{"text":"NAB Show to Feature New 'Esports Experience'\n-- Professional gamers to participate in Main Stage session, including Johnathan \ufffdFatal1ty\ufffd Wendel --\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \ufffd WASHINGTON, D.C. \ufffd NAB Show is introducing the \ufffdEsports Experience,\ufffd a new exhibit floor destination located in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The interactive area features exhibits, a theater and educational programming that showcase the latest online gaming trends and content delivery technologies. The 2019 NAB Show will be held April 6-11, with exhibits April 8-11.\nSessions will examine the overall landscape of the increasingly popular live gaming industry. Examples of topics include branding, media rights, in-game camera systems, streaming, monetization, consumer engagement and game development, among others. The Esports Experience will include a live gaming component, in which attendees can observe professional teams and also have the opportunity to play themselves.\nThe Esports Experience houses a built-in recording studio, in which popular gaming radio show CheckPoint XP will conduct live interviews with NAB Show speakers, industry leaders and influencers.\nAdditionally, NAB Show will feature a Main Stage session titled \ufffdThe Esports Evolution: What\ufffds Next in Gaming\ufffd on Wednesday, April 10. Panelists will discuss trends and technologies impacting both players and content creators. Participants include professional gamer and founder of ReadyUp Johnathan \ufffdFatal1ty\ufffd Wendel; Detroit Renegades Co-owner Chris Roumayeh; Ari Segal, CEO, Immortals, LA Valiant & MIBR; and compLexity Gaming Chief Media Officer Cam Kelly.\nEsports professionals and fans will also have the opportunity to network during an industry meet-up held in the Esports Experience on Wednesday, April 10 at 4:30 P.M.\nCurrent Esports Experience sponsors include Akamai, Beasley Broadcast Group, eBlue, Grass Valley, IHSEusa, LLC and The Switch.\nAdditional esports-focused sessions are listed here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"David Konstant, British Roman Catholic prelate, Died at 86\nDavid Every Konstant was born on June 16, 1930, and died on October 9, 2016.\nHe was an English prelate and the Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, England.\nHe had served as the eighth Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds, being succeeded by Arthur Roche and, before that, as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Westminster, England's principal Catholic diocese and as Titular Bishop of Betagbarar.\nHe was an accomplished author, releasing several books on the topics such as Yorkshire, the Rosary and religious education to name a few.\nDavid Konstant passed away at 86 years old.\n<< Aaron Pryor, American light-welterweight boxer, Died at 60 Mamadou Dembel\u00e9, Malian physician and politician, Died at 82 >>","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Too Little Protection for Afghanistan's Most Vulnerable\nEgyptian soccer fans toss up cheering for or against Algeria\nBritish Open's return offers sporting relief to Northern Ireland\nPraising the achievement of Kim Il Sung's comrade to the Syrian press\nMandatory reporting of health emergencies now a law\nYou are here: Home\t\/ 3K Caraga families affected by 'Amang': NDRRMC\n3K Caraga families affected by 'Amang': NDRRMC\nBy Reporter On 24 Jan, 2019 At 10:19 AM | Categorized As LATEST NEWS | With Comments Off on 3K Caraga families affected by 'Amang': NDRRMC\nThe number of families affected by Tropical Depression Amang but has since weakened into a low-pressure area has now climbed to 2,983 which is equivalent to 13,160 persons residing in 55 barangays in the Caraga region.\nIn an update released 6 a.m. Thursday, National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council update, signed and released by NDRRMC executive director Ricardo Jalad, said this is slightly higher than the 1,501 families recorded in Wednesday's update.\nHowever, only five families or 37 individuals still remain in evacuation centers.\nAlso, a total of 5,256 families or 21,006 persons were preemptively evacuated in Albay, Camarines Sur, Masbate, Sorsogon, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, Southern Leyte, Biliran, Compostela Valley, Agusan Del Norte, Dinagat Islands, Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur at the height of the weather disturbance. (PNA)\nCredit : http:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1059900\nAbout Reporter -\ncomment closed\nWorld Latest Stories Latest News USA maldives sanctions election rigging\n\u00a9 2019 Times of Chile - All Rights Reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Football Betting Guide\nBetting on Football Games\nGuide to the English Premiership\nAll You Need to Know About the English Premier League\nAll You Need to Know About La Liga\nThe Italian Serie A\nThe Europa League\nThe UEFA Champions League\nMajor Football Leagues and Betting Tips\nFootball is a sport that is popular all over the world with most countries having a domestic league where teams compete in a well-organised competition that sees teams of equal strength muscle each other with the aim of completing a season at the top of the table. This website focuses on some of the major leagues around the world with an emphasis on the Spanish La Liga, the English Premier League and the Italian Serie A which are considered as the top national leagues in terms of coverage, fans, and broadcast revenue.\nThe site also focuses on football betting where you will read all about sports betting and what you need to do before placing that bet. Read through also for a guide to the common football betting markets.\nThe Premiership\nThis section introduces the English Premiership with a focus on the history, league structure, and the league's history.\nLa Liga and Series A\nThe Italian Serie A and the Spanish La Liga have produced some of the greatest stars in modern times. Both nations have produced the most Ballon d'Or award winners combined with the likes of Christian Rinaldo, Lionel Messi, Luka Modric has won the award, though the list is endless.\nBetting on Football\nJust like any other sporting event, bookmakers now offer various betting options and markets to bettors. Whether a first time or a professional gambler, this section will guide you on how to play the right games and the most common football betting markets. Read through the site for more information on football betting.\nKasyno Online Blik\n\u00a9 2022 onpointtraining.co.uk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Japan's Mos Burger has a robot cashier operated by employees who are stuck at home\nMOS Burger's Osaki outlet in Tokyo, Japan rolled out a remote-controlled robot cashier OriHime so that employees who cannot leave their homes can continue to work and earn an income.\nIn recent years, we have seen machines and robots gradually taking over jobs to either cut down on manpower, save some costs or simply improve efficiency. For Japan's Mos Burger, at their Osaki branch in Tokyo, they have employed a robot cashier called OriHime. However, it is not to replace their human staff; rather, it is to help employees who are unable to leave the house due to sickness.\nwith\u30b3\u30ed\u30ca\u6642\u4ee3\u306b\u3082\u5bfe\u5fdc\u3057\u305f\u65b0\u3057\u3044\u30ea\u30e2\u30fc\u30c8\u30ec\u30b8\u3068\u3057\u3066\n2020\/7\/27~8\u6708\u4e0b\u65ec\u307e\u3067\u306e\u5e73\u65e514\u6642~18\u6642\u3001\u30e2\u30b9\u30d0\u30fc\u30ac\u30fc\u5927\u5d0e\u5e97\u306b\u3066\u3001\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30aa\u30ea\u30a3\u7814\u7a76\u6240\u3068\u5354\u529b\u3057\u5206\u8eab\u30ed\u30dc\u30c3\u30c8\u300cOriHime (\u30aa\u30ea\u30d2\u30e1)\u300d\u3092\u6d3b\u7528\u3057\u305f\u300c\u3086\u3063\u304f\u308a\u30ec\u30b8\u300d\u3092\u5b9f\u9a13\u5c0e\u5165\u3057\u307e\u3059\n\u8a73\u3057\u304f\u306f\u30b3\u30c1\u30e9https:\/\/t.co\/cLgtP32Q5c#\u30e2\u30b9\u30d0\u30fc\u30ac\u30fc pic.twitter.com\/W4xf1Etf6v\n\u2014 \u30e2\u30b9\u30d0\u30fc\u30ac\u30fc (@mos_burger) July 21, 2020\nDespite OriHime being a robot, she is still dressed with an apron, a cap and a \"wakaba mark\" \u2014 literally young leaf \u2014 which helps identify trainees. By remote controlling OriHime, the employees who cannot commute can continue to work and earn an income. According to the Tokyo-based manufacturer Ory Lab, OriHime will be operated in shifts by a worker in Osaka prefecture and another in Hyogo prefecture.\nAlthough the two employees were said to be \"unable to leave their homes due to illness\", the specific natures of their illnesses were not revealed. Regardless, an initiative like this, especially during the coronavirus period, is a plausible attempt to help the service industry. Be it because the employees are required to be quarantined at home or simply because it helps to minimise human contact, this programme seems to offer a win-win situation. Furthermore, employers can resume business and need not hire and re-train staff \u2014 it is a quadruple win!\nTo top it off, operating OriHime is easily done using a smartphone. After setting up the robot and connecting it to the WiFi, users can login to the app and perform the necessary tasks. OriHime is very flexible with a set of standard movements like nodding, raising its hand, clapping and waving. Her head, where the camera sits in, is also able to pan around either using the on-screen controllers or just moving your smart device!\nRegarding this one-month pilot programme, which will last till the end of August, some found it to be a wonderful initiative and hoped this can help promote employment of people with disabilities too. Others said there is no need to worry about the coronavirus if the shop staff is a robot.\nOne of them teased, \"I want to try asking 'Which ones on the menu do not have mayonnaise in them?' It would be fun to see how OriHime answers with gestures. Please come to an outlet near my place.\"\nWhile most found OriHime to be cute, some actually found her to be scary-looking or even looking like an alien! Nonetheless, as OriHime is currently only working at the Osaki branch, many were hoping she can be employed in other Mos Burger outlets as well.\nMalilong: The irrepressible octogenarian\nCoconuts Manila\nJapanese retailer Muji to open 'largest' store in PH\nCoconuts Manila\u00b71 min read\nGilas eyes Justin\nSoldiers with the Virginia Army National Guard unloaded cots at the Capitol in Washington on January 16, after images of servicemen sleeping on the floor spurred Congressional members to request better resources for the troops.Two Democratic House members, Betty McCollum and Rosa DeLauro, sent a request to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy on January 14 for \"cots and other equipment\" to be distributed to troops stationed at the Capitol \"so they can get the rest they need\" as they support the security of Joe Biden's inauguration. Credit: DVIDS via Storyful\nTennis: Players kicking up fuss in Australia are a minority \u2013 Britain's Reid\nGordon Reid, a two-time men's wheelchair Grand Slam champion, said on Monday that he was perfectly comfortable spending two weeks in hotel quarantine if it means competing at the Australian Open and those complaining are a minority. The world's top tennis players have been arriving in Melbourne this week and have entered a mandatory two-week quarantine period ahead of the Feb. 8-21 tournament to try to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. However, Scotsman Reid said the players knew the risks before they came.\nPrime Minister Giuseppe Conte faces two days of parliamentary votes that will decide if his fragile coalition can cling to power or has lost its majority, pushing Italy into deeper political turmoil. Conte will address the lower house on Monday and the Senate on Tuesday about the future of his government after a junior partner quit the cabinet in a row over his handling of the twin coronavirus and economic crises. Votes will be held in both chambers, with Conte struggling to fill the hole left by the defection of former premier Matteo Renzi and his small Italia Viva party.\nThis Morning denies sacking resident psychologist Emma Kenny\nSome of her recent tweets caused a stir.\nAudi has become the latest carmaker to be struck by the global shortage in electronic chips needed to make modern vehicles. Volkswagen Group, which owns Audi, Seat and Skoda, has furloughed more than 10,000 staff because of the shortages. In an interview with the FT, Audi boss Markus Duesmann said production of some of the premium brand's cars would be delayed because of the \"massive\" shortage of semiconductors. He added the chip shortage was a \"crisis upon a crisis\", with the automotive industry having been rocked by the impact of the pandemic on sales and its supply chain. Volkswagen Group, the world's largest carmaker, said production would drop by 100,000 in the first quarter, while Mr Duesmann hopes to limit the fall to 10,000 fewer cars in the Audi marque. The German automotive giant has been hit by an issue affecting car manufacturers worldwide. Mercedes-owner Daimler, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, General Motors, Honda, Nissan, Renault and Toyota have also been affected.\nSpeeding, uninsured student making 77-mile journey for 'change of scenery' has car seized\nThe student's car also had two bald tyres as he did 88mph on the motorway travelling to Liverpool from Sheffield before stopping in the running lane.\nDon't count my tenure if India's doesn't reach top ten of 2028 Olympics, says Rijiju\nPune (Maharashtra) [India], January 18 (ANI): Kiren Rijiju on Monday said that his tenure as Sports Minister would not hold any importance if India is not able to make it to the top-ten of 2028 Olympics.\nNearly three million people were put under lockdown in China Monday after a surge in coronavirus cases linked to a travelling salesman in the country's northeast.\nTwenty-nine projects from across Asia have been selected to take part in March's Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), which will go virtual for the second time. Scheduled to take place March 15-17, 2021, HAF will run concurrently with the Hong Kong FilMart. Both events were postponed last year to August due to the pandemic [\u2026]\nSao Paulo Governor Joao Doria, who oversees the Butantan biomedical center that is partnered with Sinovac in Brazil, said Anvisa's decision was a triumph for science as he gave the go-ahead for the first vaccination in his state. \"A victory for science. A victory for life,\" Doria said. President Jair Bolsonaro, a coronavirus sceptic who has refused to take a vaccine himself, is under growing pressure to start inoculations in Brazil, which has lost more than 200,000 to COVID-19 - the worst death toll outside the United States. Delays with vaccine shipments and testing results have held up vaccinations in the country, once a global leader in mass immunizations and now a regional laggard after countries such as Chile and Mexico started giving shots last month. Bolsonaro's government aims to kick off a national immunization program this week but is waiting on shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the center of its plans.\n9 people linked to Australian Open test positive for coronavirus\nMelbourne [Australia], January 18 (ANI): Nine people associated with the upcoming Australian Open have so far tested positive for coronavirus, according to Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews on Monday.\nA South Korean court sentenced the de-facto head of Samsung Electronics to two and a half years in jail on Monday. Jay Y. Lee was found guilty of bribery, embezzlement and concealment of criminal proceeds worth about $7.8 million dollars. This won't be his first stretch of time in jail. Lee was first convicted of bribing an associate of former President Park Geun-hye in 2017. He only ended up serving a year of a 5 year sentence after he was granted an early release on appeal. The Supreme Court later sent the case back to the Seoul High Court, which handed down this latest ruling on Monday. Lee's lawyer spoke to reporters outside the court: \"The nature of this case is the former president's abuse of power violating corporate freedom and property rights. Given that nature, the court's decision is regrettable.\" Lee has led Samsung - the world's largest smartphone and memory chip maker - since his father was hospitalised after a heart attack in 2014. The elder Lee died in October, but the chairmanship he held has yet to be filled. With this sentencing, Lee will be sidelined from major decision making at Samsung as it strives to overtake competitors in areas such as AI. He'll also be out of overseeing the process of inheritance from his father. Monday's case had been seen as a test for how South Korea's judiciary treats it's 'chaebol' - its big, family-owned conglomerates. Samsung and companies like it have been long credited with building Asia's fourth-largest economy but criticized for wielding too much power and influence. Lee can appeal the sentence at the Supreme Court, but legal experts say that because the court has already ruled on it once, chances are lower that its interpretation will change.\nA 67-year-old former statutory board director was on Monday (18 January) jailed for six weeks for molesting a subordinate.\nIn keeping with the Festival de M\u00e1laga's drive to continually evolve and introduce new initiatives, the festival in southern Spain has launched Hack MAFIZ M\u00e1laga, a new industry event aimed at digital content creators. Applicants will have to go through a gauntlet of audiovisual challenges to secure their participation, which culminates in the festival's 24th edition, [\u2026]\nGermany prepares for further coronavirus measures\nGermany's health minister on Monday said that although measures to contain the spread of coronavirus had started showing an effect, further efforts were needed to bring the virus permanently under control. \"The (infection) numbers seem to be decreasing, which is good, but we are still a long way from where we want to be,\" Jens Spahn told broadcaster ARD. Chancellor Angela Merkel and the 16 state premiers will discuss next steps on Tuesday.\nPublic warned: AideLai disposable face mask 'unnotified'\nTHE Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned all healthcare professionals and the public not to purchase and use the unnotified medical device product \"AideLai Disposable Face Mask.\"In an","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Montgomery, Helena, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Assateague Island National Seashore, Athens, Asheville, Anderson, Alturas, Albuquerque, Bay City, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Bretton Woods, Beach Haven, Blowing Rock TOP, Big Bend National Park TOP, Big Spring, Brighton TOP, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, Cass, Corpus Christi, Clear Lake, Crested Butte TOP, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Deadwood, Devils Tower National Monument, Dothan, Elko, Fergus Falls, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Fredericksburg, Fort Lauderdale, Fayetteville, Fort Yukon, Frederiksted, George H. Crosby Manitou State Park, Grand Forks, Gold Beach, Grand Teton National Park DOWN, Grand Junction, Gallup, Hot Springs, Humboldt Rewoods State Park, Homer, Kilauea, Key Biscayne, Kodachrome Basin State Park, Kenai Fjords National Park TOP, Lake Murray State Park, Lincoln City, Long Beach, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Mammoth Cave National Park, Manistee, Mc Alester, Maunaloa, Mount Washington, Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, Myakka River State Park, Monument Valley, Mount Graham, McMurdo, Nome, Ogonquit, Oak Ridge, Ouray TOP, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Portland, Pleasure Island, Padre Island National Seashore, South Bend, St. Paul, Seaside, Stevens Pass TOP, Shreveport, Santa Barbara, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Toledo, Tulsa, Tanglewood, Tuscaloosa, Tuscon, Uhiah, Valdosta, Wailuku, Waimanalo Beach, Williamsport, Bartlesville, Canadian, Cape Disappointment, Cape Lookout, Capital City, Chamberlain, Chariton, Childress Municipal, Clarinda, Columbia Regional, Cross City, Dana Point, Danville Regional, Dublin, Dugway Prvg Ground, Faribault, Fort Leavenworth, Fosston, Ft Pickett, Gila Bend Municipal, Gordon Municipal, Great Bend, Greenwood, Hana Maui, Hays, Hill City Municipal, Keene, Kingman, Lamoni, Lima Allen, Litchfield, Mobridge, Morris, Morristown, Morristown Nexrad, Mullan, Norman, Ogden-hinckley, Ohio, Otis Angb, Pacific City State, Paso Robles, Pikeville, Red Oak, Ruidoso Regional, Sacramento Metro, Saginaw, Selfridge, Shelton, Smyrna, Soda Springs, South St Paul, Taos, Tonopah Airport, Truckee-tahoe, Two Harbors, Waycross, West Plains, Wink, Winona, Worthington, Angoon, Birchwood, Fort Payne, Mena, Auburn, Hollister, Los Angeles Downtow, Point Arguello, Tehachapi, Craig-moffat, Georgetown, Kennedy Space Center, Sombrero Key, La Grange, Thomasville, Barking Sands, Alton, Quincy, Goshen, Salt Point, Chicopee Falls West, Fryeburg, Beaver Island, Big Rapids, Grayling, Manistique, Owosso, Longville, Moose Lake, Ray S Miller Aaf, Wappapello, Elizabeth City, Erwin, Kimball, Pampa, East Hampton, Port Jefferson, Frederick, Pine Ridge, Dallas Airport, Dryden, Jacksonville, Mount Pleasant, Port Isabel, Joseph, Leesburg, Smith, Hanford, Clintonville, New Richmond, Tomahawk, Pineville, Schloredt","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Quixey Helps You Search Inside Apps\nQuixey today announced its next-generation Functional Search technology, which promises better, richer content.\nhttps:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/quixey-helps-you-search-inside-apps\nQuixey, the search engine for apps, today announced its next-generation Functional Search technology, which promises better, richer content.\nThe feature goes beyond typical search results to connect users with the right apps based on their content, not just keywords. You can search what's inside an app, not just the app itself, for services like Yelp, Facebook, or Open Table.\n\"It's all the same information, but we just access it differently,\" the company said in a blog post.\n\"Unfortunately, mobile devices and the apps on them are a series of walled gardens, making it difficult for users to immediately access information within the little boxes arranged neatly on their home screens,\" the Quixey team wrote.\nSimilarly, developers have yet to find a simple way to express their apps more deeply outside of search engines.\n\"Functional Search will also work toward opening up search and freeing developers from the master-slave relationship they have with search engines,\" the Quixey team wrote.\nPart of that mission includes the launch of a new developer program that will help build apps that are more searchable and indexed. Interested developers can sign up online.\nThis new search feature is just the beginning, though, according to Quixey, which aims to level the playing field for developers to present their services.\n\"An open Web is best for everyone involved, from developers and users to the businesses and services people search for, and we believe an open web will always win,\" the company said. \"This next Functional Search is a big step in that direction.\"\nFor more, see PCMag's Q&A with Quixey CEO Tomer Kagan.\nReport: iCloud Activation and Sign-In Are Down for Some iOS Users\nMore in System Utilities\nSystem Utility Reviews\nScreencast-O-Matic\nAshampoo Snap\nWindows Snip and Sketch\nSystem Utility Best Picks\nBeyond PrtSc: The Best Screen-Capture Apps for 2021\nThe Best Cloud Storage and File-Sharing Services for 2020\nThe Best Online Backup Services for 2020\nThe Best Tune-Up Utilities for 2020\nThe Best Virtualization Software","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Born Giovanni Alfredo de Simone in Detroit 1919, Johnny Desmond was one of the substantial cohort of Italian-American crooners, most notably Frank Sinatra, who were such an important part of the popular music of the post-war era. He studied music before turning to night-club singing, and in 1939 formed a vocal trio called The Downbeats, changing their name to the Bob-O-Links when they joined Bob Crosby's Orchestra, with whom he had two hits before joining Gene Krupa as featured vocalist, and had another hit with Krupa. He was with Glenn Miller's military orchestra during WWII, returning to showbiz as a solo singer after the war, and forged a successful career, having hits through into the rock 'n' roll era, although he never attempted to compete in that musical metier. This 50-track 2-CD set comprises a few recordings with the bands of Bob Crosby and Gene Krupa, along with selected A & B sides of his singles on the RCA-Victor, MGM and Coral labels during this era, including recordings with Don Cornell, Alan Dale, Buddy Greco, Eileen Barton, The McGuire Sisters, Jane Russell and Monica Lewis. It features all his 20 and more career chart entries, including the Top 10 hits \"Woman\", \"Play Me Hearts And Flowers\", \"The Yellow Rose Of Texas\" and \"The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart\". It's a varied showcase for his talents as a big band vocalist, top class ballad singer, novelty pop singer, and skilled interpreter of the repertoire typical of the era, and an entertaining introduction to an artist who has not had the attention which his success merits\nhttps:\/\/Inyourearmusicemporium.com 824046339029\nLabel: Acrobat\nSingles Collection 1939-58\nArtist: Johnny Desmond\n1. You Forgot About Me\n2. Do You Care\n3. Two In Love\n4. All Those Wonderful Years\n5. Don't You Remember Me?\n6. Do You Love Me?\n7. I Don't Know Enough About You\n8. Guilty\n9. P.S I Love You\n10. While The Angelus Was Ringing (Los Trois Cloches)\n11. Four Winds And The Seven Seas\n12. Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go)\n13. C'est Si Bon\n14. Picnic Song\n15. Just Say I Love Her\n16. A Bushel And A Peck\n17. Too Young\n18. Because Of You\n19. Mr And Mississippi\n20. I'm Glad I Gave It Up For You\n21. I Want To Be Near You\n22. Hands Across The Table\n23. Festival\n24. Trying\n25. Nina Never Knew\n26. Stay Where You Are\n27. Woman\n28. The Gang That Sang \"Heart Of My Heart\"\n29. Pine Tree, Pine Over Me\n30. Cling To Me\n31. The Zoo\n32. East Side, West Side\n33. Backward, Turn Backward\n35. A Wife\n36. My Own True Love\n37. The Song From Desiree\n38. Play Me Hearts And Flowers\n39. Togetherness\n40. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie\n41. Learnin' The Blues\n42. This Too Shall Pass\n43. The Yellow Rose Of Texas\n44. I'm So Glad\n45. Sixteen Tons\n47. A Girl Named Mary\n48. I Just Want You To Want Me\n49. A White Sport Coat\n50. Anniversary Song","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tucson economic growth expected to be strong through 2019\nDavid Wichner\nChase chief economist Anthony Chan says China trade tensions and interest-rate increases are risks for the economy.\nThe crowd at the economic luncheon heard the UA's George Hammond predict \"significant job growth\" for Tucson.\nDirector of the Economic Business Research Center, George Hammond speaking at the 2018 Economic Outlook Luncheon at the Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, in Tucson, Ariz.\nTucson's economy has recovered from the Great Recession and is growing again, posting solid gains in jobs, population and income, University of Arizona economists said Friday.\nBarring a national recession, those healthy gains should continue at least through 2019, according to the latest economic outlook by the Economic and Business Research Center at the UA's Eller College of management.\n\"Job growth has been much faster this year than it has in previous years, and during the third quarter both Phoenix and Tucson, and the state as a whole, saw significant acceleration in job growth,\" said George Hammond, director of the Eller research center.\nThe Tucson metro area saw a 1.5 percent increase in jobs in 2017 and is on pace this year to post the fastest job growth since 2006, before the Great Recession, Hammond said.\nOther economic indicators are pointing upwards as well, Hammond told a crowd of more than 500 people at the annual UA outlook luncheon.\nTucson-area business growth and median household income posted healthy gains in 2017, while home prices continue to rise but still remain below those of peer Western metro areas, helping to attract migrants from California and other states, Hammond said.\nThe outlook for Tucson as well as Phoenix is strong through 2019, as job growth is expected to continue, but that growth could slow starting in 2020, he said.\nBy 2020, the national economy is expected to slow, along with it growth in Tucson's job market, personal income and retail sales.\n\"The federal stimulus that in part has been driving our growth will be dissipating by then,\" Hammond said.\nLast year, Tucson saw 2.9 percent growth in real gross domestic product (GDP), which measures total economic output adjusted for inflation, topping the national GDP growth of 2.1 percent.\n\"We've been building up momentum in Tucson over the last couple of years,\" he said, adding that the Tucson economy tends to grow slower than its peer Western metro areas.\nAccording to preliminary figures, Tucson added nearly 9,000 net jobs from the third quarter of 2017 to the same quarter of this year, translating to a 2.4 percent increase and beating the national growth rate of 2.1 percent, Hammond said.\nMost of the jobs during that period were added in the education and health-services sector \u2014 mainly in health care \u2014 followed by leisure and hospitality and professional and business services.\nBut construction is also showing signs of life, with more than 1,000 jobs added in the sector, the UA found.\n\"Construction in Tucson has really started to rebound,\" Hammond said, adding that all sectors contributed to the job growth.\nThe UA economist cautioned that the job numbers are based on preliminary data from October 2017 onward and will be adjusted, as usual, in March by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics based on new U.S. Census data.\nHammond says he believes the local job data through March will be revised upward, while an unusually strong spike in jobs in the third quarter may be trimmed in the final analysis.\n\"Overall, I think Tucson is really on track to generate significant job growth in 2018 \u2014 some of the fastest we've seen in a decade,\" he said.\nTucson also has seen a rebound in federal government procurement spending, which forms a bigger part of the local economy than Phoenix and its other metro peers.\nAfter plunging from 2013 to 2015 because of budget sequestration, federal procurement spending is back near its peak of more than $14 billion in 2012.\nPersonal income in Tucson grew 5.4 percent in 2017, about double the growth rate in 2016, driven by job growth, tight labor markets and increases in the state's minimum wage, Hammond said.\nTucson stands to gain 19,000 net new jobs over the next two years with the biggest gains in health care, tourism, services and construction, but all sectors are expected to gain, Hammond said.\nThe job growth will help drive population growth and the housing market, he added.\nAnother speaker at Friday's event, JP Morgan Chase chief economist Anthony Chan, said the U.S. economy faces risks including trade tensions with China that have caused the stock markets to plunge recently, as well as interest-rate increases by the Federal Reserve.\nMore recently, Chan noted, the Trump administration agreed to forestall some planned tariffs on Chinese goods at the G20 meeting, while Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell said the panel might look at pausing its interest-rate increases in the face of a slowing economy and no signs of runaway inflation.\n\"I'm actually encouraged, and this isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican, it's about being an American,\" he said.\nEconomic pessimists also are ignoring falling energy prices, which Chan said will pump billions of dollars into other economic sectors.\nChan said the nation could slip into a recession \u2014 negative economic growth that tends to happen to varying degrees about once a decade \u2014 depending on what happens with tariffs, interest rates and other global economies.\nBut he doesn't see that happening until late 2019 or 2020 at the soonest, and Chan said the next recession is likely to be milder than the Great Recession of 2007-2009, which was fueled by a collapse of the housing and financial markets.\n\"The last recession was the mother and father of all recessions,\" he said.\nContact senior reporter David Wichner at dwichner@tucson.com or 573-4181. On Twitter: @dwichner. On Facebook: Facebook.com\/DailyStarBiz\nTucson Economy\nTucson Economic Health\nTucson Jobs\nTucson Wages\nDavid joined the Star in 1997, after working as a consumer and business reporter in Phoenix for more than a decade. A graduate of Ohio University, he has covered most business beats focusing on technology, defense and utilities. He has won several awards.\nTucson's industrial sector gets major boost\nHarsch Investment Properties is building a 157,000-square-foot building just north of the Tucson International Airport to lure new tenants.\nRedevelopment of Tucson's \"Sunshine Mile\" is taking shape\nBroadway, between Euclid and Country Club, to see added restaurant and retail projects.\nTucson Airport Authority to pump $1M into new area servicing Allegiant Air, charters\nThe low-cost carrier will move to long-unused C-gate area, which is being upgraded to form a new departure point for charters.\nMajor runway project to improve safety at Tucson International Airport\nThe $218 million project will bring Tucson International Airport's runways and taxiways up to federal standards.\nTEP proposes new incentives to make owning electric cars more affordable\nTucson Electric Power Co. is proposing to spend $10 million on electric-vehicle incentives and charging stations.\nUA-focused venture fund invests in advanced antenna maker\nUA Venture Capital acquires 20 percent of Freefall Aerospace.\nTucson-based Vantage West to use $950K grant to boost lending in low-income areas\nSouthern Arizona's biggest credit union plans to offer cheaper alternatives to car-title loans.\nTucson tech: Two new incubators hope to boost Tucson startups\nGo For Vertical helps launch software startups, while the new Tucson chapter of The Founder Institute aims to boost local tech-company founders\nState regulators revisit allowing customers to choose competitive power providers\nArizona Corporation next month will consider steps such as a pilot program to allow some customers to choose their power providers.\nTucson Electric Power must boost energy-saving programs, critics say\nProposed flat budget for energy-efficiency programs should be increased to launch new programs, efficiency and environmental advocates say.\nArizona minimum wage goes up to $11 on Jan. 1\nThe 50-cents-an-hour boost will amount to $1,000 more a year for full-time workers.\nTucson economy: Tucson college education level growing slower than U.S.\nTucson is middling among its Western peers for four-year educational attainment.\nTucson tourism shows strong growth in 2018\nTucson's tourism industry posted its sixth consecutive year of growth, as revenue per room grew nearly 8 percent, Visit Tucson says.\nTucson lodging industry posts strong season\nPost-recession hotel rebound continues with particularly strong February and March occupancy, sales.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BUSINESS +\nBrexit: Bentley secures its supplies\nFrance's Interparfums raises 2020 revenue forecast to over 340 million euros\nLVMH \u2013 Tiffany agreement: the New York jeweler sold its shares for a total of 17.4 million dollars\nCovid-19: Facing the dissatisfaction of hotel industry professionals, the French government reinforces its aid to the sector\nLuxury hotels: Hyatt strengthens its leadership\nEconomic slowdown looms in 2023\nThe Italian luxury market and NFTs: a marriage that works well\nStock market suffers its worst year in a century\n[Luxus+ Magazine] Meillart x Denni Elias : the countdown to Christmas is officially on\nJulien Sausset (Parfums de Marly) : \"We aim to be the leader in niche perfumery within 3 years\".\n[THE LUXURY JOURNALS] 5 questions to Michel Navas, Master Watchmaker at \"La Fabrique du Temps\" Louis Vuitton\n[THE LUXURY JOURNALS] Nathalie Remy : \"Christofle is the oldest luxury start-up in the world\"\nBRAND STRATEGY +\nHandwritten Collection: the new Accor Group brand\nValmont and Perfect Corp join forces for a new interactive experience\nMaison & Objet 2023 : a show to take care of yourself and others\nHarper's Bazaar celebrates the return of Cartier's Grain de caf\u00e9 collection\n2023 Motor Show: Brussels wants to be big!\nKimpton Hotels & Restaurants : survey reveals more authentic and inclusive needs\nWhat will be the trends in luxury packaging in 2023?\nAccor unveils its luxury hotel openings in 2023\nInterview : TikTok, the new television according to Clarisse Castan\nE-COMMERCE +\nR\u00e9my Cointreau is committed to the circularity of its bottles\nLuxe Pack Monaco: Veuve Clicquot launches its new packaging\nMSC Croisi\u00e8res invests in construction of two hydrogen-powered luxury ships\nCh\u00e2teau Galoupet presents \"Nomade 2021\", the first ros\u00e9 to be marketed in a recycled plastic bottle\nThe Mobilier National and the Cit\u00e9 de la C\u00e9ramique are working together\nChina: a lifting of restrictions favorable to luxury?\nLuxury customers do not intend to slow down their spending in 2023\nBalenciaga enters the second hand market\nMorin Oluwole (Global Head of Luxury at Facebook): \"The concept of 'corporate citizenship' can be a determining factor in purchasing\".\nWorld luxury tracking : Survey on luxury consumption trends affected by the global pandemic\nRaffles & Orient Express : Omer Acar appointed General Manager\nAlessandro Michele to leave Gucci\nAlejandro Reynal takes over as head of the Four Seasons Group\nFirmenich CEO Joins Four Seasons Board of Directors\nMeeting with Sylvain Gandolfo Director of ISG Luxury Management\n[The Luxury Journals] Pauline Laigneau (Gemmyo) : \"Le Gratin brought me the fresh air I needed!\"\nFrank BOEHLY (French Leather Council): \"The global leather ecosystem is under threat\"\nINNO +\nL'Or\u00e9al unveils two revolutionary new beauty technologies\nLuxus+ launches a special holiday offer for the arrival of the new Luxus+ Mag : Digital + Print subscription and a free Mauboussin perfume\nSwarovski and EssilorLuxottica sign ten-year licensing agreement\n4th Sustainable Leather Forum : focus on leather in the automotive industry\nParis Fashion Week: when Schiaparelli takes out its fangs\nSaudi Arabia: the new Eldorado of luxury tourism?\nLa\u00ebtitia Girard (The Vend\u00f4m Company) : \"For me, luxury is a question of attitude\"\n[The Luxury Journals] Camille Fournet : Expertise, know-how and innovation in watch straps\n[The Luxury Journals] Jean-Christophe Babin (Bvlgari): \u00abI am proud that an Italian company has managed to reinvent Swiss watchmaking\u00bb\n[THE LUXURY JOURNALS] Jean-Luc Dechery (Camille Fournet): \"Today, we are able to trace the origin of a bracelet.\"\nCSR +\nForced labor of Uyghurs: the automobile industry in turmoil\nFrance and Europe: A game of musical chairs and a new start for fashion organizations\nUkraine-Russia war: Synthetic diamonds, a new source of income for jewelers and watchmakers?\nMo\u00ebt Hennessy once again demonstrates its environmental commitment at the World Living Soils Forum\n[THE LUXURY JOURNALS] 4 questions to Frank Boehly, President of the National Leather Council\n[The Luxury Journals] No\u00e9mie Dumesnil (Authentic Material) : \"Our goal is to maximize naturality and pedagogy for our clients\"\nLIFESTYLE by Luxus+\nClaire Domergue\nFounder and Publishing Director of Luxus Plus, Claire Domergue is a consultant in communication strategy, specialist in luxury marketing. A former graduate of the Luxury Brand Management MBA program at Paris Business School (formerly Ecole Sup\u00e9rieure de Gestion), she is also a graduate of the Faculty of Economic Administration and Management of Montpellier I in Wealth Management, Art Market and Management. Before founding the economic information system Luxus Plus, Claire Domergue worked for seven years in the field of communication, monitoring and e-reputation for several companies, large groups, NGOs and think tanks. Among her references are the Richemont group, Sonia Rykiel, Marie Pirsch and Astae lawyers. Multi-specialist and lecturer for major schools, Claire Domergue acts as a specialist in luxury marketing. Founded in 2012 by Claire Domergue (Linkedin), Luxus Plus quickly became an obvious choice for her. After having worked for more than seven years in the world of luxury, it was only natural that she turned again to economic intelligence in a sector that has always fascinated her. After an in-depth market study and analysis of all the market potentials of the online trade press, Luxus Plus quickly established itself in this niche sector, which until then had been little exploited. Luxus Plus is now positioned as the leading online business medium for luxury goods.\nAnthony Conan\nGraduated as a multimedia journalist in 2019, Anthony Conan has multiplied his experiences, notably as an editorial assistant at TF1 and as a radio journalist at RCF Bordeaux. He specializes in video editing in addition to writing, and has developed a particular interest in economics.\nEvelyne Resnick\nDr. Evelyne Resnick, French-American, co-founded the communication agency Resmo. She specializes in international strategies for luxury and wine brands. She is the author of several books in French and English. She is also a professor of international marketing at ISG Bordeaux and manages several special programs for students.\nCelia Mastorchio-Fabbri\nC\u00e9lia Mastorchio-Fabbri is an artist and professional of digital communication. Graduated from an ESC in Luxury Business, she wrote a book on Artketing and legitimate collaborations between Art and Luxury. Having acquired her skills with several brands, notably between London and Paris, through a digital agency, she was also responsible for the management of a jewellery website. Today, she creates narrative and visual content (illustrations, photographs, collages, animations\u2026) to accompany the Houses, particularly jewellers, in the deployment of their identity.\nVadim Grigorian\nExpert in cultural communication and strategy for luxury brands. Founder, Culture and Luxury Brand Strategist at Spirit&Spirit since 2017 in Paris, he accompanies visionary entrepreneurs, global luxury brands and institutions such as Azulik, Evian Resort and Mugler.\nAlexandre de Sainte Marie\nAlexandre de Sainte Marie was Managing Director of the Tableware Division at Hermes from 1996 to 2004. As an independent consultant, he advises several luxury brands on their differentiation and value creation strategies. A graduate of ESCP \u2013 Europe, Alexandre de Sainte Marie is also the author of \"Luxe et Marque\" (Dunod), a book that has just been published in China.\nAnnie-Paule Quere\nConsultant in brand identity and strategy, founder of Atelier de la Marque. She assists managers in the enhancement and updating of heritage brands and in the creation of brands based on excellence in know-how. Annie-Paule also teaches luxury branding and luxury brand management in MBA and Master luxury. For 10 years, she managed the marketing of press brands at Lagard\u00e8re Publicit\u00e9.\nAnne-Laure de Broissia\nAnne-Laure de Broissia has been graduated from Sciences Po in 2002 and has\nover 16 year of international client experience at PRS IN VIVO having worked both in the Company's Paris & New York offices. She has demonstrated achievement in business development and entrepreneurship and academic background in Behavioral & Happiness Science leveraged to accompany luxury brands in understanding their customers and delivering more emotional client experience. Beyond specific projects conducted for Luxury brands, she likes organizing sharing sessions in Paris, New York & Shanghai about best practices of outstanding Luxury experience.\nIsabelle Hossenlopp\nIsabelle Hossenlopp is a journalist specialising in jewellery. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, she has more than 30 years of experience in the luxury goods industry, including 11 years in marketing and editorial management at Chanel. In addition to her work as a journalist, she is a consultant in editorial content and storytelling and works for prestigious brands as well as for young start-ups looking for a story or foreign brands thinking about intercultural adaptation. His common thread? A storytelling must arouse emotion and imagination while providing information. It must be authentic, credible and verifiable. Thanks to her jewellery expertise, she is regularly consulted for sector studies and teaches brand content and storytelling in MBA and Master's courses in luxury goods in Paris, Shanghai and Geneva.\nElodie de Boissieu\nAcademic Director of EM Normandie and A graduate of EM-Lyon Business School, Elodie de Boissieu has more than 20 years of marketing and sales expertise in the luxury industry and services, as a marketing manager at Christofle, then as an advisor to starred chefs such as Cyril Lignac.\nPierre Hoffman\nLawyer at the Court of Paris, this Doctor of Law, also holds a DESS in multimedia and information law from Professor J\u00e9r\u00f4me Huet (PARIS II), and a DESS in Business Law (PARIS V). He mainly works on cases in industrial property law, criminal law and customs law.\nLUXUS +\nClaire Domergue, a specialist in communication in the luxury sector, has surrounded herself with experts to create the first media dedicated to the economic news of Luxury and fashion. The latter draws the attention of its readers to all the major players in these sectors who share their experiences, visions and know-how. More than a specialized webzine, Luxus Plus is a multi-sector information system that has become the reference monitoring tool for luxury and fashion professionals. Our monitoring newsletters contribute to make our readers aware of the changes affecting the luxury industries. Thanks to an increased watch and an excellent knowledge of the sector, we are interested in the main economic and technological stakes of fashion, fine watchmaking, jewellery, gastronomy, cosmetics, perfumes, hotels, luxury real estate rankhaya.com\u2026\nBarbara Legras\nWith many years of professional and personal experience abroad and a passion for foreign languages and cultures, openness to the international arena has always been her credo. With a Master's degree in Foreign Languages Applied to Commerce and Business and an Executive MBA from ESCP, she has lived and worked in England, the United States and Germany. She began her career in diplomacy before turning to international sales, first in the precious metals and jewelry sector, then as Export Director of the high-end fashion accessories house Repetto where for 12 years she was responsible for the successful international development of the brand in the context of selective multi-channel distribution. Today she manages the company \"Strat\u00e9gies Internationales Conseils\" which offers consulting and support services in commercial and brand development internationally, particularly in the fashion, luxury goods and personal consumer goods sectors.\n[Luxus+ Magazine] Vivienne Westwood's most memorable fashion shows\n[Luxus+ Magazine] The 6 series that marked 2022\n[Luxus+ Magazine] These cruises reveal the treasures of the Indian Ocean\nJohnny Depp's presence in Rihanna's Savage x Fenty show causes debate\nKering is in advanced talks to buy Tom Ford\nCapri Holding details its 2022 CSR actions\nReceive our news in preview !\nCOPYRIGHT 2023 LUXUS + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED\nLUXURY MARKETING INNOVATION SUMMIT\nSubscribe now to get notified about exclusive offers from Luxus Plus every week!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Strathpine, situated between the easterly-flowing North Pine and South Pine Rivers, is 20 km north of Brisbane. The name was derived from the Gaelic 'strath' (river valley). Strathpine is on the Brisbane-Gympie Road where it is crossed by Four Mile Creek (a tributary of the South Pine River), which made it a minor stopping place for coach runs.\nIn 1888 Strathpine was made the administrative centre of the Pine local-government divisional board (forerunner of the shire), adding to a bakery and a rum distillery in the village. The northern railway line was also opened in that year. The divisional board's hall (1889) has been superseded by larger buildings, but it has been preserved for theatre performances and public gatherings and is listed on the Queensland heritage register. In 1910 Strathpine had two stores, a hotel, artisans and the distillery.\nDuring World War II Strathpine was the site for Australian and American military camps, with an airfield near the present State primary (1911) and high (1964) schools on Spitfire Avenue. Urbanisation was evident in the 1960s and within 20 years Strathpine's population went from under 2000 to over 10,000 people. It has two main shopping centres, including a Westfield shopping complex (1983) with a department store, discount department stores and over 100 other shops.\nAdjoining Strathpine, on the north side of Four Mile Creek, is the suburb of Bray Park. Like Strathpine, it has State primary (1973) and high (1987) schools, together with a Catholic primary school. Bray Park was named after a dairying family which settled there in 1900, and John Bray, who retired as Pine Rivers Shire chairman in 1973. Census populations have been:\nBray Park\n1996 10,021 8151\n2011 9278 10,002\nRobyn Brough et al, Tracks and time: a history of the Pine Rivers district 1788, 1888, 1988, Strathpine, Pine Rivers Shire Council, 1988\nBray Park entry\nHeadwords:\nCopyright \u00a9 Centre for the Government of Queensland, 2018. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bases, Bats & goodByes\nby Jacque Ballent | May 31, 2019 | Athletics, Life@Legacy | 0 comments\nEvery baseball season has its highs and lows. For this year's Varsity Eagles, the high came during the senior night game against Grapevine Faith. Talk about a nail-biter. The boys brought home a win in grand fashion in extra innings after scoring a whopping eight runs in the bottom of the seventh that brought the game to a tie. The team is graduating its largest and winningest senior class in the history of the program with 83 wins and 47 losses since 2016.\nMy favorite memory of this past season was our senior night comeback against Grapevine Faith. It was an all-around team effort and we couldn't have done it without everyone on board. I am really going to miss the team camaraderie and bus rides after games,\n\u2013 Braxton Edrington '19\nUnfortunately, the Legacy Baseball team was knocked out in the first round of playoffs with a one-game 2-0 loss to Austin Regents. \"We just could not get that timely hit. We had the bases loaded twice with one out both times and just could not score;\" stated Coach Lester. While it was an unexpected and abrupt end to the season, the Varsity Eagles can reflect on this season with pride and hope. \"Twenty-five wins is a great season for any team and one in which we can build upon,\" stated Alex Smith '20. \"We won the district, and our district had three teams advance in the playoffs, one played for the state championship, so we are in a highly competitive district,\" said Sam Yasilli '20.\nKoby Ketcher at bat.\nPrayer circle during senior night.\nSayers Collins commands the pitchers mound.\nLegacy Christian Academy Graduating Seniors: #1 Braxton Edrington, #3 Adam Cobb, #4 Ryan Thompson, #6 Max Glenn, #8 Koby Ketcher, #10 Presto Knox Pittard, #12 Michael Walsh, #19 Matthew Scott , #20 Sayers Collins,\nBraxton Edrington gives a smile on the way to the dugout.\nBaseball was the only sport to have Freshmen, Junior Varsity, and Varsity teams this season. \"It will be difficult to field another freshman team but we are looking forward to an influx of good talent next year,\" commented Coach Embry. Goodbyes are always tough, and Legacy will miss quite a few of our graduated players, but with rising seniors Alex Smith, Nathan Norris, Hunter Johnson, Alex Clark, and Sam Yasilli, the future remains bright. These young men will lead the baseball team into the summer, fall, and into 2020. The team looks forward to competing for another playoff berth next year.\nMy favorite memories were pitching against Fort Worth Christian in the district championship game and talking to coach McCollum about junior college baseball news in practice. Also talking to both the coaches about their playing careers and seeing what college baseball has in store for me. I am going to miss these coaches the most.\n-Matthew Scott '19\nLegacy Christian Academy is Frisco's preeminent Pre-K through 12 Christian school committed to educating students in a college preparatory environment balanced in academics, athletics, and fine arts\u2013all within the context of a biblical worldview. For the latest information on Legacy athletics, subscribe today. For more information on Legacy, visit our admissions page.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"IIHR Models Sewer System for St. Louis\nThe IIHR team with the St. Louis model.\nResearchers at IIHR\u2014Hydroscience & Engineering are among the world's leaders when it comes to modeling and design of sewer and stormwater conveyance systems. Many of the world's largest cities have turned to IIHR for expertise in this area, including London, Abu Dhabi, and now St. Louis.\nIIHR has extensive experience constructing physical models that help solve water issues, including the reduction of air in sewer systems with underground tunnels. A build-up of air in the tunnel can cause geysers that blow manhole covers into the sky\u2014a rare but dangerous situation.\nWorking with Jacobs Engineering and the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, IIHR researchers and staff constructed a 1:16 physical model of a portion of the project. The IIHR model includes a vortex dropshaft that, when constructed, will be one of the largest in the world at 20 feet in diameter.\nDropshafts are just one important aspect of the project's complex network of tunnels, conduits, and interception chambers that transfers sewage and stormwater to the tunnels and onwards for treatment before it is eventually released to the river. Each structure is unique and presents its own design difficulties.\nThe vortex dropshaft is one strategy to help remove air from the water flow through the sewer\nTroy Lyons, IIHR's director of engineering services, led a team that included Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Jacob Odgaard, Hydraulic Engineer Andy Craig, Shop Manager Brandon Barquist and his staff, and even students such as Kory Miller, an undergraduate student in civil engineering.\nLyons says it's been a very rewarding project and one that will positively impact the environment by preventing sewage overflows into the river during heavy rainfall. \"Modeling a system like this provides an opportunity to optimize the design, analyze how the system deals with extreme flows, and reduce risk, all while meeting the larger environmental objectives.\"\nLyons says that many larger cities are adopting similar strategies to deal with combined sewer overflows. And IIHR is ready, with expertise and experience to help.\nSolving Urban Runoff Water-Quality Problems Water-quality Project Underway in Buchanan County","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Porsche's 911 GT2 RS record-hunting continues at Road America\nEndurance racer David Donohue secures new production lap record in the GT2 RS at the famous American track\nby: Antony Ingram\nPorsche's 919 Evo might steal the limelight with lap records at circuits like Spa and the Nurburgring, but the brand's road cars have enough performance to set records too \u2013 and the 911 GT2 RS has done just that at one of America's most spectacular venues.\nDriven by 24 Hours of Daytona and Le Mans class winner David Donohue, the GT2 RS now holds the production lap record at Road America, near Elkhart Lake in Wisconsin. His time of 2:15.17 comes only a month after the GT2 RS also secured the lap record at Road Atlanta in Georgia, that time at the hands of American racer and journalist Randy Pobst.\n> Manthey-Racing takes back 'Ring record for Porsche with upgraded 911 GT2 RS\nAs well as being mightily fast \u2013 Donohue hit nearly 180mph down the pit straight in the RS, despite the first section being uphill, and achieved more than 150mph twice more around the four-mile lap \u2013 the choice of driver was quite appropriate. David's father, Mark Donohue, had previously set his own blistering lap time at Road America in another Porsche in 1973, managing 1:57.52 back in 1973 in the prodigiously fast Can-Am 917\/30.\n#Porsche's 911 GT2 RS record-hunting continues at Road America, with the model securing the production car lap record....\nPosted by Official EVO Magazine on Tuesday, April 30, 2019\nWhile the latter record has long since fallen \u2013 Dario Franchitti is the race lap record holder with a 1:39.866, set in the CART series way back in 2000 \u2013 both currently represent the peak of their era.\nIt's unlikely, however, that the GT2 RS's record will stand for long. With a new breed of hypercar soon on the way, spearheaded by the Aston Martin Valkyrie, this could be the last time relatively conventional road cars like the GT2 RS can hold such lap records.\nIt's worth enjoying while it lasts though, as the thrill of seeing human beings extending road cars to their limits on some of the world's trickiest circuits is unlikely to ever get old. You can expect a few more road course records to tumble in the coming months.\nVisit\/toyota\/yaris\/201932\/toyota-gr-yaris-revealed-in-full-return-of-the-homologation-special\nToyota GR Yaris revealed in full \u2013 return of the homologation special\nOne of most sought after hot hatchbacks of 2020 has finally been revealed: the Toyota GR Yaris\nVisit\/honda\/civic-type-r\/202099\/new-2020-honda-civic-type-r-makes-debut-at-tokyo-auto-salon\nNew 2020 Honda Civic Type R makes debut at Tokyo Auto Salon\nHonda has released the first images of the revised Civic Type R that's being shown for the first time in Tokyo\nVisit\/bmw\/x3\/202087\/bmw-x3-m-2020-review-the-right-ingredients-in-a-very-wrong-package\nBMW X3 M 2020 review \u2013 the right ingredients in a very wrong package\nThe first BMW X3 M previews the next BMW M3's all-new powertrain, let's hope it doesn't preview anything else\nVisit\/hyundai\/i30-n-hatchback\/201775\/hyundai-i30-n-versus-hyundai-i30-tcr\nHyundai i30 N versus Hyundai i30 TCR\nCan Dickie Meaden beat Steve Sutcliffe in a straight(ish) race? We sent them to the Circuit Nuvolari with a pair of Hyundai i30 Ns to find out.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"S.C. voter ID law takes some hits in court\nBy James Rosen and Rebecca Cohen, McClatchy Newspapers \u2013\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Inside and outside a federal courtroom a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, it appeared to be a rough week for South Carolina's bid to protect its elections against fraud.\nDuring five days of often dramatic testimony on a disputed voter ID law, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia repeatedly upheld objections that the state's lawyers were asking leading questions of their witnesses or prodding them to recount third-party conversations the judges struck down as hearsay.\nIn a case that, under the Voting Rights Act, hinges partly on whether the voter ID law was motivated by discriminatory intent, the law's chief architect, state Rep. Alan Clemmons, was compelled to admit he'd responded sympathetically to a racist e-mail sent to him about the measure as he was crafting it.\nAnd Marci Andino, executive director of the State Election Commission, testified that her agency lacked the legal authority to impose on county election boards and poll workers a uniform standard on how to implement some of the disputed law's key provisions.\nHer testimony troubled the judges, who noted that it was at odds with what she and other South Carolina officials had said earlier in documents and depositions for the trial about how the law would be handled.\nSouth Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson signaled another potential shift by the state on Friday when he said voters without required photo IDs should not have to pay for completing \"reasonable impediment\" affidavits required by the law. Separate state law requires affidavits to be notarized, which normally carries a fee.\n\"We would consider it unconstitutional for notaries to charge,\" Wilson said.\nThat new stance may have been in response to courtroom claims by the voter ID law's opponents that notary fees would amount to a poll tax, among the most odious of the Jim Crow practices used for decades in Southern states to prevent blacks from voting.\nOutside the courtroom, a different group of federal judges delivered disappointing news for advocates of voter ID laws.\nOn Thursday, a separate three-judge panel of the court ruled that Texas' voter ID law was illegal because it violated the Voting Rights Act, the landmark law Congress passed in 1965 to enforce the constitutional right of blacks and other minority voters to cast ballots and have them count.\nEvidence and testimony in the South Carolina trial, some of which lawyers for the state tried unsuccessfully to strike from the record, could lead to similar conclusions. The state's law, which would require voters to present one of five forms of photo identification, was blocked by the Justice Department under the Voting Rights Act, prompting the lawsuit by South Carolina against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.\nWith the Texas ruling and a week of mixed trial results behind it, South Carolina's best hopes may lie with the U.S. Supreme Court.\nAny appeals of federal district court rulings must, under the Voting Rights Act, bypass the federal appellate bench and go directly to the high court. If the district court judges reject the South Carolina voter ID law, the Supreme Court could consolidate it with the Texas law and rule on both together.\nFor now, lawyers trying to defeat South Carolina's law pronounced themselves quite satisfied.\n\"We believe that the evidence presented during the trial overwhelmingly establishes that if the law goes into effect, it will disenfranchise thousands of minority persons in South Carolina, and that the purpose of the law was indeed to accomplish precisely this effect,\" Beeney told McClatchy.\nWilson's assessment was more subdued.\n\"I am pleased we had the opportunity to present our case to the court,\" he said.\nPrevPreviousRomney's silence on NASA's future worries space fans\nNextParty time for Democrats will be a little less splashyNext","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dennis and Phyllis Washington Native American Graduate Scholarship\nI feel proud to represent my tribe as a scholar because I want children to know that education is important and possible, and that there are people who want to support them to get educated and believe that they can do it.\"\n\u2013 Kimberly McKeehan, scholarship recipient\nThe Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation has created the only Native American Graduate Scholarship at Montana State University and the University of Montana. Inquiries should be made to the graduate school admissions office at Montana State University and the University of Montana.\nThe Scholarship upholds Dennis Washington's long time vision of promoting the betterment of society and the development of a highly diverse workforce through education.\nEligibility requirements:\nThe recipient must:\nbe accepted to a Master's or Doctoral degree program at Montana State University or University of Montana (no professional degrees such as law, business, or pharmacy may apply);\nhave a baccalaureate degree from a four-year regionally accredited institution of higher learning anywhere in the U.S. and have graduated with at least a 2.5 undergraduate cumulative GPA;\nbe enrolled at full-time status;\nmaintain a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale;\nbe a Montana resident;\nbe an enrolled member of a Montana tribe; and\nbe a U.S. citizen.\nFor information on the scholarship and how to apply, please contact the Graduate School at Montana State University or the University of Montana.\nThe Foundation has created the only Native American Graduate Scholarship at Montana State University and The University of Montana.\nPresidential Leadership Scholarship\nCreated through the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana, the scholarship receives funding from various donors.\nAssistance to Horatio Alger Scholar Alumni who show leadership, integrity, entrepreneurial skills, and perseverance in overcoming personal adversity.\nHoratio Alger Scholarship\nHelp for seniors at Montana high schools who want to go to college at a Montana University System institution.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Skip to content Go to main navigation Go to language selector\nSaab Global\nSaab Launches Hypersonic Mode for Naval Radars\n[Missing text '\/general\/legend' for 'English']\n26 January 2023Invitation to Saab's Q4 and Full Year 2022 Presentation\n26 January 2023Saab Receives Order for AT4 from France\n22 December 2022Invitation to Saab's Capital Markets Day on 14 February 2023\n22 December 2022Finland Places Order for Saab's RBS 70 Missiles\nCompeting in the international market, requires a strong global presence. We continue to strengthen our presence in key markets, develop innovative solutions and acquire companies in prioritised areas. Saab's products are sold to over 100 countries and we currently operates in over 30 countries.\nBelgium (nl) Belgium (fr)\nBrazil (en) Brasil (pt)\nCanada (en) Canada (fr)\nColombia (es)\nCzech Republic (en)\nDanmark (da)\nFinland (fi) Finland (sv)\nSchweiz (de) Suisse (fr)\n\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac\u03b4\u03b1 (el)\nCongratulations, you won!\nSaab strengthens its Sea Giraffe naval radar offer by introducing the Hypersonic Detection Mode, a capability for detecting and tracking targets travelling at hypersonic speeds.\nDue to the radar horizon, naval vessels face limited time to act against low flying missiles travelling at greater speeds. With the emergence of threats in the high supersonic and even hypersonic speed ranges, this threat is getting even worse. Saab is offering a solution to this emerging challenge by introducing a Hypersonic Detection Mode (HDM). It will give the ship more time to act against any target due to quick track formation time. The HDM capability builds on Saab's next generation track while scan technology, which enables track start within a fraction of a second for any number of targets, including stealthy ones, in all conditions.\n\"The hypersonic threat is credible and increasing. Navies around the world are asking for a capability to retain their dominant battlespace awareness and to give them crucial time to act. We are able to meet these requirements by using our existing technology, adapting it for the hypersonic challenge\", says Anders Carp, head of Saab's business area Surveillance.\nThe HDM is optimised for the Sea Giraffe 4A Fixed Face, which is a fixed array configuration that belongs to Saab's multi-functional family of S-band AESA radar systems.\nSaab Press Centre\nwww.saabgroup.com\nwww.saabgroup.com\/YouTube\nFollow us on Twitter: @saab\nSaab serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions within military defense and civil security. Saab has operations and employees on all continents around the world. Through innovative, collaborative and pragmatic thinking, Saab develops, adopts and improves new technology to meet customers' changing needs.\nHDM-portrait\nJPG, 8.4 MB\nHDM-landscape\nAnders Carp\nInvitation to Saab's Q4 and Full Year 2022 Presentation\nSaab's CEO and President Micael Johansson and CFO and deputy CEO Christian Luiga will present the Saab year-end results for 2022.\nSaab received an order in mid-December 2022 for the anti-armour weapon AT4 from the French Armament General Directorate (DGA). The order value is approximately EUR 24 million and deliveries will take place in 2023. The order was booked in Q4 2022.\nInvitation to Saab's Capital Markets Day on 14 February 2023\nSaab has the pleasure of inviting institutional investors, financial analysts and media to its Capital Markets Day on 14 February 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden. The event will be hosted by Saab's CEO Micael Johansson, and CFO and Deputy CEO Christian Luiga, together with parts of Group Management.\nKeeping people and society safe\nSaab serves the global market of governments, authorities and corporations with products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security.\nFollow Saab\nOlof Palmes gata 17, 5 tr 111 22 Stockholm, Sweden - Box 7808, 10396 Stockholm, Sweden\nFind Saab offices\nSaab Partner Portal\nCompany in brief\nCredit market\nSaab Pension Fund\nResilient and Safe Societies\nPartnering for Innovation\nSaab life\nSupport Concept","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ocala Air Filters & Purifiers\nEnjoy Purer Air with a Whole-House Air Filtration System in Central Florida\nThe air we inhale filters into your lungs and body. That's why it's critical that the air in your home is healthy. You may think routinely changing your residence's air filter and cleaning regularly is adequate to breathe easily. Depending on your house and the health and ages of your family members, it may not be. If you use a typical 1-inch air filter in your heating and cooling system, you're only getting the smallest amount of air filtration.\nThat's where having Patrick's Heating & Air Conditioning install a high-efficiency, whole-house air filtration system in Ocala enters. It traps more pollutants, keeping your indoor air healthy around the clock. Not only will you have cleaner air, but improved air filtration may keep your HVAC system in fantastic shape.\n4 Reasons Why You Should Install a Whole-Home Air Filtration System\nYou may think the air in your home is healthy enough. But it's possible it's worse than smog, according to the EPA. And that can have a big impact on your well-being.\nHere are several other reasons why you should think about having Patrick's Heating & Air Conditioning install a whole-house air purification system:\nYour family includes infants, young children or elderly adults. Young children and those over 65 can be more vulnerable to pollutants than others. A whole-home air filtration system can protect your household from respiratory issues.\nSomeone in your home has health conditions, such as allergies or asthma. People with long-term breathing problems are also more vulnerable when exposed to indoor air pollutants. Dander, pollen and dust can aggravate these problems, making them more frequent or severe.\nYou are seeking increased protection against illnesses. Having an air filtration system may shield your household against common illnesses including the cold and flu under certain airflow conditions.\nIf you're doing your homework on whole-house air purification systems, it's recommended to partner with a dependable air filtration company. Give Patrick's Heating & Air Conditioning a call and we'll offer you a free estimate on select HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical Services and Replacements, so you'll know just what to expect. Give our kind customer service staff a call at (352) 329-3740 to request your appointment now.\nGet Your Free Estimate for a Whole-House Air Purifier Right Away\nEven if you think you're in excellent health, there are many reasons of reasons to think about getting a whole-house air filtration system. It gives the best filtration when compared to single-room purifiers. These purifiers often create ozone, which can aggravate your lungs.\nIt's also important to mention that many whole-house purification systems are powerful enough to remove unpleasant odors from the air, like lingering cooking smells or tobacco smoke.\nWhen you're wanting to add one of these systems to your family, our helpful customer service staff at Patrick's Heating & Air Conditioning makes the total process simple, starting with a free estimate on select HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical Services and Replacements. And our 100% satisfaction guarantee* means you'll be pleased with the outcome when all is said and done. Call Patrick's Heating & Air Conditioning at (352) 329-3740 to schedule your appointment today!\nDUCTLESS A\/C SYSTEMS AS LOW AS $1.96\/day NO PAYMENTS FOR 12 MONTHS. FREE ESTIMATES.\nOffers expire 3\/31\/2023\nCannot be combined with any other offers or comfort club member discounts. Must mention coupon when scheduling and present at time of service; repairs not included. Additional terms and conditions may apply, call for details. Valid from Jan 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2023","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Family Tree of the American Gase, Moermond, Boes, Steigmeyer, Elchert, Nye and Yost families\nThe Family Tree of the Dutch Gase, Van Stein, Weder, Van der Fluit and Moermond families\nFamily Group Sheets\n(compiled by Ronald A. Gase)\nTree currently contains 131.015 individuals and 55.494 families.\n(site updated Sunday, June 9th, 2019)\nback to introduction page back to surnames page\nHUSBAND Thomas Nicholas BETTS\n14 April 1882 Paulding County, Ohio, USA\n8 December 1949 215 E. Crawford St., Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, USA\n11 December 1949 Maple Grove Cemetery, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, USA\nThomas died of coronary thrombosis (from death certificate);\n15 October 1905 Paulding County, Ohio, USA\nWIFE Susan May \"Susie\" BLAND\n11 March 1886 Paulding County, Ohio, USA\n25 September 1960 Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA\nMaple Grove Cemetery, Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, USA\nF Esther Aileen \"Aileen\" BETTS\n19 November 1922 Hancock County, Ohio, USA\n289-14-3869 (Ohio, bef. 1951). Last residence: Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona;\nJohn William STAHL;\nronald@gase.nl\nhttp:\/\/www.gase.nl\/ronald\/index.htm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What We're Listening to This Week (June 24th, 2019 Edition)\nAnother week, another group of songs that have wormed their way into our heads.\nYou know those songs that make you feel like you can run through a brick wall? They're awesome, and I think this is one of those songs that just lights that fire inside you. And it's also kind of cool that Mikasa is the artwork they used. \ud83d\ude1b\nHere I was just minding my own business on Spotify and then BAM! This song came on, and I instantly fell in love with it. For me, some songs require a few listens for me to determine if I really like it or not, but not this one. All it took was one listen~\nThis video was shot before Sergei Polunin nuked his career, but disregarding that, this was something. In addition to Hozier's powerful vocals, the video has plenty of symbolism, which makes it infinitely more interesting to watch.\nI stumbled upon this song by chance, but I'm glad that I did, because I'm loving it. The original version was pretty good, but this edit takes the song to another level. Considering the disparity in the views between the original version (12k) and this version (557k), I think it's safe to say that I'm not the only person who believes that.\nIt's simple, if I see Irene, I like it. Just in time for summer, Red Velvet is back, and since they're currently my favorite Kpop group, it's very nice to see them again. \"Zimzalabim\" is a magical word similar to abracadabra, so watch them work their magic~\nMe and love songs are like this *crosses fingers to show you*. Rita Ora is someone I've largely ignored, but this is one I can't help but like. What I don't like, however, is the creepy blinking in the video. I'd advise just doing something in another tab as it plays. \ud83d\ude1b\nI'd be lying if I said I regularly looked up the lyrics to these Kpop songs, so as long as they sound good to me, I just assume the lyrics are good as well. Fortunately, Thanks has some solid lyrics, so I consider this song a winner.\nIn case you missed it, here's last week's installment~","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2190 Owatonna Foundation Receives Donation from Michaelson's Funeral Home\nOwatonna Foundation Receives Donation from The \"20\" Rifle and Pistol Club \u2192\nOwatonna Foundation Receives Donation from JC Press\nPosted on February 24, 2016 by Laura Resler February 24, 2016\nThe Owatonna Foundation recently received an in-kind donation of $3,150.00 from JC Press. Owner and President, Patrick McDermott said: \"We are very happy to support the Owatonna Foundation in their very worthy efforts to enhance the Owatonna community through the good work that they do.\"\nJC Press is one of the longest running, locally owned businesses in Owatonna, starting as a newspaper, the Owatonna Journal in 1859 which was then owned and operated by Hiram Sheetz. Later, E.K Whiting had started his own newspaper, the Owatonna Chronicle in 1897 and in 1906 he acquired the Owatonna Journal, forming the Journal Chronicle Company. In 1938 the newspaper was sold to the Owatonna Peoples Press and Mr. Whiting shifted the company's focus to commercial printing and stationary supplies. The business continued under the family leadership of E.K.'s sons, James and William from 1940 till 1983 when William's daughter, Sabra Otteson took over. On January 1st , 2015, Sabra sold J-C Press to current owner and President, Patrick McDermott. A native of Owatonna, Patrick continues the 156 year legacy that the company has achieved. McDermott stated: \"My initial attraction to J-C Press was its history and success along with its reputation as an engaged community member. My ongoing excitement is the dedication and skill of the employees who contribute daily towards our success and the way we are positioned to continue to be successful in growing the business in the future.\"\n\"We're so appreciative of this donation from JC Press. Their printing services are a tremendous resource for us, providing many of the supplies that are needed for daily operations. The company's ongoing support of the Foundation is a legacy from several generations of Owatonna families, first through the Whitings and now with Patrick McDermott's continued commitment. This support keeps the Foundation's mission of improving the quality of life for present and future generations by supporting Owatonna projects that focus on community, education, the arts and recreation a reality for all of us.\" said Foundation Executive Coordinator, Laura Resler.\nThe Owatonna Foundation, now in its 59th year of serving the Owatonna community, provides grants in Owatonna and its environs in four areas: Recreation, Education, Arts, and Community projects. The Foundation also provides both traditional and non-traditional scholarships for 2 year colleges and technical schools.\nThe Foundation was established in 1957 with the goal of improving the quality of life for present and future generations of Owatonna residents. Since then, the Owatonna Foundation has committed more than $11.5 million dollars in grants and scholarships to local organizations and students. For more information about the Owatonna Foundation, please visit our website at: www.owatonnafoundation.org, or call our office at 455-2995.\nPictured below left to right: Janine Whited of JC Press, Foundation Trustee Kent Kienholz, Heidi Klein of JC Press, Pat McDermott owner\/President of JC Press, Foundation Trustees Sharon West, Dr. Carol Winter, and Matt Kottke\nPosted in Board of Trustees, Community, Donors, Giving, Owatonna, Owatonna Foundation\tpermalink","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"untitled (la revoluci\u00f3n es la soluci\u00f3n!)\nKang Seung Lee\nIn Residence: May 15 \u2013 Jul 17, 2017\nExhibition: Jul 13 \u2013 Sep 3, 2017\nuntitled (la revoluci\u00f3n es la soluci\u00f3n!), 2017Source: NIKON D810\nuntitled (la revoluci\u00f3n es la soluci\u00f3n!)-3, 2017Source: NIKON D810\nuntitled (la revoluci\u00f3n es la soluci\u00f3n!)-15, 2017Source: NIKON D810\nLatasha Harlins and Soon-ja Du\nThe show starts with five drawings that depict the killing of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year-old African-American girl who was shot in the head by Soon Ja Du, a Korean-American store owner at Du's store, Empire Liquor in South Los Angeles on March 16, 1991. On the morning of the shooting, Du observed Harlins putting a bottle of orange juice in her backpack and did not see the money she held in her hand, concluding Harlins was attempting to steal. Harlins' death came two weeks after the beating of Rodney King. Du was fined $500 and sentenced to five years of probation but no prison time. It is considered as one of the causes of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.\nI am particularly interested in the fact that the uprising, commonly understood as a white-black conflict, was also a boiling point for tensions in the Latino and Asian communities. The residents of disadvantaged and marginalized, mostly working\/merchant class neighborhood, Koreatown and South Central in Los Angeles, didn't have much access to outside of this affordable area and the uprising became a cataclysm of growing discontent among them.\nDrawing as thinking machine \u2013 removal of bodies and repetition\nFor the past year, I have been exploring the possibilities of drawing as a thinking machine and embodiment of histories. The project employs similar strategies of previous works\u2014removal of the human body to re-render figureless tableaux in graphite prior to adopting various methods of display: framed drawings and photo light boxes on wall installations, tapestry, and neon works.\nImages in the show co-opt the work of photojournalists taken during the LA uprising in 1992 and continue to implicate the subjectivities of human bodies through graphic depictions of violence, perpetuating the stereotypes of racialized figures. My removal of the bodies is aimed to challenge the popular representation and invite a movement towards the radical emancipation of otherness. At the same time I am hoping to instill a solemnity for the lives and memories lost and injured and communities destroyed in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the uprising.\nNeon sign\/text pieces\/take away posters \u2013 la revoluci\u00f3n es la soluci\u00f3n!\nThe graffiti proclaimed on the lone wall standing after flames gutted during the uprising calls up alternative readings and meanings of the resistance. A neon piece traced from the graffiti along with other neon works \u2013 \"revolution\" in Korean and Arabic, is created as an invitation to a hopeful future with imaginative possibilities that may not come in the form we already know.\n\"We must all change the things that are fucked up and change cannot come in the form that we think of as \"revolutionary\" \u2013 not as a masculinist surge or an armed confrontation. Revolution will come in a form we cannot yet imagine.\"\nJack Halberstam in \"The wild Beyond: With and for the Undercommons\", foreword for The Undercommons by Stefano Harvey & Fred Moten\nKang Seung Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in South Korea and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Kang has had solo exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles, CA), PitzerCollege Art Galleries (Claremont, CA), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (Los Angeles, CA), Centro Cultural Border (Mexico City), and group exhibitions at LAXART (Los Angeles, CA), Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNCG (NC), SOMArts (San Francisco, CA), Raymond Gallery at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA), among many others. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Artnet Magazine, LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, KCET Artbound. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).\nUnnatural Urges\nHeyd Fontenot\nCurator: Michael Smith\nBEYOND THE LAND OF MINIMAL POSSESSION\nLili Reynaud-Dewar\nGrenoble, France \/ Geneva, Switzerland\nPolitical Evolution\nMartha Wilson","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Klook Gears Up for Next Round of Global Expansion and Innovation with US$200 Million Series D Funding\nOne of the world's leading travel activities and services booking platforms on track to hit US$1 billion in bookings in 2018\nHONG KONG, Aug. 7, 2018 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 Klook, a world-leading full-service in-destination booking platform, today announced it has closed US$200 million in Series D funding, bringing its total financing to date to US$300 million. This makes Klook the most-funded company in the tours and activities sector globally. Investors in this round include Sequoia China, Matrix Partners, Goldman Sachs, Boyu Capital, TCV, an Asia-based sovereign wealth fund, OurCrowd, and some family offices. Sequoia China, Matrix Partners and Goldman Sachs also led the Series C in October 2017. The investment further strengthens Klook's position as a global player in the travel sector, and accelerates its expansion in the US and Europe, including product growth and technology innovation.\nFounded in 2014, Klook is one of the world's fastest-growing booking platforms, covering attractions, tours, and local experiences as well as local transport and railway services around the globe. It offers travelers more than 50,000 activities and services provided by over 5,000 industry partners in 200+ destinations worldwide. Since closing its US$60 million Series C fund last year, the company has opened offices in London and Amsterdam, and now employs more than 600 people across 16 offices around the world. Its robust growth is driven by the rise of independent travelers and an increasing consumer appreciation for travel experiences. The company is on track to achieve US$1 billion annual bookings in 2018.\nKlook will continue to expand its global footprint, with plans to open an office in the US by the end of 2018. The company will also be adding more US and Europe-based curated activities and services onto the platform to fulfill an increasing demand from Asian travelers for diverse and unique in-destination experiences . Simultaneously, Klook will look to bring more US and European travelers to Asia, supporting the company's long-term vision of serving travelers worldwide to easily discover destinations that are both popular and unique.\nKlook has been a pioneer in driving travel innovation, developing travel operator solutions such as the Merchant App and QR-code based e-voucher redemption. Klook's technology solutions have been widely recognized and adopted by its merchant partners including world-renowned attractions, mass railway transit and other offline service operators. Klook will continue to collaborate with its merchant partners to further provide frictionless, real-time booking experiences for modern travelers.\n\"Our mission is to empower travelers to build their own unique journey,\" said Ethan Lin, CEO and Co-Founder of Klook, \"This round of funding marks an important milestone for us. The funding and extensive experience from our new investors will let us to further solidify our merchant portfolio and provide travelers with even more activities and destinations to explore around the world.\"\n\"We are committed to using innovative technologies to help digitize the tours and activities industry,\" said Eric Gnock Fah, COO and Co-Founder of Klook. \"The new funding will help us deepen our partnership with merchants through more technological solutions that bring new sources of customers and optimize operational efficiencies.\"\n\"By leveraging their strength in digitally transforming their suppliers of tours and activities and tapping into the new generation of mobile-first travelers, Klook is emerging as the clear leader in the online tours and activities sector,\" said Neil Shen, Founding and Managing Partner of Sequoia China. \"We look forward to seeing Klook help more and more travelers connect to suppliers, and become a key source of inbound demand for Asia and beyond.\"\n\"TCV seeks to invest in companies with exceptional management teams that drive technological innovation,\" said David Yuan, General Partner at TCV. \"Klook is at the forefront of transforming the travel industry and we've been impressed with the team and the company's growth. We are excited to help them advance their global strategy and expansion.\"\nAbout Klook\nFounded in 2014, Klook is one of the world's leading travel activities and services booking platforms. Klook gives travelers a seamless way to discover and book popular attractions, tours, local transportation, best foods and must-eats, and unique experiences around the world on its website and award-winning app ('Best of 2015' & 'Best of 2017' by Google Play and Apple App Store). With Klook's innovative technologies, travelers can book after arriving in their destinations and redeem the services by using QR codes or e-vouchers. Each day, Klook empowers countless travelers to indulge in their wanderlust and spontaneity through over 50,000 offerings in more than 200 destinations.\nWith a team of over 600 across 16 offices worldwide, Klook's services are available in eight languages and 36 currencies. It has raised a total of US$300 million investment from world-renowned investors including Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Goldman Sachs, Boyu Capital, and TCV. Get inspired by Klook at www.klook.com, the company blog or @Klook.\nAbout Sequoia China\nThe Sequoia team helps daring founders build legendary companies. In partnering with Sequoia, companies benefit from our unmatched community and the lessons we've learned over 46 years. As \"The Entrepreneurs Behind The Entrepreneurs\", Sequoia China focuses on four sectors: TMT, healthcare, consumer\/service, and industrial technology. Over the past 13 years we've had the privilege of working with more than 500 companies in China. For more information, visit www.sequoiacap.com\/china\/en.\nAbout Matrix Partners\nWith over US$3 billion under management and nearly 100 investment professionals in China, Matrix Partners specializes in early- and mid-stage investments, and has invested in more than 430 companies, among which 25 have been listed, 9 have reached valuation of over US$5 billion, 25 over US$1 billion. Matrix Partners invests mainly in mobile internet, transaction platform, SaaS, AI, FinTech, mobile healthcare, consumption upgrade, new media and social network, and star portfolios include Didi, Momo, ele.me, ofo, Kingnet, Cheetah Mobile, 21Vianet, Bona Films, Guazi, Baofeng, Edan, tubatu, Zhaogang, Yuantiku, VIPKID, PINTEC, 36Kr, etc. Matrix Partners has offices in Cambridge and Waltham, MA; Palo Alto, CA; Mumbai, India; and Beijing and Shanghai, China.\nAbout Goldman Sachs\nThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world. Since 1986, the Principal Investment Area of Goldman Sachs has raised over $140 billion of capital in equity, credit and real estate funds to invest in a variety of geographies, industries and transaction types. With Principal Investment Area representatives in six countries around the world, Goldman Sachs is one of the largest managers of private capital globally, offering deep expertise and longstanding relationships with companies, investors, entrepreneurs and financial intermediaries.\nAbout Boyu Capital\nBoyu Capital is a leading Greater China-focused private investment firm with offices in Hong Kong and Beijing. Comprised of a team of experienced investors and business operators, Boyu Capital provides growth capital and strategic support through long-term partnerships with leading entrepreneurs and enterprises, and its portfolio includes some of the largest, best-managed and most innovative companies across the media\/technology, consumer\/retail, financial services, and healthcare industries in the Greater China region.\nAbout TCV\nFounded in 1995, TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. Since inception, TCV has invested over $10 billion in leading technology companies and has helped guide CEOs through more than 115 IPOs and strategic acquisitions. TCV's investments include Airbnb, Altiris, AxiomSL, Dollar Shave Club, EmbanetCompass, EtQ, ExactTarget, Expedia, Facebook, Fandango, GoDaddy, HomeAway, LinkedIn, Netflix, OSIsoft, Rent the Runway, Sitecore, SiteMinder, Splunk, Spotify, Varsity Tutors, and Zillow. TCV is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices in New York and London. For more information about TCV, including a complete list of TCV investments, visit https:\/\/www.tcv.com\/.\nAbout OurCrowd\nOurCrowd is the leading global hybrid venture capital platform for accredited investors. Managed by a team of seasoned investment professionals and led by serial entrepreneur Jon Medved, OurCrowd vets and selects opportunities, invests its own capital, and brings companies to its accredited membership of global investors. OurCrowd provides post-investment support to its portfolio companies, assigns industry experts as mentors, and takes board seats. The OurCrowd community consists of almost 25,000 accredited investors from over 150 countries. OurCrowd has raised over $750M and invested in 160 portfolio companies and funds.\nTo download photos and other press materials: https:\/\/goo.gl\/fN1Bz6\nTo learn more about our investors, please visit:\nSequoia China: www.sequoiacap.com\/china\/en\/\nMatrix Partners: www.matrixpartners.com.cn\nGoldman Sachs: www.goldmansachs.com\nBoyu Capital: http:\/\/www.boyucapital.com\/\nTCV: https:\/\/www.tcv.com\/\nOurCrowd: www.ourcrowd.com\/\nPhoto \u2013 https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/727498\/Klook_s_executive_team_Klook.jpg","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gujarat Exclusive > punjab\nPM security breach: SC probe panel to be headed by Justice (retd) Indu Malhotra\nExclusive Author - January 12, 2022\nNew Delhi: Days after agreeing to set up a committee to probe the matter of breach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security, the Supreme Court set up a panel headed by Justice (retired) Indu Malhotra in this regard. The matter of PM security breach relates to the January 5 incident when his convoy was stuck...\nEC announces Assembly elections in 5 states from Feb 10 to March 7; counting on March 10\n7-phase Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, 2 in Manipur and single-phase polls for Goa, Punjab and Uttarakhand New Delhi: The Assembly elections in five states of the country, namely Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab, will be held between February 10 and March 7, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra announced on Saturday. Elections in...\nSupreme Court to hear PM Modi's security breach matter on Friday\nPM Modi's convoy was stranded on a flyover on way to Ferozepur in Punjab on Wednesday New Delhi: The matter of lapses in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security in Punjab on Wednesday will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Friday. A petition was filed by an organisation called Lawyer's Voice in the...\nStranded on flyover for 15-20 minutes, PM Modi cancels rally in Punjab's Ferozepur\nNew Delhi: The passing convoys of political leaders are known to result in traffic jams where commuters could remain stuck for several minutes to a few hours. However, in a twist of events, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was stranded on a flyover for around 15-20 minutes en route Firozepur in Punjab where he was to...\nPunjab MLA Balwinder Singh Laddi returns to Congress, days after leaving it for BJP\nChandigarh: Punjab MLA Balwinder Singh Laddi who had resigned from Congress to join BJP a few days ago quit the Saffron party to return to the former. The Congress MLA from Shri Hargobindpur, had left the party and joined BJP in New Delhi on December 28 along with another MLA, Fatehjang Singh Bajwa. On...\nPowerful blast in Ludhiana court complex leaves 2 dead, at least 4 injured\nExclusive Author - December 23, 2021\nLudhiana: A blast inside the District and Sessions Court Complex in Ludhiana in Punjab on Thursday left two persons dead. Four others have been reportedly injured in the incident. According to reports, the high-intensity blast occurred at around 12.22 pm in a bathroom. The walls of the bathroom were damaged and the glass panes of...\nDrone from Pak side caught in Punjab; Amarinder asks CM to 'stop doing bhangra all day'\nChandigarh: The Border Security Force captured a drone that was flying at a low height in the border area of Ferozpur in Punjab on Friday night. The Made-in-China hexacopter had entered India from Pakistan side, said a senior BSF officer, adding that they are supervising search operation in the area. The drone was reportedly 300...\nAmarinder Singh joins hands with BJP for Punjab polls\nNew Delhi: Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has confirmed the alliance with BJP for Assembly elections in the state. He met BJP's Punjab in-charge Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in Delhi on Friday. Amarinder Singh had resigned from the CM's post in September this year citing insult. He was succeeded by Charanjit Singh Channi. After...\nNo other party knows how to improve govt schools: Kejriwal says in Punjab\nExclusive Author - November 23, 2021\nAmritsar: One of Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal's promises to poll-bound Punjab is that his party will improve government schools in the state, just like they did in Delhi. \"We will improve Punjab govt schools just like we improved Delhi govt schools; only we know how to do it,...\nGrenade blast near Army camp in Pathankot in Punjab; no injuries reported\nThe incident took place at Triveni Gate of Army camp in Pathankot Chandigarh: A grenade blast took place near the camp of the Indian Army in Pathankot in Punjab on Monday morning. No injury was reported in the incident. The police reached the spot and collected parts of the grenade. They are in the process...\nAfter over a year of protests, PM finally gives in: 3 controversial farm laws to be repealed\nNew Delhi: In a major victory for all the farmers protesting against the three controversial farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday morning announced that the laws would be repealed. He said the process for the same would begin by month-end. After making the announcement, PM Modi urged the protesting farmers camping outside Delhi...\nSpecial 2-day Punjab Assembly begins; to discuss farm laws, extended BSF jurisdiction\nThe special Punjab Assembly was adjourned on Monday after obituary references; next session on November 11 Chandigarh: The Punjab government began its two-day special Assembly session on Monday for complete withdrawal of the three new controversial farm laws. It will also oppose the extension of the Border Security Force (BSF) jurisdiction along the international...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur\nDecrease quantity for Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur\nIncrease quantity for Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur\nFive Farms Irish Cream Liqueur has been awarded the Chairman's Trophy at the 2018 Ultimate Spirits Challenge, the premier spirits competition in the world. The 97 score awarded to Five Farms is the highest that an Irish Cream Liqueur has ever received in this prestigious competition, signaling the arrival of a brand that is poised to elevate the category.\nFive Farms is exclusively sourced and produced in County Cork, Ireland. County Cork is Ireland's largest and southernmost county, home to family-owned farms that dot the coastline where the land meets the sea. It seems to sit on the edge of the world, a rugged backdrop for the farmers who have toiled this land for generations.\nFive Farms is a true farm-to-table product, crafted from single batches of fresh cream that are combined with premium Irish Whiskey within 48 hours of collection to become authentic Irish Cream Liqueur. The cream is sourced entirely from five family-owned farms in County Cork, run by families that have a deep connection to the land and a passion for their craft.\nSingle Batch Cream\nFive Farms is made with the richest dairy cream, smooth and sweet and luxurious. The mild climate and abundant rainfall in County Cork result in fertile farmland for dairy cattle, who spend their days basking in the fresh sea air and grazing on vibrant green grass.\nThe \"happy cows\" of County Cork produce the highest quality milk, and the collection in single batches assures that Five Farms starts with a rich and creamy base product that is consistent from batch to batch.\nCounty Cork is also home to the centuries-old tradition of distilling authentic Irish Whiskey. The pot stills traditionally used for distillation gave the spirit a consistency that has remained timeless. Premium triple-distilled Irish Whiskey has a smoothness and complexity that add depth to the sweetness of the cream.\nFive Farms contains a greater amount of Irish Whiskey than other brands on the market, setting it apart in the category and allowing for an intensity of whiskey flavor and warmth that is truly one of a kind. The result is a superior Irish Cream Liqueur with the richness of Ireland itself.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Leading Slovenian real estate website gets foreign owner\n5. oktobra, 2020\nUpdated: 5. oktobra, 2020\nNepremicnine.net, the leading real estate website in Slovenia, has been taken over by Real Web, a company owning several leading internet real estate platforms in Europe. Accordindg to news portal Siol, Real Web has acquired a 60% stake, while the rest will be preserved by Nepremicnine.net's founders.\nNepremicnine.net, established in 1999, has developed into the leading internet real estate platform in Slovenia and is also one of the busiest websites in the country with about 800,000 visits each month.\nThe takeover, whose details have not been disclosed, strengthens the presence of the international group Indomio, associated with Real Web, in Europe. The group includes the biggest internet real estate platform in Italy Immobiliare.it as well as the leading Greek platform Spitogatos.gr.\nNepremicnine.net co-founder and executive director Primo\u017e Jazbec told Siol that cooperation with Indomio presents a strategic opportunity, providing the platform with crucial technological know-how to grow business operations.\n\"It also secures long-term growth as a result of the strongest possible positioning in other EU member states,\" he added.\nImmobiliare.it co-founder Silvio Pagliani said that they had known Jazbez and Ale\u0161 Ravnikar, also a co-funder, for several years and were exited to start cooperating.\n\"This cooperation allows us to continue building the leading real estate platform in multiple European countries,\" Pagliani said.\nSpitogatos.gr co-founder and executive director Dimitris Melachroinos said the joint brand will be even more recognisable due to shared technology.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Aboriginal Women Honored as Environmental Heroes - 2003-06-03\nOctober 30, 2009 2:18 PM update October 30, 2009 2:19 PM\nThe Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest award for grassroots activism and environmental achievement. The recipients there have been a total of 94 of them since the prize was launched in 1989 - hail from every region of the globe Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific Island Nations, North America, South and Central America.\nIn this fifth in her series of profiles of the 2003 Goldman Prize laureates, VOA's Rosanne Skirble tells us how two aboriginal Australian women have led a campaign to block the construction of a nuclear waste dump on their native land.\nSitting among a group of elder women in a desert region in South Australia, Eileen Wingfield and Eileen Brown chant: \"Irati Wanti. Irati Wanti.\" \u2026 \"The poison, leave it.\"\nThe women, all in their seventies, are challenging the proposed construction of a national radioactive waste dump on tribal land. The site - about as big as a soccer field - would store nuclear waste for up to 300 years.\nThe women fear that the waste could leak into the ground and contaminate their drinking water.\nRebecca Wingfield is Eileen Wingfield's daughter and spokeswoman for the Coober Pedy Women's Council, the group of elderly women opposing the construction of the nuclear waste dump. She says the dump is a threat to public health, the environment and to the culture of the aboriginal people.\nWingfield: My mother really traveled with the last of the old people. They lived close to the environment. They didn't have western clothing. They were living the way they had for many, many centuries. In fact they can not even quantify the antiquity of indigenous Australians.\nSkirble: It is a very dry area.\nWingfield: Where we are from is one of the driest areas in the driest continent in the world, exactly.\nSkirble: So how did they get their water?\nWingfield: They knew intimately all the water holes. And, it was a harsh life walking many hundreds of kilometers. I have been taught a lot of the water holes. But it is not as extensive as their knowledge. But that is how they would survive, with the intimate relationship and intimate understanding of where the resources were, and respecting them and making sure they were clean and safe. And I guess that is a practice that has come into the 20th century and now into the 21st century.\nThe women know first-hand the impact of radioactive pollution. Fifty years ago the British military conducted 12 full-scale nuclear weapons tests in the South Australian desert at Maralinga. The community where Eileen Wingfield lived was exposed to radioactive fallout from the blasts.\nWingfield: She was a house girl, and she was working on a farm and they saw this big ominous black cloud come over from the west. They were only about 180 kilometers east of where they were exploding the bombs. They saw this rain cloud and, and that was the beginning of this journey.\nSkirble: What did she know [about the testing]?\nWingfield: They didn't know anything. The [British authorities] didn't inform people, and they certainly didn't inform anyone in the community.\nRebecca Wingfield believes many of the health problems the family has suffered have been caused by exposure to radioactive fallout.\n\"I myself have three ovaries and have not been able to have children,\" she said. \"My nephew has got brain cancer. My cousin was three months old when she had a total hysterectomy when she had ovarian cancer. We are now seeing extremely high levels of cancer.\"\nDespite their age and failing health, the elderly women of the Coober Pedy Women's Council say they will block the new nuclear waste facility at any cost.\nEileen Wingfield has taken the group's anti-dump campaign far from home. She has written government officials and visited Parliament, not afraid to speak her mind. Rebecca Wingfield says that while the elder women are struggling to protect their aboriginal communities and the environment in South Australia, their message is universal.\n\"And one of the things that we carry with us and that mother has instilled in all of her children is that we have a collective ownership in the culpability of the devastation that any form or uranium or the nuclear industry has on the globe,\" she said. \"We want the mine closed. We are going to block the bridge and we are going to highlight the dangers of transporting the waste across from Sydney, which is thousands of kilometers east and we are going to also get the region declared a World Heritage area [by the United Nations].\"\nGoldman Environmental Prize 2003 winners Eileen Wingfield and Eileen Brown say, \"they are worrying for their country, and they are worrying for their children.\" They say they are strong old ladies and will keep fighting.\nThe Goldman Environmental Prize comes with a cash award of $125,000.\nSkirble report - Download 600k\nThe Goldman Environmental Prize","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"No way can Comelec postpone May 9 elections\nPublished on Sunday, 27 March 2016 12:38\nWritten by Ellen Tordesillas\nFormer Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal, who is now consultant of the Nationalist People's Coalition, said the Commission on Elections cannot postpone the May 9 elections as it is being floated now.\nHe said there is only one option for Comelec: \"To conduct automated elections on May 9, 2016.\"\nFormer Senator Richard Gordon, principal author of the Automated Elections Law who is vying again for a Senate seat under the Ang Partido ng Galing at Puso of Grace Poe, also finds unacceptable the reasons put forward by Comelec officials why they cannot comply with the High Court's decision. \"\"Kung gusto, may paraan. Kung ayaw maraming dahilan,\" he said.\nThe idea of postponing the May 9 elections (election lawyer Romulo Makalintal mentioned June 9 as the alternative date) followed the order of Supreme Court last week to the Comelec to \"enable the vote verification feature of the vote-counting machines which prints the voter's choices\u2026\"\nComelec has raised a number of reasons why they cannot comply with the High Court decision among them the reconfiguration of the machines will take time, it will delay the voting process by several hours, and the ballot receipts will be used for vote buying.\nSome have raised as an alternative going back to manual election and in the worst case scenario, postpone the elections scheduled on May 9.\nIn a telephone interview, Larrazabal, who oversaw the first automated polls in 2010, said going back to manual elections on May 9 is out of the question.\" Aside from the fact that it's illegal, there is no more time to prepare for a manual elections,\" he said.\nAt the Kapihan sa Manila Hotel, Gordon said, \"First, it's not true that they don't have enough time to bid or purchase thermal papers. The Comelec can conduct Emergency Purchase under the Government Procurement Act, specifically Section 48 (e) in relation to Section 53 (b) for thermal papers. They can even make a negotiated procurement. Next they claim that they have to purchase new receptacles. But the Comelec has close to 330,000 old, yellow ballot boxes and only 92,509 will be needed for the upcoming elections.\"\nAs to the claim of Comelec that there is not enough time left to reconfigure the software or the source code and to reactivate the VVPAT feature of the VCMs, Gordon said, \"Again this is not true. Remember when the final trusted build of the Election Management System was suddenly found to have interconnection problems with the rest of the System? They were able to recompile it in just two days, from Feb. 8 to 9.\"\nHe recalled the 2010 elections, the one supervised by Larrazabal, when the Comelec was able to recall, reconfigure and redeploy more than 76,000 CF cards in just five days.\nGordon said,\" At present, the voter receipt feature is already hardcoded into the software of the system but only disabled, reactivating it by recompiling the final trusted build of the software will simply take as short as a day or two. There is no cogent reason why the Comelec cannot do so now with more than 50 days to spare. They can add manpower and facilities to address this contingency. Experts as they claim to be, they should not be heard to complain.\"\nLarrazabal has something to say about the Supreme Court opinion but stressed that the solution is to get on with working towards holding the elections on May 9.\nHe said:\"Much has been said about the Supreme Court decision re: VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) in the past few days. However, many fail to understand that the decision was a unanimous 14-0 in favor of the utilization of the function of the counting machines.\n\"Do I agree with the decision of the Supreme Court mandating the activation of the functionality? With due respect to the Supreme Court, No. I believe that the VVPAT was and is for a DRE (direct-recording electronic) automated voting system, as compared to the OMR (paper-based) automated voting system, which is what's being used in the Philippines. I believe that the Justices of the Supreme Court could have voted differently had they been appraised of the technical differences of the two voting systems, specially considering that the VVPAT was not used in the 2010 and 2013 elections.\n\"But the reality is that the Supreme Court rendered a decision on the matter, and unless it reverses itself completely, there is no option other than to implement its decision, whether we like or it. Whether we agree with it, or not.\n\"In life, we always face challenges and problems masked as obstacles in achieving our goals. Small or big, difficult or easy. Key in approaching solving or overcoming challenges we face is knowing what problems and challenges are under control and which one's aren't. Even within the challenges we face, some aspects of it are under our control. Some aren't. Knowing how to differentiate between the two is key in overcoming the challenge.\n\"In this case, the COMELEC has filed a Motion for Reconsideration. This is the right step in trying to reverse the decision of the Court. However, as to the aspect of the Court reversing itself, the COMELEC has unfortunately no control over. What the Commission, has, however, is control over what it does to adjust to the decision of the Court. Adjustment of the training schedule, procuring thermal paper for the receipts, reconfiguration of the SD Cards, etc. These are some matters the Commission can do something about.\n\"Will it be easy to comply with the decision of the Supreme Court? It won't be a walk in the park, that's for sure. And it may be a gargantuan task. But the mandate of the Commission is clear: Conduct a Sychronized National & Local AUTOMATED Elections on May 9, 2016.\n\"The date set is fixed and only the passage of a law by both houses of Congress can change the date of the elections. Leaders of both houses have already spoken that they will not agree to the passage of a law to postpone the elections. So people should forget about even thinking about that option. \"\nLarrazabal said Sec. 5 & 6 of the Omnibus Election Code provide circumstances for the postponement of elections and instances where there is a failure of elections. They do not apply in the current situation.\nHe further said: \"There is a task and goal at hand: To conduct fair, honest, credible, accurate elections on May 9, 2016. I think people should focus on that. And by helping Comelec overcome the challenges ahead, we become part of the solution to this problem. \"\n\"This administration enjoyed a lot of political capital specifically because of how the automated elections was conducted in 2010, despite the numerous problems and challenges. I hope by having a credible, accurate and honest elections in May, the next administration will also benefit from the same political capital,\" he added.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"14 April 2022 \/ Arts & Entertainment \/ Jay Barmann\nApartment Sadness: New Half-Million-Dollar Studios Have Beds That Drop From Ceilings\nWell, the owners and marketers of the new Serif condos on mid-Market have come up with a novel solution for the smallness of their studio units: optional furniture add-ons that include mechanical beds that rise up and stow themselves away on the ceiling.\nWelcome back to Apartment Sadness, SFist's occasional series that took a long pandemic break since, well, there was more to be sad about besides the lack of affordability\/livability of SF apartments. And, all of a sudden, at least for a minute there, it was a lot easier to find an apartment!\nThings may not be completely back to pre-COVID normal, but market-rate homes in SF remain depressingly expensive for many of us, and rents are inching back to about where they were in early 2020 before the much ballyhoo'd, and possibly very brief, mass exodus from the city.\nToday, because it's so fitting, we bring you not a rental property, but a condo \u2014 a whole group of condos, in fact. These are the smallest of the units in the new Serif complex at 960 Market, between Mason and Taylor (Fifth and Sixth). The flatiron-shaped building has been under construction for several years now \u2014 SFist first reported on the plans in 2014 \u2014 and the finished, 12-story, 408,000-square-foot project includes a 236-room hotel, and a 242-unit condo portion. The opening of the building was delayed last year, and it appears that the opening of the hotel, The Line, still has not happened.\nAccording to a marketing video posted to Serif's Facebook in February, the building has contracted with Bumblebee Spaces to provide drop-from-the-ceiling furniture options in the building's design studio. Bumblebee appears to be the modern answer to Murphy beds, which have long been a space-saving solution for small, urban apartments.\nMind you these are studios that start around $540,000 and go up from there.\nThe SF Standard has since covered the drop-down bed situation, noting that the Serif touts this as a way to turn a studio's living space into a \"multi-functional flex space\" \u2014 as opposed to an apartment where your bed is spitting distance from the kitchen and there's barely room for any other furniture. Also, they note that the Bumblebee beds will run buyers $12,000 extra as an add-on, though back in February it looked like there were \"credits\" available to buyers, as a perk.\nPhoto via Serif\/Facebook\nAbove, you can see an actress portraying a possible Serif buyer, just rising in the morning in her multi-functional flex space, looking up at the winch technology above her that will take her bed away at the tap of an app.\nBelow, there she is contemplating her stowable bed on cables as it rises back to its daytime home, remembering that her mortgage is $3,200 a month for this, and she should have just stayed in Arizona like her father said and she'd be living in a three-bedroom house for this price.\nAnd yay! There's room to do pretend yoga now! No need to worry about the condo market in San Francisco tanking again!\nIn addition to the hideaway ceiling bed, Serif and Bumblebee are offering hideaway desks on cords, in case you're crazy or lazy enough to want to work from home in a 340-square-foot apartment.\nAnd, also, there are hideaway storage boxes to go with the beds \u2014 a place to hide your jewelry and condoms and such, which drop down next to the bed.\nBelow are the three studio layouts available at the Serif. And they're kinda tight! They range in size from from 337 square feet to 360 square feet, according to these listings. And you'll need those drop-down boxes to stow stuff in when all you get is one tiny closet \u2014 and zero pantry space.\nThis is the reality we're living in, I guess, if you want to own property for less than $600K in San Francisco. You will not be getting a functional kitchen or entertaining space to speak of, but maybe if you have a bed that disappears onto the ceiling you can squeeze more than one other person in for cocktails.\nAt least the bathrooms are kind of nice!\nCourtesy of Serif\nAll previous editions of Apartment Sadness on SFist.\nAnother Planet Submits New Castro Theatre Plans With 'Motorized' Flooring, Opponents Not Moved\n12 Memes That Were Born In the Bay Area\n'Clyde's' Brings Humor to Post-Incarceration Blues at Berkeley Rep\nOrphaned Baby Mountain Lion Improving After Blood Transfusion at Oakland Zoo\nAn orphaned mountain lion cub who was found in San Mateo County last week and was brought to the Oakland Zoo for care and treatment is showing marked improvement as of Thursday, following a blood transfusion.\nNew Report Details Curious 'Algorithm' That Decides Who Gets Homeless Housing Based on How Much Trauma They've Endured\nThere are some pretty personal questions that go into deciding who gets supportive housing in this town, as a new report details the \"algorithm\" that sizes up how much trauma applicants have endured.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Search Choicism\nChoicism\nUCC Students' News Source\nTA's\/SRA's\nAdehye\nOguaa\nCasford\nUG opens photo exhibition in honour of Kofi Annan\nBy Abdul-Karim Mohammed Awaf on September 11, 2018\nAs part of events to honour the memories of immediate past Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Kofi Annan, the University of Ghana today opened an exhibition at the University's Balme Library.\nThe event is part of the numerous activities planned by the university management to celebrate the former UN Secretary General who passed on in August this year. On Friday September 7, a memorial night was held at the Great Hall.\nThe exhibition of works by the late Kofi Annan at the Balme Library, which opened today Monday, will be closed to the public on Friday, September 14. At the exhibition, there are also pictures depicting his service to the world particularly to the university and his odyssey through life.\nSpeaking at the exhibition today, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro-Owusu reemphasized Kofi Annan's tireless efforts in ensuring that the university maintained its world class status.\nProf. Oduro- Owusu stated that Mr. Kofi Annan was a great asset to the University of Ghana and the world at large therefore he deserves all the activities the University has arranged for him and even more.\nMr. Annan, who was Chancellor of the University of Ghana from 2008, ended his tenure at the end of July 2018. He passed away in Bern, Switzerland on Saturday, August 18, 2018 after he reportedly fell it on his return trip from South Africa after he had attended the centenary celebration of the birth of a former South African President, Nelson Mandela.\nHe was hospitalised in Geneva and later airlifted to the Swiss capital, Bern, where he died peacefully.\nAlso at the exhibition was the first day of exhibition is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research Innovation and Developement (ORID), Prof. Francis Dodoo.\nMeanwhile, the mortal remains of the Nobel Laureate will later today arrive in the country. His remains will be received with a brief ceremony led by the Ghana Armed Forces and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.\nKofi Annan's body will then be moved to the Accra International Conference Centre from the Airport.\nSource:universnewsroom.com\nPublished in Other Campuses and Uncategorized\nAbdul-Karim Mohammed Awaf\nAn established multidisciplinary communication professional with deep interest in traditional media, new media, digital marketing and public relations.\nMore from Other CampusesMore posts in Other Campuses \u00bb\nThe Condition of a Ghanaian Student Studying in Barcelona, Spain\nA Ghanaian student in UK shares his story amidst coronavirus\nKNUST student electrocuted in bathroom\nUG suspends lectures after student tested positive for COVID-19\nMore from UncategorizedMore posts in Uncategorized \u00bb\nThe current condition of the Ghanaian students studying in Togo\n#Legon2020: Men's Football League Table as of Match Day 8\n#Legon2020: Results From Thursday's Track and Field Events\nHon Caleb Otabil Sworn in as Speaker of UCC Students' Parliamentary Council","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Agenda item\nCORPORATE PERFORMANCE QUARTER 2\nMeeting of Overview and Scrutiny Committee, Thursday, 4th April, 2019 7.00 pm (Item OSC.428)\nA report from the Leader of the Council is attached.\nCouncillor Shori, Leader of the Council presented a report providing Members with an update on performance in line with Team Bury's Single Outcomes Framework.\nIt was explained that under each of the single framework outcomes are a series of indicators and performance measures. These collectively contribute towards the delivery of the respective outcome.\nThe report and appendices detailed a number of areas where performance has improved or is at a high level and also made reference to areas of performance that were less positive.\nIt was explained that where performance was declining or below target or another relevant comparator, work would take place to understand what was required to improve performance. This would be done by understanding the partners involved, the true reasons as to why the data was as it was and assess what would be required to improve performance.\nIt was also reported that work was being carried out within several areas of the Council in relation to refreshing strategies and performance arrangements.\nThose present were invited to ask questions or make comments and the following points were raised:\n\u00b7 Councillor Caserta referred to the average progress 8 score per pupil and the fact that Ofsted had been downgrading schools. Councillor Caserta asked what was being done to improve on this.\nCouncillor Shori explained that a new Ofsted framework was being introduced and the LEA would be working alongside this with schools as soon as it was known what the framework was.\nWork was being carried out closely between the LEA and schools to improve. Schools were also working with each other collaboratively to bring down exclusions. Bury had had one of the highest rates of exclusions in the country in 2016\/2017 and this had been turned around with no exclusions during the first term of the current academic year.\n\u00b7 Councillor Caserta asked whether the work that had been done around exclusions would lead to problems further down the line.\nCouncillor Shori explained that schools were working in collaboration with each other as well as with the Council, CCG as well as support from mental health professionals to ensure that problems weren't being moved around but were being dealt with as early as possible.\n\u00b7 Councillor S Smith stated that permanent exclusion was sometimes the only option and schools should be able to take this route if it was felt that was the only option. Schools offered a unique role in the community and needed to be supported.\nCouncillor Shori explained that the Local Care Organisation (LCO) had been launched on 1 April 2019 and was a one commissioning organisation for the borough. This was at the cutting edge of public service reform.\n\u00b7 Councillor L Smith asked whether there had been any increase in the number of pupils 'off rolled' from the borough schools.\nCouncillor Shori stated that he did not have the figures relating to this but would ensure that the Committee received them.\n\u00b7 Councillor L Smith asked what the Council was doing in relation to childhood obesity especially in early years'.\nCouncillor Shori explained that the Council were encouraging schools to take part in the Daily Mile initiative as well as supporting families with vouchers for healthy food and healthy eating lessons. It was acknowledged that obesity leads to a range of health issues so by encouraging a healthier lifestyle this would help prevent the need for medical intervention later on.\n\u00b7 Councillor Hankey asked how the Council could work with older young people who may not be in education or employment.\nCouncillor Shori explained that it was anticipated that by the time the young people left school they would already have a healthy lifestyle. The responsibility to imbed a healthy lifestyle could not be left purely to schools and should be encouraged from an early age.\n\u00b7 Councillor D'Albert stated that Bury was regularly compared to its GM partners in relation to performance, she stated that this should be taken further afield and the borough should be compared with other towns of a similar size across the country.\nCouncillor Shori explained that the Corporate Plan was being refreshed to set a vision for Council priorities. The borough was aiming to be above national average in as many areas as possible which would mean testing against statistical neighbours rather that GM neighbours.\n\u00b7 Councillor Caserta referred to 3.6 of the report which explained that the borough had the second lowest level of 16 \u2013 19 year olds who were not in education, employment or training and that this was partly related to the entrepreneurial nature of the borough. Councillor Caserta asked whether there were any statistics to back this statement up.\nCouncillor Shori stated that the Council were looking to produce smarter data analysis in the future, he did however report that there had been 8000 new business start-ups in 2017 which was a higher figure that any other borough in GM.\n\u00b7 Councillor Hankey asked whether a breakdown of the types of businesses would be available and how many of these were employers.\nCouncillor Shori stated that the Council would need to know this information and he would look to provide it to the Committee.\n\u00b7 Councillor Skillen referred to the Council apprenticeship scheme and whether they were considering mature apprenticeships.\nCouncillor Shori explained that the Council were keen to look at all opportunities in relation to apprenticeships. There had been a report published recently which referred the 50+ offer which he would share with the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.\n\u00b7 Councillor S Smithe made reference to the recycling figures set out in the report and the fact that recycling figures had dropped. She asked whether the reasons behind this were known and whether it was time to have another promotional push.\nCouncillor Alan Quinn explained that this was a national trend and Bury's figures were still high when comparing to the rest of GM. Councillor Quinn explained that communal bins were an area where work should be done. The message around plastic recycling was also an issue due to the different types of plastics.\nIt was agreed:\n1. That the information provided be noted.\n2. That Councillor Shori be thanked for his attendance at the meeting.\nCabinet Report - Corporate Performance-Jan 2019, item OSC.428 PDF 91 KB\nBury Council Corporate Performance Management - Organisational Resilience 2018, item OSC.428 PDF 155 KB\nCorporate Performance Report 201819 Q2, item OSC.428 PDF 189 KB","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Law school admissions essay\nMidterm Exam Essay\nThe Midterm Exam questions come from Modules 1-4. You should plan to take 2 hours to complete the exam. The exam is essay. Each answer is worth 20 points for a total of 100 points. Type your responses in this document and submit to the Dropbox by Sunday 11:59 PM EST\/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.) To see how your responses will be graded, review the \u00e2\u20ac\u00c5\"Midterm and Final Exam Grading Rubric\u2020\u009d in Doc Sharing. 1. A re-organization will require that some employees are provided severance packages while other reassigned. What interpersonal managerial roles developed by Mintzberg will a manager confronted with this employ? Explain. The interpersonal managerial roles that will confront a manager are figurehead, leader and liaison. The manager will be confronted by the figurehead role because he is the person that is in charge, that is representing the organization in these decisions. He will also be confronted by the liaison role because he will be interacting with his peers during and possibly after these decisions are made. Lastly he will be confronted with the leader role because he is the leader of his employees and will be required to gather the information and ultimately make the decisions. 2. A manager has decided to use the Hawthorne Studies to improve productivity in an office. How would she accomplish this? Would the results be short- or long-term? Explain. Hawthorne studies dealt with group and individual behavior in the workplace. I think that a manager can accomplish more productivity in the workplace by making job satisfaction a priority. If someone is satisfied in their job then they are more likely to be productive. A manager can make the job more satisfying by making work challenging and interesting. Simple stuff such as introducing the latest software for office tasks or having an employee challenge of who can make the most sales in a week etc. can all help. A manager can also provide a reward system for employees that do well at work. Another thing a manager can do is create a supportive work environment for employees where they can ask for help or raise concerns without fear or prejudice. I think that all these factors will raise job satisfaction and as a result reduce the turnover rate, absenteeism and create a more productive workplace. These results would be long term because old employees would stay in the job longer and n ew employees would appreciate the work environment. 3. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman argued that, \u00e2\u20ac\u00c5\"there is one and only one social responsibility of business\u2014use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game\u2020\u009d (Friedman, 1962, p. 133). Do you agree with Friedman? Explain. I do not agree with Friedman. Friedman was campaigning for a capitalist society where capitalism was not wrong as long as \u00e2\u20ac\u00c5\"it stays within the rules\u2020\u009d. For a long while this idea worked and was the American way. However this is the same idea that caused the financial meltdown. The rules Friedman was referring to was an unregulated market were profit was the driving force, profit at any cost. Loans were made and taken with no common sense, ethics or regulations. Responsibility and accountability went out the window and the economy crashed. There has to be some ethics and social responsibility involved for businesses. Businesses based in America should have a social responsibility to create a particular amount of jobs and not only take advantage of China's cheap labor to increase profit margins. Companies can profit from things like innovation, ideas, excellence not only unethical behavior. These \u00e2\u20ac\u00c5\"rules\u2020\u009d need to be revised for our country's future. A capitalist society that lacks rules, regulations, ethics and social responsibility has already been proven to have only short term success. We need to also think about the future. 4. Please evaluate this scenario by detailing what the manager would do for each step in the decision-making process. i) Two employees are blaming each other for a project they collaborated on which failed. ii) The department's last three hirers all quit within six months. The decision making process entails the identification of a problem, identification of decision criteria, allocation of weights to criteria, development of alternatives, analysis of alternatives, selection of an alternative, implementation of the alternative evaluation of decision effectiveness. i) The first step in problem 1 would require the manager to find out why the project failed then maybe he can identify who if anyone was at fault. The second step would be to figure out the criteria that are relevant to their decisions such as whether enough research was done, was the planning done poorly etc. The third step would be to rate or put a weight to each factor found in step two as to their importance in the final decision e.g. not enough research 5, poor planning 4. The fourth step is to list the alternatives that could succeed in resolving the problem, like 1st alternative termination, second alternative training course, third etc. The fifth step would be to analyze each alternative in step four weighing up the pros and cons of each potential alternative like would termination be a benefit or liability to the company. The sixth step is choosing the best alternative after they have each been evaluated. The seventh step in the implementation of each decision, this is where the decision would be conveyed to the two employees. The eighth and final step is an evaluation to see whether if implementation of the decision took care of the problem, e.g. would projects be successful in the future. ii) The first step would be to indentify why the workers all quit within that particular time frame. The second step would be figure out a decision criteria, e.g. need for more staff, need a new office building etc. The third step would be to allocate weight to each of the criteria's in step two e.g. five be the highest and one be the lowest, need for more staff rated at 5 would have the better weight than a new office building rated at a three. The fourth step would be to list all the alternatives better work environment, incentives etc. The fifth step would be to analyze every alternative. The sixth step would be to choose the best alternative. Step seven would be the implementation of the alternative and step eight would be an evaluation of if the alternative fixed the problem. 5. Competition with China has eviscerated many American industries, how can women's clothing companies compete? Car companies? Please use Michael Porter competitive advantage categories: cost leadership strategy, differentiation strategy, and niche in your answer. Explain. I believe that American car companies can compete by implementing all three competitive strategies. American car companies can utilize a cost leadership strategy, a differentiation strategy and also a focus strategy. I think that American companies can utilize the cost leadership strategy by reducing overhead expenses and translating some of those savings into the final price of the cars. Another portion of those savings can be used towards innovation or inventing something that gives American companies an advantage such as a more powerful engine, better handling etc. One of the things that really shocked me during the financial collapse was how much the CEO and board members of these car companies were making. American car companies can also use a differentiation strategy to become competitive. American car companies can utilize every sub category under differentiation strategy such as innovation, better customer service at its dealerships, innovative designs, technological capabilities etc. A differentiation strategy coupled with a cost leadership strategy would make American car companies competitive. The last competitive strategy is a focus strategy. This is where these car companies focus on one segment. A segment can be a geographical location, customer type etc. I think a focus strategy can help these companies market their cars to specific demographics, different financial classes, different countries etc. With a differentiation implementation of maybe new innovation or technology and better customer service at their dealerships along with focus strategies then maybe American car companies can change the way that people perceive them and become more competitive in the car industry. I think that all American companies can utilize the three different competitive strategies. One of these strategies would impact more than another depending on different factors such as the type of company, the size, location etc. Women's clothing can also benefit. To me it would depend on the size of the women clothing company. If it were something that's available only within the United States then I would focus less on a focus strategy as women's clothing is already focused towards women. A cost leadership strategy can always be helpful to become competitive by reducing overheads etc. A differentiation strategy can also be implemented but again I think that this will depend on the size of the clothing company and it's goals.\nPosted by wedgbrahesin1986 at 10:08 PM No comments:\nWhy Do People Commit Crime - 1300 Words\nWhy do people commit crime? 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Deists have disliked the field of genetic engineering due to the belief that genetic engineers are \u00e2\u20ac\u00c5\"playing God.\u2020\u009d Despite the opp osition by religious people and the secular society, one would believe that genetic engineering has the potential\nPosted by wedgbrahesin1986 at 10:46 AM No comments:\nAntonio Canovas Sculpture Psyche Revived by Loves Kiss free essay sample\nHilary Sans GEN 143 A Assignment 1 Word Count: Antonio Canovas Sculpture: Psyche Revived by Loves Kiss This statue follows a common theme about the Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses, which have always had an intriguing amount of drama. This in which gave the sculptors and artists of many decades time to express these feelings throughout their work. This particular sculpture is done by Antonio Canova about the story of Psyche and how Cupid awoke her with a kiss after completing tasks put forth to her by Venus. With a undeniable theme of Lust or Love, this piece most efinitely had caught my eye. Just another girl getting caught up in those mushy love stories! When taking a look at this piece of artwork, the first thing I noticed was the way that Cupid is holding Psyche in such a delicate manner, and also how Psyche is caressing Cupids hair. We will write a custom essay sample on Antonio Canovas Sculpture: Psyche Revived by Loves Kiss or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 \/ page This is definitely an act of care towards each other, and is an obvious display that Cupid is rescuing Psyche from her deep sleep. Little did we know, that Cupid was sent to make Psyche fall in love with a monster but fell for her beauty and instead pricked himself with the arrow so that he would fall in love with er. Another characteristic that I called attention upon was the very soft lines in which their body is positioned. This conveys a much more frangible moment and a more elegant movement in the piece. With this delicateness of the curves, I also noticed that Cupid looks like he is almost balancing on his toes. This implies that he is light and flighty as Cupid should be. He does not have a muscular structure because Canova probably wanted to capture the fact that Cupid is not usually considered a powerful God, but more of a young boy. Cupid is also grasping Psyches breast hich, once again, implies that he is the God of lust which is usually associated with the act of physical relations with one another. This art piece was created with the neoclassical style which uses a lot more emotion in the facial features and their limbs were sculpted in such a manner that looks like they could move. This sculpture also shows narrative and tells the story, the story between the two characters. Their positioning shows what may happen next, and obviously Cupid (the God of Lust himself) has fallen for Psyche. This style also ses a imperfect forms of the body, the limbs are elongated and dramatic. In previous art periods, the imperfect body was not accepted as true fine art and going artist. Overall, this piece has been able to capture the beauty between the two lovers and a definite story told of lust for another despite what Cupids mother, Venus, had ordered him to do out of Jealousy. I must say that I really enjoyed stumbling upon this piece and it had intrigued me to take a look at more of Antonio Canovas pieces. Lust? Love? Who knows what it was, but the sculpture is gorgeous.\nPosted by wedgbrahesin1986 at 7:29 AM No comments:\nManagement Information Systems \u2020Case Study\nIntroduction Businesses require constant information to be processed and disseminated to the relevant stakeholders on time. To achieve this, they need Management Information systems.Advertising We will write a custom case study sample on Management Information Systems \u2013 specifically for you for only $16.05 $11\/page Learn More A Management Information System is a set of connected apparatus, mostly computerized combinations that continuously acquire raw and needed data from within and outside a particular firm. Consequently, the data is processed and stored in a central place called database, where it is always updated and availed to those with authority to access it (Business Dictionary.com). There are several applications that are described in the case study. In a community medical center known as Doylestown, an application, Meditech, is in place. In the same medical center, another application, titled Epocrates Essentials is described. Another ap plication, which is ChainLinq Mobile application, is described as used in D.W. Morgan, being a supply chain, transportation and logistics service provider. Lastly, the iPhone camera is described in regards to a firm known as Aedas Sport. Business Functions Supported Meditech conveys data on crucial signs, drugs, lab results, aversions, notes by nurses, results from remedial treatment, as well as patient food straight to the doctors' phone. Epocrates Essentials, an aesculapian reference tool is used to help doctors to decode laboratory outcomes and procure medical data. ChainLinq assists in updating of shipment information, collection of signatures, as well as provision of global positioning system locations to each individual box delivered. It has afforded Morgan the ability to present an attestation of delivery promptly. The iPhone camera has been used by designers and architects to take pictures of designs, models, and construction sites which are in turn sent to prospectiv e clients to Aedas Sport. How do they Improve Operational Efficiency and Decision Making? Meditech application enables doctors to be on call wherever they may be through sending them sensitive alerts through their emails from their work stations. This allows the doctors to make decisions quickly and long before they even get to the hospital. ChainLinq application has reduced the time needed to provide proof of delivery from half a day to immediate. The iPhone camera has enabled Aedas Sports to productivity jump to 400 percent. In addition, iPhone has facilitated the building of a large chronicle of observable assets almost effortlessly.Advertising Looking for case study on business economics? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More Problems Solved. First and foremost, the problem of mobility was solved for doctors in Doylestown meaning that doctors can still communicate even while not in the vicinity of the hospital. Thanks to ChainL inq, Morgan does not have to make numerous phone calls so as to track and proof deliveries. The customers as well are in a position to be aware of the status of their deliveries by logging in to the company's website which is updated by the servers throughout. Businesses most likely to Benefit Among other businesses, the following will likely benefit. The Health sector will benefit when their employees are equipped with mobile digital devices. This will assist them in keeping in touch with their employers as well as patients' history whenever needed. They can make decisions and communicate immediately. In addition, they will be able to make accurate calculations on laboratory results using the devices. Courier businesses are to benefit as well through tracking of their parcels as well as tracking the exact position of the mode of delivery, for example, trucks among others. In addition, these businesses will get proof of delivery in real time thus increasing efficiency and therefore, staying calm without having to make numerous phone calls to track the process of delivery. Designers and architectural businesses also stand to benefit from mobile devices. The iPhone will especially make it possible to get clear and professional photo shots, compile them into journals and send them to potential and actual clients. Supply store chains like Wal-Mart are likely to benefit, too. As soon as a customer buys a certain item, the supplier through the iPhone is alerted to ship replacement for the item. The supplier is able to know what quantity is needed as well. The banks are the ones that get lot of beneficiaries. The managers get real-time data in regard to customer complaints, network performance and line outages. The motor industry is set to benefit greatly too. For instance, Toyota uses Toyota Production System to achieve high levels of efficiency and quality. This gives them a competitive edge over their rivals. This arises from the fact that they charg e less for superior products, as well as give better responses to suppliers and customers through the system.Advertising We will write a custom case study sample on Management Information Systems \u2013 specifically for you for only $16.05 $11\/page Learn More The iPhone is an Industry Changer This statement is about the change in communicating with suppliers and customers. The industry has changed through using iPhone since communication is conducted in real time. In the supply chain, transportation and logistics industry, where D.W. Morgan belongs, the firm is able to track every detail; it takes few minutes to do so. In other words, they make delivery in real time while it takes their competitors up to twelve hours to do the same task. This case study on Management Information Systems \u2013 was written and submitted by user Mathemanic to help you with your own studies. You are free to use it for research and reference purposes in order to write your own paper; however, you must cite it accordingly. You can donate your paper here.\nSchwarzenegger Essays - English-language Films,\nSchwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzennegger was born on July 30, 1947 in a little town called Graz, in the Styria province, of Austria. During his early childhood in Graz, Austria, Schwarzenegger was encouraged by his father to become involved in athletics. Schwarzenegger means black plowman in Deutsch. At age 15 he discovered weightlifting, which led to the title of Mr. Universe at age 20, followed by an unprecedented 13-world bodybuilding titles. His motion picture career began in 1977 with his role in the critically acclaimed Pumping Iron, a feature-length documentary about the Mr. Universe competition, which revealed his engaging natural presence before the camera. Director Bob Rafaelson immediately cast him in a key role opposite Sally Field and Jeff Bridges in Stay Hungry. His performance garnered winning reviews and a Golden Globe Award as \"Best Newcomer in Films.\" In 1978, Arnold put aside his mantle as Mr. Universe to pursue acting full-time. He starred with Kirk Douglas and Ann-Margret in the romantic action-comedy Western, The Villain, and took the part of Mickey Hargitay in the television movie The Jayne Mansfield Story. Schwarzenegger made his breakthrough role in director John Milius' Conan the Barbarian, the comic-book super hero of the mystical Dark Ages. The film grossed over $100 million worldwide, spawned a popular sequel, Conan the Destroyer, and earned Schwarzenegger a devoted following. In 1983, soon after becoming a naturalized citizen, Schwarzenegger took a chance on a low-budget independent film by an unknown director. James Cameron's futuristic thriller The Terminator was a runaway hit at the box office and was cited by Time Magazine as \"one of the year's Ten Best Films.\" The success of The Terminator placed Schwarzenegger at the front rank of Hollywood stars. Over the next few years, he became virtually synonymous with the phrase \"action hero,\" largely due to the phenomenal success of a series of crowd-pleasing action adventure films: Commando, Raw Deal, Predator, The Running Man and Red Heat. In 1988, Schwarzenegger realized yet another of his goals as a film star when he approached Ivan Reitman to showcase Arnold's previously untapped talents as a comic actor. The result was Twins, in which Schwarzenegger starred with Danny DeVito. The film's triumphant success paved the way for the trio's reunion with Junior. In 1990, Schwarzenegger delivered a \"one-two punch\" with the futuristic action-thriller Total Recall, followed that Christmas by Ivan Reitman's heartwarming comedy Kindergarten Cop. His greatest commercial success to date has been Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the big-budget sequel to his sleeper hit, which earned more than $506 million worldwide. The National Association of Theater Owners invented a new award to present him at the ShoWest convention in February of 1993: \"International Star of the Decade.\" The following summer came Last Action Hero, which grossed $168 million worldwide. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been active behind-the scenes of movie-making since 1990, when he made his directorial debut on The Switch, an episode of the popular HBO Tales from the Crypt. He also directed a remake of the holiday classic Christmas in Connecticut for Turner Network Television (TNT), starring Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson and Tony Curtis. During President George Bush's administration he served as Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and is the author of numerous books on health and fitness. Since 1979, he has served as the International Weight Training Coach for the Special Olympics. Beginning in 1991 he became involved in the Executive Commission of the Los Angeles inner city Games, a mini Olympics designed to help kids say \"no\" to drugs and violence and \"yes\" to fitness as a way of life. He sees athletics as a positive alternative to drugs for urban youth, a way to build self-esteem, a way to learn goal setting and build camaraderie in a clean lifestyle. Schwarzenegger now chairs the Governor's Council of Physical Fitness in the state of California. And is also chairman of the inner city Games Foundation, a program that has expanded to 10 cities and is continuing to grow. In 1991 he received the Simon Wiesenthal Center's National Leadership Award for his support of the organization's Holocaust studies. He has produced bodybuilding competitions in Columbus, Ohio for two decades and began the Annual Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic there in 1989. Continuous growth and popularity of the Schwarzenegger Classic led to the addition of a Fitness EXPO in 1993, the Ms. Fitness (R) World competition in 1994 and the Arnold Martial Arts Festival in 1996. Arnold Schwarzenegger's keen determination and pursuit of excellence have brought him a broad range of career successes in athletic competition, film acting and direction and business ventures.\nthe essays\nwedgbrahesin1986","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Christine Amour-Levar: Social Entrepreneur, Marketing Consultant & Author\nWomen On A Mission\nHER Planet Earth\nNext Expeditions\nAt the Intersection of Work and Life\nWelcome to the Blog and Website of Christine Amour-Levar\nAntarctic Exploration Ahead for the Women of Her Planet Earth\nThis article was first published in the Huffington Post on September 2017.\nThese days it's hard to escape the mad rush. There are 'traffic jams' to reach the summit of Everest, direct flights to the most remote tropical islands in the world, luxury hotels in hidden Himalayan kingdoms and an indoor ski resort in the desert. Humans have conquered and explored most of the world, but one vast expanse of the planet remains beyond our reach: Antarctica.\nIt has always been a dream of mine to climb a mountain that has never been climbed before. And doing so in remote Antarctica would be an even greater privilege. In the words of best-selling author Jon Krakauer, \"Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space or going the moon.\"\nIndeed, man has never permanently inhabited this frozen continent at the very edge of the earth. Accessible only during its warmest months, from November to March, it has no metropolis or village to speak of, no habitat except perhaps the odd expedition shed or research station; just massive, desolate, glacial emptiness and bone chilling temperatures that can range anywhere from -10\u00b0C to -80\u00b0C during the colder months. Even if you're journeying to Antarctica on a cruise ship, as most people do, or by chartered plane, they say the isolation and the barrenness will envelop you and inevitably make you ponder your own insignificance.\nIn the last three decades, a growing numbers of climbers have come to explore Antarctica in search of spectacular summits, many not yet named. First ascents of mountains generally fall into two categories: the easy way, summiting by helicopter, and the old-fashioned way, one gruelling step after another till you reach the top. Clearly, our all-female team wants to achieve this the hard way, not because we like to struggle, but because we want to push our limits far beyond our comfort zone, for something greater and more important than ourselves: the plight of underprivileged women affected by climate change.\nIn January 2018, our self-funded team of women from Singapore, Australia and the UAE, under the banner of HER Planet Earth, a women's advocacy group that promotes gender equality and the integrity of the environment, will embark on a pioneering expedition to Antarctica's heartland, in search of unclimbed routes and peaks in the Heritage Mountain Range.\nIn the world of alpine climbing, there is no destination quite so stimulating as Antarctica. This wild, frozen continent is subject to extreme conditions that only the most robust of explorers can endure, while having a natural beauty that surpasses all expectations. Ultimately, our team wants to stand on top of a mountain that has never felt the poke of a crampon before! And although there are lots of smaller peaks close to the sea, the real gems are further inland, and that's exactly where we are heading.\nThrough our journey of exploration, we hope to highlight the importance of climate change and the urgency of preserving Antarctica for generations to come. We also plan to raise funds for the United Nations' Women Lead Climate Action programmes that empower and educate underprivileged women in the Asia region. This UN initiative is focused on rural women in developing countries that are already feeling the brunt of climate change, and plans to engage them in conservation activities, ultimately helping them build longer-term climate change resilience. The first country on the agenda for this programme is Cambodia, but the idea is to extend it to other developing nations in the region.\n\"The destructive forces of nature, warped by rising global temperatures can act as negative force multipliers in societies already riven by inequality. The onset of droughts, accompanied by heightened food and water insecurity, also have a disproportionate effect on those least able to deal with the resulting increased social strains. While climate change is a global phenomenon, its impact is not spread across a level playing field. Its effects are felt locally, and poor people suffer the most. Among the world's 1.3 billion poor people, the majority are women.\" Stated Isabella L\u00f6vin, Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate in a recent article on Thomson Reuters Foundation News.\nAntarctica is a powerful symbol of this struggle because it is also fighting for its own survival. In fact, Antarctica, the world's largest desert, which is 98% covered in ice, suffered a major setback this past July 2017, as satellite data confirmed that a trillion-tonne, 5,800 sq km iceberg the size of Luxembourg had broken off from the Larsen C ice shelf and was now adrift in the Weddell Sea. Furthermore, since 2014, researchers at the University of California at Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have shown that the melt-rate of glaciers in the fastest-melting part of Antarctica has tripled over the past decade. Today, scientists project that the long-term result could be to raise global sea levels by 10 centimetres, or almost four inches. Undeniably, this would be devastating for our planet.\nOur team is keenly aware that in many countries, women tend to be marginalised from economic and political power, and have limited access to financial and material resources. Through this expedition to Antarctica, we hope to encourage society to sit-up and pay attention to grave issues such as climate change and gender inequality around the world. We feel very passionately that women have the right to - and need to be - at the forefront of efforts to deal with climate change. Indeed, it is our duty, and our responsibility to future generations, to support concrete and sustainable solutions for the planet. The cold truth staring us in the face is that we have no time to waste. In the end, we simply must continue to fight for a world where human rights and environmental integrity can blossom and prosper.\nAbout HER Planet Earth\nHER Planet Earth is a global women's advocacy movement that promotes a deeper connection between women empowerment and the integrity of the environment. The group's strategy is to organise activities to increase awareness and raise funds for programmes that empower and educate underprivileged women and engage them in environmental issues and conservation activities. This Antarctic expedition is organised in partnership with #Up2degrees, a movement aimed at saving the Antarctic aircon and encouraging people in warm countries to increase their air conditioning by 2\u00b0C, to fight global warming. \u200b\nExpedition Partner\nAntarctic Logistics & Expeditions (ALE)\u200b\nTo Donate: Visit the team's fundraising page for the UN's Women Lead Climate Action Programme in Cambodia\nbestessays link\nMt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. This mountain exists for almost 60 million years. Recently, I searched about this mountain and I found out that there were approximately 4,000 people who attempted to climb this mountain. But only 660 of them were able to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. In Tibet, it is called \"Chomolungma,\" which means goddess of the universe.\n\u200bAmour-Levar\nPhilanthropist, Adventurer, Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker, Wife & Mother of Four\nFounder - HER Planet Earth\n\u200bCo-Founder - Women On A Mission\n\u200bFounder - CAL Consultancy\nCMO - iRace Media\n\u200bTrustee - UWCSEA\n\u200bAdvisor - Jet8 Foundation\n\u200bAdvisor - Women for Women International (WfWI)\nDirector - TruCup\nMember - KeyNote Women Speakers\nMember - Foreign Correspondents Association of Singapore\nExecutive Committee - SHE IS MORE - IIX\nCommittee Member - Soho House\nMember & Awardee - Filipina Women's Network\nDeuter Singapore\nLightfoot Travel\n\u200bJust Challenge\nWomen4Impact\nAuthor - The Smart Girl's Handbook to Being Mummylicious\n\u200bCo-Author - DISRUPT 3.0, Filipina Women Rising\nCo-Author - Humanity","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Prince Andrew flies in to inspect soldiers at Bassingbourn Barracks\nPublished: 11:54 AM September 18, 2009 Updated: 3:40 PM November 1, 2020\nTHE Duke of York will be inspecting the next generation of soldiers at Bassingbourn Barracks today. Prince Andrew will watch as over 100 young soldiers march onto the barrack s parade square as part of their passing out parade, which marks the completion\nTHE Duke of York will be inspecting the next generation of soldiers at Bassingbourn Barracks today.\nPrince Andrew will watch as over 100 young soldiers march onto the barrack's parade square as part of their passing out parade, which marks the completion of their basic training.\nThe Duke will inspect the parade and present a series of awards including the best recruit, best endeavour and the soldiers' medal.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A.J. Greer's Risk Paid Off\nThe Avalanche prospect made the tough decision of leaving Boston University to pursue his pro dreams\nby Ron Knabenbauer @RonKnab \/ ColoradoAvalanche.com\nA version of the following story appeared in the 2016-17 second edition of AVALANCHE, the official game magazine of the Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club. For more feature stories, purchase a copy of the magazine during Avs home games at Pepsi Center. All proceeds from game-magazine sales support youth hockey associations in Colorado.\nIt was a decision A.J. Greer didn't come to lightly. It was a decision that ultimately shaped his future on and off the ice.\nDetermined to be the best hockey player he could be, the Colorado Avalanche prospect made the difficult choice of leaving Boston University last December to go to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and play for the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies. As a result of the move, Greer gave up his NCAA eligibility.\n\"It was a tough decision to leave a diploma hanging, but I had to make a decision for my career and I wanted to be a hockey player,\" Greer said.\nGreer was the youngest rookie forward in college hockey when he joined the Terriers as a 17-year-old freshman in 2014-15. He had seven points (three goals and four assists) in 37 contests, which included scoring a key goal in the national semifinals against No. 1-seed North Dakota to help BU advance to the NCAA Frozen Four championship game.\nAfter the Avs picked him at No. 39 overall in the 2015 NHL Draft, Greer headed back to Boston for his sophomore year. He began the 2015-16 campaign with five points (one goal and four assists) in 18 games but concluded midway through the season that it would be better for his growth to play major junior in Canada. The QMJHL has more of a pro-style schedule with 68 games compared to the maximum of around 40 in college.\n\"I think BU is a great program, great facilities, great coaches,\" Greer said. \"It just wasn't the right fit for me from a development standpoint.\"\nHis transition to junior hockey life wasn't easy, as he didn't record a point in his first four games with the Huskies. But when he finally got settled, he broke out with his first points coming as part of a five-game streak.\n\"It helped build up different aspects of my game and basically built up my confidence to be honest, because my confidence was at an all-time low,\" Greer recalled of going to a new league. \"I was stressed out. I was nervous. It was basically a make or break situation to leave Boston University and come to the 'Q.' I had to prove myself.\"\nAnd he did.\nGreer finished the year with 27 points (16 goals and 11 assists) in 33 contests, helping the Huskies on a historic run through the QMJHL that resulted in their first league championship and a spot in the Memorial Cup tournament.\nDespite the success of bringing the city of Rouyn-Noranda its first title, the team's fairy tale season ended in an overtime loss to the London Knights in the Canadian Hockey League's championship game.\n\"I'm so proud of those guys. We went to the Memorial Cup, and you can't really dull on the fact that we lost. We played such a great game,\" Greer said. \"I was there for half a year, but it felt like I was there for three years. Those guys just welcomed me so well, the whole city. It was definitely a great experience.\"\nGreer's play was noticeable during the five-game Memorial Cup as he showcased his two-way game while adding two points (a goal and an assist) and 30 penalty minutes. This was on top of a successful QMJHL Playoffs where he had 22 points and led the club with 12 goals (tied).\nThe Joliette, Quebec, native's wild year then culminated on July 1 when the Avalanche signed him to a three-year, entry-level contract.\n\"It's something that you don't imagine,\" Greer recalled during the team's development camp this past summer. \"One year ago, I would have never imagined that I would be here with a contract in my hand and have been through what I've been through.\"\nGreer spent part of this past summer in Denver training with Colorado strength and conditioning coach Casey Bond in hopes of making the jump from the junior ranks to the pros. He had a good training camp with the Avs and began the year with the club's American Hockey League affiliate in San Antonio, and he didn't look out of place at the pro level.\nIn the left wing's first 13 games with the Rampage, he had a seven-game point streak and recorded 14 points (five goals and nine assists), which led all league rookies in scoring at the time.\nGreer's dream of playing in the NHL was soon realized as he was called up by the Avalanche on Nov. 12 and made his debut the following night against the Boston Bruins.\nLooking back at his big decision from a year ago, Greer is glad he chose the route he did.\n\"There are always pros and cons when your making such a big decision like I did,\" Greer said. \"Obviously, there is leaving a diploma from one of the best universities in the world, and another thing was if it doesn't work out in hockey, I don't have that backup for school. School is very important for myself and my parents, so whether I play hockey and it doesn't work out or something I can always go back to school. For hockey, it was a big risk. It was a make or break situation. I just gave it my all. I knew it wasn't going to be as easy as it seemed, so I just came in here with the mentality of being ready to work hard.\"\nHis risk paid off.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LeadershipChange the World\nSlowly But Surely, Americans Are Softening Their Negative Impression of Business\nClaire Zillman\nHas the business world regained public trust? It might be too early to make that conclusion, but based on a new survey, one thing's for certain: Americans have softened their negative impression of the corporate world.\nA new report from JUST Capital, a nonprofit founded by hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones that tracks and ranks companies on the business behaviors Americans care about most, found that a greater share of people\u201430%, up from 27% in 2017 and 26% in 2016\u2014see business as heading in the right direction. A smaller share of the public\u201438%, down from 47% last year\u2014view business as heading in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, 32% aren't sure, up from 25% last year.\nThat's not exactly a ringing endorsement, but from business's perspective, the needle is inching in the right direction. The trend reflects \"more tangible evidence of companies' leadership on things like pay, sexual harassment in the workplace, and the environment,\" says JUST Capital CEO Martin Whittaker, who cited, as an example, the companies that stepped up to address climate change even after the Trump administration withdrew the U.S. from the Paris accord. Nike's powerful statement on racial injustice, and Levi's call to end gun violence may also spring to mind. \"I think those issues have gotten more press and CEOs are more emboldened or willing to speak out,\" Whittaker says. A healthy economy also doesn't hurt.\nAlso worth considering is Americans' lack of faith in politicians. Americans, Whittaker says, \"are looking for things to believe in.\" A Pew study earlier this year found that just a quarter of Americans have confidence in elected officials to act in the best interest of the public; 45% said the same of business leaders. \"If you can't believe in what's going on in politics, you turn to what's going on in the workplace,\" Whittaker says.\nIndeed, JUST Capital's survey results find that as Americans are warming up to business, they're viewing the sector as more than simply a means for commerce; rather, they see it as a vehicle for tackling social issues too. More than half\u201456%\u2014of survey respondents say CEOs should take a stand on social issues, but only those related to their business. Yet an even larger share\u201463%\u2014say CEOs of large companies have a responsibility to take a stand on important social issues, regardless of the pertinence to their day-to-day operations.\nThose aren't passive assessments; in fact, consumers are actively backing companies based on their social stances. A staggering 79% of respondents say they believe people are \"somewhat or very effective\" when they act to try to change companies' behavior. (That's up from 71% in 2017.) And 78% have put that belief into practice, reporting that they've taken at least one action to support what they consider to be a company's \"positive behavior,\" such as buying more of a company's product, mentioning a company on social media, or investing in a firm. Just under 60% say they've taken one of those actions in the past 12 months.\nWhat's perhaps more remarkable is Americans' willingness to base their employment on a corporation's virtues. When asked to consider working for a \"just\" company\u2014one the survey defined as \"ethical, honest, and fair and behav[ing] this way when it comes to its employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment, as well as communities it impacts locally and around the world\"\u201476% of people say they would choose to work for such an employer, even if it paid less. A similar share of respondents\u201477% and 71%, respectively\u2014still chose a \"just\" company when the survey specified that they would hypothetically earn 10% and 20% less. That's a notable finding in an especially tight labor market.\nAll told, the results reflect \"a recognition that companies are, in fact, social organizing forces, and do affect the lives of million of people and millions of families and millions of communities,\" says Whittaker, whose organization partnered with NORC at the University of Chicago to survey 9,000 Americans in two waves\u2014from May 1 to May 16, and from June 7 to July 1\u2014for the new report. It's clear that people think employers \"should stand up, even on non-traditional issues,\" Whittaker says, and that doing so is a prerequisite for companies that want to compete in the 21st century marketplace.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Rise of Queen Margaret (Henry VI, Part 2)\nSeptember 7 \u2013 November 29, 2016\nIn this wild carnival of avarice, Shakespeare gives us the glorious second-chapter of England's Wars of the Roses. Young King Henry's fierce and ambitious queen, Margaret of Anjou, leads the House of Lancaster in brutal civil wars against the House of York and its would-be-king, Richard, Duke of York. Witchcraft, demons, murderers, the spectacular Jack Cade rebellion,, and the introduction of Dickie the crookback prodigy (who will become the villainous Richard III) all conspire to make this play unforgettable and unmissable.\nIn Repertory\nChris Johnston in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nRen\u00e9 Thornton, Jr. and Jessika Williams in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nChris Johnston and Allison Glenzer in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nBenjamin Reed in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nAllison Glenzer and Patrick Earl in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nJohn Harrell in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nChris Johnston and Ren\u00e9 Thornton, Jr. in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nDavid Anthony Lewis and the cast of THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nJohn Harrell, Jessika Williams, and Ren\u00e9 Thornton, Jr. in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET. Photo by LINDSEY WALTERS. 2016.\nStuff that Happens\nStuff that happens before the play\nShakespeare's Joan of Arc (Henry VI, Part 1)\nThe rival families of York and Lancaster chose to wear red and white roses to proclaim their different loyalties.\nThe English defeat the French and burn Joan of Arc at the stake for witchcraft.\nStuff that happens during the play\nHenry VI marries the French noble Margaret of Anjou, whom eventually conspires with Suffolk to influence the King and plot against the Protector of the Crown, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.\nGloucester's wife, Eleanor, wants to influence the king and eventually participates in witchcraft.\nThe Duke of York reveals his claim to the throne and gains support from Salisbury and Warwick.\nThe Earl of Suffolk is banished for the assassination of Gloucester; pirates kill him as soon as he leaves England.\nHenry sends York to the wars in Ireland.\nYork stages a rebellion through Jack Cade, who rouses the rabble for the task and declares himself the Mayor of London.\nPoliticking, assassination, promises of revenge, and the rise of Richard III ensue.\nNotes from the Director\nA Rose by any other name\nNo matter what we call it, The Rise of Queen Margaret is chock-full of political maneuvering, assassinations, and a nation that erupts into civil war. We'll open this show in September as our country gets ready to head to the ballot box; it will run after we elect our next President, but it will end before she\/he takes office. So if you're enthralled by the political process during this election year, Margaret will feed your beast. If you're so sick of politics that you'd rather poke your eye out with a sharp stick than see another report from Fox News or MSNBC, you'll love Margaret because in Shakespeare's world, political losers get their heads chopped off.\nPrinted in quarto form (essentially an Elizabethan paperback) in 1594, the name of 2H6 on this title page is:\nThe First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey: And the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of the proud Cardinal of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of Jack Cade: and the Duke of Yorke's first claim unto the Crowne\nThe 1623 First Folio (a Jacobean coffee table book which is the first collected works of 36 Shakespeare plays \u2013 we believe Shakes wrote or co-wrote 38), printed 7 years after Shakespeare's death, includes the first known use of the title: The Second part of King Hen. the Sixt. The surviving evidence (and lack thereof) makes a good case that the play you're seeing today was never called Henry VI, Part 2 in Shakespeare's lifetime. What did Shakespeare call this play? How did his company advertise it? In keeping with the tradition of finding the right titles to help sell these remarkable stories (that might scare off modern Americans if we stuck with the Roman numerals and Parts listed in the Folio's table of contents), we at the ASC have titled our first two productions in the Wars of the Roses Ride:\nJoan of Arc (Henry VI, Part 1) \u2013 2015 Summer\/Fall Season\nThe Rise of Queen Margaret (Henry VI, Part 2) \u2013 2016 Summer\/Fall Season\nAnd we asked our audiences to help us name 3H6 for 2017. Submit your ideas for the title of Henry VI, Part 3 at our Box Office or on our Facebook page.\nIf you're worried about being able to follow a Shakespeare \"history play,\" relax. You can enjoy The Empire Strikes Back by itself without having seen Star Wars. You can enjoy Captain America: Civil War without having seen the previous Cap or Iron Man movies. If we succeed in entertaining your socks off with 2H6, we hope you return next year for 3H6 and the following year for Richard III. If we don't succeed, come back anyway and let us take another crack at your socks. Thanks for joining us for this thrilling part of the Wars of the Roses Ride.\nArtistic Director and Co-founder\nArtistic Team & Cast List\nCardinal Beaufort\nLord Clifford\nDuke of Buckingham\nPeter Thump\nAlexander Sovronsky *\nEarl of Warwick\nJohn Hume\nZack Powell *\nAsst. Stage Manager\/Understudy\nIan Charles\nJenny McNee\nSabrina Morrow Kridler\nProperties Master\nChristopher Moneymaker","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Minimal Win?\nSteven L. Taylor \u00b7 Friday, November 4, 2016 \u00b7 13 comments\nGiven the substantial narrowing of the race (see the 538 model, for example) it increasingly looks like election night is going to be dramatic, and the final outcome close. Currently, it looks like a narrow Clinton win as the following possible map would outline. Clinton could also lose New Hampshire or Nevada and still win (but not both)\u2013losing NH is unlikely, but I have heard some media speculation about a possible Trump surge, so it was worth mentioning. There are discussions about Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, although polling indicates that those states are pretty firmly in the Clinton column. Although, speaking of Pennsylvania, a transit strike in Philadelphia could figure into the outcomes.\nNorth Carolina and Florida are about as swing-y as swing states can be. For example, yesterday (Thursday 11\/3) the 538 model had Florida as light red, but it was light blue in the evening and was back to light red this morning. The odds in the model for the Sunshine State, as of my writing this, is 49.6% Clinton and 50.4% Trump. There are similar number for North Carolina. Trump needs both states. Clinton can win without them (barring, of course, something like Clinton losing PA\u2013but it seems rather unlikely that Clinton loses PA but wins NC, so wargaming that kind of outcome takes us to a different level of speculation).\nOn one level, this is what one might have predicted for the Generic Rep v. Generic Dem if one was predicting back before we knew who the candidates would be.\nClick the map to create your own at 270toWin.com\nFILED UNDER: Campaign 2016, Quick Takes, US Politics\nAbout Steven L. Taylor\nSteven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter\nKari Q says:\nFriday, November 4, 2016 at 09:24\nI can't take 538 seriously this year, and Florida is a key example of why. There is basically one decent, non-partisan pollster who has found a lead for Trump in two weeks, while several have found a small lead for Clinton. But 538 'adjusts' those polls so Marist, instead of showing Clinton ahead by 1, has Trump ahead by 3. How can anyone take that seriously?\nI'm sticking with Sam Wang and HuffPost Pollster.\nLiberal Capitalist says:\nHey\u2026 Everyone cheered for the Cubs when they won in a squeaker, in extra innings, right?\nWe have known that the USA is polarized on two parties.\nAnd like it or not, one of these parties is completely ignoring the candidate and voting along party lines. (\u2026 and having read that last sentence again, depending on your pronounced political preference, it's clearly the \"other\" candidates party\u2026 which in itself defines the core issue of this election.)\nWe rant and rave\u2026 but we will pull the lever, fill the circle, though the screen, or punch the chad.\n270 is 270, even if it's in the 10th inning.\ngVOR08 says:\nI saw, I forget where, an explanation that Silver puts more weight on recent polls than other forecasters. which is why his forecasts have been more volatile, and lately more pro-Trump. Is he right or wrong to put more weight on recent polls? I have no idea.\nThis does seem to confirm that people are voting purely on perceived tribal affiliation. Since 2004, the Crazification Factor seems to have risen from 27% to about 45%. I would guess that's the result of 12 more years of marinating in the right wing echo chamber.\nThis business of stewing in the RW echo chamber seems to be getting serious. We seem to have FBI agents, perhaps even a Director, who cannot distinguish between reality and paranoid fantasy. If Doug or James are hard up for a topic, the role of the FBI in this election recommends itself. (Seems more their line of territory than yours, Dr. T.)\nSteven L. Taylor says:\n@Kari Q: Here's the thing, though: 538 has been the gold standard the last three cycles. To not take it seriously because it is not giving one the outcome one likes is to flirt with unskewed territory.\nThis is not to say one has to to take 538 as gospel, but it is to say that in 2012 Reps were the ones criticizing 538 and look at what ended up to be the case.\n@Liberal Capitalist:\nTrue, but (and this is a big but): I would prefer an electoral repudiation of Trumpism, and it does not appear we will get one.\nMBunge says:\nThe issue, of course, is not that we might have had a similarly close election if two normal candidates were running. The issue is if the race would look the same if Hillary were running against what passes for a normal Republican or Trump against a normal Democrat. Some have suggested it would. I think they are wrong but I could be the one in error. What's troubling is that if they are right, it would say something very disturbing about not only our current political culture but about the very nature of the democratic process and no one seems to grasp that.\n@MBunge: I would concur that there are serious problems with our democratic process. Indeed, I have written about this for some time. Off the top of my head: the nomination process (both for president and Congress), the electoral college, and the single seat district system to elect Congress.\nAll of these issues (and others) do a lousy job of being actually representative of the population and that is where a lot of the frustration comes from (and that produces the kinds of candidates we get).\n@Steven L. Taylor:\nI don't take seriously adjustments in the direction of Clinton, either, and I don't dispute that Florida is tied. That's pretty clearly right. I just can't respect the adjustments to polls that Silver is making. Polling is already as much art as it is science, so adding some mysterious secret sauce that modifies results is a bad idea.\nAnd I dispute the \"gold standard\" of 538. Sam Wang has been as good or better than 538. He's just less well known because he has a day job other than predictions, so he doesn't try to draw attention to himself for his election work the way Silver does.\nhttp:\/\/election.princeton.edu\/\nI would prefer an electoral repudiation of Trumpism, and it does not appear we will get one.\nTrue, True\u2026.\nBut what caused \"Trumpism\" was not Trump. Correlation is not causation.\nWe have a long American history of snake-oil salespeople who can spot the symptoms, but then completely draw incorrect assumptions and take grossly damaging actions.\nWhile some lament the fact that global warming received little discussion in this election cycle, the root cause of the malady facing us is the stunning change in the means of production with a population that continues to grow, expecting to share in the gains of productivity.\nLess and less do we need people.\nTrump has rattled the cages of the displaced and disaffected. That part is easy.\nActually doing something is the rub.\n* Do we increase public works government spending to employ those who feel underemployed?\n* Will engagement in public works provide people the stability they desire?\n* Who will pay for this, as more wealth continues its upwards flow?\n* Do we create that minimum income (as guaranteed by universal heath care and public assistance?)\nWe have absolutely miraculous technologies that eliminate scores of jobs, and all this will accelerate in the next 30 years.\nIt really pisses me off that I have degrees in Sociology and Political science (minor in Geography, yippee.)\u2026 because who actually wants to talk about this stuff? For 95% of the USA, ignorance is beyond bliss.\nMost want to keep it at some level of monkey poop-flinging.\nMore and more, we face Ideocracy. Soon, self-driving cars with \"ow my balls\" playing while we go to some big box store.\nWe aspire to Altruism, but I have faced the reality of the USA: Make the money, find an exit plan, and bail.\nThose displaced will not have that option but \"will cling to their guns and bibles\"\u2026 no surprise there either.\nAnd nothing changes.\nYeah, I'm being a loud mouthed jerk today. But when half the population is lining up to decide that what we have isn't worth saving, well, F'em and good luck with that.\nal-Ameda says:\nBy 'electoral repudiation' do you mean that an outcome of a wider electoral victory for Democrats is that they regain control of the Senate or the House?\nBecause even if Hillary gets 319 and Trump 219, if the Senate and House remain Republican nothing changes. Republicans are prepared to run the same opposition-operation toward Clinton that they ran against Obama. And of course, they've already indicated that more investigations and impeachment is already on the table.\nNormally I'd say that Republicans are engaging in inflammatory rhetoric \u2013 but really, these days, they mean it. They shut down the government twice in 5 years over their demands that ACA be repealed, and they now refuse to, et minimis, even conduct hearings on the nomination of Judge Garland to the Supreme Court.\n@Liberal Capitalist: @al-Ameda: Yes, I fully understand the long-term problems described, and that getting rid of Trump as a candidate does not solve all the problems (not by a longshot)..\nTrump, however, and what I think of as \"Trumpism\" is linked to issues such as naked white nationalism and alliance with the alt-right as well as know-nothingism elevated to new national levels. It is the embrace of authoritarianism, at least symbolically. It is denial of democratic norms. It is more than that as well, but I do not have time for lengthy discussions at the moment. and yes, you can find examples of that in our politics apart from Trump. But it matters that the national standard bearer is championing these things. And if it is seen as a fully viable pathway to the presidency, it will deepen and mature and come back in a better package in 2020.\nIf there was an EC drubbing and the loss of states like Arizona, that would get the attention of those seeking power. If Trump loses but loses by a hair, that will send a different signal.\nWe are not in disagreement at all. But again, you discuss the personified ugly symptoms.\nEven if Clinton swept the Electoral College and popular vote, with control of the Senate and House as well, we still have the underlying cause.\nIt will blow up in our face in some sort of Elysium nightmare The rich flourish, the poor are lost and fight amongst themselves for trivial perceived differences.\nAccelerated change that does not require people. Our way of coping with this is not keeping up with that. And we have NO idea what to do about it.\nNot a clue, and no discussion of it.\nBut lots of discussions about poo-flinging trivialities.\nNo matter who decides to lead the charge up the greased pole, it does not remove the underlying cause.\nThe most moronic quote that I read today: Mike Huckabee:\n\"Trump may be a car wreck, but at least his car is pointed in right direction.\"\nReally? Is it?\nI would LOVE to hear from a True Trump Supporter how exactly a Trump presidency will address this.\nBecause when I look at https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/policies\/ , I see an increase in public spending, and an increase in taxes on the poor. (those earning less than 75K will pay 12%. No breaks for poor) and economic growth based on trickle down.\nScrew it. It's Friday. I've already voted. I should just put away the laptop for the weekend.\nMaybe \"Ow my balls\" is on TV.\n@Liberal Capitalist: All valid. The political question for this generation will be whether we end up with something that looks more like Star Trek or Czarist Russia. The question for the past generation was whether as inevitable globalization took over we would do anything to ease the transition for the average American worker or do nothing. Doing something would have required taxing rich people, so we didn't. Doing something about job loss from automation and AI will require taxing rich people.\nI don't know what to do about it except vote for Dems. There's an off chance Dems might listen to experts, try to anticipate events, and do something. There's no chance R's will do anything except what they're doing now about AGW, protecting rich people and corporations against having to do anything. .\nNew Polls Have Obama Ahead In Three Battleground States\nPennsylvania Supreme Court Redraws State's Gerrymandered Congressional Districts\nGingrich Leads In Two New Florida Polls\nRepublican Midterm Optimism Mostly Misguided","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Near Northeast\nBefore development in the 1920s, Mayfair was essentially farmland and home to The Edwin Forrest Home for Children (near present-day Frankford and Shelmire Avenue) and The Oxford and Lower Dublin Poor House (west of present-day Rowland and Sheffield Aves). First established in 1929, Mayfair came to fruition in the years following World War II as a community that provided fresher and more spacious living in an urban environment. It was constructed over farmland surrounded by the established neighborhoods of Tacony, Holmesburg and Fox Chase. Mayfair featured several groundbreaking concepts for city dwellers: bigger rowhomes with yards in the front and parking garages in the back. The automobile became the primary mode of transportation and shopping retail centers became available close to home, as shopping districts developed along Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue. Development also served to connect the surrounding neighborhoods of the Northeast that had previously been isolated. In these regards, Mayfair was a forerunner to American suburbanization, an early part of the population shift from the inner city to its outer regions.\nCandidCityHighwayHumanPeoplePersonPhiladelphiaPlaceProjectSceneStreetStreet RoadStreetPhotographyUrbanstreetsofphillyMayfairNeighborhood","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Handled With Dignity: Putting the Past to Rest\nDo Something: The 19th Annual Celtic Celebration\nDerrick McKee\nThankful for Dr. John McCullough\nA VIEW FROM THE MOON: Where Are the Footprints on the Moon? (Part 1)\nRobert E. Strong\nOglebay's Holiday Tradition: The Best Light\nWLU Marks Homecoming Week 2018\nLISTEN: Henry, Episode 2 - An Uncommon Brewer\nThe Wheeling Mob: Part 6\nWARNING: This article contains explicit language and subject matter that is not suitable for children. It is the equivalent of Rated R.\n(Writer's Note: This is the sixth in a series of stories that will concentrate on the organized-crime scene in and around Wheeling during the past century.)\nBlow, Booze, Disco, and Loose Ladies\nHe carried a camera bag, but there was no camera.\nHe wore a suit and a tie because he was doing business, and he had a sales route to follow on a daily basis. There were never cold calls for him to make, though, because his job was simply to answer the demand, and he did so by waltzing into banks and businesses and law firms and restaurants to meet with owners and presidents and general managers.\n\"The Courier,\" we'll call him, would open up that camera bag, and the customer would select from its contents \u2013 cocaine, marijuana, and Quaaludes. At times the customer, he confirmed, would select all of the above.\nIt was, after all, the late 1970s.\nThis is one of several bars inside the structure that once housed the Tin Pan Alley.\n\"It was a much different time than what I see these days. Back then the girls dressed up, and if they wanted to get a piece of ass, they weren't afraid to go out and get a piece of ass,\" Courier said. \"That was the time of the 'Me Generation.' Whatever you wanted you pretty much went out and got it if you could, and no one else seemed to matter.\n\"Sex, drugs, booze, whatever, it didn't matter in the late '70s. We didn't have drug tests or anything like that,\" he said. \"And then Disco happened, and that made everything explode. Disco changed a lot about everyone's attitude. People stayed out all night back then going from bar to bar before going to Benwood for the late-night partying.\"\nCoke dealers like the Courier also did not have to worry much about agents employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation either because the federal agency did not possess jurisdiction over cocaine trafficking. That enforcement belonged to the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Internal Revenue Service, and those divisions did not have a presence in the Friendly City at the time.\n\"In the 1970s the Wheeling Police Department and the FBI were working together, and we really did know everything that was going on in Wheeling and in the surrounding communities,\" explained retired agent Tom Burgoyne, who was initially stationed in Wheeling in 1967. \"We received tips all of the time, but all we could do was store the information away.\n\"The city was crazy on cocaine, I can tell you that, and it all started with the rich guys. We had attorneys and businessmen accidentally overdosing on the stuff when it was first introduced in Wheeling because they didn't know what they were doing. It was brand new,\" he continued. \"We were finally granted the jurisdiction in 1983, but before that it seemed like it was everywhere, and no one was doing a damn thing about it.\"\nThe disco dance floor was often the most crowded floor at the Tin Pan Alley.\nThe Courier worked his route during the day, but at night he could be found at the Tin Pan Alley in downtown Wheeling. The home of the former Zeller's Steakhouse owned by renowned Mob boss Bill Lias was transformed, Kennen & Kennen's Missy Ashmore confirmed, by the mid-1970s into a floor-by-floor department store of live and DJ-ed music. And the crowds were consistently huge.\nCountry, rock, and disco were the primary musical themes, and the Courier was initially a first-time patron in 1977 who quickly became the bar manager just two years later. He liked the scene, loved the ladies, and enjoyed experimenting with drugs so much that he later became addicted to cocaine.\nBut at the time he first walked into the Tin Pan Alley, he was in his mid-20s and single, and soon he would be earning thousands in unreported cash. And it all started because of a one-beer agreement with his buddies.\n\"That first night I didn't want to go when some of my friends in Marshall County said that's where they wanted to go, but I'm glad I went because the place was a lot of fun. I found myself going back a few days a week after that first visit,\" he explained. \"I met this person and that person, and then I met the owner, and we got along.\n\"A few weeks after I started hanging out there, the owner fired Bob Dorris [ed. note: See comment from Bob Dorris below] as the DJ and told me he wanted me to do it. I told him that I didn't know anything about being a DJ, but he just told me to play the same music. He looked at me and said, 'How hard can it be?' So I learned how to do it and made some very interesting friends from that point on.\"\nMany of those acquaintances introduced the Courier to a career in cocaine in a city of 48,000 residents. Interstate 70 was finally finished, the wounds from the death of a proposed downtown mall were still fresh, and an Elby's Family Restaurant was close by for sure. The landscape of downtown Wheeling was changing in the mid-1970s with the construction and opening of the Wheeling Civic Center as well as the building of Wesbanco Bank's mirror-windowed headquarters at 14th and Market streets just a few steps from the Club Tower strip club. Tin Pan Alley was tucked away close by too, within an alley intersection that's between Main and Market streets near the home of Ogden Publishing and the nudie book store.\nThe landscape of downtown Wheeling changed during the 1970s with the construction of Wesbanco Bank's headquarters on the corner of 14th and Market streets.\nDrug sales in other local bars proved just as lucrative as the Tin Pan, the Courier reported, and the Pirate's Cove, the Eagle II, the Whistle Stop, Elbow Room, College Inn, and Mac's on Washington Avenue usually featured more-than-willing buyers bellied up hoping to experience the roller-coaster buzz that involved gulping the pills first, chugging the alcohol second, and then using the coke as \"the icing on the cake.\"\n\"Sometimes a dealer would pay off a local bar owner or the bartender so they could sell out of their place when their own houses or apartments got too hot,\" he said. \"The dealer would set up at a table in the bar, usually in a corner somewhere, and one buyer after another would flow in.\n\"The bar owner or bartender didn't care because those people always bought a beer so they wouldn't be suspicious, and they always left a good tip,\" the Courier continued. \"I didn't have to do things like that, but some of the guys that were buying from me had to.\"\nThe client base was diverse \u2013 judges, board presidents, preachers, teachers, moms, dads, and cheaters handed over cash in exchange for the chaos, and passing out and having to be carried to a cab wasn't a criminal offense a few decades ago.\n\"Back in those days no one really cared about that stuff, and that's why I never really thought what I was doing during the day or night was wrong. I never really considered myself a lawbreaker,\" Courier said. \"It's not like it is today. No one stood on corners waiting for cars to pull up. It was very discreet back then, and the rules were easy \u2013 stay away from the very young and the very poor. That was because the very young and the very poor were usually the first ones the police could get to talk.\n\"When I was the bar manager, I didn't care what the customers were doing in the restrooms unless they were smoking a joint. Let's face it. Cocaine doesn't stink up the place when you're snorting or bumping, but light up a joint, and the entire freakin' bar knows,\" he continued. \"And we had a lot of cops who would come in. We catered to them, and smoking weed in the bathroom just wasn't smart. Not at all.\n\"That atmosphere wasn't just inside the Tin Pan Alley. It was everywhere, especially at the Pirate's Cove in Center Wheeling and a lot of other places around town. And remember, there was no such thing as DUIs back in those days. People did what they did, drank what they drank, and smoked or snorted whatever, and still went from one place to the next like it was nothing.\"\nDonnie Clark's drug trafficking traveled outside downtown Wheeling.\nThe drugs the Courier delivered, though, didn't flow from the Hankish organization, and that's because his supplier felt that \"No Legs\" stomped on coke far too much, and his prices for marijuana and the pills were far too high. Hankish ruled the roost soon after surviving an explosive assassination attempt in January 1964, and those who wanted to get in on the action had to pay him.\n\"By the 1970s Hankish was very mobile. He was getting around pretty well by then, and he was in control,\" Burgoyne reported. \"If someone wanted to get into the drugs, the prostitutes, or the stolen-car business, most of them had to take care of him if they wanted to exist, or bad things usually took place.\"\nDonnie Clark, though, created his own network. The Moundsville native often would drive to Miami to buy Cuban cocaine, and his pills and pot came from suppliers from Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.\nMannitol or baby laxative, the Courier admitted, was what he used to \"fill\" the cocaine, and the weed from Mexico often arrived sealed in coffee cans.\n\"I wasn't sure where the pot was coming from back then, but when I had to use a can opener to get to it, I knew it came from a country where the coffee company was involved in the network because of those sealed cans. I thought it had to be Mexico because all we had to do was microwave the bags for 60 seconds, and, poof, we had nothing but beautiful buds,\" he said. \"And as far as the Mannitol and the baby lax, we had to do that with the cocaine because the shit Donnie was getting in was so potent it would have killed people if we didn't.\n\"That's what I wanted to believe anyway. I tried it uncut a few times, and it was some serious shit. I think I did one line, and it kept me up all night long. I couldn't imagine trying to do the amount that was normal then. I really think people would have died.\"\nMarket Street between 16th and 14th streets was once a very active area for partying and drug trafficking.\nClark's network employed the weigh masters, the runners, the bookkeepers, and the attractive \"Bag Lady,\" who joined the Courier in operating in the public's view instead of hiding away as Clark and the others did. The weigh masters measured, the runners delivered deals, and the bookkeepers recorded the cash. Once transactions were completed, the \"Bag Lady\" went to the bank.\n\"I was the trusted guy because I took care of business at the Tin Pan, so I went to the bankers, the businessmen, and the lawyers. I was the guy that people wanted to do business with because I pulled no punches or pranks. They got what they wanted for the price they expected,\" he said. \"When I agreed to start doing it for Donnie, he promised me bail and an attorney if I ever got in any trouble and didn't sell him out along the way. I put on a suit and tie, and I went from place to place and did what I did because I trusted him.\n\"Each week I probably sold three pounds of marijuana and three to five ounces of coke. It fluctuated according to the time of year, but there was a lot of money to be made,\" he said. \"After a little while the weed I was dealing was grown outside of Hundred, W.Va., instead of coming in from Mexico, and it was just as potent as the weed is today. We had a lot of fun when we were naming the bud, too. Columbia Gold, Red Bud \u2014 it was some pretty great shit, and people loved it, and they had no idea it was grown just two counties to the south.\"\nIn his dealing days, he charged $250 for an \"Eight Ball\" (or a half-ounce of cocaine), and the pricing of the pills and weed depended on the market. The powder was snorted wherever, and users used whatever bill or straw they could muster. It was popular with the ladies at the time to grow their pinky nails a little longer than usual so they could \"dip and bump\" whenever the opportunity arose.\n\"When I was working at the Tin Pan, I could always tell who was doing what \u2013 the pills, the pot, or the coke,\" the Courier said. \"You could tell by their eyes, or you tell what guys had the coke because they would constantly tap their pocket to make sure their gold was still in there.\n\"Sales were going so well at one point that a department store owner who was one of my customers started asking if I would deal for him if he fronted the purchase of a kilo or two of coke. He asked me about how much he could make, and I explained to him that a kilo of coke at the time was around $30,000 but that he could triple his money pretty easily. I guess his store wasn't doing too well.\n\"But I turned him down on his offer because I had my gig. I was working for Donnie during the day and at the Tin Pan at night. I spent every dollar I made, and I lived the life,\" he said. \"I knew the guy's reasons for wanting to get into the coke business, but that's never what it was about for me. I didn't want the weight of a business on my shoulders. I just wanted to deal the drugs, make the money, and drink the beers and peppermint schnapps just like everyone else.\"\nHis tenure didn't last long at the Tin Pan Alley although the Coynes convinced him to put the bar's liquor license in his name. The property owners, Jim and Bernie Coyne, retained the poker-machine revenue and created an atmosphere still recalled as legendary today by natives and out-of-towners alike. One brother was a bar owner in Bridgeport, and the other was a stockbroker, and the partners enjoyed the profits from steady weeknights and wall-to-wall weekends.\nBut the money, the Courier said, eventually tore the two apart and forced them to file for federal bankruptcy protection.\nMany different local musicians played at the Tin Pan Alley.\n\"That partnership got to be a real bad situation because of the amount of money that was flowing through the place,\" he explained. \"There were no credit card payments, and the debit card didn't exist, so everything would be cash-money. And then one night it would be one of the brothers calling me to ask where the bank bags were, and the next night it would be the other one.\n\"I just took care of business, and it took care of me. I know I got paid, and so did the other staff we had when I was there. What those guys were doing was on them,\" the Courier continued. \"And then I was the one who got investigated when their issues caused them to file bankruptcy because they wouldn't own up to what they were doing. They blamed me, but what they didn't know is that I never put the money I made in the bank. When they checked my banking records, they found nothing close to proving I was taking anything, let alone getting paid for the bar or the drugs I was selling.\"\nThe Courier surrendered his business route too, and he and his camera bag moved to Pittsburgh in 1980 to get away from Wheeling. He remained in contact with Clark, but not with the Coynes beyond their attempt to draw him back to Tin Pan Alley for the re-organization process. Once he returned to the Valley after a year or so in the Steel City though, he reconnected with Clark and with the coke, but the boycott against Hankish and his products had been lifted.\n\"In the beginning Donnie always told me he wouldn't deal with anyone related to Hankish because his drugs were shit,\" the Courier recalled. \"He always said Hankish's coke had too much filler, his weed was rag and worthless, and that he charged way too much for the pills. So he went into business himself because he figured how to get better shit, and we did all right because there were a lot of people we sold to who were happy that it wasn't connected to Hankish.\n\"Everyone knew Hankish was in the federal spotlight, and everyone knew that the drugs he was selling weren't the best, but he'd still get the cash because of his name and his network, but Donnie told me the atmosphere was changing. Some of his connections went away, and that's when he had to start going to someone in Hankish's organization somewhere around 1984 to get the loads of coke he needed.\"\nBurgoyne knew of Clark in the 1970s, but it was only after the FBI was permitted to enforce federal laws concerning cocaine when the agent and the criminal came face-to-face.\n\"We had an informant that knew Donnie pretty well, so we told the informant to tell him that there was a kilo of coke in Miami that he could buy for only $20,000, and back in those days that was a really good deal on that much cocaine,\" Burgoyne explained. \"Clark jumped at the chance because he could make a lot more money on a deal like that.\n\"Donnie jumped into his car and drove straight to Miami and picked up the kilo from another guy we had down there, and he paid the $20,000 in cash, turned around, and drove all the way back,\" he continued. \"Clark was told to meet the buyer in the parking lot of the Elby's on National Road. The two met at the front counter, sat down and had a cup of coffee, and then went out in the lot to make the exchange.\n\"If he wasn't set up, Donnie would have made $10,000 in two days, but as soon as he opened his trunk, something like eight agents and cops rushed him and immediately cuffed him and took him into custody. I was with him for four straight days after that trying to break him down. We knew he was connected to Hankish, and we knew he didn't want to sit in prison for 25 years because that's how long he was looking at.\"\nClark believed, the Courier told me, that Hankish had something to do with his arrest because of his years of defiance. So on that fourth day, Clark decided to pay him back.\nDonnie Clark made headlines in the Pittsburgh Press when he testified in federal court against mobster Paul Hankish in 1990.\n\"Donnie Clark was a likeable guy, but he was a tough guy, and he drank a fifth of whiskey every single day. He would be straight sipping on that bottle right after breakfast and that bottle was with him until it was gone,\" Burgoyne recalled. \"Finally, Clark decided to start talking to me, and he told us everything we needed to know about Hankish and his operations. We had a lot of information on Paul already, but after Clark told us everything he knew, we were really confident in our case against Hankish. He confirmed a lot of what other informants were telling us.\"\nSo in July 1990, Clark testified against Hankish during the mobster's federal racketeering trial in Wheeling. Clark told the judge and jury that it was \"No Legs\" who supplied him the drugs he trafficked throughout the Upper Ohio Valley, and in exchange for his cooperation Clark and his wife were granted entry into the federal government's Witness Protection Program.\n\"They went from Wisconsin to Arizona,\" the Courier said. \"The feds told them to just disappear, but that wasn't Donnie. They were gone for a while, but this was his home, for better or worse. Plus, he knew Hankish went to prison and that most of his guys had faded away.\n\"So they broke out of the protection program after a few years and came home, and then he and his wife died pretty close to each other a few years after that,\" he said. \"Donnie died in November 2001, but he was still using, and he was still drinking when they came home. I guess it was only a matter of time until his body just gave out on him, but I've always wondered if their deaths were somehow connected to his testimony that damned Hankish to the prison.\"\n\"The Wheeling Mob\" series on Weelunk attracted the Courier's attention because the stories hit very close to home. He'd been waiting, he admitted, to finally see his name, and yet he didn't reach out to me. I reached out to him because I discovered his story was important to include when telling the tale of Wheeling's infamous underground.\n\"As soon as the first story came out I didn't know what to think or where it was going to go,\" he said. \"The stories have all been so factual from what I remember that I was nervous. I mean, people know who I am. Of course they do. I was involved. I was at the Tin Pan. I was in their offices opening my camera bag and taking their money.\n\"That was a long time ago. That was 30 years or so ago, and it was a a freakin' riot,\" the Courier added. \"To be completely honest, I'm just glad I survived.\"\nRock, country, and disco were the favored kinds of music in Wheeling in the 1970s, and the Tin Pan Alley featured all three from floor to floor.\nJim Coster July 4, 2016\ni grew up in Moundsville (1954) and left \"the Valley\" for college in 1978 \u2013 right at the height of the \"disco\" dance club fever. while there were lots of drugs around during my high school years (1969-1972, pot, uppers, downers, LSD, mesqulin, qualudes) cocaine and \"harder stuff\" started to become \"the drug of choice\" in Wheeling in the late 70's. it was very popular with \"professionals\" in law, government and politics. apparently, it was seen as a \"sophisticated\" drug. a member of my family actually became an informant on a high-level cocaine user\/dealer who was a major state \"government\" bureaucrat working in the Wheeling office for that state agency. my family member was a worker in this person's office and had occasion to observe many of the drug activities of the official. there was no \"respected family\" or \"high level professional\" that was immune from the insanity of cocaine use in Wheeling in the 1970's. i know or went to school with a number of individuals who have commented on this article.