{"text":"Thinking Inside the Box\/\nby Tony Moore\n\"In a lot of ways, I look at my decision to go to Dickinson as the best I've ever made,\" says Greg Zimmerman '83, citing his broad liberal-arts education as the secret to his success. Today he is senior vice president of Big Box Development at Simon Property Group, the world's largest real estate company, a position he finds both challenging and enjoyable.\nWorking with large-format retailers such as Dick's Sporting Goods, Barnes & Noble and Whole Foods and theatres such as AMC and Regal, Zimmerman shepherds retail development every step of the way\u2014from finding the tenants, negotiating the deals, helping to design the space and working with Simon's construction department to making sure the market knows the retailers are coming. \"We take the deals from cradle to grave,\" he says.\nDoing a little of everything\nZimmerman's path began far beyond the confines of the shopping mall, at Dickinson. \"I'm a real believer in a liberal-arts education and the environment in which Dickinson provides it,\" he says. \"And I took advantage of everything the college offers: the small size, so I got to know my professors; I was in student government, in a fraternity, I studied abroad, played varsity baseball. I got to do a little of everything.\"\nDoing a little of everything has carried over extensively to his professional career. \"No two days are ever the same,\" he says of his day-to-day duties, which involve Simon's 170 regional malls throughout the United States. \"You need to think on your feet, and you need to anticipate and solve problems. You need to understand finance, retail, construction and law, and you need to have great interpersonal skills. It's a challenge, because you're always dealing with millions of dollars.\"\nClinging to broadness\nAfter graduating from Dickinson with a history degree, Zimmerman went to law school at the University of Pennsylvania and landed a job with a big law firm. By 1994, he was looking for a new challenge, and he soon joined The Rouse Company, a national real estate developer. In 1999, after Rouse purchased The Howard Hughes Corporation (the developer for what remained of the estate of Howard Hughes), Zimmerman moved to Las Vegas, where he merged the two companies' legal departments. Once the merger was complete, Rouse asked Zimmerman to move to the business side and build shopping centers.\nWhen Zimmerman, a Harrisburg native and lifelong Penn State fan, isn't looking at a new commercial space to develop, he and his wife, Mira, who works for the NCAA, like to travel and attend Big Ten football games.\nPenn State fan or not, he remains a loyal Dickinson supporter. Asked how often he finds that his education influences his career, he is quick to answer: \"I don't want to be trite about it, but the answer is every day. I learned a lot in law school, but I put 80 to 90 percent of my skill set down to Dickinson. What I like to tell people is that in college they trained me to think broadly, and then in law school they trained me to think narrowly again. I try to cling to the broadness.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Value of Intuition\nLearning to trust your Intuition\nThe old TV show \"Star Trek\" has and episode where Spock is telling Kirk of a human flaw called intuition. Spock was all about analysis and logic, while Kirk often relied upon intuition to solve problems. Intuition is a complex human sense that isn't entirely understood or even believed to be real by some. Some call it mothers intuition or women's intuition. But I believe everyone has it even though some don't know how to properly cultivate it for their benefit.\nIntuition vs. Analysis\nA Rice University research team wanted to know if intuition was more effective than analysis. The team also set out to discover if the intuitive approach was better if a person had related knowledge of the matters surrounding their choice.\nFor the first study, subjects viewed videos of 13 basketball shots, then rated them in difficulty based on a numerical scale. There were two groups of subjects. One group (analytical) was allowed time-prior to the actual viewing-to ponder any details to be considered, such as the athlete's particular stance.\nThe other group was the intuitive group who did not have this time to reflect. Both groups had 10 seconds to give their rating. Their assessments were then compared to those of a basketball coach and his assistants.\nWhether or not the analytical-group subjects had any basketball knowledge was irrelevant to how well they rated the shots. However, experience with basketball was indeed a relevant factor for the intuitive group. In summary, the most accurate ratings came from subjects with basketball skills in the intuition group.\nThe second study had subjects viewing 10 designer handbags and determining which were authentic and which were phony. The intuition group had five seconds to give their answer. The analytical group was allowed to look at details and then had half a minute to assess the handbags. The highest scores came from owners of at least three designer handbags-in the intuition group.\nSo what does any of this really prove?\nLet's apply this to a somewhat risky situation. An adult is learning to ski for the first time. Too much analysis hampers their efforts: \"I've never done this before,\" \"I'm way off-balance,\" \"I might fall,\" \"If I fall I'll injure my knee,\" etc. As a result, it takes a good while for the analytical adult to actually be skiing.\nHowever, put skis on a three-year-old for the first time, and what happens? It's not long before the preschooler is zipping past the adult, even though from a neuromuscular standpoint, the adult is far superior to the preschooler. What's going on? The preschooler's brain isn't developed enough to analyze. They have no fear.\nLet's take this a step further: self-defense. Hannah is approached by a much bigger man intent on assaulting her. Immediately she's thinking, \"I can't fight him off; he's a foot taller; he might have a knife; he'll strangle me with his big hands; his eyes look glazed-he's crazed on drugs...\" She gets assaulted.\nThis same man approaches Kaytie, who's the same size as Hannah. Kaytie has no self-defense training, facing the same situation by this disgusting being, it doesn't register to Kaytie that he's bigger or that he might have a knife.\nShe's not logical. She doesn't analyze. She's pure raw emotion-and intuitively knows her desire to protect herself is far greater than his desire to violate her. She goes wild on him, resists and she flees.\nThis same principle can be applied to situations like getting into an elevator with a strange man. A woman should trust her intuition or gut feeling, rather than analyze: \"I'll seem rude if I tell him I'll wait for the next elevator,\" \"I must be imagining he's dangerous; after all, he's well-dressed.\"\nToo much cerebral cortex can put women (and men) in danger. An animal in the wild relies upon gut instinct. We can learn from wild animals.\nRobert Siciliano personal and home security specialist to BestHomeSecurityCompanys.com discussing burglar proofing your home on Fox Boston. Disclosures.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wishart reinforces need for 12-month support package for isles visitor economy\nShetland MSP Beatrice Wishart has reinforced the need for a 12-month support package for Shetland's tourism and hospitality industries to help the sectors survive the impact of Covid-19. Ms Wishart made the case again to Tourism Secretary, Fergus Ewing during a Holyrood virtual question session.\nMs Wishart told parliament that Shetland has a shorter tourist season that mainland Scotland and that some in the industry have likened the prospect of a recovering from Covid-19 as \"having to first survive three winters\". Ms Wishart asked the Tourism Secretary if the government will consider a 12-month \"bespoke\" support package for Shetland to help the visitor economy survive until next year.\nMs Wishart previously raised the matter during a meeting of Holyrood's Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee in May.\nMr Ewing replied that he recognised the shorter tourism season in the Islands and that he had \"sympathy with the general argument\" for a 12-month package. Mr Ewing said that a case had been made to the UK Government for more tourism support.\nCommenting, Ms Wishart said:\n\"It will be some time before the tourism and hospitality industries recover to pre-Covid-19 levels. Long-term and reliable support is crucial if businesses are to be able to survive and plan for the future.\n\"There are countless businesses in the tourism and hospitality sectors that haven't been able to get the financial support they need. Indeed, some businesses haven't had any support at all. The prospect of no more support being available when grant funding runs out is worrying.\n\"There has been real growth in Shetland's visitor industry in recent years. It is an important part of Shetland's economy and must be supported so that we can welcome visitors again when the time is right.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What is the Correct Role of an Emergency Manager?\nThis is Part One of a two part series. To read Part Two, see Related Articles after this piece and click on the link.\nAdam Sutkus, Phyllis Cauley and Nicole Ugarte\nSo, what exactly should an emergency manager do? This was the question raised by the California Emergency Services Association (CESA) leadership in late 2010, in response to unprecedented changes in the field since 9\/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession.\nFacing increased expectations and fewer resources, the emergency management profession is forced to evolve to meet new, dynamic challenges. An informal but intense dialogue regarding the role of the emergency manager has been underway both in California and nationally. Since 2001, funding, expectations and attention to the field of emergency management and homeland security have increased dramatically, fundamentally altering the role of the local emergency manager. Until now there has not been a concerted effort to 'stop the presses' and allow emergency managers themselves the chance to reflect and redefine their field. In light of this development opportunity, the CESA, under the leadership of President Marsha Hovey, initiated a visioning and strategic planning process throughout 2010 to identify challenges and discuss solutions for the profession to continue to thrive.\nTo accomplish this effort, CESA requested the assistance of the Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University Sacramento (CCP) to serve as a neutral party and facilitator in this important dialogue. The mission of CCP is to build the capacity of public agencies, stakeholder groups, and the public to use collaborative strategies to improve policy outcomes. CCP has a track record of achieving successful program development and policy resolution using these techniques for large, multi-party efforts. Since 2005, CCP has managed a portfolio of key public policy projects for the emergency management and homeland security field. CCP retained its traditional role of a third-party neutral in this visioning and strategic planning effort for CESA.\nThe visioning effort for the CESA membership involved receiving feedback in a variety of ways. Prior to the 2010 CESA Annual Conference, participants provided initial data via an online survey to pinpoint trends and serve as a starting point for group discussions during the conference, where the in-person dialogue would take place.\nIn addition to the pre-conference survey, three separate group discussions convened during the conference itself, with each session building initially on the survey data, and then sequentially on the earlier dialogues held during the conference. Based on the survey responses, the discussions were framed around the following key questions:\nThe role of emergency managers and scope of their duties is not understood by key partners. How can this be reversed?\nCurrently, California does not have accepted norms or standards for the Emergency Management profession. Should this change, and by what method?\nThe best organizational location for an emergency manager has been under debate. What are the key attributes and characteristics of the emergency management position that allow one to do their job effectively, and why?\nManagement, strategy, policy, and global coordination are a necessary role for emergency managers; at the same time, tactical, operational actions need to take place as well. How can emergency managers best carry out these seemingly juxtaposed roles?\nThe first conference session was designed to share experiences and overall vision for the emergency management field. During the second session, participants built on themes identified in the previous session and sought to define the emergency management position and current trends and expectations. In the final session, participants revisited the overarching issues and ideas identified throughout the conference, and discussed the next steps to incorporate potential solutions into CESA's work effort for the upcoming year.\nThe dialogue and involvement among the CESA members through the survey and conference sessions was active, creative and robust. This exercise to understand the pressures on professionals in the field and recognize emerging trends definitely 'hit a nerve' and allowed for critical information to come forward that will influence discussions about the field for years to come. Several key findings emerged through the intensive dialogue, along with potential actions to address the issues:\nFinding #1: Emergency managers' role and scope of duties need to be clarified and understood.\nEmergency managers have tactical and policy level roles; both are key.\nCore roles include, but are not limited to, building a prepared organization with sufficient capacity and knowledgeable staff; having all planning documents up-to-date and coordinated with partners; developing and implementing a training and exercise plan that encompasses staff, partners, and elected officials; having strong relationships with internal and external partners to understand each other's roles and capabilities and to foster collaboration; establishing a fully functional emergency operations center (people, systems); and engaging with the community.\nBecause emergency managers are many times carrying out the roles of grant manager and administrative assistant, as well as duties that are seen as belonging to other agencies with emergency management duties, they are not able to focus on critical functions. Examples of those critical functions include outreach and collaboration with partners; getting buy-in on the need for training and exercises; full engaging with their community; providing input on policy issues; and addressing areas of preparedness that sometimes languish (e.g., recovery planning; mentoring new emergency managers.)\nTerminology is important. The term emergency \"coordinator\" or \"planner\" can take away from an accurate understanding of the functional role and scope of duties. Service delivery and the emergency manager's role in it should be a focal point.\nOne view expressed is that the local emergency manager is the chief advisors to the jurisdiction's chief executive with respect to organizing the jurisdiction's resources and cooperators to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of major emergencies and disasters. Each jurisdiction will make their own decisions, but they need a clear idea of what the expectations are.\nThere is not a true national view on the role and scope of duties for the emergency management role.\nThe potential actions to address this challenge centered on redefining the emergency manager's role in California (and nationally), through CESA leadership. Specifically, taking the information from this exercise and creating a standardized vision for the emergency management field and expectations for the role; defining and recommending the role of the emergency management discipline in relation to the executive function; focusing on an orientation template for new officials relative to their role and the emergency managers' role; and continuing the dialogue to transparently focus on the changing role of the emergency manager to influence statewide and national debate.\nASPA member Adam Sutkus is a managing senior mediator at the Center for Collaborative Policy at Sacramento State University, where he manages the project portfolio on Emergency Management and Homeland Security. Email: [email protected]\nPhyllis Cauley is a subject matter expert in emergency management with CCP, following a long career in California Emergency Services.\nNicole Ugarte is an assistant facilitator at CCP and has worked on numerous emergency management policy projects, as well as land use, water issues and organizational development.\nWhat fruit is used to describe New York? Please capitalize the first letter of each word of the answer. (Required)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dance Company\nMini-Camps\nIn-Studio Events\nDance Concert\nEvent Choreography\nMagical Movements welcomes 1 year-old girls and boys to adults with a wide array of dance classes. Since our grand opening September 2003, students and their families continue to receive unsurpassed treatment. From taking class for fun, fitness, or your future, to a birthday celebration, our pleasant, educated staff will try its best to provide an enjoyable experience. We look forward to meeting you!\nHEALTH & SAFETY COME FIRST\nFriendly, professional faculty\nBright, cheerful facility\nSincere, personal treatment\nSafe, welcoming environment\nTheme & combination classes\nClosed circuit TV system\nWell-received dance concerts\nStudents with theater & TV credits\nBirthday party blasts\nUpon entering Magical Movements, there is a warm, inviting feeling. The 2,000+ square foot space includes a spacious mirrored dance studio, private dressing room, kitchen, rest rooms, and waiting area \u2013 complete with closed circuit television to view classes. Located on the Harrison\/Mamaroneck border, we are easily accessible from many Westchester towns and cities. Parking is plentiful, and shops are within walking distance.\nLinda Francica Laraqui, Director\nLinda Francica Laraqui began her performing arts training at 7 years-old. She studied many dance forms, earned the lead in her elementary school musicals, played the piano, sang solos with the chorus, and choreographed for various school events. Linda continued her studies at Manhattanville College, majoring in Dance and Theatre. She performed in the realm of renowned choreographers, created several pieces of her own, and was president of the college's student dance organization. During this time, Linda danced on MTV's Direct Effect, studied voice, and appeared in a TV commercial. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, departmental and porfolio honors. Through the years, Linda has been awarded for her achievements in the performing arts. Before opening Magical Movements, Linda worked with children at studios, pre-schools, and artistic programs across Westchester County. With a childhood dream and the guidance of her entrepreneurial dad, she opened Magical Movements School of Dance in September 2003. Linda directs the studio, teaches on and off-site, and entertains at birthday parties. Linda founded The Shooting Stars, Magical Movements' preteen-teen performance company.\nAngelina Bartolozzi, Former Instructor \/ Guest Teacher\nAngelina danced for fifteen years with Maxine's Dance Studio LLC, where she was also a teacher on staff. She performed with the Vineland Regional Dance Company (VRDC) for ten years, and was a soloist with the company for four years. Angelina also choreographed four works for the VRDC. Her piece \"Run\" was chosen to close the Emerging Choreographers showcase performance at the Regional Dance America Northeast Festival in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2016, making her the youngest choreographer in the organization to do so. Additionally, Angelina has trained with Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and the Pennsylvania Ballet. She has been awarded many scholarships from numerous organizations, including the VRDC 2018 Jonathan Phelps scholarship, the 2017 Martha Godown Scholarship, and the Marie Bayuk Scholarship. She has also won awards at Regional Dance America Festivals and the Delaware Dance Festival. Angelina Angelina graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College with a double major in dance and arts management. She is an ACE Certified personal trainer, and a professional dancer at Palmetto City Ballet.\nJulia Di Lorenzo, Former Instructor \/ Substitute\nJulia Di Lorenzo has been studying dance since she was three years old. Alongside training in ballet, tap, jazz, and contemporary dance, she studied the performing arts at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she just received her BFA in Drama. While at NYU, Julia studied Method Acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and went on to teach ballet, tap, jazz, musical theatre, and Method Acting classes at the Young Actors at Strasberg program. During her time in college, she also danced with the Grant Chang Dance Company. Julia is so excited to be a part of the Magical Movements team, where once took class as a child!\nLori-Ann Fordunski, Instructor\nMiss Lori-Ann Fordunski has been a dance instructor in Queens for the past six years. She has been dancing since she was three years-old. She participated on the award-winning Moves and Motions, New York, competitive dance team for over ten years. She attended the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, where she majored in a pre-conservatory dance program. She graduated with an Arts endorsed diploma in 2012. Lori attended the University at Albany, and graduated in 2016 with a Business degree in Management and Marketing. While at UAlbany, she participated in an organization called Dance Council. She choreographed and performed in many numbers. Lori ran for the Executive Board of Dance Council during her junior year, and was elected President during her senior year. Lori has performed at venues such as Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera House. She loves sharing her joy and passion for dance with her students. Lori is very excited to be teaching at Magical Movements!\nTaylor Graustein, Substitute\nTaylor Graustein began dancing at age 3 in her hometown of Harrison, NY. From Pre-K through high school, she studied all genres of dance, including ballet, tap, jazz, modern, hip hop, and musical theater. She trained with Danse Elite Senior Company in ballet, pointe, jazz, contemporary, and performed in yearly competitions and shows. Taylor has always been very involved with her dance community. She substitute taught children's classes, and was a counselor and instructor at summer dance camps. In Harrison's High School's Performing Arts program, Taylor served as dance company president, along with dance captain, and had various roles in Harrison's Metro Award Nominated Performances of A Chorus Line, Damn Yankees, and Guys & Dolls.\nTaylor attended Wake Forest University, and trained with the university's dance team during her freshman year. She performed at ACC football and basketball games throughout the 2016-2017 season. Throughout the rest of her college career, Taylor took ballet and jazz classes in Wake Forest's Department of Theater and Dance with their acclaimed faculty. She graduated in May of 2020 with a Bachelors Degree in Communication and minors in Entrepreneurship and Psychology. Since graduation, she has been building her business \u2014 Benefiscent Candle Co. Taylor is excited to continue her passion for dance by teaching at Magical Movements!\nOksana Konobeyeva, Instructor\nAfter graduating from the Novosibirsk Choreographic College in 1990, Oksana Konobeyeva won the First Prize at the Vaganova Prix Ballet Competition, and joined the Y. Grigorovitch Bolshoi Theatre Studio Company. She performed solo and principal roles in Swan Lake, La Fille Mal Gard\u00e9e, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker and others. Among her teachers were Elena Ryabinkina, Rimma Karelskaya,Marina Semyonova, Michail Lavrovsky. Ms. Konobeyeva won the First Prize at the Luxembourg International Ballet Competition in 1995, and joined the American Ballet Theatre in 1996. She performed many parts in the company's repertoire, and some of her solo parts include: Shades Trio in La Bayad\u00e8re, Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Spring in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella, Vitality Fairy and Jewels in Sleeping Beauty, solo in Harald Lander's \u00c9tudes and George Balanchine's Theme and Variations, and works by John Neumeier and Twyla Tharp. Ms. Konobeyeva toured with both companies all over Europe, Asia, and America. In 2002, she started teaching, got certified in Pilates Mat, and became an American Ballet Theatre Certified Teacher in Primary through Level 7. From 2011 to 2019, Ms. Konobeyeva taught at the Greenwich Ballet Academy. In her teaching, Ms. Konobeyeva emphasizes many details to provide students with a strong foundation. She is currently staging works from the original classical repertoire, coaching students for Youth America Grand Prix, and choreographing dances for students ages 6 & up.\nAlison LeMoigne, Instructor\nAlison LeMoigne has been dancing since the age 4 and has not stopped since! She began her dance training at New York Dance, where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical\/contemporary, hip hop, and theatrical styles. In high school, she danced competitively with the Performers Edge Dance Academy competition team, performing solo, duet, and group routines at regional and national competitions throughout the tri-state area. Alison is a graduate of Providence College, where she spent four years as a member of the varsity dance team. She performed jazz, hip hop, and pom routines at nationally televised Big East Basketball games, most notably at the annual Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden. Alison and her dance team had the opportunity to attend NDA College Nationals in Daytona Beach, FL, where they competed in the Division 1 Jazz and Hip Hop categories, breaking the top 15 three years in a row. Alison can be seen as a backup dancer in Bracha Jaffe's music video \"Stronger All As One\", and has done various appearances with the artist. In 2021, she began working on film sets as a background actress for productions such as \"And Just Like That\" (HBO Max), \"Three Sisters\" (Showtime), and \"Chang Can Dunk\" (Disney+). Alison is honored to be the coach and choreographer of Magical Movements' dance company, the Shooting Stars!\nAnna Nitardy, Instructor\nAnna Nitardy is from Martha's Vineyard, where she trained at Rise Vineyard Performing Arts for 10 years. At Rise, Anna studied ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, acro, and hip hop dance. During her time at Rise she won many awards including American Dance Awards Dancer of the Year. Anna continued her time at Rise as a teacher of contemporary, jazz, and conditioning. She also studied at Walnut Hill School of the Arts, American Dance Festival, and Boston Conservatory. After graduating high school, Anna moved to New York and continued her dance training at the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. After her first year at Purchase, she became a concentration in ballet, but continues to choreograph, teach, and train in all styles of dance.\nJennifer Silverman, Instructor\nJennifer Silverman, a Westchester County native, has been dancing for most of her life. Aside from studying jazz, tap, ballet, pointe, and modern, Jennifer also studied the performing arts at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The Juilliard School, and The University of Miami. She has traveled from coast to coast, performing in such shows as Chicago (Velma Kelly), A Chorus Line (Sheila), In The Heights (Carla), Rent (Maureen), and Cirque Dreams (The Songstress). She has also performed on Celebrity Cruise Lines and at Woodloch Pines Resort as a principal singer\/dancer. Jennifer has taught at various studios throughout Westchester County, and continues to perform and choreograph locally.\nGianna Vasquez, Instructor\nGianna Vasquez Bartolini grew up in the DC Metro area to an Italian-American father and a Salvadoran mother. When she wasn't reading, she was dancing, singing, and performing around the house, the neighborhood, and later on, in community and school productions.\nAfter receiving a BFA in Dance Performance from the SUNY at Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, she went on to study at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, specializing in Integrated Musical Theatre.\nSince 2015, Gianna has been based in NYC, performing and creating dance theatre works. She has also taught dance in various schools in the NYC Metro Area.\nAlexi Zanadosky, Instructor\nAlexi Zadanosky is a performing artist who teaches ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, musical theater, beginner pointe, lyrical for all ages. Also she specializes in private piano and vocal instruction and coaches musical theatre programs. She also performs in dinner shows and actively participates in local community events. Alexi has been teaching and performing for 5 years. Originally from New York City, she attended the American Musical Dramatic Academy for the performing arts obtaining an AOS in Musical Theatre. Afterward she relocated to Los Angeles and continued with AMDA getting her BFA in Musical Theatre and then MA in Theatre. She now lives in New York City once more realizing her passion for teaching the arts and encouraging students to follow their goals and dreams in the performing arts community. She strives to become a record label artist in the future. Alexi also spends much time reading and writing creative works, and is a bit of a film historian.\nThe Shooting Stars, Dance Company\nThe Shooting Stars were thrilled to perform at a New York Knicks Pre-game Show at Madison Square Garden. In 2015, they made their Manhattan debut opening for Captiva at the Hudson Guild Theater. They took master classes and performed at DanceFest 2012 \u2013 2020 (Harman Stage, Palace Theatre). They open Magical Movements Annual Dance Concerts (Mamaroneck High School, Stepinac High School), and grace the stage at the It's Great to Live in Harrison Celebrations (Ma Riis Park). They perform to benefit various campaigns and foundations at Dance Works Fundraiser Showcases (Rye Country Day School, The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Greenwich Academy). The Shooting Stars also entertained at Harlem Globetrotters & New York Liberty pre-game and half-time shows (Barclays Center & Westchester County Center). They are a group of girls who love to dance, are eager to be challenged, and shine at every performance.\nIn 2019, Magical Movements started a competition team! Chosen to participate in Performance Project, this group is working very hard to take it to another level. They recently competed in Sheer Elite International and NexStar Talent Competitions, placing first in their category, along with winning a judge's choice award, being named regional champions, and invited to nationals!\nMagicalMovements@aol.com\n\u00a92019 Magical Movements School Of Dance | 33 Halstead Avenue, Harrison, New York 10528","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Meet the leaders who work on the Campaign.\nA strategic partnership powers the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action\nThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is devoted to improving health; AARP Foundation and AARP help consumers create wellness in all aspects of life. Together these organizations are improving well-being and increasing health equity in our nation by strengthening the nursing profession.\nAbout RWJF and AARP\nSusan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN\nSenior Adviser for Nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\nDirector, Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action\nSusan C. Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN\nSenior Vice President and Director, AARP Public Policy Institute\nChief Strategist, Center to Champion Nursing in America and Family Caregiving Initiatives\nAntonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN\nProfessor and the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing\nCo-chair of the Campaign's Strategic Advisory Committee\nDarrell Kirch, MD\nAssociation of American Medical Colleges\nEric J. Williams, DNP, RN, FAAN\nInterim Associate Dean of Health Sciences, Nursing Program Director at Santa Monica College\nCo-chair of the Campaign's Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Steering Committee\nScharmaine Lawson, DNP, FNP, FAAN\nCEO of Housecall Nation\u00ae\ufe0f and Nola The Nurse\u00ae\ufe0f\nMeet Our Directors and Staff\nMeet the people who oversee efforts to improve America's health and health care through nursing.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Online Cyprus news magazine for overseas property buyers & real estate investors\n11:34 Saturday 18th January 2020\nLaw regulating Airbnb rentals passed \u2022 House prices not recovered from 2007 crash \u2022 Law to evict tenants to parliament \u2022 House price index falls 5.9 per cent \u2022 Permits authorised for 744 new homes\nCyprus Property News Magazine\nLatest news on the Cyprus property market\nFree News Service\nWealth Warning\nYou are here: Frontpage \/ Legal Matters \/ Bar Association fines lawyer for misconduct\nBar Association fines lawyer for misconduct\nPaphos lawyer Emily Lemoniati has been fined for misconduct by the Cyprus Bar Association after breaching her client's instructions and the Association's code of professional ethics.\nBy: Staff Reporter\nPublished: Sunday 11th March 2012 \u2022 Filed Under\nFiled Under: Legal Matters\nTags: Cyprus bar association \u2022 disciplinary board \u2022 Emily Lemoniati \u2022 guilty \u2022 judgement\nTHE Cyprus Bar Association (CBA) has this week fined Paphos lawyer Emily Lemoniati \u20ac1,000 for misconduct after she failed to register her clients' 2005 property sales agreement, then waited three years to amend, sign and file a new contract without her clients' instructions.\nLemoniati's clients, Scottish expats Andrew and Patricia McClay, complained to police in 2009 but it has taken the CBA's disciplinary board until now to reach a verdict on the two charges of \"showing conduct contrary to the advocates' profession\".\nThe first, according to board president and Attorney-general Petros Clerides, was for failing to register the sale agreement for the McClays' home, dated 25 October 2005.\nThe second was issued because, on or around 21 October 2008, Lemoniati used a power of attorney given by the McClays without their instruction, to issue a sales agreement of which they were not aware.\nBoard chairman Doros Ioannides said: \"It is clear that the accused lawyer breached her clients' instructions and breached the code of professional ethics and therefore we find her guilty on the said charge.\"\nHe also said: \"It is with great difficulty that we do not impose to Ms Lemoniati the highest sentence, that of the deprivation of her licence to perform her profession and we only impose a monetary fine that of \u20ac1,000.\"\nIt is unclear why Lemoniati delayed the registration of the original document.\nAndrew McClay, who has since returned home to Scotland, said: \"The guilty verdict is out there but the sentence is disappointing. I took her to court because she'd broken the law and forged the property contract\u2026 that fine is not really very much is it?\"\nHowever, a defiant Lemoniati fiercely denied any wrongdoing, adding that the McClays suffered no loss and that she was acting in her clients' interests all along by using her power of attorney.\nShe told the Sunday Mail: \"I simply don't care (about the judgement) because I didn't steal money or do anything unethical. I registered the contract with a slight delay\u2026of a few months\u2026 only to safeguard my client.\"\nHer vehement denial also seems to have alarmed the board.\nIoannides wrote in the board's meeting minutes: \"It is with great surprise that we have noticed that what Ms Lemoniati stated, does not constitute mitigation or any other apology towards the Disciplinary Board but rather stigmatises the persons who made the complaint and which in any case, the Disciplinary Board found her guilty.\"\nHe added: \"What the Disciplinary Board expected from Ms Lemoniati, was at least to apologise to the complainants.\"\nInstead, Lemoniati said she would now appeal the board's \"unfair\" decision and sue McClay for defamation, after he allegedly commented about her on a website based in the north.\nMcClay denied ever commenting on such a website about Lemoniati.\n\"It is not the intention of Mr McClay to get justice.\" Lemoniati said: \"He just wanted to make a problem for me\u2026 He made comments on a north Cyprus website mocking me because I could not come (to a disciplinary board hearing) when I was pregnant\u2026 where is the respect?\"\nHer name now appears on several websites, such as: http:\/\/www.ripoffreport.com, whatswrongwithcyprus.eucy.info, bewarepaschalicyprus.com\/ and several chat forums, where details of her previous conviction, imprisonment and subsequent presidential pardon for driving offences can be found.\nMoreover, she claimed to have more than 15 people ready to testify against McClay: \"This is ridiculous, this person is insane. Maybe he has a personal issue with me. He does not care about his wife\u2026 he has a mania about Emily Lemoniati, every morning he wakes up and his intention is Emily Lemoniati.\"\n\"I will chase him until the day he dies\u2026 no matter what. I'm going to make his life a nightmare.\"\nAsked if he would continue to pursue Lemoniati, McClay said: \"I don't think so. It seems like a complete waste of time and money and there's nothing to be gained. It's just more grief and hassle that we don't need.\"\n\"The guilty verdict is out there\" he added.\nReaders' comments\nComments on this article are no longer being accepted.\nmartyn benstead says:\nI found out that my solicitor whom I used to buy my apartment was also the solicitor for the developer.\nWhen I first meet her she told me she studied in the UK for her degree, but in the UK its not ethical to represent and buyer and seller, oh I forgot they make up they own laws in Cyprus to suit themselves.\nandyp says:\n@ Gavin Jones. Thanks but not hard.\nThey screw us and then blame us for pursuing them, forgetting that we trusted them and paid them to protect us, and then try to hide behind rather than uphold the law. Not this time.\n\"Why the good lawyers in Cyprus do not speak up and rid themselves of the likes of Emily Lemoniati does however concern me. I do not get that.\"\nBecause there are more bad ones than good, mob rule. The bad ones float to the top like the proverbial.\nGavin Jones says:\nAndyp.\nI will endeavour to reply to your final paragraph.\nFirstly, Cyprus is a typical example of a society which, because of the size of its population, stifles any form of finger pointing. The principle reason for this? Family relationships and interwoven alliances going back generations. Anyone daring to override this arrangement is ostracised, has their property damaged or worse.\nSecondly, the members of regulatory body of the legal profession, The Disciplinary Board of Advocates, are part of the unholy alliances as described above. Furthermore, it may well be that they all have proof of misdemeanours against one another and that if one of them is brought down, certain Board members will go down too.\nRegrettably, I can't see the system changing any time soon.\nIn recent Italian history, two magistrates, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, took on not only the Sicilian mafia but also related corruption in government and the judiciary. Much headway was made but they both paid the ultimate price and were assassinated.\nAre there any Cypriots out there who would be brave enough to clean up their own judicial system?\nFinally, well done to you for sticking to your task in the Emily Lemoniati case. An inspiration to all the waverers out there.\nVictims need to speak up.\nFor too long these small number of crooks have got away with \"murder\" and they rely on us saying nothing. They are cowards and simply spout their venom towards anyone who catches them out and more particularly uses the law to publicly name them in order to warn others.\nThey are neither ashamed nor sorry just hacked off that they are now in the public eye. We put our trust in them and paid them to protect us. They did not.\nIf you have a complaint file it. They will not change and grasp the reality that trust and respect is more important than money. They just want money and do not care how they get it.\njon frazer says:\nThe Disciplinary Board seems to saying that it is unable to mete out the punishment it would wish to in this case.\nNow who, or what, is preventing that?\nI ask that rhetorically, as it is obvious to me, at any rate.\nThis is clearly a case of nepotism, favouritism and corruption at the top. (Like previous interventions by the same party).\nThe EC website on corruption issues urges that the Commission is informed of such breaches; perhaps this case is one such.\nNigel Howarth says:\n@James JH Lockhart \u2013 If people cannot be bothered to report these matters to the police and\/or raise a complaint with the Cyprus Bar Association nothing will ever change.\nI know of one person whose complaint was accepted by the Bar and he was invited to present his case in front of the Disciplinary Committee; he didn't turn up!\nWith no evidence, the Committee reject the complaint.\nDenton Mackrell says:\nA point not mentioned in this thread is the relationship between the Attorney General and the Disciplinary Board of Advocates (connected to the Cyprus Bar Association). Apparently, the AG is not only a member of the DBA but also chairs it. Indeed, decisions of the DBA are sent out by him on his AG letterhead,not that of the DBA or the CBA.\nThere is an inherent conflict of interest for an AG (or any law officer) to be so closely involved in the disciplinary committee of the lawyers' professional body. This conflict rears its head whenever a lawyer is charged, and especially if convicted, of an offence against the law. It happened when this Lemoniati person was convicted and jailed for a serious driving offence, with the AG demanding that the President pardoned her (which he did). How far did this same conflict of interest (i.e. protection of a wayward lawyer versus protection of the public) influence the AG's overarching decision on excessive leniency as chairman of the DBA in this latest Lemoniati case?\nTo maintain demonstrable impartiality in upholding the fair administration of justice, the AG should relinquish all involvement with the business of the DBA and the CBA. Won't happen though, will it! He'd rather maintain his all-powerful position and the parody of justice in Cyprus. Perhaps he is unaware that law students in various countries now use these weird judicial 'arrangements' in Cyprus as a 'how not to do it' case study.\nJames JH Lockhart says:\nIs it not time to say enough,\nThe police as many who have found flatly refuse to involve themselves in criminal cases where a lawyer is involved.\nThis leads back to the Attorney General strange ruling that fraud was a civil offence. The AG is MIC in prosecutions so from that point on every policeman was hamstrung.\nThe CBA Leadership well Emily shown her contempt I am sure 95% of the 1920 plus members feel the same.\nThe majority of Cypriot lawyers are honest but the minority ie the corrupt & compliant run the CBA.\nMaybe you used ask the CBA President Doros to come on the forum and reassure us all by answering questions. This Doros can show all that a Cypriot CBA president can be trusted.\nC. Woodward.\nYes. By all means take Nigel's advice as you've nothing to lose.\nHowever, nobody needs to tell you what the outcome is likely to be.\n@C. Woodward \u2013 You should report the matter to the Cyprus Bar Association.\nC. Woodward says:\nRegrettably we suffered the doubly unfortunate experience of dealing with both MRI and Emily Lemoniati who's unprofessionalism and collusion with those in positions of authority has left us with unrecoverable debts.\nSimiliar to the McClays we have discovered through employing a new lawyer that she took the 'POA' as a means to do whatever she liked.\n@Geo \u2013 At least in the UK you can search the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal decisions published by the Law Society Gazette. In Cyprus, the whole thing is kept under wraps.\nWhy is it in Cyprus that wrongdoing here is always compared to events in the U.K or elsewhere? It's almost like factoring in a certain volume of shoplifting into a supermarket's budget as being acceptable and shrugging one's shoulders over the loss.\nWrong. It's patently NOT the same in other countries and the U.K Law Society, although not perfect by any means, does not operate and deal with its wayward members like the discredited Cypriot Disciplinary Board of Advocates.\nThe case highlighted in this article is but one of many. The Board acts like a medieval guild, never dispenses justice to fit the crime and brings disgrace to its profession.\n@stevem \u2013 I hope that you have reported this matter to the Police and the Cyprus Bar Association and have the evidence to substantiate what you say.\nAlso, there isn't a licence to 'do property stuff' as long a lawyer has a licence to practice \u2013 that's all that is needed.\nstevem says:\nEmily Lemoniati was our brief in our other problem investment, apparently she was a family lawyer and wasn't licensed to do property stuff. when we had problems we went back to find her (office was opposite APs old office) only to find she'd disappeared. We were told she had been jailed for fraud. Let me add that people who also had her was ripped off by giving her money so that she would register at land registry only not to do it a stole the money. she was also complicit in double selling one property. Taking money for conveyancing and not registering. Then taking money from another person and then registering them. THIS ALSO ALLOWED THE CONSTRUCTOR TO DOUBLE SELL AND TAKE TWO PAYMENTS FOR THE SAME PROPERTY\u2026.mmmm\nThe CBA is no different to the SRA in the UK, they are there to protect the Solicitors\/Lawyers and not for the purpose of disciplining anyone.\nThe LCS was a good setup with Lawyers who actually independently investigated wrong doing and acted, so what happened? They were shut down and a toothless organistion of Non Lawyers called the Legal Ombudsman was setup. They have no legal training at all so how they assess correctly.\nIts not just Cyprus.\nJohn Swift says:\nIt seems to me that Emily Lemoniati is rather unstable from her comments, it is the duty of these sites to name and shame to protect others.\nQuite frankly the Cyprus Bar Association (CBA) should be taking another look at her fitness to practice after her outbursts.\nThe Paphos lawyer involved in this squalid case, Emily Lemoniati, displays the arrogance, bluff and bluster more akin to a Middle Eastern dictator and she's a disgrace to her profession.\nShe delayed lodging a property sales contract by 3 years, citing this misdemeanour as being merely a \"slight delay\".\nThis is bad enough. Far worse is the verdict of the Disciplinary Board of Advocates, the regulatory body charged with protecting the public from its own members engaging in fraudulent and negligent acts. Its judgement is a lily-livered response to undisguised, blatant deception. Not only has it taken the Board years to deal with this case, the paltry \u20ac1,000.00 fine handed down to Ms. Lemoniati is a travesty and affront to natural justice. Presumably she's been allowed to continue practising despite being found guilty.\nIn most people's minds nothing less than being struck off would be the verdict which would be commensurate with her crime: for crime is what she's committed.\nMatthew Ring says:\nShe sounds as unhinged as the establishment that fails to adequately censure anyone who evidently falls so short of the required professional standards of personal conduct.\nThere are a few omissions from today's CM article regarding our case which I would like to highlight but in respect of which I and the Board of Advocates have all the relevant paperwork, indeed some of it was sent to me by The Board.\nBy not registering our contract in 2005 the developer registered a 640.000.00 mortgage, or thereabouts, on our development and thus 10% was on the land my house stood. This mortgage charge was applied in 2006. During the trial we were informed that this mortgage had been cleared by the developer.\nAs part of lemoniati's defence, bearing in mind this was OUR lawyer,she advised the DBA in writing that she could not register the contract because\u2014\u2014- the developer did not own the site at the time the contracts were signed. Sorry say that again.\nTo top it all we stuck to the agreed payment plan and it transpired that we paid out over 60k PRIOR to the developer actually buying the property.\nThe DBA, my new lawyers (whom I might add discovered most of this as I was blissfully unaware) and I have a copy of this letter so these facts cannot be challenged as she, in her wisdom, put them in writing.\nBeggars belief.\nAndrew McClay\nWhat do you have to do to get struck off I wonder?\nSo all a dodgy lawyer has to do is put a 1000 euros from the money she obtained from the client, stick it in a bank account with say 5% interest and wait 7 years so she can pay the massive fine and have a good night out in the capital on the interest.\nRobert Briggs says:\nFined \u20ac1,000? 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'Amir,\nThe Story of Tubba' Aba Karib Tubban As'ad, king of Yemen, with the people of Medina; how he wished to raid the Holy Sanctuary at Mecca. Then he dignified and venerated it and covered it with cloth; thus be was the first to do so.\nUsurpation of the throne of Yemen.\nAn Account of How Rule of Yemen passed from Himyar and was transferred to the black Abbyssinians.\nAn Account of how Abraha al-Ashram rebelled against, fought, and killed Aryat, and so assumed power over Yemen.\nAn Account of why Abaraha attacked Mecca with Elephants to put the Kaba towaste and How God Quickly destroyed him,\nAn Account of the Reversion of the Kingship from the Abyssinians to to Sayf b. Dhu Yazan the Himyarite, just as the two soothsayers had predecited to Rab'ia b. 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How the Quraysh gathered together at the Holy place which God secured for the Worshippers, after having lived scattered and fragmented in the mountains and hollows.\nAn Account of a Variety of Events that occured in the Jahiliyya period,\nSection: Information about a group of men famous in the Jahiliyya,\nAn Account of Khalid b. Sinan the 'Absite who lived in the inter-Prophet period and who some allege was a Prophet. But God knows Best,\nAn Account of Hatim al-Ta'i, a good and generous man of the Jahiliyya period,\nAn Account of some matters relating to 'Abd Allah b. Jud'an,\nAn Account of Imru' al-Qays b. Hujr al-Kindi, author of one of the Mu'allaqat odes,\nSome infomation about Umayya b. Abu al-Salt al-Thaqafi; he was a pre-Islamic poet who lived onto the time of Islam,\nBahira the Monk,\nAn Account of Quss b. Sa'ida al-Iyadi,\nAn Account of Zayd b. 'Amr b. Nufayl,\nAn Account of some of the Events that occurred in the time of the Fatra, including the building of the Ka'ba,\nAn Account of Ka'b b. Lu'ayy,\nAn Account of of the re-digging of the well of Zamzam by 'Abd al-Muttalib b. Hashim, its whereabouts having been lost from the period when Jurhum filled and levelled it, up to his own time,\nAn Account of 'Abd al-Mutallib's vow to sacrifice one of his sons,\nAn Account of 'Abd al-Mutallib's marriage of his son 'Abd Allah to Amina bint Wahb al-Zuhriyya.\nThe Book of the Life of the Messenger of God, may Allah bless him & grant him peace,\nAn Account of his Life Story, His Battles and Raids, the Delegations to him, and his Natural Qualities, his Virtues, and the Features Distinguishing him,\nChapter: An Account of his Noble Ancestry and the Excellence of his High Lineage,\nChapter on the Birth of the Messenger of God, may Allah bless him & grant him peace,\nA Description of his Noble Birth,\nSection: On the Signs that Occurred on the Night of the Birth of the Prophet, may Allah bless him & grant him peace,\nAn Account of the Shaking of the Palace, and the Falling of the Balconies, the Extinguishing of the Fires, the Visions of the Magian Supreme Priest, and Other such signs,\nAn Account of the rearing & suckling of the Prophet, may Allah bless him & grant him peace,\nAn Account of the suckling of the Prophet, may Allah bless him & grant him peace, by Halima, daughter of Abu Dha'ayb of the Sa'd tribe, and of the signs of the Prophethood and of Blessedness apparent on him,\nSection: The Journey of the Prophet with his uncle Abu Talib away to Syria and on what transpired with the Monk Bahira,\nThe Story of Bahira,\nSection: On the Early Upbringing and Raising of the Messenger of God, may Allah bless him & grant him peace, and how God cared for him and protected him, how he had been an orphan and God gave him a home, and destitute and God enriched him,\nAn Account of how the Prophet witnessed the war known as Al-Fijar, the sacrilegious war,\nChapter: How the Messenger of God, may Allah bless him & grant him peace, witnessed the pact of al-Fudul,\nSection: On the Marriage of the Prophet to Khadija, daughter of Khuwaylid b. Asad b. 'Abd al-'Uzza b. Qusayy,\nSection: On the Quraysh having rebuilt the Ka'ba five years before the coming of the Prophethood.\nThe Book of the Apostleship of the Messenger of God and an Account of some of the Predictive Signs thereof:\nAn Account of certain strange events relating thereto:\nThe Story of 'Amr b. Murra al-Juhani,\nThe Story of Sayf b. Dhu Yazan the Himyarite and his foretelling the coming of the ummi Prophet, may Allah bless him & grant him peace,\nChapter: On the cries of the spirits, consisting of what words of inspiration the spirits gave to the tongues of soothsayers, and which were to be heard by the idols,\nChapter: On the manner of the Beginning of the Revelation to the Messenger of God, may Allah bless him & grant him peace, and an Account of the first Revelation to him from the Glorious Qur'an,\nA Discussion of the age of the Prophet at the time of his Receiving the Mission and the dute thereof:\nSection: On Preventing the Demons and Evil Spirits from Eavesdropping when the Qur'an was revealed, so that none of them would acquire any of it, even so much as a syllable, and deliver it through the speech of his human associates, which could have led to complications and confusion of the truth,\nSection: On the Manner in which the Revelation came to the Messenger of God,\nSection: Concerning the First Persons to Accept Islam: also reference to those of the Companions and others who were early in becoming Muslims,\nAn Account of how Hamza, Allah be pleased with him, son of Abd al-Mutallib, the uncle of the Prophet accepted Islam,\nAn Account of how Abu Dharr, Allah be pleased with him, came to accept Islam,\nAn Account of the acceptance of Islam by Dimad,\nChapter: God's command to His Messenger, may Allah bless him & grant him peace, to announce his Mission publicly,\nThe Story of Al-Irashi, the man from Irash,\nSection: On the uniting of the Quraysh chiefs against the Messenger of God, and His Companions, and their meeting with his uncle Abu Talib to deliver him to them, and how he resisted them in that objective, through the aid and strength of God,\nSection: Concerning their use of excessive violence against individual powerless Muslims,\nSection: Concerning the Objections presented by the polytheists to the Messenger of God, how they troubled him with their asking of him various kinds of signs and miracles, and how this was due to their obstinacy rather than to their seeking guidance,\nChapter: The argumentation of the polytheists against the Messenger of God, and the cogent arguments that refuted them: how within themselves they recognised the truth, even though they expressed disagreement out of stubborness, envy, malice and denial.\nGlossary,\nOther books by this publisher\nThe Perfect Guide To The Sciences of The Qur'an\nQuestions & Answers by Sunni Scholars\nSeekers Path\nImam Ibn Kathir\nGarnet Publishing\nShowing Off \u2013 Islamic Book\nMethod of Wudu \u2013 Islamic Booklet\nFirst Night in the Grave\nUpbringing of Daughter\nThe Emissary Elect - A Concise Seerah\nIslam Answers Atheism - by Asrar Rashid (Now available)\nNavigating the End of Time - by Asrar Rashid (Now available)\nThe Life Of The Chosen One - Vol 1 and Vol 2 (Set)\nAl-Sarf al-Jilani\n\u00a9\ufe0f 2022 Sunnibooks. 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{"text":"Tag Archives: INNO-406\nNuclear domain 10 (ND10) components restrict herpesviral infection, and herpesviruses antagonize\nJune 5, 2019 Mia Hayes\nNuclear domain 10 (ND10) components restrict herpesviral infection, and herpesviruses antagonize this restriction by a variety of strategies, including degradation or relocalization of ND10 proteins. the individual ND10 parts in infected cells by immunofluorescence and Western blotting. Knockout of the ND10 component DAXX markedly improved RRV illness, while knockout of PML or SP100 experienced a less pronounced effect. In line with these observations, RRV illness resulted in quick degradation of SP100, followed by degradation of PML and the loss of ND10 structures, whereas the protein levels Angpt2 of ATRX and DAXX remained constant. Notably, inhibition of the proteasome but not inhibition of gene manifestation prevented the loss of SP100 and PML in cells that did not support lytic replication, compatible with proteasomal degradation of these ND10 parts through the action of a viral tegument protein. Expression of the RRV FGARAT homolog ORF75 was sufficient to effect the loss of SP100 and PML in transfected or transduced cells, implicating ORF75 as the viral INNO-406 effector protein. IMPORTANCE Our findings highlight the antiviral role of ND10 and its individual components and further establish the viral FGARAT homologs of the gammaherpesviruses to be important viral effectors that counteract ND10-instituted intrinsic immunity. Surprisingly, even closely related viruses like KSHV INNO-406 and RRV evolved to use different strategies to evade ND10-mediated restriction. RRV first targets SP100 for degradation and then targets PML with a delayed kinetic, a strategy which clearly differs from that of other gammaherpesviruses. Despite efficient degradation of these two major ND10 components, RRV is still restricted by DAXX, another abundant ND10 component, as evidenced by a marked increase in RRV infection and replication upon knockout of DAXX. Taken together, our findings substantiate PML, INNO-406 SP100, and DAXX as key antiviral proteins, in that the first two are targeted for degradation by RRV and the last one still potently restricts replication of RRV. INTRODUCTION The rhesus monkey rhadinovirus (RRV) is a gamma-2-herpesvirus (rhadinovirus) naturally occurring in rhesus macaques (for 10 min) and then concentrated by overnight centrifugation at 4,750 and careful aspiration of the supernatant. The pellet was resuspended in the remaining liquid overnight. Filtration was omitted because of variable results with regard to virus retention in filter membranes. For infection experiments, the MOI was determined according to the YFP expression of the respective investigated cells after 2 days. KSHV BAC 16-GFP was prepared as described previously (12). MG132 was utilized at 10 M. For the tests whose email address details are demonstrated in Fig. 8 and ?and10,10, we added 5 mM l-cysteine and 1 mM l-arginine, once we were made aware that might mitigate the non-specific toxicity of proteasome inhibitors (17). Cycloheximide was utilized at 50 g\/ml for SLK cells and human being foreskin fibroblasts (HFFs) with 100 g\/ml for rhesus monkey fibroblasts, which needed higher concentrations. UV inactivation was accomplished as referred to previously (12). Open up in another windowpane FIG 8 ORF75 focuses on PML and SP100 for proteasome-dependent degradation. SLK cells were transduced with a clear lentiviral ORF75-Flag or vector. After 3 times, the cells had been either treated with MG132 or mock treated for 32 h and put through immunofluorescence analysis. Open up in another windowpane FIG 10 Degradation of PML and SP100 in RRV-infected rhesus monkey fibroblasts. (A) Rhesus monkey fibroblasts had been infected at an MOI of approximately 1 for 18 h or 24 h prior to analysis. Cycloheximide or MG132 was added to the infected cells where INNO-406 indicated. UV-Inactivation, inoculation with UV-inactivated RRV. The cells were harvested by trypsinization and boiled in SDS sample buffer, and the lysates were analyzed by 4 to 12% PAGE and Western blot analysis using the indicated antibodies. The numbers to the left of the gels are molecular weights (in thousands). (B) (Left) Exemplary microphotographs of rhesus monkey fibroblast nuclei after infection with RRV-YFP and immunofluorescent labeling of PML and SP100 (in merged channels, PML is pseudocolored in magenta and SP100 is pseudocolored in cyan). (Right) Quantitative analysis of SP100 and PML expression INNO-406 in nuclear dots in the context of RRV infection. Reductions in the number of PML\/SP100 dots after virus treatment that reached significance compared with the values for the no-virus control are highlighted by asterisks (*, 0.05; ***, 0.001; ****, 0.0001). Bars represent means and standard deviation. Lentiviral expression constructs and transduction. cDNA of RRV ORF75 was amplified using the RRV BAC as the template and inserted in pLenti CMV BLAST DEST (706C1) in frame with a C-terminal Flag epitope by Gibson Assembly. pLenti CMV BLAST DEST (706C1) was a gift from Eric Campeau (Addgene plasmid number 17451). For production of contaminants, one 25-cm2 flask of around 80% confluent 293T cells was transfected with 0.7 g pMD2G (a vesicular stomatitis G glycoprotein expression build), 1.8 g psPAX2 (a Gag-Pol expression create), and 2.5 g pLenti CMV BLAST DEST (706C1) (the bare vector or an.\nAngpt2INNO-406\nSpine density in the hippocampus adjustments through the estrus routine and\nSpine density in the hippocampus adjustments through the estrus routine and would depend on the experience of regional aromatase, the ultimate enzyme in estrogen synthesis. backbone denseness in the CA1 area from the hippocampus with fluctuations of serum estrogen amounts in intact feminine rats. Ovariectomy decreased backbone denseness in the hippocampus, and following estradiol (E2) substitution rescued this impact (Gould et al., 1990). These results resulted in INNO-406 the widely approved hypothesis the cyclic synapse turnover in the hippocampus is definitely controlled by gonadal estrogen (McEwen, 2002). Nevertheless, estrogen can be regarded as synthesized de novo in hippocampal neurons (Prange-Kiel et al., 2003; Kretz et al., 2004), and in man rats, the basal focus of E2 stated in the hippocampus is approximately six times greater than the focus in the serum (Hojo et al., 2004). Inhibition of the main element enzyme of E2 synthesis, aromatase, by its inhibitor, letrozole, shown the paracrine\/autocrine rules of synapse development by E2 in the hippocampus (Kretz et al., 2004). Furthermore, the quantity of E2 synthesized in the hippocampus was lately been shown to be adequate to improve hippocampal long-term major depression (Mukai et al., 2006). Paracrine rules by E2 was also demonstrated in neurogenesis (Fester et al., 2006) and axon outgrowth (von Schassen et al., 2006). In hippocampal ethnicities, treatment with E2 at physiological dosages didn't induce any detectable impact, which implies that endogenous hippocampus-derived E2, instead of gonadal E2, is vital for hippocampal synaptogenesis (Kretz et al., 2004; Fester et al., 2006; von Schassen et al., 2006). Short-term treatment of severe pieces (from adult male rats) with E2 at a dosage of just one 1 nM, which approximately INNO-406 corresponds to Tmem9 physiological serum concentrations, simply induced a rise in slim however, not in adult spines (Mukai et al., 2007), though it was recommended that these slim spines can be viewed as to end up being the bases for brand-new backbone synapse development after a lot more than 24 h. These factors indicate that the idea of hippocampal backbone density being solely governed by gonadal estrogen is normally questionable. As a result of this, the cyclic adjustments in spine synapse thickness in the hippocampus stay to be described. Estrogen-regulated feedback systems working via the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis result in a gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH)Cmediated cyclic discharge of E2 in the gonads. Within this context, it's INNO-406 important to say that GnRH can be with the capacity of regulating E2 synthesis straight, for example in ovarian granulosa cells, where it really is stimulatory at low dosages and inhibitory at high dosages (Parinaud et al., 1988; Janssens et al., 2000). Such as the ovaries, GnRH binding sites have already been showed in the hippocampus from the rat by autoradiography (Badr and Pelletier, 1987; Reubi et al., 1987; Jennes et al., 1988; Leblanc et al., 1988) and GnRH receptor (GnRH-R) mRNA appearance by in situ hybridization (Jennes and Woolums, 1994). These results recommend a common regulatory system of E2 synthesis in both ovaries as well as the hippocampus. Consistent with this, treatment of hippocampal pieces with GnRH, like treatment with E2 (Hojo et al., 2004), leads to predominantly excitatory results that are obstructed by the correct GnRH antagonists (Wong et al., 1990; Yang et al., 1999). This highly suggests a neuromodulatory function of GnRH in synaptic transmitting. The data provided within this paper confirm the hypothesis that GnRH straight regulates estrogen synthesis in the hippocampus in the same way to its legislation of E2 synthesis in ovarian cells. GnRH-induced E2 synthesis, subsequently, controls synapse development consistently. These results claim that cyclic GnRH discharge, instead of gonadal E2, is in charge of cyclic hippocampal synapse turnover. GnRH may thus synchronize gonadal and hippocampal E2 synthesis, which makes up about the relationship of hippocampal synaptogenesis using the gonadal routine. Outcomes GnRH regulates hippocampal E2 synthesis We assessed the result of GnRH on E2.\nINNO-406Tmem9","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home | Uncategorized | Canelo is known to want the toughest fights possible\nCanelo is known to want the toughest fights possible\nBy\tMichelle Henry\nhttps:\/\/www.goosecanada.ca canada goose outlet \"All this money will go from our pockets. Why?\" He said he intended to write a similar letter to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as well. \"Why are you and Rahul Gandhi silent on this?\". Canelo is known to want the toughest fights possible and has the resume to back it up. Over the past seven years his resume features the likes of Floyd Mayweather, Shane Mosley, Austin Trout, Erislandy Lara and Miguel Cotto, among others. 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{"text":"HARWINTON-Kevin Moran, 64, of Harwinton died on May 9th at Yale New Haven Hospital. He was born on October 19, 1954 in Waterbury, the youngest son of the late John and Ann (Zibell) Moran.\nKevin is survived by his wife, Joan (Healey) Moran, son John Moran and wife Katie Bentley of Upper Darby, PA and son Michael Moran and his wife Grace Meiners, recently of Seoul, South Korea. He also leaves behind his brother John Stephen, and wife Patricia of Watertown, brother Richard Moran, his wife Francine of Waterbury and many loving nieces and nephews.\nKevin was a member of the first graduating class of Holy Cross High School in 1972, and received his BA from SCSU.\nKevin was a talented musician; he worked professionally in many bands including, Haywood Brocket Blues Band, Shortcake, and Nutz. Music was always an essential part of Kevin's life.\nHe began working in the mortgage industry in 1985 with Connecticut National Bank, continuing to advance in his career throughout the years. At the time of his death he was the Senior Vice President, Regional Sales Manager of Webster Bank's Mortgage Division.\nKevin was committed to serving his community and dedicated 20 years to increasing access to affordable housing through his work with Waterbury and New Haven Neighborhood Housing Agencies. He was an active member and past President of Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association.\nKevin will be remembered as a accomplished musician, consummate professional, and dedicated to his family above all else. He was a man of exceptional generosity, good-natured humor and resolute faith.\nFuneral will be held on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 8:30 a.m. from the Murphy Funeral Home, 115 Willow Street to the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, 74 West Main Street for a Mass at 9:30 a.m. Burial will follow in Old St. Joseph Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Monday, May 13, 2019 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.\nIn lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Food for the Poor, Kevin's favorite charity, www.foodforthepoor.org Food For The Poor, Inc., 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, FL. 33073\nTo send the family an online condolence, please e-mail us at murphyfh@sbcglobal.net\n115 Willow Street\nmurphyfh@sbcglobal.net\nHome | History | Services | Planning Ahead | Helpful Links | Facilities | Directions | Contact\nCopyright\u00a9 2019 Murphy Funeral Home. All Rights Reserved.\nSite designed and hosted by WORX","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Earth New understanding of Mekong River incision\nNew understanding of Mekong River incision\nMekong River. Photo credit: Gregory Wissink G'16, Ph.D.\nAn international team of earth scientists has linked the establishment of the Mekong River to a period of major intensification of the Asian monsoon during the middle Miocene, about 17 million years ago, findings that supplant the assumption that the river incised in response to tectonic causes. Their findings are the subject of a paper published in Nature Geoscience on Oct. 15.\nGregory Hoke, associate professor and associate chair of Earth sciences, and recent SU doctoral student Gregory Ruetenik, now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin, co-authored the article with colleagues from China, France, Sweden, Australia, and the United States. Hoke's initial collaboration with first author Jungsheng Nie was co-editing a special volume on the growth of the Tibetan Plateau during the Cenozoic.\nThe Mekong River is the longest in Southeast Asia and the tenth largest worldwide in terms of water volume. Originating in the Tibetan Plateau, the Mekong runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The Chinese portion of the river (Lancang Jiang) occupies a spectacular canyon that is between 1-2 kilometers deep relative to the surrounding landscape.\n\"When the upper half of that river was established and at what point it incised the canyon it occupies today, as well as whether it was influenced by climate or by tectonics, has been debated by geologists for the last quarter century,\" says Hoke. \"Our work establishes when major canyon incision began and identifies the most likely mechanism responsible for that incision: an intensification of the Asian monsoon during the warmest period over the last 23 million years, the Middle Miocene climate optimum.\"\nRecommended For You Measuring our changing Earth\nRiver incision is the natural process by which a river cuts downward into its bed, deepening the active channel. \"In most cases, you can attribute incision to some sort of some change in the overall relief of a landscape, which is typically interpreted to be in response to a tectonic influence,\" says Hoke.\nThe standard interpretation for river incision of the Mekong and adjacent Yangtze basins had been a response to topographic growth of the Tibetan Plateau. However, a recent string of studies have determined that the southeastern margin of Tibet was already at or near modern elevations by 40 million years ago, throwing a monkey wrench into that hypothesis.\nUsing thermochronology of apatite minerals extracted from bedrock samples collected along the walls of the river canyon, the scientists were able to numerically model the cooling history of the rock as the river incised, which revealed synchronous downcutting at 15-17 million years along the entire river. Synchronous downcutting points towards a non-tectonic cause for incision. Ruetenik modeled whether or not a stronger monsoon was capable of achieving the magnitude of downcutting over the relatively short duration of the middle Miocene climate optimum using landscape models he developed during his SU doctoral study. According to Hoke, \"This solves how river incision occurred in the absence of any clear pulse of plateau growth along the southeast margin of Tibet. In essence, an enhanced monsoon did a tremendous amount of work sawing through the landscape during the middle Miocene climate optimum.\"\nPreviously, Hoke studied buried river sands in cave deposits to reconstruct the incision history of the Yangtze river, the next river to the east of the Mekong. \"We found a sequence of ages that look similar to those from the thermochrometers in the Mekong,\" he says of his findings, published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2016. He next hopes subsequent studies will be able to extend the results from this new Nature Geoscience paper to the three other big rivers that drain the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.\nRecommended For You Telescopes and satellites combine to map entire planet's ground movement\nJunsheng Nie, Gregory Ruetenik, Kerry Gallagher, Gregory Hoke, Carmala N. Garzione, Weitao Wang, Daniel Stockli, Xiaofei Hu, Zhao Wang, Ying Wang, Thomas Stevens, Martin Dani\u0161\u00edk, Shanpin Liu. Rapid incision of the Mekong River in the middle Miocene linked to monsoonal precipitation. Nature Geoscience, 2018; DOI: 10.1038\/s41561-018-0244-z\nNote: The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Syracuse University. 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{"text":"Edinburgh Traffic: Brunswick Street closed by police to pedestrians and vehicles over 'unsafe building'\nGlastonbury 2022: KT Tunstall joins campaign alongside Sir Ringo Starr and The Waterboys to send postcards to Prime Minister for WaterAid\nEdinburgh-born singer KT Tunstall has joined a host of famous faces to create special limited-edition postcards for this summer's music festivals on behalf of the charity WaterAid.\nBy Gary Flockhart\n20th Jun 2022, 2:43pm - 2 min read\nUpdated 20th Jun 2022, 3:18pm\nThe limited-edition postcards will be officially launched at Glastonbury festival, which kicks of later this week.\nAmong the celebrities who created postcards are Beatles legend Ringo Starr, folk rock band The Waterboys, indie outfit Foals and designer Dame Zandra Rhodes.\nThe postcards feature designs that celebrate the power of water and highlight the importance of protecting our planet and people everywhere as part of WaterAid's Climate Fight campaign.\nKT Tunstall has created a special postcard launching at Glastonbury, which celebrates the power of water and the importance of protecting our planet and people as part of WaterAid's Climate Fight campaign.\nFestival-goers can pick up an exclusive postcard and send one to Boris Johnson calling for the government to take urgent action to tackle the climate crisis.\nAcross the world, one in ten people do not have clean water while one in five lack a decent toilet.\nTunstall, who featured water-themed lyrics on her postcard, said: \"It's unacceptable that one in ten people have no clean water, and that these are the same people who are living on the frontline of the climate crisis.\n\"Water is so key to life, a lot of lyrics in my songs centre around it.\nRingo Starr has created a special postcard launching at Glastonbury, which highlights the importance of protecting our planet and people as part of WaterAid's Climate Fight campaign.\n\"My postcard design in support of WaterAid's climate campaign features every lyric I've been inspired to write about water.\n\"With clean water, communities can stay healthy now and in the future.\"\nKT Tunstall says her father's death was like waking up from The Matrix\nBeatles drummer and long-term WaterAid supporter Starr designed a postcard showing him at a tap that's run dry.\nThe Waterboys have created a special postcard launching at Glastonbury, which celebrates the power of water and the importance of protecting our planet and people as part of WaterAid's Climate Fight campaign.\nHe said: \"We all share one world, and we need to come together to protect it, and each other, as we face the threat of climate change.\n\"I have long supported WaterAid and believe that it is a basic right that every human being should have access to clean water. I've designed a special postcard for this summer's festivals, so people can join me in supporting this campaign for everyone to have clean water.\n\"Together we can create change. Peace and love. Ringo\"\nDame Zandra Rhodes, who drew Mother Nature as part of her design, said: \"I'm supporting WaterAid's Climate Fight campaign because I believe everyone everywhere should have clean water, whatever the weather.\n\"With clean water, women don't have to spend hours each day walking to rivers or springs, children can stay healthy and go to school, and communities can build resilience to the effects of climate change. Together, we can make change happen.\"\nRock band The Waterboys, who will be playing on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury, drew a pair of hands scooping up water.\nLead singer Mike Scott said: \"It's hard to imagine not having clean water on tap, but this is the reality for millions around the world.\n\"We are supporting WaterAid's Climate Fight to call for everyone to have the basics of clean water and decent toilets, so they are better able to cope with the effects of the climate crisis.\"\nFoals created a postcard with the words 'The future is not what is used to be' from their song 'Black Gold'.\nLead singer and guitarist Yannis Philippakis said: \"Climate change is already having a terrible impact across the planet, especially for the world's poorest people. That's why we're supporting WaterAid and joining Our Climate Fight.\"\nKT TunstallPrime MinisterEdinburghBeatles\nSign up to our Cost of living insights newsletter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Eminem to Perform on Saturday Night Live\nOctober 16th, 2013 by K104\nFacebook.com\/EminemNext month will see Eminem perform as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live, NBC announced on Wednesday.\nFor Em, this will mark his sixth performance on the show, which will take place on November 2, just days before the \"Rap God\" emcee releases his upcoming album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, which includes the Rick Rubin-produced single \"Berzerk,\" on November 5. Eminem has also been on the show in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, and most recently in 2010 alongside Lil Wayne.\nIn addition, Janelle Mon\u00e1e to make her musical guest debut later this month on SNL. The funky singer is scheduled to hit the stage on October 26, where she'll showcase material off her sophomore album The Electric Lady, in stores now.\nEminem live night perform Saturday\nHot Topics with DeDe in the Morning Read More\nWe The Worst Records Saturday Scrub Down Read More\nMachine Gun Kelly goes at Eminem with \"Rap Devil\" diss track Read More\nEminem goes at everyone on surprise album \"Kamikaze\" Read More","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Comment on : Tezpur Airport, Assam\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT)\nList of articles in category National Institute of Technology (NIT)\nDr.B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, Punjab\t Hits: 978\nMalaviya National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jaipur, Rajasthan\t Hits: 839\nMotilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (NIT), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh\t Hits: 793\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala, Tripura\t Hits: 1003\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Aizwal, Mizoram\t Hits: 901\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Arunachal Pradesh\t Hits: 916\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh\t Hits: 953\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut\t Hits: 798\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Delhi\t Hits: 927\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Dimapur, Nagland\t Hits: 1028\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, West Bengal\t Hits: 930\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Goa\t Hits: 958\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh\t Hits: 1039\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Imphal, Manipur\t Hits: 932\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur, Jharkhand\t Hits: 965\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Karaikal, Pondicherry\t Hits: 807\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra\t Hits: 947\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna, Bihar\t Hits: 1047\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Raipur, Chhattisgarh\t Hits: 903\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Orissa\t Hits: 972\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Shillong, Meghalaya\t Hits: 954\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Sikkim\t Hits: 918\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, Assam\t Hits: 949\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir\t Hits: 960\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Surathkal, Karnataka\t Hits: 1033\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu\t Hits: 898\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Uttarakhand\t Hits: 980\nNational Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, Telangana\t Hits: 1061\nSardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surat, Gujarat\t Hits: 2137\nVisvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (NIT), Nagpur, Maharashtra\t Hits: 881","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UCSB Consolidates Its Data Protection on Cohesity\nUniversity protects growing department data and police cam video across clouds.\nRead more Watch Video\nCohesity ensures UCSB can easily backup its mandatory-to-save data on-premises and in the cloud.\nHigh backup costs limited UCSB IT's capacity to expand backup protection to many critical systems. Ensuring CJIS compliance with police cam video capture and storage was essential.\nUCSB deployed Cohesity across 13 departments to consolidate its backups on one platform and scale-out to the public cloud, as required. Google-like global search enables granular lookup and speeds retrieval.\nNative cloud integration with Azure, AzureGov, and Amazon Web Services ensures data is protected and instantly available. Eliminating silos reduced OpEx by more than 50%.\nThe University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a public research university and one of the 10 campuses of the University of California system. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers' college, UCSB joined the University of California system in 1944 and is the third-oldest general-education campus in the system.\nUCSB is a comprehensive doctoral university and is organized into five colleges and schools, offering 87 undergraduate degrees and 55 graduate degrees. The university is virtually a mini-city that has over 24,000 full-time students, 1,000 faculty staff and 13 departments.\nThe university was ranked 37th among \"National Universities\", 8th among U.S. public universities and 24th among Best Global Universities by U.S. News & World Report's 2016 rankings.\nUCSB's Administrative & Residential IT (ARIT) has a team of 40 professionals that support the entire campus, including departments like police, human resources, facilities, housing, and ensure that the IT infrastructure is performing as expected. Its secondary storage was a combination of multiple point solutions, which made the secondary storage environment complicated and expensive. The UI\/setup and maintenance was complex and it was difficult for the staff to stay current on multiple solutions. Maintaining multiple licensing and maintenance agreements negatively impacted the administrative cost. The skyrocketing cost for additional backup capacity limited the team's ability to expand backup protection to many critical systems.\nAnother challenge for the university's IT team was to protect its growing data that was resulting from UCSB's police body and car dash cameras. This data was critical and mandatory to protect. To address these pain points, the team started evaluating other available solutions.\nThe selection criteria included\nSimplified backup solution with data replication in the cloud\nReplication performance to AzureGov and CJIS compliant for use with police car\/body cam video capture and storage\nPredictable pricing that did not limit future expansion\nEnterprise level support that UCSB could rely on\nAfter a three-month, onsite proof of concept (POC) that included Veeam, Rubrik and Cohesity, the ARIT team decided to replace university's legacy, fragmented solution (Commvault, Tegile and Nimble) with Cohesity, a unified hyperconverged secondary storage platform. Cohesity's native cloud integration allowed the team to seamlessly replicate and archive its production data offsite to Microsoft Azure or AzureGov for protecting police videos, or Amazon Web Services (AWS).\nThe IT team provided a single solution for all 13 departments to consolidate their backups on one platform, and scale-out as required. Setup and ongoing management dramatically simplified with Cohesity, and the users could now see their backup and recovery jobs, external sources, monitoring and alerting, all in one place.\nIn near future the team plans to leverage Cohesity for its test\/dev environment, which will help optimize its primary storage capacity.\nCohesity helped us to easily backup the growing critical and mandatory to save data, like police department videos from their vehicle and body cameras, and made those files instantaneously available upon request. From backup to recovery, analytics to monitoring and alerting, Cohesity consolidated everything under a simple, easy-to-access user interface.\n\u2014Ben Price, Director, Administrative & Residential IT, UCSB\nUCSB addressed its growing data protection requirements and consolidated its fragmented secondary storage on Cohesity. With Cohesity\nUCSB drastically simplified its data backup and recovery process. With Google-like global search a user can run a more granular search and retrieve the file quicker.\nNative cloud integration with Microsoft Azure, AzureGov and AWS, ensured that the data was protected and instantly available when needed. The team saw instant capacity optimization with economies of cloud.\nReduced OpEx by over 50%, resulting from eliminating multiple point solutions and overhead to manage a fragmented environment.\nTeam could focus on more critical items and get innovative, rather than spending time going through long and expensive vendor trainings.\nRelated Use Cases & Workloads\nCustomers trust proven Cohesity solutions to solve their secondary data and application challenges.\nStreamline compliance and reduce IT regulatory burdens with fast search and monitoring.\nEasily Integrate the Cloud\nEnjoy simple cloud connectivity for backup, archive, disaster recovery, and Dev\/Test.\nSimplify LTR with a single, policy-based solution to automatically move backed up data to archive.\nEliminate data silos and do more with your data on a single web-scale platform.\nTransform idle backups into live Dev\/Test data. Do away with the silos, complexity, and overhead.\nRecover quickly, anywhere, and choose cloud-based or off-site replication.\nSeamless data protection offsite\nHarness the power of Cohesity and native cloud integration to stay compliant","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Daily Ratings & News for Bancolombia\nComplete the form below to receive the latest headlines and analysts' recommendations for Bancolombia with our free daily email newsletter:\nSafe Exchange Coin Price Reaches $0.0061 on Exchanges (SAFEX)\nKB Financial Group (NYSE:KB) Shares Cross Below 50-Day Moving Average of $38.13\nTracsis (LON:TRCS) Share Price Passes Below Fifty Day Moving Average of $673.87\nBancolombia (CIB) Rating Lowered to Hold at Zacks Investment Research\nPosted by Caroline Horne | May 16th, 2019\nZacks Investment Research cut shares of Bancolombia (NYSE:CIB) from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research report sent to investors on Monday morning, Zacks.com reports.\nAccording to Zacks, \"BanColombia is Colombia's largest bank in terms of assets and also has the largest market participation in deposit products and loans. \"\nGet Bancolombia alerts:\nOther analysts also recently issued reports about the company. Bank of America raised Bancolombia from a neutral rating to a buy rating in a report on Tuesday, January 22nd. ValuEngine raised Bancolombia from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research note on Thursday, March 21st. Citigroup raised Bancolombia from a neutral rating to a buy rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 17th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised Bancolombia from an underweight rating to a neutral rating in a research note on Monday, February 25th. Finally, Credit Suisse Group downgraded Bancolombia from a neutral rating to an underperform rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 30th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. The company has an average rating of Hold and an average target price of $54.00.\nBancolombia stock opened at $47.68 on Monday. Bancolombia has a fifty-two week low of $35.52 and a fifty-two week high of $55.40. The company has a quick ratio of 1.10, a current ratio of 1.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.76. The stock has a market capitalization of $11.47 billion, a PE ratio of 13.04, a PEG ratio of 0.83 and a beta of 0.66.\nBancolombia (NYSE:CIB) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 21st. The bank reported $1.28 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.92 by $0.36. Bancolombia had a return on equity of 11.77% and a net margin of 14.40%. The business had revenue of $1.28 billion during the quarter. On average, equities research analysts expect that Bancolombia will post 4.43 EPS for the current year.\nInstitutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A. purchased a new stake in Bancolombia during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $241,000. Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD raised its stake in Bancolombia by 16.5% during the 4th quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD now owns 79,672 shares of the bank's stock valued at $3,035,000 after acquiring an additional 11,296 shares during the last quarter. State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D purchased a new stake in Bancolombia during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $3,179,000. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its stake in Bancolombia by 0.4% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 3,754,870 shares of the bank's stock valued at $156,653,000 after acquiring an additional 13,683 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Investec Asset Management North America Inc. purchased a new stake in Bancolombia during the 1st quarter valued at approximately $5,831,000. 6.80% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.\nBancolombia Company Profile\nBancolombia SA provides various banking products and services to individual, corporate, and government customers in Colombia, Latin America, and the Caribbean region. The company operates in nine segments: Banking Colombia, Banking Panama, Banking El Salvador, Banking Guatemala, Trust, Investment Banking, Brokerage, Off Shore, and All Other.\nSee Also: 52-Week High\/Low\nGet a free copy of the Zacks research report on Bancolombia (CIB)\nReceive News & Ratings for Bancolombia Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Bancolombia and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.\nVeriME Market Capitalization Tops $256,448.00 (VME)\nValuEngine Downgrades East West Bancorp (EWBC) to Strong Sell\nSafe Exchange Coin Price Reaches $0.0061 on Exchanges\nKB Financial Group Shares Cross Below 50-Day Moving Average of $38.13\nTracsis Share Price Passes Below Fifty Day Moving Average of $673.87","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Missouri coach says team helped CU with Tigers' poor defensive effort\nAlec Burks, Big 12, Big 12 Conference, Boulder, Coach Tad Boyle, College Basketball, Colorado, CU, Defense, Mike Anderson, Missouri, NIT, Tad Boyle, UNC\nNot sure if Missouri men's basketball coach Mike Anderson intended his comments Monday on the Big 12 coaches teleconference to be interpreted this way, but Anderson didn't exactly lavish Colorado with a lot of praise when asked about CU's victory over the then-No. 9 Tigers on Saturday in Boulder.\nHere's a mini-transcript:\nQuestion: \"Were you suprised by Colorado's play and what they might do as the season goes along?\"\nAnswer: \"I was surprised by their play, to tell you the truth. We just showed up with the mindset of just playing offense, as opposed to defense. That wasn't the typical defense that we've been talking about that we built up to. So I think we took a step back.\n\"But let's give them some credit too. They're scoring more points than they have in previous years. But I just thought we had some opportunities. We came out a little flat. We cut the game to one (point) and then they made a run of 12-2 (actually 15-2) right before the end of the first half. It seemed like we played an uphill battle the whole game. (Colorado) had something to do with it, but I think we had a lot to do with it too, in terms of our defense. I just thought our defense wasn't where it should be.\"\nIn a further exchange, Anderson gave some props to CU sophomore guard Alec Burks. The Missouri native scored a career-high 36 points on his home-state school.\n\"He was in a zone,\" Anderson said. \"I thought he took advantage of the things \u2026 our defense acutally gave him opportunities. He had a bunch of transition lay-ups.\n\"I thought he played with a lot more confidence. The team got the ball to him. He played well. It was a career game for him, so obviously it was one of those days where he had a lot of things go well for him. He's a good ballplayer.\"\nAnother reporter asked Anderson again about Colorado and the difference in the Buffs this year with new coach Tad Boyle.\n\"Obviously, they beat us, and they're getting up and down the floor,\" Anderson replied. \"They're playing with a lot of confidence. More than anything they're playing with a lot of confidence. And they've got some other guys that are contributing. Burk and (Cory) Higgins are going to do their thing. But the 'X' factor is a guy like (Levi) Knutson. He's playing well for them.\"\nComments Off on Missouri coach says team helped CU with Tigers' poor defensive effort\nOpportunities upcoming to meet-greet CU's Boyle\nFan Mail: CSU's Tim Miles will take your questions","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ten Reasons Why Mumbai Should Not Be Shanghai\nInchin Closer's CEO Nazia Vasi, a Mumbaikar who lived in Shanghai, goes behind the gloss and presents the loss that comes from growing too big too fast\nShanghai might be Mumbai's glitzy, older sister with superb infrastructure and a higher standard of living, but she comes with her quirks and idiosyncrasies, Inchin Closer delves below the city that Mumbai often wants to emulate to show her odd side.\n1. No Beach\nAlthough Shanghai literally means `City on the sea', this bustling port city on the banks of the East China Sea is beachless. Mumbai's ragged waterfront could do with some resuscitation, but at least the Juhu and Chowpatty beaches and the promenades on its Western coastline offer some respite to its citizens after a hard day's work. Shanghai-ians don't know what it is to sink their feet into the cool, gritty sands, play football on the beach on Sunday or simply chase the waves. Instead of the beach, there is industrial might__ports and docking stations for large container ships. Container shipping companies work overnight loading ships with Chinese goods which travel to markets far and wide including those in Mumbai. Shanghai may be the largest cargo port in the world, but a port city without a beach is a sad city indeed.\n2. No birds, No stray dogs\nIn Shanghai you are nostalgic even for that raucous house crow which persistently tore afternoon siestas to shreds. For look up, and the sky is birdless, the morning without bird call or bird song. Stray dogs too are hard to come by__though, admittedly, many in Mumbai would count this as a blessing. Theories about the birdless city abound, thought up mostly by expats mulling over their beers in nightclubs like Bar Rouge or Windows. The most accepted belief is that the Chinese government had all the birds killed in a bid to stem the spread of bird flu. As for the mutts, perhaps the rash of stalls selling dog meat provide the explanation. Whatever the reason, the lack of any animals makes you think longingly of the four-legged, bird brained multitudes in Mumbai.\n3. Artificial City\nTourists and archaeologists love old things, the older the better. One site in Shanghai that particularly draws them in droves is the Jing'an temple, built in 247 AD, 1,760 years ago. But wake up all ye backpackers and put away those Nikons. The temple is a faux version of the old, reconstructed at 40 million Yuan (US$ 4.82 million) only four years ago. Fake-posing-as-real is a malaise in Shanghai. Temples which look like they are a respectable 300 years old are actually three-year-old toddlers. In a massive drive to make Shanghai an international city for the 2010 World Expo, ancient temples were razed to make way for modern parks; heritage sites such as the place near Xintiandi, Shanghai's center of conspicuous consumption where the Chinese communist party held their first meeting have been given a facelift, instead of being allowed to retain their original look. Now the authorities have realised the error of their ways and are trying to rebuild old monuments. Anyone who has lived here for more than ten years will be pains to point out to newbies whose eyes are still sparking with the dazzle of skyscrapers that all you see is new, utterly new, and a good copy of the original. Copying, of course, is an art that the Chinese have perfected. The bulldozing of heritage should also ring an alarm bell for Mumbai, which is losing many of its grand heritage structures, either through negligence and vandalism or through policy decisions such as the decision to sell all the mill lands.\n4. No Opinion\nAsk any Chinese what he thinks of North Korea's nuclear ambitions, the war in Iraq, or even a simple question such as his response to a particular painting and you will get no response. Welcome to No Comment Society, the natural consequence of a political dictatorship where dissent is crushed by tanks and jail sentences. \"The Chinese have no opinion about anything. It's like they don't think. As a foreign teacher who wants her children to learn by thinking for themselves, giving my students a problem and asking for their solution or reasoning is a failed exercise,\" says Hannah Kirby a British teacher in Shanghai. \"The Chinese don't express their opinion at all, instead they just listen to you express your opinion and nod along. Maybe it has to do with years of being oppressed and living in constant fear of speaking out, but it's frustrating to have a conversation with someone who is too afraid to express his or her feelings about politics, economics or even their own neighbour,\" added Abi Tan, an architect in Shanghai.\n5. Babies with slits in their pants\nThe weirdest thing that's apparent to anybody living in Shanghai is little babies, toddlers and even children with special slits at the back of their pants. Specially stitched into their pants these slits enable mothers to help their babies defecate in public without the trouble of pulling a baby's pants down. Nullifying the need for nappies, Chinese children just squat fully dressed__just imagine a whole generation of Indian's growing up with slits in their pants!\n6. Skewed News\nNo matter how you access it__on the radio or on TV, in the newspapers or on the internet, all you will get is China Shining. If anybody tries to tell you any different, well it will just never reach you. CCTV 9, the country's only English news channel spews boring and repetitive stories of Chinese successes domestic and international. You hear about their ballooning GDP, triumphant trade talks and the Olympics in Beijing, ad nauseum. The nation's English newspaper, the China Daily, follows suit, completely silent about the thousands who perish in China's mines or government apathy during the Sichuan earthquake last year. The internet is still some sort of hope but it is closely policed: BBC and Wikipedia were banned for a long time. And any websites carrying negative news on the middle kingdom refuses to open no matter how many times you refresh the page. Access to cyber cafes (called Internet bars) are restricted to those over 18 years.\n7. They bring only 1 menu card and bring the bill before you eat\nWhen you go to a restaurant with a bunch of friends in Shanghai, only one measly menu card will be given to table. Then, before you've been served your dumplings, noodle soup or fried rice with hot and sweet chicken, a waitress will bring you the bill. Food is only served after you have paid the bill. \"The waitress brings to the table only one menu, as according to Chinese custom, only the host orders and pays, the rest, his guests, do not get to choose dinner as they do not pay for it,\" explains Vivien Chou, a local. However nobody knows why the bill has to paid for even before a meal begins__ maybe they need to ensure that you have sufficient money for your dinner. It's a good thing tips are not customary in Shanghai. Chinese food in China is nothing like the Chinese food in Mumbai, the food back home is \"Indian-ised\" with a lot more flavour and spice. Shanghainese food tends to be more bland, however, food varies across the provinces of China. While the north eats more noodles, the south eats more rice, While the east eats blander and sweeter food, the west eats spicier food.\n8. Men carry women's purses\nIt happens only in Shanghai! Young men and women in Shanghai who are dating each other usually walk arm in arm, dressed in co-ordinated clothes.\nIt could be the same sweatshirt or even, in more smitten cases, the whole ensemble, linked arm in arm, like twins entwined. More surprising is that boyfriends carry their girlfriends' purses. Maybe it's a local chivalry thing, but the sight of macho men toting little pink bags full of lipstick and eye-mascara while their girlfriends stroll alongside takes some getting used to.\n9. People walk around in their pyjamas\nIts the Chinese way of bringing the indoors outdoors \u2013 they wear their pyjama's out on the street, whether its just to go out and buy some fresh fish or to pick up their child from school, many Shanghainese (about 25% of the population admit they have worn they pyjama's outdoors) still dare to venture out in their frillies usually adorned with cute adorable bunnies, cats, cartoon characters or flowers. Daytime pyjama wearers can be spotted anywhere in this city of 17 million, donning bedroom attire as naturally as a T-shirt on a hot summer day. They cruise by on bicycles. They sip tea in quiet teahouses in the park. They saunter-toothbrush and towel in hand-through leafy lanes graced with the grand French concession homes of a bygone era to the public bathhouse. In a recent opinion poll conducted by Shanghai Academy of Social Science sociologist Yang Xiong asking about what the respondents considered the most uncivilised things about life in Shanghai, pyjamas topped the list. Many people offer varied reasons as to why Pyjamas should be part of the public wardrobe \u2013 they are worn in the pursuit of comfort, freedom and relaxation, others point to the implied socio-economic message that wearing pyjamas in public announces to others a certain life of leisure while others say that pyjamas are similar to the traditional Chinese suit of tunic and matching baggy trousers worn in ancient times. Nonetheless the most logical reason is that decade ago it was natural to wear pyjamas in Shanghai's small lanes, where overcrowding meant forced communal living, but that has changed as more people have moved into the privacy of high-rise homes. \"As Shanghai has become a metropolis the difference between private and public space has become more pronounced, and that is how the pyjamas have become a problem,\" said Lianne Yang, a mother.\nPositive aspects of Shanghai:\n1. Bicycle city:\nEach street in shanghai has dedicated bicycle lanes for the umpteen number of peddlers. While it might be the fastest way to get across town during rush hour, bicycles also keep the Chinese fit, save precious money on oil and don't add to the pollution of an already smoggy city. While stealing bicycles might be the most rampant crime in town, everybody from policemen to deliverymen to corporate executives can be seeing zipping through Shanghai's streets on a two wheeler that suits their pocket. For the lazier, leisurely lot, there is a mechanised version of the bicycle that runs on a battery which can be charged at home. For those that have matchbox sized homes, there's also a bicycle that folds up to the size of a single wheel and can be carried around town.\n2. Glitz and Glamour:\nChina's Manhattan, or the Paris of the East, whatever you decide to call her Shanghai lives up to the name. From 100 floors atop the swankiest bars to the people walking down the street in their designer best, shanghai has it all on display. The skyline which sets the tone of the city offers glossy buildings shimmering in neon lights. Swanky cars zip by on smooth highways zigzagging through the city, Shanghai's glitterati aptly display China's new found dominance in the world, restaurants serve the world on a platter and shoppers consume luxury brands like there's no tomorrow. Brands are big in Shanghai and citizens lap up every label.\n3. Efficiency and perseverance:\nThe Chinese people are known worldwide for their hard work, efficiency and dedication to a task. The rate at which they have turned the wheels of their economy over the past 30 years is by no means an effortless feat. Given a particular task, the Chinese fulfil their duties to the T, working efficiently and diligently, without compromise, even after a all night Karaoke session. The most obvious results of their years of dedicated labour can be seen mostly in large cities such as Shanghai where low lying, decadent buildings or acres of rice paddies have been razed over night, making way for large sprawling, swanky malls, office buildings or residential complexes. The 100 story Shanghai World Financial Tower, which witnessed several controversies while it was being built, was fully completed within three years. An even larger feat was the development of Pudong. The east side of the Huangpu River which divides Shanghai, Pudong was primarily rice fields a decade ago. Today it boasts the head quarters of China's largest banks, huge malls, the world's longest bar and China's tallest building. While no country is shy of red tapism and corruption, the people of China deserve a hand especially for dreaming and fulfilling their dream within break neck speed.\n4. Common Good:\nSocialism with Chinese Characteristics, iconic proletariat leader Den Xioping's ultimate theory is still very much practiced in modern day China. All of what is done in the country is deemed to be done for the common good. From a young age, students are moulded to work in groups, smarter children are made to help the weaker ones out, everybody is meant to progress at the same rate. Capitalism is a vice and caste and class distinctions do not exist. In an office environment, a single project manager will not accept accolades for the excellent work he has done, rather he will praise his team and the hard work they have collectively put in. While people might joke about the different districts they come from, economic, social, political and religious segregations do not apply in China. Everything that is done, whether it's constructing a dam, tearing down old buildings or restricting the number of children a couple can have is seen to be done for the common good.\n5. One party system:\nChina's largest asset is probably its one party system which lays down the law sans opposition whether you like it or not. The one party system means that citizens are given no choice but to obey the law of the land or face persecution, a vital reason the Middle kingdom has been able to witness such unprecedented growth. A single government means that there is efficiency in place of bureaucracy and security in place of violence, education for all primary school children and a procedure for everything from travel to setting up a business. Efficiency in the system the government provides and the citizens strive so hard to maintain also means that Shanghaians have a better standard of living. Because the system is so efficient it works regardless of China's vast and varied population.\n6. Clean and green:\nMaple lined lanes make their way to pockets of verdant parks blooming with flowers. These green patches offer respite to the elderly who play Mahjong in the shade or those who want to practice any form of martial art early in the morning. Although Shanghai boasts large roads and a population that rival's Mumbai's the tree lined streets are clean, devoid of the poor, beetle spittle and garbage. While the Chinese might not be meticulous at keeping their own houses spotless, civic authorities in large showcase cities such as Shanghai make it a point to keep Shanghai shaded and sanitary.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Part of HuffPost Science. \u00a92022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.\nCrabs Feel Pain After All, New Study Suggests\nBy: Joseph Castro, LiveScience Contributor\nPublished: 01\/16\/2013 06:03 PM EST on LiveScience\nScientists have long held that crabs are unable to feel pain because they lack the biology to do so, but behavioral evidence has recently shown otherwise. Now, new research further supports the hypothesis that crabs feel pain by showing that crabs given a mild shock will take steps to avoid getting shocked in the future.\nFrom humans to fruit flies, numerous species come equipped with nociception, a type of reflex that helps avoid immediate tissue damage. On the other hand, pain, which results in a swift change of behavior to avoid future damage, isn't so widespread. (Research has also shown naked mole rats may be immune to pain.)\nIn the new study, researchers allowed shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) to choose between one of two dark shelters in a brightly lit tank. One shelter came with a mild shock. After just two trials, crabs that initially chose the shocking shelter began opting for the zapless shelter, suggesting they learned to discriminate between the two options and headed for the less painful one.\n\"It's almost impossible to prove an animal feels pain, but there are criteria you can look at,\" said lead researcher Robert Elwood, an animal behaviorist at Queen's University, Belfast, in the U.K. \"Here we have another criteria satisfied \u2014 if the data are consistent, a body of evidence [showing crabs feel pain] can build up.\"\nBuilding evidence\nElwood initially set out to see if crabs and other crustacean decapods feel pain after a chef posed him the question around eight years ago. If the invertebrates (animals without backbones) feel pain, he reasoned, their reactions to unpleasant stimuli would be more than the simple reflex of nociception \u2014 the experience would change their long-term behavior.\nElwood's first experiment showed that prawns whose antennae were doused with caustic soda vigorously groomed their antennae, as if trying to ameliorate pain. Importantly, this behavior didn't occur if Elwood treated the antennae with an anesthetic first.\nAnother experiment showed that hermit crabs would leave their shells if given a mild shock. \"A naked crab is basically a dead crab \u2014 they were trading off avoiding the shock with getting out of the shell,\" Elwood told LiveScience, adding that many of the crabs moved into new shells if any were available. [The 10 Weirdest Animal Discoveries]\nFor his new study, Elwood tested 90 shore crabs, which naturally seek dark spaces, to see if they exhibited \"avoidance learning\" and would discriminate between a dangerous and a safe area. Half of the crabs were shocked upon entering the first chamber of their choice, while the other half were not. For each crab, the jolting chamber stayed the same throughout the 10 trials.\nIn the second trial, most of the crabs returned to their original shelter; whether they were shocked in the first trial had little effect on their second choice. However, crabs were more likely to change shelter in the third trial if they were shocked in the second trial. And as the trials wore on, crabs that chose incorrectly became more likely to exit the unpleasant chamber, brave the bright arena and hide in the alternate shelter. By the final test, the majority of the crabs chose the nonshock shelter at first go.\nTime for change?\nThe research \"provides evidence that supports the issue that crabs \u2014 and other crustacean decapods as well \u2014 feel pain,\" Francesca Gherardi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Florence in Italy who wasn't involved in the study, told LiveScience in an email. \"It is avoidance learning that makes the difference.\"\nAnimals in pain should quickly learn to avoid the unpleasant stimulus and show long-term changes in behavior, Gherardi noted. More research is needed on decapods' avoidance learning and \"discrimination abilities between painful and nonpainful situations,\" he said.\nElwood said he thinks future research should go in a different direction. Stress often comes with pain, he said, so other experiments could look at changes in crustacean hormones or heart rates due to shock.\nWhatever the case, Elwood feels it may be time to reconsider the treatment of decapods in the food industry. \"If the evidence for pain in decapods continues to stack up with mammals and birds that already get some protection, then perhaps there should be some nod in that direction for these animals,\" he said.\nThe study was published today (Jan. 16) in the Journal of Experimental Biology.\nFollow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience. We're also on Facebook &Google+.\nGallery: Magnificent Mantis Shrimp\nMarine Marvels: Spectacular Photos of Sea Creatures\n5 Animals With a Moral Compass\nCopyright 2013 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. 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{"text":"Many but not all lineage-specific genes can be explained by homology detection failure\nView ORCID ProfileCaroline M. Weisman, View ORCID ProfileAndrew W. Murray, View ORCID ProfileSean R. Eddy\nCaroline M. Weisman\n1Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA\nORCID record for Caroline M. Weisman\nAndrew W. Murray\nORCID record for Andrew W. Murray\nSean R. Eddy\n2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA\n3John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA\nORCID record for Sean R. Eddy\nFor correspondence: seaneddy@fas.harvard.edu\nGenes for which homologs can be detected only in a limited group of evolutionarily related species, called \"lineage-specific genes,\" are pervasive: essentially every lineage has them, and they often comprise a sizable fraction of the group's total genes. Lineage-specific genes are often interpreted as \"novel\" genes, representing genetic novelty born anew within that lineage. Here, we develop a simple method to test an alternative null hypothesis: that lineage-specific genes do have homologs outside of the lineage that, even while evolving at a constant rate in a novelty-free manner, have merely become undetectable by search algorithms used to infer homology. We show that this null hypothesis is sufficient to explain the lack of detected homologs of a large number of lineage-specific genes in fungi and insects. However, we also find that a minority of lineage-specific genes in both clades are not well-explained by this novelty-free model. The method provides a simple way of identifying which lineage-specific genes call for special explanations beyond homology detection failure, highlighting them as interesting candidates for further study.\nhttp:\/\/github.com\/caraweisman\/abSENSE\nhttp:\/\/eddylab.org\/abSENSE\nThe copyright holder for this preprint is the author\/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license.\nPosted February 28, 2020.\nYou are going to email the following Many but not all lineage-specific genes can be explained by homology detection failure\nCaroline M. Weisman, Andrew W. Murray, Sean R. Eddy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"11\/11\/2017 \"The Band's Visit\" opens on Ethel Barrymore Theatre\nThe Band's Visit is a stage musical with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Itamar Moses, based on the 2007 Israeli film of the same name. The musical opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre after its off-Broadway premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company.\nTHE BAND'S VISIT at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre\nSpotlight On: THE BAND'S VISIT\nTHE BAND'S VISIT Star Katrina Lenk on Her Tony Win, James Bond Dreams & More\nTony-Nominated Director David Cromer on Creating the Quiet, Moving World of THE BAND'S VISIT\nThe Band's Visit highlights\nOpened at\nEthel Barrymore Theatre\nSet in\nWon Best Musical at\n72nd Tony Awards\nMusical facts\nMusical numbers\nCharacters and original cast\nCritical response","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: fMRI\nHow reliable is resting state fMRI?\nArguably, no advance has revolutionized neuroscience as much as the invention of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Since its appearance in the early 1990's, its popularity has surged; a PubMed search returns nearly 30,000 publications with the term \"fMRI\" since its first mention in 1993, including 4,404 last year alone. Still today, fMRI stands as one of the best available methods to noninvasively image activity in the living brain with exceptional spatiotemporal resolution. But the quality of any research tool depends foremost on its ability to produce results in a predictable and reasonable way. Despite its widespread use, and general acceptance its efficacy and power, neuroscientists have had to interpret fMRI results with a large dose of partially-blind faith, given our incomplete grasp of its physiological origins and reliability. In a monumental step towards validation of fMRI, in their new PLOS One study Ann Choe and colleagues evaluated the reproducibility of resting-state fMRI in weekly scans of the same individual over the course of 3.5 years.\nOne devoted brain\nAlthough previous studies have reported high reproducibility of fMRI outcomes within individuals, they've compared only few sessions over brief periods of weeks to months. Dr. Choe and her team instead set out to thoroughly characterize resting state brain activity at an unprecedented time scale. To track patterns of the fMRI signal, one dedicated 40 year-old male offered his brain for regular resting-state fMRI sessions. Over the course of 185 weeks, he participated in 158 scans, roughly occurring on the same day of the week and time of day. For comparison \u2013 just in case this particular individual's brain was not representative of the general population \u2013 a group of 20 other participants (22-61 years old) from a prior study were used as reference.\nReproducibility of brain networks and BOLD fluctuations\nThe researchers identified 14 unique resting state brain networks. Networks derived from the subject's individual scans were spatially quite similar to those identified from that subject's average network map and the multi-subject average map, and these network similarity measures were highly reproducible. Whereas executive function networks were the most reproducible, visual and sensorimotor networks were least. The relatively low reproducibility of \"externally directed\" networks could be attributable to the nature of the unrestrained scanning conditions, in which mind-wandering or undirected thoughts could engage an array of sensory experiences. Dr. Choe suspects \"that under truly controlled conditions, exteroceptive networks would become more reproducible. Differences in reproducibility in exteroceptive versus interoceptive networks should be seen as an observation that requires follow up study.\"\nFigure 1. Spatial similarity of weekly fMRI sessions for sensorimotor, visual and executive networks. (Choe et al., 2015)\nThe basic signal underlying fMRI is the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) response, a measure of changes in blood flow and oxygenation thought to reflect vascular and metabolic responses to neural activity. The magnitudes of BOLD fluctuations were similar both across the single subject's scans and the group's scans, although these fluctuations were generally more reliable within-subject. Similar to the spatial overlap between networks, BOLD signal in executive networks was most reproducible, while that in default mode and sensorimotor networks were least reproducible across the subject's sessions.\nBetween-network connectivity\nIn the brain, no network is an island, but rather, is in constant communication with other regions, near and far. This functional connectivity can be assessed with fMRI by computing correlations in the signal between areas. As might be expected, connectivity was highest between networks involved in related functions, for example between sensorimotor and auditory networks, and between sensorimotor and visual networks. Connectivity between networks was similar in the single subject and multi-subject datasets, and was highly reproducible both across the single subject's sessions and within the multi-subject dataset.\nFigure 2. Between network connectivity for single-subject and multi-subject datasets. (Choe et al., 2015)\nfMRI over the years\nA unique advantage of their study design was the rich temporal information provided from repeated scanning over a multi-year period. This allowed them to not only assess the reproducibility of the BOLD signal, but also to explore trends in how it may change with the passage of years or seasonal fluctuations. Significant temporal trends were found in spatial similarity for the majority (11 of 14) of networks, in BOLD fluctuations for two networks, and in between-network connectivity for many (29 of 105) network pairs. All but one of these trends were positive, indicating increased stability of the fMRI signal over time. What drives these changes over the years isn't entirely clear. It could simply reflect habituation to the scanning environment, for example, if the experience becomes increasingly repetitive and familiar with exposure. Alternatively, the authors suggest, it might involve physiological changes to the aging brain, such as synaptic or neuronal pruning. Over the 3.5-year study, the 40-year old participant indeed showed decline in his gray matter volume; this neural reorganization could feasibly impact the stability of the fMRI signal. However, Dr Choe cautions that \"although three years is a long time, it is certainly not long enough to address the issue of say, an aging brain.\"\nNotably, many networks showed annual periodicity in their spatial similarity (9 of 14 networks) and BOLD fluctuations (3 networks). These measures also correlated with the local temperature, linking reliability of the fMRI signal with seasonal patterns. Although speculative, the authors suggest that this may in part relate to circadian or other homeostatic rhythms that regulate brain activity. Dr. Choe and her group \"were surprised to discover annual periodicity in rs-fMRI outcome measures. If future studies, in a large number of participants, find significant annual periodicity in rsfMRI outcomes, then it would be prudent to take such temporal structure into consideration, especially when designing studies in chronic conditions, or for extended therapeutic interventions.\"\nReason to rest easy?\nThe findings from Dr. Choe and colleagues' ambitious study provides convincing evidence that the resting fMRI signal is reproducible over extensive time periods, giving reason for cognitive neuroscientists everywhere to breathe a small sigh of relief. Perhaps more importantly, it characterizes the nuanced patterns of its spatial and temporal stability, unraveling how it differs across brain networks and might be vulnerable to moderators such as aging or environment. This new understanding of fMRI dynamics will be incredibly useful to researchers aiming to optimize their fMRI study design, and holds particularly important implications for longitudinal studies in which aging or seasonal effects may be of concern. According to Dr. Choe,\n\"The high reproducibility of rs-fMRI network measures supports the candidacy of such measures as potential biomarkers for long-term therapeutic studies.\"\nOne future application her team is currently pursuing is \"using rs-fMRI to study brain reorganization in persons with chronic spinal cord injury, having recently reported significantly increased visuo-motor connectivity following recovery. We are interested in whether such measures can be used as biomarkers for prognosis and to help monitor responses to long-term therapy.\"\nBandettini PA (2012). Twenty years of functional MRI: The science and the stories. Neuroimage. 62(2):575\u2013588. doi: 10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2012.04.026\nChen S, Ross TJ, Zhan W et al (2008). Group independent component analysis reveals consistent resting-state networks across multiple sessions. Brain Research. 1239:141-151. doi: 10.1016\/j.brainres.2008.08.028\nChoe AS, Belegu V, Yoshida S, Joet al (2013). Extensive neurological recovery from a complete spinal cord injury: a case report and hypothesis on the role of cortical plasticity. Front Hum Neurosci 7, 290.\nChoe AS, Jones CK, Joel SE et al (2015). Reproducibility and Temporal Structure in Weekly Resting-State fMRI over a Period of 3.5 Years. PLOS One. 10(10):e0140134. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0140134\nGuo CC, Kurth F, Zhou J et al (2012). One-year test\u2013retest reliability of intrinsic connectivity network fMRI in older adults. Neuroimage. 61(4):1471\u20131483. doi: 10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2012.03.027\nHodkinson DJ, O'Daly O, Zunzzain PA et al (2013). Circadian and homeostatic modulation of functional connectivity and regional cerebral blood flow in humans under normal entrained conditions. J Cereb Blood Flow & Metab. 34:1493\u20131499. doi: 10.1038\/jcbfm.2014.109\nLogothetis NK, Pauls J, Augath M, Trinath T, Oeltermann A (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature. 412:150\u2013157. doi: 10.1038\/nature35084005\nLogothetis NK (2008). What we can do and what we cannot do with fMRI. Nature. 453:869\u2013878. doi: 10.1038\/nature06976\nWisner KM, Atluri G, Lim KO, MacDonald AW (2013). Neurometrics of intrinsic connectivity networks at rest using fMRI: Retest reliability and cross-validation using a meta-level method. Neuroimage. 76(1):236\u2013251. doi: 10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2013.02.066\nTagged fMRI, neuroimaging, neuroscience, reproducibility\nTask Shifting may Shift our Understanding of the Default Network\nOver the past two decades, one of the most impactful discoveries to come from the surge in functional MRI (fMRI) research has been the existence of the brain's \"default network\". Countless studies have found that that this system, mainly comprising medial frontal, parietal and temporal, and lateral parietal regions, is most active during rest or passive tasks such as mind-wandering, imagining or self-reflection. A new study, recently published in eLife by Ben Crittenden, Daniel Mitchell and John Duncan, presents a striking finding that may flip our understanding of the role of the default network on its head.\nTask-switching: the common thread?\nMany of the experiments evoking default network activity compare relatively unconstrained states conducive to rest or mind-wandering against rigid task conditions with targeted cognitive demands. Thus, while these studies contrast active and passive conditions, they also incidentally contrast states of sustained attentional focus with unrestricted, dynamically changing mental landscapes. Crittenden and colleagues argue that these shifting cognitive contexts may be the common thread to default network activity and thus explain its promiscuous involvement across such heterogeneous conditions. First author Crittenden explains how their seemingly radical diversion from classic theories came about through a serendipitous pilot experiment: \"I developed an initial version of the current experiment to test the idea of which regions may be involved in orchestrating large switches, and the default network came out as really strong at the individual subject level. If these results held out we could be onto something quite interesting. We tweaked the task a bit and fortunately it followed the pilot data really nicely!\"\nTo test their new hypothesis, the researchers conducted fMRI while participants performed three levels of task switching\u2013make a major cognitive switch, a minor switch or no switch. For example, if they were previously asked whether two geometric figures were the same shape, a minor change would be determining if two figures were the same height, whereas a major change would be determining if a dolphin is living or non-living. The minor-switch condition is similar in cognitive load to other tasks that have not shown reliable default network activation. If context changes are driving the default network, then radical task switches should more effectively engage it.\nTask conditions. A switch from the red-box to the blue-box tasks would be a minor switch, whereas a switch from the red-box to the green-box task would be a major switch. Adapted from Crittenden et al., 2015\nMajor task switches recruit the default network\nPast studies have found that the default network does not function as a whole, but roughly dissociates into three subnetworks \u2013 \"core,\" medial temporal lobe (MTL) and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) networks. Suspecting that these subnetworks are not equally involved in switching, they analyzed each subnetwork separately.\nCompared to repeating the same task, major task switches activated the core and MTL networks. Small task switches did not activate any of the subnetworks. Using multivoxel pattern analysis, they further showed that the pattern of activity (versus the overall activation level) in all three subnetworks distinguished between the highly dissimilar tasks, but only the DMPFC network discriminated similar tasks. Thus, although both the overall magnitude and pattern of activity signaled contextual shifts, Crittenden raises some caution over interpreting the source of the pattern discrimination. \"I imagine that a considerable amount of the classification accuracy between dissimilar tasks will be driven by lower-level visual features. However, it is still interesting that the default network is reliably representing this task information, which given the usual definition of the default network as task-negative, one may not have predicted.\"\nActivity for regions of the core (yellow), MTL (green) and DMPFC (blue) subnetworks for major (light colors) and minor (dark colors) task switches. Major switches activate many regions of the core and MTL subnetworks. Adapted from Crittenden et al., 2015\nA shifting theory\nIf this finding is replicated, it could be the beginning of a major shift in our understanding of default network function. In contrast to the wealth of prior studies implicating the default network as \"task-negative\" \u2013 shutting down during demanding task conditions \u2013 here the default network was maximally engaged during dramatic contextual changes. These large task switches were objectively more challenging (participants responded more slowly) than the small-switch or no-switch conditions, in striking opposition to the notion that task difficulty suppresses the network. This implies that cognitive control or effort aren't the key factors modulating these regions, but rather changing contextual states.\nBut does this model fit with the other mental states that reliability recruit the default network? Although it's not yet clear what aspects of task shifting drive the observed response, the authors convincingly argue that indeed, many common default network activations can be accounted for by changes in cognitive context. At rest, during mind-wandering, imagining or reflecting on one's past experiences, the mind is relatively free to jump between cognitive states. This contrasts with the constrained task conditions used in most fMRI studies that typically deactivate the default network. This relative cognitive liberty may give rise to radical mental shifts, for example, from thinking about the loud banging of the MRI scanner to planning your afternoon errands. Whether these spontaneous contextual changes are frequent enough to ramp up default network activity as observed remains to seen. Alternatively, the key factor may not be adoption of a new task, but the attentional release to do so. When switching from one task to another, the brain must let go of its attention to the first task before focusing on the next. In passive cognitive states, attention is relaxed, liberating the mind to focus on various tasks at will.\nUntil their findings are replicated and expanded, Crittenden explains that these possibilities are yet speculation. \"I think that switches could be a contributing factor to the signal, however, by its nature the signal that we are envisioning is likely to be quite transient. More sustained activation such as during reminiscing\/prospection\/navigation etc. is likely to be a strong driver of default network activity. As we all like to say \u2013 more experiments are needed!\"\nAddis DR, Wong AT and Schacter DL (2007). Remembering the past and imagining the future: common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia. 45(7):1363-77. doi: 10.1016\/j.neuropsychologia.2006.10.016\nBuckner RL (2012). The serendipitous discovery of the brain's default network. Neuroimage. 62(2):1137-45. doi: 10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2011.10.035\nCrittenden BM, Mitchell DJ and Duncan J (2015). Recruitment of the default mode network during a demanding act of executive control. eLife. 4:e06481. doi: 10.7554\/eLife.06481.001\nMason MF et al. (2007). Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought. Science. 315(5810):393-5. doi: 10.1126\/science.1131295\nGusnard DA, Akbudak E, Shulman GL and Raichle ME (2001). Medial prefrontal cortex and self-referential mental activity: Relation to a default mode of brain function. PNAS. 98(7):4259-64. doi: 10.1073\/pnas.071043098\nTagged default network, fMRI, neuroscience\nA New Mechanism for Neurovascular Coupling in FMRI\nAlthough fMRI is the most commonly used tool for detecting human brain activity, the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal does not directly reflect neuronal activity, but instead, measures changes in blood flow and oxygen metabolism. This \"neurovascular coupling\" \u2013 the translation of neural to vascular signals \u2013 lies at the core of fMRI's utility as a proxy for neural activity, yet there's still uncertainty over exactly how neural processes drive vascular signals. The neural-to-vascular link is largely obscured by the complex cascade of events involved in neural activity, including glucose metabolism, oxygen consumption, neurotransmitter release and recycling, and changing membrane potentials. Past research has pointed to astrocytes as key players in the neurovascular coupling game, as these cells envelop both neurons and blood vessels. A key signaling molecule, both within astrocytes and between astrocytes and other cells, is ATP, best known for its role as the \"cellular energy currency.\" In their recent paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Jack Wells, Isabel Christie and colleagues explored the physiological mechanisms by which astrocytes might serve as the neurovascular interface of fMRI. Their study tested whether astrocytic purines \u2013 including ATP and its products ADP and AMP \u2013 are critical for the BOLD response.\nATP is key to eliciting the BOLD response\nThe authors speculated that, if astrocytic ATP mediates the vascular response to neural activity, blocking ATP should impair the BOLD signal. In normal rats, electrically stimulating one forepaw induces a BOLD response and ATP release in the somatosensory cortex of the opposite side of the brain. Therefore, to test if ATP is required for the BOLD response, they first disrupted ATP on only one side of the somatosensory cortex, and then stimulated both forepaws. They expressed TMPAP, which breaks down purines, into one side of the forepaw region of the rats' somatosensory cortices, and a control into the other side. Oddly enough, although these vectors weren't cell-specific, they were mainly expressed in astrocytes \u2013 but not neurons \u2013 a convenient pattern for testing the selective role of astrocytes in neurovascular coupling.\nAs expected, the BOLD response to forepaw stimulation was typical in control somatosensory cortex. But the signal was reduced in cortex expressing TMPAP (see Figure, A left and B top). This suggested that purine signaling is indeed important for a normal BOLD response. But what if the altered signal resulted from some other effect of the TMPAP expression, besides the intended purine reductions? For instance, breaking down ATP and its products could lead to build-up of the inhibitory neurotransmitter adenosine, which could interfere with normal neural activity. The authors repeated the experiment, this time using an adenosine antagonist to block any effects of adenosine accumulation. The results were the same. The BOLD response was reduced with TMPAP and did not normalize by blocking adenosine (see Figure, A right and B bottom), confirming that the effect wasn't simply an artifact of adenosine build-up.\nGroup activation maps (A) and response curves (B) show that the BOLD response to forepaw stimulation is reduced after blocking purine signaling (TMPAP), compared to control (EGFP). The effect remains even after accounting for adenosine build-up with the adenosine antagonist DPCPX. From Wells et al., 2015.\nDoes ATP support neural and vascular signaling or just their coupling?\nIf astrocytic purine signaling is truly involved in the translation of neural activity to a cerebrovascular response, interfering with purines should diminish the BOLD effect (as they showed), but neural activity and the background vascular state should remain unchanged. Indeed, multiunit recordings showed that TMPAP did not affect the neural response to forepaw stimulation, and arterial spin labeling indicated no change in resting blood flow or vascular reactivity.\nAstrocytic ATP: One piece of the puzzle\nResults from each of these experiments provided a critical piece of the neurovascular puzzle, illustrating the role of astrocytic purines in the series of events translating neural activity to the BOLD response. Together, they suggest that ATP signaling in astrocytes is critical for a normal vascular response to neural activity, but importantly, is not needed for either neural or vascular function alone. In other words, astrocytic ATP selectively underlies the coupling of neural and vascular activity.\nIt's important to note that, although these findings show that ATP is important for neurovascular coupling, it's unlikely this is the only mechanism supporting the BOLD response. While this study doesn't directly trace the intricate events by which ATP mediates neurovascular coupling, the authors offer several plausible pathways. ATP is known to trigger calcium responses in astrocytes, which \u2013 through a series of downstream processes \u2013 could cause vascular effects like blood vessel dilation that are key to the BOLD response. However, ATP does not just support communication between astrocytes, but is also involved in neuron-to-astrocyte and astrocyte-to-blood vessel signaling. Any of these interactions could feasibly explain why ATP is required for the vascular response to neural activity. Of course, we can't rule out the influence of ATP in neurons, which also may modulate vascular function independent of astrocytes. Although TMPAP was primarily expressed in astrocytes, this wasn't exclusive; it's possible that ATP levels were also reduced in neurons and may have affected the BOLD response in distinct ways.\nMany questions remain regarding the physiological origins of the BOLD response to neural activity. However, these findings from Wells, Christie and colleagues help to solidify the role of astrocytes, and to introduce ATP as a key player, in the neurovascular coupling game.\nWells JA, Christie IN et al. (2015). A Critical Role for Purinergic Signalling in the Mechanisms Underlying Generation of BOLD fMRI Responses. J Neurosci 35(13):5284-92. doi: 10.1523\/JNEUROSCI.3787-14.2015\nTagged fMRI\nThis is your Brain on Wine: FMRI Signals of Alcohol Content\nIn today's burgeoning wine industry, winemakers are in constant search of ways to perfect their product and achieve an edge over the competition. Complicating the challenge of producing a bottle that we're sure to select at our next fine dining experience is the variability across palates. The individuality and unpredictability of sensory experiences \u2013 which may further be manipulated by context or expectations \u2013 make predicting a wine's appeal a daunting task. In a dream world, winemakers could peer directly into the brain to examine the biological response to a smoky syrah or a spicy zinfandel. Such a tool could theoretically empower producers to target their wine characteristics to not just the psychological, but also the physiological response to a wine. In their study recently published in PLOS ONE, Frost and colleagues sought to accomplish just this, using functional MRI to assess brain responses to a wine's flavor attributes.\nRather than assess relatively subjective features like fruitiness, tannins or fullness, the researchers focused on alcohol content, a more objective \u2013 and therefore easier to quantify \u2013 property. Twenty-one \"inexperienced\" wine drinkers (they imbibed less than once per week) participated in four wine-tasting sessions while undergoing functional MRI. During each session, they alternated among sipping a tasteless solution, a low-alcohol red wine (13-13.5%) and a high-alcohol red wine (14.5-15%). A different pair of low- and high-alcohol wines, matched on flavor, was tasted in each session. A post-scan taste-test confirmed that participants could not tell the difference between the low- and high-alcohol wines of each pair, as they rated their tastes as essentially identical.\nFrost and colleagues identified 30 brain regions of interest that were activated by drinking wine, regardless of alcohol content. This set of areas was then further tested for effects of alcohol. Of these regions, only the right insula and right cerebellum were differentially activated by alcohol level, demonstrating greater activity to the low- than high-alcohol wines. Surprisingly, no regions preferentially activated to more alcoholic wines.\nThis is your brain on wine. The right insula (left) and right cerebellum (right) were more active when participants drank low- than high-alcohol wines. Adapted from Frost et al., 2015.\nThe cerebellum is known to be involved in sensorimotor processing, which could reasonably account for its activation by subtle differences in alcohol perception. However, both the insula and cerebellum have been shown to be modulated by taste, activating to more intense flavors and feelings of satiety. Shouldn't high-alcohol wines \u2013 which are arguably more intense\u2013 therefore more heavily engage these regions? The authors dug deeper into the literature to interpret these unexpected findings.\nThey propose that because these areas are involved in \"cognitive modulation of sensory perception\" and \"coordinating the acquisition of sensory information,\" the lower alcohol wines might have \"induced a greater attentional orienting and exploration of the sensory attributes.\"\nYet there's one tiny hole in this explanation, at least when considering the current evidence alone. We could reasonably link activation of these regions to flavor intensity or taste perception if there were some associated behavioral indication that the wines elicit distinct sensory experiences. However, the participants in fact report no perceptible taste difference between the two classes of wines. This discrepancy between the subjective perceptual experiences and brain responses suggests that the observed insular and cerebellar effects may reflect some sensory aspect of wine-tasting that lies below conscious awareness.\nAlthough the researchers don't directly discuss this possibility, it's worth exploring. Since the difference in alcohol content between the wine types was notably small (just ~1.5%), it's not surprising that the participants couldn't detect a taste difference. It would be interesting to see whether the activations would be more robust to a wider gap in alcohol levels, or might track with a continuum of alcohol content. Furthermore, the study participants were \"inexperienced\" wine drinkers. Perhaps the taste differences would have been perceptible \u2013 or the brain responses stronger \u2013 in a sample of connoisseurs with more \"refined palates.\" As the evidence stands, we can't conclude whether the BOLD responses indeed reflect effects of wine taste perception that were simply too subtle and hence immeasurable here, or instead relate to lower-level, unconscious sensory processes.\nSo what do these findings mean for the winemaker looking to neuroscience for a marketing advantage? It's safe to assume that manipulating the alcohol content of a wine will indeed affect brain physiology (in fact, the known influence of alcohol on the BOLD signal raises concern over confounds between the wine conditions). However, it's unclear how this brain response relates to a wine drinker's sensory experience, let alone preference for one wine over another.\nAs blogger Neuroskeptic points out in his recent commentary on the study, \"it's not clear whether a brain scan is the best way to approach the question of whether high alcohol is overpowering. Surely the same thing could be demonstrated using a taste test.\"\nDespite these considerations, Frost and colleagues establish a solid stepping-stone to further explore the complex relationship between a wine's flavor profile and consumers' gustatory and neural responses. More importantly for wine-lovers everywhere, their study offers a key first step towards unraveling how and why that bold, oaky cabernet beats a merlot any day.\nBower JM et al. (1981). Principles of Organization of a Cerebro-Cerebellar Circuit. Brain Behav Evol 18:1-18. doi:10.1159\/000121772\nFrost R et al. (2015). What Can the Brain Teach Us about Winemaking? An fMRI Study of Alcohol Level Preferences. PLOS ONE. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0119220\nPlassmann H et al. (2008). Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness. Proc Natl Acad Sci 105(3):1050-4. doi:10.1073\/pnas.0706929105\nSmall DM et al. (2003). Dissociation of Neural Representation of Intensity and Affective Valuation in Human Gustation. Neuron 39(4):701-11. doi:10.1016\/S0896-6273(03)00467-7\nSmeets PAM et al. (2006). Effect of satiety on brain activation during chocolate tasting in men and women. Am J Clin Nutr 83(6):1297-1305.\nTagged alcohol, cerebellum, fMRI, insula, neuroscience, wine\nMapping Memory Circuits with High-Field FMRI\nOriginally posted on the PLOS Neuroscience Community\nHow we create and recall memories has long fascinated scientists, spurring decades of research into the brain mechanisms supporting memory. These studies overwhelmingly point to the hippocampus as an essential structure for memory formation; yet despite these efforts, we still don't fully understand how hippocampal circuits transform stimulus input into stored memories, in part due to several fundamental methodological challenges.\nThe most commonly used functional imaging method in humans, fMRI, neither measures neural activity directly nor attains ideal spatiotemporal resolutions. Although more powerful, invasive techniques can be used in animals, it's arguable whether they can be applied to assess higher cognitive functions like episodic memory, as the jury's out on whether this process is uniquely human or shared with animals. However, recent neuroimaging advances are rapidly narrowing the power gap between invasive and non-invasive techniques, helping to reconcile findings across animal and human studies. In particular, high-field, high-resolution fMRI in humans is becoming more feasible, permitting sub-millimeter spatial resolution. Although the BOLD signal from fMRI only approximates the neural signal, such methodological advances get us one step closer to imaging neural activity during cognitive functions like memory formation. A team of researchers recently took advantage of high-field fMRI to investigate sub-region and layer-specific memory activity in the medial temporal lobe, an area critical for long-term memory acquisition.\nThe hippocampal-entorhinal circuit\nWithin the medial temporal lobe, the entorhinal cortex (EC) and hippocampus (including subfields dentate gyrus, CA1, CA2 and CA3) make up a well-characterized circuit, in which superficial EC layers project to the dentate gyrus and CA1 via the perforant path, on to CA3 via mossy fibers, to CA1 via schaffer collaterals, and finally return back to the deep layers of the EC. We know this circuit is important for memory, as the hippocampus is essential for memory encoding and other processes that presumably support memory, including novelty detection or pattern separation and completion. However, the mapping of these functions onto human entorhinal-hippocampal pathways is incomplete.\nThe entorhinal-hippocampal circuit\nImaging memory with high-field fMRI\nTo examine how novelty and memory signals are distributed along the EC-hippocampus circuit, Maass and colleagues conducted high-resolution (0.8 mm isotropic voxels) 7T fMRI while participants performed an incidental encoding task. The subjects viewed a series of novel and familiar scenes during scanning, and later completed a surprise memory recall test on the scenes they had previously seen. This allowed the researchers to assess brain activity related to novelty \u2013 by comparing novel and familiar trials \u2013 as well as activity related to successful memory encoding \u2013 by comparing trials that were subsequently remembered and forgotten. On each subject's structural brain image, they parcellated the EC into superficial input layers and deep output layers, and segmented the hippocampus into CA1 and a combined dentate gyrus\/CA2\/CA3 region (DG\/CA2\/3).\nSegmentation of entorhinal cortex layers (left) and hippocampal subfields (right). Maass et al., 2014.\nDouble-dissociation of novelty and encoding signals\nAcross participants, novel scenes activated DG\/CA2\/3, whereas successful encoding activated CA1, and the strength of this CA1 signal predicted retrieval accuracy. Next, Maass and colleagues looked at subject-level voxel-wise activity, which preserves high spatial resolution by eliminating the need for smoothing and across-subject averaging. Using multivariate Bayes decoding, which can be used to compare the log evidence that various regions predict a particular cognitive state, they evaluated whether EC or hippocampal regions predict novelty and memory encoding. As illustrated by the relative log evidences in the below graphs, DG\/CA2\/3 (A right) and CA1 (B right) respectively signaled novelty and encoding, consistent with their group-level findings. But this analysis further showed that superficial EC (the input layers to the hippocampus) and deep EC (the output layers from the hippocampus) also respectively predicted novelty (A left) and encoding (B left). What's more, superficial EC and DG\/CA2\/3 functionally coupled during novelty processing, whereas deep EC and CA1 coupled during encoding.\nMultivariate Bayes decoding predicts novelty and encoding from entorhinal cortex and hippocampal activity. Maass et al., 2014.\nIn essence, these findings suggest a division of labor across the EC-hippocampal circuit, where hippocampal input pathways participate in novelty detection, and output pathways transform these signals for memory storage. The researchers offer a model in which information about stimulus identity feeds in from upstream regions such as the perirhinal and parahippocampal cortices, which are known to process object and scene identity. Hippocampal pattern separation or comparator computations might then be performed to both assess novelty and reduce interference between stimulus representations, transforming the novelty signal into output for long-term storage. This explanation for how hippocampal circuits process a stimulus representation is reasonable, considering that DG\/CA3 is important for pattern separation, and CA1 has been proposed as a neural comparator, processes which may determine the memory fate of a stimulus representation.\nCautions and caveats\nA segregation of function across EC layers and hippocampal subfields does not necessarily imply that these mappings are mutually exclusive. For instance, it's likely that output pathways still carry a novelty signal, and memory formation may begin earlier in the processing stream than detected here. Despite the impressive resolution in this study, allowing fine segmentation of cortical layers and subregions, noise and artifact are inherent concerns for any fMRI study. As the BOLD signal is a crude estimate of neural activity, there may well be a ceiling to the power of high-field fMRI, even with the most rigorous methods. How accurately these region- and layer-specific signals map onto memory functions therefore remains to be validated. And of course, we can't infer directionality, causality or any direct relationship to neural activity from fMRI alone. It's tempting to interpret early circuit activity as an input signal and late activity as an output signal, or to assume that the BOLD response reflects excitatory neural activity; however, we'll need more direct neuroimaging tools to trace the flow of neural signal and confirm these speculations.\nTogether, Maass and colleagues' study advances the field of cognitive neuroscience on two fronts. First, it helps bridge the gap between robust yet invasive imaging tools and non-invasive but less powerful approaches commonplace in human imaging studies. Their successful application of high-field fMRI demonstrates the feasibility of assessing human brain activity with sub-millimeter resolution, paving the way for the standardization and refinement of these tools. Second, and perhaps most critically, it allows us to peer into the brain at previously impossible scales to view the live hippocampal circuit hard at work, processing and engendering memories. While past fMRI studies have effectively shown where memories are woven together, these findings refine this anatomical precision to bring us one step closer to understanding how hippocampal circuits accomplish this feat.\nFirst author Anne Maass kindly offered to answer a few questions about her research. Here is a brief interview with Maass and her colleagues.\nAre there unique methodological concerns to consider when using high-field, high-resolution fMRI?\nThe increased signal-to-noise ratio provided by MRI at 7T enables us to acquire fMRI data at an unprecedented level of anatomical detail. However, ultra high-field fMRI is also more vulnerable to distortions and susceptibility-related artifacts and the negative effect of motion increases with resolution.\nIn particular, the anterior medial temporal lobe regions, such as the entorhinal cortex and perirhinal cortex, are often affected by susceptibility artifacts. Nevertheless, an optimized 7T protocol as we used in our study can reduce (but not fully eliminate) these signal dropouts and distortions, e.g. by the very small voxel size, shorter echo times as well as optimized shimming and distortion correction. We therefore had to manually discard functional volumes with visible dropouts and distortions.\nThe analysis of high-resolution functional data raises additional challenges, for instance the precise coregistration of structural and functional (often partial) images or the normalization into a standard space, which is usually done for group comparisons. In our study, we aimed to evaluate functional differences between entorhinal and hippocampal layers and subregions. We thus manually defined our regions of interest and chose a novel approach that enables to use the individual (raw) functional data to achieve highest anatomical precision.\nHave other studies examined the hippocampal-entorhinal circuit during memory encoding or novelty detection using more direct neural imaging tools, for example, with intracranial EEG? If so, how do they align with your findings?\nAlthough there have been several intracranial EEG recording studies in humans that investigated functional coupling between hippocampus and EC (i.e. Fernandez et al., 1999), to our knowledge, these studies have not been able to look at deep versus superficial EC or at specific hippocampal subfields.\nYour findings have obvious implications for memory disorders. Have you done any work investigating how the hippocampal-entorhinal memory circuit is disrupted in Alzheimer's or other dementias?\nTo investigate layer-specific processing in aging or neurodegenerative diseases is of course of particular interest as aging seems to affect particularly entorhinal input from superficial EC layers to the dentate gyrus and also taupathology in Alzheimer's disease emerges in the superficial EC layers, subsequently spreading to particular hippocampal subregions or layers (i.e. CA1 apical layers). However, high-resolution fMRI at 7T is particularly challenging in older people. The high probability of exclusion criteria (e.g. implants) complicates subject recruitment and stronger subject movement increases motion artefacts. So far we have collected functional data at 7T in healthy older people with 1mm isotropic resolution that we are currently analyzing. In addition, further studies are planned that focus on changes in intrinsic functional connectivity of the hippocampal-entorhinal network in early Alzheimer's disease.\nWhat further questions do your results raise regarding hippocampal memory pathways, and do you have plans to follow-up on these questions with future studies?\nOne further question that we are currently addressing is how hippocampal and neocortical connectivity with the EC is functionally organized in humans.\nWhile the rodent EC shows a functional division into lateral and medial parts based on differential anatomical connectivity with parahippocampal and hippocampal subregions, almost nothing is known about functional subdivisions of the human EC.\nIn addition to characterizing entorhinal functional connectivity profiles in young adults, we also want to study how these are altered by exercise training. Finally, we aim to resolve how aging affects object vs. scene processing (and pattern separation) in different components of the EC and subfields of the hippocampus.\nDere E et al. (2006). The case for episodic memory in animals. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 30(8):1206-24. doi:10.1016\/j.neubiorev.2006.09.005\nFernandez G et al. (1999). Real-Time Tracking of Memory Formation in the Human Rhinal Cortex and Hippocampus. Science 285(5433):1582-5. doi:1 0.1126\/science.285.5433.1582\nFriston K et al. (2008). Bayesian decoding of brain images. Neuroimage 39(1):181-205. doi:10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2007.08.013\nMaass A, et al. (2014). Laminar activity in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex related to novelty and episodic encoding. Nat Commun 5:5547. doi:10.1038\/ncomms6547\nTagged encoding, entorhinal cortex, fMRI, hippocampus, memory, neuroimaging\n@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 Highlights: Intracranial EEG and Brain Stimulation\nDespite their many advantages, traditional tools to study neurocognitive function in humans, such as EEG or fMRI, carry several disadvantages compared to those usable on animals. Perhaps the most significant limitation is the challenge of imaging neural activity of live human brains during mental functions, which inherently requires the application of invasive neuroimaging techniques. Recently, the cognitive neuroscientist's tool-belt has rapidly expanded, with the growing prevalence and usability of powerful imaging methods such as intracranial EEG \u2013 or electrocorticography (ECOG) \u2013 and electrical brain stimulation, that permit direct recording or stimulation of neuronal activity in live, conscious humans.\nThe SfN symposium Studying Human Cognition with Intracranial EEG and Electrical Brain Stimulation (previously previewed here, including an interview with speaker Josef Parvizi) explored current advances in these evolving methods along with their applications to the human cognitive experience.\nUC Berkeley's Bob Knight opened the symposium by highlighting the unique perks of ECOG over more traditional imaging techniques\u200a\u2014\u200apoints which were later recapitulated by other speakers\u200a\u2014\u200aincluding its remarkably high spatial and temporal resolution and exceptional signal to noise ratio. ECOG is in fact so precise that it can reliably measure signal down to the single trial level \u2013 a feat neither EEG nor fMRI can boast. In just his brief introduction, Knight shared some impressive clinical and cognitive applications of these electrophysiology techniques. For instance, intracranial EEG signal from the auditory cortex was effective (with 99% accuracy!) at reconstructing words, holding clear implications for patients with speech impairments. My personal favorite highlight of the session, however, was the reconstruction of Pink Floyd's \"Another brick in the wall\" from intracranial auditory cortex recordings.\nParvizi\nFirst up, Josef Parvizi from Stanford University presented his lab's multimodal approach to neurocognitive assessment, incorporating fMRI, ECOG and electrical brain stimulation. Parvizi shared a series of cases illustrating the powerful \u2013 and entertaining\u200a\u2014\u200aapplications of brain stimulation. In response to stimulation of the \"salience network\", which had been previously mapped using fMRI, one patient responded that he felt like he was \"riding in a storm\", but \"felt nothing\" after sham stimulation. A second patient reported the sense that \"something bad is going to happen,\" confirming in both patients emotionally driven reactions to \"salience network\" stimulation. In a final, particularly compelling, demonstration, Parvizi showed the effects of fusiform face area stimulation: \"You just turned into somebody else,\" the subject reported. \"That was a trip!\"\nMalach\nNext, Rafael Malach of the Weizmann Institute discussed his lab's use of intracranial EEG to measure spontaneous neural activity at rest. FMRI is most commonly used to study resting-state activity; however, the BOLD signal may be contaminated by non-neural signal, and\u200a\u2014\u200adue to its poor temporal resolution\u200a\u2014\u200ais effectively blind to rapid events. Using ECOG, which overcomes both of these hurdles, Malach demonstrated how high frequency gamma activity accurately reflects neuronal firing rate and can assess functional connectivity. Surprisingly, spontaneous activity between recording sites on opposite hemispheres is more highly correlated than between adjacent recording sites. So ECOG may be a powerful tool for measuring spontaneous activity, but this is only valuable if we can identify the signal's associated mental processes. Using the comical and celebrated example of the entorhinal cortex \"Simpsons neuron\", which selectively fired in response to images of the Simpsons or immediately before spontaneous recall of the cartoon, Malach suggested that spontaneous activity exceeding an awareness threshold might indeed represent conscious thoughts.\nLachaux\nJean-Philippe Lachaux, from the Lyon Research Council, took a slightly different angle on the applications of ECOG, highlighting its unique suitability for evaluating naturalistic behavior. Because of its robustness against artifacts problematic in EEG or fMRI\u200a\u2014\u200alike motion, blinking or signal distortion\u200a\u2014\u200aECOG can be more flexibly used in a variety of environments. These applications can be enhanced by integrating it with other tools such as eye-tracking, to more accurately associate natural behavior with neural activity in real time. Furthermore, Lachaux illustrated the power of ECOG at unraveling the temporal dynamics of functional interactions. Lachaux presented data questioning the common assumption that inter-region communication is typically a one-way street, proposing instead that such interactions may be more akin to reciprocal \"shared conversations\".\nKastner\nSabine Kastner of Princeton University wrapped up the session with her lab's comparative studies of attention in humans and monkeys. Combining human intracranial EEG with single-unit and LFP measures in monkeys during attention (Flanker task), she reported similar attention modulation in human and monkey intraparietal sulcus. Intriguingly, while attention modulated high gamma in both species, it also increased low frequency oscillations in humans. At the heart of cognitive neuroscience is the question of how neural activity translates to thoughts and behavior. To directly address this issue, Kastner is using electrophysiology to identify the optimal neural code for attention. In both humans and monkeys, she finds that spike phase better predicts behavior than spike rate, inching us one step closer to resolving the brain-cognition relationship.\nJudging by the responses to my live-tweeting of this symposium, I'll conjecture that the Neuro community is as intrigued and excited as yours-truly about the potential applications of ECOG and brain stimulation. In the words of @WiringTheBrain,\n\"This stuff is so COOL! And scary. But mainly COOL!\"\nTagged brain stimulation, ECOG, EEG, fMRI, functional connectivity, intracranial EEG, neuroimaging, neuroscience\nWhat does Work-Related Burnout do to the Brain?\nWe've all experienced it \u2013 the fatigue, stress and irritability after a long day of work. For most, these feelings are fleeting, and are nothing a good night's sleep or a cup of tea over a good book can't remedy. But for others, the daily stress extends into weeks and months, and eventually into long-term burnout. The physical toll on the over-worked can be so extreme that occupational burnout is being increasingly recognized as a serious medical condition. While the behavioral symptoms \u2013 including problems with memory or concentration, mood imbalances, insomnia and body aches \u2013 are well documented, the consequences of chronic burnout on brain function, and how such neural changes give rise to emotional dysregulation, have been inadequately examined. A recent PLOS One study, by Amita Golkar and colleagues from the Karolinska Institute, sought to better understand how chronic work-related stress alters brain function and emotional processing. While their findings confirm that impaired emotional regulation has neurobiological roots, another expert in the field has raised the question of whether stress may affect additional neural circuits undetected here.\nAssessing stress\nThirty-two individuals with chronic burnout and 61 healthy controls participated. The patients worked 60-70 hours per week, manifested symptoms including sleeplessness, fatigue, irritability, cognitive impairments or impaired working ability for at least a year, and had lost at least six months of work to sickness. Each participant completed two test sessions, including a startle response task to measure emotional regulation, and resting-state functional MRI to evaluate functional brain connectivity.\nDuring the behavioral task, a series of neutral and negative pictures was shown, with each picture flashed before and after an instruction cue (Figure 1). For negative pictures, subjects were told to either up-regulate, down-regulate or maintain their emotional response to the image (i.e., to experience the second presentation as more, less or similarly emotionally charged as the first presentation). Neutral pictures were always paired with the instruction to maintain their emotional response. To assess how the cues affected participants' physiological responses to the images, during each picture presentation the researchers administered an acoustic startle and measured eye-blink responses using electromyography. This allowed them to compare stress responses to an identical stimulus, differing only in how the participants manipulated their emotional reactions.\nFigure 1. Startle responses were measured before and after an emotional regulation cue to the same picture. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0104550\nBurnout impairs emotional regulation\nWhen they were told to maintain or up-regulate their emotional responses, the burnout and control groups showed similar startle responses (response to the post-cue picture \u2013 response to the pre-cue picture). But critically, during the down-regulate condition the burnout group not only exhibited a greater stress response than controls (Figure 2), but also reported less success at implementing the emotional regulation instructions to the negative images. Just from these behavioral findings, it's clear that chronic stress can dramatically alter how we process negative emotions. In particular, the burnt-out workers demonstrated less control over their reactions to negative experiences, showing signs of elevated distress that they were unable to dampen.\nFigure 2. Patients showed an exaggerated response to negative images when instructed to down-regulate their emotions. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0104550\nBurnout alters limbic function\nGiven this strong evidence that something was awry in these patients' emotional regulation circuitry, Golkar and colleagues next asked whether altered neural function might underlie their symptoms. Naturally, they looked to the limbic system, a brain network involved in processing emotion. They focused particularly on the amygdala, which is known to be critical for evoking fear and anxiety, and is enlarged in people with occupational stress. Here, functional connectivity during rest between the amygdala and several brain regions was altered in patients; most notably, connections were weaker with the prefrontal cortex and stronger with the insula. What's more, the stronger the correlation of the amygdala with the insula or a thalamic\/hypothalamic region, the higher the individual's perceived stress. Finally, connectivity between the amygdala and the anterior cingulate correlated with participants' ability to down-regulate their emotional response from the startle-response task.\nFigure 3. Differences in functional connectivity with the amygdala between patients and controls. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0104550\nThe findings of Golkar and colleagues help to establish a concrete understanding of the cognitive and neural changes underlying a too-often overlooked serious health condition. These findings add credence to the subjective feeling of being overly sensitive to negativity, or unable to control emotions, when burnt out. Perhaps more importantly, they confirm that such emotional impairments indeed have neurobiological underpinnings \u2013 changes that fit in beautifully with our knowledge of how the brain processes emotion. A stress-related disconnect between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate \u2013 even at rest \u2013 builds upon earlier studies showing reduced volume and altered task-evoked responses in these areas associated with stress. And chronic stress was further related to amygdala hyperconnectivity with the insula and thalamus\/hypothalamus, key regions for eliciting a stress response.\nDissociating the neural effects of stress\nHowever, this study leaves several questions unanswered and raises a few more. Given the complexity of the patients' psychological conditions, there were most certainly numerous other physical and psychological differences between the groups that went undocumented and uncontrolled. In the future, closer examination of these possible confounds will help identify their unique neural and behavioral effects. Furthermore, in addition to functional changes in several expected regions, altered resting connectivity also occurred in two unexpected regions \u2013 the cerebellum and motor cortex. Whether these were false positives, or whether occupational stress may have additional underappreciated motor or cognitive consequence, remains to be seen.\nBecause of the study's justifiable focus on connectivity with the amygdala, it's unclear how specific or broad the neural changes associated with chronic stress may be. Tom Liu, a researcher studying resting-state brain connectivity at UC San Diego, who was not involved in this study, explains,\n\"This begs the question of what other connections might be different between the two groups or perhaps show even better correlation with the stress scores. The issue there is that because of the large number of potential connections, a researcher is very quickly faced with a large multiple comparisons problem \u2013 this is an open issue in the field.\"\nFurther work will help clarify whether stress \u2013 or other differences between the groups \u2013 predominantly affects limbic circuitry or might also contribute to global brain changes. Liu points out,\n\"One aspect that would have been interesting to look at is whether there were any global differences between the two groups that could have accounted for the differences, as the authors did not perform global signal regression.\"\nFor instance, two recent studies report altered global signal associated with schizophrenia and variance in vigilance.\nGolkar et al. help to bridge the gap between the emotional dysregulation of workplace burnout and its long-term impact on brain function. Such work is a valuable step towards not only better understanding the brain's response to stress, but also better equipping us to manage our emotional and brain health \u2013 even after a long day of work.\nBlix E, Perski A, Berglund H and Savic I (2013). Long-Term Occupational Stress Is Associated with Regional Reductions in Brain Tissue Volumes. PLOS One 8(6): e64065. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0064065\nDavis M (1992). The role of the amygdala in fear and anxiety. Annu Rev Neurosci 15:353-75. doi: 10.1146\/annurev.ne.15.030192.002033\nFlynn FG, Benson DF and Ardila, A (1999). Anatomy of the insula functional and clinical correlates. Aphasiology 13(1): 55-78. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/026870399402325\nHerman JP and Cullinan WE (1997). Neurocircuitry of stress: central control of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis. Trends Neurosci 20(2):78-84. doi: 10.1016\/S0166-2236(96)10069-2\nGolkar A, Johansson E, Kasahara M, Osika W, Perski A and Ivanka S (2014). The influence of work-related chroinic stress on the regulation of emotion and on functional connectivity in the brain. PLOS One 9(9): e104550. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0104550\nJovanovic H, Perski A, Berglund H amd Savic I (2011). Chronic stress is linked to 5-HT(1A) receptor changes and functional disintegration of the limbic networks. Neuroimage 55(3):1178-88. doi: 10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2010.12.060\nLeDoux JE (2000). Emotion Circuits in the Brain. Annu Rev Neurosci 23: 155-84. doi: 10.1146\/annurev.neuro.23.1.155\nSavic I (2013). Structural Changes of the Brain in Relation to Occupational Stress. Cereb Cortex. doi: 10.1093\/cercor\/bht348\nSchutte N, Toppinen S, Kalimo R and Schaufeli W (2000). The factorial validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory\u2014General Survey (MBI\u2014GS) across occupational groups and nations. J Occup Organ Psych, 73(1), 53-66. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1348\/096317900166877\nWong CW, Olafsson V, Tal O, Liu TT (2013). The amplitude of the resting-state fMRI global signal is related to EEG vigilance measures. Neuroimge, 83, 983-90. doi: 10.1016\/j.neuroimage.2013.07.057\nYang GJ, Murray JD, Repovs G, Cole MW, Savic A, Glasser MF, Pittenger C, Krystal JH, Wang XJ, Pearlson GD, Glahn DC, Anticevic A (2014). Altered global brain signal in schizophrenia. PNAS, 111(20), 7438-43. doi: 10.1073\/pnas.1405289111\nTagged amygdala, brain, burnout, emotion, fMRI, functional connectivity, limbic system, neuroscience, psychology, startle resposne, stress fracture\nBrain Connectivity Patterns of Shifting Memory Processes\nAt a recent dinner party, the memories flood your mind as you reminisce with an old friend. A woman approaches and your friend introduces you: \"I'd like you to meet my wife, Margaret.\" Your attention shifts from the past to this present moment, as you focus on making a new association between \"Margaret\" and the tall, dark-haired woman before you.\nAs during a dinner party with old friends and new acquaintances, the dynamically shifting stimulus landscape around us may trigger the retrieval of old memories or the formation of novel ones, often in overlap or rapid succession. What's more, memory does not simply involve compartmentalized processes of the birth or reactivation of memories in isolation. Rather, successful execution of these processes also relies on support from non-mnemonic processing, such as evaluating a recalled memory or paying attention to new information. Although there is some overlap in the brain regions involved in laying down new memories and recovering old ones, the complex coordination of the many sub-processes of encoding and retrieval naturally requires cross-talk across distinct neural systems.\nThe brain's medial temporal lobe is commonly considered the seat of memory \u2013 with the hippocampus lying at its heart \u2013 as encoding and retrieval rely critically on these regions. However, just as memory involves the coordination of many cognitive functions, so does it require the coordination of widespread brain networks. Both small-scale circuits across hippocampal subregions, and long-range brain systems, work together to integrate sensory information, control attention and filter relevant details in support of memory. A recent study from Katherine Duncan, Alexa Tompary, and Lila Davachi at NYU demonstrated just how the hippocampus shifts its communication with the surrounding brain to support its remarkable ability to rapidly switch between memory processes.\nThe researchers conducted fMRI while participants performed alternating blocks during which they encoded pairs of objects and then recalled those object pairs. A day later, participants returned for an unscanned long-term memory test, in which they reported whether they recognized the objects, and rated how confidently they recalled the pairs. This delayed memory test was used to measure how well the object associations had been encoded the day prior.\nA standard analysis confirmed that across all hippocampal subregions (CA1, DG\/CA3, subiculum) activity increased for both successful encoding and retrieval. Notably, the retrieval effect was strongest in DG\/CA3, in line with past studies suggesting that this region might function as an auto-associative network that serves to reactivate stored memory traces. Now, we've long known that the hippocampus is engaged during these processes; but less certain is how the region interacts with the surrounding brain.\nThe researchers focused on hippocampal subregion CA1, an important hub along the bidirectional cortex-hippocampus highway, as it both receives input from the medial temporal lobe (via the dentate gyrus and CA3), and also provides output back to the cortex. Connectivity between DG\/CA3 and CA1 was stronger during the retrieval than the encoding block, whereas connectivity with CA1 didn't differ between memory blocks for any of the other medial temporal lobe or midbrain regions they investigated (Figure 1). Thus, not only was DG\/CA3 highly activated, but it was also more strongly connected with its downstream hippocampal target, during retrieval.\nFigure 1. Connectivity between CA1 and DG\/CA3 is stronger during retrieval than encoding. Adapted from Duncan et al., 2014.\nBut how might memory-specific communication across regions subserve the brain's changing cognitive goals? To test whether connectivity patterns in fact support memory success, the researchers correlated functional connectivity measures with encoding and retrieval performance. Supporting their prior findings, CA1-DG\/CA3 connectivity correlated with immediate retrieval accuracy, but not with long-term memory (i.e., day 2 retrieval) (Figure 2, left). Conversely, connectivity between CA1 and the ventral tegmentum correlated with long-term memory, but not immediate retrieval accuracy (Figure 2, right). As Davachi explains, \"This suggests that whatever this signal represents, it is explaining long-term \u2013 not short-term \u2013 memory, which arguably suggests that across subject variability in CA1-ventral tegmentum connectivity is related to the consolidation of memories, not just their initial encoding.\"\nFigure 2. CA1-DG\/CA3 connectivity correlates with immediate retrieval, whereas CA1-ventral tegmentum connectivity correlates with memory consolidation. Adapted from Duncan et al., 2014.\nNotably, these connectivity patterns emerged when examining activity across each encoding or retrieval block, but disappeared when isolating the trial-evoked responses. It therefore seems possible that these increases in connectivity strength may not directly support isolated moments of memory formation or reactivation, but instead, auxiliary processes that evolve gradually over time. However, Davachi cautions \"These null effects do not necessarily imply that there are not important trial-evoked changes in connectivity, but rather, that the trial-evoked data are simply swamped with the incoming perceptual and task signals.\"\nWhile the role of DG\/CA3 and its connectivity to CA1 in associative retrieval has been well documented, the encoding-specific link between CA1 and the ventral tegmentum is less expected. Regions such as the medial temporal lobe and the prefrontal cortex are traditionally considered the major players in memory encoding; yet, recent research has hinted at a more important role for the ventral tegmentum than previously thought. Furthermore, this finding aligns well with animal studies showing that input to CA1 from the ventral tegmentum is required for synaptic plasticity, and that long-term potentiation \u2013 key to long-term memory formation \u2013 is dopamine-dependent. But as Davachi emphasizes, \"You can never know if the BOLD response is related to long-term potentiation. All we show is that the coordinated activation between the ventral tegmentum and CA1 is related to successful encoding (and not retrieval) but what this represents is unclear.\" Indeed, the ventral tegmentum is involved in a host of other, non-memory functions as well, such as novelty detection and motivation, both of which would be critical for the encoding task used here \u2013 or when making a new acquaintance at a dinner party. What remains to be determined is how, if at all, hippocampal connectivity with the ventral tegmentum supports memory consolidation, or rather, these adjunct processes that might be important for establishing new memories.\nAlthough this study demonstrated unique hippocampal interactions during encoding and retrieval, it can't speak to the direction of information flow. For instance, since the hippocampal-ventral tegmentum connection is reciprocal, signaling could feasibly proceed in either direction. Furthermore, their findings don't show that encoding and retrieval are exclusively associated with CA1-ventral tegmentum and CA1-DG\/CA3 connectivity, respectively \u2013 only that the strength of these interactions differs depending on the memory manipulation.\nWhile further studies, especially those which more directly measure neural activity, will help clarify questions concerning directionality and causality, these findings build significantly upon our knowledge of human memory. In particular, Duncan and colleagues' techniques enable the assessment of communication with and across hippocampal subregions while directly evaluating memory, which has been challenging in animals. Their findings not only raise several important questions for follow-up, but critically, also bridge the gap between human and animal studies to help unify our understanding of the brain systems supporting encoding and retrieval.\nDuncan K, Tompary A and Davachi L (2014). Associative encoding and retrieval are predicted by functional connectivity in distinct hippocampal area CA1 pathways. J Neurosci 34(34): 11188-98. doi: 10.1523\/jneurosci.0521-14.2014\nMurty VP and Adcock RA (2014). Enriched encoding: Reward motivation organizes cortical networks for hippocampal detection of unexpected events. Cereb Cortex 24(8):2160-8. doi: 10.1093\/cercor\/bht063\nTreves A and Rolls ET (2004). Computational constraints suggest the need for two distinct input systems to the hippocampal CA3 network. Hippocampus 2(2):189-99. doi: 10.1002\/hipo.450020209\nTagged encoding, fMRI, functional connectivity, hippocampus, memory, neuroscience, retrieval, ventral tegmentum\nGlobal similarity signals of recognition strength\nThe below article was recently rejected from the Journal of Neuroscience as a 'Journal Club' commentary on Davis et al., 2014, 'Global neural pattern similarity as a common basis for categorization and recognition memory'. Hoping that my efforts will not go to waste, I'd like to give the piece an alternate home here. Please read, comment and share, all free of paywalls!\nTheories of long-term memory have linked an item's memory strength to its \"global similarity\" (Clark and Gronlund, 1996). The greater the conceptual overlap between a target item and other items stored in memory, the more familiar the item will seem. While psychological models have consistently supported the theory that across-item similarity contributes to recognition memory, it is unclear how neural computations give rise to this relationship between representational similarity and memory strength. Neuroimaging studies have shown that activity in the brain's medial temporal lobe tracks memory strength as well as the representational overlap between stimuli in memory, establishing this region as a likely host for a global similarity signal that confers accuracy and confidence to recognition judgments.\nModel of the multivoxel pattern similarity analysis. A) The multivoxel activation pattern within a region is extracted for each stimulus (S1, S2, etc.). B) The correlation between the activation pattern for each stimulus and that of all other stimuli is computed. Across-item correlations are expected to be higher for stimuli that are strongly remembered than those that are poorly remembered. Adapted from Xue et al., 2010.\nIn their study recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Davis and colleagues (2014) tested whether the similarity between blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) activation patterns elicited by an item and other encoded items predicted how confidently the item would later be recognized (see figure). Participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing an incidental encoding task of repeated Chinese words. They were later administered a surprise recall task, in which they freely reported any recalled words from the encoding task, as well as a surprise recognition task, in which they reported their confidence in having previously seen a word. The authors then computed a neural similarity score for each word, which measured the correlation between the multivoxel activity pattern for that word and the activity pattern for all other words (Davis et al., Figure 1). This global similarity metric was compared to recognition confidence ratings to assess the relationship between neural representational overlap and memory strength.\nConsistent with their prediction, the extent of global similarity between the multivoxel activation pattern of a word and that of all other words correlated with the word's subsequent recognition confidence ratings (Davis et al., Figure 3A). Within their medial temporal lobe region of interest, the effect was localized to clusters in both the parahippocampal gyrus and hippocampus. This link between neural global similarity and recognition strength held even after controlling for within-item similarity, which the authors previously showed to correlate with memory strength (Xue et al., 2010). Furthermore, medial temporal lobe pattern similarity also correlated with the semantic relatedness between words (Davis et al., Figure 6). This demonstrated, for the first time, that medial temporal lobe substrates of between-item similarity mirror psychological metrics of memory strength and semantic relatedness. The stronger an item is represented in memory, the more highly its semantic content, and its representation in the medial temporal lobe, overlaps with that of other stimuli.\nWhile these initial results speak to the mechanisms by which an item is perceived as familiar, considerable debate exists over whether recognition is mediated by a single neural system. For instance, some neuroimaging and lesion studies have reported functional segregation of familiarity and recollection signals within the medial temporal lobe (Eichenbaum et al., 2007), while others indicate that the medial temporal lobe collectively supports all forms of recognition memory (Squire et al., 2007). Furthermore, there is evidence that successful recall can be mediated by global similarity (Gillund and Shiffrin, 1984), but also by pattern separation of an item from other items (O'Reilly and Norman, 2002). Thus, to dissociate between effects of global similarity on recognition strength and on recall, pattern similarity analyses were additionally performed on non-recalled words alone, and also on recalled versus non-recalled words. Global similarity of medial temporal lobe activation patterns both correlated with the memory strength of non-recalled words and predicted recall success. Thus, both recognition and recall may rely on the degree of neural representational overlap across items in memory.\nFinally, the authors investigated whether the association between memory strength and neural similarity extends beyond long-term memory. Given prior evidence that learning categorical rules increases the psychological similarity of learned items and activates the medial temporal lobe, they tested whether global similarity of medial temporal lobe representations reflected category learning. Indeed, global similarity of medial temporal lobe activity patterns correlated with the psychological similarity between an item and others in its category (Davis et al., Figure 3B, C). Notably, these regions overlapped considerably with those from the long-term memory pattern similarity analysis (Davis et al., Figure 4). Thus, global similarity computations in the medial temporal lobe may not selectively subserve episodic memory formation, but might support a range of learning processes.\nThese findings suggest a universal mechanism of coding memory strength within the medial temporal lobe that generalizes across domains, beyond just recognition memory. This bridge across cognitive domains aligns well with our understanding that acquiring both episodic memories and categorization rules involves learning new information, a process fundamentally supported by memory encoding. However, the breadth of such a medial temporal lobe code, which extends beyond recognition to encompass recall and categorization, raises important considerations regarding the heterogeneity versus homogeneity of medial temporal lobe memory functions.\nSome theories of medial temporal lobe function propose distinct roles for the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus in long-term memory. A recent study examined whether these regions also functionally dissociate according to memory-related global similarity computations. LaRocque et al. (2013) reported a correlation between across-item neural similarity and recognition strength in the parahippocampal gyrus, but an inverse correlation in the hippocampus. This dissociation contrasts with the parallel representations in the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus observed by Davis et al. (2014). Thus, hippocampal representations of global similarity and distinctiveness may both contribute to recognition memory. These seemingly contradictory findings in fact align with computational models of hippocampal function suggesting that the structure performs both pattern completion and separation in the service of long-term memory (Yassa and Stark, 2011). These operations are likely computed by separate hippocampal subregions and support distinct memory functions. Specifically, pattern separation may be mediated by the dentate gyrus and promote discriminative processes that aid encoding and recollection, whereas pattern completion may be mediated by CA3 and generalize across inputs to signal familiarity. It is therefore possible that hippocampal signals of representational overlap and distinctiveness coexist in complex tasks like those employed in these studies (LaRocque et al., 2013; Davis et al., 2014), which may dynamically engage concurrent memory encoding and retrieval processes. Follow-up studies will help to resolve why a pattern completion or separation signal would dominate depending on the task condition or memory manipulation.\nFurthermore, given the inherent ambiguity of multivoxel signal content, it is unclear what particular information is carried in overlapping activation patters. Here, BOLD patterns correlated with both memory strength and semantic content; yet, multiple additional variables may covary with these cognitive measures and hence contribute to the similarity across multivoxel space. As the authors acknowledge, an infinite number of factors, which can be challenging to detect or control, may increase the similarity between BOLD activation patterns (Todd et al., 2013). Further research will be important to more completely characterize how variance in factors such as stimulus features, cognitive sub-processes, BOLD dynamics, or analysis procedures, may additionally drive the overlap in BOLD patterns of neural representations.\nThe findings of Davis and colleagues provide novel insight into medial temporal lobe coding mechanisms of memory strength, linking computational models that implicate psychological similarity in recognition strength with representational similarity of memory-related brain activation patterns. Together, these results solidify a base upon which to more thoroughly examine the breadth of this medial temporal lobe similarity signal across cognitive processes. Such findings will serve as critical steps towards clarifying the extent to which overlapping neural representations in the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus contribute to a range of learning processes \u2013 including both those within and beyond the domain of episodic memory.\n1. Clark SE, Gronlund SD. 1996. Global matching models of recognition memory: How the models match the data. Psychon Bull Rev 3:37-60.\n2. Davis T, Xue G, Love BC, Preston AR, Poldrack RA. 2014. Global neural pattern similarity as a common basis for categorization and recognition memory. J Neurosci 34:7472-84.\n3. Eichenbaum H, Yonelinas AP, Ranganath C. 2007. The medial temporal lobe and recognition memory. Annu Rev Neurosci 30:123-52.\n4. Gillund G, Shiffrin RM. 1984. A retrieval model for both recognition and recall. Psychol Rev 91:1-67.\n5. LaRocque KF, Smith ME, Carr VA, Witthoft N, Grill-Spector K, Wagner AD. 2013. Global similarity and pattern separation in the human medial temporal lobe predict subsequent memory. J Neurosci 33:5466-74.\n6. O'Reilly RC, Norman KA. 2002. Hippocampal and neocortical contributions to memory: advances in the complementary learning systems framework. Trends Cogn Sci 6:505-10.\n7. Squire LR, Wixted JT, Clark RE. 2007. Recognition memory and the medial temporal lobe: a new perspective. Nat Rev Neurosci 8:872-83.\n8. Todd MT, Nystrom LE, Cohen JD. 2013. Confounds in multivariate pattern analysis: Theory and rule representation case study. Neuroimage 77:157-65.\n9. Xue G, Dong Q, Chen C, Lu Z, Mumford JA, Poldrack RA. 2010. Greater neural pattern similarity across repetitions is associated with better memory. Science 330:97-101.\n10. Yassa MA, Stark CE. 2011. Pattern separation in the hippocampus. Trends Neurosci. 34:515-25.\nDavis T, Xue G, Love BC, Preston AR, & Poldrack RA (2014). Global neural pattern similarity as a common basis for categorization and recognition memory. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 34 (22), 7472-84 PMID: 24872552\nTagged brain, fMRI, global similarity, hippocampus, medial temporal lobe, memory, mvpa, neuroimaging, neuroscience, recognition\nA BOLD signal in the hippocampus ambiguous\nWhen you see a red blob on an fMRI activity map, what do you think? We all know fMRI doesn't directly measure neural activity, yet an increased BOLD (blood oxygen level dependent) response is commonly used as a proxy for elevated \"brain activity\". This interpretation is, in fact, strongly supported by studies identifying a relationship between the BOLD response and underlying neural activity. In particular, this signal correlates most strongly with the LFP (local field potential), suggesting that synaptic potentials \u2013 rather than spiking \u2013 primarily drive the BOLD signal 1.\nBut what about those blue blobs on that brain map? What exactly does a negative BOLD response represent? Do BOLD signal increases and decreases respectively represent neural activation and deactivation, as we often presume? Neuroscientists know the story isn't that simple, yet still, we often construct our interpretations according to such idyllic principles.\nfMRI 101\nIn fMRI 101 we learned that the BOLD response results from changes in the relative amounts of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin, which \u2013 because of their distinct magnetic properties \u2013 are respectively associated with BOLD signal increases and decreases. When a brain region becomes active and requires energy, oxygen metabolism (CMRO2) increases, reducing blood oxygenation levels. A coincident increase in cerebral blood flow (CBF) partially counteracts this by delivering more oxygenated blood to the area. Since the BOLD signal increases with higher blood oxygenation, the direction of the BOLD response depends on the relative change in CBF and CMRO2. Since the increase in oxygenated blood flow typically exceeds that of oxygen metabolism, elevated neural activity (usually) leads to a positive BOLD response. So if a positive fMRI activation reflects increased blood blow and metabolism, negative activity should reflect the opposite \u2026 right?\nHippocampus ambiguous\nOne oft-overlooked feature of this mechanism is that the coupling between blood flow and metabolism varies across brain regions. Across the cortex, the coupling ratio between CBF and CMRO2 is heterogeneous but generally high, on the order of 2 to 4.5 2,3, generating a reliably positive BOLD signal with activation. But recent studies have shown that other regions have lower coupling ratios. Of particular concern is the hippocampus, with an estimated coupling ratio of 1.7 4. One possible reason for this discrepancy is the remarkably poor vascular supply to the hippocampus compared to the surrounding cortex 5. Thus, hippocampal activation would result in a notably reduced BOLD response compared to a cortical activation. As this CBF:CMRO2 coupling ratio flirts dangerously with unity, it raises concern that in certain situations it might dip to or below one, resulting in no change, or even a negative BOLD response, following neural activation. Indeed, upon stimulating neural activity (by inducing seizures) in rats, researchers observed a positive BOLD signal in the cortex, but a negative signal in the hippocampus 6.\nWhat's a hippocampal imager to do?\nSo what does all this mean for us foolish \u2013 I mean, unfortunate \u2013 cognitive neuroscientists using fMRI to study the hippocampus? For one, we face vastly greater challenges to interpreting our data than our lucky cortical colleagues. When the hippocampus activates, we can be relatively confident that blood flow and metabolism (and presumably, underlying neural activity) are concurrently elevated. But a deactivated hippocampus is an ambiguous hippocampus. A negative BOLD response could theoretically indicate an underlying decrease or increase in both or either parameters. Let's explore three alternative scenarios which could theoretically engender a negative hippocampal BOLD signal.\n1. \u2193 CBF, \u2193 CMRO2. The most intuitive explanation is that neural activity declines, reducing both blood flow and oxygen metabolism within the region. This scenario is certainly feasible if the hippocampus maintains a certain level of tonic activity and a given condition actively suppresses it below baseline.\n2. \u2193 CBF, = CMRO2. Since the ratio of CBF to CMRO2 is the key determinant of the BOLD response, a change in oxygen metabolism is not requisite for a negative BOLD signal if blood flow alone declines. Such is the premise for the \"vascular steal\" hypothesis, which posits that blood is diverted from less critical regions to those directly involved in the task at hand, regardless of any change in oxygen consumption.\n3. \u2191 CBF, \u2191 CMRO2. While the former two scenarios imply reduced hippocampal recruitment, either metabolic or vascular, a final scenario entails the opposite: elevated blood flow and metabolism drive the negative BOLD. Because of the hippocampus' problematic coupling ratio, if the metabolic increase exceeds the blood flow increase, this manifests as a negative response.\nAlternative interpretations\nTo disambiguate these alternatives, we must think outside the blob and interpret our effects in light of integrated electrophysiology, lesion and cognitive psychology findings. Two examples from recent fMRI studies illustrate the aforementioned challenges as well as how alternative explanations best account for a task-induced hippocampal deactivation.\nFirst (shameless self-promotion alert!), during effortful memory retrieval, we consistently observe a negative hippocampal response 7-9. What might this signal represent? Given that the hippocampus is critically involved in encoding new memories 10, it's possible that it remains continuously \"online\", storing features of our ongoing experience into memory. Now, when one engages in a difficult mental task, such as trying to recall a weak memory, attention is diverted away from encoding irrelevant background information towards the target task. Scenario one would nicely account for this observation, as hippocampal neural activity dips below its baseline level and generates a negative BOLD. Considering that this negative response correlates with task difficulty (indexed by either response times or memory strength) and impaired encoding of the background environment, this seems like the most logical scenario. For now, that's our story and we're sticking with it (but please get in touch if you have other ideas!)\nYet in other situations, negative hippocampal responses have been observed during conditions in which, based on lesion and electrophysiological studies, one might expect the hippocampus to activate. For instance, a recent study observed hippocampal deactivation during landmark-based spatial memory retrieval 11. In this case, as the authors propose, the task-induced deactivation just might reflect neural activation.\nOf course, we can't simply choose a preferred explanation at whim that best supports our hypothesis. Au contraire, carefully considering the complicated nature of the hippocampal BOLD response might help expand our too-often blob-centric minds, and set a framework from some pretty awesome multi-modal hypothesis testing. Science isn't supposed to be easy, but it can still be fun. Now, who else is eager to go crazy with some hippocampal calibrated fMRI and depth recordings?\n1. Logothetis NK & Wandell BA. 2004. Interpreting the BOLD signal. Annu Rev Physiol 66:735-69.\n2. Hoge RD et al. 1999. Linear coupling between cerebral blood flow and oxygen consumption in activated human cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:9403-8.\n3. Leontiev O et al. 2007. CBF\/CMRO2 coupling measured with calibrated BOLD fMRI: sources of bias. Neuroimage. 36:1110-22.\n4. Restom K et al. 2008. Calibrated fMRI in the medial temporal lobe during a memory-encoding task. Neuroimage. 40:1495-1502.\n5. Borowsky IW & Collins RC. 1989. Metabolic anatomy of brain: a comparison of regional capillary density, glucose metabolism, and enzyme activities. J Comp Neurol. 288:401-13.\n6. Schridde U et al. 2008. Negative BOLD with large increases in neuronal activity. Cereb Cortex. 18:1814-27.\n7. Reas ET & Brewer JB. 2013a. Effortful retrieval reduces hippocampal activity and impairs incidental encoding. Hippocampus. 23:367-79.\n8. Reas ET & Brewer JB. 2013b. Imbalance of incidental encoding across tasks: An explanation for non-memory-related hippocampal activations? J Exp Psych-Gen. 142:1171-9.\n9. Reas ET et al. 2011. Search-related suppression of hippocampus and default network activity during associative memory retrieval. Front Hum Neurosci. 5:112.\n10. Squire LR et al. 2004. The medial temporal lobe. Annu Rev Neurosci. 27:279-306.\n11. Nilsson J et al. 2013. Negative BOLD response in the hippocampus during short-term spatial memory retrieval. J Cogn Neurosci. 25:1358-71.\nReas ET, & Brewer JB (2013). Imbalance of incidental encoding across tasks: An explanation for non-memory-related hippocampal activations? Journal of experimental psychology. General, 142 (4), 1171-9 PMID: 23773160\nTagged BOLD, cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, hippocampus, memory, neuroimaging, neuroscience","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cheika clarifies relationship with Johnson\nApril 6, 2019 Marcus Taylor\n\"There's no major hurry, we're not training yet, are we?\n\"You can't panic \u2026 but you do have to react, make some changes according to what we thought didn't work for us last year.\n\"Just because we had a bad year last year, I don't want to throw three years of work we've done beforehand away.\"\nCheika said he and Johnson have been having regular chats since the former Wallabies assistant coach and recent director of Scottish rugby was hired by Rugby Australia.\nIt will be interesting to see the power balance within the Wallabies set-up and the high-performance ranks given Cheika and Johnson are individuals who don't like taking backward steps and have strong beliefs in their coaching methods.\nNew voice: Rugby Australia's director of rugby Scott Johnson. Credit:AAP\n\"After Scott was appointed, he was pretty comfortable in making sure that I had the ability to deliver whatever style of game I wanted to bring,\" Cheika said. \"I would be naive to not link in with him. He's got good experience internationally and he brings a different perspective from the outside. That might encourage me to change one thing here.\n\"We played against each other and we've known each other for a fair while. I don't think there's going to be any dramas whatsoever.\n\"If there is a drama, we'll get on with it regardless because sometimes you have the argument, then you've got to disagree and commit and get on with what's best for the country to win the World Cup.\n\"Even before if a CEO came down and said, 'You've got to do this', and I didn't agree with it, I always had two choices: do it, or not do it and face the consequences. It's really simple.\"\nThe Wallabies won four of 13 matches last year and since the World Cup have been victorious in 17 of 42 Tests.\nAustralia have slipped to sixth in the world but Cheika is still optimistic the side can replicate their success at the 2015 World Cup, where they finished second.\n\"Everyone has been part of teams where they've had that bad season and you've got to react accordingly to make sure the next season is a whole lot better,\" Cheika said. \"We've got a few things we have done and will do off the field, as well as some things on the field that we will change for this year.\n\"Maybe you want to turn up this year with something a little bit different. I'm not saying that we're going to do that but maybe we will. [There could be] some different things around the way we play.\n\"Some of those were already in 'program' to be changed regardless of last year because if you want to do a few different things on the field then maybe last year isn't a great time to show it.\"\nCheika has been casting his eye closely over Super Rugby and was asked who he thought was the in-form Australian hooker of the competition. He nominated Folau Faingaa from the Brumbies but put the heat on the 23-year-old to sort his fitness out.\n\"He needs to get his rig in order,\" Cheika said. \"He needs to get fitter and shed a few kilograms. Sorry to say it on TV mate, but you need to get into it and get fit because that guy is a quality player.\"\nTom Decent is a journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald\nThey're not best mates, but Gus wants Cleary to take his Panthers job\nTime is now, say Blues, after another missed chance\nApril 21, 2019 Marcus Taylor 0\nNewcastle reach crisis point in humbling by Gold Coast\nAs Knights legend Matthew Johns noted on Foxtel: \"Two teams turned up today, both one from...\nFour Points: Saints of Steele\nLoading People criticised, or muttered disparagingly behind their hands, when Richardson brought the chief executive Matt...\nSydney FC enter talks with Manchester City to sign Anthony Caceres permanently\nAnthony Caceres' loan spell at Sydney FC this season could become a permanent move with the...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jan. 6, 2016 \/ 12:52 AM\nNorth Korea says it tested hydrogen bomb\nBy Shawn Price\nThe government of North Korea said it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, a weapon far more powerful than basic atomic weapons, setting off a tremor in the test area and alarming governments in the region and around the world. The United Nations Security Council will have an emergency meeting Wednesday on the matter. Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo\nPYONGYANG, North Korea, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The North Korean government said it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, setting the region on alert and setting off a tremor in the area of its test site.\nNorth Korean state media made the announcement early Wednesday after seismic monitors detected a 5.1 earthquake near the Punggye-ri test site. The first such weapon developed by the regime, if confirmed, would be a significant step up in North Korea's military ability, because hydrogen bombs are far more powerful than plutonium-based atomic weapons.\nThe country has likely conducted three previous underground plutonium-based nuclear tests since 2006.\n\"If there's no invasion on our sovereignty we will not use nuclear weapon,\" the North Korean state news agency said. \"This H-bomb test brings us to a higher level of nuclear power.\"\nRELATED South Korea skeptical of North's hydrogen bomb claims\nLast month international experts were skeptical when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un said his government had developed a hydrogen bomb.\nExperts said it would take several days to determine if the tests were real and successful. Meanwhile, government in the region as well as the United Nations Security Council are holding emergency meetings.\nJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned the test, declaring it a \"serious threat\" to his country's security.\n\"It clearly violates the UNSC resolution and is a serious challenge to the nuclear non-proliferation efforts,\" Abe said.\nBut North Korea's claims could just be its latest exaggerations.\n\"North Korea appears to have had a difficult time mastering even the basics of a fission weapon,\" said Bruce Bennett, senior defense analyst at the nonpartisan Rand Corp. \"This suggests that unless North Korea has had help from outside experts, it is unlikely that it has really achieved a hydrogen\/fusion bomb since its last nuclear test, just short of three years ago.\"\nShinzo Abe","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fall in love with the colours of Autumn\nWritten by Carly Koop Sunday, Sep 25 2022, 5:56 AM\nFall colours are starting to show along a path south of Steinbach.\nSaying farewell to summer and hello to fall includes the changing landscape of southeastern Manitoba.\nThe temperatures fall, animals prepare for winter, the days get shorter and the leaves change colour. This colourful part of fall never seems to last long and one way to appreciate it is to get out for a drive or a walk\/hike and enjoy the colours while they are here.\nJenny Dupas with Eastman Tourism suggests visiting a section of the Crow Wing Trail, which is a 193 km trail that connects multiple communities.\n\"If you want to do a small portion of that, you can pop into the trail at a place like St. Pierre-Jolys at the museum and do a little bit of a loop,\" Dupas says. \"It's a pretty special trail because it is a historic trail that the M\u00e9tis used to transport goods. All those communities along the way have lots of really neat things to offer.\"\nMonique Chenier from Sunrise Corner Tourism shared a few spots to visit to enjoy the colours of fall in the corner of the province.\nShe recommends driving to the south end of Highway 12, saying it's an easy drive from Steinbach. Head to Vassar, down to Middlebro and out to Buffalo Point.\n\"There are lots of tamarack trees,\" Chenier says. \"Those oddball deciduous conifers that are an evergreen in the summer, they turn bright, bright yellow and lose their needles in the fall.\"\nThe area also has many stands of trembling aspen that Chenier describes as neon yellow in colour.\nA good place to stop on Highway 12 is at Butcher Hill (east of Piney just before the Vassar West Access turn-off).\n\"It's the top of the hill and there are exceptional views across the Sandilands Provincial Forest,\" says Chenier.\nThe area is full of pine trees but it's interspersed with trembling aspen.\n\"You can see for miles,\" she explains the scenery. \"It's a great photo op to get to the top of the hill. And there's lots of pathways there, different logging trails and ATV trails that are great for hiking.\"\nIf you're wanting to get closer to the colours, Chenier recommends taking a walk in the R.M. of Stuartburn. Visit the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve and the Agassiz Trail (accessible of PR201 and Road 9) .\n\"The last wildflowers of the season are abundant,\" says Chenier. \"There's so many purple asters and lots of goldenrod which is bright yellow, so a great complimentary colour combination which makes for great photos.\"\nChenier also mentions that right now Manitoba's provincial grass is blooming. Big Bluestem is purple in colour and can grow to 8 feet tall. She also recommends a walk at Gardenton Park amongst the black ash trees which are some of the first trees to turn yellow.\nShayne Thiessen spends a great deal of time exploring the Southeast and shares his experiences on his blog. He has some suggestions on places to go for a nice fall walk\/hike.\n\"If you want to see fall colours, you're best off gaining a bit of elevation so you can see quite a bit of distance.\" Thiessen suggests hiking the Top of the World trail that can be found at Falcon Lake. \"It takes you up onto the cliffs, and you can look out and see the lake, see the trees, you can see all the colours.\"\nThiessen also recommends the trails in Birds Hill Park, specifically Prairie Winds Trail. \"You start by going through the forest and you come out to an area where it's prairies and the background is absolutely stunning trees. And it's cool because the prairie portion is all kinds of golden colours and then you have the yellow and orange trees in the background.\"\nIf you want to enjoy the colours from the comfort of your car, here are a few excursions you could take.\nDrive through Birds Hill Park\nSouth of Steinbach on Highway 12 and turn east on Road 32N to PR216 and drive south to Rosa and then go north along Highway 59 up to St. Pierre.\nDrive from Richer to La Broquerie and head through Sandilands Provincial Park to Woodridge.\nDanny Plett shares new single on identity and touring Europe\nScience Instructors - sessional positions\nContract Featured\n2021 Can-am Max XT 850 EFI ATV 4X4, Winch","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lucy Jessica Coney\nWhat A Waste\nMixed Media, 2021 An advertising billboard for Channel 4's TV show 'Dirty Truth About Your Rubbish: Dispatches'\nWhat a Waste is a billboard campaign by Lucy Jessica Coney for the Channel 4's documentary 'Dirty Truth About Your Rubbish: Dispatches', which details what happens to waste and how this process changes through time.\nIn Fashion Activism, Coney uses fashion to advocate for sustainability, the LGBTQ+ Community and women's rights. She produced fun and colourful designs, inspired by TV drama It's a Sin. This show is based during the eighties, at the height of the Aids pandemic. The garment designs are influenced by 80's fashion and the current loungewear trend of Covid-19. Coney also uses block-coloured patchwork patterns to show the diversity of powerful women.\nConey wanted to encourage activism in the music industry, and respects artists who advocate for those less fortunate and raise important issues. She admires Harry Styles for his song lyrics and his 'Treat People with Kindness' movement. She decided to dedicate a project to his work and produced unique and colourful CD designs.\nConey's Patterns of Behaviour is a design for end papers for a Penguin biography of Alan Bennett, influenced by Bennetts' 'old soul' and his roots within theatre and TV. Coney also created fun designs for Missguided, and their Joyful Expression 2021 collection. She played with colour and shape in this work, inspired by the 'raw and na\u00efve' artistic perspective of children.\nActivism, Advertising, Bodies, Branding, Campaigns, Clothing, Colour, Digital, Drawing, Fashion, Feminism, Film, Garments, Gender and Sexuality, Health, History, Illustration, Music, Nature, Painting, Politics, Process, Queer, Sustainability, Waste, Womenswear\nFashion Activism\nMixed Media, 2021. Colourful patchwork clothing designs, inspired by the 1980s set TV drama, It's a Sin.\nMusic Activsim\nMixed Media, 2021 CD designs inspired by the lyrics of Harry Styles and his Treat People with Kindness movement.\nGraphite, 2021. End papers design for a biography on Alan Bennett.\nAcrylic, 2021. Patterns for Missguided's spring\/summer 2021 collection.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Joshua Barajas Joshua Barajas\nhttps:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/arts\/watch-live-senators-review-plans-for-new-national-museums-dedicated-to-latino-womens-histories\nWATCH: Senators review plans for new national museums dedicated to Latino, women's histories\nArts Nov 17, 2020 9:10 AM EST\nThe nation's capital is home to nearly 20 Smithsonian museums and galleries, but there have been years-long efforts to create two additional institutions dedicated to telling the histories of Latinos and women in the U.S.\nThe proposed plans for the two new museums will be reviewed before a Senate committee Tuesday after, separately, receiving bipartisan support in the House of Representatives.\nThe hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET Tuesday, Nov. 17. Watch live in the player above.\nIn July, the House approved a bill that would authorize the creation of the National Museum of the American Latino, devoted to hundreds of years of Latino history, arts and culture. The idea began years before the bill reached the House. Back in 1994, a task force noted that the Smithsonian Institution, the largest museum complex in the world, \"displays a pattern of willful neglect\" toward the millions of Latinos in the U.S. In 2005, then-Sen. Mel Mart\u00ednez, R-Fla., and then-Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., co-sponsored the National Museum of the American Latino Act with other advocates to create the first-ever national museum for American Latinos. Today, Latinos make up one-fifth of the U.S. population.\nMonths before a Latino history museum was approved by the House, lawmakers passed a bill for a women's history museum. The bill's lead sponsors, Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., and Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., call for the establishment of a Smithsonian Women's History Museum on or near the National Mall. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, co-sponsored the companion bill that will be reviewed by the Senate on Tuesday.\nBoth museum proposals follow the model of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which was 100 years in the making before opening in 2016. Lonnie Bunch, who oversaw the development of the historic museum preserving Black history and served as its first director, is now the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.\nBoth proposals await Senate approval, and if they clear that hurdle, will reach the president's desk.\nThe PBS NewsHour will update this story as it develops.