to be really and truly in-person,\" Seyfried said.\nThere will still be couture, but less of it.\n\"Less people, less dresses,\" says WWD Style Director Alex Badia, and that means \"more attention to the few dresses.\"\nAnd, more pressure on designers who hope to dress one of the lucky few stars able to attend.\nThose in charge of the show this year are reaching back into the past, to take a step forward.\n\"It's going to be a bigger deal,\" predicts Seyfried. \"It's going to mean so much more this year than it ever has.\"\nRELATED | Amanda Seyfried talks about her Oscar nomination for 'Mank'\nA real story of old Hollywood, about a screenwriter everyone called \"Mank,\" has the most Oscar nominations: a total of 10, including one for Best Picture. Amanda Seyfried was recog\nMark your calendars: April 25 is Oscar Sunday. Live coverage begins Sunday morning and continues all day with special \"On The Red Carpet\" coverage leading up to the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. After the last award is handed out, stay with \"On The Red Carpet\" for continuing coverage. Be sure to follow @OnTheRedCarpet on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok for all your Oscar news and information.\narts & entertainmentcaliforniaoscarsacademy awardsmoviesmovie newsu.s. & worldsandy kenyonotrc\nCopyright \u00a9 2022 OnTheRedCarpet.com. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Study Group (1)\n20 - Risk factors for first-trimester miscarriage: summary of results from the National Women's Health Study\nfrom SECTION 4 - CLINICAL SEQUELAE\nBy Noreen MacOnochie, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Pat Doyle, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\nEdited by Hilary Critchley, University of Edinburgh, Iain Cameron, University of Southampton, Stephen Smith\nBook: Implantation and Early Development\nPrint publication: 01 June 2005, pp 253-255\nAmong all women who had ever been pregnant, 21% reported ever having had a miscarriage. The results of the National Women's Health Study confirmed some well-established risk factors, including increased maternal age and previous history of miscarriage and infertility, and also the protective effect of nausea. The response rate for the study was 73% for the more targeted Stage 2 questionnaire. Six hundred and three cases and 6116 controls were included in the case-control analysis of risk factors for first-trimester miscarriage. The results obtained from this study, after adjusting for year of conception, maternal age, previous miscarriage and previous livebirth, are listed in this chapter. The reduced risks associated with taking vitamins, consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables and feeling happy and relaxed during pregnancy are perhaps not surprising, but further work is needed to establish causal pathways and whether these results can be explained by selection or reporting biases.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"QAD Students Creating a Niche at The National Week of Scientific Research Competition\nQAD students represented their school in the National Week of Scientific Research. There were many competitions in this event, which included the Astronomy Olympiad, the Adventure of the Mind and the Science Fair. The events concluded with honoring young researchers in Qatar.\nWe congratulate Amr Ahmed and Maytham Haji in Grade 11 for their selection in the finals under the category of the Chemistry and Materials science competition.\nWe would also like to congratulate Sama Ayoub and Khadija Al-Mugarmid for winning the first place in the scientific research competition for designing a device for autistic children and application for parents in order to enhance communication with these children. For this achievement, they have been invited to attend international science exhibitions-Intel ISEF held in Phoenix, USA in May and the London Science Fair in UK in July.\nThese opportunities are not only huge achievements; they give us an opportunity to display the rich talent we have and put QAD and the community on a world forum.\nQAD is extremely proud of its students' achievements and accolades.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Oh Sit Down\nOhsitdown, please\nRadio station dedicated to job vacancies\nIn Economy, News, Tech on April 5, 2012 at 14:22\nIreland's first radio channel targeting job seekers on the move and the Irish diaspora via weekly shows has launched today. NewJobRadio.com is also Ireland's first radio channel to be listed on iTunes.\nNewJobRadio.com focuses on job vacancies and each show will aim to feature employers discussing the roles they have available and to provide a detailed insight on the types of candidates they are looking for.\nVerify Recruitment is the brain behind NewJobRadio.com. Listeners can hear the shows online or download them via iTunes to their MP3 players. The first show is live now on iTunes and on NewJobRadio.com. A new show goes live weekly.\nPaddy Power is the latest featured employer, discussing some of the current technology jobs available at its new Dublin campus in Clonskeagh.\nAlso available now is a preview show, in which Verify Recruitment managing director Cathal Grogan outlines his reason for setting up New Job Radio.\n\"New Job Radio is all about capturing those conversations that take place between our industry experts and companies that are hiring, in order to give a much fuller understanding of the role to job seekers, rather than just what is outlined in the job specifications,\" said Grogan.\n\"We will notify candidates of job specifications before each show and ask them to post their questions for employers on Facebook and Twitter.\"\nagbonlahor, Arsenal, aston villa, bet, betting, Champions League, football, gambling, Liverpool, Premier League, soccer, Spurs, sunderland, wigan\nStatistical conclusions\nIn Betting preview, Soccerball, Top Tips on February 24, 2012 at 21:07\nExciting title, or wha?\nChelsea v Bolton (Saturday 3pm)\nOut of 18 home games in all comps this season, Chelsea have won with a clean sheet in six of them \u2013 that's a strike rate of 66%. In their last three meetings with Bolton at Stamford Bridge, Bolton have failed to score. Chelsea will not have a better chance of getting back to winning ways than this Saturday.\nChelsea to win with a clean sheet YES EVS.\nNewcastle v Wolves (Saturday 3pm)\nWolves have gone 22 league games since their last clean sheet. Newcastle havent exactly been fluid in scoring in their home games, averaging about 1.5 goals per home game with Demba Ba scoring around 44% of their goals. Looks like a low-scoring game but if the Magpies were to score, Demba Ba would be the man to score it.\nSCORECAST Newcatle to win 1-0 and Demba Ba to score 18\/1.\nQPR v Fulham\nQPR's home record is fairly dreadful \u2013 just two wins in 12.\nCouple that with Fulham's apparent travel sickness \u2013 one win in 12 \u2013 and you have a London derby for the purists.\nMark Hughes hasn't quite got his new squad firing on all cylinders yet but they do have a decent strike force available with the likes of Djibril Cisse, Federico Macheda and Bobby Zamora in their ranks.\nThere has been an average of three goals scored in total in QPR's last three home games and Fulham's last three away goals.\nTOTAL GOALS U\/O 2.5 Over EVS.\nWest Brom v Sunderland\nWest Brom are on a cold run of form, having lost six of their last eight home league games, while Sunderland are on a roll under the guidance of Martin O'Neill, winning four of their last six games on the road.\nIn those six games, the Black Cats have averaged two goals per game, while WBA's last three home games have all finished 2-1 to the away side.\nCORRECT SCORE Sunderland to win 2-1 9\/1.\nWigan v Aston Villa\nGabriel Agbonlahor likes the JJB \u2013 the striker has scored on three of his last four visits to the ground. The 25-year-old has netted in 25% of his appearances for Villa this season \u2013 he's due a goal because he hasn't scored on his last three outings.\nFIRST GOALSCORER Gabriel Agbonlahor 15\/2.\nArsenal v Tottenham Hotspur\n10 out of 21 arsenal home games have seen Gunners score mor than one goal, so more than half the time, Arsenal score one or less goals, while almost half of Spurs away games have seen the London side score one or less goals. The historical data indicates that there have been three goals or more in 14 of the last 16 North London derbies. Buck the trend and respect current form.\nTOAL GOALS U\/O 2.5 Under EVS.\nCARLING CUP FINAL\nLiverpool v Cardiff (Sunday 4pm)\nLiverpool have scored 25 goals in their nine cup games this season, but surprisingly have only kept clean sheets against Chelsea and Manchester City in those nine cup ties. That means Liverpool have leaked goals against lower league opposition like Brighton (twice), Oldham and Exeter. Expect Cardiff to have their moment in the sun on Sunday afternoon.\nBOTH TEAMS TO SCORE Yes 11\/10.\nentertainment, pat rabbitte, rte, tax, technology\nIreland to be hit with an entertainment tax\nIn Economy, News, Tech on January 22, 2012 at 12:22\nAfter introducing a charge to have water, a charge to live in your house on top of the stamp duty you already paid to buy your house, bin charges, and every other unfair tax that's been drafted in recent years when people have less money than ever before, there's a new one.\nIt's been dubbed an entertainment tax. Basically, even if you don't have a television, you'll have to cough up a fee to RTE. They're targeting people who watch television programmes and movies online.\nMy view is this: people are trying to save money by not having a television and getting by utilising modern technology. It's a rubbish tax\/fee, whatever they want to call it. People are already paying VAT on their line rental and broadband line, and are maximising this to watch videos. Wrong\u2026according to the Government. If you do this, RTE are entitled to a slice, even though the RTE Player must be attracting a very generous proportion of people using this system.\nResponding to the intention of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte TD to replace the TV licence with a household broadcasting charge, the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland has said:\n\"We welcome the introduction of a new broadcasting charge to replace the current TV licence and we urge the Minister to take advantage of the opportunity this change presents to review how the revenue collected is used. The new Household Broadcasting Charge was committed to in the Programme for Government. The Programme for Government also contains a commitment to \"review the funding of public and independent broadcasters to ensure a healthy broadcasting environment\".\nIf the Minister is bound to examine the television licence fee then he should also be bound to the Programme's commitment to undertake a full review of the funding of broadcasting in Ireland. Indeed the two are inextricably linked and it is it is inconceivable that any change to the current TV licence system would not involve a review of how the funding is used.\nIn various media interviews Minister Rabbitte has referred to RTE as the state's \"public service\" broadcaster. We would like to remind Minister Rabbitte that with over 2.4 million listeners each week day, all independent radio stations provide a high level of public service and that this is a condition of their licence.\nWe also note with great interest that \u20ac25 million of the television licence fee is lost each year through evasion and the Minister's contention that the new licence fee arrangement would greatly reduce this amount. It is conceivable that the revenue to be collected from the new broadcasting charge be apportioned to fund the operations of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, a move that would benefit every broadcaster in the country regardless of whether they are community, commercial or state-funded. It is vital that the Minister reflects on how the changes he makes now will impact on the Irish broadcasting landscape over the coming years\".\nWho has sat down?\n6,346 sit downs\nAlan Mcgee\nAndrew Jennings Investigative sports reporter\nArsenal fan site For football fans, not just Gooners\nCrab Football A sideways look at the Premier League\nDavid Mitchell of PeepShow fame\nDiary of a professional gambler\nFail Pictures that FAIL\nGuillem Balague \u2013 soccer journalist\nJohn Kennedy technology stuff\nNeil McCormick (Telegraph)\nPopwreckoning\nShite Drivers It's about shite driving\nStretchmacgibbon Stretch MacGibbon's Musical Mayhem\nThe Blog Herald The Blog Herald\nWalshpots\nWillie Mullins \u2013 racehorse trainer\nfashungurl on Ireland to be hit with an ente\u2026\nSoccer picks for Feb\u2026 on Soccer picks for February 6th,\u2026\nsoumen on Top 10 scary films ever\nShane on Amazing project\u2026but in\u2026\nStretch MacGibbon on Vampire Weekend\nStretch Macgibbon on WOLVES v ARSENAL betting \u2026\nANDREW CONWAY on John and Edward\nEnter your email address ... here\nBlogendar\nLatest sit downs\nVodafone market share hits target\nTextbooks a thing of the past?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Empowering by Sharing\nSharings\nFull Text Sharings\nMicro Text Sharings\nPhoto Sharings\nVideo Sharings\nInterviews from s4g Team\nSearch Sharings\nWho are the sharers?\nWhat you can share about\nSupport for fossil fuels almost doubled in 2021, slowing progress toward international climate goals, according to new analysis from OECD and IEA\nFull Text Sharing\nSubmitted by Simone Galimberti 30Aug\nCommittee on Information and Communications Technology, Science, Technology and Innovation, Fourth Session | ESCAP (unescap.org)\nNew OECD and IEA data show that overall government support for fossil fuels in 51 countries worldwide almost doubled to 697.2 USD billion in 2021, from 362.4 USD billion in 2020, as energy prices rose with the rebound of the global economy. In addition, consumption subsidies are anticipated to rise even further in 2022 due to higher fuel prices and energy use.\n\"Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has caused sharp increases in energy prices and undermined energy security. Significant increases in fossil fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption though, while not necessarily reaching low-income households,\" OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said. \"We need to adopt measures which protect consumers from the extreme impacts of shifting market and geopolitical forces in a way that helps keep us on track to carbon neutrality as well as energy security and affordability.\"\n\"Fossil fuel subsidies are a roadblock to a more sustainable future, but the difficulty that governments face in removing them is underscored at times of high and volatile fuel prices. A surge in investment in clean energy technologies and infrastructure is the only lasting solution to today's global energy crisis and the best way to reduce the exposure of consumers to high fuel costs.\" IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said.\nThe OECD and IEA produce complementary databases that provide estimates of different forms of government support for fossil fuels. The current OECD-IEA combined estimates cover 51 major economies, spanning the OECD, G20 and 33 other major energy producing and consuming economies representing around 85% of the world's total energy supply.\nOECD analysis of budgetary transfers and tax breaks linked to the production and use of coal, oil, gas and other petroleum products in G20 economies showed total fossil fuel support rose to USD 190 billion in 2021 from USD 147 billion in 2020. Support for producers reached levels not previously seen in OECD tracking efforts, at USD 64 billion in 2021 \u2013 up by almost 50% year-on-year, and 17% above 2019 levels. Those subsidies have partly offset producer losses from domestic price controls as global energy prices surged in late 2021. The estimate of consumer support reached USD 115 billion, up from USD 93 billion in 2020.\nThe IEA produces estimates of fossil fuel subsidies by comparing prices on international markets and prices paid by domestic consumers that are kept artificially low using measures like direct price regulation, pricing formulas, border controls or taxes, and domestic purchase or supply mandates. Covering 42 economies, the IEA finds that consumer support increased to USD 531 billion in 2021, more than triple their 2020 level, driven by the surge in energy prices.\nThe OECD and IEA have consistently called for the phasing out of inefficient fossil fuel support and re-direction of public funding toward the development of low-carbon alternatives alongside improvements in energy security and energy efficiency. Subsidies intended to support low-income households often tend to favour wealthier households that use more fuel and energy and should therefore be replaced with more targeted forms of support.\nRead more at: www.oecd.org\/fossil-fuels\/.\nFor further information, journalists are invited to contact Catherine Bremer in the OECD Media Office (+33 1 45 24 97 00) or Merve Erdil at the IEA Press Office (+33 1 40 57 66 94).\nSimone Galimberti\nPosition: Co -Founder of ENGAGE,a new social venture for the promotion of volunteerism and service and Ideator of Sharing4Good\nDiscussion with an Indian friend\nTotal views: 552633\nPuspa Shahi-A Profile\nSchool as a zone of peace: Rhetoric or Reality\nAn Open Letter to Bill O'Reilly- Sudarshan Subedi is NOT just \" That guy from Nepal\"\nCrafting Asian Social Work as a transnational professional space Personal Narration of a transnational migrant Social Work educator\nSOCIETY AT LARGE\nInclusive Gender ( also LGBT issues)\nPromotion of volunteerism based society\nVolunteering Management\nSocial Capital and Grass Roots democracy and Civic Ventures\nINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEMOCRACY\nBETTER AID\nSOCIAL AND ETHICAL BUSINESS\nCorporate Social Responsability and Corporate Citizenship\nVenture Philantropism and Philantropy\nFinancing the Future Wednesday 08 February 2023 6:00pm to 7:30pm Hosted by the Department of International Development\nhttps:\/\/www.fao.org\/fao-awards\/partnership\/about\/en\nGreta Thunberg and IOM DG Ant\u00f3nio Vitorino Call for Urgent Action to Address Climate Migration\nStudents' experiences bullying in Nepalese Educational Institutions\nThe idea is simple: creating an open \"Portal\" where engaged and committed citizens who feel to share their ideas and offer their opinions on development related issues have the opportunity to do...\nPlease fell free to contact us. We appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing from you.\nEmail: info@sharing4good.org\nWeb: http:\/\/sharing4good.org\nEmpowered by ENGAGE,\nToward the Volunteering Inspired Society.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"There is \"masses\" of unpublished Douglas Adams writing, says brother\nBut it doesn't look like we'll be seeing it anytime soon...\nBy Huw Fullerton\nSaturday, 4th October 2014 at 7:39 pm\nDon't Panic, Douglas Adams fans \u2013 but apparently there's an undiscovered hoard of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author's writing that has never seen the light of day.\n\"You don't want to titillate people, but there is masses of material,\" Adams's half-brother James Thrift said at the Cheltenham Literature Festival today.\n\"Some of [the material] is Dirk Gently, some of it is Hitchhiker's. My view personally is that there's an awful lot of it that led up to what became Hitchhiker's.\"\nUnfinished writing drafts wouldn't normally attract such attention, but Douglas Adams was no ordinary writer. He became an almost overnight sensation in the late 70s with his revolutionary radio comedy (and later five-book 'trilogy', TV series and posthumous 2005 film) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which concerned the outer space adventures of quintessential Englishman Arthur Dent after the destruction of Earth.\nMaking millions from the Hitchhiker's novels, the author later also became known for a series of books based around a holistic detective named Dirk Gently (later turned into a BBC series starring Stephen Mangan), though he only completed two such books before his sudden death in 2001.\nAdams's books have sold over 15 million copies, and have legions of passionate fans worldwide, so the idea of unseen material is bound to excite many. Indeed, as a previous anthology of unpublished work by Adams (called the Salmon of Doubt) was released in 2002, fans might expect that this other material might one day be available as well.\nHowever, Thrift, who was speaking at a commemoration of his half brother alongside a panel including Terry Jones and Clive Anderson, was firm that this collection of unreleased writing would stay that way.\n\"The way Douglas wrote was that he started with ten pages and then worked his way down to one, and that was the one page that he was happy to go out there,\" he explained.\n\"All right, there's all this material there, but it's not material that he ever really wanted to see the light of day\u2026 Always in the back of your mind would be, Douglas is going to be kicking us.\"\n\"But there is an awful lot of stuff there,\" he added \u2013 clearly forgetting his earlier pledge not to titillate.\nFor now at least, it looks like the fans will have to stick with what they've got. What a load of Belgium.\nCheltenham Literature Festival\nThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)\nProof that Arthur Dent is the smartest person in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\nNick Hornby: \"Novels should be like TV\"\nAll about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)\nJudi Dench, Damian Lewis, John Cleese and Kevin Pietersen join Cheltenham Literature Festival\nOriginal Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cast to reunite for new series","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LamboCARS main \/ Miura \/ Miura Jota\nMiura Jota\nBy Mark Smeyers on January 29. 2012 in Miura.\nIf you mention the name Miura among car enthusiasts, chances are most of them know exactly what you are talking about, the Lamborghini Miura is an icon in automotive history, so what happens when Chief Test driver Bob Wallace 'modifies' one of these exotic super cars into a race car ?\nThat is when the Jota comes into the picture, probably the most spectacular Lamborghini ever made and to date the most ambitious project Bob Wallace worked on during his days at Automobili Lamborghini \u2026 back in 1970 he wanted to build a pure bred racing machine based on the magnificent Miura. Hence the name as the syllable 'J' is pronounced Yota in Italian, and coincidence or not \u2026 appendix J was part of the International Auto Racing rulebook of that era.\nBut we all know the late Ferruccio didn't have much intention to race any of his cars, so while he did allow Bob to use the factory tools, a genuine chassis from the line (number 5084 to be exact) and even use one of the brand new engines (number 30744 in fact) as a basis for his 'toy' \u2026 but Bob did have a daytime job at the factory, so the Miura Jota had to developed during evenings and weekends.\nFrom a distance the Jota still looked like a Miura, but up close a lot was different, just about the entire car was developed from the ground up \u2026 most of the bodywork was now made from Avional, a very light, composite alloy usually only found in the aircraft industry, but Bob also removed the floor of the steel chassis and replaced it with this much lighter alloy. Back to the outside, the Miura Jota looked like a race car on the outside using fixed headlights covered by plastic covers that could be quickly replaced during a race if needed. Up front a large chin spoiler was mounted to counteract any lift due to the high speeds this Bull could reach.\nAll over the new bodywork air intakes and outlets were cut into the alloy, allowing cool air to enter and hot air to leave the car as smoothly as possible, in the hood two large, open outlets were present, just behind them a quick fuel filler \u2026 it was to be a race car after all right. Behind the front wheels two massive vents were cut and both side windows had been replaced by plastic units with small sliding parts to allow a draft of air into the cockpit \u2026 which didn't have any air conditioning naturally, that's only extra weight \u2026 which means less performance.\nThe usual twin windshield wipers were removed and a single, parallelogram-action race wiper was mounted, on the roof two additional air intakes rammed air into the engine compartment while the louvers from the original Miura remain on the engine cover, however two more air outlets were cut in the rear panel and the entire lower grille was removed \u2026 instead a quartet of thundering exhaust pipes were visible now.\nCampagnolo supplied some of the widest, magnesium wheels on the market in the Seventies, a massive 12 inch wide at the back and 9 inch up front, 15 inch tall rolling initially on Dunlop racing slicks which were replaced by Pirelli later on. Years later Bob Wallace would mention he based the design of the Jota wheels on those found on a Bizzarrini, but let's say this is part of the legend. Because of these ultra wide wheels the entire suspension also had to be redesigned, something Bob Wallace intended from the start naturally, he also created a near perfect weight distribution by putting a large spare wheel right at the back of the chassis and moving the single fuel tank into the side sills, 60 liter each \u2026 something that would be the downfall of the Jota later on unfortunately.\nWith all that weight saving and redesign it would be wrong to leave the interior alone, so Bob Wallace completely stripped away everything he could get rid of, the dashboard was replaced with a lightweight plate holding only the strictly necessary dials and switches, the central console was never to be seen again and the roof mounted switches were placed on the dashboard itself now. The seats were replaced with padded foam 'bags' hanging from the structure between the cockpit and the engine \u2026 perhaps not too comfortable, but it sure saved a lot of weight in the end.\nAs for the engine \u2026 no doubt another masterpiece by Bob Wallace, he boosted the compression ratio, installed modified cams and a completely electronic ignition system \u2026 add a dry sump lubrication to avoid having the engine oil all on one side during hard cornering and a somewhat louder exhaust with four megaphones \u2026 and a nice 440 horsepower rating is the result. Note Bob actually used Islero sourced oil radiators for this Jota and a gearbox with closer ratios \u2026 by the way, the pedals in the Jota hung from above, on the regular Miura the pedals actually stand up, another major modification only seen on the Jota.\nFerruccio still didn't want to have one of his cars on the track, but he did allow to have the Miura Jota rigorously field tested, so it covered over 20,000 Kms on Pirelli test tracks with a proud Bob behind the wheel \u2026 these test runs led to the development of the H60 VR15 tire that would be mounted on the 'street' Miura \u2026 so the Jota was used as a test bed for new suspension development and tire testing under heavy strain \u2026 but economic troubles would decide the Jota's faith.\nOn February 8. 1972 the Jota was sold to InterAuto in Brescia for an undisclosed amount of money, imagine owning a one of a kind Miura \u2026 that was more a race car than a road car to be honest, and it showed \u2026 a mechanic would become a little over enthusiast while showboating the car to his girlfriend \u2026 he hit the side of a bridge, ripping the side mounted fuel tanks causing the Jota to catch fire and burn down completely \u2026 the fire was so intense most of the bodywork was destroyed, but also the chassis was warped beyond repair.\nThe Lamborghini Miura Jota was no more \u2026 but at least it did get some attention in the automotive press which led to several inquiries by Miura owners who liked to have their own, standard Miura turned into a Jota edition. The factory never accepted building a second Jota, however several regular Miura were rebuilt to a certain level of Jota specifications \u2026 some sources call these the Miura SVJ model.\nMost of these factory replicas only had some bodywork modifications that included the extra intakes and outlets, most of them also got the fuel filler seen on the Jota, only three did get a dry sump lubrication \u2026 none of them came even remotely close to the original Jota.\nIf we can rely on documentation of that time we can state the factory built these SVJ replicas on the following chassis numbers : 4860, 4990, 3781 and 5090, while the real Jota was built on chassis number 5084, with engine number 30744. As stated only the first three of these replicas had a dry-sump lubrication. The nr. 4860 was built for Hubert Hahne in Dusseldorf, Germany, the nr. 4990 was sold to Alberto Silvera in Port au Prince, Haiti, while a third one went to France.\nBut hold on \u2026 there are still dedicated people out there, that have the means to realize their dreams, no matter at what cost \u2026 so here comes Piet Pulford, a long time Lamborghini owner from the United Kingdom who invested 15 years and a massive amount of money to recreate the Lamborghini Miura Jota \u2026 and he succeeded !\nPiet started with a beaten, old Miura (#3033) sourced in the United States, but that didn't matter as not much of the original car would remain in the end. The extensive bodywork and chassis modifications were entrusted to Chris Lawrence (Wymondham Engineering) in Norfolk \u2026 note the entire front and rear section were only held onto the Jota by locating pins and Dzus fasteners to allow easy and quick removal.\nFinal assembly over the modified chassis wasn't as easy as it might sound, once the engine, which was built by none other than Bob Wallace himself in Arizona to be as exact a replica of the original Jota engine and transmission as possible, oil tanks and auxiliaries required to run this car were fitted the massive lightweight sections were to be fitted very patiently. Don't forget there is a large, quick fuel filler up front, peaking up into the front hood while at the rear we have four massive exhausts sticking out. But Roger Constable (The Car Works), also from Norfolk, pulled it together perfectly \u2026 even Bob Wallace didn't think it would be possible to recreate the Jota \u2026 he even commented the workmanship on this second rendition of the Miura Jota could very well be better than his own back in the Seventies.\nThe Miura Jota used four massive exhaust pipes that looked very nice and purposeful on the car \u2026 for track use, unfortunately the recreation of these were done so good they were just too loud to be used on the road, so Mr Pulford had four restrictors made for his Jota, these would just slide over the pipes and bring the sound level down enough to avoid being pulled over by the police every few Miles.\nDue to the efforts of Piet Pulford we can now admire the Miura Jota once more, and listen to it \u2026 when that free breathing 4 liter V12 engine comes to life you do not want to be standing at the rear of this car, the sound is deafening \u2026 just like a Le Mans race car, at idle the sound is raw \u2026 only touch the throttle mildly and an animal howl emits from the exhausts, put some more revs onto the engine and the sound goes beyond anything you might imagine.\nDriving the Jota recreating proved surprisingly smooth, sure the front suspension transmits everything right up into the steering wheel, the sheet metal between the engine and the cockpit becomes way too hot to handle after a drive, there is no fuel gauge inside so you'll have to guess how much fuel in still underneath your elbow in the side sills. With that much tire touching the road, there is no doubt about the enormous grip you have on a dry road \u2026 once it gets wet you have to be a bit more careful I'm afraid.\nSo one of the most impressive cars ever made at Sant'Agata had been lost for years \u2026 but thanks to this UK based enthusiast the Miura Jota has been resurrected from the grave \u2026 the Bull rides again !\nLambosearch\nmore on Miura Jota\nThe LamboCARS.com extensive specifications chart on Miura Jota ...\n17 more in our IMAGE gallery ...\nVeneno Jota\nDiablo SE Jota edition\nADB Diablo Jota Americana\nLamborghini Jota, the 2012 Murcielago replacement\nLambotags\nLAMBORGHINI , BOB WALLACE , MIURA , JOTA , PULFORD , RECREATE","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Shelter in place order given at UNC Asheville\nOctober 9, 2020 North State Journal Staff News\nUNC Asheville logo\nASHEVILLE \u2013 UNC Asheville gave a shelter in place order this morning following what the university said was a credible threat at the campus.\nThe campus remains on lockdown and an email articulating a threat to the campus is under investigation by state and local authorities, according to an alert published by the school.\nAnyone at the campus is asked to remain in place and no one should come to the university, the alert continued.\nAll classes, including virtual, are canceled for the day.\nAccording to WLOS, several offices at the University received an email communicating a direct threat to members of the UNC Asheville community. The email demanded that the Black Lives Matter mural on University Heights on campus be painted over.\nUNC Asheville\nIBM to spin off $19B business to focus on cloud computing\nOn edge of 72, Stevie Nicks just wants to sing a song live\nCollege Basketball Roundup: Henderson Jr. helps Campbell cruise past Elon\nDecember 18, 2019 Staff Reports & The Associated Press Article, College Basketball, Sports\nBUIES CREEK \u2014 Cedric Henderson Jr. scored 15 points and Campbell breezed to a 60-46 victory over Elon on Tuesday night. Trey Spencer added 13 points, four rebounds, four assists and four steals for the [\u2026]\nCollege Basketball Roundup: Duke freshmen lead way in opener\nNovember 28, 2020 The Associated Press Article, College Basketball, Sports\nDURHAM \u2014 Freshman Jalen Johnson had 19 points, 19 rebounds and four blocks to help No. 9 Duke overcome a turnover-filled performance and beat Coppin State 81-71 in Saturday's delayed season opener for both teams. [\u2026]\nThe coffee is hot in Asheville\nSeptember 20, 2017 Mollie Young Features\nASHEVILLE \u2014 There is no question that Asheville is the epicenter of the craft beer movement in North Carolina, but beer is not thing only thing brewing across the mountain town these days. The third [\u2026]\nPompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out anew at China on Tuesday by declaring that its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang [...]\nBiden aims for unifying speech at daunting moment for US","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Advertising Events Newsletters Subscribe\nfacebook twitter linkedin pinterest instagram RSS\nFort Worth Inc\nBest & Top\nHome News Fort Worth Saving the Market\nSaving the Market\nby FWTX staff\nBob Simpson, founder and former CEO of XTO Energy, is quickly becoming known as a sort of hero of historic buildings in downtown Fort Worth.\nMorning Star Capital LLC, co-owned by Simpson, recently purchased the Fort Worth Public Market Building, located at 1400 Henderson St. Noted for its Spanish Colonial-style architecture and tower containing stained-glass windows with panels that spell out \"Public Market,\" the building was completed in 1930 and has appeared on the Historic Fort Worth's Most Endangered List three times.\nThe building was originally a market space for farmers, vendors and retail businesses. After many economic difficulties, the market closed in 1941 and was purchased by Fort Worth transportation pioneer R.C. Bowen in 1944. It was placed on the Texas Register and the National Register of Historic Buildings in 1980 and has since been waiting for someone who cares enough to bring it back to its former glory. -FWTX Staff\nWired In History\nIN FORT WORTH\nI'm looking for...RESTAURANTSEVENTSDOCTORSATTORNEYSDENTISTSREALTORSSNAPSHOTS\nSign-up for Fort Worth Magazine's newsletters to stay up to date with what is happening around town!\nfacebook twitter YouTube Pinterest Linkedin\n\u00a9 FWTX.COM All rights reserved. Panther-City Media Group","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Narine Khachatryan\nNarine is a Yerevan-based journalist\/translator who focuses on social, economic, human rights and political issues in Armenia and the South Caucasus. Prior to joining Bellingcat, she worked with a group of independent journalists, seeking to provide reliable and unbiased information to the public.\nCataloging Violence Targeting Journalists in Armenia's 2017 Elections\nThe numerous cases of violence targeting journalists in Armenia during its April 2, 2017, parliamentary elections highlight the failure of the state's authorities to keep their promise of ensuring that elections would be held on the highest level possible. At least ten journalists of local media outlets were reported to have been subjected to obstruction and physical violence while covering the April 2 elections. A number of Armenian and international media advocacy groups and media organizations have since condemned the attacks, calling on the Armenian authorities to take measures to ensure that those responsible parties were identified and subjected to liability. Despite these calls, impunity continues to prevail, and only a few perpetrators have officially been charged for their actions.\nRFE\/RL's Armenian Service was the first to report that their correspondent Sisak Gabrielyan had been attacked by ruling Republican Party (RPA) activists at the election headquarters of RPA candidate Hakob Beglaryan in Yerevan's Kond district. Gabrielyan was reportedly hit in the face by RPA office workers after having noticed and starting filming them distributing cash among voters. A large number of people, the journalist claimed, would go into the RPA office, located on 15 Rustaveli St., before heading to a nearby polling station to cast ballots. Most of them, he said, would leave the premises with money in their hands.\nIn the video published by Azatutyun.am, office workers insist they are paying the staffers' wages, and when Gabrielyan manages to film a list of dozens of voters' names with addresses, passport numbers and signatures, they force him out of the office. The RPA campagn activists continue quarreling with Gabrielyan outside of the office, and at some point they attack the journalist and try to seize the smartphone he is using to film the incident.\nThe video filmed by Gabrielyan also shows Araratnews.am correspondent Shoghik Galstyan and her cameraman Hayk Petrosyan being attacked by a group of women as she is trying to film the commotion. A visibly agitated woman snatches Galstyan's camera, pushes the reporter, and even pulls her hair.\nOther Cases of Obstruction in Yerevan\nArmtimes.com correspondent Tirayr Muradyan's professional activities were hindered at the 9\/29 precinct, also located in Kond. According to a police report filed by Muradyan, an unknown woman insulted him and hit his camera.\nNewsbook.am reporter Armine Avetisyan was subjected to pressure, had stones thrown at her, and was threatened with stabbing at another Hakob Beglaryan campaign office in Noragyugh, a neighborhood in Yerevan's Kentron administrative district.\nAnother Newsbook.am correspondent, Kristine Poghosyan, was threatened and sworn at in the 10\/3 precinct in Yerevan's Sari Tagh neighborhood.\nNews.am correspondent Lusine Shahbazyan was prevented from properly carrying out her professional activities at the 6\/01 precinct in Yerevan's Ajapnyak administrative district.\nOther Reporters' Activities Hindered at Polling Stations Outside of Yerevan\nHetq.am correspondent Grisha Balasanyan was pressured and obstructed at the 14\/20 precinct in Echmiadzin;\nTert.am correspondent Ani Gevorgyan faced challenges at the 12\/35 precinct in the Ararat province village of Shahumyan;\nRFE\/RL Armenian Service correspondent Narine Ghalechyan's activities were hindered at the 20\/24 precinct in the Gekharkunik village of Tchambarak;\nArmtimes.com correspondent Narek Kirakosyan was subjected to pressure at the 32\/31 precinct in Gyumri.\nBelow, each incident is included in a map, with a higher concentration of incidents in and near the capital, Yerevan.\nLiability for Perpetrators\nA few days following the elections, the office of Armenia's General Prosecutor released a statement, saying that all the reports of violence against journalists were being looked into and that two criminal cases had already been initiated in connection with the incidents involving Sisak Gabrielyan and Shoghik Galstyan. Three weeks later, Armenia's Special Investigative Service said that a Yerevan man had been officially charged with assaulting Gabrielyan and obstructing his professional activities. If found guilty, the accused faces up to 5 years in prison. A Yerevan woman, the officials also said, was charged with using violence against Shoghik Galstyan.\nFuture and Previous Cases\nGabrielyan was caught in a similar incident during the May 14 municipal elections in Yerevan, fewer than two months after the parliamentary elections. He was again attacked by ruling Republican Party loyalists after witnessing them distributing cash to voters outside a RPA campaign headquarters. The video filmed by Gabrielyan shows the staff members of the office insulting and shoving the reporter as the latter tries to find out whether the headquarters had been paying bribes to voters.\nShoghik Galstyan is not a stranger to election violence and hindrance herself; during the municipal elections in October 2016, a woman snatched the reporter's smartphone and smashed it on the ground at the 30\/47 polling station in Vanadzor. The woman was subsequently fined AMD 700,000 ($1,442) and barred from taking part in any election-related processes for a year.\nAccording to the 2016 Annual Report on the Situation with Freedom of Expression and Violations of Rights of Journalists and Media in Armenia by the Yerevan-based Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, Armenian media representatives worked in extremely unfavorable conditions in 2016. They were subjected to mass violations and hindrance while covering the July 2016 demonstrations in support of an Anti-government armed group occupying a police station in Yerevan's Erebuni district.\nDuring the July events, the CPFE report says, 27 journalists and cameramen suffered from police actions, with 19 of them having been subjected to physical violence.\nDuring the coverage of the municipal elections in September\u2013October 2016, as well as during the relatively calm periods, the CPFE recorded 10 cases of physical violence against 26 journalists and cameramen, 52 cases of other types of pressure against mass media representatives, as well as 33 violations of journalists' right to receive and disseminate information.\nFor more information on obstructions to journalists during the April 2017 elections, please see this reference list.