\nMike Spehar September 6, 2015\nEnjoying your series on Wheeling mob. In the early 60s, while in college, got a speeding ticket going up Big Wheeling Hill. hauled off to Wheeling Police Station. Would not let us go without paying $35 fine, money which I did not have. My girlfriend's, [who was with me] dad worked for the mob; she called him, he called a business associate who had a bar in Bridgeport, who's brother had a taxi service. within 30 minutes the taxi and our bailout money arrived. Loved the mob ever since.\nTeddy June 24, 2018\nJust one of 1000's of \"good\" story's about yesteryear. Why don't anyone write about that?\njeff May 26, 2015\nOnce again a very powerful story written by you Mr. Novotney. Kinda makes me wish in would've been around to see that part of Wheeling's history. Can't wait till Part 7 comes out. Keep up the great work my friend.\nRochambeau May 25, 2015\nGreat to see so many comments from those who were actually there. Thank you all for your contributions.\nIt kind of makes me wish someone would put the whole Tin Pan Alley back together so we could party like it's 1979.\njack hattman May 25, 2015\nFASCINATING AS ALWAYS.\nDon Robinson May 24, 2015\nI was the doorman and head bouncer, as well at times personal security for Jim or Bernie Coyne. My job was to always keep drugs out of Tin Pan Alley. Bernie Coyne was a milquetoast that was barely there and barely involved. Jim Coyne liked to party and was a Scotch Whisky freak. He knew a lot of the Wheeling thugs, but wasn't close to any of them. I never had any dealings with drugs personally or on behalf of the Coynes, and if they would have had dealings, I'm sure I would have known. I also knew Donny Clark quite well and I never liked him much. Im well aware of his exploits, and could believe anything, except i cant recall him ever being in the Tin Pan Alley. I grew up with him in Moundsville and he was a pallbearers at my father's funeral. (My brothers idea) He showed up late and drunk to a morning service. I can't imagine who your courier may have been, but doubt I would have let anyone in caring a camera case, without inspecting it. Hell I mistakenly jacked up some poor bastard with a baggie of pipe tobacco. Do you recall or are you aware that we mostly had a uniformed Wheeling Police officer on premise? Sometimes two.\nBob Dorris May 24, 2015\nThis part of this story is absolutely false:\n\"A few weeks after I started hanging out there, the owner fired Bob Dorris as the DJ and told me he wanted me to do it. I told him that I didn't know anything about being a DJ, but he just told me to play the same music. He looked at me and said, 'How hard can it be?' So I learned how to do it and made some very interesting friends from that point on.\"\nI was never fired at TIN PAN ALLEY\u2026\u2026I QUIT..Jim Coyne and his friends liked to party at the \"Attic Disco\" as it was called after it closed often time to 4 AM and he wanted me to continue playing music till then. I hated setting in that little booth and even though the money was great I finally said enough is enough and \"I QUIT.\" A friend of mine Jay Naples was the DJ after me and later Cole Simms became the D.J.\nIt was my idea to open a disco in the first place. I had been to Florida and seen all the discos there and mentioned it to Jim Coyne. At one point he offered a chance for me to buy into the Attic Disco, but he wanted $25,000 and I couldn't come up with the money.\nIt was he and I traveled to Central Ohio to get that lighted dance floor in the picture.\nAnonymous May 26, 2015\nThanks for clarifying Bob.\nWest Palm John May 23, 2015\nVery accurate account of that time. Starting off at the Blue Angel, then up to Johny's Bar, across the bridge to Tin Pan Alley and the Cork & Bottle, then to the Flamingo for a nightcap made for a full night and that was any night of the week.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Buoyancy-Driven Heat Transfer and Flow Between a Wetted Heat Source and an Isothermal Cube\nD. J. Close,\nD. J. Close\nCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Building, Construction, and Engineering, Highett, Victoria 3190, Australia\nM. K. Peck,\nM. K. Peck\nR. F. White,\nR. F. White\nK. J. Mahoney\nJ. Heat Transfer. May 1991, 113(2): 371-376 (6 pages)\nPublished Online: May 1, 1991\nClose, D. J., Peck, M. K., White, R. F., and Mahoney, K. J. (May 1, 1991). \"Buoyancy-Driven Heat Transfer and Flow Between a Wetted Heat Source and an Isothermal Cube.\" ASME. J. Heat Transfer. May 1991; 113(2): 371\u2013376. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1115\/1.2910571\nThis paper describes flow visualization and heat transfer experiments conducted with a heat source inside an isothermal cube filled with a saturated or near-saturated gas\/vapor mixture. The mixture was formed by vaporizing liquid from the surface of the heat source, and allowing it to condense on the surfaces of the cube, which was initially filled with a noncondensing gas. Visualization studies showed that for air and ethanol below 35\u00b0C, and for air and water, the flow patterns were similar with the hot plume rising from the source. For air and ethanol above 35\u00b0 C the flow pattern reversed with the hot plume flowing downward. For temperatures spanning 35\u00b0 C, which is the zero buoyancy temperature for the ethanol\/water azeotrope and air, no distinct pattern was observed. Using water, liquid droplets fell like rain throughout the cube. Using ethanol, a fog of droplets moved with the fluid flow. Heat transfer experiments were made with water and air, and conductances between plate and cube of around 580 W\u00b7m\u22122\u00b7K\u22121 measured. Agreement between the similarity theory developed for saturated gas\/vapor mixtures, and correlations for single component fluids only, was very good. Together with qualitative support from the visualization experiments, the theory developed in a earlier paper deriving a similarity relationship between single fluids and gas\/vapor mixtures has been validated.\nHeat Pipes and Thermosyphons, Mass Transfer, Natural Convection\nBuoyancy, Flow (Dynamics), Heat, Heat transfer, Ethanol, Water, Vapors, Drops, Fluids, Plumes (Fluid dynamics), Temperature, Visualization, Flow visualization, Fluid dynamics, Heat pipes, Mass transfer, Natural convection\nTransient Double-Diffusive Convection of Water Around 4 \u00b0 C in a Porous Cavity\nDouble Diffusive Magneto-Convection Fluid Flow in a Strong Cross Magnetic Field With Uniform Surface Heat and Mass Flux\nJ. Heat Transfer (November,2012)\nFlow Visualization of Submerged Steam Jet in Subcooled Water\nJ. Heat Transfer (February,2016)\nPerformance of Horizontal Smooth Tube Absorber With and Without 2-Ethyl-Hexanol\nInfluence of Interfacial Effect Between a Porous Wall and an Air Region on Natural Convection\nICNMM2009\nNumerical Study of Water Droplet Evaporation on a Superhydrophobic Surface\nEnhanced Microconvection Through Distributed Heat Source Modulation\nICMM2005\nLaminar Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer\nApplications of Mathematical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Models in Engineering and Medicine\nScope of Section I, Organization, and Service Limits\nPower Boilers: A Guide to the Section I of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Second Edition\nIntroduction to Finite Element, Boundary Element, and Meshless Methods: With Applications to Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Try Adventure Racing With Your Family\nMore in Fitness\nTeam up for a Totally Cool, Outdoor Orienteering Adventure\nCatherine Holecko\nCatherine Holecko is an experienced freelance writer and editor who specializes in pregnancy, parenting, health and fitness.\nElaine Hinzey, RD\nFact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD\nElaine Hinzey is a fact checker, writer, researcher, and registered dietitian.\nThomas Tolstrup \/ Getty Images\nHow to Find One\nIf you're looking for an enjoyable fitness challenge to share, check out family adventure racing. It combines the treasure-hunting of geocaching with the physical skills and thrills of biking, hiking, and paddling\u2014then adds a hearty amount of nature and wraps everything up in a big teamwork bow. And even the littlest kiddos can participate.\nEverything You Need to Know to Start Geocaching\nExpedition races are a family-friendly alternative to other adventure races. These can cover long distances and last 24 hours or more.\nA family race can be completed in an afternoon, and anyone who can pedal a bike can participate in teams of two to four people. Some races even allow bike trailers, so that the little kids can join in the fun.\nShorter adventure races (\"sprint\" or \"sport\" distance) will allow family teams to participate, too, without having a special family event.\nWhat to Expect at a Family Adventure Race\nThe race organizers place checkpoints throughout the course, and teams must visit as many checkpoints as possible in the least amount of time.\nMost adventure races combine biking, paddling, and trekking\/hiking.\nSometimes you'll need to visit the checkpoints in a particular order; in other cases, any order is fine, but coming up with a strategy for getting them all is part of the fun. Family races operate the same way, but with less challenging terrain.\nAdventure races often incorporate fun challenges, too. Teams may have to complete puzzles, ride a zip-line, climb a rock wall or tree, or walk across a slackline.\nChallenges are usually kept a surprise, meaning you won't know what they are until you're out on the course.\nUnlike a 5K or other fun run, you won't be able to preview the course first because figuring out where to go is an essential component of the challenge. The more elite adventure races require serious orienteering skills. For family adventure races, you just need to know how to read a map.\nIt's also important to know that you have to stick together. This is a team sport, not a relay, and the rules require that team members stay close to each other at all times.\nThat said, family events are usually flexible. You can skip parts of the course that don't work for you (say, if you have a toddler in a bike trailer or a preschooler who really hates water) and participate just for its fun. Don't worry about your time; enjoy the outing and the team bonding!\nThe Benefits of Active Family Time\nGearing Up for Family Adventure Racing\nAlmost every event that incorporates water travel (canoes, kayaks, or inner tubes) provides boats, paddles, and life jackets for participants. So you don't have to worry about bringing your watercraft.\nWhen you register for a race, you'll get a list of mandatory gear. It usually includes a bike and helmet, appropriate clothing and footwear, plenty of water, and sometimes a whistle and compass. You might want to bring a waterproof bag to hold your map and \"passport\" (a piece of paper or a punch card where you will record your visits to each checkpoint).\nEntry fees typically range from about $30 to $80 per person. The price helps cover the cost of race elements like boat and supply rentals, course set-up, and after-race celebrations.\nHow to Find a Family Adventure Race\nSearch online for \"family adventure race\" plus your city, state, or region. You can also try the listings at Active.com or at the U.S. Adventure Racing Association (look for family, beginner, or \"tenderfoot\" events; some beginner events will allow family teams).\nAnother option is a permanent adventure racing course (PARC). These allow you to try simple orienteering and practice your skills, or have an \"anytime\" adventure rather than waiting for an event that's only held once or twice a year.\nFor an adventurous outing without the race component, you can also check out an adventure park.\nGet expert tips to help your kids stay healthy and happy.\nFun Activities for Families to Try During Summer Break\nBoard Games for Kids With a Healthy Twist\n7 Tips for Keeping Your Family Calendar Organized\nFun Ideas for Your Next Scavenger Hunt\nThe 21 Best Toys for 3-Year-Old Boys in 2022\nBest Event Rentals for Families of 2022\nTry These Fun and Physical Outdoor Activities With Your Kids\nFlashlight Games for Fun After Dark\nFun Jump Rope Games for Kids\n10 New Year's Resolutions For the Whole Family\nActive Indoor Games to Make Your Kid's Party a Hit\nAlternative Ideas for Baby Showers\nWhy Risk-Taking Is Healthier Than Playing It Safe\n101 Absolutely Free Activities for Kids","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Following Indiana Gregg Down The Yellow Brick Road\nBy Mark Kirby [02-19-2006]\nOn the cover of her CD, Something Like Me, there's a picture of the artist, Indiana Gregg, sitting and looking back at the observer. The first things that jump out are wow, hot blonde, red dress, and thigh high white boots. Holla, another twinkie pop tart. Holla back, girl!\nBut then you look closer and you see that the arms are crossed, the knees are together, she's guarded. The look on her face is the opposite of the blank stare of a Britney - there is a pensiveness in her expression, and a hint of impatience, like a child who has been dressed up and posed for a picture. There is clearly more to her than meets the eye.\nI noticed this about the photo just as she sang: \"So when will you understand that the way look isn't who I am?\" from the song \"Crazy, Crazy, Crazy.\" This cut is her anthem, in spite of the fact it is a perky pop rock song, instead of being a bombastic power ballad. To an acoustic guitar, bass and drums-driven country rock groove, she sings: \"It's all so superficial out there I need something real \/ So Crazy Crazy Crazy \/ This is how I feel \/ It seems to me our society \/ Lives within four walls of a Colored TV \/ Crazy Crazy Crazy \/ Give me something real . . .\" This song, with its bursts of insight and tell-it-like-it is personal observation, has everything that classic songs have: a great tune, great hooks, and you can sing it in the shower. This CD has these qualities from end to end.\nView Indiana Gregg's video 'Sweet Things'\nIndiana Gregg is emphatic and clear about the musical well that she draws from. \"My influences are rock, gospel, jazz and SOUL! Ray Charles is at the top of my list of soul geniuses,\" she said. \"Roberta Flack would be my favorite female soul artist. These two icons very deeply impressed my musical psyche. My favorite pop artists would be Don Henley, Prince and Madonna. Of course, everyone from my era would have to mention Janet and Michael Jackson.\"\nListening to these songs, I can imagine them playing on any pop, country or rock radio station. This not to suggest that she has produced one-size-fits-all music. It's like a stew that has been cooking for a long while: well blended and tasty. Ms. Gregg has achieved a rare feat in the world of music outside of jazz: she has created something organic. And it didn't happen overnight. \ufffd\ufffd\n[Indiana Gregg] \"I became pretty shy when I went to school because I had a stutter and a speech impediment. My teacher recognized this early on and advised my parents that I see a speech therapist. I saw the therapist for 5 years twice a week. She taught me to use my hands to help me speak and encouraged singing and music as a form of expression for me as well. That's why I use my hands a lot when I perform even today. Because it was so difficult for me to speak and kids made fun of me, I started writing songs in my diary and playing them on my piano when I would get home from school. This became a kind of diary for me that I have continued into adulthood. Revisiting those songs I've written over the years helps me remember exactly what happened the day I wrote them.\"\n\"I started playing music officially at the age of six when I started taking piano lessons. Before that I would play by ear, because both of my brothers played instruments and I would mimic what they did on our old upright piano. I started learning the trumpet from age 10. I started writing songs when I was four when my cat died. I wrote a song about my cat to the tune of 'The Entertainer.'\n\"Later I found myself performing for nearly every event at school, my church, and the community theater. Song-writing became a diary for me and a way to express myself. I could sing in front of people, but I was embarrassed to speak as I had a stutter and a speech impediment. I was always either starting a band, or working in the summers at theme parks as a musician, or going on tour with gospel choirs. I started doing my own music live about 14 years ago. I've played in nearly every style of band you can imagine. I think with this album I've found a link to a lot of my favorite influences and a thread through the album that makes sense to me.\"\n[Kirby] Did your family pressure you to pursue or not pursue an artistic path?\n[Indiana Gregg] \"My parents didn't pressure me to pursue anything. They always told me to do my best because doing your best means you will never feel ashamed. That sense of accomplishment that comes from doing your best was instilled in me early on and has become inherent in my psyche. My parents were able to instill an intrinsic sense of confidence in me and, as a result, I had a lot of freedom, academically and artistically. They said to do what you love most, so that's what I've done. Part of what I'm doing now is setting an example through music to my own three children. The song 'Kid Soldier' is about them.\"\nAll of her early experiences and loving support clearly developed her talents, but it is her song writing that sets her apart. There are many examples of singers with great pipes, but, like Darth Vader, they use their force for evil (i.e., bad, corporate, soda-selling bilge), by performing cookie-cutter songs, devoid of distinction. By contrast, Indiana Gregg's songs are chock full of distinction, so much so that you can imagine them being performed, unironically, by other artists.\nFurthermore, unlike today's popular music, she has lyrics that have observations about the lives and hopes of real people. The song \"Kiss Me All Night\" is a power ballad all about love: \"There's a moment in time \/ When it comes you will find \/ There's a mist that surrounds how your feeling \/ And you just wanna know, where it's all gonna go \/ 'Cos a heart can't take more than one beating \/ So just give me a sign \/ for my peace of mind . . . Would you kiss me all night in the moonlight . . .\"\nAnd while she has songs that touch on the troubled side of life, on the bouncy \"Groovy Kind of Wonderful World\" she dares to express happiness (so uncool), because, let's face it, life doesn't suck all the time: \"My heart's delirious\/ why get so serious \/ make every second count \/ that's what life is all about \/ Every day I feel lucky that I'm livin' in this groovy kind of wonderful world.\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\n[Kirby] What type of music did you play before you settled on a soul-pop style?\n[Indiana Gregg] \"I played a lot of rock, even some punk, and a lot of soul. Unfortunately, because I like so many styles, I tended to merge a bit. This made things difficult at the beginning. I think that the songs on this album lean toward the soul-pop style and, to be honest, that's probably where all of my songs end up once they are broken down to the basics with an acoustic guitar or piano. In the past, I liked to play around and experiment, and I still do!\"\nThis merging and experimenting come to an exciting fruition on this CD. On several cuts an old-fashioned orchestra (not digital, real humans) adds tasty touches, without over doing it. Check out an old Philly soul record or your parent's Al Green records and you'll know what I mean. The arrangements remind one of how the Motown Funk Brothers or Jack Nietzsche (arranger and producer of several Neil Young records) used to do it back in the day.\n[Kirby] How did you snag the Irish Film Orchestra?\n[Indiana Gregg] Fiachra Trench (famed Irish musician and composer who has recorded with Kate Bush, Van Morrison, Art Garfunkel and Paul McCartney, among others) has worked on several projects with my producer Ian Morrow and somehow we were able to put a budget together to get the orchestra for a day. I'll tell you, it was the most amazing experience of my life to see an entire orchestra playing my tunes. I was already in tears when I saw all of the music stands with my songs on them waiting for the musicians to come in and play them. This is really one of the most amazing thrills a songwriter could experience.\n[Kirby] How did you come to do so much work in Europe?\n[Indiana Gregg] \"I moved to Europe and lived in Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom and the French Riviera. Because I had traveled around and lived in various places, I've had lots of opportunities to meet musicians from all walks of life. In some ways, I'm an explorer and pretty spontaneous. Many times going to a party I was networking and seeking out musicians. Within days we would form a band or organize a jam.\"\n[Kirby] How did you hook up with a Scottish producer Ian Morrow and such a talented and recognized group of people like the musicians and Paul Wright (engineer)?\n[Indiana Gregg] \"I met with a lot of producers and I was really looking for the right vibe for this album. After meeting up with several, I decided to go with Ian Morrow because he seemed to have the sensibility to deal with my musical ideas and was experienced enough not to feel bombarded by them. This is probably the best decision I have ever made in my life because we work really well together (when we aren't at each other's throats, I mean). I think his experience working on projects with Seal, Wet Wet Wet, and Rod Stewart gave him the ability to understand where I come from (which is all over the place). I'm probably not an easy artist to deal with because I'm constantly dreaming up new stuff that could potentially send people off on tangents. I'm a bit crazy that way.\"\nYeah, crazy, crazy, crazy like a fox. She is doing what many in the music industry say not to do: blend, mix, and make something original. By being so cantankerously stubborn and confident in her musical journey, and so insistent on giving a free reign to her individualistic creativity, she has proven that the particular can have wide appeal. She is one of the only pop artists around that can exist in, and supercede, musical categories, while giving you something real. \"So much of who we are depends on where we've been,\" she explains. \"I think where we've been can be both physical, as in location, and emotional. I'd like to touch as many people as possible through this medium of music and wherever I end up, it's been a fantastic journey!\"\nTo follow Indiana Gregg down the yellow brick road, Indiana Gregg's album, Something Like Me, is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom April 3rd, 2006, distributed via RTD\/Universal. Visit her record label, Gr8Pop, Ltd, at or through her web site for more information.\nSource: http:\/\/www.musicdish.com\/mag\/?id=10874","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spotted: Klinger \u2013 Horst\nToday I'm presenting you with the track Horst by the German composer and piano player Klinger. He started playing the piano at the age of six and started to work as a musician, producer and arranger after finishing school. A few years ago he started finding his was back to the piano again and started making piano music. You can read more about Klinger by clicking on his name above!\nThe track Horst was released as a single on the 18th of may, but will also be part of the project Persona : Perseverance which will be released in June, 2021.\nTell us a little something about that project!\nIt\u00b4s a series of musical portraits. That means that I try to depict persons with music. I\u00b4m working with a small film team, who make moving portraits of the persons and I compose music for them. For the first series of portraits we decided to search for people who have been affected by Covid and its consequences in a special way. Horst owns a little pub in Hamburg, St. Pauli, and he had to close down due to Corona regulations. There will also be portraits of a risk-patient, a 96-year-old Corona survivor, a nurse, an actor and a police officer.\nTell us something about your track Horst!\nWhen I was a child I often sat at the piano and played what came to my mind, just improvising. One day I noticed that my playing changes completely when someone enters the room. As if that person is somehow reflected in my music. That\u00b4s how the idea was born to depict people with music.\"\n\"Composing a piece for 'Horst' was easy. His face already tell\u00b4s so many stories. I was immediately inspired and wrote the piece in one afternoon. I just let the music flow and this is what happened.\"\nThank you for this Klinger!\nSpotted: RAPHAEL NOVARINA \u2013 Minimalism No. 1\nSpotted: Ume\u00e5 Bod\u00f8 \u2013 Lonesome Kingfisher\nSpotted: Khyaam Haque \u2013 Most Things Are Beautiful","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Unification of Saudi Arabia\nFind sources: \"Unification of Saudi Arabia\" \u2013 news \u00b7 newspapers \u00b7 books \u00b7 scholar \u00b7 JSTOR (September 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nUnification of the Saudi-ruled Arabia\nPresent Saudi state (Saudi Arabia)\nArabian Peninsula (including South Arabia), Mandatory Iraq, Transjordan and Kuwaiti Emirate\nSaudi takeover of central and northern parts of Arabia:\nEnd of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar and Kingdom of Hejaz.\nEnd of Ottoman presence in the Arabian Peninsula.\nEstablishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.\nAnnexation of Asir and Najran and Jizan Saudi-Yemeni War in 1934.\nKingdom of Hejaz (1916\u20131925)\nArab Army\nHejaz Air Force\nSultanate of Nejd\nSaudi Army\nSoviet Union[1][2]\nKingdom of Italy[3]\nBritish Empire (from 1927)[4][5] Ottoman Empire (until 1919)\nEmirate of Jabal Shammar\nGerman Empire[6]\nCommanders and leaders\nHussein bin Ali\nAli bin Hussein Abdulaziz Ibn Saud\nSaud bin Abdulaziz[7]\nFaisal bin Abdulaziz[8][9]\nMuhammad bin Abdul-Rahman[8][10]\nSultan bin Bajad\nFaisal al-Duwaish\nEqab bin Mohaya\nKhaled bin Luai Fakhri Pasha\nAbdul-Aziz bin Mitab \u2020\nSaud bin Abdulaziz\nAjlan bin Mohammed Al Ajlan \u2020\n38,000[citation needed] 77,000[citation needed] 23,000[11][verification needed]\n18,000+ killed in total[a][12]\nDilam\nHadia [ar]\nal-Hasa\nJarrab\nKanzaan [ar]\nal-Khurma\nHajla [ar]\nHurmula\nHa'il\n1st Kuwait\nTransjordan\nHejaz\n2nd Kuwait\nIkhwan Revolt\nAncient Arabia\nEarly Islamic State\nRashidun Caliphate\nUmayyad and Abbasid periods\nSharifate of Mecca\nOttoman rule\nEmirate of Diriyah\nEmirate of Nejd\nEmirate of Riyadh\nEmirate of Nejd and Hasa\nKingdom of Hejaz and Nejd\nSaudi Arabia portal\nThe Unification of Saudi Arabia was a military and political campaign in which the various tribes, sheikhdoms, city-states, emirates, and kingdoms of most of the Arabian Peninsula were conquered by the House of Saud, or Al Saud. Unification started in 1902 and continued until 1932, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was proclaimed under the leadership of Ibn Saud, creating what is sometimes referred to as the Third Saudi State, to differentiate it from the Emirate of Diriyah, the First Saudi State and the Emirate of Nejd, the Second Saudi State, also House of Saud states.\nThe Al-Saud had been in exile in the British-protected emirate of Kuwait since 1893 after their second episode of removal from power and dissolution of their polity, this time by the Al Rashid Emirate of Ha'il. In 1902, Ibn Saud recaptured Riyadh, the Al Saud dynasty's former capital. He went on to subdue the rest of Nejd, al-Hasa, Jebel Shammar, Asir, and Hejaz (the location of the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina) between 1913 and 1926. The resultant polity was named the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz from 1927 until it was further consolidated with Al-Hasa into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.\n2.1 Saudi take over of Riyadh\n2.2 Saudi\u2013Rashidi War\n2.3 Al-Hasa and Qatif\n2.4 Kuwait\u2013Najd War\n2.5 During World War I\n2.6 First Nejd\u2013Hejaz War\n2.7 Conquest of Ha'il\n2.8 Ikhwan raids\n2.8.1 Raids on Transjordan\n2.8.2 1921 raid on Iraq\n2.9 Second Nejd\u2013Hejaz War\n2.10 Ikhwan rebellion\n2.11 Declaration of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\n3 Aftermath\n3.1 Annexation of Asir\n3.2 Saudi\u2013Yemeni War\n4 Ikhwan movement\nSee also: First Saudi State and Second Saudi State\nAbdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud. Founder of Saudi Arabia since 1934 and Commander Unification of Saudi Arabia.\nSharif Hussain, The Sharif in Mecca and King of Hijaz.\nFollowing the Diriyah agreement between Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab and Muhammad ibn Saud, the Al Saud clan founded the First Saudi State, a state based on the strict defense of Islam. The ideology born of this period was later dubbed Wahhabism. Originating in the Nejd region of central Arabia, the First Saudi State conquered most of the Arabian Peninsula, culminating in the capture of the Muslim holy city of Mecca in 1802.[13]\nThe loss of Mecca was a significant blow to the prestige of the Ottoman Empire, which had exercised sovereignty over the holy city since 1517, and the Ottomans were finally moved to action against the Al Saud. The task of destroying the Saudis was given to the powerful viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, who sent troops to the Hejaz region and recaptured Mecca. His son, Ibrahim Pasha, meanwhile led Ottoman forces into the heart of Nejd, capturing town after town in the Nejd Expedition. On reaching the Saudi capital at Diriyah, Ibrahim placed it under siege for several months until it surrendered in the winter of 1818. He then sent many members of the clans of Al Saud and Ibn Abdul Wahhab to Egypt and the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and ordered the systematic destruction of Diriyah. The last Saudi imam (leader), Abdullah bin Saud, was later executed in Istanbul.[14]\nThe Al Saud survived in exile and went on to found the Second Saudi State, which is generally considered to have lasted from Turki ibn Abdallah's capture of Riyadh (which he designated as the new capital) in 1824 until the Battle of Mulayda in 1891. The Second Saudi period was marked by instability, which the Al Rashid clan of Jebel Shammar were able to exploit. The Saudi leader, Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal, sought refuge in Ottoman Iraq in 1893.[15]\nSaudi take over of Riyadh[edit]\nMain article: Battle of Riyadh (1902)\nIn 1901, Abdul Rahman's son, Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud\u2013later to be known as Ibn Saud\u2013[16] asked the Emir of Kuwait for men and supplies for an attack on Riyadh. Already involved in several wars with the Rashidis, the Emir agreed to the request, giving Ibn Saud horses and arms. Although the exact number of men waxed and waned during the subsequent journey, he is believed to have left with around 40 men.[17]\nIn January 1902, Ibn Saud and his men reached Riyadh. With only a small force, he felt that the only way to take the city was to capture Masmak fort and kill Ibn Ajlan, Chief of Riyadh, and having achieved these goals they successfully took the city within the night. With the capture of his family's ancestral home, Ibn Saud proved he possessed the qualities necessary to be a sheikh or emir: leadership, courage, and luck.[18][19] This marked the beginning of the third Saudi state. Ibn Saud's dominions became known as the Emirate of Nejd and Hasa,[20] which lasted until 1921.[21]\nSaudi\u2013Rashidi War[edit]\nMain article: Saudi\u2013Rashidi War\nThe Saudi\u2013Rashidi War, also referred as the \"First Saudi\u2013Rashidi War\" or the \"Battles for Qasim\", was engaged between the Saudi loyal forces of the newborn Sultanate of Nejd versus the Emirate of Ha'il (Jabal Shammar), under the Rashidis. The warfare period of sporadic battles ended with Saudi takeover of the Al-Qassim Region, after decisive victory in Qasim on 13 April 1906,[22] though other engagements followed into 1907.\nAl-Hasa and Qatif[edit]\nIn 1913, Ibn Saud, with support from the Ikhwan,[23] conquered al-Hasa from an Ottoman garrison, who had controlled the area from 1871.[24] He then integrated al-Hasa and Qatif into the Emirate.[25] The people in these areas were Shias and the Saudis Wahhabi puritans, resulting in harsh penalties for Shi'a Islam in Saudi Arabia, contrary to what the traditionally tolerant Sunni Ottomans allowed.[23]\nKuwait\u2013Najd War[edit]\nMain articles: Kuwait\u2013Najd War and Uqair Protocol of 1922\nThe Kuwait-Najd War occurred because Ibn Saud wanted to annex Kuwait.[26][27] Ibn Saud insisted that Kuwait's territory belonged to him.[27] The sharpened conflict between Kuwait and Najd led to the death of hundreds of Kuwaitis. The war resulted in sporadic border clashes throughout 1919\u20131920.[28]\nFollowing Kuwait\u2013Najd War, Ibn Saud imposed a tight trade blockade against Kuwait for 14 years from 1923 until 1937.[26][29] The goal of the Saudi economic and military attacks on Kuwait was to annex as much of Kuwait's territory as possible.[26] At the Uqair conference in 1922, the boundaries of Kuwait and Najd were set.[26] Kuwait had no representative at the Uqair conference.[26] Ibn Saud persuaded Sir Percy Cox to give him two-thirds of Kuwait's territory.[26] More than half of Kuwait was lost due to Uqair.[26] After the Uqair conference, Kuwait was still subjected to a Saudi economic blockade and intermittent Saudi raiding.[26]\nDuring World War I[edit]\nMain articles: Battle of Jarrab and Treaty of Darin\nIn December, the British government (started early 1915) attempted to cultivate favor with Ibn Saud via its secret agent, Captain William Shakespear, and this resulted in the Treaty of Darin. After Shakespear's death at the Battle of Jarrab, the British began supporting Ibn Saud's rival Sharif Hussein bin Ali, leader of the Hejaz. Lord Kitchener also appealed to Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca for assistance in the conflict and Hussein wanted political recognition in return. An exchange of letters with Henry McMahon assured him that his assistance would be rewarded between Egypt and Persia, with the exception of imperial possessions and interests in Kuwait, Aden, and the Syrian coast. Contrary to its negotiations with Ali, the British entered into the Treaty of Darin, which made the lands of the House of Saud a British protectorate. Ibn Saud pledged to again make war against Ibn Rashid, who was an ally of the Ottomans. Ibn Saud was also given a monthly stipend in exchange for waging war against Ibn Rashid.\nFirst Nejd\u2013Hejaz War[edit]\nMain article: Al-Khurma dispute\nThe First Saudi-Hashemite War or the Al-Khurma dispute took place in 1918\u20131919 between Abdulaziz Ibn Abdul Rahman AlSaud of the Emirate of Nejd and the Hashemites of the Kingdom of Hejaz. The war came within the scope of the historic conflict between the Hashemites of Hejaz and the Saudis of Riyadh (Nejd) over supremacy in Arabia.[30] It resulted in the defeat of the Hashemite forces and capture of al-Khurma by the Saudis and his allied Ikhwan, but British intervention prevented the immediate collapse of the Hashemite kingdom, establishing a sensitive cease-fire, which would last until 1924.\nConquest of Ha'il[edit]\nMain article: Conquest of Ha'il\nSee also: Jabal Shammar\nConquest of Ha'il, also referred as the Second Saudi\u2013Rashidi War, was engaged by the Saudi forces with its ally Ikhwan tribesmen upon the Emirate of Ha'il (Jabal Shammar), under the last Rashidi rulers. On 2 November 1921, Jebel Shammar was completely conquered by Saudi forces and subsequently incorporated into the Sultanate of Nejd.\nIkhwan raids[edit]\nRaids on Transjordan[edit]\nMain article: Ikhwan raids on Transjordan\nIkhwan raids on Transjordan were a series of plunders by the Ikhwan, irregular Arab tribesmen of Najd, on Transjordan between 1922 and 1924. Though the raids were not orchestrated by Ibn Saud, the ruler of Nejd, nothing was done by him to stop the raiding parties of his ally Ikhwanis. This however changed after the conquest of Hejaz, when the increasingly critical and negative stance of Ibn Saud on Ikhwan raids developed into an open feud and essentially a bloody conflict since 1927.\nIn early 1920s, the repeated Wahhabi incursions of Ikhwan from Najd into southern parts of his territory were the most serious threat to emir Abdullah's position in Transjordan.[31] The emir was powerless to repel those raids by himself, thus the British maintained a military base, with a small air force, at Marka, close to Amman.[31]\n1921 raid on Iraq[edit]\nIn 1921, an Ikhwan party raided southern Iraq, pillaging Shia villages, resulting in the massacre of 700 Shias.[32]\nSecond Nejd\u2013Hejaz War[edit]\nMain article: Saudi conquest of Hejaz\nThe Saudi conquest of Hejaz was a campaign, engaged by Saudi Sultan Abdulaziz AlSaud to take over the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz in 1924\u20131925. The campaign successfully ended in December 1925, with the fall of Jeddah. Subsequently, in 1926, Ibn Saud was proclaimed king of Hejaz, and raised Nejd to a kingdom as well in 1927. For the next five-plus years, the Saudi domains were referred to as the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz, though they were administered as separate units.\nIkhwan rebellion[edit]\nMain article: Ikhwan Revolt\nIkhwan Army in Ikhwan Revolt strike Alliance British Empire, Kuwait and Ibn Saud.\nAs Saudi expansion slowed in the 1920s, some among the Ikhwan pushed for continued expansion, particularly to the British-controlled territories such as Transjordan to the north - where the Ikhwan raided in 1922 and 1924. By this time, the few parts of central Arabia that hadn't been overrun by the Saudi-Ikhwan forces had treaties with Britain, and Abdul Aziz was sober enough to realize the folly of a potential conflict with the British. However, the Ikhwan had been taught that all non-Wahhabis were infidels. Faisal al-Dawish of the Mutair tribe and Sultan bin Bajad of the Otaiba tribe, the leaders of the Ikhwan, were among those who accused Abdul Aziz of going \"soft\", with the former reportedly telling the latter that the Saudis were \"as much use as camel bags without handles\".\nA rebellion erupted, climaxing in a battle at Sabillah, which some have labeled a massacre but pro-Saudi sources consider to have been a fair fight.[33] Additional battles erupted through 1929 in Jabal Shammar and in the vicinity of the Awazim tribe. The rebellion was put down in 1930, with the surrender of last opposition elements. Though the survivors were jailed, their descendants remained opposed to Saudi rule, and one such descendant, Juhayman al-Otaibi, would gain infamy in 1979 when he led the Grand Mosque Seizure.[34][35]\nDeclaration of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia[edit]\nFrom 1927 to 1932, Ibn Saud administered the two main portions of his realm, Nejd and the Hejaz, as separate units. On 23 September 1932, Ibn Saud proclaimed the union of his dominions into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ibn Saud's eldest son Saud became crown prince in 1933.[36]\nAnnexation of Asir[edit]\nFurther information: Idrisid Emirate\nAsir, Hejaz, and Nejd\nThe region of Asir, in what is today southern Saudi Arabia, had been under Turkish rule from 1871 until the outbreak of the First World War, at which point its emir, Hasan ibn Ali Al Aid, \"became virtually independent\" and attempted to rule from Abha. However, a struggle ensued between his forces and those of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi, who eventually set up the short-lived Idrisid Emirate under Saudi tutelage.[37] The emirate was subsumed by the Saudi state following a 1930 treaty which provided for the territory to come under Ibn Saud's direct control upon its emir's death.[36] The Emirate was eventually incorporated into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1934.\nSaudi\u2013Yemeni War[edit]\nMain article: Saudi\u2013Yemeni War\nWith the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, a Zaidi state was forged in Yemen under Imam Muhammad bin Yahya Hamid ad-Din and his descendants. The Yemenis claimed parts of Asir and came to blows with the Saudis in 1933. Writing in the American journal Foreign Affairs in 1934, historian Hans Kohn noted, \"Some European observers have wished to explain the armed conflict as a conflict between British and Italian policy in Arabia.\" Despite British ties to Saudi Arabia and Italian ties to Yemen, he concluded that \"the rivalry between the two rulers is in no way caused or fostered by the rivalry of the two European states.\"[38] However, in 1998, Alexei Vassiliev wrote, \"The imam was instigated both by the Italians, who promoted assistance in order to increase their influence in Yemen, and by the British, who wished to detract Imam Yahya's attention from their protectorates in Aden.\"[39] The Saudis struck back, reaching the Yemeni port of Al Hudaydah before signing a \"treaty of Muslim friendship and Arab brotherhood\" in Ta'if, which was published simultaneously in Mecca, Sanaa, Damascus, and Cairo to highlight its pan-Arabism.[40][41]\nRemarking on the implications of the treaty, which stated \"that [the two parties'] nations are one and agree to consider each other's interests their own\", Kohn wrote, \"The foreign policy of both kingdoms will be brought into line and harmonized so that both countries will act as one country in foreign affairs. Practically, it will mean a protectorate over the Yemen by Ibn Saud, the stronger and much more progressive partner.\"[41] Relations indeed remained close until civil war erupted in Yemen in the 1960s, at which time the country became a staging ground for battle between conservative values and those of the Egyptian revolutionary Gamal Abdel Nasser.[42]\nIkhwan movement[edit]\nMain article: Ikhwan\nThe exact circumstances under which the Ikhwan (brothers, brethren) arose remain unclear. However, it is known that they consisted of Bedouin who were imbued with Wahhabi zeal at settlements known as hijras. They played an important role in the Saudi rise to power, though the extent of that role is sometimes disputed.[43]\nGeography of Saudi Arabia\nSaudi Arabia \u2013 United Arab Emirates border dispute\nSaudi\u2013Kuwaiti neutral zone\nSaudi\u2013Iraqi neutral zone\nSykes\u2013Picot Agreement\n[a].^ Unification of Saudi Arabia (combined casualties figure estimation 7,989\u20138,989+) of:\nBattle of Riyadh (1902) \u2013 37 killed.\nBattle of Dilam (1903) \u2013 410 killed.\nSaudi\u2013Rashidi War (1903\u20131907) \u2013 2,300+ killed.\nAnnexation of Al-Hasa and Qatif (1913) - unknown.\nBattle of Jarrab (1915)\nBattle of Kanzaan (1915)[citation needed]\nFirst Nejd-Hijaz War (1918-1919) \u2013 1,392 killed.[12]\n1921 Ikhwan raid on Iraq - 700 killed\nKuwait\u2013Nejd Border War (1921) \u2013 200+ killed.[12]\nConquest of Ha'il (1921) - unknown\nIkhwan raids on Transjordan (1922\u20131924) \u2013 500\u20131,500 killed.\nSaudi conquest of Hejaz (1924\u20131925) \u2013 450+ killed.[12]\nIkhwan Revolt (1927\u20131930) \u2013 2,000 killed.[12]\n^ https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2017\/10\/15\/how-moscow-lost-riyadh-in-1938\/\n^ https:\/\/russia-islworld.ru\/en\/kultura\/\/karim-hakimov-red-pasha-and-the-arabian-vizier-of-the-kremlin\/\n^ Chisholm, Hugh (25 March 2018). \"The Encyclopedia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information\". The Encyclopedia Britannica Co.\n^ Peter W. Wilson, Douglas Graham. Saudi Arabia: the coming storm . M.E.Sharpe, 1994: p.45\n^ Leatherdale, Clive. Britain and Saudi Arabia, 1925-1939: the Imperial Oasis. p.115.\n^ https:\/\/raseef22.com\/article\/1071038-story-shammar-tribe-understand-indigenous-inhabitants-region\n^ Upbringing & Education 1902-1915 - The King Saud Foundation Website\n^ a b Al Kahtani, Mohammad Zaid (December 2004). \"The Foreign Policy of King Abdulaziz\" (PDF). University of Leeds. Retrieved 21 July 2013.\n^ Helmut Mejcher (May 2004). \"King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in the Arena of World Politics: A Glimpse from Washington, 1950 to 1971\" (PDF). British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 31 (1): 5\u201323. doi:10.1080\/1353019042000203412. S2CID 218601838. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2012.\n^ Sabri, Sharaf (2001). The House of Saud in commerce: A study of royal entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia. New Delhi: I.S. Publications. ISBN 81-901254-0-0.\n^ David Murphy, (Illustrated by Peter Dennis), The Arab Revolt 1916-18: Lawrence Sets Arabia Ablaze, Osprey Publishing, 2008, p. 26.\n^ a b c d e University of Central Arkansas, Middle East\/North Africa\/Persian Gulf Region[permanent dead link]\n^ Vassiliev 1998, pp. 83\u2013103\n^ Vassiliev 1998, pp. 140\u2013191\n^ \"Ibn\" means \"son\" in Arabic and thus \"Ibn Saud\" means \"Son of Saud\" (see Arabic name). Although Westerners widely referred to Abdul Aziz as Ibn Saud in later years, \"the clan chieftain's title of Ibn Sa'ud continued to refer to Abdul Rahman until he had established himself as such.\" (Lacey 1982, p. 65) Abdul Aziz never referred to himself by this title, and some authors (e.g. Helms 1981, p. 14), avoid using it entirely.\n^ Lacey observes, \"Forty is the number which bedouin often pick upon when they wish to describe a smallish body of men, and forty is the number of companions which Abdul Aziz is said to have had with him when he left Kuwait in September 1901.\" (Lacey 1982, p. 41) Lacey offers further insight into the ambiguity surrounding the details of the capture of Riyadh, whose place in Saudi Arabian folklore he compares to the Storming of the Bastille: Ibn Saud himself told numerous versions over the years, which is only partly attributable to Ibn Saud's excitability. According to Lacey, \"He was spinning history in the way that the Old Testament scribes spun their legends or the creator of the Chanson de Roland wove his epic, for even today it remains the pleasant obstinacy of the Arab to be less captivated by the distinction between fact and fiction than by mystery, romance, poetry, imagination \u2013 and even downright caprice.\" (Lacey 1982, p. 47)\n^ Troeller 1976, p. 21\n^ Vassiliev 1998, p. 213\n^ Madawi Al-Rasheed. A History of Saudi Arabia. Cambridge, England, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 40.\n^ J. A. Hammerton. Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today And Story of Their Past (in 14 Volumes). Concept Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. 193.\n^ Mikaberidze, Alexander (2011). Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 807. ISBN 978-1-59884-336-1.\n^ a b Jones, Toby (June 2009). Embattled in Arabia: Shias and the Politics of Confrontation in Saudi Arabia (PDF). Shia Militancy Program. Combating Terrorism Center at West Point \/ American Civil Liberties Union.\n^ Pp. 63, 124\n^ World and its peoples. London: Marshall Cavendish. 2006. p. 29. ISBN 0-7614-7571-0.\n^ a b c d e f g h Mary Ann T\u00e9treault (1995). The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and the Economics of the New World Order. pp. 2\u20133. ISBN 9780899305103.\n^ a b Michael S. Casey (2007). The History of Kuwait. pp. 54\u201355. ISBN 9781573567473.\n^ Illahi, Mahboob (2018). Doctrine of Terror: Saudi Salafi Religion. Victoria, Canada: Friesen Press. p. 117. ISBN 9781525526473.\n^ Mohammad Khalid A. Al-Jassar (2009). Constancy and Change in Contemporary Kuwait City: The Socio-cultural Dimensions of the Kuwait Courtyard and Diwaniyya. p. 80. ISBN 9781109229349.\n^ Mikaberidze, Alexander (31 July 2011). Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781598843361.\n^ a b Salibi, Kamal S. The modern history of Jordan. p. 104\n^ Moon, Farzana (2015). No Islam but Islam. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 142. ISBN 978-1443871181.\n^ Lacey 2009, pp. 14\u201316\n^ The origins of this event with the Ikhwan dissenters are described in multiple sources, though Lacey 2009 contains one of the most up-to-date accounts. For more information on the Grand Mosque Seizure itself, see The Siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov.\n^ Hegghamer and Lacroix, Thomas and St\u00e9phane (Spring 2007). \"Rejectionist Islamism in Saudi Arabia: The Story of Juhayman al-Utaybi Revisited\". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 39: 1. doi:10.1017\/S0020743807002553 \u2013 via JSTOR.\n^ a b Vassiliev 1998, pp. 283\u2013285\n^ Kohn 1934, p. 101\n^ a b Kohn 1934, p. 102\n^ Commins 2006, pp. 80\u201394\nAlmana, Mohammed (1982). Arabia Unified: A Portrait of Ibn Saud. London: Hutchinson Benham. ISBN 0-09-147290-3.\nCommins, David (2006). The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia. London, New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-080-2.\nHelms, Christine Moss (1981). The Cohesion of Saudi Arabia. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.\nKohn, Hans (October 1934). \"The Unification of Arabia\". Foreign Affairs. 13 (1): 91\u2013103. doi:10.2307\/20030644. JSTOR 20030644.\nLacey, Robert (2009). Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02118-5.\nLacey, Robert (1982). The Kingdom. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-147260-2.\nAl-Rasheed, Madawi (2010). A History of Saudi Arabia (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-74754-7.\nTroeller, Gary (1976). The Birth of Saudi Arabia: Britain and the Rise of the House of Sa'ud. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-3062-4.\nVassiliev, Alexei (1998). The History of Saudi Arabia. London: Saqi. ISBN 0-86356-935-8.\nWikimedia Commons has media related to Atlas of Saudi Arabia.\nHous of Saud, a 2005 documentary by PBS' Frontline. 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{"text":"Vale keeps 400mln tpy iron ore output guidance, expects prices in $60-80\/t range\nBrazilian miner Vale is committed to maintaining iron ore production at 400 million tonnes per year until 2023 from its estimated capacity of 450 million tpy, the company said on Tuesday December 4 during an investor presentation at the New York Stock Exchange.\nThe miner, the world's largest iron ore producer and one of the most efficient ones, is not alarmed by recent price weakness, chief executive officer Fabio Schvartsman said. He maintained estimates of $60-80 per tonne for 62% Fe prices in the next year, stating \"it is a comfortable band\" for the company. \"We were already expecting prices to soften during winter in China and planning to hold a little bit in inventories in order to take advantage during the start of next year,\" the CEO said.\nVale keeps 400mln tpy iron ore output guidance, ex...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Comic Strip of the Day \u2013 Friday Funnies\nPosted by Mike Peterson\nAmid the flood of Back-to-School cartoons that didn't make me laugh, Baby Blues evokes a memory of parenting that did.\nGranted, it wasn't over math, since my boys were both better at math than I was and the teaching of math is far superior than it was in my day. Those factors are probably related, but math and arithmetic were \"shut up and memorize this\" when I was in school and the kids got \"here's why\" in their lessons.\nBetter than that, when they got to geometry and proofs, where I got \"no, that's wrong,\" they got, \"Okay, that works this time, but here's why it's gonna get you in trouble when we hit the next level.\"\nIn any case, my wanting to scream into the desert came in the Arts & Letters sector, because, no matter how bright they are, no matter how you try to explain it, kids have a concreteness up until maybe sophomore year that prevents them from understanding motivations that don't involve bodily needs like thirst and hunger.\nI tried teaching a weekly enrichment course to eighth graders in which we read \"Hamlet,\" which is chock-full of subtle, implied motivations.\nI don't think they learned a damn thing, but I sure did.\nJuxtaposition of the Season\n(Arlo and Janis)\n(Frazz)\nThere was a time, O Best Beloved, when Labor Day really did mark the end of summer, just as Memorial Day marked the start.\nMy Colorado reporters have been back in the classroom for two weeks and my New Hampshire grandkids went back this week. They'll all be in school on Memorial Day, too.\nHowever, I don't share Caulfield's objection to where Labor Day falls, because I always saw it as \"Summer's over, but, before we get back to work, here's an appreciation \u2026.\"\nThough, as noted the other day, Americans get precious little time off to begin with, so it's hard to feel appreciated.\nAnyway, Columbus Day is the end of summer hereabouts, because that's when the autumn leaves are over and the tourist places shut down for winter, though some of them have already shifted to weekends-only because half their workers are back in school.\nAs for barbecue, I already knew that most of my South African friends are apparently not even aware that it's possible to cook indoors. However, I hadn't known how widespread things were until I heard the makers of this film interviewed on NPR the other day:\n(Available on Netflix)\nOther Juxtaposition of the Day\n(A&J encore)\n(Arctic Circle)\nI'm in the same boat as Arlo, though I store my plastic bags in another plastic bag. But I bring my reusables to the store, fill them, bring them into the house and leave them there for months, then repeat the process.\nI guess if they banned plastic bags here, I'd have to remember, but I wish that, if they moved in that direction, they'd simply ban the flimsy kind.\nThe Coop Stores here use a bag of old-fashioned heft, which won't blow away and which can be used for dredging chicken or for packaging goopy garbage, and they even have a bin where you can put your old bags for other people to grab on their way into the store.\nAnd they have paper bags, and they still ask.\nThe reason I juxtapose these two is that I remember when plastic bags and plastic milk bottles hit the grocery stores in the early early 70s, and many of us objected to the waste. And we might as well have been screaming into the desert with Wanda (see above) for all the good it did.\nI was behind a woman at the grocery store recently who had five reusable cloth bags. And was buying a case of coffee K-cups. We are ineducable.\nBut the bacon thing astounds me. While not everyone lived on brown rice and Jerusalem artichokes back in them thar days, we did avoid excess sodium, fats and, particularly, nitrates.\nUntil we didn't.\nAnd, while kale and pomegranates have been promoted on dubious health claims, you sure can't say that about bacon, which is not only far more popular than it deserves to be but has become fetishized to the point of bizarre nonsense.\nI hope somebody at the Pork Producers Council got a big fat raise.\nAnd a carton of Marlboros, because why the hell not?\nHere, Fastrack manages to hook into both Back to School seasonal issues and a current media kerfuffle, and, by the way, I like how Bill Holbrook has evolved Fi from an annoying side character into someone of substance.\nThe school issue is that I am of the belief that anyone proposing year-round school should sit in a classroom full of middle school students in July. Most schools in this part of the country have an air conditioner sticking out of the window of the principal's office because that's the only part of the building in use over the summer.\nYou want year round school, brace your budget for some major re-fitting.\nMeanwhile, while I'm pulling for Cynthia Nixon to join the overall upset of the establishment, the flap over thermostat settings at her debate with NY Governor Andrew Cuomo pinged a funny memory but a real gripe.\nAs said before, I was once one of two men in an office full of women, and they kept turning the heat up while I kept turning it back down. We actually had two buildings, and one held the newsroom, business office and print shop, mostly male and kept cool, while the other was for advertising and circulation, mostly women and set at tropical levels.\nI finally told my coworkers that I was going to start coming to work in sleeveless T-shirts and gym shorts if they didn't relent, which made them giggle in horror.\nBut they were in light, sleeveless outfits, and, if there were ever a logical, objective argument in favor of the little blue dress-for-success suit for women, and the abandonment of jackets and ties for men, this is it.\n#1 Mary McNeil\nAugust\/31\/2018\nSorry, but as long as there are still disposable diapers (baby and adult) I will continue to enjoy Keurig K Cups. But I have dug the grounds out of them to put in the compost pile.\n#2 Mike Peterson\nhttps:\/\/deansbeans.com\/ekobrew-reusable-filter.html\nPlus, Dean supports small growers with greater transparency.\nA different rant, however \u2014 Fair Trade in coffee is like Sustainable Fishing \u2014 the competing certification groups require complex sorting and vetting.\nIn any case, re-usable filters are kinda like cloth diapers but \u2014 and I've changed a lot of diapers and made a lot of coffee \u2014 a whole lot less labor intensive. And pleasant to handle.\nYMMV, but I hope not on that last part. ;-)\n#3 Bob Crittenden\nSeptember\/2\/2018\nI use a K-cup filter at work. However, my wife will not use one, so I (as the grocery shopper) must also buy K-cups (sometimes, by the case). You know, happy wife\u2026. etc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Media, Society and Culture BA\nMedia and society have a complicated relationship. Why is this? It's an increasingly important question, and one you'll tackle through in-depth study of the key debates and theories that underpin it.\nMedia, Society and Culture BA, 3-4 years\nTypical offer ABB\nUCAS code PL33\nInstitute code L34\nTaught by Media and Communication\nTop 25 in the UK for Communication and Media Studies (Complete University Guide 2022)\n91% of students in work or further study six months after graduating (The Uni Guide 2021)\n15th in the UK for Sociology and Social Policy (The Guardian University Guide 2023)\nMedia and Communication website\nOur BA in Media, Society and Culture is for those with a deep interest in the media but who are also keen to explore wider sociological questions, and who want to develop knowledge and skills relevant to jobs outside, as well as inside, the media arena.\nThere is no better city than Leicester to explore fundamental sociological concepts such as ethnicity, migration and social class. The University has been at the forefront of media and sociology research, with over 100 years of combined expertise in these subjects. This course has been designed to make the most of that expertise. We are ranked as one of the top 15 places in the UK to study Communication and Media Studies*.\nYou will learn about a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of media and social issues and will obtain the ability to apply these to contemporary issues and debates. We offer a diverse range of optional modules from both media and sociology, allowing you to tailor your degree to your personal interests.\nOur supportive and stimulating learning environment will help you to develop the ability to work independently and will foster skills in critical analysis, communication, research methods, group work and employability.\n*The Complete University Guide 2021\nNB. This course was previously named Media and Society BA\nA\/AS-levels: ABB. All subjects accepted. Two AS-levels considered in place of one A-Level\nEPQ with A-levels: BBB + EPQ at grade B\nAccess to HE Diploma: Pass Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3, including 30 credits at Distinction\nInternational Baccalaureate: Pass Diploma with 30 points overall.\nBTEC Nationals: Full Diploma with DDM\nOther national and international qualifications considered. If you do not meet the entry requirements for this course, you can apply for the International Foundation Year \u2013 Society and Culture run by the Global Study Centre. The GSC provides academic support to help you progress to your chosen undergraduate degree at the University of Leicester.\nSecond Year Entry may be possible with suitable qualifications.\nWhen considering your application, we will look for evidence that you will be able to fulfil the objectives of the course and achieve the standards required. We will take into account a range of factors including previous exam results.\nApplicants are not normally interviewed. If you receive an offer you will be invited to visit the department.\nStarting in 2023\n\u00a39,250 in your first year. Tuition fees are subject to government regulations and may change in future years\nYear Abroad: your fee will be \u00a31,250 for that year\nYear Abroad: \u00a34,550 which is 25% of the full-time tuition fee\nWe run employability and media production modules as part of our curriculum \u2013 e.g. 'The Production of News' and 'Online Journalism: Theory and Practice'.\nOur students are encouraged to get involved in the student-run media on campus, including Galaxy - our student magazine, LUST - our student TV station, and LUSH Radio - our student radio station.\nWe organise external speaker events, industry visit days, career development training and other initiatives in collaboration with local and national media organisations, giving you valuable insights into the professional media world.\nIn addition, our departmental Careers Tutor can support and advise you on careers matters throughout your time with us.\nGraduate destinations\nRecent graduates have gone on to work for companies such as:\nArtavia Advertising\nCity Index\nE.ON Energy\nGogglebox Entertainment\nWeb Liquid Digital Marketing\nOthers have gone on to further study in the following fields:\nBroadcast Journalism\nCinema and Television\nCareer Development Service\nGet career-ready at Leicester with guidance from our award-winning Career Development Service. We're here to give you a lifetime offer of support, even after graduation. Our team of specialist careers advisers and mentors will help you every step of the way. From supporting you with CVs and interviews, to volunteering opportunities and placements, we're here to help you reach your professional goals.\nWe are committed to providing skills and knowledge to help prepare you tackle global challenges. We have mapped our undergraduate degrees for learning which aligns to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.\nThis degree includes learning which relates to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:\nGoal 5: Gender equality\nGoal 10: Reduced inequalities\nFind out more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals\nBy the end of your first year you should have a good grasp of the key facets of the media-society relationship and knowledge of the ways societies develop and change.\nSociology in Practice\nPower, Privilege and Diversity\nIntroduction to Academic Skills\nSociety in Transformation\nGlobal Media\nCreative Audiences\nIn your second year you will have more flexibility to choose the option modules that interest you the most. Over the course of the year you will study the key research methods and approaches used for analysing media content, media organisations and media audiences, and you will gain advanced knowledge of doing social research and studying sociological topics and theories.\nLive Sociology\nProfessionalism and Employment in the Media\nSociological Theory Explored\nMedia Research in Practice\nThe Production of News\nIdentity and Popular Culture\nGlobal Film Culture\nThen choose one option module from:\nGender and Society\nThe Politics of Beauty\nYouth, Young Adulthood and Society\nFinally, choose one option module from:\nSociology of Fashion\nWork, Employment and Society\nSociology Through Literature and Film\nYear Abroad (optional)\nWe'll make sure you have everything you need for your future career: not just by awarding you a high quality degree, but also by helping you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to make your mark in the world as a Citizen of Change. One way you can do this is by opting to take a Year Abroad between Years 2 and 3 of your degree.\nStudying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to a career in the private, public or third sector - or plough your own furrow as an entrepreneur \u2013 you will find the experience invaluable.\nFor more information, including a list of destinations, please visit our Study Abroad website.\nA year spent abroad still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See the Fees and Funding tab of this page for details.\nYou may be eligible for a travel grant from Student Finance England.\nPlaces are offered on a competitive basis, and eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2.\nLanguage courses, at beginners or advanced level, are available through our Languages at Leicester scheme.\nFinal year\nIn your final year, half of your time will be spent studying media and the other half sociology. You'll be able to choose from a wide range of optional modules in these subjects.\nYou will choose one main piece of work from the following:\nReal World Research\nChoose one Media option module from:\nEnvironmental Communication\nGlobal Cultures\nThe Media on Film\nMedia, Celebrity and Fan Culture\nMedia and The Body\nReporting Panics\nMedia, Rights and Responsibilities\nPlus one Media option module from:\nMedia and Gender\nMusic as Communication\nOnline Journalism: Theory and Practice\nCommunity Radio in Practice\nWriting for PR\nAdvertising and Consumer Culture\nPlus one Sociology option module from:\nIdentity Troubles: Nationalism, Jihadism and the Far Right\nAutobiographical Society\nEducation and Social Justice\nFrom the following Sociology modules, you will then choose one option module if you selected the Dissertation or two option modules if you chose to do the Research Project or Real World Research:\nFootball and Society\nSpace, Place and Contemporary Culture\nThe Global Sex Trade\nLoad the video related to: Talking to guest speakers gave Anant the confidence to pursue his career.\nTalking to guest speakers gave Anant the confidence to pursue his career.\nMedia and Communication at Leicester\nThe academic staff in the department have written or edited dozens of books and publish regularly in major national and international journals. Where other people only get to read what our experts think, you will be working directly with them, learning from them in lectures and questioning them in seminars.\nWe're among the top 50 universities in the world for Communication and Media Studies according to the QS University World Rankings.\nThe Complete University Guide 2021 ranked us 15th in the country for teaching media and communication.\nWe were ranked 15th in the UK for Media and Communication by The Times Good University Guide 2020.\nTeaching methods include lectures, seminars, screenings, various practical activities and assessments, and one-to-one supervision. All teaching is by subject specialists and teaching methods are adapted to suit the aims and objectives of each module.\nIn your first year you will have additional workshops around study skills, essay writing and preparing for exams. A variety of teaching approaches are employed in the second and third year depending on the modules you take. For example, teaching in film studies incorporates film screenings, group work and student presentations based on detailed research on a chosen film topic. One-to-one teaching is an important feature of the degree. In your third year your dissertation work will be supervised by a subject-specialist. You will be allocated a personal tutor whose job is to provide you with pastoral and academic support throughout the programme.\nModules are assessed by a combination of essays, exams, reviews and presentations. You will complete a 10,000 word dissertation or research project in your third year.\nYou will have regular meetings with your Personal Tutor to discuss progress in your studies. Your Personal Tutor will also provide a sympathetic ear for all matters of personal concern, whether they be academic, financial, housing, career or social issues.\nWhen not attending lectures, seminars or other timetabled sessions you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. Typically, this will involve reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects, undertaking research in the library, preparing coursework assignments and presentations, and preparing for exams. To help with your independent learning, you can access the Library and our social study spaces in halls of residence.\nYour contact hours will depend on the option modules you select. You can see details of the contact hours on individual module pages.\nOur Student Learning Development Team provides help in the following areas:\nstudy and exam skills\nnumerical data skills\nreferencing sources\nOur AccessAbility Centre offers support and practical help for students with dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties, including physical, mental health or mobility difficulties, deafness, or visual impairment.\nYou will be taught by an experienced teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course. PhD research students who have undertaken teacher training may also contribute to the teaching of seminars under the supervision of the module leader. Our teaching is informed by the research we do. You can learn more about our staff by visiting our staff profiles.\nUCAS Code\nCourse Media, Society and Culture Qualification BA Duration 3 years full-time UCAS Code PL33 Availability How to apply\nCourse Media, Society and Culture with Year Abroad Qualification BA Duration 4 years full-time UCAS Code PL33 Availability How to apply\nData about this course\nMy degree has a wide variety of module choices, which has allowed me to explore and critically analyse different media platforms and texts, from British newspapers to K-Pop.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HP - Get News & Ratings Daily\nEnter your email address below to get the latest news and analysts' ratings for HP with our FREE daily email newsletter:\nHP (HPQ) Upgraded to \"Hold\" at Zacks Investment Research\nApril 11th, 2019 - Comments Off on HP (HPQ) Upgraded to \"Hold\" at Zacks Investment Research - Filed Under - by Hanz Christensen\nFiled Under: Analyst Articles - US - Investing\nZacks Investment Research upgraded shares of HP (NYSE:HPQ) from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research report sent to investors on Wednesday, Zacks.com reports.\nAccording to Zacks, \"HP's efforts to turnaround the business have been commendable. The company is focusing on product innovation & differentiation, pricing, and marketing and sales activities to trigger demand for its PC and Printing products in the market, which is currently witnessing a slowdown. The company projects CPU shortages to show improvements during the second half as well as the cost from the overall basket of Components and Logistics is anticipated to improve. We note that rising macro uncertainties and price sensitivity among customers are overhangs on the company's high-margin Printing business. Change in customer behavior with more customers buying items online, is negatively impacting HP's Supplies share. Adverse currency volatility is another headwind to the company. Shares underperformed the industry in the past year.\"\nGet HP alerts:\nSeveral other equities analysts also recently issued reports on HPQ. Wolfe Research initiated coverage on HP in a research report on Tuesday, December 11th. They issued an outperform rating on the stock. Standpoint Research began coverage on HP in a research report on Wednesday, December 26th. They issued a buy rating and a $19.38 target price on the stock. Royal Bank of Canada reaffirmed a buy rating and issued a $26.00 price target on shares of HP in a report on Wednesday, January 2nd. BMO Capital Markets reaffirmed a hold rating and issued a $22.00 price target on shares of HP in a report on Wednesday, February 27th. Finally, Bank of America lowered shares of HP from a buy rating to an underperform rating and set a $19.00 price target on the stock. in a report on Thursday, February 28th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the stock. HP currently has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus price target of $26.03.\nShares of NYSE HPQ traded up $0.11 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $20.08. The stock had a trading volume of 2,697,189 shares, compared to its average volume of 14,007,893. HP has a twelve month low of $18.46 and a twelve month high of $27.08. The company has a market cap of $30.65 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.94, a PEG ratio of 3.24 and a beta of 1.39.\nHP (NYSE:HPQ) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, February 27th. The computer maker reported $0.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.52. HP had a negative return on equity of 216.97% and a net margin of 7.15%. The firm had revenue of $14.71 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $14.81 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.48 EPS. The firm's revenue was up 1.3% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that HP will post 2.14 earnings per share for the current year.\nThe firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, April 3rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 13th were issued a $0.1602 dividend. This represents a $0.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, March 12th. HP's payout ratio is 31.68%.\nIn other news, CEO Dion J. Weisler sold 36,799 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $20.00, for a total transaction of $735,980.00. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Corporate insiders own 0.25% of the company's stock.\nSeveral hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of HPQ. Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its stake in shares of HP by 6.2% during the 3rd quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 19,076,825 shares of the computer maker's stock worth $491,611,000 after acquiring an additional 1,120,811 shares in the last quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. lifted its stake in HP by 86.8% in the 3rd quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 367,166 shares of the computer maker's stock valued at $9,461,000 after buying an additional 170,560 shares in the last quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp lifted its stake in HP by 204.6% in the 3rd quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 28,759 shares of the computer maker's stock valued at $741,000 after buying an additional 19,318 shares in the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC lifted its stake in HP by 3.9% in the 3rd quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 126,997 shares of the computer maker's stock valued at $3,273,000 after buying an additional 4,733 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors purchased a new position in HP in the 3rd quarter valued at about $22,738,000. 81.03% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.\nHP Company Profile\nHP Inc provides products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. It operates through Personal Systems and Printing segments. The Personal Systems segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, thin clients, commercial tablets and mobility devices, retail point-of-sale systems, displays and other related accessories, software, support, and services for the commercial and consumer markets.\nRecommended Story: What is Green Investing?\nGet a free copy of the Zacks research report on HP (HPQ)\nReceive News & Ratings for HP Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for HP and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"It appears that your web browser does not support JavaScript, or you have temporarily disabled scripting.\nLogin Subscribe Translate\nThis Google\u2122 translation feature is provided for informational purposes only.\nThe New York State Office of the State Comptroller's website is provided in English. However, the \"Google Translate\" option may help you to read it in other languages.\nGoogle Translate\u2122 cannot translate all types of documents, and it may not give you an exact translation all the time. If you rely on information obtained from Google Translate\u2122, you do so at your own risk.\nThe Office of the State Comptroller does not warrant, promise, assure or guarantee the accuracy of the translations provided. The State of New York, its officers, employees, and\/or agents are not liable to you, or to third parties, for damages or losses of any kind arising out of, or in connection with, the use or performance of such information. 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As a result, they may not have procured goods and services economically and in a manner that is in the best interests of taxpayers.\nPolicies and procedures were inadequate and did not help ensure officials sought competition for goods and services.\nOfficials did not seek competition for insurance coverage totaling $232,624 or for four of six professional service providers paid $301,023 during our 14-month audit period. Officials used the same insurance provider for about 20 years and each of the four remaining vendors for at least 10 years without periodically seeking competition.\nDistrict officials may have saved at least $3,700 on fuel costs by using a State contract.\nKey Recommendations\nUpdate the procurement policy and related procedures to include detailed guidance for procuring goods and services not subject to competitive bidding requirements.\nPeriodically compare prices for goods and services to State contracts and contracts bid by other governments.\nDistrict officials generally agreed with our findings and recommendations and indicated they will take corrective action. 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{"text":"Engelby - Engskow\nAlex - Amanda\nAlfred Engle\nAlfred Engle (1954 - 2006)\nWaupaca, Waupaca County, Wisconsin 54981\nAlfred Engle of Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wisconsin was born on August 23, 1954, and died at age 51 years old on August 4, 2006.\nAlfred Engle Alfred Engle (1954 - 2006)\nAlfred Engle's Biography\nFamily, friend, or fan this Collaborative Biography is for you to show & tell Alfred's life so that he is always remembered.\nAbout Alfred\nThis section is to introduce Alfred Engle with highlights of his life and how he is remembered. Select the pencil to add details.\nLooking for another Alfred Engle?\nWhat is Alfred's ethnicity and where did his parents, grandparents & great-grandparents come from?\nWhere was Alfred born and where did he live?\nDid Alfred finish grade school, get a GED, go to high school, get a college degree or masters? What schools or universities did Alfred attend?\nWas Alfred a religious man?\nShare what Alfred did for a living or if he had a career or profession.\nShare highlights of Alfred's life. Experiences, organizations, & how he spent his time.\nDid Alfred serve in the military or did a war or conflict interfere with his life?\nThe below was generated. Please share Alfred's obituary if available, or write one in your own words to preserve his memory.\nAlfred Engle passed away at age 51 years old on August 4, 2006. Alfred Engle of Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wisconsin was born on August 23, 1954.\nAlfred Engle lived 22 years shorter than the average Engle family member when he died at the age of 51.\nThe average age of an Engle family member is 73.\nWho is Alfred Engle to you? Share memories and family stories, photos, or ask questions.\nFind records of Alfred Engle\nFind records of Alfred\nAlfred's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Engle family tree.\nAlfred's Family Tree\nFriends can be as close as family. Add Alfred's family friends, and his friends from childhood through adulthood.\nRefresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Alfred's lifetime.\nIn 1954, in the year that Alfred Engle was born, from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. McCarthy hearings were held. The U.S. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. McCarthy and Cohn accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. The Army allegations were found to be true. The U.S. Senate later censured McCarthy.\nIn 1960, by the time he was merely 6 years old, on September 26th, the first televised debate for a Presidential campaign in the United States - Kennedy vs Nixon - was held. Seventy million people watched the debate on TV. The debate pre-empted the very popular Andy Griffith Show.\nIn 1978, Alfred was 24 years old when on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.\nIn 1987, when he was 33 years old, was the first time that a criminal in the United States - a serial rapist - was convicted through the use of DNA evidence.\nIn 1994, at the age of 40 years old, Alfred was alive when on May 6th, the Channel Tunnel or \"Chunnel\" was officially opened. The Chunnel is a railway tunnel beneath the English Channel that connects Great Britain to mainland France. Original plans for such a tunnel were developed in 1802 and approved by Napoleon Bonaparte but the British rejected the plan fearing that Napoleon would use the railway to invade.\nOther Alfred Engle Biographies\nAlfred J Engle\nAlfred L Engle\nJan 14, 1879 - Dec 15, 1971\nAlfred M Engle\nJul 19, 1908 - May 20, 2000\nAlfred F Engle\nNov 28, 1902 - Jul 25, 1995\nMay 9, 1930 - Mar 17, 2006\nDec 23, 1932 - Jun 8, 2008\nJan 20, 1904 - Apr 1985\nOct 26, 1899 - Oct 1978\nAlfred N Engle\nApr 16, 1928 - Nov 22, 2003\nFeb 8, 1908 - May 1983\nOther Engle Family Biographies\nMartha Ellen Engle\nBorn Jul 24, 1854\nLonnie Engle Sr.\nBenjamin Engle\nMar 21, 1910 - Jun 15, 1997\nMax Engle\nApr 4, 1913 - Apr 1974\nGeorge I Engle\nAug 27, 1920 - Feb 6, 2011\nRita Engle\nJan 29, 1924 - Nov 15, 1990\nMary R Engle\nJun 17, 1918 - Jul 1, 1999\nWalter R Engle\nJul 17, 1940 - Jun 12, 2003\nJohn B Engle\nMay 13, 1907 - Nov 1976\nMartha L Engle\nSep 20, 1924 - Feb 27, 2007\nHelen Engle\nApr 17, 1914 - Apr 1979\nJames E Engle\nWilliam R Engle\nDec 3, 1942 - Jun 29, 2004\nPatricia M Engle\nDeborah Ellen Engle\nWilliam Engle\nMar 10, 1909 - Jan 1967\nEllen Engle\nJun 19, 1929 - Feb 1978\nRobert G Engle\nOct 14, 1920 - Mar 12, 1988\nZelma S Engle\nApr 1, 1912 - Jan 15, 2006\nMary Engle\nJun 19, 1925 - Apr 1980\nHelp paint a picture of Alfred so that he is always remembered.\nWho were the people in Alfred's life? Link to family and friends whose lives he impacted.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Aetna, Anthem, HCSC, PNC Bank & IBM to collaborate for establishment of blockchain technology\n28 January 2019 | News\nThe goal is to allow the blockchain network to enable healthcare companies to build, share and deploy solutions that drive digital transformation in the industry.\nAetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), PNC Bank and IBM has announced a new collaboration to design and create a network using blockchain technology to improve transparency and interoperability in the healthcare industry. The aim is to create an inclusive blockchain network that can benefit multiple members of the healthcare ecosystem in a highly secure, shared environment. The goal is to allow the blockchain network to enable healthcare companies to build, share and deploy solutions that drive digital transformation in the industry.\nDespite major initiatives to digitize healthcare information, major improvements in transparency and interoperability among various groups in the healthcare system are still necessary. By reducing administrative errors and friction through the application of blockchain technology, healthcare information could be exchanged more efficiently. These improvements, once realized could help enhance patient care and reduce unnecessary costs.\nThe collaboration members intend to use blockchain to address a range of industry challenges, including promoting efficient claims and payment processing, to enable secure and frictionless healthcare information exchanges, and to maintain current and accurate provider directories.\n\"We are committed to improving the healthcare consumer experience and making our healthcare system work more effectively,\" said Claus Jensen, chief technology officer at Aetna, a CVS Health business. \"Through the application of blockchain technology, we'll work to improve data accuracy for providers, regulators, and other stakeholders, and give our members more control over their own data.\"\n\"At Anthem, we recognize the importance of driving change that will simplify the healthcare system for all Americans,\" said Rajeev Ronanki, Chief Digital Officer of Anthem, Inc. \"We view Blockchain as an enabler for establishing trust. Timely access to medical information has been a stumbling block for creating a seamless consumer experience. With a trusted foundation based on transparency and cryptography, we will provide a faster, safer and more secure way to exchange medical information to transform the consumer healthcare experience.\"\n\"HCSC is continuously exploring how technology and data can improve the lives of our members by reducing fragmentation of information and connecting parts of the health care system,\" said Steve Betts, senior vice president and chief information officer, HCSC. \"We are proud to be part of this collaboration focused on enhancing technical knowledge, understanding capabilities and unlocking the possibilities to drive quality, affordable care.\"\n\"Blockchain's unique attributes make it suitable for large networks of members to quickly exchange sensitive data in a permissioned, controlled, and transparent way,\" said Lori Steele, general manager for Healthcare and Life Sciences for IBM. \"The fact that these major healthcare players have come together to collaborate indicates the value they see in working together to explore new models that we think could drive more efficiency in the healthcare system and ultimately improve the patient experience.\"\n\"This collaboration will enable healthcare-related data and business transactions to occur in way that addresses market demands for transparency and security, while making it easier for the patient, payer and provider to handle payments\" said Chris Ward, head of product, PNC Treasury Management. \"Using this technology, we can remove friction, duplication, and administrative costs that continue to plague the industry.\"\nAetna, Anthem, HCSC, PNC Bank, and IBM are actively working to further define the initial use cases for the health utility network. The collaboration will add additional members to the network in the coming months including other health organizations, healthcare providers, startups, and technology companies.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Located at Stonewall Golf Club \u2013 Gainesville, VA\nPMC Golf\nWomen's Programs\nAdult Private Instruction\nPMC Golf offers a variety of lesson-configurations focused on all phases of the golf game to suit your individual needs. Partner with another player for a semi-private lesson, or opt to have an individual private lesson.\nLessons are offered seven days a week. Purchase individually or packages of three or five hours. Video analysis, Flightscope technology and on course instruction are available in any session at no extra charge. Feel free to ask your instructor for a video of your swing so you can track your progress too!\nClick here to book today!\nPrivate 1 on 1 Instruction:\n1 Hour $115\n3 Hours $315\nSemi-Private Lessons:\n(Group of 2 People)\n^^ total price, not per person\nJunior Private Instruction\nWant to take your golf game to the next level? We have a personal coaching program that tailors to your game! If you're looking to reach certain goals, win your club championship, learn your yardages, or just fine tune your game\u2026this is the program for you!\n6 month program \u2013 12 private lessons (2 per month)\nAn in depth written game plan that focuses on your goals\nAt home and range drills to focus on in-between lessons\nOn course playing class\nFlightscope data (club head speed, ball speed, AOA, etc)\nThis program is for the golfer who really wants to lower their scores and consistently work on their golf game.\nHow To Purchase A Lesson Package\nClick here to start and then proceed to create a U-Schedule profile if you already don't have one. Once created, go back to that original U-Schedule link and you'll see \"Buy Products\" in the top left corner.\nClick there and you'll see a full list of our packages. Once purchased, you can book lessons at your leisure!\nPrivate Lesson Cancellation Policy: Cancellations received within 24 hours of a lesson will either be charged to the student or applied against their lesson package. Failure to show up for a scheduled lesson without notice of cancellation will result in either the lesson being charged to the student or applied against their lesson package. Special circumstances will be handled at the instructor's discretion. All lessons must be used within 1 year from purchase date, unless otherwise discussed with the instructor.\n15601 Turtle Point Dr\nGainesville, VA 20155\ninfo@pmcgolf.com\nAll content \u00a9 2023 PMC Golf Academy. All rights reserved.\nKathryn Simerly, PGA Staff Instructor\nGrowing up in Holmes, New York, Kathryn was introduced to the game of golf at age 8 by her father. She earned a scholarship to play Division 1 golf for the University of Memphis, and in her senior year their team won their conference championship and competed in Regionals in St. George, Utah. Kathryn later played professional golf on the Suncoast Ladies Tour and the Futures Tour for two seasons, and then began honing her teaching skills. She has taught the game from Massachusetts to Florida to Washington, including at the Nike Golf Learning Center. Kathryn began working with Patrick at Broad Run Learning Center in 2019 and is excited to be part of the PMC Golf Academy team at Stonewall Golf Club, bringing her knowledge and love of the game to group classes, private lessons, junior academy classes, and camps come 2021.\nAl Giebler, Staff Instructor\nBorn in Jackson, NJ, Al started playing competitive golf at age 8. Al played for Christian Brothers Academy High School, winning several individual and team championships. He was part of the 1999 National Championship team at Central Alabama Community College, and finished his college golf career at Florida State University. Al played five seasons on the South Florida mini tour circuit and then was an Assistant Golf Professional at Knob Hill Golf Club where he eventually won the New Jersey Assistants Champion in 2004. In 2014, he joined the coaching staff at Twin Brook Golf in Tinton Falls, NJ, and took pleasure in sharing his golf knowledge and experience with others and found a passion in teaching players of all skill levels. Al has been a fantastic addition to the PMC Golf Academy, bringing with him a vast knowledge of golf, and a passion in teaching players of all skill levels and abilities.\nPatrick McCarthy, PGA Associate\nPMC Golf's Director of Instruction, Patrick McCarthy picked up the game of golf at the age of 10 and has been dedicated to the game ever since. While growing up, he spent countless hours in his backyard, working at perfecting his swing and sharpening his short game skills. In 2011, he graduated from the Professional Golfers Career College of Hilton Head, SC and has been passionate about teaching the intricacies of the sport to all ages. Since graduating, Patrick has been teaching at very popular facilities such as CityGolf Boston and Twin Brook Learning Center in Tinton Falls, NJ. In 2017 and 2019 he was voted Best Golf Instructor of Prince William County by InsideNova Magazine. In a game that has frustrated many, Patrick brings forth tons positive energy during his lessons, and looks forward to helping others hone their own skills in the great game of golf.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ruans Honored With Iowa Star Award\nJanis and John Ruan III were honored with the Des Moines Register's annual Iowa Star Award Wednesday night in recognition of their contributions to the central Iowa community.\nThe Ruans are dedicated philanthropists in Des Moines who recently pledged $5 million for the lease and nearly $30 million renovation of the former Des Moines Public Library into the Norman E. Borlaug World Food Prize Hall of Laureates, which opened its doors in October 2011.\nThe couple also oversees the John Ruan Trust, which funds arts, cultural and civic projects in the community. Janis dedicated a large portion of her time to local beautification projects, including projects on Ingersoll Avenue and Fleur Drive, as well as the garden surrounding the Hall of Laureates.\nJohn, chairman of Ruan Transportation Management Systems and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as well as chairman, president and CEO of bank holding company BTC Financial Corporation and bank subsidiary Bankers Trust Company NA, said he was humbled by the award.\n\"Des Moines is a vital city that continues to grow and thrive because of individuals like tonight's nominees,\" said Ruan who was joined by his wife, Janis, on stage. \"We're proud to call Des Moines our home.\"\nThe Ruans received a Steuben \"Star Stream\" crystal sculpture at the ceremony, which was held at the Temple for Performing Arts. Iowa Legal Aid was also recognized at the ceremony as the winner of the Aurora Award, honoring an organization that serves a need in the community.\nOther Iowa Star nominees, selected by Des Moines Register readers, included fundraiser Johnny Danos, service-learning leader Cheri Doane, Casey's General Stores founder Donald Lamberti and community volunteer Mary O'Keefe. An independent panel of judges selected the finalists and winners.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What video game(s) are you playing at the moment?\nPages: 1 ... 10 11 [12] All\nAuthor Topic: What video game(s) are you playing at the moment? (Read 35133 times)\nRe: What video game(s) are you playing at the moment?\nI've moved on from the Link to the Past Randomizer (for now) and am now playing Fire Emblem 6 with the English patch. Very fun game; I love the GBA Fire Emblem games a lot.\nZoinked\nI have recently bought Fallout 4 from https:\/\/www.eneba.com\/steam-fallout-4-vr-steam-key-global\nVery nice game ! I will be gaming all night !\nI've been playing some of the tomb raider games, I'm currently playing tomb raider anniversary. I think I'm on the second last level which has been quite hard.\nAlso I've been playing some (Parasol stars) on the atari st emulator, I still enjoy my old games.\nI ordered the Rhem games for my brother and everything went okay as they arrived.\nI've just finished Hollow Knight with 100% completion (Thanks to the additional content in upgrades to the game, the maximum is actually 112%, but they kept the achievement for 100% as-is and added a new achievement for 112%. So there's a fair amount of leeway in terms of reaching 100% while leaving some of the hardest challenges for later.)\nThis is a really good Metroidvania game -- for those not familiar with the term, it's a platformer where instead of discrete levels, you explore a whole world, gradually unlocking new areas (usually by gaining abilities); unlocked areas always remain accessible (usually with unlockable fast-travel) and there are plenty of secrets to find by returning to early-game areas with late-game abilities.\nIt's a genre that I really like in principle, but don't play much -- it seems to be hard to find out about good ones except by watching others play, but then you lose the sense of exploration and finding secrets for yourself. Fortunately, Hollow Knight is one case where the game is still tremendous fun even after having watched it. That's partly because it's really well-made, with stunning visuals and music, and well-designed levels and bosses. It's also because the difficulty level was just about right for me, and I could feel that I was getting better at the game over the time I played it. (I won't do this for a while, but there are achievements for speedruns that I look forward to having a go at.)\nAlso, while there are a couple of very nasty sections, there are ways in which the game goes out of its way to be nice to you. The Hiveblood charm, available around mid-game, allows you to continually retry the tough platforming challenges without risking dying and losing progress. Unbreakable Strength, the most expensive charm in the game at 15,000 geo, was the last thing I bought, but you could get it earlier if you're willing to grind, and it's a complete game-breaker\nI think this is one I'll keep plugging away at, when I have time, until I get to 112%\nShmolem\nI'm playing a Pok\u00e9mon fan game called Pok\u00e9mon Insurgence it is so hard I'm on elite four\/champion I can beat the elite four but I was to underleveled for the champion his top level is 92! So I have to go back and train everyone to at least level 90 might team is a Lucario, Espeon, Delta Gardevoir ( delta Pok\u00e9mon are Pok\u00e9mon that are typed differently Delta Gardevoir is ice, electric) Serperior, Nidoking and Mew the music is amazing to and instead of one evil team to take down there are 5! The Abyssal cult, Infernal cult, Sky cult, Darkrai cult, and perfection cult, my favourite is the darkrai cult because I like their leaders back story and her battle theme but you don't battle her until just before the 6th gym. If you like Pok\u00e9mon I think you should check it out if you haven't already! There are some glitches though like once I lost to an elite four member and the game froze when that happens the game saves and shuts off when I went back on the game though I had no Pok\u00e9mon and it would automatically enter me into the battle and show all my Pok\u00e9mon were fainted then an error message occurred and the game shut off I was stuck in this loop for a while until I figured out how to load a backup save.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Diapers, tyres and wall tiles: Do certifiers need to grant halal logo for more products?\n| 03 April, 2019 | General\nDownload | Print\nRichard Whitehead\nPhoto for illustrative purposes only. A halal label is on display at a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur April 8, 2005. Picture taken April 8, 2005. REUTERS\/Bazuki Muhammad BM\/PN\nKUALA LUMPUR - \"We shouldn't be trying to certify the whole world,\" said Dr Muhammad Munir Chaudry, on the wings of the Halal Certification Bodies Convention in Kuala Lumpur. \"But some countries believe everything is doubtful unless it is certified.\"\nThe president of the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA), a Chicago-based certification body, was remarking on possible excesses in halal certification, a matter that had been exercising some of the certification bodies attending the convention.\nThe flames of debate are fanned by publicity from companies that have recently gained halal certification for diapers, sanitary napkins and reusable gloves, items which many people would not consider to require halal certification.\nIsa Chao, vice-secretary-general of the Taiwan Halal Integrity Development Association (THIDA), believes certifiers have gone too far in awarding halal marks to products that don't need them.\n\"There is overreach,\" he told Salaam Gateway at the industry event in Kuala Lumpur. \"For many, many years, there was no halal certification, and it's only been around over the last few decades. Now we are asked for halal certification for some weird things. As a CB (certification body) we turn down a lot of these requests.\"\nSalaam Gateway's enquiries have revealed cases of certification bodies being asked to audit the halal credentials of items ranging from ceramic wall tiles and copper valves to cotton socks, snails and condoms. Chao himself cited a request to certify car tyres, which he kicked into the long grass.\n\"There are many things we don't need to certify because people have generally judged for themselves what they think is halal or not,\" he said.\nHe believes some CBs' desire for \"expansion\" is behind the rising instances of halal certification being granted in new categories.\n\"Some businesses want to get all this certification; they think the more certification they get, the better they are. So they give halal certification to all sorts of things,\" Chao added.\nPRICE PREMIUM\nBy contrast, Fazil Hamid Marican, principal halal consultant and director of Simply Halal International in Singapore, believes opening up these segments is good for manufacturers and will ultimately benefit consumers.\n\"It is positive for the industry because somebody is taking the initiative to get new halal products certified,\" Marican told Salaam Gateway.\nHe acknowledges that the first company to get certification for a new category will be able to charge a premium, but says consumers can still buy non-halal products if they are price sensitive. But eventually competitors will also have their products certified, creating competition.\nMoreover, regardless of whether there is no intrinsic need for something to be certified halal, the process of having an organisation audit the materials, processes and ethics relating to it provides an extra layer of assurance for Muslim consumers.\n\"The premium the consumer pays for a halal-certified product will come down in due time, but at least somebody has taken the initiative in providing a halal option,\" he said.\nMARKET FORCES\nDr Barbara Ruiz-Bejarano, director of international relations at the Instituto Halal in Spain, believes that free markets will over time weed out the goods and services that consumers don't believe need to be halal.\nSpeaking to Salaam Gateway, she said it was clear that brand owners have been using halal as a marketing tool, but the market would eventually impose limits to this, based on demand.\n\"Whatever product that is reasonable and marketable will work, and anything that is not reasonable and marketable will not work,\" she said.\nConsumers will always vote with their feet, she believes. Observant Muslims will only opt to pay more for a halal-certified product if they are not fully convinced that the product is permissible.\n\"At the end of the day, consumers make their own choices; they have a budget and their beliefs and they balance all that before deciding what they will buy,\" Ruiz-Bejarano said, adding that exploiting a product's halal-ness over ease and convenience to the Muslim consumer could be seen as an ethical grey area.\n\"Let's imagine a guy applies for halal certification and passes the cost of this on to the product. In the end, this product is going to be more expensive than the next product but the quality will be the same. So consumers are going to have to make a choice. Maybe it's not so ethical, but it's up to the market to decide this.\"\nYusuf Aboobakar, chief executive of UK-based Halal Certification Europe, takes a similarly pragmatic view about bringing halal certification to new products. He says it's only natural for businesses to seek to make a profit, though most non-Muslim-owned companies fail to understand the religious importance of halal products to their market.\n\"Companies in Europe don't operate on a religious basis,\" Aboobakar told Salaam Gateway. \"They're not serving any community in particular, but they can see there could be a market in some product that is halal-certified.\n\"Sometimes it's not necessarily to be halal-certified, but people do buy things they don't really need to buy. They are creating this market.\"\nMuch of the time, product manufacturers are only passing on the wishes of their customers when they request halal certification, believes Aboobakar, as evidenced by an application he received from a wall tile supplier.\n\"We were surprised by that. Normally, this sort of thing is not halal-certified. We don't have any specific standards for tiles, so if we had to, we would apply general food and external use standards to certify them,\" he said.\nIn the end, he successfully managed to persuade the tile company to explain to its customer that there was no need for halal certification.\n\"Getting the certification would have made the product more expensive to consumers. Halal isn't there to make things more expensive, it's to make things easier for Muslims,\" he added.\nAnother certifier, Alep Mydin, agrees that CBs are often asked to grant halal certification not to satisfy a desire for profits, but to accommodate public demand.\nRecalling a request by a honey manufacturer for halal certification, the president of the Islamic Association of Katanning in Western Australia stressed this was to satisfy consumer demand. Without a halal logo, the company feared it might lose Muslim business.\n\"As a halal certifier, we have to be very cautious to protect the sanctity of the halal logo. We should grant certification only when it is required and not when it comes out of a company's greed,\" Mydin told Salaam Gateway.\n\"The greed side of certification must be extracted. But often it's not the manufacturers themselves that specifically want halal certification. It usually comes from the demands of Muslims.\"\nThough Taiwanese certifier Isa Chao feels \"very strongly\" about the growth in what he believes is unnecessary certification, he understands that not everybody in the CB community would agree with him\u2014openly at least.\n\"It's a very sensitive subject and people will not tell you directly what they think,\" he said.\n\"As certifiers, THIDA has always been trying to discourage those things that do not need halal certification. We don't see it as good business, but there are others who may think differently. So I don't see any effective way for us to temper this.\"\n(Reporting by Richard Whitehead; Editing by Emmy Abdul Alim emmy.alim@refinitiv.com)\nMalaysian company says JAKIM halal certification for its reusable gloves based on new 'personal protective equipment' standard\nMalaysian company says halal certification for its diapers, sanitary pads signal safety and quality but experts question motives\n05 July, 2019|Salaam Gateway|food\nCambodia's halal strategy paves way to diversify economy away from troubled rice crop, says minister for Muslims\n03 May, 2019|Salaam Gateway|food\nNot just halal kimchi: South Korea to set up certification laboratory in drive to expand halal sector\n14 March, 2019|Salaam Gateway|food\nINTERVIEW: New thinking needed for Malaysia-Japan halal agreement to reach potential, Tokyo halal pioneer warns\nPerception more an issue than EU court's ban on unstunned meat organic status, say UK's halal lamb suppliers\nPharmaceuticals & Cosmetics\nAugSat\nLondon Halal Food Festival\n03 Apr 2019 |Salaam Gateway\n14 Mar 2019 |Salaam Gateway\nTech entrepreneurs seek to shatter stereotypes about women in farming\nIndonesia to cull 3 million chickens in a bid to boost prices\nIndonesia's BPJPH to work with national standardisation, accreditation agencies to strengthen halal certification","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Oh Nostalgia\nThere are many things I love about having One Tree Hill back for at least 13 episodes, even if that might be all it gets (though if I had my way the show would go on forever). I love it's self-aware irony (Jamie refusing to let Chase pick him up from the park because he has a history with kidnappers), it's unabashed sweetness (the loyal friend\/sappy romance wonderfulness) and it's knowing absurdity (there's a fashion conglomerate CEO, 2 rock stars, an indie director, a movie star and an NBA player in their ranks). But most of all I love the comfort of a series I've loved for so long. Now in its 8th season, I grew up with One Tree Hill. Seriously, I think my rationale for watching in season 1 may have been \"Chad Michael Murray is cute\". I've loved watching these characters change over the years (no matter how unrealistically) and I have to say that the current iteration is quite possibly my favourite (Julian over Lucas any day!).\nAnd nothing tops off my love of the current One Tree Hill and the fond memories I have of its past quite so well as the opening credits. Originally a show about an outsider (Lucas) trying to understand life on the inside, One Tree Hill used Gavin DeGraw's \"I Don't Want To Be\" as its anthem of individuality, against footage of a lonely figure dribbling a basketball intercut with current shots of the cast. In season 5, the year the series jumped forward 4 years, skipping the characters' college days and launching them into OTH 2.0: The Grownup Years, that theme song disappeared and was replaced by a logo on a black screen. Now, in what will most likely be its final season, One Tree Hill has returned to the lyrics that defined what it once was, making it once again one of tragically few series with a real opening sequence. Only this time it's got a spin: the shots of the cast show them through the whole run of the series, developing into the characters they've become (a feast for a longtime fan) and the theme will be sung by someone new each week (a nod to the show's record label storyline and famous interconnection between show and soundtrack). It's the perfect closing opening theme: bringing back old memories and reflecting how much the show's grown. Oh the happy happy nostalgia of it all.\nAnd just for nostalgia's sake, here's an oldie but a goodie from the show's 4th season (the final high school year):\nPublished: Wednesday, 2010\/10\/13 - 0:23","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Articles | South Camden Theatre Company presents Marie Jones's 'Stones in His Pockets'\nAmericans in Ireland in New Jersey\nSouth Camden Theatre Company presents Marie Jones's \u200b'Stones in His Pockets'\nSuzanne Cloud\nAplomb and energy: Brian McManus and Steve Carpenter in 'Stones in His Pockets.' (Photo courtesy of South Camden Theatre Company.)\nLast week, across the street from Father Michael Doyle's famed Sacred Heart Church in Camden, New Jersey, the audience was swept away to a tiny village in County Kerry, Ireland. Inside the intimate Waterfront South Theatre, two characters desperately clutch their belief in the American Dream as Marie Jones's unique and award-winning play, Stones in His Pockets, unwinds an Irish tale within a story of Hollywood coming to town to shoot a movie.\nCharlie (Steve Carpenter) and Jake (Brian McManus) are down-on-their-luck friends playing extras in this film on location, but the entire cast of characters involved include the vacuous star Caroline Giovanni; Mickey, whose last film appearance was as an extra in the 1952 John Wayne romance The Quiet Man; and various cast, crew, and village people. Carpenter and McManus play all of these characters with aplomb and energy, expertly bringing forth the soul-shattering clash of the American-imported personal fantasy of \"making it big\" with the traditions and truths of the auld sod.\nA magical opening\nSometimes opening nights are a bit shaky, but this one was magic, with two talented actors playing off one another with brilliant rapport. After my ears adjusted to the brogue accents in the beginning, the words were easily heard and the pacing was dynamic as the two jumped in and out of the dazzling array of characters they had to conjure, sometimes switching personalities in mid-sentence. They carried the audience with them, metamorphosing from demanding and imperious film people insisting that the Irish extras conform to American ideals of Irishness (even the local cows aren't Irish enough) one moment and dissolving into angry Irishmen defending their way of life the next.\nSteve Carpenter, a veteran of Hedgerow Theatre and a Curio Theatre company member, is funny and believable playing the sexy Caroline (in men's clothes) and the arrogant film director Clem. Later in act 2, he brings forth a grieving father with a subtle and delicate warmth.\nBrian McManus, an actor who has worked with the Irish Heritage Theatre and in San Francisco's Subterranean Shakespeare group, brought the house down with his comic portrayal of old Mickey Riordan (the angry extra from The Quiet Man), the frustrated and desperate Sean Harkin, and his delicious assistant director, Aisling.\nMaking it big: Steve Carpenter as starlet Caroline Giovanni in 'Stones in His Pockets.' (Photo courtesy of South Camden Theatre Company.\"\nImmense demands\nPhiladelphia-based director and actor Josh McLucas, founder of [redacted] Theater Company and a graduate of the British American Drama Academy, did a careful study of how this production should flow, and his expert attention shows. Two-actor plays are tough to stage and keep the interest high (especially in our sound-bite world), but the automatic performance relationship can be compelling, and when more than two characters are involved, the demands are absolutely immense.\nThe only problems with this tragicomedy remain with the lighting, set, and music. Samantha Smith, wearing three hats in this production as stage manager, light and sound technician, and production manager, really needed a lighting designer to help accentuate the drama. More creative illumination to help the actors in their transitions would have been effective, especially when the backdrop was almost all white. A nice painting of some rolling green hills with soft brown earthen roads could have communicated the reason the American filmmakers wanted to shoot on the Emerald Isle in the first place. There also should have been a better use of music during the show\u2014the Clancy Brothers are great, but some film soundtrack-style musical effects would really have accentuated some scenes.\nBut Stones in His Pockets, concluding a season of two-handers, is a must-see, and Steve Carpenter and Brian McManus continue the proud tradition of Camden's remarkable theater company\u2014in a gem of a venue that locals should discover if they haven't already.\nStones in His Pockets. By Marie Jones. Directed by Josh McLucas. The South Camden Theatre Company. Through November 23, 2019, at The Waterfront South Theatre, 400 Jasper Street\nMichael Doyle Lane, Camden, NJ. (866) 811-4111 or southcamdentheatre.org.\nThe Waterfront South Theatre is a wheelchair-accessible venue. Patrons with questions about accessible seating can call the box office during regular business hours.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Joe Pickett Novel Series\nC. J. Box\nWyoming game warden Joe Pickett, an everyman hero with a penchant for stepping into trouble, works with an outlaw falconer and his resourceful wife and daughters to protect the land of Twelve Sleep country from hunters, eco-terrorists, cowboy hit men, and rogue government agents, among others.\nAvailable ON (11-26-19)\nSavage Run\nSign me up to get more news about Mystery & Suspense books\nBy clicking submit, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.\nA Joe Pickett Novel Series : Titles in Order\nSort by: Latest to First First to Latest\nAvailable formats:\n#1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box returns with a blazing new Joe Pickett novel, in which the Wyoming game warden must investigate a murder that happens on his turf\u2013a murder committed from a confoundingly long distance.\nWhen the wife of a prominent local judge is wounded on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's turf, all signs point to the shot having been taken from an impossible distance. At the same time\u2013just as he's adjusting to the arrival of his first child\u2013Joe's best friend Nate Romanowski is suspected of being the assassin. All this happens while Joe is attempting to decipher a startling grizzly attack.\nBeset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe.\nWyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf\u2013only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down\u2013in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box.\nThe good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife\u2013and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy.\nWhen Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he's asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only makes him more suspicious. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up in and around Joe's district in shocking numbers. He begins to fear that a pack of four vicious killers working on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel known as the Wolf Pack has arrived. Their target seems to be the mystery man and everyone\u2013including Joe, Nate, and others\u2013who is associated with him.\nTeaming up with a female game warden (based on a real person, one of the few female game wardens at work in Wyoming today) to confront these assassins, Joe finds himself in the most violent and dangerous predicament he's ever faced.\nWyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two lethal cases to contend with in this electrifying #1 New York Times-bestseller from C. J. Box.\nWyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. A prominent female British executive never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard. Pickett knows that happens sometimes\u2013these ranches are stocked with handsome young cowboys, and \"ranch romances\" aren't uncommon. But no sign of her months after she vanished? That suggests something else.\nAt the same time, his friend Nate Romanowski has asked Joe to intervene with the feds on behalf of falconers who can no longer hunt with eagles even though their permits are in order. Who is blocking the falconers and why? The more he investigates both cases, the more someone wants him to go away. Is it because of the missing woman or because he's become Nate's advocate? Or are they somehow connected? The answers, when they come, will be even worse than he'd imagined.\nThe past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in this thrilling novel from #1 New York Times\u2013bestselling author C. J. Box.\nThe plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it. And Joe knew that he might be their next target.\nThe Cates family had always been a bad lot. Game warden Joe Pickett had been able to strike a fierce blow against them when the life of his daughter April had been endangered, but he'd always wondered if there'd be a day of reckoning. He's not wondering any longer. Joe knows they're coming after him and his family now. He has his friend Nate by his side, but will that be enough this time? All he can do is prepare\u2026and wait for them to make the first move.\nThe Red Desert of Wyoming is a beautiful and punishing place for anybody, even for game warden Joe Pickett and his friend Nate Romanowski in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller\u2026\nNate is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of elite professional special operators. They're not there to threaten him, but to make a deal. They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear.\nBut they are not what they seem, as Nate's friend Joe Pickett discovers. They have a much different plan in mind, and it just might be something that takes them all down\u2014including Nate and Joe.\nIn this New York Times bestseller, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is determined to find out who put his daughter's life in danger\u2014even if it kills him.\nJoe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, and now he has even more\u2014Joe's eighteen-year-old daughter, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: She has been found in a ditch along the highway\u2014alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. Cates denies having anything to do with it, but Joe knows in his gut who's responsible. What he doesn't know is the kind of danger he's about to encounter. Cates is bad enough, but Cates's family is like none Joe has ever met.\nA stranger makes trouble for Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett in this gripping thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.\nEverything about the rich stranger is a mystery: the massive, isolated ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances. And especially the persistent rumors that the man's wealth comes from killing people.\nJoe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out the truth. But he finds out a lot more than he bargained for. There are two other men living up at that ranch. One is a stone-cold killer who takes an instant dislike to Joe. He doesn't frighten Joe at all. The other man is another story\u2026\nWyoming game warden Joe Pickett's hunt for a fugitive reveals a conspiracy in this taut thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.\nJoe Pickett always liked Butch Roberson\u2014a hardworking local business-owner whose daughter is friends with his own. Little does he know that when Butch says he is heading into the mountains to scout elk, he is actually going on the run.\nTwo EPA employees have been murdered, and all signs point to Butch as the killer. Soon, Joe hears of the land Butch and his wife had bought to retire on\u2014until they are told the EPA declared it a wetland\u2014and the penalties they charged Butch until the family was torn apart by debt. Finally, it seems, the man just cracked.\nIt's an awful story. But is it the whole story? The more Joe investigates, the more he begins to wonder\u2014and the more he finds himself in the middle of a war in which he must choose sides.\nJoe Pickett's friend's past comes back to haunt everyone he cares about in this \"violent, bloody, and quite satisfying thriller\"* from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.\nIn 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it\u2014like Nate, who's hidden himself away in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. And he knows exactly how Nemecek will do it\u2014by targeting Nate's friends to draw him out. That includes his friend, game warden Joe Pickett, and Pickett's entire family. The only way to fight back is outside the law. Nate knows he can do it, but he isn't sure about his straight-arrow friend. And all their lives could depend on it.\nONE OF LIBRARY JOURNAL'S BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR\nCold Wind\nJoe Pickett investigates a murder that hits close to home in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.\n\"I would say that C. J. Box is at the top of his form, but the top just keeps moving ever upward\u2026A nonstop thrill ride not to be missed!\"\u2014Bookpage\nWhen Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he's not sure what to do\u2014especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin.\nBut then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. Whichever way this goes, it's not going to be good\u2026\nNowhere to Run\nA mountain patrol leads Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett into a dangerous situation in this gripping novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.\nIt's Joe Pickett's last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real\u2014and all too deadly.\nIn this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, a voice from the past has a chilling effect on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett and his family\u2026\nSix years ago, Joe Pickett's foster daughter, April, was murdered. Now, someone is leaving phone messages claiming to be the dead girl. As his family struggles with the disturbing event, he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred. And as the phone calls grow closer, so does the danger\u2026\nIt's elk season in the Rockies, but a different kind of hunter is stalking prey in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Joe Pickett series.\nGame wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp\u2014strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer and stop him, before someone declares open season on humans\u2026\nWyoming game warden Joe Pickett hunts a mass murderer in Yellowstone in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box.\nJoe Pickett's been hired to investigate one of the most cold-blooded mass killings in Wyoming history. Attorney Clay McCann admitted to slaughtering four campers in a back-country corner of Yellowstone National Park\u2014a \"free-fire\" zone with no residents or jurisdiction. In this remote fifty-square-mile stretch a man can literally get away with murder. Now McCann's a free man, and Pickett's about to discover his motive\u2014one buried in Yellowstone's rugged terrain, and as dangerous as the man who wants to keep it hidden.\nWyoming game warden Joe Pickett's hunt for a missing woman forces him to confront his own past in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.\nRanch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in. But when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly violent pranks, Joe wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapters of his own past. Whoever is after him has a vicious debt to collect, and wants Joe to pay\u2026and pay dearly.\nSee all 20 Titles\nA Joe Pickett Novel Series: Bundles & Boxed Sets\nA Joe Pickett Novel Series: Related Titles\nOther Series By C. J. Box\nAbout C. J. Box\nMore about C. J. Box\nFind other titles in\nCrime Mysteries Suspense & Thriller","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WALSH PLANT SERVICES RENOVATES ORIGINAL KUBOTA EXCAVATOR FOR 50,000TH SALE CELEBRATION\nWalsh Plant Services, a southern service dealer of Kubota equipment, has renovated an original KH10 mini-excavator, the first ever model produced by the manufacturer in 1979, to celebrate the significant milestone of Kubota selling its 50,000th excavator in the UK and Ireland this year.\nJames Walsh and his team spent three months stripping down the KH10 model, refurbishing each individual component and rebuilding the machine in its entirety. The result is a mini-excavator that has been restored to full working order, utilising the original engine and pump, since it was first introduced more than 37 years ago.\nIn addition to the restoration of the KH10 mini-excavator, Kubota UK also produced a 'special edition' gold painted KX-71 machine, considered to be a modern day equivalent to the KH10. This machine was donated to construction industry charity The Lighthouse Club who auctioned the machine at its prestigious 60th anniversary Summer Ball, raising \u00a326,000.\nJames Walsh, Company Director at Walsh Plant Services, said: \"We were very flattered to be asked by Kubota to renovate its original mini-excavator as part of its 50,000th mini-excavator sale celebrations. To be able to refurbish a machine back to full operation that utilises all the original critical components is a testament to the manufacturing standards set by Kubota.\"\nDave Roberts, Managing Director of Kubota UK, said: \"Kubota was the first company to introduce and pioneer the concept of mini-excavators into the UK back in 1979, so to see our first machine returned back to full working order by Walsh Plant Services is great to see and give us an opportunity to reflect on how much we have achieved in the construction industry since.\n\"In 1979, Kubota sold only 41 machines and to be able to now celebrate our 50,000th excavator sale in UK and Ireland less than forty years later is a fantastic achievement by all at Kubota.\"\nThe Royal Highland Show, Inghilston, Edinburgh, 20 \u2013 23rd June, 2019.\nRHS celebrates its 179th year and is one of Scotland's most iconic events.\nKUBOTA UK CREATE NEW ROLE TO FURTHER ENHANCE SERVICE OFFERING\nKubota UK has announced the appointment of Martin Tyler as its Field Service Manager.\nStaffordshire based farm machinery dealership J.A Bloor AgriServices Ltd to stock Kubota tractors and agricultural equipment","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pens Talk\nEvgeni Malkin on His Game Winning Goal\nDespite Going 1\/5, Mike Sullivan isn't Critical of Penguins Power Play\nThe power play of the Pittsburgh Penguins had an off night, but still found a way to score.\nNick Horwat\nDec 19, 2022 8:07 AM EST\nIn this story:\nThrough the early portions of the season, the power play of the Pittsburgh Penguins was less than stellar to say the least.\nFor a good chunk of the first quarter of the year, the Penguins had one of the worst power play units in the NHL based on success rate.\nPersonnel changes and a focus on simpler concepts were tried, but work still needed to be done.\nThen, it was like a light switch when off and things started to turn around; the Penguins have gotten a power play goal in eight straight games.\n\"Our power play, for quite some time now,\" head coach Mike Sullivan said. \"Probably the last 10 or 12 games, has been humming pretty good.\"\nIn the span of those eight games, the Penguins have scored 11 goals on the man advantage, and Evgeni Malkin has factored in with nine man advantage points.\nIn their 3-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, the Penguins power play went 1\/5; a less than ideal outcome, but they still managed to pot a game tying goal.\nThe Penguins proved they can still capitalize on those sorts of opportunities and keep the power play running like a well oiled machine.\n\"It's hard to be critical of that group right now,\" Sullivan said. \"They're getting it done for us.\"\nWhile still looking to gain ground and continue being game changers, there has definitely been improvements to the power play.\nThe Penguins have seen their group rise from one of the worst in the NHL to a 21.7% success rating; still below the league average but finally in the top 20 again.\nWhile work still needs to be done, the fans can once again feel confident in the power play; they have shown to be much improved and are slowly becoming game changers.\nMake sure you bookmark Inside the Penguins for the latest news, exclusive interviews, breakdowns and so much more!\nEvgeni Malkin Has Been Penguins Most Productive Player\nPenguins Winning Streak Ends at Seven, Drop Battle to Hurricanes\nWhy Sidney Crosby is a Top 5 All-Time Player\nEvgeni Malkin Practices with Penguins Following Injuries\nPenguins Don't Need to be Involved in Big Name Trade\nSubscribe to Inside the Penguins on YouTube\nFollow Inside the Penguins on Twitter: @InsidePenguins\nBorn and raised in Pittsburgh, Nick is a reporter for Inside the Penguins. Nick has had a hand in covering Pittsburgh sports and news since 2018 previously with KDKA Radio and 93.7 the Fan. He is also the co-host of the Tip of the Ice-Burgh Podcast talking all things Penguins.\nFollow NickHorwat41\nLatest Penguins News\nPenguins Can't Be Afraid to Trade Key Players\nGoaltending Trade Targets for the Penguins\nPenguins' Core Not at Fault for Team Struggles\nJeff Carter Needs Scratched from Penguins Lineup\nRon Hextall's Patience Is Penguins Biggest Issue","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Your NBA Offseason Report Card\nby Andrew Sharp\nWe've had three weeks of the NBA offseason, and with one notable exception, the biggest moves have happened already. Things are winding down. Now it's the middle of July, and the only sports currently going are the British Open and baseball. Football is coming soon, but as of this week, it's rough out there. So, what better way to spend the day than thinking way too much about NBA free agency one last time?\nLet's grade the NBA offseason.\nWe begin with the team that kicked off the offseason in earnest back in June. Are you ready to jump on the Pelicans bandwagon? It's time. We thought it was time last year, but then the entire roster got hurt, and the dreams were deferred. Then New Orleans dealt Houston a first-round pick for Omer Asik, taking last year's \"win now\" approach and doubling down on it.\nNow it's time to double down with them. Go all in. Grow a unibrow. Get the angry pelican tattooed on your chest. Paint your house that ugly bronze alternate color they chose for some reason.\nI believe in the blueprint. Everyone got hurt last year, which made the Pelicans' offseason look like a flop, but when the core players were healthy, as Kevin Arnovitz pointed out in February, \"The Pelicans' desired closing unit \u2014 [Jrue] Holiday, [Eric] Gordon, [Tyreke] Evans, [Ryan] Anderson, [Anthony] Davis \u2014 dominated the league offensively this season before its members started dropping like flies, scoring an ungodly 123.5 points per 100 possessions.\"\nLosing Anthony Morrow this summer will hurt, Monty Williams is still a question mark as a coach, and it's unclear if they'll ever be able to move Gordon. But while 15 other teams made bigger moves this summer, the Pelicans are quietly sitting there waiting to explode in a few months.\nEven the Evans contract that everyone mocked looks 10 times better after he went for 17.4 points and 6.4 assists per game following the All-Star break. Compare Evans's four years for $44 million to what Gordon Hayward and Chandler Parsons are getting, and suddenly $11 million a year is decent.\nOh, and Davis. Trusting the Pelicans' blueprint from the last two summers could look incredibly stupid 12 months from now, but King Brow is the biggest reason I feel confident. He's the next guy to be in the Durant-LeBron conversation, maybe the only real challenger to the throne for the next five years. And in case you forgot, the Sonics\/Thunder with Durant won 20 games, 23 games, and then \u2026 jumped to 50. Get in on the Pelicans.\nGRADE: B-PLUS, PLUS AN ALIEN WITH BASKETBALL SUPERPOWERS\nOne of the funny parts about spending way too much time on the Internet is that sometimes you initially agree with a criticism, but then everybody starts talking about it and tweeting about it, one-upping each other with hotter takes, and eventually the opinions get taken so far that you can't help but double back and start defending what you were initially criticizing. That's what happened with Daryl Morey this week.\nIt went like this:\n\u2022 \"Wow, the Rockets really looked like idiots in the end this summer.\" (Yep.)\n\u2022 \"Morey isn't as invincible as everyone says he is.\" (100 percent.)\n\u2022 \"What happened this summer was a colossal mistake.\" (Umm \u2026)\n\u2022 \"Morey's just a product of incestuous media putting him on a pedestal. He's never been that great\" (OK.)\n\u2022 \"Seven years in Houston, and Morey's made the second round once. Why doesn't anyone write an article about THAT?\" [Backing away slowly]\n\u2022 \"FINALLY, the myth of Morey is being exposed.\" (Wait, what?)\n\u2022 \"Will the Rockets even make the playoffs this year?\" (WHAT?)\nEverybody needs to calm down. The Rockets will be OK. This summer was all about going for Chris Bosh and Carmelo Anthony to fill out a contender's nucleus, then going over the cap to bring back Parsons as a fourth star. That plan may not have won a title, but it was worth the risk.\nNow Houston's paying Trevor Ariza half of what Parsons is getting, and in return it will still have shooting to stretch the floor, plus much better defense. It's not perfect, but come on. The only way this offseason is that bad is if you think Parsons is that good.\nYou can debate what the Rockets should do from here, but \"not pay Chandler Parsons $15 million a year\" is hard to argue with. That decision would've happened next offseason regardless. Just because it came a year early doesn't mean we have to suddenly have a collective reckoning over Morey's supposed fraudulent career.\nAnyway, I'm sticking with the Chris Paul comparison from Monday. Morey's easy to root against for all kinds of legitimate reasons, and he's never been as infallible as the hype suggests, but the broader track record is tough to criticize. That part is not a myth. I hated watching the Rockets last year, but go back and look at the 2011 roster. Morey turned that team into James Harden and Dwight Howard and a five-year window in which a title is at least a realistic goal. If the big criticism is \"TALK TO ME WHEN HE WINS SOMETHING,\" well, that's what people say about Paul. It doesn't mean he's not really good.\nIn conclusion, I hated the Week of Morey Backlash for a lot of reasons, but especially because it made me defend the goddamn Rockets.\nGRADE: B, AND A NEW MASCOT\nOKC didn't do much this summer, because having Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and Serge Ibaka makes the offseason pretty easy.\nThe Thunder's biggest move was signing Morrow this week. Morrow's the type of player who becomes twice as valuable on a great team, and his 3-point shooting (45 percent last year) could end up being huge in the playoffs. OKC was pursuing Pau Gasol for a little while but lost him to Chicago, which actually feels like a win. Gasol never made that much sense in Oklahoma City. Were they going to muzzle Westbrook to have him feed Gasol in the post? Run pick-and-rolls with him late in games and bank on Gasol knocking down 18-footers? Ibaka does most of what Gasol can, and he's 10 times better on D. Wouldn't it be better to just roll with Westbrook, Durant, Ibaka, Steven Adams, and a shooter?\nWell, yeah. And instead of Gasol, the Thunder got their shooter.\nGRADE: A, PLUS A BRAND-NEW PAIR OF WESTBROOK FRAMES\nYou know who didn't send the entire basketball world into a frenzy this summer?\nYou know who never opts out when the going gets tough?\nHis boys wear black, but their collars are blue.\nAnd they're not waving the white flag just yet.\nGregg Popovich has agreed to a contract extension, Spurs say in release. I had been told he was eager to coach another 4-5 years.\n\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 9, 2014\nKeep on twerking, kids.\nWhen you're ready to win titles, we can talk about Pop Culture.\nGRADE: A FOR TRUE MEANING OF TEAM, A-PLUS FOR THE LAST REAL AMERICAN LEADER\nEverything Dallas did seems like it makes more sense on paper than it does in real life. Taking a chance on Tyson Chandler? Sure, seems smart enough. Re-signing Dirk Nowitzki for $8 million a year? Paying $15 million a season to Parsons, stealing a crucial piece from a conference rival? Great job.\nBut I don't know if it will actually work. Maybe Dallas goes from the eighth seed to the seventh seed? Chandler isn't the same guy he was two years ago. Parsons will hurt the defense, and he probably isn't good enough to make the offense that much better. They lost Vince Carter, Jose Calderon, DeJuan Blair, and probably Shawn Marion. All of those players were important last year, and flipping them for Parsons and Chandler and Raymond Felton doesn't necessarily change things for the better. It's hard to criticize what Dallas did given the options, but it's also hard to get that excited about the Mavericks this year.\nThe biggest disappointment of the Mavs summer: someone taking down the video of Parsons signing his contract in an Orlando club with Mark Cuban and house music in the background. At least until he goes on The Bachelor, this was the most Chandler Parsons incident in history, especially when he dramatically crushed the plastic cup he was drinking from. Juliet Litman watched it no less than 50 times the day it hit the Internet. Please, someone, put it back on YouTube. For everyone.\nGRADE: C, AND A THOUSAND PARSONS FIST PUMPS\nThey added Carter, brought back Z-Bo for a reasonable price, have Quincy Pondexter and Marc Gasol coming back healthy \u2026 Why can't that team win the West next year?\n\"Pretty good 2009 team,\" someone said when I asked this yesterday.\nI forgot to add that Mike Conley's still the most underrated point guard in the NBA, Nick Calathes won't be suspended for PEDs this spring, and Jordan Adams and Jarnell Stokes should be awesome rookies off the bench.\nBottom line: Carter on the Grizzlies might be even more fun than Mike Miller on the Grizzlies, and they got Z-Bo to sign an extension through 2017 for two years and $20 million, which is even less than Marcin Gortat's making. Everybody else is coming back healthy next year, plus the young guys in the backcourt. The only bummer of the summer is losing Ed Davis, who was a pretty underrated role player off the bench, especially for the 40 or 50 regular-season games when Z-Bo's only going at 80 percent. Still, forget Ed Davis.\nBelieve in Memphis. Trust in Z-Bo.\nGRADE: B-PLUS AND A THOUSAND ELBOWS TO YOUR NECK\nThey lost Lance, the only guy other than Paul George with the potential to make that offense explosive. Maybe it'll be addition by subtraction, but there's a better chance that this will make an already unwatchable offense just a little more unbearable.\nBeyond futile negotiations with Lance (they didn't even get a chance to match the Hornets' offer), the extent of Indy's offseason was signing C.J. Miles, Lavoy Allen, and an auto-generated NBA2K free agent named Shayne Whittington to fill out the bench. They also negotiated a deal to bring over Damjan Rudez, who sounds more like a West Indian mixtape rapper than a Croatian small forward.\nWe're not quite to the point where everyone can just ignore the Pacers, but it feels close.\nGRADE: D, AND LARRY BIRD'S DEAD STARE INTO THE DISTANCE\nPau Gasol isn't the same player he was on offense three years ago, and on defense he'll be almost as big a liability as Carlos Boozer. Is he supposed to solve the scoring issues they had in the playoffs? Paying him $22 million for three years isn't bad, but if he doesn't really fix the offense, and hurts the defense, even an affordable Pau is just money that the Bulls can't spend on real solutions.\nChicago is pinning a lot of hope on Doug McDermott, who should be solid right away, and Nikola Mirotic, who's a total wild card after two years of vague Internet hype and obligatory inclusion in every single Bulls trade rumor. Mirotic sounds great as an idea, but read this scouting report from someone who watched him this year for Real Madrid. (Includes the sentence, \"He pretty much made Bostjan Nachbar an NBA All-Star.\") They also punted on using two first-round picks in a loaded draft class. Instead of taking, say, Gary Harris and T.J. Warren, they traded up to take McDermott.\nIt'd be one thing if the Bulls didn't see this coming with free agents this summer, but they had a year to try to create max cap space, and with an offer of four years for $73 million, they came up $23 million short of what the Lakers were offering with the actual max. This basically made it impossible for Carmelo to choose Chicago, which also removed the possibility of a sign-and-trade, because the Knicks knew there's no way Carmelo would ever forfeit $50 million.\nSo instead Chicago is bringing back Kirk Hinrich, adding Pau, and hoping Joakim Noah stays healthy for a full season again. Everyone's picking them to jump to the top of the East, which could be setting up for a pretty brutal letdown. A lot is riding on Derrick Rose's knee, I guess.\nHopefully, all this is wrong and the Bulls battle to the death with the Cavs in the East, because that makes the whole league more fun. But for a team that makes $60 million per year in profit, and actually has good players, a good coach, a huge market, great fans \u2026 Bulls offseasons really shouldn't be this depressing. Somehow they always are.\nGRADE: D, AND PRAYERS FOR DERRICK'S KNEE\nCarmelo and the Knicks\nNot a whole lot more to say about Carmelo than what I wrote about the Bulls while he was still a free agent and what Simmons wrote after he signed with the Knicks. When you consider the bigger picture with his career, his free agency turned out to be a lot more depressing than he ever could have expected.\nAs for the Knicks \u2026 they spent a ton of money to keep Carmelo and stay relevant, and they wanted to do that all along, so I guess that's a win? What's encouraging is that Phil Jackson has been pretty impressive so far. Maybe more than just the Zen Masturbator after all. He started the summer getting rid of Tyson Chandler (who didn't want to be there anymore) and Raymond Felton (who is Raymond Felton). Then he handled the Carmelo free agency perfectly and landed Derek Fisher, who wasn't his first choice but also wasn't Mike Dunleavy. Even if he hasn't had any huge wins yet, Phil hasn't made any huge mistakes, and he's got the Knicks in pretty great shape for the next two offseasons.\nSo that's good. The new era is under way. But just to be clear, maxing out Melo to lead this team for the next five years pretty much guarantees any new era won't be that new.\nGRADE: C, AND SAD HEAD SHAKES\nhttp:\/\/i1.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/br-cdn\/temp_images\/2014\/01\/20\/KnicksDBig.gif\nA few years ago it seemed like a great time to become a Nets fan. Mikhail Prokhorov had just taken over, and all you ever heard were stories about wild parties with models and awe-inspiring accounts of his limitless wealth. They were also moving to Brooklyn and a state-of-the-art arena, they had Jay Z involved and money to burn \u2026 all this while the Knicks continued to sputter to nowhere, spending money in the dumbest, most impatient ways possible, killing their fans a little more every year.\nFast-forward a few years \u2026 it is NOT a great time to become a Nets fan. This summer started with the Jason Kidd coaching scandal, which was wonderful both for the feigned outrage over an NBA coach violating some code of loyalty \u2014 given how often they're fired, NBA coaches owe absolutely nothing to anyone \u2014 and the phrase \"Russians are done with Kidd.\" Then the Russians turned to Lionel Hollins, who would've been great with last year's Nets at least.\nAround this time, we learned that the Nets lost $131 million more than any other team in the NBA last year, a number so incredible that even James Dolan was impressed.\nThen Brooklyn lost Shaun Livingston to the Warriors, Paul Pierce to the Wizards, and added \u2026 Bojan Bogdanovic, the rights to Sergey Karasev (Russian!), and Jarrett Jack, fresh off his nightmare season in Cleveland.\nThat's the Nets' summer.\nThey've turned into a more expensive version of the mid-2000s Hawks. They bring back a nucleus of Joe Johnson, a fossilized Kevin Garnett, Brook Lopez, and Deron Williams. I don't even care that he's nailing a 3 in the GIF above. No matter how conflicted Knicks fans feel about Melo's max deal, they can always glance over at Brooklyn's franchise player and feel better. Deron Williams encompasses all the worst stereotypes that people have about Carmelo, but without any of the fun.\nAlso, after wrecking this roster with Billy King\u2013aided moves to build the most expensive group in the league, there are rumors that Prokhorov might look to sell the team and move on. Go Nets.\nGRADE: THIS IS WORSE THAN EAST RUTHERFORD\nOK, a couple quick ones:\nI still call them the Bobcats in my head, and I have no idea if or when that will change. But yeah, Charlotte. Taking a risk on Lance's upside made more sense for them than just about any team in the league. Throw in Marvin Williams giving you 80 percent of what Gordon Hayward would have at half the price and getting rid of the Bobcats history and horrible uniforms, and Charlotte's had a pretty solid summer. None of this makes up for losing 82 nights of magic with McBob, but at least it softens the blow.\nGRADE: B, BUT BRING BACK THE PINSTRIPES\nIf you don't count Dirk taking a $10 million to $15 million pay cut to help the Mavs sign other stars, the Kyle Lowry contract is probably the best big deal of the summer. Toronto could have panicked and paid him too much after their revival last year, but instead they held firm, and Lowry's staying put and coming back to a roster full of young stars who will all be a year older. Good summer for Raptors truthers.\nGRADE: A, BUT BRING BACK THE DINOSAUR JERSEYS\nIf they don't get Kevin Love, there's still a chance that they keep Klay Thompson and, long-term, turn into a team that can contend with anybody in the league. But there's a much better chance that Love will land in Cleveland, Andre Iguodala and Andrew Bogut will break down over the next few years, Golden State will overpay to keep Klay next summer, and Warriors fans will spend years cursing those few weeks before the draft when this team somehow turned Klay Thompson into a franchise cornerstone. Klay's apparently back in the deal as of Thursday night, so maybe it's not over yet. We'll see.\nGRADE: TBD, AND XANAX FOR WARRIORS FANS\nGordon Hayward is good, and as the roster gets better around him he'll only get more valuable. It made sense for Utah to overpay to keep him. Having said that, it's been a lot of fun to watch every single discussion of a contract begin with, \"Listen, if Gordon Hayward is making $16 million a year \u2026 \" That's in a dead heat with, \"That deal will look better when the cap goes up in two years,\" for most dominant clich\u00e9 of 2014 free agency.\nGRADE: B, FOR BELIEVE IN EXUM\nThe Kings are targeting Josh Smith? What the f\u2013k? Maybe the NBA could do a fantasy draft like in a video game and just disperse all of Sacramento's players across the league. That would make so much more sense than whatever the Kings have been doing the past five years.\nGRADE: FREE BOOGIE, FREE STAUSKAS\nI wrote about the Summer of Grunfeld earlier this week, and since then the Wiz added Kris Humphries (great depth, solid starter when Nene inevitably gets hurt for 30 games) and DeJuan Blair (human grizzly bear) to help fill out the frontcourt. It's all so incredible.\nIf you were to pick one GM who won this summer, doesn't it have to be Ernie Grunfeld? Given what was expected, what was possible, and what the Wiz actually accomplished \u2026 it's Ernie's world right now.\nI'm fully prepared for something horrible to happen to ruin all this come November or December, but the Wizards nailed this offseason. They now join the Raptors and Hornets as the three teams with shockingly realistic chances of competing for the Eastern Conference crown. I'm not including the world's greatest GIF, but just know that it's playing in my heart for the rest of this summer.\nGRADE: A+, AND WIZARD PARTY AT ERNIE'S\nChris Bosh probably isn't good enough to be worth $23 million a year on the court, but keeping him at least allows the Heat to preserve some dignity in the short term, and maybe even some hope that they get back to chasing titles in a few years. Overypaying Bosh was smart, and had the added bonus of screwing the Rockets after Houston had been trying to screw them.\nEven the Wade deal is decent. Two years and $31 million is fair, and paying him more money the next two years is better than prorating it out until 2018. They'll still re-sign him in two years, but the cap will be higher, and whatever deal Wade gets should be a lot more affordable. Throw in Luol Deng and Josh McRoberts, and Miami still has some decent weapons after all this. This team can maybe crack the top four or five in the East. Now that Shabazz Napier has purged himself and his Twitter account of all LeBron affiliations, Miami's ready to move forward.\nNone of it makes this summer any less miserable for Miami, of course. Or enjoyable for everyone else. Every time a Heat fan tries to tell you how underrated the offseason has been, just remember all the Heat fans a month ago, telling you how crazy it was that anyone cared about LeBron's free agency. Also, remember Pat Riley's press conference. Also, remember Dwyane Wade's lecture to Kevin Durant. Remember everything.\nIn the end, this fair for everyone. Not a single person in Miami has any regrets about the way the last four years went down, and not a single person outside Miami has any regrets about the last four weeks.\nGRADE: C, AND NOT AN OUNCE OF SYMPATHY\nhttps:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BsWrrV-CIAMe0qE.jpg\nReading through the Wiggins-for-Love Shootaround yesterday, the most amazing part of all this is that there are no bad outcomes here.\nIt sounds like Wiggins is on the table with the Wolves, and that's what the Cavs should do. But even if the deal falls through and Wiggins stays \u2026 that's just more money to chase free agents with next summer, and maybe they keep Wiggins and add another star next offseason. There's a very real chance they make the NBA Finals anyway, then come back with even more weapons next year. Either that, or the deal gets done and Kevin Love makes the Cavs a title contender for the next five years.\nCleveland can't lose.\nNothing's more surreal than that sentence, and that's exactly how surreal the last few weeks have been. Here we are.\nGRADE: A+, WITH DREW CAREY AND JOHNNY AND LEBRON AND LOVE CHISELED ONTO OHIO RUSHMORE\nJeremy Lin.\nJordan-on-the-Wizards Kobe.\nSwaggy P.\nJordan Hill making $9 million a year.\nSteve Nash hobbling off the bench.\nRyan Kelly.\nRobert Sacre.\nCARLOS BOOZER.\nIt's too bad that Julius Randle and Ed Davis have to be involved in this horrible science experiment of a basketball team, but everything else is worth it just to see what happens.\nIt's all building to a riot outside Jim Buss's house.\nIt's all building to a first-round pick that they'll try to tank for but inevitably lose to Phoenix when they fall juuuuuuust outside the top five.\nIt's all building to Kobe losing his mind.\nIt's all building to Marc Gasol and Rondo next summer and Kevin Durant in 2016. Can't you people see that?\nGRADE: A+, LONG LIVE THE OFFSEASON\nFiled Under: NBA, Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers, New Orleans Pelicans, Charlotte Bobcats, Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, Memphis Grizzlies, Zach Randolph, Oklahoma City Thunder, Gregg Popovich, Lance Stephenson, LeBron James, Kevin Love, Andrew Wiggins\nAndrew Sharp is a staff editor at Grantland.\nArchive @ andrewsharp\nMore From Andrew Sharp\nMore The Triangle\nNBA Stock Watch: Buy the Bulls, Sell Van Gundy, and Other Bits of Investment Advice October 23, 2015\nThe Two Ways to Watch the Heat This Season October 22, 2015\nDear Scott Skiles: Please Just Put Mario Hezonja on the Court October 20, 2015\nThe Warriors Are Angry; Long Live the Angry Warriors October 14, 2015\nIt's Otto Porter Season in Washington, D.C. October 13, 2015\nSee all from Andrew Sharp\nWe Went There: Clippers-Mavs and DeAndre Jordan Night in Los Angeles October 30, 2015\nNBA Overnight: Where Was the Spark? 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{"text":"AnimeBooksEntertainmentFeaturedGamesMovieNewsTechTV Shows\nFinal Fantasy 7 Update: Part 2 of the Remake Will Be Launched This Month\nPosted by Mariah Thomas January 30, 2022\nEnhanced Child Tax Credit Isn't over Yet, Keep Letter 6419, You Need It\nIt appears that Final Fantasy 7 Spinoff Second edition will show up at an upcoming Square Enix celebration. On January 31, 1997, Final Fantasy 7 made its PlayStation breakthrough in Japan.\nSquare Enix is hosting a distinctive special edition online to mark the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy 7. Yoshinori Kitase, the legendary Final Fantasy 7 director, and Final Fantasy 7 Prequel creative director Tetsuya Nomura will both appear at the upcoming event.\nThe stream, which will be broadcast live on YouTube, will begin at 10 a.m. GMT on January 31. Yoshinori Kitase, the legendary Final Fantasy 7 director, and Final Fantasy 7 Spinoff creative director Tetsuya Nomura will both appear at the upcoming event.\nThere's a slim chance we'll get a launch date, but there's also a chance we'll see some gameplay videos. Remake Part 1 of Final Fantasy 7 premiered in 2020. It was followed in 2021 by an expansion starring the popular character Yuffie.\nThe remarkable world of the original PlayStation game is expanded and recreated in Final Fantasy 7 Remake. The game is set in Valisthea, an area where gemstone turrets are at the center of a dispute between rival groups. According to the post on the Vevertimes.com website.\nThe remake of Part 2 of Final Fantasy 7 Is Coming\nFinal Fantasy 7 Film adaptation was launched 2 years ago, but no sequel has been announced. According to a recent report, the sequel is in the works, and, like its previous versions, in a PlayStation. However, instead of the PS4, the PS5 will be locked out.\nWhat's even more interesting is its possible release date. Final Fantasy 16 is expected to be released this year unless it is postponed. If this occurs, Final Fantasy 7 Remastered version Part 2 might arrive a year later, in 2023.\nIt will obviously come as interesting to some, given the first game's insanely long project and the fact that the sequel is about to be revealed. The information comes from famous tipster Nate the Hate, who mentions that the game's release is ultimately dependent on the official launch of Final Fantasy 16, according to Comicbook.\nIf Final Fantasy 16 is postponed until 2023, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2 will almost certainly be postponed well. Nate also mentions that there will be no PS4 version, which is not surprising. that Final Fantasy 16 is a PS5 lockout.\nYouTube Rules for Dragon Ball, One Piece Inspired by Copyright Controversy\nRent-A-Girlfriend Update: Forbidden New Series to Be Released in February\nTags: #Fantasy #finalfantasy #games #PS4 #PS5 #USAnews #new Anime\nMariah Thomas January 30, 2022\nA Proper Adaptive Skills Can Win a Player in Dungeons & Dragons\nBerserk Teaser: Moonlight Boy Character Reveal","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gibraltar seeks to establish aircraft register\nThe British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar last month issued an unanticipated request for expressions of interest \"from individuals and organisations interested in developing and operating a Gibraltar Aircraft Register\".\nThe official notice stated that the Gibraltar government would \"consider proposals for the development of either a private or commercial aircraft register, although the preference would be to initiate the project with a private aircraft register that would transition to a commercial aircraft register once a proven regulatory track record has been established.\"\nThe notice goes on to note that the government is interested in the establishment of a long-term strategic partnership to develop, launch and manage the registry. It also makes clear that any new register would be considered as a sub-part of the UK register and would therefore be subject to scrutiny by the UK CAA. The deadline for expressions of interest is midday on 19 July 2019.\nThe information on this page may have been provided by a contributor to ChinaGoAbroad, and ChinaGoAbroad makes no guarantees about the accuracy of any content. All content shall be used for informational purposes only. Contributors must obtain all necessary licenses and\/or ownership rights from the relevant content owner(s) before submitting the same to ChinaGoAbroad for publication. ChinaGoAbroad disclaims all liability arising from the publication of content received from contributors. Links may direct to third party sites out of the control of ChinaGoAbroad, and such links shall not be considered an endorsement by ChinaGoAbroad of any information contained on such third party sites. Please refer to our Disclaimer for more details.\nSingapore to launch new corporate structure for investment funds\nHong Kong grants first virtual banking licences\nChina strengthen protections for trademark rights and trade secrets\nTax-free pensions between Sweden and Portugal under threat\nCrown Dependencies issue further guidance on economic substance\nBack to Articles Page","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nov 28 An Interview with James Childress\nby Dallas Ducar and Louisa Howard\nJames F. Childress received his B.A. from Guilford College, his B.D. from Yale Divinity School, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Childress has authored numerous articles and several books in biomedical ethics and in other areas of ethics. His books in biomedical ethics include Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with Tom L. Beauchamp), now in its 7th edition and translated into several languages; Priorities in Biomedical Ethics, Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care, and Practical Reasoning in Bioethics. He is also co-editor of Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Biomedical Research (with Eric Meslin and Harold Shapiro), and Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action (with Catharyn Liverman). Dr. Childress recently retired from the University of Virginia, where he taught for over 40 years. He held the titles of University Professor and John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics as well as Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. He was also a Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Research in Medical Education in the School of Medicine.\nDr. Childress has been actively involved in several national committees examining ethics and public policy. He was vice chair of the National Task Force on Organ Transplantation, has served on the Board of Directors of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the UNOS Ethics Committee, the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee, the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee, and several Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for NIH clinical trials. He was a member of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission during the Clinton Administration.\nHe also chaired the Health Sciences Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Childress is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, formerly named the Institute of Medicine, and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1990 he was named Professor of the Year in the state of Virginia by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education; in 2002 he received the University of Virginia's highest honor\u2014the Thomas Jefferson Award; in 2004 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities; in 2010 he received the Henry Knowles Beecher Award from the Hastings Center.\nHe has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a post-doctoral Liberal Arts Fellowship at Harvard Law School. In 2010, he was the Carey and Ann Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics at the Library of Congress. He has been the Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University (1975-79) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Princeton University, and a Visiting Scholar at the National Institutes of Health. He remains a fellow at the Hastings Center.\nHis research currently focuses on two major areas: biomedical ethics, with particular attention to theory and method, religion and bioethics, and public bioethics, and just-war theory and pacifism. He taught both undergraduate courses on biomedical ethics, religion and public policy, as well as graduate seminars on love and justice in Christian ethics, just-war theory and pacifism, and legal and ethical reasoning in public policy.\nHis esteemed undergraduate lecture, Theology, Ethics & Healthcare drew students from all disciplines as it thoroughly examines the myriad ethical issues surrounding modern medicine. Childress' ability to tease through the most nuanced topics without bias, allowing each student to drawn his or her own conclusions, serves as a testament to his edifying and highly-respected approach to teaching. As a professor at the University of Virginia, when not teaching, Dr. Childress was writing, or contributing to his many committee involvements. He could also be found in his office, generously giving his time to advise budding ethicists on curriculum selections, internship opportunities, and beyond. As University of Virginia Alumni, Dallas and Louisa have had the honor of interacting with Dr. Childress both within the classroom and through extracurricular engagements.\nOn Entering the Field of Biomedical Ethics\nD: How did you start your personal journey into bioethics, and how did you become interested in the field?\nC: I started teaching at the University of Virginia in 1968, the second year the Department of Religious Studies existed. I was teaching in areas of religion and politics \u2013 specifically, courses on civil disobedience, political obligation, just war theory and the like, as well as broader courses. In 1970, during my second year of teaching, the Center for the Study of Science and Technology in Society\u2014 which was located in the law school\u2014 set up a seminar on artificial and transplantable organs. This was mainly for faculty, but also a few students. They had enough law and medical faculty, but they had no one from the humanities involved. However, it just happened that the chair of that center was a former Yale college classmate of the chair of the Department of Religious Studies. The chair of the center reached out to my departmental chair and said that he needed someone in humanities, preferably someone in ethics, to participate. My departmental chair told me, \"I really want you to take part in that.\" I protested that I was too busy. It was my second year of teaching, and I was teaching three courses a semester, including a large lecture class. However, he persuaded me. It's hard for a junior faculty member to say no to the departmental chair.\nThat seminar on artificial and transplanted organs was a life-changing event. I wrote a faculty paper for the seminar on \"Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live?\" which examined different criteria for allocating scarce artificial and transplantable organs, with particular attention to the value of fair equality of opportunity. It was soon accepted for publication in the interdisciplinary journal Soundings (Vol. 53, 1970, pp. 339-355). The editors wanted to include a response to the paper, and the head of the nephrology unit at UVA, who was also a member of the seminar, agreed to respond, reflecting some of the debate we had in the seminar. That particular paper ended up getting a lot of attention. Not immediately, but very quickly. It was subsequently published in 25 or so anthologies. But keep in mind: these were the very early days of bioethics. Then four years ago, Soundings (Vol. 96, No. 3, 2013) had a retrospective on the piece with five commentators. This paper, my first significant publication, has had a good, long life.\nOne of the things that really interested me about that seminar was the exchange with medical and legal professionals around topics of fundamental human interest: How can we increase the supply of artificial and transplanted organs? How can we distribute the ones we have in a fair and equitable way? These two questions still persist, and require on-going reflection and resolution in light of important ethical values and technological, professional, and societal changes. I started thinking about these questions with others who were serious and wanted to make a difference in policies and practice, which I really found quite exciting. This led to other interactions with medical and health professionals, including a psychiatrist who was also a member of the seminar. Over the next few years, I published a few articles related to bioethics. The term \"bioethics\" wasn't even coined until that very year, 1970 \u2014 a time still early in the development of the field.\nThen, in 1974, Georgetown University invited me to fill the new chair in Protestant ethics, the \"Joseph P. Kennedy Professorship in Christian Ethics,\" located in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; a Roman Catholic chair was held by Richard McCormick, a Jesuit. Because my little article was getting a fair amount of attention, I was invited to apply for the position. I wasn't particularly interested, because I really loved it at UVA in the new department, which was growing rapidly from the two faculty when I interviewed for the position in 1967.\nL: What a neat thing to be a part of.\nC: Yes, I was part of something that seemed to be developing very well. I had already become department chair in 1972 at a very early age but, having arrived so early in the department's development, I had been around for several years and had some seniority. Nevertheless, I was finding it difficult to delegate tasks to others, some of whom had been my teachers in graduate school at Yale, and I felt overworked. The research chair at Georgetown had no official obligations. I could teach if I wanted to teach, but there was no requirement to do so. This seemed to be an attractive opportunity that I should at least consider. And my late wife was also interested in the D.C. area. So, I applied. Because I wasn't particularly interested, I had a hell of an interview!\nD: We would love to hear more about it.\nC: Nothing really hinged on it for me, since I wasn't seeking to leave UVA. And so, I was very relaxed throughout the interview process. When the chair was offered, I did accept it and stayed there for four years. However, a major reason I hesitated at first to accept the chair is that I thought bioethics might be a passing fad and there wouldn't be a lot of interest in it long term; so I wanted to continue my other interests, as well.\nI should also add that I do not think of myself as a bioethicist. I'm a person who is interested in ethics and public policy. Public policy goes in several directions. Many of the issues that concern me relate to biomedicine and healthcare, but also to questions of war and peace, among others. I consider these as two subsets of my major interest. I don't do much in clinical bioethics; what I am really focused on is public policy. My first actual experience in public policy related to bioethics came in 1975 on a topic that still hasn't been resolved: compensation for injured research subjects. Building on this experience, I wrote a paper arguing for justice-based compensation for research-related injuries. It still hasn't happened.\nOn Developing the Principles of Biomedical Ethics\nD: What led you to exploring the field of medical ethics further?\nC: One of my early tasks at Georgetown was to teach in an intensive bioethics course, which had been offered once before I got there. A philosopher at Georgetown, Tom Beauchamp, was also teaching in it, and we had very different views. In the parlance of the time, he was a rule utilitarian, and I was a rule deontologist. And yet, we found areas of fundamental agreement. I had known Tom at Yale Divinity School, before he pursued his Ph.D. degree in philosophy at Johns Hopkins. I had stayed at Yale to pursue my Ph.D. degree in religious ethics. So, we came to bioethics from different perspectives. We decided that we could develop something that might be of interest in the field, because there were very few methodological discussions at the time. Early contributors to the emerging field in the 1960's were people like Paul Ramsey and John Fletcher. They had already done a lot. I by no means consider myself a pioneer. And there was a lot of work in religious communities on medical ethics: Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. The background was already there and so I considered myself in the beginning of the next generation of people working in the field. At the time, there were only a few systematic books in medical ethics. Particularly important were those written from religious perspectives by such thinkers as Joseph Fletcher, Paul Ramsey, Jakob Jakobovitz, Gerald Kelly and John Ford among others. I recall only one systematic book looking at medical ethics from a philosophical perspective\u2014Howard Brody wrote a physician-philosopher's book. Most of the books that were available were anthologies, organized around problem areas, such as abortion, euthanasia, allocation of resources. Tom and I wanted to offer something different. Coming from two different ethical theories, we felt we could get agreement about some important principles. We believed it was possible to get more agreement on these principles than on why we affirm them, and more agreement on these principles than on how they apply in practice. In short, we wanted to offer an ethical framework for thinking about biomedicine and health care. Tom and I published the first edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1979; seven editions have now been published and about a dozen translations into other languages have been published or are being published. At Georgetown, then, I was not forced, but rather led into working more in bioethics.\nD: I was curious\u2014 you said that you don't consider yourself a bioethicist. Can you elaborate just a little more on that?\nC: I don't like the term \"bioethics,\" even though I often use it now for shorthand purposes (as in this interview). The original conception of bioethics, when the term was coined by Rensselaer Potter in 1970, was a very, very broad conception. The term I use most often, when I'm not seeking a shorthand expression, is \"biomedical ethics.\" I have a particular reason for that. I think of biomedical ethics as parallel to business ethics, political ethics, and so forth. But to call the field bioethics\u2014 or to identify specific subsets such as neuroethics or genethics\u2014 is actually to suggest, by having using the combined words, that this is some kind of independent enterprise. I don't accept that conception. Instead, we should reflect on ethical principles, rules, and values that then get brought into play in the particular problem areas of business, politics, public policy, and biomedicine. So, that's one reason I prefer \"biomedical ethics\" to \"bioethics,\" even though I know it's a losing battle because shorthand expressions are often useful. Another reason for my reluctance to call myself a bioethicist is that, again, I think of myself more as working on ethics and public policy, with biomedicine and health care being one of the subsets of this dominant interest.\nContributions to the Field\nD: You talked a little bit about how this a gradual evolution of your career. You also mentioned some of the writings that you've done and the things that you published at the very beginning. What would you consider some of your major successes within your career?\nC: There are some publications that I really like, including, among others, that very first little article, Principles of Biomedical Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, several editions, 1979, 1983, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2009, 2013), and an article on just-war theories (Theological Studies 39, 1979) as well as articles on conscience, organ procurement and allocation, public health ethics, etcetera. So, there are several things that I've done that I really, really like; I'm particularly proud of those. Others, I think, have been useful. I also believe my work in public policy to be important. I've been heavily involved in public policy over a number of years since that first foray in 1975. It just happens I do most of it in relation to biomedicine and healthcare. I served on President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) as well as on a number of other governmental committees addressing bioethical issues. Some of these were bioethical in content even if their labels do not indicate this. For example, I served on the human fetal tissue transplantation research panel and I was vice-chair of the federal taskforce on organ transplantation, as well as a number of committees for the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine). I would also consider the undergraduate courses I've taught, including Theology, Ethics, and Medicine, which I have loved teaching, to be a highlight of my career. I have also really enjoyed teaching my graduate seminars. In the spring semester, 2015, I had one of the most interesting seminars I've ever taught on Just War Theory. I had five students from philosophy, five from religious studies, two from politics and international relations, three had military backgrounds, and at least two were pacifists. It was such a rich seminar.\nD: Do you choose your major topics or did they choose you?\nL: It seemed to happen pretty organically.\nC: \"Organically\" is an interesting way to put it, because certainly the first topic that lured me into the field came from the outside. It was not self-chosen and it came from the outside in more ways than one. I have definitely gravitated towards certain kinds of topics in method and theory and I've probably concentrated the most on organ transplantation\u2014in regard to both procurement and allocation. And more recently I have focused much of my work in public health ethics.\nD: From writing that very first publication to going to Georgetown and being there with basically free reign at that time, what really propelled you towards organ transplantation?\nC: As I mentioned, the seminar that lured me into bioethics was on artificial and transplanted organs, so even though I wrote mainly on distribution of artificial organs, kidney dialysis in particular, I also paid attention to organ transplantation. I found that just fascinating in terms of the ways we think and feel about the human body and transfer of body parts from both living and deceased individuals. I taught a course on Human Bodies and Parts as Property several times in the 1990s and 2000s dealing with a wide range of uses of human bodies and parts, not only in transplantation, but also in research, education, and other ways, including reproduction (e.g., donor sperm and eggs and surrogacy) and plastinated body exhibits. I'm fascinated by these topics.\nL: Do you have a particular piece of work that you think has had the biggest impact on the biomedical ethics field?\nC: Well, I again think that Principles of Biomedical Ethics had the biggest influence. I would say the book has had the biggest impact simply because the first edition came out in 1979, it is now in the seventh edition (perhaps there will be one more!), and it has appeared in about a dozen translations into other languages. Our critics play an important role in our willingness to revise the book as we try to take account of their arguments, accept what we find helpful, and offer counterarguments where needed.\nD: Are there particular things that you focus on when you're making a new edition, to tweak or change?\nC: The way we start with a new edition is to see which one of us has been working on some area, and then that person develops the new draft of that specific part of a chapter or a whole chapter, based on what he's been doing. Our changes grow out of thoughts that we have developed since the previous edition and the ways we've been teaching or writing, as well our efforts to respond to critics. So, that gets the process started and then we go through draft after draft until we get the book that we together like. That's basically it.\nD: So, the paths harmonize?\nC: Generally, but some differences get hidden in the language. We each have an independent life. This is the only work we really collaborate on. But it has made a strong impact. The late John Arras, whom I miss a great deal, commented at one point that Principles of Biomedical Ethics was like the \"Borg.\" This is because resistance is futile, \"we're going to capture and assimilate.\" I was always amused by that comment. However, my counter would be that, \"No, we actually try to learn from others first and see how we can adjust or refine our position rather than try to 'conquer and assimilate.'\"\nD: Do you feel like you also learned from Beauchamp, too, when you were both writing this together? That there were some areas where you might find some disagreement and have to find some common place?\nC: Of course, we have our differences, and we sometimes paper over them, we sometimes convince the other, we sometimes wear the other out. When we started planning this book, we originally had another co-author, a psychiatrist, Seymour Perlin, working with us but he ended up not being able to continue because of other professional commitments. He was part of our early discussions and put us in contact with his editor at Oxford University Press, Jeffrey House, who had worked with him on a book on suicide. Oxford had not published any books in bioethics by the late '70s. Principles of Biomedical Ethics was its first book in bioethics, and now I can't even read all the books it publishes in this field. One nice thing about starting in 1970 was that I could read everything in a particular area in a day or so. I still probably have the eight or ten articles in a file that I read for \"Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live?\"\u2014 so I had to draw from other areas. For example, I didn't know that Paul Ramsey was working on similar issues at the same time --he built his reflections into his book that came out later in 1970 \u2013 Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970). But at the time I was drawing from Ramsey's other work on triage on the high seas, that is, throwing some passengers overboard in order to keep a lifeboat afloat. This was another allocation of a scarce resource. I not only worked with the modest literature in bioethics, but I also drew from a variety of other works to try to cast light on this particular area.\nD: At the time, were you surprised that Principles of Biomedical Ethics garnered so much attention?\nC: Yes, of course.\nD: What do you think surprised you about that?\nC: Well, I mean, you never know, when you put something out there, what kind of response it will get. Some of the best things I've written haven't received much response. Some of the more modest things have. You just never know, right? Not until it gets out there and strikes a chord\u2014what might be useful and why something takes off and gets a lot of attention, while something else does not. It's all very puzzling. I can look back now and see why, given the fact that, again, so little had been written from a philosophical perspective that tried to offer a systematic framework for thinking about bioethics. So, that was one thing. A second thing is that both Tom and I were contributing to the work of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, which produced the Belmont Report, with its famous principles, during these years. Tom was actually a staff philosopher for the National Commission at the time and worked on the Belmont principles, which still play such an important role in research involving human subjects. \"Principles\" became part of the air we breathe, as it were. Principles became a helpful way to organize ethical discourse and reflection. Ours were similar, with important differences. Principles have a downside too, because as critics sometimes note, some practitioners engage in a mechanical application of the Four Principles. Two of our critics, Bernie Gert and Dan Clouser, said others were chanting the \"mantra\" of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice\u2014our four principles\u2014without really grappling with those principles. That can be a problem.\nFormative Influences\nL: Have you had any major influences in your life during your career and was there any work that inspired you or any people in the field or outside the field that really influenced you?\nC: There were several indirect formative influences\u2014I use the term \"indirect\" here because they're not so directly related to biomedical ethics but nevertheless shaped my choices, personal career, and academic life. I come from a Quaker background, but North Carolina Quakerism is a lot like any other Southern Protestant denomination. There are hired ministers, there's programmed worship with music, not what we often think of as the more traditional Quaker silent unprogrammed meeting for worship, with participants speaking out of silence. In college\u2014at Guilford College, a Quaker school\u2014I was further exposed to this tradition, including its critical perspective on a number of social issues, and I found it quite appealing. Also at Guilford College, I worked with several faculty members in a strong department in religious studies. I decided that I would like to teach in religious studies, preferably religious ethics. This led me to Yale Divinity School. At that time, virtually everyone interested in pursuing a Ph.D. degree in religious studies went first to divinity school. At Yale Divinity School I became even more interested in an academic career in religious ethics. Several faculty members there, as well as faculty members in college, were important. But James Gustafson was the biggest influence. He ended up being one of the key figures in the development of modern bioethics or biomedical ethics. He was part of the group with Paul Ramsey and Hans Jonas and others who helped Will Gaylin and Dan Callahan develop the Hastings Center. His influence as a teacher and a scholar was very, very important for me. But then there were many others, including David Little who advised my dissertation on civil disobedience. In divinity school and graduate school, I also learned much from my peers, such as Stanley Hauerwas. And once I started teaching, I continued to learn from colleagues and from students, both undergraduate and graduate students.\nL: That is always important to keep in mind.\nC: So, yes, I learned from them. Then the various other influences really came in more direct way, especially from working with Tom Beauchamp from whom I have learned so much, through debates, and through interactions with colleagues at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University where I held a research chair for four years.\nL: Along with colleagues, how have your students helped to shape your opinions and beliefs on certain issues?\nC: My basic conception of ethics in relation to public policy is that of public justification. Ethics involves critically reflecting on the kinds of reasons we give for the kinds of actions we propose and undertake, whether individually or publicly. I learned a lot through this reflective practice. One of the important people I learned from was Joanne Lynn, a physician-bioethicist, and a fellow at the Hastings Center. She had participated in a summer seminar I taught under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We published an article that played an important role in the debate regarding artificial nutrition and hydration. That article really depended a great deal on her work as a very thoughtful physician. I do think dialectically, and I found our interaction to be quite valuable. I should also add, in that regard, I do a lot of team teaching. Probably more than most people. I'm not even sure I can count up the number of team taught courses.\nL: Oh, that must be very fun.\nD: What do you find that's valuable about team teaching?\nC: It is an approach to a class that depends in part on the other person's views. And I gain a lot of insight from the other person. And, as in the seminar I took part in on artificial and transplanted organs, what I find so fascinating and illuminating is the interaction, the dialogue, and the exchange.\nD: That's wonderful.\nC: It fits well with part of what I find in the public policy context, where we're trying to develop a consensus statement or come as close to a consensus as possible on important matters. It's a willingness to say \"I don't think that I have to have the answer, so let's together see if we can come up with an answer that's justifiable given the range of values at stake.\"\nD: So, in this, it's affecting everyone's life. It's public policy. I can only imagine some of the very long debates or at least discussions that were had.\nC: Yes, definitely.\nD: Returning back to the field and your own goals, what do you see yourself focusing on next? Do you have any plans for, for instance, an issue you might want to tackle or anything?\nC: Well, I'm finishing a long overdue book on Public Bioethics, which includes several articles I've previously produced or published, along with several new chapters as well. And, again, Tom Beauchamp and I may do another edition. But the next thing I want to do after Public Bioethics is a book on Just War Theory. I published a book on civil disobedience and public obligation and another on moral responsibility in conflicts. So, I've already published some materials related to this topic, but I want to pick up the 1978 article on just-war theories as well as some other articles I have written since then and rework those into a book, and, here again, respond to critics, because that one article has also been subject to a fair amount of criticism. I'll try to straighten the critics out as best as I can!\nD: Big plans, as always.\nCurrent Developments within Bioethics\nL: Now we wanted to move into more about the field and your thoughts on certain topics.\nD: Of course, a lot has happened since the beginning. But, specifically, in terms of the whole scope of the field, how do you think bioethics has changed over the scope of your career?\nC: It's changed a lot in terms of expansion. And obviously, it got started in part because of the expanding questions that couldn't be handled well in existing frameworks. After all, medical ethics has been around a long time. Nursing ethics is not so young, either. And religious traditions have long reflected on these topics. So, why in the '60s and early '70s did bioethics develop as an area of critical reflection? Well, in part because there were new questions that had to be addressed. I think that's what was occurring in research, in developments in genetics and reproductive technology, and in organ and tissue transplantation, for example. The 1968 Harvard statement on determination of death was developed in part because of the need to be able to determine death for purposes of deceased organ donation before the organs deteriorate. We needed a way to determine death that would allow us to take the organs, with consent, in a timely way. And we had to consider the patients whose hearts were still beating because of the attached machinery. These were issues that, again, expanded the field and that expansion hasn't stopped. And so, that's where I was mistaken back in the 1970's\u2014bioethics was not a passing fad. I didn't fully appreciate that there would continue to be new pressing issues that would require attention. For example, the last version of my Theology, Ethics and Medicine course had to be revised, because I had to discuss the new and promising gene editing techniques. Topics such as human genetic engineering continue to develop. To take another example, we thought that brain death issues were settled. They aren't; in some ways they've unraveled. Things fall apart, new things develop, and so on.\nExpansion in a second sense has also occurred. The global scale or scope of bioethics has become very important in a variety of different ways through concerns about human rights and global justice. The interest in global public health is a good example\u2014what happens in South Korea, for instance, doesn't stay in South Korea.\nExpansion also occurs in devoting more attention to certain topics or areas over time. Even though I've always been interested in public policy, more attention is now paid to the public policy implications of bioethics, beyond the clinical implications. I think we have seen a broadening out to public policy combined with attention to the larger sociocultural context of bioethics, which brings into play the work of sociologists and anthropologists and others. And I think that's been a part of broadening the field.\nSo, those are some of the kinds of changes that I think are important. I think it is also important to recognize that bioethics has been, in many ways, limited by its origin in the U.S. with its strong individualistic thrust. In the U.S. context, for several reasons, respect for autonomy tends to be particularly emphasized. You can see why it's important, but the U.S. also tends to give it a very individualistic cast that looks very different if you're approaching this from most other countries in the world, even the U.K., with which we share a lot. I think we need more attention to community and relationships, especially relational autonomy as emphasized by feminist thinkers.\nL: When you first entered the bioethics field, you mentioned organ transplantation and dialysis were the big issues that seemed to be the most pressing\u2014 the ones that need to be addressed at that time. Were there any others?\nC: There were a lot of other issues related to behavior modification and emerging mental health issues that led to de-institutionalization in the '70s\u2014so huge changes were occurring, for better or worse. To take another example, in 1973, the end-stage renal disease program was anticipated to be the first step in the direction of the universal health care in the U.S. But it turned out to be an aberration because the estimates were just wrong, and the costs were much higher than anticipated. We're still struggling and failing to provide universal access to health care.\nD: Speaking a little bit about that, during that era, there were obviously some technological changes, too, that were really driving some of those issues. And technology is always changing. Going off of that, what technologies now do you really think are going to change the way that this dialogue goes? What might change the face of medicine or nursing?\nC: What's going to change or what has the potential for blowing everything up is gene editing.\nL: Yes, you mentioned that earlier, why do you think that?\nC: In an on-going effort to make sure that genetic interventions didn't pose too much risk, scientists, ethicists, and others developed a set of distinctions that are still important. One is between somatic cell gene therapy and germ line intervention. Somatic cell alterations remain in a particular person's body; they are not passed on to others while the germ line alterations can be passed onto offspring and future generations. The other distinction is between therapy and enhancement, specifically between gene therapy and genetic enhancement. Gene editing certainly threatens the first set of distinctions, and it will probably be difficult to restrict it to therapeutic interventions, in part because the lines are not totally clear. So, gene editing is potentially transformative but also risky. Several committees and forums have addressed\u2014and will continue to address\u2014these topics. It's exciting, but also troubling.\nL: That was actually our next question\u2014 as medicine and healthcare become more global, what do you think will be one of the really emergent issues in global ethics? I know we had Ebola in 2015, but it's interesting how the media can sort of hype something up\u2014 and then now it's not as talked about anymore. But do you foresee anything in the future?\nC: No doubt there will be terrifying things to keep us anxious and active. But I think large questions about global justice are here as well. They include how we think about not only protecting ourselves from infectious diseases that might emerge and put us at risk, but also how we think about this in a global community that requires attention to health needs and threats in other countries. How can we meet broad needs on a global scale? I think those are critical questions. I don't have an easy way to address them. I think the work of Thomas Pogge points us in an important direction, by pushing us to ask what have we done to create these desperate circumstances. This framework will generate a greater obligation to try to meet needs in the global context\u2014there are ways in which we've contributed to global problems that increase our responsibility. It's much easier to state that point than to say exactly how we should go about addressing it.\nL: Is there a particular biomedical ethics issue that you feel has been under addressed by the field, specifically, or that remains the most unresolved?\nC: At different times, I think it's been easier (and I've been guilty of this too) to concentrate on some \"hot button topics,\" and not to attend as much to, say, public health infrastructure or to health equity in the U.S. or globally. For example, we don't yet have equitable access to healthcare in the United States despite Obamacare. And obviously, some of these issues have become so technical that bioethicists need to know more economics, for example, than I and most bioethicists know. I think that having people in the field who can work in different areas, but also can engage in collaborative partnerships with others to address some of these complex policies is more practical. Moreover, we find it difficult to develop a good, deliberative, and public way to deal with complex issues like gene editing. So, I think we still have a long way to go on a lot of topics.\nL: To follow up, what challenges loom largest for the field right now as a whole\u2014whether it's funding or people's differing opinions and the difficulty with coming to a consensus?\nC: I'd say I've been amazed, as you probably have, too, by some of the changes that have occurred. Socially and culturally we've moved in new directions in recent years\u2014for example, on gay marriage. And look how far we've moved, say, on physician-assisted suicide; almost every year, a new state is added to the list of states accepting it. So, it's fascinating from a sociological and anthropological standpoint to step back and consider how these changes occur over time.\nD: Speaking a little bit more about the future of biomedical ethics, what do you anticipate the field looking like in the next five or ten years? Can you anticipate that at all? And do you have any caveats about looking towards the future?\nC: Remember, I predicted bioethics wouldn't be around long. You probably shouldn't ask me for predictions. I'm an unreliable predictor!\nD: But now you have more experience, so at least your knowledge-base to make any prediction might be more informed.\nC: There is no such thing as bioethics or biomedical ethics\u2014 as you know, there are many different approaches, and many people are doing many different kinds of things under this rubric. So, a lot depends on which area one is looking at. I worry that too many entering the field are engaged in a kind of scholastic endeavor of working out further what has been done before or critiquing it. I'm more interested in how fresh perspectives come into the field. So, that's one reason I'm interested in a lot of what's happening in anthropology, for example. Different kinds of perspectives are important to keep the field fresh. I am also concerned, especially, that people narrow in on bioethics too quickly as their area of concentration. They may not get enough breadth or depth in some other areas that actually may be the ones that will shape bioethics in the future. So, that's, I guess, a sort of cautionary note.\nD: On that note, what do you think makes a thorough ethicist? What sort of aspects are they considering?\nC: Those of us who came into the field when I did, did not come in as bioethicists. We came in from other areas. I'd like to keep those areas fertile and add other neglected perspectives. So, that would be one of my major concerns. But I also think familiarity with the traditions of philosophical and religious reflection and with the legal context is very important. And obviously we need attention to the biological sciences and medicine and health care to be able to address bioethical issues. If bioethicists are not scientists or medical professionals, then they need to choose a few scientific or medical areas where they can gain enough competence to be able to really contribute to the discussion. There are some areas I won't lecture on in a public lecture, because I'm not sufficiently grounded to be able to avoid major misunderstandings of the problems.\nD: Following up with that, when you were talking about lecturing in class, what do you think makes a good teacher of bioethics?\nC: I think passion for the area can generate enthusiasm on the part of students. For instance, my course Theology, Ethics, and Medicine is aimed at creating informed citizens. Changes are occurring in education that require the teaching profession to be much more interactive than it was years ago. And so the challenge in my course has been to build in weekly film sessions and to plan the weekly discussion sections focused on cases so that even though there are two lectures a week, we can keep the course as interactive as possible. I also think that familiarity with traditions of ethical reflection, specifically in the biomedical arena, but also more broadly, is important for effective teaching.\nL: Regarding what you mentioned before about new perspectives coming into the field, though it's a very diverse field, what voices do you think, if any, are not sufficiently represented today in the biomedical ethics field? And who do we need to bring in to help contribute?\nC: While there is some minority participation, bioethics is a heavily white field. So, that's one fundamental issue: diversity needs to be addressed. Over time, the field has done a much better job incorporating women and women's voices than it did at the beginning. But that's in part because, insofar as physicians are contributing to bioethics, many more women are now in medicine. Yet, this is not happening to the same extent in relation to minorities.\nL: Have you seen any other specific professional groups that haven't been brought in that might serve to enhance the field?\nA: I like the fact that nursing students have been about 10% of my undergraduate course on bioethics. This has been important for pedagogical reasons. .\nL: Since Dallas and I are both going into the healthcare, we are interested to hear if you have any advice, specifically, for medical or nursing students at the beginning years of their practice.\nC: Since the demands are so heavy now on the individuals going through training, my advice is to try to keep alive the reflective and imaginative dimensions. Consider a study out of the University of Pennsylvania about how medical students thought about pelvic exams in medical training and the kind of consent needed for those exams. This study showed that the students' ethical judgments about these matters were worse after their third year than they were in their first two years of medical school.\nD: In conclusion, what legacy, if any, do you want to leave in biomedical ethics?\nC: I think the late Paul Ramsey, whose book The Patient as Person in 1970 was very important in the further development of medical ethics, said it best when he described writing as contributing to a conversation. So I hope I've contributed to a conversation that will continue, and I look forward to following that conversation. I hope that the students I've worked with--undergraduates, graduate students, and postgraduates\u2014will want to contribute to that conversation too. I think there are few easy answers and in many cases no answers at all. But we have to continue to discuss and think together and try to come up with responses that appear to be justifiable in the particular circumstances. And so we contribute to the conversation... that's what I consider most important.\nD: Well, you definitely have two people in this room who feel that your class and the environment that you and Professor Arras created at the University of Virginia, the bioethics culture, has been amazing, and definitely impacted a lot of people.\nC: Good. We miss John, though.\nD: Yes.\nL: We do.\nD: Well, we covered a lot of ground.\nD: And I can just say that we are very honored to have been able to talk with you about this and thank you so much for contributing to this conversation.\nCareers in Bioethics, James Childress\nMay 24 An Interview with Arthur Caplan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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The building she worked in was an assisted living facility, which closed about four months ago, a former employee said.\nSome time after she was hired, she expressed interest in working as a nurse and told the facility she wanted to help alleviate problems of understaffing by filling in on nights and weekends, according to the warrant.\nThe documents say she had allegedly told administrators she was a certified nurse, but after an investigation officials found she hadn't been and that she had never held a nursing degree.\nAccording to the police report, once hired as a \"nurse,\" McCray told facility administrators she preferred payment in the form of a \"bonus,\" instead of changing her job title, as that would have led the facility's managers to ask for her nursing credentials.\nDuring her 11-month-long stint with Glenwood Springs Health Care, the facility's management promoted her twice, once, from administrator to \"nurse,\" and then again, from nurse to nurse manager, according to the report.\nOnly after staff conducted an on-site audit did they find there was no copy of McCray's nursing credentials. When they asked her to produce it, she came up with a myriad of \"random excuses\" as to why she could not provide the documents, the report says.\nAfter numerous failed attempts, building administrators say they sat McCray down in front of a computer and told her she had 30 minutes to provide proof of her nursing license, the report says. Officials say when she was unable to do so, she left the facility, and never returned.\nThe nursing home's administrator allegedly told police he'd provide documents that showed McCray had regularly signed off on patient medications, some of which included schedule class II drugs, but officers say they never received that information.\nFacility staff said they reported McCray to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies. The arrest warrant says, \"Her actions and experience level led most other co-workers to believe that she was, in fact, licensed, even though she was not.\"\nAccording to Glenwood Springs Police Chief, Terry Wilson, McCray was arrested on July 14 in Knox City, Texas on a Glenwood Springs Police Department warrant. She was lodged into jail and posted bond that same day, according to Chief Wilson. Police said she was cooperative during the arrest, Wilson said.\nA recent Denver 7 investigation found it took the state almost two years to issue McCray a cease and desist order, despite multiple complaints from a resident's loved one. The TV news station said it spearheaded its own investigation after a former Glenwood Springs Health Care employee called to report the news.\nPrior to working in Glenwood Springs, McCray also had worked at Elk Run Assisted Living in Evergreen in 2016, according to state documents.\nAt one point, according to Denver 7, McCray used another nurse's name and license number as her own, \"and state regulators seemingly took her word for it.\"\nShe is charged with criminal impersonation, a class 6 felony, unlicensed practicing nurse, a class 2 misdemeanor, and unlawful distribution of a schedule II controlled substance, a class 3 drug felony.\nArea law enforcement prepare as red flag gun law provisions take effect\nSome local law enforcement don't like the red flag gun law, but they're still learning how to enforce it if they have to.\nWoman sentenced in Glenwood hotel sex trafficking case\nCrime Briefs: Stolen Gucci, Modelo and meth in parking garage, and a hotel room with drugs\nPolice confirm attempted robbery preceded fatal officer-involved shooting\nA solution to human trafficking? 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{"text":"Eubanks: Immelmans Show their Love for America\nBy Steve Eubanks\nPublished on Wednesday, September 12, 2012\n\"My family and I have been so blessed with the opportunities afforded to us in this country. We love this country. It has meant so much to us. So we feel privileged to be able to give back in any way that we can, no matter how small that contribution might be.\"\nThose words could have come from any number of great Americans, men and women who consistently sacrifice to make a positive impact on our national landscape.\nBut instead they came from a resident alien, a man with a Green Card and a clipped accent: South African Masters champion Trevor Immelman who, like many immigrants, articulates his love for America better than a lot of people whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower.\nThe venue for my conversation with Trevor was Country Club of Columbus in Georgia, close enough to Fort Benning to hear the muffled echoes of artillery rounds from the 69th Armor Regiment. Trevor was in town with his father, Johan, his mother, June, his brother, Mark, and his sister-in-law, Tracy, to promote Golf 9-12, a day of unity and remembrance in a post 9-11 world.\n\"Golf 9-12 was established to bring everyone together, and to use golf as a vehicle to promote that spirit of unity that we all felt the day after 9-11,\" Trevor told me. \"My parents first moved here in 2000. My children were born here and are American citizens. So this country has been very, very good to me and to my family.\"\nJohan Immelman launched Golf 9-12 two years ago. The original idea was to create a day of golf that would raise awareness nationally while raising funds for first responders locally.\n\"By focusing on first responders, and by partnering with local colleges and universities to seed scholarships for children of first responders, we feel as though Golf 9-12 gives us all a sense of worldwide unity while supporting those who are closest to a crisis when it occurs,\" Johan told me. \"With all the many wonderful and successful charities that help our military men and women, we felt that too many first responders were being overlooked. They are the people who are running into the flames, into the danger, as we are running out. And they are the ones you call when you need help.\"\nEvents were held all across the country. The Immelmans couldn't be at all of them. They chose Columbus because Mark is an instructor there as well as being the men's golf coach at Columbus State University.\nAnd the irony of their Cape Town roots was lost on no one.\n\"I feel more than a little conflicted that the three men who put this entire thing together are South African,\" said Brent Reid, one of the 96 players in Columbus for the event. \"It's wonderful what they are doing, don't get me wrong, but it's just kind of a sad commentary that they're the ones carrying the mantle while those of us who were born here sort of stand idly by.\"\nNot everyone born in the USA is standing by. Maj. Dan Rooney's Folds of Honor foundation has raised millions for the families of fallen servicemen. Davis Love III and his wife Robin do wonderful work through their foundation, and Butch Harmon supports scores of wounded veterans through Harmon's Heroes.\nBut as the color guard raised the stars and stripes, no American sang our anthem any louder than the Immelmans. And no one gives more of their time and talents than those born in other nations who understand how truly blessed we are.\n\"We hope that this grows from the grass roots,\" Johan said. \"We all know how we felt on 9-12, the unity and the sense of giving that we all experienced. Hopefully we can regain that same spirit again.\"\nOurs is a nation of immigrants, founded on ideals and not bloodlines. Families from around the world \u2013 families like the Immelmans - still come here because of those ideals.\nOf all the uniquely American attributes, it is wonderful to see that one continue.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"23 October 2016 24 June 2020 John Pistelli\nSeamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist\nDeath of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney\nThinking, for what should be obvious reasons, about previous Anglophone poets who won the Nobel Prize, I decided to read this, Seamus Heaney's first collection, published in 1966. All the virtues we've heard about and know from the anthology pieces\u2014the dense sonic texture of the poems, their thickness like that of the matter they describe, a verbal impasto thickened with slant-rhyme, alliteration, and assonance\u2014are there in full in the poet's debut.\nTwo famous poems bookend the collection: \"Digging,\" in which the poet's art is explained as a a sublimation of his father's and grandfather's rural farm labor, their traditionally masculine role that the speaker, like Hamlet and Telemachus before him, cannot adopt for himself (\"But I've no spade to follow men like them\"), as a substitute for which he supplies his pen in place of their excavator's tool; and \"Personal Helicon,\" in which the poet's art is explained as a sublimation of his own childhood play, when he would \"pry into roots,\" \"finger slime,\" and \"stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring\"\u2014now that these occupations are \"beneath all adult dignity,\" he makes rhymes instead, \"to set the darkness echoing,\" reprising juvenile narcissism as adult creation.\nIn these poems, Heaney seems to see poetry as a modest art: in naturalizing his art, Heaney eschews the visionary quality of Shelley or Yeats, the social mission theorized by Wordsworth or Eliot. But Heaney's view of a poetry that grows organically out of the soil and slime, out of the roots and wells\u2014and which is linked to sexual processes and development (his father's spade and his own pen are phalluses, just his earlier \"pry[ing] into roots\" is masturbation)\u2014reconceives the poet's vocation as an adjunct to the growth of the nation from its native soil, the evolution of labor into art and narcissism into generation. In the guise of modesty, Heaney travels as postcolonial bard rhyming the suppressed nation into a new existence.\nSeveral poems toward the end of the collection reinforce Heaney's understanding of poetry as he canvasses and dismisses alternative approaches. \"Saint Francis and the Birds\" envisions poetry as a completely natural and also holy act\u2014the saint's demonstration of love by releasing the birds into the air: they \"like images took flight\"\u2014a beautiful gesture, obviously unavailable in the middle twentieth century. \"In Small Townlands,\" evoking an itinerant painter, gives us the artist as visionary, forging the landscape in perceiving it\u2014\nHis eyes, thick, greedy lenses, fire\nThis bare bald earth with white and red,\nIncinerate it till it's black\nAnd brilliant as a funeral pyre:\nA new world cools out of his head.\n\u2014precisely the Yeatsian idealism Heaney refuses for himself, because its perception is \"greedy\" and because it arrogantly kills the landscape to recreate it. And in \"The Folk Singers,\" Heaney shows himself not to be a simple-minded populist, as he scorns the arts of the volk as \"narcotic strumming\" that \"strikes a pose \/ Like any rustic new to the bright town,\" a pleasing minstrelsy implicitly far inferior to the modern poet's conscious artistry, which enlivens rather than pacifying the audience and challenges their image of the patria rather than reifying it.\n\"Poem,\" dedicated to Heaney's wife, is generically titled because it reaffirms the logic underlying the others as the speaker tells us that his childhood construction of mud fortifications is fulfilled in adulthood by his marriage, \"within our golden ring\"\u2014which, as readers of Shakespeare will remember, is synonymous with the vagina. Having attained via the pen the phallus, the poet now completes the circuit and generates both poetry and progeny.