\nI toured this exhibit on epidemics before the coronavirus pandemic shut it down\nBy Joshua Barajas\nMuseums face calls to better represent people of color\nBy Christine Fernando, Associated Press\nShould museums be able to sell their art? This museum says its future depends on it\nBy Dayana Morales Gomez\nMuseums are curating an era of social movements in real time\nBy Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green\nJoshua Barajas is the arts editor for the NewsHour. He can be reached at jbarajas@newshour.org.\n@Josh_Barrage\nLonnie Bunch on how the Smithsonian can help America understand its identity\nArts Jul 18","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"#408 Carma for the Cat Burglars\n00:00 Intros\n05:55 Cryptocurrencies are Fossil Fuel Hungry\n20:50 VW Power Day and BMW's EV plan\n42:50 CA Law Enforcement finally going after Cat Burglars\n50:05 KIA's EV6\n56:25 The Citro\u00ebn Ami\n58:50 Texas strikes back at the Anti-Fossil Fuel Lobby\n1:03:25 Shout-outs and Go Home!\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/whatdrivesus\/p\/whatdrives.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/What-Drives-Us-408-Carma-for-the-Cat-Burglars.mp3\nBMW, Car, EV, Kia, law, Tesla, VW\n#375 Gouged In The iX3\n18 Jul , 2020 Video\n02:40 Nissan Announces the Ariya EV and Abandons CHADeMo\n17:00 Dealers Mark up RAV4 Prime up to $10,000\n25:30 SCE Spending $350M on Infrastructure\n29:30 New BMW iX3 EV\n46:00 Polestar 2 Review: It's Nice!\n52:55 VW's Top Software Guy is Out\n57:50 Shout outs and Go Home\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/whatdrivesus\/p\/whatdrives.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/What-Drives-Us-375-Gouged-In-The-IX3.mp3\nBMW, EV, LE, nissan, prime, RAV4, review, Software, VW\n#348 Dieselgate Saves VW\n1) States face roadblocks on path to lower tailpipe emissions.\n2) BMW remains committed to ICE cars for at least 30 more years.\n3) The Prius is no longer Toyota's top-selling hybrid.\n4) Sony shocks CES by unveiling a car.\n5) The Fisker Ocean might actually be areal thing.\n6) Tesla's Gigafactory 4 has to tread lightly in the forest.\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/whatdrivesus\/p\/whatdrives.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/What-Drives-Us-348-Dieselgate-Saves-VW.mp3\nautonomous, batteries, battery, BMW, bus, Car, CBC, Charging, concept, Convenience, Cyber Truck, Cybertruck, Diesel, dieselgate, Eco, Efficiency, electric, elon, elon musk, emissions, Employees, epa, EV, eVolution, FICA, FSD, fuel cell, Full Self Drive, General Motors, gigafactory, gm, Government, Gratification, hybrid, ID.3, id3, Incentives, LE, Lexus, LimePod, lyft, Micromobility, mobility, Model S, model X, motorcycle, nissan, Oregon, Plug-in, porsche, Portland, Prius, Range Anxiety, RAV-4, RAV4, review, robots, rv, RVing, Software, solar, Starlink, tax, Tax Credit, Technology, Tesla, Toyota, Tracking, TriMet, trump, update, Updates, volkswagen, VW, What Drives Us\n#207 Weed Banking\n1 Dec , 2016 Video\nBolt to lose $8-9k per car before ZEV Credits, to make $8-9k per car after credits\nAudi, BMW, Daimler and Ford team up to deploy fast chargers in Europe, 400 to start\nTesla doesn't mind the GAAP\nSuper-Cap-Battery\nVolvo PHEV review\nHydrogen. It's really, really dead for passenger cars and that's a good thing\n2016, audi, battery, BMW, Bolt, bus, capacitor, Chevrolet, Chevy, detroit, EV, featured, features, Ford, gm, hybrid, hydrogen, LE, PHV, Plug-in, review, Tesla, Volvo\n#185 Twilight of the Unicorn Car\n18 May , 2016 Video\nWhy Tesla scares German car makers so much\nThis week's Faraday Future joke, and we make fun of The Verge as well\nUber versus Apple is the coming battle\nBad internet memes that need to go away\nFeds change rules making streets better \u2013 Second part\nFuel Cell makers suddenly see wisdom in plug-ins\n2016, apple, articles, BMW, bus, Eco, electric, EV, faraday future, featured, fuel cell, future, german, Honda, Hyundai, LE, lying, Plug-in, Tesla, Toyota\nChicago Auto Show,Features\nTony at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show\nFirst stop: Toyota display. That's an easy one since they are front and center with something like 46,000 sqft of space. New Prius on display. Shocker, right?\nChecked out the \"Back to the Future\" Marai fuel cell vehicle. It's \"Back to the Future because of the gull-wing doors. They say it's a fuel cell vehicle but there's clearly a Mr Fussion in the rear. So which is it, Toyota? Actually, I suppose it doesn't matter because they are both equally as likely to work as a car fuel system.\nJust took a ride-along in the new Rav4 Hybrid. Very, very slick indeed. All-time All-Wheel Drive. Electric motor in the front and one in the back. My favorite feature is the all-around camera. Not only does it provide a bird's eye view as though you are looking down at the vehicle from about ten feet in the air, it can perform a panoramic fly-around. Really neat feature. Perhaps this will eliminate really bad parking. Doubt it.\nAlso on display at Toyota is the I-Road, the three-wheel personal transport. The two front wheels hinge up and down as you lean into corners. The third wheels is centered in the rear. It certainly looks like it would be a lot of fun to drive, with the footprint of a motorcycle, and certainly protects you from the weather. However, I'm not convinced it or the driver would fair very well in a collision with an actual vehicle.\nEven more extreme is the FV2. Two very large exposed side wheels and one large wheel centered in the rear. There's a smaller wheel in the front, as though Toyota's trying to hide that one. This is clearly a show-piece meant merely to get people to the Toyota display. There is no part of this 'vehicle' that seems practical.\nOn to BMW. Only two cars here interest me: i3 and i8. Every time I see the i3 I like a little more. It's relatively unassuming and cute in its own way. The suicide doors make entry and exiting very easy into the rear seats. As luck would have it, when I was checking it out, there were sone who had never seen it. I spied on their conversations and was pleased to hear that they were impressed by its overall appeal. Dare I say that this car would cause them to consider an EV? Oh yeah, I dare.\nThen, of course, there's the i8. There's nothing I could add to the wealth of articles already written about it. It's turned off and simply for show. Getting into it is interesting due to its low-slung seats. Getting out is not for the feint of heart. The gull-wing doors, though, are really neat. Certainly, this is a car you drive because you want to be seen driving that car.\nNext Stop: Lexus. I asked about the hybrid line-up and was provided the standard line of six hybrids in the Lexus fleet. When I asked which ones were here, I was pointed to a CT200h and one SUV hybrid. Then the other four hybrids were mentioned followed with \"we didn't bring that one.\" I consider the CT200h my fall-back vehicle in the event that I didn't like the new Prius. Yeah, I know, tough problem to have. But sitting here, in this 200h, I have to say that I might be falling out of love with it. I find the seats relatively stiff and the entire cockpit sort of cold. Functional, very functional, but not much that makes me happy to sit here. Perhaps it's the model they have on show here, but I would not like this one as my daily driver.\nAt Cheverolet. 2nd generation Volt has a lot of gawkers and, I must say, it deserves them. There are certainly some refinements from the previous generation and that makes for a much improved driver and passenger experience. One of my major turn-offs of the first Volt was the steering wheel which I thought felt a little cheap for the car. Though the cabin is nice, it strikes me a little too Grand Prix-ish. Gray plastic. Soft, gray plastic, but still that 1980s plastic. All of it: plastic. And gray. No doubt it probably comes in other colors and maybe even nicer finishes but this is the car show; pull out all the stops. I hate to think this is as refined as it comes. On the up note, of all the gawkers huddled around the car, I didn't hear a single disparaging comment. SOme liked the heated seats and heated steering wheel. Some liked the overall look and comfort of the seats. Only a few, though, remarked how cool it was to see an America company championing a plug-in vehicle. Whatever it takes to get them into a plug-in is just fine with me.\nThe pre-production Bolt on display is not to be sat in. At least that's what the lady said as she shooed us out of the car and we scurried like pigoens in the park. Actually, I think it was more like a herd of cats who had just been caught doing something we weren't supposed to. Back to the Bolt: I could really see myself in that car. It's got a nice profile, a good size, and is very comfortable to sit in (oops). The BOlt will be manufactured in Detroit with LG batteries being imported. Those batteries will deliver 200 miles of range per full charge. Someone commented that with 200 miles it seels like it's limited to being 'a city car'. How big is your city? But yeah, it's not for driving coast to coast but around town, you only need to plug it in every 3rd, 4th, or maybe 5th day. And that's not bad. At some point, inductive charging for vehicles will become more readily available and you won't even need to plug it in. One can dream.\nI'm not a minivan guy but there are many families that need a minivan for their kids and stuff. To that end, I checked out the Chrysler Pacifica plug-in range-extended Hybrid. Like the Bolt, no one is allowed inside. Unlike the Bold, they made made their point by making it inaccessible. Talking with the representative, I learned that the Pacifica is expected to cover up to 30 miles on a full charge. Add a full tank of gas, and you're expected to travel up to 530 miles. The hybrid has all the same features as the ICE version, except the stow-and-go seats because the floor is full of batteries. The big idea here is that all those minivans idling in front of the school can be replaced with a minivan that's just sitting there on battery power and not polluting the kids' air. The conventionally version of the Pacifica is due to deliver in the summer; the hybrid in the latter part of the year.\nQuite possibly the meanest thing you could do at an auto show is to get lunch and eat it in front of the \"product representatives\". And no, I didn't do it; I just happened to think of it.\nThe Ford C-Max remains mostly unchanged from last year. The C-max body style is nice for a smallish family with a few things to haul. The hatch back is easy to access and makes for a huge opening for loading and unloading. The rear seats fold flat and there is tons of space for hauling things. The hybrid is rated at 40mpg combined. The Energi (plug-in hybrid) is expected to see 20 miles of full electric before switching over to the gas online engine for a total of 550 miles per tank. While 20 miles is fine for haunting around town, I have to wonder if it's enough anymore with other, higher mile, options coming to market.\nAnd let's not forget the Nissan Leaf. Quite possibly the most famous EV. Well, Pre-Tesla, that is. Certain, the top-selling, consumer-priced EV. Thanks to a model refresh, the Leaf's batteries grew from 24kWh to 30kWh. This 20% increase promises to boost the range from 84 miles to an estimated 107. Inside, the new Leaf got updated software and new internal lighting touches. Upper models feature a solar panel on the rear spoiler that trickle charges the 12v battery. Nissan is extremely proud of the fact that the car and the batteries are both manufactured in Nashville. There is no doubt the Leaf is another car that is high on my list.\nWell, that's it. It's 2:00 and apparently the floor closes at 2:00. At least that's what the \"muscle\" is saying as they shuffle me out. So it was a six hour day for me from 8:00am to 2:00pm. I got to see all the things I wanted but am sure there are some things I missed.\nTune in to next week's podcast to hear a little more about my experience. Also, Mark is at the Toronto Auto Show. Might just be an all car show show next week. 'Til then, I'm signing out.\n2016, batteries, battery, BMW, Bolt, Charging, Chrysler, detroit, Eco, EV, first, Ford, fuel cell, future, hybrid, i3, LE, Leaf, LED, Lexus, MPG, nissan, oil, Plug-in, Prius, solar, Tesla, Toyota, update, Volt\n#168 Faraday Future is the New Fisker\nThis week we eviscerate the silly Faraday Future batmobile, we talk about Danny's new BMW i3, we discuss Toyota's continued desire to have their own infotainment to frustrate owners and much more. Big panel, great show.\nInsurances rates only go up\nhttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2016\/01\/04\/the-big-data-of-bad-driving-and-how-insurers-plan-to-track-your-every-turn\/\nFaraday Future is making a race car\nhttp:\/\/faradayfuture.com\/cespresskit\/\nand (no, it's not)\nhttp:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/aarontilley\/2016\/01\/05\/faraday-future-were-going-to-move-a-lot-faster-than-tesla\/\nToyota continues to fight for your right for a tepid ownership experience\nhttps:\/\/www.autonews.com\/article\/20160104\/OEM06\/160109983\/toyota-joins-ford-in-bid-to-resist-apple-google-car-screen-dominance\nThis time, it is a Tesla\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Not-a-Tesla-185125388344010\/\nDumb comparisons\nhttp:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2015\/12\/18\/nissan-leaf-outsells-tesla-model-s-2-to-1\/\nChevy Bolt debut\nhttp:\/\/insideevs.com\/general-motors-confirms-chevrolet-bolt-will-available-late-2016\/\n2016, android auto, apple, BMW, Bolt, carplay, Chevrolet, Chevy, EV, faraday future, featured, Ford, future, google, i3, infotainment, insurance, LE, Leaf, nissan, Prius, Tesla, Toyota, VW","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vietnamnet.vn\nHuge opportunities await foreign telco investors\nMr. Sesto E Vecchi, Managing Partner at Russin & Vecchi, and Mr. Chu Bao Khanh, Associate, talk about the prospects for Vietnam's telecommunications industry attracting foreign investment.\nHow would you comment on the prospects for Vietnam's telecommunications industry to attract foreign investment?\nMr. Sesto E Vecchi, Managing Partner of Russin & Vecchi: Vietnam's telecommunications market has, in one sense, become saturated in recent years. The latest information available reveals that total revenue in the industry decreased from $8.4 billion in 2012 to $7.4 billion in 2013. In 2015, it dropped to $6 billion and then rose slightly to $6.1 billion in 2016. These trends continue. In 2016, the number of mobile subscribers exceeded the population (139 mobile subscribers per 100 people). The three largest operators account for more than 90 per cent of market share in mobile services and broadband services.\nHaving said that, there is still room to grow. For example, the number of households with internet access at home is only 27 per 100 households. Similarly, only 9.3 per cent of Vietnamese households have fixed-line telephone - although this is a diminishing market. In addition, although the number of mobile subscribers exceeds the population, most of them still mainly use 2G services (calls and SMS).\nThe number of mobile subscribers with 3G data connection is still below the world average (39 subscribers per 100 people). The number of subscribers with 4G data connection is much lower. The 5G network is not yet developed in Vietnam. We note that data demand is on the rise in Vietnam and will keep increasing in the near future. According to predictions from the Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) and telecom experts, the number of 4G subscribers will increase by over nine-fold from 2019 to 2024.\nIn addition, due to Vietnam's commitment to trade agreements it has recently became a signatory to, the Vietnamese Government understands that it must divest from State-owned enterprises (SOEs), including telecommunications companies. MobiFone and VNPT plan to have their IPOs finished in 2019 and 2020, respectively. This presents a huge opportunity for foreign investors to invest in Vietnam's telecom market if indeed divestment occurs and if bidding is open and appropriate.\nWhat challenges do you see for a foreign telco in Vietnam?\nThe biggest challenge that a foreign telco will face in Vietnam is the competitive environment. Vietnam's telecommunications market is dominated by the big SOEs, including VNPT, Viettel, MobiFone, and FPT. The market share that belongs to private firms is either small or negligible. What is worrying is that not all of these dominant positions have necessarily developed as a result of superior skills, business foresight, and technology advances, but because of the dominance that government links give them.\nState ownership, full or partial, can bring advantages to SOEs. Some of these advantages are quite obvious and they contribute to strengthening their financial\/capital base as a result of support they can receive from the government: land use rights, rights of way, credit provided by State-controlled financial institutions on favorable conditions, etc. Some are not so obvious. For example, SOEs may also benefit from information asymmetries since, as part of the State apparatus, they naturally have access to data and information that are not available to their private competitors or only available to a limited extent. Most importantly, in many cases, governments entrust SOEs with exclusive or monopoly rights over some of the activities they are mandated to pursue (without a regulatory bidding process) and with loose supervision.\nThere is another challenge that foreign telco investors will have to deal with. The government does express a clear and strong intention to equitize the main mobile operators according to a plan with specific timelines. But as with SOEs in other industries, or companies with State capital, in practice, the intentions, while good, are not generally complied with. For example, and within the telecoms space itself, the IPO for MobiFone which was in fact planned to be finished in 2018 was not. Due to delays, the equitization plan has been delayed to 2019. Other examples abound.\nMajor telcos in Vietnam have switched their business strategy to service differentiation and cross-country partnerships in areas of mobile payments, digital marketing, cyber security, and cloud-based services. In what areas would foreign telcos be interested in collaborating with Vietnamese telcos?\nMr. Chu Bao Khanh, Associate at Russin & Vecchi: Although a number of telecom sectors are saturated, there are still sectors with room to grow. Opportunities exist for foreign exporters in providing equipment and infrastructure and value-added services, such as developing wireless and alternative broadband technologies and partnering with established network operators to provide 3G\/4G\/5G services, and Pay TV infrastructure and media broadcasting services, etc., have much room to grow.\nIn addition, since the satellite-based telecom market is not yet developed in Vietnam, we think there is an opportunity for foreign companies to provide satellite services into Vietnam on a cross-border basis.\nPolicies are key to the development of the industry in Vietnam. What policies would boost the development of new business collaboration and newcomers?\nA national strategy on Information Technology and Telecommunications through 2010 and Development Orientation through 2020 was approved by Decision No. 246\/2005\/QD-TTg dated October 6, 2005. Vietnam's Telecommunications and Internet Development Plan through 2020 was approved by Decision No. 32\/2012\/QD-TTg from the Prime Minister dated July 27, 2012. It provided some detail on Vietnam's national strategy. In particular, the country aims to record total service revenue of between $15 billion and $17 billion in 2020. Data are not available, but this would be an important increase if achieved.\nOn July 7, 2007, MoIC issued Instruction No. 07\/CT-BBCVT on the Orientation of Information Technology and the Telecommunications Development Plan from 2011 to 2020. According to Instruction 07, Vietnam aims to accelerate the development of information technology and the telecommunications industry by 20-30 per cent each year. A further objective is to give people access to high quality telecommunications services at low prices. We have seen no data that reports on what Vietnam has actually achieved, but its objective is to reach a mid-level technology ranking in the region.\nWith Vietnam joining the CPTPP and signing the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), it is clear that it intends to open up its telecom market, well beyond its current WTO commitments. In general, Vietnam's commitments under the CPTPP will be more open than those of the EVFTA. Specifically:\nNon facilities-based services: Under the EVFTA, Vietnam will raise the foreign equity cap in basic services from the current 65 per cent (under Vietnam's WTO commitments) to 75 per cent five years after the effective date. The foreign equity cap in virtual private network services will increase from the current 70 per cent (under WTO commitments) to 75 per cent under EVFTA five years after the effective date. In value-added services, the foreign equity cap will be removed for the first time, enabling European investors, five years after the effective date, to acquire up to 100 per cent ownership, thereby removing the obligation to form a joint venture. Under the CPTPP, from January 14, 2024, all foreign equity limitations and joint venture requirements will be removed, for both basic and value-added services.\nFacilities-based services: For most basic services, Vietnam's commitments under the EVFTA and the CPTPP are the same as its WTO commitments (the foreign ownership cap is still 49 per cent), except for VPN services. Under the EVFTA, the foreign equity cap in VPN services will increase from the current 70 per cent (under WTO commitments) to 75 per cent, five years after the effective date. Regarding value-added services, the CPTPP requires Vietnam increase the foreign equity cap from 50 per cent (under its WTO commitments) to 51 per cent, and then to 65 per cent from January 14, 2024. However, under the EVFTA, the current 50 per cent foreign equity cap will be increased to 65 per cent five years from the effective date. VN Economic Times\nThree telecom providers licensed to trial 5G\nThe Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has granted licences to telecom providers Viettel, Vinaphone and Mobifone to test 5G services, MIC Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Hung said on July 5.\nMore mobile networks join Vietnam's telecom market\nThe telecom network is expecting to receive more mobile network operators, but analysts say the existing networks are 'more than enough' for Vietnam.\nvneconomic\nvn economy\nvneconomy english\nvietnam economic times\nTelco investors\nvietnam economic time\nVietnamnet global\nVietnam among top 10 best places to go for budget honeymoon\nThe nation has been listed among the top 10 best places to go for a budget honeymoon in 2023 by prestigious global travel website Lonely Planet.\nVietnamese athletes competing in the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, scheduled for July 26 to August 11, 2024, will receive 1 million USD in bonus for each gold medal; 500,000 USD for silver and 200,000 for bronze.\nVIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES FEBRUARY 1\/2023\nGoogle Doodle honours first female Vietnamese newspaper editor Suong Nguyet Anh\nThe world's most popular search engine Google has paid tribute to Suong Nguyet Anh, the first female editor of the nation's first women's newspaper by posting a drawing of her on its homepage on February 1.\nBanh Cuon among world top 10 dishes visitors should try in 2023\nAustralian travel magazine Traveller has listed Banh Cuon, Vietnamese steamed rice rolls, among the top 10 best meals from around the world that visitors should try in 2023.\nParty Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, mapping out key tasks for the new year.\nVIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS FEBRUARY 1\/2023\nDomestic market to drive tourism recovery in 2023: insider\nSome big companies made profits in 2022, but others incurred losses\nWhile Duc Giang Chemicals and Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical have reported big profits for Q4 and the year 2022, Vietnam Airlines and leading steel manufacturer Hoa Phat saw big losses for the year.\nVietnamese couple help German bicyclist in distress\nTrung and Nhung, a Vietnamese couple, on the way to travel across Vietnam on Tet holiday, saw a foreigner who was facing troubles because of strong winds in Ninh Thuan.\nVietnam develops green agriculture to increase exports to EU\nVietnam is paying attention to mobilising resources to invest in developing green agriculture with an aim to raising the market share of its agricultural exports to the European Union.\nVietnamese team comes first at Southeast Asian Fencing Championship\nVietnam secured the first position at the 2023 Southeast Asian Fencing Championship which has taken place recently in Malaysia.\n2023 - Time for Edtech to thrive in Vietnam\nExperts are positive about the development of Vietnam's education technology (Edtech) market in 2023 if local Edtech companies can overcome post-pandemic challenges.\nUK imports from Vietnam in 2022 put at over US$6 billion\nUnited Kingdom (UK) imports from Vietnam amounted to US$6.06 billion last year, rising by 5.2% over 2021, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.\nFive more registration officials in Hanoi prosecuted for soliciting bribes\nPolice of Hanoi's Thuong Tin District has started legal proceedings against five officials at 2915D Registration Centre for taking bribes.\n\u00a9 Copyright of VietNamNet Global\nTel: 024 3772 7988 Fax: (024) 37722734, Email: evnn@vietnamnet.vn\nSend to editor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Elected Leaders Look Less And Less Like The Country That They Govern,...\nMike Bland\n\u2022 3 months ago\nWe can cultivate more diverse leaders with the passion and commitment to succeed, if given the...\nESPN Reporter Rachel Nichols Who Called Black Colleague A Diversity...\nNichols will be replaced by Malika Andrews as the sideline reporter.\nThe Finance World Has Been A Bastion Of White Male Privilege. But,...\nDr. Julianne Malveaux\nGiven the enormous power and wealth that these institutions possess, it is imperative that their...\nThese Two Siblings Started A Job Review Site And They're Calling It...\nVinciane Ngomsi\n\"We aspire to be the premier trusted brand in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI),\" co-founder...\nAmerican Employers Are Failing Women. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way.\nAudra Jenkins\nIn addition to better supporting female employees, it is equally important for employers to...\nIf The Tech Industry Truly Wants To Increase The Diversity Of Their...\nRashan Dixon\n\u2022 10 months ago\nBlack students and workers have routinely been excluded from the educational spaces where tech...\nIf The Tech Industry Truly Wants To Increase The Diversity Of Their Workforce, It Can. Here's How.\n-Rashan Dixon \u2022 10 months ago\nIf you're interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more.____The tech industry has some of the best opportunities to generate wealth for new and experienced professionals alike. It's also, unsurprisingly, one of the least diverse industries in the employment market.Research from last summer found that big tech companies have not held up their promises to hire more Black workers. Over the last five years, Facebook made big leaps in employing more women. In the same period, the tech giant only managed to take its Black workforce from 3% to 3.8%. Other companies have done a little better, but across the board, tech continues to generate mountains of wealth while locking diverse workers out of that growth.The common argument against minority inclusion in tech (\"The talent pipeline just isn't there!\") does not hold up to scrutiny. SAP's chief of diversity, Judith Michelle Williams, points out that the so-called pipeline problem is not the obstacle companies imagine it is. That interpretation of the issue simply passes the blame from the companies to the workers, allowing businesses to make token donations and say \"we tried.\" These old ways of shirking responsibility have to end. Companies must finally become accountable to themselves for increasing BIPOC representation within their ranks. The problem cannot continue as long as tech continues to be one of the largest drivers of wealth in the world. People of other races are earning generational money in startups and at big tech businesses. The longer these companies continue to delay real progress in diversity, the more of that wealth will remain inaccessible to qualified minority workers.Fixing this problem starts at the top with the leaders of the companies responsible. No one can make the change for them. To that end, companies should address inequality across their organizations in the following...\nBetrayed By My Mother, I Chose To Use The Energy Of My Anger To Understand, Not Divide\n-Michael Fosberg \u2022 a year ago\nIf you're interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more.____I read in a book on psychology that depression is caused by anger turned inward. If that's true, then there are certainly many reasons for us to be collectively depressed. Fear appears to be the catalyst for the anger which our current administration (and dare I say one party?!) is using to stoke divisions amongst Americans. One side is very afraid of socialist terrorists, the other very afraid of nationalist terrorists. In other words, Americans are afraid of one another. Seems strange, don't you think? How'd we get here?The presidential campaign of 2016 brought forth what some hailed as the death of political correctness, and what others saw as angry, mean-spirited and divisive. Historians argue over whether this is an unprecedented period in lack-of-decorum, or simply collective ignorance of our past. Once the gate was opened however, the flood was swift and all consuming. At the apex of America's original sin, our racial divide, we saw anger turn to violence. Whether it was white supremacist marches, mass shootings in synagogues, fear of Black Lives Matter protesters, or Confederate statues torn down, each side found the other objectionable.So why are we so angry and fearful? Is this anger serving a greater good? Why do so many people listen to hate-talk-radio and television trash-talking-heads as they spout angry, mean-spirited often blatantly false rhetoric? Why are these folks so angry? Why all the name-calling? Well, there are plenty of experts who can debate the reasoning, but the anger practiced is addictive. A 2013 study of over 200,000 internet users found that anger spreads faster than joy or even sadness among the 70 million messages they collected, and follow-up studies have reached the same conclusions. This is not to suggest that that some people don't have legitimate reasons for their anger. However, instead of channeling our anger into a positive outcome, we are acting it out with negative consequences. Positive changes have little chance in a climate saturated with anger and fear.I too know a little about what it feels to be angry. My expertise lies in the field of race and identity, borne of the circumstances of my personal story and the mid-life discovery that I was not the white man I'd been led to believe I was. The betrayal I felt regarding my mother's decision to withhold the identity of my Black biological father could have led me down an angry path like so many others. But I realized that path is a dead-end.Simply reading that paragraph will produce a wide variety of reactions since opinions about race and identity are as diverse as, well, race and identity! Revealed within the hundreds of dialogues I have conducted over 15 years of sharing my story, I discovered there isn't merely one way to have a conversation about race and identity. Conversations about race are messy and uncomfortable, and can often lead to misunderstanding and anger.There is, however, an antidote to this anger, which I have learned and practice that can help mitigate this divide. I have found the powerful act of sharing your personal story can bridge what seem like disparate realities. By sharing our stories between majority and minority populations we can break down prejudices by discovering we have more in common than we have difference. It is a fact we have more in common than different. Discovering commonalities gives us the power to create bonds and build trust.The problem is we are not wired to initially find commonalities. We see (or hear) differences and those activate our own set of stereotypes and unconscious biases. That person has a unique name, speaks another language, has dark-skin, looks like an elitist, a gay person, whatever. We allow those first impressions to taint our opinion and, for some, that's all it takes to prevent a conversation from happening. The old adage, \"You only get one chance to make a first impression,\" can prove difficult when we have no control over how we are seen and judged. Walking into an interview with a unique name, dark-skin or a visible disability puts you at an immediate disadvantage.However, telling your personal story, asking others about theirs then discovering the commonalities, can forge meaningful and deep connections. We are not enemies; we are Americans with rich personal stories. So let's set aside the anger and get to know one another's stories. How can we affect change? Make it personal!____Michael Fosberg has been traveling around the country telling his story in the form of a one-man play, utilizing it as a Diversity & Inclusion training tool for high schools, colleges, corporations, government agencies, law firms and others. His latest book, 'Nobody Wants to Talk About It: Race, Identity and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations', talks about his journeys across the country trying to get people to talk about race and the lessons he learned. IncognitoThePlay.com...\nDiversity Doesn't End At Hiring: 5 Ways To Advance Diverse Talent In Your Organization\nCompanies need to adjust their mindset and recognize that diverse organizations are more successful organizations.\n\u2022 a year ago\nIf you're interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more.____While most companies have some diversity initiatives in place, the reality is that for many organizations, diversity has become more of a business requirement rather than an integral part of company culture. However, in the wake of recent social justice protests and shifting public opinion on discrimination in America, many businesses have been forced to rethink their diversity strategies. While committing to hire more diverse employees is a step in the right direction, employers must develop a more proactive and holistic diversity and inclusion plan that provides diverse talent a platform to both amplify their voices and offer a clear path to succeed and advance within the organization.Here are five ways your company can ensure diversity remains at the forefront throughout the entire employee...\nHuffPost Reporters Call Out Platform For Not Hiring, Promoting Or Paying Journalists Of Color: 'This Is Shameful'\nThe news outlet's union called on the company's leaders to hire more people of color.\nJon Greig\nMembers of HuffPost's union have called out the news outlet as well as its parent company Verizon for failing to hire, promote and pay people of color, according to a website created by the union. Enough is enough. We demand @HuffPost & @verizonmedia take action to increase diversity in our newsroom and retain our staff of color. Hire more people of color. Promote more people of color. Release pay equity data. No more platitudes and empty promises. https:\/\/t.co\/0dht5Dj5wW\u2014 HuffPost Union (@HuffPostUnion) September 14, 2020According to Tweets from current HuffPost workers and the union website, the national news outlet -- known for its liberal-leaning coverage -- has failed to prioritize diversity and inclusion internally. \"The HuffPost Union demands that HuffPost and Verizon Media make real commitments to hiring and promoting people of color in our newsroom,\" the union wrote, including a list of demands that they hope to see enacted.\"We demand that Verizon Media leaders release pay equity data to ensure, as the company claims, that they are paying our staff of color as much as their majority white peers,\" one demand stated. HuffPost CEO Guru Gowrappan said there is pay equity on the basis of race but the company has refused to release the data backing up their...\nIn A Crowded Market, Here's Why Your Diversity Is Your Differentiator\nYour cultural lens is an important part of how you do your job.\nMawulom Nenonene\nIf you're interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more.____The coronavirus-induced downturn is forcing many tech firms to shrink the size of their workforce. Minorities, who are underrepresented in the industry to begin with, stand to be disproportionately affected by the cuts. If you've been laid off, it's OK to feel fear or anxiety. You are not alone. These are intense times for everybody. But have hope. Companies (including LTSE) are hiring. And your diversity is your differentiator.Your cultural experiences could be that something special that sets you apart from the field in a crowded job market. As for how you might capitalize on your background, I don't claim to have all the answers, but here are a few ways I've advised candidates to lean in to their diversity. By diversity, I'm referring to your unique perspective, traditions, experiences -- the things that make you, you. It includes the way each of us identifies patterns and approaches problems. Ethnicity, race, gender, socioeconomic status or physical ability factor into who we are.Personal stories matter Think of interviews as conversations that give companies and you an opportunity to get to know each other. So beside preparing to discuss how you developed the skills required for this role in a past job, reflect on and be prepared to discuss which of the company's principles or values resonate with you. Think, too, about how your background and experiences have readied you for this role? During a job interview early in my career, the interviewer asked me about my why; the purpose or belief that drives me. My first instinct was to point to some part of the company's mission that aligned with my principles. But instead, in the moment, I relayed an anecdote from a trip with my mother years earlier to Togo, my country of birth, that changed my life. I walked through my mother's rural village with the man I call my grandfather, with whom I could not wait to relay my experiences in the U.S., especially how I wanted to make my mark on society, to change the world. Instead, my grandfather, who spoke little, shared a parable with me. He told me of a season when the rain didn't fall, forcing my grandfather, his family and neighbors in their village to walk for miles to retrieve water for their small farms. When the harvest arrived, some of the plants yielded fruit and some did not. Those that didn't, my grandfather said, were not worth the water poured on them. \"Be worth your water,\" he told me. \"Be worth all that has been poured into you.\" In that instant, I abandoned whatever thought I had of trying to change the world. Instead, I resolved to do my part to make the lives of those around me -- my family, friends, colleagues and community -- easier, in whatever way I might be able to. Each of us has a story. Take some time to reflect on some moment or relationship that shaped you. Your personal story is less about the subject than how it influenced you and helped to make you the person you became.Draw on your experience in employee resource groups If you have participated in an employee resource group (ERG), you know that such groups traditionally offer safe spaces for members to gather and bond. But ERGs also can have an outsized impact on business and provide tremendous growth opportunities for members, including experiences outside of their day-to-day roles. Here are some ways you can utilize your ERG experience in the hiring process:Leadership: Did you lead a group of colleagues companywide? Did you chair a committee or serve as a lead? If so, you may have gained leadership experience that augmented the experience you developed in your day job. Programming: ERGs often put on programming that ties directly to company performance. For example, if your company focuses on supporting small businesses, your ERG might have thrown an event that targeted minority-led startups. When sharing this experience, focus on metrics such as the number of people who attended the event who later became customers. Counsel: Companies frequently turn to ERGs for counsel on culturally sensitive issues. Maybe your ERG halted a discriminatory business practice, spurred a shift in business strategy, or helped management get a better handle on an issue to prevent it from happening again. The experience and learnings you gain from participating in ERGs can matter as much to your career as the insights you gain in your job. Don't hesitate to draw on them.Diversity as a lens into your experience Did you build or improve a product to ensure that it served diverse communities (and grow market share in the process)? Did you design or shape a marketing campaign to feature diverse faces and voices? Did you promote diversity in hiring by developing a diverse pipeline of candidates for your team? Did you recruit experts from underrepresented backgrounds to counsel your company on issues such as discrimination?Your cultural lens is an important part of how you do your job and it's special to you -- leverage it.***Your diversity is an asset. It matters more than ever to companies that aim to build sustainable businesses. Drawing on it can help you to distinguish your experience and to bring something uniquely valuable to prospective...\nNonprofits That Empower Leaders Of Color Are More Apt To Do Something About Racial Inequality\nA few major nonprofits are led by people of color ... But these are exceptions among both large and smaller nonprofits.\nWritten by Brad R. Fulton, Indiana University____The U.S. is becoming more racially diverse. Since 2010, 96% of all U.S. counties registered an increase in their percentage of nonwhite residents. Yet the people who lead nonprofits in the U.S. remain disproportionately white.This mismatch can make it difficult for such organizations to understand and address racial inequality in their community and throughout the country.As a scholar of diversity, I know most nonprofits want to become more racially diverse. However, many struggle to achieve this goal.While researchers, funders and community leaders often highlight the dismal levels of racial diversity among nonprofit boards, an even greater disparity often goes overlooked. Not mentioned is the fact that scarcely 10% of nonprofit executive directors are people of color.Current realitiesA few major nonprofits are led by people of color, such as Darren Walker the president of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest foundations in the country, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, the CEO of Feeding America, the biggest U.S. group fighting hunger, and Angela Williams the CEO of Easterseals, a nonprofit that provides disability services. But these are exceptions among both large and smaller nonprofits.What's more, research suggests that this situation is likely to continue for years to come.Community organizations, like neighborhood associations, food pantries and mentoring programs are places where every member of society can develop leadership skills, participate in civic life and influence public policy. The underrepresentation of leaders of color in such organizations can hinder efforts to address racial inequality and racial tensions.One popular solution is to appoint more people of color to nonprofit boards.Experts, like Kenneth Anderson Taylor, a professor at Texas A&M University, say that if an organization's board becomes diverse, it will do a better job of serving everyone and promoting racial equality. The logic is that because boards hire and fire executive directors, having more board members of color will result in nonprofits hiring more leaders of color.To a degree, this theory has played out in terms of gender balance on nonprofit boards. However, the share of nonprofit executive directors from communities of color remains lower than the percentage of board members of color.A major shortcoming of this proposed solution is that nonprofit board members' levels of involvement and power within organizations varies substantially. Some are actively engaged in their organization's day-to-day operations, while others play only a minimal role.Nonprofit executive directors and other top staff members, in contrast, are much more likely than board members to have a direct impact on operations. They typically call the shots for all organizational activities, including strategic planning, recruiting and hiring and staff training.The role of rankI teamed up with sociology researchers Michelle Oyakawa and Richard L. Wood to analyze 41 predominantly white organizations and their leaders. These organizations seek to address local, state and national issues by organizing community members to help influence public policy.We wanted see what led some of those organizations to prioritize addressing racial inequality within their organization and in their surrounding community.Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that people of color play an important role in helping such organizations advance racial equality. Our analysis indicated that, all else being equal, organizations with a leader of color were more likely to address racial issues internally and when shaping public policy. For example, leaders of color developed workshops to help white staff members better understand white privilege and structural racism.Also, when advocating for education reform, leaders of color helped policymakers to see the connections between education inequality and racial inequality.As we explained in the the journal Nonprofit Management & Leadership, what was crucial to these nonprofits addressing racial inequality was not just having leaders of color, but that the organizations empowered those leaders to help transform their organization.While we found no significant impact related to having board members of color, we did find that staff of color play a significant role in helping predominantly white organizations address racial issues \u2013 both internally and externally. The leaders of color helped identify and address barriers that inhibited their organization from becoming more racially diverse. They also increased their organization's capacity and credibility by brokering collaborations with organizations rooted in communities of color.That is why we argue that assessing the racial composition of an organization's staff is more helpful than checking out its board in terms of predicting whether it will promote inclusion and racial equality.And while we believe that having board members of color is likely beneficial, we are confident that employing and empowering leaders of color is even better if a nonprofit is seeking to address racial issues in their own organization and community \u2013 as well as in society in general.[ Expertise in your inbox. Sign up for The Conversation's newsletter and get a digest of academic takes on today's news, every day. ]____Brad R. Fulton, Assistant Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana UniversityThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original...\nWhy Diversity And Inclusion Should Never Be An Afterthought For Businesses, But An Essential Forethought\nA Johnson & Johnson executive explains why businesses that don't embrace diversity and inclusion will be left behind.\nOray Boston Jr.\nIf you're interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more.____A few years ago, I, along with the other members of Johnson & Johnson's African Ancestry Leadership Council employee resource group, shared with our company some troubling statistics: According to the Food & Drug Administration, African Americans represent 12% of the U.S population but only 5% of participants in clinical trials, including those for the worst diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. For the Hispanic community, the numbers are even worse. They represent 16% of the American population but only 1% of clinical trials.Not only is this a moral problem, it's a data problem too. Research has shown that there may be major differences in the effectiveness of certain medicines among racial and ethnic communities. We wouldn't be able to fully glean these insights unless we brought those voices to the table. I'm pleased to share that Johnson & Johnson has taken important steps to address this issue, including understanding which communities are most impacted by different diseases, and making better use of social media and local outreach to seek out trial participants where they live. The lesson here is simple: No matter what your goals are as a company, it's impossible to achieve them if you're pushing certain voices to the side.Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) I has become a popular buzzword at companies large and small, but I believe that it has to be more than that. It should be the very foundation of your company. Our recent You Belong: Diversity & Inclusion Impact Review discusses the culture we've worked hard to create at Johnson & Johnson, one where every employee can bring their true, unique selves with them to work. Where every employee around the world is valued and heard.Creating that culture, especially at a company as large as ours, takes constant, focused effort. Otherwise, we will suffer the consequences. We've all seen the news stories of companies that failed to address potential bias, which is why we've made unconscious bias training such an important priority. I'm proud to report that we've provided this critical training to 95% of our managers and more than 85% of our total employees.Building a culture of respect at a workplace requires tangible ways to maintain and monitor progress, in order to hold yourself accountable. Under the leadership of our Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Wanda Bryant Hope, we've implemented surveys and other mechanisms to gauge how effective our efforts really are. I'm proud that an overwhelming majority of our employees believe that our company is a place where diverse perspectives are valued, and supervisors treat their teammates with respect.The Impact Review explores another idea (revolutionary, I think!) that bringing every voice to the table can actually make a major difference in a company's bottom line. Studies have shown that companies with inclusive cultures have a much more productive workforce, are twice as likely to meet or exceed financial targets and are a stunning eight times more likely to achieve better business outcomes.When you're a consumer-facing business with global reach like we are, diversity becomes even more critical. You can't bring innovative products to patients and customers unless your employees truly understand their needs.Customers like those in Muslim countries, who requested a version of our Listerine product that was alcohol-free. Or those in Southeast Asia, who asked for one in green tea, a flavor they were more accustomed to. Or even U.S. environmentalists, who asked for a version with nonsynthetic ingredients. Each of us is part of a unique group with unique needs, and businesses need to listen. For far too long, businesses have been brushing D&I to the side, embracing it only \"as needed.\" They considered it a nice-to-have, an afterthought. As we approach a new decade, we must banish this thinking forever. Simply put, D&I is a business imperative. Every organization should have their sights squarely on building and maintaining a culture where employees and customers feel like they belong and are heard. Those that don't are sure to be left behind.____ Oray B. Boston Jr. is the President of Global Biosurgery, Ethicon at Johnson &...\nMaking Employees Feel Welcome And Valued Can Pay Off \u2013 Especially For Nonprofits\n... making workplaces more inclusive may be the key to making not just nonprofit jobs more desirable, but any kind of workplace ...\nWritten by Kim Brimhall, Binghamton University, State University of New York____Before I began to study and teach how to shape workplace relationships, I was a social worker. For about six years, I worked at a variety of nonprofits that served the needs of people with substance use problems, adolescents with mental health challenges and children who had been abused.At every job, I noticed a pattern. All my colleagues felt unappreciated and wanted to quit.As a scholar, I've learned that this dynamic isn't unusual. Whether they are hospitals, museums, food pantries, churches or environmental groups, all nonprofits constantly struggle to attract and retain qualified staff. Research I've conducted suggests that when employees feel valued and that their colleagues and bosses appreciate them, talented staff members become more likely to stick around.Feeling appreciatedIn a national survey of 420 nonprofit organizations conducted in 2017, 28% of nonprofits said the top challenge they faced was hiring qualified staff, and 81% of nonprofits said they can't get the staff they do hire to stay.This same survey indicated that nonprofits may not do enough to address these problems. Two out of three had no systematic way to recruit qualified staff and vet new hires. And four out of five did little to encourage employees to stick around, such as helping them feel valued by expressing appreciation for the unique talents they bring to the workplace, or giving them raises and paying salaries commensurate with their skills and experience.In addition, the top three reasons employees give for leaving nonprofits, according to the results of a different survey, are dissatisfaction with their career opportunities, compensation and benefits and workplace culture \u2013 or what it feels like to work there.These results suggest that salaries \u2013 which can be lower in nonprofits than in comparable private-sector jobs \u2013 are not the only factor that makes it hard to keep talented people on board.Making workplaces inclusiveTo get a clearer view of how this works, I recently completed a study regarding how managers at hospitals can improve employee performance through greater inclusivity.Inclusion, a term that generally refers to making all people feel welcome regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and disabilities, is also about helping employees feel appreciated as unique individuals and helping them feel valued as key members of their team.Characteristics such as your childhood economic status, where you went to school, your current neighborhood or political views may have an effect on how comfortable and accepted you feel on the job.More than half of all nonprofit jobs are in the health care field. And even though nonprofit hospitals generally pay their workers better than other nonprofits, they also have trouble hiring and retaining qualified staff, according to the 2018 State of the Nonprofit Sector survey.As I explained in an article published in the Nonprofit Management & Leadership academic journal, when hospital managers and top leaders helped employees feel more included, they became more committed to stay and felt better about their performance.Adopting best practicesResults from my hospital study and other research suggest that there are several things employers can do to create an inclusive workplace. Not only does this approach make good business sense, it is also the right thing to do by valuing all employees as human beings.Here are some practices I recommend for employers based on my research.Engage all employees to weigh in on important work-related decision-making.Express appreciation for feedback given from employees of all job positions, not just when suggestions come from managers or leaders.Treat each employee as a unique individual, offering coaching, feedback and opportunities that build on their own talents.Communicate a shared sense of purpose and inspire a collective vision of the future.And making workplaces more inclusive may be the key to making not just nonprofit jobs more desirable, but any kind of workplace \u2013 including those in the private and public sectors.[ Like what you've read? Want more? Sign up for The Conversation's daily newsletter. ]____Kim Brimhall, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Binghamton University, State University of New YorkThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original...\nWhy Building Community \u2013 Even Through Discomfort \u2013 Could Help Stressed College Students\n\"Decades of research shows that one of the key ingredients for a sense of belonging is frequent interaction with diverse groups of peers.\"\nWritten by Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury____It is a growing problem on campuses across America. Students entering college are reporting levels of anxiety, depression and social isolation higher than previous generations. The phrase \"mental health crisis\" has become commonplace within higher education circles.Today's undergraduates belong to the group known as Generation Z, iGen or post-millenials, defined roughly as those born between 1997 and 2012. They comprise the most ethnically diverse and globally connected generation of U.S. students. They have been widely categorized as open-minded, hard-working and eager to solve world problems.So why do so many of these students report feeling stressed and socially disconnected on campuses \u2013 and what can be done to help? Surprisingly, my research shows that a sense of safety or comfort may not be enough.A sense of belongingLike a number of other researchers, I have been working to understand what factors contribute to college students' sense of belonging. Sense of belonging is difficult to measure: It is not captured with demographic statistics or attrition rates. Rather, it has to do with students' feelings of importance, connectedness, respect and shared sense of purpose within the campus community. These feelings track closely with students' reports of personal growth, as well as their academic performance.Decades of research shows that one of the key ingredients for a sense of belonging is frequent interaction with diverse groups of peers. Such interactions not only allow students to learn from one another \u2013 they also improve student perceptions of the campus climate as a whole.However, when my research assistants and I surveyed dozens of students about their experiences engaging with peers whose backgrounds and perspectives differ from their own, we found that such experiences were less common and positive than we had expected.Many students described our campus \u2013 a small liberal arts college in rural Vermont as socially segregated \u2013 a trend documented at other institutions. Students described a variety of social divisions \u2013 not just along the lines of race and class, but also for example, between athletes and non-athletes. Students in our study said they want to push past these boundaries, but many are unsure how to do so in ways that are meaningful and productive.\"If students were able to step outside of their box more and interact with people they wouldn't naturally interact with, that could help,\" suggested one student \u2013 a comment echoed by many others. \"Students have to take risks,\" said another, \"in terms of expanding what you're comfortable doing in regard to what you're in interested in.\"Yet when asked in a separate study what inclusivity means to them, many of my students invoked images of harmony, peacefulness and acceptance. There seemed to be little room for tension or conflict in their views.This creates a paradox, since engaging with diversity \u2013 that key ingredient for sense of belonging \u2013 may involve discomfort and even tension at times. If students gauge the success of those interactions in terms of short-term comfort, rather than long-term growth, they may end up feeling further alienated from one another.Paddling furiouslyIndeed, at many institutions, and elite ones in particular, there is a culture of \"Duck Syndrome\" in which students appear to each other to be \"gliding effortlessly,\" but are in fact \"paddling furiously\" beneath the surface. Students often avoid discomfort, therefore, with a \"fake it 'til you make it\" approach to social interactions.This performed perfectionism can cause students to feel as if they are alone in their struggles. Conversely, sharing honest accounts of \"belonging uncertainty\" \u2013 even if such accounts make students feel vulnerable or uncomfortable \u2013 can help to decrease feelings of isolation.The good news is that many institutions are experimenting with ways to promote a culture of belonging. Stanford University, said to be the epicenter of \"Duck Syndrome,\" has implemented the Resilience Project, which aims to \"instill a sense of belonging and bravery,\" through storytelling about failure and struggle. The Failing Well project at Smith College has a similar goal, and even works with students to create a \"failure resume\" describing setbacks they have faced.These sorts of initiatives are part of a national trend toward programming that helps students to forge social connections through sharing experiences of discomfort, rather than allowing students to avoid discomfort through social segregation. A key feature of these programs is that they are accessible (or even required) for all students, regardless of their social identity. Middlebury is also taking part: Our orientation for first-year students includes an event called Midd Uncensored, during which students share their hopes and fears about college adjustment. First-years also participate in a program called JusTalks, which aims to \"foster dialogue and communication that confronts privilege and engages with difference.\"Redefining what belonging meansOne takeaway from my research is that those of us working in higher education need to help students redefine belonging as something more than comfort. We need to have honest conversations with students about the role of disagreement and tension in building relationships across social groups.It is not enough, however, simply to tell students to \"toughen up,\" which is the message many receive from institutional statements on free speech and intellectual freedom. Colleges and universities also need to prepare students and ourselves to engage productively with the discomfort they will inevitably encounter as they interact with diverse peers and perspectives.This sort of preparation is taking place on a number of campuses in the U.S. and abroad that have courses or programming focused on deep listening, including the University of Minnesota at Duluth and the University of Edinburgh. Middlebury is in its second year of a grant-funded Engaged Listening Project, which provides resources and opportunities for connecting across difference.How to helpFaculty can also do more to build community in the classroom \u2013 not just in week one, but throughout the semester. This can happen, for example, through increased use of pair or small group work in class, as well as through projects and assignments that invite students to put course learning into dialogue with their lived experiences. Staff working in student life may want to consider offering more programming designed to stretch students socially, such as events where connecting across difference is the central goal, rather than a possible byproduct.And students may be the best positioned to tell us what can help: Some of those we interviewed, for example, suggested that the campus dining halls are underutilized as a space for deepening and broadening relationships. Sharing a meal, they reminded us, helps to create the atmosphere for good conversation.Sense of belonging isn't simply about creating warm, fuzzy feelings. It is about taking seriously the potential for transformative learning within a diverse community. I can't think of a more worthy goal for higher education.____[ You're smart and curious about the world. So are The Conversation's authors and editors. You can read us daily by subscribing to our newsletter. ]Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Linguistics; Director of Writing & Rhetoric Program, MiddleburyThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original...\nThe Black Iris Project Bridges Ballet And The Black Experience\nZuri Ward\nIt's been said that everyone has a story, and award-winning choreographer Jeremy McQueen is writing his own with his collaborative ballet endeavor The Black Iris Project. Inspired by Georgia O'Keefe's painting, \"Black Iris III,\" the ballet initiative serves as a way to celebrate black artists and promote diversity in fine arts. Through life experiences, an artist can either draw inspiration from or be pushed into what might seem like a creative assignment. McQueen and his collaborators are using these experiences to fuel the many missions of The Black Iris Project. During his impressive studies, McQueen was often one of few black dancers. He graduated from The Ailey School\/Fordham University B.F.A Program and trained as a scholarship recipient with American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet and Alonzo King's LINES Ballet. \"I went because I knew I needed the training, but at the same time, I felt very discouraged because I didn't see very many people in the school that looked like me,\" he says. That realization was heightened as he embarked on his career, and led to McQueen not only fostering close relationships with other dancers who shared his experiences, but to also create a sense of support and encouragement for future black ballet dancers. \"When I was at Wicked, I was the only black male in the cast, and right before that, I did The Color Purple for its national tour. Those two things were totally contrasting,\" recalled McQueen. Photo: Matthew Murphy \"There was such a warm, rich, environment of support because we knew that show was very unique because of the story line and because it's just so rare these days to have a cast predominately of African-Americans, it's so rare to find that on Broadway,\" he says, \"So we really found a kinship in being able to collaborate and work together through that.\" For The Black Iris Project, McQueen continued that kinship with collaborators in all areas of the arts. \"Brown Baby,\" one of the new ballets featured in The Black Iris Project, features music from Jazz pianist and composer Aaron Diehl, as well as the collaboration of co-choreographer Lauren Cox. McQueen connected with his collaborators in hopes to create an innovative approach to composing the project. \"The ballet world is one that has generally been European-based,\" McQueen explains. With that, the stories told in traditional ballets are often fairytales or fables that don't leave much room for black characters. The BIP is so unique because each ballet is rooted in black history and the black experience. Photo: Matthew Murphy \"Brown Baby\" in particular is based on the life of Beatrice Reynolds Cox; a mixed international model that grew up in post-segregated Flint, Michigan. \"That is a story that we really felt compelled to bring to life, because it really gives such a positive message to students,\" he says. \"No matter what you look like, you really have to find that inner beauty and that inner strength to know that you are beautiful and you are worthy of wonderful, great things.\" The BIP has many more collaborators, including those working on a ballet that follows the life of Nelson Mandela entitled, \"Madiba.\" \"We really felt that was something we wanted to also tell. Again, despite the challenges, 27 years of imprisonment and people trying to oppress him, he continued to have faith in himself and believe that his life would have a positive impact.\" Photo: Matthew Murphy To tell stories like \"Madiba\" and to expand on the BIP's promotion of diversity, McQueen has enlisted a team of about 20 dancers of various races. Recently the team completed at 10-day residency at The Pocantico Center on the Rockefeller estate as a part of the Charles E. Culpeper Arts & Culture Grant awarded by The Rockefeller Brothers Fund. McQueen was so thankful for the residency opportunity, where he and six other dancers were able to escape the fast-paced New York City life and rehearse for as long as they wanted. \"Something about this environment is so magical,\" he says. The Black Iris Project has received a host of other arts grants and sponsorships that prove the initiative is something to believe in. Although McQueen hopes that The Black Iris Project will help bridge the gap between the black and ballet communities, he also hopes that people will find an artistic outlet to express themselves. \"It's so important to find an artistic medium that speaks to you,\" he says, \"No matter where you are in life; whether you're a child, adult, senior citizen, I think that art heals. I really believe that.\" With the increased stressors of everyday life, McQueen believes that an artistic outlet is a necessity for everyone. \"Dance has always been my outlet of expression,\" he says, \"It has allowed me to creatively be who I am. I think it's so important for people to find something that you love to do.\" The Black Iris Project will debut in New York on July, 27th 2016. Visit their website to learn more about the Jeremy McQueen's mission....\nWhy We Need To Remember Africa During Talks Of Inclusion In The Entertainment Industry\n\"One must remember that under colonial rule Africans were not allowed, nor encouraged, to pursue careers in the entertainment industry.\"\nPatience Gamu Tawengwa\nThis op-ed was submitted from a member of our enthusiastic community of readers. If you're interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more.In 1941, William Sellers, a British civil servant who was the director of the Colonial Film Unit, authored a paper called \"Films for Primitive People.\" In the paper, Sellers opined that African audiences were too primitive to understand films that had any complexity or depth. To him, filmmaking techniques such as panning, a lot of movement, flashbacks etc. were not to be used in films made for Africans since Africans supposedly lacked the sophistication and intellectual capacity to follow a story told in that way.The Colonial Film Unit would go on to produce about 200 simplistic propaganda films targeted at African audiences and distributed via a network of their pop-up mobile cinemas across African countries which were under the British empire. The Colonial Film Unit was discontinued in the 1950s but the effects and economic impact of their regressive opinions and policies still affects the African entertainment industry today.The under-development of the African entertainment industry is part of the legacy of the policies of people like William Sellers. The deeply entrenched and false beliefs about the inferiority of Africans in the media space is no longer overtly stated in derogatory and de-humanizing papers such as the one written by Sellers, instead it is silently and covertly played out through the chronic lack of investment in African content creators and their ideas. One must remember that under colonial rule Africans were not allowed, nor encouraged, to pursue careers in the entertainment industry. Africans were limited to choosing careers that served and maintained the white minority colonial rule of the day. Today, most of our African leaders who hail from that generation have no frame of reference about the importance or soft power of the creative industry. Their first experience of cinema was that of initiatives like the Colonial Film Unit.It's no wonder that those of us who grew up in an era where we are now free to choose to become directors, producers, actors etc. find ourselves caught in limbo between the lack of investment from the international community and our own governments who see film and television as tools to either convey simplistic political propaganda or social messages as fashioned for them in their formative years by the Colonial Film Unit.On the other side of the world, \"diversity and inclusion\" has been a leading and prominent conversation. Every month I read articles that celebrate certain wins, gains and strides towards leveling the playing field in the entertainment industry. However, from where I sit in my part of the world, I'm beginning to wonder if the movement and redress of inequities in the global entertainment industry only applies to certain parts of the world and not to those of us on the African continent? Africans are conspicuously absent from panels and platforms where global dialogue about diversity and inclusion is ongoing; our voices and perspectives have yet to be heard and more than likely may never be heard. We are not in the rooms where the business conversations are happening and at the tables where decisions are being made.Africa is a continent with over one billion people; it is also the biggest source of population growth over the next 20 years. However, when it comes to film and television, we are largely limited to consuming copious amounts of foreign content and a bit of low production value local content. Every month millions of Africans across the continent pay satellite TV subscription fees and the satellite companies (mostly foreign owned or belonging to historically privileged white minorities) turn around and use the revenue to license more international content for us to view in our homes. The content we get is undoubtedly of high production value, the stories are well-crafted and very entertaining, but the problem is it leaves Africans as mere spectators and locked out of creative and real economic opportunities. It's difficult for us to work towards consistently producing high quality content that meets the standard of what the satellite companies provide while working with an unpaid cast and crew due to lack of monetary resources.I personally can't reconcile the many articles I've read which hail this as a new era and golden age for content creators with the poverty, struggle and sheer desperation I witness on a daily basis in creative communities across the African continent.We read about the big budgets and multiple deals that are happening in the global entertainment industry, but those opportunities remain very far out of our reach. I've worked in the African entertainment industry for 13 years now and I believe that unless we get allies from the more developed entertainment industries who are willing to intentionally wade into investing in the creation of homegrown African content, most of us will take our stories to the grave. Most African content creators live in a space of being dismissed as incapable of producing anything of worth, but no one considers the fact that we're expected to create high quality out of absolutely nothing. It's not unusual for us as African producers to be told by distributors to develop and create productions using 100% of our own money and then send it to them for consideration. Their standard position is for us to do it first, then they'll see if it meets their standards. Most often than not they'll find a reason to reject it after we've shouldered all the financial risk. As I look around our creative communities, I worry that time is passing economically for many of us African artists as we jump through endless hoops that never lead to any economic stability.Every African who is endowed with creative talent shouldn't have to aspire to leave the African continent in order to find opportunities and to build a sustainable career. For those of us who hold African passports, traveling the world is not easy or cheap. Visas are expensive and we encounter a lot of red tape. True inclusion on a global level begins when all players are given an opportunity to be part of the conversation and full access to partake in the economic...\nWalk It Like You Talk It: Black Adidas Employees Say Company Needs To Get A Lot More Serious About Diversity\nAll day I dream about\u2026better corporate representation for Black employees?\nChelsea Burwell\nSince the 1980s, Adidas has been revered as a staple brand in hip-hop culture and the iconic B-boy aesthetic. Yet, more than 30 years after its rise to fame in the Black community, the athletic brand's corporate representation fails to reflect and honor the audience majorly responsible for its success.In recently shared data from Adidas' internal employment data, less than 4.5% of the company's 1,700 employees identify as Black reports The New York Times. More than 20 current and former employees were interviewed. They described the Adidas headquarters in Portland, Oregon, also known as Adidas Village, as a breeding ground for racial discrimination and microaggressions.From tiptoeing around white colleague discomfort to the fear of jeopardizing potential promotions or marketing campaigns, Black Adidas employees told The Times that something as simple as sitting together in the company cafeteria is viewed negatively by their white counterparts.And according to employees, the racial issues aren't just in boardroom meetings or cafeterias. The Times reported that two Black employees said they were referred to with a racial slur by white co-workers in verbal and text conversations.Adidas' Global Head of Human Resources Karen Parkin said the athletic wear company has a \"zero tolerance\" policy for inappropriate behavior, but is aware they have much work to do in addressing racial issues.\"We want to be humble,\" Parkin told The Times. \"We're not where we need to be in all of the locations around the world. But we're not afraid to have the conversation, either.\"She added that she was unaware of the racial slur incident and, had they been reported to human resources, an investigation would have been conducted.Other companies have been in the hot seat over their approaches to workplace diversity, equity and inclusion. Before securing an endorsement deal with Adidas, Beyonc\u00e9 reportedly walked out of a meeting with Reebok in April due to its lack of diversity and representation, according to ESPN's Nick DePaula. Footwear News published an article in January highlighting racial diversity issues in not only the athletic apparel industry, but also in the outdoor industry. In response, The North Face has launched inclusive campaigns, similar to REI's \"Force of Nature\" initiative, to highlight outdoor enthusiasts of color.Adidas has partnered with various Black athletes and celebrities including Pharrell Williams, Candace Parker, Kanye West, Iman Shumpert and James Harden. With West's launch of the Yeezy brand within the brand, Adidas' revenue has jumped exponentially over the past four years. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Beyonc\u00e9 (@beyonce) on Apr 26, 2019 at 8:56am PDTNevertheless, only three out of the company's 340 worldwide vice presidents in 2018 identified as Black.After Zion Armstrong, president of Adidas North America, failed to move the needle after acknowledging the company's urgent need to amp up diversity hire efforts, an anonymous letter was circulated around Adidas Village.\"We talk about consumer obsesses but how do we stay relevant and connected when internally there is no representation?\" the letter read.Progressive Soles, an internal employee-led organization, later met with Armstrong and has led an effort to recruit a diverse pool of internship applicants. While Black candidates were able to secure internships with the company, few were offered permanent job opportunities afterward, employees told The Times.\"[Portland] isn't the most diverse city in the U.S\u2026 [Adidas] needs to be more courageous and bold,\" Parkin told The Times. \"We're on that journey right...\n{{ article.title || \"Check This Out\" }}\n{{ article._author.username ? article._author.username : 'BlavityFam' }}","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Publish in this journal\nEditorial statute\nAugust 2021 Comparison of echocardiography and 320-row multidetector computed tomography for the...\nRevista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English edition)\nThe Portuguese Journal of Cardiology, the official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, was founded in 1982 with the aim of keeping Portuguese cardiologists informed through the publication of scientific articles on areas such as arrhythmology and electrophysiology, cardiovascular surgery, intensive care, coronary artery disease, cardiovascular imaging, hypertension, heart failure and cardiovascular prevention. The Journal is a monthly publication with high standards of quality in terms of scientific content and production. Since 1999 it has been published in English as well as Portuguese, which has widened its readership abroad. 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Issue 8.\nPages 583-590 (August 2021)\nExport reference\nMore article options\nPatients according to imaging data\nDOI: 10.1016\/j.repce.2020.12.017\nComparison of echocardiography and 320-row multidetector computed tomography for the diagnosis of congenital heart disease in children\nCompara\u00e7\u00e3o entre a ecocardiografia e a tomografia computorizada multidetetores com 320 canais para o diagn\u00f3stico de cardiopatia cong\u00e9nita nas crian\u00e7as\nErkut \u00d6zt\u00fcrka,\nerkut_ozturk@yahoo.com\n, \u0130brahim Cansaran Tan\u0131d\u0131ra, Hacer Kamal\u0131a, Pelin Ayy\u0131ld\u0131za, Cagdas Topelb, \u0130smihan Selen Onanc, Aysel T\u00fcrkvatanb, Serta\u00e7 Haydinc, Alper G\u00fczelta\u015fa\na Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Istanbul Saglik Bilimleri University Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey\nb Department of Radyology, Istanbul Saglik Bilimleri University Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey\nc Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul Saglik Bilimleri University Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey\nThis item has received\n(Daily data update)\nTable 1. Correlation of surgical diagnosis with preoperative echocardiography and computed tomography angiography (surgery considered as gold standard).\nTable 2. Statistical comparison of echocardiography and computed tomography angiography with surgical diagnosis.\nTable 3. Sensitivity and specificity of echocardiography and computed tomography angiography.\nTable 4. Predictive value and accuracy of echocardiography and computed tomography angiography.\nEchocardiography (echo) is the primary non-invasive imaging modality for the assessment of congenital heart disease (CHD). Computed tomography angiography (CTA) also has potential to examine the anatomy of complex heart anomalies as well as extracardiac involvement.\nThe aim of this study is to determine the impact of new CTA technology in the diagnosis of CHD and to compare echo and CTA in terms of diagnostic accuracy.\nForty-five patients who underwent preoperative echo and CTA assessment in the intensive care unit were included in this study. The results were assessed for three main types of CHD (cardiac malformations, cardiac-major vessel connections and major vessels). The main groups were also divided into subgroups according to surgical features in order to assess them more objectively. Imaging methods were compared for diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, while surgical findings were accepted as the gold standard.\nPatients' median age and weight were two months (three days-eight years) and 12 kg (2.5-60 kg), respectively. In 45 operated cases, 205 subgroup malformations were assessed. Diagnostic accuracy was significantly greater in echo (echo vs. CTA: 98.4% and 96.2% [chi-square=6.4, p=0.011]). During surgery, 84 cardiac malformations (echo vs. CTA: 97.4% and 95.1% [chi-square=4.9, p=0.03]), 47 cardiac-major vessel connections (echo vs. CTA: 98.3% and 95.4% [chi-square=7.5, p=0.03]), and 74 major vessel malformations (echo vs. CTA: 96% and 98% [chi-square=1.8, p=0.48]) were confirmed.\nEchocardiography and CTA are imaging methods with high diagnostic accuracy in children with CHD. The use of echocardiography together with CTA, especially for the visualization of extracardiac anatomy, provides additional information for clinicians.\nComputed tomography angiography\nA ecocardiografia \u00e9 a principal modalidade de imagem n\u00e3o invasiva na avalia\u00e7\u00e3o das cardiopatias cong\u00e9nitas (CC). A angiotomografia computorizada (ATC) tem tamb\u00e9m potencial para examinar as anomalias morfol\u00f3gicas card\u00edacas complexas, assim como do envolvimento extracard\u00edaco.\nDeterminar o impacto de avan\u00e7os tecnol\u00f3gicos da ATC no diagn\u00f3stico de CC e comparar a ecocardiografia e a ATC em termos de precis\u00e3o diagn\u00f3stica.\nForam inclu\u00eddos neste estudo 45 doentes submetidos a avalia\u00e7\u00e3o por ECO e por ATC pr\u00e9 operat\u00f3ria (n=45) em unidade de cuidados intensivos. Os resultados foram avaliados nos tr\u00eas principais tipos de grupos de CC (malforma\u00e7\u00f5es card\u00edacas, conex\u00f5es vasculares an\u00f3malas em n\u00edvel card\u00edaco e malforma\u00e7\u00f5es dos grandes vasos). Estes grupos foram tamb\u00e9m divididos em subgrupos de acordo com as caracter\u00edsticas das cirurgias, de modo a serem avaliados mais objetivamente. Os m\u00e9todos de imagem foram comparados para precis\u00e3o diagn\u00f3stica, sensibilidade e especificidade, enquanto os resultados cir\u00fargicos foram aceites como gold standard.\nA m\u00e9dia da idade e do peso dos doentes foi de dois meses (3 dias-8 anos) e 12 kgt (2,5-60 kg), respetivamente. Em 45 casos operados, foram avaliadas 205 malforma\u00e7\u00f5es de subgrupos. A precis\u00e3o diagn\u00f3stica foi significativamente superior na ECO (ECO versus ATC; 98,4% & 96,2%, (X2=6,4, p=0,011). Durante as 84 interven\u00e7\u00f5es, foram confirmadas 84 malforma\u00e7\u00f5es card\u00edacas (ECO versus ATC; 97,4% & 95,1% (X2=4,9, p=0,03), 47 conex\u00f5es vasculares an\u00f3malas em n\u00edvel card\u00edaco (ECO versus ATC; 98,3 & 95,4% (X2=7,5, p=0,03), 74 malforma\u00e7\u00f5es dos grandes vasos (ECHO versus ATC; 96% & 98% (X2=1,8, p=0,48).\nA ecocardiografia e a ATC s\u00e3o m\u00e9todos de imagem com elevado rigor diagn\u00f3stico em crian\u00e7as com CC. A utiliza\u00e7\u00e3o da ecocardiografia juntamente com a ATC, especialmente na avalia\u00e7\u00e3o da anatomia extracard\u00edaca, fornece informa\u00e7\u00e3o adicional para os cl\u00ednicos.\nCardiopatia cong\u00e9nita\nEcocardiografia\nAngiotomografia computorizada\nCongenital heart disease (CHD) is a relatively common condition with an incidence of 4-10 per 1000 live births. CHDs are a heterogeneous group of diseases that include a wide spectrum of conditions and sub-conditions, for which the treatment approach varies widely. Timely and accurate diagnosis and treatment are important in order to increase patients' chances of survival.1,2\nEchocardiography (echo) is the main imaging method used in the diagnosis of CHD. Echo is a powerful technological tool that enables direct and detailed visualization of cardiac structures and also reveals hemodynamic status. It is widely used due to the rapidity of the procedure, applicability at the bedside, targeted use (heart and large vessels), absence of radiation exposure, and early recognition of findings. However, operator dependence and inability to show non-cardiac vascular tissues are the most important disadvantages of this modality.1,2\nMultidetector-row computed tomography angiography (CTA) allows noninvasive imaging of the heart and coronary arteries. In recent years, there have been significant advances in computed tomography (CT) hardware, software, and machine learning, which have expanded its clinical utility for cardiovascular imaging in patients with complex CHD. This modality is noninvasive, with high spatial resolution and powerful three-dimensional (3D) post-processing image reconstruction. It thus provides excellent anatomic information that can replace echocardiography and cardiac catheterization, particularly in the assessment of extracardiac vessels and coronary arteries.3\u20135 Older CT scanners, using a retrospective electrocardiogram (ECG)-gated scan mode, have been reported to expose CHD patients to effective radiation doses of up to 28 mSv per cardiac scan.6 More recently, innovations such as prospective ECG gating, ECG-controlled tube current modulation, high-pitch helical scanning, lower tube potentials, wider detector coverage, and iterative reconstruction techniques have dramatically lowered radiation exposure. Newer CT scanner platforms also allow rapid image acquisition that decreases the need for sedation or anesthesia. With dual-source scan technology and wide detector coverage, studies can be obtained in a single heartbeat without requiring a breathhold for most indications.6,7\nThere are studies in the literature comparing echo and old-generation 64-slice CTA for assessing surgical anatomy.8 However, there have been a limited number of studies comparing echo with new generation CTA.9,10 In the present study, our aim was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of echo and 320-row multidetector CTA in cases of CHD and to assess the efficacy of these two methods for detecting morphological findings during surgery.\nThis study was conducted on patients under eight years of age admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit and undergoing echocardiography and 320-row multidetector CTA procedures who subsequently underwent cardiac surgery for CHD between August 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019.\nThe study was designed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration after obtaining permission from the hospital's institutional review board (no. 2020-46). A study form was created for each case including age, gender, weight, transthoracic echo and 320-row multidetector CTA results, and cardiac anatomy data from surgery.\nEchocardiographic assessments were performed using a GE Vivid S5 cardiac ultrasound system (General Electric Vingmed, Horten, Norway) with a 3-MHz or 6-MHz probe. Standard pediatric echo views were recorded including parasternal (long- and short-axis), apical (4- and 5-chamber), subcostal and suprasternal views. Cardiac morphology was assessed in the direction of blood flow within the framework of the segmental approach. Atrial situs, venoatrial connections (systemic and pulmonary venous return), atrioventricular (AV) connections, ventricles, ventricular-great artery connections, spatial position of the great arteries, intracardiac defects and extracardiac vascular anomalies were reviewed as the main components of this approach. The echo images were analyzed by two experienced cardiologists (EO, ICT) who had at least 10 years of clinical practice.\nMultidetector CTA examinations were performed with a 320-row multidetector scanner (Aquilion ONE, Toshiba Medical Systems, Otawara, Japan) with a gantry rotation time of 350 ms and temporal resolution of 175 ms. A non-ECG gated protocol with a pitch factor of 3 was used, and every scan in every patient was obtained using the z-axis CARE dose modulation technique. The voltage and tube current were adjusted to the patient's weight (80 kV dosage was used for patients weighing <20 kg, and 100 kV for those weighing 20-80 kg; tube current was 10 mA\/kg for patients weighing <9 kg, and 5 mA for each additional kg).10 The imaging data were obtained during an intravenous injection of 1-1.5 ml\/kg of the contrast agent iohexol at a rate of 1-3 ml\/s for children and manual intravenous injection of the drug in newborns or those under one year old (Omnipaque 300 mgI\/ml; GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI). Contrast agent was removed with 4-15 ml saline according to the patient's weight. The scanning delay was determined using a bolus-tracking technique. All the patients were in sinus rhythm, and none needed beta-blockers despite heart rates of more than 80 beats\/min. Uncooperative children and newborns were sedated with ketamine and\/or midazolam. A central venous line (n=30) or peripheral line (n=15) was used. All CTA acquisitions were obtained with patients breathing freely.\nImages were reconstructed to 0.6 mm in thickness and to a reconstruction interval with a 25f kernel filter; they were processed on a separate workstation (Vitrea, Vital Images Inc., Minnetonka, MN) with multiplanar reformatting, maximum-intensity projection, and volume rendering (Figures 1 and 2). Multidetector CT images were prospectively reviewed by two radiologists with 15 (AT) and five (CT) years experience in cardiovascular imaging, and decisions were made by consensus.\nTwo-year-old female patient with septum primum malposition and partial anomalous pulmonary venous return. (a) Modified 4-chamber view on echocardiographic examination; (b) computed tomography images in axial view. ASD: atrial septal defect; IAS; interatrial septum; IVS: interventricular septum; LA; left atrium; LLPV: left lower pulmonary vein; LUPV; left upper pulmonary vein; LV: left ventricle; RA; right atrium; RLPV: right lower pulmonary vein; RUPV: right upper pulmonary vein; RV: right ventricle.\n(0.1MB).\nThirty-day-old male patient with aortic arch hypoplasia. (a) Suprasternal view on echocardiographic examination. (b) Three-dimensional computed tomography images in right oblique volume-rendered view. Arcus: aortic arch.\nPatients were divided into three main CHD groups, as follows:\nIntracardiac malformations\nAtrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD), atria, ventricles, right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), tricuspid valve and mitral valve.\nVentriculoarterial connections\nAortic root and coronary artery, pulmonary valve, aortic valve, double outlet ventricle, spatial position of the great arteries.\nGreat vessels\nAortic root dilatation, coarctation of the aorta, interrupted aortic arch, pulmonary artery dilatation, pulmonary stenosis or atresia, major aortopulmonary collateral artery (MAPCA), pulmonary vein anomaly, patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), persistent left superior vena cava, inferior vena cava (IVC) anomalies, double aortic arch.\nThese groups were divided into subgroups according to the features of the surgical operation and the cardiac and non-cardiac regions assessed by the surgeon. All echo and CTA findings were compared with the morphological anatomy determined during the operation.\nInformation on radiation doses was obtained from the CTA system. For examination purposes, the estimated effective radiation doses (in mSv) were calculated by multiplying the dose-length product (mGy\u00b7cm) by a conversion coefficient (mSV\u00b7mGy 1\u00b7cm-1) corrected for the patient's age. This was obtained from previously published literature (0.039 for <4 months of age, 0.026 for 4-12 months, and 0.018 for 1-7 years).10,11\nThe distribution of study variables was classified and descriptive results were obtained using SPSS for Windows version 15. Descriptive scores were expressed as median and percentile. Echo and CTA results were compared in terms of diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) by accepting surgical findings as the gold standard. The accuracy of the two methods was assessed using McNemar's test, the chi-square test and the kappa statistic. A p-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.\nForty-five patients (30 boys and 15 girls) were included in the study. The patients' median age was two months (range three days-eight years) and median weight was 12 kg (range 2.5-60 kg). The results were assessed in terms of 205 malformations and 1045 surgical fields.\nDetailed results of echo and CTA (intracardiac structures, relationships between heart and great vessels, great vessels) according to the main headings of concordant diagnosis, discordant diagnosis and unrecognized diagnosis are shown in Table 1. On echo, the diagnosis was unrecognized in patients with mitral valve pathology (n=1), aortic root and coronary artery abnormality (n=3), atrium (n=1), RVOT (n=1), spatial relationship of the great arteries (n=1), aortic valve (n=2), pulmonary valve (n=1), double ventricle (n=1), pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia (n=2), MAPCA (n=2), pulmonary vein anomaly (n=1), PDA (n=2), persistent left superior vena cava (SVC) (n=1), and IVC (n=1). On CTA, the diagnosis was unrecognized in patients with VSD (n=1), ASD (n=1), ventricle (n=1), RVOT (n=4), tricuspid valve pathology (n=2), mitral valve pathology (n=3), aortic root and coronary arteries (n=4), spatial relationship of the great arteries (n=3), aortic valve (n=2), pulmonary valve (n=3), double ventricular structure (n=1), pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia (n=3) and persistent left SVC (n=1).\nCorrelation of surgical diagnosis with preoperative echocardiography and computed tomography angiography (surgery considered as gold standard).\nCardiac malformation (surgical diagnosis)\n320-row multidetector CTA\nMalformation\nDiscordant\nUnrecognized\nIntra- cardiac structures VSD 31 0 0 30 0 1 31\nASD 18 0 0 19 2 1 18\nAtrium 7 0 1 8 0 0 8\nVentricles 9 0 0 8 0 1 9\nRVOT 11 0 1 9 1 4 12\nTricuspid valve 2 0 0 1 1 2 2\nMitral valve 3 0 1 1 0 3 4\nTotal 81 0 3 76 4 12 84\nHeart and great vessel connections Aortic root and coronary arteries 16 1 3 16 2 4 18\nSpatial relationship of the great arteries 6 0 1 5 1 3 7\nAortic valve 5 2 2 3 0 2 5\nPulmonary valve 11 0 1 10 1 3 12\nDouble outlet ventricle 4 0 1 5 1 1 5\nGreat vessels Aortic dilatation 6 0 0 6 0 0 6\nCoarctation of aorta 8 0 0 8 0 0 8\nIAA 5 2 0 3 0 0 3\nPulmonary artery dilatation 4 0 0 4 0 0 4\nPulmonary stenosis or atresia 30 0 2 29 0 3 32\nMAPCA 2 0 2 4 0 0 4\nPulmonary vein anomalies 3 1 1 3 0 0 3\nPDA 2 0 2 4 0 0 4\nPersistent left SVC 6 0 1 6 0 1 7\nIVC anomalies 3 2 1 2 0 0 2\nDouble aortic arch 1 0 0 1 0 0 1\nTotal 70 5 9 70 0 4 74\nASD: atrial septal defect; CTA: computed tomography angiography; Echo: echocardiography; IAA: interrupted aortic arch; IVC: inferior vena cava; MAPCA: major aortopulmonary collateral artery; PDA: patent ductus arteriosus; RVOT: right ventricular outflow tract; SVC: superior vena cava; VSD: ventricular septal defect.\nThe results of the assessment revealed 200 true positive, 828 true negative, five false positive and 12 false negative results on transthoracic echo (Table 2). Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and diagnostic accuracy were 94.3%, 99.4%, 97.5%, 98.5% and 98.4%, respectively (Table 3). In the same surgical areas, 320-row multidetector CTA showed 196 true positive, 814 true negative, 12 false positive and 23 false negative results (Table 2). Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and diagnostic accuracy were 89.4%, 98.5%, 94.2%, 97.2% and 96.2%, respectively (Table 3).\nStatistical comparison of echocardiography and computed tomography angiography with surgical diagnosis.\nSurgical diagnosis\nChi-square\nEcho + 200 5 6.404 0.011\n- 12 828\nCTA + 196 12\nCTA: computed tomography angiography; Echo: echocardiography.\nSensitivity and specificity of echocardiography and computed tomography angiography.\nUniformity\nEcho 94.3% 99.4% 97.50% 98.5% 0.983 98.40%a 0.950b\nCTA 89.4% 98.50% 94.2% 97.2v 0.966 96.20%a\nAUC: area under receiver operating characteristic curve; CTA: computed tomography angiography; Echo: echocardiography; PPV: positive predicative value, NPV: negative predicative values.\nChi-square test.\nKappa.\nWhen the sensitivity of echo and CTA is compared in terms of diagnostic accuracy, although significantly higher in echo, both methods effectively and reliably detected cardiac defects identified during surgery (echo vs. CTA: 98.4% and 96.2% [chi-square=6.4, p=0.011]). The predictive value and accuracy of echo and CTA are shown in Table 4. During surgery, 84 cardiac malformations were detected, and both imaging methods predicted the results with statistical significance. However, intracardiac malformations were more accurately identified by echo than by CTA (echo vs. CTA: 97.4% and 95.1% [chi-square=4.9, p=0.034]).\nPredictive value and accuracy of echocardiography and computed tomography angiography.\nPredictive value and accuracy for intracardiac malformations with echo and CTA\nEcho + 80 3 4.978 0.034\n- 5 228\nCTA + 80 6\nEcho vs. CTA: accuracy (97.4% and 95.1%)\nPredictive value and accuracy for heart and great vessel connections with echo and CTA\nPredictive value and accuracy for great vessels with echo and CTA\nEcho vs. CTA accuracy: 96% and 98.0%\nThe predictive value and accuracy of echo and CTA for identifying cardiovascular connections are shown in Table 4. During surgery, cardiovascular connection anomalies in the great arteries were detected in 47 patients, and both imaging methods predicted the results with statistical significance. However, echo predicted cardiovascular connection anomalies more accurately than CTA (echo vs. CTA: 98.3% and 95.4% (chi-square=7.5, p=0.03).\nTable 4 also shows the predictive value and accuracy of echo and CTA for identifying malformations of the great vessels. During surgery, 74 major great vessel malformations were detected. There was no significant difference in predicting great vessel malformations between the two methods (echo vs. CTA: 96% and 98% (chi-square=1.8, p=0.48).\nThe overall mean effective radiation dose for 45 patients was 0.74 mSv (range 0.15-1.38 mSv) and 0.58 mSv (range 0.12-0.80) in the 32 patients aged under one year.\nIn this study, the effectiveness of transthoracic echo and 320-row multidetector CTA in predicting surgical findings in patients with CHD was compared. Both methods were highly sensitive and specific in identifying anatomy confirmed during surgery, and additionally CTA was useful as a complementary imaging method along with echo in the assessment of extracardiac vascular structures.\nCHD is common in all age groups and roughly half of cases consist of complex CHD. Imaging techniques such as transthoracic echo, CTA, magnetic resonance angiography, heart catheterization and angiography are used in the diagnosis and management of subgroups of those diseases, some of which may be quite complex.2,3\nTraditionally, echo is the first-line imaging method used to assess cardiac function, anatomical diagnosis and hemodynamic status in pediatric cases. This is due to a variety of factors such as low cost, portability, widespread availability and low radiation exposure. In patients with CHD in particular, echo plays a key role in assessing morphology before, during and after surgery.2,12\u201314\nIn the literature, various studies state that transthoracic echo shows high sensitivity and specificity in determining surgical findings. Bu et al.15 reported that the sensitivity of transthoracic echo was 90.6% and its specificity was 99.8% in their study of 35 CHD patients with ages ranging between three days and 74 months. Mei et al. reported a diagnostic accuracy of 88.1% in their study assessing 99 malformations in 39 cases with echo, which was confirmed by surgical findings.16 Alghamdi et al. found an insignificant difference between echo and surgical findings in only seven (1.8%) among 392 cases, which led to minor changes in the surgical strategy.13 In a study by Marek et al. involving 2788 cases, the diagnostic accuracy was 96% for transthoracic echo.17 In our study, sensitivity was 94.3% and specificity was 99.4%, in accordance with the literature. The diagnostic accuracy of echo was 98.4%.\nNew-generation multidetector CTA is increasingly used in the assessment of children with complex CHD. The accurate identification of anatomic details, possibility of 3D assessment, need for small volumes of contrast material to show all vascular structures, better visualization of the coronary arteries and their branches, assessment of non-cardiac structures, very short shooting time (a few seconds) and relatively low radiation exposure, are the chief advantages of the high spatial resolution of CTA. In addition, it has been suggested in several studies that CTA dramatically reduces the need for diagnostic heart catheterization and angiography, which was considered a gold standard in the diagnosis of CHD.18,19 The main disadvantages of the technique are lack of hemodynamic information, exposure to ionizing radiation, and problems associated with application of contrast materials. Nevertheless, technological advances have led to easy application and increased diagnostic accuracy in children with CHD.10,18\u201321\nIn a study using 64-slice spiral CTA, the scan was found to be 91% accurate.6 In another study with similar diagnoses and age distribution, for which a 128-slice spiral CTA technique was used, the accuracy was reported as 95%.22 An accuracy of 97.3% was reported in another study using 256-slice spiral CTA.23 In our study, which used 320-row multidetector CTA, the accuracy was 96.2% for the entire group. Assessment of different anatomical regions and the lack of ECG gating may have led to the lower accuracy in our study in comparison to others.\nAn important finding of the present study was that despite its high diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, the predictive power of 320-row multidetector CTA for detecting anomalies of intracardiac structures and heart-great vessel connections was less than that of transthoracic echo. Nevertheless, 320-row multidetector CTA appeared to be as effective as transthoracic echo in the diagnosis of extracardiac vascular malformations (accuracy for CTA 98.0%, 96% for transthoracic echo). The latter finding was also consistent with previous studies. For instance, Li and al. reported the diagnostic accuracy for extracardiac vascular anomalies as 98.6% for CTA and 96% for transthoracic echo.24 In another study, Bu et al. reported sensitivity of 92% and 68%, respectively15 On the other hand, in their study comparing CTA and echo, Cheng and al. demonstrated similar sensitivity and specificity.23\nIn our study, some cases were misdiagnosed or undiagnosed by both imaging methods. This issue has also been highlighted in other studies in the literature. Koplay et al. stated that they encountered two false positive and one false negative diagnoses among 105 cases.25 In their study involving 30 cases with assessment of 205 surgical areas, Li et al. concluded that with CTA, 2.4% of the cases were misdiagnosed and 6.8% were undiagnosed, while these figures were 1.4% and 3.9%, respectively, for echo.24\nCertain aspects of CTA may explain this difference, such as that it can show only static images, provides insufficient data on valvular structures, and cannot detect hemodynamic changes, in contrast to the ability of echo to dynamically detect shunts, regurgitation and intracardiac structures.\nThe main limitation of this analysis was that the study was carried out in a single center with a small number of patients. With more cases available, more precise results could be obtained concerning sensitivity and specificity. 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Huc\u00edn, et al.\nSeven-year experience of noninvasive preoperative diagnostics in children with congenital heart defects: comprehensive analysis of 2,788 consecutive patients.\nCardiology, 86 (1995), pp. 488-495\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1159\/000176928 | Medline\nS. Khatri, S.K. Varma, P. Khatri, et al.\n64-slice multidetector-row computed tomographic angiography for evaluating congenital heart disease.\nPediatr Cardiol, 29 (2008), pp. 755-762\nF. Al-Mousily, R.Y. Shifrin, F.J. Fricker, et al.\nUse of 320-detector computed tomographic angiography for infants and young children with congenital heart disease.\nT. Zhang, W. Wang, Z. Luo, et al.\nInitial experience on the application of 320-row CT angiography with low-dose prospective ECG-triggered in children with congenital heart disease.\nInt J Cardiovasc Imaging, 28 (2012), pp. 1787-1797\nM.M. Enaba, D.I. Hasan, A.M. Alsowey, et al.\nMultidetector computed tomography (CT) in evaluation of congenital cyanotic heart diseases.\nPol J Radiol, 82 (2017), pp. 645-659\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.12659\/PJR.903222 | Medline\nP. Nie, X. Wang, Z. Cheng, et al.\nAccuracy, image quality and radiation dose comparison of high-pitch spiral and sequential acquisition on 128-slice dual-source CT angiography in children with congenital heart disease.\nEur Radiol, 22 (2012), pp. 2057-2066\nZ. Cheng, X. Wang, Y. Duan, et al.\nLow-dose prospective ECG-triggering dual source CT angiography in infants and children with complex congenital heart disease: first experience.\nA. Li, Z. Peng, C. Zhang.\nComparison of echocardiography and 64-multislice spiral computed tomography for the diagnosis of pediatric congenital heart disease.\nMed Sci Monit, 23 (2017), pp. 2258-2266\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.12659\/msm.901546 | Medline\nM. Koplay, O. Kizilca, D. Cimen, et al.\nProspective ECG-gated high-pitch dual-source cardiac CT angiography in the diagnosis of congenital cardiovascular abnormalities: radiation dose and diagnostic efficacy in a pediatric population.\nDiagn Interv Imaging, 97 (2016), pp. 1141-1150\nhttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.diii.2016.03.014 | Medline\nCopyright \u00a9 2021. 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{"text":"Home > Marist Institute > General Government > Br. Emili Tur\u00fa, Superior General\nInstituteChoose\nSuperior General\nBr. Ernesto S\u00e1nchez\nGeneral Superiors\nHistoric list\nVicar General\nBr. Luis Carlos Guti\u00e9rrez\nCouncillors General\nBr. Benjamin Consigli\nBr. Jo\u00e3o Carlos do Prado\nBr. Josep Maria Soteras\nBr. Kenneth Charles McDonald\nBr. \u00d3scar Mart\u00edn Vicario\nBr. Sylvain Ramandimbiarisoa\nGeneral Government 2009-2017\nStatistics of the Institue\nBr. Emili Tur\u00fa, Superior General\nElected in the XXI General Chapter, on 26 September 2009\nPhoto gallery | Videos | Writtings\nSpain - Province of L'Hermitage\nBrother Emili Tur\u00fa Rofes was born on 24 January 1955 in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). He passed his childhood in Mar\u00e7\u00e0, Tarragona, the youngest of five brothers. He commenced his Marist life in Llinars del Vall\u00e8s in 1968. He completed his novitiate at Santa Maria de les Avellanes, made his first vows in 1975, and his perpetual ones in 1982.\nHe obtained his certificate in primary teaching at the University School, Cardenal Cisneros de Alcal\u00e1 de Henares; his Masters in Catalan from the Free University of Barcelona, and the Licentiate in Theology (Theology of man) from the Teresianum in Rome.\nAlthough he has worked in pastoral ministry with children and young people (from primary through to university), the greater part of his service to the Institute has been in the initial formation of Brothers and in various provincial services. He accompanied young Brothers as director of the scholasticate in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares, and, since that time, has shown himself as a man concerned about the spiritual life, religious life, and culture. As a formator, he knew how to communicate his passion for poverty and justice and his commitment to the Church.\nLater he acted as Delegate for Ministry and Delegate for Education and Province for the then Marist Province of Catalonia.\nHe played an active part in the organization and development of the Congress of Religious Life in Catalonia, collaborating in the production of the document \"What is new requires novelty\", which was a reflection on the future of religious life.\nDuring his time as provincial, he was distinguished for his closeness to the Brothers and the life of the communities. He promoted the animation of educational works, with special emphasis on the lines of ministry, attention to persons, and shared mission with the laity. He was a driving force behind the creation of small communities inserted into working class areas and the development of social projects. He was also involved in co-ordination with Marist Spain and with Marist Europe.\nAt the XX General Chapter (2001), he was elected to the General Council. As a Councillor he promoted the holding of the International Marist Mission Assembly at Mendes, and the creation of various work groups for Marist youth ministry, university formation, Marist mission and the co-ordination of social works, etc.\nHis facility at communication and his mastery of different languages has allowed him wide contact with the Marist world for the dynamizing of the Brothers' mission today.\n23289 visits","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How Did the National Woman's Party Address the Issue of the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919-1924?\nDocument 22: Letter from Alice Paul to Miss Katherine Fisher, 30 August 1924, National Woman's Party Papers, 1913-1974, Library of Congress (Microfilm (1979), reel 28).\nby Alice Paul\nDocument 22: Letter from Alice Paul to Miss Katherine Fisher, 30 August 1924, National Woman's Party Papers, 1913-1974, Library of Congress (Microfilm (1979), reel 28), by Alice Paul. Included in How Did the National Woman's Party Address the Issue of the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919-1924?, by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Jill Dias. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 1997).\nJump to Abstract Introduction Document List Document 1: Letter from Walter White to Mary Church Terrell, 14 March 1919 Document 2: Letter from Anna A. Clemons to the National Woman's Party, 10 October 1920 Document 3: Letter from Emma Wold to Anna A. Clemons, 20 October 1920 Document 4: Letter from Anna A. Clemons to Emma Wold, 24 October 1920 Document 5: Letter from Emma Wold to Anna A. Clemons, 2 November 1920 Document 6: Letter from Mary White Ovington to Lucy Burns, 17 December 1920 Document 7A: Letter from Harriot Stanton Blatch to Alice Paul, 20 December 1920 Document 7B: Letter from Mary White Ovington to Harriot Stanton Blatch, 3 December 1920 Document 8: Letter from Florence Kelley to Mary White Ovington, 22 December 1920 Document 9A: Letter from Emma Wold to Harriot Stanton Blatch, 29 December 1920 Document 9B: Letter from Emma Wold to Lucy Burns, 14 January 1921 Document 10: Letter from Mary White Ovington to Alice Paul, 4 January 1921 Document 11: Letter from Mary White Ovington to Mrs. W. Spencer Murray, 12 January 1921 Document 12: Letter from Hallie Q. Brown to Alice Paul, 22 January 1921 Document 13: Letter from Alice Paul to Mrs. William Spencer Murray, 24 January 1921 Document 14: Letter from Patty to Mrs. Lewis, 29 January 1921 Document 15: Letter from Inez Richardson to Alice Paul, 2 February 1921 Document 16: \"The White Woman's Burden,\" The Nation, 16 February 1921 Document 17: Freda Kirchwey, \"Alice Paul Pulls the Strings,\" The Nation, 2 March 1921 Document 18: Letter from Alice Paul to Rev. Olympia Brown, 6 March 1921 Document 19: Letter from Mrs. Lawrence Lewis to the Editor of The Nation, 26 March 1921 Document 20: \"Race Issue Hits Feminist Party,\" Boston Herald, 17-18 August 1924 Document 21: Telegram from Walter White to Alice Paul, 18 August 1924 Document 22: Letter from Alice Paul to Miss Katherine Fisher, 30 August 1924 Document 23: Letter from Alice Paul to Miss L.J.C. Daniels, 25 August 1924 Document 24: Letter from Alice Paul to Heywood Broun, 26 August 1924 Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Project Credits Related Links Previous Next\nSome white women within the National Woman's Party were displeased by the party's treatment of black women. Katherine Fisher, a long-time member of the National Woman's Party expressed her disappointment at the exclusion of black women from their activities. Alice Paul responded with a vigorous defense of the National Woman's Party in its treatment of African American women. Still, it is clear from this letter that race prejudice on the part of southern NWP members was a significant factor in Paul's thinking. Paul welcomed the opportunity to improve the Party's public image through notices in African American newspapers.\nNational Woman's Party\nNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, CAPITOL HILL\nTELEPHONE LINCOLN 1366\nBALTIMORE HEADQUARTERS, 19 WEST CHASE ST.\nCHICAGO HEADQUARTERS, AUDITORIUM HOTEL\nNEW YORK CITY HEADQUARTERS, ALLERTON HOTEL\n698 LEXINGTON AVE.\nAugust 30th, 1924.\nMiss Katherine Fisher,\n4590 Oakwald Ave.,\nDear Miss. Fisher:\nI have just received your letter in which you suggest that at our \"next demonstration, or affair of any kind, that the colored women be asked to take part, before they have a chance to demand it.\"\nWe have always asked Negro women equally with white women to participate in everything that we have ever organized. All of our Negro members received an invitation to attend the \"Women for Congress\" Conference, the pilgrimage to the grave of Inez Milholland and the pageant. They were also invited to all of the social affairs connected with the conference. We entertained one of the Negro women who was a visitor at the conference, at a cottage where a number of our workers were staying and she was treated in the same way as our other guests. We had no servants in the cottage and our workers themselves prepared her meals for her. An especial effort was made to make her feel at home and I myself motored over twenty miles to take her to an evening meeting when she did not seem able to make arrangements to get to the meeting herself.\nWe have been criticised a great deal by many of our Southern members for insisting upon there being no discrimination between the whites and the Negroes in our organization. For instance, our entire North Carolina delegation withdrew from our last convention because we had Negro delegates at our social functions. It is astonishing, therefore, to have criticism of the Woman's Party on the ground of discrimination against Negroes.\nIn your letter you suggest that you ask Mrs. Snowden Porter to make a statement concerning the attitude of the Woman's Party on the Negro question. I wish very much that you would do this and that you would secure any publicity you can in Negro papers concerning our position.\nWhile writing I want to ask whether you would have time to write up your notes on the Barbers for \"Equal Rights\". I think this would be a most useful article for us to have.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"RADLEY BOOKS\nWe Live For Books!\nHealth, Fitness & Lifestyle\nSelf Help & Money\nAlan Radley\nKim Veltman\nAbsolute Security\nPurchase on Amazon ($ 19.99) here.\n[ 174 pages, 6*9 inch paperback. ISBN: 978-1523408061 ]\nOutlined is a new philosophy of Absolute Security for digital information sharing; and developed is the fundamental theory of 'socially secure communication'. The subject at hand is the safe transfer of meaning between individual human beings \u2013 using networked computers. Clarified are terms, concepts and principles related to the secure communication of private ideas \/ thoughts \/ concepts \/ datum(s) \u2013 and in a format easily digestible by non-technical people.\nWhy Security is All About Copies\nAetiology of a Secure Network\nBuilding Actor Coherent Defences\nPrimary Network Design\nEncryption Theory\nThe Beholder's Share\nBigger Brain versus Stealth\nSecurity and Privacy: The Big Picture\nTheory of Absolute Security\nReal Life Scenarios\nReview by Bill Montgomery \u2013 CEO Connect In Private Corp.\nABSOLUTE SECURITY: THEORY and PRINCIPLES of SOCIALLY SECURE COMMUNICATION should be considered required reading for anyone focused on secure and private communication. In this book, Alan Radley makes sense of the complexities which ordinarily restrict this topic to IT people only. What's more, Alan's no-nonsense approach and fearless honesty, is refreshing. I recommend this to everyone who is interested in making certain that their communication is more private, secure and resilient. \u2013 Bill Montgomery (23\/01\/2016)\nReview by Vic Hyder \u2013 Chief Strategy Officer \u2013 Silent Circle (Commander U.S. Navy, retired) \u2013 Founding Member \u2013 Silent Circle (Blackphone).\nExcellent read! Succinct and accurate on a subject that normally wanders into tangential discussions confusing and diffusing the goal. Radley breaks down today's hottest topic in a way that provides reference to students as well as guidance to the more learned. Absolute Security will give you an optimistic understanding that, even in an ever-increasing world of digital surveillance and criminal threats, \"\u2026 absolute security is eminently achievable.\nThank you again for the opportunity to pre-read Absolute Security. I found it spot on and a fine addition to the body of work on cyber security but specifically to the discussion of privacy within communications. We created Silent Circle in 2012, with Phil Zimmermann, Jon Callas, and Mike Janke to provide a simple yet absolutely secure solution to this increasingly difficult problem. Your breakdown of what is required to achieve absolute security is reflective of the efforts we have made over the past few years. I see this short book as a reference document for students studying cyber security as well as an excellent read for CTOs, CSOs, CISOs, and CEOs laboring over how to analyze their needs for increased security. Absolute Security allows you to hit the highlights or dive deeper into the subject with your many charts, diagrams, and glossary of terms. Well done. \u2013 Vic Hyder (29\/01\/2016)\nReview by Professor Richard Benham \u2013 Professor in Residence, UK National Cyber Skills Centre, Visiting Professor of Cyber Security Management, University of Gloucestershire, University of Staffordshire and Coventry Business School.\nAs cyber education evolves to meet the pace of change in our digital world so does the need for good reference books. Absolute Security is a timely and spot on publication that I shall be recommending to my students; well done Dr Radley. \u2013 Richard Benham (1\/2\/2016)<\nReview by Christian Rogan \u2013 Vice President, Business Development, Royal Holloway, University of London.\nAbsolute Security: Theory and Principles of Socially Secure Communication; this book is a very concise body of work, that belies its length for the practical application of useful data in a highly complex area. Beyond its obvious sage advice with working diagrams and imparted wisdom I particularly like the implied moral assertion that the state undermining best IT security practice is to the detriment of all. Further this should be required reading for anyone providing third party services whereby their security claims cannot be held up without transparency. Ignore this work at your peril. \u2013 Christian Rogan (3\/2\/2016)\nReview by Professor John Walker \u2013 Hexforensics (Digital Expert Witness) \u2013 Visiting Professor at Nottingham Trent University.\nThis is a unique piece of work which correctly recognises the socio-economic implications of modern day embracement, and dependency on technology, and the ever present interface between man-and-machine. The book provides the reader with an accurate and objective view of the life-cycle of the exposures and vulnerabilities which are associated with the technological shadow cast over all individuals, and organisations. As an Expert Witness in the discipline of Digital, this publication also provides very useful descriptions in 'people-speak' and includes very accurate definitions of the complex, transposed into understandable terminology. This is an excellent read, and deserves a place on every security professional's bookshelf who is seeking a balanced and objective of the current, and futuristic Cyber Security Landscape. \u2013 Professor John Walker (4\/2\/2016)\nReview by Vitali Kremez \u2013 CISSP (A), CEH, CFE, CNDA, C-CPA \u2013 Cybercrime Investigative Analyst, New York District Attorney's Office.\nIn \"Absolute Security: Theory and Principles of Socially Secure Communications\", Dr. Radley exhibited an extraordinary passion for cybersecurity and privacy in the mold of the principles that conform to secure and just society. In a world full of privacy breaches, Radley timely develops a framework that delves into complexity of technical and human-centric factors that affect our perception of privacy and cybersecurity. I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in making our cyber world more secure. \u2013 Vitali Kremez (6\/2\/2016)\nReview by Michael Lester \u2013 MSEE, MBA, CIPP\/US, CISM \u2013 Chief Information Security Officer, Magenic.\nIt is not very often that one is exposed to a work that is truly ground breaking in a field, but \"Absolute Security\" is one of those works. Rather than expounding on the implementation of security as many do, Dr. Alan Radley astutely asks (and then suggests an answer for) the rather naive, yet deceptively complex question \"What is security?\", or more precisely \"How does one characterize a communication system that provides secure (private) data transfer?\nAs Dr. Radley examines this question, the reader becomes aware that the answer is much more elusive than one first assumes. As Dr. Radley builds a working compendium of definitions needed to examine the issue, the reader becomes more and more aware that the current vernacular is insufficient for discussing secure communication at a philosophical level, and if we cannot agree on what it means to be secure or private in thought, how can we accomplish it in act? It is here, laying the foundation of formal definition of socially secure communication, that Dr. Radley's work \"Absolute Security\" is groundbreaking and will no doubt be referenced by many works to come. \u2013 Michael Lester (23\/2\/2016)\nReview by Arno Brok \u2013 Chief Executive Officer, Australian Information Security Association.\nFor someone with over 20 years in IT Security and almost 40 years in ICT it is invigorating to read a book that introduces terminologies that would resonate with the academic world and is not burdened with technical jargon. Reading Absolute Security also raises optimism that as an industry we have a chance in the imbalanced battle against cyber criminals. This also means that the statement 'there is no such thing as 100% secure' might be proven wrong. An excellent read and would definitely recommend this to our AISA members as a read to get a different perspective on security. \u2013 Arno Brok (21\/3\/2016)\nReview by Pantazis Kourtis \u2013 Member of the Board of Directors at London Chapter at ISACA.\nAbsolute Security is a brilliant book! Did it make me wiser? I say it did, however, it depends on the angle you are reading it from, your expectations and probably your background. You cannot suspect what is coming when you start reading. Definitely a very interesting approach on Information Security. One thing is for certain, this piece of work is not for the light-hearted. \u2013 Pantazis Kourtis(21\/3\/2016)\nSelf As Computer\nPurchase on Amazon ($ 25) here.\n[400 pages, 8*10 inch paperback, 1000 illustrations. ISBN: 1499171609 ]\nIn Self as Computer, Alan Radley looks at the computer not as a tool, or as a bicycle-for-the-mind, but simply as self. He argues that humans are becoming so enmeshed with the computer, in terms of how we think, act and communicate; that soon it may no longer be possible to identify where the self ends, and the computer begins, and vice-versa. Predicted by some, are marvellous benefits for technology; in terms of enhancements to our social, creative and personal lives.\nBut already clear, is that not all of the associated problems lie in the realm of speculation. One example, is that the Internet is moving ever further away from the free and open system as foreseen by its original designers; whereby citizens are routinely censored, hacked and\/or spied upon. Other questions arise; such as who builds today's systems, and in what sense(s) are they useful, humane or democratic?\nExplored are human-friendly designs for the computers of tomorrow, whereby the wishes, plans and actions of society may be aligned to benefit all.\nEmerging Self-Computer\nHyper-Media \/ Hyper-Thoughts\nAugmented \/ Virtual Realities\nCyborgs, Robots and Automata\nSurveillance \/ Hacking \/ Privacy\nArtificial \/ Simulated Intelligence\nNatural + Machine-Implanted Thoughts\nWorld-Brain + Freedom of Thought \/ Action\n3D User Interfaces \/ Wearables + Smart-Things\nMechanised-Dystopia \/ Technopia + Techno-rights\nEthical, Moral and Spiritual dimension(s) of Computers\nSelf-as-Computer (400 pages) is available from Amazon; and has 1000 illustrations.\nREVIEWS for Self as Computer\nReview by Dr Kim Veltman\nThis is a bold and important book. It is a new attempt to develop the idea of a World Brain: to offer theoretical rationales, practical criteria and guidelines for the creation of a Universal Library entailing nothing less than a reorganisation of all knowledge. Traditional visions (The Library of Babel, The Universal Library) were mainly updated versions of the Library of Alexandria. Radley's vision is about much more: the creation of contextualised ideas, circuits of thoughts. Outlined are techno- rights, which make visible the thoughts, opinions, insights of everyman, and thus transform the vision of freedom of thought as outlined in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The utilitarian goal is a new Internet: a technopia that will benefit the whole of humanity, rather than specific companies, interest groups and individuals.\nThis is not, as its title could suggest, simply another techno-optimist book by a scientist promising that computers offer a simple panacea to everything. On the contrary, it traces how early visions of networked knowledge (e.g. Otlet, Engelbart, Nelson) were narrowed into an Internet and World Wide Web which, although popular, preclude a systematic access to thoughts, ideas, knowledge as foreseen in this vision. It is often said: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. This book explores an implicit corollary. If the system has too many broken links, then we need to start again from scratch and build a new system. This entails creating a new mechanical device. But the larger vision is that this device will improve human thinking methods.\nPart of the narrowing that has occurred in the past half century has been driven by the computer science community, especially the AI faction, whose claims concerning artificial intelligence, machine thinking, autonomous computing, continue to inspire visions of mechanical intelligence competing with and\/or replacing human intelligence (transhumanism, post-humanism, cf. the predicted Singularity). Radley offers a radically different vision where man remains the master and computers are the tools, servants of man-made visions. To establish this, three chapters are devoted to the self, ideas and thinking, offering a telescoped history of Western philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to the present. Two chapters outline the limitations of current computers and machines. Further chapters outline emerging potentials of user interfaces, cyberspace, virtual reality and robots.\nThe central vision is of a World Brain, with circuits of thoughts leading to a city of thoughts and ultimately technopia. The author acknowledges that these are linked with dreams of utopia, but is also careful to outline competing dystopian visions. The margins are lined with c. 1,000 illustrations, which offer a visual account of these utopian and dystopian possibilities: ranging from comic strip cartoons and historical diagrams to numerous illustrations of patented devices. It ends with a Universal Declaration of Human- Techno Rights, a Technopian Manifesto and 10 Commandments for humans to computers. The media are filled with articles about how computers are revolutionising the world. Radley's book suggests that the real revolution has yet to begin. It catalogues numerous dangers, but ultimately it is a paean of hope in and for human freedom.\nZen Of Dumbbell Training\nHow To Use a Dumbbell For Health, Strength, Figure and Therapy\nAlan Radley has written a comprehensive book on the zen of dumbbell training. Developed is a thoughtful approach to dumbbell practice, with emphasis on natural movement patterns, deep concentration and technically informed practice. You will learn how to spice-up your routine with ~50 \"lost\" exercises; including shoulder, body and triceps circles and various pressing, curling, squatting and bending moves.\nBoth men and women can use the Zen of Dumbbell Training to attain their fitness goals. The how and why of dumbbell training is explained in greater detail than ever before, and laid-out is a well-defined path to physical perfection.\nContains ~ 1200 illustrations; visit: http:\/\/www.alanradley.com\nPurchase on Amazon here.\nReview by David Gentle\n\"Zen of Dumbbell Training is truly a visual delight and written by an author with a lifetime love of physical culture and knowledge beyond belief. Dr Alan Radley writes an exhaustive treatise on the delights and benefits of one of the most ancient forms of physical training apparatus, the dumbbell. Every area of the body is covered in depth with the appropriate suggestions for dumbbell exercises to improve health, flexibility and strength. Never in a life time of reading Physical Culture manuals have I ever seen a book so beautifully illustrated with works of sheer art. I guarantee this book will become a classic. You have only yourself to blame if you do not purchase a copy while they are still available, don't lose this treasure.\"\n-David Gentle (Author of over 2000 articles on physical culture and bodybuilding; and sub-editor of Health and Strength magazine)\nThe Illustrated History Of Physical Culture\n1001 Dumbbell Exercises \u2013 Volumes 1-3","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lawsuit Against Tesla And Musk Filed By Investor Over Musk's Tweets On Selling Of His Stocks\nTesla investor David Wagner filed a lawsuit against eth US electric car maker Tesla Inc objecting to social media posts, including his poll posts on Twitter, made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk about whether he should be selling his stocks in the company. The law suit alleges that these social media posts actually pulled down the price of the company's stocks.\nIn the lawsuit, Wagner requested the courts to call for internal documents of the company for investigating whether both Tesla and Musk had breached an agreement that the two parties had entered into with the US securities regulator and alleged that the board members of the company had been unable to adhere to their fiduciary duties.\nThe US Securities and Exchange Commission had filed a case in 2018 against Musk over some tweets the billionaire had made about taking Tesla private. Musk had later settled the case with the SEC following an agreement with the regulator in which Musk would allow the lawyers of the company approving any tweets he posted on social media that pertained to material information about the company.\nOn Nov. 6 this year, Musk had tweeted that he would be selling off 10 per cent of his stocks in Tesla if his followers on the social media platform also agreed. That tweet resulted in the stocks of the company plunging by about a quarter from around record highs prior ot the tweets. Later Musk informed that he had sold almost $14 billion worth of shares so far.\nIn the lawsuit, which was filed with the Delaware Court of Chancery on Thursday, the plaintiffs requested the court to call for records and books form the company linked to Musk's tweets, including those documents that would aid in identifying whether the stock sales tweets were reviewed or pre-approved in advance.\nMusk and the board of the company had been previously sued by another investor of the company in March this year in which the plaintiff alleged that Musk had breached the 2018 settlement he had made with the SEC and he had exposed the company's shareholders to losses billions of dollars.\n(Source:www.nasdaq.com)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Windermere Expands With Two New Offices in Brea and Chino Hills\nDecember 6, 2010 | Uncategorized\nBrea Office\nChino Hills Office\nWindermere Real Estate is broadening its already substantial Southern California presence with the opening of two new Windermere offices beyond the Coachella Valley. For those who have only known Windermere Real Estate by its extensive desert area presence, it may come as some surprise that Windermere offers its full range of services and fully-licensed professionals throughout a large part of Southern California, serving a diverse clientele from our southernmost part of the state all the way north into Canada.\nWindermere Preferred Living, located at 135 S. State College Boulevard, is now serving Brea and the surrounding areas of this thriving and popular Orange County city. Brea, at the very northern end of Orange County, is noteworthy for much, including its early petroleum industry history, its citrus production, and its extensive program of citywide public-sponsored art. Sunset magazine named Brea one of the five best residential suburbs in the western United States, and Windermere is proud to now be a part of this exceptional Southern California city. Windermere offers Brea real estate buyers and sellers the exceptional quality and experience for which its agents are already known for at 16 Coachella Valley locations and more than a dozen other offices throughout Southern California.\nAlso celebrating its grand opening this weekend is the new Windermere Real Estate\/King Realty Group office at 2130 Grand Avenue, Chino Hills, located at the southwest corner of San Bernardino County. Money Magazine called national attention to this city when it named Chino Hills one of America's hottest towns, ranking it number 8 on its list of 'best places in the West with population under 100,000.' Windermere brings its legendary reputation for service and client satisfaction to this beautiful rural community and looks forward to settling into its position as one of the foremost California real estate firms in this part of the state.\nWith the two new Brea and Chino Hills offices, Windermere Real Estate has 33 offices throughout Southern California, with additional locations underway.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"id : 102 Covid19\nKenya's Taxman will introduce an amnesty programme for income tax, VAT and Excise Duty once the Finance Bill 2020 is passed into law. It is aimed at bringing into the fold thousands of taxpayers KRA is unable to audit yearly, into compliance. Expected beneficiaries include people who filed returns but did not pay taxes, those who have neither filed nor paid due taxes, those who have not applied for their PIN numbers as well as those not registered with iTax.\nThe Voluntary Tax Disclosure Programme, if approved, will require amendments to the Tax Procedures Act, and will come into effect on January 1st, 2021.\nKRA has been battling corporate and individual taxpayers in the Commercial Courts with cases reported almost daily of yet another legal tussle with a taxpayer. It is currently locked in court battles with industrialists Humphrey Kariuki of African Spirits and Tabitha Kariuki, the CEO of Keroche Breweries from whom it is demanding billions. Current cases in court number more than 100.\nDavid Yego, the KRA Commissioner in charge of Tax Investigations and Enforcement said in the first three months of this financial year, the country had lost more than Sh53billion in tax evasion.\n\"\"We have currently forwarded 118 cases to court from which we have lost we have so far lost Sh53 billion,\" said Yego in October last year.\nIn addition, KRA was forced to invoke Departure Prohibition Orders against 26 people barring them from travelling out of the country after it accused them of being in tax arrears amounting to Sh9.2billion. The authority is granted powers to impose travel bans in such cases under the Tax Procedures Act.\nBig 4 Audit firm, KPMG Kenya, reckons the proposed amnesty programme may help raise owed taxes without punitive enforcement measures.\nIn a tax alert on the same Bill, KPMG notes that:\n\"The introduction of a penalty and interest waiver programme will help both the taxpayer and the KRA to collect outstanding tax arrears. Based on its current capacity, the KRA is not able to carry out audits on all taxpayers and the program will help to bridge this\ncompliance gap.\"\nAccording to Anjarwalla and Khana (ALN Kenya), a leading law firm in the country, taxpayers who volunteer for the proposed programme, taxpayers will be allowed to disclose their tax liabilities to the KRA for purposes of being granted relief of penalties and interest on disclosed tax as well as immunity from prosecution.\n\"The programme will apply to tax liab\nilities that accrued within 5 years prior to 1 July 2020 meaning it will cover the period from June 2015,\" firm partners, Daniel Ngumy and Kenneth Njuguna write in a legal alert.\nTaxpayers will fill out a prescribed form and submit it to KRA disclosing \"all material facts.\" They will then have one year to pay the arrears.\n\"Interestingly, the taxpayer that is granted the relief cannot seek any other remedy e.g. right to appeal in regard to the taxes, penalties and interest remitted to the Commissioner,\" ALN Kenya further notes.\n\"Failure to disclose a material fact may result to withdrawal of\nthe relief granted, assessment and collection of any balance of tax liability and prosecution.\"\nTaxpayers who are under audit or have received notification of a proposed audit will not be eligible for the programme.\nReached for comment, KRA declined to comment on the amnesty programme until the Finance Bill is passed into law by parliament.\nHowever, KRA may be forced to make public presentations owing to constitutional requirements.\n\"It is expected that parliament will request stakeholders and public comments before the Bill becomes an Act,\" Big 4 audit firm, Ernst and Young says in a tax alert on its website.\nIt however notes, \"While the proposal provides that the taxpayer cannot appeal against the relief granted, a taxpayer may appeal against the Commissioner's decision to withdraw it.\"\nKPMG reckons the Voluntary Tax Disclosure programme could be patterned after a similar Tax Administration (Remission of Interest and Penalty) Order of 2018 in Tanzania which was \"fairly successful.\"\nDeloitte delved into the nuances of that programme here","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Voting, in Mali and Zimbabwe, Tests Elections Organizers\nCarol Guensburg\nSupporters of Nelson Chamisa's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party attend the final election rally in Harare, Zimbabwe, July 28, 2018.\nMalians go to the polls on Sunday to determine whether to grant a second term to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Zimbabweans will cast votes Monday in the first election since longtime leader Robert Mugabe was forced to resign in November.\nWhether constituents have confidence in the results of these elections \u2013 and those in Cameroon in October and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December \u2013 depends on whether they perceive the vote as free and fair.\nMuch of that responsibility falls to election organizers. In Mali, that's at least three separate entities. In Zimbabwe, it's the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), a nominally independent body.\n\"The challenge many election bodies have is living up to the expectation of independence and the integrity with which they do their work,\" said Rushdi Nackerdien, African regional director for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. The foundation, based just outside of Washington, D.C., provides technical support and guidance for democracies.\n\"You've got a lot of cynicism that has crept into citizens' belief about democracy,\" he added.\nNumerous countries have seen increasing attacks on core elements of democracies, including \"guarantees of free and fair elections,\" the international watchdog group Freedom House reported early this year.\nA Gallup poll shows that fewer than half of Zimbabweans (47 percent) \"are confident in the honesty of their country's elections.\" While that's down nine points from two years ago, it is still \"the highest rating in any election year in the past decade,\" Gallup noted in a Twitter post on Friday.\nZimbabwe preparations\nNackerdien acknowledged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has done some things to shore up confidence, such as allowing international observers \u2013 including the first European Union team in 16 years \u2013 and making voter rolls public.\nBut ZEC also has been dogged by controversies, including accusations that it favors the ruling Zanu-PF party and that its ballot paper design unfairly benefits incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 75-year-old's chief rival, in a field of 22 presidential candidates, is Nelson Chamisa, a 40-year-old lawyer who leads the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance.\nJohnnie Carson, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, is part of the joint election observer delegation of the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute. He told VOA's Zimbabwe Service that opposition parties are concerned about \"how the tabulations would be handled.\"\nU.S. Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican lawmaker, also will be among the observers. The United States has said lifting sanctions \u2013 imposed on Mugabe and those close to him for allegedly rigging votes and violating human rights \u2013 would depend in part on whether the southern African country's elections are fair and transparent.\nMore than 5 million Zimbabweans are registered to vote Monday in the general elections and tightening presidential contest. A candidate must get at least 50 percent of all votes to win the presidency, or it will be decided by a runoff on Sept. 8.\nFears persist about election-related attacks, which killed dozens in 2008. IFES' Nackerdien said special electoral courts \"have been set up that will be looking at aggressive perpetrators of violence.\"\nThe United Nations Mission in Mali assists in transporting election materials in Bamako, July 28, 2018. (UN)\n\u200bMali elections\nIn Mali, the West African country's 8 million registered voters can choose Sunday among 24 candidates for president. If no candidate wins a majority, the election will be decided in an Aug. 12 runoff. The country has experienced persistent violence since a 2012 separatist uprising in the north, with terror attacks plaguing the northern and central regions.\nVoters needn't be fearful, according to the government's Ministry of Territorial Administration, one of several entities in charge of the election. Souleymane Amadou Sangare, its director general, told VOA this week that the government \"will assume its responsibility when it comes to security.\"\nThe IFES' Nackerdien cited a challenge in \"holding elections in such an insecure environment,\" noting that \"in some parts of the Malian countryside ... you don't even have precinct administrators who are looking into preparations.\"\nCorruption also is an issue in Mali elections, prospective voters told VOA's Bambara Service earlier this week.\nIn the capital city of Bamako, a woman said she was paid the equivalent of $3 to attend a campaign rally earlier this week, though she would not disclose for which candidate. \"If it is God's will, if somebody give me money, I vote for him,\" she said, asking that her name be withheld. \"We don't trust politicians. They only come see us when we need us. ... That's why we ask them to give us something. \"\nNackerdien said the government's involvement in the election fosters \"some distrust\" among citizens. To improve the public trust and election coordination, \"there's a big need to look post election at reforms to organize into a single entity.\"\nHe encouraged more transparency \u2013 especially in political climates that \"have become so adversarial and polarized.\n\"We need electoral management bodies not only to stick to their technical work but to engage more with the public,\" Nackerdien said. \".... They need to be letting voters know what they are doing, that their votes are not going to be stolen.\"\nIn Zimbabwe, the ZEC said it is monitoring media \"to ensure balanced coverage. ....\"\nBut an officer with the Media Alliance of Zimbabwe \u2013 representing an assortment of journalists and educators \u2013 complained in May of \"threats against media freedom, which pose a chilling effect on citizens' right to free expression and access to information. ...\"\nNickerdien called for \"more independent and professional media reporting...We need to know that they'll referee.\"\nWith organizers, he added, \"the big question\" is how they're going to stand up to scrutiny in the \"heat and pressure of the actual election.\"\nVOA's Bambara and Zimbabwe services contributed to this report, with Lamissa Sangare reporting from Bamako, Mali.\nRallies Set Stage for Zimbabwe's Election\nZimbabwe's Matabeleland Massacre Haunts Monday's Elections\nZimbabwe NGOs Woo Youths to Vote in Post-Mugabe Election\nHistoric Vote Looms in Zimbabwe\nMore Africa Stories\nPope Francis Begins 6-Day Peace Pilgrimage to Central Africa\n5 Things to Know About DR Congo\nGlobal Guinea Worm Infections Continue Downward Trend","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"adventure canada Erebus john franklin Margaret Atwood Out of the Northwest Passage\nGetting excited to sail Out of the Northwest Passage\nWe've done eight or nine voyages with Adventure Canada, Sheena and I, but this year is shaping up to be special. First, sailing Out of the Northwest Passage is my favorite itinerary. As always, we'll be sailing through exploration history: John Franklin, John Rae, Thomas Simpson, Roald Amundsen. But this year, traveling in September, we'll probably be on the water at the same time as the Erebus search expedition . . . and at one point, not all that far away. Apart from which, we will sail north into Smith Sound and Kane Basin . . . and then, heading south along Greenland, we'll end up zodiac-winding among the most fantastical icebergs in the northern hemisphere.\nSecond, we've always enjoyed the Sea Adventurer (pictured above). But this year, we get a fancy new vessel called the Ocean Endeavour . . . and no fewer than twenty zodiacs! Multiple lounges . . . outdoor dining . . . and did someone whisper the words \"hot tub?\" Third, check out the resource staff. Margaret Atwood, Freeman Patterson, James Raffan . . . and that's just for starters. But see for yourself. This gang is aces, top to bottom. Believe me, that makes a difference. OK, this is my first-ever commercial for Adventure Canada and I won't go on. If you've been hankering after the Arctic, check 'em out. Tell 'em Ken sent you.\nAurora Canadian Federation of University Women Erebus Franklin expedition john franklin Newmarket\nSearching for Franklin leads Our Hero to University Women\nOriginally, I had planned to give a talk entitled Nothing is More Fun Than Chasing the New History. But then came the finding of the Erebus. And participating in the documentary called Franklin's Lost Ships. And people saying, well, this latest discovery is fun. But what does it mean? Why does it matter?\nSo I've narrowed my focus. I'm still Chasing the New History. But I'll talk, more specifically, about Searching for Franklin: The Lost Ships, the Discoveries, and the Woman Who Created a Legend. Above, we see one of the slides that will turn up in my presentation.\nThe occasion is the celebratory May Dinner of the Aurora\/Newmarket branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women. The venue is the DiamondBack Golf Club in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto. The date and time: May 12 beginning at 6 p.m. Can you afford to miss it?\nBeach Village Canadian Authors for Indies Kim Echlin Lee Gowan Tish Cohen\nHundreds of authors set to party with Canadian booksellers\nLooks like The Great Canadian Book Bash is coming to a bookstore near you. On Saturday, May 2, more than 500 Canadian authors will turn up at 100-plus independent bookstores across the country.\nWe're calling it Authors for Indies and, yes, we mean to show our support for Canada's independent booksellers. We want them not just to survive, but to flourish. You can read all about it at www.authorsforindies.com. You can even find out\nwhich authors will be where. Here in the Beach Village, known for having Ontario's Best Small-Town Main Street, a bunch of us, Beachers all, will put our shoulders to the wheel at Book City (1950 Queen Street East). Wander into that well-stocked bookstore and you might run into Lee Gowan (The Last Cowboy), Tish Cohen (Town House), or Kim Echlin (The Disappeared). And that's just for starters. Yours truly (Fatal Passage) will be hanging out from around 2 p.m. And, hey, don't be surprised if I try to sell you a book. Gotta love those indies.\nBook City in The Beach: Authors: Ken McGoogan, Lisa de Nikolits, DJ McIntosh, Kim Echlin, George A. Walker, Lee Gowan, Tish Cohen, Brian Panhuyzen, Dr. Vera Tarman\nCanadian nation Celtic Lightning Irish Scots\nCeltic Lightning to strike bookstores in September\nWith Celtic Lightning, best-selling author Ken McGoogan plunges into the perpetual debate about Canadian roots and identity: who do we think we are? He argues that Canadians have never investigated the demographic reality that informs this book -- the fact that more than nine million Canadians claim Scottish or Irish heritage. Did the ancestors of more than one quarter of our population arrive without cultural baggage? No history, no values, no vision? Impossible.\nMcGoogan writes that, to understand who we are and where we are going, Canadians must look to cultural genealogy. He builds on the work of Richard Dawkins, who contends that ideas and values (\"memes\") can be transmitted from one generation to another. Scottish and Irish immigrants arrived in Canada with values they had learned from their forebears. And they did so early enough, and in sufficient numbers, to shape an emerging Canadian nation. . . .\nKen McGoogan has published a dozen books, among them How the Scots Invented Canada, Fatal Passage, and Lady Franklin's Revenge. His honours include the Pierre Berton Award, the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and the Canadian Authors' Association History Award. Ken has crisscrossed Ireland and Scotland numerous times, and also circumnavigated both countries.\nPublisher: HarperCollins Canada \/ Patrick Crean Editions\nMedia & events: Colleen.Simpson@HarperCollins.com\nPublication rights: Beverley Slopen Literary Agency \/ Beverley@slopenagency.com\nCBC-TV Erebus Franklin's Lost Ships Nature of Things Sir John Franklin\nFranklin's Lost Ships turn up on CBC-TV's The Nature of Things\nHats off to Andrew E.M. Gregg! He produced Franklin's Lost Ships, an extraordinary new documentary that turned up April 9 on CBC-TVs The Nature of Things. And finished in such a short period! The most impressive thing may well have been how smoothly the narrative unwound, cutting back and forth between the contemporary search and the history of the tragedy. So many figures winding in and out without a hitch: very sophisticated, very polished.\nThe seamless intermingling of documentary footage and credible reconstruction was terrific. Also, we got some exciting views of the sunken Erebus we have never seen before. Oh, and the CGI was great! I know, I know: the aficionados will be clamoring for more history: what does it all mean? But I expect that the longer version of this documentary, coming soon to PBS and Nova, will deliver more of that. Meanwhile, Franklin's Lost Ships will air again this Saturday on CBC News Network, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Honestly: this doc is the perfect primer for what promises to be an outstanding season of dives, discoveries and revelations. Don't miss it.\n[Here is the CBC link for online viewing: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/natureofthings\/episodes\/franklins-lost-ships]\nSearching for Franklin leads Our Hero to Universit...\nHundreds of authors set to party with Canadian boo...\nFranklin's Lost Ships turn up on CBC-TV's The Natu...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Former Limerick hurling captain takes up a new role as coach to the Laois senior hurlers\nGavin O'Mahony\nJerome O'Connell\njoconnell@limerickleader.ie\nFORMER Limerick senior hurling captain Gavin O'Mahony has taken up a new role as coach to the Laois senior hurlers for 2022.\nThe Kilmallock man will work under manager Seamas 'Cheddar' Plunkett.\nLaois lost to Wexford in round one of the Walsh Cup on Sunday - O'Mahony was absent as he was lining out for Kilmallock in the Munster club SHC final defeat to Ballygunner.\nO'Mahony could be on the sideline for the first time next Sunday when Laois play Kilkenny in Callan.\nO'Mahony and his Laois side wont face his native Limerick in the group stages of the league or championship.\nFixture change for Limerick Munster Hurling Cup semi final with Kerry\nThe former Limerick star joins former Galway hurler Francis Forde as a hurling coaches in the Plunkett management team.\nLaois Today report that O'Mahony replaces Limerick's 2013 Munster SHC winning coach Donach O'Donnell in the Laois set-up.\nAnother former Limerick hurler Ollie Moran served as Laois coach in 2017 under Eamonn Kelly, while Dave Moriarty has also had a spell in Laois as S&C coach under Eddie Brennan.\nO'Mahony retired from inter-county hurling in November 2017.\nHe captained the Limerick minor team in Croke Park that lost the 2005 All Ireland MHC final to Galway and by 2007 he made his senior championship debut against Clare in an All-Ireland SHC Qualifier.\nIn total he played 10 seasons of senior championship hurling for Limerick - the highlight the 2013 Munster SHC title.\nIn 2011 O'Mahony captained Limerick to the Division Two Allianz Hurling League title with a final victory over Clare in Ennis.\nO'Mahony was previously a full-time Limerick GAA coach. While still playing with Kilmallock he has gained coaching experience at Fitzgibbon Cup level with Mary Immaculate College and in 2021 he was involved with with Killeedy in the 2021 Limerick JAHC.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Have coelacanth fossils younger than 65 million years been found?\nIn a Creation Ministries International article, they make the following claim about coelacanths:\nPaleontologists believed that coelacanths went extinct about 65 million years ago. However, in 1938, fishermen off the coast of South Africa found them alive and well. By evolutionary logic, coelacanths have coexisted with a multitude of other sea creatures for the last 65 million years; yet, the fossil record is silent\nIs this true?\nevolution young-earth-creationism paleontology fossil-record\nShannon T\nShannon TShannon T\nWelcome to the site! Very nice question. \u2013 Nate Eldredge Aug 4 '18 at 0:31\nNear miss answer: Don Lindsay (via talk.origins) confirms the lack of fossils (with justification), but he appears to only be a self-appointed expert, so I don't think he warrants being a reference. \u2013 Oddthinking\u2666 Aug 4 '18 at 2:49\nThe fossil record is often patchy. The Cenozoic has seen very low coelacanth diversity compared with their past. Richard Dawkins noted in The Greatest Show on Earth that creationists cannot consistently claim phyla start when their fossils do because they accept flatworms, which have never fossilised, are as old as other animals. \u2013 J.G. Aug 4 '18 at 8:48\nThe linked article is essentially making the fallacious god of the gaps argument, which inevitably falls apart, i.e., with the discovery of an 18 million year old tuatara fossil. Do these people have no sense of shame? \u2013 David Hammen Aug 4 '18 at 17:33\nAccording to a Nature article from 1998 this is true (or at least, was in 1998).\nCoelacanths were known for decades, but only as fossils. They appeared in the fossil record around 370 million years ago, had their heyday in terms of species diversity around 220 million years ago, and went into a long sunset that appeared to end with extinction, around 70 million years ago - just before the dinosaurs themselves perished.\nAnd from later on in the article:\nAnd why the huge geological gap - 70 million years - during which coelacanths must have existed, but are conspicuous by their absence?\nThe article goes on to suggest a possible explanation for the absence of fossils.\nOne answer could lie in the choosiness of the modern species, Latimeria chalumnae. Judging from its distribution within the Comoros, the fish prefers water that is both deep and cool - around 180 metres and less than 18 \u00b0C. In addition, it prefers to live near steep, submarine slopes pocked by caves. The Sulawesi coelacanths seem to prefer the same sort of habitat. But such pickiness is not extreme: there are probably many suitable places in the Indo-Pacific region that might yet harbour coelacanths.\nAnother answer is that the fossils of deep-sea fish of any kind, not just coelacanths, are scarce in the geological record. Historically, coelacanths occupied a variety of ecological niches, but deep-sea coelacanths are unlikely to have been preserved at all.\nI.e. coelacanth fossils come from eras where they were widespread and occupied a large variety of ecological niches, whereas at their decline 70 million years ago they were left as a much rarer species that lives ina small number of deep ocean areas, and deep ocean species just don't leave many discoverable fossils.\nPhillSPhillS\nDeep ocean species probably leave some fossils, but how discoverable are those fossils? The ocean levels go up and down by about 130 meters as ice sheets melt or freeze. But it would take many tens of millions of years for a deep sea floor to rise up above sea level, if it ever happens. Since the coelacanths disappeared from the fossil record \"only\" 70 million years ago there hasn't been enough time for any possible coelacanth fossils on the deep sea floor to be raised about sea level and discovered. \u2013 M. A. Golding Aug 4 '18 at 17:57\nAnd any fossils that do exist in the deep sea sediment are going to be extremely hard and very expensive to find and bring up. If you've a few tens of millions of dollars and access to a deep sea manned vehicle and control ship, you might be able to find some. \u2013 jwenting Aug 6 '18 at 11:09\nBone dissolves in salt water, so a body would need to be buried quickly (a few years max) to fossilize in the ocean. \u2013 Foo Bar Aug 8 '18 at 21:50\nWant to improve this post? Add citations from reputable sources by editing the post. Posts with unsourced content may be edited or deleted.\nYeah, kind of, they are spotty and they strange. So they was a likely celocanth found during the late Paleocene and one of the Israel Miocene. One of the ones claimed to have lived in the Palestinian Israeli territory are controversial as it could have been done by a creationist. The other Israeli one is a bit strange as it was never tested. The late Paleocene celocanth is from northern Europe. It is the most likely however it could be a bit faulty, this identification is based on comparative bone histology methods of doubtful reliability. Yeah so one and another one not tested.\nGrey ideas the The liopurodon4Grey ideas the The liopurodon4\nWelcome to Skeptics! Please provide some references to support your claims. \u2013 Oddthinking\u2666 May 23 '19 at 8:40\nNot the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged evolution young-earth-creationism paleontology fossil-record .\nHave we observed evolution through natural selection in areas of high child\/youth mortality?\nIs Y-chromosomal Adam younger than Mitochondrial Eve?\nIs the fossil KNM-ER 1470 evidence that other dating methods other than the fossil record are inaccurate?\nHow much traces lasting a million years would human civilization leave after perishing?\nWere giant skeletons found in 1936?\nAre the footprints found in Great Britain 800,000 years old?\nDid Chinese philosopher \"Tson Tse\" anticipate key ideas of evolution 2500 years ago?\nHave scientists found 700,000-or-more visible annual ice layers?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"https:\/\/www.monsterenergy.com\/am\/en\/news\/nerve-colby-stevenson\nNerve | Colby Stevenson\nGet the true story of the history-making X Games gold medal run that almost never happened! Monster Energy is proud to announce the release of \"Nerve\", a new video documentary featuring a true story about American freeski phenom and two-time X Games gold medalist Colby Stevenson.\nReleased today to global audiences across Monster Energy's social media channels, the ten-minute video shows the 24-year-old U.S. Freeski Team rider from Park City, Utah, overcoming traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation after a near-career ending car crash in 2016.\n\"My whole dream, everything was over. I might not ever be the same again, but I always had hope,\" said Stevenson, who prevailed to make X Games history and win two 2020\/21 FIS Freeski Crystal Globes, in the new documentary. \"Before the crash, I did not see how lucky I was. Once it was all taken away, I started seeing the beauty in the little things. I started to be grateful.\"\nWatch \"Nerve\" Now\nProduced by Monster Energy, \"Nerve\" was written and directed by professional freeski athlete and filmmaker Clayton Vila, who mixed archival footage from Stevenson's career with candid interviews.\nAfter stepping on skis before the age of 2, Stevenson became obsessed with freestyle skiing during his childhood and adolescence. Building his skillset in halfpipe and slopestyle, the Park City local soon turned heads on the amateur circuit. \"I skied every day, all winter long. All I wanted to do was go fast, catch air, and learn new tricks,\" said Stevenson in the documentary.\nHis immense bag of tricks and penchant for progression landed Stevenson invites to Grand Prix Olympic qualifying events and major competitions series at age 15. Competing against the biggest names on the circuit, the prodigy earned a spot on the U.S. Freeski Team in 2015 and seemed headed for the big stage: The X Games and Winter Olympics. But his world shattered in May 2016 when, on an eleven-hour drive from Mount Hood resort, Stevenson fell asleep at the wheel and veered off the road.\nThe gifted skier suffered multiple skull fractures in the crash and doctors had little hope for a full recovery, let alone freestyle skiing on a professional level. Over the coming months, Stevenson endured vertigo and memory problems but showed the will to power through the ordeal. After only two months, he was not only able to walk again but ride his bike, asking doctors: \"When can I ski again?\"\nAlthough his medical team gave Stevenson the green light to resume training, more battles were ahead. After all, completing physical rehab is one thing; landing massive aerials and backflips over a snow park ramp is an entirely different ballgame. Speaking on the experience of landing his first tricks after recovery, Stevenson said in the documentary: \"I cannot tell you the rush I had. I never felt so much gratitude in my life. I was weaker, but I still had the muscle memory\u2026 It's not over!\"\nAs it turned out, Stevenson was just getting started. Only eight months after the near-fatal crash, Stevenson won his career-first FIS World Cup at Seiser Alm, Italy, in January 2017. From there, he earned a ticket to fulfill his childhood dream: Competing at Winter X Games, the world's biggest stage in action winter sports.\nThe rest is freeski history: In his debut at X Games Aspen 2020, the Monster Energy athlete achieved what no other X Games rookie had done in the event's twenty-year history: After winning the Ski Knuckle Huck competition, Stevenson became the first rookie in X Games history to claim Ski Slopestyle gold. Since then, he has earned critical acclaim for his progressive IGNITE video part and ended his 2021 season with a first-place Slopestyle finish in the final at the U.S. Grand Prix World Cup, as well as the FIS Slopestyle and Overall Freeski Crystal Globe trophies.\nThe secret to success? \"The crash taught me life lessons that make me a better person and ultimately make me a better competitor,\" said Stevenson in the documentary.\n\"Nerve\" was written and directed by Monster Energy athlete and filmmaker Clayton Vila. After growing up on Block Island, New England, Vila built a career as a pro freeskier on the strength of self-published online videos, including 2008's \"Clayton Vila Shreds Block Island\". Vila's debut as a filmmaker, the documentary \"For Lack of Better\", garnered honors as Film of the Year at the Powder Awards in 2015. He received an X Games bronze medal for his freeski performance in the 2016 Real Ski video competition. Vila produces commercials and films through his production company, Greenpoint Pictures.\nColby Stevenson\nEdouard Therriault Takes Bronze in FIS Font Romeu\nMonster Recap | LAAX Open '22","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"D.C. Government\nBaltimore Government\nU.S Government\nD.C Sports\nPrince George's County News\nHome Arts & Culture\nIssa Rae: Movie Academy 'Needs To Do Better' On Diversity\nBy BETH HARRIS, Associated Press\nPASADENA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Issa Rae's quick comment after five men were announced as Oscar nominees for best director was spur of the moment, but for many captured the lack of diversity among this year's nominees.\n\"We were told to banter for five seconds as the teleprompter loaded, so that was my banter,\" Rae told a TV critics meeting Wednesday. \"I didn't lie. I said congratulations.\"\nThis July 24, 2019 file photo shows Issa Rae, an executive producer of the HBO comedy series \"A Black Lady Sketch Show,\" during the 2019 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. Rae's quick comment after five men were announced as Oscar nominees for best director was spur of the moment, but captured the lack of diversity among this year's nominees. \"We were told to banter for five seconds as the teleprompter loaded, so that was my banter,\" Rae told a TV critics meeting Wednesday. Rae and fellow actor John Cho announced the nominees on Monday. \"Congratulations to those men,\" Rae said dryly after the director category was revealed. (Photo by Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP)\n\"Congratulations to those men,\" Rae said dryly after the director category was revealed Monday. Greta Gerwig, who oversaw the acclaimed \"Little Women,\" was among the women directors who were shut out.\n\"I just think it's unfortunate. The academy needs to do better,\" Rae said. \"I'm kind of tired of having the same conversation. Every year it's something. For me it's just pointing out when I see it. I don't want to get too worked up about it. It's annoying.\"\nCynthia Erivo of \"Harriet\" was the only person of color among the 20 acting nominees. Rae presented this year's Oscar nominations along with fellow actor John Cho.\nRae is working on the upcoming fourth season of her HBO comedy \"Insecure,\" which she created, stars, writes and executive produces.\nThe Oscars will be presented Feb. 9 in Los Angeles and aired live on ABC.\nTHE RUN DOWN \u2013 PRESIDENT TRUMP IMPEACHMENT CONTINUES\n!Front Page\nLongtime Political Cartoonist Ron Rogers Dies at 65, Former Chronicle Staffer\nWinfrey Details her Decision to Withdraw From Simmons Film\nAFRO BRIEFS\nFBCG Hosts Massive Community Service Projects for MLK Day\nSixties' Freedom Rider to Keynote MLK Day Event\nFuture of Historic African American School in Jeopardy\nDallas Examiner Publisher Mollie Belt to Receive NNPA Lifetime Achievement Award\nA Look at Expected Participants in Virginia Gun Rally\nThe Afro-American has crusaded for racial equality and economic advancement for Black Americans for 125 years. In existence since August 13, 1892, John Henry Murphy Sr., a former slave who gained freedom following the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, started the paper when he merged his church publication... read more\n\u00a9 Copyright 2019 - The AFRO-American Newspapers\nUnlike many online publications, afro.com delivers content that's relevant to you at no cost. Help us keep it that way by making a generous donation as low as $2.\nChoose Your Donation Amount: $2.00$5.00$10.00Give a Custom Amount","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"3 Reasons Entrepreneurs Should Democratize Decision-Making\nin ENTREPRENEUR\nMost entrepreneurs start out as solopreneurs, responsible for everything from marketing and product development to accounting. Those who choose the path of entrepreneur likely believe in themselves and their ability to wear many different hats. They're comfortable being the architect of their success.\nHowever, every entrepreneur reaches the point where if they want to continue to scale the business, they must take on new hires and delegate certain aspects of the business. For entrepreneurs who are used to operating on their own, giving up control can be a challenging transition.\nRelated: 7 Rules for Entrepreneurs to Delegate Effectively\nBut the alternative is worse: If an entrepreneur is constantly wrapped up in the day-to-day minutiae of the business, they don't have an opportunity to fully take a step back, think about things from a macro level, and come up with new ideas and strategies to successfully move forward. Most entrepreneurs, for better or for worse, feel capable of performing many different functions. And while that confidence can be what pushes someone to go into business for themselves in the first place, it can also create blind spots.\nEntrepreneurs, no matter which stage of growth their business is in, must be prepared to eventually delegate work to their employees and democratize decision-making. The arguments in favor of doing so fall into three broad areas:\n1. Better outcomes\nDelegating the day-to-day work to the people who are closest to the action \u2014 either those who are most knowledgeable about a given topic or those who have the most direct contact with customers or end-users \u2014 drives better-informed decisions and creates more value for the organization. Allowing employees to make decisions about the workstreams for which they are responsible frees up time for entrepreneurs to spend on strategy and other value-added business matters.\nHowever, empowering employees isn't just about delegating decision-making authority; it's also about setting them up for success. To make the best decisions, employees need to understand the desired business outcome and the context in which decisions will be made. They also need to have the right training. Entrepreneurs, in short, need to create a culture of trust \u2014 a culture based on the idea that employees will make better decisions if they understand how value is created. Everyone within the business, not just the founder or top employees, needs to be aligned with its key value streams.\nRelated: How to Delegate Better and Become a Great Leader\nThe second benefit delegation offers is speed. The fewer people involved in reviewing and approving decisions, the less \"bottlenecking\" occurs and the faster an organization can move. This is especially true for businesses in the service industry, where empowering employees on the ground to deal first-hand and in real time with issues can mean the difference between a happy or disgruntled customer. But speed and agility are paramount in all industries today. Swift decisions made by those with access to the most pertinent information lead to a shorter time to market or a quicker pivot, which can mean the difference between one company's success \u2026 or a competitor's.\n3. Better employee engagement\nEmployees who feel their leaders trust them, who are given autonomy, and who have \"skin in the game\" tend to be the most highly engaged. Putting the responsibility of decision-making onto individual employees and teams incentivizes them to learn, cultivate and exercise interpersonal \"power skills\" like empathy, communication and collaboration. It can help create a culture of accountability; as human beings, we are hardwired to want to \"pull our own weight\" to not let our fellow team members down. Democratizing decision-making also means giving employees permission to determine which work to prioritize and identify which work doesn't add value.\nAs for how to delegate, entrepreneurs can borrow a practice from Agile project management: the sprint. Agile, which has its roots in software development, consists of sprints \u2014 short periods of time during which an individual or team completes a specific task \u2014 followed by review sessions that answer the questions: What was done? What are the results? Did it work, or did it not work? What still needs to be done?\nAs an entrepreneur works to scale their business, they should aim to be involved in most functions on this level, focused on reviewing outputs and making sure their employees remain on the right path forward.\nRelated: Why Your Employees Want You to Delegate\nDelegating work isn't about shirking responsibility; it's about empowering employees to have a sense of ownership over their responsibilities. This approach serves multiple business purposes \u2014 not only driving speed and better business outcomes, but also serving as a beacon to attract and retain employees. 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{"text":"Ojai News\nThe Ojai News Website was created primarily to create a free newsweekly that would cover the Ojai Valley, CA area.\nOur first step was to contact local business owners and find out what they wanted to see in the paper. Then we would work with them on articles and photos. Next, we worked with several local writers and photographers to create interesting stories and photos.\nWhy Is Ojai Spiritual\nThe Ojai News is a community newspaper and a digital community platform that is an advocate of informed and engaged citizens. We believe that informed and engaged citizens who care about the people and places in their community are the greatest asset to the Ojai News.\nOjai Valley News is the community newspaper serving Ventura County. Since 1891, we are your online resource for local news, Ventura County crime, police blotter and more. Plus, we offer in-depth coverage of the Ojai Valley, Calabasas, Port Hueneme, Santa Paula, Oxnard and Malibu, including local sports, arts, entertainment, business and real estate daily.\nIn a small town like Ojai, it can be hard to keep up to date on everything that's going on. But the Ojai Valley Guide has been covering the Ojai Valley for over 100 years and has been reporting on everything from local sports to real estate to local businesses. There's a reason it's been in Ojai for over a century and there's a reason it has the largest readership in the area. Here's a look at what the Ojai Valley Guide has to offer.\nThe Ojai Valley News is an independent community newspaper serving the Ojai Valley, California and surrounding area since 1891. The Ojai News is the makers of the Ojai Valley Guide magazine and the Ojai Valley Weekly, local news and events calendar.\nBlog about Ojai, California. Community news .Ojai Valley Guide\u00ae, a monthly magazine, is a local source of News, Sports, Real Estate, Classifieds, Community and Lifestyle in Ojai and the Surrounding area.\nThis blog covers the community news in the Ojai Valley and beyond, including sports, entertainment and culture. We've been writing and publishing local news since 1891, and our newspaper is part of the Ojai Valley Media Group with our sister publications: Ojai News Guide magazine, and the Ojai Real Estate Weekly.\nThe Ojai Valley News has been serving Ojai Valley since 1891 and has been the local newspaper of choice for Ojai residents and businesses since. We also publish a weekly real estate magazine, weekly business directory and Ojai Valley Real Estate Weekly. On the News & Views page, you can find stories from all over the Ojai Valley. Ojai News We encourage readers to comment and join the community conversation by adding their voice to the conversation.\nThe Ojai News is the Ojai Valley's only locally owned newspaper since 1891. Our mission is to provide the community of Ojai and surrounding areas with the latest news and to promote the local businesses. This is a newspaper but it is also an online presence that provides information that is current and available to everyone.\nOjai News , The Santa Monica Mountains were the site of a sacred burial ground of the Chumash Indians. It is also home to Mediation Mount and Pepperdine University. There are many activities in the area for residents and visitors alike.\nPeople who live in Malibu and surrounding areas have a lot of good reasons to be proud of their area. Malibu is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Ojai News, It has been the site of numerous TV and movie studios, including Paramount Studios and is the home of Meditation Mount. It is also one of the most scenic and exciting places around.\nThe Mount was destroyed by an arsonist in 1980 after an ugly dispute between a local landowner and a group of Druids, who had been involved in a lawsuit over its use as a religious site. Thanks to a group of dedicated volunteers, the Mount has been rebuilt. Visit our website\nThe Tuolumne Hills have a beautiful terrain and offer scenic views. One of the most unique features of this area of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is a lava dome that is flat on top. This dome is called the Table Rock.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Any genre Music Comedy Theatre Dance Childrens Theatre Panto Classical Other Other Venues Any Month January 20 February 20 March 20 April 20 May 20 June 20 July 20 August 20 September 20 October 20 November 20 December 20\nAdult Panto\nTickets: \u00a323.50, \u00a321.50 plus booking fee* Meet and Greet Add On Upgrade: \u00a315\nSinderella When: 14\/02\/2020 20:00:00-08:00 14\/02\/2020 20:00:00-08:00 Where: \u200b \u200bThe Sands Centre \u200b The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ Category: Concert Tickets from \u00a321.5\nMonday 9 - Saturday 14 March 2020\nTickets: \u00a335.50 - \u00a349.50 plus booking fee*\nThe iconic musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT is coming to The Sands Centre!\nStarring Strictly Come Dancing winner Joe McFadden, PRISCILLA is the hilarious adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus bound for the Outback to put on the show of a lifetime. Their epic journey is a heart-warming story of self-discovery, sassiness and acceptance.\nWith more glitter than ever before, this smash-hit show features a dazzling array of stunning costumes, fabulous feathers and a non-stop parade of dance-floor classics including HOT STUFF, I WILL SURVIVE, I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE and FINALLY!\nPRISCILLA Queen of the Desert When: 09\/03\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 09\/03\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 Where: \u200b \u200bThe Sands Centre \u200b The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ Category: Concert Tickets from \u00a30\nStagedRight Youth Theatre: Sunday Night @ The Sands\n*5% per transaction booking fee applies.\nFeaturing a cast of more than 150 young people, StagedRight promises another evening packed with songs from the past six decades, great comedy, lavish costumes and stunning choreography.\nStagedRight has an enviable reputation for providing top quality family entertainment and early booking is advisable.\nStagedRight Youth Theatre: Sunday Night @ The Sands When: 29\/03\/2020 19:00:00-08:00 29\/03\/2020 19:00:00-08:00 Where: \u200b \u200bThe Sands Centre \u200b The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ Category: Concert Tickets from \u00a30\nMenopause The Musical 2 - Cruising Through Menopause\nTickets: \u00a330 plus booking fee*\nTickets: \u00a330 plus a booking fee*\nIn our brand-new show, Cruising Through Menopause, the hysterical sequel to the smash-hit show Menopause The Musical\u00ae,we fast forward five years to catch up with the same four ladies as they set off on the high seas for tales of their lives, loves and losses.\nHot flushes, night sweats, mood swings, memory lapses, weight gain - these are a few of our favourite menopausal things! Cruising Through Menopause is a hilarious, heartfelt, reassuring and unflinching look at the joys of menopause and friendship. When your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns, it's hard to find true friends.But step on board and we'll take you on a trip of self-discovery, love and friendship all backed by a soundtrack of toe-tapping parodied hits!\nFor these four ladies the menopause was not the beginning of the end, but the beginning of a beautiful friendship where love conquers, and friendships never fail.\nSo, all aboard and we'll have you laughing, singing and maybe even dancing on-stage, as you join us for Menopause The Musical\u00ae2 - Cruising Through Menopause.\nStar cast to be announced.\nMenopause The Musical 2 - Cruising Through Menopause When: 04\/04\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 04\/04\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 Where: \u200b \u200bThe Sands Centre \u200b The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ Category: Concert Tickets from \u00a30\nTickets: \u00a324.50 plus booking fee*\nAfter phenomenal sell out tours, Walk Right Back is... BACK! From the Producers of That'll be the Day, the show tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers.\nFeaturing hits such as 'Bye Bye Love', 'All I Have To Do Is Dream' and 'Cathy's Clown', this unique concert-based musical entwines the wonderful, sad yet glorious story of The Everly Brothers around those trademark \"harmonies from heaven\".\nFollow the brothers rise to fame, through their decade-long feud to the glorious reunion that gave them back to the world, and back to each other.\nWalk Right Back When: 19\/04\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 19\/04\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 Where: \u200b \u200bThe Sands Centre \u200b The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ Category: Concert Tickets from \u00a324.5\nTickets: \u00a326 plus booking fee* Group Bookings: Groups 6+ \u00a324 per ticket\nFrom the writers of the hit comedy Hormonal Housewives, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is the brand-new musical comedy show that does exactly what it says on the tin.\nJoin the star cast of four refreshingly honest and unreserved girls on a riotous evening of laugh-out-loud sketches and classic pop anthems that define being a 21st Century woman.\nWe take a no-holds-barred comedy romp through everything life throws at a modern day woman, dating, relationships, breakups, fashion, dieting, chocolate, more dieting, sex, going out, staying in, wine, more wine and of course, men. All are thrown under the microscope of uproarious dissection - no subject is too taboo!\nGet involved and come along to channel your inner diva because Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!\n\"A seriously funny evening - it's like an episode of Loose Women but with music, singing, dancing and a bottle of bubbly!\"\nGirls Just Wanna Have Fun When: 14\/05\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 14\/05\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 Where: \u200b \u200bThe Sands Centre \u200b The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ Category: Concert Tickets from \u00a30\nThe Dreamboys featuring Love Island's Michael Griffiths\nTickets: \u00a327.50, \u00a325.50, \u00a322.50 plus booking fee*\nTickets: \u00a327.50, \u00a325.50, \u00a322.50 plus a booking fee*\nDreamboys are heading to Carlisle with their 2020 Too Hard To Resist UK Tour. Let the boys tease, tantalise and sweep you off your feet with west-end choreography, chiselled torsos, and boy-next-door seduction that will leave your heart pounding.\nJoining the Dreamboys in 2020 is former fireman and Love Island star Michael Griffiths. Michael got us hot under the collar during his time in the Love Island villa and will be showing off his cheeky charm and setting those pulses racing as he gets his kit off.\nDreamboys has been seen by millions of people worldwide, that's a lot of ripped t-shirts, men in uniform, and breath-taking dance routines. Dreamboys are all about adventure so take a deep breath, enjoy the show, and embrace the irresistible.\nThe Dreamboys featuring Love Island's Michael Griffiths When: 19\/09\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 19\/09\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 Where: \u200b \u200bThe Sands Centre \u200b The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ Category: Concert Tickets from \u00a30\nTuesday 29 September - Saturday 3 October 2020\nTickets: \u00a326.50 - \u00a334.50 plus booking fee plus booking fee*\nTickets: \u00a334.50, \u00a332.50, \u00a328.50, \u00a326.50 plus booking fee*\nThe world's best-loved musical is back! Grittier and more glamorous than ever before, Grease is coming to Carlisle!\nAfter a whirlwind summer romance, leather-clad greaser Danny and girl-next-door Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High for senior year. But can they survive the trials and tribulations of teenage life and find true love once more?\nWith its phenomenal score, bursting with hits including 'Summer Nights', 'Greased Lightnin'', 'Hopelessly Devoted to You' and 'You're the One That I Want', this thrilling new version is brought to life by a fresh young cast who bring energy, vitality and passion to this ultimate musical classic.\nDirected by Curve's Artistic Director Nikolai Foster, reignite your passion and get ready for an explosion of summer loving.\nSo round-up your Burger Palace Boys, pick up your Pink Ladies and re-discover why Grease really is the one that you want this term!\nGREASE When: 29\/09\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 29\/09\/2020 19:30:00-08:00 Where: \u200b \u200bThe Sands Centre \u200b The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ Category: Concert Tickets from \u00a326.5","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Acting is more important for me than fame: Janhvi Kapoor\nMar 19, 2019, 12:17 am IST\nDeccan Chronicle.\nEntertainment, Bollywood\nNot someone new to public acknowledgement, the actress feels that fame is important for all the actors but in her case, acting is more important.\nJanhvi Kapoor.\nMumbai: The Dhadak actress Janhvi Kapoor has received immense love from her fans with her debut film.\n\"Fame matters a lot to each and every actor but it's important for me to understand that the fact that I have got (the fame) is because of my family,\" says Janhvi and adds, \"After my first film, I got a lot of love and I am grateful to that. I have seen fame from childhood. So, for me, I have to work hard and acting is more important.\"\nMeanwhile, the actress also praised Madhuri Dixit after watching the Kalank trailer. It is to be noted that Janhvi's mother Sridevi was supposed to be part of Kalank. Madhuri Dixit had also mentioned how emotionally tough it was for her to play a role which was meant to be essayed by the late Sridevi.\nPraising Madhuri, Janhvi says, \"Who am I to welcome her but as an audience, I am so excited for this film. I am really excited about Kalank.\"\n\"She is such a great performer and we are fortunate that we are able to see her work on screen and learn from her. I only hope we get to see more work of Madhuri,\" she adds.\nOn the work front, Janhvi is working on the biopic of Gunjan Saxena, the first woman IAF pilot who evacuated injured soldiers from Kargil in 1999.\njanhvi kapoor\njanhvi kapoor movies\ntakht\ndhadak\nBong Joon-ho to direct his next film for Warner Bros, Robert Pattinson is in talks\nKerala HC adjourns hearing on anticipatory bail plea of actor Dileep to Jan 21\nWatch: 'Jai Bhim' features on Oscars' YouTube channel\nAllu Arjun's 'Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo' to release in cinema halls in Hindi","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lana Del Rey says laptop containing her new album was stolen on Melrose Avenue\nByMarianne Garvey, CNNWire\n<iframe width=\"476\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=12358319\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\nLana Del Rey says she was robbed of a backpack that contained her laptop, which had her new album on it.\nThe singer said along with the computer, multiple hard drives and a camera were also stolen.\n\"A few months ago, I parked my car on Melrose Place - actually Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles - and I stepped away for a minute,\" she said on Instagram. \"And the one time I left my backpack inside my car, someone broke all the windows and took it.\"\nDel Rey added that another project, a book she is working on, was stolen as well.\n\"I had to remotely wipe the computer that had my 200-page book for Simon and Schuster-which I didn't have backed up on the cloud,\" Del Rey said. And despite that, people are still able to remotely access my phone and leak our songs and personal photos. I loved the book that I lost with all of my heart and put a lot of passion into it.\"\nThe artist asked her fans to not to listen to any leaked music, and said she will continue to work on new music.\n\"I just want to mention that despite all of this happening, I am confident in the record to come, despite so many safety factors at so many different levels. I really want to persist and make the best record I can,\" she said. \"Please don't listen to the music if you hear it, because it's not coming out yet,\" she said.\nDel Rey concluded: \"Obviously I won't ever leave anything in the car again, even if it's just for a moment. But we've had the same issues at the house, and it is a constant thing. And although I'm so grateful to be able to share all of the good stuff, I just also want to share that it has been a challenge.\"\nThe CNN Wire\u2122 & \u00a9 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSIC MUSIC NEWS LAPTOPS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: new songs added to the pure pop radio playlist\nMore New Music? Why, We've Got Some of that!\nFurther on from yesterday's list of new songs and artists recently added to our ever-growing playlist, we've got another parade of truly excellent melodic pop sounds that are now spinning in rotation.\nMuch more to come next week. Until then, here's a tasty sampling of a few choice nuggets:\nBrett Harris | Up in the Air Yesterday, we proclaimed Eytan Mirsky's new album Funny Money to be one of the great albums thus far released in this young year. Here's another great one you'll want to be playing in your home and on the go. Brett Harris's second full-length is a terrific collection of 10 wonderful pop songs delivered with skill and heart.\nWe love these songs so much that we've added all of them to the playlist. \"End of the Rope\" is a catchy, infectious number that reminds us of Microdisney's \"Singer's Hampstead Home,\" even as it echoes the classic '60s sound. \"Spanish Moss\" is a quite pretty song that features some beautiful harmonies and a tinge of thoughtful sadness, punctuated by an understated, effective string arrangement. And the title cut is nothing less than a bonafide toe-tapper, a righteous, delectable slice of musical joy.\nAlso playing in rotation from this great album: \"Don't Look Back,\" \"Lies,\" \"Out of the Blue,\" \"High Times,\" \"Rumor,\" \"Summer Nights,\" and \"Shadetree.\" This is another great album for 2016, releasing on March 4. Hey, we ought to make a list of these great albums. Consider it done!\nPS: Brett Harris will be Alan's guest on an upcoming, all-new edition of Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation. Keep an eye on these pages for details, coming soon!\nCrash and the Crapenters | \"Everything is Coming My Way\" Pure Pop Radio favorite Michael Carpenter and his brother Chris have teamed up to stir a steaming pot of sizzling ska-soaked punky rock and pop that made our ears stand up at attention. In just under two and a half minutes, Chris and Michael take over and demand your attention with organ and chugging electric guitar lines and plugged-in-to-the-walls vocals. Plus, it's hookariffic, it is. This song demands your attention and called out to us to add it to our playlist. Which we did. Now playing in rotation and taking no prisoners. As nature intended.\nCotton Mather | \"Child Bride\" and \"The Book of Too Late Changes\" To say that the return of Cotton Mather, the makers of the always and truly hall-of-fame album Kontiki, is welcomed with open arms is hardly telling it completely like it is. We were thrilled to hear these great songs, both of which are now playing in rotation. \"Child Bride\" is a mix of sixties motif (Left Banke, anyone?) that opens with a Byrds-like intro. \"The Book of Too Late Changes\" is a whole other thing, channeling the propulsive side of the Who with a melodic pop-rocker for the ages that closes with a quite thrilling vocal array. More please, and please, let the more come soon.\nStrangely Alright | \"We Still Can\" Regan Lane and company's latest song is a lovely mid-tempo ballad with a gorgeous melody and a solid, hooky chorus. We're proud to be playing this group's songs on our air and look forward to the next great release.\nDermot | \"My Love's a Light that Will Never Go Out\" We've been playing this song since it came out last December. It's been a favorite spin since then. This really pretty, affecting number about everlasting love will absolutely resonate with you, and you too. Consider this bit of lyric: \"My darling\/When we sing\/All the angels up in heaven are envious\/Of our harmony.\" See what we mean? Lovely, lovely, lovely, and now playing in rotation.\nThere you go\u2013more great music added to our playlist. More coming next week. While you wait, why not click on one of the listen links below so you can enjoy our continuous, original 24-hour stream of the greatest melodic pop in the universe? Enjoy!\nAlan Haber's Pure Pop Radio is the original 24-hour Internet radio station playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. From the Beatles to the Spongetones, the Nines, Kurt Baker, the Connection and the New Trocaderos, we play the hits and a whole lot more. Tune in by clicking on one of the listen links below.\nListen to Pure Pop Radio on the go using your Android and iOS devices! Download Our Mobile App.\nFebruary 11, 2016 Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio\tLeave a comment\nCategories: New Songs Added to the Playlist!\tTags: alan haber, brett harris, cotton mather, crash and the crapenters, dermot, new songs added to the pure pop radio playlist, pure pop radio, reviews, strangely alright, streamlicensing\nMore New Music is Flowing on Pure Pop Radio\nHot on the heels of yesterday's list of new songs and artists added to our playlist, we've slotted in more classic sounds now being heard in rotation. Care to peruse? Go, cat\u2026go!\nVegas With Randolph | \"Three Red Hooks\" This Washington, DC-area pop powerhouse's latest song, a lively ode to rocking steady and having a great night, namechecks a trio of rock 'n' roll Eddies\u2013Van Halen, Vedder and Money\u2013and is a mighty tasty treat. \"Three Red Hooks\" is a delightful, hooky bubblegum charmer with crunchy, screaming electric guitar lines that's happily reminiscent of the Sweet's \"Little Willy\" and the catchy sound of the Rubinoos. Kicking off with a percussion stomp that owes a debt to the Supremes' \"Where Did Our Love Go,' \"Three Red Hooks\" hits the sweet spot that tingles and glows inside every fan of melodic pop. It kick starts that oh-so-wonderful feeling\u2013the unmistakable slambang explosion of sheer joy that only the right combination of musical notes can achieve. Now playing in rotation, this may well be Vegas With Randolph's most delightful waxing yet.\nBertling Noise Laboratories | \"Talking In Your Sleep\" Nick Bertling is like the quintessential, shaggy-haired musical mad scientist ensconced in his secret lair stocked full of instruments that shake, rattle and roll. Just look at him, stage left. Our guess is Nick doesn't get much sleep, because here he is with a rocking cover of the Romantics' hit \"Talking In Your Sleep.\" Hopefully he can get some shuteye while this cool cover plays in rotation!\nTrip Wire | \"Long Days Gone\" and \"Winter Song\" Just out from this San Francisco band is a terrific new double A-side single pairing \"Long Days Gone,\" a catchy, uptempo power pop number, with a pretty midtempo, string-laden ballad. These songs leave us wanting more, so you know\u2026get to it, boys.\nThe Tonellis | \"I Know You\" We were delighted to receive an email from the Tonellis' Robert Stoppenbach, who subsequently responded to our query about any new material the band might have by sending this lovely midtempo ballad, co-written by Robert and Scott Palmiter. Sounding like the second cousin to any number of songs recorded by the group Venice, \"I Know You\" sports an easygoing vibe, punctuated by fiddle and mandolin parts that shine. Now playing in rotation.\nThat's all for today. More new songs and artists next week. Join the fun by clicking on one of the listen links below to hear nearly 8,300 songs now playing in rotation on Pure Pop Radio. Enjoy!\nFebruary 4, 2016 Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio\t2 Comments\nCategories: New Songs Added to the Playlist!\tTags: alan haber, bertling noise laboratories, new songs added to the pure pop radio playlist, pure pop radio, reviews, streamlicensing, the tonellis, trip wire, vegas with randolph\nWe Serve Up a Quartetly Add to the Pure Pop Radio Playlist\nThe past few days saw us spinning some sumptuous sounds from a top-flight quartet of artists. We've added these sounds to our playlist; they're now spinning in rotation, making the world a brighter, more melodic place.\nFrom our old friend JoDee Purkypile comes a new song that the artist describes as \"a sad waltz\" that features \"Revolver-era McCartney harmonies.\" He warns that the recording \"might rip your speakers.\" To all of which we say \"Nah,\" although we do give the nod to at least the second pronouncement. Frankly, those Macca harmonies in the chorus absolutely slay us. Ditto for the very pop guitar solo. \"Here for Love\" is a triumph that you'll want to hear over and over again. At least.\nFrom Toronto, Canada comes Anna Horvath, who records under the name Merival and used to be in a band called First Rate People. Lovers is her first-rate, first-ever solo EP. We'd call her music first-rate folk with a pop edge; whatever you'd call it, you'd have to classify it as tasty. We're playing three songs from Lovers: \"Kickin' You Out,\" which charts a course for escape from a relationship that has slipped away; \"Dream of Yourself,\" a wisp of a tune and a vocal showcase atop a plunking banjo; and \"Calendar,\" a meeting of spare acoustic guitar figures and Merival's plaintive voice. Think mid-period Joni Mitchell, if you need a reference point.\nThe band called Sweden and not the same-named country rolls in with a sizzling slice of power pop. \"Just a Kid\" blazes with lots of guitar fury, a catchy melody, and a children's choir part that lifts the song's spirits high. Thanks to Caddy's Tom Dahl for bringing this one to our attention. It's a good one.\nRock photographer and guitarist Mimi Boswell and her friends, a stately group of cohorts that includes the Doughboys' Myke Scavone and Richard X. Heyman, enter our playlist with a tough-as-nails pop\/rocker, exhibiting equal echoes of the Rolling Stones and the Rascals. \"Torn to Pieces\" was mixed and mastered to rocky perfection by Pure Pop Radio pal Kurt Reil at his House of Vibes studio.\nGet cozy with these and more than 8,100 other like-minded tracks by tuning into Pure Pop Radio. Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio is the original 24-hour Internet radio station playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. From the Beatles to the Spongetones, the Nines, Kurt Baker, the Connection and the New Trocaderos, we play the hits and a whole lot more. Tune in by clicking on one of the listen links below.\nJanuary 18, 2016 Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio\tLeave a comment\nCategories: New Songs Added to the Playlist!\tTags: alan haber, anna horvath, jodee purkypile, kurt reil, merival, mimi boswell and friends, myke scavone, new songs added to the pure pop radio playlist, pure pop radio, reviews, richard x. heyman, streamlicensing, sweden\nPop Tunes: Show Seven Rolls Tonight! Rocking, Popping and Rolling the Night Away!\nAlan Haber's Pop Tunes Deejay Show catapults out of your speakers tonight at 9 pm ET (6 pm PT) with the Rolling Stones' pop side, lots of songs new to the Pure Pop Radio playlist, songs about \"you,\" the weekly Beatle Blast, and a whole lot more.\nAlan gets cooking with a set of numbers that show off the Rolling Stones' pop side, including some of the band's hits from the '60s, and a cover from Pure Pop Radio favorite, the Connection. A set of songs about \"you\" follows, from Mister Fusty, Freiheit, and Rick Nelson, among other artists not normally heard on the air.\nOf course, Alan's got a whole bunch of songs that are new to the Pure Pop Radio playlist, including the latest from Strangely Alright, Maxi Dunn, the Sunchymes, the Nines, Daniel Wylie's Cosmic Rough Riders, and lots more.\nAll this, plus the weekly Beatle Blast, featuring Wings' \"Tomorrow\" from the Wild Life album, and the traditional One and Begun and One and Done opening and closing songs are coming to you tonight at 9 pm ET (6 pm PT) on Alan Haber's Pop Tunes Deejay Show. You can hear this show again this coming Thursday, September 24 at noon ET (9 am PT) and this Sunday, September 27 at 3 pm ET (noon PT). It's show number seven. Don't miss a beat!\nAlan Haber's Pop Tunes is a cool deejay show playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. The show airs every Monday night at 9 pm ET (6 pm PT) on Pure Pop Radio, and repeats on Thursday afternoons at noon ET (9 am PT) and Sundays at 3 pm ET (noon PT). Please like us on Facebook by clicking here.\nSeptember 21, 2015 Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio\tLeave a comment\nCategories: Alan Haber's Pop Tunes: The Greatest Melodic Pop Music in the Universe Deejay Style\tTags: alan haber's pop tunes deejay show, freiheit, new songs added to the pure pop radio playlist, pure pop radio, rick nelson, rolling stones, songs about \"you\", streamlicensing, the connection\nWe're Playing It Cool! Guess What's Now Spinning and Brand-New at Pure Pop Radio!\nThis is our busy season\u2013well, they're all busy in one way or another, but it's that time of the year, what with summer just about over and done and fall just a step ahead. Perhaps fruitful is a better word than busy; the air is ripe with good sounds coming in almost daily to the spacious Pure Pop Radio headquarters. These sounds, catchy and all decked out in just the right aural bling, are being created across the country and across the oceans by the best practitioners of melodic pop music.\nSong for song, we can't remember a better year for melodic pop in just about all of the years we've been behind the microphones and nestled comfortably in front of our computers (cold, non-alcoholic beverage always at hand). Today's crop of new and new-to-you music, now playing in rotation, is just a punch of the arrow-down button away. We'll have many more adds to the playlist to share with you next week; here are four to savor now:\nKurt Baker | Play It Cool It's frankly hard to imagine this consistently home-run-hitting artist playing it any other way. Kurt's latest collection makes its play for being one of this year's best releases by delivering a strong set of pop-rockers, one after the other, while proving he's not only on form but ahead of the curve. From the rock 'n' roll swagger and pop punch of \"I Can't Wait\" and the melody-infused \"Back for Good\" to the zippy power of \"Just a Little Bit\" and the seventies DNA that fuels the title cut, Play It Cool delivers the goods. Kurt's voice is as powerful as ever, and the production by the always-sharp Wyatt Funderburk (who shares co-writing credit with the artist) makes these songs explode from the speakers. We're playing everything just mentioned, plus \"Enough's Enough,\" \"Monday Night,\" and \"Talk is Talk.\" Another winner, as if there were any doubt.\nThe Bellfuries | Workingman's Bellfuries Their third long player finds this Texas-based band rolling out a mix of songs steeped in all the right influences\u2013echoes of Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, early rock 'n' roll, and rockabilly collide with passion and heart and top-notch musicianship for a great listening experience. Certainly there is a strong Orbison and Everlys influence in the passionate \"An Illusion Believed,\" and the Everlys touch is evident in the rocking and rolling \"Beaumont Blues.\" Even the Beatles get the rockabilly treatment in a spirited rendition of \"She's a Woman.\" And \"Make the Mystery No More\" opens with the ghost of \"Be My Baby\" as the familiar drum part gives way to another classic sounding tune. We're playing all of the songs from this great album in rotation\u2013the above-mentioned numbers, and \"Loving Arms,\" \"Bad Seed Sown,\" \"Why Do You Haunt Me,\" \"Letter to My Maybe Baby,\" \"Just Remembering,\" \"Under the Light of the Moon,\" and \"Baltimore.\" Great stuff that sounds great on the air.\nmylittlebrother | We're All Gonna Die! Well, yeah, but what are we going to do until then? It's what we're going to do for ourselves, as the title song points out: We've got to make our time count and live! The happy, peppy Beatle-esque number, with a very Klaatu-styled ending, is sort of a call to arms and the centerpiece of this terrific EP. The lovely, country-tinged, old-style ballad \"Obvious\" uses pedal steel lines to enhance the gorgeous melody. \"Steve,\" a kind of soft-shoe show tune of a song, is another highlight; \"Ghost Trains\" is an enticing toe-tapper with appropriately ghost-like, choral background vocals. We're playing all four of these songs in rotation, and hoping the next release from this band is a full-length. Good job.\nMichael Ryther\nMichael Ryther | Kids of the Earth: Songs for the Green Generation Question: When is an album for kids also an album for adults? Answer: When both groups can benefit from that album's message. Elementary school teacher and musician Michael Ryther co-wrote an album's worth of songs about keeping the planet green and alive with Pure Pop Radio favorite Willie Wisely. And so the story begins.\n\"I was looking for a producer and knew from the moment I heard a few bars of his pop rock masterpiece Go that I had to find a way to work with him,\" says Ryther. \"My friend, singer\/songwriter\/guitarist Ali Handal introduced us and Willie took to the material immediately. He and I had so much fun collaborating and our songwriting sensibilities were similar.\" Michael and Willie wrote most of the songs together; Willie produced and arranged.\nThe album's press materials classify these songs as \"eco-conscious children's music,\" to which we would add \"for kids and kids at heart,\" which means all of us, short and tall and so in love with our planet that we want to find ways to help it thrive for all eternity. That these 14 songs are poppy, power poppy and catchy as catchy can be is a big bonus, and the reason we've added six songs to our playlist, all of which are now playing in rotation.\n\"Put It In the Compost\" is like an early Beatles number put into eco-conscious service. \"I Love the Dirt\" is a singalong-y, poppy slice of rock 'n' roll with a great melody and, like all of these songs, built from a vital foundation. The song implores us to \"\u2026get down on our hands and knees, and wiggle around like centipedes and sing I love the dirt.\" Perhaps the strongest notion offered on this album is contained within the beautiful ballad, \"In This Together.\" Michael sings: \"Every single action can start a chain reaction, so choose which path to take with extra care.\"\nPop fans will relish Willie's musicianship; he plays a lot of instruments on these recordings. Among the guest musicians are bassist John Fields, and Probyn Gregory, who plays horns on \"In This Together\". We love this album, and we think you will too.\nBe with us next week for more new and new-to-you music that's been added to the Pure Pop Radio playlist. Why not tune in now, while you're at work or doing errands or just taking in another beautiful day on planet Earth?\nAlan H aber's Pure Pop Radio is the original 24-hour Internet radio station playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. From the Beatles to the Spongetones, the Nines, Kurt Baker, the Connection and the New Trocaderos, we play the hits and a whole lot more. Tune in by clicking on one of the listen links below.\nCategories: New Songs Added to the Playlist!\tTags: alan haber, kurt baker, michael ryther, my little brother, new songs added to the pure pop radio playlist, pure pop radio, reviews, streamlicensing, the bellfuries, willie wisely\nThese are the Words that You Want to Hear: We've Got New Music for You!\n\"These are the words you wish you could hear,\" Jules Shear sings in his current release, the quite catchy pop song called \"The Words,\" and these are the words we are happy to pass on to you; we love you, and it's because of that love that we bring to you news of new music that's been added to the Pure Pop Radio playlist.\nWe've got only a smattering today as so many big projects destined for your ears are in the works and just about ready to pop out of the oven, but there is more, much more to come, all of it crafted with precision and with an eye on precise symmetry, and that's all just around the corner, and of that we are confident and sure.\nToday, we present to you the following, all now playing in rotation on the air, one after the other (but not in any kind of formal formation):\nJules Shear | \"The Words\" After having written a string of classic songs over so many decades, a string which ties together \"All Through the Night,\" \"If She Knew What She Wants,\" \"If We Never Meet Again,\" \"The Trap Door\" and so many others of such tall stature, this peerless songwriter and performer has begun releasing new material, some of which he says he will give away and some which he says he will sell. \"The Words\" is a giveaway, thank you very much, and rather a nice, warm gesture, essentially a three-chord construct with a knockout chorus that essentially functions as a master class in songwriting, so skillful it is with such a grand, satisfying payoff. A lyrical pedal steel part is icing on a very tasty cake, which we're serving in rotation.\nDana Countryman | Pop 3! Welcome to My Time Warp! Words are kind of our business, but at some times, when the music takes us away to the ubiquitous somewhere else, we can't see the forest for the trees or choose one thing, whatever it is, over another. In the case of Mr. Countryman's latest release, the third in his spun-from-gold pop music trilogy, words do not fail us, even though it's the music that takes us and, of course, you away in the end and after all is sung and done.\nThis outstanding collection of melodically-charged songs, set squarely in the world governed by all that is retro, actually opens up a portal that you fall into as sounds celebrating the joys of tightly-constructed audio treats take you away. Honestly, it's like the sounds of the late 1960s and early 1970s are back, baby, and there you are singing along or humming, even if you don't know the words. Echoes of the Four Seasons and the Spiral Starecase and Gilbert O'Sullivan and the Hollies and Eric Carmen and, yes, the Beatles, of whom much has been said and a lot more could and will be, run through the fabric of these songs that will be with you in the morning when you are buttering your toast and in the evening, just before bedtime, as your head hits the pillow and you drift off.\n\"Every Kiss Reminds Me of You,\" \"Run Back Into My Arms,\" \"Can't Get You Out of My Mind,\" \"Nice Shot (Straight to the Heart),\" \"Don't You Know You'll Break My Heart,\" \"All You Need to Say,\" \"Twenty-Four Hours with You,\" \"There Goes My Heart Again,\" \"Shari Girl \/ You'll Always Be a Baby to Me,\" \"That's When I Knew,\" and \"Don't Wanna Lose You,\" pretty much all the bones of this album, are now playing in rotation (we're saving \"Christmas All Over the World\" for the upcoming holiday season, and the gorgeous love song \"What If?\" has been spinning for a while). Do we need to say that Pop 3! is one of the best albums of the year? Well, you know, or you will know, that this statement is true.\nBertling Noise Laboratories | Matilda and 12 Others and \"Ram On\" You've probably heard yourself say, or you've at least thought to yourself, the words \"Where has he (or she) been all my life?,\" and therein lies the thing of it all. This is how we felt, really and truly, when we were turned onto Nick Bertling's outstanding and astounding album through which all roads lead to you thinking \"Now, that really hits the spot\" as you spin it again and again, as we have done and will continue to do. \"Good Morning\" exists as if it were an outtake from McCartney (where else could that traveling, syncopating bass come from?); \"Baby Talk\" plays like a long lost Motown track from deep in the vaults with all of the excitement and oomph that such a thing entails; \"It's Not Funny\" is nothing less than a crooner's standard (surely some Broadway production will dial this one up); \"Time for Us\" is straight-ahead pop; and the title song, \"Matilda,\" is kinda sorta jazzy, like a Steely Dan-meets-not-Steely-Dan mashup, except it's not really that, but it sure is something else. We're playing all of these songs, plus \"Bits and Pieces,\" \"I'll Bet She Thinks,\" and \"Once in a While.\" With this album in your hands, and you know you'll want it, once in a while will not be enough. Oh, and of \"Ram On\"\u2026it's a lovely cover of the aforementioned McCartney fellow's song from Ram, and it's fabulously huggable. We're playing that too, naturally.\nTommy Lorente | \"B.B. (Tu Me Plais Tant)\" and \"Un Certain Savoir Faire\" Not being anywhere near fluent in French, although we can count to six and nod like we know what somebody is talking about, we let the words of these songs float around us as the accomplished pop-rocker Tommy Lorente lets loose the three-different-beats-heavy vibe of \"B.B. (Tu Me Plais Tant)\" (\"I Like You So Much\") which, based on the English translation of the lyrics Tommy sent our way, is a love song of sorts with a whole lot of energy that gets one moving from side to side. \"Un Certain Savoir Faire,\" or \"A Certain Savoir Faire,\" which is about self-confident people and rocks in a slow, steady kind of way, with stabbing guitars and strong, certain drum hits, is the flip side, or the other A-side, of this top-notch single from one of our favorite performers in this day and age. Both songs are playing in rotation, rocking and popping up the joint, as it were.\nVarious Artists | Lost Hits of the 80's Dan Pavelich, music critic at the Kenosha (Wisconsin) News and creator of the sweet comic strip Just Say Uncle, has quietly been producing great music for so many years, kind of slipping in under the radar with albums such as this one, a loving trip in the Wayback Machine of the mind to the 1980s, as performed by a bunch of fictitious bands that exist only in Dan's mind\u2013bands like Atari Hand Cramp, Pest Control, and Asmatics UK (named that way to avoid confusion with Asmatics Canada, no doubt). Working with some top-flight collaborators\u2013Pop 4's Andrea Perry, Lisa Mychols and the Well Wishers' Jeff Shelton among them\u2013Dan turns in a fabulously fun trip. The songs range from Redd Roxx's poppy \"No Regret,\" sung by the Waking Hours' Tom Richards, to the steady, rocking \"Camera Shy\" by The Vaporizers, and The Images' slowed down, impassioned take on the Romantics' \"Talking in Your Sleep.\" Dan says he had a ball producing this record, from which we've slotted the aforementioned songs, and a couple of others\u2013Asmatics UK's \"Temptress of London,\" Metro Cafe's \"Am I Only Dreaming of You,\" and The Images' \"Don't Want Pretending\"\u2013into our playlist. We'll have a Q&A feature soon, in which Dan will spill all of the inner secrets of this album, but for now, listen for a stone cold trip back to the decade that still, and always will, pop and rock. Loads of fun.\nThat's it for today. Believe us, we've barely scratched the surface. We've added to the playlist hundreds of new and new-to-you songs from current and heritage artists over the past few weeks. We'll continue to report on these adds and others we have waiting in the wings, during the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned. You will undoubtedly dig our continually diggable scene.\nSeptember 16, 2015 Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio\t2 Comments\nCategories: New Songs Added to the Playlist!\tTags: alan haber, bertling noise laboratories, dan pavelich, dana countryman, jules shear, lost hits of the 80's, new songs added to the pure pop radio playlist, pure pop radio, reviews, streamlicensing, tommy lorente\nNew Music Day at Pure Pop Radio: It's a Beatles and Beach Boys Spectacular!\nToday, we've got a very special group of adds to our playlist from Paul McCartney and the Beach Boys, plus Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson. Since Pure Pop Radio started broadcasting in October 2012, we've been slotting in one song every hour from the Beach Boys, and the Beatles and solo Beatles eras.\nHang on to your Rickenbackers and surfboards, 'cause we've fattened up the pot for a total of 290 tracks by the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson, and 424 by the Beatles in their group and solo years, including original songs and covers from some of your favorite artists.\nNot only that, but we've added 16 songs from the awesome soundtrack of the 1970s film, All This and World War II. Let's run them down, shall we?\nFrom All This and World War II: Ambrosia, \"Magical Mystery Tour\"; Elton John, \"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds\"; The Bee Gees, \"Golden Slumbers\/Carry that Weight,\" \"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window,\" and \"Sun King\"; Leo Sayer, \"I Am the Walrus,\" \"Let It Be,\" and \"The Long and Winding Road\"; Roy Wood, \"Lovely Rita\" and \"Polythene Pam\"; Jeff Lynne, \"With a Little Help from My Friends\/Nowhere Man\"; The Four Seasons, \"We Can Work It Out\"; Frankie Valli, \"A Day in the Life\"; Status Quo, \"Getting Better\"; Henry Gross, \"Help\"; and Peter Gabriel, \"Strawberry Fields Forever.\"\nWe've piled on a significant number of Paul McCartney classics to air as part of our Beatles and solo Beatles collection:\nFrom Flowers in the Dirt: \"My Brave Face,\" \"We Got Married,\" \"Put It There,\" \"This One,\" \"That Day is Done,\" \"Motor of Love,\" \"Back On My Feet,\" \"Flying to My Home,\" and \"Loveliest Thing.\"\nFrom Ram: \"3 Legs,\" \"Dear Boy,\" \"Eat at Home,\" \"Heart of the Country,\" \"Long Haired Lady,\" \"Ram On,\" \"Smile Away,\" \"Too Many People,\" \"Uncle Albert\/Admiral Halsey,\" and the single tracks \"Another Day\" and \"Oh Woman, Oh Why.