\nRepublic of Armenia Parliamentary Elections 2017 Report, Helsinki Committee of Armenia [English]\nStatement regarding the cases of violence and obstruction of professional activities of journalists on the day of parliamentary elections of April 2, 2017 [English]\nRFE\/RL Reporter Attacked In Yerevan After Investigating Possible Vote-Buying, rferl.org, 2 April 2017 [English]\n\"Preliminary Investigation Into the Obstruction of Professional Activities of Radio Liberty and Araratnews.am Reporters Over,\" Investigative Committee of Armenia, 27 April 2017 [Armenian]\nRFE\/RL Reporter Assaulted During Yerevan Vote, Azatutyun.am, 14 May 2017 [English]\nRepublican Trustee's Sister Fined for Obstructing Journalist at Local Elections, Epress.am, 15 March 2017 [English]\nAnnual Report on the Situation with Freedom of Expression and Violations of Rights of Journalists and Media in Armenia, Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, 26 January 2017 [English]\nAn Execution in Hadrut\nWagner-Affiliated Telegram Channel Trolls Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Analysts\nAmulsar\nProtests and Tensions Escalate Around Amulsar Gold Project in Armenia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Confronting Antisemitism through the Ages \u2013 A Historical Perspective\nErich S. Gruen: The Blood-Libel and the Leper-Libel: Ancient Anti-Semitism? (0)\nAlvin H. Rosenfeld: Antisemitism in Today's America (0)\nAlan Silberstein: Sister Rose Thering's Battle against Antisemitism (0)\nMatthias J. Becker: The German Left and Israel (0)\nAlex Feuerherdt: The BDS movement: Why Israel? (0)\nLinda Giesel: Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany in contemporary German discourse (0)\nFlorian Markl: \"Israel threatens to defend herself\": The Depiction of Israel in the Media (0)\nDave Rich: Why is the British Left anti-Israel, and why does it matter? (0)\nSara Offenberg: \"All the World's a Stage\": Imagined Jewish Rituals in Medieval Christian Art and Drama (0)\nThomas L. Gertzen: Should the \"Lagarde House\" be renamed? 'Germanic Ideology' in the History of Egyptology* (0)\nRobert Chazan: The Evolution of Anti-Jewish Imagery in Medieval Christian Europe (0)\nRichard S. Levy: The Defense against Antisemitism: Minor Victories, Major Defeats, 1890\u2013 (0)\nDan Michman: The Jews as a Problem for Modern European Political Logic (0)\nDoron Rabinovici: The Jewish Response to Antisemitism in Austria Prior to the Anschluss (0)\nMichael Wladika: Georg Ritter von Sch\u00f6nerers Radikalisierung zum Rassenantisemiten vom Linzer Programm 1882 bis zur Gr\u00fcndung des \"Verbandes der Deutschnationalen\" 1885 (0)\nDave Rich: Why is the British Left anti-Israel, and why does it matter?\nThomas L. Gertzen: Should the \"Lagarde House\" be renamed? 'Germanic Ideology' in the History of Egyptology*\nSara Offenberg: \"All the World's a Stage\": Imagined Jewish Rituals in Medieval Christian Art and Drama\n\u00b6 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 In many written and artistic Christian sources, we find an anti-Jewish portrayal of an alleged Jewish costume of desecrating the Host or blood libels. The stories and images are so common that we find for example the story of Simon of Trent being used as a joke in a Facebook post from April 3rd 2015 wishing \"Happy Passover\" (fig. 1). Following Miri Rubin's methodology,[1] whom literary wrote the books, where she ties together blood libels and accusations of host desecration in texts, images and drama, in this paper I wish to further discuss the issue of \"staging\" or the public sphere of the accusations, with a focus on images and texts written in the vernacular language. First, the Castilian thirteenth century C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria and the Jewish response to it, and after the fifteenth century English play: the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, and briefly analyze a contemporary demonstration of the play\n\u00b6 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 The reign of Alfonso X was characterized by cultural and political developments.[2] He was renowned as a learned king, and thus received the title: \"El Sabio\", the wise.[3] Hundreds of poems are ascribed to him, mainly those dedicated to the Virgin Mary entitled the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Mar\u00eda; Alfonso X compiled this book of stories and songs, accompanied by illuminations, over a period of three decades, completing it in the year 1284,[4] and we shall refer mainly to the performance aspect of the C\u00e1ntigas.[5] Two history books bear his name as the author: Estoria de Espanna, on the history of Spain,[6] and General Estoria, a world history intended to reach his own era, but actually ending at the period of Jesus.[7]\n\u00b6 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 The non-Christian residents of Castile, i.e. the Muslims and the Jews, enjoyed religious freedom but were also legally discriminated against; the ban on Muslims and Jews ruling over Christians prohibited them from serving in governmental institutions. According to Yitzhak Baer, some Jews ranked as high key officers in the kingdom, but not in the army or in the high courts.[8] In keeping with the decision of the fourth Lateran council in 1215, although Jews were not obligated to wear an identifying badge,[9] they were made to wear special clothes separating them from the Christians. In Alfonso X's extensive seven-part book of Law entitled: Las Siete Partidas, it states that the Jews had to wear special headgear in order to be distinguished from the Christians.[10]\n\u00b6 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 The C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria appeared in some illuminated manuscripts in the last quarter of the thirteenth century (around 1283), and some of the manuscripts that were written and illuminated under the supervision of Alfonso X still remain.[11] We have four original manuscripts, two of them illustrated with over two thousand miniatures: C\u00f3dice Rico, El Escorial, Biblioteca de San Lorenzo, Ms. T.I.1,[12] made in 1283 and entirely decorated and Biblioteca Nazionale at Florence, Banco Rari 20, which was also decorated, but whose illuminations were not all completed; C\u00f3dice de Toledo, Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid 10069, which contains one hundred poems; and the fourth manuscript, J.B.2 (Escorial E), which contains over four hundred poems, including all of those that appear in the other three manuscripts as well as unique poems that appear only here. It was made in the years 1281\u20131282, with decorated initials, and on every tenth poem an illustration of a musician appears.[13] The C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria is written in the vernacular Galician-Portuguese common in Castile,[14] and some of the poems in it were designed to be read and sung aloud, as they are accompanied by musical notes, thus the performative aspect is clear.\n\u00b6 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 The book's anti-Jewish illustrations and stories have been discussed in previous research. Louise Mirrer addressed the portrayal of the bodies of Jews in the book's text and illuminations.[15] Albert Bagby characterized five main subjects regarding the Jews in this text: the Jew as the enemy of Christianity; the Jew as the devil's disciple; the Jew as a symbol of avarice; the traitorous Jew; and the converted Jew.[16] Bagby studied Alfonso X's attitude toward the Jews by comparing the songs that refer to Jews in the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria with other contemporary popular songs that also referred to the Jews that were circulating in Europe. According to Bagby, of thirty songs in Alfonso X's book, only eight are familiar in other collections of stories. Thus, according to him, the rest of the songs must have been composed by Alfonso X. Bagby claims that even in the only three songs in which the Jew does not receive malicious characteristics, the only positive aspect of the Jew's behavior consists of his pleas for Mary's help. Vikki Hatton and Angus Mackay suggest that the attitude towards the Jews in the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria was ambivalent, as the anti-Jewish phrases balance the more neutral phrases regarding the Jews, especially in comparison to other anti-Jewish stories of the time.[17]\n\u00b6 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Dwayne E. Carpenter offered five categories different from those proposed by Bagby regarding the Jews in the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria: Jewish culpability for the death of Jesus; Jewish disparagement of the Virgin, Jesus and Christianity; Jews as allies of the Devil; Jews as avaricious; and the rescue and salvation of Jews. Carpenter studied the amount of hostility against the Jews in the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria by researching the poems that mention the Jews. He relates not only to stories where the Jews are mentioned as main characters, but also to incidental references where, he claims, the true nature of the attitude towards the Jews is more clearly revealed.[18]\n\u00b6 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 Pamela Patton suggests studying the image of the Jew in Alfonso X's book not as a measure of the King's hostility towards the Jews, but rather in order to learn about the anti-Jewish attitude of Christian Castilian society.[19] This notion is apparent in the poems, whether it is the King's position or not. Therefore, the illustrations are less representative of Alfonso X's attitude toward the Jews, and more reflective of the social atmosphere around him, so although the manuscripts were produced in his court, they represent ideas prevalent in society at the time. The illuminations in Alfonso's book not only illustrate the text, but also interpret it; in some instances, the artists added information to the poem, so even if the Jew did not participate as a main character in a story, the artist portrayed him in most scenes and emphasized his grotesque nature.\n\u00b6 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Patton points to an example of this phenomenon in the illuminations of C\u00e1ntiga 3, which tell the story of Theophilus. Although the Jew in the song is mentioned in only a single verse, the illustrations nonetheless portray the Jew in two scenes out of six. The text states that Theophilus acted on the advice of a Jew: \"per conssello dun judeu,\"[20] and the scenes portray the Jew as associated with and resembling the Devil in his grotesque appearance.[21] Hatton and Mackay, on the other hand, claim that in comparison to the story Milagros de Nustra Se\u00f1ora, written by Gonzalo de Berceo (c. 1198\u2013after 1252), the Jew's presence is minor, and he is mentioned as merely a consultant.[22] However, the negligible mention of the Jew implies the anti-Jewish nature of the text in the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria, for the audience needed no further information to understand the close relationship and supposed alliance between the Jew and the Devil. It seems that there was a public demand for such depictions, since most of the stories in the book were already familiar in Western Europe, and only a few of them were original.\n\u00b6 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 I would like to focus on C\u00e1ntiga 34 of the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria (fig. 2), where we read the story of a Jew desecrating an icon of the Virgin Mary. The story takes place on the streets of Constantinople, the location of an unusual, beautiful wooden panel painting of Mary and Child. One night a Jew steals the icon and hides it under his mantle. He brings the icon to his house, throws it into the lavatory and contaminates it. Mary allows the Devil to kill the Jew as punishment for his crime, and nothing remains of the Jew. Meanwhile, a good Christian finds and rescues the icon from the impure place and carefully cleans it. Afterwards, he places the icon in a worthy location in his home, offering it a tribute as a means of securing his salvation, and the icon emits a pleasant scent.[23]\n\u00b6 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 Like most of the illustrated poems in the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria, the story is portrayed in six scenes, and the Jew occupies three of them. In the first scene on the left, the Jew appears in grotesque profile,[24] walking by the city's buildings, dressed in a red garment and a pointed hat as he raises the icon in his right hand. In the next scene, we notice that the garment reaches his knees and thus shows his pointed red shoes, part of the distinguishing mark required in the Siete Partidas 7.24.11.[25] In this scene, we notice the Jew throwing the icon into the lavatory, while a devil stands next to the door behind him. In the third scene, we observe two demons carrying the Jew's body. All three characters are portrayed in profile, showing their grotesque noses and pointed chins. The next three scenes portray the good Christian's acts. In all but one of the scenes, the viewer can clearly see the icon of the Virgin and child, so viewing the Jew's theft and contamination of the icon must have had a shocking impact on Christian audiences.\n\u00b6 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 The similarities between Alfonso X and some of the characters in Rabbi Isaac Ibn Sahula's Meshal Haqadmoni written in 1281 Castile,[26] have already been pointed out by Yitzhak Baer and Raphael Loewe.[27] Thus, let us now turn to a discussion of Meshal Haqadmoni and connect it to the C\u00e1ntigas. The book is divided into five main chapters (On Wisdom, On Penitence, On Sound Counsel, On Humility, On Reverence), each opening with the vices of a given character and ending with the author's praise of the virtues of the respective trait. Every chapter opens with a polemic dialog between the cynic and the author, with both of them referring to scientific knowledge of nature, medicine, and philosophy, all disguised in fables.[28] The stories all begin with the perspective of the cynic, whose goal is to undermine the author's faith through fables which seem to prove that virtues are not beneficial, but rather, harmful. All of the chapters contain fables, mainly about animals. Some of these begin in the middle of a given story, when one of the characters (usually an animal) starts to tell the fable. Only following a long discussion does the plot return to the original tale, which is outside the main frame of the story. This literary motif is characteristic of the structure of the maqama and books such as Kalila wa-Dimna.[29] Both the humans and the animals in the fables can be characterized as Jewish on account of their words and customs; furthermore, they use biblical verses, the Talmud, and the Midrash to deliver moral messages, even when they are not identified as Jewish, but as members of other religions.[30]\n\u00b6 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 None of the original manuscripts of Meshal ha-Qadmoni remain, nor any that were produced during the author's lifetime or in his homeland; however, we do have five fully illuminated manuscripts from Germany and Italy, all from the fifteenth century: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Opp. 154, produced in 1450, Germany;[31] Munich, Bavarian State Library, MS Heb. 10, produced in 1458, Germany;[32] Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Can. 59, produced in 1470-1480, Italy;[33] Rothschild Miscellany, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Ms. 180\/51, produced in 1470-1480, Italy, fols. 298 v-371 r;[34] Milano, Ambrosian Library, MS X 112 sup, produced in 1483, Italy. The book was first printed in Brescia by Gershom Soncino ca. 1491 and wood cuts replaced the manuscripts' illuminations.[35]\n\u00b6 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 I would like to focus on one of Meshal Haqadmoni's fables, from the first chapter: \"The Lion upon whom attend Companions\".[36] In the story we find a connection to the Jewish-Christian polemic, so we shall examine the fable's text from this perspective. The fable tells the story of a kingdom ruled by a lion, who has two companions and advisors: the hart and the fox, who are facing a serious problem in the kingdom. At the beginning, we learn that the animals are complaining that the lion eats them, so they decide to unite and rebel against the king.[37] The author's approach is to emphasize the notion that there should be no rebalance against the kingdom.[38]\n\u00b6 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 After the animals leave the kingdom, the lion has no more animals to eat, so the fox, in a cunning gesture of flattery, offers him his own flesh, but and immediately informs him that his flesh is not as tasty as that of the hart (his rival courtier). Thus, the fox ostensibly offers his own flesh to be eaten by the lion, yet at the same time makes it clear that it is not good enough for the king. The scene appears in the same way in all the manuscripts: the fox and hart are standing in front of the lion. Despite the fox's words, the lion refuses to harm the hart, since doing so would be a violation of the alliance between them. The fox speaks badly of the hart and claims that the hart has no noble genealogy, unlike the fox. This claim leads the lion to call upon all his ministers and investigate the hart's pedigree. The fox represents the anti-Jewish stance in King Alfonso X's court, when, according to Loewe, he demands to inspect the hart's limpieza de sangre (purity of blood), while the hart represents the Jewish courtiers.[39]\n\u00b6 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 I would like to examine another historical aspect of the story that mainly concerns the Jewish-Christian polemic as it is reflected in the hart's sermon delivered before the lion. The hart begins to clarify the vices of the wicked soul that speaks against the Talmud and insults it: \"On scholarship [Talmud][40] she loads insults obscene\/ Her hart full of contempt; precepts she spurns\/ And from their highway into byways turns\/ To roam, her outrages past numbering\/ All the commandments from her back to fling\/ The holy law of God dishonoring.\" It seems that here we find criticism against the Jews who have drifted from the Holy Scriptures, prefer foreign literature, and even convert to Christianity. The hart declares that the penalty of the wicked is that they will not have a part in the afterlife, and goes on to explain: \"I catalogue here those who, by their sin\/ Have forfeited all claim to share therein\/ Ones who, unorthodox, affirm a lie\/ All unbelievers; those who would deny\/ The law, the resurrection of the dead\/ Or the Messiah's coming; all these, led\/ Into apostasy, with those who lead\/ Astray the public; those, too, that secede\/ From laws which the community maintained\/ Insurgents; those who trespass in disdain\/ Defiant: all informers; those whose lies\/ Spread slander, or by surgery disguise\/ Their covenantal seal.\"[41] We hear in these words an echo of the blessing of the apostates (Birkat Haminim), part of the Amidah prayer.[42]\n\u00b6 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 The hart elaborates on the punishment of the wicked, noting that in addition to being deprived of an afterlife, they are doomed to \"excrement that seethes.\" This phrase is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 57a: \"He then went and raised Balaam by incantations. He asked him: Who is in repute in the other world? He replied: Israel. \u2026 He said: What is your punishment? They replied: With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: Whoever mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement.\" Furthermore, in the hart's words we may find an utterance regarding the public polemics, such as the Paris Talmud Trial in 1240 between Rabbi Yehiel of Paris and the converted Nicolas Donin.[43] The Paris Talmud Trial of 1240 was the first of three public disputes initiated by converted Jews, where the Talmud was the main focus of discussion. The aftermath of the 1240 trail was the burning of the Talmud in 1242. In 1263 Barcelona R. Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) defended the Talmud against the converted Pablo Christiani, who also disputed with R. Abraham in the second Paris trial in 1271\/1273.[44]\n\u00b6 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 According to the Hebrew account of the 1240 Talmud trial, the punishment of the wicked to be doomed to \"excrement that seethes\" is also mentioned. Nicolas Donin claimed that the Jews wrote in the Talmud that Jesus was condemned to boiling hot excrement, and on the basis of the Talmud, Balaam's punishment is ascribed to Jesus.[45] In the Jewish tradition, Balaam is sometimes replaced with Bela ben Beor, the first king of Edom. Therefore, Balaam is identified both with Esau and Jesus. Hence, when the Talmud mentions the punishment of Balaam and the criminals of Israel as being punished \"with boiling hot excrement,\" it refers to Jesus.[46]\n\u00b6 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 Therefore, we can see in this statement in Meshal Haqadmoni a reference to the Paris Talmud Trial and to the punishment of Balaam\/Jesus. Even if this notion was not actually raised in the Talmud Trial itself and is recorded only in the later written text, there is important value to its inclusion in the Hebrew account. While it may have been written some decades after 1240,[47] nonetheless it had been written (and probably widespread) by 1280s, when Ibn Sahula wrote Meshal Haqadmoni. Hence, whether or not these exact words were mentioned in the actual Talmud Trial is of less importance to our discussion than the fact that they appear in the account written before Ibn Sahula wrote his book.\n\u00b6 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 Returning to the illumination of C\u00e1ntiga 34, the fact that the icon of Virgin and Child is desecrated by being thrown into the lavatory seems to indicate a Jewish intention to punish Jesus and Mary with \"excrement that seethes.\" This kind of abuse could show the punishment that the Virgin and Child deserve in the eyes of the Jews, when at the end of the story the Jew is condemned to hell. The story in C\u00e1ntiga 34 is not the only one in the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria to display Jewish mockery of Christian symbols. The Christian notion in this book is that the Jews are allegedly already trying to implement the Talmud's ideas about the punishment of the wicked.\n\u00b6 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 In C\u00e1ntiga 12 we are told that the Jews of Toledo were caught by the Archbishop and his congregation as they were spitting at and cursing a wax image of Jesus and later placing him on an improvised cross.[48] The idea of Jews mocking a wax crucifix appears also in Alfonso X's book of law, Las Siete Partidas, 7.24.2,[49] where the King wrote that he had heard that in some places the Jews abduct Christian children on Good Friday and place them on a cross, but if they do not find such children, they create a wax image and crucify it. Alfonso X mentions that if these incidents turned out to be true in his kingdom, the Jews who carried them out would be executed. He also orders the Jews to stay behind close doors on Good Friday (In 408 Theodosius II forbade the Jews from burning a figure like Haman on Purim, as it was understood to be mockery on the Crucifixion). Elliot Horowitz discusses at length cases in which Jews were accused of mocking the cross, and testimonies of such actions appear in Jewish texts.[50]\n\u00b6 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 The King's reference to this issue in his law book and in the C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria indicates the prevalence of such stories. The fact that these incidents appear both in a popular illuminated book of poetry and in a book of law reinforces the notion that it is not merely a legend or rumor, and suggests that they are true. Although Alfonso X wrote that he had heard rumors of such accusations, and did not report actual incidents in his kingdom, the fact that he enacted a law to be used in case such events occurred strongly suggests that the story represents a situation that could conceivably be faced.\n\u00b6 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 Now let us turn to an altarpiece image from Catalonia, c. 1400 (fig. 3), where we find an illustration to the well-known Paris Tale of 1290, where a Christian woman stole the host and gave it to the Jewish pawn-man, who is seen here stabbing the host and after throwing it into a boiling cauldron the image of Christ appears.[51] The image here portrays simultaneous phases of the story and notice how the Jewish boy resembles Jesus, as opposed to his dark skin father. At the end, the mother and son convert and the father is executed. A similar story is found in a fifteenth century liturgical drama; the Croxton Play of the Sacrament was written in the East Midland dialect of Middle English not long after 1461, the year in which the event that is the central topic of the play is supposed to have taken place. The Play of the Sacrament is set in Aragon and tells the story of a miracle in which a rich Jewish merchant named Jonathas and his companions purchase the consecrated Host from a Christian merchant called Aristorius, and subject it to a series of tests in order to determine the truth of the Christian claim that Christ is present in it, then the Jews convert.[52]\n\u00b6 23 Leave a comment on paragraph 23 0 The local priest dines with Aristorius, suggestively on red wine and light bread, then retires to bed, leaving the church key with Aristorius, who promptly enters, steals the Host, and hands it over to Jonathas and his men. Jonathas and his colleagues rehearse the articles of Christian belief\u2014Christ at the Last Supper, the establishment of the Church, the virgin birth, the kingship and resurrection of Jesus, the apostolic mission. Then they stab the Host as it lies on a table and inflict the five wounds of Christ\u2014reenacting the torture of Jesus. As Jonathas gives the fifth wound, in the center, the Host begins to bleed. Jonathas calls for help. He tries to throw the Host into a cauldron of boiling oil; it will not leave his hand, so they nail it to a board (thus mocking the cross). When they pull Jonathas away, his hand is torn off and left hanging with the crucified Host. Then enters a quack doctor, Magister Phisicus with his company and offers their services to the Jews, who beat them away.\n\u00b6 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 The Jews then pluck out the nails, and throw both hand and Host, now coalesced, into the boiling oil. Jonathas, asked for his advice, Jonathas kneels before him, as do the others, and they address Jesus in the language of poetic penance. He accepts their conversion, and restores Jonathas's hand to his arm. Afterwards Jonathas and his men go to the Bishop and proclaim the miracle and the Bishop goes to their house and sees the image of Christ change back into bread, the Host. The merchant Aristorius confesses his unlawful bargain to the Priest. All go to church with the Bishop, who lays the Host on the altar. He then baptizes the Jews, and all sing the Te Deum.[53]\n\u00b6 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 0 According to David Bevington the play was probably performed during the Feast of Corpus Christi and that the last scene takes place in church, thus the audience could have felt like experiencing an actual liturgical ceremony instead of a merely a play. He even mentions a demonstration of the Mass at the medieval conference in Kalamazoo, where \"the many members of religious orders who were there all stood or knelt at the appropriate times as the Mass was sung, so that one could never be sure whether one was beholding a Mass or a theatrical event.\"[54] He compares the modern experience to that of the medieval audience.\n\u00b6 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 Now let us move beyond the medieval period to the 21st century. As part of the production of the Blood Project, the play was staged in Oxford on Jenuary 10th 2004: http:\/\/www.thebloodproject.net\/performance\/. Here we start with an opening of a puppet show, where the Jew wears a yellow star and the players performing the role of the Jew all wear black with yellow gloves (figs. 4-5). This stereotypical color to portray the Jews reveals more on the modern audience rather than the medieval past. According to the director in the program: \"Our aim in staging the Croxton Play of the Sacrament is not to endorse its objectionable and fantastical images of Jews, but to expose them. In order to expose the Jewish caricature we have followed its exaggeration in the Croxton Play. We have adopted a self-consciously theatrical style in acting and costumes, which also play on medieval Christian symbolism: yellow, the colour of perfidy, was frequently used in portrayals of Jews.\" The play was reviewed by Angie Johnson in The Oxford Times: \"It's a curious piece. In this apparently anti-Semitic play the secular Christian characters are, in my opinion, much more wicked, and when this was written the Jews had long been expelled from England. This leads to some dubious characterisations \u2014 at one point the Jews thank Mohammed!\".[55]\n\u00b6 27 Leave a comment on paragraph 27 0 Both in Alfonso X's book and in the play, the actual story happens in a city or a country far from the origin of the place where the story\/play was written. This could hint at a larger understanding of the so called \"Jewish conspiracy\" to harm the body of Jesus and to desecrate the host in a reenacting a ritual similar to the crucifixion and the church Mass. We need to point at an important difference between the two, and that is that while in Castile the Jews were very much present in Alfonso X's court, the Jews of England were expelled in 1290 and there was no single Jew living in England during the time the play was written. Hence, in the English play the imagined rituals of the Jews are received as facts known from outer sources and the \"hermeneutical Jew\", to use Jeremey Cohen's term,[56] is intended to better reinforce the stance of the \"Real Presence of Christ in the Mass\" at the time and place where it was written. A similar understanding of the play is articulated in Anthony Bale's comments on it, in his summery of the play's modern production. In both cases, the performance is intended towards a Christian audience with a clear agenda and it may teach us nothing about actual Jewish rituals, but we do realize how they were perceived.\n\u00b6 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 [1] Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture, Cambridge University Press 1991; idem, Gentile Tales, New Haven and London 1999.\n\u00b6 29 Leave a comment on paragraph 29 0 [2] The World of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror: Intellect and Force in the Middle Ages, Robert I. Burns, ed., Princeton 1985; Joseph F. O'Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain, Ithaca 1975, pp. 538-581.\n\u00b6 30 Leave a comment on paragraph 30 0 [3] Robert I. Burns, 'Stupor Mundi: Alfonso X of Castile, the Learned', in Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and his Thirteenth-Century Renaissance, Robert I. Burns, ed., Pennsylvania 1990, pp. 1-13. According to Burns, it is doubtful that he actually wrote the entire corpus ascribed to him.\n\u00b6 31 Leave a comment on paragraph 31 0 [4] Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Mar\u00eda, Walter Mettmann, ed., 3 vols, Madrid 1986-1989; Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, The Wise: Translation of the 'Cantigas de Santa Maria', trans. Kathleen Kulp-Hill with an introduction by Connie L. Scarborough, Tempta 2000. See also Pamela Patton, Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain, Pennsylvania 2012, esp. chap. 5.\n\u00b6 32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 [5] John E. Keller, \"Drama, Ritual, and Incipient Opera in Alfonso's Cantigas,\" in Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance, ed. Robert I. Burns, Pennsylvania 1990, pp. 72-89.\n\u00b6 33 Leave a comment on paragraph 33 0 [6] Diego Catal\u00e1n, La Estoria de Espa\u00f1a de Alfonso X. Creaci\u00f3n y evoluci\u00f3n, 5 vols. Madrid 1992.\n\u00b6 34 Leave a comment on paragraph 34 0 [7] Alfonso X el Sabio, General Estoria, Pedro S\u00e1nchez-Prieto Borja, ed., Madrid 2001.\n\u00b6 35 Leave a comment on paragraph 35 0 [8] Yitzhak Baer, A History of the Jews, vol. I, pp. 111-130; Thomas F. Glick, 'Introduction', in Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain, Vivian B. Mann, Thomas F. Glick and Jerrilynn D. Dodds eds., New York 1992, pp. 1-9; Dwayne E. Carpenter, Alfonso X and the Jews: An Edition of and Commentary on Siete Partidas 7.24 'De los Jud\u00edos', Berkeley 1986, sign. 7.24.11, pp. 30, 36, 67-69, 99-101; O'Callaghan, The Learned King, pp. 102, 108-113.\n\u00b6 36 Leave a comment on paragraph 36 0 [9] Simon Grayzel, The Church and the Jews in the XIIth. Century, 2 vols., New York 1966, vol. I, pp. 61, 307-311; Guido Kisch, 'The Yellow Badge in History', Historia Judaica 19 (1957), pp. 89-146; R. Straus, 'The \"Jewish Hat\" as an Aspect of Social History', Jewish Social Studies 4 (1942), pp. 59-72.\n\u00b6 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 0 [10] D.E. Carpenter, Alfonso X and the Jews, pp. 99-101.\n\u00b6 38 Leave a comment on paragraph 38 0 [11] Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria, ed. Walter Mettmann, Madrid 1986-1989, 3 vols; Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, The Wise: Translation of the `Cantiga de Santa Maria`, trans. Kathleen Kulp-Hill, Tempta 2000.\n\u00b6 39 Leave a comment on paragraph 39 0 [12] See the facsimile edition: Alfonso X El Sabio, Las Cantigas de Santa Mar\u00eda: C\u00f3dice Rico, Ms. T-I-1 Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Pr\u00f3logo In\u00e9s Fern\u00e1ndez Ord\u00f3\u0148ez, 2 vols. Madrid 2011.\n\u00b6 40 Leave a comment on paragraph 40 0 [13] Walter Mettmann discusses the differences between the manuscripts: Cantigas de Santa Maria, vol. 1, pp. 25-40; J. E. Keller and A. G. Cash, Daily Life Depicted in the \"Cantigas de Santa Maria\", Kentucky 1998, pp. 1-2; Connie L. Scarborough, \"Introduction\", in: Songs of Holy Mary, pp. xix-xxxvi.\n\u00b6 41 Leave a comment on paragraph 41 0 [14] Aviva Doron, \"On the Affinity between the Hebrew Creation in Toledo and its Literature Environment: The Prolog of Alfonso el Sabio's C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria and the Personal Poems of Todros Ha-Levi Abulafia,\" Biqoret U-parshanut 32 (1998), pp. 81-94, esp. 82-83 (Hebrew).\n\u00b6 42 Leave a comment on paragraph 42 0 [15] Louise Mirrer, \"The Jew's Body in Medieval Iberian Literary Portraits and Miniatures: Examples from the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Cantar de mio Cid\", Shofar 12\/3 (1994), pp. 26-27.\n\u00b6 43 Leave a comment on paragraph 43 0 [16] Albert I. Bagby, \"The Jews in the C\u00e1ntigas of Alfonso X, El Sabio,\" Speculum 46\/4 (1971), pp. 673-674.\n\u00b6 44 Leave a comment on paragraph 44 0 [17] Vikki Hatton and Angus Mackay, \"Anti-Semitism in the Cantigas de Santa Maria,\" Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 60\/3 (1986), pp. 189-190; 191-192.\n\u00b6 45 Leave a comment on paragraph 45 0 [18] Dweyne E. Carpenter, \"The Portrayal of the Jew in Alfonso the Learned's Cantigas de Santa Maria,\" in: In Iberia and Beyond: Hispanic Jews between Cultures, ed. Bernard Dov Cooperman, London and Newark 1998, pp. 16-18; 31-34.\n\u00b6 46 Leave a comment on paragraph 46 0 [19] Pamela Patton, Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain, Pennsylvania 2012; idem, \"Constructing the Inimical Jew in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theophilus's Magician in Text and Image,\" in: Beyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture, ed. Mitchell B. Merback, Leiden and Boston 2008, pp. 234-235.\n\u00b6 47 Leave a comment on paragraph 47 0 [20] C\u00e1ntiga 3, l. 19, Mettmann, Cantigas de Santa Maria, vol. I, p. 62.\n\u00b6 48 Leave a comment on paragraph 48 0 [21] Patton, \"Constructing the Inimical Jew,\" pp. 241-252. See also D. Jackson, \"The Influence of the Theophilus Legend: An Overlooked Miniature in Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria and its Wider Context\", in: Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, eds. John Lowden and Alixe Bovey, Turnhout 2007, pp. 75-87.\n\u00b6 49 Leave a comment on paragraph 49 0 [22] Hatton and Mackay, \"Anti-Semitism in the Cantigas,\" pp. 189-192.\n\u00b6 50 Leave a comment on paragraph 50 0 [23] Bagby, \"The Jews in the C\u00e1ntigas\", p. 676; Keller and Cash, Daily Life Depicted, p. 15; Kulp-Hil, Songs of Holy Mary, p. 45; Mettmann, Cantigas de Santa Maria, vol. 1, pp. 143-144; Patton, Art of Estrangement, pp. 88-89, 160. We find a similar story in the book De Locis Sanctis, written around 683-686 by Adamnan (ca. 625-704) the abbot of Iona. Peter Sch\u00e4fer, Mirror of His Beauty, Princeton and Oxford 2002, pp. 191-195. Similar stories are found also in twelfth and thirteenth century France and Germany and see: Ivan G. Marcus, \"A Jewish-Christian Symbiosis: The Culture of Early Ashkenaz\", in: Cultures of the Jews: A New History, ed. David Biale, New York 2002, vol 2, pp. 147-214, esp. 176-182; Michael Camille, The Gothic Idol, Cambridge 1989, p. 186.\n\u00b6 51 Leave a comment on paragraph 51 0 [24] On the Jewish nose and appearance in Christian art see Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Iconography, New York 2014.\n\u00b6 52 Leave a comment on paragraph 52 0 [25] On the distinguishing mark see: Carpenter, Alfonso X and the Jews, pp. 99-101.\n\u00b6 53 Leave a comment on paragraph 53 0 [26] On the text and images of Meshal ha-Qadmoni see Yael Ayalon, 'The Illustrations to Meshal ha-Qadmoni of Ishaq ibn Sholomo ibn Sahulah', M.A. Thesis, Tel Aviv University, 2002 (Hebrew); Simona Gronemann, 'Extant 15th Century Ashkenazi Illuminated Manuscripts of Meshal hakadmoni by Isaac ibn Sahula', Ph.D. dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006 (Hebrew). Gronemann's research offers an in depth comparison between the illuminations in all five manuscripts and the earliest printed copy of Meshal ha-Qadmoni, and all the illustrations are reproduced in the dissertation's second volume; Ursula and Kurt Schubert, J\u00fcdische Buchkunst, Graz 1983, pp. 108-109; Ayelet Oettinger-Salama, '\"I Place with Texts the Illustrate, Should Point\/ The Moral\": Exploring the Connection Between the Verbal art and the Visual Art in the Book Meshal Haqadmoni by Isaac ibn Sahula', Dapim le-Mehkar be-Sifrut 13 (2001-2002), pp. 229-256 (Hebrew); Sara Offenberg, 'Expressions of Meeting the Challenges of the Christian Milieu in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature', Ph.D. Dissertation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2008, chap. 5 (Hebrew); Refael-Vivante, Revital, Treasury of Fables: Isaac ibn Sahula's Meshal Haqadmoni (Castile, 1281) \u2013 Text and Subtext, Ramat Gan 2017 (in Hebrew).\n\u00b6 54 Leave a comment on paragraph 54 0 [27] Two of the characters in the fables are a lion and an eagle, both rulers of the animal kingdom. Scholars have agreed that the lion and the eagle are allegorical figures of King Alfonso X, therefore we find a direct connection between Meshal Haqadmoni and Alfonso's book. Baer, A History of the Jews, I, pp. 199-200; Loewe, Meshal Haqadmoni, pp. xv-xvii, xci-xcii; idem, \"Who Was the Fox in the Court of Alfonso X?\", Donaire 6 (April 1996), pp. 49-53, esp. 50. See also: Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Alfonso X and the Cantigas de Santa Maria: A poetic Biography, Leiden 1998, pp. 162-165; idem, The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile, Philadelphia 1993, pp. 215-229.\n\u00b6 55 Leave a comment on paragraph 55 0 [28] In addition to being a doctor, Ibn Sahula was also a Kabbalist; on possible kabbalistic ideas in Meshal ha-Qadmoni see: Hartley Lachter, 'Spreading Secrets: Kabbalah and Esotericism in Isaac ibn Sahula's \"Meshal ha-kadmoni\"', Jewish Quarterly Review 100, 1 (2010), pp. 111-138. For more on Ibn Sahula's kabbalistic writings see: Baer, A History of the Jews, vol. I, p. 422 n. 12a, and see also the bibliography in the Hebrew translation published in Tel Aviv 1986, pp. 508-509, n. 61a; Arthur Green, 'Rabbi Isaac ibn Sahola's Commentary on the Song of Songs', Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 6, 3-4 (1987), pp. 393-491 (Hebrew); Idem, 'The Song of Songs in Early Jewish Mysticism', Orim 2, 2 (1987), pp. 57-58; Boaz Huss, Like the Radiance of the Sky: Chapters in the Reception History of the Zohar and the Construction of its Symbolic Value, Jerusalem 2008, pp. 46-47 (Hebrew); Gershom Scholem, 'The First Citation from ha-Midrash ha-Ne'elam', Tarbiz 3 (1932), pp. 181\u2013183 (Hebrew); S.M. Stern, 'Rationalists and Kabbalists in Medieval Allegory', Journal of Jewish Studies 6, 2 (1956), pp. 73-86.\n\u00b6 56 Leave a comment on paragraph 56 0 [29] On the relations with this genre of literature and its connection to Meshal ha-Qadmoni see Y. Ayalon, 'The illustrations to Meshal ha-Qadmoni', pp. 8-32; Dan Pagis, Change and Tradition in the Secular Poetry: Spain and Italy, Jerusalem 1976, pp. 225-230 (Hebrew); J. Schirmann, The History of Hebrew Poetry, pp. 244-250, 347-350; R. Yeffet, 'Meshal ha-Qadmoni', pp. 2-6.\n\u00b6 57 Leave a comment on paragraph 57 0 [30] J. Schirmann, The History of Hebrew Poetry, pp. 351-358.\n\u00b6 58 Leave a comment on paragraph 58 0 [31] See the entire manuscript online on the Oxford, Bodleian Library web site: www2.odl.ox.ac.uk\/gsdl\/cgi-bin\/library?e=d-000-00\u20140orient02\u201300-0-0-0prompt-10\u20144\u2014-dtt\u20130-1l\u20131-en-50\u201420-about-meshal\u201300001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=search&d=orient002-aav.1.1.\n\u00b6 59 Leave a comment on paragraph 59 0 [32] See the entire manuscript online on the Munich, Bavarian State Library web site: daten.digitale-sammlungen.de\/~db\/0003\/bsb00034081\/images\/.\n\u00b6 60 Leave a comment on paragraph 60 0 [33] See the entire manuscript online on the Oxford, Bodleian Library web site: viewer.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/icv\/thumbs.php?book=ms._canon._or._59&page=1.\n\u00b6 61 Leave a comment on paragraph 61 0 [34] See the facsimile edition: The Rothschild Miscellany, Iris Fishof, ed., London 1989; Israel Ta-Shma, 'The Literary Content of the Manuscript', in Ibid, pp. 39-88, esp. pp. 80-82; Loisella Mortara-Ottolenghi, 'The Illuminations and the Artists', in Ibid, pp. 127-241, esp. pp. 220-241.\n\u00b6 62 Leave a comment on paragraph 62 0 [35] See a scan of the printed book online on the Jerusalem National Library web site aleph.nli.org.il\/nnl\/dig\/books\/bk001021249.html. This is the first printed Hebrew book with a full cycle of illustrations, and it seems that Soncino ordered these illustrations specifically for this book. E. Beinenfeld, 'Meshal Ha-Kadmoni by Isaac b. Solomon ibn Sahula [Brescia: Gershom Soncino, ca. 1491]: The Book and its Illustrations', M.A. Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1991, p. 79.\n\u00b6 63 Leave a comment on paragraph 63 0 [36] Ayalon, \"The illustrations to Meshal ha-Kadmoni\", pp. 128-142; Loewe, Meshal Haqadmoni, pp. 55-114; Offenberg, \"Expressions of Meeting the Challenges,\" pp. 166-174.\n\u00b6 64 Leave a comment on paragraph 64 0 [37] Scholars have already pointed that this story reflects the actual historical event in which the nobles in Alfonso X's court rebelled against him in 1271. Loewe, Meshal Haqadmoni, pp. lxxviii-lxxx; O'Callaghan, A History of Medieval Spain, pp. 371-375; idem, The Learned King, pp. 215-229.\n\u00b6 65 Leave a comment on paragraph 65 0 [38] On the notion that it is prohibit to rebel against the kingdom see: Shalom Albeck, \"'Dinno D'malchuso Dinno' in the Jewish Communities of Medieval Spain,\" in: The Abraham Weiss Jubilee Volume, ed. Samuel Belkin, New York 1964, pp. 109-125.\n\u00b6 66 Leave a comment on paragraph 66 0 [39] Loewe, Meshal Haqadmoni, pp. ci-cvii; idem, \"Who Was the Fox\", p. 52.\n\u00b6 67 Leave a comment on paragraph 67 0 [40] Loewe translated the word Talmud as scholarship, however as we shall see later on, it is important to follow the accurate meaning of the word, which here refers to the rabbinic writings.\n\u00b6 68 Leave a comment on paragraph 68 0 [41] Loewe, Meshal Haqadmoni, pp. 104-106, and see Loewe's notes there.