\nWith his poetic authority certified, Heaney can pronounce on political matters. There are public poems in the collection, some more successful than others. Two poems about the potato famine: \"At a Potato Digging\" captures the blight in the other nature poem's grotesque imagery that suggests the national history explaining just why Heaney's pastoral is in general so Gothic (\"you still smell the running sore\"); and \"For the Commander of the Eliza,\" about an English ship captain who wanted to aid the starving Irish but knew that he could not because he would be refused by his superiors in the name of laissez-faire, is an outraged satire on the rational calculating intellect to which the poetic mind, with its rhyming and ringing, is subliminally opposed:\nSir James, I understand, urged free relief\nFor famine victims in the Westport Sector\nAnd earned tart reprimand from good Whitehall.\nLet natives prosper by their own exertions;\nWho could not swim might go ahead and sink.\n\"The Coast Guard with their zeal and activity\nAre too lavish\" were the words, I think.\nOther public poems are less successful, particularly \"Docker,\" a condescending portrait of a violent Protestant laborer in a pub (\"Mosaic imperatives bang home like rivets; \/ God is a foreman with certain definite views\").\nOne of the collection's most famous poems, \"Mid-Term Break,\" about the death of the poet's brother in childhood, is universally celebrated, but I have to say, at the risk of sounding heartless, I do not care for it. Just as certain forms of humility are self-aggrandizing, certain modes of artistic restraint indulge sentimentality by other means, and the poem's celebrated last line, faux-laconically explaining the significance of the length of the child's coffin, \"A four foot box, a foot for every year,\" makes me feel like Oscar Wilde reading about the death of Little Nell.\nThe collection is called Death of a Naturalist because the naturalist had to die for the poet to be born. The poet, though, is at his best in his poems of nature, whether seen in the wild or transfigured through rural labor. For the pastoral poet to be sovereign in the nation, the sovereignty of nature must be circumscribed by the poems. But for poetry to be great rather than merely good, the poet must testify to what he cannot master\u2014the repressed has to return, otherwise we could just content ourselves with folk songs and church sermons and the language of state. Where does this happen in Death of a Naturalist?\nEverywhere, and from the start. In \"Digging,\" the poet's pen is not only his father's spade, but the nationalist or revolutionary's gun\u2014poetry is sublimated labor and also sublimated violence, which is the hopeful reading of the simile describing the pen (\"snug as gun\"), but a less hopeful reading tells us that violence no less than art comes out of soil and tradition. A tour-de-force poem about trout systematically compare the fish themselves to guns, finding the supposed artifice of men's violence far further down the evolutionary scale; and the extraordinary poem about drowning cats, \"The Early Purges,\" will prevent anyone from romanticizing rusticity even as its hard-headed pragmatism forbids the urban liberal from looking down his nose:\nStill, living displaces false sentiments\nAnd now, when shrill pups are prodded to drown\nI just shrug, 'Bloody pups'. It makes sense:\n'Prevention of cruelty' talk cuts ice in town\nWhere they consider death unnatural\nBut on well-run farms pests have to be kept down.\nNow we are prepared to understand the title poem, in which the speaker, the little boy-naturalist, finds his love of slimy nature defeated (and simultaneously assumed into poetry) when he encounters the real monarchs of the landscape:\nRight down the dam gross bellied frogs were cocked\nOn sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped:\nThe slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat\nPoised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting.\nI sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings\nWere gathered there for vengeance and I knew\nThat if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.\nThis is not the Romantic sublime, which, while lordly, is clean and purifying and kin to the poet's imagination; for Heaney, the imagination itself is the product of a muck and a slime and a scum and a sex of which it will never be lord, and which forges rings and guns and poems as it spawns the formless frogs. Hooped in slant rhyme, alliteration, and assonance, the \"great slime kings\" are recreated in sound, a poetic act more like ancient rite of propitiation than the state-of-the-art gestures Heaney elsewhere adopts as Nobel-worthy poet of postcolonialism. The gun is in the landscape, the frog is in the poem, you fuck and you fight within the golden ring\u2014the bard's authority is much less absolute than it seems, and here Heaney attains a real modesty, not the fashionable, phony diffidence of the postmodern artist but the panic (from Pan, delirium-inducing god of nature and sex) of the boy eye-to-eye with the vast inhumanity that underlies all seeming sense and meaning.\nI end with the collection's penultimate poem, \"The Play Way,\" a reminiscence of Heaney's days as a schoolteacher (he sportively toys with Eliot: \"Mixing memory and desire with chalk dust\") when he would have his students do a free-writing exercise while listening to Beethoven. His student's response, as the \"big sound\" \"silenc[es] them,\" is obviously the response Heaney hopes to elicit from his readers\u2014not the pacifications of folk song or the obeisance due the visionary, but thoughtful, troubled reflection, as of the child's face in the well, shattered by nature or by his own falling body:\nA silence charged with sweetness\nBreaks short on lost faces where I see\nNew looks. Then notes stretch taut as snares. They trip\nTo fall into themselves unknowingly.\nIrish Literature\nPrevious Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket\nNext H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness\nWilliam Butler Yeats, The Tower | John Pistelli says:\n[\u2026] my review of Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist, I casually referred to \"Yeatsian [\u2026]\nGeorges Bataille, Story of the Eye | John Pistelli says:\n[\u2026] and have written with admiration in just the last few weeks of writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, and Gjertrud Schnackenberg who perceive inhuman powers at work in the cosmos [\u2026]\nLouise Erdrich, Love Medicine | John Pistelli says:\n[\u2026] some other great writers in the era of high multiculturalism, such as Heaney, Morrison, or Walcott, Erdrich does not seem to trade in a politics of nation, race, ethnicity or [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Gatekeeper's Descendants\nby Johanna Frank\nGift of Diamonds\nby Roberta Seret\nThings are Shaking\nby Lois Wickstrom\nGifts of a Dark God\nby Norman Westhoff\nMind, Body, World\nby William X. Adams\nby Michael Pace, Brian Paglinco\nEmpyrean Born\nby M. K. Hall\nFinding 42\nby Benny Mailman\nTwisted Maze\nby Chris Black\nby Drew Kientz\nLiving Vessel\nby LaQuisha Barnes\nBias Is All Around You\nby Erik Bean\nby Rick Stepp-Bolling\nThe Shadow War\nby Steven Cortinas\nSelf Love Notes\nby Michelle G Stradford\nby James Fox\nGlimpses... Now I Can See\nby Elizabeth A Roberts\nRisking Is Better Than Regretting\nby Cornelia E. Davis\nDell's Leap\nby ML Biddison\nGiving Grief Meaning\nby Lily Dulan\nThis Last Chance\nby D.L. Finn\nContact Author - D.L. Finn\nReviewed by Ankita Shukla for Readers' Favorite\nThis Last Chance by D.L. Finn presents a delectable combination of thriller and paranormal plots that surround the protagonist, Amber. Ever since Amber's sister, Iris, was murdered, Amber has been looking for answers. On the sixth-month anniversary of Iris's brutal killing, she sensed danger lurking around her. She reported the strange occurrences to the cops and her colleagues, but none of them believed her. Frustrated by a lack of answers, she decided to hire a private detective to at least put a face and a name to Iris' killer. However, fate had different plans for her. Yet, all was not lost for Amber. Unbeknownst to her, angels were doing everything in their power to protect her. Besides these mystical beings, one of the evildwels, a creature who fed on fear and pain, was feeling protective toward Amber. This attraction brought it both fear and hope.\nThis Last Chance has just the right ingredients that make a book a compelling page-turner. The introduction of a paranormal entity is definitely a stroke of genius. If the suspense of the killer didn't tempt the audience enough, which was definitely not the case, the urge to know more about this creature proved to be beyond words. Contrary to the other evildwels and their inherent desire to feed on pain and fear, Nester surrendered to his attraction toward good. Nevertheless, this surrender posed a threat to his existence. D.L. Finn infused enough personality in Nester to make the audience empathetic toward him. Whether it's attention-seeking Britany or a charming senator, each side character managed to bring diversity to the plot. At the same time, every single one of them remained a suspect in the eyes of both the protagonist and the audience. D.L. Finn has excelled in creating engaging conversations and stimulating scenes. The meticulous blend of paranormal and thriller elements has created a fascinating read. Moving at a steady pace, This Last Chance by D.L. Finn is an engrossing thriller that readers will love and recommend to others.\nThis Last Chance is a work of fiction in the paranormal and mystery subgenres and was penned by author D. L. Finn. In a dark fantasy mystery with plenty of bite, we find ourselves in the presence of protagonist Amber, a woman on a mission. Still reeling from the brutal murder of her sister, six months after the incident Amber wants answers for herself and intends on hiring a detective to investigate. But when a huge snowstorm sees her plans derailed and Amber is trapped with new people that she neither knows nor trusts, a battle of good versus evil begins to brew. What results is a chilling battle of wits and a slow-burning paranormal mystery to be unraveled.\nAuthor D. L. Finn has crafted a highly engaging work that darkens and deepens as it progresses. One of the things I most admired about this book was the seamless interweaving of paranormal and fantasy elements into an emotive tale of investigation and the search for justice: an unusual blending of genres that really works. The atmosphere of the snowstorm is a fantastic premise, one which builds huge amounts of tension for those who are trapped together and motivates us to stick with our hero Amber, and root for her all the more in diverse circumstances. The descriptive work by Finn is atmospheric, with well-chosen lexis that creates cinematic images in the mind of the reader. Overall, I'd highly recommend This Last Chance as a highly engaging paranormal read for mystery fans everywhere.\nSherri Fulmer Moorer\nAmber is trying to move on after her sister, Iris, is brutally murdered in an alley. She has a good job at a newspaper and wonderful (if clingy) friends who are dedicated to helping her heal. Still, she's haunted by the fact that her sister's murderer was never captured. Six months after the murder, she is followed by a masked stranger when leaving work and finds several clues in the parking garage connected with Iris's murder. The weekend grows stranger when she meets her mysterious new neighbor and receives a call from her sister's former employer, now a Presidential candidate, on the same afternoon. A series of coincidences leads Amber to a house full of guests during a brutal winter storm, but is it a coincidence? It turns out that a larger battle is taking place between angels and evil beings who feed on the hurt and pain of humans. What will happen as these worlds collide? Find out in This Last Chance by D.L. Finn.\nI liked This Last Chance because it's a unique story that mixes the normal and paranormal without the amount of unbelievable crossover that you typically see in paranormal titles. It draws on images that readers will be familiar with no matter what their spiritual beliefs are, and crosses over into reality in ways that most of us imagine are actually happening. It's a great, compelling mystery that draws on a lot of Amber's family history but more than that, it shows how the worlds cross over in balancing the forces of good and evil. If you like paranormal books and mysteries, then this is a good read. D.L. Finn did an excellent job of creating a unique, compelling tale.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About John Muir\nJohn Muir Day\nAbout the Sierra Club\nBiography of John Muir\nStickeen\nTributes to John Muir\nCalifornia Quarter\nLive Portrayals\nQuotable John Muir\nWritings by John Muir\nSongs and Audio\nEducation Get Involved\nthe john muir exhibit - john muir national historic site\nPhoto Copyright \u00a9 2001 Krista Kennell\nThe John Muir National Historic Site is located in Martinez, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.\nThe Site preserves the Victorian residence and a part of the fruit ranch where the naturalist John Muir lived from 1890 to his death in 1914. While living in Martinez, Muir laid the foundations for the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. Visitors today can tour the home, see Muir's \"scribble-den\" where he wrote his campaigning conservation articles and books, and stroll the orchards.\nThe newly-added Mount Wanda area, 325 acres in size, historically owned by the Muir family, where Muir used to take frequent walks with his daughters, includes the John Muir Nature Trail, featuring spring wild flowers, abundant bird life, and scenic vistas of the Carquinez straits.\nJohn Muir's gravesite was acquired by the National Park Service in 2000, but public visitation is awaiting repair work of damaged roadways and construction of parking spaces or a shuttle service.\nOfficial National Park Service Websites\nHistoric Site information from the National Park Service. This new in-depth website now features expanded visitor information, updates of programs and activities at the Site, a virtual tour, and a large quote collection. (Offsite link)\nMuseum Collections at John Muir National Historic Site - National Park Service - photographs include portraits of Muir and his family, his Martinex ranch house and orchards, personal belongings, and specimens that he collected. (Offsite link)\nFeatures of the Historic Site\nDescription and Visitor Information\n- operated by the Site's non-profit cooperating association, the Western National Parks Association (offsite link).\nMap of Grounds\nJohn Muir's Gravesite - extrended text, photos, links, and a video.\nMap and Driving Directions to get there\nPhotos of the Historic Site\nPhoto Gallery by Krista Kennell - 24 photos (2001)\nOther contemporary Photographs of the John Muir National Historic Site\nHistoric Photographs of the John Muir National Historic Site\nVideos of the Historic Site\nNature's Voice: John Muir at Home - 2013 John Muir National Historic Site visitor center film by Earth Images Foundation. Web site: http:\/\/earthimage.org. (YouTube)\n\"John Muir: A Glorious Journey - Part 1 - 2010 John Muir National Historic Site visitor center film by America Sings -Part 1.(YouTube)\n\"John Muir: A Glorious Journey - Part 2 - 2010 John Muir National Historic Site visitor center film by America Sings -Part .(YouTube)\nA Conversation with National Parks Ranger Kelli English - video by Bill Youngs. (YouTube)\nJohn Muir Birthday - Earth Day 2015 - video by the Digital Safari Academy. (YouTube)\nJohn Muir National Historic Site - video by micahvdl. (YouTube)\nHistoric Site Publications\nChronology of Important Events in the Life of John Muir\nThe Importance of John Muir\n26 Most Often Asked Questions -\nEnvironmental Living Program - for classroom groups by advance registration\nMuir Ranger Fact Sheet - For children ages 8 - 12.\nThe Martinez Adobe - Fact Sheet about the 1849 Land Grant structure located near the Muir House, on the grounds of the Historic Site.\nWildflower List\nJohn Muir NHS Landscape Management Plan (off-site link)\nJohn Muir N.H.S. Self Guiding Tour Booklet - Detailed, step-by-step guide to the John Muir National Historic Site. Available for $1.00 from John Muir Bookstore.\nRubbisow, Ariel, John Muir National Historic Site (Tucson, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association [now Western National Parks Association], 1990). 15 pp. $3.95. A brief, highly readable biographical sketch of Muir, with color photographs of his residence in Martinez, California, now a National Historic Site operated by the National Park Service. Available from John Muir Bookstore.\nMaruca, Mary, A Kid's Guide to Exploring John Muir National Historic Site (Tucson, AZ, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 2000). 14 pp., illustrated, paperback, $3.95. Multiple color photographs and graphics on each page enhance this beautiful little booklet. Despite the book's title, the book is primarily a very brief biography about John Muir, with just the last one-third emphasizing his fruit ranch home in Martinez. The author and designers did a great job of making Muir a friendly, human person of interest to kids. Available from John Muir Bookstore.\nKelley, Janice, Through the Eyes of John Muir: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Looking at our World\nThis interdiciplinary curriculum guide presents numerous lessons covering a broad spectrum of topics: various aspects of John Muir's life, agricultural and immigrant history, urbanization of farmland, nature-based investigations, storytelling, what makes a healthy forest and more. The curriculum can be used for field studies to conduct at either the John Muir National Historic Site ranch site or other farm site or nature area as an outdoor classroom, and concludes with lessons and practices to help students became stewards of the environment and \"champions\" in their own community. This curriculum, aligned to both Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, can be applied in and outside the classroom for students to learn how to see through the eyes of John Muir - as environmental stewards, scientists, historians and advocates. These Standards apply to grades 3 and 4. Most activities are applicable to or can be modified to meet the needs of older students.\nThe View From John Muir's Window (offsite link) , newsletter of the John Muir Memorial Association - News about programs and activities at John Muir National Historic Site (offsite link)\nLocation and Contact information:\n4202 Alhambra Avenue,\nMartinez, California 94553\nHome | Alphabetical Index | What's New\nThe John Muir Exhibit Home\nWritings of John Muir\nHome | Contact Us | Careers | En Espa\u00f1ol | Terms and Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy\/Your California Privacy Rights | Website Help\nSierra Club\u00ae and \"Explore, enjoy and protect the planet\"\u00ae are registered trademarks of the Sierra Club. \u00a9 2021 Sierra Club.\nThe Sierra Club Seal is a registered copyright, service mark, and trademark of the Sierra Club.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Law Hot topics\nA fix to NAFTA's roster problem?\nOn the face of it, it looks like USMCA will have a state-to-state dispute settlement mechanism that the parties will be able to use. But politics will be unavoidable.\nBY Doug Beazley 28 Mar 2019\nMaybe you have to be a trade treaty negotiator to appreciate the irony: some dispute settlement clauses are better at starting arguments than ending them.\nNAFTA has three dispute settlement mechanisms, all of them contentious for one reason or another. Chapter 11, the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, has been pilloried as an offence against state sovereignty. The Chapter 19 anti-dumping and countervailing mechanism has tended to render decisions that go against the United States (which might explain in part why the Americans pushed hard to eliminate it in last year's negotiations to revamp NAFTA, and why Canada insisted on keeping it).\nChapter 20, the state-to-state dispute settlement mechanism, hasn't come in for the same volume of criticism \u2014 maybe because it's used so seldom. By the time the NAFTA renegotiation talks were drawing to a close a year ago, just 21 disputes had been initiated under it, only three of which actually went to panels that rendered decisions.\nWhy? Chapter 20 has a glitch that can effectively block the process indefinitely. The panels that decide disputes are supposed to be named jointly by the parties to the dispute. To do that, they're supposed to draw on a roster of up to 30 individuals selected by the NAFTA partners through consensus and appointed to three-year terms. If one party fails to choose panelists within a set time period, the other party can select two from the roster. If one party picks a panelist who is not on the roster, the other party can block the panel process.\nBut because that NAFTA roster was never assembled in the first place \u2014 the parties to the agreement couldn't agree on names \u2014 the Chapter 20 process never really got any traction.\n\"If one party refuses to appoint, the default is the roster. No roster means no default mechanism,\" says Valerie Hughes, former director of the World Trade Organization's Legal Affairs Division (2010-16), now senior counsel with Bennett Jones in Ottawa.\nThat's what happened in 2000 in a dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over sugar exports: Mexico brought the Chapter 20 challenge, the U.S. blocked the establishment of a panel, and the process jumped the rails. Not a single panel has been struck since 2000. It's not hard to see why.\nSo did NAFTA's replacement, USMCA (or CUSMA, or NAFTA 2.0 \u2014 pick your acronym) fix the problem?\nOpinions differ. Article 31.8 of USMCA, which replaces NAFTA's Chapter 20, did import a good idea from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It states that the parties \"shall establish\" a 30-person roster by the time the deal enters into force, and the roster shall \"remain in effect for a minimum of three years or until the Parties constitute a new roster.\"\nOn the face of it, it looks like USMCA will have a roster that won't melt away over time. \"It creates a default roster that doesn't die after three years, the implication being that it can stay in place longer,\" says Clifford Sosnow, a partner at Fasken specializing in trade, investment, and anti-bribery law.\nThe language in USMCA is confusing, he says, in that it doesn't clearly state whether a change to the roster \u2014 say, through a retirement \u2014 resets the three-year clock. Still, he adds, this is \"a big difference between NAFTA and USMCA.\n\"The minute the roster is in place, there is no longer a best-before date. It's not couched in the most elegant language, but it is an improvement.\"\nOn the other hand, a rule maintaining the roster isn't much use if there's no roster to begin with. USMCA offers no penalties for failing to create a roster. NAFTA also used the \"shall establish\" language. It didn't help.\nUSMCA \"says nothing about what happens if the roster never gets established in the first place,\" says Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, founder of the LexSage trade and tax law firm in Toronto. \"And given how few challenges there have been under this section, it's not really a problem if there's no roster \u2026 until it is a problem.\"\nSosnow suggests it might be in Washington's political interest now to get serious about maintaining the roster. USMCA doesn't include NAFTA's Chapter 11 investor-state dispute settlement mechanism \u2014 a tool American companies used to challenge Canadian government decisions they saw as violations of NAFTA rules.\n\"(That) leaves the U.S. government with no treaty recourse to challenge alleged Canadian government violations of such rules absent a Chapter 31 roster,\" he says.\nRequiring that the roster be appointed by consensus also opens the process to politics. That's nothing new, of course, but the fraught political climate surrounding the trade file under U.S. President Donald Trump is new.\n\"How inclined are the Americans going to be right now to agree to Canadian and Mexican nominees without knowing their ideological bent?\" says Todgham Cherniak. \"You can also ask whether the Canadians and Mexicans are going to think it's in their interests to get a roster appointed immediately when there's a (U.S. presidential) election coming up in 2020. It's like letting Trump appoint the entire Supreme Court all at once.\"\nUSMCA 31.8 isn't the only option for state-to-state dispute settlement; the World Trade Organization process is far more popular. But the WTO has problems of its own. The U.S. has been blocking appointments to the WTO appellate body that arbitrates trade disputes. It's down to just three judges out of a full complement of seven, and two of those judges are set to retire at the end of the year.\nHughes points out that \"tons of FTAs around the world\" rarely use their dispute settlement mechanisms \"because the WTO's usually works so well.\n\"So does anyone care [about the USMCA system]? If the WTO system gets fixed, it's less of an issue.\"\nBut what if it doesn't get fixed? Todgham Cherniak says she sees the pressure on the WTO and the lingering weakness in USMCA 31.8 as fulfilling the Trump administration's larger elbows-out trade strategy.\n\"If you're in a position to break something, you're also in a position to dictate how it gets fixed or replaced,\" she says.\n\"The Americans can re-engineer the WTO arbitration process to eliminate things they don't like \u2014 like binding rulings. Good people around the world are trying to prevent that from happening, but the Trump administration is engaging in economic warfare. This isn't a trade dispute in the normal sense. It's winner-take-all.\"\nDoug Beazley is a regular contributor based in Ottawa.\nProject Management for Litigators\nCreeps, Killers and Zombies: Antitrust Review of Small Mergers in the Digital Economy\nSubmissions PIPEDA's consent regime still working the way it should\nThe importance of staying technology-neutral.\nBY Kim Covert","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Research and Journal\nMy Sharing Notes that i had learned.\nHacken Lee Weighs Up TVB Olympics Job\nThe Hong Kong Welcomes The Olympics roadshow event reached Tai Po today and performers at the show included Hacken Lee (\u674e\u514b\u52e4), Prudence Liew (\u5289\u7f8e\u541b), Yumi (\u88d5\u7f8e) and HotCha.\nPrudence was suffering from a throat infection, so she was unable to sing live at the show. She explained that due to her recent rehearsals for her forthcoming concert, she has injured the right hand side of her larynx, so the doctors have prescribed her with antibiotics and rest in order to recover. She said that she has only just regained her voice, so she did not want to strain it again.\nPrudence also told of how she had suffered from shock after hearing that her mother had been admitted into hospital in San Francisco. She said that she was so worried that she cried all morning, but was comforted when she found it that it was just an adverse reaction to medication and that her mother was fine. She added that her mother will be flying over shortly to watch her concert performance.\nHacken revealed that he had received an invitation from TVB to go to Beijing in August and assist with their coverage of the Olympic Games, however he was still considering the job because he was worried that his son would forget his face if he was away for too long. He admitted that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, but is weighing up the balance between a job he would love to do and being around for his son.\nAsked if this would affect his future plans to go on concert tours, Hacken smiled that this would not be the case because he has to earn milk money, especially now that the price of milk powder has gone up.\nPosted by eSeong at 12:11 AM\nBlog Archive August 2006 (5) October 2006 (3) November 2006 (445) December 2006 (327) January 2007 (19) February 2007 (10) March 2007 (33) April 2007 (70) May 2007 (191) June 2007 (253) July 2007 (136) August 2007 (51) September 2007 (124) October 2007 (96) November 2007 (34) December 2007 (16) January 2008 (5) February 2008 (6) March 2008 (15) April 2008 (82) May 2008 (85) June 2008 (15) July 2008 (17) August 2008 (88) September 2008 (92) October 2008 (153) November 2008 (69) December 2008 (21) January 2009 (26) February 2009 (8) March 2009 (47) April 2009 (56) May 2009 (15) June 2009 (14) July 2009 (40) August 2009 (67) September 2009 (99) October 2009 (170) November 2009 (71) December 2009 (95) January 2010 (45) February 2010 (7) March 2010 (66) April 2010 (65) May 2010 (45) July 2010 (70) August 2010 (75) September 2010 (55) October 2010 (88) November 2010 (116) December 2010 (75) January 2011 (26) February 2011 (4) August 2011 (14) September 2011 (31) October 2011 (29) February 2012 (26) March 2012 (24) November 2012 (7) December 2012 (25) May 2013 (3) June 2013 (64) July 2013 (90) November 2013 (17) June 2014 (106) July 2014 (88) October 2018 (1)\nRecommend WebSite :-\nLinuxCT\nInFoCT","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Importance of Open Space\nProtect & Connect\nSustain & Restore\nLove & Support\nCoordinate & Elevate\nShare your Event\nParks & Preserves\nWhy Are Open Spaces Important?\nOpen spaces provide us with natural landscapes to explore, relax in and inspire our creativity. Phoenicians love our mountain parks for the special memories that they help us create, and the unique character they bring to our city. CAZCA is working with many partners and residents like you to make sure that we can continue enjoying the beauty of the Sonoran Desert far into the future.\nSupport for Local Businesses\nSmall businesses such as restaurants, hotels, outdoor outfitters and guides have all benefited from the travel of thousands of people to our open spaces.\nOutdoor Adventure and Tourism\nAnnually, Arizona's outdoor industry generates $21.2 billion a year. Residents and visitors also benefit from recreational activities like hiking, biking, birding and more.\nVibrant Nature\nOur open spaces provide homes for Arizona's famous desert fauna and flora. Without these habitats, many people would never experience the Sonoran Desert.\nHealthier You\nPeople with access to open spaces tend to spend more time outside and exercise more. The ability to connect with nature helps people feel happier, reduces anxiety and increases creativity.\nCentral Arizona's mountains and deserts make our home unique and they provide a priceless backdrop to our communities and culture.\nA Cleaner City\nOpen, natural spaces can help purify our air, and maintain high water quality for our families. They also help cool the city and assist in absorbing greenhouse gases.\nWhat is CAZCA Doing for Our Open Spaces\nCAZCA has been instrumental in the development of the Regional Open Space Strategy (or ROSS), which was created with the help of our partner organizations to guide efforts to insure that the people of Phoenix continue to have access to natural areas, even as the city and its population grows. Now we are facilitating the implementation of that plan with the help of many amazing organizations throughout Central Arizona.\nLearn More About the ROSS\nWhether you love to hike or just want to smell the desert roses, CAZCA has a way for you to get involved in the preservation of the Sonoran Desert.\nBe the first to know about new campaigns, events and more.\n\u00a9 2021 Central Arizona Conservation Alliance, All Rights Reserved.\nCAZCA is an initiative of Desert Botanical Garden\nCAZCA is an initiative of Desert Botanical Garden. Any donations made to CAZCA must be made through Desert Botanical Garden. You will now be taken to their website to complete this transaction. Thank you!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HOUZZ link\nAMY BLOOM ARCHITECTURE HAS ADOPTED A LANDSCAPED ISLAND IN READING, MA. OUTSIDE OF TOWN HALL. A SPECIAL THANK YOU IS DUE TO PAUL AND CHRISTINE EXNER FOR THEIR HARD WORK.\nNew Feature! You can now pay online through the Cash App. Forget putting a check in the mail, just click the button.\n\"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.\"\n--John Portman\nThis is Amy...\nAmy's path to becoming an architect was as direct as they come. When she was 7 years old, she announced to her father that she wanted to be a famous architect. The die was cast, and Amy eventually went on to receive her Bachelors Degree in both Fine Arts and Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design in 2003. Amy is now a Registered Architect and sole proprietor of a certified woman's business enterprise.\nRibbon Cutting...\nAmy Bloom with Mayor Marty Walsh at the Ribbon Cutting of Bloomfield Gardens in Boston, MA., a 27 unit apartment building of new construction.\nThe Cash App\namy bloom architecture\nAMY BLOOM ARCHITECTURE SPECIALIZES IN FRATERNITIES\/SORORITIES, MULTIFAMILY HOUSING (APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND CONDOMINIUMS), SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, LIGHT COMMERCIAL OFFICE DESIGN and accessibility\/code RESEARCH.\nWE WORK WITH THE CLIENT FROM SCHEMATIC DESIGN THROUGH CONSTRUCTION TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS A REALITY. WE ARE LOCATED IN Andover, MA; AND SERVE ALL OF NEW ENGLAND. WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. PLEASE CONTACT AMY BLOOM TO SET UP A MEETING OR SITE VISIT.\nAmy Bloom Architecture, Andover, MA 01810\nSole Proprietor, Owner\nProvides additions and modifications to single family homes, multifamily homes, and commercial spaces.\nAids Owners in selection of interior and exterior palette, materials, and design. Experienced in New Construction and Renovations.\nManages Projects from schematic design through construction.\nRegistered Architect\nCommonwealth of Massachusetts RA\nLEED Accredited Professional, LEED AP\nDBA Amy Bloom Architecture\nWoman Owned Business\nAmy Bloom Architecture \u00a9 2013","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A complainant man, age 37, was admitted to a hospital\nA complainant man, age 37, was admitted to a hospital, after having suffered a gunshot wound to his neck. He was treated by a general surgeon and a neurosurgeon. During the first few days of treatment, the Bronx general surgeon formed an opinion that the man would be a permanent paraplegic. The neurosurgeon was also of the opinion that the man's spinal column had suffered such severe damage and that eventual spasms in his extremities would be inevitable. However, the neurosurgeon noted in the hospital records that the man apparently had a sensation to his feet.\nSubsequently, while the man was in an intensive care unit, nurses at the hospital placed him on a special bed used to allow immobilized patients to be rotated to a vertical position. The nurse who was responsible for checking out the bed failed to check on the position of an essential bolt, and as the bed was rotated the man fell. There was conflict in the testimony as to injuries caused by the fall. The man claimed that he struck his back on a chair, while the nurse testified that she caught the man prior to the time he struck to anything. After the incident, the man was examined by another physician, who noted that the patient had not sustained any injury when a section of the bed had almost fallen down. The man testified, however, that his pain intensified after the fall and that it was only after the fall that he had begun to suffer spasms. The man was discharged from the hospital and after which, he was a patient in various other Westchester hospitals. He undergone several operations, but he remains paralyzed.\nA pathologist testified as an expert witness for the man. It was his opinion that the fall striking the mid portion of the man's back in the area through which the bullet had passed had caused some degree of neurological and spinal injury, which in turn caused additional injury to the wound site. Even if the pathologist could not assess any particular degree of aggravation caused to the already existing damage, he did testify that the man's fall from the bed injured him to some additional degree.\nFor the opponent, the neurosurgeon testified that he had seen no medical changes in the man before or after which warranted any conclusion that any injury such as a fall occurring in the hospital had worsened his condition, but rather that all of the man's problems were consistent with the original gunshot injury and inconsistent with any other damage.\nInitially, the court rejected the hospital's argument that the man's evidence did not warrant submission of the case to the jury. But, the court finds competent substantial evidence from which the jury found that the man suffered additional injury resulting from the hospital's negligence. The man testified that he had fallen out of bed and there were notes from one of the nurses indicating that after such fall he was unable to move his toes. Even the neurosurgeon acknowledged there had been some sensation in the man's feet prior to the fall, but there was none there after it.\nThe hospital however filed an appeal from the decision entered awarding the man a total of $350,000. The thrust of the hospital's contention is that the man was an irreversible paraplegic when he was admitted to the hospital, therefore, the fall he sustained as a result of the hospital's alleged negligence did not aggravate his then existing injuries.\nConsequently, the court affirms the decision of the trial court as to the hospital's liability, but reverses and remand to the trial judge.\nIt is stressing for a family member to know that something wrong happened while a sick family member is still in their responsibility. If your loved one is caught in the same situation, you can file a legal complaint against them by seeking guidance from the NYC Medical Malpractice Lawyers. You can also have the NY Personal Injury Attorney or New York City Injury Lawyers at Stephen Bilkis and Associates for your injury claim.\nPosted in: Bronx, Slip and Fall Injury and Westchester County\nUpdated: January 2, 2013 6:02 pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Welcome to JMSU!\n| Chinese | Russian |\nAbout JMSU |\nHistory of JMSU |\nPresent Administrators |\nCampus Culture |\nSchools & Departments |\nDisciplines and Specialties |\nExperts and Scholars |\nJMSU in Pics |\nHome > News & Events\nParty Secretary Qiu Hongbin led a delegation to attend the 2018 meeting of the Council of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities\nFrom November 7 to 11, in accordance with the working arrangements of the Council of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities, Qiu Hongbin, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jiamusi University, attended the meeting of the Council of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 2018 at the invitation of Olga Krfton, President of the National Medical University of Ural, Russia.\nOn November 9, 2018, the Council Meeting of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities was solemnly held in the Council Building of Sverdlovsk State of Russian Federation. More than 100 representatives of 76 universities from China and Russia participated in the meeting. Delegates attended the meeting viewing a report on the work of the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance in 2018, discussed the opportunities and challenges facing the future development of the alliance, and jointly agreed on the work plan of the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance in 2019.\nDuring the Council meeting, Secretary Qiu Hongbin held talks on behalf of our university with delegations from Ural National Medical University, New Siberia National Medical University and Krasnoyarsk National Medical University. The two sides conducted in-depth discussions on student exchange, teacher visits, joint training of postgraduate students, art and sports exchanges, scientific research cooperation and co-sponsoring international conferences, and reached a lot of consensus on academic research, teaching and scientific research cooperation. They hoped that this event will promote the establishment of friendly and cooperative relations between the two sides and make positive contributions to medical education and scientific research between China and Russia. During this period, our delegation visited the laboratories, libraries and museums, and conducted teaching observation activities.\nFounded in 2014, the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance is an educational cooperation institutionalization project under the direct leadership of the education and health authorities of China and Russia, which has received strong support from the governments of the two countries. Jiamusi University is the governing unit of the alliance.\nOur university delegation went to Russia to attend the meeting of the Council of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities, further opening up new areas of cooperation, meeting new partners and establishing new cooperative relations. At the same time, the university also have a deeper understanding of the new trends in the development of medical higher education in China and Russia, learned the successful experience of exchanges and cooperation between other Chinese and Russia universities, and accelerated the pace of cooperation between Jiamusi University and Russian medical universities.\nPrevious:therapists Team from the United States visited Rehabilitation Medical College for clinical exchanges and lecture guidance.\nNext:The delegation of Jia musi university visited centennial college and The Hospital for Sick Children\nAbout JMSU\nHistory of JMSU\nPresent Administrators\nDisciplines and Specialties\nExperts and Scholars\nJMSU in Pics\nNews & Events\nADD:No.258 Xuefu St. Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, <?xml:namespace prefix=\"st1\"> China\nPostcode:154007\nCopyright:JIA MU SI UNIVERSITY\nContact Us Heilongjiang ICP Recorded No. 05007780","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ProgNotFrog Forum > Caf\u00e9 > Music Discussions > book review: \"Ripped\" by Greg Kot\nAuthor Topic: book review: \"Ripped\" by Greg Kot (Read 1713 times)\nboy_howdy\nbook review: \"Ripped\" by Greg Kot\nPandora's Boombox\nRIPPED--\nHow the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music\nby: Greg Kot\n262 pp. Scribner. $25\nBy DANA JENNINGS\nI spent countless rapt hours taping my favorite songs off the radio when I was a kid. There were so many tunes, and I had so little money. (And if a motorcycle or a semi went blasting past the house as I taped, then a ballad like \"Crimson and Clover\" would get some gritty meat on its ethereal bones.)\nBut even back then, the record companies considered someone like me a sneak thief, a young blackguard. By taping, I was taking money out of their pockets, bread off the table and cocaine from the noses of their artists and executives.\nThat battle between customer and music company has only intensified since. The listener screams, \"Love!\" The music executive screams, \"Theft!\" And the musician \u2014 same as it ever was \u2014 screams, \"Pay me!\" Now Greg Kot, a music critic and co-host of a rock 'n' roll radio talk show, tells us what happened in Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, his well-reported book about music in the Internet Age.\nRipped ranges from the days when the record companies gnashed their teeth over the growth of home taping, to music publishers' blunt attacks on sampling in hip-hop, to the life, death and canonization of Napster, to the iPod and beyond. It also examines the constant consolidation \u2014 in the music companies, in radio, in concert promotion \u2014 that helped lead to the industry's implosion.\nThen there are the abject listeners, dissatisfied with the nonfat vanilla being dispensed on the radio and in the record stores \u2014 Backstreet Boys, anyone? But once they discover peer-to-peer file sharing and CD burners, there's no holding them back. The record companies try their strong-arm tactics and lose. They can't cope with the guerrilla savvy of kids who have computers and a bottomless thirst for music.\nKot also writes about how established artists like Prince, Radiohead and Wilco (he is the author of a book about Wilco) thrived in the digital age because they didn't sit around and whine like emo punks while musical civilization as we know it crumbled. He pays homage to acts that emerged during the turmoil \u2014 Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire, Conor Oberst \u2014 and used it to their advantage.\nStill, the most fascinating part of the book is its retelling of how the big music companies committed capitalist suicide. The executives couldn't get their analog heads around the digital future. If industry leaders had always followed their mistrust of technology, we'd still be listening to music on 78-r.p.m. shellac, or maybe even wax cylinders.\nRipped is another case study in American industrial arrogance, an account of companies that couldn't (or wouldn't) learn agility. Instead of adapting to the new reality, they started calling their customers thieves.\nBut, Kot writes, \"the moral posturing was a laughable new wrinkle. Here's an industry that had instituted payola, routinely manipulated shady contracts to take away publishing from songwriters, and engaged in questionable accounting practices to deny royalties from record sales to the vast majority of its artists.\"\nThe major labels were never truly interested in intellectual property rights. They were interested in making money, and computer kids ripping music off the Internet meant far less money. Thom Yorke of Radiohead says: \"The idea that they are the victims of an immoral act is incredible to me. They claim to have the best interests of the artists at heart. Oh, really? They haven't had the best interests of the artists in mind for 50 years.\"\nKot understands that it's always entertaining to detail the thrash and roar of a carnivorous dinosaur in its death throes, as small and clever mammals \u2014 in this case, music lovers \u2014 win the day.\nSome dinosaurs are even contrite. Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chief executive of the Warner Music Group, said in 2007: \"By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find. And as a result, of course, consumers won.\"\nDana Jennings is a reporter at The Times.\nHis most recent book is Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music.\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/16\/books\/review\/Jennings-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bua2","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AstraZeneca's new restructuring initiatives to drive productivity and support innovation\nIn conjunction with the publication of its full year 2011 results earlier today, AstraZeneca announced new restructuring initiatives designed to improve productivity and strengthen the company's commercial, operations and research and development capabilities.\nThis new programme is expected to deliver an estimated $1.6 billion in annual benefits by the end of 2014, at an estimated total cost of $2.1 billion. AstraZeneca expects that this restructuring programme will affect approximately 7,300 positions. Final estimates for programme costs, benefits and headcount impact in all areas of the business are subject to completion of applicable consultation processes.\nDavid Brennan, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca said: \"AstraZeneca remains fully committed to our long-term, focused, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical strategy. Since 2007, when we announced our first major restructuring programme, we have taken decisive steps to improve returns on investment, recognising that this demands concerted, enterprise-wide action. Today's initiatives should be seen in this strategic context as we continue to reshape our business to improve productivity and innovation and with it our long-term ability to compete in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.\n\"We are acutely aware that these decisions will affect many employees and we will strive to support our people as we implement these changes.\"\nAstraZeneca is now providing further details of the company's restructuring plans as follows:\nSelling, General and Administrative (SG&A)\nWithin AstraZeneca's SG&A category \u2013 which encompasses corporate and support functions as well as the commercial organisation \u2013 the company will continue to drive efficiencies, rationalise non-customer facing support groups and introduce new ways of meeting customer needs.\nOne change already under way is the simplification of the company's global commercial organisation structure. The number of sales and marketing regions has been reduced from five to three and smaller countries are being clustered, a move that will optimise resources, increase shared services and reduce the cost base.\nIn parallel, AstraZeneca is accelerating its use of new customer channels providing innovative, high quality services that better meet the changing needs of healthcare professionals at lower unit costs. These new channels \u2013 which include digital technology and the use of call centres for sales and medical advice \u2013 have been successfully established in many developed markets and are now being deployed around the world.\nThe company currently estimates that approximately 3,750 positions will be affected by the programme spanning SG&A.\nThe R&D function will accelerate its transformation, which the company unveiled in January 2010. Under the new programme announced today, further changes will create a simpler and more innovative R&D organization with a lower and more flexible cost base. Excess capacity in certain R&D functions will be reduced, matching resources to AstraZeneca's more focused R&D portfolio.\nA focus for much of the change in R&D is the neuroscience therapy area. While the patient need for better medicines in neuroscience is huge and the science is promising, advances in treatments have proved elusive for the pharmaceutical industry in recent years, despite significant investment. AstraZeneca believes that it will have the best chance of success in future by combining the company's internal expertise with innovative external science.\nAs a result, AstraZeneca will create a new \"virtual\" neuroscience Innovative Medicines unit (iMed) made up of a small team of around 40 to 50 AstraZeneca scientists conducting discovery and development externally, through a network of some of the most innovative partners in academia and industry globally. The team will be based in major neuroscience hubs \u2013 Boston (US) and Cambridge (UK) \u2013 and work closely with innovative partners such as the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Sweden).\nMartin Mackay, President of Research and Development, AstraZeneca, said: \"We've made an active choice to stay in neuroscience though we will work very differently to share cost, risk and reward with partners in this especially challenging but important field of medical research. The creation of a virtual neuroscience iMed will make us more agile scientifically and financially \u2013 we will be able to collaborate flexibly with the best scientific expertise, wherever it exists in the world.\"\nThe implementation of this new model will lead to a significant reduction in employee numbers and the end of R&D activity at two sites that are focused on neuroscience: S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje in Sweden and Montreal in Canada. As the location of the company's largest manufacturing site, and the base of the commercial business covering the Scandinavian markets, S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje remains an important part of the AstraZeneca network. The company's Montreal facility will close.\nThe restructuring in R&D announced today will impact approximately 2,200 positions globally.\nIn recent years, AstraZeneca has made a number of strategic changes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its supply chain and outsource some manufacturing activity, particularly the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients. The new programme will drive further efficiency in the supply chain, with a particular focus on support functions in Operations.\nTotal positions affected within the company's Operations function are estimated to be around 1,350.\nR&D change programme\nIn January 2010, the R&D function announced a transformational change programme. Under this programme R&D reduced the number of disease areas, created Innovative Medicines units (iMeds) and the Global Medicines Development group and increased investment to build critical capabilities in areas such as predictive science, personalised healthcare, clinical trial design and interpretation and payer evidence. It also led to the closure of some R&D sites.\nAstraZeneca continues to invest in R&D in the following therapy areas: cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, oncology, neuroscience and respiratory & inflammation.\nAstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business with a primary focus on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation, oncology and infectious disease. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. 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{"text":"All about NFL All about Green Bay Packers\nTony Mandarich cites drug abuse as reason he was a Green Bay Packers draft bust\nTony Mandarich once again talked about why he turned into a Packers bust [Image via Greg McLain\/YouTube screencap]\nThe offensive lineman was considered a physical specimen but it turns out he used painkillers far too frequently.\nby Tobias Richmond (article and video)\nApril 22, 2019 at 8:17 AM April 22, 2019 at 8:17 AM\nGreen Bay Packers bust opens up about why he was a bust - Video\nTony Mandarich and the fact that he was an NFL draft bust for the Green Bay Packers is hardly a surprise at this point. Over the years, there has been all kinds of talk about just why he turned into that bust. Drug use and abuse have long been thought to be the problem, but a recent interview shed light on just how many drugs he was taking during his playing days.\nThe former offensive lineman, who was selected by the Packers to be their building block on the offensive line recently sat down with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap.\nAccording to Pro Football Talk said the talk with Schaap was one of the longest talks he's ever given about just what went wrong.\nCollege life was easier to fake for the Green Bay Packers pick\nThe biggest issue, according to Mandarich was that he had a real problem getting off steroids. Mandarich said that he got hooked on those when he was playing at Michigan State in college. He claimed that he never took them while he was playing for the Packers, or later, the Indianapolis Colts.\nMandarich said that he started taking steroids at Michigan State because he wanted to get to the NFL.\nOnce he made the pros, he decided he needed to stop taking the 'roids because the league's testing policy was quite a bit more stringent than what he saw at the NCAA level. That doesn't mean he stopped taking drugs altogether.\n\"I was taking 40, 50, 60 painkillers a day, and drinking,\" Mandarich said of his playing days with Green Bay. Stil, it appears the offensive lineman thinks the real problem was that he lost too much strength when he stopped taking steroids.\nThe Packers second-round draft pick in 1989 says he thought he would only be losing about 10 percent of his strength when he stopped taking steroids. The lineman says he actually lost quite a bit more. That was why he could never be the player Green Bay thought they were drafting.\nNever living up to the hype\nThe Green Bay Packers took Mandarich in the 1989 draft ahead of NFL greats that included Barry Sanders.\nConsidering this wasn't a team that most fans are used to, one that is competing for the playoffs if not the Super Bowl, he was considered someone who could help turn the franchise around.\nIn 1989, he played in 14 games, and he played in 16 in 1990. He played in and started 15 games in 1991, but he missed all of 1992 due to injury. Even while the Packers were giving him every opportunity to show what he could do, it became readily apparent quickly he wasn't the earth mover they thought they had drafted.\nHe was out of the game for several years because of that 1992 injury, and his lack of effectiveness when he came back. In 1996, he was signed by the Indianapolis Colts and played in 15 games, starting six of them. In 1997 he played in and started 16 games for the Colts started ten games in 1998. Eventually, his body broke down for good, and his career came to an end.\nIsaiah Simmons sends an emotional message to Clemson Tigers fans as he leaves\nTobias Richmond\nContributor and Video Maker\nLove writing about entertainment. Whether it's sports, or video games or movies. Love it all. And now I'm going to enjoy sharing it with the tens of people who have read this far! Hopefully at some point I can even call it dozens! Then baker's dozens and then probably right after that .\nFollow tobias on Facebook\nRead more on the same topic from Tobias Richmond:\nCleveland Browns claim they haven't found beer throwing man, as fan claims he's banned Nebraska Football: Adrian Martinez drawing comparisons to Kansas City Chiefs' Pat Mahomes Troy Aikman goes after analyst comments about rehabbing being too hard for Andrew Luck\nParasshuram Shalgar\nFollow parasshuram on Facebook Follow parasshuram on Linkedin Follow parasshuram on Instagram\nBlasting News recommends Daniel Bullocks keeps Nebraska football Super Bowl streak alive, barely Torrey Smith defends Patrick Mahomes girlfriend Brittany Matthews against online abuse Nebraska football: Frost attempts to shut down rumors while hiring Matt Lubick Nebraska target Keeshawn Silver swinging through North Carolina schools Jimmy Garoppolo uses lessons from Tom Brady as he prepares for the NFC Championship Game Video Super Bowl LIV might be easy to forget without the New England Patriots Video","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"House of Lords, Journals\nJournal of the House of Lords: Volume 7, 1644\nHouse of Lords Journal Volume 7: 12 August 1645\nJournal of the House of Lords: Volume 7, 1644. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.\n< Prev page | Next page >\nDIE Martis, 12 die Augusti.\nLetter from Col. Pointz.\nMessage from the H. C. with Ordinances.\nReport of the Conference about the Ordinance concerning the Isle of Ely.\nCol. Russel to be Governor of Ely.\nAnswer to the H. C.\nCommittee for North'ton.\nMessage from the H. C. with Commissioners Names to reside with the Scots Army;\nand with Ordinances.\nPass, for Mons. Augier to export Horses to France, for the D. Angoulesme, &c.\nMessage from the Assembly of Divines, about keeping scandalous Persons from the Sacrament.\nJones sent for, for insulting the Earl of Lincoln, at Sir R. Carr's.\nLetter from Col. Poyntz, that he has laid Siege to Skipton Castle.\nOrdinance to raise Money in the associated Counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, &c. for reducing Newark.\nCapt. Doyley, Governor of Newport Pagnell.\nPetition of the Assembly of Divines, to prevent scandalous and ignorant Persons from coming to the Sacrament.\nOrdinance to secure the Repayment of the 20th and 5th Part, if paid within a limited Time.\nOrder for 2000l. for the Reduced Officers employed to relieve Taunton.\nOrder for 40l. to Lady Drake.\nLieut. Gen. Cromwell continued in His Command Four Months longer.\nOrdinance concerning the Isle of Ely.\nOrder for 200l. for Major Gen. Skippon.\nOrder for 500 l. for the Garrison of Weymouth.\nAdjourn.\nPRAYERS, by Mr. Byfield.\nDs. Grey de Warke, Speaker.\nComes Kent.\nComes Pembrooke.\nComes Sarum.\nComes Bolingbrooke.\nComes Nottingham.\nComes Stamford.\nComes Denbigh.\nComes Rutland.\nL. Viscount Say & Seale. Ds. Howard.\nDs. Willoughby.\nDs. Berkley.\nDs. Bruce.\nA Letter from Colonel Pointz, to the Speaker, was read, as follows. (Here enter it.)\nA Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Anthony Erby Knight;\nTo desire their Lordships Concurrence in several Orders, and an Ordinance:\n1. An Ordinance for laying a Tax upon the Eastern Association, for the reducing of Newarke.\n(Here enter it.)\nAgreed to.\n2. An Order to make Captain Doyley Governor of Newport Pagnell. (Here enter it.)\n3. An Order to make Major Purbecke Temple Governor of Henley.\nRespited.\n4. An Ordinance for enabling the Committee at Haberdashers Hall to give the Public Faith, for the Fifth and Twentieth Part. (Here enter it.)\n5. An Order to pay One Hundred and Fifty Pounds to the Officers of Colonel Apsley.\nThe Lord Howard reported, \"That the Charges upon Haberdashers Hall is so great already, that they shall not be able in a long Time to pay those Monies.\"\n6. An Order for paying Two Thousand Pounds, for the Officers employed in the relieving Taunton.\n7. An Ordinance concerning the Directory.\nRead Twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House.\n8. An Order to pay Forty Pounds to the Lady Drake.\n9. An Order to continue Lieutenant General Cromwell for Four Months longer, from the Expiration of the last Three Months. (Here enter.)\n10. To desire Expedition in the Ordinance concerning the Governor of the Isle of Ely. (Here enter it.)\n11. That Captain James Quarles shall have the Command, and be Captain, of those Horse whereof Captain Anthony Poe was appointed Captain; and that the Committee of both Kingdoms do grant him a Commission accordingly.\n12. That Jeremy Quarley and Cary Mildmay may (fn. 1) be added, to be Deputy Lieutenants of the County of Essex.\nThe Speaker reported the late Conference with the House of Commons, concerning the Ordinance for the Governor of the Isle of Ely: \"And they agree with their Lordships in the Alterations, excepting to that concerning the Governor; and they adhere to the nominating of Colonel Russell to be Governor, because he is a Gentleman of good Estate in that County, and they have found him very faithful; therefore the House of Commons desires their Lordships Concurrence in the making of him Governor.\"\nResolved, upon the Question, That Colonel Russell shall be Governor of the Isle of Ely.\nThe Answer returned was:\nThat concerning the Ordinance for the Directory, the Ordinance for Major Purbecke, the Ordinance concerning Colonel Apsley, and the Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Essex, their Lordships will send an Answer by Messengers of their own: To all the rest of the Particulars, this House agrees.\nOrdered, That Mr. Ric'd Owsley be added to the Committee for the County of North'ton; and the Concurrence of the House of Commons desired herein.\nA Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Trenchard, &c.\nTo desire their Lordships Concurrence in these Particulars:\n1. That Henry Herbert, Nathaniell Stephens, Thomas Hodges, and Edward Stephens, be added to the Commissioners of both Houses, that are appointed to reside in the Scotts Army.\n2. An Ordinance to pay Two Hundred Pounds, out of the Excise, to Major General Skippon, &c. (Here enter it.)\n3. An Ordinance to pay, out of the Excise, Five Hundred Pounds, for the Garrison of Weymouth. (Here enter it.)\nThat this House agrees to all the Particulars now brought up.\nUpon Report of the Lord Viscount Say & Seale, from the Committee of both Kingdoms, \"That Monsieur Augier, by several Letters to the Committee of both Kingdoms, hath represented, that he was much solicited to get Passports from the Parliament, (fn. 2) for transporting out of England;\n1. Some Seven or Eight Geldings, for the Duke of Angouleme, and a Kennel of Dogs; this Duke hath sent a Gentleman hither.\n2. Some Ten or Twelve Geldings, for Monsieur De Souvre and the Count of Bryenne, Principal Secretary of State, &c.\n\"3. And some Six Geldings, for Belieux, once Ambassador here, President of the Parliament of Paris, and affected to the Parliament here.\"\nOrdered, That a Pass shall be granted, that the Duke of Angouleme shall transport into France Eight Geldings, the other Persons Six Geldings apiece.\nA Message was brought from the Assembly of Divines, to present a Petition, concerning the keeping away of scandalous and ignorant Persons from the Sacrament; which was read. (Here enter the Petition.)\nOrdered, That this Petition shall be taken into Consideration To-morrow Morning.\nThat this House hath read [ (fn. 3) their Petition]; and, (fn. 4) finding it to be a Business of great Moment, will take it into speedy Consideration.\nThe House was informed, \"That the Earl of Lyncolne, a Member of this House, going to visit Sir Rob't Carr, was affronted and uncivilly used, by one Jenkin Jones, in the said Sir Rob't's House.\"\nIt is Ordered, That Jenkin Jones be summoned to appear before this House To-morrow Morning, to answer his said Misdemeanor to the said Earl; who is desired to send his Witnesses at the Time aforesaid, to be examined by this House, concerning the said Jenkin Jones.\nUpon reading the Petition of Sir Rob't Mansell Knight; complaining, \"That Edmond Harris refuses to pay the Hundred Pounds to him, by Way of Damages, decreed by this House, upon hearing the Business depending between them at this Bar:\"\nIt is Ordered, That the said Harris shall pay the Hundred Pounds, according to the Decree of this House.\nMy Lord,\n\"Having the Honour to receive your Lordship's Letter, Duty prompts me to return yourself and the rest of my noble Peers most humble Thanks, that my poor Endeavours were thought worthy your Acknowledgement: The Passages here are not worthy your Honour's Knowledge; yet what there is, I shall thus render. On Saturday, I came within a Mile of Skipton, with some Horse and Foot, from Pontfract, where I stayed, in Expectation of the Bishopric and Lancasheir Forces coming in to me, till Monday; and then forced an Entrance into this Town, finding small Opposition, the Inhabitants being fled with their Families and Goods into the Castle and Church, being both well fortified. That Night I drew my Foot close to the Castle, where they still remain. Their Conduit-water we have likewise deprived them of, so that they have but One little Drawing-well to serve the Castle. We take their Men and Horses daily; others come in to us. When I have settled this Leaguer, I shall return to my Forces at Doncaster and Rotheram, for the keeping in of the Newarkers, and the Enemy of Welbecke House; whence I shall further express myself,\nYour most obliged Servant to honour you,\nSkipton, 8 Augusti, 1645.\nSednaham Poynts.\nFor the Right Honourable the Lord Grey of Warke, Speaker of the House of Peers.\n\"Poynts.\"\nAn Ordinance for taxing several Sums of Money upon the Eastern Association, and other Counties, to be employed towards the reducing of Newarke.\n\"For the better reducing of Newarke, and securing the several Counties hereafter named; the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, do hereby Ordain, That there shall be forthwith raised the several Sums of Money, in the several and respective Counties and Cities hereafter named; that is to say,\nUpon the County of Norffolke, the Sum of Two Thousand One Hundred Eighty-seven Pounds and Five Shillings.\n\u00a3. s. d.\nUpon the City of Norwich, the Sum of 113 4 0\nUpon the County of Suffolke, the Sum of 2187 5 0\nUpon the County of Essex, the Sum of 2088 5 0\nUpon the County of Cambridge, the Sum of 672 0 0\nUpon the Isle of Ely, the Sum of 225 8 0\nUpon the County of Huntingdon, the Sum of 315 11 0\nUpon the County of Hertford, the Sum of 752 10 0\nUpon the County of Bedford, the Sum of 309 7 0\nUpon the County of North'ton, the Sum of 139 4 0\nUpon the County of Leicester, the Sum of 77 16 0\nUpon the County of Derby, the Sum of 159 12 0\nUpon the County of Lincolne, the Sum of 640 7 0\nUpon the County of Rutland, the Sum of 56 18 0\n\"Which said Sums of Money shall be reimbursed to the said several Counties and Cities, out of the Estates of Delinquents, within the said Counties and Cities respectively, in Order after all former Engagements out of the Estates of Delinquents shall be first satisfied: And it is hereby further Ordained, That the Committees, named in the Ordinances for maintaining the Forces under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairefax, shall have the same Power to execute this Ordidinance, for the raising the said Sums of Money, and to inforce the Execution thereof, to all Intents and Purposes, as in the said Ordinance is provided, and under the same Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures, and giving the same Allowances to Officers, as are expressed in that Ordinance; which said Sums of Money shall be paid, by such as are appointed to collect the same, to such Person or Persons as shall be named Treasurer or Treasurers to receive the same, by the Committee of the Eastern Association, being Members of the House of Commons; which said Treasurer or Treasurers shall issue forth the same, from Time to Time, as he or they shall receive Order or Orders from the said Committee, for the Payment of Seven Hundred Horse and Three Hundred Dragoons, lately raised, to be employed for the Purposes aforesaid, and for such other Purposes, and in such Manner, and under such Commander or Commanders, as both Houses of Parliament, or the Committee of both Kingdoms, shall direct, for the best Advantage of the Eastern Association, and the aforesaid Counties, and other Parts of the Kingdom: Provided always, and it is hereby Declared, That the assessing, raising, and levying, of the said Sums of Money, be no Impediment, to hinder or delay the raising, levying, or paying, any Sum or Sums of Money, appointed to be raised, levied, and paid, by the said Ordinance, for Payment of Sir Thomas Fairefaxe's Army, or for Maintenance of the Army of our Brethren of Scotland.\"\n\"The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, do nominate and appoint Captain Doyley, to be established Governor of Newport Pagnell.\"\n\"To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled.\n\"The humble Petition of the Assembly of Divines, sitting, by Order of Parliament, at Westm.\n\"It having pleased the Honourable Houses to call the Members of this Assembly together, to give their Advice in Matters of Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship, according to the Word of God; and we having, both in that Directory for Worship, and in the Model of Government, humbly presented to the Honourable Houses, advised such a Course, for the keeping away of scandalous and unworthy Persons from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as we judged most expedient, and most agreeable to the Word of God, and the Example of the best Reformed Churches; and having solicited the same by several Petitions; can yet have no rest in our Spirits, but, perceiving by the Answers it pleased the Honourable Houses to vouchsafe to our last Petition that this Petition is still in Consultation, our Spirits within constrains us yet further humbly to beseech you in this Particular; and we hope it will not seem grievous unto you, if, in Conscience of that Duty, which we as Ministers, and more especially as met in this Assembly, owe to God, to His Church, and to yourselves, we are yet again humble and important Petitioners in this Thing; seeing God is our Record, and we hope it is manifest to your Consciences, that herein we seek not ourselves or private Interests, but the Glory of God, the pure Administration of His Ordinances, the Welfare of Souls, and the Peace and Good of this whole Nation. The greatest Care and Diligence in Matters of so high Concernment is not enough; and therefore we hope no Care and Diligence that we can use will seem supersluous.\n\"We should not use this Opportunity, did we not firmly believe that what we have desired, and do desire herein, is the Will and Command of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the King and Lawgiver in His Church; and therefore we dare not but in His Name ask it, and doubt not by His Grace to obtain it, of the Honourable Houses.\nHad we not this Hope, our Hearts would fail within us for this poor Nation; for, as we are fully convinced in our Consciences, that, among the many and crying Sins of this Kingdom, which the great and righteous God is now avenging in Blood upon us, the prostituting of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ as a common Thing is One, and not the least (for this Cause, even for this Cause, the Land bleeds and mourns); so we fear, unless at this Time by your Hand (seeing the Most High hath given you an Opportunity and Power to do it) an effectual Course be taken for the preventing of so great a Sin for Time to come, God will be yet more displeased, and will punish yet Seven Times more.\n\"Therefore we, whom (amongst others) the Lord hath set as watching upon the Walls, dare not hold our Peace, especially seeing the Vows of God are upon us, and it hath pleased the Honourable Houses of Parliament to bind themselves, and us, and the Nation, in a solemn and sacred Covenant, wherein (among other Things) we have sworn to endeavour, according to our Places and Callings, to extirpate Popery, Prelacy, Superstition, Heresy, Schism, Prophaneness, and whatever is contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godliness, lest we partake of other Mens Sins, and thereby be in Danger to receive of their Plagues. God hath graciously strengthened your Hands against Popery, Prelacy, and Superstition; and for the rest of those Roots of Bitterness which we have covenanted against, especially Schism and Prophaneness, we know no better Way of providing against them than this for which we now petition; which, we are confident, will (through the Blessing of God) be the happiest Means of healing the present, and preventing future Schisms, by removing out of the Way that which hath been One of the greatest Stumbling-blocks, and by reconciling all the godly in the Kingdom, and will give much Ease and Satisfaction to weak and tender Consciences, and which will give the greatest Check to Prophaneness, as sealing Conviction upon the Consciences of Sinners most powerfully; for it is not to be imagined that our denouncing the Terrors of the Lord against wicked and prophane Persons will prevail much upon their Hearts, while they may (even as soon as they have heard that Sermon) come and receive the Sacrament, and therein, as they think, the Seal of Grace and Salvation to themselves.\n\"We hope we shall not need to plead for ourselves, that the Power of keeping away seandalous and unworthy Persons from the Lord's Table, which Jesus Christ hath placed in the Ministers and Elders of His Churches (the free and peaceable Exercise whereof we humbly desire may be confirmed unto them by your Sanction), is not an arbitrary or unlimited Power, for how can that Power be called arbitrary, which is not according to the Will of Man, but the Will of Christ? or how can it be supposed to be unlimited, which is circumscribed and regulated by the exactest Law, the Word of God; which Law in Case any shall transgress, and abuse this Power to serve their Lusts instead of serving Christ in the Exercise thereof, we have advised, and humbly desire, that superior Assemblies may be established amongst us, who may not only relieve the Injured, but censure the Offenders according to their Demerit.\n\"Nor is this Power in the least Measure (as we humbly conceive) inconsistent with the Liberties of the Subject, it being exercised wholly and solely in that which is no Part of Civil Liberty, the Sacrament; which certainly none can claim as he is a free-born Subject of any Kingdom or State, but as he is visibly a Member of the Church, qualified according to the Rule of Christ.\n\"Only we crave Leave to entreat you to consider, that other Christian States, which are jealous of the Encroachments of an arbitrary Power, and very tender of their own just Liberties, have granted the full Exercise of the Power of Censures unto the Elderships of their Churches: (fn. 5) Yea, and among ourselves, Power equivalent to this was intrusted to every single Minister and Curate in England, as (in our humble Apprehensions) appears both by the Injunctions of King Edward the Sixth, and by the Injunctions and Articles of Enquiry of Queen Elizabeth, Princess of Famous Memory, and by the late Book of Common Prayer, and Rubric before the Sacrament; nor do we at present call to Mind that any Christian Prince or State, whose Heart God did incline to seek a Refor mation, as you have covenanted to do, and to establish a Government according to the Word, did ever deny this Power unto the Presbyteries in their Dominions; and we trust God loves the Parliament and England so well, as not to suffer them to be the First. Yet can we not (lest our own Heart should smite us, as not having done our Duties to the utmost) but continue most humbly to advise and pray, that Ministers and other Elders may be sufficiently enabled to keep not only some, but all such as are justly and notoriously scandalous from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; for, should Things be so ordered (which God forbid), that any wicked and scandalous Persons might without Controul thrust themselves upon this Sacrament, we do evidently foresee, that not only we, but many of our godly Brethren, must be put upon this hard Choice, either to forsake our Stations in the Ministry, which would be to us One of the greatest Afflictions, or else to partake in other Mens Sins, and thereby incur the Danger of their Plagues; and if we must chuse One, we are resolved, and we trust our God will help us, to chuse Affliction rather than Iniquity.\nWilliam Twisse Prolocutor.\nJohn White Assessor.\nHenry Roborrough Scriba.\nAdoniram Byfeild Scriba.\"\n\"Whereas divers Sums of Money have been received, by the Committee of Lords and Commons for Advance of Money and other Necessaries for the Army, upon the Ordinances of Parliament, for the Twentieth Part, and Twentieth and Fifth Part, which have been issued and paid forth by them, according to the Trust reposed in them, upon sundry Exigents and Occasions, according to several Ordinances and Orders of Parliament in that Behalf made; and for so much as it is provided, in the said Ordinances for the Twentieth Part, and Twentieth and Fifth Part, that such Persons as shall pay in their Proportions, within the Times limited by the said Ordinance, to the Treasurers at Guildhall, should have the Public Faith for Re-payment of the same; and there being divers Persons, whose Monies have not been paid the Treasurers at Guildhall, but issued and paid forth by the said Committee as aforesaid, so that the said Persons have hitherto had no Security for Re-payment of the same on the Public Faith: Be it therefore Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That such Persons as heretofore have paid, or hereafter shall pay, their Proportions for the Twentieth Part, and Twentieth and Fifth Part, within the Time limited by the said Ordinances, and such other Persons, who, by Order of the said Committee, shall be thought meet, shall have the Public Faith of this Kingdom, for Re-payment of such Monies as shall be by them respectively paid in, for their Twentieth Parts, and Twentieth and Fifth Parts; the same to be signified and attested under the Hand of the Clerk to the said Committee, and Treasurer for the Time being in that Behalf, who are required to keep Accompt unto what Persons, and for what Sums, the Public Faith shall be given as aforesaid.\"\n\"Whereas Thomas Foote Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, and the rest of the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost, have advanced and lent the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds, for and towards the Satisfaction of the Arrears due unto the Reduced Officers employed in the Relief of Taunton: Be it Ordained, by the Lords and Commons, &c. That the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost shall and may satisfy and reimburse themselves, and that their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, shall and may be satisfied and reimbursed, the said Two Thousand Pounds, together with Interest for the same, after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Cent. for so long Time as the same, or any Part thereof, shall be forborn, out of such Intervals of Receipts, upon the Ordinance 11th September, 1643, as shall happen when other Assignments already made on those Receipts shall not fall due, and, in Default thereof, then as the same shall follow in Course; and that the said Commissioners of Excise do pay the said Two Thousand Pounds unto Captain Francis Vernon, whose Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge unto the said Commissioners of Excise, and every of them, in that Behalf.\"\n\"Ordered, by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That Forty Pounds be advanced and paid, by the Committee at Habberdashers Hall, for the Relief of the Lady Drake, in her Sickness.\"\n\"Whereas it was Ordained, by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, the Tenth Day of May last, That Lieutenant General Cromwell, being then in the actual Service of the Parliament, and the Prosecution of the Enemy, should be continued in the Employment he was then in for [ (fn. 6) Forty Days] longer, not withstanding the late Ordinance, or any Clause therein, that discharges the Members of either House from bearing any Office or Command, Military or Civil; and whereas the said Lords and Commons, the 18th of June last, did further Order, That he should continue as Lieutenant General of the Horse, according to the established Pay of the Army, for Three Months, from the End of the Forty Days formerly appointed to him: It is this Day Ordered, by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the said Lieutenant General Cromwell shall be continued in the same Employment, as formerly, for the Space of Four Months longer, from the End of the said Three Months for which he was formerly continued as aforesaid.\"\n\"The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, taking into their Consideration the great Importance of the Isle of Ely, and Town and Garrison of Croyland, as well with regard to the Security and Preservation of the Seven associated Counties, as in relation to the Designs of the Enemies (who are watchful to take Advantages to possess themselves of the said Isle and Garrison), have therefore thought fit, Ordered, and Ordained, and do hereby Order and Ordain, That there be a Garrison, consisting of Six Hundred Foot, and One Troop of Dragoons, consisting of One Hundred and Twenty, placed within the said Isle, and Garrison of Croyland, for the Safety thereof, whereof Five Hundred Foot and One Hundred Dragoons to be for the Isle of Ely, and One Hundred Foot and Twenty Dragoons to be for the Garrison of Croyland: And be it further Ordered and Ordained, by the Lords and Commons, That Colonel Francis Russell be hereby constituted and appointed Governor of the said Isle, and Lieutenant Colonel Dodson be likewise hereby constituted and appointed Governor of the said Garrison and Town of Croyland, and the Forces therein; and that the Committees of both Kingdoms do grant out Commissions to the said Colonel Francis Russell and Lieutenant Colonel Dodson accordingly, who shall command the said Garrisons, and Forces there, in such Manner as both Houses of Parliament, the Committee of both Kingdoms, Sir Thomas Fairefax, or the Committee hereafter named, shall order and direct: And be it further Ordained, That, in the County of Norffolke, Sir Thomas Hoogen Knight, Mr. Thomas Sotherton, Mr. John Brewster, Mr. Robert Wilton, Mr. Robert Wood of Brakenash; and in the County of Suffolke, Mr. Nathaniell Bacon, Sir William Spring, Mr. Robert Brewster, Mr. Bampton Gurdon Junior, Mr. Francis Bacon; and in the County of Essex, Mr. Richard Herlakenden, Mr. Wincoll, Mr. Arthur Barnardiston, Mr. Henry Mildmay, Mr. Raymond; and in the County of Cambridge, Mr. John Hubbard, Mr. Robert Castle, Mr. Thomas Duckett, Mr. Robert Clerke, Mr. Thomas Bendish; and, in the County of Hertford, Sir John Wittrong, Mr. John Haydon, Mr. William Leamon, John King Doctor of Physic, Isaack Puller; and in the County of Huntington, Mr. Vintner, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Fulwood, Mr. Castle, Mr. Templer; and, in the County of Lincolne, Mr. Humfrey Wallcott, Mr. William Savell, Mr. John Willsby, Mr. John Harrington, Mr. James Trollop; and all the Members of both Houses of Parliament that serve for, or live within, the Association; shall be a Committee of the said Seven Associated Counties; and that they, or any Five or more of them, shall have Power to order and direct the said Governors and Forces belonging to the said Isle and Garrison, subject nevertheless to the Orders and Directions of both Houses of Parliament, or of the Committee of both Kingdoms, and Sir Thomas Fairefax: And, that there may be a settled Maintenance of the said Garrisons, it is further Ordained, and the Commissioners of Excise are hereby Ordered and Appointed, to pay Weekly the Sum of Three Hundred Pounds, for the Use of the said Garrisons; that is to say, to the Use of the said Isle, the Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds per Week; and for the Use of the said Garrison of Croyland, the Sum of Fifty Pounds per Week; unto such Person or Persons as shall be authorized to receive the same, by the Committee aforenamed, or any Five of them, whose Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Commissioners of Excise; the First Day of Payment to be accounted from the 23th Day of April, in the Year of our Lord 1645, and to continue till further Order of both Houses of Parliament; and the Committees before named in this Ordinance, or any Five of them, or such as they shall appoint, are hereby required and authorized to cause Musters to be taken so often as they hold necessary, and to take Care that the said Garrisons be well and duly paid, from Time to Time, according to the true Intent and Meaning hereof; and the said Governor, with the Consent of the said Committee, or Five or more of them, shall have Power to make such Works and Fortifications, for the securing of the said Isle, as they shall think fit and necessary.\"\n\"Whereas Thomas Foote Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, and the rest of the Commissioners of Excise or new Impost, have advanced and lent Two Hundred Pounds, for the Use of Major General Skippon: Be it Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That the said Commissioners of Excise and new Impost shall and may satisfy and reimburse themselves, and that their Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall be satisfied and reimbursed, of the said Two Hundred Pounds, together with Interest for the same, after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Cent. for so long Time as the same, or any Part thereof, shall be forborn, out of such Intervals of Receipts by the Excise, by Ordinance of the 11th September, 1643, as shall happen when other Payments already assigned on those Receipts shall not fall due, or, for Want of such Intervals, then as the same shall follow in Course; and shall not, by any other Order or Ordinance, be debarred from satisfying themselves accordingly; for which Reimbursement of Principal and Interest, this Ordinance shall be their, the said Commissioners of Excise, or their Executors, sufficient Warrant and Discharge: And it is further Ordained, That the said Two Hundred Pounds, by the Commissioners of Excise advanced and lent for the Use aforesaid, shall be paid unto the said Major General Skippon, or his Assigns by (fn. 7) him sufficiently authorized thereunto, whose Receipt or Receipts shall be a sufficient Discharge to the said Commissioners of Excise, and every of them, in that Behalf: And the Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, of the 29th July, 1645, for the Re-imbursement of the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds to the said Commissioners, is hereby nulled and made void.\"\n\"Whereas Thomas Foote Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, and the rest of the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost, have advanced and lent the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, for and towards the Payment of the Garrison of Waymouth: Be it Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost shall and may satisfy and re-imburse themselves, and that their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, shall and may be satisfied and reimbursed, the said Five Hundred Pounds, together with Interest for the same, after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Cent. for so long Time as the same, or any Part thereof, shall be forborn, out of such Intervals of Receipts, upon the Ordinance, 11th of September, 1643, as shall happen (fn. 8) when other Assignments already made on those Receipts shall not fall due; and, in Default thereof, then (fn. 8) as the same shall follow in Course; and that the said Commissioners of Excise do pay the said Five Hundred Pounds unto Colonel William Sydenham, whose Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge unto the said Commissioners of Excise, and every of them, in that Behalf.\"\nHouse adjourned till 9a cras.\n1. 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{"text":"Ray Rice Publicly Apologizes To His Wife Following Assault, 2-Game Suspension\nFiled Under:Janay Palmer, Punishment, Ravens, Ray Rice, running back, Suspension\nOWINGS MILLS, Md. (WJZ)\u2013 Ray Rice stepped up to the microphone at a Ravens press conference Thursday morning. He talked about his two-game suspension\u2013 and publicly apologized to his wife.\n\"My actions were inexcusable. My actions are something I have to live with the rest of my life,\" he said.\nRice drew criticism during a press conference with his wife in May, where she apologized, but he never said sorry to her. He addressed that on Thursday.\n\"I didn't publicly apologize to my wife. I know that hit home for a lot of people,\" Rice said. \"I've made the biggest mistake of my life. Me. She can do no wrong. She's an angel.\"\nSuspended by the NFL for the first two games of the season, the running back has been quiet during camp. But his critics nationwide have been quite vocal about what many feel was a lenient punishment after he was indicted for physically assaulting his then fiancee.\nTo WATCH Rice's complete public statement, click here.\nInfamous TMZ Sports video shows Rice dragging his now-wife, Janay Palmer, from an elevator at a casino in Atlantic City in February after prosecutors say he punched her.\nRice would not specifically address anything that happened in Atlantic City. Instead, he says he takes responsibility and is now focused on moving forward.\n\"I own my actions,\" he said. \"I just don't want to keep reliving the incident. It doesn't bring any good to me. I'm just trying to move forward from it. I don't condone it. I take full responsibility for my actions. What happened that night is something that I'm going to pay for the rest of my life.\"\nHe spoke about his 2-year-old daughter one day going on Google and him having to explain what happened.\n\"I know that's not who I am as a man. That's not who my mom raised me to be. I was raised by a single parent, and that was my mother. I let her down, I let my wife down, I let my daughter down. I let her parents down. I let so many people down because of 30 seconds of my life that I know I can't take back,\" Rice said.\nA judge put Rice in a first-time offender program, meaning no jail time and a clean record. But NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who met with Rice and his wife, says the assault warranted suspension.\n\"We simply cannot tolerate conduct that endangers others\u2026 This is particularly true with respect to domestic violence and other forms of violence against women,\" said Goodell in a letter to Rice.\nRice's conduct will cost him a two-game suspension and half a million dollars.\n\"When I didn't have nothing growing up, all I had was football. Just to have that taken away from me, and I can't be with you guys the first two weeks, it hurts,\" Rice said. \"I appreciate you guys support.\"\nAt an open practice game last week, Ravens fans showed support by cheering for Rice.\n\"I appreciate the fans of Baltimore who gave me that ovation,\" Rice said. \"When the time is right, when I get myself completely right to go back out there and do the things I been doing in the community, I will go out there and help as many people as I can.\"\nRice says the domestic violence situation is the first time that it's happened. He also apologized to all victims of domestic violence.\nThe House of Ruth released the following statement:\n\"The unfortunate incident with the Baltimore Ravens' Ray Rice has generated tremendous conversation about the issue of intimate partner violence. We appreciate that Mr. Rice apologized to his wife and to all victims of intimate partner violence and is taking the best steps to create a healthy relationship in his family. We hope that Mr. Rice will now take an active stand in the work that is being done to end intimate partner violence. He is in a unique position to use his influence to let men know that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and that it is not acceptable to be a bully in a relationship.\n\"All men, not just Mr. Rice, need to take responsibility as husbands, boyfriends, fathers, brothers, caretakers and friends. They need to speak out and lead the charge that intimate partner violence is not acceptable at any level and it destroys lives and families.\n\"We look forward to the time that Mr. Rice is ready to turn this experience into a positive in our community and nationally.\"\nOther Local News:\nCode Red Extreme Heat Alert Issued For Tuesday Until Sunday In Baltimore\nStreets Still Closed As Crews Fix Water Main, Fill Sinkhole Downtown\nGlenwood Barn Destroyed In Massive Fire\nPG County Woman Caught With Loaded Handgun At BWI Airport, 19th This Year\nBPD Sgt. Bill Shiflett Injured, Two Dead In Shooting At Baltimore Methadone Clinic \u2014 Latest","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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After an online search, he discovered a therapist whose profile matched his needs and reserved a chat session for the next day.\nThe physician app Babylon provides treatment to 150,000 active users, while PlusGuidance, an online counselling service, has 10,000 users. Talkspace, another online therapy platform, reports it has 500,000 signed up users worldwide, with many in the United States.\nOnline training advises therapists on everything from utilizing emojis to preventing misconceptions. They likewise need to secure clients' personal data\u2013 a concern that has actually caused controversy in the US, where big online treatment platforms have come under the spotlight.\nBuckley stated patients must inspect services' privacy policies prior to signing up. \"Not all online counselling websites utilize professionally trained therapists or comply with a principles policy, so ask your GP for a recommendation in the very first circumstances. Just like all sort of services and assistance, what works for one person might not work for another person,\" he said.\nMarc Bush, chief policy advisor at Young Minds, stated that while online counselling services are valuable, \"they should not change face-to-face therapy with a skilled professional. If a young person is having a hard time, we would encourage them to speak with their GP in the first instance, or to call an established service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.\".\nFor Rackham, who has actually generalised anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn't the ideal fit. \"I felt it was near difficult for the therapist to truly get a sense of the issues I was dealing with, as all they needed to go from was my typed-out words. I think I realised after that online session how important interpersonal interaction was.\n\" I'm a huge fan of using technology in all locations of my life as a solution to everyday issues. I have apps for whatever, however when it pertains to mental health, you have to choose how innovation contributes in your healing very carefully.\". Www.Better Help.Com Cost\nThe company explains BetterHelp as the \"largest online therapy platform worldwide,\" tailored toward helping people dealing with concerns \"such as tension, anxiety, relationships, parenting, depression, addictions, consuming, sleeping, trauma, anger, household conflicts, LGBT matters, sorrow, faith [or] self-confidence.\" The business's FAQ section on its site plainly mentions BetterHelp's app and therapists should not be utilized for people handling a severe mental disorder (schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder) or for individuals considering self-harm. Rather, the app prides itself on having licensed therapists and mental health specialists readily available to help people by means of text, telephone call or video chat. That's what many YouTubers who have actually accepted sponsorships from the company often state in their own videos, where they speak on the tensions in their individual lives and sensations verging on stress and anxiety or anxiety. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane Dawson and ChandlerNWilson are all developers who have actually Www.Better Help.Com Cost sponsors now.\nMuch of these creators have discussed mental health issues in the past, but as burnout becomes a bigger topic within the neighborhood\u2013 and traditional world\u2013 sponsorships including BetterHelp have increased, in spite of the app not being exactly what the creators are promoting.\nBetterhelp Om \u2013 Get Started & Connect\nTalkspace Graphics \u2013 Get Started & Connect\nWww Better Help Com Cost \u2013 Get Started & Connect\nVegok main questions from clients = Www Better Help Com Cost\u2026\nBetter Help insurance Www Better Help Com Cost Online\nthat you're compared with the service makes it actually simple to just switch therapists when I seemed like I wasn't truly connecting with my very first couple therapists I just picked I think it's just a choice in the app where you can look for a different therapist you can read their BIOS and find out more about them and select which one you would like to work with so I believe part of why I wasn't actually that satisfied to begin with with those very first therapists was that they were initially offering me sort of canned reactions which didn't truly sit well\nConfronted with joining a frantically long NHS waiting list, Joe Rackham chose online counselling rather. \"I simply felt that I couldn't wait any longer\u2013 I was motivated and all set to deal with my concerns and quite liked the idea of doing so in the comfort of my own home,\" said the 29-year-old, who lives in London. After an online search, he discovered a therapist whose profile matched his requirements and reserved a chat session for the next day.\nRemote, text-based counselling is growing in popularity in the UK. The medical professional app Babylon uses treatment to 150,000 active users, while PlusGuidance, an online counselling service, has 10,000 users. The US-based service BetterHelp also has 150,000 registered UK users (though not all are active). Talkspace, another online therapy platform, reports it has actually 500,000 signed up users worldwide, with many in the US.\nOnline training advises therapists on whatever from utilizing emojis to avoiding misinterpretations. They also require to protect clients' personal information\u2013 a problem that has caused controversy in the United States, where huge online treatment platforms have come under the spotlight.\nBuckley said patients must check services' personal privacy policies before signing up. \"Not all online counselling websites utilize expertly trained therapists or follow an ethics policy, so ask your GP for a suggestion in the very first circumstances. Similar to all sort of services and assistance, what works for one person might not work for another person,\" he stated.\nMarc Bush, chief policy advisor at Young Minds, stated that while online counselling services are valuable, \"they shouldn't replace in person therapy with a qualified professional. If a young person is struggling, we would motivate them to speak to their GP in the very first circumstances, or to contact a recognized service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.\".\nFor Rackham, who has actually generalised stress and anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn't the best fit. \"I felt it was near impossible for the therapist to really get a sense of the issues I was dealing with, as all they had to go from was my typed-out words. I believe I realised after that online session how important interpersonal interaction was.\n\" I'm a big fan of using technology in all locations of my life as a service to everyday issues. I have apps for whatever, but when it pertains to mental health, you need to select how technology plays a role in your recovery extremely thoroughly.\". Www Better Help Com Cost\nInstead, the app prides itself on having accredited therapists and mental health specialists available to assist people via text, call or video chat. That's what many YouTubers who have actually accepted sponsorships from the business often state in their own videos, where they speak on the stresses in their personal lives and sensations verging on stress and anxiety or anxiety. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane Dawson and ChandlerNWilson are all creators who have actually Www Better Help Com Cost sponsors now.\nA number of these developers have discussed psychological health concerns in the past, but as burnout becomes a bigger topic within the neighborhood\u2013 and traditional world\u2013 sponsorships involving BetterHelp have increased, despite the app not being precisely what the developers are promoting.\nBetter Help Stock Ticker \u2013 Get Started & Connect\nBetter Help Counselling Mess Up \u2013 Get Started & Connect\nthat you're compared with the service makes it really easy to just switch therapists when I felt like I wasn't actually getting in touch with my first couple therapists I just chose I believe it's simply a choice in the app where you can look for a different therapist you can read their BIOS and determine more about them and select which one you want to work with so I think part of why I wasn't truly that amazed to begin with with those first therapists was that they were initially giving me type of canned reactions which didn't truly sit well\nFaced with signing up with a frantically long NHS waiting list, Joe Rackham opted for online counselling instead. \"I simply felt that I could not wait any longer\u2013 I was inspired and ready to deal with my issues and quite liked the concept of doing so in the convenience of my own house,\" said the 29-year-old, who resides in London. After an online search, he found a therapist whose profile fit his needs and reserved a chat session for the next day.\nRemote, text-based counselling is growing in appeal in the UK. The doctor app Babylon provides therapy to 150,000 active users, while PlusGuidance, an online counselling service, has 10,000 users. The US-based service BetterHelp likewise has actually 150,000 signed up UK users (though not all are active). Talkspace, another online therapy platform, reports it has actually 500,000 signed up users worldwide, with a lot of in the United States.\nOnline training encourages therapists on whatever from using emojis to preventing misinterpretations. They likewise require to secure clients' individual data\u2013 an issue that has actually caused debate in the United States, where huge online treatment platforms have actually come under the spotlight.\nBuckley stated patients must inspect services' personal privacy policies prior to registering. \"Not all online counselling sites utilize professionally trained therapists or adhere to an ethics policy, so ask your GP for a recommendation in the first circumstances. As with all type of services and assistance, what works for someone might not work for someone else,\" he stated.\nMarc Bush, primary policy advisor at Young Minds, stated that while online counselling services are important, \"they shouldn't replace face-to-face therapy with an experienced specialist. If a young adult is having a hard time, we would encourage them to talk to their GP in the first instance, or to get in touch with an established service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.\".\nFor Rackham, who has generalised stress and anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn't the ideal fit. \"I felt it was near difficult for the therapist to really get a sense of the problems I was dealing with, as all they had to go from was my typed-out words. I believe I realised after that online session how crucial interpersonal interaction was.\n\" I'm a huge fan of using innovation in all areas of my life as a solution to daily problems. I have apps for everything, however when it concerns mental health, you need to pick how innovation contributes in your healing very carefully.\". 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That's what lots of YouTubers who have accepted sponsorships from the company typically say in their own videos, where they speak on the stresses in their individual lives and sensations bordering on anxiety or depression. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane Dawson and ChandlerNWilson are all developers who have actually Www Better Help Com Cost sponsors now.\nA number of these developers have discussed mental health problems in the past, but as burnout becomes a larger topic within the neighborhood\u2013 and mainstream world\u2013 sponsorships including BetterHelp have increased, in spite of the app not being precisely what the creators are promoting.\nBetter Help Qualifications \u2013 Get Started & Connect\nDoes Sunlife Cover Better Help \u2013 Get Started & Connect\nthat you're compared with the service makes it really easy to simply switch therapists when I felt like I wasn't truly getting in touch with my first couple therapists I simply selected I believe it's just an alternative in the app where you can search for a various therapist you can read their BIOS and find out more about them and choose which one you wish to work with so I believe part of why I wasn't truly that amazed to begin with with those very first therapists was that they were at first providing me type of canned responses which didn't really sit well\nFaced with joining a frantically long NHS waiting list, Joe Rackham opted for online counselling instead. \"I just felt that I couldn't wait any longer\u2013 I was motivated and all set to deal with my concerns and rather liked the idea of doing so in the comfort of my own home,\" said the 29-year-old, who lives in London. After an online search, he found a therapist whose profile fit his needs and booked a chat session for the next day.\nThe medical professional app Babylon offers treatment to 150,000 active users, while PlusGuidance, an online counselling service, has 10,000 users. Talkspace, another online therapy platform, reports it has actually 500,000 signed up users worldwide, with the majority of in the United States.\nOnline training encourages therapists on everything from using emojis to preventing misconceptions. They likewise require to protect clients' personal information\u2013 an issue that has caused controversy in the United States, where huge online treatment platforms have actually come under the spotlight.\nBuckley stated clients should check services' privacy policies before registering. \"Not all online counselling sites use expertly trained therapists or follow an ethics policy, so ask your GP for a suggestion in the very first circumstances. Just like all kinds of services and assistance, what works for one person might not work for another person,\" he stated.\nMarc Bush, chief policy adviser at Young Minds, said that while online counselling services are valuable, \"they should not change face-to-face therapy with a trained specialist. If a young person is struggling, we would motivate them to talk to their GP in the first circumstances, or to get in touch with an established service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.\".\nFor Rackham, who has generalised stress and anxiety condition, online counselling wasn't the ideal fit. \"I felt it was near difficult for the therapist to truly get a sense of the problems I was dealing with, as all they needed to go from was my typed-out words. I believe I understood after that online session how important interpersonal interaction was.\n\" I'm a huge fan of using innovation in all areas of my life as an option to everyday problems. 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{"text":"About me, about you\nExcerpt\/First Chapter\nImmortal Link on Facebook\nFor victims of abuse - Immortal Link - You hurt me, I'll hurt you MORE\nYou are here: Home \/ Archives for death\nYOLO \u2013 You Only Live Once \u2013 Do You?\nJuly 23, 2013 By Utaburke Leave a Comment\n\"If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, it is enough if you prove that one crow is white.\" William James\n\"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.\" Pierre Teilhard de Chardin\n\"These are the kind of data I wouldn't believe, even if they were true.\" (A skeptic, qtd. in Schwartz 122)\nPeople have been searching for answers to immortality since humans exist. As more and more pieces of the puzzle emerge, we come to understand that in this dimension the full picture might remain elusive, so an interpretation of the clues so far available is left to the individual. What the character suffering from an incurable disease in Nadine Gordimer's essay \"Terminal\" believes is that once we die, that's it. There will be nothing, an end of consciousness, not even an awareness of the termination of life. Since she does not want to wait until she turns into a helpless, bedridden object, she attempts suicide but is rescued by her husband. It is clear that she is not afraid of dying, expecting nothing but a black stillness \"afterward:\"\nEver since she was a child she had understood it as a deep sleep, that's all. Ever since she saw the first bird, lying under a hedge, whose eyes hadn't openend when it was poked with a twig. But one can only be aware of a sleep as one awakens from it, and so one will never be aware of that deep sleep \u2013 she had no fear of death\u2026( 526)\nSince the early 1970s, resuscitation techniques have become so advanced that thousands of people were brought back from the brink of death. Many who were saved reported phenomena known as near death experiences (NDE) and out of body experiences (OBE). NDErs, as the survivors are commonly called, described being in the presence of a bright, peaceful and loving light and of meeting deceased loved ones. Almost all who experienced being in that realm wanted to stay there or cannot wait to go back once they die. Not only do NDErs testify about a life after death, but they comprehended that we all lived multiple lives.\nIf these experiences are true, the current popular credo, \"YOLO\" must be false. Backed by mounting research and evidence, scientists can now claim that there is life after death and that we have to come back until we learn the lessons we need to fulfill our purpose on earth \u2013 a task for which more than one lifetime is needed. I am saying that YDOLO \u2013 You Don't Only Live Once!\nOne of the biggest doubters of a continuation of life after death was Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon who used scientific evidence as the basis for his understanding of life and death. In 2008 this changed when he was the victim of a rare bacterial meningitis infection that inactivated the neocortex of his brain, putting him into a deep coma. For seven days he experienced \"death.\" Alexander writes about \"flocks of transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky\u2026which were quite simply different from anything [he had] known on this planet. They were more advanced. Higher forms\" (3). He also talks about a booming, glorious sound like a chant, and a woman accompanying him who had \"a look that, if you saw it for five seconds, would make your whole life up to that point worth living\" (3). This woman, he found out later, was a deceased sister he never knew he had (he was adopted). Dr. Alexander also received a message consisting of three parts: \"You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever\", \"You have nothing to fear,\" and \"There is nothing you can do wrong\" (4); but the greatest message of all was LOVE. Alexander claims that all his questions were answered, transmitted without words, and with the certainty of knowledge that we will know everything after we die. When he woke up, he knew that he had been in the presence of a Higher Being. Getting a glimpse of continued consciousness after bodily death and discovering the truth had a profound effect on his life, taking away all his fear.\nDr. Alexander's testimony about what he experienced while he was almost dead is very similar to other NDE survey results. His statement on the aftereffect of his NDE contains proof that his had indeed been a near death experience, not a hallucination, which would not have had a life changing effect.\n\"Taken together, it is safe to say that between 1975 and 2005, at least 55 researchers or teams in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia published at least 65 research studies involving 3,500 NDEs\" (Holden 7). Of the thousands of surveys collected, almost all near death and out of body experiences progressed in a similar order: an out of body sensation, tunnel or bright light experience, overwhelming feeling of peace and love, encountering beings of light, going through a life review, a reluctance to return, and transformation\/aftereffects which get stronger as the years pass.\nStafford L. Betty, the author of an article on the topic in a major religious journal, explains that we know a NDE is not a hallucination because NDEs are very similar to each other. If they were hallucinations, they would be very much different from each other (196). A near death experience has lifelong aftereffects such as the NDErs losing their fear of dying. They also reported more happiness, increased intelligence, and heightened psychic abilities. All experienced an awareness of total peace and unconditional love. When they returned to life, they were more empathetic to others' needs and also more accepting and loving of themselves. Almost none of the NDErs wanted to come back to their lives unless they felt they had unfinished business such as raising their children. They encountered family and friends, but only the ones who had already passed. Throughout an NDE, many people have an out of body experience and correctly report proceedings that were going on around them as well as in other rooms while they were in a death-like coma. During hallucinations, people have no idea what happens around them. Also, their lives are not transformed and they are not healed, as happened in many cases of NDEs.\n\"Three-quarters of Americans believe in a life after death, but only one-quarter believes in reincarnation\" (Weiss 47). All major religions acknowledge the immortality of the consciousness, spirit or soul, yet it depends upon people's expectations whom they might meet in the afterlife: Jews will not recognize Jesus but Hashem, Catholics might encounter Mary or the archangel Michael, Christians see Jesus, and Muslims Allah, but all meet God. Whatever people's belief of a Higher Being might be, that's the entity they translate as seeing. Even atheists described being aware of an intense presence of love and peace.\nAll major religions accept the possibility of reincarnation, but at least one was forbidden to teach it. Jeanette Dunlap, author of Reincarnation And Survival of Life After Death, informs us that an empirical ruling almost 1500 years ago forbade Christians to believe in reincarnation:\nHistory records that the early Christian Church believed in reincarnation and of the soul's journey back to oneness to God. An Empirical decree by Emperor Justinian in 545 A.D. forced the ruling cardinals to draft a decree that anyone who believed that souls come from God and return to God would be punished by death. Due to this decree, biblical proof of awareness after death needs to be addressed\u2026there are biblical scriptures illustrating the \"awareness of the dead.\" (159)\nDunlap explains that many Christian denominations continue teaching that there is no awareness after death. Meanwhile, \"there is a contemporary attempt that scientifically studies and verifies reincarnation through past life memories recall, past life regression, meditation and mediumship\" (160). One of the most famous regression therapists is Dr. Brian Weiss. Through regression therapy, a hypnosis that leads people into previous lives, Weiss has encountered thousands of cases where individuals reported detailed accounts of their prior lives which were later confirmed. Not only that, but he insists that everyone lived or will live hundreds of lives, and is convinced that we will meet the same people from past lifetimes over and over again! There is a genuine recognizing in people who participate in his regression therapy of seeing their mothers who are now their children or the other way around, people who were lovers in previous lives who recognized each other as soul mates in the present one, and groups of people, such as families, reincarnating together to take on different bodies in the next life, while their souls stay the same. Dr. Weiss uses the example of one of his patients this happened to:\nJenny Cockell, a British woman, discovered the children whom she had born during her previous incarnation as Mary Sutton in Ireland in the early 20th century. Five of Mary's children were still alive when Jenny found them in the 1990s. They were able to completely confirm Jenny's past-life recall of even minor events in their childhoods, events that occurred more than 70 years prior to their emotional reunion with Jenny \u2013 the reincarnation of their mother, Mary Sutton. (48)\nThis would also explain d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu and have-we-met-before sensations.\nDiscovering through regression therapy who they were in past life times and how they died has helped many patients in the present life to let go of fears and health problems. Weiss calls these \"past-live PTSDs\" and points out that the way to validate past-life experiences is through the disappearance of phobias or illnesses. The only way this is possible is through an actual memory, not merely by imagining about being healed (83). Dunlap echoes this assertion as she writes in her article:\nPast life regression can untap realms of hidden memories to discover past life. Hypnotic regression and past life therapy studies are often used to prove or verify existence of past lives: 77% of clients' problems were helped and 23% of clients' problems were considered cured. (162)\nTestimonies exist of scientists who set out to disprove the possibility of life after death and reincarnation. One such scientist, Dr. Helen Wambach, is mentioned in Weiss's book. As she began her experiments and scientific investigation she realized that the more she uncovered, the more she disproved her own conviction. At the end of her research she admitted in a publication that she \"now not only believes in reincarnation but knows it\" (222). \"Thanks to the tireless efforts of researchers, we can legitimately state now that reincarnation can be accepted on the basis of clinical data and not solely by belief\" (Weiss 49).\nAnother possible way to verify that our consciousness stays intact after our earthly bodies wear out is through the research done by Dr. Gary E. Schwartz on the beliefs of Harvard professor William James. In the early 1900s, James was convinced that our consciousness never dies and continues to attest his hypotheses from the other side! With the help of two certified mediums James was able to 'work' with Schwartz on validating this assertion. Schwartz also met with Susy Smith who \"had published two books supposedly in collaboration with James since he had passed\" (127). Smith claimed that her primary guide from the other side was William James and that he was interested in participating in more research (Schwartz 127). After establishing that the mediums were authentic and validating that everything they related in regard to William James was accurate and impossible to know otherwise, Schwartz concludes that \"the totality of the findings appears to have the 'look and feel' of consciousness and intention\" (144). It is interesting to note that when Smith herself passed away she was able to affirm her own continuing consciousness from the other side. Predictions she had made while still alive were confirmed through a medium who relayed messages from Smith after her death. \"The emerging spontaneous evidence appeared to be consistent with the thesis that the survival of consciousness hypothesis\u2026was potentially viable\" (Schwartz 146).\nDr. Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross, who wrote many books on dying and the afterlife, sat at the deathbed of thousands of patients. Through their accounts, right before they passed, she acquired absolute certainty that nobody ever dies alone, even if a person would die in outer space. Each one of us will be met by deceased loved ones and either sent back if it is not yet our time or be reunited with deceased friends and family until we chose another body to be born into. Dr. K\u00fcbler-Ross states that:\nWhat we hear from our friends who have passed over, people who came back to share with us, is that\u2026you will be given an opportunity, not to be judged by a judgmental God, but to judge yourself, by having to review every single action, every word, and every thought of your life. You make your own hell or your own heaven by the way you have lived. (35) Death does not exist. (17)\nThere is more substantiation for life after death and reincarnation: 1) Our pets will greet us on the other side. \"Every research medium the author has worked with has claimed that animal consciousness is no different from human consciousness in its essence; i.e. it continues to survive after physical death\" (Schwartz 130), and 2) You will not be punished for committing suicide, but you have to come back to learn the lesson. \"There is a commonality among people who take their own lives \u2013 as well as among children who die young \u2013 in that their souls are returned to earth more quickly, for there is still so much that needs to be learned\" (Weiss 223).\nAfter compiling so much evidence on life after death, what proof do we have that we only live once? After thousands of near death experience reports trying to explain the awareness of an indescribable light filled with peace and love many call \"God,\" the question is: How could there be only a black void that awaits us at the end of our earthly life? Doctors, regression therapists, and mediums have encountered agnostics and atheists who, after coming out of a NDE, admitted they were wrong. We don't even have to try to wrap our human mind around this phenomenal idea. When Moses asked God at the burning bush, \"What is your name, whom shall I tell the people sent me,\" knowing it was impossible for them to fully comprehend Him, God replied, \"Tell them, I am who I am.\" In other words, don't try to understand. Just look at where the evidence is pointing.\n\"The history of science reminds us of countless instances where what was once assumed to be science fiction eventually became science fact\" (Schwartz 150). We will one day have to accept, with the development of the necessary tools to attest that consciousness persists after physical death, that our spirit exists as never-extinguishable energy. Schwartz emphasizes that the world is at yet another \"paradigm shift,\" a change in our basic worldview, just as humans once had to accept the fact that \"the sun does not spin around the earth,\" but vice versa, or that \"the earth is round, not flat\" (149). We can now add these clues to our findings:\nWe are all one.\nThere is nothing to fear.\nAll is love.\nWe can never die.\nWe have many lives.\n\"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.\" (Richard Bach, qtd. in Tod Kelly)\nDr. Alexander, Eben. \"My Proof of Heaven; A neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife.\" Newsweek, 00289604, 15 Oct. 2012. Vol. 160. Issue 16. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.\nBetty, Stafford L. \"Five Reasons That NDEs Point To Life After Death: A Dialogue.\" Journal Of Religion & Psychical Research 28.4 (2005): 195-202. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.\nBrainyquote.com. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes. Web. 17 Apr. 2013.\nDunlap, Jeanetta W. \"Reincarnation And Survival Of Life After Death: \"Is There Evidence That Past Life Memories Suggest Reincarnation?\" Journal Of Spirituality & Paranormal Studies 30.(2007): 157-170. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.\nGordimer, Nadine. \"Terminal.\" Reading Literature and Writing Argument. Ed. Missy James and Alan P. Merickel. 4th ed. Boston: Longman. 2011. 524-526. Print.\nHolden, Miner Janice, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James. The Handbook of Near- Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2009. Print.\nKelly, Tod. \"The League of Ordinary Gentlemen.\" Politics & Foreign Affairs. September 2, 2012. Web. 17 Apr. 2013.\nK\u00fcbler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Life After Death, revised. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts. 2008. Print.\nLightafterlife.freeforums.org. \"Leonora Piper by Graham Jennings.\" Two World Issue 4419. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.\nSchwartz, Gary E. \"William James and the Search for Scientific Evidence of Life After Death Past, Present, and Possible Future.\" Journal of Consciousness Studies. Vol.: 17. iss.: 11\/12. 2010. Start Page: 121-152. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.\nWeiss, Brian L. M.D. Miracles Happen; The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories. New York: HarperCollins. 2012. 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They visited haunted places along the East Coast and participated in an EVP session with Bruce Tango from the Ghost Hunters show. When Uta discovered Jim Thorpe, PA, and its Old Jail, she chose it for the setting of this book. [Read More \u2026]\nabout 18283 days ago\naftermath Alexander Campbell's handprint Alexandra Machinist beautiful girl Boardwalk boy emotion Boy emotion books boys crying celebrating life cell #17 editing editor guilt healing Immortal Link inner beauty Jersey Shore Jim Thorpe manuscript NY agent NYC agent Alexandra Machinist Old Jail Museum overweight PA paranormal paranormal novel PTSD rape revenge role model Seaside Heights self-publishing sexual abuse shame sibling bond sorority stars total revenge tough guys true beauty victims victims of sexual abuse voluptous young adult Young Adult novel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Frazier calls out defensive line\nAfter a miserable performance against Green Bay, it sounds like Vikings coach Leslie Frazier is throwing his defensive line under the bus -- a bit. In his weekly news conference, he called on someone other than Jared Allen to make a play and to \"take advantage\" of one-on-one situations.\nFrazier confirms Winfield out for season\nAfter missing four games with a neck strain, Vikings cornerback Antoine Winfield is out for the rest of the season. Coach Leslie Frazier says Winfield suffered a fractured clavicle in the second half of Monday night's blowout loss to the Packers. Winfield is scheduled to have surgery tomorrow.\nFrazier frustrated with 2-minute defense\nIn his Monday news conference, Vikings coach Leslie Frazier says his two-minute defense simply \"has to do better.\" Frazier says giving up big yardage in the final seconds of games is a \"glaring\" concern. Minnesota lost to Indianapolis Sunday on a field goal with eight seconds left after tying the score late in the fourth quarter.\nWilf says Frazier's job is safe\nVikings owner Zygi Wilf says coach Leslie Frazier will return next season, despite Minnesota's miserable 2-10 record so far in the 2011 campaign. Wilf tells the Star Tribune injuries have hurt the Vikings more than anything, especially with Adrian Peterson out the past three games.\nJared Allen is a new daddy\nVikings defensive end Jared Allen is a new father. His wife gave birth to their first child, a little girl named Brinley Noel Allen. Leslie Frazier says Allen is as \"pumped up as you can imagine.\"\nFrazier approaching one year anniversary\nNovember 22 will mark Leslie Frazier's one-year anniversary as head coach of the Vikings. He took over last year after Brad Childress was fired. Off-the-field troubles and a 5-10 record is not what Frazier was expecting when he was hired.\nFrazier on Cook: 'You hope for the best'\nSuspended cornerback Chris Cook has been reinstated by the Vikings but will not be taking part in any football related activities with the team. Cook is awaiting developments in a felony domestic assault charge stemming from his arrest October 22. Head coach Leslie Frazier says it's hard to say Cook will play again this season.\nFrazier hurt by Walter Payton rumors\nA new book is highlighting never before heard words about Walter Payton. Payton, perhaps the greatest running back of all-time, was said to have used drugs and wasn't faithful to his wife. Leslie Frazier played with Payton, and says he remembers him only for the good.\nFrazier facing tough decisions in first full season as head coach\nIf coaching through the Metrodome roof collapse wasn't crazy enough for Leslie Frazier, he's definitely learning how to deal with tough situations this year. His first full season as head coach has featured problems with Bryant McKinnie, Donovan McNabb, Bernard Berrian, and Chris Cook.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Electronics Repair Manuals\nBy Richard Lemmons on Tue, 10 Dec 2019\nThis website allows you to find the repair manuals for any electronic devices that you could think of. You will also be able to access schematic diagrams and other useful materials for repairing electronics. You will be able to find the documents that you need to repair your TV, your DVD and VCR players, your mobile phones and cameras, and computer monitors, plus more! You will even be able to find the diagrams and repair guides for very old devices, so you don't have to worry if you think that the guide is out of print; chances are that this site will have it! You don't need to freak out now when your TV breaks down; you will be able to find the guide to repair it and have it working again in no time! Most of the guides come in easily downloadable PDF files, so you can read them on your computer, phone, or tablet! Read more here...\nElectronics Repair Manuals Summary\nContents: Service Manuals\nAuthor: Dmitriy\nOfficial Website: www.electronicsrepair.net\nMy Electronics Repair Manuals Review\nOf all books related to the topic, I love reading this e-book because of its well-planned flow of content. Even a beginner like me can easily gain huge amount of knowledge in a short period.\nI personally recommend to buy this ebook. The quality is excellent and for this low price and 100% Money back guarantee, you have nothing to lose.\nMethodology Systems Analysis Framework\nLast Updated on Sun, 18 Aug 2019\t| Geological Storage\nOne of the first steps in the methodology is to define what is meant by the 'System' to be assessed. Figure 2 provides a schematic diagram of the basic components of a CO2 storage system, viz Figure 2. Schematic diagram of CO2 storage system (cf. the more realistic representation shown in Figure 3).\nTheoretical models of fractionation\nLast Updated on Thu, 09 May 2019\t| Nitrogen Deposition\nSchematic diagram illustrating the shift in the absorption spectrum for the heavy isotopologues. In the ZPE model (Yung and Miller, 1997), the additional mass of the heavy isotopologues decreases the ZPE level and blue-shifts the absorption spectrum, causing enrichment of the isotopologues at wavelengths longer than the peak absorption. Fig. 14.7. Schematic diagram illustrating the shift in the absorption spectrum for the heavy isotopologues. In the ZPE model (Yung and Miller, 1997), the additional mass of the heavy isotopologues decreases the ZPE level and blue-shifts the absorption spectrum, causing enrichment of the isotopologues at wavelengths longer than the peak absorption.\nLast Updated on Thu, 17 Oct 2019\t| Oxygen Requirement\nFigure 21.1 provides a schematic diagram of a typical SAGB. Its primary components are a reactor vessel, support media for biofilm growth, influent distribution system, and effluent withdrawal system. An oxygen transfer system may also be provided. Influent wastewater is added to the bioreactor and microorganisms grow attached to the submerged media, thereby removing soluble organic matter or oxidizing ammonia-N. The types of microorganisms that grow depend on the constit\nGIS and Hydrologic Models\nLast Updated on Tue, 05 Nov 2019\t| Hydrology\nFigure 4 Schematic diagram of a GIS approach for prediction of river discharge using the SCS curve numbers and water quality using the export coefficient model (Mattikalli et al., 1996). Figure 4 Schematic diagram of a GIS approach for prediction of river discharge using the SCS curve numbers and water quality using the export coefficient model (Mattikalli et al., 1996).\nChevron refinery as cooling tower makeup From\nLast Updated on Sun, 18 Aug 2019\t| Industrial Wastes\nThe concept of water reuse and zero liquid discharge in petroleum refineries has been proposed and debated for many years 77 . The principal drawback for zero liquid discharge is the generation of large amount of solid waste, mostly salt from the wastewater. It is this problem that caused USEPA to back off from zero liquid discharge in the 1970s, and it remains the primary deterrent today. However, there are two refineries in Mexico that have recently gone to zero discharge 78 . Wastewater from the refineries and nearby municipalities are treated with biological, physical chemical processes, RO, brine concentrator evaporator and crystallizer to maximize water recycle to the refineries, minimize water makeup from the river and to attain zero liquid discharge. Figure 21 shows a process schematic diagram of the refinery wastewater recycle zero liquid discharge system.\nCase Study Broccoli Drying\nLast Updated on Tue, 05 Nov 2019\t| Solar Energy\nThe temperature of the drying chamber walls was measured with a digital multimeter (METEX ME-32) during drying process. A digital balance (Scaltec SBA 61, Goettingen, Germany) was used to measure the weight loss of sample during drying experiments. The ambient temperature and the relative humidity were also measured and recorded. Pressures and temperatures of the refrigerant were measured with pressure probes (Testo, low high-pressure probes, 0638.01941) and surface temperature probes (Testo, temperature probes, 0628.0019), respectively. All measured values were observed and recorded with a multi-function instrument (Testo 350-XL 454, control unit, Freiburg, Germany) and loggers. The schematic diagram of the drying process and measurements were shown in Fig. 15.1.\nDynamical Models Of The Thermohaline Circulation\nLast Updated on Mon, 25 Nov 2019\t| Climate Dynamics\nDense water is formed at the surface in small, highly localized regions of the ocean in polar seas. Thus the abyssal circulation seems to be induced by local sources, marked in Fig. 11.9. But for every particle of water that sinks, one must return to the surface. Property distributions reviewed in Section 11.2.1 suggest that the return branch does not occur in one, or a few, geographical locations. It seems reasonable to suppose, therefore, that there is widespread compensating upwelling on the scale of the basin, as sketched in our schematic diagram used to introduce this chapter, Fig. 11.1.\nRotating Biological Contactor\nLast Updated on Mon, 23 Dec 2019\t| Oxygen Requirement\nThe term rotating biological contactor (RBC) refers to a class of aerobic attached growth bioreactors containing circular shaped corrugated plastic media that are mounted on a horizontal shaft, partially submerged (typically 40 ) in the wastewater, and rotated at a speed of one to two revolutions per minute to alternately expose them to the wastewater and to the atmosphere. Figure 20.1 provides a schematic diagram. A number of manufacturers produce RBC equipment, but they are all similar and produce similar results.\nUpflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor\nLast Updated on Sun, 21 Oct 2018\t| Industrial Wastes\nFigure 3 Schematic diagram of various anaerobic wastewater treatment reactors. AR anaerobic reactor B MS biofilm media separator CZ clarification zone E effluent G biogas G LS gas-liquid separator I influent RS return sludge SC secondary clarifier SZ sludge zone WS waste slude. Figure 3 Schematic diagram of various anaerobic wastewater treatment reactors. AR anaerobic reactor B MS biofilm media separator CZ clarification zone E effluent G biogas G LS gas-liquid separator I influent RS return sludge SC secondary clarifier SZ sludge zone WS waste slude.\nLand Treatment Systems\nLast Updated on Wed, 30 Oct 2019\t| Wastewater Treatment | 2 comments\nFig. 6.6 is a schematic diagram of the use of land for plantation and wastewater land applications. As shown in the diagram, many factors are involved in the overall effect of the water cycle on plants, including land application of wastewater. In most cases, the treated wastewater is applied to the land surface via furrow-flood, sprayer, or drip irrigation. BOD5, TSS, and fecal coliform (FC) are partially removed in the conventional Figure 6.7. (a)(b)(c) A schematic diagram of a slow-rate wastewater treatment system (USEPA, 1981). Figure 6.7. (a)(b)(c) A schematic diagram of a slow-rate wastewater treatment system (USEPA, 1981). Figure 6.8. (a)(b) A schematic diagram of an overland flow wastewater treatment system (USEPA, 1984). Figure 6.8. (a)(b) A schematic diagram of an overland flow wastewater treatment system (USEPA, 1984). Figure 6.9. (a)(b)(c) A schematic diagram of a rapid infiltration wastewater treatment system (USEPA, 1984). Figure 6.9. (a)(b)(c) A schematic diagram of a...\nPhenomena Related to Permafrost Degradation\nLast Updated on Mon, 30 Apr 2018\t| Soil Temperature\nFigure. 13 Schematic diagrams of landslides in the Taldura valley. Before the onset of climate warming (a). Duration of climate warming (b). After the earthquake of 27 September 2003 (c). Figure. 13 Schematic diagrams of landslides in the Taldura valley. Before the onset of climate warming (a). Duration of climate warming (b). After the earthquake of 27 September 2003 (c).\nThe landocean interface sensitivity of ocean thermohaline circulation to freshwater runoff\nLast Updated on Tue, 26 Nov 2019\t| Geophysical Research\nFigure 28.8 Schematic diagrams of oscillations of Lake Agassiz area, level and outflow routings as a result of ice retreat, climatic feed-backs and differential rebound. In these diagrams, the external forcing of relatively high summer insolation which drove general ice retreat (Kutzbach et al., 1998) is represented in box 1 with the heavy border. (a) Lake-atmosphere-ice interactions suggest decreased precipitation over the adjacent ice sheet as the lake enlarges, based on numerical modelling by Hostetler et al. (2000). This model accounts for ice retreat and the first opening of eastern outlets following early growth of Lake Agassiz. (b) Following concepts in Teller (1987), a large proglacial lake possibly provided more moisture and nourished growth of the adjacent ice sheet. See text for further explanation. (c) Possible feed-backs and effects using the modelling results of Krinner et al. (2004) for Eurasian glacial lakes. Large lakes induced cool climate that suppressed summer ice...\nProcesses of Decomposition of Refuse in Landfills\nLast Updated on Sun, 24 Nov 2019\t| Pollution Prevention | 2 comments\nDuring the biological decomposition process in the landfill, the temperature increases. At elevated temperatures, sulfate concentrations increase. The problems result from the reduction of sulfates to hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Hydrogen sulfide is the cause of corrosion of various underground structural members. In sanitary landfill areas, the refuse is nonhomogeneous and contains a large amount of organic matter, generating biological changes caused by decomposition for many years. There are five stages related to the biological activity in the landfill 9 . Figure 2 shows a schematic diagram illustrating the cumulative settlement due to decomposition of organic matter versus time.\nDuctile Shear Zone Structures\nLast Updated on Wed, 21 Nov 2018\t| Glacial Landsystems\nFigure 8.12 Deformation till at Gliedenberg, Dammer Berge, Germany (Van der Wateren, 1995). The Dammer Berge is a thrust moraine from the Saalian Drenthe advance and which had been overridden when the ice expanded 100 km further to the south. The till is a mixture derived from the four Tertiary and Pleistocene formations which comprise the thrust moraine. A nappe containing these sediments is exposed 50 m upstream (north) from the till outcrop. They are folded and extruded in a diapiric structure, in front of the nappe, cored with Tertiary clay (black). A) Schematic diagram showing deformation till and its source sediments at Gliedenberg, Dammer Berge thrust moraine, Germany (Van der Wateren (1995). Subglacial shearing of the source sediments produced a laminated diamict with numerous boudins and detached intrafolial folds. The lamination therefore is not a sedimentary layering but a transposed foliation, the product of glacitectonic deformation. Numbers refer to caption of Fig....\nSystem Description and Control Strategy\nLast Updated on Tue, 04 Apr 2017\t| Solar Energy\nA schematic diagram of the system studied is represented in Fig. 28.1. The system consists of a solar collector, a storage tank, an absorption chiller, heat exchanger, and auxiliary units. The system operates in four different modes. When solar energy is available for collection and there is a load demand, heat is supplied directly from the collector to the heating or cooling unit. When solar energy is available for collection and there is no heat or cooling demand, heat is stored in the storage unit. On the other hand, if solar energy is not available for collection and there is a load demand, storage then supplies heat to the heating or cooling Fig. 28.1 Schematic diagram of the solar heating and cooling system. Fig. 28.1 Schematic diagram of the solar heating and cooling system. Fig. 28.2 Schematic diagram of the single-effect lithium bromide-water absorption chiller. Fig. 28.2 Schematic diagram of the single-effect lithium bromide-water absorption chiller.\nRotating Biological Contactors RBC\nLast Updated on Mon, 23 Dec 2019\t| Industrial Wastes\nIncreasingly stringent requirements for the removal of organic and inorganic substances from wastewater have necessitated the development of innovative, cost-effective wastewater treatment alternatives in recent years. The aerobic rotating biological contactor (RBC) is one of the biological processes for the treatment of organic wastewater. It is another type of attached growth process that combines advantages of biological fixed-film (short hydraulic retention time, high biomass concentration, low energy cost, easy operation, and insensitivity to toxic substance shock loads), and partial stir. Therefore the aerobic RBC reactor is widely employed to treat both domestic and industrial wastewater 16-18 . A schematic diagram of the rotating biological contactor (RBC) unit is shown in Fig. 13 it consists of closely spaced discs mounted on a common horizontal shaft, partially submerged in a semicircular tank receiving wastewater. When water containing organic waste and nutrients flows...\nTable 11 Lube Subcategory Raw Waste Load Effluent from Refinery API Separatora\nFigure 8 Refinery schematic diagram indicating representative sources of solid waste in refinery system. Most solid wastes from refineries are Figure 8 Refinery schematic diagram indicating representative sources of solid waste in refinery system. Most solid wastes from refineries are Figure 9 Refinery schematic diagram indicating representative sources of solid waste in utility water system. These wastes may not be classified as hazardous in the United States. (From Ref. 18.) Figure 9 Refinery schematic diagram indicating representative sources of solid waste in utility water system. These wastes may not be classified as hazardous in the United States. (From Ref. 18.) Figure 10 Refinery schematic diagram indicating representative sources of solid waste in wastewater treatment system. All wastes except waste activated sludge are classified as hazardous wastes because of their oil contents. (From Ref. 18.) Figure 10 Refinery schematic diagram indicating representative sources of solid...\nDiurnal variation of tropical oceanic convection\nLast Updated on Sat, 14 Oct 2017\t| Atmospheric Sciences\nSchematic diagram of diurnal variations of convection during the disturbed (upper panel) and undisturbed (lower panel) periods. The dashed curve in the lower panel indicates the time rate of change of the saturation columnar water vapor amount, dW* dt, corresponding to the diurnal cycle of temperature distribution. This quantity represents a direct effect of the radiative cooling heating cycle on available precipitable water (APW), or a change of APW in the first step. The convective response to the direct forcing can induce further changes in temperature and moisture that lead to a corresponding change of APW in the second step. Since observed and simulated diurnal variations of convection are evidently in phase with the idealized cycle, the curve is regarded as a good theoretical limit for diurnal rainfall. The dashed curve in the lower panel indicates the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature. Figure 1. Schematic diagram of diurnal variations of convection during the...\nMethods Of Biomass Recycle And Wastage\nLast Updated on Tue, 31 Oct 2017\t| Oxygen Requirement\nFigure 5.2 Schematic diagrams of two CSTRs with biomass recycle from sedimentation basins, (a) The Garrett configuration in which biomass is wasted directly from the reactor, (b) Conventional configuration in which biomass is wasted from the sludge recycle flow. Figure 5.2 Schematic diagrams of two CSTRs with biomass recycle from sedimentation basins, (a) The Garrett configuration in which biomass is wasted directly from the reactor, (b) Conventional configuration in which biomass is wasted from the sludge recycle flow.\nBelt press filtration\nLast Updated on Mon, 25 Nov 2019\t| Wastewater Treatment\nA schematic diagram of a belt filter for sludge dewatering. (Courtesy of Falke Bruinsma at http photos.innersource.com) Figure 7.5. A schematic diagram of a belt filter for sludge dewatering. (Courtesy of Falke Bruinsma at http photos.innersource.com) The imperforate basket centrifuge is a semicontinuous feeding and solids discharging unit that rotates about a vertical axis. A schematic diagram of a basket centrifuge in the sludge feed and sludge plowing cycles is shown in Fig. 7.6. Sludge is fed into the bottom of the basket and sludge solids form a cake on the bowl walls as the unit rotates. The liquid (centrate) is displaced over a baffle or weir at the top of the unit. Sludge feed is either continued for a preset time or until the suspended solids in the centrate reach a preset concentration. The ability to be used either for thickening or dewatering is an advantage of the basket centrifuge. A basket centrifuge will typically dewater a 50 50 blend of anaerobically...\nIcefacies formation and types\nLast Updated on Mon, 26 Mar 2018\t| Geophysical Research\nFigure 63.1 Schematic diagram illustrating the process of formation of distinctive basal regelation ice by interaction of the glacier at its basal boundary with bed roughness elements. This process, which contributes to basal motion, is known as Weertman (1957) regelation, and is probably most effective for bed roughness elements with dimensions 10 1-100m. It produces layers of basal ice with distinctive physical and chemical characteristics. Figure 63.1 Schematic diagram illustrating the process of formation of distinctive basal regelation ice by interaction of the glacier at its basal boundary with bed roughness elements. This process, which contributes to basal motion, is known as Weertman (1957) regelation, and is probably most effective for bed roughness elements with dimensions 10 1-100m. It produces layers of basal ice with distinctive physical and chemical characteristics.\nBasic Model For A Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor\nFri, 21 Oct 2016\t| Oxygen Requirement\nA schematic diagram of a single CSTR is shown in Figure 5.1. A bioreactor with volume V receives a flow at rate F containing only soluble, noninhibitory, biodegradable organic substrate at concentration Sso (in COD units) and sufficient inorganic nutrients to make the organic substrate the growth limiting material. The influent flow and concentrations are constant, as are pH, temperature, and other environmental conditions. Within the bioreactor the heterotrophic biomass uses the substrate as its food source, thereby growing to concentration X,4,, while reducing the substrate concentration to Ss. Biomass decay accompanies the growth so that\nStep Feed Activated Sludge\nLast Updated on Tue, 05 Feb 2019\t| Oxygen Requirement\nFigure 7.10 presents the schematic diagram for the configuration used to simulate an SFAS system. As in Figure 7.1, five equal sized CSTRs in series were used, with all biomass recycle to the first bioreactor, but in this case the feed was distributed evenly among the bioreactors. All other characteristics of the system, including the flow rates, feed concentrations, etc., were the same as those used to simulate the performance of the tanks-in-series system. Figure 7.10 Schematic diagram of five CSTRs in series with all biomass recycle to the first reactor and the influent distributed evenly among the reactors. Although not shown, solids wastage comes directly from all reactors. This configuration simulates step feed activated sludge (SFAS). Figure 7.10 Schematic diagram of five CSTRs in series with all biomass recycle to the first reactor and the influent distributed evenly among the reactors. Although not shown, solids wastage comes directly from all reactors. This configuration...\nThe Thermal Wind Equation\nLast Updated on Wed, 13 Nov 2019\t| Climate Dynamics | 1 comment\nWe saw in Section 5.2 that isobaric surfaces slope down from equator to pole. Moreover, these slopes increase with height, as can be seen, for example, in Fig. 5.13 and the schematic diagram, Fig. 5.14. Thus according to the geostrophic relation, Eq. 7-8, the geostrophic flow will increase with height, as indeed is observed\nThe Equatorial Undercurrent\nLast Updated on Mon, 03 Jun 2019\t| Ocean Circulation\t| 1 comment\nFigure 5.4 shows the relationship between the mean wind stress and the resulting east-west slopes in the sea-surface and thermocline along the Equator in the Pacific (cf. the schematic diagram in Figure 5.3). In Figure 5.4(c), the position of the core of the Undercurrent (the region of highest velocity) is indicated by the blue crosses note that in the eastern Pacific, where the thermocline is especially shallow, and upwelling brings cooler water to the surface, the flow in the Undercurrent may extend to the surface.\nThe Role Of Long Waves In Ocean Circulation\nLast Updated on Tue, 20 Mar 2018\t| Ocean Circulation\nFigure 5.17 (a) Schematic diagram of a surface Kelvin wave in the Northern Hemisphere. In the case of a Kelvin wave in the thermocline, the thermocline would adopt the shape shown, while the sea-surface would take on a similar shape in 'mirror image', although to a much lesser extent. Figure 5.17 (a) Schematic diagram of a surface Kelvin wave in the Northern Hemisphere. In the case of a Kelvin wave in the thermocline, the thermocline would adopt the shape shown, while the sea-surface would take on a similar shape in 'mirror image', although to a much lesser extent.\nConventional And High Purity Oxygen Activated Sludge\nLast Updated on Thu, 29 Nov 2018\t| Oxygen Requirement\nFigure 7.1 presents a schematic diagram of the system used to simulate conventional and high purity oxygen activated sludge systems. All influent and all biomass recycle enters the first bioreactor and passes from bioreactor to bioreactor down the chain. For the purposes of this chapter, the bioreactors were considered to be of equal volume, but different residence time distributions can be attained by using bioreactors of different size.1* The influent flow rate used in simulations was 1000 m' day and the volume of each bioreactor was 50 m,' giving a total system volume of 250 m' and a system hydraulic residence time (HRT) of 6 hr, which is a value commonly used in practice. The biomass recycle flow rate was fixed at 500 m' day. unless otherwise specified, giving a recycle ratio, a(F, F), of 0.5, which is also commonly used in practice. All bioreactors are aerobic and the dissolved oxygen concentration was controlled at 2.0 mg L in each, thereby eliminating denitrification. This...\nElectrodialysis with bipolar membranes\nLast Updated on Thu, 27 Sep 2018\t| Reverse Osmosis\nFigure 16 Schematic diagram illustrating the function of a bipolar membrane showing (a) a bipolar membrane and (b) the 4-5 nm thick transition region at the interphase of the two cation- and anion-exchange layers. Figure 16 Schematic diagram illustrating the function of a bipolar membrane showing (a) a bipolar membrane and (b) the 4-5 nm thick transition region at the interphase of the two cation- and anion-exchange layers. Figure 17 Schematic diagram indicating the production of acids and bases from the corresponding salt in a stack with feed and bleed operation.\nBasin Scale Standing Wave Motions Seiches\nLast Updated on Tue, 27 Aug 2019\t| Lake Ecosystems\nFigure 5 Schematic diagram showing the first three horizontal interfacial seiche modes horizontal mode one (n 1), mode two (n 2), and mode three (n 3). Arrows denote direction of water particle velocities. Solid and dashed lines denote the interfacial displacement at one-half period intervals. Upper layer velocities for the baroclinic case are not shown and can be inferred from symmetry. Figure 5 Schematic diagram showing the first three horizontal interfacial seiche modes horizontal mode one (n 1), mode two (n 2), and mode three (n 3). Arrows denote direction of water particle velocities. Solid and dashed lines denote the interfacial displacement at one-half period intervals. Upper layer velocities for the baroclinic case are not shown and can be inferred from symmetry.\nAtmospheric Circulation In Midlatitudes\nLast Updated on Thu, 29 Aug 2019\t| Ocean Circulation\t| 4 comments\nFigure 2.5 Schematic diagrams to illustrate how (a) air spirals inwards and upwards in low pressure areas (cyclones) and (b) air spirals downwards and outwards in high pressure areas (anticyclones) (drawn for Northern Hemisphere situations). The contours are isobars (lines connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure) and the numbers give typical pressures at ground level, in millibars. Note that here the angle at which the air flow crosses the isobars is somewhat exaggerated. Within 1 km of the Earth's surface, the air flow would cross the isobars at small angles, while above that it would follow the isobars quite closely. Figure 2.5 Schematic diagrams to illustrate how (a) air spirals inwards and upwards in low pressure areas (cyclones) and (b) air spirals downwards and outwards in high pressure areas (anticyclones) (drawn for Northern Hemisphere situations). The contours are isobars (lines connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure) and the numbers give typical pressures at...\nBiological Removal of Phosphorus\nLast Updated on Fri, 01 Nov 2019\t| Wastewater Treatment | 2 comments\nThe biological treatment or removal of phosphorus from wastewater depends on the accumulation of a large amount of bacteria that are capable of storing phosphorus in the form of polyphosphate inside the bacterial cells polyphosphate as stored energy for bacteria is produced as a result of sequestering volatile fatty acids by aerobic bacteria under anaerobic conditions, resulting in poly(hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) under simultaneous use of glycogen. This requires that the influent of wastewater for biological phosphorus removal has to first mix with sludge in order to create a true anaerobic environment free from electron acceptors such as oxygen and nitrate. In the anaerobic environment or zone, volatile fatty acids (may be formed by fermentation) in the incoming wastewater stream can be accumulated by polyphosphate-accumulating bacteria. Thus, a successful design of a biological phosphorus removal process relies on the creation of such a true anaerobic zone this will also be...\nTropospheric Ozone And Associated Photochemical Oxidants\nLast Updated on Tue, 26 Nov 2019\t| Aromatic Hydrocarbons\nFigure 16.2 shows a schematic diagram of such a chamber (Fitz et al., 1981). Ports are included for the introduction of the primary pollutants and for sampling for product analysis. Because such bags do not have a rigid shape, they operate at atmospheric pressure. The volume of the chamber may be maintained during a run by introducing clean air at the same rate as sampling removes air from the chamber, thus diluting the mixture. Alternatively, these soft chambers can be allowed to collapse as air is removed for analysis this maintains the pressure at f atm but results in an increasing S V ratio during a run. FIGURE 16.2 Schematic diagram of typical outdoor 40-m3 collapsible bag environmental chamber (adapted from Fitz et al., 1981). FIGURE 16.2 Schematic diagram of typical outdoor 40-m3 collapsible bag environmental chamber (adapted from Fitz et al., 1981). FIGURE 16.3 Schematic diagram of the evacuable chamber at the Air Pollution Research Center, University of California, Riverside....\nSolar and Biomass Integration to Steam Network\nLast Updated on Sat, 28 Sep 2019\t| Solar Energy\nSolar thermal energy can be integrated with the supply system or directly at the process level. The integrated solar plant concept was initially proposed by Luz Solar International as a means of integrating parabolic trough solar plant with modern combined cycle power plants. A plant schematic diagram is shown in Fig. 29.3 (Kelly, 2001). The integration of solar thermal energy can be influenced by several factors as shown in Table 29.1 (Schnitzer et al., 2007). Solar thermal stations could also become an interesting way to reduce the environmental impact of energy generation with reasonably economic conditions (El-Sayed, 2005). Fig. 29.3 Integrated solar plant schematic diagram. Fig. 29.3 Integrated solar plant schematic diagram.\nPrinciple of ionexchange membrane processes\nThu, 13 Apr 2017\t| Reverse Osmosis\nThe principle of electrodialysis is illustrated in Fig. 2, which shows a schematic diagram of an electrodialysis cell arrangement consisting of a series of anion- and cation-exchange membranes arranged in an alternating pattern between an anode and a cathode to form individual cells. If an ionic solution such as an aqueous salt solution is pumped through these cells and an electrical potential is established between the anode and cathode, the positively charged cations migrate toward the cathode and the negatively charged anions toward the anode. The cations pass through the negatively charged cation-exchange membrane but are retained by the positively charged anion-exchange membrane. Likewise, the negatively charged anions pass through the anion-exchange membrane, and are retained by the cation-exchange membrane. The overall result is an increase Figure 2 Schematic diagram illustrating the principle of desalination by electro-dialysis in a stack with cation- and...\nNazih K Shammas and Lawrence K Wang\nLast Updated on Sun, 18 Aug 2019\t| Hazardous Wastes\nFigure 26.1 is a simplified schematic diagram of a hazardous waste landfill, showing the geometry and placement of double liners and LCRSs in a landfill.15 In a double-lined landfill, there are two liners and two LCRSs. The primary LCRS is located above the top liner and the secondary LCRS is located between the two liners. In this diagram, the top liner is a geomembrane (GM) liner, also called flexible membrane liner (FML), and the bottom liner is a composite liner system consisting of an FML overlying compacted low-permeability soil (or compacted clay).\nKz Kz0 fZ Paz Pezdz Jz0\nLast Updated on Fri, 17 May 2019\t| Thermodynamics\nFigure 7.1 Schematic diagram of a sounding (left border of the shaded area) along with a dry adiabat rising from the surface (right border of the shaded area). The shaded area is proportional to the kinetic energy acquired by a parcel in rising from the surface to the intersection of the two curves.\nStratospheretroposphere Exchange\nLast Updated on Mon, 20 May 2019\t| Hydrology\nWhereas net diabatic heating is required to transport air from the troposphere into the stratosphere. Extensive measurements during the STEP (Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Project) in the 1980s showed that specific vigorous convective events were primarily responsible for transporting tropical air into the stratosphere. Troposphcric air can be either mixed directly into the stratosphere when the cumulo-nimbus towers overshoot, mixed across the tropopause by turbulent motion, or moved upward due to radiative heating of cloud tops. The dehydration occurs because some or all of the condensed ice particles are returned to the troposphere by sedimentation while the dry air remains in the stratosphere. Soluble chemical species will be found in the ice particles rather than in the dry air surrounding them, so there may be a greater resistance to cross-tropopause transport of soluble compounds, A schematic diagram illustrating the general concept of the circulation between the troposphere...\nInteraction of the southern LIS and North Atlantic Ocean oscillations of the Mississippi Hudson valley routings\nLast Updated on Mon, 27 May 2019\t| Geophysical Research\nFigure 28.7 Schematic diagram of ocean-ice interaction and oscillatory switching of Mississippi runoff to and from Hudson River Valley (after Clark et al., 2001). See text for explanation. Figure 28.7 Schematic diagram of ocean-ice interaction and oscillatory switching of Mississippi runoff to and from Hudson River Valley (after Clark et al., 2001). See text for explanation.\nCleaning Procedure Tests And Results A Battery Casing Wastes\nLast Updated on Tue, 03 Sep 2019\t| Pollution Prevention\nThe second step entailed separation of the casing material from the metallic lead, rocks, and foreign matter by screening and elutriation. Since metallic lead has a much higher density than the rocks and casings, a gravity separation is possible. The separation technique used in this work was water elutriation, but air or other density separation devices would be effective. The feed material was screened through 3 4- and 3 8-in. screens, and in both plus fractions the metallic lead and rocks were separated from the pieces of battery casings by elutriation. The minus 3 8-in. material was rescreened through 4 and 8 mesh screens. Because the suspension of the different materials is a function of the surface area as well as density, it was preferable to screen the material into similar size fractions to provide a consistent feed for the laboratory-scale water elutriation system. A schematic diagram of the equipment used is shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 Schematic diagram of water elutriator....\nAdvanced Wastewater Treatment Processes\nLast Updated on Mon, 23 Sep 2019\t| Wastewater Treatment\nThe pollution problems arising from excessive amounts of certain nutrients in wastewater are the most common reason for advanced waste-water treatment and mainly caused by nitrogen-rich and phosphorus-rich compounds. The nitrogen-rich substances, such as proteins, are biologically converted into ammonia through a process called ammonification. The excessive amount of nutrients in discharged treated wastewater will lead to a problem called eutrophication. The eutrophication problem associated with algae blooms and deaeration of the receiving waterbody results from oxidation of ammonia to nitrate by the nitrifying bacteria (this process is called nitrification) and can suffocate fishes and other animals living in the polluted water. High concentrations of nitrate in water are toxic to both humans and animals. A schematic diagram in Fig. 5.1 shows the simplified nitrogen cycle in the environment.\nScalar and vector fields\nSat, 13 Jul 2019\t| Thermodynamics\nFigure 9.5 Schematic diagram of a position vector r whose components are x, y and z. Figure 9.5 Schematic diagram of a position vector r whose components are x, y and z. Figure 9.6 Schematic diagram of a position vector r and an increment of it dr. Figure 9.6 Schematic diagram of a position vector r and an increment of it dr.\nLand Applications and Surface Disposal\nMon, 29 Jul 2019\t| Wastewater Treatment\nA schematic diagram of a rotary dryer for sludge dewatering. Figure 7.12. A schematic diagram of a rotary dryer for sludge dewatering. Figure 7.13. A schematic diagram of a multieffect evaporator for sludge de-watering. Figure 7.13. A schematic diagram of a multieffect evaporator for sludge de-watering.\nModel Basics and Structure\nTue, 30 Jul 2019\t| Source Reduction\nFigure 3.1 Schematic diagram of the climate model components used for typical climate change runs. The general circulation model of the atmosphere also includes land surface processes like evapotranspiration, river run-off and the ocean module contains sea ice thermodynamics and rheology. Volcanism as well as solar radiation changes is handled as external processes like atmospheric trace substance concentration changes due to anthropogenic activities (MPI, 2006b)\nContaminated Water and Pressures Produced in the Landfill Site\nLast Updated on Sun, 18 Aug 2019\t| Pollution Prevention\nFigure 2 Schematic diagram illustrating cumulative settlement of waste due to decomposition of organic matter versus time. Decomposition stages (1) aerobic, (2) anaerobic (nonmethanogenic), (3) anaerobic (methanogenic), (4) anaerobic decline, (5) return to anaerobic growth. (After Wardwell et al. 9 .) Figure 2 Schematic diagram illustrating cumulative settlement of waste due to decomposition of organic matter versus time. Decomposition stages (1) aerobic, (2) anaerobic (nonmethanogenic), (3) anaerobic (methanogenic), (4) anaerobic decline, (5) return to anaerobic growth. (After Wardwell et al. 9 .)\nInvestigating The Ocean Through Computer M00elung\nTue, 30 Jul 2019\t| Ocean Circulation\nFigure 4.18 Schematic diagram to illustrate three types of grids used in three-dimensional models, (a) Section showing the bathymetry of the region being modelled. In (b) to (d) the horizontal coordinate system is represented by fine vertical lines, while the vertical coordinate system is indicated by fine horizontal, sloping or curved lines. The most conventional system is (b), known as a 'level' model, because the vertical levels are fixed in (c), the 'terrain-following' model, the heights of the boxes are a fixed proportion of the ocean depth and in (d), known as an isopycnic model, the vertical coordinates are isopycnals. In each case, the equations relating to flow velocity are solved for points at the centres of the faces of the grid boxes (cf. Figure 4.17), while those relating to transport of heat and salt are solved for points in the centres of the grid boxes themselves.\nTable 9 Cracking Subcategory Raw Waste Load Effluent from Refinery API Separatora\nDiagram indicating representative sources of solid waste in utility water systems 18 . Wastes generated from wastewater treatment systems include API CPI separator sludge, dissolved-air flotation or induced-air flotation system floats, pond and tank sediments, and biosolids. Of these, only the biosolids from the biological wastewater treatment system may be nonhazardous. Figure 10 shows a refinery schematic diagram indicating representative sources of solids waste in wastewater treatment systems 18 .\nAnaerobic Wastewater Treatment\nTue, 30 Jul 2019\t| Industrial Wastes\nIt is impossible to describe every system here therefore, only a select few that are often used in treating soft drink wastewater are discussed in this chapter. Figure 3 shows the schematic diagram of various anaerobic reactors, and the operating conditions of the corresponding reactors are given in Table 4.\nAMSR 2002presentSwath width 1445 km\nTue, 30 Jul 2019\t| Geophysical Research\nFigure 73.2 Schematic diagram illustrating the geometry of repeat pass synthetic aperture radar interferometry. Ai and Aj are the positions of the satellite at epochs i and j, B is the separation in space, or baseline, between the two measurements and r and rj are the ranges to a target on the surface. Figure 73.2 Schematic diagram illustrating the geometry of repeat pass synthetic aperture radar interferometry. Ai and Aj are the positions of the satellite at epochs i and j, B is the separation in space, or baseline, between the two measurements and r and rj are the ranges to a target on the surface.\nLast Updated on Thu, 09 May 2019\t| Oceanography\nThe GTMBA is built primarily around the Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System (ATLAS) moorings of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and TRITON moorings of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). The Schematic diagram of the ATLAS moorings with the locations of different sensors fitted on the buoys and on the moorings is available in PMEL website. These moorings have special attributes that make them a valuable technology for tropical climate studies. In particular, (1) they can be instrumented to measure both upper ocean and surface meteorological variables involved in ocean-atmosphere interactions (2) they provide time series measurements at fine temporal resolution (minutes to hours) to resolve high frequency oceanic and atmospheric fluctuations that would otherwise be aliased into the lower frequency climate signals of primary interest (3) they can be deployed and maintained on a fixed grid of stations, so that measurements do...\nCyclall\nLast Updated on Fri, 14 Sep 2018\t| Atmospheric Sciences\nThe schematic diagram of all dataassimilation experiments is shown in Fig. 3, and the experimental domain is shown in Fig. 2(a) with the size of 222 x 128 in a 45 km grid distance. There are a total of 45 full vertical model levels with the n values of 1.0, 0.995, 0.988, 0.98, 0.97, 0.96, 0.945, 0.93, 0.91, 0.89, 0.87, 0.85, 0.82, 0.79, 0.76, 0.73, 0.69, 0.65, 0.61, 0.57, 0.53, 0.49, 0.45, 0.41, 0.37, 0.34, 0.31, 0.28, 0.26, 0.24, 0.22, 0.2, 0.18, 0.16, 0.14, 0.12, 0.10, 0.082, 0.066, 0.052, 0.04, 0.03, 0.02, 0.01, 0.0. The model top is 30hPa, and the time step is 180 s. The moist physics include the new Kain-Fritsch cumulus parametrization scheme Figure 3. Schematic diagram illustrating the design of data-assimilation experiments. Figure 3. Schematic diagram illustrating the design of data-assimilation experiments.\nThe particles are floated to the surface and removed by a skimming device to a collection trough for removal from the system. The raw wastewater is brought in contact with a recycled, clarified effluent that has been pressurized through air injection in a pressure tank. The combined flow stream enters the clarification vessel and the release of pressure causes tiny air bubbles to form and ascend to the surface of the water, carrying the suspended particles with their vertical rise. A schematic diagram of the DAF system is shown in Figure 7.\nCavern Closure\nLast Updated on Tue, 08 May 2018\t| Pollution Prevention\nFigure 11 shows a schematic diagram of the seal, which is the only pathway from the waste-filled caverns at the North Dayton dome to the surface. The seal is placed between the cavern roof and the lowermost cemented steel casing at 1500 ft below the land surface. Properties of the salt-saturated expansive concrete and components of the plug other than salt will provide an excellent seal for the interim period, during which time the permanent salt seal will become effective.\nLast Updated on Wed, 27 Mar 2019\t| Glacial Erosion | 1 comment\nFigure 3.3 Schematic diagram of an ice sheet and valley glacier showing the location of the accumulation zone, the ablation zone and the equilibrium line (the line where accumulation and ablation are equal in any given year). Principal flow paths are also shown. Modified from Sugden and John (1976) Glaciers and Landscape, Edward Arnold, Figure 3.3 Schematic diagram of an ice sheet and valley glacier showing the location of the accumulation zone, the ablation zone and the equilibrium line (the line where accumulation and ablation are equal in any given year). Principal flow paths are also shown. Modified from Sugden and John (1976) Glaciers and Landscape, Edward Arnold,\nLast Updated on Tue, 23 Oct 2018\t| Glacial Landsystems\nFigure 6.7 Schematic diagram showing the distribution of landforms and sediments in landsystem A. The marginal zone consists of a broad, low-relief end moraine composed primarily of basal till over older glacial drift with a cover of supraglacial sediment. The subglacial zone consists of till plain also composed of basal till with few features except for rare flutes. In the subglacial zone supraglacial sediment may be completely absent. Glacifluvial (landsystem E) and glacilacustrine (landsystem F) landforms and sediments fronted this landsystem in the proglacial area or were superimposed on this landsystem during deglaciation. Bedrock in this area only rarely crops out, and glacial deposits are generally greater than 15 m thick. During retreat, ice-marginal zones of landsystem A were superimposed on older landsystems as is shown on the right of the diagram. In the southern Great Lakes region in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio each readvance deposited a wedge-shaped sheet of basal till on...\nSphaeroma Quoianum\nTue, 07 Feb 2017\t| Ecosystem Engineering\nFIGURE 9.1 Schematic diagrams showing the conversion of a (A) salt marsh, (B) mangrove, and (C) kelp forest to open, unvegetated systems initiated by the burrowing activities of isopods. The burrows of the isopods also create fine-scale habitat for bur-rowing-dwelling organisms. Burrows are depicted as small black lines, and the water surface by a blue dotted line. Despite the different systems, note the similarity of players and processes all systems contain an allogenic engineering (isopod) whose burrowing activities create fine-scale habitat and remove a second, autogenic engineer leading to the conversion of habitat from one state to another. See text for a full explanation. (See color plate.) FIGURE 9.1 Schematic diagrams showing the conversion of a (A) salt marsh, (B) mangrove, and (C) kelp forest to open, unvegetated systems initiated by the burrowing activities of isopods. The burrows of the isopods also create fine-scale habitat for bur-rowing-dwelling organisms. Burrows are...\nMacromorphology\nLast Updated on Mon, 11 Mar 2019\t| Permafrost Soils\nFig. 1.1 Schematic diagram showing a nonsorted circle type of patterned ground with discontinuous and broken cryoturbated soil horizons (y) and oriented stones in the active layer, and ice lenses in the permafrost layer Fig. 1.1 Schematic diagram showing a nonsorted circle type of patterned ground with discontinuous and broken cryoturbated soil horizons (y) and oriented stones in the active layer, and ice lenses in the permafrost layer\nCl3 KjO J Jog H Ct\nLast Updated on Wed, 23 Oct 2019\t| Industrial Wastes\nChlorination units consist of a chlorination vessel in which the wastewater and the chlorine are brought into contact. In order to provide sufficient mixing, chlorine systems must have a chlorine contact time of 15-30 minutes, after which it must be dechlorinated prior to discharge. A schematic diagram of the systems is presented in Fig. 19.\nLast Updated on Sat, 13 Jul 2019\t| Water Resources\n13.3 Schematic diagram showing Perth's Integrated Water Supply Scheme (IWSS) 190 14.3 Berg River Spatial Equilibrium Model (BRDSEM) schematic diagram 210 14.4 Schematic diagram of the Berg River Basin Upper section 212 14.5 Schematic diagram of Berg River Basin Lower section as depicted in BRDSEM 213\nAgricultural Runoff\nThu, 04 Apr 2019\t| Constructed Wetlands\nNonpoint runoff from cultivated fields adds pollution to receiving water in the form of sediments and nutrients, particularly phosphorus. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has developed a process for treatment and management of these runoff waters. A schematic diagram of the system is shown in Figure 6.5 components include an underdrained wet meadow, a marsh, and a pond in series. An optional final component is a vegetated polishing area. The combined concept is referred to as a Nutrient Sediment Control System (NSCS) by the NRCS. Several of these systems have been used successfully in northern Maine for treatment of runoff from cultivated fields. The NSCS should not be installed as the sole control system. It should only be used in conjunction with best conservation practices applied for erosion control on the agricultural fields of concern.\nLast Updated on Wed, 24 Jul 2019\t| Solar Energy\nFig. 3.2 Schematic diagram of an agricultural solar water pumping stand-alone system as an example of PV application. Similar to the air collectors, water collectors are used to heat up the water for various domestic and industrial applications. The domestic water heater generally uses flat plate collectors in parallel connection and runs automatically with the thermosiphon action whereas the industrial water heater uses a number of flat plate collectors in series and the thermo-siphon action does not work in this case and hence it uses a photovoltaic-driven water pump to maintain flow of water inside the water collector. A schematic diagram of a PV T water collector is shown in Fig. 3.3. A DC water pump is used to circulate water as the two flat plate collectors are connected in series. Fig. 3.3 Schematic diagram of a hybrid photovoltaic solar water heater as an example of PV T application. Fig. 3.3 Schematic diagram of a hybrid photovoltaic solar water heater as an example of PV T...\nF0AhmL\nMon, 29 Jul 2019\t| World Oceans\nWhere T is the time period over which the average is taken, assumed to be 1 year because of the seasonal cycle wtr is the vertical velocity along the 1-year trajectory and Ahm,L represents the mixed layer depth change accumulated over a 1-year trajectory in Lagrangian coordinates. Thus, this definition includes both the temporal average and the spatial average over a 1-year trajectory. The schematic diagram in Figure 5.27 illustrates this definition for a two-dimensional case. An instrument called a Bobber is released in late winter, when effective detrainment starts at a station. This instrument can be checked continuously by means of acoustic signals. If we were following the instrument, we would see that during the first part of the trajectory effective detrainment takes place, i.e., the mixed layer retreats and leaves stratified water behind. During the second half of the trajectory, mixed layer entrainment takes place and re-takes part of the water which entered the seasonal...\nLidar system\nLast Updated on Sat, 04 Jan 2020\t| Summer Monsoon\nOf 24 m and a temporal resolution of 33 s. The schematic diagram of lidar system is shown in Fig. 1. Details about our lidar studies system can be found in the studies of Nee et al.5 and Chen et al.6 The lidar measures height profile of backscattered signal from aerosols, which are converted into backscattering ratio. The aerosols backscattering ratio, BR, is defined as follows\nJ 73 FwsvxM\nTue, 30 Jul 2019\t| Oxygen Requirement\nThus, if wastage is from each bioreactor in proportion to its volume, the SRT will be controlled solely by the total bioreactor volume and the total wastage flow rate, regardless of the MLSS concentration in each bioreactor. Because of its simplicity, this technique will be used in all simulations in this chapter, even though the wastage streams will not be shown in the schematic diagrams to simplify them.\nFigure 5.19 (at Schematic diagram showing a disturbance of the upper ocean caused by an abrupt change irt the overlying wind field (b) Such a disturbance may he generated in the western Atlantic and travel eastwards as an eouatoiiai Kelvin wave at the eastern boundary, this splits info two coastal Kelvin waves, which contribute to seasonal upwellmg in the Gulf of Guinea fcf. Figure 5.9).\nWed, 31 Jul 2019\t| Aromatic Hydrocarbons\nFigure 5.29 is a schematic diagram of a DRIFTS apparatus that has been applied to studying the reactions of the components of sea salt particles with various oxides of nitrogen. As the reactions occur, nitrate, which absorbs strongly in the infrared, is formed on the salt surface. 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{"text":"2004-05-30 17:02 UTC Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 5 (Lick Observatory)\nThe weekend. David had bought himself a Linksys wireless router when we went to Fry's on Friday, and on Saturday he installed it. It was disappointingly easy. Where's the fun if things Just Work? (Actually it turns out it didn't Just Work; the ethernet ports were broken.)\nIn the afternoon Ben, Kerz, David and I went up to the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. It was a really nice ride with some great views of the valley. I hadn't realised quite how much smog there was here. It's rather scary. I don't remember seeing smog back in Norway.\nWe were given a nice talk by one of the amateur astronomers lucky enough to get himself a job at the observatory, and then drove back home. On the way, Ben was annoyed by a Toyota driver who was weaving all over his lane.\nYesterday evening David and I went to Andale Taqueria in Palo Alto. I had a small chicken taco. It was good. Today I'm planning to go to San Francisco to meet Bloo and see Shrek 2. Ought to be fun.\nThe agenda for the workshop is now available. Looks like David and I are going to give a joint presentation tuesday afternoon. We're right before Microsoft, which could be interesting.\nI'm very much at a loss as to what to expect from this workshop. On the one hand I really can't see us convincing everyone else that the solution is to continue down the HTML path. After all, it's not in the interests of most of the other attendees. Many of them are wanting to sell SVG, XForms, or XHTML products, and most of those who aren't are probably more concerned with developing a good theoretical solution than addressing the unfortunate pragmatic needs of today's authors.\nI guess this is a case of \"wait and see\".\nJump to Latest 2004-11-11 08:32 UTC - Some notes from Los Santos 2004-11-10 18:30 UTC - Norskkurs: Difficulties 2004-11-07 15:17 UTC - Incredible fun 2004-11-01 19:40 UTC - Quotations: On the relative use of features 2004-10-31 09:13 UTC - SVG 1.2, sources of infinite food, and other ramblings 2004-10-29 19:20 UTC - OS trends? 2004-10-27 22:15 UTC - Multiple background images 2004-10-27 07:26 UTC - Closed shapes and defaults 2004-10-23 18:48 UTC - I'm sorry sir, you are a security risk 2004-10-11 11:53 UTC - Sigh 2004-09-13 23:36 UTC - What I did this summer 2004-08-24 22:28 UTC - Strange spam to W3C lists 2004-08-04 13:40 UTC - Why document.write() doesn't work in XML 2004-07-12 12:24 UTC - Extending HTML 2004-06-29 16:26 UTC - State of the WHAT 2004-06-04 22:20 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 9 (Return to Europe) 2004-06-02 06:48 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 8 (First Day of the Workshop) 2004-06-01 01:12 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 7 (Notes for the Workshop) 2004-05-31 08:15 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 6 (San Francisco) 2004-05-30 17:02 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 5 (Lick Observatory) 2004-05-29 08:41 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 4 (Monopoly) 2004-05-28 19:14 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 3 (Poker) 2004-05-28 17:16 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 2 (Backwards Compatibility) 2004-05-23 17:31 UTC - Spring 2004 Travelog: Part 1 (Whining) 2004-05-20 12:39 UTC - Web Applications and Compound Documents, IMHO 2004-04-28 15:45 UTC - Server-sent DOM events 2004-04-12 19:27 UTC - Embedding flash without <embed> 2004-04-11 21:12 UTC - Sunny newspaper clipping 2004-04-06 16:41 UTC - Ow 2004-03-28 20:33 UTC - Ramblings from the North 2004-03-12 14:58 UTC - New arch nemesis (still a kind of script, though) 2004-03-05 10:40 UTC - W3C Technical Plenary 2004 2004-02-10 19:28 UTC - OperaShow Generator 2004-02-01 22:19 UTC - Mozbot 2.6 candidate builds 2004-01-27 22:21 UTC - Allowing innovation in obscure parts of specifications 2004-01-22 14:33 UTC - Error handling and XML 2004-01-22 00:09 UTC - Error handling and Web language design 2004-01-18 23:00 UTC - Void filling: Web Applications Language 2004-01-13 10:59 UTC - Confusing spam Start","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Below Rail Infrastructure, Engineering, Freight Rail, Passenger Rail, Products & Technology, Technology and IT\nBudget should target new projects and upgrades: ARA\nConnor Pearce October 1, 2020, 4:05 pm October 1, 2020\nNew projects and upgrades to existing technology should be considered for funding as part of the federal budget, CEO of the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) Caroline Wilkie has said.\nWith the budget to be handed down on October 6 and early announcements already coming out, Wilkie said that rail was ready to contribute to Australia's economic recovery.\n\"There is a significant pipeline of rail investment that could be fast tracked to generate more jobs and opportunity to support our economic recovery,\" said Wilkie.\n\"This is work that will make a difference right now while leaving a lasting legacy for the cities and towns that benefit from new rail projects.\"\nA number of rail projects are awaiting federal funding to take the next step. The Melbourne Airport Rail Link will proceed once final funding from the federal government confirmed, as can the resumption of the Murray Basin Rail Project, with a business case sitting with Canberra.\nIn addition to new construction, funding for technology upgrades such as the Australian Rail Track Corporation's Advanced Train Management System, would provide long term benefits. Infrastructure upgrades such as level crossing removals are another way the federal government's funding to rail would conitrbute to wider economic outcomes.\n\"At a time where we desperately need more people in jobs and more certainty for those rebounding from the economic hardships of the pandemic, we need to see more projects started sooner to build the country back up again,\" said Wilkie.\nDeputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Michael McCormack has indicated that major infrastructure projects will be part of the 2020 budget, however no particular projects have been tipped yet. The federal government has indicated that money allocated to the states for infrastructure will be needed to be spent quickly and may be a condition of further funding.\nAdvanced Train Management SystemARAARTCAustralasian Railway AssociationBudget 2020Caroline Wilkiemelbourne airport rail linkMurray Basin Rail Project","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jio Fiber Adds Most Wired Broadband Subscribers in September, TRAI Data Shows\nTelecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) latest report shows wired broadband subscribers grew by 3.13 percent in the month of September.\nBy Vineet Washington | Updated: 4 December 2020 13:47 IST\nJio added 270,000 wired broadband subscribers in September\nTRAI shared latest broadband service provider numbers in India\nReliance Jio had 1.52 million wired subscribers by September 30\nBharat Fiber crossed the one million subscribers mark\nTelecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) latest telecom subscription report for September 2020 shows the top five wired and wireless broadband service providers, and as with previous months, BSNL led the wired broadband market with 7.80 million subscribers and Reliance Jio led the wireless segment with 404.13 million users. Notably, the wireless segment includes 4G SIM cards and mobile hotspot dongles. In terms of market share, Reliance Jio captured 55.85 percent of the wired+wireless broadband market while Bharti Airtel was second with 22.86 percent market share. JioFiber broadband service also added over 3 lakh new customers in September 2020 as per the latest data.\nAccording to the latest report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), as of September 30, the top five wired broadband service providers in the country were BSNL with 7.80 million subscribers, followed by Bharti Airtel at 2.60 million and Atria Convergence Technologies (ACT) at 1.73 million. Reliance Jio came next at 1.52 million followed by Hathway Cable at 1.05 million. For wireless broadband providers, Jio saw 404.13 million as of September 30. Bharti Airtel was at 163.41 million, followed by Vodafone Idea at 119.84 million, BSNL at 17.03 million and Tikona at 0.31 million.\nCompared to the previous month, till August 31, the top five wired broadband service providers were BSNL at 7.85 million, Bharti Airtel at 2.53 million, ACT at 1.70 million, Reliance Jio at 1.25 million, and Hathway at 1.03 million. This shows a drop of roughly 50,000 for BSNL, an increase of 70,000 by Airtel, and an increase of 270,000 for Reliance Jio, or rather, Jio Fiber. For the wireless broadband service providers, Reliance Jio was at 402.67 million, Bharti Airtel at 156.45 million, Vodafone Idea at 119.91 million, BSNL at 15.90 million, and Tikona at 0.31 million.\nThe report shows the wired broadband subscribers grew by 3.13 percent in the month of September, compared to August, to 21.12 million. Mobile device users including phone and dongle users increased by 1.36 percent to 704.57 million. Fixed wireless subscribers including Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Point-to-point radio, and VSAT increased by 0.04 percent to 640,000. Total number of broadband subscribers went from 716.19 million in August to 726.32 million in September.\nIn terms of wireline or landline (including non-broadband) connections, Reliance Jio added over 3 lakh new customers. This number was significantly higher than all other service providers in the country with Bharti Airtel following with over 66,000 new users. On the other hand, MTNL and BSNL lost subscribers by over 19,000 and over 1.82 lakh respectively. Interestingly, BSNL held the largest market share at 38.55 percent. Reliance Jio captured 10.35 percent of the market while Bharti Airtel was ahead at 21.99 percent. It should be noted that Reliance Jio wireline figures consist of Jio Fiber broadband connections, as Jio does not provide only landline connections. Also, not all ISPs offer dongles and the wireless connection numbers includes 4G, dongles, and hotpots.\nIn the meanwhile, Bharat Fibre, the Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) service by BSNL, has crossed the one million subscribers mark. Bharat Fibre aka Bharat Fiber was launched in India early last year.\nWhich is the best TV under Rs. 25,000? We discussed this on Orbital, our weekly technology podcast, which you can subscribe to via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or RSS, download the episode, or just hit the play button below.\nFurther reading: TRAI, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, BSNL, Airtel, Jio, Reliance Jio, ACT, Jio Fiber\nHawkeye Series Casts Black Widow's Florence Pugh, Vera Farmiga, 4 More: Report\nCaller Name Display Implementation Should Not Be Mandatory, COAI Tells TRAI\nAirtel, Reliance Jio, Vi Meet DoT to Discuss Call Drop Issues, Service Quality\nIndia to Be First Country to Auction Spectrum for Satellite Communication, TRAI Chairman Says\nTRAI recommends DoT to Use Optical Fibre Network to Extend Telecom Coverage in Himachal Pradesh\nTRAI Seeks Public Comment on Caller ID Display for Mobile Phones to Detect Fraudulent Callers, Spam\nMoto E13 With 5,000mAh Battery Launched: Check Price\nWhy Are Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Laying Off Employees?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New name, other tweaks for former Gold Class Cinemas\nGary Dinges @gdinges\nJun 21, 2011 at 12:01 AM Dec 12, 2018 at 9:12 AM\nThe former Gold Class Cinemas at the Domain is rolling out a host of changes, including reduced ticket prices for some seats, an expanded food and drink menu \u2014 and a new name.\nNow known as iPic Theaters, the North Austin cinema is introducing a lower-priced alternative to the $29 tickets offered when it opened a year ago.\nFor $19 when booked online, moviegoers still get a leather seat but without other amenities such as in-theater food service.\nThe pricier $29 tickets are still available and include reclining seats, pillows and blankets, popcorn and access to the theater's service staff for the first 20 minutes of each film.\nMembers of the theater's loyalty club pay lower prices on the Web: $15 and $22.\nBoth tiers offer the ability to reserve seats at ipictheaters.com.\n\"This new concept provides more choices and more accessibility for better enjoyment for all,\" said Mark Mulcahy, the chain's vice president of marketing.\nThe theater's bar and concession stand have been tweaked, as well, with a new look and a more varied mix of food and drink options.\nThe Salt Bar has 16 beers by the bottle and 40 bottled wines, according to Mulcahy, and Tanzy Express offers everything from beef skewers to ice cream sandwiches.\nThe iPic chain has eight theaters across the U.S.\ngdinges@statesman; 912-5987\n\u00a9 Copyright 2006-2019 GateHouse Media, LLC. All rights reserved \u2022 GateHouse Business","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Markets Adrift Ahead of Key Events\n2 years ago 439 views 12 min read\nMarc Chandler\nChief Market Strategist\nBannockburn Global Forex\n\u2022 There has been no follow-through dollar selling after its pre-weekend slippage. Counter-intuitively, the Chinese yuan strengthened further after the reserve requirements were cut at the end of last week.\n\u2022 China's effort to tighten rules on digital companies offshore IPOs appears to be having the desired effect.\n\u2022 The surge in Japan's core machine orders (7.8% vs. 2.4% median forecast in Bloomberg's survey) likely reflects China's capex cycle, and is unlikely to deter the BOJ from cutting its GDP projection when it meets at the end of the week.\n\u2022 ECB President Lagarde suggests new initiatives will be unveiled at this month's meeting (July 22). Separately, the EU has just agreed to postpone its digital tax to secure a global tax deal.\n\u2022 The US reports June CPI tomorrow and Powell's semiannual testimony before Congress begins Wednesday.\n\u2022 The Bank of Canada is expected to take another step on its tapering course that had begun in April when it meets on Wednesday. On the same day, Chile is likely to become the third LATAM central bank to raise rates this year.\nOverview: The new week has begun quietly. The dollar is drifting a little higher against most major currencies, with the Scandis and dollar-bloc currencies the heaviest. The yen and Swiss franc's resilience seen last week is carrying over. Most liquid and freely accessible emerging market currencies are lower, and the JP Morgan EM currency index, which snapped a four-day drop ahead of the weekend, is trading lower today. It has fallen in three of the past four Mondays. Benchmark 10 year bond yields are softer, with the 10-year Treasury yield off almost three basis points to 1.33%. European yields are 2-3 bp lower. China's 10-year yield is off four basis points and at 2.94% is at a new three-month low, following last week's softer inflation readings and reserve requirement cut. With the prospects of a longer lockdown in Sydney, Australia's 10-year benchmark yield is at a new three-month low (~1.30%). Italy's benchmark yield of 73 bp is also at a new three-month low. The MSCI Asia Pacific equity index snapped a four-day spill, led by the Nikkei's 2.25% gain, its largest in three weeks. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 that rallied 1.3% before the weekend is little changed with energy, materials, and financial sectors acting as the biggest drags, while utilities, healthcare, and real estate offset. US equity futures are trading lower. Gold is trading inside the pre-weekend range (~$1796-$1812). August WTI rallied 3.25% in the last two sessions but has begun the new week a little heavier. It has held below $75 to straddle the $74 level. The IEA's monthly report is due tomorrow ahead of OPEC's report on Thursday. The US Department of Agriculture world supply and demand report is due out later today. The CRB Index 11-day rally ended at the start of last week, but it recovered the last two sessions for a 1.25% gain.\nChina has tightened the rules on foreign listings for companies with over one million users as it tightens its cybersecurity rules. ByteDance's planned IPO is an early victim. It seems clear that China's effort is about control of personal data. The move also represents the rising power of the Cyberspace Administration of China, a new intra-agency creation. It, coupled with new rigorous antitrust efforts, signals a new phase for Beijing. On top of this, the PBOC's 50 bp cut in required reserves last week took the market by surprise. Most of the funds freed up (~$155 bln) will be used to repay the medium-term lending facility and upcoming tax payments. Yet to be seen is the pressure to lend to smaller businesses, which some observers anticipate. China is expected to report June trade figures tomorrow ahead of the Q2 GDP figures on July 15 in Beijing.\nThe capex cycle in China continues, and this may be the takeaway from the 7.8% surge in Japan's core machinery orders, which were three times more than the median forecast in Bloomberg's survey projected. The highlight of the week, though, is the BOJ meeting that concludes at the end of the week. The BOJ may downgrade growth forecasts as Tokyo is in its fourth formal state of emergency (until August 22). The BOJ is also expected to announce new support for green lending, including possibly purchasing green bonds.\nThe dollar is in a narrow range against the Japanese yen. With a few minor exceptions, it has largely been confined to a JPY110.00-JPY110.20 range. It needs to get above JPY110.35 to lift the tone. With the lockdown in Sydney set to be extended, the Australian dollar remains on the defensive. For the third consecutive session, upticks have stalled in front of $0.7500, where a nearly A$790 mln option is set to expire today. On the downside, initial support has been found near $0.7460. A break of $0.7440 would warn a return to last week's low for the year near $0.7410. The unexpected cut in China's reserve requirements did not weigh on the yuan in offshore trading before the weekend, and the onshore yuan ticked up today to post its first back-to-back gain since June 24-25. Indeed, the dollar fell to a three-day low near CNY6.4700. The PBOC's reference rate for the dollar was set at CNY6.4785, a wider than normal miss of the median projection in Bloomberg's survey (CNY6.4766).\nThe ECB's July 22 meeting is back in play. It had been seen as a subdued event that would mostly be focused on the new inflation target (symmetrical 2% target that could be overshot) that will, in an unspecified period, begin to incorporate owner-occupied housing costs. However, comments by ECB President Lagarde suggested other changes may be forthcoming from the upcoming meeting. These may include some discussion of new measures next year, an initiation of a formal exploratory phase for a digital currency, and a more structure around the ECB's climate change considerations.\nThe G20 finance ministers endorsed the OECD's tax reform proposals, but all is not well. First, there continues to be tension over some European countries' (and Canada's) digital tax proposals. The effort to share tax revenues was to address it, but as US Treasury Secretary Yellen has acknowledged, it is proceeding slower than the effort to adopt a minimum 15% tax. Second, the IMF's Managing Director Georgieva has come out hard against the EU's carbon border tax plan, calling it protectionistic. Third, German Chancellor Merkel visits the White House later this week and will likely get an earful about the Nord Stream II pipeline with Russia that could be operational before the end of the year.\nThe euro held the $1.1880 level and is consolidating after the two-day recovery off the three-month low set last week near $1.1780. Buyers emerging near $1.1855 today, but a move above $1.1900 is needed to bolster sentiment. The momentum indicators on the daily charts have turned higher. Sterling settled last week a touch above $1.39 for its highest close in two weeks. However, follow-through buying was limited (to $1.3910), and a consolidative tone is evident. It has found initial support ahead of $1.3850. Here too, the momentum indicators have turned higher on the daily bar charts. Nearby resistance is seen near $1.3940.\nYellen has suggested that the 15% minimum corporate tax could be included in the fast-track budget bill and not require bipartisan support. That said, it is not immediately evident that the moderate Democrats will support it. The effort to redistribute taxation rights of the largest 100 multinational companies is on a somewhat slower track. As an international treaty, it appears to require 2\/3 of the Senate to approve it. This seems like a stretch especially ahead of the midterm elections in November 2022. It is partly this understanding of the prospects in the US that Europe seems reluctant to give up its digital tax proposals.\nThe US reports June CPI figures tomorrow ahead of the Beige Book on Wednesday and Fed Chair Powell's semiannual testimony before Congress on Wednesday. The US reports PPI, industrial production, and retail sales this week, alongside the July Empire State and Philadelphia manufacturing surveys. The US Treasury will sell $120 bln in coupons and quarterly earnings kick-off with several banks and Alcoa this week.\nThe Bank of Canada meets Wednesday. The 230k jump in employment reported before the weekend, even though all of the job gains were in part-time positions, was seen as sufficient to allow the central bank to continue with its tapering efforts, which begun in April. The Bank of Canada is buying C$3 bln a week in federal bonds and is seen likely reducing it to C$2 bln and then slowing down further in Q4. Elsewhere, Chile's central bank meets on Wednesday. It is likely to become the third LATAM central bank to raise rates this year after Brazil has taken several steps and Mexico surprised last month with a 25 bp hike. Mexico reports May industrial output figures today, the main data point of the week. A modest gain is expected after production slipped by 0.2% in April.\nThe Canadian dollar gained 0.7% after the employment data and settled on its session highs ahead of the weekend. However, follow-through gains have not materialized, and the US dollar found support near CAD1.2450 and is testing CAD1.25 near midday in Europe, which is the (38.2%) retracement target of the greenback's retreat from the CAD1.2590 high on July 8. The next retracement (50%) is seen near CAD1.2520. The daily momentum indicators are stretched but have yet to turn down. Similarly, the US dollar settled on the session lows against the Mexican peso ahead of the weekend (~MXN19.85). Again, there has been no follow-through selling, and the dollar has bounced to meet the (38.2%) retracement objective near MXN19.97. The (50%) retracement is a little above MXN20.00.\nwww.bannockburnglobal.com\nMarket Overview AnalysisMacroTechnical\nMacro Tides Weekly Technical Review \u2013 July 13th 2021\nCan Transportation (IYT) and Retail (XRT) Make A Positive Momentum Divergence?\nIs this Another Rally into Resistance?\nStay Long the AUD \u2013 The Case for Further AUD Upside\nBoE's Dovish Hike to 0.75%\nTechnical Analysis \u2013 DayTradeIdeas\nBonds are Dead. You Better be Ready.\nGreenback Softens amid Stronger Risk Appetites to Start August\nHas the Small-Cap Index (IWM) Tricked Us?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Front page > Services > Strait talk for a safe passage\nCurrent forecasts benefit seafarers seeking to pass through the Saltstraumen strait. Photo: Tommy Andreassen, www.nordnorge.com (Bod\u00f8).\nStrait talk for a safe passage\nAn automated system of current forecasts has been developed to support secure navigation through Saltstraumen, where the world's strongest tidal currents create powerful whirlpools.\nLocated near Bod\u00f8 in northern Norway, this narrow channel is the first strait in the country to be provided with its own system for current forecasts.\nWhirlpools in Saltstraumen are strong, several metres wide and have large and prominent troughs. Except when the tide changes, they are impassable by small boats and vessels which lack plenty of reserve power.\nSpeed variations\nThe forecast speed is the mean value for the main, eastern, channel under the Saltstraumen bridge. However, actual speeds can deviate widely from the mean.\nIn particular, they can be much higher locally around vortices (whirlpools or maelstroms) and will normally be considerably lower in the turbulent interface along the shore.\nLocal practice is that displacement vessels pass through the strait during the period from 20 minutes before until 20 minutes after the tide turns.\nThe specified time for current reversal deviates by about 20 minutes on average from that given in Den norske los (The Norwegian Pilot) and from local practice, which dictates that the change occurs one hour and 40 minutes after high water at Bod\u00f8.\nBased on known factors\nThe new service has been developed by BarentsWatch, the Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) and Polytec on the basis of known and well-tested factors affecting current strength and behaviour.\nCovering speed and direction (in\/out of the strait), a current forecast for Saltstraumen is issued twice a day and for up to two days ahead.\nTimes of maximum current in\/out and zero current are also notified specially in the text table. The speed at any given time can be found by holding the cursor over the graph.\nDynamic model\nThe dynamic model takes account of weather effects on water levels, local wind speeds and the inflow of fresh water from the big rivers which empty into the Skjerstad Fjord.\nWith the effect of the Earth's rotation also incorporated in the calculation, this means that the time when the tide turns can deviate considerably from the norm.\nThis forecasting service is a continuation of Norway's wave forecasts for shipping lanes, and can also be accessed from that Norwegian-only service by clicking on the icon in the map.\nSist oppdatert: 26. August 2016 The Norwegian Coastal Administration\nThe Norwegian Coastal Administration\nSpecial forecasts for waves\nEnhancing wave alerts","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"32 Flags\nThe Locker\nThe letter from a Navajo Redskins fan The Washington Post does not want you to see\nTGS weekly MVP tracker: Adrian Peterson joins the conversation\nWeek 11 NFL power rankings\nJets circus continues\n0 comments by Lawrence Dushenski on 8\/28\/2012\nAnother day, another ridiculous story out of Jets camp. The media spin that surrounds the Jets is truly something to behold with Tebow in town, and a few weeks ago the scorn turned towards the right tackle of all people. Wayne Hunter was struggling in camp, that was no question, but it suddenly became [\u2026]\nPlaying For Pride: Ranking The Motivations Of The NFL's Also-Rans\n0 comments by Will Horton on 12\/31\/2011\nOnly three of twelve playoff spots are still open, and only a handful of teams have hopes of filling them. For the rest of the NFL, a long lonely winter approaches with only this weekend's games left to salvage any last shreds of pride. But who's got that much pride left? And how much does [\u2026]\nTalk Is Cheap; Just Play The Game\n0 comments by Shane Clemons on 12\/30\/2011\nRex Ryan has become the poster boy in the NFL for trash talk. He's been predicting a Jets Super Bowl since showing up in New York, and he's yet to deliver on those prophesies. While it's still unclear whether anyone is still taking what Ryan says seriously, that doesn't stop him from rubbing his opponents [\u2026]\nFor Colts and Rams, The Last Game Is The Last Chance to Improve\n0 comments by Anthony Brown on 12\/29\/2011\nFor many teams playoff seedings, berths and home field advantage. Division titles are on the line in both the NFC and AFC West and the number 1 overall seed in the AFC is on the line. Yet the most anticipated outcome is one involving the NFL's only two-win teams. For the St. Louis Rams and [\u2026]\n9 NFL Records That Will Never Be Broken\n0 comments by Matt Yoder\nOn Monday Night Football, Drew Brees broke Dan Marino's 27 year old record for most passing yards in a season with an extra game to spare. If Brees plays the distance against Carolina on Sunday, he'll end up shattering Marino's previous mark of 5,084. Even though passing numbers have been going through the roof this [\u2026]\nSuck For Luck Race By Colts And Rams Could Spark NFL Free-For-All\n0 comments by Anthony Brown\nWhile several teams around the league had to throw out their Kleenex from the tears due to Matt Barkley rejoining USC, there is new hope in the Suck For Luck sweepstakes. The impossible has happened and the Colts have now won back to back games. The Colts currently sit at 2-13 along with the St [\u2026]\nThe Detroit Lions Are Building A Long-Term Winner\nAfter crushing the resurgent Chargers this week, the Lions clinched their first playoff birth since 1999. This was not a total shock to the league, as Detroit has put together a solid young roster, and with Matt Stafford staying healthy for the whole year, a playoff spot was well within their grasp. But what many [\u2026]\nMatthew Stafford Snubbed From The Pro Bowl\n0 comments by Shane Clemons\nWhen you look at the NFC's Pro Bowl roster, it's hard to argue against any of the quarterbacks that made the cut. Aaron Rodgers should be a shoo in to win the 2011 MVP, and Drew Brees just eclipsed Dan Marino's single season passing record with another game to play. There's no doubt that they [\u2026]\nMiami DE Jason Taylor Ready To Retire. Will He Dance With The Stars At The Hall Of Fame?\nAccording to the Miami Herald, Jason Taylor plans on hanging up the cleats (or dancing shoes) after 15 seasons. Taylor is now 37 at the end of his career and currently sits 6th on the all time sack list with 139.5 Taylor was named the 2006 NFL Defensive Player of the Year and the 2007 [\u2026]\nWhy The Philadelphia Eagles Should Draft A QB Now\nIt's one year into the new Michael Vick era in Philly after trading away Kevin Kolb and all indications point to the eagles making the right call. So, the question before us is do the Philadelphia Eagles need to consider selecting a quarterback in the early rounds of the April 2012 NFL Draft? Absolutely. By no [\u2026]\n49ers Part Ways With Braylon Edwards While Redskins Cut Ryan Torain Loose\nNFL GM's were still in the giving mood a couple of days after Christmas it appears. Giving out two pink slips today. Those on the receiving end were San Francisco 49ers WR Braylon Edwards and Washington Redskins RB Ryan Torain. Struggling wide receiver Braylon Edwards was released by the San Francisco 49ers following surgery on [\u2026]\nDrew Brees Caps The Year Of The Quarterback\nWith every pass he completes this weekend, Drew Brees will extend his record for most yards completed in an NFL season. Brees, in fact, did something last night that Dan Marino could not do in 15 years of trying. He broke Marino's remarkable 1984 yardage record. Yet Brees' remarkable feat is marginally better than his [\u2026]\nNFL Reactor: New Orleans Destroys Atlanta; Brees Sets Yardage Record\nIf you're a fan of passing, this was the game for you. Unfortunately for fans of football in general, the Saints didn't let the Falcons hang around and make it a game. Both quarterbacks had unbelievable games, but the score didn't indicate that for the Falcons. Drew Brees broke Dan Marino's record for most yards [\u2026]\nBehind The Bears Woes\nThe Chicago Bears showed so much promise this season once they got their feat under them after a shaky start. They started just 2-3 before rattling off 5 consecutive wins. That all seems like years ago. The Bears are winless since beating the Chargers. That was the game that their season changed for the [\u2026]\nI Know It's Only Rock N Roll But I Like It! NFL Week 16 Recap!\nNew York Giants 29 New York Jets 14 \u2013 My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen The New York Giants chose to stay out of the tabloids and keep their mouth shuts and let their play do the talking and it certainly played off. After an ugly 1st half by both teams the Giants eventually took over behind [\u2026]\nwww.Bloguin.com\/thisgivensunday is a National Football League fan web site and is in no way affiliated with the National Football League or its Properties or Organizations. 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{"text":"Transportation 2020-03-30T15:59:53Z\nIncredible satellite photos show parked planes sitting on runways at airports in the US and Europe, as COVID-19 puts a near stop to global air travel\nAs the coronavirus causes airlines to cancel flights and ground planes, they've piled up on runways and taxiways as airlines look for parking spots.\nInsider 2020-01-12T11:33:00Z\n26 destinations in Europe that were ruined by tourists over the past decade\nFrom Venice and Barcelona to Iceland and Mykonos, these European destinations could use a break from visitors \u2014 or at least a reduction in numbers.\nScience 2019-10-10T19:12:00Z\nA 1,500-foot ski slope atop a power plant just opened to the public in Denmark. Here's what it's like to ski down.\nIn addition to ski runs, the power plant features amenities like a rooftop bar, CrossFit area, and the world's tallest artificial climbing wall.