\"\nFrom Flaming Pie: \"Little Willow,\" \"Souvenir,\" \"Young Boy,\" \"Beautiful Night,\" \"Calico Skies,\" \"Flaming Pie,\" \"Great Day,\" and \"The World Tonight.\"\nFrom McCartney: \"Every Night,\" \"Hot as Sun\/Glasses,\" \"Junk,\" \"Man We Was Lonely,\" \"Maybe I'm Amazed,\" \"Singalong Junk,\" \"Teddy Boy,\" and \"That Would Be Something.\"\nFrom McCartney II: \"Coming Up,\" \"Front Parlour,\" \"Nobody Knows,\" \"Bogey Music,\" \"One of these Days,\" \"Summer's Day Song,\" \"Temporary Secretary,\" and \"Waterfalls.\"\nFrom Tug of War: \"Ballroom Dancing,\" \"Here Today,\" \"Somebody Who Cares,\" \"Take It Away,\" \"The Pound is Sinking,\" \"Tug of War,\" and \"Wanderlust.\"\nFrom Wings' Back to the Egg: \"Baby's Request,\" \"Daytime Nighttime Suffering,\" \"So Glad to See You Here,\" and \"Again and Again and Again.\"\nFrom Wings' London Town: \"I'm Carrying,\" \"Name and Address,\" \"Children Children,\" \"I've Had Enough,\" \"London Town,\" and \"With a Little Luck.\"\nFrom Wings' Venus and Mars: \"You Gave Me the Answer,\" \"Call Me Back Again,\" \"Letting Go,\" \"Listen to What the Man Said,\" \"Magneto and Titanium Man,\" and \"Spirits of Ancient Egypt.\"\nFrom Wings' Wild Life: \"Tomorrow,\" \"I Am Your Singer,\" \"Some People Never Know,\" and \"Little Woman Love\" and \"Mama's Little Girl.\"\nThere's a whole lot more Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Beach Boys music now spinning in rotation on Pure Pop Radio, including:\nFrom Brian Wilson's Imagination: \"Your Imagination,\" \"Keep an Eye on Summer,\" and \"Let Him Run Wild.\"\nFrom Brian Wilson's Love and Mercy CD Single: \"One for the Boys\" and \"He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to Move.\"\nFrom Brian Wilson's \"I Just Wasn't Made for these Times\": \"This Whole World,\" \"Do It Again,\" \"The Warmth of the Sun,\" and \"Melt Away.\"\nFrom Brian Wilson Presents Smile: \"Cabin Essence,\" \"Good Vibrations,\" \"Heroes and Villains,\" \"Surf's Up,\" and \"Vega-Tables.\"\nFrom Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' Orange Crate Art: \"Orange Crate Art,\" \"Sail Away,\" \"Summer in Monterey,\" \"Movies is Magic,\" and \"My Hobo Heart.\"\nFrom Brian Wilson's Brian Wilson: \"Love and Mercy,\" \"Walkin' the Line,\" \"Melt Away,\" \"Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long,\" \"Little Children,\" \"Let It Shine,\" \"Meet Me in My Dreams Tonight,\" and \"Being With the One You Love,\" \"Let's Go to Heaven in My Car,\" and \"Too Much Sugar.\"\nFrom Brian Wilson's Your Imagination CD Single: \"Your Imagination (A Cappella)\" and \"Happy Days.\"\nFrom Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue: \"River Song,\" \"What's Wrong,\" \"Rainbows,\" \"Only With You,\" and \"School Girl.\"\nFrom the Beach Boys' Rarities\/Beach Boys Medley: \"Bluebirds Over the Mountain,\" \"All I Wanna Do,\" \"Auld Lang Syne,\" \"Beach Boys Medley (Ballad Version),\" \"Beach Boys Medley (Single Version),\" \"Beach Boys Medley (Uptempo Version),\" \"Cotton Fields,\" \"Land Ahoy,\" \"The Letter,\" and \"With a Little Help from My Friends.\"\nFrom the Beach Boys' Ten Years of Harmony: \"California Saga (California),\" \"It's a Beautiful Day,\" \"San Miguel,\" \"School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Bell),\" and \"Sea Cruise.\"\nFrom the Beach Boys' Lost and Found 1961-1962: \"Barbie (As Kenny and the Cadets),\" \"Beach Boy Stomp (aka \"Karate\"),\" \"Judy (Candix Master),\" \"Lavender (Demo \u2013 1961),\" \"Luau (As the Pendletones),\" \"\"Luau (Master Take \u2013 B-side of \"Surfin'),\" \"Surfin' (As the Pendletones),\" and \"What is a Young Girl Made Of (As Kenny and the Cadets).\"\nFrom the Beach Boys' That's Why God Made the Radio: \"Think About the Days,\" \"That's Why God Made the Radio,\" \"Isn't It Time,\" \"Shelter,\" \"Daybreak Over the Ocean,\" \"Beaches in Mind,\" and \"From there to Back Again.\"\nFrom the Beach Boys' In Concert: \"California Girls,\" \"Darlin',\" \"Don't Worry Baby,\" \"Fun, Fun, Fun,\" \"Funky Pretty,\" \"Good Vibrations,\" \"Help Me, Rhonda,\" \"Heroes and Villains,\" \"Marcella,\" \"Sail On Sailor,\" \"Sloop John B,\" \"Surfer Girl,\" \"Surfin' USA,\" and \"Wouldn't It Be Nice.\"\nFrom the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations\u2013Thirty Years of the Beach Boys: \"4th of July,\" \"All Summer Long (Vocals),\" \"Barbara Ann (45 version),\" \"Be True to Your School (Live 1964),\" \"California Girl (Vocals),\" \"Concert Intro-\"Surfin' USA (Live 1964),\" \"Concert Promo-Hushabye (Live),\" \"Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) (45 version),\" \"Games Two Can Play,\" \"Good Vibrations (45 version),\" \"Good Vibrations (Live 1966),\" \"H.E.L.P. Is On the Way,\" \"Hang On to Your Ego (Alternate Version),\" \"Heroes and Villains (Alternate Version),\" \"Hushabye (Vocals),\" \"I Just Got My Pay,\" \"In My Room (Demo),\" \"It's Over Now,\" \"Little Surfer Girl (Demo),\" \"Our Team,\" \"Punchline (Instrumental)\" \"Ruby Baby (Outtake),\" and \"The Little Girl I Once Knew (45 Version).\"\nCount on Pure Pop Radio to always be playing the most Beatles, solo Beatles, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson tracks on Internet radio. We're your original 24-hour-a-day home for the greatest pop music in the universe from the '60s to today! We're fab and we're surfin' USA!\nBe here tomorrow for the Pure Pop Radio premiere of all of the tracks from a major new release, dropping tomorrow. Til then!\nAlan Haber's Pure Pop Radio is the original 24-hour-a-day Internet radio station playing the greatest melodic pop music from the '60s to today. From the Beatles, the Beach Boys and Bill Lloyd to the Legal Matters, the New Trocaderos and the Ravines, we play the best, melodic tunes anywhere.\nAugust 13, 2015 Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio\tLeave a comment\nCategories: New Songs Added to the Playlist!\tTags: alan haber, beach boys, beatles, brian wilson, dennis wilson, new songs added to the pure pop radio playlist, paul mccartney, pure pop radio, streamlicensing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"David Porter \u00bb Articles at Suite 101 \u00bb Unfinished Masterpieces Can Be As Compelling As the Originals\nUnfinished Masterpieces Can Be As Compelling As the Originals\nJuly 16th, 2012 | Add a Comment\nWorks of art are often left incomplete through war or artists' death. Some are finished by other people; but most are made interesting by being abandoned.\nOn the April 2011 publication of David Foster Wallace's novel, The Pale King, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst wondered in Britain's Sunday Times at the attraction of unfinished works. 'You don't buy a jacket with one arm, so why seek out what amounts to a creative stump or narrative doodle?'\nWallace's book came from 200 pages left stacked on his desk when he committed suicide in 2008, intertwined with fragments from his bin. For many readers, it's a suicide note revealing the man's state of mind.\nDouglas-Fairhurst also cited Henry James' short story The Middle Years about a novelist on his deathbed dreaming of the stories he might have written, as illustration that it's the might-have-been bits which appeal to readers.\nUnfinished Literature\nIn 2010, Nabokov's The Original of Laura was published, reproducing his handwritten postcards so readers could shuffle the narrative into any order. Stieg Larsson, bestselling Swedish novelist, died of a heart attack in 2004 aged 50. He had planned 10 Millennium novels; three were published posthumously: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2005), The Girl Who Played With Fire (2005) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010).\nHe'd almost completed the fourth. A legal dispute over royalties for his long-term partner Eva Gabrielsson, (Swedish law doesn't recognise unmarried couples) attracted as much hype as the books themselves.\nMervyn Peake (1911-1968) artist, novelist, poet, illustrator, published the Gormenghast Trilogy (Titus Groan, 1946; Gormenghast, 1950 and Titus Alone, 1959) to generally critical acclaim. Influenced by Dickens and Stevenson, his experiences as a Second World War artist and fighting Parkinson's Disease, his haunting imagery evoked epic fantasy worlds.\nPeake had started a fourth, Titus Awakes, but was too ill to complete it. His widow, Maeve Gilmore wrote a version from fragments he'd left, Search Without End, in the 1970s, but it was not widely known about. A discovery of the fuller manuscript in 2010 in the family attic led to publication in 2011.\nAt his death in 1870, Charles Dickens' had published six of twelve monthly parts of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Critic GK Chesterton said the book was: 'designed by Dickens, but ultimately filled up by others. The Mystery of Edwin Drood showed how little others made of Dickens' suggestions'.\nMany sought to finish it. An 1870 attempt by American Robert Henry Newell was more parody. An 1873 version by Thomas James, praised by Arthur Conan Doyle, was sold as 'ghost-written' by Dickens himself.\nSince then, others have attempted to second-guess Dickens. Movies in 1935 and 1993, television interpretations (2011), radio (1953) and theatre offered alternative endings. Drood (1985) was a musical comedy, still favoured by amateur companies.\nIncomplete Film and Architecture\nEvan Andrews published (2009) his top ten unfinished art works. Bruce Lee's Game of Death, started in 1972, was planned as the ultimate expression of the martial arts for which Lee was becoming famous. He stopped to make Enter the Dragon, intending to finish Game of Death later.\nHe died of cerebral edema, aged 32 in 1973, leaving Enter the Dragon Director, Robert Clouse to splice 11 minutes of classic Lee footage with new to make a movie. Not all films are finished after death, however.\nOrson Welles' (1915-1985) left behind The Other Side of the Wind, which he'd been working on since the late 60s. When the Shah of Iran was ejected in the 1979 revolution, financial\/legal disputes followed. It was never completed.\nAndrews listed architecture, too. Moscow's Palace of the Soviets, started in the late 1930s was to have been the world's tallest edifice. War stopped it when the huge steel frame was recycled to make rail bridges and fortifications. Until about 1958 they intended to resume the project, but never did.\nThe Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is a massive Roman Catholic cathedral under construction since 1882. It was Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece; he toiled for 40 years on it, but when he died in 1926, it remained unfinished. Since then, Spanish Civil and world wars, financial constraints, different architects and builders contributed to delays and controversies. Although incomplete, it's both tourist attraction and UNESCO World Heritage site, consecrated as a minor basilica in November 2010.\nUnfinished Poetry, Music and Art\nFor Andrews, a double album by Jimi Hendrix, First Rays of the New Rising Sun should feature in the top ten. Hendrix's drug overdose death in 1970 was followed by disputes about copyright and ownership. His family finally won, and hired engineers and producers to convert nearly complete tracks with rough cuts to make an album. This appeared in 1997.\nShortly before he died in 1791, Mozart was commissioned to compose a Requiem for a man's wife, which he may have come to believe was for himself. His death prevented completion, which was done by his student, Franz Sussmayr. Controversy about which parts are Mozart's has continued to the present.\nColeridge's poem Kubla Khan is different from other incomplete works, as it was recovering from an opium haze that stopped the writing. Coleridge fell asleep reading a book about the Far East while taking laudanum. When he woke from his dream\/stupour, he wrote 50 lines, and was then interrupted. When he returned to the writing, the vision had faded. The poem was unfulfilled.\nThe US dollar portrait of George Washington, known as The Athenaeum, was painted by Gilbert Stuart who deliberately didn't finish it so he could produce copies at $100 each. He is thought to have made about seventy copies, but never finished the original before his death in 1828.\nLeonardo da Vinci's horse statue was left unfinished. He unveiled a 23-foot clay model of Gran Cavallo in 1492, as war between France and Italy broke out. Metal for the statue was used for cannons, which shows how people don't always recognise artistic genius in front of them.\nIt also shows that creatives should finish their works, wherever possible, before death comes for them.\nFirst published on Suite 101, 15 July 2011\nImage: Sagrad Familia, Being Built Since 1882 \u2013 Bernard Gagnon\nFiled under: Articles at Suite 101 \u00b7 Tags: architecture, art, literature, movies, Music, poetry","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wrestling \/ December 6, 2004\nHawkeyes To Wrestle At Northern Iowa\nComplete Release in PDF Format\nDownload Free Acrobat Reader\nIowa (1-1) will face Northern Iowa (0-1) Thursday in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. Match time is 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for youth, and are available at the UNI Ticket Office at 877\/216-3663 or www.unipanthers.com.\nRadio \u2013 Morrie Adams and four-time Hawkeye all-American Mark Ironside will call the action live on AM-800 KXIC. To listen to the broadcast online, go to the wrestling schedule page on www.hawkeyesports.com. Broadcasts using Real One Player softward are available using the College Sports Pass, which can be purchased for $6.95 per month or $49.95 per year.\nTelevision \u2013 Iowa Public Television, in its 29th season of televising college wrestling, will air a tape-delayed telecast of the dual with Northern Iowa at 9 p.m. Announcers will be Tim Johnson, Jim Gibbons and former Iowa Wrestling Coach Dan Gable.\nHEAD COACH Jim Zalesky\nJim Zalesky is in his eighth season as head coach at the University of Iowa. He has a school and career record of 107-23 (.823). Named National Coach of the Year in 1998 and 1999, and Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2000, he has led the Hawkeyes to three NCAA (1998-00) and three Big Ten titles (1998, 2000, 2004). Zalesky has coached 10 NCAA Champions, 20 Big Ten Champions and 36 all-Americans at Iowa. He was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in June 2004, the University of Iowa Letterman's Club Hall of Fame and the Iowa High School Athletic Association Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1994.\nA three-time national champion and one of Iowa's 15 four-time all-Americans, Zalesky was an assistant coach and head recruiter at Iowa under Dan Gable for seven seasons (1991-97). He was named Assistant Coach of the Year by the N.W.C.A. in 1992 and 1997. Undefeated as a junior and senior, Zalesky ended his career on an 89-match winning streak.\nNorthern Iowa is 0-1 on the season with a 20-14 loss to Wisconsin in November. The Panthers also crowned five champions at the Harold Nichols Open and one winner that UNI Open. Head Coach Brad Penrith has a 40-29 record in his fifth season with the Panthers. Penrith was a NCAA Champion and three-time NCAA finalist, all-American and Big Ten champion at Iowa from 1986-88. The Panthers are led by seniors and returning all-Americans Eric Hauan (174) and Sean Stender (197). Hauan is 13-1 this season, while Stender is 12-3.\nIowa leads the series with Northern Iowa, 36-8-2. The Hawkeyes have won the last 28 meetings between the two teams, and hold a 17-5-1 advantage in Cedar Falls.\nHAVEN'T WE MET?\nFollowing are the career results of potential Iowa-Northern Iowa matchups:\n133 \u2013 Gabe Ruhkala (I) is 1-0 vs. Patrick Sharp (UNI)\nRuhkala dec. Sharp, 6-5 at 2004 Kaufman Brand Open\n149 \u2013 Ty Eustice (I) is 1-0 vs. Jeff Harrison (UNI)\nEustice dec. Harrision, 3-1 at 2003 Iowa vs. Northern Iowa dual\n165 \u2013 Mark Perry (I) is 1-0 vs. Nick Baima (UNI)\nPerry dec. Baima, 10-4 at 2004 Kaufman-Brand Open\nHwt. \u2013 Ryan Fuller (I) is 0-1 vs. Michael Shedek (UNI)\nShedek dec. Fuller, 4-2 sv at 2004 Iowa vs. Northern Iowa dual\nHawkeye Head Coach Jim Zalesky picked up his 100th career coaching victory when Iowa defeated Northern Iowa, 27-10, on December 11, 2003, in Iowa City.\nHighlights for the Hawkeyes were wins by senior Cliff Moore at 141, junior Joe Johnston at 157, senior Tyler Nixt at 174 and Paul Bradley at 184. Moore started the dual with a 15-4 major decision over second-ranked Dylan Long, at 141 pounds. Moore scored all six takedowns in the match. Johnston scored nine takedowns, including five in the third period, to defeat Nick Baima, 19-9. Nixt recorded with his fifth straight career win over Eric Hauan, scoring a 6-3 decision. Hawkeye sophomore Paul Bradley fought through injury to beat Eric Pedretti, 12-4. The match was halted several times due to Bradley bleeding and he received stitiches matside during one of the injury timeouts.\nIowa 27, Northern Iowa 10\n141 Cliff Moore (I) maj. dec. Dylan Long (UNI), 15-4\n149 Ty Eustice (I) dec. Jon Garvin (UNI), 5-2\n157 Joe Johnston (I) maj. dec. Nick Baima (UNI), 19-9\n165 Hesston Johnson (UNI) dec. Cole Pape (I), 7-3\n174 Tyler Nixt (I) dec. Eric Hauan (UNI), 6-3\n184 Paul Bradley (I) maj. dec. Eric Pedretti (UNI), 12-4\n197 Ryan Fulsaas (I) won by forfeit\nHwt. Michael Shedeck (UNI) dec. Ryan Fuller (I), 4-2 sv\n125 Luke Eustice (I) dec. C. Helgeson (UNI), 10-5\n133 Patrick Garcia (UNI) maj. dec. Trent Goodale (I), 14-3\nThe Hawkeyes lost a hard-fought match to intra-state rival Iowa State, 19-16, Sunday night in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The win marked Iowa State's first in the arena, which was built in 1983. Iowa fell to 1-1 with the loss, while Iowa State improved to 7-0. The Cyclones gained ground in the Hy-Vee Cy-Hawk Series, but Iowa maintains a 7-4 lead in the contest.\nWhile each team won five matches, the difference maker was Grant Nakamura's 6:37 pin over Iowa's Lucas Magnani at 125 pounds. Iowa State jumped out to a 3-0 lead on Nick Passolano's 12-8 decision over Luke Lofthouse at 174, but Hawkeye junior Paul Bradley scored a takedown with 28 seconds left in the match to defeat Kurt Backes, 7-6, and tie the team score at 3-3. Cyclone Trevor Smith fought back with a 9-1 major decision over Dane Pape at 197, but Hawkeye freshman Matt Fields answered with a 4-2 win over Scott Coleman at heavyweight. Nakamura's pin made the team score 13-6 in favor of the Cyclones heading into the intermission. Hawkeye junior Mario Galanakis scored a 6-3 win over Jesse Sundell at 133 to make the team score 13-9. Hawkeye freshman Alex Tsirtsis put up a good fight against top-ranked Nate Gallick at 141, taking the match to the first tiebreak period, but he could not escape and lost a 2-1 decision. Hawkeye junior Ty Eustice pulled the team within striking distance with his 15-6 major decision over Aron Scott at 149, improving to 6-1 on the season. Down 5-0 in the second period to Cyclone Trent Paulson at 157, Hawkeye junior Joe Johnston scored four takedowns in the last 2:37, but came up short with a 10-8 loss, and Iowa State jumped to a 19-13 lead. Hawkeye redshirt freshman Mark Perry scored a 5-2 win over Travis Paulson to end the dual at 165, but his three team points was not enough for an Iowa win.\nIowa State 19, Iowa 16\n174 Nick Passolano (ISU) dec. Luke Lofthouse (I), 12-8\n184 Paul Bradley (I) dec. Kurt Backes (ISU), 7-6\n197 Trevor Smith (ISU) maj. dec. Dane Pape (I), 9-1\nHwt. Matt Fields (I) dec. Scott Coleman (ISU), 4-2\n125 Grant Nakamura (ISU) pinned Lucas Magnani (I), 6:37\n133 Mario Galanakis (I) dec. Jesse Sundell (ISU), 6-3\n141 Nate Gallick (ISU) dec. Alex Tsirtsis (I), 2-1 tb\n149 Ty Eustice (I) maj. dec. Aron Scott (ISU), 15-6\n157 Trent Paulson (ISU) dec. Joe Johnston (I), 10-8\n165 Mark Perry (I) dec. Travis Paulson (ISU), 5-2\nHAWKEYES COMPETE AT UNI OPEN\nSeven Hawkeyes competed at the UNI Open last weekend at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. Iowa 125-pounders Charlie Falck and Matt Morkel were the two Hawkeye placewinners. Falck, a true freshman, placed third, and Morkel, a junior, placed fifth.\nIOWA WRESTLING HISTORY\nIowa's overall dual meet record is 775-198-30 (.788) in 93 seasons. The Hawkeyes have won 20 national titles, including nine of the last 14, and 31 Big Ten titles. Iowa's 47 NCAA Champions have won a total of 73 NCAA individual titles, crowning six three-time and 13 two-time champions. The Hawkeyes' 99 Big Ten Champions have won a total of 180 conference individual titles. There have been seven four-time, 18 three-time and 24 two-time Iowa winners. Iowa's 124 all-Americans have earned all-America status 254 times, including 16 four-time, 27 three-time and 28 two-time honorees.\nHAWK TALK WITH Jim Zalesky\nKXIC Radio (AM-800) will air nine Hawk Talk with Jim Zalesky radio shows this season. The show will be live from LaCasa Mexican Restaurant in Iowa City from 6-7 p.m. The next scheduled show date is Tuesday, December 7.\nCHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE\nThe Hawkeye wrestling staff of Jim Zalesky, Troy Steiner, Tim Hartung, Cliff Moore and Mike Zadick earned a total of seven NCAA titles, 12 Big Ten titles and 17 all-America honors. Their combined college career wrestling record is 619-88-1 (.875), including four undefeated seasons.\nThe 75th NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships will be held March 17-19 at the Savvis Center in St. Louis, MO. This will be the first time in tournament history that the meet will be held in the same venue back-to-back years. All-session tickets are $100 and are available at 877\/722-1604 or www.stlsports.org\/wrestling.\nIowa Tops Ohio State, 21-12, in Columbus\nWrestling \/ January 21, 2022 Iowa Tops Ohio State, 21-12, in Columbus","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"E-Edition Subscribe Login\nArts-Living\nBackyard Birder: After 25 years, it's time to step aside\nA male monarch butterfly newly emerged from its chrysalis \u2013 and Ball jar \u2013 soon to take flight to its wintering grounds in a patch of conifers in Mexico. Photo by Francie Von Mertens\nFrancie Von Mertens\nBackyard Birder\nPublished: 9\/6\/2019 10:52:34 AM\nWhen people ask, \"What's new?\" I usually laugh and say, \"You know me, nothing,\" sometimes feeling sheepish as though I SHOULD have news to report.\nI do keep on the same track for years. This column is a good example.\nIts title \u2013 appropriately \u2013 is Backyard Birder. I do venture out of the backyard to new places, but I'm content to observe all the myriad, subtle changes in the backyard through the year.\nBirds were the first focus. When I began the column I was eager to learn everything about birds and their world. Our kids had left home and there was a void in my heart.\nSoon I began this column. Twenty-five years ago.\nI've strayed from birds over the years. To pollinators, most recently. Columns on native bees, the unsung true pollinator workhorses. Honey bees get all the attention. Both are in trouble.\nColumns on the monarch butterfly's amazing fall migration to Mexico; other columns on why their numbers are falling.\nI've written about neonicotinoids (I still can't spell them), the systemic neurotoxin pesticides that lawn treatments apply routinely. Some plants we buy for our gardens are treated, too, although most growers have phased them out in response to pressure from the public.\nI write about \"neonics\" with hopes to increase that pressure. They are linked to the decline in pollinators, monarch butterflies included.\nColumns on land conservation \u2013 wonderful lands to explore and wonderful people who have conserved them.\nOn mushrooms. Fungi, the fifth kingdom. Some species live symbiotically with trees and are essential to the health of the forest as they provide trees with soil nutrients and receive sugars in return.\nI've written often about invasive plants, a threat to forest health, and to fields and waterways. In November, I've written about foraging wild cranberries with grandchildren for the annual Thanksgiving relish (recipe included).\nAnd on and on.\nBirds led me to all these places.\nI write to expand the learning process. Our species is programmed to observe, to learn, to figure things out \u2013 as it is with all animals. A species' survival depends on it, actually.\nI also write to share the intimacy of nature observed. I have often written here that we take better care of the familiar, of what we know. The natural world needs taking care of, the wild ones \u2013 plants and animals.\nI've been at it for one-third of my life, this column. And the time has come to move on. There have been guest writers recently as part of my stepping aside.\nI'll continue the column through mid-November, the 25th anniversary of my first one. I suspect I'll return now and again, and I hope that guest writers will, too, but for now, for me, it's time for a sabbatical.\nI realize now that when someone asks \"What's new?\" I could report the coolest recent discovery out in the natural world, or while researching how that world works.\nFor 25 years I have shared those discoveries here.\nPictured here is the newest discovery a few days ago \u2013 this monarch butterfly recently emerged from its chrysalis, so very fresh and intensely colored as it exercised its wings before taking flight.\nMonarch caterpillars are everywhere this August, reversing a steady and disturbing decline. They strip milkweed stems bare, sometimes four or even five to a stem here in our backyard. I've relocated some from stripped stems to ones with intact leaves to munch on.\nBack a week or so I found a chrysalis attached to weed I'd yanked. I brought it inside.\nIt seemed too small to contain what would become an adult butterfly, and I didn't have high hopes. But the bejeweled, pastel green chrysalis did start to dissolve, seemingly, darkening as a black and orange pattern within became visible.\nA butterfly did emerge from a fully transparent, cast aside casing, unfolding well beyond its confined chrysalis size.\nI've never seen such a clean, clear black and shades of orange.\nThe fall hawkwatch up on Pack Monadnock will count monarchs as they flit by on their way to Mexico, and hawkwatchers will wish them well, I suspect, and marvel at their journey.\nThe staffed hawkwatch began Sunday for its 15th year. As I've written here probably 14 times, broad-winged hawks will be swirling by in numbers hard to believe in a couple weeks.\nBe sure to join others up on the watch, always good company, hawks and humans.\nMeade Cadot and I will be up on Crotched Mountain on Saturday, Sept. 15, reprising a hawkwatch we did for many years, way back when. It's part of the Harris Center's 50th anniversary year-long celebration. Check the Harris Center's online calendar for information.\nA live hawk from NH Audubon will be part of that 9 a.m. 'til noon event, although if the hawks are flying we'll be there a lot longer.\nAs I've often written, come on along.\nHospitals have distributed 94% of their vaccines and they need more\nBy TEDDY ROSENBLUTH - Today\nFor the last couple weeks, New Hampshire hospitals have been in a race against time. As daily new cases of COVID-19 reach an all time high and the...\nDublin woman plans bouquets for homebound people\nBy ABBE HAMILTON - Today\nDublin resident Sarah Wilcox has a vision to bring bouquets of fresh cut flowers to shut-ins and residents of assisted living facilities this...\nRindge proposes ninth police officer position in 2021 budget\nBy ASHLEY SAARI - Today\nThe Rindge Police Department is requesting funds for an additional police officer position on this year's warrant.On Wednesday, the Rindge Select...\nPeterborough's UCC Monday night to-go meals are available to anyone in need\nThe Union Congregational Church in Peterborough has distributed as many as 100 free to-go meals on Monday nights, but pastor Bob Marrone believes...\nBusiness Extra: Large local businesses discuss state of hiring new emp\nLocal construction projects continue to move forward\nPeterborough: A look at zoning laws\nCommunity Meals To Go taking shape in Peterborough\nBeloved volunteer honored before move\nSubscribe to the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, your source for Peterborough area news.\nMonadnock Ledger-Transcript\n20 Grove St.\n\u00a9 2020 Monadnock Ledger-Transcript\ncirc@ledgertranscript.com\nnews@ledgertranscript.com\nPart of the Newspapers of New England Family\nAmherst Bulletin\nAthol Daily News\nGreenfield Recorder\nValley Advocate\nNNEdigital\nTown By Town","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Art\u00edculo This abandoned baby monkey has been adopted by a herd of goats Videos\nThis abandoned baby monkey has been adopted by a herd of goats\nThe best thing internet era has given us is an array of videos depicting interspecies friendships, which, of course, are the best drug-free cure for a case of the blues.\nIf you were woken up at 3am by a drunk singing on the street, your alarm didn't go off and you missed the bus to work... well, all your bad vibes are about to disappear. You don't believe it? Just watch:\nWho could have a bad day after watching this baby monkey hugging its goat mother?\nZhong Shu, the owner of this farm in China, found the tiny animal all alone, hidden on a piece of wood. But it didn't take long for the monkey to form a bond with Mr Shu's goats.\n\"The little monkey has been here for five days. When I found it, it was on that piece of wood over there\", he explained. \"As soon as it saw me, it started to run back and forth, it was scared of me\".\n\"After that, it climbed up onto the that goat's back\". During the day, the goat goes out to graze while the little monkey clings to its back. The pair sleep together at night and never leave each other's sides.\nBut the heartwarming story must come to an end. The authorities will soon take the monkey to the zoo where they'll care for it until it's ready to return to its habitat.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Names of the Nineties: Emerson\n09\/09\/2019 by James Kelly\nIn 1995, Middlesbrough were promoted back to England's top flight after a two-season absence. Before long, they began to make some eye-catching, and markedly uncharacteristic, foreign signings. Champions League winner Fabrizio Ravanelli arrived from Juventus, Juninho was tasked with delivering the Samba flair in attack, and highly-rated young manager Bryan Robson was at the helm. Alongside an exciting new stadium in the Cellnet Riverside, it appeared the start of a golden period for the club.\nAnother piece of this masterplan was the signing of Emerson Mois\u00e9s Costa, a Brazilian midfield general, for \u00a34m from Porto. Having helped that club to back-to-back league titles, and been courted by a host of top European clubs after being crowned Portuguese Player of the Year, it appeared very shrewd business.\nSigning a four-year contract in May 1996, the Brazilian was unveiled next to manager Robson, both men beaming in a press conference. Meanwhile, posing outside in his new colours, the distinctively unkempt Emerson delighted crowds outside with an array of flicks and kick-ups on a clear spring day.\nThis brightness was to encapsulate the beginnings of Emerson's time on Teesside. Debuting on opening day of the 1996\/97 Premiership season, in a 3-3 draw with Liverpool, Emerson impressed with his marshalling of the midfield. Initial optimism would prove well merited, as Boro started the season in a positive vein.\nEmerson would grab his first goal in England in an early September 1996 fixture with West Ham, opening the scoring in a 4-1 victory. Receiving the ball on the outside of the box from compatriot Juninho, he would jink past one defender before rifling into the top corner from all of 25 yards.\nIt is for these spectacular long-range efforts that Emerson would be best remembered, with another scorcher coming in a 7-0 drubbing of Hereford United in the League Cup second round. Three weeks later came an arguably more significant goal from distance, as a cleared ball was met with a ferocious piledriver that nearly took the net off its moorings in a 2-2 draw at Sunderland.\nOriginal Series | Names of the Nineties\nThen, in October 1996, came another starring League Cup performance, as Emerson scored and generally dominated from the first minute of 5-1 victory over Huddersfield. His performance was such that, following the game, Terriers manager Brian Horton walked into the post-match press conference and reportedly simply exclaimed to journalists as he took his seat, \"Emerson, wow!\"\nRegardless of the jaw-dropping strikes, resulting Samba dance celebrations, and good performances, matters were not as positive as they may seem for Boro. Between September and December 1996, they failed to win a league game, enduring such results as a 4-0 loss at Southampton and a 5-1 drubbing by Liverpool.\nMeanwhile, there were far more pressing issues concerning Emerson. Less than impressed by the impending winter weather in north-east England, and amidst rumoured interest from Bobby Robson at Barcelona, the midfielder went missing. It is this that fuels part of his legend. Back in his homeland, Emerson told media he was unable to return owing to his wife suffering from depression brought on by the prospect of living in north-east England.\nNevertheless, after Steve Gibson threatened to banish him to the reserves, Emerson returned to the fold. The Brazilian played a part in taking Boro to both the FA and League Cup finals, although the initial sparkle was gone. Both showpiece occasions were to end in defeat, whilst Middlesbrough's league form continued to plummet. For all his talent Emerson would prove unable to help the side avoiding relegation to Division One, particularly blamed for a lacklustre display at Leeds on the final day.\nThe prospect of away trips to Crewe, Port Vale and Stockport left it widely expected all the foreign stars would exit Teesside. Indeed Juninho was sold to Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, whilst Ravanelli went to Marseille, but Emerson curiously remained. Starting in the opening day win over Charlton, he would form a good understanding with new signing Paul Merson. Their partnership was well displayed in a 2-1 win away at Sunderland in late September 1997, with Merson setting up another long-range thunderbolt from Emerson.\nA month later came another large element of the Emerson legend, namely concerning another person. The man in question was a compatriot called Fabio, someone of whom little is known. The most widely accepted idea was he was Emerson's cousin visiting, although others claim he was his brother-in-law. Regardless of the legitimacy of these claims, he had been at Middlesbrough for a period playing reserve team football.\nIn late-October 1997, an injury crisis led to Fabio being drafted in at right-back for the league match with Huddersfield. The legend goes he starred in this game, displaying incredible technique and being Man of the Match. However, bizarrely, no highlights exist of Fabio in this game, and he failed to directly contribute in a 3-0 win. His reserve appearances then dried up before he was released shortly after, vanishing without trace until reappearing some years later in the German fourth division.\nBack to Emerson, things failed to get any easier. He was still struggling to fully adjust to life in the north-east, claiming he had tried to convince his parents to move to Middlesbrough, only to be \"unable to convince them to even set foot on the aircraft.\" The persistent interest from Barcelona meant at the end of 1997 Emerson went AWOL in Brazil again. Tired of this petulance, in January 1998, the decision was taken to sell the player to La Liga side Tenerife.\nSeveral years in Spain with Deportivo and Atl\u00e9tico were followed by a curious return to the UK in 2003 with Rangers. He lasted 15 games there before ending up in the admittedly warmer climes of Greece, first with Skoda Xanthi and then AEK. The former of these clubs were poetically drawn against Boro in the first round of the 2005-06 UEFA Cup, meaning Emerson returned to Teesside some seven years after going on strike. He was unable to prevent his old side winning 2-0, however.\nReflecting on his time in the north-east, the Brazilian remarks how contrary to popular opinion he was most fond of both Middlesbrough as a city and its good-natured people. He did, though, reserve less praise for the club, stating how at times they treated him \"like a manual labourer.\" Nevertheless, with hindsight he wishes he'd done things differently. \"I did cause problems for the club, but I was young and it is different now. I made a mistake and should have stayed,\" he told Sky Sports in 2003. A cult hero on Teesside, how Middlesbrough fans wish that were true.\nBy James Kelly @jkell403\nTags: emerson, middlesbrough, premier league\nJames Kelly 09\/09\/2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jim Crow in Palestine and The American Empire\nCo-Authored with Lisa Chieco\nOur fellow Americans and Earth citizens could benefit from historical perspective. The mantle of American Exceptionalism, a garb that resembles an emperor's new clothes, becomes more transparent with each passing year.\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Cre8tvlyLicnsd\nAmericans carry a lot of shame for things we've done to this planet that no other government in the world can match, such as the atomic bomb and agent orange (all of this inflicted on civilian populations, explaining it as \"collateral damage\").\nAnother 9\/11, this time 1973, the assignation of duly elected president of Chile. Here a boy carries on a tradition that unites the people of Chile who were another victim: wearing Allende glasses\nWe have murdered peoples, starved them and spread deadly smallpox virus via \"gift blankets\", a virus previously unknown in the Americas. These gift blankets exposed native populations to a disease that spread like wildfire. Did you learn this in history class?\nFrom trains passing westward millions of bison were murdered. Stacked, the bison heads rested thousands high with a deliberate goal: starve the natives and their nations. Our collective memory ascribes the slaughter to sportsmen shooting from the comfort and safety of train cars. There is a little more to that story. Those \"sportsmen\" disembarked from the locomotives to murder as many bison as humanly possible and thereby remove the buffalo as sustenance to Native America. We learn soundbites. \"The Indians used every single part of each buffalo.\"\nFrom Smithsonian.org. This is not photo-shopped. Would that it were.\nWhere the Buffalo No Longer Roamed\nBut connecting the dots leading to genocide is never taught. George Washington as a youth chopped down a cherry tree and owned up to it. Andrew Jackson is the president we have on the twenty-dollar bill. His nickname was \"Stonewall.\" We store soundbites in our memory and we pass them down to our grandchildren. No mail delivery on Presidents Day, banks close but schools are in session and there are sales at Target. Congress passed a law making Presidents Day a Monday holiday\u2026\nWe murdered millions of First People to get what we wanted, promises broken as greed expanded.\nWe witness the same dynamic in the Israel\/Palestine Conflict. The misinformed think in black and white terms: Philistina does not exist. I use the name Philistine because that is what they call themselves. Bill speaks to the distinction between Philistine and Palestine here.\nThis is the Arabic word:\nYes, I meant Palestine. Shukran\nIt looks like a series of squiggly lines but evokes a familiar biblical tribe: the Philistines.\nBritish and the United States bound by \"a special relationship\" snap the Israel into existence in 1948, a catastrophe for the people already living there. The world was still reeling over the disclosure of concentration camps built by a country with a genocidal dream: Third Reich Germany. We forced villagers living near the camps to march through and to bury the dead found in those camps. Israelis and Americans know little or less about the daily human rights abuses in Israel and the occupied territories. It doesn't help that the New York Times is corporate and NPR is sponsored by corporations. An independent press is our lifeblood.\nThere is an American camp established to house \"enemies of the state\" without legal recourse, or representation: Guantanamo, an American naval base from the days when Cuba was ours to manipulate.\nThe locus of two eras of imperial ambition on the island of Cuba\nClose Guant\u00e1namo\nWe invaded, without provocation, the independent country of Iraq in 2003. My husband and I participated in one of many rallies in the days preceding that war, also a catastrophe. We were already in Afghanistan under the guise of chasing the terrorist responsible for the horror of 9\/11 in New York City. We lost 3000 that day: it was genuine horror. We responded by murdering innocent civilian \"collaterals.\" Those fighting back are fighting for their autonomy and the right to own their nation without the foreign interests who run their government. The British set borders in their Middle Eastern colonies to contain rival religious sects that could fight one another and leave the governance to the halls of empire. Divide and conquer.\nWorld Wars and Empire\nLawrence in Arabia reviewed in The Guardian\nAnd we are that remaining world power that installed the puppet Saddam Hussein! But perhaps just say \"mistakes were made,\" accidents happen. But to the victors go the spoils.\nWhy border lines drawn with a ruler in WW1 still rock the Middle East\nSo our uninitiated young people and our more simple and hardline conservatives, tricked and lied to with a propaganda team that manipulates a language of fear alloyed with ignorance, have been at this war for 16 years! In keeping with this embarrassing situation \u2013 we also are a, so far, sole superpower gone wild in Israel. We want to make up for what started as humiliation and provocation by the Third Reich and murder of millions of Jews in Europe.\nAnd now the shoe is on the other foot. Out of a vindictiveness, and resources available to the Earth's fourth largest military, centuries old olive groves are bulldozed to break the spirit and humanity of the Palestinian people. Using humiliation as a daily means of control, cornering them in the same kind of ghetto that the Jews endured in Poland. Install a man with the skills of Joseph Goebbels to orchestrate. Without a military and with weapons on a par with those of the former Ottoman Empire, they revolted using these meager \"weapons\" and couldn't gain their freedom.\nWith fell precision, Israel used a false-flag campaign to tell all Arabs living in ancestral homes that an attack by other Arab nations was imminent and they would be better off leaving their homes until the danger was over. 1948: 700,000 Palestinians lived out a modern incarnation of the \"Trail of Tears.\" So, building upon a lie Israel moved in and took this land from people who were sharing THEIR land with the new state of Israel. In a word, the Palestinians (Philistines) had their land stolen, with catastrophic (Nakba) results. Israel has a 10 per cent population of Palestinians who did not leave in 1948. Their access to the polls limited similar to Jim Crow. On the very day of his reelection Netanyahu famously warned of those \"swarming\" voters. It's as repulsive as our Jim Crow laws in the South. Peaceful demonstrations were the beginning in our nation \u2013 because the removal of legal slave ownership should have made black people safe and equal \u2013 but let's not be foolish \u2013 it did no such thing until black people got sick and tired of it and revolted \u2013 and I would do the same.\nJim Crow in Palestine\nThere are no shortage of parallels between oppression of blacks in the Jim Crow South and Israel's present-day oppression of Palestinians. Issam Rimawi APA images\nThe Black Panthers were born into a dream denied, to paraphrase Langston Hughes. They demanded equality and freedom, and were also murdered, but the message made it to the fore and legal recourse resulted in affirmative action and enforcement of the 14th Amendment. Now, we have nazi storm troopers of a police armed with military gifted them by the Defense Department who just shoot black people like they're in target practice! I'm sickened and ashamed \u2013 and we are the nation supporting the same shameful behavior of the current governmental leaders in Israel.\nI lean on God, knowing in my heart it is the Enemy we need to fight: the evil that flourishes on greed and hate.\nAuthor Bill ZieglerPosted on December 29, 2015 July 4, 2016 Categories human rights, Nakba, Palestine, Prison, racismTags American History, black lives matter, ethnic cleansing, genocide, guantanamo, jim crow, Native America, Palestine, racism\n5 thoughts on \"Jim Crow in Palestine and The American Empire\"\nmarthastephens says:\nThe U. S. is a grave sinner, I perfectly agree. If war and famine and refugees massed at borders they cannot cross \u2014 along with endless \"development\" and fossil fuels \u2014 don't destroy the planet, it won't be our fault, will it? I would only say that along with all these crimes, there have always been people in this country (and in every country) who tried to stop the tumultuous assaults on humanity and nature and make peace with all the world. We must all do the same, as best we can, in the year 2016.\nPeter Schreiner says:\nTo say this is an excellent piece is restraint. Although the styles vary, somewhat, the clarity, the candor, the raw truth puts me to the mind of reading Howard Zinn. Splendid in its revelations.\nBill Ziegler says:\nHello Peter, I've just now discovered your comment from, well, about a year and a half ago. Howard Zinn is another of my greatest heroes, he is a favorite of my son Alan as well. So belated thanks for those kind words, my friend \u2014 my co-author Lisa, whom you have now met, thanks you profusely \ud83d\ude42 Our very best to all and each, including every fellow sentient being you so ably assist! Long live Veganarchism!!\nVragensteller - Inquirer says:\nThe \"enemy of Allah\" are the people who do not want to hear what is inside their heart and not want to see what everything around them has to bring and who think the earth belongs to them.\nEuropeans and Asians may think \"Americans carry a lot of shame for things\" but they themselves are not aware of the shame they should bear. their president Even seems to think he can govern not only his own divided United States of America, but considers himself to be the rightful and righteous one to decide what Israel has to do, ignoring the history of that place in the East.\nHallo Vragensteller,\nThank you so much for reading my blog and for this kind comment. The geopolitical arrogance of this nation's power brokers literally knows no bounds, having already ethnically cleansed the indigenous peoples under the banner of Manifest Destiny, then an interest in its entire hemisphere, then a blessed-by-God inherent right to staking claim to the entire planet and staking the hearts of those with the temerity to question its authority. So the country with the most guns, nuclear weapons and ambitions to exploit every natural resource, human resource and animal resource within its 25,000 mile reach\u2026\nAlexander Haig was Secretary of \"Defense\" under Richard Nixon. He is attributed with calling Israel a land-based aircraft carrier that could never be sunk.\nI was naive enough to think that the US might recognize a blow-back from global interference in 2001, to realize that we created the need for resistance to never ending war and never ending blessings from God. Israel is also a laboratory for testing weaponry and security systems. It's equivalent to the District of Columbia, a de facto District of Israel. The irony inherent there is enormous \u2014 racism is rampant in that country. Ethiopian Jews have no \"right of return\", neither do the Palestinians who lived on the incomparably beautiful Mediterranean coast. However anyone with a Northern European skin tone is most welcome. Another grand irony: 700,000 Palestinians were expelled in 1948 and driven into the West Bank and that open-air prison that is Gaza. Now 700,000 settlers literally occupy the occupied again. Imagine kids looking through a fence and seeing settler kids playing in what had been your home. Then there's that Apartheid Wall\u2026\nPrevious Previous post: Palestine: a people with a land are still without a land\nNext Next post: Stanley Cohen in Canaan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ethereum (ETH): Does it Score Poorly on Long-Term Trading Metrics Saturday?\nSaturday, December 04, 2021 06:14 AM | InvestorsObserver Analysts\nEthereum receives an average long-term technical score of 43 from InvestorsObserver analysis. Our proprietary scoring system considers the trading patterns over the past several months to a year by analyzing the coin's consistency, volatility, and where it is relative to long-term averages to determine whether it's a strong buy-and-hold investment opportunity. Currently, ETH holds a superior long-term technical analysis score than 43% of crytpocurrencies. Long-term investors employing a buy-and-hold strategy will find the Long-Term Rank especially relevant when allocating their assets and may find additional value finding cyptos with a high short-term technical score to discover coins that have bottomed out.\nInvestorsObserver is giving Ethereum a 43 Long-Term Technical Rank. Find out what this means to you and get the rest of the rankings on Ethereum!\nSee Full Report\nEthereum's price is $53.70 (1.40%) above its 100-day moving average price of $3,840.02 as its price at the moment sits at $3,893.72. Additionally, ETH is $3,360.72 (728.47%) higher than its 52-week low price of $533.00 while -$997.98 (79.39%) under its 52-week high of $4,891.70. The current trading price in relation to its long-term average along with its 52-week high and low, gives ETH an average long-term technical score of 43. Long-term trading movement of Ethereum suggest that investors are bearish on the coin at the moment. Ethereum has a market capitalization of 461,798,912,938.98 and a relatively high average daily volume with 170,874,812,439.03 worth of the currency traded over the typical 24 hour period. Over the last 24 hours, ETH's volume is below its seven day average with 39,906,812,721.39 exchanged. This coin's subclass Distributed Software Platform: A platform is a decentralized infrastructure designed for a purpose. These can take the form of exchanges for the trading of cryptocurrencies, decentralized data storage, artificial intelligence, virtual or augmented reality, distributed computing and big data collection, among other things.\nETH's historical trading over the past year gives it a an average long-term technical score of 43 as its price movement in that time has given investors reason to be bearish on the coin in the long-term. Click Here to get the full Report on Ethereum (ETH).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"this brand when more came plugin that episode with interviews hassan will users show time module your component special dead joomla night feed 2014 charlie mark content create site download music menu head default today program administrator 2015 turn culture help radio we're from news just tonight back have search JoelLipman.Com\nHome Games Uncategorised\nPublished: 11 February 2015 | | | Hits: 8992\nInterested in reaching our audience?\nLet Out of My Head RADIO get the job done for YOU!\nOur goal is a simpe one...To connect your business with our listeners and site audience in the most high impact and cost effective ways possible. We offer a la carte media buys as well as fully integrated advertising and marketing solutions for your business.\nOut of My Head RADIO...Our story.\nFrom it's inception over 5 years ago, The POD of The DEAD always had something special about it. 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{"text":"THE MOVIE \"HIDDEN FIGURES\" & HIDDEN AGENDAS, NAZIS, VRIL AND PIZZAGATE\n\" \u2026 I am as Proud as the DEVIL to be working with you.\" Hidden Figures, the Movie\nTHE DEVIL! And, that is surely who they were working with for a matter of FACT.\n\" \u2026 I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.\" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\nI realize that we do feel very proud of the story and images of young black women overcoming the great and overwhelming odds of raging racism, racial discrimination and segregation in this country to rise to the levels of success that they did as support staff and surrogates of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The pursuit of TRUTH whether it is in SPACE, SEA or by EARTH\u2013 I believe to a MORAL END. But, NASA is an immoral means in search of any TRUTH.\nAfter the establishment of NASA by Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 29, 1958, SS Sturmbannfuhrer Wernher von Braun's brainchild team of the Peenem\u00fcnde Army Research Center joined NASA in 1960.\nMaria Orsic & Vril-7 in Test Flights Over Peenem\u00fcnde\nThe Peenem\u00fcnde Army Research Center in Germany was a secret Nazi-SS base dedicated to the development of the V-1 series of rockets. It was also a secret base for the research and development of VRIL anti-gravity crafts. Peenem\u00fcnde was part of Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and SS-1 Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's Satanic Projects. NASA is an extension of Lucifer's Workshop., and an example of Hitler and Himmler's prize bargaining chip to unlimited power, wealth and influence over America and Allied Forces.\nThe feel good story in \"Hidden Figures\" is paper thin and an ILLUSION. It is a trickery of images, and a puzzle warped inside an enigma. It is a smoked mirror, and a vehicle of mass racial psychological warfare. The hidden figures in the film are the glorification and testaments to Aryan Dominance and Supremacy.\nThe current HollyWeird box office hit, \"Hidden Figures\" is right up front in your face \u2013 a picture book to the superiority of the intellectual and industrial Genius of the Aryan.Race.\nBlack Class Laborers & Forced Racial Slave Labor\nThe young black women in \"Hidden Figures\" are no more than an expression of something out of the bowels of classism and tenant farming. They reside and rely on an enterprise and industry owned, created and controlled by another- Nazis\/SS. The others contribute their brains, and resources- facilities, operating capital, and management; while the working class young women contribute their labor to the ends of the enterprise under strict racial segregated restrictions similar to Nazi-SS slave labor.\nSS- 1 Himmler- Overseer of Forced Slave Labor\n\"Hidden Figures\" is a lying and insulting feel good story that I believe is a revisionist history of the SS- Knights of the Black Sun, and re-imaging of their Satanic and corrupt SS Vril Project, NASA, and the role a group of shamefully racially segregated young Black women played in that fraud on the masses and the world.\n\"Hidden Figures\", itself as a movie title, is deceitfully eerie filled with wicked implanted imagery veiling IMAGES of the horrors of WWII and the holocaust. There is an underlining and unseen evil to \"Hidden Figures\" that is beyond unsettling and troublesome. Black people, Himmler (Son of Lucifer), and NASA, it's a toxic and wicked chemistry that is viciously designed to blow up in your heart and soul, and drive you insane without disease. It is a wicked work of art that is absolutely demonically designed as a backdoor to your subconscious to glorify the Third Reich and 4th Dimension Naziland Pseudoscience.\nJohn Glenn, the astronaut in the movie that they helped circle the globe became no activist for human dignity. He was a Luciferian Master Mason, and a Scottish Rite Freemason of the 33rd Degree. He was an ILLUMINATI U.S. Senator, and a secret fellow pedophile on Jeffery Epstein's Pedophile Island.[1]\nYou can't put a sweet motherly black happy face on SS-1 Heinrich Himmler's secret war criminal Satanic Black Sun Peenem\u00fcnde Rocket Team out of Nazi Germany, and give me a false and insidious sense of feeling good, pride and hope.\nMost of the Peenem\u00fcnde Rocket Team secreted out of Nazi Germany that founded NASA were secret ultra racist occult members of the Vril Society, Thule-Gesellschaft, and the SS Knights of Black Sun.\nSS-1 Himmler, Son of Lucifer & Major General Walter Dornberger, Commandant of Peenem\u00fcnde\nPeenem\u00fcnde was led by Lucifer Servants, Allgemeine SS Wernher von Braun, and Wehrmacht Commander-Major General Walter Dornberger.\nDornberger, von Braun and the rocket team worked beside one of most wanted and dangerous SS war homicidal and sadistic criminal fiends of WWII, Obergruppenfuhrer SS Dr. -Lng Hans (Heinz) Friedrich Karl Franz Kammler- A Master of the 4th Dimension. At the fall of Nazi Germany, SS Kammler was directly under Himmler. He was in charge of the Peenem\u00fcnde Rocket Team and Base. SS Dr. Kammler and the Nazi's entire arsenal of 4th Dimensional Wonder Weapons just disappeared from sight.\nNaziland Occult & Pseudoscience\nThe Peenem\u00fcnde Rocket Team were smuggled into this country as Naziland Occult and Pseudoscience infiltrators and change agents under the cloak of absolute national secrecy and deep deception.[2]\nDeath and Human Carriage at Mittelbrau Concentration Camp\nDuring Nazi Germany's War of World Dominance, Racial Mass Murder and Aggression, Von Braun admitted visiting the plant at Mittelwerk on many occasions, where enslaved false prisoners were used, but falsely claimed to never have witnessed any deaths or beatings; although it had become clear to him that atrocities, crimes against humanity and mass murder had been committed. He lied about ever having visited the Mittelbrau concentration camp, where 20,000 had been tortured and mass murdered, but many witnesses saw him there and testified that he personally selected some prisoners, with the appropriate skills, to work at Peenemunde. Also, in 1944, von Braun admitted that he picked labor slaves from the Buchenwald concentration camp.[3]\nSS von Braun & Piles of Corpses of Dora Mittelbrau\nA Polish enslaved survivor of the Dora factory recalls how Wernher von Braun visited the works and seemed \"completely unperturbed\" by the piles of corpses.[4]\nHollyWeird Movie Star, Jayne Mansfield, Karman & Weird Jack\nHollyWeird critics of the movie also point out that young black female surrogates also worked at Langley's West Coast counterpart, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Devil's Gate Dam, Pasadena- the home of OTO Satanist Weird Jack Parsons.\nEach time Weird Jack shot off a rocket, he recited a hymn to the power of the Goat God Pan. He kissed the Ass of Satan for each and every successful rocket launch.\nDrinking Blood, Church of Satan, Anton Lavey & Jayne Mansfield\nBy the way, Jayne Mansfield was also wicked and demonic as HELL! Theodore von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n, was a fanatic Master Satanic Cabbalist out of Nazi Germany.[5] \"Hidden Figures\". My dear Lord. What an absolutely chilling and wicked association and history to be proud of!\nThese people out of Nazi Germany didn't change. The courageous young black women at NASA were working and trying to survive in a living nightmare at the gates of HELL. \"Hidden Figures\" opens up your subconscious to sugarcoating Satanism, and Crimes Against Humanity, and cloaking the Dam it to Hell VRIL SOCIETY- Part of the Real Veiled Hidden Figures of U.S. and World History.\nTHE SECRET VRIL SOCIETY\nUltra Secret Vril Rocket Peenemunde Scientific Officer, Maria Orsic\nThe Vril Society represents a hidden and repressed history. The Vril Society was formed in 1917 by a group of female occult-psychic mediums led by the medium Maria Orsitsch (Orsic), born Halloween, October, 31, 1895 in Zagreb, Croatia. The mystics claimed to have received direct communications from Aryan aliens living on Alpha Cen Tauri in the Aldebaran solar system.\nAldebaran, designated Alpha Tauri, is an orange giant star located about 65 light years from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. It is the brightest star in its constellation and usually the fourteenth-brightest star in the nighttime sky, though it varies slowly in brightness between magnitude 0.75 and 0.95. It is likely that Aldebaran hosts a planet several times the size of Jupiter.[6],[7]\nVril-7 & Sigrun\nAllegedly, Aldebaran aliens once had visited Earth and settled in Sumeria, and the word Vril was formed from the ancient Sumerian word \"Vri-Il\" (\"like god or God-like\"). A second very important and influential medium was known only as Sigrun, a name etymologically related to Sigrune, a Valkyrie and one of Wotan's nine daughters in Norse legend.[8]\nThe Vril Society is not just a footnote in history, because it appears that Orsic and the Vril Society opened the \"Space Age\" in the early 20th Century. The Vril Society developed a series of blueprint flying disc (saucers) prototypes that actually flew. Basically, they single handedly revolutionized the technology and knowledge of \"Man in Flight\" virtually overnight. [9],[10]\nVril Occult & the Black Sun\nYet, they remain virtually highly classified and ultra secret information. They also developed an entire secret Naziland Occult Pseudoscience, Ultra Racist Philosophies and Doctrines, and Extreme Satanic Occult Circles around Vril.[11] Even today, there are very few discussions and books on the subject here or in Germany, and there very well should be, even in HollyWeird's \"Hidden Figures\".\nIn March 1945, Maria Orsitsch, Sigrun and the Vril Maidens mysteriously disappeared, never to be heard from again, fueling speculation among some writers that Maria may have in fact escaped, as she claimed, to Aldebaran. A recently published \"Letter of Departure\" to the Young Vrilerinnen (jungen Vrilerinnen), dated March 11, 1945, mentions the \"Odin [Wotan] Departure\" (Odin-Ausflug). It refers to a temporary evacuation location with Maria, and the final departure to Aldebaran.[12] Or, the Vril Society had been rounded up and liquidated by the Himmler's SS to avoid their capture, and unobstructed exposure of secret Vril technologies.\nAt the end of WWII, Allied Forces discovered the Vril Society and its ultra secret antigravity circular craft, they were shocked to the core to say the least. It started a mad covert scramble in search for the Vril Society, and its pseudoscience, literal science and technologies.\n\"Dark Angel\" Weird Jack Parsons- Painting by Marjorie Cameron\nIn America, the closest that they could come to Vril was Weird Jack Whiteside Parsons of OTO and Theodore von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n, the Jewish aerodynamics genius, who fled Nazi Germany in the early thirties to assume the Directorship of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena, CA. Satanic Weird Jack was way out there. In the biography \"Sex and Rockets: The Occult World Of Jack Parsons\" the author writes about a mysterious black box that was found after Parsons' death. The box contained several reels of film which showed the \"Dark Angel\" and his mother engaging in acts of strange sex. Even more disturbing was the rumor of a certain reel that contained footage of Parsons, his mother, and her dog engaged in acts of bestiality.[13] Parsons and K\u00e1rm\u00e1n shared a literal fanatic partnership in the Vril Occult and Naziland Pseudoscience. K\u00e1rm\u00e1n was a direct descendant of the Maharal of Prague; Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a legendary master Cabalist from the sixteenth century.[14]\nBezalel & the Golem of Prague\nBezalel was a Hasidic (Cabalistic) rabbi. He was an \"Exalted\" Rabbi of Prague, astronomer, and according to Jewish legend, creator of the \"Golem of Prague\". He was also great grandson of Moses ben Menachem Mendel Kuntitz, a scholar of the Zohar, the main body of Jewish Cabalistic mysticism.[15]\nZOHAR & Moses Kuntitz\nIn the 19th century, Kuntitz produced the works entitled, \"Ben Yo\u1e25ai\" (Budapest, 1815). The purpose of this work was to demonstrate that the Zohar was written in its entirety by Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai.[16]\nAfter WWII, Parsons and Karman traveled to Nazi Germany, and Eastern Europe to help the U.S. Military frantic search for Nazi rocket scientists, technicians, secret plans, records and blueprints under Project PAPERCLIP before the Russians found them. Back in Pasadena, Parsons' OTO was infiltrated by ONI's L. Ron Hubbard, and the ultra secret Majestic 12 of the U.S. Pentagon.\nThe FBI reviewed a memo that appeared to be a briefing for newly-elected President Eisenhower on a secret committee (Majestic 12) created to exploit a recovery of an alleged extra-terrestrial aircraft craft (Vril Antigravity Craft) crash in 1947 in Roswell, NM, and cover-up Vril Technologies from public examination. The FBI agreed with an Air Force investigation that determined that the seemingly official government documents of Majestic 12 committee meetings to be a fake. If a memo or government committee or agency is declared classified and top secret, who expect that the FBI will breach its own government secrecy regulations, statutes and restrictions. Nobody.[17]\nGeneral Omar Bradley & Marjorie Cameron\nIn 1949, the U.S. Air Force undertook Project Sign to study UFOs. The report concluded that while many UFO sightings had mundane explanations, some were likely of extraterrestrial origin. When the study reached the desk of General Hoyt Vandenberg, he ordered all copies of it destroyed and disbanded the project. The project members included General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[18] Well anyhow, Parsons' OTO was also infiltrated in 1945 by female agent straight out of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington DC.\nTHE VRIL, THE RED HAIRED WITCH WOMAN & THE WORK OF THE DEVIL\nThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)\nCameron, \"Peyote Vision,\" 1955 (Courtesy Cameron Parsons Foundation)\nThe ONI \/OSS Special Agent and Demonic Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel (1922-1995) was an artist and occult practitioner whose remarkable work has only been rediscovered by the public since the first extensive survey of her art last year in Los Angeles at MOCA's Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.[19] From October 11, 2014 to January 11, 2015, MOCA presented Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman.[20]\nMarjorie Cameron worked with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where her responsibilities were secretive, and is most likely activities with JPL, OTO and Weird Jack is top secret and classified government information. At least one source said that she had actually worked directly as a secretary to the Chair, General Omar Bradley of Majestic 12 and Project Sign.[21]\nIn September 1939, the Nazi government gathered together psychics, mediums, dowsers, and occultists into an organization to assist the war efforts against the West. They called this unit the Institute for Occult Warfare (IOW) of which Ludwig Straniak was a member.\nThe Thule, Wicked SS Walter Schellenberg & Straniak\nLudwig Straniak (1879-1951) of the Thule Society, was a German mystic, (Wotan) revivalist and most notably a pendulum dowser. He was an architect and astrologer and was used by the German military in the Third Reich's military strategy. Two of the more well-known mystics and Thule members, other than Straniak, used by Wicked Walter Schellenberg thru SS-1 Himmler, who had a great deal of interest in Germanic mysticism and revivalism, were Dr. Wilhelm Gutberlet, who was also a pendulum dowser, and astrologer, \"Himmler's Warlock\" or \"Himmler's Rasputin\", Wilhelm Wulff.[22]\nDuring WWII, Himmler's SS had secretly resorted to employing clairvoyants to use pendulums, \"astral projection and soul travel\" over maps to help determine the location of the enemy and were said to even utilize astrology to help gain their insight into their decision making.[23]\nThe only one of her relatives to have red hair, Marjorie Cameron herself was always the black [WHITE] sheep in her family, and her talents as an artist only set her further apart from her surroundings: \"When I was in kindergarten, I was taken out of the regular schools and put into a special school because they recognized that I had above average [paranormal?] abilities,\" she said. She vividly described her early years as being full of black cats, magical thoughts, art, and poetry.[24]\nAs a teenager, Cameron made a hideout in the attic of her parents' home and there she began to develop her [paranormal] psychic abilities. She soon established contact with spirits that would tell her detailed accounts of what had occurred at the house in the past. Like a true witch, she collected black cats and would go for late night prowls alone dressed only in a nightgown.[25] Marjorie graduated in 1940 at the start of World War II. She enlisted in the Navy and was assigned the tasks of drawing maps and working in a photographic unit at the highest level of the military, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and Omar Bradley. She said that she had a \"karmic connection\" to the wartime dead.\nThat's the cover story. The real story is Marjorie was recognized and declared early on as a child prodigy of special interest to the U.S. government, because of her special paranormal abilities. She was taken out of kindergarten and placed in a secret special paranormal school or institute for study and development. How else can you explain out of tens and thousands of young ladies in the United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve)\u2013 WAVES, a 21 year old red head out of Davenport, Iowa, being sent directly to the Pentagon, the highest office in the U.S. military. She drew maps, alright.\nIn May 1943 in the middle of WWII, she met with British PM Winston Churchill.[26] Why? Was she just an escort.. No, I don't think so. She was a spellbinding Crowleyette \"Sex Magick\" DRUID WITCH! Churchill was a member of the Albion Lodge of the Anciente Order of Druids of Oxford. Whatever connection Ms. Cameron had to Britain PM Churchill in May 1943 is undoubtedly British Intelligence, and ONI top secret and classified government information. That's the way they roll.\nDEVILS & DEMONS, Marjorie Cameron\nWhen WWII broke out, she also had been pressed into service as a classified\/top secret \"psychic\" and \"mystic\" in the same matter of Ludwig Straniak of Himmler's Institute for Occult Warfare (IOW). But that also remains highly top secret and classified information. Marjorie Cameron was employed as a top secret and highly classified U.S. Military clairvoyant to swing pendulums, and use \"astral projection and soul travel\" over maps to help determine U.S. Military strategy.\nAllegedly, she learned that her brother, an Air Force tail gunner, had been injured in action, she fled to Iowa to see him. She was declared AWOL, court-martialed and confined to the base for the remainder of the war. So, it is said.[27]\nIn spite of being court-martialed by the Navy, she received a suspect honorable discharge from service in 1945, she moved to Pasadena. Allegedly, an old Navy [ONI] friend took her directly to the home of Jack Parsons. It was the U.S. outpost of the Ordo Tempi Orientis (OTO), the secret society run by the Great BEAST 666, Aleister Crowley.[28]\nInstantly struck by Cameron's dramatic red hair, green eyes, demonic nature and intriguing looks, Parsons was convinced she was his \"Scarlet Woman,\" the incarnation of what he had been searching for in his \"sexual magick\" experiments. ONI had sent her to Parsons and OTO to spy on them, and become an initiated psychic Vril Maiden for spy purposes and highly sensitive espionage explorations, operations and compromise.\nHuman consciousness is bound to the 3rd and 4th dimensions of the Earth. Ascended masters can be found on the 4th and 5th dimensions of the Earth. Mythological creatures from the elemental kingdom reside on the 4th dimension of the Earths consciousness. Extra-terrestrial civilizations can be found on the 3rd, 4th and 5th dimensions of consciousness. Archangels, Elohim and higher expressions of consciousness can be found even higher up still. The nature of life in higher dimensions of consciousness is completely outside of our level of third dimensional understanding.[29]\nAs far we are aware of, the Vril Society mystics and psychics only communicated with spirits and aliens thru a portal to the Aldebaran Solar System. Wernher von Braun believed that Jack Parsons was taught how to ritually breach the \"Fourth Dimension\" by Vril Maidens. He said that Parson's \"solid rocket fuel cell\" invention came out of that world.[30]\nSo, it shouldn't be any surprise that among the first people to report UFO Sightings in 1947- Roswell era had been Weird Jack and Demonic Marjorie, because Weird Jack had initiated her into the theological Vril Society as an Aryan \"psychic\" and \"mystic\". It's not discussed very often because of U.S. National Security top secret classification, but Demonic Marjorie and Weird Jack also performed secret BLOOD RITUALS to breach the 4th Dimension.\nWeird Jack Parsons and Demonic Marjorie intended to go far beyond the mystic work of the maidens. The end result of Demonic Marjorie of their Babalon Working with was to birth an elemental being; an avatar of the antichrist\u2013 a 'Moonchild' that\u2013as Aleister Crowley stated in his Book of the Law\u2013would be \"Mightier than all the Kings of the Earth.\"[31]\nMaria Orsic & Marina Abramovic\nSo, you may ask. What does this have to do with today? It's simple, PIZZAGATE. At the center of Pizzagate is Marina Abramovic out of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Belgrade is virtually a bee line to Zagreb where Maria Orsic was born. The distance between Belgrade and Zagreb is 368 kilometers (229 miles).\nPacific Design Center, West Hollywood\nMarina Abramovi\u0107 & Marjorie Cameron\nLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles celebrated its 32-year history as one of the world's leading contemporary art institutions on Saturday, November 12, 2011, with An Artist's Life Manifesto, a special gala envisioned by renowned performance artist Marina Abramovi\u0107 who served as this year's gala artistic director. Music and popular culture icon Debbie Harry performed hit songs \"One Way or Another\" and \"Heart of Glass,\" as well as tracks from her new album, Panic of Girls, as part of Abramovi\u0107's vision for the evening.\nMarjorie Cameron & Marina Abramovi\u0107\nToday, it appears that the closest that you may come to being a 21st century secret Vril Society Maiden is to study the workings of Marjorie Cameron.\nNazi Vril Society Maiden & Marina Abramovic\nI was rather stunned when I discovered that the stomach contents of the torso of a viciously slaughtered African child found in the River Thames in London contained gold particles. The child's head, arms and legs were missing.\nScotland Yard played absolutely no games with the masses. They confirmed that the child had been a sacrificial victim of an elite society Satanic Cult.\nMarina Abramovic & the Great BEAST 666 Aleister Crowley\nImmediately, Marina Abramovic came to the top of my mind. The black hair witch use gold particles as food in ceremonial rituals among the elite. Scotland Yard should have been at her door to compare the gold dust particles that she use to the gold particles found in Adam's stomach. During her Satanic ritual ceremonies, they eat gold.\n\"The Gold Ball recipe was given to Ms. Abramovi\u0107 by a Tibetan monastery. The practice of consuming a Gold Ball usually follows a long period of fasting and seclusion. In keeping with this tradition, the artist has planned a performance dessert piece in which the guests will apply a 24K golden leaf to their mouths before tasting the Gold Ball. By consuming the Gold Ball together with her guests, Marina Abramovi\u0107 marks the end of her longest performance ever.\"[1]\nHer ceremonials for the elite also include a treat called Golden Lips that were cast from Abramovi\u0107's mouth\u2014the mold was then poured with dark chocolate and the lips were dusted with edible 24K gold.[2]\nAs an announcement for the ceremonial consumption of gold, it was stated, \"The concept of eating the gold leaf first became important for Abramovi\u0107 when she was given a gold ball to eat at a Tibetan monastery. This practice, which typically happens after a long period of fasting and seclusion, dates back to the 6th century and helps to achieve a clear state of mind.\"[3]\n6th century Tibet was ruled by shamanism and animism. It was a pre-Buddhist spiritual and religious culture known as Bon. Practitioners of these shamanic techniques of Bon involved ecstasy and ritual magic. Their methods of working with energy was known as a Bonpo. Originally the word Bonpo meant someone who invoked the gods and summoned the spirits. A Bonpo was an expert in the use of mantra and magical evocation.\nThere seems to be a strong parallel of the role of the Bonpo in ancient Tibet with that of the Druids. Just as the Druidic order was divided into the three functions of the Bards, the Vates, and the Druids, who were singers, soothsayers, and magicians respectively, so the ancient pre-Buddhist kingdom of Tibet was said to be protected by the Drung (sgrung) who were bards and singers of epics, the Deu (lde'u) who were soothsayers and diviners, and the Bonpo (bon-po) who were priests and magicians.[4] Consistent with the practice of ancient pagan animism, Druids committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice.[5] The Bon religion that reigned supreme in Tibet during the 6th century also had elements of ritual cannibalism and human sacrifice as part of its practice.[6]\nAs I close, let me make one more observation. I am upset and beside myself discussing all of this strange and so- unnecessary BS. I am discouraged and broken hearted and feel so discouraged about this world. Yet, when I look to LOVE and GOD. I feel renewed and strong. I talked about these people entering into the 4th dimension to draw everything vile, disgusting, demonic and evil into this plane. But, LOVE in your heart always opens the 4th Dimension and Beyond. It's like the Sun, its lights draw into this plane everything Good, Righteous and Just from all dimensions of the universe.\nThis is one man that I believe clearly understood the universal POWER OF LOVE.\n[1] https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/realcleararts\/2010\/06\/abramovic_dinner.html\n[2] http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/06\/02\/bye_bye_ambramovic.php#photo-1\n[3] http:\/\/www.artnews.com\/2016\/12\/14\/friends-and-enemies-gather-amid-silence-and-gold-for-marina-abramovics-70th-birthday\/\n[4] http:\/\/vajranatha.com\/articles\/traditions\/bonpo.html?start=1\n[5] http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2009\/03\/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibalism.html\n[6] http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/travel\/news\/8-destinations-where-cannibalism-used-to-and-might-still-exist\/ss-BBxYO0m\n[1] http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2015\/02\/07\/power-pedophilia-and-the-us-government\/\n[2] http:\/\/cantontruth.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/operation-paperclip-nazi-infestation-of.html\n[3] http:\/\/legacysunfoldingjourney.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/wernher-von-braun-from-nazi-rocket.html\n[4] http:\/\/gehlen.greyfalcon.us\/peenemunde.html\n[5] https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/the-forgotten-story-of-nasas-black-female-scientists-comes-to-life-in-hidden-figures-c45105f6f011#.i6y6x3aos\n[6] https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aldebaran\n[7] http:\/\/1stmuse.com\/maria_orsitsch\/\n[8] http:\/\/www.bibliotecapleyades.net\/ciencia\/ciencia_flyingobjects55.htm\n[9] http:\/\/sitsshow.blogspot.com\/2016\/07\/The-Woman-Behind-Hitlers-Flying-Saucers-Maria-Orsic-Orschitsch-the-Vril-Society-and-Aldebaran.html\n[10] http:\/\/hyperboreanvibrations.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/vril-society-secret-societies-and-their.html\n[11] http:\/\/www.conspiracyarchive.com\/NWO\/Vril_Society.htm\n[12] http:\/\/atlanteangardens.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/vril-power-of-coming-race.html\n[13] http:\/\/www.ghosttheory.com\/2013\/03\/17\/john-whiteside-parsons-sex-rockets-and-magick\n[14] http:\/\/jackheart2014.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/mkultrapt1.html\n[15] http:\/\/alfredvierling.com\/?p=3338\n[16] http:\/\/www.hakirah.org\/Vol%202%20Rabinowitz.pdf\n[17] https:\/\/vault.fbi.gov\/Majestic%2012\n[18] http:\/\/www.deephistory.us\/1940s.php\n[19] http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/the-trippy-art-and-trippier-life-of-occult-artist-marjorie-cameron\n[20] http:\/\/www.pacificdesigncenter.com\/event\/moca-pacific-design-center-2\/\n[21] Hoagland, Richard, Dark Mission, The Secret History of NASA, Feral House, Townsend, WA (2009) pg. 303\n[22] https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_Straniak\n[23] http:\/\/www.infinite-beyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/episode_021_-_conspiracies_and_world_peace.pdf\n[25] http:\/\/www.houseofwinterspells.com\/Witchcraft,%20Occultism,%20Witchlore,%20faery%20seership\/marjorie-cameron-babalon\/\n[26] http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/en_uk\/blog\/the-trippy-art-and-trippier-life-of-occult-artist-marjorie-cameron\n[27] http:\/\/www.cameron-parsons.org\/cameron.html\n[28] Id. at No. 21\n[29] http:\/\/starseedacademy.net\/archangels-and-mythological-creatures\n[30] https:\/\/total4god.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/02\/the-babylonian-stargate-in-the-new-atlantis-america\/\n[31] http:\/\/invanddis.proboards.com\/thread\/4656\nTags: Adolf Hitler, aldebaran, aldebarian, Aleister Crowley, animism, anton levay, blood rituals, bon, bonpo, Buchenwald, cannibalism, chauncey bailey, CHURCH OF SATAN, church of set, devil, dora, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Wilhelm Gutberlet, druids, general hoyt vandenberg, general omar bradley, general walter dornberger, hans kammler, heinich himmler, hiddem figures, human sacrifice, Institute for Occult Warfare, Jack Parsons, jayne mansfield, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, john glenn, Joint Chiefs of Staff, joints cheifs of staff, Jr., Judah Loew ben Bezalel, L. 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Foster, Edgar Bronfman, Eyes Wide Shut, False Satanic Rites of Lost Negroes, Fox & Friends, Gaddafi, Gary Webb, Geobbels Method, George W. Bush, HAARP, Harold Puthoff, Hauptsturmfuhrer SS Dr. Josef Mengele, Heinrich Himmler, Hip Hop, HIP HOP false prophets, Horus, Human Radiation Experiments, Inglorious Basterds, ISHTAR, Isis, J. Edgar Hoover, Jada Smith, John Birch Society, John f. kennedy, Josef Mengele, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Knight of Malta, Knights Hospitaller, Knights of the Black Sun, Knights Templar, KPFA, L. Ron Hubbard, L. Sprague de Camp, Libertyville, Libertyville Illinois, Lookup Mountain Laboratory, Madame H.P. Blavatsky, Martin Luther King, MK-ULTRA, Molech, Moloch, MOSSAD, MPD, National Security Council, Nazis, Nuremberg Tribunal, Otto Skorzeny, Pakistan, Paul Josef Goebbels, POST-HUMAN RENAISSANCE, Reichsfurhrer SS-1 Heinrich Himmler, Rose-Croix, Rosicrucian\nSNAP OF THE DRAGON'S TAIL, BLACK LIVES MATTER, MICAH X. JOHNSON, THE SMOKING GUN IN THE DALLAS STRATEGY OF TENSION FALSE FLAG OPERATION\nIn this post about Micah X. Johnson and the July 7, 2016 Dallas False Flag, I had mulled over that association for hours before I posted it whether or not it was Justin J. Everman or Jason Everman that co-founded The Academy of Combative Warrior Arts (A.C.W.A.). There was a lot of confusion on the internet about the two names. After constant study of the subject, I concluded that the J in Justin's middle was Jason that accounted for the confusion. However, I have been so informed by a comment that it is Justin J. Everman, not Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, that founded ACWA. However, I anticipated to be corrected on some facts regarding the civilian mercenary warrior community. I respect that. Thank You. I hereby retract any association of Justin J. Everman with Jason Everman that I had concluded in this post. I regret any misinformation that has been generated because of the confusion of the two names. However, I stand my assertion that ACWA's had been Micah X. Johnson's military intelligence and CIA handler.\nTHE SMOKING GUN: MICAH X. JOHNSON DIDN'T DO IT\nMICAH XAVIER JOHNSON DIDN'T DO IT. Don't it TWISTED. He was a Black Manchurian Candidate\/Patsy of the Luciferian New World Order. It seems as though every Boot-licking Handkerchief Head Negro in America including his own mother had father have given up the Ghost that 25 year old Micah Johnson was the lone wolf Dallas Assassin. Along with the boot-licking jack leg black Masonic Goat-Riders in Congress, State, Local Government, Entertainers, Sports and Churches, even the so-called \"black left\" such as Black Agenda Report, Black Lives Matter and progressive radio stations like Pacifica KPFA will not speak TRUTH to POWER.\nTheir lips are sealed about Lucifer, the ILLUMINATI, New World Order, False Flag and Strategy of Tension Operations as if these terms are not part of the English Language, or of this WORLD. We, as a people, didn't have a DAMN THING to do with killing white police officers in the Long Horn State of Texas. This SHIT will not be LEFT ON OUR DOOR STEP.\nDuring the 1960s, we were taught certain cardinal rules. One of the rules that we were instructed to observe was that this system is reactionary. Where there is an action, particularly by Black people, there will be a reaction. It was like being constantly on guard against the Snap of the Dragon's Tail. But, here, right now in America, the ILLUMINATI believe that they can SNAP THEIR TAIL whenever and for whatever reasons they choose and create- that is open criminal AGGRESSION against the People (CRIMES AGAINST DEMOCRACY) that has to be confronted and stopped. And, if the inner circle of Black Lives Matter can't seem to develop strategies to protect and defend themselves, and the people that want to represent, they need to get out the game. Because right now, they appear as a front for the NWO to advance their agendas against the people without a defensive strategy.\nAugust 2015, things weren't sitting too pretty for the National Fraternity of Police. The Sandra Bland July 13, 2015 controversial arrest and death in the hands of Long Horn State Texas local police was still shaking up the nation. The police slayings of unarmed young Black males, Eric Garner in NY, 12 year old Tamir Rice of Cleveland, OH, Michael Brown of Ferguson, MO, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, MD, and many other people of color sparked protests in cities across the country, and national political upheaval.\nGlobally today in America, we sit in the very same position as in August 2015. Things aren't sitting too pretty for this government, and the National Fraternity [Masonic] Order of Police. The masses were slowly reaching the conclusion that the Orlando Pulse Night Club Massacre was a false flag operation. James Wesley Howell had suddenly appeared out of the woodwork to squarely point the finger at the CIA in collaboration with the FBI and Masonic Order of Police for the massacre.\nNow, there are protests and rallies sweeping across the country to express outrage over the recent viral cell phone video execution deaths of two black men at the hands of police, 37 year old Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, and 32 year old Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. We should have expected the DRAGON TO SNAP ITS TAIL.\nTexas God Damn\nDallas Police Chief, David Brown, At least \"Two Snipers.\"\nOn July 7, 2016 (777) in the Long Star State of Texas in the city of Dallas, shots rang out along the route of a Black Lives Matter protest and march that targeted police officers. They were 12 Dallas Police officers shot, five fatally. Dallas Police Chief Brown told an early morning press conference that \"\u2026 snipers were working together with rifles, triangulated at elevated positions in different points in the downtown area where the march ended up going, the route of the march.\"[1]\nIn 1963, President John F. Kennedy was fell by a triangulation (cross fire) of gunfire by a team of professional snipers and sharpshooters , above. Not long ago, I noted that triangulation (cross fire) of gunfire was used in the assassination of Dr. Marcus Foster and resident news reporter Chauncey Bailey in Oakland, CA. These assassinations were planned and executed by Strategy of Tension Professional, Gladio type, Hit Teams not stoned out local LSD and Crack-Cocaine abusers. In each case, the killings were blamed on local political dissenting groups. I had been caught up in the middle of both assassinations. I wasn't sure of what was going on.\nWell, OSWALD didn't do it just the same that MICAH XAVIER JOHNSON didn't do it! The Washington Post reported at the time that Dallas Chief David Brown confirmed that there were four suspects: \"Dallas Police Chief David Brown\u2026believes the four suspects worked together with rifles\u2026.\"[2] It was widely reported by corporate mass media, multiple law enforcement agencies and the Dallas Police Department that the rifles used by the Dallas snipers were an antique East Block rifle designed in the 1940's, the SKS.[3] It is consistent as a sniper weapon. The SKS sniper carbine was created in 1944 as a main Soviet Army sniper rifle. It is still used today as a sniper rifle.[4] The SKS was chambered for the 7.62X39mm, M43 round.[5]\nA Saiga AK-74 style semiautomatic rifle was found beside Micah X. Johnson's body, not a SKS sniper rifle. An AK-74 is chambered for the 5.45x39mm round, but can be converted to accept the 7.62X39mm clip and rounds.[6] However, people familiar the weapon say that the Dead Giveaway with the weapon shown above is that the hand guard is exclusively found on converted Saiga rifles. The mag is the right angle for a 5.45, not a 7.62. Since law enforcement agencies were so clear that the weapon used by snipers was the SKS, there can only be one conclusion that they found 7.62X39mm, M43 rounds at the crime scene.\nIn this recent sad and tragic leaked photo, it is tragic in the sense that 25 year old Johnson was most probably a betrayed U.S. Shadow Government black Patsy in Dallas, we find that Johnson's attire and pants were basically beige not at all unlike Academi\/Blackwater mercenary civilian warriors, discussed further below. Furthermore, Micah wasn't blown-up and apart by C-4 explosives as we had been led to believe. In the early 1970's, my friend and beloved brother in the struggle, Tommie, was blown-up by a planted C-4 bomb by a white female U.S. Agent Provocateur. There wasn't enough left of Brother Tommie to piece together. My last words to Tommie was that as a nationalist brother, he had to find a way spiritually to resist people outside the community offering gift baskets to the struggle. I advised him to stay away from THEM. Brother Tommie was a good brother. Nevertheless, it looks as though Micah's clothing and hands can be tested for gun residue to determine if he ever fired any weapon at all that evening.\nI suspect that the true, dedicated and loyal soldier, Micah [\"who is like God\"], Xavier [\"Jesuit Loyola\"], was drawn into the Dallas false flag\/strategy of tension operation believing it was a live shooter police\/military drill that suddenly turned into something out of the scenes of the Parallax View. The Associated Press reported that Johnson scrawled the initials, RB, on the walls of the parking garage [El Centro College Building Not Garage] where he was holed up in a standoff with police. He used his own blood [the blood sacrifice] from an injury to write out the initials in a stairwell in the car garage, said UK Telegraph.[7] Rubidium is a chemical element with symbol Rb and atomic number 37, 3 Sevens (777), the secret code name of the Dallas Drill.[8]\nThe first appearance of kabbalah mystic, mysterious and magic 777 involving ancient alchemy elements of the Tree of Life was published anonymously in 1909 after the Great BEAST 666, Aleister Crowley, had allegedly written it from memory in just a week. An introduction to one edition by \"Frater N\u2234\" states that Crowley may have published it anonymously because it was taken from a Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn manuscript that was obligatory for initiates to memorize.[9] The mystical term, \"hermetic\" is further discussed below.\nLike Chris Sean Harper, the shadow government Black Manchurian Candidate\/Pasty for the Umpqua Community College False Flag Massacre that occurred on October 1, 2015 in Oregon, Micah wasn't very bright. He was a well below average student at Horn High School, in Mesquite, TX, who earned a 1.98 GPA, ranking him 430 of 453 among his peers.[10] He was very similar to Chris in another aspect, he doesn't ever seemed to have had a girlfriend. Both Chris and Micah tried attending college, but either completed a class. Micah was a good soldier in this aspect- he was taught to follow SMEAC\u2013 military field orders and his so-called \"manifesto\/journal\" reflect that in which he had detailed \"combative\" tactical movements to tried to memorize. It is an important piece to puzzle that led to his final demise.[11]\nStrategy of Tension & Black Lives Matter\nScare Them, You Can Herd Them.\nSecret for over 40 years, Gladio is a NATO-backed network of armed soldiers inside the nations of Europe, and the United States organized for effecting clandestine influence and control over national governments and democratic states of government.[12]\nIn addition to neutralizing and discrediting dissention and dissenting political groups, there had been a second, even darker aim behind Gladio, namely to inculcate a climate of fear among the general populace. This was known as the \"Strategy of Tension\" which was intended to generate a pervasive sense of fear which would encourage the population to appeal to the state for protection.[13] \"You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game.\" The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force the people, and the public in general to turn to the state to ask for greater security.[14]\nAllen Franocovich's very credible documentary on Gladio was broadcast, in full, on UK television on June 10, 1992, he described the aim of Gladio's Strategy of Tension as to \"'destabilize in order to stabilize'\u2026 'To create tension within the country to promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies.'\"[15] That's the way they roll.\nSNAP OF THE DRAGON'S TAIL, Shannon J. Miles & Texas God Damn\nInsane Shannon J. Miles, February 2016, left from August 2015, right.\nOn August 28, 2015, the killing of Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Goforth by a black man in Houston, TX went global. Texas law enforcement officials tried to tie Goforth's slaying to the dissenting Black Lives Matter Movement.\nLong Horn Texas Fraternal (Masonic) Order of Police\nPresident Obama immediately jumped on that bandwagon, and used the opportunity to turn the tides of global opinion against police abuse of power, and the extra judicial executions of black and brown citizen. He openly grand stand-ed VIOLENCE AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS, and for further Gun Control Laws as he did yesterday in the wake of the Dallas Strategy of Tension False Flag Operation that left 5 police officers dead.\nShannon J. Miles had been your last Long Horn Texas alleged global Black Lives Matter Terrorist accused of gunning down a law enforcement officer. Then, the case suddenly fell off the headlines. Why? Miles was\/is confirmed medically and judicially mentally and clinically SCHIZOPHRENIC and INSANE.[16] It isn't necessary to terminate Shannon- DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES. He is incapable of defending himself. They will take the most weakness and defenseless among us and use them as Black Manchurian Candidates and Patsies to advance the New World Order Agenda. They have been clandestinely rolling like that for decades in the Snap of the Dragon's Tail.\nDuring the late 1960s, CIA Project CHAOS, FBI CONINTELPRO, and the Oakland Police Department PANTHER SQUAD used to get a big kick and laugh out of dropping off schizophrenic patients, some still dressed in hospital gowns, at Black Panther Party rallies and meetings to join our ranks, and cause CHAOS in the Party. Being naturally inquisitive. If time, opportunity and circumstances allowed, I always asked questions about unusual Party situations and circumstances designed to cause CHAOS and DISCREDIT- snap of the dragon's tail- that I was personally able to observe. In one case, I recall a female mental patient confessed to us that the police had her dropped off at one of our rallies deliberately to cause disruption and chaos. In tears, she said that she loved the Party and even though she was mentally disabled\u2013 she couldn't and wouldn't do it. Of course, the community at large moved in immediately to surround, protect, comfort and heal her.\nI also clearly recall in others instances witnesses reporting seeing ambulances dumping mental patients off at our rallies, then speeding away. The beautiful thing about the Panthers and community at the time was that as soon as they were observed, and identified, community brothers and sisters with medical and psychological skills, moved in immediately to protect and take care of them. Whereas, we were able to move right back in order.\nIn another case, I saw it myself at a Free Huey Rally at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park in Oakland. It may have been a hour or so before the rally. We were called into order and formation, I observed an extremely large brother, about 6\u2032 8\u2032, 350+ pounds, among us. He wasn't a member, but at public rallies we were always inclusive of all the people. It wasn't an unusual occasion. However, I observed a fresh hospital gown under his black leather jacket. He was acting erratic, strange and peculiar, and that stood out too. He was straight out of a psychiatric ward.\nEven though, he was very sick mentally. He was still used as an agent provocateur and we had to take that very seriously. As unusual, we expected hundreds of women, children and elders to attend the rally along with writers, journalists, national and international news, political figures and mass media celebrity guests that reach thousands if not millions around the world. It was an idea time for the dragon to snap its tail.\nThey had dressed him up with a black beret and leather jacket and dropped him off at the rally. Soon, it became very clear that this brother knew the evil, and the mission (SMEAC) that he was to carry out. He had been promised drugs or other some earthly reward. He was too weak in mind and flesh to resist. The only reward that we could offer him was spiritual. He was an extremely large, strong and aggressive schizophrenic sent in to disrupt and harm the rally to discredit, and neutralize the reputation of the Panthers before the eyes of the masses.\nThis particularly brother. We had to handle, and de-escalate the threat to the people. I was one of the brothers that moved in to surround him to protect him from himself. We had to stick by love with his brother during the entire rally, and 24 hours. Whatever harm and damage to the people and community that he could do that day, and he was drugged\/programmed and indeed tried to cause substantial harm, was to be directly connected to the Panthers and the Free Huey Rally.\nDe-escalating the threat from this particular brother running at muck in the community was extremely trying, tense and very dangerous at times. After 24 hours of what seemed like never ending hell, whatever psychotic drugs or power of suggestion that he had been suffering under finally wore down. He finally came to some sense of love, respect and responsibility to his community. He took off the black beret and leather jacket and went home with a great deal of love and respect that he expressed for the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. We at no time harmed this brother. We just have to do more to be aware of the snap of the tail of the dragon, help and protect our defenseless, weak and sick not only from us, but from themselves.\nIn the killing of Deputy Goforth alleged to have been a Black Lives Matter Terrorist attack against police officers, there is a grainy surveillance photo of a black man similar to Shannon J. Miles with a gun allegedly moving toward the gas station where Goforth was shot. But, there is no surveillance footage evidence of Shannon shooting Goforth or harming anybody. As far as I know, Shannon was not tested by Long Horn Texas for simple Gun Shot Residue, or GSR. It is a very simple and inexpensive means of testing whether or not an individual may have discharged a firearm, especially a person previously adjudicated by the state to be SCHIZOPHRENIC and INSANE. At the time of the shooting of Deputy Goforth, Shannon didn't possess the mental capacity to plan and execute an elaborate plan to gun down police officers and escape capture. Clinically, Shannon wasn't even capable of following the most simplest instructions to carry out a SMEAC field order to kill anyone, unless he had been hypnotized\/mind controlled to do so. Shannon is a poor defenseless Model Pasty for a global Black Lives Matter Terrorist. Since last year, Shannon J. Miles has been hidden away, and deposed of in an asylum for the mentally insane. If they want to talk about Black Lives Matter Terrorist, then let us talk about and explore Shannon before the masses. We must not forget about him and ask questions.\nSNAP OF THE DRAGON' TAIL, MICAH XAVIER JOHNSON & NATO\nLikewise, Micah X. Johnson has nothing to do with Black Nationalism or the Pan African Movement. If anything, they tried to sheep-dip him into becoming a pseudo black military intelligence asset. I don't believe that he even had the mental capacity to pull that off for all. And indeed, he had been exposed and banned from joining Dallas- Houston area black nationalist organizations. Micah was not a Black Lives Matter Terrorist, if there is actually such a thing. He was a U.S. military asset and spy. Don't allow Project MOCKINGBIRD to mix you up, and get that TWISTED.\nMicah's selfie in an African print dashiki in front of a hair salon with a black power salute does not make this man any kind of Black Nationalist. That comes from the love of the people. Micah was a multigenerational family military asset that nobody in his family seemed to have had any real tears for. Not his mother.\nDELPHENE JOHNSON\nnor his father.\nHis father served in the U.S. military. When Micah graduated from high school in 2009, he joined the U.S. Army Reserve serving in the 420th Engineer Brigade based at Seagoville, Texas where he was initiated as a carpentry and masonry specialist of a Military Masonic Guild\/Lodge sealed by an oath and code of secrecy.\nU.S. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Thomas Gambrel of North Dakota appears to be the man that made Micah a carpentry and Masonic specialist. For whatever reasons, he is Linkedin with Delphene Johnson, Micah's mother. While Micah was in Afghanistan, October 2013 \u2013 September 2014, Gambrel was working as a Squad Leader and project leader during Operation Enduring Freedom. He was charged with leading and developing anywhere from 8-20 soldiers at a given time. As well as functioning as a Squad Leader, he was Operations NCO for 20 soldiers and 17 missions. From what it appears he was doing much more than plumbing, carpentry, and masonry work in Afghanistan, Gambrel was a combat soldier. He took Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training, Completed 2004. He took the Warrior Leader Course, Completed 2012. He was even a Sexual Harassment Assault Response Program Victims Advocate, Completed 2013. This should give you some idea where Micah's military sexual harassment charges came from.\nMicah was manufactured into a clandestine U.S. military intelligence\/NATO Gladio Strategy of Tension tool and asset. In the service, Johnson received several medals for his tour of duty in Afghanistan, including an Army Achievement Medal, and a NATO Medal. Effective 31 July 2006, U.S. service members serving in Afghanistan were eligible for the NATO Medals after they meet the requirements of 30 consecutive days or 90 consecutive days in the area of responsibility working for NATO. Some U.S. soldiers served in Afghanistan as part of a national unit, but in support of NATO operations under a NATO Commander. Johnson had been part of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, June 1, 2013 \u2013 Dec. 31, 2014.[17] Johnson deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 as part of ISAF and served eight months under cover of the 420th Engineer Brigade. A woman who served with Johnson in Afghanistan posted on Facebook that Johnson had been \"my battle buddy, my brother in arms.\" Sarah Casta\u00f1eda wrote.[18] So, Johnson was a clandestine NATO combat soldier\/assassin in Afghanistan.\nThe International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was a NATO led security mission in Afghanistan, established by the United Nations Security Council in December 2001 by Resolution 1386 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement. Its main purpose was to train the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and assist Afghanistan in rebuilding key government institutions, but was also engaged in the 2001-present war with the Taliban insurgency.[19] In Afghanistan, Johnson was stationed at Bagram air base with 40,000 \"Bureaucrats, administrators, logisticians and thousands of ISAF civilian contractors ..,.\" British photographer Edmund Clark- \"Unless you go out on patrol, you exist only on base.\"[20]\nISAF relied heavily on private firms in Afghanistan. According to a Department of Defense report, more than 85,000 contractors were working for U.S. Central Command at Bagram Airfield. Of these, approximately 14,000 provided security, with the rest performing functions like construction and base support. According to Laurie Arellano, an ISAF spokeswoman, ISAF also employs some private contractors specifically \"to assist ISAF\" in training Afghan security forces.[21] In November 2013, according to a DOD report, private firms \"continue security operations on ISAF bases and escort functions for ISAF convoys.\"[22]\nAcademi\/Blackwater Uniform\u2013 Beige\/White Pants, Beige Bullet Proof Vests and Desert Colored Shoes and Boots- Same as Micah and the 7\/7\/16 Dallas Shooters.\nDespite a sordid and deadly reputation in Iraq, the mercenary army\/civilian warriors that began as Blackwater and is now known as Academi was a top recipient of Pentagon contracts for training Afghanistan's security forces from 2002 to 2014, a government watchdog reported.[23] In 12 years of war, the report says, Academi Training Center Inc. received $569 million in contracts, or 31.9 percent of the total, of the Pentagon's $1.8 billion Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities Fund for Afghanistan. The program, known as \"DOD CN,\" was designed to stabilize Afghanistan by training the country's security forces to support military operations against drug traffickers and other armed groups.[24]\nThe total placed Academi, which acquired Blackwater in 2011, far ahead of the Pentagon's top contractors, including Northrop Grumman, CACI, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, all of which obtained multi-million dollar contracts under DOD CN.[25]\nSitting on top of the board of directors of Academi is the Alphabet Man, Bobby Ray Inman. He served as Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI) from September 1974 to July 1976, then moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) where he served as Vice Director until 1977. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA). Inman held this post until 1981. His last major position was as the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (CIA), a post he held from February 12, 1981 to June 10, 1982. Inman has also served on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).[26] Inman also sits inside Wackenhut GS4 (Orlando Pulse Night Club False Flag), the Shadow CIA.[27]\nMICAH XAVIER JOHNSON & THE DRAGON'S NEST\nSOCEITAS DRACONIS is an ultra secret closed fraternity of individuals, representing those who trace their ancestry and affiliations back to the ancient Grail and Dragon families. The Dragon Society is based upon an ancient bloodline tradition descended through the Tuatha de Danaan (the Dragon Kings of Anu) on the one hand, and the Egyptian Dragon Dynasty of Sobek on the other. The latter strain included the bloodline of the Davidic House of Judah who married into the descent of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks. The Tuatha De Danann, also known \"The Dragon Lords of Anu\" were said to be the offspring of the fallen angels (ANUNNAKI). They believe that the GODS have chosen them to be LORDS OF THE WORLD.\nOn the wicked and dark side, the Alphabet Man, Bobby Ray Inman, is a DRAGON member of the Bohemian Grove.[28]\nThe Bohemians' patron is Catholic Saint John of Nepomuk (1345 \u2013 1393), who legend says suffered death at the hands of Wenceslaus IV, King Bohemia\u2013 Germany (formally King of the Romans) rather than disclose the confessional secrets of Anna of Schweidnitz, German Queen and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. A large wood carving of St. John of Nepomuk in cleric robes with his index finger over his lips stands at the shore of the lake in the Grove, symbolizing the secrecy kept by the Grove's attendees throughout its long history.[30]\nIn Afghanistan, Micah X. Johnson worked along beside Academi\/Blackwater that served under ISAF NATO Commander [JESUIT] U.S. Marine General, Joseph Francis Dunford, Jr. \u2013 Assistant Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corp, and the Pentagon's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff- THE DRAGON.\nThis alleged 17th Century Jesuit Artwork presents a newborn child directly from the womb given with open arms to High Jesuit Priests as a sacrifice to conjure up the Powers of DEVILS, and DEMONS. The above picture is a 1650's illustration of High Jesuits engaged in Satanic worship and pictures a baby preparing to be sacrificed in the background. Also notice in the top left hand corner an owl, the owl is a symbol of Moloch- Molech (the god of Child Sacrifices). Moloch is a key figure of worship at the Bohemian Grove.\nMedieval Women Sacrificing Their Babies to the DEVIL\nGeneral Dunford is the highest ranking officer in America.[31] Micah came out a DRAGON'S NEST and Lucifer's Workshop, not the Black Community. As I have often stressed, Katherine Griggs is vitally important to understanding how the Marine Corps and Navy work. She states that it is nearly impossible to rise to colonel \/ commander or above without participating in SATANIC Gay [Secret Cybelean] Sex Rituals which dominate the upper reaches of the US Navy.[32]\nOn May 6, 2016, reportedly, President Barrack Obama executed an Executive Order (EO)\u2013 Facilitation of a Presidential Transition. Normally, a presidential transition or presidential interregnum refers to the period of time between the end of a presidential election and the inauguration of a new President of a country. During this time, the incoming President usually designates new government personnel, including selecting new Cabinet positions and government department or agency heads.[33] The early May 6 publication of the presidential transition EO is said to provide the mechanism for the transition of power between US, Inc., President Obama to the reconstituted Republic of the United States of America that is said to be under the DRAGON\u2013 \"fervent\" Irish Catholic Jesuit, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford.[34]\nGeneral Joseph F. Dunford, Vatican Hill, St. Peter's Basilicas & the Secret Temple of Cybele\n\"Of equal obscure origin is the colossal pinecone (pigma), over 11 feet tall, which dominated the immediate approach to the basilica as the centerpiece of the fountain in the atrium. Signed by its maker, the freedman Publius Cincius Salvius, the pigma has been dated on the basis of the letter forms to the first century CE\u2026 In late antiquity, the most conspicuous use of the ancient regenerative symbolism was made by the Cultists of Cybele, whose rites, as noted earlier were practiced on St. Peter's doorstep until the very end of the fourth century. the pine tree signified Cybele's fickle lover, Attis, and the ritual felling of pine on the spring equinox, during the public festival called Hilaria baldly symbolized Attis' castration, thanks to which he was able to rise to a higher order of being. Pine trees with prominent cones appear on most of the Taurobolium [blood sacrifice] altars that have survived, including those attributable to the Vatican Phrygianum.\"[35]\nOn June 19, 2016, General Dunford, the interim president, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made a special visit to Vatican Hill, Rome, to tour St. Peter's Basilica. Recall that St. Peter's Basilica sits on top of the secret catacombs and underground chambers of the ancient Roman Maetreum (Temple) of Cybele where Ninth Satanic Circle secret human- baby sacrifices and blood eating continue to this day.[36]\nThis one of a handful of official DoD photos, below, of General Dunford and U.S. Ambassador of the Holy See, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX, Ken Hackett, taken by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class, Dominique A. Pineiro at St. Peter' Basilica at the door of the Tomb of Pope Alexander VII, Vatican Hill, Rome is as if it has some spiritual significance. And, it very well has a great deal of ancient mystic-mysterious occult significance.[37] 2016 was the first time in nearly 70 years that a full moon and the summer solstice concur on the same day. The 2016 summer solstice's full moon will rise just as the Sun sets. The moment of the full moon is early Monday on June 20. Worldwide, interpretation of the event has varied among cultures, but most recognize the event in some way with festivals and rituals around that time with themes of religion or fertility. The Arch-Druid\u2013DRAGON race's \"Midsummer's Eve\" festival is a celebration of pagan origins intended to coincide with the summer solstice. The Ninth Circle Satanic Cult child sacrifice ceremonies take place on the Summer Solstice.\nThe first thing you might notice about the statue figures facing General Dunford is that \"Truth\" [Goddess Cybele] stands with her foot on a globe of the earth, symbolizing her power over the world. She clutches in her arms, the Sun (God Apollo), probably symbolizes Truth's love for the light rather than darkness, and that the Truth that is revealed by the light of her Torch of Enlightenment. From a translation of an ancient Greek inscription, God Apollo was called, Apollo Mithras HELIOS.[38]\nSATURN, the Romans also called it \"Sol\". The Greeks called it the god \"HELIOS.\"\nSATURN is the Greek CRONUS or Kronos, the King of the TITANS, CYBELE's HUSBAND. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford presence on Vatican Hill, Rome during the Ninth Satanic Circle's 2016 Summer Solstice Blood Eating Rituals involved a higher Cybelean-Whore of Babylon ILLUMINATI\/ANTICHRIST initiation ritual that has some serious impact on the BALANCE OF WORLD POWER. In Greek mythology, Lucifer is comparable to both Hermes and Apollo; Hermes because he was a messenger and a healer, and Apollo as a solar deity. Lucifer is God Apollo, the light bringer and lord of reason.[39]\nGENERAL DUNFORD AND NATO'S DRAGON SOCIETY HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY\n\"Thrice Greatest\" Three Times Great) Bernini with Secret Society Hand Heart Symbol\nThe statues were the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (December 7, 1598 \u2013 November 28, 1680). He was a medieval pre-eminent Italian sculptor and architect of that era. Under Pope Alexander VII (1599- 1667), he gained artistic domination and continued to be held in high regard by the Vatican. As one scholar has commented, \"What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful...\"[40]\nThe open space which lies before St. Peter's Basilica was redesigned by Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed to be the open arms of the mother church \"so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the fa\u00e7ade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace.\"[41]\nThere is little doubt that Bernini and Pope Alexander VII designed St. Peter's Square to reflect secret Rosicrucian heliocentric and Hermetic principles. St. Peter's Brasilia is a secret Sun Temple. In the middle of square, there is the obelisk that generally symbolize the Kemetic Sun God Ra. However, \"The Obelisk's real name is 'Tekken' and it was the phallus symbolism (or penis) representation for the god Osiris [Asur].\"[42]\n1650's Jesuit Baby Blood Sacrifice- Open Arms of Apollo Mithras Helios\nRosicrucianism is an early 17th Century secret society movement which incorporates the Hermetic Philosophy- the sacred and secret knowledge of the ancients and Gods. The Hermetic Tradition is a set of metaphysical, philosophical and religious beliefs based primarily upon the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, who is put forth as a wise sage and Egyptian priest, and who is commonly seen as synonymous with the God Thoth.[43]\nThe ancient Kemetic God Thoth was referred to as \"twice greatest\" and \"thrice greatest\" (three times great), which in Greek translated to \"Trismegistus.\" Thus creating the name Hermes Trismegistus literally \"thrice-great Hermes\" in Latin \"Mercurius ter Maximus\". As a divine fountain of writing, Hermes Trismegistus was credited with tens of thousands of writings of high standing, reputed to be of immense antiquity. Plato's Timaeus and Critias state that in the temple of Neith at Sais, there were secret halls containing historical records which had been kept for 9,000 years. Clement of Alexandria was under the impression that the Egyptians had forty-two sacred writings by Hermes [Thoth], encapsulating all the training of Egyptian priests.[44]\nThe sources dating the existence of the Rosicrucians to the very beginning of the 17th century are three German pamphlets: the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis (1614), the Confessio Fraternitatis (1615), and The Chymical [Chemistry, Chemical]Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616), the founder of the Rosicrucians that studied sacred books of Hermes Trismegistus in Egypt.[45]\nMICAH X. JOHNSON & THE DEVIL'S LAST MISSION\nAfter returning home from Afghanistan, Johnson wasn't successful in infiltrating any Black Nationalist groups or organizations for any significant amount of time as corporate mass media is leading the global mass to believe. Johnson immediately hooked up with a deep cover former CIA-U.S. Special Forces member, and joined as for as I have recently been informed a member of Justin J. Everman not Jason Everman's Academy of Combative Warrior Arts, a clandestine school of urban assassins in Richardson and Forth Worth, Texas. Everman told the press, \"We train for the streets and due to this, we expect to engage with multiple attackers so it makes no sense to be on the ground any longer than necessary,\" the academy says on its website. Many of the academy's members are [urban] COPS, Everman said.[46]\nJason Everman not Justin J. Everman really is a very strange dude deeply connected with CIA Psyops, and Occult Bureau for decades. He is the former guitarist for Kurt Cobain's Satanic\/CIA band, Nirvana. After Nirvana, Everman joined the BROTHERHOOD, and became an elite member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, one of those bearded guys riding around on horseback in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban.[47]\nKurt Cobain, Jason Everman & Nirvana\nCobain said that Everman was kicked out of the band for having an affair with the band bassist Chris Novoseli\u0107's \"burly Yugoslavian\" father, Krsto Novoseli\u0107.[48] Chris is the son of Croatian immigrants, Marija\/Mary (Mustach) and Krsto Novoseli\u0107. Marija is from Privlaka, Zadar County. Krsto is from I\u017e.[49]Cobain said that he was \"definitely gay in spirit\" and \"probably could be bisexual,\" adding, \"If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.\"[50] Kurt Cobain allegedly committed suicide on April 5, 1994. He was \"obsessed with Anton LaVey\" (Mojo Magazine, Sept. 1999, p. 86). Anton LaVey was the founder of the Church of Satan and the author of the Satanic Bible. So obsessed was Cobain with Satanist Anton LaVey that he sought to enlist LaVey by having him play cello on Nirvana's \"Nevermind,\" album.[51]\nCobain's love of the occult would eventually lead him into developing a relationship with another notorious military intelligence occultist-CIA Assassin William Burroughs.[52] Stephen Davis, the biographer of the Led Zeppelin saga \"Hammer of the Gods\", compares Burroughs to Satanist Aleister Crowley, stating: \"Like Crowley, Burroughs was an urbane and genial human Lucifer, a modern magus, a legendary addict, and an artist whose influence extended far beyond literature to music, painting and film\" (Stephen Davis, Hammer of the Gods, Ballantine Books, New York, 1985, p. 237).\n\"What's been worrying the spooks lately is the sway black radicalism has gained over the minds of white teenagers, to counter this 'they've been pushing Nation of Islam style separatism among rappers'. Likewise, the white Grunge movement spearheaded by [Everman] Nirvana was backed by the CIA because 'they wanted to divide youngsters on racial lines, if black and white kids linked up, they'd pose a serious threat to the system. The whole point of Grunge is to instill in teenagers a sense of hopelessness, to fill them with self-hate and prevent them from changing the world.' Apparently, the CIA got hold of Cobain when he was still unknown, then using drugs, hypnosis and medical torture; they broke his will and rebuilt his personality. 'Most of the time he'd act relatively normal,' I was told, 'but all it took was a few key words spoken over the phone and Cobain would carry out the deeds he'd been programmed to enact.' My contact was convinced that the singer had been brainwashed into committing suicide at the peak of his success because the CIA figured this would reduce his potentially rebellious fans to complete despair. However, the conspiracy theorist admitted several of his fellow researchers thought Cobain had taken his own life as the only means of breaking free from the influence of his controllers. If this is the case, then the rock star is a hero rather than simply a victim, and his death provides grounds for a fresh outbreak of teenager rebellion.\"[53]\nCombatives training was initialized in the U.S. by Rex Applegate during WWII. It was popularized in his book Kill or Get Killed (1943). American combatives' foundation lies in the close quarters combat techniques developed by British Intelligence armed forces officers William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes while working for the Shanghai Municipal Police between 1907-1940.[54]\nJustin Everman's Academy of Combative Warrior Arts is a franchise chain with locations in Frisco, Addison, Richardson, Plano and Fort Worth. Primarily based on Krav Maga, an Israeli military combative, this program meets the credentials for a Military Combatives Program.[55] Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing threat neutralization, simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers, and aggression. Krav Maga has been aggressively used mainly by the Israel Defense Forces' special units, reconnaissance brigades and recently by regular infantry brigades against the Palestinian people from the initial formation of the Zionist Israeli state. Several closely related variations of Krav Maga have been developed and adopted by law enforcement and intelligence organizations, Mossad and Shin Bet.[56]\nKrav Maga was developed by Imre Lichtenfeld of Budapest, Hungary, and Bratislava (Slovakia). After making his way to Israel, Lichtenfeld joined Israel's pre-state Zionist terrorist Haganah paramilitary organization. In 1944, Lichtenfeld began training fighters in his areas of expertise: physical fitness, swimming, wrestling, use of the knife, and defense against knife attacks. During this period, Lichtenfeld trained several elite units of the Haganah including Palmach (striking force of the Haganah and forerunner of the special units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)) and the Pal-Yam, as well as groups of police officers.[57]\nUnder a secret arrangement with the Nazis, the Haganah was permitted to run recruiting and training camps for Jewish youth inside Germany. These young people, as well as certain other Jews driven out of Germany by the Nazis, were encouraged to emigrate to Palestine. Haganah, in return, agreed to provide the SS with intelligence about British affairs in Palestine. Captured German records claim that Haganah Commander Fieval Polkes, believed the increasingly brutal Nazi persecution of the Jews could be turned to Zionist advantage-at least temporarily-by compelling Jewish immigration to Palestine, and that the Haganah commander's sole source of income was secret funds from Himmler's SS (Baron Otto Von Bolschwing).[58]\nAll military and police offices in Israel are trained in Krav Maga, and so are many Special Forces Units around the world. In the U.S., the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Marine Corps, the CIA, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Anti-terrorism Specialty Team all learn Krav Maga as part of their physical training.[59] NATO soldiers are also drilled in Krav Maga.[60]\nThere is speculation that Lichtenfeld's Krav Maga overlapped with the WWII combatives developed by William Fairbairn of British Intelligence and the OSS Special Forces' Rex Applegate.[61] No matter how the line is drawn between the British, Israelis and the U.S., these were\/are SPECIAL SCHOOLS FOR SPIES AND ASSASSINS.[62] \"\u2026 the OSS maintained a secret training center, modeled on SOE's [British Intelligence's Special Operations Executive] Camp X, a 'school for mayhem and murder,' as one notable American attendee dubbed it, that taught such esoteric skills as 'silent killing\" and 'close in fighting.' \"[63]\nNevertheless Justin J. Everman's public assertions to the contrary, Everman and Johnson were very friendly and talked in Facebook conversations in August 2014. Everman knew Johnson had been out of the country. Johnson been deployed under NATO in Afghanistan at that time. Everman suggested that Johnson \"let me know when you make it down this way.\" \"Will be great to get you back in the academy,\" Everman said, according to a comment thread saved by the AP before Johnson's Facebook profile was taken down. \"I concur!\" Johnson replied.[64] So, it looks as though that Micah had been clandestinely trained at an fully credentialed military combatives program (School for Assassins) for NATO special combat deployment in Afghanistan against the Taliban.\nMicah served in the U.S. Army Reserve from March 2009 to April 2015. He was deployed to Afghanistan in November 2013. He returned in July 2014. While he was trying to infiltrate Black Nationalist Groups around Dallas after returning from Afghanistan, he was reporting directly to Justin J. Everman. As late as May 8, 2015, it is documented and verified by a police report from the Richardson Police Department that investigated a suspicious individual in a SUV that Micah was training at Everman's Academy of Combative Warrior Arts. Police verified the information and closed the case. Richardson is a Dallas suburb.[65] Micah had been kept on the string by the CIA as a Patsy for another special assignment, and Everman had been his special handler.\nJason Everman not Justin F. Everman & the Dark Side\nDEVIL WORSHIPERS, Cellini & Everman\nIn September 1994 initiated into a higher level of the CIA Occult Bureau, Everman says that he was influenced by renaissance artist and philosopher icon, Benvenuto Cellini (1500- 1571), to join the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion and latter the Special Forces, serving tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.[66] Benvenuto Cellini is extremely interesting. He was an Italian artist, alchemist, goldsmith, pedophile, devil worshiper, and a sorcerer that conjured up DEMONS. Cellini was also an notorious homosexual, \"When Benvenuto Cellini was called a 'dirty sodomite' by one Bandinelli, he [Cellini] humorously replied: 'I wish to God I did know how to indulge in such a noble practice; after all, we read that Jove enjoyed it with Ganymede in paradise.' \"[67] Cellini was convicted twice of homosexuality (sodomy) in Florence, Italy in 1523 and in 1557.[68]\nOne of Cellini's most masterful and remarkable works of gold was \"The Salt of Cellini\". The Salt of Cellini is a piece of silverware in gold, executed between 1539 and 1543 for King Francis I of France. It was dubbed the \"Mona Lisa of Sculptures\", On an oval ebony block, two figures carved in gold face each other. On one side, seated on an animal allegory, Earth, represented by Cybele, left hand on her breast as if to squirt milk- secret sacred knowledge. On the other side, Neptune, God of the Sea holding the trident. The block is carried by sea horses with golden mane, according to mythology. The base itself is decorated with enameled figures. They symbolize the four seasons, as the prevailing winds, and the four stages of day: dawn, day, dusk and night. The curve of Cybele legs alluded to the mountains and plains. Cybele and Neptune legs intersect, referring to the mixture of the earth and the sea from which arises SALT.[69]\nWhen we talk about SALT in Alchemy, we are not talking about table salt, physical salt, the salt you use in your food. The SALT in alchemy is something more subtle; it is a symbol that represents any kind of matter. Physical matter is \"SALT,\" alchemically speaking. So our body is SALT in alchemy, and that is why Jesus in the gospels said: \"Ye are the salt of the earth\" (Matthew 5). That was an alchemical statement. Our SALT, our body produced by EARTH (Cybele) and OCEAN (Neptune), is this first element in understanding and mastering the ancient sacred esoteric knowledge of Alchemy.[70] Cellini sold his soul to the DEVIL for sacred esoteric knowledge and conjuring up DEMONS that begins with the mysteries of the ancient Earth Goddess, CYBELE, and so had Jason Everman.[71],[72]\nFinally, what is happening in NATO'S TURKEY, right now, has some direct relationship with the CHAOS developing on America's streets, and it involves the Luciferian General Joseph F. Dunford and his DRAGON SOCIETY'S TAKE OVER OF WORLD POWER.\n[1] http:\/\/allnewspipeline.com\/Dallas_Lone_Gunman_Narrative_Falls_Apart.php\n[2] Id.\n[3] http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2016\/07\/rifle-used-dallas-ambush-common-sks-not-assault-rifle-assault-weapon\/#axzz4EESI3FQr\n[4] http:\/\/www.enemyforces.net\/firearms\/sks.htm\n[5] https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SKS\n[6] http:\/\/www.warriortalk.com\/showthread.php?75630-Help-with-bullet-guide\n[7] http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2016\/07\/rb-micah-johnson-xavier-x-meaning-dallas-shooter-theories-gunman-write-stairwell-garage-why-what-does-it-mean-blood-david-brown-police-chief-writings-manifesto\/\n[8] https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rubidium\n[9] https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/777_and_Other_Qabalistic_Writings_of_Aleister_Crowley\n[10] http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3684640\/I-hate-did-Parents-Micah-Johnson-break-revealing-wanted-COP-disappointed-military-experience-prior-deadly-Dallas-attack.html\n[11] 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Jr., A Terrible Mistake, Trine Day LLC, Walterville, OR, 2009, pgs. 322-323\n[64] http:\/\/www.theintelligencer.net\/news\/top-headlines\/2016\/07\/suspect-taunted-cops-for-two-hours-during-dallas-standoff\/\n[65] http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dallas-gunman-micah-johnson-honed-tactics-local-combat-school\/\n[66] https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Everman\n[67] http:\/\/rictornorton.co.uk\/famous.htm\n[68] http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13115942\n[69] https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sali\u00e8re_de_Cellini\n[70] https:\/\/gnosticteachings.org\/courses\/alchemy\/3363-the-secret-of-azoth.html\n[71] http:\/\/listverse.com\/2016\/04\/15\/10-cursed-souls-who-made-deals-with-the-devil\/\nTags: 777, academi, Academy of Combative Warrior Arts, Afghanistan, Aleister Crowley, alton sterling, anton levay, anunnaki, apollo, baby sacrifice, bagram airfield, barack hussein obama, Benvenuto Cellini, black lives matter, black lives matter terrorists, Black Manchurian Candidate Patsy, Black Manchurian Candidates, black nationalism, Black Panther Party for Self Defense, blackwater, blood eaters, blood sacrifice, bobby ray inman, bohemian grove, camp x, chris mercer harper, chris sean harper, CIA, cia occult bureau, cybele, dallas, dallas false flag, dallas police chief, dallas police department, Darren Goforth, david brown, delphene johnson, demons, devil, dragon dynasty, dragon society, fraternal Order of Police, freddie Gray, general joseph dunford, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, gladio, Haganah, hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, homosexuality, Huey P. Newton, international security security assistance force, isaf, james johnson, jason everman, jesuits, jfk assassination, john wesley howell, Joint Chiefs of Staff, krav maga, Kurt cobain, Lee Harvey Oswald, lords of the dragon, Lucifer, masons, micah x. johnson, micah xavier johnson, michael brown, military combatives program, molech, moloch, mossad, NATO, neptune, nirvana, orlando homophobic massacre, philando castile, Pope Alexander VII, rex applegate, saturn, school of assassins and spies, school of mayhem and murder, shannon j. miles, soceitas draconis, st. peters basilica, Strategy of Tension, TAMIR RICE, Texas, texas goddamn, thomas gambrel, thoth, tuatha de danaan, Turkey, u.s. army, u.s. marine corp, u.s. special forces, umpqua community college, vatican hill\nCategories : Afghanistan, african american satanic cult, African Liberation, antichrist, Apollo, Aryan Supremacy, baal, baby scarifrice, baphomet, Barack Obama, Black Manchurian Candidates, Black Panther Party for Self Defense, blood covenants, blood oaths, blood sacrifice, bohemian club, bohemian grove, CIA, COINTELPRO, Crimes Against Democracy, cybele, Defense Intelligence Agency, devil, egypt, false flags, False Satanic Rites of Lost Negroes, freemason, freemasons, Heinrich Himmler, huey p. newton, human sacifrice, illuminati, illuminati sacrifice, imperium, jesuits, jesus christ, Knights of the Black Sun, Knights Templar, Little Bobby Hutton, manchurian candidates, marcus a. foster, masonic sacrifice, MK-ULTRA, Molech, Moloch, nba, new age religion, new world order, nwo, oakland, oakland police department, Osiris, Pineal Gland, project mockingbird, Rihanna, ritual satanic sexual abuse, ritually abused children, Rose-Croix, Rosicrucian, Rosicrucianism, rosy cross, sandra bland, sandy bland, satan, Satanism, set, seth, SS, third eye, trauma-based mind control, your black muslim bakery, yusuf bey, yusuf bey vi, ZIONIST\nFLENAUGH, MUHAMMAD & MALVO: BLACK MANCHURIAN CANDIDATES THAT DON'T STARE AT GOATS\nU.S. Covert Domestic Terrorist Operations & The SS\n-Code named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war\u2013[1]\nPresident John F. Kennedy may have trashed the idea, but Fascist and Strong-Arm Law and Order Presidential Administrations like Richard Milhouse Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush were ready to sign off on criminal death and destruction covert domestic terrorist programs dreamed up by the Knights of the Black Sun, the SS, to polarized the races and terrorize the masses for their own end of a New World Order.\nReichsfurhrer Heinrich Himmler's resident SS, Knight of Black Sun, on the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff was Dr. Fritz Gustane Anton Kraemer. Dr. Kraemer was a special assistant, adviser and strategist to the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations (DCSOPS) at the Pentagon, [2] and the National Security Council (NSC). The NSC was patterned after Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany's Security Council, and its jurisdiction was to oversee the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by dictate of the National Security Act of 1947.\nThe extraordinary researcher, the Late Great Mae Brussell, identified Kraemer as the \"Number One\" most powerful (Secret Team) person in the United States. She suspected that he was the very same Brigadefuhrer SS Fritz Kraemer [3] who was very high up in Hitler's regime and personally responsible for extremely strategic fascist atrocities in WWII, who as a war crimes defendant literally walked away from the Nuremberg Tribunal. [4]\nFritz Kraemer and his son, Sven Kraemer, were major advisors of the NSC for both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations since Eisenhower. They were also prominent advisors in the Center for Security Policy (CSP), which features the William J. Casey Institute. Federal Judge D. Lowell Jensen's Alameda County Mafia partner, Edwin Meese III, was an informal advisor of the CSP with the Kraemers. [5] The Kraemers were some of the most dominant and influential members of Henry Kissinger's staff, and the U.S. Pentagon.\nU.S. Domestic Terrorism Operations such as Northwoods were part and parcel of The Knights of Black Sun's Master plan for a 1000 Year Third Reich of World Domination. Hitler, Himmler and the SS Master Plan devised a series of historical events that, on the surface, would appear to be occurrences of international and domestic terrorism; acts of murder, assassinations, terror, and war. Through timing of these events, patience, careful planning, and cooperation from others in positions of trust, stealth and deceit, they would acquire power over the United States and World through false flag operations, fear mongering, population mind control, deception, concealment, selected assassinations of national and world leaders, and war.\nMarinus Van der Lubbe, \"The Nazi's Patsy\" Domestic Terrorist, was convicted and executed for the infamous 1933 Reichstag Fire in Berlin that propelled Adolf Hitler and the Nazis into absolute power. After the fire, Van de Lubbe was found by the SS, cowering behind the Reichstag building, the house of the first parliament of Germany. Van de Lubbe had been a mental patient who lived as a vagabond and entertained grand delusions. On the forty-second day of his trial, he talked about \"inner voices\" that commanded him and demanded that he be put to death. [6] Van de Lubbe's trial was compromised. He was convicted by a German court and executed. He was guillotined in a Leipzig prison yard on January 10, 1934. [7]\nAccording to Nazi propaganda, the Reichstag fire was intended as a signal for a feared national communist uprising that had long been planned. The Nazis had deliberately set the fire and setup Van de Lubbe as a patsy to scare the people into turning Germany into a Nazi dictatorship and strong-arm fascist state to fight off a sham communist menace.\nTo justify the invasion of Poland in 1939, the SS took twelve Jewish prisoners out of Buchenwald Concentration Camp and forced them to take poison, shot them after they had put on Polish uniforms. An SS Officer yelled in Polish into a radio transmitter at a radio station bordering Poland and Germany that they had taken over the station, and intended to invade Germany, and then the SS fled leaving the dead Jewish concentration camp inmates scattered about at the site of radio station as proof of Poland's aggression.[8]\nOn September 1, 1939, to terrorize the people of Germany, Hitler told the Nazi Reichstag that Poland had tried to invade Germany, and the Wehrmacht was returning fire since 5:45 AM. Actually, in a carefully planned and highly mobile attack codenamed Fall Weiss (Case White) planned by General Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, German land, sea, and air forces were moving rapidly into Poland. [9]\nU.S. Naval Hospital Neuropsychiatric Laboratory in San Diego & FIRST EARTH BATTALION\nA blend of PSI (psychokinesis, etc) and mind control was used to create Col. Jim Channon's U.S. First Earth Battalion (FEB) at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington. FEB is an advanced version of the assassins created at the U.S. Naval Hospital Neuropsychiatric Laboratory in San Diego in the late 1970's, which were replications of the CIA's 1954 Artichoke project. [10]\nAccording to the Late Great Mae Brussell, \"Project Artichoke\u2026 [t]he object of this project was to create the real \"Manchurian Candidate\", an assassin who could be programmed to kill a target and then not even remember he did it.\" [11] The mission of the Manchurian Candidates were to commit acts of selected assassinations, and random acts of violence that appear to be crime sprees, and occurrences of international and domestic terrorism.\nDuring the 1ate 1970's, Sebron Flenaugh, Jr., Oakland's Jedi Knight Assassin, had been conveniently tucked away at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, CA.\nOAKLAND'S MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE DOMESTIC TERRORISM CELL\nAlternative House & Project Scangate and the Jonestown Connection\nLaser physicists Dr. Russell Targ and Dr. Harold E. Putoff at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Pentagon's Jack Verona, The Raven, of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the 1970's developed the top secret psychic warfare program that was called PROJECT SCANGATE.\nJohn Bircher's Elmer J. & Deana Mertle AKA Alan & Jeannie Patricia Mills were some of Jim Jones' most trusted former aids. Jim Jones' idol and possible mentor was SS Dr. Josef Mengele, The Angel (Demon) of Death. According to some sources, Dr. Mengele was a Jonestown visitor. The Mertles joined Peoples Temple in Redwood City sometime in 1969. The Mertles were members of the Peoples Temple's select and very sensitive \"Lily White\" Planning Committee.\nThe cover story was that the Mertles defected from the Peoples Temple in 1975, and changed their names to Alan Joseph & Jeannie Patricia Mills to avoid associations with their former names because Jim Jones held their signed confessions to various illegal deals.\nOn January 1, 1980, Alan, Jeannie, and their 15 year old daughter, Daphene, were assassinated at their home at 3028 Regent in Berkeley, CA. The house had been a site for Mertle Rest Home, one of a string of nursing homes ran by the Peoples Temple and Jim Jones.\nThe Mills had been central in organizing the \"Concerned Relatives\" of Jonestown. Concerned Relatives was a division of the Human Freedom Center which the Mills were principals. It was \"Concerned Relatives\" that drew Congressman Leo Ryan into Guyana. Congressman Ryan's assassination served as a pretext to mass murder of 913 predominately Black women and children in the rainforest of Guyana.\nSilent and professional killers murdered the Mills. The Mills' 17-year-old son, Eddie, sat in a room in the house completely unaware of the murders. Was he drugged? We may never know because the Berkeley Police Department and FBI seem not to be pursuing the case, then or now. This murder remains unsolved.\nAfter the mass murder of the mostly Black women and children of Jonestown on November 18, 1978, the Mills founded a half-way house called Human Freedom Center to counsel, debrief, and control survivors of Jonestown, and former members of the Peoples Temple. Jonestown had been a CIA MK ULTRA Medical Experiment. Dr. Margaret Singer of UC Berkeley worked with the Mills and the Human Freedom Center. She was also involved in covering up CIA's Jonestown experiments, and Congressman Leo Ryan's assassination in Guyana. For whatever reasons, Jeannie Mills had been number two on Jim Jones' (CIA) hit list after San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.\nDuring the 70's, for cover, many of the CIA's MK ULTRA pharmaceutical-medical experiments were funneled into domestic prisons, universities, hospitals, clinics, churches and cults. The Mills' liquidation appears to have been none other than a military intelligence mop up or clean up operation of one of their sensitive domestic programs. In the CIA Jonestown Medical and the Alternative House Assassin experiments, they were cutouts from the beginning. After the Mill's assassination, Human Freedom Center was taken over by none other than Russell Targ of OPERATION SCANGATE. Targ of SRI had top U.S. governmental military intelligence secret clearances.\nAlternate House in Oakland had been frequented by members of a governmental contrived group of virtual reality created Islamic Black Manchurian Candidate Domestic Terrorist to scare the hell out of the masses called Al Constran also known as Al Colestran.\nPaul Cook, Ronnie Flenaugh (Al Rashid) and Billy Mapp (Alim Alalah Ali) were members. Two of them would be liquidated within months of each other after the Zebra or Death Angel horrific mass random terrorist attacks against whites took place in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area.\nOn October 16, 1972, Paul Cook was liquidated in cold blood on the sidewalk in front of Alternative House at 526 32nd, when he threatened to publicly expose the assassin (Death Angels) program being developed and sustained at the house. Unarmed, Cook's brains were violently blown out by U.C. Berkeley Assistant Professor, Maalik Al Maalik.\nAl Constran was an experimental Black Community Domestic Terrorist Sect \"Artichoke Program\" setup by the CIA's Station Chief at Vacaville Medical Men's Facility, Dr. James Alexander Hamilton of Stanford and UC Berkeley. They were \"Dr. (Isaac) Slaughter's Boys.\" Alternative House had been turned into an ex-offender Manchurian Candidate \"Murder Incorporated\" and \"Black Mafia\" of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area.\nAdditionally, OPERATION SCANGATE ESP remote viewers, Targ and Pat Price of SRI were directly involved in the Symbionese Liberation Army caper, America's most infamous domestic terrorist operation. OPERATION SCANGATE was called in on the Patty Hearst SLA case by the Berkeley Police Department. ESP is extrasensory perception. It is perception occurring independently of sight, hearing, or other sensory processes.\nPrice, allegedly by ESP, identified CIA Collaborator Willie Wolfe as a conspirator in the Hearst kidnapping. William Wolfe, alias Charles William Morgan, Cujo, was born in Pennsylvania; son of Dr. L.S. Wolfe, anesthesiologist. Wolfe had travelled for nine months in Europe before coming to Berkeley. [13]\nWolfe attended a UC Berkeley Black Studies class in \"Black Lexicon,\" under CIA contractor Professor Colston Westbrook, who would later bring Wolfe into Vacaville Medical Facility as a collaborator. Westbrook was the U.C. Berkeley outside facilitator of the Black Cultural Association (BCA), Dr. Hamilton's secret MK ULTRA experiment cohort group funded by SRI.\nPaul Cook's liquidator, Maalik Al Maalik was also part of the U.C. Black Studies Department with Westbrook. Dr. Isaac Slaughter of the West Oakland Mental Health Clinic was the deliberating Elder and prison psychiatrist of BCA. Westbrook nor Wolfe had no known experience with prisoners, black friends, or radical movements, but Westbrook and Wolfe taught \"black identity\" to a prison study group at Vacaville. [14]\nWolfe lived at Peking House in Berkeley, the common meeting ground from which the illusory and veiled white \"prison reformers\" would spread into Vacaville Medical Facility, San Quentin, Folsom, Soledad and San Luis Obispo prisons. Wolfe was the common denominator that brought Russell Little, Robyn Steiner and other whites into the prison group. [15]\nWolfe attended Oakland School Board meetings and brought arguments against Dr. Marcus Foster into BCA prison discussions at Vacaville to incite black prisoners against Dr. Marcus Foster as a pretext to his assassination on November 6, 1973. [16]\nIn 1975, Pat Price, former naval intelligence officer, was assassinated in Las Vegas by food poisoning. Price became ill after a man accidentally bumped into hi\nAnother strange twist to the story is that SRI's Scangate Remote Viewing Project was once Reichsfurhrer SS Heinrich Himmler's secret ESP project. Remote viewing (out of body projection) was directly connected to the secret research and occult practices of the SS.[17]\nRussell Targ's SCANATE PROJECT (Manchurian Candidate) programs were sub-contracted out to Lt. Col. John B. Alexander's Psi-Tech. [18] A unit called Task Force Delta (TFD) was formed by Col. Alexander. It was related to FEB (First Earth Battalion) at Fort Lewis. Col. Alexander and Major General Albert Stubblebine helped organize the (FEB) First Earth Battalion which in fact sought to create a battalion of mind controlled \"Jedi Warriors\". [19] Both have been interested in creating an elite soldier with very powerful paranormal abilities. FEB and TFD both evolved out of the SCANATE PROJECT, and the Novel Biological Information Transfer Mechanisms (NBIT). [20]\nCo. Alexander also known as \"Dr. Death\" is an extremely scary individual. He entered the US Army as a private in 1956. From 1966-1969, he commanded Special Forces \"A\" Teams in Vietnam and Thailand. His teams are said to have been involved in Project Phoenix, an assassination campaign, along with Colston Westbrook. He received a Ph.D. in Thanatology, a study of the social and emotional aspects surrounding death. He married Victoria Lacas (Alexander), an abduction researcher and Las Vegas-based film reviewer\/ journalist for the Devil's Hammer. Victoria has written a comedy screenplay called BeDeviled, which is about a woman whose sister is having a love affair with the devil. She has been photographed having dinner Edward Teller. She is a student of mysticism and of the South American ritual use of ayahuasca.\nCol. Alexander stated in an interview with the Washington Post in 2007, \u2026The military and intelligence agencies were still scared by the excesses of MK-ULTRA, the infamous CIA program that involved, in part, slipping LSD to unsuspecting victims. \"Until recently, anything that smacked of [mind control] was extremely dangerous\" because Congress would simply take the money away, he said. Alexander acknowledged that \"there were some abuses that took place,\" but added that, on the whole, \"I would argue we threw the baby out with the bath water.\" But September 11, 2001, changed the mood in Washington, and some in the national security community are again expressing interest in mind control, particularly a younger generation of officials who weren't around for MK-ULTRA. \"It's interesting, that it's coming back,\" Alexander observed.\nTWENTY-THREE DAYS OF U.S. DOMESTIC TERRORISM\nOn Wednesday, October 2, 2002, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt introduced (H.J. Res. 114) to authorize the use of armed force against Iraq. It was referred to the International Relations Committee. On that day, there were two sniper attacks in the Washington D.C. area killing James Martin in a grocery store parking lot.\nOn Thursday, October 3, 2002, the bill was reported out of International Relations Committee for debate. On that day, sniper attacks continued killing 5 (five) people in 14 hours.\nOn Friday, October 4, 2002, the debate continued on H.J. Res. 114. On that day, a sniper shot and wounded a woman outside a craft store.\nOn Monday, October 7, 2002, the debate continued on H.J. Res. 114. On that day, a sniper shot and wounded a 13-year old arriving at school.\nOn Wednesday, October 9, 2002, the debate continued on H.J. Res. 114. On that day, a sniper shot and killed a man at a gas station.\nOctober 10-11, H.J. Res. 114 passed both the House and the Senate. On the day it passed the Senate, a sniper shot and killed another man at a gas station.\nOn Monday, October 14, 2002, a sniper shot and wounded a FBI agent outside a store.\nOctober 15-16, H.J. Res. 114, President George Walker Bush received and signed the bill into law.\nOn Saturday, October 19, 2002, a sniper shot and killed a man outside a Ponderosa Restaurant.\nOn Wednesday, October 23, 2002, on that that day, a sniper shot and killed a 35 year old bus driver. [21] As suspects, the police were looking for a white man driving a white van or truck.\nMUHAMMAD & MALVO BLACK \"DUCKS IN A NOOSE\"\nAfter the death of the bus driver, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose read a carefully drafted cryptic message to the snipers late that Wednesday night: \"You have indicated you want us to say and do certain things. You want us to say, 'We have caught the sniper like a duck in the noose.' We understand that hearing us say it is important to you.\"\nA few hours after Chief Moose broadcasted the trigger, and police had issued an all-points bulletin for the suspects' car, two Black virtual reality created Islamic subjects to scare the masses with another Islamic menace, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, were found conveniently asleep in the wanted car, at a public rest stop, near I-70, a heavily-traveled Interstate highway.\nWhen the attorney of John Lee Malvo asked him why he committed the alleged random killings, his answer was simple: The Matrix made him do it. Sources familiar with Malvo's six-hour interview with Fairfax police Nov. 7, 2002 said he referred to \"The Matrix\" repeatedly. According to sources, he laughed when allegedly confessing his shootings \u2013 as if he didn't believe that he had killed actual human beings.\nMalvo was not only obsessed with \"The Matrix.\" He was trapped inside \"The Matrix.\" His writings demonstrated that he wished people would free their minds from the matrix. The writings appear focused, in part, on \"The Matrix.\" \"Free Your Mind! The Body Will Follow!\" Malvo went on, \"You are a slave to the Matrix 'control,' \" One page refers to Morpheus telling Neo: \"Free first your mind, trust me! The body will follow!\"\nThe writings were taken secretly from Malvo's cell at the Fairfax County, Va., jail, photocopied and provided to investigators on the sniper task force preparing for the murder trial of Malvo, and John Allen Muhammad.\nChief Moose's cryptic message was a trigger phrase used to put both Muhammad and Malvo into a post hypnotic sleep. If you watched the 1999 movie, \"The Matrix\", you would instantly understand that Malvo was Neo, and Morpheus was John Allen Muhammad. In the MATRIX, Neo follows the white rabbit tattoo to Morpheus, who tells him: \"You take the blue pill and the story ends.\n\"Follow the White Rabbit Neo.\" \u2013 CAUGHT IN \"The Matrix\"\nIn \"Alice in Wonderland,\" Alice begins her journey by following the white rabbit who's not happy to have her there, and who's in quite a hurry to get somewhere. They tumble down the rabbit hole, and so it all begins. Neo is told to follow the \"White Rabbit\" in The Matrix in one of many metaphysical \"waking up\" metaphors. Seconds later, his doorbell rings, and when he opens the door he finds a woman with a tattoo of a white rabbit on her shoulder. Later in the film right before he meets the oracle one can see Night of the Lepus playing on a nearby television, symbolizing Neo's decision to \"follow the white rabbit\" and to disturb the order of the Matrix.\nIn some cases, the \"white rabbit'\" is a mind control programmer. If we follow the white rabbit, it would lead you to Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington. Some of the Col. John B. Alexander's Psi-Tech operations of FEB and TFD were run out of Ft. Lewis, Washington. John Allen Muhammad (Williams), was a soldier being run out of Ft. Lewis. Muhammad may have been one of FEB's experimental remote controlled Jedi mind controlled soldiers implanted with a \"Morpheus Complex.\"\nMuhammad has all the treadmarks of a governmental assassin. Without any visible means of support, he had been able to travel to foriegn counties, and at least 10 states. He even had a travel agent or a handler posing as a travel agent. He was able to purchase weapons, ammo, laptop computer, and GPS system. He bought a car and gas. Most glaring of all, he had been stopped by police on numerous occasions, but each time that Muhammad was stopped and investigated, he sort of got a pat on the back and a license to continue on his mission. In Antigua, Muhammad boasted of being a CIA and FBI agent. Muhammad also said that he was member of an elite Special Forces team on a secret mission. Malvo, he said, was part of the team.\nDuring the 23 days of Terror, John Allen Muhammad's license number had been entered into the FBI database eleven times during the span of the shootings with no information on any arrests or convictions showing. [22]\nInformation missing from that database includes the following. Muhammad was arrested three times for possession of false I.D., once in Antigua (where he was allowed to walk away from the police station after being held for two days). He was caught twice in Florida with false I.D. and trying to smuggle aliens into the country. He was not held. [23]\nIn the State of Washington he had a conviction for driving on a suspended license. There was also a warrant for his arrest for failure to appear on a shoplifting charge. Also in Washington his ex-wife had obtained a person protection order from the court, which made it illegal for him to possess a firearm and was the basis for the arrest warrant issued on October 23rd. [24]\nIn addition, Muhammad was courts martialed twice when in the Louisiana National guard. Once for disobeying three direct orders to report for duty and the second for striking a non-commissioned officer. On the first offense he was fined $100 and reduced in rank to a specialist. He got a suspended sentence for hitting his sergeant. [25]\nStrangest of all was an incident in the 1991 Gulf war when Muhammad was accused of rolling a hand grenade into a tent where a number of his fellow soldiers were. He was led away in handcuffs but nothing further was heard and it apparently does not show on his service record. [26]\nIn the military, John Allen Muhammad was either a \"bad ass\" passive-aggressive type able to kill without any regrets ripe for conditioning for special covert assassination assignments, or he was already one of their protected experimental special services programmed (killer) boys ready for the next level, a psychic level in \"The Matrix.\"\nA Global Positioning System (GPS) device was found in Muhammad's possession when arrested with Malvo. E-Systems of Texas developed the GPS device. Raytheon, one of the largest military industrial complexes' contractors, acquired E-Systems.\nUltra secret E-System's core business was focused on intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance, which includes systems for law enforcement, which can intercept faxed messages, telephone calls, modem transfers, and video transmissions on a single system in eavesdropping by the government. Their Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies (satellite based) can locate objects anywhere in the world within one foot of the object's actual location. [27]\nE-Systems acquired ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI). APIT developed the High Frequency Active Auroral Program (HAARP). HAARP involves making man-made changes in the electrical earth ionosphere that can be used for individual and mass behavior control. Extremely low frequency electromagnetic (ELF) oscillations can attack and control low frequency electromagnetic brain waves in human beings. HAARP's perturbation of the environment by ELF geophysical warfare can produce changes in, and control behavior patterns. [28]\nSo you have it. Under the influence of HAARP, Muhammad and Malvo could be summoned to follow the white rabbit to various locations around the U.S. with the GPS device where FEB and TFD (Project Northwoods) sniper teams were setup to pick off innocent human targets to terrorize the masses to mask the Iraqi aggression and create an illusory strong-arm fascist state to fight off a sham Islamic menace.\nMuhammad and Malvo have become some of the first 21st Century Remote-Controlled Black Manchurian Candidate Domestic Terrorist \"Patsies\" programmed to be trapped inside the \"Matrix.\" In the final criteria, the disposal of the Manchurian Candidate after operations, both Muhammad and Malvo were convicted of capital murder in the Washington, D.C., area sniper attacks that left 10 people dead in four states.\nJohn Allen Muhammad, Morpheus, was sentenced to death, while his 19-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, Neo, was given life in prison without parole. While Malvo did not speak at his sentencing, Muhammad, 43, asserted his innocence, saying, \"I had nothing to do with this.\" Who will listen? They intend to liquidate Muhammad as soon as possible as like Marinus Van der Lubbe, \"The Nazi's Patsy\" Domestic Terrorist.\nFor Malvo, hypnotically deeply imbedded and lost mentally and psychologically in \"The Matrix\", the story will never end for him because the man, his Morpheus, with the blue pill will never be able to come to his aid. His final story will end locked away in a mental institutional unless a qualified psychiatrist can deprogram him. Then, who will listen?\nIn the final analysis, John Allen Muhammad probably had been a good soldier. As Sebron Flenaugh, Jr., their Yoda had been Reagan's richly endowed STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITATIVE PROJECT (Star War Initiative) that continually fund Lt. Col. John B. Alexander's secret Psi (psychokinesis, etc), mind control and paranormal experiments and programs of Reichsfurhrer Heinrich Himmler's SS against unwitting citizens to create weapons of mass destruction and zombie robot armies. It is not too far out of the box to believe that as Flenaugh, Muhammad had volunteered to help his country in an experimental secret governmental program.\nBut what these brothers and many more had no way of knowing was that the very enemy that this country openly identified and accepted as universal war criminals and mass murderers, enemies of world peace such as the Nazis and the SS (The World's Greatest Racial Mass Murder Cult) were secretly brought into the country to make prey of them and their children; and their children's children.\n[1] http:\/\/whatreallyhappened.com\/WRHARTICLES\/northwoods.html\n[2] http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ho\/frus\/kennedyjf\/iii\/8180.htm\n[3] http:\/\/www.eucmh.com\/tag\/ss-brigadefuhrer-fritz-kraemer\/\n[4] http:\/\/www.maebrussell.com\/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles\/Eyes%20Wide%20Open.html\n[5] http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Center_for_Security_Policy\n[6] Keith, Jim, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, IllumiNet Press, Lilburn, GA, 1999, pg. 15\n[7] http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marinus_van_der_Lubbe\n[8] http:\/\/www.worldwar2database.com\/html\/poland.htm\n[10] Watson, Peter, War of the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, N.Y. Basic Books. 1978: Horrock, N. \"CIA Documents Tell of 1954 Project to Create Involuntary Assassins.\" NY Times, February 9, 1978\n[11] http:\/\/www.whale.to\/b\/sirhan.html\n[12] http:\/\/www.fonebone.net\/Jonestown\/15.Chap.txt\n[13] http:\/\/www.maebrussell.com\/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles\/Why%20Was%20Hearst%20Kidnapped%201.html\n[17] http:\/\/www.bibliotecapleyades.net\/sociopolitica\/reichblacksun\/chapter11.htm\n[18] Id. At footnote 10\n[19] http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_B._Alexander\n[20] Probable Government Involvement in Parapsychological and Paranormal Research, http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/~heimstadt\/psi.htm\n[21] http:\/\/www.apfn.org\/apfn\/iraq_sniper.htm\n[22] http:\/\/www.strike-the-root.com\/3\/rarey\/rarey1.html\n[27] Id., pg. 92\n[28] MacDonald, Gordon J.F., Unless Peace Comes, A Scientific Forecast of New Weapons, 1968; Begich, Nick Dr., Manning, Jeane, Angels Don't Play This HAARP, Earthpulse Press, P.O. Box 201393, Anchorage, Alaska, 1995; Smith, Jerry E., HAARP, The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, 1998\nTags: 1000 Year Third Reich, Al Colestran, Al Constran, AL RASHID, Alameda County Mafia, Alan Millis, Alim Alalah Ali, Alternative House, Artichoke project, BCA, Berkeley Police Department, Bill Clinton, Billy Mapp, Black Cultural Association, Black Lexicon, Black Mafia, Case White, Center for Security Policy, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles William Morgan, CIA, Colston Westbrook, Concerned Relatives of Jonestown, Congressman Leo Ryan, CSP, Cujo, d.c. sniper, Deana Mertle, Death Angels, Defense Intelligence Agency, Dennis Hastert, Devil's Hammer, DIA, Dr. Harold E. Putoff, Dr. Isaac Slaughter, Dr. James Alexander Hamilton, Dr. Josef Mengele, Dr. Marcus Foster, Dr. Margaret Singer, Dr. Russell Targ, duck in the noose, E-Systems of Texas, Edwin Meese III, Elmer J. 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{"text":"British Gardens\nThe Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired Our Best-Loved Authors\nOrders 2-3 weeks if out of stock\nJACKIE BENNETT is a former editor of The Garden Design Journal, the English Garden Magazine and Gardening with the National Trust. She began her career in television, producing gardening and natural history programmes before become a full time writer. In 1990, she won an award for nature writing in the BBC Wildlife Magazine Awards and her books include The Wildlife Garden Month by Month (David & Charles 1990 - reissued in 2011), The Cottage Garden and Wild About the Garden (1997 a Channel 4 tie-in book for the TV series presented by Carol Klein). She won the Garden Writer's Guild Gardening Column of the Year 2009 for a series about her own Norfolk garden. Jackie has studied garden design and landscape history. She runs writing workshops for the Society of Garden Designers and for the Cambridge and Oxford Botanic Gardens. RICHARD HANSON'S work has appeared in books and magazines and he has photographed in the gardens of well-known garden writers such as Helen Yemm, Ursula Buchan, Francine Raymond and Ronald Blythe. His photography has been featured in The Garden Design Journal, and Gardening with the National Trust. His seasonal photographs of Houghton Hall in Norfolk were published monthly in The English Garden Magazine in 2010.\nPublisher : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd\nImprint : Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd\nIllustrations : 250 colour photographs\nAuthor : Jackie Bennett\nDewey classification : 712.60922","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Issues \/ September 1944 \/ The French Sportswomen\nThe French Sportswomen\nSOME weeks ago the Editor asked me to write him an amusing screed on women in the Sport. I promised to do so, and sat down to think it over. More mature deliberation brought me to the conclusion that this is, surely, rather a formidable undertaking, and I strongly suspect the presence of pitfalls and thin ice. Amusing, he says, it has got to be, so I cannot fall back on any of those nice, well-worn themes, such as \"Do I consider that men make better drivers than women ? \" (They do, so what ?) No, to be amusing one must be personal. This should be easy. On this tack one could surely write a most hilarious article, full of colour and detail. There always seem to be so many interesting technical points which lend themselves to discussion among women drivers. For instance, there are several most involved theories as to why Mrs. Whatsern.ame was, at the last moment, a non-starter in the 1938 Rally (and, my dear, they say that her car was all ready and the works had been preparing it for weeks I) Then, another keen controversial point one might raise is how Miss Soanso manages to run that magnificent 4i-litre. (Oh, haven't you heard that one ?)\nThere is no doubt that women in the Sport provide a wide field for discussion, but this method of approach would, perhaps, in the long run land one amid the aforesaid pitfalls and thin ice. Therefore I suppose I must seek to avoid the more diverting forms of controversy and try to skate over the thin ice.\nI am, perhaps, better qualified to write about the French drivers than the British. I have driven in France a great deal and hope to do so again some day. A French motor trial or rally is a most vital and lively affair ; they do understand the art of \"giving a girl a good time\" and, incidentally, organising rallies with incredibly high average speeds. It is very difficult to draw any sort of comparison between British and French women drivers. Any generalisation is apt to be misleading when applied to such widely different types as one meets in a\nMiss Betty Haig, the well-known British rally driver, recalls some of her fellow competitors in continental rallies. long-distance rally. I should say that, in the case of what one might call the\nfull-time competition driver,\" the British woman knows rather more about the inside workings of her car than does her French counterpart. On the other hand, the French are tremendously thorough. They study minutely every detail of the speed tests and formula, and will sometimes spend weeks practising for one event.\nThis question of practising brings us to another difference between British and French drivers, one of circumstances ; it is one where the French works \" drivers have a big advantage over us.\nIn France there are really three groups of drivers, and I think these are, perhaps, more clearly defined than in England. The top flight (and those who are best known to us over here) are the few who drive regularly, in every event, for a certain firm. They make it, as a rule, a full-time job. Sometimes they drive their own car, sometimes not ; in any case their factory takes charge of the whole affair. They can practise by the hour, assisted by other works drivers and mechanics, on cars (and transmission !) which have not got, at the end of it all, to face the ardours of the trial itself. All this used to be a trifle tantalising for us British drivers, who had to strike out alone in the world, after a visit to Coventry or Abingdon, with our one ewe car, hoping hysterically that it would not lose its elusive tune, or develop some terrifying noise before it reached even the starting control across the Channel ! As for any intensified practising, on our only set of transmission, one simply did not dare ! These drivers used to start the trial with the handicap formula of every other entrant completely worked out on paper\nso that they knew to a fraction who were their most formidable opponents. However, although these top-flight drivers were so thorough and professional, I always found them most sporting opponents, and generally very kind and helpful.\nI suppose one of the best known is Madame Rouault, the Delahaye driver. (I believe she came over to this country to race a few years ago.) She is an old and experienced hand at the job ; there is very little she does not know about rally driving. I am told that Monsieur Rouault lives in Strasbourg, but Madame Rouault seems to live in a Delahaye. In 1939 she was absolutely at the top of her form and many people will remember the terrific times that she put up on La Turbie hill climb after the Paris-Nice with her very fast, scarlet, streamlined saloon.\nThen there is Madame Largeot, who used to drive the little blue Gordini and Balilla Fiats ; she is a very sound and careful driver and always finishes high up in the final results.\nMadame Simon, very chic and blonde, drives a Hotchkiss, and charming Madame Descollas, who comes from Marseilles, is a most successful Lancia driver. She did very well in the French Alpine and, with her husband, won the small-car class in the Monte Carlo.\nMdlle. Lamberjack practises as a doctor when she is not driving large cars. However, she must have been bred to the Sport, for her father was a tough racing driver of the old school. In 1938 she drove Rene le I3egue's racing 2-seater Talbot in the Paris-St. Raphael ; it was rather temperamental, but went extremely fast.\nAnother well-known driver was Mdlle. des Forest, winner of the Ladies* Cup in the Monte Carlo Rally. Though she has not been driving so much recently, she used to be a familiar landmark, as she sped past, looking very small and dark, sitting very straight at the wheel and going like the devil ! There was also Madame Siko in her Bugatti, and poor Madame Schell and her\nhusband with their Delahayes. So the category merges into the next group, of the keen part-time drivers with their own cars, including a few private owners of small sports car.\nThe final group consists, of course, of those cheerful souls who tour through a tally in blissful ignorance of all mechanics and formulas, simply for the sake of a social outing, often with a family party on board (mother, sisters and a dog, and, almost, the traditional French bicycle strapped to the carrier), in some seasoned Renault or Licorne saloon. The whole outfit is generally heavily penalised in the speed trials. However, the driver may become bitten by the rally bug and graduate into the next group the following year, by blossoming forth with a large and dashing new coupe I So rally drivers evolve !\nMost of the small sports cars driven by French girls were of British make, France having, unfortunately, practically ceased to build this type of car nowadays. So we usually had a sprinkling of Singers and M.G.s with French number-plates.\nA most cheerful driver of a smart green P-type M.G. was Daisy Clot, from Marseilles (where her husband ran a night club). I remember one year her klaxon broke down. As an electric horn was a most vital part of Daisy's motoring equipment, she hastily supplemented her loss with a powerful police whistle, which she kept in her mouth and blew pretty consistently. On hearing this angry and legal sound approaching my tail on the first occasion, I naturally applied more throttle, and as the whistling increased so did my speed, until we were fairly rocketing down the twisting roads to Clermont Ferrand ! Poor Daisy never succeeded in passing me, but she was overjoyed when she found that she had been chasing me before her, panic-stricken, most of the afternoon ! About the only exceptions to the M.G.Singer entries were the Georges hat cars, I don't think I ever saw one in this country. The small 2-seater in the 1,100-e,.e. class was low and wide tracked, the acceleration was quite good and they\ncornered rapidly. Latterly one could also buy a 2-litre sports 2-seater. This seemed to me a rather surprising machine. It was fitted with the Citroen engine, but the front suspension was quite unlike any \" springing \" that I have ever seen, the whole car just seemed to be slung on a few massive rubber bands! I drove \" Mouche \" d'Oncieu's blue 2seater several times in 1939. The big Citroen engine propelled the light car very rapidly, but I must admit that, to put it mildly, the general impression was one of \"floating power\" I\nThe 6-ft.-tall\" Mouche \"and Jacqueline Carsignol were two regular drivers of Georges hat cars. Jacqueline's car was one of the smaller editions ; it had done a big mileage and decomposition was setting in rapidly. However, she handled it well, and always made fast times. Jacqueline, in addition to driving ears, is quite a well-known aircraft pilot. She was one of the \"flying women ambassadors\" chosen by the French Government to fly round France and the colonies in Africa before the war. The last news I had of her was a letter which came via Toulon soon after the fall of France. She was at that time piloting an ambulance plane attached to a nursing unit in which \" Mouche \" was also serving. I wonder what happened to them after that ; Perhaps we shall have news again soon.\nAnother \" owner-driver \" was Mdlle. Renondeau. Her father was French Military Attach\u00e9 in Berlin. She owned a big 2-seater and used to proceed at a very considerable rate of knots (not always without, incident !) from Berlin to Paris, to compete in the rallies. I met Madame .MireilJe Maroger in 1926. She was not a regular competitor, but was driving that year a big new Renault. She looked very trim and smart with her fair hair, dressed in a white skiing jacket, white stockings and dark trousers. Madame Maroger was a barrister. She had married recently and she and her husband elected to spend their honeymoon on Devil's Island. On their return she wrote a series of scathing\narticles, entitled \" In the Land of the Living Dead.\" In these she told me she had said, more or less, that the warders in the penal settlement were, in every way, far worse than the convicts ! The result was that the . French Government started an action against her.\nMadame Maroger conducted her own case. A terrific legal battle ensued. I never heard what the final outcome was, for Madame Maroger was killed, tragically, in an aeroplane crash in Morocco very shortly afterwards.\nFrance and Britain provide the main quota of Women competition drivers. There are, however, a few others whom I have met. Switzerland has quite an active women's motoring club, with its headquarters in Geneva. The president, Madame. Nesserli, used to drive in French rallies. She had a very narrow escape from disaster when, in 1935, her car skidded over the edge of a deep ravine, it turned over several times, coming to rest on its side at the bottom. Horrified officials rushed to the scene expecting to find nothing more than mangled remains. However, Madame Nesserli strolled calmly to meet them, remarking : \"I have taken a wonderful photograph.\" She had, and it won the photographic competition of the rally ; it could scarcely do otherwise ! Czechoslovakia produced Madame, Kronbauerova, who was very attractive, and a film star in her own country. She and her good-looking husband used to come from Prague in strange ears like Javas and Aeros. The only understandable language they spoke was a few words of German. The Aero used to give a good deal of trouble, throwing out fountains of oil from its front wheels (from the front wheel drive differential). However, when all our more orthodox, cars were gasping for life in the frozen dawn of a bleak pare fertne, struggling to turn the solidified oil in their sumps, the ridiculous Aero, with its petroil engine and no sump at all, would cough once, spring to life and calmly purr away out of sight !. They were driving in a rally in March, 1939. I was with them at the Grenoble control when we got the news that Hitler had marched into Prague. I shall never forget their expressions of horror. He said : \" This is the end. There is nothing for us to go back to.\" They returned to Prague. Since then he has, presumably, been conscripted into one of the German armies. One can only hope that they have come through it safely and will turn up with all the other widely-scattered members of the driving world when it is all over and France gets her motor rallies into running order again. No doubt this will be done as soon as is humanly possible ; they are certainly a keen motoring race (witness Rene le Begue's effort in managing to take Talbot cars to America to race in 1941 !)\nIn this country is it too optimistic to hope that we may be driving again by next spring ? It seems a good idea to organise a few small competitions to get drivers \"into circulation.\"\nI, also, have always thought that the Junior Racing Drivers' Club was an extremely good idea, and that there should, at any time, be scope for a club of this sort. I was one of its early members, and it gave me the necessary \"impetus \"to begin trials driving myself.\nCONTENTS, September 1944\nTHE OUTER CIRCUIT \"200s\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Inside Africa Nigeria The crisis in Edo State has taken a new dimension\nThe crisis in Edo State has taken a new dimension\ndailytimes.com.ng\nThe crisis in Edo State took a new dimension as a member of the Edo State PDP, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, on Monday, responded to Governor Adams Oshiomhole?s allegations, maintaining that the Governor owes him gratitude for helping him become the Governor of Edo State.\nEdo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, had a week ago, during an interview with a media organization (not Daily Times Nigeria), accused Ize-Iyamu of working against his party; the PDP in a desperate attempt to become governor after Lucky Igbinedion, despite the zoning structure that held sway in the party.\nOshiomhole?s allegations were in reaction to Ize-Iyamu, who purportedly claimed on television that he made him a Governor. The Governor wondered how he could say such when ?by 2007 (Pastor Ize-Iyamu) on election day was restricted by EFCC, he couldn?t come out for fear of arrest?.\nPastor Ize-Iyamu, however, in a conversation newsmen on Monday, noted that it was sad that the Governor would make such statements against him; ?with all modesty, God used me to assist him (in becoming Governor).\n?He said on election day I was restricted but he knows I coordinated his election in 2007. It will interest you to note that even at 10AM on election day, Adams Oshiomhole called me to say that he wasn?t doing again, that he was coming back to Benin to address a press conference that the malpractices were too much.\n?I told him on the phone he should go back to his village. ?How can you on election day say you?re going back? Who will listen to you? Just give the thing a chance, after election we can compare notes?. He asked if I was sure, I said go back. He then told me he was doing a U-turn at Auchi Polytechnic.\n?Later when he was declared Governor, I told him, ?you remember when you called me, if you had not called me and you came to Benin to say you were withdrawing, would you be Governor?? He laughed and he thanked me. This is just one among several incidents.\n?Many of the local governments on that day, he doesn?t know what happened, I coordinated them and when they announced that he lost, ask him, that evening where was he? He called me again to ask where does he meet me and I told him to come to Bright Igbinedion?s house and lets work out a plan to deal with this issue.\n?I was the one who set up a team immediately that night to begin to collate results on what was to be done. He came there totally dejected.\n?When money was being put together for the election a day or two before, ask him who coordinated it. Let me state categorically that all the money that was used for the election came for two principal sources; one I will not like to mention, the second one from Captain Uzah, who in this interview he mentioned as one Captain Uzah ? a man who was your benefactor.\n?A man who gave you all the money for your election, now you refer to him as one Capt. Uzah, simply because they have seen through you and they have moved on; it?s unfortunate.\n?He could not even bring money for his election, people gave him money but he used it for other things.?\nThe Pastor also went further to recount how he became an associate of Governor Oshiomhole. He said that the then aspirant came to him when he was the Secretary to the State Government under former Governor Lucky Igbinedion, to ask for his support of his ambition.\nHe added that Mr Oshiomhole acknowledged that he (Ize-Iyamu) was equally interested in the position but he would like to appeal to him to step down and support him, which he eventually did with an advice for him not to run on the Labour Party because it would not work, an advise Oshiomhole readily embraced ?if I would assist him?.\nHe recalled that the decision to come to him several times, seeking help in getting support and finding a platform was because he (Oshiomhole) had been rejected by the PDP, and his attempt at joining the ANPP had caused problems.\nOn the allegations that he worked against his party, the PDP, towards the election for his selfish ambition, Ize-Iyamu said that reference to that showed why the Governor should be grateful to him.\n?If (Governor) Lucky Igbinedion and Chief Anenih had agreed that the governorship should go to Edo Central, where he doesn?t come from and I opposed it and ensured that the governorship now went to Edo North where he comes from, he owes me gratitude.?\nMr Ize-Iyamu had since left the All Progressives Congress (APC) and returned to the People?s Democratic Party (PDP) saying he did not believe in hypocrisy as what he thought was a better alternative had become worse.\nThe situation in the Edo State House of Assembly also came to the fore and Ize-Iyamu reaffirmed that the situation warranted his decamping as ?whatever is happening the House of Assembly was created by the Governor himself.?\nhelped\nIngrate\nIzeIyamu\nOSHIOMHOLE\nPrevious articleCharley Boy is a disgrace to the people of Imo\nNext articleChibok attacks angers Jonathan\nhttp:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.ng\nBreaking news, politics, business | Daily Times Nigeria","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Challenge of Accurate Dosing in THC and CBD Products\nThe following content is sponsored by Xanthic Biopharma\nThe potential of cannabis-derived consumer products seems endless. From food to drink, to skincare and medicine, there are many versatile uses.\nHowever, there's a significant challenge still facing the industry: it's tricky to measure the appropriate dosage of cannabis compounds like CBD and THC, for the desired effects to take place.\nBarriers to Accurate Dosing\nToday, the practice of accurately labeling cannabis dosages faces two main challenges:\nWhile the FDA will take action against products making misleading health claims, it doesn't provide clear labeling guidance in general.\nCannabis laws and regulations also vary from state to state, leading the potential of diminished quality control and mislabeling.\nThese two facts are exemplified in a recent study, which found that 70% of 84 CBD products sold online were mislabeled.\nWhy Accurate Dosing is Important\nThe cannabis industry is rapidly shifting to better suit the needs of the modern individual's health and lifestyle, making accurate dosing more important than ever before.\nThat's why companies like Xanthic Biopharma, who have embraced natural medicine, are committed to developing high quality cannabinoids that are properly labeled with accurate dosages, using patent-pending technology.\nWith quality testing and accurate dosing, cannabis compounds are on the verge of transforming human health and wellness.\nRelated Topics:cannabiscbddosingProductsthc\nClimate Smart Mining: Minerals for Climate Action\nCan a Mutual Fund Get Better With Age?\nHow Consumers Are Shaping Cannabis Consumption\nWhat Really Differentiates a Premium Cannabis Product?\nThe Allure of Craft Cannabis to Investors\nThe Consumer Potential of Retail Cannabis\nThe Rise of Cannabis Treatments for Pets\nHow Decentralized Finance Makes Investing Universally Accessible\nInvesting has historically been expensive, cumbersome, and inaccessible for most people. Decentralized finance and Abra aims to change that for everyone.\nAshley Viens\nHow Decentralized Finance Makes Investing Accessible\nHistorically, global financial markets have been restricted to those with exactly the right contacts, in the right locations, and with vast amounts of wealth already at their disposal. Investing for the general population, however, was typically expensive, cumbersome, and inaccessible.\nFortunately, today's infographic from Abra demonstrates how the decentralized financial market has brought about solutions to these hurdles.\nWhy Investing Should be More Accessible\nMany factors such as theft, inflation, and political or economic shifts can erode personal wealth over time.\nBeing able to invest in the global financial market offers a hedge against these risks, and yet for those with modest resources and limited connections, investing has typically been out of reach.\nConsider several well-known platforms or funds:\nEtrade \u2500 $500\nT. Rowe Price \u2500 $2,500\nVanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund \u2500 $5,000,000\nInvestment minimums range from several hundred to several million dollars\u2014making any hope of investing impossible for most.\nThis is especially urgent for the global middle class, which is expected to swell 180% by 2040. Having access to more avenues to build and protect wealth will be key to sustainable economic growth for a growing majority worldwide.\nBut how can people actually start investing if much of the current market is still too expensive?\nFractional Investing Offers Better Access\nIn the past, brokers were limited to buying and selling stocks as whole units.\nFractional investing, however, allows investors with a lower net worth to access valuable, expensive stocks. It also attracts investors that are less likely to buy and sell on a whim and instead focus on long-term growth.\nBlockchain technology has been a key component in this democratization of global wealth\u2014much like fractional investing\u2014because people are no longer restricted by their resources, location, or lack of connections.\nA New Wave of Investing\nDecentralized finance is:\nPermissionless\nUsers no longer need a third-party to verify their transactions.\nUsers can access decentralized financial markets from anywhere using their smart devices.\nEvery transaction is made publically viewable.\nCensorship-resistant\nNo one can make arbitrary changes or cause system-wide shutdowns.\nAnyone can customize smart contracts based on regional and technical requirements.\nDecentralized financial tools, using blockchain and cryptocurrencies, are providing excellent alternatives to building wealth by offering smaller investment minimums, lower fees, and faster transaction times.\nThe rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies introduced the world to the simple concept of fractional investing\u2014owning extremely small fractions of digital currencies.\nNow, investors can also own fractions of high-priced stocks, ETFs, fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and stable coins, through Abra's novel platform.\nAbra: the Blockchain-based Investment App\nAbra is the world's first global investment app that uses the Bitcoin blockchain to make investing more accessible. Abra makes it fast and easy to manage your investments\u2014all from one app.\nSimple: Easy to use and globally available, Abra's app makes investing a breeze.\nSecure: Abra is secure and private\u2014backed by blockchain and smart-contract technology\u2014giving investors full control of their funds through non-custodial wallets.\nFractionalized: Invest in partial shares of traditional and digital assets, starting at $5.\nGlobal: Trade, store value, and invest in a range of fiat currencies, cryptocurrencies, ETFs, and stocks from 154 countries.\nThe Future of Investing\nHistorically, investing in equities has been a key to building personal wealth, and Abra's technology allows more people around the world to access the same types of investments, no matter their location or income.\nA survey of Abra users shows the democratization of investing in action:\nAffordability: Most Abra users have roughly US$50 in their portfolios.\nSecurity: Abra users enjoy privacy of information and full control of their assets.\nAccessibility: A top priority for Abra users, they are able to invest in financial markets and expensive equities worldwide.\nWith its intuitive, global platform, Abra has introduced the future of investing for everyone.\n\"For the first time, we can truly democratize access to investment opportunities at global scale.\"\n\u2014Bill Barhydt, CEO of Abra\nGet your mind blown on a daily basis:\nEverything You Need to Know About In-Situ Mining\nThere is a little know method of mining that does not move a rock, In-Situ Mining. Visual Capitalist outlines the process of mining in this unique way.\nNicholas LePan\nHow do you mine without moving a rock?\nWhen most people think of mining they think of massive open pits or deep and winding underground tunnels. But there is one mining method that does not move a rock and leaves the landscape as is.\nToday's infographic from Excelsior Mining Corp. outlines a unique mining method, In-Situ Recovery \"ISR\", also known as In-Situ Mining.\nAn Intro to In-Situ Mining\nISR is not a recent innovation in the mining sector. In fact, ISR has been used for the past 50 years in uranium mining, and 48% of the world's uranium gets mined this way. Uranium is not the only mineral it can extract; there is also silver, copper, and sometimes gold.\nISR involves dissolving a mineral deposit in the ground and then processing it at surface, all without moving any rock. It is cost effective and environmentally friendly.\nBut if this method is so great, how come more companies do not mine this way?\nThe Right Geology\nISR is not widely used because the geological conditions have to be just right. There are few locations around the world that meet the following criteria:\nHighly permeable ore body. In the case of copper, the ore body must be naturally broken, fractured and permeable.\nMineable. The target mineral must be soluble with the right fluid, typically a weak acid.\nUnder the water table. The mineral deposit must be below the water table to allow for the movement of fluids throughout the ore body.\nIf geologists can find these conditions and it is a large enough mineral deposit, it is time to mine.\nThe ISR Process\nOnce the right conditions are met and drill holes are sunk into the ore body, mining can begin.\nLeaching solution is pumped through injection wells\nThe solution moves through the naturally fractured rock and leaches the copper\nRecovery wells extract the copper-rich solution\nSolution is pumped to the surface to the plant for processing\nCopper is extracted from the solution to create pure copper sheets\nMining solution is recycled back to the well field\nOnce an area is mined, the wells are flushed with water to clean out any remaining leaching solution. 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{"text":"Rauner vs. Quinn: Voters, you'll choose the future of Illinois\nGather 'round. Then look, to the degree Earth's curvature permits, at what once was the proud, prosperous, promising state of Illinois \u2014 55,519 square miles of rich opportunity and national leadership. Today you see the diminished remains of that strength, that greatness. Today you also see a race for governor that will focus on how to restore the Illinois that was.\nWith Tuesday's primary election past, we know this much: Come January, either Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn or Republican challenger Bruce Rauner will take his oath of office and begin to shape Illinois' next four years and beyond.\nWhat a rich choice for voters who will decide who should lead their state. Not in decades has an Illinois race for governor been the clash of styles and policies that this general election campaign of 2014 will be.\nThis year's contest will feature two energetic candidates with wildly different worldviews. It has the potential to rivet political junkies and excite otherwise nonchalant voters. We hope it also engages young people, from grade schoolers on up, who someday will inherit whatever is left of Illinois' fractured economy and governance.\nQuinn, now in his sixth year as governor, will have to answer for that economic torpor, even if the public policies that have enabled it aren't entirely of his making. As an insider Quinn is an outsider: He has butted heads with other Democratic leaders who, in turn, dismiss him as weak, easily distracted and irrelevant to their political machinations. Quinn can, though, boast of successfully chiding those fellow Democrats to pass pension reforms, and of challenging clouted, Democratic-leaning unions in his attempts to close some obsolete state institutions.\nWe have no idea how much that history will resonate in this campaign's sharp debate about taxes and spending. Quinn succeeded in raising the individual income tax rate by 67 percent. Now he has to say if he wants that rate to begin falling, as current law dictates, or keep it intact, or ask for even more.\nRauner has antagonized the unions with his accusations that they run Springfield. He intends to change that. He intends to let income taxes roll back and curb state spending. He'll now face more pressure to say what, exactly, he would cut.\nVoters who dislike people of self-made wealth may reject Rauner. Quinn will criticize him as a loathsome 1-percenter, although there's humor here: Rauner either sabotaged or intensified that attack \u2014 each of us can decide which \u2014 by volunteering, \"Oh, I'm probably 0.01 percent.\"\nNo surprise, Quinn has already launched an advertising campaign focused on raising the minimum wage, an issue that Rauner fumbled during the primary campaign.\nRauner, though, has growing evidence that the status quo Quinn oversees dooms Illinois to miserable job growth. Monday brought the grim news that this state now has the nation's second-highest jobless rate. Tuesday brought more grim news: Illinois' sales tax scheme \u2014 the combined rates charged by state and local governments \u2014 now ranks in the top 10 nationwide. The nonpartisan Tax Foundation, a Washington research institute, also says Illinois' business tax climate \u2014 a measure of the many taxes employers pay \u2014 languishes at 31st-best.\nNo wonder so many companies do their hiring anywhere but in expensive Illinois.\nThus what has to be the central question to the two candidates in this campaign: If we're ever again to see that proud, prosperous, promising state of Illinois, how will you lead us in that direction?\nThis is it. Rauner vs. Quinn. The governor's race of a generation is on.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Indiana police say 'Good Samaritan' took out mall shooter in 15 seconds, landed 8 of 10 shots\nhttps:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/indiana-police-apos-good-samaritan-143501980.html\nBy Michael Lee\nPolice say it took Elisjsha Dicken just 15 seconds to neutralize a man who opened fire on shoppers at an Indiana mall \u2014 quick action they believe saved countless lives.\n\"The time lapse between the moment that Jonathan Sapirman exited the restroom and began shooting, and when he was shot by the civilian was only fifteen seconds, not two minutes,\" Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said Tuesday in a statement. \"The surveillance video shows Sapirman exit the restroom at 5:56:48pm. He was neutralized by Dicken at 5:57:03 pm.\"\nThe statement corrects a previous police timeline in which authorities said the incident lasted two minutes. Police also revealed that a preliminary autopsy report on the gunman showed that he was struck eight times and died of his wounds, meaning Dicken only missed the shooter twice despite engaging the threat from a distance.\nPolice say the gunman was armed with two rifles, a Glock pistol, and was carrying at least 100 rounds of ammunition with him. Sapirman killed three people before being quickly neutralized by Dicken, who began closing the distance on the shooter as he waved for bystanders to flee behind him.\nIson said that Dicken's actions were \"heroic\" and \"very tactically sound\" despite him having no police or military background.\n\"Many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen who took action within the first two minutes of this shooting,\" Ison said.\nGuy Relford, an attorney hired to represent Dicken, said he was proud of his client's actions at the mall.\n\"I am proud to serve as Eli Dickens' attorney and spokesperson,\" Relford said in a statement. \"He is a true American hero who saved countless lives during a horrific event that could have been so much worse if not for Eli's courage, preparedness and willingness to protect others.\"\nJuly 21, 2022. Tags: Elisjsha Dicken, Greenwood Indiana, Greenwood Park Mall, Guns, Indiana, Jonathan Douglas Sapirman, Self defense. Guns. Leave a comment.\nPolice identify armed 'good Samaritan' who killed Greenwood mall shooting suspect\nhttps:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/greenwood-park-mall-armed-bystander-good-samaritan-shot-killed-suspect-194450562.html\nBy Dylan Stableford\nA day after a gunman killed three people at a mall in Greenwood, Ind., officials identified the victims, suspect and armed bystander who fatally shot the gunman before he was able to kill more people.\nAt a press conference on Monday afternoon, Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison said Elisjsha Dicken, 22, of Seymour, Ind., was shopping with his girlfriend at the Greenwood Park Mall when shots rang out in the food court on Sunday just before 6 p.m. local time.\n\"His actions were nothing short of heroic,\" Ison said. \"Many more people would have died last night had an armed citizen not taken action within two minutes of the shooting.\"\nThe first gunman, identified by police as 20-year-old Jonathan Douglas Sapirman of Greenwood, entered a food court restroom with a backpack at 4:54 p.m. ET. He exited the restroom an hour and two minutes later with a rifle and fired 24 rounds, Ison said, killing 30-year-old Victor Gomez, 56-year-old Pedro Pineda and his 37-year-old wife, Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda.\nTwo other people, including a 12-year-old, were wounded or grazed by bullets or bullet fragments, Ison said.\nDicken confronted the gunman, who was trying to retreat back into the restroom, Ison said, firing 10 rounds from a handgun he was licensed to carry.\n\"He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun,\" Ison said, adding that Dicken is \"very proficient\" and \"tactically sound,\" despite having no known police or military training.\nAccording to Ison, Dicken told mall security that he had shot the gunman, and waited for police to arrive. He was handcuffed and taken to police headquarters, where he was interviewed. Officers were able to corroborate his story using footage from security cameras, Ison said.\nAt the scene, police recovered a second rifle, Glock pistol and over 100 rounds of ammunition purchased legally by Sapirman in Greenwood within the past two years, Ison said. They also recovered the gunman's cellphone, which they believe he dropped in the toilet.\nDuring a subsequent search of the suspect's rented apartment, a SWAT team found the oven on with a laptop and butane canister inside.\nThe cellphone and laptop were turned over to the FBI for analysis, Ison said.\nInvestigators have not been able to establish a motive for the shooting.\nIson said that the 20-year-old suspect had a juvenile record but no criminal history as an adult. Sapirman resigned from his job at a warehouse in May, and family members told police that they believe he was recently served an eviction notice.\nStill, according to Ison, the suspect's relatives were \"just as surprised as anyone\" and had no indication he was violent or unstable.\nJuly 18, 2022. Tags: Elisjsha Dicken, Greenwood Indiana, Greenwood Park Mall, Guns, Indiana, Jonathan Douglas Sapirman. Guns. Leave a comment.\n'Good Samaritan' Takes Down Gunman Who Killed 3 in Mall Food Court\nhttps:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/multiple-victims-reported-several-injured-230456324.html\nBy AJ McDougall\nFour people are dead and several injured after a man with a rifle walked into a food court at Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana and began shooting, local authorities said Sunday evening.\nOne of the dead is the suspected shooter, according to Greenwood Mayor Mark Myers. The gunman, an adult male, has not been identified. Police said he had been carrying a long rifle and several ammunition magazines.\n\"This tragedy hits at the core of our community,\" the mayor said in a news release. \"Please offer your prayers to the victims and our first responders.\"\nThe gunman, according to Myers, was shot \"by an armed individual.\" The \"good Samaritan,\" as Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison identified him at a press conference, was a 22-year-old civilian from nearby Bartholomew County.\n\"The real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began,\" Ison said, according to the Indianapolis Star.\nThe armed bystander \"appears to be cooperating fully\" with investigators, Ison added.\nTwo people were hospitalized following the shooting. One was a 12-year-old girl, who sustained a \"minor injury,\" the Star reported.\n\"We are sickened by yet another type of incident like this, in our city, in our country,\" Indianapolis Assistant Chief of Police Chris Bailey said.\nAuthorities responded to the scene in Greenwood, a city of 60,000 just south of Indianapolis, just before 6 p.m. Witnesses told FOX59 that the shooting began after \"a group of teenagers started arguing,\" according to a tweet from a channel anchor. Others told 13News that they had heard roughly 20 shots being fired inside the mall's food court.\nOlivia Harding said she was at the mall with her mom when they heard four gunshots go off, telling CNN she thought the mall carousel had broken down.\n\"Next thing you know, you hear about six more shots and you see everybody running,\" Harding said, adding that it would be \"a very long time\" before she'll set foot in a mall again.\nChris Roy, a 30-year-old assistant manager at the mall's Vans store, told the Star that he had been working when he saw people sprinting away from the food court. No one in the store heard gunshots, but the panic outside spoke for itself, he said.\n\"So I jumped over the counter, locked the door, gathered my associates and other managers at the back door,\" he told the newspaper, adding that police arrived and escorted them out of the building after 15 tense minutes.\nThen, \"I called my mom,\" he said.\nIn addition to the heavily armed officers swarming the area outside the mall, a bomb squad had been dispatched to the area to investigate a suspicious package in one of the mall's bathrooms, according to BNO News.\nThe backpack was labeled suspicious and confiscated by investigators but later declared harmless, according to the Star.\n\"I've been a police officer most of my life,\" Mayor Myers told The New York Times in an interview on Sunday evening. \"Still, this is incredibly shocking, to not only me but our entire community.\"\nJuly 18, 2022. Tags: Greenwood Indiana, Greenwood Park Mall, Guns, Indiana, Self defense. Guns. 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{"text":"The Glowing Man\nRelease Date 17 June 2016\nSTUMM389\nTriple Vinyl LP\nTriple gatefold vinyl sleeve, printed on brown kraft board with a spot gloss varnish and embossing throughout also includes 'The Glowing Man' poster\nAfter 2014's epic To Be Kind, SWANS return with a new album, The Glowing Man, announced as the last album release of Swans' current incarnation.\nThe Glowing Man was recorded at Sonic Ranch, near El Paso, Texas, with John Congleton as recording engineer. Further recordings were made in Dallas, Seattle and Berlin.\nThe Glowing Man will be available on double CD, as well as a limited edition double CD\/DVD format which includes a Swans live performance from 2015. In addition, the album will also be available as a deluxe triple gatefold vinyl set with poster & digital download.\nSwans, led by Michael Gira, formed in 1982 and, after disbanding in 1997, returned with the critically acclaimed albums My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (2010), 2012's The Seer and 2014's To Be Kind.\nIf ordering from North America please go here\nThis product is also available in the following formats\nDouble CD Album\n2CD + DVD\n1 Cloud of Forgetting\n2 Cloud of Unknowing\n1 Cloud of Unknowing Pt2\n1 The World Looks Red \/ The World Looks Black\n2 People Like Us\n1 Frankie M\nSIDE E\n1 When Will I Return\n2 The Glowing Man Pt1\nSIDE F\n2 Finally Peace\nMore from Swans\nTo Be Kind (Deluxe CD + DVD)\nThe Great Annihilator: Remastered\nDie T\u00fcr Ist Zu\nLeaving Meaning","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'The Challenge' Stars Jordan Wiseley And Nia Moore Discuss Their Heated 2013 'Real World' Fight\nPaul Archuleta \/ Getty Images\nCaitlin Albers\nMTV has been cutting ties with problematic cast members in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, due to inappropriate past and present behavior. Dee Nguyen, Taylor Selfridge, and Alex Kompothecras have all been let go from their respective shows on the network for racist social media posts ranging from 2012 to now. Some viewers of The Challenge have been calling for the boot of veteran Jordan Wiseley for many reasons, but most notably for a fight he and Nia Moore engaged in during their time on The Real World: Portland. The duo sat down for an Instagram live session (via Entertainment Weekly) Thursday night to discuss the fight, which many believed was racially motivated.\nIn the past clip from The Real World, Jordan is seen mimicking a monkey to Nia as they fought, making animal sounds at her while subsequently dropping the N-word. Nia, a black woman, showed restraint as Jordan, a white male, spit Cheerios in her face among other actions. Jordan and Nia, who are now friends, saw the call for his firing and decided to sit down and show how far they've come while they explained what really went down that night in 2013.\n\"Jordan did not ask me to do this,\" Nia made sure to note at the beginning of the Instagram live session. \"He is my friend, I love him deeply. Over the past few weeks I've seen something bubbling\u2026 We lived it. Neither of us have never hid from our mistakes. Now that this has become a hot topic, I felt like as his friend, someone who deeply loves him, I feel remiss sitting by. I wanted to put it out there for us to have dialogue.\"\nA post shared by Jordan Wiseley (@jordan_wiseley)\n\"This is not an excuse. We are re-bringing this up because of the impact that it now has today,\" Jordan followed up.\nThe two then noted that they had been flirty all season long on The Real World leading up to their fight, and blamed these flirtations on why they fought so much in the house. In their blowout, Nia admitted to using the N-word towards Jordan, which resulted in him using it back at her. According to the former Challenge competitor, she never felt Jordan's comments or actions were racially motivated and didn't think his monkey impression was a racist gesture.\n\"It wasn't heavy for me,\" Nia noted.\nNia then confirmed she knew Jordan wasn't racist and didn't feel his actions that night had anything to do with the color of her skin. In response, Jordan took responsibility for his actions, noting that he understood why viewers feel the way they do, based on how the fight played out on screen.\n\"This whole thing of trying to prove you're not racist is so funny to me because I know you're not one,\" Nia later said.\nThe reality star then said she couldn't sit by as Jordan was being labeled this way, given the current state of the world. The pair shared that the \"real lesson\" was the two of them sitting down all these years later after the fight and how they have both grown and learned from the situation. Jordan indicated he just wanted to move forward as those, who he described as \"trolls,\" continued to bring up this fight on social media.\nMTV has not made an announcement regarding Jordan's position on the network moving forward, but many viewers continue to chime in on Twitter and call for his firing, suggesting the Instagram live was just a way to save face so he could stay on The Challenge.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EmaxHealth\nHealth knowledge and news provided by doctors.\nHome \/ Aging \/ Diabetes Care\nGymnema Sylvestre For Type 2 Diabetes\nBy Deborah Mitchell G+ Oct 3 2012 - 6:14am\nIf one plant were designated as being effective in the fight against diabetes, it could be Gymnema sylvestre. Dozens of studies, including some recent ones, have shown Gymnema sylvestre to possess a number of properties that make it well worth a second and third look if you are considering natural, alternative ways to manage type 2 diabetes.\nGymnema sylvestre fights diabetes from several angles\nThe herb Gymnema sylvestre is indigenous to the tropical forests of India, and its leaves have been valued as a treatment for diabetes for nearly 2,000 years. Gymnema sylvestre is highly regarded in Ayurvedic medicine, and its Hindi name, \"gurmar,\" means \"destroyer of sugar.\"\nWith that kind of history, it's only natural scientists would eventually conduct research to discover how effective this herb really is in the fight against diabetes.\nGymnema sylvestre reportedly may increase the amount of insulin in the body while also increasing the growth of beta cells, which are the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. It also contains components that reduce the amount of sugar absorbed from the intestinal tract, according to WebMD.\nIn an article in the Journal of Clinical Biochemical Nutrition, the authors emphasized that Gymnema sylvestre possesses qualities that can fight diabetes from a number of angles. For example, the plant contains gymnemic acids, which have demonstrated anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, and antisweetener activities.\nThe authors pointed out that when leaf extract of Gymnema sylvestre has been given to diabetic patients, it can stimulate the pancreas and thus increase the release of insulin. As an antisweetener, Gymnema sylvestre leaf extract can suppress the ability of taste buds to detect sweet, which may in turn reduce a person's intake of sweet foods.\nFollow eMaxHealth on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.\nPlease, click to subscribe to our Youtube Channel to be notified about upcoming health and food tips.\nA mouse study, published in August 2012 in Phytotherapy Research, explored the effect of a Gymnema sylvestre extract on glucose tolerance in insulin-resistant mice and on insulin secretion and synthesis. Investigators reported that the effects of the herbal extract were \"consistent with its potential use as a therapy for the hyperglycemia associated with obesity-related T2DM [type 2 diabetes].\"\nGymnema sylvestre seems to help mice, but what about people? In the Journal of Dietary Supplements, researchers reported on the use of G. sylvestre in patients with type 2 diabetes. Participants were assigned to be controls or to receive 500 mg daily of the herb for 3 months.\nA series of clinical and biochemical tests revealed that use of G. sylvestre resulted in a reduction in fatigue, blood glucose, glycated hemoglobin, and polyphagia, and there was also an improvement in lipid levels and other tests. The authors concluded that their findings \"suggest a beneficial effect of GS [Gymnema sylvestre] on diabetes mellitus.\"\nGymnema sylvestre is just one of numerous natural or herbal remedies that have demonstrated an ability to help fight type 2 diabetes. Some of the others include curcumin, bitter melon, cinnamon, fenugreek, and selenium, among others.\nGymnema sylvestre is available as a supplement and should be taken only with the knowledge of one's healthcare provider, because it can change a diabetic's need for medication. For individuals who have type 2 diabetes, Gymnema sylvestre is a natural management option with promise and a long history of use.\nAl-Romaivan A et al. A novel extract of Gymnema sylvestre improves glucose tolerance in vivo and stimulates insulin secretion and synthesis in vitro. Phytotherapy Research 2012 Aug 21. doi:10.1002\/ptr.4815 http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22911568\nKanetkar PV et al. Poster presented at the 16th ICFOST meet organized by CFTRI and DFRL. Mysore, India, 2004. Gymnemic acids: a molecular perspective of its action on carbohydrate metabolism.\nKanetkar P et al. Gymnema sylvestre: a memoir. Journal of Clinical Biochemical Nutrition 2007 Sept; 41(2): 77-81\nKumar SN et al. 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{"text":"Oscar Pistorius was 'heartbroken,' 'traumatized,' says social worker\nBy Nick ZaccardiMay 8, 2014, 9:59 AM EDT\nOscar Pistorius appeared heartbroken and traumatized one day after he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a social worker and probation officer testified at the runner's murder trial Thursday.\nThe defense called Yvette van Schalkwyk as one of three witnesses to testify on the 28th day of the trial in Pretoria, South Africa. Van Schalkwyk provided daily emotional support to Pistorius after he fatally shot Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. She said he cried 80 percent of the time.\n\"What I saw from the first time that I saw him, from the first second, was a man that was heartbroken about the loss,\" van Schalkwyk said. \"He was in mourning. He suffered emotionally. He was very sorry about the loss, especially for her parents. \u2026 That was the theme throughout the whole period that I saw him.\"\nPistorius, the first double amputee to run in the Olympics in 2012, said he thought an intruder was locked inside his bathroom when he shot four times through a locked door, hitting and killing Steenkamp inside.\nHe faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of premeditated murder. If not found guilty of premeditated murder, Pistorius could be convicted of culpable homicide, South Africa's version of manslaughter for negligent killing.\nVan Schalkwyk sat with Pistorius in his prison cell during his bail application last year. The runner cried and vomitted twice, she said.\n\"He missed Reeva so much,\" van Schalkwyk said. \"That was his words, the first words he said to me.\"\nIn court, van Schalkwyk read from weekly progress reports on Pistorius' mental state from March 2013, from when he was seeing a psychologist for \"intense therapy,\" she said, adding that Pistorius held a small memorial service for Steenkamp while staying at his uncle's house, which left him emotionally drained.\n\"The accused is very heartbroken,\" she read from the first of four weekly reports. \"He still has a lot of emotion and stress.\"\nVan Schalkwyk said she contacted Pistorius' defense team on Tuesday telling them she was willing to testify. She was motivated by reports that Pistorius' emotional responses in court \u2014 including sobbing and vomitting \u2014 were an act.\nEarlier Thursday, anesthetist Prof. Aina Christina Lundgren testified that Steenkamp's stomach should have been empty when she died if she had not eaten in at least six hours before the shooting. Pistorius believes Steenkamp had not eaten within eight hours of the shooting. An autopsy report said she still had food in her stomach. However, the anesthetist said it was an inexact science and speculative to judge.\nThe final witness Thursday was ballistics expert Wollie Wolmarans, who investigated the scene at Pistorius' house beginning three days after the shooting. Wolmarans testified about Pistorius' firearm, ammunition, bullet trajectory and Steenkamp's wounds. He at one point asked the court if anybody had a firearm he could borrow to show how it worked, but nobody offered one.\nThe trial is scheduled to resume at 3:30 a.m. ET on Friday. The defense is expected to wrap its case by Tuesday.\nHere's NBC News' full coverage of the trial.\nHow the IOC-NBCUniversal Olympics deal came about","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Justice for the 'Windrush' generation\nYesterday I questioned the Home Secretary on behalf of constituents from the Commonwealth who have lived and worked in the UK for many decades but are now facing real hardship because of Government policies. Here's my question:\n\"Constituents of mine from Commonwealth countries who have lived here on paper visas for many decades have now been refused universal credit because they do not have biometric residence permits, which they have never been told they need. This is causing real hardship-not least to those with no papers, with the immigration issues that that brings-and the BRP process is costly and lengthy. What are the Government going to do urgently to address this for those who have contributed so much to our country?\nAmber Rudd responded as follows:\n\"I share the hon. Lady's view that they have contributed so much to this country. I am today announcing that I am setting up a new taskforce across the Department to ensure a swift response. I am also introducing a waiver for the fees involved and a number of other measures that I hope will go a long way to assisting the Commonwealth citizens who should have their rights confirmed without charge.\"\nFollowing Home Office Questions David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham asked the following urgent question: To ask the Home Secretary if she will make an urgent statement on the status of Windrush children in this country.\nHe gave a powerful speech on his concerns which can be read here https:\/\/goo.gl\/YBrS18\nIf you think you are affected by this, please contact me on 01633 841 725 or jessica.morden.mp@parliament.uk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"World Cup 2011 Home | Squads | News | Warm-up Matches | Points Table\n31-Mar-2011 10:34:00 GMT\nIndia v Sri Lanka, Final, World Cup 2011, Mumbai\nTaufel, Aleem to Umpire for India-Sri Lanka World Cup Final\nMumbai: Australian Simon Taufel, a winner of five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards, and Pakistan's Aleem Dar were on Thursday appointed as the on-field officials for the World Cup finals between India and Sri Lanka on Saturday.\nNew Zealand's Jeff Crowe has been named the match referee with England's Ian Gould and Steve Davis of Australia being the third and fourth umpires respectively at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.\nThe match official appointments for India vs Sri Lanka final on April 2 are as follows:\nJeff Crowe (match referee), Simon Taufel and Aleem Dar (both on-field), Ian Gould (third umpire), Steve Davis (fourth umpire).\nICC World Cup 2011\nIndia vs Sri Lanka - The Final\nSri Lanka | India\nTeam India Leaves for Mumbai for Final\nICC World Cup 2011 News\nUpul Tharanga Suspended for Three Months [+]\nSri Lanka opening batsman Upul Tharanga was suspended for three months by the International Cricket Council on Friday for using a banned substance during the World Cup.\nICC Confirms Next Two World Cups Will be 10-team Affairs [+]\nICC confirmed that the next two World Cups will be 10-team events and also announced that teams will be relegated and promoted on the basis of performance.\nIndia Still 2nd in ICC ODI Rankings But Players Rise [+]\nThe number one tag still eludes them but newly-crowned world champions India have closed the gap on top-placed Australia even as the team's in-form players moved up in the individual standings of the latest ICC ODI rankings issued on Monday.