\n\u00b6 69 Leave a comment on paragraph 69 0 [42] Ibid, pp. 106-107, n. 47. On Birkat Haminim see: Ruth Langer, Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat Haminim, New York 2012, pp. 66-101, esp. 83-101; 217-220.\n\u00b6 70 Leave a comment on paragraph 70 0 [43] We have Hebrew accounts of the \"Talmud Trial\" and a Latin text. Judah D. Galinsky, \"The Different Hebrew Versions of the 'Talmud Trial' of 1240 in Paris,\" in: New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations: In Honor of David Berger, eds. Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. Schacter, Leiden and Boston 2012, pp. 109-140, esp. 132-137. The Latin text was originally published by Isadore Loeb, \"La controverse de 1240 sur le Talmud,\" Revue des \u00e9tudes juives 3 (1881), pp. 39\u201357. For an English translation of the Latin text see: Hyam Maccoby, Judaism on Trial: Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages, Rutherford 1982, pp. 163\u2013167.\n\u00b6 71 Leave a comment on paragraph 71 0 [44] Susan L. Einbinder, Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France, Princeton and Oxford 2002, pp. 70-99; Samuel Gr\u00fcnbaum, Sefer Vikkuah R. Yehi'el, Thorn 1873 [Hebrew]; Paul Lawrence Rose, \"When Was the Talmud Burned at Paris? A Critical Examination of the Christian and Jewish sources and a new dating: June 1241,\" Journal of Jewish Studies 62 (2011), pp. 324-339; R. Yehiel of Paris' Dispute, ed. Reuben Margaliot, Leviv 1910 [Hebrew]; Le br\u00fblement du Talmud \u00e0 Paris, 1242-1244, eds. Gilbert Dahan avec \u00c9lie Nicolas, postface de Ren\u00e9-Samuel Sirat, Paris 1999; Robert Chazan, Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and its Aftermath, Berkeley 1992; idem, \"Christian Condemnation, Censorship, and Exploitation of the Talmud,\" in: Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to Schottenstein, eds. Sharon Liberman Mintz and Gabriel M. Goldstein, New York 2005, pp. 53-59; idem, \"From Friar Paul to Friar Raymond: The Development of Innovative Missionizing Argumentation,\" Harvard Theological Review 76 (1983), pp. 289-306; Jeremy Cohen, Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jews in Medieval Christianity, Berkeley 1999, pp. 319-342; idem, \"The Second Paris Dispute and the Jewish Christian Polemic in the Thirteenth Century,\" Tarbiz 68 (1999), pp. 557-579 [Hebrew]; Saadiah Eisenberg, \"Reading Medieval Religious Disputation: The 1240 'Debate' between Rabbi Yehiel of Paris and Friar Nicholas Donin,\" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 2008; Harvey J. Hames, \"Reason and Faith: Inter-Religious Polemic and Christian Identity in the Thirteenth Century,\" in: Religious Apologetics \u2013 Philosophical Argumentation, eds. Yossef Schwartz and Volkhard Krech, T\u00fcbingen 2004, pp. 267-284; William Chester Jordan, \"Marian Devotion and the Talmud Trial of 1240,\" in: idem, Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France: Kingship, Crusades and the Jews, Vermont 2001, XI pp. 61-76; David Malkiel, Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250, Stanford 2009; Daniela M\u00fcller, \"Die Pariser Verfahren gegen den Talmud von 1240 und 1248 im Kontext von Papsttum und franz\u00f6sischem K\u00f6nigtum,\" in: Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art and Literature, eds. Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, and Joseph Turner, Leiden 2009, pp. 181-199; Ursula Ragacs, Die zweite Talmuddisputation von Paris 1269, Frankfurt am Main 2001; Joseph Shatzmiller, La deuxi\u00e8me controverse de Paris, Paris 1994; Haym Soloveitchik, \"Catastrophe and Halakhic Creativity: Ashkenaz-1096, 1242, 1306 and 1298,\" Jewish History 12 (1998), pp. 71-85. On Birkat Haminim and the Talmud Trial see Langer, Cursing the Christians?, pp. 85-88.\n\u00b6 72 Leave a comment on paragraph 72 0 [45] Dalman, Jesus Christ in the Talmud, pp. 10, 12, esp. 17-18; Eisenberg, \"Reading Medieval Religious Disputation\", pp. 84-88; Galinsky, \"The Different Hebrew Versions\", p. 122; Ivan G. Marcus, \"A Jewish-Christian Symbiosis: The Culture of Early Ashkenaz,\" in: Cultures of the Jews: A New History, ed. David Biale, 3 vols., New York 2002, vol. II, pp. 147-214, esp. 176-182; Sch\u00e4fer, Jesus in the Talmud, pp. 82-94.\n\u00b6 73 Leave a comment on paragraph 73 0 [46] Gerson Cohen, \"Esau as Symbol in Early Medieval Thought,\" in: Jewish Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ed. Alexander Altmann, Cambridge, Mass 1967, pp. 19-48.\n\u00b6 74 Leave a comment on paragraph 74 0 [47] Eisenberg, \"Reading Medieval Religious Disputation\", pp. 38-40; Hames, \"Reason and Faith,\" pp. 276-277, 281 n. 39.\n\u00b6 75 Leave a comment on paragraph 75 0 [48] Carpenter, \"The Portrayal of the Jew,\" pp. 19-20; Kulp-Hil, Songs of Holy Mary, p. 19; Mettmann, Cantigas de Santa Maria, vol. 1, pp. 88-89; O'Callaghan, The Learned King, p. 111; Patton, Art of Estrangement, pp. 88-91.\n\u00b6 76 Leave a comment on paragraph 76 0 [49] Carpenter, Alfonso X and the Jews, pp. 63-66.\n\u00b6 77 Leave a comment on paragraph 77 0 [50] Abraham M. Haberman, Sefer Gezerot Ashkenaz ve-Zarfat, Jerusalem 1945, pp. 13-15; Elliot S. Horowitz, Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence, Princeton and Oxford 2006, pp. 149-185. See also: Robert Chazan, European Jewry and the First Crusade, Berkeley 1987, p. 18.\n\u00b6 78 Leave a comment on paragraph 78 0 [51] Rubin, Corpus Christi, pp. 95-96.\n\u00b6 79 Leave a comment on paragraph 79 0 [52] Anthony Bale, The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms 1350-1500, Cambridge 2010.\n\u00b6 80 Leave a comment on paragraph 80 0 [53] David A. Lawton, \"Sacrilege and Theatricality: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament,\" Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003), pp. 281-309, esp. 287-288.\n\u00b6 81 Leave a comment on paragraph 81 0 [54] David Bevington, \"Staging Liturgy in The Croxton Play of the Sacrament,\" in: Staging Scripture: Biblical Drama 1350-1600, eds. Peter Happ\u00e9 and Win H\u00fcsken, Leiden 2016, pp. 235-252, esp. 241.\n\u00b6 82 Leave a comment on paragraph 82 0 [55]http:\/\/www.oxfordtimes.co.uk\/leisure\/theatre\/theatre\/reviews\/10941353.Miracle_play_proves_a_curious_piece___Croxton_Play_of_the_Sacrament\/?ref=rl\n\u00b6 83 Leave a comment on paragraph 83 0 [56] Cohen, Living Letters of the Law.\nSource: https:\/\/opr.degruyter.com\/confronting-antisemitism-through-the-ages-a-historical-perspective\/sara-offenberg-all-the-worlds-a-stage-imagined-jewish-rituals-in-medieval-christian-art-and-drama\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"User-accessible content\nLiterature and Theatre (1)\nManchester Gothic (1)\nAuthor: Christopher Murray x\nManchester Gothic x\n'These are not our promised resurrections'\nUnearthing the uncanny in Alan Moore's A Small Killing, From Hell and A Disease of Language\nChristopher Murray\nAlan Moore's early work in the 1980s earned him a reputation as a clever innovator, producing reinventions of old characters, subverting their histories, remoulding them as 'realistic' or adding shades of characterisation uncommon in comics. With these characters Moore rehearsed the elements that would mark his mature work, texts such as Watchmen, A Small Killing and From Hell, and the spoken performance pieces The Birth Caul and Snakes and Ladders. These were adapted into comics by Eddie Campbell and later collected as A Disease of Language. In Moore's stories the kinds of sensation and excess traditionally seen in superhero comics becomes inverted into the kind usually seen in Gothic literature. There are certainly Gothic elements in The Birth Caul, but they are in tension with the autobiographical elements, and overall the effect is more towards the uncanny than horror.\nin Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition\nMatthew J. A. Green\nLiterature and Theatre","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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I've seen the latter and it wasn't too bad, but a visit to the cheese caves in Roquefort, France, put me off cheese for a long time. The smell was unforgettable. I imagine that I'd feel the same way about politics if I sat in on some meetings.\n\"Gamesmanship\" is what they are describing, here: wait until you know that everyone has committed to getting something done by a certain date, then threaten to implode all their efforts unless you get what you want. I know that's how politics is done, but I think gamesmanship is dishonest because, in principle, you're negotiating openly for what you believe, but suddenly you reveal that you're willing to play tricks to 'win' \u2013 obviously, if you need to play tricks, your ideas can't stand on their own merits. It works, of course, which is why it's done that way. Over at Politico there is a description of how the COP26 statement was sand-bagged at the last minute. [pol]\nGLASGOW, Scotland \u2014 In a room behind the plenary hall at COP26 in Glasgow, the four biggest greenhouse gas emitters on the planet sat in a circle on Saturday evening and brokered a last minute deal to weaken a global pact to phase out coal power.\nU.S. climate envoy John Kerry, his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua, EU Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans and Indian Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav sat on chairs facing one another, with Alok Sharma, the U.K. minister in charge of the U.N. climate talks.\nAt issue was a last minute demand from China and India: Water down language in the Glasgow Climate Pact that called for a \"phase out\" of coal power. Instead, Beijing wanted the wording to be \"phase down\" and New Delhi only wanted it to cover \"inefficient\" coal, according to an EU official who was in the room.\nThe atmosphere was tense. The Chinese were willing to put the whole conference was on the line. \"We will break the whole thing down,\" said one Chinese delegate, according to the EU official.\nWhat the fuck is \"phase down\" anyhow? It hardly matters \u2013 the biggest polluters, including the USA, have already said that they intend to continue to increase emissions until at least 2050. The best that we can hope for is that they will slow down the rate of increase \u2013 hardly a \"phase out\" or even a \"phase down\"; in other words the entire premise of the meeting is a lie. The entire system is conspiring to defend the status quo, which happens to be inimical to life on Earth. If there are humans still around in 2200, they'll be asking \"why didn't the people of the time rebel, and hang those bastards while they still had a chance?\" Good question.\nI know I've been referring to Amitav Ghosh a lot, lately, but there's a whole section in The Great Derangement in which he describes how the intelligence\/police state has oriented itself toward suppressing protesters \u2013 especially climate protests \u2013 a sort of tacit admission that they knew this was coming all along and it was all, always, about keeping order more than anything else. Preserve the government means you can preserve the status quo and preserve the status quo means you can keep burning the coal until your clock runs out.\nThe public politics of climate change is, itself, an illustration of the ways in which the moral\/political can produce paralysis. Of late many activists and concerned people have begun to frame climate change as a moral issue. This has become almost a plea of last resort, appeals of many other kinds having failed to produce concerted action on climate change. So, in an ironic twist, the individual conscience is now increasingly seen as the battleground of choice that is self-evidently a problem of the global commons, requiring collective action. It is as if every other resource of democratic governance had been exhausted, leaving only this residue, the moral.\nThis framing of the issue certainly has one great virtue in that it breaks decisively with the economistic cost\/benefit language that the international climate change bureaucracy has imposed on it but, at the same time, this approach also invokes a politics of sincerity that may ultimately work to the advantage of those on the opposite side, for if the crisis of climate change is to be principally seen in terms of the questions it poses to the individual conscience, then sincerity and consistency will inevitably become the touchstones by which political positions will be judged. This, in turn, will enable deniers to accuse activists of personal hypocrisy by pointing to their individual lifestyle choices. When framed in this way authenticity and sacrifice become central to the issue, which then comes to rest on matters like the number of light bulbs in Al Gore's home and the forms of transport that demonstrators use to get to a march.\nI saw a particularly telling example of this in a TV interview with a prominent activist after the New York climate change march of September 2014. The interviewer's posture was like that of a priest, interrogating a wayward parishioner. The questions were along the lines of \"what have you given up for climate change?\" \"What are your sacrifices?\" The activist in question was quickly reduced to indignant incoherence. So paralyzing is the effect of the fusion of the political and the moral that he could not bring himself to state the obvious: that the scale of climate change is such that individual choices will make little difference unless certain collective decisions are taken and acted upon.\nSincerity has nothing to do with rationing water during a drought, as in today's California. This is not a measure that can be left to the individual conscience. To think in those terms is to accept neoliberal premises. Second, yardsticks of morality are not the same everywhere. In many parts of the world, and especially in English-speaking countries, canons of judgement on many issues still rest on that distinctive fusion of economic, religious, and philosophical conceptions that was brought about by the Scottish enlightenment. The central tenet of this set of ideas, as John Maynard Keynes once put it, is that by the working of natural laws individuals pursuing their own interests with enlightenment in condition of freedom always tend to promote the general interest at the same time. The everyday political philosophy of the 19th century, as Keynes described it, remains an immensely powerful force in the United States and elsewhere. For those on the right of the political spectrum this set of ideas retains something of its millenarian character with individualism, free trade, and god constituting parts of a whole but, by no means is it only the religiously-minded whose ideas are shaped by this philosophy: it is worth noting that the dominant secular paradigms of ethics in the United States, for example, as in John Rawls' theory of justice, are also founded upon assumptions about individual rationality that are borrowed from neo-classical economics.\nIf you recall some of the things I said BG (\"Before Ghosh\") I saw nationalism as the problem we needed to overcome in order to survive the climate crisis. Now, I'm afraid that I agree with Ghosh \u2013 nationalism is a manifestation of global power structures and the nation-state is simply a convenient unit of measurement for imperialists. The problem is not the existence of nation-states but rather the system of control behind them, for which they exist.\nAs I wrote the word \"parishioner\" above (Ghosh's language, not mine) I realized with complete clarity that I had never written that word before. How odd that I've had a particular piece of language sitting in my brain, unused, for so long. I guess it says something about the limits of my engagement with the mechanisms of religious practice.\nMarcus Ranum\nClimate Change, We are Fucked\ndangerousbeans says\nthe entire climate change strategy of the ruling class seems to be to mitigate the personal consequences for the next 30 years, then die. i hope their children are giving them a hard time\n\u00a9 2014 - FreethoughtBlogs.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"by Devin Colson November 21, 2020, 8:58 am\nWhen you're lost in the darkness, look for the light. Believe in the Fireflies. As one of the last PlayStation games to be released in the PS3 era, The Last of Us is considered one of the best video games ever made! Like with PlayStation's other iconic IP franchises, The Last of Us is beloved for its story, characters, and gut-punching emotional moments. Having launched in 2013, the series has released the long-awaited sequel earlier this summer and was met with critical acclaim. Unfortunately, The Last of Us Part 2 has been met with some controversy. Still, it's been nominated for 10 Game of the Year awards.\nNews for a TV adaptation hit the web a few months back and we finally get some confirmation on that from Deadline! HBO has given a full series order on the upcoming adaptation! The show will be done by Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin along with Game of Thrones executive producer, Carolyn Strauss. Neil Druckmann whose the game's creator will also be involved with the project. The Last of Us is set to be a co-production with Sony Pictures Television in association with PlayStation Productions, Word Games, and Naughty Dog. No word on how many episodes will be in the series.\nIn a statement from Francesca Orsi, EVP HBO Programming, she mentions her excitement for the project by saying:\n\"Craig and Neil are visionaries in a league of their own. With them at the helm alongside the incomparable Carolyn Strauss, this series is sure to resonate with both die-hard fans of The Last of Us games and newcomers to this genre-defining saga. We're delighted to partner with Naughty Dog, Word Games, Sony and PlayStation to adapt this epic, powerfully immersive story.\"\nWith a wonderful team like this, I cannot wait to see who they will cast for Joel and Ellie in HBO's adaptation! I'm also hoping that HBO finds some way to makethe different kinds of infected like the clickers send chills down my spine!\nAre you hyped about HBO's The Last of Us? Do you think the show should take some different directions from the game? Let us know in the comments below!\nAshley JohnsonHBONaughty DogPlaystationPlaystation StudiosSonyThe Last Of UsTroy Baker\nPrevious article Venom 2: New Costume Hints At The MCU Spider-Man Crossover\nNext article The Mandalorian Spin-Off Casts Two New Supporting Roles\nWritten by Devin Colson\nI'm a huge geek when it comes to things like Marvel\/DC, Star Wars, anime, etc. Bit of a movie buff. Disney kid at heart.\nUncharted Set Photos Reveal Mark Wahlberg Alongside Tom Holland\nVenom 2: New Costume Hints At The MCU Spider-Man Crossover\nThe Mandalorian Spin-Off Casts Two New Supporting Roles","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home | Resource Library Search | Other Programs | Press Releases & Statements | Taxes and Revenues\nDemographics (1) Apply Demographics filter\nx Remove Taxes and Revenues filter Taxes and Revenues\nCharts (25) Apply Charts filter\nx Remove Press Releases & Statements filter Press Releases & Statements\nExplainers (11) Apply Explainers filter\n(-) Remove Press Releases & Statements filter Press Releases & Statements\n(-) Remove Taxes and Revenues filter Taxes and Revenues\nPeterson Foundation Statement on Tax Cuts 2.0\n\"Tax Cuts 2.0 is a fitting name, because this bill would add more than $2.0 trillion to our national debt over 10 years once it kicks in,\" Michael A. Peterson, Chairman and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, said.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2018\/09\/tax-cuts-20\nPeterson Foundation Statement on New Round of Tax Cuts\n\"Another round of tax cuts financed with borrowed money is doubling down on fiscal irresponsibility,\" said Michael A. Peterson, Chairman and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2018\/09\/peterson-foundation-statement-on-new-round-of-tax-cuts\nPeterson Foundation: More Debt is the Last Thing America Needs\n\"Lawmakers should absolutely take a second look at tax policy, not to extend the irresponsibility, but to implement reforms that actually improve our fiscal situation,\" said Michael A. Peterson, Chairman and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2018\/07\/peterson-foundation-more-debt-is-the-last-thing-america-needs\nPeterson Foundation Statement on President's Budget\n\"Today's budget represents a dramatically worse outlook than what was released just last May,\" said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2018\/02\/peterson-foundation-statement-on-presidents-budget\nPeterson Foundation Statement on Budget Deal\n\"After adding trillions to our national debt in last year's irresponsible tax bill, our leaders are now adding another $300 billion in deficits over just the next two years,\" said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2018\/02\/peterson-foundation-statement-on-budget-deal\nPeterson Foundation Statement on State of the Union Address\n\"In order to truly help our economy, infrastructure investments must be paid for, because adding more debt hurts our economy,\" said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2018\/01\/peterson-foundation-statement-on-state-of-the-union-address\nPeterson Foundation Statement on End to Government Shutdown\n\"Piecemeal budgeting is a form of fiscal irresponsibility because it injects uncertainty and unpredictability into our economy,\" said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2018\/01\/peterson-foundation-statement-on-end-to-government-shutdown\nPeterson Foundation Statement on Tax Legislation\n\"Lawmakers have squandered a generational opportunity to reform our tax code in a responsible way,\" said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2017\/12\/peterson-foundation-statement-on-tax-legislation\nPeterson Foundation Statement on Tax Bill Conference Committee\n\"In just the next decade, this tax bill could add more than $2 trillion to our national debt, which is already $20 trillion and growing,\" said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2017\/12\/peterson-statement-on-tax-bill-conference-committee\nPeterson Foundation Statement on Passage of Senate Tax Bill\n\"The Senate has squandered an opportunity to pass fiscally responsible tax reform,\" said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.\nhttps:\/\/www.pgpf.org\/press-release\/2017\/12\/peterson-foundation-statement-on-passage-of-senate-tax-bill","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Culinary Arts class graduates 8\nDonna Beth Weilenman | May 30, 2018\t| 0 Comments\nMARTINEZ, Calif. \u2013 A magician, a son following his parents' enthusiasm for cooking and a student who already has landed a job as a chef are among the eight graduates of the 10-week Loaves and Fishes Culinary Arts program that primarily offers training to Vicente High School.\nThis session, three adults also participated. Robert Aamodt discovered the program after the current session had started, but worked hard to qualify for his program diploma. Maria Picatoste came with a wealth of Filipino recipes, but now has a broader perspective. And Ren\u00e9 McHenry, who had been cooking for her church, has been hired as a chef for a major company in San Ramon.\nChris Arculeta not only earned his program diploma, he also was recognized for his perfect attendance. The other graduates are Brian Benitez, Auriana Wightman, Klayton Farmer, whose parents also enjoy cooking, and Bodhisattva Bowman, who is developing a stage magic show that involves hypnotism, but also likes close up illusions.\nChef Ted Elsner, who has taught classes as chef instructor for nine years at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, has been the program director this year, and has plans for expanding it in the future.\nHe focused on basic skills, from how to slice a potato to dividing chicken into eight parts. Students learned to saute, braise and roast, and even made some sushi during class.\nThe students learned more than cooking, however, said Joleen R. Lafayette, executive director of Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa. They were guided in writing resumes and participated in mock job interviews.\nThe day before Thursday's ceremony, they served meals to about 80 people at Loaves and Fishes, and did the same during their graduation, presenting meals and desserts to friends and relatives who came to witness the awarding of diplomas.\n\"To watch them grown in 10 weeks has been amazing,\" Elsner said.\nLoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa County operates one of its dining rooms at 835 Ferry St., where anyone who is hungry can be fed a hot midday meal. It offers the basic culinary arts program free to those experiencing barriers to employment and who are interested in the food industry.\nThose earning their diplomas may enter jobs upon graduation or may continue their education through Diablo Valley College's culinary arts program, Lafayette said.\nThe next culinary class will start Sept. 11.\nTags: cooking, Loaves and Fishes, Loaves and Fishes Culinary Arts program, Vicente Martinez High School\nCategory: Community Focus\n\u00ab Play Ball!\nWhy Joe left town \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What are the Three Questions That Will clarify the Yankees-Astros ALCS\nOctober 12, 2019 October 12, 2019 Mary Powell ALCS, ALD, National League Division Series Game 5s, WHIP, Yankees-Astros, Zack Greinke\nHow about we come down this heavyweight fight into three inquiries that will control the bearing the arrangement goes.\nWith disarray ejecting in the two National League Division Series Game 5s, the American League maintained a strategic distance from a comparative destiny when the Astros fought off the spunky Rays in Thursday night's victor take-all challenge. All is directly in the AL world with the alliance's two juggernauts, Houston and the Yankees, meeting in the Championship Series. It's a rematch of the exciting, seven-game record from 2017 that sent the inevitable World Series-winning Astros to the Fall Classic.\nPeople should separate the three inquiries that will choose this version of Astros-Yankees.\nCould the Yankees beat the Astros' Big 3 starters?\nEverybody was prepared to give the Astros the Commissioner's Trophy when they gained Zack Greinke in the winding down minutes before the exchange cutoff time, giving them the best pivot trio in baseball. Greinke, an expert in his very own right, joining the main pair of colleagues to each arrive at 300 strikeouts since Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling? How might people beat them?\nObviously, people can beat them, and the Rays nearly did. They took Houston to five games, including winning Game 4 against Justin Verlander (though, on brief rest). New York took the Astros to seven games in 2017 notwithstanding hitting out multiple times with 11 strolls. The greatest thump on those Yankees was they were excessively dependent on the grand slam. This current season's Yanks definitely hit their homers (306, second most unequaled, behind the current year's Twins), yet they can win without the long ball since they can score without it. In the three-game ALDS against the Twins this week, the Yankees homered multiple times and scored 23 runs, with four of those being solo shots\u2014the other was Didi Gregorius' fantastic hammer in Game 2\u2014implying that 15 runs scored without a grand slam.\nOn the other side, a dependence on grand slams can be ideal for the Yankees versus the three-headed beast of Verlander, Cole and Greinke. Maybe the best way to beat Verlander this year is to go yard. He posted the fifth-best single-season WHIP in MLB history (0.803) however he surrendered more homers (36) than in some other season in his 15-year profession.\nMain concern: The Yankees can beat the Big 3 on the off chance that they money in on the long ball\u2014yet don't depend entirely on it\u2014and this lineup is more prepared to do that than the 2017 gathering.\nWill the Astros' bats best the Yankees' profound warm up area?\nTruly. The Yankees' warm up area is a gauntlet of shutdown relievers, the two lefties and righties. What's more, a large portion of them are all around rested after a moderately light ALDS burden and four days rest between their arrangement clincher and ALCS Game 1. Be that as it may, if at any point there was a lineup to destroy New York's warm up area of closers, it's the Astros.\nIt's very nearly an inevitable end product that the Yanks will go to their 'pen before Houston; every one of the three of their ALDS starters were alleviated before the 6th inning. That methodology can work in a best-of-five arrangement that goes just three games, which were all chosen by in any event four runs. In any case, if the Yankees have a taken shots at winning, their relievers will be in more high-influence circumstances than not. In tight games, for the most part, more is asked of a warm up area. This season, the Astros positioned third in the NL with a .800 OPS and third in MLB with 436 runs scored against relievers.\nLikewise, the Yankees' warm up area is worked around swing-and-miss pitchers with vainglorious strikeout rates, except for Zack Britton, a sinkerballer who gets this show on the road part of ground ball outs. Houston's hitters struck out not exactly some other group in baseball. Placing the ball in play is the Astros' claim to fame, and in the event that they can abstain from striking out against the Yankees' warm up area, they'll have a superior taken shots at scoring late in games.\nWho has the edge in Game 4?\nSo this is the place the Yankees can thank the Rays for pushing the ALDS to five games and beating Verlander on brief rest. Presently, in Game 4 the Astros should either utilize lefty Wade Miley against the Yankees intensely righthanded lineup, toss Greinke on three days rest or go to new kid on the block righthander Jose Urquidy in an antagonistic Yankee Stadium postseason condition with potentially a World Series appearance on hold.\nIn the mean time, for all their pivot troubles this season, the Yankees can go to J.A. Happ\u2014their ALDS Game 1 playoff starter a year ago\u2014or they'll utilize Chad Green as an opener. They've fared well in warm up area games this season, and Green has been incredible as both an opener and a high-influence reliever since coming back to the major alliance list after an early-season downgrade.\nMary Powell\nMary Powell was first registered nurse in Utah and New Zealand temperance worker and suffragist\nDisclaimer: The views, suggestions, and opinions expressed here are the sole responsibility of the experts. No Fortune Tabloid journalist was involved in the writing and production of this article.\nFull Hunter's Moon to rise this end of the week\nDuring Disney-Themed Dancing with the Stars Episode , Carrie Ann Inaba Falls Off their Chair\nNBA to support plan for 22-group come back with eight customary season games: Sources\nJune 4, 2020 June 4, 2020 Ira Sloan22-group come back, Atlanta, coronavirus pandemic, ESPN, NBA, Orlando\nSpread the love The NBA's leading body of governors plans to affirm a group proposition on...\nFrom the Final Weekend of the College Hoops daily Season 6 Things they Learned\nMarch 9, 2020 March 9, 2020 Ira SloanACC Competition, Big Ten competition, Golden Eagles, NCAA, Texas-Texas Tech Big 12\nSpread the love Notes on Kentucky, Virginia, the Big Ten, Washington and more as school ball...\nMiss rest of season , Nets star will experience arthroscopic shoulder medical procedure : Kyrie Irving injury\nFebruary 21, 2020 February 21, 2020 Ira SloanChicago Bulls, Kyrie Irving injury, Milwaukee Bucks, Nets GM Sean Marks, Stephen Oh, Wellbeing\nSpread the love Nets GM Sean Marks affirms Irving's season-finishing medical procedure: 'Our objective is long...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Coraz\u00f3n RV Park\nCorazon Line\nCORAZON RV PARK\n2285 ROLDAN DR\n(I-25, EXIT 191 WEST)\nBELEN, NEW MEXICO 87002\nAuthentically New Mexican\nEXPLORE LIKE A LOCAL\nEXPLORE THE BELEN AREA\nNew Mexico is a fascinating state. Filled with history, culture, geology, events and weather you just can't beat.\nThere's lots to see around here.\nWhere should we start?\nThe flavors of New Mexico\nPlenty of Events throughout the Year\nWe have mountains and deserts and lakes and rivers for every kind of outdoor activity\nIf you stay in the Heart of New Mexico, you can access a variety of day trips\nDining Out, Clubs, Events and more.\nThe Best Places to Visit in New Mexico, USA\nThe Best Places to Visit in New Mexico, USA New Mexico is a constituent state of the United States of America. It became the 47th state of the union in 1912. New Mexico ranks fifth among the 50 United State states in terms of total area and is bounded by Colorado to the north, Oklahoma and Texas to the east. New Mexico has some of the flattest land as well as some of the most rugged mountains in the country and it was described as The Land of Enchantment. The highest mountain peaks, Wheeler Peak and Truchas Peak are in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the north-central part of the state. The Rocky Mountains extend into the north-central part of the state. support : https:\/\/paypal.me\/pierpaoloromanelli 1.Santa Fe 2.Taos 3.Carlsbad Caverns 4.Albuquerque 5.Chaco Canion National Historic Park 6.White Sands National Monument 7.Bandelier National Monument 8.Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument 9.Gila Cliff Dwellings 10.Very Large Array\nOfficial Best of New Mexico 2013\nSee some of the very best things New Mexico has to offer in 2013! From Hot Air Balloons to Horseback riding. See some unique New Mexico towns and cities and enjoy some of the greatest stays and vacations in the country, and so much more - see it all here!\n\"New Mexico True\" Statewide Sing-a-Long to \"Feels Like Home\"\nThe lyrics talk of the beauty all around New Mexico, so it is only logical that this time around singers from all around the state take turns belting out \"Feels Like Home.\" With the help of the New Mexico Tourism Department, a total of 43 communities and organizations have combined for a unique, humorous, and occasionally-in-tune version of the catchy melody. The original version of \"Feels Like Home\" is already a music video hit. It has more than 100,000 views since its release in November 2013. (you can see the original here: http:\/\/youtu.be\/JUhXostcdC4 ) This unusual version is not a lip-sync video. These are the actual voices of several hundred New Mexicans singing about all the things that make the state \"feel like home\" to them. Tourism Department representatives traveled all around New Mexico throughout a summer capturing each community's voices. The song \"Feels Like Home\" has served as the catchy background tune for numerous TV and radio ads all across the state. The New Mexico Tourism Department first used the song in its own ads, and several communities have since followed suit. It is the creation of the band Richmond, the musical partnership of Albuquerque natives Nate Boitano and Heath Warren. Nate and Heath first gained a measure of fame as members of the popular Albuquerque band Asper Kourt. They have been friends and musical collaborators since growing up next to each other.\n\"Feels Like Home (New Mexico True)\"\nThe Albuquerque-based band Richmond unveils the official music video for their song \"Feels Like Home (New Mexico True).\" *available on iTunes - just search for Richmond, or here's a link: https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/feels-like-home\/id624687947?i=624688245 Richmond is Nate Boitano and Heath Warren. The video depicts the summer-long New Mexico adventures of the musical pair and their friends. It shows them exploring many of the state's treasures, and includes scenes from places and adventures they would like to experience in the future. And it's all set to a catchy song the duo wrote about the land they love. \"Feels Like Home (New Mexico True)\" has served as the catchy background tune for numerous TV and radio ads all across the state. The New Mexico Tourism Department first used the song in its own ads, and several communities have since followed suit. Nate and Heath first gained a measure of fame as members of the popular Albuquerque band Asper Kourt. They have been friends, neighbors and musical partners since their childhood. This is from the duo's Facebook page: \"Fate, destiny, or guided wind? Call it what you want. But this songwriting duo was born to make music together. Richmond is an acoustic brotherhood made up of two lifelong best friends and next door neighbors. Growing up playing sports, catching lizards, and mastering their musical craft, Nate Boitano and Heath Warren are leaving their marks on the music scene with a whole new approach.\" #NewMexicoTrue\n2285 Roldan Drive\nBelen, NM 87002\nCORAZONRVPARK@GMAIL.COM\n\u00a9 2020 CORAZON RV PARK\nFollow the Heart!\nDESIGNED AND MAINTAINED BY NIGHT OWL WEBSITES","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Warshal: A Jewish take on Martin Luther King Day\nBy Rabbi Bruce Warshal\nJan 23, 2017 | 10:26 AM\nRabbi Bruce Warshal (Lindsay Moore \/ Courtesy)\nEarlier this week our nation celebrated the Martin Luther King holiday. For some people it meant only that they had a long weekend vacation, but truly it is one of our most significant holidays. Yes, we honor the man, but more important we celebrate what he stood for \u2013 an America committed to equality, a statement that we reject prejudice against all people, a concept that is being challenged this very moment in our country.\nI have a personal relationship with this holiday that I share with you, but most important, I want to share what I have learned from my experiences in the civil rights movement. In 1961 when I was a law student in New Haven, Connecticut, my late wife, Lynne, and I traveled south, crossing the Mason-Dixon Line into the heart of the segregated State of Maryland. There we joined CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a cutting edge, non-violent civil rights organization that was a couple of degrees to the left of Martin Luther King. We participated in sit-ins, and only at one time were we actually in fear for our lives. But, thank God, Maryland was not Mississippi or Alabama, and we were rescued by the Maryland State Troopers, rather than being attacked by racist police in the Deep South.\nUpon graduation I practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio and became vice-president of the local CORE organization. In August of 1963 as a group we traveled to Washington, D.C. to be part of what became the historic March on Washington. I feel humbled and appreciative that I was able to be a witness to the great \"I have a Dream speech\" that is now considered by historians to be one of the most important American speeches, along with the Gettysburg Address and Washington's Farewell Address in 1796.\nCleveland was a segregated community equal to many in the south \u2013 not segregated by law, but by ingrained personal prejudice. As we worked to integrate motels and restaurants and even St. Luke hospital, where I am proud to report my wife was captain of the picket line, we were labeled communists by the daily newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. We were also monitored by the Anti-Subversive Unit of the Cleveland Police Department that reported directly to the FBI, headed by the infamous J. Edgar Hoover, who believed that Dr. King was also a communist. When we attended CORE meetings they would note our license plates and snap pictures. Our phones were tapped and our names appeared in the local press.\nMy wife and I played a small part in a great movement in this country and I received more from the experience than the movement received from my participation. Let me share with you what I learned:\n[More from the Jewish Journal] Stories of freedom need to be told \u00bb\nFirst, segregation was not exclusively a southern problem. We northerners could disavow the \"original sin\" of slavery that was actually written into our Constitution, feeling superior to our southern brethren. But slavery was legal in the northern colonies as well, and slavery was not abolished in New York State until 1827. The virus of prejudice that replaced actual slavery was just as common throughout America \u2013 in the north, in the heartlands, in the west, as in the south. \"They\" were not the only guilty ones. \"We\" were all guilty as well, and today in our own communities we are still susceptible to this virus. Vigilance is still required.\nSecond, I learned that it is most important to speak truth to power, not to remain silent even when the \"respectable\" leaders of the community brand you a rebel, a trouble-maker, or worse, an unpatriotic subversive. Rabbi Joachim Prinz, originally of Berlin, was a rabbi under the Nazis until he was expelled in 1939. He became the rabbi of the Reform synagogue in Newark, New Jersey and an outstanding advocate for civil rights. He was one of the ten organizers of the March on Washington, and as such he delivered a six minute speech immediately preceding Dr. Martin Luther King. Today Rabbi Prinz is remembered for this passage from his speech: \"When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime, I learned many things. The most important thing that I learned under those tragic circumstances was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.\"\nThird, I learned to overcome fear. When Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, then a committed segregationist, spoke in Cleveland, we in CORE picketed his appearance. That afternoon my wife received a telephone call saying that if her husband was part of the picket-line she would be a widow the following morning. Of course I showed up, because we cannot be paralyzed by fear. If fear predominates, tikun olam (the repair of this world) will never be accomplished.\nI am writing this in a Jewish newspaper, so it is appropriate to talk about our Jewish contribution to the civil rights battle. With pride I report that Jews have always been in the forefront of progressive social changes. This was certainly true of the civil rights movement. 50% of the whites involved were Jewish, although we were only two and one-half percent of the population. It is also believed that at least 50% of the money that funded the movement came from Jewish sources.\n[More from the Jewish Journal] Help your loved ones fight fraud \u00bb\nAs a young man, I was inspired by our rabbinic leadership. Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld of Cleveland suffered a concussion when he was beaten with a tire iron by segregationists in Mississippi. Rabbi Yoachim Prinz walked picket-lines in cities throughout this country as well as participating in the March on Washington. Rabbi Jacob Rothschild fought segregation in the heart of Georgia, leading to the famous 1958 bombing of his congregation (The Temple) in Atlanta. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, marched with Martin Luther King. These giants of rabbinic leadership, along with scores of other rabbis across this country, inspired me to leave the practice of law and to enter the rabbinate.\nNow a word about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King: His life, his face, his name have become symbols of the American quest for justice, the very meaning of this holiday. But he was in real life more than a symbol. He was a flawed human being, as we all are, but a great man worthy of emulation, for two primary reasons:\nFirst, he was not merely a brilliant writer and orator, capable of inspiring a nation. He was a man of action. In today's lingo, he not only talked the talk, but he walked the walk. He put his body on the line, and we are aware of his tragic end. Not only his words, but his actions inspire us today to continue the work of tikun olam.