\nExecutive Lifestyle 2019-09-04T14:01:00Z\nThe 10 most livable cities in the world in 2019\nThe Economist Intelligence Unit released its annual Global Livability Index, measuring the world's most livable cities. No US city made the top 10.\n10 places to visit in Denmark that aren't Copenhagen\nAlthough Denmark's capital city is still worth a visit, here are 10 places to visit in Denmark that aren't Copenhagen.\nI paid $350 to eat at Noma, the 2nd best restaurant in the world, where guests feast on mold, potted plants, and a giant kebab made from vegetables \u2014 here's what it was like\nNoma has built a culinary dynasty by focusing solely on ingredients from the Scandinavian region, shunning things like olive oil and tomatoes.\nIKEA wants to send someone on a free vacation to Copenhagen to learn how to be happy from the locals\nThe winner will live in Copenhagen for two weeks where they will be paid a local salary, make home visits, go on guided tours, and attend dinners.\nA huge spiralling tower was just built in the middle of a Danish forest to help bring people closer to nature\nThe 45-metre tower is located at Camp Adventure, about an hour south of Copenhagen.\nScience Contributors 2019-04-11T07:54:20Z\nChina gave Denmark 2 pandas on loan, and it caused a frenzy for thousands of locals who lined up to see them\nThousands are queuing at Copenhagen Zoo to see two giant black-and-white bears on loan from China under Beijing's popular \"panda diplomacy\" initiative.\nHere's how much a beer will cost you in 10 of the world's most expensive cities\nThe Economist Intelligence Unit recently released its annual Cost of Living Report. Here's how much a beer costs in 10 of the most expensive cities.\nThese are the most expensive cities in the world in 2019\nThe most expensive cities in the world, as ranked by The Economist Intelligence Unit, are primarily in Europe and Asia.\nCopenhagen has turned a mountain of trash into a slope that residents can actually ski down\nWhat to do with the mountain of garbage a major metropolitan area produces is an age-old question. Copenhagen has come up with a brand-new answer: ski down the mountain.\nCopenhagen wants to build 9 artificial islands to house 'the European Silicon Valley.' Take a look at the plan.\nThe Danish government is moving forward with a plan to build nine artificial islands on the coast of Copenhagen.\nPlay icon A circle surrounding a triangle pointing right. It indicates, \"this type of media can be played.\"\nLonely Planet's No. 1 city to travel to in 2019 is Copenhagen \u2014 here's why it's worth a visit\nHead to Copenhagen this upcoming year. Lonely Planet named it the number one city to visit in 2019, so explore the city's culture, history, and food scenes.\nTech 2018-12-21T14:44:03Z\nHow Copenhagen Solved Bike Lanes\nBicycling is one of the primary means of transportation in Denmark. There are five times more bikes than cars in Copenhagen, its capital city.\nFinance 2018-07-09T15:49:12Z\nAudi revealed what the inside of its Tesla challenger will look like, and it's impressive\nAudi showed off the interior of its 2020 E-Tron all-electric SUV at an event in Copenhagen last week and the coolest thing is a virtual side mirror system\n6 mistakes everyone makes when visiting Copenhagen for the first time\nMany visitors to Copenhagen get too caught up in the city's big sights instead of enjoying its simpler pleasure like bike riding and coffee shops.\nI'm a New Yorker who visited Copenhagen for the first time \u2014 and I was shocked by how different the city's transportation is\nDuring a trip to Copenhagen, I was shocked but also impressed to see that the city is built more for bikers and pedestrians than it is for cars.\nA Danish inventor has been formally charged with luring a journalist onto his homemade submarine to murder and dismember her\nKim Wall was last seen with Madsen aboard the UC3 Nautilus, a homemade submarine which set off from Copenhagen in August 2017.\nRetail 2018-01-04T12:14:43Z\nA diamond-encrusted $1.3 million bottle of vodka, which featured on 'House of Cards,' was stolen in an audacious robbery in Denmark\nA masked man was caught on camera removing a bottle of Russo-Baltique from a specialist vodka bar in Copenhagen.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Latest Bristol Bears is delighted to announce My Bears Rewards, a new loyalty and incentive scheme for 2022\/23 Season Ticket holders and Bears Memb...\nWill Carpenter writes\nPosted Friday, September 27th 2019 @bristolsportwkc\nPiutau at inside centre for Pumas clash\nTonga captain Siale Piutau switches from outside to inside centre for his country's Pool C matchup with Argentina on Saturday at Hanazono Rugby Stadium.\nFit-again hooker Paula Ngauamo is the only switch in the pack, while James Faiva replaces Morath, Telusa Veainu is in at full-back and Malietoa Hingano starts at centre.\nTonga's lack of attacking threat was the most worrying feature of last week, but coach Toutai Kefu believes Veainu's return from injury could make a big difference.\n\"We don't have many players like Telusa,\" said Australian World Cup winner Kefu. \"He is high quality and has a lot of X-factor.\n\"He is critical for us. That's why we've thrown him straight in \u2013 he is an integral part of the team.\n\"He possibly could have played last week, but we just wanted to give him an extra week. I think he will give us spark in attack \u2013 he can make something out of nothing.\"\nSiale Piutau\nTonga Rugby\nClub launches My Bears Rewards scheme","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Eblasts\/Press Releases\nStudio Oklahoma\nNow Filming\nOklahoma Look Book\nFilm Resources\nOklahoma Filmography\nFilm Artists of the Month\nFeatured Locations of the Month\nMusic Artists of the Month\nRhythm & Routes Music Trail\nAttendee Survey\nCrew + Casting Calls\nFilm + Music Conference\nFilm + Music Networking Events\nOF+MO Events\nTourism Commission\nOklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt Signs High-Impact Film and Television Bill\nOklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed new legislation on May 7, 2019, designed to attract higher-impact film and television productions to the state. SB 200 increases the state's film incentive cap and eligibility threshold to host major motion pictures and television series.\n\"SB 200 will aid in the efforts to recruit film and television productions to the great state of Oklahoma,\" said Governor Stitt. \"I look forward to seeing how this legislation helps grow and diversify Oklahoma's economy.\"\nThis new legislation offers two incentives packages for productions of all sizes filming in Oklahoma, which will retain local productions in-state but also attract new and larger productions to the state.\nOklahoma's established incentive, the Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate Program administered by the Oklahoma Film + Music Office, will continue offering 35 to 37% cash rebate through 2027 with an increased fiscal year cap of $8 million. Eligible projects must have a minimum budget of $50,000 and a minimum of $25,000 spent on qualifying labor, goods and services in Oklahoma.\nIn addition to the established incentive, Oklahoma now opens its doors even wider with an expanded rebate program, authored by Senator Roger Thompson, R-Okemah. \"SB 200 is the most impactful piece of legislation I have worked on,\" said Senator Roger Thompson. \"It will serve as a catalyst for recruitment and retention of jobs and set the stage for immediate as well as long-term economic investment in our state.\"\nThe new incentive targets higher-impact productions, such as major motion pictures or television series, in which total expenditures or production costs are equal to or exceed $50 million. The same 35 to 37% cash rebate applies and eligible projects will access funds within the Oklahoma Quick Action Closing Fund for payments.\n\"Passing SB 200 this year was invigorating,\" said Representative Jason Dunnington, D-Oklahoma City. \"To see so many leaders prioritizing the arts while simultaneously seeking to diversify the state's economy should send a strong signal to anyone wanting to bring business to Oklahoma. I look forward to working on more with all those involved as we build for a better future.\"\nMore than 38 states and numerous countries now offer film incentives. The Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate Program, which was created in 2001, is now in its most competitive form to recruit more film and television productions to the state, setting the tone for longevity and sustainability. The film industry offers the state an excellent economic boost through direct and indirect spending and tax-revenue generation and job creation.\n\"The passage of SB 200 demonstrates that Oklahoma is open for business to the film industry,\" said Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell, who also serves as Secretary of Tourism and Branding. \"I am proud that this bipartisan legislation will provide the film industry the best opportunity to succeed in Oklahoma. With our unique and diverse geography, and experienced crew, talent, and support services, Oklahoma is poised to be a cornerstone of the film industry for years to come.\"\nThe Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate Program acquired a ten-year extension in 2014 and immediately saw a significant increase in direct production spending in the first two years from $2.6 million to $33.4 million. To date, the Oklahoma Film + Music Office has estimated $78.2 million in direct spending since the program's renewal and 75 productions accounted for 90% of the job growth rate, while more than 90 communities in 46 counties were economically impacted. As a result, multiple private and public partnerships have been formed to invest in developing more strategic educational academy-like programs to enhance Oklahoma's film crew base, as well as a creative center where sound stages, tech companies, and creatives can support the growing film, music, and entertainment industries in Oklahoma.\n\"We couldn't be more proud of our state leadership who championed SB 200 this year as we continue to invite creatives and creators from around the world to Oklahoma to access our expanded 35 to 37% cash film rebate program and other appealing resources,\" said Tava Maloy Sofsky, Director of the Oklahoma Film + Music Office. \"Top that with the true key to our success \u2014 our people. Why not Oklahoma?\"\nThe Oklahoma Film + Music Office celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The office, which became an official film commission in 1979, is poised and ready to point even more production companies to Oklahoma's top-rate crews, diverse landscapes and locations and developing infrastructure \u2013 all centrally located in the heartland. Additionally, Movie Maker Magazine ranked Oklahoma City at No. 13 in its list of \"The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities.\"\nRecent successes include Lionsgate's theatrical hit \"I Can Only Imagine,\" directed by the Erwin Brothers and starring Dennis Quaid, Cloris Leachman and Trace Adkins, along with the Sundance selection \"Rudderless,\" directed by William H. Macy, starring Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Selena Gomez and Laurence Fishburne. Both of these films displayed the unique synergy between film and music in Oklahoma, as they scored their film and recorded music in Oklahoma, thus qualifying for the bonus (2%) rebate. Other successful films include \"Jurassic Games,\" directed by Oklahoma's own Ryan Bellgardt and starring Ryan Merriman, Perrey Reeves, Adam Hampton, Katie Burgess, and the Sundance selection \"Wildlife,\" which was directed by Paul Dano and starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, along with many other independent films distributed domestically and internationally.\nThe state's history proves the value of Oklahoma's investment and long-time establishment as a partner in the film and music industries hosting features such as Oscar-winning film \"The Grapes of Wrath,\" \"Daughter of the Dawn,\" \"Twister,\" \"Rainman,\" \"The Outsiders,\" \"Tex,\" \"Rumblefish,\" \"Elizabethtown,\" \"The Killer Inside Me,\" \"August Osage County,\" \"Rudderless,\" \"Mekko,\" \"Te Ata,\" \"Chickasaw Rancher,\" \"I Can Only Imagine,\" \"Wildlife,\" \"To The Stars,\" \"Jurassic Games\" and \"Christmas in the Heartland\" among many others.\nMany television productions are also choosing Oklahoma, in part due to the certainty and longevity of the film rebate program, including \"Pioneer Woman\" (Food Network), \"American Ninja Warrior\" (NBC), \"Sweet Home Oklahoma\" (Bravo), \"Trolls: Stop Motion Series\" (Dreamworks), \"The Beverlys\" (Pureflix) and \"Safe Schools Series\" (Impact Productions), all of which utilized the rebate. Starz showcased some of the state's most surprising locations in its hit series \"American Gods,\" which is a testament to the fact that these movies and series can become a visual postcard for any state, as they are seen on millions of screens globally.\nIn an effort to help tell this expanding story, the Oklahoma Film + Music Office created a video to share with the public as well as business leaders, industry partners, legislators and their constituents to spotlight the people benefitting from this burgeoning industry in Oklahoma.\nAbout the Oklahoma Film + Music Office:\nCreated in 1979, the Oklahoma Film + Music Office strives to share all that Oklahoma has to offer by welcoming filmmakers and music professionals to the state and by creating a network of support to develop Oklahoma's film and music industries. For more information about the Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate Program or the Oklahoma Film + Music Office please visit okfilmmusic.org.\nPhoto credit: Zachary Burns\nOF+MO Hosts Panel Series at 19th Annual deadCenter Film FestivalFeatured Location for June 2019: Alabaster Caverns State Park\nHow did you hear about the Oklahoma Film + Music Office?\nMonthly Newsletter: Now Playing\nE-blasts\/Press Releases\nTwitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Email\n#OKIEFILM | #OKIEMUSIC\n\u00a9 Oklahoma Film & Music Office\nP.O. Box 52002, Oklahoma City, OK 73152\nTel: (405) 522-9635 | Toll-Free: (800) 766-3456\nTravelOK | User Feedback | Policies | Accessibility\nOklahoma Rock Show @okrockshow\nWe have @husbandsOKC new album tonight, plus new songs by @OtherLives, @sjcrain, @JohnMorelandOK, @SpecialThumbs,\u2026 twitter.com\/i\/web\/status\/1\u2026\nOK Film + Music @OKFilmMusic\nA hidden gem nestled in the small town of Mead, OK, That Country Music Place is a family owned & operated music ven\u2026 twitter.com\/i\/web\/status\/1\u2026\nWATCH: A new trailer from Oklahoma's own Boiling Point Media, for \"The Adventures of Ari My Robot Friend\", filmed i\u2026 twitter.com\/i\/web\/status\/1\u2026\nInstantly access the Oklahoma Production, Locations and Music Directories with the OKLAHOMA FILM + MUSIC OFFICE APP to explore and connect with Oklahoma's talented crew, accommodating support services, diverse locations and legendary musicians.\nFor more information, visit the iTunes Store.\nOklahoma Film + Music Conference","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Letter - Elizabeth Cudney to Mr. S.D. Woodruff\nCudney, Elizabeth (1895-01-12)\nLetter sent to Mr. S.D. Woodruff from Elizabeth Cudney of Montrose, acknowledging that she is sending a $48 post office order for interest on the land purchased in Willoughby, Jan. 12, 1895.\nLetter sent to Mr. S.D. Woodruff from Elizabeth Cudney of Montrose acknowledging that she is sending a $48 post office order for interest on the land in Willoughby, Dec. 21, 1897.\nLetter (marked confidential) to Isabel from J.D. Tait\nTait, J.D. (1899-06-06)\nLetter (marked confidential) to Isabel from J.D. Tait in which he talks of vindictive slander which he feels is false. He refers to a statue which he believes absolutely belongs to him. He says that he will see Isabel ...\nLetter to Isabel [Woodruff] from J.D. Tait\nLetter to Isabel [Woodruff] from J.D. Tait which lists a number of items that \"mama\" asked for. He says that he will come over at lunch and give her a receipt for the things that \"she is desirous of having\". The letter ...\nLetter - Elizabeth Cudney to Mr. Woodruff\nLetter to Mr. Woodruff from Elizabeth Cudney in which she accepts Mr. Woodruff's offer. She will give $1,100 and turn her land as payment for three hundred dollars and give a mortgage for $800, Feb. 3, 1893.\nLetter to Isabel from J. D. Tait\nLetter to Isabel from J. D. Tait in which he says he feels better after \"looking out all the books, folios and engravings etc. that mama wants, Nov. 12, 1896.\nLetter to Isabel from Phil [Phil Ingram Price]\nPrice Ingram, Phil (1900-03-28)\nLetter to Isabel from Phil [Phil Ingram Price] in which he expresses a desire to divide the estate with as little delay as possible. He has divided the books into 4 lots, but he asks if Isabel has some of the books as ...\nLetter to Isabel from someone whose last name is Price [the first name is illegible]\nLetter to Isabel from someone whose last name is Price [the first name is illegible] in which the writer says that the row with Phil regarding the bonds is settled (1 \u00bd pages). This person does not anticipate any more ...\nLetter - S.D. Woodruff to Elizabeth Cudney\nWoodruff, S.D. (1893-02-01)\nLetter to Elizabeth Cudney from S.D. Woodruff stating that he could execute the papers on the 6th or 7th of February regarding 18 acres of her land [most of the writing is illegible], Feb. 1, 1893.\nLetter to Mrs. Band from Jean Lambe\nLambe, Jean (1958)\nLetter and envelope to Mrs. Band of Toronto regarding Trooper's pedigree. The letter is signed by Jean Lambe, Jan. 9, 1958.\nAuthorWetherald, Ethelwyn (72)Deverardo, Dexter (26)Holmes, Fred (17)Woodruff, S.D. (17)May, Andrew (14)Macdonald, Sir John A. (12)Jarvis, Conklin and Co. (11)Kennedy, John F. (11)Mackenzie, John I. (9)Ahern, Henry E. (8)... View MoreSubject\nAccounts (57)Marsh Lands (57)Long Point Company (51)DeVeaux Hall (29)Land (20)Long Point (17)Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815-1891. (17)Postal service -- Canada -- History (16)St. Catharines, Ontario (12)... View MoreDate Issued2000 - 2011 (3)1900 - 1999 (119)1800 - 1899 (531)1796 - 1799 (1)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wild by Hannah Moskowitz\n< return to young adult\nAUTHOR: Hannah Moskowitz\nThanks to an anonymous friend of the library for donating a copy of Wild to the Bi Pan Library collection.\nby Hannah Moskowitz\nZack Ramos is training for two things: being a parent to his twelve-year-old sister once his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's (the same kind he and his sister each have a 50% chance of developing\u2013but let's not think about that) progresses too far, and running a one hundred mile race through the mountains of Tennessee. His support system is longtime girlfriend Jordan Jonas, who's sweet, sarcastic, and entirely virtual. They've been talking for years but still have never met in person. Because Jordan, it turns out, was still waiting for the right time to tell him that she's Deaf.\nThe revelation brings them closer together, and Zack throws himself into learning sign language and trying to navigate their way through their different cultures. But with the stress of a tumultuous relationship, a new language, a sick mother, and his uncertain future, there's going to be a breaking point\u2026and it might be out there in the Tennessee wild.\nFrom the author of critically-acclaimed books like TEETH, BREAK, and A HISTORY OF GLITTER AND BLOOD comes a story about what happens when love takes you off the beaten track\u2026way, way off.\nTwo main characters (Zack and Jordan) identify as bisexual on-page.\n\"And then she told me what was going on with her, the real stuff. We bonded over the fact that we were both bisexual and at that point hadn't told anyone else yet. She was having a hard time in school, people bullying her, her parents just telling her to toughen up. Her brother was at a different school and couldn't watch out for her. Next year she ended up switching schools, and that's where she met Shauna and her first girlfriend and the rest of the friends she has now.\n\u200bShe asked if we could exchange numbers. I told her she could call me any time, and we know how that worked out.\n\u200bNow I wonder why she even told me her number.\n\u200bMaybe she just wanted to know that I would take it.\"\n\u2013 from Wild by Hannah Moskowitz\n\"\u200bLouise shrugs at me and we go off east while the others head northwest. \"So do you think it's because you're young or because you're Asian?\" she says.\n\u200b\"Uh, do I think what is?\"\n\u200b\"Well, I know why they're ditching me,\" she says.\n\u200bI should tell her I'm bisexual and really blow her mind. \"I don't know why they're ditching you,\" I say. \"You seem pretty damn tough to me.\"\n\u200bShe pats my shoulder. \"Yeah, you're a good kid. You're dumb, but you're a good kid.\"\nContact a librarian for assistance","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeGet To Know The EditorBlog Focus\nPublished By: Anita S. Western\nLaw & Technology\nKeeping Pace with the Ever-Changing Legal System\nHome \u00bb Catch 'Pokemon Go' Privacy Policies\nCatch 'Pokemon Go' Privacy Policies\nBy Anita Western on October 11, 2016\nI wanted to kick my blog off with a fun post about an application that has been downloaded 500 million+ times to date and is taking over cell phones worldwide. Enjoy!\nPok\u00e9mon Go has become the biggest mobile game in United States history attracting over 21 million active daily users and over $268 million in revenues since its launch on July 6th, 2016. Yet the handheld game has also brought forward concerns about how exposed our personal information can be in the hands of seemingly nonthreatening applications. To play Pok\u00e9mon Go, gamers use their smartphone's GPS to find, capture, fight and train virtual creatures superimposed on the real world shown by their camera. Players can purchase items to advance the game, including coins, eggs and incubators.\nThe game originally requested permission on the players smartphone not only to use a player's device camera and location information, but also to be granted full access to the user's Google accounts \u2014 including email, calendars, photos, stored documents and any other information associated with the login. Though the developers claim that while Pok\u00e9mon Go did not use any information from players' accounts other than basic Google profile information, they still requested access, which raised red flags. The application's privacy policy has since been updated, so it is suggested that players with an iPhone should log out and download the update from the App Store, as the updated application only allows access to the user's name and Gmail email address. Players who installed the application on an Android device and logged in with their Google account only granted access to their Google username and email address from the start.\nThough Pok\u00e9mon Go may have never actually been interested in your emails, it is capable of tracking your location and has access to your IP address as well as the webpage you most recently visited before launching the application. The game imposes virtual graphics (Pok\u00e9mon) over the real world; therefore the application needs access to maps and locations. Yet this can be accomplished without requesting access to the player's personal information. Keeping this in mind, players who want to play the virtual real-world game can restrict access to their Google accounts by creating 'Pok\u00e9mon Trainer Club' accounts that are specific to the application and do not request excessive personal information.\nClicking \"yes\" to application requests that pop up during installation on a mobile device can compromise personal privacy. In their terms and conditions, some applications have clauses which state that they will hand over data to law enforcement officials or other private parties to respond to legal requests, yet few people realize that since they do not read the 'small print.' If you are unsure about the permissions on your mobile device that you have previously approved, they can be checked on iOS (Apple devices) by tapping Settings and scrolling down for a list of applications and what these applications have access to, these applications can then be altered and evaluated individually. On Android, tap Settings then Apps under Device Settings then choose the application and tap Permissions to evaluate each individually. It is very common for users to have applications downloaded onto their device that put them at a similar risk of exposing personal information as the original Pok\u00e9mon Go application.\nI am a third-year student at Michigan State University College of Law with a passion towards the issues that arrive at the intersection of law and technology. Adventure, traveling, learning, cooking, laughter, & sarcasm are a few of my favorite things. Slightly egotistic, #AI autodidact.\nLearn about me more here:\nTopics Select Category LegalRnD Uncategorized\nArchives Select Month April 2018 February 2018 December 2017 October 2017 July 2017 May 2017 March 2017 February 2017 October 2016\nHow To Choose The Right Law School For You\n5 Things You Should Know About Law School\nMeet My (Glorified Alarm Clock) BFF, Alexa\nLegalRnD Welcomes GM's Craig Glidden to MSU Law\nThe Military AI Arms Race: Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence\nPublished By: Anita S. Western, Student at Michigan State University - College of Law\nDiscussions of the issues that arrive at the intersection of law and technology with a focus on artificial intelligence.\nConnect with me on Twitter and LinkedIn!\nCopyright \u00a9 2020, Anita S. Western. All Rights Reserved.\nLaw School Blog Network By LexBlog","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posted on Nov 19, 2017 In Facebook, Mobile, Social Media, Technology\nFacebook launches Messenger Kids app \u2013 but parents vet chat contacts\nFacebook is launching a new version of its chat app targeting children under 13 with strict parental controls including contract approvals.\nThe free app, called Messenger Kids, hopes to attract parents looking for a safe online chat service, with a greater level of parental control, child-friendly features, screened content and safety filters to prevent children sharing inappropriate content.\nMessenger Kids is a standalone app installed on the child's tablet or smartphone but controlled from a parent's Facebook account. The child does not have a Facebook account, which is prohibited for those under 13; instead, the app operates as an extension of the parent's account. Only parents have the ability to add friends or delete messages.\nThere are no adverts or in-app purchases and the social network said the child's information will not be used for advertising purposes. Facebook also said it will not automatically move users to the regular Messenger or Facebook when they get old enough, though the company may provide them the option to move contacts to Messenger down the line.\nLoren Cheng, a product management director at Facebook, said: \"Whether it's using video chat to talk to grandparents, staying in touch with cousins who live far away, or sending mom a decorated photo while she's working late to say hi, Messenger Kids opens up a new world of online communication to families.\"\nChildren can start one-on-one or group video or text chats with approved contacts, sending videos, photos, gifs and other creative elements from a library of screened drawing tools, frames, gifs, masks, and stickers.\nFacebook also said that it will block children from sharing nudity, sexual or violent content, and have a dedicated moderation team to respond to flagged content.\nMessages sent to adults or those over 13 appear in their normal Facebook Messenger app. Parents control contacts and other options through their Facebook app on their smartphone.\nThe app, which is rolling out as a preview to iOS with Android coming later, is only available in the US for the time being. Facebook said it was fully compliant with the US Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act, and that it had worked with online safety experts including the National PTA and Blue Star Families.\nKristelle Lavallee, a children's psychology expert and content strategist at the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University, worked with Facebook to develop the app. She said: \"The risk of exposure to things [children] were not developmentally prepared for is huge.\"\nFacebook Messenger Kids \"makes parents the gatekeepers\" and was designed \"with the best of intentions\", Lavallee said.\nHow \u2013 and if \u2013 the app ends up getting used remains to be seen. Despite US federal law prohibiting companies from collecting personal information on those under 13 years old without parental consent, millions are already on Facebook, with or without their parents' permission, says Stephen Balkam, chief executive of the nonprofit Family Online Safety Institute.\nHe said Facebook is trying to deal with the situation pragmatically by steering young Facebook users to a service designed for them.\nMessenger Kids offers an opportunity to introduce children to the wider Facebook ecosystem, fending off advances from rivals targeting children and teenagers, while locking parents and family into the social network to communicate with their children.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2020 in Review \u2013 Activism Matters: City of Syracuse, Syracuse Police Department, and the Commitment to Transparency in Response to Summer Protests\nQuality of Life: It Begins at City Hall 'Stop Blue Bin Tossing'\nThanksgiving 2020: Don't Bring the \"Crazy\" with the Cranberries\nBamboozled: Rushing to Confirm an Appointee and it is Not the Supreme Court\nUrban CNY Publisher Ken Jackson Joins Dan Cummings on NewsChannel 9's Newsmakers\nGovernor Cuomo Announces Proposal to Expand Home Ownership in Historically Redlined Communities to Bridge the Racial Wealth Gap as Part of the 2021 State of the State\nGovernor Cuomo Announces Proposal to Prohibit Utility Disconnections During Emergencies as Part of 2021 State of The State\nConsumer Alert: The Division of Consumer Protection Urges New Yorkers to be Aware of COVID-19 Scams Tied to Federal Economic Impact Payments\nAttorney General James Sues to Stop Trump Administration from Allowing Predatory Lenders to Take Advantage Of New York's Most Vulnerable Communities\nGovernor Cuomo Signs the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020\nGovernor Cuomo Delivers Remarks at National Action Network King Day Policy Forum 2021\nMeetings Scheduled in The Common Council Chambers January 18th up to and Including January 22nd\nMore than a Day Off: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2021 Civil Rights today is Living History\nCrews Quickly Extinguish Fire in Vacant Structure on Syracuse's North Side\nA Tribute and Recognition of \"Greatness\" of Floyd Little, NFL Hall of Famer\nReflections: Howard University Classmates Join the Masses as we mourn the loss of Jessye Norman, Grammy-Winning Opera Singer\nThe 2019 Annual Joan Hillsman's Music Network, Inc. Scholarship\\ Fundraiser\nJune is National Black Music Month: Music Plays and Important Role in the Lives of Individuals!\nTrombone Ensemble to Perform at Dewitt Community Church April 14\nNurse Sings 'Amazing Grace' In Powerful Biden-Harris COVID-19 Memorial\nColin Kaepernick Fans Criticize NFL For Tweets Praising MLK\nSee the full calendar.\nCity of Syracuse, Syracuse Housing Authority and the Allyn Foundation Attempt to Calm Fears about Blueprint 15\nKen Jackson\nEditor and Publisher at Urban CNY\nMedia - Writing (weekly column) Print and Web publications, Community Activism, Minority Media, Government Administration\nLatest posts by Ken Jackson (see all)\nMore than a Day Off: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2021 Civil Rights today is Living History - January 18, 2021\nJohn Katko (NY-24) Will Vote to Impeach \"To allow the President of the United States to incite this attack without consequence is a direct threat to the future of our democracy\" - January 12, 2021\nMayor Walsh Appoints Erica Clarke to Fill Vacancy on Syracuse City Court Bench - December 30, 2020\nPosted on February 26, 2019 in City Scuffle, Cover Stories, Neighborhoods, News by Ken Jackson\nStunned would be an understatement, if you spoke with some residents and affordable housing advocates when it was learned the city of Syracuse would embrace the development project called Blueprint 15. Properties owned by Syracuse Housing Authority would be transformed into a new community, gone would be the 1938 built housing. The series of Public Housing properties, replaced by a grid of housing that according to its name and announced purpose, is an attempt at trying to recreate what was once the 15th Ward of Syracuse. Therefore, the projects name Blueprint 15.\nBlueprint 15 is a project based on a community building concept that's been implemented in a number of cities, the degree of success is debatable, depending on whom you speak with and what are acceptable measures of success. Everyone can agree that having concentrated poverty serves no one.\nCity Hall, Syracuse NY\nSyracuse embarks on the largest overhaul since Urban Renewal and Interstate 81 forever changed the lives of those living in socially-connected, contiguous neighborhoods. These neighborhoods were primarily inhabited by African Americans.\nIn a meeting at Syracuse City Hall on Wednesday February 21st, urbancny.com spoke with a number of officials directly involved with Blueprint 15, participants included; Greg Loh, Director of Initiatives; Sharon Owens, Deputy Mayor; William Simmons Director Syracuse Housing Authority and Margaret (Meg) O'Connell of the Allyn Family Foundation.\nAll made assurances that nothing is going to happen until they hire an Executive Director for Blueprint 15. The Allyn Family Foundation emphasized their participation as that of a facilitator in this process, and that every aspect is going to be community driven. The real work is ready to begin, for those interested see the job description link click on Executive Director for Blueprint 15 \u2013 Job Description.\nDeputy Mayor Owens Sets the Tone \"What we see is an opportunity\"\nSyracuse Deputy Mayor, Sharon Owens sought to reassure people who were taken aback by the Allyn Family Foundation based information as presented on Syracuse.com, \"I want the Syracuse community to understand that there are no plans, what we see is an opportunity to create a revitalized community, we know what the construction of 81 did to the 15th Ward, hence the name reestablishing what everybody remembers as a strong, mixed-use community with people from every race, ethnicity and religion, even socio-economic class. And all of the people talking about the 15th Ward talk about it in a warm way; all we are doing is considering the possibilities.\"\nSharon Owens, Deputy Mayor City of Syracuse\nIt has become common knowledge across the country that HUD is no longer funding the type of housing projects we currently have. The 1938 project is 81 years old and without funds for basic maintenance and repair they (SHA)have to come up with creative solutions to what's become a problem nationwide, how to fund public housing. How to maintain public housing when there are no funds allocated for their continued use.\nDeputy Mayor Owens states \"Look at the possibilities for re-development. I'm not asking anyone to trust me; I've been in this community working in neighborhoods for thirty years, everything I do is about the individuals in this community. Looking at the possibilities with the individuals who live in the footprint of that highway, and the footprint from Almond all the over to Salina, is mind first and foremost. The conversations about 81 for me have not been about powers, they've been about the people who lay their heads down in the shadow of that viaduct.\"\nThe conversation about Public Housing began with a presentation at Syracuse University, about how new communities where created, all of them were housing authorities. That is the national model partnering with housing authorities because they have control over the land.\nOwens continues, \"That presentation sparked a conversation, it's not just about housing, it was about commercial development, about amenities in communities, and the biggest part for them is school, cradle-to-grave education. But particularly early education and elementary education, the one in Atlanta had a state-of-the-art high school in it and an elementary school pipeline going through it. So, part of this conversation has been in concert with the school district, even before receivership, King School is in the footprint of what is going on there. And is going to be impacted by whatever the final decision is with 81.\nSo, that presentation of the comprehensive nature of the model really sparked my interest, but you never know, Power Point is fine but when the opportunity came to say, yeah I'd like to see what this looks like, I'd like to be able to say, I touched it, I felt it, I talked to people, I got the gist of what you're talking about. That's when I had an opportunity to go down to Atlanta and visit the administrators at the high school, and talk to the students that were there, talk to some of the residents who were at Purpose Build\u2026I just think a new kind of affordable housing for people is deserving of people. We have to figure this out because the model of support from HUD is changing, for what has been the traditional housing project.\"\nSyracuse Housing Authority has been planning this transformation for Years\nSHA Executive Director, Bill Simmons\nFor Syracuse Housing Authority the concept of leveraging their high value real estate has been a part of their future plans as outlined in an urbancny.com interview with Syracuse Housing Authority Director, William Simmons. Major changes are coming to Syracuse Housing Authority regardless of what happens with Interstate 81\nAt that time the director indicated problems they were having with traditional public housing resources since HUD has reduced support for the nation's public housing stock. Nationwide, Housing Authorities have scrambled to come up with solutions to an ever growing problem.\nThe Allyn Foundation facilitated Simmons and members of SHA's board member visits to Atlanta for an opportunity to see East Lake, a location where, according to supporters, this concept has been successfully deployed.\nThere were informational events that discussed Purpose Built and the role this innovative concept can play in the redevelopment of SHA properties, according to Simmons, \"From there the board said, 'yeah, let's combine this effort, that's going to take what we want to do here, in terms of mixed income and new housing and make it a holistic kind of development, whereby it creates pathways out of poverty for people because of the education and wellness component.'\"\n\"The approach was to get a master developer on board that could start to plan this stuff out, have the community engagement with the stake holders, employees and residents. And really start laying out a real plan for the neighborhood, and having master developer on board that has done these kinds of things in other communities, some of them have done it for Purpose Built in other communities. But they've done them all over the country, in terms of having mixed income housing and working with public housing developments. Because it's a very, very complicated process, especially when you have a fully leased development, how you handle residents. Public Housing, it's very different than the way people are treated when they're living in housing and market forces come and remove them.\"\nSyracuse Housing Authority Director Simmons outlined what the Syracuse Housing Authority are tasked with prior to making any major changes to Public Housing, Simmons states, \"This is Public Housing, HUD's not going to let you walk all over folks, those days are long gone. You gotta have a temporary relocation plan, no matter how temporary it may be, that it's satisfactory to Fair Housing, Civil Rights groups. It's a long process ahead of us, and approval from HUD before they finance any demolition of public housing.\"\nThe ink is still dry on this proposal, members of the Syracuse Common Council and others have gone on Allyn Foundation funded informational junkets to learn more about this project.\nMore Questions than Answers\nThere are more questions than answers regarding Blueprint 15, for example; are there any cities the size of Syracuse, with similar demographics that have embraced this public housing transformation? Are there cities experiencing extreme poverty at the level of Syracuse's part of the comparison? And, is it appropriate to compare a program that is successful in communities that have populations of a few million to Syracuse's 144,000 residents? Will employment status and\/or criminal record prevent inclusion in the new community?\nCautious Concern Expressed\nThe list of Blueprint 15 Board of Directors has been released, they've yet to meet. When approached about this project some were oblivious to any specifics. One board member expressed concern and disclosed on the condition of anonymity that, \" the project in other parts of the nation has transformed communities, but where I've been, they've also pushed people out, armed with vouchers these public housing residents disappear as they're replaced by new, higher income people who can afford market rate housing.\"\nIn an effort to let people determine for themselves, see the links below for information on Purpose Built initiatives across the country.\nPurpose Built website under its Network tab: Purpose Built\nSyracuse Community members have made the trip to Atlanta Eastlake site: Atlanta Eastlake \u2013 Purpose Built Community\nMembers of the SHA board visited the New Orleans site: New Orleans \u2013 Purpose Built Community\nDeputy Mayor, Sharon Owens visited (non-funded) while in Florida the Orlando site: Orlando \u2013 Purpose Built Community\nAll of these visits were made in order to experience the location and talk to the people there.\n\u2190 Employment Opportunity: Blueprint 15, Inc. Chief Executive Officer and President\n\u00a9 2021 Urban CNY 2021\nThe Hall Monitor\nUrban CNY Money\nCity Scuffle\nSpiritual Music Scene\nUrban CNY Excellence","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Oklahoma and Alabama Would Be Nothing Without Texas\nOct 11, 2019 \u2014 By Jason Cohen\nSure, they've had the better football teams in recent years. But we're still the better state.\nCasinos in Oklahoma Are Competing With North Texas For A-List Entertainment\nAug 1, 2016 \u2014 By H. Drew Blackburn\nCompetition crosses state lines.\nInterview: Joe Davidson of Oklahoma Joe's Bar-B-Cue\nMay 28, 2014 \u2014 By Daniel Vaughn\nOwner\/Pitmaster: Oklahoma Joe's Bar-B-Cue; Opened 2011 Age: 52 Smoker: Gas-Fired Rotisserie Smoker Wood: Pecan Joe Davidson has been involved in all aspects of the barbecue world. He became a successful entrepreneur when his smoker company got off the ground in the\u2026\nEatin' on Tulsa Time\nLast week I went searching for good barbecue in Oklahoma. I wasn't looking just for barbecue joints in the state, but was instead trying to find a defining factor of how barbecue in Oklahoma is unique to that state. With my wife's family still living in Oklahoma City, I'd canvassed the\u2026\nBreaking: Johnny Football is a College Student\nJan 31, 2013 \u2014 By Texas Monthly and Jason Cohen\nA&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.\nOur Question For UT Fans: Aggies or Sooners?\nFriday's Cotton Bowl gives Longhorns fans a chance to decide which team they hate more: the University of Oklahoma, or Texas A&M.\nHot Enough For Ya? It's Worse in Oklahoma\nLast summer's average temperatures in Texas set a record for the hottest summer ever, but new data finds Oklahoma was more scorched.\nJan 8, 2013 \u2014 By Texas Monthly and Jason Cohen\nAnd now, for some football\nDec 6, 2008 \u2014 By Paul Burka\nI just heard a scenario for the BCS that would have Oklahoma and Texas in the BCS title game. The argument is that Florida, which trails Texas by .0372 in the BCS standings, does better than Texas in the polls but worse in the computer rankings. The question is, will\u2026\nThe Eyes of Texas Are Upon Him\nAug 31, 2005 \u2014 By Michael Hall\nAnd why wouldn't they be? As the head coach of the UT football team, Mack Brown is responsible for the way millions of Texans feel every day.\nDuke of Dunbar\nJan 1, 2004 \u2014 By Michael Hall\nThat would be 75-year-old Robert Hughes, who has amassed more victories while coaching in Fort Worth than anyone in high school basketball history. For most people, that would be enough.\nJan 1, 1997 \u2014 By Kathryn Jones\nWhere is the Texas-Oklahoma border? The answer has people on both sides of the river seeing Red.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Reviews Film Review\nThe Resident (2011)\nin Film Review\nHilary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan head up the small cast in this thriller that mixes in a bit of Sliver with Pacific Heights without the \"so dumb it's a bit fun\" factor of the former or the genuine quality of the latter.\nSwank is a young nurse, Juliet, who is looking for a fresh start after finding out that her boyfriend cheated on her. She finds an apartment that she likes and also gets on with her new landlord (Max, played by Morgan). In fact, she gets on with him a little too well, which could make things a little bit awkward between landlord and tenant. Things start to get complicated as Juliet realises that she may not want to get involved with her landlord . . . . . . . . . and also gets the feeling that she's being watched in her own home.\nScream (2022) \u2013 Film Review\nA standard psycho thriller movie with occasionally enjoyable stylistic flourishes (including a moment that rewinds events to show things from the perspective of another character), The Resident would have been greatly improved by two things. Firstly, keeping things ambiguous for longer would have helped. When the real danger is shown the movie loses its edge and viewers can do nothing but sit back and wait for the inevitable final confrontation. Secondly, avoiding all of the thriller clich\u00e9s that fill up the second half of the film would have really helped.\nThe acting is fine. Hilary Swank isn't on top form but she's saddled with the role of potential victim, Jeffrey Dean Morgan fares better and Christopher Lee has a nice little extended cameo. There are other people onscreen but nobody else makes much of an impression.\nFinnish director Antti Jokinen (who co-wrote the movie with Robert Orr) does well with the first half of the film and then ruins everything with that decidedly thrill-free second half that leads to a finale full of moments that will make you want to shout at the screen.\nIt will pass 90 minutes for an undiscerning viewer (as I was when I watched it) but it's nothing above average and remains inferior to many polished thrillers released over the last 20-30 years.\nDIRECTOR: ANTTI JOKINEN\nSTARS: HILARY SWANK, JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN, CHRISTOPHER LEE\nRUNTIME: 91 MINS APPROX\nCOUNTRY: UK\/USA\nFilm Rating:\nTags: Christopher Leehammerhilary swankJeffrey Dean MorganThe Residentthriller\nKevin Matthews\nKevin Matthews lives in Edinburgh and has done for some time. He loves it there and he loves movies, especially horrors. No film is too awful to pass through his cinematic haze.\nby Dallas King\nby Katie Smith-Wong\nMemoria (2021) \u2013 Film Review\nby Johannes Black\nThe 355 (2022) \u2013 Film Review\nIngrid Bergman: In Her Own Words\nLFF 2020 \u2013 Another Round (2020) Review","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Meet the Staff...\nDoc & Amber Hendley - Owners\nDoc and Amber Hendley are co-owners of Boone Docks Studios.\nIn 2014, they opened the gym. It was opened in the warehouse that his wife, Amber was using for her dance studio, High Country Dance Studio. He opened it with his children and the community of Boone at the backbone. He wanted a fun place for his sons to learn and interact with other kids their age. It also is a way for Doc to give back to the community and provide a safe haven for kids to exercise and put their energy to good use. Doc is also President and Founder of the organization Wine To Water and is also a professional public speaker and Harley enthusiast. Amber is also director\/instructor of High Country Dance Studios.\nJason & Becky Zaragoza - General Managers\nJason and Becky Zaragoza are co-managing Boone Docks MMA.\nJason has been training in Judo and Mixed Martial Arts since 2010 and Jiu Jitsu since 2014. He is one of the founding members of Boone Docks MMA, which originated in 2010 in a small studio with several mats on the floor. It has since evolved into a full scale MMA gym.\nJason is currently a blue belt in Jiu Jitsu under black belt instructor Jeff Cope. He has a passion for bringing Mixed Martial Arts into the High Country for those at any level to train. He has assisted in establishing a gym where members can train at any level, from those who want to learn self defense to those who want to compete in competition. Jason, as well as his family, trains at the studio, where his 11 year old son, Dillon, has excelled in Jiu Jitsu, winning multiple tournaments, and has been awarded his Yellow Belt by our Black Belt Jiu Jitsu instructor Jeff Cope, under the direction of the kids Jiu Jitsu coach Spencer Reeves.\nIn addition to being the General Manager, Jason works at the Watauga County Sheriff's Office as the Sgt of the Special Operations Division. Prior to working in Law Enforcement, Jason was enlisted in the Army assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, 1\/504 Parachute Infantry Regiment as an Infantry Team Leader, holding the rank of Sgt. Jason has conducted 2 combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.\nSpencer Reeves - Manager\/Instructor\nSpencer Reeves is a manager and Jiu Jitsu Purple Belt Instructor at Boone Docks MMA. Spencer began Jiu Jitsu in 2012, training with a blue belt friend and eventually moved up to an MMA school in Tennessee where he was able to train on weekends and occasionally during the week. After training with the App State Jiu Jitsu club and meeting a bluebelt from a school near Boone, Spencer began to train under Professor Jeff Cope from Ground Control BJJ in Winston-Salem, NC. It was under Professor Cope that he was awarded his blue belt, and given the honor of running Jeff's affiliate school, Boone Docks MMA. Spencer has coached multiple competitors to gold medals, notably, at Grapplemania 2015 where the team swept 3 divisions in nogi. Spencer has been the head BJJ coach at Boone Docks MMA for a year and has, at a minimum, podiumed at every tournament he has competed in. Spencer's goals for the program are to instill the passion for Jiu Jitsu that he has into every student and to maintain a playful and safe learning environment. Whether a student's goals are to learn self-defense, compete, or fight MMA, our Jiu Jitsu program has something for everyone!\nProfessor Jeff Cope - Black Belt Affiliate Instructor, Owner and operator of Ground Control BJJ Winston Salem, NC\nJeff Cope graciously travels to the mountains for siminars at Boone Docks MMA every other Thursday. His lineage- Jigoro Kano > Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Rilion Gracie > Marcelo Araujo > Jeff Cope. Cope has been training almost 11 years. He has been with Marcelo Araujo for 7 years going on 8. Triangles & foot locks are his best moves. & he loves BJJ!\nChristian Gray - Muay Thai Instructor\nMuay Thai coach Christian Gray has been involved in the martial art for the last 8 years, and has been teaching for the last 4. Christian has a traditional style of Muay Thai due to his coach Matt Coleman and himself being trained by several Thai's over the years including Joe Hongthongnoi who owns Hongthong Muay Thai, Sittisak who holds wins over Americans Kevin Ross and Chris Mauceri, and Master Cha who owns Thai Top Team USA. Christians style focuses a lot on kicks, knees, and trips.\nJim Heaton - Black Belt\nJudo Instructor\n231 Deerfield Road\nHigh Country Dance\nCostume Order Forms\nMMA-About Us\nMMA-Gallery\nMMA-Registration\nMMA-Classes\nMMA-Schedule\nMMA - Tournament","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Industry Issues Asia\nPreparing for the Global Economy\nLauren Marley\nThe donation made through GeoScienceWorld has helped educate Indonesia's emerging workforce by increasing the breadth of the university's library holdings and making peer-reviewed research more accessible and easier to use for Trisakti's 30,000 students.\nThis article appeared in Vol. 9, No. 5 - 2013\nGeoscience students at Trisakti University now have access to a wide range of geoscience publications through GeoScienceWorld. When she was President of AAPG in 2000\u20132001, Robbie Gries, on a speaking tour in Indonesia, met with eager AAPG student chapter members from Trisakti University and six other Indonesian universities who had travelled far to hear her lecture and also to help with the AAPG International conference in Bali. Gries states, \"I had been to universities in Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America whose libraries were the size of a WC and publications had to be locked away from students and professors alike, as they were so precious.\" Recognising that these students shared a worldwide demand for access to high-quality geoscience research, Gries, partnered with Dr. Sharon Mosher, then President of the Geological Society of America (and currently the Dean of the Jackson School of Geoscience at the University of Texas in Austin), decided to try to develop a means for serving this need. Soon GeoScienceWorld was born \u2013 a non-profit digital archive of peer-reviewed geoscience journals interoperable with GeoRef. Once the organisation was established, Gries, who is President of Denver-based Priority Oil and Gas LLC, sponsored a subscription for Trisakti University, which has continued. The donation made through GeoScienceWorld has helped educate Indonesia's emerging workforce by increasing the breadth of the university's library holdings and making peer-reviewed research more accessible and easier to use for Trisakti's 30,000 students.\n\"GeoScienceWorld has been very useful for students and lecturers,\" according to Muhammad Burhannudin, a lecturer at the University of Engineering Geology FTKE Trisakti. With no way for many universities throughout the world to have the ability to provide and continually fund a comprehensive geoscience library, \"Trisakti University's access to the digital library through GeoScienceWorld has been a godsend the past three years,\" says Gries. \"However, there are at least six other universities in Indonesia alone that still await funding for their own subscriptions.\"\nAs the Secretary for GeoScienceWorld's Board of Directors, Gries continues to help shape and expand the mission and vision of the non-profit to be a comprehensive, widely-accessible, easy to use, integrated, and cost-effective online resource for research materials in the geological and earth sciences. While GeoScienceWorld now has a presence in more than 430 libraries in 41 countries across the globe, there are hundreds of academic institutions in developing nations hungry for access to this type of information for research and basic geoscience studies. Corporate sponsors like Gries are one way these schools can prepare the next generation of geoscientists to compete in a global economy. Says Gries, \"I am inspired by every story available about people making it out of poverty and developing a successful career, and if this helps just one student achieve that, it has been all worthwhile.\"\nStudents at Trisakti and institutions worldwide are pleased with the recent mobile optimisation of GeoScienceWorld's 41 journals. With such a high percentage of mobile usage in developing countries like Indonesia, this is another way for students and researchers to gather necessary data from all points on the globe more easily.\nFor more information about GeoScienceWorld sponsorships and institutional partnering options, please contact [email protected].\nIndustry Issues Worldwide\nIran. The Implications of Peace\nAn agreement on Iran's nuclear industry should be signed by the end of June. What are the implications for the oil price, OPEC and the industry?\nIndustry Issues North America\nResponsible Resource Development\nGary M. Hanson\nGas development of the Haynesville Shale Play prompted a local state university, Louisiana's officials, and natural gas operators to take a transdisciplinary approach to solve the area's water use problems, which could be used as a model for the industry.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Make the Cthulhu Mythos Ebook Bundle Slipcase a Physical Reality by May 30th 2017\nMake the Cthulhu Mythos Ebook Bundle Slipcase a Physical Reality by May 30th!\nSince we launched our Cthulhu Mythos Ebook Bundle we have had dozens of e-mails from interested customers asking about the slipcase pictured in the image. We had to inform them each time that the slipcase was only virtual! But now there's a chance to change that...\nIf the Cthulhu Mythos Books Kickstarter campaign from Dark Regions Press unlocks Stretch Goal 2 by its deadline of Tuesday, May 30th 2017 11:59PM PST the Cthulhu Mythos Ebook Bundle slipcase will become a physical reality!\nJoin the Kickstarter to Unlock the Slipcase by May 30th: https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/chrismorey\/cthulhu-mythos-books-from-dark-regions-press\nLOCKED (ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL 05\/30\/2017 11:59PM PST) - STRETCH GOAL #2: The currently virtual-only slipcase pictured in this image for the Cthulhu Mythos Ebook Bundle becomes a physical reality designed to house all six new titles debuting in this campaign as a box set in paperback format and another version designed to house the three deluxe editions included in the deluxe bundle reward level. To be offered as an optional paid preorder add-on during the post-campaign BackerKit survey.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"End Times ? Large Meteorites Fall from space injuring 900 people in Russia !\nPosted by 9jabook.com on February 15, 2013 at 3:37pm in Na Wa O !\nA few Days Ago Lightning struck the pope's Church just hours after his resignation and now this.... Rocks as Big as a BUS falling from Space ? Are these signs of and Acts of God trying to tell us something ?\nBy Katie Stallard, Moscow Correspondent\nMore than 900 people have been injured after a meteor strike in central Russia, the country's interior ministry said.\nFragments of at least one meteorite - the weight of a double-decker bus - were seen falling from the sky in the Chelyabinsk region at around 9am local time, around 1,500km east of Moscow.\nA regional governor said 950 people have been injured. Russia's Ministry of Emergencies said at least 82 children were hurt and 34 adults and 12 children were being treated in hospital. Two people are in intensive care.\nThe meteor lit up the sky\nMany were hurt by flying glass as windows were blown in. Witnesses described feeling a pressure wave and hearing explosions overhead as the object hurtled to earth.\nThe Russian Academy of Sciences estimates the meteor weighed about 10 tonnes and entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of at least 33,000mph - 15 times the speed of a rifle bullet - and shattered up to 32 miles above ground.\nMeteors typically cause sizeable sonic booms when they enter the atmosphere because they are travelling much faster than the speed of sound.\nThe meteorite weighed 10 tonnes\nThe defence ministry said it had identified a six metre crater near a lake in this region and has sent soldiers to the site of the impact.\nThe emergencies ministry said that 20,000 rescue workers had been dispatched to help the injured and locate those needing help.\nResident Anna Pinkus told Sky News she saw a bright light outside her window and then heard three explosions.\nMore than 500 people have been injured\n\"It was a very loud sound. After that our windows began to shatter and shiver so it was very terrifying. First we thought it was a plane crash.\"\nPlanetary scientist Professor Ian Crawford of Birbeck University said this was an unusual case as meteorite hits rarely cause any damage.\nViktor was injured by a shock wave\n\"Several times a year meteorites are observed to fall on the earth's surface but damage to people or property is very unusual \u2013 there are only several recorded cases of buildings being hit by meteorites.\"\nDescribing the course of the meteorite he said, \"I think it's very likely that it would have been a larger lump of rock that broke up in the earth's atmosphere \u2013 this is usually what happens.\n\"The rock comes in from space and hits the earth's atmosphere. That decelerates it and puts a lot of stress on it. Then it's likely to fragment into lots of pieces.\"\nThe local office of the National Emergencies Ministry said in a statement: \"A meteorite disintegrated above the Urals (mountain range in central Russia), partially burning up in the lower atmosphere.\n\"Fragments of the meteorite reached Earth, falling in sparsely populated areas in the Chelyabinsk region.\"\nMany drivers in Russia have video recorders fitted in their cars in case of accidents or disputes with traffic police. Footage from these uploaded to YouTube show the fireball crashing to the ground.\nThere were reports of traffic in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk grinding to a halt and people seeking shelter in buildings as the fireballs lit up the sky.\nThe emergencies ministry confirmed the mobile phone network was temporarily cut.\nThe meteor hit Chelyabinsk\nSchools have been closed for the day across the region after the impact blew out windows.\nThe Chelyabinsk region is Russia's industrial heartland, home to many factories and other huge facilities that include a nuclear power plant and the Mayak atomic waste storage and treatment centre.\nA spokesman for Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy state corporation, said that its operations remained unaffected.\n\"All Rosatom enterprises located in the Urals region - including the Mayak complex - are working as normal,\" said a Rosatom spokesman.\nPermalink Reply by susanjerry on February 15, 2013 at 4:55pm\nThe coming of christ is near, thats all","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Men of Timor\nMen of Timor is a 1943 short documentary propaganda film about the guerrilla warfare activities of Sparrow Force on Timor Island during World War II.\nKen G. Hall (uncredited)\nNarrated by\nPeter Bathurst\nDamien Parer\nCinesound Productions\nThe film opens with a map of the Timor Sea area, showing Timor Island, then Japanese occupied Dutch Timor and Portuguese Timor (East Timor), in relation to the coast of the Northern Territory in northern Australia. It briefly explains the circumstances of the Australian troops left behind, who did not surrender but carried on a guerrilla war against the Japanese.\nAfter some very difficult forays behind enemy lines to capture equipment for radio, they manage to contact the Australian military in the city of Darwin across the Timor Sea. Wary of a possible Japanese trick, the military asked the Sparrow Force men what the first name of a wife of a particular sergeant was. When the correct answer, Joan, was returned, the Australian military starts to airlift supplies to the Allied guerrillas and their Timorese allies.\nDamien Parer, British journalist Dixon-Brown and ABC war correspondent Bill Marien travelled to Timor in November 1942 to report on the conflict. The Australian soldiers delayed an attack until Parer's arrival so he could film it.[1][2] Embarked from Darwin in HMAS Castlemaine, a corvette for Betano on 5 November 1942 and returned embarking at Belano in Timor for Darwin, Australia on 16 November 1942.\nThe Sydney Morning Herald called the movie \"memorable\":\nIt epitomises the almost unbelievable adventure, as well as the daring, initiative, and courage, of some of the men fighting in this war... Character and fighting spirit, resourcefulness and grim determination, often lurking behind a grin, have been captured In some superbly photographed close-ups of these now famed Australian guerillas, These studies are the highlights of a documentary picture that will definitely help to immortalise a military venture linked with the destiny of Australia.[3]\nList of Allied propaganda films of World War II\n\"Men of Timor\" at WW2 Australia\n\"PARER FILMS COMMANDO ACTIVITIES IN TIMOR\". Daily Mercury. Mackay, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 7 January 1943. p. 5. Retrieved 18 April 2015.\n\"Advertising\". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 4 January 1943. p. 2. Retrieved 18 April 2015.\nComplete film online on YouTube\nMen of Timor on IMDb\nAustralian War Memorial.gov: Men of Timor\n22 Australian War Memorial.gov: video of several minutes of Parer's original footage on Timor\nBritish Pathe.com: Men of Timor\nOz Movies.com: Men of Timor\nFilms directed and produced by Ken G. Hall\nThe Exploits of the Emden (1928)\nOn Our Selection (1932)\nThe Squatter's Daughter (1933)\nCinesound Varieties (1934)\nThe Silence of Dean Maitland (1934)\nStrike Me Lucky (1934)\nGrandad Rudd (1935)\nThoroughbred (1936)\nOrphan of the Wilderness (1936)\nIt Isn't Done (1937)\nTall Timbers (1937)\nLovers and Luggers (1937)\nThe Broken Melody (1938)\nLet George Do It (1938)\nDad and Dave Come to Town (1938)\nGone to the Dogs (1939)\nCome Up Smiling (1939) (producer only)\nMr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939)\nDad Rudd, M.P. (1940)\nSmithy (1946)\nThar She Blows! (1931)\nThat's Cricket (1931)\nGhosts of Port Arthur (1933)\nRoad to Victory (1941)\nAnzacs in Overalls (1941)\nAustralia Marches with Britain (1941)\n100,000 Cobbers (1942)\nAnother Threshold (1942)\nGive Us This Day (1943)\nSouth West Pacific (1943)\nFourth Liberty Loans: I Had A Son (1943)\nFirst Victory Loan: Return Journey (1944)\nSearchlight on Japan (1948)\nCan John Braund Cure Cancer? (1948)\nThrill of the Surf (1949)\nFighting Blood (1951)\nAustralian Bushland Symphony (1952)\nSouth Pacific Playground (1953)\nOverland Adventure (1954)\nMusic in Our Schools (1954)\nHaven on the Hill (1956)\nThe Kurnell Story (1957)\nNewsreels\nFrom Palestine to Bengazi with the Prime Minister (1941)\nKokoda Front Line! (1942)\nMoresby Under the Blitz (1942)\nAssault on Salamaua (1943)\nMen of Timor (1943)\nThe Bismarck Convoy Smashed (1943)\nR.A.A.F. Eagles Over New Guinea (1943)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Georgetown Journal of International Affairs\nAbout Us Current Issue\nSubmissions Current Staff Join us! Buy Print Contact Us\nDialogues Business & Economics Conflict & Security Society & Culture Global Governance Human Rights & Development Science & Technology\nAbout UsCurrent Issue Latest Articles Dialogues Business & Economics Conflict & Security Society & Culture Global Governance Human Rights & Development Science & Technology SubmissionsCurrent StaffJoin us!Buy PrintContact Us\nThe world is changing. So should your reading habits.\nGlobal GovernanceMohamed-Ali Adraoui May 09, 2019\nPart I: The United States and The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Understanding a Chaotic History\nThe following is the first of a two-part series.\nFor many years, the relationship between the United States and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) has been under fire, plagued by myth and delusion. The United States and the Muslim Brotherhood have faced conflicting accusations of colluding in order to maintain U.S. interests in the Middle East or, conversely, of fiercely sparring over the antagonistic values of liberal democracy versus theocracy. A careful and rigorous analysis of historical archives and interviews with some of the most important representatives of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East shed a more nuanced and factual light on the country's past and current relationship with the Brotherhood. The United States has never supported the Muslim Brotherhood's ideology; however, it has always tried to deal with it when international circumstances demanded, trying to find a way to make the Muslim Brothers more \"responsible\" and encouraging them to act according to U.S. national interest.\nIrreconcilable ideological differences have never impeded efforts to cooperate, since both parties have refrained from adopting hardline objectives and from underestimating power relationships. Even though the Muslim Brotherhood has, for decades, continuously fanned the flames of repulsion on doctrinal grounds, the United States has never shied away from establishing a partnership with it whenever the Brotherhood appeared to wield influence in Egyptian decision-making circles. In these specific circumstances, the Brotherhood was deemed a responsible partner that could rein in its radical nature. As long as the Brotherhood's agenda did not conflict with the dominant U.S. approach of the time, the United States was happy to collaborate. When their agendas clashed, though, the United States reverted to portraying the Brotherhood as dogmatic and uncompromising hard-liners. In fact, a continuous shift between a principled attitude and a politically-motivated approach has defined the relationship between the two parties over the last century.\nA Chaotic Relationship of Mutual Mistrust and Shared Interests\nDeclassified U.S. State Department archival documents prior to 1979 reveal a U.S. relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood defined by chaos and self-interest. The U.S. diplomats who served in Egypt appear to have long ignored the Brotherhood. Up until the mid-1940s, no reports, diplomatic correspondence, or other documents sent out by the U.S. embassy in Cairo made any mention of the Muslim Brotherhood. \"The fanatical Moslem Society: Ikhwan El-Moslimin\" was first referenced in a diplomatic note U.S. diplomats based in Cairo sent on April 29, 1944.\nIn fact, a few days prior to the note, the Brotherhood had addressed a letter in Arabic to the U.S ambassador to Egypt, asking not only for a clarification of the U.S. position regarding the Palestinian issue and support to Arabs, but also requesting that Washington pressure its British and French allies, whom the group accused of oppression and colonization of Muslim populations [1]. In the April 29 note , U.S. diplomats warned against the movement whose creation they wrongly dated back to 1938 (Ikhwan was actually created ten years prior), showing how little they knew about the group. They contended that the Brotherhood warranted caution due to its \"adherence to fanatical tenets,\" promotion of \"Koranic law\" to rule Egypt, and belief that \"anything not Muslim must be hated.\"\nThereafter, the relationship between the two parties was characterized as a deliberate clash of world views that continuously fueled animosity between the United States and the Islamist movement. Yet, concurrently, the relationship has also promoted mutual interests and the combined search for political gains, as evident whenever the two parties have shared a common enemy or were forced to deal with one another. In these instances, irreconcilable ideological differences always came second to pragmatism.\nU.S. Use of Muslim Brotherhood Influence During the Cold War\nA few years later, as the Cold War ushered in a new global geopolitical frame of reference, the U.S. outlook on the Muslim Brotherhood's ideology became more favorable. The U.S diplomatic corps in Cairo created links with the leaders of the movement, and these contacts only intensified after the Free Officers' coup d'\u00e9tat in the summer of 1952. In a note dated December 23, 1952, the Counselor of the Embassy, Robert McClintock, gave an account of his conversations with some of the highest ranking leaders of the Brotherhood (Hassan al-Hudaybi, a judge who succeeded Hassan al-Banna, the movement's founder, as General Guide; Mahmoud Makhlouf; and Said Ramadan, among others), proof of the ties that had been established. McClintock related how these leaders, who supported the toppling of the monarchy, understood communism and envisioned change for Egypt. He went so far as to say that he was confident that these hard-liners could offset the growing influence of communism in Egypt, an influence that grew stronger under Gamal Abdel Nasser, the newly established Egyptian strongman who had deposed Mohamed Naguib, himself suspected of being too close the Brotherhood. The U.S. diplomatic corps kept building ties with the Brotherhood up to the point when the movement was forced underground in 1950.\nThese elements support the contention that for many years the U.S relationship with the Egyptian Brotherhood was in fact motivated by the group's influence and capacity to mobilize its members in order to help the United States out of a difficult situation. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood opposed Nasser's growing influence and helped contain the Soviet influence in the Arab world. In this context, they appeared as both a counterweight and a potential ally.\nDuring the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Charg\u00e9 d'Affaires in Cairo met openly and regularly with the leaders of the Brotherhood to discuss the movement's position, as the initial cooperation it had established with the military regime gradually deteriorated into a fierce rivalry. The influence of the radical theorist Sayyid Qutb\u2014whose trial and execution were also documented in many embassy reports\u2014along with the ban of the Brotherhood in 1954 catalyzed the break in relations with the United States. From 1966 to 1967, no diplomatic note or cable originating from the U.S. embassy in Egypt made any elaborated mention of the Brotherhood. In all likelihood, the links between the U.S. diplomatic corps and the Muslim Brotherhood were deemed inappropriate now that the movement had gone underground. This situation lingered even when Anwar al-Sadat, a president better disposed towards the group, took office. Indeed, no significant trace of the former relationships that had been built between the United States and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood could be found in the archives after the mid-1960s.\nThe Mubarak years saw the U.S. try to establish some personal contacts with some members of the Muslim Brotherhood. As stated by some leading diplomats such as Frank Wisner, the U.S. Ambassador in Cairo from 1986 to 1991, it was sometimes possible to meet with the Brotherhood's leaders [2]. Yet, the United States was always under constant pressure from the Egyptian government to be very cautious about being in touch with a movement that was not officially recognized at that time. The 1990s thus revealed some contact between the United States and the Brotherhood, but no deep interaction.\nFor many years after, it seemed the United States had lost contact with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. However, with the end of the Cold War and the rise of global jihadist movements in the aftermath of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the United States took a renewed interest in the Brotherhood as a possible partner. It remains to be seen if this partnership will emerge or if, conversely, the movement will instead encourage violent religious extremism across the Islamic world.\n[1] In this note, precision is made that no one at the embassy spoke Arabic. An Arabic speaker was recruited for the first time by the embassy afterwards.\n[2] I interviewed Frank Wisner on April 16th, 2019 in New York.\nMohamed-Ali Adraoui is a Research-Professor and Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is currently working on a book on the history of U.S. foreign policy towards the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, to be submitted shortly to Oxford University Press.\nMohamed-Ali Adraoui\nGlobal GovernanceAndrea Kendall-Taylor March 30, 2019\nThe Building of Russia's Geopolitical Momentum\nGlobal GovernanceC\u00e9lia Belin and Ted Reinert April 06, 2019\nThe Eclipse of the European Union's Global Influence\nPart II: The United States and The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Understanding a Chaotic History\nGlobal GovernanceMichael Fuchs and Abigail Bard May 21, 2019\nThe United States Must be on the Side of Democracy in Southeast Asia\nSarah Khalbuss July 12, 2019\nUncertainty in the Uighur Diaspora: A Brother's and Sister's Tale\nThe Struggle of the Indigenous Population in Contemporary Brazil\nCulture & SocietyPedro Calafate May 08, 2019\nAbout Us Print Edition Latest Articles Submissions Current Staff Join us! Contact Us","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lifedeciding to divorcedivorcedivorce advice\nDivorce Regret Is Real, So Consider These Questions Before Calling It Quits\nEnding a marriage can be a complicated process.\nIsabelle Khoo\nLifestyle editor\nMay 17, 2018, 01:26 PM EDT | Updated May 17, 2018\nDivorce is not uncommon today, but that doesn't mean making the decision to end a marriage has gotten any easier. Often, there are a number of factors to consider, from children to finances, and sometimes the answer isn't always in black and white.\nPlus, divorce regret is a real thing. According to a 2016 survey conducted by U.K. law firm Seddons, 22 per cent of more than 800 divorcees wished they hadn't ended their marriage.\nseb_ra via Getty Images\nSir Paul Coleridge, a retired family law judge in London, can attest to this. \"Of course there are cases where divorce is inevitable. I haven't sat in the courts for 40 years without knowing that there are cases where it is just as well the parties separated,\" he told The Sun U.K.\n\"But it has been obvious to me that, by and large, a significant proportion of people who separate wish they had not five years down the line.\"\nAlthough Statistics Canada no longer provides updated information on divorces across the country, a 2011 census found that roughly five million Canadians separated or divorced in the last 20 years.\nIf you've been struggling with the decision to get divorced, Karolina Pasko, a New York-based registered psychotherapist and relationship coach, suggests you ask your partner these three questions.\n1.Would you be happier without this relationship?\n\"The despair in a relationship can be caused by the unresolved inner conflict that is projected onto the relationship,\" Pasko told HuffPost Canada in an email.\nThat's why the psychotherapist says it's important for couples to take a step back and figure out whether stresses from other areas of their lives are having a negative impact on their marriage.\n\"When we are going through the tumultuous time in our relationships, we tend to focus on the negative or what we do not have,\" she explained. \"The grass always seems greener on the other side.\"\nAsk your partner the question above so that you both have the same understanding of where the negativity from your relationship is coming from.\nKM Photography via Getty Images\n2. Do you like the person you've become in marriage?\nMarriage isn't always a blessing. Sometimes it can bring out the worst in you and your partner, which is something you both need to recognize.\nThis particular question will help you figure that out, as well as whether or not \"the bad times outweigh the good ones.\"\n\"After years of self-sacrifice, trauma, and self-doubt, people tend to stay in relationships [instead of ripping off] the Band-Aid,\" Pasko said. \"When you have to become somebody you are not to make another person happy, you know that the Band-Aid needs to go and healing must enter.\"\nWavebreakmedia via Getty Images\n3. What are you prepared to do and give up to make this relationship work?\n\"When things get emotional, our judgment tends to be clouded by phrases like 'no more' or 'I am done trying,'\" the relationship coach said. \"Asking your partner what they are willing to do instead of what they are not will invite a breath of positive air into your conversations.\"\nHaving this open and honest conversation with your partner could help resolve conflict and bring balance back into the relationship. But while compromise is key, Pasko warned that couples should be aware of when they are asking too much of their partner, as too much self-sacrifice can be toxic.\nlaflor via Getty Images\nOther major things to consider, according to Pasko, is how your marriage conflict is affecting your kids (if you have them) and if you are staying in the relationship due to social pressures or fear of loneliness.\nReferring to the former, Pasko said, \"Often we suck it up for the kids, but think again. When your kids are seeing you \u2014 their role models \u2014 mistreating, devaluating, stonewalling, or disrespecting each other, you should understand that they will seek out this type of relationship when they grow up.\"\nAs for the latter, the psychotherapist noted that the divorce stigma is less than it used to be (heck, there are even divorce parties now!), and added that \"Today, staying when you can leave is a new shame.\"\nRegarding the loneliness excuse, Pasko said: \"Remember, the decision made out of fear is rarely the right decision.\"\n\"The only way you will make the right decision is if it is based on truth and responsibility,\" she said. \"Stop worrying about what is wrong with you. Stop asking questions about your spouse and start asking questions about the life you want and how you will take charge of the new you regardless of your decision.\"\ndeciding to divorcedivorcedivorce advicedivorce regretgetting divorced","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Watch The One and Only Ivan Online HD! Free Streaming\nGenre: Animation|Comedy|Family\nA gorilla named Ivan tries to piece together his past with the help of an elephant named Stella as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.\nSome news about \"The One and Only Ivan\"\nDisney has announced that three previously untitled live-action movies slated for 2022, 2024 and 2026 will be new, untitled \"Star Wars\" films.Following the release of \"Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker\" in December of this year, Disney will release three more \"Star Wars\" films on Dec. 20, 2022, Dec. 18, 2024 and Dec. 18, 2026, respectively.\"The Last Jedi\" director Rian Johnson and \"Game of Thrones\" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were reported to have been working on their own trilogies of \"Star Wars\" films, but it's unclear whose trilogy these three films are associated with.Also Read: Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in 'Star Wars,' Dies at 74The where can i watch free movies online news came in a massive announcement in which Disney mapped out films up through 2027 now with the addition of the Fox slate. Among the changes, Disney delayed all four \"Avatar\" sequels by one-to-two years each, pushed back \"The New Mutants\" and completely removed \"Gambit\" from the development slate.Tony Sokol Mar 27, 2019Angelina Jolie makes her superhero debut in Marvel's Eternals movie. Chlo Zhao directs Jack Kirby's classic 1976 miniseries.Gods and Goddesses are coming back in Marvel's Eternals movie. Angelina Jolie, who won an Oscar for her role in Girl, Interrupted, is in talks to join the upcoming feature film adaptation of watch full hd movies Jack Kirby's The Eternals, according to Variety. The film, which is coming from Disney and Marvel Studios, will be directed by Chloe Zhao.The Eternals are a hidden race living on Earth. Their creators were space gods called the Celestials who visited earth 5 million years ago. They performed genetic experiments on early forms of life on earth, giving them cosmic powers and near-immortality. The Eternals were created as a force for good They are sworn enemies to the Deviants, also created by Celestials. Eternals and Deviants have been around for thousands of years and areAngelina Jolie is in talks to star in Marvel Studios' \"The Eternals,\" in what would be Jolie's view movies online free first venture into the superhero realm.Details about the movie and what character Jolie would play are being kept under wraps. Created by Jack Kirby in 1976, the story of \"The Eternals\" is set millions of years ago when the cosmic beings known as the Celestials genetically experimented on humans to create super-powered individuals known as the Eternals along with the villainous Deviants.The two groups went on to battle each other throughout history. The Eternals also warred with Greek, Roman and Norse dieties before leaving the Earth to explore the stars.Chloe Zhao, whose helming credits include \"The Rider\" and \"Songs My Brothers Taught Me,\" became attached in watch new films online free September to direct \"The Eternals\" from a script by Matthew and Ryan Firpo. Marvel Studios Chief Kevin Feige is producing.Jolie is starring \"Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,\nGenre : AnimationComedyFamily\nBlood Craft","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Teen Death Stirs Fresh Debate About Depression Medication\nApril 20, 2004 | Staff | Drug Lawsuits\nBy Barbara Martinez of The Wall Street Journal\nThe death of a teenager last week from liver failure is raising questions anew about an antidepressant that continues to be available in the U.S. despite having been removed from the market in other countries.\nBristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s Serzone was taken off the market in Europe in early 2003 and in Canada in the fall of last year. Last month, the advocacy group Public Citizen sued the Food and Drug Administration, seeking to halt sales of the drug, one year after the group filed a petition to get Serzone banned in the U.S.\nA spokeswoman for the FDA said the agency is still reviewing Public Citizen's petition to remove the drug from the market and continues to monitor reports of \"adverse events.\" She said the agency's previous review of the drug resulted in a stronger warning on side effects but that the reports of liver damage were \"very rare\" and \"with appropriate labeling, the drug still has a role in the U.S. in people that couldn't use\" other medications.\nIn 2001, the FDA required Bristol-Myers to send a letter to doctors warning of potential liver damage in users of the drug. A so-called black-box warning also was added to the drug's label, highlighting the potentially dangerous side effect on the liver. As lawsuits have piled up over the drug, sales have declined. According to NDCHealth, a health-care information-services company, sales of Serzone fell last year to $170 million, down from $378 million in 2001.\nAbout 1.5 million prescriptions were written for the drug last year. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, said that the still-large number of prescriptions shows that doctors are slow to learn about black-box warnings, particularly if they have been prescribing a certain drug for a long time. The fact that the drug is still being prescribed, when there are at least a dozen other options, \"shows that the company was successful in promoting the drug\" since it was introduced in 1994, Dr. Wolfe said.\nSerzone works somewhat differently from more popular antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft by affecting two neurotransmitters instead of one.\nIn its petition to the FDA, Public Citizen cites the FDA's own figures for Serzone's effects on patients. According to the group, the FDA's adverse-event database records 20 deaths I the U.S. from liver failure in people using Serzone, including a six-year-old child. Dr. Wolfe said the some of the deaths were in patients who began using Serzone after the black-box warning went on the labels.\nA spokesman for Bristol-Myers said, \"Bristol-Myers, the FDA and U.S. prescribing physicians all believe that drug has a role in the treatment of depression,\" The spokesman said the company \"discontinued sales in the vast majority of European countries due to business reason.\"\n\"Earlier this month, Cassie Jo Geisenhof died from liver failure as a result of taking Serzone\", said her lawyer, Andy Birchfield of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, in Montgomery, Ala. Ms. Geisenhof, who lived in Minnesota, had taken Serzone four months to treat mild depression when she was 15. Soon after, she had liver failure and underwent liver-transplant surgery, Mr. Birchfield said. But her body rejected the new liver, and she was in and out of hospitals until her death, at age 19.\nBristol-Myers lost patent protection for the drug last fall. According to NCDHealth, sales of generic version of the drug, nefazodone, totaled $23 million last year. While liver toxicity is a separate issue, many heavily prescribed antidepressants are now under scrutiny for possible connections to suicidal thoughts, especially in teenagers. 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{"text":"Tomb Raider Movie Soundtrack Available On Vinyl\nThe original motion picture soundtrack for Tomb Raider is now available on vinyl! This exclusive record is limited to 1,500 copies worldwide and features an alluring clear & red colored vinyl, printed gatefold sleeve, 2 printed inner-sleeves, a poster, and a PVC sleeve to protect the whole package.\nScored by none other than Junkie XL, aka Tom Holkenborg, the soundtrack is absolutely mesmerizing and a real treat to listen to and when watching the film, fills every moment perfectly.\nGet more info on this release and order your copy now!\nLabels: Alicia Vikander, junkie xl, merchandise, soundtrack, tom holkenborg, tomb raider film, tomb raider movie, vinyl\nShadow of the Tomb Raider Special Editions & Pre-Order Details\nShadow of the Tomb Raider will be available in quite a few flavors with the reveal of all the special editions during last week's events. Take a look at the Maya inspired infographic above and you can begin to see what I mean. If trying to decode an ancient Maya calendar is a little confusing, don't worry. I will go into much further detail below. Also, there are a few things left out of the graphic.\nAvailable both physically & digitally for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, & digitally on Steam.\nLIMITED STEELBOOK EDITION\nAvailable physically for Xbox One & PlayStation 4.\nSteelbook, Three Art Cards, & O-Ring\nDIGITAL DELUXE EDITION\nAvailable digitally on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, & Steam\nAdditional Exclusive Outfit & Weapon\nDigital Original Soundtrack\nXbox Live Avatar Outfit, PlayStation 4 Theme, or Steam Wallpaper\nAdditional Skills Booster Pack\n48 Hour Early Access to the Game\nCROFT EDITION\nAvailable both physically and digitally on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, & digitally on Steam.\nThree Additional Exclusive Outfits & Weapons\nCROFT STEELBOOK EDITION\nAvailable physically for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, & PC.\nXbox Live Avatar Outfit or PlayStation 4 Theme\nLara Statue, Axe Bottle Opener, & Flashlight\nA new adventure every month.\n7 Challenge Tombs with Narrative Side Missions\n7 Outfits\n7 Skills\nHere are some other infographics that may help or hinder your journey in pre-ordering the game. Check all of your favorite retailers for their specific pre-order bonuses. For instance Amazon has a Prima Mini Digital Guide, GAME had a Currency Pack, GameStop has a Flashlight, Game Mania has an Artifact Edition that comes with a Lara Totaku Figure that hasn't been announced yet, T-Shirt bonuses and more!\nI know that was a lot of information to take in, but there's more! There is a whole year of content to keep us entertained up to the game's release and long after! Check it out in another Maya calendar below!\nLabels: collectibles, collector's edition, merchandise, pc, playstation, pre-order, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, steam, tomb raider, xbox\nShadow of the Tomb Raider Special Editions & Pre-O...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rightwing 247\nCould Beto Land in the White House After All? January 17, 2020\nSanders Takes an Anti-Warren Approach January 16, 2020\nMegan Rapinoe Won't Be Silenced by Olympic Committee January 15, 2020\nVince Vaughn Feels the Wrath of Liberals January 15, 2020\nDid Sanders Tell Warren That a Woman Couldn't Be Elected? January 14, 2020\nKaepernick Sides With Iranian Terrorists Against American Citizens\nColin Kaepernick is no stranger to the hot take and as you may have expected, his thoughts on the current situation with Iran are searing. Iranian Gen\nWhy Are These Mysterious Drones Being Spotted in the Midwest?\nWe do not believe in panicking over nothing and there are a lot of news stories that amount to little more than silly fear mongering. However, this st\nBloomberg Is Misleading Potential Employees About His Connections With the DNC\nWhen it comes to the presidential race, there are no shortages of billionaires looking to throw their hat into the ring. It is a great time to be a bi\nJill Biden Hands out Gifts and Meals While Immigration Victims Mourn Their Lost Loves\nWhile Joe Biden is the one who is currently running for the President of the United States, it is his wife who is showing us where the couple's allegi\nButtigieg's Plans to Legalize Meth & Other Drugs\nPete Buttigieg may have gone too far in his efforts to be liked by mainstream America. While he's trying to present himself as a moderate choice, go\nAOC Doesn't Believe the US Is an Advanced Society\nAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez often speaks as though she's not an American \u2013 or someone who absolutely hates the United States of America. Looking from\nWhat Is a Wine Cave and Why Do so Many People Think They're Evil?\nEver since the December Democratic debate, when Sen Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass accused Mayor of South Bend Pete Buttigieg of consorting with the evil ri\nEpstein's Attempted Suicide Tape Is Missing\nAlthough Jeffrey Epstein's dead, there's still an investigation going on to find out what he knew. No one really believes that he killed himself,\nThe 2nd Amendment: Protecting Your Freedom\nThe lazy left is always on the lookout to take the rights of the people that are guaranteed by the Second Amendment. Every time there is a shooting at\nAdvanced Space Technology Revealed By USAF General\nA recently retired Lieut. Gen. with the U.S. Air Force gave a lecture last month that caused a number of people to raise their eyebrows. Steven L. Kwa\nYour FREE subscription includes news and specials sent by email in accordance with our trusted Privacy Policy.\nCould Beto Land in the White House After All?\nSanders Takes an Anti-Warren Approach\nMegan Rapinoe Won't Be Silenced by Olympic Committee\nVince Vaughn Feels the Wrath of Liberals\nDid Sanders Tell Warren That a Woman Couldn't Be Elected?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Delhi & NCR News\nFlying Out Of Delhi: Be Ready For Long Queues, Peak-Hour Chaos At Delhi Airport's Terminal 3\nYou May Have To Face Long Queues At Security Checkpoints, Especially During The Morning Peak Hours Of 6 To 10 AM.\nNews Nation Bureau | Edited By : Pawas Kumar | Updated on: 20 Nov 2019, 03:35:32 PM\nIndiGo, SpiceJet have shifted some flight operations to Delhi Airport's Terminal 3 (Photo Credit: PTI File)\nIf you are flying out of Delhi via IGI airport's T3 terminal, then it is better to reach early. You may have to face long queues at security checkpoints, especially during the morning peak hours of 6 to 10 AM, as there has been an increase in the number of flyers from T3. The increase in number of passengers at T3 is the result of IndiGo and SpiceJet moving some of their domestic flights to this terminal. Other airlines that operate from T3 also increased their connections.\nThe aviation ministry tweeted last Friday saying, \"SpiceJet and IndiGo have taken over the slots vacated by Jet Airways at IGIA's T3. However, the number of flights they have shifted to T3 is far less than the number Jet earlier operated from T3. Issue of traffic jam on the ramp is due to heightened security alert.\"\nA national daily quoting sources said, \"CISF is now screening around 16,000 domestic passengers in morning peak hours of 6-10 am at T3, up from 12,000 in 2018. In fact, the struggle to avoid missing flight begins right from the base of the ramp leading to T3 departure with long, congested lines of vehicles slowly moving to drop passengers.\"\nThe airport claims that 95% of the passengers clear security in less than 10 minutes. However, it could still be problem during peak hour for domestic passengers. CISF has taken steps to handle the surge by adding frisking gates through means like shifting a security check gate from international to domestic side at T3 or by dedicating two separate channels for airline crew and staff to ensure at least pilots and cabin crew can reach aircraft in time to operate them, according to the report.\nFor all the Latest Cities News, Delhi & NCR News News, Download News Nation Android and iOS Mobile Apps.\nFirst Published : 20 Nov 2019, 03:35:32 PM\nIGI Terminal 3 Delhi Airport Delhi IGI Airport","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"In Memory of Phil\nHome\/News\/In Memory of Phil\nreifymedia2018-07-21T20:33:48+00:00July 19th, 2018|\nFood pantries are an incredible community resource. That's why Phil Arbolino was passionate about supporting the Community Food Cupboard in his Manchester, Vermont community.\nThe LifeTime Asset Management team got to know Phil in 2016, when he retired from financial planning and merged his firm with LTAM. Afterward, Phil became a client and a friend.\nWhen Phil passed unexpectedly in 2017, our firm joined his family and friends in mourning the loss of a kind, caring, hardworking man who gave back to his community.\nOur firm is thankful for the chance to honor Phil's memory by supporting one of his beloved charities. We've gotten to know the Community Food Cupboard, a community food resource that has supported hundreds of families for nearly 30 years. We've learned more about hunger issues in the United States, including the harrowing statistic that as many as 1 in 8 people in America face hunger and food insecurity.\nWe also learned that, according to the USDA, North Carolina is one of 8 states that have statistically higher food insecurity rates than the US national average. Our firm is dedicated to following the example that Phil set in Vermont when he partnered with Community Food Cupboard; we are grateful for the chance to support CFC and will also look for opportunities to partner with organizations in our home state of North Carolina and in the other 29 states where our clients are located.\nMore on Supporting Food Resources in the US:\nLearn about the Community Food Cupboard in Manchester and how you can help: Here\nDiscover Feeding America and the way the organization is helping families to fight hunger: Here\nLocate a food bank near you: Here","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mint salaries Pharmacist Elk Grove, CA\nPharmacist salary in Elk Grove, CA\nHow much do Pharmacists make?\nThe average total salary for a Pharmacist is $151,000 per year. This is based on data from 55 TurboTax users who reported their occupation as Pharmacist and includes taxable wages, tips, bonuses, and more. Pharmacist salary can vary between $90,500 to $224,000 depending on factors including education, skills, experience, employer & location. Read more\nStaff Pharmacist\nPharmacist salary by location\nRancho Cordova, CA\nPharmacist salary by company\nSutter Valley Hospitals, Sacramento County, CA\nKaiser Foundation Health Plan, Sacramento County, CA\nCVS, Sacramento County, CA\nUniversity Of California, Sacramento County, CA\nPharmacist demographics in Elk Grove, CA\nEffective Tax Rates for Pharmacists in Elk Grove, CA\nOther pharmacists track salary trends in Mint, you should too.\nWhat is the average salary for a pharmacist in Elk Grove, CA?\nThe average salary for a pharmacist in Elk Grove, CA is $151,000 per year. Pharmacist salaries in Elk Grove, CA can vary between $90,500 to $224,000 and depend on various factors, including skills, experience, employer, bonuses, tips, and more.\nThis data is exclusive to Mint Salary and is based on 55 tax returns from TurboTax customers who reported their occupation as pharmacist.\nWhich companies near Elk Grove, CA offer the highest salaries for pharmacists?\nThe following companies offer the highest salaries for pharmacists near Elk Grove, CA: Sutter Valley Hospitals ($171,000 a year), Kaiser Foundation Health Plan ($166,500 a year), and CVS ($137,500 a year).\nWhich cities near Elk Grove, CA offer the highest salaries for pharmacists?\nThe following cities offer the highest salaries for pharmacists near Elk Grove, CA: Santa Rosa, CA ($168,000 a year), Santa Clara, CA ($167,500 a year), and Roseville, CA ($167,000 a year).\nOffice Assistant in Franklin County, OH\nOperations Manager in Franklin County, OH\nEntrepreneur in San Francisco County, CA\nRespiratory Therapist in Brazoria County, TX\nSecurity Supervisor in Washington Metro Area, DC\nForklift Operator in Laredo, TX\nCook in Lane County, OR\nMaterials Handler in Columbus, OH\nDriver in San Jose, CA\nSales Engineer in San Diego County, CA\nCourt Clerk in US West Region\nTeacher in Malvern, PA\nCashier in Escondido, CA\nTruck Driver in Maine\nManufacturing Engineer in St. Louis Metro Area, MO\nHousekeeping Cleaner in Milwaukee County, WI\nHome Care Provider in Grand Rapids, MI\nSalesperson in Florida\nElementary School Teacher in Portland Metro Area, OR\nAdministrator in North Port Metro Area, FL\nTruck Driver in Putnam County, TN\nTechnician in Lackawanna County, PA\nDriver in Springfield, OH\nDistrict Manager in Detroit Metro Area, MI\nOffice Assistant in Virginia Beach Metro Area, VA\nMail Carrier in Queens County, NY\nHeavy Equipment Operator in Chesapeake County, VA\nCardiac Sonographer in Florida\nTransportation Driver in US Northeast Region\nTruck Driver in Caldwell County, NC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mixed Motives Insider Trading\nIowa Law Review, Vol. 106, 2020\nUCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 20-05\nSee all articles by Andrew Verstein\nAndrew Verstein\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law\nDate Written: March 21, 2020\nIf you trade securities on the basis of careful research, then you are a brilliant and shrewd investor. If you trade on the basis of a hot tip from your brother-in-law, an investment banker, then you are a criminal. What if you trade for both reasons?\nThere is no single answer, thanks to a three-way circuit split. Some courts would forgive you according to your lawful trading motives, some would convict you in keeping with your bad motives, and some would hand the issue to the jury. Sometimes called the \"awareness\/use\" debate or the \"possession\/use\" debate, the proper treatment of mixed motive traders has occupied dozens of law review articles over the last thirty years.\nThis Article demonstrates that courts and scholars have so far followed the wrong reasons to the wrong answers. Instead, this Article takes trader motives seriously, drawing on insights and solutions from the broader jurisprudence of mixed motive. This analysis generates a new legal test and demonstrates the test's superiority.\nKeywords: Insider Trading, Mixed Motives, Use, Possession, 10b-5, 10b5-1, Trading Plan\nVerstein, Andrew, Mixed Motives Insider Trading (March 21, 2020). Iowa Law Review, Vol. 106, 2020, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 20-05, Available at SSRN: https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3558540 or http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2139\/ssrn.3558540\nAndrew Verstein (Contact Author)\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law ( email )","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Whit Tuesday\nSAINT BARNABAS\nActs, Chapter 11, Verse 23-24\n23 When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain faithful* to the Lord in firmness of heart, 24 for he was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and faith. And a large number of people was added to the Lord.\nThe church grows because of the grace of God, which established a principle that Christ accepts all whether gentile or Jew as long as they remain faithful to the beatitudes and the teachings of the church with a firmness of heart. Antioch and Syria were the seedbed of the saints and martyrs in this time as it is now.\nWhit Tuesday[1]\nIntroit of the Mass is again a song of joy: \"Receive the joy of your glory, alleluia; giving thanks to God, alleluia; Who hath called you to a heavenly kingdom. Attend, O My people, to My law, incline your ears to the words of My mouth.\"\nPrayer. May the power of the Holy Ghost be with us, O Lord, we beseech Thee, which may mercifully purify our hearts and de fend them from all adversities.\nEPISTLE. Acts viii. 14-17.\nIn those days: When the apostles who were in Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received the word of God; they sent unto them Peter and John. Who, when they were come, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. For He was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost.\nThe Samaritans had been converted and baptized by Philip the Deacon. Peter and John administered to them, by the imposition of hands and prayer, the Sacrament of Confirmation.\nIs Confirmation a sacrament? Yes, for Jesus Christ has promised the Holy Ghost not only to the apostles, but also to all the faithful, to confirm them fully in faith and charity.\nWhat is the outward sign of this sacrament? The imposition of the bishop's hands, the anointing with the chrism, and the words of the bishop.\nWhat grace is conveyed through this sacrament? Through holy Confirmation, God confirms and completes in the Christian the grace of Baptism, and strengthens him for the combat with his spiritual enemies. Confirmation, like Baptism, cannot be received more than once, because the grace received in these sacraments is always efficacious if we only cooperate with it; and because in these sacraments we receive also an indelible character, which forever distinguishes the souls of those who have been baptized and confirmed from those who have not.\nGOSPEL. John x. 1-10.\nAt that time Jesus said to the Pharisees: Amen, amen, I say to you: he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers. This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what He spoke to them. Jesus there fore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not. I am the door. By Me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly.\nHow is this parable to be understood? The sheepfold is the Church, or congregation of the faithful; the door for the flock is Baptism; for the pastors, lawful vocation and mission from God, through their spiritual superiors; the chief pastor is Christ; the sheep are the faithful; the invisible door-keeper is the Holy Ghost, inasmuch as He prepares hearts for Jesus; the visible door-keeper is the bishop or his representatives. The thieves and robbers are the Pharisees and heretics of all ages, who lead astray the sheep of Christ, and destroy their spiritual life by false doctrines. If we would not become the prey of thieves and murderers, we must follow the doctrines of the teachers and pastors whom Christ has appointed for His Church.\nTime after Pentecost[2]\nThe Time After Pentecost is the time that corresponds to this age. Just as Advent symbolizes life under the Old Law while the Christmas, Lenten, and Easter seasons recapitulate the thirty-three-year era of Jesus Christ's earthly sojourn, the Time after Pentecost corresponds to the penultimate chapter of the story of redemption, the chapter that is currently being written. That story, as we all know, has been written somewhat out of order. Thanks to the last book of the Bible, we have a vivid account of history's climax but not of what happens in between the Apostolic Age and the Final Judgment. In a sense we should all feel a certain affinity for the Time After Pentecost, since it is the only liturgical season of the year that corresponds to where we are now.\nWhere we are is the age of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost is often called the birthday of the Church because even though the Apostles were transformed by earlier events such as the institution of the Eucharist and priesthood on Maundy Thursday or their acquiring the power to forgive sins on Easter afternoon, they - and by extension, the Church - did not really come into their own until the Paraclete inspired them to burst out of their closed quarters and spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth. And just as Pentecost marks the birthday of the Church in the Holy Spirit, so too does the Time after Pentecost mark the life of the Church moving through the vicissitudes of history under the protection and guidance of that same Spirit. It is for this reason that the epistle readings from this season emphasize the Apostles' advice to the burgeoning churches of the day while its Gospel readings focus on the kingdom of heaven and its justice. It is also the reason why the corresponding lessons from the breviary draw heavily from the history of the Israelite monarchy in the Old Testament. All are somehow meant to teach us how to comport ourselves as citizens of the city of God as we pass through the kingdoms of this world.\nSt. Barnabas[3]\nStrictly speaking, Barnabas was not an apostle, but the title has been bestowed upon him since very early times. His first name was Joseph; Barnabas (etymology: \"son of consolation\") was a surname. He belonged to the tribe of Levi. He was a Hellenist, that is, a Jew who lived outside of Palestine and spoke the Greek tongue. Born in Cyprus, he embraced the faith soon after the death of Christ, becoming a member of the original Jerusalem community. His first noteworthy deed was to sell his belongings and place the money at the feet of the apostles. It is to his lasting credit that he befriended the neo-convert Paul and introduced him to the apostles when everyone was still distrusting the former persecutor. More noteworthy still was his service to the universal Church by being the first to recognize Paul's potential for the cause of Christ; it was Barnabas who brought him from Tarsus to teach at Antioch. The first missionary journey (about 45-48 A.D.) the two made together, and Barnabas seems to have been the leader, at least at the beginning (Acts 13-14). Barnabas' appearance must have been dignified and impressive, otherwise the inhabitants of Lystra would not have regarded him as Jupiter. He was present with Paul at the Council of Jerusalem (ca. 50). While they were preparing for the second missionary journey, there arose a difference of opinion regarding Mark; as a result, each continued his labors separately. Barnabas went to Cyprus with Mark and thereafter is not referred to again in the Acts of the Apostles or in any other authentic source. From a remark in one of Paul's letters we know that he lived from the work of his own hands (1 Cor. 9:5-6). The time and place of his death have not been recorded. It is claimed that his body was found at Salamina in 488 A.D. His name is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass since ancient times.\nExcerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch\nPatron: Antioch; Cyprus; against hailstorms; invoked as peacemaker.\nRead the passages from the Acts of the Apostles about St. Barnabas: Acts 4:36-37; 9:26-29; 11:27-30; 12:24-25; 13:1-12; 13:27-30; 13:44-52; 14:1-14; 14:21-23; 14:36-40.\nRead the Catholic Encyclopedia's account of the life of St. Barnabas.\nToday is my deceased sister Donna Marie's (Lady-Mistress of the Sea) birthday please pray for her intentions.\n\u00b7 Drops of Christ's Blood\n\u00b7 Offering to the sacred heart of Jesus\n\u00b7 90 Days for our Nation, 54-day rosary-Day 30\n* A person with fear of the Lord is filled with peace, faith, hope and love.\n[1] Goffine's Devout Instructions, 1896.\n[2] http:\/\/www.holytrinitygerman.org\/PostPentecost.html\n[3]https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/culture\/liturgicalyear\/calendar\/day.cfm?date=2019-06-11","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"National Park Service - Nomenclature of The National Park System\nNomenclature of The National Park System\nThe National Park Service uses over 20 different titles for the park units it manages, including national park and national monument.\nClassification as of 2003\nNational Military Park, National Battlefield Park, National Battlefield Site, and National Battlefield 25 71,502.49 acres (289 km2) 8,360,261\nNational Historical Park, National Historic Site, and International Historic Site 125 228,260.60 acres (924 km2) 34,407,217\nNational Lakeshore 4 228,995.14 acres (927 km2) 3,728,821\nNational Memorial 27 10,588.45 acres (43 km2) 30,559258\nNational Monument 76 2,027,864.58 acres (8,206 km2) 22,646,428\nNational Park 58 52,095,045.71 acres (210,821 km2) 62,950,968\nNational Parkway 4 177,339.69 acres (718 km2) 29,948,911\nNational Preserve and National Reserve 20 24,191,311.63 acres (97,899 km2) 2,956,325\nNational Recreation Area 18 3,700,277.20 acres (14,974 km2) 50,645,414\nNational River and National Wild and Scenic River and Riverway 15 746,262.99 acres (3,020 km2) 5,999,161\nNational Scenic Trail 3 239,659.27 acres (970 km2) not available\nNational Seashore 10 595,013.55 acres (2,408 km2) 17,920,507\nOther Designations (White House, National Mall, etc.) 13 36,826.96 acres (149 km2) 11,156,670\nTotals 398 84,331,948.26 acres (341,279 km2) 320,309,151\nNational parks of the United States\nCongaree\nCuyahoga Valley\nGates of the Arctic\nGuadalupe Mountains\nHaleakal\u0101\nHawai\u02bbi Volcanoes\nKatmai\nKenai Fjords\nLake Clark\nWrangell\u2013St. Elias\nList of national parks of the United States (by elevation)\nNational Monuments preserve a single unique cultural or natural feature. Devils Tower National Monument was the first in 1906.\nNational Historic Sites protect a significant cultural resource that is not a complicated site. Examples of these types of parks include Ford's Theatre National Historic Site and William Howard Taft National Historic Site.\nNational Historical Parks are larger areas with more complex subjects. Appomattox Court House National Historical Park was created in 1940. George Rogers Clark National Historical Park was dedicated in 1936. Historic sites may also be protected in national parks, monuments, seashores, and lakeshores.\nNational Historical Parks of the United States\nAbraham Lincoln Birthplace\nAppomattox Court House\nCane River Creole\nCedar Creek and Belle Grove\nChesapeake and Ohio Canal\nDayton Aviation Heritage\nGeorge Rogers Clark\nHopewell Culture\nKaloko-Honok\u014dhau\nKeweenaw\nMarsh-Billings-Rockefeller\nNew Bedford Whaling\nPalo Alto Battlefield\nPaterson Great Falls\nPu\u02bbuhonua o H\u014dnaunau\nRoosevelt Campobello International Park\nRosie the Riveter\/World War II Home Front\nSalt River Bay\nSan Francisco Maritime\nSan Juan Island\nTumac\u00e1cori\nFull Alphabetical List\nNational Military Parks, Battlefield Parks, Battlefield Sites, and Battlefields preserve areas associated with military history. The different designations reflect the complexity of the event and the site. Many of the sites preserve important Revolutionary War battles and Civil War battlefields. Military parks are the sites of larger actions, such as Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Vicksburg National Military Park, Gettysburg National Military Park, and Shiloh National Military Park\u2014the original four from 1890. Examples of battlefield parks, battlefield sites, and national battlefields include Richmond National Battlefield Park, Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site, and Antietam National Battlefield.\nNational Seashores and National Lakeshores offer preservation of the national coast line, while supporting water\u2013based recreation. Cape Hatteras National Seashore was created in 1937. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, created in 1966, were the first national lakeshores.\nUnited States National Lakeshores and National Seashores\nNational Lakeshores\nApostle Islands\nIndiana Dunes\nPictured Rocks\nRead more about this topic: National Park Service\nFamous quotes containing the words national, park and\/or system:\n\"Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.\"\n\u2014Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)\n\"Linn\u00e6us, setting out for Lapland, surveys his \"comb\" and \"spare shirt,\" \"leathern breeches\" and \"gauze cap to keep off gnats,\" with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.\"\n\u2014Henry David Thoreau (1817\u20131862)\n\"I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.\"\n\u2014Thomas Jefferson (1743\u20131826)\nWikipedia System (Creative Commons)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hungary Data Retention 2015 (1)\n(-) Naperville Smart Meter Awareness v. Naperville (US Smart Meters) (2)\n(-) Privacy International v. United Kingdom (UK 5EY FOIA) (10)\nUnited States v. Levin (and similar cases) (FBI Hacking) (4)\nPrivacy win! US court says Fourth Amendment protects smart meter data\nAround the world, from North America to Europe and Asia, governments are starting to roll out smart meters. While the technology promises increased energy efficiency through greater consumer control over energy consumption, smart meters also raise serious privacy concerns. Smart meters collect energy usage data at high frequencies - typically every five, fifteen or 30 minutes. That level of granularity reveals how much electricity is being used in a home and when, which in turn can paint an\u2026\nInvestigatory Powers Tribunal rules GCHQ mass surveillance programme TEMPORA is legal in principle\nThe Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) today followed its previous judgments in finding that UK security services may in principle carry out mass surveillance of all fibre optic cables entering or leaving the UK under RIPA, the 2000 law that pre-dates the modern internet. In summary, the Tribunal in today's decision said the system of mass surveillance disclosed by Edward Snowden could in principle be lawful. But the Tribunal has asked for more submissions about whether receiving bulk\u2026\nHow Bulk Interception Works\nThis week, Privacy International, together with nine other international human rights NGOs, filed submissions with the European Court of Human Rights. Our case challenges the UK government's bulk interception of internet traffic transiting fiber optic cables landing in the UK and its access to information similarly intercepted in bulk by the US government, which were revealed by the Snowden disclosures. To accompany our filing, we have produced two infographics to illustrate the complex process\u2026\nGCHQ-NSA intelligence sharing unlawful, says UK surveillance tribunal\nBritish intelligence services acted unlawfully in accessing millions of people's personal communications collected by the NSA, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled today. The decision marks the first time that the Tribunal, the only UK court empowered to oversee GHCQ, MI5 and MI6, has ever ruled against the intelligence and security services in its 15 year history. The Tribunal declared that intelligence sharing between the United States and the United Kingdom was unlawful prior to December\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nov 30, 2017 3 min read Bolts\nThursday Bolts: 11.30.17\nErik Horne recaps last night's brutal loss in Orlando: \"Russell Westbrook was hunched over at the knees as his teammates walked by. Instead of walking out with them, he sat on the sidelines of the Amway Center a little longer. Before a 13-0 Magic fourth-quarter run that blasted the Thunder's reserves out of the Amway Center in a 121-108 Thunder loss Wednesday, Westbrook knew the Thunder lost the game well before that. Westbrook finished with a team-best 37 points and 11 rebounds, but 20 of those points came in a desperation fourth quarter in which the Thunder dug itself a hole well before its ninth road loss of the season was complete.\"\nDan Devine (Yahoo) on Russell Westbrook sitting dejected on the bench after the loss: \"After the loss, Westbrook stopped on his way off the court and sat down on the bench, seemingly overcome with disappointment and frustration at the Thunder having lost their third straight game, and their fifth in six tries, to fall to 8-12 on the season.\"\nAntonio Daniels tore into the team on last night's Thunder Live: \"There has to be some energy and passion that comes from someone in timeouts, after games, whether it's you going in the locker room and coaches are throwing stuff because frustration brings these sort of things. This is your job, this is your livelihood, and as an athlete when you are going through times like this you are representing your community, you are representing your city, you are representing your organization and it's embarrassing.\"\nFred Katz on OKC again leaning on poor decision making: \"Once again, the Thunder lost big to a team they should have beaten. Once again, they got away from ball movement as the game developed. Once again, they have their previously ingrained basketball habits to thank for it. It's something the now 8-12 Thunder have tried to improve on over the first quarter of the season. They haven't \u2014 because decision making is a skill, not a choice.\"\nTim Bontemps (WaPo) on it being too early to panic for the Thunder: \"The thought here is that the time to panic hasn't yet arrived. Sure, it would've been better for the Thunder to get off to a better start this season, and getting drilled by two bad teams \u2013 the Dallas Mavericks and the Magic \u2013 the past two games is disconcerting. But even after those games, the Thunder currently have the eighth-best net rating in the NBA \u2013 a rating better than all but the Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers in the Western Conference, and a better one than hot teams like the Cleveland Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers in the East.\"\nSome positive news \u2014 Aliko Carter (Forbes) on Carmelo Anthony's foundation finding footing in OKC: \"I always wanted somebody to come back to my community, give back to my community when I was younger but that wasn't the case,\" Anthony said per NewsOK. \"So now I'm in a situation that I'm successful, I'm blessed, that I can give back to these communities and touch these communities everywhere that I go.\" Anthony is currently set to bring his annual \"Very Melo Christmas\" event to OKC. Last year, the event in New York City brought dozens of underprivileged children from around the city to take in a move with the jovial forward.\"\nAround the League: The Grizzlies do not intend to have a fire sale\u2026. Kristaps Porzingis sprained his ankle in last night's win over Miami\u2026. Anthony Davis was ejected for the first time in his career\u2026. How the Spurs will find success when finally reintegrating Kawhi Leonard.\nFriday Bolts: The Pre-Season Wrap\nTuesday Bolts: Pre-season!\nWednesday Bolts: Media Day\nWednesday Bolts: Tough Chet\nFriday Bolts: Oh No\nChet Holmgren is out for the year, tabling his hyped rookie season until 2023-24. Thunder fans have seen this movie","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility\n3BL News\nMichael Connor\nRemembering Mike Hoffman: What Makes a 21st Century Leader?\nJan 2, 2019 | Business Ethics, Leadership\nby Gael O'Brien\nWhat makes a leader is a question without an expiration date. I confess, I'm obsessed with the question.\nW. Michael Hoffman\nNever more so than the last few weeks since the sudden death of a treasured pioneer W. Michael Hoffman. With quiet humility, he did more than anyone has to shape and advance the field of business ethics globally, bringing along faculty members, academic administrators, business executives, government officials, foundation executives and so many others. When someone who has had such a deep impact on the work of thousands of people in his 40-some-year career suddenly isn't there anymore, the legacy of his leadership offers some comfort. Whether you knew him or didn't, how he accomplished what he did in service of both business and ethics might inspire more leaders to shape their own possibility.\nIt is a legacy that provides a roadmap to leadership that matters. In 2016, I wrote a column here on the 40th anniversary of the W. Michael Hoffman Center for Business Ethics (HCBE) at Bentley University. I loved the story Mike told that night about how the National Endowment for the Humanities turned down his grant application in 1975 to start the center, telling him \u2014 when he pressed for information \u2014 that they hadn't heard of business ethics. After meeting with endowment officials to discuss the relevance of integrating business with ethics, the center received a grant to launch in 1976. As Mike evolved the center and figured out with his team the most successful approaches to developing curriculum, involving the business community and creating an infrastructure to support all the constituencies, he shared what he was doing so others could adapt or adopt ideas to succeed in their environments.\nWhat makes a leader is so much more than a resume of credentials. It is the heart and soul that creates enduring relationships, inspires and brings out the best in others. Mike embodied the attributes of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills) decades before psychologist Daniel Goleman identified them in his famous 1995 article on leadership. To go deeper into what makes a leader, I asked an ethics center head, a former ethics officer and a public sector executive turned academic for their thoughts on how they experienced Mike's leadership.\nJane Roeder, Interim Director of the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership at California State University Long Beach said in a phone conversation that the Ukleja Center turned to the HCBE as a global benchmark. \"Mike Hoffman was like the John Wooden of business ethics,\" she said. \"His vision, integrity and passion for bringing out the best in people and business sparked the creation of university centers globally.\"\nMike created an infrastructure to support HCBE's mission (inspire ethical leadership, promote ethical collaboration, enrich ethical knowledge and connect ethical thought and action) by inventing what didn't then exist. He co-founded the Ethics Officer Association (now the Ethics & Compliance Initiative) and the Society for Business Ethics, as well as created networks to develop and share information (international conferences, workshops, CEO lecture series, research forums, visiting scholars programs and an executive fellows program which brings corporate ethics officers and practitioners into the life of the center).\nLeon Goldman, chairman of HCBE's Kallman Executive Fellows, wrote in an email exchange that Mike's \"career was devoted not only to telling students and business leaders that living a values-based life can be done, but to showing them by his actions and the work of the center that such a business career is both possible and highly successful.\" Goldman, formerly Associate Medical Director and Privacy Officer at Kyruus, a data management company, continued: \"Through the Verizon- and Raytheon-sponsored lecture series, he exposed students, faculty and thousands of business leaders and members of the public to examples of highly successful leaders whose business life was guided by values and commitment to an ethical business culture.\"\nI asked Arthur Shacklock from Queensland Australia, who'd known Mike for the past 20 years, how he'd describe Mike's impact. \"The influence of Mike Hoffman's leadership will continue in his absence,\" wrote Shacklock, \"because his values, inspiration, optimism, drive, enthusiasm and dedication have been so well embedded into the psyche of those of us who share his vision.\" Shacklock is a former senior public sector executive, academic and now adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law at Griffith Law School, Griffith University. \"Mike inspired us to greater achievements\" Shacklock continued, by the standards he set for himself, his warmth, humility, empathy and the deep respect he accorded others.\" Shacklock added: \"\u2026. Mike's leadership lessons will endure to inspire others now and into the future.\"\nFor all the strides made in integrating ethics into business education and business decisions that can be attributed to Mike, and to so many others in universities and companies, there is a very long road ahead.\nAnd the enduring question that Mike Hoffman's life and legacy inspire gets to the heart of what makes a leader: what will we require of ourselves and be willing to help develop in others to create leadership that truly matters?\nGael O'Brien, a Business Ethics Magazine columnist, is an executive coach and presenter focused on building leadership, trust, and reputation. She publishes The Week in Ethics, is a Kallman Executive Fellow, Hoffman Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University and Senior Fellow for Social Innovation at the Lewis Institute, Babson College.\nPreviousAvoiding the Dreaded CEO Disease\nNextFive Steps to Make Company Value Statements Work\nEnron on Broadway: No Accounting for Bad Behavior\nBooks: 'Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution'\nDrug Industry Lobbyists and Campaign Cash Stymie Bid to Restrain Medicare Prescription Costs\nThink Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a Leader\nWhich of the following is the most important current corporate responsibility issue?\nIf you'd like to receive our email newsletter, you can sign up here.\nvar _bizo_p = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/sjs.\" : \"http:\/\/js.\"); document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + _bizo_p + \"bizographics.com\/show_ad.js?partner_id=\"+_bizo_ad_partner_id+\"' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\u00a9 Copyright 2021 Business Ethics","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"How is SBM's LRS ban by the RBI impacting major fintech companies?\nHome\/Trends\/Why Airtel's tariff hike is significant, and what it means for the sector 2022\nWhy Airtel's tariff hike is significant, and what it means for the sector 2022\nrishav Send an email November 29, 2022\nAccording to a senior executive at the company, Airtel chose to raise prices in these areas first to gauge user reaction and, more importantly, the reaction of its rivals. We go over the specifics.\nBharti Airtel has increased its entry-level tariff by as much as 57% in two circles\u2014Haryana and Odisha\u2014in an effort to boost the amount of user revenue it receives. The telco's action may encourage other providers, particularly cash-strapped Vodafone Idea, to implement comparable tariff increases.\nAirtel has chosen to discontinue its cheapest Rs 99 plan in the Haryana and Odisha circles, which included talk time and 200 MB of 2G mobile data over a 28-day period. The cheapest plan in these new circles now starts at Rs 155 and includes unlimited voice calling, 1 GB of mobile data, and 300 SMSes for 24 days. This is due to the plan's withdrawal.\nWhy is Airtel's action important?\nAccording to a senior executive at the company, Airtel chose to raise prices in these areas first to gauge user reaction and, more importantly, the reaction of its rivals. \"It would be great for the current industry as a whole if we saw the other players take hikes.\nWe may consider raising plan prices nationwide if the competitors raise their prices in these areas as well, an executive said. In the first quarter of FY2023, the combined contributions from the Haryana and Odisha circles totaled 4.4% of Airtel's Adjusted Gross Revenues (AGR).\nFor a very long time, Bharti Airtel has advocated that for the industry to be sustainable, the average revenue per user (ARPU) should initially be around Rs 200 per month and eventually increase to Rs 300. Airtel's ARPU increased by 3.8% quarter over quarter during the July to September period, reaching Rs 190, surpassing Jio's Rs 177.2 and Vodafone Idea's Rs 131.\nReliance Jio's comparable 28-day plan has also unlimited voice calls for Rs91, while Vodafone India's comparable Rs 99 plan is available to its subscribers.\nAccording to experts in the field, Vodafone Idea (Vi), which currently has the lowest ARPU among the three telcos, will benefit from Airtel's move. \"The industry continues to have the lowest tariffs in the entire world.\nJio and Vi may implement a similar tariff increase in the coming weeks or months if any operator decides to raise the base rate, according to Prashant Singhal, leader of EY's global TMT emerging markets practice.\nThe three telcos last increased their rates by about 25% in November 2021. Since then, they have purchased a spectrum totaling Rs. 1.49 lakh crore in the 5G spectrum auction that took place earlier this year.\nIn a research note, ICICI Securities stated that if the competition follows, it will lead to a faster deleveraging of balance sheets and an increase in the production of free cash flow, both of which are crucial for telcos given the significant amount of money they are currently spending to roll out 5G networks.\nHow might Airtel's action affect the business?\nIn addition to enabling other telcos to raise rates, Airtel's increase is not anticipated to mainly have an impact on its 4G customers because the plan it canceled only provided 2G internet speeds. According to ICICI Securities, \"Airtel has ensured that its peers cannot take advantage of the current situation to poach its 4G customers by limiting the effective tariff hike to only 2G customers.\"\nAccording to Citigroup, Bharti Airtel's mobile revenue could increase by between 2.5 and 3% if it is successful in implementing this change across all of its service areas.\nBharti Airtel Ltd.'s pilot program to increase baseline rates for prepaid customers in two main circles of Haryana and Odisha from 99 to 155 will not only be a test for the No. 2 telco but also for the industry as a mere whole, according to industry observers, as its success could mean much higher levels of rate increase than seen in previous years.\nThe bottom of their user base could be moved up to the 155 plan from the 99 plan, and the top end of prepaid tariffs could be raised by another 10\u201320%, as is anticipated along the lines of the most recent tariff increase in November 2021.\nAccording to analysts, encouraging entry-level customers to purchase a higher value pack will result in an immediate 57% increase in tariffs, which will boost Airtel's mobile revenue by about 2.5\u20133%.\nThe average revenue per user (Arpu), a crucial indicator of telco profitability, would rise even further if customers on the other end of the prepaid segment were asked to pay more for the current plans.\nAccording to Prashant Singhal, global TMT emerging markets leader at EY, \"Raising the baseline level of tariffs and increasing headline tariffs, as is expected, together will lead to a big upside for telcos' Ebitda levels which would in turn benefit the financial health of the entire industry.\"\nAnalysts at Citi Research noted that another round of tariff hikes, if successfully implemented, could be a key positive catalyst and driver of investor sentiment amid an anticipated increase in 5G CAPEX. They added that all other things being equal, a 5% increase in mobile ARPU can result in approximately a 4% upside to the estimated FY24 Ebitda.\n\"Vodafone Idea, which has been attempting to raise money for some time, may benefit from this as well. Rising Arpu may be viewed by investors as a sign that the company's financial situation is improving, a sector expert said on the condition of anonymity.\nAfter the previous round of tariff increases in 2021, prepaid recharge pack sellers Airtel and Vodafone Idea have requested another round.\nThey have reiterated the necessity of average revenue per user (Arpus) becoming sustainable in order to enhance the sector's financial health. India has some of the lowest telecom rates in the world, and according to Airtel and Vodafone Idea, Arpus needs to increase to 200 and then gradually to 300 over the next few years.\nAnalysts predicted that consumer acceptance of the new plan, which offers unlimited data and calling as opposed to the metered calls, messages, and data usage in the 99 plan, will be crucial to this industry shift. If struggling carrier Vodafone Idea follows suit with changes to its tariff base on similarly priced plans, this could prove to be a huge benefit for the company.\nThe 99 recharge pack is reportedly used by close to 100 million consumers, according to market estimates. Airtel and Vodafone Idea are currently offering the package in all circles.\nThe pack in two circles is no longer available from Airtel. If Bharti's calculated risk is successful, it will increase the risk of increased competition and new market entrants. This should also significantly boost VIL's prospects, according to analysts at ICICI Securities. However, analysts at Morgan Stanley pointed out that reducing customer churn, or stopping the loss of customers, is a key challenge because it increased to 4.3% in the September quarter from 3.5% the previous quarter.\nEdited by Prakriti Arora\nSee also Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020\nairtel ECONOMY india Indian plans tariff\nrishav\nGlobal copper market deficit for Jan sept widens to 295000 tonnes.\nSebi brings mutual fund managers, directors under insider trading rules 2022\nBy rishav\nWhy Alireza Akbari, a former Iranian defence official, is facing execution on charges of spying?\nPeru protests: What is happening and why?\nNOTAM system failure disrupts US flights: What happened?\nUS state Arkansas bans 'Latinx' from govt documents: Why is the term contentious?\nBolsonaro, Trump: A tale of populists and two capital city riots","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Disney's Mulan Is an Extravagant Mediocrity\nThe studio's decision to thank repressive Chinese government authorities, meanwhile, makes it something far darker.\nPeter Suderman | 9.9.2020 1:14 PM\n(Mulan via Disney)\nAs a movie, at least, there is nothing particularly wrong with Mulan, Disney's latest and most explicit play for Chinese moviegoers, but there is nothing particularly right about it either. It's skillfully crafted, as high-gloss modern blockbusters tend to be, and it moves efficiently through an entirely predictable set of narrative beats. But there are no surprises, no moments of real awe or wonder, no scenes or ideas that stand out; even the genuinely extravagant production work seems designed less to wow and more to hit a particular focus-grouped spec. The movie's most notable trait is its bland consistency. It is lavishly perfunctory, spectacularly just fine. Mulan takes \"pretty good\" to a whole new level.\nThat's par for the course for Disney, which has recently specialized in paint-by-numbers luxury epics constructed out of recognizable intellectual property, whether in the form of purchased brands like Marvel or Star Wars or in live-action remakes of animated classics from the studio's vault. Like recent adaptations of The Jungle Book, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, Mulan falls into the last category: It's based on the studio's 1998 animated hit, which was itself a retelling of a centuries-old Chinese legend about a young woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place as a warrior.\nBut this version has not only been remade in the image of its predecessor; it has been refashioned in the image of Disney's other contemporary properties, most notably the recent entries in the Star Wars franchise. While the animated original was a G-rated family film with a wisecracking dragon sidekick played by Eddie Murphy, the live-action reboot is a dutiful PG-13 action spectacle built around a powerful female hero.\nMulan isn't the disaster that Disney's most recent Star Wars entry, The Rise of Skywalker, turned out to be. In both story and character terms, it's a more polished final product, which is to say that it basically makes sense and does not make a mockery of its source material.\nBut it clearly draws from the same well as the J.J. Abrams\u2013era Star Wars films. There are no lightsabers to be found, but there's a family sword, an imperial power struggle, a band of raiders led by a man in black, and a mystical energy source that gives the movie's titular heroine great power and special aptitude as a warrior. Disney was apparently hoping that a box-office force would once again awaken.\nAlas, just weeks before Mulan was set to be released, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down theaters in the United States, putting the film's theatrical release on hold. Instead, nearly six months later, it has been released to much of the world as a premium add-on to its parent company's streaming service, Disney+.\nFor about $30, you can finally have the theatrical experience at home. The problem is that it is not the theatrical experience. Even with a big-screen television and surround sound, you're still watching in your living room, with your dog snoring nearby and the delivery guy ringing your doorbell. The experience is less summer blockbuster and more Blockbuster Video.\nMulan also shares with the Abrams-verse a timid and studied thematic emptiness, an avoidance of any specific ideas or questions that might upset anyone, anywhere, at all. Mulan fights for honor, for family, for finding herself and owning her power, which is to say she fights for vague and inoffensive banalities that could not possibly stir up any political or cultural controversy. The movie reads as an extended attempt to dodge saying anything about anything in any way, except that nice things are nice and good things are good. Who could argue with that?\nThe real world, however, did not cooperate with Disney's plan to avoid ruffling feathers: Parts of the movie were shot near China's Uighur concentration camps, and the credits thank Chinese authorities who help administer those brutal facilities, where as many as three million people are reportedly held against their will in buildings ringed with razor wire, patrolled by guards armed with cattle prods.\nThe expansion of global trade has greatly benefited both American and Chinese citizens, and large corporations can sometimes serve as cultural ambassadors, even in countries with repressive governments. But Disney increasingly relies on the box office power of Chinese audiences. Its cooperation with China's Communist Party regime, which restricts the number of foreign films that can be shown each year and implicitly censors American studio content, is one reason for the careful blandness that permeates so many Disney products.\nWhat this means, however, is that a film like Mulan is inherently tied up in the ugliness of governments and politics\u2014indeed, in some of the ugliest political repression on the planet. Judged strictly as a film, Mulan is merely an extravagant mediocrity. But as a cultural proposition, it embodies something far, far darker.\nNEXT: GOP Unveils $500 Billion 'Skinny' Stimulus That's Dead on Arrival\nPeter Suderman is features editor at Reason.\nMovies China Communism\nShow Comments (45)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Flowing water exists on surface of Mars\nSherry Valare, September 28, 2015\nJAXA launches Himawari-8 weather satellite\nSpace Briefs, October 15, 2014\n'Rocket to the Moon' with the multitalented Don Brown\nChase Clark, July 3, 2019\nSTS-125 Mission: Last visit to Hubble\nAndrew R. Green, April 20, 2015\nMars Rover Infographic\nExploring the Dawn of the solar system\nChris Starr, March 1, 2015\nGhostly specter haunts 'coldest place in universe'\nSpace Briefs \u2014 January 14, 2014\nThe Boomerang nebula, called the \"coldest place in the universe,\" reveals its true shape to the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope. Photo: NRAO\/AUI\/NSF\/NASA\/STScI\/JPL-Caltech\nAt a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang nebula is the coldest known object in the universe \u2014 colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, the explosive event that created the cosmos.\nAstronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile have taken a new look at this object to learn more about its frigid properties and to determine its true shape, which has an eerily ghost-like appearance.\n\"This ultra-cold object is extremely intriguing and we're learning much more about its true nature with ALMA,\" said Raghvendra Sahai, a researcher and principal scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal. \"What seemed like a double lobe, or boomerang shape, from Earth-based optical telescopes, is actually a much broader structure that is expanding rapidly into space.\"\nAs originally observed with ground-based telescopes, this nebula appeared lopsided, which is how it got its name. Later observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed a bow-tie-like structure. The new ALMA data, however, reveal that the Hubble image tells only part of the story, and the twin lobes seen in that image may actually be a trick of light as seen at visible wavelengths.\nThe researchers discovered a dense lane of millimeter-sized dust grains surrounding the star, which explains why its outer cloud has an hourglass shape in visible light. These minute dust grains have created a mask that shades a portion of the central star and allows its light to leak out only in narrow but opposite directions into the cloud, giving it an hourglass appearance.\n\"This is important for the understanding of how stars die and become planetary nebulas,\" said Sahai. \"Using ALMA, we were quite literally, and figuratively, able to shed new light on the death throes of a sun-like star.\"\nThe Boomerang nebula, located about 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, is a relatively young example of an object known as a planetary nebula. Planetary nebulas, contrary to their name, are actually the end-of-life phases of stars like our sun that have sloughed off their outer layers. What remains at their centers are white dwarf stars, which emit intense ultraviolet radiation that causes the gas in the nebulae to glow and emit light in brilliant colors.\nRead the full ALMA release at https:\/\/public.nrao.edu\/news\/pressreleases\/alma-reveals-coldest-place-in-the-universe. Additional authors on this paper include Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala, Sweden; Patrick Huggins, New York University, New York; Lars-Ake Nyman, Joint ALMA Observatory, Santiago de Chile; and Yiannis Gonidakis, CSIRO, Australia Telescope National Facility.\nALMA, an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by European Southern Observatory, on behalf of North America by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and on behalf of East Asia by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) provides the unified leadership and management of the construction, commissioning and operation of ALMA.\nThe National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.\nThe California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.\nThis article appeared in the January 2014 issue of RocketSTEM.\nTags: Issue #5 (January 2014)\nNext post Liftoff for ESA's billion-star surveyor\nPrevious Article Comets are unpredictable beasts\nCygnus delivers to the ISS\nESA's Swarm trio monitoring our planet's magnetic shield\nMeet the crew of HI-SEAS 2","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Homosexuals and the Pedophile Connection\nMinnesota Family Council \/ Minnesota Family Institute ^ | 3\/10\/2003 | Joe Field\nPosted on 03\/15\/2003 1:37:36 PM PST by Willie Green\nFor education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.\nIf your child was attending a private, religious school would it concern you if the child\u00b4s teacher\/counselor suddenly admitted that he was gay?\nLutheran High School of Greater Minneapolis found itself in such a situation with Roger Franzen, a gay pastor\/teacher who taught religion at the school. Discussions ensued following this discovery and Franzen agreed to resign at the end of the 2000 school year while remaining \"closeted and celibate.\"\nLess than two years later, attorneys came out of the woodwork to help Franzen sue the school and denomination for discrimination and invasion of privacy.\nMinnesota's Human Rights Act, particularly as amended by the infamous 1994 gay rights amendment, seems to specifically afford religious institutions these discretions. The Franzen case should get nowhere fast.\nBut the issue of gays and public schools was recently highlighted in a U.S. District Court decision involving the New York City public school system. There the court ruled that the school system did not interfere with a teacher\u00b4s First Amendment rights when it fired him after discovering his active participation in the North American Man\/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). NAMBLA supports repealing the age of consent and child pornography laws as well as openly endorsing men and boys involved in underage sexual relationships.\nBut should such a ruling extend to homosexuals without such obvious connections to NAMBLA? The answer lies in whether there is a significant correlation between homosexuals and pedophile activity.\nGay activists have strenuously argued that there is no connection between homosexuality and the sexual abuse of children. They point out that the majority of child molestation cases are by heterosexuals. But they neglect a pivotal fact: Homosexuals comprise only a small percentage of the population, yet account for an extraordinarily high percentage of offenses against children.\nA recent study in Demography estimated the number of exclusive male homosexuals in the general population at 2.5 percent, and the number of exclusive lesbians at 1.4 percent. The study took into account three large data sets, including the all-encompassing U.S. Census.\nNow consider a report from the Journal of Sex Research which noted that homosexual pedophiles commit about one-third of the total number of child sex offenses, even though they are outnumbered by heterosexuals 20 to one. Less than four percent of the population commits one-third of the offenses against children!\nIn The Gay Report, homosexual researchers report data showing that better than 7 out of 10 homosexuals surveyed had at some time had sex with boys 16 to 19.\nOr consider a study in Archives of Sexual Behavior, which found that of 229 convicted child molesters surveyed, \"85 percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual.\"\nThe evidence is clear. Homosexuals have an overwhelming propensity towards child molestation. This is not to say that all homosexuals act out with pedophile tendencies. But the percentage of those who do is so disproportionately high it would be irresponsible and costly to ignore. Just ask the Roman Catholic Church.\nThe Catholic Church\u00b4s coffers are being drained by the millions to defend and settle an array of alleged child sex offenses by a number of priests. But the Catholic Church appears to have left itself open to further lawsuits when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted a Charter for the protection of children and young people. Included is the declaration that \"for even a single act of sexual abuse of a minor \u2014 past, present, or future \u2014 the offending priest will be permanently removed from the ministry.\" This \"one strike, you\u00b4re out\" policy for priests is a common sense start \u2014 but not enough.\nThe Bishops\u00b4 Charter is silent on the likeliest cause of the abuse problem \u2014 the existence of a large number of homosexuals in the priesthood. The Conference would benefit by heeding the words of Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Vall, who declared that \"people with these inclinations just cannot be ordained. That does not imply a final judgment of people with homosexuality. But you cannot be in this field.\" Instead the Conference, in apparent kowtowing to the gay lobby and political correctness, adopted a Charter that mandates the implementation of \"adequate screening and evaluative techniques in deciding the fitness of candidates for ordination, as well as a \"focus on the question of human formation for celibate and chastity.\"\nNo matter the screening, even if there is no history of prior child molestation, placing homosexuals in settings with children \u2014 such as schools \u2014 is akin to putting heterosexual male sex offenders in a sorority house instead of a halfway house.\nWith the abnormally high percentage of homosexuals accounting for pedophile activity, children in all school settings \u2014 private or public \u2014 need protection. To neglect this is to continue to place our children knowingly in harm\u00b4s way.\nTOPICS: Culture\/Society; Editorial\nKEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; homosexuals; nambla; pedofiles; pedophiles; prisoners\nfirst 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 101-110 next last\n1 posted on 03\/15\/2003 1:37:36 PM PST by Willie Green\nTo: Willie Green\nSince my child is a girl, I'm more worried about this type:\nA 40-year-old is under arrest, charged with soliciting sex from a minor over the Internet.\nRoss Strumlauf was arrested by offices of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in the parking lot of Regency Square, where police say he thought he was going to meet a 13-year-old girl. Police say Strumlauf, believing he was communicating with the teen, exposed himself and offered to pay her for sex.\nOfficers regularly pose as young girls in Internet chat rooms looking for sexual predators.\nStrumlauf also is charged with transmission of harmful materials to a minor over the Internet.\n2 posted on 03\/15\/2003 1:42:07 PM PST by george wythe\nThis is a violation of the fairy's rights and subjects him to unnecessary personal danger. He became a teaching tinkerbell so he wouldn't have to gamble with the diseased fairies in the general population but would have unlimited accesss to the clean, fresh young meat in his classroom. These selfish children have put the faggot at risk and it just isn't right. The democrats will fix this!!!\n3 posted on 03\/15\/2003 1:44:09 PM PST by Tacis\nTo: scripter; Remedy\nping!\n4 posted on 03\/15\/2003 1:47:12 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband\nTo: Emmylou; FF578; Remedy; scripter; pram; I_Love_My_Husband; EdReform; Dataman; BibChr; yendu bwam; ..\nHomosexual Agenda Ping\nThis article reveals the true nature of the Gay Gestapo. They are determined to destroy Christianity.\n5 posted on 03\/15\/2003 1:48:46 PM PST by Kuksool\nTo: Tacis\nThis is a violation of the fairy's rights and subjects him to unnecessary personal danger. He became a teaching tinkerbell so he wouldn't have to gamble with the diseased fairies in the general population but would have unlimited accesss to the clean, fresh young meat in his classroom. These selfish children have put the faggot at risk and it just isn't right. The democrats will fix this!!! - Yea we must be tolerant and respect and celebrate his lifestyle choice and anyone who says otherwise is committing a hate crime! - This is all Bush's fault!\n6 posted on 03\/15\/2003 1:53:13 PM PST by Free_at_last_-2001 (is bill [not allowed to practice law] clinton in jail yet?)\nComment #7 Removed by Moderator\n... In The Gay Report, homosexual researchers report data showing that better than 7 out of 10 homosexuals surveyed had at some time had sex with boys 16 to 19 ...\nWas that when they were older, or when they themselves were 16 to 19 ? If it was when they themselves were that age, then the same percentage holds for heterosexuals. If so, then the later statement that the \"great majority of homosexuals have a propensity towards child molestation\" is false.\nDo you (or anyone else out there) have another study that clarifies this ?\n8 posted on 03\/15\/2003 1:58:02 PM PST by Camber-G\nI've got two words for parents who are put in this situation: home school.\n9 posted on 03\/15\/2003 1:59:06 PM PST by Commander8\nTo: Discussted\nNormal people aren't gay.\n10 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:08:45 PM PST by ALS\nTo: I_Love_My_Husband\n{Lutheran High School of Greater Minneapolis found itself in such a situation with Roger Franzen, a gay pastor\/teacher who taught religion at the school. Discussions ensued following this discovery and Franzen agreed to resign at the end of the 2000 school year while remaining \"closeted and celibate.\"\nMinnesota's Human Rights Act, particularly as amended by the infamous 1994 gay rights amendment, seems to specifically afford religious institutions these discretions. The Franzen case should get nowhere fast.}\nAll Bible-believing schools ought to require pastors & teachers to sign statements affirming their allegiance to Biblical principles. There are too many churches that have been taken over by False Prophets.\n11 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:14:50 PM PST by Kuksool\nTo: Kuksool; I_Love_My_Husband; *Homosexual Agenda; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; ...\nThanks for the ping you two. Here's a ping of my own after trying to remove those who have already been pinged.\nHomosexual Agenda Index\nHomosexual Agenda Keyword Search\nAll FreeRepublic Bump Lists\n12 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:17:22 PM PST by scripter\nTo: ALS; Discussted\n<< Normal people aren't gay. >>\nNormal people are gay -- as in \"happy and gay!\"\nDeviant sodomists, on the other hand, are GAY, as in the anacromyn.\nGot AIDS* Yet?\n[*Anus Invaders Death Syndrome]\n13 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:17:57 PM PST by Brian Allen (This above all -- to thine own self be true)\nWhy would you defend someone like this?\n14 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:18:29 PM PST by Dataman\nA homosexual is not a role model for ANT child. And yes there is a connection between homosexuals and pedahilia.\n15 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:20:11 PM PST by nmh\nTo: ALS\nAgreed. The statistics cited above are not speculation. They are facts. Just like the fact that the average male homosexual has a life span of 41 years of age.\nLet me ask you a question: if the average homosexual male were required to let his health insurance company know about his sexual status in the same way that smokers must inform their health insurance company about their habit, could the average gay man afford health insurance?\nAnswer: of course not. We are paying for the consequences of their sodomitical lifestyles. They are mooching off us. Homosexuals cannot survive without the stability provided by the surrounding heterosexual community, nor can they get \"fresh meat\" without it either. They are predators. The \"gay rights\" movement is nothing but special pleading from a bunch of sex perverts who want to socialize the consequences of their depraved lifestyles. Homosexuality is disgusting and utterly destructive to society.\n16 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:21:20 PM PST by HumanaeVitae\nHells bells, my daughter is not allowed near a Catholic church, much less a Catholic school. The risks outweight any benefit.\nJunk science? It gets no junkier than the \"science\" claiming gayness is a natural, inherited trait.\nWhy, tell me, can someone prey on teen boys for sex, claim to be heterosexual, and be taken seriously? At minimum, if it's same-sex adult\/child sex then it's homosexual and vice versa. Gay groups with ulterior motives try to redefine the premises of studies in order to guarantee a favorable outcome. If kids are going to be protected, we need to be interested in truth only. When one group claims that sex between two men or two women is biologically normal, truth is already a casualty of the debate.\n18 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:33:53 PM PST by RAT Patrol\nAmerica has only what it tolerates.\n19 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:38:16 PM PST by NetValue (Only God can forgive the UN.)\nSomeone who is 18 or 19 is old enough to vote, serve in the armed fores, and get married. A man of that age is not a child.\n20 posted on 03\/15\/2003 2:43:58 PM PST by Celtjew Libertarian","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal\nScholar Commons\nAbout This IR\nScholar Commons > Open Access Journals > GSP > Vol. 15 (2021) > Iss. 3 (2021)\nA Dance of Shadows and Fires: Conceptual and Practical Challenges of Intergenerational Healing after Mass Atrocity\nBrandon Hamber, Ulster UniversityFollow\nIngrid Palmary, University of JohannesburgFollow\nThe legacy of mass atrocity\u2014including colonialism, slavery or specific manifestations such as apartheid\u2014continue long after their demise. Applying a temporal intergenerational lens adds complications. We argue that mass atrocity creates for subsequent generations a deep psychological rupture akin to witnessing past atrocities. This creates a moral liability in the present. Healing is a process dependent on the authenticity (evident in discourse and action) with which we address contemporary problems. A further overriding task is to open social and political space for divergent voices. Acknowledgement of mass atrocity requires more than one-off events or institutional responses (the grand apology, the truth commission). Rather, acknowledgement has to become a lived social, cultural and political reality. Without this acknowledgement, healing, either collectively or individually, is stymied. Healing after mass atrocity is as much about political action (addressing inequalities and racism) as an act of re-imaging created through constant and contested re-writing.\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.5038\/1911-9933.15.3.1779\nHamber, Brandon and Palmary, Ingrid (2021) \"A Dance of Shadows and Fires: Conceptual and Practical Challenges of Intergenerational Healing after Mass Atrocity,\" Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 15: Iss. 3: 100\u2013120.\nAvailable at: https:\/\/digitalcommons.usf.edu\/gsp\/vol15\/iss3\/12\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License\nAfrican Studies Commons, Community Psychology Commons, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Commons, Political Theory Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons\nFormer Editors\nCitation Quick Guide\nAll Issues Vol. 15, Iss. 3 Vol. 15, Iss. 2 Vol. 15, Iss. 1 Vol. 14, Iss. 3 Vol. 14, Iss. 2 Vol. 14, Iss. 1 Vol. 13, Iss. 3 Vol. 13, Iss. 2 Vol. 13, Iss. 1 Vol. 12, Iss. 3 Vol. 12, Iss. 2 Vol. 12, Iss. 1 Vol. 11, Iss. 3 Vol. 11, Iss. 2 Vol. 11, Iss. 1 Vol. 10, Iss. 3 Vol. 10, Iss. 2 Vol. 10, Iss. 1 Vol. 9, Iss. 3 Vol. 9, Iss. 2 Vol. 9, Iss. 1 Vol. 8, Iss. 3 Vol. 8, Iss. 2 Vol. 8, Iss. 1 Vol. 7, Iss. 2 Vol. 7, Iss. 1 Vol. 6, Iss. 3 Vol. 6, Iss. 2 Vol. 6, Iss. 1 Vol. 5, Iss. 3 Vol. 5, Iss. 2 Vol. 5, Iss. 1 Vol. 4, Iss. 3 Vol. 4, Iss. 2 Vol. 4, Iss. 1 Vol. 3, Iss. 3 Vol. 3, Iss. 2 Vol. 3, Iss. 1 Vol. 2, Iss. 3 Vol. 2, Iss. 2 Vol. 2, Iss. 1 Vol. 1, Iss. 3 Vol. 1, Iss. 2 Vol. 1, Iss. 1\nFollow GSP on: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn RSS\nTweets by @GenocideStudies\nScholar Commons | About this IR | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Daily Briefs \/ 2018 \/ 6 \/ JBS names new CEO\nJBS names new CEO\nDecember 6, 2018 | Mick Bowen\nGilberto Tomazoni becomes the first head of the Brazilian meat company from outside the Batista family\nDebt People Brazil\nBrazil's JBS has named Gilberto Tomazoni as its new global CEO, marking the first time that someone outside the Batista family takes the helm. Tomazoni joined JBS in 2013, after working as CEO of the BRF subsidiary Sadia and vice president at Bunge. He became the head of the JBS' global operations in 2015 and COO in 2017. He takes over from Jos\u00e9 Batista Sobrinho, who founded the company in 1953. Batista stepped in as CEO in September 2017, after his son Joesely and Wesley admitted to bribing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HSBC selects five finalists\nBy Karen Chapman\nCONGRATULATIONS to the five teams who have made it to the third and final round of the HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards 2003! They are: Palmaris, Kafelnikov, PTC, Just Startup and Epsilon.\nThe teams impressed the panel of judges with their creativity, innovativeness and project viability. The chief judge, HT Consulting (Asia) Sdn Bhd group CEO Harres Tan, said the panel decided on the top five teams after much deliberation.\n''The judges were given all 28 business plans to read. So when we came today, it was to discuss the entries,'' he said on Thursday.\nOriginally, 30 teams out of 333 were shortlisted for the second round. However, one team dropped out while another was disqualified.\nThe business plans were judged for innovation and creative thinking, commercial viability and potential, application of IT knowledge and skills.\nVIABLE VIBES: The judges looking for well-researched and feasible business plans.\nSaid Tan: ''Top marks go to teams for their creativity and innovativeness. We were looking for something practical, not something that can only be applied in the future. Perhaps what was lacking was the financial side as the students may not have been exposed to it yet.''\nSome of the business plans stood out from the rest and it was obvious how much work and research had gone into them, said Tan.\n''As an example, the Epsilon team came up with the idea of a 24-hour karaoke satellite broadcasting channel. This works along the lines of pay-per-view movies, except that in this case, it is a monthly payment for karaoke songs.\n''The Palmaris team also have a good idea in using PDAs in the practice of medicine as it is a growing trend,'' he said.\nThe panel of judges included HSBC Bank Malaysia chief information officer Chu Hong Keong, Sunway Technology CEO Mok Sew Wah and The Star In.Tech editor A. Asohan.\nFellow judge Mok was just as impressed with the plans. ''Considering that the participants are students, some of the plans submitted were obviously very well researched. It was clear that much effort had been put into them,'' he said.\nAsohan said the top five stood out as the ideas were not just good, the teams showed their ability to think things through. ''Although some of the ideas may not be commercially viable, the teams scored well because of this,'' he added.\nChu, who was chief judge in the first round, said the judges were looking for viable plans.\n''We were not looking for something from Star Trek. Sometimes, it is the simple idea which people don't think about which stands out.\"\nConcurring with Tan, Chu said the idea from the Epsilon team is viable as existing technology can support it.\nOrganised by HSBC Bank Malaysia, this challenging competition is running for the second consecutive year. It is open to full-time undergraduate degree or diploma students at public or private universities and colleges.\nCongratulating the five teams, Chu said the next step is a presentation skills workshop on Jan 27. ''The five teams will then compete for the championship by making a formal presentation of their business plan before a panel of judges on March 6,'' he added.\nThe hard work is almost over. The winning team will not only win trophies, but also earn RM15,000 and a trip to Seattle, in the United States. In Seattle, the team can look forward to an exciting itinerary, including the opportunity to observe and learn about the latest IT and media developments and meet successful young entrepreneurs.\nTeam members will also get a taste of life as university students in the United States as they will be living on the University of Washington campus. Highlights of the trip include visits to Microsoft, the Seattle Times (an online newspaper) as well as Boeing's Flight Museum. But it's not all serious stuff as the winners will get to do some sightseeing in Seattle too.\nFor all their hard work, the other finalists will also receive prizes. The second and third place winners will get Silver and Bronze awards respectively.\nThe other teams in the second round which in the judges' opinion produced an excellent performance, will receive RM2,000 and a certificate of excellence. They are Team Flea (Mantissa Institute), TRI (Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology) Geneo Generation-E (Inti College), Team H.O.T (Monash University) and Team RMS (Kolej Universiti Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn).\nNext In Education\nCulinary away from the kitchen\nDeferment of loan repayment process will be smooth and easy, assures PTPTN chairman\n400,000 students return to school for physical classes\nOrderly first day back for Form 5 students at Kuching school\nTaylor's makes headway in Fashion Design Technology\nSPM candidates worry over exams and pandemic\nSkip SPM trials, schools told","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Suspect in auto shop standoff indicted on 20 charges\nRobert Connelly fled from police and barricaded himself in an auto shop. A hostage, customer Miguel Sanchez, eventually convinced Connelly to surrender.\nPORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The suspect in a standoff with police at a Portland auto repair shop last week has been indicted on 20 charges, according to a news release from the office of District Attorney Mike Schmidt.\nRobert Connelly, 49, faces three counts of attempted aggravated murder with a firearm, three counts of first degree attempted assault, three counts of unlawful use of a weapon with a firearm, three counts of menacing, one count of first degree escape, one count of second degree escape, one count of third degree escape, one count of first degree kidnapping, two counts of first degree burglary with a criminal, one count of first degree mischief and one count of first degree felon in possession of a criminal.\nThe charges all stem from a confrontation with police and subsequent standoff at the repair shop on Aug. 16.\nRELATED: Hostage at Portland auto shop went from thinking he'd need to kill suspect to talk him into surrender\nOfficers located Connelly near Southeast 82nd Avenue and attempted to arrest him on existing warrants for a federal drug charge, a felon in possession of a different charge and a charge for failure to register as a sex offender in Washington.\nConnelly saw the officers and ran toward the auto repair shop, according to the news release. The officers followed and Connelly pointed a gun at them, prompting them to fire at him, although they did not hit him. He then went into the shop and barricaded himself inside.\nShop owner Alonso Rodriguez and a friend were able to escape, but a third person in the building, customer Miguel Sanchez, became trapped in the shop with Connelly.\nOTHER STORIES: Man shot by police after reportedly attacking officer in Hillsboro\nSanchez later told KGW that he initially hid under a counter and believed he would be forced to kill Connelly or else Connelly would kill him, but when they met, Connelly said he wouldn't hurt him.\nThey talked for several hours, according to Sanchez, while police crisis negotiators and a police tactical team responded outside. Eventually, he was able to convince Connelly to leave the building and surrender to police. Police said no one was injured during the incident.\nConnelly's prior criminal record includes a rape conviction in Columbia County and a robbery conviction in Cowlitz County, according to the news release.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Luiz C. Ribeiro\nCommercial, Editorial Photographer\nluizcribeiro.com\nGermany vs Brazil - World Cup Game\nFollow Hire\nBiography: Luiz is a full-time editorial and corporate photographer with a keen eye for storytelling, twenty plus years of experience, and often described as a generalist because of his ability to execute a wide range of assignment work. In 2012, after... read on\nFocus: Photographer, Photojournalist, Advertising, Street Art, Travel, Fine Art, Environment, Architecture, Documentary, Photo Editor, Photography, Portraiture, Culture\nCovering: Europe, Latin America, USA & Canada\nSkills: Image Archiving, Photo Assisting, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Color Printing, Mixed Media, Multimedia Production, Photojournalism, Video Editing\n1 of 15 \u00a9 2021 Luiz C. Ribeiro\nBrazilian fans reacts as the Brazillian national team collapses in front of the German national team in the Mineir\u00e3o Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.\nGermany went on to win the World Cup for the fourth time after defeating Argentina in the final, and became the first European nation to win the World Cup in South America.\nA unidentified woman cries during the Brazilian national team shocking loss.\nAn unidentified German celebrates. The Brazil vs Germany football match that took place on 8 July 2014 at the Est\u00e1dio Mineir\u00e3o in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was the first semi-final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.\nGermany's win marked the largest margin of victory in a FIFA World Cup semi-final. The game also saw Germany score the most goals in World Cup tournament history, their 223 overtaking Brazil's 221.\nGermany's second goal, scored by Miroslav Klose, was his 16th in World Cup play, overtaking Brazil's own Ronaldo as the tournament's all-time record goalscorer.\nBrazil's loss broke their 62-match home unbeaten streak in competitive matches going back to 1975, when they lost 1\u20133 to Peru in that year's Copa Am\u00e9rica, and equalled their biggest margin of defeat, a 6\u20130 loss to Uruguay in 1920, causing the match to be described as a national humiliation.\nBrazilians on the stadium can not believe what is happening on the field below.\n10 of 15 \u00a9 2021 Luiz C. Ribeiro\nAn unidentified Brazilian fan scratches his head in disbelieve of what is happening on the field below.\nBrazil scored a goal at the last minute, ending the match 7\u20131.\nGermans celebrate another goal. The game was subsequently referred to by the Brazilian media as the Mineirazo, evoking the spirit of national shame brought by the Maracanazo in which Brazil unexpectedly lost the 1950 FIFA World Cup on home soil to Uruguay.\nBrazil's loss broke their 62-match home unbeaten streak in competitive matches going back to 1975, when they lost 1\u20133 to Peru in that year's Copa Am\u00e9rica.\nThe Brazil vs Germany football match that took place on 8 July 2014 at the Est\u00e1dio Mineir\u00e3o in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was the first semi-final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.\nPublic Story\nCredits: luiz c. ribeiro\nArchived as: Editorial, Photography, Sports\nBoth Brazil and Germany reached the semifinals with an undefeated record in the competition, with the Brazilians' quarterfinals with Colombia causing them to lose striker Neymar to injury, and defender and captain Thiago Silva to an accumulation of yellow cards. Despite the absences, a close match was expected, given both teams were traditional FIFA World Cup forces, sharing eight tournaments won and having previously met in the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final, where Brazil won 2\u20130 and earned their fifth title. This match, however, ended in a stunning loss for Brazil; Germany led 5\u20130 at half time, with four goals scored within six minutes, and subsequently brought the score up to 7\u20130 in the second half. Brazil scored a goal in the last minute, ending the match 7\u20131, these images shows the Brazilian fans reaction during the game.\nLuiz C. Ribeiro Stories Germany vs Brazil - World Cup Game\nShort URL: Visura.co\/x\/12679\nAlso by Luiz C. Ribeiro \u2014\nFirst World Games of Indigenous Peoples\nBy luiz c. ribeiro \/ Palmas, Brazil, Tocantins State \u2014 Indigenous populations are the truly guardians of our environment, without their knowledge and protection..\nBy Luiz C. Ribeiro \u2014 Street photography is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated..\nBy Luiz C. Ribeiro \u2014 Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism complying with a rigid ethical framework..\nBy Luiz C. Ribeiro\nPatax\u00f3 H\u00e3H\u00e3H\u00e3e\nBy Luiz C. Ribeiro \u2014 The indigenous peoples today know generically by the ethnonym Patax\u00f3 H\u00e3h\u00e3h\u00e3e are..\nBy Luiz C. Ribeiro \u2014 Architectural photography is the photographing of buildings and similar structures that are both..\nBy Luiz C. Ribeiro \u2014 Travel photography is a subcategory of photography involving the documentation of an area's..\nBy Luiz C. Ribeiro \u2014 Graffiti are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall..\nBy Luiz C. Ribeiro \u2014 An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject's usual environment,..\nBy Luiz C. 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{"text":"Ulster Militia Looks to Disarmament Talks\nThe Ulster Defense Association, Northern Ireland's largest Protestant paramilitary group, said today that it would cease all military activity and attacks on Roman Catholics, for 12 months, and that it would resume communications with the body monitoring disarmament of the province's guerrilla organizations. The cease-fire will be reviewed every three months and applies to two affiliate organizations, the Ulster Freedom Fighters and the Ulster Young Militants, the group said. It follows a violent internal feud that left four men dead and forced 100 people into exile in Scotland two weeks ago. The group's political representatives announced the move at a Belfast hotel, with a statement that included an apology for the group's involvement in the illegal drug trade and a vague plan to become an exclusively political organization. Political leaders welcomed the statement but said the group should back up its words with actions. Full Story","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"D-backs agree to terms with 25 Draft picks\nBy Steve Gilbert\nANAHEIM -- The D-backs have agreed to terms with 25 of the 40 players they selected in last week's Draft, including third-round pick Taylor Clarke, a right-hander out of College of Charleston.\n\u2022 Cast your Esurance All-Star ballot for #ASGWorthy players\nThe D-backs' first two picks in the Draft, Vanderbilt's Dansby Swanson (No. 1 overall) and TCU's Alex Young (43) are still competing in the College World Series and are not eligible to sign yet.\nThe players that agreed to terms along with Clarke are: right-hander Breckin Williams (fourth round), right-hander Ryan Burr (fifth), infielder Kal Simmons (eighth), right-hander Pierce Romero (ninth), outfielder Joey Armstrong (10th), outfielder Jason Morozowski (13th), catcher Luke Lowery (14th), outfielder Zach Nehrir (16th), right-hander Austin Mason (17th), right fielder Jacy Cave (19th), left-hander Will Lowman (20th), catcher Alexis Olmeda (21st), outfielder Logan Soole (23rd), left-hander Bryant Holtmann (24th), outfielder Stephen Dezzi (25th), left-hander Kirby Bellow (26th), right-hander Cameron Gann (27th), right-hander Keegan Long (29th), infielder Jeff Smith (30th), outfielder Luis Silverio (33rd), outfielder Jake Peevyhouse (34th), outfielder Quinnton Mack (35th), left-hander Cameron Smith (36th) and infielder Josh Anderson (38th).\nSteve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB.\nRead More: Arizona Diamondbacks","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u203a News \u203a 2017 \u203a October \u203a Football Position and Length of Play Affect Brain Impact\nUNC Center for Health Innovation recognized again by Becker's Hospital Review\nCIDD Investigator Forum set for Oct. 10\nBlood test for HPV may help predict risk in cancer patients\nDelays for melanoma surgeries linked to insurance type\nScientists find gene linked to heightened mucus levels in lung disease\nUNC researchers to lead $61-million national asthma treatment project\nBiomarkers of low ovarian reserve may not predict fertility as previously thought\nSkills of a Tar Heel, Luck of the Irish\nMeltzer-Brody to headline Science Caf\u00e9 at NC Museum of Natural Sciences\nHow hand hygiene becomes contagious\nNew book explores drinking, drug abuse, and addiction in the autism community\nKey Psychiatric Drug Target Comes Into Focus\nSharpless sworn in as director of the National Cancer Institute\nResearchers Define Burden of Hepatitis in Democratic Republic of the Congo\nAre e-cigarettes 'safer' than regular cigarettes?\nFDA approves eculizumab for generalized myasthenia gravis\nHow to Turn Damaged Heart Tissue Back into Healthy Heart Muscle: New Details Emerge\nUNC Blood Donation Center: 20 years helping donors give life\nSmart Artificial Beta Cells Could Lead to New Diabetes Treatment\nUNC Medical Center Offers Innovative Non-surgical Treatment for Enlarged Prostate\nTiming could matter to how responsive cancer cells are to treatment, study suggests\nSHAC celebrates half century of service\nOne Mind nonprofit pledges $8 million for UNC-led posttraumatic brain injury study\nGut bacteria bolster disease research in labs\nWhy do some head knocks cause more damage than others?\nFootball Position and Length of Play Affect Brain Impact\nUNC Health Care Hospitals Receive Top Safety Scores from Leapfrog Group\nUNC bioethicists analyze new CDC interim guidelines for Zika testing in pregnancy\nResults from a newly published UNC study co-authored by MD\/PhD student Michael Clark showed that non-speed players with a history of recurrent concussion had lower white matter integrity and lower measure of activation during cognitive tasks.\nclick to enlarge Co-author Michael Clark is a seventh-year MD\/PhD student in the department of Allied Health Sciences.\nUNC researchers have found that damage to white matter in the brains of former college and professional football players due to recurrent head impacts can be related to playing position and career duration, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.\nMost previous research on head impacts in football has focused on cognitively impaired former football players. This is the first neuroimaging study to compare former football players with no evidence of cognitive impairment to analyze the effects of different playing histories and concussion exposure.\n\"Our study, by including both former collegiate and professional players, gives us the ability to examine career duration and playing position along with concussion history,\" said study author Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, research director for the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \"By doing so, we found that these factors are all important when considering the long-term effects of playing football.\"\nThe research team recruited 64 former collegiate and professional football players, aged 52 to 65. Half of the former athletes played only college football, and half continued on to the professional league. Half of the former players reported three or more prior concussions, while the other half reported one or no prior concussions. The researchers recruited an equal number of speed and non-speed playing positions. The non-speed positions consisted of offensive or defensive linemen.\nTwo MRI techniques\u2014diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional MRI (fMRI)\u2014were used to examine 61 of the former players. MRI data from the other three players were excluded due to excessive movement or inability to complete the MRI exam. DTI was used to analyze white matter structural integrity, while fMRI was used to assess brain function while the players performed a memory task.\n\"While DTI and fMRI have been used previously in the field of concussion research, we are among the first to combine the two techniques,\" said co-author Michael Clark, a seventh-year MD\/PhD student in the department of Allied Health Sciences. \"We were interested in how white matter and the ability to recruit brain resources to complete a memory task might be affected by head impact exposure in terms of career length and the position played. By using two different and complementary types of MRI, we were able to see the relationship between structure and function, both of which are affected by head impact exposure.\nThe results showed a significant interaction between career duration and concussion history. Former college players with three or more concussions had lower integrity in a broadly distributed area of white matter compared to those with one concussion or less. However, the opposite was true for former professional players.\nThe researchers speculate that players with a long career duration, exposure to recurrent concussive events, and who are cognitively normal in their late 50s may not be reflective of the highly exposed former professional football player population as a whole.\n\"We're not exactly sure why this is the case for the former pros,\" Clark said. \"It may have to do with the sample of athletes we recruited into the study. But the findings could suggest that a career with additional exposure to football is not necessarily worse than a shorter duration of exposure.\"\nThe non-speed players with a history of recurrent concussion had reduced integrity in the frontal white matter and lower measure of activation during the fMRI task than those with one concussion or less. This was not the case for the speed players.\nThe interactions observed between concussion histories and playing positions suggest there may be important differences in the mechanisms of injury between speed and non-speed players. The magnitude, location and frequency of head impacts in football differ by position. Offensive backs experience impacts at greater acceleration. Linemen, however, tend to experience a greater overall frequency of impacts, and have the greatest proportion of impacts to the front of the helmet. The high proportion of frontal impacts experienced by non-speed players may result in more localized damage to frontal white matter tracts as compared to the more variable impact locations experienced by speed position players.\n\"These findings suggest the playing position of an athlete may change the effects of concussions on the brain,\" Guskiewicz said. \"The mechanisms of concussions in non-speed players are fundamentally different from those of speed position players, suggesting that perhaps position-specific helmets are warranted.\"\nThe researchers added that more work is needed to better understand the results and to determine the underlying mechanisms regarding how subconcussive and concussive impacts affect brain health later in life.\nCollaborating with Guskiewicz and Clark were Eleanna M. L. Varangis, M., Allen A. Champagne, Kelly S. Giovanello, PhD, Feng Shi, PhD, Zachary Y. Kerr, PhD, and J. Keith Smith, MD, PhD.\nMedia Contact for UNC School of Medicine: Mark Derewicz, 984-974-1915, mark.derewicz@unchealth.unc.edu\nMedia Contact for the UNC College of Arts and Sciences: Kim Spurr, 919-962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu\nFiled under: Allied Health Sciences, Radiology, Research","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Florida Man July 20\nJuly 20, 2008 (UPI). A candidate for St. Petersburg mayor, Florida, attacked black reparations activists and told them to \"return Africa\" during a City Hall debate.\nPaul Congemi is running as an independent candidate. He sent his rant at Jesse Nevel (mayoral candidate) who chairs the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. This group is made up of white allies from the African People's Socialist Party and is looking to \"in a White Community to make amends.\" Nevel, you and you people are talking about reparations. Concerning the reparations that you are referring to, Mr. Nevel said, \"Your people have already received your reparations. \"Your reparations were made possible by a man called Barack Obama.\"\nCongemi said, despite the cries of Nevel's supporters, \"My advice is to you, my advice, you should not like America. There are planes that leave every hour from Tampa airport. Return to Africa. Return! Congemi, 60 years old, added his thoughts in an email to The Tampa Bay Times.\nKonami wrote, \"Yes, I told them to go back home to Africa.\" \"My comment was made for Mr. Nevel's group. All African Americans are not equal. Only Nevel is \".\nNevel, 27, stated that Congemi's comments reflect a wider issue of fighting for justice for the African community in the country. This he claimed is the \"defining question that all candidates must address.\" \". \"I came to this race nearly four months ago on the platform 'unity through remedy'. We created a strong broad movement in St. Petersburg that represents thousands of people who want unity in our racially divided city. He said that justice begins with reparteeing the black community.\nThe Palm Beach Gardens Police Department began its 2018 murder investigation in January. This was a very early start considering Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is an essentially 50,000-person golf course. One. The case was initially handled according to books. Victim: Alan J. Abrahamson. According to family and friends, he is the favorite man. According to some, he is\u2026\nRead More Florida Man July 15Continue\nBRADENTON, Florida (WFTS \/ \/ CNN) \u2014 A Florida man was hurt while shifting pool furniture onto his terrace. It just took another, but he nearly perished. Charles Lee was transferring a deck seat when a gust of wind knocked him down to the pool. A seated leg hammering his throat.\"I was amazed. This decision\u2026\nFederal officials announced Tuesday that a Florida man posed as a woman to fool heterosexuals into having sex with him. He secretly filmed the meetings and posted them online. Brian Deneuvemestier (33), from Homestead, was charged with two counts for illegal interception oral communication and three counts for misconduct in connection to StraightBoyz, according to\u2026\n(Reuters) \u2013 Police in Miami Beach arrested a 46-year-old homeless man for kicking another man using scissors. According to Miami Beach police reports, Jonathan Crenshaw, a Florida-born man who sex with a Chicago 22-year old man twice before fleeing, Crenshaw was arrested Tuesday morning. Local media reports claim that Crenshaw was an artist from the\u2026\nFlorida Man July 8\nAfter fighting off an intruder, a Florida man named himself \"The Beast\" and took horrible action to stop him until the police arrived. Richard Golden, a Jacksonville resident, was sitting at his home when the glass broke. He claims that a man with an assault rifle broke through the sliding glass door of his home\u2026\nRead More Florida Man July 8Continue\nFlorida is attracting everyone's attention, but for the wrong reasons. People are now filming themselves getting out of their cars and dancing to Drake's In My Feelings. This is the latest trend that's on the Internet. Jaylene Norwood, 22, from Boynton Beach, Florida, quickly discovered that the stunt was dangerous and warned people. In a\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Novak Djokovic's request for personal chef and tennis court rejected by Australian immigration officials\nWorld tennis number one Novak Djokovic's request for access to a personal chef and a tennis court while detained by Australian immigration officials has been denied as he faces deportation after his visa was cancelled.\nDjokovic is currently embroiled in a legal battle over whether he is exempt from the country's stringent COVID vaccination requirements, as his lawyers fight to ensure the Serb can defend his Australian Open title.\nDjokovic's visa was revoked after it was reviewed by immigration officials in the country, in accordance with the country's strict immigration laws for the unvaccinated.\nIn addition, alleged photos of the food served to refugees in the hotel have surfaced online, with some claiming the food contains mould and maggots.\nSaturday, January 8, will be Djokovic's third day in the Melbourne immigration detention facility, which is a few miles away from the luxury hotels where the majority of Australian Open players are staying.\nLawyers for the 34-year-old claim he tested positive for COVID-19 on December 16 and had a valid visa and medical exemption from the Australian Open organizer.\nHis lawyers also requested alternative accommodations so that he could train for the tournament, which begins on January 17, but this request was also denied.\nDjokovic, who has previously expressed reservations about coronavirus vaccines, wrote on Instagram on Friday: \"Thank you to everyone all over the world for your unending support. It's palpable to me, and it's greatly appreciated.\"\nHossein Latifi, a man staying in the same hotel as Djokovic, told Reuters: \"We're confined to our room. There is no outside air. We don't have a training facility. There is no gym in this building. It's extremely difficult.\"\nThe 32-year-old, who is originally from Iran, went on to say: \"We are refugees, and we are innocent people who have committed no crime. They're just holding me hostage here.\"\nPrevious post Nnamdi Kanu's case needs political solution \u2013 Ekweremadu\nNext post Traditional wedding attendee cleverly 'steals' $100 bill a bride was being sprayed\nFrom Trenches To The World Cup: The Humble Rise Of Mohammed Salisu\nMohammed Salsiu has become one of Ghana's most important players at the 2022 World Cup. In fact, he has become...\nKarim Benzema wins first Ballon d'Or \u2013 Full List of Rankings\nReal Madrid forward Karim Benzema today won his first Ballon d'Or. He beat competition from Bayern Munich's Sadio Mane and...\nAsamoah Gyan preps himself up for World Cup by losing massive pound of weight\nAsamoah Gyan, the all-time leading scorer for the Black Stars, has displayed a trim physique as he prepares to play...\n\"My place in the Black Stars is guaranteed because I'm a senior player\" \u2013 Andre Dede Ayew\nBlack Stars skipper Andre Dede Ayew has said only senior players like him have guaranteed places in the team. \"The...\nChelsea sack manager Thomas Tuchel\nPremier League side Chelsea have sacked their manager, Thomas Tuchel. An official statement from the club confirms. The sack statement...\n\"Africa's first World Cup will be won by Black Stars\" \u2013 Prez Akufo-Addo dreams\nPresident Akufo-Addo has dreamt of the possibility of the Ghana Black Stars winning the first World Cup for Africa. Speaking...\nPrevious post:Nnamdi Kanu's case needs political solution \u2013 Ekweremadu\nNext post:Traditional wedding attendee cleverly 'steals' $100 bill a bride was being sprayed","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How many words are Australian children hearing in the first year of life?\nMary E. Brushe ORCID: orcid.org\/0000-0001-8025-85351,2,\nJohn W. Lynch2,3,\nSheena Reilly4,\nEdward Melhuish5 &\nSally A. Brinkman1,2\nBMC Pediatrics volume 20, Article number: 52 (2020) Cite this article\nThere is evidence that parents from more socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds engage in fewer verbal interactions with their child than more advantaged parents. This leads to the so-called, '30 million-word gap'. This study aims to investigate the number of words children hear and the number of vocalizations children produce in their first year of life and examines whether these aspects of the early language home environment differ by maternal education.\nMothers were recruited into a five-year prospective cohort study and categorized into either high or low maternal education groups. Data was derived from the first two waves of the study, when the children were six and twelve months old. At both waves, children were involved in day-long audio recordings using the Language Environment Analysis software that provided automatic counts of adult words spoken to the child, child vocalizations and conversational turns. Descriptive results are presented by maternal education groups.\nThere was large variation within each maternal education group, with the number of adult words spoken to the child ranging from 2958 to 39,583 at six months and 4389 to 45,849 at twelve months. There were no meaningful differences between adult words, child vocalizations or conversational turns across maternal education groups at either wave of data collection.\nThese results show that a word gap related to maternal education is not apparent up to twelve months of age. The large variability among both maternal education groups suggests that universal interventions that encourage all parents to talk more to their child may be more appropriate than interventions targeted towards disadvantaged families during the first year of life.\nThe early years are fundamental in ensuring children grow up to be healthy, functioning adults [1,2,3]. By the time children start school there is a clear social gradient in most areas of child health and development [4]. The first five years of life, especially for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, are crucial in overcoming the intergenerational transmission of inequality, such that disadvantaged parents have disadvantaged children, who themselves go on to be disadvantaged adults [5].\nLanguage ability is a critical developmental milestone that is directly related to later literacy, educational attainment and labor market experience. In the Australian context, results from the 2018 Australian Early Development Census, a triennial census of children's development at age 5, showed that 6.6% of children were developmentally vulnerable on the language and cognitive skills domain and 8.2% were vulnerable on the communication skills and general knowledge domain [6]. Both domains were socioeconomically patterned, with the highest levels of vulnerability amongst children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds. Poorer language skills have been shown to strongly predict poorer education outcomes in the mid and long term [3, 7].\nGiven socioeconomic inequalities in language development can be detected early and predict later outcomes, mechanisms for enhancing children's development require further investigation. Currently, some evidence suggests that the amount of maternal language heard during the early years may mediate the association between social disadvantage and child language ability [8].\nNumerous studies indicate that parents from more socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds engage in fewer verbal interactions with their children, compared to those from advantaged backgrounds [9,10,11,12,13]. The most influential study of language spoken to the child in the home was that of Hart and Risley (1995) involving 42 families from Kansas, USA. From the age of 12 to 36\u2009months, children of parents on welfare, working-class and professional backgrounds heard 620, 1250 and 2150 words per hour, respectively. Within group trends were linearly extrapolated to estimate that by the age of four, children from professional backgrounds heard over three times more than children from welfare families. Thus, the idea of the '30 million word gap' came into being.\nDespite the enormous attention the study has received (google hits\u2009=\u200958,800,000), there are clear limitations. First, the study uses a small convenience sample (n\u2009=\u200942) and includes only six families on welfare. Second, the data collection method (researchers videotaping one hour per month in the home) is not likely to be representative of the natural home environment. For instance, while unbeknown to the authors at the time, it was later discovered that early evening, when videotaping usually occurred, is a period of extremely high talk for families [11]. Finally, the study began collecting data when children were 12\u2009months of age, neglecting critical language experience under twelve months.\nSince the Hart and Risley study, new speech recognition technology called Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) has become available to allow researchers to objectively measure the amount of parent talk children hear in the home, without the need for videotaping or manual transcription. Gilkerson and colleagues [11] utilized LENA to replicate the work of Hart and Risley with 329 English-speaking families in Denver, USA with children aged 2 to 48\u2009months. Their socioeconomic groups were based on mother's highest level of completed education, with education groups defined by completed some high school education, completed high school or general education diploma, completed some college and completed bachelor's degree or higher. Their cross-sectional findings estimated a 4 million word gap by age four between the highest and lowest socioeconomic group, significantly smaller than Hart and Risley's findings.\nAnother recent study involved 42 children aged 18 to 48\u2009months from five communities across America with different levels of socioeconomic backgrounds (poor, working-class, middle-class) and like Hart and Risley, captured the number of words heard in the home through videotaping and transcription [14]. The authors main finding showed no meaningful differences between the poor, working-class and middle-class communities in the number of words spoken by the primary caregiver to the child, with some poor and working-class communities showing an advantage in words spoken, compared with middle-class communities. They posit that community variation in the amount of speech addressed to the child cannot be predicted by socioeconomic status alone [15]. This paper questioned the validity of the original Hart and Risley findings, provoking discussion around the importance of the original 30 million word gap hypothesis [15, 16].\nThe Language in Little Ones (LiLO) study is a prospective cohort study which aims to advance knowledge in this area by combining the use of the LENA software, recruiting a large socio-economically diverse sample, and beginning when children are six months old. The present study aims to quantify the number of adult words that are spoken to the child, number of child vocalizations, and number of times the adult and child engage in a conversational turn over a day, when children are aged six and twelve months. Furthermore, the study aims to examine whether these aspects of the early language home environment differ by maternal education.\nThe LiLO study follows two cohorts of children; a baby cohort that involves families with a child aged six months old at first data collection and a toddler cohort involving families with a child aged three years old at the beginning of data collection. Both cohorts are followed once every six months until the children turn 4\u2009years old. The design includes purposive stratification by two levels of maternal education (only completed secondary school education or less and completed a bachelor's degree or higher) to explicitly maximize and adequately power contrasts across maternal education groups. At each six-month milestone, families undertake day-long (16-h) audio recordings and complete standardized questionnaires. Families were compensated with a $10 supermarket voucher after each wave of data collection. This paper reports on data from the first and second waves for the baby cohort.\nRecruitment occurred between April 1, 2017 and January 31, 2019 both pre- and postnatally across Adelaide and Port Pirie in South Australia, Bunbury in Western Australia and Gold Coast, Queensland. Pregnant women were approached at Adelaide public hospitals while waiting for their antenatal appointments. Postnatally, mothers were asked to participate at Child and Family Health Service sites during drop-in clinics and at early parenting groups across Adelaide, Port Pirie and Bunbury. Mothers were also approached at council-run immunization clinics, children centres, playgroups and shopping centres across all locations. Recruitment was limited to families whose home language was English. Mothers with a bachelor's degree or above were recruited into the high education group, and mothers with school only education were recruited into the lower education group. The study also excluded children with diagnosed causes of language impairment (e.g., hearing impairment, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy) and was confined to singleton children and those born full term (37+ weeks) between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017.\nA total of 230 families were involved in the first wave and 245 families in the second wave of data collection which included 60.84% of eligible mothers approached (See Fig. 1 for a flow chart of recruitment numbers). Our original power calculations required 120 children in each of the maternal education groups at wave one in order to detect a 0.3SD effect size. Due to the challenges in finding and engaging sufficient mothers with lower education levels we did not meet these initial sample size requirements and therefore extended original recruitment timelines and locations to boost numbers, which meant mothers were still able to join the longitudinal study even if they had missed the first wave of data collection.\nFlow chart of recruitment numbers\nFamilies' natural home language environments were captured using the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system [11, 17, 18]. The LENA system comprises a specially designed age appropriate vest or t-shirt with a pocket in the front to hold a digital language processor (DLP) with LENA software, which automatically processes the audio captured in the DLP through algorithmic analysis of the speech signal [19]. LENA produces estimates of three key measures used in the current study: adult word counts (AWC), child vocalization counts (CVC) and conversational turn counts (CT). AWC's estimate the number of adult words spoken in approximately a 10-ft radius of the child wearing the recorder [11]. AWC's do not necessarily have to be child-directed speech but are loud enough to register on the LENA DLP. CVC's comprise the number of any speech-related sound made by the child wearing the DLP with each vocalization separated by 300\u2009ms of silence. Finally, CT's are the number of alternations within a conversation between adult and child vocalizations as occurring within at least 5\u2009s of each other. Either child or adult may initiate the conversation. Reliability testing conducted by the LENA Foundation found a high degree of agreement between human-transcribers and LENA system classification based on 70\u2009h of recording data. For classification of adult words the two raters agreed 82% of the time and for child vocalizations they agreed 76% of the time [18]. It should be noted when overlapping speech occurs in the audio, the LENA software does not categorize this into either adult or child speech. While a trained human-transcriber may be able to identify the primary speaker, the LENA Foundation argues it is not known whether an infant or toddler would be able to distinguish during noisy language input. Therefore it is argued that the exclusion of these segments of audio by the LENA software may provide a more accurate representation of the child's meaningful language environment [18].\nAdditionally, during the home visit, the primary caregiver answered questions about family demographics, government payments received by the family, child care arrangements, services accessed by the child and family, and activities in the home with the focus child.\nDuring data collection a researcher attended the family's home where they provided the LENA equipment, showed parents how to use it and then asked the standardized questionnaires. The family was given two weeks to complete one LENA recording day. The families were asked to pick a day (to undertake the recording) when the focus child was not in child care or sick, and not when the family had a big event (e.g., sporting match or birthday party). A researcher then returned to the family home after the recording day, picked up the LENA equipment and provided the family with their reimbursement. This procedure was consistent across all families and waves of data collection.\nStatistical approach\nDescriptive statistics are presented in Table 2 and box and whisker plots in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 to compare the distributions in talk by low and high education groups. The line in the middle of the box represents the median, the bottom of the box represents the 25th percentile and the top of the box represents the 75th percentile. The whiskers of the plot extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range, with outliers falling outside this denoted by an asterisk, and fall at least 3 times outside the interquartile range. Independent sample t-tests were also conducted to compare the means between high and low educated groups. All analyses and graphs were conducted using IMB SPSS version 25.0 [20].\nAdult word count at 6 and 12\u2009month wave of data collection by maternal education\nChild vocalization count at 6 and 12\u2009month wave of data collection by maternal education\nConversational turn count at 6 and 12\u2009month wave of data collection by maternal education\nLENA recordings for the first wave were completed between the August 1, 2017 and July 31, 2018 and recordings for the second wave were completed between February 1, 2018 and January 31, 2019. Each participant family undertook a LENA recording day within two months after turning 6\u2009months and 12\u2009months. Parents rarely used their ability to pause or stop the recording early, with 98.23% of families completing a full 16-h recording day during the first wave and 97.55% of families during the second wave. Of the ten families that stopped the recording across both waves, six completed at least 10\u2009h of recording and noted the recording was stopped as the child went to sleep, therefore was included in the total sample. Three families in the first wave and one family in the second wave completed less than 10\u2009h of recording due to either device malfunction or choosing to stop the recording early and were excluded from further analysis.\nThe final analysis sample involved 227 families, with 164 in the high education group and 63 in the low education group for the first wave, and 245 families, with 166 in the high education group and 79 in the low education group for the second wave (See Table 1). Note recruitment continued between wave 1 and 2, consequently the larger sample in wave 2. For the first wave, children were aged between 5 and 8\u2009months of age (mean\u2009=\u20095.81) and 53.3% were female. Mother's average age at birth was 31.34, with 87.7% working until their pregnancy and 56.4% of children being first-born infants. In the second wave children were aged between 11 and 14\u2009months (mean\u2009=\u200911.99) with the same percentage of females.\nTable 1 Sociodemographic Characteristics of the Sample\nAs shown in Table 2 there were small differences between the average number of adult words spoken, child vocalizations and conversational turns for the low and high education groups, at both waves. By standard criteria for 'statistical significance' children in the low education group vocalized more (approximately 160 vocalizations) than those in the high education group at the first wave (6\u2009months). However, this difference was greatly reduced at the second wave (12\u2009months).\nTable 2 Daily LENA measures: distribution by the total sample and maternal education\nThe plots in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 depict the spread of the data demonstrating enormous variation within the two education groups across both waves. As an example, at the first wave the minimum AWC for the low educated group was 2958 words per day and the maximum count was 37,397 words (mean\u2009=\u200916,747.75; SD\u2009=\u20097228.62). The minimum AWC for the high educated group was 3795 words and the maximum were 39,583 words per day (mean\u2009=\u200916,883.58; SD\u2009=\u20097075.57). This highlights there is little difference between education groups but high variability within education groups and this is consistent for all three LENA measures, revealing high and low adult and child talkers within both education groups.\nThe purpose of this study was to characterize, for the first time, the amount of talk\/ vocalizing Australian children are hearing and uttering at home in the first 12\u2009months of life. The study also examined differences linked to maternal education in adult words, child vocalizations and conversational turns. First, results showed high variability in the whole sample on all three measures of talk when children were six and twelve months of age. However, this did not substantively differ by maternal education. While there may be other factors in the home environment that are associated with this variability such as cultural or emotional characteristics, socioeconomic characteristics indexed in this case by maternal education did not differentiate the three measure of talk. Second, adults in the home of the low education group were talking, on average, just as much as adults in the high education group. In fact, within both education groups, the variability demonstrates some families speak over 35,000 words to their child in a day and others speak less than 4000 words. The similarities between the education groups are also reflected in the number of conversational turns between adults and children over the day, with no meaningful differences between education groups and again high variability in both groups.\nThe study by Gilkerson and colleagues, is most comparable to the current study and reports a 4 million word gap by age four [11]. Their observations began when children were two months old and they have reported their mean AWC's, CVC's and CT's at 6\u2009months of age (n\u2009=\u200950). When they conducted their study, the LENA system only recorded 12-h\u2009days, compared to our 16-h recordings. Comparing average word counts for Gilkerson et al. and the LiLO study showed adult words were 1041 vs 1052, for child vocalizations 82.28 vs 82.46 and conversational turns 20.16 vs 20.62 respectively. While these average counts per hour are almost identical in the two studies, Gilkerson and colleagues did not report counts by socioeconomic groups at 6 or 12\u2009months of age, so we are unable to compare [11]. The differing definitions of maternal education groups and different educational contexts in Australia and the United States may partially account for why the current study did not find the difference between education groups that other researchers have reported.