\nICC Executive Board to Meet on April 4 [+]\nThe ICC executive board will meet on April 4 to discuss a host of issues, including the new Future Tours Program, and will also review the ongoing World Cup.\nYuvraj Shrugged Off Concerns Over Form [+]\nTo many Yuvraj Singh may come across as arrogant, brawny and egotistic even. Those close to him say these are traits that make the myth, not the man.\nIndia Beat Sri Lanka to Win ICC World Cup 2011 [+]\nMS Dhoni (91*) and Gautam Gambhir (97) helped India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the ICC World Cup 2011 at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.\nCWC Final - Sreesanth in as Sri Lanka Elect to Bat [+]\nSri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat against India in their World Cup final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.\nAngelo Mathews Ruled Out of World Cup Final [+]\nSri Lanka all-rounder Angelo Mathews has been ruled out of Saturday's World Cup final against India after injuring his right thigh muscle in the semifinal against New Zealand.\nInd vs SL: Mumbai All Set For Tendulkar's Dream Final [+]\nA billion hearts will beat for Sachin Tendulkar as India bid for their second World Cup title in the all-Asian final against buoyant Sri Lanka on Saturday.\nIndia-Sri Lanka World Cup Final - ICC Bans TV Channels [+]\nA day before the World Cup final clash between India and Sri Lanka, the ICC renewed the ban on Indian TV news channels from covering the match.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Death of the warrior ethos\nWeaving a path from Achilles to Rambo via Shakespeare and Tolstoy, Christopher Coker's insightful new book captures the increasing demonisation of war \u2013 even 'good wars' \u2013 and the denigration of honour, duty and glory.\nIn his 1998 BBC Reith lectures, 'War and Our World', the military historian and journalist John Keegan described war as 'collective killing for a purpose' (1). It is hardly surprising, then, that societies in which a spirit of solidarity has been diminished, the necessity to fight dismissed, and attempts to impart a sense of direction or meaning discredited, are unable to celebrate their wars and their warriors.\nPrimarily, of course, it is the 'killing' part of Keegan's definition that contemporary societies feel uncomfortable with, or reject outright, rather than the 'collective' or 'purpose' elements, which many would dearly like to rediscover while remaining sceptical about some of their earlier incarnations. But it is precisely the absence of these latter factors that have served to create confusion about the former.\nAnyone wishing to pay tribute to warriors today, or to compose a paean to war as 'a test of, and testament to, a nation's resilience', would be ill-advised to do so. Christopher Coker, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, has done the next best thing. His book The Warrior Ethos, while imbued with a sense of loss, also appropriately captures the ambivalence and ambiguity of our times.\nDespite copious notes and references, this is far from being an academic text. In parts The Warrior Ethos feels more poetic than polemic, as Coker endeavours to weave a path from Achilles to Rambo via Shakespeare and Tolstoy. His sense that the spirit of an age can be captured through its literature and culture, rather than historical and political analysis alone, proves most rewarding, especially in revealing what has changed.\nIt is not simply a lost world that is unravelled, but lost words, too. 'Honour', 'Duty' and 'Glory' lose their meaning, and their use, if we forget the past, dismiss the present and refuse to face up to the future. 'Heroism', stripped of its subjective factor, appears merely to be bred-in, or institutionalised. Alternatively it is pathologised, as a self-serving and dangerous obsession, or worse, as the sad struggle of trauma victims.\nHenry V's decisive defeat of the French at Agincourt in 1415, as well as Shakespeare's account of it with the infamous 'band of brothers', can now be portrayed as being about people suffering from 'a centuries-old \"deception\" about the glory of war'. Inverting this new orthodoxy, Coker reveals brilliantly how 'we tend to deprive them of the fullness of their lives in order to support and sustain the smallness of our own'.\nIt is our contemporary construction of events that can transform these historic episodes from being 'full of meaning' to being seen as a 'futile waste'. In that sense, the postmodern disposition towards not taking anything too seriously is quite disabling, even in the absence of any enemy we may face. But we should be clear, that this 'incredulity toward metanarratives' (2), stems from an interpretation of the world rather than being inherent.\n'All of us in the Western world come from a culture which doubts its own first principles', rails Coker. So freedom must be fought for afresh in each generation. Stuggle, too, despite its rejection by those of sensitive dispositions, is also a necessity in nature. 'Only in the last thirty years have we begun to imagine living at peace with nature', he notes, yet increasing numbers seem to be forgetting this at their peril.\nWar, like all struggles, is transformative, both for the individuals concerned and for society. Little wonder then, that societies which \u2013 despite their rhetoric \u2013 fear change, rejecting the uncertainties it creates and endlessly seeking to control risks, should have such qualms about it. Fighting forces them to take a view of the future, regardless of whether they prefer the present or believe in any particular cause.\nThis transcendental element of existence is most acutely felt by warriors, who are asked to be willing to sacrifice themselves for the 'greater good' \u2013 another unfashionable concept, and one invoked by The Military Covenant that has only relatively recently been codified and released (3). But again, a 'greater good' presumes a 'collective' with a sense of 'purpose', despite these being noticeable by their absence today.\nCoker does not romanticise killing, although, like a recent report accusing the British Army of glamorising warfare (4), he notes a growing reluctance in military circles to use the 'K' word. The preference for euphemisms, such as 'engage' or 'suppress', can rightly be interpreted as defensive. As in animal testing laboratories, when researchers avoid the 'K' word, or claim to prioritise 'welfare', their evasion allows opponents to run riot.\nIt was enlightened modernity itself that put paid to Homeric heroes such as Achilles who, living in an unfettered Hobbesian 'state of nature', could go about butchering their opponents with little sense of remorse. The modern warrior is accountable to society, choosing to fight for a shared interest. We are not driven mindlessly into feuds through genetic blood ties, but determine our course by our own reason.\nBut society, suggests Coker, by sanctioning its warriors' actions, simultaneously removes the determination of their destiny from them. This suppression of the one to the many works so long as there are many who wish to be one, and so long as all parties trust one another and themselves. If these bonds are broken, a vast array of legal codes is imposed upon would-be warriors to patrol their actions and even their thoughts.\nIn addition, the American cultural historian Paul Fussell suggests that the attenuation of religious belief in the modern world contributed to making modern war and especially death much harder to bear than in the past (5). 'How does a society cope with death when it no longer dreams of eternity?' asks Coker, noting how it has been turned into a risk to be avoided, thereby robbing it, and life, of their significance.\nThe error is to measure life in terms of risk at all. Life, argued Freud, loses its interest when death may not be risked (6). Another way to put it is that there is more to life than mere existence through risk management. As Coker argues, 'Reason serves the passions; it doesn't suppress them.' Yet, in recent years, the military has tied itself in knots assessing risks, thereby encouraging its detractors to do likewise (7).\nTake one example, the tragic deaths from gunshot wounds of four young soldiers at the Princess Royal Barracks in Deepcut, England, between 1995 and 2002. This has now led to, by one count, 17 separate inquiries, including those by members of parliament, the Ministry of Defence, the Official Review, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, and a two-year independent review of the various re-investigations (8). No wonder the military feels paralysed.\nMeanwhile, the West's enemies in the 'war on terror' claim to embrace death. But suicide bombers are not warriors, proposes Coker, because they are not accountable to society. The problem here is to take them at face value, or to view them as that different to us in the first place. It is not just the Ummah that is not consulted nowadays, but the self-disenfranchised millions in Western democracies, too.\nMaybe, in the absence of a cohering society, we are all afflicted by a form of nihilism to some degree. Coker cites Nate Fick in his memoir of the Second Gulf War exclaiming: 'Death before dishonour. Marines tattoo it on their forearms, but these fuckers [the Iraqis] live it.' (9) Other, more dispassionate observers, however, characterise self-styled jihadists as making a lot of noise but saying very little, and as having a passion for self-publicity.\nImage influences reality, but is limited too, notes Coker. He sees how today's 'Jarheads' are more likely to style themselves upon one-dimensional Hollywood heroes, hip hop and the lyrics of Marilyn Manson, than to have read or appreciated the psychological depth of Greek epic poetry, and bemoans the 'bad ass' influence within the US military of those for whom Tupac Shakur is a more familiar figure than Abraham Lincoln (10).\nThis is a lazy caricature, for while not describing Iraqis as 'motherfuckers' or themselves as 'cool because we're so good at blowing shit up', it is the elites who are confused in the current period. They fail to lead for lack of purpose or belief in themselves. And contrary to Coker's assertions, films do capture mythical dimensions and transcendence, as epics like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Pan's Labyrinth prove.\nHe is also in danger of overstating the role of technology. Coker seems mesmerised by the world of cybernetic warriors and unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs). Quite how much he knows of the 'hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis' is anybody's guess. True, such developments impact on the conduct of war, but it is the loss of confidence in humanity that drives these developments, rather than the other way around.\nTechnology need not erode tradition and myth, as he suggests. If, for myth, we read a self-affirming narrative that inspires, instructs, enables and connects, as he proposes, then this necessitates the engagement of human passions. For tradition, we could prioritise the truth, as we see it, one that has to be fought for and engaged with, not just imparted. This is the business of politics, not technology or management.\n'Theory', wrote Marx, 'becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses' (11). It is the inability of the elites today to appreciate the material power of ideas, let alone fight for them, that leave them unarmed, looking to technology or management to fill the gap. Ensuring ideas 'grip the masses', and become the truth, combining objective evidence with subjective will, is a labour of love entirely alien to them.\nThere is a real irony, then, in the US military having now introduced a 'Warrior Ethos' programme across its force, from basic training to the Army War College, to remind its personnel as to what is expected of them. Like 'citizenship classes' in the UK, this seems doomed to fail where it is most needed \u2013 at the level of lived ethos as opposed to paper exercises where, unlike on the battlefield, targets are readily met.\nThe British military is not immune to such instrumental trends. Reports highlight how a career in the Armed Forces 'equips people with skills and qualifications that can be transferred to civilian life' (12), or provide 'an opportunity that may have been denied in civilian life' (13). In general, the approach is one that emphasises what people can get out of the military, rather than what they will need to give.\nUnsurprisingly, then, with such confusion at large across society, as well as embedded in the ranks of the military, Coker identifies how a 'Therapy Culture' further confuses matters. It acts as an 'invitation to infirmity', he proposes, noting 'we heal psychic wounds when we are able to give meaning to our experiences. Clearly, if an experience is deemed 'meaningless', then 'so is the pain and suffering that results'.\nWe are now a long way away from George C Scott's portrayal of the great American General, George Patton. Talking about war at the start of the 1970 movie, he is depicted as confessing, 'I love it. God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life'. Nowadays, it is journalists who self-depict themselves as the real heroes of war, risking it all in search of 'the truth' and without killing anyone to boot (14).\nThere is no glory in killing but, as Plato reminds us, 'What makes us human \u2026 is not nature or nurture but our capacity to rise above both'. If we do not want, as Nietzsche warned, to find the abyss looking into us when we look into it (15), then it is high time we were reminded of these few basic truths. The fight for truth and for freedom is essential, and Coker's book goes some way towards highlighting this.\nThe Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror by Christopher Coker is published by Routledge. (Buy this book from Amazon(UK).)\nFirst published on spiked, 29 February 2008\n(1) War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998, John Keegan, Hutchinson, 1998, p.2\n(2) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard, Manchester University Press, 1984, p.xxiv\n(3) Soldiering \u2013 The Military Covenant, Army Doctrine Publication Volume 5, 2000\n(4) Informed Choice? Armed Forces Recruitment Practice in the United Kingdom, David Gee, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, 2007\n(5) The Bloody Game: An Anthology of Modern Warfare, Paul Fussell, Scribner, 1991, p.24\n(6) Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, Paul Ricoeur, New Haven, 1970, p.329\n(7) Informed Choice?, op. cit.\n(8) Breaking the Covenant: Governance of the British Army in the Twenty-First Century, Anthony Forster, International Affairs, 2006, Vol.82, No.6, p.1048\n(9) One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, Nathaniel Fick, Houghton Mifflin, 2005, p.82\n(10) Generation Kill: Living Dangerously on the Road to Baghdad with the Ultra-Violent Marines of Bravo Company, Evan Wright, Bantam 2004\n(11) A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Karl Marx, 1844\n(12) Ministry of Defence Responds to Independent Report 'Informed Choice?' on Armed Forces Recruitment Practice in the UK, Government News Network, 7 January 2008\n(13) House of Commons Defence Committee, Duty of Care (Vol.1), The Stationery Office 2005, p.5-6\n(14) This Man's Army: A Soldier's Story from the Front Line of the War on Terrorism, Andrew Exum, Gotham, 2005, p.233\n(15) Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886\nPosted on 28 February 2008 14 February 2020 Author BillCategories Media commentary, Modern society, Spiked\nPrevious Previous post: Gordon Brown's state of terror\nNext Next post: History: it's just one bloody thing after another","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"South Africa \u2013 Boer Lives Matter\nWhat the ANC and its allies have been aiming for since their assumption to power is about to take place \u2013 the confiscation of White farms without compensation. It is part of a process of White dispossession. 82,000 Whites live in poverty (2011 statistics). Some 80 squatter camps mainly of Afrikaners have cropped up. There are those who say that this is just retribution for 'apartheid'. Julius Malema, who introduced the motion to confiscate White farmland, said there would be no compensation 'for the criminals who stole our land.'\nThe mainly Dutch migrants who formed the basis of the Afrikaner people settled at the Cape in 1652. They encountered roaming Bushmen and Hottentots who were engaged in bloody conflict. Migrating Dutch and Xhosa met each other around 1700. There were no widespread Xhosa settlements. What areas the Xhosa had remained as homeland areas under apartheid. The Afrikaner did not confiscate Xhosa lands.\nThe Afrikaner, wanting to live in peace, migrated (The Great Trek) during the 1830s to be free of British rule. They founded the Free State and the Transvaal, which also lacked settlements. Only Zululand in Natal, was settled. After a war started by the Zulus, with whom the Voortrekers had a pact, the Afrikaners nonetheless left them in possession of Zululand. In the Free State and Transvaal the Voortrekers were attacked by the Matabele, but these were pushed into Rhodesia. Pacts were made between the Voortrekers and various tribes that had been terrorised by the Matabele, and their lands remained with them.\nThe Anglo-Boer Wars erupted because mining monopolists wanted to secure the gold and diamonds of the Afrikaner Republics. The excuse used for British invasion was that the Afrikaners were 'mistreating the Uitlanders' ('Outsiders'). During the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) women and children were herded into British concentration camps where 26,000 died of typhus and malnutrition.\nThe Afrikaners were largely a rural folk (Boer = farmers). Industry and finance were controlled mainly by non-Afrikaners, especially the Oppenheimer mining, industrial, media and financial empire. The Oppenheimer dynasty was always the biggest enemy of the Afrikaner people. When in 1922 White mine workers on the Rand rebelled because of the use Black scab labour, this was crushed mercilessly by the Smuts Government. In reaction an Afrikaner Nationalist Government was voted in, with support from the Labour Party. The policy of 'apartheid' (separate development) was evolved in an effort to encourage the self-determination of the thirteen different racial groups, most of whom had little or nothing in common. Of these the largest were the Whites and the Xhosa each with about the same numbers. There is no such entity as a 'Black' South African, either before, during or after apartheid.\nFor decades the eternally persecuted Afrikaner endured the animosity of a combination of Communists and Big Business who used the same rhetoric as the British had used about the supposed lack of 'human rights' for the 'Uitlanders', to justify attacking the Afrikaners. On both occasions it served as a cover for the control of South Africa's wealth, and Harry Oppenheimer commented that Big Business, headed by his corporation (Anglo-American) was in the forefront of undermining apartheid, so that a rootless mass of consumers and workers could be created. Even Professor Noam Chomsky, the Left-wing icon, observed that the anti-apartheid campaigners were regarded by Big Business as 'their troops'. (Chomsky, Understanding Power, 2002, 88-89).\nThe reason for the much-condemned 'pass laws' was to protect South African workers from the huge numbers of 'Blacks' who crossed the border for the better living conditions under the Whites, who expended vast amounts on 'Black' welfare, education, sanitation, and housing, and the development of the homelands; all now falling to pieces since the fateful year 1994.\nSouth Africa is repeating what happened in Kenya with the depraved Mau Mau, and the rest of Africa. When a court ruled in 2010 that the ANC song 'Kill the farmer, kill the Boer', was 'hate speech', ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe rejected this. Julius Malema had led the singing, the same gentleman who introduced the motion to confiscate White land, with the ironic quip, 'the time for reconciliation is over'. Since 1994 over 70,000 Whites have been murdered, including over 6,000 farmers, plus an unknown number raped, tortured and mutilated; although the statistics are debated and denied. Cries of 'bury them [Boers] alive' ring out in SA's Parliament.\nWhen a motion was introduced in the New Zealand Parliament to condemn the confiscation of Boer farms it was vetoed by Labour and NZ First. When a bloodbath results the New Zealand Government will be complicit.\nBoer Lives Matter!\nK R Bolton\nJohan 15\/07\/2018 at 8:47 am\nGood to know. How can Labour or NZ First expect votes in future if they refuse to call this what it is? There is a cord burning with a barrel of dynamite connected to it in South Africa. NZ played a notable role in abolishing apartheid, but now the NZ government does not even want to raise an opinion. Actions of a government worthy of sitting on an UN Security Council? Talk now and lets get informed before everybody just grabs at an opinion on D-day, because it seems to be heading that way, and fast. Russia is getting involved in this issue, inviting 15 000 Boers, while they are in the BRICS partnership with South Africa.\nSo good to have found this site.\nThank you KR Bolton.\nRod 02\/08\/2018 at 5:09 am\nI would have expected nothing more of the New Zealand Labour Party when it came to condemning white eviction and murder. Yes, perhaps there could (or should) have been a hint of empathy amongst the rank and file of New Zealand First \u2013 but as is always the case in party politics \u2013 holding onto power is one's primary objective (over that of principle).\nWhen I was growing up in 1970s New Zealand there was at least some credence to \u2013 and acknowledgement of White South Africa. Today the attitude is one of outright indignation and dismissal. \"Well, the whites got what they deserved!\" espoused the milk-white blonde in my workplace the other day.\nPoisoned by the twin evils of Marxist (mainstream media) propaganda and a liberalist education system \u2013 the need for some New Zealanders to hate all things of European extraction and bearing is indeed very great. So much is the inherent need to feel inclusion in the internationalist cult of racial diversity \u2013 they seem prepared to sell their very souls to be part of it!\nIn my opinion the Boers have now been placed under the same prohibition order as that imposed upon the German people at the end of World War Two.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ESSIEN DIDN'T PLAN FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT\nEx-Ghanaian national team player Michael Essien has revealed that he didn't see himself as a manager and that he loves the round leather game of football. Michael Essien disclosed that he didn't plan football management and that his love for the game as played a big part. Michael Essien talked about his early life in football management and those who have shaped his career in a chat with The Football Ramble.\nRead more about ESSIEN DIDN'T PLAN FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT\nWHY ESSIEN LOST SEVERAL FOLLOWERS REVEALED\nEx-Ghanaian national team midfielder Michael Essienlost a lot of followers on social media after he showed support for gay rights in his native Ghana.Michael Essien came in for a lot of criticisms and abuses online on the back of his support for the LGBTQ+ community. Michael Essien showed his support for the LGBTQ+ community via his post on both his official Twitter and Instagram handles. Unlike the developed countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and many more, African countries are still receptive towards the LGBTQ+ community.\nRead more about WHY ESSIEN LOST SEVERAL FOLLOWERS REVEALED\nHISTORY MAKER ODEJAYI SHOCKS ESSIEN, OTHERS\nNigerian striker KayodeOdejayi wrote his name into the history books after he masterminded the big win over Chelsea in the FA Cup some 13 years ago. KayodeOdejayi gave less fancied Barnsley a famous 1-0 win over the Blues at home in 2008. KayodeOdejayi scored four goals during that season but the one against Chelsea was the undoubtedly the most famous. Barnsley were the big team slayers in the FA Cup during the 2007\/08 season but no one gave them a chance against a Chelsea team at the peak of their powers. That Chelsea team had the likes of skipper John Terry, Ricardo Carvalho, Michael Essien, Michael Ballack, Joe Cole and many more but the Barnsley players were no respecter of reputations and big names as they stunned Michael Essien and his Chelsea teammates thereby getting to the semi-finals of the competition that season.\nRead more about HISTORY MAKER ODEJAYI SHOCKS ESSIEN, OTHERS\nMICHAEL ESSIEN OPENS UP ON NORDSJAELLAND COACHING SPELL\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien has opened up on his time as a manager of a football club as he looks to advance in his career. The ex-Black Stars midfielder has recently joined the moving train of former players who have decided to take a different route from the aspect of football to management. Former players like Ol\u00e9 Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r at Manchester United, Zinedine Zidane at Real Madrid, Andrea Pirlo at Juventus, and others have taken huge steps to ensure that they find their way into management, with some of them thriving at it, while others have faltered at some point.\nEssien, however, has spoken well of his first few months into management and has revealed that he hopes to maintain it on that same note. The former Black Stars star is the current manager at Danish side Nordsjaelland and is expected to be at the helm for the rest of the current campaign.\nRead more about MICHAEL ESSIEN OPENS UP ON NORDSJAELLAND COACHING SPELL\nMENDY REVEALS BEST CHELSEA TEAM\nNew Chelsea player Edouard Mendy has revealed the best team in the history of the club. Edouard Mendy has been following the club before he made the move from Rennes last summer. Edouard Mendy talked about the best team in the history of his new club in an interview with the official website of the team.According to him, he watched the Chelsea team that had Didier Drogba and Michael Essien while he was young.\nEdouard Mendy told the Chelsea website that the Blues team that had the likes of Michael Essien and Didier Drogbawas the best one. Chelsea were a formidable force under Jose Mourinho. The likes of skipper John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ricardo Carvalho, Michael Essien, Didier Drogba and Petr Cech were important members of the Chelsea team that won two successive league titles between 2004 and 2006.\nRead more about MENDY REVEALS BEST CHELSEA TEAM\nJUVENTUS LOANEE ON SPURS RADAR\nTottenham Hotspur are reportedly on the trail of highly rated United States of America international Weston McKenniewho's on loan at Italian champions Juventus from Schalke 04 in the German Bundesliga.\nWeston McKennie joined Juventus from Schalke 04 on a season-long loan at the start of this campaign and he has been in impressive form for the Old Lady. He has been one of the shining lights in the Juventus midfield this season. The interest of Spurs in Weston McKennie who's said to have similar attributes to Michael Essien was revealed by Italian transfer news portal Calciomercato.\nRead more about JUVENTUS LOANEE ON SPURS RADAR\nESSIEN JOINS DANISH TEAM AS COACH\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien has joined a club in the top flight of Danish football in his bid to realise his ambitions of becoming a manager. The Chelsea legend has decided to become a football manager after an illustrious playing career. It was announced by Danish club FC Nordsjaelland some weeks back that Michael Essien has joined them as a coach.\nIt was disclosed via a club statement that Michael Essien is part of the coaching team for the 2020\/21 season. Ex-Ghanaian international midfielder Michael Essien has decided to follow some of his former Chelsea teammates into management.\nRead more about ESSIEN JOINS DANISH TEAM AS COACH\nFLASHBACK: MICHAEL ESSIEN'S MOST MEMORABLE CHELSEA GOALS\nChelsea legend Michael Essien recently celebrated his 38th birthday, and what a player he was! The former Ghana midfielder was a maestro during his playing days and will have his name mentioned when talking about Chelsea's greatest players.\nIn his 256 appearances for Chelsea in all competitions, the former midfield star scored 25 goals since he joined then in the 1006 summer transfer window. He would then go on to spend six years at the club, helping the Blues lift a couple of trophies in the process.\nOne of the most memorable moments in his career would be the night when they defeated Bayern Munich in Germany to lift the UEFA Champions League. In all of the matches he played for Chelsea, there are a couple of them which he surely will never forget.\nRead more about FLASHBACK: MICHAEL ESSIEN'S MOST MEMORABLE CHELSEA GOALS\nMICHAEL ESSIEN NAMES HIS BEST MANAGER\nGhanaian football legend Michael Essien has named the best manager he had during his illustrious football career. In a chat with TalkSport earlier this month, the former Blues midfielder talked about the manager he enjoyed playing for the most.\nRead more about MICHAEL ESSIEN NAMES HIS BEST MANAGER\nexit door when the current season reaches its conclusion.\nWillian opens the door for Chelsea stay next season Brazilian winger Willian has hinted that he could be prepared to stay put with Chelsea beyond the current season. The 31-year-old has been in a contract standoff with the Blues over the past year and he has been widely tipped to head through the\nThe attacker has been holding out for a three-year deal during the course of the negotiations, but the Blues have refused to bow to his demands and are not prepared to offer more than two years on the new contract. Still, Blues boss Frank Lampard has expressed the desire to keep hold of Willian next term and the forward has refused to rule out the possibility.\nRead more about exit door when the current season reaches its conclusion.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"London, England 1872 (4)\nBallard, William 2341 (66) 1 \/ 1\nMinchin, James 2371 (52) 0 \/ 1\nGossip, George 2213 (51) 1 \/ 1\nHeathcote, John 0 \/ 1\nGossip, George gave odds of pawn and two moves\nWisker, John 2537 (38) 1 \/ 1\nMartin, William 1993 (53) 0 \/ 1\nWisker, John gave odds of pawn and move\nZukertort, Johannes 2608 (43) 1 \/ 1\nBaxter, Crichton 2030 (108) 0 \/ 1\nZukertort, Johannes gave odds of pawn and two moves\nThorold, Edmund 2435 (45) 1 \/ 1\nTennant, A. 1796 (135) 0 \/ 1\nThorold, Edmund gave odds of pawn and move\nBussy, Bernard 2181 (88) 1 \/ 1\nMinchin, Charles 2017 (81) 0 \/ 1\nMinchin, Charles gave odds of a knight\nSteinitz, Wilhelm 2778 (43) 1 \/ 1\nFenton, Richard 2280 (57) 0 \/ 1\nSteinitz, Wilhelm gave odds of pawn and move\nEschwege, Herman 2223 (81) 1 \/ 1\nDown, Henry 2042 (71) 0 \/ 1\nWisker, John gave odds of pawn and two moves\nThorold, Edmund gave odds of a knight\nMartin, William gave odds of pawn and move\nFenton, Richard gave odds of pawn and move\nMinchin, Charles gave odds of pawn and move\nMinchin, James gave odds of pawn and two moves\nMinchin, James gave odds of pawn and move\nName: British Chess Association Handicap Tournament\nStart date: 24 June 1872\nEnd date: Aug. 1872\nThis was a 16-player, handicap knockout tournament. Di Felice has Tennant in Class IV, but the Chess Player's Chronicle of Aug. 1872 (p.121) and the Westminster Papers of 1 July 1872 (p.35) have him in Class III. The Westminster Papers of 1 July 1872 (p.35) include among the early results in this event 'Blackburne beat Major Minchin, giving pawn and move', which is an error. Blackburne was not in this event. Aside from the final between Thorold and Wisker, the scores of each pairing are not given by my sources, only who won against who and at what odds. I will take the scores all to be 1-0, as a conservative estimate, with the excpetion of the Zukertort-Steinitz pairing, where Sergeant says that Zukertort won after 2 draws, and the Thorold-Wisker final, which Di Felice gives as +2-0=0 for Thorold. The Illustrated London News of 17 Aug. 1872 (p.168), the Westminster Papers of 1 Sept. 1872 (p.65) and the Chess Player's Chronicle of Oct. 1872 (p.160) state that Thorold won the event, and therefore beat Wisker in the final. Interstingly, Sergeant (p.158) and Forster (p.82) say that Wisker won. The Illustrated London News of 17 Aug. 1872 (p.168) also says that several other games still had to be played. I guess, therefore, that it finished later in Aug. 1872. Di Felice and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give the results of the knockout for first and second prizes, but the Chess Player's Chronicle also gives the results amongst the losers of the first round for third and fourth prizes.\nDi Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 55\nForster, Amos Burn, page 82\nHarding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 231\nSergeant, Century of British Chess, page 158\n[CPC], vol. 3, no. 4, Aug. 1872, page 121\n[CPC], vol. 3, no. 5, Oct. 1872, page 160\n[Era], vol. 34, no. 1766, 28 July 1872, page 7\n[ILN], vol. 61, no. 1719, 17 Aug. 1872, page 168\n[MP], no. 30770, 22 July 1872, page 2\n[SoT], 3 Aug. 1872\n[WP], vol. 5, no. 3, 1 July 1872, page 34\n[WP], vol. 5, no. 4, 1 Aug. 1872, page 49\n[WP], vol. 5, no. 5, 1 Sep. 1872, page 65\nSericano, C. [London handicap 1872]\nTournament information updated: 5 May 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Continuing our Flight with Lauren Wallace!\nby Sally Bergesen\nI can't tell you how excited I am to announce that Oiselle has renewed and expanded our contract with elite runner and 2015 indoor track champ Lauren Wallace, who trains with Drew Wartenburg's standout group, the NorCal Distance Project in Sacramento.\nWe first met Lauren and the NorCal group at the 2013 USA Outdoors in Des Moines. The epic year of team-building, fan-girling, and swassing it in the stands.\nIt was our first year of \"signing\" athletes (following Fleshman's on-boarding in January), which probably explains my awkward arm position in this pic (someone needed to tell me that \"elbows out\" was for the track). But as you can see, Lauren was a natural, and when she said she also spoke French, well, bien sur! It was a match.\nSince then, it has been such an honor to see Lauren continue to evolve as a competitor. I got to watch her in January 2014, light up the Dempsey here in Seattle. And then I got to see her again at Payton Jordan and USA Outdoors in Sacramento where she PR'd in the 800 \u2013 in the broiling heat of her hometown!\nThe most exciting race in memory, however, has to be her recent win of the 1000m at the USA Indoor Track Champs where she snuck up on the front pack on the inside lane and surprised everyone, including herself. It was such a pure show of finishing strength and internal confidence \u2013 it was truly beautiful. Never, ever give up!\nSo I'm incredibly happy that we're able to continue this journey together. And by \"we,\" I mean everyone at The Nest, but also and especially Kristin Metcalf and Bob Lesko who are the leaders of our athlete team.\nWhen I caught up with Lauren this past week, I asked what the highlights have been for her this past +1.5 years and she said:\nHaving USAs in Sacramento was exhilarating. I grew up in Northern California and a lot of my family still lives in the area. Combining the world of track and field with those closest to me was something entirely new and exciting. I PR'd in the 800m and finished 11th overall. Although I didn't make the final, the experience was priceless.\nRacing in Europe for the first time. I learned so much and met so many great people. I came away with two wins of the three races I competed in.\nAltitude camp in October. Altitude gave me a new found respect for oxygen and running in the mountains. It laid down the ground work for my indoor season and set me up to PR in the 5k at the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot.\nWinning USA indoors. My season didn't play out entirely how we had planned. We adapted, changed some things around and in the end, everything worked out in our favor.\nOnward and upward! Thank you for believing in us, Lauren. We are your biggest fans, and will be there cheering -- loud and proud!\nhaute-volee","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The emergence of NBA 2K esports: a Q&A with managing director, Brendan Donohue on its marketing prospects\nBy Taruka Srivastav-15 May 2017 08:41am\nSeventeen of the NBA's 30 teams will participate in the inaugural season of the NBA 2K eSports league\nESports is growing like a wildfire with the Esports ad industry worth $280m in 2016 is set to breach the billion mark by 2021.\nWith the ever growing marketing prospects of eSports and the inclusion of it it next year's Asian Games, now is the time for sports organizations to invest in the sector. In the US, NBA has led the way by becoming the first pro sports league to co-own an e-sports organisation.\nThe Drum spoke to NBA 2K eSports new managing director Brendan Donohue to enunciate his plans for the league.\nWhat prompted the NBA to start its own NBA 2K esports league?\nWe, along with 2K, recognized a tremendous opportunity. Esports is another great way for us to engage with NBA fans and NBA 2K players. We know our fans are digitally\/tech savvy, our audience is young and diverse, and they are global. This aligns perfectly with the eSports space. We're launching the NBA 2K eSports league because we see a tremendous opportunity in the space to engage a burgeoning community and grow the game of basketball.\nWhat benefit does this bring the very game and the sport?\nNBA 2K is the most popular sports video game in North America and, more importantly, the top rated by users. This will allow us, along with 2K, to create a way to bring together the elite players in the world to compete. Other eSports games have proven there is a significant appetite for people to watch that.\nWhat it brings to the game of basketball is another great way to engage with our fans on a global level and allow more people to experience the game of basketball.\nWe are looking forward to forming something truly unique for basketball and gaming fans around the globe.\nWe believe this league, supported by the NBA, our teams, and 2K, could be industry defining. This is the first, team-driven eSports league operated by a U.S. professional sports league. Plus, the five-on-five eSports format \u2013 where each player controls only one player on screen \u2013 creates a true team dynamic by having to rely on your fellow teammates.\nHow much funding is this venture getting?\nWhile we won't discuss financial details, we will say that the NBA, 2K, our teams and our partners are making a strong commitment to the league.\nWhat are the expansion plans?\n17 of the NBA's 30 teams will participate in the inaugural season of the NBA 2K eSports league, while our other teams have expressed tremendous interest in the league. We fully expect more teams to jump on board starting with Year two.\nWhat has been the response of other NBA teams?\nThe response for our teams has been terrific. More than half of our organizations will participate in the league's inaugural season. All 30 teams are big believers in what we are doing and they know that this is great for the NBA.\nAre there any plans to broadcast it and if yes, where?\nYes. We'll be making announcements about our media plans in the coming months.\nWhat are the difficulties you expect to face and how do you plan to overcome those?\nThis idea is new so we'll need to build an audience, but the great news is that we are not starting from zero. NBA 2K is already the most popular sports game in North America and that will give the NBA 2K eSports league a great initial boost. We're excited for the challenge as we bring together the NBA's league operations experience and 2K's gaming expertise.\nYour forte is marketing. How do you plan to use all your experience in marketing of this new eSports league?\nI've been interested in eSports for quite a while. I plan to use what I have learned over the past two decades to create the most exciting, engaging and game changing experience for players and fans.\nFind out more about the marketing opportunities for e-Sports at The Drum's dedicated news section.\nThe Drum is investigating the Fifa eSports phenomena in a documentary called eSports: Football Rebooted. Sign up for the free viewing event 3 August in London here.\nThis article is about: India, NBA, ESports, Digital, Marketing, Media, Sponsorship, Sport","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AirAsia set to fly to Zamboanga, General Santos and Dumaguete\nJanuary 23, 2020 | 12:01 am\nPHILIPPINES AirAsia, Inc. is set to launch three more domestic routes this year in response to the growing volume of passengers in Zamboanga City, General Santos City, and Dumaguete City.\nA news release on Wednesday from the city government of Zamboanga quoted the company's chairman, Joseph Omar A. Castillo, as saying that the low-cost carrier is opening its services in the city because it believes in the leadership of the local officials.\n\"We believe in the plans and programs of the city that it is one of the leaders in Mindanao that can push for economic development in this part of the region,\" he was quoted as saying in a press briefing there.\nThe city is led by its Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar and Vice Mayor Rommel S. Agan.\nMr. Castillo said the company, which operates under the trade name AirAsia Philippines, considers Zamboanga City as a market that it \"cannot miss,\" noting that there has been an increase in the volume of airplane passengers travelling to the area.\nThe Zamboanga City government said further that the low-cost carrier \"will open two flights\" daily from the city to Manila beginning March 15. An 8320 aircraft, which has a capacity of 180 passengers and a single class accommodation, will be serving the Zamboanga-Manila route.\nIt added that the airline company will also be opening routes in General Santos City and Dumaguete City this year.\nMr. Castillo was also quoted as saying that airfares for Zamboanga-Manila flights could go down as what has been observed in other destinations, especially in Bacolod City where fares went down by 25%. The route was opened in October last year.\nThe company announced early this month that it was increasing the frequency of its flights in high demand domestic and international destinations this year.\nRicardo \"Ricky\" P. Isla, AirAsia Philippines chief executive officer, said the move is in line with the carrier's vision of allowing its guests to tick-off more destinations from their travel bucket list.\nAirAsia Philippines operates more than 500 weekly domestic and international flights from its hubs in Manila, Clark, Cebu and Kalibo.\nAmong the flights that will have increased frequencies are those from Clark to Iloilo and vice-versa, which will have daily flights. Flights from Cebu to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and vice-versa will increase to four times a week.\nStarting on March 29, the airline will have daily flights between Cebu and Puerto Princesa. Flights from Clark to Tacloban and vice-versa, will be four times a week.\nAirAsia operates in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, India and Japan. Its services include hotels, holidays, activities and online shopping, as well as integrated logistics and digital financial services. \u2014 Arjay L. Balinbin\nArjay L. Balinbin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hydrocarbons, C13-18\nEC number: 928-253-0 | CAS number: 1174918-40-1\nCurrently viewing: 2,2,4,4,6,8,8-heptamethylnonane2,2,4,6,6-pentamethylheptane5-80% n-hexane8006-20-6848301-67-7Alkanes, C7-10-iso-C10-C12 Aromatic hydrocarbonC10-C19 Paraffin mixC13-C18 cycloalkanesC13-C18 isoalkanesC13-C18 isoalkanesC13-C18 n-alkanesC14 -C16 n-ParaffinsC14-20 Aliphatics (<=2%aromatics)C14-C16 n-ParaffinsC15 Ampol CPDC15 paraffinsC16-C20 n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticsC16-C30 Highly refined light mineral oilC24 alkylated NaphthaleneC7-C9 IsoalkanesC9 High-Flash aromatic naphthaClairsol 440Clairsol NScommercial hexaneCyclopentaneDecahydronaphthalenedecalinDecaneDEV 2001\/37DEV 2006-16DEV 2006-17DEV 2006-18DEV 2006-19DEV 2006-20DEV 2007-19DEV 2007-22DEV 98-25DEV 98-26DEV 98-31DEV 99-10DEV 99-18Distillates (Fischer-Tropsch), C8-26 - branched and linearDistillates (petroleum), hydrotreated lightDodecaneDodecylcyclohexaneE010\/02EBF 6000EDC 95-08EDC 95-11Exxsol D130Exxsol D140Gemseal 25 Lot 20060466Gemseal 40 Lot 20060472Gemseal 60 Lot 20060349H383\/96H389\/96H398\/96H399\/96HDF 200HDF 94-27HeptaneHexadecaneHydrocarbons, C10 \u2013 C12, isoalkanes, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C10-C12 isoalkanes, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C10-C12, isoalkanes, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C10-C13 AromaticsHydrocarbons, C10-C13, n-alkanes, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C10-C13, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C11-C14, n-alkanes, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C11-C14, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C11-C14, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C12-C15, n-alkanes, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C12-C15, n-alkanes,<2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C12-C16, isoalkanes, cyclics, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C12-C16, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C12-C16, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C13-C16, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C13-C18, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C13-C18, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticshydrocarbons, C14-20 Aliphatics (<=2%aromatics)Hydrocarbons, C14-C16, n-alkanes, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C17, n-alkanes, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C18, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C18, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C18, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C18, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2%aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C18, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, aromatics (2-30%)Hydrocarbons, C14-C19, isoalkanes, cyclics, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C19, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C20 (even numbered), n-alkanes, isoalkanes, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C20, aliphatics, <=2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C14-C20, n-alkanes, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C16-C20, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C16-C20, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, aromatics (2-30%)hydrocarbons, C7-C9, isoalkanesHydrocarbons, C9-C11, isoalkanes, cyclics, < 2% aromaticsHydrocarbons, C9-C12, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, aromatics (2-25%)Hydrodesulfurized keroseneIcosaneIsopar VJet Fuel AJet FuelsJP-8 jet fuelKerosine (petroleum)Linpar 1416-VMethylcyclohexaneMRD-83-207MRD-88-295MRD-90-843MRD-90-884MRD-90-903MRD-94-974MRD-94-976n-alkanes, C13-C22n-Butylbenzenen-nonanen-Paraffin mix with a mean C number of 23n-paraffins, C13-C22Naphtha (petroleum), hydrotreated heavyNonaneParaffin (petroleum), normal, C5-C20Paraffin mixtureParaffin, normal, C5-C20Paraset 32HPetrepar 147 (P-147)Petrepar-147PristaneSample ASample A. 5\/03\/96Sample BSample B. 5\/03\/96Sample DSample ESolvent naphtha (petroleum), heavy arom.Solvent naphtha (petroleum), light arom.Solvent naphtha (petroleum), medium aliph.Solvesso 200Stock 461Stoddard solvent IICSYNESSTIC 12Turbo fuelUndecaneVista C13-C16White mineral oil (petroleum)\nPristane","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Transgender Family Law\nGender Identity on Trial in Divorce Court\nDivorce Court Can't Deal With 'A Different Category of Spouse'\nI Just Happen To Be A Parent Who Is Also Transgender\nLetting a Child Be Who She Is\nRead a Section\nCouples in divorce court often disagree on a whole host of issues \u2013 who should get the house, how much child support a parent must pay, who gets custody of the dog. But when James Allan Scott and Rebecca Robertson, his wife of 12 years, wound up in divorce court, there was a much more profound disagreement: whether James is a man or a woman.\nJames is transgender. Though he was born with female\u2026\n\"I don't think divorce brings out the best in most people,\" Joy Ladin, an English professor at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women in New York, remarks wryly.\nAnd it can be even worse when one of the spouses is transgender. Insensitive exes, uneducated legal professionals and inadequate and sometimes biased laws can make it infinitely more painful for entire families, as Joy, who is\u2026\nEven after 13 years, Michael Kantaras easily recalls the urgency with which he searched for a lawyer with expertise in transgender issues during his divorce. His estranged wife moved to have their 10-year marriage voided and strip Michael of his parental rights, just because he is transgender.\n\"Terrified. Absolutely terrified,\" is how Michael describes himself at that time. He could not fathom\u2026\nWhen Leslie Swanson* sought custody of her 4-year-old grandchild a few years ago, her lawyer's advice about whether to disclose to the family court judge that the child is transgender wasn't very reassuring.\n\"The first attorney was telling us to hide Catherine's* gender identity, to not tell anyone, that it would negatively affect our case, and that we would be blamed for Catherine being\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Select other Old Dominion Monarchs Brill, Loren Carver, Aaron Caver, Ahmad Dickens, Dajour Ezikpe, Kalu Godwin, Marquis Green, Xavier Harris, Quishon Kithcart, Justice Reece, Joe Robinson III, Elbert Stith, B.J. Wade, Jason Old Dominion Monarchs\nQuishon Harris\nTeam: Old Dominion Monarchs Height: 5-10 Born: --\nClass-Eligibility: Fr-Fr Weight: 140 Hometown: Hampton, VA\n18-19 ODU 3 0 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 .000 - .000\nCareer 3 0 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 .000 - .000\n18-19 ODU 3 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\nCareer 3 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n12\/22 MorgSt W 76-53 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n2\/16 Char W 73-60 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\n3\/9 @UAB L 50-64 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"United States Calculator: Or, Arithmetic Simplified\nPor John M'Nevin\n3. A gentleman consented to have his daughter married on New Year's day, and agreed to give her one dollar towards her portion, promising to double it, on the first day of every month for one year, what was her portion?\nAns. $4095. 4. A thresher wrought 20 days and received for the first day's labour 4 grains of wheat; for the second 12; for the third 36, &c, how much did his wages amount to, allowing 7680 grains to make a pint, and the whole to be disposed of at $1 per bushel?\nAns. $14187. 5. A sum of money is to be divided among 10\npersons, the first is to have $10, the second $30 and so on in three fold proportion; what will the last have? Ans. $196830.\nDUODECIMALS.\nThis rule is of great use to carpenters, joiners, &c. The name is derived from the latin words duo, 12 and decem, 10, and as the ratio is 12, it may with propriety be termed Duodecimals. As the French and other European nations divide their inch into 12 equal lines, so our American artificers, suppose the inch to be divided as follows:\nDENOMINATIONS OF DUODECIMALS.\n12 fourths make 1 third, fourths marked thus\n12 thirds make 1 second, thirds\n12 seconds 1 inch, seconds\n1 foot,\nEXAMPLES IN ADDITION.\nThe ratio being 12 the rule is evident.\nF. 1. \u00bb \u00bb\nF. 1. \" Add 642.11.8.8\nAdd 6464.10.9 436.10.6.4\n4243. 9.4\nAdd 6468.10.5\nAdd 9346. 7.3\n4842. 9.4 3464.11.6\nMULTIPLICATION.-Observe the following rules.\nFeet multiplied by feet produce feet.\nFeet multiplied by inches produce inches.\nFeet multiplied by seconds produce seconds.\nInches multiplied by inches produce seconds.\nInches multiplied by seconds produce thirds.\nSeconds multiplied by seconds produce fourths.\n1. Multiply 5 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 4 inches.\nF 1.\n12.10.0 2. Multiply 8 feet 6 inches by 14 feet 9 inches.\nAns. 125 ft. * in. 6 s.\nCASE II.\nRule.-Multiply by the component parts, as in compound multiplication, and take parts for the inches as in practice.\n1. Multiply 208 feet 8 inches 4 seconds, by 24 feet 3 inches 9 seconds.\nF. 1. \u00bb\nOperation. 208.8.4\n5073.10.7.3 Answer. 2. Multiply 4 feet 7 inches by 6 feet 4 inches.\nAns. 29 ft. 0. in 4 s. 3. How many square feet are in a floor 48 ft. 6 in. long, by 24 ft. 3 in. broad?\nAus. 1176 ft. 1 in. 6 s.\n4. How many cubic feet of stone work are contained in 9 walls, each 30 ft. 6 in. long, 9 ft. 8 in. high and 2 ft. thick?\nAns. 5307 ft. 5. How many cubic feet in a cellar 30 ft. 3 in. long, 27 ft. 6 in. broad, and 8 ft. deep?\nAns. 6655 ft. 6. What is the content of a marble slab 6 ft. 7 in. long, 2 ft. broad, and 1 ft. 9 in. thick? Ans. 23 ft. O in. 6\n7. What is the superficial content of a stone 4 ft. 9 in. long, and 3 ft. 9. in. broad? Ans. 18 ft. O in. 1 s. 6 t.\nMENSURATION. IMPORTANT TO SHIP BUILDERS. A concise Rule to find the length of Masts. RULE 1.-Multiply the length of the keel by 2, and divide the product by 3, and then to the quotient add the breadth of the beam, and the sum will be the length of the main mast.\n1. Suppose a ship to be 84 feet by the keel, and 31 ft. by the beam, what is the length of her mast? Ans. 87 ft.\n2. Suppose a ship to be 108 feet by the keel, and 40 feet by the beam, what is the length of her main mast?\nAns. 112 feet. ANOTHER METHOD. When the length and thickness of Masts is required in\nyards. RULE.\u2014Add the breadth of the beam and the depth of the hold in feet together, and divide the sum by 1.5, and the quotient will be the length of the main mast in yards.\n1. Admit a ship whose keel in length is 73 feet, and the breadth of the beam 28.5 feet, and the depth of the hold 12 feet, what is the length of her main mast?\nFeet.\nAns. 81 feet. Breadth of the beam, 28.5 Depth of the hold, 12.0\n1.5)40.5(27 yards or 81 feet.\nNow to find the thickness, it is customary to allows of the length in feet for the thickness in inches; in that case, a main mast 81 feet long, must be 27 inches thick.\n2. If a ship of 100 tons be 44 feet long at the keel, of what length must the keel of a ship be that carries 220 tons? tons. tons.\nSay as 100 : 220 : : 443 (85184) 187404.80, whose cube root is 57.226, the length of the keel sought.\nTo find Ship's Tonnage by Carpenter's Measure. Rule.--For single-decked vessels, multiply the length and breadth at the main beam, and depth of the hold together, and divide the product by 95.\nFor double-decked vessels, take half the breadth of the main beam, and work as above directed.\n1. What is the tonnage of a single decked vessel, whose length is 60 feet, breadth 20, and depth 8 feet?\nAns. 101 is tons.\nOperation-60 X 20 X8 = 101 tons.\n95 2. What is the tonnage of a double-decked vessel, whose length is 65 feet, breadth 21 feet 6 inches, and depth 10 feet 9 inches?\nAns. 1581} tons. TO FIND GOVERNMENT TONNAGE. GOVERNMENT RULE.If the vessel be double-decked, take the length thereof from the fore part of the main stem to the after part of the stern-post above the upper deck; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and then deduct from the length\nof the breadth; multiply the remainder by the breadth, and the product by the depth, and divide this last product by 95, the quotient whereof shall be deemed the true contents or tonnage of such ship or vessel; and if such ship or vessel be single-decked, take the length and\nbreadth, as above directed, deduct from the said length\nof the breadth, and take the depth from the under side of the deck-plank to the ceiling in the hold, and the multiply and divide as aforesaid, and the quotient shall be deemed the tonnage.\"\n1. What is the government tonnage of a single-decked vessel, whose length is 69 feet 6 inches, breadth 22 feet 6 inches, and depth 8 feet 6 inches?\nF. I.\nF. I. Illustration of the rule 69.6 breadth 22.6 Deduct 13.6\n1232.0 6 in. is \u012f 28.0\nfeet. tons. feet 1260 X 8.6 =\n11216 2. Required the tonnage of a single decked vessel, by carpenter's measure, whose length is 70 feet 6 inches, breadth 24 feet 8 inches, and depth 9 feet 10 inches?\nAns. 180 tons. 3. What is the Government tonnage of a double-decked vessel of the following dimensions: length 82 feet 3 inches, breadth 24 feet 3 inches, and depth 12 feet 1.1 inches?\nAns. 20973 tons.\nBOARD OR LUMBER MEASURE.\nRULE:~Multiply the length in feet by its breadth in inches, and divide by 12 for the content.\n1. What is the content of a board 24 feet long and 8 inches wide?\nAns. 16 ft. 2. What is the content of a board 30 feet by 16 inches?\nAns. 40.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Jolly Good Fellows\nGoing from strength to strength with their watch sales, Alan takes a look at the top lots from Fellows' upcoming auction: Tuesday, 28 February 2017 (11am, GMT) by - Alan Seymour\nTomorrow (Tuesday 28th February at 11am GMT) will see British auction house, Fellows' next dedicated watch sale. Held at their Birmingham saleroom, one can also bid and follow the auction online at www.fellows.co.uk. Here are a few of the most interesting\/intriguing lots offered:\nBlancpain: Lots 8, 9, 10 and 11\nThese consecutive lots see four watches from Blancpain's current collection offered for sale: a L'Evolution Semainier Grande Date 8 Jours (lot 8), a Leman Reval GMT (lot 9), a Villeret Demi-Fuseau Horaire 8 Jours (lot 10) and a Villeret Quanti\u00e8me Complet Demi-Savonette (lot 11).\nThe L-Evolution Semainier displays day and date, annual week number and power reserve alongside the expected hours and minutes. The oversized 3 and 9 o'clock roman hour markers and stainless-steel 44mm case are also worth mentioning. Its estimate is \u00a33,500-\u00a34,500.\nThe Leman Reval GMT, on the other hand, features a rose-gold case measuring 41mm alongside GMT, alarm and date complications. The black dial also displays a power reserve indicator, seconds sub-dial and an on\/off indicator and subsidiary dial for the watch's alarm complication. It's estimate is \u00a34,500-\u00a35,500.\nThe two Villeret watches are both also housed in rose-gold cases, with lot 10 combining an enamel dial, quickset date, second time-zone indication, and day\/night indicator within its 42mm diameter. While lot 11 combines date, month and moon phase within its 40mm; an exhibition caseback beneath a hinged lid can also be found to the reverse of the watch. Lot 10's estimate is \u00a33,000-\u00a34,000; lot 11's estimate is \u00a33,000-\u00a35,000.\nJacob & Co.: Lot 107\nBear with me on this one. Upon first glance a quartz driven, stone-set steel, 46mm Jacob & Co. wristwatch is not the usual Revolution fodder. It is in fact pretty off-piste for us.\nHowever, prominent and trendsetting New York rappers A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg (members of the 'hip hop collective' A$AP Mob) have both recently been spotted wearing Jacob & Co. Five Time Zone watches. Popular in the early 2000's \u2013 particularly in the hip hop community \u2013 the Five Time Zone has dipped considerably in desirability and value. But, perhaps with the renewed interest from admired pop culture figures the Five Time Zone will find a new lease of life. It's certainly worth keeping an eye on, if not only for the sake of curiosity. Its estimate is \u00a31,400-\u00a32,000.\nPanerai: Lot 203\nMy personal favourite, lot 203 is 47mm of gentrified military-watch cool. A limited edition Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 Ceramica dating from 'circa 2013'. Produced in a run of 1000 pieces, the watch boasts black ceramic case construction, an in-house self-winding P.9000 movement, vintage-style lume and a water resistance of 300 meters. This example includes a spare strap, screwdriver, box and a service letter dated July 2015 in its sale. Its estimate is \u00a34,000-\u00a35,500.\nVacheron Constantin: Lot 323\nThis lot will see the gavel fall on a Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Perpetual Calendar in platinum. Technical and design attributes aside, lot 323 could be considered worthy of note purely because of its rarity and value. With the highest estimate of the sale by a significant margin (\u00a350,000-\u00a380,000), the Patrimony Perpetual Calendar features a skeletonised dial, tasteful 39mm case size, an automatic movement and moon phase and namesake perpetual calendar complications.\nAudemars Piguet, News, Reviews\nHands-On with The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Ref. 15500\nTo commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original Royal Oak in 2012, Audemars Piguet pulled all the stops to make sure that the RO was properly celebrated. This included the launch of two completely new sizes for the time-only models: the Royal by - Kevin Cureau\nReviews, Roger Dubuis\nThe Story of Early Roger Dubuis\nFrom 1995-2003 Roger Dubuis created some of the most beautiful chronographs the world has ever known under the Hommage family which also included non-chronograph models. These watches received the Geneva Seal and were certified as chronometers at by - Revolution\nAudemars Piguet, Reviews, Watchfinder & Co\nAvailable In The Shop: The Limited Edition Audemars Piguet Royal Oak QEII Cup\nThrough our partnership with pre-owned specialist Watchfinder & Co., we will regularly bring you a selection of timepieces, and in each instance we will identify and offer the exact models that we think are the most collectable and the best by - Kevin Cureau\nClicks here to assign a widget to this area.\nSUBSCRIBE TO REVOLUTION.WATCH\n\u00a9 2007 \u2013 2017 Revolution.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Highway of Tears\nJessica McDiarmid (CA)\nFormat: Hardback Publisher: Doubleday Canada Publication Date: September 24, 2019\nHighway of Tears CHRISTMAS DELIVERY IS NOT GUARANTEED. The item is on order and may take two weeks to arrive in our shop.\nA searing and revelatory account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them.\nFor decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis.\nJournalist Jessica McDiarmid investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate where Indigenous women and girls are over-policed, yet under-protected. Through interviews with those closest to the victims\u2014mothers and fathers, siblings and friends\u2014McDiarmid offers an intimate, first-hand account of their loss and relentless fight for justice. Examining the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settlers and Indigenous peoples in the region, McDiarmid links these cases to others across Canada\u2014now estimated to number up to 4,000\u2014contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in this country.\nHighway of Tears is a powerful story about our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and a testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Category Archives: Coveney Michael\n\u00abPunk Rock\u00bb \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a3\u03ac\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd \u03a3\u03c4\u03af\u03b2\u03b5\u03bd\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u039b\u03bf\u03bd\u03b4\u03af\u03bd\u03bf\n20 \u03a3\u03b5\u03c0\u03c4\u03b5\u03bc\u03b2\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03c5, 2009 \u2013 1:11 \u03bc\u03bc\nLyric Hammersmith\nLyric.co.uk\n\u00abPunk Rock\u00bb. \u03a4\u03bf \u03ad\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a3\u03ac\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd \u03a3\u03c4\u03af\u03b2\u03b5\u03bd\u03c2 [Simon Stephens], \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03bf \u03bf \u03c3\u03c5\u03b3\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ad\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03af\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u03c1\u03cc\u03b2\u03bb\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03b2\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03ad\u03bd\u03b1 \u03b2\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03bb\u03cd\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03bf, \u03c6\u03b1\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03ba\u03c1\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac \u03c6\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae\u03c2 \u03b2\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03c3\u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u03b5\u03af\u03b1 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u0397\u03a0\u0391 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u0395\u03c5\u03c1\u03ce\u03c0\u03b7\u03c2. \u03a9\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03c3\u03bf, \u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc \u03b8\u03ad\u03bc\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b5\u03af\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b7 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c1\u03ce\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c6\u03cc\u03b2\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ac\u03b3\u03c7\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bb\u03ce\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b1\u03bd \u03af\u03c9\u03c3\u03b7 \u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03c3\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c6\u03ae\u03b2\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2. \u0397 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03b7, \u03c3\u03ba\u03b7\u03bd\u03bf\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03b7\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7 \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03b7 \u03a3\u03ac\u03c1\u03b1 \u03a6\u03c1\u03ac\u03bd\u03ba\u03bf\u03bc, \u03ad\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9 \u03b5\u03b3\u03ba\u03c9\u03bc\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03af \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2, \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd\u03af\u03b6\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd \u03c4\u03b7 \u03c1\u03b5\u03b1\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03b1\u03ba\u03c1\u03af\u03b2\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ad\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03c0\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03bd\u03b5\u03b1\u03c1\u03ce\u03bd \u03b5\u03c1\u03bc\u03b7\u03bd\u03b5\u03c5\u03c4\u03ce\u03bd (\u03a4\u03bf\u03bc \u03a3\u03c4\u03ac\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03b6, \u03a7\u03ad\u03bd\u03c1\u03b9 \u039b\u03cc\u03b9\u03bd\u03c4 \u03a7\u03b9\u03bf\u03c5\u03b6, \u03a4\u03b6\u03ad\u03c3\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1 \u03a1\u03ad\u03b9\u03bd). \u03a9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 26 \u03a3\u03b5\u03c0\u03c4\u03b5\u03bc\u03b2\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03c5.[\u039c\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03ad\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03ba\u03cc\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf, \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03bc\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1: \u0391\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03a3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c0\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7, \u0397 \u039a\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd\u03ae, 20\/09\/2009]\nTom Sturridge (William Carlisle) and Jessica Raine (Lily Cahill) in Punk Rock at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photograph: Tristram Kenton\nThe Guardian,\tWednesday 9 September 2009\nSimon Stephens's remarkable new play overcomes the burden of fortuitous topicality. Dealing as it does with violence in a Stockport school, it is bound to be compared with the case in the headlines last week. But what Stephens is really addressing is the way fear spreads virally amongst the young.\nIntriguingly, he takes as his setting the sixth-form library of a high-achieving grammar school. But, however articulate the pupils, they seem plagued by uncertainty as they prepare for mock exams. William is a self-doubting fantasist who befriends newcomer Lilly, only to find she is seeing another boy; bullying Bennett masks his sexual insecurity by humiliating the coldly omniscient Chadwick as well as his girlfriend Cissy. None of these kids, including the muscular Nicholas and the teacher-besotted Tanya, is unduly deprived. Yet, as they conduct their own internal power battles, the threat of violence hangs in the air.\nWhat is good about the play is the way Stephens combines individual portraits with gathering tension. You believe totally in these pupils as people: not least William and Lilly when they engage, as a way of hiding their nervousness, in a competitive contempt for the chavs they see on the Stockport streets. Even the noxious Bennett is driven, if not excused, by doubts about his masculinity. Best of all is Chadwick, who at one point delivers an apocalyptic speech which both squashes his tormentor and skilfully leads one up the garden path. The one false note, in a play based on a compassionate understanding of adolescent angst, comes in a defence of the young which sounds too like an authorial statement.\nPunctuated by nerve-jangling bursts of rock by groups like Big Black and Sonic Youth, Sarah Frankcom's production is riveting to watch and superbly acted. Tom Sturridge, making his professional debut as William (left), intelligently uses his gangling physique to express his inner instability. Jessica Raine as Lilly offers an extraordinary blend of sexual assurance and self-mutilating panic. Henry Lloyd-Hughes as the lordly, bisexual Bennett, Sophie Wu as his panicky girlfriend, and Harry McEntire as the precocious Chadwick, give impeccable performances.\nThis play, co-produced with Manchester's Royal Exchange to which it travels next, gets a new regime at the Lyric off to a cracking start. One can't help contrast it with the earlier import of a musicalised Spring Awakening which attempted to capture the raw agony of youth, only to dwindle into sentimentality. Stephens's play, given a wonderfully spectral design by Paul Wills, confronts young people as they really are, and builds inexorably towards its tragic and violent climax.\nPunk Rock, Lyric Hammersmith, London\nReviewed by Michael Coveney\nSimon Stephens' powerful and compelling new play \u2013 which signals a new Lyric Hammersmith regime under Sean Holmes \u2013 does not quite deliver what it says on the tin. It's set in an old, traditional library in a fee-paying grammar school in Stockport and the music by Big Black, the Cows and White Stripes is only punctuation between scenes.\nThat is probably the point, or comma. The pupils are sixth formers sitting their mock A-level exams, and their number is joined by Jessica Raine's disturbing, self-harming Lilly, on whom the Hamlet of the reform, Tom Sturridge's blinking, oddly hair-styled William, immediately fixes.\nStephens is reunited here with his Manchester Royal Exchange director, Sarah Frankcom, with whom he brought his award-winning On the Shore of the Wide Wide World to the National four years ago; it's a dynamic partnership, and this brilliantly cast and acted play proves both a remarkable link with the Lyric's musical premiere of Spring Awakening last year and a mission statement of upcoming work for and about young people.\nAs in the Wedekind play and musical, we see middle-class pupils under peer pressure embroiled in sexual chess-playing and adolescent crisis with ultimately tragic consequences.\nIt's no accident that the Columbine High School massacre (echoed on our own doorstep the other week) also centred round a library, a terrifying update on the tradition of school plays stretching from Barry Reckord's Skyvers at the bottom of the education heap to Julian Mitchell's Another Country or Alan Bennett's The History Boys on the brink of future success.\nThese were not the happiest days of anyone's life, and it's a lovely coincidence that Tom Sturridge's father, the director Charles Sturridge, made his acting debut in Lindsay Anderson's If\u2026, the first film to prophesy the sort of nightmarish scenario almost commonplace on school and college campuses these days.\nYoung Sturridge makes an astonishingly assured stage debut as a slightly more neurasthenic Ben Whishaw type, with a bob of unruly hair, a gangling physical expressiveness, a deliberately shaky grasp of his own domestic orientation \u2013 one minute he's an orphan, the next the son of a thriving oil millionaire \u2013 and a neat way of knowing that he's \u00abthe cleverest and funniest person in Stockport.\u00bb\nThe other sixth-formers, kitted out in blue blazers and grey slacks or skirts, include the regulation Steerforth school bully, Bennett (done with a wonderful ambiguous coldness by Henry Lloyd-Hughes), whose campaign of belittling sexual taunting is rebuffed by Harry McEntire's Chadwick, the class swot, with a dazzling rhetorical speech of apocalyptic prophecy that destroys his opponent and wins a round.\nLilly's arrival is the axis on which the play turns, and Stephens' sly way of stretching the time span allows for a development of relationships within the group that prosecutes the outcome as the exams loom larger. Settling in, Lilly is drawn to the sexually charismatic figure of the blond muscleman Nicholas \u2013 another remarkable stage debut, by Nicholas Banks \u2013 while Tanya Gleason's friendly Tanya and Sophie Wu's hard-edged Cissy stir the pot by behaving just as you'd expect them to.\nStephens sounds few false notes in giving all of these kids great dialogue and solo riffs, though I did wince at Lilly's speech about most young people living decent and admirable lives \u2013 she started to sound horribly like David Cameron \u2013 but I concede that the playwright, an associate director to Holmes at the Lyric, is passionately committed to young people's theatre. Good for him, and for Holmes, and a great start to the new Lyric campaign.\nTo 26 September (0871 221 1729; http:\/\/www.lyric.co.uk)\nPunk Rock at the Lyric, Hammersmith, W6\nBenedict Nightingale\nFrom The Times, September 10, 2009\nHearing that a teacher has had a heart attack, one of the Stockport sixth-formers who gather in the library where Punk Rock is set isn't at all surprised. \"They wander round like trauma victims,\" she says of the staff. \"They sweat, they're getting ulcers, they're terrified.\"\nTo which the proper response is: no wonder, given the atrocity that comes at the close of Simon Stephens's cracking new play. Sadly, I mustn't reveal what this is, only say that it echoes sensational incidents reported from other countries, notably America.\nThe rationalist in me says that Stephens doesn't prepare for it too well. Yet the rationalist in me should probably take a walk, because his point is that irrationality, unpredictability, confusion stalk the places frequented by those about to take their A-levels. And that's why his play might be summed up as The History Boys meeting Spring Awakening, Wedekind's tale of adolescent alienation and angst \u2014 and both of them meeting Stephen King.\nThe six kids in Sarah Frankcom's superbly acted production are Britain's future: bright, in one case maybe brilliant, but also mercurial, turbulent, lost, even despairing. For a long time it seems that the main emphasis will be Jessica Raine's Lilly, a new arrival who is sharp, sexually smart, a bit cruel and contemptuous, saddled with an alcoholic mum and into self-harm. But as the evening proceeds she moves away from centre-stage, letting us pay more attention to the others, notably Harry McEntire's small, aloof Chadwick, who is being so bullied and humiliated by Henry Lloyd-Hughes's casually malicious Bennett that, when he turned, the first-night audience applauded. But that turning is strikingly unusual, consisting as it does of an apocalyptic speech in which he declares that human beings are \"pathetic\" and, citing flood, famine and much else, prophesises the end of the species. What will be his fate?\nBut then Stephens has enough command of sassy dialogue and tense situation to keep you wondering as much about his fellow-pupils, especially Sophie Wu's Cissy, who is scared that her failure to get straight As means she'll always be stuck in awful Stockport with a reproachful mum, and Tom Sturridge's William (pictured above left, with Lloyd-Hughes), a lively mind whose fantasies are verging on the delusional, who has the unrequited hots for Lilly and who worryingly combines swank with self-hatred.\nDoes Stephens explain, say, the Columbine school massacre? No, he doesn't. He's too honest to pretend anything of the sort. But he does see the bafflement, the contradictions, the hope, the despair. He's worried \u2014 and so, after seeing his play, should we be.\nBox-office: 0871 2211729 to Sept 26\n\u0391\u03c0\u03cc damiza | Also posted in Billington Michael, Nightingale Benedict, Uncategorized | Comments (0)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Review: Upstairs \u2013 Town All Over Life\nPosted byKerrie Sheedy June 1, 2020 New Music, ReviewsUpstairs\nBig beats, swirly bass lines, Lou Reed style vocals and so much more come to mind when describing Chicago band Upstairs. Their new EP, Town All Over Life, is a prelude to their forthcoming release, I Could Die Whenever, due out in October. The record details their experiences on trains, planes and automobiles, as well as picking up on the undercurrent of political turmoil in the US.\nTown All Over Life has a dreamy, jet-lagged quality to it that runs throughout most of the EP. The disorientating Airport Brunch starts with tribal sounding drum beats that are tightly woven together with a hypnotising and rhythmic bass line. This track is full of moody, delicate tones and textures with mesmerising guitars and violins that come in intermittently, throwing the listener into a dreamlike state.\nWell Then carries on the subdued tones and dynamics of the record with a gliding, prominent bass line that seamlessly walks through this melodic song. The guitar takes on the wonderful and subtle features of the previous track with an almost alternative shoegaze quality to it. Although the vocals aren't exactly overly emotional and heartfelt, they have an organic laziness to them that's highly appealing and gives an original feel to the band's overall sound.\nNext up, there's a slight change of pace to the EP, with Placebo Buttons blending together the sounds of Pavement and the Pixies. There is a free-flowing, energetic air about the song that is reminiscent of the '90s, with a hooky melody that's bound to stick in your head.\nAntrim Glens breaks the energetic flow with a murky and uneven jazz-infused melody. The downtempo tone of the track has an atmospheric and ambient air to it. With a continuous punch of the bass combined with an uneasy horn arrangement and a monotone style vocal delivery, the whole song oozes espionage film vibes.\n2013 2014 2016 ends the record on a high. It's punchier, punkier, and full of guitar-driven hooks; a complete shift away from the chilled-out sound of the other songs. The round style of the vocals gives a dynamic tone to the music, creating an energetic and catchy tune that has a somewhat live feel about it.\nThe essence of the material Upstairs have created with Town All Over Life definitely leaves a strong impression on the listener. Though there is an introverted nature to the music, it is also incredibly melodic and diverse, showing us that this is a band that has submerged themselves fully into the belly of the beast to create an exceptional EP.\nTown All Over Life by Upstairs\nPosted in New Music, ReviewsTagged Upstairs\nInterview: Fritz HutchisonPremiere: Asthmatic Harp \u2013 To The Boats\nChicago IL (USA)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Former GE Female Worker Sues Alleging Discrimination\nEric Sanders\n0 Commnets\nNew York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., alleges in a $50 Million Dollar federal lawsuit that GE through its affiliate GE Energy in Schenectady fosters a sexually and racially hostile work environment by promoting a 'White Male Only' corporate culture\nJune 25, 2012 (Albany-NY) \u2013 Yvonne W. Alex says that working at GE Energy was analogous to working on a 'plantation.'\nAlex, who is African American, says that she started working at GE Energy in or around November 1981 and terminated on September 20, 2011, while employed she endured sexually and racially offensive behavior from several white supervisors, managers and co-workers. Of those who did not engage in such behaviors, they were indifferent to such offensive conduct.\nSometime after July 12, 2006, GE hired former Super Steel employees' Michele Lanoue, Christopher Boniewski and Michael Tomassone despite being implicated engaging in serious racially offensive actions against several African American employees' at Super Steel including the posting of offensive articles such as a \"Hangman's Noose\" Alex claims.\nShe says, it all started sometime in 2008, when then presidential candidate Barack Obama was campaigning to become president of the United States. Employees' would leave \"Birther\" packages on Alex's desk espousing hatred towards President Obama, immigrants, Blacks and other racial minorities while promoting \"White Supremacy.\" Shortly thereafter, she and Judy Bennett observed a \"Hangman's Noose\" on the floor, it was removed by GE supervisor John Jordan but, never reported to Human Resources nor was there any investigation to determine who placed such article in the workplace.\nBeginning in May 2009, former Super Steel employee Michele Lanoue along with decedent Frank Harris and others would post depictions of prominent persons of color throughout the workplace such as: \"First Dog\" referring to the First Lady Michelle Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor with a \"Grand Wizard Hat\" and a \"Swastika\", \"2012 Do Not Re-nig\" referencing President Barack Obama, a caricature of President Obama that read \"Jerk in the Box,\" graffiti posted which read \"Obama does not want fatties\" and a host of other racially offensive postings referring to persons of color as \"terrorists\" \"Nig\" and Nigger.\" They would also post depictions of firearms, shooting magazines etc., and would hold them up whenever she walked past them.\nOther employees' such as Lizbeth Golab would send her anti-immigrant emails including a depiction of a Caucasian Male \"Biker Guy\" holding a gun with the slogan \"I am a White Gun Owner, down with immigrants.\" They would leave gun magazine subscription cards and used rifle targets with burn holes indicating that a cartridge passed through it in her work area. Some were basic sighting targets; others depicted \"Barney\" referencing her weight.\nAlex says that on January 12, 2011, former Super Steel employee Michael Tomassone displayed a brown monkey hanging by its blue cape on his locker. However, the article mysteriously disappeared before President Obama's advance team of Secret Service agents swept the building before his visit. She indicates that Tomassone has displayed other depictions of Anti-Obama and Anti-Muslim postings. That same day, former Super Steel employee Christopher Boniewski along with Tomassone and Josh Scranton along with others, were overheard in a discussion referencing African Americans as \"Niggers.\" President Obama visited several days later.\nOn numerous occasions Alex claims, GE Supervisor Richard Boswell would read sexually and racially offensive jokes during the morning meetings such as: The Latest News Can Certainly Have This Effect, referencing how calling a suicide hotline may be routed to Pakistan, implying that Pakistanis would encourage the caller to become a suicide bomber. He would read others including: A Marine's Wife Confesses, referring to how during a twenty-one gun salute of President Obama, the Marines missed, implying that she is sad because they missed killing him and Apartment on Rent, implying the worth of an \"unchaste\" woman's vagina for a \"short-stay\" is only worth $250 instead of $500, because of \"misrepresentations.\"\nThroughout her employment, along with the racially offensive materials, playboy magazines, pornographic movies and other pornographic materials were openly displayed in the workplace.\nIn response to her complaints, Alex was transferred, received less overtime, relieved of her responsibilities as an Inspector, then eventually terminated for being a \"disruptive employee.\"\n\"Whenever, African-Americans or other persons of color complain about discrimination and related conduct in the workplace their complaints are routinely ignored by the management\" says Alex.\nSanders said that the management routinely violated federal and state civil rights laws by failing to take appropriate action to ensure that the workplace is diverse, and free of discrimination.\nEric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., filed suit on June 25, 2012. The name of the case is: Yvonne W. Alex v. General Electric Company, et al., Docket No.: 12 cv 1201, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.\nThe Sanders Firm, P.C., is a nationally recognized law firm located in New York City serving clients' throughout the five (5) boroughs of the City of New York Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island as well as Nassau, Orange, Suffolk and Westchester Counties focused on cases involving civil rights, civil service law, criminal law and discrimination.\nCivil Rights Law\nBrooklyn BP Wants To Make Sure NYPD Isn't Failing Nursing Moms\nOfficers sue NYPD citing discrimination over lactation\nNYPD 'Nursing Mothers' demand lactation rooms in police precincts\nLawsuit Filed Against NYPD By Breastfeeding Mothers\nBrooklyn Pols. Joins Fight for NYPD 'Nursing Mothers' Rights","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb USDA to measure milk production\ndairy USDA\nSURVEY ...\nUSDA to measure milk production\nResults will be published on January 25, 2023\nThousands of milk producers across the country, including approximately 500 producers in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming will receive surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), as the agency collects information for the January 2023 Milk Production Survey. (file photo)\nLAKEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 Thousands of milk producers across the country, including approximately 500 producers in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming will receive surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), as the agency collects information for the January 2023 Milk Production Survey.\n\"The dairy industry is an important component of the Mountain Region's agricultural economy and it is crucial for all involved to have access to accurate data.\" said Rodger Ott, Director, Mountain Regional Field Office. NASS conducts the Milk Production survey every January, April, July, and October. The survey asks producers to provide the number of milk cows in their herd, cows milked, and total milk production for the first day of the month.\nIn addition to milk, the January survey will also ask producers to provide data on hay purchased to feed the dairy herd and herd replacement prices. By participating in the survey, milk producers can ensure that NASS provides timely, accurate, and useful data that all sectors of the U.S. milk industry can use to make sound business decisions.\n\"At NASS, we have a strong commitment to respondent confidentiality,\" Ott said. \"We are required by law to protect the privacy of all responses and publish data only in aggregate form, ensuring that no individual producer or operation can be identified.\"\nSurvey results will be published in the quarterly Milk Production report released January 25, 2023. All NASS reports are available online at www.nass.usda.gov\/Publications\/.\n\u2013USDA, NASS\nVermont cheese, butter makers bring home top awards\nMONTPELIER, Vt. \u2014 Vermont cheese and butter makers won a total of 40 awards, including multiple firsts, at the American Cheese Society Awards. Congratulations: JASPER HILL FARMS CABOT CREAMERY COOPERATIVE VERMONT CREAMERY MAPLEBROOK FARM GRAFTON VILLAGE CHEESE COMPANY SPRING BROOK FARM SAGE FARM GOAT DAIRY In addition to the ACS awards, both Jasper Hill Farms and Vermont [\u2026]\nFarm courses from business planning to production\nITHACA, N.Y. \u2014 From farm business planning to production strategies, learn with the Cornell Small Farms Program in the New Year! Our online course season is almost halfway through, and now's the time to register for upcoming block three courses which begin in January 2022. This block of courses includes our new offering on access to [\u2026]\nUSDA: 100 days update\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Since January 20, 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration has been on a mission to Build Back Better. From the American Rescue Plan to the American Jobs Plan and now with the introduction of the American Families Plan, action has been taken to provide relief to the American people, and the necessary investments have been made [\u2026]\nRegistration is open for CCA's 2023 Mid-Winter Conference\nCOLORADO CLIPS\nIL conservation applications have Feb. 3 cutoff\nResponding to U.S. Ag Census critical for Del. producers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Eric Reasons\nIt's my name. It's what I do.\nCommentary from the Crossroads of Technology and Culture.\nCybersecurity and \"Internet Freedom\" Act: Who Are They Kidding?\nAnytime Congress puts the word \"Freedom\" in the title of a bill, it means that it's about to curtail the freedoms of whatever other words show up in the title. For instance, the \"Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act\", will limit freedoms in both Cybersecurity and the Internet. Easy, see?\nConsidering that most Congresspersons can't be trusted to check Snopes.com before e-mailing their bank account numbers to Nigerian princes, I can't see how they think they have enough tech savvy to regulate the Internet properly. And if there's anything Egypt has shown us, it's that we should be making it as hard as possible to let Governments pull the plug on the Internet.\n\"But Eric! The United States isn't Egypt!! You're crazy to compare the two!!\"\nTell that to the 84,000 domains (mistakenly!!) seized and shut down by ICE without so much as a notification to the site operators last month.\nOlympia Snowe (Republican-ME) couldn't get this pushed through in 2009 with Rockefeller (Moron-WV), so her companion in the Senate Susan Collins (also Republican-ME) from Maine is trying again in 2011? I have to ask: \"What's up, Maine? What lobby do you have up there that's pushing this?\"\nMy take on the 2009 bill can be found here, and not much has changed. Except the title, of course.\nunmitigated me February 21, 2011 at 9:14 AM\nMoron-WV, indeed. My daughter has the same photo on her laptop but the caption reads, \"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...\" Help us, Obi-Wan. You're our only hope.\nmojo March 28, 2011 at 5:57 PM\nInteresting. Found you via Smitty.\nIf you want to know how well a government \"regulated\" network would work, just look at Social Security.\n\"Give them a kill switch? What're you, effin' crazy? They can barely understand the web!\"\nMojo - Thanks for visiting, and for letting me know who I owe the milk and cookies to!\nCybersecurity and \"Internet Freedom\" Act: Who Are ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"OSW 2020. Landing DNR Banner\n70 Years of Excellence \u2013 And We're Just Getting Started\nCelebrating a Milestone and Looking to a Bright Future\nIn our first 70 years, we've grown from a single road-side stand in Corpus Christi, Texas, to a family of 837 restaurants in 10 states. Now, as we celebrate our 70th Birthday with Orange Spirit Week, Whataburger is looking toward the future. The year ahead will see us enter new markets, with an updated look for our restaurants that celebrates our heritage while looking forward.\nWhataburger is proud of our past, and excited about our future \u2013 and what the next 70 years will bring.\nTo kick off Orange Spirit Week, Whataburger is excited to announce the creation of the Tiger Resource Room Powered by Whataburger at Grambling State University. Read more here on how this student-led partnership will change a community.\nOur new Feeding Student Success Program will support students and educators through resource rooms at community colleges and universities, a new scholarship program to help students in our communities reach their dreams, and giving to education programs that serve students who need help the most.\nOur new Whataburger Food Truck made its debut -- serving up meals and love to educators as they get ready to start a school year like no other.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u203a PC(USA) churches in New York provide a genuine welcome to all God's children\nPC(USA) churches in New York provide a genuine welcome to all God's children\nPresbyterians Today January 17, 2023\nTransgender ministries are transforming churches\nby Mike Givler | Presbyterians Today\nA church in Hudson River Presbytery recently welcomed Mother Grace Wilgefortis Ferris, center, to preach at a pride service. (Photo courtesy of Susan DeGeorge)\n\"Welcoming all in the name of Christ\" might be easy to write into a church's mission statement, but the challenge comes when faced with living it out and extending a hand to those in the transgender community. An inclusive, loving welcome is possible, though, with education and courage to open up those sanctuary doors.\nPeople were being persecuted for their beliefs. They had to dodge rocks and shield themselves from spit being hurled in their direction. No, this is not a reference to a biblical story that occurred 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. This happened in 2020 in a small, suburban area in the Finger Lakes region of New York, where the hatred was aimed at middle school youth who are transgender.\nAs word spread around the Auburn, New York, community about the bullying, leaders at Westminster Presbyterian Church started conversations about needing to provide a space for these teens. The church, which held its first pride service a year earlier, knew it had to step up to meet this demand in the community.\n\"The need for something was so much greater than we thought it was,\" said Chris Patch, the youth and children ministries coordinator at Westminster Church. \"There was really nothing here for these youth. There was no real safe place for them to gather.\"\nWhat came out of the talks was the Pride House, a space in Westminster Church dedicated to LGBTQIA+ youth ages 13\u201318 and their allies where they can come together, enjoy each other's company and create a bond between one another.\n\"I visited another facility, and after my conversation there they expressed to me that if we want to get these kids to keep coming, you have to build trust and a relationship first,\" explained Patch, who doubles as the director of the Pride House. \"You're not going to get that by having another class of some kind.\"\nA haven of acceptance\nOne day a week, the Pride House has an informal, drop-in format. The space has rooms equipped with a television, video games and art supplies, and the teens can stop in anytime they want during the three-hour window the Pride House is open. Pizza and snacks are also available at this hangout in the education wing of the church that brings on average 10\u201315 youth through the door.\n\"There's a lot of relationships that are developed there,\" said Patch. \"We have kids from different surrounding areas that have all grown together now.\"\nPride House is working well because it is a concept that is driven by youth.\n\"What we've done is that we have really looked at this and had a lot of it be youth-driven. 'What do you need?' Instead of trying to give them what we think they need, we really engaged with them and said, 'What do you think you need? What's the next step?'\" said Patch.\nWhile located in a church, the Pride House is not pushing religion. While several of the LGBTQIA+ youth have started to become involved in the life of the church in programs like the annual pride service, this sort of participation is not expected.\n\"We're not trying to say this is a church function. We're not trying to get them to go to church,\" said Patch. \"That was an important part for this ministry because a lot of these youth have come from varied backgrounds and have had a lot of religious trauma. A lot of them have been to churches where they have been persecuted, told that they're sinning, told they're not good enough. Now what they see is a church giving this care to them but without expecting anything back.\"\nWhat is surprising, though, is that now a lot of the youth in the group have started asking questions about the church, which was something Patch and others from the church hadn't intended on.\n\"What the teens are seeing is how the church has supported them and how we work through God. They're starting to have questions and take more of an active role in the church,\" he added.\nThis past October, a second night at the Pride House was started. On this evening, educational programs were added to include classes focusing on things like culinary skills, sewing, judo and yoga. Patch hopes to continue to expand the availability of the Pride House going forward, adding days for LGBTQIA+ young adults (ages 18\u201324) and possibly even a parents group night.\n\"We want to provide a place where youth can just be themselves, where they can come, have fun, be safe and build relationships,\" said Patch.\nGiving the LGBTQIA+ youth a road map to these experiences is key and something the Pride House is continuing to develop. \"We're really trying to create this flow,\" said Patch, explaining that by starting with middle school teens, they can better navigate high school. And once they graduate from high school, the Pride House has a relationship with Cayuga Community College, where they can move those relationships.\n\"We're really trying to create this pathway for all the youth to develop relationships, feel safe and have that group of friends they can move from school to school with and hang out during the summer. We tried to think more about just having something on Thursdays. It's about this full circle of providing for youth,\" said Patch.\nThe Pride House hits close to home for Patch, who is the parent of a trans child. The same goes for Linda Webster, a member of the Pride House advisory board and weekly volunteer. Webster wishes something like the Pride House would have been around when her child was younger.\n\"It's wonderful work for kids to network, meet each other, spend time, get to know each other and have friendships even outside of school. The kids can know that there are other people in the school system who are like them, they can relate to and give them a core group of adults that they can trust. They know they can be themselves. They don't have to put on a mask and be anything other than uniquely themselves,\" she said.\nWestminster Church has clearly been integral in the development of the Pride House, having donated the space to use while also providing funding to help with many of the early setup costs. The Pride House has also received funds from the Osborne Foundation that are assisting with programing costs. Fundraising efforts through things like T-shirt sales are ongoing to help the Pride House remain open.\n'We're really trying to create this pathway for all the youth to develop relationships, feel safe and have that group of friends they can move from school to school with and hang out during the summer.' \u2014 Chris Patch\n\"If we didn't have the support of the church, the congregation and their hearts weren't moved by God to provide this for us, it wouldn't have been successful,\" said Patch. But not everyone's heart is open, and Patch admits there have been \"a lot of raised eyebrows.\"\nInitially, the location of the Pride House was not widely known to the community for fear of pushback. However, there hasn't been any resistance to the gathering place in its first 12 months.\n\"I've heard some things in the community that they don't like us, that we're pushing this agenda, but as far as anyone showing up at the church and giving anyone a hassle, we haven't had any of that,\" said Patch.\nPatch is prepared, however, for any confrontation that could come his way. He knows there are many who feel catering to the transgender community is a sin. He simply doesn't see it that way.\n\"If you read the Bible, if you read it in context and you really want to get into original language and original history, you'll find that there isn't anything in the Bible that says anything against this. The Bible is a book of relationships and forgiveness and how we interact with that relationship with God,\" he said, adding, \"Personally, I think any person who uses the Bible to discriminate against somebody, I don't think they're understanding what the Bible is about.\"\nEquipping congregations\nJust to the southeast of Auburn in the lower corner of New York, Hudson River Presbytery is also trying to help Christians promote the welcome of transgender and LGBTQIA+ people's viewpoints. The Presbyterian mid council has approved the establishment of HRPQueer \u2014 a partnership that formed in the summer of 2022 with the goal of equipping congregations in the presbytery with needed support and resources to help them become more welcoming.\nThe four organizers of HRPQueer \u2014 the Rev. Susan DeGeorge, the Rev. Ray Bagnuolo, Connie Knapp and Kathy Dean \u2014 are all out queer clergy or ruling elders. DeGeorge, the stated clerk at Hudson River, preaches in and visits many different churches throughout the year as part of her position at the presbytery. She regularly heard the struggles of churches on how to be inclusive and felt this was something the presbytery should address.\n\"As I talk to pastors, they say, 'I have one or two nonbinary kids and we don't know what to do,'\" DeGeorge said. \"'We're trying to be welcoming, but we don't have any resources and we're by ourselves.' We decided to roll this out in 2021 and see where it could go before we became a partnership.\"\nThe bond with HRPQueer has already created new awareness among some congregations in Hudson River to increase the number of churches holding pride services during the summer. Among the changes made for the pride services was the language in hymns to make them more inclusive.\nFor instance, in the Glory to God hymnal, a verse in the song \"In the Midst of New Dimensions\" says, \"We are man and we are woman, all persuasions, old and young.\" The beginning of that line was rewritten to say, \"We are cis and we are queer.\"\n\"It's small changes like that, but you have to look at the hymns and figure out how to make them in order to be more welcoming,\" said DeGeorge. \"We're living into it and trying to live into each of these different directions, all of which need things to be done.\" And it doesn't stop with the hymns.\n\"You have to look at your prayers as well,\" said DeGeorge, adding that the Bible has a whole range of wonderful language for God. \"One of the ruling elders in our presbytery said, 'We talk about God as a trinity \u2014 Father, Son and Holy Spirit \u2014 and 3-in-1, that's a \"they.\" Why are we not using \"they\" and \"them\" pronouns as well for God?'\"\nFor DeGeorge, it really comes down to paying careful attention, not just to language but to how people are welcomed and how they know that they are welcomed. \"People assume, 'I'm a Presbyterian, people must know we are welcoming.' It's not that easy.\" DeGeorge knows this firsthand.\nA long struggle\nDeGeorge has been fighting the battle for inclusiveness for years. She was in the middle of the well-known Benton v. Hudson River Presbytery court case that dealt with the officiating of a same-sex marriage in the late 1990s. The Presbyterian denomination, in a landmark ruling in 2014, changed the definition of a marriage from \"a man and a woman\" to \"two people\" while also allowing pastors to perform such ceremonies where it is legal.\nWhile many congregations thought this ruling had clarified gender issues in the church, much has transpired in the years since that marriage policy ruling to make the waters murky again for some.\n\"Nobody has really been doing anything to think about what's next,\" said DeGeorge, pointing out that most people have not gone beyond the marriage policy nor in broadening the traditional \"LGBT\" identifier.\nDeGeorge and her wife, Kathy Dean, were part of the HRPQueer team that presented an overview about the program at Hudson River's September meeting. It was an eye-opening summation of the ministry for many in attendance.\n\"A mother talked about her experience raising a nonbinary child, then a queer pastor talked about how to work with these kids,\" said Dean. \"People were clapping. A lot of us were crying.\"\n\"I could look at the range of people who were touched by the stories,\" DeGeorge added. \"You could watch the response. I have real hope. It was very touching.\"\n'God created all of us \u2014 good and beautiful. We need to be able to be our best selves, and our best selves are our truest selves, which include our sexuality and whoever God meant us to really be gender-wise. \u2014 The Rev. Susan DeGeorge\nHope is certainly a key ingredient for those who are looking to educate people who do not accept or scorn those who are different, but arming churches and communities with resources will help take the acceptance level up a few notches as well. It's a work in progress, something DeGeorge and Dean are graciously willing to accept as their calling at this time.\n\"Some see God as a rule maker and gatekeeper. That's just a worldview I can't adopt. I think our churches are not meant to be gatekeepers for who is to be welcomed. I think it breaks God's heart every time that happens,\" said DeGeorge, who prefers to see God as love.\n\"God created all of us \u2014 good and beautiful. We need to be able to be our best selves, and our best selves are our truest selves, which include our sexuality and whoever God meant us to really be gender-wise,\" she said. \"And when we are able to be our true selves and are accepted, that's when the church becomes what it is meant to be: a radically welcoming community.\"\nMike Givler is the communications coordinator for the Synod of the Trinity.\nCategories: Presbyterians Today\nTags: benton v. hudson river presbytery, cayuga community college, chris patch, connie knapp, hrpqueer, hudson river presbytery, kathy dean, lgbtqia+ ministries, linda webster, mike givler, presbyterians today, pride house, rev. ray bagnuolo, rev. susan degeorge, synod of the trinity, transgender ministries, westminster presbyterian church auburn new york\nTags: church, degeorge, develop relationships feel, develop relationships feel safe, god, house, hudson river, hudson river presbytery, move from school to school, patch, pathway for all the youth, pride, pride house, relationships feel safe, school with and hang, selves and our best selves, trying to create this pathway, youth, youth to develop relationships, youth to develop relationships feel\nMinistries: Presbyterians Today","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mitch Glazier\nPhoto: Kevin Mazur\/WireImage\nGlazier, Ballantyne Start As RIAA's New Leaders mitch-glazier-michele-ballantyne-begin-2019-riaas-new-leaders\nMitch Glazier & Michele Ballantyne Begin 2019 As RIAA's New Leaders\nGlazier rises to Chairman\/CEO of the major label trade association and Ballantyne is promoted to COO\nPhilip Merrill\nJan 2, 2019 - 1:16 pm\nChange is in the air for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade body comprising the major music labels. Following the Dec. 31 retirement of its Chairman\/CEO Cary Sherman, on Jan. 2 the RIAA welcomed its new leadership \u2014 Mitch Glazier is now Chairman\/CEO and Michele Ballantyne is the new Chief Operating Officer.\nThe RIAA certifies Gold and Platinum sales achievements, such as recognition for Twenty One Pilots' Blurryface being all Gold singles. They also engage in national advocacy work and pursue litigation to protect not only record companies' interests but intellectual property and copyright law more broadly.\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RIAA\/status\/1080517507939778560\nNEWS: Mitch Glazier becomes Chairman & CEO of RIAA; Michele Ballantyne Promoted to COO https:\/\/t.co\/PwqXcVAmMB pic.twitter.com\/ow7xPB82DL\n\u2014 RIAA (@RIAA) January 2, 2019\n\"I am honored to lead the RIAA during these exciting times as we fight for a music ecosystem that works for everybody,\" said Glazier, \"from artists and fans to labels and publishers and songwriters and music services alike. That will require that we both embrace digital music innovations and protect what has always made music great \u2014 keeping the dream alive for the next generation of artists and music creators.\"\nGlazier began his intellectual property work as a senior staffer on the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He steps into his new roles having served previously as the RIAA's president.\nThe new chief operating officer, Michele Ballantyne served as Senator Tom Daschle's General Counsel, as Special Assistant for President Bill Clinton, and as Special Counsel for John Podesta while he was serving as White House Chief of Staff.\n\"By staying true to music and its creators even as we embrace change, we can help the men and women of the music industry achieve great things,\" said Ballantyne. \"I look forward to advocating on behalf of our great community.\"\nRIAA Chairman\/CEO Cary Sherman, A Music Champion, To Retire\nPhoto: Blank Archives\/Getty Images\nWhy Record Labels Matter In 2019 riaas-mitch-glazier-why-record-labels-matter-2019\nRIAA's Mitch Glazier On Why Record Labels Matter In 2019\nThe jobs labels do have grown and changed, and a recent collection of interviews tells how it's working\nInterviews with more than 50 label leaders by Professor Larry Miller of NYU's Music Business program reveal a positive picture of the current state of labels, enough so to raise a response from the Recording Industry Association of America's new Chairman\/CEO Mitch Glazier. In his Jan. 10 column on Medium, Glazier outlines his condensed perspective, distilling Miller's work, and asserts, \"The most listened-to artists are backed by labels.\"\nGlazier compares the old-fashioned demands of being a record label with the multi-faceted teams of experts today, engaged in everything from A&R to data analytics. He encourages readers to download Miller's report \u2014 Same Heart. New Beat. \u2014 for themselves, which provides additional details.\nThe wide scope of today's music business activities boil down to the success labels help artists achieve, year after year, and the passion their teams bring to make that happen. The RIAA also configured a Rebooting The Label web page on their site, tracking the analysis in the report, and they are encouraging use of the #LABELSATWORK hashtag.\nNEW \ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f: Record labels' passion for music is at the \u2764\ufe0f of everything they do. Learn more about the invaluable role modern record labels play in bringing music to your ears (tip: \ud83d\udd0a\u2b06\ufe0f): https:\/\/t.co\/KlttehMOYj #LABELSATWORK pic.twitter.com\/mPUz14dUQu\n\u2014 RIAA (@RIAA) January 10, 2019\nToday's key players at labels are using \"radically new means to support artists,\" Glazier explains. \"The result is a growing, vibrant, and vital music ecosystem driven by label investment and action \u2014\u200aone in which more artists are creating and more fans are listening. Labels have licensed hundreds of digital services around the world, delivering music to listeners virtually anytime, anywhere.\"\nHe refers to breaking, boosting and amplifying as independent activities, giving a sense of the perspective that draws labels' teams together toward the different challenges posed by new names, established stars, and artists with sustained followings. Larger labels means greater infrastructure to supporthe new marketing mechanics of the ever-changing music business.\nGlazier goes on to cite the statistic of 658 new artists signed to major labels in 2017 as showing more than 12 percent growth from the 589 signed in 2014.\n\"As this report details, labels are seizing the moment,\" he said, \"investing more in A&R, marketing and other artist support activities (like data insights) than ever before, and beefing up their teams to support a vastly more complex, personal, and fast-paced music economy.\"\nPerhaps the key takeaway from today's perspective is \"personal.\" Whether old-fashioned or newfangled, the challenges of being in the music business can distract an artist from what they do best, which includes being more personal than ever with fans online who desire personal access and connection. Keeping music business mechanics off an artist's back and helping with online communications is all ultimately meant to allow the an artist's art and artistry to break through.\nPhoto: Jenny Anderson\/Getty Images\nCher Adds More 2019 North America Performances cher-adds-more-2019-performance-dates-north-america\nCher Adds More 2019 Performance Dates In North America\nThe diva adds to her demanding 2019 tour schedule while her recent albums chart at career highs\nCher's Here We Go Again Tour has added 14 new North American stops in November and December of 2019. This year is keeping the GRAMMY-winning diva busy as she finishes one of her residency series at MGM Resorts' Park Theater in Las Vegas tonight and tomorrow night.\nTouring with special guests Nile Rodgers and Chic, Cher's first of the new dates is Nov. 19 in Portland, Ore. with performances in Chicago, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Toronto through the end of the month. Next stop is Madison Square Garden in New York on Dec. 3, then heading south through Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C., and New Orleans. The beat goes on in mid-December at Houston and San Antonio, followed by the last of the new dates in Dallas, Texas on Dec. 19 at the American Airlines Center.\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/cher\/status\/1111629264867287043\nNew dates have been added to the Here We Go Again Tour with special guests @nilerodgers and @CHICorg! Presales start 4\/2 at 10am local time.\nGet more info here: https:\/\/t.co\/RiEMuN5aAA pic.twitter.com\/5Jr2Gk7NoJ\n\u2014 Cher (@cher) March 29, 2019\nIf that sounds like a busy itinerary, glance at what Cher has going on before then. Beginning Apr. 18 in Pittsburgh, Penn., she'll be completing previously announced dates in North America and Canada through the end of May. In August, Cher returns to Park Theater in Las Vegas for another round of performances. Then from late September through early November she'll be visiting European capitals including multiple concerts in Germany and the UK including at London's O2 arena on Oct. 20 and 21.\nAfter three Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles in the early 70's, as a solo artist, in 1999 Cher's \"Believe\" went to No. 1 again and won Best Dance Recording at the 42nd GRAMMY Awards. Both 2013's Closer To The Truth and 2018's Dancing Queen reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album charts, Cher's career high to date.\nTickets for Cher's Nov. and Dec. performances go on sale on April 5 to the general public at Live Nation's website, with pre-sales opening on April 2.\nCher, Reba McEntire, \"Hamilton\" Receive Kennedy Center Honors\nJerry Garcia and Mickey Hart\nPhoto: Peter Simon\/Getty Images\nGrateful Dead's 'Aoxomoxoa' Celebrates 50 Years grateful-deads-aoxomoxoa-reissue-has-remixes-plus-1969-live-recordings\nGrateful Dead's 'Aoxomoxoa' Reissue Has Remixes Plus 1969 Live Recordings\n50th anniversary reissue of the breakthrough third album shows their signature psychedelic style's beginnings\nMar 29, 2019 - 12:21 pm\nAoxomoxoa is the title of the Grateful Dead's 1969 album \u2014 a palindrome, it is pronounced the same way backwards as reading the usual way, left to right. That was \"far-out\" 50 years ago, and on the album's 50th anniversary the Grateful Dead and Rhino Records will reissue Aoxomoxoa including remastered versions of both the album's 1969 mix and 1971 remix by Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, as well as 1969 live performances of the songs at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.\nThe album was a creative breakthrough, as the band broke from label guidance, explored acoustic-only arrangements and self-production, and also welcomed lyricist Robert Hunter. Hunter and Garcia composed all the songs on the album and were joined by Phil Lesh in creating Aoxomoxoa's first track \"St. Stephen.\"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/GratefulDead\/status\/1111330322954608640\nCelebrate the 50th Anniversary of AOXOMOXOA with a DELUXE EDITION ft. two versions of the album \u2014 one fully remastered from the original 1969 mix and the other remastered from the definitive 1971 band-produced mix. Available on 2CD, 12\" Vinyl Picture Disc, and digitally. pic.twitter.com\/Pc7l7ti720\n\u2014 Grateful Dead (@GratefulDead) March 28, 2019\nA limited edition of 10,000 vinyl 12\" picture discs will be released in addition to the 2-CD set. Both versions are now available for pre-order online.\nDead & Company continue to tour with Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir as well as GRAMMY winner John Mayer. Their latest run of dates begins May 31.\nBob Weir Holds Court At GRAMMY U SoundChecks: \"The Passion Is Up To You\"\nPhoto: Randall Michelson\/Getty Images\nLas Vegas Palms Readies \"Unstatus Quo\" Relaunch transformed-las-vegas-palms-counts-down-unstatus-quo-relaunch\nTransformed Las Vegas Palms Counts Down To \"Unstatus Quo\" Relaunch\nGuests get their first look at the $690 million renovation's results next week\nLas Vegas, get ready to \"Get On The Good Foot,\" as per the James Brown song providing both the promotional video soundtrack and the core philosophy behind the Palms Casino Resort's \"Unstatus Quo\" mega renovation. Set to open next week, the new Palms thinks of itself as \"different by design\" and seeks to share how they have \"completely reimagined\" the Las Vegas excursion experience, including the debut of their Kaos nightclub and dayclub venues.\nThe video, directed by GRAMMY winner Sam Brown, is a vision-statement featuring celebrities from sports and the fine arts as well as musical talents including GRAMMY winner Cardi B, Marshmello, Ezra Miller, Rita Ora, and Latin GRAMMY nominee Ozuna.\nAnticipation during this lead-up is intense. The Palms invested $690 million to embody its bid for restored relevance as a cultural destination. Restaurants, gaming, luxury suites, multiple music venues and residencies, surrounded by museum-caliber fine art are about to be put to their first real-world test \u2014 combining graciously together into an unforgettable get-away.\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Palms\/status\/1111276134983827456\nWelcome to the new Vegas. What happens here resonates everywhere.\nStarring @iamcardib @kblock43 @emrata @marshmellomusic @RitaOra @adrianalima @RyanSheckler and more...#UnstatusQuo #PalmsLV #artistsrightssociety pic.twitter.com\/PNpXZzmk2E\n\u2014 Palms Casino Resort (@Palms) March 28, 2019\nA signed Cardi B microphone and one of Marshmello's signature helmets are among the giveaways in the \"Unstatus Quo\" video, which can be unlocked in daily YouTube Card promotions from Mar. 29 to Apr. 5. The Palms website has also been redesigned so that visitors' digitally interactive experience blends seamlessly with the Palms' on-site hospitality.\nThe attitude, vision and commitment are reassuring. The new Palms' first guests will judge their success in just a few days.\nKAOS Las Vegas To Feature Sets From J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Deadmau5, Eric Prydz & More In April","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Griffith Park Experience\nDavid Denenberg\nPicking a weekend destination in Los Angeles can be a tough decision.' Things like affordability, good geographical location and quality are harder to find today.' Luckily, there are unique places like Griffith Park that operate with the people's best interest at heart.\nGriffith Park was given to the people of L.A. as a gift from Col. Griffith J. Griffith in 1896. The municipal park provides an assortment of activities which entertain people of all ages.\nLocated in the Santa Monica Mountains, Griffith Park is a convenient destination for everyone in the Los Angeles County.\nGriffith Park contains a state of the art observatory, planetarium, railroad museum, a 5,700-seat amphitheater, the Los Angeles Zoo, picnic and BBQ areas and some great trails for horseback riding, bicycling and hiking.\nGriffith Park is the perfect place to go for people who are living on a tight budget, as you can fill up an entire day with fun, affordable experiences.\n'When my girlfriend and I first came to Griffith Park, we were pretty shocked that some of the attractions were free,' said Greg Blessing, a 24-year-old Los Angeles Film School student.'\nThe zoo and railroad museums can be reached by exiting at Zoo Drive off the 134 freeway right before the 5 junction.\nA day at the Los Angeles Zoo, which opened in 1966, will show you exotic animals such as komodo dragons, koalas and a species of zebra which only has about 3,400 of its kind left in the entire world.\n'We take our mission very seriously here of inspiring people about wildlife and getting them to care.' We just don't show animals here, we teach people about them,' said Los Angeles Zoo Marketing Director Jason Jacobs.\nThe goal of the L.A. Zoo is to present wildlife diversity in interpretive exhibits that help people to learn about animals.' '\nThe zoo is one of the few attractions at Griffith Park that isn't free, but it's still affordable. Adult admission is $12 and the zoo is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.\nRight down the street from the zoo is the Travel Town Museum. Admission is free and guests are allowed to observe and even climb on top of real steam locomotives and railroad cars.' The museum opened in 1952 and focuses on Western railroad transportation from about 1880 to 1930.' '\nAnother unique experience the museum provides is a ride on a miniature train.' This mini train ride is made possible by the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum. LALSRM is located right next to the Travel Town Museum and is only open to the public on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.' During this time guests may take rides on scale-model trains which travel throughout Griffith Park.\nOn the third Sunday of each month, the club allows the public to get a closer look at some of the amazing railroad artifacts inside the museum.' One such artifact is the actual barn that Walt Disney used to create his own model railroad cars.' ' ' ' ' '\nOn the other side of the mountain, the Griffith Observatory can be accessed either directly from Vermont Road or Fern Dell Drive off of Western Avenue in Los Feliz, Calif.\nThe observatory is open every day except Monday from 12-10 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends.\nGuests of this attraction enjoy free general admission and can choose if they wish to purchase tickets to the Planetarium Show or look at the different exhibits.' Ever since opening in 1935, the Griffith Observatory has allowed the general public to look through the Zeiss and solar telescopes.\nAll of these different attractions are only part of what makes Griffith Park such a desirable place to spend a day.' The park itself provides a serene setting for people to unwind and escape the fast-paced L.A. lifestyle.' It's open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.\nDavid Denenberg, Author","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"a337abfc24453c80ddf3ccdec1d510030b17d977\nrobin.el\nKenichi Handa committed Mar 16, 2005\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293\n;;; robin.el --- yet another input method (smaller than quail)\n;; Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005\n;;   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)\n;;   Registration Number: H15PRO 110\n;; Author: TAKAHASHI Naoto <ntakahas@m17n.org>\n;; Keywords: mule, multilingual, input method\n;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and\/or\n;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as\n;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at\n;; your option) any later version.\n;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but\n;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\n;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU\n;; General Public License for more details.\n;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License\n;; along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to\n;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,\n;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.\n;;; Comentary:\n;; Functionalities\n;; ---------------\n;; Robin is a new input method for GNU Emacs.  It has three\n;; functionalities:\n;; 1. It serves as a simple input method.  When the user types an ASCII\n;;    key sequence, robin converts it into a string.  This functionality\n;;    is most likely used to input non-ASCII characters.\n;; 2. It converts existing buffer substring into another string.\n;;    This functionality is similar to the 1. above, but the input is\n;;    buffer substring rather than key strokes.\n;; 3. It offers reverse conversion.  Each character produced by a\n;;    robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a\n;;    char-code-property.\n;; How to define conversion rules\n;; ------------------------------\n;; Each conversion rule belongs to a robin package.  A robin package is\n;; identified by a string called package name.  Use robin-define-package\n;; to define a robin package.\n;; (robin-define-package NAME DOCTSTRING\n;;   (INPUT1 OUPUT1)\n;;   ...)\n;; NAME is a string identifying the robin package.  It often starts with a\n;; language name and followed by a method name.  For example,\n;; french-postfix, greek-prefix, etc.\n;; DOCSTRING is a documentation string for the robin method.\n;; Each INPUTn is a string.  It represents a transliteration of the\n;; corresponding OUTPUTn.\n;; Each OUTPUTn is a string or a character that is to be inserted as the\n;; result of conversion.\n;; Neither INPUT* nor OUTPUT* are evaluated.  Do not use a variable or a\n;; function in those parts.  Instead, use a string or character literal\n;; directly.\n;; If multiple rules have the same input pattern but different output\n;; patterns, only the latest definition is effective.\n;; Example\n;; -------\n;; (robin-define-package \"german-example\"\n;;  \"An example for German\n;; AE -> \u00c4   OE -> \u00d6   UE -> \u00dc\n;; ae -> \u00e4   oe -> \u00f6   ue -> \u00fc   ss -> \u00df\n;; Repeat E or S to input itself.\n;; AEE -> AE   OEE -> OE   UEE -> UE\n;; aee -> ae   oee -> oe   uee -> ue   sss -> ss\"\n;;  (\"AE\" ?\u00c4)\n;;  (\"OE\" ?\u00d6)\n;;  (\"UE\" ?\u00dc)\n;;  (\"ss\" ?\u00df)\n;;  (\"AEE\" \"AE\")\n;;  (\"OEE\" \"OE\")\n;;  (\"UEE\" \"UE\")\n;;  (\"sss\" \"ss\")\n;; )\n;; Using robin as an input method\n;; To use a defined robin package as an input method, register it with\n;; the register-input-method function.  For example,\n;; (register-input-method\n;;  \"german-example\"\n;;  \"german\"\n;;  'robin-use-package\n;;  \"de\"\n;;  \"An example for German\")\n;; The first argument is the robin package name.\n;; The second argument is the language environment for which this robin\n;; package is used.\n;; Use the symbol `robin-use-package' as the third argument.\n;; The fourth argument is the prompt that appears in modeline when this\n;; input method is active.\n;; The fifth argument is a documentation string; it may or may not be\n;; identical to the one that you specified in robin-define-package.\n;; You can activate the robin input method by typing\n;;  C-u C-\\ german-example RET\n;; Just like a quail package, only C-\\ suffices for subsequent\n;; invocation.\n;; Using robin as a buffer translator\n;; ----------------------------------\n;; To transliterate buffer substring, use the following functions.\n;; (robin-convert-buffer &optional name)\n;; Convert the content of current buffer using a robin package.\n;; NAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package.  If NAME is\n;; not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is used.\n;; (robin-convert-region begin end &optional name)\n;; Convert the region using a robin package.\n;; Reverse conversion\n;; ------------------\n;; If the output pattern defined in a robin rule is a character, robin\n;; gives to the character a char-code-property whose key is the symbol\n;; representation of the robin package name and whose value is the input\n;; pattern of that character.  For example, with the \"german-example\"\n;; definition above,\n;; (get-char-code-property ?\u00c4 'german-example) => \"AE\"\n;; etc.\n;; If you do not want to assign a char-code-property to a character, use\n;; a string of length one as the output pattern, e.g.\n;; (robin-define-package \"german-example2\"\n;;  \"Another example for German.\"\n;;  (\"AE\" \"\u00c4\")\n;;  (\"OE\" \"\u00d6\")\n;;  ...)\n;; Then\n;; (get-char-code-property ?\u00c4 'german-example2) => nil\n;; If multiple input patterns in a robin package generate the same\n;; character, the lastly used input pattern is given as the value of the\n;; char-code-property.\n;; There are two functions for reverse conversion.\n;; (robin-invert-buffer &optional name)\n;; Apply reverse conversion to the content of current buffer.  NAME, if\n;; given, is a string specifying a robin package.  If NAME is not given\n;; or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is used.\n;; (robin-invert-region begin end &optional name)\n;; Apply reverse conversion to the region.  NAME, if given, is a string\n;; specifying a robin package.  If NAME is not given or nil, the value of\n;; `robin-current-package-name' is used.\n;; Modifying an existing rule\n;; --------------------------\n;; Use the robin-modify-package function to modify a rule already defined\n;; in a Robin package.\n;; (robin-modify-package name input output)\n;; Change a rule in an already defined Robin package.\n;; NAME is the string specifying a robin package.\n;; INPUT is a string that specifies the input pattern.\n;; OUTPUT is either a character or a string to be generated.\n;; The name of the game\n;; --------------------\n;; As stated in Murphy's law, it took longer than expected to develop the\n;; very first version of Japanese input subsystem in NEmacs (Nihongo\n;; Emacs).  So the subsystem was named \"TAMAGO\", which is an acronym of\n;; \"TAkusan Matasete GOmennasai\" (Sorry to have kept you waiting so\n;; long).  \"Tamago\" as a Japanese word means \"egg\", so the word \"egg\" was\n;; also used for related filenames and function names.\n;; Since it was designed to input CJK characters, Egg was rather big as a\n;; subsystem.  So later in Mule (Multilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs),\n;; we designed and implemented a smaller input subsystem.  We had to give\n;; it a name.  \"So, what's smaller than an egg?\"  \"A quail egg, of\n;; course.\"  Therefore it was named \"quail\".\n;; As time went by, quail became more and more complicated.  That\n;; tendency was inevitable as long as we support CJK input.  However, if\n;; we can limit ourselves to non-CJK characters, a much simpler\n;; transliteration mechanism suffices.  So I wrote \"robin\", whose name\n;; was chosen because a robin is smaller than a quail.  I could name it\n;; \"hummingbird\" or \"nightingale\", but those spellings seemed too long.\n;;; Code:\n(defvar robin-package-alist nil\n\"List of robin packages.\nA robin pacakge is of the form (NAME DOCSTRING &rest RULES).\nNAME is a string specifying a particular robin package.\nDOCSTRING is a documentation string for the robin package.\nRULE is of the form (KEY OUTPUT &rest rules).\nKEY is a string.\nOUTPUT is a character or a string.\nFor example, if you evaluate the following,\n(robin-define-package \\\"test\\\" \\\"Uppercase input characters\\\"\n(\\\"a\\\" \\\"A\\\")\n(\\\"ab\\\" \\\"AB\\\")\n(\\\"ac\\\" \\\"AC\\\")\n(\\\"acd\\\" \\\"ACD\\\")\n(\\\"ace\\\" \\\"ACE\\\")\n(\\\"b\\\" \\\"B\\\"))\nthis robin package will be the following.\n(\\\"test\\\" \\\"Uppercase input characters\\\"\n(?a \\\"A\\\"\n(?b \\\"AB\\\")\n(?c \\\"AC\\\"\n(?d \\\"ACD\\\")\n(?e \\\"ACE\\\")))\n(?b \\\"B\\\"))\n;;;###autoload\n(defmacro robin-define-package (name docstring &rest rules)\n\"Define a robin package.\nNAME is the string of this robin package.\nDOCSTRING is the documentation string of this robin package.\nEach RULE is of the form (INPUT OUTPUT) where INPUT is a string and\nOUTPUT is either a character or a string.  RULES are not evaluated.\nIf there already exists a robin package whose name is NAME, the new\none replaces the old one.\"\n(robin-define-package): Delete redundant\nKenichi Handa committed Jul 26, 2005\n(let ((iname (intern name))\n(new (list name \"\"))\t\t; \"\" as a fake output\ninput output)\n(dolist (r rules)\n(setq input (car r)\noutput (cadr r))\n(robin-add-rule name new input output)\n((not (stringp input))\n(error \"Bad input sequence %S\" r))\n((char-valid-p output)\n(put-char-code-property output iname input))\n((not (stringp output))\n(error \"Bad output pattern %S\" r))))\n(setcar (cdr new) docstring)\t; replace \"\" above with real docstring\n(robin-define-package): Make the expaneded form shorter.\n`(let ((slot (assoc ,name robin-package-alist))\n(newdef ',new))\n(if slot\n(setcdr slot (cdr newdef))\n(setq robin-package-alist\n(cons newdef robin-package-alist))))))\n315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347\n(defun robin-modify-package (name input output)\n\"Change a rule in an already defined robin package.\nNAME is the string specifying a robin package.\nINPUT is a string that specifies the input pattern.\nOUTPUT is either a character or a string to be generated.\"\n(let ((tree (assoc name robin-package-alist))\ndocstring)\n(if (not tree)\n(error \"No such robin package\")\n(setq docstring (cadr tree))\n(setcar (cdr tree) \"\")\n(robin-add-rule name tree input output)\n(setcar (cdr tree) docstring)\n(if (characterp output)\n(put-char-code-property output (intern name) input))))\noutput)\n(defun robin-add-rule (name tree input output)\n\"Add translation rule (INPUT OUTPUT) to TREE whose name is NAME.\nInternal use only.\"\n(let* ((head (aref input 0))\n(branch (assoc head tree))\n(sofar (cadr tree)))\n(if (= (length input) 1)\n(if branch\n;; A definition already exists for this input.\n;; We do not cancel old char-code-property of OUTPUT\n;; so that n-to-1 reverse conversion is possible.\n(setcar (cdr branch) output)\n351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567\n;; New definition for this input.\n(setcdr (last tree) (list (list head output))))\n(unless branch\n(if (characterp sofar)\n(setq sofar (char-to-string sofar)))\n(setq branch\n(list head\n(concat sofar\n(char-to-string head))))\n(setcdr (last tree) (list branch)))\n(robin-add-rule name branch (substring input 1) output))))\n;;; Interactive use\n(defvar robin-mode nil\n\"If non-nil, `robin-input-method' is active.\")\n(make-variable-buffer-local 'robin-mode)\n(defvar robin-current-package-name nil\n\"String representing the name of the current robin package.\nNil means no packages is selected.\")\n(make-variable-buffer-local 'robin-current-package-name)\n(defun robin-use-package (name)\n\"Start using robin package NAME, which is a string.\"\n(let ((package (assoc name robin-package-alist)))\n(unless package\n(error \"No such robin package\"))\n(setq robin-current-package-name name)\n(robin-activate)))\n(defun robin-inactivate ()\n\"Inactivate robin input method.\"\n(robin-activate -1))\n(defun robin-activate (&optional arg)\n\"Activate robin input method.\nWith ARG, activate robin input method iff ARG is positive.\nWhile this input method is active, the variable\n`input-method-function' is bound to the function `robin-input-method'.\"\n(if (and arg\n(< (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0))\n;; inactivate robin input method.\n(setq robin-mode nil)\n(setq describe-current-input-method-function nil)\n(run-hooks 'robin-inactivate-hook))\n(kill-local-variable 'input-method-function))\n;; activate robin input method.\n(setq robin-mode t\ndescribe-current-input-method-function 'robin-help\ninactivate-current-input-method-function 'robin-inactivate)\n(if (eq (selected-window) (minibuffer-window))\n(add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook 'robin-exit-from-minibuffer))\n(run-hooks 'input-method-activate-hook\n'robin-activate-hook)\n(set (make-local-variable 'input-method-function)\n'robin-input-method)))\n(defun robin-exit-from-minibuffer ()\n(inactivate-input-method)\n(if (<= (minibuffer-depth) 1)\n(remove-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook 'robin-exit-from-minibuffer)))\n(defun robin-input-method (key)\n\"Interpret typed key sequence and insert into buffer.\"\n(if (or buffer-read-only\noverriding-terminal-local-map\noverriding-local-map)\n(list key)\n(let ((echo-keystrokes 0)\n(input-method-function nil)\n(start (point))\n(tree (cddr (assoc robin-current-package-name robin-package-alist)))\n(while (setq branch (assq key tree))\n(delete-region start (point))\n(insert (setq output (cadr branch)))\n(setq tree (cddr branch))\n(if tree\n(setq key (read-event))\n(setq key nil)))\n(if (null output)\n;; body of the `while' above was not executed\n(if key\n(setq unread-command-events (list key)))\n(if (stringp output)\n(string-to-list output)\n(list output))))))\n(defun robin-help ()\n\"Display the docstring of the current robin package.\"\n(let ((buf (get-buffer-create \"*Robin Help*\"))\n(doc (cadr (assoc robin-current-package-name robin-package-alist))))\n(set-buffer buf)\n(erase-buffer)\n(insert doc)\n(display-buffer buf)))\n;;; Batch mode\n(defun robin-convert-buffer (&optional name)\n\"Convert the content of current buffer using a robin package.\nNAME, if given, is a string specifying a robin package.  If NAME\nis not given or nil, the value of `robin-current-package-name' is\nused.\"\n(interactive \"*\")\n(robin-convert-region (point-min) (point-max) name))\n(defun robin-convert-region (begin end &optional name)\n\"Convert the region using a robin package.\n(interactive \"*r\")\n(or name\n(setq name robin-current-package-name)\n(error \"No robin package specified\"))\n(let ((tree (assoc name robin-package-alist)))\n(unless tree\n(save-restriction\n(narrow-to-region begin end)\n(while (not (eobp))\n(robin-convert-region-internal tree))))))\n(defun robin-convert-region-internal (tree)\n\"Apply a robin rule defined in TREE to the current point.\nUse the longest match method to select a rule.\"\n(let ((begin (point))\nend branch)\n(while (setq branch (assq (following-char) tree))\n(setq tree branch)\n(forward-char 1))\n(setq end (point))\n(if (= begin end)\n;; no matching rule found; leave it as it is\n(forward-char 1)\n;; replace the string\n(goto-char begin)\n(insert (cadr tree))\n(delete-char (- end begin)))))\n;; for backward compatibility\n(fset 'robin-transliterate-region 'robin-convert-region)\n(fset 'robin-transliterate-buffer 'robin-convert-buffer)\n;;; Reverse conversion\n(defun robin-invert-buffer (&optional name)\n\"Apply reverse conversion to the content of current buffer.\n(robin-invert-region (point-min) (point-max) name))\n(defun robin-invert-region (begin end &optional name)\n\"Apply reverse conversion to the region.\n(setq name (intern name))\n(let (str)\n(if (not (setq str (get-char-code-property (following-char) name)))\n(insert str)\n(delete-char 1))))))\n(provide 'robin)\n;;; Local Variables:\n;;; coding: utf-8-emacs\n;;; End:\nChanges from arch\/CVS synchronization\nMiles Bader committed Mar 16, 2005\n;; arch-tag: ba995140-7436-4a57-b875-747fc340f605\n;;; robin.el ends here","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This Video Shows How Much Vaginal Discharge Is Normal (It's Way More Than You Think)\nGood news: You can stop stressing about what you find down there.\nBy Kristine Thomason\nVaginal discharge is a topic of conversation you've likely filed away under \"Things that stay between you and your panties.\" But that doesn't mean you're not curious or concerned about what you find down there. And if so, you're certainly not alone. San Francisco-based ob-gyn Jen Gunter, MD, says that over the last five years, she's noticed an increase in the number of women who are worried about the amount of discharge they see in their underwear. \"Some women even believe that any vaginal discharge is abnormal,\" she wrote in her latest blog post.\nThat's what prompted Dr. Gunter to clear up confusion on the subject: \"Vaginas are meant to be wet,\" she explains in the post. \"Discharge is the by-product of the process that keeps everything in working order. It's not gross, it's normal.\"\nAccording to studies and textbooks, women generally produce anywhere from 1 to 4 ml of vaginal discharge in 24 hours. The amount tends to vary on a day-to-day basis, often affected by factors like ovulation and birth control.\nBut how much is 4 ml anyway? Dr. Gunter filmed a short video to illustrate what qualifies as \"normal.\" In the clip below, she fills a syringe with water mixed with iodine to simulate vaginal discharge. She then empties the liquid onto a panty liner, and it nearly fills the entire surface, showing that a healthy amount of daily discharge is probably way more than you thought.\nIf you're producing more than 4 ml a day, however, that could be a sign that you have a fistula, the STI trichomonas, or a bacterial imbalance known as desquamative inflammatory vaginitis. Profuse discharge might also mean there is a foreign object (such as a tampon or condom) left inside the vagina. You will likely have other symptoms as well, says Dr. Gunter, such as irritation, itch, strong odor, or pain with sex. If you're experiencing any of those issues\u2014or irritation combined with 3 to 4 ml of discharge\u2014check in with your doc, she says.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Disney Releases Triptych Poster for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil\nBy Mr. DAPs|2019-05-17T16:02:11-07:00May 18th, 2019|Categories: DAPs Magic News, Disney, Entertainment, PRESS RELEASE|Tags: Disney, Disney News, Maleficent, Maleficent - Mistress of Evil, Press Release|0 Comments\nOn the heels of the \"Maleficent: Mistress of Evil\" teaser trailer which arrived earlier this week comes a special triptych poster from the sequel to the global box-office hit \"Maleficent.\" Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning reprise their roles as the dark fairy Maleficent and Princess Aurora, respectively, and are joined by Michelle Pfeiffer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sam Riley, Harris Dickinson, Ed Skein, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville. Be sure to check out \"Maleficent: Mistress of Evil\" when it hits theaters nationwide October 18, 2019!\nMaleficent: Mistress of Evil Description\n\"Maleficent: Mistress of Evil\" is a fantasy adventure that picks up several years after \"Maleficent,\" in which audiences learned of the events that hardened the heart of Disney's most notorious villain and drove her to curse a baby Princess Aurora. The film continues to explore the complex relationship between the horned fairy and the soon to be Queen as they form new alliances and face new adversaries in their struggle to protect the moors and the magical creatures that reside within. The film is directed by Joachim R\u00f8nning from a story by Linda Woolverton and a screenplay by Linda Woolverton and Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster, the film is produced by Joe Roth, Angelina Jolie and Duncan Henderson with Matt Smith, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Michael Vieira serving as executive producers.\nDisney+ Orders Season Two of \"The World According to Jeff Goldblum\" from National Geographic\nThey're Going to Disney World!\nDisney+ celebrates Togo with new plaque honoring hero sled dog at New York City's Seward Park\nHong Kong Disneyland Resort celebrates Mickey during the Year of the Mouse","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"InfoQ Homepage News The Consumer Java Runtime Environment in Detail\nThe Consumer Java Runtime Environment in Detail\nGeoffrey Wiseman\nOn May 8th, 2007, Ethan Nicholas and Dennis Gu announced the Consumer JRE at JavaOne. Since JavaOne, a few more details have been released. In Announcing the Consumer JRE (again!), Ethan Nicholas gave an overview of some of the highlights, including a new installer, performance improvements, improved startup time and a modularized JRE. He also estimated the date by which most of these features will be available:\nThe Consumer JRE will be a Java 6 update release delivered in the first half of 2008.\nChet Haase followed up with an in-depth post that covers many of these same points, but in detail: Consumer JRE: Leaner, Meaner Java. He indicated that in order to aim for a rapid release, it's important that the changes for the Consumer JRE make changes that do not affect the API. He grouped the changes into these elements: Quickstarter, Java Kernel, Deployment Toolkit, Installer Improvements, Windows Graphics Performance, Nimbus Look and Feel.\nOn the Quickstarter, Chet Haase argued that the cold startup time (first invocation of the Java runtime environment after a reboot) is the problem with Java startup performance:\nThe fix, then, is for us to take advantage of the disk cache to make sure that the memory pages on disk that we must read at startup have already been loaded before we need them\nWhen a consumer without a Java runtime environment tries to use a Java applet or application for the first time, the Java Kernel would allow them to download only those portions of the JRE that they need and then start using the applet\/application while the rest of the environment downloads in the background. This could result in significant improvements to the download size:\nWork is still ongoing on Java Kernel (Ethan Nicholas is madly cranking away at it), but initial results show that it is possible to cut the download size by over 60% for mid-sized Swing applications.\nThe deployment toolkit \"is about enabling a much more powerful and ubiquitous system to run across multiple browsers and platforms, allowing developers to more automatically detect what the user has, what to do about it, and how to launch the application when Java is then installed.\" The graphics performance will involve using DirectX hardware-accelerated calls for more of the Swing primitives, resulting in better performance for \"Swing applications simple and complex\". The Nimbus look and feel provides \"a more modern look for Swing applications\".\nSupporting Ethan Nicholas' statement that some of these feature will be available sooner than others, Chet Haase adds:\nWe will roll out some features as they are available, so that you don't have to wait for early 2008 to get everything here. For example, the improved installation experience should be out in update 2 of Java SE 6, which is currently set for late June.\nFor more information on Nimbus, the Consumer JRE and Java in general, stay tuned to InfoQ's Java community.\nThis content is in the Java topic","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"your no.1 source for electronic, industrial, ambient, experimental music on the web\nSearch Music Reviews\nSearch Concert Reviews\nSearch Magazine Reviews\nUnsolicited Material Submission Guidelines\nWrite, Publish & Contribute\nPrevious 5 Reviews Next 5 Reviews\nElectronics \/ EBM \/ Electronica\nIndustrial Music \/ Industrial Metal \/ Aggro Industrial \/ Electro Metal\nIndustrial Noise \/ Power Noise \/ Harsh Noise\nSynth Pop \/ Electro Pop \/ Synth-Electronica\nTechno \/ Trance \/ Goa \/ Drum'n'Bass \/ Jungle \/ Tribal \/ Trip-Hop\nAmbient \/ Electronica \/ Ethereal \/ Dub \/ Soundscapes \/ Abstract\nExperimental \/ Avantgarde \/ Weird & Wired \/ Glitch \/ Noise \/ Field Recording\nDark \/ Gothic \/ Wave \/ New Wave \/ Dark Wave \/ Industrial Gothic\nNew Music \/ Downtown \/ Avantgarde Jazz \/ New Classical \/ World\n23 EXTACY: Download the Rapture\nPosted by Marc Tater (@) Industrial Music \/ Industrial Metal \/ Aggro Industrial \/ Electro Metal\nEdit (1627)\nArtist: 23 EXTACY (@)\nTitle: Download the Rapture\nLabel: Dungeon-Recordings (@)\nDistributor: DSBP\n23 EXTACY is a mutual project out from the Salt Lake City area consisting of Chris Alvarado and Kevin J. Cazier (LITTLE SAP DUNGEON or his solo effort PERCEPTION CLEANSE PERCEPTION). They play a kind of Hardcore-Electro-Metal with some rather chaotic ingredients as well and they do release here their second full-length CD. The whole music is almost guitar-driven combined with some nice Dark Electro sequences and with some brutal vocal efforts. The song structures are hard-banging with full speed, it awakes here and there some chaotic Punk attitudes. This is surely not the soundtrack to float away in a fairytale, no, it doesn't take any prisoners. Personaly I like of course the more Electro-driven pieces like \"Kill a DJ\" or \"Rise and Fall\" but also this tracks are pretty much in the globally mentioned style. Remarkable \u2013 and with a funny hint \u2013 is the hardcore cover version of DIVINE's \"I'm so Beatiful\", an Italian disco icon from the Eighties who died in the meantime (can anybody remember the original song?). If you feel you need to rinse your brain with some acid you should give this piece a try at first. Released out on Kevin J Cazier's label Dungeon-Recordings, check also out the entirely DSBP catalogue.\nVV.AA.: Rump Comp Volume One\nPosted by Maurizio Pustianaz (@) Techno \/ Trance \/ Goa \/ Drum'n'Bass \/ Jungle \/ Tribal \/ Trip-Hop\nArtist: VV.AA.\nTitle: Rump Comp Volume One\nLabel: Rump Recordings (@)\nAfter releasing about one year ago the first Rumpistol album, Rump recordings entered on a hiatus preparing its come back. After a year, thank to RUMP COMP VOLUME ONE, we can finally be aware of the label's rooster. The compilation contains twelve tracks by bands (eight on the vinyl version which does not include Zoffmann, Kriipis Tulo, Pellarin and Prinz Ezo) which made of electronic music their meaning of life. Most of them are newcomers while others like Manual & Syntaks and Prinz Ezo have already released stuff for other labels (the duo is active since 1992, first in the experimental post-rock band Limp and then as a duo while Prinz Ezo, a.k.a. since 1995). Since every band is coming from Denmark this compilation could represent a good way to test the state of electronic music on that land. About the compilation, I can say that the label tried (with success) to give a form to the CD by picking up tracks with a similar approach to electronic manipulation. The label put a condition to the bands: \"come up with something melodic yet experimental\". Each band produced tracks with a bit of that characteristic Nordic melancholic vibe but giving their personal interpretation of the initial request by focusing the structure on rhythm, melody, atmosphere or a mixture of the three. Bleeps, alternative dance, electronic experimentations and a bit of melancholy will entertain you for about one hour.\nGOTHIC: Grim\nPosted by Ferruccio Milanesi Electronics \/ EBM \/ Electronica\nArtist: GOTHIC (@)\nTitle: Grim\nFormat: 2 x CD (double CD)\nGOTHIC is a very strange project now at their 11th work.. They describe themselves as a multimedia project, a total art ensemble with a high experimental approach. This, united to the choice of releasing a double cd album (that took four years of composition) and giving also an electronic presentation, made me hope great things. But problems now starts. Every word the band use in their \"Grim's Presentation\" is a hagiographical praise of themselves, describing tracks as a disturbing and perfect fusion of dark, electronics and heavy metal. Unfortunately the songs, in my opinion, are really far from a complete maturity, resulting in a confuse and out of phase arrangement. The two cds show two different approaches, the first electro-dark\/goth-prog, the second mixing industrial, post-dark and metal. In both the cds the songs last for 7-8 minutes and are composed by many parts, following each other often without a sense, alternating good atmospheres with absurd falsettos, aggressive loops with keyboards whose sound had to be cured a lot and totally confused. Listen to the opening \"Lurking Limbo\" from the second cd, to understand what I say: I don't know how they can consider this work, but I've found myself shocked not understanding if they were joking or not. I don't say they always fail to hit the mark, \"Forlon\" is a good song and you'll find many single parts showing a good intuition and a compositive quality, but at once, after only thirty seconds, in the following passage they destroy what they created. Ten demo have been released before \"Grim\", and I never heard anything of the band GOTHIC before, and they're from the same country of my own. Probably the band members have to ask themselves why. A bit of humility will show them their limits and maybe will help them to find the right way. I repeat, they have compositive capacities, and many times they're damn good, but they absolutely need to distinguish between the good intuition and the too confused arrangement.\nOBSZ\ufffdN GESCH\ufffdPF: Son of Evil\nPosted by Marc Tater (@) Electronics \/ EBM \/ Electronica\nArtist: OBSZ\ufffdN GESCH\ufffdPF (@)\nTitle: Son of Evil\nLabel: BLC Productions (@)\nDistributor: Alive!\nAnother debut out on BLC Productions, but for this band hailing from France it is already the second full-length CD after the own released \"Yell of Fright\" CD (distributed and co-released in Europe by Pandemonium in 2003). OBSZ\u00d6N GESCH\u00d6PF, so the German band name, translated it means \"obscene creature\", consists of Remzi Kellici and he presents on this album his kind of Dark Electro\/EBM music. The band name and several names from the track list like \"Face of Swine\", \"Strip of Flesh\", \"Hate and Despair\" or \"Dead Christ\" will give you a hint of what kind of music you can expect here. Thematically based on crimes, sex, horror\/splatter and all black chapters of human being, Remzi plays a somewhat old-fashioned minimal Electro music with some similarities to SUICIDE COMMANDO's first works like \"Critical Stage\" or earlier combined with some more steady EBM-influenced baselines. Adding to this some raw sawtooth sequencer works and rarely included strange Alien-like vocal performances which give some tracks a binding hypnotizing approach (\"Resist\" or \"Fright Night\"). This is surely not new or in any case something innovative - but it has an own charismatic feeling. It cannot be compared with the often and over-polluted \"We sound like SC\/Tactical Sekt-attitude\" where too much bands are trying to copy simply the mentioned acts \u2013 no, this has a more classic touch and also the sounds of this have an analogue edge. Outstanding tracks to my taste are the both dancefloor stompers \"War\" and \"Dead Christ\", on the more hypnotizing kind of this band I would recommend the already mentioned \"Resist\". If you look for the real dark and sick EBM with a nostalgic touch you can't go wrong with the OBSZ\u00d6N GESCH\u00d6PF. Keep on your style, Remzi!\nBOH\ufffdMIEN: Danze Pagane\nPosted by Ferruccio Milanesi Dark \/ Gothic \/ Wave \/ New Wave \/ Dark Wave \/ Industrial Gothic\nArtist: BOH\ufffdMIEN (@)\nTitle: Danze Pagane\nLabel: In The Night TIme (@)\nBOH\u00c9MIEN are an Italian dark band formed in 1985 but, after only two years of great live performances, problems related to the dark\/gothic scene crisis forced them to spilt up. In 2002 they finally decide to show the world what they have hidden in their closet, reforming the band and rearranging the old songs in a more modern way. Three are the original members, supported by the new bass player Giovanni Staccone and the vocalist\/keyboard player Stefania Minutaglio.\nThe first song \"Danza Pagana\" embodies BOH\u00c9MIEN style: New Wave\/Dark with strong '80 influences, supported by a very good use of instruments that makes each song an involving and intense experience: you can't include them in the list of modern clone-bands, reproducing the past well-known clich\u00e9, for BOH\u00c9MIEN don't copy anyone, THEY WERE A PART OF THAT MOVEMENT. The singer Alex Buccini has a personal vocal approach, very particular but not simple to appreciate at once, accomplice the choice of singing in mother-tongue and the Italian new\/wave vocal tradition (he remembers something of the first DIAFRAMMA's approach). A sad piano introduces the song \"Libido\", enriched by a great guitar, playing notes like drops falling down. \"Dirsi Addio\" starts with cadenced Hammond chords in \u00be, like an Italian or Eastern Europe folk song, a dramatic and sad ballad, really touching. I don't know why but while listening to this song I imagine an old '20 movie like \"Nosferatu\" or \"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\", ruins of castles and a gloomy sense of solitude. One of the best song. \"Nella Nebbia (non oltre sar\u00f2)\" emerges for a very good rhythmic bassline and a romantic chorus, while in \"Les Jeaux Sont Faits\" Stefania Minutaglio shows her sweet but disturbing voice on a dynamic and obsessive rhythmic section. A track in the pure style of traditional dark-rock, but with the right amount of melody and personal approach that makes the song very pleasant. A real torture for the soul is the piano introducing \"Tra specchi\", like looking at dawn in a winter day, strangled by anguish, drowning in the \"long and dirty mirrors\" showing our sins. Another great track, no doubt. Tribal and powerful is the drumming of \"Sangue e Arena\", while bass and guitar explode in the chorus. A bit of Spanish influence is in the air, nothing obvious, but you can feel it in guitar solos and chords, sweating passion. The next \"Eclissi\" is presented in two versions: the first is \"Eclissi (dell'anima)\" starts as a fast ride, with a great guitar and bass work, and a very passionate singing; the second one is a dreamy and romantic instrumental version, with something \u00e0 la CURE, in particular for the keyboards pads. With this album BOH\u00c9MIEN have closed with honour their debt with the past. I hope they'll have now the force to look ahead and produce new songs, more and more affirming their personality and style. 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{"text":"Another mining disaster\u2026\nBut this time in a 'safe' coal mine; or is there such a thing in China?\nFeb 27, 2009 (WiC 4)\nOnce more into the breach: mining remains a dangerous job in China\nA gas explosion, which killed 74 miners at Tunlan in Shanxi province last Sunday, has angered a Chinese media long used to reporting on industrial accidents. The blast seems to have been caused by inadequate ventilation, as well as incomplete enforcement of safety regulations.\nMedia concern has focused on the disaster occurring at a large state-owned facility. News site nen.com.cn, for instance, posits that it would have been less of a surprise at a smaller coal mine, where \"immoral\" owners and poor working conditions are often cited as factors in fatal accidents.\nZhao Tiechui, head of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety, agreed that this was an accident that \"should never have occurred\". Three top executives at Tunlan have already been dismissed, local government officials are under investigation for lax enforcement of safety regulations, and the provincial government has made a formal omission of error to the State Council.\nTelevision coverage of Shanxi Governor Wang Jun sobbing an apology to the relatives of miners killed in the blast also breaks new ground. Wang's predecessor resigned after 277 people died in the collapse of an unlicensed iron ore reservoir last September, according to the China Daily.\nThe Nanfang Daily is less surprised that the accident occurred on state premises. The extensive sale of mining licences by local governments has led to an ultra-competitive environment, it says, in which even the large, state-owned mines are being forced to cut costs to survive. It argues for consolidation within the industry, as well as a stricter licensing process.\nThe Chongqing Times believes that management shortcomings are the common theme behind the various disasters that continue to feature in the news. It accepts that there has been an increase in expenditure on safety equipment within the industry. But managers seem not to be using the equipment properly and the basics of safety policy are too frequently misunderstood.\nThe accident is particularly unfortunate as Tunlan had previously been commended for its safety standards. Shanxi has also been singled out by the National People's Congress as a province in which coal industry safety standards are expected to improve.\nUp until last week, the mine had gone more than four years (and a million tonnes of output) without a fatality. But China Business News points out that Tunlan suffers from above average gas emission during coal production. It also quotes \"insider\" suggestions that the mine may have been operating at the brink of capacity \u2013 a level at which both equipment and mine personnel risked fatigue.\nEnvironmentAmerica may have toxic assets. China has toxic water\nOthersInvestment in innovation picks up\nEnergy & ResourcesThe story of the world's hardiest (and perhaps canniest) miners\nCartoonsA new era of pantsuit diplomacy?\nBanking & FinanceWhat lies behind the colossal increase in bank lending?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Announced: Top Employers of 2018 with David Plink\nOn February 2nd the Top Employers of 2018 were announced by the Top Employers Institute. The CEO of the Top Employers Institute \u2013 David Plink - now shares his insight into the certification.\nAs the CEO of Top Employers Institute, David is responsible for general management within the Top Employers Institute. In this podcast, we are excited to share the announcement of this year's Top Employers 2018 as certified by the Top Employers Institute.\nIn this podcast, David Plink will share the insights about the HR trends, the standards required for the Top Employers certification and what should become 2018's HR priorities for every organisation. And David will explain that as of 2018 we're adding talent acquisition as the tenth topic in our Best Practices Survey.\nTo find out which companies around the world have been certified this year, click here.\nListen to the full podcast for more information about the Top Employers certification and HR trends.\nTo hear our other episodes, be sure to follow us on:\nWant to keep up to date to the latest insights? Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes\nMore than 1500 Top Employers around the world.\nStay on top of the latest HR news & trends from the Top Employers Institute.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00a330.5million Adult Education Budget Set To Be Devolved To The Tees Valley\nHome \u00bb News \u00bb \u00a330.5million Adult Education Budget Set To Be Devolved To The Tees Valley\nTees Valley Combined Authority has today (June 1) agreed a move to secure an indicative \u00a330.5million per year in Government funding for adult education in the region.\nAt a meeting of the Combined Authority Cabinet, members approved the laying of a Parliamentary Order by the Secretary of State for Education, which is a vital step to enable changes to legislation to allow the deal to proceed.\nThe Adult Education Budget will be devolved from central Government from August 2019 to support learners aged 19 and over.\nDevolution of the budget allows the Mayor and Cabinet to target funds where they are most needed, to provide skills training, help local people back to work and nurture home-grown talent.\nMore than 170 training providers that currently operate in the Tees Valley access this budget. Taking control of this funding will support the sustainability of further education and independent training providers while targeting those who do not have qualifications.\nThe move comes just weeks after Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen launched TeesValleyCareers.com, which aims to directly connect the 100,000 young people in the region to more than 1,000 businesses.\nTeesValleyCareers.com is the first of its kind in the UK and, like the delivery of the Adult Education Budget, will help to ensure people in the area have the experience, skills, confidence and understanding they need to succeed while allowing employers to fill skills gaps and flourish.\nMayor Houchen said: \"From next year, we will control a \u00a330 million annual fund to improve post-19 education across the Tees Valley. We are only getting control of this fund because our region agreed to a directly-elected Mayor. This is yet another example of devolution working for our area.\n\"Thanks to this investment from central government, we will ensure learners can gain the skills that local businesses desperately need.\n\"For decades, some companies took the easy way out and brought in cheap labour to fill demand. But with this new fund, we will start investing in home-grown talent by re-training local people to fill our skills gap.\n\"Learners, employers and our entire region stand to benefit enormously from this decision.\"\nCllr Christopher Akers-Belcher, Tees Valley Combined Authority Cabinet Lead for Education, said: \"This is another key plank in our strategy to make sure everybody in the Tees Valley has every chance to access high-quality learning, develop their skills and achieve their potential.\n\"Helping adults back into the worlds of education and work will have a real, demonstrable effect on the Tees Valley, not least the wellbeing of our residents.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Small Operator\nTop 20 Growth Chains\nCSNews Events\nOpposition Builds to Proposed N.D. Tobacco Tax Hike\nBISMARCK, N.D. \u2014 A ballot question in November's election could raise the state's cigarette excise tax 44 cents to $2.20 packs. However, retailers and tobacco companies are fighting the measure.\nLast month, the Raise It for Health North Dakota coalition delivered a petition to raise the state's tobacco tax to the state's Secretary of State. The petition contained more than 22,000 signatures. State law requires 13,452 validated and approved signatures to reach the ballot in November, as CSNews Online previously reported.\nIn addition to a hike in the cigarette levy, the tax on other tobacco products, including liquid nicotine, would go from 28 percent to 56 percent of the wholesale purchase price.\nBut now the North Dakota Retail Association is stepping up its opposition efforts. According to KFGO.com, association President Mike Rud said an initiated is \"bad tax policy.\"\nThe group has organized The Stop The 400% Tax Increase Coalition to fight the move. According to Rud, the measure amounts to a 400-percent excise tax increase on cigarettes. It also doubles taxes on other tobacco products and puts a new tax on electronic cigarettes.\nHe added the measure goes \"too far in the sale of a legal product to a legal age customer.\" Rud told the news outlet if approved, the measure will mean \"significant financial losses\" for retailers, and could lead to layoffs and store closings.\nIn addition to the retail group, Altria Group Inc. and RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co., an operating company of Reynolds American Inc., are taking a stand against the proposed levy increase.\nAccording to The Associated Press, campaign finance disclosure reports filed with the North Dakota Secretary of State's office show Richmond, Va.-based Altria and RJ Reynolds, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., have contributed more than $860,000 to fight the tobacco tax increase that will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot.\nSuppliers & Wholesalers\nLegislative, Regulatory & Legal\nTackling Tobacco: July 2016 Legislative & Regulatory Roundup\nTackling Tobacco: Fall 2016 Legislative & Regulatory Roundup\nSmoker Friendly Speaks Out Against Colorado's Amendment 72\nTackling Tobacco: August 2016 Legislative & Regulatory Roundup\nAltria Leads Latest Round of Cigarette Price Hikes\nTackling Tobacco: September 2016 Legislative & Regulatory Roundup\nTackling Tobacco: April 2018 Legislative & Regulatory Roundup\nTackling Tobacco: November 2018 Legislative & Regulatory Roundup\nGrassroots Coalition Blocks San Francisco Menthol Ban\n\u00a9 2019 EnsembleIQ, All Rights Reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Justia \u203a US Law \u203a Case Law \u203a Illinois Case Law \u203a Supreme Court of Illinois Decisions \u203a 1966 \u203a The People v. Goodpaster\nReceive free daily summaries of new opinions from the Supreme Court of Illinois. Subscribe\nThe People v. Goodpaster\n35 Ill. 2d 478 (1966)\n221 N.E.2d 251\nTHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. WALTER J. GOODPASTER, Appellant.\nSupreme Court of Illinois.\nOpinion filed October 28, 1966.\nJAMES W. McROBERTS, JR., of East St. Louis, appointed by the court, for appellant.\nWILLIAM G. CLARK, Attorney General, of Springfield, and K.T. HUBLER, State's Attorney, of Marion, (FRED G. LEACH, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel,) for the People.\nJudgments affirmed.\n*479 Mr. JUSTICE SOLFISBURG delivered the opinion of the court:\nThe defendant, Dr. Walter J. Goodpaster, was indicted in the circuit court of Williamson County for the murder of Margaret Strunk. On motion of defendant, the venue was changed to Massac County where the defendant was tried by a jury, found guilty, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 199 years. Defendant's petition under the Post-Conviction Hearing Act was denied. Defendant appeals from the original judgment and the order denying his subsequent petition, on the ground that his constitutional rights were violated.\nThe decedent, Margaret Strunk, was killed by a shot from a MI.30 caliber carbine four-tenths of a mile east of defendant's home about sunrise on December 25, 1959. Decedent and her companion, Bernard Dobraski, had been drinking in taverns in Colp, Illinois, and were returning to her home on foot. As they passed Dr. Goodpaster's home, an altercation ensued between the defendant and Dobraski. The defendant testified that he arose early and let his Great Dane out. About 6:30 A.M. he heard the dog barking. He went outside and saw the form of a man he could not identify with a rock in his hand. An argument ensued and Dobraski, in a drunken condition, approached defendant and hit him with the rock. Defendant and his son turned and went back to the house telling Dobraski to \"leave us alone.\" Defendant is corroborated in his testimony by his son, who had come out of the house.\nDobraski's version of the incident is that he had thrown some rocks at the Great Dane, when defendant ran out into the road cursing them and threatening them with a pistol. He put his hand on Dobraski's shoulder and kicked him several times. After they had proceeded east about 30 yards, defendant went back to his home.\nAccording to Dobraski, he and the deceased had walked some distance down the road holding hands, when defendant's *480 truck came up behind them and stopped. As they turned around, defendant was pointing a carbine at them. He shot deceased in the head and Dobraski ran off into the woods while defendant shot two or three more times. Dobraski then fell into a creek and as he was lying there, someone shot him twice in the head with a derringer pistol.\nDefendant denied being in his truck that day, denied owning the weapons involved, and denied shooting anyone.\nThe defendant's primary contention is that he was not proved guilty of murder beyond a reasonable doubt. He attacks the testimony of Dobraski connecting defendant with the shooting on the basis of his intoxicated condition, his head injury received from the shooting and his general character. Defendant also claims that it was too dark for Dobraski to identify the killer.\nDobraski's eyewitness account of the shooting, however, was corroborated by the testimony of Lester and Lavern Johnson, who saw defendant's truck being backed down the road after the shooting. Two employees of defendant, Hagler and Dunning, heard the shots and thereafter saw defendant's truck backing up the road and entering defendant's driveway. Dunning also testified that as he came to work he saw defendant leaving his house in the truck; that after the shots were fired he saw defendant's truck being backed up to defendant's drive.\nWe have examined the entire record, including the testimony of defendant's family and secretary, which support defendant, and we find a direct and irreconcilable conflict in the testimony. In such a circumstance it is the peculiar prerogative of the jury to determine where the truth lies. We are convinced that there was sufficient evidence offered by the People, if believed by the jury, to establish defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In such a case we will not disturb the determination of the jury.\nDefendant, however, insists that on the post-conviction hearing it was proved that Dunning lied in his testimony *481 at the trial with the knowledge of the State's Attorney. It appears from the record of the post-conviction hearing that after the trial, Dunning made an affidavit in the presence of the sheriff, the public defender, a minister and two attorneys to the effect that he lied and did not see defendant leave his driveway in his truck the morning of the shooting, but that he was told to so testify by the State's Attorney. At the time of this statement, Dunning was incarcerated in the local jail on a robbery charge. Thereafter he executed an affidavit recanting his prior statement and stating that he told the truth upon the trial and made the prior affidavit in the expectation that he would be supplied a lawyer.\nWe have examined the affidavits, counteraffidavits, and testimony on the post-conviction hearing and we feel that it was for the trial court to determine whether the People knowingly used perjured testimony. (People v. Alden, 15 Ill. 2d 498, 503; Davies v. People, 10 Ill. 2d 11, 15.) While we think that the post-conviction proceedings established Dunning as unworthy of belief, we do not believe that the knowing use of perjured testimony was established so as to require a new trial.\nDefendant further claims error in the failure of the court to give to the jury tendered manslaughter instructions. As we examine the conflicting evidence it appears that only two conclusions are permissible depending on the jury's determination of the credibility of the witnesses. Defendant and his witnesses insist that he did not shoot the decedent. The evidence adduced by the State tends to show that defendant had an altercation with Dobraski; that thereafter he returned to his house and obtained a rifle; that he followed the couple some distance in his truck and then shot the decedent. The evidence linking defendant to the homicide is inconsistent with a theory of manslaughter. There is no evidence in the record to support defense counsel's present hypothesis that Dobraski enraged the defendant by hitting *482 him with a rock, whereupon defendant shot at Dobraski and accidentally killed decedent. In the absence of some evidence to support a manslaughter conviction, instructions on manslaughter are improper. People v. Burnett, 27 Ill. 2d 510; People v. Tanthorey, 404 Ill. 520.\nDefendant also urged that his constitutional rights were violated when evidence was adduced concerning his conduct at the scene of the shooting. The morning of the killing the sheriff took defendant to the scene, after denying defendant's request to call his attorney. While at the scene the State's Attorney asked defendant if he had ever seen the dead woman before and defendant answered that he had not. Several witnesses testified that they did not see defendant look at the body before denying that he knew decedent. Defendant contends that such evidence was barred under the doctrine of Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 12 L. Ed. 2d 977.\nSince the trial in this case took place in October, 1960, prior to the effective date of Escobedo, June 22, 1964, the stringent requirements there set forth are not applicable. (Johnson v. New Jersey, 384 U.S. 719, 16 L. Ed. 2d 882.) It is therefore sufficient to point out that there is no contention that defendant's statements were involuntary, and no objection was made at the trial to their admission in evidence. The trial court committed no error in this regard.\nWe have carefully examined other allegations of error in the trial of the cause and we conclude that they are without merit. Defendant has received a fair trial free of substantial error, and we cannot say that the jury was incorrect in its verdict.\nThe judgments of the trial court in the original case and upon the post-conviction hearing are, therefore, affirmed.\nof Supreme Court of Illinois opinions.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Clueless American's Quick Guide to the Brexit\nCartoonMovement.com\nOn Thursday, the United Kingdom voted in favor of leaving the European Union by the narrowest of margins. The 51\/49 vote will have massive repercussions in the future, but what those specific consequences will be are still largely unknown. While this may seem mostly like a European issue, every American needs to educate themselves on what this could mean for the future of America, younger generations, and the entire global economy and relations.\nHere's what you need to know about what happened and what may happen.\nIn the short-term, the biggest worry for Americans is Brexit's negative effect on the financial markets. This most likely won't cause a full-blown international financial crisis, but it is making investors more cautious. Stock prices are down and banks are more reluctant to lend, but this is mostly from the initial shock factor of not knowing what's going to happen next.\nIn the long-term, very few people can predict what consequences the Brexit will actually have. Some predict that it could lead to other European Union countries leaving, and perhaps marking the beginning of the end for the European Union as a whole.\nPost-vote, Britain is expected to submit an application to leave the European Union and will have two years to negotiate an exit; this means that we will be hearing about negotiations for a long time.\nCurrent United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron is planning to resign in the coming months as he does not feel like he's the one to lead the UK through negotiations.\nBoris Johnson, the former mayor of London who has drawn comparisons to Donald Trump, could become the new prime minister of Britain this coming fall upon David Cameron's resignation.\nAlthough there have been a lot of rumors and talks among other countries about leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom is the first to hold an actual vote on leaving the European Union.\nThe value of the dollar has already strengthened overnight, and could potentially go up even more against other currencies. This could hurt exports to other countries from the United States.\nThe vote was extremely narrow, with an official count of 51.9% to 48.9%. However, a more important split might be the one between the four nations of The United Kingdom. England and Wales voted to leave, while Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain a member of the European Union. Why does this matter? Scotland had a vote to leave the United Kingdom, but a major reason why voters chose to stay is because they wanted to remain a member of the European Union. The United Kingdom leaving the European Union means that it is almost inevitable that the Scotland secessionist movement will grow, and that Scotland will have another vote on whether to leave the United Kingdom.\nThere have been rumors about Northern Ireland attempting to join Ireland or separating from the United Kingdom as well. Northern Ireland voted 56% to 44% to remain member of the European Union.\nIn fact, the entire European Union could collapse in the coming years if the United Kingdom opens the door for other secessionist movements. The United Kingdom was among the three strongest members of the European Union, with France and Germany. The Netherlands could follow suit shortly, and with Sweden often looking at The United Kingdom for leadership, it could pave the way for secessionist talks in their country as well.\nMost importantly, Brexit might not even happen. It is not completely official, and it is unlikely that it will not happen, but there has already been a petition to re-do the vote that crashed the U.K. government's website this morning. There are also rumors that the EU might offer more generous terms to convince Britain to stay, which would prompt a second referendum. The overwhelming divide between the nation's voters has already caused controversy, and with massive global repercussions hinging on such a narrow vote, it seems unlikely that such a monumental decisions will go smoothly.\nMore Trending Topics\nThe Idiot's Guide To The Hyperloop\nThe 6 Craziest Things Actors Did For A Role\nThe 15 Most Beautiful College Campuses\nShop: CoraLife Spring Collection\nStartup Manages to Turn Skin Into A Touchscreen\nEdible Six-Pack Ring Will Feed, Not Kill, Wildlife\nSpaceX Plans To Send Humans To Mars by 2024","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Judge Says He May Set Bold Medical Marijuana Precedent Today\nPosted by Americans for Safe Access on August 11, 2003\nSanta Ana \u2013 A \"bold, precedent-setting decision\" is what U.S. District Judge David O. Carter has said he will make today in the sentencing of an Orange County man who had been growing in his garage the marijuana he used to treat his chronic back pain. Federal prosecutors want five years in prison for Michael Teague, 33, but Judge Carter has challenged them to produce evidence that Teague ever sold any of it. Otherwise, he says he's ready to set precedent for Southern California.\nSince medical-marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal received a symbolic one-day sentence case from Judge Charles Breyer, federal judges have begun looking at the intent of medical marijuana defendants as a way around harsh sentencing guidelines.\nMr. Teague was growing cannabis in the back of his garage because his doctor recommended it to him after he nearly died from reactions to such conventional pain-killing medications as aspirin and Tylenol. The owner of a small pool-service business, Mr. Teague suffers from a chronic back injury.\nLocal police initially arrested him, but the District Attorney declined to bring charges after learning of Mr. Teague's condition. Two weeks later, federal authorities arrived at his home with weapons drawn and re-arrested him, charging him with federal drug violations that carry a possible ten-year sentence.\nMr. Teague elected to plead guilty to a lesser marijuana cultivation charge with a maximum sentence of five years, after being advised that he would be unable to tell a jury about either his painful medical condition or the drug allergies that made medical marijuana the best treatment option.\nThe son of a police department employee and brother of a police officer, Mr. Teague's worst previous encounter with law enforcement was a traffic ticket. Federal prosecutors are nonetheless intent on getting a five-year prison sentence. Judge Carter looks set to say otherwise.\nWho: Michael Teague, 33, Orange County small-business owner and medical-marijuana patient\nWhat: Possible Precedent-Setting Sentencing in Federal Medical Marijuana Case\nWhen: Monday, August 11th at 1:30 PM\nWhere: US District Court in Santa Ana, Ronald Reagan Federal Building and United States Courthouse, 411 West Fourth Street, 8th Floor, Courtroom of Judge David O. Carter\nAmericans for Safe Access is a national coalition of patients, doctors and advocates. With 5,500 members nationwide, ASA is the leading organization devoted to medical marijuana.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New York in the Progressive Era\nHosted By:\tThe Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy (LESJC)\nThe years 1890-1920 produced sweeping reforms and profound changes in American life and especially in New York State. Reacting to the great inequalities from the Gilded Age, reformers pressed for laws for better housing, women's suffrage, personal income tax, labor protections, and what were early environmental and wilderness conservation initiatives, plus much more. This era saw innovative ways of combatting social issues with the development of movements, such as the one that created Settlement Houses, which started in America on the Lower East Side \u2013 a neighborhood teaming with poor Jewish immigrants at that time.\nJoin us for a talk on Zoom by author Paul Kaplan whose book, New York in the Progressive Era: Social Reform and Cultural Upheaval from 1890-1920, will take you on a journey discussing these social movements, and how they affected life as we know it now.\nCovered in this presentation will be:\n\u2022 How the Progressive Era came about in reaction to the Gilded Age\n\u2022 Calls for Reforms (many by noted Jewish leaders)\n\u2022 Women's Suffrage\n\u2022 Early Environmental Conservation\n\u2022 Worker Rights\n\u2022 Transportation Expansion\n\u2022 Jewish leaders and voices of this period Paul will share archival photos, videos, poetry, and quotes from some of the people he will talk about.\nMr. Kaplan has published 6 books from History Press, Pelican, and Quill Driver Books, writing them under 3 series: #1 -Cultural Guides, #2 \u2013 Social History & Biographies, and #3 \u2013 Business Technology Marketing.\nWed. Dec. 01, 2021\nPaul has given over 45 book tours across the US at a variety of venues including at the clubs for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Union League, Elm City Club of New Haven, Museum at Eldridge Street, General Society Library and at scores of libraries, community centers, museums, and private functions. In addition, he has been featured on the front page of New York Press, the long-running radio show America's Dining & Travel, Writer's Voice, several other talk radio shows, the iconic African-American newspaper Amsterdam New York and Princeton Magazine. His books are on PBS, local NPR stations, and CBS Miami. Also, he has helped produce and been interviewed on Let's Travel, a talk show on public radio.\nSee All Events From This Teacher\nThe Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy (LESJC)\nThe Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy (LESJC) is an educational non-profit, created in 1998, to preserve and support the Lower East Side's community of living synagogues and other historic structures, and to raise public awareness of the neighborhoods distinct cultural identity. As the birthplace of American Jewish civilization, and the most iconic immigrant neighborhood in America, we share this history by taking people on walking tours which enter sacred sites, where you learn how past generations came here, lived and worshiped. Learn more about LESJC here.\nSat. Jan. 22, 2022 @ 7:00 pm EST\nThe Letter's Project: A Daughter's Journey, with Eleanor Reissa\nHosted by: Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA)\nView More About Event\tEvent Arrow\nSun. Jan. 23, 2022 @ 1:00 pm EST\nThe Jewish Story Live 1945-67\nHosted by: Pardes\nContemporary Jewish-Christian Relations: What Are the Challenges and Opportunities?\nHosted by: The National Library of Israel (NLI)\nJews & Non-Jews\nJewish-Christian Relations Today\nThough Jews and Christians have had a complicated and tense relationship, relations today are better than ever.\nMedieval Jewish-Christian Relations\nDaily relations between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages.\nAncient\/Medieval Jewish History\nJewish-Christian Relations in the Early Centuries\nRelations deteriorated and hostility increased","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"George Bush Senior dies at the age of 94\nThread starter Locutus\nChristian News Forum\nRedrum187\nI'm not going to call out specific names, but just review this thread briefly: CC - News - Stephen Hawking Has Died\nIt is hypocritical to say one shouldn't mention facts that put a person in a bad light when it comes to Bush but it's totally acceptable when it comes to Stephen Hawking. If both Bush and Hawking didn't accept Christ as their Savior, we know their eternal fate. However, personally, I respect an honest and open atheist more than I do a Satanist pretending to be Christian.\nIt is not \"speaking ill\" of someone to post anything factual if it is indeed a part of the person's life legacy. Hawking's relationship with God (or the lack thereof) is a huge part of his legacy in that he was a theoretical physicist who adamantly spoke against there being a Divine Creator. As a believer in Jesus Christ, it saddens me to know he didn't believe in Christ because I have tremendous admiration and respect for all his contributions in science and physics. Likewise, Bush's legacy contains many positives and many negatives.\nShould we ignore all the negatives simply because a person is dead? Is it \"hating\" or \"slandering\" Hawking and Bush to speak about what we perceive to be the negative aspects of their legacy? The answer is \"no\". If it is then you would have to think the word of God is a \"hateful\" book that speaks \"ill\" of people who died. The bible is the word of God... it is anything BUT hateful... it is a tool to use in our lives to learn more about God, have a closer relationship with him, and yes... to LEARN from the mistakes man has made from the old testament to the new testament. We do our youth and future youth a disservice when we only point out the happy, sugarcoated fairy tale legacy as opposed to a more objective and factual account of the deceased person's legacy. I don't advise anyone to leave out the negative from Adolf Hitler's legacy and focus on false claims like \"Hitler was a Christian and is walking with God now.\" Yes, Bush wasn't on Hitler's level in terms of the impact of their respective negative legacies, nevertheless, my point still remains.\nSolemateleft said:\nI do respect your persistent diligence and your right to your opinion and your beliefs (I and President GHW Bush served our country and fought in wars to allow you that right - of free speech)... I just ask with all do respect that you consider that there is a time and a place for everything... Today, tomorrow, and maybe even the next day are too soon - especially on this ...\nThis has never been about my opinion nor anyone else's for that matter... His day of reckoning is and always has been between him and our Lord...\nLet's lay this man to rest - with the honor and dignity that the rest of our country and world leaders are doing...\nIf after we have grieved and paid tribute - you desire to engage in an honorable and respectful exchange of information - I will respect you as a man of honor and integrity all the more...\nEven during the Civil War - soldiers from the North and South called truces to allow their men to get water at the river... I just want to quench my thirst with memories of my Commander In Chief in as honorable and dignified way as possible...\nI PRAY THAT YOU WILL MAKE THE HONORABLE CHOICE...\nFirstly, thank you to you and Bush for serving in our armed forces. It is incredibly respectable of both of you for serving your countrymen.\nI disagree with the \"time and place\" request. There is no better time to reflect and learn from a historical figure's complete life legacy, such as George H W Bush, than immediately after their death. There is never a \"time and a place\" to cherry pick only the positive parts of someone's legacy when there are eternally damning elements within their legacy. The truth doesn't have to be pretty, but it should be made known. I'm reminded of a passage from John:\n\"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.\"\nHistory is meant for people to learn from. The word of God is an amazing instrument\/tool we can use to gather truth from. Within it, we can learn of many amazing things that children of God have done and endured, but we also learned of atrocities those same children of God committed. The bible wouldn't be full and complete truth if it only contained the fairy tale history. It is vital to know both and to remember both.\nIt's okay we don't see eye-to-eye on this but just know this is nothing personal against you or anyone who doesn't like the complete truth mentioned at this time. For me, the \"honorable choice\" is to make the truth known.\nSolemateleft\nHonor, Courage, Commitment\nLive: George H.W. Bush state funeral\nhttps:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/live-george-h-w-bush-state-funeral-121205042.html\nPreachers take note: Jon Meacham's beautiful eulogy for George H.W. Bush, a '20th century Founding Father'\nDECEMBER 5, 2018 BY DEACON GREG KANDRA\nhttps:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaco...orge-h-w-bush-a-20th-century-founding-father\/\nThis isn't a sermon, but it could serve as a model for great public speaking. Here's a gorgeous piece of work by the peerless Jon Meacham, beautifully eulogizing George H.W. Bush at Washington's National Cathedral this morning.\nDo we realize what we have lost \u2014 not just in our leaders but in our public rhetoric? No matter what your political leanings, it can't be denied that this is a great eulogy, elegantly delivered.\nWatch and listen to a master at work.\nGeorge H.W. Bush funeral: Son George W. Bush speaks about his father\nhttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/poli...e79db33382f_story.html?utm_term=.2a69c2cd73af\nFormer president George W. Bush on Wednesday said that his father had \"showed me what it means to be a president that leads with integrity.\"\nHis remarks came as mourners from across the nation gathered in Washington to pay their respects and celebrate the life of former president George H.W. Bush at a state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral.\nWith President Trump and four living former U.S. presidents in attendance, Bush was remembered as \"America's last great soldier-statesman\" by biographer Jon Meacham, one of four people delivering eulogies.\n\"One reason Dad knew how to die young was that he almost did it \u2013 twice,\"Bush said, referring to a staph infection as a teenager and later being shot down as a Navy pilot.\nFor Dad's part, I think those brushes with death made him cherish the gift of life,\" Bush said.\nHe elicited a few laughs from the crowd, such as when he recalled his father's longtime friend, James Baker, sneaking him Grey Goose vodka and steak when he was in the hospital in his later years.\nHis father also enjoyed a good joke and had an email list where he and others would share their favorites \u2013 including some off-color jokes, Bush said.\n\"To us he was close to perfect, but not totally perfect. \u2026 The man couldn't stomach vegetables, especially broccoli,\" Bush said, in a reference to the food famously loathed by his father. \"And, by the way, he passed these genetic defects on to us.\"\nBush broke down at the end of his remarks as he recalled his father as the \"best father\" and prompted applause from the crowd after saying that he smiles \"knowing that Dad is hugging Robin and holding Mom's hand again.\"\nBush's pastor jokes about service dog Sully's popularity\nhttps:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/card\/president-bush-s-pastor-jokes-about-service-dog-sully-s-n944341\nThe Rev. Russell Levenson of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston spoke at former President George H.W. Bush's state funeral on Wednesday, following an emotional eulogy from former President George W. Bush.\nLevenson drew some laughs from the audience when he began his homily by mentioning how the 41st president's wife Barbara, who died earlier this year, would note that his sermons would go on just a bit too long. Levenson also discussed Bush's final days, noting that former Secretary of State James Baker, Bush's longtime friend, was by his side at the very end. (George W. Bush, in his tribute minutes earlier, said that Baker sneaked his father Grey Goose vodka and steaks from Morton's late in life.)\nLevenson even mentioned Sully, the service dog who had been with the former president in his final months, joking that the dog seemingly \"has gotten more press than the president in recent days.\"\n\"Mr. President, mission complete,\" Levenson said. \"Welcome to your eternal home, where ceiling and visibility are unlimited and life goes on forever.\"\nPreach Christ at all times. If necessary use words.\nFormer Canadian PM delivers his eulogy at Bush funeral\nFormer Canadian Prime Minister and long-time friend of Bush Brian Mulroney delivers his eulogy for the late president.\nhttps:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2018\/12\/05\/former-canadian-pm-delivers-his-eulogy-at-bush-funeral.html\nBush's biographer delivers eulogy at former president's funeral\nJon Meacham, biographer of George H.W. Bush and historian, delivers his eulogy at the National Cathedral.\nhttps:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2018\/12\/...elivers-eulogy-former-presidents-funeral.html\nGeorge W. Bush delivers an emotional eulogy at his father's funeral\nFormer President George W. Bush speaks at his father, former President George H.W. Bush's funeral at Washington National Cathedral, tearfully remembering his dad as 'the best father a son or daughter could have.'\nWhat a wonderful Christian service!\nHeraldtheNews\nCharliRenee said:\nI honestly appreciate your feedback because that is exactly how I meant it, how it appeared to me. No I did not and do not believe the person or persons have hate in their hearts. I will confess, though, bro, sometimes the love in my heart does not always line up with what He calls for us. Ugh, thanks be to Him, He is a merciful God.\nHis kinda love amazes me.\nI see you are accused of causing a \"hissy-fit\"! that's a good sign in here--\nThis was a good interview about his war crash. It doesn't get any more serious than that and still survive, I don't think.\nHe might say, \"surviving a crash like that is definitely gooood--\"\n\"Thousand points of enemy flak is baaaad.\"\nI would definitely say anyone bashing a former American president is bad and not-Christian. He talks about praying in his interview here-- praying to God who saved him.\nprove-all\nWhen Bush Sr. was running for reelection in 1992, Congresswoman Maxine Waters\ncalled him\u2014the sitting U.S. president\u2014a racist. Today, the radical left lionizes the\nlate President Bush, but only because doing so gives them yet another excuse to\nattack the current occupant of the White House, Donald J. Trump.\nOdelschwanck\nI can't even bash the trail of tears president without being a not-Christian?\nOdelschwanck said:\nHow about an \"and or not christian\" bashing?\nOr an xor christian, or an xnor christian?\nWhat gets me a bit with all this \"president\" honoring is the Bill Clinton scandals and Bush's \"war on Saddam\/Iraq\" \"no wmd found\" gets forgotten along with all the lies involved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > archives > School board ongoing actions around bullying prevention\nSchool board ongoing actions around bullying prevention\nHastings and Prince Edward District School Board is committed to providing caring, safe, respectful and inclusive learning environments for all students. For the past six years, we have been actively engaged in a coordinated effort with employees, students, parents\/guardians and community partners, at both the system and school levels, to develop direction, supports and resources to help deal with the complex issue of student bullying.\nBullying can have devastating effects on individuals and groups. It is a societal issue that requires all of us to work together to support students who have been bullied and to help students who engage in bullying behaviours learn the impact of their actions.\nThe Accepting Schools Act passed on June 5, 2012 defines bullying as the following:\nBullying means aggressive and typically repeated behaviour by a pupil where, the behaviour is intended by the pupil to have the effect of, or the pupil ought to know that the behaviour would be likely to have the effect of:\n(i) causing harm, fear or distress to another individual, including physical, psychological, social or academic harm, harm to the individual's reputation or harm to the individual's property, or\n(ii) creating a negative environment at a school for another individual, and\n(b) the behaviour occurs in a context where there is a real or perceived power imbalance between the pupil and the individual based on factors such as size, strength, age, intelligence, peer group power, economic status, social status, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, family circumstances, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, disability or the receipt of special education; (\"intimidation\")\nBullying behaviour includes the use of any physical, verbal, electronic, written or other means.\nFor the purposes of the definition of \"bullying\", bullying includes bullying by electronic means (commonly known as cyber-bullying), including,\n(a) Creating a web page or a blog in which the creator assumes the identity of another person;\n(b) Impersonating another person as the author of content or messages posted on the internet; and\n(c) Communicating material electronically to more than one individual or posting material on a website that may be accessed by one or more individuals.\nAs a school board we recognize that we have a significant role to play in bullying prevention and intervention. We are dedicated to this important work. Here are some of our key approaches to bullying prevention that align with Ministry of Education expectations:\n\u2022 Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board is committed to providing learning opportunities that promote social and emotional learning, as well as academic and physical growth. Our focus on character education is to support the development of safe and supportive school communities and to help students develop a foundation of good character. The Board believes that character development is about engaging the community in sharing the responsibility for character development.\n\u2022 All bullying adversely affects healthy relationships, the school environment, and a school's ability to educate students. It impacts negatively on students' ability to learn. Bullying is not to be accepted on school property, at school-related activities, on school buses, or in any other circumstances where engaging in bullying will have a negative impact on the life of the school.\n\u2022 Providing students with an opportunity to learn and develop in a safe and respectful society is a shared responsibility in which the district and its schools play an important role. Schools that use bullying prevention and intervention strategies, including progressive discipline, foster a positive learning and teaching environment that supports academic achievement for all students.\n\u2022 A positive school climate is a crucial component of bullying prevention. A positive school climate exists when all members of the school community feel safe, comfortable and accepted. To help achieve a positive environment, schools actively promote and support positive behaviours that reflect the board's Growing with Character attributes (caring, cooperation, honesty, humour, integrity, respect, responsibility, trustworthiness). Schools also endeavour to ensure that parents and members of the broader community are involved in the school community.\nOver time we have developed a range of practices to help our schools develop positive and safe school environments. They include:\nbullying prevention education and awareness\nviolence prevention programs\nstudent success strategies\ncitizenship development\npeer and group counselling\nprogressive discipline, which includes suspension or expulsion, when necessary\nWe also have in place threat assessment protocols and a police protocol so that we can work effectively with our community partners. Each of our schools has developed its own set of unique programs to support bullying prevention and how to best respond to bullying incidents.\nDeveloping effective strategies to deal with bullying is an ongoing process that requires continual effort from all of us. This year we have identified a district-wide focus on enhancing safe, effective learning environments, expanding restorative practices awareness, expanding awareness of equity and inclusivity, and increasing the understanding of mental health supports.\nIn January 2012 we placed specific requirements in school improvement plans, in all 50 of our schools, to have explicit strategies in place to enable students to demonstrate strong citizenship skills, and to engage and welcome students, parents\/guardians and community members as respected and valued partners in this dialogue.\nWe are continuing to implement Safe Schools Actions Teams at each school to assist in the review and development of specific plans and approaches. Membership on Safe Schools Action Teams includes employees, parents\/guardians, students and community representatives. At the district level we continue to work in partnership with the Safe Schools Advisory Committee, made up of employees, trustees, parents\/guardians, community partners and police agencies. This group continues to play a valued role in guiding district direction as it relates to safe schools.\nAs a district, we acknowledge that no child should be made to feel unsafe or unwelcome at school because of the actions of others. Continuing to develop and implement effective prevention programs is our priority, followed by ensuring that we have supports in place for those who have been subjected to bullying, and appropriate measures in place to help students who have engaged in bullying so they can understand the impact of their actions.\nWe welcome opportunities for input at the school level through direct conversations with principals and staff, and involvement with the School Councils or Safe School Teams. Opportunities for input at the district level involve direct conversations with school superintendents or local trustees, involvement with the Safe Schools Advisory Committee or the Parent Involvement Committee.\nThousands of employees, parents\/guardians, students and community partners are already engaged in this important work. Our strength and success will come though our collective efforts.\nRob McGall, Director of Education\nDwayne Inch, Chair of the Board\nPolicy 1: Board Mission and Goals (October 2010)\nProcedure 145: Code of Conduct (June 2010)\nProcedure 135: Equity and Inclusivity (September 2010)\nProcedure 225: Character Development (October 2008)\nProcedure 372: Student Use of the Internet & Electronic Devices (October 2008)\nProcedure 378: Student Discipline, Bullying Prevention and Intervention (June 2010)\nProcedure 385: Community Threat Assessment Protocol (June 2010)\nProcedure 393: Police Protocol (September 2011)\nAiM\u2014Achievement in Motion for Student Success System Plan Summary (2011-2012)\nBoard Improvement Plan for Student Success (2012)\nResource Guide: Bullying Prevention & Intervention (February 2010)\nResource Guide: Code of Conduct (February 2009)\nResource Guide: Progressive Discipline & Promoting Positive Student Behaviour (February 2009)\nSafe Schools web page\nBullying We Can All Help Stop It (2011), A Guide for Parents of Elementary and Secondary School Students\nLast updated: January 15, 2018 at 11:00 am","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Identifying, Storing and Disposing of Hazardous Materials Keeping Your Residents and Staff Safe\nBy Mike Odenthal 2018 September Energy Conservation\nMost of us rarely think twice before tossing a banana peel into the garbage can. Which is fine! Anything from a deflated bike to an old boot can usually be thrown in the trash without a second thought. But there are some items that must be disposed of with more care and diligence. Multifamily buildings produce a lot of waste material, some of which can be dangerous if it gets grouped together and thrown away with everyday household items.\nAll buildings and associations should have a plan in place that lets unit owners and staff alike know what items are deemed hazardous; how they should be disposed of; and when and where that disposal should take place in order to avoid accidental exposure and keep everyone safe and healthy.\nMaterially Hazardous\nA fairly eclectic assortment of materials can prove hazardous when disposed of improperly. But as a rule of thumb, the classifications that require special care are electronics, oils, and chemicals.\n\"As a manager of a 288-unit complex, I am concerned with any item that would threaten the safety of the residents living in a multifamily dwelling,\" says Ann Marie Aldrich, a community association manager with the Woodside Village Condominium Association, Inc., in Clearwater, Florida. \"Offhand, this would include oil, grease, paints, and chemicals.\"\nJohn Kadim, a portfolio property manager with Thayer & Associates, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, warns against electronics of all sizes, but especially the smaller, sneakier kind. \"Many times, smaller electronics are 'snuck' into the regular trash,\" he says. \"Most people dispose of chemicals, light bulbs, and things that are not usually given a second thought in their garbage cans simply because they fit in there. Whether light bulbs, chemicals, computers, TVs, paints, etc., all of these materials should be given careful consideration and afforded a special disposal process to protect the environment, especially where disposal is locally prohibited.\"\nHandling and Storing Hazardous Materials\nPutting Safety First\nMultifamily Energy Savings Solutions\nPart 2: The Bigger Picture\nSecuring Air Quality in the COVID-19 Era\nHVAC, HEPA Filters, and UV Disinfection\nJ Kirkwood on Valued Volunteers:\nOur condo Preident says she alone has the authority to select and remove members of a committee. Is this true.?\nHazel on Taking Measure:\nWhere can one get access to National Grid's screening tool?\nCarol Geyer on Top 10 Energy Tips:\nI an other members of my board of trustees have been trying to get quotes for an energy audit from National Grid to no avail. They are so b\u2026\nJean Murray on The Hot and Cold of It:\nChapter 183A, section 10(b)6 of the Mass. General Laws indicates that changing by-laws or master deed is not necessary, only a vote of appr\u2026\nAl Shapiro on Choosing Your Energy Source:\nI represent Viridian Energy. We sell affordable energy with a choice of 20% clean air (wind, solar, hydro) or 100% E certified. We always re\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/Community\/Introducing Grayson Stout: 12-year-old Trapshooting Champion\nIntroducing Grayson Stout: 12-year-old Trapshooting Champion\nApril LovetteDecember 28, 2021\nSWARK.Today presents a new series for 2022 which will allow viewers to meet some amazing people hailing from right here in Southwest Arkansas. There are so many wonderful accomplishments being made by people all over the community, and this series will highlight one person per episode. To give viewers a preview of what's to come, we bring you the first episode today! In this series debut, we are introducing Grayson Stout: a twelve-year-old trapshooting champion who is quickly becoming a top performer in his field!\n*This episode was filmed in August (2021), so references to times and dates are for 2021.\nEditor's Picks grayson stout introducing grayson stout swark introduces swark video","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mount Vernon Love Story\nA Novel of George and Martha Washington\nList Price: 9.99*\nDigital Audiobook (9\/30\/2008)\nIn Mount Vernon Love Story -- famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first novel -- the bestselling author reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the \"father of our country\" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.\nAlways a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives -- even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge -- in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.\nPocket Books, 9780743448949, 272pp.\nThe #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark wrote forty suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his\u00adtorical novel, a memoir, and two children's books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series including The Cinderella Murder, All Dressed in White, The Sleeping Beauty Killer, Every Breath You Take, and You Don't Own Me. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she coauthored five more suspense novels. More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her books are international bestsellers.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Defence Archive\nWar Series\n1947-48 War\nVeterans' Speak\nPranjali Chowdhary\nA Helping Hand: Indian Military's Relief and Rescue Operations\nThe Indian Armed Forces, the second-largest military force in the world, is a primary source of pride for every Indian citizen. Time and again, the Indian soldiers have proven that their bravery is indeed unparalleled. The soldiers are known not only for their valor, but also for their sensitivity to people around them and the helping hand that they are always ready to extend in the time of a crisis. Be it a flood, tsunami, earthquake or any other natural disaster, within India or in our neighboring countries, it is the Indian Armed Forces who are beckoned for help when things go south. Each time, the brave hearts step in, fearless, lionhearted and intrepid, rescuing and saving people in distress. Our Armed Forces redefine patriotism every time through their acts of bravery. Here are some of the many rescue operations that the Indian Army participated in along with the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force, which are sure to fill your hearts with a sense of pride and even more respect for our men and women in uniform.\nOPERATION SURYA HOPE\nThe Uttarakhand floods in 2013 were caused by record nonseasonal monsoon rains, cloud bursts, flash floods and glacier lake outburst floods induced by climate change. Experts also agree that the magnitude of the disaster caused by the June 2013 floods reached great heights owing to the unabated illegal construction on river floodplains and the government's relentless pursuit of hydro power projects. This humanitarian disaster affected millions, stranded over 100,000 pilgrims and tourists in Himalayan religious sites and killed several thousand people. In response to this disaster, the Indian Army conducted Operation Surya Hope. The Operation was conducted by the Indian Army's Lucknow based Central Command. The emblem of the Central Command happens to be Surya (the Sun) and features prominently on the Command formation sign and flag which could have been a predominant reason for naming the Operation thus. Operation Surya Hope was commanded by Lieutenant General Anil Chait, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Central Command. Over 10,000 troops participated in Operation Surya Hope. The Army's disaster response units included infantry battalions, Army Service Corps units to provide logistic and supply support, signals regiment, engineer regiments, advanced dressing stations and other medical units, special forces, specialised mountain troops, paratroopers and army aviation corps assets. The Army wasn't the sole fighter- they were joined by the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy, assisted by the Border Road Organization and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). The Navy's marine commandos (Marcos), were deployed to Rudraprayag and Rishikesh, for rescue and search missions.\nFor relief and rescue operations, the Army divided the affected areas into four axes. The Army's response plan consisted of three broad phases. Phase One was conducted from 19\u201320 June, Phase Two from 21\u201322 June and Phase 3 continued from June 3 onwards. Indian Army air-lifted hygiene and sanitation stores and chemicals, blankets, food packets and medicines. The Army inducted 12 medical teams and set up an emergency medical helpline. Additionally, about 600 stranded civilians were given access to Army communications so that they could contact their families. As on 26 June, 2013, the Operation delivered 24 tons of food, fuel, medicines, blankets and relief material and evacuated 33,000 people, including 2715 by thirteen helicopters of the Army Aviation Corps, which clocked over 600 sorties. 85 persons were rescued by the Army foot patrol in Dharchula area of Uttarakhand which was the worst affected. Officials later confirmed that the disaster cost 580 lives, 5,748 people were reported missing and a total of 108,653 people were evacuated from affected areas by air and foot.\nOPERATION SAHYOG\nIn 2018, Kerala was struck with torrential rains for the third consecutive year. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert for the Wayanad and Idukki districts, and placed six others on orange alert. The floods that devastated Kerala in August 2018, following unprecedented heavy monsoon rain, were among the five major extreme flooding events in the world between 2015 and 2019. The Indian Army was once again at the forefront of relief operations in flood-hit Kerala. The Army's relief and rescue skills were once again tested when it constructed a bridge over a washed away road in the flood-ravaged town of Wandoor. Troops used local resources such as trunks and branches of fallen trees to help the local people complete the washed-away bridge. Karnataka and Kerala Sub area Headquartered at Bangalore was controlling the \"Operation Sahyog\" in Kerala. It deployed a total of eight columns of army personnel in various parts of Kerala in which two columns were exclusively kept for the worst-hit Idukki district. In addition, 80 army personnel from Madras Regiment were deployed for ongoing rescue and relief operations for tourists at Pallivasal in Idukki. Meanwhile, the Indian Navy also launched Operation Madad for major rescue and relief operations in flood-hit Kerala. Under this Operation, Naval helicopters were deployed for ferrying divers, power tools, axes and relief material to flooded areas to expand the ongoing relief operations. A 50-men contingent was also positioned at the Naval Armament Depot (NAD) at Aluva, fully equipped for assistance in any kind of eventuality. The Naval Hospital, INHS Sanjivani was equipped to render medical assistance to the affected in a quick and effective manner. Additionally, Naval personnel from INS Venduruthy, the headquarters of the Southern Naval Command, set up a community kitchen to feed and nurse the affected people of the State. Through the torrential rain, attempts were made to reach the victims via helicopters and Gemini boats. Southern Naval Command deployed 21 rescue and diving teams. As many as 1342 people were rescued by the coast guard and over 4250 people were guided to safer locations.\nOPERATION SAHAYAM\nOn 30th November 2017, the Indian Meteorological Department issued a cyclone alert for Lakshadweep islands, confirming that the depression in the Bay of Bengal had taken the form of a cyclonic storm called Cyclone Ockhi, about 60 km from the southern tip of Tamil Nadu and that it was likely to intensify. The alert further said that the cyclone could also pose a threat to the districts in South Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Apart from this, the weather office also predicted dense fog in places in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura. On 05th December 2017, the P8I aircraft carrying out surveillance detected fishing vessel St Damian drifting away at 180 miles Northwest of Kavaratti and directed INS Chennai to provide assistance. The 13-member crew were taken onboard INS Chennai by the next morning and provided with food, water and medical aid. INS Kalpeni embarked six local fishermen from Kochi and INS Kabra embarked two fishermen from Kollam to join the ongoing Search and Rescue efforts and to facilitate guided search for missing fishing vessels, based on specific inputs provided by fishermen. Meanwhile INS Jamuna positioned at Kavaratti provided 12000 litres of fresh water as requested by Lakshadweep administration. INS Sharda then embarked with materials including 2000 litres of fresh water, medicines, food, emergency lights, petrol, portable 10 KVA power generators, tool kits etc. Minicoy, which was the most devastated island, was slowly returning to normalcy with the naval contingent present there actively involving themselves in activities such as clearing of roads, cutting of fallen trees, distribution of rations to villagers and more. The swift and timely action of the Indian Navy had successfully provided assistance to 187 persons at sea, besides saving 148 lives and had undertaken the evacuation of three bodies from deep sea. All search and rescue activities were conducted in coordination with central agencies. 'OP Sahayam' of Southern Naval Command continued for 11 days, till 9th December 2017 over Southeast Arabian Sea and Lakshadweep islands. 9 ships continued the search operations. Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft P8I searched over the entire Maldives region. INS Subhadra, another naval vessel under routine deployment, identified twelve crew members onboard two fishing vessels Milkyas & Felaxia, registered in Tamil Nadu, about 90 miles Northwest of Bitra island. The ship, in its further search encountered two capsized fishing vessels but with no survivors onboard. Over 4,00,000 square miles had been searched and sanitized by Indian Naval assets during the Operation.\nThese are just a few of the several calamities that have, time and again, reminded us of the fragility of human life. But even in the midst of this chaos, the Indian Military and other Rescue organizations have safeguarded these lives and reduced the magnitude of death and destruction by a huge margin. The rapidity of their response, the effectiveness of their operations and their swift attempts to restore normalcy have enabled Disaster and Rescue operational units to undertake their task with greater ease. All in all, this serves as a poignant reminder that if the Military can wield a gun for the country, it can also lend a firm hand to its countrymen in times of need.