\nSecond, and this is a most important point, he did not limit his energy to the plight of his own people. He ignored advice to remain focused on segregation when he spoke out against the evil of the Vietnam War in his famous 1967 speech at the Riverside Church in New York City. He was in Memphis to support workers' rights in a sanitation strike, an issue totally distinct from segregation, when he was assassinated.\nStories of freedom need to be told\nHelp your loved ones fight fraud\nFirst moon landing was important for Jewish community, too | Opinion\nHis example has affected my life. I learned that as we become better Jews, we become better human beings. As we become more Jewish, we also become more interested in all humanity. Reality is reflected in this paradox. I never felt more Jewish than when I played my small part in the civil rights movement.\nThis lesson also applies to the very Jewish assertion of \"Never Again.\" It should not only relate to the fate of us Jews, but to the concept that never again should a genocide afflict humanity as a whole. Dr. Martin Luther King taught us how to go from the particular to the universal, from caring for one's own people, to caring for all humanity. Our rabbis taught us that same principle. Almost 2,000 years ago the Talmud stated that Passover celebrates not merely the history of Jews going from slavery to freedom but the concept of all peoples emerging into freedom.\nIt is this, the true meaning of Martin Luther King Day, an iteration of our ancient Jewish values, that was celebrated earlier this week.\nRabbi Warshal is the publisher emeritus of the Jewish Journal and the author of \"Provocative Columns: A Liberal Rabbi Reflects on Beliefs, Israel and American Politics\" available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. He can be reached at brucewarshal@gmail.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nicole Heaps\nMusic: 'The Prosthetic For The Brain'\nGeezerfest is a summer music festival in Orem that reunites local bands. Alan Breese is the director of the event.\"The most joy I get out of the whole\u2026\nRefugee\/Immigrant Education Center Seeing An Increase Of Need For Its Services\nThe English Language Center in Logan has recently seen a 20% increase of students, mainly refugees, and its resources are growing thin.\"We started this\u2026\nArt Teachers Inspiring Students Through Creative Outlets And Honesty\nAccording to a study on Indeed.com, the annual income for artists in Utah is $34,000, which is 40% less than the national average. But for Chuck\u2026\nTaking Over The World, One Ukulele At A Time\nThe ukulele is an instrument with a sound recognizable in a lot of today's music.\"I think it's taking over the world because it's easy to play. People\u2026\nEasily Accessed Digital Pioneer Portraits Coming Soon\nThe Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum, located on Logan's Main Street, has showcased pioneer artifacts and portraits since 1928. It's currently working on\u2026\nNumbers Are Proving That The Arts Are Benefiting The Community\nOne of the first buildings constructed in Logan was a performance hall, a place where people could gather after work and chores to enjoy family style\u2026\nCelebrating Pioneers Day In An Artistic Way\nLittle Bloomsbury Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Logan, Utah which focuses on providing hope for people in trying times through music,\u2026\nOvercoming Odds And Stereotypes, Safari Joe Is Not Your Average Musician\nWhy Sound is a live music venue and recording studio that caters to local musicians and bands in Cache Valley. The owner is currently working on producing\u2026\nSalt Lake To Host USA Fencing Competition\nThe USA Fencing Championship, the largest of its kind, is being held in Salt Lake City for the first time July 1 - 10 at the Salt Palace.\"For the national\u2026\nGroup Of USU Students Travel To Wyoming Dude Ranch For Research Trip\nLisa Gabbert is the director of the folklore program at Utah State University. She will being going to Wyoming with a group of 12 graduate students\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New service aims to nix bad mortgage leads\nLeadPolice plans to start 'policing' real estate leads, too\nby Matt Carter |\nA group of marketing professionals has formed a company they say is making it easier for mortgage brokers to buy leads from trusted sources.\nWhile other companies help connect lead buyers with leads, they typically charge lead sellers to advertise on their sites or take a cut of their profits.\nWhile other companies help connect lead buyers with leads, they typically charge lead sellers to advertise on their sites or take a cut of their profits. LeadPolice.com turns that business model on its head, letting sellers who meet the company's standards market themselves on the site for free, while charging buyers to use the service.\nBecause LeadPolice doesn't depend on sellers for revenue, buyers can be assured the company has their best interests in mind, said LeadPolice.com Vice President Melissa Rosno. LeadPolice.com owes its allegiance to buyers, who share information about the quality of leads they obtain from approved sellers. Companies that fail to deliver are barred from the site.\n\"A lot of Web sites out there have information on lead-generation companies, but for the most part they are charging money on advertising,\" Rosno said. Because ending a relationship with a seller can hurt those companies' bottom lines, she said, \"It's hard for them to remain unbiased.\"\n\"To remain a truly unbiased third party, we don't think there can be a revenue exchange between the lead sellers and the intermediary,\" Rosno said. \"We can honestly say that, unlike other companies that take a percentage of revenue, we have no motive to keep (sellers of bad leads) in our database.\"\nLead buyers pay $30 a month or $300 per year for membership, a cost they can easily recoup through discounts sellers offer to members and higher-quality leads, Rosno said. Because sellers are getting free advertising on the site, LeadPolice.com encourages them to offer discounts to its members.\nWith mortgage leads often selling for $50 or more these days, if sellers offer a 10 percent discount to LeadPolice members, that \"adds up pretty quickly,\" Rosno said. \"The savings can pay for membership.\"\nThe site also offers dispute resolution, and aims to be an educational forum where buyers research authorized lead sellers and learn from industry experts.\nLeadPolice provides information on companies such as how many years they have been in business, the average rate of return on their leads, and the number of leads they generate \u2014 25 \"data points\" in all, Rosno said.\n\"I'm very excited about the ability to compare companies side by side,\" Rosno said. \"Obviously the more informed you are the better decision you can make. Never before has this information been put together in one place.\"\nLeadPolice.com launched this summer with mortgage lead originators, and plans to offer real estate leads by the end of the year, Rosno said.\n\"We chose to launch with mortgage because there are more mortgage lead-generation companies than any other category,\" Rosno said. \"Mortgage brokers, especially smaller ones, are more likely to rely on purchased leads than real estate agents.\"\nWhile real estate agents are likely to specialize in a local territory, mortgage brokers can lend statewide or even nationwide.\nLeadPolice has signed up \"a lot of the big players\" in the mortgage lead-generation business, including Prospect Zone and LoanWeb, and now has about 40 authorized lead sellers, Rosno said.\nSome other Web sites that offer to match buyers of mortgage leads with multiple sellers include ROOT Exchange and LeadPoint.\nROOT Exchange and LeadPoint are modeled after commodities exchanges, with sellers competing for buyers who bid for leads at auction.\nBoth companies say they screen sellers and monitor the quality of the leads sold on their sites, and will bar companies that aren't providing good ones.\n\"One hundred percent of the leads coming through our system are getting feedback,\" said LeadPoint chief marketing officer Michael Rosenberg. \"It's not just a subjective, or anecdotal rating\" of a company, but customer evaluations of the quality of each bundle of leads sold on the site, he said.\n\"When we find out a seller is providing poor-quality leads, we kick (them) out of the marketplace without the buyers even finding out,\" Rosenberg said. \"We're doing all the work for them.\"\nAlthough LeadPoint is an exchange for many types of leads \u2014 nearly 1 million have been bought and sold on the site this year alone \u2014 mortgage leads helped the company set a single-day record of 25,000 trades on Oct. 16.\nMore than 350 lenders purchased leads generated by a LeadPoint seller that placed an ad on the MSN homepage offering home equity and refinance loans. LeadPoint estimates the leads will generate over $100 million in loan originations.\nLeadPoint vice president of operations Donny Hall said a potential shortcoming of LeadPolice is that it only helps buyers find a lead seller \u2014 it doesn't help facilitate the sale of the leads.\n\"If you're a buyer going into the LeadPolice directory, to benefit from dealing with five sellers or 100 sellers, you have to develop relationships with each one, and manage them using your own methodology,\" Hall said. \"That's cumbersome.\"\nLeadPolice's Rosno said there are many software applications that help lead buyers manage purchases from multiple sellers.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jim Harbaugh believes players deserve a cut of \"massive TV deals\"\n\"Yeah, I think players should receive a revenue share.\"\nNCAABy Kevin Harrish on 09\/05\/2022\nBefore the start of the college football season, theBig Ten signed a series of massive new media rights deals that will generate an average of at least $1.1 billion per year for the conference. While the athletes won't see any of that money directly, a few prominent figures in the conference are calling for that to change \u2013 and you can add Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh to that chorus.\nDuring his weekly media availability on Monday, a reporter asked Harbaugh whether he believed players should get a cut of the multi-billion-dollar television contracts. The Michigan coach offered a blunt and straightforward response.\n\"I think you know exactly where I stand on that. Well-documented that I do believe the players should receive a revenue share from the massive TV deals that have been worked out,\" Harbaugh said, according to Wolverines Wire. \"As I said back in the summer, a large piece should come the ones who are negotiating those TV deals. It's seven-point some billion? It's a lot. It's a lot of money. Yeah, I think players should receive a revenue share.\"\nHarbaugh is certainly not alone in this stance. Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud said last month that he believes revenue should be shared with athletes. But perhaps most notably, Big Ten Conference commissioner Kevin Warren has said he's open to the idea of revenue sharing.\nAt Big Ten Media Days in July, Warren said he has begun conversations about revenue-sharing with a newly-formed student-athlete advisory and advocacy committee.\n\"I've already started some dialogue with our student-athletes,\" Warren said in July. \"I want to be a great listener to figure out what is important to them. It's so easy to talk about money and share money, but what does that really mean? I want to make sure that I listen and learn to be able to have big ears and a small mouth to truly understand what's important to them.\"\nDuring the Aug. 23 edition of Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, Warren reiterated that stance, telling Gumbel he could foresee the conference or individual teams directly paying athletes one day.\n[Wolverines Wire]\nBig TenJim Harbaughmedia rightsrevenue sharing\nAbout Kevin Harrish\nView all posts by Kevin Harrish Follow on Twitter\nChris Russo rules out going to war with WFAN if Michael Kay retires\n\"I'm not going to leave Sirius, let's put it that way\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Trying to find the world's favourite Stephen King works.\nThread: Trying to find the world's favourite Stephen King works.\nMatthew Craig\nJunior Member Lurker\nGlenavy, Northern Ireland\nI've been a long-time Cemetery Dance customer, and have been visiting the forums since they started, but only now registering because I have something to say. Some of you will probably recognise me from days past at Shocklines and the like.\nAnyway...I'm currently in the process of celebrating the 40th anniversary of the publication of Carrie on my blog, and as part of those celebrations, I'm trying to find out what are the world's favourite Stephen King works. To this end, I have created a survey, and would love to hear everyone's thoughts.\nI'd be very grateful if you could spread the word as much as possible.\nMatt Craig\nOnly the old stuff brother, only the old stuff LOL! Done and done good luck with your project.\nThere's a definite pattern emerging, Mike, and it seems you're not alone :-)\nTeriw\nSenior Member 2nd Rubber Room Confinement\nI started to do your survey and got frustrated with the way it is set up like having to drag from the bottom to the top waiting for the page to scroll back up and the fact that I would have had to do the green mile and the dark tower separately.\nsubie09lega\nSenior Member Receiving Daily Medication\nI agree that the Green Mile selection should be one choice but that's only because I read it as one book and don't distinguish between the six as separate. The DT books though are very discernible as separate selections.\nThanks for the feedback folks.\nTeri > As a result of your comments, I have moved the survey to a new host, and completely changed how it works. Hopefully it's a lot more user-friendly on both computers and tablets (and maybe even phones!). Please do give it another try (link below).\nsubie09lega > The Green Mile is split into its component parts (because that's how I originally read them), but there is also a \"Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel\" option for those who wish to go for the full story.\nEveryone else: if you've already completed the survey, there's no need to do so again. If you haven't, I promise it's much easier now. You can find the link to the survey at the original post on my blog. I appreciate you all taking the time, and hope that you'll spread the word.\nsrboone\nSenior Member Ok, I really can't come up with anymore of these stupid things...\nI wish The Stand was separated into two entries: one for the 1978 version and one for the 1990 version. But I filled out the survey in its original form and had no problem with it.\n\"I'm a vegan. \"\n---Kirby Bliss Blanton , The Green Inferno (2013)\ncycloneed20\nJunior Member Part-timer\nBiloxi, Mississippi, United States\nA survey about Stephen King books that don't allow me to type in \"The Shining\" and \"The Stand\" is a worthless survey.\nIn order to alphabetise the entries, I've gone for the standard format of \"Shining, The\", etc. So, if you type \"Shining\", it'll find the correct title.\nSorry for the confusion, and thanks for looking!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"We Love DC\nYour Life Beyond The Capitol\nFood Truck Tracker\n9:00 am08 Nov 2011\nDavid Wax Museum- 930 Club by sightlyworn\nAs a guy who has photographed many musicians, I know the challenge in capturing the intensity and energy of a live show. Slightlyworn nailed it with this photo. The motion blur is what really makes this photo, because you can just see the guitarist moving and howling into the mic, pouring his heart into every verse. It's a strong composition; he didn't focus too closely on the musician, which left plenty of room for the purple and blue divide caused by the stage lights, which is one of the most important features of the photo. Adding a second singer to the frame and including part of the drum kit definitely frames the context of a musical machine working together. Well done, sightlyworn.\nRemember to contribute your best shots of DC to our flickr pool. You may just get noticed for our featured photo or weekend flashback.\nMichael T. Ruhl\nMichael came to DC in 2009 via Albuquerque, NM. In his spare time, Michael is a photographer, an audiophile, and a guitar aficionado. His humor is drier than the desert and he often finds himself neck deep in awkward situations. Visit his website.\nThis entry was posted in: Featured Photo\nTagged 9:30 Club, concert, david was museum, Featured Photo, michaeltruhl, musician, slightlyworn\nOne thought on \"Featured Photo\"\nAaron McGlauchlen@Sell My Car on November 9, 2011 at 12:24 am said:\nThis picture reminds me of the one LIVE concert of Bon Jovi that i had seen in 2003, I was fortunate to stand very close on the ramp and wow what energy Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, Alec John Such and Tico Torres had! I really liked this picture!\nSee Michael T.'s RSS Feed More By Michael T.\nWe Love Photos\nSelect Month April 2015 March 2015 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004\nDC Mythbusting: White House Flag\nDC Mythbusting: The Height Limit!\nDC Mythbusting: Metro Map to Scale\nKnow The Law: Buying Liquor Online\nNavigate \u00bb\nAbout We Love DC\nWe Love DC is a locally-owned DC news and lifestyle blog, covering News, Sports, Food, Transit, Politics and Music for all of DC... Read More\nWe Love DC on Facebook\n@welovedc\nPerformance Optimization WordPress Plugins by W3 EDGE","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"G02B 21\/14(2006.01)\nG01N 15\/02(2006.01)\nB82Y 35\/00(2011.01)\nMA MD\nFundaci\u00f3 Institut de Ci\u00e8ncies Fot\u00f2niques\n08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona) (ES)\nInstituci\u00f3 Catalana De Recerca I Estudis Avan\u00e7ats (ICREA)\n08010 Barcelona (ES)\nLIEBEL, Matz\n08860 CASTELLDEFELS (ES)\nHUGALL, James Tom\nVAN HULST, Niek F.\n(74) Representative: Oficina Ponti, SLP\nC. de Consell de Cent 322\n(54) A COMMON-PATH INTERFEROMETRIC SCATTERING IMAGING SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF USING COMMON-PATH INTERFEROMETRIC SCATTERING IMAGING TO DETECT AN OBJECT\n(57) The present invention relates to a common-path interferometric scattering imaging system and a method of using such a system, where the system comprises:\n- illuminating means for emitting an illumination beam (L0);\n- light collecting means for collecting through a common collection optical path:\n- a scattered beam (Ls) provided by the light scattering on an object (T) of the illumination beam (L0); and\n- a reference beam (Lr) provided by the reflection on or transmission through an interface (I) of the illumination beam (L0);\n- image sensing means (D) for receiving and sensing the collected scattered (Ls) and reference (Lr) beams interfering thereon as an interferometric light signal;\n- attenuation means arranged in the common collection optical path for attenuating the reference beam (Lr) before it arrives at the image sensing means (D); and\n- processing means (P) to process data corresponding to the interferometric light signal.\n[0001] The present invention relates to a common-path interferometric scattering imaging system and to a method of using common-path interferometric scattering imaging to detect an object, providing an enhanced detection sensitivity.\n[0002] There are many different standard scattering imaging systems which use techniques known in the art which constitute only technological background to the present invention, some of which will be briefly described below.\n[0003] Phase contrast microscopy (PCM) was introduced from the 1950s, and is a technique which uses phase masks for shifting the phase of scattered light relative to transmitted light to enhance contrast in biological samples due to the large phase shifts introduced by the biological material, such as cells, being studied. As the object of interest shrinks in-size, this technique quickly becomes irrelevant as the phase shift introduced by the biological material becomes small and the scattering signal (which scales as D6, where D is the dimension of interest) is rapidly dwarfed by the background light. For modern studies this has meant that PCM is an abandoned technique when trying to look at sub-cellular elements such as individual proteins, where currently fluorescence microscopy is the standard technique.\n[0004] Dark-field microscopy is another well-established and documented microscopy technique with literature and patents dating from the early 20th century. Like PCM it relies on detecting the scattering signal from a sample. It uses a dark-field mask which completely blocks any background light, allowing only the scattered light to be detected. Again this means that for small particles, due to the unfavourable scaling of scattering signal, the technique becomes very hard to implement due to the low number of photon counts to background noise and thus is not used.\n[0005] Common-path interferometric scattering imaging systems comprising the features included in the preamble clause of claim 1 of the present invention are known in the art. These systems are usually called iSCAT, and constitute a modern take on phase contrast microscopy (see Lindfors et al. PRL, 93, 3 (2004) - Modern method describing reflection based iSCAT technique, and Piliarik et al. Nature Communications, 5,4495 (2014). These systems generally use a coherent light source (or at least a light source emitting extremely short coherence length light) to generate a reference beam from reflection of the glass\/water interface of the coverslip within the focal volume of a microscope objective. The light also generates scattering from particles in the sample. Both the scattered and reference beam are then collected by the objective and imaged onto a camera where they interfere. The common-path nature of this interferometric setup, with reference and scattered beams generated at practically the same position ensures a phase-locked relationship between the two and great stability.\n[0006] Common-path interferometric microscopic techniques rely on enhancing small signals using a reference beam to boost a small signal term by interfering the two beams. This provides so-called noiseless gain. The reference and the signal or scattering beam originate from the same light source as coherence between the two signals is essential. In general the intensity on a detector caused by two interfering beams can be described as:\n[0007] Where r is the relative reference beam amplitude, s is the relative signal beam amplitude and \u03b8 the phase difference between the reference beam and signal or scattering beam.\n[0008] As the signal of interest is small (i.e. when the scattering beam is weak, generally due to the object being small), the second term (s2) vanishes compared to the other two terms. The key term of interest is the interference term (2rs cos \u03b8) which includes the signal of interest. All existing interferometric microscopy techniques solely try to maximise this interference term.\n[0009] Indeed, existing techniques usually optimise the phase difference \u03b8 between the beams to maximise the interference term and, by increasing the power of the illumination light beam, increase the power of the reference beam [essentially the system gain] to increase the signal, up to the saturation point of their detectors.\n[0010] By comparing successive images with and without the object of interest, the background reference beam term (r2), which in a good system remains constant, can be removed leaving only the interference term. In the perfect system, this means that the only source of noise will come from the photon or shot noise caused by the total light falling on the detector. Since this noise scales with\nwhere n is the number of photons on the detector, the more photons the camera can record the better the signal-to-noise.\n[0011] The fact that the reference beam is proportional to the gain of the system and that the more photons collected the better the signal-to-noise, has led to a focus on finding detectors with large photon [electron full well] capacity to maximise the signal.\n[0012] Therefore, existing iSCAT systems, i.e. common-path interferometric scattering imaging systems, teach away from carrying out a variation in the power of the reference beam other than an increasing thereof, in order to maximize the interference term (2rs cos \u03b8) and thus enhance the signal-to-noise ratio. This reference beam power increase approach has, among others, the drawback associated to the need of using expensive detectors (with large photon capacity).\n[0013] Hence, it can be stated that iSCAT combined with a well-stabilized laser light source and expensive cameras with large full well capacity and low noise, has allowed the detection and tracking of small particles, despite the small scattering signal on top of a large background, but that the cost to implement this technique as well as the skill required, however, has become prohibitively expensive and prevents its use on a large scale.\n[0014] It is, therefore, necessary to provide an alternative to the state of the art which covers the gaps found therein, by providing a common-path interferometric scattering imaging system including an alternative mechanism to enhance detection sensitivity which does not possess the above mentioned drawbacks of the existing iSCAT systems.\n[0015] To that end, the present invention relates, in a first aspect, to a common-path interferometric scattering imaging system comprising, in a known manner:\nilluminating means comprising a light source configured and arranged for emitting an illumination beam along an illumination optical path including at least two different phases of matter;\nlight collecting means configured and arranged for simultaneously at least partially collecting through a common collection optical path:\na scattered beam provided by the light scattering by an object of a portion of said illumination beam, wherein said object is placed in at least one of said two different phases of matter; and\na reference beam provided by the reflection on or transmission through an interface of another portion of said illumination beam, wherein said interface is a surface forming a common boundary among said two different phases of matter;\nimage sensing means configured and arranged for receiving and sensing the collected scattered and reference beams interfering thereon as an interferometric light signal; and\nprocessing means connected to said image sensing means to receive data corresponding to said interferometric light signal, and configured to process said received data to at least detect said object, and, optionally, also to track the object.\n[0016] In contrast to the known common-path interferometric scattering imaging systems, the one of the first aspect of the present invention comprises, in a characterizing manner, attenuation means arranged in the above mentioned common collection optical path for attenuating said reference beam before it arrives at the image sensing means.\n[0017] The processing means implements an algorithm to process the received data according to the following equation:\nwhere r is the normalised reference beam amplitude, s is the normalised scattering beam amplitude, \u03b8 is the phase difference between the reference and scattering beams, \u03b1 is the attenuation amplitude defined as the reciprocal transmission amplitude, Itotal is the total intensity of the light on the image sensing means caused by the two interfering reference and scattering beams, and I0 is an initial light intensity on the image sensing means, wherein said attenuation means have a degree of attenuation for said reference beam calculated with the purpose of maximizing the term\ncos \u03b8 with respect to the term\nof the above equation to enhance detection sensitivity.\n[0018] In other words, the system of the present invention do the exact opposite of what existing iSCAT systems have logically been aiming for: to attenuate the reference beam.\n[0019] This is so because, in contrast to the prior art iSCAT systems, instead of focusing purely on signal-to-noise, the system of the first aspect of the present invention highlights an alternative mechanism to enhance detection sensitivity by enhancing the signal-to-background, i.e.\ncos \u03b8 relative to\nBy attenuating the reference beam after it the signal beam, i.e. the scattering beam, has been created (i.e. after the scattering event and in collection), the interference term is maximised, as the interference term scales linearly with reference beam amplitude relative to the rapidly decreasing reference beam background which scales quadratically. This increases the signal-to-background and compensates exactly for the loss in signal-to-noise due to increase in shot noise due to lower number of photons collected. Not only does this allow (far more economical) detectors with smaller electron full well capacities, but for larger full-well-capacity cameras, the initial light (i.e., illumination beam) incident on the object can be further increased to increase scattering intensity and increase detection sensitivity, i.e. maximising both signal-to-noise and signal-to-background.\n[0020] The attenuation means of the system of the present invention does not fully attenuate the reference beam (as in DFM), and unlike in PCM it does not introduce any significant phase delay between the signals. In fact it works to attenuate the reference beam in amplitude relative to the scattering beam to maximise contrast in an interference setup. Therefore it is conceptually very different from both of the above techniques, neither is it a combination of the above two techniques, but a new form of interference scattering microscopy suitable for detecting small particles of increasing importance in biological sciences as well as many other industrial processes such as nanotechnology.\n[0021] For an embodiment, the attenuation means comprises a partially transmissive mask having a semi-transmissive region arranged in a corresponding region of the common collection path through which the reference beam travels, such that the reference beam is attenuated on transmission before reaching the image sensing means.\n[0022] For an alternative embodiment, the attenuation means comprises a partially reflective mask having a semi-reflective region arranged in a corresponding region of the common collection path through which the reference beam travels, such that the reference beam is attenuated on reflection before reaching the image sensing means.\n[0023] According to specific implementations of any of the above two embodiments, the semi-transmissive or semi-reflective region of the mask is a first region of said partially transmissive or partially reflective mask, the mask comprising a second region arranged in a corresponding region of the common collection path through which part of the scattering beam travels, such that said part of the scattering beam traverses said second region or is reflected thereon thereby before reaching the image sensing means, by transmission or by reflection, wherein said first and said second regions have different transmissive or reflective properties and said partially transmissive or partially reflective mask maintains the coherence relationship between the reference and scattered beams.\n[0024] Preferably, said second region is a fully or substantially fully transmissive or reflective region, although for less preferred embodiments the second region can also have some degree of light attenuation.\n[0025] According to a preferred embodiment, the first region of the partially transmissive mask has a circular or cylindrical shape and said second region has an annular or tubular shape with an inner diameter larger than the diameter of said first region and being arranged concentrically with respect thereto.\n[0026] Other types of optical attenuators, which are not constituted by a mask, are also encompassed for other less preferred embodiments of the system of the first aspect of the present invention.\n[0027] The illumination optical path and the common collection path are configured and arranged such that the reference and scattered beams are generated at such closer positions that ensure a phase-locked relationship between the reference and scattered beams, so that there is no need for varying or adjusting the phase of any of said beams. Hence, the system is absent of any phase varying mechanism for said reference and scattered beams as there is no need for phase adjusting.\n[0028] According to an embodiment, the system of the first aspect of the invention comprises a coverslip for the object, wherein the above mentioned interface is the common boundary surface among said coverslip and a medium into which said object is placed, the material of which said coverslip is made being non-index matched with said medium.\n[0029] According to a first implementation of the system of the first aspect of the invention, called herein as reflective mode, the light collecting means are configured and arranged for collecting said reference beam provided by the reflection on said interface of said another portion of the illumination beam, wherein the system comprises an objective lens which forms part of both the illuminating means and the light collecting means and which is configured and arranged in both the illumination and the collection optical paths to, respectively:\nfocus the illumination beam into the back-focal plane of said objective lens to produce illumination out of the front aperture of the objective lens, such that a portion thereof will be reflected by the interface generating the reference beam and the rest will pass through the interface up to the object generating the scattering beam; and\nreceive and at least partially collect both the reference beam and the scattering beam.\n[0030] Preferably, the back-focal plane of the objective lens is focused with the illumination beam to produce plane-illumination out of the front aperture thereof, although, for other embodiments, any illumination can be produced as long as it maintains spatial coherence over the time of measurement.\n[0031] For an embodiment of said reflective mode implementation, the objective lens is configured and arranged such that the reference beam exits the objective lens as a diverging beam from the centre of the objective lens, when it entered as a plane wave, and passes through or is reflected on the first region of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask, and the scattering beam leaves the objective lens as a plane wave across a full back-aperture of the objective lens, when it entered as a spherical wave, and passes through or is reflected on both the first and the second regions of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask.\n[0032] For an embodiment, the above mentioned first region of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask is also placed in the illumination optical path and is configured and arranged to reflect the illumination beam coming from the light source towards the back-focal plane of the objective lens. Other alternative optical mechanisms (prisms, mirrors, etc.) and arrangements for directing the illumination beam towards the objective lens are also encompassed by the system of the first aspect of the invention.\n[0033] According to a second implementation of the system of the first aspect of the invention, called herein as transmissive mode, the light collecting means are configured and arranged for collecting said reference beam provided by the transmission through said interface of said another portion of the illumination beam, wherein:\nthe illuminating means comprises an illumination objective lens configured and arranged to focus the illumination beam into the back-focal plane of said illumination objective lens to produce plane-illumination out of the front aperture of the illumination objective lens, such that a portion thereof will be scattered by the object generating the scattering beam which will be transmitted through the interface, and another portion will be directly transmitted through the interface generating the reference beam; and\nthe light collecting means comprise a collection objective lens configured and arranged to receive and at least partially collect both the reference beam and the scattering beam.\n[0034] For an embodiment of said transmissive mode implementation, the collection objective lens is configured and arranged such that the reference beam exits the collection objective lens as a diverging beam from the centre of the collection objective lens, when it entered as a plane wave, and passes through or is reflected on the first region of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask, and the scattering beam leaves the collection objective lens as a plane wave across a full back-aperture of the collection objective lens, when it entered as a spherical wave, and passes through or is reflected on both the first and the second regions of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask.\n[0035] Although preferably the attenuation degree provided by the attenuation means has a fixed value, for other embodiments it is adjustable manually or automatically based on the specific use needed at any moment and on parameters associated thereto, such as the size of the object(s) to be detected (and generally tracked), the environmental conditions (light, temperature, etc.), etc., in order to selectively optimising intensity of the reference beam relative to scattered beam to optimise interference contrast on the image sensing means.\n[0036] An implementation for providing such adjusting of the attenuation degree of the attenuation means comprises, for an embodiment, a mask having adjustable transmissive or reflective properties and a control system connected to said mask to provide the latter with a control signal (such as an electrical signal) which makes it vary its transmissive or reflective properties as desired, the control signal being created whether in response to manual input of data by a user or automatically based on the sensing of such data by corresponding sensors included in the system.\n[0037] A second aspect of the invention relates to a method of using common-path interferometric scattering imaging to detect an object, comprising, in a known manner:\nemitting an illumination beam along an illumination optical path including at least two different phases of matter;\nsimultaneously at least partially collecting through a common collection optical path:\na scattered beam provided by the light scattering on an object of a portion of said illumination beam, wherein said object is placed in at least one of said two different phases of matter; and\nreceiving and sensing, on image sensing means, the collected scattered and reference beams interfering thereon as an interferometric light signal; and\nreceiving and processing data corresponding to said interferometric light signal to at least detect said object, and, optionally, also to track the object.\n[0038] In contrast to the known methods of using common-path interferometric scattering imaging to detect an object, the one of the second aspect of the present invention comprises, in a characteristic manner, attenuating the reference beam in the common collection optical path before it arrives at said image sensing means.\n[0039] Embodiments of the method of the second aspect of the invention comprise the use of the system of the first aspect for all the embodiments thereof describe above.\n[0040] For the system and method of the present invention an extremely short coherence illumination light is desirable, whether by using a coherent light source or a light source not considered \"coherent\" but which generates light with a coherence short enough and with enough power to allowing the above described light interference to occur. In other words, suitable light sources can be lasers or even LEDs.\n[0041] In the present document, the term \"beam\" has been used for referring to light. Alternatively, the term \"field\" can be used instead of \"beam\", in an equivalent manner, especially in terms of interference.\n[0042] Regarding the object, for a preferred embodiment of both the system and the method of the invention, said object is a tiny dielectric nanoparticle or equivalently biological matter such as proteins with small sizes down to 10kDa or below.\n[0043] The present invention constitutes a system and a method to enhance contrast and sensitivity in scattering interference imaging.\n[0044] The main purpose of the present invention is to enable the label-free detection and tracking of small [low-refractive] index single nanoparticles such as biological proteins and viruses in a simple measurement configuration.\n[0045] Since scattering cross-sections scale as D6, where D is the dimension of the particle, for small particles the scattering is incredibly weak. This means that the reference beam reflection far overpowers the scattering signal. To increase the signal, one needs to increase the intensity of the incident beam, but this also increases the intensity of the reference beam. In conventional iSCAT this has meant the need to purchase fast-cameras with large full-well capacity just to be able to collect the huge number of photons produced. Such cameras are prohibitively expensive and generally with low quantum efficiency (due to detector fill-factor limitations), thwarting detection efforts. Most of the photons they detect are not due to the scattering signal but due to the reference beam. This means a lot of the shot noise and other noise on the detector is caused by the reference photons, making it harder to detect the interference signal. In the present invention, the reference beam is massively attenuated (as much as desirable), which eliminates this detector problem, as the beam can be reduced by many orders of magnitude to nearer the scattering intensity of the particles.\n[0046] Further to this, the system of the first aspect of the present invention does not have any moving optical parts (such as galvo scanners or other moving optical mechanisms, which are frequently used in conventional iSCAT systems), and comprises only very simple optics, with the interference mask being the only customised optic. The uncomplicated setup with few optics, used according to the present invention, is a major benefit over existing systems, and further adds much needed stability, essential to the measurement of smaller particles.\n[0047] In addition to the above described principle use, the following further configurations can be imagined, for further embodiments:\n1. Plug-in module to existing commercial microscope systems: The mask and light source can easily be adapted for use in a commercial microscope setup as a plugin addition to both reflective and transmissive microscopes.\n2. Fluorescence: The system of the first aspect of the invention can easily be combined with existing fluorescence microscopy to provide simultaneous fluorescence and scattering measurements.\n3. Wavelength: The system of the invention can operate at multiple wavelengths.\n4. Mask position: The mask can be placed at conjugate back focal planes in alternative imaging systems, if position of the mask directly below the objective is prohibitive or undesired.\n5. Mask as filter: The mask can be adapted as a wavelength dependent filter to be able to combine it with attenuate a reference beam for scattering and allow fluorescence beam to pass unhindered.\n6. Point-of-care implementation: For the detection of larger particles, e.g. larger proteins such as exosomes (which have been shown important for monitoring cancer activity), the setup can further be simplified to the point that it can be converted into something the size of a DVD\/CD player, or even using an adapted DVD\/CD or Blu-ray\u00ae player (which already contains most of the components needed in the setup) to create ultra-cheap devices which could be used at point-of-care or even in a domestic-care situation.