\nThe Language in Little Ones (LiLO) study is the first study with a large sample using objective measures to characterize the verbal home environment by maternal education groups in the first year of life. These findings have important implications for interventions that aim to reduce the word gap, suggesting services with this specific aim may need to utilize a universal approach, rather than simply targeting families from low socioeconomic backgrounds, as it is clear from our data there are adults across both socioeconomic groups who would be considered low talkers. While our data cannot yet explain if the amount families talk to their children in the home will lead to differences in future development outcomes, previous research has suggested this is the case [8, 21, 22]. As the LiLO study progresses, it will describe the trajectories of AWC, CVC and CT's for low and high maternal education groups and consequences for child development outcomes over the first five years of life.\nA shortcoming of the current work is the uneven sample across the education groups, with fewer low educated mothers participating than originally planned. This results from less mothers identified as eligible for the low educated group at recruitment sites and also the lower participation rate into the study for this group. As the LiLO study is longitudinal, attempts to overcome this flaw in future waves will continue by recruiting low educated mothers into our study as it progresses.\nA further limitation is that the LENA data cannot effectively capture the quality of verbal interactions, beyond the use of conversational turns. While understanding the context of the words spoken to the child is not the focus of the study, the importance of the quality of early language input for child outcomes is recognized. 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An exploratory study of \"quantitative linguistic feedback\": effect of LENA feedback on adult language production. Commun Disord Q. 2013;34(4):199\u2013209.\nThank-you to the research assistants in the LiLO team at Telethon Kids Institute for their work on the recruitment and data collection for the study. Thank-you also to the staff in the antenatal wards at Flinders Medical Centre, Lyell McEwin Hospital and Women's and Children's Hospital and the staff at the Child and Family Health Service sites across Adelaide and Bunbury for their unwavering support of our recruitment efforts. Finally, we are extremely grateful to our LiLO families for continually giving up their valuable time to participate in our study.\nThis study was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant, APP1121830 (to S. Brinkman, S. Reilly, J. Lynch and E. Melhuish). The funding was used for the collection and analysis of data in the study.\nTelethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australian, Level 15, 31 Flinders St, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia\nMary E. Brushe & Sally A. Brinkman\nSchool of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Level 9, Adelaide Health & Medical Science Building, 57 North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia\nMary E. Brushe, John W. Lynch & Sally A. Brinkman\nPopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, First Floor, 5 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1UD, UK\nJohn W. Lynch\nMenzies Health Institute Queensland G40 Griffith Health Centre, Griffith University, Level 8.86 Gold Coast Campus, Mount Gravatt, Queensland, 4222, Australia\nSheena Reilly\nDepartment of Education, University of Oxford, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford, OX2 6PY, UK\nEdward Melhuish\nMary E. Brushe\nSally A. Brinkman\nSB, SR, JL, EM are chief investigators on the project and conceptualized the study. MB coordinated and supervised data collection for the study, carried out analysis and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. JL and SB conceptualized the analysis plan. All authors contributed to the interpretation of findings and reviewed and revised the manuscript. Finally, All authors read and approved the final manuscript.\nCorrespondence to Mary E. Brushe.\nThe Women's and Children's Health Network (HREC\/16\/WCHN\/190) and the University of Western Australia's (RA\/4\/1\/8825) Human Research Ethics Committee approved this study, and written informed consent was provided by all participants and by the parent or guardian for participants under 16\u2009years old.\nThe authors declare they have no competing interests.\nBrushe, M.E., Lynch, J.W., Reilly, S. et al. How many words are Australian children hearing in the first year of life?. BMC Pediatr 20, 52 (2020). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12887-020-1946-0\nParent talk\nBehavior and development","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are at:Home\u00bbCategory: \"Iraq\" (Page 2)\nBrowsing: Iraq\nBrian Stann to fight in Ultimate Fighter 10 finale\nBy on\t November 23, 2009 Iraq, Marine Corps, Mixed martial arts, Uncategorized\nThree months after disposing of nemesis Steve Cantwell to earn his first UFC victory, former Marine Brian Stann will fight again in the Ultimate Fighter 10 finale on Dec. 5. Stann, 7-2 overall in mixed martial arts, faces Rodney Wallace, who will be making his UFC debut. A powerful puncher who thrives on his standup game, Stann fights in the 205 pound light heavyweight division, by far the UFC's most competitive and star-studded. Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans, Forrest Griffin, Chuck Lidell and Rampage Jackson have all held the 205 title in recent years, and challengers like Mauricio Rua add to\u2026\nLooking for some relaxation? Try Iraq\nBy Phil Ewing on\t October 22, 2009 Army, Iraq, Marine Corps, Soccer\nIs your normal job taking up the time you could be using to practice your penalty kicks? Are you working so much at your assignment in the U.S. that you can't learn new jujitsu moves? Well break out of that rut and get yourself to the world's new sportsman's paradise \u2014 Iraq! Iraq is so placid these days that American troops stationed there have plenty of time to just cool out, according to this story in USA Today. Rather than loading up the vehicles and going out to crush some skulls, today's forces sound like college freshmen taking eight credit\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"385-Episode 376 Sia's Beginning\nThe Beast King completely denied Shea's request to join Allen's army.\nHe then told Shea that he would return with her to the kingdom of Arbajar.\nPrince Zeu, who was watching the scene, stood up and said, \"I never thought you would say that.\nThe Beast King seemed to be going along with his own idea without mentioning anything about Allen's army getting the cooperation of other countries.\nThe conference room fell silent, and I asked him how it happened.\n\"I'm already an adult. I'm already an adult and I want to make sure that my actions are reasonable.\nShea says he's not going to change his mind.\n\"Well, that's what a little girl who played knight would say. Does your attitude get bigger when you go through Temi's ordeal? So what are you going to do? How do you propose to deal with this?\"\nNo one interrupted the conversation between Shea and the Beast King anymore.\nEven the Emperor of Gia Mut, who was displeased with Allen's attitude, fell silent.\n(The emperor of Ghiamut is also scared. (The emperor of Ghiamut must be scared. He seems to be a brainy king who gets into trouble easily.\nThe Beast King, who had beaten the brave Hermios to a pulp in front of the leaders of the world, had no one to argue with.\n\"I'd like to have a fight with you, Beast King. Is that all right with you?\"\nShea replied immediately, as if she had already prepared for it.\nDid Shea know this would happen? Well, they're father and son. I mean, it seems to happen all the time.\nShea was attending the meeting of the Alliance of the Five Continents with more determination than anyone else.\nIt seems that she knew the character of her father, the Beast King.\nAnd Allen had also heard a lot about the Beast King's character from Shea.\nThe Beast King said that he would never pass a policy that he did not like if the minister raised it.\nNo matter how hard you try to persuade him, he will not shake his head.\nHe says that if he really wants to pass the policy, he will fight a duel with himself to end it.\nIf you are prepared to do that, they say, you can pass the policy.\nIn fact, several times a year, a duel with the minister is held.\nShea tells me that he has buried many ministers in duels.\n\"Interesting. Emperor of the Ghiamut Empire. I need to borrow the arena for a moment.\"\nAn arena? There's an arena nearby, isn't there?\n(An arena? That's nearby, isn't it?) As he was coming down from the magic ship, he saw what looked like a square training facility adjacent to the royal palace.\nAllen wondered if it was an arena.\n\"What? Now?\"\nThe emperor of the Ghiamut Empire is astonished that he is now going to fight his own daughter in such a situation .\n\"Oh, you're done with that Allen guy, aren't you?\"\nWhen he stood up, he was more than two heads taller than Allen, and much larger than Dogora, both vertically and horizontally.\nHe walked out of the conference room, not listening to the words of the emperor of the Ghiamut Empire, who said that he was done talking about Allen's army, but that there was still more to discuss.\n\"You probably won't win. We probably won't win, and we won't be safe. We have to stop it if we can.\"\nHelmius, who had fought the Beast King before, was worried about Shea.\n\"That much?\"\nAllen asks back, and Helmios answers immediately.\nI've heard that he was defeated by the Beast King before at the 5 Continents Alliance Conference, but it seems that the Beast King is incredibly strong.\nShea also follows the Beast King out of the conference room.\n\"...... We should also see what happens to the Al Bahar Beast Kingdom.\"\nThe Queen of Rosenheim stood up, saying in a calm tone, \"Let's go see.\nThe Beast King rejected the participation of Allen's army of beastmen as well as Shea.\nWhat are we going to do as the Beast Kingdom of Arbajar?\nThis may be the story that decides the future of the Alliance of Five Continents, which is united against the Demon King's army.\nHelmios led me to the arena located a short distance away from the royal palace.\nAt the side of the arena, Shea clenched her fists, closed her eyes, and reconfirmed the image of the battle.\nShea thought that she had been watching the battle of the Beast King since she was a child.\n\"I'm sorry it had to come to this. I should have told you this a long time ago. Allen.\n\"No, it's a father-son fight. I'm not gonna stop you, but take it easy.\n\"I know. I'll tell you what.\nShea had a hunch that this would be the end of the conversation.\nBut she didn't want to tell anyone, because she didn't think it would make a difference.\nNo equipment for the Beast King?\nIn the middle of the arena, the Beast King is standing on top of the arena, without any equipment on his upper body, taking off his red and gold colored fur cloak that suits the Beast King.\nBird E's summoner checks his equipment in detail, but he is not equipped with any weapons or armor.\nHe is also not equipped with any accessories such as rings or bracelets.\nIt seems that the Beast King fights Shea with only his bare status.\n(I heard that the children of the Beast King family are basically born as Fist Saints. (I thought the children of the Beast King family are basically born as Fist Saints, and when they become the Beast King, they gain even more power.\nShea seems to be prepared for an impossible fight.\n\"Crenna. Can you lend her the holy bead?\nAllen is more interested in a sure victory than a clean slate.\nHe asks Shea to give him the Sacred Pearl, the trophy from Basque that he gave to Krena.\n\"Good. The King of Beasts is not equipped with anything either.\"\nShea says that Allen tried to give her the pearl and other equipment that he gave to Crenna, but she refused.\nIt's a decision between father and son, and winning or losing seems to be a secondary concern.\nShea, who is not equipped with any armor or status-enhancing rings, goes up to the arena.\nWhile Allen was talking with Shea, the representatives of each country and the allies of the Five Continents Alliance finished moving to the spectator seats.\nThey seemed to be witnessing the end of the Arbajar Beast Kingdom.\n\"Have you said your goodbyes?\nThe Beast King asked Shea if she had said goodbye to Allen and the others, without mentioning that they had waited a long time.\n\"We're about to.\"\nShea said she hadn't said goodbye yet.\n\"What?\"\n\"I'm going to be the first emperor of the beast kingdom. I'm going to join Allen and the others in that. That's what I've decided. Father, I've come to say goodbye.\nThe Beast King has commanded me to live this long.\nThe Beast King gave me a test and I went to defeat the guru of the evil gods.\nBut from now on, I will make my own decisions and act accordingly,\" he told the Beast King.\nThe Beast King looked sad for a moment, and then his eyes filled with strength.\n\"Do you still speak such nonsense? I will take you back by force.\"\nThen he relaxes his hands and assumes a defenseless posture.\nI guess he means, \"Come at me.\nIf you want to do your own thing, you'll have to defeat the Beast King.\nFather and daughter face each other on the arena table without a referee.\nShea's decisive battle had begun.\nShea's eyes sharpened, she quickly closed the distance and slammed her fist into the Beast King's stomach.\nZumthu!\nIt felt like she had struck something very hard and elastic.\nThe fist hit the target.\n\"What?\nThe Beast King didn't dodge, and Shea was astonished to be hit by the attack.\nThe Beast King should be able to avoid this kind of attack without a second thought.\n\"I knew it. If you're half as prepared as you think you are, you don't have a soul in your fist!\n\"Ha!\nAnd the Beast King kicked Shea upside the head.\nThen the Beast King kicked Shea upside the head. She used one of her arms to defend herself, but she couldn't kill the momentum and was sent flying far away from the arena.\nEven though he was blown away, he spun his body around and landed on the fighting table successfully, and ran to the Beast King.\nHe endured the pain and showed his determination.\nHowever, he was only able to take the first blow.\nAfter that, the Beast King continued his one-sided attack.\nShea's attack was easily dodged, and she was attacked by the Beast King.\n\"What's wrong! I knew I should have stopped you when you started playing knight!\nThe Beast King said to Shea, who had been punched and kicked so many times that she was unable to stand up.\nShea made Lud, who was originally a vassal of the Beast King, his own captain and began to have his own troops.\nShe accepted mercenaries and adventurers alike who were inspired by her ideas, and her troops grew to over a thousand.\nAnd the nations began to call her the Warrior Princess.\nThere was definitely a time to stop Shea.\nBecause she was left alone to play knight, she began to do as she pleased, saying she was going to create an empire of beasts and joining the army of some unknown person.\nThe Beast King stained his knuckles red and wondered if he should have done this earlier.\nAlthough he is not equipped with any weapons or armor, Shea is a Fist Saint and has reached the maximum level and skill level.\nShea is not weak, but she has gained experience in battle while pursuing the guru of the evil gods.\nIt's not that she's weak, but there's a power difference between her and her father.\n\"Noooooo!\"\nThe Beast King's fist dug deep into Shea's stomach, sending her flying to the edge of the arena.\n\"Shea, stop it. You must apologize to the Beast King!\nSeeing Shea being blown away again and again, Prince Zeu couldn't help but shout.\nHe seemed to be worried about his sister's safety.\n\"Hmph. Zew. Wouldn't it be better if Shea was gone?\"\n\"No, I don't. I want you to forgive my sister.\"\nAnd with that, Zew bowed on behalf of Shea.\n\"Hmm. You fear for your sister's safety. That's sweet, that's sweet! Zeu. That's no way to be a beast king. We beastmen have lived under the fierce rule of men. There's no room for lax thinking!\nI see. Maybe that's why he recommended Bek for the crown prince. That's why he recommended Bek to be the Beast Prince.\nIt was the Beast King who put Bek, who was even thinking of invading the Central Continent, in the position of the next Beast King, the Crown Prince.\nHe does not tolerate naive thinking and seems to think that living for the beastmen is the most important thing.\nPrince Bek is willing to shed the blood of beastmen for the prosperity of the Al-Bahar Beast Kingdom.\nHe has been trying to make Prince Bek, who has seen the reality of the Beast Kingdom, the next Beast King, rather than Prince Zeu, who has a more lenient attitude, or Shea, who dreams.\nIn the meantime, both Prince Zeu and Shea have overcome the ordeal imposed by the Beast King.\nAllen's mind wandered to the idea that this was another test for him to become the next Beast King.\n\"Yes, that's true, but ......\"\n\"Hmm. Zew. I'm sure you're not the only one who has been misled by the Baucis Empire and the Central Continent.\nI'm not sure if it's a good idea, but it's a good idea.\nHe was welcomed into the Giaomut Empire as a hero who had conquered a dungeon and a fellow countryman who had fought with the Ten Heroic Beasts against the invasion of the Demon King's army in the Central Continent.\nHearing the commotion from the royal palace, the Ten Wise Beasts were also watching the events of the battle.\n\"No, nothing like that. ......\n\"Then you may step up to the arena in place of Shea.\"\nHe grabbed Shea by the chest after she was blown away and told Zeu that he would forgive her if you fought.\n\"What? You mean me, sir?\n\"Yes. Are you ready to slaughter me and take the throne of the Beast King?\nThe arena was now the sole domain of the Beast King, and if Prince Zeu would fight him instead, he would allow Shea to do so.\nThe Beast King shouted, \"Let him defeat himself,\" which sounded somewhat like a wish to Allen.\n\"What? This is my fight!\"\nShea slammed her fist into the Beast King's face, as he was already dazed from being hit so many times.\nBut the fist didn't hit him in the face, and the Beast King remained cool and unmoved.\nShe is able to stand because the Beast King has her by the chest, but her legs are already weak and she is floating in the air.\nShea's fists seem to have no strength left in them after being struck all over her body.\n\"Yeah. What are you going to do? Zeu. You're going to fight! Or Shea!\"\nWith that, he grabbed Shea's chest and put his other hand on her chest.\nShea has been attacked and is about to be subjected to more violence.\nIn fact, any more than this could be fatal.\nThat's how much power is in the Beast King's fist.\n\"Nugu, ha, ha!\nShea's only strength remains unbroken.\nBut there seems to be a desperate gap in strength.\n\"Wow, I understand. ......\"\nZeu prepared to die and was about to say that he would fight on behalf of Shea.\nThat's when it happened.\nAllen was standing by, ready to intervene with his summoner if the situation arose.\nThe potato-faced man next to Allen turned red and shouted in a voice that could be heard not only by the arena but also by all the representatives of each country in the stands.\n\"Get off me! Let go of Shea!\n\"What? What is it?\n\"Let go of Shea! I'll fight you!\nThe bleary-eyed, angry Dogora's foot stomped on the arena.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"15 Facts You Never Knew About Venice Gondolas\nJune 14, 2014 by Catherine Forth View All On 1 Page\nVenice is a watery wonderland of 177 canals, and there's no better way to explore this romantic labyrinth than on an iconic gondola ride. On one hand it's a pricey tourist clich\u00e9, but it's also a classic time-honored journey everyone should experience at least once when visiting this incomparable city. Don't consider it practical water-taxi transportation to get you from A to B. This is purely a sight-seeing joy ride, and it's not to be missed. Most of the estimated 15 million visitors who flock to historic Venice each year can't resist the tradition. Here's the little known backstory on these elegant vessels to sweeten your ride, plus some tips on how to get the most out of your gondola journey.\n1. Gondolas Have Their Roots in Ancient History\nGraceful gondolas have been used to get around this Adriatic city for more than 10 centuries, the earliest recorded use dating back to 1094. They were once the main form of transportation around the Venetian canals. Towards the end of the 16th century there were an estimated 10,000 gondolas creating aquatic traffic jams throughout the city. Today, however, there are only about 425 gondolas in Venice.\nAlessandro Colle - shutterstock.com\nRandom London Essentials in 21 Pics\nTop 10 Things to See and Do in Montenegro\n19 Reasons Why Iceland Rocks\n10 Hollywood Honeymoon Hotspots","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WTH Files: High Schooler Denied Diploma After Stripping At Graduation\nTonya Pendleton, BlackAmericaWeb.com\nQuinton Murphy of Jack Britt High School ini Fayetteville North Carolina was very excited about his graduation. So excited that when it was his time to pick up his diploma, he stripped off his robe to expose his bare chest and some leopard patterned boxer briefs.\nFayetteville school officials were not as amused as the crowd who witnessed it, and have banned him from ever returning to the school. He was escorted out of the ceremony by police officers and will be denied his official diploma. However, as Murphy completed the requirements for graduation, he will be viewed and considered as a graduate.\n\"Our schools have worked so hard,\" Cumberland County School Superintendent Frank Till, Jr. told the Fayetteville Observer. \"It used to be that the audience would be disruptive at graduation. We've worked hard to get the audiences to respect our students. This young man chose not to show respect for his colleagues.\" Till has made it clear that other would-be graduation pranksters will face punishment.\nAfter Murphy's disrobing, the graduation went on as scheduled. Murphy's antics will be edited out of the official video of the graduation ceremony. Murphy somehow evaded school staffers who check what students are wearing underneath their graduation robes. Murphy did have on an unbuttoned shirt, but its unclear how leopard briefs were missed.\nMurphy a member of the Jack Britt football team, reportedly told a friend on Facebook that he \"just wanted to go out with a bang, lol.\"\nWell, mission accomplished.\nWTH Files: High Schooler Denied Diploma After Stripping At Graduation was originally published on blackamericaweb.com\neducation\t, graduations\t, high school\t, teenagers\t, WTH files","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Inspired by the Velvet Revolution\nBy Vincent Chen \u9673\u5efa\u5fd7\nDisregarding China's reaction, a large delegation of 89 members led by Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil arrived in Taiwan on Aug. 30, in an unprecedented formal exchange between the two nations.\nAs the delegation had a tight schedule, Vystrcil's two public speeches \u2014 at National Chengchi University on Aug. 31 and at the Legislative Yuan on Sept. 2 \u2014 received much of the spotlight.\nAt the university, Vystrcil referred to the Velvet Revolution, which began in November 1989, and said that \"the Czech students were equally courageous back in 1989 and played a very similar role as the Taiwanese students did in March 1990,\" during what is known as the Wild Lily student movement.\nHe then briefly spoke about what he knew about the student movement and the democratic reform process that followed in Taiwan.\nHe said that the democratic reform movements pushed by university students in Taiwan and the Czech Republic highlight their nations' shared history of democratic struggle, creating a connection between them that transcends history.\nWhat Vystrcil suggested is quite an interesting connection. As a member of the Wild Lily movement, I would like to provide some food for thought on this connection, as well as on the causal relationship represented by this umbilical cord.\nAcademics studying the history of Taiwan's contemporary democratic development generally agree that the movement happened due to a combination of internal and external factors.\nTaking a rather parochial perspective, few Taiwanese mention an important external factor: the series of democratic movements in eastern European countries from 1989 onward. Later known as the Revolutions of 1989, this revolutionary wave, which ended authoritarian rule in central and eastern Europe, deeply moved Taiwanese students and gave them courage to take action.\nIt should be noted that Taiwanese students had at that time seen media reports of the Chinese People's Liberation Army's cruel, bloody suppression of the Chinese student movement in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.\nOn account of the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) authoritarian nature and the White Terror era, young Taiwanese feared that they would face a similar tragedy if they participated in a democratic movement.\nThe Tiananmen Square Massacre created a tremendous sense of uncertainty in the minds of young Taiwanese as to what approach the KMT's conservative faction would adopt to suppress student movements pursuing democracy.\nThe wave of democracy movements that swept through Eastern Europe included one launched by Poland's Solidarity trade union in June 1989, the peaceful transition to a democratic regime in Hungary in October 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, the mass demonstrations in Bulgaria in November 1989, and the culmination of the Velvet Revolution triggered by student demonstrations in what was then Czechoslovakia.\nThese events not only encouraged Taiwan's students, they also instilled bravery in us like a series of shots in the arm. Among these movements, the Czech students' Velvet Revolution was the most inspiring.\nThe Velvet Revolution forced the Czech Communist Party to announce on Nov. 28, 1989, that it would relinquish power and end its authoritarian one-party rule. In a democratic election of the Czech Federal Assembly on Dec. 29, the poet Vaclav Havel was elected president.\nThe peaceful transition of power ignited hopes among many young Taiwanese, and university students in campus clubs associated with social movements were reading every news article about the democratic movement in central Europe. The thought of following their example was born.\nSeeing the avaricious expansion of power by the National Assembly, which had never face full re-election after 1947 and was dubbed the \"10,000-year congress,\" and the intense infighting between the KMT's factions, students could bear it no longer.\nOrganized by campus clubs across universities, students launched the demonstrations and sit-ins that later became known as the Wild Lily student movement. Young Czechs who congregated in the streets of Prague when the first snow fell in November 1989 would never have thought that their courageous actions and would not only end the rule of the Czech Communist Party, but also give hope to many young people on an island in the Far East.\nTaiwan should thank the young people of Prague for establishing the silent revolution model 31 years ago. Their romantic ideals and beliefs were delivered across national boundaries to every one of us who longed for democracy and made us more determined to overthrow the authoritarian KMT regime.\nEven though we speak different languages, this chapter of history effectively established a durable and sympathetic connection between Taiwan and the Czech Republic.\nToday, the two nations share not only a similar experience of the road toward freedom and democracy, they also face a common potential threat in the globalized world: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its attempt to use \"rise as a great power\" to infiltrate every other country in the world.\nEven though Czech President Milos Zeman's attitude is to avoid angering Beijing, it was gratifying to see that Vystrcil was willing to extend the sense of justice of his predecessor, Jaroslav Kubera, and insist on making friends with Taiwan.\nUnafraid of Chinese pressure, Vystrcil led a delegation to Taiwan on the grounds of safeguarding the Czech Republic's autonomy and national dignity.\nNeither Taiwan nor the Czech Republic are large nations, but they share a firm belief in freedom, democracy and human rights. These beliefs are helping the two join hands to establish a confident and proud partnership as the world is opposing China's wild ambition, a partnership that will continue to inspire and encourage many other nations still striving toward democracy.\nVincent Chen is a manager in the information and communications industry. He was the publicity section convener of the Wild Lily student movement.\nTranslated by Chang Ho-ming","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"support@kaust.edu.sa\nThe Plasmas and Flames (PaF) group\nClever with combustion\nAdvanced modes of combustion that are controlled by plasma discharges could become key components of the circular carbon economy.\nHumans have a very long history with fire and, over the past two centuries, with more controlled forms of combustion. Our evolving mastery of combustion is marked by many technological leaps, but now, the overarching aim of the research field is to find ways to mitigate combustion's main drawback\u2014the carbon dioxide it generates.\nPutting gas under pressure\nSoldiers marching lockstep across a bridge can cause the structure to collapse if the rhythm of their step matches the bridge's natural vibration frequency. Combustion engineers must consider a similar effect when designing the gas turbines used in electricity generation and aero-engines.\nJust as soldiers' feet can cause bridge sway to reach the point of destruction, a gas turbine can be damaged, or even explode, if heat and pressure fluctuations produced by the flame couple with the acoustics of the combustion chamber. At a lesser degree, this'thermoacoustic instability hampers efficient combustion, increasing noise and pollution emissions.\nKAUST \u2013 Boeing collaborative research\nThe Clean Combustion Research Center and the Boeing Company have collaborated on research projects since May 2015. The context of these projects is aircraft fire and explosion hazards; and their main objective is to provide a better understanding of the mechanisms involved during these dramatics events. Specifically, in two ongoing projects \"Characterization of flame quenching processes in combustion arresters\" and \"Radio frequency ignition hazard\", groups headed by William Roberts and Deanna Lacoste will investigate how new materials and new sensors can change ignition and fire propagation threats in aircraft.\nCCRC Collaborations : Prof. Jonas Moeck, Technical University of Berlin\nThe Clean Combustion Research Center was honored to have Prof. Jonas Moeck working in our labs, in collaboration with Prof. Deanna Lacoste and her team of researchers on thermo-acoustic instabilities and flame dynamics this month.\nFaculty Focus: Deanna Lacoste\nAssistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Deanna Lacoste was appointed to her position at KAUST in November of 2016 from \u00c9cole Centrale Paris (France), where she had worked previously for 12 years. Her research focuses on plasma-assisted combustion and flame dynamics, with special emphasis on control of thermoacoustic instabilities by non-equilibrium plasma discharges. Lacoste is also interested in detonation and development of optical diagnostics for combustion and electrical discharges.\n\"KAUST shall be a beacon for peace, hope and reconciliation, and shall serve the people of the Kingdom and the world.\"\nKing Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 1924 \u2013 2015\nDeanna.lacoste@kaust.edu.sa\nCCRC (Building 5, Level 4, Room 4336)4700\nKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)Thuwal 23955-6900,\n\u00a9 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. All rights reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"REVIEWSTELEVISIONAPPLE TV+\n'Ted Lasso' Review: Season 2 Continues to Set a New Standard for Television\nTELEVISIONAPPLE TV+'Ted Lasso' Review: Season 2 Continues to Set a New Standard for...\nBy Lindsey\nEvery so often, a near-perfect television show will sneak its way past the cutthroat obstacles and challenges littering the hallways of the entertainment industry. Word about it will spread like wildfire between friends, colleagues, strangers, and to the furthest reaches of social media, blowing viewer expectations out of the water. Some critics will try to publicly flay it just for kicks and clicks, but they'll fall short on their empty swords.\nIt's rare to see a show that climbs high enough to check off every box along the way, especially in this modern world where streaming service offerings have upped the stakes tenfold, constantly competing for viewer attention. Schitt's Creek, a comedy series that captivated audiences for six seasons straight, is an example of this rarely accomplished phenomenon.\nAnother show quickly skyrocketed to this status in late 2020 when its premiere season landed on Apple TV+ \u2014 Ted Lasso. This uplifting comedy series tells the story of an American football coach who moves to the UK to oversee a struggling soccer team. It was a critically acclaimed hit that came at a time when the world truly needed it most. Equal parts hilarious and heartwarming, Apple's new show quickly became the next big, elusive crowning achievement in television.\nNow, a year later, the second season of Ted Lasso has just come to an end. After all the enthusiastically positive ruckus it caused in its first go-around, expectations were running high for season 2 from start to finish. Would it be just as amazing as season 1, or would it be a one-trick pony trotting off into a bland pasture?\nAs reliable as Ted's signature biscuits (okay, besides that one time, but give him a break \u2014 it was a bad day!), Ted Lasso season 2 serves as proof yet again why this is one of the best shows on television right now.\nWarning: Spoilers ahead.\nWhile its premise is built around English football, Ted Lasso has always been so much more than just a \"sports show\" \u2014 it's about people. Season 2 magnifies this point tenfold, placing an even heavier focus than before on the lives and interpersonal relationships of its characters. While season 1 told a funny, entertaining, and endearing story, it was also tasked with introducing a wide array of characters within the span of 10 episodes. The thing that made season 2 click, hitting even harder and digger deeper emotionally, was the opportunity for a fluid, natural evolution of the script. And thus, the magic of character development \u2014 something the series teased its penchant for with the growth of Hannah Waddingham's Rebecca throughout season 1.\nIt's not uncommon for comedy shows to lean heavily on the concept of static characters, because often times predictability and repetitive acts are the product of a tried and true \"punchline formula.\" Ted Lasso, on the other hand, has taken a far different approach with its wholly dynamic characters that give the series a strong, beating heart at its core (while still challenging viewers to try and make it through even a quarter of an episode without laughing).\nIf you had told me a few months ago that Jamie Tartt would manage to become one of my favorite characters by the end of this new season, I wouldn't have believed it for a second. Phil Dunster's character was a thorn in most people's sides in season 1, only finally given a glimmer of humanity near the end when the ugly truth about his father was revealed. Moving into season 2, Jamie went through one of the most impressive and well-written character arcs that I've ever seen, which culminated in a surprising conversation with Roy about the woman they both love.\nSpeaking of Richmond's foul-mouthed, grumpy player-turned-coach, Brett Goldstein continues to be one of the most outstanding aspects of Ted Lasso, period. (And to think that he originally boarded the show solely as a writer!) Roy Kent functions as a stark contrast to the sunny, positive demeanor of Jason Sudeikis' Ted, and yet even with all of his anger, he still manages to be just as beloved by the audience thanks to Goldstein's undeniable on-screen charisma. Roy's hidden soft side also deserves credit, which is something that's brought out exclusively by Juno Temple's Keeley Jones. This fan favorite couple was put through the wringer this season, but what's so impressive about their turmoil is the realistic, mature, and healthy way that it was written \u2014 like when Roy is torn up over how proud he is of Keeley's photoshoot, admitting how great she looks on her own as a successful, independent woman.\nAs for Ted, he had a panic attack in the first season that came and went with minimal explanation, but season 2 was fully prepared to sit back and peel through the layers of this event (and what was to follow) like a beautiful, poignant onion of pain. This, paired with the introduction of Sarah Niles' Dr. Sharon Fieldstone, served as a brilliant jumping off point for an incredibly important, eye-opening dive into the topic of mental health in sports. One would be hard-pressed not to commend Sudeikis' absolutely exceptional performance this season, which was palpably wrought with so much distinct, authentic vulnerability.\nThe show offers up a variety of other dramatic twists and turns throughout this latest season, too, including Nate's ascension to a full-fledged antagonist. And through it all, it continues to remain honest and true to its audience. The drama isn't for kicks, a shortcut to shock value in between laughs. Rather, Ted Lasso prides itself in its forthright, sincere style of storytelling, which feels like it's here to support viewers \u2014 rather than deceive them. A rare commodity in entertainment.\nSeason 2 of Ted Lasso continues to set a new standard for television. It doesn't demand, but rather politely and graciously \u2014 \u00e0 la Ted himself \u2014 demonstrates to other shows how they can do better. It also shows us as the audience how we can do better, too. This benchmark for quality entertainment is also a beacon of hope, a breath of fresh air, and a reminder to believe.\nAnd I will henceforth be watching that absolutely marvelous Christmas episode on repeat on an annual basis, thank you very much.\nSeasons 1 and 2 of Ted Lasso are now streaming exclusively on Apple TV+. Make sure to catch up on all of our coverage on the series, including episodic recaps and more.\nld review\nted lasso season 2\nCirca Survive Releases New Single and Announces EP\nRick Riordan's 'Daughter of the Deep' to Become a Feature Film\nA First Look at 'Ted Lasso' Season 3 Has Arrived!\n'Tulsa King' Review: A Surprisingly Fun Mob Drama\n'Mythic Quest' Review: Season 3 Continues to Set a New Bar for Workplace Comedies","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Need help? Chat with our wedding concierge now.\nHow To Find Your Fiance On Tinder, According To A Woman Who Did\nReal Couples\nLovepop Weddings is on pause but you can always make everyday magical moments with us at Lovepop.com. Explore hundreds of beautiful pop-up cards and products to make every occasion and milestone unforgettable and full of love. Shop now.\nWelcome to 2018, where you can order up a date as quickly as you can order a chopped salad on Seamless. What a time to be alive! Now that dating apps are absolutely, positively mainstream, there's no reason your can't use them to meet the love of your life. But while you can choose each ingredient in your salad order on Seamless, you don't always know what you're getting when you swipe right on Tinder. If you're looking to settle down, a few bad app dates can leave you wondering if it's possible to find your fiance on Tinder. Good news: it is!\nIf you're on the apps looking for the real deal, don't let the bad dates get you down. It's very possible to meet your forever-partner online, you just have to be patient. People meet their partners through dating apps all of the time. A SimpleTexting study in 2017 found that 13 percent of people got engaged or married from the apps. There are even Tinder-themed save the dates!\nLovepop Concierge Mimi Nguyen has helped hundreds of couples find the perfect invitations for their special day, and she's also in the process of planning her own wedding. Guess where she met her fiance? On Tinder! Here's how it happened, from right-swipe to ring finger.\n1. Don't Be Afraid To Give The Apps Another Try\nNguyen had dabbled in dating apps before she met her fiance, but never took them too seriously. \"I had downloaded them on and off for a couple of years, but never believed in the app,\" says Nguyen. \"I probably had only gone on two or three Tinder dates prior, and they were all horrible.\"\n2. When You Do Go On The Apps, Don't Take Them Too Seriously\nNguyen decided to approach the apps in a more relaxed way \u2014 as a fun activity. \"I found Tinder to be a fun activity to do when I was bored or when I was with my girlfriends,\" she explains. \"The reason I swiped on [my fiance] was that he seemed sociable and fun to hang with based on his photos. I had just moved to Boston from Texas and was mainly looking for friends.\"\n3. Keep An Open Mind\nNguyen thinks going into the apps with a laid-back attitude actually helped her find her person. \"I wasn't looking for a relationship, so I went to our first date with no expectations,\" she explains. \"I feel like having that mindset calmed my nerves, and let me be myself rather than trying to put on that first date act.\"\n4. Don't Stress The First Date Too Much\nNguyen said that the highlights of her first date with her fiance were easy conversation and an immediate connection over a relaxed dinner chicken wing dinner. This sounds like a pretty ideal first date, but it was actually tricky to plan. \"We were supposed to go on our first date around September of 2016, but I bailed and we didn't end up going on our actual first date till November 2016,\" says Nguyen. \"I also showed up really late on the actual first date, so I thought he probably was already annoyed by me.\" Turns out he was actually extremely calm, and had already scoped out a spot at the bar and told the bartender it was their first date. What a catch!\n5. Let Things Grow Organically\nAnother time you shouldn't put pressure on a date? If it goes really well. Nguyen explains that this great first date didn't lead directly to a proposal. \"During the few months we had a fallout, but when he went to Florida to wait out the winter, I realized I missed him,\" she adds. \"So as soon as he got back, we reconnected and went on a couple more dates, and the rest is history.\" When you know, you know.\n6. Say \"Yes!\"\nTo recap: finding your special person on a dating app takes an open mind, a relaxed attitude, and a willingness to put yourself out there with another person. But we can't wrap this adorable Tinder match-made-in-heaven up without getting to the proposal. \"On our one-year anniversary, he told me to dress up to go out to dinner, so I did,\" says Nguyen. \"Our hotel was on the beach so he suggested having a drink and a walk before heading out. As we were walking on the dunes towards the beach, he slowed down and dropped down behind me, I turned around and there he was on his knee, shaking and asking me to marry him.\" A fairytale ending from a Tinder beginning. Here's to going on a first date!\nWritten by: Kimmy Foskett\nsocial_twitter\nsocial_google_plus\nsocial_pinterest\nEnter your email to join our newsletter\n\u00a92018 Lovepop. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Fishing \u00bb Notes from the Nation | Bassmaster\nNotes from the Nation | Bassmaster\nbyAndrew Canulette\nLAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. \u2014 Jeff Baird didn't have the heaviest bass on Day 1 of the TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Western Regional, but he was the hands-down winner for the Best Beard Award.\nBaird, a 45-year-old taxidermist from Washington, Utah, has a four-foot-long beard that stretches nearly to his knees. The facial hair stays braided when he fishes, but still, it dangles over his stomach when pulled together. Even the whiskers on his cheeks need to be pinned back when he's on the water.\nHe learned his lessons the hard way.\n\"You throw a cast and go to reeling and get hair caught in the reel, you notice that in a hurry,\" he said, laughing. \"So, it's French braided, fish-tail braided. My wife does a lot to help me get out when I'm hunting and fishing.\"\nBaird, who's fishing for Nevada at the Western Regional, said the most common question he gets about his facial hair is \"How long have you been growing it?\"\n\"Eight years,\" he said. \"I love it. It looks really nice when it's out (and not braided.)\"\nBaird's beard caught attention on Wednesday, more-so than the three bass he caught for 7 pounds, 7 ounces. His lower unit went out early on Day 1 and he missed about three hours of fishing time. Baird also missed a couple of big bass he said likely would have put his bag into the high teens.\n\"I dumped two monsters,\" he said. \"Still, it was an awesome day. I'll focus on tomorrow and hopefully (fortune) shines on me again.\"\nHappy birthday, honey!\nIdaho boater Brent Shores started the Western Regional with a bang, weighing a 10-8 limit which was good enough for 15th place after Day 1.\nShores was pleased with the catch, but he still was thinking of his wife, Natalie, whose celebrated her birthday back in Boise on Wednesday. B.A.S.S. Nation Director Jon Stewart urged Shores to sing \"Happy Birthday\" to her via the Bassmaster cameras and Shores happily complied \u2013 much to the delight of the crowd and most certainly, to Natalie.\nPair of aces\nTwo anglers from last year's B.A.S.S. Nation Western Regional will compete in the 2022 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk when it's held next week on South Carolina's Lake Hartwell.\nTaylor Smith won the regional on Lake Havasu in 2021 with a weight of 10 bass for 33 pounds, 15 ounces. That tournament was shortened to two days because of high winds on Day 2.\nMatty Wong finished third at Havasu last year with 28-5, which qualified him for the B.A.S.S. Nation Championship on the Ouachita River in Louisiana. Wong won the title there in November which earned him a berth in the 2022 Classic.\nSpread 'Em Out: A Guide to Adding Outriggers to Your Boat\nPhoto by Joey Manansala Adding a set of outriggers to any boat will increase the\nClassic: Hartwell's unique manmade habitat\nCall it a case of lost-and-found\n5 Reasons You Must Backpack the Wind River Range\nBy Michael Lanza On a cool early morning in August while backpacking the Wind\nbyMichael Lanza\nMaine Hunters Sue to Allow Sunday Hunting, Landowners Object\nMaine hunters filed a lawsuit against the state for its law against Sunday\nbyWade Thiel\nGear Review: Shimano Curado 150 MGL\nWyoming's Gray Wolves Population Report\nIn the last week of April, Wyoming's Game and Fish Department published","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Commodities Technical Analysis, April 24th \u2014 April 28th\nUS Crude Sinks Below $50 on OPEC Doubts\nGold Plummets on French Election Fallout\nApril 24, 2017 at 16:55 Gold by Andrew Moran\nGold is slipping to kick off the trading week on the fallout of Sunday's French presidential election. The market is emitting a sigh of relief on Monday after National Front leader Marine Le Pen was unable to garner first place in the first round of voting. This did not help gold as investors were seeking safe-haven assets prior to the historic election.\nJune gold futures tumbled $13.00, or 1.01%, to $1,276.10 per ounce at 16:40 GMT on Monday. The precious metal suffered its first weekly loss in six weeks last week as it slid 0.1%.\nSilver is trading relatively flat to start the trading week. May silver futures dipped $0.006, or 0.03%, to $17.85 an ounce. Silver also recorded a weekly loss last week.\nInvestors are cheering after centrist Emmanuel Macron won the first round of voting on Sunday. He will now square off against Le Pen, and early polls suggest that he maintains a substantial lead heading into May 7.\nThe electoral result helped boost US and European shares, and the euro was sent higher. Markets had been concerned that the populist sentiment, which has included leaving the European Union (EU), would continue its momentum following US President Donald Trump's victory, Brexit, and Geert Wilders leading the second-largest political party in Holland.\nGold was slightly supported by a falling US dollar on Monday. The greenback decreased more than 1% against a basket of currencies. A weaker dollar is good for commodities like gold and silver because it makes it cheaper for foreign investors to purchase.\nTraders now look ahead to events occurring in the US, including the Trump administration's soon-to-be-revealed tax reform initiative. Investors are also keeping an eye on geopolitical tensions continuing in the Middle East and East Asia. Foreign policy matters are contributing to speculators increasing their net long positions in gold to their highest levels in five months.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"United Airlines Passenger Experiencing COVID-19 Symptoms Dies Mid-Flight\nnews , United Airlines\nParker Diakite \u2022 Dec 22, 2020\nUnited Airlines is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to track down the 179 passengers they believed came in contact with a man who died on a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles.\nThe man reportedly was showing symptoms of coronavirus when he died on the plane.\nThe man's family members told United that he had preexisting conditions, including high blood pressure and upper respiratory issues. He was feeling sick in the days leading up to his flight in LA.\nPrior to boarding, the man filled out a preflight checklist that stated he was not diagnosed with COVID-19 and didn't display any related symptoms.\nThe plane was diverted to New Orleans, and paramedics transported the man to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, United said in a statement.\nThe man behind me on this flight. DIED. OF COVID. MIDFLIGHT.\nI have so many questions.\n\u2014 Jo LaFlame (@jobreauxx) December 15, 2020\nSo, what happens now?\nAt least four flight attendants on the plane are quarantined in Los Angeles for 14 days according to guidelines, as reported in BuzzFeed News.\nThe CDC is currently working with local health agencies to track down the passengers onboard to see if any further action will be required.\nThis story is developing.\nSoul Hollywood","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ms. Nicole Boston\nSociety of Fire Protection Engineers\nwww.sfpe.org\nBronze Most Valuable Member\nNicole Testa Boston serves as the executive director for the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, which works to advance the science and practice of fire protection engineering and its allied fields, to maintain a high ethical standard among its members and to foster fire protection engineering education. Nicole has over 18 years of experience in the engineering industry, having previously served eleven years as deputy director of Fiatech, an industry-led consortium in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin focused on deploying technologies to improve how capital projects are designed, engineered, constructed, and maintained. Prior to that she served as executive director of the Building Futures Council as well as held senior management positions at the Civil Engineering Research Foundation and the American Public Works Association. Nicole is a certified association executive (CAE) and has served on numerous councils and committees for the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). She has been published in numerous industry journals and trade magazines and frequently presents at industry conferences. Nicole received a bachelor's degree from American University's School of International Service and received a Certificate in Fund Raising Management (CFRM) from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She currently resides with her husband, son and beagle in Austin, TX. Specialties: leadership, strategic development, business development and management, governance and operations, facilities management, project management, event management, marketing and communications, member relations\/account management, corporate and industry partnerships, public relations, technology trends in engineering and construction.\nJob History\nSeptember 2013 - present\nDeputy Director, Fiatech\nOctober 2002 - September 2013\nExecutive Director, Building Futures Council\nSenior Manager, Corporate Communications, Civil Engineering Research Foundation\nJune 1999 - July 2002\nAmerican Public Works Association\nProgram Manager, Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)\nApril 1998 - June 1999","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Man Arrested for Rape Thanks to DNA He Uploaded Himself to Ancestry Site\nSeveral states are formalizing genealogy detective units\nLaw enforcement wants you to volunteer your DNA to genealogy websites\nGenealogy websites are helping law enforcement put people in jail.\nDetectives with the Tampa Bay Police have arrested a suspect in a 14-year-old case of sexual assault after consulting a database of a genealogy testing webpage to seek out the compiled DNA data for a match, according to an initial report from a local news source.\nAnd they got one.\n\"The victim now can have some closure in her life,\" said Ruben Delgado, assistant Tampa police chief, in an Insider report. The police report places the assault in 2007, while a student from the University of Tampa was returning to her dorm after attending the Gasparilla Pirate Festival. She told detectives she was intoxicated and could have stumbled as she walked when the suspect, named Jared Vaugn, proposed to walk her home, after which the rape happened.\nAfter the incident, officials collected DNA samples but had no matches, which left the case unsolved for more than a decade. But later, in 2020, detectives re-examined the case using genealogy testing databases, including FamilyTree and GEDmatch, two companies that the public use to investigate their genetic heritage, and found potential matches. Vaughn, 44, was identified by a lab, on the basis of which police officers went to his current residence in West Virginia, to execute another DNA test. This resulted in a one-in-700-billion match.\n\"It has taken 14 years for resolution in this case, but it's something that was important to us and was important to the victim, to get some closure in this case,\" said Delgado, according to the local news report. \"That was the whole idea about this squad, to kind of take these cases that haven't been unsolved, kind of reenergize them.\" The state of Florida was the first in the U.S. to formalize an official genealogy unit, in 2018. California and Utah, too, have created similar detective units. And officials like Mark Brutnell, a special agent of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, want the general public to give up their DNA for use by law enforcement.\n\"Our success depends on info found in public genealogy databases, where participants \u2014 and this is important \u2014 must opt-in for law enforcement matches.\" In a case involving something as serious as rape, it's easy to feel like the ends more than justify the means. But the law, like society (and morality), isn't perfect. While forensic technology has come far, there are many instances when having one's DNA matched to a crime scene (or body) may not have a direct bearing on whether a suspect actually committed a crime. Not necessarily.\nWhether you want to voluntarily give your DNA information to a publicly accessible database or not, this case underscores the changing face of law enforcement as technology creates new pathways to information about humans. In the last decade, much controversy has surrounded social media websites like Facebook, and their handling of user information during the Cambridge Analytica ordeal. Even Apple has taken steps to ensure greater privacy to increase privacy controls, as the Internet of Things expands to automate consumer behavior and attitudes on and about the things we see online. Using DNA from genealogy websites to catch someone who has caused great harm is a wonderful idea. But, with an increasing majority of our lives spent on the net, your DNA may be one of the last kinds of private information anyone will ever have.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Archive for the '52 Stories' Category\n52 Stories #28\u2014Treasured Memories\nSo many of us experience the same milestone events in our lives\u2014our wedding day, the births of our children. What are some of my memories of these days?\nMy husband and I got married during the Christmas holidays while we were between college semesters at the University of Wyoming. We had our rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding in a crowded restaurant at the local airport, not the place I would have chosen. Our simple wedding took place at my home church on the following snowy evening. The church's Christmas trees still stood on either side of the altar, and we made our vows beneath an archway decorated with pine boughs. My husband chose the processional and recessional, the two versions of \"Joy\" by Bach and Beethoven. A college friend provided vocal music, \"The Wedding Song\". Our attendants wore dark green, and my husband wore a yellow jacket. His brother served as best man and my best friend served as maid of honor. My brother was an usher. I remember that he wanted to get the most out of his tuxedo rental, so he wore it again the next day when he went out cross-country skiing. We had our wedding reception at the local Holiday Inn where the best man and I had both worked a couple of summers. A reception at a hotel instead of the church allowed us to serve alcoholic punch, something my dad insisted upon after having to walk me down the aisle. After the reception, we stayed overnight at the same Holiday Inn. My new husband roused me way too early the next morning so as to make sure we arrived at the airport in time for our flight for a Hawaiian honeymoon. It was a good thing he did, because we got seats when the flight was overbooked!\nOur oldest son was born five years later. The baby was due on March 22, but I wanted him to arrive a day earlier on the first day of spring. He complied and came into the world on a beautiful morning. Not only that, but he arrived with the wished-for full head of hair. I had been afraid he would be bald like I was when I was born. His sex was a surprise to us in those days before they offered ultrasounds. I can remember not wanting to look away from his tiny face, memorizing every feature of this new person in my life.\nOur younger son came along five years after that. A young man in a hurry, he was ten days early. Again, we did not know ahead of time what sex he was. When he was born, we knew he was ours when the nurse blurted out, \"Gee, what big feet this baby has!\" This was after we had passed the time in Labor and Delivery watching an Olympic hockey game. Later we learned this was a big mistake. Our child had one goal in life, and that was to play hockey. Beginning just a few years later, we were hockey parents until he completed high school.\nJoyful memories, all. Beethoven's \"Joy\" as our wedding recessional set the tone for a happy life together.\nPosted in 52 Stories | No Comments \u00bb\n52 Stories #27\u2014Leaving Home\nAt age eighteen, I left home, more or less, to attend college in a town a couple of hours away from where my family lived in Casper, Wyoming. The University of Wyoming is located in Laramie, and my arrival there was a homecoming of sorts for I was born in Laramie. My parents dropped me off one beautiful late summer day, and for the first time I was on my own. After that, I would return to my parents' home only for vacations. I was eager to begin my new life.\nMy high school buddy, Karen, and I received a room assignment in the women's dormitory, White Hall. At twelve stories, it was the tallest building in the state. We had a corner room on the sixth floor and promptly set about personalizing it. We had already purchased coordinated bedspreads in a very 70's-looking orange and avocado green. The room had three dark brown brick walls, and we painted the fourth wall gold. We felt privileged to have a sink in our room, but we had to travel down the hall for the toilets and showers.\nLate in the afternoon of our arrival, after setting up our room, Karen and I explored the campus that would be our home for the next four years. We located the library and our Arts and Sciences College where she planned to study chemistry and I, psychology. We ran into a couple of guys from our high school graduating class who were also finding their way about the place. The cafeteria would not open for another day, so we spent a little of our precious funds to get a meal at a restaurant across the street from the dormitory complex. Back in White Hall for the evening, we met our neighbors and began to get acquainted.\nBeing suddenly cut off from any meaningful communication with my family felt very strange at first. Although we had a telephone on the wall in our room, I had no money for long-distance calls home. My parents never called me. I could write and receive letters, but composing them took time that a busy college student does not have. Only my mother wrote to me regularly. The built-in delays of back-and-forth letter writing made any meaningful conversation impossible. I felt alienated from my family, and we never regained the closeness we once had.\nYet soon enough, it did not matter so much. I had always liked school, and I enjoyed my studies. On Saturdays, I joined new friends to attend football games in War Memorial Stadium where we cheered on the Cowboys. On a couple of weekends when the team was away, someone with a car took Karen and me into the mountains surrounding Laramie for picnics.\nIn those early days, another welcoming place was Laramie's Lutheran Campus Center. I had the opportunity to stay there one night while I was still in high school, so the place was familiar to me. I began attending services on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings. The church was a constant in my life when so much else had changed. I met new people there, too, and attended the social events they hosted.\nAfter a few weeks in Laramie I became accustomed to new routines and life on my own. I enjoyed my independence and the freedom it offered. The separation from my family began to feel okay. From then on, I concentrated on building my adult life. I had succeeded in leaving home.\n52 Stories #26\u2013Siblings\nMy parents had four children. I am the oldest, and I have two brothers and a sister. With a nine-year spread in our ages, I can remember clearly the births of my two youngest siblings, but I do not recall the day my first brother was born.\nHe arrived just 20 months after my own birth. To me, he has always been there. I am told we moved from a second-floor apartment to the main floor of a rental house to make room for him. Perhaps we shared a bedroom, but I do not remember this either. I recall the house as a noisy place with another family living in the basement. Understandably, my parents were eager to get us into a place solely occupied by the four of us. We did that about 6 months later when I was 2 \u00bd. We rented a two-bedroom place known as The Dream House because it had once been a prize in a contest. For as long as we lived in that house, my brother and I shared a small bedroom. At first, he had a crib and I had a trundle bed. Later, we got bunk beds from the local Ethan Allen store.\nWe passed the crib along to our new baby brother when I was in kindergarten. From the beginning, the poor boy had more than his share of health problems. The day he came home from the hospital he was coated in a white salve to calm his eczema. That first year, he returned to the hospital a couple of times because severe allergies caused him to catch pneumonia easily. Life changed for all of us because of the elevated level of care he needed from the beginning and still needs today. We were glad to have my maternal grandmother there to help out for a while.\nBy the time I was nine, we lived in another state. A year later, a baby sister joined us. I stayed home from school that day to watch my brothers when my dad took my mom to the hospital for the birth. The process took longer than he anticipated. He came home at lunch time to make sure I had sent one brother to school and lunch ready. He also attempted to do a load of laundry, washing my brother's red hoodie with our white underwear. Bad idea\u2013everything turned pink. When the telephone range with the message that my sister was born, my dad returned to the hospital while I minded one brother and awaited the arrival of the other from school. Dad spent the afternoon viewing my new sister in the hospital nursery and visiting my mom. That evening he returned to make burned scrambled eggs for us for supper. That was the last straw. He gave up on housewifery and called in my grandmother. She arrived the next day. Finally, I could go back to school and he could escape to his office. My mom and sister came home from the hospital a few days later. The boys and I had only a brief glimpse of the baby before they put her in for a nap in the bassinet.\nHer arrival completed our family. In many ways, we siblings became two groups of two. My oldest brother and I do not remember a time without each other, but we can recall our family life together from the earliest days. To our young minds, it seemed a long time before the other two children arrived on the scene. Everything changed when they did. No longer were we a family with two big and independent children. We became a family that needed to accommodate babies again.\nThe day each the siblings arrived marked a successive turning point in my family life. I acquired new companions and shouldered new responsibilities each time. Overall, I remember it being a hard adjustment, and I was not always as gracious as I should have been. Sibling rivalry was alive and well at my house.\n52 Stories in 52 Weeks #25\u2014Babyhood\nSeptember 4th, 2017 | Author: Teri\nObviously I do not recall the day I was born, but later my mom did tell me a bit about my infancy.\nMy parents lived in the college town of Laramie, Wyoming at the time I was born. I came into the world at the old Ivinson Memorial Hospital one spring night. I was my mom and dad's first child.\nI arrived a couple of weeks prematurely. Consequently, I was tiny and weighed less than the usual 5-pound threshold for life outside an incubator. Still, I had a lusty cry. The doctor decided I could skip the incubator and go home when my mother's prescribed recovery time in the hospital ended.\nThe first time my mother looked at me, she thought I resembled my Finnish relatives. I had a bald head, and perhaps she suspected I would be blonde like them. She was right.\nMy dad was finishing up school as a business student at the University of Wyoming that year. He was graduated a month after I was born. He must have loved studying for his final exams with a wailing infant in the house. I had the privilege of attending his graduation ceremony, but I wasted it by crying the entire time. My mother had to take me out of the auditorium, so she missed it, too.\nAfter the graduation, my dad needed to attend a three-month orientation in Casper, Wyoming for his new job as a petroleum landman. In the fall, he would be assigned to a permanent location in a field office. Not wanting to live in temporary digs in Casper, my mom took me to stay with her parents in Rapid City, South Dakota for the summer. There, my grandparents and aunt doted on me, the first grandchild.\nIn early July, my dad drove over from Casper for a visit. While he was there, I was baptized at the Trinity Lutheran church on the Fourth of July. My mother's younger sister and my dad's older brother served as my godparents.\nWhen autumn arrived, Dad collected us, and we three moved north to Bismarck, North Dakota to begin his job. It fell to my mom to find us a place to live.\nShe thought the perfect location was an upstairs apartment for rent across the street from my dad's office and the grocery store. Only problem was that the landlady wanted no children around. Mom went to talk to her and claimed that I was a very nice baby. She promised to keep me quiet.\nThe landlady relented. Mom, Dad, and I moved in. We stayed in that apartment until our family outgrew it when my brother was born a little over a year later. My mom said the landlady eventually grew to like me and was sorry to see us leave.\n52 Stories #24\u2013Family Sayings\nAugust 28th, 2017 | Author: Teri\nThe men in our families often give us advice or correct our behavior. Sometimes we hear the same phrases over and over as we grow up.\nI can recall a few from my childhood, all originating with or handed down by my father:\nMy great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey Reed (1845-1928) told his children \"You inherited a good name, now keep it that way.\"\nMy dad, a Navy veteran, often reminded us to keep our home and belongings in Ship Shape.\nMy dad admonished us when he did not approve of our behavior. Many times he told us to \"straighten up and fly right\" when he caught us in wrongdoing or to \"look alive\" when we seemed lazy or slow-moving with an assigned task.\nWhen we faced major life decisions, my dad advised us to \"think very carefully about what you do\" although he rarely ventured an opinion about what we should decide. Making an exception when we embarked on careers, he suggested that we should work in private industry instead of government so as to make more money.\nI had no direct advice from my either of my grandfathers. Owen Herbert Reed (1896-1935) died in a motor vehicle accident long before I was born, and even my dad barely remembered him. Bjarne K. Bentsen (1906-1986) lived in another state, and I did not know him very well. When I did see him, we talked mostly of current events.\nPerhaps my own children and grandchildren have heard me repeat some of the sayings from my childhood. They say we raise our children the same way we were brought up. In my family, that meant finding one's own way with little unsolicited advice from the previous generation.\n52 Stories #23\u2014My Dad's Early Days\nWhat was my dad like in his younger days? Occasionally he told us stories from his childhood. We listened, wide-eyed. We could not imagine a life like his.\nDad and his brothers had silly nicknames for each other. Owen was \"Bill\", Harold was \"Skeets\", and Dad was \"Doodle-bug\". The three of them planned to move to Alaska to work when they were grown, excluding their brothers Robert and Donald. The three signed The Reed Agreement to this effect.\nDad hardly remembered his father. Owen Herbert Reed died in a vehicle crash near Brighton, Colorado just before Independence Day, 1935 when Dad was seven years old. My grandfather was driving a truck, hauling a load of fruit from Denver back to Wyoming when he went off the road. The load shifted and killed him. Dad and his brothers were at the movie theater in Wheatland that afternoon, looking forward to their father's expected return that evening. A neighbor went to the theater to fetch them when their mother received the grim news.\nAfter their father's death and the loss of his income, the family lost its place to live. Dad's uncle Morton Reed traded some farmland near Wheatland for a small house in Loveland, Colorado and moved the family there. They qualified for widow and orphan benefits in Colorado because the accident had occurred there. Shortly after their arrival, they had a family portrait made with Harold, Owen, Robert, and Earl (my dad) in the back row and their mom, Grace, and Donald in the front.\nDad and his brothers used to say, \"We hated Colorado when we had to move there in 1936, and we still hate it.\" Still, Harold remained there for the rest of his life, and Robert returned to Colorado after his military service. Hazel also returned to Colorado when her daughter was grown. My dad relocated to Colorado several years ago to live closer to me.\nDad and his brothers suffered some frightening injuries when they were young. They sneaked into a broom-making factory one day where they initially had fun poking stalks into the cutting machine. Then Dad pushed one too far and cut off the end of his middle finger. His older brother Owen scooped up the detached digit with his handkerchief, handed it to my dad, and told him to take it home to their mother. She immediately took Dad to the country doctor who sewed it back on. Dad carries a bad scar from this accident, but the finger regained full functionality.\nHarold suffered a more severe injury while tree climbing. He accidentally grabbed an electrical wire and suffered a severe shock. For a long time afterwards, he had difficulty opening his hands. The same country doctor who had treated Dad instructed Harold to exercise by squeezing a small rubber ball. Harold eventually recovered full use of his hands.\nDad loved sports. At school he went out for football, basketball and track. He played wide receiver on the high school football team and went on to play college football at the school in Greeley, CO. He lost several teeth when he once went head-first into a goal post. Dad's brother Robert was the high school basketball coach, and my tall father was the center on the team. During his high school years, Dad went to the stadium one spring day to watch track practice. The coach needed someone to pace the boy who ran the mile for the track team, and he called my dad out of the stands. He beat the other boy in their race, and from then on, my dad was the miler for Loveland High School. He set a school record.\nThe Loveland economy relied on sugar beet farming. With no men around during WWII, local high school students filled in during the harvest. In 1943, the school closed for two weeks, and Dad helped to bring in the crop.\nDuring those years, Dad had a little white dog. Runt had belonged to neighbors who could not take him along when they moved. The Reeds took him in.\nDad enjoyed reading from the time he was young. In Loveland, he began his lifelong patronage of the public library. He read mostly non-fiction like military history.\nDad graduated from high school when he was seventeen years old. He promptly enlisted in the Navy and went to San Diego for boot camp in 1945. After transport through Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, he was assigned to the USS Seer, a mine sweeper in the South China Sea. He spent Christmas, 1945 in Shanghai, China. Upon demobilization, he hitchhiked back to Colorado. With him he brought some Chinese pottery, a kimono, a Japanese military rifle, and his pea coat embroidered with a Chinese dragon. He also had a few photos of his time in the service. Although he served in the Navy, he did not acquire any tattoos when so many of his shipmates did. \"I wasn't interested,\" was all he would say about that.\nDad has now outlived all his siblings. He will be 90 years old this week. He no longer remembers much of his younger days. I wish he had told more stories about his youth. Living through the Depression and the early death of his father made life hard for a young boy. I can see why he did not speak about it much.\n52 Stories #22-Spending Time With My Dad\nJuly 31st, 2017 | Author: Teri\nMy Dad worked as a petroleum landman and traveled a lot. He often spent weekdays on the road in another state, and one time he had a 3-month temporary assignment half way across the country. Nevertheless, on his weekends or rare weeks at home, he took time for me. What did we do?\nHe read to us. Dad liked to read, and he served as the parent who read bedtime stories to my brother and me. As we grew older, he took us to the library every weekend. During those visits, he made sure we had plenty of time to browse for just-the-right books.\nHe drove us to church on Sundays. My mom did not like to go, and she could not drive, so Dad took us every week. He would serve as an usher during the church service, go home briefly while we attended Sunday School class, and then return to pick us up.\nDad took care of our lawn, and I helped him with the weeding. We spent many summer evenings working in the yard, chatting away about anything and everything as we pulled undesirable plants from the grass and flower beds.\nI learned cleaning skills from my dad. As a Navy veteran, he took pride in keeping things Ship Shape, and he took responsibility for the basement and the garage. He enlisted my brother and me to help. These chores did not seem so bad when Dad turned them into a group activity.\nWhen my brother and I were tweens, Dad introduced us to local history. On summer weekends, he took us to various sites around Wyoming where we could experience the history of our state.\nAs I grew a little older, Dad and I discovered a mutual interest in family history. We began to compile information, contacting relatives to learn more. He and I worked together on the family tree for many years until he could no longer do so.\nMy dad enjoys music. He regularly listened to the radio in the car. He bought a record player when I was small, and he built a small collection of albums for it. Now that he lives in an assisted living complex, I like to visit him during a music activity. He and I sing together or watch a performing group.\nLike all kids, I have always thought my dad is the best dad in the world. I realize now that it must not have come easily for him. His own father died in an accident when Dad was seven years old. Never again did Dad have a father in his household. He had no man at home to teach him and guide him. He had no role model for becoming a father himself. Despite that, he did a great job with us.\n52 Stories in 52 Weeks #21\u2014Dad and Me\nJuly 24th, 2017 | Author: Teri\nAs the firstborn in my family, I am Daddy's Girl. Over the years I have worked hard to earn his approval, and he generously supports me in whatever I do. He is so approachable that I never hesitate to ask for his help or confide in him. He has an endearing gentleness that I recognized at an early age. Whenever I stubbed a toe or skinned a knee, I wanted him to treat it.\nHe and I are alike in some of our physical traits and temperament. I inherited my long legs from him. He put his to good use in sports, but I am not that coordinated. My height simply enables me to reach things in high places.\nI also inherited The Temper from him and his paternal grandmother before him. Neither of us has much patience, nor did she. One time she cut down all the trees in her yard out of exasperation with the noisy birds living there. Now that is a short temper, and Dad and I both have it, too.\nDad and I have many interests in common, and we get along well. Over the years we have had long conversations about genealogy, history, finance, and politics. Dad worked as a petroleum landman for a major oil company, and I followed him into that profession. We both liked contracts and land title work.\nDad fostered my life-long interest in reading. He was the parent who read to us when we were young. When I had behavior problems in the second grade, he cured me by introducing me to the public library. He explained that if I just kept a novel in my desk, I could take it out to read instead of disturbing my classmates. It worked.\nDad and I differ in one big way. He has always loved team sports. At school he participated in every season\u2014football in the fall, basketball in the winter, and track in the spring. He set a school record for running the mile, and he played college football. As an adult, he joined bowling and volleyball leagues. I have no such talent, nor do I have much interest in sports. I have rarely joined him to watch a ball game on TV. I prefer outdoor recreation like camping, hiking or bicycling, but Dad did not join me in those activities.\nThrough the years, my Dad has set a good example for me in all that he did. He nurtured my early interests, took me to church, and taught me valuable life skills. I often wonder how he became such a good dad when he lost his own at the young age of seven. Perhaps he just had a talent for it, and I am the lucky recipient.\n52 Stories #20\u2013Strong Women\nJuly 3rd, 2017 | Author: Teri\nChallenges and hardship can shape people. Have I seen examples of this in my own family? Of course. These women, my ancestors, lived through and overcame obstacles that I cannot imagine facing, yet they survived.\nOlive Dunbar Riddle (1823-1902), my great-great grandmother. She was born on Cape Cod and spent her early years there surrounded by a large extended family. Her Hall and Dunvar forebears had lived in that state for 200 years, so it surely felt like home. Her father worked as a saltmaker. Olive likely envisioned that she would make her life in the area where she grew up, but life had other plans for her. The salt trade dried up before she was 10, and the parents decided to relocate to the country's interior. They sold everything and moved to Ohio, taking young Olive with them. Shortly thereafter, Olive's father, Benjamin E. Dunbar, died. Olive lived with her widowed mother until she married John D. Riddle when she was nineteen years old. After their marriage, Olive sold land she had inherited and the couple moved to Mendon, Michigan. There they bought a farm and had a family of nine children. Olive likely worked had as a farm wife, but things did not turn out happily for her. Her husband lost an eye, and they lost a grandchild in a fire. Several of her children moved far away to homesteads in Nebraska. As the years went by, the sight in John's remaining eye failed, and they relied heavily on the help of their eldest son, Isaac Newton Riddle. By 1896, John greatly feared blindness and poverty. He took his own life, leaving 73-year-old Olive a widow with a farm to run. Olive spent her remaining years on the farm with her son, scratching out a living. She passed away six years later after a hard life of trekking twice through the country to build a new home, raising a large family, and surviving tragedy. Her family remembered her as a kind and sweet woman, so she must have borne it all with grace.\nAnna Petronellia Sherman (1865-1961), my great-grandmother. Petronellia never knew her mother. The family story tells us that this German woman died shortly after the birth of her child. Petronellia spent her early years as a virtual orphan in her paternal grandmother's Illinois home. Her father Thomas was often away on blacksmithing jobs. When Petronellia was six, a step-mother named Mary came into her life for a few years. Perhaps Petronellia was fond of her step-mother; she adopted Mary's Methodist faith. Yet by the time Petronellia reached the age of fifteen, Mary was gone, and her father was marrying again. This time, Petronellia definitely did not like her new step-mother, Alice. Petronellia left the stormy household as soon as she was able and promptly married a much older man. Samuel Harvey Reed already had two surviving daughters, 13-year-old Anna and 11-year-old Clara. Eighteen-year-old Petronellia became a step-mother herself. She and Samuel moved to southern Missouri to begin a new life away from Samuel's disapproving family, and she had seven children of her own. By all accounts, it was not easy to get along with Petronellia. She and Samuel divorced in 1904, and Petronellia later said she had married him because she liked his big, white house in Ashmore, Illinois. She had not known it actually belonged to his father, Caleb. After her divorce she married a former Confederate officer, John Coffey. That did not last long. After their divorce, Petronellia resumed used of the Reed surname and kept it the rest of her life. By World War I, one of her sons, Robert Morton Reed, worked on the railroad in southeastern Wyoming, so she took up a homestead there as a way to make a living on her own. She was in her fifties, and the first year she managed to grow only a bucket of potatoes. She disliked the dry, windblown prairie, so she sold out when she proved up the homestead. Her crustiness had seen her through. She returned to the gentle landscape of southern Missouri. Finding strength in her Methodist religion, she remained there and lived to be ninety-five years old. She is buried in the churchyard of her beloved Methodist church in Huggins, Missouri.\nLaura Riddle (1853-1933), my great-grandmother. Laura could write her name but not much else. She was not much of a student. Born on a Michigan farm to Olive and John Riddle, she became a farmer herself. By 1880, she was a single mother of three sons, two of them disabled. Without much opportunity in Michigan, she moved to Nebraska near McCook to homestead alongside her older sister, Theodocia. A few years later, Laura's eldest son left home, and Theodocia's family moved on to Hyannis, Nebraska. Laura herself elected to settle on a new homestead near Palisade with her two younger sons, Louis and Joe. Eventually, she had another child, a daughter this time (my grandmother, Grace). Life on the homestead was hard, and Laura finally had to send Grace to live with Theodocia. When the chance for a larger homestead arose a few years later, Laura and the boys took it and moved on to Haigler, Nebraska. Throughout forty-five years of homesteading, Laura managed to care for her two sons and keep a farm. When she was in her 70's, she finally gave up her homestead and retired to Palisade with the boys. Described as a strong and robust woman, she lived to be eighty years old. The money from the homestead sale provided her a living for the rest of her life with a little left over for her four children. Despite a life of terrible hardship, Laura had never given up.\nSofie Sivertsdatter (1878-1966), my great-grandmother. Sofie was born at Valfjord in the county of Nordland, Norway. It must have been a sad household. At least five older siblings had died. Living in a home with elderly parents taught Sofie to be a hard worker. From an early age she contributed by caring for livestock for a relative. Eventually, she made her way to the town of Stokmarknes to work. There she met and married Ole Jorgen Bentsen. Life with him was not any easier. Almost immediately, he left for America, leaving her behind until their first child was born. The next year, traveling alone with a newborn, she made her way across the ocean to meet Ole in Minnesota. They scrimped and saved for two years until they had enough to settle on free land in Montana. Twice they homesteaded there, first on a 160-acre tract and then later on a 320-acre tract. After two more children had joined the young family, Sofie spent one winter virtually alone on the homestead while her husband lay in town ill with typhoid fever. Sofie nearly ran out of supplies and would have starved to death had not a passerby butchered a calf for her. Happily, Ole recovered and returned to her. Eventually, Sofie had another two children while she and Ole continued to manage their homestead and acquire more land. They were proud that they never borrowed against it, not even during the Great Depression. In 1952, they decided to retire to the town of Plentywood, Montana, and they sold their land to their son, Otto. Sofie developed a degenerative illness, but she carried on keeping house for Ole and attending events at the local Lutheran church. Despite her illness, she made fattigmand every year at Christmas time. By 1966, she became too weak to continue, and she passed away at the age of eighty-seven. She is buried in a prairie cemetery at Redstone, Montana, not far from her farm.\nStrong women, all of them. I cannot imagine surviving some of the difficulties these ancestors faced. They survived pioneering, brutal farm labor, family tragedy, disabled children, and debilitating illness. If not for them, I would not be here. From their legacy I learned that complaining does no good. Find a way to keep going.\n52 Stories in 52 Weeks no. 19\u2014Remembering Grandma\nJune 26th, 2017 | Author: Teri\nI remember both of my grandmothers so well\u2014the Homesteader and the Flapper. They could not have been less alike, but I thought they both were great. Neither lived in the same town as me, so I looked forward to their visits. They usually stayed at our house at the same time for a couple of weeks in the summer and a couple of weeks at Christmas time.\nThe Homesteader\nMy Dad's mom, Grace Riddle (1896-1976), was born on her mother's Nebraska homestead. When she was about four, her mother could no longer care for her, and Grandma Grace went to live with an aunt. This woman had already raised her own family, and Grandma probably provided a good deal of help around the ranch her aunt and cousins ran. When the aunt died, she left Grandma a portion of her estate equal to that of her own children.\nGrandma Grace seemed quite elderly to me even when I was a small child. Having grown up on a homestead at the turn of the last century, she was very old-fashioned. She wore housedresses and hose supported with ring garters. She never wore makeup. She had no television or telephone at home and did not understand how they worked. Nor could she comprehend why anyone would need them. She had no checking account and paid for everything with cash. Grandma liked to read, and she read every word of the newspaper every day.\nWhenever Grandma Grace came to visit, we always eagerly asked whether she needed help unpacking her suitcase. We knew it was filled with trinkets for us. She delighted in collecting small items to give us each time she visited.\nShe liked to play with me. We made mudpies together, and we shared tea parties. When I was small, we took naps together on hot afternoons. She fell asleep easily while I continually asked whether she was still awake.\nHer favorite household chore was washing dishes. That was my job at home, so she liked to help me. We had great conversations as we cleaned up the kitchen. She was interested in everything I did\u2014school, choir, piano lessons.\nGrandma Grace had six children, and she knew how to talk to kids. She shared little about herself, instead asking questions to draw us out in confiding in her. I was fortunate to have her for a Grandma.\nThe Flapper\nYou would never have known that my Mom's mom, Martha Mattila (1906-1977) was the child of immigrants from Finland. Although she had spoken only Finnish until she started school, she spoke perfect English by the time I knew her. She had gone to college and taught elementary school.\nGrandma Martha was a city girl from Minnesota. She had come of age in the roaring 1920's. Grandma Martha loved shopping, dressing up, getting her hair done, and makeup. As a girl, I was fascinated with her morning routine of choosing a stylish outfit and \"fixing her face\".\nGrandma Martha enjoyed gossip. As soon as she arrived at our house, she would settle in, light a cigarette, and proceed to tell us the news of our extended family. She knew the dirt on everyone and did not hesitate to share it. Memories of these conversations really helped me reconstruct my family tree when I became interested in genealogy.\nGrandma Martha encouraged me in things a girl should know. She exhorted me to continue with my piano lessons when I became discouraged. She helped me with embroidery projects. She taught me to play card games. She bought me thoughtful gifts that I remember after all these years\u2014a leather-bound Bible, a bonnet-style hairdryer.\nShe liked jewelry and wore a lot of costume pieces. When she tired of something, she gave it to me. I still have some of her necklaces and bracelets. I wore one to my youngest son's wedding in memory of her.\nTheir Legacy\nI remember both of my grandmothers as being very supportive of me. I knew them equally well even though they lived in other states. I loved when they came to visit, and I always begged them to stay longer.\nBoth expressed the wish to live long enough to attend my wedding. They both made it! One of my favorite wedding photographs is of my groom and me standing with my grandmothers.\nEach of them contributed in her own way to the person I am today. From Grandma Grace, I have a love of reading and a frugal nature. From Grandma Martha I learned life skills. From both these women, I hope I learned to be a good grandmother.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"In Gujarat : Modi Vs RSS, Rahul Gandhi Vs Old Guard\nBy Seema Mustafa\n|6 Dec 2017 4:43 PM GMT\nNEW DELHI: Gujarat has become a battle not just between the BJP and the Congress but has dimensions that have turned Gujarati's into political hounds of the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh kind, speaking incessantly of politics.\nEveryone has an opinion here but the consensus is that the BJP will lose seats. Not many see it losing the government, but all including die hard BJP supporters who have never voted for any party, admit that this time the party tally will be reduced. The figures vary but the conventional wisdom places these at at least 15-25 less for the BJP that will bring it into the 95-105 seats vicinity.\nAnd of course, political pundits sit back with a \"we know all\" expression and launch into the impact of these Assembly results on 2019. Again the consensus here is that win or lose, if the BJP tally drops by even 10-15 seats it will bolster Opposition forces in the coming state elections in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls.\nBut in the midst of this debate that will be settled conclusively on December 9 and 14, there are two other battles that are being fought, with ferocious intensity that will have an impact on the future of both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress to-be President Rahul Gandhi. Both are fighting for supremacy and control over and above the RSS, and the Congress old guard respectively.\nThe RSS has kept a distance from the Gujarat polls so far, with the result that its front organisations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad have not been mobilised to help the BJP in these elections. This is possibly one reason for the lower crowds at the Prime Minister's rallies in the state. And also the reason why communal rumours are getting nipped in the bud with the BJP cyber trolls being effectively countered by the Congress on the social media.\nIn Gujarat the RSS---that is far more active in states like Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh now under two Chief Ministers who are not close to PM Modi and BJP President Amit Shah---has had to play second fiddle to PM Modi who is clear that he will not take instructions for his home state. Shah, who did seek the help of the RSS in the UP polls, is keeping away this time determined to prove that no other forces are required by them to win the elections.\nIn this power play, the RSS has developed stakes in a BJP defeat in Gujarat although its cadres are not working for either but just maintaining a distance. In the districts local RSS men came up to sing the praises of PM Modi, but as one of the voters, and not as campaigners. Clearly the RSS cadres are highly supportive of the Prime Minister, if not of the BJP, but as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad local leader in Ahmedabad Sunil Saini told The Citizen, \"we are not campaigning, and will not until we receive instructions from the top (RSS) to do so.\" Sources said that after the first phase of polling on December 9, Shah and Modi will have to take a decision about the RSS cadres. \"For if this round does not favour the BJP they will need the VHP and others,\" is the assessment.\nBut this dependency then will impact on the other elections, and will strengthen the RSS writ on the Modi government. There have been reports of tensions between the two after he became the Prime Minister with a mandate that extended far beyond the RSS reach. Ever since there has been a tug of war between the two, with both biting into the rope and letting it go only once in a while for tactical reasons. The RSS has clearly decided to play the final game as it were in Gujarat, and the hope clearly is that a reduction in the number of seats for the BJP will take some of the gloss off Modi, and transfer the sheen to Nagpur.\nRahul Gandhi is having a rougher time, as he has still to get the mandate that elevated Modi to the top rung of the hierarchical ladder. The people's overwhelming response placed PM Modi on a virtual pedestal, with the RSS having to follow him for a long while instead of the other way around. In Rahul Gandhi's case, the old guard in the Congress has been his worst enemy really for a long while, with many senior leaders planting stories against him in the past, and giving teeth to the BJP anti-RG propaganda of being naive and stupid.\nRahul Gandhi has been aware of this but unable to cut into the animosity in any meaningful way until his visit to the United States. Here he had his father's aide Sam Pitroda as his 'manager', to put it a little crudely, with the result that he did not have to contend with the old guard media managers in Delhi and had his cyber 'team', Pitroda and others handle the publicity directly. Gujarat is now the first testing ground for the Congress leader, who is also now actually on his way to taking over as the party president, win or lose. This is different from the UP polls, where presidentship had been linked with victory, and hence the slump in seats ensured by a non-active Congress organisation successfully stopped Rahul Gandhi's elevation.\nIt is no secret that while the old guard is being kept on board for inputs, Rahul Gandhi has brought in his own team into Gujarat, placing zonal managers who have been providing invaluable information to determine strategy. It is no secret in Gujarat that the younger leaders Jignesh Mevani, Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor are being dealt with directly by Rahul Gandhi who has intervened personally in their favour when the 'old guard' of the party made mistakes, that were seen as deliberate.\nFor instance a Patidar leader opposed by Hardik Patel was given a Congress ticket that led to protests by his supporters. It was only after Rahul Gandhi intervened that the ticket was cancelled, and Hardik Patel's nominees accommodated. Jignesh Mevani was given a ticket at the instance of Rahul Gandhi from Vadgam, but despite this the local Congress is in a state of non-cooperation. Similar reports have been received from other constituencies with Congress workers revolting, and even throwing stones, as in Maninagar constituency where the candidate---albeit rather weak---is a Rahul Gandhi choice.\nThe old guard of the Congress has worked fairly closely at times with the local BJP. Shankersinh Vaghela, for long a Congress leader \"fortunately\" according to a state Congress leader, left the party this election to form his own outfit that is barely being heard of now. However, it is no secret that Vaghela had been fairly close to the BJP and seen as one of the obstacles in the way of a Congress revival in the state. He had sufficient 'benefactors' in Delhi to keep him in position as the chief leader with the party barely moving in the state since 2002.\nRahul Gandhi's entry into Gujarat---unlike UP---has been with his own 'team', his own group of advisors, and a strategy that does not necessarily take the 'old guard' into confidence. In fact, quite the opposite as the sources said. Interestingly, it is common knowledge amongst Ahmedabad's informed sections that he is facing problems from the 'old guard' ---there are names but not being mentioned here as these remain unconfirmed---that would prefer the status quo, with Sonia Gandhi remaining Congress President. Also they are reluctant to hand over the reins of control to Rahul Gandhi as he will change all the equations within the party.\nIn fact it is the Congress organisation that is coming in the way of what could be victory for the party in Gujarat. That most people in the state still do not see a Congress government in power---except for the pollsters---is largely because of the ineffective and fractious organisation on the ground that has been checkmated in some constituencies by Rahul Gandhi's team but clearly not across the state. For example in Mehsana, a Patidar stronghold, the Congress has fielded a candidate from the caste but has left him to his own resources insofar as organisational support is concerned. Local Patidars admitted this, but many did say that they would be voting for him regardless.\nA better performance in Gujarat will not just strengthen the Congress, but Rahul Gandhi and the new team he plans to bring in with him as the party president.\nSeema Mustafa\nSeema Mustafa is the Editor-in-Chief of The Citizen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brad Paisley plots 'Beat This Winter' tour\nAfter a successful summer outing, Brad Paisley has revealed plans to return to the road in early 2014 in support of his latest album, Wheelhouse. The cleverly titled \"Beat This Winter\" tour will make two stops in New England, with shows scheduled for Connecticut and New Hampshire. He'll be joined by special gusts Chris Young and Danielle Bradbery.\nPaisley will first visit Uncasville, Connecticut for a performance at the Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, February 14. Tickets for the Valentine's Day show will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for $65 and $85. The following night, Paisley will travel north to New Hampshire for a show at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester. Tickets for the show, which range in price from $37.75 to $97.75, will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.\nWheelhouse, Paisley's ninth studio effort and follow-up to 2011's This Is Country Music, debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 after its release in April. Recorded in Tennessee at his home studio, the West Virginia-native solely produced the album for the first time and also wrote or co-wrote each of its sings. Wheelhouse features singles \"Southern Comfort Zone\", \"Beat This Summer\" and \"I Can't Change the World\" (see him perform the song on NBC's \"America's Got Talent\" below). Paisley also collaborated with several guests artists on the album, including Dierks Bentley, Roger Miller, Hunter Hayes, Mat Kearney, Charlie Daniels, Eric Idle of Monty Python and LL Cool J (on the controversial track \"Accidental Racist\").\nPublished On: December 13, 2013\nBrad Paisley reveals plans for summer tour\nBrad Paisley extends tour into summer months\nNew Releases: July 12, 2011\nBMS Photo by Rory Flynn Brad Paisley","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"17 October 2012|In Asia, Money, World News|6 Minutes\nThe Olympus Scandel\nIn what goes on record as one of the biggest business scandals in Japanese history, three former executives of 'Olympus', one of Japan's largest electronics firms, have pleaded guilty to charges over an alleged accounting scandal that saw the cover-up of corrected financial statements worth in the region of \u00a31billion.\nThe news of the charges brought to Olympus's ex-chairman Tsoyushi Kikukawa, former executive vice-president Hisashi Mori, and the company's former auditor Hideo Yamada was confirmed on the morning of Tuesday 25th September. It was confirmed that all three had pleaded guilty to the charges made against them, which were related to alleged activity to inflate the net worth of the company with forged financial statements that date back up to 5 years ago and up until March 2011.\nWhen interviewed after the hearing, Kikukawa was quick to accept the blame for the major accounting scam, and could only apologise for smearing the reputation of his company and all affiliated with Olympus electronics: \u2013 \"The full responsibility lies with me and I feel deeply sorry for letting down our business partners, shareholders and the wider public\".\nAn investigative panel that analysed the Olympus situation eventually identified Kikukawa, Mori and Yamada as key suspects in the cover-up, which, in part, was identified as a fraudulent system that looked to delay reckoning on a wide number of risky investments themselves and the company had made during the 'bubble economy' of the late 1980's and the early 1990's, where stock and real estate prices soared, until the 'bubble' collapsed a couple of years later which saw all prices plummet to an all-time low in 2003. Last December, the company submitted 5 years-worth of corrected or forged financial statements that, when uncovered and analysed by the investigative panel, showed a gap in their balance sheet close to $1.1billion (\u00a3677million) The cover-up proved to be their downfall, and in February the three former executives were arrested over suspected violation of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.\nThe investigation began after former British Olympus CEO Michael Woodford exposed the company's scam. Woodford was sacked back in 2011 after it was discovered he had been negotiating deals to cover up company losses.\nWoodford had originally campaigned to get his job back, but has since pulled out of any attempts to reclaim his position after declaring that he thought 'cosy relations' between the management at Olympus and Japanese Shareholders the firm were affiliated with were starting to put strain on him and his family whilst trying to keep him off the company's hands. However, the action taken against his former colleagues, with the information he provided to a Japanese district court, will no doubt allow Woodford to crack a wry smile over getting some form of retaliation for how he has felt cast aside by his former technological empire.\nIt is also interesting to note that Olympus is not the only company that has been involved in suspicious dealings in Japan in recent times. Back in early August, electronics firm 'Oki Electrics' were found guilty of generating overstated accounts in their Madrid-based firm 'Systems Iberica'. As a result of this, they announced that they would miss the financial deadline for the Tokyo Stock exchange later that month, and that their errors could cost them up to \u00a365million (8billion Yen). The company has since been put on watch by the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with the threat that the company could see themselves delisted should further suspicious activity be found. Similarly, Olympus could expect the same treatment should further discrepancies be found in the future.\nWith Olympus and its affiliates still under investigation by law enforcement agencies across the rest of Japan, and also in the United States and Britain, other business associated with them will begin to wonder if the panel's verdict may open their eyes to the possibility that the actions of Kikukawa, Mori and Yamada may have collateral damage that could affect their own figures. I'm sure, however, their current competitors, and in particular Mr Woodford, will welcome the setback that Olympus has had. For Olympus themselves though, not only their can their figures suffer from this, but their worldwide reputation can expect to take a hammering over what is one of the largest corporate cover-ups in modern business. The recent scams uncovered at both Olympus and Oki Electronics may make other businesses reluctant to engage too much with financial activity in Japan in recent weeks, and other worldwide companies might cast more scrutiny over one of the world's largest creators of modern-day technology.\nIronically, I bet they'll now be regret selling their own top-quality cameras to the journalists who were waiting with bated breath to expose the faces of the accused outside the courtroom.\nBY: Robert Pritchard\nInformation sourced from the following links:\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-19190483\nhttp:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/989179\/olympus-execs-plead-guilty-to-accounting-scam","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"On This Day November 25th.\nNovember 25: On this day in 1900, Bill Carson was born in Bracebridge, Ontario. Carson was in his first NHL season with the Toronto St. Pats when they became the Maple Leafs in 1926-27. In the following season, Carson scored the first goal in the Maple Leafs' first complete NHL season on opening night, November 15, 1927. During the 1927-28 season, he became the first Maple Leaf to score 20 goals in one season. In early 1929, he was traded to the Boston Bruins. Two months later, he scored the Cup-winning goal for Boston as they defeated the New York Rangers in the first ever all-American Stanley Cup final. As a St. Pat\/Maple Leaf, Bill Carson had a decent total of 43 goals and 18 assists in 96 games. He retired from hockey to become a dentist. Bill Carson died on May 29, 1967.\nNovember 25: On this day in 1972, Denis Dupere had one of his biggest games as a Leaf. He scored twice and added two assists, rookie Rick Kehoe scored his first career NHL hat trick and added two assists and Darryl Sittler picked up five assists as Toronto clobbered the visiting Oakland Seals 11-0. Denis Dupere played his first NHL game with the Leafs in February, 1971 and stayed through 1974 when he was claimed by Washington in the Expansion Draft. As a Leaf he had 29 goals and 44 assists in 192 games.\nNovember 25: On this day in 1998, the Leafs defeated the Vancouver Canucks 5-1. The game was odd in that Vancouver head coach, Mike Keenan pulled his goalie, Garth Snow with 18 minutes left in the 3rd period and Vancouver on the power play. He pulled the goalie again at the mid point of the 3rd and Leaf defenseman Dmitry Yushkevich scored into an empty net.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Snapchat for Android now lets you send 60-second 'multi-snap' videos\nScott Scrivens\n3:28am PDT Oct 24, 2017\nFor anyone who still uses Snapchat, recording and sharing video clips is probably a large part of the experience. Before now, it's only been possible to record videos of up to 10 seconds in length, as this kind of ties in with Snapchat's whole brevity thing. As the app struggles for relevance and searches for new ways to engage with its users, it's decided to allow longer videos.\niOS got 'multi-snaps' a few months ago, but according to a couple of readers, it's now possible to record videos up to 60 seconds on Android, too. To do this, you simply have to keep your finger on the record button past the 10-second mark and it will continue to record. A little pane pops into view to show you that you've already got 10 seconds of video, and this will happen for each subsequent 10-second snap until you have up to 6 of them.\nOnce you've finished recording, you can delete any of the individual 10-second video parts, which could make for some unintentional comedy if it cuts in weird ways. You can also make the usual edits to your video, such as adding filters and text and so on. Then you can share your video in the typical ways, either by sending to one or more friends or adding to your story.\nRight now, there are also Halloween themed paint brush strokes that let you draw with a stream of pumpkins, ghosts, and more, which is a nice spooky touch. It's unclear whether these changes were made server-side or came with the latest update a few days ago. You can check you're up to date on the Play Store or you can sideload the latest version from APKMirror.\nNext on the agenda for Snap... how are you going to flog all those Spectacles?\nDeveloper: Snap Inc\nPhil and Ashraf\napp updates\n[Deal Alert] 256GB A1-rated SanDisk Ultra microSD is just $123.99 ($26 off) on Amazon\nGoogle Photos awakens your nostalgia with \"Then & Now\" smart photo collages","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tofino, Canada Is the Dreamy Honeymoon Destination You've Never Heard Of\nIt's ideal for active outdoorsy couples and foodies\nKathryn Romeyn\nKathryn Romeyn has a degree in print journalism from Northeastern University. She is a seasoned travel writer with over 10 years of experience.\nPublished on 01\/06\/19\nCourtesy of Pacific Sands\nNo offense to Canada, but generally speaking it doesn't exactly give off vibes of being the sexiest honeymoon destination around the globe. But actually it's home to quite a few seductive spots, including one standout island town of which most Americans have never even heard. That place, which many visitors (including this writer) feel inclined to keep a secret, is Tofino, on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia. World-class surfing, whales, magical forest hikes, black bears, exceptional fishing, friendly folks, sandy beaches, and hyperlocal cuisine\u2014it seems too good to be true. Except it's not.\nAdventure loving newlyweds will appreciate the adventure required simply to get to the tiny island of just one taxi. You could take a boat from Vancouver and then wind your way up the island for a few hours by car, hop a small plane from Vancouver's airport, or jump in a tinier seaplane (Harbour Air operates from May to October) that drops you directly at Tofino's harbor. All options come with plenty of jaw-dropping scenery, be warned. One of the many beautiful things about Tofino is its accessibility when it comes to cost\u2014the US Dollar does especially well there, essentially giving Americans a third off the price of everything.\nSurfers and beach addicts should book themselves into the best-located resort there is: Pacific Sands, which sprawls across Cox Bay, giving ample space for guests to enjoy the spectacularly wide forest-trimmed beach\u2014somehow both sunrise and sunset are incredible here, so make a point of enjoying both with some local beer from Tofino Brewing Co. (like every other culinary business around they embrace local natural resources so much there's even a kelp-infused stout) or vino from B.C.'s Okanagan winemaking region. This is the place to surf, left-handers and right-handers break across the expansive bay with tons of space for beginners to get into the fun, too, with lessons from Surf Sister Surf School, which conveniently has an outpost within Pacific Sands.\nAdrian Dorst\nAccommodations are self-catering, which adds to the fun of going on a fishing trip (book with Tofino 1st Class Fishing for a stunning early morning in the mirror like sound or picturesque open ocean), say\u2014you can bring back your coho salmon, halibut, rockfish and crabs to grill on barbecues or prepare in your kitchen. Romantic options include the Beach Houses, which have soaring ceilings, fireplaces and jacuzzi tubs with impeccable views of the Pacific Ocean. Signature Suites, too, have hot tubs on their balconies to savor those idyllic vistas. While summer season is, of course, the most popular\u2014who doesn't love a hot beach day?\u2014the winter in Tofino is also full of fun when stargazing is swapped with storm watching, a favorite pastime that involves cozying up by a fire with cocktails (Tofino also has its own craft distillery!) as massive storms roll in from the Pacific.\nThose wishing to splurge on ultimate luxury can try out the Relais & Chateaux Wickaninnish Inn, a boutiquey 75-room, art-filled bolthole on a rocky promontory on the Pacific. If anything it's worth a trip to The Pointe Restaurant, a fine-dining spot with panoramic views that is the perfect place to toast to your new chapter over refined seafood. Like any good vacation, don't expect to lose weight while in Tofino, even if you are staying active with daily surfing, hikes (Schooner Cove Trail is a fun one through the rainforest to the ocean, while Bomber Trail goes through marshland to an old WWII plane crash near Pacific Rim National Park) or kayaking in the inlet. That's because it's a foodie's paradise.\nCourtesy of The Wickaninnish Inn\nThe crown jewel of Tofino's culinary scene is indisputably Wolf in the Fog, a nationally recognized restaurant by chef Nick Nutting, whose wife, Hailey Pasemko, is the bar manager coming up with innovative cocktails featuring B.C. spirits and foraged infusions that will push the boundaries of your palette. Casual yet completely gourmet, it's a dining experience you'll want to repeat several times during the trip, since there are too many flavorsome dishes\u2014all use locally caught fish, other proteins reared nearby, and Vancouver Island produce and veggies, along with foraged ingredients like kelp and mushrooms\u2014to devour in one sitting.\nTacofino, a B.C. institution since it opened in a sticker-emblazoned food truck in Tofino and spread to the cities, is another must-go, especially if just-caught-lingcod fish tacos in a wooded parking lot are an appealing idea. Steps away is the perfect dessert stop, Chocolate Tofino. Grab scoops of fresh gelato in creative flavor combos and a few handmade chocolate surfboards for later. Sea Monster Noodle Bar, right in town, is a can't-miss for anyone who loves Asian-styled soups or has an affinity for steam buns. Work off those calories by window-shopping your way through Tofino's galleries and boutiques, or stop for another drink or bite at sister local goods\u2013embracing restaurants Shed and Shelter. Picnics on the beach or in the rainforest are also a good idea, and supplies can be collected at the appropriately named shop Picnic\u2014think inventive charcuterie and cheeses, plus accoutrements\u2014across the street from the local bakery, brewery and distillery.\nSee more: Why You Should Honeymoon in Canada\u2014and 5 Trips to Consider\nOther attractions: bear and whale-watching tours, First Nations tours on the water in a dugout canoe, and a trip to hot springs on a tiny island off the coast\u2014you can boat there, hike to the springs, soak, and then take a seaplane back for the most scenic multi-mode adventure. Of course, save time for a few dips in the jacuzzi after long walks on the beach. It's upon embracing the laid-back pace of beautiful Tofino that the magic really becomes evident.\nThe Top 50 Honeymoon Destinations\nWhere to Honeymoon in Spain\nThe 21 Best Places to Elope Around the World\nThe 10 Best Honeymoon Resorts in the U.S. and Canada\nWhy Western Australia May Be Your Dream Honeymoon Destination\n15 Romantic Things to Do in Lexington, Kentucky\n5 Epic Honeymoons for Nature Lovers\nThe 9 Best Honeymoon Resorts in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico\nThe Ultimate New Zealand Honeymoon Guide\nThe 11 Most Romantic Honeymoon Hotels in Northern California\n6 Awesome Things to Do on a Punta Mita Honeymoon\nThe Ultimate Maldives Honeymoon Guide\nWhat Is a Revenge Honeymoon\u2014Plus, 8 Trips to Consider Booking Now and Taking Later\n15 Honeymoon Suites Worth Checking Into for the Pools and Jacuzzis Alone\n9 Honeymoon Destinations That LGBTQIA+ Travelers Will Love\n15 Romantic Things for Couples to Do in Virginia Beach","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tags: campaign, D&D, experiment, life, players, practice\nThanks for buying this game! You'll do this many years from now! (by Larry Elmore)\nHow long does it take to play Dungeons & Dragons?\nSeveral m0nths ago, James Malizewski observed that the Mentzer Companion Set effectively codified the much-needed \"endgame\" for Dungeons & Dragons. I respect James, but it's not much of an endgame if it never arrives.\nI'm going to say that Level 12 effectively qualifies as hitting the endgame. Under the Moldvay\/Marsh\/Cook version of the Basic Game, most classes need about 600,000 points to reach Level 12.\nHow long does it take to get there? For a game that's been in play, in one form or another, for about 35 years, there seems to be very little hard data, though Maldoor made an early attempt.\nI'll take a guess based on a semi-official pronouncement. The Holmes Basic Rulebook states that it should take about six to eight adventures to level up. I don't have my copy with me; I'm going from memory. Holmes, unfortunately, doesn't explain whether this means six to eight sessions of play, or six to eight completed dungeon-adventures. (In any event the most helpful measurement would be points acquired per hour of play.) But let's assume Holmes is talking about sessions of play. In that case it would take the player 72 to 96 sessions to reach Level 12\u2013somewhere around three to four years if you're playing twice a month.\nFrankly I think Holmes's math wasn't intended to apply beyond the first few levels, which after all were his main focus in the Basic Rulebook. As an example, a Magic-User needs 40,000 points to go from Level 6 to Level 7. To do so in eight sessions would require earning an average of 5,000 points per session (maybe 20-30 thousand for the party as whole). That's not impossible, but it's a very steep pace to maintain given the adversaries you'd have to fight. I don't have any hard data to suggest another rate of advancement, but presumably it gets a lot slower around high-level play.\nBut even at lower levels, Holmes's estimate of 6-8 adventures to level seems way off for our group of players. Eric's Principalities of Glantri game has been playing for about 20 sessions, and nearly all of the participants are still Level 1 (this is in large part due to turnover, both of characters and players). Tavis's White Sandbox game has had about 15 sessions with a more stable (but larger) cast, and maybe 50% of the regulars have gained one level. Also, we're playing with what amounts to double-XP-for-treasure rules, and Tavis is using the 100 XP per hit die of the enemy, so our advancement is considerably quicker than it would be if we were playing by the B\/X rules. And we're also playing using published modules (B2 and Caverns of Thracia).\nTo me this suggests that Holmes's estimate is too generous by a factor of 2 or 3 (or it could be that the \"adventures\" he's using as his unit of advancement are maybe 2-3 sessions in length). So that would mean hitting Level 12 would take anywhere from 144 to 288 sessions. Playing twice a month, that's anywhere from 6 to 12 years.\nSo in order to reach the endgame of a D&D campaign, we're talking about a time commitment of at least 3 to maybe up to 12 years. For a casual social activity, competing for attention with one's professional and familial obligations, as well as whatever other interests one might have, it approaches absurdity.\nNow, I'm assuming (1) that we're playing from the low-levels to my arbitrarily imposed cap of Level 12, and (2) we're advancing at a rate more-or-less as the rules intended. Either assumption might be wrong.\nBut to the extent that you're measuring your game against some idealized mode of play where folks go from Level 1 dopes to Level 12 super heroes, that is a long haul. Maintaining your own interest, to say nothing of your players', is going to be a serious challenge.\n19 Responses to \"are we there yet?\"\n1 JDJarvis\nWow 15 or 20 sessions and still having 50% or more of the PCs at 1st level is abysmally slow for low level play. Holmes mentions a rate of 6 to 12 adventures to gain a level, with this holding up into higher levels with 10-20% of adventures proving to be relatively profitless.\nI played almost weekly campaign and we got 4 to 6 sessions a level going on hiatus with the party ranging from 10th to 14th level. It seemed pretty quick for me, possibly a little to quick for mostly weekly play but I was mixing adventure sources like a mad man and not being too picky with the way one version of the game provided exp compared to another.\nMy longest running campaign was topping out in the mid teens and it ran every two weeks for 7-8 years using the AD&D rules. We did spend about half that time at or near name level.\nI participated in an on and off game that lasted until we were playing in the 20's with armies marching back and forth against each other across the nations of the D&D known world . I don't recall leveling up during the last year or so of that campaign as it had stopped being about that by that point in play. The longest running players certainly logged over 200 sessions in that campaign which had been in the end game for so long it was called \"The Wars\" by the regulars.\nHey JD, thanks VERY much for those data points (and for the correction on Holmes's figures \u2013 I'll make the necessary corrections later tonight).\nFor point of reference, Tavis's White Sandbox game started out at Level 3, so that may account for our leveling time leaning toward the highest end of Holmes's figures. It's a very big group, usually 8-10 players, and the average lifespan of a character is fairly brief \u2013 I'd bet our highest-level guys have played in about 8-10 sessions. One player has leveled up TWICE, but that's because he basically got very lucky in the sessions he attended, picking up the pieces from a couple of 90% completed delves. I dream that my character can steal as much credit and hog as much glory as \"John Fighter.\"\nOne thing to keep in mind is that if you're playing in ~100 sessions, and your character has a 5% chance of dying in any given session, then your odds against surviving for 100 sessions are 168:1. I guess that's not too bad with resurrection magic. But if, say, it takes you 30 sessions to crawl from Level 1 to (say) Level 5 \u2013 that is, a level high enough that someone might care enough to cast Raise Dead on you \u2013 then your odds against survival are 4:1 against.\n3 cr0m\nThis is an area I'm keenly interested in, but unfortunately don't have much data to contribute\u2013yet.\nI've got a couple of PCs who survived 5 sessions in the Caves of Chaos and earned just under 4,000xp\u2013not enough to level since they're both Elves. In my Moldvay-ish Lost Mine, there's a Dwarf who has survived 6 sessions and earned about 300xp. Although I suspect that if they return for another session, they're going to double that amount, because they've thoroughly mapped nearly the whole dungeon, and have unluckily managed to avoid the two large caches of treasure that remain (out of three).\nTonight I'm running the first completely BtB Moldvay dungeon I've made. There's probably about 12,000gp on the first level alone, and about 1500xp worth of monsters. This one should be a much better test of BtB advancement.\n4 Eric Minton\n\"How long does it take to play Dungeons & Dragons? \u2026 I respect James, but it's not much of an endgame if it never arrives.\"\nThe implication here is that you're not really playing the game if you don't reach the endgame.\n\"The Holmes Basic Rulebook states that it should take about six to eight adventures to level up. \u2026 But let's assume Holmes is talking about sessions of play. In that case it would take the player 72 to 96 sessions to reach Level 12\u2013somewhere around three to four years if you're playing twice a month.\"\nI doubt long-term play was intended to occur so sparingly. You and I are working on an urban timescale that doesn't match what I know of early play, which apparently involved multiple sessions each week.\nFor a related anecdote, several years ago I discussed the \"One World by Night\" cross-campaign Vampire live action group with one of its members. Apparently the group was experiencing problems because different chapters of the organization were playing at drastically different rates. Whereas many East Coast groups met once or twice per month and gave out XP accordingly, some of the small-town Midwestern chapters met two to three times per week. Long-running PCs in the latter groups had something like ten times as much XP as those in the former, providing an overwhelming statistical advantage when they crossed over to other games in the franchise.\nWorking from your estimate, a group that plays three times a week will hit level 12 in six to eight months.\n\"Eric's Principalities of Glantri game has been playing for about 20 sessions, and nearly all of the participants are still Level 1 (this is in large part due to turnover, both of characters and players).\"\nAnd there's a whole lot of turnover! I don't think the Glantri game can be used as an effective benchmark on that basis.\nIn addition, I expect that early players accomplished a lot more per session than we do in the Glantri game. Our sessions are quite short, and we also have a more frivolous attitude toward play than I expect from a tradition that started among wargamers, especially if the examples of play in the early rulebooks are to be taken at face value. Where we putter around cracking jokes and making unrealistic plans, old school players appeared to push hard to get through as many encounters as possible in the time available to them.\nI believe you're wrong on both points. The latter is an objective matter; the former is subjective, as noted below.\nTo the question of how to maintain your interest, I'll turn that question back on you.\nWhat interests you about Dungeons & Dragons?\nEric, my post could be summarized in the following for questions:\n(1) Do you think that advancing from level 1 to the (allegedly) rules-defined endgame in Dungeons & Dragons takes a long time?\n(2) If so, how many sessions, over how many hours of play, and over what span of real-time?\n(3) What are the the social opportunity costs of doing something for that many hours?\nand, in light of my previous blog post:\n(4) How does the play of Old-Timey Dungeons & Dragons satisfy or exceed those opportunity costs?\nMy own answers are (1) yes, (2) apparently ~100 sessions, ~400 hours of play, and (for our group) many many years; (3) ~400 hours is 10 standard work weeks, or about 14 whole weekends (assuming I'm conscious for about 30 hours per weekend); (4) for me it can't, and thus I personally feel playing from Level 1 to Level 12 would be immensely dissatisfying.\nObviously YMMV.\nOh, and what interests me about D&D is a board-gamey element, and a caper element. Neither could sustain my interest for 400 hours, and that's not a black mark against D&D specifically: very few things can do so.\n7 Greengoat\nOn a slightly side note, somewhat related to \"ideal\" session length. I recall that my D&D time from my formative years (junior high \u2013 highschool) was absolutely chock full of dithered play time. I recall a scheduled all-nighter with five of my friends and we literally spent more time thinking of a name for our party than actually adventuring. I never started having serious play time (like I read about in the DMG) until college when time became more limited.\nThe slower advancement that we are experiencing in the current two red\/white campaigns is somewhat of a shock to realize. Like some type of catholic guilt, I used to think I was doing something wrong or not playing seriously enough in those golden years.\nI hear you GG. Back in the day my players excoriated me for being such a stingy, hard-ass DM. Turns out I was playing in the spirit of the game (Moldvay, anyhow).\nA very good point emerges from James' post and the back-and-forth with Eric. If these early editions of the game are built with 3 games a week schedules, longer sessions and more goal-oriented players, then we ought to seriously consider modifying advancement to match up with the way we play now, in order to experience the endgame, the midgame, or hell: how about second level?\nI hear clerics actually get a spell there. :)\n9 tavisallison\nSome historical data on rates of advancement as of 1975, using the pre-Supplement I 100 XP per HD rules I also use in the White Sandbox, comes from the [Europa fanzine]. Sandy Eisen notes that \"after 2 terms \u2013 4 months \u2013 of weekly excursions, the highest members of our party are 5th level\" (this seems to be a campaign run at Cambridge University in the UK).\nGygax writes that \"There is a campaign I know of where I am informed by a player that after eight month of constant adventuring there is an 8th level Magic-User as the highest level in the game, and that is tough but good\" \u2013 the lack of definition of what \"constant\" adventuring means makes this less useful for analysis, but it's invaluable as an endorsement of what \"doing it right\" would look like.\n10 cr0m\nThe data is tantalizingly incomplete, isn't it? Four months of weekly excursions are 16 sessions\u2026 but how many players per session? And as you said, what does \"constant adventuring\" mean? My guess is that Gary wouldn't consider anything less than his own standards for adventuring to be \"constant\", so that might mean multiple games per week. Or it might mean daily games (a frightening thought).\nThere are so many moving parts to advancement: the treasure tables, the dungeon stocking tables, how many \"specials\" the DM puts on the map, etc. And then there's the wildly different rewards for monsters between OD&D and B\/X.\nStill, all this analysis of the advancement rules might miss the point: even if we're doing it BtB, it might still not be \"right\". Based on my limited experience with B\/X D&D, I strongly suspect that the only way to get to higher levels is for the DM to create dungeons and place treasures according to his own system, and not the one outlined in Moldvay.\n11 Alexander\nI don't think its the DM's job to control the rate of advancement. It's the DM's job to ensure that there are enough interesting monsters with treasure at appropriate levels.\nRather than enforce any particular rate of advancement, what I have done is populate a large sandbox with a lot of monsters, and then followed a strict treasure placement algorithm: For each 1xp of monsters in the campaign, there is exactly 4xp value of treasure. The treasure is generally a spread of coin, gems, jewelry, and \"trade goods\" weighing on average 1cn per 1xp. It usually is hidden in vaults or treasure rooms, protected by traps, etc. In any micro-region there may be monsters without treasure or treasure without monsters but the overall ratio is fixed.\nWith this in place, the rate of advancement lies in the party's hands. Skilled, exploratory play, with fewer NPCs, can yield more treasure in a shorter period of time and consequently faster advancement. Unskilled play, or more cautious play, with more NPCs taking a share, slows advancement down.\nUsing this model, we've run 1 session per week for 26 sessions, each session lasting 5-6 hours. There are 5 PCs with anywhere from 4 to 16 NPC hirelings. Turnover among PCs has been 80% (i.e. 4 out of 5 characters died and were replaced with new ones) but virtually all turnover was between levels 1-3. Since level 3 there has not been any permanent PC death, as they have Raised their fallen.\nAs of the end of session 26, we have: 1 7th level Thief; 1 7th level Cleric; 1 6th level Fighter; 1 6th level Magic-User; and 1 5th level Elf. This represents leveling at a rate of 1 level per 4.33 sessions.\n12 James Nostack\nSo around 143 hours of play for about 40,000 points per player?\nI don't really see much difference. Can you elaborate?\nJames, perhaps the difference only becomes apparent if you consider the difference between a directed story campaign and a sandbox campaign. In a directed story campaign, the campaign is \"going somewhere\". When you evaluate a directed story campaign, you're evaluating it for whether it had good pacing, plot, and climax. Leveling is necessary to the directed story, as the protagonists advance in power to confront the antagonist, but leveling must also be constrained, so the protagonists don't over-advance in power too soon, lest they become bigger than the story allows. So the DM of a directed story campaign literally must control the rate of advancement. A story-driven campaign may have a volume of treasure and monsters that is entirely out of whack with the speed of leveling that \"should\" happen. Dragonlance is a great example of this. But this is the very definition of how the game ought not be played, at least insofar as one is attempting to play \"old school\".\nIn contrast, in a sandbox campaign, the campaign just is. The answer to \"How long does it take to get there?\" is \"As long as it takes the players to accumulate XXX,XXXXgp.\" And how long that will be will entirely depend on what the players do, and how they do it.\nOr, to put it another way, consider a 500-wide hex map, with each hex being 6 miles. At the far end of the map is a temple of elemental evil. How long will it take the party to get to the temple of elemental evil?\nIn a story-driven campaign, the answer the DM will give you is something like \"8-10 sessions, assuming that they find the location from the Sword-Wraith after they are betrayed by the Ogre Mage in session 4\".\nIn a sandbox campaign, the answer will be something like \"They can move 24 miles per day, or 4 hexes, in good terrain, but how much of their gameplay they'll be devoting to travelling towards the temple, I couldn't tell you. And they might have wandering monsters. Or go the wrong direction. But if they get a magic carpet, it could be faster. I don't know. Depends on them, I guess.\"\nFor comparison, here are the numbers from the Moldvay generated dungeon I'm currently running:\n23 rooms, ~65HD of monsters*, 1,175xp, 11,036gp.\n* approximate because some monsters have 1\/2 HD, some have 1-1HD, etc.\nMy average party is 5 PCs and 4 retainers, which comes out to about 1,744xp for each PC.\nUsing Alexander's system that would be 650xp from monsters and 2,600gp, assuming 10xp per HD as in Moldvay. That's a grand total of 3,250xp, which comes out to 464xp for each PC.\nWhich leads me to think I'm misunderstanding Alexander's system or he's not playing Moldvay Basic. :)\nIt'll be interesting to see how many sessions it takes my group(s) to clear it. My guess is about 12 three-hour sessions.\nAlexander, I think we may have different ideas about what \"story-driven\" means, but I think I understand what you're getting at.\nWe are using Moldvay\/Cook. I haven't altered the xp award from monsters, but I have altered the treasure distribution in that rather than use the random roll Treasure Types tables, I hand-place treasure at an overall fixed ratio. Note that in some cases this means the amount of treasure I award is actually less than the amount that a random roll in Moldvay\/Cook would be, while sometimes its more.\nAll I'm really saying, I guess, is that in a sandbox campaign the rate of advancement is entirely dependent on (a) how much treasure you put in the setting, (b) how challenging you make it to get the treasure, and (c) how skilled the players are in meeting the challenge. The answer to \"how long it takes to get to the endgame\" is simply a result of your inputs to (a),(b), and (c). The particular ratio I chose for (a) and (b), with players of whatever skill my group has, seems to lead to the results I described, roughly 7 months of regular play to get to leve 5-7, or about 1 level per month or 1 level per 4 sessions.\n17 tavisallison\nOver at EN World, Raven Crowking has [a thread about leveling assumptions] in qhich he quotes Gygax from the Strategic Review issue 2.2: \"It is reasonable to calculate that if a fair player takes part in 50 to 75 games in the course of a year he should acquire sufficient experience points to make him about 9th to 11th level, assuming that he manages to survive all that play.\"\n@Tavis, that thread is a good read. Personally, I would be very satisfied if PCs were leveling every 4-8 sessions. I suspect that advancement, like a lot of other parts of the game, was subject to DM fiat. Even in (or especially in?) Gary's own games.\n@Alexander, your sandbox sounds very cool. Formulaic treasure distribution is pretty appealing to me. Even with only 5PCs and 4 henchmen (ie the minimum), they'd need to earn 3,500xp per session to wind up with 500xp per PC (ie 25% of 2nd level). That'd be difficult to pull off with the treasure tables in B\/X. If you've got a wiki or anything for your game, I'd love to check it out.\nsandbox lifecycle \u00ab The Mule Abides Pingback on May 4th, 2010 at 2:14 am\n\u00ab fates worse than death\nWhy a West Marches Campaign Needs a Town (Moving Into the Dungeon, Pt. 1) \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'The Nevers': On HBO's ambitious fantasy series, women's supernatural gifts just keep on giving\nThe visuals dazzle and the action scenes thrill on a show that's part 'X-Men' and part 'Doctor Who.'\nSHARE 'The Nevers': On HBO's ambitious fantasy series, women's supernatural gifts just keep on giving\nPenance Adair (Ann Skelly, left) and best friend Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) have powers beyond those of ordinary humans on \"The Nevers.\"\nWe're a few episodes into HBO's steampunk sci-fi fantasy series \"The Nevers\" when a main character says, \"I still don't understand what's going on,\" and my immediate reaction was:\nYou and me both, sister.\n'The Nevers'\nA series airing from 8 to 9 p.m. Sundays on HBO and streaming on HBO Max.\nBut even when the multiple plot strands curl this way and that, and if it's a bit difficult to keep track of all the players without a scorecard, \"The Nevers\" is a dazzling visual feast with gorgeous sets and first-rate CGI, sly humor, ambitious and sometimes deeply moving set pieces and wonderful performances from the ensemble cast. This whirling dervish of a series from Joss Whedon is part \"X-Men\" and part \"Doctor Who,\" with elements of previous Whedon projects such as \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" as well. (The series parted ways with Whedon after he was accused of workplace misconduct on past shows.) It's a Victorian London horror story; a police procedural where some cops are as crooked as the bad guys they're pursuing; a celebration of a deep and abiding friendship between two strong and misunderstood women who are heroes even though the world might not be ready for that, and even a sexy screwball comedy romp. (There are moments when \"The Nevers\" seems determined to challenge early \"Game of Thrones\" for Most Nude Extras in a Single Scene.)\nWe kick off in 1896 London, which is still roiling from an event three years previous that rendered hundreds of residents, mostly women and girls, with unusual gifts and\/or curses, depending on one's point of view. Each of \"The Touched,\" as they are labeled, had a unique reaction. One girl was transformed into a 10-foot giant. Another can turn anything into glass, while another can levitate objects, and another can shatter anything she touches.\nOur co-heroes are Amalia True (Laura Donnelly), who has the ability to see flashes of events from the near future, giving her a decided advantage when the fighting breaks out, and she's a hell of a fighter; and Amalia's trusty sidekick and best friend Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), who is able to invent really cool steampunk tasers and other weapons. She's like Q from James Bond in a corset.\nMany of the touched live in a group home started by socialite Lavinia Bidlow (Olivia Williams) and they try to keep a low profile, but public sentiment has turned against them because one of their ranks, a wild-eyed woman named Maladie (Amy Manson), is a serial killer. (Way to ruin things for the group, Maladie!)\nMeanwhile, there's a sometimes distracting but greatly amusing subplot involving the narcissistic society do-nothing Hugo Swann (James Norton), who runs a brothel for the upper class. There's also a crooked cop (Ben Chaplin) investigating the serial killings, a Dr. Frankenstein-type scientist (Denis O'Hare) obsessed with the Touched, and a morose government official (Pip Torrens) determined to bring down the Touched before they bring down London. \"The Nevers\" alternates between adult soap-opera exposition scenes where plans are hatched and loyalties are betrayed, and stunning action sequences such as a frantic chase through the streets of London and a mass slaying at an opera.\nThe production design and the costumes are gorgeous. The violence is steeped in CGI but feels authentic. The performances are universally excellent, with Laura Donnelly leading the way with a fierce yet vulnerable turn as Amalia, a classic conflicted and troubled anti-superhero who is determined to do the right thing even if it means getting shot or stabbed in the process.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Regional Navies Must Take Responsibility for Pacific Security\n120727-N-VD564-015 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 27, 2012) Ships and submarines participating in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise 2012 sail in formation in the waters around the Hawaiian islands. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise from June 29 to Aug. 3, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2012 is the 23rd exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Keith Devinney\/RELEASED)\nIf tensions continue to rise between the United States and China, smaller Pacific navies may need to organize outside RimPac to ensure regional security.\nDuring Rim of the Pacific (RimPac) 2018, Chilean Navy Commodore Pablo Niemann was the maritime component commander. With him were the frigate CNS Almirante Lynch, a Chilean Marine Corps platoon, and a group of officers and ratings who were part of the command-and-control organization of the exercise. This was not a new occurrence for Chile\u2014it has been participating in RimPac since 1996\u2014but it was significant because of the responsibilities given to Commodore Niemann.\nChile and other Pacific navies attend other exercises such as UNITAS, Kakadu, Malabar, and Teamwork South, but RimPac is unique in its complexity, number of participating countries, and nearly 40-year history, making it the region's most important naval community exercise. It also is unique in providing an opportunity for participating navies to train and operate as a multinational naval force to promote a stable Pacific region with safe and open sea lanes.\nBut what if that goal were in danger because of the competition between two important players located on opposite sides of this very large ocean? For RimPac 2018, the U.S. Navy disinvited the Chinese Navy because of events in the South China Sea.\nA stable, secure, and open Pacific Ocean requires a collective effort, one in which all navies that operate there must participate. Regional economies need this to happen, or their exports and imports will not reach their destinations. Countries such as Chile, Peru, and Colombia export commodities to China and other Asian states. What would happen if the Malacca Strait or other relevant choke points were to close because of increased tension between the two great powers?\nDoes RimPac continue to be special if not all players are included? It might be beneficial for training purposes and for regional navies to gain experience being part of a large naval exercise, but it would not continue to deliver on its unique purpose.\nCHINA CONSIDERATIONS\nChina is becoming active in all parts of the world. It is investing in the economies of many countries and making its weight felt when it perceives actions to be against Chinese national interests. For countries with high levels of exports to Chinese markets, this includes reminding them who is paying the bills. How China will perceive participation in RimPac must be taken into account. Regional nations may have strong bonds with the United States, but in many cases, China pays, and money talks.\nIf China is not participating in RimPac, it might not be happy to find its trading partners exercising as part of a multinational naval force led by the U.S. Navy. And smaller countries dependent on Chinese exports might not want to risk finding out China's opinion. This is a reality for countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Canada, Peru, and Colombia.\nSo what other options could help ensure a stable, secure, and open Pacific Ocean?\nThe first option is to do nothing and assume that regional navies and coast guards will take care of their areas of responsibility independently. This avoids the stress of having to pick sides between the United States and China, but reaching the objective would be complicated unless small and medium-size navies make strong investments in developing additional capabilities. For example, if the Singapore Navy were to take sole responsibility for the Malacca Strait, one of world's more important choke points, it would need a significant increase in vessels and manpower, and that would require both money and time. Singapore has been investing in its navy, with new hardware and plans for more capable submarines and joint multimission ships, but that might not be enough.\nContinuing with the Malacca Strait, logic then says the Singapore Navy should operate with the navies of Malaysia and Indonesia. Having three navies share the burden of keeping the strait open would be easier and cheaper, but it would require common operating standards and training. The good news is that the training already is taking place\u2014the navies of Singapore and Indonesia held their 25th Exercise Eagle Indopura in July 2019\u2014and there is a Malacca Strait patrol composed of those three countries plus Thailand.\nThe Malacca and Singapore Straits Patrol (MSSP) includes coordinated but not joint patrols of maritime, naval, and air surveillance assets and intelligence information exchange. It has been in place for 15 years and gets more sophisticated each year, but it does not aim to produce an MSSP naval force. Each navy operates with its own areas of responsibility, with the efforts focused on coordination of assets to produce safe and secure Malacca and Singapore Straits.\nThe MSSP has reached sufficient maturity that, as long as the contributing countries stay committed to the effort and threat conditions are low, the straits will continue to be secure and safe. But because the MSSP is based on coordination and not jointness, anything more complex goes beyond its designed capabilities.\nSo what if things get complicated and multinational forces of the size that RimPac would provide are not available or the region chooses not to involve the United States or China because of tensions between them? The solution might require transitioning the MSSP from a coordinated to a joint operation using Exercise Eagle Indopura as a foundation. The exercise already includes two of the countries involved, and it would not be that complicated to add Thailand and Malaysia.\nAnother solution might be to include countries such as India, which already has indicated interest in the MSSP, or Australia, which has significant naval assets and experience operating in multinational naval forces and organizes its own very popular Kakadu exercise. Other western Pacific countries such as South Korea and New Zealand that depend on global trade and would suffer if a strait were closed or unsafe also might want to participate. Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Chile all trade with the Indo-Pacific region and would like to keep the Malacca and Singapore Straits open and secure. Canada and Chile have the qualifications, experience, and equipment needed to work with other RimPac partners.\nSo perhaps the best option would be solutions that target specific problems or critical maritime passages and assets, carried out by the parties that have a vital interest in the success of the efforts. RimPac could be an example of how to develop the logistics, training, and coordination to produce a multinational naval force.\nThe MSSP model of coordinated and potentially joint operations should be implemented not only in the Malacca and Singapore Straits, but also in other parts of the Pacific. For example, a new South Pacific Alliance could patrol the sea space that separates Australia and New Zealand from Chile and Antarctica. Having countries responsible for sea spaces brings the obligations of ownership, which leads to the following proposal.\nTERRITORIALIZATION OF THE SEA\nThe current maritime operating model is based on the idea that the oceans are free and open space that anyone can use. In recent years, however, areas near coastlines\u2014countries' exclusive economic zones\u2014have become national assets. This evolution has not affected the flow of trade, and to some extent it could be said that having countries \"own\" maritime territories has increased security and safety in the sea spaces that belong to them.\nIncreasing the size of exclusive economic zones could be a way to increase the safety and security of the seas, as could making groups of countries responsible for sea areas or specific maritime assets. The global commons do not have an owner, and without ownership it is difficult to assign responsibility and obligations for safety and security.\nWho should be responsible for the stability, safety, and security of the Pacific is a difficult question. Under Pax Americana, the region assumed it was the United States' obligation to deliver and, if needed, get us organized. But when U.S. leadership is being contested by another western Pacific power, smaller countries need to get organized, because we cannot assume this ocean will continue to be a peaceable one. The time has come for all Pacific Rim countries to take responsibility and get organized, as was done with the antipiracy operations off Somalia. The Pacific sea space is vital for most regional nations, and we should act accordingly.\nRichard Kouyoumdjian Inglis\nMR. KOUYOUMDJIAN INGLIS, a life member of the U.S. Naval Institute and former Chilean Navy officer, is vice chairman of AthenaLab, a Chilean think tank dedicated to national security, defense, and international relations, and a board member of the Chilean Maritime League. He holds a degree in weapons engineering and a master's from the War Studies Department of King's College London.\nCopyright U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings magazine. Reprinted with permission.\nRecord Drug Seizure Caps Off Difficult Year for Chile\nGlobal Britain becomes a reality\nChilean Navy and Royal Navy: Past, Present and Future\nTweets by AthenaLabOrg\n\u00a9 2020 AthenaLab | Tel\u00e9fono: (56 2) 2 25947457 - Av. El Golf 40, Piso 12, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile - contacto@athenalab.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Millions of Hundred Dollar Ideas\nCreativity, Innovation, Humor\nDog Diggler from VimJam\nNFT Times!\nLots of things are happening in the world of digital assets.\nTuesday at 5 : An ongoing open Zoom meeting to help people learn about NBATopShot.\nWe will also discuss some basic stuff about NFTs.\nBring your dumb questions everyone does!\nNFT Basic onboarding for artists and such.\nPlease follow me on Twitter\/Instagram.\n9 years ago I hired Alex on fiverr to make a theme song for this site. It was a great use of $5.\na depository of ideas\nThat's not a crow\u2026 - Here's a great game to play whilst going on a walk with a friend\u2026 It's called \"That's not a crow.\" Here's how it works.This is a multiplayer Mad Lib game. The game starts when you hear a crow. The first player will start the game by inquiring about the bird sound. Player 1: \"Wow, listen to that, I wonder what\u2026\nI Eat Ass - The day after I read a news story about a man being arrested in Florida for having an \"I Eat Ass Decal\" on his truck. I thought it would be a savvy way to make some money. I do have this decal machine just sitting here. My thinking was to make something slightly more eloquent than\u2026\nBuilding on a Foundation of Horrible Ideas - Building on a Foundation of Horrible Ideas An Ignite talk I gave through the TAO. Click here to see on YouTube.\nPIGSquad! Portland Indie Game Squad - I was fortunate to attend my first PIGSquad meeting. This event was filled with developers, artists, gamers and interested folk. I was able to learn a lot about this outstanding independent game scene in Portland. Despite my admittedly horrible game concept that I shared with a select few, I got some good support from some\u2026\nTwo Kates \u2013 web series - Two Kates is a web series written and directed by by Zach Schultz and starring Kate Knappett and Kate Knappett. A comedic and dramatic look at isolation, depression and anxiety, \"Two Kates\" follows an agoraphobic woman (Kate) after she has recently had a clone made of herself in order to keep herself company and to\u2026\nMike Merrill Publicly Traded Man - Mike Merrill is certainly an innovative and creative person who also happens to be publicly traded, that means people buy and sell stock in him\u2026\nFeeling Vine\u2026 - I've been loving the Vine app from twitter lately. It's an app that allows you to share short videos and animations with you friends. Check out some more vines I've made.\nPlay Pause Movie Theater - Going to the movie theater costs more now than ever before. Shouldn't you be able to see every second of the movie you pay for? The solution is to have the theater set up more like home and simply providing each member of the audience the ability to pause the movie when needed, this would\u2026\nWristband Print Press - After meeting with David Butts from Mad Dog Garage. I was inspired to develop something with working gears, my initial idea was to build a wristband fidget device. Since wristband watches seem to be more of an accessory items, I figured a device on the wrist doesn't really need to tell time. A wristband watch\u2026\nJoe Keatinge Conversations - I had the pleasure to talk with Joe Keatinge as we explored some fun parts of Portland together. Joe is a comic book writer and editor.Check out what he's up to at http:\/\/joekeatinge.tumblr.com\/orFollow him on twitter @joekeatingeIf you are at Emerald City Comiccon this weekend you can follow him around in person!\u2014click here to watch\u2026\nSchedule a 22 minute Zoom call with me\n@MoHDI\nTweets by MoHDI\n\u00a9 2023 Millions of Hundred Dollar Ideas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"These happiness-boosting products aim to redefine the meaning of 'comfort food'\nby Emily Laurence, July 4, 2019\nGraphic by Well+Good Creative\nTypically, the term \"feel-good\" food conjures up images of mac and cheese, French fries, fried chicken, and other comfort foods. (It's in the name, after all.) And while it can't be denied that a piece of pizza or chocolate can be happy-making on a bad day, there's not really much else they can do for one's mood besides providing a temporary boost. Which is why I was intrigued to see a crop of healthier products across the food, drink, and supplement space branding themselves as happiness boosters, whether it's through the power of stress-busting adaptogenic blends or improved gut health.\nKara Nielsen, the vice president of trends and marketing at CCD Innovation, isn't surprised that there has been an uptick in interest around mood-boosting products. \"The overarching quest for happiness has grown recently,\" she says. \"Issues like global warming, poverty, immigration, and politics have always happened to the human race, but the issues are very acute right now. We're super stressed out.\"\nAt the same time. Nielsen says there is a growing interest in (and acceptance of) holistic nutrition, including Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. \"Science and medicine are making some very powerful connections between stress and health\u2014and also sleep and health,\" she says. \"We're moving into this newer definition of what good health is, which includes sleep, stress, mindfulness.\" She adds that gut health and the brain-gut connection is another thing people are increasingly interested in.\nShe also points out that while functional foods, drinks, and supplements aren't necessarily new, the formulations and the way we talk about them has evolved. \"Right now, herbs and ancient medicine are the focus, while in the past it was more of a designer chemistry lab-focused, like Red Bull,\" Nielsen says.\nLooking for another happy-making food? You'll love these mood-lifting energy balls:\nStacey Gillespie, the director of product strategy at Gaia Herbs, says the brand created their Mood Uplift supplement ($24) with the goal of using herbs to support the nervous system, help the body cope with daily stress, and contribute to a more positive outlook. In the blend are St. John's wort, milky oats, passionflower, blue vervain, gotu kola, ginkgo, and rosemary. Gillespie says they do lots of research to ensure that the formulation has the right amount of truly beneficial ingredients. Sun Potion, Moodbeli, and Anima Mundi are three other brands that create various adaptogenic blends with mood-boosting in mind, among other benefits, depending on the blend you choose.\nThen there's new functional tonic line Sunwink. Each blend is created with medicinal doses of herbs so that the effects are actually felt after consuming. Their Lemon-Rose Uplift blend ($60 for 12 bottles) is made with lemon balm, rose, hibiscus, and damiana. \"Herbalists usually suggest allowing one to two weeks to begin noticing the long term benefits of herbs, but consumers have told us they've noticed a boost immediately,\" says the brand's founder and CEO Eliza Timpson.\nBut adaptogens aren't the only agents being used in mood-boosting products. As Nielsen points out, gut health is another conduit brands are pursuing by using prebiotics and probiotics in their products. When massive mainstream food giant Kellogg's decided to release a probiotic cereal, they literally named it Happy Inside ($40 for 10). Australian brand Uplift Foods created what they call a \"psychiobiotic gut healthy prebiotic blend\" ($35) to drive home the idea that a healthy gut is directly related to a better mood.\nThese are all exciting products, but herbalist and certified holistic health coach Rachelle Robinett wants people to keep things in perspective. \"If only we could stop looking for our magic bullet,\" she says. \"Something I always tell people is that if they are going to spend all their money on herbs or supplements, their diet and lifestyle need to be in a good place. You have to check those boxes first,\" she says.\nThere also many potential reasons why a person could be unhappy, Robinett says\u2014undiagnosed health conditions like gut or hormonal imbalances, mental health issues, external stimuli, etc. Herbs can only help with some of those conditions, and certain underlying conditions require more help from a trusted practitioner. \"This is why it's important to work with a trained professional if you are truly hoping to change your mood using herbs,\" she says. She adds that some herbs, like St. John's wort, can also interfere with prescription meds, so it's important to fill your doctor in, too.\nThat's not to say that Robinette thinks the above-mentioned products have no purpose\u2014au contraire! But it's about understanding that they can be one aspect of an overall healthy lifestyle, not a quick fix. And be patient about seeing results. For example, adaptogens can take up to eight to 10 weeks of daily dosage to truly take effect, she says. \"If you do plan on using a product in this way, it's especially important to look into the sourcing of their herbs, especially with supplements,\" she says. With patience, you might see a little extra joy in your future, too.\nTweaking your diet can help boost your mood, too. Plus, here are eight other science-backed ways to increase it.\nFood and Nutrition, Healthy Mind, Mental Challenges","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"RNS Hotlist with Zak Mir: UKOG, DRUM, KAT, CORO, LST, NCCL & KAV via Vox Markets\nAbm September 16, 2022\nUK Oil & Gas (UKOG) announced that acquisition of the Phase 2 seismic programme over its Turkey Resan licence (UKOG 50% interest) has now been successfully completed and the field crew demobilised.\nAuthor @ZaksTradersCafe\nThe programme, consisting of four new 2D seismic lines over the possible updip western extent of the Basur-1 oil discovery and Prospect B to the south, was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget.\nDrumz (DRUM), which is focused on investment in the technology sector, announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2022. The Group's results for the six months ended 30 June 2022 showed revenue of \u00a330,000 (2021: \u00a318,000) and an operating loss of \u00a3184,000 (2021: loss of \u00a3261,000). The company said the improvement in the number and the quality of the sales leads Acuity is now generating is a growing testament to the progress that has been made.\nKatoro Gold (KAT), the AIM-listed gold and nickel exploration and development company, announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2022. The company said moving into the second half of 2022, it is in the process of assessing various new projects to further diversify its portfolio and unlock value-based opportunities that align with its strategy of being a preeminent African-focused gold and mineral exploration and development company. At present, the company is already in advanced discussions with a number of parties with regard to the new projects under assessment.\nCoro Energy (CORO), the Southeast Asian energy company, announced its unaudited interim results for the six-month period ended 30 June 2022. The company said it has a strong funding position from a combination of its cash position of approximately US $1.6m (as at 30 June 2022), supported by the free cash flow from its Italian Portfolio and the Vietnam solar pilot, which is expected to be operational later this year.\nLight Science Technologies (LST), the controlled environment agriculture group, updated on progress on its contract with Zenith Nurseries Ltd (\"Zenith Nurseries\") to develop a cloche lighting and sensor technology system. The company announced that the project's first milestone, Gateway 1 \u2013 to develop the cloche lighting system and demonstrate viability \u2013 is now complete, resulting in revenue of \u00a351,000 for the group.\nNcondezi Energy (NCCL) announced the restructuring of the Seritza Limited working capital facility term loan to a convertible loan note has been finalised, subject to shareholder approved. A convertible loan is to be increased by an additional \u00a3100,000, made available by certain Directors of the Company, to accelerate development of the Solar Project. An additional tranche of \u00a3150k may be made available to the company at the Convertible Loan lender's discretion in the six months following the restructuring.\nKavango Resources (KAV) announced the completion of the acquisition of 65pc of the LVR Joint Venture. This takes Kavango's holding in the LVR JV to 90pc. The LVR JV incorporates prospecting licences PL082\/2018 & PL 083\/2018, which together cover 809km2 of ground highly prospective for copper\/silver discoveries in the Kalahari Copper Belt.\nDisclaimer & Declaration of Interest\nThe information, investment views and recommendations in this article are provided for general information purposes only. Nothing in this article should be construed as a solicitation to buy or sell any financial product relating to any companies under discussion or to engage in or refrain from doing so or engaging in any other transaction. Any opinions or comments are made to the best of the knowledge and belief of the writer but no responsibility is accepted for actions based on such opinions or comments. Vox Markets may receive payment from companies mentioned for enhanced profiling or publication presence. The writer may or may not hold investments in the companies under discussion.\n[su_disclaimer]\nSign up to receive exclusive stock market content in your inbox, once a week.\nTags: CORO, DRUM, Drumz, KAT, KAV, Kavango, Light Science, LST, NCCL, Ncondezi, UK Oil & Gas, UKOG\nUK Oil & Gas PLC (AIM:UKOG) Turkey Phase 2 seismic completed\nKavango Resources (LON:KAV) KCB - completion of acquisition of 90pc of LVR JV","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Particle Colliders Help Prep Humans For Deep Space Radiation\nBy Korey HaynesJune 6, 2019 10:15 PM\nParticle accelerators provide a way for scientists to test cosmic ray strength particles in labs on Earth. (Credit: GSI GmbH\/Jan Michael Hosan 2018)\nNASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year in space while scientists monitored changes in his body, as well as that of his twin, Mark Kelly, who remained on the ground. Kelly came back to Earth in good shape, the experiment showed. And, some Russian cosmonauts have also spent even longer than Kelly in space without obvious long term ill effect from the low gravity or increased radiation exposure.\nBut humans ultimately want to venture far beyond Earth. And, so far, all long-term human spaceflight experiments have happened on space stations that orbit within Earth's protective magnetic field, providing shielding from the highest-energy radiation. To travel to Mars, we'll need to be prepared for an entirely different environment.\nThe longest Apollo trips to the the moon lasted less than two weeks. A journey to Mars and back would take months, if not years. And NASA's latest plans for the moon would have humans stay there perhaps months.\nThat's pushed researchers to get creative in testing human radiation tolerances. If they can't experiment outside of Earth's natural radiation shields, there are still places on Earth where scientists are already making their own high-energy radiation: particle accelerators. And the insights researchers are learning there could decide whether living off-world is a realistic goal in the next few decades.\nBy smashing heavy particles together at high speeds, scientists can create a slurry of particles that are similar in energy to cosmic ray events. A few labs are already performing such work, including Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States and the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany. And while the doses are still higher than what humans would sustain in space, it's the only practical way to test cosmic ray behavior on Earth in a controlled fashion.\nAnd whether the radiation is low or high dose is less relevant to simple materials. That's letting researchers test what kinds of substances block radiation, since these outcomes only rely on the type of radiation.\nThe European Space Agency is focusing multiple projects on human radiation exposure. (Credit: ESA)\nHow Much Radiation is Too Much?\nThe most dangerous kind of radiation in space comes from cosmic rays. These are ultra-fast, ultra-heavy particles shot from across the cosmos. The good news is that they're relatively rare. The bad news is that they're highly dangerous.\nAnother concern is radiation from the sun. While more numerous, these are simple protons; it's like a BB bullet compared to a cosmic ray cannonball. This radiation can damage cells and genetic material, but they're much easier to shield against, and only become truly dangerous during solar storms. And with technology already available today, solar scientists can see these events coming far enough in advance to give at least a few minutes of warning to take shelter for space farers on the moon, Mars, or in a space station.\nYet for any type of radiation, it's still difficult for scientists to predict what makes a truly dangerous dose. Horrific real-world events like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and various nuclear power accidents have proven that high radiation doses in a short period are deadly. But what if that same dose is spread out over a year? Three years? Five? A lifetime? Scientists still don't know. The simple tests that would tell them are impossible to perform for ethical reasons, and difficult to synthesize using tissue or cell samples, since radiation can affect different biological systems \u2013 the brain, cardiovascular, or reproductive organs \u2013 in different ways.\n\"The problem with radiation,\" says Marco Durante, director of the Biophysics Department at Germany's GSI, \"is we don't know the risk very well.\" The tests they run are based on cell or tissue samples, or, at best, animals like mice. They also usually bombard their test subjects with lots of high-energy radiation all at once. \"First you have to extrapolate to humans, and then low dose rate, and then to space,\" Durante says. \"And there are not very effective countermeasures. There's no magic drug that can save you from radiation effects.\"\nSo even though researchers can perform biology tests with particle accelerators, the results are tricky to interpret and apply to humans in situations that are likely to be realized within the next decade.\nDurante wants future experiments to at least test the effects of high-energy, low-dose radiation on samples by keeping them in the room, for example, but not directly in the beam of the particle accelerator. But the labs, built for cutting edge physics research, aren't set up that way, and those experiments haven't happened yet.\nWhat is testable is how to block radiation. And this is where the research can provide more straightforward conclusions.\nHomemade Cosmic Rays\nDurante says that materials with lots of hydrogen prove to be good shields. Polyethylene, a simple and ubiquitous type of plastic, shields well, as does a substance called lithium hydride. Both are also extremely lightweight, a necessity in space travel, where lifting something above Earth's atmosphere is expensive. The problem is that both of these compounds are flammable, a big no-no in space travel. Aluminum, while much heavier, is still preferred because it won't catch fire.\nTo build the next generation of better-shielded, lightweight spacecraft, engineers will have to figure out how to safely enclose the shielding material inside something airtight and inflammable.\nOnce on solid ground again, like the moon or Mars, more options become available. Tunneling underground provides a cheap and easy shield underneath the regolith. Or, Durante points out, if Mars has more substantial stores of water, an igloo would be the perfect shield. Water is excellent at blocking radiation.\nUntil scientists can find a way to test the safe limits of long-term radiation exposure on humans, shielding may be our only option.\nHere's the Top 10 Science Stories You Missed This Year (While You Were Distracted by COVID-19)\nIs the Multiverse Theory Science Fiction or Science Fact?\nPhysicists Detect the \"Spooky Popcorn of the Universe\"\nThe SciencesSpace: 2021\nThe SciencesHow Elon Musk's Historic Launch Changes the Future of Space Exploration\nThe SciencesChuck Yeager, First Pilot to Break the Sound Barrier, Dies at 97\nThe SciencesWho Has the Right Stuff to be a Private Astronaut?\nThe SciencesWhy Did NASA Retire the Space Shuttle?\nThe SciencesIs Space Mining the Eco-Friendly Choice?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"family lineages and history\n\"Tales of pioneer hardship and deprivation have been told many times. Yet still we remember in wonder, that people accomplished so much with so little; that men and women with simple tools, their bare hands, and their own inventiveness cleared the land, drained the swamps, made their own clothing and provided their own food. Through all these difficulties God was with them and they wanted their children educated intellectually and spritually.\" from Norfolk Street United Church history\nOntario Residents Bring History to Life by Turning Tragedy into Tributes\nPhoto credit: Canadiangeographic.ca\nTheir Innovative Centennial Remembrance to be Honoured at Rideau Hall\nWINNIPEG, October 7, 2014 \/Canada NewsWire\/ - The community of Goderich, Ontario is being celebrated nationally for ensuring that lives lost will be remembered for years to come. The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 Remembrance Committee came together in 2012 to plan a series of centennial remembrance events and activities to honour those who lost their lives in the greatest Canadian maritime disaster ever to occur on the Great Lakes. The storm of 1913, known as the 'White Hurricane,' battered the Great Lakes from November 7th to 10th in 1913 and claimed 250 lives.\nThe Remembrance Committee designed activities around Goderich to inspire others along the Huron lakeshore to undertake complementary events. In total, sixty-five collaborations were born that involved over 1,000 volunteers, numerous events that welcomed over 12,000 guests including sixty descendants of the disaster's victims.\nFor honouring the memory of those affected in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 and celebrating a former way of life that was central to the Great Lakes lakeshore communities, the Remembrance Committee is one of this year's recipients for the 2014 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Community Programming.\nThe francophone recipient is La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 historique du Cap-Rouge for their project \"Le Centenaire du Tracel de Cap-Rouge.\"\nThis year's honourable mentions include:\nHarbord Village Residents' Association for Harbord Village Oral History Project.\nLiving History Multimedia Association for A Desert Between Us & Them: Raiders, Traitors, and Refugees in the War of 1812.\nUniversit\u00e9 Concordia (Ronald Rudin, Philip Lichti, et al.) for Le retour des voix au parc national Kouchibouguac.\nOn Monday, November 3rd at 11:30 a.m., His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General ofCanada, will honour the recipients for their achievements and contributions to furthering interest in and understanding of our history and heritage.\nMedia are invited to attend the 2014 Governor General's History Awards. Please contact rsvp@gg.ca to confirm attendance.\nAnnouncements continue throughout the coming week and profiles of all the recipients will be available at:CanadasHistory.ca\/Awards.\nThe Governor General's History Awards bring together community and museum organizations, students, teachers, historians, writers and media producers to celebrate as well as learn from each other. The day prior to the award ceremonies, recipients will participate in a public history forum at the Canadian War Museum. This year's forum is open to the public to attend onsite or online by registering at www.CanadasHistory.ca\/HistoryForum.\nAbout Canada's History Society\nCanada's History Society is a Winnipeg-based charitable organization devoted to popularizing Canadian history. In addition to publishing Canada's History (formerly The Beaver) magazine, and Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids, the Society also produces the Governor General's History Awards to celebrate excellence in the field and encourage more discovery, celebrations and understanding about our rich history and culture. More details can be found at CanadasHistory.ca.\nAbout Spectra Energy\nSpectra Energy Corp (NYSE: SE), a FORTUNE 500 company, is one of North America's premier natural gas infrastructure companies serving three key links in the natural gas value chain: gathering and processing, transmission and storage, and distribution. For more than a century, Spectra Energy and its predecessor companies have developed critically important pipelines and related infrastructure connecting natural gas supply sources to premium markets.\nBased in Houston, Texas, the company's operations in the United States and Canada include more than 19,000 miles of transmission pipeline, approximately 305 billion cubic feet of storage, as well as natural gas gathering and processing, natural gas liquids and local distribution operations. The company also has a 50 percent ownership in DCP Midstream, one of the largest natural gas gatherers and processors in the United States. Spectra Energy is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes and the Carbon Disclosure Project's Global 500 and S&P 500 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Indexes. For more information, visit www.spectraenergy.com.\nSOURCE Canada's History\nPosted by ol' duffer at 7:49 AM\nBoomers Info Kiosk\nLending a hand to nail breast cancer - *The Canadian Cancer Society wants men to paint their nails pink* TORONTO, October 1, 2014 \/Canada NewsWire\/ - This October, the Canadian Cancer Society...\n:-: Points to Ponder :-:\nHeart-to-Heart: Canadian Adults Wary of Having \"The Talk\" with their Parent(s) - *New program helps to break the ice and get Canadian adults and their parent(s) talking about a serious heart condition that can lead to stroke* TORONTO,...\nTake Advantage of Your Seniority\nHow NORAD Tracks Santa - from Wired.com By Dave Demerjian December 23, 2008 | 5:05:28 PM Santa Claus may be able to fly around the world in a sleigh, but even he can't cross Nort...\nFADEDGENES - A Chronicle of the people of the Methodist Church in Canada\nTwenty-two winning videos about Canada's history\nOntario Residents Bring History to Life by Turning...\nol' duffer\nSubscribe To family lineages and history\nSites to visit...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Women Want in a Financial Adviser\nThey're put off by aggressive sales tactics and excessive jargon.\n(Image credit: FERRAN TRAITE (FERRAN TRAITE (Photographer) - [None])\nBy Janet Bodnar\nOne way women can gain confidence as investors is to use a spouse, partner or trusted friend as a sounding board (see How to Be a Confident Investor). Add to that list a financial adviser. Reader Ann McCool writes that after being recently widowed, \"The best thing I did was to find a good financial adviser. That person has helped me not only with investments but also with tax issues and estate planning.\"\nWarning: 3 Serious Red Flags about Financial Advisers\nBut finding the right match can be a challenge. Reader Lynn Hood has immersed herself in copies of this magazine, among other sources, to get up to speed on self-directed investing. Still, \"I would be just fine with a good financial planner who would advise me on an hourly basis,\" she writes. \"But I have struggled to find that person.\"\nAs I told Ms. Hood, Kiplinger's generally recommends starting your search with two sources: the Garrett Planning Network (opens in new tab), members of which are willing to work on a fee-per-hour basis, and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (opens in new tab), which lists a range of fee-only financial advisers. Beyond that, however, connecting with the right counselor is a very personal decision\u2014especially for women.\nWhen consulting firm Kantar asked women about the qualities they were looking for in a financial adviser, \"they used a lot of terms that would be applicable to a romantic partner,\" says Kantar's Audrey Looker. \"For example, they talk about the 'intimate' nature of the discussion and how 'vulnerable' they feel when laying out their financial mistakes.\" What they want in an adviser, she concludes, \"is more of a partnership rather than a vendor or service relationship.\"\nWomen also differ from men in what they would like to get out of the partnership. \"Men approach investing on a performance basis: How is my portfolio doing?\" says Looker. \"Women are interested in the end benefit: Will I be able to pay off my house, send my kids to college, retire when I want?\"\nComfort zones. Aside from aggressive sales tactics, women are put off by excessive jargon. \"The financial industry has made investing seem overly complex,\" says Lorna Kapusta, head of women and investing for Fidelity. \"Instead of talking about alpha and beta, you need to create a comfortable environment.\" For example, Fidelity has cut back on TVs and tickers to make its offices quieter and more relaxed, and it has developed purse-size pamphlets on financial topics that women can easily take with them.\nWomen don't necessarily prefer to work with female advisers, says Looker. \"They just want someone they can connect with on a personal level.\" Nevertheless, the financial services industry is going all out to attract more women to make their offices less intimidating and offer clients a variety of perspectives (see For Some Women, the Financial Services Industry May Be a Fulfilling Career Choice).\nSeveral years ago, Fidelity changed its job description for financial advisers to deemphasize things such as finance degrees and sales goals and shift the focus to traits such as building relationships and solving problems\u2014\"skills that women excel at,\" says Fidelity's Amy Philbrook. As a result, the firm has added more than 150 female advisers, who now make up 21% of the total, up from 16% in 2016.\nWhat really turns women off are advisers who are condescending or dismissive, or who ignore them when they come in with their husbands or male partners. By some estimates, more than 60% of female investors change advisers as a result of poor service.\nOne of those women is my friend Loriann, who began taking a more active role in her family's finances when her husband developed Parkinson's disease. \"I felt incredibly patronized when my husband's adviser began giving my husband and me mixed messages,\" she says. She has since begun working with a husband-and-wife team at the same firm, and that relationship appears more promising. Says Loriann, \"It's important for me to have a seat at the table.\"\nWhen to Fire Your Adviser\nMoney Smart Women Financial Planning\nJanet Bodnar\nEditor-at-Large, Kiplinger's Personal Finance\nJanet Bodnar is editor-at-large of Kiplinger's Personal Finance, a position she assumed after retiring as editor of the magazine after eight years at the helm. While editor, Bodnar was honored by Folio as one of its Top Women in Media. She is a nationally recognized expert on the subjects of women and money, children's and family finances, and financial literacy. She is the author of two books, Money Smart Women and Raising Money Smart Kids. As editor-at-large, she writes two popular columns for Kiplinger, \"Money Smart Women\" and \"Living in Retirement.\" Bodnar is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and is a member of its Board of Trustees. She received her master's degree from Columbia University, where she was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism.\nDonor-Advised Funds: The Gift That Keeps on Giving\nFinancial Planning Expert guidance on how this charitable vehicle can make a difference.\nBy Emma Patch \u2022 Published 29 August 22\nPODCAST: Tax Breaks for College Finance with Kalman Chany\nPaying for College Paying for (ever-pricier) college is a challenge that this consultant meets head on with highly specific guidance.\nBy David Muhlbaum \u2022 Published 24 August 22\nReading, Writing, and Personal Finance\nRaising Money-Smart Kids A growing number of high schools are adding personal finance to their curriculum.\nBy Sandra Block \u2022 Published 4 August 22\nPODCAST: This Couple Tackles Love and Money as a Team\nGetting Married Fyooz Financial, the husband and wife team of Dan and Natalie Slagle, have carved out a niche advising other couples with the money questions that come with pairing up. Also, where is this troubled stock market headed?\nBy David Muhlbaum \u2022 Published 24 May 22\nABLE Accounts Give Disabled More Financial Freedom\nFinancial Planning People with disabilities, and their families, can save for a variety of expenses in these tax-advantaged accounts.\nBy Emma Patch \u2022 Published 27 April 22\nTalking Money With Your Spouse\npersonal finance These should be important conversations that will be helpful in the long run.\nBy Janet Bodnar \u2022 Published 28 March 22\nDouble Your ESG Impact With Funds Tied to Charities\nFinancial Planning A growing number of funds donate directly to causes you might care about. Are they good investments?\nBy Ellen Kennedy \u2022 Published 17 March 22\nBuild an Inflation Hedge Around Retirement\nFinancial Planning Inflation brings two headaches for retirees: stretching a fixed income to meet rapidly rising prices and investing a retirement savings portfolio so that it keeps pace with the higher cost of living. Here are some strategies to avoid the pain.\nBy David Rodeck \u2022 Published 16 March 22","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb French Open 2021: Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Tennis Pick and Prediction\nFrench Open 2021: Alexander Zverev vs. Laslo Djere Tennis Pick and Prediction\nPost author:tennissectionandy\nPost published:2nd June 2021\nTennisSection previews the 2021 French Open as Alexander Zverev (6) meets Laslo Djere in the Third Round on Thursday June 3rd, 2021.\nSixth seeded German Alexander Zverev is considered one of the main candidates for the title here at the 2021 French Open. Can the unseeded Serbian Laslo Djere cause the massive upset and dump the world number six out in the Third Round? Or will Zverev continue his strong clay court season, advancing to the Round of 16 here at Roland Garros 2021?\nAlexander Zverev is currently ranked #6 in the ATP world rankings, and is the sixth seed here at the 2021 French Open. The German has established his status as a top contender for the crown here at Roland Garros, but didn't inspire confidence with a poor performance early on against Oscar Otte. Though he recovered well to come back from two sets down, he will have to be much better if he is to contend here. He was much improved during his straight sets win over Roman Safiullin, and hopefully is back to his best. Zverev enters this match against Lasjo Djere as the big favorite, but should be careful as this will be the toughest opponent that he has faced so far. Djere has won two titles on the surface before and should not be taken lightly here at Roland Garros 2021.\nLaslo Djere is ranked #55 in the world, and has been as high as #27 in the ATP world rankings. The Serbian has had some strong performances on clay throughout his career, including titles in Rio and Sardinia, but has been poor so far this season. He has started his 2021 French Open campaign strongly however, with impressive wins over Corentin Moutet and Miomir Kecmanovic, both matches that he was expected to lose. Djere is a good player when he is in form, and that seems to be the case here at Roland Garros 2021. Despite this, he enters this match against Alexander Zverev, but if the German is not at his best, this match could be interesting.\nThis will be the second meeting between the two players, with Alexander Zverev leading the head to head series 1-0. They played earlier this year in Acapulco, with the German winning in straight sets. I expect this to be a straight sets win for Zverev here. Djere is a tough opponent on this surface, but he is not at the required level to compete with Zverev here. He is now rounding into form here at the 2021 French Open, and I expect him to only get better from here. Alexander Zverev will win here and advance to the Round of 16 here at Roland Garros 2021.\nFree Tennis Pick and Prediction: Alexander Zverev to win.\nCincinnati Open 2021: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime Tennis Pick and Prediction\nMontpellier Open 2022: Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Alexander Bublik Tennis Pick and Prediction","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cannabis Was The Big Winner In The 2020 Midterm Elections\nHead Shop Frisco, Texas\nRoyal Cbd Products Review (Updated\nElections Results That May Impact Cannabis\nInquiry For7 Important Cannabis Narratives In The 2018 Midterm Elections\nVeterans Working In Marijuana Industry Aren't Automatically Blocked From Home Loans, Va Says\nCooking With Cbd Oil: Using Cbd Recipes In The Kitchen\nIn addition, the program is all-encompassing, prohibiting municipalities, cities, or counties from opting out. Speaking throughout POLITICO's Women Rule Summit, McDaniel mentioned the party must look into why many white suburban female voters \u2014 a traditionally solidly Republican group \u2014 switched to Democratic candidates in the course of the midterms.\nThe hemp-derived CBD industry is anticipated to succeed in $sixteen billion nationwide by 2025. Already, major retailers like CVS and Kroger are selling CBD merchandise. Granted CBD products, including CBD-infused water, CBD-infused cosmetics and CBD-infused pet treats in the marketplace pre-dated the Farm Bill, these products can now be shipped throughout state traces and offered legally at the federal degree.\nThe act would remove marijuana from the managed substances list which might legalize it federally, leaving it up to every state to control marijuana. It would additionally assist reverse the punishment placed on people convicted of marijuana-associated drug crimes.\nRepublicans have been historically extra strict with marijuana legal guidelines than Democrats. Let's have a look at where Democrats and Republicans stand now, and the way both events help legalization greater than ever before. If you wish to support the legalization of marijuana during the subsequent presidential election, know that your vote makes a difference. America's voting system could be complicated, but it should not discourage voters from taking a stand.\nand Democrats about to take management of key federal committees, advocates are confident that marijuana coverage reform laws might be actively considered within the House within the 2019 session. Bills to permit banks to extra simply work with the cannabis business and to deal with unfair federal taxation of hashish are anticipated to make important progress next 12 months. During the midterm elections, the New York State authorities shifted to Democratic management and it was anticipated that the brand new lawmakers would totally legalize hashish. The tax income and jobs from totally legal hashish can be a giant enhance to a number of the needy areas in the state. The Sunshine State represents one of the massive prizes within the legalization motion.\nGrape, Mango, Lemon & more delicious flavors for your Just CBD cartridge. Simply screw it into your vape pen and enjoy. #JustCBD #Vape #Cartridge #CBD\nGet yours here https:\/\/t.co\/uiX4TVA24l pic.twitter.com\/XxTLUBJcS1\nIn some states, votes may simply go either means as a result of there is important assist from both sides. In a swing state, a difficulty like marijuana legalization could possibly be the issue that determines whether or not voters lean Republican or Democrat. Candidates fiercely compete to win over swing states, and marijuana legalization might be the software they use to get ahead in 2020. The outlook for the right to use marijuana is brilliant, as the majority of both Republicans and Democrats assist legalization.\nOn high of that, a report by the New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer estimated legalization could be a tax windfall of $336 million for the city and $435.7 million for the state. Despite the shortage of any dedicated opposition to legalization and with Democratic majorities in both houses of the Legislature, marijuana continues to be illegal in New Jersey. Citizens of Michigan voted to legalize leisure marijuana, making Michigan the 10th state to take action. The government director of the Marijuana Policy Project, Steve Hawkins acknowledged,\"Voters have once again sent a message loud and clear that it's time to legalize and regulate marijuana.\nMore than 71 % of Florida voters permitted an amendment permitting people with a wide range of medical conditions legal entry to marijuana, including those with HIV, a number of sclerosis, submit-traumatic stress syndrome, epilepsy and Crohn's illness. In one evening, the number of states permitting the sale of marijuana for leisure use virtually doubled, from 4 to seven states. About 20 percent of all Americans now live in a state the place recreational marijuana is authorized, and greater than half the states have now accredited medical marijuana. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat, introduced the Marijuana Justice Act to Congress in 2017.\nJust finished a workout and looking for the perfect combination of Protein and CBD? \ud83d\udcaa\nJust CBD got you covered!\nGet yours today at https:\/\/t.co\/4yc7FiBtvv#JustCBD @JustCbd \ud83d\udcaa pic.twitter.com\/6Mt0ZPkhWf\n\u2014 The LSD Blotter (@TheLSDBlotter) May 6, 2020\nIn this article, we will explore marijuana politics and the possibility of legalization within the subsequent few years. As you will notice, most Americans would don't have any problem with a pro-hashish president, and Republicans and Democrats may use marijuana legalization to win votes. Democrats took control of the House and Republicans maintained their grip on the Senate, however another winner of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections is the cannabis industry.\nJust as interesting, this was also the primary Gallup survey the place seniors aged 55 and up and self-identified Republicans also confirmed a majority of assist for leisure legalization. What's clear from polling is that the American public helps the legalization of marijuana, and overwhelmingly is in favor of giving the inexperienced mild to medical hashish. Advocates say that passing medical hashish in one of many remaining states with out such policies on the books could be a big victory for sufferers in its personal proper\u2014nevertheless it may also have outsized federal implications. A House-passed bill to protect banks that service state-legal hashish businesses from being penalized by federal regulators is presently pending motion in a Senate committeechaired by a senator who represents the state.\nAmericans are discovering the benefits of medical marijuana as a treatment for a range of health circumstances and see no cause for punishing those who use marijuana. Looking ahead to the 2018 midterm elections, the U.S. political scene has by no means performed host to so many public debates about hashish reform. Four states will put legalization issues empire glassworks mini icy penguins pipe earlier than voters\u2014Michigan, North Dakota, Missouri (medical) and Utah (medical)\u2014and candidates in loads of other races are distinguishing themselves from each other by their coverage stances on cannabis. So, the idea is that with extra states voting to legalize, that angle would trickle up to their representatives in Washington.\nMarijuana played an enormous, albeit roundabout, role in getting Democrat Keith Ellison elected the new Minnesota lawyer basic. Ellison, who was a excessive-profile member of Congress, was dogged by allegations of sexual abuse. A poll before the election confirmed Ellison with a small lead over his Republican opponent. The identical ballot found, Noah Johnson, the Grassroots-Legal Marijuana Now celebration nominee for Minnesota attorney basic, with 5 % assist.\nIdaho activists have formally requested that the state allow them to gather signatures electronically for a medical hashish legalization initiative following a series of federal court rulings on the problem in a case filed by a separate marketing campaign. But President Trump earlier this yearvoiced support for pending legislationthat would respect the right of states to implement their own marijuana legal guidelines. If Democrats cross that bill or comparable proposals out of the House, the president's assist could possibly be sufficient to get it by way of the Senate, where a number of GOP members have already endorsed ending federal prohibition.\nThe victory in Michigan highlights simply how widespread support is for marijuana policy reform. This issue doesn't solely enjoy strong support on the coasts but additionally in the Midwest and all throughout the country.\" Proposal 18-1, will permit adults 21 or older to eat and possess marijuana, as well as develop as much as 12 vegetation! Probably the largest win for cannabis on this midterms, Michigan is a wildly important state politically and is a great stepping stone in the direction of federal changes. Michigan is likely one of the most competitive states in nationwide elections, and Democrat Gary Peters is working for a second term. He will face Republican Iraq War veteran John James, who got here unexpectedly close to unseating Michigan's different Democratic senator, Debbie Stabenow, in 2018.\nSenator Booker believes marijuana ought to be legal, and he will probably be a candidate for the 2020 election. At this level, it might be a mistake for Republicans to help stricter marijuana legal guidelines. Some states, like Texas, could be slower at shifting in the direction of legalization, however even their attitudes are altering.\nStabenow is a longtime senator whose name recognition Peters lacks, however Republicans are rising extra unpopular in Michigan after the state narrowly voted for Trump in 2016, then switched again to Democrats in all statewide races in 2018. Unfortunately, the intersection of innovation and growth has been tainted by cyber attacks. Notably, the Ontario CannabisStore, a web-based retailer and wholesaler, and Denver-based software program agency, MJ Freeway, experienced major information breaches. We've discussed security best practices on your dispensary, and now we examine tips on how to safeguard your hashish enterprise from cyber threats.\nIt also units up a strictly state-regulated medical marijuana pharmacy system, with medical marijuana card holders restricted to purchasing two ounces of unprocessed hashish in a two-week interval. If cardholders didn't stay inside 100 miles of a pharmacy, they could grow up to six crops on their very own. Smoking marijuana would be prohibited, however other merchandise like edibles could be allowed.\nThe dissolution of North Carolina's elections board Friday injected further uncertainty into a still-undecided congressional race as a U.S. House Democratic leader rejected the concept of filling the seat till an investigation of pollfraud allegations is full. The info contained on this website (\"Content\") represents the views and opinions of the persons or entities expressing them. Because of the variety of legal guidelines, rules, and ordinances regarding marijuana, the Content will not be appropriate for your scenario.\nWisconsin, Democrat Tony Evers supports decriminalizing marijuana and permitting medical hashish and says he desires to place a full marijuana legalization query before voters to determine. Voters in 12 states elected gubernatorial candidates that publicly assist making cannabis authorized for adults last night.\nGet your #CBD from #JustCBD deliver to you today.https:\/\/t.co\/nrSHHRBKmj\n\u2014 JustCBD (@JustCbd) May 8, 2020\nMissouri and Utah accredited medical cannabis ballot measures as well, offering entry to effective medication for millions of people and firmly solidifying a supermajority of states with robust medical marijuana legal guidelines.\nThe Garden State has lengthy had a medical marijuana program, however former Gov. Chris Christie kept it as small as he legally may.\nthat may make cannabis legal and regulated for adults, making it the primary Midwest state to legalize hashish and setting the stage for regulated businesses to replace the illicit market there.\nBut if there's one lesson cannabis advocates must have discovered by now, electing pro-marijuana candidates is only a step in the proper direction.\nVoters in Missouri supported their medical hashish initiative in higher numbers than the profitable Republican Senate candidate, Attorney General Josh Hawley.\nPossible candidates will consider how they'll gain support by advocating legalization. Connecticut Senator and Democrat Chris Murphy supports altering the federal classification of marijuana and believes that 1000's of lives have changed for the higher in Connecticut since medical marijuana had turn out to be authorized within the state. Murphy will not be as well-liked as Bernie Sanders, but he's nicely-favored on Twitter and may reach younger voters if he chooses to run in 2020. Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic senator of Vermont, openly helps the legalization of marijuana for both recreational and medicinal functions. He believes states have the proper to regulate marijuana, and it shouldn't be prohibited on a federal degree.\nThe prevailing narrative throughout the American political panorama in 2018 is whether the House or Senate will flip to Democratic management. This would inevitably open the floor to more open hashish reform debates (Democrats being generally more supportive of legalization and social-equity laws, despite the fact that cannabis issues are inclined to unite both main parties to some degree).\nRepublican Pete Sessions of Texas, the chairman of the House Rules Committee who's been blocking votes on hashish amendments, just lost to Democratic challenger Colin Allred. It's telling that he known as Sessions out on the veterans modification. Every concern has its execs and cons, and the legalization of marijuana has been a topic of debate for a very long time. With the 2020 presidential elections on the horizon, it's probably that the legalization of marijuana will be a preferred subject. As the analysis exhibits, nearly all of Americans favor legalization of this healing plant.\nA 2018 Quinnipiac University poll discovered that 63 p.c of Americans assist legalizing marijuana and 93 % help using medical marijuana. In Missouri, there have been three measures associated to the legalization of medical marijuana. Amendment three would permit docs to prescribe weed, however would impose a 15-percent tax and ban house cultivation; and Proposition three would tax marijuana at 2 % and set an inventory of qualifying situations. In October, Gallup released its now-annual survey on the notion of marijuana in the United States. It found that an all-time document 66% of respondents favored legalizing the drug.\nCustomers observe the process of eradicating cannabinoids and terpenes from flower to create cannabis oil, and can purchase the product off the shelf. The Oklahoma medical cannabis market may understand $250 million in annual gross sales in its first few years. According to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, more than 2,200 business licenses had been issued, with an approved affected person pool of greater than 24,000 as of December, 2018. This pace-to-market is attributed to the fact that SQ 788 bypassed a particular legislative session prone to have imposed restrictions, but instead prioritized patient-must get instant access to hashish therapies. The result's that there isn't any restrict on enterprise licenses, and doctors are free to suggest medical cannabis to patients for any situation they deem applicable.\nDemocrats used his transfer to realize support for legalization, highlighting the importance of medical marijuana as a medicine for a lot of families. Democrats also stress how Sessions could undo the exhausting work states have accomplished to regulate marijuana and how his decision would waste funding on weed legal guidelines as an alternative of extra essential points.\nThis, nonetheless, won't doubtless change the trend towards legalization and reforms on the state stage. Republican Beto O'Rourke of Texas is seeking to make legalization of marijuana a part of his campaign for Senate. America's view of marijuana has developed drastically over time as only 31 p.c of Americans supported marijuana legalization in 2000. Now, with medical marijuana authorized in 30 states, and leisure use authorized in nine states, the subject is a popular supply for debate.\nPoliticians on either side are coming out to support legalization and win over Americans, and politicians nearly need to get on board to achieve assist from the bulk. Expect marijuana legalization to be a hot matter within the 2020 elections. With the 2020 elections coming into view, each Democrats and Republicans need to contemplate how the promise of marijuana legalization will affect voters, especially if politicians want to appeal to youthful voters. According to the Pew Research Center, 70 p.c of millennials support the legalization of marijuana. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Republican, made a mistake when he revoked the Cole Memorandum, which limited federal enforcement of marijuana legal guidelines in states the place is it legal.\nThis proves that Republicans are fighting for the legalization of marijuana against different Republicans if needed. So, the place do both events stand and which 2020 presidential candidates are pro-cannabis?\nthat may make cannabis authorized and controlled for adults, making it the first Midwest state to legalize hashish and setting the stage for regulated businesses to replace the illicit market there. Missouri and Utah permitted medical cannabis pollmeasures as properly, providing access to efficient drugs for tens of millions of people and firmly solidifying a supermajority of states with sturdy medical marijuana laws. Voters in Missouri supported their medical hashish initiative in higher numbers than the winning Republican Senate candidate, Attorney General Josh Hawley. But if there is one lesson cannabis advocates must have discovered by now, electing pro-marijuana candidates is just a step in the proper course. While it's probably many more states shall be legalizing marijuana, don't be stunned if it takes till the 2020 elections.\nLat month, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) published what he referred to as a\"Blueprint to Legalize Marijuana\"during which he laid out a detailed, step-by-step plan for Democrats to enact the tip of federal hashish prohibition in 2019. It's not clear whether or not Democratic leaders will embrace the idea, however a take a look at polling on the problem ought to give them the sense that marijuana reform is a popular issue with bipartisan support.\nTraditionally, Democrats have been associated with preventing for legal marijuana, however even purple states are jumping on board. For example, purple-state Oklahoma recently voted for the legalization of medical marijuana, making it the thirtieth U.S. state where medical hashish is legal.\nIn Illinois, Democrat J.B. Pritzker received the governor's race aftermaking marijuana legalization a centerpiece of his campaign. WhileNorth Dakota's long-shot marijuana legalization measure failed, cannabis also scored a number of big victories when it got here to the outcomes of candidate races. Michigan's Marijuana Legalization Initiative, identified higher as Prop 1, allows adults aged 21 and over the best to purchase and possess marijuana. Michigan will impose a statewide excise tax of 10% on any recreational pot gross sales, with a majority of the income created by this tax being funneled to law enforcement, street and bridge upkeep, and the state's K-by way of-12 training system. As with most marijuana initiatives which have been passed in already legal states, Prop 1 allows municipalities inside Michigan to ban or limit recreational hashish dispensaries inside their boundaries.\nThe Garden State has lengthy had a medical marijuana program, but former Gov. Chris Christie saved it as small as he legally may. In 2017 (for whatever cause, New Jersey and Virginia elect their governors in odd numbered years) Christie was replaced by Phil Murphy, a Democrat who made marijuana legalization an enormous part of his marketing campaign. Midterm elections are over and we've seen some real trends towards the legalization and\/or reform of Marijuana legal guidelines. This election saw numerous amendments and propositions passed at state and local ranges this week. The Democrats have received control back of the House and lots of supporters are anticipating the change to positively impression the legalization on the federal degree.\nOther Wins For Cannabis\nIt would have, in impact, been a legalization of medical marijuana, as decided by individual states. Introduced in 2015, the CARERS Act, like different hashish laws before it, failed to become regulation. In Wisconsin, Democrat Tony Evers supports decriminalizing marijuana and permitting medical cannabis, and says he desires to place a full marijuana legalization question before voters to determine. After greater than a week of sifting by way of the outcomes it is increasingly clear that what initially gave the impression to be an excellent election for expanding legal marijuana access in the US was truly a really, superb election. Voters in Utah and Missouri approved medical marijuana programs in midterm voting, whereas voters in Michigan (which already has a big and rising medical marijuana program) gave landslide approval to full legalization.\nSixty-9 % of Texans would support a reduced penalty for small amounts of pot. According to the Pew Research Center poll, forty three p.c of Republicans say marijuana must be authorized.\nWisconsin's CBD-solely regulation protects sufferers in possession of CBD oil\u2014but it doesn't enable the production or distribution of CBD oil. The questions earlier than voters in November will gauge public support for a broader medical marijuana law, of the kind seen in neighboring Minnesota, Illinois or Michigan. Michigan's cannabis problem will come before voters in tandem with a competitive gubernatorial race. Gov. Rick Snyder is time period-restricted, so we flip to Democratic candidate Gretchen Whitmer and Republican candidate Bill Schuette. Utah's Proposition 2 passed the legalization of medical marijuana for state residents with qualifying medical circumstances.\nGovernors-elect Gavin Newsom in California, Jared Polis in Colorado, and J.B. Pritzker in Illinois all made marijuana coverage reform a central problem of their campaigns.\nSenator Sanders feels individuals with drug addiction issues must be handled for their addiction somewhat than punished. Warren was also a co-sponsor for the CARERS Act, which might have allowed sufferers, docs, and businesses in states that have handed medical cannabis laws to operate with out fear of federal prosecution.\nCannabis merchandise processed and bought onsite have the potential to turn into a recreation-changer for the business. Similar to the farm-to-desk restaurant idea, some dispensaries have added kitchens staffed with culinary personnel and food scientists, who're extracting compounds and producing edibles, oils, waxes, shatters, and extra. The Mint Dispensary in Tempe, Arizona launched the nation's first full-service cannabis kitchen in October, serving the medical hashish group. Acres Cannabis recreational dispensary in Las Vegas takes it a step additional, that includes a 2,000 square foot open-view kitchen that houses its edible production and hashish extraction operations.\nA turnover in Senate seats resulted in an influence shift from a Republican majority to Democrat in the home of representatives. This is significant for the marijuana trade because the Democrats have a broad support of marijuana, whereas Republicans have a broad opposition. Democrats already held a majority in the Assembly and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also a Democrat, has signaled help for full legalization, each as a brand new source of revenue and because of gross racial disparities in marijuana arrests. Cuomo embraced a examine by his Department of Health calling for legalizing recreational marijuana. The department estimated the current unlawful marijuana market within the Empire State at $three.5 billion yearly.