\nhttps:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/government\/rescue-missions-by-indian-armed-forces\nhttps:\/\/currentaffairs.gktoday.in\/tags\/operation-sahyog\nhttps:\/\/www.indiannavy.nic.in\/content\/indian-navys-search-and-rescue-operations\nhttps:\/\/indianairforce.nic.in\/content\/evacuation-and-reinforcement-operations\nSAR (Search and Rescue)\nCyclone OCHKI\nUttarakhand Floods\nOP sahyog\nOP Sahayam\nOP Surya Hope\nIndian Military\nDRDO: Indian Defence's Backbone\nThe Two and a Half Front War\nAircraft Carriers: The Queens of India's Seas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/Parks, Recreation and Culture\/Recreation and Programs\/50+\nProgram Cancellations\nRecreation and Program Calendar\nSupport and Accommodations\nCambridge Farmers' Market\nThe City of Cambridge has four 50+ Recreation Centres which offer a variety of great activities for active older adults! Whether you are looking to get fit or stay fit, learn a new instrument or art form, expand your knowledge or enjoy a friendly game of cards, we have something for everyone.\nAn annual membership to our 50+ Recreation Centres costs $30.89 (plus HST) and includes access to all four 50+ community centres, free drop-in programs, a discount on registered program fees, access to clubs and more!\nA new session of classes begins the week of November 2, 2019. Yoga, strength training, playfit, dance, watercolours and more! Register today!\nView our Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 Cambridge 50+ Recreation Centre Newsletter to learn more about our programs and clubs.\nFor more information about programs and services that are available to help seniors lead healthy, active, and engaged lives over 65, please visit ontario.ca\/Seniors.\nLearn how to register for a program.\nDrop In sports and recreation programs\nWe offer sports and recreation drop-in programs to meet the needs and interests of Cambridge residents 50 years of age and older. Drop in programs are free for members of the 50+ Recreation Centres. Non-Members are subject to an additional $3.95 + HST day fee. Some programs require additional fees.\nCome out and play a game of badminton on Monday, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., Thursday, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Ted Wake Centre.\nMeets every Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the David Durward Centre.\nBilliards\/Snooker Schedule:\nMonday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nMonday to Thursday 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nFriday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nJoin us for a game of Bingo on Friday, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Allan Reuter Centre or Thursday, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., at the Ted Wake Centre.\nBocce (Outdoor)\nOutdoors at the Ted Wake Centre, Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (weather permitting).\nDo you enjoy reading? Our bookclubs meet every first Tuesday of the month at the David Durward Centre, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and every third Thursday of the month at the Ted Wake Centre, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.\nJoin us for our Social Cards on Friday, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Ted Wake Centre. Or play Solo on Tuesday, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Allan Reuter Centre.\nJoin us for a hand of Bridge!\nBridge schedule:\nType of Bridge Club\nMens' Club Every first and third Wednesday of the month 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nSocial Bridge - Pairs Every fourth Tuesday of the month 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nSocial Club Tuesday and Thursday 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nSocial Club Tuesday 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. David Durward Centre\nSocial Club Friday 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Ted Wake Centre\nSaturday Night Social Third Saturday of the month Starts at 6:30 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nJoin us for a game of Euchre!\nEuchre schedule:\nMonday 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nMonday 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. David Durward Centre\nWednesday (Bid Euchre) 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. David Durward Centre\nFriday (for 4 and 6-handed games) 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nCarpet bowling\nJoin us for carpet bowling on:\nTuesday, from 2:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the David Durward Centre\nThursday, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the David Durward Centre\nComputers available for use for internet access. No instructor. Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Thursday 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Ted Wake Centre.\nWith a Conditioning Room membership (for an additional fee), you can exercise in one of our many Conditioning Rooms in the community.\nConditioning Rooms schedule:\nMonday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. W.E. Pautler Centre\nFriday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. W.E. Pautler Centre\nCraft program schedule:\nType of Craft Program\nBeehive Crafters Tuesday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Ted Wake Centre\nStained glass Wednesday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nCrafters Wednesday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nKnitting Thursday 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Ted Wake Centre\nKnitpickers Friday 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nJoin us for a game of cribbage Tuesday from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the David Durward Centre.\nJoin us on Fridays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. to play crokinole at the David Durward Centre dining room.\nJoin us for a game of darts Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the David Durward Centre. You can also join us Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Allan Reuter Centre.\nJoin our Garden Group at the Ted Wake Centre. Activities include garden tours, speakers, and often lunch out afterwards. Two Mondays per month. Call Ted Wake Centre at (519) 740-4681 ext. 4464 for specific dates and meeting locations.\nOur line dancing classes are a great way to stay fit and have fun. We offer classes for a variety of experience levels. Additional fees apply.\nLine dancing class schedule:\nVolunteer Instructors Monday 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. David Durward Centre\nIntermediate Wednesday 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Ted Wake Centre\nBeginner Tuesday 2:35 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Ted Wake Centre\nBeginner Friday 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nIntermediate Friday 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nJoin us Monday to Friday, from 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., at the David Durward Centre for our Lunch Program.\nJoin us for our Jam Session and Sing Along the second and fourth Tuesday of every month, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Ted Wake Centre. Bring an instrument or sing along!\nOil Painting & Acrylics Social Drop-In runs on Tuesday, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Allan Reuter Centre.\nJoin our watercolours group on Thursday, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Allan Reuter Centre.\nJoin us for a game of Pickleball! Please note: Pickleball is being reviewed to meet the needs of all players.\nPickleball schedule:\nBeginners only Monday 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. W.E. Pautler Centre\nExperienced players only Monday 10 a.m. to noon W.E. Pautler Centre\nBeginners only Monday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. John Dolson Centre\nExperienced players only Tuesday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. W.E. Pautler Centre\nOpen to everyone Tuesday 9 a.m. to noon John Dolson Centre\nExperienced players only Wednesday 9 a.m. to noon W.E. Pautler Centre\nOpen to everyone Wednesday 2:40 p.m. to 5 p.m. Ted Wake Centre\nBeginners only Thursday 9 a.m. to noon John Dolson Centre\nOpen to everyone Thursday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. John Dolson Centre\nExperienced players only Friday 9 a.m. to noon W.E. Pautler Centre\nOpen to everyone Friday 1:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Ted Wake Centre\nQuilting schedule:\nTuesday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nWednesday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nThursday 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.\n(starting up again in September) Ted Wake Centre\nJoin us for a game of Scrabble on Tuesday, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the David Durward Centre.\nShuffleboard schedule:\nWednesday 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nWednesday 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Ted Wake Centre\nFriday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nAre you a stamp collector? Join us on the last Thursday of the month, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the David Durward Centre.\nTable tennis schedule:Day of the WeekTimeLocationMonday and Friday1:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Ted Wake CentreMonday9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.Allan Reuter Centre.\nTable tennis schedule:\nMonday and Friday 1:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Ted Wake Centre\nMonday 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nT'ai Chi\nJoin our Advanced T'ai Chi class on Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the Allan Retuer Centre or 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Ted Wake Centre. Additional fees apply to this drop in.\nDo you enjoy going for a walk? Join our walking and hiking groups!\nWalking and hiking schedule:\nWalking Monday and Friday 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Ted Wake Centre gym\nWalking Tuesday 9:00 a.m. meeting time David Durward Centre\nWalking and Hiking Tuesday 8:45 a.m. meeting time Allan Reuter Centre\nCome play some Wii Sports on Thursday, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Allan Reuter Centre.\nWith a Woodworking Membership ($75, September to August), you can use any of our woodworking shops. We have two fully-equipped woodworking shops in Cambridge. The shops are open every day during the week and include woodworking machines and small tools. Members work on their own projects and assistance is usually available from more experienced woodworkers.\nOur woodworking shops are for personal use only. See Activity Guide for Woodworking courses.\nWoodworking shop schedule:\nMonday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Allan Reuter Centre\nMonday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. David Durward Centre\nJoin one of our many great clubs for older adults.\nThe Ancient Mariners Canoe Club\nThe Ancient Mariners Canoe Club is a group of older adults who share an interest in outdoor activities, such as:\nPreserving the environment\nMost activities are held mid-week, usually on a Tuesday. The group meets at our Boathouse inside the Riverbluffs Park to register for the day's outing.\nCanoeing takes place on major rivers and lakes of Southwestern Ontario. Canoeing ability is not mandatory to join the club.\nA comprehensive training program is in place and long-term members mentor new members.\nThe Canoe Club was formed in 1988 with approximately 20 members and today we have 125 members!\nPlease call (519) 740-4681 ext. 4459 for more information.\nCambridge Seniors' Choir\nThe Choir practices at the David Durward Centre every Friday morning from 9:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.\nThe Choir performs at concerts and at a number of seniors' homes and special events throughout the year. For our 25th anniversary we participated in Cambridge Celebrates Canada Day 150th parade.\nYou must be a current member of our 50+ Recreation Centres to participate, additional fee applies.\nThe choir is currently over 75 voices strong and we are always looking for new members.\nIf you're interested in joining the choir, feel free to come and watch our rehearsals.\nChesley Lake Getaway\nThe Chesley Lake Getaway is five wonderful, fun-filled days in September.\nActivities include:\nYou'll also get a chance to explore the Cord-O-Roy Trail and natural areas, such as the Flower Sanctuary at The Point.\nBoat rentals are also available for:\nPaddleboats\nThere's also fishing, Wii sports games, line dancing and a talent show! Or you can just relax at the cabin with friends. Chesley Lake offers wonderful hospitality and delicious meals, all included in your fee.\nThis 5-day package costs $295 and you must be a current member at the 50+ Recreation Centres to participate.\nBeginning May 1, you can register for this getaway at any of the 50+ Recreation Centres in Cambridge.\nFor more information, please call (519) 740-4681 ext. 4400.\nCambridge 50+ Woodworkers\nThe Cambridge Seniors' Woodworkers club works on community projects, such as building the water wheel located in Churchill Park and building a Habitat for Humanity home.\nTo become a member of the Cambridge Seniors' Woodworkers club, you must have a membership for our 50+ Recreation Centres and Woodworkers Membership. For more information, contact on of our woodworking shops:\nThe Allan Reuter Centre, 519-740-4681 ext. 4409\nThe David Durward Centre, 519-740-4681 ext. 4579\nCambridge Travel Club\nThe Cambridge Travel Club plans a number of trips throughout the year, including:\nRiverboat cruises\nTrips to the theatre\nOvernight wine tours\nPlease email us or call (519) 740-4681 ext. 4407 for information about upcoming trips and prices.\nTo join the Travel Club, you must have a membership to our 50+ Recreation Centres.\nPlease make your reservations as early as possible, as we must purchase tickets well in advance.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Major Investor Sues Theranos\nHedge fund accuses embattled company of a \"series of lies\" to attract investment of nearly $100 million\nTheranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes\nPhoto: David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg News\nChristopher Weaver\n@cdweaver\nChristopher.Weaver@wsj.com\nOct. 10, 2016 6:46 pm ET\nOne of Theranos Inc.'s biggest financial backers has sued the embattled startup and its founder for allegedly lying to attract its nearly $100 million investment, according to a fund document and people familiar with the matter.\nPartner Fund Management LP, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, filed the suit in Delaware Court of Chancery Monday afternoon, a letter to the hedge-fund's investors says.\n\"Through a series of lies, material misstatements, and omissions, the defendants engaged in securities fraud and other violations by fraudulently inducing PFM to invest and maintain its investment in the company,\" says the letter, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.\nThe letter says Theranos, its founder Elizabeth Holmes and a former executive deceived the hedge fund by claiming it had developed \"proprietary technologies that worked,\" and was close to getting regulatory approvals.\nA spokesman for Theranos said \"the suit is without merit and Theranos will fight it vigorously. The company is very appreciative of its strong investor base that understands and continues to support the company's mission.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"-18\u00b0 C, Partly cloudy\nSports Hockey Winnipeg Jets\nMorrissey focused on making plays; not worried about mistakes\nBy: Jason Bell\nPosted: 11\/4\/2019 5:41 PM\t| Last Modified: 11\/5\/2019 6:45 PM\t| Updates\nMIKE DEAL \/ WINNIPEG FREE PRESS\nWinnipeg Jets' Josh Morrissey during practice at Bell MTS Place Monday. The young defenceman has made some uncharacteristic mistakes recently that are difficult to ignore.\nNary a critical word has been uttered about the play of Josh Morrissey since he took on full-time work with the Winnipeg Jets three years ago, but some uncharacteristic mistakes committed by the defenceman recently are difficult to ignore.\nTwo careless decisions with the puck Saturday night in Vegas led directly to a pair of first-period goals by the Golden Knights, although the Jets rallied from a 3-1 deficit to register a 4-3 overtime victory. Morrissey finished minus-2 on the night.\nWhile the Jets returned from their California-Nevada trip with four of a possible six points locked up, Morrissey's play was anything but memorable. In Anaheim last Tuesday, he finished a minus-4 as the Jets got clobbered 7-4 by the Ducks and then was a minus-1 as the Jets miraculously escaped with a 3-2 win in San Jose despite being soundly outplayed by the Sharks.\nThe math isn't pretty for the 24-year-old Calgary product. He's minus-12 just 15 games into the season, tied for third-worst among all NHLers in that category. Detroit Red Wings centre Andreas Athanasiou was minus-18, while San Jose Sharks blue-liner Erik Karlsson was minus-13 prior to Monday's slate of games.\nIt's a number he's neither proud of, nor enthusiastic about dissecting.\n\"I think I'm doing a lot of good things. I'm not happy about some of the minuses but I don't think there's a lot you can do on some of them. All that matters is we're getting wins,\" he said following Monday's practice.\nThe Jets (8-7-0) take on the New Jersey Devils (3-5-4) Tuesday at Bell MTS Place. Game time is 7 p.m.\n\"I watch my video after every game to see the plays I make. At the end of the day, you play the game and you're going to make mistakes, you're going to make plays that are good and bad.\"\nDuring the first period at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Morrissey had a pass intercepted at the Winnipeg blue line by Mark Stone, who hit Max Pacioretty in the slot with a perfect feed, resulting in a 2-1 Vegas lead. Just 90 seconds later, he won a foot race to a puck in his own end but then sent a no-look, backhand pass that was quickly gobbled up by William Karlsson, who found Nate Schmidt alone in front of goalie Laurent Brossoit.\nIn both instances, Morrissey appeared uncommonly panicked. Yet, he maintains that wasn't so. In fact, he said the decisions were absolutely the right ones and were borne of a growing confidence in his game.\n\"Hindsight's always 20\/20. In both instances, could you say you should make a different play? Sure. But at the same time I'm trying to make a play there. That's what I get paid to do is to make plays, make break-out plays, and two got knocked down. It's gonna happen,\" he said.\nMorrissey, a first-round pick in the 2013 NHL Draft, is the undisputed leader on the Jets revamped back end \u2014 in large part because of his rapid development as a skilled, savvy two-way defender. But in many respects, the added responsibility heaped on his shoulders this season has come out of sheer necessity.\nGone is his longtime defensive partner, Jacob Trouba, who is now a New York Ranger. Veterans Tyler Myers and Ben Chiarot are both with new clubs, as well. And the unforeseen absence of Dustin Byfuglien all but cemented Morrissey's status as the No.1 guy on the blue line.\nThe Jets have needed to use two defenceman \u2014 his regular partner, Tucker Poolman, and Ville Heinola, now with the Moose \u2014 with far less experience than he has, while injuries have forced general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff to dip into waivers for help in the form of Carl Dahlstrom and Luca Sbisa. Head coach Paul Maurice has also done a pile of juggling on the back end due to injuries.\nMeanwhile, Morrissey plays in every conceivable situation, the runaway leader in average ice time per game at 25:01. Neal Pionk is second at 23:12.\nMaurice firmly believes Morrissey is equipped to handle the load, adding the awful plus-minus is a byproduct of some team-defence struggles still being addressed.\n\"I never look at that as an absolute number, as an indicator. He's on the ice for a lot. We've had a couple of real tough nights and he's been dinged up big time on those nights. I think his game is improving,\" said the Jets bench boss. \"He's right where he should be, minutes-wise.\n\"That number's going to bother him because he's a really conscientious guy. He's added more minutes playing with a new partner. He's really working in practice and he's in watching video with (assistant coach) Charlie (Huddy), so I have complete faith that he's going to get to the next level.\"\nMorrissey has played with several right-side defenceman this season and will, in all likelihood, need to adapt again Tuesday. Poolman is doubtful for the battle with the Devils after leaving Saturday's game with an upper-body injury,\nWant more sports?\nGet news and notes from the local amateur sports scene in your inbox.\nSubscribe to On the Home Front\nMaurice labelled the injury \"day to day,\" but there was a cryptic tone in his description: \"There's no mechanism of injury, he just wasn't feeling right after the first period. So, we're holding him off and going to get a bunch of tests on him,\" he said.\nMorrissey said he's still adjusting to life without Trouba and that comfort level they found in each other, adding the work to improve comes one shift at a time.\n\"For me, over the course of this year, to be honest with you, I think I'm playing better hockey in the last number of games than I was at the start of the year. But it's pretty easy to look at plus-minus and stats like that to try to determine how a guy's playing. There's more to the game than just that,\" he said. \"People can watch the game and have whatever opinion they want, but I'm working on my game and trying to improve.\n\"For me, I'm in a position now that I haven't been in the last number of years, being in every situation \u2014 which is awesome \u2014 and I think it's about getting better. I'm 24 years old, early on in my career, and just trying to get better every day.\"\njason.bell@freepress.mb.ca\nTwitter: @WFPJasonBell\nJason Bell\nAssistant sports editor\nJason Bell wanted to be a lawyer when he was a kid. The movie The Paper Chase got him hooked on the idea of law school and, possibly, falling in love with someone exactly like Lindsay Wagner (before she went all bionic).\nNov 4, 2019: Beaulieu, Ehlers cringe after watching Ottawa rookie's frightening collision Jason Bell\nUpdated on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 6:45 PM CST: Correction to New Jersey Devils record.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 744\nSouthern Christian Leadership Conference 290\nCongress of Racial Equality 181\nWilkins, Roy 173\nStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 143\nAbernathy, Ralph 117\nUnited States. Supreme Court 115\nKennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 104\nNational Urban League 102\nWalker, Wyatt Tee 96\nRandolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip) 95\nMontgomery Improvement Association 78\nUnited States. Dept. of Justice 72\nShuttlesworth, Fred L. 71\nKing, Coretta Scott 65\nFarmer, James 64\nGandhi, Mahatma 59\nKu Klux Klan 58\nYoung, Whitney M. 55\nKennedy, Robert F. 53\nUnited States. Congress. Senate 53\nParks, Rosa 50\nJohnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 49\nEisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 47\nMontgomery, Ala. 286\nWashington, D.C. 162\nBirmingham, Ala. 122\nAlbany, Ga. 72\nRichmond, Va. 35\nSan Francisco, Calif. 31\nSelma, Ala. 27\nGreensboro, N.C. 25\nTallahassee, Fla. 24\nRaleigh, N.C. 23\nChattanooga, Tenn. 22\nMemphis, Tenn. 20\nLetter 284\nReport 86\nSpeech 70\nEphemera 67\nInterview 56\nPress release 44\nPublished article 28\nEssay 9\nManifesto 8\nOral histories 8\nPamphlet 7\nPublished speech 6\nMartin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking 188\nVoter registration 143\nNonviolence 131\nSouthern Christian Leadership Conference--relations with other organizations 131\nMontgomery Bus Boycott 128\nFreedom rides 99\nMartin Luther King, Jr. - Friends and Associates 80\nSchool integration 76\nSouthern Christian Leadership Conference--meetings 73\nBrown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas 70\nSit-ins 64\nSegregation--law and legislation 63\nStudent movements 58\nAlbany Movement 52\nMartin Luther King, Jr. - Publications 51\nAfro-Americans--Intimidation of 47\nMartin Luther King, Jr. - Political and Social views 47\nDiscrimination in public accomodations 44\nSegregation in transportation 44\nMarch on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963 43\nDiscrimination in Employment 39\nDirect action 37\nAfro-Americans - Civil rights 36\nMartin Luther King, Jr. - Interviews 36\nMLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 734\nMLKP-MBU, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 198\nMLKJP-GAMK, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers (Series I-IV), Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 150\nSCLCR-GAMK, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, 1954-1970, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 56\nNAACPP-DLC, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Papers, 1909-1955, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 50\nMLKP-MBU, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 49\nMCMLK-RWWL, Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives and Special Collections, Atlanta, Ga. 27\nSNCCP-GAMK, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Papers, 1959-1972, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 19\nNAACPP-DLC, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 16\nASRC-RWWL, Southern Regional Council Papers, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives and Special Collections, Atlanta, Ga. 15\nDJG-GEU-S, David J. Garrow Collection, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 15\nBRP-DLC, Bayard Rustin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 13\nPV-ARC, Preston Valien Collection, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 13\nJFKWHCSF-MBJFK, John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, White House Central Subject Files, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass. 11\nSAVFC-WHi, Social Action Vertical File, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 10\nEJBC-NN-Sc, Ella J. Baker Papers, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. 9\nAPRP-DLC, A. Philip Randolph Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 8\nSCLCE-GEU-S, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, 1864-2007, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 8\nBWOF-AB, Birmingham World Office Files, Birmingham Public and Jefferson County Free Library, Birmingham, Ala. 7\nCORER-WHi, Congress of Racial Equality Records, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 7\nDABCC-INP, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Collection, In Private Hands 7\nLDRP-NN-Sc, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Papers, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. 7\nMLKEC-INP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Estate Collection, In Private Hands 7\nRWP-DLC, Roy Wilkins Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 6\nname:( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP))\n746 records \u2013 page 1 of 75.\nAddress at National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Mass Rally for Civil Rights\nLos Angeles, Calif.\nShrine Auditorium\nAfro-Americans - Civil rights\nNAACPP-DLC\nNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People Papers, 1909-1955, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.\nGroup III-A175\nCSKC-INP, Coretta Scott King Collection, In Private Hands\nSermon file folder 148, ''Speech on Voting''\nComments on National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Resolution, 4\/12\/67\nPublished speech\nClergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, King, Bennet, Commager, Heschel Speak on the War in Vietnam.\nChicago, Ill.\nGhettos\nMartin Luther King, Jr. - Critics\nSCLC Chicago campaign, 1966\nMartin Luther King, Jr. - Political and Social views\nMartin Luther King, Jr. - Publications - Reprints\nExcerpts, Address for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)\n[Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous)]\nAtlantic City, N.J.\nLincoln, Abraham\nBrown vs. Board of Education\nDiscrimination in Employment\nVault Box 2, folder 1, box 18, folder 24\nNotes, Joint Montgomery Improvement Association and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Meeting\nFerron, Donald T.\nFields, Uriah J.\nGray, Fred D.\nMontgomery Improvement Association--relations with other organizations\nPV-ARC\nPreston Valien Collection, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.\nAddress at the Fiftieth Annual National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Convention\nWilkins, Roy\nWilliams, Robert Franklin\nGroup IIIA, folder 177\nLDRP-NN-Sc, Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Papers, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, N.Y.\nBox 3, folder 11\nNotes, Montgomery Improvement Association and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) meeting\nPatton, W. C.\nJones, Moses W.\nPalmer, H.\nMontgomery Improvement Association--fund raising\nMontgomery Improvement Association--Finance\nMontgomery Improvement Association--trials, litigation, etc.\nTelegram to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)\nJavits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel)\nClark, Joseph S.\nRandolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip)\nUnited States. Congress. Senate\nSupport correspondence\nBox 29A, folder 10\nDraft, Address at the fifty-third annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)\nBrown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas\nDeclaration of Independance\nPhoto of delegates at the Tenth Anniversay conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)\nLOLP-ICIU\nLloyd O. Lewis Papers, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle\nSpeech at the Tenth Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)\nBaptist Ministers Union\nAfrican Methodist Union\nPart I, Reel 8","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: appearing\nDallas Police Under Investigation For Appearing in Christian Rap Video\nBelow is the original video that was mentioned in the news report:\nMic Tunez \u2013 Taking Me Over\nLecrae & Thi'sl filming Fakin' music video\nToday, Lecrae is shooting a music video for the Heat Academy produced song \"Fakin'\" from his latest album 'Gravity'. The song features Unashamed Tour 2012 special guest Thi'sl, who will also be appearing in the video.\nViktory Upgrades The R4 EP to LP Album \u2013 Adds Json, J.R. and Braille\nThe R4 EP has been upgraded to a full-length album packed with guest appearances from a myriad of Christian Hip Hop veterans. See the guests appearing on the album after the jump.\nFUSE TV picks Rhema Soul's Music Video for Airplay\nRhema Soul is this month's Fuse TV Unsigned Artist of the Month. Rhema Soul's STEEZ music video will be available on FUSE TV On Demand. Steez is the debut single from their current release, Dope Beats & Good News. This album has been garnering the attention of many media outlets and has created a widespread buzz for ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Gastroenterology Innovative Upper Gastrointestinal Stenting: Reboring the Blocked Path\nInnovative Upper Gastrointestinal Stenting: Reboring the Blocked Path\nAbhijith Bale,1 Irshad H. Ali,1 Ajay Bale,2 Vidyasagar Ramappa,3 *Umesh Jalihal2\n1. Sapthagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bangalore, India\n2. Karnataka Gastro Center, Bangalore, India\n3. Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur, Bengaluru, India\nEMJ Gastroenterol. 2022; DOI\/10.33590\/emjgastroenterol\/21-00227. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.33590\/emjgastroenterol\/21-00227.\nCervical oesophageal leak, congenital oesophageal stenosis, oesophageal diverticulum, post-corrosive antropyloric stricture, self-expanding metal stents.\nSelf-expanding metal stents (SEMS) have been established beyond doubt as an effective tool in the palliative management of malignant gastrointestinal tract strictures. The advent of fully covered retrievable SEMS has allowed its use in benign oesophageal strictures and gastric outlet obstruction, which are traditionally treated with balloon or bougie dilation. Although balloon and bougie dilations are effective, strictures may be refractory, requiring repeated sessions of dilation or complex surgeries. Endoluminal stenting spares the patient from complex surgical procedures and their associated complications. Here, the authors present four cases wherein fully covered SEMS were used as an effective therapy for the restoration of the gastrointestinal lumen in non-malignant conditions.\n1. The use of endoluminal stents means that healthcare professionals can treat patients with certain conditions such as anastomotic site leaks, strictures, and fistulas without complex surgical intervention.\n2. The authors discuss the use of stents in four patients who presented with different benign conditions with failed prior endotherapy.\n3. While there are advantages and disadvantages to specific stents, and they should be chosen depending on the condition, the clinical experience with self-expanding metal stent is better than self-expanding plastic stents and biodegradable stents.\nSelf-expanding metal stents (SEMS) have been established beyond doubt as an effective tool in the palliative management of malignant gastrointestinal (GI) tract strictures. Partially covered and uncovered stents are being frequently used in the case of oesophageal, gastric, and colonic malignancies, allowing for the endoscopic restoration of GI tract patency. The advent of fully covered retrievable SEMS has allowed its use in benign oesophageal strictures and gastric outlet obstruction (GOO), which are traditionally treated with balloon or bougie dilation. Although these dilations are effective, strictures may be refractory, requiring repeated dilations or complex surgeries such as gastric pull up, colonic transposition, and gastrojejunostomy. Endoluminal stenting spares the patient from complex surgical procedures and their associated complications, including anastomotic site leaks, strictures, and fistulas. Here, the authors present four unusual cases encountered in their clinical practice wherein fully covered SEMS were used as an effective therapy for the restoration of the GI lumen in non-malignant conditions.\nA 70-year-old male presented to the hospital with a cervical fracture following a road traffic accident. The patient was subjected to cervical decompression and fusion. Nearly 2 weeks later, the patient developed an upper oesophageal leak that was secondary to the implant eroding through the posterior oesophageal wall (Figure 1A). The attempted closure of the leak with endoscopic clip placement and surgical correction, which involved a musculoskeletal flap placement and suturing of the oesophageal defect, failed. The patient was placed in an intensive care unit and underwent endotracheal intubation. Feeding was continued through a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube. A 10 cm long cervical SEMS (Niti-S\u2122 Stent, Taewoong Medical, Seoul, South Korea) was placed across the defect under endoscopic and fluoroscopic guidance (Figure 1B). This SEMS had a 7 mm long proximal flange and a lumen diameter of 18 mm. The stent remained in situ for 8 weeks. Post-SEMS removal endoscopy and barium swallow showed no evidence of a leak; the patient was then started on oral feeds. The patient eventually ambulated and they were discharged without recurrence of leak.\nFigure 1: A 70-year-old male with cervical spine implant eroding through the posterior oesophageal wall (A). Cervical oesophageal SEMS in situ (B)\nA 70-year-old male presented with recurrent episodes of dysphagia and regurgitation. An endoscopic evaluation revealed an epiphrenic diverticulum at the lower oesophagus (Figure 2A) and manometric evaluation revealed an underlying Type II achalasia cardia. Surgical correction with Heller's myotomy and diverticulectomy failed to provide symptomatic relief. The patient presented with recurrent episodes of acute onset dysphagia; endoscopy would reveal food bolus impaction in the diverticulum, prompting endoscopic foreign body removal. On barium swallow, barium would initially fill up the diverticulum, causing compression, kinking, and the narrowing of the infra-diverticular oesophagus. Repeated balloon dilation of the infra-diverticular oesophageal segment did not benefit the patient. Repeat surgery was deemed too difficult because of significant comorbidities and the failure of the index surgery to provide symptomatic relief. This prompted an innovative endoscopic intervention: a padlock clip was applied at the apex of the diverticulum, shrinking it significantly, and a 10 cm long, fully covered anti-migratory oesophageal stent (Niti-S Beta\u2122 Stent, Taewoong Medical, Seoul, South Korea) was placed, covering the diverticular region. Repeat barium studies showed a smooth flow of barium through the oesophagus into the stomach. Although stent removal was planned to take place after 3 months, the stent had to be removed prematurely at 2 months after it migrated into the stomach. Post-stent removal (Figure 2B), the patient remained asymptomatic without any further episodes of food bolus impaction and gained 10 kg of weight.\nFigure 2: A 70-year-old male with an epiphrenic devericulum with infradiverticular esophageal stricture (A) and post-stent removal (B); and a 45-year-old female with a congenital oesophageal stricture (C) and post-stent removal (D).\nA 45-year-old female presented with a 3 month history of dysphagia for solids. Endoscopy showed a long segment stricture involving the mid-oesophagus with fragile mucosa (Figure 2C). The patient denied any history of caustic upper GI injury or radiation. Oesophageal biopsies were done to rule out eosinophilic oesophagitis. Multiple sessions of bougie dilations failed to provide results. A diagnosis of congenital oesophageal stenosis (COS) was considered, and a 10 cm long, fully covered SEMS (SX-ELLA Stent, ELLA-CS, Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, Czechia) was placed across the stricture. The stent remained in situ for 2 months and, post-removal, the patient was relieved of dysphagia. Repeat endoscopy showed a restored lumen diameter, allowing for the free passage of an adult endoscope (Figure 2D). No recurrence of symptoms have been reported over 3 years of follow-up.\nA 56-year-old male with no comorbid illness presented with a history of accidental ingestion of an unidentified volume of unlabelled floor cleaning agent. On admission, their main complaints were retrosternal and upper abdominal burning. Chest and abdomen X-rays showed no evidence of perforation. An upper GI endoscopy was performed the next day, which showed Zargar Grade IIA and IIB injuries to the oesophagus and the stomach, respectively. The patient was treated initially with intravenous fluids and proton pump inhibitors. Oral feeds were gradually introduced, after which the patient was discharged on oral proton pump inhibitor therapy. The patient presented again 25 days later with complaints of recurrent vomiting and post-prandial upper abdominal distention. Upper GI endoscopy showed scarring of gastric mucosa in the fundus and the body, with a stenosed, eccentrically located pyloric opening (Figure 3B). The antropyloric stricture was subjected to endoscopic balloon dilation (CRE\u2122 Balloon 12\u201313.5\u201315 mm, Boston Scientific, Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA), which was repeated three times in the following 3 months to prevent recurrence of the stricture. As the stricture was refractory to multiple sessions of balloon dilation, the option of surgery versus SEMS placement was discussed. Consequently, a 10 cm long, fully covered SEMS (Niti-S\u2122 Stent, Taewoong Medical, Seoul, South Korea) was placed across the stricture (Figure 3A). The patient remained asymptomatic and gained approximately 10 kg of weight post-procedure. The pyloric SEMS was removed endoscopically 3 months later (Figure 3C). At a 24-month follow-up, no stricture recurrence was observed.\nFigure 3: A 56-year-old male with corrosive gastric outlet obstruction (B), SEMS in situ (A), Post- SEMS removal (C)\nSince the introduction of SEMS in the 1990s for the palliation of oesophageal malignancies, stents have evolved in design and composition, allowing for their use in treating novel indications. Several types of stents are available on the market; nonetheless, careful selection of an appropriate type of stent is vital for achieving desired results.\nSelf-Expanding Metal Stents\nSEMS can be uncovered, partially covered, or fully covered. Uncovered (or bare-metal) stents were widely used in the palliation of inoperable oesophageal malignancies. Although effective, these had the disadvantage of dysphagia recurrence due to tumour ingrowth, which was seen in up to 36% of the patients that required repeat stenting.1 The issue of tumour ingrowth was addressed by using fully covered metal stents, which had a polymer coating around the metal frame that prevented ingrowth. However, fully covered stents presented a unique problem: stent migration.2 Currently, partially covered stents, which are covered in the middle and have uncovered portions at both the ends, are used to balance the risk of migration and tumour overgrowth. In cases of benign strictures, only fully covered SEMS can be used as tissue ingrowth makes stent removal more difficult. The risk of migration can be addressed by using stents with flared ends and fixing stents using haemoclips,3 over-the-scope clips,4 or endoscopic suturing.5\nSEMS have also been modified according to the intended location of their use. In cases where the lesions are in proximity to the upper oesophageal sphincter, foreign body sensation and injury preclude the use of regular SEMS. A special modification of the SEMS with a short and narrow funnel in the proximal end has allowed for its use in lesions of the cervical oesophagus.6 In cases involving the oesophagogastric junction, the placement of SEMS across the lower oesophageal sphincter complex has been associated with severe gastro-oesophageal reflux; however, SEMS with anti-reflux valves have been shown to reduce reflux symptoms.7\nSelf-Expanding Plastic and Biodegradable Stents\nAlthough fully covered SEMS have made the non-surgical treatment of refractory benign strictures possible, they are not devoid of drawbacks. Complications such as the recurrence of the stricture, hyperplastic tissue reaction at the ends, perforation at the edges, and migration present difficulties.8 Plastic stents were introduced, which were proposed to have several advantages including low cost, minimal tissue reaction, and easy placement and removal. Several studies have shown good results with self-expanding plastic stents (SEPS).9,10 Biodegradable stents (BDS), which are made of biodegradable material that gradually disintegrates over 11\u201312 weeks post-stent placement, are a newer addition to the armamentarium. The radial force of these stents is maintained over 5\u20136 weeks, avoiding the need for reinterventions for stent removal.11\nA meta analysis by Fuccio et al.12 compared the results of 18 studies that used SEPS, SEMS, and BDS in treating refractory benign oesophageal strictures. Overall, the pooled clinical success rate was 40.5%. The use of SEPS and SEMS did not result in significantly higher success rates than with BDS (46.2% versus 40.1% versus 32.9%, respectively). The migration rate for SEPS and SEMS were reported as not being significantly higher than for BDS (33.3% versus 31.5% versus 15.3%, respectively). Another prospective, multicentre study13 comparing the three different stent types concluded that BDS or a fully covered SEMS may lead to long-term relief of dysphagia in 30% and 40% of patients, respectively. The use of SEPS was the least preferable option due to frequent stent migrations and the need for reinterventions.\nAlthough each stent category has its advantages and drawbacks, experience with fully covered SEMS is generally better than with SEPS and BDS. Moreover, the design of stents and our experience with novel stents may improve with time. However, SEMS placement, although capable of marvellous clinical outcomes, is not without complications. These complications can be early, occurring within 4 weeks of stent placement, or late, occurring after 4 weeks.14 Early complications include foreign body sensation, pain, gastro-oesophageal reflux, migration, bleeding, and perforation. Late complications include stent migration, stent block due to food impaction, tumour ingrowth, and tumour overgrowth.\nIn a retrospective analysis by Na et al.,15 complications related to stent placement were found in nearly 40.3% of patients. The complication rate was lower, at 32.6% in cases using the latest generation stents. Chest pain following stent placement was seen in 6.7% of patients, but the majority responded to analgesic therapy. Few patients required stent removal due to intractable pain that did not respond to analgesics. The pain was more common in stents made of stainless steel rather than those made of nitinol, and in patients who had undergone radiation therapy before stent placement. Stent migration was seen in 10.9% of the patients and was managed either by stent repositioning or stent replacement. Bleeding after stenting was seen in 1.9% of patients; in most, the bleeding stopped spontaneously within 48 hours. Only one patient required adrenaline injection and another required embolisation after stent removal. Membrane degradation, membrane separation, and incomplete expansion of the stent are other less common complications. Nonetheless, further development in stent design and materials may decrease the complication rates and increase clinical success in the near future.\nIn the first case mentioned, the patient presented with a post-traumatic cervical spine injury. Anterior cervical spine surgery with implant fixation is a commonly performed surgery for the management of degenerative or post-traumatic cervical injury. Although rare, oesophageal perforation occurring post-anterior cervical spine surgery can cause significant morbidity.16 Factors thought to contribute include the suboptimal placement of the implant and implant failure or breakage, exposing sharp edges that can erode through the oesophagus. The mass effect of the implant on the oesophageal wall, and ischaemia secondary to pressure while swallowing have also been proposed as possible causative factors.17\nWhatever the cause, the resultant perforation is usually managed with implant removal whenever feasible. Surgical correction with primary closure and a sternocleidomastoid flap is considered the gold standard for the treatment of such cases.18 In this case, as the flap placement and primary closure failed to plug the leak, an out-of-the-box solution was used wherein the SEMS effectively closed the oesophageal leak while retaining the cervical implant for effective healing of the fracture. The choice of an appropriate stent was crucial. As per conventional wisdom, stent placement within 1\u20132 cm of the upper oesophageal sphincter is contraindicated as it is associated with a high risk of perforation, aspiration, tracheal compression, and foreign body sensation.19 However, the introduction of the cervical stent has made this task possible. The stent had a narrow proximal flare, resulting in less pressure in the proximal oesophagus, thereby minimising injury. The authors chose a fully covered stent as this was a benign case with stent removal planned after 10\u201312 weeks. Although distal migration of the stent was another concern, the use of clips was not possible in this case due to the proximity of the stent to the upper oesophageal sphincter.\nIn the second case, a symptomatic oesophageal diverticulum recurred post-surgical correction. As a repeat surgery was considered risky due to comorbid conditions, SEMS was utilised. Oesophageal diverticula are rare disorders presenting with dysphagia, chest pain, and regurgitation. Depending on their location, they can be categorised as epiphrenic, Zenker's, or Rokitansky diverticula. Epiphrenic diverticula are pseudodiverticula of the pulsion type that are located in the distal oesophagus. Oesophageal motility disorders and congenital weakness in the oesophageal wall have been thought to be pathological factors, and 75\u2013100% of patients with an epiphrenic diverticulum have an underlying primary oesophageal motility disorder.20 Many patients may remain asymptomatic and do not require interventions. Symptomatic patients may have dysphagia and\/or regurgitation, and some may present with respiratory symptoms like aspiration, asthma, etc.21,22 All symptomatic patients require intervention.\nTraditionally, surgical resection of the diverticulum has been advised either with a transthoracic approach ,or by laparoscopy. Myotomy and fundoplication are usually performed together alongside the resection when an underlying motility disorder is suspected.23 Endoscopic per-oral endoscopic myotomy with septotomy for the treatment of distal oesophageal diverticula was also considered. While these approaches have good long-term results, leaks are common, which can cause significant morbidity, so these may be a difficult option in high-risk patients. Only a few cases have been reported in the literature where a surgically unfit patient has been treated with SEMS placement.24\nThe Niti-S Beta\u2122 Stent (Taewoong Medical, Seoul, South Korea) used in the present case is a fully covered oesophageal stent that was designed for the treatment of suture line leaks occurring after bariatric surgeries. The stent has two bumps over the body that prevent migration by increasing the radial pressure. As the oesophageal narrowing in this case was focal with proximal oesophageal dilation, the risk of stent migration was high. A Beta stent was chosen to minimise the risk of migration; additional stent fixation or suturing was not necessary. A study that used Beta oesophageal stents for anastomotic leaks and following a total or proximal gastrectomy reported a migration rate of 7.1%, without any additional stent-fixing procedures. The stent migration rate was 13% for conventional stents with clips and 17% for suture fixation.25\nOn the other hand, another retrospective study investigating the use of Beta oesophageal stents in staple line leaks showed a migration rate of 32%, with no significant decrease in the stent migration rates.26 In this case, despite using an anti-migratory stent, the stent migrated distally after 8 weeks. Although this duration was sufficient to dilate the stricture in the present case, an additional application of haemoclip or an over-the-scope clip could be considered to prevent early migration.\nEqually rare is the non-surgical management of an adult-onset presentation of COS, a rare disorder that usually presents in infancy or childhood and manifests with progressive dysphagia and vomiting.27 Three forms of the disease are known to exist: membranous diaphragm; hypertrophy and fibrosis of the submucosa and muscularis propria; and tracheobronchial remnants like cartridges and glands in the oesophageal wall. As rare as its incidence, it is rarer for the disease to go unnoticed till adulthood. Nevertheless, many cases of mild stenosis going unnoticed and being diagnosed in adulthood have been reported in the literature.28,29 Classically labelled as 'slow eaters', a modification of diet in cases with mild dysphagia may lead to delayed recognition of the problem. Once diagnosed, the treatments that are usually considered include dilation and surgery.\nMany case reports have reported success in treating adult-onset cases with bougie dilations.29,30 A systemic review by Terui et al.31 concluded that both balloon and bougie dilations are effective forms of treatment for COS. Dilation was less effective in the tracheobronchial subtype of COS, and surgery has been recommended in those instances. The success rate in dilation with or without case selection (endoscopic ultrasound to exclude the tracheobronchial subtype of COS) was reported to be 89.7% and 28.9%, respectively. The rate of perforation with or without case selection was 7.4% and 23.9%, respectively. In this case, repeated dilation failed. Although the next logical mode of therapy would be surgery, SEMS placement was an innovative, non-surgical therapy that was successful in alleviating the symptoms. The literature search did not return any clinical trials studying the use of SEMS in COS. Although SEPS and BDS could have been used in this case, the authors considered the metal stent as they had more personal experience using SEMS compared with SEPS and BDS. Stent migration was not considered to be a challenge in this case due to the length of the stricture, so stent fixation was not considered.\nIn the final case of post-corrosive injury with GOO, SEMS was used successfully to restore the patency of the GI tract. Corrosive injury of the upper GI tract remains a frequent problem with high post-injury morbidity. Alkali ingestion affects the oesophagus, while gastric injuries are marked with acid burns; the squamous epithelium of the oesophagus is more resistant to acid penetration, while the free gastric acid buffers the alkaline agents, limiting injury.32-34 GOO usually manifests 3\u20134 weeks post-injury, but can be as early as 1 week, as per a few case reports.35,36 Endoscopic balloon dilation has been proved to be an effective intervention in patients with corrosive GOO. However, unlike in ulcer-related GOO, the recurrence of the stricture is common in caustic GOO, and is seen in up to two-thirds of patients.37,38 SEMS placement can be used as an alternative therapy in such patients.\nManta et al.39 treated three patients with refractory corrosive antral stenosis with SEMS placement, and Choi et al.40 treated 22 patients with benign antropyloric stenosis with SEMS. Despite stent migration being a major concern, most patients with late SEMS migration remained asymptomatic. SEPS and BDS are predominantly used for benign oesophageal lesions, and there is scant information in the literature regarding their use in either benign or malignant GOO. The authors used a fully covered SEMS with a wide flare; the duodenal bend also acts as an anchor, decreasing the chances of migration, so no stent fixation methods were employed. Another unique problem reported with the use of SEMS in treating caustic strictures is the extensive granulation tissue proliferation at the ends of SEMS, leading to ingrowth and membrane disintegration. These factors can interfere with stent removal and may require the use of argon plasma coagulation to separate the stent from the granulation tissue.39 SEMS placement may be an effective alternative to surgery in corrosive GOO, but more studies are needed to evaluate this treatment.\nBenign oesophageal and gastric strictures and leaks may be managed by surgery or endoscopic therapy. 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{"text":"Norske Skog will enter the European packaging markets in Q4 2022\nNorske Skog\nNorske Skog's Bruck mill in Austria.\nPrevious Article DS Smith and Solarenn : a zero plastic partnership\nNext Article NewsPress 100 % TMP newsprint launched to better meet customer needs\nNorske Skog's board of directors has made the final investment decision to convert one machine at the Bruck (Austria) industrial site from newsprint to recycled containerboard production.\nThis is the first major step of the two planned European conversion projects in the group's strategy of establishing Norske Skog as a leading independent European producer of recycled containerboard.The conversion at Bruck will introduce 210 000 tonnes of competitive containerboard capacity to meet the growing demand for renewable packaging. The project has received financing commitment from regional banks. Containerboard production will be based 100% on recycled fibre and will use steam from a new waste-to-energy plant, making Bruck a cost leading and green energy producer.\n\"This investment decision represents the coming of a new era for Norske Skog and is a major step to become a leading independent European producer of high-quality, renewable and environmentally produced containerboard. The conversion project illustrates the inherent potential of our industrial sites and will strengthen Norske Skog's asset base and cash flow generation for decades ahead,\" says Norske Skog's CEO Sven Ombudstvedt.\nAs announced in June 2020, Norske Skog plans to introduce 765 000 tons of competitive recycled containerboard capacity in Europe by investing approximately EUR 350 million to convert Bruck PM3 and Golbey PM1 (France). The converted machines are expected to generate an annual EBITDA of approximately NOK 700-800 million in 2025\/26, based on historical trend prices for containerboard and recycled fibre. The final investment decision to convert Bruck PM3 was taken on 22 April, and a similar decision for Golbey PM1 is expected in the second quarter of 2021.\nNorske Skog will invest approximately EUR 100 million in the conversion of Bruck PM3, and financing facilities of EUR 70 million have been committed by banks at agreed terms subject to final documentation. The remaining investment amount will be covered by cash on balance and cash flows.\nRecycled containerboard production at Bruck PM3 will start in the fourth quarter of 2022 following a three-month production stand-still. Full production utilisation of 210 000 tonnes of testliner and fluting is expected in the second half of 2025. The waste-to-energy plant starting up at the Bruck industrial site in the first half of 2022, will supply cost efficient and sustainable steam for the containerboard production. The second machine at Bruck, with capacity of 265 000 tonnes of LWC magazine paper, will continue production unaffected by the project. Norske Skog will still remain a committed supplier of high-quality publication paper products, and a strong and reliable supplier of all publication paper grades after the planned conversion.\nThe Bruck conversion project consists of the following main installations;\nnew OCC plant for production of 100% of the pulp needed for the containerboard production,\nrebuild of PM3 to production of recycled containerboard, including a new winder, electrical, automation and auxiliary systems, and\nmill site integration and civil works.\n\"This investment decision marks an important step in Norske Skog's evolution as we look to enhance long-term value for all stakeholders. Increasing focus on environmentally conscious products and the continued rise of online shopping, has created a significant need for renewable packaging solutions. Recycled containerboard production at Bruck will meet this demand with cost-leading and environmental-friendly capacity. Located centrally in continental Europe, the Bruck industrial site is well positioned for the large containerboard market, and it has good and established access to recycled fibre,\" says Norske Skog's CEO Sven Ombudstvedt.\nWebcast presenting the first quarter results and providing an update of the Bruck conversion project.\nAbout Norske Skog\nNorske Skog is a world leading producer of publication paper with strong market positions and customer relations in Europe and Australasia. The Norske Skog group operates four mills in Europe, of which two will produce recycled containerboard following planned conversion projects. In addition, the group operates one publication paper mill, a converting grade mill and one wood pellets facility in Australasia.\nNorske Skog aims to further diversify its operations and continue its transformation into a growing and high-margin business through a range of promising conversions, energy and fibre projects. The group has approximately 2 300 employees in five countries, is headquartered in Norway and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker NSKOG.\nSource: Norske Skog\nNorske Skog - Demand drop due to corona pandemic\nNorske Skog - Capacity adjustments\nPromising future for the Tasman mill and Nature's Flame\nHigher capacity utilisation as market tightens\nNorske Skog Saugbrugs and Bergene Holm reduce emissions by moving from trucks to train","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1 charged after police say family followed home by robbers, held hostage at gunpoint\nSuspect 23-year-old Taquarius Bynum, is charged with five counts of aggravated robbery, five counts of aggravated kidnapping, one count of aggravated burglary, theft of property valued at $1,000 or less, and employing a firearm with the intent to commit a dangerous felony.(Shelby County Sheriff's Office)\nBy Lydian Kennin and Gray News Staff\nPublished: Oct. 6, 2022 at 12:14 AM EDT\nMEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC\/Gray News) - Police in Tennessee arrested one suspect after a hostage situation that occurred after a family was followed home from a gas station, forced inside and robbed at gunpoint, according to authorities.\nThe incident took place at a Memphis home on Sept. 27, when a father was driving home from the fuel station after pumping gas around midnight. His wife and daughter were also in the car.\nInvestigators discovered via surveillance video, after he pumped gas and pulled out onto the street, a gray four-door Kia Optima immediately followed the family's car out of the lot in the direction of the victims' home.\nUpon pulling into the family's driveway, the father said the Optima stopped at the end of the driveway, blocking them in.\nThe father told police that two unmasked men then got out of the vehicle and approached the family's car with guns drawn.\nHe said the men demanded money and forcibly removed his wife and daughter from the car at gunpoint.\nHe then gave his wallet to the suspects, who then took the house keys from his wife and forced everyone inside the home.\nOne of the men went into the bedroom of a sleeping 16-year-old, waking her by putting a gun to her head, while demanding money. She gave them the only thing she had, which was $5, police say.\nThe suspects also spotted another victim in the house, the father's brother, and demanded money from him at gunpoint.\nThe father told police that the suspects marched all of the victims into the same room and aimed a gun at the heads of the women, threatening to kill them.\nThe suspects took a total of $212 from the victims and a cell phone worth approximately $600.\nThey left the scene, leaving behind a wallet in the driveway.\nThe wallet belonged to 23-year-old suspect Taquarius Bynum.\nBynum was identified in a photo lineup as one of the suspects that robbed the family at gunpoint in their own home.\nHe was located by the Mt. Moriah Station Task Force officers on Wednesday, in the same Optima used to follow the family.\nHe refused to give a statement to investigators.\nBynum is charged with five counts of aggravated robbery, five counts of aggravated kidnapping, one count of aggravated burglary, theft of property valued at $1,000 or less, and employing a firearm with the intent to commit a dangerous felony.\nHis next court date is scheduled for Thursday.\nPolice have not released information about the second suspect at this time.\nCopyright 2022 WMC via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Catalino Parra (Image: Caracol Noticias)\nCatalino Parra, singer of Colombia's legendary Gaiteros de San Jacinto, dies at 95\nCatalino Parra, the singer and founding member of the legendary Gaiteros de San Jacinto, has died at 95 in northern Colombia, local media reported on Saturday.\nThe composer and singer died in the home of one of his daughters in the northern city of Cartagena after he fell ill last week.\nWith Parra, Colombia loses a musician whose contribution to Colombian music cannot be overstated.\nThe Gaiteros de San Jacinto were originally formed in the 1940s, but continue to exist as elderly or dying founding members of the group were replaced by younger generations of musicians from the Caribbean region.\nThe group won a Latin Grammy Award in 2007 when most of the founding members had already passed away. Parra himself had been awarded the award by the country's Culture Ministry for his invaluable contribution to Colombia's music.\nTheir continued existence under the leadership of Parra has made the Gaiteros de San Jacinto arguably one of the most influential groups ever to have come from the country.\nEchoes and samples of their rhythms and melodies continue to be used by all kinds of contemporary artists, both in Colombia and abroad.\nGaiteros de San Jacintomusic\nColombia's countercultures: Bogota's rock and roll gangs\nThe Arab, Congolese, and Afro-Colombian roots of Shakira's Super Bowl halftime show\nAnti-government concert in Medellin draws thousands","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Community \u2022 Hofstra University Museum \u2022 K-12\nHofstra University Museum of Art Named an Imagine Award Finalist\nThe Hofstra University Museum of Art is a finalist for a Long Island Imagine Award, an honor that recognizes the region's most effective and innovative nonprofit organizations. The awards, now in their seventh year, will be announced at a gala at Crest Hollow Country Club on April 30. Hofstra University Museum of Art is one of four nominees in the Arts & Culture category for its Art Travelers Through Time program.\nArt Travelers, begun in 2008, has provided thousands of elementary school students and their teachers the opportunity to visit Hofstra and view authentic cultural objects from the Museum's large and diverse collections. They are then able to connect these objects with their classroom studies of \"Communities around the World.\" Activities like Art Travelers engage students in creative thinking processes and reinforce classroom learning.\nThe program was developed collaboratively with museum and local classroom educators, and it correlates to the New York State Learning Standards in the Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Language Arts. Hofstra Museum educators complement the class visits by going into the schools to meet with the students before and after their trips to Hofstra. There are currently partnerships with the following school districts: Baldwin, Freeport, Hempstead, Rockville Centre, Roosevelt, Uniondale, Westbury, West Hempstead, and the Long Island School for the Gifted (South Huntington).\nThe Hofstra University Museum of Art is a dynamic learning and teaching resource serving both the University community as well as the larger Long Island community. The Museum features exhibitions and collections that cross time periods and cultures and that serve as a springboard for thought-provoking discussions and programs.\nMuseum Director Nancy Richner said, \"Art Travelers makes it possible for students from many backgrounds to engage in the thrill of learning. They study of works of art from cultures around the world, connecting the stories of others to their own lives. When young people's curiosity is provoked, they naturally want to dig deeper, discover more, and understand better. They become transformed as learners and participants in the world.\"\nFinalists were chosen by Long Island business professionals during preliminary judging. Members of the Awards' Distinguished Judging Panel select the Imagine Awards winners.\n\"Being named a finalist in The Long Island Imagine Awards is an important achievement,\" said Ken Cerini, founder of the Long Island Imagine Awards. \"It means that the organization has been identified as a leader on Long Island, exhibiting impactful and innovative operations.\"\nTagsArt Travelers gallery Hofstra University Museum of Art museum Nancy Richner\nTo Infinity and Beyond!\nChild Care Institute Celebrates Reaccreditation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Annex to the DIS Arbitration Rules 1998 - Supplementary Rules for Expedited Proceedings 2008\nSupplementary Rules for Expedited ProceedingsSection 1 Scope of Application, Duration of ProceedingsSection 2 Costs upon commencement of proceedingsSection 3 Number of Arbitrators, Nomination of ArbitratorsSection 4 Statement of claim, statement of defence and oral hearingSection 5 Time Schedule, ProcedureSection 6 Modifications, Noncompliance with the Time FrameSection 7 Arbitral award\nSupplementary Rules for Expedited Proceedings\nSection 1 Scope of Application, Duration of Proceedings\n1.1 The Supplementary Rules set forth herein shall only apply if the parties have referred to them in their arbitration agreement or if the parties have agreed on their application prior to filing a statement of claim. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the DIS Arbitration Rules as well as the Supplementary Rules in effect on the date of commencement of the arbitral proceedings apply to the dispute.\n1.2 The duration of arbitral proceedings conducted under these Supplementary Rules should be no longer than six months (in the case of a sole arbitrator) or nine months (in the case of a three member tribunal) after the filing of the statement of claim pursuant to Sec. 1 sub. 3.\n1.3 Pursuant to these Supplementary Rules a statement of claim shall be filed with the DIS Main Secretariat in Cologne. If the statement of claim is filed with another DIS Secretariat, the timeframe for the expedited proceedings referred to in Sec. 1 sub. 2 shall commence upon receipt of the statement of claim by the DIS Main Secretariat.\n1.4 The arbitral tribunal shall at all times exercise its discretion to determine the procedure (Sec. 24 sub. 1, 2nd sentence DIS Arbitration Rules) in the light of the parties' interest in expediting the proceedings, as reflected by the parties' agreement to apply these Supplementary Rules. This applies in particular to possible extensions of time limits provided for in these Supplementary Rules.\nSection 2 Costs upon commencement of proceedings\nIn deviation from Sec. 7 sub. 1 DIS Arbitration Rules as read with No. 17 of the Appendix to Sec. 40 sub. 5 DIS Arbitration Rules, the advance to by paid by the claimant upon filing the statement of claim shall cover the full amount of the arbitrators' fees.\nSection 3 Number of Arbitrators, Nomination of Arbitrators\n3.1 In deviation from Sec. 3 DIS Arbitration Rules, the dispute shall be decided by a sole arbitrator, unless the parties have agreed prior to the filing of the statement of claim that the dispute shall be decided by three arbitrators.\n3.2 If the parties have agreed on the individual who is to act as sole arbitrator prior to the filing of the statement of claim, the claimant shall nominate the arbitrator in its statement of claim. In the absence of such agreement, the Appointing Committee of DIS shall appoint the sole arbitrator without undue delay upon request by one of the parties. Such request may be made together with the statement of claim. Until such request is received by the DIS Main Secretariat, a joint nomination of the sole arbitrator by the parties shall be permissible.\n3.3 If the parties have agreed pursuant to Sec. 3 sub. 1 to have the dispute decided by three arbitrators, Sec. 6 sub. 2 (5) DIS Arbitration Rules apply in respect of the arbitrator nominated by the claimant. In deviation from Sec. 12 sub. 1 DIS Arbitration Rules, the respondent shall nominate an arbitrator within 14 days of the receipt of the statement of claim by the respondent. If the respondent fails to nominate an arbitrator within this time limit, the claimant may request nomination by the Appointing Committee of the DIS. The chairman of the arbitral tribunal shall be appointed pursuant to Sec. 12 sub. 2 DIS Arbitration Rules, subject to a shortening of the time limit mentioned therein to 14 days.\n3.4 If a party-nominated arbitrator or the chairman cannot be not confirmed within 7 days of receipt of the request to submit the declaration pursuant to Sec. 16 subs. 1 DIS Arbitration Rules, the Appointing Committee of the DIS shall nominate a substitute arbitrator.\nSection 4 Statement of claim, statement of defence and oral hearing\n4.1 Until the arbitral tribunal is constituted, all written communications of the parties shall be transmitted to the DIS Main Secretariat; thereafter they shall be transmitted to the arbitral tribunal. Copies of written submissions shall at all times also be sent to the other party.\n4.2 In deviation from Sec. 9 DIS Arbitration Rules, the statement of defence shall be filed by the respondent within four weeks of receipt of the statement of claim pursuant to Sec. 8 DIS Arbitration Rules. Unless the arbitral tribunal determines otherwise all further written submissions by the parties are to be filed within four weeks of receipt of the other party's submission.\n4.3 The oral hearing shall be held at the latest four weeks after receipt of the final written submission. The arbitral award shall be rendered at the latest four weeks after the closing of the oral hearing.\n4.4 In proceedings under these Supplementary Rules, counterclaims and set-offs shall only be admissible with the consent of all parties and the arbitral tribunal.\nSection 5 Time Schedule, Procedure\n5.1 At the outset of the proceedings, the arbitral tribunal shall in agreement with the parties establish a time schedule to ensure that the arbitral proceedings can be concluded within the time frame specified in Sec. 1 sub. 2.\n5.2 Unless the arbitral tribunal determines otherwise,\n- the exchange of written submissions shall be limited to the statement of claim within the meaning of Sec. 6 DIS Arbitration Rules and the statement of defence within the meaning of Sec. 9 DIS Arbitration Rules as well as one further written submission by each party;\n- only one oral hearing, including any taking of evidence, shall be held;\n- no further written submissions shall be exchanged after the closing of the oral hearing.\n5.3 The arbitral tribunal should at the earliest possible stage of the proceedings identify to the parties and as a rule after each round of written submissions, the issues it may regard as relevant and material for the outcome of the case.\nSection 6 Modifications, Noncompliance with the Time Frame\n6.1 The provisions and time-limits contained in these Supplementary Rules may be modified by agreement between the parties. After the constitution of the arbitral tribunal, any modification shall require the consent of the arbitral tribunal. In the absence of consent of the parties, the arbitral tribunal may only extend a time-limit contained in these Supplementary Rules for good cause. The extension shall be effected by an order in writing, which shall state the reasons for the extension and which shall be transmitted to the parties and DIS Main Secretariat.\n6.2 If the arbitral proceeding cannot be concluded within the time frame set forth in Sec. 1 sub. 2, the arbitral tribunal shall inform the DIS Main Secretariat and the parties of the reasons in writing. The competence of the arbitral tribunal shall remain unaffected if the time frame set forth in Sec. 1 sub. 2 is exceeded.\nSection 7 Arbitral award\nUnless the parties have agreed otherwise, the arbitral tribunal may abstain from stating the facts of the case in the arbitral award.\nTrans-Lex Principle: XIII.2.1 - Number of arbitrators\nTrans-Lex Principle: XIII.4.2 - Form and contents of award","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Study Resources :: Dictionaries :: Thing(s)\nDictionaries :: Thing(s)\n1 Strong's Number: g3056 Greek: logos\nThing(s):\n\"a word, an account,\" etc., is translated \"thing\" in Mat 21:24, AV (1st part), and Luk 20:3, AV, RV, \"question\" (in Mat 21:24, 2nd part, \"these things\" translates tauta, the neut. plur. of houtos, \"this\"); Luk 1:4; Act 5:24, AV (RV, \"words\").\nSee ACCOUNT.\n2 Strong's Number: g4229 Greek: pragma\nfor which see MATTER, No. 2, is translated \"thing\" in Mat 18:19, as part of the word \"anything,\" lit., \"every thing;\" Luk 1:1, AV only; Act 5:4; in Hbr 6:18; 10:1; 11:1, \"things.\"\nSee BUSINESS, MATTER, WORK.\n3 Strong's Number: g4487 Greek: rhema\n\"a saying, word,\" is translated \"thing\" in Luk 2:15; Luk 2:19, AV (RV, \"saying\"); in Act 5:32, \"things.\"\nSee SAYING.\n(1) The neuter sing. and plur. of the article are frequently rendered \"the thing\" and neut. plur. of houtos, \"this.\"\n(2) So in this case of the neut. plur. of certain pronouns and adjectives without nouns, e.g., \"all,\" \"base,\" \"heavenly,\" \"which.\"\n(3) When \"thing\" represents a separate word in the original, it is a translation of one or other of Nos. 1, 2, 3, above.\n(4) In Phl 2:10, \"things\" is added in italics to express the meaning of the three adjectives.\n\u2190 Return to search for \"Th\"\nReturn to Main Search Page Return to search for \"Th\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Globecampus.ca ~ serious illness gets serious attention\nglobecampus.ca ~ Serious illness gets serious attention Serious illness gets serious attention\nA passion for tackling serious illnesses \u2014 sometimes driven by the experiences of someone close to them \u2014 led theserecipients to research potential improvements to existing treatments.\nNeil Kalra, 19, Saskatoon, Sask.\nBottom to top: Perri Tutelman, Neil Kalra, Sapna Shah, Sofia Oke and Tony Kwon. Photo: J.P. Moczulski for The Globeand Mail Neil Kalra's involvement in medical research stems from his desire to \"study something so that we can use the knowledgein the real world to help people.\" His interest in lymphomas and cell death in atherosclerosis led him to find and workwith researchers in these fields at the University of Saskatchewan.\nPart of the research involves building tissue micro arrays, or combinations of different kinds of tissue that allow for quickanalysis of particular proteins involved in the disease. He's hoping the results of the lymphoma research will help at thetime of diagnosis to identify which patients have a higher chance of having a more aggressive cancer, allowing them toget the appropriate treatment. As for the atherosclerosis research, he's hoping results could help identify who is morelikely to have a stroke or heart attack.\nAside from science fair prizes, his lymphoma research won him second place in the Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge inthe Open category in 2008.\nAlready enrolled at the University of Saskatchewan, Mr. Kalra, who hopes to be a physician, was accepted to the school'scollege of medicine.\nMr. Kalra also volunteers with children and youth, among others at the Physical Activity for Active Living Camp for thosewith disabilities. He is also involved with reading programs and with a Rotary youth leadership program. He is also asoccer referee at the provincial and national levels. His awards include provincial youth awards and a team first-placeaward in 2007 at the RBC\/Shad Entrepreneurship Cup for senior high-school students.\nMr. Kalra, who has co-authored abstracts for the Canadian Association of Pathologists, will continue his research thissummer.\nhttp:\/\/www.globecampus.ca\/in-the-news\/article\/serious-illness-gets-serious-attention\/ globecampus.ca ~ Serious illness gets serious attention Tony Kwon, 17, London, Ont.\nAs a Grade 9 student, Tony Kwon approached the University of Western Ontario to conduct research in the microbiologyand immunology lab on the effects of garlic on Group A Sreptococcus bacteria.\nThe A.B. Lucas Secondary School student in London, Ont., had become aware of how Group A streptococcal infectionsaffect people in developing countries. It can cause strep throat, among other infections, which in the developed world canbe easily treated but in the Third World, treatments are not always available.\nOne serious consequence of strep throat, if left untreated, is that it can cause rheumatic heart disease, which conservativeestimates suggest causes 233,000 deaths worldwide, says Mr. Kwon. Estimated deaths from overall streptococcalinfections are 500,000 worldwide, he adds.\nHe chose to research garlic because it is already often used for medicinal purposes and is part of many cultures' cuisine.\nMr. Kwon's research indicates that fresh garlic inhibits streptococcal bacterial growth and can decrease virulence. Heplaced first in the senior medical sciences category in the 2009 national science fair and was a member of the 2009 TeamCanada at the international science fair in Tunisia.\nHe intends to continue his research, hoping to find whether garlic induced changes can make the bacteria less severelyinvasive.\nNext year, Mr. Kwon will be studying life sciences at the University of Toronto, and hopes to become a researcher in thefield of microbiology and immunology.\nSofia Oke, 17, Guelph, Ont.\nA close family friend's chemotherapy treatments after a cancer diagnosis gave Sofia Oke a close look at how harmful theside effects, such as hair loss and vomiting bleeding, can be. This inspired her to begin researching how to reduce them.\nThe Centennial Collegiate and Vocational Institute student in Guelph, Ont., became interested in chemosensitizers, whichcan make cancerous cells more sensitive to the effects of chemotherapy drugs. She and a partner they approached amentor from the University of Guelph. Two years of research using chemosensitizers indicated the ability to lower theside effects of chemotherapy drugs, in particular indomethacin, a commonly used drug for breast and colon cancer.\nTheir work earned a gold medal at the Waterloo-Wellington Science Fair in 2009 and 2010 and a Petro CanadaInnovation Award at the Canada-wide science Fair in 2009, as well as a bronze medal in senior health sciences at the2010 Canada-wide Science Fair.\nMs. Oke also volunteers with Habitat for Humanity, St. Joseph's Health Care Centre, the Canadian Red Cross, CanadianBlood Services and the Bracelet of Hope Campaign.\nShe is also a member of the Guelph Youth Council, was named most valuable player of her competitive soccer team, andplaced 10th out of 1,000 at the DECA international business competition in California.\nMs. Oke received a University of Guelph Chancellor's Scholarship for next year, and will be studying toxicology. She lovestravel and science, and hopes to combine both by eventually becoming a physician, opening a clinic and travelling theworld as a medical correspondent.\nSapna Shah, 17, Markham, Ont.\nInspired by a friend's father, who was dealing with kidney failure, Sapna Shah began researching the disease. She e-mailed professors doing research in the field, and found someone at McGill University who had hosted high schoolstudents in the past .\nAt 16, Ms. Shah began working as a summer research student at McGill, designing an experiment to see if coated liveyeast cells would decrease the toxins associated with kidney failure in rats.\nhttp:\/\/www.globecampus.ca\/in-the-news\/article\/serious-illness-gets-serious-attention\/ globecampus.ca ~ Serious illness gets serious attention This shows potential for helping even patients with kidney failure, who might be able to decrease the number of timesthey need to undergo dialysis by taking the yeast cell capsules, she says.\nHer co-authored review of the research was published in the Journal of Biologics last year.\nThis fall, the Markham District High School student has been accepted to Queen's University as a chancellor's scholarshiprecipient, where she will study science in hopes of becoming a physician or medical researcher .\nNext summer, she will continue her research at McGill. She found that, while the live yeast cells were successful inbreaking down urea, one of toxins created by kidney failure, one result was an accumulation of ammonia, another toxin.\nShe is looking at a species of E. coli bacteria to counteract the ammonia.\nMs. Shah also volunteers at the Markham Stouffville Hospital , helping orient children before their surgeries.\nShe is also on the Mayor's Youth Task Force, helping advise on youth programs.\nPerri Tutelman, 16, Richmond, B.C.\nConcerned about breast cancer, Perri Tutelman began to research the potential of an herb in decreasing the effects ofchemotherapy. At the same time, the Grade 11 student at SIDES school is dedicated to helping children with lifethreatening illnesses and established the Cures for Kids Foundation.\nMs. Tutelman has been a contributing researcher at the B.C. Cancer research Centre. Her research into the herbartemisinin suggests that its ability to inhibit cell growth may allow patients with breast cancer to undergo lesschemotherapy. Her work was recognized with a gold medal at the Canada-wide science fair in 2009, a Canadian MedicalLaboratory Association award and second place at the Sanofi Aventis Biotalent competition.\nMs. Tutelman has also worked as a pediatric support worker, and witnessing the devastation of serious illness in childreninspired her to found Cures for Kids, a non-profit organization that raises funds and awareness for pediatric life-threatening illnesses.\nShe leads a team of student volunteers and a board of directors. The organization recently secured long-term corporatesupport through a partnership with Boston Pizza and raised $15,000 for a project for childhood cancers.\nCures for Kids received a national award of innovation from the Art of Living Foundation.\nShe has also volunteered at Canuck Place Children's Hospice and other recreational programs, working with children whohave special needs.\nMs. Tutelman continues to do research at the University of British Columbia as a volunteer research assistant, lookinginto the role of hormones in auto-immune disorders through the use of transgenic, or genetically modified, models.\nShe plans to go to the University of British Columbia and hopes to get MD and PhD degrees, allowing her to pursue bothresearch and clinical work, specializing in pediatric medicine.\nis the non-profit organization that runs the Top 20 Under 20 awards program. Winners' ages arelisted as what they were on Dec. 31, 2009. A national panel selects the winners.\nOther award winners\nhttp:\/\/www.globecampus.ca\/in-the-news\/article\/serious-illness-gets-serious-attention\/ globecampus.ca ~ Serious illness gets serious attention GlobeCampus is The Globe and Mail's site dedicated to undergraduate education in Canada. Through its innovative search, compare and rank tool called campus navigator, Canadian and visiting students can quickly find the school that would fit them best. The Globe and Mail's annual Canadian University Report (formerly University Report Card) collects the opinion of over 40,000 students across the country. This site will guide parents in evaluating universities and colleges and help students make the right pick from the rich array of qualifiers and indicators available from each of the school's profile.\n2010 CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved.\nglobeandmail.com and The Globe and Mail are divisions of CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc., 444 Front Street W., Toronto, ON Canada M5V http:\/\/www.globecampus.ca\/in-the-news\/article\/serious-illness-gets-serious-attention\/\nSource: http:\/\/curesforkids.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Serious_illness_gets_serious_attention.pdf\nIp newsletter - quarterly - print.indd\nTC's inside IP A quarterly newsletter from the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Thompson Coburn LLPGreen Tech Gets the Green Light By William Holtz, Ph.D. In December 2009, the United States Patent and applicants to petition to have their green technology Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented a pilot pro-applications examined out of turn, thus reducing the gram to accel\nData linkage branch_projects1995-2012\nData Linkage Branch \u2013 Project Applications 1995 \u2013 2010 Project Title Investigators Johnson Graeme, Fiona Stanley, Alison Plant Hospitalisation rates for women 20-60 years Breast cancer - patterns of care and outcomes Comorbidity in people with mental illness Key cancers - lung, colorectal, breast, melanoma Secondary prevention of Myocardial infarction SPLASH - Health behaviou","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wang Quanzhang: Released from Prison but \" Still Serving his Sentence\"\nWang Quanzhang ( \u738b\u5168\u748b) , a lawyer in custody since the \"709\" crackdown in 2015, was supposedly released from prison on April 5, 2020. But instead of being allowed to go home to Beijing, Wang was sent to Jinan ostensibly for a 14-day quarantine. But by April 23, he had still not been allowed to...\nWhere Is the Future \u2014\u2014 On the 10th Anniversary of the Revocation of Tang Jitian and Liu Wei's Lawyer's Licenses\nApril 30, 2020 is the 10th anniversary of the revocation of Tang Jitian and Liu Wei's lawyer's licenses. In 2008, Tang Jitian and Liu Wei were among 35 lawyers who called for the direct elections of officers of the state-controlled Beijing Lawyers Association. In 2010, Tang and Liu's lawyer...\nTang Jitian\nHuman Rights Concerns Regarding Article 23 Legislation: Background and Key Issues\nPressure has been clearly mounting on the Hong Kong SAR government to once again make an attempt to introduce an Article 23 law. The overwhelming election of Pan-Democratic candidates in the district council elections in November 2019, along with the sustained mobilization of diverse sectors during...\nIssues Brief\nChina Human Rights Lawyers Group's Public Statement on Safeguarding the Legal Rights of Lawyer Liu Yingying\nOn April 2, 2020, the Zhengzhou Lawyers Association issued a disciplinary \"warning\" to lawyer Liu Yingying( \u5218\u83b9\u83b9 ) for posting on her blog an article titled, \"Today, family members lined up in a long queue to pick up their relatives' ashes at the Hankou Funeral Home.\" The warning states that Liu is...\nSuffering Members of our Church Need your Attention and Prayer\nChristian Jiang Zhanchun ( \u848b\u6e5b\u6625) has been criminally detained in Zhenjiang City Detention Center on suspicion of \"picking quarrels and provoking trouble and disrupting the working order of state organs.\" Xu Yonghai ( \u5f90\u6c38\u6d77) , an elder of the Beijing Christian house church, Divine Love Group, appeals...\nXu Yonghai\nAn Appeal to the Beijing Municipal Government to Launch Urgent Mechanism to Protect Lawyer Yu Wensheng, a Beijing Resident\nXu Yan ( \u8bb8\u8273 ) , the wife of Beijing lawyer Yu Wensheng ( \u4f59\u6587\u751f ) , sends a letter to the Mayor of Beijing, seven Deputy Mayors, and the Chief Secretary of the municipal government, appealing to them, on whom the people depend for their livelihood, to immediately launch a mechanism for protecting and...\nYu Wensheng\nBank Account Frozen, Complaints Going Nowhere, Difficulty in Getting By: An Account by Cheng Yuan's wife, Shi Minglei, Who is \"Under Suspicion of Subversion of State Power\"\nShi Minglei, wife of the arrested public interest activist Cheng Yuan, has been put under residential surveillance for 50 days already, on suspicion of \"subversion of state power.\" Without presenting any evidence, to date, to support their criminal allegations against Shi, the authorities have...\nBrother of Cheng Yuan, Detained Changsha Legal Advocate, was Summoned with a Blank Summons\nIn a September 2, 2019 Twitter post titled, \" Being Summoned for the Second Time ,\"* Cheng Hao, the brother of detained Changsha activist Cheng Yuan, provides an account of his being summoned again by the Zhonghuamen police station in Nanjing. According to his account, three police officers came to...\nPrivate Chat on WeChat Is Criminalized\u2014\u2014An Appeal by the wife of Li Huaiqing, a private entrepreneur in Chongqing\nThe case of Li Huaiqing, a private entrepreneur in Chongqing who is suspected of \"inciting subversion of state power,\" will be tried on August 22. After a year and eight months of silence, Li's wife, Bao Yan, made her first public appeal, directed at relevant government departments: Don't sit back...\nOn August 12, Cheng Hao, brother of Cheng Yuan, the detained Changsha legal advocate, posted a statement (see below) on Twitter about his interrogation by the police of Zhonghuamen police station in Nanjing on August 8, on suspicion of \"picking quarrels and provoking trouble\" (\u5bfb\u8845\u6ecb\u4e8b). Cheng Hao was...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"China plugs its 'Great Firewall,' going after unauthorized VPN access from local ISPs\nThe crackdown is part of a 14-month campaign to clean up the country's internet service provider market.\nMichael Kan\nChina is going after unauthorized internet connections, including tools known as VPNs (virtual private networks) that can bypass China's efforts to control the web.\nThe crackdown is part of 14-month campaign from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that's meant to clean up the country's internet service provider market\nUnless authorized, internet service providers are forbidden from operating any \"cross-border\" channel business, including VPNs, the ministry said in a Sunday notice.\nThe announcement is a bit of rarity. The country has usually withheld from openly campaigning against VPN use, even as government censors have intermittently tried to squelch access to them in the past.\nHowever, China has been steadily tightening control over the internet. Earlier this month, the country essentially extended its reach to local app stores operating in the country by forcing them to register with the government.\nThe action against VPNs will probably be alarming to businesses and local users in China who rely on them to access the internet unfiltered. Sites popular in the West such as Facebook, Google and Twitter have all been blocked in the country due to China's strict censorship that targets anti-government views.\nSunday's notice from China's IT ministry essentially asks that internet backbone providers and ISPs \"self-check\" to weed out any unauthorized VPN use. But it's unclear what affect this will have on third-party VPN providers, many of which operate in foreign countries, but also sell to customers in China.\nFor instance, sites such as SaferVPN, ExpressVPN and VyprVPN sell subscription-based services for around $10 a month or less. Despite China's censorship, these businesses are continually coming up with ways so that customers can access the unfiltered internet.\nGreatFire.org, an activist group against China's censorship, said Sunday's announcement probably has less to do with foreign VPN providers than local ones.\n\"I think actually that everyone is kind of misreading this info at the moment,\" the group said over email. \"I do not think that consumers are the ones who will get hit. Businesses who need unfettered access to the internet will suffer if their local provider decides not to provide this.\"\nSunday's notice said that local internet backbone providers in China can still offer private access lines for businesses to link with overseas offices.\nHowever, use of those lines must be restricted for business purposes, and never linked with a data center or used to operate a telecommunication service. The Chinese backbone providers must also collect and establish user profiles for their customers.\nIn addition to the VPN issue, China's IT ministry said on Sunday it will be investigating ISPs, internet data centers and content delivery networks for failing to receive the right business permits and operating in areas that exceed the intended scope.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Berkeley chemical engineer charged with trying to poison co-worker\nBy Cornell Barnard\nBERKELEY, California -- A Berkeley engineer is in jail, charged with attempted murder, after police say he tried to poison a co-worker.\nMorgan Davis just found out her longtime Lafayette neighbor, David Xu, is under arrest. She saw police on her street just days ago.\n\"I saw three officers in black with the city of Berkeley on the back,\" Davis said.\nXu is a chemical engineer at Berkeley Engineering and Research, and police say he's accused of trying to kill a colleague by poisoning her food and water.\nThe Alameda County criminal complaint reveals \"toxic amounts of Cadmium\" were used.\nCourt papers say the victim noticed a \"strange taste and smell from her water and food,\" which she had left unattended in her office. The woman became sick, and her relatives also got sick last fall when they drank from her water bottle.\nCourt documents say surveillance footage from the woman's office showed Xu adding a substance to the woman's water bottle on two occasions.\nWater samples taken from the bottle tested positive for cadmium. The alleged poisoning lasted almost a year and a half.\n\"That's insane, can't imagine anyone trying to poison anyone,\" Davis said.\nBEAR Lab had no comment about the arrest.\nXu's LinkedIn page says he has served as an engineering expert witness and consultant in materials and chemicals.\nSomeone at his Lafayette home declined to comment and asked us to leave.\nA motive remains unknown. Xu remains in the Berkeley jail.\nThe victim is recovering. She declined to comment.\ncaliforniaarrestpoisonu.s. & worldinvestigation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Will Greer June 12, 2017 Florida, gender, nerd culture, sexuality\nNerdland Diary: Three Days in the Tropics of MegaCon\nHow's this for colorful and distracting?\nSci-fi and fantasy conventions are typically a sensory overload of cosplay, celebrities, merchandise, \"geek-themed\" entertainment, and overwhelming crowds. This Memorial Day Weekend, I attended MegaCon 2017 in balmy Orlando, Florida for three days. During my first forty eight hours, I spent enough money to impress a stock-photo model, befriended Rogue of the X-Men, and watched the original Magenta from The Rocky Horror Picture Show storm offstage. On the third day, I had a photo op with geek goddess Felicia Day. It was quite a time. The following is an account of those three days. All of the photographs are my own. No names have been changed to protect anyone. But in all truth, I didn't try to learn everyone's name, either.\nInternational law requires that Sci-fi\/Fantasy conventions must have at least one Slave Leia present at all times (this Leia was also a very nice person).\nDay One: I arrive late in the morning, and mill around the vendor room. Friday is one of the slower days at MegaCon, but that doesn't mean it isn't crowded. With all of the people\u2014many of whom are decked out in colorful, and occasionally distracting, costumes\u2014 the scene is overwhelming and hypnotic.\nThe amount of merchandise in the vendor room is staggering in both quantity and variety. I wander around this maze of commerce all morning. Initially, I planned to catch Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies) in an audience Q&A session, but instead I keep browsing this cavernous space that MegaCon's website calls \"400,000 square feet of shopping madness!\"\nEarly in the afternoon, I run into my friend, Saida, who I had not seen in almost a year and a half. Her friend, Angie, is dressed as Rogue of the X-Men. She's made the costume herself, and has done a hell of a job with it. As Angie and I chat, it turns out we have both recently ended a relationship and are respectively trying to debug our romance coding. Adding movie references and jokes to the mix makes for nice conversation as the three of us head to the Rocky Horror panel.\nWe take our seats in a hangar-sized conference room, and a few minutes later Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn, and Nell Campbell walk out onstage. If you know nothing about the classic 1975 film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, or its cast, well, where have you been for the past forty two years? Anyway, when Bostwick greets the room, \"Hi! My name is Brad Majors\u2026\", a large contingent of the audience rebuts, \"Asshole!\" The exchange echoes one of the more famous pieces of counterpoint dialogue that fans shout at midnight screenings of the film.\nAll three actors have aged well. Bostwick appears healthy but, in but his dapper white suit, bears a strong resemblance to Kenny Rogers. Quinn and Campbell aren't trying too hard to hide their age, either, and they look good. In mesh stockings that complement her long, muscular legs, Quinn exudes the vibe of a retired Rockette. Campbell, with her gold-spangled jacket, looks like someone you'd see buying snacks for her grandchildren at Dean & Deluca.\nAs they take questions from the audience, Campbell and Quinn's chemistry apparently begins to sour. Campbell frequently interrupts Quinn, or mugs to the crowd when Quinn is talking. Before long, Quinn stands up and turns to her, saying \"Stop it! Stop it now! You're really annoying me!\" Bostwick gamely tries to keep the peace, and Quinn sits down again to take another question from the audience.\nPatricia Quinn, really annoyed.\nBut Campbell keeps trolling her. After a final interruption\u2014this time to say \"Patricia Quinn has lost her girlish charm\"\u2014Quinn stands up and walks off stage without a word. Campbell sidles into the now-empty chair next to Bostwick and leans back with glee. For his part, Bostwick looks a little flustered. Was this a contrived fracas? Some manufactured drama to excite the crowd? I can't tell, but my gut says probably not. Otherwise, fans of Patricia Quinn aren't going to get their money's worth. Either way, the mood lifts when an eight-year-old boy dressed as Peter Pan says Rocky Horror is his favorite movie and Bostwick brings him up on stage to do the Timewarp.\nWhen the panel finally lets out, I decide to head over to the five p.m. Sci-Fi Speed Dating session. And God bless her, Angie agrees to come with me. Saida, who has a live-in boyfriend, opts to see a live shadowcast of the movie, Clue, instead. When Angie and I reach the hallway outside the designated conference room, we're greeted by an imposing, sandy-haired thirtysomething dressed as Obi Wan Kenobi (from the prequels, not the original trilogy). He looks up from his phone, \"Are you here for Sci-Fi Speed Dating?\" Angie and I nod. He looks at Angie and says, perhaps as a warning, \"Oh wow, you're really good looking!\" Then he asks me for twenty dollars.\nWhile I'm digging through my wallet, a dark-haired woman in a cool-looking top hat compliments my t-shirt. Suddenly, I feel less skeptical of the whole enterprise. But before I can talk to her, Obi Wan directs me to a copse of diffident-looking men, most of whom are in their early to mid-twenties.\nAs I approach the other suitors, a man dressed as Darth Vader doffs his helmet to reveal that, in addition to his slight stature, he has heavy jowls and a lazy eye. \"Is this your first time speed dating?\" he asks. I reply, \"Yes,\" and he shrugs. \"All you have to do is just be yourself.\" If this guy's idea of being himself is showing up to speed dating dressed as the one of galaxy's most infamous Sith Lords, then I have a sincere respect for him. That kind of Jedi-grade dilligaf almost makes up for the time he double-crossed Lando Calrissian.\nObi Wan corrals the women into the room and, after a stern warning for the men to be respectful, sends us in after them. The next hour is a blur of coquettish grins and earnest, hurried small talk. Like clockwork, Obi Wan moves us to the next person every three minutes. I have never shifted from being intrigued to bored with such rapid frequency in my life. I meet one woman I really like, who's a photographer. I confess to her that I live in Atlanta, but can't help saying that I'll travel to Orlando more if I really like someone. In the end, I only get one phone number, but not from her. But I took Darth Vader's advice, so all I can do is shrug.\nAngie seems to have gotten a number from practically every guy she's talked to. I'm not surprised. She gave her number to no one, which doesn't surprise me, either. After we compare our experiences, and talk a little more deeply about improving our relationship habits, we agree to become friends on Facebook. By then, it's almost seven o'clock, and I've been at MegaCon since roughly 10:30 a.m. It's time to go home, and Saida is kind enough to give me a ride.\nDay Two: This is MegaCon's biggest day. Friday was plenty busy, but Saturday is a crushing glut of sheer humanity. Exact figures are hard to come by, but roughly 100,000 people attended MegaCon in 2016. Its organizers expect a similar level of attendance for 2017. But you don't need a precise count to know what a metric fuckton of people looks like.\nMost of today's attendees are packed into the vendor room, and aggressively visible cleavage flaunts at almost every turn. Here in the endless exhibition hall of the Orange County Convention Center, an immense mammary moon has coaxed the necklines of at least one third of the attendees and half the vending staff into low tide. There are two reasons for this surfeit of ample pride: 1) most Con-goers congregate in the vendor room, and 2) even before Gene Roddenberry put Nichelle Nichols in a little red dress, the purveyors of what we now call geek culture knew that sex sells.\nThe unabashed capitalism of MegaCon should surprise no one. Cons are expensive, and this one is no exception. A runty gyro and a bottle of soda cost me thirteen dollars. T-shirts you can buy online for about fifteen dollars cost twenty five here. Many of the collectors items and handcrafted goods available in various booths are even more expensive.\nNerd gear by the bucketful.\nThe best part of the vending area is Artist Alley. Here you can bask in the warm glow of indie commerce as individual illustrators and artisans cheerfully display their work. Their gift for small talk and evident passion make it easy to forget that they, too, want your money. Yet it is still exciting to talk with someone who created what they're selling, and much of the artwork is genuinely engaging. 13X Studios, for instance, makes custom-painted Friday the 13th masks. The proprietor, a friendly giant with tattooed arms, describes his work with a moving sense of pride. I bought one of his masks as a gift for my friend, Michael. He's an avid horror fan. Plus, he and his wife Heidi are being nice enough to let me stay at their home in lieu of a motel.\nSaturday is also the day when the bigger celebrities most often appear, one of whom is Eliza Dushku. It may surprise you that, on her own, this kind-of-famous actress draws as big a crowd as three cast members of the original Rocky Horror Picture Show. For those who have no idea who she is, or only remember her from the cheerleading flick Bring It On, you should know that Dushku was once a prodigy of Joss Whedon. If you are now asking, \"Who's Joss Whedon?\", well, I'm glad you're reading this.\nIn 1997, Joss Whedon created the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[1] Even after twenty years, the show is renowned for its witty, stylized dialogue and sophisticated character arcs. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a.k.a. just Buffy to fans) was also a pioneer of feminist television. Whedon was one of the first showrunners who deliberately set out to challenge the medium's conventions of gender. Characters like Archer's Lana Kane, or even Ziva Davis on NCIS, owe a debt to Buffy Summers' canny blend of womanly toughness and high-to-low brow sensibility. Persona-wise, Whedon is warm, funny, and laser-focused. Watch this parody commercial he made during the 2012 election. Whether or not you jibe with the politics, you'll still laugh.\nMore recently, Whedon wrote and directed Marvel's Avengers and its sequel, Age of Ultron. But he is not just high geek royalty, or merely an articulate, charming spokesman for geek culture. Joss Whedon is a perfect example of the highly specific, occasionally insulated, genre universes that geek fandom tends to accentuate. Disciples of Joss call their fandom the Whedonverse.\nLike it or not, it is a legacy that Eliza Dushku must bear. When she was seventeen, Whedon cast her as Faith, a badass vampire slayer with a dark side who was Buffy Summers' frenemy and, later on, just plain enemy in the show's third season. Dushku imbued Faith with enough complexity to merit a recurring role in the Buffy spin-off, Angel. After those shows ended, Whedon created the series, Dollhouse, with the explicit intent of showcasing her versatility as an actress. Dollhouse lasted barely two seasons but, like all Whedon creations, it still has its die-hard fans. In other words, Eliza Dushku is kind of a big deal to to a specific breed of nerd.\nThis is the second time I've seen Dushku at a Con. The first time was in 2013, at DragonCon in Atlanta, and back then it seemed like she never quite felt the love. She hit all the right tones\u2014\"such a great show,\" \"the cast was like a family,\" yadda, yadda, yadda\u2014 but they always sounded more like just notes instead of music. So I'm curious to see how she did this time around.\nFour years later, it seems like Dushku has found her Con-groove, appearing at once charming and a little offbeat. Early on, she remarks that \"having your adolescence documented on film is really weird.\" On playing Faith, she says she enjoyed \"setting people on fire without getting arrested.\" Dushku also shows a real knack for parrying confusing questions by turning them back onto the enquirer to start a brief conversation. At the end, a young man asks her advice for writing strong, believable women. Dushku says that strong female characters need more than just awesome fight scenes. To work, they need \"nuance in facing adversity.\" It is a classically Whedonesque answer that draws thunderous applause.\nDushku's rapport with the audience appears to strike a nimble balance between authenticity and polish, which gives fans exactly what they need. Watching her, a Buffy fan can feel secure that the people who helped shape their cultural touchstone are not only kind and decent, but are also equally attached to it. She is relatable enough to be believable, but just distant enough to not trample the myth. Is this what Eliza Dushku is really like in person? It doesn't really matter here; she knows how to deliver.\nEliza Dushku: Keeping the Faith.\nAfterward, I go back to Artist Alley to pick up some postcards to mail to friends. By the time I'm done wading through the crowd, the day is drawing near a close, and my calves and back ache. I badly need to sit down, and I know just the place to do it: the Buffy the Vampire Slayer shadowcast. A shadowcast is where a group re-enacts a movie or TV episode as the original plays on a screen next to the stage. The original in this particular shadowcast is the musical episode and Buffy fan favorite, \"Once More\u2026 with Feeling.\"\nBefore it starts, one of the actors announces that heckling and singing along are strongly encouraged. As it gets going, the show takes on a very advertant Rocky Horror vibe. Whenever Dawn\u2014Buffy's little sister, who many fans despise\u2014says a line, people shout \"No one cares!\" An inflatable mattress suffices as a few different props: bed, table,coffin. Costume changes are quick, public, and sloppy. Clearly, the actors are having gobs of fun, so the audience does, too. The shadowcast's scrappy joy buoys my sagging spirits and briefly salves my aching body. I also learn that the climactic number, \"Walk through the Fire,\" still gives me goosebumps. And I'm not the only one. In unison, a room full of people sings, \"I touch the fire and it freeeezes me.\"\nUh, guys, maybe we should start caring about Dawn.\nDay 3: Sunday begins as my friend, Heidi, and I are carting her yawning four-year-old daughter down I-4. Sunday is MegaCon's slowest day and, for me, it will be the shortest. Keeping the pace of the past forty eight hours is something that I am no longer built for. Even without a toddler in tow, Heidi, who's taught me the nifty trick of taking Aleve before your muscles start hurting, is not built for it either. And it's just as well. I have only one goal for the rest of the Con: my photo op with Felicia Day.\nFelicia Day is a very bright star in Nerdiverse. For the past fifteen-odd years, she has done a remarkable job turning geek identity into an effective brand. Early in her career, Day had a recurring role in the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She also starred opposite Neil Patrick Harris in Whedon's internet musical, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. In the foreword to her memoir, You're Never Weird on the Internet, Whedon calls Day \"a personal hero.\" Day also has a recurring role in Supernatural, a series with its own legion of hardcore fangeeks. Her web series, The Guild, won ten awards during its six-year lifespan. In 2012, she launched a YouTube channel called Geek & Sundry, which includes Tabletop, a board game-themed show hosted by geek superstar and Star Trek alumnus, Wil Wheaton. Since April 2017, Day has appeared on the revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000. If Eliza Dushku is kind of a big deal to a certain breed of nerd, Felicia Day is a huge effin' deal to lots of different nerds.\nOnce inside, Heidi and her daughter whisk off to Artist Alley. I make my way to the photo op area, where a crowd gathers around a yellow rectangle taped to the concrete floor of the exhibition hall. To the left is a long row of prefab barriers. Inside the rectangle is a man in a matching yellow shirt. He asks everyone who's come to meet Felicia Day to raise our hands, and then tells us we'll have to wait. He then waves people who've paid to meet Matthew Lewis through the rectangle and past the barriers.\nThis low-tech mode of crowd control vaguely reminds me of a post-apocalypse, as if the Man in the Yellow Shirt got to decide who will eat and who will toil in a salt mine. But maybe I just have an active imagination. Thankfully, it's not too long before he waves us through, and we all go and stand in another, longer line confined by yellow tape. The front of this line abuts a row black-curtained booths. After about twenty minutes, a woman emerges from the nearest one and starts herding people inside.\nA voice booms from behind the curtain. \"Ready! One! Two! Three!\" The line moves. \"Ready! One! Two! Three!\" The line moves again. I look at my watch. It's 2:45. I count the rest of the line and figure that, if every picture takes thirty seconds, I'll be done in about an hour. Then I start to count time between chants of \"Ready! One! Two! Three!\" About five seconds elapse between each one. I think, Really? That fast? I'm still trying to do the math when I'm waved through the curtains.\nFelicia Day is standing in a tiny stall with an orangish-yellow, Olan-Millsy backdrop. It's a lot like getting your yearbook picture taken in middle school. Had I had time to reflect, I'm sure it would have felt just as awkward, too. Smiling, Ms. Day looks me square in the eye and says, \"How are you?\" Starstruck, I manage to reply, \"It's really nice to meet you.\" Our exchange feels almost cozy, except for the hulking, bald photographer in a black golf shirt who yells, \"Ready! One! Two! Three!\" I turn toward the camera. A bright light flashes. Before I can say \"Thank you,\" I'm being whisked out the back. It isn't until I pick up a print of the picture that I notice that Felicia Day had placed her hand on my shoulder.\nReady or not.\nI meet Heidi at the other end of the vendor room a few minutes later. We wander for another half hour before her daughter starts getting antsy. So we call it a day (no pun intended). Within an hour, I'm sitting at the dinner table with her family and eating hot dogs for dinner. My three days of MegaCon are over.\nSo much happened in those three hectic days that it's difficult to process at first. Obviously, I enjoyed myself. Equally obvious is that my own experience doesn't touch on the multiple fandoms who a) might feel offended that I didn't talk about them, because b) I have no interest in them. Sorry, anime fans, you'll have to write your own, Joss-Whedon-free articles.\nThis was my fifth Con, and I am still left kind of agog by the hypersexuality of geek culture. At MegaCon, or any other Con, it's impossible to throw a Sorcerer's Stone without hitting someone in a skimpy costume.[2] And most of these scantily-clad Con-goers are women. Nonetheless, the sexuality of cosplay is very complicated. Cosplayers' motives are varied, and often difficult to determine at a glance. For some Con-goers, a revealing costume is a body-positive statement, a rebellion against narrow social standards of physical beauty. Also, it is not uncommon for women to dress as their own representation of traditionally masculine characters. Transgender cosplayers add even more nuance to the issue. There are, however, a lot of 'sexy' cosplay outfits that seem to be the geek culture equivalent of 'slutty' halloween costumes. This kind of clich\u0117d objectification can seem tiresome, but to say I am immune to their intended effect would be a brazen lie. Overall, though, I'd say that such outfits reflect a contradiction of geek culture: a lot of sci fi and fantasy genres empower women, but many of the same also bear virulent strains of misogyny.\nThe sexualized aspect of Cons also illuminates the fine tensile thread that binds fandom to the commodification of identity. Just as sex sells because it appeals to basic desires, fandom sells because people are wired to construct ipseity\u2014and the Con industry extracts a handsome profit from this natural instinct. MegaCon is owned by Informa Canada, whose revenue in 2016 amounted to nearly two billion dollars. Cons also stimulate the local economy. In 2014, Megacon generated some twenty one million dollars' worth of business for its host city. In anticipation of MegaCon 2015, the Orlando Business Journal cheered, \"Rejoice, Orlando! The nerds are coming back with their money.\"\nAfterwards, the experience of Cons always leaves me with a strange mix of feelings. On one hand, I can't escape the unsettling sense that I'm watching an illusion. One the other, I embrace that illusion. Cons inextricably blend the pure joy of fandom with run-of-the-mill capitalist trickery, and it makes for a heady concoction. Despite my critiques, I willfully supped MegaCon's fantasies. I didn't worry too much whether or not Eliza Dushku was faking it. I spent scads of money in the vendor room. I politely asked women in risqu\u00e9 cosplay if I could take their picture. As I posed with Felicia Day, I quashed my suspicion that she and I were just cogs in an enormous commerce machine. I also never wondered if she was faking it, either. Such is the magic of the Con. And I know I'll be back for more. I already have my ticket to DragonCon 2017.\nWilliam Greer is a Master's student in public history at Georgia State University and Tropics of Meta's digital content coordinator.\n[1] He also wrote the screenplay for the 1992 film starring Kristy Swanson, but the studio changed it so profoundly that fans still debate if it should be included in the canon.\n[2] Please do not actually throw rocks at Con-goers, or anybody for that matter.\nPosted in Florida, gender, nerd culture, sexuality and tagged Buffy, Comic Cons, comics, geek, geek culture, MegaCon, nerd culture, nerds, sci-fi, sexuality, Star Wars. Bookmark the permalink.\nThe Real Drunk History: Exploring the Rise of Craft Beer in Atlanta\nThe Long History of Americans Getting Their Drink On: Our Interview with William Rorabaugh","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Holbrook Junior Recognized at Statewide Tobacco Prevention Event\n\u00a9 2018 Marilyn Humphries\nYouth in The 84 Movement march through Boston Common.\nJessica West, Arts & Entertainment Editor\nSarah Ryan, a junior at Holbrook Middle High School, won the Statewide Youth Leadership Award at Kick Butts Day at the State House for her dedication to Holbrook's Chapter of The 84 Movement, an organization dedicated to preventing tobacco use by young people. She also received official citations from the Senate and the House of Representatives commemorating her accomplishments.\nWhen asked about receiving the award she said, \"I was absolutely blown away. I never really expected to win \u2013 it kind of felt like a dream. I just hope sharing my experience helped other people. I wanted my speech to show people that they don't have to fit in a certain box to make a difference, they just have to be themselves.\"\nHolbrook's Chapter of The 84 Movement has dedicated their year to flavored tobacco restriction, on both a local and a statewide level. On May 2nd, students attended Kick Butts Day (KBD), an event that empowers youth to stand up against the tobacco and vaping industries. While the percent of youth that use traditional cigarettes has decreased significantly, e-cigarettes have become a major problem among youth. KBD calls attention to this problem and gives young people the platform to tackle it.\nThe event started with a trivia game about The 84 and youth tobacco use. Students had the chance to win \"swag\" such as water bottles, hats, and sunglasses. Following that, the youth marched through Boston Commons shouting chants like \"Strawberry, Peach, Mango, e-cigarettes have got to go!\" Their signs had sayings like \"Tobacco should NOT be cheaper than chips,\" calling attention to the fact that flavored cigars can cost as little as 99 cents.\nAt the State House, there was a training on legislative visits led by members of the Statewide Leadership Team, including three Holbrook students \u2013 Sarah Ryan, Rachel Cohan and Hayli Manning. During the training, students learned how to speak with legislators in a professional setting. Later, Holbrook met with three legislative aides to talk about e-cigarettes and how harmful they are for youth.\nWhen asked about the event, Rachel Cohan said that Kick Butts Day was a \"huge success.\" She adds, \"I think that it provided a fantastic opportunity for youth to let their voices be heard by our changemakers.\"\nThe event ended with an award ceremony. Holbrook was nominated for the Local Community Change Award for our recent local policy work.\nJessica West, Staff Writer\nJessica West is a freshman and this is her first year writing for The Holbrook Hub. She is very involved in music, and she has participated in drama and...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tritium Charges Ahead of the Competition\nRecently we wrote a piece on 8 Innovative Aussie Companies You Should Know About. Since then, one of these companies has gone from strength to strength, making waves in markets all over the world. We are talking about Tritium. A Brisbane-born manufacturer of pioneering DC fast-chargers for Electric Vehicles. Their fast chargers boast individual capacities from 50 to 350 kilowatt, and is one of the world's top sellers in the area. Tritium charges ahead of the competition.\nTritium Fast-Chargers at a Car Park\nIn the month since we included Tritium on our list of Innovative Aussie Companies, the business has been listed on the Nasdaq, entered into a supply agreement with a leading provider of e-mobility solutions across the Middle East and Africa, and has now announced that it will be establishing a manufacturing facility in Tennessee USA.\nThe announcement has come as part of the US Government's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act introduced under US President Joe Biden in November 2021. The Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan, authorises funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, transit programs, and for other purposes.\nIn addition to strengthening sovereign manufacturing capabilities, creating jobs and building infrastructure for the future, the Act has a particular focus on addressing climate change and bolstering the technologies that will assist in reaching 2050 emissions targets.\nThe Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is expected to provide $7.5 billion of investment for deploying a network of 500,000 EV chargers along highway corridors in the United States. This network is intended to facilitate long-distance travel, as well as shorter distance travel within communities, to provide convenient charging options and encourage the electrification of transportation across the country.\nTritium CEO Jane Hunter with President Joe Biden at the Announcement of the New Manufacturing Facility\nFor an Australian-born company to be bought in to help fulfil America's bold new infrastructure plan is a testament to the world-leading talent and products we develop in this country. Tritium has been designing and building ground-breaking technology in e-mobility and renewable energy for a couple of decades now. The group was founded by University of Queensland Alumni Dr David Finn, Dr Paul Sernia and James Kennedy who came together competing in the World Solar Racing Challenge in 1998. After forming Tritium in 2001, the company has developed from a small power electronics start-up to a global manufacturing organisation operating across three continents and with customers in over 40 countries. Their customers include some of the largest global energy companies, automotive manufacturers and government agencies. Not only has their superb understanding of battery technology and renewable energy allowed them to develop impressive DC fast-chargers but they've been manufacturing the units in Australia too. Tritium charges ahead of the global competition.\nTritium's new DC fast charger manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Tennessee is currently expected to include up to six production lines, employ more than 500 people over the next five years and produce more than 10,000 DC fast charger units per year, with the potential to produce approximately 30,000 units per year at peak capacity.\n\"I welcome Tritium to Tennessee and thank the company for its commitment to create more than 500 new jobs in Wilson County,\" said Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. \"Our state's highly-skilled workforce and position as a leader in the EV industry continue to attract companies like Tritium to Tennessee.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archive : data pengeluaran sgp\nHome \/ data pengeluaran sgp\nTypes of Lottery Games and How to Play the Lottery Online\nBy admincab December 2, 2022\ndata sgp the United States, there are many types of lotteries. Some of them are single-state lotteries, while others are multi-state lotteries. These lottery games vary in the types of games they offer, the payout amounts, and the chances of winning.\nPowerball and Mega Millions are two types of multi-state lotteries. These lotteries offer players the opportunity to purchase tickets in batches of up to 100, which are then drawn together in a single draw. This means that the amount you win may increase each time the draw is held. In addition, Mega Millions has an additional pool of numbers. If you purchase a ticket, you have a chance to win a jackpot that could be worth over one billion dollars.\nAnother type of multi-state lottery is the Iowa Lottery. In addition to Powerball and Mega Millions, the Iowa Lottery offers the Cash4Life and Lotto America games. This lottery is also part of the Multi-State Lottery Association.\nThe Colorado Lottery is a multi-state lottery that has been around since 1983. During this time, the lottery has been able to donate over $10 billion to help support the state's general fund. It has also helped to fund several state-sponsored programs, such as open space conservation, wildlife habitats, and problem gambling treatment.\nThe Vermont Lottery is another multi-state lottery, and its three most popular games are Megabucks, Mega Millions, and Powerball. It also has several in-house games. The Vermont Lottery also donates all of its profits to the Vermont education fund. The lottery is one of the few states that offer instant win games. These games are similar to scratch-off tickets that are sold at gas stations. They are also played online.\nThe Minnesota Lottery participates in Powerball, Mega Millions, and several other multi-state lottery games. This lottery is part of the Multi-State Lottery association, which also includes the Iowa Lottery. In addition to these games, the Minnesota Lottery offers four local games.\nThe Connecticut Lottery is another state lottery that has been around for over two decades. It offers multiple draw games, including the Cash4Life and Lotto America games, as well as the Multi-State Draw games. In addition to these games, the Connecticut Lottery also donates funds to public schools, towns, and cities. Profits from the lottery go to support state programs, including state education programs, the Common School Fund, and the state's general fund.\nThe New Hampshire iLottery is an online lottery that was established in late 2018. It offers players the opportunity to win major drawings and instant payouts. Unlike other instant games, this lottery uses numbers selected from a pool of numbers. It also has a single Keno game that offers a top prize of $100,000.\nThe Mississippi Lottery is a multi-state game that offers players the chance to win a jackpot. The lottery is also one of the few state-sponsored lotteries that offers players the option of buying tickets online. Players can purchase tickets online in just a few minutes, and then receive their winning tickets at their homes. Buying lottery tickets online has been a growing practice for some states. In the US, more states are expected to allow online lottery ticket sales in the future.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What is Divorce In India If Marriage Is Not Registered?\n7,861 5 mins\nThis blog gives hands-on information on how to file for a divorce in India if the marriage is not registered.\nThe procedure starts with filing a Mutual Divorce petition with the help of a lawyer. Then the courts provide a date for the final hearing which is usually after six months after filing the petition.\nDivorce or Closure of marriage is a procedure for ending a marriage legally. This is also referred to as the ending of a marital partnership. The term 'Divorce' means canceling or reformation of official accountability and marriage commitments. Divorce is a very emotional topic.\nMany people are afraid to talk about it because they don't want to hurt anyone or cause trouble. They also don't want to admit that they have failed at their marriage, which is considered shameful in most societies.\nDivorce is, however, becoming a non-taboo subject in India of late. There are several reasons why couples decide to get divorced. Some include infidelity, domestic violence, financial problems, and even mental health issues. Splitting up or ending a marriage for a couple should be a legitimate and logical decision under any country's law.\nDivorce is mostly a painful experience for those involved and even friends and family. Here are a few facts one should consider before filing for divorce:\nThese rules in India are conjoined by many factors, especially religion;\nThe Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 administrates religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism;\nThe Muslim Marriage Act of 1939 administrates the discontinuation of Muslim marriages;\nThe Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act of 1936 administrate Parsi divorces;\nThe Indian Divorce Act of 1869 accounts for Christians; and\nThe Special Marriage Act of 1956 administrates the bond of marriage between any two religions.\nAccording to The Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, the male and the female partner in a marital bond have the right to get a divorce in India on more than one ground. Section 13 plays a vital role in Mutual Consent Divorce.\nFiling for Divorce in India\nAccording to The Special Marriage Act of 1954 \u2013 Section 28 https:\/\/legislative.gov.in\/sites\/default\/files\/A1954-43_1.pdfand The Divorce Act of 1869 \u2013 Section 10A, divorce is provided under mutual authority. On the other hand, a contested divorce is when one of the two partners refuses to agree to the breakdown of the marriage. According to The Hindu Marriage Act, Section 13B, the following are the procedures and conditions applicable for filing a break-up in a country like India:\nThere is a clause in the system that both partners in a marriage have to stay apart for a minimum period to file for a divorce;\nWhen both partners fail to settle issues between them;\nWhen both partners agree to a mutual separation.\nWhen all the above three conditions are met, a couple can file for divorce Alimony, regardless of whether their marriage is done in court or temple in India. This rule is also applicable to couples who have not registered for their wedding.\nNow let us look at the following chart to understand more about filing for a divorce in India:\nFile a petition for a divorce\nBoth husband and wife must be present in the court\/authority\nOaths are taken and statements are recorded\nThe first action passes to the next action\nFinal appearance before the court\/ authority\nFinal verdict on the divorce\nMutual Divorce Procedure\nPoint 1: Divorce file petition\nIt is of no use to spend hours on the internet searching for phrases like \"how to file a Divorce case in India against my wife\/husband?\"! Instead, look for mutual divorce procedures. This is a joint petition filed by a couple to discontinue their legal\/unregistered marriage. The divorce file will be presented to the official District court: https:\/\/districts.ecourts.gov.in\/ for further procedures. A couple has to forecast the reasons and conditions behind the discontinuation of the marriage. Their reasons should be valid enough for the next step to be considered.\nPoint 2: Couples have to appear before a Judge in a court\nAfter the first procedure is well accounted for under the court's concern, the couple will be asked to appear before a judge in the court for the first round of hearing, where they will be asked about their reasons and conditions provided. The court's obligation is to reunite the couple, but if the couple makes firm decisions for discontinuation, the court follows the next procedure.\nPoint 3: Statements and Oath\nAfter going through the file petition and considering the factors for the breakdown of the marriage, the court will start recording the statements provided by the couple under oath.\nPoint 4: First Action\nAfter recording the statements, the first action is quickly passed by the court, and a time period of half a year is provided to the couple to appear for the second action to be followed.\nPoint 5: Final Hearing\nAfter the first 6 months of the file petition, both the partners in the marriage are summoned to appear before the judge in the court for the final hearing on the disclosure of their marital bond.\nPoint 6: Final Verdict\nWhen a couple of files for mutual divorce in India, a few strong conditions are to be kept under notice as a couple can not ask their partner for any kind of alimony, ward custody, maintenance cost, or property portions.\nOnce the court equally verifies all the points, the final verdict of divorce is stated to the couple to discontinue their marital bond.\nSome characteristics cannot be neglected for both partners in a divorce file:\nAccording to the law and court, there is no particular fixed amount to ask for alimony or maintenance support costs by either of the couples;\nOne of the crucial aspects is taking custody of their offspring. This must be done under mutual consent that should not harm the upbringing of the ward in any manner, and\nThe properties of both parties should be discussed among each other and should be distributed equally among them.\nLet us now look at the documents required to file a divorce in India\nAddress proof;\nA marriage certificate or photo which was taken in case of a temple marriage or non-registered marriage;\nPresent photographs of both husband and wife;\nEvidence that the couple has been living separately for a particular period;\nIT statements;\nDetails of their profession;\nFamily details; and\nProperty Details of both husband and wife.\nIn any religion in our country, a marriage is considered a solid and sacred bond between couples to happily and peacefully carry throughout their lives. Earlier, getting a was a strong taboo in India, but thanks to the present judicial system, it has changed considerably. Presently, the judicial system and court provide various laws and systems to end an unhappy marriage. Lawyers can handle and guide anyone going through a divorce procedure in India.\nHow to File a Divorce Petition In India?\nWhat is the Procedure for Divorce?\nWhat is Non Amicable Divorce?\nHow Much Does It Cost for Mutual Divorce In India?\nDivorce By Mutual Consent In India\nOverview on Divorce By Mutual Consent In India: It has recently been brought to the attention of the Delhi High\u2026\nWhat Are The Indian Laws For A Mutual Divorce Case?\nDivorce by Mutual Consent is one of the easiest and smoothest ways to get a divorce in India. Unlike in\u2026\nIs The Cooling Off Period Same for All Couples That Apply For Mutual Divorce\nSometimes, couples who have decided to file for mutual divorce change their minds. The couple can reconsider their decision and\u2026\nWhen a Marriage Cannot Work: Takeaways From the Supreme Court\nThe Supreme Court of India recently delivered a landmark judgement on the constitutionality of adultery. The five-judge bench unanimously decriminalised\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Heidi and Spencer's book is an embarrassment\nIn the volume's one honest line, Spencer Pratt admits he'd hate himself too if he could. Join the club.\nNov. 3, 2009, 2:18 AM UTC \/ Source: msnbc.com\nBy Courtney Hazlett\nHeidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's new book is pretty representative of America at its worst. The title alone, \"How to Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture\" goes a long way toward illustrating the couple's involvement with some of our most odious pillars of society.\nBut if you stopped at the book's title, you wouldn't make it to other insipid chapters, like the one titled \"Pretty on the Outside,\" which reminds the audience that fitness is important because \"celebrities are there to look hot for the common people. It's our job.\"\n\"Pretty On The Outside\" is not followed by a chapter called \"Pretty On The Inside,\" but rather \"The Paps Are Your Friends.\" If you happen to think the camera-wielding locusts who cause accidents and invade privacy are actually not your friends, Speidi has a message for you: \"We find these people embarrassments to the industry.\"\nPot, there's a kettle I'd like you to meet.\n\"How to Be Famous\" also includes a chapter titled \"Women's Weapons of Mass Destruction.\" Those \"weapons\" in question? Tears.\nFLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL \/ HO\nSlideshow 20 photos\nCelebrity scandals of 2009\nFrom David Letterman's bizarre confession to Jon and Kate's divorce to Tiger Woods' spectacular crash.\nMontag writes: \"A crying woman trumps all things \u2026 let's pretend for one second you MIGHT be wrong in an argument one day. Just go to the waterworks and all is forgiven, isn't it? \u2026 Even the most hardened villainess can break people down with puppy-dog eyes and a few tears.\"\nHey Heidi, quick question: Why did you have to lump an entire gender into your scurrilous web of fame whoring tactics? I shudder to think, and do doubt, that a vapid essay about the upside of emotional exploitation could do anything to really move the needle on that front but nonetheless, it's counterproductive to continue to perpetrate such ideas. Women work hard enough to be taken seriously, this does no good.\nActually, nothing in this book does any good. That's not to say that there's no value in entertainment for entertainment's sake, that plenty of people (present company included) make their living in a way that's at least tangential to the business of fame. However, this fame game has gone too far.\nIs it all a joke?Montag and Pratt happen to be among the rare breed of reality-bred famous people who possess a lack of self-awareness that actually comes from an acuity of the same. The only way to explain the contradiction is to conclude that they're in on the joke.\nCelebrity Sightings\nJake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. on the \"Let's Be Cops,\" red carpet, Selena Gomez is immortalized in wax and more.\nIf being in on the joke means navigating fame in a way that minimizes the hurt that can come from it, then by all means, Speidi, go forth and continue to do your thing.\nThe bigger issue rests with those who don't understand the very real downsides, that sometimes when the cameras roll, lives can fall apart. The image of a Jiffy Pop bag-like balloon supposedly containing a little boy and skipping through the Colorado air should stand as example enough that there are those who don't understand the consequences of manufactured celebrity.\nThere might be only one genuine line in the 134 pages of sage wisdom and collected glamour shots that make up \"How To Be Famous.\" On page 14, Pratt, in a moment of rare brevity, says, \"If I weren't me, I'd hate me.\"\nI was taught to never actually hate anyone, so I'll stop short. But I will say this: They didn't need to play the music of Britney Spears and R.E.M. for detainees at Gitmo, they could have just read a few pages from this book.\nCourtney Hazlett delivers the Scoop Monday through Friday on msnbc.com. Follow Scoop on Twitter @courtneyatmsnbc","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home1 \/ Award winners2 \/ 2014 Young Scientist Award Winners Katarzyna Zabielska and Katja ...\nKatarzyna Zabielska: developing tools against injection site sarcoma\nThe 2014 AMYSA for Basic Research was presented to Katarzyna Agnieszka Zabielska, assistant professor at the department of small animal diseases at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, for her work on the effect of biocomplex of colloid gold nanoparticles with doxorubicin on feline injection-site fibrosarcoma (FISS). She was also the first to grow feline fibrosarcoma cell lines on chick embryo chorio-allantoic membrane. Treatment of FISS is a challenge for practitioners. The effectiveness of the most commonly used cytostatic drugs against FISS, doxorubicin, is debatable while it also has many side effects. By associating it with colloid gold nanoparticles, its effectiveness may be enhanced. \"Developing a FISS cell line and studying the anti-FISS effects of gold\/doxorubicin complexes may all sound very far from veterinary needs\", commented professor Marian C. Horzinek, chairman of the European Advisory Board on Cats Diseases (ABCD). \"However, Katarzyna convinced the audience that her findings can be effectively used as a preclinical model in feline oncology.\"\nKatja Silbermayr: non-invasive detection of Demodex mites\nThe 2014 AMYSA for Clinical Research went to Katja Silbermayr, from the Institute of Parasitology at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Austria), for her work on developing a non-invasive and specific test for feline demodicosis. \"Katja Silbermayr has developed a very valuable tool for detecting and discriminating feline Demodex mites from faecal samples, which will be of great help for practitioners\", commented Dr Jean-Christophe Thibault, Merial's Technical Director for Biologicals (Europe, Middle East and Africa). \"Especially when considering that treatment of Demodex infections can be long-lasting, this non-invasive detection method may be used to assess treatment success more easily and to monitor patients on a long-term basis\".\nABCD & Merial Young Scientist Awards\nThe ABCD and Merial Young Scientist Award, created in 2008, is funded by Merial and is presented to young scientists in veterinary or biomedical sciences, who have made an original contribution in the field of feline infectious diseases and\/or immunology \u2013 \"although we are relatively open-minded on the topic\", added Jean-Christophe Thibault. This year, both award-winning topics \"were slightly outside the scope of viruses and bacteria. But most importantly, they were dedicated to the overall progress in feline health and welfare\".\nApplicants should have published their findings in a journal listed in PubMed or Web of Science or have had them accepted by another recognised assessing body. Candidates should be based in Europe, have completed a veterinary or biomedical curriculum, and be under 35 years of age at the time of application. Applications in the fields of both basic and applied sciences are welcome.\nFor further information, please contact Karin de Lange, ABCD secretary, kdelange@aksent-vet.com.\nJune 2014 \u2013 Two ABCD & Merial Young Scientist Awards (AMYSA) were presented this year, for Basic research and for Clinical research. The award ceremonies took place on the 19th of June in Riga (Latvia), at the occasion of the congress of the International Society of Feline Medicine, organised by International Cat Care.\nPhoto attached (credit: \u00a9iCatCare). Caption ABCD & Merial Young Scientist Award winners Katarzyna Zabielska (second left) and Katja Silbermayr flanked by Jean-Christophe Thibault (Merial) and professor Marian Horzinek (ABCD).\nThe European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD) is an independent panel of 17 leading veterinarians from eleven European countries, with an expertise in immunology, vaccinology and\/or feline medicine. The ABCD was set up to compile guidelines for the prevention and management of major feline infectious diseases in Europe, based on current scientific knowledge. For more information, please visit abcdcatsvets.org.\nMerial is a world-leading, innovation-driven animal health company, providing a comprehensive range of products to enhance the health, well-being and performance of a wide range of animals. Merial employs approximately 6,000 people and operates in more than 150 countries worldwide. Its 2013 sales were $2 billion. Merial is a Sanofi company. For more information, please see merial.com.\nGUIDELINE for Lungworm disease\nGUIDELINE for Disinfectant choice in feline veterinary hospitals,...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Community Contact\nWounds into Wisdom The Receiving With Roots in Heaven The Woman's Kabbalah Ashreynu\nIntergenerational Trauma Healing Spiritual Leadership\nPress Wounds into Wisdom Press Release\nAbout Books & Audio Wounds into Wisdom The Receiving With Roots in Heaven The Woman's Kabbalah Ashreynu Offerings Intergenerational Trauma Healing Spiritual Leadership Press Press Wounds into Wisdom Press Release Blog Calendar Upcoming Events Past Events CommunityContact\nIgniting a Heart of Compassion\nThis week the old Jewish cemetery in my hometown was vandalized. Almost 200 gravestones were crushed or knocked flat off their bases, many in the historic section dating back to the 1800's. My eldest brother Danny is buried there outside of St. Louis, as is my little cousin Menachem who died at seven. I have long imagined both their souls to be my spirit guides. It hurt my heart to think that their physical resting places had been trashed by blind hatred.\nSince the First of 2017, 54 Jewish communities in the United States and Canada have received threats. This one was real. And it was also an unprecedented act in our country, which (let us remember) was founded upon religious freedom and tolerance. The photos of overturned graves sent shivers through me, reminders of Russian pogroms and Nazi horrors.\nApparently, I was not alone. Many others were also moved, and launched into action. I wept to learn that the Muslim community of St. Louis had banded together to raise funds to repair our old Jewish cemetery. Their original goal was $20,000, which was raised in three hours. By the end of the first day, they had gathered a staggering $90,000.\nTheir website, launchgood.com, said this:\n\"Muslim Americans stand in solidarity with the Jewish-American community to condemn this horrific act of desecration against the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery. We also extend our deepest condolences to all those who have been affected and to the Jewish community at large.\"\nWho would know better, or share our pain more than members of the Muslim community, who themselves have endured a steady uptick of rancorous threats, public assaults, arson on their beloved holy sites, and hate filled verbal abuse? Hate crimes against Muslims in America now equal that of the period following 9\/11. I bless these beautiful people with all my heart.\nDo the Breitbart fellows who ride on Trump's coattails have any idea of the strength of the coalitions they are seeding? For example, on January 28\u2014just hours after Trump signed his ill-fated executive order barring refugees from entering the US and restricting travel from seven Muslim countries\u2014a mosque in Victoria, Texas was burned to the ground. The rabbi of that community's synagogue went right over to the Imam and offered him his spare keys. Come and share our temple, he said. We have more than enough room. The arson of Victoria's mosque also grabbed international attention. Within 10 days, people around the world had donated more than $1.1 million to aid in its cleanup and rebuilding.\nAlthough we are an exceedingly divided and morally challenged society, although our leadership is frighteningly untethered, although hatred has been unleashed in epidemic levels, it seems that moral red lines still exist. And when they are crossed, the heart of compassion is ignited.\nYesterday a bright red and white banner mysteriously appeared at the base of Lady Liberty welcoming refugees. Daily non-violent protests against Trump's immigration policy continue around the country. And every day, surprising acts of human decency prevail.\nTirzah Firestone February 23, 2017\nThe Demure Wisdom of the Chimpanzee\nTirzah Firestone March 4, 2017\nWorld Shifting: A Love Army is Formed\nTirzah Firestone December 21, 2016\nConnect with a growing global community dedicated to changing the future by healing the past.\n\u00a9 2019, Tirzah Firestone. All Rights Reserved. Website: UnchartedArts","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Maine Republicans play Trump card in uphill battle to unseat Angus King\nOctober 1, 2018 Daily Brief, Donald Trump, Elections, Governor LePage, U.S. CongressAngus King, Brent Littlefield, Brett Kavanaugh, Bruce Poliquin, Chellie Pingree, donald trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Brakey, Janet Mills, Jared Golden, Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, Margaret McBreairty, Mark Holbrook, Marty Grohman, Michaela Murphy, Paul LePage, Rand Paul, Shawn Moody, Susan Collins, Zak Ringelstein\nGood morning from Augusta, where Republicans are hoping for a campaign boost from the White House as President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., will visit Portland today for a state GOP fundraising event.\nThe private event is mostly aimed at a U.S. Senate race, but the fundraising will help Republicans down the ticket. The event is largely aimed at boosting state Sen. Eric Brakey's run to unseat Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats. Democrat Zak Ringelstein of Falmouth is also running. Brakey is seen as a longshot, but he has national connections that have already drawn U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, to Maine as well.\nWhen the president's son was in Maine in during the 2016 campaign, he said Republicans who didn't publicly support the senior Trump \u2014 a group that included U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Bruce Poliquin of the 2nd District at that time \u2014 were \"just protecting themselves and the little environment they've created.\"\nGov. Paul LePage will also attend the evening reception at the Holiday Inn By The Bay, as will Mark Holbrook, who is running against Democratic 1st District U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and independent state Rep. Marty Grohman.\nHowever, neither Poliquin or Republican gubernatorial nominee Shawn Moody, who is running a close race with Attorney General Janet Mills, a Democrat, will be at the event today. Brent Littlefield, a strategist for Moody and Poliquin, cited previously scheduled events and the Trump Jr. event's focus on Brakey's race.\nBut the event could still help them via the party coffers. Tickets for the general event at 6 p.m. go for $100 per person or $175 per couple and there is a preceding private reception starting at $1,500 per person. The Maine Republican Party has been the biggest pro-Moody outside spender so far in the governor's race.\nThis election will be a test of how far Poliquin's district has swung rightward without Trump on the ballot. Since Poliquin won his seat in 2014 after two decades of Democratic control, the 2nd District has swung from Democratic-leaning to Republican-leaning, though his 2018 race with Assistant Maine House Majority Leader Jared Golden and two independents is still one of two dozen or so that could determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives.\nThis was underscored by Trump's 2016 win in the district. Republicans won the district back by wooing voters in the interior of the district, including in greater Lewiston and Auburn and the St. John Valley. Democrats made gains in Hancock and Waldo counties.\nGolden is from Lewiston, so he could be well-suited to get some voters back. Poliquin out-polled Trump in the district overall, but he under-polled Trump in some historic manufacturing areas that could go Democratic under the right circumstances. That lasting Trump influence will be a theme come November.\nMaine meets TANF work requirement\nThe LePage administration says the federal government has slashed long-standing penalties hanging over the state around the assistance program. During LePage's tenure, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program shrunk by 70 percent between 2010 and 2017 because of statutory changes \u2014 including a 60-month lifetime limit \u2014 and fewer applicants, according to a legislative report.\nAmong TANF recipients, the federal government requires states to have a work participation rate of at least 50 percent of the overall population and at least 90 percent in two-parent households. The state began meeting both of those standards in the 2016 fiscal year.\nIn a statement, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services said the state was facing a total of $28 million in penalties dating back to 2007 for failing to meet standards, but that the federal government now considers Maine compliant and potential penalties have now been reduced by 90 percent.\nMaine's senior senator remains a pivotal figure in the intense political battle over the president's Supreme Court nominee. Sen. Susan Collins on Friday tweeted that she agreed with Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake's proposal to delay a floor vote on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to allow the FBI to investigate allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted women when he was in high school and college. Mainers who tried to make their feeling known to Collins were frustrated because the phone system to her office failed, so some showed up Sunday at her Bangor home to make the case that Kavanaugh is a poor choice for the high court. Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski are the only two of 51 Republican senators who have not signaled support for Kavanaugh, meaning that their votes will likely decide the fate of his nomination.\nIt's a new month and Maine's three branches of government still haven't figured out how to implement voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Lawyers for expansion advocates and the LePage administration spent another day in court Friday, presenting their arguments about funding sources and other legal questions to Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy, who is back on the case after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court kicked unresolved questions back to her. Little was decided by the end of those proceedings, but on Friday, expansion proponents withdrew a motion asking Murphy to hold the state in contempt of the high court's order, which was originally filed because of LePage's letter asking the federal government to reject the plan. Both sides agreed to submit legal briefs on core issues in the case by mid-October. The sides will likely present arguments to the lower-court judge before she her ruling, and any ruling is likely to go back to the high court later this year.\nThe governor's ongoing battle with regional workforce boards over how to spend federal dollars continues. Maine Public reports that despite pushback from local officials, the U.S. Department of Labor has approved much of a new state policy requiring Maine's three regional workforce boards to spend at least 70 percent of their budget on direct job training. The decision, which was announced during a Friday meeting of the Maine State Workforce Board, is the latest twist in a years-long power struggle between LePage and the people who oversee the regional workforce boards.\nThe cost of traveling for cancer treatments intensified the suffering for one Maine woman, whose plight illustrates the problems rural Mainers with cancer face. To undergo treatment for cancer, Allagash resident Margaret McBreairty, an Air Force veteran, made eight-hour trips to Boston every three weeks for five months. She estimated it cost her $1,000, on top of her $2,000 co-pay, for all her trips. Maine's rural areas generally have both the highest rates of cancer and the fewest resources to treat the disease. Washington County has the highest death rate from cancer in the state, but not a single oncologist practices within its 3,000-plus square miles, according to a September 2017 study conducted for the Maine Cancer Foundation by Market Decisions Research.\nPink plates\nTen years ago today, the secretary of state introduced the pink Maine Breast Cancer Support specialty license plate.\nThe initial fee is $20 above the regular registration fee. Each renewal costs an additional $15. Proceeds are divided equally between:\nThe breast and cervical health program within the Maine Center for Disease Control, which provides services to underserved people with breast health and breast cancer needs and provide funding for cancer research, education, and patient support programs.\nThe Maine Cancer Foundation, an independent Maine-based organization dedicated to reducing cancer incidence and mortality rates in Maine.\nMaine Breast Cancer Coalition's Support Service Fund, a program dedicated to providing financial support for underserved people with breast health or breast cancer needs in Maine.\nIf you are not into specialty plates, please consider providing direct support to one of those worthy programs.\nAt a time when people in the political realm can agree on so little, let's hope we can all agree that cancer sucks and that we should do whatever we can to help those who are struggling with it, helping people recover from it and doing research to find a cure. Here is your soundtrack. \u2014 Robert Long\nToday's Daily Brief was written by Michael Shepherd, Alex Acquisto and Robert Long. If you're reading this on the BDN's website or were forwarded it, click here to receive Maine's leading newsletter on state politics via email on weekday mornings. Click here to subscribe to the BDN.\nTo reach us, do not reply directly to this newsletter, but email us directly at aacquisto@bangordailynews.com, mshepherd@bangordailynews.com or rlong@bangordailynews.com.\nAbout Michael Shepherd\nMichael Shepherd joined the Bangor Daily News in 2015 after covering state, federal and local issues for the Kennebec Journal for three years. He's a Hallowell native who now lives in Gardiner. He graduated from the University of Maine in 2012 and is a graduate student at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service. 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{"text":"Western \"pacifists\" volunteer to become \"human shields\" for Assad's government\nThis is the craziest political movement I've seen in many years - western so-called \"pacifists\" volunteering to go to Syria to defend the Syrian government against possible US airstrikes.\nThe 'International Human Shields' movement, started by a group of activists in Britain and the US, plans to bring to Syria civilians from countries around the globe, who will try to deter US strikes on the country by staking out potential military targets.\nFranklin Lamb, a lawyer recently appointed as the legal adviser for the group said he had been \"inundated\" with requests from activists including from Canada, France, Italy, the US, and Britain.\nThe Syrian regime has not yet indicated whether it will allow the group to enter the country, but it raises the prospect of hundreds of pacifists descending on Damascus, as happened in Baghdad before the 2003 Iraq invasion.\nMany of those volunteering to go to Syria also took part in the 'Human Shields' movement that travelled to Baghdad, initially to protect hospitals and schools, and later, key government infrastructure sites.\nNotice that last line - \"government infrastructure sites.\" The people who went to Baghdad in 2003 were protecting Saddam Hussein's government. They should have been there to protect the people of Baghdad against Saddam's government.\nAnd how can we call these people \"pacifists\"? They're not anti-war - if they truly were they would already have been in Syria for 2 1\/2 years as \"human shields\" against the government's attack on its own people. They would have been embedded with the citizens of Damascus who were gassed by the government two weeks ago - men, women, and children.\nThese people are truly those who believe in the \"anti-imperialism of fools.\" They despise anything - anything - the United States does, and their hatred of the US blinds them to the decades of dictatorship in Syria and the atrocities committed both by Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar.\nKen O'Keefe, an ex-US Marine who gave up his American citizenship in disgust at Iraq war and who became a leader of that Human Shields group, told The Daily Telegraph that he has been acting as an adviser for this Syrian-focused movement. \"I have been sharing my experience with Mr Lamb. I have a feeling that if the Syrian government allows it, there would be a huge inundation of volunteers,\" he said. \"The policies of Britain and the US make no sense; we are aligning ourselves with the people who we were supposedly fighting in Iraq.\"\nAndrew, 33, a Canadian pianist, who did not wish to provide his full name, is one of several hundred people who contacted the group to volunteer themselves as human shields. He told the Daily Telegraph that he is willing to fly himself to Damascus and to die there for this cause.\n\"I don't want to see Syria turn into another Libya,\" said Andrew. \"If I had a hand big enough to squash the US tanks then I would. Democracy is America's deadliest export, they use it as an excuse to destroy countries.\"\nThe Syrian government is already doing a pretty good job at destroying the country. Hasn't he noticed what they've done to the ancient city of Aleppo?\n\"I think a movement of solidarity on a global scale could grab the attention of a lot of people. I think if there are that many people in the US who are willing to do that it would send a powerful message. Even if people have to die for it\".\nThis particular group is being invited to Syria by a pro-government Syrian group that has stationed itself on a mountain overlooking Damascus where there is a large military base:\nThe 'human shield' strategy has also been taken up by some Damascenes. A group calling itself 'Over Our Dead Bodies' has established a sit-in at Qassioun, a mountain overlooking Damascus that is home to both a large military base and state television centre.\n\"We think the first target might be Syrian state media,\" said Ozgret Dandashi, the founder of the group. \"Even if the American's attack we will stay here.\"\nThe state media? No, the military base!\nIn the past week some high profile Syrian actors, actresses, and sports personalities have joined the stakeout at Qassioun. Video footage showed Omar al-Hassano, a Syrian basketball player standing on the mountainside with the protesters.\nSome demonstrators have brought along their children. Their cheeks painted in the colours of the Syrian flag, they waved posters of Bashar al-Assad and sang patriotic songs.\nMiss Dandashi said that she and other organisers of the Over Our Dead Bodies movement had been lobbying the Syrian government to convince them to allow their foreign compatriots into the country.\n\"We are receiving messages from people in Britain, Italy, Germany and all over Europe who want to be human shields with us here but we have a big problem in getting them visas. We are trying to solve this,\" she said.\nThe Syrian government has launched its own propaganda campaign in recent weeks. Posters are everywhere in Damascus, warning civilians to move away from homes near government ministries.\nWise idea. Perhaps the people on the mountain should follow suit. Get away from the probable target, rather than going to it.\nFull-page adverts in local papers warn Syrians to look out for \"American spies\" in their midst and attributing recent news of defections from the Syrian military as nothing more than \"psychological warfare\" by the US.\nPosted by Rebecca at 9:44 AM No comments:\nWestern \"pacifists\" volunteer to become \"human shi...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1- Earth is the only planet on which water can exist in liquid form on the\nsurface.\n2- Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest continent on Earth.\n3- The dormant volcano Mauna Kea (on the Big Island of Hawaii) could be\nconsidered the tallest mountain in the world. If you measure it from its\nbase in the Hawaiian Trough (3,300 fathoms deep) to its summit of 13,796\nfeet, it reaches a height of 33,476 feet.\n4- Earth is referred to as the BLUE PLANET. WHY? Because from space, the\noceans combined with our atmosphere make our planet look blue.\n5- The world's deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central\nChina, more than 830,000 people were killed.\n6- The World's largest hot desert is the Sahara in North Africa, at over\n9,000,000 km\u00b2, it is almost as large as the United States.\n7- Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.\n8- Mount Everest 8850 meter (29035 ft) Nepal\/China is the tallest mountain.\n9- The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.\n10- Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.\n11- The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit\n(-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.\n12- About 70% of the world's fresh water is stored as glacial ice.\n13- Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over\n2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is\nfound in lakes, rivers and underground.\n14-The warmest sea in the world is the Red Sea, where temperatures range\nfrom 68 degrees to 87.8 degrees F depending upon which part you measure.\n15- The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated\nsurface temperature of 864 F (462 C)\n16- Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of\nFalls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).\n17- Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but\nrepresent 60% of the world's population.\n18-The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.\n19- El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit\n(57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured.\n20- A 1960 Chilean earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recent\ntimes, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a\nfault more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) long.\n21- The lowest dry point on earth is the Dead Sea in the Middle East is\nabout 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.\n22- The Largest Ocean of the World is the Pacific Ocean (155,557,000 sq\nkm), It covers nearly one-third of the Earth's surface.\n23- The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is about 3,963\nmiles (6,378 kilometers).\n24- The saltiest sea in the world is the Red Sea with 41 parts of salt per\n1,000 parts of water.\n25- The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall (979\nmeters \/ 3212 ft.), three times the size of the Eiffel Tower.\n26- The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system.\n27- The age of the earth is Loudly proclaimed by the scientific\nestablishment of evolution believers and the mass media as being around\n4.6 billion years old.\n28- Baikal Lake in Russian Fed. is the deepest lake (5315 ft) in the world.\n29- Lightning does not always create thunder. In April 1885, five\nlightning bolts struck the Washington Monument during a thunderstorm, yet\nno thunder was heard.\n30- The Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia is the largest cave in the world is\n2300 feet (701 meters) long, 1300 feet (400 meters) wide, and more than\n230 feet (70 meters) high.\n31- The Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii is the largest volcanoon on Earth. It\nrises more than 50,000 feet (9.5 miles or 15.2 kilometers) above its base,\nwhich sits under the surface of the sea.\n32- Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is\ndirectly overhead.\n33- One-tenth of the Earth's surface is always under the cover of ice. And\nalmost 90 per cent of that ice is to be found in the continent of\nAntarctica.\n34- The coldest seas are found near the poles such as the Greenland,\nBarents, Beaufort, Kara, Laptev & East Siberian Seas found near the north\npole & Weddell & Ross Seas found in the south poles. The Baltic Sea is\nalso considered one of the coldest seas.\n35- The Nile River in Africa is the longest river (6,825 kilometers) of\n36-Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe is the major lake (371,000 sq km) in the world.\n37- Depending upon the amount of salt in the water, sea water freezes at\nabout 28 degrees F.\n38- The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because\nof their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than\nany other animal.\n39- The Peregrine Falcon around 200mph (320 km\/h) is the fastest bird on\nthe planet, the top speed recorded is 242.3mph (390 km\/h).\n40- The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.\n41-The deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia,\nwas completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep.\n42- Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born\/woman.\n43- An African woman's lifetime risk of dying from pregnancy related\ncauses is one in 16, in Asia, its one in 65. In Europe, its one in 1,400.\n44- There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of\nmajor importance.\n45- About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day.\n46- Aluminum cans take 500 years to break down.\n47- Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born\/woman. Niger\nis 7.46 (highest), India is 2.73, US is 2.09 & Hong Kong is 0.95 only\n(Lowest).\n48- Northern Mariana Islands is only the country where death rate\n(2.29\/1000) is lowest in the world.\n49- Earth's oceans are an average of 2 Miles deep\n50- Shanghai, China is the largest city by population (13.3 million) in\n51- English is the second most spoken language (Native speakers 512\nmillion) & the first is Chinese Mandarin (more then 1 billion speakers).\n52- The flower with the world's largest bloom is the Rafflesia arnoldii.\nThis rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to\nbe 3 feet across and weigh up to 15 pounds.\n53- At least 1,000 million grams, or roughly 1,000 tons of material (dust)\nenters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to Earths surface.\n54- The gravity on Mars is 38% of that found on Earth. So a 100 pounds\nperson on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.\n55- The world's population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.\n56- Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show\nyour exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where\nyou are!\n57- The water that falls on a single acre of land during one inch of\nrainfall, it would weigh 113 tons that is 226,000 pounds.\n58- 180 million nos. of Valentine's Day cards exchanged annually, making\nValentine's Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.\n59- Plastics take 500 years to break down.\n60- Each year, more than 500,000 women (approximate 1 every minute) die\nfrom pregnancy related causes. The vast majority of these deaths occur in\ndeveloping countries.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1 occurrence\tin 1 dictionary\nReference: Balaam\nBALAAM is the subject of a remarkable and intricate narrative in Nu 22; 23; 24, connected with the arrival of Israel in the Promised Land, and the relationship of the chosen people to Moab and Ammon. Balaam was a soothsayer of Pethor on the Euphrates, called by Balak, king of Moab, to curse the Israelites, who were lying encamped in the Jordan valley. He had difficulty in undertaking the task, and he found, whenever he essayed to curse Israel, that the Lord had forbidden him to do so, and that his burden must be blessing instead. At the request of Balak he changed his position again and again on the heights above the Dead Sea, in the hope of obtaining a different oracle, but the message he had to deliver remained the same, and he foretold the future splendour of Israel (Nu 24:2 ff.). Sent away by Balak without the reward promised to him if he would deliver an oracle adverse to Israel, he returned to his own land. According to one narrative, his end was full of shame. He was accused of having induced Israel to commit immorality in connexion with religious worship, a feature common in the Semitic nature-cults. It was through this charge that he became known to subsequent ages, and his name became a name of infamy (Nu 31:8,16; 2Pe 2:15; Re 2:14; Josephus Ant. VI. vi, 6). The inspiration of Balaam, contrasted with his subsequent sin and disgraceful death, his knowledge of the will of God, together with his intense desire to grasp the rewards of unrighteousness, have given rise to a notable sermon literature. Bishop Butler speaks of the self-deception by which he persuades himself that the sin he commits can be justified to conscience and to God; Newman regards him as an instance of the trouble that can come on a character, otherwise noble, when the thought of material advancement is always allowed to dwell with it; Arnold adduces him as an instance of the familiar truth that the purest form of religious belief may coexist with a standard of action immeasurably below it; F. W. Robertson makes him the text for a sermon on the perversion of gifts.\nThis complexity of character is, however, greatly simplified by the recognition of the various strata in the narrative. It is clear that the account of Priestly Narrative connecting Balaam with Israel's uncleanness has nothing to do with the original narrative. This original narrative is contained in Nu 22; 23; 24. According to it, Balaam was a prophet of Pethor on the river Euphrates. His fame had spread across the wilderness, and, when Balak found himself in straits through the advance of Israel, he sent for Balaam to come and curse Israel. Balaam asked God whether he should go, and was refused permission. Balak therefore sent yet greater gifts, and once again Balaam asked counsel of God. This time permission was granted. So far there had been no indication of God's displeasure; but now follows (Nu 22:22-34) the story of the ass, through which God's anger at the refusal of the seer to accept His answer, given once and for all, is manifested. If, however, the reader will pass from Nu 22:21 to Nu 22:35 he will find that the narrative runs smoothly, and that he is still viewing Balaam's character from the same not unfavourable standpoint (Nu 22:35 [cf. Nu 22:20-21] is the effort to join up the threads of the story after the interpolation). When Balaam is brought in sight of Israel, he breaks out into a burst of praise (Nu 24:5-9) which rouses the wrath of Balak. Balaam justifies himself by reminding the king that he had warned him of the constraint of the Lord (Nu 24:13). He then utters another oracle predicting the glory of Israel and the destruction of Moah and Ammon (Nu 24:17-19).\nThis analysis leaves out of account Nu 22:22-34,23, which seem to belong to a narrative dealing with the same facts, but placing a more sinister interpretation on the conduct of Balaam. The story of the ass is plainly out of harmony with the narrative just outlined. It is a story belonging not to the wilderness, but to a land of vineyards. It ignores the embassy that has been sent to bring Balaam back across the wilderness (Nu 22:15,21), for it represents Balaam as travelling alone. It is also extremely unlikely that so long a journey as that from the Euphrates to Moab would be attempted upon an ass. Then ch. 23, with its elaborate building of altars and offering of sacrifices, seems to belong to a later date; while the constant shifting of position in the effort to secure a more favourable oracle presents Balaam in a much more unfavourable light than before. Although the details of this analysis are not certain, we may take it that the original story proceeds from Jahwist, and that the second narrative, more complicated both in psychology and ritual, is from Elohist.\nThe narrative of Priestly Narrative ascribing the sin of Baal-peor to Balaam is out of touch with both the other narratives. According to it, Balaam was a Midianitish seer who tried to bring about the ruin of Israel, in default of other means, by persuading them to give way to lust (Nu 31:8,16, Josephus Ant. VI. 6. 6). 'It has been conjectured that this story arose partly out of a difficulty on the part of the priestly narrator in conceiving of a heathen being an inspired prophet of God, partly from the need of accounting for the great sin of the Israelites' (Dictionary of the Bible I. 233). Balaam thus seems to have fallen in the estimation of Israel from being a seer of alien race, who distinguished himself by his faithfulness to the truth he knew, to becoming synonymous with temptation of a kind that was always especially insidious for Israel.\nR. Bruce Taylor.\nSee Verses Found in Dictionary\nNum\t22:15\nAnd Balak sent yet again princes, more and more honourable than those.\nMessengers Sent Out\nNum\t22:20-21\nAnd God came unto Balaam at night and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. So Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his female ass and went with the princes of Moab.\nBalaams DonkeyGoing TogetherMorningCovetousness, Example OfPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys\nSo Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his female ass and went with the princes of Moab.\nBalaams DonkeyMorningCovetousness, Example OfGoing TogetherPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys\nSo Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his female ass and went with the princes of Moab. And God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.\nBalaams DonkeyMorningCovetousness, Example OfGoing TogetherPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysConfrontationOpposition, To Sin And EvilGod As EnemyTwo Other Men\nAnd God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. Then Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way.\nBalaams DonkeyConfrontationOpposition, To Sin And EvilGod As EnemyTwo Other MenStandingBeating AnimalsAnimals Going AstraySeeing AngelsGod's Sword\nAnd the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. Then Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way.\nBalaams DonkeyStandingBeating AnimalsAnimals Going AstraySeeing AngelsGod's Sword\nAnd the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. Then Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way. But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side and a wall on that side.\nBalaams DonkeyStandingBeating AnimalsAnimals Going AstraySeeing AngelsGod's SwordVineyardNarrow Things\nBut the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side and a wall on that side. And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall; and he smote her again.\nVineyardNarrow ThingsAccidentsInjury To FeetBeating AnimalsPressingSeeing Angelscrushes\nAnd when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall; and he smote her again. And the angel of the LORD went further and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.\nAccidentsInjury To FeetBeating AnimalsPressingSeeing AngelscrushesNarrow ThingsNo RoomTurning To Right And Left\nAnd the angel of the LORD went further and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.\nNarrow ThingsNo RoomTurning To Right And LeftBalaams DonkeyGesturesAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousAnimal RightsLying Down To RestSeeing AngelsNamed People Angry With Others\nAnd when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. Then the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me these three times?\nBalaams DonkeyGesturesAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousAnimal RightsLying Down To RestSeeing AngelsNamed People Angry With OthersAnimal LifeRebukeActing Three TimesThe Dumb Speaking\nThen the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me these three times? And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill thee.\nBalaams DonkeyAnimal LifeRebukeActing Three TimesThe Dumb SpeakingKilling Domesticated Animals\nAnd Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill thee. And the ass said unto Balaam, Am I not thine ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so unto thee? And he said, No.\nBalaams DonkeyKilling Domesticated AnimalsRiding DonkeysPeople Possessing Other Things\nAnd the ass said unto Balaam, Am I not thine ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so unto thee? And he said, No. Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face.\nBalaams DonkeyRiding DonkeysPeople Possessing Other ThingsBowingProstrationReceiving SightSeeing AngelsGod's Sword\nThen the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face. And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out as thine adversary, because thy way is perverse before me.\nBalaams DonkeyBowingProstrationReceiving SightSeeing AngelsGod's SwordBeating AnimalsActing Three TimesGod As EnemyWhy Do You Do This?\nAnd the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out as thine adversary, because thy way is perverse before me. The ass saw me and turned from me these three times; and if she had not turned from me, I also now would slay thee and leave her alive.\nBalaams DonkeyBeating AnimalsActing Three TimesGod As EnemyWhy Do You Do This?God KillingSeeing AngelsGod Killing Individuals\nThe ass saw me and turned from me these three times; and if she had not turned from me, I also now would slay thee and leave her alive. Then Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I did not know that thou didst stand in the way against me; now therefore, if it displease thee, I will return.\nBalaams DonkeyGod KillingSeeing AngelsActing Three TimesGod Killing IndividualsAcknowledge, SinIndividuals going homeIgnorant Of FactsWe Have Sinned\nThen Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I did not know that thou didst stand in the way against me; now therefore, if it displease thee, I will return. And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.\nAcknowledge, SinIndividuals going homeIgnorant Of FactsWe Have SinnedAngel of the LordGoing TogetherSpeaking The Word God Gives\nAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.\nAngel of the LordGoing TogetherSpeaking The Word God Gives\nNum\t24:2\nand lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.\nThe Spirit Of GodCamping During The ExodusSeeing People\nNum\t24:5-9\nHow beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy habitations, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD has planted, and as cedars beside the waters.\tread more. From his branches he shall distil waters, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has, as it were, the strength of a unicorn; he shall eat up the Gentiles his enemies and shall break their bones and pierce them through with his arrows. He couched, he lay down as a lion and as a great lion; who shall awaken him? Blessed is he that blesses thee, and cursed is he that curses thee.\nBeautifulJacob, The PatriarchassertivenessGarden, NaturalSpreadingGardensAbundance, MaterialBucketsGod Providing WaterSpilling Your Seed On The GroundBones BrokenHorns VictoriousWild OxPeople OvercomingGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptUnicornsCrouchingLying Down To RestLike CreaturesBlessing And CurseBlessing Through God's PeopleCursing Israel\nIf Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own heart; but what the LORD saith that will I speak?\nCommands, in OTGoldSupplied With MoneySpeaking The Word God Gives\nI shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not near by; there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel and shall smite the corners of Moab and destroy all the sons of Seth. And Edom shall be taken; Seir also shall be taken by his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.\tread more. Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion and shall destroy what remains of the city.\nDawnForeheadsBethlehemLight, SpiritualNewsSceptreStarsThe Morning StarClosenessThe First Sight Of ChristChrist Is King Of IsraelMessianic PropheciesPeople OvercomingSurvivors Destroyed\nAnd they also slew the kings of Midian among the rest of those that were slain: namely, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian; they also slew Balaam, the son of Beor, with the sword.\nFive PeopleKilling KingsKilling ProphetsNamed Gentile Rulers\nBehold, these caused the sons of Israel through the counsel of Balaam to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor for which there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.\nBalaams DonkeyadvisersMan's Counsel\nRev\t2:14\nBut I have a few things against thee because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication.\nBalaams DonkeyFreedom, Abuse Of ChristianFoodAdultery, SpiritualChastityToleranceAbuse, Of Christian FreedomFalse Teachers, Examples OfStumbling BlocksMisteachingFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsThey Committed ImmoralitysexSexual Immorality","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cheb i Sabbah: 'Krishna Lila' and Everything Else\nWritten by Gaurav Malhotra\nMore about this Artist\nCheb i Sabbah started spinning in Paris during 1964, and by 1968 had hooked up with The Living Theatre where he made some of the earliest attempts at turning the spinning of discs into an art form. Then in the late '80s he became a fixture on the club scene in San Francisco through his 1001 Nights. In recent history he has released two albums Shri Durga and Mahamaya - and is now in the process of releasing Krishna Lila. A man with so much experience and talent and yet, he actually responded to my request for an interview. I couldn't believe it. So here it is, ENJOY!\nAV: Lets start with how you got into music back when you started?\nCiS: Well I come from a family of musicians, so there was a lot of music around. But, I never learnt or played an instrument myself. Being around music all that time I decided being a dj would be much easier than learning an instrument myself (laughs). So I became a dj when I was seventeen. So from there I started spinning and when I wasn't spinning I was working in theater - so I was always involved with music and musicians.\nAV: Is this the time you were involved with the Living Theatre?\nCiS: Yes, that was set up in Europe and New York City. So I was touring Europe and the States all the time.\nAV: So was it traveling with them that got you to San Francisco?\nCiS: No, I went there by myself and started a theater group there, called Tribal Warning Theatre. And that's when I really started to do soundtracks for theater. I started with using one of those Tascam, cassette four-track thing and then moved on to an eight track. At that time industrial music was really big. So through this experience I learnt how to mix and match a lot of different samples and sounds but as a theater soundtrack. The music I was producing was cued up to the actors and actresses on stage so as to play precise sounds and music along with the performance.\nAV: So you were using the MIDI concept before it was even a viable option?\nCiS: Yes, precisely. The soundtrack contained not just the music but also effects that one couldn't do in a live performance. It was all cued up on tape. Also along, with that I was using a lot of multimedia; slides, fires and things to that affect - a little bit ahead of its time.\nAV: So did that theater lead you to set up 1002 Nights?\nCiS: No, that came later when I stopped doing that theater and went back into spinning again.\nAV: What caused that change why did you switch back again?\nCiS: It was easier, and you weren't too dependent on other people showing up on time (laughs). I mean theater didn't pay too much money so it was very hard to get people motivated. So spinning gave me a chance to be involved with music and be creative also. So along with spinning I loved this concept of putting on live shows along with the music - using people from different continents and to present these artists within their elements culturally and musically and it has been very successful. So far there have been 56 concerts done.\nAV: So the show is almost a theatrical performance?\nCiS: Well no, we might have artists performing or have them do dances but the concept was the five senses. There would eating, tasting, smelling - we had food available. Completely based on the five senses.\nAV: So how is the name 1002 Nights related? What does that signify?\nCiS: Well it came from 1001 Nights, the famous novel. I just added one night so as to not confuse with the book (laughs).\nAV: Changing gears here, since your philosophy for working on music that is foreign to you is that you learn by going to the people who live and practice that tradition, so what exactly is your role when the final product is laid down?\nCiS: Well my role is mainly production, manipulation, adaptation and mixing. I don't play any instruments so I let people who know how to do that do that. Considering the kind of people I have been working with I can't pretend that I will be able to add anything with my hands or my voice. So what I do is start with an idea, from that I produce the musicians in the studio with a certain concept, a specific raga or composition and once its done and recorded then I take that and on top of that I add my work.\nAV: So you must have some knowledge of Hindustani, Muslim music for you to know which raga or composition to work from?\nCiS: Yes, but all from listening not playing. One develops a listener's ear that I think is as important to composing music as a player's.\nAV: So lets talk about Shri Durga a bit. That's, a very devotional title considering it's the name of a Hindu goddess - why that title, considering the album consists of both Hindu - Muslim musical elements and singers.\nCiS: Well having spent a lot of time with Ustad Salamat Ali Khan I knew they used to do raga durga all the time, so we actually started with that raga when starting the album. So with that I decided to do the whole album around Durga - that idea was kind of in and out - considering \"Kese Kese\" a love song doesn't have anything to do Durga. As far as the Hindu Muslim aspect is concerned, I am Jewish from an Arab land, I kind of have the same perspective when trying to figure out how does one unify or how does one work out this problem between Hindus and Muslims and, Jews and Muslims - so the idea was that it can be done through music, at least where I come from you always see Jews and Muslims playing together and in India it's the same thing. So using both the artists and the elements was an attempt to present that aspect which I thought was important.\nAV: So the remix cd MahaMaya was that released because Shri Durga itself was not a very dance club sound album?\nCiS: No, actually what happened there was that Aki at Nation Records knew half of the remixers out in England so it was an easy thing to set up. I personally knew Bally Sagoo and Aki had deals and records with TJ Rehmiand Transglobal Underground. The idea was basically to do a remix album - all the artists who remixed it seems that they really liked Shri Durga and thought it was very innovative. Aki actually told me that he had been considering making an album like Shri Durga but since I had already done it he didn't have to do it any more (laughs). I think at the time everyone one was sampling South Asian sounds in England and for someone to actually use live artists and then work with the music they created was something that was innovative. And, they all enjoyed it and wanted to add to it.\nAV: So being that you are of Jewish decent, have you attempted to bring that element or culture into your musical production?\nCiS: Well I am trying but it is more difficult to actually get artists who produce music like that. I am thinking of it for a future album. The element would be something that is very little known generally - it's classical music from North Africa, which actually exists in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and is known as Maluf music or Andalusian music but it's not Spanish music in that sense. It was developed in Spain when the Muslims, Moors and Jews were in Spain. So that element I will try to bring into record form in the future.\nAV: So that's something you are considering for your next album after \"Krishna Lila\"?\nCiS: Well from the next album I would like to focus on the \"women,\" of the Maghreb; The Maghreb being the five countries making up North Africa.\nAV: Well talking about \"Krishna Lila,\" can you give us some more details about that - where that came from and how was it set up?\nCiS: First off the idea was to work with a live classical style or bhajan. On Shri Durga I worked with K. Shridar who played the sarod on the album. He introduced me to his niece who is a bhajan singer in Bombay and I did a session with her there. Her name is Radhika and she has a beautiful voice - so from there I got the idea to do a whole album of bhajans. But, the thing that is in a way a little unusual was that we went to Madras and recorded Karnatik bhajans. So the end product is that Krishna Lila is five different bhajans in five different languages: Marathi, Vrajbasi, Kannada, Tamil and Sanskrit. So it started with one singer and then it was decided to do a Krishna album thus, all the bhajans are Krishna bhajans. So that's why it became Krishna Lila.\nAV: So being that you worked in five different languages, how did you meet up all the different artists and singers who performed for the album?\nCiS: Well in Bombay the singer was Radhika and K. Shridar's brother K. Shivakumar plays the violin and lives in Bombay so he was also part of the session. In Bombay, I also met Pandit Ulhas Bapat and did a session with him - he plays the santoor. Then in Madras, K. Shridar introduced me to other musicians - who ended up being a singer with her group and then, another veena player with her group and that added the Karnatik element to the album.\nAV: So, being someone who has been in the \"scene\"- what would your suggestion be to someone trying to do something similar? To the new artists out there?\nCiS: Well my suggestion would be to really \"listen\" to the original music that's the source of it - and be respectful to that source.\nAV: Ok then what would your sentiment be towards sampling? To a dj or an artist who takes from another source and then simply adds beats to it?\nCiS: See that's what I mean. First, one has to listen to the source. For example to use sarangi in a song one has to understand how a sarangi player works. So if you listen to the source and have respect for what they do - considering those musicians start from the age of five or something and they just keep playing all their life - there is a lot of effort and devotion that goes into that. So to come in and to sample to make a song out of it is ok I guess - there is room for everything out there but the new songs capability to age well with the times will be considerably lower. For example if you listen to a raga recorded yesterday versus something recorded forty years ago - it's the same. The inspiration is the same. I mean if you create a song to be modern or the hot thing for the moment then you still have to realize where the source of music or melody is from and not just work with the beats. I think some people get too wrapped up in the beats, but the emphasis shouldn't be there. I mean it's taken thousands of years to develop the traditional sound to what it is now and that's where the emphasis should be.\nAV: So that's all I had to ask you. Is there anything else you want to share with us?\nCiS: Well I hope for a better world - that's really the focus here. And, I think we do need music for a better world - its necessary to provide inspiration.\nAV: Well thanx a lot Cheb for your time. And to all our readers check out Cheb's Site for more up to date info.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home BLOG HOW-TO\nABZU X360ce Settings for Any PC Gamepad Controller | TESTED & WORKING\nHOW-TO January 20, 2022\nA USB gamepad controller is necessary to play most games on a PC if you don't want to play the game with the keyboard. But the controller might not function properly or at all...\nHow the Free Hit Chip in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) Works\nIf you recently started playing Fantasy Premier League, you may be wondering How Free Hit Works in FPL. Currently, a lot of FPL managers has been looking for this for some time. You will...\n7 Cryptocurrencies to Buy in the Fourth Week of January 2022 | Make Sure...\nMany people use cryptocurrencies for various reasons. It is a digital currency that rises rapidly, thereby driving companies, people e.t.c, to invest in it by exchanging and buying coins. Therefore, if you want to...\nRiver City Girls X360ce Settings for Any PC Gamepad Controller | TESTED & WORKING\nHow the Wildcard Chip in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) Works\nFPL is one of the biggest fantasy games currently available and it is also very easy and fun to play. It comes with a lot of features like the triple captain, free hit and...\nSong of the Deep X360ce Settings for Any PC Gamepad Controller | TESTED &...\nShadow Man Remastered X360ce Settings for Any PC Gamepad Controller | TESTED & WORKING\nHow to Install Apps on Your Android Device without Using Google Play Store\nThe Google Play Store is normally the place to download for Android devices. But sometimes, you would notice that there are certain that you can't find it this store. With this, you will get...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Will Johnny Manziel Be A Big Star Or A Big Bust? The $100 Million Question.\nBy Dan Farkas on May 26, 2014 in Articles \u203a Celebrity News\nSome football experts insist Johnny Manziel will end up in the Hall of Fame. Other football experts insist Johnny Manziel will be the biggest draft bust in pro football history. It's not just history and notoriety on the line. In the last year, good NFL quarterbacks signed contract extensions totaling $100 million. More than $40 million of that was guaranteed money.\nIf things work out well, over the next five years, the man known as Johnny Football, Johnny Cleveland and Johnny Manziel will have a chance to earn $100 million in salary and bonuses. He could also never see a dime and be out of the league. With that much on the line, what factors outside of Manziel's control will determine if he gets extended for nine figures or tossed in the bust department?\nom Pennington\/Getty Images)\nKyle Shanahan\nPeople who don't watch football probably have never heard of Kyle Shanahan. Some people who do watch football probably have never heard of Shanahan. It's Shanahan's job to coordinate the Cleveland offense.\nShanahan's dad coached the Denver Broncos to two Super Bowl wins. He also earned a $35 million deal to coach Washington and brought his son Kyle along to coordinate Washington's offense.\nThe good news is with Robert Griffin III as a rookie quarterback, Washington made the playoffs. The bad news is in that playoff game, RG III blew out his knee and never really recovered. This resulted in tension among the player and team. It also left Washington with the second worst record in the league and both Shanahans out of work.\nManziel has similar physical skills to RG III. How Shanahan learned from his Washington experience will determine how Manziel grows as a player and brand.\nJosh Gordon\nGordon led the NFL in receiving yards last year, which is impressive because he only played in 14 of 16 possible games. The league suspended Gordon for the first two games of the season for violating the league's substance abuse policy. By all accounts, Gordon was a model citizen and teammate. Then the day after Manziel was drafted, word leaked Gordon could face a year suspension for a marijuana violation. The league hasn't confirmed this. The Browns aren't talking.\nJoe Montana had Jerry Rice. Peyton Manning had Marvin Harrison. Manziel needs someone like that to grow and develop. Gordon can be that guy if he's on the field.\nRay Farmer\nFarmer is the Browns' General Manager. It's his job to pick the players. After word of Gordon's potential suspension, every NFL draft guru assumed the Browns would take another wide receiver in the draft to replace Gordon. The second round arrived. The Browns took a guy who weighs 300 pounds. He doesn't catch passes. Neither did the person the Browns drafted in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh rounds. Draft experts and Browns fans were beyond flummoxed.\nThe Browns did pick up two free agents who were out on the street for more than a month. Neither will replace Gordon. Farmer has built up every other position except the one Manziel arguably needs the most. How Farmer responds before the season begins will be critical to Manziel's future.\nMaverick Carter\nCarter will represent Manziel with his off-the-field business. Carter represents LeBron James. The good news is Carter leveraged deals for LeBron with brands like Coca-Cola, State Farm and McDonalds to the tune of $42 million a year. The bad news is Manziel isn't LeBron James and has a reputation for bravado off the field that may not align with family friendly brands.\nManziel is Carter's first foray into football. If Carter excels on the field the way he does on a court, Manziel may not have to worry about Cleveland's coaches, teammates and front office.\nJohnny Manziel is famous. Everyone can agree on this. As a result, Manziel's career will be etched in football history. Whether that story is one of success or failure remains unwritten and dependent in some part to factors out of his control. It's a $100 million question with no answer in sight.\nJohnny Manziel Articles\nCutting Johnny Manziel Will Cost The Cleveland Browns $4.6 million\nJohnny Manziel Blames The Browns For Not Recognizing His Poor Work Habits\nJohnny Manziel Net Worth\nLeBron James Just Dumped Johnny Manziel From His Marketing Agency\nJohnny Manziel Parents Net Worth\nJosh Gordon Net Worth\nJohnny Manzeil's Raging Friday Night House Party May Have Cost His Teammate $10 million\nKyle Shanahan Net Worth\nT.J. Ward Net Worth","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: Gotham\nBatman (1943) \u2013 Chapter 1: The Electrical Brain\nColumbia, Douglas Croft, Dr Daka, Espionage, Gotham, J. Carrol Naish, Kidnapping, Lambert Hillyer, Lewis Wilson, Radium, Serial, Shirley Patterson\nD: Lambert Hillyer \/ 26m\nCast: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson, William Austin, Robert Fiske, Gus Glassmire, I. Stanford Jolley,\nIn the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Batman aka Bruce Wayne (Wilson), and Robin aka Dick Grayson (Croft), have become secret government agents. They still find the time to catch regular bad guys though, and are supported by Wayne's butler, Alfred (Austin). When Bruce's girlfriend, Linda Page (Patterson), asks him to accompany her to meet her uncle, Martin Warren (Glassmire), on his release from prison, his abduction by men working for Dr Daka (Naish), the Japanese leader of a spy ring operating in Gotham, provides Batman with his most dangerous adventure yet. Daka has kidnapped Warren for information about a store of radium kept at the Gotham City Foundation. By coincidence, it's where Linda works, and where Bruce and Dick witness some of Daka's men entering the building. Using a radium powered device with explosive properties, Daka's men steal the stored radium only for Batman and Robin to intervene. While one of them gets away with the radium, the others take on the Dynamic Duo in a rooftop fight that sees Batman pushed over the ledge and falling to certain death\u2026\nThe very first screen incarnation of the DC Comics' character, Batman fits neatly into the serial formula already established by the likes of Flying G-Men (1939) and The Shadow (1940). By this time, Columbia Pictures were old hands at this sort of thing, and in adapting Batman from the comics, they continued to mold an existing heroic figure into the bash 'em, smash 'em and crash 'em milieu they had been so adept at creating. Fans of the early comics will spot encouraging details such as the presence of utility belts, costumes that reflect the original DC design, and the presence of Alfred (whose appearance would lead to a complete change regarding his character in the comics). Inevitably, there's no Batmobile, just a Cadillac Series 61 convertible that operates as a kind of Batmobile when the top is up, and as Bruce Wayne's ride about town when the top is down. The costumes, though, aren't quite as good as they could be, and are very baggy. Wilson isn't the most athletic of actors, and Croft is clearly too old to be playing Robin, while the budget \u2013 such as it is \u2013 is highlighted by the sparse nature of the sets and the backlot surroundings.\nBut what of the story itself? Well, as mentioned before, Columbia were old hands at this sort of thing by 1943, and they weren't averse to recycling some of their earlier plots. The pursuit of radium is used in much the same way as in Mandrake the Magician (1939), the hero's girlfriend has already been attacked once (and no doubt will be again \u2013 and again), and there's the first of what will be numerous car chases, so there's much that will be familiar to devotees. But there is room for some invention: the bat symbol affixed to criminals' foreheads (see above), and the car chase that ends due to the villains' car changing colour; both of these are clever and creative in equal fashion. But this having been made during World War II, this is as much a propaganda exercise as it is a thrilling serial, and it is unrepently racist toward the Japanese. We're introduced to Daka's hideout, which is located in a rundown neighbourhood identified as Little Tokyo, and a voice over intones, \"Since a wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs, it has become virtually a ghost street\". No doubt there will be more like this in future episodes, but for now the tone has been set, the main characters have been introduced, and not for the first time, Batman is close to death. How will he survive?\nRating: 6\/10 \u2013 as an opening chapter in a fifteen-part Forties serial goes, this isn't so bad that it would put you off watching any more, but it is poor enough to make you wonder if sticking with it all the way to the end will be a profitable use of your time; this is history in the making, however, and as the first time the Caped Crusader appeared on screen, Batman has the advantage of being intriguing for how the character will develop across the remaining fourteen chapters.\nAmy Adams, Batman, Ben Affleck, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Daily Planet, Diana Prince, Doomsday, Drama, Gal Gadot, General Zod, Gotham, Henry Cavill, Jesse Eisenberg, Justice League, Lex Luthor, Metropolis, Review, Sci-fi, Sequel, Superheroes, Superman, Wonder Woman, Zack Snyder\nD: Zack Snyder \/ 151m\nCast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Gal Gadot, Holly Hunter, Scoot McNairy, Callan Mulvey, Harry Lennix\n$250 million budget + uneven script + wayward direction + awkward performances + Jesse Eisenberg (\"The red capes are coming, the red capes are coming\") + Doomsday looking too much like the Abomination from The Incredible Hulk (2008) + Batman and Superman being upstaged by Wonder Woman = the longest, most uninteresting, most bloated and unwieldy Batman and Superman movies yet. 'Nuff said.\nRating: 4\/10 \u2013 dreary, overlong, and lacking a coherent storyline, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is neither a DC Universe movie that works, or a superhero movie that gives viewers anything new; with too many short cuts in the narrative to help overcome its sluggish construction, the movie provides further evidence \u2013 if any were needed \u2013 Snyder should move on, David S. Goyer shouldn't be an automatic choice for DC screenplays, and Henry Cavill is still so awfully po-faced as the son of Kal-El.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Zinc Sulfate (Zinc)\nAdditional Dosage Information\nSecondary Uses\nBrand Names:Mar-Zinc, Orazinc 110, Orazinc 220, Verazinc, Zinc, Zinc-220\nBy Julie MarksMedically Reviewed by Dr Justin Laube, MD\nZinc is a naturally-occurring mineral that your body needs for proper growth and development.\nIt's sometimes taken to treat a zinc deficiency or to promote wellness.\nZinc is also used with or without vitamin C to reduce the duration and severity of symptoms associated with the common cold.\nThere's no evidence that the average person needs to take extra zinc to maintain or improve their health.\nZinc is typically sold as an over-the-counter (OTC) product.\nBy Julie Marks\nMedically Reviewed by Dr Justin Laube, MD\nWhat is Zinc Sulfate (Zinc) used for?\nCerner Multum\nInformation Provided and Reviewed by Cerner Multum\nWhat is the most important information I should know about Zinc Sulfate (Zinc)?\nBefore using zinc sulfate, talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or other healthcare provider. You may not be able to use zinc sulfate if you have certain medical conditions.\nFDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether zinc sulfate will harm an unborn baby. Do not use this medicine without a doctor's advice if you are pregnant.\nIt is not known whether zinc sulfate passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing baby. Do not use this medicine without a doctor's advice if you are breast-feeding a baby.\nUser Reviews & Rating\nOverall rating for Zinc Sulfate (Zinc)\nWhat are the side effects of Zinc Sulfate (Zinc)?\nGet emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.\nupset stomach.\nCan I take Zinc Sulfate (Zinc) if I'm pregnant or breastfeeding?\nRisk cannot be ruled out\nBased on FDA pregnancy categories\nWhat drugs and food should I avoid while taking Zinc Sulfate (Zinc)?\nAvoid taking this medication with foods that are high in calcium or phosphorus, which can make it harder for your body to absorb zinc sulfate. Foods high in calcium or phosphorus include milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, dried beans or peas, lentils, nuts, peanut butter, beer, cola soft drinks, and hot cocoa.\nDosage Guidelines & Tips\nHow to take Zinc Sulfate (Zinc)?\nUse Zinc Sulfate (Zinc) exactly as directed on the label, or as prescribed by your doctor. Do not use in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.\nUse exactly as directed on the label, or as prescribed by your doctor. Do not use in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.\nTake zinc sulfate with a full glass of water.\nTake zinc sulfate with food if it upsets your stomach.\nYour healthcare provider may occasionally change your dose to make sure you get the best result. The recommended dietary allowance of zinc sulfate changes with age. Follow your healthcare provider's instructions. You may also consult the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health, or the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Nutrient Database (formerly \"Recommended Daily Allowances\") listings for more information.\nStore at room temperature away from moisture and heat.\nWhat should I do if I missed a dose of Zinc Sulfate (Zinc)?\nSkip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose. Do not use extra medicine to make up the missed dose.\nOverdose Signs\nWhat happens if I overdose on Zinc Sulfate (Zinc)?\nOverdose symptoms may include nausea, severe vomiting, dehydration, and restlessness.\nIf you think you or someone else may have overdosed on: Zinc Sulfate (Zinc), call your doctor or the Poison Control center\nIf someone collapses or isn't breathing after taking Zinc Sulfate (Zinc), call 911\nZinc supplements are usually well-tolerated.\nIt's best to get minerals like zinc from the foods you eat. A well-balanced diet should provide most healthy people with adequate amounts of zinc.\nSome foods that are high in zinc include fish, beef, beans, wild rice, and peanuts.\nYour dosage of zinc will depend on the type you take, your age, and your overall health.\nZinc can interact with certain antibiotics and rheumatologic medicines, so it's best to discuss with your doctor if you're taking or plan to use these medications while taking zinc supplementation.\nThough research on its effectiveness is inconclusive, people take zinc for a host of other health issues, including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), diarrhea, depression, acne, wound healing, age-related macular degeneration, and many other conditions.\nWhile zinc may show some benefit for helping to shorten the duration of the common cold, there's currently no evidence to support its use in patients with COVID-19.\nShape: capsule\nZINCATE, PADDOCK\nColor: orange\/white\nImprint: ZINCATE, PADDOCK\nFind Another Drug\nSearch prescription drugs, over-the counter medications, and supplements\nDrugs A-Z provides drug information from Everyday Health and our partners, as well as ratings from our members, all in one place. 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{"text":"Judgment Road (Torpedo Ink Series #1)\nby Christine FeehanChristine Feehan\nBuy Online, Pick up in Store ..\nAs the enforcer of the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club, Reaper lives for riding and fighting. He's a stone-cold killer who turns his wrath on those who deserve it. Feelings are a weakness he can't afford--until a gorgeous bartender gets under his skin...\nNear Sea Haven, the small town of Caspar has given Anya Rafferty a new lease on life. And she's desperate to hold on to her job at the biker bar, even if the scariest member of the club seems to have it out for her. But Reaper's imposing presence and smoldering looks just ratchet up the heat.\nAnya's touch is everything Reaper doesn't want--and it brands him to the bone. But when her secrets catch up to her, Reaper will have to choose between Anya and his club--his heart and his soul.\nTorpedo Ink Series , #1\nChristine Feehan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Carpathian series, the GhostWalker series, the Leopard series, the Shadow Riders series, and the Sea Haven novels, including the Drake Sisters series and the Sisters of the Heart series.\nThe wind blew off the sea as the three Harleys made their way through the last series of snaking turns and hit the straight stretch on Highway 1 running parallel to the ocean. The night was well under way, a fact that Savva \"Reaper\" Pajari was well aware of. He had to report to the president of his club, Czar, the moment they arrived back in Caspar, but time didn't matter for that. Even if Czar was at his home in Sea Haven, tucked in close to his wife, Reaper'd just hit the roof and climb in through the bedroom window. He'd done it more than once.\nHe lived for two things: riding free and fighting. He needed to feel solid muscle under his knuckles. He needed to feel fists hitting his body, tapping into that well of ice that covered every emotion. That swift explosion of violence and sweet pain as fists connected was his life, and had been his life since he was five. Now, he needed to stay sharp somehow, in this new bullshit direction the club had taken.\nHe rode along the highway, aware of the others on either side of him. Brothers, some for over thirty years. Men he counted on. Men he called family. Still, he was apart from them and he knew it, even if they didn't. He turned his head toward the ocean. Waves sprayed up into the air, rushing over rocks and battering at the cliffs. Sometimes he felt those battered rocks were him, time wearing him away, little by little.\nHis soul had been gone so long ago that he couldn't remember having one. Now, his heart was slowly disappearing. There wasn't a place on his body without a scar. He had another to add from this last trip. He also would have to have Ink tat his back, three more skulls to add to the collection of those resting in the roots of the tree on his back.\nViktor Prakenskii, the man known as Czar, was the best man he knew. Reaper's job was to stand in front of Czar, his self-appointed task from the time he was a little boy. He'd been doing it for so long now, he didn't know any other way of life. He stood in front of all his brothers and sisters-in Torpedo Ink, his club. He was proud to wear the club colors. He'd die for those colors and still detested any mission he ran if he had to take them off.\nThey turned off the main highway onto Caspar Road leading to the town of Caspar, where they'd set up home. They'd designed their compound around the old paymaster's building for the Caspar logging company. They had spent the first few months working on the building, turning it into their clubhouse. It housed multiple bedrooms, a bar, their meeting room-known as the chapel-and a kitchen. They shared bathrooms, whichever was closest to their assigned sleeping room. Czar had insisted each of them purchase a home nearby. He wanted those roots put down deep.\nReaper didn't give a damn where they all slept. As long as he could defend his club and their president, he was fine. The compound had a bed and right now, he needed one. He was forty-eight hours without sleep. He'd stitched up the wound in his side himself, making a piss-poor job of it too, but all he'd had was a little whiskey to disinfect it, and that had burned like hell. It still did.\nThey rode up to the compound, and Storm and Keys parked their bikes while he scanned the lot. Either Czar was home or at the bar. Reaper was fairly certain he'd be at the bar waiting for a report. He didn't like to disturb his wife, Blythe, or their four adopted children. Reaper didn't shut his bike down and waited for the others to turn to him.\n\"Goin' to find Czar,\" he said, unnecessarily, but they were looking at him like he should say something. He didn't like stupid shit, like the formalities that seemed so important to others. He didn't care if people liked him, in fact, he preferred they stay the hell away, except for his brothers, who understood him and made it clear they expected him to at least talk once in a while.\n\"I can report in,\" Keys offered. \"You could use the downtime.\"\nReaper shook his head. \"Won't be able to sleep right away. I have to check on him anyway. You know how I am.\"\n\"Want company?\" Storm asked.\nHe shook his head. \"Not necessary. Savage will be with him, probably a few others. Get some sleep. We all earned it.\" Savin \"Savage\" Pajari was his birth brother. Like Reaper, he acted as sergeant at arms, protecting Czar at all times. Between the two men, they had their president covered whether he liked it or not around the clock. \"I already texted Czar we were comin' in when we were an hour out.\"\nHe was certain if he did that, Czar would go to the bar rather than have Reaper come to his home-exactly what Reaper wanted. It was the new bartender. Reaper didn't like anything out of the ordinary. He didn't trust it. The woman was definitely something out of the ordinary. Code could find dirt on anyone, but he hadn't found a single trace of her anywhere. She worked for cash, under the table. She wore designer jeans, but she drove a beat-up car on its last leg, rust breaking through the paint. The fucking thing smoked every time she turned the engine over.\nTorpedo Ink had a garage up and running. Did she take her car there to get it fixed? Hell no. She drove off every night thinking no one knew where she was going. That was the hell of it. She drove back toward Fort Bragg, took Highway 20 and turned off at the Egg Taking Station, a campground in the Jackson Demonstration Forest. Why the fuck would a classy woman be bartending in a biker bar, drive a beat-up Honda Civic older than she was and be camping? It made no sense. He didn't like puzzles and Anya Rafferty was not only a puzzle, but one big headache.\nReaper had watched her for over a month. Five weeks and three days to be precise. He'd learned she was a hard worker. She listened to people, remembered their names and what they liked to drink. She flirted just enough to get good tips, but not enough to cause fights. She was generous with the waitresses, sharing tips she didn't have to share. She was careful and guarded yet gave the illusion she was open. She was kind to those less fortunate.\nHe'd watched her give a homeless man a blanket she carried in her car, and twice she'd brought him coffee and a meal. Twice she'd spent money he was certain she didn't have to get food or shoes for someone living on the streets. She seemed to have an affinity for the homeless, and he was certain she knew all of them by name. She volunteered in the soup kitchen Saturday mornings even though she couldn't have had more than a couple of hours of sleep.\nShe didn't flinch around the bikers, but it was obvious she wasn't from their world and didn't have a clue how to fit in. She took her cues from Czar and sometimes asked him questions. She'd never asked Reaper a single question, but she sent him a few shy smiles, which he didn't return. He'd spent more time in the bar in the five weeks she'd been there than he'd ever spent in a bar in his life.\nReaper glanced away from the compound, up toward the bar. He could see the lights shining through the dark from the banks of windows. His heart accelerated. His cock jerked hard in his jeans. That was unacceptable and that was why the woman had to go.\nEvery one of those in his club had been taught to be in complete control of their bodies at all times. They'd been beaten, starved, tortured and had unspeakable things done to them in order to shape them into disciplined killing machines. He felt very little emotion and certainly not physical attractions. The bitches partying hard, getting it on with anyone and everyone, did nothing for him. Not one thing. He often walked through a room full of half naked or naked women and his body didn't so much as stir.\nOne look at Anya Rafferty. Listening to the sound of her voice. Her fucking laugh. The way all that hair fell around her face like a dark cloud. A waterfall. She had more hair than two women put together, and he found he thought a lot about that hair when he should be thinking about keeping his president alive. Or himself. He refused to allow his cock to drive him. That part of his anatomy would never drive him. He didn't trust anyone, especially not a woman who made his body ache until his teeth hurt.