\nIndustrial Applications:\n[0048] The system and method of the present invention enables the detection of small changes in refractive index. It can be used in a wide range of industrial applications. The far lower cost would enable sensitive devices, previously prohibitively expensive, to be used in a wide-range of settings. Including:\nMolecular Biology: The invention can be used to detect and track proteins\/viruses and protein binding events down to very small proteins (\u223c10kDa or below). This could be used to study protein behaviour in vitro as well as to study protein movement on cell membranes.\nBiomedicine: Used in combination with antibody arrays, this could be used to detect single protein binding events over large arrays for use as biomolecular detection in point-of-care settings.\nPollution: The system of the first aspect of the present invention can be implemented, for an embodiment, for portable use to detect pollution\/contaminants in water supplies.\nQuality control: The present invention can be used to test purity of solutions of small nanoparticles with potential to be combined into a nanoparticle sorting system.\nSurface characterization: The invention can be used to characterise surface roughness on transparent surfaces or in thin film depositions such as in semiconductor fabrication.\nPoint-of-care: For an embodiment, the system can be incorporated into an adapted DVD\/ CD\/Blu-ray\u00ae player with far simpler optics to allow the detection of larger particles (the far simpler objective in a DVD\/CD\/Blu-ray\u00ae player would prohibit reaching ultrasensitive detection limit) which are still relevant for monitoring health conditions. Such as exosomes present in the blood stream which have recently been shown to be relevant for monitoring cancer activity of tumours in the body.\n[0049] These are just a small selection of possible applications, principally based around the ability to detect very small dielectric nanoparticles both organic and inorganic.\nBRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES\n[0050] In the following some preferred embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the enclosed figures. They are provided only for illustration purposes without however limiting the scope of the invention.\nFigure 1 shows two plots taken from iSCAT paper by Piliarik et al. (2014) showing iSCAT contrast achieved for different molecular weight proteins (a) and the signal noise as a function of frame averaging (b) when the camera is run at 3000 fps, indicating the shot-noise limit. Wavelength employed: 405 nm, 10 mW at 4.5x4.5 \u00b5m field of view = approx. 50 kW\/cm2.\nFigure 2 shows equivalent measurements to the iSCAT measurements by Piliarik et al. (2014) performed using the system of the first aspect of the present invention. Mean contrast is plotted against protein weight (a) and signal noise as a function of equivalent camera frame rate (b). Wavelength employed: 520 nm, 33 mW at 10x10 \u00b5m field of view = approx. 35 kW\/cm2.\nFigure 3 schematically shows the system of the first aspect of the invention for an embodiment implementing a reflective mode arrangement, where the reference beam is reflected on an interface.\nFigure 4 schematically shows the system of the first aspect of the invention for an embodiment implementing a transmissive mode arrangement, where the reference beam is transmitted through an interface.\nFigure 5 shows further measurements performed using the system of the first aspect of the present invention. Detection limit is plotted against camera frame rate and compared to existing iSCAT system based on extracted published data.\nDESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS\n[0051] Figures 3 and 4 show two alternative implementations of the system of the first aspect of the invention, particularly the above mentioned reflective mode implementation (Figure 3) and transmissive mode implementation (Figure 4), both of which relate to a common-path interferometric scattering imaging system, comprising:\nilluminating means comprising a light source S configured and arranged for emitting an illumination beam L0 along an illumination optical path including two different phases of matter, one of which is constituted by the material from which the coverslip C is made (generally glass) and the other one by the medium W (in this case water) into which the objects T (in this case nanoparticles, such as proteins) are placed;\na scattered beam Ls provided by the light scattering on several objects T of a portion of the illumination beam L0; and\na reference beam Lr provided by the reflection on or transmission through an interface I of another portion of said illumination beam L0, wherein the interface I is a surface forming a common boundary surface among the coverslip C and medium W;\nattenuation means comprising a partially transmissive mask M arranged in the common collection optical path for attenuating said reference beam Lr before it arrives at image sensing means D;\nimage sensing means D (generally including an imaging lens and a camera) configured and arranged for receiving and sensing the collected scattered Ls beam and the reference Lr beam, once attenuated by the mask M, interfering thereon as an interferometric light signal; and\nprocessing means P connected to the image sensing means D to receive data corresponding to the interferometric light signal, and configured to process the received data to at least detect the objects T.\n[0052] For both arrangements, of Figures 3 and 4, the partially transmissive mask M has a semi-transmissive first region M1 arranged in a corresponding region of the common collection path through which the reference beam Lr travels, such that the reference beam Lr is attenuated before reaching the image sensing means D, and a fully or substantially fully transmissive second region M2 arranged in a corresponding region of the common collection path through which part of the scattering beam Ls travels, such that it is traversed thereby before reaching the image sensing means D.\n[0053] As shown in Figure 3, for the implementation there illustrated, the light collecting means are configured and arranged for collecting the reference beam Lr provided by the reflection on the interface I of the above mentioned another portion of the illumination beam Lo, and the system comprises an objective lens OL which forms part of both the illuminating means and the light collecting means and which is configured and arranged in both the illumination and the collection optical paths to, respectively:\nfocus the illumination beam Lo into the back-focal plane of the objective lens OL to produce plane-illumination out of the front aperture of the objective lens OL, such that a portion thereof will be reflected by the interface I generating the reference beam Lr and the rest will pass through the interface I up to the objects T generating the scattering beam; and\nreceive and at least partially collect both the reference beam Lr and the scattering beam Ls.\n[0054] The objective lens OL is configured and arranged such that the reference beam Lr exits the objective lens OL as a diverging beam from the centre of the objective lens OL, when it entered as a plane wave, and impinges on the first region M1 of the partially transmissive mask M which highly attenuates it letting pass through there only a small percentage (preferably below 1 %, and more preferably around 0.1% in terms of beam intensity, or equivalently relative to field amplitude with an attenuation factor preferably below \u03b1 = 0.1 or more preferably around \u03b1 = 0.03) of the reference beam Lr, while the scattering beam Ls leaves the objective lens OL as a plane wave across a full back-aperture of the objective lens OL, when it entered as a spherical wave, and passes mostly through the fully or substantially fully transmissive second region M2 of the partially transmissive mask M, although a central part of the scattering beam Lr passes through the first region M1 of the mask M and is thus attenuated thereby.\n[0055] As shown Figure 3, the first region M1 of the partially transmissive mask M is also placed in the illumination optical path and is configured and arranged to reflect the illumination beam L0 coming from the light source S towards the back-focal plane of the objective lens OL.\n[0056] Specifically, for the reflective mode implementation of Figure 3, the system of the present invention constitutes a stand-alone microscope imaging system based on reflection scattering as described above and in more detail as follows:\n1. Light of short temporal-coherence length is created by modulating the supply current of a standard laser-diode (light source S) at high frequency (>1 MHz) which is commonly implemented in consumer laser systems such as Blu-ray\u00ae players. This decreases the laser coherence length to reduce interference of objects outside of the range of interest. This is preferably as short as possible, but long enough to keep coherence between the source of the reflection as the reference beam Lr, for the illustrated embodiment, the glass-water interface between the coverslip C, and the particle T positioned on top of this. A super-bright LED or similar short coherence length light source could be used instead of modulated laser.\n2. Light is focused into the back-focal plane of the objective lens OL to produce plane-illumination out of the front aperture of the objective lens OL. The interference mask M is used here as a mirror to simplify coupling of the incident beam L0 into the objective lens OL (although this can be accomplished in other ways).\n3. The plane illumination beam is partially reflected from the non-index matched glass-water interface I of the objective lens OL generating the reference beam Lr. The rest of the illumination beam Lo passes through the interface I interacting with the sample T in the water W. This light principally generates Rayleigh scattering (in small particles) in-phase with the transmitted light. The scattered light can be approximated as a point-source of light emitting spherical waves propagating in all directions and this is the sample or scattering beam Ls. The phase of the scattered beam Ls is shifted relative to the incoming beam Lo due to a Gouy phase shift of pi\/2.\n4. The reference Lr and scattered sample beam Ls are partially collected by the same objective lens OL. The sample beam Ls leaves the objective lens OL as a plane wave across the full back-aperture of the objective lens OL since it entered as a spherical wave. The reference beam Lr (entering as a plane wave) exits the objective lens as a diverging beam from the centre of the objective lens OL.\n5. The sample beam Ls impinges on the interference mask M and is mostly transmitted in the transparent regions M2 surrounding the centre, with the central part M1 of the mask M blocking only a small percentage of this beam [as in dark-field microscopy]. The reference beam Lr hits the centre region M1 of the interference mask M and is almost completely attenuated. However, importantly the centre region M1 of the mask M leaks some of the reference beam Lr through to allow for interference on the detector, i.e. on the image sensing means D (which includes at least an imaging lens and a camera).\n6. The sample plane is then imaged onto a camera of the image sensing means D where the two beams Lr, Ls interfere providing the contrast to measure the particles T.\n[0057] In contrast to the implementation of Figure 3, for the transmissive mode implementation of the system of the first aspect of the invention illustrated in Figure 4, the light collecting means are configured and arranged for collecting the reference beam Lr provided by the transmission through the interface I of the above mentioned other portion of the illumination beam L0, wherein:\nthe illuminating means comprises an illumination objective lens OLi configured and arranged to focus the illumination beam Lo into the back-focal plane of the illumination objective lens OLi to produce plane-illumination out of the front aperture of the illumination objective lens OLi, such that a portion thereof will be scattered by the objects T generating the scattering beam Ls which will be transmitted through the interface I, and another portion will be directly transmitted through the interface I generating the reference beam Lr; and\nthe light collecting means comprise a collection objective lens OLc configured and arranged to receive and at least partially collect both the reference beam Lr and the scattering beam Ls.\n[0058] The collection objective lens OLc is configured and arranged such that the reference beam Lr exits the collection objective lens OLc as a diverging beam from the centre of the collection objective lens OLc, when it entered as a plane wave, and passes through the first region M1 of the partially transmissive mask M which highly attenuates it letting pass there through only a small percentage (preferably below 1 %, and more preferably around 0.1% in terms of beam intensity, or equivalently relative to field amplitude with an attenuation factor preferably below \u03b1 = 0.1 or more preferably around \u03b1 = 0.03) of the reference beam Lr, while the scattering beam Ls leaves the collection objective lens OLc as a plane wave across a full back-aperture of the collection objective lens OLc, when it entered as a spherical wave, and passes mostly through the fully or substantially fully transmissive second region M2 of the partially transmissive mask M, although a central part of the scattering beam Lr passes through the first region M1 of the mask M and is thus attenuated thereby.\n[0059] Specifically, for the transmissive mode implementation of Figure 4, the system of the present invention constitutes a stand-alone microscope imaging system based on transmission scattering as described above and in more detail as follows.\n[0060] In transmissive-mode, the microscope operates mainly the same as in reflective-mode. More optics (principally a second objective) are required as a new excitation path from above the sample is needed.\n[0061] The principle remains the same as that in reflection with a reference beam Lr and scattering signal beam Ls generated by a single excitation light source S then interfere on a detector D after the reference beam Lr is partially attenuated by a partially transmissive mask M or equivalent.\n[0062] The main difference here is that the reference beam Lr will be much stronger in intensity, as here it is almost 100% the intensity I0 of the incident beam Lo, as most of the light is transmitted rather than reflected by the interface I. This differs in the reflective-mode case, as in that case the reference beam Lr is generated by the reflection off the glass\/water interface I, which reduces its intensity to around 0.5% of the initial beam Lo.\n[0063] In practice this means that in transmissive mode, the mask M must attenuate the reference beam Lr by at least one order of magnitude more compared to the reflective mode case. This potentially complicates the production of the mask M. Along with simpler optics, this highlights the distinctive benefit of the reflective mode case where the reference beam Lr is pre-attenuated by the glass\/water interface I. However, given a suitable mask, both are equivalent.\nMask construction:\n[0064] Regarding the above described mask M, it was built for its inclusion in the system of the present invention, for an embodiment (for the arrangements of Figures 3 and 4), as follows:\n1. The mask M consists of a semi-transmissive section and a transmissive section.\n2. The semi-transmissive section M1 was created by depositing metal onto a sacrificial premask defining the semi-transmissive region on an optical flat.\n3. A vinyl sticker was used as a pre-mask to define the area.\n4. Metal was evaporated at the desired thickness to attenuate signal passing through, ensuring metal was evenly deposited.\n[0065] The mask M itself can be constructed in many different forms and materials depending on availability and exact implementation needed. A well-formed mask with precise thickness is key to obtaining reliable and symmetric interference patterns on the detector.\n[0066] Specifically, as stated in a previous section, for an embodiment (not shown), the collection of both the reference and the scattering beams is performed on reflecting from the mask, the latter having a semi-reflective section (almost transparent) for the reference beam (thus attenuated by reflection) and a reflective section for the scattering beam.\n[0067] Also, for the manufacturing of the mask, instead of metallic coatings, dielectric anti-reflective\/reflective Bragg type coatings can be used, for other embodiments.\n[0068] The technique used in the system and method of the present invention significantly improves on the published conventional iSCAT technique (described in the Background section above) while allowing better contrast and sensitivity. Here the benefit of the technique of the present invention over iSCAT, the best implementation as yet of interferometric light scattering microscopy, is elaborated.\n[0069] In general, in interference scattering microscopy, the signal imaged onto the detector has intensity:\n[0070] Where, as stated in a previous section, r is a co-efficient describing the amplitude of the reference beam, s is a co-efficient relating to the amplitude of the scattering signal, and \u03b8 is the phase difference between the two signals. For detecting small particles such as proteins the difference between r2 and s2 is many orders of magnitude (around 107 for a 100 kDa protein) making it practically impossible to measure the scattering signal upon the background of the reference beam. Crucially the interference term, scales both with r and s, meaning there is much less difference between this and the r2 term, only around 104 for the same 100kDa protein. This then becomes possible to measure with the latest detectors and very stable light source coupled with low noise levels.\n[0071] This key advantage of the system and method of the present invention, is the in-line suppression of the reference signal relative to the scattering signal in an in-line interference microscopy setup similar to iSCAT. This allows the optimisation of the contrast between the reference beam intensity and the interference cross-term. This enables the dramatic reduction of the unwanted reference beam intensity relative to the interference intensity and thus increase the sensitivity of the setup and reduce dependency on noise and stability of the excitation light source and overall setup. Since far fewer photons overall are now being detected, the camera used can be replaced with far cheaper versions as the huge dynamic range is no longer needed. It also means that a very cheap laser or LED light source with short coherence length can be used.\nComparison to conventional iSCAT:\n[0072] With reference to Figures 1 and 2, the technique of the system and method of the present invention is directly compared to the best achieved in the literature taken from Piliarik et al. (2014). They use iSCAT to detect the binding of single proteins of various sizes from 65.5 kDa (BSA) to 340 kDa (fibrinogen). Using their noise statistics it is calculated how long they need to integrate for to detect their smallest protein (BSA), i.e. to detect the signal (iSCAT contrast) above the noise. For the BSA protein the molecular weight is 38 kDA and from Figure 1 (a), this corresponds to an iSCAT contrast of 3x10-4. From the noise statistics, Figure 1 (b), they need to average over 600-700 frames. Since they run their camera at 3000 fps, this corresponds to 0.2 s integration or equivalently running at 5 fps, which is the minimum speed they can run and detect\/track BSA protein.\n[0073] The present inventors repeated similar experiments using the system of the present invention (Figure 2), for the arrangement of Figure 3. It can be seen that to detect BSA (see Figure 2(a)) given the signal noise measured in the present experiment it can run at a higher rate of 60fps (see Figure 2(b)). This is more than an order of magnitude (\u223cx12) improvement in sensitivity.\n[0074] Further experiments were performed by the present inventors with the system of the first aspect of the invention, particularly for non-specific binding of a variety of single proteins to a coverglass in comparison to a control with buffer only. Figure 5 shows the results of said further experiments, where detection limit is plotted as a function of frame averaging (dots) in comparison to shot-noise-limited behaviour (dashed line). The acquisition rate for the experiments was 400 FPS. The dotted line and triangles show a comparison to the detection limit extracted from Piliarik et al. (2014).\nKey Advantages of the system and method of the present invention:\na) Increased signal level\nScattering intensity scales inversely with the fourth power of illuminating wavelength, and the interference cross term [2rs cos \u03b8] scales inversely with the square of illuminating wavelength. Since in Piliarik et al. they used a shorter wavelength and more powerful laser, actual gains of the system and method of the present invention are higher than an order of magnitude. If parameters identical to those reported previously (wavelength and intensity) were to be employed in the present invention, signal sensitivity would increase by another factor of 2.4. Thus with a total improvement in sensitivity of around 30.\nb) Reduced sensitivity to reference beam instability\nThe attenuation of the reference beam according to the present invention reduces the effect of instability in phase and intensity in this signal introduced throughout the beam path or from the laser and spatially across the field of view in the system\/microscope. This allows to move to larger field of view on the system\/microscope thus detecting more particle binding sites at once. No deterioration was noticed in signal moving from the 10x10 \u00b5m field of view shown in Figure 2, to 40x40 \u00b5m (16x bigger area). This is a large advantage over conventional iSCAT which struggles with even detection of gold nanoparticles in a wide-field setup (i.e. without using Galvometric scanning or other scanning techniques) [see Opt. Express 14, 405 (2006)], due to its extreme sensitivity to phase shifts from interfering back reflections.\nc) Cost\nThe increased signal, lower photon count on the detector and increased stability of the signal lead to a setup which for the same level of detection costs far less to implement and requires a simpler geometry. The detectors, light source and other optical elements in a conventional iSCAT setup, typically put the cost at > $150,000, while in the proposed setup for the system of the present invention, the purchased elements can easily be found for < $10,000. With most of this cost due to the objective lens. With further modifications it is feasible to imagine a system costing even less and at the cost of sensitivity objective could be massively simplified for systems in the sub-$2000 range.\n[0076] These advantages clearly illustrate the unique nature of the system and method of the present invention and the large impact it could have in industry.\n[0077] A person skilled in the art could introduce changes and modifications in the embodiments described without departing from the scope of the invention as it is defined in the attached claims.\n1. A common-path interferometric scattering imaging system, comprising:\n- illuminating means comprising a light source (S) configured and arranged for emitting an illumination beam (L0) along an illumination optical path including at least two different phases of matter;\n- light collecting means configured and arranged for simultaneously at least partially collecting through a common collection optical path:\n- a scattered beam (Ls) provided by the light scattering by an object (T) of a portion of said illumination beam (L0), wherein said object (T) is placed in at least one of said two different phases of matter; and\n- a reference beam (Lr) provided by the reflection on or transmission through an interface (I) of another portion of said illumination beam (L0), wherein said interface (I) is a surface forming a common boundary among said two different phases of matter;\n- image sensing means (D) configured and arranged for receiving and sensing the collected scattered (Ls) and reference (Lr) beams interfering thereon as an interferometric light signal; and\n- processing means (P) connected to said image sensing means (D) to receive data corresponding to said interferometric light signal, and configured to process said received data to at least detect said object (T);\ncharacterised in that it comprises attenuation means arranged in said common collection optical path for attenuating said reference beam (Lr) before it arrives at said image sensing means (D).\n2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said attenuation means comprises:\n- a partially transmissive mask (M) having a semi-transmissive region arranged in a corresponding region of the common collection path through which the reference beam (Lr) travels, such that the reference beam (Lr) is attenuated on transmission before reaching the image sensing means (D); or\n- a partially reflective mask (M) having a semi-reflective region arranged in a corresponding region of the common collection path through which the reference beam (Lr) travels, such that the reference beam (Lr) is attenuated on reflection before reaching the image sensing means (D).\n3. A system according to claim 2, wherein said semi-transmissive or semi-reflective region is a first region (M1) of said partially transmissive or partially reflective mask (M), the mask (M) comprising a second region (M2) arranged in a corresponding region of the common collection path through which part of the scattering beam (Ls) travels, such that said part of the scattering beam (Ls) traverses said second region (M2) or is reflected thereon before reaching the image sensing means (D), by transmission or by reflection, wherein said first (M1) and said second (M2) regions have different transmissive or reflective properties and said partially transmissive or partially reflective mask (M) maintains the coherence relationship between the reference (Lr) and scattered (Ls) beams.\n4. A system according to claim 3, wherein said second region (M2) is a fully or substantially fully transmissive or reflective region.\n5. A system according to claim 3 or 4, wherein said first region (M1) has a circular or cylindrical shape and said second region (M2) has an annular or tubular shape with an inner diameter larger than the diameter of said first region (M1) and being arranged concentrically with respect thereto.\n6. A system according to any of the previous claims, wherein said illumination optical path and said common collection path are configured and arranged such that the reference (Lr) and scattered (Ls) beams are generated at such closer positions that ensure a phase-locked relationship between the reference (Lr) and scattered (Ls) beams, the system being absent of any phase varying mechanism for said reference (Lr) and scattered (Ls) beams.\n7. A system according to any of the previous claims, comprising a coverslip (C) for said object, wherein said interface (I) is the common boundary surface among said coverslip (C) and a medium (W) into which said object (T) is placed, the material of which said coverslip (C) is made being non-index matched with said medium (W).\n8. A system according to any of the previous claims, wherein said light collecting means are configured and arranged for collecting said reference beam (Lr) provided by the reflection on said interface (I) of said another portion of the illumination beam (L0), wherein the system comprises an objective lens (OL) which forms part of both the illuminating means and the light collecting means and which is configured and arranged in both the illumination and the collection optical paths to, respectively:\n- focus the illumination beam (L0) into the back-focal plane of said objective lens (OL) to produce illumination out of the front aperture of the objective lens (OL), such that a portion thereof will be reflected by the interface (I) generating the reference beam (Lr) and the rest will pass through the interface (I) up to the object (T) generating the scattering beam; and\n- receive and at least partially collect both the reference beam (Lr) and the scattering beam (Ls).\n9. A system according to claim 8 when depending on claim 3, wherein said objective lens (OL) is configured and arranged such that the reference beam (Lr) exits the objective lens (OL) as a diverging beam from the centre of the objective lens (OL), and passes through or is reflected on the first region (M1) of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask (M), and the scattering beam (Ls) leaves the objective lens (OL) as a plane wave across a full back-aperture of the objective lens (OL), when it entered as a spherical wave, and passes through or is reflected on both the first (M1) and the second (M2) regions of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask (M).\n10. A system according to claim 9, wherein said first region (M1) of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask (M) is also placed in the illumination optical path and is configured and arranged to reflect the illumination beam (Lo) coming from the light source (S) towards the back-focal plane of the objective lens (OL).\n11. A system according to any of claims 1 to 7, wherein said light collecting means are configured and arranged for collecting said reference beam (Lr) provided by the transmission through said interface (I) of said another portion of the illumination beam (Lo), wherein:\n- the illuminating means comprises an illumination objective lens (OLi) configured and arranged to focus the illumination beam (L0) into the back-focal plane of said illumination objective lens (OLi) to produce plane-illumination out of the front aperture of the illumination objective lens (OLi), such that a portion thereof will be scattered by the object (T) generating the scattering beam (Ls) which will be transmitted through the interface (I), and another portion will be directly transmitted through the interface (I) generating the reference beam (Lr); and\n- the light collecting means comprise a collection objective lens (OLc) configured and arranged to receive and at least partially collect both the reference beam (Lr) and the scattering beam (Ls).\n12. A system according to claim 11 when depending on claim 3, wherein said collection objective lens (OLc) is configured and arranged such that the reference beam (Lr) exits the collection objective lens (OLc) as a diverging beam from the centre of the collection objective lens (OLc), when it entered as a plane wave, and passes through or is reflected on the first region (M1) of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask (M), and the scattering beam (Ls) leaves the collection objective lens (OLc) as a plane wave across a full back-aperture of the collection objective lens (OLc), when it entered as a spherical wave, and passes through or is reflected on both the first (M1) and the second (M2) regions of the partially transmissive or partially reflective mask (M).\n13. A system according to any of the previous claims, wherein said processing means (P) implements an algorithm to process the received data according to the following equation:\nwhere r is the normalised reference beam amplitude, s is the normalised scattering beam amplitude, \u03b8 is the phase difference between the reference (Lr) and scattering (Ls) beams, \u03b1 is the attenuation amplitude defined as the reciprocal transmission amplitude, Itotal is the total intensity of the light on the image sensing means (D) caused by the two interfering reference (Lr) and scattering (Ls) beams, and I0 is an initial light intensity on the image sensing means (D), wherein said attenuation means have a degree of attenuation for said reference beam (Lr) calculated with the purpose of maximizing the term 2rs cos \u03b8 with respect to the term r2 of the above equation to enhance detection sensitivity.\n14. A method of using common-path interferometric scattering imaging to detect an object, comprising:\n- emitting an illumination beam (L0) along an illumination optical path including at least two different phases of matter;\n- simultaneously at least partially collecting through a common collection optical path:\n- a scattered beam (Ls) provided by the light scattering on an object (T) of a portion of said illumination beam (L0), wherein said object (T) is placed in at least one of said two different phases of matter; and\n- receiving and sensing, on image sensing means (D), the collected scattered (Ls) and reference (Lr) beams interfering thereon as an interferometric light signal; and\n- receiving and processing data corresponding to said interferometric light signal to at least detect said object (T);\ncharacterised in that it comprises attenuating said reference beam in said common collection optical path before it arrives at said image sensing means (D).\n15. A method according to claim 14, wherein said object (T) is a dielectric nanoparticle with a size of substantially 10kDa or below.\nNon-patent literature cited in the description\nLINDFORS et al.PRL, 2004, vol. 93, 3- [0005]\nPILIARIK et al.Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, 4495- [0005]\nOpt. Express, 2006, vol. 14, 405- [0075]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Countdown the Board Game\nCountdown is one of the longest-running and most iconic quiz shows on British television.With its distinctive music and compulsive game-play, the show has recently been given a new lease of life - and audience - through the 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown adaptation on Channel 4.With this renewed popularity, Rocket Games has released a brand new version of the Countdown board game featuring music from the show and all your favourite rounds.Now you can play along as the stars do and hope to achieve a nine letter word or the elusive target number before the 30 seconds expire.There's also the Countdown Conundrum, where you need to be quick off the mark to spot the jumbled up word before your fellow contestants.And for a real feeling of being there, the familiar music will count you down so you don't have to take your eyes off the page as you try to win the game that has become a true household name since it launched Channel 4 back in 1982. Show more Show less","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Reality of Being a Gamer Of Color in eSports\nFEATURED, GAMING, TECH\nEditor's Note: This is a guest post from Jeremiah Timmons. Jeremiah is an avid gamer and somewhat less avid in his interactions with other human beings. He writes for various publications, screenplays, as well as his personal blog Fukette.com\nTerrence \"TerrenceM\" Miller At DreamHack (Mulkerin,2016)\nIf you were to travel back to 2005 and approach a gaggle (for the sake of this piece, a group of players will exclusively be referred to as a 'gaggle') of teenaged gamers with the prospect of gaming AND getting paid to do so, I'm confident in saying that at least one, if not all, of them, will call you a liar. Well, that and a whole host of other obscenities one can't help but learn just by spending a few hours play playing against other depraved souls online. The mere concept of participating in a competition against other gamers from around the world while earning more money than most people make in an entire year is incredibly exciting. And why shouldn't it be? Not only will you get the chance to dive into the abyss when it comes to the games you know and love, but you'll also get to meet like-minded individuals that are hopefully as obsessed as you are.\nAt least, that would be an IDEAL scenario.\nAfrican Gaming League In Nigeria (Takahashi, 2016)\nWhen it comes to the reality of participating in professional leagues, gamers of color are subjected to experiences that are very different than what would be considered ideal. Where most people would expect to find others with compatible interests and somewhat similar sensibilities, gamers of color are reporting discriminatory practices that seem to go out of its way to target players whose demographics are scarce, if not completely non-existent, to begin with.\nAn example would be the constant barrage of racial slurs and insults hurled at black players through platforms like Twitch whenever they compete as evidenced by Terrence \"TerrenceM\" Miller's ordeal as he competed at the DreamHack Austin tournament last May. Viewers of his matches, which included his parents, had started to notice that the chat window had become blanketed with racial slurs all directed at Terrence. Unfortunately, with the exception of his family, Terrence had steeled himself in preparation for dealing with racist trolls because he's long since learned to expect these things.\n\"Obviously, the fact that it was happening bothers me, but hearing that people are saying racist things about me on the Internet is nothing new, and it's not surprising that Twitch chat was doing that.\" Miller says.\nAs even the most casual of observers will note, gaming, with eSports being a highly visible example, can be a very hostile and combative environment where insults and even threats are considered commonplace more than isolated incidents. Often, POC, women, and generally gamers who are known or even rumored to be homosexual or anyone whose demographics are relegated to the margins of what is considered 'normal' will get inundated with comment threads ranging from ethnic slurs, homophobic threats, and even statements threatening female competitors with rape. Couple this with the fact that most tournaments simply have no protocol in place to mitigate this disgusting behavior if only because it affects such a small percentage of its players and the cost-benefit ratio just does not support such efforts at this time. How tragic.\nThe Real Stars Multi Gaming Organization\nWith the current climate in professional gaming being the unabashed racism and prideful ignorance exhibited by mainly cis, white males, there's hardly any confusion as to why the African-American presence in the professional league circuit is almost non-existent. According to the findings of The Kaiser Family Foundation, African American children between the ages of 8 and 18 play games 30 minutes more per day than white children, while Hispanics play an average of 10 minutes more than white children. It also states that African-American and Hispanic children are more likely to purchase games than white children. (Source) That would indicate that children of color are just as enamored with the concept of gaming as much as their white counterparts, but are frequently subjected to barriers white players could not even imagine much less have to contend with.\nWhen asked about what can be done to combat such behavior from his fellow competitors, as if the task of curbing vicious hate-speech from other humans with developed brains and at least a cursory knowledge of American history is incumbent upon him, Terrence Miller responded with \"Just ignoring it like some people are saying doesn't make the problem go away. It'll just keep happening. You have to keep bringing it up and try to find a resolution.\"\nIt goes without saying that this is an incredibly eloquent response considering the context.\neSports Arena\nHowever, real change must come from the organizers and sponsors who responsible for hosting these tournaments. One really can't rely on substantive change being employed as a result of a moral imperative, but one can always count on organizations taking heed from those who are its customers, the buying public. The amount of money that could be amassed by making the tournament scene accessible to players from all walks of life is staggering in estimation, so it begs the question: Why would you allow your negligence regarding such a serious issue deprive you of so much in terms of both financial and PR capital? Encouragingly, the DreamHack staff has publicly stated that they are \"taking active steps to improve for DH Summer.\" While the measures have not been explicitly outlined, one can only assume that whatever action taken has to be better than the laissez-faire attitude taken by most organizations up til now.\nTags : African Gaming League, eSports, Gaming, Terrence M, Video Games, videogames\nSlambros: Problematic Gimmick Matches (PODCAST)\nThe Incredible Jessica James: Jessica Williams Interview\nFEATURED, GAMING\tJanuary 13, 2020\nPHOENIX POINT - Game Review\nFEATURED, MOVIES\tNovember 15, 2019\nCharlie's Angels 2019: Classic Corniness\nFEATURED, GAMING\tNovember 5, 2019\nEVERSPACE 2 Demo Impressions\nConsole Games, FEATURED\tOctober 30, 2019\nA Knight's Quest - Breath\nGAMING, Interviews\tOctober 24, 2019\nKyle Erf Interview: Dodo Peak\nGAMING, Opinion\tOctober 21, 2019\nIdeas For NBA 2K To","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"US opens 'major Afghan offensive'\nFiled under: Latest, Politics News \u2014 Tags: Afghan, Afghanistan, barack obama, Marines, military, NATO, Taliban, UK, US \u2014 expressyoureself @ 8:36 am\nThe US army says it has launched a major offensive against the Taliban in south Afghanistan's Helmand province.\nThe US military says about 4,000 Marines as well as 650 Afghan troops are involved, supported by Nato planes.\nBrigadier General Larry Nicholson said the operation was different from previous ones because of the \"massive size of the force\" and its speed.\nThe offensive is the Marines' first major operation since their recent deployment to Afghanistan.\nIt is also the first such operation under President Barack Obama's presidency.\nThe operation \u2013 codenamed Khanjar or Strike of the Sword \u2013 began when units moved into the Helmand river valley in the early hours of Thursday.\nHelicopters and heavy transport vehicles carried out the advance, with Nato planes providing air cover.\nUK-led forces in Helmand launched their own operation to combat the Taliban insurgency last week, in what the Ministry of Defence described as one of the largest air operations in modern times.\nThousands of British forces under Nato command have been fighting the Taliban in Helmand since 2006, but there has been criticism that they have been overstretched and under-resourced.\nSecurity aim\nSouthern Afghanistan is considered a Taliban stronghold.\nThe security forces will build bases to provide security for the local people so that they can carry out every activity with this favourable background, and take their lives forward in peace\nGulab Mangal\nHelmand Governor\n\"Where we go we will stay, and where we stay, we will hold, build and work toward transition of all security responsibilities to Afghan forces,\" said Brig Gen Nicholson in a statement.\nAt a briefing at the US military's Camp Leatherneck last week, he told personnel and embedded reporters: \"One of the most critical things is to tell people why we're there, and we are going to have a limited opportunity to gain their trust.\"\nThe operation would have an initial highly aggressive stage lasting 36 hours, AFP news agency reported.\nIt aims to improve security ahead of presidential elections on 20 August, allowing voter registration where before there was none, Gen Nicholson said.\nUS troops are working to flush out Taliban from Helmand province\nA US military spokesman, Captain William Pelletier, told the news there had been \"no enemy contact\" in the first hours of the operation, but one marine was slightly injured when an improvised explosive device detonated in the village of Nawa.\nNawa and nearby Garmsir \u2013 south of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah \u2013 are key targets in the operation, as the area is considered a refuge for militants and no US or Nato troops have previously operated there in large numbers.