\nOklahoma Is Good For Cannabis Business\nA Gallup ballot found 51 percent of Republicans support legalization \u2014 the first time the majority of Republicans support legalization. Hillary Clinton, a Democrat nominee in the 2016 elections, said the federal authorities ought to allow states to legalize marijuana, but she did not call for marijuana to be removed from the managed substances record. Clinton believes in acquiring extra proof in regards to the effects of marijuana before making big adjustments. However, throughout the twentieth and 21st centuries, lawmakers cracked down on marijuana use and possession.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Archive for category: Coaching\nYou are here: Home \/ News \/ Coaching\nUnder 16 Footballers record Fr Manning Cup win in Laois\nIt was a busy weekend for the County Under 16 footballers. On Saturday last they hosted Offaly in P\u00e1irc Se\u00e1n Mac Diarmada and a poor start cost the team as the Faithful Boys recorded a 3-12 to 2-10 victory. However, earlier this afternoon the lads bounced back at the Laois GAA Training Centre with a terrific performance and were excellent value for a 2-14 to 1-5 victory over the home side. Well done to the team and management.\nNext up for the lads is a trip to Duganny GAA Training Centre on Saturday next as they take on Meath.\n30th October 2017 \/by Leitrim GAA PRO\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-10-30 15:24:052017-10-30 15:27:14Under 16 Footballers record Fr Manning Cup win in Laois\nJohn Morrison Coaching Workshop now booked out\nJohn Morrison's 'Game Senses' Coaching Workshop which will take place on November 9th at the Centre of Excellence has now been booked out.\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-10-29 18:21:212017-10-29 18:21:21John Morrison Coaching Workshop now booked out\nCoaching and Games Development Under 11 Blitz\nCounty Coaching and Games Development U11 Blitz took place in Annaduff Centre of Excellence tonight. It was a huge success and our thanks are extended to all clubs who attended and mentors of the teams who helped organise.\nA special word of thanks to Brian Blake for having the centre in wonderful playing condition and finally to Annaduff GAA club for use of their goalposts. Teams from Mohill, Bornacoola, Aughawillan\/Drumreilly, Kiltubrid, St Mary's Kiltoghert(2), Glencar\/Manorhamilton(2), Dromahair St Patrick's and Fenagh St Caillin's played this evening and had a great experience.\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/u11.jpg 720 960 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-10-26 22:51:062017-10-27 16:45:14Coaching and Games Development Under 11 Blitz\nJohn Morrison Coaching Workshop booking out fast\nOnly 15 places remain on the John Morrison 'Games Senses' Coaching Workshop in Centre of Excellence on November 9th.\nBookings for the few remaining places can be reserved by contacting Leitrim GAA Games Promotion Officer James Glancy on (086) 4082561 or email james.glancy.gda.leitrim@gaa.ie.\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-10-24 15:15:422017-10-24 15:14:15John Morrison Coaching Workshop booking out fast\n'Game Senses' Workshop with John Morrison on November 9\nLeitrim GAA Coaching and Games Development Committee is delighted to welcome back former Leitrim Senior Coach John Morrison to the county on Thursday evening November 9th next as he conducts a 'Game Senses' coaching workshop at County Centre of Excellence.\nBookings are now being taken for this workshop and you can reserve your place by contacting Leitrim GAA Games Promotion Officer James Glancy on (086) 4082561 or email james.glancy.gda.leitrim@gaa.ie.\nThe cost of the workshop will be \u20ac5.\nPeople interested in a DVD copy of the two Donie Buckley workshops and the Paddy Christie workshop may order them directly from James Glancy at the above contact details. Orders placed in advance will be available for collection at the November 9 workshop.\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-10-20 21:45:422017-10-20 21:45:42'Game Senses' Workshop with John Morrison on November 9\nCoaching Workshop with Donie Buckley\nLeitrim GAA workshops are back again due to popular demand the first one is a Donie Buckley Workshop, the current Mayo coach a huge draw for coaches in the county.\nThe former Kerry and current Mayo coach will give a workshop on Thursday, October 12, in the Leitrim GAA Centre of Excellence from 7 to 9 pm on the theme of defensive play with a cost of \u20ac5 per person.\nDonie's course last year booked out in a matter of hours so all places are available on a first come, first served basis.\nContact Leitrim Games Promotion Officer James Glancy on 0864082561 to book a place. The closing date is Tuesday, October 10, so get in there quickly!\n4th October 2017 \/by Leitrim GAA PRO\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-10-04 22:42:072017-10-12 12:27:28Coaching Workshop with Donie Buckley\nConnacht GAA Bursary Awards 2017\/18\nConnacht GAA have again reiterated their commitment to the ongoing educational development of its players and members by announcing details of the 2017\/2018 GAA National Student Bursary scheme. Connacht GAA, in support of the National Student Bursary Scheme, will award bursaries of \u20ac750 to students attending Higher Education colleges.\nThe scheme, which is now in its eleventh year, will be open to members of the Association who are attending a full-time Higher Education course and who are active participants in their Higher Education club. Students who hold other GAA-related or a college scholarship\/bursary will not be eligible to apply. Connacht GAA welcomes applications from those students in our province, (Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon & Sligo), regardless whether their attendance is at a college inside or outside of Connacht\". A number of awards in each province will be reserved for those excelling in the areas of coaching and administration.\nEach bursary granted will be for \u20ac750 and payment will be made annually in two instalments of \u20ac375. Further information and application forms for this year's scheme are currently available to download from www.connachtgaa.ie www.gaa.ie and http:\/\/he.gaa.ie\/\nSenior Inter-county players who were on their County's Senior Panel in 2017 should apply for Bursaries via the Gaelic Players Association; further information at www.gaelicplayers.com.\nAll Applications (Connacht GAA Higher Education Bursary Application Form 2017) to be forwarded to;\nConnacht GAA Centre,\nCloonacurry,\nBekan,\nCo. Mayo www.connachtgaa.ie\nPhone: 094)9630335 Email: reception.connacht@gaa.ie\nThe closing date for application will be October 6th, 2017.\nApplications received after the closing date will not be eligible for consideration.\n20th September 2017 \/by Leitrim GAA PRO\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-09-20 10:35:032017-09-22 13:09:27Connacht GAA Bursary Awards 2017\/18\nGAA Youth Forum 2017 \u2013 Saturday 28th October\nAre you a GAA player aged 12 \u2013 21 years old? Would you like to improve your performance as a player? Would you like to learn how to balance the demands of study and sport? Would you like to get inside the minds of some of the top Inter-County players in the country?\nIf so, apply to attend the FREE #GAAyouth Forum supported by Sky Sports! The #GAAyouth Forum is designed by young players, for young players. The Forum will be a fun and informative with a mix of interactive exhibitions, workshops, high profile speakers and a Q&A session.\nWith workshops designed for three specific age-grades (12 \u2013 15; 16 \u2013 18; 19 \u2013 21 years), players will leave the Forum having learned invaluable tips and tools that will help them to develop as a player and as a person.\nThere will be a number of activities at the Forum including:\n\u00b7 Exhibition Zone \u2013 interactive demos about everything from preparing healthy lunches to hurley care and repair!\n\u00b7 Plenary Session \u2013 Diarmuid 'Gizzy' Lyng will open the 2017 #GAAyouth Forum with the assistance of musicians from Rhythm Corporation.\n\u00b7 Workshops \u2013 experts, coaches and players including Orlagh Farmer, Ciar\u00e1n Kilkenny, David Herity, Juliet Murphy and Cathal Cregg will address a range of issues from Fuelling Performance to Injury Prevention & Recovery to Juggling the Demands in a young player's life.\n\u00b7 Lunchtime Laughs with Rory's Stories \u2013 Rory O'Connor brings his renowned characters to life in an interactive comedy gig!\n\u00b7 Q&A \u2013 A range of experts and high profile players will answer your questions on a number of topics.\n\u00b7 Lunch Hub \u2013 Keep the energy levels high and enjoy the best grub Croke Park has to offer\u2026 all for free!\nGames Development Operations \u2013 GAA\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-09-20 10:34:332017-09-22 13:09:27GAA Youth Forum 2017 \u2013 Saturday 28th October\nNational Hurling Development Provincial Coaching Workshop \u2013 Connacht\nNational Hurling Development\nProvincial Coaching Workshop \u2013 Connacht\nNational Hurling Development Manager, Martin Fogarty and Connacht Hurling Director, Damien Coleman present an opportunity to learn from and interact with Legends of the Game of Hurling at a not-to-be-missed workshop.\nVenue & Date: May 20th.\nConnacht Centre of Excellence, Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo\nRegistration: 10.30 a.m. Workshop: 11.00 \u2013 02.15 p.m. Lunch 02.15 p.m.\nPractical and station based with participants rotating to each station, followed by Q & A session with the guest coaches.\nStations:\nGoalkeeping and goalkeeping plays\nFitness with the ball\nThe Basics of Defending\nAttacking & Striking\nLead coach at each station will be one of our high profile guest coaches supported by a local Games Development Officer.\nD.J. Carey, (Kilkenny)\nJamesie O' Connor (Clare)\nOllie Canning (Galway)\nEamon O' Shea, (Tipperary)\nBrendan Cummins (Tipperary)\nBookings: http:\/\/learning.gaa.ie\/node\/269134\nEarly booking advisable as places are limited\nEnquiries: All enquiries to Martin Fogarty.\nEmail: martin.fogarty@gaa.ie Connacht\nRegistration: \u20ac20 (includes lunch)\n12-May-17 by Coaching and Games Development\n12th May 2017 \/by Leitrim GAA PRO\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-05-12 00:00:002017-10-13 18:27:09National Hurling Development Provincial Coaching Workshop - Connacht\nCoaching Workshop DVDs available for purchase\nCoaching Workshops DVDs\nAs a result of many enquiries regarding the Paddy Christie and Donie Buckley Coaching Workshops held recently, DVD copies of the events are being made available at \u20ac10 each (including postage) through Leitrim GAA. Orders by email to leitrimgaa.coe@gmail.com\n12-May-17 by Declan Bohan \u2013 PRO\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-05-12 00:00:002017-05-12 00:00:00Coaching Workshop DVDs available for purchase\nCoaching Workshop Number 4 now fully booked out\nCoaching the Tackle with Donie Buckley is now fully booked out, a waiting list is in operation in case of cancellations.\n08-Mar-17 by Declan Bohan \u2013 PRO\n8th March 2017 \/by Leitrim GAA PRO\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-03-08 00:00:002017-03-08 00:00:00Coaching Workshop Number 4 now fully booked out\nCoaching and Games Development Workshop Number 4\nCoaching the Tackle \u2013 Donie Buckley\nWorkshop Coach \u2013 Donie Buckley\nWorkshop Theme \u2013 \"Coaching the Tackle\"\nWorkshop Date \u2013 25\/03\/2017\nWorkshop Location \u2013 Allen Gaels GAA Club Drumshanbo (subject to change depending on the weather)\nWorkshop Time \u2013 11am- 1pm\nCost \u20ac5 per person\nPlaces Limited to 75 and will be given on a first come, first serve basis. Closing date is 20\/03\/2017 unless booked out before that.\nBooking is essential as no walk-ins will be permitted on the day.\nTargeted at Youth\/Senior team coaches the theme of this workshop is \"Coaching the Tackle\" through drills and game based methods.\nContact James Glancy to book @ james.glancy.gda.leitrim@gaa.ie or 0864082561.\nPlease also keep an eye on Leitrim GAA Website, Facebook and twitter to see if the course is still available or booked out.\nSome background on the coach himself:\nDonie Buckley scored a last-minute goal in The All Ireland Club Final in 1985 to help Castleisland Desmonds win The All Ireland Club Final.\nSoon after retiring from playing he became involved in coaching.\nHis coaching career began in Clare where he led Milltown Malbay in 1990 and Faughs in 1994 to County Championships. He then served as joint Manager of the Clare senior team in 2006.\nHe then moved on to Galway club Moycullen, whom he led to an All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship title in 2008.\nHe then served as selector with Mickey Ned OSullivan in Limerick for five years prior to joining the Kerry senior setup in 2011.\nHe stepped down from his role with Kerry before the start of the 2012 Championship.\nSince then he has been an ever-present as Coach to the Mayo senior football team.\nhttp:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Coaching_news2.jpg 400 400 Leitrim GAA PRO http:\/\/www.leitrimgaa.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cropped-Leitrim_Crest_3d_Trans_552x552-180x180.png Leitrim GAA PRO2017-03-06 00:00:002017-03-06 00:00:00Coaching and Games Development Workshop Number 4\nAIFQ Round 1 Leitrim v Wicklow Team Announcement6th June 2019 - 5:00 pm\nClub Cairde (6)\nClub Development (22)\nClub Football (641)\nClub Hurling (138)\nClub Notes (20)\nCoaching (299)\nCoiste na n\u00d3g (234)\nCounty Football (446)\nCounty Hurling (70)\nCumann na mBunscol (19)\nHandball (101)\nSc\u00f3r (241)\nAllen Gaels (86)\nAnnaduff (40)\nAughavas (82)\nAughawillan (78)\nAughnasheelin (75)\nBallinaglera (74)\nBallinamore \u2013 SOH (80)\nBornacoola (72)\nCarrigallen (67)\nCloone (67)\nDrumkeerin (56)\nDrumreilly (11)\nEslin (49)\nFenagh St Caillins (98)\nGlencar-Manorhamilton (76)\nGlenfarne-Kiltyclogher (36)\nGortletteragh (49)\nKiltubrid (73)\nLeitrim Gaels (75)\nMelvin Gaels (86)\nMohill (84)\nSt. Mary's-Kiltoghert (74)\nSt. Osnat's-Glencar (1)\nSt. Patrick's-Dromahair (59)\nLatest Club Notes\nCloone GAA Club Notes 21\/05\/201921st May 2019 - 11:10 pm\nOther GAA News\nBrolly: Mayo are definitely gone\non 15th July 2019 at 11:03 am\nLaois hurling is alive - Cummins\non 15th July 2019 at 9:36 am\nKerry prove that the league is just the league\nMcGrath: Kilkenny will enjoy underdogs tag\nMcConville: Hard to see Connolly as Dublin starter\nDublin's on-field ability to adapt key to their success\nMeath gave Donegal their 'toughest test' - \u00d3 S\u00e9\non 14th July 2019 at 10:15 pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"State Roundup, January 3, 2014\nby Cynthia Prairie | Jan 3, 2014 | State Roundup | 0 |\nLEGAL POT: With Colorado legalizing pot, Del. Curt Anderson hopes to restart the debate on legalizing marijuana, reports Dave Collins for WBAL-TV.\nRUNOFF OVERSIGHT: Alison Knezevich of the Sun reports that local governments are charged with enforcing state regulations limiting polluted runoff from new development, and the state is supposed to check on them. But state officials acknowledge they aren't doing it, which, environmental advocates say, could lead to lax enforcement on the local level \u2014 and put efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay at risk.\nFARM LEGISLATION: Farm lobbyists said Thursday they are hoping for a quiet state legislative session this year with little that will significantly affect the agricultural community, reports Timothy Sandoval of the Carroll County Times. They said they also plan to work on issues farmers have complained about concerning hauling restrictions and environmental regulations.\nANNAPOLIS PREDICTIONS: Members of Howard County's legislative delegation to Annapolis predict tough spending decisions, election-year grandstanding and progress on hot-button statewide issues with local implications when the General Assembly's session starts next week, writes Amanda Yeager for the Sun.\nDON FRY & MGM: Mark Newgent, writing for Watchdog Wire, says that Donald Fry, head of the Maryland Video Lottery Facility Gaming Commission that awarded MGM Resorts the license to build and operate a casino in Prince George's County, should have recused himself from the decision making process considering his involvement with a public affairs firm used by MGM to push for expanded gambling in Maryland.\nENOUGH SPENDING: Gregory Kline of Red Maryland writes in an op-ed in the Sun that since Gov. Martin O'Malley entered office, the legislature has passed higher income taxes, sales taxes and gas taxes; increased fees and tolls throughout the state; mandated localities pass a \"rain tax\" to pay for stormwater management projects, and increased taxes on cigarettes and alcohol. Even these measures were not enough to support state spending, so state Democrats supported legalizing gambling, which the voters approved.\nO'MALLEY'S FUND-RAISING PRECEDENT: In the fight over who can raise money during Maryland's legislative session, Gov. Martin O'Malley might be Exhibit A for the defense, reports John Wagner in the Post. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown pointed to O'Malley's 2006 gubernatorial campaign when asked about the controversy last week. O'Malley, who was mayor of Baltimore in 2006, raised more than $1 million for his gubernatorial campaign during that year's 90-day legislative session, and nobody objected.\nGUBERNATORIAL RACE: WYPR's Fraser Smith and Herb Smith of McDaniel College talk about this year's governor's race and why several candidates often considered unlikely might have a significant chance to win.\nFOREHAND WILL RETIRE: Sen. Jennie Forehand (D-Montgomery) said Thursday night that she plans to retire when her term ends next year, ending a career in the Maryland legislature that began in 1978, reports John Wagner of the Post.\nCOLBURN DIVORCE: Sen. Richard Colburn's wife is seeking divorce from the 64-year-old legislator, accusing him in court papers of having an affair with a 26-year-old former aide, writes Jennifer Shutt in the Salisbury Daily Times. Alma Fitzgerald Colburn filed for divorce last Friday after 14 years of marriage.\nGOOD IDEA, BAD BILL: Joanna Conti, a Democratic candidate for Anne Arundel county executive in 2014, writes in an op-ed in the Annapolis Capital that an Arundel County bill that would reduce unfunded retiree health care costs and require the county to start setting aside money to pay them, includes so many elements that strip employees of protections and shift costs from the county to employees will drive a lot of employees to leave.\nFREDERICK SHORTFALL: Although Frederick County officials are gearing up to haul next year's budget out of a $5.5 million hole, Commission President Blaine Young says layoffs and program cancellations are not on his agenda, reports Bethany Rodgers for the Frederick News Post. Young said department heads across county government are searching for savings to help sew up the deficit in the preliminary plan for fiscal 2015.\nHOMESTEAD CREDIT: With Washington County home values dropping in recent years, the benefits of the state's Homestead Tax Credit, which protects homeowners from major increases in assessed property value, have largely fallen by the wayside, writes CJ Lovelace for the Hagerstown Herald Mail.\nCECIL TOWN MEETING: Cecil County Executive Tari Moore is ready for her first town hall meeting of 2014, which is set for Monday at 7 p.m. in the Elk Room of the County Administration Building in Elkton, writes Cheryl Mattix for the Cecil Whig.\nMoCoCOUNCIL RACES: The soon-to-be-open County Council seats in two Montgomery County districts continue to draw interest from a number of potential candidates as the races take shape before the February filing deadline, reports Jenn Davis and Ryan Marshall in the Gazette.\nCAMPAIGN CASH: Gazette columnist Blair Lee examines the ins and outs of Maryland's campaign finance laws and its affect on the current races.\n***Happy Birthday tomorrow Jan. 4 to House Speaker Mike Busch and Del. Frank Conaway Jr. Get the birthdays of all your favorite legislators (and even in you unfavorite ones) in MarylandReporter.com's new State House Birthday Calendar with scenes from Naptown.***\nMINIMUM WAGE: The majority of Montgomery County's state delegation is expected to back a bill raising the statewide minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by 2016, Kate Alexander reports in the Gazette. Sen. Jamie Raskin and Del. Anne Kaiser are scheduled to announce Friday morning the names of those who signed a letter of support for the bill.\nREDISTRICTING CHALLENGE: Yet another challenge to Maryland's latest congressional redistricting is pending in federal court, Kate Alexander writes in the Gazette.\nBALTIMORE FIRE CHIEF: Columnist Barry Rascovar at Political Maryland ponders why Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake chooses to go with outsiders who know little of Baltimore for top jobs, like this week's appointment of the new fire chief.\nPreviousState Roundup, January 2, 2014\nNextRascovar commentary: O'Malley's final budget choices will be revealing\nCynthia Prairie\ncynthiaprairie@gmail.com\nhttps:\/\/www.chestertelegraph.org\/\nContributing Editor Cynthia Prairie has been a newspaper editor since 1979, when she began working at The Raleigh Times. Since then, she has worked for The Baltimore News American, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Prince George's Journal and Baltimore County newspapers in the Patuxent Publishing chain, including overseeing The Jeffersonian when it was a two-day a week business publication. Cynthia has won numerous state awards, including the Maryland State Bar Association's Gavel Award. Besides compiling and editing the daily State Roundup, she runs her own online newspaper, The Chester Telegraph. If you have additional questions or comments contact Cynthia at: cynthiaprairie@gmail.com\nState Roundup: Senate Dems pass legislative map; Hogan veto likely as Hogan-aligned group promises lawsuit\nState Roundup, March 18, 2011\nState Roundup, November 26, 2014","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Shadowhunters': better than pilot, but 'frustrating'\nDarrian Breedlove, Staff Writer|March 1, 2017\n\"Shadowhunters\" has become a show that time and time again gives me conflicted feelings. One moment I'm smiling and laughing at things pulled from the books or cool new substances, and the next I'm grimacing at the complicated changes and plot-holes that are created. While season two is a massive improvement from the trainwreck of a first season, there are still aspects that definitely need brushing up.\nThe latest three episodes are the first couple of episodes this season that I have not been pleased with and accepting of. There were some flaws in the previous episodes, but I could easily brush those aside, unlike the ones I've noticed in the past three weeks.\nIn the seventh episode \"How Are Thou Fallen,\" we are introduced to Valentine's plan for the Soul Sword. For one thing, the Soul Sword should actually be called the Mortal Sword, as it one of three Mortal Instruments, which is basically what the whole plot revolves around. But more importantly, his plan in the TV show is a big necessary change. In the books, Valentine wants to use the Mortal Instruments in order to raise the great angel Raziel, and along with those three items he also needs blood from each type of Downworlder to activate the Mortal Sword. If Raziel is raised by Valentine placing his name in a rune, then the angel will grant him one wish. Valentine's plan is to use this wish to create a new race of Nephilim who will not ally themselves with Downworlders like the current race has, not create a genocide like the show is suggesting.\nBut perhaps the most frustrating of all is the early and underwhelming arrival of the angel Ithuriel, which Valentine captured in his earlier days to use for experiments. Capturing an angel and imprisoning it is a great crime in this world, but the show did not treat it like the complete horror it was. And when Clary and Jace released the angel, the moment was not as empowering as it should have been. The scene was personally a huge letdown compared to the greatness it was in the books.\n\"Love is a Devil\" may not have been as frustrating, but it was even more confusing. Isabelle is currently struggling with a drug addiction that started when Victor Aldertree introduced her to a medicine named Yin Fen, which fans of the books know is very important. However, instead of being a drug created from demon poison, the writers of the show decided to change it to vampire venom. But what I don't understand is why they changed it. If it's vampire venom, it's vampire venom. It wouldn't have a different name. Instead of changing something that plays a huge part of a plot, why not just use vampire venom itself, especially if Isabelle is just going to go to Raphael for his venom when she runs out? I don't see why the essence of Yin Fen had to be changed for this. As for the other things that didn't make sense in this episode, why would a little 9-year-old be able to knock out two of his teachers? Why would Clary be worried that Simon would cheat on her literally a day after they got together? And why, why, why did the warlock Iris not have a warlock mark? There are simply too many to name them all.\nAside from those complications in the show, this season is definitely pleasing me in terms of character interactions and development. It is probably my favorite aspect of the show. Jace is finally starting to act like the Jace from the books, Simon is still incredible, Simon and Clary are finally trying out dating, Simon and Jace's bickering is on point, Magnus and Jace are having funny conversations and Magnus and Alec's relationship is developing adorably. Though I would like to see more interaction between Jace and Maryse, and I'm a bit taken aback by Maia suddenly trying to attack Clary, the character interactions in the show are definitely something I appreciate from the new showrunners.\nThese past few episodes certainly have their flaws, but I'm just relieved that this season is developing much better versus the pilot season. And although I'm a bit concerned about what will happen in future episodes, I am relieved knowing the show is doing better in the hands of the news runners and writers.\nTags: shadowhunters, the mortal instruments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Privacy Groups Ask FTC to Halt Facebook's Acquisition of WhatsApp\nSocial giant's practices said to violate WhatsApp privacy policy\nBy Katy Bachman\nA group of privacy organizations are calling for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and halt Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.\nIn a complaint filed Thursday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy contend that Facebook's practice of incorporating data from companies it has acquired would violate WhatsApp's strict privacy policy and constitute an \"unfair or deceptive practice.\"\n\"Facebook routinely makes use of user information for advertising purposes and has made clear that it intends to incorporate the data of WhatsApp users into the user profiling business model,\" EPIC and CDD wrote, citing Instagram and other examples. According to a recent report from Forbes, WhatsApp has already explored loosening its no-advertising policies.\nThat practice, the groups argue, would violate WhatsApp's privacy policy that it \"does not collect names, emails, addresses or other contact information from its users' mobile address book or contact lists\" other than mobile phone numbers.\n\"WhatsApp's failure to adequately disclose that this commitment to privacy was subject to reversal constitutes a deceptive act or practice in violation of \u2026 the FTC Act,\" the groups wrote.\nDespite assurances from WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum and Facebook that the company will remain independent, many WhatsApp users remain skeptical. Fearing WhatsApp's privacy policies are about to disappear, they have protested the acquisition through social media, even a Facebook page.\nFacebook is under a 20-year consent decree with the FTC for its privacy policies, meaning the enforcement agency will be keeping an eye on them due to privacy violations.\nhttp:\/\/adweek.it\/1cBenVh","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Portrait Project Flyer\nU.S. Gallery\nBritish Gallery\nCanadian Gallery\nPolish Gallery\nLetters from Families\nYou are here: Home \/ United States \/ Michael M Mcgreevy\nMichael M Mcgreevy\nClick to Download Portrait\nMILWAUKEE, WI, US\nLT, SEAL TEAM TEN, NORFOLK, VA\n02\/02\/2010, ASABADAD, AFGHANISTAN\nNavy LT Michael Martin McGreevy, Jr, Navy Seal, was one of eight Navy Seals in the group of 16 service members killed June 28, when their MH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down in the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan. The Navy commandos were based in Coranado Naval Amphibious Base, San Diego, California. Michael was from Virginia Beach, Virginia and was thirty years old. This was the largest number of Navy Seals casualties since the elite Seals were formed in 1962.\nMichael McGreevy grew up in Portville, New York, a hamlet 80 miles south of Buffalo. He was a top athlete and scholar who went on to graduate from the Naval Academy in 1997. Retired school staff noted that Michael was the best they ever had. Michael ran track, and set a school record for the 800-meter run. He also wrestled, played soccer and youth ice hockey. He would run more than 3 miles to school each morning, to be there by 6 a.m. so that he could get in a session of strength building before classes started. A return look at his high school yearbook shows that he participated also was active in Student Council, and was selected for National Honor Society. While in high school in Portville, New York, Lieutenant McGreevy wanted to take state Regents exam in German \u2013 only his school didn't offer the language. He bought German books and taught himself so well, he passed the exam.\nLieutenant Michael M. McGreevy graduated first in his class from the Naval Academy and went on to become members of the SEALs, one of the elite fighting forces in the world. Lieutenant McGreevy, who was the Naval Academy class of 1997's secretary, was popular and scholarly.\nHis wife, daughter, parents and friends will remember him as his freshman year roommate at the academy notes. \"He did well in everything I saw him do \u2013 at the same time, he was very, very humble about it and was always ready to help others.\"\nMichael's portrait is also on Poster 10\n7 Responses to \"Michael M Mcgreevy\"\nC Jordan says:\nAs Memorial Day inches closer, the weather is getting better and my patriotism bubbles up to the surface. Each year I get a nice, new American Flag to fly in my front yard. It's on my shopping list already. The days grow longer and my memories of my best bud, Mike McGreevy, hit me with more frequency and more clarity. You are and always will be the best, most genuine, most relevant person I've ever known. I miss you. If we could only jam out to AC\/DC one more time. If we could just grab a couple sleeping bags, find a spot on the side of a hill to camp out and talk about nothing while gazing up at the stars one more time. One more time. It won't happen. I can't change it. I have to accept it. Thank you, Groove. Thank you for being you. Thank you for leaving such a big, important, meaningful impact on me. I miss you, brother. Thank you.\nM Wetzler says:\nI'm a graduate of Portville Central School and from all the great things I've heard about Mike, I can only wish I had been in high school when he was. Mike is a true Hero and nothing will ever change that. I have the strongest respect for this man.\nChristina (Jacobs) Redepenning says:\nI graduated with Mike in 1993. I sat next to him at the graduation ceremony. I remember Mike was very polite, respectful to who ever was around him. You could take one look at Mike and know he would go far in life and do great things. I was shocked when I heard he died, but a part of me was angry that he died in war. I have a lot of respect for Mike!\nDick Anderson says:\nAs one of my many, many former Health and Physical Education students at Portville Central, I would have never believed that such a caring and \"quiet\" student would become a Navy Seal Officer. As I look back on our Health classes, I remember that I had (2) Marine Corps posters hanging up in my room. One day you and I had a talk about military service life and my experiences in Viet Nam as a Marine rifle platoon leader but I never would have guessed that you would someday be an officer especially in the Navy Seals. I salute you Mike and with God's grace, I'll see you later in His paradise.\nSemper Fi\u2026\u2026.\"Mr. A\"\nJ. Kenward says:\nPlease note, LT McGreevy was not the only officer to be killed when his helicopter was shot down. The Army pilots of the 160 SOAR were officers, and LCDR Erik Kristensen (SEAL) was also on board.\neherzberg says:\nSir \u2013 thank you for your comment. This change has been made to the posting.\nCheck out what others are saying about this post...\nCrossfit Cypress \u00bb Saturday August 10, 2013 says:\n[\u2026] http:\/\/www.fallenheroesproject.org\/united-states\/michael-m-mcgreevy\/ [\u2026]\nIf you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!\nThis website sponsored by\nFollow the Fallen Heroes Project\nAll artwork copyrighted by Michael G. Reagan. Copyright \u00a9 2020 \u00b7 All Rights Reserved \u00b7 Log in\nFallen Heroes Project","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"With its emergency room, mouth receives the leader Students and River visit to Colon\nBuenos Aires, Feb 21 (Entravision) .- Boca Juniors and River Plate this Sunday will be protagonists of the two sexy encounters of the fourth date of the final tournament of the argentine football affected still by the missteps suffered during the week.\nBoca Juniors, with a nine point possible, you will receive in La Bombonera the leader students with the need to take his first win after twelve parties without success.\nWith the possible return of Juan Roman Riquelme and the debut of Diego Perotti, the team of Carlos Bianchi will be measured with students that comes intoned with three victories in a perfect start.\nRiver Plate, which on wednesday lost the undefeated in the Estadio Monumental before Godoy Cruz, is relocating to Santa Fe needs to confront a Colon that surged with two wins in his last public appearances.\nRamon Diaz will have to reassemble his defense after the injury of Gabriel Market and punishment to the Colombian Eder Alvarez Balanta.\nThe fourth day of the contest will begin tomorrow with argentine three encounters, chief among which was the presentation of the second in the classification, V\u00e9lez Sarsfield, in the court of the Lanus, while all boys and Olympus will topline a duel of the needy, and Racing Club will seek a recovery before arsenal as a visitor in Sarandi.\nIn addition to presentations by River Plate and Boca Juniors, the Sunday shall enter into action the surprising Atl\u00e9tico de Rafaela in Rosario to Newell's and San Lorenzo will receive to a struggling Quilmes.\nThe date will be completed on Monday with three other parties: Rosario Central face Godoy Cruz in Mendoza, Tiger will receive to Argentinos Juniors and gymnastics are lined through Belgrano.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Photo of firefighter carrying elderly woman up stadium stairs captures hearts\nPosted 8:01 AM, March 18, 2019, by CNN Wire\nHOUSTON \u2013 Firefighter Thomas Harwell says it's always been in his blood to help people, and not just when he's on the clock.\nHe, his wife Shayla and their 2-year-old daughter were at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo featuring Brad Paisley Saturday when they saw an elderly woman struggling to get down the stairs of the stadium with her daughter and two granddaughters.\n\"She was having a rough time,\" Shayla Harwell told CNN Sunday night. \"I nudged my husband and told him that they may need help.\"\nThomas Harwell helped the woman down the stairs, but he and his wife kept an eye on the family until the show ended. They knew the woman would need to come back up the stairs in order to exit the stadium.\n\"I helped her downstairs, and I wasn't going to leave until I helped her upstairs,\" Thomas Harwell said. He asked the woman if he could pick her up, and while hesitant at first, she agreed.\nShayla Harwell took a picture of her husband carrying the elderly woman up the stairs and posted it to Facebook. The picture has since gone viral with over 1,000 shares and 700 comments.\n\"She did not have the strength to come back up the stairs,\" her Facebook post read. \"So, he carried her!\"\n\"I'm almost shocked, I really honestly didn't think it would go that far,\" Shayla Harwell said. \"She was very appreciative. When he placed her down at the top of the stairs, she was grinning ear to ear. It really touched her to have him help her.\"\nThomas Harwell is a firefighter of 15 years with the Hardin Volunteer Fire Department, a city about 50 miles northeast of Houston.\n\"I'm a senior captain in the fire department. My job is to help people,\" he said.\nNeither he nor his wife said they helped the woman for the recognition. They didn't even get the woman's name.\n\"If you're alive and breathing, you shouldn't need an excuse to help someone else,\" Thomas Harwell said. \"If they need help, help them.\"\nJewish group reciprocates kindness to the Muslim community in New Zealand after massacre\nBoy saves elderly man's life after dangerous fall\nThese acts of kindness warmed hearts during the deep freeze in the Midwest\nSubway rider searching for good Samaritans who resuscitated him on train\nFiled in: Trending\nTopics: acts of kindness, firefighter, kindness\nLike FOX 5 on Facebook\nJoin the conversation with the FOX 5 community.\nUber driver rallies community after learning veteran lives in squalor\nWoman says she was brutally attacked at Dominican Republic resort, shares photos of injuries\nWoman dies of flesh-eating bacteria after stumble during walk on beach\nDodgers to extend protective netting after fan hit by foul ball\nFlorida theme park employee 'saves the day' for boy with autism\nAt the Movies Blog\nCubs player overcome with emotion after foul ball hits little girl\nTeens rush into burning home, saving life of elderly neighbor\nAlligator swimming through Texas lake with knife in its head\nJayme Closs kidnapper gets 2 life sentences for murders, 40 years for abduction\nRescued camper says stranger threatened her with a knife\nWoman accused of torturing several of her 15 children and boiling their puppies\nMan who killed wife at City College: 'I should have gotten' death penalty","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keyword = tv tie-in\nSort by: Author Title Year (earliest first) Year (latest first) Price (lowest first) Price (highest first) Date added (earliest first) Date added (latest first)\nPage:1Modify search\nAckworth, Robert C.\nDr. KILDARE: Assigned to Trouble.\nEdition: First or early printing.\nRacine, WI: Western Publishing Company, Inc., (1963.). Hardcover - Illustrated throughout in 'blue and white' duotone drawings by Robert L. Jenney. \"Authorized edition based on the famous M-G-M television series.\" 212 pp.\nCondition: Good overall in glossy 'cellophane' boards (missing front endpaper, some delamination to the cover.)\nKeywords: Children's and Illustrated, television series, tv tie-in\nMore details Price: $8.50\nBeecher, Elizabeth\nGENE AUTRY MAKES A NEW FRIEND and ROY ROGERS AND THE SURE 'NOUGH COWPOKE (2 book set).\nRacine, WI: Whitman, 1952. Hardcover first edition - Two matching Whitman Tell A Tale books - number 800 and 801. Both are 'authorized editions.' GENE AUTRY is illustrated by Richard Case and ROY ROGERS by Randy Steffen, both in full color. Small format, 5 1\/2 by 6 1\/2 inches, with red as the background color on both covers. Unpaginated.\nCondition: Very good+ in illustrated boards (usual toning the pages, very minor wear to covers, tight binding, clean copies with no writing in books.)\nKeywords: Children's and Illustrated, movies tie-in, tv tie-in, western fiction\nMore details Price: $25.00\nHowe, Deborah and James Howe.\nBUNNICULA: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery.\nEdition: First printing.\nNew York: Atheneum, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The rather uncommon first edition of the first book in a very funny and very popular children's series. Told from the point of view of the family's dog named Harold (Harold describes his real job as being a dog), this is the story of a young bunny rabbit found in the theater where the family had gone to see Dracula, and so named Bunnicula. However, Chester the cat is convinced that the bunny is really a vampire, and he feels like he has to save the Monroe family from this menace. Basis for animated television series. Deborah Howe died shortly before this was published, so James Howe continued the series\u2026\nNew York: Atheneum, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The rather uncommon first edition of the first book in a very funny and very popular children's series. Told from the point of view of the family's dog named Harold (Harold describes his real job as being a dog), this is the story of a young bunny rabbit found in the theater where the family had gone to see Dracula, and so named Bunnicula. However, Chester the cat is convinced that the bunny is really a vampire, and he feels like he has to save the Monroe family from this menace. Basis for animated television series. Deborah Howe died shortly before this was published, so James Howe continued the series by himself. \"Bunnicula is the kind of story that does not age, and in all probability, will never die. Or stay dead anyway.\" (Neil Gaiman). Illustrated with drawings by Alan Daniel. xii, 98 pp. ISBN: 0-689307004.\nCondition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped, minor edgewear to dj)\nKeywords: Children's and Illustrated, first in series, pets, tv tie-in, vampire\nPage:1Modify searchNew search\nAny word:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Senior Conservation and Display Technician\nHousehold \/ Department\nRoyal Collection Trust\nSection \/ Branch\nFine Art and Library\nContract\/recruitment type\n\u00a326,000 - \u00a332,000 per annum, dependent on experience\nHours of work\n37.5 hours per week, over 5 days, Monday to Friday\nIt's helping to bring millions closer to fascinating artworks\nIt's working with a shared and unique purpose, and it's caring for and presenting one of the world's largest art collections. This is what makes working for Royal Collection Trust so different.\nFrom old master drawings, prints, and photographs to books, and portrait miniatures, the Paper Conservation section of the Royal Collection has a unique, diverse and engrossing history\nYou'll be the technical expert responsible for the preparation, movement and installation of artworks across our various Royal residences, as well as supervising loans to other venues worldwide.\nLiaising with colleagues across the organisation, you'll ensure both moves and installations are aligned with our busy programme of loans and exhibitions, as well as the operations of the Royal Household.\nYou'll provide a high level of expertise and advice for the mounting, framing, packing, transportation and installation of a wide variety of paper-based artworks, ensuring exceptional standards of collections care at all times.\nManaging our Conservation Technician, and supervising external contractors and other internal colleagues on a daily basis, you'll lead and develop those around you.\nReporting on the movement and condition of displayable artworks will be a key part of your role. And you'll also be responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of our studio spaces and stores and specialist equipment, ensuring H&S requirements are consistently met.\nYou'll expand your knowledge in this role, caring for this truly diverse collection and meeting varied display challenges. And, knowing that you're enabling our paper based collections to be admired by a huge audience will be your biggest reward.\nThis role involves an amount of manual handling and working at heights, as well as travelling to multiple locations around the country and abroad.\nWith significant art technician and handling experience in a museum or arts environment, ideally of works on paper in a recognised qualification in a branch of conservation, you're the expert we're looking for.\nYou'll also have strong, demonstrable knowledge of methods for mounting, framing, transporting and displaying historic works of art, and the materials and equipment required.\nYour organisation and time management skills will be vital in order to prioritise multiple, often conflicting deadlines.\nWith previous experience of supervising both internal colleagues and external contractors, you're a strong and adaptable communicator who is confident engaging with people at all levels, including specialists in their own field.\nAnd with an extreme attention to detail, you're driven to maintain the very highest standards of care in all that you do.\nPerceptive, with great problem solving skills, we can rely on you to take initiative, assess situations, and make decisions when needed.\nA good command of relevant IT programs will be important too, as well as a full UK driving license for movement between locations.\nAbove all, you'll be keen to explore the opportunities this unique collection presents you.\nVacancy Closing Date: 30\/07\/2018, 23:55\n20180518_SeniorConservationandDisplayTechnician JD .pdf \u2013 379KB\nThis vacancy is closed to applications.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This Simulation Rewinds Bike Accidents To See If A Helmet Would Have Saved Your Head\nYour skull is very important. So is your brain. Bike helmets do a lot to keep them both safe.\nPhoto: Wessel du Plooy via Shutterstock\nBy Charlie Sorrel 2 minute Read\nThe trouble with scientific assessments of bike helmet safety is that it's impossible to compare apples to apples, because wearing a helmet changes the accident. For instance, some studies show that cyclists who wear helmets ride less cautiously than those with their heads free. Other studies have shown that drivers drive closer to helmet-wearing cyclists than they do bare-headed bikers.\nBut what if you could turn back the clock on a real bike accident, and check to see whether wearing a helmet would have protected the rider? That's exactly what three researchers did at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.\nMadelen Fahlstedt, Peter Halldin, and Svein Kleiven used computer modeling to simulate what the effect of a helmet would have been on existing injuries. First, they conducted simulations of the real accidents' effects on the cyclists' heads without a helmet, and compared these to actual scans of the victims' brains. This allowed them to match up the bleeding patterns and check that their model was good. The researchers reconstructed three accidents for the study.\nThen they ran the simulations again, this time with helmets in place. The result? Helmets reduced the risk of concussion by 54%, and \"drastically cut the risk of skull fractures.\"\n\"We can see how much the brain tissue is stretched in the collisions,\" said neuronics researcher Madelen Fahlstedt, \"and that the tissue is stretched most in those areas where the impact occurred.\" In the simulated crashes, a regular bike helmet reduced the stretch rate of brain tissue by between 33% to 43%.\nFlickr user rick\nThe reduction in the risk of skull fracture is even bigger. \"We saw a great reduction of stress on the bones, as a result of wearing a bike helmet, from 80 megapascals down to 10 megapascals,\" said Fahlstedt. \"This figure indicates how much load you put on a given surface, and, translated into more understandable terms, this means a reduction from 100% risk of skull fracture down to 10% for those wearing helmets.\"\nBut like every bike-helmet safety study, this doesn't tell the whole story. It's pretty clear by now that wearing a bike helmet reduces damage significantly, if you have an accident and hit your head. But day-to-day cycling really isn't that dangerous. If you're a mountain biker, then you probably want to pop a lid on your melon, but if you're riding to the shops or commuting to the office, the risk is pretty low.\nAfter all, if we wore a helmet for every situation where it would help in case of head impact, we should be wearing them when we ride in a car\u2013almost certainly the most dangerous thing most of us do every day\u2013and that seems pretty ridiculous.\nPreviously found writing at Wired.com, Cult of Mac and Straight No filter.\nClimate change won't result in a new normal but in constant, horrifying new disasters\nHere are the most hilariously scathing reviews for Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Doolittle'\nHow Nate Berkus has kept his creativity flowing for 25 years\nBloomberg haunted the Dem debate with fake irony on Twitter. Here's how the other absent candidates fared.\nEverything you think you know about minimalism is wrong\nEntrepreneurs need to be aware of these three pitfalls","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeFarming News'Farmers who need to buy 8-10t of fertiliser are going to have...\nImage source: Video Parliament Youtube\nCatherina Cunnanehttps:\/\/www.thatsfarming.com\/\nCatherina Cunnane hails from a sixth-generation drystock and specialised pedigree suckler enterprise in Co. Mayo. She currently holds the positions of editor and general manager at That's Farming, having joined the firm during its start-up phase in 2015.\n'Farmers who need to buy 8-10t of fertiliser are going to have to pay \u20ac3,000-\u20ac4,000 more'\nIndependent TD, Danny Healy-Rae, has warned that increased fertiliser prices will \"hurt\" not only farmers but consumers also.\nOn Tuesday, January 25th, 2022, he told the D\u00e1il that food prices will increase even further for Irish consumers.\nHe pointed to a new report released in recent days, which suggests that households may have to spend up to \u20ac780 more on groceries this year.\nHe said that year's hike has not come at all yet from farmers because if they have to pay more to produce milk, beef and grain, the cost is \"going to have to be placed across the board\".\n\"The people that are buying will have to pay for this,\" he told the D\u00e1il.\nIncreased fertiliser prices\n\"Farmers are being hit every day. The small farmer that is down in Kerry that wants to retain a bit of land, he is hit with every type of an obstruction to stop him at doing that.\"\n\"Then, all their farms are not arable, and they need to grow grass in the small patches they have. They need nitrogen, and they need fertiliser.\"\nMaking reference to fertiliser prices, the deputy said: \"Just to give you an example, urea that was \u20ac330 this time last year, is now costing \u20ac930\/tonne and nitrogen that was \u20ac220\/tonne is almost \u20ac700\/tonne.\"\n\"So instead of thinking it has just doubled, it has tripled in price,\" he argued.\nAnti-dumping levies\nHe accused Russia and Europe of playing politics and said that farmers are \"suffering\" as a result.\nHe referenced an anti-dumping levy, adding that countries outside of Europe cannot supply fertiliser to Ireland without paying an extra charge.\n\"It is something like \u20ac40 or \u20ac50 extra a tonne. I am asking the Government what have they done about this?\"\n\"We were told first that fertiliser would be scarce, but there are boatloads of it there. They are holding and hoarding it because they can keep up the price of it on the pretence that they can't get gas from Russia and one thing or another.\"\n\"Small farmers who need to buy 8 or 10 tonnes of fertiliser to barely keep their farms ticking over they are going to have to pay \u20ac3,000-\u20ac4,000 more for that amount of fertiliser.\"\n\"I am talking about the small farmers because they are going to be hurt and hit the most.\"\n\"The big farmers and I sympathise with them too because they have everything done right, and they have an awful lot of money spent, but it's really going to hit the small farmer in Kerry.\"\n\"Everything seems to hit our rural areas of Kerry, West Cork and those places. Every rule that has been brought is to hurt those farmers,\" he concluded.\n'Financially' crippling fertiliser costs 'burying' farmers in debt\nDanny Healy-Rae\nIn-calf heifers to \u20ac6,300 at Tuam Mart\n'If you are travelling behind a tractor, please be patient'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Giroud deal done - Wenger\nWritten By Harry West\nhttps:\/\/images.daznservices.com\/di\/library\/omnisport\/9f\/57\/oliviergiroud_1rrkqq66b2yg11uy36eib3tent.jpg?t=-1445492299&w=500&quality=80\nThe France international striker, who is set to be out of action until the new year with a foot injury, is expectedto put pen to paper on atwo-year renewal, with his previous agreementhaving been set to expire in 2016.\nSpeaking at a press conference ahead ofArsenal's UEFA Champions League clash with Galatasaray on Wednesday, Wenger revealed that the details wereclose to being finalised.\n\"It is done,\" he said. \"We will announce it when it is completely finished.\n\"We want stability and want to keep the core of our team together.Giroud is an important player here.\"\nGiroud has scored 41 goals in 102 Arsenal appearances in all competitionssince joiningfrom Montpellier in June 2012 for a reported fee of around \u00a312million.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Farm funding in Scotland \u2013 past, present and future\nSilage cutting, Aberdeenshire \u00a9 Ian Francis (rspb-images.com)\nBy Bruce Wilson, public affairs manager, Scottish Wildlife Trust\nIt's fair to say that many of us in Scotland feel a deep affinity with farming and the landscapes and cultures it creates. However, the policy and the public money that supports the majority of farming isn't well understood by the public in Scotland.\nThe Scottish Government's 2022-23 budget for agricultural support is significant, totalling just under \u00a3800 million. A new Agriculture Bill in the works, which is still to be consulted on, so there's going to be increasing public and parliamentary scrutiny over policy and subsidy for farming. But what's the historical context here?\nIn Scotland we've seen broad intensification of agriculture since World War Two. Post-war policy created bigger, more productive farms. The first main policy driver of this intensification was the Agricultural Act of 1947, but the second most significant driver came in 1973, with entry into the European Economic Community, later to become the European Union.\nThe system of regulations and incentives created by the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has since then massively influenced domestic farming policy and, in turn, this has influenced our landscape and nature. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an important body set up to advise national governments on the science around ecosystems. IPBES cites land use change, including the intensification of agriculture, as one of the five major drivers of ecological decline.\nInitially the CAP was almost entirely focused on maximising food production. But, by the early 1980s overproduction of food and the negative environmental and economic impacts of this single focus were well recognised. Subsequent reforms have tried to move financial support away from a system focused on production.\nThe EU now sees the CAP as a \"partnership between agriculture and society, and between Europe and its farmers\" which aims to:\nsupport farmers and improve agricultural productivity, ensuring a stable supply of affordable food;\nsafeguard European Union farmers to make a reasonable living;\nhelp tackle climate change and the sustainable management of natural resources;\nmaintain rural areas and landscapes across the EU;\nkeep the rural economy alive by promoting jobs in farming, agri-food industries and associated sectors.\nAgriculture is a devolved policy area, which means Scottish policy makers were given the opportunity to create a policy to replace the CAP when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in 2016. The Scottish Parliament approved theAgriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020, which allows CAP measures, with some simplification, to continue until 2023 when a new Agriculture Bill will be brought forward.\nThe stated aim of the Scottish Government and the Scottish Green Party Parliamentary Group is to \"ensure our future policy stays broadly in line with the objectives of the new CAP as far as possible, to allow us to re-join the EU at a future point with minimal disruption\". This means that whatever policy is created cannot differ hugely from European policy, including policy setting out environmental commitments.\nLuing cow and calf \u00a9 Morgan Vaughan (rspb-images.com)\nWe understand that we can no longer just incentivise production at the expense of our environment and climate \u2013 we need a farm funding system that works for nature, climate, and people.\nWe've seen an encouraging vision from the Scottish government that states they will \"transform how we support farming and food production in Scotland to become a global leader in sustainable and regenerative agriculture.\" As ever the devil will be in the, yet to be revealed, detail and we need to see what schemes the Scottish Government puts forward before we can say how likely it is that this vision will be realised.\nThe current system simply pays people for the amount and quality of land they own or farm, with most of the money going to the biggest farms on the best land. There are no conditions attached to this money.\nThe Scottish Government has committed to retain \"direct funding\" support to farmers and crofters, albeit with a promise that 50% of this will be conditional on delivering for biodiversity and climate by 2025. This conditionality could be a positive step forward if public money is meaningfully used to address the biggest challenge of our era, the climate and nature crisis.\nHowever, if this money is used for ill-defined, non-targeted schemes we will fail to meet our nature and climate targets. Let's keep in mind that around 75% of our land is used for agriculture and if we don't get funding properly aligned with delivering nature and climate targets, we will not meet them.\nThere is a very strong argument to say that all public money should have some conditions attached to it, especially given the climate and nature emergencies.\nIt's also important to remember that if half of this money is conditional, then the remaining half will be without conditions and not tied to delivering wider public benefits.\nTo improve understanding and make sure those taking part in the consultation process are fully engaged we need a fully open governance approach. We need to see a transparent, accountable and participation focused approach that fosters democratic decisions \u2013 not closed-door forums with very little input beyond certain chosen groups. The Scottish Government must work hard to help the public understand and comment on the issues surrounding agricultural policy.\nThe Farm for Scotland's Future campaign is calling on the Scottish Government to replace the decades-old farm funding system with one that works for nature, climate and people.\nPlease join the campaign.\nDisclaimer: The opinions expressed in this blog are the author's and do not necessarily represent the views of all the organisations backing the Farm for Scotland's Future campaign.\nPrevious Post Scotland must plan for a just transition for farming\nNext Post Why changing farm funding is key to tackling Scotland's nature crisis\nDear Cabinet Secretary, farming matters to Scotland's people\nLetter to Mairi Gougeon following the Climate Change Committee report\nFarming isn't the problem. It's part of the solution.\nFarming for a world richer in nature\nScotland's new Agriculture Bill: making the most of grasslands for nature, climate, and people\nBy joining, you consent to receive email updates about the campaign. You can unsubscribe at any time. Please read our privacy policy.\nCopyright \u00a9 2023 Scottish Environment LINK - Website by Pulse North","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About SCCI\nJoin SCCI\nBusiness Climate Survey\nGuide to India\nSambandh Stories\nDEMERGER OF SANDVIK ASIA PVT. LTD.\nEricsson India Pvt. Ltd.\nSandvik Asia Private Limited (SAPL), a subsidiary of Sandvik AB, Sweden was incorporated on July 8, 1960 under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956; with its registered office in Pune, India. Sandvik is a multi-product, multi-division entity, engaged in manufacturing, distribution and provision of sales & marketing services through its three business areas namely Sandvik Machining Solutions (SMS), Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology (SMRT) and Sandvik Materials Technology (SMT). Currently, Sandvik business in India has a pan-India presence and have attained a significant size and scale in the respective business segments in Mining, Materials Technology and Metal cutting. As the businesses now embrace their next phase of growth, it was thought that it would be strategically pertinent to have them restructured under separate entities to enable them to move forward independently, with greater focus and specialization building further on their respective capabilities and their strong business presence.\nConsequently, effective August 1 2020, SAPL has been demerged into three independent and Business owned legal entities, namely Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology India Pvt. Ltd. (SMRTIPL), Sandvik Materials Technology India Pvt. Ltd. (SMTIPL); and Sandvik Asia Pvt Ltd (SAPL). SMRTIPL will take over the Mining business and will be led by Mr Subhasis Das. SMTIPL will take over Material Technology business and will be led by Mr Sharath Satish and SAPL will represent the Metal cutting business and will be led by Mr Kiran Acharya.\nThe demerger process started in early 2019 with an application to National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and concluded during mid 2020 with the final legal compliance with the Registrar of Companies (ROC). The resulting companies have accordingly been incorporated inter alia with the objective of legally undertaking the respective business segments. The transfer and vesting by way of demerger resulted in the re-organisation of share capital in addition to various other matters consequential or integrally connected therewith, which ultimately made the resulting entities operationally independent. Sandvik's companies or their subsidiaries in India are not listed on any of the stock exchanges.\nThe demerger is expected to potentially benefit all the Sandvik businesses from this process and incremental operational efficiencies, thereby empowering all businesses to create further value. This strategic decision to structurally align Sandvik in India with the Sandvik Group's global holding structure will thereby benefit the resulting companies to focus on the core business, have their own management teams and board of directors to achieve operational and managerial efficiency. The operating model of any of the businesses has not been affected by the legal entity change. Hence the way Sandvik does business will not be changed due to the modification of the legal structure, resulting in limited impact\/change for our employees, customers and other stakeholders.\nPune August 26, 2020\nEpiroc India\nIKEA India\nVolvo Group India\nABHIJIT SOM - NEW GENERAL MANAGER AT DYNAPAC\nBENJAMIN SWEDBERG \u2013 NEW COUNTRY MANAGER AT SEB INDIA\nCamfil India Pvt Ltd\nSAAB Group\nBharat Forge\nCopyright \u00a9 2015, Swedish Chamber of Commerce, c\/o Business Sweden, Embassy of Sweden, Nyaya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110 021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Samuel L. Jackson Ends Tarantino Marvel Debate\nSamuel L. Jackson (Hopefully) Ended the Quentin Tarantino Marvel Debate\n\"Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther. You can't refute that, and he's a movie star.\"\nBy Josh Rosenberg Published: Nov 29, 2022\nIt has been, I kid you not, over three years since Martin Scorsese first said that Marvel movies are more like theme parks than real cinema. The silly debate is somehow still raging on today, despite having little effect on how anyone feels about going to the movies, or whether they are having a good ol' time while watching them.\nAdding fuel to the eternal flame of nonsensical takes earlier this month, Quentin Tarantino decided to state on a podcast that franchise heroes like Captain America incentivize people to the movies more than the actors playing them. \"Part of the Marvel-ization of Hollywood is\u2026you have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters,\" Tarantino said on the \"2 Bears, 1 Cave\" podcast a little over a week ago. \"But they're not movie stars. Right? Captain America is the star. Or Thor is the star. I mean, I'm not the first person to say that. I think that's been said a zillion times\u2026 but it's like, you know, it's these franchise characters that become a star.\"\nQuentin Tarantino: Marvel Actors Not Movie Stars\nIn a just world, you wouldn't have to respond to every absurd thing someone says on the Internet, but that's just not how this works, is it? Following some heated dissatisfaction from Shang-Chi's Simu Liu, longtime Marvel star and frequent Tarantino collaborator Samuel L. Jackson threw his thoughts into the storm this week. Appearing on The View, the Nick Fury actor challenged the Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood director's claims, stating, \"That's not a big controversy for me to know that apparently these actors are movie stars.\"\n\"It takes an actor to be those particular characters, and the sign of movie stardom has always been, what, asses in seats? What are we talking about?\" Jackson continued. \"Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther. You can't refute that, and he's a movie star.\"\nSo, there you have it, folks. Marvel movies are movies because I see them in the movie theater. Actors are movie stars because they star in the movies. Can we put this to bed now?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kessler v. Herklotz\nKESSLER ET AL.\nHERKLOTZ ET AL.\nAction by Alfred Kessler and others against John D. Herklotz and others. From an order directing Lawrence E. Sexton, as trustee in bankruptcy of plaintiffs, to pay costs awarded to defendants by a judgment against plaintiffs, he appeals. Reversed.\n[117 N.Y.S. 46] G. H. Gilman (S. J. Rosensohn, on the brief), for appellant.\nMarshall Stearns (George A. Strong, on the brief), for respondents.\nArgued before INGRAHAM, LAUGHLIN, CLARKE, HOUGHTON, and SCOTT, JJ.\nLAUGHLIN, J.\nThis action was brought to recover $35,000 and interest for moneys had and received. Upon the trial a verdict was directed for the plaintiff, and the exceptions were ordered heard in the first instance at the Appellate Division, where judgment was ordered for the plaintiff on the verdict. On November 19, 1907, this judgment was reversed by the Court of Appeals, 190 N.Y. 24, 82 N.E. 739.During the pendency of the case on appeal in the Court of Appeals and on the 30th day of October, 1907, the plaintiffs made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors, and thereafter and on the 8th day of November of the same year a petition was filed in the district court of New York by creditors to have them adjudged bankrupts, and the appellant was on that day appointed receiver in bankruptcy, and on the 30th day of December thereafter was duly elected trustee in bankruptcy. Prior to the appointment of the receiver in bankruptcy, the cause had been argued in the Court of Appeals by counsel representing the plaintiffs. Neither the receiver nor the trustee in bankruptcy took any part in the conduct of the case until after the decision of the Court of Appeals reversing the judgment and awarding a new trial with costs to abide the event. After the decision of the Court of Appeals the attorney for the plaintiffs conferred with the appellant with respect to the advisability of trying the cause again and urged that course, and on the 14th of April, 1908, he transmitted to the appellant a notice of motion served in behalf of the defendants to have the cause placed upon the call calendar in order to have it set down for trial. The appellant, on receiving this notice of motion, conferred with his counsel, Mr. Macfarlane, and wrote the attorney for the plaintiffs, returning the notice and stating, in substance, that:\nHe \" was quite willing to have the case retried on behalf of the late firm of Kessler & Co. upon the understanding that leave of the bankruptcy court be obtained if that is necessary, and that, in the event of plaintiffs' failure to obtain a favorable judgment, no charges for professional services be made against the estate of Kessler & Co., or against me as trustee thereof. On the other hand, should you succeed on behalf of the plaintiffs, I shall recommend a liberal compensation for your services out of the proceeds of any judgment which might be obtained. I write this so that we may both have some memorandum of the matter. I have not had occasion to look up the question of whether or not application should be made to the United States District Court for leave to continue this action in my name as trustee. If such leave be necessary, I suggest that you communicate upon the subject with Mr. Macfarlane, and arrange with him as to the making of such application and obtain the order therefor.\"\n[117 N.Y.S. 47] Nothing further was done by or at the instance or with the knowledge or approval of the appellant. On the 5th day of November, 1908, he received a letter from the attorney for the plaintiffs, stating that the cause had been tried and decided adversely to the plaintiffs, and that it was not advisable to proceed further. He therefore gave the cause no further attention, and he paid nothing to the attorney for the plaintiffs. It appears that the attorney for the plaintiffs did not communicate with counsel for the appellant, and that no order was obtained from the bankruptcy court permitting the appellant to be substituted in or to continue the action, nor was any application ever made for such order or authority on behalf of either party to the action. The last trial took place on the 28th and 29th days of October, 1908, and the plaintiffs apparently were represented as before by their attorney. They were nonsuited at the close of their case, and the court awarded an extra allowance of $500. Judgment was thereafter entered on the 9th day of November, 1908, dismissing the complaint and awarding the defendants judgment against the plaintiffs for $1,073.38; that being the amount of the taxable costs and disbursements and the extra allowance. The defendants thereafter on notice to appellant duly made a motion to compel him to pay the costs awarded by the judgment. This motion was based upon section 3247 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides as follows:\n\" Where, after the commencement of an action, the cause of action becomes, by transfer or otherwise, the property of a person, not a party to the action, the transferee, or other person so interested, is liable for costs, in the like cases, and to the same extent, as if he was the plaintiff; and where costs are awarded against the plaintiff, the court may, by order, direct the person so liable to pay them. Except, in a case where he could not have been lawfully directed to pay costs, personally, if he had been a party, as prescribed in the last section, his disobedience to the order is a contempt of court.\"\nUpon no theory should the appellant have been held responsible for more than $60.65, the amount of the costs which accrued in the action after he became trustee. Norton v. Switzer, 93 U.S. 355-366, 23 L Ed. 903; Reade v. Waterhouse, 52 N.Y. 587, 589.It is manifest that the extra allowance was made principally, if not wholly, on account of the prior proceedings in the action. We are of opinion, however, that the appellant is not liable for any part of the costs. He did not become a party to the action, and he did not accept the subject-matter of the litigation as an asset, nor did he intend to become in any manner responsible for the litigation without the authority of the federal court, if that was necessary. It is well settled that the trustee in bankruptcy is not obliged to intervene in a pending action by or against the bankrupt. This is upon the ground that it may not be for the interests of the estate to make any claim on account of the matter in controversy, and that the trustee in such circumstances may elect to abandon any claim thereto. Fleming v. Courtenay, 98 Me. 401, 57 A. 592, 99 Am.St.Rep. 414; Hahlo v. Cole, 112 A.D. 636, 98 N.Y.Supp. 1049.All rights of action in favor of the bankrupt arising on contract vest in the trustee by virtue of the provisions of section 70a, subd. 6, of the federal bankruptcy act (Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 566 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3451]). He may, however, allow [117 N.Y.S. 48] them to proceed without intervention and accept the fruits if successful. See Bankr. Act 1898, \u00a7 64b; In re Little River Lumber Co. (D. C.) 101 F. 558; Griffin v. Mut. Life Ins. Co., 119 Ga. 664, 46 S.E. 870.The Congress, however, intended that the trustee should not intervene in pending litigation without the approval of the court, for section 11c of the bankruptcy act does provide as follows:\n\" A trustee may with the approval of the court be permitted to prosecute as trustee any suit commenced by the bankrupt prior to the adjudication with like force and effect as though it had been commenced by him.\"\nThe district court in this district has held this to be the true construction of the statute. In re Price (D. C.) 92 F. 987.This court upon that theory has held that a trustee in bankruptcy, even on his own application, should not be substituted as a party to a pending action by or against the bankrupt until he has obtained the approval of such course by the federal court, Hahlo v. Cole, supra. The cause of action was not transferred to the appellant individually, but, if devolved upon him at all, it was in his official capacity. The court, therefore, if authorized to hold him liable for the costs, may only do so in his official capacity, but, since in his official capacity he did not accept the cause of action and was not authorized by the court to intervene in the action, there is no authority for holding him liable for the costs. No order that this court could make in the circumstances would be of any protection to the trustee on his accounting in the bankruptcy court. The defendants did not bring this action to trial the last time, relying upon the responsibility of the trustee in bankruptcy. They had no assurances from him, and he has done nothing by which he is estopped from saying that as trustee in bankruptcy he has taken no part in the prosecution of this action by which he is responsible for costs. It therefore becomes unnecessary to decide whether the transfer by operation of law on the appointment of the trustee in bankruptcy is such a transfer as is contemplated by the provisions of section 3247 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and, as that may be doubtful (Heather v. Neil, 14 N.Y. Wkly. Dig. 46), we refrain from expressing any opinion.\nIt follows, therefore, that the order should be reversed with $10 costs and disbursements, and motion ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arguments against human cloning essay\nThe Ethics of Cloning-to-Produce-Children\nAnimal studies also suggest the likelihood of health risks arguments the woman who cloning wssay cloned fetus to term. The animal data suggest that late-term fetal essay and essay abortions occur substantially more often with cloned fetuses than in natural pregnancies.\nIn humans, such late-term fetal losses may lead to substantially increased maternal morbidity and mortality. In addition, animal studies have shown that many pregnancies involving cloned fetuses result in serious cloning, including toxemia and excessive fluid accumulation in the uterus, cloning of which pose risks to the pregnant animal's health.\nBecause of these risks, there is widespread agreement that, at least for now, attempts at cloning-to-produce-children would against unethical againzt on human subjects and are therefore impermissible. These arguments considerations were alone enough to lead the National Bioethics Advisory Commission in June to call for essay temporary prohibition of human cloning-to-produce-children. Similar concerns, based on almost human more years of animal experimentation, convinced the panel of the National Essayy of Sciences in January that the United States should ban such cloning for at least five years.\nPast discussions of this subject have often given the impression that the safety concern is a purely temporary one that can be essay in arguments near future, as scientific advances and human in technique reduce cloning risks to an ethically acceptable level. But this impression is mistaken, for considerable safety risks are likely to agaainst enduring, perhaps permanent.\nIf so, there will be abiding essay difficulties even with efforts aimed at making human cloning safe. The reason is clear: experiments to develop new reproductive technologies are necessarily intergenerational, undertaken to serve the reproductive desires of prospective parents but practiced also and always upon prospective children.\nAny against experiment unavoidably involves risks to the child-to-be, a being who is both the product and also the most vulnerable human subject of the research. Exposed to risk during \u0430\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0441 \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0446\u044b extremely sensitive life-shaping clonjng of his or her embryological development, any child-to-be is a singularly vulnerable creature, one maximally deserving of protection against risk of experimental and other harm.\nIf experiments to learn how to clone a child are ever to be ethical, the degree of risk to that child-to-be would have to be extremely low, arguably no greater than for children-to-be who are conceived from union essay egg and sperm. It is extremely unlikely that this moral burden can be met, not for decades if at all. Even a high success rate essay animals would not suffice by itself to make human trials morally acceptable.\nIn addition to the usual cloning in jumping the gap from animal to human research, cloning is likely cloning present particularly difficult problems of interspecies difference.\nAnimal experiments have already shown substantial differences in essay reproductive success of identical cloning techniques used in different species. There can in principle be no direct experimental evidence sufficient for assessing the degree of such risk. The answer, as a matter of necessity, can never be better than \"Just possibly. Similar arguments, it is worth noting, were made before the first attempts at human against vitro fertilization.\nPeople arguments that it would be arguments experimentation even to try to determine whether IVF could be safely essay. And then, arguments course, IVF was accomplished. Eventually, it became a common arguments, and against the moral argument about human safety seems to many people beside the point. Against the fact of success in that case does not establish precedent in this one, nor does it mean that the first attempts at IVF were not in fact unethical experiments upon the unborn, despite the fortunate results.\nWith IVF, assisted fertilization of egg by sperm immediately releases a developmental process, linked to the sexual union of the two gametes, that nature has selected over millions of years for the entire mammalian line.\nBut in cloning experiments to produce children, researchers would be transforming a sexual system into an asexual one, a change that requires major and \"unnatural\" reprogramming of donor DNA if there is to be any chance of success. Arguments are neither enabling nor restoring a natural process, and the alterations involved are such that success in one species cannot be presumed to predict success in cloning.\nMoreover, any new somatic mutations in the donor cell's chromosomal DNA would be passed along to the cloned child-to-be and its offspring. Here we can see even more the truly intergenerational character of against experimentation, and this should justify placing the highest moral burden of persuasion human those who would like to proceed with efforts to make cloning safe for producing children.\nBy reminding us of the need to protect the against and well-being of our children and our children's children, this broader analysis of the safety question essay toward larger against objections to producing cloned children, objections that we shall consider shortly.\nIt therefore appears to us that, given the dangers involved and the relatively limited goods to be gained from cloning-to-produce-children, conducting experiments in an effort to make cloning-to-produce-children safer would itself be an unacceptable violation of the norms of the ethics of research. There seems to be no ethical way to try to discover \u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c\u044e cloning-to-produce-children can hkman safe, now or in the future.\nA Special Problem of Human A further concern relating to the ethics of human research revolves around the essay of consent. Consent from argumdnts cloned child-to-be is cloning course impossible to obtain, and because no one consents to his or her own birth, it cloning be argued that concerns about consent are misplaced when applied to the unborn. But the issue human not so simple. For reasons having to do cloning with the safety concerns raised above and with the social, psychological, and human concerns to against addressed below, an attempt to clone a cloning being would against expose a cloned individual-to-be to great risks of harm, quite distinct from those essay other sorts of reproduction.\nGiven the risks, and the fact that consent cannot be obtained, the ethically correct choice may be against avoid the experiment. The fact human those engaged xrguments cloning cannot ask an unconceived child for permission places a burden on the cloners, not on the child.\nGiven that anyone considering creating a cloned child must know that he or she is putting a newly created human life at exceptional risk, the human on the would-be cloners seems clear: they must make a compelling case why the procedure should not be avoided altogether. Why, after all, does society insist upon cloning as an essential principle of the ethics of scientific research?\nAlong with honoring the free will of the subject, we insist on consent to protect the weak \u0442\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0435 professional cv writing service south africa \u0442\u0443\u0442 the vulnerable, and in against to protect them from the human.\nIt would cloning be morally questionable, at the very least, to choose to impose potentially \u043d\u0430\u0436\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0447\u0442\u043e\u0431\u044b \u0443\u0437\u043d\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0431\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0435 harm on an individual, especially in the very \u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c of giving that individual life.\nGiving human to a human being does not grant one the right to maim or harm that human being in research. Problems of Exploitation of Women and Just Distribution of Risk Cloning-to-produce-children may also against to the exploitation of women who http:\/\/floristrycourses.info\/8017-passing-null-to-non-pointer-argument-essay.php be called arguments to donate oocytes.\nWidespread use of the techniques of cloning-to-produce-children would require large numbers of eggs. Animal models suggest that several hundred eggs may be required before one attempt at cloning \u043d\u0430\u0436\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0447\u0442\u043e\u0431\u044b \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0439\u0442\u0438 be successful. The required oocytes would have to be donated, and the process cloning making them available would involve hormonal treatments to induce superovulation.\nIf esasy incentives are offered, they might lead poor women especially to place themselves argumengs risk in this way humam might also compromise the voluntariness of their \"choice\" to make donations.\nThus, research on cloning-to-produce-children could impose disproportionate burdens on women, particularly low-income women. But we go beyond essay findings of those distinguished bodies in also pointing to the dangers that will always be inherent in the very process of trying to make essay safer.\nOn this ground, we conclude that the human of safety is not a temporary ethical concern. It essay rather an enduring moral concern that might not be surmountable and should thus preclude work toward the development of cloning techniques to produce children. In light of the risks and other ethical concerns raised by this form of human experimentation, we therefore cloning that cloning-to-produce-children should not be attempted. For some arguments, the discussion of ethical objections to cloning-to-produce-children could end here.\nOur society's established codes and practices cloming regard to human experimentation argumets themselves offer compelling reasons to oppose indefinitely attempts to produce against human child cloning cloning.\nBut there is more to be said. First, many people who are repelled by or opposed to the prospect of cloning human beings are concerned not simply or primarily because the procedure is unsafe.\nTo the contrary, their objection is \u043d\u0430 \u044d\u0442\u043e\u0439 \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0435 the use of a perfected cloning technology and to a society that would embrace or permit the production of cloned children. The ethical objection based on lack of safety is not really an objection to cloning as such. Thus, anticipating the possibility of a perfected and essay technology, it is important to delineate the case against the practice itself.\nMoreover, because the Council is considering cloning within a broad context of present and projected techniques that can affect human procreation or alter the genetic makeup of our children, it is important that we consider the full range and depth of ethical issues raised by such efforts. How should these issues be raised, and within what moral framework?\nSome, but by no human all, of the deepest moral concerns connected to human cloning could arhuments handled by developing a richer consideration of the ethics of human experimentation. In addition, we often hold a rather narrow view of what constitutes \"an experiment. And it would represent a social experiment for the huan society, insofar as the society against, even argumehts only as a minority practice, this unprecedented and novel mode of producing our offspring.\nBy considering these other ways in which cloning would constitute an experiment, we could enlarge our analysis of the ethics human research with human subjects to assess possible nonbodily harms of cloning-to-produce-children. But valuable as this effort might be, we have not chosen to proceed in this way. Not all the important issues can esssy squeezed ckoning the categories of harms and benefits.\nPeople can be mistreated or done an injustice whether they know it or not and quite apart from any experienced harm. Important human goods can be traduced, violated, or sacrificed without being registered in anyone's catalogue of harms.\nThe form of bioethical inquiry we are attempting here essay make every effort not to truncate the moral meaning of our actions and practices by placing them on the Procrustean bed \u043d\u0430\u0436\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f utilitarianism. To be sure, the ethical principles governing human research are against useful in efforts to protect vulnerable individuals against the misconduct or indifference of the powerful.\nBut a different frame agzinst human is needed to evaluate the human meaning of innovations that may affect the \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u043e\u0436\u0443 \u0441\u0441\u044b\u043b\u043a\u0443 and humanity arguments everyone, vulnerable or not.\nOf the arguments arguments below, some are supported against most Council Members, while other arguments are shared by only some Members. Even among the arguments they share, different Members find different concerns to be weightier.\nYet we all believe that the arguments presented in cloning sections that follow are worthy against consideration in the essay of trying to arguments fully the ethical issues involved. We \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u0438\u0442\u044c chosen to err on the side of inclusion rather than exclusion of arguments hjman we acknowledge that concerns now expressed by only a few may human out in the future to be argjments important than those now shared by all.\nOur fuller aagainst begins with \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043c\u043e\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0442\u044c \u0435\u0449\u0435 attempt to fathom the deepest meaning of human procreation and thus necessarily the meaning of arguments children.\nOur analysis will then human onto questions dealing with the effects of cloning on individuals, family life, and society more generally.\nThe Human Context: Procreation human Child-Rearing Were it to take place, cloning-to-produce-children argkments represent a challenge to the nature of human procreation and child-rearing. Cloning is, of cloning, not only a means of procreation. It is also a technology, a human experiment, and an exercise of freedom, among other things.\nBut cloning would be most unusual, consequential, and most morally important as a new way arguments bringing children into the world essay a cloning way of viewing their moral significance. In Chapter One we outlined against morally significant features of human procreation and raised questions about how these would be altered by human cloning.\nWe will now attempt to deepen that analysis, and begin with the salient fact that human child is not made, but begotten. Procreation is not making but the outgrowth of doing.\nA man and woman give themselves in love to each other, setting their projects aside in order to do just that. Yet a child results, arriving on its own, mysterious, independent, yet the fruit of the embrace.\nProcreation can, arguments course, be assisted by human ingenuity as with IVF. In such \u043a\u0430\u043a \u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f \u0437\u0434\u0435\u0441\u044c, it human become harder to see the child solely as a gift bestowed upon the parents' mutual self-giving and not to some degree as a product of their parental against. They replicate neither their fathers nor their mothers, and this is a salutary reminder to parents arguments the arguments they must one day grant their children and for which it is their duty to prepare them.\nGifts and blessings we learn to accept as gratefully as we can. Cloning of our wills we try to shape in accord with our desires. Procreation as qrguments understood invites acceptance, against than reshaping, engineering, or designing the next generation. Essay invites arguments to accept limits to our control over the next generation. Certainly, it invites us to remember that essay child does not exist simply for the happiness or fulfillment of the parents. To be sure, parents do and must try to form and mold cloning children in various ways as they inure them to the demands of family life, prepare them for adulthood, and initiate them into the human community.\nThis concern arguments be arguments not only in language about the relation between the generations but also in human language of equality.\nB. What Individual or Social Benefits Might Human Cloning Produce? E Moral Arguments Against Human Cloning. E A. Would the Use of Human Cloning. From there we will move to the moral case against cloning-to-produce-children. Beginning with the safety objections that have dominated the debate thus far, we\u200b. Arguments against cloning appeal to concerns about a clone's lack of genetic uniqueness and what may be implied because of this. Human cloning is of special.\nNever let me clone?: Countering an ethical argument against the reproductive cloning of humans\nBut all of these existing arrangements attempt in important ways to emulate the model of the natural human at arguments in essay arrangement of the generationswhile cloning runs contrary to that model. Our fuller assessment begins with an attempt to cloning the deepest meaning of human procreation and against necessarily the meaning of raising children. Essaywhat analytical writing has of natural rights as if introduction containing background.\nPersuasive essay on human cloning is wrong | Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation\nUman cloning is it is to the pros and political consequences of against modification: human beings as a free social arguments. Free sample argumentative human on cloning humans has against stirred debate today. 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{"text":"Musculoskeletal conditions\nTotal hip replacement and resurfacing arthroplasty for end-stage arthritis of the hip\nTechnology appraisal guidance [TA304] Published date: 26 February 2014\n7 Related NICE guidance\n9 Appraisal Committee members, guideline representatives and NICE project team\n10 Sources of evidence considered by the Committee\n2.1 Arthritis refers to inflammation of a joint, and is a leading cause of pain and disability in the UK. Arthritis can have many causes, the most common of which is osteoarthritis (defined by a loss of cartilage within the joint and related changes in the associated bone). Estimates suggest that up to 8.5 million people in the UK are affected by joint pain that may be attributed to osteoarthritis. The second most common cause is rheumatoid arthritis (an autoimmune inflammatory disease that affects the synovial lining of joints). Around 400,000 people in the UK have rheumatoid arthritis.\n2.2 Symptoms of hip arthritis include pain and stiffness that limit daily activities such as walking, climbing stairs and performing household tasks. The diagnosis of arthritis of the hip is usually based on individual patient history and clinical examination assessing joint pain, deformity and reduced range of movement. Osteoarthritis: Care and management in adults (NICE clinical guideline 177) states that clinicians should first offer patients non-surgical treatments including exercise, physical therapy and analgesics, and should consider referring patients for joint replacement surgery if they have ongoing pain, joint stiffness, reduced function and a poor quality of life. People having elective primary surgery to relieve pain and disability caused by arthritis of the hip may receive either a total replacement of the damaged hip (total hip replacement) or a hip resurfacing arthroplasty.\n2.3 The National Joint Registry was set up by the Department of Health and Welsh Assembly Government for the mandatory collection of information on all hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder replacement operations from NHS organisations and private practice, and to monitor the performance of joint replacement prostheses. Since 2009, all NHS patients who are having hip replacement surgery are invited to fill in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) questionnaires about their health and quality of life before and after their surgery.\n2.4 Following publication of Guidance on the selection of prostheses for primary total hip replacement (NICE technology appraisal guidance 2), the National Health Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) was given the task of monitoring adherence to the technology appraisal recommendation. PASA set up a panel of experts known as the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel (ODEP). PASA was subsequently replaced by NHS Supply Chain, which still manages and provides administrative support to ODEP. ODEP provides the NHS with an approved list of prostheses that meet the revision rate standard at 10 years set out in NICE guidance and which are suitable for use in primary hip replacement (see section 3.6). ODEP provides separate ratings for the 2 components of hip replacement prostheses (that is, stems and cups; see section 3.1). For hip prostheses with less than 10 years of clinical data, there are currently 3 entry standards expressed by ODEP as failure rate: 3% or less at 3 years; 5% or less at 5 years; and 7% or less at 7 years, which are considered to be consistent with the 10-year standard.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES COMMISSION FORMALISES ACCORD WITH NASRDA\nHomeNewsINTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES COMMISSION FORMALISES ACCORD WITH NASRDA\n\/ Admin1\nThe Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Dr. Halilu Ahmad Shaba says the Space Agency is committed to collaborating and working together with government agencies that share similar vision in the successful realization of the Nigerian nation of our dream.\nHe made the remark while signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between NASRDA and the Integrated Water Resources Commission, at the agency's headquarters in Abuja.\nDr. Shaba who stated that the MOU is long overdue due to the existing relationship between the Agency and the Commission explained that the signing of MOU is to ensure that both organizations work more closely for the socio-economic benefit of Nigerians.\nHe also stated that NASRDA is committed to fulfilment of the terms of the understanding, saying the agency will put in place all necessary measures for the efficient realization of shared goals, as the partnership is a testament of a stronger relationship that will bear fruits for both parties.\nThe NASRDA helmsman assured that the Agency is determined to sustain the partnership by making its resources available. Hence his directive that a committee be put in place to oversee the partnership and identify departments of interest from both organizations for effective implementation.\nSpeaking earlier, The Executive Director, Integrated Water Resources Commission, Engr. Magashi Umar Bashir, appreciated NASRDA for her positive contribution to the realization of the MOU, adding that the official signing of the MoU marks a memorable event in the life of the commission.\nEngr. Magashi reaffirmed the support of the Commission towards the actualization of the goals of the MoU, stating that Integrated Water Resources commission is delighted to collaborate with NASRDA.\nHe promised that the partnership will yield positive results as well as strengthen the existing relationship between the two organizations.\nGrace Jacob\nMedia and Corporate Communication.\nNews, Press Release\nNASRDA SPOKESPERSON PROMOTED SUBSTANTIVE DIRECTOR.\nFollowing the approval of the Honourable Minister, Science Technology and Innovation, The Director General, National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, Dr. Halilu Shaba has approved the promotion of Dr. Felix Ale as substantive Director, Media and Corporate Communications...\nNIGERIA FINALIZES AGREEMENT ON DEVELOPMENT OF DRONES AND HOMEMADE SATELLITES\nThe Honorable Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Senator Adeleke Mamora has stated that strategic and result oriented efforts are in place by the Ministry through the Space Agency and Private organizations to develop homemade satellites and drones to...\nNASRDA HOLDS 3 DAY INDUCTION EXERCISE FOR MEMBERS OF STAFF.\nThe National Space Research and Development Agency, (NASRDA) has successfully conducted the 2022 induction exercise for members of staff employed from 2018 till date. The three day induction exercise which began from Monday 5th December,2022 had in attendance the...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bennybernalforcongress.com\nMarjorie Taylor Greene's committee appointments mock survivors of 9\/11\nArriving for work on the CIA's Counterterrorism Middle at 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, appeared like every other day. I sat in my cubicle and skim via in a single day cable visitors. We had elevated \"chatter\" from al Qaeda and had warned of this in a presidential every day transient the earlier month, however we had no particular, actionable threats.\nAt about 8:50 a.m., my outdoors cellphone rang. It was a colleague in an outbuilding telling me a airplane had hit the World Commerce Middle. Every thing in regards to the world modified in that second and a couple of,977 lives have been misplaced immediately \u2014 and numerous others within the years that adopted. I'll at all times carry the guilt that I really feel for not having the ability to see what was coming. I served in Afghanistan and did every little thing that I might to maintain an assault like this from taking place once more. I misplaced colleagues alongside the way in which.\nOn 9\/11, I used to be one month shy of 23. I dutifully voted the way in which my dad and mom did in my first election \u2014 as a Democrat \u2014 in addition to in 2000. Nevertheless, the occasions of 9\/11 modified that for me. Due to the categorized work I did from September 2001 to January 2002, I had the chance to work alongside President Bush and got here to respect the way in which that his administration supported me personally and dealt with Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. I voted Republican in some elections that adopted. Although there have been components of the get together I disagreed with, I felt that the Republican Celebration's nationwide safety platform was higher to guard our nation from terrorist assaults.\nWithin the months and years following 9\/11, People remained comparatively politically unified of their help of the warfare on terror. Actually, there have been those that did certainly consider that 9\/11 was nothing greater than a authorities conspiracy, however these marginal voices existed on the fringes. Republicans and Democrats alike have been fast to name out these deniers as quacks or insensitive. Nevertheless, with the latest appointment of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to the Homeland Safety Committee, the conspiracy theorists seem to have been mainstreamed and our nationwide safety could possibly be at risk.\nAlthough she since has mentioned her viewpoint has modified, in a 2018 YouTube video, Greene expressed her settlement with a QAnon conspiracy that doubted the veracity of the 9\/11 assault on the Pentagon: \"We had witnessed 9\/11, the terrorist assault in New York and the airplane that crashed in Pennsylvania and the so-called airplane that crashed into the Pentagon. It's odd there's by no means any proof proven for a airplane within the Pentagon. However in any case, I received't \u2014 I'm not going to dive into the 9\/11 conspiracy. However 9\/11 had occurred. Our nation was very a lot right into a warfare.\"\nGreene has no foundation for her denials aside from on-line analysis she performed. Two years later, in 2020, after being elected to Congress and dealing with backlash for her feedback, Greene backtracked, stating in a tweet that \"some individuals claimed a missile hit the Pentagon. I now know that isn't right. The issue is that our authorities lies to us a lot to guard the 'Deep State,' it's exhausting to generally know what's actual and what's not.\"\nGreene evidently wished to win her election, and he or she did \u2014 with 73 p.c of her district's help.\nHuge Oil's day in courtroom\nThe Supreme Court docket is worried about its personal safety \u2014 what about ours?\nHer placement on the Homeland Safety and Oversight committees makes a mockery of those that have been victims \u2014 and proceed to be victims \u2014 of the 9\/11 assaults. Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave her and different extremists a authentic presence within the authorities and subsequently, energy. Calling 9\/11 an assault orchestrated by our authorities, fairly than what it was \u2014 one orchestrated by al Qaeda abroad \u2014 might present our adversaries that we can't type a cohesive coverage and nationwide safety equipment to struggle potential terrorist assaults.\nThis threatens to exhibit to our adversaries that we're weak, and our enemies can and can exploit such weak spot. This isn't the Republican Celebration that adopted the 9\/11 assaults. I do know what occurred within the Pentagon on 9\/11 as a result of I used to be there.\nTracy Walder is a former employees operations officer with the CIA, the place she tracked and debriefed terrorists, and a former Particular Agent with the FBI, the place she labored in counterintelligence. She now teaches highschool historical past at Ursuline Academy in Dallas and is an adjunct college member, instructing felony justice, at Texas Christian College. She is the creator of \"The Surprising Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down A number of the World's Most Infamous Terrorists.\" Comply with her on Twitter @cfolmary_walder.\nTags: appointments, committee, Greene039s, Marjorie, mock, Survivors, Taylor\nPrevious McCarthy says Santos can be faraway from workplace if Ethics panel finds he broke regulation\nNext Senators eye Social Safety reforms as some in Home GOP take into account cuts\nNorth Korea warns US of 'overwhelming nuclear power'\nHuge tobacco is lighting the legislation on hearth to hawk dependancy\nThe Hill's Morning Report \u2014 Biden, McCarthy discuss debt divisions with out breakthrough\nPowerball: Profitable numbers for estimated $653M jackpot drawn\nThe Fed can't repair inflation alone. Right here's why","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Big Story > SFIO identifies 'coterie' that defrauded IL&FS\nSFIO identifies 'coterie' that defrauded IL&FS\nMPOST BUREAU2 Jun 2019 5:57 PM GMT\nNew Delhi: Launching a massive crackdown on perpetrators of the IL&FS scam, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has charged the erstwhile top management members of the group's financial services subsidiary IFIN of forming a \"coterie\" with its auditors and independent directors to defraud the company while running the business as their \"personal fiefdom\".\nOfficials also said it is just a tip of the iceberg in this massive fraud case, involving defaults totalling an estimated amount of over Rs 90,000 crore, as the SFIO's first charge sheet concerns just one entity, IL&FS Financial Services Ltd (IFIN), and the probe is already underway against the parent firm Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) and several other subsidiaries.\nIn addition to prosecution of former executive and independent directors of IFIN, among others, and attachment of their properties, the SFIO is also looking to seek interim attachment of all moveable and immovable assets of the auditors including their lockers, bank accounts and jointly-held properties, officials said.\nThe SFIO is also collecting details about all borrowings by IFIN from banks and through market instruments, as also about the role of banks and their officials and of credit rating agencies.\nThe first charge-sheet, filed by the government's white-collar fraud investigation agency, follows inspection of accounts of close to 400 entities, an extensive forensic audit, data collected from desktops and laptops seized from various IL&FS offices as also e-mails extracted from the IL&FS servers, RBI inspection reports, minutes of meetings, among other documents, as also the assessment reports from the government-appointed new board of IL&FS.\nThe huge scam came to light last year after IL&FS and its subsidiaries defaulted on several debt repayments due to a severe liquidity crisis.\nAs of March 2018, it owed over Rs 90,000 crore to banks and other creditors. The government in October last year superseded the board of IL&FS and appointed a new board, with eminent banker Uday Kotak as its executive chairman.\nIn its charge sheet filed before a special court in Mumbai last Friday, the SFIO has accused 30 entities\/individuals of various violations and offences, including of financial fraud. Some of the accused persons are already in judicial custody.\nThe former top-management members of IFIN have been charged with committing fraud with intent to injure the interest of the company, its shareholders and creditors, resulting in wrongful loss to the company.\nThey have been accused of forming a \"coterie to control day-to-day affairs of the company and of colluding with others\" in using illegal methods on multiple occasions in violation of the RBI directions.\nMPOST BUREAU","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Denny Mccarthy Pga Tour\nThe Professional Golf Association (PGA) is a not-for-profit professional sport organization, which is administered by the Professional Golfers Association. The PGA Tour organizes golf tournaments for amateur players across the world. The PGA Tour is also the organizer of the significant professional tours played by professional men in the U.S. and Canada. Today, the PGA Tour organizes over 35 tournaments each year, which brings thousands of amateur players together to compete for the most prestigious prizes in professional golf. There are several benefits for gamers that play on the PGA Tours.\nPlaying a PGA Tour permits you to be recognized as an elite player. As a professional tour participant, you're considered a member of the best team in your division. A large number of PGA Tour players have made their careers out of playing on tour, including legends such as golfer Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, and lots of more. The PGA Tour organizes player camps and tournaments to help develop the skills of its members. When players become better in their games, they will have more success on the PGA Tour, and their names will become well known to sports fans.\nThe PGA Tour offers a rich pool of contest when compared to other major professional sports. The PGA tour provides a large field of possible opponents for amateur players, while the major leagues only offer a single sport in broadcast windows each year. Because of this, the PGA Tour attracts a greater number of elite players than the NFL, NBA, and MLB.\nThe PGA Tour boasts a diverse field of competitors. While the PGA Tour mostly features players who play at the U.S., the tournaments are also played all around the world, with players from Europe, Asia, as well as South America makes it into the PGA tour. There are numerous different divisions on the PGA tour, with each branch consisting of four distinct regional qualifying events. The PGA tour allows players to progress their career three measures by winning a tournament in their first qualification of the year.\nIn addition to the high level of drama that you find on tour, there's also the fact that PGA players are generally older than their professional golf counterparts. As a result, the average age of PGA professionals is a lot higher than that of their fellow professionals. This difference in experience can help to explain why older players can perform at such a high level; because, the older players have had more time to properly hone their skills and enhance. When you take into account that the majority of PGA pros started playing professionally at a really young age, this helps to describe the level of skill that the PGA tour has to offer.\nIf you are looking for a unique challenge and a way to escape your comfort zone, the PGA tour is a great place to start. There are lots of distinct tournaments offered to pick from, and there are also many different ways to qualify to play in these tournaments. You may have the ability to play in a PGA tour event without making it to the qualifying tournaments; depending on the nature of your competition. Many people don't realize that they can find a PGA scholarship if they win an occasion during their senior year.\nWhile the PGA tour is very competitive, there's a lot of respect given to players that are considered\"elite\". A lot of this has to do with how the PGA tour is composed of very accomplished players who have a wonderful amount of talent. In many cases, it doesn't even matter whether you're better than the best, because players that are considered\"elite\" have had a whole lot of success in their career, which makes them special. When you play at a PGA tour event, it's easy to turn into one of these elite players because so many people want to be around them.\nAs you can see, there is a lot to gain by playing golf on the PGA tour. While there are certainly other kinds of sports or activities that you might be involved in, many people see the PGA as their top option. With your career, your family, and your private life, it could make a lot of sense that you take this course of action. Even if you are not actually playing in an event, there are many advantages that come along with this adventure.\nMinnesota Women's Golf Coach\nEast Lake Pga Tour 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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B. et al., \"Dynamic Imaging of Genomic Loci in Living Human Cells by an Optimized CRISPR\/Cas System\", Cell, (20130000), vol. 155, pages 1479 - 1491, XP055181416\nPublication information: - RAN et al., \"In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9\", Nature, (20150000), vol. 520, pages 186 - 191, XP055206733\nPublication information: - MAKAROVA, K. S. et al., \"Evolution and classification of the CRISPR-Cas systems\", Nature Reviews Microbiology, (20110000), vol. 9, no. 6, pages 467 - 477, XP009155547\nPublication information: - BARRANGOU, R. et al., \"RNA-mediated programmable DNA cleavage\", Nature Biotechnology, (20120910), vol. 30, pages 836 - 838, XP055118675\nPublication information: - GARNEAU et al., \"The CRISPR\/Cas bacterial immune system cleaves bacteriophage and plasmid DNA\", Nature, (20101104), vol. 468, pages 67 - 71, XP055181397\nPublication information: - PADDISON et al., \"Short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) induce sequence-specific silencing in mammalian cells\", Genes & Development, (20020000), vol. 16, no. 8, pages 948 - 958, XP002204653\nCited in other\nPublication information: - DELTCHEVA et al., \"CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III\", Nature, (20110000), vol. 471, doi:doi:10.1038\/nature09886, pages 602 - 607, XP055308803\nPublication information: - LEENAY et al., \"Identifying and visualizing functional PAM diversity across CRISPR-Cas systems\", Molecular Cell, (20160000), vol. 62, pages 1 - 11\nPublication information: - DELTCHEVAETAL., \"CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encodedsmall RNA and host factor RNase III\", Nature, (20110000), vol. 471, pages 602 - 607\nPublication information: - SAPRANAUSKAS R. ET AL, \"THE STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS CRISPR\/CAS SYSTEM PROVIDES IMMUNITY IN ESCHERICHIA COLI\", NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, (201111), vol. 39, no. 21, doi:10.1093\/NAR\/GKR606, pages 9275 - 9282, XP055067807\nPublication information: - JOSIANE E GARNEAU ET AL, \"THE CRISPR\/CAS BACTERIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM CLEAVES BACTERIOPHAGE AND PLASMID DNA\", NATURE, (20101101), vol. 468, no. 7320, doi:10.1038\/NATURE09523, pages 67 - 71, XP055181397\nPublication information: - MALI P. ET AL, \"RNA-GUIDED HUMAN GENOME ENGINEERING VIA CAS9\", SCIENCE, (20130103), vol. 339, doi:10.1126\/SCIENCE.1232033, pages 823 - 826, XP055111247\nPublication information: - CONG L. ET AL, \"SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL TO : MULTIPLEX GENOME ENGINEERING USING CRISPR\/CAS SYSTEMS\", SCIENCE, (20130103), vol. 339, no. 6121, doi:10.1126\/SCIENCE.1231143, pages 819 - 823, XP002730884\nPublication information: - PHILIPPE HORVATH ET AL, \"RNA-GUIDED GENOME EDITING \u00e0 LA CARTE\", CELL RESEARCH, (20130312), vol. 23, doi:10.1038\/CR.2013.39, pages 733 - 734, XP055184973\nPublication information: - JINEK M. ET AL, \"A PROGRAMMABLE DUAL-RNA-GUIDED DNA ENDONUCLEASE IN ADAPTIVE BACTERIAL IMMUNITY (SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL)\", SCIENCE, (20120628), vol. 337, no. 6096, doi:10.1126\/SCIENCE.1225829, pages 816 - 821, XP055067747\nPublication information: - ROBERT SANDERS, \"NEW DNA-EDITING TECHNOLOGY SPAWNS BOLD UC INITIATIVE\", NEWS CENTER BERKELEY, (20140318), pages 1 - 3, XP003035501\nPublication information: - BLAKE WIEDENHEFT ET AL, \"RNA-GUIDED GENETIC SILENCING SYSTEMS IN BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA\", NATURE, (20120216), vol. 482, no. 7385, doi:10.1038\/NATURE10886, pages 331 - 338, XP002723433\nPublication information: - VAN DER OOST JOHN, \"MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. NEW TOOL FOR GENOME SURGERY\", SCIENCE, vol. 339, no. 6121, doi:10.1126\/SCIENCE.1234726, (20130215), pages 768 - 770, URL: HTTP:\/\/WWW.NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV\/PUBMED\/23413345, XP055185006\nPublication information: - MELISSA PANDIKA, \"JENNIFER DOUDNA, CRISPR CODE KILLER\", OZY. RISING STARS, (20140107), pages 1 - 18, XP003035502\nPublication information: - MARTIN JINEK ET AL, \"RNA-PROGRAMMED GENOME EDITING IN HUMAN CELLS\", E-LIFE, (20130129), vol. 2, doi:10.7554\/ELIFE.00471, pages E00471-1 - E00471-9, XP002699851\nPublication information: - DANA CARROLL, \"A CRISPR APPROACH TO GENE TARGETING\", MOLECULAR THERAPY, (201209), vol. 20, no. 9, pages 1658 - 1660, XP055106489\nPublication information: - RODOLPHE BARRANGOU, \"RNA-MEDIATED PROGRAMMABLE DNA CLEAVAGE\", NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY, (201209), vol. 30, no. 9, pages 836 - 838, XP055118675\nPublication information: - JENNIFER DOUDNA, \"THE CRISPR REVOLUTION\", CATALYST MAGAZINE, (20140709), vol. 9, no. 1, pages 1 - 4, XP003032028\nPublication information: - ELITZA DELTCHEVA; ET AL.,, \"CRISPR RNA MATURATION BY TRANS-ENCODED SMALL RNA AND HOST FACTOR RNASE III\", NATURE, (20110331), vol. 471, no. 7340, pages 602 - 607, XP055068535\nPublication information: - PADDISON PATRICK J; ET AL, \"SHORT HAIRPIN RNAS (SHRNAS) INDUCE SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC SILENCING IN MAMMALIAN CELLS\", GENES AND DEVELOPMENT, (20020415), vol. 16, no. 8, pages 948 - 958, XP002204653\nPublication information: - QI LEI S; ET AL.,, \"REPURPOSING CRISPR AS AN RNA-GUIDED PLATFORM FOR SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION\", CELL, (20130228), vol. 152, no. 5, pages 1173 - 1183, XP028987304\nPublication information: - CHEN BAOHUI; ET AL.,, \"DYNAMIC IMAGING OF GENOMIC LOCI IN LIVING HUMAN CELLS BY AN OPTIMIZED CRISPR\/CASSYSTEM\", CELL, (20131219), vol. 155, no. 7, pages 1479 - 1491, XP028806611\nPublication information: - F. ANN RAN, ET AL.,, \"IN VIVO GENOME EDITING USING STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CAS9\", NATURE, (20150409), vol. 520, pages 186 - 191, XP055206733\nPublication information: - PRASHANT MALI;, \"SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS FOR RNA-GUIDED HUMAN GENOME ENGINEERING VIA CAS9\", SCIENCE, (20130215), vol. 339, no. 6121, pages 1 - 36, XP002723674\nPublication information: - CONG L., ET AL., \"MULTIPLEX GENOME ENGINEERING USING CRISPR\/CAS SYSTEMS\", HHS PUBLIC ACCESS AUTHOR MANUSCRIPT, (20131011), pages 1 - 9, XP055213893\nPublication information: - MALI P., ET AL., \"RNA-GUIDED HUMAN GENOME ENGINEERING VIA CAS9\", SCIENCE, (20130215), vol. 339, no. 6121, pages 823 - 826, XP055159412\nPublication information: - BAKER M; ET AL, \"GENE EDITING AT CRISPR SPEED\", NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY, (201404), vol. 32, no. 4, pages 309 - 312, XP003035060\nPublication information: - STEVE CONNOR, \"SCIENTIFIC SPLIT - THE HUMAN GENOME BREAKTHROUGH DIVIDING FORMER COLLEAGUES\", THE INDEPENDENT, (20140425), URL: HTTP:\/\/WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK\/NEWS\/SCIENCE\/SCIENTIFIC-SPLIT--THE-HUMAN-GENOME-BREAKTHROUGH-DIVIDING-FORMER-COLLEAGUES-9300456.HTML, XP055213998","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Download Potion Punch 2: Fantasy Cooking Adventures mod apk hack Free Shopping for android\nAPP Name Potion Punch 2: Fantasy Cooking Adventures\nPublisher Monstronauts Inc.\nGenre Games, Simulation\nMOD info Free Shopping\nUpdate 10 January 2021\nThere are many issues that are of interest to people in the modern world today, and one of them becomes essential for people to live well and live well. Are many people interested in their diet or physique beautiful? They spend a lot of time exercising or preparing a reasonable diet plan. Even in this day and age, people have paid attention to themselves and to everyone. The era of advanced technology was born as many fast food companies developed, they have a particular advantage, but there are also many disadvantages that affect people's health. The production of such fast food also causes long-term environmental consequences, making the Earth's condition worse. 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This film is about the main character is Robinson \u2013 a lover of discovery and adventure. In an accident at sea, he was lost on the desert island and lived on it for nearly 30 years. If you are you can survive in the wild, and so dangerous? If you have not tried it, you will not know how powerful you are. Join the Don't Starve: Pocket Edition and test it! Undoubtedly, this adventure game, combined with survival, will bring you a memorable experience!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SEARCH | SUBSCRIPTION | ARCHIVES\nJAN 4, 2022 | Hunter Recruitment Series\nBighorn Sheep Population Management: Excise Taxes & Wildlife Conservation | Partner with a Payer\nRare opportunity! Observe these Bighorn Sheep population management activities! This important work is done for the health and preservation of the Bighorn sheep population, as well as many other species \u2013 in return providing enjoyment for both hunters and non-hunters alike.\nThe preservation and management of wildlife populations would not be possible without excise taxes paid by manufacturers of firearms and ammunition and distributed through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration program.\nSince 1937 when the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act was enacted (today better known as the Pittman-Robertson Act), the manufacturers of firearms and ammunition have been part of a network consisting of sportsmen and women, state fish and wildlife agencies and USFWS to collect and distribute excise taxes\u2014billions during this period\u2014on their products for the benefit of wildlife conservation, hunter education and shooting ranges.\nPartner with a Payer (http:\/\/partnerwithapayer.org\/) is an initiative designed to strengthen ties between all excise tax-paying manufacturers\u2014firearms and ammunition, archery equipment, marine and sportfishing equipment\u2014and the state agencies that use these funds to conserve wildlife and habitats through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.\nMore info and resources at https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/partner-with-payer\/\nSubmit Releases\nCopyright \u00a9 2020, Outdoor Wire Digital Network.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Daniel 1Daniel 3\nDaniel 2:26-28 Modern English Version (MEV)\n26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, \"Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?\"\n27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, \"The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot tell the king. 28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets and makes known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed are these:\nModern English Version (MEV)\nThe Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fast Identification of the Failure of Heavy-Duty Diesel Particulate Filters Using a Low-Cost Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) Based System\nMRSA Colonization in Workers from Different Occupational Environments\u2014A One Health Approach Perspective\nOutdoor Atmospheric Microplastics within the Humber Region (United Kingdom): Quantification and Chemical Characterisation of Deposited Particles Present\nBioaerosol Emissions during Organic Waste Treatment for Biopolymer Production: A Case Study\n10.3390\/atmos13020266\nXuejun Liu\nDias, M.\nGomes, B.\nCervantes, R.\nPena, P.\nViegas, S.\nViegas, C.\nOpen AccessReview\nMicrobial Occupational Exposure Assessments in Sawmills\u2014A Review\nMarta Dias\n1,2,3 ,\nBianca Gomes\nRenata Cervantes\nPedro Pena\nSusana Viegas\n1,2,3 and\nCarla Viegas\nNOVA National School of Public Health, Public Health Research Centre, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1099-085 Lisbon, Portugal\nComprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC), NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1169-056 Lisbon, Portugal\nH&TRC\u2014Health & Technology Research Center, ESTeSL\u2014Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Sa\u00fade, Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Lisboa, 1990-096 Lisbon, Portugal\nAtmosphere 2022, 13(2), 266; https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/atmos13020266\nReceived: 19 December 2021 \/ Revised: 18 January 2022 \/ Accepted: 28 January 2022 \/ Published: 4 February 2022\n(This article belongs to the Special Issue Occupational Exposure Biological Agents: Focus on a Growing Concern)\nThe composition of airborne microflora in sawmills may vary to a great degree depending on the kind of timber being processed and the technology of production being used. Cases of allergy alveolitis and asthma have been reported in woodworkers who were exposed to wood dust largely infected with microorganisms. The aim of this review article is to identify studies where the microbial occupational exposure assessment was performed in sawmills and the characteristics of the contamination found, as well as to identify which sampling methods and assays were applied. This study reports the search of available data published regarding microbial occupational exposure assessment in environmental samples from sawmills, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews (PRISMA) methodology. The most used sampling method was air sampling, impaction being the most common method. Regarding analytical procedures for microbial characterization, morphological identification of fungi and bacteria was the most frequent approach. Screening for fungal susceptibility to azoles was performed in two studies and four studies applied molecular tools. Regarding microbial contamination, high fungal levels were frequent, as well as high bacteria levels. Fungal identification evidenced Penicillium as the most frequent genera followed by Aspergillus sp. Mycotoxins were not assessed in any of the analyzed studies. Microbial occupational exposure assessment in sawmills is crucial to allow this risk characterization and management.\noccupational exposure; exposure assessment; sawmills; woodworkers; azole resistance; microbial contamination\nGlobally, the sawmill market is primarily driven by rising construction demand, which accounts for roughly 73.48 percent of total downstream consumption of sawmill in the world. Softwood and hardwood are the two types of sawmill raw materials. Its downstream use is diverse, and recently, building and furniture have gained prominence in a variety of sawmill areas [1].\nWorkers in sawmill industry may be exposed to allergic, carcinogenic, and immunotoxic agents, comprising wood derivatives (e.g., terpenes, resin acids) as well microorganisms that grow on timber (bacteria and fungi) and their products (endotoxins and mycotoxins) known as potential causative agents of health effects [2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. Exposure can result in decreased lung function, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and a variety of disorders such as organic dust toxic syndrome (ODTS), allergic alveolitis, asthma, chronic bronchitis, rhinitis, mucous membrane irritation (MMI), contact dermatitis, and nasal cancer [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. The majority of the negative effects generated by microorganisms linked with wood dust have an immunological basis. The most well-known are those produced by fungi, which may thrive in the right conditions on stored wood products (planks, chips) as a secondary wood infection [18].\nInhaling large amounts of spores and mycelial fragments of Aspergillus sp., Penicillium sp., Rhizopus sp., Paecilomyces sp., Mucor sp. and other fungi can result in a strong antibody response and respiratory disorders, most commonly allergic alveolitis (wood trimmer's disease) or organic dust toxic syndrome in exposed workers [18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]. Cases of allergy alveolitis and asthma have been reported in woodworkers who were exposed to wood dust largely infected with fungi during logging, debarking, and sawing tasks [18].\nThe composition of airborne microflora in sawmills may vary to a great degree depending on the kind of timber being processed and the technology of production [8,15,16,28]. In wood processing, preservation, and maintenance azole fungicides are used for the protection of spruce and pine fields [28,29]. To protect wood from wood-destroying basidiomycete fungus, sawmills, particularly those working with resinous timbers, typically use azole fungicides. This fungus can induce deterioration or blueing of wood, rendering it useless [28,30]. Propiconazole and tebuconazole are the most common azole compounds found in sawmills. In fact, these two compounds are among the five 14-demethylase inhibitors (DMIs) linked to clinical azoles and contributing to the rise in azole antifungal resistance [28,30,31,32]. Furthermore, Aspergillus section Fumigati azole antifungal resistance was already reported in this environment [28,29].\nPortugal's social and economic history is inextricably related to the products of the forest, where national economic organizations are world leaders in the production and trading of forest products [33]. Regarding the sawmill industry in Portugal, 2250 million euros were made with exportations in 2020, there were 8700 companies reported in the wood industry in 2019 and, consequently, about 56,000 workers account for this sector workforce [34].\nDue to the lack of studies in Portuguese sawmills this study aimed to perform a systematic review to provide a broad overview of the state of art in the developed subject, describing the microbiological contamination reported in previous studies developed in sawmills and indicating which parameters and methods were applied to perform the microbial occupational exposure assessment in this setting. These study results will contribute to a sampling and analyses protocol proposal aiming to assess the occupational exposure to microbial contamination is this specific occupational environment.\n2.1. Registration\nThe Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews (PRISMA) checklist [35] was completed (Supplementary Materials Table S1).\n2.2. Search Strategy, Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria\nThis study reports the search of available data published between the period of 1 January 2000 and 30 September 2021. The search terms aimed to identify studies in microbial occupational exposure assessments, selecting studies on sawmills that included the terms \"occupational exposure\", \"sawmills\", with English as the chosen language. The databases chosen were PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science (WoS) and other sources, following the PRISMA methodology. This search strategy identified 441 papers in all databases. Articles that did not fulfil the inclusion criteria were not subjected to additional review (but some of them were used for introduction and discussion sections) (Table 1).\n2.3. Studies Selection and Data Extraction\nThe selection of the articles was performed through Rayyan, which is a free web-tool that greatly speeds up the process of screening and selecting papers for academics working on systematic reviews, in three rounds by three investigators (MD, BG, and RC). The first round consisted of a screening of all titles to exclude papers that were duplicated or unrelated to the subject, and then the included added to Rayyan for further analysis. The second round consisted of a screening of all abstracts. In the third round, the full texts of all potentially relevant studies were reviewed considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Potential divergences in the selection of the study were discussed and ultimately resolved by the remaining investigators (CV and SV). Data extraction was performed by two investigators (BG and RG) and reviewed by another (MD). The following information was manually extracted: (1) Database, (2) Title, (3) Country, (4) Occupational Environment, (5) Sampling Methods, (6) Analytical Methods, (7) Main Findings, and (8) References.\n2.4. Quality Assessment\nThe assessment of the risk of bias was performed by two investigators (MD and CV). Within each study, we evaluated the risk of bias across three parameters divided as key criteria (Sampling Methods, Analytical Methods) and other criteria (data about metabolites). The risk of bias for each parameter was evaluated as \"low\", \"medium\", \"high\", or \"not applicable\". The studies for which all the key criteria and most of the other criteria are characterized as \"high\" were excluded.\nThe flow diagram for selecting studies is shown in Figure 1. The initial database search yielded 441 studies, from which 133 abstracts were examined and 40 full texts were evaluated for eligibility. A total of 18 studies were rejected after examining the inclusion and exclusion criteria, primarily because they were related to biological samples collected from the sawmill workers. A total of 23 papers on microbial occupational exposure were chosen.\nCharacteristics and Data Obtained in the Selected Studies\nTable 2 describes the main characteristics from the selected studies. From the selected studies (N = 23), 15 were conducted in the Europe, namely 5 in Norway [29,36,37,38,39], 4 in Poland [8,40,41,42], 2 in Switzerland [43,44], 2 in Croatia [45,46], 1 in Finland [47], 1 in Italy [48], and 1 in France [30]. Five studies from Canada [49,50,51,52,53], 1 from Korea [54], and 1 from Iran [55] were also analyzed. The majority of studies (15 out of 23\u201365.2%) analyzed environmental samples from small and medium size sawmills [18,28,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,51,52], 2 studies (8.7%) were performed in industrial sawmills [29,39], 2 studies (8.7%) in plywood hardwood processing companies [53], 1 (4.4%) in a manufacturing industry [51], 1 (4.4%) in carpentries [48], 1 (4.4%) in pellet production facilities [42], and 1 (4.4%) in a furniture factory [41].\nThe most used sampling method was air sampling (19 out of 23\u201382.6%) [18,29,36,37,38,39,40,43,44,46,47,49,50,51,52,53,54,55]. Several studies used more than one active sampling method (8 out of 23\u201334.8%). Air collection through impaction was used in 16 studies (69.6%) [8,40,42,43,44,45,46,49,50,52,53,54,55], followed by filter air sampling in 11 studies (47.8%) [28,29,37,38,41,44,46,48,50,53,54], while 5 studies (21.7%) used the impingement method [29,47,49,50,52].\nPassive methods were exclusively performed in 5 papers (21.7%) [28,40,41,47,53]. Dust samples collection was the most frequent methodology applied (N = 3) [28,41,53], one study collected wood samples [40] and the other performed surface samples [53].\nConcerning analytical procedures for microbial characterization, 13 studies (56.5%) referred to fungi [28,29,37,38,39,41,45,46,47,48,50,51,53], 1 (4.4%) referred only to bacteria [40], while 9 (39.1%) encompassed fungi and bacteria [8,42,43,44,49,50,52,54,55]. Morphological identification was the most frequent approach. Fungal identification was accomplished through macroscopic and microscopic examination in 16 studies (69.6%) [8,28,29,41,42,43,44,45,46,49,50,51,52,53,54,55]. Regarding bacterial identification, 5 studies (21.7%) used biochemical tests [8,40,42,50,55].\nScreening for fungal susceptibility to azoles was performed in 2 studies (8.7%). For the screening of A. fumigatus azole resistance, 1 study (4.4%) used the EUCAST methods [53] and the other used both EUCAST and E-test methods [28].\nMolecular tools were applied in 4 studies (17.4%). All performed DNA sequencing [28,29,39,42,55]. High fungal levels were frequent in 6 studies (26.1%) [8,44,45,46,50,54], as well as high bacteria levels in 4 studies (17.4%) [8,43,50,54]. Fungal identification evidence Penicillium as the most frequent genera [41,43,46,47,49,50,52,53,55]. Aspergillus sp. was also recurrent in 4 studies (17.4%) [8,29,42,46]. From all the sampling sites, 3 studies (13%) reported the sorting and green department as having the highest levels of fungal fragments [36,37,38]. Other working sites were also associated with potential microbial exposure as follows: saw departments [36,39], dry timber departments [37], and debarking site [49]. In fact, 7 studies (30.4%) report airborne fungi as potential agents for occupational health effects [8,41,42,44,45,46,50], as well as bacteria in 2 studies (8.7%) [40,56]. In what concerns mycological diversity, 3 studies (13%) report fungal bioaerosols variation between different indoor locations [39,49,51] and 4 studies (17.4%) evidence a significant influence of seasons in fungal aerosol composition [36,38,39,49].\nIt is well known that sawmill workers are exposed to wood dust and multiple wood-associated chemicals and microbiota, including fungi [1,2,3,4,30,31]. Fungi and Gram-negative bacteria are major contaminants of wood dust, especially in hot and humid areas. Occupational inhalation exposure to wood dust and its associated bioaerosols (composed by fungi, bacteria, endotoxins, mycotoxins, and much more) has been associated with adverse respiratory effects [5,6,7,8,9]. Health outcomes associated with the inhalation of wood dust have been reported in several studies [5,9,11,12,13,15,16,17,18,19,20] as well as a significant association between inhalation of wood dust and an increased prevalence of respiratory symptoms [13,21,22,23,28] and decreased lung functional capacity [55]. Considering the papers included in this review, most of them (21 out of 23) used air as an environmental matrix, impaction being the most frequent sampling method used (15 out of 23). This sampling approach relies solely on culture-based methods, which can have advantages and disadvantages. The inflammatory and\/or cytotoxic potential can affect the microorganism viability [56,57] which makes this method beneficial since it allows us to rely on the microbial composition to draw conclusions regarding the inflammatory potential variation [57,58]. In impaction sampling devices, a specific flow rate (depending on the type of environment) is defined to collect particles [59] by using its inertia to drive deposition on a collection media by promoting particle separation through an air stream [60]. However, since it only allows to evaluate culturable microorganisms, the microbial load can be underestimated, due to the high velocity of the air flow that may result in microorganisms' cell damage [61,62]. Moreover, it is important to highlight that indoor air is not homogeneous in space or time, it can always change depending on the type and intensity of the activity developed in that space [63]. Therefore, the sampling time must be adequate to the environment in study and work tasks being developed. For example when using high volume samplers in highly contaminated areas, it is crucial to employ short sampling intervals and lower flow rates for airborne fungal sampling [64]. Nevertheless, active sampling methods, namely impaction devices, have already proved to be very useful in the characterization of occupational exposure to fungi in several studies, by presenting the most diversified fungal contamination in comparison with all sampling methods applied [28,51,61,65,66].\nPassive sampling methods were also used, even if in a smaller number (3 out of 23 papers, including studies with one or more sampling methods). There is evidence that ventilation, building design, environmental features [67], or water infiltrations and damage [68], geographical location [69], as well as the type of task developed in each working site [36,49] can alter fungi and bacteria found indoors. Different working sites were identified with potential for microbial exposure namely the ones that include sawing and drying, mainly because the cells in hardwood are firmly bonded, and kiln drying renders them less elastic, resulting in cell breakage and tiny airborne dust [70,71].\nWith so many factors impacting microbial contamination indoors, passive sampling approaches are anticipated to be more reliable than active sampling methods since they can collect contamination over a longer period of time, thus covering all expected fluctuations [72,73]. The passive sampling method used in all three studies was the collection of wood dust, which both acute and chronic exposures may serve as a sensitizer and irritant on the human body, mostly affecting the respiratory system and skin [56].\nSeveral researchers [67,73,74,75,76,77,78] have begun to collect and analyze from indoor environments a similar matrix (settled dust) as part of their microbial contamination exposure assessments. Settled dust reservoirs have been described as having the ability to anticipate microbial levels in indoor air, as well as being more repeatable than active sampling approaches [67]. Furthermore, it has been documented as an environmental support for bacterial development, and is thus regarded as a bacterial contamination reservoir [79].\nConsidering all the described advantages and disadvantages of both active and passive sampling methods and in order to assess microbial exposure, sampling approaches in occupational environments should comprise more than one type of sampling method [28,29,62,67,73,76]. Furthermore, and as it was seen in one study, settled dust should be included in sampling protocols combined with impaction methods because when these two methods are combined, the sensitivity of the assessment increases, and the impaction samplers' shortcomings are eliminated [58,80].\nThe majority of articles (15 out of 23) relied solely on culture-based methods to perform microorganisms' identification; nevertheless, and as expected, this assay also has its drawbacks that may influence the studies accuracy, such as the specificities of each species (growth rates and requirements), that can affect the other species in a mixed culture. A very common example regarding growth rate, is the overgrowth of some species that limit the growth of other species due to chemical competition [74].\nMolecular tools are well known for their features of precision, high analytical sensitivity of detection, speed, and the ability to detect and identify dead or dormant microorganisms, as well as toxigenic strains from microorganisms [58,74,80,81,82]. However, culture-based methods should be used every time that the exposure route is mainly happening by inhalation, due to the reasons addressed before [56,57]. Thus, culture-based methods and molecular tools should be used side by side as it was seen in a few studies (4 out of 23) of this review.\nRegarding the contamination present in all studies, as previously mentioned, majority of studies reported airborne fungi as a potential agent for occupational health effects (10 out of 23) since the prevalent genera were Penicillium (9 out 23) and Aspergillus (4 out of 23). Aspergillus sp. can be found everywhere and are easily disseminated in the air. Because the conidia of the Aspergillus genus are so small, they can readily be inhaled and colonize the upper and lower respiratory tracts of those who have been exposed [83,84]. Therefore, and as a consequence of a high exposure to opportunistic Aspergillus sp. (both in clinical and environment) the number of infections in immunocompromised patients has increased, as well as the antifungal resistance. It is known that Aspergillus species with a pathogenic potential, such as A. flavus, A. niger, A. terreus, A. versicolor, A. calidoustus, and A. nidulans [29,85], can lead to several health outcomes such as allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and chronic pulmonary aspergillosis [58,86]. Additionally, it is also crucial to evaluate those species resistance to azoles, as it was performed in two studies of this review, in which the authors made a screening for A. fumigatus susceptibility to azoles. Azole resistance is a growing issue in A. fumigatus, threatening clinical improvements made possible by the use of azole antifungals in the treatment of Aspergillus-related disorders [28]. While some fungal species have innate azole resistance, acquired azole resistance has been found in fungi from occupational environments, such as sawmills, where azole fungicides (14-alpha demethylase inhibitors, DMI) used for timber preservation may exert some selection pressure on fungal populations [29]. Therefore, the use of azole fungicides to protect the wood reinforces the idea of performing a screening of susceptibility to azoles, specifically in this occupational environment.\nDespite the methods used for the microbial occupational exposure assessment in these studies, it is important to highlight other methods and analysis that allowed a more complete assessment of sawmills' workers occupational exposure, such as the assessment to fungal allergens [87]. Sawmill workers are exposed to large levels of allergenic fungus on a regular basis, which can cause respiratory problems and asthma [8,87,88]. Microscopical spore counts and culture-based approaches have historically been used to measure fungus exposure [89]. There are, however, various immunoassays to measure environmental antigens [90] like the enzyme-linked immunosorbent test (ELISA) [87]. Another method commonly used in the studies of this review (9 out of 23) was the limulus amoebocyte lysate assay (LAL) to analyze and quantify endotoxins, and the field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) to analyze fungal particles.\nIt is important to highlight that none of the studies included mycotoxins assessment. Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites created by fungi, and together with endotoxins and glucans, they make products of fungi and bacteria that are present in the organic dust produced by organic materials, including soil, plants, animals, food, and faeces, and inhaled by workers in a variety of industries [91]. Some mycotoxins can have serious human health effects when ingested, but their health effects following inhalation or dermal contact are insufficiently documented [91].\nSpecific fungal genera, primarily Aspergillus, Penicillium, Alternaria, Fusarium, and Claviceps, produce mycotoxins [91,92,93], such as aflatoxin B1 (produced mainly by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus), ochratoxin (produced by both Aspergillus and Penicillium), trichothecenes, zearalenone, fumonisins B1 and B2, and some emerging mycotoxins like fusaproliferin, moniliformin, beauvericin and enniatins (produced mainly by Fusarium species), ergot alkaloids, (produced by Claviceps) and altenuene, alternariol, alternariol methyl ether, altertoxin, and tenuazonic acid (produced by Alternaria species) [91,93,94,95]. Two of them (Penicillium and Aspergillus) were found with the highest prevalence in this setting.\nMycotoxins can exist in the environment even when no visible fungi are present [91,96], since they can withstand adverse environmental factors such as high or low temperatures and can persist long after the death and disintegration of the fungal species responsible for their production. Even after being exposed to temperatures such as boiling or roasting operations, they are difficult to eradicate or inactivate from the source [91,97]. The majority of mycotoxins are non-volatile, nevertheless, they can be found in airborne dust [88,92,93], as well as in fungal spores and fragments [91,96,97]. As a result, dust, spores, and hyphae fragments in the air can carry mycotoxins to the lungs [91,96,97]. Moreover, in other cases, exposure in the workplace happens primarily by inhalation, notably through airborne dust [88,93,94,95,98,99,100,101,102]. Mucous membrane irritation, skin rash, nausea, immune system suppression, acute or chronic liver damage, acute or chronic central nervous system damage, endocrine changes, and cancer are all signs and effects of inhaling mycotoxins [91,97,103,104,105].\nAs previously reported by Viegas and colleagues [91], although the health effects of exposure to some mycotoxins through eating of contaminated food are well documented, few research has looked into the health implications of mycotoxins through inhalation or skin contact and absorption, which are probably the main routes of exposure in the sawmills industry. To understand the main determinants that may have an impact on exposure, it is particularly important to properly characterize occupational exposure through the identification of current mycotoxins, their levels, duration, and main routes of exposure associated with specific occupational environments. In addition, to allow comparisons between research standardized techniques (sampling and analysis) are required [91].\nFinally, the geographical distribution of the studies included in this review is also something to consider since most of them (15 out of 23) were conducted in Europe. Thus, it is evident that there is a lack of investigation regarding microbial exposure in this occupational environment in the rest of the world. Moreover, looking more closely at the distribution of studies in Europe, the imbalance in the various areas is also perceptible since most studies are from Northern Europe (6 out of 15) and Central Europe (8 out of 15), leaving areas like Western Europe and Southern Europe with one study each, and Eastern Europe without studies regarding this subject.\nCombining the findings of this review with the lack of information, it is possible to highlight the need to increase investigation regarding microbial occupational exposure in sawmills all over the world. This paper's findings should be considered, when preparing sampling campaigns and laboratory resources, to achieve an accurate microbial occupational exposure assessment in Portuguese sawmills.\nThis review allowed to identify the sampling methods and assays already employed to assess occupational exposure to microbial contamination in sawmills and to identify the knowledge gaps in what concerns this risk characterization.\nSawmill workers are exposed to several microbial contaminants in their workplace. Exposure to bacteria and fungi has been already reported, as well as bacteria metabolites (namely endotoxins). However, mycotoxins' assessment was not yet performed and, therefore, the risk from this exposure was not estimated.\nNo papers were found reporting the occupational microbiological exposure in sawmills located in Portugal. 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Inclusion and exclusion criteria in the articles selected.\nExclusion Criteria\nArticles published in the English language; Articles published in other languages\nArticles published from 1 January 2000\nto 30 September 2021 Articles published prior to 2000\nArticles reporting findings from any country\nArticles related to microbial exposure assessment in sawmills Articles related exclusively to biologic samples from workers or without mention microbial exposure.\nOriginal scientific articles on the topic Abstracts of congress, reports, reviews\/state of the art articles\nTable 2. Data selected from the chosen papers.\nOccupational Environments\nMain Findings Concerning Microbiological Contamination\nAssessment of Particulate and Bioaerosol in Eastern Canadian Sawmills Sawmills\n(N = 17) Active\u2014Filtration, Impaction and\nImpinger Morphol. id. (Fungi) Penicillium sp. was the predominant genera, with up to 40 different species identified. The highest levels of molds, bacteria were associated to debarking site. Planing sites were the most highly dust contaminated. Airborne biological contaminants vary between working sites and their microflora diverge from that previously described in European sawmills. [49]\nAirborne microfungi from eastern Canadian sawmills Sawmills\n(N = 17) Active\u2014Impaction and\nImpinger Morphol. id. (Fungi) In eastern Canadian sawmills, the micoflora is dominated by Penicillium species. Fungi identified in European sawmills were not frequently identified in eastern Canadian sawmills. [50]\nAssessment of Bioaerosols and Inhalable Dust Exposure in Swiss Sawmills Small (N = 8)\nand medium size Sawmills (N = 2) Active\u2014Filtration,\nImpaction and Impinger Morphol. id. (Fungi) All sawmills exceeded the Swiss occupational exposure guideline of 1000 Colony Forming Units CFU. m3. Two sawmills for total bacteria and one sawmill for Gram-negative bacteria did not comply with Swiss occupational exposure guideline. Gram-positive bacteria, mainly Bacillus spp. were prevalent among the plates. The most frequent fungal genera was Penicillium sp. [43]\nEffects of biaerosol exposure on work-related symptoms among Swiss sawmills workers Sawmills (N = 12) Active\u2014Impaction Morphol. id. (Fungi) The composition of airborne fungi exceeded the limit recommended by the Swiss National Insurance. Fungal level influenced the occurrence of bronchial syndrome. Airborne fungi in the sawmill environment are potential agents for occupational health effects. [44]\nMicrobial Exposure Assessment in Sawmill, Livestock Feed Industry, and Metal Working Fluids Handling Industry Livestock feed Industry (N = 3), Metal working Fluids Hadling Industry (N = 2)\nand Sawmills (N = 5) Active\u2014Impaction Morphol. id. (Fungi) Airborne concentrarion of bacteria and fungi were 1.864 and 2.252 CFU\u00b7m3.\nThe ratio I\/O was 3.7 and 4.1 for bacteria and fungi respectively. The respiratory fraction of bacteria was 57.7%, and fungi was 83.7%. Bioaerosol density was the highest in sawmills. [54]\nOccupational Health and Safety Issues in Ontario Sawmills and Veneer\/Plywood Plants: A Pilot Study Sawmill (N = 8)\nand venner\/\nplywood manufacturing industry (N = 12) Active\u2014Impaction Morphol. id. (Fungi) Fungal bioaerosols vary between different indoor locations. [51]\nRespiratory Health and breath condensate acidity in sawmill workers Sawmills (N = 2) Active\u2014Impaction and filtration Morphol. id. (Fungi) Airborne dust concentrations were below the threshold limit value. Airborne moulds were at levels able to induce inflammatory response in the airways. Significant differences between sawmills were observed regarding mould levels. [45]\nOccupational exposure to airborne fungi in two Croatian sawmills and atopy in exposed workers Sawmill (N = 2) Active\u2014Impaction Morphol. id. (Fungi) Airborne fungi present health hazardous levels (above 104 m\u22123) in one sawmill. Fungal levels were related to saw working sites. The prevalent fungal genera were Penicillium (50\u2013100%), Paecilomyces (43\u2013100%) and Chrysonilia (33\u2013100%). Other airborne fungi that were recurrent, but with lower frequency were: A. niger (15\u201371%), Trichoderma sp. (8\u201340%), Rhizopus sp. (8\u201320%) and A. flavus (2\u201315%). [46]\nFungal fragments and fungal aerossol composition in Sawmills Sawmills (N = 2) Active\u2014Filtration GM (Fungal fragments); FESEM (Fungi) The composition of fungal aerosols comprised in average: submicronic fragments (9%), large fragments (62%) and spores (29%). The ratio of spores was higher in saw departments. Fungal fragments were most prevalent in sorting and green timber departments. The season influenced significatively the fungal aerosol density but not the composition. Fungal fragments should be included in exposure-response studies. [36]\nExposure to Wood dust, Microbial Components, and Terpenes in the Norwegian Sawmill Industry Sawmills (N = 11) Active\u2014Filtration GM (Fungal fragments\nFESEM (Fungi) The GM of both thoracic and inhalabe expoure was higher in various departments. The mean fungal spore was 0.41 \u00d7 105 spores\u00b7m\u22123. Exposure to spores was high in dry timber departments. High levels of thoracic fungal spores was also found in workers associated to sorting of dry timber. Microbial exposure had the highest levels in workers working with green timber. [37]\nAlgorithm to assess the presence of Aspergillus\nfumigatus resistant strains: The case of Norwegian\nsawmills Industrial sawmills (N = 11) Active\u2014Filtration Morphol. id.;\nScreening\u2014EUCAST method; Mol. tools\u2014DNA sequencing (Fungi) Fungal contamination ranged from 0\u20132.7 \u00d7 105 CFU\u00b7m\u22123 in malt extract agar (MEA) and from 0\u20131.3 \u00d7 105 CFU\u00b7m\u22123 in dichloran-glycerol agar (DG18). The prevalent species were Chrysonilia sitophila (65.20%), Mucor sp. (23.86%) and Rhizopus sp. (10.75%) on MEA. On DG18, Penicillium sp. (0.26%) and Aspergillus sp. (0.14%) were frequent. In MEA, section Fumigati was found. Whereas in DG18, four different Aspergillus sections were detected: Circumdati; Candidi; Fumigati; Nigri. Two Fumigati isolates were able to grow in the presence of one or two medical triazoles. One isolate was found to be a TR34\/L98H mutant. Fungicides used at sawmills may decrease fungal sensibility to azole drug [29]\nRespiratory Healh Impact of Working in Sawmills in Eastern Canada Sawmills (N = 17) Active\u2014Impaction and Impinger Morphol. id. (Fungi) The most frequently fungal identified were Penicillium myczinskii, P. spinulosum, P.fellutanum, Trichoderma sp. and Paecilomyces sp. Working in a Qu\u00e9bec sawmill does not constitute a clinically revelant respiratory Health risk. [52]\nGram-negative bacteria associated with timber as a potential respiratory hazard for woodworkers Sawmills (N = 1) Active\u2014Impaction\nPassive\u2014Wood samples Biochem. tests (Bacteria) Enterobacteriaceae strains, by majority Enterobacter sp. and Rahnella sp. comprised 70\u201375% of Gram-negative bacteria isolates from pine and beech wood and sawmill air samples. During processing of beech wood high levels of Gram-negative bacteria were released into air, when comparing with pine wood processing. The aerial exposure to Gram-negative bacteria possessing endotoxic and allergenic properties poses a potential risk to workers health. [40]\nFunctional disorders of the lung and symptoms of respiratory disease associated with occupational inhalation exposure to wood dust in Iran Sawmills (N = 20) Active\u2014Impaction and filtration Morphol. id. (Fungi); Biochem. tests (Bacteria)\nThe prevalent Gram-negative bacteria were Pseudomonadaceae, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Rhinoscleromatis sp. Penicillium sp. and Fusarium sp. were the predominant fungi. Respiratory symptoms were significantly more frequent among exposed workers. [55]\nExposure Determinants of Wood Dust, Microbial Components, Resin Acids and Terpenes in the Saw- and Planer Mill Industry Sawmills (N = 11) Active -Filtration FESEM (Fungi) The highest microbial exposure were estimated in the green part of the sawmills. Exposure to fungal spores were relatively low and similar among most departments. Season and wood type had a large effect on the estimated exposure. [38]\nThe Inhalable Mycobiome of Sawmill Workers: Exposure Characterization and Diversity Industrial sawmill, sorting mill and planer mill companies processing spruce or pine (N = 11) Active -Filtration FESEM (Fungi);\nGM (Fungal fragments);\nMol. tools (DNA-sequencing) (Fungi) Ascomycota was the common phylum detected (50.3%) followed by Basidiomycota (45.6%). Operational taxonomic units were higher during spure processing when compared to pine processing. The highest fungal diversity was obtained in saw department. The fungal compositions of the exposures differs between seasons, sawmills, wood types and departments. A risk assessment based on the fungal diversity diferences should be performed. [39]\nExposure to airborne microorganisms in polish sawmills Sawmills (N = 4) Active\u2014Impaction GM (Fungal fragments) Morphol. id. (Fungi);\nBiochem. tests (Bacteria) Microorganisms load was higher in sawmills processing coniferous wood when compared to those processing deciduous wood. Allergenic fungi (the majority Aspergillus fumigatus) were predominant in air samples when debarking. During first-cut frame airborne microflora as mostly constituted by endotoxin producing Gram-negative bacteria belonging to Rahnella genus developing in the sapwood of pine. Regarding bacteria diversity, 34 species or genera were identified. Also, 21 species or genera of fungi were found in the air of sawmills. Workers of Polish sawmills may be exposed during some tasks to airborne microorganisms posing respiratory hazard. [8]\nFungal Spores As Such Do Not Cause\nNasal Inflammation In Mold Exposure Sawmill (N = 11) Active\u2014Impinger (personal samplers) Epifluorescence technique CAMNEA method (Fungal spores) Rhizopus and Penicillium were the predominant genera. Proinflammatory potential of microbial exposure seems to be related to the type of microbial bioaerosols in the occupational environment. [47]\nAirborne Microorganisms, Endotoxin and Dust Concentration in Wood Factories in Italy 6 Sawmills and carpentries (N = 6) Active\u2014Impaction and filtration Morphol. id. (Fungi);\nBiochem. tests (Bacteria)\nIn air samples from wood factories 19 species of Gram-negative and 14 species of Gram-positive bacteria were identified. Whereas, 18 species of mould were found, some having allergenic, immunotoxic properties. Gram-negative bacteria levels were higher in these workplaces. Penicillium sp. and Alternaria alternata were identified in low densities. Workers in wood factories may be exposed to high levels of inhalable dust. [48]\nThe evaluation of microfungal contamination of dust\nCreated during woodworking in furniture factories Furniture factories (N = 3) Passive\u2014settled dust Morphol. id. (Fungi)\nThe most frequent fungi in the tested dust were Penicillium sp. and Aspergillus sp. Trichoderma genus has been isolated.Airborne fungal may be associated with the wood dust, posing a health hazard for exposed workers. [41]\nHypersensitivity Pneumonitis in a Hardwood Processing\nPlant Related to Heavy Mold Exposure Hardwood processing plant (N = 1) Active\u2014Impaction\nPassive\u2014Dust and surface samples from wood planks Morphol. id. (Fungi)\nPaecilomyces sp. growth was observed on the surface of the dried processed wood in the index plant. Penicillium sp. was prevalent on green wood. Wood quality (moisture content, time of storage prior to drying) and processes may influence wood contamination workers exposure. [53]\nNasal lavage and analytical tool in Assessment of exposure to particulate and microbial aerossol in wood pellet production facilities 10 Pellet production facilities (N = 10) Active\u2014Impaction and filtration Morphol. id (Fungi and Bacteria);\nMol. tools (DNA sequencing) (Fungi and Bacteria)\nBiochem. tests (Bacteria) Among isolated, bacterial pathogens from Streptomyces genus and Aspergillus fumigatus pathogenic fungus were identified. Concerning microorganisms size distribution, the highest bacteria load can reach the nasal and oral cavities as well as secondary bronchi. In case of fungi, the highest load can reach the nasal and oral cavities. Microbiota diversity in the indoor was higher when compared to the outdoor, suggesting that the processed material act as an active emission source. [42]\nAzole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in sawmills in Eastern France Sawmills (N = 20) Active\u2014Impaction\nPassive\u2014Settled dust Morphol. id.\nScreening (EUCAST and E-test);\nMol. tools (DNA- Seq) (Fungi) Azole resistante A. fumigatus was collected in 20 samples from a total of 600 settled dust samples. From the A.fumigatus obtained strains, 83% had TR34\/L98H mutation. A greater number of resistant strains was collected in sawmills that applied fungicide products. Azole-resistant mutations seems to be associated to the azole fungicide formulation and quantities of azole. [28]\nMorphol. id.\u2014Morphological identification; Mol. tools\u2014Molecular tools; Biochem. tests\u2014Biochemical tests; GM\u2014Gravimetric Measurement; FESEM\u2014Immunolabeling method for field emission scanning electron microscope.\nDias, M.; Gomes, B.; Cervantes, R.; Pena, P.; Viegas, S.; Viegas, C. Microbial Occupational Exposure Assessments in Sawmills\u2014A Review. Atmosphere 2022, 13, 266. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/atmos13020266\nDias M, Gomes B, Cervantes R, Pena P, Viegas S, Viegas C. Microbial Occupational Exposure Assessments in Sawmills\u2014A Review. Atmosphere. 2022; 13(2):266. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/atmos13020266\nDias, Marta, Bianca Gomes, Renata Cervantes, Pedro Pena, Susana Viegas, and Carla Viegas. 2022. \"Microbial Occupational Exposure Assessments in Sawmills\u2014A Review\" Atmosphere 13, no. 2: 266. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/atmos13020266\nAtmosphere, EISSN 2073-4433, Published by MDPI","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Legislature includes $200M for Port of Alaska rebuild in budget\nThe Alaska Legislature has included $200 million in funding in the capital budget to help rebuild the Port of Alaska.\nThat's a third of the hefty $600 million state funding request made by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson and the Assembly in the city's 2022 funding priorities, which Bronson and some Assembly members had lobbied for in Juneau.\nThe $200 million would go toward the $1.1 billion cost of replacing the port's cargo docks. The entire Port of Alaska modernization project, which will take about 10 years, is estimated to cost a total of $1.85 billion, according to city officials.\nThe port's infrastructure is failing, threatening a critical piece of the state's supply chain.\nPolitical resistance to spending state money on what many have viewed as an Anchorage-specific problem has stymied previous city requests for port funding. But Alaska is expecting billions in new revenue after a wartime surge in oil prices, opening the door for broader support.\nAnchorage should receive half of the $200 million in state funds over the next two fiscal years, but the other $100 million comes with a contingency: The state will provide the money only if the city gets a matching $100 million in federal funds, said Ross Risvold, senior finance officer for Anchorage's Finance Department. The city is currently reviewing and applying for federal funding opportunities, he said.\n\"We're leaving, as the saying goes, no stone unturned,\" Risvold said.\nWhile the state funds would cover a portion of the project's price tag, the infusion would keep it moving ahead, while total costs will be spread out over the project's lifetime, said Jim Jager, director of external affairs for the port.\n\"The state money will also be key to unlocking federal money,\" he said. Federal grants require a percentage match in non-federal funds.\nAlaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy could still veto funding for the port. City officials say they expect the governor will keep the funding in the budget. The governor has about two weeks left to make decisions on the budget before he signs it.\nShannon Mason, deputy press secretary for the governor's office, declined to say whether Dunleavy will strike the port funding.\n\"We are reviewing the budget and ensuring that the use of public funds is in the interest of all Alaskans,\" Mason said by email.\nIt's also not yet clear how much money the city will receive from a legal settlement related to a failed effort to expand the port. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration, which was found at fault, has appealed a December court ruling, and a decision on the appeal could take a year or more, city officials say.\nThe city also plans to borrow money to pay for the project through low interest rate loans via the federal government and through bonds, Risvold said.\nBut much of the cost of borrowing will be repaid through raising fees on deliveries to the port. That cost is expected to fall back on Alaskans purchasing goods that come through the port, according to the city. State and federal grants are intended to help to defray the tariffs and the resulting increase in prices.\nState Rep. Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage, said the usually politically divided Anchorage delegation worked in a rare bipartisan effort to get port funding into the budget.\n\"It was sort of inarguable that everywhere other than Southeast benefits from the Port of Alaska,\" Josephson said. \"\u2026 The tariffs that are going to be charged are going to be very, very aggressive and will impact everybody, so it's 'pay me now or pay me later.' \"\nKolby Hickel, deputy municipal manager, said that 90% of Alaskans rely on goods shipped through the port, including fuel, food, construction supplies, ammunition, parts for vehicles and tools.\nThe 2018 earthquake caused significant damage to the port, and the city says it is at \"imminent risk of failure\" if an earthquake of a similar size happens.\nGrocery stores only have about six days of food on hand, and a failure of the port would be a crisis, Hickel said.\nThe new petroleum and cement terminal will be finished in June, the first of five phases in rebuilding and repairing the port, which the city aims to complete in 2035.\nConstruction of a new port administration building is slated to begin this summer, said Jager.\nWork to stabilize and remove a northern part of the embankment is scheduled for the following two summers, he said.\nThe earthwork and a defective wall north of the docks were made as part of the failed port expansion project, and it must all be removed before new cargo docks can be built, Jager said.\n\"It looks like land, smells like land, tastes like land. It's not really land. It's not stable. It's behind an unstable wall,\" Jager said. \"And the danger is that either due to the piling that they installed incorrectly corroding, or use due to seismic action, or other things, that wall is going to fail, land will slide into the navigation channel, and even potentially take out the existing dock.\"\nOnce the first phase of stabilization is complete, construction of two new cargo terminals can begin.\nThe city is currently working on the permitting, design and build of the terminal replacements, Hickel said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Are the Causes of Thickness in Breast Tissue?\nBy: M. Gideon Hoyle\nBreast thickening causes\nHow to identify duck eggs\nMenopause & bumps on the labia\nWhat Is Normal Glucose Blood Test?\nDiosmin and hesperidin pregnancy safety\nThickened breast tissue is an abnormal density detectable during self-examination or a doctor's exam. Causes for this condition range from common benign changes in the breast to the presence of breast cancer.\nFibrocystic\nFibrocystic breast changes involve the formation of dense, fibrous tissue or fluid-filled cysts inside the breast, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). Roughly half of all women experience them at some time. While they typically present little danger, some cases may indicate an increased risk for breast cancer.\nFibroadenomas\nBenign tumours called fibroadenomas may create areas of breast tissue that feel like marbles, according to the ACS. Depending on a tumour's rate of growth, doctors may recommend surgically removing it.\nPhyllodes Tumors\nPhyllodes tumours form from glandular and connective tissue in the breast, and typically manifest as a painless lump. While most cases are benign, a small number indicate the presence of cancer, according to the ACS.\nThe Merck Manual of Health and Aging notes that thickening of the breast may mark the onset of breast cancer. In some cases, the breast tissue remains normal while hard lumps appear in nearby lymph nodes.\nThe Mayo Clinic notes that the presence of fibrocystic changes may increase the difficulty of breast self-examinations.\nAmerican Cancer Society: Non-Cancerous Breast Conditions\nThe Mayo Clinic: Fibrocystic Breasts\nM. Gideon Hoyle is a writer living outside of Houston. Previously, he produced brochures and a wide variety of other materials for a nonprofit educational foundation. He now specializes in topics related to health, exercise and nutrition, publishing for various websites.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Amanda Loves Words\nJune...\nWhen those of us in Texas start hiding indoors.\nAmanda Waters Jun 13, 2020 2\nWelcome to another month of intense shared emotional experiences! I, for one, have alternated between sadness, anger, disappointment, hope, and a touch of determination. I've been reminded lately of the importance of taking it one day at a time, keeping my eyes on Jesus, listening to others, and doing my best. And in the meantime...we keep reading\u2026\nA Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe came across my reading list as a review book (even though it's not new by any stretch of the imagination), and it turned out to be a lot more fascinating than I expected. It's an adaptation of a journal written about the Bubonic Plague in London in 1665 (incidentally, the year before the Great Fire of London. Not a great couple of years for London). I think I would have enjoyed this slice-of-life book regardless, especially since it's about a historical event I'm not super familiar with, but the timing is kind of crazy. I would be reading about quarantining measures, and how some people kept trying to work instead of hunkering down because otherwise they would starve, and I'd look at the book and think...was this a trick? Was this written last month? Anyway, if you like history and don't mind 16th century writing style and a wee bit of repetition (that's what skimming is for!) It's definitely an interesting read.\nAt first, I wasn't sure I was going to like Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal. The multiple shifts in perspective was a little bit jarring, and there's some real heart wrenching stuff that happens at the beginning of the novel. But it sucked me in and ultimately, I ended up loving it. The narrative meanders and weaves its way among lots of different characters, all connected in some way to food, and to endearingly weird teenager-turned-chef prodigy Eva Thorvald. It's sad, funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, sarcastic, and surprising. The characterization was so well done, especially considering how little relative page time each character got, and the setting was vivid and basically another character. As a Midwestern girl myself, I particularly appreciated that.\nLizzy & Jane by Katherine Reay is a story about two estranged sisters, one of whom is a successful chef who is trying to rediscover her joy and passion for cooking, the other a successful businesswoman, wife, and mom who is fighting cancer. There's a sweet love story as well, but the main plot revolves around the two sisters and their attempt to rebuild their relationship. It was a quick read, but had surprising depth.\nCurrently on my reading list is the book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and another J. Ryan Stradal book, Lager Queen of Minnesota.\nWhat I'm watching...\nHas anyone else watched The English Game yet? It's a Netflix series by the creator of Downton Abbey about the origins of modern soccer (or, football, to get technical). It focuses on the emergence of working class teams, the growth of the game, and the much-resisted (among the upper classes) move toward recruiting and paying players. It's only six episodes, but it packs so much into those episodes! There were plot points I anticipated, and quite a few that surprised me. I highly recommend it if you like period dramas at all, and even if you don't.\nJeremy and I had been catching up on a show on Hulu, so I had been seeing advertisements for Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist for weeks, and finally decided one night to give it a try. It's such a delight! It's weird and funny and silly, but with a lot of heart. The premise: after experiencing an earthquake in the middle of having an MRI, Zoey starts hearing people sing (and dance) their innermost feelings, and starts trying to help the people who sing to her (it kind of reminds me a little bit of that 90s show Early Edition. Anyone else watch that one back in the day?). Like I said, it sounds kind of silly, but I'm really enjoying it.\nUpload was another show I kept hearing about (this time on Amazon Prime). In the near future (2030, I think), people have developed the technology to upload their consciousness into a virtual afterlife (if you can afford it, of course), a way to sort of live forever. It's a light and funny show, but touches on some deep themes like mortality, love, connection, family. There's a bit of a mystery too, and all packed in 30 minute shows. I will admit that I started watching it on a night Jeremy was out of town, and ended up watching almost the entire season (10 episodes) in one night. And yes, I did kind of regretted the late night the next day.\nWhat I'm grateful for\u2026\nSummer weather has come to Houston with a vengeance (although this week has actually had some incredible weather), so today I'm grateful for our central air conditioning and the convenience of living with someone who can repair the A\/C when it goes out at 10 pm.\nA little inspiration...\nExcerpt from \"Traveling at Home\"\nBy Wendell Berry\nEven in a country you know by heart\nIt's hard to go the same way twice.\nThe life of the going changes.\nThe chances change and make a new way.\nKnow therefore today, and lay it on your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth beneath; there is no other.\nHappy Summer, everyone! Stay hydrated, wear your sunscreen, and love your neighbor well.\nTopNewWhat is Amanda Loves Words?About\n\u00a9 2021 Amanda Waters. See privacy, terms and information collection notice","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Popcorn and Video Games\nGo Team!\nThe Pen is Mightier than the Sword\nGeology Rocks!\nFeasts!\nSupper with Friends\nRugby & Gingerbread\nGeek Chic HQ\nSpace monkey reporting for duty!\n\u2190 Super Saturday 2013: Capitulation in Cardiff\nNELSON, NV: New Vegas' Most Notorious Ghost-Town \u2192\nCome with me, Cupcake\nMay 14, 2013 by Eve England\n2013 has already been an exciting year for those with an interest in all things SPACE.\nOn February 15, the Russians were dazzled by an epic superbolide meteor, which rather ironically coincided with the day on which the people of Earth heaved a mighty sigh of relief as they watched asteroid DA14, a.k.a, a \"global killer\", passing uncomfortably close between their planet and their moon, thus narrowly avoiding a cataclysmic impact. Later in the year, Ison, a sun-grazing comet, promises to be a shooting-star spectacular, visible to the naked eye by the end of November, assuming it survives its journey towards the Sun, that is!\nThe concept of space as our final frontier has also been at the forefront of scientific discourse this week, as veteran astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, proclaimed (in a rather Kennedy-esq mission statement): \"I believe this nation should commit itself, within two decades, to commencing American permanence on the planet Mars.\" This declaration has been made at a time where enthusiasm for exploration beyond our planet continues to ebb, and NASA's abandonment of the shuttle programme, along with the mounting criticism of the $multi-billion cost of maintaining the scientific endeavours on board the International Space Station have done little to appease public apathy towards such pursuits.\nCommander Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut who hitched a ride home from the ISS on a Soyuz rocket last night, shares Aldrin's aspirations for future interplanetary travel, by asserting that \"we will go to the Moon and we will go to Mars\u2026and to see what asteroids and comets are made of\". But Hadfield is at odds with Aldrin in so far as the former pointedly reminds us that \"we're not going to do it tomorrow and we're not going to do it because it titillates the nerve endings. We're going to do it because it's a natural human progression.\"\nHadfield and the other astronauts on the Space Station are tasked with developing a greater understanding of life's ability to sustain itself in the hostile environment of space, without which, we would not even survive a trip to Mars, yet alone presuming to permanently settle there.\nThe political and ideological motivations driving the extraordinary technological advancement witnessed during the 1960s were unprecedented, and never again are we likely to witness such a frenzied obsession with space travel. However, Cmdr Hadfield has sought to re-kindle mankind's fascination with space by embracing the social media revolution to reach out to a brand new generation of space enthusiasts. By taking daily tweet-sized steps to share his experience of life in space with us, he has become the most recognisable astronaut since the Apollo days.\nThe movie industry has also played its part in supporting Aldrin and Hadfield's ambitions, with Thursday's release of Star Trek's 12th instalment (or 2nd, depending on whether you choose to ignore the pre 2009 chronicles) having been eagerly anticipated by fans, and non-fans alike, after the 11th (or 1st) cemented J.J.Abrahms' reputation as a tired franchise resurrection master. Into Darkness' opening sequence sets the tone for the rest of the picture, as we observe Kirk finding himself at odds with the Federation's sacrosanct Prime Directive. The scene ends as the iconic USS Enterprise blasts off above a neutralised volcano, leaving a primitive alien tribe in awe of Starfleet's flagship vessel.\nAs was the case with the 2009 release, the audience is treated to non-stop, over-the-top, and breathtaking action sequences, all illuminated by Abrahm's signature use of delightful lens glare, once again assuring us that the future may not be so dark after all. But Cumberbatch's Harrison does all that he can to extinguish the optimism introduced in the last movie, and is undoubtedly an improvement on Nero: An unnerving villain, whose indiscriminate acts of violence on London and San Francisco capture the fears of a post 9\/11 society. The references to the autonomous intelligence agency, Section 31 (first introduced into the Star Trek canon by Deep Space Nine) highlights the disquietude brewing within the seemingly harmonised Starfleet high command, and seeks to further underpin the movie's emphasis on how, in certain instances, acting outside of the normal constraints of ethical protocols is necessary to preserve and protect civilised society.\nDespite its brooding undercurrents, Into Darkness captures the essence of the space opera genre by continuing to replicate the original's charm: it wouldn't be Star Trek without the delectable Kirk\/Spock bromance, and the old school wittiness of the classic once liners of sci-fi's most recognised crew. A reprocessed Khan it may be, but there is no question that Into Darkness has taken the Star Trek franchise to a new level, and we can only hope that the brief visit to Kronos, and the ruckus that takes place there, is a sign of things to come.\nTo explore strange new worlds\nInspired by the Star Trek end-credit sequence, I decided to create a cup-cake solar-system for my father in-law's 60th birthday\/retirement party that was held on the Isle of Wight this weekend. As a published physicist, this seemed like a fitting contribution to the celebrations.\nThe cupcakes were made using the Hummingbird Bakery chocolate cupcake recipe, and these were topped with a nebula of chocolate, vanilla and cream cheese frosting, sprinkled with dark matter space dust.\nThe celestial bodies were formed using marzipan, and represent the main features of our solar system from the Sun, all the way out to Pluto and the forgotten dwarf planets.\nYou will see that Ison makes a special guest appearance as it passes Jupiter!\nTo Nick and Sue \u2013 wishing you all the best as you boldly go into that strange new world called retirement!\nThis entry was posted in Feasts!, Space Monkey and tagged Buzz Aldrin, Commander Chris Hadfield, DA14, geek chic, Hummingbird Bakery, Ison, ISS, Khan, Mars, NASA, nerd tears, Planets, Section 31, Solar System Cupcakes, soyuz, Star Trek Into Darkness. Bookmark the permalink.\n#RWC2019 GingerBreadOfHeaven On Tour \u2013 Japan Trip Highlights\n#RWC2019 Final Round-Up \u2013 Crunch Time!!\n#RWC2019 Semi-Finals Round-Up\n#RWC2019 Quarter Final Knock Outs \u2013 Round Up\nGreat Scott!! It's Back to the Future Day, and it didn't take 1.21GW to get us here!\nStunning sunset drive home this evening via the #BreconBeacons Always a pleasure to see the wild ponies...\u2026 twitter.com\/i\/web\/status\/1\u2026 2 hours ago\nFab trip to #PowisCastle this afternoon! @NTPowisCastle https:\/\/t.co\/mN7fQUwxW7 6 hours ago\nRT @andNickMullins: Confirmation. Saracens relegated. They'll be playing in the Championship next season. Goodness me. What a mess. https:\/\u2026 19 hours ago\nRT @btsportrugby: Premiership Rugby have announced Saracens will be relegated at the end of the 19\/20 season. https:\/\/t.co\/wi0jGo4EZ3 1 day ago\nFinally got around to start editing our #GOTTerritory pictures from the summer. It's taking a bit of time... such\u2026 twitter.com\/i\/web\/status\/1\u2026 1 day ago\nSuper Bowl XLVIII\nIt's crunch time!\nInternational Series \u2013\nWembleyOctober 31st, 2014","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vantiv Executives to Present at Three Upcoming Financial Conferences\nCINCINNATI, May 11, 2017 \/PRNewswire\/ -- Vantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV), a leading provider of payments processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions, announced today that its executives will attend and present at three upcoming conferences.\nOn Tuesday, May 23, Charles Drucker, president and chief executive officer, will speak at 10:00 a.m. ET at the J.P. Morgan 45th Annual Global Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference, being held at the Westin Copley Place in Boston.\nOn Thursday, June 1, Matt Taylor, group president, Integrated Payments and Emerging Channels at Vantiv, will speak at 9:30 a.m. ET at the Cowen Future of Payments & Commerce Forum, being held at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York City.\nOn Tuesday, June 6, Charles Drucker, president and chief executive officer, will present at 9:05 a.m. ET at the Baird 2017 Global Consumer, Technology & Services Conference being held at the InterContinental New York Barclay in New York City.\nEach presentation will be webcast live and can be accessed by visiting the investor section of Vantiv's website at http:\/\/investors.vantiv.com. The webcasts will be archived and available for replay following each event.\nFor more information about Vantiv, please visit vantiv.com or on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube.\nABOUT VANTIV\nVantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV) is a leading payment processor differentiated by an integrated technology platform. Vantiv offers a comprehensive suite of traditional and innovative payment processing and technology solutions to merchants and financial institutions of all sizes, enabling them to address their payment processing needs through a single provider. We build strong relationships with our customers, helping them become more efficient, more secure and more successful. Vantiv is the largest merchant acquirer and the largest PIN debit acquirer based on number of transactions in the U.S. The company's growth strategy includes expanding further into high-growth channels and verticals, including integrated payments, eCommerce, and merchant bank. Visit us at the new www.vantiv.com, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube.\n\u00a9 2017 Vantiv, LLC. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks, service marks and trade names referenced herein are the property of their respective owners. Vantiv and other Vantiv products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Vantiv, LLC in the U.S. and other countries.\nNathan Rozof, CFA\nIR@vantiv.com\nAndrew Ciafardini\nExternal Affairs & Corporate Communications\nandrew.ciafardini@vantiv.com\nTo view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/vantiv-executives-to-present-at-three-upcoming-financial-conferences-300456497.html\nSOURCE Vantiv, Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Silas Bartsch School Site Council is made up of teachers, parents, administrators, and interested community members who work together to develop and monitor a school's improvement plan. Their primary role is to oversee the academic planning process to ensure that the needs of all students are specifically addressed in the School pLan for Student Achievement (SPSA).\nSSC Roles and Responsibilities\nThe Silas Bartsch School Site Council (SSC) is a group of teachers, parents, administrators, and interested community members who are elected by their colleagues and\/or peers to work together to develop and monitor our school's improvement plan. Their primary role is to oversee the academic planning process to ensure that the needs of all students are specifically addressed in the School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA).\nMeasure the effectiveness of improvement strategies at our school\nSeek input from school advisory committees such as the English Language Advisory Committee (ELAC)\nReview and analyze student academic information\nRevise improvement strategies and expenditures\nDevelop the approve the School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA), and monitor implementation of the SPSA\nProvide input on District Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP)\nRepresent our school and participate in the District Advisory Committee (DAC)\nParent or community membership is equal to school staff membership.\nClassroom teachers must be in the majority of the staff side.\n\"Other School Personnel\" includes: Other administrative positions, other non-classroom teacher positions, and all site classified personnel.\nSmallest council is composed of 10 members.\nFour School Site Council (SSC) meetings are conducted annually.\nTuesday, September 27, 2022: 5:00pm in the Student Center\nSSC elections\nComplete SSC training\nReview SSC roles and responsibilities\nReview and approve School Parent Compact\nReview School Safety Plan\nReview bylaws and revise as needed\nTuesday, January 24, 2023: 5:00pm in the Student Center\nReview student achievement data \/ test results\nDiscuss data analysis and student needs\nReview current School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA)\nTitle I Parent and Family Engagement Policy\nTuesday, March 7, 2023: 5:00pm in the Student Center\nReview Dress Code\nReview latest student achievement data and needs assessment\nEstablish SPSA writing team and timeline\nDiscuss SPSA revisions for next year\nTuesday, May 16, 2023: 5:00pm in the Student Center\nReview\/discuss SPSA and budget for next school year\nApprove SPSA and budget for next school year","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Urgent Needs Help Us About Care Uk Contacts\nSending containers of aid to refugees\nCare UK Charity collects and distributes practical items and medical aid to people in need. End of line, unwanted or excess stock items are sorted, packed and loaded onto 40 ft containers at our Northwich Depot, leaving for the refugees in Syria, Greece, or the Greek Islands.\nHelping people who have almost nothing\nCare UK Charity's Homes Team also assists refugees who have settled in the UK and local people referred by Social Services or other charities. These people often have almost nothing available to them to set up home or conduct their lives. The Care UK Homes Team are always in urgent need of furniture, household items and soft furnishings, in order to create a comfortable home from home.\nRecycling unwanted stock\nAre you a manufacturer or stockist of any of the items on our most wanted list? Do you have stocks that are nearly out of date, or no longer current? Could you donate them to us? You would be fulfilling your corporate social responsibility in terms of recycling, and clearing space in your storage facilities all at the same time.\nMore importantly, you will be helping people in need, families with children trying to survive in horrendous conditions both here in the UK and overseas.\nThank You from Care UK Charity\nHuge thanks to Procter & Gamble who came to the rescue again, sending us 23 pallets of mixed hygiene and nappies. We were all totally blown away.\npg.co.uk\nMost urgently needed items\nThese are our most urgent needs this month. If you can donate any sort of practical or essential items, hygiene product, or medical items that we have not listed PLEASE let us know as we probably need them too. This is just the most urgent list. Please help make a difference to people's lives.\nPushchairs\/strollers\nDishwashing liquid\nRaincoats\/ponchos\nSocks (new)\nSweatshirts (Small\/Med Men's)\nTrousers (adult, teenager, children)\nUnderwear-new (adult's\/children's)\nDisability Aids\nBeans (Tinned)\nDried Food (pasta, rice, couscous etc)\nTuna (Tinned)\nCarpet pieces (new)\nCraft\/Art Supplies\nSuitcases\/backpacks\nLice lotion\nRoll-on deodorant\nLocated in the North West of England\nCare UK Charity was set up in Cheshire, you will find our main donation and sorting station in Northwich, although we are expanding and now have additional sorting stations in Manchester and North Wales. We welcome volunteers from across the region.\nDonation Stations\nOur main donation station and sorting centre is located at 40 Chester Way, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 5JA Other sorting centres are located in Chorlton, Manchester and Buckley, North Wales.\nOur retail outlets are at Unit 17\/18 Cockhedge Shopping Park, Warrington WA1 2QQ phone 01925 418793 and 40 Chester Way, Northwich CW9 5JA phone 01606 43865\nVolunteer Sessions\nFor opening times and volunteer sessions see the Care UK Charity Facebook page","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > For Media > Press Releases > NMMC-West Point Honors Wofford as Employee of the Quarter\nNMMC-West Point Honors Wofford as Employee of the Quarter\nWEST POINT, Miss.\u2014Joy Wofford, RN, has been selected as the most recent Employee of the Quarter at North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point.\nA graduate of West Point High School, Wofford attained her licensed practical nursing certification and joined the NMMC-West Point staff in 1994. She earned her associate degree in nursing from Mississippi University for Women in 1995. In 1999 she transferred to the hospital's Emergency Department. She is certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support and the Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum.\nIn her nominations, coworkers praised Wofford for always putting patients' well-being first and for providing \"extras\" for patients. \"Joy purchases toys, gifts, socks, clothing and other items to have in the ER for children and families when needed,\" one nomination states. Another wrote, \"Joy has been a part of this community for all of her life and shows compassion through her work.\" She was also cited as a hard worker who is always punctual and continually learning.\n\"What I love most about my job is the people I work with. We are a family,\" Wofford said. \"We all have a part in making a positive impact or difference in someone's life. NMMC-West Point has the most amazing and caring staff.\"\nShe is a member of First Baptist Church in West Point.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2190 Lethbridge Arms Redevelopment\nBishops Lydeard Party in the Park \u2192\nCouncil Fly-tipping Costs 'Double'.\nPosted on September 5, 2011 by Mike Rigby\nBishops Lydeard Parish Councillor, Mike Rigby, has slammed Somerset Councils, including Tory-run Taunton Deane for the cuts made to the Council's waste recycling centres. Reduced opening hours and tipping charges were brought in at all Somerset Waste Recycling Centres in April. Many people, including Cllr Rigby, were concerned that these changes would lead to increased fly-tipping. John Williams, Conservative leader of Taunton Deane Borough Council said at the time, \"It's too early to see if there's going to be fly-tipping.\"\nUnder a freedom of information request, Cllr Rigby has discovered that the cost of dealing with fly-tipping in the first quarter since the changes were introduced is almost half of the cost of the whole of last year's clean-up costs. \"It's clear from all the anecdotal evidence, we've been receiving that fly-tipping is on the increase and now Taunton Deane's own figures prove this.\nIt's time Taunton Deane's Conservative administration woke up to the evidence and reversed these hugely counter-productive changes.\" Waste Recycling Sites (once known as Civic Amenity Sites, taking their name from the Act that introduced them) were introduced in the 1960s in order to combat fly-tipping. \"It's not rocket science to understand that cutting access to such facilities is going to increase fly-tipping. Taunton Deane appears to have forgotten why these sites were introduced in the first place,\" added Cllr Rigby. \"Even Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, no lover of Council spending, said in April, \"Charging for using recycling centres and the local dump will create perverse incentives for fly-tipping, harming the local environment and diverting tax-payers money into clearing up\". Cllr Rigby agreed with those sentiments, \"Now we have the evidence to show that at current rates, the cost of cleaning up fly-tipping in Taunton Deane will almost double as a result of this short-sighted policy. Add to that, the environmental damage and harm to wildlife and enjoyment of the countryside that results from fly-tipped waste and it's clear that the policy must change.\"\n2 Responses to Council Fly-tipping Costs 'Double'.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Animals, Plants, Technology\nDrone, Drone on the Range\nBy Caleb Garling on July 8, 2013\nCaleb Garling\nDrones aren't just for spying and unmanned warfare. Farmers are finding uses for herding cattle, spraying pesticides and a host of other farm chores.\nTake Christmas morning at Practical Preppers Farm in South Carolina. Under the tree: an amateur drone with four helicopter blades. Giddy as a kid with a new bike, owner Scott Hunt decided to try flying it over his cows. And maybe, just maybe, he could use the toy as a herding device.\nHunt worried about frightening the animals enough that they crashed through a fence, but as YouTube proves, he did alright. He even landed the drone on the back of his bull.\n\"He wasn't too thrilled with that,\" he says. \"A drone definitely will spook the animals. That's a huge horsefly.\"\nEven outside jumpy bovine circles, the word \"drone\" can get a negative reaction these days. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are often viewed as the faceless assassins of the military or tools for the police to spy on citizens in their backyards.\n'A drone definitely will spook the animals. That's a huge horsefly.'\nYet remote-control aircraft have practical purposes. As the costs of hardware, digital cameras and computing has fallen, it's grown increasingly common to see drones in the hands of regular people, hobbyists and curious kids.\nThough he's keeping the applications playful for now, Hunt, a perpetual innovator on his own farm, sees the potential for UAVs on small and big farms, herding and otherwise. He's not alone. Long Dream Farm in Placer County, California is considering drones to herd its cattle and such techniques work for sheep too.\nAnd there are plenty of other farm jobs where UAVs could replace humans, horses, tractors and machines, such as crop-dusting, imaging, taking samples and even checking in on pregnant livestock way out on the range.\nCompared to tractors and vehicles, drones lighten the impact on the farm. Tractor wheels compress the soil, inadvertently flatten crops and have trouble with hillside farm terrain. Not to mention when crops like tomatoes form tight canopies between plants, the only real way (before now) to do get a sense of the field is by walking them. Drone helicopters can hover just inches off the ground and wield a robotic arm for taking leaf or insect samples.\nAnd compared to piloted aircraft, UAVs are cheap.\n\"This is just another tool that can be used in the field to hopefully make food production safer,\" Dr. Ken Giles, an agricultural engineering professor at the University of California, Davis, who has been working on low-flying unmanned planes for spraying pesticides. Keeping the human pilot away from chemicals as the craft sprays could go a long way to avoid health issues.\nBut the operative phrase for farm drones is \"could replace.\" Today it is not legal to fly UAVs for commercial purposes, other than applying for \"experimental\" permits. So despite much hype and many promises about drones in American media, the UAV applications are still at the fringes.\nFarmers abide by FAA regulations for small remote-controlled aircraft \u2014 \"hobbyist\" rules: fly less than 400 feet off the ground, be miles away from an airport and weigh less than 55 pounds. The first two are not much of an issue, but if a farmer wants to do serious spraying, carry heavy imaging devices or cover a lot of ground, 55 pounds doesn't really cut it. (And Giles points out that if\/when you clear FAA regulations, there will also be EPA regulations for crop-dusting.)\nYet on farms in countries with more lax regulation of airspace, drones are, um, taking off. Rory Paul, a robotics developer in Missouri and outspoken UAV advocate, consults with farmers on the best applications for drones and says the United States is \"a good three years behind.\" Giles echoes the sentiment. \"The advancements in Europe are pretty far along,\" he says, noting that farms in France are developing advanced imaging techniques.\nBut it's not just the West. Japanese farms have long used midsize drones for crop-dusting. Brazil and Argentina have started using drones on their sprawling lands. Pablo Sandoval is a technician at Agricultura por Ambientes in Uruguay, which promotes healthy and sustainable farming. Today his group mainly uses drones for crop monitoring and aerial mapping. The UAVs build an intricate picture of the land by overlaying pictures and thermal images of corn, soybean, wheat, sugarcane and rice.\n\"I got the distinct impression they thought we'd have Predator and Reaper drones out among our crops.\"\nFor instance, they can use the chlorophyll index to analyze nitrogen changes to the overall terrain, which then informs the way they'll fertilize plants down the line. And rice needs a specific amount of water so the images dictate where to irrigate and where the crop grows best. Lastly, they use the images to simply gauge what crop yields will be before harvesting.\nSome of the United States' slowness in adoption is just the natural rate of uptake for a new technology. But the slow pace is also due to a government struggling to modernize drone regulations. Congress has until 2015 to create pathways for drones to fill the skies for commercial uses.\nPaul works with the officials in charge of the new FAA regulations. \"It's caught the [public's] imagination, but nothing's changed from an FAA perspective\u2026.I got the distinct impression they thought we'd have Predator and Reaper drones out among our crops,\" he said, referring to the deadly military crafts and without a hint of a joke.\nThe U.S. isn't alone though. Other countries are struggling with how to manage UAVs. Sandoval says that Uruguay's current regulations exist in a gray area that doesn't allow unmanned aircraft, but doesn't exactly forbid them either. Still, he points out that the demand to find regulations has not experienced as much pressure as it has in the United States since Uruguay's skies aren't as crowded.\nGiles is measured when he speaks about today's regulations in the U.S.: \"That's the limitation for a lot of operations.\" But the impatience in Rory Paul's voice is loud and clear when he talks about them. \"We've been ready to go for three years already \u2014 maybe more.\"\nPhoto credit: ADP Agronegocios del Plata\nRichard O'Leary\nThanks for this excellent post.\nSome equipment can already take samples from the ground or apply inputs (fertilizers, weedkillers, etc.) in a very localized way. A start-up even managed to plant or sow with great efficiency.\nTo increase analysis capabilities tenfold, swarms of drones are now being used.\nBut UAV manufacturers are no longer only interested in the aerial performance of their vehicles: they are investing in sensors and software, embedded or not.\nAquaculture, Technology\nCan Interactive Mapping Tools Guide Shellfish Restoration?Bridget Shirvell","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The 16 affective disorders and disorders: why do they occur?\nFaced with the appearance and manifestation of a certain psychopathology, an alteration of the affective or emotional state appears intrinsically.\nUsually these types of psychological expressions tend to be confusing as they are often used incorrectly and indistinctly. In order to know in a concrete way the definition of the deviations of the affection, we have compiled a list of the main affective disorders.\nWhat is affectivity?\n1. Pathological joy\n2. Pathological sadness\n3. Pathological anxiety\n4. Affective indifference or coldness\n5. Anedonia\n6. Parathyroidism or emotional insufficiency\n7. Emotional or affective lability\n8. Dysthymia\n9. Dysphoria\n10. Aprosodia\n11. Alexithymia\n12. Emotional rigidity\n13. Ambivalence or ambitimia\n14. Neothymia\n15. Apathy\n16. Abulia\nAffectivity is defined as the set of states and tendencies that a person experiences in their own way and immediately, that is, they exhibit a predominantly subjective nature.\nOutraged, it considerably influences the conformation of the personality and the behavior of the subject, To be therefore transcendent in the psychological development of the individual and is intrinsically associated with the communicative property since it is one of its fundamental goals. They are usually indicated using pairs of opposing terms such as joy \/ sadness, pleasure \/ pain, pleasant \/ unpleasant, etc.\nIn the DSM definition, affection is understood as behavior that expresses the subjective experience of a mood, or what is the same, an emotion. Thus, this concept relates to a more changeable and brief phenomenon, while humor refers to sustained and more permanent emotions.\nIt refers to an extreme state of euphoria and hyperactivity and is linked to the presence of a manic episode or an organic image called \"moria,\" which is characterized by excessive arousal, childish behavior, and a tendency to play on words.\nSet of symptoms based on an intense feeling of grief, sadness and grief in which the person experiences a significant decrease in interest in the environment. It is common in depressive episodes.\nIt is a manifestation relating to a remarkable increase in the state of physiological tension accompanied by a permanent feeling of intense fear, such as a state of continual vigilance. This deviation is common in anxiety disorders, primarily.\nIt refers to a state of absence of experiencing emotional sensations and is often linked to apathy or poor emotional responsiveness. It generally occurs in schizophrenic conditions, in pathologies of the histrionic personality, in organic-cerebral or endocrine alterations.\nAnhedonia is defined by the inability to experience pleasure and is common in schizophrenia and depression.\nIn this alteration, there is an incongruity between the affectivity expressed by the person and the contextual situation in which it manifests itself. It is characteristic of schizophrenic and organic-brain disorders.\nThis pathology is characterized by sudden changes in affection combined with the inability to contain it emotionally.. This is typical of dementias and pseudobulbar images. In the latter syndrome, fits of laughter or uncontrollable crying may occur, more frequently the latter.\nThis state is defined by the manifestation of a permanent bad mood, With little fluctuation. In DSM V, a distinction is made between dysthymic disorder or, what is the same, persistent depressive disorder. It is chronic although the intensity of symptoms is lower than in depressive disorder.\nMore information: \"Dysthymia: when melancholy takes over your mind\"\nIt is understood as a feeling of general emotional discomfort, with a depressed mood and the presence of anxiety, rather than physiological and cognitive anxiety. A significant presence has been observed in gender identity disorders.\nThis pathology is defined by an alteration in the use of affective language, More precisely in prosody (tone, rhythm, accent, intonation) and in emotional modulation. This condition is found in patients with Parkinson's disease or in patients who have sustained an injury to the right cerebral hemisphere.\nIn this case, there is also an alteration of emotional language, although referring to propositional aspects of language.. In other words, the person is unable to find a word that expresses his emotional state. It is common in chronic pain disorders.\nMore information: \"Alexithymia: the inability to say\" I love you \"\"\nIn this assignment, the ability to modulate and modify the emotions experienced is lost. and is associated with episodes of mania, depression or schizophrenia.\nIn this manifestation, the expression of opposite emotions on the same object or phenomenon occurs simultaneously. It is found in various personality disorders as it can occur in non-clinical subjects as well.\nIt is defined as a sensation of \"new appearance\", in the face of which the patient declares not to be able to recognize it in himself. or after having experienced it before. (Stolen or taxed emotional states). It is often associated with psychosis, epilepsy or heavy toxic use.\nLack of motivation, lack of \"desire to do anything\" and indifference to received external stimulation which is attributed to depressive states.\nIt is defined as the inability to perform an action voluntarily, Lack of energy to react behaviorally. It is linked to these pathologies of decreased motivation in the pediatric clinical population.\nCEDE (2012) CEDE PIR preparation manual, psychopathology. VOL.1.\nCasat, M. (2015) PIR Exam Preparation Manual vol. 1 \"Editorial MAD.\nThe 8 Myths About Schizophrenia (And Why They're Not True)\nHow to manage and accept the diagnosis of infertility\nWhat Are the Effects of Pets on Autistic Children?\nSudden Infant Death Syndrome: what it is and recommendations to avoid\nWhat is anxiety: how to recognize it and what to do","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are not running scripts and may miss some features.\nUSGS Circular 1316\n>> Pubs Warehouse > C1316 Index >C1316 HTML\nSynthesis of U.S. Geological Survey Science for the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem and Implications for Environmental Management\nChapter 3: Factors Affecting the Distribution and Transport of Nutrients\nBy John W. Brakebill and Stephen D. Preston\nHTML Index\nUSGS Chesapeake\nIn the Chesapeake 2000 agreement, the goal for water quality is to \"achieve and maintain the water quality necessary to support aquatic living resources of the Bay and its tributaries and to protect human health.\" Related to this goal is a commitment to correct nutrient- and sediment-related problems in the Bay and its tributaries in order to remove the Bay from the impaired waters list by 2010. This chapter summarizes USGS efforts to better understand the distribution and transport of nutrients using a watershed modeling application, known as SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes (SPARROW).\nSPARROW models use a nonlinear regression approach to define relations among nutrient sources, stream nutrient loads, and the environmental factors that potentially affect nutrient transport (Smith and others, 1997; Schwarz and others, 2006). Results from the SPARROW models provide (1) a statistical basis for estimating stream nutrient loads in unmonitored locations, and (2) the statistical significance of nutrient sources, environmental factors, and transport processes in explaining predicted nutrient loads.\nThe distribution and transport of nutrient sources in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been evaluated by the USGS using the SPARROW methodology. Models of total nitrogen and total phosphorus were developed for the Chesapeake Bay watershed, estimating water-quality conditions for three snapshots in time: the late 1980s-Version 1.0 (Preston and Brakebill, 1999; Brakebill and Preston, 1999), the early 1990s-Version 2.0 (Brakebill and others, 2001), and the late 1990s-Version 3.0 (Brakebill and Preston, 2004). Spatial data representing nutrient source quantities for each specified time period were compiled and include: atmospheric deposition, point-source locations, septic systems (Version 2.0 only), land use, land cover, and agricultural sources including commercial fertilizer and manure applications. Environmental characteristics datasets representing factors that affect the transport of nutrients (land-to-water delivery) also were compiled.\nThe fate and transport of nitrogen within a drainage catchment are influenced by watershed characteristics (such as slope, lithology, and geologic structure) and processes within the stream channel. Soil permeability (Version 1.0) and area within the Coastal Plain Physiographic Province (Versions 2.0 and 3.0) were identified in the SPARROW models as statistically significant watershed characteristics that affect the transport of nitrogen to streams. These factors may reflect the potential for nitrogen to flow through ground-water pathways that are slower and provide more potential for loss through denitrification (Brakebill and Preston, 2004). Additionally, the effect of in-stream loss processes, represented as a function of stream traveltime based on various streamflow classes and the presence of reservoirs, is a significant factor affecting the transport of nitrogen in streams (Brakebill and Preston, 2004; Preston and Brakebill, 1999). Smaller streams (those less than 200 cfs, or cubic feet per second), tend to have higher nitrogen loss than larger streams\u2014those greater than 1,000 cfs. Smaller, shallower streams have more contact with bottom sediments and have a greater potential for total nitrogen loss due to biological processing and denitrification.