\nHe sighed and turned his Harley, heading for the bar. He'd told Czar Anya had to go. She was a problem. Nothing about her added up. Nothing. Protecting Czar was his number-one priority, and if she wasn't forthcoming, she had to go. He told himself that shit, but he knew it wasn't the truth. He hated bullshit. Detested it. Especially when he was trying to bullshit himself. He could make all the excuses in the world, but the truth was, the bartender upset him. She got under his skin without trying.\nOnce in the parking area, Reaper swung his leg over his motorcycle and forced himself to stand upright, his two feet planted on solid ground. He'd been on his bike so long he wasn't certain he had the legs for earth any longer. Placing his dome on the bike he did a casual sweep of the parking lot. In that one moment, he took in every detail of the cars and lines of motorcycles parked there. He recognized several of the bikes. Two prospects were lounging close, keeping an eye on the bikes. He didn't acknowledge them, but he saw every detail. He removed the small leather bag from one of the compartments hidden in his bike and made his way across the parking area toward the bar, still looking around to every conceivable parking spot.\nWhat he didn't see was the bartender's old rust bucket. He paused for a moment at the bottom of the stairs, breathing deeply, not knowing if that made him happy or if his mind went somewhere he refused to acknowledge. She was gone. Czar had done what he'd asked, and her presence was removed. That should make him happy. Well, he was never happy. He didn't know how to be. He'd forgotten. Relief maybe-except now he had to go to the campground and make certain she was okay. Damn it. He swore under his breath and climbed the steps leading up to the bar. His gut burned like hell with every step, but it wasn't nearly as bad as the ache in his chest.\nMusic poured out of the building, a loud, drubbing beat. That only added to the pounding in his head. He ignored it and yanked open the door. Raised voices and laughter mixed with the clink of glasses. Funny, now that it was an established biker bar, the place was hopping almost every night.\nHe stepped to the side of the door and took a long look around, noting every jacket or vest with colors. Mostly small-time clubs, or weekenders. A couple of legitimate road warriors. Three wannabe hard-asses, drinking, looking for women and most likely a fight. Five, sitting in the corner, badasses wearing Demon patches. They noticed him the moment he walked in. All five were packing and they weren't drinking, at least not enough to say they were there for a good time. He did a quick inventory of his body. He could move fast if needed. He never minded a good fight and most likely, any minute, he'd be welcoming one. He let the Demons see his gaze linger on them before he allowed himself to scan along the bar.\nHe had a gun tucked in his waistband at the small of his back. Another was down in his boot along with a knife. A third gun was inside his jacket, easy access, just a cross-body pull and he was in business. The truth was, he rarely used a gun or a knife when he killed. He preferred silence, but weapons came in handy occasionally and he was proficient in the use of all of them.\nHe knew he was looking for the bartender. Anya. He fucking loved that name. It suited her face. Her voice. It was possible her piece of junk car had broken down and she had hitched a ride with someone. He didn't see her anywhere and it pissed him off that he'd even looked. Worse, the pressure in his chest grew.\nTonight's bartender, Preacher, looked harassed. He glanced up from the sea of customers and shot Reaper a welcoming grin, his eyes scanning for wounds, dwelling for a moment on the blood on Reaper's shirt and then jumping back to his face. Reaper gave him a nod, indicating he was fine, and Preacher nodded back. He jerked his chin toward the hall behind the bar. There was a doorway to the left of the bar, but Reaper stalked across the room and flipped up the jointed wooden slab that allowed him to walk through the opening to get behind the bar. He moved down the long hallway straight to the office.\nThe door to the back office was closed, signifying a meeting of some kind. If the door was closed, any waitress or non-club member stayed out. Unzipping his jacket, Reaper went right on in, hoping Savage didn't put a bullet in him as he waltzed through the door. Savage was unpredictable at times. His brother gave a quick scan of his body, much the way Preacher had. Czar stood up to face him, doing the same. He frowned when he saw the blood. Shit, he'd forgotten his shirt was a mess. It wasn't all his, either. Savage's gaze jumped back to his face.\n\"I'm fine,\" he said, to stop the questions.\nCode had been poring over books with Czar, which was laughable. Czar hated number crunching and only pretended to listen to Code half the time. With Czar and Code at the table were two other club members, Absinthe and Ice, Storm's twin brother. All had their eyes on him and the blood on his shirt. Something was up to have so many gathered this late at night.\n\"What happened?\" Czar snapped before anyone else could say anything.\nPraise for Christine Feehan and the Sea Haven Novels\n\"I love everything she does.\"\u2014J. R. Ward\n\"The queen of paranormal romance.\"\u2014USA Today\n\"The fiery combination of Prakenskii brothers and elemental sisters has made this series one that never disappoints. Pure Feehan magic!\"\u2014RT Book Reviews\n\"Sensual, violent, intense and thrilling.\"\u2014Library Journal\n\"Ms. Feehan is at the top of her game with this magical romance.\"\u2014The Romance Readers Connection\n\"Feehan brings a sizzling story of seduction and sorcery to her readers.\"\u2014Examiner.com\nmotorcycle club romance paperback\nbook by christine feehan\nink book\nCovert Game (GhostWalker Series #14)\nTreason, torture and temptation haunt the GhostWalkers in their most dangerous adventure yet, as Christine ...\nTreason, torture and temptation haunt the GhostWalkers in their most dangerous adventure yet, as Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling series hits an explosive new high.Rescuing an industrial spy from the hands of a criminal mastermind is a suicide ...\nDark Demon (Carpathian Series #16)\nA female vampire slayer proves as seductive\u2014and mysterious\u2014as the night dwellers she stalks in this ...\nA female vampire slayer proves as seductive\u2014and mysterious\u2014as the night dwellers she stalks in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series.For as long as she can remember, Natalya has been fighting demons: first in the form ...\nDark Possession (Carpathian Series #18)\n#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan returns to her uniquely sensual Carpathian world ...\n#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan returns to her uniquely sensual Carpathian world in a novel about the nature of true love and the unnatural forces that could destroy it...Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close ...\nDark Sentinel (Carpathian Series #32)\nIn an explosive novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a human ...\nIn an explosive novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a human woman ignites the desire of her Carpathian lifemate\u2014and of an ancient vampire with a score to settle.After the devastating loss of her entire family, Lorraine ...\nDark Slayer (Carpathian Series #20)\nAfter a century of longing, the instinct for survival unites a betrayed woman and a ...\nAfter a century of longing, the instinct for survival unites a betrayed woman and a cursed man in this seductive Carpathian novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.Ivory Malinov's only brethren are the wolves. Abandoned by her ...\nDeadly Game (GhostWalker Series #5)\n#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan explores the limits of endurance and the boundaries ...\n#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan explores the limits of endurance and the boundaries of passion in a life-and-death struggle to survive in this GhostWalker novel...It begins as a mission to protect a politician from an assassination threat. But ...\nLeopard's Prey (Leopard Series #6)\n#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan takes readers to the sultry streets of New ...\n#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan takes readers to the sultry streets of New Orleans in this Leopard novel\u2014where the nights have never felt so torrid or so dangerous\u2026From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the ...\nNight Game (GhostWalker Series #3)\nIn this \"suspenseful...captivating\" (Publishers Weekly) novel in GhostWalker series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine ...\nIn this \"suspenseful...captivating\" (Publishers Weekly) novel in GhostWalker series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan tracks the desperate steps of a wanted woman\u2014betrayed, avenging, and dangerously irresistible\u2026 Gator Fontenot of the Special Forces ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"I'm Hyped About The Emmys and The People v. O.J. Simpson\nPhotos provided by FX\nIt's Emmy Sunday! I love awards shows but this one is extra special because actor Sterling K. Brown was nominated for his supporting role in The People v. O.J. Simpson. Brown played my father, former prosecutor Christopher Darden. The show received 22 nominations! Only second behind Game of Thrones.\nI'm also rooting for Courtney B. Vance (Johnnie Cochran) and Sarah Paulson (Marcia Clark). The entire cast were amazing. Brown is up against his fellow cast members John Travolta (Robert Shapiro) and David Schwimmer (Robert Kardashian). Despite the competition the entertainment press report Sterling K. Brown is the favorite.\nTomorrow night I will be ready with my glass of Stella Rosa and popcorn. This is so exciting!\nThe Emmys air live on ABC, 7pm EST\/ 4pm PST. Keep your fingers crossed!\nChris Darden Christopher Darden Emmys Sterling K. Brown The People v. O.J. Simpson","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"In Hindsight: Looking Back at Past Drafts\nJune 5, 2015 500LevelFan\tLeave a comment\nWith the 2015 MLB draft only a few days away (the first round kicks off on Monday) it's time to continue a 500 Level Fan tradition and take a look back at some prior MLB drafts to see how well the Blue Jays \u2013 and the rest of MLB \u2013 fared. We will do this using the greatest tool of all: hindsight. As any fan knows, baseball is entirely different when it comes to drafting players. There are so many minor league levels and such a large player pool to draw from, not to mention things like signability issues and slot bonuses. It's not rare in baseball for the best available player to not go first overall, just as it's not rare for players to take years to make the major leagues. So let's take a look back at the 2010, 2005, and 2000 MLB drafts (5, 10, and 15 years ago). Armed with hindsight, which is always 20\/20, we can see how the draft order might have changed knowing how careers played out.\nNote \u2013 I used Baseball Reference's WAR stat to rank the players, and my re-ranked top-10 list doesn't take into account things like signability issues, team needs, or draft strategy (i.e. high school vs. college). I simply re-ranked the drafted players based on career WAR (Note: Career WAR totals are as of May 28).\nAs mentioned above, it often takes several years for drafted players to reach the major leagues. Five years have passed since the '10 draft, and while many of the drafted players are still young, one would expect the top talents to have found their way to the big leagues by now.\nHere are the top-10 picks of the 2010 draft:\nEven if Bryce Harper turned out to be a bust, I don't think anybody could fault the Washington Nationals for picking him first overall. He was one of the most hyped prospects in decades, landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a 16-year old kid. To date he has not disappointed. He won the Rookie of the Year award in 2012, and currently leads the league in R, HR, BB, OBP, SLG, OPS, and OPS+. Manny Machado and Matt Harvey have also turned into stud players, but the rest of the top-10 leaves a lot to be desired. Taillon reached AAA in 2013 before Tommy John surgery cost him the entire '14 season. Barret Loux has had health issues and has not pitched since 2013, and Karsten Whitson did not sign with the Padres, was re-drafted by Boston in 2014, and has not pitched above A ball. Pomeranz, DeShields, and Choice have all been dealt to different organizations, and Colon is a bit player in KC.\nThis is what the the top-10 looks like with the magic of hindsight, based on career WAR:\nAs you can see, five years after the 2010 draft, only a handful of true stars have emerged: Sale, Harper, Machado, and maybe Harvey. Simmons is a solid player but the majority of his career WAR is from his defense, not his bat, and the rest of players look to be solid major leaguers, but not future All-Stars. The one guy who could challenge that claim is 2014 ROY winner Jacob deGrom, who is off to a solid start this year (6-4, 2.41 ERA, 71 K in 71 IP) \u2013 not bad for the 272nd overall pick.\nBlue Jay Focus\nThe 2010 draft was Toronto's first under Alex Anthopoulos, and aside from the first pick, has turned out to be pretty good. Aaron Sanchez is cemented in the 2015 rotation and has the potential to be one of the AL's best. Unfortunately, one of the other top players taken is now plying his trade with another team. The biggest what-if moment came in the 18th round when the Jays selected current Chicago Cubs phenom Kris Bryant. Bryant chose not to sign with Toronto in order to pursue a college career, and is now, of course, mashing for the Cubs. If only\u2026.\nFirst Round Pick: Deck McGuire (11th overall) \u2013 Career WAR: 0.0\nTotal Number of Picks: 56\nNumber of Players to Reach the Majors: 7\n\u2013 Deck McGuire \u2013 now in AA in the Dodgers organization (11th), WAR of 0.0\n\u2013 Aaron Sanchez (34th, supplemental first round pick), WAR of 1.8\n\u2013 Noah Syndergaard \u2013 now with NY Mets (38th, supplemental first round pick), WAR of 0.0\n\u2013 Asher Wojciechowski \u2013 now with Houston (41st), WAR of -0.3\n\u2013 Sam Dyson \u2013 now with Miami (126th), WAR of 0.7\n\u2013 Sean Nolin \u2013 now in AA with Oakland (186th), WAR of -0.4\n\u2013 Dalton Pompey (486th), WAR of 0.4\n\u2013 Kris Bryant \u2013 did not sign, now with Chi Cubs (546th), WAR of 1.4\nTotal WAR = 3.6\nThe 2005 draft has been called the greatest draft of all time by many baseball experts. Looking back at the 'draft ten years later, you'll see several superstar players still in their prime. Unfortunately, none of those stars are in Toronto.\nUpton. Gordon. Zimmerman. Braun. Tulowitzki. Those five have combined for 11 Silver Slugger awards, 7 Gold Gloves, 14 All-Star appearances, 1 Rookie of the Year award, 1 MVP, and 20 top-5 MVP finishes. Not bad. Even Maybin and Pelfrey have been solid big leaguers, and before labeling Ricky Romero a bust, Jays fans should remember that he made the All-Star team and finished 10th in Cy Young voting in 2011. The only two true busts are Wade Townsend and Jeff Clement. Townsend never rose above AA, left baseball in 2010 and is now a professional poker player. Clement played 152 big league games for Seattle and Pittsburgh, before officially retiring in 2014.\nWith the magic of hindsight, here is a re-ranked version of the 2005 draft, based on career WAR:\nThat right there shows why '05 is considered one of the greatest drafts ever. Aside from the top-10, you have Andrew McCutchen (the 2013 MVP), Jacoby Ellsbury, and Brett Gardner. Buster Posey and Tim Lincecum, two key cogs of the recent Giants dynasty, were also both drafted in later rounds, but neither player signed. Still \u2013 a very impressive overall draft.\nThe 2005 draft was completed under the guidance of J.P. Ricciardi, and to be blunt, it was terrible. Aside from Romero, only two players that Ricciardi selected ever made the major leagues, and one of them (Brett Wallace \u2013 yes, that Brett Wallace) didn't even sign with the team and re-entered the draft.\nFirst Round Pick: Ricky Romero (6th overall) \u2013 Career WAR: 9.7\n\u2013 Ricky Romero \u2013 now in the minors with San Francisco (6th), WAR of 9.7\n\u2013 Robert Ray \u2013 now out of baseball (206th), WAR of 0.1\n\u2013 Brett Wallace \u2013 did not sign, now in AAA in San Diego (1253rd), WAR of -0.5\nIn stark contrast to the 2005 draft, we have the 2000 draft. As a whole, the draft was OK, but when looking at only the top-10? Yikes.\nOne player \u2013 just one, single, solitary player \u2013 from the top-10 is still playing in the big leagues, but at least it's a good one. Adrian Gonzalez has been a superstar for a long time, but unfortunately for the Marlins, not for them. Florida dealt him to the Rangers for Ugueth Urbina (who helped the Marlins win the World Series so it wasn't a total bust), who then traded him to the Padres, who then dealt him to the Red Sox, who in turn traded him to the Dodgers. Rocco Baldelli had a decent run with the Rays, but that's about it for the '00 top-10. Half of the selections never even made the major leagues, and the other three that did put up numbers worse than replacement level.\nHere is a re-ranked version of the 2000 draft, based on career WAR:\nThat's better. After most of the top-10 whiffed on their picks, the rest of the draft produced some solid players. There are World Series champions (Utley, Wainwright, Molina), Cy Young winners (Lee, Webb), and HR Kings (Bautista), not to mention Gonzalez and James Shields. Ian Kinsler and current Jay Russell Martin were both selected in the later rounds, but neither signed and both went back in the draft.\nGord Ash was the man in charge of the Jays in 2000, and was responsible for putting together an absolutely awful draft. Only Dustin McGowan made much of an impact, but injuries derailed his career before it even got started. Ash used his first pick on Miguel Negron, a player who never made the majors and put up a career .687 OPS in the minor leagues. Do over please!\nFirst Round Pick: Miguel Negron (18th overall) \u2013 Career WAR: 0.0\n\u2013 Dustin McGowan \u2013 now in AAA with Philadelphia (33rd), WAR of 1.8\n\u2013 Mike Smith \u2013 now out of baseball (148th), WAR of -0.5\n\u2013 Rich Thompson \u2013 now out of baseball (178th), WAR of -0.5\n\u2013 Vinnie Chulk \u2013 now out of baseball (358th), WAR of 1.4\n\u2013 Cody Clark \u2013 did not sign, now out of baseball (1404th), WAR of -0.2\nPrevious PostSeason Saving WinNext PostThe Week That Was: Week 9","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"University of Texas at Tyler - R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center\n2022-03-01 19:30:00 2022-03-01 22:30:00 America\/Chicago The Simon & Garfunkel Story \/\/artandseek.org\/calendar\/event\/108446\/the-simon-garfunkel-story University of Texas at Tyler - R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center, 3900 University Boulevard, Facility 2100, Tyler, TX, 75701\nTHE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY Tuesday, March 1, 2022 \u2022 7:30 PM\nWith more than 100 million albums sold, SIMON & GARFUNKEL's perfect harmonies and songs poignantly captured the era that made them one of the most successful folk-rock duos of all time. Relive all of your favorites \u2014 \"Mrs. Robinson,\" \"Cecilia,\" \"Bridge Over Troubled Water,\" \"Homeward Bound,\" \"The Sound of Silence\"\u2014 with this immersive concert-style theater show chronicling the amazing journey shared by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. This story follows their humble beginnings as Tom & Jerry, through their incredible success as one of the best-selling music groups of the '60s, to their dramatic split in 1970. The evening of music culminates with their famous \"The Concert in Central Park\" reunion in 1981, with more than half a million fans in attendance\nOfficial Site Facebook\nTuesday, March 1, 2022 @ 7:30 pm 2022-03-01 19:30:00 2022-03-01 22:30:00 America\/Chicago The Simon & Garfunkel Story \/\/artandseek.org\/calendar\/event\/108446\/the-simon-garfunkel-story University of Texas at Tyler - R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center, 3900 University Boulevard, Facility 2100, Tyler, TX, 75701\nFind This Event 3900 University Boulevard \u00b7 Facility 2100 \u00b7 Tyler, TX 75701","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Springshare, will acquire QuestionPoint\nLike QuestionPoint\nInternet Media\nHigher-Ed Media and Tech\nBy QuestionPoint\nBy Springshare\nSpringshare Competitor`s Deals\nE-Marketing & Search\nEducation Media and Tech\nAll Segments 06\/12\/19 to 06\/12\/19 (1 results)\nannounced 6\/12\/2019 via Yahoo, Inc.\nsynopsis: Springshare, a provider of software solutions for libraries, will acquire QuestionPoint from OCLC, a nonprofit global library cooperative. QuestionPoint is a complete virtual reference management system that integrates chat, e-mail, a reference knowledge base, reports and analytic tools to give users a complete view of reference activity.\nbuyer: Springshare\nFounded in 2007, Springshare is an internet software company focused on developing engaging web applications for libraries and educational institutions. Springshare offers a cloud-based platform that helps libraries thrive in a digital-first world and provide superb service to their users. \"\ntarget parent: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.\ntarget: QuestionPoint\nQuestionPoint is a complete virtual reference management system that integrates chat, e-mail, a reference knowledge base, reports and analytic tools to give users a complete view of reference activity. QuestionPoint allows libraries to expand their hours of service to offer live help at anytime.\nclosed 9\/22\/2020 via GlobeNewswire\nAxiell Group AB, acquired CultureConnect\nsynopsis: Axiell, the world's leading software and services provider for the cultural sector, announced the acquisition of CultureConnect, an award-winning technology company headquartered in New York City that empowers cultural institutions to easily create beautiful and dynamic digital experiences that broaden audience engagement onsite and online.\nbuyer: Axiell Group AB\nAxiell Group AB is an IT company that is specialised in providing services to the culture sector, archives, museums and libraries. The company offers advanced and tailored solutions to customers in many parts of the world. \"\ntarget: CultureConnect\nCultureConnect is an award-winning technology company empowering museums, libraries, attractions, and cultural organizations to deliver engaging digital experiences to audiences online, in-gallery, or on personal devices.\nYoni Groupe, acquired Decalog\nsynopsis: Groupe Yoni, a leader in specialized software solutions for the Watchmaking, Jewelery, Goldsmith and Collective Catering businesses, has acquired Decalog. Collaborating with thousands of librarians, archives and museums, DECALOG develops advanced software solutions that enables institutions to manage the full spectrum of library materials.\nbuyer: Yoni Groupe\nA family business for over 30 years, Groupe Yoni specializes in publishing business software for professionals in the Watch and Jewelery, Goldsmithing and Collective Catering industry. \"\ntarget: Decalog\nCollaborating with thousands of librarians, archives and museums, DECALOG develops advanced software solutions that enables institutions to manage the full spectrum of library materials, archives, collections and processes and to empower patrons to identify and obtain the information they need.\nclosed 11\/4\/2013 via Company Press Release\nSirsiDynix, acquired EOS International\nsynopsis: SirsiDynix, a library management technology company, announced the acquisition of EOS International, a California-based technology company that develops award-winning solutions for legal, government, corporate, medical, and other special library customers.\nbuyer parent: Vista Equity Partners\nbuyer: SirsiDynix\nSirsiDynix connects people with knowledge at more than 23,000 libraries around the world. Through library management technology and search and discovery tools, libraries using SirsiDynix technology bring relevant resources and the power of knowledge to their users and communities. \"\ntarget: EOS International\nFor over 30 years, Electronic Online Systems (EOS) International has been developing, marketing and supporting award-winning library automation and knowledge management solutions for thousands of special libraries worldwide.\nSydneyPLUS, purchased Special Library Business from Inmagic, Inc.\nsynopsis: SydneyPLUS and Inmagic, Inc. announced the acquisition of Inmagic's special library business by SydneyPLUS. The special library business includes Inmagic's DB\/Text\u00ae Library Suite of products, a full-featured library management system that combines highly flexible information management tools with a Web-based integrated library system.\nbuyer: SydneyPLUS\nLeading organizations around the globe use SydneyPLUS knowledge management solutions for MS SQL and Oracle to increase collaboration amongst staff, improve customer service, eliminate redundant processes and to enhance productivity. \"\nseller: Inmagic, Inc.\nInmagic's DB\/Text\u00ae Library Suite of products is a full-featured library management system that combines highly flexible information management tools with a Web-based integrated library system to easily manage, publish, and access library and resource center assets.\nDEMCO, Inc., acquired Evanced Solutions, Inc.\nsynopsis: DEMCO, Inc., a leading library supplier, has announced the acquisition of Evanced Solutions, a market leader in developing and distributing solutions allowing libraries to web-enable their services and streamline day-to-day management tasks. Evanced Solutions offers software and dedicated service for libraries of all types and budgets.\nbuyer parent: Wall Family Enterprise\nbuyer: DEMCO, Inc.\nDEMCO provides product and service solutions to libraries and schools to help them better meet the needs of their communities. Products include a full range of supplies, equipment, furniture and technology including a comprehensive interior design service for libraries and schools nationwide. \"\ntarget: Evanced Solutions, Inc.\nHeadquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., Evanced Solutions offers software and dedicated service for libraries of all types and budgets. Online tools include event calendaring with online registration, meeting room booking, summer reading management, and library materials vending.\nannounced 1\/25\/2017 via Company Press Release\nOCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., will acquire Relais International, Inc.\nsynopsis: OCLC has agreed to acquire Relais International, a leading interlibrary loan solution provider based in Ottawa, Canada. Relais has been working with libraries for more than 20 years to provide solutions for the full range of interlibrary loan and consortial resource sharing services. Relais D2D solution is the market leader in consortial borrowing.\nbuyer: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.\nOCLC is a nonprofit global library cooperative providing shared technology services, original research and community programs so that libraries can better fuel learning, research and innovation. \"\ntarget: Relais International, Inc.\nRelais International has been working with libraries for more than 20 years to provide solutions for the full range of interlibrary loan, document delivery, and consortial resource sharing services. Their Relais D2D solution integrates the end-user discovery experience with request management.\nclosed 12\/1\/2011 via PR Newswire\nBaker & Taylor, Inc., acquired Bridgeall Libraries Ltd.\nsynopsis: Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world's largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, announced it acquired Bridgeall Libraries, a fast-growing Glasgow, Scotland-based technology company that has developed innovative collection performance improvement software.\nbuyer parent: Castle Harlan Inc.\nbuyer: Baker & Taylor, Inc.\nBaker & Taylor, Inc. is the world's largest distributor of books, digital content and entertainment products. The company offers cutting-edge digital media services and innovative technology platforms to thousands of publishers, libraries and retailers worldwide. \"\ntarget: Bridgeall Libraries Ltd.\nBased in Glasgow, U.K., Bridgeall Libraries Ltd. has developed smartsm\u00ae and collectionHQ\u00ae, the world leading Evidence Based Stock Management (EBSM\u00ae) solutions. EBSM\u00ae is the complete library stock improvement methodology, which analyses historic and current information about stock use.\nHarald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen GmbH, acquired zetcom\nsynopsis: Harald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen GmbH, a long-term investment holding company in Germany, has acquired a majority stake in zetcom Group AG, a Swiss provider of inventory management solutions for museums and non-profit organizations. zetcom's MuseumPlus solution provides real-time museum management and fully documents any type of collection.\nbuyer: Harald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen GmbH\nHarald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen (HQIB) is a long-term investment holding that acquires and develops small- and medium-sized companies in the German-speaking region. HQIB creates substantial value-add for their portfolio companies through their profound operational and strategic experience. \"\ntarget: zetcom\nzetcom is a Swiss provider of inventory management solutions for museums and non-profit organizations. zetcom's robust and efficient MuseumPlus solution supports the complex needs of museums and archives. MuseumPlus provides real-time museum management and fully documents any type of collection.\nPearson plc, acquired The Learning Edge North America\nsynopsis: The Learning Edge International has joined Pearson, a global leader in education, technology and services. Pearson's mission is to increase access to educational opportunities and improve student outcomes worldwide.\nbuyer: Pearson plc (LSE:PSON:$5,359.58)\nPearson is an international education and media company with world-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. \"\ntarget: The Learning Edge North America\nThe Learning Edge International provides solutions for educators so they can more effectively manage Digital Learning Resources using EQUELLA - a world class Digital Repository. EQUELLA is a mature, robust Digital Repository that integrates to your existing Learning Management System.\nEBSCO Information Services, acquired Stacks Inc.\nsynopsis: EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the acquisition of Stacks Inc., a leading library and research web platform. EBSCO partnered with the company in 2016 to release Stacks, a hosted content management system for libraries.\nbuyer parent: EBSCO Industries, Inc.\nbuyer: EBSCO Information Services\nEBSCO Information Services is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 11,000 discovery customers in over 100 countries. EBSCO Discovery Service\u2122 (EDS) provides each institution with a comprehensive, single search box for its entire collection. \"\ntarget: Stacks Inc.\nStacks Inc. is a leading library and research web platform. Stacks technology is designed to simplify the process of creating online content for libraries. It is the first turnkey, responsive web platform with plug and play integrations and mobile apps connected in real time.\nLucidea, acquired Eloquent Systems\nsynopsis: Lucidea, the leading provider of library automation and knowledge management solutions to organizations worldwide, has acquired Eloquent Systems. Eloquent, based in Vancouver, BC, is an applications developer offering mobile-friendly knowledge management software for professionals who manage archives, libraries, museums and records.\nbuyer: Lucidea\nLucidea, based in Canada, is the developer of a full portfolio of solutions including SydneyEnterprise, LawPort, LookUp Precision, Argus, CuadraSTAR, Inmagic Presto and GeniePlus, offering KM and library automation systems that deliver improved access to organizational knowledge. \"\ntarget: Eloquent Systems\nEloquent Systems, Inc., or Eloquent, is a Canada-based applications developer of knowledge management software for professionals who manage archives, libraries, and records. They provide tools for organizing information about physical and digital assets so that all stakeholders find what they need.\nannounced 5\/13\/2019 via PE Hub\nRLDatix, will acquire iContracts, Inc\nsynopsis: RLDatix, a patient safety software platform based in the UK and Canada, has agreed to acquire iContracts, a Bridgewater, New Jersey-based provider of contract, policy and revenue management solutions to the healthcare and life sciences industries.\nbuyer parent: TA Associates\nbuyer: RLDatix\nRLDatix is a driving force for innovation in patient safety. Bringing together the best of RL Solutions and Datix, RLDatix is the world's largest software company focused exclusively on patient safety, with more than 3,000 customers in 19 countries around the globe. \"\ntarget parent: Susquehanna International Group, LLP\ntarget: iContracts, Inc\niContracts is a leading cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of contract management and compliance solutions for healthcare, education and industrial customers.\nHobsons, acquired Naviance\nsynopsis: Hobsons U.S., the leader in elevating colleges' and universities' enrollment strategies, has acquired Naviance, the leading provider of planning and advising systems for secondary schools. With innovative educational products and services, Hobsons U.S. will now reach the education community from K-12 to higher education and beyond.\nbuyer parent: Daily Mail and General Trust plc\nbuyer: Hobsons\nHobsons U.S. partners with colleges and universities to enhance and empower institutions' enrollment and admissions efforts. Hobsons U.S. helps colleges and universities to elevate their enrollment strategies efficiently, effectively, and easily. \"\ntarget: Naviance\nNaviance is the leading provider of Web-based academic planning and advising systems for schools. The Naviance Network includes more than 25,000 educators and counselors serving nearly 2.4 million students in 42 countries who use WorkspaceK12 to support their comprehensive counseling programs.\nannounced 10\/7\/2020 via PR Web\nleadHOOP, LLC, will acquire MatchMaximizer\nsynopsis: leadHOOP, LLC, a leading SaaS company, signed an agreement on to acquire the assets of MatchMaximizer, a privately held competitor. MatchMaximizer is a full-service, turnkey lead generation technology. It is all-in-one solution for contact centers, web partners, schools, and agencies.\nbuyer: leadHOOP, LLC\nleadHOOP is a leading lead generation SaaS Platform & Marketplace. Leveraging their technology, they help improve consumer inquiry results with an easy to use set of tools for buyers, sellers, and aggregators. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in the suburbs of New York City. \"\ntarget: MatchMaximizer\nMatchMaximizer is a full-service, turnkey lead generation technology. MatchMaximizer was developed initially to support technical platform needs of lead generation contact centers. Since then, it has grown as an all-in-one solution for contact centers, web partners, schools, and agencies.\nPressReader, acquired Evident Point Software Corp\nsynopsis: Canada-based PressReader has acquired Evident Point Software Group. Headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Evident Point is a leading provider of eBook software, providing custom professional digital publishing solutions. With the acquisition, PressReader gains a company at the forefront of the on-screen reading experience.\nbuyer: PressReader\nHeadquartered in Canada, PressReader is on a mission to improve the way people discover stories that matter. The company provides an all-you-can-read platform of more than 7,500 newspapers and magazines where people can discover relevant and trusted content from anywhere in the world. \"\ntarget parent: LANIT JSC\ntarget: Evident Point Software Corp\nBased in Canada, Evident Point is a leading provider of eBook software worldwide, providing custom professional digital publishing solutions. The company works with clients to build eLearning and eBook applications and solutions for publishers, software companies, and educational institutions.\nclosed 11\/18\/2011 via BNC Analysis\nLANIT JSC, acquired Evident Point Software Corp\nsynopsis: Canadian e-book software and firmware provider Evident Point has been acquired by LANIT, a major Russian company providing a diversified range of systems integration and other IT services. Neither the terms of the transaction nor general future plans of the two companies were disclosed.\nbuyer: LANIT JSC\nLANIT JSU is the leading russian CIS multidisciplinary group of IT companies. The group companies offer a full range of IT services, whose number is steadily increasing due to development of advanced and popular technologies and solutions. \"\nEvident Point was established in 1995 with the vision of delivering quality software engineering services to major industry players. Evident Point's track record includes many successful projects for Apple, Microsoft, Netronix, Netscape and other industry leading software and hardware vendors.\nVisma Advantage, acquired Advitrae\nsynopsis: Visma, a leading provider cloud business solutions in Europe, has acquired a majority stake in Advitrae, a Dutch provider of education planning and scheduling solutions. Advitrae offers a SaaS-based planning and scheduling software solution for secondary, vocational, and higher education institutions.\nVisma is the leading provider of business software and business processes for accounting & payroll in Europe. The group comprises five business areas which are Visma Software, Visma BPO Accounting & Payroll, Visma Procurement & Collecting, Visma Retail and Visma System Development & Integration. \"\ntarget: Advitrae\nAdvitrae is a Dutch provider of education planning and scheduling solutions. Advitrae offers a SaaS-based software solution for secondary, vocational, and higher education institutions. Their platform enables education institutions to improve their planning processes and optimize their scheduling.\nBook&Learn merged with Edvisor,\nsynopsis: Vancouver-based Edvisor and Mexico City-based Book&Learn \u2013 both software providers that offer agencies course search, quoting and booking tools \u2013 have announced that they will be merging, bringing more than 7,500 agency users and 1,500 schools together.\nbuyer: Edvisor\nEdvisor an online SaaS platform that connects schools that recruit international students directly with the agencies that sell their courses abroad. Schools list their offerings and entry requirements so that agents can access current program information and enroll their students directly. \"\ntarget: Book&Learn\nBook&Learn is the leading quotation, booking and CRM for the international education industry with over 3,000 active agents and +1,000 schools.\nTransaction Services Group, acquired PerfectMind Inc.\nsynopsis: TSG, an Advent portfolio company and leading global provider of business management software, integrated payments, and value-added services to the Health and Fitness, Childcare and Education, and Boutique markets, has acquired PerfectMind Inc., a provider of software for the Parks and Recreation industry, primarily in Canada and the United States.\nbuyer parent: Advent International\nbuyer: Transaction Services Group\nTSG (Transaction Services Group) is a leading revenue management solutions company that provides business management software, integrated payments, and value-added services to clients around the globe. TSG's focus is on the health and fitness, childcare and early education, and boutique markets. \"\ntarget: PerfectMind Inc.\nPerfectMind Inc., based in British Columbia, is the creator of an activity registration, facility booking, and membership management platform.\u202fIt serves member-based organizations including municipalities, residents' associations, school districts, academic institutions, and recreation centers.\nEmbrace Software Inc., acquired Class Systems\nsynopsis: Embrace Software, a Montreal based company focused on the acquisition and operation of niche software, has acquired Infospeed, a provider of enterprise software solutions specialised for the language school industry. Infospeed's flagship product Class Systems is a cloud-based administration and booking system.\nbuyer: Embrace Software Inc.\nEmbrace acquires and operates niche software that provides industry specific solutions. Embrace believes best practices followed by enterprise software are equally relevant for small software businesses. \"\ntarget: Class Systems\nInfospeed's flagship product, Class Systems, is a cloud-based administration and booking system that manages all the business needs of schools. Since 1989, Class language school software has been popular worldwide, used by over 2,200 people in more than 250 schools.\nTicker: ASX:RDY\nReadyTech Holdings Limited\nReadyTech is an Australian provider of people management software for employment and education. ReadyTech offers a complete student management system for institutions and training organisations. For employers they offer a complete payroll, HR admin and work health and safety management system.\n18b8869f-a44f-4ca7-8422-6e7590b8b5c3","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MY E.G.sees higher revenue and profit this year\nBy SHILING WOON\nThursday, 30 Nov 2006\nKUALA LUMPUR: Electronic-Government service provider My E.G. Services Bhd sees it revenue touching RM22.9mil and profit after tax to hit RM7.9mil this financial year.\nThis would be partly the result of the upgrading of it's existing products and services to enhance customers service, said executive chairman Datuk Dr Norraesah Mohamad.\nShe added that the company also intended to introduce two new products and services to boost earnings in the current fiscal year.\nThe company posted a net profit of RM4.1mil on the back of RM19.3mil for financial year ended June 30.\n\"We are confident of achieving the projected numbers as MY E.G is one of the three electronic services provider that has a concession agreement with the government for 15 years.\n\"The agreement was to design and develop electronic delivery of driver and vehicle registration, licensing and summons services, as well as utility bill payments via information communication technology (ICT),\" she said after the launch of MY E.G prospectus on Thursday.\nNorraesah added that the company's main revenue growth was from the government sector.\nMY E.G is in the midst of negotiation with the National Registration Department (NGD) on offering it's CGC products and services.\nThese services are expected to roll out next year.\n\"We intend to set up another 100 kiosks next year after the roll out of our services for NGD to meet the growing customers' demand,\" said Norraesah.\nShe added that the company planned to allocate about RM100,000 on setting each kiosk.\nAt present it has 30 kiosks.\nAnother division, government enterprise solutions (GES), a non-Internet based service includes provision of software and enterprise solutions, system development and maintenance, as well as services rendered at the company's Electronic Service Centres.\nIt offered services such as test taking and ancillary facilities, transmission of vehicle insurance data and ancillary services for electronic-insolvency.\nIn addition, the company planned to spread their wings in the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan within the next two years.\n\"We are keen to introduce our ICT technologies into these countries. However, we are still in an early stage of discussions with some potential partners, nothing is concrete for the time being,\" she said.\nMY E.G is targeting a listing on the Mesdaq market on Jan 16 next year.\nThe company is issuing 25.5 million shares of 10 sen each at an issue price of 55 sen each.\nThe initial public offering is expected to raise RM14mil, of which RM10.8mil has been allocated for capital expenditure, RM1.38mil for working capital and the remaining RM1.8mil for listing expenses.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Phased retirement, contractor performance, buying cyber threats and more\nBy FCW Staff\nOPM outlines phased retirement rule\nThe Office of Personnel Management released the final rule for the much-awaited phased retirement program Aug. 7, and now the next move is the hands of federal agencies.\nPhased retirement is a human resources tool that allows full-time employees to work part-time schedules while beginning to draw retirement benefits. After reaching retirement eligibility, the employees work part-time while collecting half their annuity rate; participants are also required to spend 20 percent of their time mentoring other employees.\n\"Phased retirement provides a new tool that allows managers to better provide unique mentoring opportunities for employees while increasing access to the decades of institutional knowledge and experience that retirees can provide,\" OPM Director Katherine Archuleta said in a statement announcing the rule.\nNow that the rules have been released, it will be up to agencies to establish plans that define criteria for the program, including which employees and positions are eligible.\n\"For many federal employees, this program has been a long time in coming,\" National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley said. \"NTEU pushed for the legislation on Capitol Hill, pushed OPM to issue the final rules, and now will push federal agencies to develop programs.\"\nThe Phased Retirement final regulations will go into effect three months from Aug. 8, and agencies can send their applications starting Nov. 6.\nGAO: Many agencies not adequately tracking contractor performance\nAlthough federal agencies have gotten better at reporting on their contractors' past performance, compliance with federal reporting rules remains uneven, according to a new Government Accountability Office study.\nThe Office of Federal Procurement Policy's strategy to improve the reporting of past-performance information relies on increased oversight and enhancements to guidance and acquisition regulations, said the study. OFPP has been pushing agencies to improve past-performance reports, including sending memos, developing a compliance tracking tool, setting performance requirements and consolidating systems to enter past performance data.\nBut GAO found the rate of compliance varies widely by agency, with most falling far short of OFPP targets.\nGAO listed 10 agencies along with their compliance rates. The Department of Defense topped the compliance list with 83 percent in April 2014, while the General Services Administration was at the bottom with 13 percent during the same period -- although GSA did jump up from 3 percent in fiscal 2013.\nGeer: Buy up cyber threats\nCan the U.S. government buy its way to cybersecurity on the open market?\nThat's the basic idea proposed by In-Q-Tel Chief Information Security Officer Dan Geer, who gave an Aug. 6 talk at the Black Hat Security Conference entitled, \"Cybersecurity as Realpolitik.\" Geer suggested that the U.S. government \"openly corner the world market\" on \"zero-day\" vulnerabilities and exploits -- those security holes that are as-yet-unknown to software makers and antivirus systems.\nWired reported on Geer's speech, quoting him as saying such a program would be cost-effective even if the U.S. said \"show us a competing bid, and we'll give you 10 times\" that price.\"\n\"We don't need intelligence on what weapons our adversaries have if we have something close to a complete inventory,\" of zero-day vulnerabilities, Geer argued, \"and have shared that with all the affected software suppliers.\"\nWhiteHouse.Gov removes fingerprinting code\nWhiteHouse.Gov has removed from its website recently discovered code that could compromise user privacy, a White House spokesman told FCW.\nResearchers from Princeton University and Belgium's KU Leuven University have said they found the \"canvas fingerprinting\" code on 5 percent of the world's 100,000 most popular websites.\nSan Francisco looking for innovators\nThe San Francisco Mayor's Office of Civic Innovation has openings for two new Mayor's Innovation Fellows, GCN reports.\nThe one-year is designed primarily for individuals with five to eight years of private-sector experience in technology and innovation fields. The deadline has been extended to Aug. 22.\nConnect with the FCW staff on Twitter @FCWnow.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"German cleric accused of pro-Hamas writings appointed interim J'lem provost\nA German church in Jerusalem has appointed a new provost who is virulently anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas to pastor the landmark facility in the heart of the Old City.\nJens Peter Iven, a spokesman for the Church of the Redeemer, said the church will not dismiss Rainer Stuhlmann.\nStuhlmann wrote that the creation of the State of Israel was for the Palestinians a \"reason for mourning\" because Israel engaged in \"expulsion, destruction, coercion and injustice.\"\n\"In recent years, military superiority has led Israel to brutally enforce its interests against Palestine,\" he wrote. \"With an aggressive settlement policy, facts are created that narrow the scope of Palestine more and more.\"\nUli T\u00fcckmantel, editor-in-chief of the Westdeutsche Zeitung, said Stuhlmann's writing is, \"one-sided finger-pointing against Israel in the propaganda style of Fatah and Hamas.\"\nBut Stuhlmann told the Jerusalem Post his quotes were taken out of context.\n\"I have been a friend of Israel for decades. For decades I have been engaged in the fight against all forms of antisemitism, including anti-semitism related to Israel,\" he responded. \"[The] attacks against me are based on an article from which he quotes only two out of four sections [and] tears quotes out of context.\"\nThe War over Jewish History is not Fought on a Battlefield\nYeshua's broken-hearted plea - Reaffirmation, Not Replacement - Part 3\n\"World's First\" Flexible Solar Film Factory Opens in Israel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why New Mexico needs bail reform\nOn recommendation of the New Mexico Supreme Court, a bipartisan group of legislators has introduced Senate Joint Resolution 1, which would allow voters to decide whether to reform antiquated bail provisions in\nWhy New Mexico needs bail reform On recommendation of the New Mexico Supreme Court, a bipartisan group of legislators has introduced Senate Joint Resolution 1, which would allow voters to decide whether to reform antiquated bail provisions in Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http:\/\/lcsun.co\/1RuoP3N\nJustice Charles W. Daniels Published 11:22 a.m. MT Jan. 17, 2016\nOn recommendation of the New Mexico Supreme Court, a bipartisan group of legislators has introduced Senate Joint Resolution 1, which would allow voters to decide whether to reform antiquated bail provisions in our state constitution. Currently, the constitution guarantees the right to get out of jail before trial for virtually all defendants, no matter how dangerous, if they can get their hands on enough money to post bond or if they can make payment arrangements with a bail bondsman.\nThe ability of a dangerous defendant to post a bail bond does nothing to protect victims, witnesses, police officers, or anyone else from injury or death. Under existing law, neither the released defendant nor a bondsman can lose a penny if the defendant commits new crimes, no matter how violent, while out on bond. And the defendant will usually be entitled to get out of jail again simply by posting a new bond on the new crimes.\nThe old money-for-freedom guarantee in our law not only endangers our communities, it results in packing our jails with low-risk defendants who pose no real threat to community safety but who do not have enough money to pay whatever price tag is set on their constitutional right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. In addition to the unfair impact on non-dangerous defendants and their families, this imposes costs on taxpayers who must pay for housing, guarding, feeding, and caring for people who do not need to be locked up. SJR1 would give New Mexico judges new authority to deny pretrial release altogether if clear and convincing evidence shows that detention of an accused felon is necessary to protect the safety of any other person or the community. Judges in federal courts and a number of other states have already been granted detention authority since Congress first authorized detention of dangerous defendants in the District of Columbia in 1970. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the U.S. Constitution permits pretrial detention for proven dangerousness. Just a year ago, the Legislature and voters of New Jersey amended their own antiquated state constitution to give their judges detention authority.\nBy replacing money-based-release with evidence-based-release, SJR 1 would continue to protect the pretrial presumption of innocence. It would guarantee that non-dangerous defendants who are otherwise entitled to release would not be jailed simply because they lack the financial resources to post a particular bond. Any monetary bond a judge sets simply has to be set at or adjusted to a level within a non-dangerous defendant's means. This guarantee is already a part of federal law and the law of many defendant's means. This guarantee is already a part of federal law and the law of many states, and federal courts have squarely held that bond schedules denying pretrial release simply for lack of financial resources violate the federal Constitution. Many interested New Mexico organizations have studied the proposed amendment and all -- with the notable exception of the commercial bail bond industry -- have pledged their support. Supporting organizations include the New Mexico District Attorneys' Association, the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers' Association, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, and the Criminal Justice Reform Policy Committee of the New Mexico Association of Counties.\nThe New Mexico Supreme Court also has formally endorsed the proposal. While our court rarely takes a stand on proposed constitutional changes, we know that the antiquated bail provisions of current law make it impossible for our judges to both protect our communities against dangerous defendants and honor existing constitutional rights of the accused. If our judges enforce the law as it now stands, they must permit release on bail for defendants who predictably will prey on others \u2013 and incur the wrath of those who do not understand that judges must honor the law even when they believe the law should be changed. If judges were to misuse bond setting to try to ensure detention instead of to ensure return to court after release, they would violate both the rights of the defendant and their own judicial oaths to uphold the law as it is written, all without the procedural safeguards that should be required for outright denial of pretrial release. The status quo is simply unacceptable. SJR1 would permit our judges to protect New Mexicans against dangerous defendants without sacrificing the rights of non-dangerous defendants. Passage of the proposal is not just a needed reform; it is literally a matter of life and death.\nCharles W. Daniels is a justice on the New Mexico Supreme Court.\nRead or Share this story: http:\/\/lcsun.co\/1RuoP3N\nHemp may one day be as New Mexican as chile\nLetters to the editor: On Trump, then and now\nAt peace with a home in the hills\nTime is right to reform New Mexico tax code","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream\nBy GERALD IMRAY, BOUBACAR DIALLO and TRISHA THOMAS\nJuly 29, 2021 GMT\nhttps:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2020-tokyo-olympics-wrestling-guinea-fatoumata-yarie-camara-424b55c0914ea0c79226302734f991b7\nCONAKRY, Guinea (AP) \u2014 Fatoumata Yarie Camara is used to being thrown to the ground and getting up again, getting back into the fight. She's dedicated her life to wrestling, a sport that breeds tenacity. On the mat, she qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, the only athlete from Guinea to do so. Off the mat, she has battled the beliefs of her culture and family that women don't belong in sports.\nCamara endured delays as the pandemic threatened the Games. Then, three days before the rescheduled opening ceremony, her dream of standing alongside the world's best athletes teetered on a plane ticket \u2014 one she couldn't afford and government officials hadn't given her. Saying they wanted to keep Guinea's athletes safe from COVID-19, the West African country withdrew from the Olympics entirely.\nCamara and others were skeptical of officials' reasoning and believe Guinea mismanaged its planning for the Games. She gives the nation hope, officials tell her, but they've never given her any.\nAt home, the 25-year-old clutched her medals in her hands \u2014 from regional competitions, the African Games, and her Olympic qualifying event \u2014 and cried.\nIt was the one time Camara felt she couldn't get back up and fight.\nThis story is part of a yearlong series on how the pandemic is impacting women in Africa, most acutely in the least developed countries. AP's series is funded by the European Journalism Centre's European Development Journalism Grants program, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AP is responsible for all content.\nIn the neighborhood of Hamdallaye, one of the most populous and poorest areas of the capital city, Conakry, few dare to dream of leaving. Camara's family lives shoulder-to-shoulder with neighbors. Streets are strewn with garbage. Children play in the mud.\nCamara sleeps on a mattress on the floor. Her medals hang from a nail on the wall, a constant reminder of her Olympic dream.\nHamdallaye, Fatoumata Yarie Camara's hometown. (AP Video)\nParis calling: After Tokyo, Olympians hanker for 2024 Games\nFewer medals, more heart for US at a most unusual Olympics\nWomen send powerful message in Olympic track and field\nAt age 14, Camara was playing soccer \u2014 then her favorite sport \u2014 when she caught the eye of a soldier who wrestled. He was impressed with her strategy, her moves, her physique. \"You have talent,\" he told her, and asked if she'd ever considered wrestling. She'd never heard of it. He described the combat sport, and visited her family to earn their support.\nAt her very first competition, Camara won a gold medal. \"It was there that I started to love wrestling,\" she said.\nBack then, Camara's mother, Kadiatou Soumah, supported her, despite resistance in the community and their own family. Sports aren't meant for girls, they said. But Soumah backed her daughter with what little funds the family had. Soumah's husband stopped working when Camara was 3. Soumah had to support him, too, and Camara's brother and sister.\nIt's rare for a West African woman like Soumah to be the family's sole breadwinner. Employment isn't easy for the 13 million residents of Guinea, a largely Muslim country where many live in poverty despite the country's rich reserve of bauxite, the base material for aluminum, and mines for gold and diamonds. The health care system is still recovering from the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people in Guinea and neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone.\nFull Coverage: Women Eyes of Africa\nSoumah saw wrestling as a lifeline, a means to change the family's life. Camara won more medals. She gave up school.\nSoumah sold candy and eggs out of a roadside kiosk and went door-to-door in better-off neighborhoods offering to wash clothes, clean homes and prepare meals. After working all day, she then cooked for her own family.\nShe even managed to buy Camara small presents to encourage her wins. Soumah was her daughter's manager and cheerleader. She gave her pocket money for traveling to competitions and picked her up in taxis at the airport, often late at night.\nBut when Camara's victories never clinched any earnings, Soumah's support waned.\n\"It only comes with medals,\" Soumah said. \"Never with money. My daughter has nothing.\"\nAs she grew older, Camara was expected to help support the family, even if it meant giving up wrestling. Instead, she continued competing and was often away training, one less person to provide.\nShe moved to Morocco to train via a grant from United World Wrestling, the international governing body. But when the pandemic hit, Camara and her training partners were locked down. They weren't allowed to wrestle for 10 months, the body-on-body contact deemed too high-risk.\nCamara used a wrestling term to describe what happened. \"COVID blocked us,\" she said.\nShe tried jogging in her room for exercise but gained weight. Inactivity is the enemy of world-class athletes, and Camara feared she wouldn't be able to stay under the required weight for her 57-kilogram freestyle event.\nMorocco ultimately asked the wrestlers to leave because of the virus. Camara went home, to a country without proper wrestling facilities.\nCoach Vincent Aka speaks about the challenges women who wrestle face in Africa. (AP Video)\nFearing the pandemic and a lack of activity, coach Vincent Aka \u2014 a former Olympian himself \u2014 moved Camara and three other West African wrestlers to his native Ivory Coast.\n\"Fatoumata's situation is very special because she is more talented,\" Aka said.\nIn April, Camara beat wrestlers from Egypt, Guam and Algeria to make the final of the African and Oceania qualifying tournament in Tunisia. She lost, but the silver medal was good enough \u2014 she'd officially qualified for the Olympics. She was on top of the world.\nFatoumata wrestles at facilities in Rome, Italy. (AP Video)\nAka managed to secure money for a two-week summer training camp in Italy. Camara wrestled in a competition in Sardinia \u2014 her first in three months \u2014 then went to Rome.\nCamara knew where she needed improvement: \"I am a bit weak on attack,\" she said, working with a partner at a judo and karate center. She ducked her head under his arm and into his chest, then heaved him up on her back, flipped him over and slammed him down onto the mat. He grunted, but she wasn't happy; she practiced the move again.\nShe wore a T-shirt, tight pants rolled up above her ankles and no shoes \u2014 saving her best wrestling uniform for Tokyo. She lived in a dormitory, in a cubicle room similar to Olympic Village accommodations. For her, it was luxurious living.\nWithout the camp, she'd have been living on about $4 a day, as the Guinea Olympic committee gave her $500 to prepare after she qualified \u2014 and no plane ticket.\n\"If I were in another country, maybe my life would change a bit,\" Camara said. \"You are bringing honor to your country. The country hopefully pays you back. If the country does not, if they do nothing for their athletes, then how will others have the courage to come train like you? Because it requires a lot of sacrifice.\"\nFatoumata in her dorm in Italy. (AP Video)\nBefore she left Rome, she had one crucial pre-Olympic task on her list. Vaccinations are encouraged for these Games, but Camara knew Guinea had no plans for her; authorities there have warned of low supply as they fear a third wave across the region.\nSo she went to an Italian hospital where shots were being given to homeless people, immigrants without documents and others without health care access. She joined the queue and got her jab. Aka and UWW treated her and her training partners to a pizza at an outdoor restaurant at the trip's end.\nCamara then returned to Guinea; she was big news in her country as the Games neared.\nIn the muddy streets of her neighborhood, young girls approached her \u2014 strong, muscular ones who want to be athletes like her.\n\"There are girls who are training every day,\" Camara said, \"who come to me and ask me how I got to become a wrestler. ... If one has a bit of support and means, I know that they could be like me and like other girls who are champions today in other countries.\"\nBut she fears they will also feel unsupported by Guinean leaders, who praised her upon her return home.\n\"Fatoumata Yarie Camara carries the hope of the entire Guinean nation. She is the hope of a whole people,\" said Ben Daouda Nansoko, secretary general of Guinea's Olympic committee. \"This is the career of this girl that shines.\"\nFatoumata Yarie Camara walks around Rome. (AP Video)\nYet, days before the Games, the budget for the trip hadn't been approved. And she still had no plane ticket.\nSoumah grew tired of empty promises and no longer believed Camara should go to the Olympics. After officials visited their home to change Soumah's mind, she relented. But she remained skeptical of vows to pay bonuses and reimbursement when Camara returned.\nAt night, Camara prayed: \"Please make it easier for me.\"\nShe once believed she would carry Guinea's flag at the opening ceremony as teams marched into the Olympic stadium. Guinea has four additional athletes listed to compete who didn't qualify but instead were given places through a program that helps underrepresented nations.\nCamara is world-ranked and thought she would certainly be the flag-bearer \u2014 the focus of the world's cameras, if just for a few seconds. But Guinean officials told her she would fly to Tokyo the week after the ceremony, with the country's flag carried instead by a Japanese volunteer.\nFatoumata Yarie Camara speaks about what the Olympics mean to her. (AP Video)\nCamara told herself it was just a crack in her dream. She'd still get to compete.\nOr would she? Confusion reigned over the next several days, with the government announcing it would withdraw the entire team due to \"the resurgence of COVID-19 variants.\" But reports theorized that the country simply hadn't set aside funds for the delegation.\nCamara grieved for her Games, but ultimately accepted that she wouldn't make the trip.\n\"The Olympics have always been a dream,\" she said. \"But this is God who controls all. I must just keep the courage, like always.\"\nThe news of the country's withdrawal caused an uproar \u2014 nationally and beyond Guinean borders. The government reversed its decision a day after its announcement and said athletes would indeed compete. Officials said they'd received guarantees from health authorities that put their coronavirus worries at ease.\nCamara and others remained skeptical that COVID-19 was ever the issue. But it didn't matter \u2014 once again, she was headed to the Olympics.\nIn this image made from a video, Guinean freestyle wrestler Fatoumata Yarie Camara, foreground, arrives with a delegation of athletes, at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Sunday, July 25, 2021. (AP Photo\/Alessandro Libri)\nCoach Aka and United World Wrestling were ready to pay for Camara's flight, in case Guinean officials didn't follow through. But in the end, they did. On the day of the opening ceremony, Camara boarded an airplane. Gripping her seat, she smiled for a photograph.\nIt was too late to carry her nation's flag. And maybe her mother still disapproved.\nBut the flight was confirmed. She had a 48-hour trip ahead of her. And on Wednesday, Camara \u2014 ranked eighth in the world in her class \u2014 will compete in the Olympic Games.\nShe and Aka took photos of her ticket.\nIt has her name: Fatoumata Camara. Destination: Tokyo.\nImray reported from Tokyo. Thomas reported from Rome. Carley Petesch contributed from Dakar, Senegal.\nFollow AP's multiformat Africa news on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Africa\nSee the full series on how the pandemic is affecting women in Africa: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/women-the-eyes-of-africa","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"My older boy plays the trombone. I played the trombone when I was a child, and tried to talk him out of it when he proposed to do likewise. Social Services eavesdroppers please take note: I didn't actually threaten him with physical violence. Of course, me committing ritual suicide over it is a kind of violence, but still...\nHe went his own way by following in my footsteps -- if that's possible. And he stuck to it. And yesterday, he made his parents proud.\nRelax, dear readers; I'm not going to tell you how my kid is a phenom, aren't I, um, I mean, isnt he swell? My boy participates, and does his best, which isn't bad; and through a combination of effort by him and his peers and the efforts of his musical teachers, he and his compatriots are pretty good. And without any ringers, or savants, or poor little charges chained to their pianos by their grasping grabby parents, they were among the forty or so gold medal winners in the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association competition. They competed, and were chosen from among tens of thousands of children who participated, to play at either Boston Symphony Hall or Worcester's Mechanic's Hall. The parents were able to vote for which location they'd like to see their kids at, and the general consensus here in town was: Mechanics Hall.\nAt first blush, I was unimpressed. By \"unimpressed,\" I mean that when four or five of my fellow parents were able to pry my fingers off the neck of the first person who wanted to skip the opportunity to have our children perform at BOSTON FREAKING SYMPHONY HALL, I calmed down and became interested in Mechanic's Hall in Worcester.\nIt's better. Here's why:\nMechanic's Hall is a magnificent and important place, but I'm not going to beat around the bush here: Worcester's a dump. Mechanic's Hall is one of the few things in it worth a mention. Worcester's not an exciting dump, even; you can walk right down the street with your wallet in your pocket and your children on your hand and not be particularly worried about being robbed or killed or something. It's really not interesting enough to be dangerous. And you can walk right down the street there literally too, right down the middle of the street if you felt like it, because there's no one there to run you over. Why would you go to Worcester?\nWorcester is the second biggest city in Massachusetts, and New England too, I think; I don't care enough about it to find out if it's bigger than Hartford, Connecticut, because that's like saying you're the world's tallest midget anyway. Boston, The Hub, has about 650,000 people in it, and for perspective, one hundred years ago it had about 650,000 people in it. Worcester's likewise been running in place -- or backwards -- like most of New England and Boston since my ancestors ditched Ireland and the famine for the mail boat to Canada, and drifted down to Massachusetts.\nBut Worcester used to be an important place. It might be again; who knows? It's cleaner and has more activity that doesn't look like \"Sodom and Gomorrah Light\" than it did twenty years ago. And at least Worcester, in the aggregate, had the good sense to collect five million dollars or so to save Mechanic's Hall, when its former owners tired of simply humiliating its sterling memory by hosting professional wrestling and roller derby in its magnificent Great Hall and decided to tear it down to put up a pornographic bookstore\/parking garage or something.\nThe word \"mechanic\" is not understood by the modern reader in its original form, and is usually identified solely with persons who tinker with cars for $125.00 per hour now. But the word originally encompassed the entire spectrum of tradesman and mechanical and artistic workers. People who deal in contracts for construction see the word often, referring to all sorts of people. I asked my ten year old, as we were walking down the street towards the hall, if he knew any mechanics. He pondered, and fooled his old man by not being fooled: \"Yes, you Dad!\"\nWorcester is in the center of the Blackstone River Valley and was an early Industrial Revolution powerhouse. Various civic minded citizens decided to do more than just make money and live in Worcester. They thought in terms of the ennoblement of their city and their fellow man as well. Here's why they said they founded the association on November 27th, 1841, and decided to build the hall:\n[The association espouses the principles of] \"the moral, intellectual and social improvement of its members; the perfection of the mechanical arts, and the pecuniary assistance of the needy.\"\nWho's against that, exactly? They wished to exalt and serve the men and women who had made them wealthy, and from whose ranks they had sprung themselves.\nSo they built the magnificent Mechanic's Hall, which cost over $100,000, which was a tidy sum back then, in the popular Italian Renaissance Revival style, they filled it with music, and politics, (Teddy Roosevelt spoke from its stage, as did Elizabeth Cady Stanton,) and held trade shows and many other important and plebeian affairs alike. Charles Dickens himself held forth from that stage.\nYou can see a fabulous 360 degree view of the Great Hall by clicking here.\nHannah Moore, the music director in my son's elementary school, deserves a lot of credit for her efforts. She's not getting rich teaching her charges, after all. She is manifestly devoted to what she's doing, and shows great good sense in understanding that choosing music with an ear towards entertaining the audience -- not gratifying any cranky musical worldview of the music director -- is the way to go. My boy's three year old brother sat rapt in attention while his brother played his three selections, and clapped excitedly when it was done. We tried to stay and listen to as many of the following acts as his attention span would allow, but the very next orchestra drove him out of the hall by playing harsh, atonal, loud, and disturbing music, because I suppose the musical director thought it was edgy. I bet it does bring an edge to the proceedings for the children participants to see everybody but your relatives fleeing for the exits when you're twenty bars in. When three year olds have more sense than you, you need to reexamine your priorities, sir.\nBut my boy and his brethren's Sousa was marvelous and entertaining, and as we walked back to the car, giddy with bright sunshine after Music Hall lighting and the event itself, I reminded my boy that he trod the same stage as Enrico Caruso, and Ella Fitzgerald, and Yo Yo Ma, and uncounted others that made the world, and then made the world a brighter place too.\nHe was too busy watching a pigeon, or skipping just so to miss the cracks in the sidewalk, or gaping at a passing car, or a jet contrail, or wondering why a bookstore would have the windows all blacked out, to hear me. No matter. He'll know what it means to have been on that stage, when he's old -- like his father.\nAre You The Verb, Or An Adjective?\n[I'm recycling this from a year ago. I am reminded recently that for a great deal of my life, I was pointed towards, and assumed to be, part of the Cadre of The Adjective. I know what it is to be a sort of human filing cabinet. But no man knows very much, generally. Knowledge is not wisdom. It's great to be Shakespeare, but even he would tell you he's not Hamlet.\nWriting is, in a sense, Being the Adjective. Modifying a little perhaps, but only descriptive. I always bridled at it; I chafed in the intellectual harness. I longed to be the verb. It's gotten me into all kinds of marvelous trouble over the years. I've decided that I'm now at least entitled to be an adverb.]\nWhen I was a lad, and Johnson was president, most middle class basements were identical. The concrete was left exposed, the washer and dryer stood guard, one bare bulb illuminated the whole affair. Most men had a workshop of some sort down there. A venerable cast iron Craftsman table saw. Peg board, of course; pegboard was the ne plus ultra of the handy set. Kids, you're officially old when you remember when pegboard was state of the art. A few dull hand planes, perhaps a drill press, a circular saw with the original blade, a jig saw about as sturdy looking as an electric carving knife. Screwdrivers, lots and lots of screwdrivers. And baby food jars filled with wood screws, all still there unused, because the drywall screw came like a horde out of the east and swept the landscape bare of flat headed screws.\nAnd what was that basement shop for? Why, to build a boat of course.\nThe plans were everywhere in the fifties and sixties. Popular Mechanics, Outdoor Life, National Fisherman, Green Stamp Catalogs. You do remember Green Stamps, don't you? You bought stuff, they gave you little stamps, you pasted them in their book, and redeemed them for worthless household stuff. It was the voluntary American version of the chit system that had its compulsory version in the USSR, with Russians standing in line for days to get a block of suet to eat.\nThe stories of the boat made in the basement, too big to get it out through the bulkhead, probably became cliche because because they were so true and so numerous. And many people succumbed to the siren song of the boatbuilding urge, only to founder on the Scylla of the lack of spare time and the Charybdis of lack of talent.\nAnd why should I be any different? When I went to college for Architecture, on the first day of our design class, our teachers demanded: design your dream house. Right now. Before the end of the class. Now I thought I was there to learn how to design my dream house, with the help of these gentlemen, and then perhaps try my hand at it. But these fellows had other ideas. They seemed to have the same approach to teaching that modern singers have singing the National Anthem- I don't know the words, the song is about me, and I'm starting on the last note and going up in volume and histrionics from there.\nAnyway, I sketched what is essentially an accurate representation of the home I live in now, with a little handmade boat in the yard. The ocean in the drawing was a little closer then than it is in reality now, because each eighth of a mile towards the water adds another zero to the vapor trail of zeros houses cost anyway. But in all major respects, it was spot on, two decades in advance. And they said:\nPhilistine.\nOnly they weren't that pleasant about it. My little dream was too, well, normal for the two men in clogs, and they told me so. With force.\nAs my classmates, who were wiser than me, scribbled furiously, designing concrete and steel and chain link and glass and stone monstrosities, with hot and cold running potato chips, I pondered my dilemma. What would make these guys happy? And then I hit upon it.\nThirty minutes later, I showed them my new castle. I was half a geodesic sphere, plopped down bizarrely in the mountains. It was the human equivalent of a fishbowl. There were no interior partitions. Anyone inside would be roasted like an ant with magnifying glass held over them.\nThey loved it. They showed it to everybody else in the class. How forward looking. How brave.\nOn the way out of the class, the light began to dawn on one of the teachers. He asked me, where's the bathroom? It seemed to be the first time he had considered the second most fundamental human need.\nI had my \"A\" in hand already. I could, and did, tell him: \"There's a hole in the middle of the floor,\" and left.\nPosted by SippicanCottage at 9:41 AM 1 comment:\nFrom Nothing\nPeople make nests of all sorts. It's still possible to choose a wide array of living situations in the United States, and make yourself as happy as we imperfect beasts can be.\nI don't know exactly how to describe our place, and the place it's in. Some would call our town a suburb. The word \"exurb\" came into favor while we were living here, and fits better, but not quite. Others would have called it rural a half century ago. It's just a cottage in the woods to us.\nSprawl. McMansion. Development. These are epithets thrown at one another in permitting authority meetings nowadays. It's getting harder to do what you want with your property. There is a very elaborate set of hoops that must be navigated if you want to build what we built here, on a miserable patch of poison ivy, ten years ago. Most of the hoops have been added recently, and essentially make what we did impossible now. If you managed to lawyer and engineer your way through the labrynth of government now, a fee would be charged, part of which would go towards helping keep housing \"affordable\" in the town.\nEvery thing offered for sale in this town sells in five minutes. By definition, that's affordable -- someone can afford it, and thinks enough of the town to pay it to live here. By \"affordable,\" they really mean there's gotta be cheap housing. Well, my house was cheap, when I built it. All the restrictions put on what can be done buildingwise in the intervening decade have made the land it sits on fabulously expensive to the point of unavailability. And no one in their right mind is going to pay a third of a million dollars for a building lot and build a hundred thousand dollar house on it. And no bank will lend you money to develop a lot unless the finished product is worth three times the raw lot, minimum. It's the law of unintended consequences-- that which you've made impossible you try to subsidize. A town is not a zoo. People should not be kept as exhibits.\nIt's not too long ago that most people were farmers. Subsistence farmers, at that. And a farm is not like what you see on Charlotte's Web. Subsistence farms take up a lot of room, require Hiroshima style land clearing, and are famously bad for anything that lives near them that walks on four legs. An interesting conundrum for vegetarians to consider is that many more animals are killed when a farmer runs a harvester over a field than when a cow is slaughtered. Are not moles and voles and woodchucks and all their furry brethren a beating heart in a fur sack, just like that surly leather bag full of bones, the steer? Avert your eyes from the cats all farms have too; Chip and Dale appear in their mouths with astonishing regularity.\nNo one subsistence farms any more. Almost no one farms in any fashion in the Northeast anymore, compared to just fifty years ago. And the houses of the people that big time agriculture elsewhere can support, that dot the landscape and annoy the NIMBYs, take up far less land than the few farms that used to make a treeless brown corduroy patchwork quilt of the map. I live on what used to be a five acre pasture, once completely denuded of trees for grazing livestock, just 75 years ago. Three quarters of it is covered with dense forest now, and will remain so.\nI look at that luminous black and white photo of a little homestead in Texas seventy years ago, with the baby in the pram, and the neat white cottage -- nothing special, but an unbelievable luxury for the new occupants, no doubt -- and see myself and my family. That little wisp of a tree that they've planted, probably with a little ceremony, likely shades that house now, and reminds its current occupants that some take the long view, and plant a tree; others pass laws against cutting them down. They work for the same ends, though they do not know it.\nWhat Did You Know, and When Did You Know It?\nAn extraordinary, terrifying, and wonderful thing happened yesterday.\nSunday afternoon is generally pleasant. We tinker with projects around our house, in a desultory fashion generally. \"I help! I help!\" is welcome, of course, but it's the harbinger of many attitudes, few of which look like efficiency. The trip can become all journey and no destination. Then again, the Sunday Drive of my youth was just the same. To wander with intent but not purpose -- delightful.\nMy head was jammed inside a cabinet, trying to reconfigure the components to play more than Scooby Doo VCR tapes. Occasionally small feet would trod on my legs, and now and again the flashlight would be withdrawn, unwonted, and its gradually weakening beam would play wildly over the living room ceiling, herky jerky, and then be returned to me the way Jim Lonborg would \"return\" the baseball to Elston Howard. Like a Brobdinagian in Lillliput, pinned down and annoyed, I soldiered, and soldered, on.\nMy two sons are seven years apart in age, which elicits much conjecture about the compatibility of their interests. Let me assure you their interests are much the same; whacking on each other, stepping on their father here and there, and delighting and tiring out their mother. And the older looks out for the younger better than if they were more contemporary in age. We do not worry much, when they are together.\nBut a sound came from their room. My wife and I know all the sounds. Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your head, said Martin Mull. He didn't know the half of it. He spoke too soon, likely never dreaming that the older half of the bowling alley would take up the trombone to drive home the point.\nBut this sound fit in no slot in the catalogue of tintinnabulation we had stored in our heads -- all the possible permutations of din available to two young boys. It sounded wrong, and desperate; we knew that immediately.\nMy wife sprinted up the stairs to the ten year old's room. I couldn't extricate myself; I struggled to get to my feet. I arrived maybe fifteen seconds behind her. We didn't use ten stairs between us.\nThe little one, barely three, stood in the middle of the room, eyes glassy, hands at his neck, face darkening, and with his ten year old brother behind him, arms clasped around his brother's chest from behind, trying to squeeze him -- trying save his little brother's life.\nYour mind does not wander at such a time, exactly, but certain possibilities occur to you, so dark, so treacherous, so dreadful, that to picture them is to look into the abyss. Be careful of that, Nietzsche says; eventually the abyss looks back at you.\nAs I said, the mind does not wander. But your mind does become a sort of filing clerk -- inefficient, disorganized, not lazy but hardly a help sometimes -- and goes searching through everything in that dusty old heap of half remembered facts, prejudices, and habits we call our intellects.\nGrab the boy. He's limp now. Turn him around. Sweep your finger through his mouth. Far too late for that. Right hand, thumb cocked in at the knuckle. Place it beneath the breastbone, thumb knuckle in. Left hand grasps right wrist. Bend slightly forward. Then sharply pull up and in, hard enough to work, not hard enough to break him. One. Nothing. Two. Nothing. Three. Nothing. Four.\nHungry Hungry Hippos. The perfect white plastic sphere appears, covered in spit.\nHe's upset, like a boy barely three often is, and wants a drink of water. His ten year old brother is upset in a different fashion, and is consoled by his mother. I -- I'm grateful, I guess. The little one begins to eat crackers from his lunch plate, and watches Felix the Cat.\nThere have been times in my life when if I failed, I'd get a D on my report card, and a stern look from my father. Other times, if I failed, my leg would be broken or my tooth knocked out. Later, if I failed I could be booed and jeered in front of hundreds of people. Perhaps if I failed, people would have to look for new jobs, including me. I've failed ten times before breakfast, as the saying goes, but I'm not sure I've ever been faced with the life I pictured, just for an instant, in my mind's darkling eye, with my boy in my arms -- if I failed.\nWhat do you know, and when did you know it?\nWe found the big brother in the bathroom late that night, weeping. I sent his mother away, and put him to bed. I asked him: how did you know how to help your brother?\nI read it in a book in the library.\nWho gave you that book?\nI found it myself. But I couldn't do it.\nYour brother is OK. You helped him. You saved him. Just like you saved your father seven years ago, though you do not remember it. You found me, unconscious on the floor in my room, the stingers of the deadly bees still hot in my leg, found me gasping like a fish on the beach, and you got your mother and you saved me. You saved me, to help you to save your brother.\nYou are not a little boy any more. I can tell you now, that all any man wants is to be able to think, in a moment of repose, that his son is a better man than he. You are, and I am content. Go to sleep, and dream of your brother and you in the playground.\nHe slept soundly. I laid in bed for a long time, wondering: What do I need to know, and when will I need to know it?\nHardy Perennial\nIt's my wife's birthday again. I cannot explain it, but I will report it: I never get tired of my wife.\nIn many ways, I am a tiresome person. There's something of the extrovert of biblical proportions to my makeup. As the saying goes, I want to be the corpse at every funeral, and the bride at every wedding. My wife is like the antidote to me. She is quiet, polite, and deferential, and is funny, but not music hall funny. Quiet funny.\nWe have children of course; the tie that binds. That idea -- the tie that binds-- is not as de rigeur as it once was. But the ties that bind my wife and I together are so strong, and so numerous, that I cannot picture them broken; and as time has passed, I've come to understand the elderly women who used to sit in the back of the Catholic church wearing black every day of their lives after their husbands had passed away. Would it be any different for me? There are holes that cannot be filled.\nBut no gloom today, please. She is radiant, and occasionally when we are all sated and content, she gets a moment at the table, alone with her thoughts. I see her and I know others settle for cut flowers, pretty, fresh, ephemeral. She is all that, but more too: she blooms daily, year after year, and will brighten the world long after she and I are gone, endlessly bestowing the solid good sense and grace she inculcates in her children, and through them who knows how many more.\nI'm gratified she keeps me around. Like the cat, I do not understand why; I simply empty the bowls and purr.\nThe Prosecution Rests, Your Honor\nWell, we told you earlier this week, and last year too, that Michael Jackson could sing. When Nixon was President.\nThe Jackson Five on The Ed Sullivan Show\nPoor Jermaine. That's him singing call and response with his little brother and playing that crummy Gibson bass. Plaid pants with cuffs and big flares were all the rage then, so be try not to be too hard on him. Jermaine was the original lead singer, and if he's not actually playing that song, he could be; his hands are fingering the correct notes we're hearing. It does at least have a cord plugged into it.\nJermaine's like the swimsuit model that has a child and shows up for her first postpartum photo shoot and notices the catalog has a scrawny teenager with a pneumatic rack on the payroll now. Days. Are. Numbered.\nJackie and Marlon look like they're gonna get a beating after the show.\nDeath to the Zancudos\nGood day everyone.\nFirst, some housecleaning. Commenter Reader_iam brought to my attention a script glitch about the comments doohickie gizmo. Bravo she. The rest of you suffered in silence. I am proud of my audience of stoics, and grateful to Reader_iam at the same time.\nIf you've been receiving an e-mail error message after commenting here, it's nothing personal. Your humble narrator is of course unfit for polite society and lashes out, left and right, at almost everything that comes into his view, but it doesn't manifest itself by me hurling a bizarre e-mail error message back at you. Yet. As they say in the Godfather, it's not personal, it's strictly business.\nWe believe we have corrected the situation, and as far as the fellow in charge of our technical side, let's just say the swamp here is very large, and it's unlikely they'll ever find him.\nNow, to the business at hand. If you read the headline today, you're figuring I'm throwing in my lot with some Zapatistas, or I've taken to the hills to battle some caudillo. Not so. Zancudo is the word a south american native would use to describe what colonial europeans called a gnat, and we call by its Spanish appellation: the mosquito.\nI write amusing commentary for the fine computer hardware website HotHardware.com, and this week's installment is called Death to the Zancudos. Believe me, here in the swamp, I know about mosquitoes. But it's about more than that, this story. It's about using your noggin to solve your problems. It's a clarion call for New Thinkers. Won't you answer the call?\nAll Hail Micheline Bernardini\nAuthor's Note: I received several hundred extra unexplained visits to my Sippican Cottage Furniture page two days ago, and they were looking for Micheline Bernardini. Apparently Fox News did a little style info item about the 60th anniviersary of the invention of the bikini. And if you search google images for the lovely lady's picture, Sippican Cottage Furniture comes up second. The Fox item was on the main page of Fark as well, a raucus and profane news aggregator and message board, which is the biggest thing of its kind on the Internet. If the link was direct to me, it would have melted the servers.\nJuly 5th is the actual anniversary, and I wrote about it on July 5th, 2005. That was back when I didn't have an official blog, I had invented my own, of sorts, as \"What's New\" on my own webpage. But Blogger's Free, so now we have both. The big newsies are so behind the blogworld. Their audience seems somewhat larger than mine, though. Anyway, I reprint it here now for your amusement, and as I said last year, Micheline looks quite fetching, doesn't she?\nJuly 5th, 2005-\nGood day to you. I trust you all had a wonderful time celebrating the Fourth of July. The weather was extremely clement yesterday, and the yard beckoned, and we answered. Lovely.\nBut now, is the thrill gone? I feared so, and began to wonder- What is the Fifth of July an anniversary for? Anything? Bueller?\nWell, I didn't really mean anything. I meant something really notable, or fun, or important. I looked around, but it all seemed trivial, all the July 5ths through the ages:\nIn 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his Principia Mathematica. But Einstein shot that all to hell and ruined it for the rest of us.\nIn 1830, France invaded Algeria, lord knows why.\nIn 1920, Algeria declared its independence from France, lord knows why. But they've got that going for them.\nIn 1954, Elvis made his first recording, \"The Blue Moon of Kentucky.\" I didn't hear that being covered at Live8, so I guess he's not noteworthy, huh?\nIn 1884, Germany, no doubt envious of the Garden of Eden the French had found in Algeria, invaded Cameroon. They must have lost interest in the place on one of the other 364 days of the year, July 5th calendars are mute on the subject.\nIn 1811. Venezuela declared its independence from Spain, but waited until 2004 to declare its independence from any form of work not based on oil receipts and warmed over Castro politics.\nIn short, I was going to have to think of something else to bore you with on July fifth. Until...\nOmigod. 1946. THE INVENTION OF THE BIKINI. Hosannahs and ululations! Cinco De Mayo, Independence Day, gosh darnit, Christmas is nothing compared to that! Before 1946, ladies bathing suits were designed by the Taliban. And then- France, still stinging from their expulsion from Algeria, no doubt, decided to attract some attention to themselves the old fashioned way, by disrobing, and c'est magnifique! they gave us the most expensive garment per square inch in the world, and worth every penny, I say.\nNow, to be a real bikini, we've got to look at that belly button. Various two piece swimsuits had been in vogue in Hollywood, for instance, before 1946, but It took Louis Reard, in Paris, France to get the girls out on the beach properly in a getup worthy of tanning in. Here it is, fashioned by one of the few women brave enough in 1946 France to model it. In 2005, we're having trouble getting anyone to wear at least this much when sunbathing:\nClick anywhere on the picture (no wise comments, you) and you'll be transported to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, and read all about Monsieur Reard and ol' Michele Bernardini, the model, and lots of other interesting stuff about the Bikini Atoll, the islet in the Pacific the garb is named for, and our now thankfully forgotten habit of dropping atomic bombs on it.\nAnd for all you Haute Couture weirdos infesting Paris right now, here's my two cents: That picture was taken in 1946. Miss Bernadini looks quite fetching in that rig, and comfortable to boot. A woman wearing that suit would feel feminine, and attractive, not exhibitionist. And men don't really need to see any more than that to get the general idea. So the next time you people get the urge to reinvent the bathing suit wheel again, like you do every year, and make it look like your model is wearing a bag, or a couple of bottle caps, or a window screen, or little boy's pants, or little more than postage for an undersized envelope, look up this picture, and repeat after me:\nQuit while you're ahead.\nLet's Play Two\nNow when I was a kid, baseball was different. I'm not ancient, so you'll be relieved to know there'll be no talk of stickball in a Brooklyn street or Ty Cobb's sharpened spikes. The players we admired on our playing cards are coaches now, not dead. And the playing cards we had were worthless, and the gum was precious, thank God, so we enjoyed them, and flipped them for Face up\/Facedown on the bus seats on the way to school, or lined them up against the old brick wall in the playground and played Knockdown. And we gave shopping bags and shoe boxes filled with them to our cousins and younger brothers when we came of age, and laugh when we think of the fortune just one of those cards commands from memorabilia freaks now.\nWe did not have uniforms. We played with baseballs that looked much older than us, and cracked wooden bats with electrical tape holding them together, and had to mow the field before we could play on it. There were never enough of us, so we pitched to our own team members, and right field was an out. Period. And more often than not, right field went unmowed, too. We played in jeans and canvas sneakers, and a hole in the knee of your pants wasn't yet stylish, it was a calamity when you had to face your mother, who knew what they cost. And we played until we heard our mothers yell our names for the second time, like a town crier, and hurried home to a scolding for tarrying, and dinner.\nAll of that is gone now, like so many things, changed by time, and prosperity, and other things. Our mothers thought nothing of turning us out of doors at daylight in the summer, though we were but small, because forty years ago, someone who would hurt a child would have more problems in this world than registering at the police station, and paying their lawyers. And we mowed the grass ourselves, with a mower that shot gravel out the unbaffled chute at our confederates, and we could barely reach up to the handle to push it, and we didn't maim ourselves, and sue anybody, that I recall. And we settled the rules first and our disputes later among ourselves without the guiding hand of our parents, except what little sense they had managed to get into our heads, and rarely resorted to knuckles. Funny that. We had it sorted out in 1965, when we were but children, but forty years later we assault the umpires at our children's games. Something was there, and has slipped away, I think.\nI remember lots of things about that little diamond, carved out of the trees as an afterthought by the developer of our little neighborhood, long before the word \"developer\" became an epithet hurled at conservation committee meetings by people who live in houses made by a \"builder.\" The builder and the developer look identical to the unaided eye, but people who already have a house have a different perspective, and thesaurus, than those that need one.\nAnd I remember Cookie. Now, our children should be collecting Cookie's rookie trading cards, to put them through college when they sell them on ebay, and not community college either. But it was not to be. Because Cookie, although the greatest baseball player I ever saw, didn't want to be a professional ballplayer. He wanted to be a barber.\nNow that last sentence clanged to the floor at your house, and you thought: He's kidding, or he's nuts. Well, I'm not kidding, anyhow. Cookie wouldn't have it if it was offered.\nNow, Cookie was a little older than us, and that brought out the Paul Bunyan side of it a little I'm sure. Remember when you thought your father could lift a car, or paint the house by having you hold the brush while he moved the house up and down? Later you found out he was just another middle aged guy that emitted an audible gasp every time he sat down. Well, I'm sure that entered into it a little, that perspective from down where the little kids are, looking at big Cookie, but that wasn't all of it. He really was a wonder, I think.\nCookie would show up when we had been playing all day, and to this day I don't know his last name, or where he came from, or where he went to after he was done. But every time he came, we stopped whatever we were doing, and Cookie put on a Ruthian barnstorming exhibition. The biggest kid among us would pitch to Cookie, and the rest of us would scatter into the woods beyond the field, and wait for the balls to rain down on us. Because Cookie was a machine for hitting home runs. If the pitcher would wince during his delivery, human nature being what it is, knowing the ball might be coming back those 60' 6\" in a big hurry- he'd maybe sail the ball wide and three feet off the plate. It didn't matter. Cookie would step on the plate, and lean over, and flick his wrists, and it would rain down into the woods, every time.\nAnd with Cookie, right field was in play for once, after a fashion. We'd grow tired of fishing our precious baseballs out of the oaks and poison ivy in center field, and beseech Cookie for a real show, and he'd get up lefty, his switch hitting a revelation to us, and hit it out over the unmowed grass. Right field had no natural end, so the balls would roll when they hit, like cannonballs that had missed their fortress, but occasionally Cookie would clear the whole distance, and hit the pavement at the foot of the road that entered the field. And we'd ululate like madmen, and didn't care our precious baseball was no longer round. We adored him.\nCookie even sort of looked the part, if I recall correctly. The major leagues were filled with midwestern farmboy looking lummoxes like Mantle and Killebrew back then, and Cookie had the rangy frame, reddish blond stubble head, loping strides and laconic demeanor of our icons.\nBut with glasses. But not coke bottle glasses. Those wouldn't have brought a billboard into focus for Cookie. Cookie had the sort of glasses that seemed like the windows on a deep sea submarine. It was disorienting just to look at him, and if the barbering trade didn't fly, I imagine mesmerism would have been a cakewalk for him.\nAnd perhaps Cookie knew what we, in our innocence, did not; that his eyesight would forever make him an also-ran, and it was best not to dream overmuch and better to make use of your gifts to amuse your neighbors and spice your life than to try to squeeze every drop of mammon from them. Maybe. But I really think that Cookie didn't care if he became what was to us an exalted thing: A big league ballplayer. He wasn't interested. He wanted to be a barber, and that was that.\nI recall reading a story about Eisenhower when he was young and a cadet at West Point, and not yet the general who beat the Axis armies or the President who presided over my birth, though perhaps he did not notice it. He was no longer a \"plebe\" then, and was allowed to order the newcomers around, and haze them, as he had been hazed the year before. And for amusement, he picked out a goofy looking recruit, and made him stand at attention in front of his peers, and lambasted him, for no good reason, simply because it was expected of him. And he wrote in his memoirs, that he always remembered, to his shame, that as a capstone to his string of abuse, he asked the plebe what he did in his civilian life before he entered West Point, because he seemed such a numbskull that he couldn't be more than a barber. And the man, showing no emotion, but feeling some, no doubt, answered that he was indeed a barber in his short pre-military working life.\nEisenhower wrote that he had never known real shame before that, and he remembered that moment for the rest of his life, when he had disparaged the honest toil and effort of his fellow man. And he said he owed that man a great debt, though he couldn't remember his name, and he never again wanted to look down his nose on any man.\nCookie, if you're listening. I'm sure you're a terrific barber.\nSilence Dogood Would Understand\nA council of officials of uncertain importance decided that since Emperor Iyasus of Ethiopia had retired to a monastery, they could appoint Tekle Haymanot I to be the Emperor.\nOver in Ramillies, the War of the Spanish succession had English, Dutch, and German troops defeating the French. They'd mix themselves up and fight one another in one form or fashion for 250 years or so.\nGeorge Farquar had gotten over stabbing another actor during a swordfight, and was wowing them on Drury Lane with his play: The Recruiting Officer.\nJohn Machin the mathemetician was getting a little notoriety for computing pi to 100 decimal places.\nAnd in Boston, Massachusetts, Josiah Franklin wiped the tallow renderings from his soap and candle manufactory off his hands, and held his newborn son - his tenth: Benjamin.\nHe'd have seven more children, too. But it's Ben Franklin we all remember, because he's the most American man that ever lived.\nFranklin did every damn thing, and did it well. He wasn't educated formally much -- his father only had enough money for one year at Boston Latin --but Ben became an autodidact, and read voraciously. When Benjamin was fifteen, his older brother James started the first newspaper in Boston, the Courant. Ben was forced to do menial work only; setting type, sweeping up, and selling the papers in the street, which bugged him. So he invented a nom du plume, \"Silence Dogood,\" and started writing editorial letters about matters divers and sundry in the colony, and especially how poorly a woman like her was treated.\nBen would slip the screeds under the door of the shop at night, and his brother would print them in the paper. They were a big hit, and everyone wanted to know: Who was Silence Dogood? Ben knew he had catapulted his brother's paper to prominence, and figured he'd admit his ruse to his brother and claim his place as a writer for the paper.\nHis brother hit him.\nBack to the compositor's bench. Eventually James got thrown in jail for annoying the local clergy about smallpox vaccinations, of all things, and Ben got to run the paper until they let his brother out of jail. He did a great job, and asked his brother if now he could write for the paper.\nThis grew tiresome. So he ran away to Philadelphia, on foot, though it was illegal to do so at the time -- it made him a vagrant. Eventually he found a job working at the local printer. But that first day, he spent his last money on a few stale rolls, and sat eating them --wet, disheveled, footsore, broke, in a strange city -- and still managed to attract the attention of the woman he'd marry seven years later: Deborah Read. And all that was before his eighteenth birthday.\nBenjamin's 300th birthday anniversary is this year, and the rest of his life is being endlessly dissected and pawed over for the glory and good sense in it, and like a very few men, his life can take almost endless scrutiny without running out of things to look at. I'll leave the rest to others. But I had an adventure with Ben, and I'd like to share it.\nI grew up in the first town in America named for Ben Franklin. It was part of Wrentham, which originally was part of Dedham, Massachusetts, but in 1738, when they got themselves a Congregational parish, they decided to break away, and call the new town Exeter. Later, someone got the bright idea that if they offered to flatter the most famous -- and one of the richest -- men in America, Ben Franklin, by offering to name the town after him, maybe they could flatter enough money out of the old patriot for a bell for their church steeple.\n\"Sense is preferable to sound,\" Franklin wrote back, and sent them a crate of books instead. And so the first public library in the country was born. The town had other benefactors over the years, and in 1904, the daughters of the most prominent family in Franklin, the Rays, dedicated a magnificent NeoClassical library to honor their parents.\nI spent more hours in that library than all the Italian stonemasons the Rays imported to build it ever did, combined. I haunted it. It looked almost exactly like the picture you see above when I was a child. How could you not know that books and words and scholarship were a noble and important thing when you sat in that magnificent reading room under the watchful eyes of the semi-nudes in the mural? You know, the formerly nude figures that Tommaso Juglaris had to return to paint additional clothes on, to shut the old biddy Ray sisters up.\nA book was an expensive and rare thing for us then. I could list every book in my house in 1964 right now; it wouldn't take long. I read eveything in the children's library by the time I was seven. I wanted to go upstairs, where the adult books were, when adult books meant something else than they do now. They told me I was too young and I'd tear the pages from the books or put lollipops in the card files or roller skate around in there or something; my mother had to go and explain to them that I needed to see more than the four newspapers my father would bring home every night. They relented.\nThe library had massive bronze doors with big rings you had to turn to enter, and at first I was too small and had to wait for someone to enter or exit, and I'd dart in. It was a temple, and I was a votary. And there, in the reading room, were Ben Franklin's Books. The books were just stuck in a glass-doored cabinet in the reading room. I had read every damn thing in that library, including all the encyclopedias. I had walked past Franklin's books hundreds of times, and watched others go past them without giving them a glance thousands of times.\nLike the Spanish Prisoner story, one day I just tried opening it. It was unlocked. It was a wonder no one, including me, had ever thought of that before. I get the feeling Ben Franklin was cleaning out his back room when he donated the books. No matter. I don't remember exactly what any of them were. They've blended together with all the others I scoured for the next thing I wanted to know, and the next, and the one after that. And I put them back without anyone ever knowing. But I knew.\nThe library's still there, because stone don't burn; most every other stately Victorian era house the Rays built in town has been burned down by the dissipated Dean College students who eventually used them as dormitories. I wandered through the library a few years ago. They've ruined it of course; it's full of lousy books and rental movies I'd cross the street to avoid seeing, crummy furniture and computers no one needs in a library much. And Franklin's books aren't out where you can see them any more.\nWhat gets into your mind? Where does the inspiration come from? What gave me the idea I wanted to look at those books like the damned want icewater? Beats me. Why do you walk to Philadelphia and buy rolls? I can tell you it was fun to hold them in my hands, all those years ago, and think about the man that sent them, through the ages, for me.\nSilence Dogood would understand.\nLabels: Bits of my life pulled out and flung on the Internet floor, history\nAgain With Naperville\nWell, some outfit named Relocate-America.com has a list of the best places in the country to live, and I'd link to it for you, but lists like these bring massive web traffic and make people with everyday servers powered by arthritic gerbils reach warp speed right quick, and I can't even get to their home page. No matter; I'll spoil it for you right now: They say Naperville, Illinois is the best place in America to live. I could have told you that.\nAs a matter of fact I did, a year ago, in the \"What's New\" page on my furniture website. Now, CNN\/Money had Naperville on their list last year in third place, But I guess Moorestown, NJ and Barrington RI are experiencing a plague or something; either that or Relocate-America made a mistake when they cut and pasted CNN\/Money's list while they were stealing it, trying to weasel some of their publicity. I'll say one thing for CNN\/Money; when they go looking for free publicity, their servers work.\nThere' s nothing I like better than being right in advance, and getting to recycle old adjectives. Here's a reprint; enjoy--\nJuly 13th 2005-\nYou know me pretty well by now. You know I can't leave this \"Best Places to Live 2005\" thing from CNN\/Money alone. I've got to crawl underneath it, check the hoses, look for hidden rust and concealed damaged, and maybe loosen the oil drain plug a little before I come back from under there, just for mischief's sake.\nI'm not alone in this, I see. I've seen this thing referenced all over the web, and I'm sure that's why CNN\/Money goes to the effort of rating places to live and then hunkering down under their desks in anticipation of people disagreeing with their findings and throwing crockery.\nMy favorite item from the horde, perhaps, is this: \"Pa. Town On 'Best Towns' List Does Not Exist.\" Apparently, Wexford, Pennsylvania is simply a Post Office designation for areas of four suburbs of Pittsburgh. There' s no such place, as it were. I will leave the effect of its non-existence on its suitability as a place to live up to the reader. I expect it's a terrific place for you to live with your imaginary friends from preschool. What's that? You had real friends in preschool? Well, get off the internet right now, this is a place for lonely shut-ins, not you. I also expect that despite the fact that the town doesn't exist, you'll still end up in jail if you don't pay your property tax to somebody.\nI noticed Barrington, RI, is number six on the list. That's a short drive from where we are in Marion, Massachusetts, and that seaside town looks a lot like ours. I've got no beef with that one.\nIt's number three that really caught my eye, though. Naperville, Illinois. I was in Naperville two months ago. I have friends in Naperville, who moved there from Marion. A few years back, I directed the construction of two big service stations on the tollway there as well. Well, my friends took CNN\/Money's advice, before CNN\/Money even offered it, and moved to Naperville. And I'm in a position to tell if they've lost their minds, or lucked out.\nNaperville is as far outside Chicago as Marion is outside Boston. Chicago is a great city. I'm not using \"great\" in the fashion of modern parlance, you know, swell, or nice, although it is a swell and nice city. I mean Chicago is a big, important city. I knew a lot about Chicago before I ever set foot in it, because I study architecture, and Chicago might be the most important architectural city in America. Louis Sullivan invented skyscrapers there. Frank Lloyd Wright annoyed the locals in Oak Park for a while, before spraying architecture all over the map, from Tokyo to Iraq and back. There are a lot of well known and notable buildings in Chicago. Boston is a great city, too, but it's very insular and small compared to a place like Chicago. Hell, there's only about 600,000 people living in all of what's called Greater Boston, which includes lots of suburbs. There's 130,000 people living in Naperville, never mind Chicago. Chicago is a big, booming, jostling, lively, friendly place. Even the panhandlers are polite. In Boston, even the beggars have a 'tude.\nWell my friends have been in Naperville for a little while, and have meshed into the life there fully, and showed us around. They're not strangers to the midwest, and there's no fish out of water or Green Acres vibe to their story. They liked Chicago, and they sold their tiny house in Marion and bought an enormous home in Naperville, with money left over. They live on a quiet street, with neighbors who all share their approximate worldview, which is more important than many people think. Variety is not always the spice of life, and if you must get up to go to work at 6:00 AM, and your neighbor is hosting MTV video type parties outside your window every night, neither of you is going to be happy. He'll be dead, and you'll be in jail for killing him, or vice versa, eventually.\nVariety isn't even always variety, now that I think about it. The guy annoying you next door might just be a jerk, but he might not even be an exotic jerk. And I often find myself more in tune with people who don't look much like me, at least as far as the census takers think. America, thank god, has always been a place where you left tribalism at the door, and coalesced into communities and institutions voluntarily, with people whose company you enjoyed. And everyone seems to be enjoying each other's company in Naperville.\nNaperville had a very important story to tell city planners as well. The story is: mind your own business. Naperville got as big as it did because two big highways were run right through it, and made the bustle of Chicago available to it. My friend, oh, let's call him Mr. Smith, works in Chicago and lives in Naperville. CNN\/Money had a few trite and ill advised comments on how Naperville is tainted by the big roadways filled with megastores that have sprung up next to the highways. What nonsense. Here's their own words:\nDrive for two minutes out of town in any direction and you're likely to be sitting in traffic on an ugly highway.\nDuh. It's that \"ugly\" highway that makes the whole thing possible. I cringe when I hear stuff like that, and it's everywhere, you've seen it too, I'm sure. The only bosh worse is seeing people in print refer to wilderness or farmland that's \"lost\" to development. \"Lost?\" Was it ground into powder and shot into the sun? Is there a black hole where it was before?\nThe word they should use, and never will, is converted. But converted doesn't have that pejorative connotation that \"lost\" does, and they think it's a shame that other people, people like the Smiths, have a comfortable, convenient and safe place to live. There's a whiff of \"Let them eat cake\" to the term \"lost to development.\" Or maybe: \"I've got mine, and to hell with anybody else.\" I disagree with the sentiment, and I don't like cake.\nBy the way, farmland is never \"lost\" to development. Any time you want, you can buy 100 or so of those houses, bulldoze them, and plant potatoes again. What's stopping you? What's that you say? That would cost over $100,000,000.00 to do? Well, maybe, just maybe, the land is being used for a more cost effective and important use than growing potatoes now. You'd have to grow A LOT of potatoes to make that 100 mil back. And this may be a surprise to you folks that think we're \"losing\" farmland, but out near that highway that you find so objectionable, there's dozens of supermarkets that I imagine you find objectionable too, surrounded by parking lots that I imagine you find objectionable as well, filled with decent, hardworking, busy people that you probably find objectionable to boot, and there's still plenty of potatoes in those supermarkets for you to buy. And everything else from kiwi fruit to bok choi. So put a sock in it.\nThat last paragraph made me realize it's probably unwise to ask a guy named Sullivan about potatoes.\nWhere were we? Oh yes; the real story in Naperville, besides the solid and decent Mr Smith, and his vivacious and attractive wife, and his four boisterous and lovely children, is the downtown. There's a walkway along the river, which allows you to promenade, and sit a spell, and cool yourself on a hot day by sitting in the shade, and get away from the cars, but still get to dozens and dozens of interesting places. The City of Naperville didn't try to pass laws against big box stores and all the other big businesses people love to profess hatred for and then shop at anyway. They zoned them out by the highway, on what we used to call \"the main drag\" around here, away from the downtown, where the acres of asphalt for multiple lanes and parking are a blessing, not a curse, because you drive there, and Napervillians can get what they need conveniently.\nAnd those stores did what everyone fears they would do. They wiped out the little downtown businesses that tried to complete with Wal*Mart, and Home Depot, and all the rest. But why try to compete with those places? To extend that logic further, why not grow your own food? Get water from a well? Why not write plays and perform them in your back yard instead of watching TV?\nAnyway, Naperville shrugged, got on with their more convenient lives, and used their tax money, including the massive tax receipts from those big stores by the highway, to improve the infrastructure of the downtown, and blessedly didn't try to put the area on life support.\nAnd pillar to post, downtown Naperville is a wonder. Really good restaurants, one after another. Upscale, downscale, ethnic, coffee shops, everything; and you can walk all over, because the real traffic is out near the highway, where it belongs. Antique stores, really good bookstores, one after another. Real clothing stores, not just places with acres of drop ceilings above and linoleum below and polyester in between. Pastry, candy, toys, stuff and junk, store after store. Nightspots you might like to visit, if you could find a babysitter, and you can, because you live in a neighborhood where everybody knows each other. In short, the precise thing that every planning board, zoning board, and conservation committee in the country is trying to legislate, and never seems to achieve. And nobody's on business welfare, and they don't exist because they have enough pull to legislate competition out of their town. They are there only because they Naperville public likes what they offer, and patronizes them.\nI could live in Naperville, and I'm fussy about where I live. I bet you could too.\nBut there's no ocean. Never mind.\nLook At Her Arm\nOne of my readers asked if I wrote often about painting. I took that to mean: Write often about painting. OK.\nI don't know where I got this painting. It's by an American fellow named William MacGregor Paxton, I made a note of that when I found it, but I can't find out much of anything about him, and I can't for the life of me remember where the digital picture came from. The MFA in Boston doesn't seem to have it. Visit it anyway, it's got lots of other neat stuff. Paxton was born in 1869, and died in 1941. That much we know.\nI rolled those dates around in my head. Can you imagine being born in the United States just after the Civil War, and breathing your last thinking that civilization as you know it was winking out all over the globe? The Ecole de Beax Arts in Paris was mentioned in the few mentions of Paxton I could find, so I imagine he could very readily picture France itself under the yoke of the Axis. Did he perish before December 1941? I don't know. I hope he did, I guess; why die without hope? But does any man die without hope? Does any man die with hope?\nEvery picture I can find by Paxton is a nude woman or a flower. God bless him. What else is worth painting, when you get right down to it?\nYou're likely never going to see a flattened blue lady with her nose on the side of her head written about on this page. I never can get out of my mind's eye a vision of Picasso -- young and still trying to paint like Paxton and his brethren --- saying to himself: I'm no good, I'd better fool them instead. It might not be true, but I can't imagine it any other way.\nI only have one rule for professional anythings: you have to do it better than me. Not different, not necessarily faster, better. The rule applies to plumbers and artists alike.\nPaxton is a realist. Realism was getiing a real bad name about the time Paxton shuffled off this mortal coil, and that might have weighed on him too. I imagine Big Band singers got the same sensation when they heard Bill Haley and the Comets. The end is near, and no one cares what I know anymore.\nArtists often know things that no one else cares to know. They look in their hearts, and minds, and pull their vision of the world out and try to pin it down before it flutters off. I think the fellows that absolutely must do it would do it even if you burned the canvasses right after they finished. Haven't you ever spoken aloud when there's no one else around to hear it? Some things must be expressed, whether it's because you hit your finger with a hammer or you need to show the world you know how to depict a woman.\nI wouldn't presume to guess what the circumstances depicted in the painting are. The light is strong, reflected in the mirror through the blinds (showoff!) but the light leaves her face indistinct, and Paxton doesn't care about her face anyway. He is revelling in the way the light reflects off her outstretched arm, and the gentle convex slope of her breast and belly. He simply stopped painting her left hand; it is superfluous, and I didn't notice how indistinct it was until I'd looked at the picture ten times. In a photograph, I'd see it clearly. It's hard to make a photograph capture important things; it captures everything. If you've ever had your picture taken by a really good photographer, they spend all their time arranging the lights. The human is easy compared to the light. Tell him a joke or call him name, and then click the button.\nNow her right arm, reaching into the light, sublimely rendered, the cool blue and pink of her untanned flesh, her hand reaching with her delicate fingers for her clothes, you know it now-- why she's nude and reaching for her clothes in the shuttered bright of the day.\nYou can never really look at a painting until you see it for real, and I wish I could see this one. Pictures are great for reminding you what you've seen, but you need to see it to really get it. I've only been to Europe once. I ransacked the great Uffizi in Florence for the picture I had gazed at in a book a thousand times, but I still wasn't ready for the effect of the real Madonna Doni, by Michaelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti-Simoni.\nI knew how the mannerists did it; how they moved their models into odd angles, contortions really sometimes, to put motion into static pose, to bring forth the musculature, to inject a kind of heroism into a simple Madonna and Child. It was Michaelangelo's only easel painting. His patron didn't want to pay for it. The patron eventually used the original frame to frame something else. Eventually, art critics would say the whole thing was unworthy of Michaelangelo's effort anyway: \"A Hercules at the spinning wheel.\"\nThe composition is busy. There is a mother kneeling in the foreground, reaching over her shoulder for her baby, with her husband behind her too. They form an interesting circular racetrack for your eye to circle, and there's all sorts of nude so and so's loitering in the background. The Madonna is contorted, reaching over her shoulder for her baby, and it gets the ball rolling in what's normally a very static sort of scene. And her arm comes right out of the picture. I looked at that Madonna's arm. I was a foot from the painting. It had the most delicate line drawn around the outline, a line many artists would begin with, not end with. I had no idea how he managed it. I didn't care how he did it. I could look at that painting forever and not be bored with it. A man understood the persons in the painting. He could make me understand what he knew, though the dust of five centuries lay atop him.\nLook at Paxton's nude's arm. He knew. He knew how. So we could know too.\n(Note: Maybe he's not American. Maybe North American? William MacGregor Paxton sure sounds like it could be Canadian. I'm related to MacGregors in Canada, through a MacGinnis gene pool raiding party. Can anyone tell us something about Mr Paxton?)\nThe Unified Field Theory of Music\nI don't get the enjoyment out of music I used to. Perhaps when you are an adult, you put away childish things.\nForget that, that's not it.\nI used to make money at music. Like the cobbler's children that go shoeless, I don't have much interest in music when I'm not making it. Do pediatricians get home in the evening, open the door, kiss their wife and look at their children and think, \"God, not another one of those!\" Do veterinarians beat their dogs? I don't know.\nI listen to sports talk radio. People who remember me as a musician are agog to learn that. It's not that I'm that interested in sports, exactly; my interest in it is more along the lines of a man visiting the zoo, while being very careful never to put his fingers in the cages. It's just profoundly amusing to hear a guy driving a cab call up and explain how he wouldn't run a 750-million-dollar franchise like that. He reminds the owners of the teams he follows -- who aren't listening -- and his fellow sports enthusiasts -- who are listening but aren't paying attention, because the opposite of talking for them is waiting -- and the hosts, who are eating cold pizza and reading the racing form with one eye on the clock and their thumb on the cough button, that if that owner doesn't know enough to trade all his bad players to the other team for all their good players, he's a dope.\nYou can listen to that, any time, all the time, if you want to. I remember when sports talk was on for 30 minutes on Sunday nights only. There was a time that the radio was a unifying force in America, as was the television. When I was lad, the television wasn't really a novelty (mechanical dishwashers were, though) and the radio was ubiquitous.\nThere was a sense of shared experience about what was on television, mostly because there wasn't much on it. What was on, was on at very regular and predictable intervals, and everybody saw the same things, more or less, if they saw anything. When Walter Kronkite said things, everybody heard them, and they discussed them the next day. When the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show in the winter of 1964, if you had a pulse and a teenager in your house, believe me, you saw them.\nThe radio was AM then, and kinda iffy. The signal would drift, and crackle, and get mingled with some rogue frequency for a moment with people barking in Portuguese or French, and then return to its fabulous tinny treble warble.\nThere really weren't very many stations, and what there were were very uniform from one to another, and they were marvelous. They were marvelous because they were everything. The shared experience of radio popularity meant you'd hear country, blues, rock, Motown, pop, broadway, big band, jazz, doo-wop, and just plain whatever -- whatever the A and R man had in his briefcase along with the bag of money for the disc jockey. You'd hear it all in a great big wonderful mess.\nThe shared experience is gone from this now, like so many other things, because our circumstances are a lot better than they used to be. We're all insanely lucky and wealthy and overrun with fistfuls of choices of every entertainment delicacy imaginable. There are some cable channels where the previously unimaginable is performed too, and they don't always scramble them any more. People only object if the animals get hurt.\nBeware people that are nostalgic for times when we were all in the same boat -- solidarity brother! -- because everything was dreadful, and life was hard. It can be very convivial to wait in line for your coupons to get rationed food, but there's no law that says you can't be friends when times get better, too. I don't want to turn back the clock and listen to AM radio so we can all sing the lyrics to The Candy Man in unison because we were all forced to listen to it 14 times a day for four weeks whether we liked it or not. Pick your own poison.\nBut beware never venturing too far from your little sphere. You can construct a cocoon for yourself with minutely atomized choices in your entertainment, to the point where you've never heard anything other than Def Leppard covers of Styx songs, or something else as crabbily calibrated to keep you from hearing anything different. How would I know how much I'd enjoy hearing Roger Miller sing King of The Road again after all these years, if I didn't hear it sandwiched between The Dave Clark Five and Ray Charles when we listened to the car radio on the way home from the supermarket in 1965?\nYou can make your own shared experience now, and it's better. You can share it, easily, with people anywhere on the planet, instantly. I have many acquaintances, some I call my friends, who I've never met and never will. Technology killed the AM radio and Walter Kronkite newscasts, but it had a thousand children to take their place. It's all good.\nGet out you iPod. I'm going to take you to 1966, with a list of Billboard Top Forty Hits. Get your hands on every one of these, don't skimp or say, \"Hey, that's not Def Leppard.\" Listen to all of them, and you'll know what it was like to be an eight year old boy, drowsing with your cheek on the cool vinyl in the back seat of the car, as your father fiddles with the big chrome knobs on the Rambler Wagon radio like a submarine radio operator, trying to keep the signal.\nSome of it's awful good. Some of it's godawful. It was all awfully good fun:\nSSgt Barry Sadler- Ballad Of The Green Berets\nDiana Ross And The Supremes- You Can't Hurry Love\nFrank Sinatra- Strangers In The Night\nThe Young Rascals- Good Lovin'\nThe Four Tops- I'll Be There\nThe Monkees- Last Train To Clarksville\nThe Association- CherishThe Beatles- We Can Work It Out\nThe Byrds- Turn! Turn! Turn!\nThe Mamas And The Papas- Monday, Monday\nStatler Brothers- Flowers On The Wall\nThe Righteous Brothers- Soul And Inspiration\nSimon And Garfunkel- Sounds Of Silence\nThe Mamas And The Papas- California Dreamin'\nThe Lovin Spoonful- Summer In The CityHerb Alpert- Taste Of Honey\nRoger Williams- Born Free (Okay, maybe you can skip this one)\nLou Christie- Lightin' Strikes Again\nThe Rolling Stones- Paint It Black\nThe Happenings- See You In September\nThe Cyrkle- Rubber Ball\nQuestion Mark and the Mysterians- 96 Tears\nTommy James- Hanky Panky\nDiana Ross And The Supremes- You Keep Me Hangin On\nThe Rolling Stones- 19Th Nervous Breakdown\nNancy Sinatra- These Boots Are Made For Walking\nNew Vaudeville Band- Winchester Cathedral\nThe Troggs- Wild Thing\nThe Mindbenders- A Groovy Kind Of A LoveSam The Sham and the Pharoahs- Li'l Red Riding HoodThe Left Banke- Walk Away Renee\nThe Beach Boys- Sloop John B\nThe Beatles- Nowhere Man\nThe Kinks- Well Respected Man\nBobby Hebb- SunnyPercy Sledge- When A Man Loves A Woman\nThe Four Seasons- Let's Hang On\nThe Beach Boys- Good Vibrations\nDonovan- Sunshine Superman\nThe Beatles- Paperback Writer\nDiana Ross And The Supremes- I Hear A Symphony\nLabels: 1960s, Bits of my life pulled out and flung on the Internet floor, music\nEngland, Eat Your Heart Out\nI'm hanging around the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston again, at least in the Internet sense. Here's a picture that's... ahem... hanging around the museum too. It's called Boy With A Squirrel, or, alternately: Portrait of Henry Pelham, and it was painted by John Singleton Copley, and it's a wonder.\nCopley is a fairly well known artist, at least in America, because he had the presence of mind to paint well, and paint famous and influential people, and people who would become so.\nCopley was born in 1738 to Irish immigrants in what would become the most Irish of American cities, Boston, Massachusetts. Something untoward must have happened, because ten years later, Copley had a step-father, Peter Pelham, a British born engraver. Pelham taught young Copley about engraving, including a method called mezzotint, an extremely demanding technique that allowed engravers to achieve great subtlety in light and shadow, but that few could master well enough to use. His step-father also exposed Copley to a few painters who influenced him some, but he appears to be almost entirely self taught in oil painting, which as you can see, is a marvel.\nHe painted this portrait of his half brother, Henry Pelham, in 1765. It uses a method of depicting persons along with items from their daily life, called portrait d'apparat, which was very unusual for its time, especially in America. Portrait painting always had lots of symbolism in the items, dress, and setting of their patrons, but they generally weren't quotidian things from a regular person's life.\nCopley painted all sorts of famous and interesting Americans, like John Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Sam Adams, and all sorts of lesser colonial lights whose names ring a bell to anyone who's lived in Boston: Codman; Quincy; Warren; Boylston; Pepperell.\nGo back and look at the painting. There's a kind of exactness of likeness that has long fallen out of favor in art. Even the greatest American artist ever, John Singer Sargent, eschewed exactitude and captured his likenesses with brushwork that up close looks like it was done with a housepainting brush. If you look at the studies Copley would do of his portrait subjects, they look almost mechanical, as if he were drawing up plans for the human in question, not painting their portraits.\nBut go back and look at the painting. The delicacy of effect, the absolute shimmering depth of the minutest detail of the composition, the obvious love of the artist for his medium and his manifest ability to see and convey to the viewer exactly what he sees, and more -- what is important about the subject -- is like a form of necromancy. It's no wonder that some cultures think portraits steal one's soul. Henry Pelham's soul is in that portrait, and Copley's to boot.\nBefore telegraph, and radio, and television, and all the other methods of telling a stranger what you think and about what you think it, the portrait artist did it. You don't look at that portrait, you live in it for a moment. I've made a thousand tables, and looked at ten thousand more, and I can tell you that's exactly the way the light catches the corner of one. I could look at the picture all day and not run out of things to look at, and marvel over.\nThere was a problem of course. Copley got married, and his father-in-law was a merchant. A tea merchant. And one of his portrait subjects, Sam Adams, and some of his compatriots, got dressed up in an unconvincing fashion as American Indians, and dumped Copley's father-in-law's tea into Boston Harbor. And like many concerned about their famlily's safety if revolution came, he went to England where he remained for the rest of his life, well regarded, patronized by the rich and the regal, but never again reaching the sublime heights of his American paintings.\nNo one wants to look at his portrait of George the Fourth when he was the Prince of Wales, after all; not when you can see the young man with the pet squirrel, and know that the marrow of an entire country was in the brush that painted it.\nEngland got him, but they can't have him.\nBoston Museum of Fine Arts","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Two new frog species discovered in Panama's fungal war zone\nby Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute\nNew species: Pristimantis adnus, collected on Cerro Pi\u00f1a in the Serrania de Sapo, Pacific coast of Darien Province, Panama. Males are about 2 centimeters long. Length of females: unknown. The skin of the back is shagreen in color with scattered, enlarged granules. It has a small, supratympanic ridge, areolate venter and unconcealed tympanic membrane. Iris may be a rosy-gold color. Credit: Andrew Crawford\nTrying to stay ahead of a deadly disease that has wiped out more than 100 species, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute continue to discover new frog species in Panama: Pristimantis educatoris, from Omar Torrijos National Park, and P. adnus from Darien Province near the Colombian border.\nIn 1989 researchers realized that frogs were dying around the world. Then they identified the cause: a fungal disease called chytridiomycosis. In 2004 Karen Lips, associate professor at the University of Maryland, sounded the alarm that the disease was devastating highland frogs in Central Panama and spreading across the country to the east.\n\"We are working as hard as we can to find and identify frogs before the disease reaches them, and to learn about a disease that has the power to ravage an entire group of organisms,\" said Roberto Ibanez, research scientist at STRI and local director of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project.\nSince 2005 research institutions and zoos from Panama and the United States have scrambled to collect healthy frogs east of the infected area\u2014to save them from extinction. The Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project unites eight institutions including STRI and the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, along with Panama's environmental authority, ANAM, in a new effort to raise captive frogs in Panama at Summit Nature Park with support from the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center.\nWhile collecting at Omar Torrijos National Park, Lips' team noticed a common frog much bigger than specimens collected elsewhere. Mason Ryan and Tom Giermakowski, from the Museum of Southwestern Biology and the University of New Mexico, compared the frogs' feet and toes with frogs in museum collections, concluding that the bigger frogs were actually a new species.\nNew species: Pristimantis educatoris, collected in El Cope, in Panama's Omar Torrijos National Park, is about 2-4 centimeters long and has expanded, round and even finger disks and toes that distinguish it from other, closely related species. Its eye color varies from blood red to yellow-orange above and dark purple to dark grey below. The pupil is horizontal. Credit: Andrew Crawford\nThey named this new species P. educatoris. The species name, educatoris, honors Jay M. Savage, emeritus professor of biology at the University of Miami, who taught several generations of students about tropical frogs. Educatoris actually has a double meaning, because females of this species also nurture and care for their developing eggs.\nIn 2008, researchers first detected the fungus to the east of the Panama Canal. During a collecting trip in November 2009 to Chagres National Park, even further to the east, researchers were dismayed to find that most of the frogs there were already infected and dying.\nOn May 20, researchers from the PARC project returned to what they hope are still fungus-free, healthy frog habitats in Darien Province. On an earlier trip organized by members of Eldredge Bermingham's lab at the Smithsonian, another new frog species was collected by researchers from STRI, the University of Panama and the C\u00edrculo Herpetol\u00f3gico de Panam\u00e1.\nIts name is based on ADN, the acronym for the Spanish acido deoxiribonucleico, meaning deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, in English. \"We chose this name to underscore the usefulness of genetic techniques as we identify these new frog species and determine the relationships between tropical frogs that may look very similar,\" said Andrew Crawford, professor at University of the Andes and research associate at STRI.\nThese two reports bring the total number of frog species described in Panama and Costa Rica to 197. Nearly 15 percent of these new frogs have been described in the past seven years.\nMore information: M.J. Ryan, K.R. Lips, J.T. Giermakowski. New species of Pristimantis (Anura: Terrarana: Stabomantinae) from lower Central America. 2010. Journal of Herpetology. 44(2): 193-200\nA.J. Crawford, M.J. Ryan, C.J. Jaramillo. A new species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Pacific coast of the Darien Province, Panama, with a molecular an\u00e1lisis of its phylogenic position. 2010. Herpetologica, 66(2), 192-206\nProvided by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute\nCitation: Two new frog species discovered in Panama's fungal war zone (2010, May 26) retrieved 27 January 2023 from https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2010-05-frog-species-panama-fungal-war.html\nCatching a killer one spore at a time\nProject launched to fight frog-killing fungus\nShipping industry sends help as project in Panama tackles amphibian crisis\nCaptivity offers hope for endangered frogs\nPanamanian amphibians attacked by fungus\nLaos said to harbor many new frog species\nPrairie voles without oxytocin receptors can bond with mates and young\nThe humble sea campion flower can show us how species adapt\nAlien plant species are spreading rapidly in mountainous areas, says new monitoring study\nNew virus discovered in whales, dolphins across Pacific\nWhy this promising biofuel crop takes a summer break","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Steve Rego\nSteve has been a gaming enthusiast his entire life, starting, like most people his age, with those great old Milton Bradley staples. His foray into the world of RPG's began in the early 80's, first with D&D, then AD&D, and then with Middle Earth Role Playing. He came to the wonderful world of Magic the Gathering a bit late, as he stopped off first with a stint of Avalon Hill wargaming and Hero Clix. He still occasionally travels to several gaming\/comic conventions each year while also helping out with events at his local gaming hangout; Rivendell Books and Games. As one of the founders and game designers in Move Rate 20, he has now taken his lifelong love of gaming to the next level.\nSteve was born a long time ago in a galaxy far away and has lived his entire life in Southern New England. He is happily married and has one son. He is proud of the fact that his offspring is becoming an avid gamer!\nRob Laliberte\nRob is the owner\/operator of Rivendell Books & Games in Rehoboth, MA, the unofficial headquarters of Move Rate 20. He performs a variety of tasks, including game design & development, writing\/editing, social media (still learning!), as well as morale officer. He is a single parent to two amazing kids.\nJim Fitzpatrick\nJim Fitzpatrick has been a software developer for a large, Massachusetts-based company for over twenty years, and a member of Move Rate 20 Games for just under a year. His interests, besides gaming, include sci-fi media, musical theater and comic books. After playing popular games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Magic:The Gathering for decades, he found his way into game design by talking to Move Rate 20 members during their first year of game development, and has been a partner for just under a year. His first game, Mission to Planet Hexx! began playtesting in the spring of 2016. He enjoys demoing games and taking Move Rate 20's games on the road, for the whole world to see!\nJames McLean\nJames is the youngest member of the group. He is a prolific gamer that has been playing since a very young age. Exposed to D&D as a toddler on his father's lap, it would be more surprising if he didn't grow up with a love of gaming. These days, when he's not helping to create games, he can be found playing in one of several RPGs , Magic, or one of the numerous new board games coming out. Within Move Rate 20 Games, James is primarily responsible for play testing and drafting rules.\nCurrently playing: D&D 3.5, Pathfinder, Monster of the Week, Gloomhaven, Magic: The Gathering, Lord of the Rings LCG, Smash","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Improve an international business course?\nSee how in Academy\nA Basic Guide to Exporting: A Tool to Begin Selling Internationally\nPublished: 5\/14\/2015 9:02:15 AM\nWith business becoming more and more global every day, small and medium sized companies are being pushed to start exporting if they want to stay competitive. This poses a challenge for these businesses however, as exporting has become more complex. For this reason, the U.S. Department of Commerce has made available its 11th edition of A Basic Guide to Exporting; this edition has been tailored to fit small and medium size businesses' needs for exporting in today's world.\nThe guide directs businesses though the life cycle of exporting transactions, distinguishes the differences between domestic and international sales, and also provides examples of other companies and how exporting has opened doors to more customers and greater revenue. A Basic Guide to Exporting addresses nearly every problem a company could potentially face while transitioning to selling overseas and provides help for every step along the way. This includes assistance from start to finish and everything in between, from how to get things started to financial and legal issues a company may face during the process.\nAny small to medium size company that has thought it could not sell internationally or just did not know where to start, A Basic Guide to Exporting now provides that needed support. This guide is an essential tool for all businesses to have, even if they have already moved into the international market. For additional assistance in exporting, check out globalEDGE's Export Tutorials, which answer many questions new or potential exporters may have.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Oxford Academy\n& Central Schools\n50 S Washington Ave | Oxford, NY 13830\nPhone: (607) 843-2025 x3300 | Fax: (607)843-7030\nBlackhawk Fund\nCommunication Chart\nDigital Fabrication Lab\nHall of Distinction\nMission, Vision & Commitments\nOxford Fitness Room\nRoboRAVE\nData Security Privacy\n2021-2022 Blackhawk Entry Plan\nParent Dashboard - NYSED\nParent Point of Contact Information\nPowerSchool Parent\nMenu - Breakfast and Lunch\nLead Testing\nSummer Reading and Math Program\nSTEAM Summer Camp\nSummer Catalyst Bridge Program\nSummer Theatre Camp\nTechnology Help Documents for Parents\nHealth\/Nursing\nAESOP- Substitute Service\neSchool Login\nSubstitute Teacher Sign In\nProfessional Development Request\nProfessional Development Report\nEmployee Trainings\nDirections to our Schools\nParent\/Student Resources 22-23\nStudent Pick Up Routine\nElectronic Devices at Primary School\nSchool Counselor's Office\nFriday Finale\nPrimary School Library\/Media Center\nVideos of Recorded Primary School Events\nOxford Academy Primary School\n50 South Washington Avenue\nOxford, NY 13830\nPhone: 607.843.2025, ext. 3300\nWelcome back for a new and exciting school year. I hope as you read this letter you are enjoying the great weather we are having this summer. The Summer Reading and Math Program is finishing off another tremendously successful year where we have over 140 students participating. Also, over the course of the summer, the faculty and staff have been hard at work preparing for the upcoming school year by participating in various professional development opportunities. I cannot wait to see the new strategies in action to further meet the needs of each and every student in the building.\nAs we continue to build on the success of the past and look toward the future, I want to update you on a few new details of the upcoming school year. First, I would like to announce the addition of new faculty members: John Huther, Morgan Westbrook, Leslie Tallmadge, Kate Cirello, and Mia Quatrone. Mr. Huther will be teaching third grade, Miss Westbrook will be teaching fourth grade, Miss Tallmadge and Miss Cirello will be teaching first grade, and Miss Quatrone will be teaching music. Also we will be having a STEAM related arts class this year that will be taught by Mr. Kappauf. Secondly, we are proud to announce that again this year breakfast and lunch will be served daily at no cost to the students and their families. This is very exciting and tremendous news for our community. I have attached a form that needs to be filled out and returned to the office so everyone can take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. Thirdly, as you know our daily schedule will be adjusted this upcoming school year. The school day will continue to start at 7:55am and dismissal will take place at 2:20pm for students riding the school bus, while students that are parent pickups will be dismissed at 2:05pm. An enrichment period will take place every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2:30pm to 3:00pm. All students will be given a specific day they will stay for the enrichment period to get specific targeted instruction. You will be receiving information shortly of each students' homeroom teacher and their designated day for enrichment. Please make sure to fill out all attached forms and return to the Primary School main office by Thursday, August 21st. Lastly, just like in previous years we will be allowing parents\/guardians to walk students to their classrooms on the first 4 days of school (September 8th, 9th, 12th, and 13th). Beginning on Wednesday, September 14th, students will proceed to their classrooms with the assistance of faculty and staff.\nI also want to announce a few important upcoming events so you have the time to plan for them. The Primary School Meet and Greet will be September 7th from 2pm to 3pm. The first day of classes for students will be September 8th. The Primary School Open House will be October 6th from 6pm to 7pm. Please mark these down on the calendar so you can attend with your child as we look forward to seeing each and every one of you.\nEnjoy the remaining days of summer and I look forward to seeing everyone soon!\nBrian Collier\nOxford Primary School Principal\n============================================================================================================\nThe Primary School is a warm and welcoming place that puts the student and family first. We are committed to a balanced education focusing not only on academics, but also on social and emotional growth. We work to build a strong foundation for our students' continued future success.\nGrade level teacher teams collaborate daily to ensure that all students achieve the same essential outcomes. Our educational program promotes both progress and achievement. Our building staff models the commitment to our district's vision, \"A Leader in Achievement, One Student at a Time.\"\nPrimary School News\nOctober Lunch Menu\nParent-Student Handbook 22-23\nCode of Conduct 22-23\nUPK Informational Night\nTue Jan 31 2023\nMon Feb 6 2023\nMarching Band\/Drumline Kick-off Night\nWed Feb 8 2023\nFocused on Learning\n12 Fort Hill Park | Oxford, NY 13830\nMailing Address: PO Box 192, Oxford, NY 13830\nFiller Text\nSchools Primary School Middle School High School\n607.843.2025 ext, 3300\n\u00a9 2023. Oxford Academy & Central Schools. All Rights Reserved.\nSchool CMS Created by eSchoolView\nView text-based website","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"India and russia relationship with us\nTime to acclimatize to a new era of ties with Russia\n\"India then becomes a bit of collateral damage because one of the main planks of the Indo-Russian relationship was a mutual distrust of China. As India's strategic links with the U.S. expand, New Delhi will find it difficult to shield its fruitful military relations with Russia. In theory, India does. India-Russia relations are now experiencing a period of high hopes and because India, contrary to pessimistic forecasts, did not yield to US.\nIndia is also thinking of acquiring stealth frigates for its navy, helicopters for its armed forces and spares and ammunition from Russia.\nIndia still imports more than 60 per cent of its defence equipment from Russia. Notwithstanding a changing geopolitical landscape, it is evident that India views Russia as an all-weather friend. The bonhomie manifest in the annual bilateral summits notwithstanding, there are palpable changes as well as some contentious aspects. India has a growing strategic relationship with the US.\nIndia-Russia Relations: Hopes and Anxieties \u2014 Valdai Club\nIt has increased its ties with China. Some cooperation with Pakistan has also been sought. He stated that Russia would have to expand its relationship with China; but this would be balanced positively through other acts.\nIn the event of any Sino-Indian tension, Russia would be ready to help India as an intermediary, if requested to do so. What might be a pragmatic and effective Indian policy in such a situation?\nIndia would have to acclimatize to a new era of Russia-China ties. It should not rely excessively upon Russian support to confront hostilities from the China-Pakistan axis. There should be greater emphasis on building a broader framework of relations based on the long-term Russian apprehensions about a rising China. For India, this is primarily a matter of its own security: One can hardly expect a significant increase: But to stop using Russian weapons and reject further purchases would in essence mean the disarmament of India amid global instability in an era of the world order restructuring and the emerging rivalry between the United States and China.\nIn an interview with valdaiclub. When the US tried to force India to stop military-technical cooperation with Russia, New Delhi took a principled position, confirming its intention to buy Russian weapons even under the threat of sanctions.\nThe question of successful completion of deals became a matter of prestige for India. At the same time, the fate of further cooperation remains unclear.\nIndia\u2013Russia relations\nThe contracts for the supply of anti-aircraft missile systems, frigates and helicopters were agreed before the adoption of CAATSA, and the rough attempt to force India to abandon them met a natural rebuff.\nHowever, in order to conclude new deals with possible consequences, a considerable political will is needed. New Delhi has a few years before the main deliveries under the current contracts are completed, but later it will have to make a choice: Given the assertiveness of the current American leadership, it may be necessary to take the final decision much earlier.\nThe accession of India and Pakistan to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization plays an important role in this process:\nDaenerys targaryen and viserys relationship quizzes\nWatch meet the browns season 2 episode 8\nHard long distance relationship quotes\nDifference between rights and responsibilities in a relationship\nEsempi di proporzioni inverse relationship\nDef meretricious relationship\nParking garage car meet meme\nDavid icke and alex jones meet\nBattlefield hardline deluxe edition vs ultimate flirt\nHost parasite relationship in platyhelminthes flat\ntrend hotel porn tube\nnyavii porn tube\neklt porn tube\nznakomstva borisov v vk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Climate Change Is Bad News for People With Seasonal Allergies\nby Diane Domina Content Production Editor\nColey Christine\nAnitha Shrikhande, M.D.\nMother Nature's calendar is being disrupted by climate change, and that's wreaking havoc for the 25 million Americans people with seasonal allergies, also called seasonal allergic rhinitis or hay fever, according to a new study from the University of Maryland.\nThe authors of the study, published in PLOS One, analyzed NASA satellite data to identify the start of spring throughout the U.S., and Centers Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey information on more than 300,000 people with seasonal allergies. They found that the itchy, watery eyes; runny nose, congestion, cough, and other symptoms of hay fever were worse when the timing of the spring \"green-up\" changes, and that hay fever prevalence is about 14 percent higher than normal when the onset of spring occurs earlier or later than usual in an area.\nThis is because plant growth is largely determined by temperature and can be affected by even minor variations. When spring arrives earlier than normal, trees bloom sooner, creating a longer pollen season \u2013 and tree pollen is a major source of seasonal allergies. When spring arrives later than normal, many types of trees and other plants may bloom at once, creating a high concentration of pollen.\nDiane Domina\nDiane works across brands at Remedy Health Media, producing digital content for its sites and newsletters. Prior to joining the team, she was the editorial director at HealthCommunities.\nAnswers to 5 Questions About Cold-Induced Hives\nIs it OK I Took 2 Tyrtec Tablets Instead of one by Mistake?\nSneaky Ways Some Fabrics Can Trigger an Allergy Attack\nTips for Staying Allergy-Free Over the 4th of July","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Man dies in head-on crash with road grader in Saunders County\nBy Taleisha Newbill\nPublished: Feb. 21, 2021 at 7:45 PM CST\nSAUNDERS COUNTY, Neb. (WOWT) - A Fremont man was pronounced dead after a fatal car crash on Sunday.\nThe Cedar Bluffs Fire & Rescue Department and the Saunders County Sheriff's Office went to a two-car crash about one mile east of Cedar Bluffs on Highway 109 around 4:05 p.m.\nIn the investigation, the Saunders County Sheriff's Office indicates a 2019 Ford F-150 pickup truck hit a road grader head-on. The pickup driver, a 69-year-old from Fremont was going west on Highway 109 and he crossed the center line.\nThe pickup driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman passenger was taken to Fremont Methodist Health with serious injuries but it's believed to not be life-threatening.\nWhile crossing the center line, the man hit a road grader head-on that was driven by a 64-year-old NDOT worker. The John Deere 770 road grader belongs to the Nebraska Department of Transportation.\nRoad conditions were snowy at the time of the crash and both used seatbelts in the truck.\nThe next of kin have been notified but names aren't being released for now.\nMan shot multiple times on Omaha street\nRusty's 6 First Alert forecast: Brutal cold locked in today as we look forward to a warmer weekend.\nRusty's Morning Forecast\n6 News Investigates: Amended tax filing frustration\nElection 2022: Douglas County attorney's race","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rihanna puts Album on hold indefinitely to focus on Beauty Line\nPop star Rihanna puts Album on hold indefinitely and pushed plans to release new music to concentrate on her skincare range and as she aims to become a beauty Billionaire.\nThe 32-year-old singer has already enjoyed huge success with her Fenty make-up line and the star is now turning towards skincare after filing paperwork to trademark new products, including one called Buff Ryder. Sources suggest that she wants to become a beauty billionaire after Covid-19 destroyed the music industry, reports thesun.co.uk.\nFuture Launches A New Clothing Line 'Life Is A High' -\u2026\nEminem's Team Teases New Song With Rihanna\nRihanna Becomes The 3rd Richest Musician In UK: Full List\n\"Rihanna's ninth album is on hold indefinitely. She wants to make her millions with beauty and is planning a new skincare line to go alongside her Fenty Cosmetics range. Her lingerie range has gone down so well too that she feels she needs to strike while the iron's hot. Whenever she drops pics of her modelling the gear, sales go up,\" said the source.\nWith her music and her Fenty brand, Rihanna has amassed a fortune of nearly $60,00,00,000. And was recently reported that she is The 3rd Richest Musician In UK.\nRihanna's last album \"Anti\" was released in 2016 and was working on a new project, dubbed as \"R9\".\n\"Fans hopes for R9 will be kept on hold while Rihanna builds her beauty empire as she plots to become the next beauty billionaire. She's realised there is more money in the beauty game than music as record sales die down and live touring faces big competition,\" said the source.\nBack in April, Rihanna told her fans and followers watching her at home virtually to not bring up the album.\n\"If one of y'all ask me about the album one more time when I'm trying to save the world, unlike y'all president\u2026 on sight,\" the 32-year-old said during a live-stream, taking a jab at US President Donald Trump.\nRelated Topics:Beauty LinefentyRihanna\nKanye West Trolled By Celebrities After Presidential Bid Announcement\nMachine Gun Kelly Mourns The Death Of His Father in an emotional Tribute post\nEminem's Team Teases New Song With Rihanna\nJay-Z & Rihanna Donate $1 Million Each for Coronavirus Response Efforts\nMusic: PartyNextDoor \u2013 Believe It Feat. Rihanna: Listen\nRihanna Reportedly Dating A$AP Rocky After Split\nRihanna pays Respect to Kobe Bryant","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter's secret split\nDecember 27, 2014 | 10:31pm\nHelena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton WireImage\nUpcoming TV reboots include 'The 39 Steps,' 'Addams Family' spin-off\nTim Burton slammed for comments on new movie's diversity\nTim Burton, Helena Bonham Carter split\nChristoph Waltz stays in character during 'Big Eyes' Q&A\nTim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter announced the end of their 13-year relationship last week, but sources tell Page Six that they've actually been living separate lives for more than a year and that both have had other lovers.\nBurton, director of the new movie \"Big Eyes,\" and British actress Bonham Carter confirmed through a spokesman last Tuesday that they had \"separated amicably\" earlier this year and \"have continued to be friends and co-parent their \u00adchildren.\"\nThe official confirmation of their split comes more than a year after Burton was pictured kissing and embracing a mystery blonde following a cinema date in North London in September 2013.\nAt the time, his representative denied he had been unfaithful, saying they were out with a group of friends.\nBut a source tells us: \"Tim and Helena have been living separate lives for [more than] a year, and since they separated, they have both had other lovers. The separation announcement was made saying they'd split earlier this year, but they have been living apart for much longer.\"\nDespite some UK claims that Bonham Carter is in a \"bad way\" over the split, our source said: \"Both parties are happy with the situation. It is perfectly amicable.\"\nBurton and Bonham Carter met on the set of 2001's \"Planet of the Apes\" and went on to work on several films together, including \"Sweeney Todd\" and \"Alice in Wonderland.\"\nIn the UK, they were nicknamed \"Mr. and Mrs. Mad Hatter\" after they bought two houses next to each other. They lived in each separately but joined the homes with a communal room.\nBonham Carter had said of the unusual arrangement: \"It really is a great idea. You never have to compromise emotionally or feel invaded.\"\nProving there are no hard feelings, Burton and Bonham Carter were photographed together in London on Christmas with their kids, Billy Ray, 11, and Nell, 7.\nReps for both Burton, 56, and Bonham Carter, 48, didn't get back to us.\nFiled under celebrity breakups\t, helena bonham carter\t, tim burton\t, 12\/27\/14\nDavid Duchovny, Tea Leoni share holiday with kids despite ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Crest senior dies in afternoon wreck\nResident: Not the first wreck near her home\nElise Franco efranco@shelbystar.com\nAn 18-year-old Crest High School senior died Tuesday after losing control of her vehicle and crashing into a tree.\nB.D. Theis, with the N.C. State Highway Patrol, said the student was traveling south on South Lafayette Street in Shelby when she lost control of her vehicle. She ran off the right side of the road and over corrected, which sent her through the front yard of 1905 S. Lafayette St., and into a tree on the property. The wreck happened around 2:30 p.m.\n\"She was pinned in the car when I got here,\" Theis said.\nHighway Patrol confirmed the victim as Elizabeth Drum, 18, of Shelby. Theis said she was cut from the vehicle and taken to Carolinas HealthCare System Cleveland in Shelby, where she died from injuries sustained during the crash.\nJane Mauney said she returned home shortly after the wreck to find fire and rescue crews towing the student's vehicle from her front yard.\n\"They told me there was a bunch of water on the road, and she hydroplaned and hit the tree,\" Mauney said. \"They had to cut the roof off the car.\"\nMauney said this isn't the first time a driver has lost control near her home.\n\"People wreck in this yard all the time,\" she said.\nSocial media comments about Elizabeth:\n\"R.I.P Elizabeth Drum, that's for everything you did for me and how u helped on this in class this semester. I'll miss you. Rest In Peace.\" - Ty Mclaurin on Twitter\n\"You will be greatly missed Elizabeth. Praying for the Drum family. Rest easy sweet girl.\" - Bree on Twitter\n\"We lost a student today and my heart is heavy. Elizabeth Drum is gone from us, but she will never be forgotten. She is a Crest Charger forever and the Class of 2016 will not be the same without her. Praying strength for this young lady's family and her classmates. God bless us in this tragic time.\" - School board member Donnie Thurman Jr. on Facebook\n\"Please keep Elizabeth Drum's family in your thoughts, and wear red or orange tomorrow for her. Elizabeth was such a great student at Crest. We're all going to miss you.\" - Courtney Lynn on Facebook","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"https:\/\/www.thetelegraph.com\/news\/article\/Bobcat-population-growth-needs-to-continue-12635690.php\nBobcat population growth needs to continue\nPublished 12:00 am CST, Wednesday, January 14, 2015\nHunting is a natural component of the balance of man and animal.\nThere is the challenge of sportsmanship involved with spending hours braving the elements of nature to go up against an animal in its natural environment.\nThey also provide food for families and pumps millions of dollars into the economy, especially in this area, where Pike County is consistently among the top deer hunting locations in Illinois.\nWithout carefully controlled hunting seasons, many species would proliferate to the point they would present a nuisance at best and a danger at worst. Consider the millions of dollars of damage deer inflict, both to land and to vehicles unfortunate enough to cross their path. Hundreds of people are killed each year and about $1 billion in vehicle damage is reported annually.\nWould such controlled hunts be as beneficial for other animals, though? In particular bobcats, which could have been on the target list for the first time in more than 40 years had it not been for one of former Gov. Pat Quinn's final acts in office?\nProbably not, and Quinn chose the best approach by choosing to veto House Bill 4226.\nAlthough the time might come to allow people to hunt native Illinois bobcats, which are so named because of the stubby bobbed tails and their prominent ears.\nNot just yet, though.\nThe sponsors of the bill, which passed both the House and the Senate, see it as a proactive response to increased sightings of the animals \u2014 about twice the size of a typical house cat \u2014 in west-central Illinois and elsewhere in the state.\nIt's worth hanging on to and dusting off, but let's wait a few years.\nFor now, the focus needs to be with protecting the state's wildlife.\n\"Habitat loss and trophy hunting put bobcats on the threatened species list in 1977, and it was only recently that the bobcat population recovered enough to be removed from this list,\" Quinn said. \"I [vetoed] this bill because bobcats are a valuable part of Illinois' ecosystem and continue to need protection.\"\nThey are beneficial from the standpoint of eating small rodents, although they also eat rabbits, squirrels and some birds. They don't eat people or large livestock. They are nocturnal, relatively reclusive animals. Hunters can get up to $100 or more for some, but there is no market or use for bobcat meat.\nBobcat hunting was stopped in 1972 because the population dropped significantly. In 1977, the bobcat was placed on the threatened species list.\nNow its population is growing by 4 to 9 percent a year. Bobcats have been seen in 17 of the state's 102 counties.\nIt is not the time to backtrack the success that has been seen naturally.\nNeedless over-hunting of the bobcat created a situation that took decades to rebound. It's worth taking the time now to ensure it doesn't happen again.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Food fortification is one of the most cost-effective strategies to improve micronutrient status through a variety of food vehicles, including staples, condiments, and processed foods (63, 64). Common fortifiable micronutrients include iron, folic acid, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and iodine, although B vitamins and vitamin C are also used as fortificants (33, 64). Food fortification reduced anemia and iron deficiency anemia, and improved vitamin A, folate, niacin, thiamin, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12, zinc, and iodine status of women of reproductive age and adolescents (13, 46, 61, 63\u201374). Vitamin D and calcium fortification were found to reduce the risk of osteoporosis among older women, especially for those exposed to inadequate sunlight (63, 64). Biofortification efforts, including those that involved breeding or genetic modification of plants to improve micronutrient content, have also shown improvements in the vitamin A and iron status of women (64, 75). Similar to micronutrient supplementation, women and girls with low micronutrient status were most likely to benefit.\nWomen's life expectancy is greater than that of men, and they have lower death rates throughout life, regardless of race and geographic region. Historically though, women had higher rates of mortality, primarily from maternal deaths (death in childbirth). In industrialised countries, particularly the most advanced, the gender gap narrowed and was reversed following the industrial revolution. [6] Despite these differences, in many areas of health, women experience earlier and more severe disease, and experience poorer outcomes.[18]\nWeighing yourself too often can cause you to obsess over every pound. Penner recommends stepping on the scale or putting on a pair of well-fitting (i.e. not a size too small) pants once a week. \"Both can be used as an early warning system for preventing weight gain, and the pants may be a better way to gauge if those workouts are helping you tone up and slim down.\" [Tweet this tip!]\nNative to East Asia, soybeans have been a major source of protein for people in Asia for more than 5,000 years. Soybeans are high in protein (more than any other legume) and fiber, low in carbohydrates and are nutrient-dense. Soybeans contain substances called phytoestrogens, which can significantly lower your \"bad\" LDL cholesterol and raise your \"good\" HDL cholesterol.\nTo achieve these goals, cut down on saturated fat from animal products (meat and the skin of poultry, whole-fat dairy products, and certain vegetable foods \u2014 palm oil, palm kernel oil, cocoa butter, and coconut). And it's just as important to reduce your consumption of trans fatty acids, the partially hydrogenated vegetable oils found in stick margarine, fried foods, and many commercially baked goods and snack foods.\nMany WASH interventions targeted mothers and their caregiving behaviors for children. However, these interventions were applied to entire households and not individual household members. Larger community-based hygiene and sanitation initiatives broadly reached more people in the community (131). However, certain populations such as the elderly and young children might have limited access to public infrastructure, such as public latrines, particularly if there are physical and economic barriers to accessing them (136).\nGlobally, cervical cancer is the fourth commonest cancer amongst women, particularly those of lower socioeconomic status. Women in this group have reduced access to health care, high rates of child and forced marriage, parity, polygamy and exposure to STIs from multiple sexual contacts of male partners. All of these factors place them at higher risk.[11] In developing countries, cervical cancer accounts for 12% of cancer cases amongst women and is the second leading cause of death, where about 85% of the global burden of over 500,000 cases and 250,000 deaths from this disease occurred in 2012. The highest incidence occurs in Eastern Africa, where with Middle Africa, cervical cancer is the commonest cancer in women. The case fatality rate of 52% is also higher in developing countries than in developed countries (43%), and the mortality rate varies by 18-fold between regions of the world.[123][17][122]\nFor healthy bones and teeth, women need to eat a variety of calcium-rich foods every day. Calcium keeps bones strong and helps to reduce the risk for osteoporosis, a bone disease in which the bones become weak and break easily. Some calcium-rich foods include low-fat or fat-free milk, yogurt and cheese, sardines, tofu (if made with calcium sulfate) and calcium-fortified foods including juices and cereals. Adequate amounts of vitamin D also are important, and the need for both calcium and vitamin D increases as women get older. Good sources of vitamin D include fatty fish, such as salmon, eggs and fortified foods and beverages, such as some yogurts and juices.\nNutrition-sensitive approaches are difficult to link to women's nutritional status (5, 102). This is due to limited measurement of benefits to program beneficiaries, families, households, and communities, limited timeframes to evaluate long-term impact, logistical and political realities that make implementation difficult, and different priorities of different stakeholders in multisectoral programs (102). Many nutrition-sensitive approaches, as will be described, thus focus on more distal measures of impact (e.g., coverage, knowledge) and not more proximal measures of women's nutritional status (e.g., BMI, anemia status, etc.).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CommunicatingScience\nThe Art of Connecting Across Difference\nAbout the Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech\n\u2190 Student Interns: Many Thanks to Hayley Oliver; Welcome, Lauren Holt!\nClimate Journalist Sara Peach Set to Visit Blacksburg September 26-27 \u2192\nWelcome to New Post-MFAs!\nby carr1e Posted on September 8, 2019\nLeft to right: New post-MFAs William Goblirsch, Jordan Rosin, and Taylor Wood.\nThe Center for Communicating Science welcomes Taylor Wood, William Goblirsch, and Jordan Rosin, three new post-MFAs in the School of Performing Arts. Wood, Goblirsch, and Rosin will each join in the teaching of TA 2404, Introduction to Applied Collaborative Techniques (I-ACT), a Pathways course at Virginia Tech developed by Center for Communicating Science director Patty Raun.\nTwo of the first post-MFAs in the program, who taught I-ACT in previous semesters, have since gone on to hold other positions in the performing arts community. Brittney Harris is now Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University, while Daniel Bird Tobin is Instructor of Directing, Script Analysis and Performance here at Virginia Tech.\nWood comes to Virginia Tech from the University of Georgia, where she received her MFA in Acting. Wood's primary research focuses on creating theatre that \"inspires and transforms.\"\nWood taught acting and devised theater at the University of Georgia, where she received an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Wood's original show Glue premiered at the Moonlight Theater Company in Athens, Georgia. In addition, she has created work and performed with the Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Theater Memphis, and Playhouse on the Square. Her areas of expertise include devised and community-based theatre, listener training and nonviolent communication, and embodied learning.\nWood's emphasis on seeking to \"boost group creativity, promote conflict resolution, and convey an understanding of humanity\" will greatly benefit the TA 2404 students and Virginia Tech community.\nGoblirsch received his MFA in acting from the University of Iowa and an MS in theatre at Portland State University. An actor with a focus on \"the dynamic possibilities of the human body and voice,\" Goblirsch's research centers on how masculinity is portrayed in contemporary performance and the ways in which new work can shift those portrayals and societal definitions of masculinity.\nGoblirsch has taught Introduction to Theatre at the Community College of Baltimore County and Acting at the University of Iowa. He studied Meisner with the Black Box Acting Studio in Chicago and Clown with Dodi DiSanto in Washington, D.C. He received the Obermann Center's Fellowship on Engagement and the Academy. Goblirsch's theatre and acting expertise combined with his teaching experience make him a great addition to the TA 2404 instructor team.\nRosin comes to us from Northern California, where he was a performance intern with the Dell'Arte Players. In that position, he performed and taught in prisons, schools, theatres, community centers, and rural communities. Rosin's MFA is from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre.\nRosin co-founded and served as producing artistic director of The Ume Group, a New York City-based physical theatre ensemble. He frequently collaborates with Ren Gyo Soh, a butoh (Japanese dance theatre) company. His expertise and wide variety of experiences will be extremely valuable to the TA 2404 students.\nIn TA 2404, students use practice-based approaches to effective interpersonal and small group communication, interdisciplinary team creativity, audience connection, and innovation through improvisation. They gain important skills in situational awareness, listening, effective storytelling, team conflict resolution, non-verbal communication, and connecting across difference, all of which will help students to become effective collaborators.\nWelcome Taylor, William, and Jordan!\nBy Lauren Holt, Center for Communicating Science student intern","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Business opportunities: Pakistan is safe for investment, says Shahbaz\nA quest for truth\n'World Bank to support $15m skills development project'\nProject expected to boost industrial productivity, says WB representative\nShamsul Islam April 11, 2016\nProject expected to boost industrial productivity, says WB representative. PHOTO: ONLINE\nFAISALABAD: The World Bank (WB) group will support the Punjab Skill Development Fund (PSDF) in launching a $15 million project to train unemployed youth in the 18-29 age bracket in marketable skills.\nThis was stated by WB representative Ali Qureshi during a group discussion held at the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) on Monday.\nMega projects need to have mega economic returns\nHe said the trainings would be arranged in collaboration with the private sector. He said the data available with the WB suggested that 70 percent of the youth in this age group were educated only up to the secondary school level. He said their absorption in the industry was poor because they lacked employable skills.\nRehana Riffat, another WB representative, said the bank had undertaken a similar project in Kenya that yielded positive results. She said the project was expected to boost industrial productivity and enable a large number of young people to get jobs in the country.\nShe said to ensure that the project corresponded to the needs of the industry the WB was holding detailed discussions with stakeholders.\nPSDF's Zohaib Haq said that the scope of the project would be extended to the entire province based on the outcome of the pilot phase.\nIs Pakistan really a dream destination for China?\nEarlier, FCCI president Chaudhary Muhammad Nawaz said that the industrialists were working in collaboration with the Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority to ensure availability of skilled manpower. He welcomed the new project and urged the WB and the PSDF to ensure fair representation of women in its training sessions.\nPublished in The Express Tribune, April 12th, 2016.\nSkills development: 4,000 women being trained, says minister\nCM launches e-job training programme\nGovt considering setting up a centralised skills agency\nECP announces by-elections on 33 NA seats on March 16\nIndus Water Treaty: Arbitration court holds first hearing in Pak-India dispute\nPTI knocks on LHC's door for Punjab election within 90 days\nPM Shehbaz hopeful IMF agreement will be signed this month","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"OnePlus smartphones: a catalog of models with features, prices and photos\nOnePlus announced itself when it unveiled its very first OnePlus One, which was a huge success worldwide. It was so popular that in the first time after the start of sales it was very difficult to buy it. The smartphone was notable for its low cost and excellent \"flagship\" characteristics..\nToday the company's lineup is small, although it may be expanded in the future.\nOnePlus 7T Pro 8 \/ 256Gb\nScreen diagonal: 6.67 inches\nScreen Resolution: 3120 \u00d7 1440\nProcessor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus\nRear camera: triple 48\/8\/16 MP\nFront camera: 16 MP\nOnePlus 7T 8 \/ 128GB\nRear camera: triple 48\/12\/16 MP\nOnePlus 7 Pro 12 \/ 256GB\nRAM capacity: 12 GB\nOnePlus 7 Pro 8 \/ 256GB\nOnePlus 7 8 \/ 256GB\nRear camera: dual 48\/5 MP\nOnePlus 7 12 \/ 256GB\nRear camera: dual 16\/20 MP\nOnePlus 6 6 \/ 64GB\nOnePlus 5T 64Gb\nScreen diagonal: 6 inches\nOnePlus 5T 128Gb\nOnePlus 5 64GB\nOnePlus 5 128GB\nOnePlus OnePlus3 64Gb\nWe'll start the review with the most popular OnePlus3 model so far. This is still a relatively inexpensive device (when compared with the flagships of famous companies) with powerful hardware and excellent optimization..\nEverything is good in a smartphone: hardware, appearance, screen, camera.\nOf the unusual features, we note as much as 6 GB of RAM, which work in conjunction with the most powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor.\nOnePlus OnePlus 3T 64Gb\nA hot novelty that has just begun to appear in stores. As the name implies, this is not a new model, but a modernized one..\nThere are not many changes compared to OnePlus3, but they are significant. The most important news is the new, more powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor. The amount of RAM remains unchanged, but the battery capacity has grown slightly \u2013 up to 3400 mAh. In addition, the color of the case has changed, which immediately catches the eye.\nThe second generation of smartphones. Despite the fact that this is not the newest smartphone, it has excellent characteristics even by current standards.\nSee for yourself: a 5.5-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 \u00d7 1080 pixels, an excellent 13 MP camera, 64 GB of main memory and 4 GB of RAM, Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, 3300 mAh battery, fingerprint scanner.\nThe case has an individual design and, most interestingly, the panel of the back of the case can be replaced. There are panels even from bamboo!\nOnePlus OnePlus X\nWith this model, OnePlus decided to take a step to the side and introduced a 5-inch smartphone. It should be noted that it turned out to be powerful, high-quality, and beautiful..\nScreen resolution \u2013 Full HD, Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, 3 GB of RAM, 16 GB of main memory, support for memory cards. The battery capacity is not the highest \u2013 2525 mAh. The camera has a resolution of 13 MP, shoots well. The case \u2013 made of glass and metal, as described above, looks beautiful and stylish.\nOnePlus One 64Gb\nOn sale you can still find the very first OnePlus One, albeit with difficulty. It was this model that allowed the company to declare itself.\nThe characteristics are very good: a 5.5-inch screen with Full HD resolution, a 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, 3 GB of RAM, 64 GB of internal memory, a good 13 MP camera, LTE support. Unless there is a fingerprint scanner, but at that time the scanner was rarely used and only in expensive models.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cinesite Team Create London Explosion for 'V For Vendetta'\nThe team behind \"Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire\" and \"Charlie & The Chocolate Factory\" created the controversial visual effects sequence in \"V For Vendetta\" where famous landmarks of London's establishment are blown to pieces, to the music of the 1812 Overture.\nTheir work involved weeks of architecture and building research, construction of the massive 30-foot high 10th scale models at Shepperton Studios, model unit photography and compositing of the models into background footage of London. The realistic model and digital effects make the disturbing sequence highly convincing and will leave cinema-goers wondering \"How did they do that?\"\nSet in a futuristic London, V For Vendetta tells the story of freedom fighter \"V\" rebelling against a fascist state, the result of England losing the Second World War. With a campaign focused on fighting the oppressive authorities with acts of terrorism, \"V\" attempts to convince the suppressed English people to rise up and rebel. V's acts of terrorism include the spectacular destruction of the Houses of Parliament and the Old Bailey.\nModel Unit Supervisor Jose Granell supervised the construction and unit photography for \"V For Vendetta.\" He undertook tests with different strengths of explosives, studying the internal and external architecture of the real buildings to establish how fast the explosions would travel and which areas would detonate first. Dictates of the explosion choreography affected the mix of the pyrotechnic and plaster recipes. All of this attention to detail ensured that the final result would be eerily accurate.\nIn a nerve-wracking finale to weeks of extensive testing and modelling, it was time to detonate the massive models. The model explosions were filmed on Shepperton's 30,000 square foot H stage, using a motion control camera, a special computerized film camera adapted to make repeatable and intricate moves that are necessary when filming major visual effects sequences. The explosions, filmed in various passes, were so loud that they were audible outside of the studios.\nCinesite supplied all of the visual effects for the film, Directed by James McTeigue. \"V For Vendetta\" is due for simultaneous US and UK release on Friday March 17, 2006.\nGuerilla FX Opens in Manhattan\nImaginary Forces Creates Animated Logo For Vertigo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The WA Government will soon face major decisions that will either see much of the Leighton-Port Beach foreshore transformed into sustainable parkland and beaches for generations to come, or be scarred by intensive urban development that will need to be armoured in future with costly seawalls and groynes. Our natural beaches and dunes are in danger!\nWe need to show the McGowan Government that we are watching closely and stand ready to support a sustainable, public Leighton coast for tens of thousands of local beach lovers from more than hundred suburbs, and visiting tourists.\nWe need to act now because in the months ahead, the government could be pressured to rezone land now vacated by old industries - in the southern part of Leighton\/north Port Beach - to allow apartments to be built where dunes and foreshore parkland should be. There is no time to lose to make our views known to the Premier.\nThe government must also finish the job in the northern section of Leighton (the old railway marshalling yards under the pedestrian overpass), which the community successfully argued to be zoned for parkland years ago but that remains locked behind fences. It's time to deliver the park that has been promised for so long.\nWe've done it before, and with your help, we'll do it again. Please show your support for a world-class park now!\nHelping to Save Leighton is as easy as 1, 2, 3:\n1. Add your name below to send a simple, positive message to the McGowan government (see suggested text) and so we can contact you - infrequently:) - to keep you updated\n2. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram.\n3. Tell 3 friends about saveleighton.org this weekend.\nASK THE MCGOWAN GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE LEIGHTON COAST!\nDear Premier, Please commit to working with the broad community to create a sustainable public foreshore for the Leighton - Port Beach coast. It will be a profound legacy for future generations and a hugely valuable tourism asset. Thank you for resisting pressure to zone the southern section to urban and instead, acting for the wider public interest and creating a sustainable, community park.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Truly Disgusting POS\nThese days there seems to be a wealth of disgusting individuals\u2026.but this a\/hole leads the pack\u2026\u2026\nA Louisiana man accused of \"very disturbing acts\" with two dogs now sits behind bars.\nAccording to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, 52-year-old Kenneth Ord Starling is facing 32 counts of Sexual Abuse of Animals after they received a complaint about \"possible inappropriate behavior involving animals\".\nSTPSO says that a search of the \"Victoria Way residence resulted in the discovery of numerous images and videos of animals being sexually abused.\"\nDeputies then interviewed Starling about what had been uncovered during the investigation.\nAccording to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, \"Starling admitted to engaging in sexual intercourse with two of his dogs.\"\nStarling is currently in the St. Tammany Parish Jail.\n(arklatex.com)\nThis person deserves the most severe punishment imaginable\u2026.I can think of many ways to make this disgusting slug pay for his crime\u2026.none of which would be pleasant.\nI wish I could say that I hate myself for thinking of such extreme measures\u2026.but as a dog lover I want this 'person' to suffer and die.\nBy loboteroin News, Society 28 August 2021 194 Words14 Comments\nSaturday News\nMy news first\u2026we here on the Gulf Coast are waiting for final word on the landfall of Hurricane Ida\u2026.here we go again\u2026..well it is Summer on the Coast where we are always just North of a hurricane\u2026..\nThe weekend begins and I want to report a few stories that may not have made your local news show\u2026.\nI am an old fart so I am confused at why so many young people need flavored beverages\u2026.like booze, coffee, soft drinks, vitamins and the list goes on and on\u2026\u2026.then there are those damn energy drinks that are filled with caffeine and artificial BS\u2026like a fan favorite Mountain Dew (a truly disgusting tasting drink)\u2026.now there is a new flavor to tease the idiots\u2026.those most easily manipulated\u2026.\nYou can now have your Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drink them, too.\nIn perhaps the most bizarre flavor mash-up of 2021, Mountain Dew has introduced a Flamin' Hot flavor combo that blends \"the sweet, citrus DEW with a new spicy goodness.\"\n\"As a brand, DEW has a rich history of experimenting with new flavors our fans love. We certainly had them in mind when we developed the FLAMIN' HOT beverage,\" said Matt Nielsten, senior director of marketing at PepsiCo, in a press release. \"This is one of our most provocative beverages yet, and we're excited for DEW Nation to taste the unique blend of spicy and classic sweet citrus flavor of MTN DEW.\"\nhttps:\/\/people.com\/food\/flamin-hot-mountain-dew\/\nI am a big fan of a maled milk shake\u2026..different from the MacD's thin soft swirl they calla milk shake\u2026.if you are unsure what it is then this should help\u2026..\nFirst, let's learn what a chocolate malt is. Because let's be real, we all know what a milkshake is. A chocolate malt is also a milkshake made with chocolate ice cream. You can even use vanilla ice cream and add chocolate syrup to it to get the chocolate flavor. What makes it different is the extra step. You need to add malted milk powder to round out the drink.\n\"Malted milk powder was invented by a man named William Horlick in 1873 as a much more manageable means of using malt rather than the very thick malt syrup,\" Piedmont Grocery store shared. \"Malted milk powder is made by sprouting and drying a grain, typically barley, and mixing it with powdered milk and wheat flour. Sometimes sugar and chocolate flavoring are also added to the powder. While you may not often order a malted milkshake, you may be familiar with the flavor thanks to Whoppers or Ovaltine,\" myrecipes.com added.\nMalted Milkshakes: The Classic Milkshake Add-in Soon To Be Lost to History\nIf you love the Earth then you are trying to soften your solid waste especially plastic bags, right? You may have gone to those cotton bags for your shopping to eliminate adding to plastic waste\u2026\u2026you may not be doing the Earth a favor with cotton\u2026..\nHow many cotton tote bags do you have shoved into closets and cabinets and your car trunk? If the answer is too many, but you've at least consoled yourself that you're doing the planet good, bad news. In a piece for the New York Times on our \"cotton tote crisis,\" Grace Cook cites some disheartening stats: Cotton is a water-intensive crop, and offsetting the environmental impact of creating just one bag is a long road. Per a 2018 study out of Denmark, an organic cotton tote would need to be used 20,000 times to zero out the impact that its production had on the environment. \"That equates to daily use for 54 years\u2014for just one bag,\" writes Cook. If you have more like 25 bags, that works out to a thousand-plus years.\nAnd to add insult to injury, they're really tough to recycle, in part because most compost facilities don't accept textiles, and the scant amount of cotton that does make it to a treatment plant can't be recycled if it features PVC-based logos, as many bags do. Cook dates the origins of the cotton-bag explosion to 2007 and a British designer and looks at how brands ranging from the New Yorker to the beauty brand Aesop have contributed to the problem. If this has you wondering whether plastic is actually the lesser evil, Cook definitely doesn't go that far. \"Lightweight plastic bags use greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels, never biodegrade, and clog up the oceans,\" she cautions. The best bet might be skipping a bag altogether when possible.\nSometimes we just cannot win, right?\nFinally\u2026asphalt with a floral smell\u2026.\nConstruction workers know the stench of hot asphalt all too well, and it doesn't smell like roses. Or does it? Polish construction firm Budimex says it's teamed up with refiner Lotos to create a floral-scented asphalt more pleasing to road builders. Added to the typical bitumen recipe are natural and synthetic essential oils, some of which neutralize the unpleasant smell, per Reuters. The others give off a floral scent, Budimex says in a news release.\n\"At times one could smell the scent of flowers, which made working more pleasant,\" a Budimex foreman is quoted as saying in the release. It notes the company will look at introducing the compound on a wider scale. However, it's unclear if the alteration will be any safer for road builders. According to the CDC, exposure to asphalt fumes is associated \"with irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat\" as well as \"acute lower respiratory tract symptoms.\"\nNow that is something I have always worried about\u2026.the smell of asphalt.\nFinally with all the hub-bub over pills being taken as a deterrent to the Covid there is some fairly promising news\u2026but first\u2026.\nDISCLAIMER: Do not take any medication without first checking with your doctor.\nSecond\u2013DO NOT for any reason take a drug that is formulated for use on cows and horses\u2026.regardless what some overweight pastor or talk show host may tell you\u2026if you do talk their words as fact the you are proving just how f*cking stupid you truly are.\nSince Covid-19 patients started showing up at clinics and hospitals a year and a half ago, doctors and researchers have been hard at work trying to figure out how to treat them. Most drugs and treatments haven't panned out, producing either no results or small ones in large-scale clinical trials. Many of the few that work are expensive and difficult to administer.\nHydroxychloroquine, enthusiastically endorsed by President Trump last year, has been shown to have no measurable benefits. New drugs like monoclonal antibodies \u2014 proteins meant to imitate the immune system's response to the disease \u2014 have been approved by regulators but must be administered by a doctor through an IV or series of injections.\nBut scientists haven't stopped searching, and the results of a new massive clinical trial suggest they're getting somewhere. In a large, randomized clinical trial conducted with thousands of patients over the past six months, researchers at McMaster University tested eight different Covid-19 treatments against a control group to figure out what works.\nOne drug stood out: fluvoxamine, an antidepressant that the Food and Drug Administration has already found to be safe and that's cheap to produce as a generic drug.\nhttps:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/22619137\/fluvoxamine-covid-ivermectin-together-study-mcmaster\nI am finished with the 'dump'\u2026.have a great Saturday\u2026.\nBe well and be safe\u2026.\nBy loboteroin News, Observations 28 August 2021 1,234 Words2 Comments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (September 27th and 28th at the Cleveland Museum of Art Morley Lecture Hall)\n[EVOCATEUR: THE MORTON DOWNEY JR. MOVIE screens Friday September 27th at 6:45 pm and Saturday September 28th at 1:30 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art Morley Lecture Hall.]\nReview by Charles Cassady, Jr.\nI understand there will be some filmmaker personal appearances when EVOCATEUR screens at the Art Museum [Note: the appearance has been cancelled, but not the movie.]. Not to incur any liability or anything for the Blog, but it would be fab if the audience, whom I would imagine are typical University Circle rabble, did a whole riot scene and started throwing chairs around. Again, I am not saying I want that to happen, just that it would be appropriate. And if it does happen, the police and lawyers should spell my name right: it's E-B-E-R-T...\nVia witnesses, commentators and surreal animation, EVOCATEUR tells of the very public rise and steep fall of schlock-TV phenom Morton Downey Jr., whose syndicated talk show was a milestone in \"trash TV\" and had critics at the time wondering if the grim satire of NETWORK had come true. Filmmakers Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger employ a retro pre-digital style I quite enjoyed - through more reminiscent of the 1970s than the late 1980s where most of this went down.\nTo judge from the posts of this movie the IMDB (which gives it a shockingly low rating, BTW), most of today's internet kids, probably hired over me for all the high-paying social media\/arts\/communications gigs, have zero idea who Morton Downey Jr. (1932-2001) was. They're probably really angry when they see this movie to find out it isn't the guy who plays Iron Man after all. But I quite remember Morton Downey's show on the air shortly after I graduated and started looking for a \"job\" in the Cleveland area (yes, good luck with that, younger Charles). With The Morton Downey Jr. Show airing in Cleveland, I was grateful I hadn't majored in the cesspit that was broadcast journalism, but had rather gone for the more refined, respectable newspaper end.\nNow newspapers are dead\/dying. And I am still looking for a real job. No wonder I want to see riots now, and chairs thrown at filmmakers (lots of filmmaker deserve it anyhow).\nDowney Jr. was second-generation showbiz, son of celebrated \"Irish Tenor\" crooner Morton Downey Sr. Evidently the elder Downey was big enough to make Hollywood movies and the cover of Time, but here he is depicted (sometimes in animation) as a cold, disapproving, toad-faced parent whom junior blamed for his actress-mother Barbara Bennett's chronic alcoholism and death.\nRaised in luxury after Bennett lost the custody battle, Downey Jr. groped for a life that would overshadow his dad - there's a clip here from something I never imagined existed, an \"Idol\"-type TV show of B&W yesteryear with the young Morton trying to sing - and being told by Ohio's own Dean Martin that he's not up to Downey Sr.'s standards and needs to work on it more. Really, Dean Martin doing Simon Cowell, like some kind of post-modern comedy sketch with perfect CGI simulacra. That moment is almost worth the cost of admission alone.\nAfter going through a quasi-hippie phase, Downey Jr. finally found big-time celebrity as a combative, right-wing TV talk-show host, sort of the anti-Phil Donahue. Interviewee Sally Jessy Raphael (do you IMDB kids recognize ANY of these names, or does your pop-culture awareness sort of start with HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL?) says the guy shamelessly stole the act of pre-existing blowhard Joe Pyne. And sharp-eyed viewers will also recognize another TV fire-breather, California's Wally George. Downey Jr. took their already over-the-top schtick and pumped it up more, taping his syndicated show in blue-collar Secaucus, New Jersey. The audience was filled with rowdy guidos and teenage boys, whipped into a frenzy with Downey's trademark chainsmoking, sexism, guest strippers and hyper-patriotic rants against \"pablum-puking liberals\"\nThis made Junior the top of the ratings trash-heap for a short while (he was even interviewed by Ted Koppel - another person you internet kids probably will have to look up on Wikipedia), and he divorced his third wife - we're told he shed his wives like clockwork, every 13 years - took up with a sexy blonde, and did live-on-the-road shows, complete with a CD of music. But advertisers were losing interest in having the Morton Downey Jr. Show audience being their demographic, and the gimmick was wearing thin. Then the host, in a public restroom, deliberately faked his own beating by \"Nazi\" skinheads, a final grasp at PR relevance that went badly wrong and effectively ended his show. The revelation here is that Downey Jr. took cues from the Tawana Brawley assault hoax, a scandal Downey Jr. and frequent guest Rev. Al Sharpton exploited together.\nSharpton could build a career out of such stuff; Morton Downey Jr. didn't. The documentary doesn't mention, alas, Morton's brief run as a character actor in direct-to-video B- and C-movies, but goes right to his death from lung cancer, when he attempted to made amends with liberals in Kennedy country with whom he had grown up.\nYes, even with an approving Pat Buchanan interviewed and line drawn from Morton Downey Jr. to Glenn Back and the Tea Party, the film makes a case that Downey's \"evolution\" to conservative Neanderthal was a fiction put on for ratings, ego, stardom and Getting Even With Dad. Most of the show's old producers, even some audience members, are interviewed; they don't seem to have any regrets about their achievements - money-wise, especially - and we're informed the show opened up America's eyes to the hitherto-neglected Jersey Shores type of personality. As though that were a good thing. One individual not interviewed, sadly: Cincinnati's pride and joy Jerry Springer, who has been the king of talk-TV slime ever since, but whose \"ringmaster\" approach is vastly different. I'm told Mr. Springer can be a quite charming and accessible person, and he really would have been a valuable voice in this lurid inquest. You Art Museum audiences, be sure to riot and scream about that omission.\nThe big issue: Much as Morton Downey Jr. projected a pretty odious public image, does this film actually humanize him? To the extent it does is thanks to a real find, obscure poetry published by young Downey in 1969, here read by his contemporaries (like comedian Chris Elliot) that seems to comment prophetically on the author's angst, rise and fall.\nThis is the longest review I've written in quite a while, so I guess you can say that I'm pretty fascinated by the movie, even as I had many problems with it. Viewers of my generation, who want to remember this weird episode in the decline of American media and civility, should check it out indeed. The ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW closing credit sequence is a work of art all by itself. You internet\/IMDB kids, you have heard of ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, right? Otherwise the reference will be lost on you. (3 1\/4 out of 4 stars)\nPosted by Charles Cassady Jr. at 12:00 AM\nLabels: Charles Cassady Jr., Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH, Daniel A. 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See Here.\nSee Our Torres del Paine Itineraries\nIncluding W Trek, Circuit Trek,\nLuxury All-Inclusive Options,\nFixed Dates and Flexible Dates\nDirect Link to Our Itineraries Page\nTorres del Paine: What is It?\nAnd What is So Special About This Park?\nWelcome to the Torres del Paine National Park\nThe Park is located in southern Chile. Above all, it is a main trekking destination, and home to the iconic Torres del Paine W Trek and Circuit trek trails, as well as the stunning Grey Glacier, waterfalls, rivers and lakes.\nThe Torres del Paine National Park, is an area of immense, outstanding, natural beauty, but in the \"raw\" sense. Here there are no picturesque rolling hills, but there are dramatically carved rock formations, raging waterfalls, rivers, stunning blue-coloured lakes, glaciers and a multi-mix of wildlife.\nIntroduction to the Patagonia Region\nPatagonia is a vast area that straddles both southern Chile and Argentina. Among this area are known cities and destinations in Argentina such as: Bariloche, El Calafate, El Chalten and Ushuaia.\nOn the Chile side we have Chiloe Island (west of Chile); the Carretera Austral, Puerto Williams, Cape Horn, Punta Arenas, Puerto Natales and the famous Torres del Paine.\nWhat we aim to do in this section is to give you as much relevant information as we can about Torres del Paine National Park, which is in the heart of Patagonia, and matters related to visiting the area.\nPlease just take a look at the photos on this page in order to get a little bit of an idea as to what waits in store if you are lucky enough to visit.\nFor those who need accommodation, itineraries, tours and \/ or the W Trek, you can have it all arranged with Experience Chile (that's us), through this specialist web site for Torres del Paine.\nPlease look at our menu options and send us an email: request@experiencechile.org and we will do the rest.\nInformation and FAQ's\nTorres del Paine National Park\nPatagonia, Chile\nFAQ's Further Below (scroll down)\nArrivals & Transfers to and Around Torres del Paine\nTransfers and Transport in and Around Torres del Paine\nThere are various ways to get to Torres del Paine and here we explain what these options are.\nFor more information, email us\u2026\nLINK TO OUR TRANSPORT SERVICES PAGE HERE\nWhat are the principal entry points to Torres del Paine?\nThe main entry points into Torres del Paine are: Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales in Chile and EL Calafate in Argentina.\nFlying In\nTo PUNTA ARENAS\nMost commercial flights will land at Punta Arenas some 3,000km south from Santiago. Note: There are NO commercial flights from Buenos Aires nor El Calafate to Punta Arenas. The direct flight from Santiago will take just under 4hrs, and the one that stops off at Puerto Montt en-route will take around 4.5hrs.\nLanding at PUERTO NATALES\nOn certain days of the week there are direct flights Santiago to Puerto Natales, which is a lot closer to Torres del Paine.\nArriving to Puerto Natales by Ship\nNavimag operates a commercial ferry ship, which also takes passengers, from Puerto Montt. This ship arrives to Puerto Natales and offers a good-value cruise that passes through the channels and fiords in the area en-route to Puerto Natales (the cruise is available from Puerto Natales too) and ExperienceChile.Org can arrange the reservations. From Puerto Natales you either take the regular bus to TDP, have a pre-arranged private transfer meet you, or organise a rent a car.\nTo EL CALAFATE\nYou need to fly to El Calafate in Argentina from Buenos Aires or Ushuaia. Here you can stay overnight with an option to go to El Chalten (3hrs away by road) and \/ or visit Perito Moreno glacier the following day and then the next day come over to TDP.\nFrom El Calafate you can take the regular bus across the border (departs 08:00hrs) to Puerto Natales (arrives 13:00hrs approx) and change to the regular bus that then goes to TDP departing around 14:00hrs, or arrange a private transfer service or a car rental. Also from El Calafate ExperienceChile.Org can organise a direct bus transfer to TDP (Laguna Amarga) departing El Calafate at 05:30hrs, which takes 6hrs.\nFrom the airport you would then either be met by a private transfer service (if you have contracted one with ExperienceChile.Org), take the regular bus from Punta Arenas city centre to Puerto Natales and change to another bus to get to TDP, have asked ExperienceChile.Org to pre-arrange a regular bus pick-up at the airport, or have arranged for your own car rental. Note that a permit is required to take any car across the border in to Argentina.\nNOTE: No fruit, raw meat, raw vegetables, seeds or cheese is allowed over the border in either direction. If you try to do so you WILL be fined. There is a cafeteria at the Chile border where you can buy snacks as well as at the mini-markets on the W-Trek in TDP.\nWhat transport is there for Torres del Paine?\nExperienceChile.Org will include in the itinerary regular bus transfers and private local transfers. We can also arrange rent a car and private long-distance transfers.\nWhat are the transfer routes for Torres del Paine? Options include regular buses and private transfers.\nEl Calafate to Torres del Paine \/ Torres del Paine to El Calafate\nFrom El Calafate to Torres del Paine \/ Torres del Paine to Puerto Natales\nPuerto Natales to Torres del Paine \/ Torres del Paine to Puerto Natales\nFrom Puerto Natales to Torres del Paine \/ Torres del Paine to El Calafate\nPuerto Natales to el Calafate \/ El Calafate to Puerto Natales\nPunta Arenas to Puerto Natales \/ Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas\nPrivate Transfer \u2013 any route, when you want\nFor those with a higher budget, or for private groups travelling together, a private transfer between cities and \/ or in to and out of Torres del Paine is the way to go. A private transfer will go at the times you want and take you door to door.\nCan I rent a car for Torres del Paine?\nFor those who wish to have total independence having your own car use is the ultimate winner. You can go where you want when you want. Remember that if you want to take the car across the border a permit is required and this requires about a week's notice.\nLOCATION DISTANCES\nPunta Arenas to Laguna Amarga in Torres del Paine (TDP) \u2013 370km (5hrs drive)\nFrom Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales \u2013 250km (3hrs drive)\nPuerto Natales to TDP Laguna Amarga \u2013 120km (2hrs to drive)\nFrom Puerto Natales to TDP Rio Serrano (newest route via Milodon-Cave road) \u2013 80km (1hr to drive)\nTorres del Paine Places of Interest\nTorres del Paine National Park Places of Interest\nThere are numerous activity excursions to choose from in and around Torres del Paine, perhaps too many to mention. For this reason, what follows are only some of the more typical places of interest and activities. That is to say, some excursions can be done by touring in a vehicle, but most are done on foot, and in some cases on horseback. Apart from the staggering visual scenery, Torres del Paine is also home to many varieties of bird species including the Condor, and rare types of flora and fauna such as the Puma and Guanaco.\nWhat follows is only \"introductory\" information. If you look through the site and go to the W Trek page, for example, you will find all that you need for information about the W and Circuit treks.\nLocation of the Administration Centre (Sede)\nThis is located in the sector near to Rio Serrano and is the base for CONAF (the park administration people), the Carabineros (the Police). Therefore, here there is an excellent exhibition display of the geographical history of TDP. Consequently this centre is well worth a visit for those who are interested to know how the amazing and spectacular geographic features of the areas were created.\nSome of the Torres del Paine Trekking Trails\nFerrier Mirador\nThis is the look out at the end of the Ferrier Trek (near to Hotel Grey)\nThe start of this trek is located by the CONAF hut, at the entrance to Grey Beach, not too far from Hotel Grey. Above all, the return hike is about 7hrs with panoramic views over GreyLake, Pingo Glacier, Torres del Paine Massif and the Cuernos de Paine. However, the trek involves some difficult uphill stretches.\nLake Sarmiento\nFrom this lake is a great view to the Paine Massif and in the immediate area is the Nothofagus wood with Lenga and Nirres trees. Moreover, the trek will be around 4hrs and is not difficult.\nLaguna Azul\nLocated around the other side of the Park (going in an anti-clock wise rotation), this is a very blue-coloured lake from where there is a great view to the towers of Torres del Paine and also home to many types of flora and fauna, and especially good for bird watching. Also accessible by vehicle. Therefore, this is an easy place to get to and does not involve any difficulty.\nSalto Grande (Large Waterfall)\nThis is located about 1km up the track from Pudeto (from where the catamaran operates). Salto Grande means Large Waterfall. Most importantly, the viewing area is very close to the action and offers people the opportunity to see the power, and hear the mighty rumble of vast volumes of water cascading through a narrow gap and then thunder down to the drop some 30mts below. However, be alert because one can easily slip over the edge!\nEl Sendero de los Lagos (The Lakes Footpath)\nThe start of this trek is from the Estancia (Hosteria) Mirador del Paine \u2013 which is technically outside the Park, and is moderate in difficulty. Hiking this trek takes about 8hrs and offers a great view of Lago Toro and a panoramic view of the TDP Massif, glaciers and other mountains. It ends in the Park not far from the Weber bridge. Therefore, you will need to be met at the end point.\nW Trek Key Places of Interest\nLINK TO OUR W TREK ALL YOU NEED TO NOW PAGE HERE\nEl Sendero de Ascensio (the Torres Base Trek)\nThis trek will take around 8hrs return and starts from the Hotel Las Torres area. It passes through the Ascencio Valley and Nothofagus Forest and ends up at the Mirador (view point) at 980mt altitude. Above all, from here there is a spectacular view of the three Towers of Paine and the Condor's Nest. Moreover, there are some amazing rock formations. However, the trek is demanding although part of it can be done on horse back up to Refugio Chileno, which is half way up, from Hotel Las Torres.\nIt takes 2hrs to reach the Refugio Chileno on foot, from Hotel Las Torres. However, it is then another 2 hrs to reach the Torres base (the \"Mirador\").\nTo get to the French Valley it is necessary to take the catamaran from Pudeto across the Lake Pehoe to Refugio Paine Grande, unless you are coming from Refugio Cuernos or Camping Frances. However, the trek From Refugio Paine Grande, or Refugio Cuernos to the entrance to the French Valley is about 2.5hrs. Whereupon, the trek to the end of the French Valley from the entrance is another 2.5hrs.\nThe actual valley offers stark and impressive views of Glacier Frances and the Cuernos del Paine. However, if you do this trek you need to consider the time for returning to either Refugio Paine Grande, Camping Frances, or Refugio Cuernos (and Cabins here too). Note that Camping Frances is only 1hr from the entrance to the French Valley.\nAccess to Glacier Grey is either by boat from Hotel Lago Grey, or by trek from Refugio Paine Grande, followed by a boat trip from Refugio Grey. However, by boat from Hotel Lago Grey the excursion lasts about 3 hrs and offers a close-up view of the glacial face. During the navigation you will be offered the chance to drink samples of Whisky or Pisco with millennia-old ice! Most importantly, trekking to Grey from Paine Grande takes about 4hrs in order to meet the boat there (at Grey).\nTrekking from Paine Grande to Grey\nHowever, if you trek from Paine Grande to Grey it is then a further 1.5hrs to get to the land-based Glacier Grey viewpoint (mirador). If you do this please remember the return 1.5hrs back to Refugio Grey from the viewpoint. Most importantly, from Refugio Grey you will need to take the boat to Hotel Lago Grey, or trek back to Refugio Paine Grande to get the catamaran over to Pudeto, and then out from the Park.\nThe trek from Refugio Paine Grande to Refugio Grey is moderately demanding.\nWhere is the Torres del Paine Welcome Centre?\nThe Torres del Paine Welcome Centre is located in the Eastern sector of Torres del Paine about 1.5km from the entrance to Hotel Las Torres. Moreover, the centre is close to Refugios Central and Norte and a short distance from ECO Camp.\nMost importantly, only if you are entering the Torres del Paine National Park at the Eastern end will you need to enter the Welcome Centre. As a result, you need to show that you have confirmed reservations for accommodation on the W trek, if you are staying over. Above all, you also need to present, or fill in a visitors form.\nThere are public WC's here as well as information.\nPark Entry Points\nPark Entry and Registration\nThere are three principal entry points into Torres del Paine National Park. At each entry visitors need to register at the park entrance they enter by and pay for their entry ticket there, in person. Ideally bring local, Chilean currency ie cash. Further below we explain where these entry points are.\nPark Entrance Cost\nTorres del Paine Park entrance cost in 2020 was Ch$25.000 or approx USD35 per person.\nThe National Park is administered by CONAF (\"Corporacion Nacional Forestal\") and income is distributed throughout the organization. Consequently, the income generated from Torres del Paine visitors does not all go to the Park. The CONAF admin centre is located within the park at the northern end of Lago del Toro, or 11 km past the Explora hotel heading west towards the Rio Serrano end. Above all, here there is an information centre and exhibits the geographical make-up of the Park as well as information on the flora and fauna.\nThe Main Park Entrances\nMost importantly, the official park entrances are at Laguna Amarga (eastern entrance), Largo Sarmiento (south-eastern entrance) and Serrano (western entrance).\nLaguna Amarga\nThis is located on the Eastern side of the park 150km (2hrs drive) on Ruta 9 from Puerto Natales, which goes via the border village of Cerro Castillo. However, at this point the road becomes Ruta Y 150.