\nCapt Pelletier said the US military was prepared for casualties, but stressed that \"it is absolutely essential that no civilians be harmed\".\nHelmand Governor Gulab Mangal predicted the operation would be \"very effective\".\n\"The security forces will build bases to provide security for the local people so that they can carry out every activity with this favourable background, and take their lives forward in peace.\"\nTroop numbers\nI am convinced that the addition of those [US] troops is going to improve the security situation\nGeneral Jim Dutton\nCommander of UK forces\nAs of June 2009, Nato's International Security Assistance Force had 61,130 personnel from 42 countries including the US, Canada, European countries, Australia, Jordan and New Zealand.\nThe US is the largest contributor, providing 28,850 soldiers.\nIt also has troops under Operation Enduring Freedom \u2013 mostly in the east of Afghanistan on the border with Pakistan \u2013 that are not under Isaf's command.\nIn December 2008 they numbered 17,100.\nPresident Obama has pledged to send an additional 21,000 extra soldiers to Afghanistan, many of them redeployed from operations in Iraq, to help with training Afghan security forces and to tackle the insurgency.\nLast week the commander of UK troops in Afghanistan, General Jim Dutton, denied that the battle against the Taliban was \"a losing campaign\".\nGen Dutton welcomed the planned increase in US troop numbers.\n\"I am convinced that the addition of those [US] troops is going to improve the security situation,\" he said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Yeddyurappa Resignation Day Speech in Assembly\nPost category:Videos\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bge3NgFc1jk\nContinue Reading Yeddyurappa Resignation Day Speech in Assembly\nExclusive Interview with Former Karnataka CM B.S. Yeddyurappa\nContinue Reading Exclusive Interview with Former Karnataka CM B.S. Yeddyurappa\nTV9 Chakravyuha: With B. S. Yeddyurappa\nContinue Reading TV9 Chakravyuha: With B. S. Yeddyurappa\nBS Yeddyurappa Eyes Glory, While Interview with Times Now\nPost category:BSY's Interview \/ Videos\nContinue Reading BS Yeddyurappa Eyes Glory, While Interview with Times Now\nBSY Casts his vote in Shikaripura\nContinue Reading BSY Casts his vote in Shikaripura\nB S Yeddyurappa cast his vote with family\nContinue Reading B S Yeddyurappa cast his vote with family\nShri Narendra Modi's BHARAT VIJAY rally in Chikmagalur on 13-04-2014\nContinue Reading Shri Narendra Modi's BHARAT VIJAY rally in Chikmagalur on 13-04-2014\nShri Narendra Modi's BHARAT VIJAY rally in Chikkaballapura on 13-04-2014\nContinue Reading Shri Narendra Modi's BHARAT VIJAY rally in Chikkaballapura on 13-04-2014\nShri Narendra Modi's BHARAT VIJAY rally in Haveri on 13-04-2014\nContinue Reading Shri Narendra Modi's BHARAT VIJAY rally in Haveri on 13-04-2014\nNarendra Modi in India TV's Aap Ki Adalath\nContinue Reading Narendra Modi in India TV's Aap Ki Adalath\nIn Conversation with Shri B.S. Yeddyurappa Ji 29-03-2014\nContinue Reading In Conversation with Shri B.S. Yeddyurappa Ji 29-03-2014\nVote for BJP.. Vote for BSY..\nContinue Reading Vote for BJP.. Vote for BSY..","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Winner 2021\nOthuke Umukoro\nJudges 2022\nWinners, Shortlists & Judges\nRules & Dates\nAPBF\nChair: Gabeba Baderoon\nGabeba Baderoon is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and The History of Intimacy, and the monograph, Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid. Baderoon is the recipient of the Daimler Prize for South African Poetry, the Elisabeth Eybers Poetry Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing and two best book awards from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a member of the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund, which has published over 70 collections since 2012, and has served on the juries of the Neustadt, Glenna Luschei and Windham-Campbell Prizes. Baderoon has received writing fellowships from the Nordic Africa Institute, Civitella Ranieri, the University of Witwatersrand, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study and the Rockefeller Centre at Bellagio. A North American edition of her award-winning collection, The History of Intimacy, was published this year by Northwestern University Press.\nTjawangwa Dema\nTjawangwa Dema is a Motswana poet and educator. She is the 2018 recipient of the Sillerman First Book Prize for The Careless Seamstress. Her chapbook Mandible was published as part of the African Poetry Book Fund's first New Generation Poets boxset. TJ is an alumna of the HarperCollins Author Academy and sits on multiple poetry festival\/institute boards. A University of Iowa IWP honorary fellow, TJ holds an MA in Creative Writing and has given readings and facilitated workshops in multiple countries. Her poetry, and essays on poetic pedagogies, have been featured or are forthcoming in various publications, most recently New Daughters of Africa, Botswana Women Write and a Modern Language Association Options for Teaching Volume. An Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, Tjawangwa co-produces the Africa Writes \u2013 Bristol festival. A chapbook, coming out of a project exploring ethnicity and the environment, is forthcoming in 2022.\nTsitsi Jaji\nTsitsi Jaji's most recent volume of poetry, Mother Tongues (2019), received the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Prize. She is also the author of Beating the Graves (2017) and a chapbook, Carnaval (2014), which appeared in the first New Generation African Poets box set, both from the African Poetry Book Fund. Jaji has given readings at the UN headquarters, UNESCO, and the U.S. Library of Congress, among others. She was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and her poems often evoke music, the sacred, migrancy, and ecological crisis.\nShe earns her living as an associate professor at Duke University. Her first book, Africa in Stereo: Music, Modernism and Pan-African Solidarity, is based on research in Ghana, Senegal and South Africa, and received the African Literature Association's First Book Award. Her eclectic scholarly interests include Black feminism, classical music and poetry, and reimagining the American frontier myth in global Black expressive culture.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Passport: ICC: Massacres in Darfur ICC: Massacres in Darfur...\nICC: Massacres in Darfur\nThe ICC's chief prosecutor says his office has so far documented \"a significant number of large scale massacres,\" each \"with hundreds of victims,\" as well as hundreds of cases of alleged rapes in Darfur, according to a report to the UN released yesterday. The report goes on to state that Sudanese authorities have failed to ...\nBy Carolyn O'Hara\n608287_Darfur5.jpg\nThe ICC's chief prosecutor says his office has so far documented \"a significant number of large scale massacres,\" each \"with hundreds of victims,\" as well as hundreds of cases of alleged rapes in Darfur, according to a report to the UN released yesterday. The report goes on to state that Sudanese authorities have failed to investigate or prosecute cases currently under investigation, which means the ICC would have jurisdiction to proceed with prosecutions. Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo says he expects to file charges, presumably in the next few months, but Sudanese officials said today that the ICC doesn't have authority and that Sudanese trials have simply been slowed by logistical factors.\nThe ICC moving forward on Darfur is good news not just for Darfur, but for the ICC. If the court can bring Darfur war criminals to justice, it may signal to the Bush administration that their cold-shoulder stance toward the court deserves a rethink.\nThe ICC's chief prosecutor says his office has so far documented \"a significant number of large scale massacres,\" each \"with hundreds of victims,\" as well as hundreds of cases of alleged rapes in Darfur, according to a report to the UN released yesterday. The report goes on to state that Sudanese authorities have failed to investigate or prosecute cases currently under investigation, which means the ICC would have jurisdiction to proceed with prosecutions. Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo says he expects to file charges, presumably in the next few months, but Sudanese officials said today that the ICC doesn't have authority and that Sudanese trials have simply been slowed by logistical factors.\nCarolyn O'Hara is a senior editor at Foreign Policy.\nTags: George W. Bush, Law, Sudan, United Nations\nNEW FOR SUBSCRIBERS: Want to read more on this topic or region? Click + to receive email alerts when new stories are published on United Nations United Nations\nJeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian\nA Bharatiya Janata Party supporter holds a picture of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.\nThe program revisits a dark episode for the prime minister. New Delhi's move has only brought more attention to it.\nThe Elephant in the Comedy Club\nA troupe of popular young comics avoids mixing humor and politics in Rwanda.\nFerrisRotman_SW_V1\nThe Diplomacy of Dog Walking in Russia\nMeet the woman in Moscow caring for the U.S. canines of state.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Disney shifts focus to e-commerce\nThe House of Mouse is shuttering at least 60 stores this year as it works to build out the shopDisney platform.\nDisney is reducing its brick-and-mortar footprint and shifting focus to e-commerce. The company will close at least 60 stores across North America this year.\nMoving forward, it plans to expand its shopDisney e-commerce platform to support greater integration with Disney Parks apps and social media, as well as distributing a number of new ranges in categories like trend-focused streetwear, homeware and artist collaborations.\nDisney recently partnered with HUE Unlimited's community incubator TONL to launch a line of items inspired by Pixar's Soul that features designs from four emerging Black artists. According to a source at the company, additional artist collaborations along these lines are planned for later this year across a number of brands.\nAnd while store closures are currently centralized in North America, the Disney's expansion plan for shopDisney are global. For example, launches for shopDisney e-commerce platforms in Australia and New Zealand were announced in late 2020, and the first shopDisney online flagship marketplace recently opened in India.\nConsumers will continue to have access to brick-and-mortar locations at more than 600 locations including Disney Parks stores, shop-in-shops, outlet locations and third-party retailers around the world.\nThis shift to e-commerce coincides with a reorganization of Disney's business segments to focus on streaming. The House of Mouse has merged its media networks, studio entertainment, direct-to-consumer and international segments into a single group called Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution (DMED).\nIn Q1 2021\u2014the first quarter of reporting with this new structure in place\u2014revenue for DMED was down marginally by 5% to US$12.6 billion. Revenue for parks, experiences and products, meanwhile, dropped 53% to US$3.6 billion.\nDisney, Pixar, shopDisney, Soul\nDisney makes noise with CP inspired by Soul\nDisney+ success comes at the expense of cinemas\nPixar and Cartoon Saloon win big at the Annie Awards\nHallmark parties with Disney, Marvel characters","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Despite a 1-shoe finish, Ethiopian steeplechaser into final\nTonya Becker\nKenya's Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi (R) shakes hands Australia's Genevieve Lacaze after they competed in the Women's 3000m Steeplechase Round 1 during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 13, 2016.\nPraught and two other runners in the physical race were sent toppling to the track in a series of collisions and ended up finishing far back in the pack.\nPraught had fallen halfway through the race after Ethopia's Etenesh Diro last her shoe.\nEthiopia's Etenesh Diro is assisted by officials.\nDiro had trouble jumping the obstacles, jumping off with her bare right foot to land on her left shoe.\nTreacy had been running around ninth place, just off the back of the leading bunch, and eventually finished 12th place, 9:46.24, racing hard until the line. She'd thought she'd missed out.\nProtests were filed by the Ethiopian, Irish and Jamaican teams following the race and, after reviewing the video, the Jury of Appeal advanced Diro, Sara Louise Treacy of Ireland and Aisha Praught of Jamaica to the final.\nDiro was clipped from behind, but her shoe issue also caused a pile up of runners behind her, with Praught taking a tumble because of it. She resumed the race, stopped again to remove her sock as well, and then started chasing the leaders - with the crowd roaring her on.\n\"She stopped to put her shoe on directly in front of me\", Praught told the Oregonian.\n\"I stood on a drainage grate on the inside of the track and fell completely\".\nSo close! Croatian misses rowing gold by an inch\nLionel Messi Returns To Argentina National Team\nMarcus Fraser lead a day of firsts for Olympic golf\nReports say police have responded to shooting at mall\nUnited States declares Zika public health emergency in Puerto Rico\nUS declares health emergency in Puerto Rico due to Zika\nBiden to visit Turkey amid coup attempt dispute\nJonathan Papelbon seeking release from Nationals\nSimone Manuel: 5 things to know\nRio officials say they have solution to fix green water\nRio 2016: Cate Campbell concedes she succumbed to nerves in Olympic final\nSoldier: I hid evidence, but teen girlfriend killed her mom\nTop Republican questions Lynch on Clinton Foundation probe\nMichael Phelps ties for silver medal in 100M butterfly\nAug 14, 2016 - 01:08\nWill she end her time in Rio on a high note? Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record. So, unless Phelps decides to come out of retirement again, his final individual race at the Olympics will go down as a silver.\nBritain wins another gold, silver in Olympic track cycling\nAustralia's Patrick Constable also won a second successive repechage to progress to the men's sprint quarterfinals. She will also be among the medal favourites in the sprint, where she is the defending Olympic champion.\nFinal day of swimming in Rio, 4 golds to be won\nPhelps still has one more race to run (or swim rather) in the early hours of Sunday morning in the 4x100m medley relay. \"No more. The German Olympic Sports Confederation said the injuries, sustained while riding in a Rio taxi, are life threatening.\nMajor League Baseball notes: Fielder's career might be over\nThe Rangers owe Fielder $96 million over the next four years, and Rosenthal reports it is unclear if the contract is insured. Fielder was a first-round draft pick of the Brewers in 2002 and played for the team from 2005 through 2011.\nKylie Jenner's Makeup-Free Selfie Is Giving Us Life\nWhen he eventually moved out, the home's owner claimed he inflicted more than $480,000 worth of damages to the property. Tyga's biggest solo hit, Rack City , went to number seven on the Billboard chart in 2011.\nDonald Trump, Hillary Clinton running neck-and-neck in Iowa\nThe corporate media has a financial interest in a close presidential election. Clinton's campaign reported $90 million in fundraising last month.\nFrustration abundant, GOP could be near breaking point Trump\nThe Republican presidential nominee has endured 10 days of negative headlines after a string of controversial comments. He told a gathering of evangelical ministers Thursday he's \"having a tremendous problem in Utah\".\nRobert De Niro compares Trump with \"Taxi Driver\" character\nBe proactive - Use the \"Flag as Inappropriate\" link at the upper right corner of each comment to let us know of abusive posts. Robert De Niro drew a striking comparison between his \" Taxi Driver \" character and U.S.\nFidel Castro: Cuba's Fidel Castro Turns 90 on Satuday\nCastro answered to the honor by penning an Op-Ed which began by thanking the Cuban people who took part in the festivities. As Fidel Castro turns 90, he will undoubtedly be remembered either as a great reformer or extremist dictator.\nFart Technology Is Here - Meet Nosulus Rift\nBefore finally creating the \"Fartgrance\" built into the unit, Bischoff had smelt more than a thousand farts from various butts. In The Fractured But Whole , gamers play as The New Kid, whose special abilities include \"the power of your ass\".\nDaryl Homer wins silver in men's sabre\nI'm just happy to be on the podium, happy that I left it all out there, and then happy that I had faith in my abilities. If Abedini manages to achieve a medal at the event, it will be Iran's first ever Olympic medal in fencing.\nWill bring jobs back to United States , says Republican nominee Donald Trump\nThe page asks voters to become a \"Trump Election Observes\" by filling out a form with their voter registration info. On Friday night, Trump flatly stated he would carry swing state Pennsylvania unless something nefarious happened.\nSeveral people injured in Swiss train attack\nSix people have been injured after a man set fire to a train carriage in Switzerland and stabbed several passengers on board. Six victims, including a 6-year-old child, were being treated for stab and burn wounds as a result of the attack.\nIPhone 7 display photos suggest a rumored feature won't be present\nWhat's unclear is whether this new iPhone color option will replace the space grey option. BlackBerry OS market share halved year on year from 1.2 per cent to just 0.6 per cent.\nAmber Heard's deposition delayed by a day\nDepp's lawyer, Laura Wasser , reportedly said that Heard created a lot of trouble when she was asked to sit and testify. Heard, 30, filed for divorce from the 53-year-old actor in May, after just over a year of marriage.\nSon of former Major League Baseball player Keith Lockhart on life support\nFoundations of Amateur Radio -- #107\nDemocrats Search For Silver Lining After Narrowly Losing Georgia Election","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FAQ \/ samples\nbuy the album\nrecording process\nfrom Chris\nchriswilliams.com\npresents SIMPLE HAPPY DREAM\nSong Samples\n\"Simple Happy Dream\" is available for sale on its own CDBaby.com page, and every song has a preview that can be streamed or downloaded.\nVisit http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/chriswilliams to get a taste of my secret recipe for retro-pop, reggae, and experimental sound.\nYou can even choose to have these excerpts play in sequence, giving you a fair idea of the album's variety.\nOR, you may prefer to listen to the tunes through my Facebook \"band\" page, where you can also declare your fandom, if you're really feeling it. :)\n\"Simple Happy Dream\" FAQ\nWhat is \"Simple Happy Dream?\"\nSimple Happy Dream is my homemade album of original songs, made purely for the pleasure of recording, between 1998 and 2001.\nYou might describe it as raw, harmony-laden retro pop, folk and reggae with sonic experiments at every turn.\nOr, you could say \"this guy must really like The Beatles and Bob Marley,\" and be done with it.\nWhere can I buy your album?\nSimple Happy Dream is available for sale on CDBaby.com, iTunes, Emusic, BuyMusic, GreatIndieMusic, PassAlong, PayPlay, QtrNote, Bitmunk, and several zillion others that I've never heard of, either.\nWho's that on the cover?\nIsn't he cute? That's my great-grandfather's dog, Homer.\nOh, you meant the kid! That's me, a couple of decades ago.\nDo you ever play anywhere?\nNot to promote my original music, no. I play drums in a variety band that lets me play & sing everything from Chuck Berry to Black Sabbath to Rick James.\nHowever... this month, I've started practicing singing and getting my fingertips back in shape for potential long acoustic reveries... (hint)\nWhy don't you promote your album more?\nI'm shy.\nHow do you intend to sell any albums if you don't promote yourself?\nOops! Good point!\nWell, I did build a website to supplement the music on the CD, but... you appear to have already found it.\nIs the domain www.chriswilliams.com for sale?\nDespite years of stringing you all along with mere one-year domain registrations, and an extended period where the site wasn't visible at all, no... I plan to keep this domain indefinitely.\nDo any of you remember when chriswilliams.com was pointed to my free Yahoo-hosted site? Yikes!\nHey - what's your favorite planet? Mine's the sun! I consider it the king of planets!\nActually, no one's ever asked me that.\n\u00a92009 - All rights reserved. Site designed, and occasionally even maintained, by Chris Williams.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Beauty Influencer Laura Lee Talks Summer 2017 Beauty Trends and MAC Cosmetics\nApril 14, 2017 \u2013 1:56 PM \u2013 0 Comments\nBy Sam Coley Parade @samlcoley\nMore by Sam\nFacebook Turns 15: 15 Facts You Didn't Know About the Social Media Site\nQuiz: How Much Do You Know About Heart Health?\nHappy Birthday, Michael Keaton! Celebrate With Classic Quotes from Beetlejuice\n(Laura Lee)\nYouTuber Laura Lee felt like she was in her \"own little world\" when she started her beauty channel four years ago.\n\"I was like, 'This is everything\u2014I have people who want to talk about makeup with me.' I had no one before,\" Lee says. \"It was like the doors of heaven opened up for me.\"\nThe Southern belle turned L.A. beauty guru now has over two million subscribers who watch her test out the latest products from top beauty brands and demonstrate the newest makeup techniques.\nLee is one of 10 beauty bloggers from around the world spotlighted in MAC Cosmetics' new influencer-inspired lipstick collection. Her shade, LARLARLEE, will be out April 20.\nParade chatted with Lee about working with a beloved beauty brand, what it's like to be in the tight-knit YouTube community and the Instagram makeup trend that just won't die.\nYouTuber Laura Lee created her own lipstick shade with MAC Cosmetics, called LARLARLEE, out April 20. (MAC Cosmetics)\nWhy did you decide to collaborate with MAC Cosmetics?\nI've always worn MAC makeup. When I was in high school in Alabama, we didn't have a Sephora or Ulta. There was only the MAC counter. I always had an obsession with makeup, and I've always been a MAC girl. I just kept using them throughout my career, even now that I have so many makeup options. They're such a cool brand and they've been around a long time in the pro artist world. MAC asked me to collab with them, which of course, was a really surreal moment. That email was the most shocking email I ever got. It's like a dream come true. It's even cooler that they flew us to Toronto to their labs to create the lipsticks from scratch. It was a true creation of ours.\nWhy did you create that particular shade of lipstick?\nI chose that specific shade because I have such a hard time finding the shade that I made. Typically, I will mix two or three nude-pink colors together to get the shade that I created. I made a shade that I wear every day and that's so easy to wear.\nWhy did you want to start a beauty-focused YouTube channel?\nI started my YouTube channel a little over four years ago when I was living in Alabama. No one in Alabama watched YouTube, much less had a channel or beauty Instagram. I got on YouTube and after I uploaded my first video, I think it got 12 views in the first day. After a week or so, it was like 100 views and had 10 comments. Four years ago, YouTube was not what it is today. People were not making a career out of it. People were doing it for fun, and that's why I got on. I just became so passionate about it that it really worked out for me in a career aspect.\nWhat is your favorite type of video to film?\nI started to fall in love with filming my first impression videos because I can be really honest with my viewers. [It used to be that] if I didn't like something, I wouldn't talk about it. Then, as my channel grew, I started to become more vocal. I always wanted to please the brands and never hurt anyone's feelings. But, I put myself in my followers' shoes, and I was like, 'Wow, it would be really nice for someone to just say if it's not good.' You don't have to be mean about it. I think that now that my audience knows me and knows I'm going to tell the truth, it's fun to be myself and be honest with them about products\nYou and many other beauty influencers just went on a trip to Necker Island with Benefit Cosmetics. What is it like to be part of such a tight-knit community of beauty YouTubers?\nIt's a blessing. Jeffree [Star] is one of the fastest growing beauty bloggers. Then there's Manny MUA [Manny Gutierrez], the boy that began with Maybelline, and then Gabe [Gabriel Zamora] who started with Ipsy. We all have different numbers, we all have different paths, but there's one thing we all have in common\u2014very strong personalities. No one is reserved, we're very loud people. I'm surprised we all get along. I think we're such a tight-knit group because no one overpowers anyone.\nWhat are your go-to products that you use every day?\nI have been using the Tarte Shape Tape concealer\u2014it's so good. I use my Benefit Precisely, My Brow Pencil for my brows just about every day. I use my MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre to carve out my brows. I've been probably using that product for eight or nine years, if not more, as my primer base. As far as my foundations and eyeshadows, I switch those out all the time. And of course, my MAC lipstick.\nWhat beauty trends do you think will be big for summer?\nI think people are doing just lashes and a bold lip\u2014not having any eyeshadow, just letting the lip be the makeup. I always am curious how far that's going to go because people do have to go to professional jobs, and they're not going to wear the green lipstick. Those trends kind of get capped because of that, but I think at fun events, you'll see more colorful lips.\nI was wondering if highlighters were going to be this big as they were last year, but I think they're even 10 times bigger this year. In all the Instagram pictures, everybody's cheeks look like a light bulb\u2014including mine! It's just a big trend right now.\nWhat is one product that instantly makes you feel glam?\nI would have to say glitter. I have been using glitter for a long time, and if I'm having a bad eyeshadow day\u2014we all in the beauty community have a saying, 'Just put some glitter on top of it, they'll never know.' I love glitter. I'll put glitter on top of my highlight, lipstick and all over my eyelids.\nWhat products are must-haves, even for women who don't have a ton of time to do a full face of makeup?\nI would say a nice, full-coverage concealer, and a good mascara. I feel like your lashes can make your eyes pop and pull a look together.\nWhat do you have coming up that you can share with readers?\nI'm trying to think if there's anything I'm allowed to tell you! I'm working on a ton of stuff for 2018. I can tell you I don't have any more collabs planned for 2017. I'm working on my vlog channel, my second channel (LauraLeeVlogs). I'm going to start implementing more comedy on that because I've always been a true, die-hard lover of comedy. I'm going to be working on boosting that channel this year.\nRingo Starr on Peace & Love, Sobriety and His All-Time Favorite Beatles Song, Plus an Exclusive Video Revealing His Secret to Staying Upbeat\nJim Farber, Contributor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Parish of Jarrow and Simonside\nNine O'clock Coffee Stop\nBedes Way\nSt John the Baptist\nSt Paul's\nSt Simon's\nChurch Halls\nBaptisms, Weddings, Funerals.\nRevd. Lesley Jones\nRevd. Stuart Hill\nLay Pastoral Minister\nParish Office and Forms\nParish Giving Scheme\nMunch - Family Fun and Lunch\nJarrow Lecture\nNews in the Pews and Readings\nReadings, Service sheets, Letters\nNews in the Pews\nPlaces of welcome+\nHome > Our Churches > St Paul's\nSt Paul's, Church Bank NE32 3DZ\nSt Paul's Church\nChurch Bank, Jarrow, NE32 3DZ:\nSt. Paul's is now closed to visitors for the winter season. We reopen on Saturday 11th February 2023. Thank you for your support this year. We have welcomed over 5000 visitors in 2022.\nUp to date times of our services can be found on this week's pew sheet and on the calendar.\nWe look forward to welcoming you to our Anglo Saxon Church and gift shop.\nThe church is open to visitors and for private prayer\n11.30 -3.00pm Monday to Saturday\n2-3.30pm Sundays\nTo arrange group visits please ring 0191 4896670\nSt Paul's is the historic church of the Parish of Jarrow and Simonside the site of worship over many centuries.\nThe church frequently hosts baptism and marriage services and is a major site of pilgrimage for those following the Venerable Bede and the Northern Saints.\nVisitors are welcome to explore the building - see the opening times above. We welcome many individuals and groups throughout the year, whether as visitors, tourists or pilgrims. We can offer a short history of the site, and the opportunity for quiet reflection and prayer. Come along to one of our regular services (see the calendar page) and share with us in refreshments and chat afterwards.\nThe Chancel of St Paul's - the original monastery chapel of AD681\nThe chancel is a direct survival from the 7th century in which Bede worshipped when it was a free-standing chapel of the monastery.\nInside the church, cemented into the wall of the tower, is the original stone slab which records in a Latin inscription the dedication of the church on 23 April AD 685, which is the oldest church dedication stone in England.\nThe inscription reads:\nDEDICATIO BASILICAE\nSCI PAUL VIIII KL MAI\nANNO XV EFRIDI REG\nCEOLFRIDI ABB EIUSDEM\nQ ECCLES DO AVCTORE\nCONDITORIS ANNO IIII\nThis translates as:\nThe dedication of the basilica\nof St. Paul on the 9th day before the Kalends of May\nin the 15th year of King Ecgfrith\nand in the fourth year of Abbot Ceolfrith founder,\nby God's guidance, of the same church.\nBehind the church you can see remains of the Benedictine monastery of the Middle Ages which was re-founded on the site of Bede's monastery. Remains of buildings, from the days of Bede, were found in excavations and their positions have been marked out on the ground.\nSome Key Facts about St Paul's:\nThings to see:\nVolunteers at St Pauls:\nTHE PRAYER OF THE VENERABLE BEDE\n(one of our most famous past residents)\nI pray you, good Jesus,\nthat as you have given me the grace\nto drink in with joy the Word that gives knowledge of you,\nso in your goodness you will grant me\nto come at length to yourself,\nthe source of all wisdom,\nto stand before your face forever.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2k16 NBA Finals Losers Asking $20 Million for ad Space on Jerseys\na blog by La Kifo\nAdam Silver and the NBA owners are swimming in money, or will be, due to a three year pilot program which allows NBA teams to sell ad space on their jerseys. The losers of the 2016 NBA Finals are asking for a kings ransom in exchange for their ad space.\nI guess I am a hater. To be fair, it's not hard to hate a team whose NBA best regular season record was not enough to win the Finals, or a team whose roster broke the regular season record is not good enough to win multiple NBA Finals. Whatever way you want to say it, the Golden State Warriors are a bunch of bitches. Steph Curry is a bitch, Kevin Durant is a bitch, Draymond Green is a bitch, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber are nerd ass bitches (I can't hate Steve Kerr or Klay Thompson, there is something about the way Klay carries himself, I don't know, what is the word. Oh yes, professional. Klay Thompson carries himself like a professional unlike a Steph Curry who quits in Conference Championship games, who quits in Finals games. Andre Iguodala is another guy I don't hate. Just wanted to clear that up.)\nAccording to Darren Rovell, the asking price of the Golden State Warriors is larger than any other NBA team. The Philadelphia 76ers are the only NBA team to strike a deal, they inked a 3 year $15 million deal with StubHub. That is $5 million a year, the Golden State Warriors are asking for between $15 - $20 million per year, and they lost, they didn't win.\nSome people may say, they deserve that they were the best regular season team in the history of the NBA. That would be somewhat fair, but you know what I'm going to think in 10 years? Not that they had a great regular season run, that they beat the Bulls regular season wins record. I will remember a team that thought they were better than everyone else. A team with so much ego and cockness, that it actually cost them the title. The whole point of the regular season in any sport is to separate the good from the bad, the regular season only matters in the context of getting into the playoffs. The championship is what really matters in sports, it is the reason for all the regular season bullshit.\nSo when you try and sell me on the \"We were the best team ever in the regular season\", I don't give a fuck. You didn't win the Championship, You didn't win the Championship, You didn't win the Championship.\nI'm dead \u25a1 #steph #curry #StephCurry #sidechick #KD #KevinDurant pic.twitter.com\/d8fFFuoBSo\n\u2014 Michael Alex (@Mike_Alex) July 6, 2016\nThen you go out and steal Kevin Durant from the Celtics. You already had essentially three max contract players, Kevin Durant now makes 4. The Warriors are going to need to get $20 million per ad just to pay all their players. It's pathetic and a total over reaction to something a lot of basketball experts have known for a long time, it is hard to win a championship as a jump shooting team. The Warriors did it two seasons ago as a jump shooting team, but they failed this past season. Now, they are locked into that mold of jump shooting. Signing KD gives them virtually no space to fill out their bench. That means they can't go out and get a high end rebounder or rim protector. They have to either convince veterans to take minimum salaries or scrape from the bottom of the bucket.\nIf the Warriors don't win the NBA Finals next season we will see the hate rain down like a monsoon. For now it'll just be fair weather fans hoping up onto the bandwagon.\nBottom Dollar\nBrian Gerson\nHot Chics\nKifo\nRating Reviews\nSchoolboy Jew\nSnakeTime\nPhoto used under Creative Commons from erasmohr","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CBS Overnight News\nABC World News With David Muir\nWHDH (NBC)\nWHO (NBC)\nWNBC (NBC)\nKWWL (NBC)\nKTIV (NBC)\nToday : WHO : November 13, 2015 2:07am-3:00am CST\n. >> al is on an amtrak train. he's been doing the weather. he's hitting every state. he's with ryan eggold. al, can you hear us? >> i can hear you. ryan does not have an ip so he can't hear you. >> hey, ryan, okay. he can't hear us. >> so where are you, al? you're going from d.c. up? >> we're right now, we just passed trenton, on our way to metro park. this is bob, the handsomest audio man in the world. >> hi, bobby. >> tell her i love her. >> now he can hear you. >> hello, ryan. >> so al, how many more states do you have left to go, honey? >> well, we've got eight more states to go. we're going to -- we're on the amtrak to boston. we're going to drive through three new england states and then tomorrow, we leave stanford and come into grand central. >> oh, my gosh. >> wave to me, all righty? out of stanford. >> i think you're tired. >> that's right, that's right, on friday. no, i'm fine. i'm doing -- they surprised me on the 9:00, ryan just kind of showed up. >> i just jumped in. i almost missed the train. i was running, jumped in, yeah. >> how far is ryan -- >> very james bond. >>\n. >> al is on an amtrak train. he's been doing the weather. he's hitting every state. he's with ryan eggold. al, can you hear us? >> i can hear you. ryan does not have an ip so he can't hear you. >> hey, ryan, okay. he can't hear us. >> so where are you, al? you're going from d.c. up? >> we're right now, we just passed trenton, on our way to metro park. this is bob, the handsomest audio man in the world. >> hi, bobby. >> tell her i love her. >>...\nToday : KTIV : November 1, 2015 7:00am-8:00am CST\nby KTIV\n, as well as a sit-down with paul ryan. >>> turning now to sheinelle, making a turn with a tough story. >> this is a sad one. trick or treating turned into a halloween nightmare in one new york neighborhood. a car plowed into a costumed group of children and parents before becoming airborne and slamming into a front yard. a young girl and two adults were killed. four others were injured, including a 3-year-old child. there's no word yet on what caused the crash. >>> it was a deadly crossing for a group of migrants trying to land in greece. at least 11 people drowned after a boat carrying 30 refugees sank in high seas. the greek coast guard says the victims included two children and four babies. >>> prince harry greeted wounded he was at buckingham palace after members of the walk with the wounded finished their journey. they're raising awareness of the needs of wounded warriors. >>> the royals rallied to beat the mets, 5-3. they're ahead, 3-1, and leaves them one game away from the championship. the fifth game of the series will be played tonight in new york. >>> finally, the leg\n, as well as a sit-down with paul ryan. >>> turning now to sheinelle, making a turn with a tough story. >> this is a sad one. trick or treating turned into a halloween nightmare in one new york neighborhood. a car plowed into a costumed group of children and parents before becoming airborne and slamming into a front yard. a young girl and two adults were killed. four others were injured, including a 3-year-old child. there's no word yet on what caused the crash. >>> it...\nToday : KTIV : November 4, 2015 10:00am-11:00am CST\n, and then ryan seacrest asked gwen about the relationship on the radio show, and this what she said. >> so blake is also on this show. >> is he? who is blake? >> blake shelton. >> oh, the country guy. >> is that true or not true? >> i am not going to be answer ing that right now, ryan, because i have given up enough of myself. but i think that he is hot, don't you? but to be super honest, but it is crazy that we both went through the same thing at the same time. >> well, that is another c oevn and now, how about this. i was watching very, very closely when matt was interviewing the cast of \"voice\" and watch how blake looks at gwen when she is talking. this is proof. >> okay. let issei it. >> wait, look at blake. look at blake. look at him gazing and smiling. look looky. >> you rare in trouble. you looking for trouble. okay. >> okay. yes, i am. >> aren't you? >> yes, i am. >> and ladies, today, you know, ladies, it is winesday wednesday and it is also what we call hunk hum hump day. >> well, you can't say that. >> yes, we do. and why dotou say it in unison. unison. >> hunk humpday. >\n, and then ryan seacrest asked gwen about the relationship on the radio show, and this what she said. >> so blake is also on this show. >> is he? who is blake? >> blake shelton. >> oh, the country guy. >> is that true or not true? >> i am not going to be answer ing that right now, ryan, because i have given up enough of myself. but i think that he is hot, don't you? but to be super honest, but it is crazy that we both went through the same thing at the same...\nKNTV (NBC)\nToday : KNTV : November 29, 2015 6:00am-7:01am PST\nby KNTV\ndirected by silver ter. they had the convince him to sign up. >> this is ryan's creation, and he directed it in a way. >> he is just a mentor, and i want this to be where both of the characters are in need. >> the classic underdog sports story for a new generation and already talks of a sequel and a possible oscar who has not been nominated since the 1976 original. creed said to be a knock out edition to one of the most iconic movies of all-time. for \"today\" nbc news los angeles. >> nickel b jordan had to get ripped for that. >> well, it paid off for all of us. we get to watch it. >> there's no talk of a sequel, but michael b jordan say that is he would be interested in stepping back in the ring. >>> how about a final check of the forecast. >> well, it's colder out here. everyone is ready to get back home, and it's going to be chilly on the east coast and west coast. we have freeze advisories out in california. temperatures in the 30s and 40s and over to the north is 20s and 30s. highs on the cold side and running five to 15 degrees below average. elsewhere we're looking at isis condition\ndirected by silver ter. they had the convince him to sign up. >> this is ryan's creation, and he directed it in a way. >> he is just a mentor, and i want this to be where both of the characters are in need. >> the classic underdog sports story for a new generation and already talks of a sequel and a possible oscar who has not been nominated since the 1976 original. creed said to be a knock out edition to one of the most iconic movies of all-time. for \"today\" nbc...\nToday : WNBC : November 29, 2015 9:00am-10:00am EST\nby WNBC\nhad to convince stallone to sign un. >> this is ryan's creation. he's directed it in a personal way -- i'm astounded by it. >> i wanted this relationship to be symbiotic. i wanted it to be where both of these characters are in need. >> reporter: the classic underdog sports story for a new generation. already, talk of a sequel and an oscar nod for stallone, who hasn't been nominated since the 1976 original. \"creed\" said to be a knockout edition to one of the most iconic movie franchises of all time. for \"today,\" jacob rascon, nbc news, los angeles. >> michael b. jordan had to get ripped for that. >> it paid off for all of us who get to watch it. too much? there is no official talk of a sequel at this point. michael b. jordan said he'd be interested in stepping back into the ring. >> there will be a sequel. >>> final check of the forecast? >> much colder up here this morning. as everyone is getting ready to go home, it'll be chilly on the east and west coast. look at the fact we have freeze advisories out in california. temperatures only in the 30s and 40s. you go farther to the north\nhad to convince stallone to sign un. >> this is ryan's creation. he's directed it in a personal way -- i'm astounded by it. >> i wanted this relationship to be symbiotic. i wanted it to be where both of these characters are in need. >> reporter: the classic underdog sports story for a new generation. already, talk of a sequel and an oscar nod for stallone, who hasn't been nominated since the 1976 original. \"creed\" said to be a knockout edition to one of the most...\nToday : WHO : November 11, 2015 10:00am-11:00am CST\nfinish your thought. >> ryan, we have interrupted you. >> i am an apology, i am really sorry if i offended anybody. >> me and james have been talking for a week. we barely have any control of what's coming out of our mouth anymore. >> you pulled an all-nighter last night. >> and i wasn't even inebriated. can't even say drunk. i'm actually afraid to speak. >> were you friends before or -- >> we get along really well. or anything. >> it is a real bromance now. >> you are reliving the the moment, and you are doing that? >> and that is the moment when i knew that my career was over. >> why are you guys both bald? >> for films. >> i'm 36. >> i am shaving mine for a job and then i shaved his for fun. >> i woke up and had toothpaste on my eyebrows and he had written obscenityies on my chest. no, a man in philly thought it would be great. so i did it. >> nobody heard it. we've said worse. >> i know i've got a potty mouth, but this is a really great franchise, and i really believe in the mythology of it. >> and i thought that you meant swear a lot more. >> i think that it is time to say \"v\nfinish your thought. >> ryan, we have interrupted you. >> i am an apology, i am really sorry if i offended anybody. >> me and james have been talking for a week. we barely have any control of what's coming out of our mouth anymore. >> you pulled an all-nighter last night. >> and i wasn't even inebriated. can't even say drunk. i'm actually afraid to speak. >> were you friends before or -- >> we get along really well. or anything. >> it is a real...