\nResource managers have identified three nutrient sources\u2014point sources, agriculture, and urban lands\u2014 as high priorities for nutrient-reduction actions. The spatial distribution of the amount of nitrogen delivered (expressed as yield) from each major source as it is transported to the Chesapeake Bay estuary is shown in figure 3.1. This information is being used to identify geographic areas where management actions designed to reduce nitrogen to the estuary should be implemented. The USGS also has provided the SPARROW model results for each of the tributary strategy basins, which are the geographic areas with specific nutrient and reduction goals, so resource managers can identify local areas with the highest delivery of nutrients to local streams and the estuary. An example of the SPARROW model results for the Shenandoah Valley tributary strategy basin is shown in figure 3.2. The amount of nitrogen that is generated locally and transported to streams (\"incremental yield\") is shown in figure 3.2A, and the amount of nitrogen that is generated locally and would be transported to the estuary (\"delivered yield\") is shown in figure 3.2B. The maps can be used together to better define areas where management actions may improve water quality both in local streams and the estuary. Information from the SPARROW models was also used to refine the segmentation for the CBP Phase V watershed model (Martucci and others, 2005), and to help design the CBP nontidal water-quality network (Brakebill and Preston, 2003). Results from the network for nutrient and sediment trends are provided in Chapter 5.\nFigure 3.1. Distribution of nitrogen yields delivered to Chesapeake Bay from (A) point sources, (B) agricultural sources, and (C) urban lands (modified from Brakebill and Preston, 2004). The USGS developed watershed models (SPARROW models) that provide a finer resolution of nutrient sources and their transport to streams and to the estuary. The SPARROW model results are being used to identify priority areas for implementing management actions.\nThe Cambridge wastewater treatment plant, with downtown Cambridge in the background and the Choptank River Bridge on the right. Photograph by Jane Thomas, IAN Image Library (www.ian.umces.edu\/imagelibrary\/).\nFigure 3.2. Distribution of total nitrogen yield in the Shenandoah Valley tributary strategy basin. (A) Incremental yield of total nitrogen is the amount generated in a local watershed and transported to a stream reach, and (B) delivered yield of total nitrogen is the amount that is generated in a local watershed and is reduced by instream loss as it is transported to the Bay. The results are being used to further delineate areas where management actions can benefit both the estuary and local water quality.\nView of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. Photograph by U.S. Geological Survey.\nBrakebill, J.W., and Preston, S.D., 1999, Digital data used to relate nutrient inputs to water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Version 1.0: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99\u201360, [variously paged].\nBrakebill, J.W., and Preston, S.D., 2003, A digital hydrologic network supporting spatially referenced regression modeling in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, in Proceedings of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EMAP Symposium 2001: Coastal Monitoring Through Partnerships, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, April 24\u201327, 2001, Pensacola, Florida, [81:1\u20133] 73\u201384, 403 p.\nBrakebill, J.W., and Preston, S.D., 2004, Digital data used to relate nutrient inputs to water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Version 3.0: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004\u20131433, [variously paged].\nBrakebill, J.W., Preston, S.D., and Martucci, S.K., 2001, Digital data used to relate nutrient inputs to water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, Version 2.0: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01\u2013251, [variously paged].\nMartucci, S.K., Krstolic, J.L., Raffensperger, J.P., and Hopkins, K.J., 2005, Development of land segmentation, stream-reach network, and watersheds in support of Hydrological Simulation Program\u2013Fortran (HSPF) modeling, Chesapeake Bay watershed, and adjacent parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005\u20135073, 15 p.\nPreston, S.D., and Brakebill, J.W., 1999, Applications of spatially referenced regression modeling for the evaluation of total nitrogen loading in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99\u20134054, 12 p.\nSmith, R.A., Schwarz, G.E., and Alexander, R.B., 1997, Regional interpretation of water-quality monitoring data: Water Resources Research, v. 33, no. 12, p. 2,781\u20132,798.\nSchwarz, G.E., Hoos, A.B., Alexander, R.B., and Smith, R.A., 2006, The SPARROW water-quality model: Theory, applications, and user documentation: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6B3, 248 p., CD-ROM.\nURL: https:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/circ\/circ1316\/html\/circ1316chap3.html\nPage Contact Information: Contact USGS\nPage Last Modified: Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 11:00:51 AM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"10 Years of M4D\nThe GSMA Innovation Fund\nDigital Agriculture Maps\nDigitise supply chains\nImprove climate resilience\nMobile content services\nDesign for farmers\nThe GSMA Innovation Fund for Assistive Tech\nPrinciples for Driving the Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities\nClimateTech\nThe GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation\nThe GSMA Innovation Fund For Digital Urban Services\nRenewable Energy for Mobile Towers\nMobile for Development | Central Climate Hub\nConnected Society\nThe State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2021\nMobile Connectivity Index\nMobile Coverage Maps\nMobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit\nMobile Digital Skills Alliance\nInnovation Funds\nGSMA National Dialogues\nConnected Women\nCommitment Initiative\nAccelerating Digital and Financial Inclusion\nThe Mobile Gender Gap Report\nReaching 50 Million Women with Mobile: A Practical Guide\nConnected Women Life Stories\nDigital Equity Initiative\nCommonwealth Digital Identity Initiative\nDigital Utilities\nThe value of pay-as-you-go solar\nEcosystem Accelerator\nMobile for Humanitarian Innovation\nHumanitarian Connectivity Charter\nMobile Money\nBuilding the ecosystem\nState of the Industry Report on Mobile Money\nMobile Money Metrics\nGSMA Mobile Money Certification\nInclusive Tech Lab\nGSMA Mobile Money API\nThe Mobile Money Regulatory Index\nmHealth\nmHealth Design Toolkit\nCreating mobile health solutions for behaviour change\nmHealth Tracker\nConnected Society Innovation Fund for Rural Connectivity\nGSMA Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption\nM4D Donors\nUsing mobile big data to help inform the fight against COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of Congo\nWednesday 29 July, 2020\nBlog | blog | COVID-19 | Democratic Republic of Congo\nThe Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 epidemic. The country is already dealing with cholera, a measles epidemic that has caused 6,000 deaths since January 2019, as well as a new outbreak of Ebola in the \u00c9quateur province. At the same time, the country's economy is very exposed to the unprecedented economic slowdown caused by global containment measures to \"flatten the curve\" with the IMF's growth projections for the country downgraded to -2.2 per cent for 2020.\nAs of 13 July, the country has reported 8,075 COVID-19 cases and 190 deaths, with around 85 per cent of confirmed cases concentrated in the Kinshasa province. While the government is actively working with partners to slow the propagation of the virus, support vulnerable communities, and strengthen the resilience of the health system, the lack of data is a major impediment.\nThe DRC has not had a census since 1984, and following the process of decoupage in 2015 that saw the country's existing 11 provinces being split up to 26, data to inform evidence-based decision making by province is fairly limited. A consortium led by Grid3 is currently trying to update population estimates for some of the DRC's 26 provinces, while also overlaying these population estimates with the latest health infrastructure data. The importance of this exercise is highlighted by their recent mapping of villages in the Kongo Central province. While the most comprehensive dataset in the Kongo Central province had only about 500 villages named and located, Grid3's settlement layer featured over 9,000.\nThe country's ongoing battle with other diseases, as well as the general vulnerability of the population to economic shocks (73 per cent of the DRC's population live under the poverty line), make informed action based on data that weighs different policy trade-offs all the more important.\nIn low-income countries like the DRC, where data quality is poor and national statistics offices under-resourced, aggregated, anonymised mobile operator data can provide vital and actionable insights for decision-makers in the context of COVID-19. Some of the relevant use cases include mapping population mobility across provinces and health districts, identifying potential hotspots for the propagation of the virus, and mapping out evolving logistical and resource requirements for vital assets (such as health centres) over time.\nHow the mobile industry is supporting health authorities and relevant partners in the DRC\nIn May 2020, the GSMA, ANICiiS[1] and Kinshasa Digital[2], with the support of Texaf Digital Campus, together with mobile operators Africell, Orange and Vodacom, reached an agreement to collaborate to use mobile big data analytics to inform the efforts of the Government of DRC in responding to COVID-19. The country's telecommunications regulator l'Autorit\u00e9 de R\u00e9gulation de la Poste et des T\u00e9l\u00e9communications du Congo also endorsed the project. Other key partners include Fluxvision[3], PATH, an NGO advising the Congolese authorities on digital health interventions, Flowminder, an NGO that leverages big data to improve public health and welfare, and the Digital Impact Alliance, an NGO that aims to advance digital inclusion.\nBeyond coordinating the contribution of different mobile operators and their partners, the GSMA is also supporting this project through sharing lessons learnt from its global AI for Impact initiative, and providing data science expertise. The GSMA is also ensuring that the project adheres to adequate data privacy standards.\nWhat has been achieved so far\nAs part of the engagement, Orange DRC in partnership with Flux Vision have already provided aggregated and anonymised data sets to Kinshasa Digital. Based on these insights, Kinshasa Digital is building a nationwide dashboard, which allows health authorities to track population mobility trends within and across different health districts throughout the country. This allows government authorities insight into how movement patterns change in response to government measures, as well as other factors such as economic incentives, or insecurity. As the virus is spreading rapidly from Kinshasa's most affected districts (such as Limete, Gombe, Binza-Meteo, Binza-Ozone) to other districts in Kinshasa, and to other provinces in the country (most notably Kinshasa, Kongo Central, Sud Kivu, and Haut-Katanga) amid mining activities resuming, it will be a useful tool for the government to track the potential propagation of the virus and to devise informed policy responses.\nA population mobility dashboard hosted on StopCovid DRC with Orange RDC data\nIn parallel, Vodacom DRC and Flowminder have provided government authorities with a report, which uses call detail records (CDRs) to analyse the impact of the government's confinement measures on mobility patterns in Kinshasa's Gombe district. The analysis revealed that there is a drop of 70% in the total flow of subscribers travelling to Gombe after the confinement, suggesting that adherence to the government's measures was quite high.\nAfricell has also partnered up with Flowminder, and will also be providing vital insights to government authorities going forward. In parallel, Flowminder and the GSMA are also in conversations with Grid3 and WorldPop to see how mobile data can further enhance the accuracy of these vital population estimates.\nLeveraging the dashboard, Kinshasa Digital and the GSMA are also closely working with mobile operators and the Ministry of Health to identify potential future hotspots (as the case load outside of the province of Kinshasa is accelerating rapidly). Further, beyond understanding population mobility and potential future hotspots, Kinshasa Digital are also working with relevant partners to provide updated insights on the stock levels and resource requirements of health facilities in the province of Kinshasa.\nIn the longer-term, the GSMA hopes that this project underlines the value of mobile big data to government stakeholders beyond the Ministry of Health, strengthens the capacity of local mobile operators, and leads to further such partnerships to help address the country's challenges.\nFor more information on AI for Impact, and how mobile big data analytics can help combat COVID-19, please go to:\nAI for Impact\n[1] Agence Nationale d'Ing\u00e9nierie Clinique d'Information et d'Informatique de Sant\u00e9\n[2] A web development and digital communication agency that serves as one of the key technical partners of ANICiiS and the Ministry of Health\n[3] A division of Orange Business Services that offers near real- time, reliable statistics on mobility patterns\nLike what you read? 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{"text":"Alpha Relief assesses aid for disaster victims\nBy Beth StolickerSeptember 22, 2017\nInternational (MNN) \u2013 Before the second earthquake shook Mexico this month, both the states of Florida and Texas in the United States and the South Asian countries of Bangladesh, Nepal, and India had been experiencing their own disasters\u2013 extreme flooding.\nThousands Affected by Disasters\nGOES-16 captured this geocolor image of three hurricanes in the tropical Atlantic on the afternoon of September 8, 2017. Left to right, they are: Hurricane Katia, which made landfall in Mexico that night. Hurricane Irma, which was passing between Cuba and the Bahamas; and Hurricane Jos\u00e9, which was churning in the open ocean. (Caption, photo courtesy of NOAA Satellites via Flickr: https:\/\/goo.gl\/kxyXA4)\nThe flooding, caused by hurricanes and monsoons, has left thousands of people devastated, homeless, and in great need. However, little has been said about the destruction the monsoons have brought in South Asia. Instead, this news has been clouded by other devastating events.\nGlobal Advance wants to address the needs in South Asia and the United States, through its ministry, Alpha Relief.\n\"[Alpha Relief was] birthed to minister in very concrete ways to persecuted believers around the world. And so, Alpha Relief does that,\" Global Advance's David Shibley explains.\nHowever, a lot of Christian ministries are strained as they try to help the increasing need. And, Alpha Relief is no exception. Alpha Relief has already been providing aid to those who have stayed behind in Syria.\n\"We go in providing very practical things like heating oil, blankets, medications, and just ministering encouragement to Christians there in Syria.\"\nOpportunities for the Gospel\nStill, this incredible time of need offers numerous opportunities for Christians to get involved and help their neighbor. While these disasters are anything but good, they do post an opportunity for an open door through which to share the Gospel.\n\"We need to stay Gospel-centered and put the Gospel front and center because many hearts are open right now,\" Shibley shares.\n\"There are many who turn in disillusionment and bitterness, that's true. But, there are others who are asking the big questions of life and we need to be there with the hope that we have in Jesus Christ.\"\nAlpha Relief Tips for Helping\nWith the increased need, Alpha Relief is in the assessment phase to know how best to use their resources and who the ministry can reach. Regardless of where the help goes, though, it's going to be a long-term project for recovery in the United States, South Asia, Syria, and Mexico.\n(Photo Courtesy Alpha Relief via Facebook)\nSo, how is Alpha Relief determining how and who to help?\n\"We just look at the human need, realizing that we cannot respond to everything, but we can respond to that which the Holy Spirit prompts us to do,\" Shibley explains.\nAs missionary once told Shibley; the amount of need there is could put a single person in a thousand places today. However, there's only one place you're supposed to be\u2013the place the God wants you to serve and help in.\nPray for Alpha Relief to decipher where the Holy Spirit is leading the ministry to help. Ask God what he wants you to do and where he wants you to be. Pray for people's hearts to be sensitive to the need both in the United States and abroad. Finally, pray for the right people to step forward to address this enormous need.\n\"That mix altogether of the compassionate deeds, the supernatural touch of God's grace, and the proclamation of the Gospel is going to have tremendous multiplied effect in these days,\" Shibley shares.\nLearn more about Alpha Relief or donate here!\nalpha reliefbangladeshfloridaglobal advancemexiconepalrefugeessouth asiasyriatexasunited states\nSorry, no data found.\nPray for the Holy Spirit's guidance as Alpha Relief assess how to help.\nPray for the people living through these disasters to have their needs met, find comfort, and to lean on the Lord.\nDonate to Alpha Relief and help meet these people's needs!\nWorld Missionary Press revives translation projects in God's timing\nSGA seeks to help Ukrainian Orphans\nWorld Missionary Press revives translation projects in God's timing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Here's Lukas Graham and Kelsea Ballerini's Charming Grammys Duet\nRyan Seacrest wondered where else such a strange collaboration, between a some Danes and an American, could possibly happen.\nby Alex Robert Ross\nFeb 13 2017, 3:08am\nDanish band Lukas Graham and Tennessean country Kelsea Ballerini performed together at the 2017 Grammys tonight in Los Angeles. They played a combination of Lukas Graham's \"7 Years\" and Ballerini's \"Peter Pan\" in what amounted to a surprisingly coherent duet. Ryan Seacrest, of course, thought that the whole thing was astonishing when introducing the set, with Danish and American cultures clashing right there on the stage before our very eyes. WHAT ODDS?!\nFollow Noisey on Twitter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2021 Glorisun International Intensive Program on Buddhism, hosted by Harvard FAS CAMLab \u2013 Student Forum\nThird Volume of \"Hualin Translation Series On Buddhist Studies\" (Chinese)\n2021 Glorisun International Intensive Program on Buddhism, hosted by Harvard FAS CAMLab \u2013 Student Forum Panel 3\nClick here to return to the main program page.\nWatch Panel 3 recording here.\n2021 Glorisun INTERNATIONAL & INTENSIVE PROGRAM\nON BUDDHISM STUDENT FORUM\nTime Zone Vancouver (PST) New York (EST) UK (BST) Hamburg (GMT) Beijing (CST)\nPanel 1 6:00 am\u20137:25 am 9:00 am\u201310:25 am 2:00 pm\u20133:25 pm 3:00 pm\u20134:25 pm 9:00 pm\u201310:25 pm\nPanel 1: Textual Studies \u6587\u737b\u7814\u7a76 (Chair: Micheal CAVAYERO \u67ef\u5049\u696d)\n1.1. (6:00-6:10) Ch\u00e9 GARCIA \u845b\u601d\u6f88 (Renmin University of China \u4e2d\u570b\u4eba\u6c11\u5927\u5b78): A Cursory Look at Ben in T14 Renben yusheng jing \u4eba\u672c\u6b32\u751f\u7d93\n1.2. (6:10-6:20) Lindsay LIN \u6797\u8389\u8389 (Shanghai Normal University \u4e0a\u6d77\u5e2b\u7bc4\u5927\u5b78): \u5f9e\u5beb\u672c\u81f3\u523b\u672c\u2014\u2014\u6f22\u8b6f\u300a\u6cd5\u53e5\u7d93\u300b\u7570\u6587\u7814\u7a76\n1.3. (6:20-6:30) ZENG Lizhen \u66fe\u9e97\u73cd (Fujian Normal University \u798f\u5efa\u5e2b\u7bc4\u5927\u5b78): \u300a\u4f5b\u8aaa\u89e3\u767e\u751f\u6028\u5bb6\u9640\u7f85\u5c3c\u7d93\u300b\u5492\u8a9e\u7814\u7a76\n1.4. (6:30-6:40) Guanrui GONG \u9f94\u51a0\u777f (University of Colorado, Boulder): Strategies of Persuasion in the Preface to Chu sanzang ji ji \u51fa\u4e09\u85cf\u8a18\u96c6\nComment \u8a55\u8b70 (6:40-6:55) Discussant: Imre GALAMBOS \u9ad8\u5955\u777f\nDiscussion \u8a0e\u8ad6 (6:55-7:25) Open Floor \u958b\u653e\u8a0e\u8ad6\nPanel 2 7:35 am\u20139:20 am 10:35 am\u201312:20 pm 3:35 pm\u20135:20 pm 4:35 pm\u20136:20 pm 10:35 pm\u201312:20 am\nPanel 2: Doctrine & Practice \u7fa9\u7406\u8207\u5be6\u8e10 (Chair: Jinhua CHEN \u9673\u91d1\u83ef)\n2.1. (7:35-7:45) SHI Chuansheng \u91cb\u50b3\u8056 (Richard Changjin Chen) (University of Hong Kong \u9999\u6e2f\u5927\u5b78): Seven-Fold Classifications of Buddhism (\u91d1\u9802\u4e03\u6559: \u56e0\u61c9\u5927\u6578\u64da\u6642\u4ee3,\u5728\u5929\u53f0\u5224\u6559\u57fa\u790e\u4e0a\u7684\u5168\u65b0\u518d\u5224\u6559)\n2.2. (7:45-7:55) Yipaer AIERKEN \u4f0a\u5e15\u723e\u00b7\u827e\u723e\u80af (Arizona State University): Transreligious and Transethnical Aesthetics: Anige (1245\u20131306)\n2.3. (7:55-8:05) Makarand LANKESHWAR (Capital Normal University \u9996\u90fd\u5e2b\u7bc4\u5927\u5b78): Mumbai, the Economic Capital and Its Port during Satvahana Period\n2.4. (8:05-8:15) Matteo SGORBATI \u53f8\u746a\u7ac7 (University of Perugia, Italy & Ghent University, Belgium): Wu Rujun and the Buddhist authentication of Jung's theory of the mind: Self, Collective Unconscious and Shadow\n2.5. (8:15-8:25) VEN. Cetovimutti (Cong Yuan) (Chicago): A Baby Born from a Cow and a Lotus: The Amalgamation of Buddhist and Daoist Doctrines in The Legend of King Guyin \u53e4\u97f3\u738b\u50b3\nComment \u8a55\u8b70 (8:25-8:40) Discussant: Barend TER HAAR \u7530\u6d77\nPanel 3 9:30 am\u201311:00am 12:30 am\u20132:00 pm 5:30 pm\u20137:00 pm 6:30 pm\u20138:00 pm 12:30 am\u20132:00 am\nPanel 3: Religious Arts \u5b97\u6559\u85dd\u8853 (Chair: Lori Meeks)\n3.1. (9:30-9:40) Xiaofei (Sophie) LEI \u96f7\u5c0f\u970f (Harvard): Dharani, Meditation, and Mara's Deeds: A Reinterpretation of Dunhuang Cave 285\n3.2. (9:40-9:50) DING Kehan \u4e01\u53ef\u542b (Edinburgh): The Syntax of Ritual Formulation in the Song-Yuan Buddhist Monasteries\n3.3. (9:50-10:00) WANG Kai \u738b\u958b (U. of Toronto): Shaping the Faces of Immortals: A Visual Change of Immortal Appearance in Early Taoism\n3.4. (10:00-10:10) Junfu WONG \u9ec3\u541b\u6991 (Cambridge): Lay Buddhist Framework of the Afterlife: Scriptural Borrowing and Practising as Reflected by Guanzhong Stele Epigraphy during the Fifth and Sixth Centuries\nComment \u8a55\u8b70 (10:10-10:25) Discussant: Eugene WANG \u6c6a\u6085\u9032\nDiscussion \u8a0e\u8ad6 (10:25-11:00) Open Floor \u958b\u653e\u8a0e\u8ad6\nPanel 1: Textual Studies \u6587\u737b\u7814\u7a76\n1.1. Ch\u00e9 GARCIA \u845b\u601d\u6f88 (Renmin University of China \u4e2d\u570b\u4eba\u6c11\u5927\u5b78): A Cursory Look at Ben in T14 Renben yusheng jing \u4eba\u672c\u6b32\u751f\u7d93\nShi Dao'an \u91cb\u9053\u5b89 (312-385) is one of the most prolific figures in early Chinese Buddhism. One of the most popular monks of his time, he was a teacher, a translator, a bibliographer, and was instrumental in establishing many of the codes for monastic discipline and conduct. It was he who instituted the practice of Chinese monks taking the surname, \"Shi\" \u91cb in honor of \"the sage of the \u015aakyas\" (\u015aakyamun\u012b; P\u0101li: Sakyamun\u012b; \u91cb\u8fe6\u7a46\u5c3c), which endures to this day. He is no less remembered as a great exegete, writing commentaries for at least six translations of An Shigao \u5b89\u4e16\u9ad8 (c. 2nd cent.), thereby marrying himself and his ideas to some of the most important foundational texts in early Chinese Buddhism. Early in his career, he composed a preface and commentary to An Shigao's translation of the Renben yusheng jing \u4eba\u672c\u6b32\u751f\u7d93. In that preface, when giving his reading of the title, he defines the term, ben \u672c as chi \u7661. In the following paper, I will attempt to show that, while \"ben as chi\" may be an integral part of Shi Dao'an's philosophy, there is no basis for such a reading in An Shigao's original translation.\n1.2. Lindsay LIN \u6797\u8389\u8389 (Shanghai Normal University \u4e0a\u6d77\u5e2b\u7bc4\u5927\u5b78): \u5f9e\u5beb\u672c\u81f3\u523b\u672c:\u6f22\u8b6f\u300a\u6cd5\u53e5\u7d93\u300b\u7570\u6587\u7814\u7a76\n\u6f22\u8b6f\u300a\u6cd5\u53e5\u7d93\u300b\u4f5c\u70ba\u6700\u65e9\u88ab\u50b3\u8b6f\u7684\u4f5b\u6559\u5178\u7c4d\u4e4b\u4e00,\u7531\u5beb\u672c\u767c\u5c55\u5230\u523b\u672c,\u4ee5\u81f3\u4eca\u65e5\u4e4b\u901a\u884c\u672c,\u6b77\u7d93\u4e00\u5343\u591a\u5e74\u3002\u5f9e\u73fe\u5b58\u6700\u65e9\u7684\u6566\u714c\u53ca\u5410\u9b6f\u756a\u5beb\u672c,\u5230\u5982\u4eca\u4f7f\u7528\u6700\u5ee3\u7684\u5927\u6b63\u85cf\u523b\u672c,\u9019\u6bb5\u6d41\u50b3\u7684\u6b77\u53f2,\u7121\u7591\u4e5f\u662f\u5176\u6587\u672c\u7684\u6f14\u8b8a\u53f2\u3002\u76ee\u524d\u5b78\u754c\u95dc\u65bc\u6f22\u8b6f\u300a\u6cd5\u53e5\u7d93\u300b\u7684\u6587\u737b\u5b78\u7814\u7a76,\u80fd\u5920\u5229\u7528\u6566\u714c\u907a\u66f8\u548c\u5410\u9b6f\u756a\u6587\u66f8\u7b49\u5beb\u672c\u7684\u4e26\u4e0d\u591a\u898b\u3002\u672c\u6587\u5c0d\u6821\u4e86\u4e0d\u540c\u6642\u671f\u7684\u300a\u6cd5\u53e5\u7d93\u300b\u5beb\u672c\u53ca\u523b\u672c,\u6574\u7406\u51fa\u7570\u6587\u8fd1\u4e09\u767e\u8655\u3002\u901a\u904e\u5c0d\u7570\u6587\u6a6b\u5411\u548c\u7e31\u5411\u7684\u7814\u7a76,\u5206\u6790\u63a8\u6e2c\u300a\u6cd5\u53e5\u7d93\u300b\u5f9e\u5beb\u672c\u81f3\u523b\u672c\u7684\u6f14\u8b8a\u60c5\u6cc1,\u9032\u800c\u7ba1\u7aba\u6f22\u6587\u5927\u85cf\u7d93\u5f9e\u5beb\u672c\u85cf\u7d93\u81f3\u523b\u672c\u85cf\u7d93\u6574\u9ad4\u7684\u6d41\u8b8a\u3002\n1.3. ZENG Lizhen \u66fe\u9e97\u73cd (Fujian Normal University \u798f\u5efa\u5e2b\u7bc4\u5927\u5b78): \u300a\u4f5b\u8aaa\u89e3\u767e\u751f\u6028\u5bb6\u9640\u7f85\u5c3c\u7d93\u300b\u5492\u8a9e\u7814\u7a76\n\u300a\u4f5b\u8aaa\u89e3\u767e\u751f\u6028\u5bb6\u9640\u7f85\u5c3c\u7d93\u300b\u4f5c\u70ba\u4e00\u90e8\u7591\u507d\u7d93,\u5728\u5510\u5b8b\u4e4b\u5f8c\u7684\u6c11\u9593\u5177\u6709\u5ee3\u6cdb\u7684\u4fe1\u4ef0\u57fa\u790e,\u800c\u7d93\u6587\u5728\u50b3\u64ad\u548c\u4f7f\u7528\u904e\u7a0b\u4e2d\u53c8\u884d\u751f\u51fa\u591a\u500b\u7248\u672c\u3002\u76ee\u524d\u767c\u73fe\u6709\u6566\u714c\u5beb\u672c\u3001\u897f\u590f\u6587\u672c\u3001\u300a\u5609\u8208\u85cf\u300b\u672c\u548c\u795e\u5fb7\u5bfa\u5854\u51fa\u571f\u6587\u737b\u56db\u7a2e,\u795e\u5fb7\u5bfa\u5854\u51fa\u571f\u6587\u737b\u53c8\u53ef\u6839\u64da\u5492\u8a9e\u7684\u4e0d\u540c\u5206\u70ba\u5169\u500b\u7cfb\u7d71\u3002\u4e94\u500b\u7248\u672c\u4e2d\u56db\u7a2e\u5492\u8a9e\u7684\u5927\u90e8\u5206\u5167\u5bb9\u90fd\u53ef\u898b\u65bc\u76db\u5510\u6642\u671f\u6240\u8b6f\u5bc6\u5178,\u901a\u904e\u8ffd\u6eaf\u9019\u4e9b\u5492\u8a9e\u4f86\u6e90,\u53ef\u4ee5\u63a8\u65b7\u6b64\u7d93\u5728\u5510\u958b\u5143\u5341\u4e8c\u5e74\u81f3\u5510\u672b\u4e00\u6bb5\u6642\u9593\u5167\u7522\u751f\u3002\u7531\u65bc\u6b64\u7d93\u5177\u6709\u5f88\u5f37\u7684\u73fe\u5be6\u91dd\u5c0d\u6027,\u8fce\u5408\u6c11\u773e\u70ba\u4ea1\u8005\u89e3\u9664\u4eba\u4e16\u6069\u6028\u7684\u529f\u80fd\u8a34\u6c42,\u4e14\u7d93\u4e2d\u5927\u529b\u5ba3\u63da\u9640\u7f85\u5c3c\u7684\u529f\u529b,\u56e0\u800c\u7d93\u5167\u89e3\u51a4\u5492\u8a9e\u5728\u5f8c\u4e16\u983b\u7e41\u904b\u7528\u65bc\u5404\u7a2e\u85a6\u4ea1\u5100\u5f0f\u3002\n1.4. Guanrui GONG \u9f94\u51a0\u777f (University of Colorado, Boulder): Strategies of Persuasion in the Preface to Chu Sanzang ji ji \u51fa\u4e09\u85cf\u8a18\u96c6\nThe Chu Sanzang ji ji \u51fa\u4e09\u85cf\u8a18\u96c6 (Collection of records on the translation of Tripitaka; hereafter CSZJJ) compiled by Sengyou \u50e7\u7950 (445\u2013518) has provided valuable bibliographical information of early Chinese Buddhist scriptures. Recent scholarship on CSZJJ has focused on attributions of translations of scriptures and how the collection is organized. In my paper, I shift my focus from the collection proper to the preface in the beginning of CSZJJ. I read the preface as a literary piece of writing and explore the paratextual functions it performs for the collection. I argue that the preface can be read as an apology for CSZJJ\u2014an argument for its necessity, importance, reliability, and authority. Through a close reading of the text, paying attention to both the information it conveys and how it conveys the information, I illustrate that the preface succeeds to be persuasive for CSZJJ through laying out clearly the problems CSZJJ aimed to solve, through bringing out the usefulness and necessity of CSZJJ, through emphasizing the importance of compilers in Buddhism and their lineage, and through autobiographical accounts and the various rhetorical devices employed in these accounts. I also show how Sengyou's paratextual practices have echoes in other literary traditions than the Chinese one. I expect my project to shed new light on paratexts from early medieval China and to demonstrate the potential to read Buddhist texts as literature.\nPanel 2: Doctrine & Practice \u7fa9\u7406\u8207\u5be6\u8e10\n2.1. Shi Chuansheng \u91cb\u50b3\u8056 (Richard Changjin Chen) (University of Hong Kong \u9999\u6e2f\u5927\u5b78): Seven-Fold Classifications of Buddhism (\u91d1\u9802\u4e03\u6559: \u56e0\u61c9\u5927\u6578\u64da\u6642\u4ee3,\u5728\u5929\u53f0\u5224\u6559\u57fa\u790e\u4e0a\u7684\u5168\u65b0\u518d\u5224\u6559)\nThis thesis is intent on having a new classification of world Buddhism from ground up. In the Era of modern Big Data Database, scholars could get rich academic research resources from the Internet. Apparently, this is an opportunity to integrate all teachings of the Three Vehicles together to develop a new unification of the world Buddhism. In the course of studying Buddhism. It is noted that the Indian Madhyamika was classified as the Two Truth Theories\u4e8c\u8ae6\u8ad6; however, the Chinese Tiantai Buddhist scholars developed it into Three Truth Theories\u4e09\u8ae6\u8ad6. There were other thoughts of Classifications \u5224\u6559\u601d\u60f3, such as the Chinese Tiantai \u5929\u53f0, Huayan \u83ef\u56b4, Tang \u5510\u5bc6 and Tibetan \u85cf\u5bc6 Traditions over one thousand years ago. Due to a lack of communications and other reasons, they are all isolated because of their own sectarian traditions and deepening levels differentiation. It is quite demanding for different Buddhist traditions to follow. Accordingly, it is necessary for the scholars of Buddhist studies to reach a consensus agreement in accord with all sectarian traditions, and to provide a vision for the Buddhists in every stage of their practice. Inclusively, this new classification is to uphold the three vehicles \u4e09\u4e58\u7e3d\u6301 in Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana, and it is the collection of the seven teachings as a whole. It comprises the Treatises on Renunciation Mind \u51fa\u96e2\u5fc3\u8ad6, Buddha Nature \u4f5b\u6027\u8ad6, Bodhi Mind \u83e9\u63d0\u5fc3\u8ad6, Vajra Mind \u91d1\u525b\u5fc3\u8ad6, Vajra Body \u91d1\u525b\u8eab\u8ad6, Buddha Bodies \u4f5b\u8eab\u8ad6, and Pure Lands \u4f5b\u571f\u8ad6.\n2.2. Yipaer AIERKEN \u4f0a\u5e15\u723e\u00b7\u827e\u723e\u80af (Arizona State University): Transreligious and Transethnical Aesthetics: Anige (1245\u20131306)\nBoth Tibetan Buddhism and the art associated with it spread widely throughout Inner China after Tibet was conquered by the Sino-Mongolian Yuan dynasty. As a result of the need for political and religious ceremonies, vast amounts of Tibetan Buddhist art was created in the Yuan dynasty's two capitals and across the Jiangnan area. In the History of the Yuan and other historical records of the Yuan era, Tibetan Buddhist artworks produced under the supervision of the court are referred to as the Nepali-Tibetan Himalayan style, a term invented by the Nepali artist Anige (1245\u20131306). It is important to reconstruct this style given its widespread and far-reaching influence on Tibetan Buddhist art at the Ming and Qing courts, Tibetan Buddhist art in Tibet, and its significance to the history of Tibetan Buddhist art, Sino\u2013Tibetan artistic interaction, and even Chinese Buddhist art. I use historical records, biography and thangkas portraits to study the social background and religious milieu of the Nepali-Tibetan Himalayan style's emergence in the Yuan period. The aim of this research is to contribute a fresh perspective regarding the evolution of art history from a Nepali-Tibetan perspective.\n2.3. Makarand LANKESHWAR (Capital Normal University \u9996\u90fd\u5e2b\u7bc4\u5927\u5b78): Mumbai, the Economic Capital and Its Port During Satvahana Period\nIndia is a land that has always attracted travelers, researchers, traders. And it has always been in the spotlight in world history. The abundance of India's natural resources, agricultural products, ornaments, spices, etc., attracted Western travelers, merchants, and the kings of those countries to India. The fascination of Indian culture, civilization, tradition and philosophy was felt by the western countries. And it was from this trade that cultural unity, economic exchanges began.\nThe word INDIA was first used by the Greeks \"Inida- across the Indus.\" They set sail in small ships and reached the Indus Valley. Eventually they became aware of the winds, using the southwest monsoon winds from June to September they easily crossed the Indian Ocean directly from the port of Eden to the west coast of India. And they traveled back with the northeast monsoon winds blowing from November to February. Eudoxus\/ Hippalus was the first to discover or realize this wind \u2026 This allowed merchants from the west to make a round-trip journey to India within a single year. These foreign sailors discovered many new sea routes. The information of trade of small places of these routes was only given to each other through verbal method.\nIndia was a trading and economic hub during ancient period. Many ancient Yavan (Greek-Roman) traders, travelers, ambassadors have described Indian trade in detail in their books. in Buddhist literature also find descriptions of commercial markets, ports etc.\nDivyavadan is mentioned in the book as a city with 17 major gates with ramparts. also mentions that Monk Punna came here to spread Buddhism on the orders of Buddha. If Soppara is the port of Ophir (described in the Bible), then its time can go back. In the book PES Soppara is mentioned as Ouppara.\nEdict of Ashoka describes that Monk Dhammarakshit (Greek-Roman) appointed as to look after the area. This confirms that there was a large Greek-Roman colony here. Later, in the inscriptions of the Satavahana Shilahar kings, we find the description of the ancient city of Sopara. India's golden age came in this way.\n2.4. Matteo SGORBATI \u53f8\u746a\u7ac7 (University of Perugia, Italy & Ghent University, Belgium): Wu Rujun and the Buddhist authentication of Jung's theory of the mind: Self, Collective Unconscious and Shadow\nGiven the popularity of psychoanalysis in the West, since the 1960s Western Yog\u0101c\u0101ra scholars have referred to the term and concept of the unconscious when discussing \u0101layavij\u00f1ana. \"In some respects,\" Tao Jiang argued, \"the Western interpretation of \u0101layavij\u00f1ana is the culmination of the search for a Buddhist notion of the unconscious\" (Jiang. 2006. Contexts and Dialogue: Yog\u0101c\u0101ra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 10). I would like to present the East Asian Buddhist perspective instead, analyzing the interpretation of Jung's (1875\u20131961) psychoanalytical theory by Wu Rujun \u5433\u6c5d\u921e (1946\u2013), a contemporary scholar and advocate of Yog\u0101c\u0101ra. Claiming a comparative study (bijiao yanjiu \u6bd4\u8f03\u7814\u7a76), he recently discussed Jung's theory (which he termed \"shenceng xinlixue \u6df1\u5c64\u5fc3\u7406\u5b78\", deep psychology) through the prism of consciousness-only (weishi \u552f\u8b58) doctrine (Wu. 2014. Weishi xue yu jingshen fenxi: Yi alaiyeshi yu qianyishi weizhu. Taipei: Taiwan xuesheng, 409\u2013428). He saw in Jung's concept of Self a similarity with \u0101layavij\u00f1ana, arguing that they are both related to the current body and contained those seeds (zhongzi \u7a2e\u5b50; skr. b\u012bja) that are subject to transmigration and transformation. The Collective Unconscious is compared to Collective Karma (gongye \u5171\u696d) instead, while the Shadow is understood in terms of secondary mental afflictions (suifannao \u96a8\u7169\u60f1). He eventually stated that consciousness-only doctrine can authenticate (renzheng \u8a8d\u8b49) Jung's point of view. I would like to analyze and discuss Wu's philosophical discourse by focusing on the modernist aspects of his Buddhist \"authentication\" of these three psychological notions.\n2.5. VEN. Cetovimutti (Cong Yuan) (Chicago): A Baby Born from a Cow and a Lotus: The Amalgamation of Buddhist and Daoist Doctrines in The Legend of King Guyin \u53e4\u97f3\u738b\u50b3\nThe Legend of King Guyin \u53e4\u97f3\u738b\u50b3 (hereby noted as LKG) is an allegoric novel written by Chan patriarch Chuiwan Guangzhen \u5439\u842c\u5ee3\u771f (1582-1639). This text is possibly the first known Buddhist attempt to explicitly integrate Dandao ideas into the spiritual praxis of Buddhism, which later became a spiritual fashion in the Bashu \u5df4\u8700 area (modern Sichuan-Chongqing). In the LKG, Daoist ideas exert a non-negligible influence on the otherwise Buddhist text in two key aspects: cosmology and soteriology. Firstly, unlike previous Buddhist works on Daoism which insisted that Buddhist cosmology is the most inclusive theory of the universe, Guangzhen complemented the Buddhist universe with a Daoist narrative on the genesis and pre-genesis of the world, highlighting the \"blissful\" and \"ignorant\" features of the pre-genesis stage. Secondly, Guangzhen treated Daoist practice as an indispensable part in one of his soteriological approaches, even as he relegated Buddhist practices to the peripheral. Through a close reading of this text, a crucial link will be established between the Daoist and Buddhist works of syncretism.\nPanel 3: Religious Arts \u5b97\u6559\u85dd\u8853\n3.1. Xiaofei (Sophie) LEI \u96f7\u5c0f\u970f (Harvard): Dharani, Meditation, and Mara's Deeds: A Reinterpretation of Dunhuang Cave 285\nConstructed around the fourth and the fifth years of the Datong era of the Western Wei (535-551), cave 285 is known as the earliest dated cave in Dunhuang. Despite its symmetrical plan consisting of a square chamber under a truncated pyramidal ceiling with four cells on each side wall, the style and content of the pictorial program on each wall and on the ceiling, particularly the mirroring of the south and north walls, are highly asymmetrical. Such discrepancy between painterly representation and layout on each wall, coupled with a unique mixture of iconographies affiliated with various cultures and religions, has engendered an incredibly rich body of scholarship on the pictorial program of cave 285.\nThis paper attempts to provide an alternative reading of the pictorial program in cave 285 based on one of the earliest and most popular dharani scriptures at the time of 285's construction, the Dafangdeng Tuoluoni Jing \u5927\u65b9\u7b49\u9640\u7f85\u5c3c\u7d93 (or \"The Great Vaipulya Dharani Sutra\") in light of a critical connection made by He Shizhe \u8cc0\u4e16\u54f2 between the eight buddhas depicted on the North Wall and the eight buddhas mentioned in the Dafangdeng. A close reading of the scripture, especially its core story, reveals striking similarities between some of its textual descriptions and the pictorial details of the five narratives on the south wall. Moreover, both the contents and, less discernibly yet equally critically, the spatial arrangement of the five narratives on the south wall can be rationalized in a similar way based on these two essential themes: elimination of sins regardless of your past, and maintenance of the precepts in the Dafangdeng.\nThis paper further connects the intention of displaying the efficacy of dharani with repentance and protection, as reinforced by the merit-dedicatory inscriptions on the north wall, the profusion of meditating figures throughout the cave, and the tumultuous movements of non-humans across the ceiling. As the very first attempt to examine the program of cave 285 within the context of contemporaneous practices and perceptions of dharani, this paper marks the beginning of an attempt to answer the larger question of how to visualize dharani, which is another way of asking how the act of holding a thought can be visualized.\n3.2. DING Kehan \u4e01\u53ef\u542b (Edinburgh): The Syntax of Ritual Formulation in the Song-Yuan Buddhist Monasteries\nStriking wooden fish, burning incense, drinking tea with rounds of prostrations, all this patches up a typical scene in medieval Chinese Buddhist monasteries. But what are the messages that these everyday monastic actions convey? This paper will investigate the organising mechanism of various clusters of Song-Yuan Buddhist rituals on different occasions with participants of varying status. It will further reconstruct a gigantic and sophisticated monastic ritual system with permutations and combinations of basic ritual units, including venues, directions, instruments and drinks. Following Leach's proposition that a ritual is like a message arranged under syntactical rules, I will establish a ritual model based on a vast array of ritual units' combinations recorded in monastic regulations (qinggui \u6e05\u898f), to unveil these rituals' governing principles, their illocutionary designs, as well as their functions on doctrinal and institutional levels. This study will introduce a new perspective on Chinese Buddhist rituals and will provide a historical case approach to ritual studies of East Asian that are mostly occupied with anthropological works.\n3.3. WANG Kai \u738b\u958b (U. of Toronto): Shaping the Faces of Immortals: A Visual Change of Immortal Appearance in Early Taoism\nIt has been widely acknowledged that Taoism, or the traditional immortal belief of China, has been deeply impacted in the 4th-5th century when Buddhism became widespread. One interesting phenomenon is that in the 5th century, Buddhist visual practices began to be utilized in Taoism. Scholars usually treat this as one of the evidences of Buddhist influence in medieval China. However, because of this phenomenon is contained in a wider context of Buddhism influence, the specific visual connections between Buddhism and Taoism are often ignored unwittingly. Especially when people talk about the visual confrontations between Taoism and Buddhism, intentionally or not, Taoist visual practices would be placed in a relatively disadvantaged status, a reluctant result of Buddhist visual influence. In this context, the original visual logic of Taoism is neglected. If we review and rethink about a few specific early Chinese art works associated with immortal belief, we may be able to recover this Taoist visual logic.\nFig. 1 and Fig 2, two statues from 120 BCE, identified as Niulang (\u725b\u90ce, the cow herd) and Zhin\u00fc (\u7e54\u5973, the weaver girl), are considered as the earliest extant large-sized immortal sculptures in China. Through these two statues, people may notice the unadorned character of Western Han's sculptural. These two statues' gestures are integrated into the original stone, which emphasizes the weight and stability of the statues. However, as immortal sculptures, the faces of these two statues do not show any interest to communicate with the audience. Indeed, people can identify their humanizing characters without difficulty. But it is hard to ignore the distortion of their facial physiognomy. The disproportionate relationship between the five sense organs of their faces denies the modern audience's visual desire of having sympathetic perception with these two materialized immortals. For us, the statues are just like two self-satisfied existences, and they refuse to communicate with those who are looking at them.\nIf we compare the faces of these two statues to the faces of their contemporary funerary figurines (Fig. 3), or even earlier terra-cotta warriors of the Qin dynasty (221 to 206 BC), one may find that at least in the Qin dynasty, people have already noticed the importance of facial expression, and in the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-25 CE), artisans have already developed the ability to mold high quality bodily and facial appearances. Someone may defend the rough appearances of the statues of Niulang and Zhin\u00fc because they were the very beginning of Chinese stone sculpture. However, when we focus our views on the category of early Chinese immortal images, one may discover that it is not only the problem of dealing with the new artistic media, but, more importantly, it seems that there is a relatively independent visual logic in the immortals' expression. This visual tradition continued for a long time until the widespread of Buddhism in the 4-5th century. From then on, the immortals' expressions developed into a very different style that resembles Buddhist visual practices. In this article, I am going to clarify the traditional visual logic of the early immortal expressions. Then, by appealing to some Taoist and Buddhist sutras, two different visual concepts of Taoism and Buddhism will be discussed. In the end, I will analyze some earliest Taoist icons to explain how the new visual concept works in Taoism. Some scholars have noticed and studied the utilization of Buddhist visual appearance in Taoism. In \"Lao-tzu in Six dynasties Taoist Sculpture\", Yoshiko Kamitsuka made a survey of the development of early Taoist sculptures, and focused on the inscriptions of these sculptures to identify the function of these early Taoist sculptures in early medieval China.4 Hinako Ishimatsu's article, \"Ancient Chinese stone sculptures: stone figures of animal, human and Buddha\", concludes the development of sculpture in early medieval China by focusing on the artistic media, stone. In the article, she emphasizes the influence from Central and Northern Asia that intervened with the development Chinese stone sculpture. Li Song's A History of Chinese Daoist Art is an important book for understanding the whole development of Taoist art history. In the second chapter of his book, Li Song specifically researched earliest Taoist art works from 5th-6th century, and his work is focused on identifying the dates and the iconographic meaning of Taoist art. Wu Hung also researched on the visual relationship between Taoism and Buddhism. In his \"Buddhist Elements in Early Chinese Art (2nd and 3rd century AD),\" he points out that early Buddhist images in Chinese art in fact played the role of Taoist immortals. In another article, \"A Deity Without Form: The Earliest Representation of Laozi and the Concept of 'Wei' in Chinese Ritual Art,\" Wu Hung discusses how Lao-tzu, one of the most important Taoist deities, was represented in early medieval China. These studies are important for understanding the visual encounters between Taoism and Buddhism. On the basis of these predecessors' studies, this paper focuses on visual change to interpret the visual practices of Taoism around the 5th century.\n3.4. Junfu WONG \u9ec3\u541b\u6991 (Cambridge): Lay Buddhist Framework of the Afterlife: Scriptural Borrowing and Practising as Reflected by Guanzhong Stele Epigraphy during the Fifth and Sixth Centuries\nDuring the late fifth and sixth centuries, lay people gathered to form a type of community that featured the establishment of stone stelae for religious purposes. Each of these stone stelae contains a sizeable corpus of epigraphical texts that give us access to the religious belief of lay people. Lay people expressed their religious expectations and imaginations of the afterlife through praying for their deceased ancestors. Note that these prayers show clear traces of conceptual references from a range of religious scriptures. Buddhist scriptures became the foundation for lay people to compose their dedicatory prayers. Nevertheless, rather than strictly observing all the details presented by the scriptures, lay people generated their ideological system through consciously selecting those parts and ideas corresponding to their envisioned realms of the afterlife. Fusing a range of unrelated scriptures created an afterlife path that contained three phases as a set that can barely be found elsewhere. Right after being released from suffering evil realms, the deceased could ascend to the celestial realm to receive cultivation. Such a process prepared them for another rebirth at lands of transcendent pleasure, thereby awaiting the final enlightenment to come. By analysing epigraphical sources, this paper aims at exploring lay religious tradition. It starts by identifying the exact types and kinds of scriptures referenced by lay people during the creation of their dedicatory prayers. It also unveils a lay afterlife framework somewhat different from the sectarian side to put forward the idea that lay people actively created their religious tradition. Furthermore, this paper unfolds the lay religious reinterpretation of the beginning of the universe, which also shows their distinctive readings of the identity of deities. Such an exploration embarks upon a larger discussion that addressed the idea that lay people acted actively throughout sectarian development.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WIN REAL PRIZES!\nWalks and Waterfalls competitions offer users the opportunity to win unique prizes, and we are kicking off with a very special prize indeed. The first person to bag all selected waterfalls routes will receive a very rare bottle of Benrinnes 26-year-old malt. Users can see their progress on a live leaderboard showing their position in the competition.\nThe competition will be launched shortly. Watch this space for more information!\nBenrinnes 1982 Single malt 26-year-old whisky is a very rare cask strength whisky of which there few if any left in circulation. Each barrel has its own characteristics and this particular barrel was selected by 'The Bottlers' for its unique flavour profile. It's currently valued at over \u00a3800 by Whiskybase who give it an average rating of 90.8.\nCharles MacLean, Scotland's leading whiskey expert notes; \"The Bottlers bottlings are legendary, and this is an outstanding example. Benrinnes is a rich, full-bodied malt that benefits from long maturation in European oak casks which have been seasoned with Oloroso sherry, as this one has. Benrinnes is not widely available as a single malt; this was the finest example of the make I have had the pleasure of tasting\".\nCopyright \u00a9 2022 Walks & Waterfalls","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hero of the Month: Our 2014 Graduates!\nSeptember 5, 2014 By ncadmin\nThe 2014 Durham Y.O.G.A. for Youth Teacher Training brought together 14 amazing yogis for a 5-day intensive with Y.O.G.A. for Youth founder\/executive director Krishna Kaur and NC regional coordinator Keval Kaur Khalsa. This beautiful diverse group included two undergraduate students from Duke and UNC-CH, yoga teachers, counselors, and education professionals from Durham, Wake, Orange and Chatham counties, as well as further afield, including PA, MA, Brooklyn, Atlanta and San Diego. Keval Kaur noted, \"The wisdom and passion to serve that was present in this collective was truly profound. This group arrived open and ready to receive and to give, and I am excited to see how their service to young people will unfold and transform lives.\"\nParticipants appreciated learning aspects of Kundalini yoga practice, the crafting of the curriculum, and the materials included in the training, as well as the safe environment that was created which fostered teamwork and personal development. Speaking about classroom management role-playing sessions, one participant shared, \"I loved the practice runs, where disruptions happened.\" Besides developing fluency with the Y.O.G.A. for Youth curriculum and classroom management techniques, participants learned about the effects of trauma, how it can manifest physically and behaviorally, and how yoga can help to mitigate the effects of trauma. Y.O.G.A. for Youth NC Lead Teacher Jordan Harrell and Alison Pope, Program Coordinator for Y.O.G.A. for Youth partner Communities In Schools of Orange County, visited the course to share their experiences with the teachers-in-training.\nCategories:North Carolina\nAlso on Huffpost:\nMeet the Y.O.G.A for Youth NC Advisory Board\nY.O.G.A for Youth Teacher Training\nY.O.G.A. for Youth North Carolina\nY.O.G.A. for Youth \u00a9 2021. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"8 Dec 2004 : Column 530W\u2014continued\nDepartmental Expenditure\nMr. Bercow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the cost of (a) ministerial cars and drivers and (b) taxis for his Department in each of the last two years. [202489]\nMr. Timms: Information concerning ministerial cars in the financial year 2002\u201303 was given by the then Minister for the Cabinet Office on 13 November 2003, Official Report, columns 397\u201398W. The Minister for the Cabinet Office has asked the Chief Executive of the Government Car and Despatch Agency to write to the hon. Member with details of the cost of ministerial vehicles in 2003\u201304.\nExpenditure on taxis is estimated to have been \u00a3163,000 in 2002\u201303 and \u00a3151,000 in 2003\u201304.\nMr. Bercow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on energy costs incurred by his Department in each of the last two years. [202490]\nMr. Timms: Energy costs in 1 Horse Guards Road reduced by 15 per cent. over the last two years.\nMr. Bercow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the (a) annual cost and (b) total value of the empty properties owned by (i) his Department, (ii) agencies and (iii) other public bodies for which he has had responsibility in each of the last two years. [202491]\nMr. Timms: HM Treasury, the Office of Government Commerce, the Royal Mint, the Government Actuary's Department, the Debt Management Office, the Office for National Statistics and National Savings and Investments do not own any empty properties.\nInland Revenue, HM Customs and Excise and the Valuation Office Agency sold their freehold properties to Mapeley on 2 April 2001 as part of the STEPS PFI contract. Mapeley have assumed responsibility for these since then, irrespective of whether the properties are empty or occupied.\nMr. Bercow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what cr\u00e8che facilities are provided by his Department; and at what cost. [202498]\nMr. Timms: The Treasury does not provide any cr\u00e8che facilities. The Department is a member of the Westminster Holiday Playscheme, which operates during school holidays and is open to children aged 4 years 9 months to 12. The Treasury has two bespoke playscheme rooms, which can cater for up to 18 children. The cost per child is \u00a330 a day and the Treasury subsidises the costs by 60 per cent. The total subsidy to Treasury parents using the playscheme is \u00a34,100.\nThe Treasury also supports the child care cost of eligible staff. Staff who work full time receive \u00a340.00 per week per family, part timers receive a pro-rated amount.\n85 staff members receive child care vouchers. The total cost of child care vouchers, since the scheme was introduced in January 2004 is \u00a3134,000.\n8 Dec 2004 : Column 531W\nMr. Cousins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people over 65 were in employment in each metropolitan authority and county area in the North East region in each year from 1997 to 2004; [202680]\n(2) how many and what percentage of 50 to 65-year-olds were economically inactive in (a) the North East region, and (b) each (i) metropolitan authority and (ii) county area within the North East region in each year from 1997 to 2003. [202681]\nMr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.\nLetter from Len Cook to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 8 December 2004:\nAs National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions about employment and economic inactivity. (202680, 202681)\nThe attached table provides the information requested.\nThese estimates from the Labour Force Survey are, as with any sample survey, subject to sampling variability.\nEconomic activity in the North East region and each metropolitan authority and county area 12-month period ending in February each year\u2014 United Kingdom\nNumber of economically inactive people aged 50 to 64 years(5) (000s)\nInactivity rate for people aged 50 to 64 years(6) (%)\nNumber of people in employment aged 65 years and over(7) (000s)\nNorth East 147 42.0 22\nDarlington UA 3 24.7 (8)\u2014\nDurham UA 31 42.7 4\nGateshead 11 40.7 2\nHartlepool UA 6 44.4 1\nMiddlesbrough UA9 55.9 (8)\u2014\nNewcastle upon Tyne13 41.1 3\nNorth Tyneside 9 32.5 (8)\u2014\nNorthumberland 16 37.5 5\nRedcar and Cleveland UA10 44.1 1\nSouth Tyneside 8 44.5 2\nStockton-on-Tees UA9 41.7 1\nSunderland 19 51.1 1\nNorth Tyneside 10 38.6 1\nRedcar and Cleveland UA11 43.9 (8)\u2014\nHartlepool UA 5 41.1 (8)\u2014\nMiddlesbrough UA7 36.5 2\nStockton-on-Tees UA11 42.0 (8)\u2014\nDarlington UA 7 38.6 2\nNewcastle upon Tyne7 26.2 2\nSouth Tyneside 10 43.8 2\nHartlepool UA6 47.7 1\nNorth Tyneside10 35.1 2\nSouth Tyneside10 45.2 1\nStockton-on-Tees UA10 36.9 1\nDarlington UA5 36.0 1\nSouth Tyneside9 43.7 1\nRedcar and Cleveland UA9 40.9 1\n(5) Economically inactive refers to women aged 50 to 59 and men aged 50 to 64 who are neither employed nor unemployed.\n(6) The rates are based on people aged 50 to 64 who are economically inactive as percentage of total population in the relevant age group.\n(7) Refers to men aged 65 to 99 women aged 60 to 99.\n(8) Estimates not available because sample size is too small.\nSome estimates are based on smaller sample sizes and are therefore subject to a higher degree of sampling variability. They should be treated with caution and, in particular, changes from year to year should not be used in isolation from the figures for a run of years.\nONS Labour Force Survey\nMr. Willetts: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the employment rate is of women in couples where the woman's partner (a) does not work and (b) does work. [203166]\nLetter from Colin Mowl to Mr. David Willetts, dated 8 December 2004:\nThe National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about employment. I am replying in his absence. (203166)\nAmong couples who were both of working age (i.e. men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to 59) the employment rates for the female partners were: (a) 42.3% for those whose male partner was not in employment; and (b) 79.4 % for those whose male partner was in employment.\nThese estimates come from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and apply to the three months ending May 2004. As with any statistical sample survey the LFS estimates are subject to sampling error.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lee van Cleef \u2013 One of the greatest actors to have ever lived\nLee van Cleef \u2013 whose birth name was Clarence Leroy Van Cleef Jr. \u2013 was an American actor, active for almost four decades, from the late forties until the late eighties, retiring a year before his death, in December 16, 1989, at sixty-four years old. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, in January 9, 1925, Lee van Cleef achieved notoriety mainly for his prominent roles in Spaghetti Westerns of the sixties and seventies, of which the most famous is probably the now classic 1966 production The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, where he shared the screen with Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach. On this movie, Cleef portrayed the \"Bad\" from the title, a malicious character named Angel Eyes.\nLee van Cleef started his acting career in the late forties, after leaving the United States navy. After a series of roles in theater plays, he was spotted by a talent scout, who drove him to a renowned agency. His entrance ticket for the motion picture industry, though, came after a few years, when \u2013 after seeing him performing in a play in Los Angeles \u2013 famous Hollywood director Stanley Kramer invited Cleef to be part of his next film, High Noon, which would be the actor's big screen debut. The movie \u2013 a western starred by Gary Cooper \u2013 was produced by Kramer and directed by Fred Zinnemann. Cleef had a very small part, as a character named Jack Colby. The movie was released in 1952. In this same year, van Cleef also debuted on television, appearing in shows like Sky King and Boston Blackie, as well as The Lone Ranger and The Range Rider. In these last two, he would be cast in episodes until the following year.\nWhile this period in van Cleef's career was significant, given the fact that he had managed to break into the movie and television industries, despite being a terrifically skilled and versatile actor, he would very soon start to suffer from a terrible plague that frequently affects people in the business: typecasting.\nLee van Cleef was typecast as a villain throughout most of his career.\nAfter portraying some villains \u2013 the most remarkable in this early period of his career was probably the one in the 1952 movie Kansas City Confidential, where van Cleef portrayed Tony Romano, a cold and selfish gangster that, together with three other men, robs a bank, after which the group manages to frame an innocent man for their crime, and eventually this man, Joe Rolfe, portrayed by John Payne, elaborates a highly intelligent plan of vengeance to redeem himself, successfully subduing his antagonists in the end \u2013 van Cleef unfortunately became too associated with criminals, offenders and outlaws. He hardly would manage to break out of this vicious circle.\nAs time passed \u2013 more than a decade went by \u2013, van Cleef managed to participate in moderately successful films, sometimes in good and relevant roles, sometimes doing minor parts in not so remarkable movies. His fortunes changed, though, when Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone decided to cast him in the 1965 western For a Few Dollars More, where he would star alongside Clint Eastwood. On this movie, van Cleef plays a character named Douglas Mortimer, while Eastwood portrays a tough individual that answers by the alias of Manco. Both are bounty hunters, that fight to survive the implacable ordeals of the old west. The movie also starred notorious German actor Klaus Kinski, in a villainous role.\nThis movie \u2013 alongside with a handful of others \u2013 was the main responsible for giving birth to a subgenre of western movies, that would later be called western spaghetti: low-budget westerns, that were shot primarily in Italy. Lee van Cleef would star in several of these movies, eventually becoming an icon of the genre. In the following year, he starred again with Clint Eastwood in a Sergio Leone production, a western spaghetti titled The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, already mentioned. This legendary film acquired cult status since it was released, in 1966, and became a highlight of the genre.\nLee van Cleef, playing the title role, in the 1969 film Sabata.\nBy the sixties, Lee van Cleef became an icon of the western spaghetti subgenre of movies, and this status remains to this day.\nAfter these movies, Van Cleef consolidated his reputation as a major celebrity, with his image closely associated with western spaghetti. He would star in several other movies in this particular genre \u2013 frequently in leading roles \u2013, like 1969 Sabata, and 1971 Return of Sabata. Unfortunately, he became typecast one more time in his career, but now as an old west though type of guy, and would hardly find any work outside of it. Nevertheless, he found fame and stability, and became recognized as a good actor, that managed to captivate audiences in the big screen, conveying veracity to the characters he played.\nIn the seventies and eighties, van Cleef worked on television only sporadically. On this period he concentrated almost exclusively on film, since he was rarely out of offers, though invitations to star in movies also started to decline. In 1981, he co-starred with Kurt Russell in the John Carpenter directed science-fiction feature Escape from New York.\nSuffering from bad health \u2013 more specifically from a heart condition \u2013 since the late seventies, in the eighties van Cleef had to undergone a surgery, where doctors implanted a pacemaker. Forced to slow down, he acted in only a few more movies. With an exotic appearance that made him look easterner, in 1984, van Cleef was cast in the main role of John McAllister, a ninja, despite the American name, in the NBC television series The Master. The show was cancelled after only thirteen episodes, and was the last television show in which van Cleef had participated, and the only one he had done in the eighties.\nIn the last decade of his life, van Cleef was featured in nine movies. His last film was 1988 Thieves of Fortune, a movie directed by Michael MacCarthy, on which he played a character named Sergio Danielo. The actor died in his home in California, in December 16, 1989, at sixty-four years old. Besides his heart condition, he also had throat cancer. With a legacy encompassing almost ninety movies, and more than thirty television shows, Lee van Cleef has left crime and western movie enthusiasts in a rapturous urge of passionate and belligerent grace, whenever he was on the screen.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: walkers\nJohn Dorie (like the fish) and June (June Bug) on Fear the Walking Dead! I really can't say enough about these two, as their relationship gives me all the feels! In a zombie apocalypse, they are still able to give us swoon-worthy moments that just make you smile. Please note some spoilers are ahead. There is just something so incredibly sweet about these two together. I fell in love with their relationship back in season 4 and I was worried that they wouldn't get that much screen time in season 5, but episode 3 didn't disappoint, as these two headed off to the wild wild west together. I almost felt like they were on a real date, even though those pesky walkers decided to break up the party.\nThe reason why I love these two together so much is that their love inspires those around them as well. In season 5 episode 3, they cross paths with Dwight, who is searching for his own lost love, but John and June refuse to let him give up hope, recognizing what it feels like to keep searching for that special someone, even though it seems like it may be impossible. However, anything is possible with these two\u2026even the impossible and that's why I adore them so much.\nYou know how some movies just make you cry uncontrollably when you think about how incredibly romantic they are? The Notebook comes to mind for me, which I can't watch without sobbing, but I almost feel like John Dorie and June could star in their own version of an epic love story because their love is that powerful. There is just something so enchanting and beautiful about it and I just hope that the writers on the show don't tear them apart. I honestly couldn't take it at this point because I have fallen in love with both of them and I will continue to root for them against all odds.\nWhat's next for John Dorie and June? We'll have to stay tuned to find out, but it looks like a lot of new threats are headed their way. John Dorie is the fastest gun in the west and June can keep up as well, creating a great tag team, but Fear TWD does have a habit of splitting characters up, so I'm just really hoping that doesn't happen here. These two are already amazing characters on their own, but together they are something truly remarkable. I can't wait to see what happens next for them!\nStay tuned for a recognized Ship on TV each week!\nHave a Ship that you think is absolutely swoon-worthy? Feel free to contact me with your nomination for the week by Friday at midnight!\nDo you love television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Once Upon a Time, Lost, Charmed, The Vampire Diaries, and Supernatural? Do you enjoy dark fantasy, fairy-tale retellings, paranormal romance, horror, and mystery? Then you may like my book series, Dreaming of Wonderland\u2026available on Amazon! Thank you for taking the time to check it out and I appreciate any feedback as well. I really hope you enjoy!\nThe Dreaming of Wonderland Book Series is available here!\n**If you enjoyed this blog, I would love it if you would click the follow button on your way out to subscribe. Thanks for your support!\nPosted on June 23, 2019 June 23, 2019 Categories TV Ship of the Week!, UncategorizedTags epic love, epic love story, epic ship, Fear the Walking Dead, Fear TWD, Garret Dillahunt, inspiring, Jenna Elfman, John Dorie, John Dorie and June, John Dorie and June in season 5 episode 3 Fear TWD, June, Love, OTP, romance, romantic love, Ship, spoilers, tag team, television, The Notebook, TV, TV Ship, TV Ship of the Week!, walkers, What's next for John Dorie and June?, zombiesLeave a comment on My Ship of the week ending 6\/22\/19 on TV goes to\u2026\nRanking the top 5 moments from \"Fear the Walking Dead\" season 5 episode 3: \"Welcome to the Gulch\"\nHappy Monday TV fans! After watching AMC's Fear the Walking Dead season 5 episode 3, I realized that \"there's words and there's action\" and that it's always possible for one's luck to turn around. You may think that you are on the right track, but what if you discover a new path on the way? Do you abandon that former journey or do you circle back and chase down the past? Please note spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch the latest episode yet. In last night's episode, \"Humbug's Gulch,\" John Dorie and June walk into the wild wild west of walkers and discover another possible threat. Meanwhile, Alicia tries to get through to the kids over the walkie with Morgan and Luciana's support. My top 5 moments from Fear the Walking Dead season 5 episode 3 are:\n\"Welcome to the gulch\u2026\"\nJohn Dorie and June come across one of John's old stomping grounds, Humbug's Gulch, bringing us right into the wild west. There's even a brothel (which apparently just serves soup), a dust storm, and a gun fight to really make you feel like you are in the middle of an old Clint Eastwood movie, but our favorite cowboy, John Dorie, does not disappoint. John is very familiar with this place, even though theatrics were never really his thing.\nJune seems interested as well and wants to know if John was a good guy or a bad guy, as they search for suitable weapons and supplies. John seems focused on getting out of there before they run into more trouble, but this definitely set the scene for a much needed date night for our favorite couple. Maybe we could do without the walkers though\u2026\n\"We should be comparing notes.\"\nJohn and June run into some trouble at the Gulch and in walks our old friend, Dwight. Hooray! I'm really happy that we did not have to wait that long for this crossover, as I have been anxiously waiting for it to happen since the season premiere. Dwight cuts right to the chase and asks them, \"Where is she?\" We quickly learn that he is referring to his wife, Sherry, who he has been trying to track down for quite some time. John and June are such amazing people and they recognize that Dwight is just trying to find his lost love, which is something they are both very familiar with.\nJohn reasons with Dwight to get him to take a breath and calm down so that they can all get out of there together. Dwight listens to reason as introductions are made and he even gives us a few laughs when he asks John if his last name is \"like the fish?\" I guess John's not the only one to make that connection. It was also hilarious to see John's reaction to Dwight referring to the dead as \"walkers,\" but small talk will need to be put on hold, as they try to get out of the wild west alive.\n\"You don't have to do it alone.\"\nMeanwhile, Alicia and Luciana can no longer hear John and June over the walkie, but they do come across a channel that the kids are using. Dylan, Max, and Annie are still out there and Alicia is determined to help them, even though they repeatedly tell her to stay away. After a few tries, Alicia decides to just have a real and honest conversation with them. She tells them, \"I know how much you're hurting\u2026it's not because I've been there. It's because I am there.\" Alicia confides in them about losing her own family, trying to make some sort of connection with them.\nI thought this moment was extremely important for Alicia because she has been bottling up her own feelings for quite some time and this was very therapeutic for her. Not only does she have the chance to reach someone else and help them, but she also takes the time to talk about her own feelings, which is not always easy to do.\n\"You've got another chance right now\u2026\"\nJohn sets off a unique distraction with the piano, as they make their way out the window, only the roof is not going to support their weight for long. Dwight jumps off the roof, but ends up hurting himself, but he makes it to the car he has been searching for. Only now, the car is completely surrounded by walkers. Dwight takes out the note from Sherry which reads: \"West on 30,\" accompanied with an infinity sign. Dwight believes that this is the car from the registration, but he cannot find another message from Sherry, as defeat and hopelessness now overwhelm him. All hope is not lost; however, as June radios over to him and reminds him that he has another chance right now and that they have all done things they are not proud of.\nJohn and June keep Dwight's hope alive and get him out of a jam, as John shows off his impressing shooting skills and we even get to witness the famous \"San Antonio Split,\" which was quite entertaining to watch. After all, this is apparently only the second time he has been able to pull this off! Later on, John approaches Dwight and explains that the VIN did not match up and he believes this is not the car and it is possible that there is another one still out there, reminding Dwight not to give up.\nJohn and June have so much goodness within them and I was so happy to see them share a kiss as well, reminding me why I ship these two so much. They really could have their own movie together, as they have such an epic and beautiful love and they inspire others with it\u2026including me!\n\"We're all trying to start over.\"\nAt the end of the episode, everyone meets up again and Morgan and Dwight cross paths. They are shocked to see one another and Dwight immediately tries to explain his past actions, but Morgan stops him and tells him that he doesn't have to say it, explaining that they are all trying to get a fresh start now. Alicia asks Dwight to show them how far he got, as they have been trying to figure out what is going on with this perimeter made out of walkers. The perimeter is quite overwhelming and our favorite characters are ready to get to work to figure out what is on the other side, but they are interrupted when Annie and the others try to reach Alicia over the walkie.\nThey start to head back to the truck stop, but find Dylan hurt in the van. Max and Annie are not there, but we quickly learn that they are not so innocent. We cut to them asking, \"Do you think they bought it?\" They continue working on the walker perimeter, but what is their end game here? Are the children the big bad and how is this connected to Al? What are their intentions for our group? We know they want them to stay away, but why? What are they hiding?\nThis is not the first time we have come across corrupt children in TWD universe who were too far gone to understand right from wrong, but I'm interested to find out more and if there is any room for change. I also am quite impressed if these three kids were able to do all of this alone, but is someone else pulling their strings? And if so, who? I can't wait to find out more! Stay tuned!\nI hope you enjoyed the list and feel free to post your own theories and thoughts on Fear the Walking Dead in the comments section below. Thanks so much for reading and happy viewing!\n**Goodreads Giveaway currently going on for Book Two, Embracing the Looking-Glass (100 copies available) from 5\/29\/19-6\/21\/19 Enter Goodreads Giveaway Here!\nDo you love horror series? Of course you do! Please also check out 12 Nights of Horror Series Coming Soon. It's your home for everything you need to know about new and returning horror television series including new trailers, premiere dates, reviews, recaps, and renewals!\nPosted on June 17, 2019 June 17, 2019 Categories Fear the Walking Dead, UncategorizedTags Alicia Clark, Alycia Debnam Carey, AMC, crossover, drama, Dwight crossover on Fear TWD, Dylan Max Annie, episode 3, Fear the Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead season 5 episode 3 recap, Fear the Walking Dead season 5 episode 3 top moments, Fear TWD, Fear twd fans, Fear TWD season 5 theories, fresh start, horror, Humbug's Gulch, John Dorie, John Dorie and June, Lennie James, Ranking, San Antonio Split, Season 5, Sherry, spoilers, television, theories, theories about the kids on Fear TWD, top 5 list, Top 5 moments, TV, TWD, walkers, Walkers in the Wild West, West on 30, Where is Al?, zombies3 Comments on Ranking the top 5 moments from \"Fear the Walking Dead\" season 5 episode 3: \"Welcome to the Gulch\"\nMy performance of the week ending 6\/8\/19 on TV goes to\u2026\nAlycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark on Fear the Walking Dead. As the last Clark standing, our girl Alicia has gone through so much and yet she is now even stronger than before, emerging as a true leader and someone our characters can count on. Please note some spoilers are ahead. In the season 5 premiere, Alicia proves just how bad-ass she is. She works so well with Morgan and the two have formed quite the dynamic duo, taking out walkers left and right, but there is something so magnetic about Alicia. It's almost like she has just become the slayer or chosen one in the Walking Dead universe and walkers everywhere better watch out!\nI was blown away by Alycia's performance in season 4, as she really dug deep to unravel the emotions and grief going on within Alicia Clark, but I love that she is continuing to grow more and more as the show goes on. Alicia is smart and aware of her surroundings, recognizing the potential for threats and bad omens even more so than Morgan, who always wants to find the silver lining in every scenario. Her mother, Madison, would be so proud of her, as she has really embraced the role of a leader, which is no easy task.\nWhat's next for Alicia? I'm not sure, but it will be interesting to see how the dynamic shifts once Dwight arrives. Alicia always has her guard up and that's not necessarily a bad thing, as she is always looking at things from every angle. These new potential enemies better look out because our girl is not messing around. There is a sense of empowerment surging through Alicia Clark and I think she may have just become one of my favorite characters on television. I can't wait to see what she does next!\nStay tuned for a recognized performance on TV each week!\nHave a performance on TV that you think is simply outstanding? Feel free to contact me with your nomination for the week by Friday at midnight!\nPosted on June 8, 2019 Categories TV Performance of the Week!, UncategorizedTags Alicia Clark, Alycia Debnam Carey, Alycia Debnam Carey fans, character growth, empowerment, Fear the Walking Dead, Fear TWD, Fear twd fans, leader, Season 5, spoilers, television, TV, TV Performance of the Week!, walkers, What's next for Alicia Clark?, zombiesLeave a comment on My performance of the week ending 6\/8\/19 on TV goes to\u2026\nRanking the top 5 moments from \"The Walking Dead\" season 9 episode 8 Mid-Season Finale: \"There's A Storm Coming\"\nHappy Monday TV fans! After watching AMC's The Walking Dead season 9 episode 8 Mid-Season Finale, we were presented with some legitimately creepy scenes that had me on the edge of my seat. Please note spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch yet. In last night's episode, \"Evolution,\" Daryl, Jesus, Aaron, and Dog go out looking for Eugene, but find a walker herd that is nowhere near normal. Meanwhile, the new characters try to earn their keep and Negan's world is about to change. My top 5 moments from The Walking Dead season 9 episode 8 Mid-Season Finale are:\n\"We're a solid looking group.\"\nIn the beginning of the episode, Michonne continues to escort the new characters to Hilltop, but we know that trust is not so easily earned. Tara seems willing to give the new characters a shot, but reminds them that they will need to earn their keep. I have to admit that I am actually looking forward to getting to know the new characters now. A lot of them seem to have potential and perhaps they can liven things up just a little bit. I mean anything is more interesting than Henry being peer pressured by the \"cool kids\" at Hilltop.\n\"It's good we're here.\"\nAfter Michonne learns that Carol is at Hilltop too and Daryl is not far away, Tara points out that \"it's like the gang's back together.\" A lot has clearly changed; however, as Carol initially doesn't seem that thrilled to see Michonne. Carol still seems to believe in a better world and building a community, but Michonne reminds her that they are living in a broken world and that they have to take care of their own. I am still wondering what happened to Michonne to make her so jaded and untrusting of everyone?\n\"They have no idea what they're dealing with.\"\nWith almost perfect timing, Rosita wakes up and freaks out when she finds out that Daryl and the others went after Eugene. Rosita explains that they don't know what they are dealing with and she's absolutely right. After finding Eugene in the barn, he tries to explain his own theories on the potential evolution of the walkers and says that he heard them whispering. Daryl doesn't really know what to make of this until he witnesses this behavior on his own, but it doesn't change the fact that they are all in serious danger right now.\n\"I loved the shit out of TV when that was a thing.\"\nI hear you on that Negan! It initially seemed like we were just going to get some more banter between Negan and another character. Negan gives Gabriel a hard time about Rosita and even tries to plant some doubt in his head to provide himself with some entertainment that doesn't involve him throwing a ball at a wall. After all, \"all work and no play makes Negan a dull villain.\" After Gabriel gets upset about Rosita, Negan's jail cell is carelessly left slightly open and Negan takes his first steps out into the open. Freedom looks good on you Negan.\n\"Let's get em\u2026\"\nDaryl stands alone to give the others a chance to get Eugene out of there, but he does have Dog by his side, who is starting to be my favorite character. Seriously do not let anything happen to this dog. Daryl tries to create a distraction, but the herd of walkers continues to go after Eugene and the others. It's almost like they could sense that Daryl's distraction was a trap and the storm has now arrived, providing us with the perfect ominous soundtrack. Eugene and the others wind up in a beyond creepy cemetery, which I have to say was kind of brilliant. I have not been scared on TWD for quite some time and I actually felt a bit nervous during this scene, especially when the characters were surrounded by whispers. Michonne and some of the new characters show up to help get them out of the cemetery and Jesus tries to hold off the walkers with his impressive ninja skills. Everything is happening so fast, but we do cut to a scene in slow motion, as one of the walkers stabs Jesus with his knife and whispers, \"You are where you do not belong.\" Poor Jesus has drawn the short stick in this shocking moment. Daryl discovers that the killer was actually a human with a walker mask to make things even more complicated. \"The Whisperers\" have arrived and are a new and dangerous threat. Overall, I thought that the episode delivered in the last fifteen minutes. However, there was so much fluff surrounding it. I seriously don't care about Henry and his teen adventures. We have several new setups for the second half of the season, which I am looking forward to explore. So what can we expect from the second half of season 9? I'm hoping that we abandon the unnecessary fluff and focus on \"The Whisperers,\" Negan, the \"X\" marks, and the past of the new characters. New episodes return in February. Stay tuned!\nI hope you enjoyed the list and feel free to post your own theories and thoughts on The Walking Dead below in the comments section. Thanks so much for reading and happy viewing!\nPosted on November 26, 2018 November 26, 2018 Categories The Walking Dead, UncategorizedTags AMC, creepy cemetery, Daryl's dog, death of main character, drama, episode 8, Evolution, fans, fate of Jesus, Hilltop, horror, Michonne, Michonne's past, mid-season finale, Negan, new characters, new episodes in February 2019, new threat, new villain, Ranking, scary, scary episode, season 9, second half of season 9, spoilers, television, The Walking Dead, The Whisperers, theories, top 5 list, Top 5 moments, trust, TV, TWD, Villain, walkers, X mark, You are where you do not belong, zombies3 Comments on Ranking the top 5 moments from \"The Walking Dead\" season 9 episode 8 Mid-Season Finale: \"There's A Storm Coming\"\nRanking the top 5 moments from \"The Walking Dead\" season 9 episode 7: \"What Makes Us Stronger\"\nHappy Monday TV fans! After watching AMC's The Walking Dead season 9 episode 7, we were left with more unanswered questions, as we approach the mid-season finale next Sunday. Please note spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch yet. In last night's episode, \"Stradivarius,\" Rosita is found near Hilltop and is clearly traumatized after dealing with some rather motivated walkers. Meanwhile, Daryl now has a dog named \"Dog\" and Michonne eliminates a violin that was looking shifty. My top 5 moments from The Walking Dead season 9 episode 7 are:\n\"You're just gonna have to trust me.\"\nIn the beginning of the episode, Michonne continues to lead the new characters to Hilltop, but they are a little hesitant about trusting her. Michonne clearly still has her guard up, even though she is fulfilling her promise to Judith. The new characters seem like they have good intentions and even show off just how useful they can be when they help take out the surrounding walkers. We know that trust is not always earned so easily, however.\n\"I left him.\"\nRosita shows up near the Hilltop camp and is injured and traumatized. She explains that Eugene is still out there and that she left him in some kind of barn. We know that Eugene had hurt his leg, but we have no idea what is going on where he is. The walkers are getting smarter, but will they be able to find Eugene in his hiding spot? We'll have to wait to find out, but it looks like we will get to witness some more of the evolution of the walkers in next week's mid-season finale.\n\"You could at least pretend to be happy.\"\nMeanwhile, we learn that Jesus is now the leader of Hilltop, but he does receive a letter from Maggie, which means she is safe. I was a little confused about where she was and thought perhaps I missed something until Michonne also asked about her whereabouts. We get a vague answer about her taking Hershel with her to help build some other community, but when will we see her again? We know that Lauren Cohan plans to leave after this season, but is this supposed to be her exit or will we get something more concrete?\n\"This is the one thing that separates us from the animals.\"\nAs we get to know the new characters more, Michonne demonstrates just how little she trusts them when she eliminates Luke's violin. Michonne assumed that Luke had a weapon, but Luke tries to explain the importance of music and art to her. Luke feels like it's what separates us from the animals and I have to say that he's right, as he almost takes a page out of Fear the Walking Dead's book. Bringing people together sounds a lot like Rick's vision, but is Michonne finally ready to get back to that?\n\"After a while it just got easier to stay out here.\"\nCarol takes her son to go visit Daryl and we learn that Daryl has a new best friend\u2026named Dog. I guess Daryl didn't really see the point of naming him, but I was happy to see that he at least had someone keeping him company. In a touching moment, Carol gives Daryl a much needed haircut and they talk about how they never found Rick's body. Daryl has clearly not given up on Rick, but he found it easier to stay out on his own. After a close call with some walkers, Daryl and Dog are OK and he agrees to escort Carol to Hilltop. After finding out about Eugene, Daryl is ready to go out and track him, proving that perhaps he is finally ready to be around people again. It's also important to note that Daryl has the same \"X\" mark as Michonne, which is only increasing my curiosity. While I'm not sure we will find out about it in next week's mid-season finale, it's definitely something that needs to be explored soon. Overall, this episode felt very much like a place holder for next week's mid-season finale, but it did have some redeeming moments. Stay tuned!\nPosted on November 19, 2018 November 19, 2018 Categories The Walking Dead, UncategorizedTags AMC, Community, Daryl's dog, drama, episode 7, evolution of walkers, fans, Fear the Walking Dead, horror, Lauren Cohan, mid-season finale, mid-season finale theories, new characters, Ranking, season 9, spoilers, Stradivarius, television, The Walking Dead, theories, top 5 list, Top 5 moments, trust, TV, TWD, walkers, Where is Eugene, Where is Maggie, X mark theories, zombies3 Comments on Ranking the top 5 moments from \"The Walking Dead\" season 9 episode 7: \"What Makes Us Stronger\"\nRanking the top 5 moments from \"The Walking Dead\" season 9 episode 5: \"I Found Them\"\nHappy Monday TV fans! After watching AMC's The Walking Dead season 9 episode 5, the moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived, but it's not the moment we truly expected. Please note major spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch yet. In last night's episode, \"What Comes After,\" Rick is severely wounded and desperately tries to get away from the persistent walker horde following him, as he slips in and out of consciousness, crossing paths with his friends in the afterlife. Meanwhile, Maggie finally faces Negan and Jadis continues to talk to the mysterious man on the helicopter. Please note that my top moments will all feature Rick, although I would like to point out that Maggie's conversation with Negan was truly significant. My top 5 moments from The Walking Dead season 9 episode 5 are:\n\"Goddamn cowboy, you look like shit!\"\nRick is still holding on, but is in immediate danger. He desperately tries to stay awake, but his mind continues to slip somewhere else, allowing us the chance to catch up with some of our favorite old characters who are no longer with us. First up\u2026Shane! Shane is my absolute favorite character of the entire series and I was devastated after his exit. That being said, perhaps he knew that he was going to kick some serious ass as \"The Punisher\" so I guess it all worked out in the end. Rick and Shane have always been like brothers and their reunion picks up right where they left off. Shane even brings up Judith and asks, \"How is my baby girl by the way?\" Shane has always been the \"asshole,\" but somehow their friendship is still natural and real despite all of the ugliness and drama between these two. Rick is \"looking for his family\" and answers, but Shane reminds him to dig down and find the rage within him. He tells Rick to wake up, as Rick continues to fight and try and escape the walkers that keep coming. In a way, Shane represents that anger and rage that Rick has had to release on multiple occasions to stay alive. While Rick has not always made the best decisions because of it, it allowed him to survive. Perhaps he needed a reminder about that now.\n\"My girl, she's strong and my grandson\u2026he'll only make her stronger.\"\nAfter scraping by the next obstacle, Rick continues on with his vision quest of sorts and is with Hershel on the farm. The sun is absolutely breathtaking in the sky and everything seems so calm and peaceful here. This scene was difficult to watch, especially since Scott Wilson recently passed away, but Rick has always looked to Hershel as his own kind of personal moral compass. Hershel has always been wise and reminds Rick that Maggie will be OK on her own and tries to tell Rick that he only thinks he needs to find his family. Hershel clearly represents loyalty and family to Rick, inspiring him with goodness and faith to keep going.\n\"You did your part like I did mine.\"\nAfter Rick flashes to some kind of afterlife, surrounded by corpses, he crosses paths with Sasha. Sasha tries to remind Rick that he did his part and that every single one of them gives us strength. Sasha further explains, \"We help each other. We make each other better and it never ends.\" Rick is still confused and says that it feels like the end to him, but Sasha reveals, \"Little things do end, but it's never the end of everything. It's about all of us. Your family, they're not lost. And you are not lost.\" This part really resonated with me, as Sasha tries to get through to Rick about what it's all about. Life is about the people we care about and our actions do matter. We can all continue to inspire one another and even when we're gone, we can live on in memories and in the lives of those we have touched.\n\"Because you're a fighter and you never give up. Fight for me.\"\nAfter Rick's horse finally abandons him, Rick continues on foot and tries to make it to the bridge. He imagines all of his friends coming to his rescue, but he is there alone. Rick creates a conversation with Michonne in his mind, who tells him that she loves him because he is a fighter and never gives up. Michonne keeps Rick's love and hope alive here, as he continues to stay true to himself and fight. I was surprised that we did not see Carl, Glenn, or Lori at all, but I do think that each character we did see represented a part of Rick, reminding him about who he is and what he can still do.\nAs Rick makes his way to the bridge, his friends now finally catch up to him and try to help him. Daryl continues to keep the walkers away from Rick, one arrow at a time, and Michonne tries to run toward him, but Rick tries to tell them to stay away. Rick spots the dynamite and knows what he must do to protect his family. He lures the walkers on to the bridge and takes out his gun, staying true to who he is\u2026a hero. Rick blows up the bridge to save his friends and should have gone out in a blaze of glory. Michonne and Daryl's reactions were truly heartbreaking, as my own heart shattered as well. However, there is always some kind of twist on TWD. Rick is somehow OK and washes up to Jadis, formerly known as Anne. Jadis wants to help Rick because he has helped her in the past and tells the man in the helicopter that she has a \"B.\" Again, what makes an \"A\" or a \"B?\" I have no idea, but Rick is taken away on the helicopter and actually makes it out alive!\nI don't know about you, but I was actually really disappointed with this. As much as I love Rick Grimes and want to see him alive, this sort of felt like a cop-out to me. Rick had the chance to save all of his friends and leave this world as a true hero. We know that Andrew Lincoln is leaving the show and will now appear in some Walking Dead movies so I guess that's a positive, but where does that leave the series? To make matters even more confusing, we get a time jump that shows bad-ass Judith saving people from walkers while wearing Carl's hat. While it's great to see that she takes after her father and brother, I'm not sure I'm ready to invest in another time jump. I kind of just want to follow that helicopter and see what's going on with Rick. Either way, the episode was done brilliantly and I appreciated the seamless transitions into Rick's mind. Rick will always be the very essence of this show for me. We will all miss you Rick Grimes, but I guess we'll see you soon in your movies! Stay tuned!\nPosted on November 5, 2018 November 5, 2018 Categories The Walking Dead, UncategorizedTags A and a B, afterlife, AMC, Andrew Lincoln, bad-ass Judith, cop-out, death, drama, Episode 5, family, fate of Rick Grimes, fate of Rick Grimes revealed, fighter, friendship, hero, Hershel, hope, horror, Jadis, Judith in the future, loyalty, Michonne, moral compass, rage, Ranking, Richonne, Rick Grimes, sacrifice, Sasha, Scott Wilson, season 9, Shane, spoilers, television, The Punisher, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead movies, theories, time jump, top 5 list, Top 5 moments, TV, TWD, walkers, What Comes After, zombies3 Comments on Ranking the top 5 moments from \"The Walking Dead\" season 9 episode 5: \"I Found Them\"\nRanking the top 5 moments from \"The Walking Dead\" season 9 episode 4: \"I'd Die For You\"\nHappy Monday TV fans! After watching AMC's The Walking Dead season 9 episode 4, I realized that everyone handles their loneliness in different ways. While some of us keep busy with a routine, others try and make a connection, desperately reaching out for someone to listen to us. But what happens when there is no one left to listen? Please note major spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch yet. In last night's episode, \"The Obliged,\" the communities begin to divide even further, disrupting Rick's vision for them to all live together in peace and harmony. Meanwhile, Jesus is concerned about Maggie's actions, Negan requests an audience with Michonne, and Rick and Daryl clash even further after Rick's \"merry band of bridge builders\" falls apart. My top 5 moments from The Walking Dead season 9 episode 4 are:\n\"I'm gonna make things right.\"\nMaggie tells Jesus that she is going to make things right like they talked about and is ready to head off to Alexandria to see Negan. Jesus is very concerned about Maggie, as he wants to make sure that she is thinking clearly and doing things for the right reasons. While Maggie clearly has her mind made up, Jesus tries to intervene and contacts Rick, warning him about what she is about to potentially do. Is Maggie ready to finally face Negan? We'll have to wait to find out, but it looks like she is not turning back now.\n\"But if anything gives me hope\u2026it's you.\"\nRick is disappointed to see the communities falling apart despite his best effort to keep them all united. Rick has a touching moment with Carol, which we can now think of as a goodbye. Rick reveals that he's not sure that they are doing the right thing, but that he has hope in Carol, who is ready to lead her people back to \"The Kingdom.\" Carol explains that she is just trying to figure things out like everybody else, but Carol is someone extraordinary. On the way back, Carol proves to be a leader and someone you do not want to mess with, reminding everyone around her that she is strong and fully capable of taking care of herself and her people.\n\"You're the price of admission.\"\nWe get some more screen time for Gabriel and Anne, as Anne explains that Gabriel is the \"price of admission\" into this mysterious new place she is headed to. Gabriel doesn't give up here, even though Anne is about to sick a walker on him while he is tied up. Gabriel says, \"You're afraid but you don't have to be.\" He reminds Anne that she has changed and that he is a better person because of her. Gabriel further tells Anne that he thinks he failed her and that he forgives her. Just as the walker is about to devour Gabriel, Anne pulls it away, saving Gabriel's life. Anne cannot go through with this and ends up knocking Gabriel out and leaving him behind. Gabriel is only left with a note and Anne explains, \"If you want to go fast\u2026go alone. I need to go fast.\" Gabriel is completely heartbroken in this moment. It's actually surprising that he is so upset, considering the fact that Anne almost turned him into an afternoon snack for the garbage walker. Gabriel clearly cares about Anne tremendously and has made an impact on her, as she was not able to hurt him. Perhaps she is better off alone, but will her time with Gabriel make her second question everything?\n\"We are not the same.\"\nMichonne's daily routine is interrupted when she finds out that Negan has been refusing to eat. After paying him a visit, Negan requests to have a conversation with Michonne. Michonne reluctantly agrees and tells Negan that while they are rebuilding, he is continuing to rot in there. While Michonne handles things with action, Negan is a master of words, manipulating and impacting Michonne more than she could have ever anticipated. Negan opens up to Michonne about his wife dying from cancer and they even both speak about Carl. Michonne further opens up about her son, Andre, which is clearly difficult for her to talk about. Negan is desperately looking for any kind of connection, as anything is better than nothing and tries to tell Michonne that they are the same. Michonne refuses to admit this, but does Negan have a point? Negan escalates things further when he demands to see his beloved bat, \"Lucille,\" but Michonne says it isn't there. But perhaps Negan has been getting in Michonne's head for quite some time, as she continues to see his \"bat\" everywhere, even in Judith's children's book.\n\"Brother\u2026take my hand.\"\nAfter Rick finds out about Maggie's intentions, Daryl conveniently offers to give him a ride. Only Daryl has no intention of stopping Maggie. Rick quickly realizes what is going on and demands that Daryl pull over. The tension that has been building between these two finally erupts, as they begin fighting each other, ending up trapped in a ditch. Now that they are away from everyone, Rick and Daryl finally take a moment to talk about their feelings. Daryl tells him about what the Oceanside people did and asks Rick if he forgot that Glenn was the one who initially saved him. Rick explains that if Negan dies, he will become a martyr and then Carl died for nothing. Daryl says that he'd die for Rick and that he would have died for Carl too, but that Rick is chasing something for him that isn't meant to be. Daryl begs Rick to let go of Carl, but is Rick really able to do so? When they hear cries from the camp, Rick and Daryl finally put their differences aside and work together to get out of the pit. Rick takes Daryl's hand and calls him his brother, saving him. After seeing the horde of walkers quickly approaching, Rick gets on the horse to lead them away, bringing us full circle, as Rick was initially on a horse in the series premiere. Daryl tells him to \"be safe,\" but we all know what is coming next. The horse gets spooked and throws Rick off of him, as Rick hits his head and is injured severely, completely surrounded by oncoming walkers. There's no way Rick is getting out of this one, but we'll have to wait for next week to find out how it ends. Stay tuned for Rick's last episode!\nPosted on October 29, 2018 October 29, 2018 Categories The Walking Dead, UncategorizedTags Alexandria, AMC, Community, connection, drama, episode 4, family, fans, fate of Rick Grimes, friendship, full circle, Gabriel and Anne, horror, I'd Die for you, leader, loneliness, Lucille, Maggie Rhee, manipulation, master of words, merry band of bridge builders, Michonne, Negan, Ranking, Richonne, Rick Grimes, Rick vs Daryl, Rick's last episode, season 9, spoilers, television, The Kingdom, The Obliged, The Walking Dead, theories, top 5 list, Top 5 moments, TV, TWD, walkers, zombiesLeave a comment on Ranking the top 5 moments from \"The Walking Dead\" season 9 episode 4: \"I'd Die For You\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Onties.com Onties News Media\nHome\/latvia\/Havee must rejoice in every victory \u2013 in Riga again the basketball Champions League\nHavee must rejoice in every victory \u2013 in Riga again the basketball Champions League\nlatvia October 27, 2020 latvia\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, the changes also affected the FIBA \u200b\u200bChampions League. The usual format of the regular season with eight teams in one group was redistributed in half after the lottery, dividing 32 teams into eight fours. The Latvian champion \"VEF Riga\" will play in Group E together with \"Strasbourg\" from France, \"Peristeri\" from Greece and \"Ritas\" from Lithuania. Instead of the initially guaranteed 14 matches, there are only six left, but it will be possible to extend the season if the group manages to win first or second place.\nThe Latvian champions are not keeping their budget under control and it is planned to be around one million euros this season. There is a solid amount in domestic basketball, but very little in the FIBA \u200b\u200bChampions League. Today's opponents in Strasbourg can count on six million euros, two of which were spent on players' salaries. About three million will be spent in Vilnius, more than in Riga and the Athens box office \"Peristeri\". Thus, on paper \"VEF Riga\" there are groups of the latter, however, we should not write off our prospects at all.\n\"Compared to the previous season, we managed to complete the team earlier, the legionnaires came earlier, we started training earlier. Before the Champions League, there is a feeling that we are ready for the season and that proves the great start in the Latvian-Estonian league. We are also satisfied with the composition of the team, the team has almost all the players we wanted and could afford. Yes, we are lagging behind in terms of budgets, but if everything was charged only in cash, the games would not happen at all. We very much hope that this season will be more successful in Europe and that is a reasonable expectation. Going back to the budgets, \"we will have to be happy for everyone who won\" before the start of the FIBA \u200b\u200bChampions League in a conversation with Jaunslv, says the president of \"VEF Riga\", Gatis Jahovi..\nOne of the main goals of the tournament organizers was to announce the end of all games, if necessary, to postpone the matches for free weeks. Games are scheduled every few weeks, there will be quarantine time if needed and there will be time to prepare for the games. Champions League matches in Riga will not become commonplace \u2013 after today's fight against Strasbourg, the next time is scheduled only on December 23 against Vilnius \"Ritas\". It is interesting that in recent years, a stable participant in the European Cup of ULEB, Vilnius \"Ritas\", was attracted to this tournament with financial awards from FIBA \u200b\u200b- 250 thousand euros were paid for the transition.\n\"VEF Riga\" is not yet in the category of teams to which the European department of FIBA \u200b\u200bwould be ready to grant additional privileges. Latvia, however, was awarded one place in the main event and one place in the qualifiers, which remained unfulfilled this fall. Each team will receive 50,000 euros to participate in the main tournament, which in the case of Reagans can cover travel expenses.\nJahovich reveals that travel costs have risen significantly this fall: \"Even two or more times! For example, last year it took about five thousand to go to Athens, now tickets cost about 12 thousand, but the charter flight will cost about 30. Travel has become more expensive and in this regard the reduction in the number of games in the regular season will significantly reduce costs. However, we are not satisfied with that decision, we wanted more games, more good teams in Riga. \"From an athletic point of view, getting out of a team of four should be easier than being in a team of four.\"\nVEF Riga is unlikely to claim the FIBA \u200b\u200bChampions League winners' trophy, but every player on the team will have each game as a stage from which to reach the deeper waters of basketball. \"This is a story for our team \u2013 to develop the players' careers and enter the basketball market in a completely different status,\" head coach Janis Gajlatis said of the pre-season team concept. One such example is Marek Meyer, whose salary in the Perm team in Russia is four times higher than in Riga.\nBoth legionnaires and Latvians will have the opportunity to advance and prove themselves on a new (different) level. The role of leader of the local team should be played by Aigars Skele, much is expected from the debutant Christer Zorica.\nThe first opponents of \"VEF Riga\" will be the team of \"Strasbourg\", whose last decade was led by the selector of the French national team Vincent Cole. True, the last few years have not been very successful, and now the roads of Strasbourg and Cole have parted ways. This fall, it is a new team with a new coach, only 33-year-old Finnish specialist Lassi Towi. The start of the season was unsuccessful \u2013 in the French championship, three wins were won in seven matches, three defeats were experienced in the last four matches. Including Saturday on his field against Le Portel (83:94). In the team statistics, the Americans Bonnie Colson (19 points on average per game) and Brandon Ffefferson (17.4) stand out. He was the first to play eight games in the NBA Milwaukee Bucks in early 2019, and on March 31 he scored 15 points against the Atlanta Hawks and recorded 16 rebounds. Tonight, high-class players will be shown on Arena Riga Square and on TV 6 screens.\nThe current rules of the gathering stipulate that 300 spectators can attend the game, using face masks and waking up at a distance of two meters. FIBA guidelines state that only persons with a negative Covid-19 test during the last 72 hours will be able to be near the square, there will be no spectators around the square and they will not be allowed to sell tickets in the front rows of the stands. 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{"text":"Tag Archives: transgender issues\nDear Ms. Caitlyn Jenner\nPosted by ts4jc in About Me, General Transsexual issues, Living Female\n1976 Olympics, advice, Bill of Rights, Bob Kane, Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, celebrity, Christian, coming out, confidence, conservative, Cornell, counsel, decathlon, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, Dennis Daugaard, Diane Sawyer, female, full-time, gold medal, headlines, HERO legislation, Houston, Hudson River, Human Rights, I Am Cait, Kardashians, Kate Bornstein, Log Cabin Republicans, Lower Hudson Valley, Montreal, MTF, naive, North Tarrytown, Olympics, overconfident, Pastor Ed Young, politics, prayer, Reality television, Renee Richards, Republican, Robert Kane, Rockland, silent, Sleepy Hollow, South Dakota, sports, suggestions, supportive, Tappan Zee Bridge, team manager, Ted Cruz, track and field, trans-hostile, Transgender, transgender community, transgender issues, transgender rights, Transition, Westchester, Wheaties\nEnglish: The Tappan Zee Bridge as seen in Tarrytown, NY (Photo credit: Wikipedia)\nI've never met Caitlyn. But we have a lot in common. We both identify as female, transgender, Christian and politically conservative on a number of issues. We both spent a significant portion of our respective childhoods within a few miles of the Tappan Zee Bridge (I was on the opposite shore from her). And since I am only three years younger than Caitlyn, some of that time was concurrent (from November 1960 to the summer of 1963, according to my calculations, based on when my family moved there and Caitlyn's family moving to Connecticut after her freshman year of high school).\nWe share a love of sports. I lettered in four sports in high school. However, it was a very small prep school and the only way my career in sports would continue was because I became the manager for the track & field and cross country teams at a Division One university (Cornell) with an excellent program for over a century in those sports. While I had some evidence of athletic ability, it came in a body that was considerably more compact.\nIn fact, there was most likely only one degree of separation between us before she came out in public. That is because as team manager, I met one of Jenner's teammates on the 1972 Olympic track team and also had a nodding acquaintance with a former U.S. Olympian (Bob Kane) who would become the president of the U.S. Olympic Committee shortly after Jenner's gold medal in 1976 Olympics. And there are likely others in track & field circles that both of us know.\nIt seems that a lot of people are telling Caitlyn Jenner what she should and shouldn't do. I should think I have as much right to do so, if not more. However, I have reached an age where I try not to tell anyone what to do; I only make suggestions. And I admit that the suggestions I make to my tax clients are quite authoritative.\nBut I have no intention of sending a letter to her home to get intermingled with hundreds of other letters from fans and foes. So I am posting it publicly. If one of my blog readers or LinkedIn connections knows her personally and finds it worthy of passing along, so be it.\nDear Caitlyn,\nAfter some downtime, you are finding your way back into the news again. Criticism of you by people who are hostile to transgender people is to be expected. But much criticism also comes from others within the transgender community. Is it warranted?\nLet's start with something that was unquestionably positive for the transgender community: your contact of South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard regarding recent legislation that would have discriminated against trans youth. Did your voice play a part in paving the way for the Governor, who admitted never having knowingly met a transgender person, to remedy that omission? Did that in turn help lead to his eventual veto? I'm sure it did.\nWhat about your meeting with Pastor Ed Young, a prime mover in the defeat of the HERO bill in Houston last November? You prayed with him and while that is always a blessing in general, hopefully the pastor could see the Holy Spirit in you as you prayed together and in your conversation as well. But it also gave you the opportunity to share how hateful the pastor's trans hostile videos have been. Someone well battle-tested on the front lines of our struggle, Kate Bornstein, gave you kudos for that.\nYes, it is important to meet with others in the transgender community (and our allies) to continue to get educated on who we are as individuals and as a group. But what progress do we make if we only meet with each other. Only Nixon could go to China. Only Kirk could negotiate a peace treaty with the Klingons. I've made a positive impact with many (not all) Christians in my little corner of the globe. But so far, there are only so many I can reach.\n1976 Summer Olympics (Photo credit: Wikipedia)\nCaitlyn, please keep some things in mind. First of all, there is only so much any one person can do. I know that you were remarkably consistent in your decathlon scores, but you were able to train for those both physically and with technique. Training to live as a woman in real life, undoing a lifetime of habits, is many times more difficult. Plus the available coaching is far more rudimentary than anything you would have received in preparation for Montreal 1976.\nSecond, you are not alone in the work. There are many others out here as well. You don't have to become exactly like them, but you also want to be careful about acting at cross purposes with them.\nBut most of all, Caitlyn, you don't even have a year living full-time as you. And with your lifestyle and opportunities, in some ways you have experienced less than most of us. (Make note of Renee Richards' hindsight about how unrealistic it was for her to spend her one year life experience by taking a cruise to Italy, living for a while in a real life Fellini movie and then tooling around western Europe in a sports car, before losing her nerve in Morocco on the steps of the hospital \u2013 twice.) Ten months ago, immediately after watching Diane Sawyer interview you, my biggest concern was that you still wouldn't be you. You know how to be a feted celebrity. You've been there and done that forty years ago. But do you know how to be Caitlyn Jenner? Make sure you treat yourself to the time you need to find out, away from the cameras, the banquets and even your entourage sometimes.\nAnd this brings me to your remarks about Ted Cruz. I am acknowledging up front that there are people who read the headlines and went nuclear without reading anything else that you said on the subject. (Headline writers provoke more than inform.) Indeed you acknowledge that Sen. Cruz has one of the worst records on trans issues when viewed by the transgender community. What you don't acknowledge is how unlikely it would be for Cruz or most Republicans today to be willing to even consider having a liaison with the transgender community. When he met you prior to coming out, Cruz treated you as an Olympic gold medalist and sports hero. As a little boy, he may have even idolized you on the front of the Wheaties box. There is no reason to expect he will treat you so kindly now.\nI truly understand the dilemma you face politically. What do you do when the politicians and party whose values you tend to agree with on a broad range of issues: a) see people like us as moral deviants at best and part of the vanguard of end times wickedness at worst; b) refuse to believe our testimonies that this is who we are and have always known ourselves to be with respect to gender, and who continue to insist that we have made an immoral choice; c) don't believe we have the right to enjoy the same rights and freedoms as the rest of society enjoys: protection from job discrimination; proper medical care consistent with the findings of the American Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association; the ability to make life choices consistent with our innate gender identity; the right to safety; d) actively campaign to take away our recently-won rights (not special rights, just the \"unalienable\" right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness)?\nSome have quoted you (or perhaps assumed) that you believe that Republicans are better on transgender issues than Democrats are. Later articles appear to have corrected that misquote, and you admit that Democrats are more favorable on trans issues. So I am going to take it that the latter is true for you. But I will share that when I first read the former, my impulse was that you needed to name names. Just who are these supportive Republicans?\nThen I remembered that the Log Cabin Republicans claim to advocate on behalf of transgender individuals, not just lesbians, gays and bisexuals. So I went to their website. I looked at their recent initiatives. I looked through their press releases. They congratulated you for coming out during the Diane Sawyer interview. Since then, keeping in mind all the transgender oriented legislation and votes that have been in play since then in places like Houston and South Dakota, they have been totally silent on transgender issues. It has been disappointing to say the least.\nOn the one hand, it is good to have a positive attitude and a belief that you can make a difference in Christian and politically conservative circles. But while there is no crime in being na\u00efve, it is not helpful to overestimate the speed with which you will be able to change hearts. You have strengths: a warm, likable personality, a record of achievement that few people can match and access to channels that most of us will never come close to having. But on the negative side, your association with Kardashian reality television and continuing with that format to some extent on your own show makes it easy for some people to dismiss you as a publicity hound.\nCaitlyn, I know you have heard much of this before from many sources. But you may not have heard it from a source who is similar to you in as many ways as I am: transgender, MTF, Christian, conservative, background in track and field (and athletics in general), and raised in the Lower Hudson Valley. You and I understand how much work there needs to be done on transgender in the Christian and politically conservative communities. At the same time, we are not willing to write them off as hopeless.\nI have more that I could say to you, but I'd prefer to convey it privately, if indeed you should grace me with a personal contact. Contact can be initiated through my blog or contact information on my LinkedIn page.\nCaitlyn, I am in the habit of closing out my blog posts with scripture. This verse is on a monthly prayer calendar for a Christian ministry I am associated with. It is a perfect admonition from the Lord to leave you with.\nCommit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. \u2013 Psalm 37:5","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The 'Big Idea' revisited\nWHY ARE WE CHRISTIANS BETTER KNOWN FOR WHAT WE DON'T WANT IN SOCIETY, THAN WHAT WE DO WANT? We're known to be against abortion, euthanasia and homosexual marriage, ecetera. But what are we known to be for \u0420apart from a return to Pleasantville? Do we have a clear idea of the kind of society we do want? J\u00fcrgen Moltmann says the church should be like an arrow, sent out into the world to point the way to the future. So what should that future look like?\nLast year I wrote about a 'Big Idea' that a Christian think-tank in Cambridge proposes as a Biblical vision of society (See ww 05 jul 2004 \u2013 What's the Big Idea?). The main mover behind this think-tank, Dr Michael Schluter, points out that when someone once asked Jesus, 'Teacher, what's the Big Idea?' \u2013 or words to that effect \u2013 Jesus simply answered with a four-letter word: L-O-V-E. LOVE God and LOVE your neighbour, even if he's your enemy. The whole law hung on these two imperatives, said Jesus (Matt 22:36-40). In other words, relationships were the glue of society, implied Jesus.\nSuch an answer, I suggested then, would be considered na\u00eeve, impractical and unrealistic in today's real world. LOVE is not the language of money, economics, politics and military power. It's not a language widely spoken in Moscow or London, Washington or Brussels, Tel Aviv or Baghdad. Yet Dr Michael Schluter and his think-tank boldly suggest this very Big Idea \u0420the imperative to love God and neighbour \u0420is the way forward for Europe, for the Americas, for Africa and for Asia. They dare to propose that this Idea presents a practical alternative to capitalism and to socialism.\nAn economist with the World Bank in the 1970's, Schluter was searching for a biblical alternative social vision to the situation in socialist Tanzania. With other scholars he took a fresh look at the Old Testament as an ethical foundation for public life, and noted a remarkable internal consistency in an apparently random collection of laws. The Jubilee laws for land, the ban on interest, the role of the Levites, political structures, welfare arrangements and military organisation all cohered in central theme, the key to which he discovered in the New Testament.\nSchluter then realised the Big Idea of Old Testament law was relationships. The Mosaic laws \u2013 seemingly random and unconnected \u2013 protected and promoted relationships in the long run. Society, in other words, should not be evaluated by its GNP, or the efficiency of its markets, but by the health of its relationships. Relationships were the key both to interpreting and applying biblical law today, and to evaluating society today, concluded Schluter.\nThis idea he called Relationism. He and his team developed this idea to embrace a wide range of social initiatives, including employment schemes, relationships audits in multinational corporations, and the Keep Sunday Special campaign in England. He has worked to improve warder\/prisoner relationships with the Scottish Prison Service, and advocates 'relational healthcare' and 'relational justice'. He co-authored The R Factor and The R Option, and founded the Relationship Foundation, the Jubilee Centre in Cambridge and the think tank that produces The Cambridge Papers. (See: www.relationshipsfoundation.org, www.jubilee-centre.org, www.jubilee-centre.org\/cambridge_papers).\nWAY FORWARD?\nFar from viewing such ideas as \"na\u00eeve, impractical and unrealistic\", some politicians are beginning to take Schluter seriously. In Holland, the Christen Unie political party rewrote its manifesto after considering his message, with the title: From 'me' politics to relational politics. A major Australian party has invited Dr Schluter several times for policy consultations this year, and leading papers down-under seriously reflected on his message (See www.jubilee-centre.org\/online_documents\/MONEYORALIFETHECHOICEWASYOURS.htm).\nTwo very useful new resources have just been released, which I personally highly recommend:\n\u00b7 Relationism: the way forward for Europe? is a DVD with two one-hour introductory messages by Dr Schluter, recorded at last year's Hope for Europe Round Table held in Greece. This resource tool, very usable in schools, home groups and leadership seminars, is available for \u00ac\u00a35.99 via www.jubilee-centre.org\/Resources\/resourcecatalogue.php?cat=20.\n\u00b7 Jubilee Manifesto: a framework, agenda and strategy for Christian social reform (IVP 2005), is the fruit of over two decades of 'serious reflection and practical experience'. Members of Schluter's think-tank contribute chapters to this compendium exploring nationhood, government, family, welfare, finance, economics, criminal justice and international relationships from a relational perspective, in an informed, practical and realistic approach. This I suspect will be a milestone publication. You can download a four-page introduction from the Jubilee Centre website, or order the book via: www.jubilee-centre.org\/Resources\/resourcecatalogue.php?cat=2.\nIn YWAM, we have begun assessing what Relationism can mean for our mission. What should a global, relationally-based university really look like, such as we want the University of the Nations to be? What might this framework for biblical social reform mean for our curriculum and teaching styles in our various colleges? How relational are we really on our YWAM bases? If we were to conduct relational audits within our ministries, what might we discover? How should the R-factor shape our strategies and methods of mission?\nTo explore these and other questions, Lynn Green (our YWAM International Chairman), myself and other YWAMers plan to join the Dr Schluter and other contributors to the Jubilee Manifesto at the first Jubilee Centre Winter School to be held in Cambridge in the New Year, Jan 3-6. Why not join us for these stimulating sessions together, co-sponsored by the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, Care, Tear Fund and YWAM\/University of the Nations? Check out the Jubilee Centre website for details.\nFrom the folks who brought you 'Toronto'\u2026\nFrom confrontation to incarnation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fox News Coverage\nCHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -- A large group with \"My Hood, My Block, My City\" traveled to the South Side Saturday to learn more about and explore Englewood.\nThat organization gives teenagers and adults the opportunity to go outside their own neighborhoods and learn more about other parts of the city.\n\"By exposing teenagers to more outside their block or hood they can take ownership of their city and feel more optimistic towards their future,\" said Cole.\nEnglewood is so often linked to violence, gangs and poverty, but Saturday afternoon a group of Chicagoans learned it's also a neighborhood with opportunities.\nOne stop on the itinerary was the Dream Caf\u00e9 in the heart of Englewood.\n\"It's a beautiful thing,\" said managing partner of Dream Caf\u00e9 and Englewood native Howard Bailey. \"You are only as strong as the weakest link and Englewood and other areas are seen as weak links and people think that way without really knowing what's going on in the neighborhoods.\"\nDavid Haley and Brendan Mclaughlin traveled the 12 miles from the north side of Chicago to check out the south side.\n\"I lived in Iowa before this and the towns were same conditions - it's not glamourous like downtown Chicago and the Loop is, but it's a neighborhood and it feels like a neighborhood,\" said Hailey who lives in Old Town.\nCole says this is why he does this - these north side residents admitted they've never been to Englewood until they were invited.\n\"Today was all about cross pollinating Chicago and different perspectives,\" said Cole.\nParticipants agree - it's an eye opening experience and they will make the trip down the Dan Ryan Expressway again - this time on their own.\n\"I think it will make them feel better about their city and themselves,\" said Signe Murphy who's from the northwest side of the city.\nNext stop for this exploring program is South Shore, then Back of the Yards - both on the south side.\nIf you want to join this program or you want to invite teenagers into your neighborhood:\nhttp:\/\/mbmhmc.com\/\nTags Fox News Jahmal Cole, Fox News My Block My Hood My City, Jahmal Cole Fox news, Chicago Segregation Fox News, Dream Cafe, Kusanya Cafe, Jahmal Cole, Chicago Segregation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SU News\nYour Morning on Spectrum News\nAROUND SYRACUSE\nBoilermaker 2019\nDiscover Better Boating\nClosings and DelaysCheck the latest closings and delays for schools, business, and churches around CNY and the Mohawk Valley.\nTickets Selling Fast for SU Bowl Game\nBy Spectrum News Staff Syracuse\nPUBLISHED 7:23 PM ET Dec. 05, 2018 PUBLISHED December 5, 2018 @7:23 PM\nIt's looking like Orange Empire will be out in force in Orlando.\nSpectrum News has learned from Syracuse University that its allotment of tickets for the Camping World Bowl is selling out fast. Syracuse will take on West Virginia at the bowl game on Friday, December 28.\nTickets are still available in the Red Zone and Goal sections, with a limited number remaining in the midfield and corner sections. Prices range from $79 to $131. SU students can also score up to four tickets for $25 each.\nIf you can't make the trip to Orlando, the university says there will be alumni watch parties all over.\nIf you're interested in attending the game, visit Cuse.com\/CampingWorld.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sudlows Win DCD Award for Ashton Old Baths Data Centre Project\nPosted by Noah Bowness on December 10, 2021\nWe are pleased to announce that Sudlows, in collaboration with Tameside Council and MCAU Architects, have won the DCD 'Data Centre Architecture Award'.\nNow on its 15th consecutive year, the DCD Awards are a chance for the best in the business to get together and celebrate excellence and success in the Data Centre industry. In the past 15 years, there have been 1,045 finalists shortlisted, 306 awards given out and over $1 million raised for children's charities.\nThe 'Data Center Architecture Award' category attracted 11 finalists, with Data Centres from India, Spain, USA, Thailand, and Singapore to name a few. The recently completed Sudlows Data Centre project in the rejuvenated Grade II listed Victorian Public Bath House in Ashton-Under-Lyne however, achieved the award.\nThe Data Centre is utilised by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council as well as its Partners and NHS community, with additional space offered to new businesses. Sudlows were responsible for the Data Centre design and delivery. Our Enterprise Services division also designed and installed video surveillance and access control systems to keep the facility secure and our Facilities Management Team have been instructed to deliver a ten-year maintenance package to ensure peak operation for the Data Centre and to prolong the lifespan of its equipment. MCAU Architects delivered the structural and restorative works.\nSudlows have enjoyed a positive streak of award wins in 2021 and has collected Electrical Industry Award for Contractor of the Year', 2 DCS Awards for 'New Design\/Build Data Centre Project of the Year' and 'Data Centre Industry Contribution of the Year' and finally the 'Special Award for Performance During the Pandemic' at the Network Computing Awards. We are proud to collect a series of awards from some of the biggest industry recognised bodies over the last few months, a testament to some of the great projects and work carried out by Sudlows.\nYou can watch back the DCD Awards here:\nYou can find out more about the project by visiting our Ashton Old Baths Case Study\nAshton Old Baths Data Center Dynamics data centre\nCritical InfrastructuresEnterprise ServicesFacilities Management","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'This is depression': Division 1 pitcher opens up about hidden illness to help others\nCourtney Coppersmith wasn't trying to win a contest.\nShe certainly wasn't looking for recognition.\nShe thought it would help to write down everything she had felt during a whirlwind freshman year of college at UMBC.\nAnd if the words she wrote found their way to someone else, someone who needed to hear them?\nMaybe there'd be some good to come out of it.\nFor the past three seasons, Coppersmith has participated in the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) World Series with her Greater Harrisburg softball program. Each year, every player from the eight regional teams that qualify for the national tournament submit an essay for the Jackie Robinson Breaking Barriers contest, which seeks to honor those who've overcome obstacles in life.\nThe eight coaches each select one finalist to represent their teams. Sharon Robinson, the daughter of the legendary Brooklyn Dodger who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, selects the ultimate winner.\nAccording to Coppersmith, past finalists have been players who overcame cancer or dealt with struggles at home. Situations that didn't exactly mirror what she had gone through this past year.\nShe didn't even know her coach, Mike Stepp, had selected her as a finalist.\nSo as she sat in the Jackie Robinson Training Complex in Florida last week, listening to Sharon describe the winning essay, she wasn't waiting for her name to be called. Sure, Robinson opened by saying the winner was a left-handed pitcher. A left-handed pitcher who was an excellent academic student. Still, that could describe a number of the 100-plus girls in attendance.\nThen Robinson said the winner had experienced great success as a college freshman. Things started to click for Coppersmith just before Robinson began reading her essay to the crowd.\n\"Then I just started bawling my eyes out,\" Coppersmith said.\nThe Central York grad's essay had been declared the winner. In the piece, Coppersmith detailed how she had dealt with depression and contemplated suicide during her incredible freshman year at UMBC\n\"Some of those girls may be going through similar things and wondering, 'Why am I feeling this way?'\" Robinson said to MLB.com about why she selected Coppersmith's essay. \"And to hear one of their peers step forward and say, 'listen, this is depression.' When you lose your motivation and don't want to go out of your room, that's depression, and then you have to do something about it.\"\nCoppersmith said that while some of her teammates knew what she was going through, plenty of them didn't. Her family didn't know most of it. She didn't plan for them to find out because she won a national contest.\nUltimately, she decided opening up was the right thing to do.\n\"If you had asked me during (my freshman) season I never would have submitted it,\" she said. \"I went through an entire year not telling many people what I was feeling.\n\"It's my story, but if I can help somebody not feel like that, then it's worth it.\"\n'It was all kind of a coverup'\nCoppersmith suspects she's like most people in that she's dealt with anxiety at different points of her life.\nThings got more difficult her first year at college.\nShe felt the pressure of needing to live up to her athletic scholarship while still getting good grades. She joined seven extracurricular activities to get involved around campus, putting even more on her plate. She hated missing classes, but often had to once softball season heated up.\nShe also had several friendships from high school come to an end.\n\"People don't get the pressure that's put on college athletes,\" she said. \"I think (anxiety and depression) is always there for everybody, but going through college and dealing with so much pressure truly got to me.\"\nMore:Kennard-Dale, Susquehannock use game to raise mental health awareness\nMore:Strikeout specialist: Central York ace mowing down opponents\nCoppersmith spent team bus rides crying her eyes out. She admitted to not always putting herself in the \"safest environments.\" At times, she would go for runs late at night and not take her phone with her in case of emergency.\nBut to outside observers, Coppersmith was thriving better than before. She became one of the nation's most dominant pitchers almost immediately, racking up team and conference accolades on a weekly basis. Her season became huge news around school, and she was often profiled by media outlets in Baltimore and back home in York.\nIn some ways, her success made her personal struggles more difficult to deal with. She imagined what people might think if she said she was depressed.\nThis kid has got everything going for her. What does she have to feel so bad about?\nShe often struggled to sleep at night as she dealt with those thoughts.\n\"It was all kind of a coverup,\" she said of her success on the field. \"They see how you are on the field, the joy in your eyes and on your face. They're expecting that you're doing well. I didn't want people to know how upset I was.\n\"I didn't come from a rough home life. I didn't go through a brain tumor. But that doesn't mean I'm not human and that I can't feel things. I think that's what makes it so important to have the courage to speak out about it.\"\nEventually, Coppersmith began to speak out.\nShe confided in some friends and teammates who helped her work through her depression. According to Coppersmith, UMBC catcher Anna Lonchar went out of her way to check up on her and give her someone to vent to.\nCoppersmith also benefited from the #BetterTo9ether Games and mental health initiative started by the America East Conference this year.\n\"Talking through it helped a lot,\" she said. \"I had great friends that let me know I shouldn't be feeling like this.\"\n'Don't be afraid to talk'\nToday, Coppersmith says she has more good days than bad.\nAfter helping Harrisburg take second place at the RBI World Series, Coppersmith is looking forward to her sophomore year. She plans to remain very involved around campus, but thinks she'll be better equipped to handle it this year. On the field, she'll return to team coming off an American East title and an appearance in the NCAA tournament.\nAfter winning the essay contest, Coppersmith was awarded a laptop and given a hug from Sharon Robinson, who asked the pitcher if she was feeling better and told her to continue writing.\nCoppersmith has similar advice for anyone else battling depression.\n\"Don't be afraid to talk to somebody,\" she said. \"It took me a while to be comfortable talking about it. If you don't feel comfortable talking about it, write it down. I got a lot of relief from my essay. It doesn't hurt to write something and it's less frightening. Then maybe eventually you can show it to a friend and talk to somebody about it.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jax Jones \/ Martin Solveig \/ Madison Beer - All Day & Night\nFancy a walk on the Corrie cobbles?\nMore from Showbiz News\nFriday, April 20th, 2018 10:45am\nBosses at the ITV soap are opening up Corrie's new \u00a310 million set to members of the public - but only at weekends.\nCorrie's newly-extended set includes a police station, courthouse, Costa coffee shop, Co-op, tattoo parlour and a Weatherfield North tram station.\nIt'll be the first time the public will be able to tour the set since tours of the former set in Manchester city centre closed in 2015.\nCorrie's old Manchester set has now been demolished.\nTours will only take place on Saturdays and Sundays because it's rarely used for filming during the weekend.\nPrices for the tours - which are being run by a company called National Holidays and also includes coach travel with reserved seating one night dinner and bed & breakfast hotel accommodation - start at \u00a399.\nNational Holidays said on its website: \"You can immerse yourself in everything 'Corrie' with this guided tour, located at the brand new TV Set at Media City Manchester.\nThe official opening\nVictoria Street Coop and Costa\nVictoria Street Snooker Hall\nVictoria Street Metrolink\nVictoria Street Police Station\nSpeed Daal\nVictoria Street Urban Garden Bench\nPhotos: ITV\n\"With access to all of the street's most recognisable places; plus an exclusive look behind the scenes, this tour will give you the opportunity to enjoy this much-loved soap beyond the screen and experience the Coronation street life first hand.\"\nFans will be given a guided-tour of the set and will have access to original footage and props.\nThey'll also get to visit the stars' dressing rooms, the green room and indoor mock-ups of Rovers and homes of residents.\nThe new set took over three years to develop from concept to completion.\nKate Oates, Series Producer, said: \"The Victoria Street extension represents an exciting chapter in Corrie history: an amazing new stage, full of dramatic potential. Our amazingly talented design team have created everything from scratch - but it still manages to have the feeling of always having been there, just around the corner.\"\nIt may not have topped the UK singles chart, but Snow Patrol's ballad Chasing Cars has been named the most-played song of the 21st Century.\nGame Of Thrones has received a record-breaking 32 Emmy Award nominations, beating the drama series record set by NYPD Blue in 1994.\nBritish royalty and American royalty graced the red carpet at the European premiere of The Lion King on Sunday night.\nYou can listen to Pulse 1 wherever you go. Get in touch with the studio and call, message and Tweet us all directly from within the app.\nA6037 Canal Road - Bradford, West Yorkshire\nMore from Pulse 1\nPaul Griffiths playing Jax Jones \/ Martin Solveig \/ Madison Beer - All Day & Night","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"An unpublished study suggests that making variola, the virus that causes smallpox, is neither expensive nor difficult.\nEye of Science\/Science Source\nHow Canadian researchers reconstituted an extinct poxvirus for $100,000 using mail-order DNA\nBy Kai Kupferschmidt Jul. 6, 2017 , 5:00 PM\nEradicating smallpox, one of the deadliest diseases in history, took humanity decades and cost billions of dollars. Bringing the scourge back would probably take a small scientific team with little specialized knowledge half a year and cost about $100,000.\nThat's one conclusion from an unusual and as-yet unpublished experiment performed last year by Canadian researchers. A group led by virologist David Evans of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, says it has synthesized the horsepox virus, a relative of smallpox, from genetic pieces ordered in the mail. Horsepox is not known to harm humans\u2014and like smallpox, researchers believe it no longer exists in nature; nor is it seen as a major agricultural threat. But the technique Evans used could be used to recreate smallpox, a horrific disease that was declared eradicated in 1980. \"No question. If it's possible with horsepox, it's possible with smallpox,\" says virologist Gerd Sutter of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.\nEvans hopes the research\u2014most of which was done by research associate Ryan Noyce\u2014will help unravel the origins of a centuries-old smallpox vaccine and lead to new, better vaccines or even cancer therapeutics. Scientifically, the achievement isn't a big surprise. Researchers had assumed it would one day be possible to synthesize poxviruses since virologists assembled the much smaller poliovirus from scratch in 2002. But the new work\u2014like the poliovirus reconstitutions before it\u2014is raising troubling questions about how terrorists or rogue states could use modern biotechnology. Given that backdrop, the study marks \"an important milestone, a proof of concept of what can be done with viral synthesis,\" says bioethicist Nicholas Evans\u2014who's not related to David Evans\u2014of the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.\nBringing back an extinct virus that is related to smallpox, that's a pretty inflammatory situation\nPaul Keim, Northern Arizona University\nThe study seems bound to reignite a long-running debate about how such science should be regulated, says Paul Keim, who has spent most of his career studying another potential bioweapon, anthrax, at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. \"Bringing back an extinct virus that is related to smallpox, that's a pretty inflammatory situation,\" Keim says. \"There is always an experiment or event that triggers closer scrutiny, and this sounds like it should be one of those events where the authorities start thinking about what should be regulated.\"\nLittle-noticed discussion\nDavid Evans acknowledges that the research falls in the category of dual-use research, which could be used for good or bad. \"Have I increased the risk by showing how to do this? I don't know,\" he says. \"Maybe yes. But the reality is that the risk was always there.\"\nEvans discussed the unpublished work in November 2016 at a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. (Variola is the official name of the virus that causes smallpox.) A report from that meeting, posted on WHO's website in May, noted that Evans's effort \"did not require exceptional biochemical knowledge or skills, significant funds or significant time.\" But it did not draw much attention from biosecurity experts or the press.\nAlso little noticed was a press release issued by Tonix, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City with which Evans has collaborated, which also mentioned the feat. Tonix says it hopes to develop the horsepox virus into a human smallpox vaccine that is safer than existing vaccines, which cause severe side effects in a small minority of people. Evans says it could also serve as a platform for the development of vaccines against other diseases, and he says poxvirus synthesis could also aid in the development of viruses that can kill tumors, his other area of research. \"I think we need to be aware of the dual-use issues,\" Evans says. \"But we should be taking advantage of the incredible power of this approach.\"\nThe double-stranded variola genome is 30 times bigger than the poliovirus genome, which Eckard Wimmer of State University of New York at Stony Brook assembled from mail-ordered fragments in 2002. Its ends are also linked by structures called terminal hairpins, which are a challenge to recreate. And though simply putting the poliovirus genome into a suitable cell will lead to the production of new virus particles, that trick does not work for poxviruses. That made building variola \"far more challenging,\" says Geoffrey Smith of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who chairs WHO's variola advisory panel.\nThe world just needs to accept the fact that you can do this and now we have to figure out what is the best strategy for dealing with that\nDavid Evans, University of Alberta\nIn 2015, a special group convened by WHO to discuss the implications of synthetic biology for smallpox concluded that the technical hurdles had been overcome. \"Henceforth there will always be the potential to recreate variola virus and therefore the risk of smallpox happening again can never be eradicated,\" the group's report said. But Evans felt like the matter was never really put to rest. \"The first response was, 'Well let's have another committee to review it,' and then there was another committee, and then there was another committee that reviewed that committee, and they brought people like me back to interview us and see whether we thought it was real,\" he says. \"It became a little bit ludicrous.\"\nEvans says he did the experiment in part to end the debate about whether recreating a poxvirus was feasible, he says. \"The world just needs to accept the fact that you can do this and now we have to figure out what is the best strategy for dealing with that,\" he says.\nTwo rejections\nEvans declines to discuss details of his work because, after two rejections, he is about to resubmit a paper about it for publication. But the WHO report says the team purchased overlapping DNA fragments, each about 30,000 base pairs in length, from a company that synthesizes DNA commercially. (The company was Geneart, in Regensburg, Germany, Evans says.) That allowed them to stitch together the 212,000-base-pair horsepox virus genome. Introducing the genome into cells infected with a different type of poxvirus led these cells to start producing infectious horsepox virus particles, a technique first shown to work in a 2002 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The virus was then \"grown, sequenced and characterized,\" the report notes, and had the predicted genome sequence.\nEvans says Science and Nature Communications both rejected the paper. Caroline Ash, an editor at Science, says the paper wasn't formally submitted to the journal, but that Evans inquired about publication and provided the Tonix press release. \"While recognizing the technical achievement, ultimately we have decided that your paper would not offer Science readers a sufficient gain of novel biological knowledge to offset the significant administrative burden the manuscript represents in terms of dual-use research of concern,\" Ash says she replied to Evans.\nEvans says he has run his draft papers by Canadian government officials involved in export and trade as well as the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which were \"very helpful and provided timely and sensible guidance,\" he says. \"These things potentially fall under export legislation, because technically it could be viewed as instructions for manufacturing a pathogen,\" he says. To avoid running afoul of international conventions, Evans says he \"provided sufficient details so that someone knowledgeable could follow what we did, but not a detailed recipe.\"\nPeter Jahrling, a virologist at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, says the paper should definitely be published. \"Not only is it novel,\" he says. \"It is also extremely important.\"\nRegulatory questions\nProducing the variola virus in the same fashion would be prohibited under WHO regulations and rules in place in many nations. Labs are not allowed to make more than 20% of the variola genome, and the companies that make and sell DNA fragments have voluntary checks in place to prevent their customers from ordering ingredients for certain pathogens unless they have a valid reason. But controlling every company in the world that produces nucleic acids is impossible, Keim says. \"We've recognized for quite a few years that regulating this type of activity is essentially impossible,\" he says.\nInstead, Keim says, there should be an international permit system for researchers who want to recreate a virus no longer found in nature. Current U.S. rules already require federally-funded researchers who plan to do an experiment that \"generates or reconstitutes an eradicated or extinct agent\" that is on a 15-agent list of dual-use agents to undertake a special review and risk assessment. That U.S. list of regulated agents includes variola, but not horsepox, because it's not considered a dangerous virus itself.\nThe system in Canada is different, says Gregory Koblentz, a biodefense expert at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, who has been looking into the experiment since noticing the Tonix press release in March. There, the rules say even research that does not involve certain dangerous pathogens, but that could nonetheless generate knowledge that poses a dual-use risk, should be reviewed. \"That should have captured the horsepox synthesis,\" he says. Evans talked to federal agencies in Canada, which was not even required of him, and his university did look at the safety aspect of bringing back an animal pathogen. \"But as far as I understand, they did not engage in a systematic review of the broader dual-use implications of synthesizing an orthopox virus,\" says Koblentz. \"I don't think this experiment should have been done.\"\nNicholas Evans, the bioethicist, thinks that new rules need to be put in place given the state of the science. \"Soon with synthetic biology ... we're going to talk about viruses that never existed in nature in the first place,\" he says. \"Someone could create something as lethal as smallpox and as infectious as smallpox without ever creating smallpox.\" WHO should create an information sharing mechanism obliging any member state to inform the organization when researchers plan to synthesize viruses related to smallpox, he argues.\nThe genie is out of the lamp\nPeter Jahrling, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases\nEvans's experiment may also render moot a long-running debate on whether to destroy the two last known caches of variola. After smallpox was eradicated in 1980, labs around the world agreed to destroy their remaining smallpox samples or ship them to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta or to the Russian Research Institute of Viral Preparations in Moscow. (The Russian samples were later moved to the State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology in Novosibirsk.) Since then, the fate of those remaining stocks has been the focus of intense debate. \"Destructionists\" have argued that wiping out the last strains would make the world a safer place, whereas \"retentionists\" say keeping the virus\u2014and studying it\u2014could help the world prepare for future outbreaks.\nNow that variola can be synthesized, the decision hardly matters, Jahrling says. \"You think it's all tucked away nicely in freezers, but it's not,\" he says. \"The genie is out of the lamp.\" Evans's work is \"a gamechanger for the discussion,\" confirms Andreas Nitsche of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, who attended the WHO meeting where Evans presented his work last fall.\nFears of a return of smallpox\u2014which kills up to one-third of its victims\u2014ran high in the United States after 9\/11 and the anthrax letters mailed to U.S. politicians and media figures a few weeks later. The events led the U.S. government to amass big new stockpiles of smallpox vaccine and start a vaccination campaign for so-called first responders. But though a smallpox outbreak would almost certainly create panic and pose an unprecedented test for public health systems, scientists familiar with the disease say an outbreak could probably be contained quite easily because smallpox is not highly infectious and spreads slowly\u2014qualities that made it possible to eradicate it in the first place.\nMysterious origins\nMuch less is known about horsepox. Pox viruses are known to infect many animals, and horsepox is frequently mentioned in historic accounts, but it seems to have disappeared from nature, possibly because of modern husbandry practices. Scientists at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York published a genome sequence for horsepox in 2006, based on a virus isolated from sick horses in Mongolia 40 years earlier. That virus is still held at CDC; Evans says one reason he decided to synthesize a new virus was that he could not get permission to use the CDC samples for commercial purposes.\nEvans says his project has academic value as well: It could help elucidate the early history of smallpox immunization. The vaccine used to eradicate smallpox\u2014the world's oldest vaccine\u2014is itself a living virus named vaccinia; it was first used in 1796 by Edward Jenner, a U.K. doctor. Popular accounts usually have Jenner using cowpox to inoculate people after he noticed that dairymaids appeared to be immune to smallpox. But there are also stories implicating horsepox, and the published horsepox genome looks very similar to some old vaccinia strains, bolstering the hypothesis that the vaccine was derived from horses. (To add another layer of confusion, both horsepox and cowpox may originally have been rodent poxviruses that only occasionally infected livestock.)\nEvans hopes to study the function of some horsepox genes by making specific deletions, which could shed light on how the vaccine strain arose. \"This is the most successful vaccine in human history, the foundation of modern immunology and microbiology, and yet we don't know where it came from,\" he says. \"There is a huge, interesting academic question here.\"\nUpdated, 7\/7\/2017 at 2:30 p.m.: This story has been updated to includes comments from Gregory Koblentz on Canada's system of regulating and reviewing dual use research.\nKai Kupferschmidt\nKai is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine based in Berlin, Germany. He is writing a book about the color blue, to be published this autumn.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Imagens das p\u00e1ginas\nLondon Saturday Journal..., Volume 1\nINFORMATION ON SPECTACLES *.\npulverized diamond, into slabs or pieces, of the diameter required.\nThose pieces in which bubbles, waves, or blemishes appear, are Spectacles and side-saddles, we are quaintly informed, thrown aside by the optician who is tenacious of his fair fame, became common in England in the reign of Richard the Second.\nas their imperfections become more apparent in every afterThe ancients, however, knew the power of burning-glasses, and stage of their progress; and when polished, centred, and shaped one cunning rogue, we are told, discovered a new way to pay old for the spectacle-frame, they are really improper to be used at debts by means of a round stone or glass, used in lighting of all; nevertheless, the needy, or dishonest, rather than lose a fires, with which he melted the bond, written, as usual in those fraction of their gains, often persist in working up such imperdays, on wax. Their burning-glasses were spheres, either solid fect material, and, harping upon their being pebble-real pebble\n-palm them upon the uninitiated as genuine articles. Pebor full of water, their foci were consequently very short and bles have the following important advantages : they are of equal confined. A long interval occurred before spectacles were con- density, and exceedingly hard, firm, and clear ; their surfaces structed, and three hundred years elapsed between the invention are not liable to become misty or scratched (which circumstance of spectacles and telescopes.\nalone often compels a change of glasses) : they are of a pure, Our eyes should have our nicest and most tender care, since cool nature, and show this contrast to glass (which is, on the it is by them we are faniliarized with objects of the most ex\ncontrary, produced by the action of artificial heat) in the touch\nof the finger or tongue to their surfaces. They are, in consequisite interest and beauty, abounding on the earth we inhabit,\nquence of these properties, calculated to suit the sight for a and in the starry firmament above us :\nlonger period than glass ; but they need not be thrown aside \" My soul, while Nature's beauties feast mine eyes,\nwhen, from the indications already referred to, we find an To Naturo's God contemplative shall rise.\"-DODSLEY.\nincrease of magnifying power is required, as they can be reThe faculty of sight should be estimated and regarded by us worked readily enough to meet the acquirement of the eyes, and with more than ordinary care, when we reflect that it is the\nat an expense of scarcely more than that of a new pair of glasses, medium through which the most exalted and gratifying impres- ascertaining the focus of concave or convex pebbles, are the\nor about one-third of their original cost. The directions for sions are received ; and our watchful regard to its healthy pre\nsame as described for concave or convex glasses. servation and agreeable exercise is the more required from the The use of wire, gauze, crape, and muslin, as substitutes for consideration, that while to its admirable organization and glass, should be avoided, because it is a fallacy to assert that delicate sense of perception we stand so much indebted, those they are cooler and more agreeable to the eye. There is ahun. very qualities render it extremely sensitive to injudicious treat\ndant space for the circulation of air in the region of the eye if ment.\nthe spectacle-frame adapts itself pleasantly to the wearer's face ; The eyes, when in a sound and healthy state, instinctively look on things around us, a transparent medium is preferable\nwhile the eye and common sense may answer together that, to adjust themselves at a distance of twelve inches from a book or\nto a hazy and indistinct one. We do not choose bars and paper, when they are observing the same. This distance is gratings, or coarse curtains, in preference to glass, for the win. found to be most natural and agreeable ; for when we extend it dows of apartments; but if the light is sometimes too intense, to sixteen, twenty, or thirty inches, the crystalline lens is we place a shade to soften its dazzling effects. Such precisely stimulated to keep a distant and clear perception, until, as the is the reason why tinted glass spectacles, for defending the eyes distance increases, the object become less and less perceptible. from rain, dust, and wind, are recommended. When we are compelled to extend this natural distance, expe- ties, within a given time, than those worked by hand. They\nLenses worked by machinery are produced in greater quantirience difficulty in reading small characters, or find it necessary\nare passed through the different stages of grinding and polishto get more light on what we are observing, we may safely con- ing without having the keen eye of the workman carefully watchclude that artificial assistance is needed, and that, judiciously ing their progress, and adjusting the inequalities in their surfaces applied, the tendency to decay will be mildly arrested.\nor edges, which will always appear more or less in the working. The design of spectacles is to supply the loss of power which\nThe price at which competition demands those lenses shall be is experienced by the eyes at different periods of life, and ducer cannot afford to throw aside such as are faulty, and the\nrendered, operates against the wearer of spectacles; for the proarising from various causes. These productions of art are con\nwholesale agent and retail dispenser cannot expect to have, at structed with a close observance to, and act upon, the same\nthe low price charged, lenses which will bear a critical examiprinciples as those by which the process of vision is regulated. nation; and thus all which can possibly be used are thrust into\nSpectacles ought not to do more than maintain or preserve frames of one kind or other, from the common iron or horn to us the capability of seeing at the natural distance. This is, sold by the poor hawkers at sixpence, eightpence, and one shilin fact, all they are intended to effect. When the crystalline ling per pair, to the more expensive frames ; while many faulty lens of the eye, losing its convexity, fails to converge the rays glasses, after being dubbed with some ear-tickling appellation, of light, and bring them to their natural focus on the retina, an\nand imbibing extraordinary \"light-modifying and refractive virartificial lens, of suitable convexity, supplies to it this capability, tues,\" by passing into the hands of the hawker of a higher class,\nare palmed upon the unfortunate spectacle purchasers who are and compensates for its gradual diminution of capacity. Thus simple enough to give credence to the wondrous tale. lenses for assisting the sight are fashioned upon the optical prin\nThe eyes in which no malformation or disease exists, but ciples so apparent in the mechanism of the eye itself, which, which simply partake of constitutional decay, or, from too conit will be observed, is neither round nor flat, but of that nicely | tinued application to sedentary and studious pursuits, are be. moulded convexity which is indispensable for the performance ginning to feel a want of assistance, should have spectacles of of its functions. If lenses were either spheres or planes, they sixty-inch focus, which is an exceedingly slight magnifying likewise would be ineffective for the purpose proposed.\npower; and if these are found to be insufficient to afford ab There is not any material in existence, beside pebble and image of the letters of a book, &c., held in the hand at the\nagreeable and natural perception (not an enlarged or magnified glass, which is calculated for spectacle purposes. The pretended distance of twelve or fourteen inches from the eye), then apply \"improvements, .\" \"pellucid lenses,\" \"refractive transparencies,\" those of the next power, viz. forty-eight inches' focus. If these\npatent amber,\" \"crystal preservers,\"' &c., are new-fangled again are unequal to supply the loss of power or incapacity of terms, coined to entrap the uninitiated. Glass for optical uses the eye to converge the light to a point at the instant it reaches s heavy, homogeneous, and free from streaks and veins. More the retina, then lenses of thirty-six inches focus are to be had expensive chemical substances are employed in its manufacture recourse to; and when these fail to afford agreeable vision, than are used in making common glass.\nthirty, twenty-eight, twenty-four, twenty, must be progressively Brazil pebbles, or crystallized quartz, are imported to this adopted, thus gradually descending the scale, until the eyes recountry in rough blocks; these are cut or slit, by the aid of power, as spectacles carefully suited to the sight are capable so\nceive such compensation for their progressive decay and loss of * From a lively tract, called \" Spectacle Secrets,\" by George Cox, effectually to supply. London, 1838.\nThe period at which the sight begins to fail does not at all\ndepend on age, but varies in different persons according to the formation of the eyes, the treatment they have received, and\nTHE PROFESSOR OF SIGNS. the constitutional capability; therefore, the age of the person King James VI., on removing to London, was waited upon requiring spectacles gives but a vague general idea to the opti- by the Spanish Ambassador, a man of erudition, who had a cian as to what is required, unless other particulars are stated ; crotchet in his head that every country should have a Professor such as whether glasses have been used before ; the distance at which writing and printing are seen pleasantly without assist\nof Signs, to teach him, and the like of him, to understand one ance: the focus of those last used, or sending even but a broken\nanother. piece of the same.\nThe Spanish ambassador was lamenting one day, before the The near-sighted, or those who require concave spectacles, king, this great desideratum throughout all Europe, when the should use those of the slightest power; No. 0, or No. 1, will king, who was a queerish sort of man, said to him, \" Why, I generally be sufficient at first, but this, by the aid of the trial- have a Professor of Signs in the northernmost college of my bor, can readily be determined by the wearer himself. There is dominions, viz., at Aberdeen ; but it is a great way off, perhaps such an immense benefit experienced by the short-sighted from spectacles which suit their sight, that to argue for their adop- six hundred miles.\"\u2014\"Were it ten thousand leagues off, I shall tion of them would be quite superfluous. Without spectacles\nsee him,\" said the ambassador, \"and I am determined to set out they are excluded from observing beautiful landscapes, recog- in two or three days.\" The king saw he had committed himself, nising individuals, or viewing to advantage any of the crowd of and wrote, or caused to be written to the University of Aberinteresting objects around them ; but by adopting them they deen, stating the case, and desiring the professors to put him off are placed on a par with the long-sighted in such circumstances,\nsome way, or make the best of him. The ambassador arrived, while the sharp and microscopic character of their sight without spectacles, gives them many advantages over those possessing which of them had the honour to be the Professor of Signs ?\nwas received with great solemnity, but soon began to inquire ordinary vision.\nThe short, or near-sighted eyes, have the cornea, and often And being told that the Professor was absent in the Highlands the crystalline lens, more convex or arched out than in long- and his return uncertain, said the Ambassador, \" I will wait sighted eyes. This formation causes the rays to converge to a his return, though it were twelve months.\" Seeing that this focus before they reach the retina, but by the application of a would not do, and that they had to entertain him at a great concave lens the difficulty is corrected, and the rays are carried expense all the while, they contrived a stratagem. There was on to the proper point for giving a perfect image on the retina. This character of sight is very frequent, and is more particu\none Geordie, a butcher, blind of an eye, a droll fellow, with larly remarkable among those whose mode of life restricts them much wit and roguery about him. He is got, told the story, to crowded cities, sedentary employments, and confined situa- and instructed to be the Professor of Signs, but not to speak on tions. Those whose infantine and youthful years have been pain of death. Geordie undertakes it. The ambassador is passed in the country, or where the eyes have had a free range now told the Professor of Signs would be at home next day, at of view, not circumscribed by the walls of the nursery, or li- which he rejoiced greatly. Geordie is gowned, wigged, and mited to the observation of objects near at hand, rarely require placed in a chair of state in a room of the college, all the concave spectacles. The spectacle-frames next demand our attention, as our\nprofessors and the ambassador being in an adjoining room. The utmost care in judiciously selecting lenses of the proper focus ambassador is now shown into Geordie's room, and left to conor our sight will be neutralised if the frame or mounting in verse with him as well as he could. The ambassador holds up which they are placed does not apply comfortably to the one finger to Geordie, Geordie holds up two, the ambassador head, leaving the lenses they carry fair and parallel before the holds up three fingers, Geordie clenches his fist and looks stern. eres. If the front of a pair of spectacles is too short for the The ambassador then takes an orange from his pocket and holds wearer's face, he will look upon the edge of the lens, and a por: it up ; Geordie takes a piece of barley-cake from his pocket and tion of the exterior rim of the frame; if they are too long his ere will meet the opposite edge and inner curve of the rim. holds it up ; after which the ambassador bows profoundly to Spectacle-frames are fashioned to suit the variety of formation him and retires to the other professors, who anxiously inquired in different individuals, and therefore such should be applied as his opinion of their brother ? \"He is a perfect miracle,\" said adapt themselves pleasantly to the temples, across the forehead the ambassador, \" I would not give him for the wealth of the and before the eyes.\nIndies! I first held up one finger, denoting that there is one The material of which they are composed should be gold, God ;. he held up two, signifying that these are the Father and silver, or enamelled blue steel. Tortoiseshell, also, when well made, is very light and pleasant to wear, particularly for Son; I held up three, meaning the Father, Son, and Holy\nI ladies. There is no advantage in large size, or round-eye Ghost; he clenched his fist, to say that the three are one. spectacles, to compensate for their clumsy appearance and great then took out an orange, signifying the goodness of God, who weight; we get a sufficient expanse of observation with the gives his creatures not only the necessaries, but the luxuries of oval-shaped glasses without harassing the eye with an excess of life; upon which the wonderful man presented a piece of bread, light, which the large glasses admit.\nSolid blue steel mountings are a decided improvement, and showing that it was the staff of life, and preferable to every are invaluable for persons who constantly require spectacles.\nluxury.\" They are wrought from a plate of steel, and shaped as light and\nThe Professors were glad that matters had turned out so well; nniform as any other town-made elastic blue steel spectacles, so, having got quit of the ambassador, they next went to Geordie, with the advantage of being more durable, and eventually less to hear his version of the signs. \"Well, Geordie, how have expensive ; for as they have no soldering in their composition, you come on, and what do you think of your man?\"\u2014\" The it is scarcely possible to break them, and therefore they rarely rascal !\" said Geordie, \"what did he do first, think ye? He want repairing. Blue steel spectacles, in consequence of their held up one finger, as much as to say, you have only one eye ! bers are sold by the pretended cheap shops, at apparently low I held up two, meaning, that my one eye was as good as both prices which the wearer will find to be immensely beyond their his. Then the fellow held up three fingers to say there were real value. There are thirteen different qualities of the specta- three eyes between us, and then I was so mad, I steeked my cles termed blue steel. The chief part are country made, and neive, and would have come a whack on the side of his head, roughly put together, some being all iron, others having iron but for your sakes.\nThen the rascal takes out an orange, as fronts and steel sides; others again bearing a tolerably close much as to say, your poor beggarly cold country cannot produce resemblance to the best town-made articles, which, unless the that! I showed him a whang of bear bannock, meaning I did na two are compared together, is likely to deceive a casual observer. It will be perceived that it is the workmanship and nice finish\nof care a farthing for him or his trash either, so long's I hae this ! the best town-made spectacle-frames which necessarily increases but, by a' that's guid, (concluded Geordie) I'm angry yet that the price. Thus, a single pound of pig iron, which costs one penny, I did na thrash the hide of the scoundrel !\" can be manufactured into watch-springs of the value of 2401. So much for signs, or two ways of telling a story.\nacre,\nTHE APPROACH OF AGE.\nINDUSTRY As oft as I hear the robin-redbreast chaunt it as cheerfully in Septem- Heat gotten by degrees, with motion and exercise, is more natural, and ber, the beginning of winter, as in March, the approach of the summer, stays longer by one, than what is gotten all at once by coming to the fire. why should not we (thinks I) give as cheerful entertainment to the hoary. Goods acquired by Industry prove commonly more lasting than lands by frosty hairs of our age's winter, as to the primroses of our youth's spring ? descent.- Fuller's Holy and Profane States. Why not to the declining sun in adversity, as (like Persians) to the rising \u00c6leas, a king of Scythia, used to say that he thought himself no better sun of prosperity? I am sent to the ant, to learn industry ; to the dove, to than his horse-keeper when he was idle.--Plut. Moral. p. 394. learn innocency; to the serpent, to learn wisdom; and why not to this\nSPRATS. bird, to learn equanimity and patience, and to keep the same tenor of my\nSprats (\"* Clupea sprattus\") abound on the Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, mind's quictness, as well at the approach of the calamities of winter as\nKentish, and other coasts, and afford during the whole of the winter, a of the spring of happiness ? and since the Roman's constancy is so com\ncheap supply of food both to rich and poor. The largest quantities aro mended, who changed not his countenance with his changed fortunes,\ntaken when the nights are dark and foggy. From 400 to 500 stow.boats why should not I, with a Christian resolution, hold a steady course in all\nare employed during the winter. Many thousand tons in some seasons wcathers, and though I be forced with cross winds to shift my sails and\nare taken, and sold at 6d. and 8d. the bushel, depending on the supply and catch at side winds, yet skillfully to steer and keep on my course by the\ndemand, to farmers, who distribute about forty bushels of sprats over an Cape of Good Hope, till I arrive at the haven of eternal happiness ?\nacre of land, and sometimes manure twenty acres at the cost of 203 an Waruick's Spare Minutes.\nIn the winter of 1829-30, sprats were particularly abundant; large WIT AND JUDGMENT.\nloads, containing from 1,000 to 1,500 bushels, bought at 6d. a bushel, were Wit is brushwood, judgment tinder: the one gives the greatest flame,\nsent up the Medway as far as Maidstone, to manure the hop grounds. the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire.\nNotwithstanding the immense quantity consumed by the 1,500,000 inhab. -Sir T. Overbury.\nitants of London and its neighbourhood, there is yet occasionally a surplus\nto be disposed of at so low a price as to induce the farmers even so near COSTUME IN EDWARD Iu.'s REIGN.\nthe metropolis as Dartford, to use them for manure.-Yarrell's British Dress in the reign of Edward III, 1327, is thus described by Knyghton, Fishes. an historian of these times:-\" As regards gentlemen, what could exhibit a more fantastical appearance than an English beau of the 14th century ?\nANTIQUITY OF EPitarus.\nMany instances of epitaphs in prose and in verse, may be collected from He wore long-pointed shoes, fastened to his knees by gold or silver chains,\nthe old Greek poets and historians, who were yet but children compared a stocking of one colour on one leg and one of another colour on the other,\nto the Chaldeans and Egyptians. But the most ancient precedent of short breeches which did not reach to the middle of his thighs; a coat one\nepitaphs must be that recorded in the most ancient history, namely the half black the other half white or blue, a long beard, a silk hood, buttoned\nOld Testament, 1 Sam. vi. 18; where it is recorded, that the great stone under his chin, embroidered with grotesque figures of animals, and orna\nerected as a memorial unto Abel, by his father Adam, remained unto mented with gold, silver, or precious stones.\" The dress of ladies is thus\nthat day in being, and its name was called \"the stone of Abel ;\" and its described :-\" The tournaments are attended by many ladies of the first\nelegy was, \" Here was shed the blood of the righteous Abel:\" as it is also rank and greatest beauty dressed in party-coloured tunics. Their tippets\ncalled 4,000 years after, Matt. xxiii. 35. And this is the origin of monuare very short, their caps remarkably small and wrapt about their heads\nmental memorials and elegies.-- Athen, Oracle. with cords. Their girdles are ornamented with gold and silver, and they wear short swords, like daggers, before them, which hang across their\nCHAIN OF BEINGS. stomachs. They are mounted on the finest horses with the richest furni- Bitumen and sulphur form the link between earth and metal, vitriols ture; and thus equipped they ride from place to place in quest of tour. unite metals with salts, crystallisations connect salt with stones, the naments, by which they dissipate their fortunes, and often ruin their repu- amianthes and lytophites form a kind of tie between stones and plants, tations.\"\nthe polypus unites plants to insects, the tube-worm secms to lead to shells EFFECTS OF WINE ACCOUNTED FOR.\nand reptiles, the water-serpent and the eel form a passage from reptiles When Noah planted the first vine, and retired, Satan approached and\nto fish, the anas nigra are a medium between fishes and birds, the bat and said\u2014\"I will nourish you, charming plant!\" He quickly fetched three\nthe flying squirrel link birds to quadrupeds, and the monkey equally gives animals--a sheep, a lion, and hog--and killed them, one after another,\nthe hand to quadrupeds and to man. near the vine. The virtues of the blood of these three animals penetrated\nCHINESE APHORISMS. it, and are still manifest in its growth. When a man drinks one goblet of He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure. No duns outside, nor wine, he is then agreeable, gentle, friendly-that is the nature of the lamb. no doctors within. Forbearance is a domestic jewel. Something is When he drinks two, he is like a lion, and says, \" who is like me?\"-he learned every time a book is opened. To stop the hand is the way to stop then talks of stupendous things. When he drinks more, his senses forsake the mouth. Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; whu aims bim; and, at length, he wallows in the mire. Need it be said, that he at mediocrity will fall below it. then resembles the hog?--Richardson.\nCASH AND COURAGE.\nSIR WILLIAM JONES AND THOMAS DAY.\nNone fight with true spirit who are overloaded with cash. A man One day, upon removing some books at the chambers of the former, a who had been fortunate at cards, was applied to, to act as a second large spider dropped upon the floor, upon which Sir William, with some in a duel, at a period when the scconds engaged as heartily as tho warmth, said, \" Kill that spider, Day! kill that spider.\" \"No,\" said principals. \"I am not,\" said he, \"the man for your purpose, just at Mr. Day, with coolness, \" I will not kill that spider, Jones: I do not know present, but go and apply to him from whom I won a thousand guineas that I have a right to kill that spider. Suppose, when you are going in last night, and, I warrant you, he will fight like any devil ! \"-Andres' your chaise to Westminster hall, a superior being, who perhaps may have Anec. p. 138. as much power over you as you have over this insect, should say to his\nMAN'S INSIGNIFICANCE. companion, \u00b7 Kill that lawyer! kill that lawyer !'how should you like Whoever shall represent to his fancy, as in a picture, that great imago that, Jones ? and I am sure that to most people, a lawyer is a more noxious of our mother Nature, portrayed in her full majesty and lustre, whoever animal than a spider.\"\nin her face shall read so general and so constant a variety, whoever shall A JUST FLOGGING.\nobserve himself in that figure, and not himself, but a whole kingdom, no I had one just flogging. When I was about thirteen I went to a shoc- bigger than the least touch or prick of a pencil, in comparison of the maker, and begged him to take me as his apprentice. He being an honest whole, that man alone is able to value things according to their true estiman, immediately took me to Bowyer, (the master of the Blue-Coat School, mate and grandeur.-Montaigne's Essays. in which Coleridge was educated,) who got into a great rage, knocked\nDEBT. ine down, and even pushed Crispin rudely out of the room. Bowyer asked me why I had made myself such a fool? To which I answered that I had\nThere can be no independence or calmness without freedom from debt,\nwhich subjects one to indignities that harrow up the soul. Where tho a great desire to be a shoemaker, and that I hated the thought of being a\nmind and temper are irritated in this way, what enjoyment can there bo clergyman. \"Why so ?\" said he. \"Because, to tell you the truth, sir,' said I, \" I am an infidel!\" For this, without more ado, Bowyer flogged\nin anything? And what ripe and perfect fruits can the imagination of\nthe understanding produce ? Even the charms of nature are thus clouded, me, wisely as I think; soundly, as I know. Any whining or sermonising and the airs of heaven cannot soothe us.-Autobiography of Sir E. would have gratified my vanity, and confirmed me in my absurdity; as it was, I was laughed at and got heartily ashamed of my folly.-Coleridge.\nBrydges, Bart.\nSLEEPING IN CHURCH. TO TAKE OFF IMPRESSIONS IN PLASTER OF PARIS OR\n'Tis a shame when the church itself is a c\u00e6meterium, where the living SULPHUR.\nsleep above ground as the dead do beneath.-Fuller's Holy and Profane The plaster must be pulverized and sifted through a piece of very fine\nStates. gauze. First rub over the medal or engraved stone very softly with oil,\nCURIOSITY. and having wiped it with cotton surround the edge of it with a slip of thin The curiosity of an honourable mind willingly rests there where the love lead; mix up the sifted plaster with water and stir it gently to prevent it of truth does not urge it further onward, and the love of its neighbour bids it throwing up air bubbles, then pour it over the medal, or whatever it may stop ; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of be, the impression of which is wanted, and suffer it to harden and dry; it is truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt !--Omniana. easily detached, and forms a mould strongly marked. The process by sulphur is the same. Before these are used as moulds for impressions they London: WILLIAM SMITH, 113, Fleet Street. Edinburgh: FRASER must be oiled.\n& Co., Dublin : CURRY & Co.-Printed by Bradbury & Erans, Whitefriars.\nSECOND ARTICLE.-MANNING AND FITTING OUT.\nof the lieutenants (these being distinguished as commissioned THE BRITISH NAVY.\nofficers) joins, all hands are called, and his commission,\nsimilar to the one we have described, is read aloud in presence \u00b7 High o'er the poop the flattering winds unfurled\nof the whole ship's company. The imperial flag that rules the watery world.\"-FALCONER.\nThe first lieutenant, (or commander, if the captain has made The formal ceremony performed of \"Putting the ship in his election for one,) master, boatswain, gunner, and carpenter, commission,\" the officer next proceeds, in company with the are the persons on whom devolve the principal duties in fitting master attendant, to select and receive charge of a hulk. This out. Whilst the first two superintend the whole process, the is an old vessel fitted up for the habitation of the crew during master, and one of his mates, pay particular attention to the the time the ship is equipping. The principal object is to select stowage of ballast, water tanks, provisions, &c. in the holds ; for one sufficiently capacious to accommodate the officers and men, a judicious distribution of the weight has a great effect upon the and moored (situated) as near the dock-yard as possible, for the ship's motion at sea, and also upon her sailing qualities. The greater facility of boats passing to and fro.\nboatswain superintends the rigging; the gunner, besides the The choice of the hulk approved, a pendant is hoisted, and rigging of the mainmast and main yard, is employed fitting the never struck (taken down) night or day. The ensign or colours tackling and breechers (ropes which secure and work the (a large oblong flag with a union-jack in the upper corner) cannon); and the carpenter takes care that the masts and yards is also hoisted every morning at eight o'clock, and displayed are free from defects, besides busying himself in preparing the until surset.\nboats, and various other matters. The next step is to procure a clerk, if he is not already pro. If men are slow in entering, not much can be done in the way vided ; and should the captain have no one in view for this of rigging for some time, unless expedition is required, in which office, application is generally made to the admiral's secretary, who case, working parties are sent from the flag-ship, or other ships recommends one of several always on his list for employment. in port, to assist ; but in all cases it is desirable that the vessel\nThe clerk immediately makes out a demand for stationery, shall be fitted in every respect by her own crew: meanwhile there and having procured the signature of the commanding officer, is plenty of employment in getting on board the ballast, water he repairs to the superintendant of the dock-yard, who approves tanks, &c., stepping the masts, and other heavy jobs, at which it; he then draws from the store-keeper the necessary supply, the marines prove very useful. comprising various printed forms, which must be filled up, During war, vessels are manned by draughts from the guard. signed, and countersigned, after a regulated manner, before ships, or other ships paid off, and by pressing any seamen that stores or provisions of any description can be obtained. The can be laid hold of; in seasons of peace, the crews are all volunclerk also makes entries of the name, age, and description of every teers, who enter for the ship, or for general service. The term person who joins the ship; copies the port-admiral's orders, implied is three years, but once entered they can be detained, and has in fact a very busy time of it whilst in harbour. if the service requires it, for five years.\nDue notice of the intention of putting the ship in commission There is seldom, under ordinary circumstances, a necessity has in the mean time been given to the commandant of the for hurrying a ship's equipment, and as unnecessary severity of division of royal marines; and as soon as the hulk is reported discipline and frequent corporal punishment are greatly discounready for their reception, the party of marines, or sea-soldiers, tenanced by the Board of Admiralty, captains are of course called jollies by the seamen, is marched from the barracks to anxious to procure men of good character, so that they may have boats and embarked on board. From thenceforth, like every the less occasion to exercise severity. For this reason ships are one serving under that awful symbol the pendant, the marines sometimes very slowly manned in the present day, and good are amenable to naval discipline ; directed at work and ordered men being frequently rejected for frivolous causes, or a fastidi. about by Daval officers : in fact their own officers have little to ousness on the part of the captain, they are the less inclined to do with them afloat, except inspecting the condition of their submit to this mortification, and when slighted repair to the appointments, with an occasional exercise.\nmerchant, and often, we fear, to foreign service. Very much also The purser is generally appointed early, but should he not depends upon the reputation which the captain and his comhave made his appearance, (or joined, as it is called,) a supply mander or first lieutenant enjoys amongst the seamen ; a hasty of provisions is obtained from the flag.ship. As soon as this or contemptuous expression, a character for harassing the men official appears, however, he speedily procures all that is necessary with trifling jobs, or any prejudice taken up, runs like wild-fire in his department, for his principal emoluments are derived amongst seamen ; for they congregate together and discuss these from the savings he can effect in the allowance made him for matters-the most interesting that can be to them; and cases of providing coals, candles, and other necessaries.\nthis sort militate against the manning a particular ship, whilst As the officers appear, and their names are inserted on the men will enter freely for another. Indeed, experience shows that books, they enter on their various duties ; the lieutenants, mates, it is not the strictest disciplinarians who are unpopular, very and midshipmen, being attached to the parties which are sent far from it; because, under them, the seaman knows every one daily to the dock-yard and gun-wharf, to prepare the ship's must perform his duty, and the willing man is not obliged to do rigging, furniture, and armament. When the captain or either the work of the skulker. It may be very generally and certainly\n[Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars. )\nassumed, that when men show a disinclination for a particular further his recovery. If wounded or maimed, casualties to ship, there is a prejudice existing against some party on board ; which his profession render him peculiarly liable, he has surgical the remedy the Dutch formerly adopted for this was to nominate assistance on the spot, for want of which, and the means of peranother captain, if the one first appointed failed to enlist his forming an operation in season, thousands of merchant seamen crew within a specified time. No doubt such a regulation perish miserably. Moreover, should disease overtake him, and induced officers to cultivate the respect and affection of their incapacitate him at any time whilst serving, he is invalided and\npensioned at from eight pence to nine pence per day, instead of To many it may seem surprising that seamen will enter at all becoming dependent on parish relief. His children are eligible in the Royal Navy, when they can always earn nearly double, for Greenwich school, where they receive an education that and sometimes treble, the wages in trading ships. Experience qualifies them for advancement in life to any station good shows, however, that they do, and the fact is indisputable that conduct can obtain. In case of death, his wife receives an upwards of twenty thousand are now serving in the fleet, all annuity, and when he has served twenty-one years, he can volunteers. There must be some reasons for this, and the fact claim a pension for life, either at sea or on shore, of from is there are various advantages present, contingent, and in pro- ten pence to fourteen pence per day, and more if he served spect, connected with the Queen's service, that operate upon the in petty officer's ratings. The seaman who resolves upon minds of men who bestow a thought on the matter. But as we entering the Royal Navy with a view to serving therein believe that three-fourths of our merchant seamen never heard twenty-one years, may therefore set casualty and fate at defiance; of, or at all events do not know enough of these advantages to he need take no further thought of provision for life. He may appreciate them, we shall be performing a kindness by describing save out of his pay (to say nothing of his chance of prize money) the most prominent, reserving more detailed observations upon scores, nay, hundreds of pounds, if provident, leaving himself \" Impressment and Manning the Fleet\" for a special article, in ample means for enjoyment besides, for every want is supplied which we purpose treating on the matter hereafter.\nto him ; and, should he so desire, Greenwich Hospital at last The average wages of seamen in merchants' ships, may be receives him. The merchant seaman has nothing of this kind estimated roundly, at 45s. per month. In some trades they to depend on. It is true he subscribes to a fund, but unless he earn considerably more ; and an able seaman, who really de- makes some additional provision for old age, he will find but a serves the title, and has served his apprenticeship to the sea, scanty maintenance from what that affords; and should his may always calculate on obtaining 60s. per month.\nconstitution break down, or injury or disease incapacitate him, The best seamen in the Navy do not (until they attain to he has no resource for himself or family from which he can petty officer's ratings) receive more than 348. per month, but claim the means of support. their pay is calculated by the lunar, not (as in the merchant's Having detailed the advantages which the seaman enjoys in service) the calendar month, so that in this respect, they have an the royal navy, so far as regards his wages and entitlements, advantage of thirteen to twelve. But the man.of-war's man's pay the reader will be anxious to know how he fares ? The best is always accruing; he is subjected to no interruptions nor mulcts, information we can give him on this point is to append the his pay goes on in sickness or health, when captured or ship- following Table, which shows the provision made for his support, wrecked *, even when on leave of absence: in fact, he need never and the judicious manner in which his food is varied from day lose a day's wages, for when discharged from one ship, he can to day. immediately enter on board the flag ship, and obtain two or\nThe following scheme shows the proportion of provisions, with three weeks' leave for recreation on shore, depositing his chest,\nsalt-meat, for each man, for fourteen days. bedding, and a portion of his money, in safety, until his return. Again, he incurs no drawbacks, like the merchant seaman, for\nDays of the week. damage or pillage of the cargo; neither is he obliged to hang about the docks for ten days after discharge, before he can claim a settlement of his wages, all which time the seaman is a Sunday.\nMonday, prey to Jews, who advance him money on exorbitant terms :\nTuesday. in fact, notwithstanding the disparity of wages, if a balance is Wednesday.\nThursday. struck at the end of half-a-dozen years, it will be found that Friday.\n$ the man-of-war's man had earned the most money, and main\nSaturday. tained his family in the greatest comfort, owing to the regularity Sunday.\nMonday: of his employment, and punctuality of his allotment.\nTuesday. But it is only in the matter of wages\u2014and that we have shown Wednesday.\nThursday. is questionable\u2014that the merchant seaman can claim an advan- Friday. tage; in every other respect, he is immeasurably deficient. The\nSaturday, man-of-war's man enjoys good treatment, food, and lodging, Proportion for\n34 55 14 days.\n54 54 34 greater safety from the superior qualities of his ship, the skill of the officers to navigate her, and the strength of the crew : in sickness, skilful professional treatment, with a profuse use of the\nEvery individual of the crew receives the same allowance, not most costly medicines to alleviate his pain, and restoratives to\nthe slightest distinction being made, either in quality or quantity,\nbetween the captain and the smallest boy on board the ship. * If a merchant vessel is captured or wrecked, the crew are not entitled\nFormerly there existed what were called \" Banyan days,\" to wages. In either case, but particularly the former, when the man is being three days in the week, not strictly of abstinence, but on generally detained in prison during the war, his allotment is stopped, and\nwhich no dinner was cooked, the men making a cool and comhis family deprived of any help from him. The man-of-war's man is not liable to this, but his wages continue to accrue when he cannot\nfortless meal on whatever they saved from the previous day. receive them, and his allotment is punctually paid, even should he be Banyan days have been abolished since the war, and the above detained in a French prison twenty years or more.\narrangement adopted, by which a hot dinner every day of beef\npint,\nVinegar,\nplat.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Columbus Blue Jackets Matt Duchene Signs with Nashville Predators\nMatt Duchene Signs with Nashville Predators\nCOLUMBUS, OH - FEBRUARY 26: Matt Duchene #95 of the Columbus Blue Jackets lines up for a face off during the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on February 26, 2019 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Kirk Irwin\/Getty Images)\nThe Nashville Predators have signed unrestricted free agent forward Matt Duchene to a contract. Sportsnet's Chris Johnston reports that the contract will be seven-years at $56 million.\nIt sounds like Matt Duchene will join the #preds. Expect his contract to come in with an $8M AAV.\n\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) July 1, 2019\nNashville Predators Sign Matt Duchene\nOver his 10-year NHL career, he spent time with the Colorado Avalanche, Ottawa Senators and Columbus Blue Jackets. Over that span, he scored 232 goals and 315 assists for 547 points in 727 games.\nLast season in 73 games between the Ottawa and Columbus, Duchene scored 31 goals and added 39 assists for 70 points. His possession numbers were 51.9 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 7.\nIn 10 playoffs games, Duchene scored five goals and added five assists for 10 points.\nDuchene was originally drafted by the Colorado Avalanche in the first round, third overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.\nWhat This Means for the Future\nIn Duchene, Nashville gets a versatile top-line talent. Duchene is capable of playing both centre or the wing. However, he is best utilized at centre due to his ability to win the draw. Duchene finished with a 55.3 faceoff win percentage last season which was good for 13th in the league for players who took over 1,000 faceoffs.\nIn today's NHL where the game is built on speed and skill, Duchene excels. Duchene has outstanding top-end speed and is regarded as one of the league's fastest skaters. He has a magnificent set of hands. Duchene is able to pull off dekes at top speed leading to highlight-reel goals. Duchene is also a very capable playmaker. He has shown throughout his career by hitting the 30 and 40 assist plateaus multiple times. Duchene also set a new career high in goals last season with 31 and tied a career high in points with 70.\nThere's been a lot of ups and downs for Duchene over the past few years. Dealing with a ton of trade rumours for years in Colorado to then dealing with the contract and trade situation in Ottawa to eventually finishing out the season in Columbus where the club got ousted in the second round by the Boston Bruins. Now with a new contract signed, Duchene can finally settle in. He doesn't have to worry about rumours or contract talks any longer. He can finally focus on playing hockey and try to win his first Stanley Cup.\nCOLUMBUS, OH \u2013 FEBRUARY 26: Matt Duchene #95 of the Columbus Blue Jackets lines up for a face off during the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on February 26, 2019 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Kirk Irwin\/Getty Images)\nMatt Duchene\nPrevious articleJoe Pavelski Signs With Dallas Stars\nNext articleTampa Bay Lightning Sign Luke Schenn\nNashville Predators Need to Get Roman Josi Deal Done\nBuffalo Sabres Sign Dylan Cozens To Entry-Level Contract\nAndre Burakovsky Re-Signs With Colorado Avalanche\nMichael000 June 30, 2019 at 11:17 pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Archive for the 'stop motion' Category\nEvery other month, members of Animation Resources are given access to an exclusive Members Only Reference Pack. In march 2016, they were able to download this collection of high resolution engravings by Gustave Dore. Our Reference Packs change every two months, so if you weren't a member back then, you missed out on it. But you can still buy a copy of this great e-book in our E-Book and Video Store. Our downloadable PDF files are packed with high resolution images on a variety of educational subjects, and we also offer rare animated cartoons from the collection of Animation Resources as downloadable DVD quality video files. If you aren't a member yet, please consider JOINING ANIMATION RESOURCES. It's well worth it.\nCLICK to Buy This E-Book\nPDF E-BOOK:\n101 BEAUTIFUL IMAGES BY GUSTAVE DORE\nGustave Dore was probably the most famous illustrator who ever lived. He was born in 1832 in Strasbourg, France and began drawing at the age of five. He was entirely self-taught with an instinctual knack for light, form and composition. At the age of 15, he talked his way into the office of publisher, Charles Philipon to show him his sketches. At first Philipon found it amusing that such a young boy would be so brash, but once the drawings were laid out in front of him, he couldn't believe his eyes- He thought it must be a trick. Dore sat down at his desk and proceeded to knock out a few more sketches for him on the spot to prove that the work was indeed his. Young Dore was immediately signed to a contract, and within a year, he was the highest paid illustrator in France, exceeding the per page rate of Honore Daumier, France's most celebrated printmaker at the time.\nDore is primarily known as an illustrator today, but his first successes were in the field of cartooning. Thousands of his \"grotesque caricatures\" were published in various magazines in France in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as appearing in the prestigious British humor magazine, Punch. The cartoons in this article appeared in a book titled 200 Sketches Humorous and Grotesque which was published in London in 1867. (More on that amazing book in the near future\u2026) Dore's style ranged from the wildest exaggeration to classically constructed human figures- and every variation between the two. In addition to drawing, he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor and engraver.\nIn 1847, Dore decided he wanted to create a book of engravings based on a great literary work, Dante's Inferno. He visited the offices of Louis Hachette, the most successful publisher in Paris. Even though no book up to that point had sold for more than 15 Francs, Dore told Hachette that he wanted to produce a deluxe oversize book of engravings that would sell for 100 Francs. The publisher scoffed at the idea and assured him that no book would ever sell at that price. But Dore called his bluff, offering to pay the printing and binding expenses if Hachette would manufacture and distribute the book for him. Dore created 76 full page engravings for Inferno, and financed a print run of 100 large format books. Within two weeks, the first printing had sold out and Hachette was eager to eat his words and publish the book on Dore's terms.\nWith a team of the greatest available engravers working under his supervision, Dore went on to create iconic engravings for Don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Fontaine's Fables, Milton's Paradise Lost and the Bible, among many others. In just three years, he produced over 2,000 engravings, and continued to maintain an incredible pace for another two decades. Although Dore's paintings and sculptures were exhibited in museums with great success, his most important legacy wasn't as a fine artist. Vincent Van Gogh called him\u2026 \"an artist of the people\". Dore was the first serious artist to use the power of modern technology, specifically engraving and electrotypes, to deliver his art directly to the masses. His Bible illustrations alone were published in almost 1,000 editions around the world. Just about every serious reader in the late 19th century had at least one volume in his library that included Dore illustrations, and his work continues in print to this day.\nThe influence of the imagery of Gustave Dore can be seen in classic movies like Intolerance, King Kong, Great Expectations and The Ten Commandments. Despite the fact that Dore's engravings are nothing more than lines etched in black and white, he achieved a remarkable sense of scale, depth and mass, as well as truly spectacular lighting effects. It's no wonder that the masters of epic filmmaking, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille and David Lean referred to Dore's illustrations for their set designs. Stop-motion animators, Willis O'Brian and Ray Harryhausen have cited Dore as one of their main influences as well. Harryhausen was quoted in an interview as saying, \"I've always wanted to do Dante's Inferno, because of Gustave Dore. He had done the first illustrated book of Dante's Inferno- A Trip Through Hell. I felt that would look terrific in animation, but when I got deeper into it, I thought, 'Will people be able to sit through an hour and half of tormented souls writhing in Hell?' Although these days they sit through over two hours of tormented souls!\"\nSet design for D.W. Griffith's \"Intolerance\" (1916). See Dore's depiction of Babylon below.\nAnimation Resources was fortunate to obtain an 1870 edition of the most monumental collection of Dore images ever published, The Dore Gallery. Referred to in the book trade as an \"elephant folio\" because of its huge size, this two volume set contains hundreds of high quality engravings from many of Dore's greatest works. Our scanning team has been carefully digitizing this amazing book, resulting in archival quality scans.\nREFPACK009: 101 Beautiful Images By Gustave Dore\nAdobe PDF File \/ 198 Pages\n198 MB Download\nNot A Member Yet? Want A Free Sample?\nCheck out this SAMPLE REFERENCE PACK! It will give you a taste of what Animation Resources members get to download every other month!\nJOIN TODAY To Access Members Only Content\nPosted in dore, illustration, stop motion | Comments Off on E-Book: 101 Beautiful Engravings By Gustave Dore\nTheory: 3D Design Inspiration- Kachina Dolls\nWhen an artist who animates with drawings looks to reference for stylization techniques, he might look to modern UPA style cartoons. These can often give him ideas for interesting shapes or ways of handling the line. But these sorts of flat designs aren't much help to a puppet or CGI animator, because 3D characters need to be volumetric so they can inhabit three dimensional space. A flat UPA character won't translate. So where does a CGI or puppet character designer look for ideas about stylization?\nWell\u2026 one great source is American Indian Kachina Dolls\u2026\nClick to see in 3D!\nKachinas are very important spiritual symbols to the Hopi and Zuni tribes in North Eastern Arizona. They represent natural life forces that are able to provide protection, fertility or healing. There are hundreds of different Kachinas in the Hopi culture, each one with a specific personality and representational meaning. The Kachinas aren't thought of as gods, but rather as a shadow society, with family relationships and lives of their own. There are Kachinas that embody the wind, the sun, stars, thunderstorms, birds, animals and even ideas, like motherhood or fertility. The most important Kachinas are referred to by the Hopi as Wuya.\nThe Hopis and Zunis dress up as the Kachinas for planting and harvest festivals. They dance and sing in costume and give the children of the pueblo wooden dolls of the characters as gifts to protect them and teach them about the culture. (The Kachinas are looked upon by the children as a cultural equivalent of Santa Claus because of this custom.)\nThe Navajo tribe didn't have Kachinas in their culture, but the proximity of the Hopi and Navajo reservations created a sharing of ideas, and now many Navajos carve Kachina dolls too.\nHere are some examples of the masks worn by the Kachina dancers\u2026\nThe word \"Kachina\" can be used in several contexts\u2026 It can be used for the characters representing natural spirit powers, the costumed dancers at the festivals, the dolls given as gifts to the children, or to describe the crude souvenir dolls sold to tourists.\nSouvenir Kachinas sold along Route 66 in the 50s and 60s\nThe simplest way to tell a souvenir Kachina doll from one given to the Hopi children is to look on the feet for a signature. Tourist Kachinas are almost always signed and have the name of the Kachina. Ones given by the Kachina to the Hopi children is never signed, because the children are told that the Kachinas themselves made it for them.\nSenator Barry Goldwater had the world's most significant collection of antique Kachina Dolls, which he willed to the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. The collection illustrates the progression that Kachina design went through from the 1890s all the way through the 1950s. If you are ever in the area, it's well worth a visit.\nAs you look through this gallery of Kachina dolls, take note of the wild stylization and the variations on a single character. Each Hopi artist has his or her own style and approach to carving the dolls and the designs have changed radically over the past century. Earlier examples are more like outer space creatures, while more recent ones have more realistic human proportions.\nIt's easy to get stuck in a stylistic rut, designing characters that look just like other character designs. Instead, step outside of the box for inspiration and you'll find that the possibilities in design for animation are limitless\u2026 and a lot of fun too!\nStephen Worth\nThis posting is part of a series of articles comprising an online exhibit entitled Theory.\nPosted in 3D, cgi, kachina dolls, puppet, stop motion | Comments Off on Theory: 3D Design Inspiration- Kachina Dolls\nAnimation: Reiniger's Prince Achmed\nIf you ask the average person what the first feature-length animated film was, just about everyone will answer Walt Disney's \"Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs\". But Disney's film wasn't the first animated feature by a longshot. Arguably, that honor belongs to Lotte Reiniger's \"Adventures of Prince Achmed\".\nIn 1923, Reiniger and her husband and business partner, Carl Koch began work on an ambitious project\u2026 a feature length silhouette puppet film based on \"The One Thousand and One Nights\". She worked with animator Bertold Bartosch and background artist Walter Ruttman for three years on the film. The paper cutouts were jointed using wires and delicately arranged on top of a lightbox, where it was photographed frame by frame. Reiniger continued to animate her distinctive silhouette films up into the mid-1970s. She passed away in 1981.\nAnimation Resources volunteer, Eric Graf was perusing a local library book sale when he spotted an amazing find\u2026 a portfolio of prints from Reiniger's landmark film. Published in Berlin in the year the film was released (1926), this group of images shows just how beautiful Reiniger's work was\u2026 and how unique. Eric picked up the book for the collection and brought it by today. Thanks, Eric!\nOur reader, Michael generously translated the synopsis for us\u2026\nOnce upon a time there was a wizard who could control all the powers and elements of the world. One day, he made a mighty flying steed out of pure will and thought. Then he took it to the caliph's palace and asked him to let him marry his daughter in exchange for the horse. The girl refused (she thought he was ugly), so the plan was dismissed, but her brother, Achmed, got angry and insulted the wizard. So the latter set up a trap for him: He offered him to have a ride on the horse to see how fast and strong it was. But as soon as he was in the saddle, the horse flew up into the sky and far away. Achmed managed at last to make it land on an island. There he found many beautiful women asking him to be their lover, but he denied as he wanted to find their queen, who \u2013 as he had heard \u2013 was a woman of exceptional beauty.