\nLago Sarmiento\nThe Sarmiento entrance is also located on the Eastern side of the park 150km (2hrs drive) on Ruta 9 from Puerto Natales. Consequently, to get here you will go via the border village of Cerro Castillo. However, as mentioned above, at this point the road becomes Ruta Y 150. Moreover, about one hour from Cerro Castillo there will be a fork in the road and a signs to Laguna Amarga and Sarmiento, here you need to follow the left fork instead of right (right goes to Laguna Amarga entrance). However, note that the Sarmiento entry is often CLOSED and not used that much.\nThe Serrano Entrance\nThis is 80km (1hr drive), on Ruta 9, from Puerto Natales past the Milodon Cave. Therefore, plan in some extra time if you want to visit the cave, which is well worth the visit.\nTorres del Paine Emergency Rescue\nTrekking in Torres del Paine requires attention to safety, personal responsibility and commonsense. Moreover, you need to come with the right clothes, be very aware of changing weather conditions and also bring other items such as a torch, water and food for the period when you are out trekking. Consequently, if you are in need of serious emergency help it may well be VERY SLOW in arriving.\nHelicopter Rescue\nMoreover, often helicopters cannot get into the park because of high winds and the long distance from Punta Arenas. For this reason, rescue from the remote sectors of the Park will mean transport by horseback, or being carried on a stretcher. Above all, such \"extractions\" from the Park will be over rough terrain to the nearest road vehicle, followed by drive for 3 hrs to Puerto Natales, or even longer to Punta Arenas. Therefore, it really would be a good idea to NOT fall down, twist and ankle or worse.\nSelf Drive (Rent a Car) Information\nHaving your own car can be liberating. You can go where you want, when you want. However, there are considerations too, some of which we have outlined below.\nSelf Drive Advantages\nSome people like independence. Therefore, we offer rent a car as part of any itinerary we are creating for you, but not as a stand-alone service. For example, only if part of the rest of your itinerary. Moreover, the advantage to renting a car is that you have total independence to go where you want, when you want. Therefore, if you intend to drive around to the sights and not trek much a car may be a good option, especially if you are four, or more people together.\nThe Self Drive Disadvantages\nHowever, the disadvantages of renting a car are that the driver will usually get tired, and miss a lot of the stunning scenery. Also, you will be paying for something when it is in the car park, as it may be for several days if you are trekking in Torres del Paine.\nAs a result, if you are trekking the W, for example, you will have to leave it in one place, but then need to get back to that place after the trek, which may require a private transfer to get you back to where the car is. On the other hand it also costs money with petrol (gas if you are from the United States), and there is a fee to pay to take it across the border to Argentina should you be doing that.\nLink to our TRANSPORT PAGE HERE\nDistances Between Locations\nThings to Consider if Rentng a Car\nIf you feel a car is the way to go, remember that you will need one sufficiently large enough not only for you and your passengers, but also for all your bags.\nWe can offer rent a car with pick up from Punta Arenas airport, or city centre. Moreover, we can also arrange pick-up from Puerto Natales city centre. And, for other destinations in Patagonia we can also arrange for pick-up at El Calafate airport or city centre, Puerto Montt airport or city centre, and at Coyhaique, Balmaceda airport.\nPlease note that as yet there is NO option to collect, or drop off a rent a car in Torres del Paine National Park.\nTo take a car over the border requires a special permit. Therefore we can arrange the permit for the border crossing, as well as to drop a car off at a different city location to the pick-up location. In this case of different drop off place to where the car was collected there will be a drop-off fee.\nOur Rent a Car Partner\nWe work with one particular, reliable, rent a car provider for the Patagonia area. As a result, here below are the car options we can offer. However, please note that to get a cost we need to know the full details of pick-up time, drop off time, location of pick up and drop off.\nIn the meantime please mention in your enquiry the type of car you want, time of pick-up, where and time and place of drop off.\nExperienceChile.Org can arrange rent a car from Punta Arenas, El Calafate and Puerto Natales. What follows are some of the typical types of car available in the Torres del Paine zone.\nThe images of vehicles below is not up-to-date, but merely to give you an idea of the types of cars we can arrange, as well as other models not shown below.\nDistances & Fuel Filling Stations\nFuel Stops\nIf you have your own car please be aware that distances within the park can be quite long between refugios, hosterias and campsites. Therefore, it is imperative that you have a full tank of petrol (gas) prior to setting off from Puerto Natales. However, at Cerro Castillo, about half way between Puerto Natales and the Torres del Paine Park entrances, sometimes there is petrol (gas) there, but can also be sold out.\nMoreover, there is an emergency supply of petrol in the park near the CONAF centre close to Posada Rio Serrano, but again, this should not be relied upon.\nDistances Between Main Cities and Places in Torres del Paine\nCatamaran Service Between Pudeto and Paine Grande\nThe Catamaran Operates Between Pudeto and Refugio Paine Grande\nThis service is subject to local weather conditions, and can be delayed or cancelled. Most importantly, reservations are NOT taken in advance. Therefore, you need to organise your crossing directly at Pudeto or Refugio Paine Grande, for the 25 minute navigation. At Pudeto there is a cafe where you can have a drink and buy snacks whilst you wait and, of course, at Refugio Paine Grande there is a restaurant that serves drinks and snacks too.\nYou need to pay in cash in Chilean Pesos even though prices below are shown in USD, but in high season they accept other currencies too (established hard currencies like Euro and USD).\nPrices for Season 2022 \u2013 2023\nThe One way fare is approx USD40 per person \/ Return fare is less than two singles\nOne backpack is included, but USD10 per an extra backpack up to 50Kg)\nTorres del Paine Flora and Fauna Information\nThe Flora and Fauna of Torres del Paine National Park\nTorres del Paine is a haven for different varieties of Patagonia vegetation as well as birds and mammals.\nHere we do our best to list what you may see whilst you explore the Park.\nWith regard to vegetation Torres del Paine can be divided into four different zones that relate to the different environments and conditions in the area.\nThese zones are:\nPatagonian Steppe.\nPre-Andean Shrub land.\nMagellan Deciduous Forest and Andean Desert.\nAmong the varied types of vegetation are these principal verities:\nMATORRAL PREANDINO\nThis is a herb that has adapted to the cold and dry conditions found growing principally in the areas around Lago Sarmiento, the Salto Grande and Mirador Nordenskj\u00f6ld.\nBOSQUE MAGALLANICO\nThese are woods comprising native trees such as Lenga and Coigue found in the areas around Lago Grey,Valle Pingo, close to Glacier Grey, Valle Frances and Valle Los Perros.\nTUNDRA MAGALLANICO\nA type of grass that grows principally in humid conditions.\nThe Calafate (the Argentine town El Calafate has its name derived from this plant) is a plant that produces a small, black fruit and yellow flower.\nNOTRO\nA very small tree that produces a red flower.\nCAPACHITO\nThis is a floral herb with orange-coloured flowers.\nARMENERIA\nA medicinal herb that produces a rose-coloured flower.\nARVEJILLA\nOften confused with lavender because of its move-coloured flowering, which is is not.\nThere are 25 species of mammal including:\nPumas.\nCougars.\nGrey Foxes.\nCulpeos Foxes.\nPatagonian Foxes.\nSkunks.\nThe Chilean Huemul and many Guanacos.\nThere are also 105 species of bird including fifteen birds of prey species.\nAmong the birds of prey are:\nThe Andean Condor.\nEagle.\nBlack-Chested Buzzard Eagle.\nRufous-Tailed Hawk.\nCinereous Harrier.\nChimango Caracara.\nMagellanic Owl and Austral Pygmy Owl.\nOther species include:\nRheas.\nBlack-Neck Swans.\nParrots.\nFlamingos.\nRaguas.\nDucks.\nCaiquenes.\nEscurridzos.\nNandues.\nStriped Woodpecker.\nBlack Woodpecker.\nFish Martin.\nMagellan Woodpecker.\nMagellan Goose.\nBuff-Necked Ibis.\nClothes to Pack for Torres del Paine and Patagonia\nPack the Right Clothes when Coming to Patagonia\nWhat we aim to do here is advise you on what to pack in you suitcase and bring with you when coming to any part of Patagonia, be it land or sea. The weather here has one constant, which is change! It is often windy and it can rain or offer beautiful sunshine within the space of an hour. Therefore, please bring the right clothing to keep yourself dry and warm. Further below there is a graphic detailing what you should, ideally, bring with you.\nLayered Clothing is the Answer\nTry to bring LAYERS of breathable clothes that can be taken off or put on easily to adapt to any change in weather and as you heat up and cool down on a trek. Cotton undershirts are NOT recommended \u2013 see below.\nIdeally clothes such as:\nOver your body skin: an under vest (long sleeved if possible) made, ideally, from synthetic fibres so it dries quickly. If very cold weather (ie early spring, winter months or autumn) then thermal underwear made from synthetic fibres. The reason for synthetic fibres is because when you are walking several hours you will build up a sweat and your under garments will get wet, this then gets cold when you stop and will make you cold unless the wet material dries quickly. Cotton does not dry quickly, whereas synthetic material will dry more quickly.\nDescriptions of Individual Clothing and Items\nTop of Body\nOn your head: a warm hat (not a jockey cap),\nFace: sunglasses and sun-protection cream, and a headband to keep your ears warm when not using the hat.\nOver your under vest: a breathable top such as a fleece.\nOn top of your fleece: a waterproof windbreaker over jacket.\nFor your Legs\nTrekking pants, resistant to rain and wind, but made from a breathable material otherwise you will sweat. Jeans are NOT good as they can get wet and not dry.\nOver your trekking pants: waterproof shell pants to go over your trekking pants in the event of heavy rain.\nWool or synthetic socks. Waterproof trekking boots with ankle support and none-slip sole. If new make sure you break them in prior to using them on a trek.\nTo keep hands warm, especially close to glaciers it can be very cold: Gloves.\nHiking Bag\nBag for your personal use: a back pack for food, water and clothes.\nTake a battery-operated torch for when power is out or if you are arriving to a refugio in the dark. Also carry with you during the trek extra water and snacks. Prepare for all weather conditions and dress for the outdoors.\nDo NOT go off the trail because if you have the slightest incident such as twisting an ankle, you may not be found.\nAverage Temperatures in TDP during the year\nSummer (Dec \u2013 Jan \u2013 Feb) Max + 23.5\u00b0c \/ Min + 0.8\u00b0c.\nTorres del Paine Map with Hotel and Refugio Locations Clearly Marked\nMap of Torres del Paine Showing Hotels and Refugio Locations\nOur map shows, clearly, the W Trek and Circuit trek route, as well as where the refugios and hotels are located on the trail, inside the park and near to the park.\nRaw Patagonia\nPatagonia is beautifully harsh, offering some of the starkest views of South America. The spectacular scenery is the product of intense winds and tectonic collisions millions of years ago, dotting the land with ice fields, fjords and the jagged tips of the Andes. As a result, it is a place like no other on Earth and just waiting to be explored, and experienced.\nChilean Patagonia provides unique opportunities for adventure. Above all, it is a world unto itself, defined by vast lake districts and breathtaking wildlife, such as the condor and the puma. For these reasons, whether you enjoy trekking, biking or kayaking, Torres Del Paine National Park is a must-see destination. Therefore, if you would like more information on ways to explore this Andean region for yourself, get in touch with our team of travel experts today.\nToday & Five Day Forecast (C\u00b0)\nWhere to Sleep in the Torres del Paine Area\nWithin Torres del Paine, as well as on the periphery, and, including the village of Puerto Natales, there are numerous accommodation options. These range from simple hostels (called refugios, which are on the W Trek and Circuit Trek trails), to Glamping (luxury camping), mid-rage hotels to top end luxury lodges.\nPlease click through from the links below to be led directly to all the accommodation details and descriptions you will need.\nTorres del Paine Refugios\nPuerto Natales Options\nView Torres del Paine Accommodation\nWhat Activities are there in the Torres del Paine Area?\nApart from the stunning, geographic scenery in and around the Torres del Paine National Park, there are also some fabulous activities to enjoy. These range from walking on top of Glacier Grey (ice hiking), to paddling a kayak on Grey Lake and in front of the glacier, to taking a trip on a boat that then navigates Grey Lake and passes in front of the Glacier. In addition, there is the option to ride a fast-speed zodiac up or down the Serrano River in order to get into, or out of Torres del Paine.\nNaturally, there is also the hiking on the iconic W Trek and Circuit Trek trails as well as horse riding.\nPlease click through from the links below to be led directly to all the the activity options that we can include on your Torres del Paine itinerary.\nNavigation Grey\nGrey Ice Hike\nView Torres del Paine Activities\nTorres del Paine FAQ's\nHow Large is the Area of Torres del Paine National Park?\nThe Park covers 182,000 sq hectares and is the jewel in Chile's tourist crown. Above all, it is in the heart of Chilean Patagonia, an massive area of invigorating, raw nature.\nIn order to get to Torres del Paine, it will involve a flight of 4hrs from Santiago to Punta Arenas, followed by a 5hr road transfer to Torres del Paine. However, on certain days of the week there are flights from Santiago to Puerto Natales, which is only a 2hr transfer from Torres del Paine.\nLong Way\nHowever, there is no doubt about it, the journey to Torres del Paine, for many, is a long way to come. The question that one should ask is \"what is so special about this place to make the long journey?\". In order to answer the question one has to get here and then it then becomes apparent what is so special about this place.\nFor example, when you stand and stare in amazement at the unbelievable sight of this monumental cluster of mountain peaks that appear to stand all on their own in the middle of an otherwise flat plateau. Looking at the Torres del Paine central massif is one of those sights that makes the observer stand in awe and amazement of how stunningly beautiful and impressive nature can be.\nWhat is considered to be the Most Popular Time to Come to Torres del Paine?\nThe Most Popular Time to Visit Torres del Paine\nAs with most places that are not winter destinations, the most popular time to come to Torres del Paine is during the Chilean summer.\nThe Summer period in Chile is: December, January and February.\nThese three months are popular because of the warmer, sunny weather in the Park, as well as the fact that people are escaping the cold winter of the northern hemisphere. However, during these same months it can be very windy too.\nIs There a Best Time to Come to Torres del Paine?\nThe Best Time to Come to Torres del Paine National Park\nThe best time to visit Torres del Paine is NOT, in our opinion, the most popular time. In other words, these two periods are very different. For example, the most popular time is just that, as in it is the period when most people come at the same time. However, the best time to visit reflects a period when not so many other people are around.\nConsequently, October and November as well as March and April are, in our view, the best months in which to visit to Torres del Paine.\nHowever, out of those four months, we say that April is the best month to come. During April the weather is usually good, with less wind, sunny days and, above all, not so many people.\nWhen is The Best Month to Come to Torres del Paine?\nWhat is the Best Month to Come to Torres del Paine?\nIn the previous question we mentioned that April is, in our opinion, the best month in which to come and visit Torres del Paine National Park. Moreover, the reason we say this is because it is approaching the end of the season. The \"crowds\" will have gone. Also, the wind has died down and often there are sunny days.\nWhat are the Torres del Paine W Trek and Circuit Trek Trails?\nThe Two Iconic Torres del Paine Treks\nLINK THROUGH HERE TO OUR W AND CIRCUIT TREK PAGE WITH ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW\nThe W Trek Trail\nArguably, the best known, and most popular trekking trail in Torres del Paine is called the W Trek. The reason the trail has been given this name is because when viewed from above it forms the shape of the letter \"W\". For this reason the name of the trail is the \"W\". Picture below is of the base of the towers, one of the iconic sectors of the W Trek.\nThe Circuit Trek Trail\nHowever, the other trail, which encompasses the W Trek, is called the Circuit trek. This trail is called the Circuit because it starts in one place, then goes around in a circle, anticlockwise, to arrive back at the start, thus forming an \"O\", or circuit. Therefore, the Torres del Paine Circuit trail takes in the back country of the Park and then loops in to follow the W trail. The picture below shows Refugio Dickson in the background and Glacier Dickson, this is the back country part of the Circuit Trek.\nOn both trails there are refugios, or hostels, with dorm rooms and bunk beds, placed in strategic areas that allow for a nights sleep after many hours of trekking. Also, adjacent to the refugios are serviced camp sites. Moreover, here at ExperienceChile.Org we can arrange accommodation in refugios or camp sites.\nAll you need to do is EMAIL US here\nHow can I book Accommodation on the W Trek?\nTorres del Paine W Trek Trail Accommodation\nLINK TO OUR TORRES DEL PAINE ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS PAGE HERE\nAlong both the W Trek and Circuit trek trails are a number of refugios and serviced camp sites. The refugios are hostels offering dorm rooms, bunk beds and communal shower and WC rooms, as well as communal dining areas.\nHowever, at the place called Refugio Cuernos, there are also some private, small A-framed Cabins. Moreover, all the refugios, serviced camp sites and hotels can be booked through ExperienceChile.Org. Please just email us HERE\nShould I Stay Within Torres del Paine or Outside?\nWhere Should I Stay in Torres del Paine?\nMost people want to stay \"within\" Torres del Paine. They feel that unless they are \"within\" the official Park boundaries that they will be missing out. Well, let's stop you right there. Please read on and discover the realities of where you can stay to fully enjoy the experience of visiting Torres del Paine National Park.\nA Common Mistake Many People Make\nAs mentioned in our introduction, many people believe, mistakenly, that the only place where they should book accommodation is at hotels, lodges and high-end camp sites within the official boundary of Torres del Paine National Park. However, this is a fallacy and leads to often-rushed decisions, and disappointment if one cannot get into a hotel \"within\" the park.\nTo illustrate our point please consider that the Torres del Paine central massif (specifically the \"Cuernos\" of Paine\") can be seen, on a clear day, from a point near to Puerto Natales, which is about 80km away, such is the immense scale of the mountainous formation. Therefore, it is NOT at all necessary to be in a hotel \"within\" the official park lines. For this reason, we have created a zone, within which you will be perfectly located for any activity in Torres del Paine.\nBelow is a picture of The Singular hotel in Puerto Natales \u2013 possible the best hotel in Patagonia.\nThe Torres del Paine Zone\nWe have created a new description for the Torres del Paine area, which is the Torres del Paine Zone. For example, the Torres del Paine Zone is the area that encompasses Puerto Natales. Therefore, anyone staying in Puerto Natales is perfectly located for day trips into the Park, including trekking the W.\nFrom Puerto Natales, our fictitious line, runs east to Cerro Castillo (the border village with Argentina).\nWe then go north from Cerro Castillo to Estancia Cerro Guido.\nThen from Cerro Guido the imaginary line continues north until it hits the Argentine border, then goes west to Glacier Grey.\nOnce at Glacier Grey, our line heads south to incorporate all of Grey Lake and down to Serrano Village.\nFrom Serrano Village we then head south and back to Puerto Natales.\nTravel time from any of the points within the zone described above can be 2hrs from one place to the other, depending on where you start and end. More on that below.\nThe Official Park Boundary\nWithin the official park boundary is takes a good 2hrs to drive from the western end to the eastern end of Torres del Paine. In other words, from Lago Grey (Grey Lake) to Laguna Azul. Moreover, this is the same time it takes to drive from Puerto Natales to Grey Lake, or Puerto Natales to the park entrance at Laguna Amarga (near Laguna Azul). Therefore, it does not matter if you have accommodation inside the official boundary of the Park, or if you are staying in Puerto Natales, or somewhere in-between.\nBelow is a picture of the Remota Hotel in Puerto Natales, which is another fine alternative to staying inside Torres del Paine.\nOne of the great advantages to staying in Puerto Natales is that there are a number of nice restaurants and a populated village with some \"life\". It is also located in a pretty location next to the water with mountains in the distance. In addition, during your holiday, should you want a rest day, then Puerto Natales is a good option, especially if we book one of the hotels with a spa and pool.\nBelow is a picture of a matrimonial room in the Altiplanico Hotel in Puerto Natales.\nSerrano Village\nIf you stay at Serrano village, you will get fine views to the Torres del Paine Massif. However, if you stay at Patagonia Camp, located 15km before the entrance to the Torres del Paine Serrano entrance, you will get superb views over Lake Toro and to the Torres del Paine massif. Moreover, should you stay at the Estancia Cerro Guido, over to the east, you will get direct views to the Towers of Torres del Paine, and if you stay at Tierra Patagonia or Awasi (both luxury-level lodges) you will also have great views of the Torres of Torres del Paine.\nFrom the Serrano area (officially outside the boundary of Torres del Paine) you get this view below.\nTherefore, please, do not worry if you cannot get into one of the hotels within the official Park boundary. Moreover, daily tours from any hotel within the Torres del Paine boundary, as well as from Puerto Natales, will involve from between 1hr to 2hrs travel in a vehicle. The only exception to this is if you are trekking the W trek or the Circuit trek, and for these two trails you will benefit from staying over at one of the refugios, ECO Camp, Hotel Las Torres and \/ or Hotel Grey.\nHaving said that, we can arrange from most of the hotels that are further away, a section of the W trek each day. Therefore, you can stay in comfort and walk a part of the W trek every day, and after four days you will have completed the W trek. In addition, there are also options to do the iconic Torres Base trek in one day from Puerto Natales.\nExperience Chile is a distinguished partner with all the accommodation options mentioned in our web site. Therefore, please let us know which type of accommodation you would like to include within the itinerary we create for you.\nAccommodation in and around Torres del Paine\nTorres del Paine Types of Accommodation in and Near the Park\nLINK TO OUR TORRES DEL PAINE ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS PAGE RIGHT HERE\nYou can enjoy the stunning scenery, fresh air, witness moving glaciers, walk through woods, challenge yourself with adventurous trekking and be in the heart of nature during the day in Torres del Paine. But at night you have the following types of accommodation where you can relax and get your sleep:\nServiced Camping Sites\nOUR ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS PAGE IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS LINK\nThe serviced camp sites offer tents with bedding and ground mats, and food taken inside the adjacent refugio or small dining hut where there is no refugio.\nBelow is a picture of a typical serviced camping set up.\nServiced Camp Sites on the W trek & Circuit Trek trails: Central, Serron, Perros, Grey, Paine Grande, Cuernos and Chileno.\nDomos, Cabins and Refugios\nINFORMATION ON TORRES DEL PAINE REFUGIOS IS HERE AT THIS LINK\nRefugio \u2013 basically a hostel with dorm rooms and bunk beds, 6 people to a room, communal \"canteen style \"dining room. These are located on the W Trek and the Circuit Trek.\nThere are Refugios Located At: Dickson (Circuit Trek), and on the W Trek \u2013 Chileno, Cuernos, Paine Grande and Grey.\nPicture below is of Refugio Central.\nCabins are Located at: Cuernos (W Trek).\nBelow is a picture of the interior of Cabins Cuernos, which are slightly uphill from Refugio Cuernos. Use of an outdoor, communal hot tub comes with a Cabin Cuernos stay..\nDomos Located At: Frances (W Trek)\nPicture below is of Domos Frances exterior.\nMid-level Hotels\nFOR INFORMATION ON ALL HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN AND AORUND TORRES DEL PAINE CLICK HERE\nFor us a \"mid-level\" hotel has private rooms and en-suite bathroom or shower rooms, restaurant, decent food and wine selection. However, these hotels do not \"stand out\" as a particularly \"special\" place. They are practical and do the job of a hotel. They are not luxury and do not have other high-end attributes.\nThese are located in different areas within the Torres del Paine zone and, of course, at Puerto Natales.\nThe Mid-Level Hotels are: Hotel Las Torres, Hosteria Pehoe, Hotel Lago Grey, Hotel Rio Serrano, Hotel del Paine as well as in Puerto Natales \u2013 Hotel If, Hotel Altiplanico Sur and Weskar Lodge.\nThe picture below shows Hotel las Torres.\nLuxury Hotels & Lodges\nIN ORDER TO SEE MORE INFORMATION ON OUR LUXURY LEVEL HOTELS AND LODGES PLEASE CLICK HERE\nWe define luxury as being a World-Class hotel, or lodge with luxury-level private rooms; en-suite, well-equipped bathrooms, plus spa and pool facilities, quality food and wines. Such hotel lodges are in the Torres del Paine zone as well as in Puerto Natales we offer The Singular and Remota Hotels.\nOur Luxury Hotels & Lodges are: Explora Salto Chico, Tierra Patagonia, Awasi, Singular (Puerto Natales) and Remota (Puerto Natales). NOTE: For Explora Salto Chico, Tierra Patagonia, The Singular and Hotel Remota we have an offer \u2013 please see our Featured Hotels AND CLICK HERE.\nThe picture below shows the Tierra Patagonia Hotel with the Torres del Paine Central Massif in the background.\nEstancia Hotel\nAn Estancia Hotel is the name for a Patagonian farm house. The \"stand out\" Estancia Hotel that we offer is in the Patagonian country-style, offering large, private rooms with spacious en-suite bathrooms. There is also a great restaurant, good food and wines. Here, you can experience life in Patagonia and also sense and feel the history of the past 100 years. There is only one such place and it is located in the Torres del Paine zone.\nPLEASE CLICK THROUGH HERE TO SEE MORE ABOUT CERRO GUIDO\nThe Main Estancia Hotel is: Estancia Cerro Guido\nThe picture below shows a superior bedroom at Estancia Cerro Guido.\nThis is a British term to describe top-end, luxury camping.\nIn Torres del Paine there are currently two places that meet this description. One offers luxury, kitted-out Yurts and the other supplies luxury-level Domes. Each located in a different part of the Torres del Paine zone. One has communal bar and dining area with wine, and in the other has more of an up-market restaurant with good wines.\nFOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT EACH OF THESE OPTIONS PLEASE CLICK HERE\nThe Glamping Places are: Patagonia Camp and ECO Domes\nThe picture below shows the interior of a Patagonia Camp Yurt tent.\nWhere is the Hotel Accommodation Located in Torres del Paine?\nHotel Accommodation Locations for Torres del Paine\nHotel Locations Within the Park\nFOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THE HOTEL ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS ARE LOCATED CLICK THROUGH HERE\nThere are, in total, four hotels and one up-market camp (glamping) that are within the official boundary lines of Torres del Paine National Park (TDP). Therefore, there are various alternatives to choose from.\nFor example, these are the Hotel Las Torres, Explora Salto Chico Lodge, Hotel Lago Grey, Hotel (Hosteria) Pehoe and the ECO Camp (glamping).\nTORRES DEL PAINE HOTEL LOCATION MAP IS AVAILABLE HERE THROUGH THIS LINK\nHotels To the West\nLiterally just over the \"boundary line\" of TDP on the other side of the Rio Serrano are these hotels: Hotel Rio Serrano and Hotel Paine, with a few others such as Pampa Lodge, Lago Tyndal and Nash lodge nearby. Consequently, you need to pay the entrance fee into Torres del Paine when you enter, but this lasts for a number of days.\nOver on the East\nWe have Tierra Patagonia, Awasi Patagonia and Estancia Cerro Guido. Therefore, most of the very best properties are not within the \"official\" park boundary.\nTo the South\nThe luxury camping called Patagonia Camp. Most importantly, this place has fine views over the lake and on to the Torres del Paine Massif.\nPlease see our Torres del Paine Map to identify where the above hotels are located. Hotel Location MAP is available HERE\nThe Torres del Paine Welcome Centre\nThe Welcome Centre is located in the Eastern sector of Torres del Paine about 1.5km from the entrance to Hotel Las Torres. Therefore, it is also close to Refugios Central and Norte and a short distance from ECO Camp.\nOnly if you are entering the park at the Eastern end will you need to come to the Welcome Centre. However, here you need to show that you have confirmed reservations for accommodation on the W trek, if you are staying over. Consequently, also need to present, or fill in a visitors form. Most importantly, there are public WC\u00b4s here as well as information.\nBelow is a picture of the Torres del Paine Welcome Centre \u2013 only for people entering at the Eastern end, as in Hotel Las Torres, The W Trek Torres Base Trek, ECO camp, Refugios Central and Torre Norte as well as camping in this area.\nHow long does it take to drive from Puerto Natales to Torres del Paine?\nDriving Times from Puerto Natales to Torres del Paine\nDriving from Puerto Natales to the western, Serrano entrance of Torres del Paine will take 1hr.\nComing from Puerto Natales to the eastern, Laguna Amarga entrance to Torres del Paine will take 2hrs.\nThe picture below is the road from Puerto Natales that passes the Milodon Cave on the way to the western side of Torres del Paine.\nHow Long Does it Take to Drive From Puerto Natales to Hotel Lago Grey, or Grey Beach?\nDriving from Puerto Natales to Hotel Lago Grey\nThe drive from Puerto Natales, past the Milodon cave, and on to the Torres del Paine Serrano entrance is very picturesque, and should be enjoyed as part of your Torres del Paine experience. Therefore, if you are driving from Puerto Natales to Hotel Lago Grey, or to Grey beach you need to allow 2hrs.\nThe picture below shows Grey beach with icebergs and Glacier Grey in the background.\nPuerto Natales: Patagonia (Closest village to Torres del Paine)\nAlternative to Torres del Paine\nMany of the hotels in Torres del Paine become drowded during the high season. Consequently, they increase their room rates, some to silly levels. However, Puerto Natales as the closest city south of Torres Del Paine National Park, is the ideal alternative place to stay. In other words, Natales is an ideal location to start and finish your adventure.\nAdvantage to Puerto Natales\nApart from, mostly, hotel room rates costing less than inside Torres del Paine, if you stay in a real village such as Puerto Natales there is \"life\". For example, you have a choice of restaurants to eat out at each night; there are bars to meet people at and have a chat with, as well as some quirky art galleries and boutique shops. Moreover, the travelling time from Puerto Natales to Torres del Paine trail heads can be the same as the travel time from some of the hotels closer to Torres del Paine to places of interest and trail heads in the Park.\nAs a result, Puerto Natales has become a major hub for hikers from around the globe. Therefore, Puerto Natales is the perfect place to meet like-minded people setting off on the W Trek, or over to El Calafate and El Chalten, or even heading as far south as Antarctica.\nBecause many of our guests choose to at least spend one night in Puerto Natales, we feature some of the most popular hotels in the area so you can continue to tailor your stay even further.\nSee About Puerto Natales\nIf you would like for us to arrange your accommodation in Patagonia, please send us your enquiry\u2026\nOur Torres del Paine Testimonials\nAll in all one of the best holidays we have ever had, if not the best, so thank you for putting together such an enjoyable itinerary for us.\nWith best wishes for the new year.\nOur 60th birthday trip has been so amazing because of your fantastic help. We both turned 60 years old in 2018 so we wanted to celebrate by proving to ourselves we were still fit enough to do this kind of trip. Your help made this easy, so THANK YOU!!!!!!\nRandy and E\nWe are getting ready to leave and I just wanted to thank you for helping us along the way. We had a great time and the weather was perfect. On the \"O circuit\" all your arrangements went smoothly.\nDear Charles\nA note to say what a great holiday we are having and to give you some feedback which may be useful to you. However, I am writing this as we go to the airport post our trek and prior to the Santa Cruz visit while things from the trek are fresh in my mind.\nPark Plaza. As expected, we liked it, and it was familiar and friendly. However, our bags did not make it onto our flight and they were helpful and rang Joanna as soon as they came which was appreciated. They arrived 1 day late \u2013 thanks Iberia! We had anticipated this so had all our trekking kit with us just in case!\nThe Trekking\nThe trekking was just terrific. We were blessed with glorious weather almost all the time and had just one wet morning which at least meant we got to use all the waterproof kit we were lugging around. What fabulous scenery, truly memorable and a great family experience.\nWe spoke to one Australian trio who had elected not to use you (fools!) and their logistic travails made me understand how effective your operation is. Congratulations to you \u2013 it's appreciated.\nAltiPlanico. Fantastic hotel and lovely staff. Expensive, but fantastic Christmas Eve dinner. A nice celebration. Heated bathroom floors a delight especially on our return. Baggage all put in our rooms and laundry brought to us on return. Above all, this place is really tuned in to its punters.\nCatamaran. Worked well though we only worked out just in time that we had to pay at the desk that looked like a bar before a massive queue to pay formed as it neared the dock.\nRefugio Grey. We really enjoyed this place. The bar was nice if crowded, good food and comfortable beds. Most importantly, lights and charging sockets in all rooms. Perfect.\nIce Hike\nBigfoot. Curiously they did not have our kayaking booking, but it was too windy anyway. So they said forget that and come ice hiking instead. Therefore, they only took the incremental money from us and said they'd sort the rest out \u2013 nice touch. The ice hiking was wonderful and was a highlight. Consequently, it took 5 hours so we did not leave until 4pm for our next stop so it was a long, but well worthwhile, day.\nRefugio Paine Grande. Though large we liked this very much and though we only arrived there at almost 8pm everything was perfectly organised. As a result, we had our own room which was very nice and comfortable with everything we needed.\nThis was a lovely quirky place. The dome was comfortable with a reading light by each bed which was very nice. However, the eating area was small and very hot but very pleasant. We had expected liners for the sleeping bags but these were not available even to hire. As a result, I would suggest that you highlight this to all guests as the bags are clearly not cleaned or even aired daily.\nWe had the best dinner here, though breakfast was mean. However, it is a rather crammed operation with 2 sittings of breakfast and dinner leaving you relegated to your room for too much time. The liner for sleeping bag comment applies again.\nThey do need to think customer a little more and provide reading lights as all other places seemed to have managed it \u2013 and also have something of a lounge area if they insist on having multiple meal sittings which is obviously a nice cash machine for them. Even though they tried to impose silence and promptly made lots of noise themselves. A challenging location in which to operate, I know, but we felt a mite exploited.\nWe ended up hiring towels every night, though we had expected some Refugios to provide. If we had understood this we would have brought our own which would have been easier as well.\nAll transfers so far have been absolutely on the button with drivers introducing themselves and shaking hands. That's really engaging and nice practise\nNow finishing this off back home.\nWe had an easy transfer from the south and on to Santa Cruz. Above all, we really liked the hotel, lovely interesting place, and that museum was just fantastic. Thank you for mentioning that \u2013 we would never have found it without your prompt even though it is so near.\nThe wine tour and lunch at Lapostolle must be one of life's best lunches ever. What a location, lovely people, interesting tour and fantastic wines. On New Years Eve we had room service which was quite fun as we got to see the spectacular fireworks and then fell into bed after a full days eating and drinking.\nTransfer to Zapallar took just 4 hours which was a nice bonus and our driver gave a guided tour as we went of the interesting things. And the Isla Seca hotel \u2013 what a place. We just loved it and spent lots of time by the pool and walking down to the beach and the restaurants there. We were well looked after though did not get to check into our room until about 6 which seemed strange but a very nice ocean view room in the main hotel for us and a decent triple room for the girls in the extension.\nTrip back to the airport was smooth and easy with a running commentary (!) and our BA flight, the inaugural Santiago to London flight, was great and we were all upgraded to premium economy. We then realised that our screens did not work. Consequently Jill and I were moved to business class. All the family like BA! Very sad to leave Joanna at the airport but she is enjoying Chile and hope her next 6 months go smoothly.\nIn conclusion, all in all one of the best holidays we have ever had, if not the best, so thank you for putting together such an enjoyable itinerary for us.\nWe are so sorry we missed each other. We both wanted to give you a very small token of our appreciation of how wonderful your assistance to us has been. Thus the chocolates.\nWe returned to the hotel at 8:15pm to find your amazing gift of the bottle of wine, thank you!\nWe will for sure write very good reviews on all of your social media sites. Please tell Charles we loved working with you. Your country is so much more than we ever imagined.\nWe met a couple, Dan and Kathy, who were at Cuernos at the same day as we were. Most importantly, they booked through you too. They said a lot of nice things about you and Charles as well.\nYou have a beautiful city!!!\nAlthough, I thought you should know that at Perros they reserved us only one tent . I think you had arranged for 2 tents, just as you did in Seron. However, we had to rent another tent for Perros (20,000 pesos\/$40 Cdn) because 1 tent can't fit 3 men. Therefore, you might want to check back with Perros camp to see how the mix up happened.\nThanks again for such a memorable trip!\nView More Torres del Paine Testimonials\nPlease Send Us Your Enquiry\nFor the best service please supply us with as much information as you can about where you want to go, what you want to do, what you want to experience and how much money you want to spend (or do not want to spend!). How many people, what type of beds (matrimonial, twin, single etc.)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cheryl Ward Biography\nCheryl Ward is Group Chief Executive of Family Fund, the UK's largest grant-making charity which is based in York and offers support to families living on lower incomes raising a child or young person with a disability or serious illness.\nCheryl joined Family Fund as Commercial Director in 2008 and became Group CEO in 2012. During her tenure Cheryl has raised the charity's reach and profile, supporting over 88,000 families by delivering over \u00a333 million per year in grant support. In addition, Cheryl was pivotal in setting up the charity's wholly owned trading subsidiary Family Fund Business Services of which she is a Director and that went on to win a civil society award for Grant-Making and Funding in June 2018.\nPrior to joining Family Fund, Cheryl worked within the private sector supporting charities in their grant-making fulfilment. Cheryl has held a range of senior roles within financial services and retail travel.\nCheryl has experience and specialty knowledge of:\nDisability and its impact on children, young people and their families.\nDesigning and delivering grant making schemes.\nRunning a charity and trading subsidiary.\nCharity law, governance and company secretarial duties.\nGovernment grant agreements and assurance reviews.\nCheryl lives in Scarborough with her family.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home STO\/ICO Muzika\nMuzika - Transforming the Music World\nFollow Muzika\nGet updates on Muzika\nMuzika is a music blockchain project, which has been built on an existing business and global music platforms with millions of users and fans across hundreds of nations, plus music artists from the globe, we aim at revolutionizing the digital music industry with the creation of a new digital music ecosystem. Muzika project is led by Forbes-awarded & Informatics Olympiad team members and endorsed by some of the most influential investors in South Korea and Asia. The token economy will be backed up by ever-growing population of community users and fans.\nSTO\/ICO Website Owner of Muzika?\nPrevious Attempts Failed to Secure Large Userbase\nPrevious music blockchain projects have overlooked the importance of a large userbase to achieve widescale adoption. These projects have demonstrated that it is possible to give a higher commission rate to artists for their work using Smart Contract transactions. However, for artists, the low commission rate offered from traditional music streaming apps that had huge userbases were more attractive than blockchain apps using Smart Contract transactions. Case in point, a 10% commission of $1,000 from iTunes was preferable to 90% commission of $1 from a Smart Contract transaction.\nMuzika Will Create A New Economy To Incentivize The Users\nMuzika aims to provide musicians the best of both worlds: a higher commission rate for their creative content and a strong userbase. Muzika has developed a strong system for incentivizing fans to contribute to the Muzika ecosystem. These incentives will build the userbase necessary for Muzika to provide both higher commissions to artists along with the mass userbase of traditional music streaming sites. The network effect from a mass userbase will be the key to developing an autonomous, self-sustaining ecosystem. In other words, Muzika can provide musicians with 90% of $1,000.\nWe Have Done It Before\nMuzika has already made significant achievements towards the development of sustainable solution to inefficiencies in the digital music industry. In 2015, co-founders of Muzika saw an opportunity in the online instrumental music industry and started online instrumental music platform Mapiacompany. In just over 3 years, Mapiacompany has become the #1 global instrumental music platform with over 2 million users. Muzika will build upon this existing userbase and community.\nYoonwoo Lee\n(EX) CEO & Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics\nStella Kung\nCMO of QTUM\nJoonKee Hong\nNon-executive Director of Kakao Bank\nInkyu Choi\nNaver Venture Capital\nManaging Director, BlackHorse Group\nAdrian Lai\nFollow to receive updates from Muzika. Easy to unsubscribe & no spam.\nOpus - The world's first decentralised music platform\nThe music industry is broken. Streaming platforms such as Spotify, Deezer , and Apple Music take up to 80% of artist's revenue, and while larger artists can accept it, small artists are often unable to make a living from music streaming.\nHearo.fm - Music Streaming Micropayments\nThe JAM token is an ERC20 utility token for music that will be powered by the Hedera Hashgraph network. The token will be integrated with the hearo.fm platform to create tune.fm, a fully tokenized music economy for global decentralized cryptocurrency micropayments between artists and fans for streaming and curating music.\nEmanate - Self-governing Audio Exchange Protocol\nEmanate is building an Audio Exchange Protocol designed to evolve the music industry into the blockchain era, allowing artists to be paid in real-time, to collaborate globally without the need of trust. This could bring much needed efficiency and transparency to the music industry. Emanate plans to create a self governing decentralised organisation that will align the incentives of all the music industry participants.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"mining gold philippines\nGold Mining in the Philippines Essay\nGold Mining: Why it should be banned in the Philippines? Gold mining in the Philippines can be traced hundreds of years back before the colonizers came to the country. As early as 1521, our ancestors were already panning gold and have decorated themselves with gold accessories. As years passed, the growth of the mining industry has increased.\nThe Philippines Rich Untapped Gold Mining Areas\nOct 11, 2015The Philippines are blessed with mineral and metal deposits due to its geology. The islands are on the top of underwater mountains that were formed due to the molten rocks from the interior of earth, which created the ideal setting of a variety of valuable minerals. Placer and lode gold deposits are found throughout the []\nRTG Mining\nRTG Mining, Inc. is focused on high grade, low operating cost gold projects. In line with the Company's objective to target assets with low technical and project risk, RTG is currently developing the high grade copper\/gold\/magnetite Mabilo Project as well as advancing exploration on the highly prospective Bunawan Project, both of which are in the Philippines.\nThe Philippine Mining Club\n\"The Philippine Mining Club\" has been established to form better relationships across all areas of the Philippine mining industry. Affiliated with the globally-recognised Melbourne Mining Club our aim is to uphold a professional networking environment in order to promote the minerals industry for those with an interest in the sector.\nMining in the Philippines \u2013 Concerns and Conflicts\nGold-Copper-Nickel-Chromite Reading the Mining in the Philippines - Concerns and Conflicts, Fact Finding Mission to the Philippines Report, I deplore and lament with the prophets of old what is happening to our beloved land. Our own experiences here in Mindanao validate the report.\nCORPORATE PROFILE \u2013 PHILEX MINING CORPORATION\nCORPORATE PROFILE. Philex Mining Corporation (\"PMC\" or the \"Company\") and its subsidiaries are organized into two main business groupings: the mining business, which is directly under PMC, Philex Gold Philippines, Inc. (PGPI) and Silangan Mindanao Mining Co., Inc. (SMMCI), and the energy and hydrocarbon business under PXP Energy Corporation (PXP), formerly Philex Petroleum Corporation\nPhilippines Mining Industry News Monitoring Service\nFeb 11, 2020Philippines Mining Industry News Monitoring Service from EIN News; Media Monitoring Online News Monitoring of Philippines Mining Industry. Mining Industry Today. The mayor of Tampakan, South Cotabato, host of the largest untapped copper-gold minefield in Southeast Asia, has been \"meted the death penalty\" allegedly by the \"people's\nCareers \u2013 OceanaGold\nIf you are interested in becoming a member of the OceanaGold team, we would love to hear from you. For general information or queries about careers and OceanaGold in Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand or the United States, please contact us at careersoceanagold.\nPhilippines (Mt. Diwalwal)\nMt. Diwalwal is located in the Southeastern region of the Philippines. In 1982, the discovery of gold on this mountain triggered a gold rush. An estimated $1.8 billion worth of gold reserves remain untapped in the 5,000-hectare mountain where some 30,000 small-scale miners operate, many illegally.\nPhilippines Gold Reserves\nGold Reserves in Philippines averaged 192.66 Tonnes from 2000 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 274.42 Tonnes in the first quarter of 2003 and a record low of 126.89 Tonnes in the third quarter of 2007. This page provides - Philippines Gold Reserves - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.\nReport: OceanaGold in the Philippines\nOceanaGold Corporation (OceanaGold), an Australian-Canadian company, is one of dozens of transnational mining companies in the Philippines that have been reaping profits by mining gold, silver, copper, and other minerals. Its underground Didipio Gold and Copper Mine (Didipio mine) in the Northern Luzon province of Nueva Vizcaya started open-pit\nWhere the Gold can be found in the Philippines?\nThere are only two ways where gold can be found in the Philippines.First, miners dig them deep under the ground and harvest those so called \"gold veins or ore\" that naturally formed for a lot of years. Second, gold are found all over the country in the form of hidden or buried treasures.\nphilippines gold mining lozenithion in philippines\nMasbate Gold Mine Mining Technology | Mining News and . Masbate Gold Mine is on the island of Masbate about 350km south of the Philippines capital Manila It is a brownfield site with established infrastructure including an airstrip dedicated jetty roads accommodation offices clubhouse workshops assay laboratory and bunker fuel tanks all of which require various degrees of rehabilitation\nThe good side of the mining industry\nThe good side of the mining industry. By: The BSP buys all the gold available in the Philippines at current market prices, but many of the pick-and-shovel miners would rather sell their gold to foreign gold traders because the Bureau of Internal Revenue levies a 7 percent withholding tax on gold sold. Romualdez said that 42 percent of the\nGold in the Philippines\nGold in the Philippines. October 2003 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD. The Philippine archipelago, with over 7,000 islands that stretch for 1,100 miles north-south, was settled by Malaysians several thousand years ago. Ferdinand Magellan landed and was killed there in 1521.\nChild Labor and Gold Mining in the Philippines\nAn estimated 18,000 children work in small-scale mines in the Philippines. The country ranks 18th in gold production worldwide and the steady increase in global gold prices have had a corresponding impact on the number of child laborers. Image by Larry C. Price. Philippines, 2012.\nLooking for Gold in the Waterfalls in the Philippines\nLooking For Gold in the Waterfalls in the Philippines is a lot of fun. If you have friends or family that like adventure and new discoveries, they're going to love this. If there is one water hazard in nature that traps gold, it would be waterfalls. So let's go and check out how to find golds here in the Philippines. Why Philippines Waterfalls\nMining in the Philippines\nMining in the Philippines is being developed at a speed and scale (See Appendix 9 Scale of Planned Mineral Opportunities presented to Investors), and in a manner likely to cause massive long-term environmental damage and social problems. Current mining plans will undermine the Government's\nGold mining is a global business with operations on every continent, except Antarctica, and gold is extracted from mines of widely varying types and scale. Mines and gold mining operations have become increasingly geographically diverse, far removed from the concentrated supply of four decades or so ago when the vast majority of the world's\nMasbate Gold Mine\nMasbate Gold Mine is on the island of Masbate, about 350km south of the Philippines capital, Manila. It is a brownfield site with established infrastructure including an airstrip, dedicated jetty, roads, accommodation, offices, clubhouse, workshops, assay laboratory and bunker fuel tanks, all of\nGold Mining Sites Philippines\nGold Mining Sites Philippines List of mines in the Philippines Wikipedia. The following list of mines in the Philippines is subsidiary to the Lists of mines in Asia article and Lists of mines articles. This list contains working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output(s) and province.\ngold mining companies philippines\nMining industry in the Philippines | The Manila Times Online. The Philippine Mining Bureau was set up in 1900 to process and administer claims and all related transactions pertaining to mining. The Benguet Mine was opened in 1907. It was the first modern gold mine in the Philippines. Seventeen other mining companies followed suit in Baguio and\nGold in the Philippines:\nGold associated with galena is less common, but has been noted especially in calcite veins in slate. Silver occurs with the gold apparently as an alloy in proportions varying up to 20 per cent i of the gold. A striking feature common to all the principal N gold districts in the Philippines is the large number of veins which are to be observed.\n3,500 Ton Philippine Gold Bars Unlawfully Shipped Out, But\nJan 16, 2017The Philippines is rocked again by another scandal involving the previous administration of Benigno Aquino III for having illegally shipped out 3,500 metric tons of 99.999% pure gold, with an estimated value of $141 billion, out of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas' vault.\ngravel crusher for sale us\nchest workout dual crusher machine\nzenith mining ghana\nparts of a conveyor belt\ncopper ore mining conveyor design\nwet soft rock crusher\nfeed mill storage solutions china\ncone crusher for sale in Serbia\npneumatic grinding machine\naggregate stone prices\nworld of mining limestone quarries\nultrafine mill for limestone Guinea\nmining machine with monthly payments\ncentury machine mill geared head 42827\nfeldspar in malaysia\nsupplier sand screening from china\nsand bleed throughs in granite\nmineral processing and beneficiation plants\niron ore crusher machine\nhigh capacity vibrating screen technical data\nsand worshing mechine\nmethod aur process of making cement\ncoal crushing strength machine\ngold processing plant in uk\nnoha global exploration\nruchi cement plant satna m p\nsouth africa gold mine\nmanganese ore separation ghana south africa\nim the crusher king of the ring\nwet grinder for gold processing\ncare and maintenance of grinding stone\nmine australia jobs ore crushing line product machine\nprice of crusher mineing machine in ondia\njaw crusher sales in kenya\nstone crushing plant supplier south africa\nproduction of globular fine iron powder\ncrusher keeper plates\njining bafang mining machinery co\nmobile sand crushers for sale\nmanganese benefication plant second hand\nkhnaiguiyah zinc copper project saudi arabia\ngrinding ball sorter screeners\nstone crusher indonesia other stone products\nrock phosphate manufactures algeria\nfull details of m sand processing\nmining industry equipments\nused rock crushers for sale canada\nbuy a small crusher plant in japan\nsmall stone quarrying machine\ncopper ore processing machines in usa","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hot Shot Slot Machine Review\nGame Hotshot\nSoftware Bally\nType 3D progressive slot\nTotal coins 3\nCoins range 0.01-1000\nBonus round Yes, 3\nFree spins\/multiplier yes, 2x-49x\nHot Shot slot machine, just like lucky 7s slot, is another classic brainchild from Bally Software. If you like Bally's 3D cinematic machines, then you will enjoy this online game that is designed to give you the same traditional pub slot machine experience. Hot Shot slots from Bally easily outweigh their competitors with the same slot machine name. It may look like the traditional fruit machine with plenty of symbols, but it will definitely be a treat with five progressive jackpots.\nHow to play Hot shot slot machine\nHot Shot is a 5-reel 20-payliner that you may find to be involving compared to its 1-payliner counterparts. You can bet anywhere between 1 cent and $1,000, which makes it perfect for the high and low rollers as well. Its theme is more of the typical hot shot, with sevens, stars, bars, and traditional bell symbols dominating the red and fiery yellow background. You can easily see the paytable either to the left or right above the reels, and the control panel has only the spin option, pay per line control, and Autoplay. You can pay up to three coins per line. It has a user-friendly layout and is relatively easy to play\nSymbols to look out for\nIf you land 5 blazing 7s, you get to win 5000x the line bet. While there are no wild and scatter symbols, you can still enjoy many wins by lining up similar regular symbols. The special symbols are associated with the progressive jackpots and include the Blazing 7s, triple blazing 7s (double and triple jackpot), and the Diamond Line. These are game logos and are stamped on some mini-3-reel machines. If you land three symbols in the mini-slot, you will get a free spin and prizes ranging from a 2x-49x multiplier.\nBonuses to look out for\nThe game within a game\nYou can receive up to 10,000 credits on this slot machine, which is multiplied by the coins you wagered in the round. The game within a Game bonus with massive rewards is triggered by landing three or more of the classic symbols. This round will see the slots represented by symbols turn into respective mini reel-spinners, which increases your chances of winning the progressive jackpot. The jackpot is won when you hit the jackpot's top line on the mini reels, and the progressive jackpots have credits ranging from 10 to 10,000.\nTop wheel bonus\nYou can also try your luck with this bonus, which is triggered when you land three of the bonus symbols on the reels. The overall payout is between 8,000 to 400,000 credits.\nFree games free bonus\nThis bonus is triggered when you line up three or more mixed symbols, and the bonus round includes two rings on the bottom bonus rings; where the inner ring has a 2x or 5x multiplier to your winnings, while the outer one pays out between 5 and 50 credits.\nWhere you can access it\nThe mobile version is available on the App store for $1.99 and has all the features as the online version. Unlike the online version, however, you cannot play the mobile version for real money.\nThe Bally Hot Sot slot may not have many of the traditional bonuses, but features like the three-reel minislot make Hot Shot slots fun to play. The mini reels may look complex, but the slots are actually easy to play. You will also enjoy bigger chances of hits (84.7%) rather than get discouraged with long losing streaks.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Closer Look at Snow Leopard's Wake on Demand Feature [Updated]\nFriday August 28, 2009 3:37 pm PDT by Arnold Kim\nMacUser provides an in-depth look at one useful new feature in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Wake On Demand.\n[Wake On Demand] is Apple's name for a new networking feature that lets a Snow Leopard Mac go to sleep while a networked base station continues to broadcast Bonjour messages about the services the sleeping computer offers. The base station essentially acts as a proxy for the slumbering Mac. Advertised Bonjour services includes file sharing, screen sharing, iTunes library sharing, and printer sharing among others.\nPrior to Snow Leopard, you would have to make your Mac never go to sleep if you wanted it to provide file or print sharing services at any time. This new feature will wake your Mac over Ethernet or even Wi-Fi networks.\nThere is a specific combination of hardware that is required to accomplish these tasks, however. Apple says you need an AirPort Extreme Base Station (2007 or more recent) or Time Capsule (2008 or more recent) with the latest firmware. MacUser found that in order to wake your Mac by Wi-Fi alone, you would need a 2009 Mac. To see if your Mac supports this 'Wake on Wireless' option, you can look at your System Profiler.\nApple details how this could be used to offer full-time support for iTunes Sharing, Printer Sharing, Back to My Mac, and more. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was officially launched today.\nUpdate: Readers are finding the requirements are less strict than thought. There has been success with older Macs for the Wireless Wake feature and the use of an Airport Express.\nUpdate 2: To clear up some confusion surrounding the Wake on Demand feature, readers should note that computers running earlier Mac OS X versions and connected via Ethernet can be awakened remotely using such third-party utilities as WakeOnLan, but Snow Leopard builds that functionality into the operating system and extends that ability to computers connected via Wi-Fi.\nWhile the simple \"Wake on Wireless\" functionality appears to be available with any wireless router for compatible machines running Snow Leopard and can be triggered using utilities such as WakeOnLan, the Bonjour Sleep Proxy feature needed for the advanced functionalities of broadcasting information about the sleeping machine requires the use of an Apple AirPort or Time Capsule base station running firmware 7.4.2 or later.\nRelated Roundups: iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Air\nBuyer's Guide: iMac (Neutral), Mac Pro (Don't Buy), MacBook Air (Caution)\nRelated Forums: iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air\n[ 157 comments ]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Konda D. v. Saul\nUnited States District Court, N.D. Indiana\nKONDA D.[1], Plaintiff,\nANDREW M. SAUL, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant.\nWilliam C. Lee, Judge United States District Court\nThis matter is before the court for judicial review of a final decision of the defendant Commissioner of Social Security Administration denying Plaintiff's application for Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), as provided for in the Social Security Act. Section 205(g) of the Act provides, inter alia, \"[a]s part of his answer, the [Commissioner] shall file a certified copy of the transcript of the record including the evidence upon which the findings and decision complained of are based. The court shall have the power to enter, upon the pleadings and transcript of the record, a judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the decision of the [Commissioner], with or without remanding the case for a rehearing.\" It also provides, \"[t]he findings of the [Commissioner] as to any fact, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive. . . .\" 42 U.S.C. \u00a7405(g).\nThe law provides that an applicant for SSI must establish an \"inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to last for a continuous period of no less than 12 months. . . .\" 42 U.S.C. \u00a7416(i)(1); 42 U.S.C. \u00a7423(d)(1)(A). A physical or mental impairment is \"an impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques.\" 42 U.S.C. \u00a7423(d)(3). It is not enough for a plaintiff to establish that an impairment exists. It must be shown that the impairment is severe enough to preclude the plaintiff from engaging in substantial gainful activity. Gotshaw v. Ribicoff, 307 F.2d 840 (7th Cir. 1962), cert. denied, 372 U.S. 945 (1963); Garcia v. Califano, 463 F.Supp. 1098 (N.D.Ill. 1979). It is well established that the burden of proving entitlement to disability insurance benefits is on the plaintiff. See Jeralds v. Richardson, 445 F.2d 36 (7th Cir. 1971); Kutchman v. Cohen, 425 F.2d 20 (7th Cir. 1970).\nGiven the foregoing framework, \"[t]he question before [this court] is whether the record as a whole contains substantial evidence to support the [Commissioner's] findings.\" Garfield v. Schweiker, 732 F.2d 605, 607 (7th Cir. 1984) citing Whitney v. Schweiker, 695 F.2d 784, 786 (7th Cir. 1982); 42 U.S.C. \u00a7405(g). \"Substantial evidence is defined as 'more than a mere scintilla. It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'\" Rhoderick v. Heckler, 737 F.2d 714, 715 (7th Cir. 1984) quoting Richardson v. Perales, 402 U.S. 389, 401, 91 S.Ct. 1410, 1427 (1971); see Allen v. Weinberger, 552 F.2d 781, 784 (7th Cir. 1977). \"If the record contains such support [it] must [be] affirmed, 42 U.S.C. \u00a7405(g), unless there has been an error of law.\" Garfield, supra at 607; see also Schnoll v. Harris, 636 F.2d 1146, 1150 (7th Cir. 1980).\nIn the present matter, after consideration of the entire record, the Administrative Law Judge (\"ALJ\") made the following findings:\n1. The claimant meets the insured status requirements of the Social Security Act through December 31, 2018.\n2. The claimant has not engaged in substantial gainful activity since August 28, 2013, the alleged onset date (20 CFR 404.1571 et seq., and 416.971 et seq.).\n3. The claimant has the following severe impairments: degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine, degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, headaches, morbid obesity, bilateral epicondylitis status post-surgery on the left elbow, and history of diabetes mellitus (20 CFR 404.1520(c) and 416.920(c).\n4. The claimant does not have an impairment or combination of impairments that meets or medically equals the severity of one of the listed impairments in 20 CFR Part 404, Subpart P, Appendix 1 (20 CFR 404.1520(d), 404.1525, 404.1526, 416.920(d), 416.925 and 416.926).\n5. After careful consideration of the entire record, the undersigned finds that the claimant has the residual functional capacity to perform sedentary work as defined in 20 CFR 404.1567(a) and 41`6.967(a). The claimant can occasionally climb ramps and stairs, but never climb ladders, ropes or scaffolds. The claimant cannot crawl. The claimant can occasionally balance, stoop, crouch and kneel. The claimant cannot be exposed to moving, mechanical parts or unprotected heights. The claimant cannot be exposed to excessive vibrations. The claimant can occasionally reach above the shoulders, frequently reach down to waist level and occasionally reach down to the floor. The claimant can frequently handle objects with her hands and fingers.\n6. The claimant is unable to perform any past relevant work (20 CFR 404.1565 and 416.965).\n7. The claimant was born on July 21, 1975 and was 38 years old, which is defined as a younger individual age 18-44, on the alleged disability onset date (20 CFR 404.1563 and 416.963).\n8. The claimant has at least a high school education and is able to communicate in English (20 CFR 404.1564 and 416.964).\n9. Transferability of job skills is not material to the determination of disability because using the Medical-Vocational Rules as a framework supports a finding that the claimant is \"not disabled, \" whether or not the claimant has transferable job skills (See SSR 82-41 and 20 CFR apart 404, Subpart P, Appendix 2).\n10. Considering the claimant's age, education, work experience, and residual functional capacity, there are jobs that exist in significant numbers in the national economy that the claimant can perform (20 CFR 404.1569, 404.1569(a), 416.969, and 416.969(a)).\n11. The claimant has not been under a disability, as defined in the Social Security Act, from August 28, 2013, through the date of this decision (20 CFR 404.1520(g) and 4165.920(g)).\n(Tr. 16-28)\nBased upon these findings, the ALJ determined that Plaintiff was not entitled to disability insurance benefits. The ALJ's decision became the final agency decision when the Appeals Council denied review. This appeal followed.\nPlaintiff filed her opening brief on June 4, 2019. On August 13, 2019, the defendant filed a memorandum in support of the Commissioner's decision to which Plaintiff replied on September 10, 2019. Upon full review of the record in this cause, this court is of the view that the ALJ's decision should be remanded.\nA five step test has been established to determine whether a claimant is disabled. See Singleton v. Bowen, 841 F.2d 710, 711 (7th Cir. 1988); Bowen v. Yuckert, 107 S.Ct. 2287, 2290-91 (1987). The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has summarized that test as follows:\nThe following steps are addressed in order: (1) Is the claimant presently unemployed? (2) Is the claimant's impairment \"severe\"? (3) Does the impairment meet or exceed one of a list of specific impairments? (4) Is the claimant unable to perform his or her former occupation? (5) Is the claimant unable to perform any other work within the economy? An affirmative answer leads either to the next step or, on steps 3 and 5, to a finding that the claimant is disabled. A negative answer at any point, other than step 3, stops the inquiry and leads to a determination that the claimant is not disabled.\nNelson v. Bowen, 855 F.2d 503, 504 n.2 (7th Cir. 1988); Zalewski v. Heckler, 760 F.2d 160, 162 n.2 (7th Cir. 1985); accord Halvorsen v. Heckler, 743 F.2d 1221 (7th Cir. 1984). From the nature of the ALJ's decision to deny benefits, it is clear that Step 5 was the determinative inquiry.\nOn May 23, 2013, Plaintiff attended an initial evaluation with Dr. Christopher Sayers at Accelerated Rehabilitation Centers related to lateral epicondylitis. (R at p.355). Dr. Sayers noted that Plaintiff sustained an injury to her left epicondyle as a result of repetitive reaching and packing of products at work, the onset of symptoms occurred 4\/22\/13. Id. Dr. Sayers noted that Plaintiff was unable to do frequent gripping or pinching at this time. Id. He documented \"decreased flexibility bilateral forearm, wrist, and hand muscles\" during the physical examination. (R at p.356).\nPlaintiff attended an appointment at South Bend Orthopedic on July 15, 2013. (R at p.343). This report indicated that Plaintiff had completed four to five sessions of physical therapy without much improvement. Id. She received a steroid injection in the left elbow, was prescribed a splint, and was referred to occupational therapy. (R at 343-344).\nOn September 7, 2013, Plaintiff's glucose level was reported as 221 with a normal range of 60-99. (R at p.493).\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Plaintiff attended an appointment with Dr. Adelbert Mencias at South Bend Orthopedics on September 30, 2013. (R at p.337). It was noted that Plaintiff had been unable to work since her injury in April 2013. Id. Plaintiff received a cortisone injection in her right elbow, was referred to ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Energy outlook bad for emissions\nEnergy outlook bad for\u2026\nCarbon emissions from energy consumption will grow by 1% a year between now and 2035, according to new analysis by energy company BP.\nIts latest annual energy outlook warns that the trajectory for carbon emissions is significantly above the path scientists recommend. \"The most likely path for carbon emissions, despite current govern\nEnergy bill support slashed for UK businesses\nThe UK government has earmarked \u00a35.5bn for a new Energy Bills Discount Scheme over one year, which is far less than the \u00a318bn in support given for six months under the previous scheme.\nA sea change for energy\nEd Walker examines the installation of new electricity transmission infrastructure between Scotland and England\n'Physicist behind net zero' calls for mandatory CCS\nOne of the world's leading climate physicists has again called for new regulation forcing the fossil fuel industry to carry out large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS).\nHistoric net-zero target for aviation agreed\nA 'long-term aspirational goal' (LTAG) for net-zero emissions by 2050 was agreed by the global aviation sector at a UN summit last Friday.\nClimate change remains top concern for UK public\nAround three-quarters of UK adults are currently worried about climate change, making it the joint most concerning issue in the country, a survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found.\nAndrew Clark outlines the work being carried out to identify and boost decarbonisation opportunities in the North East of England","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NEW YORK \u2014 Refuting suggestions that he's lost interest in going after Donald Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday a criminal investigation into the former president and his business practices is continuing \"without fear or favor\" despite a recent shakeup in the probe's leadership.\nIn a rare public statement, Bragg denied that the three-year investigation was winding down or that a grand jury term expiring this month would impede his office's ability to bring charges.\nCiting secrecy rules, the district attorney said he couldn't discuss details of the probe but pledged to publicly disclose findings when it's over.\n\"In recent weeks, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office has been repeatedly asked whether our investigation concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization, and its leadership is continuing,\" Bragg wrote. \"It is.\"\nThe Democrat's affirmation of the investigation was part of a double dose of bad legal news for Trump on Thursday.\nIt came shortly after the New York attorney general's office asked a judge to hold Trump in contempt and fine him $10,000 per day for not meeting a March 31 deadline to turn over documents in a parallel civil investigation. Trump is appealing a subpoena for his testimony in that investigation, but not one requiring him to provide documents.\n\"The judge's order was crystal clear: Donald J. Trump must comply with our subpoena and turn over relevant documents to my office,\" Attorney General Letitia James said. \"Instead of obeying a court order, Mr. Trump is trying to evade it. We are seeking the court's immediate intervention because no one is above the law.\"\nTrump's lawyer, Alina Habba, called James' request for sanctions \"frivolous and baseless,\" and said the former president has \"consistently complied with the many discovery requests\" from her office over the years.\nBragg's statement marked the district attorney's first public comment on the Trump investigation since the two men who had been leading it, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, resigned Feb. 23 in a dispute over the direction of the case.\nPomerantz, a former mafia prosecutor, wrote in a resignation letter that he believed Trump is \"guilty of numerous felony violations\" but that Bragg, who inherited the probe when he took office in January, had decided not to pursue charges.\nPomerantz said in the letter, published last month by The New York Times, that there was \"evidence sufficient to establish Mr. Trump's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt\" of allegations he falsified financial statements to secure loans and burnish his image as a wealthy businessman.\n\"I believe that your decision not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest,\" Pomerantz wrote.\nBragg's silence after the resignations and the March 23 publication of Pomerantz's letter gave rise to a narrative that the investigation was effectively dead.\nAfter Pomerantz and Dunne left, Trump lawyer Robert Fischetti told the Associated Press: \"I'm a very happy man. In my opinion, this investigation is over.\"\nPomerantz and Dunne started on the probe under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.\nPomerantz wrote that Vance had directed them to seek an indictment of Trump and other defendants \"as soon as reasonably possible,\" but that Bragg reached a different conclusion after reviewing the evidence.\nVance and Bragg are Democrats. No former president has ever been charged with a crime.\nIn his statement Thursday, Bragg tried to wrest back the narrative, putting Trump on notice that he isn't done while reassuring supporters who backed him in part because he pledged to continue investigating the former president, a Republican.\nBragg said that a team of \"dedicated, experienced career prosecutors\" is working on the investigation, led by the chief of his Investigation Division, Susan Hoffinger, and that they are \"going through documents, interviewing witnesses, and exploring evidence not previously explored.\"\n\"In the long and proud tradition of white-collar prosecutions at the Manhattan D.A.'s Office, we are investigating thoroughly and following the facts without fear or favor,\" Bragg said.\nTrump has called the investigation a politically motivated \"witch hunt.\"\nSo far, the three-year investigation has resulted only in tax fraud charges against Trump's company, the Trump Organization, and its longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg relating to lucrative fringe benefits such as rent, car payments and school tuition. They have pleaded not guilty.\nWeisselberg's lawyers filed court papers in February asking a judge to throw out his case, arguing that prosecutors targeted him as punishment because he wouldn't flip on the former president.\nTrump has cited potential peril from the criminal case as he appeals a ruling requiring him to answer questions under oath in James' civil investigation.\nTrump's lawyers contend James, who assigned two lawyers to work on the criminal case, is using the guise of a civil deposition to get around a state law barring prosecutors from calling someone to testify before a criminal grand jury without giving them immunity.\nJames, a Democrat, has said her investigation has uncovered evidence that Trump may have misstated the value of assets like golf courses and skyscrapers on his financial statements for more than a decade.\nBragg said his career and perspective have been shaped by \"high-profile, complex investigations,\" including a lawsuit he oversaw while a top deputy in the attorney general's office that led to the closure of Trump's charity over allegations he used it to further his political and business interests.\n\"Prosecutors fulfilling their duties cannot and do not bring only cases that are 'slam dunks,'\" Bragg wrote. \"To the contrary, every case must be brought for the right reason \u2013 namely that justice demands it. That's what I've done throughout my career, regardless of how easy or tough a case might be.\"\nA grand jury convened in the Trump investigation last fall hasn't met regularly for several months and its term is expected to run out soon, but Bragg said there are grand juries sitting in Manhattan all the time and \"there is no magic at all to any previously reported dates.\"\n\"In the meantime, we will not be discussing our investigative steps. Nor will we be discussing grand jury matters.\" Bragg wrote. \"In short, as we have previously said, the investigation continues.\"\nNew Yorkers proceeding with caution as COVID cases increase in Manhattan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News November 9, 2017\nAmazon Investigating Jeffrey Tambor Following Sexual Harassment Allegation\nGarth Brooks Admits to Lip Synching at the 2017 CMA's\nCharlie Sheen Denies Rape Allegation\nAmazon is reportedly investigating Jeffrey Tambor following a sexual harassment allegation. The claims are coming from Jeffrey's former assistant, a transgender woman named Van Barnes. Tambor is calling the claims \"baseless\" and adamantly denies them, but Amazon is looking into the situation.\nJill Soloway, the creator of Transparent released a statement about the investigation.\n\"Anything that would diminish the level of respect, safety and inclusion so fundamental to our workplace is completely antithetical to our principles. We are cooperating with the investigation into this matter.\"\nAmazon Studios recently had another sexual harassment situation. Head Roy Price was suspended after accusations came to light, and soon thereafter he resigned completely. Roy was accused of propositioning an executive producer named Isa Hackett, who works on the Amazon original series The Man in the High Castle. Price was investigated back when the incident occurred in 2015, but they didn't suspend him until this year when Hackett went public with her story.\nTransparent is not currently in production.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ginger Wildheart\nThe Wildhearts\nHome \/ Music \/ Albums \/ The Wildhearts \u2013 30 Year Itch (Live) \u2013 Vinyl & T-Shirt Bundle (pre-order)\nThe Wildhearts \u2013 30 Year Itch (Live) \u2013 Vinyl & T-Shirt Bundle (pre-order)\nRound Records presents The Wildhearts \u2013 30 Year Itch, recorded live during The Renaissance Men and Diagnosis tours during 2019.\nThis is a bundle containing the album on double gatefold 180g black vinyl with fold out poster, and a black Gildan T-shirt, featuring the album artwork (artwork subject to change). Sizes available: mens S-5XL.\nThe physical albums were originally due to be released on 25th September 2020, but due to unforeseen delays with manufacturing, these now won't be arriving with us until the end of October. However, the digital download of the album will still be made available from 25th September 2020.\nAs a bonus for pre-ordering the album, you will receive an immediate download of 4 exclusive tracks that not be included on the final album, and not made available anywhere else but this Round Records pre-order. These will be available in MP3, FLAC and WAV formats.\nSize Choose an optionMens SmallMens MediumMens LargeMens XLMens 2XLMens 3XLMens 4XLMens 5XL Clear\nSKU: 30YearItchVinylTShirtBundle Categories: Clothing, T-Shirts, Music, Albums, Vinyl Tags: 30, anniversary, bundle, live, wildhearts\nMastered once again by maestro Dave Draper, this double album captures the band's incendiary performance that still kicks the ass of crowds up and down the country, 30 years since they started!\nDave explains:\n'Never Outdrunk, Never Outsung' was my first adventure into the world of working with The Wildhearts. I carried a lot of pressure on my shoulders to make sure it was as close to the experience of actually being in the crowd. Judging on what the feedback has been since it came out, I can say I think it worked out just fine.\nSo when the time came around to make another live album for the boys, myself and Elliot Vaughan once again jumped in the car and captured a few shows from The Renaissance Men and Diagnosis tours of 2019. The recording of the gigs is most definitely a two person job. There's a massive stress of recording bands live, such as not getting in anyone else's way, hoping the gear on stage doesn't break or fall, loading in and out and worst of all praying the computer doesn't crash or drop out! Sharing the job is a must! Anyway, we knew we had a lot of great stuff recorded from the tours so I went back to my studio and made a selection of tracks that really knocked my teeth in.\nWhen it came to the mixing, like on 'Never Outdrunk\u2026', it was really good to hear older tracks having a new lease of life and power from the boys\u2026. the two songs from 'Endless Nameless' that have made this new album are highlights for me and I'm sure many of you will agree. Timeless songs with all you mad bastards singing your hearts out on. What's not to like? Ginger gave me two instructions: \"Loud guitars and loud crowd\"\u2026.I didn't have a choice in either as that's what was captured during the recording, Thank you for making my job a lot easier, guys!\nI look forward to hearing what you guys think of the record.\nDraper x\nIn addition, we will be sending special gifts as a thank-you to anyone who pre-orders \u2013 you'll find our what this is in a few weeks time!\nMens Small, Mens Medium, Mens Large, Mens XL, Mens 2XL, Mens 3XL, Mens 4XL, Mens 5XL\nThe Wildhearts (2018 Remaster) \u2013 Deluxe Triple Vinyl\nGinger Wildheart G\u00b7A\u00b7S\u00b7S\u00b7 Skull T-Shirt\nMutation \u2013 Broken Logo T-Shirt\n100% \u2013 Digital Download\nCopyright \u00a9 Round Records 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Building record PSM 036 - Old Thatches\n17th C house which incorporates part of a 16th C building\nCentred TL 9410 5134 (20m by 21m)\nTL95SW\nPRESTON ST MARY, BABERGH, SUFFOLK\nHOUSE (17th century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)\nOld Thatches has been derelict since its roof and sections of its roof-plate were destroyed in 2006 by a thatch fire. Despite this the original timber-framed walls and ceilings of the listed property remained largely intact. The building consisted of two structures which adjoined each other to form an L-shaped house. The two wings can be interpreted as a single domestic house of the early-17th century which consisted of a 'new' hall with a contemporary parlour to the north and a service or dairy range to the west that had been retained from the earlier house on the site. Many individual timbers in the eastern wing had been re-used from an older structure. The layout of the 17th century house, with an apparent cross-passage passing immediately in front of the hall fireplace, was highly unusual. It illustrates a rare transitional form and was one of only four or five known examples in East Anglia.\nThe house was subsequently divided into three cottages as shown on the 1904 Ordnance Survey, and contained two secondary chimneys in addition to its 17th century original (the latter altered by the insertion of a bread oven in the 19th century). This sub-division was corroborated by evidence of at least four secondary external doors, all of which had been blocked during the 20th century. The Ordnance Survey and the Preston 1838 tithe map show two further detached cottages in the present garden to the east of the house, but no trace of these survives above ground (S1).\n<S1> SSF54513 Unpublished document: Wincer Kievenaar. 2006. Fire Damage: The Old Thatches, Preston St Mary, Suffolk.\n<S1> SSF54574 Unpublished document: Alston, L.. 2010. Historic Building Record: The Barn, Redgate Farm, Wherstead, Suffolk.\nListed Building (II) 277074: OLD THATCHES\nEvent - Survey: Building Survey: Old Thatches (Ref: OASIS-suffolkc1-131737) (ESF21612)\nEvent - Survey: The Old Thatches Fire Damage Survey (ESF21555)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"U.N. Security Council mulls resolution on Ukraine crash site access\nOrganisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitors and journalists walk as a pro-Russian separatist stands on guard near bodies at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region. (Reuters)\nThe U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution to condemn the \"shooting down\" of a Malaysian passenger plane in Ukraine, demand armed groups allow access to the crash site, and call on states in the region to cooperate with an international investigation.\nAustralia - which lost 28 citizens - circulated a draft text, seen by Reuters, to the 15-member Security Council late on Saturday and diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it could be put to a vote as early as Monday.\nThe draft resolution \"demands that those responsible for this incident be held to account and that all states cooperate fully with efforts to establish accountability.\"\nIt \"condemns in the strongest terms the shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 ... resulting in the tragic loss of 298 lives\" and \"demands that all states and other actors in the region refrain from acts of violence directed against civilian aircraft.\"\nThe United States and other powers have said the plane was likely brought down on Thursday by a surface-to-air missile fired from rebel territory.\nU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Friday that Washington could not rule out Russian help in firing the missile.\nRussian President Vladimir Putin urged the pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine to cooperate and insisted that an international investigation must not leap to conclusions. Moscow denies involvement and has pointed a finger at Kiev's military.\nUkraine and its Western allies accuse Moscow of fueling a pro-Russian uprising that threatens to break up the former Soviet republic of 46 million people. Russia denies orchestrating the unrest and says Ukraine's attempts to end it by military force are making the situation worse.\nThe draft U.N. resolution \"calls on all states and actors in the region to cooperate fully in relation to the international investigation of the incident, including with respect to immediate access to the crash site.\"\nIt \"demands that the armed groups in control of the crash site and the surrounding area refrain from any actions that may compromise the integrity of the crash site and immediately provide safe, secure, full and unfettered access to the site and surrounding area.\"\nInternational monitors the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Saturday they had been allowed to see more of the crash site, though gunmen still stopped them approaching some of the wreckage.\nRussia's U.N. mission declined to comment on the draft Security Council resolution.\nThe Security Council issued an statement on Friday calling for a \"full, thorough and independent international investigation,\" access to the site and appropriate accountability. Britain drafted the short text and hoped the council could issue it on Thursday but Russia requested more time to review it.\nThe Australian-drafted resolution \"supports efforts to establish a full, thorough and independent international investigation into the incident in accordance with international civil aviation guidelines.\"\nIt also \"insists that the bodies of the victims are treated in a dignified, respectful and professional manner.\"\nmalaysian airliner mh17\nWhy Vladimir Putin is not to blame for MH17\nWhat's the use of media speculation on whether or not it was rebels who are responsible for this awful tragedy? To speculate over Russia's role in it? World\nPious Putin? Images spark MH17 backlash\nPhotos of the Russian President on a visit to the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery has prompted 'confession' remarks World News\n'Security zone' agreed around MH17 crash site\nUkraine's government accused pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine of trying to remove 38 bodies from scene of the crash site World News\nObama: Missile downed Malaysian flight MH17\nU.S. FBI, transport investigators deployed to Ukraine after the Malaysian plane crash Middle East\nMH17 passenger jokes about doom before flight\nMH17 was reportedly shot down by Ukrainian rebels on Thursday, leaving no survivors Variety\nMalaysia Airlines changes route after fatal missile\nThe airline says it has changed its routes to and from Europe after its MH17 airplane crashed in Ukraine World News\nSaudi Arabia marks drop in COVID-19 infections after daily count neared 6,000","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb News & Features \u00bb Broadway News & Features \u00bb Marc Shaiman to compose original music for Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick-led Plaza Suite on Broadway\nMarc Shaiman to compose original music for Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick-led Plaza Suite on Broadway\nThe Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite is scheduled to begin performances at the Hudson Theatre on March 13, 2020.\nProducers of the upcoming Broadway revival of Neil Simon's comedy Plaza Suite have announced that Tony Award winner Marc Shaiman has joined the creative team and will compose original music for the eagerly anticipated production.\nMr. Shaiman won Tony Awards for his music and lyrics to Hairspray in 2003. His other Broadway credits include 2011 Tony-nominated orschestrations for Catch Me if You Can, as well as original scores for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Odd Couple. He has also contributed to the Broadway solo engagements of the likes of Martin Short, Patti LuPone, Harry Connick, Jr., Andr\u00e9 De Shields, and Bette Midler. He is also a seven-time Academy Award nominee, two-time Golden Globe nominee and an Emmy Award winner, with notable screen credits including \"Mary Poppins Returns,\" \"The First Wives Club,\" \"Sleepless in Seattle,\" and \"Smash,\" among many others.\nAs previously reported, four-time Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Sarah Jessica Parker and two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick are set to star in the Broadway revival, which begins previews at the Hudson Theatre on March 13, 2020, ahead of an official opening on April 13 and a limited engagement through July 12, 2020.\nThe production will mark the first time the married couple have shared a stage since the 1995 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the first time Mr. Broderick has starred in a Simon play since creating the role of Eugene Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs.\nMr. Broderick previously commented: \"It was my great good fortune that my very first Broadway play was written by Neil Simon. He also wrote my first film. I owe him a career. The theater has lost a brilliantly funny, unthinkably wonderful writer and even after all this time I feel I have lost a mentor, a father figure, a deep influence in my life and work.\"\nPlaza Suite, which first opened on Broadway in 1968, will see the actors play three different couples in a comedic look at love and marriage. The play is composed of three acts, each profiling a different couple staying at Suite 719 of the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue, with each couple played by the same actors.\nTony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey (currently starring in The Inheritance on Broadway) is set to direct the production, which will also feature scenic design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by Jane Greenwood, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design by Scott Lehrer.\nPlaza Suite is produced on Broadway by Ambassador Theatre Group, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Hal Luftig.\nPlaza Suite Tickets are available now for performances from March 13 through July 12, 2020.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PALACE THEATRE AND PARK PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCE SHARED SERVICES ALLIANCE\nArrangement will offer significant cost savings to both organizations through shared staffing agreements and joint administrative operations; organizations to remain independent\nOrganizations to present Backstage Ball, joint fundraising gala and concert, in celebration of expanded partnership on May 29\nApril 22, 2014 (Albany, NY) \u2013 The Palace Theatre and Park Playhouse today formally announced a strategic shared services alliance which will further strengthen and expand areas of partnership for the two celebrated downtown Albany arts organizations.\nThe announcement comes after a period of sustained growth and success for both organizations, which have each reported surpluses in recent years, including an increase in revenue, number of shows and attendance at their respective venues.\nCity of Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan joined executives from the Palace Theatre and Park Playhouse to announce the partnership, which is designed to reduce costs and allow each organization to provide additional services to patrons while expanding their programming impact on the Capital Region.\nMost notably, the arrangement will include shared staffing agreements and joint administrative services that will extend to box office operations and front-of-house management.\nThe Palace Theatre and Park Playhouse will remain independent organizations. Additionally, Park Playhouse will expand its traditional summer free outdoor theatre programming to fall and winter productions, which will be staged at the historic Palace Theatre.\nThe announcement also included a special preview performance from Jake Goodman, who will play the title role in the upcoming Park Playhouse production of Oliver!, which will take the stage in Albany's Washington Park as the theatre program's second production for the 2014 season beginning August 2.\n\"The Palace is excited to expand our relationship with Park Playhouse in the coming years. As not-for-profit organizations, we realize the benefits and importance of working collaboratively while maintaining our independent brands. We believe this model can serve as a blueprint for other arts organizations throughout the region,\" said Palace Theatre Executive Director Holly Brown. \"We look forward to creating new opportunities for both the Palace and Park Playhouse as we move ahead with this partnership.\"\n\"It is truly ideal for these two leading Albany arts organizations to come together in an effort to strengthen and elevate their own programming through dynamic work with one another,\" said Park Playhouse Producing Artistic Director and Palace Theatre Managing Director Owen Smith. \"Park Playhouse is thrilled to work closely with the Palace to improve the patron experience in both venues and expand our own efforts to bring high-quality, free musical theatre to the community.\"\n\"Collaboration has become an essential element and key ingredient for vitality in the Capital Region arts community. This new partnership between the Palace Theatre and Park Playhouse will lead to additional opportunities for growth and even greater success than what these established organizations have previously achieved on their own,\" said City of Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan.\nThe strategic alliance between the Palace Theatre and Park Playhouse will include the following elements:\nShared staffing arrangements, including the dual role of Smith as producing artistic director of Park Playhouse and managing director of the Palace Theatre, along with the sharing of several other staff members. The arrangement represents a savings in excess of $50,000 to both organizations and allows more revenue to be dedicated to artistic and educational programming. The Palace and Park Playhouse will continue to explore staff sharing in the areas of financial management, development and production management.\nPark Playhouse has relocated its administrative offices to the Palace, which will significantly reduce overhead costs for the free theatre program and help facilitate effective sharing of staff resources. Phone numbers for Park Playhouse administrative offices and box office will remain the same.\nPark Playhouse will expand its student-performed programming into the fall and winter months with youth productions staged at the Palace Theatre. This will allow Park Playhouse to meet growing demand to expand its youth production work on a year-round basis.\nEffective for the 2014 season, the Palace Theatre will oversee ticketing operations for Park Playhouse. For the first time in the organization's history, patrons will be able to purchase tickets to Park Playhouse shows in advance from a walk-up box office location, which will be located at the Palace and available beginning June 1. Palace Theatre staff will also help operate the Park Playhouse on-site venue in Washington Park, which will provide significant savings for the free theatre and improve overall box office services for patrons.\nPark Playhouse will oversee all productions in the Palace's Arts in Education series, including the production of student-oriented shows at the Palace and touring productions to local schools. This element will begin with the upcoming production of Pinkalicious: The Musical at the Palace Theatre on Tuesday, April 29.\nThe Palace Theatre will oversee front-of-house management for Park Playhouse, to include scheduling house managers, ushers and security staff. This arrangement will continue to improve operations at the Washington Park venue and the overall patron experience.\nIn celebration of the new partnership, the Palace Theatre and Park Playhouse will host a joint fundraiser to equally benefit both organizations at the Palace Theatre on Thursday, May 29 at 6 p.m.\nThe event will include an on-stage VIP gala reception with refreshments, cocktails and live piano entertainment before a Concert Presentation of Side by Side by Sondheim from Park Playhouse actors and musicians beginning at 8 p.m.\nTickets for the VIP gala reception are $150. Tickets for only the Sondheim Concert Presentation are $25. To purchase tickets, please contact Maureen Neufeld at 518-465-3335 ext. 121.\nThe 2014 Park Playhouse summer season begins with Hands on a Hardbody from July 1 through 26 and will continue with Oliver! from August 2 through 16. Online ticket sales will begin on May 1 at www.parkplayhouse.com, where more information about the summer productions can be found.\nThe Palace Theatre season continues with \"Scooby-Doo Live: Music Mysteries!\" on Thursday, April 24, comedian Bill Burr on April 27, and Family Feud on May 2. For more information about the 2014 season at the Palace Theatre, visit www.palacealbany.com.\nAbout Palace Theatre\nThe Palace Theatre has been Albany's iconic downtown landmark for the last eight decades \u2013 bringing the biggest names in entertainment to the Capital Region. This grand cultural and entertainment facility first opened its doors in October 1931. Built during the Depression, the 2,800-seat Palace was the largest theatre in the region noted for a number of opulent movie houses. Today, the Palace remains the sole survivor of this period of entertainment. Its storied stage has seen more than 5,000 stars such as Bob Hope, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Jerry Seinfeld, and great Broadway hits like Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray and more. Arguably the most notable concert event took place at the Palace Theatre in April of 1965 when the now legendary Rolling Stones appeared here on their first tour of the United States. The venue is managed by The Palace Performing Arts Center, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and currently plays host to more than 100 world-class arts and entertainment events each year. The theatre has a significant economic footprint with over $3.5 million in ticket sales and 150,000 patrons annually. The Palace is a primary economic engine for downtown Albany.\nAbout Park Playhouse\nPark Playhouse augments the quality of life for a diverse audience in the Capital District by producing free musicals and plays in an outdoor setting and providing arts education programs to young people in the community. By providing free admission at our productions, we make theatre an all-inclusive art form, accessible to people from all walks of life and socio-economic backgrounds. Our educations programs teach valuable life lessons about collaboration and teamwork, while helping to train the area's next generation of theatre artists. Park Playhouse takes a leadership role in enhancing the cultural landscape of New York's Capital Region.\nTagged on: Palace Theatre\nBy JuliAnn Goronkin | April 22, 2014 | News |\n\u2190 A visit to the famous Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken\nCOMMUNITY TEAMWORK VOLUNTEER RECOGNIZED AS HEALTH HERO \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Poit\u00edn team is a diverse group from different cultures and backgrounds, all working toward the same goal, aiming for excellence.\nChris has been cutting his teeth in the Houston hospitality scene for over ten years, with notable stints at RIEL, Pax Americana and most recently, Hotel Zaza Museum District. Chris is an experienced wine director and is excited to bring his experience and personality to Poit\u00edn.\nAfter moving to Houston from New Orleans to attend The Art Institute of Houston, Chef Dominick was awarded the inaugural Chris Shepherd Underbelly Scholarship, which funded a significant portion of Lee's education at The Art Institute. Chef Dominick worked as sous chef at the Bay Oaks Country Club in Clear Lake while at chef school. and soon after, he met beloved Houston chef Kiran Verma and landed a job as Executive Sous Chef at Kiran's, where he gained a firm understanding of the Houston culinary landscape training closely under Houston's godmother of Indian cuisine.\nIan is an Irish native and emigrated to Houston from Ireland in 2015 after meeting his Houston born wife in 2014. In Dublin, Ireland, he owned and operated two highly successful, multi award winning Bar & Restaurant concepts, called The Exchequer. Ian was also elected to the position of Chairman of the Restaurant Association of Ireland for two years before his departure to the US. Since arriving in Texas he opened Balls Out Burger in the Heights in Houston before opening Poit\u00edn in 2018.\nWe are always looking for new talents!!\nJOIN OUR CLUB!!\nCELEBRATE SPRING'S ARRIVAL WITH US ON THE BEST PATIO IN HOUSTON!! TEXT \"POITIN\" TO 33222 AND RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE FOR 10% OFF YOUR FOOD BILL ON YOUR NEXT VISIT!\n*valid any time Sunday thru Thursday\n*does not apply to HH items","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Concerts are changing, and Garth Brooks is adapting by replacing stages with screens June 27 for a unique performance airing at more than 300 outdoor theaters in North America, including the Parkway Drive-In in Maryville.\nFriday afternoon, just a few hours after tickets went on sale, Brooks posted on Facebook that the drive-in shows sold out. He followed up the post with a video, saying tickets will go on sale again Saturday at noon.\nA problem with credit card services was causing people to buy extra tickets, he said in the video, \"so now tickets are coming back in the system.\" Brooks also had problems with tickets for his Neyland Stadium show.\nTickets for the drive-in show are limited to around 300 per location, the country music superstar recently announced on \"Good Morning America.\"\nBrooks wrote on Facebook that Saturday's ticket sales are expected to \"run smoother!\"\nGarth Brooks: 'This should be fun'\nEach ticket is $100 and is assigned to a vehicle, meaning whoever can legally fit inside the vehicle \u2014 up to six people \u2014 will be allowed in.\nRVs and limousines will not be allowed, and each attendee must have a seat belt.\n\"They're gonna run it just like a regular concert,\" Brooks told \"GMA\" host Robin Roberts. \"This is a reason to get out of the house, but at the same time you get to follow all the COVID rules for every individual state. You get to have fun and stay within the guidelines of social distancing.\n\"We're calling it social distancing partying. This should be fun.\"\n'The largest ever' show like this\nThe concert was filmed exclusively for this night, according to the event description, and is being billed as \"the largest ever one-night show to play at outdoor theaters across the United States and Canada.\"\nCenters for Disease Control an Prevention guidelines will be followed at each event.\nThe Maryville show will begin at midnight, with gates opening at 11:20 p.m. on June 27. The event is scheduled to wrap up at 2 a.m.\nThe concert also will be shown at the Swingin' Midway Drive-In in Athens, Tennessee.\nHow to secure your spot\nThere are no assigned spots, so showing up early could mean a better view. Sound from the show will be broadcast through FM radio.\nHeadlights should be off when vehicles are facing the screen. But people should still be able to have a little fun, Brooks said on \"GMA.\"\n\"I hope people are going to start working on flashing their lights, honking their horns and, hopefully, rolling down their windows,\" he said.\nTheater locations are shown at ticketmaster.com. The website redirects to universe.com, where tickets and more information are available.\nTickets for each show go back on sale noon Saturday.\nAre drive-in concerts the future?\nPeople attending the show should bring battery-operated radios to limit the use of car batteries, according to the event description. They should also have masks and hand sanitizer available.\nThe event is being produced by Encore Live. Knoxville-based Bandit Lites also is working with Brooks on the event, owner Michael Strickland said in a text message.\nKnoxville's music scene: A 'social glue' and economic boost In this new world, could stripped-down shows and drive-in concerts be the future? Mistakes made, lessons learned: Morgan Wallen's new double album 'Dangerous' delves into singer's past Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, professional musicians reach deal to end furlough In 1968, a 'bandit' took lights from a Tennessee high school and helped change live music\nStrickland told Knox News in May that drive-ins could be part of live entertainment's future in a world with coronavirus.\n\"There's a whole lot of stabs at that, and I'm actually involved in three of them that are still in the planning phases,\" Strickland said at the time.\nIt looks like one finally came to fruition, but it's not the first.\nLast month, Keith Urban hosted the first major drive-in concert during the COVID-19 pandemic, a private event for Vanderbilt medical workers at Stardust Drive-In, about 40 miles east of Nashville.\nLater this summer, Franklin-based concert promotion company Awakening Events launches full-production drive-in tours respectively featuring TobyMac, Newsboys United and Michael W. Smith.\nRebuilding America:In this new world, could stripped-down shows and drive-in concerts be the future?\nThe Tennessean contributed to this report.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gorakhpur now has world's longest railway platform\nA newly constructed railway platform in Gorakhpur, U.P. entered into the Limca Book of World Records for being world's longest railway platform.\nPlatform No. 1 of the Gorakhpur is 1366.33 metres with ramp and 11355.40 metres without it.\nGorakhpur is headquarter of North Eastern Railways zone.\nThe World's longest railway platforms are:\nGorakhpur railway station (Uttar Pradesh, India): 1,366.33 m (4,483 ft)\nKollam Junction Railway Station (Kerala, India): 1,180.5 m (3,873 ft)\nKharagpur (West Bengal, India): 1,072.5 m (3,519 ft)\nState Street Center subway station (Chicago, Illinois, USA): 1,067 m (3,501 ft) (longest in United States)\nCheriton Shuttle Terminal (Folkestone, United Kingdom): 791 m (2,595 ft) (longest in Europe)\nBilaspur railway station (Chhattisgarh, India): 790 m (2,592 ft)\nJhansi (Uttar Pradesh, India): 770 m (2,526 ft)\nEast Perth railway station (Perth, Western Australia): 770 m (2,526 ft) (longest in Australia)\nKalgoorlie railway station (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia): 760 m (2,493 ft)\nSonepur railway station (Sonepur, Bihar, India): 738 m (2,421 ft)\nAfter Gorakhpur,and Kollam, Kharagpur has the world's third longest railway platform in the world with a length of 1,072.5 metres (3,519 ft).\nZones and Headquarters of Indian Railways\nIndian Railways has 17 zones and each zonal railway is made up of a certain number of divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of 68 divisions.\nZones Headquarters Divisions\nCentral (CR) Mumbai Bhusawal, Nagpur, Mumbai(CST), Solapur, Pune\nEast Central (ECR) Hajipur Danapur, Dhanbad, Sonepur, Mughalsarai, Samastipur\nEastern Coast (ECoR) Bhubaneswar Khurda Road, Waltair, Sambalpur\nEastern (ER) Kolkata Malda, Howarh, Sealdah, Asansol\nNorth Central (NCR) Allahabad Allahabad, Jhansi, Agra\nNorth-Eastern (NER) Gorakhpur Lucknow, Varanasi, Izatnagar\nNorth-Western (NWR) Jaipur Bikaner, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Ajmer\nNortheast Frontier (NFR) Guwahati Katihar, Lumding, Tinsukhia, Alipurduar, Rangiya\nNorthern (NR) Delhi Ambala, Ferozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad, Delhi\nSouth-Central (SCR) Secunderabad Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Vijaywada, Guntur, Nanded\nSouth-East Central (SECR) Bilaspur Nagpur, Bilaspur, Raipur\nSouth-Eastern (SER) Kolkata Kharagpur, Chakradharpur, Adra, Ranchi\nSouth-Western (SWR) Hubli Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli\nSouthern (SR) Chennai Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Trichy, Trivandrum\nWest Central (WCR) Jabalpur Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota\nWestern (WR) Mumbai Bhavnagar, Mumbai Central, Ratlam, Rajkot, Vadodara*, Ahemdabad\nKolkata Metro Railway (KMR) Kolkata Kolkata metropolitan area, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas\nMonth: Current Affairs - January, 2014\nTopics: Andhra Pradesh \u2022 Assam \u2022 Australia \u2022 Bihar \u2022 Chhattisgarh \u2022 Current Affairs 2014 \u2022 Delhi \u2022 EU \u2022 infrastructure \u2022 Kerala \u2022 Madhya Pradesh \u2022 Maharashtra \u2022 Railways \u2022 Rajasthan \u2022 US \u2022 USA \u2022 Uttar Pradesh \u2022 West Bengal\nYash bhargava\nVery imp. News I won quiz by this knowledge thanku very much","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are at:Home\u00bbNews\u00bbAsia News\u00bbArrest of embassy staffer mars Switzerland-Sri Lanka relations\nSri Lankans demanded the replacement Swiss ambassador to Sri Lanka, Hanspeter Mock in relation to the case (Photo: Twitter)\nArrest of embassy staffer mars Switzerland-Sri Lanka relations\nBy Froilan Malit on January 4, 2020 Asia News, News\nDays after a local staffer who complained of being assaulted was released on bail, the Swiss Embassy in Sri Lanka said that the safety of diplomatic missions staff is the responsibility of the host state.\nBefore her arrest, the Sri Lankan employee had reportedly said she was abducted, held for hours, sexually assaulted and threatened by captors who demanded that she disclose embassy-related information.\nShe was granted bail on Monday, December 30, after two weeks of detention on charges that she made statements to create disaffection toward the government and fabricated evidence.\nSri Lankan authorities have said they investigated her complaint but found no evidence to file charges against anyone.\nIn a diplomatic note released to the media on Tuesday evening, Switzerland said it is the responsibility of any government to protect the diplomatic missions of other states.\nSwitzerland said the relationship between the two countries \"was marred by misunderstandings surrounding\" the incident.\nHowever, it said it \"hoped for a swift return to an environment conducive to resuming the positive cooperation\".\n\"Recognising that local staff is subject to local laws, the embassy is convinced that both sides will remain attentive to the working conditions and the well-being of all staff of diplomatic missions,\" it said.\nThe Swiss foreign ministry has previously called the alleged Nov 25 abduction of the embassy employee a \"very serious and unacceptable attack\" and summoned Sri Lanka's ambassador to demand an investigation.\nIt also criticised a lack of due process in the case.\nThe Sri Lankan government has insisted that evidence collected by its investigators did not support the sequence of events provided by the embassy that the woman had been abducted by captors who demanded she reveal unspecified information about the embassy.\nSri Lanka also rejected a request by the embassy to fly the employee and her family to Switzerland.\nBefore the woman was detained, she was summoned to Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigations Department to make statements and was subjected to medical tests and a psychiatric analysis.\nSri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa later said he had become the victim in the alleged abduction because foreign media reported about it before the facts were established and critics accused his government of carrying it out.\nMr Rajapaksa became president after winning a November 16 election. Shortly after that, a Sri Lankan police investigator, Mr Nishantha Silva, fled to Switzerland.\nMr Silva had been investigating alleged abductions, torture, killings and enforced disappearances of journalists and activists while Mr Rajapaksa was defence chief under the presidency of his brother, Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa.\nMr Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been accused of overseeing what were known as \"white van\" abduction squads that whisked away critics.\nSome were returned after being tortured, while others were never seen again. He has denied the allegations. (Source: The Straits Times)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FTC Likely to Examine Google's Wireless Gaffe\nJessica E. Vascellaro\nTue, May 18, 2010 at 11:35 am\nThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission is likely to open a preliminary inquiry into Google Inc.'s disclosure that it accidentally harvested data from unsecured wireless networks for several years, several people familiar with the matter said.\nThe process is at an embryonic stage and whether the FTC has begun gathering information from other parties about the incident remains unclear. Any resulting investigation wouldn't necessarily lead to action. But if the FTC decides to pursue, it would be the latest federal inquiry to examine the Internet search giant's behavior.\nThe FTC's Bureau of Competition is currently deciding whether to challenge Google's proposed $750 million takeover of mobile advertising company AdMob Inc. At the same time, the FTC's consumer protection arm is conducting a wide-ranging review of the ways in which online companies collect and employ data about their users' online behavior.\nIn this case, the Bureau of Consumer Protection is the most likely part of the FTC to be tasked with investigating whether the behavior detailed in Google's latest admission broke any laws.\nAn FTC spokeswoman declined to comment. A Google spokeswoman also declined to comment beyond the company's blog post Friday.\nIn it, the company said it had discovered that the roving cars it uses to create its online mapping services were inadvertently gathering data from people's web use over \"Wi-Fi\" networks without passwords.\nGoogle said it was \"reaching out to regulators in the relevant countries about how to quickly dispose\" of the data the company had collected. The post also said that Google would ask a third-party to review the software and what data it gathered.\nOn Monday, Google updated its blog post saying it had started to erase some of the data it said it had inadvertently collected in Ireland after the Irish Data Protection Authority requested it do so. If the FTC opens a formal investigation, some legal experts said they would probably ask that Google preserve the relevant data.\nConsumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog said Monday it was sending the FTC a letter urging the agency to investigate the mishap. John Simpson, the group's consumer advocate, said he was concerned that Google's promise to get third-parties to review the software in question was insufficient.\nOther privacy advocates said it was unclear whether the FTC was the correct agency to review the matter and that they would wait to see how European authorities\u2014who have been scrutinizing Google's collection of Wi-Fi information for months\u2014reacted before deciding whether to petition U.S. regulators to intervene.\nWrite to Thomas Catan at [email protected] and Jessica E. Vascellaro at [email protected]\nacquisitions, AdMob, corporateering, don't be evil, FTC, Google Maps, mobile, Privacy, security, Washington DC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Canada\t\u00bb\nAir India Launches Direct Flights to Toronto\nAccess between Canada and India will be greatly enhanced when Air India's Amritsar-Delhi-Toronto flights commence this World Tourism Day (September 27 2019). The timing of the announcement seems fitting; WTD celebrates the importance of tourism and the role it plays in social, cultural, and economic issues.\nCurrently, only three airlines offer direct flights between India and all of North America, and Air India's newly announced route will save both time and money for people traveling between the two countries. So it's quite an exciting announcement.\nThe flights will be offered weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; it will take roughly 15 hours, and cover a distance of around 7,000 miles. Passengers can expect to be flown on Air India's Boeing 777-300ER which will accommodate around 350 passengers.\nTo celebrate Air India's new launch of their direct cheap flights to India from Canada, we have compiled a list of highlights from each of the three cities involved in the new route. The following are exciting things to do in Amritsar, Delhi, and Toronto.\nWhy Toronto Is The Perfect Family Reunion Destination\nIn today's age, family get-togethers have become a rare occurrence. Even with growing social networks online, distant relatives hardly get the time to meet and spend time with each other.\nFamily reunions offer a great sense of belongingness, rekindle relationships and an opportunity to bond between the next generation. Though what if your family members are spread out across the world, or across the country?\nToronto (Canada) is a great place to plan a family reunion; a central destination which makes for easy travel, with a number of outdoor places and plenty of activities for everyone in the family.\nHere is a short guide on how to plan a successful family reunion in Toronto.\nThe Best Countries to Live in as an Expat\nWhile we don't have a choice over the country we're born in, these days we often do have control over whether or not we choose to stay.\nThere are 195 countries in the world today, which presents almost endless possibilities for those wishing to live overseas. And when it comes to setting up your life in a new country, most nations are very welcoming!\nPeople move abroad for many different reasons; for business, study, wanderlust, or simply to seek better life opportunities. Either way, to experience life as part of a new culture and have the chance to discover an exotic new land is a romantic adventure quite a lot of people entertain.\nIf you're considering moving abroad but haven't yet figured out where you want to go, the following are the best countries to live in as an expat, as well as important things you need to know!\nThings You Probably Didn't Know You Can Do at Niagara Falls\nWhile Niagara Falls is famous for its amazing waterfalls, and is known around the world as a popular honeymoon destination, this beautiful part of North America has a lot more to offer.\nWhen it comes to adventurous activities, there are plenty to choose from, and, despite being one of the most travelled destinations in the world (30 million people visit annually!), Niagara still manages to keep a few secrets.\nIf you're planning a trip to the Niagara region, start by booking one of the many great hotels in Niagara Falls, Canada, and then make sure you set aside time for some of these things you probably didn't know you can do!\nTraveling to Canada? Make Sure You Pack These Essentials!\nTraveling to Canada is an experience worthy of any bucket list. But forgetting to pack the right items can turn any dream vacation into a tourist's worst nightmare.\nUse these expert packing tips for travel to Canada so you can spend less time and money shopping for things you forgot and more time enjoying your destination.\n3 Water Based Thrills for Adrenaline Junkies in Canada (Adventure Travel Bucketlist)\nWith Canada's phenomenal wildlife and bubbling tourism industry, it's no wonder that countless travelers and residents have chosen this country as their vacation or residential destination.\nOne of the largest industries, as well as one of the most popular, is the adventure travel and extreme sport industry. People from around the world flock to this country for the wild waters and beautiful scenery, and to enjoy the many exciting adventures it has to offer.\nThe jagged cliffs and roaring waters give this vast and diverse country its much-deserved reputation for being great for adventure seekers. For those who love being on the water, we've assembled a couple of ideas you won't want to miss out on.\n7 Kayaking Spots Around the World for Beginners\nSo you love being on the water, and always admired others who enjoy getting out on their own and kayaking away. But perhaps you're worried that you'll find yourself paddling around in circles for most of your day.\nEven if you have never kayaked, there is no need to fret: there are plenty of fabulous spots for kayaking beginners all over the world. And the great news is that kayaking is a great sport for any beginner to learn.\nIt's relatively simple to pick up kayaking, and this is a great way to get close to nature, and access remote sightseeing that you wouldn't usually be able to enjoy on land.\nThe following are the best kayaking spots around the world for beginners. If you find yourself in one of these destinations, consider renting a kayak!\nDear LGBTQI Travelers: These Countries Will Recognize Your Same Sex Marriage #LoveAlwaysWins\nEver since same-sex marriage was legalized in the Netherlands in 2001 (props to the Netherlands for always being at the front of progressive change), the legalization of same-sex marriage has snowballed throughout the world.\n28 countries (26 with another two pending) now legally recognize the right for same sex couples to marry, so if you're part of the LGBTQI community, and want to travel, live overseas, or plan a destination wedding, these countries will recognize your right.\nMore than 760 million people now live in countries where same-sex marriage is legal, and I encourage all travelers to support those countries at the forefront of equality and recognition of human rights. I also have one thing to say to my own country, in a slogan they coined: Australia, where the bloody hell are you?\nHow to Self Drive the Canadian Rockies: A 5 Day Itinerary From Jasper to Banff\nAbout a year ago a message popped up on my Twitter feed. It said that all national parks in Canada will be free in 2017 to mark its 150th anniversary. Home to some of the most incredible scenery in the world, I immediately started planning my trip.\nI rented a mid-size car from Edmonton for less than $80 a week. It was about a 4-hour drive to the entrance of Jasper National Park. Now, I've done a few amazing scenic drives in my lifetime, like the Pacific Coast Highway along the California coast, Hue to Hoi An in Vietnam, and Lisbon to Algarve in Portugal. But with exhilarating vistas of forest, craig, glacier, ice Fields and wildlife, the drive from Jasper to Banff takes out the top spot on my list. It's easily one of the most beautiful drives in the world.\nThe following is a rough 5-day itinerary. If you're thinking of a self drive adventure through the Canadian rockies, I encourage you to follow this route.\n7 Reasons To Visit Niagara Falls\nWhen it comes to the natural wonders of the world, Niagara Falls continues to intrigue. Created as water flowed into the Niagara River from the North American Great Lakes 12,000 years ago, these three spectacular waterfalls form the hub of a sightseeing and recreational area with enough outdoor and indoor activities to make a great weekend getaway or extended vacation.\nAs for what to do once you're there, you can fill your days and nights nonstop or you can kick back and relax. Niagara Falls has something for everyone. Here are seven of them:\n4 Places You Need to Visit in Atlantic Canada\nWhen most people think of visiting Canada, they rarely think of the east coast unless they know someone from that region.\nBut as east coasters, we have long been proud of our little piece of paradise and believe that its small town charm, welcoming atmosphere and beautiful landscapes will make you fall in love!\nFrom seafood to vegetarian and gastro pubs, friendly locals and affordable stays, there are a thousand reasons to visit the Atlantic Provinces. The following are four places you need to visit along the Canadian east coast.\n11 Amazing Things to do in the Arctic\nThe Arctic region's beauty crosses the borders of 5 countries: Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States. Because of its immense size it contains some amazing sites, both natural and those that occur from the meshing of cultures.\nThere is simply no way you're going to be able to take in all that the Arctic has to offer in one visit. So we've put together a quick list of eleven bits of awesomeness that should help you get started in putting together your Arctic adventure.\nCasino Tourism: The Top 5 Casinos in Canada\nCanada is something of a haven for serious gambling fans, both for Quebec's fully legalized online gaming and its wide selection of seriously top-notch casinos sprinkled throughout the country.\nMore than that, with Canada being the beautiful country that it is, many of its best casinos are situated near or even on some of its most breathtaking spots, including Niagara Falls and its Great Lakes.\nHere are five of the very best casinos that Canada has to offer for casino tourism fans.\n[WATCH] This 3 Minute Video Will Make You Jump on a Flight to Canada\nWe spent three weeks exploring the Canadian Rockies. From Banff to Mount Robson, Icefall canyon to the Bugaboos.\nWe hiked and boated, played disc and checked out the hotsprings. We heli hiked and skied while marveling at everything this incredible country has to offer.\nThis is the best of Canada in three minutes. I guarantee after watching it you'll be convinced to jump on a flight!\nOh, Canada! Hipmunk's Guide to The Great White North\nFrom the famed ski slopes of Whistler to the roaring majesty of Niagara Falls, some the world's greatest travel destinations are just north of the border, in Canada.\nWith an overload of Canada travel options, which of these destinations are most popular among travelers? Hipmunk analyzed its travel data from 2015 to find out.\nBest Countries to See the Northern Lights\nOne of the world's most dazzling natural phenomenons, few travel experiences can top witnessing the Northern Lights. Also known as Aurora Borealis, this is mother nature's most impressive light show, and something almost every traveler has at the top of their bucketlist.\nThough you may not have to travel as remotely as you think in order to catch a glimpse. While most of the following destinations are close to the Arctic, you can often expect sightings as far south as the United Kingdom, or, if you're in the southern hemisphere, catch the equally as impressive Southern Lights in Australia instead.\nIt's important to note that there is no exact science to seeing the Northern Lights, and that there's never any guarantee. Though from the northernmost fjords of Norway to the snow-enveloped wilderness of Alaska, here are some of your best bets.\nWhat it's Like to Explore the Canadian Rockies by Train\nWhen considering a trans Canadian adventure there are lots of possible journey's, but only one possible response: Wow. No matter which trip you choose, I guarantee you'll sit nose pressed to the window as you're transported through a world like no other. A world of magnificent coastal mountains, vibrant canyons, and daring white water rapids. Oh and rest assured, they clean the windows thoroughly after each and every trip!\nOur route was to take us through scenic valleys, the Coastal Mountain Range and the Fraser Canyon with its spectacular white water and dramatic landscape. A highlight was to be the majestic Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies.\nThis is an account of our experience exploring the Canadian Rockies by train.\nFlightHub Presents How to Travel Like a Local: Montreal Edition\nMontreal is one of the most vibrant cities in North America, with its rich history, fine cuisine, and wonderful nightlife.\nThe following tips will allow you to explore Montreal like a local!\nMany people visit Toronto and automatically flock to popular tourist destinations like the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario, or make their priorities a ride to the top of the CN tower, and a visit the Eaton Centre for some shopping. These visitors usually end their sightseeing there, and without further exploration leave with the impression that Toronto was nothing special.\nWell I'm here to break the news \u2013 if you've departed Toronto believing the city is nothing special, you haven't yet discovered what the city is all about. You failed to actually travel here. Your loss!\nThe following attractions and locations are bound to make you fall in love with Toronto, the top destinations within the city that tourists should be squeezing into their visit for a real taste of what Toronto is all about.\nPlant Yourself in the Garden City \u2013 Your Complete Travel Guide to Victoria B.C.\nNamed after Queen Victoria and meaning victory or triumph, this beautiful city in British Columbia is most definitely aptly named.\nWith a climate that seems like a tropical paradise by Canadian standards it is no wonder that foreign visitors and native Canadians alike blow into Victoria like Maple leaves in a wind storm.\nFor the Modern Traveler to Victoria B.C. \u2013 Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Hotel Resort & Spa\nVancouver Island and its beautiful city of Victoria would be our introduction to Canada as we made our Pacific Coast Voyage from San Diego to Anchorage. We had heard so many wonderful things about the Garden City that we had to make time for a stop on our itinerary. The city is sprinkled with beautifully landscaped parks, a lively and entertaining harbor, abundant history, and great weather. Even after just a few short hours we were already captivated by its charm.\nIt isn't always easy for a destination to live up to its hype, however Victoria is one of a very few which did not disappoint. What we weren't expecting however was the delightful introduction to Delta Hotels & Resorts which is based in Canada from coast to coast.\nWe were not expecting such a young and modern feel from Victoria after having heard so much of its long history and old world charm, however Delta Victoria brings the city up to date with every modern convenience that is a must in today's day and age.\nHotel Review: Impressed by The Fairmont Empress\nWith over 100 years of history and a guestbook which includes the names of Kings, Queens, Emperors, and much of the Hollywood Elite, the Fairmont Empress in Victoria B.C. reigns over the city like the mightiest of any Monarch. With it's famous green ivy walls symbolic of Vancouver Island's rugged wilderness that surrounds the city, you are greeted with pure royal elegance once you step through its doors.\nI have always dreamed of what it would be like to be Queen. Which little girl hasn't. I would switch lives with Kate Middleton in a heartbeat, and I live vicariously through the decadent lives of the world's most famous royals through various shows which grace the small screen.\nI have taken my fair share of castle tours, Windsor, Buckingham, Neuschwanstein, and although these give you a glimpse of how the royal families have lived and continue to live, they fall short of giving you the feeling of being treated as a royal. Enter the Fairmont Empress.\nHow to Spend 24 Hours in Vancouver, Canada\nAre your travel plans bringing you through Vancouver this season? Perhaps you're catching a flight with a long layover, or are one of those lucky travelers taking an Alaskan Cruise with a 24 hour stop in British Columbia. If so, there are plenty of ways to explore Vancouver without putting a large dent in your pocketbook, and plenty of amazing sites and attractions to fill a day.\nHere are a few suggestions for those wanting to take in some of the amazing sites and attractions in downtown Vancouver in a day.\nEight Amazing Destinations For Campervan Trips\nA campervan trip is one of the cheapest, best and most rewarding ways to explore some of the world's most scenic destinations.\nOffering the freedom and flexibility to go wherever you want, wherever you want, without having to bother about finding a place to stay, campervanning truly is the greatest way to travel, and, with your own transport, the ultimate way to venture away from the tourist trail and get off the beaten path.\nHere are the seven top destinations in the world for a memorable campervan trip; remember however to book Campervan Insurance before you hit any of these amazing destinations.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Momofuku Milk Bar Toronto\nMomofuku Milk Bar Toronto is currently open but their offerings and services may be affected due to the pandemic. Please contact the business directly for more information about any changes. Is this your business? Please contact us if you would like to update this message.\nMomofuku Milk Bar opened in Toronto on Friday after weeks of speculation that Toronto would be the first international outpost of the cult confectionery shop. The tiny refrigerated glass room sectioned off from the second floor Nikai cocktail lounge fits no more that six or so at a time.\nIt's really more like Milk Bar-light; there's no soft serve, no fancy shakes or cereal milk drinks (though they are offering cereal milk cocktails now at the bar). Everything is packaged to go and ready for self serve shopping and take-home consumption.\nCrack pie is available in single servings for $6 a slice. Like all pushers, the first taste is cheap but a whole pie will cost you a whopping $48. For the uninitiated, I'd compare it to Quebec sugar pie, only in this cult rendition, the crumbly crust is steeped in syrup and just as sweet as the filling.\nIt's undeniably delicious and lives up to its name. I think my eyes actually roll back in my head a little after the first few bites, the sugar high kicks in halfway through and by the time I'm done my teeth hurt and I'm sweating like Rob Ford (sorry, I couldn't help myself).\nI also picked up a plastic-wrapped, compost cookie ($2 each, $11 for six) but saved it for the next morning to have with a coffee. It's crunchy and densely packed with butterscotch and chocolate chips, graham crackers, potato chips, pretzels and coffee grounds. Each bite is both salty and sweet, though quirky ingredients are crushed so fine that nothing really stands out. I'm probably at fault for eating day-old, but it wasn't groundbreaking or anything...maybe I did it wrong and should've tried it dunked in milk?\nBoxed baking mixes, corn powder and jugs of dry cereal milk powder ($5) are available for at-home prep. There's the Momofuku cookbook, issues of Lucky Peach magazine and general gift-shop type ephemera like you'd find at the end of museum tour. Load up a shopping basket and pay at the upstairs register or downstairs by the door.\nThe baked goods are made in New York by Momofuku's superstar pastry chef, Christina Tosi and shipped same-day to Toronto. It's the real McCoy - touched by true baking gods - and yet, the whole experience is a little anti-climatic....You'll still have to visit New York to get a true taste. The grocery-style shop is open daily 11:30am to 11pm.\nOur review of Momofuku Toronto\nWriting by Liora Ipsum. Photos by Morris Lum.\nActivate this map\nLeaflet | \u00a9 Mapbox \u00a9 OpenStreetMap Improve this map\nSign up for our free email newsletter so you're always in the know. You can unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details.\nSummerhill Market Bathurst\nRosedale's Finest\nRed Tape Brewery\nJinglepear Deli\nHotBox Lounge & Shop\nThe Neighbourhood Joint","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FDA's Gottlieb makes strong push to fight opioid crisis with medication-assisted treatment\nBy Lev Facher @levfacher\nFDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb J. Scott Applewhite\/AP\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, announced new steps the agency would take to promote the use and development of medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder at a House hearing on Wednesday.\nGottlieb also rapped the insurance industry for what he called \"often inadequate\" coverage of existing therapies that combine counseling and medication-assisted treatment.\n\"To tackle the treatment gap, FDA is planning to convene experts and stakeholders to discuss the evidence of treatment benefits at the population level \u2014 such as studies that show community-wide reductions in overdose following expansion of access to therapy,\" Gottlieb said.\nWidely viewed as one of the Trump administration's most effective and popular political appointees, Gottlieb has made efforts to address the opioid crisis a signature issue since winning confirmation to lead the FDA in May.\nHe continued that emphasis during the hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, outlining a three-pronged approach to encouraging greater MAT use.\nThe FDA, Gottlieb said, will issue guidance for development of new MAT options, promote efforts to decrease stigma surrounding use of medication in treating substance use disorder, and take further steps to promote use of existing therapies.\n\"There's a wealth of information supporting the use of these medications,\" Gottlieb said. \"We're focusing on the data in the drug labeling that can help drive broader and appropriate prescribing. So one concept that FDA is actively pursuing is the research necessary to support a label indication for medication-assisted treatment for everyone who presents with an overdose, based on data showing a reduction in death at a broader population-level. Such an effort would be a first for FDA.\"\nGottlieb at one point referred to \"all three\" options for medication-assisted treatment, presumably referring to methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone, a newer formulation for a monthly injectable treatment that blocks many of the sedative or euphoric effects of opioid use.\nSign up for D.C. Diagnosis\nAn insider's guide to the politics and policies of health care.\nMany addiction treatment experts, however, are not fully convinced by the results of an early study indicating naltrexone is as effective as more traditional, daily administered MAT.\nExpanding access to medication-assisted treatment was among the key recommendations of a White House panel when it released its interim report in late July. That commission's final report is expected next week.\nPresident Trump pledged last week to declare the opioid crisis a national emergency, and an email from the Office of National Drug Control Policy obtained by STAT invited policy stakeholders to \"an event on the nationwide opioid crisis\" at the White House on Thursday afternoon.\nLev Facher\nLev Facher covers the politics of health and life sciences.\nlev.facher@statnews.com\n@levfacher\nIt is interesting that FDA plans to treat one abuse of medication with pushing the use of another medication \u2013 which may turn out to be as addictive or may have additional side effects. It almost seems as if Trump waited to declare emergency funds release till a pharma company to profit from opiod crisis could be identified?\n\"During the most recent meeting, drug company CEOs promoted their products and sought Food and Drug Administration and Medicaid reimbursement rates that would benefit their proposed opioid treatments and alternatives.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/10\/17\/trump-says-hell-declare-opioid-crisis-national-emergency-heres-what-could-mean\/733391001\/\nSagar, follow the medical evidence instead of your biases. MAT is the most effective treatment for opioid dependence.\nThere are multiple companies involved in making these drugs. Methadone has been generic for decades, and the most used formulation of buprenorphine is also generic.\n\"Pharma\" is not singular or monolithic.\nAddiction and dependence are two different things. Buprenorphine is fading and changing millions of addicts lives. Although I am still an \"addict\" according to you, in the past couple years I've gone from spending all my time and money on drugs to having an actual career, relationship, and just bought my first home. It's given me my life back, and no, I don't get any sort of\"buzz\" or \"high\" from it. Your comment is ignorant and dangerous, potentially discouraging people and parents from seeking effective help for themslves and loved ones rather than letting them die slowly in a revolving door of rehab\/detox.\nEd Schor says:\nAmazing. Asking the pharmaceutical industry, that made billions off selling opioids, to now develop new drugs to treat the addictions they created. Not a solution. Not prevention. Just more profits. Clearly the FDA is in the pocket of pharma.\nThe obvious alternative is marijuana.\nThe FDA and DEA needs to stop supporting Big Pharma as drug pushers.\nWhy is the American medical establishment refusing to consider the use of Ibogaine in opioid addiction treatment? This drug is used throughout Europe, Canada and Mexico, but Americans must travel outside the country to use it, and American insurance refuses to cover it.\nKetamine gives hope to patients with severe depression. But\u2026\nKetamine gives hope to patients with severe depression. But some clinics stray from the science and\u2026\nTracking Washington's moves on drug pricing\nBy Lev Facher, Nicholas Florko, and Andrew Joseph\nFollowing 'CRISPR babies' scandal, senators call for international gene editing guidelines\nKamala Harris becomes the latest Democratic candidate to zero in on drug prices\nBy Lev Facher","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Offices & Contact\nCalifornia Holds Negligent Hiring, Retention, and Supervision Can State a Covered \"Occurrence\"\nGlobal Insurance Alert\nNews Concerning Insurance Coverage Issues\nIn Liberty Surplus Insurance Corp. v. Ledesma & Meyer Construction Co., Inc., No. S236765 (Cal. Jun. 4, 2018), the California Supreme Court found that an insured sued on the basis that it negligently hired, retained, and supervised an employee who intentionally sexually abused a minor, may potentially state a covered \"occurrence\" or \"accident\" under a commercial general liability policy. The court's opinion builds on the extensive California law construing the occurrence requirement. It disrupts holdings by lower courts finding that because the abuser's intentional acts are the immediate cause of injury, no occurrence or accident is stated as to the abuser's employers.\nFacts and Procedure\nThe insureds, Ledesma & Meyer Construction Company and its principals (Ledesma), contracted with San Bernardino Unified School District to manage a construction project at a middle school. Their employee, Hecht, allegedly sexually abused a 13-year-old student (claimant Jane Doe) during the project. The only cause of action against the insureds was for negligent hiring, retention, and supervision of Hecht.\nPlaintiff Liberty defended Ledesma under a reservation of rights on the basis that there was no occurrence. It sued for declaratory relief in federal court. The district court granted Liberty's summary judgment motion on the occurrence issue, finding that the claim asserted against the insureds' negligent retention, hiring, and supervision of Hecht was too attenuated from the immediate cause of injury (Hecht's abuse) to constitute an occurrence. The Ninth Circuit certified the coverage question to the California Supreme Court.\nCourt's Analysis and Holding that Negligent Employment Practices May Constitute an Occurrence or Accident\nIt has been almost a decade since the California Supreme Court last took up the occurrence requirement in CGL policies. The court largely reaffirmed its last, comprehensive examination of the issue, Delgado v. Interinsurance Exchange of Automobile Club of Southern California, 47 Cal. 4th 302 (Cal. 2009).\nUnder long-settled California law, an accident is \"an unexpected, unforeseen, or undersigned happening or consequence from either a known or an unknown cause.\" Central to both Ledesma and Delgado is the consideration that the subject conduct must be considered from the insured's point of view. In Delgado, the claimant's expectation of an assault by the insured was not dispositive, and here, likewise, the non-insured tortfeasor's expectation of injury is not dispositive. Further, Ledesma's liability was not vicarious or derivative of Hecht's; the negligent employment practices theory was an independent theory of liability. Because Hecht's abuse of Doe could fairly be an \"unforeseen fortuity\" from the point of view of Ledesma, an occurrence was potentially stated.\nThe court's ruling precludes any argument that negligent employment practices \u2014 and hiring in particular \u2014 are inherently intentional and non-accidental, as held in American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance Co. v. Bay Area Cab Lease, 756 F. Supp. 1287 (N.D. Cal. 1991).\nTroubling Dicta\nThe court indicated, in dicta, that the term accident is more comprehensive than the term \"negligence\" and \"thus includes negligence.\" Opn. at 3. The court's statement is overly broad and, taken literally, could disrupt the line of cases finding that a negligent misrepresentation cause of action can never constitute an accident because such a cause of action requires that the tortfeasor intended for the claimant to rely upon his or her misrepresentation. Chatton v. Nat. Union Fire Ins. Co., 10 Cal. App. 4th 846, 861 (1992); Miller v. W. Gen. Agency, Inc., 41 Cal. App. 4th 1144, 1150 (1996).\nConcurrence: Insured's Point of View, Intentional Conduct, and Consent\nJustice Liu concurred with the result by the majority but concurred separately to grapple with a 1989 California appellate case, Merced Mutual Insurance Co. v. Mendez, 213 Cal. App. 3d 41 (Cal. Ct. App. 1989). Merced also concerned sexual abuse. In Merced, the insured, Mendez, was the alleged abuser. Mendez argued that he believed his victim consented to his conduct. Justice Liu pointed out that the insured's honestly held belief that the victim consented should mean that the injury resulting from lack of consent was an unforeseen fortuity.\nJustice Liu resolved the Merced conundrum by deciding that the Court of Appeal must have \"implicitly rejected\" that the insured honestly believed his victim consented to the assault. Conc. Opn. at 6. Because Mendez didn't really believe there was consent, there was no intervening fortuity \u2014 Mendez meant to sexually assault the victim and did so.\nHowever, and as the majority notes (Opn. at 4), sexual assault is uninsurable under California Insurance Code section 533, barring coverage for willful acts. Even if, under Justice Liu's rubric, an insured's sexual assault could be accidental, it is nevertheless still \"willful\" as a matter of law and uninsurable. To the extent that Justice Liu's concurrence raises an issue that should be resolved, i.e., whether something can be simultaneously unforeseen and willful, that is an issue for another day. Opn. at 10 n.8.\nLedesma does not represent a great change in California's occurrence law. It reiterates the parameters it set forth in Delgado: that if, between the insured's acts and the alleged injury a fortuity that is unforeseen from the point of view of the insured intervenes, then an occurrence may be stated. To the extent Ledesma adds anything of significance to California occurrence law, it is that each independent cause of action against an insured must be viewed separately from the conduct of others.\nTeri Mae Rutledge\ntrutledge@cozen.com\nTo discuss any questions you may have regarding the issues addressed in this Alert, or how they may apply to your particular circumstances, please contact Teri Mae Rutledge at (415) 593-9619 or trutledge@cozen.com.\nFull Service International Law Firm\nCozen O'Connor Public Strategies\nMargolis Healy\nNational Subrogation Services\nPrivacy Policy | Disclaimer | Attorney Advertising\nTo Email Address*\nFrom Email Address*","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Future Lab Tunisia to build premises for anchoring sustainable and constructive community\nENGIE \/ NAREVA consortium will build a 120 MWp solar power plant in Gafsa, Tunisia\nSamia Elfekih: Tunisian researcher in Antarctica for the first time\nRelationship between Tunisia and Saudi Arabia: Deep and renewed cooperation\n8 companies vying for the Gab\u00e8s water desalination project\nBCT holds key interest rate unchanged at 7.75 %\n31 May 2019 31 May 2019 BGMN\nThe Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) has kept its key interest rate unchanged at 7.75% for the second time since a hike in February, the BCT reported on Friday. The BCT raised the rate in February to 7.75% from 6.75% in an effort to combat record high inflation. It was the third such increase in the past 12 months. It kept the rate unchanged at its last meeting in March. Tunisia's annual inflation rate in April slowed to 6.9% from 7.1% in March and 7.3% in February. TunisianMonitorOnline\nbusiness slide\nRen\u00e9 Trabelsi: US travel agencies are interested in Tunisia\nMinister of Tourism and Handicrafts, Ren\u00e9 Trabelsi announced that several US travel agencies have expressed interest in organizing tourist excursions to Tunisia. An announcement that was made on the fringes of the collective Iftar held on May 28, 2019, bringing together Muslims, Christians and Jews with the participation of many political figures. He added that a visit to the United States is planned in July, where the Minister will travel to Washington and New York to meet with these travel agencies, which will plan Tunisia as a tourist destination, particularly\u2026\nDunes Electroniques back next September 21 \u2013 22\nLes Dunes Electroniques festival will resume Ong Jmel at the edge of Tunisia's southern desert with a two-day musich show in a breath-taking location best known for its starring role in the Star Wars film franchise. Ong Jmel served as the film setting for Luke Skywalker's hometown Mos Espa in George Lucas' original trilogy of films. First taking place in 2014, the Dunes electroniques have been seeking to contribute to the local development and tourism in the Djerid region and Nefta in Tozeur by targeting a larger public from across\u2026\nculture and media slide\nTunisian-Korean Chamber of Commerce launched\nThe Tunisian-Korean Chamber of Commerce (CCTC) was launched officially on Wednesday in Tunis. The Chamber's main objectives is to boost bilateral economic relations and find solutions to the problems facing both countries' companies and investors, in addition to strengthening the tourism sector and the exchange between universities in the fields of education, research and development. The establishment of the chamber was announced at a press conference on Wednesday, in the presence of a Korean parliamentary delegation of four MPs and South Korea's ambassador to Tunis, Cho Koo Rae, as well\u2026\nTunisian farmers angry at Trade Ministry's policy\nThe Tunisian Farmers' Union (SYNAGRI) criticised the ongoing policy adopted by the Ministry of Trade for the import of three thousand tonnes of potatoes from Egypt. In a statement, SYNAGRI says the cost of imported potatoes is estimated at $560 per tonne, or 1,680 millimes per kilo. The ton will then be offered for sale at 770 millimes per kilo, which increases the state's losses. Tunisian farmers are working as best they can in a difficult context (climate change, debt, rising production costs and rising prices for inputs such as\u2026\nUN Chief Appoints Tunisia's Khiari To Head Peacebuilding In Asia, Middle East \u2013 Spokesman\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Khaled Mohamed Khiari of Tunisia to be the United Nations' Assistant Secretary-General for middle East, Asia and the Pacific, the Office of the Spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday. \"United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced today the appointment of Khaled Mohamed Khiari of Tunisia, as Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations,\" the statement said. Khiari served as Tunisia's Ambassador to the United Nations from 2012-2018 and as Deputy Head\u2026\nNational slide\nGreen Economy: 2019 Environmental Information Trophy awarded to Saida Zemzemi\n26 May 2019 BGMN\nThe 2019 Environmental Information Trophy was awarded to Tunisian Saida Zemzemi Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the specialized magazine \"Biaa-News\", by the Ministry of Local Affairs and Environment. This distinction, which was handed to Saida Zemzemi by Minister of Environment and Local Affairs Mokhtar Hammami, supports the promotion of environmental information and efforts to popularize and entrench ecological values. \"Biaa-News\" Magazine is distinguished by covering the regional congress on \"the promotion of oasis systems in the North African and Mauritania region\" which was held on May 17 and 18, 2019 in\u2026\nNational slide voices\nSaudi Arabia to host 14th Islamic Summit\nSaudi Arabia will host the 14th session of the Islamic Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Makkah on May 31, 2019, which will be chaired by the Custodian of the two holy mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The summit, to be attended by leaders members of OIC, will be held under the theme \"Makkah Summit: Together for the Future\" aims at developing a unified stance on current issues and events in the Islamic world. Senior officials will convene before the summit and will submit the\u2026\nopinion slide\nCall for Tunisian start-ups to participate in Tokyo International Conference on African Development\nOn the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a call for applications to Tunisian start-ups to participate (for free) in this Forum. The forum will be held August 28-30, 2019 in Yokohama, APII said on its website. Several issues will be addressed by TICAD new edition including the challenges of investment in infrastructure and energy sectors. The African Development Bank (AfDB) and JICA will propose solutions, from their respective experiences, to be developed with the private sector. Thematic sessions\u2026\nbusiness slide Startups\nTunisia joins the International Transport Forum\nTunisia has joined the International Transport Forum (ITF) as the organisation's 60th member. Ministers of transport from the 59 current member states agreed unanimously to admit the North African nation to the organisation at their Annual Summit in Leipzig, Germany, on 23 May. Tunisia is the organisation's second member state on the African continent, joining Morocco, ITF reports in its website. The ITF is the only intergovernmental organisation with a global mandate for all transport modes. Housed by the OECD in Paris (France), the ITF acts as a think tank\u2026\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpMUfQAvZUI","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Free Tetris game pulled from App Store tomorrow\n- Aug. 26th 2008 7:21 am PT\nIndependent iPhone application developer, Noah Witherspoon, has been forced to remove his free Tetris-inspired iPhone application, Tris, on account of legal threats from the Tetris Company.\nIn a post last night the independent developer \u2013 a student \u2013 wrote: \"Well \u2013 I've received notice from Apple that they've been contacted by The Tetris Company about Tris. That, I'm afraid, is essentially game over. Do they have a case? No. Not really. I am convinced that if it went to court, the \"copyright\" claim would get thrown out completely. The trademark, perhaps not \u2013 but if I changed the name, to eg. \"Trys\", that would be much harder for them to argue.\"\nThe developer argues that he lacks the time, energy or resources to fight the claim made by the Tetris Company, ending his message, \"it's with great sadness that I must announce that I'll be pulling Tris from the App Store on Wednesday, August 27th, to remain in Apple's systems but publicly unavailable until I work out a solution to this.\"\nWhile the developer freely admits he understands the Tetris Company is acting in good faith in order to protect its brand, but accuses the larger firm of engaging in what the developer feels is \"petty bullying\".\n\"[They] are, presumably, relying on my being a small developer with insufficient resources to defend myself. And \u2014 hey ho \u2014 it appears to be working,\" he writes, before urging anyone who may want to have a play with his game to download the free title from the App Store before it is withdrawn from sale tomorrow\n\"To clarify: if Apple had not told me they'd \"take action\" of their own if I didn't resolve the \"dispute\", Tris would be staying up. I don't think this will be permanent; when I have the time and can find a good copyright lawyer, I'll be figuring out exactly what my position is and how I can make Tris available again,\" he adds.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"19:00\t21:00-\nFree Word\nFree Word and Liberty\nWarning: Illegal string offset 'ID' in \/home\/freewor0\/public_html\/wp-content\/themes\/freeword_web\/single-event.php on line 46\nDANGEROUS DATA\nIn what ways can our private data be used against us?\nHow do we navigate through a world where our personal data is misused by the state?\nAnd how does this invasion of our privacy impact vulnerable communities in particular?\nThis conversation brought together former Barbican Young Poet Kareem Parkins-Brown, Liberty's Gracie Bradley, Hannah Couchman and Corey Stoughton, and Rosalind Comyn from Rights Watch, with enlightening conversations on how the Hostile Environment, the Gangs Matrix and the UK's counter-terror policy 'Prevent' impact on our human rights.\nLiberty is a membership organisation which campaigns for the rights and freedoms of everyone in the UK to be valued and protected.\nPhotos: George Torode\n\u00a310 \/ \u00a37\nCorey Stoughton\nActing Director\nCorey is Liberty's Acting Director. Prior to this, she was the Director of Advocacy, leading Liberty's Advocacy team and supervising legal, policy and campaigning work. Before joining Liberty, she was senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Obama. Corey also worked at the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she litigated on a broad range of US constitutional and human rights issues. She has spent time as an adjunct clinical professor of law at New York University School of Law. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2002 and the University of Michigan in 1998. Corey joined the Liberty team in order to continue to work on issues close to her heart after moving to the UK.\nGracie Bradley\nPolicy and Campaigns Manager\nGracie came to Liberty in July 2017 and leads Liberty's work to oppose the Government's \"hostile environment\" policies on immigration. Before joining Liberty, Gracie worked in casework, research and policy across several NGOs to support survivors of torture and working migrants to navigate the UK's immigration system. She also trained public officials and third sector workers to use the Human Rights Act in their day-to-day work. She holds a Masters in Human Rights from the LSE and a degree in Philosophy & French from Oxford University. Gracie joined the Liberty team after collaborating with us for Against Borders for Children on the Boycott School Census campaign. Her work at the frontline of small migrants' rights organisations made her keenly aware of the need for bold, unapologetic campaigning for systemic change.\nHannah Couchman\nAdvocacy and Policy Officer\nHannah leads Liberty's advocacy work on technology and human rights - including surveillance, the use of technology in policing and data rights. She was previously a criminal law barrister, before moving into justice policy and working on digitisation of the criminal justice system. Prior to her practice at the Bar, Hannah was a prison law caseworker and Assistant Director of a children's rights charity. She now volunteers with a duty scheme to provide advice, support and assistance to children and vulnerable adults detained in police custody. Hannah joined Liberty to work with an organisation which fearlessly champions freedom, fairness and compassion in policy-making\nRosalind Comyn\nLegal and Policy Officer\nRosalind is a Legal and Policy Officer at Rights Watch (UK), where she is responsible for research, advocacy and strategic litigation on counter-terrorism and human rights, global warfare, and post-conflict justice. Prior to Rights Watch, Rosalind worked at the freedom of expression NGO, ARTICLE 19, and was a research assistant for the leading practitioner text on judicial review in Ireland. Rosalind has an LLB in Law and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and an LLM in International Law from the University of Cambridge.\nKareem Parkins-Brown\nKareem Parkins-Brown is a former Barbican Young Poet whose work has featured at venues across London including Roundhouse, Tate Britain and the Royal Academy of Arts. His desert island films are Mean Girls, Carlito's Way and Serpico. He's still finding the answer to, \"So, what do you write about?\"\nFree Word, 60 Farringdon Road\nLondon, EC1R 3GA\ninfo@freeword.org\nT&Cs, Feedback & Complaints\nHow Our Site Uses Cookies\nKeep up to date with news, events and offers from Free Word\n\u00a9 Free Word 2009 - 2021. All Rights Reserved | Brand Identity by THREAD | Website by Crucible Creative\nRegistered Charity No: 1128059 | Registered Company No: 6691251 | Registered in England | VAT no: 971016927","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Quartz Minerals\nThis gallery is part of the photographic archive of minerals. The minerals illustrated sold previously and are for photographic reference only.\nClick here to see Online Mineral Gallery\nPages: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68]\n10184 entries of Quartz Mineral Gallery\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Osilo, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Piedra Parada, near Las Vigas, Tatatila, Veracruz, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Intergalactic Pit, Deer Hill, Stowe, Oxford County, Maine\nQuartz var. Amethyst from O and G Industries Southbury Quarry, Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Catalan Agate-Amethyst District, Souther Paran\u00e1 Basalt Basin, Artigas, Uruguay\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Tafelkop, Goboboseb Mountains, 27 km west of Brandberg Mountain, Erongo region, Namibia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Kidder Lane east of Woodland Road, Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Planalto, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Burrillville, Providence County, Rhode Island\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Saltman Prospect, Camp Encore, Sweden, Oxford County, Maine\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Amatitlan, Zumpango del Rio, Guerrero, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from I-89 road construction, Newport, New Hampshire\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Kedon, Magadan Oblast', Siberia, Russia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Sanarka, Chelyabinskaya Oblast', Southern Urals, Russia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Ametitlan, Zumpango del Rio, Guerrero, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Guanajuato, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Veta Madre, Guanajuato, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Gresswell Mine, Veins 19-20, Stanley, Ontario, Canada\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Miakanjovato, Lac Alarotra, Madagascar\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Boekenhouthoek area, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Four Peaks Amethyst Deposit, Mazatzal Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Delaware County, Pennsylvania\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Manuelita Mine, Morococha District, Junin Province, Peru\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Pass Lake, Thunder Bay area, Ontario, Canada\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Ellis-Jones Mine, Due West, Abbeville County, South Carolina\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Biedell Creek Quartz Prospects, Crystal Hill, 12.5 km northwest of La Garita, Saguache County, Colorado\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Siberia, Russia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from San Juan de Rayas Mine, Level 270, Guanajuato, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from La Valenciana Mine, Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Hunan Province, China\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Veta Madre Mining District, Guanajuato, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Toll Mountain, Jefferson County, Montana\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Reel Mine, Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Tate City, Pickens County, Georgia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Ambilobe, Madagascar\nQuartz var. Amethyst from farm near Rice, Prince Edward County, Virginia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Kuradela, Queensland, Australia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Iradell County, North Carolina\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Wilkes County, Georgia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Chapman Mica Mine, Dewy Rose, Elbert County, Georgia\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Alamos, Sonora, Mexico\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Taylorsville, Alexander County, North Carolina\nQuartz var. Amethyst from Balkhash Lake, near Preozersk, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan\nPlease support our sponsor:\nAllMinerals -- JohnBetts-FineMinerals Online Mineral Museum\nThe minerals illustrated on this site were purchased from collectors or wholesale suppliers for resale purposes. The minerals on this site are presented for reference purposes only. The owner of this site did not collect the minerals and collectors should not assume access is permitted to the property based on inclusion in this museum. Please contact the property owner to obtain legal permission before entering private property.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Can Dogs Eat Pomegranate? It's Complicated\nSome parts of this exotic fruit are pup-permissible, while others might cause medical issues.\nBy Tracey L. Kelley and Claudia Guthrie August 11, 2022\ndog with background of Pomegranate pattern; Can Dogs Eat Pomegranate?\nCredit: kolesnikovserg \/ Adobe Stock \/ Colin Hawkins \/ Getty\nAre Pomegranates Good for Dogs?\nCan Dogs Eat Pomegranate Seeds?\nPomegranate Dog Treats\nOther Dog-Safe Fruits\nTo your dog, a pomegranate looks less like a sweet, juicy fruit and more like a bright red ball to play with. So if one rolls off the counter and across the floor, he might pounce and bite into it, tail wagging. But can dogs eat pomegranate safely?\nThashia Reddy, DVM, is a consulting veterinarian with Petcube Online Vet, a telehealth veterinary service. She says pomegranates aren't poisonous to dogs; so if your pooch is quick to gobble up dropped food scraps, you don't need to worry. However, parts of this ancient Middle Eastern fruit are known to make dogs sick, so you shouldn't feed it to them as a snack.\n\"Pomegranate skin and membrane could potentially be toxic to dogs if consumed in large quantities, as they contain small amounts of cyanide,\" Reddy says. \"However, it's unlikely that your dog would consume enough to experience any adverse effects.\"\nShe adds that if a dog eats too much pomegranate skin or membrane, they may experience gastrointestinal distress, including an upset stomach, vomiting, and diarrhea. They might also have abdominal pain, bloating, or intestinal blockages.\nIn severe cases, tannins (complex chemical substances derived from phenolic acids) in the pomegranate skin and membrane can also cause liver damage.\nPomegranates are known for their tiny, fleshy, ruby-colored arils. These are sometimes referred to as the pomegranate's seeds, but the fruit's actual seeds are enclosed inside these sweet-tasting spheres. Humans, birds, and other herbivores can eat and digest entire pomegranate arils without worry. Dogs can't.\n\"The seeds themselves can be toxic to dogs, so it's important to remove them before feeding the [juicy arils portion] to your pet,\" Reddy says. \"If you're feeding your dog store-bought pomegranate treats, check the ingredients to make sure the seeds have been removed.\"\nSo, to be clear: Dogs can't safely eat pomegranate seeds, but they can eat the fleshy arils that house the seeds. Separating the two is probably far more trouble than its worth, though Reddy says the juicy bits of pomegranate arils are a safe, occasional treat for dogs.\n\"Pomegranates are packed with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals that can help support a dog's immune system, joint health, and skin and coat health,\" she explains. \"The arils are a good source of fiber and protein, and they're low in calories.\"\nBut if that pesky pomegranate bounces across the floor and your pup crunches into a few arils (seeds and all), Reddy says they probably won't hurt them. That said, she adds that some dogs may be allergic to pomegranate. \"If your dog shows any signs of an allergic reaction (e.g., itching, redness, swelling, etc.), stop giving them pomegranates and consult your veterinarian.\"\nRELATED: How to Tell If Your Dog Is Having an Allergic Reaction and What to Do\nWhat About Pomegranate Dog Treats?\nWhile this fruit will only make your dog sick if he eats a lot of it, there are pomegranate dog treats and dog foods containing pomegranate that are totally safe for your fur baby to chow down on. These pup-approved snacks have been stripped of everything potentially dangerous found in raw pomegranate, while still giving your dog antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.\nWhat Fruits Can Dogs Eat as Treats?\nIn general, it's best to keep your pup away from pomegranate. But there are some fruits, Reddy says, that dogs can snack on in moderation.\n\"Just be sure to remove the seeds, pits, and stems, as they can be dangerous for dogs,\" Reddy says. \"There are also a variety of fruit-based dog treats available on the market.\"\nSome dog-friendly fruits include:\nPeeled banana\nPeeled and diced apples\nReddy adds that it's important to check with a veterinarian before feeding any type of fruit to a dog, as some fruits may not be safe for them to consume. These include grapes and raisins.\nAdditional reporting by Jennifer Nelson.\nBy Tracey L. Kelley and Claudia Guthrie","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Politics & Laws\nPM hopes Cambodia will support people of Vietnamese origin, scammed workers\nPrime Minister Ph\u1ea1m Minh Ch\u00ednh held talks with President of the Cambodian Senate Samdech Say Chhum, who is on a three-day visit to Vi\u1ec7t Nam.\nPrime Minister Ph\u1ea1m Minh Ch\u00ednh (right) and President of the Cambodian Senate Samdech Say Chhum had talks in H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i on Tuesday. \u2014 VNA\/VNS Photo D\u01b0\u01a1ng Giang\nH\u00c0 N\u1ed8I \u2014 Prime Minister Ph\u1ea1m Minh Ch\u00ednh thanked Cambodia for its ongoing attention to the issue of people of Vietnamese origin in the country, as well as Vietnamese people, being scammed into illegal work.\nHe made the remarks on Tuesday in H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i as he held talks with the President of the Cambodian Senate Samdech Say Chhum, who is on a three-day visit to Vi\u1ec7t Nam at the invitation of Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman V\u01b0\u01a1ng \u0110\u00ecnh Hu\u1ec7.\nThe Vietnamese Government leader hopes Cambodia will continue to address the difficulties faced by Vietnamese people in Cambodia, helping them settle and integrate into the local society and act as a 'bridge of friendship' between the two countries; facilitating the Vietnamese enterprises and investors who are doing businesses in Cambodia.\nHe urged the two countries' relevant authorities to step up cooperation in rescuing Vietnamese people who were tricked into forced labour in many illegal foreigners-owned business establishments in Cambodia in recent times and asked the Cambodian authorities to create favourable conditions for Vietnamese victims to return home safely.\nDuring the talks, PM expressed his belief that the visit of the Cambodian Senate leader would contribute greatly to the traditional ties between the two countries, congratulating recent successes of Cambodia, including COVID-19 prevention and control and quick socio-economic recovery, and Cambodia's contributions as Chair of ASEAN and AIPA in 2022.\nHe said ASEAN Summit held in Phnom Penh in November would certainly succeed, contributing to the building of a peaceful, stable, prosperous ASEAN Community with ever-growing stature.\nPM Ch\u00ednh highly appreciated the recent cooperation between the two countries to organise meaningful activities within the \"Vi\u1ec7t Nam-Cambodia, Cambodia-Vi\u1ec7t Nam Friendship Year 2022\" framework, especially the 45th anniversary of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen's journey to topple the Pol Pot genocidal regime.\nHe suggested the two countries' legislative bodies do more in promoting bilateral relations, especially in building institutions and legal systems, and creating a favourable legal corridor to strengthen cooperation in all fields; further coordinate to supervise and promote the ministries, branches, localities and enterprises of the two sides to implement signed bilateral agreements effectively.\nPresident of Cambodian Senate Samdech Say Chhum congratulated the comprehensive achievements that the Government and people of Vi\u1ec7t Nam, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vi\u1ec7t Nam, have achieved over the past time in \u0111\u1ed5i m\u1edbi (renewal), national development and international integration, expressed his belief that Vi\u1ec7t Nam would maintain its development momentum, towards fulfilling the goal of becoming a high-income industrialised country by 2045.\nPresident Samdech Say Chhum said that in the current complicated global situation, the two countries needed to continue to preserve and constantly strengthen the friendly, neighbourly relationship and solidarity of the two peoples to overcome difficulties together and coordinate better at regional, global forums.\nThe two leaders noted with pleasure the growing relations between Vi\u1ec7t Nam and Cambodia, with high-level contacts maintained and bilateral trade reaching US$9.5 billion in 2021 (up 80 per cent compared to 2020) and $8.45 billion in 2022 (up 16.7 per cent year-on-year) even in the face of COVID-19 pandemic.\nDiscussing multilateral cooperation, PM Ch\u00ednh suggested the two countries coordinate with other ASEAN member states to strive to maintain ASEAN's unity, solidarity, and central role in strategic issues, including the South China Sea (known in Vi\u1ec7t Nam as the East Sea) issue.\nOn this occasion, the Cambodian Senate leader conveyed the greetings of King Norodom Sihamoni, National Assembly President Samdech Heng Samrin and PM Hun Sen to Prime Minister Ph\u1ea1m Minh Ch\u00ednh and other leaders of Party, State and National Assembly of Vi\u1ec7t Nam.\nPM Ch\u00ednh extended his thanks, greetings and best wishes to King Norodom Sihamoni, National Assembly President Samdech Heng Samrin, and his Cambodian counterpart. \u2014 VNS\nTags Cambodia Vietnam diplomatic relations\nPM inspects Tuy\u00ean Quang-Ph\u00fa Th\u1ecd expressway project\nUrban planning, management to be focus in 2023: construction minister\nParis Peace Accords: Looking back at past to treasure peace\nAmbassador presents credentials to Timor Leste's President\nVietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste T\u1ea1 V\u0103n Th\u00f4ng presented his credentials to Jos\u00e9 Ramos Horta, President of Timor Leste, in the capital city of Dili on October 24.\nMinister presents draft amended Law on Electronic Transactions\nThe draft, comprised of eight chapters and 58 articles, has been drawn up in line with the nine policies specified in the governmental Resolution 152.\nParty chief Nguy\u1ec5n Ph\u00fa Tr\u1ecdng to visit China at Xi Jinping's invitation\nThe visit is made at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President of China Xi Jinping, announced the Communist Party of Vi\u1ec7t Nam Central Committee's Commission for External Relations on Tuesday.\nParty Secretariat issues warnings for party delegation to education ministry\nThe decision was made at the Secretariat's meeting on Monday in H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i, under the chair of Party General Secretary Nguy\u1ec5n Ph\u00fa Tr\u1ecdng.\nVietnamese, Cambodian top legislators stressed traditional ties 'value assets' in volatile world\nCambodia valued the support from Vi\u1ec7t Nam in all of Cambodia's historical eras, stressed that his country maintains a firm stance in nourishing the traditional relations between Vi\u1ec7t Nam and Cambodia in the spirit of \"sound neighbourliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation and long-standing stability.\"\nVi\u1ec7t Nam supports visions to respond to global challenges, promote economic recovery\nVi\u1ec7t Nam supports the implementation of visions and roadmaps outlined in the Bridgetown Covenant adopted at the 15th session of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD15) in October 2021 to help countries overcome inequality and vulnerability towards comprehensive and sustainable recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, a Vietnamese diplomat has said.\nRegional linkages vital to development of southeastern region: Party chief\nIn 2020, the southeastern region's gross regional product (GRDP) increased by 4.9 times compared to 2005 and 2.6 times compared to 2010, exceeding the set target.\nParty leader congratulates Chinese Party General Secretary on re-election\nIn his message, the Vietnamese leader also congratulated the 20th CPC National Congress on its success.\nVietnamese leaders extended congratulations to Italian Prime Minister","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Trying to put a square peg into a round hole': a qualitative study of healthcare professionals' views of integrating complementary medicine into primary care for musculoskeletal and mental health comorbidity\nDeborah Sharp1,\nAva Lorenc ORCID: orcid.org\/0000-0002-3254-004X1,\nGene Feder1,\nPaul Little2,\nSandra Hollinghurst1,\nStewart Mercer3 &\nHugh MacPherson4\nComorbidity of musculoskeletal (MSK) and mental health (MH) problems is common but challenging to treat using conventional approaches. Integration of conventional with complementary approaches (CAM) might help address this challenge. Integration can aim to transform biomedicine into a new health paradigm or to selectively incorporate CAM in addition to conventional care. This study explored professionals' experiences and views of CAM for comorbid patients and the potential for integration into UK primary care.\nWe ran focus groups with GPs and CAM practitioners at three sites across England and focus groups and interviews with healthcare commissioners. Topics included experience of co-morbid MSK-MH and CAM\/integration, evidence, knowledge and barriers to integration. Sampling was purposive. A framework analysis used frequency, specificity, intensity of data, and disconfirming evidence.\nWe recruited 36 CAM practitioners (4 focus groups), 20 GPs (3 focus groups) and 8 commissioners (1 focus group, 5 interviews).\nGPs described challenges treating MSK-MH comorbidity and agreed CAM might have a role. Exercise- or self-care-based CAMs were most acceptable to GPs. CAM practitioners were generally pro-integration.\nA prominent theme was different understandings of health between CAM and general practitioners, which was likely to impede integration. Another concern was that integration might fundamentally change the care provided by both professional groups. For CAM practitioners, NHS structural barriers were a major issue. For GPs, their lack of CAM knowledge and the pressures on general practice were barriers to integration, and some felt integrating CAM was beyond their capabilities. Facilitators of integration were evidence of effectiveness and cost effectiveness (particularly for CAM practitioners). Governance was the least important barrier for all groups.\nThere was little consensus on the ideal integration model, particularly in terms of financing. Commissioners suggested CAM could be part of social prescribing.\nCAM has the potential to help the NHS in treating the burden of MSK-MH comorbidity. Given the challenges of integration, selective incorporation using traditional referral from primary care to CAM may be the most feasible model. However, cost implications would need to be addressed, possibly through models such as social prescribing or an extension of integrated personal commissioning.\nMental health (MH) and musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions create a huge burden for patients, society and healthcare services. Globally, low back pain is the leading cause of disability [1], and in the UK MSKs account for 30% of GP consultations [2] and 30.8 million working days lost annually [3]. Mental ill health is the single largest cause of disability in the UK [4], uses more than 11% of the NHS (National Health Service) budget [5] and costs the UK economy \u00a370\u2013\u00a3100 billion\/year [4]. Comorbidity of MH and MSK conditions is common - MH problems (anxiety or depression) are 4 times more common in those with persistent pain than in those without [6, 7] and MSK and MH conditions co-occur in 3% of working age (16\u201364 years) people in England [8]. People with low back pain are significantly more likely to have depression, anxiety and sleep disorders, and to be prescribed medication for these conditions, than those without [9]. Comorbidity is particularly concerning to GPs [10] and poorly addressed by current guidelines, evidence and practice [11], representing an 'effectiveness gap' (where available treatments are sub-optimally effective), which complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may be able to fill [11,12,13]. CAM is commonly used by those with comorbid MH and MSK conditions [14, 15].\nAlthough most commonly accessed privately in the UK, CAM can be integrated with conventional (NHS) care. Wiese and colleagues [16] describe three models of integration: 1) pluralism, a patient-based model, where the patient chooses which approach to use, in a 'supermarket' approach [17]; 2) selective incorporation, or integrated medicine, the co-optation of CAM by biomedicine, with CAM as an add-on, provided by trained conventional practitioners or CAM practitioners (on-site or off-site and funded by the NHS\/patient\/charity; and 3) integrative medicine or transformative integration, which aims to merge biomedicine into a new health paradigm incorporating a holistic approach and providing optimum treatment from any tradition [17,18,19]. This paper focusses on the second model. Compared to the consumerist approach of the first model, integrated and integrative medicine can promote continuity of care, address safety concerns, and reduce professional power struggles [20]. The third model, transformative integration, may still be a utopian ideal [19], whereas selective incorporation is preferred by biomedical staff [16]. In primary care, selectively incorporated CAM is more commonly delivered by CAM practitioners than conventional practitioners [21, 22]. Selective incorporation, where patients are referred from conventional healthcare to an off-site CAM practitioner, is similar to social prescribing, a system enabling primary care clinicians to refer patients to a broad range of community services, for example an exercise class or gardening club [23].\nMany of the defining values of CAM are now considered part of mainstream care. These include patient-centred care and a holistic approach [24, 25], and emphasis on self-management and prevention, which are prominent goals in current UK health service policy planning [26, 27]. Person- and community-centred approaches to health and wellbeing have a key role in these plans, which can include CAM [28]. Primary care may be the area of the NHS where CAM would fit most comfortably, due to both primary care and CAM having a holistic outlook, emphasis on self-care and strong therapeutic relationships.\nPrimary healthcare professionals, including GPs, tend to be most positive about CAM for chronic self-limiting conditions or those with limited treatment options e.g. musculoskeletal [29] or chronic pain [29,30,31]. Other 'effectiveness gaps' include depression, anxiety and stress [13].There is very little research on CAM for comorbid MSK-MH. The sparse qualitative research with GPs and CAM practitioners about integration of CAM into publicly funded health care is rarely health condition-specific, and rarely addresses commissioning issues. Doctors' views on CAM in general vary widely, from enthusiastic to sceptical, with sceptical or uncertain the dominant view [32], although one survey found that only 6% of primary care professionals were against integration of CAM [29]. Attitudes vary depending on the specific CAM approach \u2013 a survey of general practitioners (GPs) found that nearly 60% support acupuncture provision on the NHS [33]. Healthcare practitioners' views on CAM are mainly based on professional rather than personal factors [34], in particular the limited evidence base [30, 32], although referral is often determined by patient preference [29, 35].\nHowever, there are challenges to transformative integration and selective incorporation. Based on previous studies of generic integrative services, mainly from the point of view of conventional and CAM clinicians, these can include: preserving the epistemological stance of CAM, as conventional medicine tends to dominate [12, 19, 20]; differing 'corporate cultures' [36, 37]; professional conflicts; conventional practitioners' lack of knowledge regarding CAM [38]; a lack of communication and collaboration between the two groups [37]; a limited evidence base for many CAM; and lack of time in NHS settings [31, 39]. Integration can also give rise to issues around regulation of quality and safety, and duty of care. This particularly applies to a referral model, given UK General Medical Council advice that GPs delegating care must be satisfied with the safety and quality of care, and the practitioner's knowledge, skills and experience [40].\nIntegrated medicine may help to address comorbid MSK and MH conditions, but there is a lack of research specific to this clinical area. This study therefore sought to explore healthcare professionals' views and experiences to identify the feasibility of integrating CAM for comorbid MH and MSK into UK National Health Service (NHS) primary care.\nWe have followed COREQ guidelines in reporting this study [41].\nThis study explored the views and experiences of GPs, CAM practitioners and healthcare commissioners. This included their views of CAM and any experiences of CAM provision in an integrated fashion in NHS primary care settings; and their views on the potential for and challenges of integrating CAM into primary care, particularly for comorbid MSK and MH conditions.\nFor GPs and CAM practitioners, focus groups were conducted at three sites across England (A, B, C). A is a fairly large city in the south of England. B and C are moderately sized cities, B in the North and C in the South of England. For commissioners, a combination of focus groups and telephone interviews were conducted, as participants were located throughout England.\nCAM practitioners were recruited through a variety of routes including the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) mailing list and Facebook group, professional organisation online registers (CNHC, British Acupuncture Council, General Osteopathic Council, British Chiropractic Association, UK Tai chi union), Google searches, NHS hospital pain clinics using CAM, and NHS physiotherapy services. GPs were recruited by local CLRNs (Clinical Local Research Networks). Commissioners were recruited via an NHS management fellow at Bristol University, the project steering group, and commissioners of integrated medicine services in the UK. All potential participants were contacted by email, with telephone follow-up.\nSampling was purposive. For CAM practitioners, the criteria were type of CAM and NHS experience\/training. For GPs they were practice location (urban\/rural), practice socioeconomic characteristics, gender, ethnic background, attitudes to and experiences of CAM (as self-reported by potential participants in an email). We aimed to include commissioners with experience of commissioning CAM, particularly for MSK and MH, as well as in a variety of geographical locations. We did not collect data on reasons for non-response.\nGP\/CAM focus groups lasted 90 min and were held on university premises. Two researchers attended each focus group, one (AL) to lead the group and ask the questions, the other noting who spoke and non-verbal communication. AL is a senior research associate with experience of conducting interviews and focus groups, including a PhD using qualitative methods. Participants were offered payment for their time, for themselves or their employer. They were aware that the researcher was pro-CAM. The researcher aimed to maintain an objective stance regarding CAM during the interviews. Participants were assigned codes to ensure confidentiality. Topic guides were developed for the study (see Additional file 1). For CAM practitioners, questions focussed on experience in the NHS, experience treating patients with MSK and MH comorbidity, the evidence base for their therapy, relationships with GPs and barriers to integrating CAM into NHS primary care. GPs were asked about their experience of treating patients with comorbid MSK and MH, their knowledge and experience of CAM (in particular, referring their patients to CAM practitioners), and barriers to integrating CAM into NHS primary care.\nCommissioners' focus groups and interviews lasted between 15 and 60 min and were conducted by one researcher (AL). Interviews were either face\u2013to-face, via telephone or video link. The choice between interview or focus group was based on participant preference and availability. Commissioners were offered payment for their time. The topic guide was developed for the study (see Additional file 1) and included questions about definitions and beliefs regarding CAM, experience of commissioning CAM, factors in commissioning decisions, experience of MSK and MH services, barriers to integration of CAM, and thoughts about what evidence might persuade them to commission a CAM service.\nDigital audio recordings were transcribed verbatim by a professional company, with non-verbal communication added from our notes. Based on content analysis, a framework was used for all data analysis [42, 43]. Framework analysis is highly structured and systematic, providing a clear map of how analysis and interpretation were performed [42]. It facilitates constant reference back to the original data, to remain grounded [42], but is also structured around pre-set aims and objectives, allowing the answering of specific research questions in the participants' language, in concordance with the abductive stance taken [44]. It consists of five key stages: familiarisation, identifying a framework, indexing, charting and mapping\/interpreting [43]. The first four are mainly data management strategies, to order, sort, synthesise and condense the raw data, the bulk of interpretation takes place in the final mapping stage [43]. Data analysis was facilitated using Microsoft Excel and NVivo (computer assisted qualitative data analysis software developed to facilitate systematic and clear analysis) [45]. Familiarisation came through reading the transcripts. A framework of codes was developed from the data, with some a priori themes from the topic guides. Indexing involved comprehensively labelling all the data using the final framework, marking quotations (sentences, paragraphs) which belonged to a code. Charting was performed using the Framework function in NVivo, which uses a matrix, where each row was a participant and each column a code. A summary of the data was entered into each cell in the framework, using quotations as much as possible, with some synthesis and abstraction to make meaning clear [46] but using participant's words and terms, to stay grounded in the data [42]. The final stage of mapping and interpreting was done in Microsoft Excel. Each column was interrogated for themes. At all stages the 'strength' of data was considered, which was based on the following criteria:\nFrequency (number of people) and extensiveness (length) of comments, not as absolute data but to provide an indication of importance [42].\nSpecificity: quotes relating to a personal experience were considered more important than hypothetical references [47].\nIntensity or depth of feeling, for example, are the words positive, negative, middling [48]. Internal consistency (changes in individual's views) was also considered [48].\nDisconfirming evidence [49] and negative\/deviant cases [50] either proposed alternative explanations, reinforced normative theories by providing unusual examples, explained individual variation from the norm, or refined theories\nThe study was approved by the University of Bristol Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Research Ethics Committee (FREC) on 3rd July 2015, reference 21,603. Assurance was provided by the relevant NHS organisations for each of the sites.\nOf the 55 CAM practitioners invited, 36 took part in 4 focus groups (65% response rate), two in Site A, one in Site B and one in Site C. Table 1 provides their details. Five practiced tai chi, four acupuncture, and three practiced each of yoga, mindfulness, hypnotherapy, osteopathy, massage. Two practiced nutritional therapy and two chiropractic, one practised homeopathy and one herbal medicine. Participants worked in a variety of settings: most were private but fourteen were located in the NHS, including GP practices, psychological therapy and pain clinics. Seven were NHS professionals (GP, consultant, nurse, occupational therapist, physiotherapist). Eleven were statutorily regulated (NHS professionals, osteopaths or chiropractors) and 21 voluntarily regulated (voluntarily registered with a regulatory body).\nTable 1 Participants in CAM practitioner focus groups\nFifty-five GPs expressed an interest in participating, seven of whom subsequently declined and 28 could not attend due to timing. The final sample was predominantly based on GPs' availability, although purposive sampling criteria were met. Twenty GPs (see Table 2) participated, in three focus groups, ten in Site A, six in Site B and four in Site C. Most stated their views as neutral or in favour of CAM, three were 'sceptical'. Four practised CAM.\nTable 2 Participants in GP focus groups\nOf 30 commissioners invited, eight took part, most of whom were also GPs (Table 3). Six worked in CCGs (clinical commissioning group \u2013 NHS bodies responsible for commissioning local services), one in an integrated personal commissioning (a scheme using personal health budgets for patients\/carers) demonstration site and one for the voluntary sector. One focus group was conducted with three participants; the others' views were obtained through telephone interviews.\nTable 3 Participants in commissioner focus groups\/interviews\nThe key themes arising from the data were: what is CAM; the role of CAM; feasibility of integrated medicine in the NHS; barriers to integration; GP education; regulation; and models of integration.\nWhat is CAM?\nCAM was a difficult term for many GPs as it covers a wide range of interventions. Three GPs mentioned the 'huge' range of CAM and grouping this diverse range of treatments as 'CAM', was seen as 'unhelpful'.\n\"I really, really struggle with this umbrella term of complementary and alternative medicine, because I see a huge spectrum\" (GP A9)\nTwo described a spectrum of CAM based on effectiveness and safety, with chiropractic and osteopathy at one end and \"mumbo jumbo\", e.g. homeopathy and reiki at the other. Some therapies \u2013 Pilates, yoga, tai chi, mindfulness and acupuncture \u2013 were not necessarily considered to be complementary, and exercise-based CAM \u2013 Pilates, tai chi, yoga \u2013 seemed to be more acceptable to GPs. Some were also more positive about CAM which 'foster' self-management.\n\"\u2026nothing weird or wonderful there at all [acupuncture, tai chi, yoga], those are all things that are part of our everyday...I wouldn't even particularly class any of those as complementary medicines\" (GP A6)\n\"Self-care is so important. Teach someone to look after their sleep and not be so concerned about it, or to increase their core stability by using something for themselves, is much better than perhaps referring them to the homoeopathist and they lay out their store of symptoms again\" (GP B5)\nThe most common criteria used to define CAM were its 'philosophical approach' and its lack of an evidence base. Six GPs talked about CAM as being treatments with a philosophy they perhaps did not accept or understand. For four GPs, the lack of evidence defined CAM, although another felt this did not distinguish it from conventional care. For commissioners, CAM was defined as treatment outside the mainstream.\n\"I suppose it's [CAM] almost defined by what is in conventional, it's the other things that are not considered conventional\" (commissioner 7)\n\"I would say that anything that doesn't have a solid evidence base would come under the principles of complementary medicine\" (GP A6)\nGPs discussed two particular areas of overlap between CAM and conventional medicine: exercise (e.g. tai chi) and social support (e.g. personal health budgets). For commissioners, CAM overlapped considerably with broader approaches such as social prescribing and holistic care.\nA role for CAM in primary care and MSK-MH comorbidity\nAll three groups felt that CAM had a role in the provision of primary care services, although GPs were the least enthusiastic and saw CAM's role as limited. CAM practitioners were generally pro-integration.\nUnsurprisingly, CAM practitioners were very positive about CAM, citing evidence for its effectiveness, and believed it to be commonly used and demanded by patients. The commissioners were generally positive about CAM, although this may reflect potential selection bias towards pro-CAM commissioners.\n\"I am very pro a more holistic approach\" (commissioner 2)\nGPs and CAM practitioners both saw MSK-MH comorbidity commonly in their practice. For GPs, common examples were fibromyalgia, \"frequent attenders\"\/\"heart sink patients\", overweight, back\/chronic pain with anxiety\/MH issues, and osteoarthritis. Many CAM practitioners gave examples of comorbidity and how CAM (in their opinion) could help treat it.\n\"I think most of the patients in general practice have more than one thing going on, so most patients with, you know, anxiety or depression have something else going on. Not all, but most, most I would say. Particularly perhaps when they get into their sort of 30s or 40s or whatever\" (GP B2)\n\"there's definitely an inter-connectedness, particularly with back pain and erm, mental health issues\" (GP A9)\n\"I was just thinking I would love to see someone with just one problem. I was trying to think when was the last time? - I actually can't remember\" (CAM C6)\nGPs and CAM practitioners both identified challenges in treating comorbidity, mainly NHS service issues, for example waiting lists for physiotherapy or pain clinics. CAM practitioners felt conventional treatment was often of limited benefit. Commissioners also recognised these challenges (although comorbidity per se did not tend to influence their decisions).\n\"I just feel that the services that we have to use on these people, such as the pain clinic and MATS [Musculoskeletal Assessment Triage Service] are often not meeting their needs\" (GP A10)\n\"[Patients say] \"Oh, well the GP just dishes out painkillers\", and it doesn't solve the roots of their issue, their problem. So they'll come to me. They say \"I want a more holistic approach\"\"(CAM A2.2)\nThere was some agreement across all three groups that CAM had a role in treating MSK-MH comorbidity, given the limited conventional treatment options or availability. Some GPs felt that something extra, possibly CAM, was needed to offer these patients. CAM practitioners explained that CAM can treat comorbidity using a holistic approach.\n\"those chronic pain patients who, we all know who they are in our practice, we all dread them popping up on our list, and we need something else to work with them, because more and more evidence says that actually up titrating opiates, has lots of implications, it isn't good for our prescribing, it has lots of side effects for them. So we need something else to reach for, instead of our prescription pads, for these group of patients [chronic pain]. And I think that's sort of the other side of it, that almost makes it a little bit exciting in the sense that it's [integrative medicine] a new area that we could maybe tap into and get some real benefits\" (GP B1)\nIs integrated medicine feasible in NHS primary care?\nA number of GPs highlighted concerns that integrating CAM into NHS primary care would present challenges and might not be feasible. Although many of these concerns were only raised by a few GPs, the repeated emergence of the message across several themes justifies its inclusion as a key issue.\nFirst, CAM was seen by a small number of GPs to be addressing much broader problems than those which primary care should be treating, described by two GPs as 'first world problems' \u2013 issues around wellbeing, preventative care, dis-ease. Similarly, some GPs saw CAM as a form of self-care overlapping with social support and exercise. This view of CAM contrasted with the GP's primary role in treating disease.\n\"the extended, sort of, integration of integrated medicine is that there will be all of these services potentially who we could then refer into. And you're creating the burden of dis-ease rather than disease, and then you're increasing our burden\" (GP A6)\nSecond, a small number of GPs, contemplating integrated medicine becoming part of their practice, thought it would involve fundamental changes to the GP consultation and communication i.e. becoming more patient-centred and 'meaningful'. This was challenging, given the limitations and pressures of UK primary care (bureaucracy, overwork, time constraints).\n\"There's lots of competing priorities though in terms of GP time, so where do you put complementary medicine as a priority?\" (GP B4)\nBarriers to integration \u2013 The brick wall between CAM and NHS care\nA central message, occurring across several themes (mostly from CAM practitioners), was the idea that CAM and conventional medicine have significant conceptual differences which are barriers to integration. The language used strengthens these data. CAM practitioners regarded CAM as holistic, promoting self-care and behavioural change, while conventional care was described as reductionist, paternalistic and passive. They perceived the conceptual differences between the \"two worlds\" of \"mainstream medicine\" and CAM as a barrier to integration.\n\"[CAM is] a completely different concept of really how the world is\" (CAM A1.9)\n\"the Western approach is very much more reductionist, ooking for diagnosis. Whereas I think there's a completely different approach from complementary therapies which is looking at a holistic and outward perspective. So there's quite a lot of adjustments to be made which I think an NHS approach can't cater for\" (CAM C9)\nMany CAM practitioners were concerned that attempts to overcome these differences would 'secularise', reduce and standardise CAM, and reduce the techniques practitioners could use, diminishing its value and holistic nature and reducing benefits. A few GPs concurred with this view, demonstrated by their concerns about feasibility of true integration in primary care.\n\"If you secularised qigong totally, if you strip it from all its, in a sense its spiritual value...if you take away the underlying principles in a sense, if you take away the theory and the philosophy\u2026 you leave it with a shell...just a form of exercise, a callisthenic, a dynamic movement exercise, a meditation without meditation\" (CAM A2.1)\n\"there seems to be a sort of slight debate going on as to whether you could really, sort of, provide the range of services an osteopath would do privately within the NHS setting... a bit like trying to put a square peg into a round hole and whether or not you lose what, you know, what we think osteopathy is good for, or the good points\" (CAM A1.6)\n\"I think the danger about being integrated into the Health Service if, if, if it stays as it is, is we'll just be very limited as to what we can do\" (CAM C4)\nCAM practitioners saw CAM being used in the NHS more out of desperation - when conventional care fails or cannot offer anything more - than for its ability to prevent ill-health and promote wellness. They thought true and worthwhile integrative medicine would require a major change to conventional medical thinking, a view which some GPs also expressed. The only constructive suggestion for overcoming the gap between the 'two worlds' was through the planned changes in the NHS 'Five Year Forward View (a policy document describing a new shared vision for the future of the NHS and new models of care which aimed to reduce health disparities and improve care).\nFor CAM practitioners, structural barriers such as NHS guidelines and bureaucracy were very challenging. Their emotional language emphasised the importance of this theme. Commissioners agreed that guidelines were very influential in their decisions. For GPs, key structural barriers were lack of time and competing priorities in GP consultations.\n\"\u2026the therapists round here all have something to give, but at the moment we all just seem to be bashing our heads to a large extent against a large brick wall and hopefully this [project] is a chink in the wall\" (CAM C8)\n\"[We] don't have time during a GP consultation to give advice on CAM, you tend to move on to things which are more relevant to you as a GP, which you feel more confident about and which you have more knowledge about or can do something about\" (GP B2)\nEvidence of effectiveness appeared more important to CAM practitioners than GPs or commissioners. For CAM practitioners, evidence was the most important facilitator of integration and generating and implementing evidence was the biggest barrier.\n\"\u2026that's one of the things that's incredibly difficult to get anything in to the NHS, it relies on evidence base. And, you know, whether it's complementary or an orthodox approach, it's got to have evidence base\" (CAM C6)\nFor commissioners, the main factor influencing their commissioning decisions was evidence of cost-saving or affordability, and the current cold financial climate posed the biggest challenge to commissioning. Restrictive funding models were also seen as challenging, especially in general practice. CAM practitioners also recognised the importance of evidence of cost-saving which was 'the only way' to obtain NHS funding for CAM.\n\"\u2026even drugs that come into us with really good evidence, um, we're having to say, \"where can you find the money to pay for this new treatment\"\" (commissioner 3)\n\"\u2026everything has to be either cost neutral or saving money. That's the kind of mantra, so it's quite a difficult climate to suggest new services\" (commissioner 7)\nGP knowledge\nFor GPs, a clear theme was the need to improve their knowledge and education about CAM, which commissioners and CAM practitioners agreed with. Lack of dialogue between the two professions was a related issue. The importance of GPs' lack of knowledge and understanding of CAM reflects concerns that integration would extend the role of the GP beyond their current abilities or comfort zone.\n\"I would say my big barrier is my current understanding. I think it comes back to at the end of the day of my actual knowledge of what's available and what's proven erm, and locally what's sort of available\" (GP B1)\n\"\u2026there's a lack of education, formal education about complementary medicine at all, in GP training. We often just pick it up as we go along\" (GP B4)\n\"So I think if you can even get [medical] students before they're qualified to know what's out there [CAM], know what the evidence base is, know who is regulated, know the training and the hoops that people have to jump through, I think it will be really helpful. I think the CCGs yes, but it's too late, because you've got to get the GPs with that knowledge earlier\" (CAM C6)\nGovernance of CAM\nRegulation of CAM practitioners was not a major issue for participants although some CAM practitioners felt that greater regulation of practitioners, and improved NHS awareness of regulation, were important. GPs did not mention regulation as a major factor, but that may be due to lack of awareness of the issues.\n\"I don't see the chance of [hypnotherapy] getting integrated into NHS and NHS funded practice as long as there is a lack of regulation\" (CAM A2.3)\n\"it's giving confidence to the, to the GPs if they are referring to a CAM then if you are CNHC [Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council] registered, then there is a lot of, um, ground to that\" (CAM C5)\nCommissioners' views varied on whether regulation of CAM practitioners would influence their decisions.\n\"\u2026if it's mainstream, those are fairly standard, for example, you know, a doctor or a nurse or a therapist for example, but when it comes to some of the alternative or complementary therapies then I don't think always the systems are necessarily quite as rigorous\" (commissioner 5)\n\"[Regulation] is something really that I do not want...imposed on all these other people [CAM practitioners]...The regulation in the health service is an unmitigated disaster now and is costing the system a fortune with...no evidence that it improves quality\" (commissioner 6)\nModels of integration\nCAM practitioners, GPs and commissioners all felt that CAM might address some limitations of NHS provision for patients with MSK-MH comorbidity. For example, where waiting times for NHS treatment were long or the course of treatment\/consultations too short; where lifestyle change or an active approach could reduce secondary care burden; where additional treatment options were needed; or to create a more holistic service.\n\"People, at the moment, are frustrated because they're, they're going to doctors and they're being like, sometimes given just an option of pain relief or physio, but there's a waiting list which is too long for them\" (CAM A2.2)\nCAM practitioners varied in their views as to whether paying for CAM can improve commitment, adherence, and its perceived value, and that co-payment by patients, on a sliding scale depending on ability to pay, might be the best model. This was also seen as a way of raising awareness of the cost of healthcare, including NHS care, which is often not clear to patients.\n\"I would see that you would have perhaps council paying a third, NHS paying a third, and it would be wonderful if the patient paid a third to show a commitment. Would be a nice vision. Would help with the cost saving [laughs].\" (CAM A1.2)\nCommissioners suggested models for integrating CAM into NHS services. The most promising appeared to be integrated personal commissioning budgets (a scheme using personal health budgets for patients\/carers to take more control over their health, and to integrate health, social care and voluntary services) and social prescribing, although the available data have limited generalisability and these models are wider than just CAM. Signposting to CAM (mentioning it without formally referring patients) was also mentioned. Alternatives to NHS-funding were suggested, including charity-funding, voluntary practitioners and public-sector funding. Other considerations included improving communication between CAM and NHS practitioners (which was reported as poor by GPs), and providing CAM through a social enterprise.\nGPs, CAM practitioners and commissioners agreed that CAM may be useful to address the limitations of NHS care for the prevalent issue of MSK-MH comorbidity, which include availability and limited effective treatments. Exercise- or self-care-based CAMs were the most acceptable to GPs.\nAlthough they agreed that MSK-MH comorbidity is prevalent and burdensome and needs a new approach, the three groups' views on the barriers to using CAM within the NHS varied. A central message regarding integration was the different understandings of health between CAM and conventional medicine, which were likely to impede integration. CAM practitioners and GPs were concerned about integration fundamentally changing the care they provide, and both groups agreed that GPs' lack of education, knowledge, and understanding regarding CAM was a barrier to integration. For CAM practitioners, NHS structural barriers were a major hurdle. For GPs, lack of time and resources and current pressures were important issues, causing them to feel integration of CAM was beyond their capability. GPs emphasised that integrated medicine would have to relieve their burden rather than add to it. In terms of facilitating integration, evidence was more important to CAM practitioners than GPs and certainly than commissioners, who were more focussed on cost saving. Governance was not a major issue.\nVarious models of integration were discussed, with little consensus. GPs and commissioners saw an overlap of CAM with social support and exercise and current UK policy regarding self-care and patient activation. Integration could therefore be seen as one facet of social prescribing and holistic GP care.\nComparison with previous literature\nA systematic review has confirmed that GPs see comorbidity as challenging to treat [51]. Our results support previous findings that GPs see MSK pain as an effectiveness gap suitable for an integrated\/integrative approach [12, 13, 29, 30], and suggest this also applies to MSK-MH comorbidity. GPs' preference for exercise- or self-care- based CAM aligns with UK healthcare guidelines for low back pain (NICE guideline NG59), depression (NICE guideline CG91) and anxiety (NICE guideline CG113).\nOur findings confirm previously identified challenges of integration that are recognised by UK healthcare professionals and may apply to MSK-MH comorbidity. These include: different 'world-views' in understanding health\/health care [16, 37, 52]; concerns about secularising CAM when integrating [12, 19, 20] or having to fundamentally change conventional care [16]; NHS bureaucracy (for CAM practitioners) [31, 53]; GPs' lack of knowledge and need for education in CAM [54,55,56]; and lack of time in NHS settings [31, 39]. GPs' concern that integration of CAM was beyond their current capacity appears to be a new finding and is discussed under Implications below. Although we focussed on an integrated (selective incorporation) model in our topic guides, the challenges raised by participants, particularly those regarding the conceptual differences between CAM and biomedicine, are more pertinent to a transformative model of integration \u2013described by GP A6 as \"the extended\u2026integration of integrated medicine\". They confirm the view that transformative integration may be a 'utopian ideal' [19].\nThe concern about 'trying to put a square peg into a round hole' - the 'secularisation' of CAM - is raised by Hollenberg & Muzzin, as 'colonisation' of CAM [57]. Wiese and colleagues found that incompatibility between the ethos of science and CAM mean integration often involves 'co-optation' of CAM, and biomedical domination. There are examples of such secularisation in mindfulness-based approaches and herbal medicine [58, 59].\nPoor GP knowledge implies education is needed about CAM \u2013 in the UK GPs are keen [29] and in the USA, CAM is often part of the medical curriculum [60]. Inter-professional education is an option [61].\nThe relatively low importance commissioners gave to evidence is interesting, but confirms findings from conventional medicine [62]. That CAM practitioners believe evidence is important has been reported before [63, 64]. However, CAM practitioners may lack research training [65], and have concerns about the appropriateness of traditional research methodology in CAM [66, 67]. Commissioners' emphasis on cost-saving evidence reflects an emphasis on prioritisation of health service funding [68] and more economic evidence is needed for CAM [69].\nIn our study, all three groups of healthcare professionals believed that an integrated approach using certain CAM may be worth pursuing to address limitations of conventional approaches in treating MSK-MH comorbidity, but they had different concerns about how an integrated approach might be implemented.\nFindings highlight the burden that GPs are carrying in the UK \u2013 their workload has substantially increased [70, 71], a significant proportion of which is MSK and MH conditions [72, 73]. This 'crisis' creates reluctance to even contemplate anything new, e.g. integrated medicine, even if potentially beneficial. GPs and commissioners both felt successful integrated medicine would need to relieve NHS pressures, by reducing GP burden and costs. Integrating CAM may relieve GP workload for patients with limited treatment options [37]. Our study confirms 2003 findings that GPs and commissioners see integration of CAM as potentially helping to meet NHS targets [68]. Current policy drivers include the self-care and patient activation components of the NHS England Five Year Forward View [25, 28], in which primary care is central [26]. This aligns with \"expansionism\"- which favours the inclusion of alternative approaches [26, 74] e.g. social prescribing and holistic care. Conversely, some GPs' concerns about integration reflect \"reductionists'\" arguments for GPs to reduce their duties to focus on the \"genuinely vulnerable and sick\" [75]. This is in line with the 2004 General Practitioner contract which has resulted in GPs practicing a more biomedical model of health and illness [76].