\nToday : WNBC : November 11, 2015 10:00am-11:00am EST\n. >> you see, nobody lets you finish your thought. >> ryan, we have interrupted you. >> i am an apology, i ap real m really sorry if i have been offended. have barely have any control anymore of what is coming out of our mouth. >> and they were to your defense out very, very late. >> and i was not even e inebriated, but i am afraid to speak now. >> it is a real bromance moment. >> you are reliving the the moment, and you are doing that? >> and that is the moment when i knew that my career was over. >> why are you guys both bald? >> for films. >> i'm 36. >> i am shaving mine for a job and then i shaved his for fun. >> i woke up and i had no eyebrows and he had written no, a man in phil li ly thought it would be great. so i did it. >> and so we need to come back and no, i have a potty mouth, and this is a really great franchise and i believe in the mythology d. it. >> and i thought that you meant -- >> i think that it is time to say victor frankenstein hits theaters on november 25th. >>> that is right. and now, find out who became big stars in \"who knew.\" >> and [ horn honks melody ] well\n. >> you see, nobody lets you finish your thought. >> ryan, we have interrupted you. >> i am an apology, i ap real m really sorry if i have been offended. have barely have any control anymore of what is coming out of our mouth. >> and they were to your defense out very, very late. >> and i was not even e inebriated, but i am afraid to speak now. >> it is a real bromance moment. >> you are reliving the the moment, and you are doing that? >> and...\nToday : WCAU : November 29, 2015 8:00am-9:01am EST\nthe children. they need me to be the example for who they should be. >> reporter: ryan knows what it means to finish last. in 2009, he was the kicker for the university of south carolina football team and an nfl scout came to watch. >> i had a tough year. i dealt with an injury that happened the fourth or fifth week of the season. i felt, why is this happening to me? >> reporter: the draft followed. >> the fifth round, sixth round, i never got the call. into the seventh round, i still didn't get the call. i watched the whole draft and i waited until the very last kid to get picked. >> reporter: he was bestowed with the title of mr. irrelevant, the way to roast the last player picked in the nfl draft. >> i didn't see it as a bad thing, mr. irrelevant. to me, i viewed it as an opportunity. >> my life growing up here was simple. >> reporter: by day, hay broker. by night, pageant contestant. katie has fought her way through competition. >> my first pageant, i was sick. i didn't know what ui was doing. i looked like a mess on stage. >> reporter: katie's first loss. did it stop her? in jun\nthe children. they need me to be the example for who they should be. >> reporter: ryan knows what it means to finish last. in 2009, he was the kicker for the university of south carolina football team and an nfl scout came to watch. >> i had a tough year. i dealt with an injury that happened the fourth or fifth week of the season. i felt, why is this happening to me? >> reporter: the draft followed. >> the fifth round, sixth round, i never got the call. into the seventh...\nToday : WHO : November 5, 2015 10:00am-11:00am CST\nradio talent. he was up against -- >> a huge, huge honor. let's say who they are. ryan seacrest. steve harvey. and delilah. three heavyweights, heavyweights in that world. we're so proud of him. he's like our little brother. he is about the sweetest guy you would ever meet. >> we learned a couple things about radio. >> he gave us these beautiful scarves. where's yours, hoda, you lose it? >> mine's in my dressing room. we were imbibing, having fun. we got into a conversation -- >> they just showed my stuff by mistake. >> we learned that there are things you can do on radio you cannot do on tv. >> yes. >> take a listen. >> kathie lee and hoda. you start a sentence and there's a clock ticking. they're going to go away whether you're in the middle of the sentence or not. here, we can finish the sentence. >> yes, more control. >> talk about like painful rectal itch. >> farts. >> we can say the word [ bleep ]. >> let's say it, hoda. [ bleep ] >> oh, my gosh, it's liberating. >> one more time. [ bleep ] >> and hoda, let's say the other one. >> oh, yeah. >> say that one. >> ready. [ ble\nradio talent. he was up against -- >> a huge, huge honor. let's say who they are. ryan seacrest. steve harvey. and delilah. three heavyweights, heavyweights in that world. we're so proud of him. he's like our little brother. he is about the sweetest guy you would ever meet. >> we learned a couple things about radio. >> he gave us these beautiful scarves. where's yours, hoda, you lose it? >> mine's in my dressing room. we were imbibing, having fun. we got into a...\nToday in New York : WNBC : November 13, 2015 4:30am-5:00am EST\nback. >>> ryan returned to metlife stadium to get revenge against the team that fireded him. he was met with boos as he ran onto the field. the game was tied 3-3 in the second quarter. devin smith receives the kickoff and coughs it up. corey graham picks it up and ran in for the touchdown to put the bills ahead. last chance for jets, down by five in the final seconds. fitzpatrick picked off by rambo. the bills beat the jets 22-17. >> this is kind of like -- well, i look at it like this, it's like being dumped by a girl you had the hots for and you move on. every now and then they call you back. they can't get you back. the jets will have another crack although beating rex ryan. they play the bills in buffalo on january 3rd. >>> rarely heard a pro football game described in that way. >> i know. leave it to rex ryan to come up with a way to really irritate the other team. >> succeeded there. stay classy. >>> it's coming up on 5:00 a.m. if you're about to head out the door, take us with you. >> keep watching \"today in new york\" by yound downloading the app. >>> just in from police. the\nback. >>> ryan returned to metlife stadium to get revenge against the team that fireded him. he was met with boos as he ran onto the field. the game was tied 3-3 in the second quarter. devin smith receives the kickoff and coughs it up. corey graham picks it up and ran in for the touchdown to put the bills ahead. last chance for jets, down by five in the final seconds. fitzpatrick picked off by rambo. the bills beat the jets 22-17. >> this is kind of like -- well, i look at it...\nWRC (NBC)\nNews4 Today : WRC : November 1, 2015 10:00am-10:31am EST\nby WRC\n, nor did rick perry. >> paul ryan as speaker of the house, he talks about mending fences. >> the first thing he wants to do is not do bing things. he wants to talk about we've got tot have big ideas and be a solutions party but when i asked him, you've got a lot of political capital, you can do anything you want. they trust you and i think he -- he might be right about this. he's not going to use that capital now. he's going to use that capital to instead do the process of the house, fix sort of this idea if you're a back-ben cher, you can't get your bill voted on or things like that. it's probably the safest political way. what do you want to do? keep them out of the news. i think ultimately -- he didn't say it but that's the imprelgs i got. my job is to not make them make news. >>> here's swg smg we want to talk about. miami miracle. >> it's crazy. it's been a horrendous time for university of miami football fans which was just kind of nice and do it against duke. >> let's show it. can we cue it up? i guarantee chuck will never get sick of that. >> eight laterals. >> eight laterals.\n, nor did rick perry. >> paul ryan as speaker of the house, he talks about mending fences. >> the first thing he wants to do is not do bing things. he wants to talk about we've got tot have big ideas and be a solutions party but when i asked him, you've got a lot of political capital, you can do anything you want. they trust you and i think he -- he might be right about this. he's not going to use that capital now. he's going to use that capital to instead do the process of the...\nEarly Today : KNTV : November 13, 2015 4:00am-4:31am PST\n60s. >> when is it not nice in l.a.? >> it usual is. >> straight ahead. rex ryan gets his revenge. plus on the heels of the missouri protest. college students from over 100 schools are fighting for financial relief. details next. bed all day. when your cold is this bad... ...you need new theraflu expressmax. theraflu expressmax combines... maximum strength medicines available without a prescription... ...to fight your worst cold and flu symptoms... ...so you can feel better fast and get back to the job at hand. new theraflu expressmax. the power to feel better.tm just about anywhere you can use splenda\u00ae... ...no calorie sweetener. splenda\u00ae lets you experience... ...the joy of sugar... ...without all the calories. think sugar, say splenda\u00ae we have to watch out for different types of germs.r, which is why it's important for your wipes to kill a broad spectrum of germs. lysol wipes kill 99.9% of germs, including 8 different types of cold and flu viruses. to help protect your family... lysol that. so you don't have to stop., tylenol\u00ae 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relie\n60s. >> when is it not nice in l.a.? >> it usual is. >> straight ahead. rex ryan gets his revenge. plus on the heels of the missouri protest. college students from over 100 schools are fighting for financial relief. details next. bed all day. when your cold is this bad... ...you need new theraflu expressmax. theraflu expressmax combines... maximum strength medicines available without a prescription... ...to fight your worst cold and flu symptoms... ...so you can feel better...\nToday in Iowa at 5 : WHO : November 2, 2015 5:00am-5:30am CST\ngoing to stand for jesus and his definition of marriage.\" - ryan jorgenson - pastor, harvest bible chapel because the church is a non- profit, it can't be fined for declining same-sex weddings the way the odgaards were with their business. pastor ryan jorgenson says it's a victory for religious liberty. 19:30:08 \"when people look at this story, i hope that all of us as americans remember our religious liberties that this country was founded on.\" - ryan jorgenson - pastor, harvest bible chapel for the odgaards, the fight has just begun...they're advocating for a change in law that would allow businesses to practice in line with their beliefs in iowa. 19:38:16 \"we want everyone to have their religious liberties. we d ours taken away.\" - dick & betty gaard but most ioaly, e odgaards are happy to e eir life's work live on.::26 \"as you walk in you can i el the gortz haus llery.\" - dick & betty odgaard in grimes, reid chandler, channel news.rvest bible chapel says itpes to see i congregation double now that it has a permanent home. before moving into the gortz haus space, the church was\ngoing to stand for jesus and his definition of marriage.\" - ryan jorgenson - pastor, harvest bible chapel because the church is a non- profit, it can't be fined for declining same-sex weddings the way the odgaards were with their business. pastor ryan jorgenson says it's a victory for religious liberty. 19:30:08 \"when people look at this story, i hope that all of us as americans remember our religious liberties that this country was founded on.\" - ryan jorgenson - pastor,...\n7News Today in New England : WHDH : November 11, 2015 9:00am-10:00am EST\nby WHDH\nweather played a role in the crash. comes clean. their relationship. >> rex ryan has a lot of the say about number 12. her college degree. but it will take her 25 years to pay off her student loans. college affordable. join the fight for alexis. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. >>> jazelle opening up about her marriage with tom brady. about nearly ending her new relationship with patriot's quarterback tom brady when she pregnant. one of those moment do i run away or do i. and i think you know now 8 years later i couldn't have asked for a sweeter child. but they ended up getting married and having two children. and she said built a supportive relationship that could withstand controversies like this summer deflate gate. i think we've been through a few tough times together. i think that's when you know who your friends are and who lows you. no matter how challenging we've been supportive of one another. that's the most important thing you can supportive temperature and love she ended her modelling career and excited for what her future holds mainly because she doesn't kn\nweather played a role in the crash. comes clean. their relationship. >> rex ryan has a lot of the say about number 12. her college degree. but it will take her 25 years to pay off her student loans. college affordable. join the fight for alexis. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. >>> jazelle opening up about her marriage with tom brady. about nearly ending her new relationship with patriot's quarterback tom brady when she pregnant. one of those moment do i run away...\nToday : WHDH : November 7, 2015 2:07am-3:00am EST\ninto the hall of fame for radio broadcasters. beat out ryan seacrest, steve harvey, delilah. >> elvis looks great. >> he dropped so much weight. he looks really, really great. if you're ready for christmas, good news, because the rockefeller christmas tree arrived. did you see it this morning? >> i did! >> it's a 78-foot norway spruce. weighs 10 tons. does it feel like christmas? >> no. >> it's about 70 degrees. >> but, you know, it is close to time for christmas. we don't have that much longer. >> the big tree lighting is december 2nd. we told you the holiday cups are out at starbucks. people are putting up christmas lights in joanne's neighborhood. >> only in joanne lamar cuss's neighborhood. started. >> i love a christmas commercial. >> here's one. it's already started. >> i do love this feeling. all right. >> maybe it is time. >> it's time. >> all right, so remember yesterday we were telling you guys about gwen stefani and blake shelton. >> mm-hm. >> i want to say that i called that one a couple days before. >> you did? >> was that in the privacy of i called it here, because i was\ninto the hall of fame for radio broadcasters. beat out ryan seacrest, steve harvey, delilah. >> elvis looks great. >> he dropped so much weight. he looks really, really great. if you're ready for christmas, good news, because the rockefeller christmas tree arrived. did you see it this morning? >> i did! >> it's a 78-foot norway spruce. weighs 10 tons. does it feel like christmas? >> no. >> it's about 70 degrees. >> but, you know, it is close to time...\nToday in Iowa at 5:30 : WHO : November 5, 2015 5:30am-6:00am CST\ngrand jury... already cleared her for it. 28-year old ryan bolinger was shot and killed by officer vanessa miller in june. police say bolinger interrupted a traffic stop along merle hay road... they say he got out of his car, started dancing around.... then he made a u-turn and got out of his car again... that's when police say he quote \"walked with purpose\" towards miller's squad car... miller shot bolinger through her window. the family's lawyer now claiming an officer can't kill because someone is \"walking with a purpose\" 14:09:50 this is obviously an immense tragedy. it was completely avoidable. it should never have happened. 14:05:26 the fact that she could have escaped the situation, the fact that she had a partner there the lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for negligence, battery, and wrongful death. newton police are looking for your help finding an armed robber... it happened overnight at the \"casey's\" on west 18th street. police say this man displayed a gun and demanded money... he took off with money before officers arrived. the man never fired.. and no one was hurt. if\ngrand jury... already cleared her for it. 28-year old ryan bolinger was shot and killed by officer vanessa miller in june. police say bolinger interrupted a traffic stop along merle hay road... they say he got out of his car, started dancing around.... then he made a u-turn and got out of his car again... that's when police say he quote \"walked with purpose\" towards miller's squad car... miller shot bolinger through her window. the family's lawyer now claiming an officer can't kill...\nToday : KTIV : November 12, 2015 2:07am-3:00am CST\n, beatiti out \"saving privatat ryan.\" i thought bradley cooper did an amazing job because chris kyle weorked on \"stars and stripes \" \". so i thought he did a great jojo >>> we have a beautiful family from kansas city. they're c cebrating that world series you stole from us here in new york. in the 1986 movie \"\"top gun\"\", what is the call sign of naval aviator lieutenant pete mitchell. >> maverick. >> you knew that. awesome. >> that was one of the greatest movies of all time. >> my call sign wasas gorilla. look at this face. when i found out that my kids would eat their food as babies if i did my ooh, ooh, gorilla impression. >> i like it. over to you. >> from upstate new york. served in the army as what?? military policemama wow! >> j.w., everybody knows this stuff.t% >> did you know that mr. t, out of 6,000 was considered top training. and unlike his character where he's running away from the police. funny story. i'm a new york cop who plays a detective on gotham. we're in the middle of a foot pursuit. the guy turns to me, his mouth agape, you're, j.w., you're the actor. we'll get t\n, beatiti out \"saving privatat ryan.\" i thought bradley cooper did an amazing job because chris kyle weorked on \"stars and stripes \" \". so i thought he did a great jojo >>> we have a beautiful family from kansas city. they're c cebrating that world series you stole from us here in new york. in the 1986 movie \"\"top gun\"\", what is the call sign of naval aviator lieutenant pete mitchell. >> maverick. >> you knew that. awesome....\nparty this weekend. so what, it could have been anybody. ryan seacrest asked gwen about the relationship. >> on his radio show. >> and here's what she said. >> so blake is also on this show. >> is he? who's blake? >> blake shelton. >> oh, the country guy. >> is it true or not true? >> i'm not going to answer that. myself. i think he's hot, don't you? but to be super honest, it is kind of crazy, like we both went through the same thing at the same time. evidence. now, how about this? i was watching very, very closely when matt was voice\". they were sitting at a round table. watch how blake looks at gwen when gwen is talking. i think this is proof. let's see t it. look at blake. look at blake. he's gazing and smiling. >> they all are. >> no, not like blake. oh, you're right. >> hoda, you're looking for trouble. they're all looking at her. she's a beautiful woman. >> yes, i am. >> but you know what it is? you know what today is? wines day wednesday. it's what we call hunk hump day. that. >> yes, we just said it. >> in unison. >> what did we say? >> hump hunk day. >> you can say\nparty this weekend. so what, it could have been anybody. ryan seacrest asked gwen about the relationship. >> on his radio show. >> and here's what she said. >> so blake is also on this show. >> is he? who's blake? >> blake shelton. >> oh, the country guy. >> is it true or not true? >> i'm not going to answer that. myself. i think he's hot, don't you? but to be super honest, it is kind of crazy, like we both went through the same thing at the same...\nToday in Iowa at 6 : KWWL : November 2, 2015 6:00am-7:00am CST\nby KWWL\nryan. \"be open, be transparent, and leader you've got to make decisions. and then you have to live with the consnsuences. tough paat of the job.\" in an iterview with c-n-n. boehner said he used \"catholic guilt\" to convince ryan to take the job, telling ryan he had no choice in paul ryan alsosospoke with c-nnn, saying he will not pick up to change. we're wiping the slate clean, its a new day and we're gonna go here and that is because we have not given people a sense of what we can do differently, how we can fix these prrblems, where wewewould go if given the chance. and that is what we have to do. ryan is pushing back against calls for exppding family leave. he's also telling fellow republicans defunding planned parenthood immediately may be too muchto ask. president obama is pushinggfor changes to the criminal justice system. the president heads to new jersey today to discuss those trying to rejoin society after spending time in prison. president obama was in that state in may -- when he praised efforts by the police department to improve their relationship with communities strugg\nryan. \"be open, be transparent, and leader you've got to make decisions. and then you have to live with the consnsuences. tough paat of the job.\" in an iterview with c-n-n. boehner said he used \"catholic guilt\" to convince ryan to take the job, telling ryan he had no choice in paul ryan alsosospoke with c-nnn, saying he will not pick up to change. we're wiping the slate clean, its a new day and we're gonna go here and that is because we have not given people a sense of what...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About PNHP\nEnvironmental Review Lists\nSpecies & Natural Features\nRank and Status Definitions\nPNHP Projects Story Map\nVernal Pools\nAquatic Communities\nPA Community Prediction Tool\nCounty Natural Heritage Inventories\nConservation Opportunity Area Tool\nPlant Factsheets\nClimate Change Vulnerability Index\nNatural Heritage Area Story Maps\nSubmit and Request Data\nConservation Explorer\nHome > Conservation Tools > Plant Factsheets > Juncus militaris\nSpecies Factsheets\nJuncus militaris\nState Status: Pennsylvania Endangered (PE)\nPBS Status: Pennsylvania Endangered (PE)\nFederal Status:\nGlobal Rank: G4 rank interpretation\nState Rank: S1\nBayonet Rush is a perennial grass-like herb with a rounded aerial stem that may reach 0.6 m in height, and also produces horizontal underground stems, or rhizomes. This species may grow submersed in shallow water, and the rhizome often produces an abundance of slender hairlike leaves that remain under water. The leaves of the aerial stem are much wider and thicker than the submersed leaves, having a sheathing basal portion and an elongate and linear blade that is rounded in cross-section and has a series of horizontal thickenings found at regular intervals along its length. The aerial stem tends to have just a single leaf with a well-developed blade, which often extends beyond the tip of the entire aerial stem. The minute flowers, appearing in summer, are grouped in dense clusters on the branches of the upper part of the aerial stem. Each individual flower has 6 parts that are analogous to the green sepals and colored petals found on many kinds of flowers, but in this species the parts are only 2-4 mm in length, more-or-less similar in shape to each other, vary from green to light brown to reddish, and surround the 6 stamens, or pollen producing structures within the flower. The fruit consists of dry capsule that equals or slightly exceeds the flower parts, and when mature splits open to release the microscopic 0.4-0.5 mm brownish seeds.\nRank Justification\nCritically imperiled in the nation or state because of extreme rarity (often 5 or fewer occurrences) or because of some factor(s) such as very steep declines making it especially vulnerable to extirpation from the state.\nHabitat Range\nIt grows on shorelines of ponds, lakes and streams, and in bogs and marshes.\nSurvey Dates\nFlowers July - August; fruits persist into late summer or fall\nBayonet Rush ranges from New England and Ontario south into North Carolina and Alabama. In Pennsylvania, this species has been documented historically in the northeastern counties.\nThe viability of populations of Bayonet Rush and its habitat may be enhanced by creating buffers and protecting the natural hydrology around wetlands, controlling invasive species, and avoiding the indiscriminate use of aquatic herbicides.\nConservation Status Map\nNatureServe. 2017. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available https:\/\/explorer.natureserve.org.\nNatureServe. 2018. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at https:\/\/www.natureserve.org\/explorer\nPennsylvania Natural Heritage Program. 2018.\nRhoads, A.F. and W.M. Klein, Jr. 1993. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rhoads, A.F. and T.A. Block.\n2007. The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual. 2nd edition. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nPNHP is a partnership between The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,\nthe Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission,\nand the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.\nPNHP | Forestry Home | Contact Us | Search This Site\n\u00a9 2019 PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Thomas K. Plofchan\nJennifer M. Guida\nJacqueline A. Kramer\nJessica McCollum\nCivil-Law\nFamily Law & Divorce\nFamily-Matters\nWills Estates\nNoteworthy Cases\nVideo Con\nCopyright 2015 Libero Themes.\nOur Office Hours Mon. - Fri.\nCall For Free 15\/M Consultation\nWestlake Legal Group > Chick-Fil-A\nMcDonald's Thinks Developing a Chicken Sandwich Will Help Them Compete with Chick-fil-A, but It's Off by Miles\nin Allow Media Exception, Business, Business & Economy, Chick-Fil-A, Corporations, Culture, Featured Story, Front Page Stories, mcdonalds, News, Press Releases, Uncategorized\nThe Chick-fil-A at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. Screen grab via CFA.\nThe number one fast food chain on the planet is seeing a major threat on the horizon, and it smells like chicken sandwiches and waffle fries.\nChick-fil-A is fast becoming America's most well known and most loved fast food chain. It's on track to become the third most successful store in its class, surpassing other national brands like Wendy's and Sonic and falling behind only Starbucks and the most famous chain on the planet.\nMcDonald's has noticed Chick-fil-A's rise, and it wants to make sure that the Christian chain can never step on its toes. With that in mind, McDonald's has decided that it's going to begin creating a sandwich that could possibly compete with America's current chicken sandwich champion.\n\"A Chicken Sandwich at McDonald's should be our top priority,\" the National Owners Association board said in an email addressed to fellow operators on Tuesday according to MSN.\n\"Chick Fil A's results demonstrate the power of chicken,\" the board added.\nIn any other kind of business environment, McDonald's would be making the right move. The problem for McDonald's is that while Chick-fil-A's food is nigh unbeatable in the fast food market, the chain is so much more than chicken, shakes, and fries.\nChick-fil-A is backed by a Christian philosophy that drives their business. It's corporate mission is \"to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A,\" as stated by Chick-fil-A's about its corporate purpose. This Christian drive for being a positive influence makes them focus on hospitality and good service.\nChick-fil-A's vice president David Farmer described the company's approach to the customer's experience as \"[NASCAR] pit crew efficiency, but where you feel like you just got hugged in the process.\"\nAnd they do this very well. The chicken sandwich chain is so good at getting customers in and out with all the friendliness and warmth of a church door greater on Sunday that it's become an internet meme. As it happens, I had a semi-jocular conversation with my RedState colleague Bonchie about it today, recalling the fact that I actually had to leave a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line solely out of fear that I'd be hit by cars due to the fact that the drive-thru line had spilled into the road and extended into the intersection before it.\nNo joke. Yesterday I went to get some Chick-fil-A during lunch but the line was backed up so far it spilled into the road and into the intersection. It's the first time I ever had to pass on it. https:\/\/t.co\/wQdfjVT7gz\n\u2014 Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) July 10, 2019\nFunny part is that I actually considered waiting in that line because I figured it was likely I'd have my food in five minutes anyway. The only thing that caused me to leave was the fact that I'd be waiting right in the middle of the intersection.\nThis isn't a rare occurrence, either, as this is a phenomenon that happens all around the country. People are willing to queue up in these lines because they know they're not going to be waiting long thanks to the swiftness of Chick-fil-A's employees.\nAir traffic controllers don't operate this efficiently.\nI've been to many a McDonald's in my day. Going in there is usually a hit or miss experience. I might get a friendly employee who takes my order and sends me on my way after only a few moments. I might also get a bored employee who clearly doesn't want to be there and shows it in their attitude toward me. I'm one more obstacle in their quest to sit around and do nothing while they run down the clock.\nHopefully your order is complete, and after all that, you still have to eat McDonald's. I haven't been in one in years except to use it as an impromptu stop for a restroom on road trips.\nMcDonald's thinks this is about a chicken sandwich. Yeah, the sandwich helps, but Chick-fil-A feels like a business with weight and substance to it. Meanwhile, McDonald's feels like every other sterilized corporation that is more concerned with money than good service. They served food that was unfit for humans until Jamie Oliver uncovered what kind of meat they were serving to humans, and then quietly stopped doing it.\nMeanwhile, Chick-fil-A has walked through fire and came out unburnt like some kind of Christian Khaleesi. After LGBT activists attempted to punish Chick-fil-A for its leaders daring to say it believed in traditional marriage \u2014 like any Christian would \u2014 Chick-fil-A walked away more popular and wealthy than ever. Even today, no matter how hard they try, left-leaning activists can't seem to stop the juggernaut.\nThis endeared Chick-fil-A to the masses, not only because it stood tall against the bullies, but because it came out on top afterward.\nIt's a proven corporation with classic American values, Christian principles, solid food, and customer service that many corporations only dream of.\nMcDonald's doesn't have a chicken sandwich problem, it has a \"it's nothing like Chick-fil-A\" problem.\nThe post McDonald's Thinks Developing a Chicken Sandwich Will Help Them Compete with Chick-fil-A, but It's Off by Miles appeared first on RedState.\nReal Estate, and Personal Injury Lawyers. Contact us at: https:\/\/westlakelegal.com\nInto the Belly of the Beast: Brace For Impact \u2013 Chick-Fil-A Opens in Ultra-Left-Wing Seattle\nin Allow Media Exception, Chick-Fil-A, Christianity, Culture, democrats, Featured Story, Front Page Stories, LGBT, News, Politics, Press Releases, religion, Seattle, Uncategorized, Washington\n[Screenshot from chickfila, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=94&v=_RAzh13zoes]\nAaand it's here.\nThe time has come, folks \u2014 it's right into the belly of the beast for that most controversial and delicious supplier of waffle fries and social justice heartache (here and here): This week, Chick-fil-A opens its first-ever location in ultra-left-wing Seattle.\nHold on to your (kitty) hats.\nEater reports that hipsters will be able to Eat Mor Chikin on Thursday, June 27th.\nIn a place called \u2014 perhaps appropriately \u2014 Bitter Lake.\nSome hungry fools are most likely already camping out. According to Western Washington's KIRO Channel 7, that isn't unusual:\nIn the past, opening events have included parking lot campouts of fans hoping to win a year's worth of free meals. They've also caused traffic jams for weeks. In 2015, the opening of the Bellevue location had police officers directing traffic to keep cars moving and the crowds continued for several weeks. The city had to implement a new traffic plan to accommodate the massive lines of cars traveling around the restaurant.\"\nMore on the freebies and fanaticism, from Eater:\nDie-hard fans of the often-controversial Chick-fil-A chain camped out in subzero temperatures for an opening in Elmhurst, Illinois, suffering through the cold to earn free Chick-fil-A meals for a year. WGN reports that dozens of people camped out overnight in \"tents and survival gear\" to be among the first inside. It's a Chick-fil-A tradition to offer the first 100 customers one free meal (a sandwich, fries, and a drink) every week for a year: some fans travel out-of-state for each successive franchise opening in an attempt to score the deal.\nSub-zero! That's love right there.\nOf course, not everyone's smitten.\nHere's Katie Herzog for The Stranger:\nEater reports that America's best most homophobic chicken chain will be opening their first location in Seattle's Bitter Lake, a north Seattle neighborhood I've never been to been to but frankly, sounds like my kind of place.\nThe store is scheduled to open at the end of the month (Happy Pride!) and while one more fast food franchise wouldn't normally be news, this is semi-notable because Dan Cathy, Chick-fil-A's president, is a notorious hater of gays. Cathy has given millions to groups that oppose same-sex marriage and has previously said that he supports \"the biblical definition of the family unit,\" which, I assume, means he thinks fathers should demand their prospective sons-in-law to present the patriarch with a bouquet of 100 foreskins before he'll allow the couple to marry. Or maybe he's more into the family unit in which a dad asks a mob to rape his daughters instead of the angels they'd rather rape instead? Either way, dude is a major Jesus freak, and while he backed away from some of his previous anti-gay sentiments after people started protesting his chicken shack, the company isn't exactly known for its progressive values.\nWhoa Nelly.\nWell, if you're not of the Katie Herzog school of thought, you may wanna check out a tasty chocolate shake with whipped cream and a cherry near a lake named for misery in the place that formally Smelled Like Teen Spirit. Starting Thursday, a north Seattle neighborhood will smell like lunch.\nAre you in Seattle and wanting to join the First 100 campout? Find out more in the video below.\nRelevant RedState links in this article: here and here.\nSee 3 more pieces from me:\nDon Jr. Pounces Like A Cat On AOC & Those Backing Her 'Concentration Camp' Remarks, Calls Freshmen Dems 'The Clown Show'\nAccused Burglar Throws Human Feces At The Judge In Court. Then The Jury Acquits Him\nWoman Fearful For Her Life Turns Over Her Estranged Husband's Guns To The Cops. She Gets Arrested For Grand Theft\nFind all my RedState work here.\nAnd please follow Alex Parker on Twitter and Facebook.\nThank you for reading! Please sound off in the Comments section below. 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Scroll down to the red horizontal bar that says \"Show Comments.\"\nThe post Into the Belly of the Beast: Brace For Impact \u2013 Chick-Fil-A Opens in Ultra-Left-Wing Seattle appeared first on RedState.\nTolerance: San Mateo County Supervisor Launches Shame Campaign to Force Chick-fil-A to Withdraw Expansion Plans\nin Allow Media Exception, California, Chick-Fil-A, Culture, Culture & Faith, democrats, Faith, Featured Post, Featured Story, First Amendment, Front Page, Front Page Stories, gay rights, LGBT, News, North Carolina, Politics, Press Releases, Uncategorized\nInspired by the success of the San Antonio city council banning Chick-fil-A from opening a location at their airport, and a Democratic state lawmaker's successful push to get the restaurant banned from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, a San Mateo County supervisor has come up with a plan he thinks will stop the company's expansion in Redwood City, CA.\nThe San Mateo Daily Journal reports:\n\"Chick-fil-A's values don't represent our values,\" said San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa. \"The logo might as well say 'we hate gay people.\"\nCanepa hopes for a similar outcome [to San Antonio and Buffalo] in San Mateo County and plans to write a letter to the company discouraging it from setting up shop in Redwood City.\n\"I expect demonstrations and protests,\" he said. \"My goal ultimately is that they withdraw their permit and not do business in San Mateo County.\"\nUnlike the Buffalo and San Antonio locations that came under fire, the one in Redwood City would be on private property:\nThe Georgia-based purveyor of chicken sandwiches has obtained city approval for renovations and will replace the McDonald's at 536 Whipple Ave., city spokeswoman Meghan Horrigan confirmed last week.\nAnother local official is in agreement with Canepa that the proposed location is not welcome in San Mateo county:\nCraig Wiesner, sits on the San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission, said the community should stand up to the company.\n\"I don't think that we should necessarily be regulating what businesses can open in Redwood City, but I do think that as a community, we can stand up and say we don't want this particular business which has taken a very open stand against LGBTQ people and spent millions of dollars against us at the heart of our county,\" Wiesner said.\nCanepa told KPIX 5 that \"When people think of the Chick-fil-A logo \u2014 what they think of is anti-LGBTQ.\"\nLiterally nobody thinks about this outside of concern-trolling social justice warrior types and their authoritarian government allies who have nothing better to do with their time than to try to force private businesses to conform to their belief system \u2013 or else.\nI get that Canepa is not using his position as a county supervisor to get the county to ban the restaurant from opening, but he IS using his position to whip up phony outrage and essentially shame the company into withdrawing their expansion plans \u2013 all because he disagrees with the owner's personal beliefs.\nThat is a key point in all of this anti-Chick-fil-A madness, I think. There is zero evidence \u2013 nada, none \u2013 that the company discriminates against the LGBTQ company in its hiring practices. But because the owner of the chain is personally opposed to gay marriage, he should be outed, shamed, and \u2013 ultimately \u2013 forced out of business.\nWhat will happen if Chick-fil-A doesn't comply with Canepa's letter encouraging them to withdraw their plans? Will government force be the next step? It doesn't appear that local media outlets have asked him that question, but they should.\nI think the people of San Mateo county deserve to know what you will do do if CFA does not comply with your request to withdraw their expansion plans. Care to comment?\n\u2014 Sister Toldjah (@sistertoldjah) June 6, 2019\n\u2014Based in North Carolina, Sister Toldjah is a former liberal and a 15+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars. Read her Red State archives here. Connect with her on Twitter.\u2013\nThe post Tolerance: San Mateo County Supervisor Launches Shame Campaign to Force Chick-fil-A to Withdraw Expansion Plans appeared first on RedState.\nBoom Lowered: TX AG Ken Paxton Files Lawsuit Against San Antonio for Requested Documents on Chick-fil-A Ban\nin Allow Media Exception, Chick-Fil-A, Conservatives, Culture, Culture & Faith, democrats, Faith, Featured Post, Featured Story, First Amendment, Front Page, Front Page Stories, gay rights, LGBT, News, North Carolina, Politics, Press Releases, progressives, republicans, Texas, Uncategorized\nImage via TX AG Ken Paxton's Twitter feed.\nNearly two weeks after the Federal Aviation Administration announced it was launching investigations into the bans on Chick-fil-A restaurants at the San Antonio Airport and the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Antonio.\nAlleging that the city has so far not cooperated with the state's investigation, which began in late March, Paxton said in a statement:\nThe Public Information Act ensures that \"the people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know.\" Nevertheless, the City of San Antonio has refused to comply with the Office of the Attorney General's investigation, instead claiming an exemption to disclosure.\n\"The City of San Antonio claims that it can hide documents because it anticipates being sued,\" Attorney General Paxton said. \"But we've simply opened an investigation using the Public Information Act. If a mere investigation is enough to excuse the City of San Antonio from its obligation to be transparent with the people of Texas, then the Public Information Act is a dead letter. The city's extreme position only highlights its fear about allowing any sunshine on the religious bigotry that animated its decision.\"\nIn response to the lawsuit, San Antonio City Attorney Andy Segovia questioned Paxton's ability to investigate the issue without bias:\n\"It is clear from the strident comments in his press release that any 'investigation' would be a pretense to justify his own conclusions,\" Segovia said in a written statement. In addition, he said, Paxton has yet to specify what authority he is relying upon to investigate the airport contract.\nPaxton ordered his office to get involved in the controversy after the San Antonio city council voted in March to effectively ban the restaurant from their airport for seven years after a report from the liberal website Think Progress was released detailing Chick-fil-A's 2017 charitable contributions.\nThe AG's office is not the only branch of Texas's government to step in. The Texas state legislature passed a \"save Chick-fil-A\" bill in May that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is expected to sign.\nThe post Boom Lowered: TX AG Ken Paxton Files Lawsuit Against San Antonio for Requested Documents on Chick-fil-A Ban appeared first on RedState.\nDear LGBT Community, Corporations Don't Care About You\nin Allow Media Exception, Business, Business & Economy, Chick-Fil-A, Corporations, Culture, fear, Featured Story, Front Page Stories, gay, LGBT, money, News, Politics, Press Releases, Uncategorized\nI hate \"Pride Month,\" and not for the reasons many would hope to think. I don't typically care what your sexuality is, so long as it doesn't involve children or animals. I'm not your keeper just as much as you're not mine.\nBut I hate the entire month carved out to celebrate the LGBT cause because I'm consistently inundated with messages, ads, and products that look like a rainbow threw up all over them from corporations talking about how great it is that homosexual people exist and are proud about it. To the idea of free people being free to be whoever they want, I'm all on board. The thing that bothers me is that the corporation celebrating it doesn't actually believe it.\nLet's set up a hypothetical scenario.\nLet's say that tomorrow that a total social change in the populace is established and the vast majority of the world accepts it and the world's court of public opinion turns its nose up to homosexuality. The same Macy's that was decorating its windows with rainbow flag designs and selling \"Pride Month\" merch will suddenly act like there is no such thing as an LGBT community. The businesses who were changing their social media avatars to have rainbow overlays wouldn't have a trace of pro-LGBT sentiment in any of its pages.\nThis would happen because the corporation is concerned with one thing, and one thing only.\nMoney is the name of the game, and the more of it that they can get, the more the corporations will act in whatever manner is necessary to get it. This means that all the window dressing and pride t-shirts are really just a pandering tool as a way to squeeze more money from people. This would be all well and good, and I celebrate that kind of capitalism by itself.