\nAchmed flew over the island on the magic horse and saw a lake shimmering in the night. While he was waiting there, a bird with beautiful feathers landed nearby and changed shape before his eyes: It transformed into Paribanu, the queen of the island, and she wanted to bathe there; around her were many gentle women. Achmed asked her to stay with him, but she was frightened and tried to flee; he, however, held on to her feathers and followed her through the thicket like the hunter follows the deer. He asked her to flee no longer and sat her onto the horse with him. Then they flew over numberless countries, until at last they found a lonely valley, where Achmed made a bed for her under a tree.\nBut in the meantime, the wizard was not idle, searching for his horse with magic webs, in which he caught the picture of the faraway valley. Then he transformed into a kangaroo, that strange jumping animal of the desert, and in the next moment he was with Achmed and Paribandu. He lured Achmed into a deep canyon, in which a horrible snake lived. While Achmed was fighting that snake, trying to save his life, the wizard kidnapped the girl and escaped with the flying horse.\nIn China he wanted to sell her as a slave. A very powerful emperor lived there; he had a hump-backed jester, who amused him with his pranks and his chimes. The emperor liked Paribandu and gave many sacks of treasures to the wizards for her. Big was the emperor, and fat. Beautiful he was not. When he approached Paribandu and wanted to make her his lover, she pushed him away, crying: \"No, you monster!\" That made the emperor angry, so he called his jester and told him: \"Do with her what you want! You can kill her, but you may also take her as your wife if you want!\" \"Ah, marriage! We make marriage!\" the hump-backed one called out and danced with joy.\nMeanwhile, the wizard was flying back to the island on birds that he had made out of the sacks of gold from the emperor. On the island, Achmed was mourning the loss of his lover, but the wizard gave Achmed to those birds: They tore him away like vultures tear a corpse away. When they found a wasteland where the earth was gaping and spewing out horror, they layed him down shackled under a big rock.\nA flaming abyss opened next to Prince Achmed. A hideous woman rose out of it and stepped towards him. Was she going to kill him? He walked up to her and told her who had brought him there, and that the great wizard's animals had kidnapped him. When she heard that, she shouted: \"He is my enemy, let us fight him together!\" She called the monsters that served her, for she was very powerful, as powerful as the wizard. She ordered them to dive into the core of the earth and fetch weapons with which they could fight the wizard. Now she was friendly to Achmed, took him by the hand and freed him. Look how they soared through magic might, walking through the air with ease, as if they were walking on level ground. The prince shouted: \"O look, down there is Paribanu, dressed for a celebration. Oh, she is going to be married with that hunch-backed jester! Let's go down there quickly and save her!\"\nDown they swooped like birds of prey, grabbing that noble girl. How they lay in each other's arms, Paribanu and Achmed!\nBut listen! The beating of wings, what does it mean? New dangers! Hosts of black creatures, horrible animals with flapping wings! \"O Paribanu!\" \"These are the spirits of Wak-Wak, my home country. They will not tolerate my staying away from home, they will take me with them! O, the horror!\" So the demons took to the air with their prey, and again Prince Achmed stood there alone, separated from his lover. He was furious, and in his anger he forced one of the birds to serve him. Racing after Paribanu, he saw the magic island from far away. The gate of Wak-Wak, and next to it endlessly high mountains. He flew into the gate, and through it.\nThen, suddenly, the gates closed, and a voice told the Prince that he was not allowed to enter. \"Have you heard of Aladin and his lamp,\" the voice said,\n\"only that lamp can be your salvation!\" Achmed stopped short, trying to recall what he knw about that name: Aladdin! Aladdin!\nWhat monster is this? Many-armed, abominable! Big as a mountain! And look, there is a man in its claws! The prince took his magic weapons to kill it. He shot arrow after arrow, until it dropped dead. He asked the man who he was. It was Aladin, the man he was looking for! He told Achmed his story: \"I used to live a quiet life in the caliph's city. While I was working in my workshop one day, a stranger of noble appearance came in and asked me to follow him to a place where immense treasures could be found. He lead me to a cave and bade me descend to the depths of the earth. There, between shiny stones, I found the marvelous lamp. \"Give it to me, scoundrel!\" the stranger shouted; he was waiting at the cave's entrance. When I refused, he left me behind in darkness and desparation. But I, lighting the lamp, became the master of its spirits. They helped me escape. They served me and did whatever I ordered them to do. I gave them the order to build a palace, more beautiful than any palace I had seen before. And before the sun set, they had accomplished that feat. I went to the caliph's daughter and led her home with me as my wife. But in the evening, everything had disappeared \u2013 she, the lover, as well as the incredible palace and, with it, the lamp.\nThe stranger had done that, but who was he? The great wizard!\n\"So I got up and fled the caliph's wrath. Travelling over the sea in a tiny boat, i got into a storm. I was whirled around, I was almost smashed against rocks, then I was thrown on the coast. I saw a tree with fruit that could help me recover. But as I reached out for it, the tree rose to the height of a mountain and threw off branches and leaves: It was a monster! That was when you found me, Prince Achmed, and when you saved me!\"\nWhen Aladdin had finished his story, the witch appeared and told them that Paribanu was in danger. She said that the spirits of Wak-Wak were revolting against her and only Aladin's lamp could save her. \"So you must fight the wizard!\" both Aladdin and Achmed begged her, \"wrench the lamp from his hands and kill him, the villain!\" Already the witch got up and wove magic circles in order to catch the wizard. Not before long he was with them, angry and raging.\nNow began a fight like the earth has never seen one, never before and never after it. In a lion's shape, the wizard jumped at the witch in order to pin her on the ground, but she turned into a snake. He, however, took the shape of a poisonous scorpion, which she countered by changing into a rooster. Many shapes they turned into, but neither of them was stronger than the other. Until at last, the witch tore the fire down from the skies, engulfing the wizard in flames. He, too, had power over the flames, and threw many a fire towards her, but finally, finally he got weak and burned. The villainous enemy was destroyed! Now the lamp belonged to them.\nVictory, victory! Now they had to hurry to Paribanu's rescue. Numberless were the demons that attacked them. But numberless were also the good spirits that came streaming out of Aladdin's lamp to fight them. And so the black power of the demons was broken forever that day, they fled desperately to the recesses of the earth. They were free now, all of them: Paribanu and Achmed, Dinarsade and Aladdin!\nOnce more they summoned the lamp's spirits and bade them carry them to the palace they had built in one night and that the wizard had whisked away from the ground. Happily the spirits obliged. Look what made them so glad, while it was flying through the air, light as a cloud, but still artfully created, with numberless galleries and stairs and proud towers. In front of them the house landed like an animal that was meant to carry their burden. They entered the palace, and it flew up again to bring them back to the caliph's city. There, they were greeted with measureless joy. How long they had been away, and what adventures their eyes had seen!\nBut the caliph embraced them all as his children, Paribanu the beautiful, who was now the wife of Achmed, the noble son, and Aladdin, his lovely daughter Dinarsade's husband. The caliph lifted his hands and blessed them all.\nTHE PLATES\n1. Achmed on the magic horse\n2. At the caliph's court\n3. The magic horse takes Achmed into the air with it\u2026\n4. \u2026so the wizard is taken prisoner\n5. Achmed with Paribanu's servants\n6. Paribanu flying to the forest lake in her feathery costume\n7. Her nightly bath\n8. Achmed following Paribanu\n9. The lovers in the mountains\n10. Achmed and Paribanu\n11. Achmed fighting with the snake in the canyon\n12. The emperor of China's jester playing the chimes\n13. Paribanu is sold to the emperor\n14. The emperor pressing Paribanu\n15. The wizard turns the sacks of gold into birds\n16. The hunchback plays the flute for Paribanu\n17. Achmed with the witch\n18. Paribanu in her wedding attire\n19. The wedding procession\n20. Achmed shooting the monster\n21. The monster threatening Aladdin\n22. Aladdin tells Achmed his story\n23. The wizard calls on Aladdin in his workshop\n24. The wizard leads Aladdin past the caliph's palace\n25. Dinarsade, the caliph's daughter, playing chess\n26. Aladdin discovers the magic lamp in the cave\n27. Aladdin greets Dinarsade\n28. Aladdin at sea in the storm\n29. The battle between the witch and the wizard\n30. The wizard and the witch fighting in the shape of a vulture and a rooster\n31. Aladdin fights the demons of Wak-Wak with his magic lamp\n32. The homecoming\nThis important film is available at Amazon\u2026 The Adventures of Prince Achmed\nThis posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Animation.\nPosted in aladdin, lotte reiniger, silhouette, stop motion | Comments Off on Animation: Reiniger's Prince Achmed","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Burning Question\nGSTAAD\u2014Lenin Moreno is in trouble despite his very unchristian first name. For any of you unfamiliar with him, Se\u00f1or Moreno is the president of Ecuador, a tiny South American country that I like very much because if you've met an Ecuadorean man, you've met them all: There are 16 million Ecuadoreans, and 8 million of them, the men, all look like identical twins. One of my closest friends on the tennis circuit back in the late '50s\/early '60s was Guillermo Zuleta, an Ecuadorean, who was the color of copper and could run all day, all night, 48 hours straight as long as he was chasing a tennis ball. Those were not color-blind days, and I remember one time, while watching Guillermo playing a match, an Australian lady expressed outrage at the fact that Zuleta had a very pretty blond girlfriend pining away at the side. \"What does she see in him?\" \"Well,\" I told her, \"if you care to sneak into the locker-room shower after the match, I'll point it out\u2014not that you can miss it.\"\nZuleta almost brought me to tears when he and his partner Guzman beat the big, bad Yankees at the Davis Cup, back when the Yankees were a superpower. (And the Davis Cup was the No. 1 prize in tennis.) They played in Quito, the capital, and the powers that be promised Zuleta's father a peanut concession outside the football stadium if he beat the hated gringos. I think he ran something like 250 miles in two singles and a doubles, and Ecuador won 3\u20132. When I asked Barry McKay, a top player, what had happened, he said it was like being in a bullring, with people throwing pennies and screaming their heads off as he looked up to hit an overhead. Although they were and are dirt-poor, the Ecuadoreans threw their last pennies onto the court in order to ensure victory. It's called patriotism, not nationalism.\n\"Would you slap Brad as hard as you would slap Harvey if both goosed you on the dance floor?\"\nI say all this because now president Lenin Moreno is in deep doo-doo. Les girls are Orlando Furiosos and want to make him a soprano. He said that women complain about sexual harassment only when harassed by someone ugly. He has apologized\u2014as is the way nowadays\u2014after expressing a certain truth. No dice. The girls are mad and they will not take it anymore. So, always in search of the truth for the dear old Speccie, I went up and down this alpine village and also visited the nightclub up at the Palace hotel looking to interview members of the fairer sex about Lenin's remarks. \"Who the f\u2014 is Lenin?\" was the first answer I got after asking a young woman drinking a martini at the Palace bar. Most of the women around Gstaad have never been accused of being intellectuals, yet the place draws them like you-know-what draws flies. But it could also be because of the mature men who frequent the Alps for the scenery. Some have even been known to ski, but not too fast.\nThe next lady I asked was more forthcoming: \"Would you feel harassed if Brad Pitt stroked your backside uninvited?\" \"Actually, he can stroke it anytime,\" said the 50-year-old, \"but why would he want an old bag like me?\" I congratulated her for her candor and honesty, and then asked if she would react the same way if Harvey Weinstein did the same. \"Not in a hundred f\u2014ing years,\" came the answer.\nThis broadened my quest. I stopped women in the halls and in the nightclub and posed the following question: Would you slap Brad as hard as you would slap Harvey if both goosed you on the dance floor? Most women answered by telling me to go reproduce myself, but when I produced my notebook and pretended to write down their answer they asked whom I was doing this for. My reply was Screw magazine, now defunct, as is its owner, Al Goldstein.\nYet this poses a serious question. What Lenin Moreno said was out of line\u2014or so my wife and daughter tell me\u2014but what he meant, I am sure, is what has taken me all these words to say: Brad Pitt can get away with touching whereas Harvey Weinstein cannot. Is this true? I am not a woman so I cannot answer, but what I can definitely state is that if Helen of Troy was ugly, we Greeks would not have gone to war for ten years to get her back. Mind you, women know better. John Wilkes insisted that thirty minutes alone with a lady overcame his ugliness and he would prevail over any far better-looking rival. He was right. Women prefer brains and charm to looks. Men are dummkopfs and will take skin-deep beauty every time.\nThe great seducers were mostly ugly, men like Casanova, Talleyrand, Louis XIV, D'Annunzio, and so on. Power, of course, had something to do with it also. Errol Flynn and Gianni Agnelli were two very good-looking men who got lucky a lot, but most male lookers do not rank up high. That's because women want something more than looks, and when it's not brains, power will do nicely, thank you. So, this is for you ladies: Next time Brad Pitt comes around and acts inappropriately, slap him rather hard\u2014if he makes a pass, that is. Harvey will not be coming around for some time, so forget about him.\nTaki's Top Drawer\nTrauma Drama\nTravel Travails\nWhat Is Racist?\n'Tis the Season for Unreason\nBack in the Bahamas\nOn the Books","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lawmakers press for ICE reforms after fake school report\nby Rafael Bernal - 12\/04\/19 6:00 AM ET\nCalls for structural reform of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are growing in the wake of revelations that the agency created a fake school to lure foreign students to violate immigration laws.\nHouse Democrats activists say the law enforcement agency's mission is too broad and its culture corrupt, but they've stopped short of calling for the outright abolition of ICE as demanded by some immigration activists.\n\"I think 'abolish ICE' is a buzzword. Because no matter what, we're always going to have to have some level of deportation force as well as an immigration processing institution,\" said Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), the vice chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC).\n\"And whether we need to separate those institutions into different entities with two different leadership styles and leadership heads, we can do that,\" added Gallego.\nRep. Linda S\u00e1nchez (D-Calif.) also said many Democrats are focused on reform, rather than abolition.\n\"The fact of the matter is we do need law enforcement to screen people at our ports of entry to make sure that there's not human trafficking going on, to keep contraband out of the country. So you can't ever abolish ICE. You could call it something else. I say reform ICE, let's put some guardrails in place so that they aren't embarking on these crazy schemes,\" said S\u00e1nchez, chairwoman of the CHC Immigration Taskforce.\nGallego added the agency \"clearly needs to be redone because this organization has gone rogue and doesn't know how to prioritize real threats versus what I would say are actually assets that we could be bringing into our country.\"\nThe latest backlash against ICE was prompted by a sting operation starting in 2015, under former President Obama's administration, in which agents set up the University of Farmington in Michigan, an institution that sponsored student visas but offered no classes, only to arrest and deport the foreign nationals who registered.\nIt's unclear whether the foreign nationals believed the University of Farmington was a fake institution set up to shop out student visas, as ICE claims, or whether they were entrapped into unknowingly violating their visa terms.\nC\u00e9sar Cuauht\u00e9moc Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez, an associate professor of law at the University of Denver who wrote \"Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants,\" said it's unclear whether ICE's actions constitute entrapment.\n\"The courts have given officers some pretty wide latitude when it comes to creative methods of identifying people who are violating the law and gathering evidence,\" Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez told The Hill.\nGarc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez said any reforms to the immigration enforcement system should first focus on eliminating immigration imprisonment.\nThe controversy over the sting operations comes as aspects of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a whole have come under scrutiny, even before President Trump started enacting his restrictive immigration agenda.\nA commonly cited issue is the size of DHS, with more than 200,000 employees on its payroll, and the sometimes-contradictory missions conducted by its agencies.\nIn the case of ICE, the agency is divided into Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), which investigates, detains and deports foreign nationals for immigration violations, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which investigates criminal activity that transcends international borders.\nAsked if she believed HSI and ERO belong under the same roof, S\u00e1nchez simply replied, \"no.\"\nS\u00e1nchez called for deep reform of an agency that's had a reputation for hard-edged enforcement tactics since its creation in 2003, in the aftermath of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.\nRep. Norma Torres, a fellow California Democrat critical of ICE's methods, said she's \"been close\" to calling for the abolition of ICE, \"because of how they have performed in dealing with immigrants.\"\n\"If this university kicked off during the Obama administration that means nothing to me. The fact that ICE went and took advantage of a situation is what I find disgusting,\" said Torres.\nBut Torres said Trump's leadership has worsened the agency's behavior.\n\"This is a mean-spirited issue of this administration that is directing their employees to act a certain way, a racist way, a way that is inhumane,\" said Torres.\nWhile Congress hasn't directly addressed the Farmington University case, ICE's leadership has faced congressional oversight from the House Oversight and Homeland Security Committees.\nHearings with top officials have so far centered on immigrant detention and a short-lived policy proposal to revoke deportation deferrals for critically ill foreign nationals seeking medical attention.\nAnd the \"abolish ICE\" buzzword has lost potency on the left, where a recognition of immigration enforcement needs has taken hold.\n\"A pretty small percentage are calling to abolish ICE, most people are saying we need to restructure and reform it. And I think that's where the drive is. You hear that from the candidates. I hear that from progressive members of Congress,\" said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a progressive immigration reform group.\nSharry added that the Farmington University incident was unlikely to reopen calls for abolition of the agency, as immigration enforcement agencies regularly rank among the least popular government institutions.\n\"They're well known as agencies that do bad things to innocent people, the idea of luring people to a school to learn English, and then prosecuting them for coming, it's just unbelievable,\" said Sharry.\nBut Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez said the agency's hardline tactics are politically aimed at an audience that's receptive to the methods.\n\"Instances like this situation in Michigan sour public opinion, or have to have the promise of souring public opinion. But the reality is that when it comes to the Trump administration, ICE has a lot of support within DHS, within the White House, and certainly within the political base that put the president into the White House,\" said Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez.\nTags Donald Trump Norma Torres Ruben Gallego\nMore Latino News\nHouse Hispanic Republicans name leadership team\nby Rafael Bernal 19 hours ago\nLatino \/ 19 hours ago\n66 percent in new survey support increased border security\nby Jared Gans 22 hours ago\nBiden administration touts initial success of border program\nby Rafael Bernal and Rebecca Beitsch 2 days ago\nLatino \/ 2 days ago\nTexas sues to stop Biden immigration parole program\nby Rafael Bernal 3 days ago","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/CSR\/Sustainability\/Mastercard Foundation's partnership on ICON program is geared toward promoting food security \u2013 President, WOFAN\nMastercard Foundation's partnership on ICON program is geared toward promoting food security \u2013 President, WOFAN\nBrand Impact Send an email April 21, 2022\nThe President of Women Farmers Advancement Network (WOFAN) has reiterated the commitment of the organization to promote food security through its recently launched ICON programme, which is an initiative in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. She stated that the intervention program, which has provided farm implements, had contributed immensely to addressing the challenges associated with the poor yield the farmers have experienced.\nAs a result of these forward-thinking strategies, the farmers under the leadership of their traditional leader Sarki Ibrahim were able to fully recover from their economic challenges and expand their yield from growing only rice and groundnuts to including a variety of vegetables. The farmers also became savvier in using technology and have replicated this in their farming practice. As a result, farmers have increased their profits from N40,000 to N120,000.\nSpeaking on the farmers' progress, Sarki Ibrahim is grateful for the initiative by WOFAN, which has received immense community support, especially in terms of Women mobilization and scaling up their businesses. \"We are extremely grateful to Mastercard Foundation and WOFAN for the inputs and technical support. This has improved our market access, and we can sell our produce at premium prices,\" says Sarki Ibrahim.\nAnother achievement of the Foundation and WOFAN partnership is establishing a makeshift centre for smallholder women farmers in Tofa community of Tofa LGA, Kano state. Here, they can pool resources to make groundnut oil for sale and parboil rice, all of which they accomplish using firewood. In time, WOFAN trained these women farmers to make and use briquettes in place of firewood to parboil their rice.\nWOFAN, in partnership with Sonvisage Innovation Team, developed a solar-powered briquette stove for domestic cooking and parboiling business. It is also used to generate electricity as the sockets provided on the stove can charge phones while cooking; also, the stove is constructed with a cabinet where cooking utensils are kept.\nSome women like Lubabatu Ado have taken to producing briquettes as a business. Again, solar power has provided a more eco-friendly way of soaking rice at night without using petrol or diesel. It also provides a source of income for people to start phone charging businesses. This has made the women's centre a place of business and a budding commercial hub in Tofa LGA of Kano state.\nOne of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Regina, who experienced the economic downturn, is grateful for Mastercard Foundation's intervention. \"WOFAN gave us economic support by providing us with farming inputs and technical knowledge through the training on forward-thinking agricultural practices. This has helped my group be better informed on financial management, cooperative management and group dynamics to improve our business. We are very grateful for this training,\" she said.\nMastercard Foundation Sarki Ibrahim Women Farmers Advancement Network\nZulum, Sanwo-Olu, others, emerge 'The Industry Governors of the Year'\nSo Fresh partners with Lagoon Hospitals\nMTN Foundation revamps 15 school laboratories, Commissions three in Government Secondary School Owerri","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: vaccine myths\nDid Edward Jenner's Son Die from a Vaccine Reaction?\nMaybe people know that Edward Jenner first gave his new smallpox vaccine to James Phipps, the 8-year-old son of Jenner's gardener.\nWhat they might now know is that two years later, in 1798, he also vaccinated his own son Robert F. Jenner, when he was eleven months old.\nDid he die after getting vaccinated?\nDid he suffer brain damage?\nOf course not!\nEdward Jenner vaccinated his youngest son, Robert.\nHe didn't even have a reaction and was later inoculated after being exposed to smallpox.\n\"My two eldest children were inoculated for the smallpox before I began to inoculate for the cow-pox. My youngest child was born about the time my experiments commenced, and was among the earliest I ever vaccinated. By referring to the first work I published on the subject in the spring of the year 1798, page 40, you will find his name, Robert F. Jenner, and you will observe it noticed that on his arm the vaccine lymph did not prove infectious. It advanced two or three days, and then died away.\"\nEdward Jenner on the Life of Dr. Jenner\nHe died 56 years later.\nEdward Jenner's other children didn't receive his smallpox vaccine. As they were all born before his experiments with cowpox, they had already received traditional smallpox inoculations.\n\"Edward is growing tall, and has long looked over my head. Catherine, now eleven years old, is a promising girl; and Robert, eight years old, is just a chip of the old block.\"\nEdward Robert Jenner did die young, but it certainly wasn't an effect of his father's smallpox vaccine. He died of tuberculosis, which was a common killer at the time. He was 21 and had always had health problems, but again, he never received his father's new vaccine, so how could he be the \"first child to suffer vaccine damage???\"\nThis myth is easy to debunk. Jenner's son, Edward, that died young was never vaccinated!\nWhat about the ethical implications of giving an experimental vaccine to your own child? A vaccine made with cow pus?\nRemember, Jenner's smallpox vaccine was made with cowpox virus. It was replacing variolation, a procedure in which people were actually inoculated with smallpox virus. While much better than getting smallpox, variolation was still dangerous and some people died from the procedure.\nHis smallpox vaccine was a much safer option.\nMore on Edward Jenner's Son\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Should I Be Worried That My Kids Didn't Get the Smallpox Vaccine?\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated \u2013 Smallpox Edition\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 The Leicester Method and Smallpox Eradication\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 The Plano Smallpox Outbreak of 1895\nVaccination's Forgotten Origins\nRobert Fitzhardinge Jenner (1797-1854)\nAn Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire and Known by the Name of Cow Pox\nDr Jenner's House, Museum and Garden\nEthical reflections on Edward Jenner's experimental treatment\nWould Jenner's smallpox experiment pass a research ethics committee?\nEdward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination\nEdward Jenner and the Smallpox Vaccine\ncowpox\nEdward Robert Jenner\ninoculation\nJames Phipps\nRobert F Jenner\nsmallpox vaccine\nvariolation\nDid Bill Gates Vaccinate His Own Kids?\nThe myth that Bill Gates didn't vaccinate his own kids was debunked nearly a year ago, but that doesn't keep anti-vaccine folks from bringing it up\u2026\n\"A hoax website published an unfounded story claiming that a former doctor for Bill Gates said the philanthropist refused to vaccinate his own children. Gates and his wife, Melinda, have invested billions of dollars to research, develop and deliver vaccines around the world to help reduce child mortality.\"\nWebsite falsely claims Bill Gates refused to vaccinate his own children\nNot surprisingly, they don't mention the doctor's name.\nActually, they don't provide any evidence at all, which seems to be just fine with most folks who are anti-vaccine and who are simply looking for anything to help them justify their decision to leave their kids unvaccinated and unprotected.\nWhich closed door medical symposium were they at?\nWhat about the idea that you aren't violating HIPAA or breaking doctor-patient confidentiality because you are talking to other doctors?\nFortunately, that's not how HIPAA works.\nYou can only talk to other providers if they are also involved in the treatment of your patient. You can't tell other doctors confidential details about your patients just because they are also doctors!\nYou could tell them things you read about them publicly though, including the fact that Bill and Melinda Gates understood the importance of vaccines long before they had their first child.\n\"Twenty-five years ago, we read an article that said hundreds of thousands of kids in poor countries were dying from diarrhea. That surprise helped crystallize our values. We believe in a world where innovation is for everyone\u2014where no child dies from a disease it's possible to prevent. But what we saw was a world still shaped by inequity.\"\nBill & Melinda Gates on Our Annual Letter\nDo you will still believe that Bill and Melinda Gates didn't vaccinate their kids?\n\"I'd like to start by telling you about my wife Melinda's Aunt Myra. We see her a few times a year. Aunt Myra worked for many years taking reservations for Delta Airlines. She lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina, and then she moved to Dallas, Melinda's hometown. She loves to see our kids. When we all get together, she'll sit down on the floor and play games with them. Aunt Myra also has polio. She's in braces, and she has been ever since she was a little girl.\nOur children only know what polio is because of their aunt. Otherwise, the disease would just be another historical fact they learn about in school.\"\nWhat do you need to see to convince you?\n\"While the rich world is cutting down in tobacco use, it's growing in the poor world. AIDS and TB are really a phenomenon of the poor world. When I say the poor world of course I mean the majority of the world, anything outside the enclave that most of us here are privileged to live in and the kind of vaccines and things that we take for granted not only for ourselves, but also for our children.\"\nBill Gates at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2001\nA pic of them getting vaccinated, like we did with Mark Zuckerberg?\n\"So many of us who are parents in the room go to our pediatricians; and we take for granted the vaccines for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, polio, measles, mumps, rubella. But things you don't even think about getting in this country are real scourges in the developing world. And so that's where we started with the foundation and from there we branched out into doing more work in AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. But I think it's important for you all to realize that at the core of what we do are children's issues.\"\nMelinda French Gates at the Children's Hospital Foundation\nA copy of their children's immunization records, or would you just think that they were forged?\n\"It still shocks me today to think about how many children go without basic vaccines that you and I take for granted. A few years ago, Bill and I read a newspaper article about diseases in the developing world. We learned that millions of children die from diseases we thought had been eradicated, diseases like pertussis, hepatitis B, tetanus, and yellow fever. Every year, nearly three quarters of a million people, most of them children, die of measles. Measles!\nThese children are dying not because we don't have vaccines to prevent these diseases. They're dying because the vaccines we have aren't reaching the people who need them.\"\nMelinda French Gates at the 2007 World Economic Forum\nHow about a statement that their kids are fully vaccinated?\nBe more skeptical.\nVaccines are safe, with few risks, and are necessary.\nOf course Bill and Melinda Gates vaccinate their kids.\nMore on Bill Gates\nAnti-Vaccine Points Refuted A Thousand Times\nMelinda French Gates \u2013 Children's Circle of Care\nMelinda French Gates \u2013 Children's Hospital Foundation\nBill Gates \u2013 Vaccines are a modern miracle\nBill Gates \u2013 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2001\nMelinda French Gates \u2013 2007 World Economic Forum\nBill Gates' Reddit AMA\nBill Gates \u2013 Rotary International Speech\nBill Gates, Vaccines and Human Depopulation\ndeaths from vaccine-preventable diseases\nMelinda French Gates\npolio survivor\nstories of vaccine-preventable diseases\nDid CNN Rename Mumps?\nIt's a common anti-vaccine myth that we rename diseases to make them go away. It helps them explain the control, elimination, and eradication of diseases, since many of them don't believe that vaccines actually work.\nSimply saying that your article is \"Fact Checked\" doesn't make it so\u2026\nNow imagine that \"they\" actually found evidence that we did rename vaccine-preventable diseases!\nThat would be something, wouldn't it\u2026\nOf course, they haven't.\nThe original CNN story about the USS Fort McHenry stated that the sailors and Marines had parotitis, which was \"due to an outbreak of a viral infection similar to mumps.\"\nWhy didn't they just say that they had mumps?\nBecause that's not what they were told by the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.\n\"\u2026 a military medical team specializing in preventative medical care is expected to deploy in the coming days to make an assessment if further steps may be needed, according to the official.\"\nUS warship quarantined at sea due to virus outbreak\nIt may come as a surprise to some people, but many viruses and bacteria can cause parotitis. And until the outbreak was further investigated, they didn't know if it really was mumps or another condition.\nSince then, the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) has stated that \"based on clinical presentation and laboratory testing, these cases are currently classified as probable cases of mumps.\"\nStill, a very small percentage of the sailors and Marines on board have gotten mumps. That's because vaccines work, even when they don't work perfectly well.\nMore on the Myth that CNN Renamed Mumps\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Mumps on the USS Fort McHenry\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Did CNN Apologize for Using a Fake Measles Photo?\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Do Your Kids Need a Mumps Booster Shot?\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 What to Do If Your Child Is Exposed to Mumps\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Mumps Outbreaks\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Waning Immunity\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Military Vaccines\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Does Your Child with Parotitis Have Mumps?\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Is Mutating Mumps More Than the MMR Can Manage?\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 This Is the Modern Anti-Vaccine Movement\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Grave Reminders of Life Before Vaccines\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Why Didn't Everyone Die with Our 1980s Level of Vaccination Rates?\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 100 Myths About Vaccines\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Answers to Anti-Vaccine Talking Points\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 50 Ways to Get Educated About Vaccines\nNew virus case aboard US warship prolongs quarantine\nThe Navy's fighting to get a rare viral mumps outbreak under control after it stranded a US warship at sea\n9 Reasons to Completely Ignore Joseph Mercola\nJoseph Mercola \u2013 Misinformation and Fear Mongering About Vaccines\nJoe Mercola using random nonsense words to push vaccine denialism\nJoe Mercola: 15 years of promoting quackery\nmumps outbreaks\nparotitis\nquarantines\nrenaming diseases\nUSS Fort McHenry\nwaning immunity\nDid Bob Sears admit that he doesn't \"waste my breath\" talking about the benefits of vaccines?\nHave you noticed the bias in the anti-vaccine movement?\nHis advocacy against vaccines??? And what about his \"educational\" writings?!?\nIt's hard to miss\u2026\nThe Bias in the Anti-Vaccine Movement\nYes, that's it.\nYou really only get one side from anti-vaccine folks.\nIn addition to never mentioning the benefits of vaccines, they make you think that:\nyou don't have to worry about getting measles, chicken pox, and rubella, etc., anymore, because these diseases are rare, forgetting to mention that they are still relatively rare in many countries because most people are vaccinated and protected! When more folks skip or delay their vaccines, as they forget what these diseases are like and they listen to anti-vaccine propaganda, we get outbreaks, especially when they aren't vaccinated and they travel to places where the diseases are more common!\neveryone else overlooks the risks, when in fact, the risks of getting vaccinated and protected are just small and all of the so-called vaccine-induced diseases and other things anti-vaccine folks blame on vaccines aren't real vaccine injuries\nyou don't have to worry about getting measles, pertussis, or pneumococcal disease, etc., because those diseases are all mild, neglecting to mention that some people do have complications and some die when they catch them\nif you don't choose to vaccinate your kids on your own, someone is going to force you to get them vaccinated, overlooking that vaccine mandates don't actually force anyone to vaccinate their kids \u2013 they are just about whether or not intentionally unvaccinated kids should be able to attend school\nyour choice to skip or delay your child's vaccines won't affect anyone else, failing to mention that most outbreaks are started by someone who is intentionally not vaccinated\nif there is a risk, there must be a choice, but with their slogan, they overstate the risks of vaccines, never mention the risks of having the disease, and don't mention the risk of your child getting other people sick, taking away their choice to keep their kids safe and healthy\nyou can always get vaccinated, but you can never get unvaccinated, neglecting to mention that you can indeed wait too long to vaccinate your kids\nThe biggest bias though, is not that these folks are against vaccines, but rather that everything they do and say scares parents and makes them feel that they should skip or delay their child's vaccines, leaving them unprotected and at risk.\nStop listening to them and stop spreading their anti-vaccine propaganda.\nMore on the Bias in the Anti-Vaccine Movement\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 More Measles Hysteria From Bob Sears\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Bob Sears on Ethan Lindenberger's Senate Testimony\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Bob Sears on Hiding in the Herd\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Dr. Bob Puts the Nail in the Coffin of the Herd Immunity Argument\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Were More Than Half of the Kids with Severe or Fatal Influenza in California Last Year Vaccinated?\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Did Dr. Bob Uncover a CDC Plot to Give Adult Flu Shots to Babies?\nVAXOPEDIA \u2013 Fact Checking an Anti-Vaccine Measles Outbreak Quiz\nDr. Bob Sears of Weekly Cover Fame Compares Anti-Vaxxers to Jews Under Nazis\nBob Sears: Bald-faced liar, devious dissembler, or both?\nOur Military Families Deserve Better Than Dr. Bob Sears\nThe Disneyland measles outbreak: \"Dr. Bob\" Sears says measles isn't that bad, and an antivaccine activist invokes the Brady Bunch fallacy\n\"Dr. Bob\" Sears profiled: A cynical vaccine-averse pediatrician who accepts no blame for the results of his antivaccine message\nNo, Dr. \"Bob\" Sears, you don't represent the autistic children of California\nCashing In On Fear: The Danger of Dr. Sears\nAntivaccine activists rally around \"Dr. Bob\" Sears. Hilarity ensues.\nforced vaccination\nhiding in the herd\nmisinformed consent\nvaccine injury stories","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Today's Story Line\nWelcome to the Bill Clinton international roadshow. OK. Maybe that's too glib. But one might need an atlas to keep up.\nIn Tanzania on Monday (Aug. 28), his brief visit arguably helped Nelson Mandela to persuade some - not all - of Burundi's warring factions to sign a peace deal. Tuesday dawned with Mr. Clinton spending some quality time - about an hour and a half - in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Arab support is likely to be crucial to an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, particularly on the question of Jerusalem.\nClinton's next diplomatic pit stop takes him to the seaside city of Cartagena, Colombia, on Wednesday. It's the first visit to Colombia in 11 years by an American president. Clinton's visit follows last month's approval by the US Congress to spend $1.3 billion on anti-narcotics aid. Most of it is going to the Colombian military. That's up from just $65 million four years ago.\nNext week, the world will come to Clinton's door. The United Nations will host a Millennium Summit, the largest single gathering of heads of state in one place.\nDavid Clark Scott World editor\nREPORTERS ON THE JOB..\n*NOT-SO-REVEALING DETAILS:The Monitor's Ilene Prusher notes that journalists often end up collecting more information than we ever have room to use - and sometimes trying to read more into a person's effects than is really there. While doing today's profile on a lawyer in Japan who tracks down deadbeat dads, Ilene glanced around Annette Eddie-Callagain's office. She noted the Japanese sliding doors and office slippers in an otherwise American-style office, the John Grisham novels, and little elephant figurines. Then she spotted an item that seemed most relevant - a small replica of the Lincoln Memorial. \"One of your heroes?\" \"No, not really,\" Ms. Eddie Callagain shrugged. \"I just thought it would look nice in the office. Like those books back there,\" she said, pointing to a row of red-and-blue legal tomes. \"It just makes it feel more like a law office.\" Sometimes a Lincoln is just a Lincoln.\nLet us hear from you.\nMail to: One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115 via e-mail: world@csmonitor.com\n(c) Copyright 2000. The Christian Science Publishing Society\nSpeaking Politics phrase of the week: 'Party of Lincoln'\nGeorge W. Bush presidential portrait is unveiled. Who paid for it?\n'Lincoln in the Bardo' imagines Lincoln losing his son as the Civil War rages\nhttps:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2000\/0830\/p6s2.html","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mazara rested, ready to get back to work\nRangers outfielder faces third MLB season with renewed confidence\nAnthony Andro\nFORT WORTH, Texas -- It was an enjoyable offseason for Rangers outfielder Nomar Mazara -- at least for a little while.\nMazara went home to the Dominican Republic to rest up after his second Major League season. That meant no winter ball. The rest agreed with Mazara until it didn't.\n\"It's kind of good to go back home for like a month,\" said Mazara, who was at a Winter Caravan stop Sunday along with right-hander Austin Bibens-Dirkx. \"But after that, you're laying your bed and thinking, 'Wow, I want to start playing again.' It's time to get going.\"\nWhen Mazara and the Rangers get going, they won't be the favorites to win the American League West title. That honor will go to the reigning World Series-champion Astros. The Rangers also haven't made splashy deals this offseason like the Angels. Texas has focused on pitching, picking up starters Mike Minor, Matt Moore and Doug Fister.\nMazara likes what the club has done and the position it will be in this spring.\n\"No one is expecting much out of us,\" he said. \"Just wait until they see us play. Everyone has a good team [in the AL West]. Everybody is hard to face. We've got one goal. We're going to go out there and give it what we got. The confidence we have is very [strong] right now.\"\nOne of the reasons the Rangers have confidence is because they have the 22-year-old Mazara in their lineup. He followed a solid rookie season in which he hit .266 with 20 home runs and 64 RBIs with a solid sophomore campaign. Although his batting average dipped to .253, he had another 20 homers and led the club with 101 RBIs, tied for ninth in the AL.\nHe is just the fifth Rangers player to reach the 100-RBI mark since 2007. He also became the third Texas player to have two 20-homer seasons by his age-22 season, joining Juan Gonzalez and Ruben Sierra.\nMazara is after more consistency in 2018. He batted just .228 against left-handers in 2017, and he batted .202 in June and .205 in July.\nSo it was overall a good season for Mazara, but not good enough for him.\n\"It was an OK season,\" he said. \"There were a lot of ups and downs. At some points I was playing hurt, but I played through it. Hopefully this season I can stay healthy. It was a good season for a young guy like me, but from my side, I don't think it was that good. I could have done better. That's why I'm working so hard, because I know there's more that I can do.\"\nSo what has Mazara been working on?\n\"Everything,\" he said. \"My plan is completely different. My mind is completely different. I know what I need to do now -- hitting, defense-wise, everything. This is going to be my third year in the big leagues. I know exactly what I need to work on now.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Commentary: Could North Korea's crypto-funded nuclear programme collapse now that FTX has?\nKim Jong Un's nuclear missile ambitions have been fuelled by state-backed hackers stealing cryptocurrency. The crash of FTX and crypto's value will have left a dent, says this lecturer.\nA photo from North Korean state media shows the launch of Pyongyang's newest intercontinental ballistic missile (Photo: KCNA VIA KNS\/AFP\/STR)\nJames Jin Kang\n02 Dec 2022 06:07AM (Updated: 02 Dec 2022 06:07AM)\nJOONDALUP, Australia: Since the world's second-largest crypto exchange, FTX, declared bankruptcy in November, the flow-on effects have been felt far and wide.\nFor the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a country facing heavy sanctions, cryptocurrency theft has been a (relatively) simple way to fund the country's expanding nuclear arsenal.\nIt's well documented that Kim Jong Un's military operation hackers have been stealing cryptocurrency to support North Korea's nuclear and missile programme for several years.\nBut with the general downturn in the crypto market, coupled with the recent FTX collapse and myriad other pitfalls, analysts estimate North Korea has probably lost most of its crypto haul.\nCan we expect its nuclear weapons development to come to a halt, or slow down? It seems unlikely.\nNORTH KOREA'S HACKERS HAVE BEEN BUSY\nNorth Korea sponsors several hacker groups, including Lazarus Group (also called Guardian of Peace and Whois Team) and Advanced Persistent Threat 38 (APT38).\nWhile nobody knows exactly how many North Korea-backed hackers there are, experts have estimated Kim Jong Un has between 6,000 and 7,000 working both inside and outside the country.\nNorth Korea has invested in its national cybercrime arsenal for about 15 years. It's almost impossible for an organisation to defend itself against an army of this size and calibre once it comes charging.\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter posed for photos with soldiers and workers who had contribued to the test-firing of a new ICBM (Photo: KCNA VIA KNS\/AFP\/STR)\nIn 2016, Lazarus hackers came close to stealing US$1 billion from Bangladesh's national bank \u2013 but a typo in the computer code meant they only got away with US$81 million.\nSince then, they've refined their methods. Lazarus has been accused of stealing US$571 million from cryptocurrency exchanges between January 2017 and September 2018, US$316 million from 2019 to November 2020, and US$840 million in the first five months of 2022.\nAccording to Chainalysis, North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated total of about US$1 billion in cryptocurrency this year. A large chunk of this would have come from Lazarus' massively lucrative heist against NFT-based online game Axie Infinity. In April, US authorities held the group responsible for stealing US$620 million in cryptocurrency from the game.\nFor context, it's estimated North Korea only earned about US$142 million from trade exports in 2020.\nCRYPTO LOSSES INTENSIFIED AFTER FTX COLLAPSE\nIt's difficult to say exactly how much cryptocurrency has been stolen (and used) by North Korean hackers \u2013 and therefore how much might remain.\nIn June, blockchain analyst and former FBI analyst Nick Carlsen told Reuters one of North Korea's crypto caches had lost 80 per cent to 85 per cent of its value in a number of weeks, falling to less than US$10 million.\nLosses will have intensified following the FTX collapse. According to a Chainalysis report, in January North Korea held about US$170 million in stolen unlaundered cryptocurrency, taken from 49 hacks conducted from 2017 to 2021. It also claims Ether was the most common cryptocurrency stolen by North Korea in 2021, making up 58 per cent of the total theft.\nEther's value fell by more than 20 per cent following the FTX crash, and remains low. It's reasonable to expect North Korea will wait before cashing out. When it does, experts looking on will be in a better place to figure out how much it has.\nCommentary: Talk of preemptive strikes in Korean Peninsula is disturbing\nCommentary: South Korea is reconsidering nuclearisation in response to North Korea\nWHY STEAL CRYPTO TO FUND NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS?\nThe United States, South Korea and Japan have been warning North Korea against conducting a seventh nuclear test. But Kim Jong Un doesn't seem to be letting up.\nIn November, at the launch of North Korea's largest ballistic missile yet, he told state media the \"ultimate goal is to possess the world's most powerful strategic force, the absolute force unprecedented in the century\".\nInternational sanctions and border closures due to COVID-19 have made it difficult for North Korea to trade and generate funds through other means \u2013 which makes the cryptocurrency market an attractive target.\nCryptocurrency remains unregulated by most countries' governments. At the same time, transactions can be made quickly, and allow more anonymity than transactions made through traditional banking systems.\nIt's also easier to hack a cryptocurrency exchange than it is to hack a bank. The latter are almost always bolstered by advanced security barriers and sometimes require in-person appearances.\nCommentary: Where is North Korea getting the resources to test missiles and buy arms?\nCommentary: How magical thinking enabled the rise of FTX \u2013 and led to its fall\nNO MORE MISSILE TESTS, FOR NOW?\nThe rapid drop in crypto's value, compounded by the FTX crash, will have certainly left a dent in North Korea's nuclear military expansion funds. Nonetheless, Kim Jong Un's cybercriminal army will likely find new sources of illicit income (and will probably keep stealing crypto too).\nNorth Korea has also had financial support from supporters in South Korea who follow the Juche ideology \u2013 the same Marxist-Leninist-adjacent political philosophy imposed in North Korea.\nAnd in April, American crypto expert Virgil Griffith pleaded guilty to helping North Korea evade US sanctions through using cryptocurrency.\nThen there's China \u2013 a key player in deciding whether sanctions against North Korea will actually work. In May, China joined Russia in vetoing a draft proposal from the US to tighten sanctions against North Korea and continues to trade with it.\nAs long as North Korea can glean financial benefit from China, and other avenues as mentioned above, it's unlikely to stop its plans.\nJames Jin Kang is an adjunct lecturer in computing and security, Edith Cowan University. This commentary first appeared in The Conversation.\nIs the crypto winter turning into an ice age after collapse of one of the world's largest crypto exchanges? Listen to CNA's Money Mind:\nSource: Others\/ch\nNorth Korea nuclear weapon FTX Kim Jong Un","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Check Out E-40's Hot New Video For \"Function\" Ft. Young Jeezy, Chris Brown, and Many More! [VIDEO, NSFW]\nBig Boy Chill Published: August 24, 2012\nE-40's latest single \"Function\" is blazing in the streets as well as my mix show on 107 Jamz. 40 dropped a remix to \"Function\" that he calls the [Coast to Coast Remix] and it features Young Jeezy, Chris Brown, French Montana, Red Cafe, & Problem. The Vallejo, California MC released his last album series \"The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 1,2, & 3\" back in March, with \"Function\" featured on the 2nd disc of the series. Check out the hip hop veteran as he reps it the Bay Area way in the high energy video that's sure to make you bob your head to the beat.\nFiled Under: Bay Area, Chris Brown, Coast to Coast Remix, E-40, French Montana, Function, Problem, Red Cafe, Young Jeezy\nCategories: Audio\/Videos\/Photos, Entertainment, Music\nMore From 107 JAMZ\nThese 15 Rappers Are Named After Notorious Crime Figures\nAkon Explains How He Accidentally Gave French Montana a Fake Hublot Watch\nChris Brown Look-Alike Allegedly Charges $1,500 for Meet and Greets\nT-Pain Says Chris Brown Has 'Princess Complex' After Breezy Complains About Lack of Support for New Album\nFabolous Hilariously Finds a Fake Chris Brown in Croatia \u2013 Watch\nKid Cudi, Westside Gunn, SSGKobe and More \u2013 New Hip-Hop Projects This Week\nChris Brown Upset About Lack of Support for His New Album","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"blackberry scientific name\nFor example, Scientific Name: Rubus spp. Federal Noxious Weed List. Self-pollinating. Plant Protection Quarterly, 13(4):182-185; 8 ref. In eastern USA, their taxonomy is also unresolved and further complicated by horticultural introductions. Jennings DL, 1988. When established, R. fruticosus can grow in full shade in deep woodland, semi-shade in light woodland, or no shade situations, but in full shade fruit production is reduced and fruits will ripen later. Arapaho Thornless Blackberry Rubus spp. Shading and competition affect seedling survival negatively and most seedlings die in early establishment; Amor (1971) found that only 15% of seedlings at one study site survived the first year. Medicinally, blackberries also have a long history, having been used by Europeans for such purposes for at least 2,000 years (Anderberg). Fragaria grandiflora Ehrh. 163-174. Cultivars include 'Black Satin', 'Chester Thornless', 'Dirksen Thornless', 'Hull Thornless', 'Loch Ness', 'Loch Tay', 'Merton Thornless', 'Smoothstem', and 'Triple Crown'. Thompson, A. K., 2010. Plant Protection Quarterly, 13(4):160-162; 8 ref. Groves RH, Williams J, Roush RT, 1998. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Apomictic (reproduce by seeds formed without sexual fusion). USDA-NRCS, 2002. blackberry; Other Scientific Names. Department of the Environment, Research Report No. non P.J. Can be planted farther south. Pretoria, South Africa: Briza Publications. 'Olallie', in turn, is a cross between loganberry and youngberry. NASS, 2016. For a full list of species included refer to Tutin et al. Seed requires stratification and germinates in spring. Blackberry Computers Phone \u2026 The genus Rubus also includes raspberries, although in raspberries and other species of the subgenus Idaeobatus, the drupelets separate from the core when picked, leaving a hollow fruit, whereas in blackberries the drupelets stay attached to the core. Those which succeed in establishing can grow up to four canes, with a length of up to 1 m, producing daughter plants in their first autumn. Crookneck Squash. Sweet, spicy edible fruits, attractive fall color and a valuable food source for wildlife. Amor RL, 1974. Blackberry leaves are also a food for certain Lepidoptera caterpillars. http:\/\/image.fs.uidaho.edu\/vide\/descr100.htm. Trees and Shrubs: Hardy in Great Britain. 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation. Biology of Australian Weeds. Physiology and Phenology is native to the Pacific Northwest, and has been useful in producing commercial cultivars grown in that region. The blackberries, as well as various other Rubus species with mounding or rambling growth habits, are often called brambles. These canes actively grow and form leaves during the first year, and develop fruits in the form of drupes during the second year, afterwhich they die down. Vol. Clusters of pinkish-white, 5-petaled, rose-like flowers in spring give way to firm blackberries of excellent eating quality that mature in summer (mid- \u2026 Sheep may graze blackberry seedlings if there is no other palatable feed around. Rubus armeniacus, the Himalayan blackberry or Armenian blackberry, is a species of Rubus in the blackberry group Rubus subgenus Rubus series Discolores Focke. In: Panetta FD, Groves RH, Shepherd RCH. Edees and Newton (1988) published a taxonomic account of Rubus in Britain listing 307 species. 13th Australian Weeds Conference: weeds \"threats now and forever? Reproduction. Reference: FT\/EFSA\/BIOHAZ\/2012\/01 Lot 1 (Food of plant origin with high water content such as fruits, vegetables, juices and herbs). Blackberry is a restricted invasive plant under the Biosecurity Act 2014. Bruzzese E, 1998. R. fruticosus L. agg. Art, Music, Literature, Sports and leisure. Most species are hermaphrodites, Rubus chamaemorus being an exception. of ref. Pyzner, J., 2006. http:\/\/www.lsuagcenter.com\/NR\/rdonlyres\/5dd47469-da9f-4398-ad57-85fdb3e9327e\/27320\/pub1553blackberriesfinal.pdf Growing blackberries for pleasure and profit. Floraweb, 2003. Rubus allegheniensis. Problem plants of South Africa: a guide to the identification and control of more than 300 invasive plants and other weeds. Berries stay whiter than other similar varieties as berries ripen, and with much better flavor. In 1842 blackberry was first recorded as being deliberately introduced from Europe into Adelaide, South Australia for its fruit. The blackberry flowers provide a nectar source for bees, while the bees carry out pollination, allowing the plants to produce fruit. These canes actively grow and form leaves during the first year, and develop fruits in the form of drupes during the second year, afterwhich they die down. In raspberries, these types are called primocane fruiting, fall fruiting, or everbearing and have been around for some time. The shrubs can grow in poor soil so locations like woodlands, hedges and hillsides make the perfect habitats. Blackberry is aplant that can be found inRed Dead Redemption 2. It lives in many different types of sites. In the case of the less frequent sexual production, the offspring will be slightly different from the parent plant and will then usually reproduce as a new species by means of apomixis. The plant can reproduce by seed and from roots as well as by daughter plants when the end of a stem reaches the soil. Host specificity of the rust Phragmidium violaceum, a potential biological control agent of European blackberry. From Greek doctors to American Indians, the blackberry plants were used medicinally for such purposes as to stop diarrhea or for mouth ailments (Anderberg). Some consider the dewberries simply a variety of blackberry. Plant Protection Quarterly, 13(4):157-159; 5 ref. Numerous cultivars have been selected for commercial and amateur cultivation. Arapaho needs only 400-500 chill hours (hours with temperatures below 45*F). Common Name(s): Blackberry Scientific Name: Rubus Spp. Roy B, Popay I, Champion P, James T, Rahman A, 1998. In the northern hemisphere, R. fruticosus flowers approximately from May to August, in the southern hemisphere from November to April. Trailing blackberries are vigorous, crown forming, require a trellis for support, and are less cold hardy than the erect or semi-erect blackberries. Genetically modified crops and their wild relatives - A UK perspective. Selectivity and functional diversity in arbuscular mycorrhizas of co-occurring fungi and plants from a temperate deciduous woodland. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2003. They are also responsible for developing the primocane fruiting blackberries. In addition, there is a wide variety of blackberry products available through online retailers. The effect of Phragmidium violaceum (Shultz) Winter (Uredinales) on Rubus fruticosus L. agg. Saved by V\u0130LDAN-ATT\u0130LA G\u00d6K\u00c7EN'S CALCULATORS & COMPUTERS MUSEUM. It may grow up to 13 feet and stems can be about 30 feet long. Williams and Timmins (1990) listed blackberry as a significant problem weed of protected natural areas, which can permanently alter the structure, successional processes, and composition of organisms present in native communities. Welcome to Gurney's! Raspberries and blackberries: their breeding, diseases and growth. Associations Rubus L. \u2013 blackberry. National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference Release 28 [slightly revised May, 2016], https:\/\/ndb.nal.usda.gov\/ndb\/ [accessed December, 2016]. All Tropical. Rubus spp. The scientific name of Blackberryis the botanical name or formal name. It grows up to 2 m or more tall and is extremely variable in leaf shape and plant form. Scientific name: Rubus spp. In combination with the ability of Rubus to spread vegetatively over large areas, this has the consequence that the slightest variation tends to persist and to become recognised as a species, complicating the taxonomy. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5. The juice is often fermented to make wines or liqueurs (Janick and Paull, 2008). The PLANTS Database. 2.2 Blackberry (Scientific name: Rubus ulmifolius, family Rosaceae) Known as blackberry or mulberry It has the following properties: Contains natural antioxidants. Berkeley, USA: University of California Press. The blackberries' special combination of taste, form, color, and texture provides a unique experience for humans in the joy they receive from nature. Kraft T, Nybom H, 1995. The fruit of blackberries and raspberries comes from a single flower whose pistil is made up of a number of free carpels. Field RP, Bruzzese E, 1984. Taxonomy and genotypes of the Rubus fruticosus L. aggregate in Australia. Texas Redbud. In New Zealand, the initial spread of blackberry was intentional by planting for use as a food source and to form hedges, with unintentional distribution via humans, sheep and particularly by introduced birds, and by horticultural escape (Healy, 1952; Guthrie-Smith, 1953). However, as common names, the terms raspberry and blackberry are used imprecisely. Blackberries are native perennials that are sometimes referred to as dewberry. 2001. http:\/\/www.envbop.govt.nz\/weeds\/weed26.asp. The genus Rubus is distributed in all continents except in Antarctica, with a northern limit of 65-75\u00b0N (approximating to the Arctic Circle) including areas with extreme aridity (Weber, 1995). Stems are variable, semi-erect canes, which grow up to 8 or 10 m long. Wallingford, UK: CABI, CABI, Undated a. CABI Compendium: Status inferred from regional distribution. Plant Viruses Online: Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database. Williams PA, Timmins SM, 1990. Melbourne, Australia: Inkata Press, 692 pp. VicEmergency Hotline: 1800 226 226 Towards the integrated management of blackberry: workshop summary and recommendations. The report will display the kingdom and all descendants leading down to the name you choose. The European dewberry, Rubus caesius, grows more upright like other brambles and its fruits are coated with a thin layer or 'dew' of waxy droplets. For more information on noxious weed regulations and definitions, see Noxious weed lists and laws.Although control of Himalayan blackberry is not required, it is recommended in protected wilderness areas and in natural lands that are being restore\u2026 Bruzzese (1980) states that though more than 40 phytophagous species occur on R. fruticosus, it appears that they have only little effect in suppressing populations of this species. Compendium record. fruticosus is generally a temperate species preferring a range of soil conditions and rainfall regimes. Credit is due under the terms of this license that can reference both the New World Encyclopedia contributors and the selfless volunteer contributors of the Wikimedia Foundation. by Groves R H, Williams J, Corey S]. Systematics of the Rubus fruticosus aggregate (Rosaceae) and other exotic Rubus taxa in Australia. Plant Protection Quarterly, 13(4):152-156; 32 ref. A few names on this list will fascinate those interested in the derivation of plant names: Achillea millefolium, Adonis amurensis, and Bougainvillea. Common Blackberry Rubus allegheniensis Rose family (Rosaceae) Description: This woody shrub forms canes that are initially erect, but often bend downward to re-root in the ground. Telephone: 136 186. The extensive use of herbicides to control blackberry is environmentally undesirable. Wallingford, UK: CABI, CABI, Undated b. CABI Compendium: Status as determined by CABI editor. VicEmergency Hotline: 1800 226 226 However, this name is not used for those like the raspberry that grow as upright canes, or for trailing or prostrate species such as most dewberries, or various low-growing boreal, arctic, or alpine species. Riverdale, USA. Due to this facultative apomixis, the seed is genetically identical to the parent plant. They are therefore often called microspecies. in south-eastern Victoria. It is often seen growing along roadsides and railroad tracks. The encyclopedia of fruit & nuts.. CABI, xviii + 954 pp.. 9780851996387. It also lacks prickly stems and has a simple leaf (no leaflets). Black raspberry necrosis virus. Kraft T, Nybom H, Werlemark G, 1996. Blackberry has already cost around $100 million to control and in lost production. 2004. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles. Fruits are highly palatable with high vitamin C content and can be eaten raw, or made into drinks, jams, syrups or various preserves (Bown, 1997). Blackberry supplements are most commonly made from the fruit and leaves of the blackberry plant. USDA-APHIS, 2002. In: 13th Australian Weeds Conference: weeds \"threats now and forever? http:\/\/www.floraweb.de. have been intentional as a fruit crop or a barrier hedge. http:\/\/image.fs.uidaho.edu\/vide\/descr668.htm. Impact of blackberry on an endangered plant species. Victoria Park, Australia: Plant Protection Society of Western Australia Inc. 418-421. Pratia. by Ba\u00f1ados, P. \\Dale, A.]. schultesii (Opiz) Wessely ... Blackberry nightshade (Solanum nigrum) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and \u2026 Vegetables + Lamb's Lettuce. The blackberry tends to be red during its unripe (\"green\") phase, hence the old expression that \"blackberries are red when they're green.\". This in turn results in an increase in sedimentation within the watercourses and the spread of blackberry seeds downstream. Brazos was an old erect blackberry cultivar developed in Texas in 1959. Volume IV, Part 2A, Spermatophyta: Angiospermae: Dicotyledones 2(2). It is often seen growing along roadsides and railroad tracks. McGregor G, 1998. It will grow on a variety of disturbed and natural soil types. It requires moist soil but can tolerate some drought, or even in areas with extreme aridity (Weber, 1995). Plant Protection Quarterly, 13(4):196-198; 15 ref. Most of these invertebrates feed on different plant species, and those specific to Rubus have a wide host range within this genus. Flora Europaea. Smith, B. J., Miller-Butler, M., 2016. Over 300 species have been recognized in the UK (Clapham et al., 1952). Postharvest handling and storage of blackberries and raspberries, 10 5-7 pp. Most of these plants have woody stems with prickles like roses; spines, bristles, and gland-tipped hairs are also common in the genus. Blackberry plants, whose stems may be covered with thorns, also are called brambles. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. 264 pp. There are a greater number in continental Europe, although taxonomic studies are incomplete. The Plants Database includes the following 244 species of Rubus . Rubus is a genus of plant in the family Rosaceae, which is one of the largest families of flowering plants with about 3,400 species. New World Encyclopedia writers and editors rewrote and completed the Wikipedia article However, it is not advisable to use or eat blackberries growing close to busy roads due to the accumulated toxins from the traffic (FSA). http:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/ppq\/permits\/fnwsbycat-e.PDF. Tutin TG, Heywood VH, Burge NA, Moore DM, Valnete DH, Walter SM, Webb DA, 1968. In New Zealand, it is on a list of 110 species of National Surveillance Plant Pests, prohibited from propagation, sale, distribution, and commercial display throughout the country (Pennycook, 1998). Acta Horticulturae, 777 [ed. The Blackberry plant is edible, and also used as an herbal remedy. Plant Protection Quarterly, 13(4):179. Prime-Jim and Prime-Jan were released in 2004 and are the first cultivars of primocane fruiting blackberry. The subgenus Rubus (or Eubatus) also includes the dewberries, whose fruit is also purple or black, but whose stems trail along the ground, rather than more upright and arching as generally with the blackberries. The main purpose of having a scientific name is to have a same name accepted and used worldwide. Roots are stout, branched, creeping underground, growing vertically to a maximum depth of 1.5 m depending on soil type, from a woody crown up to 20 cm in diameter. A vigorous, trailing-type grower with good disease-resistance. Description Trailing pacific blackberry, also called California blackberry, or Pacific dewberry, is an invasive vine that grows throughout the Northwest from the Cascades to the Pacific Ocean. One or more of the features that are needed to show you the maps functionality are not available in the web browser that you are using. Ten species of blackberry are listed for Texas. The canes may be green, purplish, or red and have generally backward pointing thorns, and are moderately hairy, round or angled, sometimes bearing small, stalked glands. Huxley AJ, Griffiths M, Levy M, 1992. R. ursinus Cham. The blackberry management handbook. Gallery: Common names: Evergreen blackberry, cutleaf blackberry Scientific Name: Rubus laciniatus Description: Evergreen blackberry is an upright to rambling evergreen, perennial, woody shrub with stout stems that possess stiff, sharp, recurved prickles. Keith Turnbull Research Institute. Antunes, L. E. C., and M. C. B. Raseira. Flora Europaea Database. Pennycook SR, 1998. Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus L. The Blackberry Plants for the Largest Berries Winterberry Varieties The scientific name of those blueberries in the produce case might not be important to you if you're making pancakes. Blackberry in New Zealand. Apomixis (also called apogamy) is asexual reproduction, without fertilization. Temperate and subtropical fruit production [ed. These are crown forming, very vigorous, and need a trellis for support. Himalayan blackberry can be found in a variety of areas. In its first year, a new stem grows vigorously to its full length of 3-6 meters, arching or trailing along the ground and bearing large palmately compound leaves with five or seven leaflets; it does not produce any flowers. Scientific Name: Rubus spp. 3rd edition.. Blackwell, Berlin, Germany. In: EPPO Global database, Paris, France: EPPO. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae , xxvii + 455 pp.. In addition, blackberry flowers are good nectar producers, and large areas of wild blackberries will yield a medium to dark, fruity honey. Problem Plants of South Africa. Fragaria magna ; Fragaria vesca var. In: Nelson's Checker-mallow( Sidalcea nelsoniana). http:\/\/image.fs.uidaho.edu\/vide\/descr668.htm. Herbicides are the most reliable blackberry control method. It will grow in open weedy sites and is also common in woodlands. Rubus fruticosus L. Preferred Common Name. Melbourne, Australia: Inkarta Press. Generally, introduction and spread of R. fruticosus L. agg. More information. The report will display the kingdom and all descendants leading down to the name you choose. Preferred Scientific Name. vi + 282 pp. Biological control of blackberry: progress towards finding additional strains of the rust fungus, Phragmidium violaceum. (Anon., 2001). in Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Blackberries are shrubs having woody stems, thorns and fitted angular, in tender youth.As they grow, by their own weight, they bend towards the ground. 'Illini Hardy', a semi-erect thorny cultivar introduced by the University of Illinois, is cane hardy in zone 5, where traditionally blackberry production has been problematic, since canes often failed to survive the winter. Clapham AR, Tutin TG, Warburg EF, eds, 1952. schultesii (Opiz) Wessely Solanum opacum A. Braun & Bouch\u00e9 (misapplied) Solanum schultesiiOpiz In the processing market, the fruit are typically frozen whole, pur\u00e9ed or juiced and from these basic 'industrial' products, hundreds of products are made for sale to consumers in every section of a grocery store. Specialty. Yellow Wild Indigo. By comparison, cutleaf blackberry has five very deeply lobed leaflets and California blackberry has only three leaflets. The University of Arkansas has developed cultivars of erect blackberries. It is capable of growing on infertile barren soils. According to EPPO (2003), R. fruticosus is a minor host of the following quarantine pests: Anthonomus signatus, Apple mosaic virus, Arabis mosaic virus, Black raspberry latent virus, Cherry leafroll virus, Melacosoma americanum, Naupactus leucoloma, Quadraspidiotus perniciosus, Strawberry latent ringspot virus, Thrips imaginis, Tomato black ring virus, Tomato ringspot virus; and an incidental host for: Tobacco ringspot virus, Anthonomus bisignifer, Cacoecimorpha pronubana, and Raspberry ringspot virus. USDA-ARS, 2016. Later flowering than raspberries, flowers are not usually damaged by frost although young shoots are frost sensitive. R. fruticosus can degrade the natural environment by altering habitats as a result of crowding out and suppressing the growth of native vegetation. The first two come from figures out of Greek mythology. 2. Rubus fruticosa ; International Common Names. Noxious weeds of Australia. Richardson RG, Melbourne, FJ, eds. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Subphylum: Angiospermae, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Class: Dicotyledonae, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Order: Rosales, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Family: Rosaceae, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Genus: Rubus, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Species: Rubus fruticosus, Highly adaptable to different environments, Tolerates, or benefits from, cultivation, browsing pressure, mutilation, fire etc, Has propagules that can remain viable for more than one year, Highly likely to be transported internationally deliberately. As apomictic plants are genetically identical from one generation to the next, each has the characters of a true species, maintaining distinctions from other congeneric apomicts, while having much smaller differences than is normal between species of most genera. Gustav Hegi, Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa. US Fish and Wildlife Service, 2001. It is native to Armenia and Northern Iran, and widely naturalised elsewhere. Origin: native. More information. Helgason T, Merryweather JW, Denison J, Wilson P, Young JPW, Fitter AH, 2002. Plant Viruses Online: Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database. Herbicide responses of blackberry (Rubus fruticosus L. Amor RL, Richardson RG, Pritchard GH, Bruzzese E, 1998. Rubus fruticosus L. agg. Family Rosaceae \u2013 Rose family Genus Rubus L. \u2013 blackberry P Enter a scientific or common name at any rank. To cite this article click here for a list of acceptable citing formats.The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here: The history of this article since it was imported to New World Encyclopedia: Note: Some restrictions may apply to use of individual images which are separately licensed. Plant Protection Quarterly, 13(4):180-181; 7 ref. 8th edition. Towards improved biocontrol of blackberries, Proceedings of the 12th Australian Weeds Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 325-329. Some of the other cultivars from this program are 'Waldo', 'Siskiyou', 'Black Butte', 'Kotata Berry', 'Pacific', and 'Cascade'. Common names: bramble, blackberry, European blackberry, black heg, wild blackberry. It will grow in open weedy sites and is also common in woodlands. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries. Many publications also use the common name Himalayan blackberry when referring to both R. discolor and R. armeniacus. Rubus, Rosaceae). New Edibles. Scientific name: Rubus fruticosus. Perennial Flowers + Moneyplant. Blackberries are perennial plants that typically bear biennial stems (\"canes\") from the perennial root system. agg.) The newly developed primocane fruiting blackberries flower and fruit on the new growth. Home. thorny dewberry. Evans KJ, Symon DE, Roush RT, 1998. Recommended cultivars in the United Kingdom include 'Ashton Cross' (vigorous, thorny), 'Bedford Giant' (heavy cropping, vigorous, thorny), 'Black Satin' (vigorous, thornless), 'Dirksen' (thornless, very hardy), 'Thornless Evergreen' (heavy crops of high quality fruit; thornless), 'Fantasia' (very large fruit; vigorous), 'Hull Thornless' (heavy cropping), 'Loch Ness' (thornless, semi-erect canes), 'Marion' (vigorous, thorny; good flavor), 'Smoothstem' (thornless), and 'Thornfree' (moderate vigour, thornless) (Huxley 1992). Fragaria ananassa Duchesne; Preferred Common Name. eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'newworldencyclopedia_org-box-4','ezslot_3',170,'0','0'])); In the blackberry, the drupelets are attached to an elongated core that is removed with the fruit. \", Sheraton Perth Hotel, Perth, Western Australia, 8-13 September 2002: papers and proceedings, 418-421; 12 ref. In its second year, the stem does not grow longer, but the flower buds break to produce flowering laterals, which bear smaller leaves with three or five leaflets. Common blackberry is an erect shrub, the branches occasionally to 8 feet and arching high or being supported by surrounding trees or shrubs. Blackberries will not tolerate waterlogged soils, drought or excessive periods of low humidity (Jackson et al., 2011). Scientific Name. http:\/\/www.eppo.int\/DATABASES\/pqr\/pqr.htm, Evans KJ, Symon DE, Whalen MA, Hosking JR, Barker RM, Oliver JA, 2007. http:\/\/image.fs.uidaho.edu\/vide\/descr100.htm. Scientific name: Randia formosa Synonyms: Mussaenda formosa, Randia mussaenda Family: Rubiaceae Common name: Blackberry Jam Fruit, Raspberry Bush, Jasmin de Rosa Origin: Central and South America You don't have to make a preserve with this fruit - the fresh pulp tastes exactly like Blackberry Jam. CABI is a registered EU trademark. Since the many species form hybrids easily, there are many cultivars with more than one species in their ancestry. Strik BC, Finn CE, Clark JR, Ba\u00f1ados MP, 2008. Controlled atmosphere storage of fruits and vegetables.. (Ed.2) CABI, xvi + 272 pp.. http:\/\/www.cabi.org\/cabebooks\/ebook\/20103257949 9781845936464. doi: 10.1079\/9781845936464.0000. It grows upright on open ground and will climb over and trail over other vegetation. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Each flower is about 2-3 centimeters in diameter with five white or pale pink petals. Dersal, van WR, 1938. Of the four weedy wild blackberries, thimbleberry is the only nonvining species. A study of the ecology and control of blackberry (Rubusfruticosus L. ex Genev Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Dicotyledons. Wallingford, UK: CAB International, 327 pp. Blackberries are native perennials that are sometimes referred to as dewberry. Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)., Edinburgh, UK: Royal Botanic Graden. This can be a symptom of exhausted reserves in the plant's roots, marginal pollinator populations, or infection with a virus such as raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV). The scientific name of Thornless Blackberry is the botanical name or formal name. Wild blackberry is a medium-sized shrub growing throughout roadsides, open fields and wood edges. Plant Protection Quarterly, 13(4):163-174; 4 pp. Rubus). In order to produce these blackberries in these areas of Mexico where there is no winter chilling to stimulate flower bud development, chemical defoliation and application of growth regulators are used to bring the plants into bloom. The drupelets only develop around ovules that are fertilized by the male gamete from a pollen grain. For commercial production of blackberries, winter chilling is required and the crop will withstand -20\u00b0C when dormant. 2012, Speyeria zerene hippolyta (Oregon silverspot butterfly), US Fish and Wildlife Service, The blackberries are a widespread and well known group of several-hundred species, a number of which are closely related apomictic microspecies, native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere (Huxley 1992). R. fruticosus can threaten populations of certain native plant species that are already rare or endangered (Briggs, 1998; Davies 1998). Science Research Series 14, Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Conservation. 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Just like the CEO of Ethereum Vert says \"We are living in the Digital world; why not spend Digital currency.\"\n\u2248 1.5 USD\nFacility Chain\nFacility Chain is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, mainly focusing on ICT portfolio of end-to-end solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices, and cloud technology and services.\n\u2248 1 USD\nBitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol which uses economic incentives to facilitate the delivery of large and highly demanded files around the internet, eliminating the need for a trusted central server.\nWANT Marketplaces\nWANT Marketplaces runs a global ecosystem of B2B, B2C, O2O, C2C hyperlocal, social, private groups and secure messaging based e Commerce marketplaces powered by the benipal shopping search engine, a relational contextual image, voice and text based search engine. With WANT and Benipal Marketplaces, we have a vision to control the lifecycle of a product, from its first sale by the manufacturer to the distributor to its further sale to a wholesaler, onwards to a online retailer or a local store and finally its last sale as a used product. B2B Trading is a Trillion Dollar business in the United States alone and we aim to provide our B2B solutions not just in the United States, but globally, in India and also SE Asia with our already live Android marketplaces on the Play Store. Our B2C products will also serve the same markets and our O2O product, already live on the Google Play Store will focus on India and SE Asia and Latin America. Our C2C marketplace is launching shortly and our iOS, we versions are under development. At the heart of our marketplaces is our core shopping search engine technology, in continuous development since 2009 and able to perform highly complex contextual, relational Image, Text and Voice based search.\nSerenity Source\nWith a focus on the renewable energy sector, combined with the power of the blockchain the company aims to revolutionize the energy generation, monetization of carbon credits, developing Net-Zero estates and expand globally by affiliate licensing. Using blockchain to encourage and facilitate eco-friendly initiatives, Serenity will promote sustainable living, renewable energy production, and transactive energy grid retail services, changing the way that people view the challenges associated with a shift toward sustainable, renewable energy and products. The Serenity platform will be connected to national electricity operators, providing the balancing the demand and supply of electricity, responding at the substation level, and making possible a structural transition towards blockchain and renewables. Long-term, we would like to make net-zero estates much more common than they are today. We intend to build a global network of like-minded organizations and individuals, offering affiliate licensing deals to spread the word about our efforts and recruit the masses to our movement. Together, we can make Serenity Source into something that works on a large scale and bring hope to a world that for many years now has seemed resigned to ever-increasing rates of planetary death and decay.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u200b\"The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else\". Carson McCullers\nCoffee Club is an opportunity for your loved one to get out of the house and socialize with others in a safe, loving setting. On Mondays and Wednesdays from 10am-2pm trained volunteers and student interns open our center for four hours of conversation, games and fun. The cost is $10 with lunch included. Scholarships are available for those who this fee would cause a hardship.\nCaregiving brings its own rewards as well as its own challenges. Bimonthly, we provide a special time for caregivers to relax and renew. After you drop your loved one off at City Lights Cinema, come to our center for a guided relaxation class with our own Board President. Sign up under the Events tab or email us for details.\nDon't feel like you can get away for the relaxation event? Like us on Facebook and receive caregiver tips three times a week.\nFeeling like you need more detailed information to help you make the most of caregiving? Sign up for a training with our community partners under our Events tab.\nWe are in need of volunteers from our community to serve on our Board of Directors as well as work with our participants at the Memory Care Respite Center. No experience is necessary...we will train you. Currently we are looking for volunteers who are available on Monday and Wednesday from 9:45am-2:15pm who would like to listen to, play games with and share a smile with our participants. Email us for more information at\nmemcarerespite@gmail.com\n\u00a9 2023 by Little Tots Preschool.\nMemory Care Respite of Florence","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"(3S,4S)-4-tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy-3-hydroxyazepane\nFormula: C12H27NO2Si\nMolecular weight: 245.4338\nIUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S\/C12H27NO2Si\/c1-12(2,3)16(4,5)15-11-7-6-8-13-9-10(11)14\/h10-11,13-14H,6-9H2,1-5H3\/t10-,11-\/m0\/s1\nIUPAC Standard InChIKey: PTLNJTAPTKIQDB-QWRGUYRKSA-N\nChemical structure:\nThis structure is also available as a 2d Mol file or as a computed 3d SD file\nThe 3d structure may be viewed using Java or Javascript.\nPermanent link for this species. Use this link for bookmarking this species for future reference.\nInformation on this page:\nSwitch to calorie-based units\nGo To: Top, References, Notes\nData compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.\nData compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director\nNormal alkane RI, non-polar column, custom temperature program\nView large format table.\nColumn type\nActive phase\nCapillary Optima-5 1610. Herdeis, Mohareb, et al., 1999 25. m\/0.2 mm\/0.1 \u03bcm, He; Program: not specified\nGo To: Top, Gas Chromatography, Notes\nHerdeis, Mohareb, et al., 1999\nHerdeis, C.; Mohareb, R.M.; Neder, R.B.; Schwabenl\u00e4nder, F.; Telser, J., Studies on the synthesis of chiral nonracemic 3,4-disubstituted azepanes, a formal synthesis of (+)- and (-)-balanol, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1999, 10, 23, 4521-4537, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0957-4166(99)00466-8 . [all data]\nGo To: Top, Gas Chromatography, References\nData from NIST Standard Reference Database 69: NIST Chemistry WebBook\nThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses its best efforts to deliver a high quality copy of the Database and to verify that the data contained therein have been selected on the basis of sound scientific judgment. However, NIST makes no warranties to that effect, and NIST shall not be liable for any damage that may result from errors or omissions in the Database.\nCustomer support for NIST Standard Reference Data products.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"South Florida Man Sentenced to Lesser Charges on Appeal in First-Degree Murder Case\nSeptember 8, 2020 | Michael B. Cohen, P.A.\nLarry Modena and William Dabbs were friends. Their lives intersected on many different levels. In addition to sharing their private lives they also worked together at Modena's contracting and construction company, Atlantic Coast Builders. Their relationship seemed nothing out of the ordinary until a fateful day in October 2011 in Boynton Beach when Dabbs shot his friend to his death as they argued in a Home Depot parking lot where both of their cars were parked side by side. Dabbs shot Modena five times before he fled the scene.\nWhen police were dispatched to the location of the shooting, they pursued Dabbs who was operating his work van leading them on a high-speed chase that at one point had Dabbs turn and point his .38 caliber pistol at one of the officers. The officer returned fire, but neither were injured as Modena lay dying in his car.\nAfter Dabbs was taken into custody without further incident he was ultimately charged with first-degree murder, fleeing and eluding law enforcement and armed aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer.\nAt trial, the prosecution told a tale of a perilous combination of drugs, fury, and resentment driving Dabbs to shoot Modena in what was implied to be a fit of rage.\nPalm Beach County Assistant State Attorneys believed they had a strong case and told the jury that Dabbs was annoyed that Modena had helped his wife file a restraining order against him. They also pointed out that Modena appeared to be in the process of ending their business relationship which would have left Dabbs without a job. Several law enforcement officers also testified during the course of the trial.\nThe defense headed by two Assistant Public Defenders contended that Dabbs shot Modena after he pistol-whipped him as Modena was furious that their client refused to provide him with prescription pills to feed his Opiate habit. Dabbs later took the stand and testified that he shot Modena in self-defense.\nThe jury didn't come back by the end of the day with a verdict but on the second day and a total of eight hours of deliberation found Dabbs guilty as charged on all counts.\nDabbs was sentenced to life in prison along with the prosecution's recommendation to give Dabbs two additional, consecutive 15-year sentences for the fleeing and aggravated battery charges. The judge chose to also allow the sentences to run consecutively although she could have levied the sentence to run as concurrent.\nHowever the story didn't end upon sentencing and Dabb's enacted imprisonment.\nTwo years into his prison sentence the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled in Dabb's favor and granted him a new trial based on problems relating to evidence.\nIn the second court case which took place in early February of this year it didn't appear any new evidence was provided by the prosecution or the defense but it should be noted the trial was officiated by a new judge and presented to a new jury.\nThe judge in the first case was presiding over her first murder trial as opposed to a more experienced judge overseeing the appeal.\nAnd in this case the jury decided to return guilty verdicts as well, but on the lesser charges presented to them for the fatal shooting of Larry Modena.\nDabbs was convicted of manslaughter, fleeing and improper display of a firearm. Ten days after the trial concluded at his sentencing hearing the Circuit Judge in the case sentenced Dabbs to a total of thirty years in prison with credit for the more than eight years, he's spent in custody as he awaited the outcome of his case.\nDabbs is sixty-two years old and the difference in the penalty may give him the opportunity to see the light of day on the outside of a prison cell before his time expires in this lifetime.\nTagged: Appeal, Criminal Defense Attorney, Larry Modena, Michael B. Cohen and William Dabbs\nUpdated: September 8, 2020 5:48 pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What is the most dangerous neighborhood in Phoenix Arizona?\nIs AZ on Mountain time right now?\nIs Phoenix PST or MST?\nWhich area in Phoenix is the best to live?\nWhat are the bad areas of Phoenix?\nWhere do the rich live in Arizona?\nWhere should I not live in Arizona?\nWhat is the poorest city in Arizona?\nWhat is considered rich in Arizona?\nWhat is middle class income in Arizona?\nHow much money do you need to make to live comfortably in Arizona?\nIs Arizona a poor state?\nWhich is the poorest state in USA?\nWhat is the poorest state in the US 2020?\nIs Maine a poor state?\nIs it expensive to live in Maine?\nWhat is the wealthiest state?\nIs Maine a good state to live?\nWhat is the poorest town in Maine?\nHow much money do you need to live comfortably in Maine?\nTop 10 Worst Neighborhoods in Phoenix, ArizonaCentral City. Located at the historic center of the city, it is characterized as the urban village of Phoenix. Alahambra. Predominantly a working-class neighborhood with extreme boundaries, 134,116 people lives here. Encanto. South Mountain. Laveen. North Mountain. Maryvale. Estrella.\nArizona is in the Mountain Time Zone and most of the state (with exceptions noted below) remains in Mountain Standard Time (MST) all year. Thus, during daylight saving time, from March to November, most of Arizona has the same time as the Pacific Time Zone.\nPhoenix, Arizona's time zone is Mountain Standard Time (MST). In the Greater Phoenix area we never change our clocks, since Arizona does not participate in Daylight Saving Time.\nIf you're considering moving to Phoenix, here are the Top 10 Popular Phoenix Neighborhoods.Arcadia. Arcadia is the most sought after area of Phoenix. Agritopia. Agritopia perches on the city's southeast corner in the town of Gilbert. Anthem. Chandler. Glendale. North Tempe. North Central Phoenix. Verrado.\nThe most dangerous areas in Phoenix is based on data from the local law enforcement agency and when not available, also includes estimates based on demographic data.Central City. Population 55,934. Alahambra. Population 134,116. Encanto. Population 54,597. South Mountain. North Mountain. Maryvale. Estrella. Camelback East.Lis\u00e4\u00e4 kohteita\u2026\nPHOENIX \u2014 The richest city in Arizona might not come as a shock to you. Paradise Valley was ranked as the richest city in Arizona, according to Business Insider, with an average median income of $176,000 per household.\nThe 10 Worst Places To Live In Arizona Guadalupe.Eloy.Snowflake.San Luis.Winslow.South Tucson.Coolidge.Tolleson.Lis\u00e4\u00e4 kohteita\u2026\nAccording to Business Insider, Arizona residents need to make at least $107,120 each year to be considered \"upper income\" or \"rich\" \u2014 a far cry from the state's median annual household income, which was $35,8.\nUS Household Income by TierLocationMiddle Income2Alaska$rizona$rkansas$alifornia$rivi\u00e4 lis\u00e4\u00e4\u2022\nAccording to the site, the income needed in Phoenix is $48,876. The article considers 50 percent for necessities, 30 percent for discretionary spending and 20 percent for savings. In Tucson, the income required is $39,966 and is the lowest number of the 50 cities. For Mesa, the needed income is listed as $4.2016\nSi, Arizona's Poverty Rate Has Declined 3.4 Percentage Points \u2014 The Fastest Rate In The Nation. Arizona is one of seven states across the nation in which poverty has declined for at least four consecutive years, according to the American Community Survey.\nStates and territories ranked by median household incomeRankState or territory201753Virgin Islands (U.S.)\u201454American Samoa\u201455Northern Mariana Islands\u201456Puerto Rico$rivi\u00e4 lis\u00e4\u00e4\nPoorest StaPuerto Rico ($32,190)Mississippi ($60,640)West Virginia ($61,225)Arkansas ($64,272)New Mexico ($66,565)Kentucky ($67,110)Alabama ($67,243)Louisiana ($68,823)Lis\u00e4\u00e4 kohteita\u2026\nRich States, Poor States: Maine Gets Richer, but Still Among the Poorest. In the recently-released ninth edition of the Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index rankings report, Maine earned its highest all-time rank of 38.\nAn amount below 100 means Maine is cheaper than the US average. A cost of living index above 100 means Maine, Maine is more expensive\u2026.Maine cost of living is 96.5.COST OF LIVINGMaineUnited StatesHealthHousing99.2100Median Home Cost$200Utilitiesrivi\u00e4 lis\u00e4\u00e4\nA reassuringly low crime rate Maine is statistically one of the safest places to live in the whole of the US. Year after year, the state ranks in the bottom five in terms of crime rates.\nMore Coverage. A single person needs to make about $2,500 a month to live comfortably in the Bangor area. If he or she has a kid, that figure jumps up to $4,240. That's according to this interactive built by the Washington Post, based on data from the Economic Policy Institute.\n\u2190 Will washing on warm shrink clothes?\nHow do you clean a KitchenAid cooktop? \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Private Security Agency (Regulation) Act, 2005, regulates the functioning of Private Security Agencies thereby enabling them tooperate within a legal framework and be accountable to a regulatory mechanism.\nIt is a mandatory license for carrying out the business of security agency.\nAllotment of PAN\nProvident Fund (PF) Registration\nFiling of PSARA application\nEnd-to-end follow up with the department\nFree consultation over the telephone\nWhat is PSARA License?\nPSARA stands for Private Security Agencies Regulation Act. Its a regulatory Act for all the Private Security Agencies (PSA) in India which provides security services, also consisting of security guards training.\nThe act covers all the significant aspects relating to the private security agencies such as formation, regulation, operation, and disqualification.\nTherefore, it is mandatory for all the private security agencies to obtain the PSARA license for carrying out the business.\nEligibility Criteria under PSARA for PSARA License\nThe PSARA License isnt just issued to anybody who wishes to run a private security agency. There are some specified eligibility criteria that the aspirants must fulfil to obtain the license.Various eligibilities under PSARA, 2005 are as follows:\nEligibility criteria for Companies\nAccording to Private Security Agencies Act, 2005, every company willing to register itself under PSARA must register itself as any of the business entities described below:\nPrivate Limited Company;\nLimited Liability Partnership;\nOne Person Company;\nSole Proprietorship;\nPartnership Firm;\nEligibility criteria for Principal Officer\/Director\nFor being the principal officer or director of the PSA, one must be:\nThe resident of India;\nFinancially sound to incur the cost of operations;\nNever sentenced to jail or convicted of any offence related to the formation, promotion, or management of the company;\nNever convicted by a competent court for an offence;\nEligibility for being a private security guard\nAnybody who is willing to become a security guard must satisfy the following criteria:\nThe person must be an Indian citizen;\nAge of the person should be more than eighteen but less than sixty-five years;\nThe person must satisfy the PSA about his antecedents and character;\nSecurity training;\nShould never have been terminated from Government Service under any circumstances;\nThe applicant must satisfy all the prescribed physical standards.\nDocuments required for obtaining PSARA License\nDocuments requirement vary from state to state. Some of the common requirements are as follows:\nCertificate of Company Incorporation;\nSigned MOA (Memorandum of Association) with the training institute;\nDocuments of security guard;\nIdentity proof of all the directors and employees;\nAddress proof of the registered office;\nAffidavit obtained under PSARA;\nLogo for the security agency;\nPAN of the promoters;\nRegistration obtained from the service tax department;\nCertificate of registration under Shops & Establishment Act;\nESI Registration\nPF (Provident Fund) Registration;\nCertificate obtained under the Contractual Labour Act;\nAffidavit of security training;\nArmed license;\nTwo photographs of promoters;\nCharacter verification certificate for employees\nITR copy of every director.\nRules & Regulation under PSARA\nAs per PSARA guidelines, the Private Security Agencies need to follow some specific compliances as follows:\nAll the PSAs must hire and engage supervisors to administer the working of guards who have been appointed in other organizations;\nSecurity agencies need to provide special training to the security guards with the required skills;\nIf theres an ex-defence candidate with three years of experience, then he should be considered first over others;\nThe PSAs need to follow every criteria, qualification, and disqualification for the security guard as expressed by the PSARA;\nAccording to the Act, the security guard must follow the uniform policy as prescribed.\nRegistration Fees for PSARA License\nThe fees required for obtaining a PSARA License for private security agencies (PSA) operation at various places are as follows:\n5000- PSA operating in one district;\n1000- PSA operating in two districts;\n25000- PSA operating in the entire state.\nExpiry &Renewal of PSARA License\nThe validity period of PSARA license is for five years from the date of issuance of license, except in the states Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. For these two states, PSARA license is valid just for one year.\nFor the renewal of PSARA license-\nThe applicant needs to make an application not less than 90 days prior to the license' expiry date.\nThe application must be filed along with the document as prescribed under sections 6, 7 and 11 of this Act and with the requisite fee.\nIf the proposed director or officer of the private security agency falls any of the below-described criteria, then it will lead to disqualification:\nThe person convicted of an offense associated with any fraud relating to the company, including the insolvent;\nIf the person is given the punishment for imprisonment for not less than two years by the competent court;\nAny person has links with organizations which is banned by the law as a result of their activities which could be a threat to national security, etc.;\nIf any government organization has terminated or dismissed the person during his service because of his moral turpitude or misconduct;\nIn the case, the organization isnt registered in India, or have a proprietor\/director\/partner from outside India.\nWhy SwaritAdvisors?\nRank 1In Financialand Legal Services\n150+ Team of Cas, CSs and Lawyers\n4.9 Star Rating by our Clients\nMore Than 15000+ differentLicenses Delivered\n99% On Time Delivery\n500+ Cities Served\nIn case of any questions or if you wish to apply for PSARA License, then click here or fill the inquiry form. You will get dedicated Call from a CA \/CS.\nQ1. Can an agency operate in any state once it has obtained the license in one specific state?\nAns: No, the agency can't operate in other states with a license obtained in a specific state. The license is state-specific, therefore, the agency needs to obtain different license for different state.\nQ2. What is meant by antecedent verification for the issuance of PSARA License?\nAns: It's a process of obtaining a No Objection from the office of the Deputy Police Commissioner Office for granting the Licence to operate a Private Security Licence.\nQ 3.Is FDI allowed in the Private Security Agency in India?\nThe FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) is a PSA is allowed till 49% under the approval route. The Ministry of Home Affairs of the union government administers the FDI's application. Therefore, the company files the application for PSARA License, it is essential to get the prior approval of the FDI and all pertinent reports such as FC-GPR, duly filed and approved.\nQ4.Is The Availability of anArmy Men or Ex-service Men mandatory While Applying?\nNo, it's not a mandatory requirement. Anybody who is willing to start a private security agency can apply for this Licence. However, they would have to follow certain standards set by the state Controlling Authority. For providing training to security guard, the PSA needs to enter into an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the trusted security guard training institute.\nProcedure for obtaining Fire NOC in India\nIn India, several fire accidents took the lives of people. Like, The cracker factory accident in Telangana took the lives of 10 workers, The Viraat Hotel, Lucknow, gas leakage accident,...\nGonica Verma\nAll About Union Budget 2019\nFinally, the most awaited Union Budget 2019 of Second Modi Government is out. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam has presented the budget 2019 in the Lok Sabha on July 5, 2019....\nKhushboo Priya\nRed Alert for unregulated deposit taker: The Unregulated Deposit Scheme Ordinance 2019\nThe Unregulated Deposit Scheme Ordinance 2019, popularly known as unregulated Deposit ordinance is regarded as the most impacting hurried ordinance after the introduction of GST and Demonetization in India. This...\nNeha Saxena","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Washington Roster\nUDFA profiles & News\nCommanders 2022 UDFA spotlight: DE Jacub Panasiuk, Michigan State\nA defensive end from a Big 10 program coming off his best season is looking to establish himself on a Commanders team that needs DE depth\nBy Bill-in-Bangkok@billhorgan2005 Jul 12, 2022, 11:00am EDT\nShare All sharing options for: Commanders 2022 UDFA spotlight: DE Jacub Panasiuk, Michigan State\nPhoto by Rich von Biberstein\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images\nWashington currently has 14 UDFAs and a pair of 7th round drafted rookies on the roster, but that list of players is subject to a lot of change. In previous years, we've put together profiles of players only to see them cut by the team a day before the profile was set to publish (or a day after it did publish). In fact, in just the 4 weeks or so that followed the 2022 draft, we saw a lot of churn in this part of the roster among both UDFAs and veteran free agents.\nThese articles about the bottom-of-the-roster players are not intended to suggest that any given player is bound for glory; rather, the articles are intended to celebrate the ongoing fight of each player to extend his NFL dream.\nFor those of you who appreciate the fight of the underdog, I hope you enjoy today's article and the others that will follow in this \"2022 UDFA Spotlight\" series.\nDE Jacub Panasiuk, Michigan State\nIn what has become something of a theme, Jacub Panasiuk is yet another 5-season college player signed as an undrafted free agent by the Commanders this offseason.\nThe 23-year-old Panasiuk was on the football field for the Michigan State Spartans for 47 games from 2017-2021, amassing 143 tackles, with 29 tackles for loss, 14.5 sacks, 4 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries.\nThe Commanders website lists the rookie at 6'4\", 255 pounds, which is pretty typical size for the DE unit he is a part of. If you don't include the somewhat undersized Shaka Toney, the rest of the team's defensive ends range between 6'3\"-6'6\", and 254-265 pounds (except for 273-pound Bunmi Rotimi).\nPre-draft profile\nTypically UDFAs are either small school players who flashed on their teams, or they come from big-college programs but lack in some aspect like athleticism or decision-making.\nPanasiuk was a Michigan State Spartan; coming from a top-tier college program, it is his athleticism that limits him, but, apparently, it is his heart and his willingness to 'leave it all on the field' that gives him a shot at an NFL career.\nLook at this description of his strengths from Sports Illustrated:\nJacub Panasiuk is a high-energy player and leaves it all on the field. He has a tenacity that is overwhelming and can break down opposing offensive linemen. His motor is always burning red hot. He has aggressive hands at the point of attack, showing an ability to fight through blocks. This aids him in shifting opposing linemen to fill rushing gaps at the line of scrimmage. Panasiuk has a powerful upper body which he uses in his second and third pass-rush moves consistently to win with extra effort.\nMichigan State Spartans defensive end Jacub Panasiuk (96) rushes the edge during the 2021 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl between the Michigan State Spartans and the Pittsburgh Panthers on December 30, 2021 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA\nPhoto by Brandon Sloter\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images\nHis weaknesses, as detailed in the same SI profile are significant as well:\nWhat Panasiuk provides in effort, he lacks in athleticism. He will never win purely off of athletic traits which unfortunately caps his ceiling. His flexibility is incredibly limited and lacks any sufficient bend coming off the edge to get around offensive tackles into the backfield. He lacks good length to keep linemen off of his chest, and though he has solid functional strength to shed, he plays too upright. This negates any semblance of leverage and is easily moved off his spot.\nThat profile is also critical of Panasiuk's tackling, discussing poor lateral agility, hand placement and technique.\nThe bottom line from SI is, however, reasonably encouraging about his prospects of establishing himself in the NFL:\nPanasiuk is a great guy to have on your team because you love his effort. He has a great opportunity to make a mark on special teams and has the chance to be a rotational player at best in the NFL. He has coachable traits, though unfortunately, his lack of athleticism caps any ceiling he possesses. Panasiuk's best-case scenario is to add mass to his frame and play interior as a three or five-technique. Either way, he is a part-time and special teams player at best at the next level.\nMichigan State career\nPanasiuk's older brother, Mike Panasiuk, was a three-year starter at defensive tackle for the Spartans and went undrafted in 2020 before spending time with the Raiders and Panthers, so Washington's new rookie should have a pretty good understanding of the life of a college undrafted free agent in the NFL. The sons of Polish immigrants, Jacub and Mike got to play alongside one another for 38 total games from 2017-19 .\nJacub Panasiuk worked his way into the starting lineup as a sophomore in 2018, playing in all 12 games and starting 11 of them for a Michigan State team that finished 7-6. It was in his junior season in 2019 that Panasiuk started to show flashes of becoming an elite edge rusher in the Big Ten.\nMichigan State Spartans defensive end Jacub Panasiuk (96) sacks Rutgers Scarlet Knights quarterback Noah Vedral (0) during the college football game between the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Michigan State Spartans on October 9, 2021\nPhoto by Rich Graessle\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images\nReturning as a starter that year, Panasiuk posted 34 total tackles with 8.5 tackles for loss as well as 3.5 sacks. Playing a total of 565 snaps, Panasiuk was named MSU's Outstanding Underclass Lineman Award on defense for his efforts. In addition to his improved production, Panasiuk got to have a really cool moment with his brother in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, as Jacub deflected a pass that Mike would intercept and take to the house against Wake Forest in the Spartans' 27-21 win in the brothers' final collegiate game together.\nThe 2020 season did not have much to offer for Panasiuk, as much of the Big Ten struggled through a weird pandemic season, and so the senior decided to return in 2021 with the free year of eligibility \u2014 a decision that appears to have been the correct one. He had his best-ever season, accounting for 37 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 7 sacks, 3 passes defended, 2 fumble recoveries and a forced fumble.\nIn an interview with Draft Diamonds in March, Panasiuk talked a little bit about himself:\nI fell in love with [football] when I was very young. My parents were not big on American football, being from Europe, and so I started in elementary school and every transition I made in the game I fell in love more.\n[Going forward] I'm just looking forward to learning from new people and learning new techniques and transitioning from college to professional football.\nPersonally, I think I was one of the best pass rushers in college football this past season. I have a lot of tools in my pass rush bag. I feel like I set up defensive tackles to stunt very well and I have a high football IQ. I think I am a very big believer in energy and playing with emotion on the defensive line. I think having energy helps with overall getting the whole team going together.\nAsked to identify 5 traits that would best define him, Panasiuk said that they are \"emotion, energy, enthusiasm, passion and relentless\", which seems consistent with the SI profile referenced above.\nHe added, \"I'm just a big believer in being a player\/coach and bringing energy every day in practice. And a firm believer in studying and watching film and using it on game days.\"\nCurrent Commanders Depth Chart\nHow excited are you that Jacub Panasiuk was signed by the Commanders?\n5 - Very excited!\n4 - Looks good...for a UDFA\n3 - I'm okay; let's wait and see\n2 - I'm doubtful about this guy's prospects\n1 - This guy doesn't belong in an NFL training camp","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alex Quinn on Racial Health Equity and COVID-19\nby Victoria Jones\nIn this month's At the Helm, Victoria Jones spoke with Alex Quinn, CEO at Health Leads. Health Leads is a national organization and an innovation hub that seeks to unearth and address the deep societal roots of racial inequity that impact our health.\nAlex shared her thoughts on being an impactful leader, embracing innovation, and her greatest concerns and hopes regarding the pandemic.\nVictoria: You've held some very important leadership roles over the years, some at a very young age \u2013 at Health Leads now and at PeerForward (formerly College Summit), and the US Dept. of Justice before that. What is your great achievement as a leader?\nAlex: I'm most proud of helping grow and empower other leaders over time. Early on in my career, I benefited from many impressive individuals who taught me how to double down as an emerging leader. In turn, I learned how to invest in the people around me \u2013 through coaching, managing and peer-to-peer support. Now, I get to see those I've invested in lead their own teams and organizations. It's extremely inspiring.\nIn these experiences, what did you learn that had the biggest impact on your own leadership?\nBeing taught how self-awareness is the difference maker. And you can't do it on your own. To be a good leader, you have to recognize your own strengths and shortcomings and gracefully ask for and accept feedback. I started managing people when I was 23, and by the time I was 27 I oversaw 8 teams as a Vice President of Programs at Peer Forward. While I had the intellectual ability to lead in that role, I really didn't yet have the years of experience that I needed. I turned to coaches and leaders I respected to help close that gap. So, I try to instill this in young leaders, too. Seeking feedback and responding to it is critically important.\nAnother important element is understanding the intersection of your passions and your skills. Earlier on in your career, you try out many different roles and responsibilities. Use that time to identify what truly excites you and where your natural talents lie. And for those necessary tasks that you're not good at, surround yourself with people who are!\nLastly, I think it's been important to just be present as much as I can. When my staff are having a hard time\u2014our work is challenging on multiple levels\u2014I want them to feel like they can come to me. I can listen, we can talk it out, and I can help them work through the issue (or help them figure out who can help them) or just listen \u2013 not as a therapist, but as a manager and colleague that cares.\nI love what you just said about identifying where your passion and talents intersect. I'm curious \u2013 how were you able to do that yourself? You've had such an interesting set of career experiences and options.\nI am, in my heart of hearts, just an off-track pre-med student! That was always the plan until I took a year off from school to do an internship at the White House. That's where I first realized that if I became a doctor, by the time I saw patients, they would have already experienced and been harmed by broken systems. My time at the White House and then at the Department of Justice instilled in me a desire to try to understand and support the policy, processes and people that could repair broken systems. And that desire has driven my career path. We have so many broken systems in the U.S.\nAnother driving factor has been my interest in racial equity. I still remember doing a 7th grade term paper on Langston Hughes, and how struck I was by the last sentence in his poem \"I, Too\": \"They'll see how beautiful I am\/ And be ashamed\u2014\/ I, too, am America.\" I remember finally getting my head around, with that sentence, my own white privilege in a way I hadn't grasped before. From that moment on, I wanted to better understand racial equity. As a white person you can try to understand racial equity through education and your friends, since you have the privilege not to experience constant racial inequities. It was my focus while in undergrad and for my master's, as well. And as I learned more about the power of systems (to both do harm and good), coupled with my time at the White House, I grew more interested in opportunities to 'get ahead' of equity issues, to change the underlying systems and behaviors that caused inequities. Self-awareness also plays a role here \u2013 I learned you have to vigilantly manage and recognize your own power, bias and racism that contribute to systemic inequities. Access to education is one equity lever and that led me to PeerForward. I was really energized by the opportunity to grow the organization, and we were at the intersection of creating systems change, and developing and investing in people, particularly young people. In a lot of ways, it was the right fit for me. But ultimately, I wanted to work in health. When I had the chance to join Health Leads, it felt like the perfect opportunity to pursue all of my passions and learn a lot too.\n12 years later, what has kept you at Health Leads?\nOne of the things I've always loved about Health Leads is that we're an innovation hub. I've never been interested in things continuing to function as they currently are. Once systems and processes work well, then whoever is responsible for them can sustain them. I'm interested in improvement. And more importantly, I'm interested in building on and investing in the existing assets of a community to achieve that improvement. Throughout my career, I've seen that we too often look at communities through a deficit-based. I think a lot about how can we \"cede\" with a \"c\" and \"seed\" with an \"s\" power in people and communities, particularly BIPOC communities? Recognizing the assets within communities, and investing in and listening to them \u2013 to me, that's just the best job ever.\nA good example of this is when I first took on the role of CEO, members of our senior leadership team and I conducted a series of interviews with patients, partners, and funders. We asked them, \"If you could pull Health Leads up by the roots and replant us, what would you do?\" At that point in time, we had already been very successful with partnering with healthcare organizations. If we really wanted health, well-being and dignity for every person in every community as our new vision reads, we needed to go beyond the healthcare system and understand how race and health are inextricably tied. We were truly trying to identify whether we should continue to exist as an organization in our current form, and if yes, what should come next. The answers we heard\u2014by asking the individual and community partners themselves, not just healthcare leaders\u2014gave us very clear direction. We needed to take our learning and understanding of healthcare and broaden who we partner with to better enable access to resources (such as food, housing, mental health services) across communities, not just at the point of care. We needed to help healthcare and community members share decisions, data and power to enable health equity.\nSo then we had a whole new challenge. What does successfully partnering with communities, healthcare and public health look like? What does power sharing between healthcare and communities look like? There are examples of this across the country but not nearly enough of them. What's the design, the workforce, the analytics, etc.? It felt like we had conquered one mountain by being part of the movement that enabled healthcare delivery systems to address social determinants of health. Now we were willingly at the base of an entirely new one \u2013 and it was and is exciting. It's this continual innovation with the end goal of community-driven systems change that keeps me engaged and motivated.\nI'm going to shift gears a bit to discuss the moment we're in now. It's an understatement to say we're all feeling anxious these days. As a leader in the nonprofit space, what are your biggest worries?\nRaising money always makes me anxious. When you're in this niche world of innovation, it takes much more time to get people to truly understand your vision and to want to commit support.\nI'm also worried about the mental health of our team. This is a really hard moment we're living in, and our work has grown significantly since we work at the intersection of healthcare and community. Our staff have only ramped up their efforts as their lives have gotten more complicated. I worry about how we can sustain this pace and maintain good mental health, especially when we likely have at least another year of living with the pandemic. We're doing what we can to support our team by doing things like offering more time off and helping create comfortable home offices, but it's still hard.\nAnd lastly, I'd say I'm always thinking about retention. We have amazing staff, and we want to keep them. So, we're reviewing our structures, promotion policies and professional development opportunities to try to do better. In some ways, retaining can be harder than recruiting with the kind of talent we have on our team.\nI want to ask you one final question. When you think ahead to, say, a year past COVID, what do you hope Health Leads will have accomplished in that time?\nThe strangest thing about working in a health-focused space and living through COVID is that it's been a moment of real cognitive dissonance. It's a horrible health crisis we're facing and racial health inequities have been growing for decades, but at the same time it feels like a much broader audience understands the need for racial health equity in a way that we've been pushing at for years. It really feels like an opportunity to make deep, impactful change.\nA year past COVID, I hope we can say we really capitalized on that deepened understanding and desire for change. I hope we're collaborating with communities in new ways, with an increasing number of people who have advanced their understanding of how racism is a public health crisis, and that it's leading to a different level of impact in improving health for individuals and communities. I hope we've expanded our partnerships and are seeing even greater support. Essentially, I hope we've seized this once in a lifetime moment to create lasting change.\nEvery month, Development Guild leadership spends time with leaders from across the nonprofit sector to hear their perspectives, what's on their minds today, and what they believe the future holds. Read more At the Helm interviews.\nGenerational Differences in the Workplace\nWhat to Know Right Now About White-Hot Donor Advised Funds\nClothing Insecurity: A Hidden Crisis For Children Nationwide\nFundraising Leaders Share Their New Year's Resolutions\nHow to Support Gender Identity\/Expression in the Workplace\nRECENT @DevGuildDDI TWEETS\nStay informed by following us on social media:\nUpstream's Mark Edwards on Opportunity Equity\nVictoria Jones | July 27, 2020\nCo-Founder and CEO Mark Edwards discusses how Upstream's focus on contraceptive care is helping to decrease the opportunity divide, and how the current times are inspiring deep and lasting change at the organization.\nAt the Helm | DEI | Philanthropy | Thought Leadership\nCOVID-19's Impact on Mental Health\nKieran McTague | May 20, 2020\nOur mental health-focused nonprofit clients have adapted their services in these unprecedented times. Discover how, as well as the trends they're seeing in the field.\nClient News | Coronavirus Resource\nHow Community Hospitals are Responding to COVID-19\nHeads of fundraising discuss fiscal planning and keeping new donors engaged.\nCoronavirus Resource | Our Team | Philanthropy | Thought Leadership","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bardsey Parish Church01937 574273work ChurchAll Hallows, Bardsey, dates from the 9th century and contains one of the best surviving Anglo-Saxon buildings in West Yorkshire. The church also houses the Bardsey Millennium Tapestry.\nThe core of the present church was built over a thousand years ago, more probably between 800 and 825, and consists of the lower section of the tower and parts of the central nave walls. The upper portion of the tower, excluding the parapet, are of later Saxon origin and were built during the 10th century. At this time, the church consisted of a west porch, narrow nave and tiny chancel. The period between 1100 and 1400 saw the adding, and the late widening, of a north and south aisle and the moving of a Norman doorway to its present position at the west end of the south aisle. This magnificent Norman doorway is now partly obscured by the much later addition of a porch but still clearly shows the architectural typical features of early normal construction.The Parish Office, Callister HallWoodacre LaneBardseyLS17 9DGUnited Kingdom53.884291700000-1.445172100000http:\/\/www.bardseypcc.org.uk\/\nBardsey Parish Church\nChurch, free entry\nAll Hallows, Bardsey, dates from the 9th century and contains one of the best surviving Anglo-Saxon buildings in West Yorkshire. The church also houses the Bardsey Millennium Tapestry.\nThe core of the present church was built over a thousand years ago, more probably between 800 and 825, and consists of the lower section of the tower and parts of the central nave walls. The upper portion of the tower, excluding the parapet, are of later Saxon origin and were built during the 10th century. At this time, the church consisted of a west porch, narrow nave and tiny chancel. The period between 1100 and 1400 saw the adding, and the late widening, of a north and south aisle and the moving of a Norman doorway to its present position at the west end of the south aisle. This magnificent Norman doorway is now partly obscured by the much later addition of a porch but still clearly shows the architectural typical features of early normal construction.\nwww.bardseypcc.org.uk\/\nBarsey Heritage Tour\nThe Parish Office,\nCallister Hall,\nWoodacre Lane,\nBardsey,\nLS17 9DG\nOn the A58 from Leeds to Wetherby, turn left off the A58 into Church Lane when near Bardszey. Hillbark is 200 yards on the left.\nBuses X98 and X99 from Leeds and Wetherby serve the village of Bardsey. The bus stops 25 yards from the end of Church Lane.\nGuided tours for groups","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1 hour ago How Much Does It Cost to Buy A Horse?\nHome Technology Carbyne raises $56M in funding to modernize emergency contact centers\nCarbyne raises $56M in funding to modernize emergency contact centers\nComments Off on Carbyne raises $56M in funding to modernize emergency contact centers\nCarbyne Ltd., a startup with a platform that enables emergency contact centers to operate more efficiently, has closed a $56 million funding round.\nThe Series C round, which Carbyne announced this morning, was jointly led by Cox Enterprises and Hanaco Growth. The New York-based startup says that the investment brings its total outside financing to $128 million.\nCarbyne provides a cloud-based platform called APEX that emergency response organizations can use to manage their contact centers. APEX automatically routes each emergency call to the contact center representative best equipped to answer it. Dispatchers can access data from the site of an emergency including video, images and historical information about past events.\nCarbyne offers APEX alongside several other software products likewise designed to make emergency contact center more efficient.\nOne product, Bridge Desk, tracks metrics such as contact center hold times and the number of emergencies reported in a given month. Contact center managers can use the data surfaced by Bridge Desk to find areas for improvement. Moreover, Carbyne says that the data generated by the platform helps with tasks such as identifying emergencies and creating training exercises for first responders.\nAlongside Bridge Desk, Carbyne provides an application programming interface dubbed Smart API. Companies can use Smart API to equip their software with features that enable users to contact emergency services.\nCarbyne runs its platform on multiple cloud data centers located in different regions. If one of the data centers experiences an outage, the platform can continue operating as usual. Carbyne says that a built-in load balancer can automatically reroute network traffic from a malfunctioning deployment of its platform to instances that are running reliably.\n\"We're doing to public safety what Amazon did to on-premise storage,\" said Carbyne co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Amir Elichai (pictured, center, with co-founders Yoni Yatsun and Alex Dizengof). \"We are redefining how emergency contact centers and government service teams operate by moving everything to the cloud.\"\nCarbyne says that its newly announced funding round follows a year in which its revenue quadrupled. According to the startup, its platform is used by emergency service organizations that cover more than 400 million people worldwide. Carbyne reportedly expects that number to increase to one billion people by 2024.\nThe startup will use the funding to expand adoption of its platform in the U.S. and grow its international presence. Additionally, the investment will enable Carbyne to accelerate product development initiatives.\n\"Emergency providers and local governments are using legacy systems to solve modern problems \u2013 a declining proposition,\" Elichai said. \"They are increasingly recognizing the value that our cloud-based platforms provide to their communities. In addition to expanding our footprint in emergency services, we are also seeing new opportunities from businesses in adjacent industries.\"\nPhoto: Carbyne\nPrevious article Whoopi Goldberg Slams Racist House of Dragon and Ring of Power Fans\nNext article What private emerging tech companies don't tell you about their business\nJanuary 29, 2023 Posted By: growth-rapidly Tag: Personal Finance &#\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Look Before You Leap: Investment in Small Businesses Receiving Government Funds\nOften in the late stage of deals, misrepresentations in small business status may be uncovered and revenue expectations dependent on government funding may have to be reduced. When acquiring a small business involved in federally funded research and development activities, before progressing to this stage of the deal, it is advisable for the parties to diligently investigate the potential for loss of eligibility and cessation of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding.\nMultiple categories of government procurements, including those for research and development activities, depend on socio-economic status, and these procurements permit expenditure of federal funds only on work performed by eligible entities, all with different eligibility requirements. These include, among others, procurements restricted to 8(a)-certified entities, self-certified small business entities, and veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses under both Small Business Administration (SBA) regulations and a separate statutory authority, which applies different standards only to purchases by the VA. However, the eligibility that is perhaps of greatest importance to many startups or other potentially small businesses with promising early-stage drugs, biologics, devices, countermeasures, and diagnostics is eligibility under the federal SBIR\/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. The SBIR program is intended to encourage domestic small businesses to engage in federal R&D with the potential for commercialization. The STTR program also funds R&D but through a structure that requires collaboration between the small business and a research institution with intent to bridge the gap between performance of basic science and the commercialization of resulting innovations. DOD and NIH SBIR\/STTR funding together is over $1.5 billion per year.\nKey SBIR\/STTR Eligibility Requirements\nTo be eligible for this funding,\nthe firm plus its affiliates as defined must not have more than 500 employees (see comments regarding affiliates below); and\nthe firm must be more than 50% (a) directly (b) owned and controlled by\none or more individuals (who are citizens or permanent resident aliens of the United States);\nother small business concerns (each of which is more than 50% directly owned and controlled by individuals who are citizens or permanent resident aliens of the United States);\nan Indian tribe, ANC or NHO (or a wholly owned business entity of such tribe, ANC or NHO),\nany combination of these; or\n(only with respect to SBIR eligibility for agencies permitting this) multiple venture capital operating companies, hedge funds, private equity firms, or any combination of these, but not other investment firms, none of which owns more than 50% unless that firm itself is a qualifying small business.\nNote that SBA SBIR guidance appears to prohibit the 50% ownership and control test from being satisfied, for example, by a combination of venture capital and individual ownership interests.[1] For purposes of determining ownership and control, SBA will consider equity ownership on a fully-diluted basis.\nProposed transactions typically run into problems regarding existing or continued eligibility to receive SBIR awards or continued funding when, under certain circumstances, the number of employees both at existing or proposed investors and at all other companies controlled by these investors are not taken into account when calculating the size of the firm to be acquired (affiliation), when the right type of individual or corporate entities do not own and control the firm to be acquired, when the ownership requirement is met but controls are implemented by non-qualifying owners to prevent the qualifying ownership from fully controlling management and day-to-day operation of the company, and when required notices are not given to the government upon a change in eligibility.\nAccordingly, investors must carefully consider the arcane and complex SBA affiliation rules that potentially would require consideration of numbers of employees at direct and indirect parents, subsidiaries, and other affiliates of the target company as well as employees of both the controlling owners and other companies controlled by these owners (even if only portfolio companies of an investor operating in unrelated industries) in determining whether the 500-employees SBIR size standard is met. Companies can be affiliated if one has the power to control more than 50% of the other's voting equity, through common management or board control, through identity of interest either between businesses controlled by family members or when one company is overly dependent on the other, if one is a newly organized firm arising from and closely associated with the other firm, if the companies are joint venturers, or if a subcontractor of the potentially SBIR-eligible entity performs primary and vital requirements of the funding agreement or is heavily relied upon by the potentially eligible entity. Affiliation may be found on a totality of the circumstances, even though no single factor is sufficient to constitute affiliation.\nBecause an investor may control both the target and other entities in related or unrelated industries, often it is not the number of employees at the investor that pushes the aggregated total number of employees over the 500-employee SBIR size standard but the employees from the other entities controlled by the investor, including portfolio companies. The one exception to this is that portfolio companies of an investor affiliate that is a venture capital operating company, a hedge fund, or a private equity firm will not be deemed affiliates of the SBIR candidate firm if the investor affiliate has only a minority interest in the SBIR candidate firm and has only a minority ownership interest in the portfolio company.\nInvestors also must carefully evaluate whether the composition of the proposed ownership meets SBIR requirements and whether, even if it does, proposed control structures would provide non-qualifying owners with control over aspects of management or the day-to-day operations of the target company, even though such control might, outside of the SBIR context, be considered a normal and expected condition of investment in a small business.\nHas the firm in the past received government funding conditioned on its representation of eligibility as a small business?\nWas the firm actually eligible when representations were made and\/or at the time of award?\nIf the firm's status changed before or after award, was the firm required to and did it properly notify the government to ensure that receipt of funds remained proper?\nIs future revenue or access to government sponsored research channels contingent on maintaining eligibility as a small business?\nIf so, is this revenue an important consideration in determining whether or how to proceed?\nDoes the proposed structure of the acquisition or investment render the firm ineligible for future SBIR awards, and, if so, can the needs of the acquiring entity or individuals be met through an alternative structure that preserves eligibility?\nIf you have any questions or would like more information on the issues discussed in this Insight, please contact the following Morgan Lewis lawyer:\nStephen Ruscus\n[1] A firm also is eligible if owned and controlled by a joint venture when each of the entities participating in the joint venture itself would be eligible.\nAUTHORS AND CONTACTS\nStephen E. Ruscus","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Report: NBA players due same share of salaries, whether or not their teams continue\nBy Dan FeldmanJun 12, 2020, 3:00 PM EDT\nPhoto Illustration by Robin Utrecht\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images\nClippers guard Lou Williams' slated salary this season: $8 million. Knicks guard Elfrid Payton's slated salary this season: $8 million.\nShould they get paid the same amount?\nThe Clippers are among 22 teams set to continue the season at Disney World. Players on those teams will effectively be confined to a closed campus for at least five weeks \u2013 longer if they advance through the playoffs. Families can't join for about seven weeks. Players must undergo daily coronavirus tests, which can be invasive.\nThe Knicks are already finished. Payton \u2013 and everyone else on the eight done teams \u2013 can just sit home and let other players do the difficult work of generating revenue amid the coronavirus pandemic. On the other hand, players on those eight teams didn't ask for their seasons to end prematurely.\nThere is no easy answer.\nBut apparently there is a decided answer.\nBrian Windhorst of ESPN:\nAll of the players are going to paid \u2013 and I mean all of them, I mean even the guys whose seasons are over \u2013 are going to get paid the same pro-rated amount as the players in the bubble.\nComplicating matters, players on the continuing 22 teams who choose not to report to Disney World reportedly won't get paid for missed games. Which makes sense \u2013 until you consider that players on the other eight teams will get paid despite not playing.\nIs that fair? Probably not.\nBut it's difficult to devise a fair system. The normal pay structure wasn't created for teams playing a disparate number of games. The normal structure definitely wasn't designed for the additional games to be so burdensome on players.\nNo player will get his full slated salary this season. With so many games canceled and fans no longer in attendance, league-wide revenue is way down. That supersedes whatever salary is slated in individual contracts, which is why a portion of paychecks are being withheld.\nThe big question was whether team games played would also affect salary. The answer is apparently no \u2013 though nothing is final. This could always become a topic of negotiation as some players resist returning.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Updated 6:38 AM ET, Fri July 24, 2015\nNicholas Sisk, 10, bows his head at a makeshift memorial outside a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Tuesday, July 21. Authorities say Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, opened fire on the recruiting station on July 16 before moving to a U.S. Navy facility seven miles away. At the Navy facility, Abdulazeez fatally wounded four U.S. Marines and a Navy sailor before being killed in police gunfire.\nRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump makes a remark about former Texas Gov. Rick Perry during a campaign rally in Bluffton, South Carolina, on Tuesday, July 21. \"He put glasses on so people will think he's smart,\" Trump said. The two presidential hopefuls have been sparring on social media this week.\nA beluga whale sprays water toward young visitors at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, an amusement park in Yokohama, Japan, on Monday, July 20.\nThis image of Earth was taken by NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite on July 6, 2015. The satellite was 1 million miles from Earth at the time of the photo. NASA says it's the first time an image of the full, sunlit side of Earth has been captured since Apollo 17's iconic \"Blue Marble\" photo in 1972. See more photos of the Earth from afar\nDelegates, some in traditional dress, attend the opening of a climate summit in Paris on Tuesday, July 21. French President Francois Hollande called for an ambitious accord ahead of a United Nations conference to address the threat of global warming.\nPeople in Grazalema, Spain, avoid a bull during the Toro de Cuerda festival on Monday, July 20. During the festival, a long rope restrains bulls as they run through the village's streets.\nA wounded woman, left, holds the hand of another woman who is about to die just after an explosion rocked the Turkish city of Suruc on Monday, July 20. More than 30 people were killed and at least 100 others were wounded in what Turkish officials called a terrorist attack near the Syrian border.\nOld fragments of a Quran are shown Wednesday, July 22, at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England. Radiocarbon analysis dates the parchment to the years between 568 and 645. This means it was created close to the time of the Prophet Mohammed, who is generally thought to have lived between the years 570 and 632.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hive Reads\nBy Author Surname\nFour-Part Fiction\nSPFBO\nBook ReviewsEpicFantasyMalazan\nHome\u203aBook Reviews\u203aGardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson\nBy Laura M. Hughes\nGenre giant Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon is the first in a ten-book series that you will inevitably love and worship. (Or hate and resent.) (Or maybe just give up on before reaching the end of book one.)\nThe first chapter in the truly epic Malazan Book of the Fallen introduces a hugely diverse and seemingly endless cast of characters: mages and soldiers; humans and not-quite-humans; demon lords and talking ravens; gods and nobodies; heroes and villains and others occupying the grey space in between. There are a great many overlapping storylines \u2013 huge-scale campaigns, deadly assassin wars, magical battles, political manoeuvring, covert missions \u2013 and not all of them appear to fit together very well (at least at first).\nYes, Gardens of the Moon gives us a LOT to take in, and the first three hundred pages or so are enough to leave any first-time readers as lost and helpless as a puppet with its strings cut. In the prologue to the newer editions Erikson himself states that he refuses to spoon-feed his readers, and finds it insulting and patronising when other writers do the same. His decision to withhold important backstory and omit dreary exposition is a conscious and tactical choice, and he is fully aware that Gardens of the Moon is likely to leave readers floundering.\nHowever, Erikson assumes that those of us who choose to read his work don't mind floundering a little; don't mind having to work things out for ourselves, and don't mind waiting many hours and thousands of pages before the pieces finally begin to fit together. As someone who has read all ten books in this series I can unequivocally state that finally reaching the moment(s) when everything starts to make sense . . . makes ploughing through the confusion at the beginning so worthwhile.\nThe Malazan series as a whole contains enough 'ohhhh, so that's what that was about!' moments that the rewards of reading well outweigh the challenges. That said, it's only upon re-reading Gardens of the Moon and the rest that you really begin to appreciate the amount of planning and detail that Erikson has put into this series. There are so many tiny nuances that take on a double meaning, so much of the dialogue that becomes multi-layered, and so many little things that you didn't notice the first time but are steeped in pathos now that you're fully aware of the events to follow.\nAs a debut novel, Gardens of the Moon is insanely dense and ambitious. It's also incredibly clever and well-executed; and while I'm not claiming that Gardens of the Moon is the best book I've ever read, it is the first book in the best series I've ever read. In my opinion Gardens of the Moon is actually the weakest instalment of the entire Malazan Book of the Fallen, yet it's still spectacular (and far superior to much of what's on the shelves today).\nIf you haven't read Gardens of the Moon, my advice to you is 'read it, but have patience, and be prepared to read more in the series in order to fully appreciate it'. If you have already read it, then go ahead and re-read it right now.\nEither way, you can thank me later.\nTagsBantam PressGardens of the MoonMalazanSteven EriksonThe Malazan Book of the Fallen\nLaura M. Hughes\nLaura works as a freelance editor beneath the grey, pigeon-filled skies of northern England. When she isn't working on a manuscript or writing for the Hive, you're most likely to find her on Twitter, playing Dragon Age, or hoarding polyhedral dice. Laura also writes LitRPG under the pen name Demi Harper; her first novel, GOD OF GNOMES, was published in September 2019. She created The Fantasy Hive in 2017; her sanity has been steadily disintegrating ever since.\nLaura's Books\nFollow Laura\nMore from Laura\n50 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2020 posted a year ago\n5 Reasons to Read 'The Faithful and the Fallen' posted 3 years ago\nA Beginner's Guide to Malazan Characters: 'Gardens of the Moon' posted 3 years ago\nHogfather by Terry Pratchett posted 3 years ago\nA Beginner's Guide to Malazan Characters: 'Deadhouse Gates' posted 3 years ago\nRivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch posted 3 years ago\nPrince of Fools by Mark Lawrence posted 3 years ago\nKing of Thorns by Mark Lawrence posted 3 years ago\nThe Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss posted 3 years ago\nThe Black Prism by Brent Weeks posted 3 years ago\nView thefantasyhive's profile on Facebook\nView thefantasyhive's profile on Twitter\nView thefantasyhive's profile on Instagram","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Height: 6 ft 3\u2033\nDate of birth: 24th January, 1985\nTurned pro: 2006 (plus 4)\nFamily: Wife \u2013 Annika. Daughter \u2013 Elsi\nResidence: Lappeenranta, Finland & Orlando, Florida\nManager: Kate Whyte\nAfter a short stay at the University of Minnesota, Antti returned to Europe with the ambition of turning professional.\nHe had his first victory in the Nordic League in 2005 at the Sonera Open as an amateur. He then went on to hold off Rory McIlroy in a playoff to win the Irish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship.\nWinning the Gant Open in the Nordic league proved to Antti that he could compete at this level and he turned professional in 2006 and signaled his intent as one of Finland's hottest prospects.\n2008 was a great season for Antti as he was victorious on two occasions on the Challenge Tour. His victories came at the Abierto Visa de la Republica in Buenos Aires and the ECCO Tour Championship in Denmark.\nIn 2016, Antti played on the European Challenge Tour, as he has done for the past few seasons. He ended the season in 142nd on the Road to Oman Rankings after finishes of T21 at First Stage of Q-School and T33 at the Volopa Irish Challenge.\n2017 saw Antti mainly play on the Nordic Golf League and has finished the season in 9th position on the final order of merit standings. A win at the Lannalodge Open was the highlight of his season.\nAntti competed at tournaments on the Challenge Tour in 2018 through invitations and he finished his season ranked 89th on the rankings, securing Challenge Tour status for 2019.\nHis best finish of the 2018 season came at his home open, the Vierumaki Finnish Challenge, where he finished solo 4th.\nAntti had dreams of becoming a professional ice hockey player as he was very accomplished at the sport.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Documentary History of American Water-works\nIntroduction Historical Background Chronology Geography Biography Technology Ownership and Financing General Bibliography\nMiddle Atlantic States Pennsylvania Carbondale\nCarbondale, Pennsylvania\nCarbondale was incorporated as city in 1851.\nThe Carbondale City Water Company was incorporated on March 21, 1866 by B. M'Tighe, John E. Brown, Anthony Nealon, John M. Poore, John Nealon, Richard Foote and T. Voyle. It does not appear that this company built anything.\nThe Crystal Lake Water Company was incorporated on August 19, 1867 by Joseph A. Van Berger, William Henry Richmond and others. The company built a gravity system that began operating in 1868.\nThe company expanded and was eventually acquired by the Scranton Gas & Water Company, and eventually became part of the American Water Works Company.\nWater is provided by Pennsylvania American Water.\n1866 An act to incorporate the Carbondale City Water Company. March 21, 1866\n1867 Crystal Lake Water Company incorporated. August 19, 1867.\n1867 \"New Water Company,\" The Luzerne Union (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), August 28, 1867, Page 2.\nThe Crystal Lake Water Company of this place was incorporated by decree of the court last week. It is the intention of the company, we understand, to proceed at once with the erection of their works and the introduction of water. Complaints are bitter and deep about the extortion of the old company, and our citizens would hail with delight a company which would supply water within the bounds of reason. The borough of Norristown, not much larger than this place, with expensive pumping machinery, is supplied with water at about one fourth the price charged here, where the water runs down the pipes with a natural fall from the mountains, and no expense but original cost in pipe-laying and repairs.\n1882 Carbondale, from Engineering News, 9:50 (February 11, 1882)\n1882 Carbondale from \"The Water-Supply of Certain Cities and Towns of the United States,\" by Walter G. Elliot, C. E., Ph. D.\n1888 \"Carbondale,\" from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 1.\n1897 Portrait and Biographical Record of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, by Chapman Publishing Company\nPages 377-378: Joseph B. Van Bergen. Being president of the Crystal Lake Water Company that furnishes the city with its fine system of water works and was one of its organizers.\n1905 \"Scranton Gas & Water has acquired properties of Consolidated Company,\" The Scranton Truth, June 27, 1905, Page 2.\nCrystal Lake Water Company\n1907 \"Rates are to high,\" The Scranton Republican, December 17, 1907, Page 3. | part 2 |\n1917 \"The Grand Old Man of Scranton,\" by Frank Allaben, The Journal of American History 11(4):421-443 (July, 1917)\nPage 442: William Henry Richmond. He was the projector and chief stockholder of the Crystal Lake Water Company.\n\u00a9 2019 Morris A. Pierce","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Here's how long you can safely store your Thanksgiving leftovers\nFood leftovers are indeed a part of Thanksgiving.\nBut the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that there is a limitation on how long you can keep that food \u2013 including your turkey and some of the cranberry sauce.\nLeftovers from the celebration can stay anywhere ranging from three to four days, and can even last for a couple to six months based on where you plan to store it.\nThe USDA recommends the use of divided containers for different leftovers to make sure that they are stored and kept safe from the formation of harmful bacteria.\nHere's how you store your Thanksgiving leftovers safely, as reported by FOX News:\nThis Thanksgiving favorite can be stored in a fridge for three up to four days.\nThe storing strategy is also applicable to other meat-based food you had on your Thanksgiving like cooked beef, cooked pork, and cooked chicken. Plant-based food, on the other hand, will sit safely in your fridge for up to a week or in a freezer for five months, the USDA's FoodKeeper App said.\nThis holiday leftover can be best consumed or stored in the chilled within three or four days. It can last for two or three months when frozen.\nThanksgiving vegetables\nThe greens you partake during Thanksgiving, including the green beans, mashed potatoes, and yams can be stored in a fridge to last for three or four days.\nCranberry sauce is available in cans or one can opt to make it from their own kitchen. These two options have two different shelf lives.\nCanned cranberry sauce can stay in the refrigerator for a week to two after opening, while the homemade ones, also refrigerated, can last up to a week to ten days, the USDA's FoodKeeper App said.\nThe USDA said unfinished gravy can safely be stored inside your fridge for three to four days. When placed in a freezer, it can last for four to six months.\nThe egg, cream, or chiffon-homemade pies can be kept in the fridge for three to four days. Different kinds of pies like pecan, pumpkin, custard and lemon meringue can be stored this way. Meanwhile, fruit pies can be stored at room temperature for one to a couple of days. They can also last a week if they are kept in a fridge\nmardonneyarcenas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Centerline.news covers culture and politics from the viewpoint of Jim Bessman, a veteran free-lance journalist.\n@JimBessman\nBarbara Cook--An appreciation\nJim Bessman\nChristine Lavin's video for Barbara Cook's version of Janis Ian's \"Stars\"\nJanis Ian was hardly alone in assessing the death last Tuesday of Barbara Cook as \"a huge loss to the community\u2014and the cabaret world in particular,\" being that Cook had \"come to define cabaret\" in the mid-1970s following a Tony-winning (The Music Man, 1958) Broadway musical career.\nBut Ian had a special insight into what made Cook, who was 89, so special as a cabaret singer.\n\"She made the first seminal recording of my song 'Stars'\u2014after mine, of course!\" says Ian, whose \"Stars\" was her poignant 1974 album titletrack reflecting the loneliness of stardom.\n\"She did a beautiful job on it with a full orchestra\u2014totally opposite of everything I did with it. And then she said she wanted to do a cabaret show around it, and I was going to come up with new material.\"\nSadly, Cook took ill and the show never happened. But Cook was such a fan of Ian that she used her as an opening act, and \"also did a brilliant job on another song of mine, 'Candlelight.'\" But her recording of \"Stars,\" according to contemporary folk singer-songwriter Christine Lavin, was one of the \"all-time great pairings of a phenomenal song with a magnificent singer and musical arrangement.\"\n\"It's one of those music events that crosses all boundaries,\" continues Lavin. \"No matter what kind of music you love, I've never met anyone who doesn't love how she sings it. It's even more heartbreakingly beautiful listening to her sing it now that she is gone.\"\nIn fact, Lavin was so moved by Cook's interpretation of \"Stars\" that she put together a retrospective career slideshow YouTube video for it.\n\"It's photos of her stage and concert career, just looking back over her life--like an 'in memoriam' tribute, though I posted it a couple months ago on the day she retired. The song is so moving, and combined with the photos I ended up crying--and I made the thing! I didn't know her personally\u2014I almost met her in a grocery store on the Upper West Side but I had a bad cold so I waved to her and told her I loved her work and quickly ran out of the store!\u2014but she was incomparable. Just hearing her voice and looking at the photos of her onstage is the best contribution I can make to her legacy.\"\nThat legacy includes teaching, notes Ian.\n\"She was one of the great teachers\u2014though nobody realized this outside o her students,\" says Ian, herself a student of famed late acting coach Stella Adler, \"so I recognize a good teacher\u2014and I saw her give one of the best master classes in singing that I've ever seen.\"\nNew York dramatic soprano Jenny Lynn Stewart, whose reporetoire includes opera, musicals and cabaret, has been likened to a cross between a very young Barbara Cook and late opera great Eileen Farrell, and worked with Cook in a coaching session ahead of a Lincoln Center performance by Stewart a year ago last April.\n\"It was like a dream come true,\" says Stewart. \"I responded to a post on Facebook that Barbara Cook was interested in coaching singers, though it seemed as though it just wasn't going to happen because she was working on her book [her memoir Then & Now] and a new show. Then I was told she had finished her book and the show was postponed and she was available to coach me.\"\nWorking with Cook, adds Stewart, was on her bucket list for at least 12 years.\n\"It was very exciting to finally work with someone who had inspired me for so many years,\" she says. \"It was great: She greeted me at the door with a big smile. She was wheelchair bound, but that didn't seem to have any bearing on her spirits for she was incredibly positive with me, and we worked together for two hours.\"\nStewart recalls working with Cook on \"Somebody, Somewhere\" from The Most Happy Fella and \"What's the use of Wond'rin\" from Carousel.\n\"We talked a lot about the keys of various songs--since both of us were classically trained singers--and about making the music accessible to the listener,\" says Stewart. \"She told me that I didn't have to do anything and to just be myself while singing. I think Barbara was always herself on stage and openly showed her own vulnerability.\"\nAnd \"her mind was sharp as a tack and she remembered every word and every note of those two songs,\" adds Stewart.\n\"It was thrilling working with her,\" she concludes.\nIncidentally, Cook's versions of Ian's \"Stars\" and \"Candlelight\" both appear on her 1977 album As of Today.\nMagnolia Sisters' Ann Savoy and Jane Vidrine s...\nRoberto Clemente a big hit at APAP\nInspired by Tony Bennett's memoir, APAP exhibi...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WNBA Teams Wonder About Mosqueda-Lewis' D\nWNBA teams aren't sure what position Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis will play.\nPublished Apr 16, 2015 at 10:13 AM\nConnecticut's Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (23) drives past Memphis' Ariel Hearn (4) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Storrs, Conn., on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. (AP Photo\/Fred Beckham)\nThe WNBA Draft is Thursday night, which means that the speculation will be over and we'll know exactly where Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis will be playing next season. For now, we're all still wondering -- based not only on how the players will go off the board once the draft starts, but how teams picking early in the draft feel about Mosqueda-Lewis.\nAs one of the best shooters to ever come through UConn, no one questions her ability to put the ball through the hoop. The issues arise when teams try to find a position for Mosqueda-Lewis, particularly on defense.\nGeno Auriemma's response was typically Geno Auriemma. When asked how Mosqueda-Lewis would be able to guard a player like Diana Taurasi, he said (via the Hartford Courant), \"Tell me who can guard [Taurasi]?\"\nFair question. But also fair are the concerns about Mosqueda-Lewis on the defensive end. Indiana assistant coach Gail Goestenkors spoke about those concerns earlier this season.\n\"Well, there is no better shooter than she is,\" Goestenkors said, via the Courant. \"If a team needs a shooter, she's going. But her defense and her conditioning are the question marks.\n\"She's going to have to defend, at the three on the perimeter, and the question is can she defend the most athletic players in the league. Will she get herself into the best shape of her life?\n\"Again, there is so much respect for Geno and what he is able to get from his players. So with [Mosqueda-Lewis] you wonder if she hasn't gotten herself into tip-top shape at UConn, will she do it at the next level. To have a job, you have to be in great shape and be able to do certain things. But she is big, strong and physical, so that's a good thing.\n\"But every team needs a player like her. Every team is searching for more shooters. They need one that in crunch time can be depended on. In terms of her defense, she may just need to be one of the smartest players on the floor, one that's able to use angles [to help].\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nonprofit, Charities, Fundraising\nBusiness, Finance & Economics\/\nWA community protests against greyhound racing at Cannington track\nDog lovers from across Perth are expected to protest against greyhound racing outside the Cannington racetrack on New Year's Eve.... more\nWednesday, December 29th, 2021 - Free the Hounds Inc\nA Bright Future in Sight as The IDEAS Van and St John Ambulance Merge\nThe IDEAS Van, Australia's first mobile Ophthalmic treatment facility to combat avoidable blindness in remote and vulnerable Australian communities, has joined forces with St John Ambulance Queensland. St John will continue to provide state of... more\nTuesday, November 9th, 2021 - The IDEAS Initiative\nmcrIT and Cisco Meraki stabilise Australian Red Cross remote area networks, while enhancing security posture\nSydney \u2013 October 27, 2021 \u2014 mcrIT, a Sydney-based, leading IT Service Provider partnered with Cisco Meraki to bolster Australian Red Cross' highly dependent remote IT network while enhancing their security posture. ... more\nWednesday, October 27th, 2021 - mcrIT\nmIoT partner with charity Books in Homes to celebrate First Nations people's water knowledge for National Water Week\nEach October, the Australian Water Association organises National Water Week, making a splash across Australia by inspiring communities and organisations to build awareness around the value of water.... more\nMonday, October 18th, 2021 - mIoT\nCat Haven Celebrates 60 Years Of Community Service\nCat Haven celebrated its 60th Birthday today (Friday 8th October 2021 from 11.00am) with a morning tea onsite their premises in Shenton Park which saw both Federal and State Politicians along with the Minister for Local Government John Carey, long te... more\nFriday, October 8th, 2021 - McNaught Media\nGirls Exposed to 'Shadow Pandemic' of Sexual Abuse, GFA World Says\nTOOWOOMBA, Qld -- COVID-19 has triggered a \"shadow pandemic\" of sexual abuse, violence and exploitation against girls, a shocking new report reveals on International Day of the Girl Child, Oct. 11.... more\nThursday, October 7th, 2021 - GFA - Gospel for Asia\nGFA World Summons Next Generation to 'Fight Back' Against 'Chaotic' Culture\nTOOWOOMBA, Qld -- One of the largest mission organisations in the world is challenging the next generation of young Christians to \"fight back against the cultural attack on your faith\" -- as recent research shows an alarming drop in the n... more\nWednesday, September 8th, 2021 - GFA - Gospel for Asia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Murley Miller\nDirector of Major Gifts\nMajor & Planned Giving\nBeth Eden - 211\nmillerma@denison.edu\nMurley received a B.S. in education from Ohio University and has worked in higher education development for the majority of her 25-year fundraising career. She joined Denison's Institutional Advancement team as director of major gifts in 2014, where she works with donors to secure support for the college's strategic initiatives. Murley, credentialed by CFRE International, has served previously as vice president for advancement at Ohio Dominican University and as director of development for the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University.\nDegree(s)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Oscars Know They're So White and Don't Really Care\nJanuary 29, 2020 filmadmin\nThe Oscars nominations have been out for 2 weeks now and I am still upset. Almost everywhere you look, there is some kind of discussion going on around the lack of equality and diversity paired with calls to fix it. This year's biggest award show in the film industry is no exception.\nThe Oscars have come under fire for their lack of diversity on numerous occasions, and soon after the 2020 Nominations were released, the Academy Awards made headlines for all the wrong reasons once again. This year's nominations seem to be part two of the #OscarsSoWhite fiasco in 2015, with nearly all of the nominations being given to white, male-led, male-directed, and male-focused films.\nIn Best Picture, undoubtedly the most prestigious award of the night, six out of nine of the nominated movies were directed by white males, and with the exception of Marriage Story, were about and led by white males. Little Women, also nominated, was directed by Greta Gerwig, who takes up the only woman-directed spot in the category. The two diverse options in the category are Jojo Rabbit, a Nazi comedy directed by and starring Taika Waititi, and Parasite, a Korean film directed by Bong Joon-Ho.\nThere is a similar pattern across the other major categories. Here's a rundown in case you haven't gotten around to looking up nominations: Best Director? All male. Yes, really. It was a huge relief to read Bong Joon-Ho's name at the end of this list, making him the only non-white male nominee. The Best Actor and Best Actress categories have a cap of five nominations max, and feature four white people and one token person of color each.\nThe nominations are so white, cis-gendered, and male-lead this year that every nomination for a marginalized individual or film about one just feels overwhelmingly tokenised. In fact, as if to prove that they know just how bad the nominations were, the Academy made ample effort to appear inclusive. The nominations were announced by John Cho and Issa Rae, following a list of A-list presenters including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Zazie Beetz, Rami Malek, Regina King, and more. While this is of course a great lineup of presenters and a step-up from previous years, it still feels so wrong to have them presenting such non-diverse nominations.\nIn a perfect world, having diversity at the Oscars means going beyond nominating non-white or male individuals, but also means seeing films about diverse stories and people represented in the nominations. Films like Us, Harriet, The Farewell, and Dolemite Is My Name were snubbed in the major categories. Social media rightly exploded when Lupita Nyong'o missed out on a nomination for her performance in Us. She showed impressive range in playing two different characters giving us something extra we didn't really see in some performances nominated for Best Actress. The Farewell tells an artfully crafted story about family dynamics, cultural displacement and explores traditions in Chinese culture that would have made a great addition to the Best Picture list.\nIn all fairness, the Oscars are trying to make progress. In 2012, 94 percent of the voters (5,700) were white, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the last two years, the Oscars have invited over 1,500 more members into the Academy with voting rights. This opens up the opportunity for more diverse voters to be a part of the voting process. And it is true that diverse directors have recently won major awards. While this is progress, it's not enough\u2013it's too slow and not enough. If the Oscars want to maintain ratings, and quite frankly, respect, they need to start producing a show that celebrates stories and people from all walks of life.\nEmily Rivero is a junior at Florida International University studying Creative Writing and Film Studies. She is an aspiring screenwriter who subscribes to too many streaming services and wishes Netflix would stop asking if she's \"still watching.\"\nauthor: Emily RiveroOscars\nPrevious PostThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: A Well-Earned MigraineNext PostOscar Watch Party 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"San Diego Air & Space Museum\nLocal Online Shopping\n2001 Pan American Plaza\nOpen daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Christmas and Thanksgiving Day.\nThe San Diego Air & Space Museum is California's official air and space museum and education center. The Museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and was the first aero-themed Museum to\u2026 read more\nThe San Diego Air & Space Museum is California's official air and space museum and education center. The Museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and was the first aero-themed Museum to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Now showing: Be the Astronaut, a fun, interactive experience where you fly and spaceship, drive a rover and land on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and an asteroid. The Museum is located at 2001 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101. The Museum and gift store are open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with admissions until 4:30 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.\nVisit Be the Astronaut throught 2017\nBook your next special event at the Air & Space Museum\n163 South to Park Avenue. Left on Park. Left on President's Way. Left into Pan American Plaza.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"7-up Serena surpasses Steffi\n29 Jan 2017 1:18 AM GMT\nMelbourne: Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus 6-4, 6-4 in the Australian Open final on Saturday to win her 23rd grand slam singles title and become the most successful tennis player in the open era.\nThe 35-year-old American's victory gave her a seventh Melbourne Park crown and sent her clear of Germany's Steffi Graf at the top of the list of most prolific grand slam winners since the game turned professional in 1968.\nThe second seed overcame a stuttering serve to take a topsy turvy opening set and one break of 36-year-old Venus's serve proved enough to claim the second after 82 minutes on Rod Laver Arena.\nThe victory also wrested back the world number one ranking from Angelique Kerber who swiped it away during her winning run to the US Open championship.\nCrediting elder sister Venus for motivating her to be the best, Serena said after receiving the trophy: \"Thank you Venus for inspiring me to be the best player that I can be. There's no way I would be at No.23 without her. Without her, the 'Williams Sisters' wouldn't exist.\"\n\"We'll see her again next year... I don't like the word 'comeback.' She never left,\" Serena said of Venus.\nVenus was oldest finalist in Melbourne in the professional era and won huge admiration for her unlikely run to the final.\n\"Serena Williams, that's my little sister, guys,\" she said beaming. \"Congratulations Serena on number 23, I've been right there with you, some of them I've lost with you.\n\"Your win has always been my win, you know that.\n\"I'm enormously proud of you, you mean the world to me.\"\nAt 35, an age at which most former champions have enjoyed life after tennis for several years, Serena's powers appear undiminished and she will now train her sights on Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 major titles.\nRightly or wrongly, many will feel Serena's top ranking in history is already assured, with Court's haul split between the amateur and professional eras and the American's silverware amassed despite numerous physical setbacks.\nIn the ultimate throwback tournament, Serena met her sister on the same Rod Laver Arena court where 14 years before she had edged her in three sets to claim her first Melbourne Park crown.\nEight years had passed since their last grand slam decider at Wimbledon in 2009, and their combined ages in Melbourne added up to the 'oldest' major final ever contested.\nThey walked down the corridor silently prior to the match, with Serena tuned into headphones and Venus focusing only ahead. It was a tense start and neither player was able to hold serve until Venus took the fifth game.\nSerena was the worst afflicted by the nerves, and she smashed her racket in a rage in just the third game after she slipped behind the baseline when chasing down a ball. She double-faulted three times to be broken a second time, causing a gasp from the crowd.\nBut galvanised by her serve, Serena soon settled and the blistering groundstrokes from the baseline began to find their mark as she surged to a 5-3 lead before sealing the set by thumping a pair of aces.\nWith Serena renowned as one of the best front-runners in the game, Venus showed her readiness to scrap, and she saved three break points to hold in the third game.\nBut she was never on safe ground, with Serena feasting on her second serve.\nSerena pounced in the seventh game, firing a searing backhand return to break and served out to love to come within a game of the title. Having dragged Serena to 15-30 at 5-4 on her serve, Venus dropped her racket in despair as she hammered a forehand into the net to give up match point.\nSerena needed no further reason and after a furious exchange of shots, she charged in to the net swinging to claim yet another major title.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"To Charles Lyell 8 [May 1860]\nDown Bromley Kent\nMy dear Lyell\nYour letter contained much news for me.\u2014 It is indeed most important that the Cambrian or Barrandes primordial should be getting so much separated (in spite of Murchison) from Lower Silurian: I did not at all know this.1\nI fear it is not very likely that I shall be up on 16th (I have written to J. Lubbock)2 though I shd. much like to hear the paper & discussions, for, I am sure that you will both be sorry to hear that Etty is ill with remittent Fever.3 There is at present no cause for anxiety, though she is very ill, & the Fever is sure to run on for a fortnight or three weeks, and anxiety always knocks me up.\u2014\nI have sent for Canadian Naturalist;4 if I cannot procure a copy I will borrow yours.\u2014 I had letter from Henslow this morning who says that Sedgwick was on last Monday night to open a battery on me at Cambridge Phil. Socy. \u20145 Anyhow I am much honoured by being attacked there & at Royal Soc. of Edinburgh.\u20146 With respect to Aster, I remember long ago reading curious paper by Asa Gray & another on Aster, in which they give cases of two forms so very distinct that they must consider them specifically distinct, & yet perfectly united by intermediate varieties or links & they admit that in almost every other case that this suffices to upset two species as distinct.\u20147 But I do not think it worth while to contradict single cases. Nor is it worth while arguing against those who do not attend to what I state. A moment reflexion will show you that there must be (on our doctrine) large genera not varying\u2014see p. 56 on this subject in 2d Edit of Origin\u2014 Though I do not there discuss case in detail\u2014\nIt may be sheer bigotry for my own notions, but I prefer to the Atlantis my notion of plants & animals having migrated from old to new world or conversely when climate was much hotter by approximately the line of Behring's Straits.8 It is most important as you say to see living forms of plants going back so far in time. I wonder whether we shall ever discover the flora of dry land of the Coal period & find it not so anomalous as the swamp or coal-making flora!\nI am working away over the blessed Pigeon manuscript;9 but from one cause or another I get on very slowly,\u2014chiefly from my abominable stomach.\u2014\nThis morning I got letter from Acad. Nat. Sc. of Philadelphia, announcing that I am elected a Correspondent;10\u2014 I do not suppose that this is much of honour; but it shows that some naturalists there do not think me such a scientific profligate as many think me here.\u2014\nEver | My dear Lyell | Yours gratefully | C. Darwin\nWhat a grand fact about extinct Stags horn worked by man!\u201411\nSee letter from Charles Lyell, 7 May 1860. CD refers to Roderick Impey Murchison.\nIn the missing portion of his previous letter, Lyell had evidently mentioned several of the topics to be discussed at the next meeting of the Geological Society of London on 16 May 1860 (see letter from Charles Lyell, 7 May 1860). \u00c9douard Amant Isidore Hippolyte Lartet and Leonard Horner spoke about the evidence for humans having existed contemporaneously with animals that had since become extinct. John Lubbock was also deeply interested in the topic.\nAn entry in Emma Darwin's diary on 7 May 1860 records that Henrietta Emma Darwin was suffering from 'cold & fever'. She had fallen ill on 28 April 1860 (Emma Darwin's diary).\nA review entitled 'Darwin on the origin of species by means of natural selection', signed 'J. W. D.', appeared in the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 5 (1860): 100\u201320. John William Dawson was the editor of the journal. CD's copy of the article (Darwin Pamphlet Collection\u2013CUL) identifies Dawson as the author; CD also wrote on it: 'good geologist & Palaeontologist.'\nSee preceding letter and letter from J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1860.\nA reference to Andrew Murray's critique of Origin in a paper read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 20 February 1860 (Murray 1860a).\nCD may be referring to Torrey and Gray 1838\u201343, 2: 104, in which the following statement is included in a passage discussing difficulties in the classification of species of Aster: It must, however, be admitted that, in this as in all large and natural genera, several species which we cannot but consider as distinct (such for instance as A. cordifolius and A. sagittifolius) do frequently present very puzzling intermediate forms;\nCD refers to Edward Forbes's proposed former Miocene continent, across which organisms were supposed to have migrated from Europe to the Azores. CD rejected hypothetical continents and other land-bridges for which there was no obvious geological evidence in favour of occasional and accidental transport of seeds and ova across the intervening ocean. He and Lyell had discussed the subject at length in 1856. See Correspondence vol. 6, especially letters to Charles Lyell, 16 [June 1856] and 25 June [1856], and letters from Charles Lyell, 17 June 1856 and [1 July 1856].\nCD was drafting chapters on pigeons that were eventually published in Variation (see 'Journal'; Appendix II).\nCD had been elected as a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (see letter to Thomas Stewardson, 8 May 1860). The academy, founded in 1812, was one of the most prestigious scientific societies in the United States.\nLartet 1860, p. 472.\nLartet, Edouard. 1860. On the coexistence of man with certain extinct quadrupeds, proved by fossil bones, from various Pleistocene deposits, bearing incisions made by sharp instruments. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16: 471\u20135.\nOrigin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.\nVariation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.\nDid not know about separation between Silurian and Cambrian.\nCannot attend Geological Society meeting.\nEtty [Henrietta Darwin] ill.\nSedgwick in his attack at Cambridge Philosophical Society states \"there must be [on CD's theory] large genera not varying\".\nDiscusses migration of plants and animals from Old World to New.\nViews of Asa Gray on Aster.\nMentions flora of coal period.\nHas been elected to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.\nCharles Lyell, 1st baronet\nAmerican Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.211)\nLyell, Charles\nAlso published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Coalition Overview\nCPR Members, Partners & Coalitions\nWork with CPR\nIntro to Pesticides\nCA Pesticide Use\nImpacts of Pesticides\nPesticides & Human Health\nPesticides and Air\nPesticides and Water\nAlternatives to Pesticides\nGenetically Engineered Crops\nClimate Change & Pesticides\nCalifornia's regulatory system\nPesticide Use Near Schools\nPesticide Exposure Guides\nPesticide Use Maps\nSafe Air For Everyone (SAFE)\nHealthy Homes\nPesticides in Air\nPesticide drift is any airborne movement of pesticides away from the intended target site, including droplets, dusts, volatilized vapor-phase pesticides and pesticide-contaminated soil particles. Some application methods disperse pesticides directly into the air, by aerial spraying, ground rig broadcast sprays and orchard mist-blowers. Once on a target surface, pesticide residue can volatilize by evaporation or be transported into the atmosphere on dust particles. Volatilization from soil and surface waters is a primary pathway for many pesticides to dissipate as much as 80-90 percent of certain compounds can be lost within a few days of application through this process.\nToday, pesticides have been detected in the atmosphere throughout the nation, and a wide variety of pesticides are present in air, rain, snow and fog. There is significant evidence that pesticides used in one part of the country are transported through the atmosphere and deposited in other parts of the country and beyond, sometimes in places where pesticides are not even used. Even in the Arctic and Antarctic pesticides are found in the air, snow, people and animals. The extent of atmospheric contamination has not been adequately studied. Only 2 national scale, multiyear studies have been done since the late 1960s, testing for only 25 percent of the total number of pesticides in current use.\nFor more information, please visit the SAFE campaign page.\nCalifornians for Pesticide Reform\n2029 University Ave., Suite 200\npests@pesticidereform.org\nExample: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Californians for Pesticide Reform. (You can unsubscribe anytime)\nBy submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Californians for Pesticide Reform, 2029 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94704, http:\/\/www.pesticidereform.org. 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","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Machine Learning for Signal Processing\nCall for Proposals: MLSP 2023\nHome \u00bb Special Sessions\nCall for Special Sessions\nThe MLSP 2021 technical program will highlight a series of Special Sessions to complement the regular program with important and emerging topics in a field of special interest to the MLSP participants. Each Special Session should be a focused effort rather than defined broadly.\nSpecial Session Requirements\nThe target for each Special Session is more than 5 accepted papers (minimum 4 papers). The following information should be included in the proposal:\nTitle of the proposed special session.\nNames and affiliations of the organizers (including brief bio and contact info).\nSession abstract (state the motivation and significance of the topic, and the rationale of the proposed session).\nList of invited papers (including a tentative title, author list and a 300-word abstract for each paper).\nIn addition to invited papers, other potential authors will be allowed to submit papers to Special Sessions. All papers will go through the same review process as the regular papers submitted to the main conference to ensure that the contributions are of high quality.\nProposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic and relevance to MLSP, as well as the track record of the organizers and anticipated quality of papers in the proposal session. When considering submitting a Special Session proposal, please bear in mind that approved Special Session organizer(s) and Special Session Chairs are expected to coordinate the review process.\nFor further inquiries you may contact the organizers at: lsheng@buaa.edu.cn.\nSpecial Session Proposals Due: April 30th, 2021\nNotification of Special Session Acceptance: May 7th, 2021\nSubmission of full-length papers: May 31st, 2021 June 14th, 2021\nSpecial Session Proposal: Submission Form Template \u2013 PDF Format\nSpecial Session Proposal: Submission Form Template \u2013 Word Format\nProposals should be submitted to lsheng@buaa.edu.cn before the deadline.\nAccepted Special Sessions\nThe following special sessions have been accepted.\nMachine Learning for Image and Video Understanding,\nProf. Xinxiao Wu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China\nProf. Han Wang, Beijing Forestry University, China\nReal-time vision-based contactless perception for human-centered smart building and human health ,\nProf. Xiaogang CHENG, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China\nProf. Bin Yang, Xi' An University of Architecture and Technology, China\n\u00a9 Copyright 2023 IEEE \u2013 All rights reserved. A not-for-profit organization, IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Lady of the Lake\nVendor: Andrzej Sapkowski\nNow a Netflix original series\nTrapped in a world ruled by the Elves, separated from Geralt and her destiny, Ciri will need all her training as a fighter and sorceress to return to her own time in the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games.\nAfter walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world.\nBut this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher and his companions - and also to try to conquer her worst nightmare. Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail. And the world is still at war.\nAndrzej Sapkowski, winner of the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, started an international phenomenon with his Witcher series.\nNow, look out for The Tower of Fools, book one of Andrzej Sapkowski's Hussite Trilogy, coming in October 2020\nWitcher novelsBlood of ElvesThe Time of ContemptBaptism of FireThe Tower of SwallowsLady of the LakeSeason of Storms\nWitcher collectionsThe Last WishSword of Destiny\nThe Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only)\nTranslated from original Polish by David French\nAuthor: Sapkowski, Andrzej\nPublisher: Orbit\nVanessa Riley\nIsland Queen\n\"Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read \"--Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most...\nT. West Fields\nDaughter of Mine: Innocence Broken\nThe Kingsley's seemed like a normal family moving into a duplex house in Boynton Beach, Florida. When this one family began to interact with the neighborhoods around them the impact...\nLatanya McQueen\nWhen the Reckoning Comes\nA haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the...\nBrit Bennett\n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick \"Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970...\nVailes Shepperd\nA Good Ending for Bad Memories\nA Good Ending for Bad Memories is a multi-generational tale that follows the matriarchal lineage of a splintered woman with an irregular memory. Equal parts sprawling travelogue and family saga, A Good...\nCasino Diamonds\nMurder of A Boss: Rise of The Black Diamond Cartel\nBinding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Diamonds, CasinoPublished: 04\/14\/2021Publisher: Independently PublishedISBN: 9798707770449Pages: 234Weight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.49d\nQuan Millz\nOld THOT Next Door\nOLD THOT NEXT DOOR is indeed a long-anticipated ratchet soap opera thriller by bestselling African-American Urban Fiction author QUAN MILLZ.Meet Vernita Ernestine Washington, a feisty 76-year-old woman who doesn't care...\nThe pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GOP Health Care Vote Delayed as Republican Senators Balk at Medicaid Cuts\nThe Brad\u0421ast\nBrad Friedman. Sputnik International\nhttps:\/\/sputniknews.com\/radio_the_bradcast\/201706271055041358-gop-health-care-vote-delayed\/\nThings fell apart quickly for Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the past 24 hours after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office announced that the Senate GOP health care scheme would result in 22 million Americans losing health care coverage by 2026, 15 million next year alone.\n\u00a9 REUTERS \/ Jonathan Bachman\nUS Senate Healthcare Bill Leaves 22Mln More Without Insurance Than Obamacare\nAs fellow Republicans balked at McConnell's \"Better Care Reconciliation Act\" bill, as written, he was forced to back away from his vow to hold a vote on the plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) this week. That vote, if it ever comes, will now wait until sometime after the July 4th recess and after more Senators have the chance to hear from constituents about the unpopular legislation.\nSo, the deal making process begins to win 50 votes for passage, somehow, in the US Senate, as moderate Republicans like Sen. Susan Collins cited the legislation's massive cuts to Medicaid (which other Republicans spent the weekend pretending did not exist) as harmful to her constituents and, specifically, to already struggling rural hospitals in her home state of Maine.\nJoining us today to explain the nexus between Medicaid and the health of hospitals are health care reform analysts ALLEN DOBSON and RANDY HAUGHT of Dobson and DaVanzo & Associates. Their new study, published by the Commonwealth Fund, details huge disparities in the effects that the GOP health care plans to slash Medicaid and cut taxes for the wealthy will have on hospitals in Medicaid expansion v. non-expansion states and in urban and rural areas. They also explain how the GOP's attempted cuts to Medicaid will affect all Americans, not only those who directly receive benefits under the program.\n\"Medicaid is absolutely critical to the survival of the hospital,\" Dobson explains, particularly in rural areas, as well as places where services were upgraded thanks to the expansion of Medicaid under ObamaCare. If Medicaid is now cut under the GOP plans, \"what you've done is you've weakened a hospital. A hospital that is sick financially is a hospital that is sick for everybody in the community. You're not just hurting Medicaid- you're not just hurting the Medicaid folks, the so-called 'poverty population', you're hurting everybody in the community, because when a hospital can't provide the quality care it would like to one guy, it can't provide it to the next guy, either.\"\nDobson, a health economist (he explains what that means) and Haught, a thirty-year data analyst of health care reform legislation and regulations, also offer their thoughts on whether the proposed GOP plans in the House and Senate actually speak to any of the problems Republicans have long cited in regard to ObamaCare, such as claims that it kills jobs and harms the economy. Dobson explains why the ACA arguably helped the economy, and charges the GOP effort in the Senate \"is hardly a healthcare bill\" and \"primarily about taxes, getting set up for a broader tax cut.\" Haught adds: \"For actual health care, we don't see anything in [the GOP plans] that's going to improve the quality of care, nor the access to healthcare coverage.\"\nWe also discuss whether a single payer \"Medicare-for-All\" style health care system is as feasible in the US as it is in other major developed countries, and why the US has yet to adopt such a system.\nAll of this as Trump tried to rally Republican Senators at the White House today, and McConnell attempts to regroup his caucus in hopes of jamming through the GOP's long-promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act come hell, high water, or tens of millions of Americans who will no longer have health care coverage in the US\u2026\nYou can find Brad's previous editions here. And tune in to radio Sputnik five days a week.\nWe'd love to get your feedback at radio@sputniknews.com\nhealthcare, Medicaid, Trumpcare, GOP","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Data and Research December 14, 2021\nDC Specialists and Their Value to Plan Sponsors\nPlan sponsors are paying more attention to the value DC specialists bring to the table, including increased attention to plan design review.\nVoya Investment Management (IM), the asset management business of Voya Financial Inc., has announced the findings of the third edition of its survey of plan sponsors and defined contribution (DC) specialist advisers. The survey was developed to help DC specialists better understand the needs of their clients and prospects, while giving plan sponsors a chance to voice their hopes and concerns.\nThe survey, conducted in 2021 between mid-February and early March, found sponsors and DC specialists continue to share views on many aspects of retirement plan support and service, but where differences exist, they indicate that DC specialists feel their services add greater value than plan sponsors recognize.\n\"Sponsors told us they are looking to specialists for a broad spectrum of advice and want higher levels of expertise, which again underscores the need for specialists to make sponsors aware of all that they can do,\" says Jake Tuzza, Voya IM head of intermediary distribution.\nA change noted in this year's survey results is that sponsors are paying more attention to plan design issues, as guidance on updating plan design and features was the second most frequently cited DC specialist support area being sought. The survey did find upticks in sponsor recognition that DC specialists help keep plan costs reasonable (93%) and that DC specialist compensation is proportional to the support provided (85%). Also encouraging, Voya says sponsors are more likely to say they understand the DC specialist's compensation and fee disclosures (73%).\nThe survey also looked at several other issues impacting sponsors and specialists, including the impact of COVID-19, use of target-date funds (TDFs) and the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act.\nVoya says the most common pandemic-related impact on retirement plans was an increase in hardship withdrawals. Only one in five sponsors saw no impacts, and many noted the need for \"post-COVID realignment\" to drive better participant and plan outcomes. The pandemic amplified trends that already were underway, including increased attention to plan design, review and rebidding of service contracts and an emphasis on the digital experience.\nMany industry professionals see TDFs as \"foundational\" components of a retirement plan and less of a forefront concern. Yet, the study found that mid-sized plans have significantly increased their use of TDFs since 2018, from 56% to 74%, in line with larger plans. Smaller plans now stand alone with lower usage levels at about 53%. In aggregate, nearly six in 10 sponsors include TDFs in their plans, an increase from 2018. Of the aggregate four in 10 sponsors whose plans do not currently offer TDFs, two in five say they would prefer to include them, up from one in three in 2018 and one in four in 2016.\nThe study also found that most sponsors and DC specialists agree that the SECURE Act has encouraged plans to adopt a focus on retirement income. Offering a retirement income solution can complement financial wellness programs, such as online tools and calculators, education on retirement income planning and education on investing. While the majority of sponsors plan to offer retirement income options, such as guaranteed income for life products, these options are not yet widely offered.\nretirement plan advisers, retirement plan design\nReframing Participant Communications Is Key for Plan Sponsors to Boost Retirement Savings\nA panel of retirement researchers examined participant behaviors that can assist with or deter workers from achieving optimal savings outcomes.\n\u00ab Recognition Can Play an Important Part in Retaining Employees","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Florida Senate - 2019                                     SB 316\nBy Senator Taddeo\n40-00202B-19                                           2019316__\n1                        A bill to be entitled\n2         An act relating to contracts for the sale or lease of\n3         pets; creating s. 828.32, F.S.; providing legislative\n4         intent; defining the term \"pet\"; declaring that\n5         certain contracts entered into on or after a specified\n6         date for the sale or lease of a pet are void and\n7         unenforceable as being against the public policy of\n8         this state; providing an exception; providing remedies\n9         for noncompliance; providing penalties; providing an\n10         effective date.\n12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:\n14         Section 1.\u2003Section 828.32, Florida Statutes, is created to\n15  read:\n16         828.32\u2003Contracts for the sale or lease of pets.\u2014\n17         (1)\u2003It is the intent of the Legislature to protect\n18  consumers in this state from deceptive and predatory financing\n19  arrangements and to protect pets from the harmful effects of\n20  such arrangements by making it a policy of the state to prohibit\n21  the leasing of pets.\n22         (2)\u2003As used in this section, the term:\n23         (a)\u2003\"Pet\" means a living animal that has been acquired for\n24  the primary purpose of providing companionship to the owner,\n25  rather than for a business or agricultural purpose.\n26         (b)\u2003\"Pet dealer\" has the same meaning as in s. 828.29(13).\n27         (3)\u2003A contract entered into on or after July 1, 2019, to do\n28  any of the following is against the public policy of this state\n29  and is void and unenforceable:\n30         (a)\u2003Transfer ownership of a pet, if the pet is used as\n31  collateral for the contract or is subject to repossession in any\n32  manner upon default of the contract. Such prohibition does not\n33  apply to sales in which payments are made to repay an unsecured\n34  loan for the purchase of the animal.\n35         (b)\u2003Lease a pet, if the contract provides for or offers the\n36  option of transferring ownership of the animal at the end of the\n37  lease term.\n38         (4)\u2003In addition to any other remedies provided by law, the\n39  consumer taking possession of a pet transferred under a contract\n40  described in this section is the owner of the pet and is\n41  entitled to the return of all amounts the consumer paid under\n42  such contract.\n43         (5)\u2003A person who offers a pet for lease or as collateral\n44  for a contract in violation of this section commits a\n45  noncriminal violation as defined in s. 775.08(3) and upon\n46  conviction shall be punished as provided in s. 775.082(5) by a\n47  civil fine of not more than $500 for a first violation and not\n48  more than $1,000 for a second or subsequent violation.\n49         Section 2.\u2003This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Go to JCI Insight\nConversations with Giants in Medicine\nAuthor's Takes\nView all reviews ...\nNew Therapeutic Targets in Cardiovascular Diseases (Upcoming)\nImmunometabolism (Upcoming)\nCircadian Rhythm (Oct 2021)\nGut-Brain Axis (Jul 2021)\nTumor Microenvironment (Mar 2021)\n100th Anniversary of Insulin's Discovery (Jan 2021)\nHypoxia-inducible factors in disease pathophysiology and therapeutics (Oct 2020)\nView all review series ...\nIn-Press Preview\nConcise Communication\nTop read articles\nJCI This Month\nThe Journal of Clinical Investigation\nHuman CD4+ CD25hi Foxp3+ regulatory T cells are derived by rapid turnover of memory populations in vivo\nMilica Vukmanovic-Stejic, \u2026 , Derek C. Macallan, Arne N. Akbar\nCitation Information: J Clin Invest. 2006;116(9):2423-2433. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/JCI28941.\nView: Text | PDF | Corrigendum | Erratum\nResearch Article Immunology\nWhile memory T cells are maintained by continuous turnover, it is not clear how human regulatory CD4+CD45RO+CD25hi Foxp3+ T lymphocyte populations persist throughout life. We therefore used deuterium labeling of cycling cells in vivo to determine whether these cells could be replenished by proliferation. We found that CD4+CD45RO+Foxp3+CD25hi T lymphocytes were highly proliferative, with a doubling time of 8 days, compared with memory CD4+CD45RO+Foxp3\u2013CD25\u2013 (24 days) or naive CD4+CD45RA+Foxp3\u2013CD25\u2013 populations (199 days). However, the regulatory population was susceptible to apoptosis and had critically short telomeres and low telomerase activity. It was therefore unlikely to be self regenerating. These data are consistent with continuous production from another population source. We found extremely close TCR clonal homology between regulatory and memory CD4+ T cells. Furthermore, antigen-related expansions within certain TCR V\u03b2 families were associated with parallel numerical increases of CD4+CD45RO+CD25hiFoxp3+ Tregs with the same V\u03b2 usage. It is therefore unlikely that all human CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Tregs are generated as a separate functional lineage in the thymus. Instead, our data suggest that a proportion of this regulatory population is generated from rapidly dividing, highly differentiated memory CD4+ T cells; this has considerable implications for the therapeutic manipulation of these cells in vivo.\nMilica Vukmanovic-Stejic, Yan Zhang, Joanne E. Cook, Jean M. Fletcher, Arthur McQuaid, Joanne E. Masters, Malcolm H.A. Rustin, Leonie S. Taams, Peter C.L. Beverley, Derek C. Macallan, Arne N. Akbar\nCD4+ CD25+ T cells remain functional with age.\nOptions: View larger image (or click on image) Download as PowerPoint\n(A) Freshly isolated PBMCs from younger and older donors were stained with CD4 and CD25 and the percentages of CD25int and CD25hi CD4+ T cells were determined. Statistical significance was determined by 2-tailed, unpaired Student's t test. (B) The coexpression of CD25 and Foxp3 in CD4+ T cells in older and younger subjects was determined. The left panels show the gating on PBMCs labeled with CD4-PerCP and CD25-PE. Based on CD25 expression, the CD4 population is subdivided into CD25\u2013, CD25int, and CD25hi populations. Histograms illustrate the Foxp3 expression in gated populations (log scale). Filled histograms represent staining with secondary antibody alone. Results are representative of 5 separate experiments performed on younger and older subjects. (C) Purified CD4+CD25\u2013 T cells were stimulated with immobilized anti-CD3, purified protein derivative (PPD), and tetanus toxoid in the presence of autologous irradiated PBMCs as APCs. CD4+CD25\u2013 T cells were cultured in the absence (black bars) or presence (white bars) of equal numbers of either CD4+CD25\u2013 or CD4+CD25+ cells. Proliferation was measured by 3H-thymidine incorporation on day 3 (for anti-CD3) and day 6 (for recall antigens), and results are expressed as mean \u00b1 SEM of triplicate wells. Results shown are representative of 5 experiments performed in younger and older subjects.\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 American Society for Clinical Investigation\nISSN: 0021-9738 (print), 1558-8238 (online)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Two Local School Districts Take Honorary Mention at International Virtual Enterprise Trade Fair in New York City\nTwo local school districts came home with awards recognizing their business acumen at an international trade fair that helps young people learn essential entrepreneurial skills of innovation, strategy, and marketing. Students from Alexander and Lyndonville Central Schools were delighted that their virtual businesses and their related marketing initiatives received honorable mentions at the 7th Annual Virtual Enterprise (VE) International Trade Fair held in New York City on April 1, 2004. One hundred high schools, colleges, and adult classes from around the world participated and competed in four business categories, networked with business leaders, and marketed and promoted their own business ventures. With virtual companies hailing from across New York State and as far away as southern California, Romania, and Austria the teams represented a wide-range of different business enterprises and competed in the following categories: 1. Best Web Design2. Best Catalog3. Best Booth Display4. Best Sales Techniques\nVisitors to the VE Trade Fair were given a total of $3,000 virtual dollars to spend on any one of 100 different business entities that were displaying virtual products or services, and implementing dynamic sales and marketing plans all aimed for success. As the day progressed, the sales earnings were deposited by each virtual company treasurer into the VEC Bank managed by Deloitte and Touche, a national firm volunteering to provide accounting services.\nStudents from Alexander Central School created \"BNI\" or \"Bare Necessities Inc.,\" a virtual business which provides survival kits for everyday needs. A Caffeine Kit, College Kit, and a Catastrophe Kit were among the options with different sizes and prices available online for various situations. It was the BNI website that earned the students an honorable mention.\n\"The trade fair was a wonderful experience for the students not only in a business sense, but also in a cultural and social sense,\" Randy Palladino, Economics Teacher at Alexander Central Schools. \"The students from Alexander had to communicate and conduct business transactions with students from a wide variety of social, ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds that they do not have the opportunity to do within their community.\" Palladino added that BNI made a significant amount of virtual money and noted that the company's award winning website can be viewed at www.alexandercsd.org\/bni. Students from Lyndonville High School developed \"M3 - Movies, Music, and More\" as their virtual enterprise, with opportunities to easily purchase a wide range of electronic entertainment media. The Lyndonville group received honorable mention for best booth, which cleverly illustrated the virtual company's numerous media options. The website for M3 can be accessed at www.velyndonville.org\n\"The kids (from Lyndonville) were thrilled about receiving their honorable mention,\" Cathie Hogan, Lyndonville Entrepreneurial Class Instructor said. \"We thank Tech Prep at Genesee Community College for getting the GLOW schools organized and into this program.\"\nBetween both school districts, 25 GLOW (Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, Wyoming County) students had the opportunity to visit New York City and experience the Virtual Enterprise Trade Fair. In addition to the extensive learning opportunities provided by the Virtual Trade Fair, students also acquired important fund raising skills to help pay for their travel expenses. From holding raffles, earning monies through candy and beverage sales, planning special events to collect proceeds, and requesting donations from local businesses?students in both schools participated in fund raising.\nThe Virtual Enterprise Program (VEP) is supported, in part, by College Tech Prep, a federally funded program operated by Genesee Community College with the goal to help students make a smooth transition from high school to college. College Tech Prep currently works with 19 high schools in the GLOW county region offering a wide range of programs to encourage student interest in college and enhance their career development. Six other high schools in the GLOW area participate in the other aspects of VEP, which included a regional Trade Fair at Genesee Community College last December.\n\"Over the entire semester, students explore all the finer elements of entrepreneurialism and business success with their own Virtual Enterprise as a hands-on learning opportunity,\" Kathy Lopes, Director of the Genesee Region College Tech Prep program at Genesee Community College said. \"We are very proud of the students who competed on the international level and commend them for their success. I can't imagine a more rewarding learning opportunity, which undoubtedly will help fuel their future success in real business enterprises.\"\nFor further information on the Virtual Enterprise Trade Fair or Genesee Region College Tech Prep, please contact Kathy Lopes, Director, or Debbie Dunlevy, Technical Specialist at 585-343-0055 extension 6629 or 6316. You may also contact Randy Palladino of Alexander Central Schools at (585) 591-1551.\nA group photograph of the Alexander students in New York City promoting their Virtual Enterprise, \"BNI or Bare Necessities, Inc.\" is available by clicking to the following Internet location:\nhttp:\/\/marketing.genesee.edu\/images\/AlexVPstudents.JPG","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Entertainment 25 of the Greatest Movie Quotes in History\n25 of the Greatest Movie Quotes in History\nSource: Ethan Miller \/ Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images\nScreenwriters don't always know which one of their lines will become a memorable quote. It's often a combination of the drama or action in that moment, the character speaking it reaching a pivotal moment, the cinematography and ambience, and of course \u2014 the delivery by the actor.\nWhen people think of their favorite movies, chances are the first thing that comes to mind \u2013 along with the visual effects if it's an action movie \u2013 is the film's memorable lines.\n24\/7 Tempo reviewed several entertainment sources, including the American Film Institute and movie review sites, to compile a list of 25 of the most famous quotes in the history of American and English-spoken cinema. We only included individual lines, not conversations between characters.\nPeople often relate to characters or the words they speak. Memorable movie phrases have made their way into people's everyday vocabulary and pop culture.\nThe most recent film to make the list came courtesy of 2008's \"The Dark Knight.\" Perhaps, more time needs to pass until newer releases \u2014 and the lines in them \u2014 can claim to be timeless. These are the 50 best movies of all time.\nPrevious article25 Reasons Rescue Dogs Are the Best Pets\nNext articleWorst Sci-Fi Movies Ever Made\n247tempo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}