\nHowever, corporations do more than just sell themed merch directed toward the LGBT community. They moralize.\nPantene did it with transgenderism.\nCloseup did it with homosexual couples.\nDuring 2013's Supreme Court battle over gay marriage, almost every corporation and their dog were sporting the equal sign in support of the homosexual marriage. Again, I don't care if gay people want to have a ceremony and call themselves married, but now we're talking about corporations telling us about what is right and wrong.\nAgain, they're not doing this because they care, they're doing this because it's a trend that will make them money. If it stopped making them money, they'd stop doing it. Which makes this hollow. They just want your money, and more importantly, they want you to be okay with spending money there even when it's not Pride Month. If you're celebrating a corporation for being \"pro-LGBT,\" then their plan is working. You're sending people to spend more money at their locations with your praise.\nBut there's a malicious element to it that I feel needs to be highlighted.\nChristians had to accept a long time ago with the celebration of Christmas that most corporations don't care about them either. It's undeniable that the entire holiday revolves around the birth of Jesus Christ. He is the literal reason for the season. Yet, most corporations won't acknowledge that the guy is even a factor.\nBecause corporations found out that the promotion of Christ has negative ramifications. The media will lambast them as the media does when it comes to anything Christian. They'll use negative connotations when speaking about them, ask officials from the business loaded questions, take them out of context with every word they say, and turn almost everything they do into a national issue. Activists begin to work overtime to make sure that the corporation is consistently dogged with bad PR, lawsuits, and more.\nProclaiming your Christianity in an official capacity is a huge risk. Sometimes it pays off, as it did for Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A, but sometimes it means your life becomes unbelievably complicated, as it did for Jack Phillips and his Colorado bakery.\nIt's dangerous to be associated with Christian causes, or even right-wing causes. Those kinds of stances likely mean a whole host of problems you wouldn't have to deal with if you had celebrated the approved causes form the get-go. The media approved causes. The activist approved causes. The causes supported by the loudest and well-connected among us.\nIn short, corporations aren't just doing this for the money, they're doing it out of fear. A business would normally have much to gain by keeping quiet and just selling its wares, however, it feels the need to steer clear of one issue and publicly and loudly embrace another. It only does this because it feels that if it doesn't, that the activists and the media will start asking questions.\nAnd when they start asking their questions, there is no answer that will satisfy them. Once they start asking the questions, you're already in trouble. Better to capitulate and celebrate now than face the mob and lose money later.\nThe post Dear LGBT Community, Corporations Don't Care About You appeared first on RedState.\nWill Chick-fil-A go down the tubes in a \"meatless revolution?\"\nin Chick-Fil-A, Meat, News, Press Releases, The Blog, Uncategorized\nSay it ain't so, Joe! Or Dan, actually. (As in Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-fil-A.) The company is reportedly in the midst of developing more vegan options on their menu. But they're not just talking about salads and side dishes here. Some thought is being given to offering \"meatless chicken.\" Which, last time I checked, means it's not actually chicken. (NY Post)\nChick-fil-A may eventually have to expand their slogan to \"eat mor chikin or plant-based chikin alternatives.\"\nThe fast-food chain is reportedly looking into the possibility of adding more vegan options and possible meat substitutes to their menu. While their menu currently has a few items that are meat free, these mostly consist of salads and side dishes.\nAmanda Norris, the executive director of Chik-fil-A's menu, told Business Insider that \"a vegetarian option or a vegan option is something we're looking at, we're thinking about and have some research and development.\"\nIt turns out that Chick-fil-A has a long, five-stage process for adding new items to the menu. These are called \"understand, imagine, prototype, validate and launch.\" They're still in the early stages, but the research is said to be looking at something similar to Burger King's Impossible Whopper that we discussed here previously. They're using \"meat\" that's cultured in a lab and constructed from plant products. (Sounds yummy, right? I know!)\nCan they do the same thing with chicken? Or more to the point, should they do the same thing with chicken? I'm not familiar with all the science behind this, but I find it hard to believe that Chick-fil-A could ever take something cooked up out of plant root enzymes and make it taste the same as the delicious sandwiches they make today. And if they tell us in advance about what they did, I probably won't be able to get that out of my mind when opening the package.\nOf course, given some of the other options on the table, plant-based chicken might start sounding pretty good later this year. Other outfits are looking at making burgers and other food items out of\u2026 wait for it\u2026 \"cricket powder.\" And yes, cricket powder is exactly what it sounds like. Dried, ground up crickets. Thank the Lord I'm getting old and probably won't live to see all of this.\nThe post Will Chick-fil-A go down the tubes in a \"meatless revolution?\" appeared first on Hot Air.\n'Save Chick-fil-A bill' survives in the Texas State Senate, LGBTQ Caucus clucks\nin Chick-Fil-A, News, Press Releases, Texas, The Blog, Uncategorized\nThe Texas State Senate passed a bill out of the Senate Affairs Committee Monday that has opponents clucking over chicken sandwiches and religious freedom. Extraordinary measures were taken, but a companion bill to one that died in the Texas House last week was introduced and advanced to the full Senate. The bill, Senate Bill 1978, is on the Senate's intent calendar for Tuesday. The legislation is all about preserving religious freedom and tasty Chick-fil-A sandwiches, too.\nArticles have been written here and other places for months about troubles the fast food franchise is encountering over attempts to eliminate contracts with colleges, bans at airports, and investigations have been opened. The battles against Chick-fil-A are led by LGBTQ activists opposed to the franchise founder's support of Christian charities, claiming faith-based organizations are discriminatory to the LGBTQ community.\nLast week Rep. Matt Krause introduced House Bill 3172, which gay rights groups described as the \"most extreme anti-LGBT\" legislation filed this year. The bill was killed by a point of order, a parliamentary move from Rep. Julie Johnson, a member of the House's LGBTQ caucus. Senate Bill 1978 was filed by Sen. Bryan Hughes.\nFirst, she offered a point of order arguing the amended bill improperly expanded its scope. That was shot down. Then, Johnson said an analysis of the bill's effects was inaccurate. That point of order was valid, parliamentarians said.\nAs the bill died, a handful of lawmakers cheered its demise. Somewhere on the House floor, someone played a recording of \"Taps.\"\nHughes got his bill heard in committee Monday with a waiver of the public notice rule. The Senate Affairs Committee quickly met and conducted a public hearing on the bill without speakers, likely due to the fact that public notice was not given about the hearing. By contrast, the House bill brought out dozens of speakers both for and against the House bill.\n\"The bill as filed ensures religious beliefs are protected from discrimination. It's about the First Amendment and freedom of speech, freedom of religion \u2014 those uniquely American rights,\" Hughes said as he laid out his bill before a nearly empty committee room.\nHughes' bill would prevent the government from penalizing an individual or business for actions based on religious beliefs or moral convictions.\nTexas Freedom Network, a left-leaning non-profit organization that works to counter actions from Christian conservatives, is none too pleased. Reading the president's argument, though, makes it difficult to understand why the double-standard hypocrisy at play isn't obvious. Discrimination is a two-way street. Why do the feelings of the LGBTQ community outweigh the freedom of a private business to contribute money and support to organizations incorporating its founder's values?\n\"It's appalling to hold a ghost hearing and then take a snap vote that leaves virtually no chance for anyone to tell senators how such a sweeping discrimination bill would affect individuals and families across the state,\" Kathy Miller, president of Texas Freedom Network, said in a statement. \"The lieutenant governor is so desperate to pass a bill that shields discrimination against LGBT Texans that he no longer even pretends to care what anybody else thinks about it. But ramming this bill through doesn't change the fact that the majority of Texans oppose laws that allow the use of religion to hurt people simply because of who they are or whom they love.\"\nThe sponsor in the Senate points to the obvious \u2013 the bill will protect the rights of individuals to support others who share the same values and beliefs.\n\"We've heard disturbing stories about folks being punished just because they choose to contribute to a religious organization that shares their views or values,\" Hughes said.\nLGBTQ advocates said the legislation would give Texans a license to discriminate against people based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.\nThere is likely enough time left in this year's legislative session for the final bill to make its way to the governor's desk for his signature. The last day for the House to debate Senate bills is May 21, with the session ending on May 27.\nIt's too bad that it is now necessary for the state government to step in to protect the rights of business owners and their ability to support the religious charities of their choice. This legislation has been instigated due to the publicity garnered recently by Chick-fil-A but it will protect all businesses, regardless of liberal or conservative bias. In the case of Chick-fil-A, the franchise doesn't discriminate against gay employees or customers. If a member of a minority community feels uncomfortable supporting any business solely due to that business's financial contributions, the option of purchasing chicken sandwiches (in the case of Chick-fil-A) elsewhere is available. Trying to shut down a business is wrong and should not be silently tolerated.\nThe post 'Save Chick-fil-A bill' survives in the Texas State Senate, LGBTQ Caucus clucks appeared first on Hot Air.\nTrinity University Administration Rejects Student Government's Call to Ban Chick-Fil-A\nin Allow Media Exception, Capitalism, Chick-Fil-A, Culture & Faith, Education, Featured Post, Featured Story, Front Page, Front Page Stories, LGBT, News, Press Releases, Texas, Uncategorized\nScore one for common sense: administrators at Trinity University have rejected a resolution passed by their Student Government Association (SGA) to ban Chick-fil-A from being a vendor at the on-campus food court.\nAs RedState reported yesterday, the SGA voted unanimously to send a resolution to the administration calling for Chick-fil-A to be ban from the food court, citing the company's \"values regarding the LGBT+ community,\" which they said were in conflict with Trinity's values of \"diversity and inclusion.\" No examples were cited of any actual incidents of discrimination on campus against any Chick-fil-A employee or customer on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other category.\nChick-fil-A does not have a permanent location on the Trinity campus but has been included in a rotation of offerings from chain restaurants, typically appearing on the menu every two weeks.\nWe can now report that cooler heads have prevailed. Friday afternoon, Tess Coody-Anders, Trinity's Vice President for Strategic Communications and Marketing, sent an email on a Trinity listserv stating that the contract with Chick-fil-A would not be cancelled.\n\"We do not make vendor decisions based on political or religious beliefs,\" wrote Coody-Anders, who is herself a Trinity alumna.\nA screen cap of the email was provided to RedState, and the text is quoted below:\nAs you may know, SGA recently recommended Trinity remove Chick-fil-A from rotation in Revolve [the food court]. The University has reviewed the request and responded with the following decision, which was recently shared with the leadership of SGA:\nAs primarily a student service, vendor selection for Revolve was and will continue to be based on utilization, variety of options, vendor performance and campus-wide feedback. We do not make vendor decisions based on political or religious beliefs. Based on these criteria, Chick-fil-A appears to be a preferred vendor by students and the broader Trinity community.\nAs such, we will not recommend that Aramark remove Chick-fil-A from rotation at Revolve. We appreciate the dialogue initiated at the end of this semester and encourage students to engage with faculty and staff to further explore critical issues. Our assessment of vendors, including soliciting input from students, faculty and staff, will continue annually.\nIn other words, the chicken sandwiches are delicious, students like them, so the university will continue to sell them. Trinity students will remain free to choose if they want to buy them or not. Ah, capitalism!\nRead yesterday's story about the controversy: Student Government At Christian College In Texas Votes To Oust Chick-Fil-A From Campus.\nRead my RedState article archive here.\nFollow Sarah Rumpf on Twitter: @rumpfshaker.\nThe post Trinity University Administration Rejects Student Government's Call to Ban Chick-Fil-A appeared first on RedState.\nStudent Government at Christian College in Texas Votes to Oust Chick-fil-A from Campus\nin Allow Media Exception, Chick-Fil-A, Culture & Faith, Featured Post, Featured Story, Front Page, Front Page Stories, LGBT, News, Politics, Press Releases, Texas, Uncategorized\nThe latest battle in the Great Chicken Sandwich Culture War is being fought at Trinity University, a private liberal arts university in San Antonio, Texas. Trinity's Student Government Association (SGA) voted unanimously to approve a resolution calling for the administration to ban Chick-fil-A from the college food court concessions.\nChick-fil-A does not have a permanent location on the Trinity campus, but is currently included as part of a rotation of offerings from a variety of chain restaurants in the food court. Typically, Chick-fil-A would be available once every two weeks, according to the San Antonio Express-News.\nThe resolution passed by the SGA stated that \"Trinity's values of diversity and inclusion and Chick-fil-a's values regarding the LGBT+ community are mutually exclusive\u2026Trinity is a university that emphasizes its commitment to diversity and inclusion. Having Chick-fil-a in the rotation at [the food court] conflicts with those values.\"\nListed among the SGA's grievances with Chick-fil-A were the company's donations to the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The resolution is non-binding but is a way that the SGA communicates recommendations to the university administration, which has the legal power to negotiate the food court contracts with vendors like Chick-fil-A.\nNot all students agreed with the SGA, however. Trinity's chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas (an alternative to College Republicans active on many Texas college campuses, often viewed as more traditionally conservative than CRs) spoke out against the resolution and had a social event at an off-campus Chick-fil-A location.\nYCT President Isaiah Mitchell noted that Trinity is a private institution and \"well within their rights\" to kick the chicken purveyors off their campus if they so chose, but disputed the accusation that Chick-fil-A harms LGBT people, drawing a distinction between \"[lobbying] against the political goals of the LGBTQ left\" and \"actually harming\" people.\nAnother campus leader, Zoe Brigman, who is the president of a campus LGBT organization, told the Express-News \"there isn't much of a general consensus\" among her members about Chick-fil-A and whether they should be at Trinity.\nPart of the reason there may not be a \"general consensus\" among LGBT Trinity students against Chick-fil-A is that, like previous efforts to boycott or ban the restaurant, there aren't any examples of the restaurant discriminating against employees or customers based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other category.\nTo the contrary, Chick-fil-A's efficient and friendly service is an established part of their brand. One of the videos that went viral during the original attempts at protests after the late CEO S. Truett Cathy voiced his support for traditional marriage featured a man ordering only water (an item offered for free, so a loss for the restaurant in the amount of the cost of the water, cup, straw, and lid), yelling rudely at the drive-thru cashier about Cathy's comments\u2026and from the Chick-fil-A cashier, getting a polite apology and his free cup of water in response.\nThere is added irony for students at Trinity University \u2014 a supposedly Christian university \u2014 to be attacking a company for donating to Christian organizations like the Fellowship for Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army. Both of those organizations promote traditional Christian values, including a traditional view of marriage, but are hardly active in the political debate on that issue. Where they are active is supporting a significant amount of charitable work, including toy drives for poor children and support services for veterans and homeless people. It strikes me as an odd take for a college founded on Christian values to be offended at donating to those Salvation Army bell ringers, but perhaps it is a more accurate reflection of where Trinity is today.\nTrinity was originally founded by the Presbyterian Church, but looking at their website today, it was difficult to find any evidence of their Christian roots or promotion of Christian values. In fact, I could not find the word \"Christian\" anywhere on the home page or on the subpages discussing the university's founding, history, and values.\nThe closest I could find was this one sentence:\n\"Founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1869, Trinity values learning, faith, service, and connection to others, honoring the dignity and worth of every person. Our institutional values include Discovery, Excellence, Impact, The Individual, and Community.\"\nIt is not yet clear what the Trinity administration will do in response to the SGA resolution. But if the students decide to kick the delicious chicken sandwiches off campus, it is not going to hurt the company financially.\nTo date, all efforts to boycott or ban Chick-fil-A have been wildly unsuccessful. Individual locations may be shut down or prohibited from opening, but Chick-fil-A's profits continue to soar. In fact, the company has reported sales growth every year since its founding in 1946 and has established itself as the most profitable fast-food chain restaurant in America on a per-location basis, even though it is the only major chain that is closed every Sunday, and does not have the late night drive-through hours that McDonald's and others offer.\nThe post Student Government at Christian College in Texas Votes to Oust Chick-fil-A from Campus appeared first on RedState.\nWoke: Cal Poly Faculty Votes to Kick 25-Year-Old Chick-Fil-A off Campus, but University Officials Struck Back\nin Academia, Allow Media Exception, California, Chick-Fil-A, Culture, Culture & Faith, democrats, Education, Featured Post, Featured Story, Front Page, Front Page Stories, gay rights, LGBT, News, North Carolina, Politics, Press Releases, Uncategorized\nThe loony left's war on Chick-fil-A continues, and this time it has hit the campus of Cal Poly \u2013 San Luis Obispo.\nThe San Francisco Chronicle reports:\nFaculty that make up the campus organization point to Chick-Fil-A Foundation's history of donating to anti-LGBT causes, noting that its values are not consistent with those of the university.\nIn a vote Tuesday, the vast majority of the academic senate (38 out of 44) opted to recommend getting rid of the chicken chain's location despite its 25-year tenure on campus.\nCal Poly faculty, students want Chick-fil-A banned. University says that's 'censorship' https:\/\/t.co\/EQ5IMexGkz\n\u2014 The Sacramento Bee (@sacbee_news) May 9, 2019\nAccording to the campus newspaper Mustang News, academic Senate Vice Chair Thomas Gutierrez argued passionately in favor of the restaurant's removal, comparing it to Hooters and porn magazines:\nGutierrez said Cal Poly already filters their vendors based on their values and there is no reason Chick-fil-A should be an exception.\n\"We don't sell pornography in the bookstore and we don't have a Hooters on campus \u2014 we already pre-select those kind of things based on our existing values,\" Gutierrez said. \"This is a similar thing, the difference is we're actually profiting from this. So our money, every dollar a student is spending at Chick-fil-A, is going to these causes that are in violation of our values.\"\nThough the faculty's vote was overwhelmingly in favor of removing Chick-fil-A, a university spokesman said that fighting intolerance with intolerance is not the best way to handle the situation:\nWhile university administration passionately disagrees with the values of some of the organizations the president of Chick-fil-A has chosen to make personal donations to, we do not believe in responding to intolerance with intolerance. Rather, we must model our values of inclusion \u2013 that means upholding the rights of others to have different perspectives and ensuring there is space in our community for differing viewpoints and ideologies, even those that may be in direct conflict with our own. \u2013 Matt Lazier\nHe also stated that the restaurant was popular with students (it had record sales numbers last year) and did not have a history of discrimination on campus.\nIn fact, the restaurant chain is on track to become the \"third-biggest U.S. restaurant chain by sales\" in the country, as Red State's Brandon Morse noted yesterday.\nUltimately it will be up to Cal Poly SLO university President Jeffrey Armstrong to decide if the restaurant stays or goes. Based on the university spokesman's statements, though, it doesn't appear the restaurant has anything to worry about.\nBesides, the school really has more important things to worry about \u2013 like how their new logo resembles a hammer and sickle:\nCal Poly spent $340,000 on rebranding and, as often happens with such efforts, the new logo is being ridiculed.\nUnveiled last week at the campus \u2014 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo \u2014 the logo was revamped partly so it would look better on small digital screens.\nThe simplified academic shield drops three of previous images, keeping only the one depicting a quill and a hammer. The items are intended to represent the motto \"learn by doing\" (which is now in English rather than Latin).\nTo some, the icon resembles the hammer and sickle on the old Soviet flag. And the added element, a sunset behind Bishop Peak, has been criticized as reminiscent of the Imperial Japanese Army's Rising Sun flag.\nCal Poly's new logo blasted; recall petition launched https:\/\/t.co\/vwAC2RMswt\n\u2014 Mercury News (@mercnews) May 8, 2019\n\u2014Sister Toldjah is a former liberal and a 15+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars. Read her Red State archives here. Connect with her on Twitter.\u2013\nThe post Woke: Cal Poly Faculty Votes to Kick 25-Year-Old Chick-Fil-A off Campus, but University Officials Struck Back appeared first on RedState.\nWe aim to lead in each practice and area of law we work in. 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{"text":"Inter-Parliamentary Union election: Portugal wins, Pakistan candidate gets lowest votes\nPortugal won the elections for the post of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) president with 222 votes.\nipu.org\nSiddhant Sibbal\nAnanya Das\nDuarte Pacheco was elected with 56 per cent of the vote in a single round of voting.\nNew Delhi: Portugal on Monday won the elections for the post of the president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) with 222 votes. The new IPU president Duarte Pacheco was elected with 56 per cent of the vote in a single round of voting.\nCandidates from four countries were in the fray for elections--Portugal's Duarte Pacheco, Pakistan's Muhammad Sanjrani, Uzbekistan's Akmal Saidov and Canada's Pakistani origin Salma Ataullahjan.\nUzbekistan got 67 votes, Canada got 53 votes and Pakistan got the lowest number of votes at 52. According to officials, India was opposed to Pakistan's candidature and was expected to vote for either Portugal's Duarte Pacheco or Akmal Saidov from Uzbekistan over Muhammad Sanjrani from Pakistan.\nThe term of the new IPU president will be from 2020-2023. The previous IPU president was Mexican MP Gabriela Cuevas Barron who completed the tenure in October.\nDuarte Pacheco will be the 30th president of the IPU and has been a member of Portugal's Parliament since 1991. He has held different functions in Parliament, including as a Member of the Budget and Finance Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Portuguese Communities.\nIPU, based in Geneva is a body consisting of representatives from the National Parliaments of 179 countries. Each national parliament sends three of its legislatures to represent the country whenever the meeting of IPU takes place.\nThe Governing Council is meeting virtually amid the COVID-19 crisis from November 1-4 and voted virtually. 400 parliamentarians from over 140 IPU Member Parliaments had registered to vote electronically.\nThe elections took place through a remote electronic secret ballot. The Indian Parliamentary Delegation is led by Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla and Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam and Swapan Dasgupta both legislators in the Indian Parliament.\nInter-Parliamentary UnionDuarte Pacheco\nInter-Parliamentary Union election: Candidates from 4 nations in fray; India to oppose Pakistan's candidature","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Resources > Biographies\nA French composer born October 28, 1961 in Valenciennes.\nA pupil of Ivo Malec, Betsy Jolas and G\u00e9rard Grisey at the Paris Conservatory, Fran\u00e7ois Paris won a First Prize for composition and was then a laureate of the International Besan\u00e7on Competition for La chair de l'aube (1992). In residence at the Villa Medici (1993-1995), he subsequently obtained a CA teaching degree for music school direction.\nDirector of the CIRM and the festival Manca, he taught composition and made regular appearances in France (Fondation Royaumont, Nice Conservatory) and also abroad (Berkeley in California, Moscow Conservatory, Peking University, Shanghai Conservatory).\nAdolfo NUNEZ\nA Spanish composer born September 21, 1954.\nAdolfo N\u00fa\u00f1ez studied composition and the guitar at the Royal Madrid Conservatory before completing his studies elsewhere in Europe, notably as a pupil of Francisco Guerrero, Carnelo Alonso Bernaola, Brian Ferneyhough and Luis de Pablo. He studied computer-assisted music with John Chowning and Leland Smith at the CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) of Stanford in the USA, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree. He also obtained a diploma from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales in Madrid.\nSylvano BUSSOTTI\nAn Italian composer, performer, painter, writer, stage director born October 1, 1931 in Florence (Italy) who died September 19, 2021 in Milan (Italy).\nSylvano Bussotti began his apprenticeship of the violin at the age of five before entering the piano class of Luigi Dallapiccola at the Florence Conservatory where he also studied harmony and counterpoint. War, however, interrupted his studies though he subsequently studied composition as an autodidact. In 1956 he became a pupil of Max Deutsch in Paris and met Pierre Boulez, who introduced him to Darmstadt where became acquainted with John Cage.\nA French composer born May 14, 1959 in East Patchogue (United States).\nAnthony Girard studied at the Paris Conservatory, notably with Serge Nigg and Claude Ballif. He won prizes for harmony, counterpoint, analysis, orchestration and composition (1980-1986), as well as a DEA in music history (1985) at the Sorbonne. He was then in residence at the Casa de Vel\u00e1zquez (1986-1988) and developed his style free of all restraints.\nLuis De PABLO\nA Spanish composer born January 28, 1930 in Bilbao (Spain) who died October 10, 2021 in Madrid (Spain).\nChristian DACHEZ\nA French composer born June 13, 1951 in Humbercamps.\nChristian Dachez studied notably at the conservatories of Lille, Boulogne and Versailles. He studied the trombone with Raymond Katarzinsky, conducting with Jean-Claude Hartmann, analysis with Philippe Dulat and theory with Yvonne Desportes.\nChristian Dachez at first composed music for advertising, the cinema, television and the chanson. Charmed by the music of Ligeti, he found in this composer his spiritual master and definitively directed himself towards a contemporary language.\nDavid JISSE\nA French composer born April 12, 1946 in Pessac, who died July 18, 2020.\nAfter studying singing and the classical guitar David Jisse began a career as an author-composer-performer, creating, with Dominique Marge, the duet 'David and Dominique'. In 1973 he met Luc Ferrari, discovered electroacoustic music composition and trained in studio work, in experimental music and in radiophonic art.\nJoanna BRUZDOWICZ\nA French composer, pianist, journalist and music critic born May 17, 1943 in Warsaw who died November 3, 2021 in Taillet.\nA pianist by training, Joanna Bruzdowicz studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski at the Higher Music School in Warsaw, then in Paris, notably with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. She completed her itinerary at the GRM and the Sorbonne, where she presented a doctorate in mathematics and logic in contemporary music.\nDavid HUDRY\nA French composer born July 3, 1978 in N\u00eemes.\nAfter studying music and musicology at the Conservatory and the University of Montpellier, David Hudry obtained an aggregation in music before joining the composition and new technology classes at the Paris Conservatory. A pupil notably of Emmanuel Nunes, Stefano Gervasoni and Luis Naon, he completed his training with the composition and computer music course at Ircam.\nIvane B\u00e9atrice BELLOCQ\nA French composer born July 29, 1958 in Saint-Nazaire.\nIvane Bellocq studied the flute with Roger Bourdin, analysis with Max Deutsch and composition with Olivier Greif.\nAn international performer, she plays and records many works of both the past and the present, notably Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Olivier Greif, Sofia Goubaidoulina, Suzanne Giraud, Patrice Sciortino and Sophie Lacaze.\nAs a composer she has been invited to numerous residences in the \u00cele de France, in Mayenne and with festivals or ensembles (the chamber choir Les Temperamens Variations, Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence, des Hautes-Vosges\u2026).\nCRUMB George (1929-2022)\nCRUZ Violeta (1986)\nCUNIOT Laurent (1957)\nDACHEZ Christian (1951)\nDALBAVIE Marc-Andr\u00e9 (1961)\nDAO Nguyen Thien (1940-2015)\nDARBELLAY Jean-Luc (1946)\nDAVID Vincent (1974)\nDAYER Xavier (1972)\nDAZZI Gualtiero (1960)\nDECOUST Michel (1936)\nDEFOSSEZ Patrick (1959)\nDEMIER Philippe (1960)\nDENEUVE Michel (1955)\nDENISOV Edison (1929-1996)\nDESSY Jean-Paul (1963)\nDHERMY Jean-Louis (1950)\nDHOMONT Francis (1926)\nDI TUCCI Jean-Jacques (1958)\nDILLON James (1950)\nDONATONI Franco (1927-2000)\nDROUET Jean-Pierre (1935)\nDROUIN Geoffroy (1970)\nDUBEDOUT Bertrand (1958)\nDUBUGNON Richard (1968)\nDUCOL Bruno (1949)\nDUFOUR Denis (1953)\nDUFOURT Hugues (1943)\nPOUGET Nelly (1955)\nPOUSSEUR Henri (1929-2009)\nPOWERS Anthony (1953)\nPOZMANTER Michel (1974)\nLE PRADO C\u00e9cile (1956)\nPREY Claude (1925-1998)\nPRIN Yves (1933)\nPROBST Dominique (1954)\nPROD'HOMME Lucie (1964)\nPRODROMIDES Jean (1927-2016)\nPUIG Michel (1930)\nRABINOVITCH Alexandre (1945)\nRACOT Gilles (1951)\nRADIGUE Eliane (1932)\nRADULESCU Horatiu (1942-2008)\nRAI Takayuki (1954)\nRASKATOV Alexandre (1953)\nRATIU Horia (1951)\nRAULT Patrice (1959)\nRAXACH Enrique (1932)\nRAYNAL Gilles (1954)\nRAYNAUD Philippe (1956)\nREBOTIER Jacques (1947)\nREDGATE Roger (1958)\nREDOLFI Michel (1951)\nREIBEL Guy (1936)\nREICH Steve (1936)\nRENARD Claire (1944)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Get Your Download Link In Email\nPut email to get your Download link\n*Only correct email will be accepted\nYou will recieve an email. Check your email to get download link.\nRecruitment of a Star\n5 Pages | 1,274 Words\nWhom should Stephen Connor hire? Why?\nIf the choice of selection of candidates was to be analyzed keeping all aspects of every candidate in consideration, Seth Horkum can be considered the most suitable selection among the pool of potential candidates. The first impression of Seth Horkum is that he is an experienced stock picker as there are several examples of his selected stocks that went good. Although his history shows some lose ends at stock picking, but that is normal in this industry. The proof of his excellent performance was that he got a second runner up position in the Institutional Investor magazine. This post requires the candidate to be extensively social in the industry. Making contacts are vital for the progress of any candidate and the company. Seth Horkum had reasonably good number of contacts due to his vast experience in the same field of operations. Power chip is in his stronger capacity due to the contacts made in the industry. His strong background can compensate for some weakness in writing and presentation skills. The company has the potential to train him according to the specified required for a particular candidate.\nSeth has a roadmap designed for him to get to the top. The reason of leaving the current firm is also a reasonable one as it is hindering him to his way on the top. His intelligence and expertise confirms that he has the potential of what he is planning to do. Dedication to work is one of the strongest points of his selection process which can be judged by the fact that he can disclose his important information to others without any disregard. The matter of fact is that he is interested in his work and works with passion. The change of firms to achieve higher rankings could have been a negative point for this candidate, but he explained it effectively. He explained that Jeffersons Brothers are not dedicated to him like he is with them. He requires a company which encourages teamwork and supportive environment. RSH could be the optimum platform for such a candidate because this could lead him to be the best in his expertise. Seth did not talk about the compensation and wage offered in his interview as he was more interested in the type of environment, scale of independency and methodology of the operations handled in the firm. Hence, Seth Horkum is the best suitable candidate for the desired post.\nImagine yourself in the place of each of the candidates. What strengths would you bring to light during the interview with Stephen? How would you distinguish yourself from the other candidates?\nPunctuality is an integral part of making an impression in a job interview. A candidate looks professional if he arrives on time or before the time. It also shows that the candidate respects the time of the interviewer giving him a sense of importance. Seriousness towards the job is to be seen through the time keeping of the candidate. In the case of RSH interviews, Gerald Baum arrived fifteen minutes late for the meeting with Stephen which put a negative impact on Stephen and showed the lack of professionalism in the candidate. David Hughes arrived just on time as Stephen arrived, resulting in an impression of promptness made on the interviewer. Sonia Meetha was waiting for Stephen outside the place appointed for the meeting, resulting in a positive impact of the personality. Seth Horkum, the fourth candidate, arrived fifteen minutes earlier than Stephen, impressing the interviewer with his punctuality and professionalism.\nIf the candidate has a bad mouth for the current employer, an impression is put onto the interviewer that the employee will have a bad mouth for the future firm too. Hence, the candidates have to be careful about the choice of words and the way of expressing their disagreements with the current firm. Gerald Baum started the conversation with the description of his current firm's weaknesses. David Hughes was careful about his negativity for the current firm he was working with. Sonia Meetha had her way of explaining the differences of her current firm. Finally, Seth Horkum was the candidate who represented his position in an honest and most appropriate way. He wanted to grow and reach the top level which was only possible through this job at RSH. Stephen was impressed by Seth Horkum, as every interviewer would have.\nDuring an interview, a candidate has to be as precise as possible, and should explain his potentials according to the requirements of the job. Gerald Baum had the expertise which Stephen required for the firm, but he also had some attitude problem which, Stephen thought, would be problematic for a team oriented company like RSH. David Hughes had an impressive record of stock picking and report writing, but it was known about him that he has some unhappy clients in the industry. Sonia Meetha was an ambitious and dedicated professional but lacked the expertise in the global semiconductor industry. Seth Horkum, on the other hand, seemed to be a perfect fit for the job as he had an impressive track record. Stephen observed a huge potential in him to be on the top of the list in the industry.\nEvaluate the selection and hiring processes at Rubin, Stern, and Hertz. What changes, if any, do you recommend?\nRubin, Hertz and Stern has a strong research and development department due to which the company has its reputation in the market. Stephen Connor, the director of RSH, makes sure that the environment in the workplace stays as supportive as possible. The company has prominent sell side research analysts and other analysts for report writing. Every employee works in the form of groups and teamwork is the key to RSH success. Employee turnover is low to the extent that if any employee leaves his place for any reason, the system gets affected by the particular event. Hence, the hiring process of RSH is highly crucial for the smooth flow of operations in the company.\nIf any employee resigns from the job or there is a need for another candidate for a particular project, current employees are preferred to be selected if they acquire the particular capabilities. If there is no substitute and internal hiring take place then director arranges professional recruiters. There recruiters search the entire industry for suitable candidates. Once professional recruiters have found the selected candidates, resumes of those candidates are sent to the director. Director creates a pool of candidates in order to have a diversified view of them. Pre screening phase is completed by the director in which each candidate's history is closely monitored, and his\/her current status in the industry is researched. Several resumes are accepted and rejected, likewise, in the prescreening phase of the hiring process. Director of the company is the main player in this whole process.\nSelected candidates from the prescreening phase are called for an interview with the director. The director meets each individual separately. Interview starts with formal questions such as the reason of leaving current employer, expectation from the job, goals, ambitions etc. Frank discussions are also included in order to open up the candidates and know about their nature and behavior. The reason of some frank questions is that RSH is based on team work and supportive environment, and it needs people who think likewise and are able to work in the provided environment. Hence, formal questions combined with frank and random questions make up the complete interview of a candidate. The final selection is also done by the director who then appoints the selected candidate accordingly.\nDownload Full Answer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Addie Mae Maynard\nGuilford Memorial Park\n600 West Gate City Boulevard\nGreensboro, North Carolina, United States\nObituary of Addie Mae Maynard\nPlease share a memory of Addie to include in a keepsake book for family and friends.\nMrs. Addie Mae Harmon Maynard, age 97, of Sugar Grove, passed peacefully Thursday evening, September l, 2022 at her home surrounded by her family. Born July 31, 1925 in Watauga County, she was a daughter of Garnett and Maude Mast Harmon. After graduating from Cove Creek High School she worked as a waitress in Boone and Blowing Rock before relocating to Greensboro in her 20's. For many years, Addie was a member of Grace Baptist Church in Greensboro and retired after 30 years with AT&T. After living in Guilford County for 63 years, she returned to her beloved mountain home in Sugar Grove to live and spend her remaining years with her sisters and extended family. Addie loved her family immensely. She enjoyed spending time outdoors working and tending to her vegetable and flowers gardens. Mrs. Maynard is survived by her sister, Georgia Harmon Ward of Sugar Grove; nieces, Nancy Mixon (Clark) of Mountain City, Tennessee and Mary A. Trivette of Banner Elk; nephews, Michael J. Accetta of Butler, Tennessee, and Thomas 'Tom' Combs and Chris Harmon, both of Sugar Grove; great-nieces, Stephanie Trivette Platt (Josh) of Banner Elk and Opal Accetta of West Jefferson; great-nephews, Garrett Mixon (Meghan), of Vilas, Daniel Accetta of Butler, Tennessee and Brandon Trivette of Banner Elk. She is also survived by four special nieces, Parthenia Crabtree (Bobby), Jackie Cotronis (Norwood), Brenda Lewey (Robert) and Julia Hawkins (Terry); and many special friends, including Delores Garland. She was preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, Joseph Leslie Maynard; sisters, Mary Lee Combs and Ruby Harmon Accetta; and brother, William L. 'Bill' Harmon. Funeral services for Addie Maynard will be conducted Friday evening, September 9, 2022 at 6 o'clock at the Austin & Barnes Funeral Home Chapel, officiated by Pastor Robert Williams. The body will lie in state at the chapel from 5 until 6 o'clock. Graveside services will be conducted Saturday afternoon, September 10, at 12:30 at Guilford Memorial Park in Greensboro, officiated by Rev. Junior Gossett. Flowers are appreciated or memorials may be made to Amorem Hospice, 902 Kirkwood Street, NW, Lenoir, NC 28645. The family extends a special 'THANK YOU' to caregiver, Lois Guy for her professional kindness, love and devotion shown to Addie during her last days. Online condolences may be shared at the website www.austinandbarnesfuneralhome.com Austin & Barnes Funeral Home and Crematory is serving the Maynard family.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}