\nIn terms of an integration model, transformative models are unlikely to be successful due to severe restrictions on NHS spending and concerns that these models would necessitate secularisation of CAM or fundamentally changing conventional care [77]. Instead, selective incorporation using referral from NHS primary care, as in social prescribing, may help the NHS address the needs of comorbid patients. Social prescribing is increasingly popular, with a national social prescribing network [78], and funding for social prescribing schemes\/interventions from the UK Department of Health [79]. Regulatory implications - GPs would need to be sure of CAM practitioners' regulation, quality and safety - may necessitate CAM practitioners becoming allied health practitioners, facilitated by the Professional Standards Authority's CAM registers [80]. This referral model would require GP education and referral protocols\/guidelines [20, 56], and has cost implications, as CAM is almost always patient-funded or part-funded [81, 82]. Co-payment by patients\/NHS may be an option, but has equity implications and would need to consider ability to pay, particularly as MSK-MH comorbid patients tend to be of lower socioeconomic status [83, 84]. The King's Fund recently rejected the controversial issue of patients paying for NHS treatment [85]. Another funding option is public health funding, given the overlap between integrative medicine, preventative medicine and public health [86].\nFor anyone attempting to integrate CAM into a conventional health system we suggest: identifying the evidence for effectiveness and cost-effectiveness; careful consideration of terminology; working with practitioners to develop a CAM approach which respects the philosophies of both conventional medicine and CAM; considering exercise- or self-care-based CAM; including education for GPs; and linking to relevant conventional health policies\/strategic priorities e.g. in the UK the Five Year Forward View [56].\nThere is a need for more evidence of effectiveness and particularly cost-effectiveness of CAM; MSK-MH comorbidity is a fertile area for research. Exercise- and self-care-based CAM may be the best approaches to evaluate as they appear to be most acceptable to GPs.\nWe were successful in recruiting a large number of practitioners, however we did not aim for data saturation so a larger sample may provide new themes or understandings. Purposive sampling captured the views of a wide range of individuals, and we met all the criteria in our sampling frame, despite GPs' limited availability. However, the professionals who took part were likely to have a more pro-CAM stance than average, which may mean our results are skewed towards the positive aspects of an integrated approach. The researcher's pro-CAM stance may have biased responses although we made efforts to emphasise that we were interested in a range of views and remaining grounded in the objective data from the literature review phase. Commissioners were very difficult to recruit, due to lack of a central organising body or mailing list, and busy schedules. For the large part, we relied on personal contacts, giving a skewed sample with mainly positive experiences regarding commissioning CAM. Their limited availability to attend a focus group necessitated more one-on-one interviews, which may have influenced the findings. More research with commissioners would be very valuable.\nGPs, commissioners, and CAM practitioners felt that integration of CAM may offer a useful solution to the challenges faced by the NHS in treating MSK-MH comorbid patients. However, integration of CAM into NHS care\/settings for these patients is limited by structural barriers, philosophical differences and concerns about changing both types of care fundamentally. Selective incorporation using referral from NHS primary care into CAM services may be a feasible model of integration, although cost implications would need to be addressed, possibly through models such as social prescribing or co-payment. 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Biomedicine, holism and general medical practice: responses to the 2004 general practitioner contract. Sociol Health Illn. 2008;30(5):788\u2013803.\nWye L. Mainstreaming complementary therapies into primary care: the role of evidence, 'ideal' service design and delivery and alterations in clinical practice. Phd thesis: University of Bristol; 2007.\nNew National Social Prescribing Network Addresses NHS Healthcare Accessibility Issues [https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2016\/new-national-social-prescribing-network-addresses-nhs-healthcare-accessibility-issues]. Accessed 15 Oct 2018.\nMatthews-King A. Providers invited to bid for \u00a34m worth of funding for social prescribing schemes. Pulse. 2017. http:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/clinical\/prescribing\/providers-invited-to-bid-for-4m-worth-of-funding-for-social-prescribing-schemes\/20035430.article.\nLet's Work Together [https:\/\/www.professionalstandards.org.uk\/what-we-do\/accredited-registers\/lets-work-together]. Accessed 15 Oct 2018.\nBodeker G, Kronenberg F, Public Health A. Agenda for traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine. Am J Public Health. 2002;92(10):1582\u201391.\nSharp D, Lorenc A, Morris R, Feder G, Little P, Hollinghurst S, Mercer SW, MacPherson H. Complementary medicine use, views and experiences \u2013 a national survey in England. BJGP Open. 2018; Paper submitted for publication.https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(12)60240-2.\nBarnett K, Mercer SW, Norbury M, Watt G, Wyke S, Guthrie B. Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study. Lancet. 2012;380(9836):37\u201343.\nMcLean G, Gunn J, Wyke S, Guthrie B, Watt GCM, Blane DN, Mercer SW. The influence of socioeconomic deprivation on multimorbidity at different ages: a cross-sectional study. Br J Gen Pract. 2014;64(624):e440\u20137.\nBarker K: A new settlement for health and social care. In: The King's Fund; 2014.\nAli A, Katz DL. Disease prevention and health promotion: how integrative medicine fits. Am J Prev Med. 2015;49(5 Suppl 3):S230\u201340.\nWe are very grateful to the participants in the study. We would also like to thank Mwenza Blell and Kate Morton for their assistance in running the focus groups.\nThe report is based on independent research commissioned and funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme (The Effectiveness And Cost Effectiveness Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine (CAM) For Multimorbid Patients With Mental Health And Musculoskeletal Problems In Primary Care In The UK: A Scoping Study). The views expressed in the publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, the Department of Health, 'arms' length bodies or other government departments.\nOriginal transcripts and analysis frameworks are available on request from AL: ava.lorenc@bristol.ac.uk.\nCentre for Academic Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol, BS8 2PS, UK\nDeborah Sharp, Ava Lorenc, Gene Feder & Sandra Hollinghurst\nPrimary Medical Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Aldermoor Close, Southampton, SO16 5ST, UK\nPaul Little\nGeneral Practice and Primary Care, Institute for Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, 1 Horseletthill Road, Glasgow, G12 9LX, UK\nStewart Mercer\nDepartment of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK\nHugh MacPherson\nDeborah Sharp\nAva Lorenc\nGene Feder\nSandra Hollinghurst\nDS, GF, PL, SH, SM, AL and HM collaboratively developed the topic guides and helped provide sources of participants. AL organised recruitment for, conducted and analysed the focus groups, and drafted the paper. HM assisted in running one set of focus groups. DS, GF, PL, SH, SM, AL and HM revised the draft paper and read and approved the final version.\nCorrespondence to Ava Lorenc.\nThe study was approved by the University of Bristol Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Research Ethics Committee (FREC) on 3rd July 2015, reference 21,603. All participants in the focus groups were provided with an information sheet, gave written informed consent and were free to withdraw from the study at any point.\nFocus group\/interview topic guides. (DOCX 28 kb)\nSharp, D., Lorenc, A., Feder, G. et al. 'Trying to put a square peg into a round hole': a qualitative study of healthcare professionals' views of integrating complementary medicine into primary care for musculoskeletal and mental health comorbidity. 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{"text":"Home\u203aWorld News\u203aRobbie Coltrane, best known for his role as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 72\nRobbie Coltrane, best known for his role as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 72\nRobbie Coltrane, the Scottish actor who played a criminal psychologist in the TV series Cracker and the half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died. He was 72.\nColtrane's agent Belinda Wright said he died in a hospital in Scotland on Friday. She didn't give a reason.\nColtrane rose to fame as a hardened detective in the 1990s series Cracker, for which he won Best Actor at the British Academy Television Awards three years running.\nRobbie Coltrane arrives for the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the final film in the series, in Trafalgar Square, central London, July 7, 2011.\nJonathan Kurz\/AP\nHe played the gentle half-giant Hagrid, a mentor to the young wizard, in all eight Harry Potter films released between 2001 and 2011.\nOther roles include a Russian crime boss in the James Bond thrillers GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough.\nColtrane received rave reviews for the role of a popular TV star who may harbor a dark secret in the 2016 miniseries National Treasure.\nWright said, \"Not only was he a wonderful actor, but he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly funny and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I will miss him.\"\nWright said Coltrane is survived by his sister Annie Rae, ex-wife Rhona Gemmell, and children Spencer and Alice.\nGeorge Conway explains what DOJ subpoenas reveal\nBoston Marathon winner Diana Kipyokei suspended for doping\nMother of four killed when a neighbor's gun accidentally goes off\nThe Seattle woman was arrested in the trash 23 years after her son died\nWoman dead, 2 hospitalized after plastic surgery in Mexico","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cars pass vodka advertisment in downtown Moscow.\nPatriotic Russians urged to drink, smoke\nSmoke and drink more, Russia's finance minister Alexei Kudrin said to citizens on Wednesday, explaining that higher consumption would help lift tax revenues for spending on social services.\nThu., Sept. 2, 2010timer1 min. read\nMOSCOW\u2014Smoke and drink more, Russia's finance minister Alexei Kudrin said to citizens on Wednesday, explaining that higher consumption would help lift tax revenues for spending on social services.\n\"If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social problems such as boosting demographics, developing other social services and upholding birth rates,\" Kudrin said, quoted by the Interfax news agency.\n\"People should understand: Those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state,\" he said, offering unconventional advice as the Russian government announced plans to raise excise duty on alcohol and cigarettes.\nAlcohol and cigarette consumption are already extremely high in Russia, where 65 percent of men smoke and the average Russian consumes 18 litres of alcoholic beverages per year, mainly vodka, according to official statistics.\nRussian duties on cigarettes are among the lowest in Europe, with most brands priced at around 40 rubles ($1.35 Canadian) per pack and unfiltered cigarettes selling for much less.\nThe finance ministry in June announced plans to more than double excise duty on cigarettes over the next three years from 250 rubles per 1,000 filtered cigarettes to 590 rubles in 2013.\nThe move is likely to be unpopular in the nicotine-addicted nation where a cigarette shortage in the late 1980s and early 1990s incited protests and led then-president Mikhail Gorbachev to appeal for emergency outside shipments.\nThe state recently imposed a new minimum legal price for vodka, implemented a zero tolerance ban on drink-driving and banned nighttime sales of alcohol to curb abuse blamed for the deaths of thousands of Russians every year.\nAlcohol abuse kills around 500,000 Russians annually and greatly impacts male life expectancy, which is lower than in such developing countries as Bangladesh and Honduras, according to official figures.\nReuters News Services","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"Salman Khan Is The Most Celebrated Superstar\": Directors Ali Abbas Zafar & Sajid Nadiadwala On His 30 Years In Bollywood\nOver the years, the actor has worked with numerous directors and here's what they have to say.\nIt's been a memorable weekend for Salman Khan as the superstar marked 30 years in Bollywood on the 29th of December. The actor has had a successful year with 'Bharat' charting very good numbers at the box office followed by his most recent outing Dabangg 3 which also did decently well.\nOver the years, the actor has worked with numerous directors and here's what they have to say.\nSajid Nadiadwala, who made his directorial debut with Salman Khan's Kick shared, \"It's been 28 years since Salman has been there in my life. He was a part when I gave my first hit Jeet, he was there when I got married, he has seen my first child when my son was born. He was a part of my first directorial venture 'Kick' as well. What he was for me 28 years back then he is still the same with me even today. Out of the 30 years I have been with him for 28 years. Lastly, 'Woh Mere Dil Mein Aata Hai Aur Samaj Mein Bhi.\"\nAli Abbas Zafar shared his experience with Salman Khan, \"I wish him all the love and luck. His journey has been phenomenal in the Indian film industry. Hands down he is one of the most celebrated superstar the Indian film industry has seen. The connect he has with his audience has been phenomenal. My journey with him in making three films has been a great learning experience for me and I say maturity of my work somewhere or the else comes from the experience he brings to my work. He has a wicked sense of humor and is also super entertaining off-screen and on-screen.\"\nYou Season 2 Review: Go, Take A Dive In Joe's Deep Dark World, But Come Out Of It Before It's Too Late\nGood Newwz Box Office Review: Akshay Kumar Carries The Film On His Shoulders & Makes It A Success Story\nThe superstars' most recent outing, Dabangg 3 is charting phenomenal numbers at the box office as it inches close to 150 crores. An interesting fact to be noted is that this is Salman's fifteenth consecutive film to cross the 100 crore mark in its box office run.\nAli Zafar\nSajid Nadiadwala\nBigg Boss 15: Umar Riaz Addresses The \"Sense Of Closeness\" With Rashami Desai & Says This!\nBigg Boss 15 Fame Umar Riaz Breaks Silence On His Viral Tweet Demanding Punishment For Sidharth Shukla\nSalman Khan To Shoot For Chiranjeevi's Lucifer Remake Amid Halt In...\nKiara Advani's 'Shershah' Duplicate Found In Filmmaker Rajkumar's Recent Social Post,...\nBangarraju Trailer: Supernatural Elements In Naga Chaitanya & Nagarjuna To Take...\nRajinikanth Writes \"There Can Be Nothing More Important Than One's Health\"...\nManoj Muntashir On India's Got Talent: \"Being On The Judge's Chair...\nSouth Star Nandita Das Remembers Her Tamil Hit 'Azhagi' As It...\nDivyenndu: \"It's Overwhelming When People Address Me By My Character's Name\"\nNia Sharma Feels Web Series Is Way More Respectable Than TV:...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Unable to connect to database - 11:14:52 Unable to connect to database - 11:14:52 SQL Statement is null or not a SELECT - 11:14:52\nAbstract Detail\nSystematics\/Phytogeography \/ Taxonomie\/ Section\nGhebretinsae, Amanuel [1], Graham, Shirley A. [2], Barber, Janet C. [1].\nMolecular phylogenetics of Cuphea: evolution of floral morphology, chromosome number, seed and pollen characters and habit.\nCuphea (Lythraceae) comprises ca. 270 species distributed from the southern US to eastern Argentina. The genus is of growing economic importance because the seeds produce highly diversified oils that are rich in a variety of medium-chain fatty acids, which find worldwide use in industrial feed-stocks, and especially in the detergent and cosmetics industries. Sequences from the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of the nrDNA and two cpDNA regions (trnL-trnF spacer and trnL intron) were used to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships among 80 species of Cuphea and closely related genera. Our results show that Pleurophora is strongly supported as a sister genus to Cuphea. The data also support the subdivision of Cuphea into two major lineages. Three of the 13 sections recognized in existing classifications (Heteranthus, Trispermum and Pseudocircaea) are supported as monophyletic, but all are nested within the large Euandra\/ Brachyandra\/ Melvilla clade. Our analyses also indicate that Cuphea originated in South America and subsequently dispersed into the Caribbean and North America. There were three or more independent introductions into North America, and at least three introductions into the Greater Antilles. The evolution of characters such as annual versus perennial habit, seed size, specialization in floral morphology, tricolporate and diporate pollen grains, and chromosome number will be discussed within the phylogenetic framework.\n1 - Saint Louis University, Department of Biology, 3507 Laclede Avenue, St Louis, Missouri, 63103-2010, USA\n2 - Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri, 63166-0299, USA\nphylogenetics.\nPresentation Type: Poster:Posters for Sections\nSession: P\nLocation: Ball Room & Party Room\/SUB\nDate: Monday, July 28th, 2008\nNumber: PSP024\nAbstract ID:362","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Awesome Maps\nI'm map folk. Maps run through my veins. So at the Federation of Genealogical Societies annual conference last month when Jake Gehring of FamilySearch showed an awesome color-coded map of their worldwide camera projects (see \"FamilySearch Vault Express\" for more info), I knew I had to share it with you.\nThe deepness of the color indicates the number of cameras in each country. Click on the map to enlarge it.\nAncestry.com Map\nLike a Kung Fu prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Ancestry.com has moved beyond digitizing microfilm and is now digitizing original records. I invited Ancestry to supply a map of their own projects. They declined. That left me no choice but to use a map I obtained in 2009.\nThe map indicates that Ancestry had scanning operations in what looks to be seven countries. I'm guessing the locations were: the United States (3 locations), Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, and China. Two of the red dots are keying locations: Uganda and Beijing.\nFamilySearch Extraction Map\nDevin Ashby, in his FamilySearch Indexing session at FGS, showed another map of interest. It showed how many names have been extracted or indexed from each country across the globe. FamilySearch has been indexing for the last 32 years. Unlike Ancestry, FamilySearch provided a copy.\nNoodling an Ancestry.com Map\nI finally decided to put together my own map of Ancestry's digitization efforts. After all, I have Insider Sources. You should limit how long you look at the map so you don't go blind from overexposure to pure awesomeness.\nI've taken Ancestry's map of their offices (the saplings). They probably digitize in one or more of these offices. Then I've added digitization projects (green dots). Last year one of my sources said Ancestry was working in about 20 locations worldwide. My map doesn't account for that many, but these are the only ones my sources would give up.\nTo quote an old Chinese (or Panda) proverb, \"There is no extra charge for the awesomeness\u2026 or attractiveness.\"\nSubjects: Ancestry.com, conferences, FamilySearch\nMNFamilyHistorian October 11, 2011 at 12:46 AM\nYou could also search Ancestry's job openings. Right now, they have an opening for a \"Document Preservation\" contractor position in Kansas City, MO, presumably at the regional National Archives facility. I've previously seen similar openings here in Minnesota; scanning at the Minnesota History Center in St Paul. Also in Maryland, at the College Park National Archives facility.\nFran\u00e7ois October 12, 2011 at 9:56 AM\nI have a deep respect for FamilySearch and what they are doing with digitising records around the world. There is absolutely no chance Ancestry.com would go to places like Liberia or the Congo to acquire records. It simply won't be profitable for them. If FamilySearch did not do this work, most of the records from these countries would probably not survive even for the next 20 years. Circumstances in those countries are just too unpredictable.\nDarned Oliver, Kankakee, Illinois\nInformation Provenance\nFamilySearch Data Centers and Second Vault\nMonday Mailbox: Is FamilySearch a Branch of Ancest...\nBooklet Review: German Genealogy at a Glance\nNew Pedigree Resource File: Sources and Notes\nMonday Mailbox: How Do I Fix PRF\nDarned Pedigree Resource File\nProgress in the War for Columnar Search Results\nMonday Mailbox: Searching the 1870 Census\nFamilySearch Surpasses Ancestry.com?\nMonday Mailbox: URL Citation Principles\nLeader Calls Upon Church Youth to Research Ancesto...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Instant Replay: 036\nFrom the very old to the very new, this month's Instant Replay is a vibrant mix of all kinds of music! Listen to our favorite songs for April.\nThis series highlights our favorite music of the moment \u2013 discoveries we've made when we're at home cooking or cleaning, at the office, or out and about. Classical or otherwise, old, new, or just really cool, these are the tracks we've had on repeat this month. Find a cumulative playlist at the end of this post. Happy listening!\nLas Cafeteras \u2014 Vamos To The Beach\nEmily Marvosh\nA few months ago, I heard that Global Arts Live would be presenting Las Cafeteras this spring. I was intrigued by the brochure and sought out some of their albums, and their sunny Latin-ish pop helped keep the winter chill away. Warning: this track will give you an earworm after only one listen, and you'll be coming back for more.\nMaren Morris \u2014 What Would This World Do?\nJames Bennett II\nThere's definitely something insightful to say about this closer from Maren Morris' latest album, Humble Quest. This album is Morris' first without longtime collaborator Busbee, and this elegiac ballad serves as a farewell of sorts. Morris probes an existential question: how is the world and everything in it able to continue, business as usual, with apparent indifference after a component of that world that is integral to your experience of it is suddenly taken away? Despite the sorrowful overtones, this song qualifies as a bite-your-lip-beat-the-air-at-tempo affair in private, and a future karaoke go-to in public, which says a lot, because karaoke is definitively not my \"thing.\" But it could be, for this song.\nGerman Brass \u2014 Bach: Organ Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593\nBrian McCreath\nSome music is simply addictive, the very definition of an Instant Replay. Try this bit of Bach, based on a concerto by Vivaldi, and arranged for the double quintet of German Brass. For me, once through on this track isn't enough. When I play it, it's set to automatic repeat.\nKaoru Akimoto \u2014 Dress Down\nJay Fondin\nThis 1986 J-Pop hit has been stuck in my head for the last week, and I'm not mad about it. The synths and the ultra-reverb vocals are a recipe for making you walk with some funk in your step as you listen. And it's just so 80s \u2014 every part of it fills me with an urge to buy some glittery bell-bottoms. I'd qualify it as an absolute bop!\nMilton Nascimento \u2014 Saidas E Bandeiras (Exits And Flags)\nLaura Carlo\nI signed up to do a current events talk show on WZBC 90.3 FM, the Boston College radio station, in my freshman year there. One of the upperclassmen, who was the coolest DJ there, always played a cut from Brazilian singer (and 5-time Grammy winner) Milton Nascimento's 1976 album, Milton, on every one of his shows. The album was already old at the time, but he loved it, and so did everyone who listened to his show, including me. And yes, I still have the vinyl.\nSoccer Mommy \u2014 Cool\nRani Schloss\nI've been on a Soccer Mommy kick lately, in particular the albums Clean from 2018 and For Young Hearts from 2016. Songs vacillate between lush, trance-y melancholic longing, and more upbeat, grungy, crisp melancholic longing. It's a vibe. The song I keep coming back to is \"Cool,\" with its perfect mix of sharp percussion, precisely-deployed guitar pedal effects, and a vocal that so perfectly conveys the feeling of wishing you were as cool as that one person you know (warning for explicit language).\nJapanese Breakfast \u2014 Paprika\nEdyn-Mae Stevenson\nI've been playing this song obsessively on repeat ever since the weather got above maybe 50 degrees. It's fun and bright, and something about it has me looking forward to warmer days ahead.\nNirvana \u2014 On A Plain\nColin Brumley\nI tend to have seasonal listening habits, and here we are now in April: Grunge Month. It's a month of dichotomy, with dreary, grey days countered with warm sunny days that hint of spring and rebirth. There's a kind of unintended microcosm of that symbiosis in grunge music. Coincidentally, April is speckled with the anniversaries of various grunge musicians passing away, and the songs are horribly dreary on the surface. But on the other hand, if you look closely, you'll see that the music actually celebrates personal growth through adversity, vulnerability, and shared catharsis (\"Teen Spirit,\" anyone?). In other words, it's akin to taking the unwanted \"winter-ness\" that life can throw you and reimagining it as an opportunity to \"spring\" into a more full individual \u2014 thus, for example, the etymology of \"pearl\" in Pearl Jam. This vulnerability is perhaps best showcased in Nirvana's legendary Unplugged show, driven by the raw intimacy of Kurt Cobain's voice.\nCarminho \u2014 Escrevi teu nome no vento - Fado carriche\nTyler Alderson\n\"I wrote your name on the wind, convinced that I wrote it on a page of oblivion.\" Nothing captures the feeling of longing and loss quite like Portuguese fado. And while Carminho thinks she's let the breeze take her cares away, it's clear from her singing that it won't be that easy. \"I want to forget you, believe me. But there is more and more wind.\"\nFleetwood Mac \u2014 The Chain\nKendall Todd\nYou know that amazing feeling when you're watching a movie or TV show and a pivotal moment is underlined by the perfect song? That's the experience I had watching HBO Max's new pirate comedy \"Our Flag Means Death\" (which I heartily recommend, by the way), when this song came on. I've hardly ever heard a better use of a Fleetwood Mac song in any other piece of media. It's been on repeat in my house ever since.\nHear this month's playlist:\nListen to the full playlist on Spotify.\nBlog Instant Replay","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"History of immigration to the United States\nFilm by Edison Studios showing immigrants disembarking from the steam ferryboat William Myers onto Ellis Island on July 9, 1903.\nThe history of immigration to the United States details the movement of people to the United States starting with the first European settlements from around 1600. Beginning around this time, British and other Europeans settled primarily on the east coast. In 1619, Africans began being imported as slaves. The United States experienced successive waves of immigration, particularly from Europe. Immigrants sometimes paid the cost of transoceanic transportation by becoming indentured servants after their arrival in the New World. Later, immigration rules became more restrictive; the ending of numerical restrictions occurred in 1965. Recently, cheap air travel has increased immigration from Asia and Latin America.\nAttitudes towards new immigrants have cycled between favorable and hostile since the 1790s.\nColonial EraEdit\nMain articles: Colonial history of the United States, British colonization of the Americas, Thirteen Colonies, European colonization of the Americas, Indentured servant, and Nationality law in the American Colonies\nIn 1607 the first successful English colony settled in Jamestown, Virginia. Once tobacco was found to be a profitable cash crop, many plantations were established along the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia and Maryland.\nThus began the first and longest era of immigration, lasting until the American Revolution in 1775; during this time settlements grew from initial English toe-holds from the New World to British America. It brought Northern European immigrants, primarily of British, German, and Dutch extraction. The British ruled from the mid-17th century and they were by far the largest group of arrivals, remaining within the British Empire. Over 90% of these early immigrants became farmers.[1]\nLarge numbers of young men and women came alone as indentured servants. Their passage was paid by employers in the colonies who needed help on the farms or in shops. Indentured servants were provided food, housing, clothing and training but they did not receive wages. At the end of the indenture (usually around age 21) they were free to marry and start their own farms.[2]\nNew EnglandEdit\nSeeking religious freedom in the New World, one hundred English Pilgrims established a small settlement near Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. Tens of thousands of English Puritans arrived, mostly from the East Anglian parts of England (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex), as well as Kent and East Sussex.,[3] and settled in Boston, Massachusetts and adjacent areas from around 1629 to 1640 to create a land dedicated to their religion. The earliest New English colonies, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, were established along the northeast coast. Large scale immigration to this region ended before 1700, though a small but steady trickle of later arrivals continued.[4]\nThe New English colonists were the most urban and educated of all their contemporaries, and they had many skilled farmers, tradesmen and craftsmen among them. They started the first university, Harvard, in 1635 in order to train their ministers. They mostly settled in small villages for mutual support (nearly all of them had their own militias) and common religious activities. Shipbuilding, commerce, agriculture, and fishing were their main sources of income. New England's healthy climate (the cold winters killed the mosquitoes and other disease-bearing insects), small widespread villages (minimizing the spread of disease), and an abundant food supply resulted in the lowest death rate and the highest birth rate of any of the colonies. The Eastern and Northern frontier around the initial New England settlements was mainly settled by the descendants of the original New Englanders. Immigration to the New England colonies after 1640 and the start of the English Civil War decreased to less than 1% (about equal to the death rate) in nearly all of the years prior to 1845. The rapid growth of the New England colonies (approximately 900,000 by 1790) was almost entirely due to the high birth rate (>3%) and the low death rate (<1%) per year.[5]\nDutchEdit\nThe Dutch, primarily driven by the United East Indian Company, first established settlements along the Hudson River in New York starting about 1626. Wealthy Dutch patroons set up large landed estates along the Hudson River and brought in farmers who became renters. Others established rich trading posts to trade with Native Americans and started cities such as New Amsterdam (now New York City) and Albany, New York.[6] After the British took over and renamed the colony New York, Germans (from the Palatinate), and Yankees (from New England) began arriving.[7]\nMiddle coloniesEdit\nMaryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware formed the middle colonies. Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers from Britain, followed by Ulster Scots (Northern Ireland) on the frontier and numerous German Protestant sects, including the German Palatines. The earlier colony of New Sweden had small settlements on the lower Delaware River, with immigrants of Swedes and Finns. These colonies were absorbed by 1676.[8]\nThe middle colonies' were scattered West of New York City (established 1626; taken over by the English in 1664) and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (established 1682). The initial Dutch colony of New York had the most eclectic collection of residents from many different nations and prospered as a major trading and commercial center after about 1700. From around 1680 to 1725, the Pennsylvania colonial center was dominated by the Quakers for decades after they emigrated, mainly from the North Midlands of England. During this time, the main commercial center of Philadelphia was run mostly by prosperous Quakers, supplemented by many small farming and trading communities, with a strong German contingent located in several small towns in the Delaware River valley.[9]\nStarting around 1680, when Pennsylvania was founded, many more settlers arrived to the middle colonies. Many Protestant sects were encouraged to settle there for freedom of religion and good, cheap land. Their origins were about 60% British and 33% German. By 1780, New York's population were around 27% descendants of Dutch settlers, about 6% were African, and the remainder were mostly English with a wide mixture of other Europeans. New Jersey, and Delaware had a British majority, with 7\u201311% German-descendants, about 6% African population, and a small contingent of the Swedish descendants of New Sweden.\nFrontierEdit\nThe colonial frontier was mainly settled from about 1717 to 1775. These were mostly Presbyterian settlers from North England border lands, Scotland, and Ulster, fleeing hard times and religious persecution.[10] The fourth major center of settlement was the Western frontier, located in the Western parts of Pennsylvania and in the South, which was settled during the early to late 18th century by mostly Scots-Irish, with others mostly from North England border lands. Some French Huguenots and Germans were also present. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scotch-Irish migrated to America in the 18th century.[10] The Scotch-Irish soon became the dominant culture of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Areas where people reported 'American' ancestry were the places where, historically, northern English, Scottish and Scotch-Irish Protestants settled: in the interior of the South, and the Appalachian region.[11] Scotch-Irish American immigrants, were made up of people from the southernmost counties of Scotland who had initially settled in Ireland. They were heavily Presbyterian, and largely self-sufficient. The Scotch-Irish arrived in large numbers during the early 18th century and they often preferred to settle in the back country and the frontier from Pennsylvania to Georgia, where they mingled with second generation and later English settlers. They enjoyed the very cheap land and independence from established governments common to frontier settlements. Often, the main port of entry for these immigrants was Philadelphia, after which they (or, in many cases, their descendants) migrated west and south.\nSouthern coloniesEdit\nThe mostly agricultural Southern English colonies initially had very high death rates for new settlers due to malaria, yellow fever, and other diseases as well as skirmishes with Native Americans. Despite this, a steady flow of new settlers, mostly from Central England and the London area, kept up population growth. Initially, the large plantations were mostly owned by friends (mostly minor aristocrats) of the British-appointed governors. A group of Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlanders created a settlement at Cape Fear in North Carolina, which remained culturally distinct until the mid-18th century, at which point it was swallowed up by the dominant English-origin culture.[12] Many settlers arrived as indentured servants who had to work off their passage with five to seven years of work for room and board, clothing, and training, but no cash wages. After their terms of indentures expired, most of the indentures settled small farms on the frontier. The Southern colonies were about 55% British, 38% Black, and roughly 7% German.[citation needed] The Atlantic slave trade primarily ceased after 1775 and it was outlawed in 1808, although some slaves were smuggled in afterwards.\nAfter 1630, the initial areas of settlement had been largely cleared of Native Americans by major outbreaks of measles, smallpox, and bubonic plague beginning decades before the settlers began arriving in large numbers. The leading killer was smallpox, which arrived in the New World around 1510\u20131530.[13]\nWhile the thirteen colonies differentiated in how they were settled and by whom, they had many commonalities. Nearly all were settled and financed by privately organized British settlers or families using free enterprise without any significant English Royal or Parliamentary government support or input. Nearly all commercial activity was run in small, privately owned businesses with good credit both at home and in England, which was essential since they were often cash poor. Most settlements were nearly independent of British trade since they grew or made nearly everything they needed; the average cost of imports per household was 5\u201315 pounds per year. Most settlements were created by complete family groups with several generations often present. The population was typically rural, with close to 80% owning the land they lived and farmed on. After 1700, as the Industrial Revolution progressed, more of the population started to move to cities, much like what had happened in Britain. Initially, the Dutch and German Americans primarily spoke dialects brought over from Europe, while English was the main trade language. Governments and laws primarily copied the English. The only major British institution to be abandoned was the aristocracy, noted by nearly universal absence. The settlers generally established their own popularly elected governments and courts on as many levels as they could and were nearly all, within a few years, self-governing, self-supporting, and self-replicating. This self-ruling pattern became so ingrained that almost all new settlements would have their own government up and running shortly after arrival for the next 200 years.\nAfter the colonies were initially settled, their population growth was made up almost entirely of natural growth with foreign-born immigrant populations rarely exceeding 10% (except in isolated instances). The last significant colonies to be settled primarily by immigrants were Pennsylvania (1680s+), the Carolinas (1663+), and Georgia (1732+). Even here the immigrants came mostly from England and Scotland with the exception of a large Germanic contingent to Pennsylvania. Elsewhere internal American migration from other colonies provided nearly all of the settlers for each new colony or state.[14] Populations grew by about 80% at a 3% \"natural\" annual growth rate sustained over a 20-year interval.\nOver half of all new British immigrants in the South initially arrived as indentured servants.[15] They were mostly poor young people who could not find work in England and could not afford passage to America. In addition, about 60,000 British convicts were transported to the British colonies in the 18th century. Most of these so-called convicts were guilty of being very poor and out of work. \"Serious\" criminals were generally executed. Ironically, these \"convicts\" are often the only immigrants with nearly complete immigration records as other immigrants typically showed up with few or no records.[16]\nOther coloniesEdit\nSpanishEdit\nAlthough Spain set up a few forts in Florida, notably San Agust\u00edn (present-day Saint Augustine) in 1565, they sent few settlers to Florida. Spaniards moving north from Mexico founded the San Juan on the Rio Grande in 1598, and Santa Fe in 1607\u20131608. The settlers were forced to leave temporarily for 12 years (1680\u20131692) by the Pueblo Revolt before returning.\nSpanish Texas lasted from 1690 to 1821 when Texas was governed as a colony which was separate from New Spain. In 1731, Canary Islanders (or \"Isle\u00f1os\") arrived to establish San Antonio.[17] The majority of the few hundred Texan and New Mexican colonizers in the Spanish colonial period were Spaniards and criollos.[18] California, New Mexico, and Arizona all had Spanish settlements. In 1781 Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles.\nAt the time they joined the U.S., Californios in California numbered about 10,000 and Tejanos in Texas about 4,000. New Mexico had 47,000 Spanish settlers in 1842. Arizona was only thinly settled.\nHowever, not all these settlers were of European descent. As in the rest of the American colonies, new settlements were based on the casta system, and although all could speak Spanish, it was really a melting pot of whites, Natives, and mestizos.\nFrenchEdit\nIn the late 17th century, French expeditions established a foothold on the Saint Lawrence River, Mississippi River, and Gulf Coast. Interior trading posts, forts, and cities were thinly spread throughout Louisiana such as Saint Louis, Baton Rouge, Sault Sainte Marie, Prairie du Rocher, and Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve. The city of Detroit was the third largest settlement in New France. New Orleans expanded when several thousand French-speaking refugees from the region of Acadia (now Nova Scotia, Canada) made their way to Louisiana following British expulsion, settling largely in the Southwest Louisiana region now called Acadiana. Their descendants are now called Cajun and still dominate the coastal areas.[19] It is estimated that 7,000 European immigrants settled in Louisiana during the 18th century.\nPopulation in 1790Edit\nThe following were the countries of origin for new arrivals to the United States before 1790.[20] The regions marked with an asterisk were part of Great Britain. The ancestry of the 3.9 million population in 1790 has been estimated by various sources by sampling last names from the 1790 census and assigning them a country of origin. The Irish in the 1790 census were mostly Scotch-Irish. The French were primarily Huguenots. The total U.S. Catholic population in 1790 was probably less than 5%. The Native American population inside territorial U.S. boundaries was less than 100,000.[citation needed]\nU.S. historical populations\nImmigrants before 1790\nPopulation 1790[21]\nAfrica[22]\nEngland*\nUlster Scotch-Irish*\nGermany[23]\nScotland*\nIreland*\n(Incl. in Scot-Irish)\nWales*\nJewish[24]\nOther[25]\nBritish total\nTotal[26]\nThe 1790 population reflected the loss of approximately 46,000 Loyalists, or \"Tories\", who immigrated to Canada at the end of the American Revolution, 10,000 who went to England and 6,000 to the Caribbean.\nThe USA of 1790 recorded 3.9 million inhabitant (not counting American Indians). Of the total white population of just under 3.2 million in 1790, 85% was of British ancestry - 60% were English or 1.9 million. 4.3% Welsh, 5.4% Scots, Irish (South) 5.8%, Scots-Irish 10.5%), Germans were 9%, Dutch 3.4%, French 2.1% and Swedish 0.25%; blacks made up 19.3% or 762,000)[27] The number of Scots was 200,000; Irish and Scot-Irish 625,000. The overwhelming majority of Southern Irish were Protestant as there were only 60,000 Catholics in the USA in 1790, 1.6% of the population. Many were descendants of English Catholics settlers in the 17th century. The rest were Irish, German and some Acadians who remained. In this era the population roughly doubled mostly due to natural increase every 23 years. Relentless population expansion pushed the U.S. frontier to the Pacific by 1848. Most immigrants came long distances to settle in the U.S. However, many Irish left Canada for the U.S. in the 1840s. French Canadians who came down from Quebec after 1860 and the Mexicans who came north after 1911 found it easier to move back and forth.[citation needed]\n1790 to 1849Edit\nThere was relatively little immigration from 1770 to 1830; while there was significant emigration from the U.S. to Canada, including about 75,000 Loyalists as well as Germans and others looking for better farmland in what is now Ontario. Large scale immigration resumed in the 1830s from Britain, Ireland, Germany, and other parts of Central Europe as well as Scandinavia. Most were attracted by the cheap farmland. Some were artisans and skilled factory workers attracted by the first stage of industrialization. The Irish Catholics were primarily unskilled workers who built a majority of the canals and railroads, settling in urban areas. Many Irish went to the emerging textile mill towns of the Northeast, while others became longshoremen in the growing Atlantic and Gulf port cities. Half the Germans headed to farms, especially in the Midwest (with some to Texas), while the other half became craftsmen in urban areas.\nNativism took the form of political anti-Catholicism directed mostly at the Irish (as well as Germans). It became important briefly in the mid-1850s in the guise of the Know Nothing party. Most of the Catholics and German Lutherans became Democrats, and most of the other Protestants joined the new Republican Party. During the Civil War, ethnic communities supported the war and produced large numbers of soldiers on both sides. Riots broke out in New York City and other Irish and German strongholds in 1863 when a draft was instituted, particularly in light of the provision exempting those who could afford payment.\nBased on available records, immigration totaled 8,385 in 1820, with immigration totals gradually increasing to 23,322 by the year 1830; for the 1820s decade immigration more than doubled to 143,000. Between 1831 and 1840, immigration more than quadrupled to a total of 599,000. These included about 207,000 Irish, starting to emigrate in large numbers following Britain's easing of travel restrictions, and about 152,000 Germans, 76,000 British, and 46,000 French, constituting the next largest immigrant groups of the decade.\nBetween 1841 and 1850, immigration nearly tripled again, totaling 1,713,000 immigrants, including at least 781,000 Irish, 435,000 Germans, 267,000 British, and 77,000 French. The Irish, driven by the Potato Famine (1845\u20131849), emigrated directly from their homeland to escape poverty and death. The failed revolutions of 1848 brought many intellectuals and activists to exile in the U.S. Bad times and poor conditions in Europe drove people out, while land, relatives, freedom, opportunity, and jobs in the US lured them in.\nPopulation and foreign born 1790\u20131849\nCensus population, immigrants per decade\nForeign born\n1. The total number immigrating in each decade from 1790 to 1820 are estimates.\n2. The number of foreign born in 1830 and 1840 decades are extrapolations.\nStarting in 1820, some federal records, including ship passenger lists, were kept for immigration purposes, and a gradual increase in immigration was recorded; more complete immigration records provide data on immigration after 1830. Though conducted since 1790, the census of 1850 was the first in which place of birth was asked specifically. The foreign-born population in the U.S. likely reached its minimum around 1815, at approximately 100,000 or 1% of the population. By 1815, most of the immigrants who arrived before the American Revolution had died, and there had been almost no new immigration thereafter.\nNearly all population growth up to 1830 was by internal increase; around 98% of the population was native-born. By 1850, this shifted to about 90% native-born. The first significant Catholic immigration started in the mid-1840s, shifting the population from about 95% Protestant down to about 90% by 1850.\nIn 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, concluding the Mexican War, extended U.S. citizenship to approximately 60,000 Mexican residents of the New Mexico Territory and 10,000 living in California. An additional approximate 2,500 foreign born California residents also become U.S. citizens.\nIn 1849, the California Gold Rush attracted 100,000 would-be miners from the Eastern U.S., Latin America, China, Australia, and Europe. California became a state in 1850 with a population of about 90,000.\n\"From the Old to the New World\" shows German emigrants boarding a steamer in Hamburg and arriving in New York. Harper's Weekly, (New York) November 7, 1874\nDemographyEdit\nBetween 1850 and 1930, about 5 million Germans migrated to the United States, peaking between 1881 and 1885 when a million Germans settled primarily in the Midwest. Between 1820 and 1930, 3.5 million British and 4.5 million Irish entered America. Before 1845 most Irish immigrants were Protestants. After 1845, Irish Catholics began arriving in large numbers, largely driven by the Great Famine.[28]\nAfter 1880 larger steam-powered oceangoing ships replaced sailing ships, which resulted in lower fares and greater immigrant mobility. In addition, the expansion of a railroad system in Europe made it easier for people to reach oceanic ports to board ships. Meanwhile, farming improvements in Southern Europe and the Russian Empire created surplus labor. Young people between the ages of 15 to 30 were predominant among newcomers. This wave of migration, constituting the third episode in the history of U.S. immigration, may be better referred to as a flood of immigrants, as nearly 25 million Europeans made the long trip. Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, and others speaking Slavic languages made up the bulk of this migration. 2.5 to 4 million Jews were among them.[citation needed]\nDestinationsEdit\nEach group evinced a distinctive migration pattern in terms of the gender balance within the migratory pool, the permanence of their migration, their literacy rates, the balance between adults and children, and the like. But they shared one overarching characteristic: they flocked to urban destinations and made up the bulk of the U.S. industrial labor pool, making possible the emergence of such industries as steel, coal, automotive, textile, and garment production, enabling the United States to leap into the front ranks of the world's economic giants.[citation needed]\nTheir urban destinations, numbers, and perhaps an antipathy towards foreigners, led to the emergence of a second wave of organized xenophobia. By the 1890s, many Americans, particularly from the ranks of the well-off, white, and native-born, considered immigration to pose a serious danger to the nation's health and security. In 1893 a group formed the Immigration Restriction League, and it, along with other similarly inclined organizations, began to press Congress for severe curtailment of foreign immigration.[citation needed]\nIrish and German Catholic immigration was opposed in the 1850s by the Nativist\/Know Nothing movement, originating in New York in 1843 as the American Republican Party (not to be confused with the modern Republican Party). It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to American values and controlled by the Pope in Rome. Active mainly from 1854\u201356, it strove to curb immigration and naturalization, though its efforts met with little success. There were few prominent leaders, and the largely middle-class and Protestant membership fragmented over the issue of slavery, most often joining the Republican Party by the time of the 1860 presidential election.[29][30]\nEuropean immigrants joined the Union Army in large numbers, including 177,000 born in Germany and 144,000 born in Ireland.[31] Many Germans could see the parallels between slavery and serfdom in the old fatherland.[32]\nBetween 1840 and 1930, about 900,000 French Canadians left Quebec in order to immigrate to the United States and settle, mainly in New England. Considering the fact that the population of Quebec was only 892,061 in 1851, this was a massive exodus. 13.6 million Americans claimed to have French ancestry in the 1980 census. A large portion of them have ancestors who emigrated from French Canada, since immigration from France was low throughout the history of the United States. During the same period almost 4 million other Canadians immigrated to the U.S. In the New England states 12% of the population can trace its ancestry back to Quebec and 10% can trace its ancestry back to the Maritime Provinces.[citation needed] The communities established by these immigrants became known as Little Canada.\nShortly after the U.S. Civil War, some states started to pass their own immigration laws, which prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in 1875 that immigration was a federal responsibility.[33] In 1875, the nation passed its first immigration law, the Page Act of 1875, also known as the Asian Exclusion Act, outlawing the importation of Asian contract laborers, any Asian woman who would engage in prostitution, and all people considered to be convicts in their own countries.[34]\nIn 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. By excluding all Chinese laborers from entering the country, the Chinese Exclusion Act severely curtailed the number of immigrants of Chinese descent allowed into the United States for 10 years.[35] The law was renewed in 1892 and 1902. During this period, Chinese migrants illegally entered the United States through the loosely guarded U.S.-Canadian border.[36]\nIllustration from Walter Crane's Columbia's Courtship: A Picture History of the United States in Twelve Emblematic Designs in Color with Accompanying Verses(1893)\nPrior to 1890, the individual states, rather than the Federal government, regulated immigration into the United States.[37] The Immigration Act of 1891 established a Commissioner of Immigration in the Treasury Department.[38] The Canadian Agreement of 1894 extended U.S. immigration restrictions to Canadian ports.\nLate 19th Century broadside advertisement offering cheap farm land to immigrants; few went to Texas after 1860.\nThe Dillingham Commission was set up by Congress in 1907 to investigate the effects of immigration on the country. The Commission's 40-volume analysis of immigration during the previous three decades led it to conclude that the major source of immigration had shifted from Central, Northern, and Western Europeans to Southern Europeans and Russians. It was, however, apt to make generalizations about regional groups that were subjective and failed to differentiate between distinct cultural attributes.[39][40]\nThe 1910s marked the high point of Italian immigration to the United States. Over two million Italians immigrated in those years, with a total of 5.3 million between 1880 and 1920.[41][42] About half returned to Italy, after working an average of five years in the U.S.[43]\nAbout 1.5 million Swedes and Norwegians immigrated to the United States within this period, due to opportunity in America and poverty and religious oppression in united Sweden-Norway. This accounted for around 20% of the total population of the kingdom at that time. They settled mainly in the Midwest, especially Minnesota and the Dakotas. Danes had comparably low immigration rates due to a better economy; after 1900 many Danish immigrants were Mormon converts who moved to Utah.[citation needed]\nIn this Rosh Hashana greeting card from the early 1900s, Russian Jews, packs in hand, gaze at the American relatives beckoning them to the United States. Over two million Jews fled the pogroms of the Russian Empire to the safety of the U.S. from 1881\u20131924.\nMulberry Street, along which Manhattan's Little Italy is centered. Lower East Side, circa 1900.\nOver two million Central Europeans, mainly Catholics and Jews, immigrated between 1880 and 1924. People of Polish ancestry are the largest Central European ancestry group in the United States after Germans. Immigration of Eastern Orthodox ethnic groups was much lower.[citation needed]\nLebanese and Syrian immigrants started to settle in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The vast majority of the immigrants from Lebanon and Syria were Christians, but smaller numbers of Jews, Muslims, and Druze also settled. Many lived in New York City's Little Syria and in Boston. In the 1920s and 1930s, a large number of these immigrants set out West, with Detroit getting a large number of Middle Eastern immigrants, as well as many Midwestern areas where the Arabs worked as farmers.[citation needed]\nCongress passed a literacy requirement in 1917 to curb the influx of low-skilled immigrants from entering the country.[citation needed]\nCongress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924, which supplanted earlier acts to effectively ban all immigration from Asia and set quotas for the Eastern Hemisphere so that no more than 2% of nationalities as represented in the 1890 census were allowed to immigrate to America.\nNew ImmigrationEdit\nThe Sunday magazine of the New York World appealed to Immigrants with this 1906 cover page celebrating their arrival at Ellis Island.\n\"New immigration\" was a term from the late 1880s that came from the influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants from southern and eastern Europe (areas that previously sent few immigrants).[44] Though the majority of immigrants came through Ellis Island in New York, thus making the Northeast a major target of settlement, there were various efforts, such as the Galveston Movement, to redirect immigrants to other ports and disperse some of the settlement to other areas of the country.\nNativists feared the new arrivals lacked the political, social, and occupational skills needed to successfully assimilate into American culture. This raised the issue of whether the U.S. was still a \"melting pot,\" or if it had just become a \"dumping ground,\" and many old-stock Americans worried about negative effects on the economy, politics, and culture.[45] A major proposal was to impose a literacy test, whereby applicants had to be able to read and write in their own language before they were admitted.[46]\nCatholicism became a leading denomination 1860\u20131910. St. John Cantius, one of Chicago's \"Polish Cathedrals\" was one of the churches these new immigrants founded.\nRestriction proceeded piecemeal over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but immediately after the end of World War I (1914\u201318) and into the early 1920s, Congress changed the nation's basic policy about immigration. The National Origins Formula of 1921 (and its final form in 1924) not only restricted the number of immigrants who might enter the United States, but also assigned slots according to quotas based on national origins. A complicated piece of legislation, it essentially gave preference to immigrants from Central, Northern and Western Europe, severely limiting the numbers from Soviet Union and Southern Europe, and declared all potential immigrants from Asia unworthy of entry into the United States.\nThe legislation excluded the Western Hemisphere from the quota system, and the 1920s ushered in the penultimate era of U.S. immigration history. Immigrants could and did move quite freely from Mexico, the Caribbean (including Jamaica, Barbados, and Haiti), and other parts of Central and South America. This era, which reflected the application of the 1924 legislation, lasted until 1965. During those 40 years, the United States began to admit, case by case, limited numbers of refugees. Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany before World War II, Jewish Holocaust survivors after the war, non-Jewish displaced persons fleeing Communist rule in Central Europe and the Soviet Union, Hungarians seeking refuge after their failed uprising in 1956, and Cubans after the 1960 revolution managed to find haven in the United States when their plight moved the collective conscience of America, but the basic immigration law remained in place.\nEqual Nationality Act of 1934Edit\nThis law allowed foreign-born children of American mothers and alien fathers who had entered America before the age of 18 and had lived in America for five years to apply for American citizenship for the first time.[47] It also made the naturalization process quicker for the alien husbands of American wives.[47] This law equalized expatriation, immigration, naturalization, and repatriation between women and men.[47][48] However, it was not applied retroactively, and was modified by later laws, such as the Nationality Act of 1940.[47][49]\nTydings\u2013McDuffie ActEdit\nIn 1934, the Tydings\u2013McDuffie Act provided independence of the Philippines on July 4, 1946. Until 1965, national origin quotas strictly limited immigration from the Philippines. In 1965, after revision of the immigration law, significant Filipino immigration began, totaling 1,728,000 by 2004.[50]\nPostwar immigrationEdit\nIn 1945, the War Brides Act allowed foreign-born wives of U.S. citizens who had served in the U.S. Armed Forces to immigrate to the United States. In 1946, The War Brides Act was extended to include the fianc\u00e9s of American soldiers. In 1946, the Luce-Celler Act extended the right to become naturalized citizens to those from the newly independent nation of The Philippines and to Asian Indians, the immigration quota being set at 100 people per year per country.[51]\nAt the end of World War II, \"regular\" immigration almost immediately increased under the official national origins quota system as refugees from war torn Europe began immigrating to the U.S. After the war, there were jobs for nearly everyone who wanted one, when most women employed during the war went back into the home. From 1941 to 1950, 1,035,000 people immigrated to the U.S., including 226,000 from Germany, 139,000 from the UK, 171,000 from Canada, 60,000 from Mexico and 57,000 from Italy.[52]\nThe Displaced Persons Act of 1948 finally allowed the displaced people of World War II to start immigrating.[53] Some 200,000 Europeans and 17,000 orphans displaced by World War II were initially allowed to immigrate to the United States outside of immigration quotas. President Harry S. Truman signed the first Displaced Persons (DP) act on June 25, 1948, allowing entry for 200,000 DPs, then followed with the more accommodating second DP act on June 16, 1950, allowing entry for another 200,000. This quota, including acceptance of 55,000 Volksdeutschen, required sponsorship for all immigrants. The American program was the most notoriously bureaucratic of all the DP programs and much of the humanitarian effort was undertaken by charitable organizations, such as the Lutheran World Federation as well as other ethnic groups. Along with an additional quota of 200,000 granted in 1953 and more in succeeding years, a total of nearly 600,000 refugees were allowed into the country outside the quota system, second only to Israel's 650,000.\n1950sEdit\nIn 1950, after the start of the Korean War, the Internal Security Act barred admission of Communists, who might engage in activities \"which would be prejudicial to the public interest, or would endanger the welfare or safety of the United States.\"\nIn 1950, the invasion of South Korea by North Korea started the Korean War and left a war-ravaged Korea behind. There was little U.S. immigration due to the national origin quotas of the immigration law. Significant Korean immigration began in 1965 after revision of the law, totaling 848,000 by 2004.\nThe Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 affirmed the national-origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one-sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. This exempted the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota. In 1953, the Refugee Relief Act extended refugee status to non-Europeans.\nIn 1954, Operation Wetback forced the return of thousands of illegal immigrants to Mexico.[54] Between 1944 and 1954, \"the decade of the wetback,\" the number of illegal immigrants coming from Mexico increased by 6,000 percent. It is estimated that before Operation Wetback got under way, more than a million workers had crossed the Rio Grande illegally. Cheap labor displaced native agricultural workers, and increased violation of labor laws and discrimination encouraged criminality, disease, and illiteracy. According to a study conducted in 1950 by the President's Commission on Migratory Labor in Texas, the Rio Grande Valley cotton growers were paying approximately half of the wages paid elsewhere in Texas. The United States Border Patrol aided by municipal, county, state, federal authorities, and the military, began a quasi-military operation of the search and seizure of all illegal immigrants. Fanning out from the lower Rio Grande Valley, Operation Wetback moved Northward. Initially, illegal immigrants were repatriated through Presidio because the Mexican city across the border, Ojinaga, had rail connections to the interior of Mexico by which workers could be quickly moved on to Durango. The forces used by the government were relatively small, perhaps no more than 700 men, but were augmented by border patrol officials who hoped to scare illegal workers into fleeing back to Mexico. Ships became a preferred mode of transport because they carried illegal workers farther from the border than buses, trucks, or trains. It is difficult to estimate the number of illegal immigrants that left due to the operation\u2014most voluntarily. The INS claimed as many as 1,300,000, though the number officially apprehended did not come anywhere near this total. The program was ultimately abandoned due to questions surrounding the ethics of its implementation. Citizens of Mexican descent complained of police stopping all \"Mexican looking\" people and utilizing extreme \"police-state\" methods including deportation of American-born children who were citizens by law.[55]\nThe failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution, before being crushed by the Soviets, forged a temporary hole in the Iron Curtain that allowed a burst of refugees to escape, with 245,000 Hungarian families being admitted by 1960. From 1950 to 1960, the U.S. had 2,515,000 new immigrants with 477,000 arriving from Germany, 185,000 from Italy, 52,000 from the Netherlands, 203,000 from the UK, 46,000 from Japan, 300,000 from Mexico, and 377,000 from Canada.\nThe 1959 Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro drove the upper and middle classes to exile, and 409,000 families immigrated to the U.S. by 1970.[56] This was facilitated by the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, which gave permanent resident status to Cubans physically present in the United States for one year if they entered after January 1, 1959.\nImmigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act)Edit\nThis all changed with passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, a by-product of the civil rights movement and a jewel in the crown of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. The measure had not been intended to stimulate immigration from Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere in the developing world. Rather, by doing away with the racially based quota system, its authors had expected that immigrants would come from \"traditional\" societies such as Italy, Greece, and Portugal, places subject to very small quotas in the 1924 Act. The 1965 Act replaced the quotas with preferential categories based on family relationships and job skills, giving particular preference to potential immigrants with relatives in the United States and with occupations deemed critical by the U.S. Department of Labor.\nAfter 1970, however, following an initial influx from European countries, immigrants from places like Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and Pakistan, as well as countries in Africa became more common.\nIn 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was passed, creating, for the first time, penalties for employers who hired illegal immigrants. IRCA, as proposed in Congress, was projected to give amnesty to about 1,000,000 workers in the country illegally. In practice, amnesty for about 3,000,000 immigrants already in the United States was granted. Most were from Mexico. Legal Mexican immigrant family numbers were 2,198,000 in 1980, 4,289,000 in 1990 (includes IRCA), and 7,841,000 in 2000. Adding another 12,000,000 illegal immigrants of which about 80% are thought to be Mexicans would bring the Mexican family total to over 16,000,000\u2014about 16% of the Mexican population.[citation needed]\n1990s: Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996Edit\nPassed in September 1996, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) was a comprehensive immigration reform focused on restructuring the process for admitting or removing undocumented immigrants.[57] Its passing helped to strengthen U.S. immigration laws, restructured immigration law enforcement, and sought to limit immigration by addressing undocumented migration. These reforms affected legal immigrants, those seeking entry into the U.S., and those living undocumented in the U.S.\nIIRIRA Changes to AsylumEdit\nIIRIRA created new barriers for refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. by narrowing asylum criteria previously established in the Refugee Act of 1980.[58] To prevent fraudulent asylum filings from people who were migrating for economic or work related reasons, IIRIRA imposed an all inclusive filing deadline called the \"One Year Bar\" to asylum.[59] IIRIRA provided limited exceptions to this rule when an \"alien demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Attorney General either the existence of changed circumstances which materially affect the applicant's eligibility for asylum or extraordinary circumstances relating to the delay in filing the application.\"[60] IIRIRA also made the asylum process more difficult for refugees by allowing for the resettlement of refugees to third countries, \"precluding appeals\" to denied asylum applications, implementing higher processing fees, and having enforcement officers rather than judges determine the expedited removal of refugees.[57]\nIIRIRA and Illegal ImmigrationEdit\nLaw enforcement under IIRIRA was strengthened to restrict unlawful immigration. The Act sought to prevent illegal immigration by expanding the number of Border Patrol agents and allowing for the Attorney General to obtain resources from other federal agencies. Provisions were also made to improve infrastructure and barriers along the U.S. border area.[61] IIRIRA also delegated law enforcement capabilities to state and local officers via 287(g) agreements.[61] Illegal entry into the U.S. was made more difficult by cooperation between federal and local law enforcement, in addition to stiffening penalties for illegal entry and racketeering activities which included alien smuggling and document fraud.\nIIRIRA addressed unlawful migration already present in the U.S. through enhanced tracking systems that included detecting employment eligibility and visa stay violations as well as creating counterfeit-resistant forms of identification.[62] The Act also established the 3 and 10 year re-entry bars for immigrants who accumulated unlawful presence in the U.S. and become inadmissible upon leaving the country. [63]\nThe restructuring of law enforcement contributed to an increased number of arrests, detentions, and removals of immigrants.[64] Under IIRIRA, the mandatory detention of broad groups of immigrants occurred, including those who had legal residence status but upon removal could have their status be removed after committing violent crimes. Relief and access to federal services were also redefined for immigrants as IIRIRA reiterated the 1996 Welfare Reform Act's tier system between citizens, legal immigrants, refugees, and illegal immigrants which determined public benefits eligibility.[62] In addition, IIRIRA also redefined financial self-sufficiency guidelines of sponsors who previously did not have to meet an income requirement to sponsor an immigrant.[62]\nImmigration summary since 1830Edit\nThe top ten birth countries of the foreign born population since 1830, according to the U.S. Census, are shown below. Blank entries mean that the country did not make it into the top ten for that census, not that there is no data from that census. The 1830 numbers are from immigration statistics as listed in the 2004 Year Book of Immigration Statistics.[65]\n\u2022 The 1830 numbers list un-naturalized foreign citizens and does not include naturalized foreign born. The 1850 census is the first census that asks for place of birth. The historical census data can be found online in the Virginia Library Geostat Center.[66] Population numbers are in thousands.\nCountry\/Year\n1830\u2022\n2 148 717 1,180 1,310 953 812 843 745 678\n8 584 1,967 2,663 1,609 990 833 849 712\n54 962 1,855 1,615 745 339\n484 1,790 1,257 1,009 832 581\n11 13 641 576 760 2,199 4,298 7,841\n501 913 1,222\n1,269 748 548 418\n27 379 918 1,168 1,403 833 686 669 640\n424 1,154 691 463 406\nTotal foreign born\n108* 2,244 6,679 10,341 14,204 10,347 9,619 14,079 19,763 31,100\n0.8%* 9.7% 13.3% 13.6% 11.6% 5.8% 4.7% 6.2% 7.9% 11.1%\nNative born\n12,677 20,947 43,476 65,653 108,571 168,978 193,591 212,466 228,946 250,321\n% Native born\n99.2% 90.3% 86.7% 86.4% 88.4% 94.2% 95.3% 94% 92.1% 88.9%\nPersons obtaining legal permanent resident status fiscal years 1820\u20132010[67]\n1820 8,385 1885 395,346 1950 249,187\n1825 10,199 1890 455,302 1955 237,790\n1840 84,066 1905 1,026,499 1970 373,326\n1845 114,371 1910 1,041,570 1975 385,378\n1850 369,980 1915 326,700 1980 524,295\n1860 153,640 1925 294,314 1990 1,535,872\n1870 387,203 1935 34,956 2000 841,002\n1875 227,498 1940 70,756 2005 1,122,257\nHistorical foreign-born population by stateEdit\nForeign-born population by U.S. state as a percentage of the total population (1850\u20132010)[68][69]\nWikimedia Commons has media related to Immigration in the United States.\nDemographics of the United States\nHistory of immigration to Canada\nGuest Worker Program\nRace and ethnicity in the United States\nEthnic groupsEdit\nEuropean Americans\nEmigration from Europe\nAmerican Jews\nAlbanian Americans\nAustrian Americans\nBaltic Americans\nEstonian Americans\nLatvian Americans\nLithuanian Americans\nBelgian Americans\nBritish Americans\nCornish Americans\nEnglish Americans\nManx Americans\nScottish Americans\nWelsh Americans\nSlavic Americans\nBelarusian Americans\nBosnian Americans\nBulgarian Americans\nCroatian Americans\nCzech Americans\nMacedonian Americans\nMontenegrin Americans\nPolish Americans\nRussian Americans\nRusyn Americans\nSerbian Americans\nSlovak Americans\nSlovenian Americans\nUkrainian Americans\nScandinavian Americans\nDanish Americans\nFaroese Americans\nFinnish Americans\nGreenlandic Americans\nIcelandic Americans\nNorwegian Americans\nSami Americans\nSwedish Americans\nSwedish emigration to the United States\nArmenian Americans\nCypriot Americans\nDutch Americans\nFlemish Americans\nFrench Americans\nBreton Americans\nGeorgian Americans\nGerman Americans\nGreek Americans\nHungarian Americans\nIrish Americans\nItalian Americans\nSicilian Americans\nLuxembourg Americans\nMaltese Americans\nPennsylvania Dutch, refers to German immigrants in colonial Pennsylvania\nPortuguese Americans\nRomani Americans\nRomanian Americans\nSpanish Americans\nBasque Americans\nSwiss Americans\nAfrican immigration to the United States\nCentral Africans in the United States\nHorn Africans in the United States\nNorth Africans in the United States\nSoutheast Africans in the United States\nSouthern Africans in the United States\nWest Africans in the United States\nMiddle Eastern Americans\nAfghan Americans\nAssyrian Americans\nAzerbaijani Americans\nIranian Americans\nIraqi Americans\nKurdish Americans\nLebanese Americans\nPashtun Americans\nSaudi Americans\nSyrian Americans\nTurkish Americans\nAsian immigration to the United States\nBangladeshi Americans\nBurmese Americans\nCambodian Americans\nChinese Americans\nHmong Americans\nIndian Americans\nJapanese Americans\nKaren Americans\nKorean Americans\nLaotian Americans\nPakistani Americans\nFilipino Americans\nTajikistani Americans\nUzbek Americans\nVietnamese Americans\nPacific Islander Americans\nAustralian Americans\nFijian Americans\nFrench Polynesian Americans\nMarshallese Americans\nM\u0101ori Americans\nMicronesian Americans\nNew Zealand Americans\nPalauan Americans\nSamoan Americans\nTongan Americans\nCanadian Americans\nHispanic and Latino Americans\n^ Bailyn, Bernard (1988). 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And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s (1996), by leading historian\nBarkan, Elliott Robert, ed. A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage (1999), 600 pp; essays by scholars on 27 groups\nBarone, Michael. The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again (2006)\nBayor, Ronald H., ed. The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (2015)\nBodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985)\nDassanowsky, Robert, and Jeffrey Lehman, eds. Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2nd ed. 3 vol 2000), anthropological approach to 150 culture groups; 1974 pp\nGjerde, Jon, ed. Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History (1998) primary sources and excerpts from scholars.\nLevinson, David and Melvin Ember, eds. American Immigrant Cultures 2 vol (1997) covers all major and minor groups\nMeier, Matt S. and Gutierrez, Margo, eds. The Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia (2003) (ISBN 0-313-31643-0)\nSteidl, Annemarie et al. From a Multiethnic Empire to a Nation of Nations: Austro-Hungarian Migrants in the US, 1870\u20131940 (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2017). 354 pp.\nThernstrom, Stephan, ed. Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (1980) (ISBN 0-674-37512-2), the standard reference, covering all major groups and most minor groups online\nYans-McLaughlin, Virginia ed. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics (1990)\nRecent migrationsEdit\nBorjas, George J. \"Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market?\" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2001\nHern\u00e1ndez, Kelly Lytle. \"The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Cross-Border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943 to 1954,\" Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Winter 2006), 421\u201344.\nKemp, Paul. Goodbye Canada? (2003), from Canada to U.S.\nKhadria, Binod. The Migration of Knowledge Workers: Second-Generation Effects of India's Brain Drain, (2000)\nMullan, Fitzhugh. \"The Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain.\" New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 353:1810\u201318 October 27, 2005 Number 17\nOdem, Mary and William Brown. Living Across Borders: Guatemala Migrants in the U.S. South Southern Spaces, 2011.\nPalmer, Ransford W. In Search of a Better Life: Perspectives on Migration from the Caribbean Praeger, 1990.\nSkeldon, Ronald, and Wang Gungwu; Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese 1994.\nSmith, Michael Peter, and Adrian Favell. The Human Face of Global Mobility: International Highly Skilled Migration in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific, (2006)\nHistorical studiesEdit\nAlexander, June Granatir. Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870\u20131920: How the Second Great Wave of Immigrants Made Their Way in America (2nd ed. Ivan R. Dee, 2009) 332 pp.\nArchdeacon, Thomas J. Becoming American: An Ethnic History (1984)\nBankston, Carl L. III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, eds. Immigration in U.S. History (2006)\nBergquist, James M. Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820\u20131870: How the First Great Wave of Immigrants Made Their Way in America (2nd ed. Ivan R. Dee, 2009) 329 pp.\nCohn, Raymond L. Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States (2009) 254 pp.; emphasis on economic issues\nDaniels, Roger. Coming to America 2nd ed. (2002) ISBN 0-06-050577-X\nDaniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 (2005)\nEltis, David; Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives (2002) emphasis on migration to Americas before 1800\nGlynn, Irial: Emigration Across the Atlantic: Irish, Italians and Swedes compared, 1800\u20131950 , European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2011, retrieved: June 16, 2011.\nHandlin, Oscar. 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Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States (2006), legal history\nWittke, Carl. We Who Built America: The Saga of the Immigrant (1939), 552 pp good older history that covers major groups\nHistoriographyEdit\nArchdeacon, Thomas J. \"Problems and Possibilities in the Study of American Immigration and Ethnic History\", International Migration Review Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring, 1985), pp. 112\u201334 in JSTOR\nDiner, Hasia. \"American Immigration and Ethnic History: Moving the Field Forward, Staying the Course\", Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer 2006, Vol. 25 Issue 4, pp. 130\u201341\nGabaccia, Donna. \"Immigrant Women: Nowhere at Home?\" Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 10, No. 4 (Summer, 1991), pp. 61\u201387 in JSTOR\nGabaccia, Donna R. \"Do We Still Need Immigration History?\", Polish American Studies Vol. 55, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 45\u201368 in JSTOR\nGerber, David A. \"Immigration Historiography at the Crossroads.\" Reviews in American History v39#1 (2011): 74\u201386. in Project MUSE\nGerber, David A. \"What's Wrong with Immigration History?\" Reviews in American History v 36 (December 2008): 543\u201356.\nGjerde, Jon. \"New Growth on Old Vines \u2013 The State of the Field: The Social History of Ethnicity and Immigration in the United States\", Journal of American Ethnic History 18 (Summer 1999): 40\u201365. in JSTOR\nHarzig, Christiane, and Dirk Hoerder. What is Migration History (2009) excerpt and text search\nJoranger, Terje, and Mikael Hasle. \"A Historiographical Perspective on the Social History of Immigration to and Ethnicity in the United States\", Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, Jan 2009, Vol. 60 Issue 1, pp. 5\u201324\nJung, Moon-Ho. \"Beyond These Mythical Shores: Asian American History and the Study of Race\", History Compass, March 2008, Vol. 6 Issue 2, pp. 627\u201338\nKazal, Russell A. \"Revisting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American Ethnic History\", American Historical Review Vol. 100, No. 2 (Apr. 1995), pp. 437\u201371 in JSTOR\nKenny, Kevin. \"Twenty Years of Irish American Historiography\", Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer 2009, Vol. 28 Issue 4, pp. 67\u201375\nLederhendler, Eli. \"The New Filiopietism, or Toward a New History of Jewish Immigration to America\", American Jewish History, March 2007, Vol. 93 Issue 1, pp. 1\u201320\nMeagher, Timothy J. \"From the World to the Village and the Beginning to the End and After: Research Opportunities in Irish American History\", Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer 2009, Vol. 28 Issue 4, pp. 118\u201335 in JSTOR\nPersons, Stow. Ethnic Studies in Chicago, 1905\u20131945 (1987), on Chicago school of sociology\nRodriguez, Marc S. (2004). Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship, and Community. U. of Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580461580.\nRoss, Dorothy. The Origins of American Social Science (1992), pp. 143\u201371, 303\u201389 on early sociological studies\nRothman, David J. \"The Uprooted: Thirty Years Later\", Reviews in American History 10 (September 1982): 311\u201319, on influence of Oscar Handlin in JSTOR\nSegal, Uma Anand (2002). A Framework for Immigration: Asians in the United States. Columbia U.P. ISBN 978-0-231-12082-1.\nStolarik, M. Mark. \"From Field to Factory: The Historiography of Slovak Immigration to the United States\", International Migration Review, Spring 1976, Vol. 10 Issue 1, pp. 81\u2013102 in JSTOR\nUeda, Reed (2011). A Companion to American Immigration. Wiley. ISBN 9781444391657.\nVecoli, Rudolph J. \"Contadini in Chicago: A Critique of The Uprooted\", Journal of American History 5 (December 1964): 404\u201317, critique of Handlin in JSTOR\nVecoli, Rudolph J. \"'Over the Years I Have Encountered the Hazards and Rewards that Await the Historian of Immigration,' George M. Stephenson and the Swedish American Community\", Swedish American Historical Quarterly 51 (April 2000): 130\u201349.\nWeinberg, Sydney Stahl, et al. \"The Treatment of Women in Immigration History: A Call for Change\" Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 11, No. 4 (Summer, 1992), pp. 25\u201369 in JSTOR\nPrimary sourcesEdit\nU.S. Immigration Commission, Reports of the Immigration Commission (1911) complete set of reports\nAbstracts of Reports, 2 vols. (1911); summary of the full 42-volume report; see also Jenks and Lauck\nReports of the Immigration Commission: Statements (1911) text of statements pro and con\nChicago Foreign Language Press Survey: English translations of 120,000 pages of newspaper articles from Chicago's foreign language press from 1855 to 1938.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=History_of_immigration_to_the_United_States&oldid=904554118\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Harry Khachatrian\nTHE ROLLING STONES' 'LET IT BLEED,' ALTAMONT, AND THE END OF THE 1960S\nPosted on December 9, 2019 by Harry\nThis December marks the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' seminal 60s record, \"Let it Bleed.\" A record which, with its accompanying American tour, marked, and more broadly encapsulated, the end of an era: the 1960s.\nThe 60s was defined by its youth, aestheticized by the carefree hippie counterculture movement that made pilgrimages to music festivals and experimented with psychedelics. The end of the decade, however, saw the political and social climate become increasingly turbulent. Domestically, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Riots followed. Less than three months later, JFK's brother Robert Kennedy met a similar fate. In 1969, a string of brutal murders in California by members of the Manson family followed by a deadly stabbing at a Rolling Stones' concert at the Altamont Speedway further rocked the nation. Overseas, in Southeast Asia, America's entanglement in the Vietnam War was at its peak. Meanwhile, in Europe, democratic, liberal reforms in Czechoslovakia were crushed under Soviet tanks as the Communists rolled through Prague.\nWhile the world around them was on fire, the Rolling Stones themselves were, by the end of the decade, on the brink of collapse, brimming with financial woe and internal conflict. They hadn't toured since 1966 (except a few European shows in '67) and under the new management of Allen Klein, had seen whole swaths of their royalties funneled into Klein's pockets. Meanwhile, the band's founder, Brian Jones, had been slowly deteriorating for years, succumbing to his worst, most self-destructive vices. He had been absent for most recording sessions, and, even when present, was barely able to function. While this was happening, his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, left him for Keith Richards. And bassist Bill Wyman was going through his divorce, while Mick Jagger's relationship with his girlfriend, Marianne Faithful, deteriorated as she spiralled down the rabbit-hole of addiction herself.\nIt was against this dark and disorderly backdrop that the Rolling Stones began sessions for their 8th U.K. studio album. The bulk of the record was recorded over six-months, beginning in February 1969. What resulted was a record that reflected not just the era in which it was recorded, but the internal state of the band recording it. Rather than allowing themselves to be consumed and destroyed by the turbulence and chaos surrounding them and boiling within, the Stones instead channelled that dark aura onto the grooves of their 1969 magnum opus, \"Let It Bleed.\"\nWith Brian Jones' mental state, weighed down by his addiction, not to mention the bevy of arrests on his criminal record hampering potential U.S. tours, the band had no other option but to replace the founder of the group. On May 30, 1969, Mick Taylor from John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers played his first session with the Rolling Stones in Olympic Studios.\nIt was around that time that the band recorded the opening track, \"Gimme Shelter.\" There's a reason Martin Scorsese used this song in three of his gangster films (\"Goodfellas,\" \"Casino,\" and \"The Departed\"). It starts with a subtle, foreboding guitar riff. Next, as the drums kick in, a new layer is added: a creepy, brooding background vocal, those haunting \"oohs,\" coupled with the creaking sound of guiros, leading up to Jagger's vocals. The song is composed and structured to convey the dread of an impending storm, as well as its impact. It's like a hurricane that starts with a trickle and builds to a thunderous pour. The opening lines, \"A storm is threatening my very life today,\" were written by Richards in his London apartment, staring out into the dreary, stormy skies and pouring out his anger and frustration at Mick Jagger over a suspected affair he was having with his then\u2013girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg.\nThe entire composition is elevated, rocketed through the stratosphere in its second half by the soulful Merry Clayton. Her gospel cries, pushing her vocal prowess to its breaking point as her voice cracks on the third iteration singing, \"Rape, murder! It's just a shot away, it's just a shot away,\" animate the aesthetics of the era \u2013 the late 60s \u2013 the racial tensions, the anti\u2013war protests, et al. In those few minutes and simple lyrics, \"Gimme Shelter\" sends genuine shivers running down your spine.\nIf \"Let it Bleed,\" as a record, marked the transition period from the Stones' Brian Jones era to the Mick Taylor era, then its second track, \"Love in Vain,\" a Robert Johnson blues cover, is where Keith Richards officially replaced Jones as the blues engine of the band. The tragic irony of this track is that Brian Jones, the man who formed the band with intent to import the blues to Britain, was completely absent from these sessions where the Stones played the purest, most earthly blues they'd done yet. Richards, apart from playing his guitar parts, played all of Jones', including Jones' signature slide guitar. While covers are sometimes put on records as filler to make up for lack of material, the Stones' \"Love in Vain\" is far from facile. Richards, influenced by Gram Parsons at the time, made the song entirely his own, rewriting it as a country-blues arrangement.\nThe Stones' latest single at the time was \"Honky Tonk Women.\" When it came to putting it on the record, Jagger and Richards stripped the grease and slickness clean off the twangy single, exposing its acoustic, country-blues underpinnings, and releasing it in all its rawness. \"Country Honk,\" the resulting track, isn't showy or grand. Whereas \"Honkey Tonk Women\" is electric, refined, and written for concert venues, \"Country Honk\" is relaxed and laid-back. It exudes that country aesthetic of southerners sitting back in wooden rocking chairs and strumming their guitars at the ranch, off, somewhere in Jackson, Tennessee.\nPosted in Music\t| Tagged Classic Rock, Let it Bleed, Rock and roll, The Rolling Stones\nLADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE ROLLING STONES\nPosted on August 6, 2019 by Harry\n\"Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones.\" These thundering words precede a pantheon of rock and roll that takes its place on stage as tens of thousands of fans, whose ages span several generations, look on in anticipation and joy.\nIt all started for the big, bad progenitors of rock and roll back in 1962. At London's Marquee Jazz Club where, one summer night, the Rolling Stones played their first ever gig. At the time, their roster featured founder and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire, Brian Jones; vocalist Mick Jagger; guitarist Keith Richards; and keyboardist, Ian Stewart. United by their passion for American blues, the unparalleled ensemble set off to bring the music of Chuck Berry, Muddy Mutters, et al. to Europe. As Richards explains in his autobiography, Life, \"the British invasion was really an invasion of American music into Europe.\" The four were joined a few months later, in January, by bassist Bill Wyman and jazz drummer Charlie Watts, thus completing the lineup.\nIn May of 1963, with a producer on board, the Rolling Stones were signed by Decca, the record label notorious for passing on The Beatles. In June, the Stones released their first single, \"Come On,\" a Chuck Berry cover.\nThey have been at it ever since, performing more than 2,000 concerts around the world, with grueling, nearly nonstop touring through the 1960s and early 1970s. They have claimed the title of top-grossing tour four separate times and amassed the world's highest-grossing tours in both the 1990s and 2000s.\nNow, showing no signs of stopping, the Stones are in the last stretch of their latest tour, \"No Filter,\" spanning two continents, and 45 shows. But the tour has not been without turbulence. A brief scare postponed the last set of shows, as Jagger had to undergo emergency heart surgery. However, Jagger \u2014 who just celebrated his 76th birthday \u2014 recovered from heart surgery at around the same rate that most adolescents recover from having their wisdom teeth pulled out. Within mere weeks, he announced he was back to his usual exercise routine and had a clean bill of health from his doctor. The tour was back on.\nI, myself, saw the Rolling Stones play in their one Canadian show, and suffice it to say, every minute of the six hours spent standing still against the stage-front barricade was worth it for the spectacle that followed. The Stones regaled spectators with fan favorites, the majority of the set-list being drawn from the band's famed, four sequential chef d'oeuvres: Beggars Banquet (1968), Let it Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main St. (1972).\nLesser-known records were played as well, especially thanks to the audience having a say in the set-list via online voting. Contenders were picked from a bag of forgotten hits and esoteric cuts off earlier albums: \"Mercy Mercy\" from 1965's Out of our Heads \u2013 played for the first time in 50 years; \"Under My Thumb\" from 1966's Aftermath; and the one I got to see, \"She's a Rainbow.\" It was a welcome revival of a colorful, pop-ballad from the Stones' oft-overlooked, early-era Pink Floyd inspired album, Their Satanic Majesties Request.\nThe Stones opened the show with the energetic, lively paean to protest: \"Street Fighting Man.\" Jagger emerged, draped in glam and glitter, his bellowing vocals filling the field, Richards in his usual debonair, driving the main riff, Ronnie Wood and Darryl Jones commanding the band's tight rhythm, and Watts keeping the beat, as a bona fide human metronome. Any remaining qualms concerning the Stones' ability to perform at peak performance were henceforth quashed.\nPosted in Music\t| Tagged Classic Rock, Music, Rock and roll, The Rolling Stones\nBruce Springsteen's \"Born in the USA\", 35 Years Old Today\nPosted on June 4, 2019 by Harry\nBruce Springsteen's \"Born in the U.S.A.\" marks its 35th anniversary today. The American rock icon's seventh studio album was met with massive commercial success upon release, featuring seven top-ten singles; it was certified as a three-times platinum record within a year of its release, and has sold over 30 million copies just since 2012.\nWorking with remnant recordings from sessions off of his then-previous record release, \"Nebraska,\" Springsteen reunited with the E-Street Band and producer Jon Landau to assemble his most pop-infused album since \"Born to Run.\"\nIn \"Born in the U.S.A.,\" Springsteen pooled a flourishing gamut of themes and ideas explored in previous records: The poignant depths of the human spirit on the verge of collapse from \"Nebraska\" (1982); the hardship of lost love and heartbreak from \"The River\" (1980); and the eminence of one's roots and upbringing in \"Born to Run\" (1975).\nIn honor of the album's anniversary, here's a deeper dive into a few key songs that, 35 years later, have stood the test of time, and carry themes as relevant today as they were in 1984.\nBorn in the U.S.A.\nThe eponymous opening track, \"Born in the U.S.A.\" sets the tone for the album, kicking off as the most anthemic rocker in Springsteen's discography since \"Born to Run.\" Set against a backdrop of red, white, and blue, it's easy to see why the album's title track is oft misinterpreted as either a paean to patriotism and America or as an anti-war harangue.\nIn fact, it's neither of the two. If anything, it leans closer to the upbeat celebration of Americana than its browbeating. In standard Springsteen style, the song is a story, telling the tale of a wounded combatant who, at no choosing of his own, was sent off to fight in Vietnam and then returns home to find his town left hung out to dry.\nCome back home to the refinery\nHiring man said \"son if it was up to me\"\nWent down to see my V.A. man\nHe said \"son, don't you understand\"\nThere's a widespread consensus now that the Vietnam War was largely a tragic boondoggle. It isn't a controversial position. And Springsteen, in his lyrics, doesn't focus on the vagaries of Vietnam; he instead lends his voice to the neglected and abandoned veterans of the conflict.\nSpringsteen's affection for the downtrodden veterans of Vietnam has its reprise on the opening track of the record's B-Side (the flip-side of the record), \"No Surrender.\" The track ties the album back to its namesake theme.\nWell, we made a promise we swore we'd always remember\nNo retreat, baby, no surrender\nLike soldiers in the winter's night\nWith a vow to defend\nThe song \"No Surrender\" is about camaraderie and staying true to oneself in the face of adversity. Springsteen communicates this idea soulfully:\nNow on the street tonight the lights grow dim\nThe walls of my room are closing in\nThere's a war outside still raging\nYou say it ain't ours anymore to win\nI want to sleep beneath\nPeaceful skies in my lover's bed\nWith a wide open country in my eyes\nAnd these romantic dreams in my head\nOnce we made a promise we swore we'd always remember\nBlood brothers in a stormy night\nLife is unpredictable. But even in the thick of battle, amid raging war when all one wants to do is go to sleep and dream of a more idyllic era, one has to stay true to himself and to those around him. No retreat, baby, no surrender.\nPosted in Music\t| Tagged America, Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen, Music, Patriotism\nCHARLES AZNAVOUR: 1924-2018\nPosted on October 8, 2018 by Harry\nCharles Aznavour (Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian), the Paris-born Armenian singer-songwriter, actor, and diplomat, who was known as \"France's Frank Sinatra\", died this month, on October 1st, 2018.\nBorn in 1924 to Armenian immigrants who'd fled to France amid Turkey's perpetration of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Armenians in the early 20thcentury, Aznavour was raised by a family of artists. His father was a singer, performing in French restaurants prior to opening his own.\nAznavour dropped out of school at a young age of nine to pursue his career as an entertainer \u2014 before his 10th birthday, he'd already starred in a movie and a theater production. Despite his young age, Aznavour insisted that he was never pressured or forced to become a performer. To him, it was a natural calling. \"People say that they put me on the stage, but I put myself there. It was natural. It was what I wanted to do.\"\nAznavour later shifted his focus to professional dancing. He didn't write his first song until the age of 24 in 1950.\nHe got his big break when he began opening for the legendary French singer, Edith Piaf. After his distinctive rich, mellow voice caught her attention, Piaf took Aznavour under her wing, mentoring the young virtuoso. Piaf advised Aznavour to pursue a singing career.\nAznavour went on to command a career lasting 80 years. He wrote a whopping 1000 songs, sold 180 million albums, and dazzled audiences in sold-out auditoriums well into his 90's. He sang in an astounding 8 different languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Armenian, and Neapolitan.\nAznavour's music knew no boundaries, touching upon an eclectic range of themes.\nHe wrote songs that by any standard were ahead of their time. In \"What Makes a Man\" (1972), Aznavour sang about a gay transvestite. The lyrics are overall great but especially outstanding are the lines, \"Nobody has the right to be; the judge of what is right for me; tell me if you can; what make a man a man.\"\nPosted in Armenian Genocide, Arts, Hollywood, Music, World War II\t| Tagged Arts, Hollywood, Music","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Film Noir of Lampedusa by Clay Apenouvon\n\"Film Noir of Lampedusa.\" Clay Apenouvon\n\"Film Noir of Lampedusa\" (November 20 - December 20, 2015)\nArtist: Clay Apenouvon\nCommissioned by the \u00c9glise Saint-Merri, (Church Saint Merri) for the Paris Climate Conference COP21. Installation in situ: Extended plastic film with various objects.\nIn this extraordinary installation, artist Clay Apenouvon, born in Togo, West Africa, has created a haunting memorial to the untold thousands of migrants\/refugees from Africa and the Middle East who have struggled across the Mediterranean to reach Sicily and the safety of Europe in makeshift boats and rafts. In many cases, their corpses and possessions have washed up on the small Italian island of Lampedusa, 70 miles from Tunisia and 127 miles from Sicily. The artist is inspired by the work of Lampedusa activist Giacomo Sferlazzo, who has tirelessly collected the objects thrown overboard or lost at sea by the refugees and assembled them into a \"Museum of Silence,\" composed of the mute traces of those lost forever beneath the waves.\nNearly all of those who attempt this perilous crossing are climate refugees, victims of the modern world's relentless hunger for hydrocarbon-based energy. The current wars and economic crises in Africa and the Middle East are ultimately driven by struggles over oil and related resources, and are exacerbated by climate change, itself the product of the endless burning of fossil fuels. Here, from a ledge that sometimes hold the host, an endless waterfall of blackness pours out from the walls, a vast oil spill that cannot be capped. Upon the floor of the sanctuary waves of black gold disgorge all manner of lost things\u2014a mismatched pair of children's shoes, a bottle containing a message of love, a Qur'an, an image of the virgin, a small crucifix, a cell phone. In this corner of a stunningly beautiful ancient church we find ourselves before a latter-day sacrificial altar, pondering all those whose dreams of refuge will never be realized.\nThe work's title, \"Film Noir,\" has many allusions. It recalls the black film left on the ocean's surface by each oil spill. It reminds us that so many of the victims of the Mediterranean are African, who all too quickly fade from the view and conscience of the world's wealthy nations. It evokes as well the Film Noir genre of Hollywood melodrama, celebrated for tangled plot lines of crime and passion, low key lighting and unbalanced composition. For here we are in the presence of a vast crime scene, a movie reel that plays over and over and over again, a film noir nightmare from which, it appears, we can never awake.\nThe installation was commissioned for the Paris Climate Conference COP21, before the brutal mass murders of Friday, November 13 in the environs of the Saint Merri Church. The work now strikes us eerily prophetic, anticipating the spontaneous memorials erected to the lost in the nearby Place de la R\u00e9publique. The very walls of the church, one senses, are weeping\u2014for all the victims, near and far. This endless filmstrip of tragedy plays again and again, mute testimony to all those who can no longer speak for themselves.\nAppropriately, Apenouvon's installation emerges from beneath the grand painting by Charles Antoine Coypel, Les Disciples d'Emma\u00fcs,(The Disciples of Emmaus, 1749), Soon after his death and resurrection, Jesus reveals himself to two of his disciples, who are despondent over his crucifixion. When he breaks bread with them, they recognize him and are filled with joy (Luke 24:13-35). This setting, it seems to me, is even more deeply appropriate after the terrorist horrors of November 13. In our anguish, in our grief, whatever our faith, we long for some trace of hope, for a better future for ourselves and for those that will come after us. That is the spirit of COP21\u2014an insistence that we gaze squarely and unflinchingly upon the ravages to which our planet is now subjected, combined with a demand that we act in concert to imagine, and actively produce, a better world. That is now the silent prayer of Clay Apenouvon, a Parisian born in West Africa: that the atrocities of the Paris assaults will not cause us to turn our back on the world's least fortunate, on the refugees struggling to reach Fortress Europe. The terrorists, after all, viciously attacked those engaged in the most fundamental expressions of common humanity\u2014eating and drinking together, listening to music, dancing together. Should not our response, in the spirit of Coypel's painting of the scene from Luke 21, be to move beyond misrecognition of those whom we encounter on the journey? Should we not, instead, recognize in the Other all that binds us, from the richest and poorest, and join in that most basic of communions, breaking bread together?\nPosted by Mark Auslander at 8:23 AM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Belfast InternationalAirport Guide\nFlight Arrivals\nFlight Departures\nTerminal Information\nAirport Lounge at Belfast\nBelfast Airport History\nBook Cheap Flights\nTaxis & Transfers\nB&Bs near the airport\nJet 2 launches new routes from Belfast\nPosted on 10th July 2008 at 2:23 pm.\nWritten by Team Writer\nHome \u00bb News \u00bb Jet 2 launches new routes from Belfast\nLow-cost airline Jet 2 announced plans last week to launch two new routes flying from Northern Ireland's Belfast International Airport. Beginning in 2009, the flights will serve Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands and Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. The new routes will increase the total number of Jet 2 services from the airport to thirteen, offering Northern Ireland holidaymakers even more choice of budget destinations.\nBoth Jersey and Menorca have been popular destinations with travellers for many years, each offering a taste of idyllic island life. Menorca is particularly popular with families and couples seeking quiet beaches and relaxing holidays. Jersey also draws in many holidaymakers each year, as well as a large number of people travelling to the Channel Islands on business.\nJet 2's prices are a great incentive for holidaymakers, particularly in the current financial climate. From May 29th 2009 travellers will be able to purchase one-way flights to Menorca for \u00a355.99 and to Jersey for just \u00a334.99, both inclusive of taxes and fees.\nJohn Doran, managing director at Belfast International Airport, commended Jet 2's decision to increase its usage of Belfast Airport, acknowledging that Northern Ireland travellers now have even more reasons to fly from Belfast rather than from Dublin, a much larger and busier airport. He said: \"We are delighted to acknowledge Jet 2's commitment to delivering greater choice for Northern Ireland travellers.\"\nThere are now a total of 48 services flying from Belfast, a number which is expected to increase even further over the next few years.\nOther Airport Guides\nE. Midlands\nThe Airport Guides Network is a trading style of Fubra Limited.\nThis site is not affiliated with the official site and is an independent guide to the airport. We try to ensure that information is as up to date as possible, but we cannot be held responsible for any omissions or errors from changes we have not been made aware of. This site also uses affiliate links, where we may receive a small commission for purchases you make via these links.\nCopyright \u00a9 2003 - 2022, all rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mollie Cronin\nCurator 2015\nMollie Cronin was born in Windsor, Ontario, in 1993 and grew up in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. She completed the Foundation Year Programme at the University of King's College in 2012 before transferring to NSCAD University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History in 2015. A self-described \"art brat\", Cronin was raised by two parents both heavily involved in the Halifax arts scene and has grown to become an involved member herself \u2013 whether this involvement takes the form of curation, writing, speaking, volunteering, or through the arts podcast that she runs out of the No Offense* Gallery on Gottingen street. Mollie Cronin currently resides in Halifax where she works full-time as a collections supervisor, as well as a freelance writer and curator.\nArt Out Loud, Nova Scotia Creative Awards Gala\nSupport IOTA\nIOTA needs your support to be able to continue supporting artists in the best way we can.\ninfo@IOTAinstitute.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Enjoy Whisky\nVisit Our Distillery\nMalt Master Class\nNosing and Tasting\nYour Need To Know Guide\nMaverick Whisky Manifesto\nEperimental bartender\nExperimental Series\nCatching up with friends\nI recently caught up with an old friend and very important whisky connoisseur, Mahesh Patel.\nIt is fair to say that Mahesh's great passion in life is whisky. A successful commercial real estate developer in Atlanta, Georgia, he is best known in whisky circles as the founder of the Universal Whisky Experience. An event for whisky aficionados, connoisseurs, and collectors, it is a great opportunity to attend master classes taught by brand leaders and sample some of the finest whisky from around the world.\nSKILFULLY CRAFTED. ENJOY RESPONSIBLY.\nPlease share responsibly and do not forward this content on to anyone who is under the legal drinking age in their country of residence.\n\u00a92017 William Grant & Sons Ltd Terms & Conditions | Privacy & Cookies Notice Registered in Scotland. Registered Number SC131772\nRegistered Office: The Glenfiddich Distillery, Dufftown, Banffshire AB55 4DH info@glenfiddich.com VAT No: 554690029 William Grant & Sons Ltd is a member of the Scotch Whisky Association (S.W.A.)\nThis content is intended only for those over the legal drinking age in their country. Please share mindfully.\n*The Glenfiddich range has received more awards since 2000 than any other single malt Scotch whisky in two of the world's most prestigious competitions, the International Wine & Spirit Competition and the International Spirits Challenge.\nFrom the best dram in the valley to the most awarded single malt whisky in the world*\nWelcome to Glenfiddich. When were you born?\nYYYY20232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007200620052004200320022001200019991998199719961995199419931992199119901989198819871986198519841983198219811980197919781977197619751974197319721971197019691968196719661965196419631962196119601959195819571956195519541953195219511950194919481947194619451944194319421941194019391938193719361935193419331932193119301929192819271926192519241923\nPLEASE SELECTArgentinaAustraliaCanadaChileChinaColombiaDeutschlandFranceHong KongIndiaJapanKoreaMexicoPanam\u00e1PeruSingaporeSouth AfricaTaiwanUnited KingdomUnited StatesVenezuela\u0420\u041e\u0421\u0421\u0418\u042fRest of World\nYou must have cookies enabled to use this website.\nFor further information on deleting or controlling cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.\nBy entering this site you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy & Cookies Notice","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Exporters' Choice Award\nOeKB takes on honour in Venice\nIn 2016 OeKB was voted \"Best Performing ECA in 2016\" by 100 leading export companies in Europe as part of the Exporters' Choice Awards. On 7th of June 2016 the prize was officially presented at the TXF conference in Venice.\nOeKB best Export Credit Agency (ECA) 2016\nFor several years, Trade & Export Finance (TXF), a renowned London-based conference and trend analysis agency, has been awarding Exporters' Choice Awards in several categories. In 2016, OeKB won the Export Credit Agencies (ECA) category for the first time after its already good performance in the previous years.\nAt a conference in Venice in early June, the awards were handed over to the winners. Helmut Bernkopf, Member of the Board, and Ferdinand Schipfer, then OeKB Director for Export Guarantees, accepted the award and are delighted with the first place: \"We are very happy about this award and it is very motivating to see that our constant commitment for the benefit of the exporting industry is appreciated. However, this price does not make us complacent, but rather spurs us on to continue working with full commitment for Austria's economy. \"\nTop marks in customer care and competence\nThe results are based on a telephone survey of more than 100 export companies from 25 countries. The quality of ECAs was questioned in nine different dimensions such as business understanding, flexibility, risk appetite, product range or customer orientation. The overall result consists of the evaluation of these key criteria. OeKB received particularly good marks for customer support and expertise.\nFerdinand Schipfer and Helmut Bernkopf with the Exporters' Choice Award.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"President Biden boasts of American Rescue Plan at Tri-C: The Wake Up for Friday, May 28, 2021\nby Charbel Lebbos | May 28, 2021 | Local News | 0 comments\nGet ready for a cooler start to the holiday weekend with rain in the forecast both Friday and Saturday. Highs will only be in the 50s both days, but expect skies to clear and temperatures to rise for the second half of the weekend. Read more.\nLocal scores: Indians 5, Detroit Tigers 2\nBiden in town: President Joe Biden came to Cuyahoga Community College Thursday to lay out the work that's been done to rebuild the economy and outline what he felt was needed to recreate the economy for the future. Part boast, part call to action, Biden spent much of the time noting the popularity and \u2013 as he described it \u2013 success of the American Rescue Plan, Seth Richardson reports.\nStimulus watch: The U.S. Treasury this week released guidelines for how much smaller cities, townships and villages should get from the American Rescue Plan. Ohio is one of eight states where the money could be denied to townships, if the state determines they don't provide a range of municipal services and wouldn't have a use for the money. Robin Goist reports Ohio is slated to get $843 million for cities, villages and townships.\nFederal inmates: Authorities on Thursday agreed to a contract that will keep hundreds of inmates at a pretrial detention facility in Northeast Ohio, rather than shipping them to Pennsylvania. The Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, a facility in Youngstown owned by private corrections company CoreCivic, will continue to house federal inmates through a compromise with the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department, John Caniglia reports.\nThis Week in the CLE: Companies could continue withholding municipal income taxes as they have under a coronavirus emergency law, under a bill passed by the Ohio House. We're asking how can cities tax people who don't live or work there on This Week in the CLE, cleveland.com's daily half-hour news podcast.\nHessler apartments: The Cleveland Landmarks Commission on Thursday gave its blessing to developers who want to build small apartments along historic Hessler Road in the city's University Circle neighborhood over the opposition of longtime residents, Eric Heisig reports. The property is also the site of a garage that was used as a museum for the annual Hessler Street Fair arts and music festival, which many of the street's longtime residents sought to preserve.\nNew numbers: The Ohio Department of Heath added 732 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, below the 21-day rolling average of 961 cases, reports Laura Hancock.\nColor-coded map: For nearly a year, Ohioans could expect a color-coded map each Thursday, showing Ohio's 88 counties and colors \u2013 yellow, orange, red and purple- that were to illustrate how severe the coronavirus outbreak was, Laura Hancock reports. The map will no longer be released. The Department of Health will continue to provide county-level data on cases per 100,000 residents. On Thursday, the statewide average was 82.3 cases per 100,000.\nVax-a-Million winner: Abbigail Bugenske was driving to her parents' house in Shaker Heights, when Gov. Mike DeWine called and said she won the first Vax-a-million drawing. Laura Hancock reports that Bugenske is a 2016 Shaker Heights High School graduate who is now a mechanical engineer and works for GE Aviation. She has no plans to quit her job.\nWolstein vaccinations: The Wolstein Center mass vaccination clinic will offer the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine during its final week, until June 7. The vaccine requires two doses taken 21 days apart, so anyone who receives their first dose at the Wolstein Center will be given an appointment for a second shot at an area Discount Drug Mart, reports Evan MacDonald.\nFailure to investigate: Cleveland police suspended a veteran detective for 10 days without pay for failing to investigate crimes, Adam Ferrise reports. The department said Det. John Kraynik failed to properly investigate 15 cases from January to June 2019, the year after internal investigators said he sent racist text messages and when he shot and killed a 15-year-old Black teen in 2005.\nPandemic school year: After the pandemic, Laura Johnston will never again take school for granted. We have never felt more grateful for teachers than this year, as we flip-flopped from hybrid back to online school, then eventually returning to full-day, five days a week.\nMetroHealth: The KeyBank Foundation is donating $1.5 million to MetroHealth so the health system can bolster its effort to address social determinants of health in Greater Cleveland, particularly in underserved populations, reports Evan MacDonald.\nLocal pitcher: Ryan Feierabend's baseball career is built on heart, endurance and a lot of frequent-flyer miles, reports Marc Bona. The former Midview High School star \u2013 who was drafted in 2003 by the Seattle Mariners, who has undergone Tommy John surgery, who played in Asian professional leagues, and whose moments in the sun include picking off Derek Jeter \u2013 is back at home, playing for the Lake Erie Crushers.\nMicrosoft to acquire Activision Blizzard, the embattled Call of Duty, Warcraft publisher, for $68.7 billion\nby Charbel Lebbos | Jan 18, 2022 | Technology\nMicrosoft Gaming will acquire Activision Blizzard \u2014 the embattled video game publisher behind such hit franchises as Call of Duty, Warcraft, Overwatch and Candy Crush \u2014 in a $68.7 billion deal, the company said in a blog post Tuesday. The proposed price would make...\nSaudi led-coalition launches airstrikes on Yemeni capital after deadly Houthi drone strike in Abu Dhabi\nby Charbel Lebbos | Jan 18, 2022 | World News\nAbu Dhabi, UAE (CNN)The Saudi led-coalition fighting in Yemen launched airstrikes on the Yemeni capital on Monday, shortly after Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a deadly drone attack in the United Arab Emirates. \"In response to the threat and...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Global Payroll\nactivTechnology\nInternational Payment Solution\nPioneering global payroll solutions in over 140+ countries, all without a sales team!\nDid you know we won two awards at the Edinburgh Chamber Awards?\nactivpayroll was announced the winner of 'Export Business of the Year' and 'Director of the Year' at the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2019.\nRead our ABMC Case Study\nDiscover how we were able to implement a managed global payroll solution that would meet all of the needs of ABMC.\nAustralia Global Insights\nInterested in doing business in Australia? Find out everything you need to know about Australian payroll, tax , social security, employment law and much more.\nJoin our award winning team in Aberdeen!\nWe have fantastic opportunities to join our Aberdeen HQ office as an EMEA Payroll Coordinator or a Global Finance Assistant.\nMaking good things happen globally!\nThis year we are supporting a number of charities through fundraising, food donations and numerous challenges!\nIntroducing one of our four charities: Women V Cancer\nIn just two weeks, Alison will be embarking on her final cycling challenge of the year: Vietnam to Cambodia in only 6 days. Despite the 450km of cycling, Alison and the other women joining her will get to enjoy the sites of two of South East Asia's most fascinating countries. This challenge is being completed in aid of Women V Cancer.\nAbout Women V Cancer\nCompared to the other three #activAlison charities, Women V Cancer is a bit different. Women V Cancer is a series of challenging and adventurous cycles organised to raise money for three women's cancer charities. All funds raised are split equally between: Breast Cancer Care, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust and Ovarian Cancer Trust. Since the launch of Women V Cancer, over \u00a35 million has been raised by participants taking part in the cycling challenges.\nEvery year, 55,000 women and men receive the devastating news that they have breast cancer, Breast Cancer Care wants to be there for every one of them. The charity offers expert information and skilled emotional and practical support, informed by clinical expertise and their understanding of people's experience.\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is the only UK charity dedicated to women affected by cervical abnormalities and cervical cancer. With nearly three women a day in the UK dying from cervical cancer and eight being diagnosed, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust offers a range of online and face to face support and information including: information materials, a helpline, online forum and local support groups.\nOvarian Cancer Action\nThe UK has one of the lowest survival rates of ovarian cancer in the developed world, with the disease killing 12 women a day in the UK. Most of the charitable spend contributes to world-class ovarian cancer research, including life-saving research at the Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre. The charity is dedicated to improving women's chances of survival by funding research, raising awareness and giving women affected by it a voice.\nIn other news...\n15 January Belgium Decides 2020 Salary Indexation\n20 December activpayroll Celebrates 2019 Charity Success\n19 December UK Holiday Pay Changes in 2020\nStay up to date with our latest global payroll and tax news\nWe'll never pass on your email address to a third party and we only send relevant information on financial matters.\n+44 (0) 1224 860 800 or enquiries@activpayroll.com\nSite by Primate\ncopyright \u00a9 activpayroll Ltd. 2020\nThis site uses analytical cookies to improve the user experience and help us understand how it's used.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Future is Equal: Equality Rising\nImplications for Brands, Countries and Global Citizenship\n16 June, 2016 Share socially\nAs this weekend PRIDE events worldwide commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969, and we build momentum towards the anniversary in 2019 (50 years) which FutureBrand has created the brand marque for under the auspices of NYC Pride, it is worth also pausing to recognise that the future requires more work and effort to achieve an open and equal world community. Working with HRC (The Human Rights Campaign), we believe it is imperative that social issues such as LGBTQ rights are a vital element for creating a better future for all. HRC's recent publication, Equality Rising is a wonderful summary of progress to date in 2016, and yet reflects on the challenges that remain.\nIn the wake of the recent Orlando shooting and raised consciousness of LGBTQ rights, the response by firms to recognise this act of terror and murder has been laudable around the world. Support for 'Orlando Strong' and #LoveconquersHate has been amplified. Within hours of the shooting at the PULSE club and as the enormity of the tragedy unfolded, brands began to take action. JP Morgan donated $1M to the OneOrlando Fund set up by the city of Orlando. Wells Fargo Bank donated $300K; Publix $250K, Olive Garden and AT&T $200K and Disney and Jet Blue offered free accommodation and flights to the families of victims. This is in addition to many other brands and contributions that have been made as a result of the increased awareness and consciousness of LGBTQ community issues. Around the world, Corporate brands are implementing programmes to push a 'Future is Equal' agenda, and to recognise that to be on 'the right side of history' is not only good for business, but the right thing to do in the eyes of employees, shareholders and communities in which these firms do business.\nEquality Rising highlights the rising visibility of the LGBTQ community, unprecedented legal and political victories and evolving societal and institutional norms that benefit LGBTQ people. It also explores the ferocious backlash, as opponents respond to this swift and substantial progress on LGBTQ rights. The publication concludes with an emphasis that momentum towards equality is building across the world as courageous and resilient advocates fearlessly face challenges.\nEquality Rising reminds us that there is still a lot of work to do. At least 75 countriescriminalize same-sex relationships and same-sex conduct may be punishable by death in up to 10 countries. HRC Global stands in solidarity with advocates everywhere against homophobia, transphobia, biphobia and all forms of hate facing the LGBTQ community across the globe.\nWhat does this mean for Corporate Brands? What does it mean for leaders and citizens of countries? What does this mean for global citizenship?\nCompanies today are influential arbiters of power both as employers and citizens. Companies are catalysts of economic development and prosperity, as well as represent branded goods and services that are valued everyday by consumers worldwide. The power of firms to influence debate and social outcomes is unquestioned. Their influence as employers, as well as tax paying sources of income mean that a corporate brand can exert pressure on the political and economic agenda of communities, regions and nations. As consumers demand to know more about companies and their views on issues related to citizen welfare, and equality \u2013 the ranking of firms that are 'pro-LGBTQ' as indexed by HRC becomes even more important. Social philanthropy and citizenship are Important drivers of change, and when a firm supports an issue such as LGBTQ rights it is an important endorsement and offers legitimacy to legal and employment law enforcement. In the US, this has been at the center of the debates on Anti-LGBTQ employment discrimination attempts in state legislatures. Companies such as Starbucks, Apple, GAP and American Airlines to name a few have been ardent supporters for change and for equality. This has a very positive reputation halo for these firms and serves as a model for corporate social responsibility and citizenship. The HRC index on equality in the workplace can be seen here in full.www.hrc.org\/cei.\nCountry Brands are also impacted by HRC's study, and this is increasingly an important issue for both attracting investment as well as Tourism revenues. The effect of human rights abuses and a political agenda of hate can be seen in the effect of perceptions or associations of how consumers see nations and their degree of tolerance and\/or open and free society. Our FutureBrand Country Brand Index (insert link) identifies how the variable of tolerance and being 'good for business' are related, and how the experience of wanting to visit, live or work in a Country is affected by how 'equal' and welcoming the country is perceived as being. In Africa and the Middle East, when combined with traditional tribal culture and faith based governance, the more open, liberal and 'western' values of tolerance, equality and respect are not enshrined in law for either women or the LGBTQ communities.\nAs the global community of consumers and citizens connect more freely and openly, and as cross-border ideas, workforces and education begins to create collaborative networks the implications of Global Citizenship begin to hit home. In an era of populist rhetoric and xenophobia, the agenda for acceptance and tolerance is limited to the more developed economies and countries of the world. Many of these countries and their corporations are pioneering the advances both for their workers, their communities and via their governments the markets in which they operate. Global Brands and governments are working in concert to raise the consciousness of LGBTQ issues and causes related to equality, freedom and human rights. This is vital for a more open, positive and beneficial future for all people.\nAt FutureBrand, and in our firm IPG (Interpublic Group) we are strong advocates of equality, and of respect for individuals and of communities. Working with brands and organizations that can have a more positive future is vital to advance global prosperity, safety, security and social welfare, and FutureBrand is future positive.\nHere is the most recent global equality report, Equality Rising. In addition, here are the links to a few videos released in May:\nHRC Global Innovators Discuss the International LGBTQ Movement - Elvina\nHRC Global Innovators Discuss the International LGBTQ Movement - Qwin\nHRC Global Innovators Discuss the International LGBTQ Movement - Jaevion\nHRC Global Innovators Discuss the International LGBTQ Movement - Andrea","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HOME \/ GAME BOY ADVANCE CHEATS & CODES \/ MR. DRILLER 2\nMr. Driller 2 Cheats\nWe currently don't have any Mr. Driller 2 cheats or cheat codes for Game Boy Advance.\nThe Genie has more Mr. Driller 2 Cheats at CheatingDome.com.\nWe currently don't have any Mr. Driller 2 FAQs, guides or walkthroughs for Game Boy Advance. Please check back at a later date for more guides and walkthroughs to be added.\nWe currently don't have any Mr. Driller 2 savegames for Game Boy Advance. Please check back at a later date for more game saves to be added.\nWe currently don't have any Mr. Driller 2 achievement or trophy lists for Game Boy Advance. Please check back at a later date for more achievements and trophies to be added.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2b05 NewsNation\nContact 'Morning in America'\nSubmit Your American Hero\nTell Washington\nSpecial Anniversary\nBumpy take-off for summer travel season\nSydney Kalich\n(NewsNation) \u2014 The pressure is on for airlines to improve service after a bumpy take-off to the summer travel season.\nAirlines canceled more than 1,500 flights in the U.S. on Thursday, one of the worst days yet for travel as the peak summer vacation season heats up. By Friday at 1 pm ET, nearly 3,000 flights were canceled, according to FlightAware.\nFamily killed in crash after birthday celebration\nThe cancellations came less than three weeks after airlines kicked off the summer travel season by canceling about 2,800 flights in a five-day stretch around the Memorial Day holiday weekend.\nAnd they happened as airline CEOs held a virtual meeting with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg \u2014 a sign of the Biden administration's concern about the prospect of snarled airports and unhappy travelers this summer.\nDuring the meeting, Buttigieg asked the CEOs to describe steps they are taking to operate smoothly over the July 4 holiday and the rest of the summer, according to a person familiar with the call but not authorized to discuss it publicly.\nButtigieg also pushed airlines to examine whether they can handle the schedules that they have published, and to improve customer service, the person said.\nThe head of trade group Airlines for America, Nicholas Calio, said in a statement that industry officials appreciated the chance to talk with Buttigieg and \"discuss our shared commitment to prioritizing the safety and security of all travelers.\"\nAirlines are struggling with shortages of workers, especially pilots, that are hurting their ability to operate all their planned flights. Pilot unions at Delta, American and Southwest have said their airlines were too slow to replace pilots who retired or took leaves of absence during the early part of the pandemic.\nFourth-generation farmer: 'Food shortage is coming'\nTwo Senate Democrats said this month that the holiday weekend performance \"raises questions about airline decision-making.\" Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Edward Markey of Massachusetts said delays and cancellations \"are occurring so frequently that they are becoming an almost-expected part of travel.\"\nThe airlines blame bad weather and the Federal Aviation Administration, an arm of the Transportation Department that manages the nation's airspace. In a letter to the senators, Calio ticked off a long list of FAA delays and staffing problems over the holiday weekend.\nConcern about flight problems comes as the number of air travelers in the U.S. pushes above 2.2 million a day. That is still about 300,000 fewer per day than in mid-June 2019, but crowds will grow over the next several weeks and almost certainly break the pandemic-era record set on the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.\nBottlenecks could pop up at gateway airports where travelers enter the United States. Last weekend, the Biden administration dropped a 16-month requirement that people test negative for COVID-19 before boarding a flight to the U.S. That decision is expected to boost international travel \u2014 United Airlines said Monday that it saw an immediate increase in searches for overseas flights\nTeachers analyze education backlash amid curriculum changes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apply now: Mecklenburg County offering free support for local small business owners\nThe deadline for applications is October 31st.\nSmall business owners have an opportunity to get specialized training for free\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Small business owners have an opportunity to get specialized training for free.\nMecklenburg County is recruiting for two programs: Business LaunchPad and Get Up and Grow.\nBusiness LaunchPad is a five-month program that offers participants access to subject-matter experts, business development resources, and in-kind professional service grants. The program targets small, minority, and woman-owned businesses interested in securing governmental, institutional, and private contracting opportunities.\nGet Up and Grow is a business management program that enables business owners with knowledge and skills to grow, expand, and increase annual sales beyond $125,000. The program helps local business owners develop a strategic growth plan. Participants receive access to professional consultants, a peer network, and trainings with subject matter experts.\nDevin McDaniel bought the Derita Dairy Bar and Grill on West Sugar Creek Road and reopened it during the pandemic.\nTwo years later she says it's doing better than ever, thanks to a new growth plan she was able to create through the Get Up and Grow program.\n\"We are Charlotte's number one black owned burger spot,\" McDaniel told WBTV. \"We have ice cream, burgers, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches. Our burgers are our hero product.\"\nMcDaniel joined the Get Up and Grow Program through Mecklenburg County earlier this year.\n\"I learned how to do financial business plans, I learned how to build out my website, work on my menu, pick better prices, just scale my business greatly,\" she said.\nProgram Officer Janelly Rosales says meeting business owners where they are and offering these programs for free is key.\n\"[We] wanna make sure this is available to community members,\" she said. \"We do this through your tax dollars, so making sure we're providing these tools and this knowledge for you.\"\nMcDaniel does not take that knowledge for granted.\n\"You don't want to make more than 60 percent of your revenue from one stream,\" she said. \"I learned I could open a website. Now we deliver through GrubHub, DoorDash and Uber Eats. That's helped me to diversify.\"\nApplications for these programs are open through October 31st and classes start in January.\nClick here to apply for Business LaunchPad Program.\nClick here to apply for Get Up and Grow Program.\nPostal worker seriously injured after dog attack in Lenoir","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"From the November 2000 Issue Subscribe\nStephen Clark\nBy Patricia McConnico\nTHE DAY I TURNED SIXTEEN, in 1970, I started flipping burgers for McDonald's in Southern California. I think my first wage was $1.35. It was a different world back then. I never had a great desire to go to college. I was working sixty or seventy hours right out of high school, and I was dedicated. I said to myself, \"Hey, you know, not many people are looking at this food business as a career right now, and it will be a great situation for the cream to rise to the top and for someone who wants to move up quickly.\" I worked about three years with McDonald's, and then my first chance to be in management came along with another chain, called Del Taco. Eventually I took a managerial position with Church's Chicken, where I worked for seventeen years.\nToday I would certainly recommend that people get their schooling. I guess you always regret what you don't have. I think education and technology are so important, but I would also say it is all about people. There's nothing like having people skills and being able to relate to people and motivate them. You know, it sounds like a clich\u00e9, but I do try to treat people like I would like to be treated. Here I am in my position, and I'll go out of my way to say hi to the mailroom person every day and to shake hands with people and call people by their first name. I think it makes people feel connected to the leadership of the company when you do that. Little things like that make a difference.\nI've always felt that my success is directly related to the people that I've surrounded myself with. I had a good amount of people follow me from Church's to Taco Cabana. If you have great people and they understand what's expected of them, that's what equals success\u2014giving them the opportunity to do that.\nStephen Clark, the president and CEO of San Antonio-based Taco Cabana, was born in Marshall, Missouri, and grew up in California. He began working at McDonald's in 1970, then took a managerial position with another chain, and eventually hired on with Church's Chicken, working his way up through management. In 1995 Clark joined Taco Cabana as its president and COO and, eighteen months later, took on the additional title of CEO. Taco Cabana, which has 125 restaurants and more than four thousand employees, just completed its eleventh consecutive quarter of growth in same store sales. At press time, Taco Cabana announced an intent to merge with New York-based Carrols Corporation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE\nPosted: 06-Oct-21\nLocation: Iowa City, Iowa\nThe University of Iowa Computer Science Department invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor positions effective August 17, 2022. Instructional track, visiting, and\/or postdoctoral positions may also be available. The Department offers the BA, BS, MCS, and PhD degrees in Computer\nScience, the BA, BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Informatics, the BSE degree in Computer Science & Engineering (jointly with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and the BS degree in Data Science (jointly with the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science).\nWe seek creative and collaborative scholars from all areas of Computer Science interested in working in a collegial, supportive, and multidisciplinary environment. We are seeking candidates with research interests that align or intersect with the Department's current strengths in (i) artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and data science; (ii) theory and algorithms; (iii) systems, networks, security, privacy, and anonymity; (iv) HCI and virtual\/augmented reality; (v) programming languages, compilers, automated reasoning, formal methods, and software engineering; and (vi) applications of computer science (especially healthcare), although all are welcome to apply. Candidates must hold a PhD in computer science or a closely related discipline at time of appointment. Successful candidates must demonstrate potential for research and teaching excellence in the environment of a major research university. Prior record of scholarly publication in leading venues and prior teaching experience are desirable. Responsibilities include conducting cutting-edge research in the candidate's area of expertise, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, supervising graduate student research, and making service and outreach contributions to the Department, the College, the University, and the discipline.\nHow to Apply: Applications should include a CV, a research statement (for tenure-track positions), a teaching statement, and contact information for three references. For additional information and to apply online, visit http:\/\/www.cs.uiowa.edu\/hiring\/. Applications received by January 15, 2022 are assured of\nfull consideration.\nAbout Iowa: With just over 30,000 students, the University of Iowa is one of the nation's top public research universities, a member of the Big Ten conference since 1899, and an Association of American Universities member since 1909. The University is known for its balanced commitment to the arts,\nsciences, and humanities. Located in Iowa City, an urbanized area of 170,000 people that is widely recognized as one of the country's most livable communities, the University offers over 200 majors and has an annual externally funded research budget of over $500M.\nThe Department and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are strongly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion; the strategic plans of the University and College reflect this commitment. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination\non the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, associational preference, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran. The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity\/affirmative action employer.\nAbout University of Iowa\nWith over 31,000 students, the University of Iowa is one of the nation's top public research universities, a member of the Big Ten conference and the Association of American Universities. The University of Iowa is composed of eleven colleges and is known around the world for its balanced commitment to the arts, sciences, and humanities. It is home to one of the nation's largest academic medical centers and the pioneering Iowa Writers' Workshop. The University of Iowa promotes work\/life integration and is located in the casual yet cosmopolitan environment of Iowa City, widely recognized as one of the country's most livable communities.\nConnections working at University of Iowa\nhttps:\/\/jobs.workinoptics.com\/jobs\/15562887\/assistant-professor-of-computer-science","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arvind Mills to design PVH IZOD brand\nMarch 25, 2008 - United States Of America\nPhillips-Van Heusen Corporation announced a new licensing agreement with Arvind Brands Ltd., a division of Arvind Mills Ltd to design and distribute apparel under its well-known IZOD sport-inspired lifestyle brand.\nThis strategic licensing arrangement provides Arvind Mills Ltd with the right to distribute apparel under this iconic American brand both at wholesale and through its own IZOD flagship stores in India.\n\"PVH is represented in India through the presence of several of its brands, including ARROW, which Arvind has distributed for more than 15 years. We have been impressed by Arvind's management team and the growth of our ARROW brand in India, as well as the number of other prominent international brands Arvind manages in India.\nWe believe that Arvind has the skill, business acumen, experience and infrastructure to introduce and develop successfully the IZOD brand in India.\" said Kenneth Wyse, President - Licensing, PVH.\n\"Arvind Brands is excited to be furthering its relationship with PVH - a company with which we have a close relationship,\" said J. Suresh, CEO of Arvind Brands.\nContinuing, he said, \"With this relationship, we will now have a true iconic American sportswear brand with which to build a strong presence in the sportswear segment. We believe this is a segment that is at the cusp of explosive growth in India.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"theblupearl \u2014\ntheblupearl ( theblupearl) wrote,\ntheblupearl\nLocation: Dining Table\nMusic: Goddess of Marriage OST\nAll My Heart\n\"Li Xu!\"\nRyeowook admitted to himself that he was shocked when he heard his own Chinese name being called suddenly by Donghae. All he knew were fans were cheering in the background. And he could not quite catch what Siwon blurted out shortly after.\nHe threw a side-glance at Kyuhyun standing beside him who had just finished singing his line, and noticed the happiness shining on Kyuhyun's face. Ryeowook could not help but grinned when Kyuhyun was holding his microphone to his mouth a bit too long in a failed attempt of hiding the smile he was wearing.\nHe saw Kyuhyun moving towards Yesung's side by a step. Just then, like a magic wave, Kyuhyun gestured him to move closer. After a slight hesitation, he gave in and stepped closer to the maknae\u2026\nHe checked the time on his phone. In half an hour, the plane will be reaching Suvarnabhumi Airport. He leaned forward in his seat as he threw his curious glance to the left aisle to where Yesung was sitting by himself dozing off.\nAt the sound of a slight paper rattling and page turning, Ryeowook returned his focus to the boy sitting to his right. Unlike his usual habit where he would fall asleep or would engage into his gaming immediately after hopping onto the plane, Kyuhyun was reading. Actually, more like studying his script for his upcoming musical.\nRyeowook sighed softly to himself as he was reminded of the hectic schedule that Kyuhyun had been facing after he took over the main leading role in \"The Three Musketeers\". Kyuhyun even had to go on diet just to be able to look in perfect shape for his performance. Well, he did promise Kyuhyun that he would be cooking him lots of wonderful meals after the musical is over. As for now, he would just be his personal \"fruit-cutter\" then.\nYesung's soothing voice began to ring in his ears as he realized \"All My Heart\" was playing in his i-Pod. He has always liked this song since he first heard it. First of all, it was the creation of his beloved leader Leeteuk and the adorable Henry. And second\u2026\nHis thoughts were cut off when he suddenly recalled the \"All My Heart\" performance just hours ago in Beijing. Since K.R.Y were to leave almost immediately to catch the flight to Thailand after the concert, he did not really have the chance to ask Donghae what was the shout of his name about. Although now he felt that wouldn't it be too obvious, Donghae hyung? What if the fans and the world find out\u2026\nRyeowook felt a sudden nudge at his arm and discovered Kyuhyun was staring at him intently. Kyuhyun asked, \"Something bothering you?\"\nRyeowook shook his head and whispered softly, \"Not really, but I was just confused about something.\" He paused, then added, \"Oh, remind me to ask Donghae Hyung about something when we are back in Korea.\"\nKyuhyun leaned back in his seat with a slight smirk formed on his lips as if he had found something interesting. He retorted amusingly, \"So, you were bothered by that.\" Then, he moved closer to Ryeowook and whispered, \"If you really wanted to know, actually I was the one who told him to shout your name.\"\n\"What?\" Ryeowook's eyes widened as he carefully tried not to raise his voice upon Kyuhyun's revelation. But then, he wasn't really all too surprised when he finally gave a thought to it. That witty mind of Kyuhyun almost came up with different little ideas every so often. And when he remembered how he caught Kyuhyun staring at him during the song performance, he finally grasped part of the picture.\nAfter a moment of silence, Ryeowook uttered softly, \"But why?\"\nKyuhyun knew explanation would not be a wise thing to do right there. All he said were several short phrases, \"Beige. Most dangerous place is the safest place. Lyrics.\" After that, Kyuhyun returned his attention back to the script in front of him, as if he never carried a conversation with Ryeowook before.\nRyeowook knitted his eyebrows as his mind replayed Kyuhyun's words.\nBeige? Most dangerous place is the safest place? And lyrics? How would those answer his question?\nSo it almost took five hours this time. Kyuhyun thought to himself when he noticed Ryeowook was smiling sweetly back at him. The Friendship Concert had ended an hour ago, and the two of them could finally enjoy some quality time together. They bided Yesung Goodbye and made their way out of the hotel when Ryeowook whispered, \"You know Beige noona has a boyfriend, but you just have to be jealous, don't you?\"\nKyuhyun shrugged as they made their way through the busy streets, searching for the massage shop that someone had recommended.\n\"And next time don't make it too obvious, although what you said were true,\" Ryeowook continued. The old saying of \"Most dangerous place is the safest place\" might hold some truth, or at least that's what Ryeowook thought Kyuhyun was meaning. Maybe fans would just dismiss that as fanservice. Although Ryeowook self-reminded himself that the something between the two of them was never fanservice.\nThe famous smirk of Kyuhyun had found its way on its owner's lips again, and Ryeowook knew that he was guessing it right. Ryeowook then waited and paused, when he finally heard Kyuhyun asked, \"And?\"\n\"I know. That's my wish too.\" Ryeowook replied sweetly. Ryeowook lowered his head a little, trying to hide his blush when Kyuhyun hummed the tune to his two lines in the bridge of \"All My Heart\" in a low tone.\nTo unfold my only crumble wish, within my wish, you and I may be together\u2026\nMy first attempt to write a KyuWook fanfic.\nStory inspired by SS3 Beijing All My Heart: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Enmf90WnWGU\nTags: all my heart, kyuwook\nA Secret for Life (Part 2 of 2)\nKyuhyun walks into the secret hideout and greets Minho, \"Hey, you are early.\" \"Everyone is here, except Kyuhyun hyung,\" Minho replies. \"I know he\u2026\nKyuhyun is sitting on a bench under a tree named Swiss Pine. He lets the soft breeze messes his hair as a couple of strands touch his face. He looks\u2026\nLatte and Biscotti\nCho Kyuhyun loves to visit the Einstein Coffee Shop at the street corner by the Lilac Lane. Every time, he will order his favorite coffee, caramel\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Call for Nominations: 2018 IUPAP Magnetism Award and N\u00e9el Medal\nInicio\/Call for Nominations: 2018 IUPAP Magnetism Award and N\u00e9el Medal\nThe IUPAP Magnetism Award and N\u00e9el Medal are presented every three years, at the International Conference on Magnetism, to a scientist (or scientists) who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of magnetism.\nA prize of $3,000 is awarded together with the medal.\nThe award winner will be selected by a committee composed of members of the IUPAP Commission on Magnetism (C9), together with past recipients of the Magnetism Award and N\u00e9el Medal. Nominations may be made by anyone interested in the field of magnetism.\nCurrent members of the C9 commission are ineligible to be nominated.\nThe nomination papers should include:\n\u2013 Citation of no more than 50 words.\n\u2013 Curriculum vitae of the candidate, which must not exceed two pages in length.\n\u2013 List of 10 of the candidate's most significant publications, including citation information, not to exceed one page.\n\u2013 Commentary on the publications, which makes the case for the award, not to exceed two pages.\n\u2013 Letters of support, up to a maximum of six pages in total.\nThe documents must be collated into a single pdf file called Surname_MANM.pdf, where Surname is the candidate's last name. The file should not exceed 10MB in size.\nNominations not conforming to these rules cannot be accepted.\nNominations should be sent before January 31, 2018 to the C9 Secretary (Kai Liu) by e-mail to kailiu@ucdavis.edu, and copy to hilleb@physik.uni-kl.de\ngefesrse2017-12-12T00:06:41+01:00Etiquetas: IUPAP|","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Music, Reviews\n\"Live At Cadogan Hall\" by Marillion\nJanuary 6, 2011 Ken Pierce\tLeave a comment\nArtist: Marillion\nTitle: \"Live At Cadogan Hall\"\nLabel: Eagle Records\nGenre: Acoustic Rock\nI'm not going to lie to the readers and say that my two decade appreciation for Marillion music has been one of nothing but bliss because that would be wrong. Yes I began my journey with the band as a Fish fan but I also embraced the amazing vocal register and talents of Steve Hogarth when he replaced him in 1989. That being said I have ridden the roller coaster of musical output that the band has given us since H began his tenure. I loved what he brought to the band in the beginning but questioned a lot of the experimentation that was done on the whole as the later years came to pass. It seemed as though Marillion were opting to be the band that confused my musical palette the most or were actively choosing to vex those fans who wanted to clearly define what they were \"all about\" in terms of sound. To better explain what I mean let me say that while I loved \"Marbles\" when it came out, I was less than pleased with \"Somewhere Else\" and found myself bored to tears with their acoustic reworking on \"Less Is More\". Oddly enough this \"Live At Cadogan Hall\" was filmed during the 2009 \"Less Is More\" tour which I did not manage to attend when it came through town and that fact alone had me curious. I was intrigued based on not enjoying \"Somewhere Else\" but loving their \"Somewhere Over London\" live film which brought that tour to your living room. Clearly Marillion seemed able to recapture ones interest with the solid live show if they somehow missed you on the studio recording.\nThe 2CD set is broken up into two unique sets of material with the first half being a song by song presentation of the \"Less Is More\" album minus the final track of \"Cannibal Surf Babe\". I wonder why they did that since I love the tune. Anyways, as I listened to these tracks that were culled from \"Anoraknophobia\", \"Marillion.com\", \"Season's End\" and more I found myself getting more wrapped up in their being delivered in this fashion. Needless to say I really liked it, and could not wait to get my hands on the companion DVD. Hogarth is in perhaps the finest form ever and this is a great thing to listen to since he has such an amazing voice. Just as we found on the studio versions the band is offering up the music played with dulcimer, vibraphone, xylophone and acoustic guitars and electric piano as well as bass and drums. \"Quartz\" is a highlight of this CD as is the new track we got from \"Less Is More\" with \"It's Not Your Fault\". The second CD finds the band using the same premise as they did with the \"Less Is More\" album and taking a number of other classics from their repertoire and giving them a similar treatment. Highlights for me from this part of the concert were \"Beautiful\", \"No One Can\" and \"The Answering Machine\". \"Beautiful\" has remained one of my very favorites of Hogarth penned tunes and the same applies for \"Easter\" as each of these was just made for the acoustic setting. Don't expect any Fish material during this show as there is none to be found, but I can honestly say that you will not miss it. As I said, Marillion is a band that refuses to be forced into a genre corner and continually seeks to expand their musical exploration. I would have liked to see this CD packaged with the film but that seems to be a high hope that will never happen. If you only enjoy audio and appreciate the band then you should give this one a chance as I truly enjoyed it. Perhaps I will give the studio version of \"Less Is More\" another chance now that I have heard it in concert. Now onto the DVD. Stay tuned.\n1.\tGo!\n2.\tInterior Lulu\n3.\tOut Of This World\n4.\tWrapped Up In Time\n5.\tThe Space\n6.\tHard As Love\n7.\tQuartz\n8.\tIf My Heart Were A Ball\n9.\tIt's Not Your Fault\n10.\tMemory Of Water\n11.\tThis Is The 21st Century\n12.\tNo One Can\n13.\tBeautiful\n14.\tThis Train Is My Life\n15.\tYou're Gone\n16.\t80 Days\n17.\tGazpacho\n18.\tThe Answering Machine\n19.\tEstonia\n20.\tEaster\n21.\tThree Minute Boy\nOfficial Website: http:\/\/www.marillion.com\nacoustic albumseagle recordseagle rock entertainmentian moselylive albumslive at cadogan hallmarillionmark kellypete trewavasprogressive rocksteve hogarthsteve rothery\nPrevious Post\"Rock 'N Roll\" (Deluxe Edition) by MotorheadNext Post\"Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones\" (Blu-ray) by The Rolling Stones","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home of Tin Foil Conspiracy\n[TTH] Game Mechanics\nThe Tin Hat :: Private Offices :: Comrade Frank\nby Comrade Frank on Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:37 am\nBefore we begin I wish to state here and now that I DO NOT speak for Easy Company Militia, nor do I speak for the Majority of the We The People Leadership; but what both these communities have in common is the freedom for citizens to express themselves. I speak only as a 'pop gun' America Soldier of no consequence, I speak only as an 'insignificant' but loyal American; I speak only as an American who believes in America First.\nI also want to make it perfectly clear that I do not condone what Jude Connors did, he knows my opinion on this matter and we have moved on; so that others will know at the top what my feelings on this are: 'Using any Real World information concerning a citizen of eRepublik is wrong. You cross the line the first time you even Google for personal information on an eRepublik citizen. Openly using that information on a forum deserved and got him banned from the those forums.' ~Franklin Stone\nI wish both Jude and Artela well and hope they prosper in the United Kingdom, hopefully they will become active in the UK and America may yet benefit from their friendship; but I have a feeling America well miss them both.\nReading music from the Great White North:\nThis is a social game and the first thing a new citizen should do is join a political party and I recommend We The People, now I will admit that most of this digital world revolves around the War Module; but for me that is not true. The only two truly social modules of eRepublik are the Media and Political Modules, they are the pillars of socialization in eRepublik; they are how America is governed and how America stays informed as to how it is being governed. Some of America's most prominent citizens will freely tell anyone who will listen that eRepublik is a dying game, while at the same time inviting you to join their party and vote for them; they will tell you that the Media died years ago as they do everything they can to Censure any conversation about current events in the General eRepublik Discussion Forum, which begs the question, 'Where should current events such as the 'Artela Affair' be discussed?\nWhere should Americans go to discuss events that will affect all citizens, events unfolding before their eyes; what does a new citizen think? Congress has made it very clear that this has nothing to do with Congress and in this instance I must agree with that 'distinguished' body, it has nothing to do with them and everything to do with the party politics of a Top 5 party in Congress; a party who controls a huge voting bloc of Congressional Members who essentially want to assimilate your biological signature with it's own. Where should America go to discuss the fact that a long time American and Political Leader -who has given as much or more than others- has been driven out of America? My answer to that is the Media. Many other ex-patriot Americans could be named that gave a great deal of time and 'plastic' to their Party and to National Politics, all of whom have been drive out of America; a couple of them sit in the Great White North giving America an FN headache -well not now since it looks as though our Ally the United Kingdom has taken up residence north of the border.\nOver the last few days I have been thinking about the game mechanic of the 'Political Takeover', while I think this game mechanic is the lowest form of political strategy; it exist and must be addressed. The 'eUSA Government' and most American citizens stand against an immigrant from a country who is an enemy of America who comes here and joins a party, fills it with his friends and then runs for Party President; thereby threatening America. This is understandable, America experienced a PTO attack from outside our homeland; which sadly was led by a citizen who claimed to be American. My question is, 'When is it acceptable to politically takeover a party?' So the question now becomes, 'Is it acceptable for an American citizens to use the Political Takeover to gain control of a Top 5 party?'\nSadly for me that answer has to be yes. When a party harms America IMO it is more than acceptable for an America citizen and his friends to attempt a PTO of that party, if a majority of party members stand against party policy is it not the right of those Party Members to gain control of their party? The one instance I would not support is an attempt by an American citizen from another Top 5 party who joins the party and then immediately seeks the Party Presidency, I see that as an outside attempt to control another Top 5 Party; a citizen from a 6th party however may in some instances be acceptable. Current events have shown the harm that one party can cause to America, although it was a allegedly a single member who actually caused these events; it reflects poorly on the party leadership as a whole for allowing one of it's members -even the Party President- to cause a long standing and loyal American citizen to leave not only that party, but America as well.\nCongressional Elections are in a few days, at that time we will elect 'in game' our party's Congressional Members; after that the action moves to the eUSA Forums. If you are new to eRepublik and if you have ambitions of being a Disraeli, Aaron Burr or even a Kim Jong-un then you will need an account on those forums; America's Congress is housed on those forums and in order to have access to Congressional Discussions you must have an account. There are two pieces of advice I will give new citizens: a) reading is the biggest part of the forums and the game of eRepublik itself, if you don't like to read then this is not the game for you -read, read; read, b) when you're done reading and begin to join in you better have thick skin -think 'War Board' and you should be all right.\nIn a few days America will be choosing the citizens we wish to lead our country, we will be choosing those who will influence our Foreign Affairs; does America want a party led by a citizen who has the civility of a child and who throws himself on the floor when he is denied his way influencing how America deals with World Alliances? As a country America must survive on the world stage and influence the leaders of other countries, does America really want be seen as a bunch of whiny brats who would rather drive away allies than to give up an iota of power, to be seen as a country led by citizens and parties who drive out their own best citizens over power?\nThe one thing I want to encourage and drive home to the 3225 American citizens is this: GET OUT AND VOTE! Even if that is your one and only visit on the 5th, 15th and 25th of each month, at least come in and cast your vote.\nPax Armis Acquiritur\nCaptain Franklin Stone\n9th 'Green Team' Regiment\nEasy Company Militia\nStrength & Honor\nComrade Frank\n\u00bb Review: Pearl Harbour trilogy 1941 ~ Red Sun Rising (WiiWare)\nJump to: Select a forum||--Private Offices| |--SFP Official Media| |--Comrade Frank| |--Arm Chair Sim Racing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brow Beat\nA New Roots Is in the Works\nBy Aisha Harris\nLevar Burton in Roots\nApparently one eight-hour miniseries with huge ratings\u2014which, to be fair, came nearly 40 years ago\u2014is not enough: Alex Haley's groundbreaking book Roots: The Saga of an American Family will be adapted once again, with the History Channel partly relying on the previous adaptation for its source material. (The network acquired the rights to both the book and the earlier film.)\nThe project is the latest in a recent uptick of films focusing on slavery; the last several months have seen Lincoln, Django Unchained, and 12 Years a Slave arrive in theaters. More broadly, it points to a noted increase in major productions focusing on black characters and on the subject of race.\nAs the Hollywood Reporter notes, it also comes at a time when the miniseries, as a format, is again attracting the interest of TV producers and executives. This may have less to do with the format's artistic possibilities and more to do with the \"brand-defining and brand-supporting opportunities\" miniseries supposedly provide. Nonetheless, it has led to the greenlighting of a variety of interesting projects.\nIs another Roots really necessary? Maybe not. (The original miniseries, you may recall, also had a sequel, Roots: The Next Generations.) But, at the very least, it'll give plenty of black actors more work.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Architects: Roger Saubot, Fran\u00e7ois Jullien, with Whitson Overcash. Renovation in 2018 by KPF and SRA Architects\nSurface area: 45,000 sq.m. including 40,000 sq.m. of office space and 5,000 sq.m. of catering and retail space\nHeight: 47 m. 7 floors on Shopping Centre\nFormer name: \u00c9lys\u00e9es D\u00e9fense\nAddress: 7C, Place du D\u00f4me - 92800 Puteaux\nNearest parking: Regional Shopping Centre\nNearest metro station: La D\u00e9fense Grande Arche\n\u00c9lys\u00e9es D\u00e9fense was included in the master plan of the T\u00eate D\u00e9fense sector as early as 1972 by \u00c9mile Ailliaud, and is one of the most emblematic of the third generation. Originally planned as a hotel, the building eventually housed offices.\nA veritable horizontal tower, it leans on the roof of the Quatre-Temps. An architecture that imposes a specific structure with differences in levels. Two covered atriums make it possible, despite the thickness of the building - 43 m - to light all the rooms in the tropical gardens, located in the middle of the building and serving as a thermal buffer. Widely used in the United States, the glazed atrium offers very generous lighting. It is particularly appreciated in museums, hotels and large public buildings.\nIn 1995, a change of ownership led to a renovation of the building. The west gable of the building, the main facade, has a light-coloured stone cladding that contrasts with the bluish tones of the curtain walls.\nIn March 2016, Window benefits from a restructuring project. The work includes 40,000 sq.m. of office space as well as catering areas.\nThe fully transparent fa\u00e7ade has been designed to offer multiple views of the outside.\nThe building revisits the standards of office real estate: flexible, circulating, mixed, technological, adapted to new ways of working (from the most integrated to the most nomadic), offering spaces for conviviality (catering, services) and connected collaboration and conforming to the major international standards.\nThe project is based on a triple perspective:\nreinventing tertiary real estate,\nto offer a space of influence on the world to large French companies\nhelp shape what La D\u00e9fense will be like in 20 years.\nThe high terrace, with its shops and restaurant areas, is accessible to all, giving the impression of a balcony overlooking the city to create a new experience of La D\u00e9fense.\nThe Saubot agency was born from the association of Roger Saubot (1931-1999) with Fran\u00e7ois Jullien in 1964. The two architects specialized in the construction of high-rise commercial buildings and collaborated with many international firms, most of them American. In 1985, they designed the Bouygues Construction head office in Guyancourt, in partnership with Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo.\nAssociated with the famous Skidmore, Owings and Merrill agency, they participated in 1964 in the Fiat Tower project (which became the Areva Tower in 1979). They then established themselves as the architects of La D\u00e9fense and were involved in 11 projects, ensuring the transition to more energy-efficient and better-lit buildings (Total Coupole, France T\u00e9l\u00e9com, Veritas offices, etc.). Roger Saubot and Fran\u00e7ois Jullien then continued their career working for the Disney Festival at Eurodisney in 1992 and the American Center - now the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Fran\u00e7aise.\n\u00a9 Augustin Detienne","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cattails, Speckled Alders and Golden Tamaracks\nMemories of Canine Companionship and Magic Moments in the Great Out-Of-Doors\nby Leon \"Buckshot\" Anderson\nMy friend Eddie started life at a big disadvantage. That is if being able to easily enjoy numerous outdoor activities is the yardstick we are using for measurement. But fortunately for my buddy, eventually he was able to move to another locale that allowed him to \"make up for lost time\".\nThe Prolog to this collection of tales introduced you to Eddie. Not that I'm looking for any gold stars for doing so, but I helped introduce him to the wonderful world of duck hunting, and guided him to his first buck.\nOver the nearly sixty years we have known each other we've chased just about everything that has fins, fur or feathers. But he, like me, puts duck hunting at the top of his list of favorite outdoor adventures.\nFor a number of years before Eddie moved from Chicago to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, he made an annual pilgrimage to Northern Wisconsin to hunt waterfowl with his friend. Generally his trip occurred in early to mid November when the divers were southbound.\nOn this particular hunt we shared an experience that Eddie somehow still finds highly amusing, even though it took place about thirty duck seasons ago. And when Eddie and I are together he somehow always finds someone to tell the tale to, just to watch me squirm.\nHell, what are friends for anyway?\n*************************************************************************\nWe were sure we'd have a good day when our canoe hit the thin layer of ice once we left the channel that flows between Upper and Lower Allequash Lake. But then, we weren't surprised, as the mercury in the thermometer at my house, which was nailed to an old red pine, was nestled well into the low teens.\nAs we paddled into a brisk northwest breeze it sent small jets of spray into our overloaded craft, which froze immediately upon anything it came in contact with. What a wonderful duck hunting morning it was going to be!\nTwenty minutes of bucking a quartering wind created a bit of sweat on our bodies, which at the time felt pretty nice. We'd pay for that later. Our blind was on a tiny rocky outcropping, which somehow supported a fairly dense grove of speckled alders and marsh grass. My blind was badly in need of repair. While I waded out on the gravel bar which stretched southward from our island, and positioned our three dozen bluebill decoys, Eddie made repairs to what just two weeks earlier had been a really nice blind.\nFinishing with the decoy duty, I dragged my canoe into the alders, tipped it over, and scattered a few gobs of grass and dried weeds over its bottom to break up the outline. Then we settled in to wait for legal shooting time.\nBehind our small outcropping of granite boulders and gravel was a fifteen-acre bay filled with wild rice. Hopefully, some northern migrants would decide to stop here for breakfast, spot our fakes, and fly by for a look, or set down for a visit. Duke sat out in front of our blind and panted. Eddie and I poured some hot coffee into our ice-cold thermos cups and gulped it down while there was still some warmth in the liquid. We still had nearly a half-hour to wait.\nThe wind continued to pick up as daylight slowly fought with the darkness of night. As usual, the first early blush of pink along the eastern horizon gradually turned to orange, then yellow, as Old Sol began winning a battle that had been going on for probably several million years.\nOur wait was not without encouragement, as we heard a whistle of wings in the gloom above us, causing our pulse rates to increase and goose bumps to pop up on various parts of our anatomy. We drank a second cup of coffee and devoured several chocolate chip cookies. And finally it was time!\n\"Cattails, Speckled Alders and Golden Tamaracks\" contains twenty true short stories, which highlight memorable outings the author has experienced over the past six decades. Using the out-of-doors as a setting, these tales will immerse the reader in numerous remote, pristine places spanning much of the North American Continent.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/>\nThe staring roles are shared by the author's numerous outdoor friends, canine companions, and co-stars many of Ma Nature's creatures.\nThe bonding that occurs between master and dog is a central theme that is interwoven throughout the tales, as well as the way our human values concerning man's relationship with nature changes as our aging process advances.\nThe author's deep love and concern for the world's wild places is subtlety laced throughout the stories by \"Buckshot\", the Master Story Teller of the Northwood's\"!\n<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/>Leon \"Buckshot\" Anderson has spent the better part of six decades living in and being a part of the great out of doors. He began guiding fisherpersons when he was fourteen, and achieved such a degree of professionalism as an outdoorsman, he was honored by being inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a \"Legendary Guide\" in 2001<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/>\nWriting has been one of his passions since boyhood and many of his stories and tales have been published in numerous outdoor publications and newspapers. Besides \"Cattails, Speckled Alders and Golden Tamaracks\", he has authored three additional books \"Last of a Dying Breed\", \"Growing Up Isn't All Fishing and Hunting\", and \"Evil, Veiled by Darkness\".\nHe also writes weekly and monthly outdoor columns for two local newspapers.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Who should pay for property damage caused by extreme weather?\nby Kate Mackenzie, The Climate Institute 14 June 2016\nKate Mackenzie\nIt's not just the owners of Collaroy mansions teetering on the edge of the shore who might find themselves having to foot the bill for damage to their properties from the latest weather disaster. Some residents in inland flood-ravaged areas such as Picton and Camden in NSW, and Tasmania, won't have flood insurance \u2013 or may not be covered if it's not deemed to be a flood.\nMeanwhile new housing continues to be built in risky areas, when we haven't even figured out what to do, as a society, about those who are living in existing dwellings that are at high risk.\nPoliticians who should know better have been grandstanding about what insurers should do for those hit by the storm. But when the risk is high, so is the insurance premium. A low-lying house in a floodzone will pay more for insurance than a highset one; and good luck finding the elusive policy that covers \"actions of the sea\", especially as sea levels are known to be rising. Insurers are not charities and will not cover events that are expected to happen with costly frequency.\nGovernments, by contrast, are supposed to represent all of society.\nSo who will protect the people hurt by this disaster, and others like them, as the sea level rises and extreme weather damages more homes and businesses? Is it even possible to protect them? And if so, who should pay?\nThese are all questions we should be asking. In fact, they've been asked many, many times before. By the Productivity Commission (twice, in 2012 and 2014), the Treasury, the Australian Government Actuary, industry groups, cross-industry alliances, a national inquiry into disaster insurance, various discussion papers, and more \u2013 ourselves at The Climate Institute included. It is not as if we don't know what needs to be done.\nIt is no wonder that the Productivity Commission dryly mentioned that \"groundhog day anecdotes abound\" in this area.\n\"Current government natural disaster funding arrangements are not efficient, equitable or sustainable,\" the Commission wrote. \"They are prone to cost shifting, ad hoc responses and short-term political opportunism.\"\nThe government has not responded to that review, by the way; nor has it responded to the Northern Australia Insurance Premiums Taskforce, which attempts to address skyrocketing premiums arising from high cyclone damage payouts. Few if any recommendations from the earlier reviews have been comprehensively implemented.\nWhen asked about uninsured losses, the NSW minister for Emergency Services, David Elliott, told the ABC: \"This is why we tell people, when you buy property, when you take out an insurance policy, make sure you know what your insurance policy covers. It's not the role of the government.\"\nMr Elliott is partly right. Of course, government should not be underwriting risks taken by private individuals for their own benefit. Yet many people don't understand the risks they're taking, let alone who is expected to foot the bill.\nI wonder if Mr Evans has tried to find all the available hazard information on a NSW residential property lately? Problems with hazard information are well-documented. In some parts of the state, you still can't get even historical flood records from your local council.\nMeanwhile, we have seen a boom in residential construction in Australia in the past few years. Yet in 2012, the state governments of NSW, Queensland and Victoria \"all took action to weaken or reverse\" planning laws that would reduce new developments in at risk areas. Hence we have local governments approving developments they believe are too risky, and legal battles over sea adaptation measures. In some cases this is being addressed now, but tentatively and slowly, and still at the state level.\nPerhaps the most egregious example of policy amnesia is the \"National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy\", published in a rush in December 2015 as the government highlighted its international credentials during the Paris climate talks.\nIt's not so much a \"strategy\" as a mishmash of unfounded assertions, pretty graphics, excuses and sheepish acknowledgements. On the topic of \"built environment\", it refers to another \"strategy\" on critical infrastructure, a vague and broad document which makes zero mention of climate change or even weather. It also references the \"Enhancing Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Roadmap\", which can only be found buried in the minutes of a WA Local Government Association from 2012. Which is a shame, because its recommendations are very good and thorough.\nMeanwhile, coastal councils are crying out for a nationally coordinated approach to coastal planning. They have made clear in numerous submissions over the years that fear of litigation and costly challenges is the number one factor preventing them from taking a prudent approach to development in coastal areas and flood zones. That's why the Gold Coast council approved a big development on a former cow paddock in the Carrara flood plains \u2013 but specified that it must include a flood-proof helipad, two boat skippers, warning lights and enough non-perishable food and water to suffice for three days of stranding. The council said it had no choice, citing the cost of appealing.\nState and federal politicians, despite their recent statements, can and should be doing more to prepare Australians for the impacts of climate change \u2013 ensuring information is available, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and, above all, preparing us for the future, rather than responding in piecemeal, unpredictable and expensive ways.\nIt will be difficult, but a lot of groundwork has been laid already by scientists, lawyers, engineers and even policy-makers. If this is not tackled, more and more of us will find ourselves in unexpectedly dangerous and costly predicaments.\nKate Mackenzie is The Climate Institute's investment and governance policy manager. She is also the author of its recently released There goes the neighbourhood: Climate change, Australian property and the financial sector report.\nDevelopers and politicians failing to protect against climate-related flood risk\nIn \"Climate Change\"\nInsurance industry turns to resilience\nPresenting the flood-resistant house\nIn \"Construction & Development\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rize 2 Recall\nSlimquick Pure Reviews Youtube\nReglan Tablet In India\nChloroquine Dosage For Malaria In India\nClaritin Cats\nThe new procedure is adapted from a children's game, which consists in making five or six turns around a vertical pwle or cane, with the head bent forward and the eyes closed, then stopping, opening the eyes, and attempting to walk in a straight line (precio). They may be formed of alternate versus layers of these. And consists in their greater cleanliness, al)sence of smell, diminution of discharge, and generic increased comfort to the patient; and not in the rapidity of healing. A gradual, progressive general emaciation is called Cachexia: colombia. Recognizable photographs 600 of patients are to be masked and written permission for publication obtained from All legends for figures should be typed together on a separate sheet of paper. He had suffered from several attacks of gout in the heels, coming on suddenly in the night after reddit the spasmodic seizures.\nMicturition is difficult when the uterus is down: pain. But whatever the explanation, the fact seems established that chloroform vapour is strongly irritant to the pulmoimry surface, and to this may be attributed the occurrence side of many of the sudden deaths. Examination led to jiatient was taken suddenly ill with pain in the right lower abdomen, requiring morphine to allay it: mg.\nThe soapish and most disagreeable taste del of these drugs is beautifully disguised and their action made more efficacious, because of the patient's ability to more readily assimilate them and to take them more frequently and in larger doses. At all events let the experiment nerve be tried with regard to botany, comparative anatomy, physics, and inorganic chemistry, which would form the subjects for the preliminary scientific examination. Early or moderately advanced cases, with and more or alcohol less fever, do not do well in these or, as iar as I am aware, in other resorts.\nVs - evidently, then, chloroform anaesthesia must be induced gradually and slowly, a point which is recognized by the invention and use of inhalers to prevent the undue and early action of the vapour. It was found that agar cultures of Streptococcus albus, Streptococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis for covered with mineral oil were checked in growth, but were not killed after seventy-two hours' incubation. And - in the first of the series the nitrite destroyed the ordinary conducting power of the nerve with which it was in contact, before the general system was very much affected, although the circulation was not interfered with. On account of the ready occurrence of sweating, prolonged bathing could not be in resorted to. The facilities for the same are becoming more weight ample each year. Demonstrated the presence of the pneumococcus, and calls attention to the frequency with which pneumonia is associated with which, eight days after the opening of the abscess, the patient was attacked with hoemorrhage, which was only controlled by packing the abscess-cavity with a haemostatic: carbamazepine. The equipment will be of modern all steel Pullman open section drawing room and compartment observation car, dining car, and buffet library smoking or \"trileptal\" club car. It was here the surgeon felt the reported ball beneath desconto the skin. In this country especially many prominent men hastened loss to use it, and you have read the accounts of their efforts in nearly every seen Prof. I attempted to explore the os uteri with a single finger, but it was beyond my reach in the position in which she lay (en). And yet it is not difficult when we study a patient carefully, and have his comprar confidence, to know whether his emotional need for correction.\nSimpson recommends one of his sponge donde pessaries, to dilate the os and oenrix. There has been nothing published in the line of medical history to compare with it, and library that is expected to be anything besides a preis working library, will be complete without this volume. Their temperature, sensitiveness, and the ease with which cough can be induced by pressing upon dose them. If you of wish to submit information regarding future postgraduate courses, please submit the Grand Rounds.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"City Heat: Tel Aviv\nBy Teresa Levonian Cole\nIsrael may often be in the news, yet the wide-ranging attractions of Tel Aviv for travellers are often overlooked. Teresa Levonian Cole picks five reasons to visit.\nThe great outdoors: Inacompact, energetic city of just 50 square kilometres, the best way to get around is on foot - or astride a 'Green bicycle': Tel Aviv's version of Boris bikes. While away the hours at pavement cafes, sipping fresh pomegranate juice. The beaches have their own allure and soundtrack - the splat of paddle balls resounding in the air - with a set of regulars, such as the dog walkers on 'Dog Beach' or Nordau Beach, which has separate days for men and women. The fashionable set, meantime, repairs to the entry-fee seclusion of Gordon Pool (www.gordon-pool.co.il), overlooking the marina - a Tel Aviv institution since 1956.\nFood & drink: The city has blossomed into a veritable foodie destination. From humble hummus restaurants - such as Jaffa's famous Ali Karavan - to sushi shacks on Rothschild Boulevard, luscious fruit stalls in Carmel Market and trendy eateries at the redeveloped Tel Aviv Port, variety abounds. Try a traditional breakfast of beans in the cobbled streets of the Yemenite Quarter, where grandmothers serve up homely fare. At Dallal (www.dallal.info), in arty Neve Tzedek, taste one of the world's best burgers with caramelised onions, fried egg and truffle mousse, on brioche, followed by cocktails and snacks at Rothschild 12 (www.rothschild12.co.il), haunt of musicians and writers. And for something inspirational, head to Popina (www.popina.co.il): from the beetroot margarita with coriander and ginger, to the steamed cheesecake with pistachio and yuzu - it's all heaven.\nWhat to do and where to stay in Oslo\nThe Bullet Factory: Now a historic museum concealed beneath the laundry of a former kibbutz (communal settlement), this underground factory (eng.shimur.org\/Ayalon-institute\/) secretly manufactured millions of bullets between 1945 and 1948, under the nose of the British for use in the War of Independence. The story, brilliantly brought to life by young guides, is a testament to human determination and ingenuity - from the smuggling of machinery from Poland, to the installation of sun lamps, to tan the clandestine workers who were supposedly toiling in the fields. It's a unique experience - and, we are assured, not one bullet from this factory was fired against the British, who had become both friends and dupes of the crypto-kibbutzniks.\nArchitecture & design: Tel Aviv's 'White City' is home to a remarkable collection of Eclectic-style buildings from the Twenties, its architecture evolving a decade later into the more restrained and functional Bauhaus style - of which there are some 4,000 examples. The twenty-first century, meantime, has seen the arrival of 'starchitects' such as Ron Arad, whose ribbon - like Design Museum (www.dmh.org.il), inspired by the sand dunes, is a spiralling orange beacon for cutting-edge exhibitions. Flair for design filters into every area - as the boutiques of Shabazi Street will reveal.\nHotel: In the sweltering summer months, what better than a refreshing sea breeze and views over the seemingly limitless Mediterranean coastline from a suite at Royal Beach Hotel (www.isrotel. com)? This cool new addition to the city's seafront hotels brings boutique ethos to a full-service hotel and an extraordinarily large, open-air swimming pool on the fourth floor. It is perfect for those seeking a central location - and serves what has to be one of the best breakfasts in all Tel Aviv.\nWays and means: Teresa Levonian Cole travelled as a guest of British Airways (www.ba.com) and Pomegranate Travel (020-3617 1826; www.pomegranate-travel.com), specialists in tailor-made holidays in Israel. A three-night stay at Royal Beach Hotel, B&B, including a private city tour and airport transfers, costs from \u00a3420, excluding flights.\nLike this? Then you'll love Kasbah, Bab Ourika, Morocco\nA new scheme will channel wasted heat from the London Underground to nearby homes\nBy Charlotte McCaughan-Hawes\nFeta, pul biber and oregano macaroni bake\nComfort food from British-Iranian chef Sabrina Ghayour\nBy Sabrina Ghayour\nPart four: the perks of a flowering garden\nBy Clare Foster\nThe app changing the game for art and design lovers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Strengthen Your Local Journalists.\nMN Senate Channel\nMN House Channel\nMN House Channel 2\nLabor\/Unions\nSend Us A Video\nAbout The UpTake\nThe UpTake Team\nThe UpTake (http:\/\/theuptake.org\/2018\/03\/01\/students-nightmare-fails-to-sway-mn-gop-on-gun-violence-prevention-bills\/)\nStudents' \"Nightmare\" Fails To Sway MN GOP On Gun Violence Prevention Bills\nBy Michael McIntee | March 1, 2018\nMore on Gun Violence\nSubscribe to Gun Violence\nMN House Media Services\nEva Goldfarb, High School Student\nEva Goldfarb says she and her St. Louis Park High School classmates have all had the same disturbing dream. In it, a shooter targets their school, much like one did in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 students.\n\"I wanted to say 'gosh what a horrible nightmare,'\" she told a packed hearing room at the Minnesota legislature, \"but I realized it can't even be classified as a nightmare. Because even though it has monsters and terror, nightmares aren't real. This is all too real, and we know it too well, and we've known it for too long.\"\n\"You are legislators and it is your job to keep us safe from gun violence in our school.\"\nGoldfarb was testifying in favor of one of two gun violence prevention bills that have languished in the Republican-controlled Public Safety Committee for more than a year. Chair Rep. Brian Johnson (R) granted a hearing on the bills after bill author Rep. Dave Pinto publicly asked him to do so last week on the House floor. One bill would expand background checks. The other would allow family or police to ask a court to take away guns from someone who exhibits \"red flags\" indicating they may use the guns for violence.\nGun Rights Groups Claim Gun Owners Don't Want Background Checks\nVideo above: St. Louis Park High School student Eva Goldfarb testifies\nVideo at bottom: Entire House Public Safety Committee hearing.\nTestimony from Goldfarb and law enforcement officers in favor of the bills was countered by testimony from gun rights groups. Robert Doar of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus said the background checks were \"unconstitutional\" and a survey of his members show that 95% of gun owners oppose them. That runs counter to most surveys that show 90% of Americans support expanded background checks and among National Rifle Association members (NRA) 72% support expanded background checks.\n\"No background check can stop an evil mind,\" said Joseph Olsen with the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance.\nPinto said that no single policy change would prevent all gun violence deaths, but reasonable steps need to be taken.\nThe committee voted to table the bills, dimming the chances that they will reach the full House for a vote this session. Only one Republican, Rep. Keith Franke, voted with the Democrats to prevent the background check bill from being tabled.\nDespite the vote, Pinto saw positive signs in today's hearing. \"I heard general agreement that we should be taking steps to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.\" He thinks he heard a willingness to pass the bills this session.\nThank you to our legislative sponsors:\nSupport this story and all the stories from The Uptake. Donate.\nMichael McIntee\nMichael McIntee is a former network TV news executive with more than 30 years of broadcasting experience. He began his broadcasting career at the University of Minnesota's student radio station. He is an expert producer, writer, video editor who has a fondness for new technology but denies that he is a geek. More about Michael McIntee \u00bb\n@https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmcintee\nMN House\nDave Pinto\nMinneapolis Releases Body Cam Videos Of Police Killing Blevins\nBody cam video of Minneapolis police shooting and killing Thurman Blevins has been released. Blevins was killed on June 23rd after police responded to a 911 call of a male firing a handgun.\nThousands of MN Students Protest Gun Violence\nCrowd Chants After GOP Majority Refuses To Debate Gun Violence Prevention Bills In MN House\nView all Gun Violence Posts \u2192\nParents Testify Need for Kids to Return to School as Senate's Education Committee Launches First Meeting of 2021\nReporting from the Senate Committee on Education Finance and Policy which discussed \"getting kids back to school.\"\nOpinion: Two Americas\nColumn: Murdered by MPD: Dolal Idd\nView all Minnesota Posts \u2192\nSimon Urges MN Legislature To Invest In Democracy\nMinnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon says the state can do more to insure voting rights. He and legislative leaders unveil a plan to increase voting security; decrease barriers to voter registration; restore of voting rights for those who were formerly incarcerated; and protect voter privacy.\nReinvestment Urged in Program Providing Food to Underserved Minnesotans\n13 Arrested Protesting Pre-Emption Bill In Rep. Garofalo's Office\nView all MN House Posts \u2192\nMN GOP Reps Won't Promise A Hearing On Gun Bills\nTwo GOP committee chairs are put on the spot and asked if they will give bills aimed at reducing gun violence a hearing this session. Neither will commit to a hearing. The bills have been in their committees for about a year.\nWhy The NAACP Opposes MN Police Body Cam Bill\nView all Brian Johnson Posts \u2192\nA Minnesota Republican majority refuses to allow debate on two gun violence prevention bills, effectively stopping them from advancing this session.\nView all Dave Pinto Posts \u2192\nWhere This Story Happens\nBy: L. Nur, Freelance Journalist While national and local pro-Trump mobs and protestors swarmed the D.C. and Minnesota Capitols yesterday, our state Senate began its 2021 legislative session's Education Finance and Policy Committee meeting. The meeting was held via Zoom and began at 3pm. (more\u2026)\nBy McKenzie Kemper: Freelance Writer I am the whitest kid you will ever meet. It is a running joke among my friends that if the power goes out that you can use my legs as a flashlight to get around.\nBy Marjaan Sirdar, Freelance Columnist The UpTake is not responsible for the content in this column. Claim: In Black and brown communities, Minneapolis police continue to act without regard for human life or the Constitution as evident in the recent killing of 23-year-old Somali-American, Dolal Idd. 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{"text":"Joe DiPietro\nSakeena Farhath\nDaniel A. Gross\nCamellia Safi\nJohn P. Lavinus\nStephanie Duran\nAbel Njonguo\nWhitney Watkins\nMarishka Little\nDivorce Infographics\nUnusual Divorce Laws From Around the World\nDiPietro Law Group, PLLC Nov 26, 2018\nOur legal team at DiPietro Law Group, PLLC routinely features blog posts about unique and important aspects of the divorce process, as well as other matters of family law. That's due to the fact that divorce and family law can be complex and highly unfamiliar territory for most people looking to resolve their matters, and that educating yourself about the process can help immensely as you prepare, manage your expectations, and make informed decisions about your future.\nWhile our team takes our role as advocates and legal guides seriously, we also know it's beneficial to take a step back from the intricate details of particular laws and look as divorce and family laws from a different point of view. In fact, taking a look at laws from other states, different times, and other countries can provide a refreshing view on what it means, and has meant, to be married and divorced \u2013 at least to some people or legislatures. Now only can this help provide a better understanding of the complexity and variance in laws that govern our personal affairs and relationships, it can also provide a few needed laughs.\nBelow are some of the most unusual divorce laws from around that world that, remarkably, still exist today:\nDivorce is still illegal in a lot of place \u2013 Divorce may have its origins in ancient Rome, but it's a relatively \"new\" process in many places that has been subject to various ideas and rules of law throughout the years. In a younger country like the U.S., citizens have generally always had the right to divorce, though not always the right to marry who they please or the social support to terminate an unhappy union. In other places around the world, however, long-standing prohibitions or limitations on divorce still exist. In the Philippines, for example, divorce is illegal for all Filipinos, except for Filipinos of Islamic faith. Only civil annulments are permitted, but requirements for lengthy legal separation and long and costly court procedures make it an unpopular option. While the Philippines' House of Representatives introduced a bill to legalize divorce for the first time in the nation's history in 2018, it still remains a divisive topic.\nStrict requirements, or a lack thereof \u2013 While there are certain procedures that must be met in order to divorce in the U.S., laws in some countries go much further. In Chile, a nation which only recently introduced a form of legal divorce, current laws mandate spouses to meet many requirements before their divorce can be finalized. Among these are providing a \"valid reason\" for divorce which must be approved by the court, and having been separated from one's spouse for multiple years. While some laws may take this type of approach, others are astonishingly simple. Eskimo people need only to live separately, and not for any specific period of time, to end a marriage. A Tennessee law inexplicably still in effect permits men to divorce their wives so long as they provide them with 10 pounds of beans, 5 pounds of apples, meat, and enough yarn to knit stockings for a year. For some, that might actually be a better trade off than dividing marital assets between spouses for the purposes of property division.\nNew marriages and \"remarriage\"\u2013 Divorce in many ways can provide a fresh start, and for some people that means getting married again. However, some divorce laws restrict the abilities of divorcees to do whatever they want. In Japan, women, but not men, must wait at least 6 months after divorce before they can finalize a new marriage. In Kentucky, a law still on the books prevents gluttons for punishment, or severely conflicted people, from marrying a person who they have already divorced three times.\nUnusual grounds for divorce \u2013 It wasn't until 1983 that all but two states (South Dakota and New York) adopted some form of not-fault divorce laws, which means spouses don't need to cite a reason for terminating their marriage apart from \"irreconcilable differences.\" Even in countries like the UK, spouses still have to cite a reason for getting divorced, though British government is trying to pass a no-fault divorce law. In the U.S., fault-based divorces are still available, and may be appropriate in some cases, such as those involving domestic violence or abandonment. While those reasons makes sense, other grounds for divorce still on the books today make little. For example, you can cite mistreatment of mother-in-law as a valid grounds for divorce in Wichita, Kansas, \"attempted murder\" as a reason for ending a marriage in Tennessee, and even failure to get permission for false teeth in Vermont. Divorce grounds from other countries can be just as strange. Women in Samoa have reason to divorce their forgetful husbands if they fail to remember their birthday, and women in Saudi Arabia whose husbands don't bring them fresh coffee also have legal permission to end a marriage.\nMarried on a dare \u2013 Marriages are borne in all types of different ways, from young love and long-standing relationships to carefully planned unions and spur of the moment shotgun weddings. In Delaware, which must have had some type of widespread problem at some point in its history, spouses who get married on a dare or in jest can cite a law allowing them to obtain an annulment.\nWhile they're worth a chuckle, these laws are a great reminder that societal views on marriage and divorce, as well as the laws which govern them, are always evolving. In fact, we've discussed just that in recent blogs about increasing rates of married couples who opt for prenuptial agreements, rising rates of \"Gray Divorce,\" involving older couples, and new tax laws which will soon take effect and change how spousal support is treated under the U.S. tax code. As divorce and family law attorneys, it is our job to stay apprised of these changes, to identify and evaluate how our local courts apply the law to various cases, and use that insight for the benefit of our clients.\nIf you have questions about divorce laws which affect you and your case, or would like to speak personally with an attorney from our team about a divorce in Northern Virginia, Maryland, or the District of Columbia, please contact us to request an initial consultation. 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{"text":"Home \/ Local news (page 30)\nWapping bus gateway reduces rush-hour traffic\nTraffic has reduced by a third in Wapping as a result of a bus gateway installed by Tower Hamlets Council to improve road safety and air quality. The gateway on Wapping High Street is enforced by automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras. The drivers of motor vehicles passing through the gateway at peak times on weekdays, against the rules, receive ...\nMayor backs 'Time Out to Help Out' campaign and calls for self-isolation to be recognised as a civic duty\nThe Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has backed a new national campaign 'Time Out to Help Out' which would see workers continue to be paid their full normal wage if they are requested to self-isolate under the NHS Test and Trace system. Many of those who are asked to self-isolate and who cannot work from home are faced with ...\nWhitechapel flat fire could have ended in tragedy without crucial intervention from housing team\nDestruction caused by a seventh-floor kitchen blaze of a house in multiple occupation (HMO) in Whitechapel could have been much worse had it not been for a warning from diligent council officers less than a year earlier. Firefighters were called to the blaze in Sidney Street on Friday 14 August where they found the kitchen in flames. Thankfully, it did ...\nMemorandum to Sheikh Hasina to extradite all war criminals from the UK\nOn 17 August 2020 a three member UK Nirmul Committee team comprising of Syed Enamul Islam, Vice Chair, Harmuz Ali, Vice Chair and Jamal Ahmed Khan, General Secretary went to see Bangladesh's High Commissioner to the UK, Saida Muna Tasneem at the Bangladesh High Commission in Kensington to hand over a memorandum addressed to Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of ...\nTime running out for private renters as eviction ban ends this week and Universal Credit claims soar\nThe Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has made a last-ditch appeal to the Government to bring in additional protections for private renters before the eviction ban is lifted at the end of this week (23rd August). Although the Scottish and Welsh governments have moved to increase protections for private renters, there have been no such plans from Westminster despite ...\nMayor slams Government over plans to scrap Public Health England during a pandemic\nThe Mayor of Tower Hamlets has branded the Government's decision to scrap Public Health England (PHE) during the Covid-19 pandemic as 'irresponsible and astonishing'. The Government's plans, first announced in a Sunday newspaper, will see the ex-boss of the TalkTalk mobile phone company Dido Harding take control of a new agency called the 'National Institute for Health Protection' (NIHP). ...\nPedestrian zones clear the way for outdoor dining on Brick Lane\nParts of Brick Lane will be temporarily pedestrianised next week to provide safe spacing for walking and outdoor seating for restaurant customers. The temporary closure is being delivered by Tower Hamlets Council using funding from the Department for Transport. From Thursday 27 August, sections of the iconic street will be closed to vehicles to promote social distancing while providing a timely boost to restaurants facing some of the ...\nAward for council officer who gives up her time to give careers advice to college kids\nA council officer who volunteered to put her experience supporting start up businesses to use as a mentor for the borough's young people has been named London Enterprise Adviser of the Year. By day, Deborah Millington works with budding entrepreneurs to help them put their ideas into action. Last year she saw an opportunity to use the knowledge ...\nBangladesh has many success stories to tell globally: Minister\nLand Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury has said Bangladesh would have achieved higher growth much earlier if Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur were alive. However, he said, Bangabandhu's killing could not deter the progress of Bangladesh as his visionary daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken the country to an unprecedented height of development. \"Now, Bangladesh has many success stories ...\nCouncil services prepared for Unison's third round of strike action\nMeasures in place to ensure our residents and businesses remain supported Previous three-day strike featured no more than 15% of workforce and services were not affected. Strike follows Unison's reluctance to reach collective agreement for 18 months Tower Hamlets Council is prepared for a third round of three consecutive days (13th, 14th, 17th August) of strike action by Unison ...\nPage 30 of 106\u00ab First...1020\u00ab2829303132\t\u00bb\t405060...Last \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"IPTV Times\nWe, The Digital Stepford Wives\nSo, a shiny (well, matt) new Google Chrome OS CR48 PC arrived chez Jones today. The notebook as already been widely documented by endgadget and others, so I won't critique the device, but note the importance of its launch.\nThis is basically a PC that runs a web browser and nothing else. So, if you don't live in the cloud it's useless, and if you don't live in Google's cloud it's just as useless. It's basically as tied into Google as any Microsoft system was tied into Microsoft and all Apple products are tied into Apple. In fact, more so. Even though there's a Dropbox app, none of my docs would open in anything I could find, rendering the device totally useless - even my iPad can open a Word or Excel document.\nAnd it also shows the fundamental difference between the Google cloud and the actual cloud - no Spotify, no Skype, no ftp, no email (apart from Gmail which I don't use).\nOn top of this, Google now has a formidable set of walled gardens of its own, from YouTube, through the failed Wave (which might have been more successful if it had been more open), to the ever-annoying Blogger online app that I'm using to write this (biting the hand that feeds and all that).\nLet's face it, Google, with all its virtuous rhetoric, has done to the internet in the UK what Tesco has done to the high street. They are convenient, cheap and ubiquitous, so make life easy for your average 21st century citizen. But Tesco has become a vacuum cleaner, sucking money out of the local economy and replacing reasonably paid jobs in local shops with minimum wage positions on part time contracts.\nBut, at the end of the day, the instinct of any large company (especially public company) is towards a monopoly, and none of these behemoths can resist the temptation to be introspective and protectionistic.\nThe oppressive weight of Facebook and the other incumbents is beginning to lean heavily on me and I already think that the internet is a utility that may already have been lost to big business, however worthy their empty rhetoric may sound.\nThe Chrome PC is nothing more than a vacuum cleaner for the digital age, and we are all becoming Stepford Wives.\nchrome OS CR48 google pc\nThe Rot\nThis was going to be a tweet, where, my dear followers, you will know I post my rantiest rants (with thanks for your indulgence). But I've elevated this thought since I've started to question how we got here, with an incompetent megalomaniac and his college mates running the country and killing tens of thousands of people and still enjoying 45% approval ratings. This is Mussolini - he was a journalist too. \u202aWe've had some bad 'uns in British politics, but Nick Clegg must be the biggest chancer ever. He propped up a dreadful Tory regime and is now is in charge of Global Affairs and Communication at Facebook. Let's get this right. Along with propping up the most disastrous government in British history that broke the country through 'austerity' at a time of record low interest rates, when Keynsian investment was the obvious thing to do, then contrived to take us out of Europe (and probably will break up the union as a result). He was duly kicked out by his electorate, but was surely\nIf you're a non exec or Chair of a company your role obviously have fiducial duties - making sure the management are behaving themselves, maximising shareholder returns and thinking through their plans and strategies. But I firmly believe that there is another key role for Board advisors to play. Looking to the future. The management is, quite rightly, in the here and now. They have a plan and they need to execute and achieve their numbers. So who is looking at the big picture and thinking about the impact of bad things, good things, opportunities and threats ? I have always thought of my own key competence as futurology, not entrepreneurship. In that spirit I have prepared a mind map of the likely outcomes of the current crisis once the economic impact starts to take effect this summer. I - and anyone looking at this - could probably write a dissertation at the very least on it. Obviously there are parts of some sectors that will be badly hit, eg car sales,\nIt's A Penalty Try For Rugby TV Rights Holders During the Pandemic\nWell, it's a Saturday and I would, in normal times, be down the pub watching rugby, but that's a distant dream now. In looking for the alternatives it has become apparent that there is a massive gap in the market for a sports Netflix. Let me summarise what is available for me to watch on a rainy Saturday in the UK: BBC - two Scottish internationals from the last century ITV - nothing Channel4 - nothing Five - nothing S4C (Welsh language TV) - two Scarlets games and a lockdown show about rugby players Netflix - nothing Amazon Prime - decent doc on the All Blacks but no games BT Sport - a decent set of ''extended highlights\" Now TV - I have cut my sports subs since they never had on demand sports Premier Sports - a good few full length games from the last season Yes, I could cobble together a sad day's viewing, but come on... The lack of imagination and enterprise at TV services beggars belief, especially when there is no particular cost or restriction to making content available on on\n(c) Iolo Jones,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Thanks for coming to Confidentials.\nLooks like you might have an AdBlocker on. Please whitelist confidentials.com to continue to our site and enjoy an Ad-Light experience.\nNever miss a beat, with the best in food, booze, news, offers, comps and more delivered direct to your inbox\nConfidentials Liverpool\nBest Of LIV\nBody Confidential\n\u25cf \/ Shops\/Markets\nLocal chef unites Liverpool producers to create a special food delivery service\nThe Confidentials 22 April 2020\nLIDS is the idea of LuBan's Dave Critchley - and it's evolving every day\nYou can take the chef out of the kitchen, but it seems you can't stop him coming up with creative ideas. When regional Chinese restaurant, Luban, in Cains Brewery Village, had to close due to the coronavirus epidemic, exec head chef Dave Critchley immediately started to formulate a plan.\nWithin days he had launched a brand new food delivery service to help keep households supplied with fresh food and to support essential food services and local producers. Liverpool Independent Delivered Services, or LIDS, is a new service that brings together the region's fresh food suppliers including butchers, bakers, fishmongers and vegetable suppliers, to provide families, individuals and others with an alternative to having to visit the supermarkets.\nWe're managing to get a lot of good done as well off the back of this site, so I'm really happy with that\n\"LIDS is effectively an online platform for suppliers and independent local traders to do business all from one place,\" Dave told us. \"There's a butcher, a baker, a fish man - all the essentials - and there are a lot of new companies that have come on in the last week or so with more luxury items such as cakes, wine, beer, all kind of produce.\"\n\"We can get the produce to the door of whoever needs it, normally the next day. We're doing far better than the supermarkets in terms of being able to get deliveries to people's houses within 48 hours. If there's a supplier who doesn't have a delivery option, then I'll use my delivery drivers to pick up and drop them off throughout the day.\"\nLIDS has created two new jobs in terms of drivers, \"One works in the morning when a lot of the veg boxes and things like that are ready to be picked up and dropped off, and the second driver goes out later when the baked goods and cakes are ready,\" says Dave.\nWhat inspired him to start this all off? (apart from the virus, obviously)\n\"LuBan held on as much as we could, but then we made the decision to close. We had thought about doing takeaways, so we worked on some menus and looked at the logistics, but it just wasn't worth competing \u2013 technically, we would also be putting our staff at risk. After day one of being at home, I could see a gap in the market for independent business such as butchers and fishmongers trying to trade. They have to stay open; they don't really have a choice. I just felt for them all and asked them if they could do deliveries to houses instead of restaurants, so that got me thinking about how to put together items on a typical weekly shop.\n\"At the same time, after all the panic buying, people were being told to stay away from supermarkets and places where there are large amounts of people. But what about the elderly and people who can't get their shopping? Supermarkets are either a four-week wait online or there are no delivery slots available. There was obviously a need and local independent traders were capable of filling that gap.\"\nSo is this service available for absolutely anyone who needs it?\nDC - \"If you've got a business that needs food supplies, or if you're someone at home who can't get out, you can order from it. If you're someone who just wants local produce rather than supermarket rubbish then it's for you, or if you just want to stay away from supermarkets because it's far safer to stay at home. So it's ticking a lot of boxes in terms of who need it.\"\nLIDS can deliver from Liverpool Cheese Company\nWhat's the delivery area?\nDC \u2013 \"Every L postcode at the moment, so right across Liverpool. We have done deliveries to Wirral under special circumstances, but it's too much to ask of the drivers. A care home called me and said they couldn't get hold of the amount of stuff they needed to feed sixty elderly people, so that was a mission to head over there with a van full of stuff. But I have now started to create a site for over the water which will be using local Wirral suppliers with their own delivery network.\"\nHow have you managed to get all the suppliers involved?\nDC \u2013 \"Until now, it's been me contacting them because a lot of the local guys are quite busy trying to keep their heads above water at the moment. Now they don't have to worry about taking payments over the phone or sorting delivery drivers out because LIDS service covers all of that. People place their orders on my website and then at the end of the week, I'll pay the supplier, which saves them the job of taking individual payments over the phone at the same time as trying to bake and deliver and spread the word about their service.\"\nLIDS is effectively an online platform for suppliers and independent local traders to do business all from one place\nCan you handle more orders?\nDC \u2013 \"At the moment we're doing between 25-70 orders per day, but we can handle more. I want to keep going until the suppliers tell me that's enough. It just means more people are safe at home rather than having to go out to supermarkets, which is great for trying to slow down this coronavirus. Also it's a fantastic move towards using independent suppliers who are offering far better produce. It's also keeping money in the local economy as well. Where's your Tesco or ASDA money going to, because it's not staying in Liverpool. Even though all our suppliers are working as independents, they're also working under the one umbrella that is LIDS.\"\nHow's LIDS evolving?\n\"There is going to be a second side, which I'm working on at the moment, to reach vulnerable people and those who don't have the money to be able to purchase these kinds of goods. I'm reaching out to local farms for any kind of stuff that's not good enough to go to the supermarkets - wonky veg and stuff like that, so I can start creating cheaper boxes that could potentially feed a family for a week.\"\n\"We've managed to send 120 packed lunches off to the homeless shelter at Whitechapel as well as 120 packed lunches to the NHS community nurses. We've made produce donations to the food bank and local community projects that are cooking for vulnerable and elderly groups. We're managing to get a lot of good done as well off the back of this site, so I'm really happy with that. So if anyone's able to donate food items, we can also organise those deliveries so they go direct to those who need them.\"\n\"Hopefully I'm helping people in the community, as that was the first objective; keeping people away from supermarket, getting food delivered fresh to their doorsteps, keeping the independent traders busy and hopefully forcing a move towards independents again and away from supermarkets.\nBrowse the LIDS website to see all the suppliers currently available which include:\nMuckuhens Butchers, Harry Jesse Son & Co Seafood, Liverpool Produce for locally grown fruit and veg, dairy and dry goods, The Little Shoe for freshly baked bread, desserts and cooked meals, as well as everyday essentials and wines, Laura's Little Bakery, Liverpool Cheese Company, The Liverpool Jam Company, and even cleaning products from Ware UK.\nTo find out more about LIDS and to place your order, visit the Facebook page or LIDS website\nLike this? Read - Who's still delivering food and booze in Liverpool?\nRead more - Why Liverpool's Lu Ban goes way beyond being 'just' a Chinese restaurant\nLiverpool Food\ncains brewery\nliverpool drink\nLiverpool Dining\nliverpool eating and\nLiverpool Food and Drink\n\u25cf \/ Dinner\nRudy's introduces three vegan pizzas to bake at home\n\u25cf \/ Best Of LIV\nEight Liverpool takeaway solutions for Veganuary 2021\nHonest Burgers launches Jamaican-influenced Veganuary special\n\u25cf \/ News\nLiverpool back in Tier 3. What a way to end the year.\nHOME-X from Six By Nico has launched its January range\nMore Liverpool Christmas menus you don't want to miss\nLiverpool bars and restaurants with merch to match the menus\n\u25cf \/ Eating Out\n5 Good Reasons to Visit The Refinery\nThe 2020 Liverpool Christmas menus you don't want to miss\nLet it be known that Christmas is NOT cancelled\n\u25cf \/ Drink\nHome and Maray \u2013 Maray launch 'at home' box with UK wide delivery\nBecause you can't get to Maray, they'll come to you\n\u25cf \/ New Openings\nA pink car, giant candy area and themed pool party \u2013 Boujee to open in Liverpool One\nThe new restaurant and bar is set to become the city's 'most Instagrammable' venue\n\u25cf \/ Latest Reviews\nTest Kitchen \u2013 HOME-X, Home by Nico, Bankok menu box\nIs this one of the best value cook at home boxes on the market?\n\u00a9 2021 Confidentials Liverpool\nWeb Design Manchester MadeByShape","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sampson County Sheriff's Office\nSheriff Jimmy Thornton\nUNIFORM DIVISION\nSHERIFF'S TIPS\nWANTED PERSONS\nPUBLIC PERMITS AND FORMS\nGANG TASK FORCE\nRegister Here To Receive Emergency Notifications and Crime Alerts for Sampson County\nPURCHASE PISTOL PERMITS ONLINE\nWelcome to the Sampson County Sheriff's Office web page. Please take a look at who we are and what we do to serve and protect the citizens of Sampson County.\nThe Office of Sheriff is provided for within the North Carolina Constitution. Sheriffs are elected for four-year terms by the citizens of the county in which the sheriff serves. According to common law the Sheriff is considered to be the chief law enforcement officer of a county. The Sheriff and employees of the Sheriff, deputies, detention officers and civilians, make up the Sampson County Sheriff's Office.\nThe Sampson County Sheriff's Office is a full service law enforcement agency charged with enforcing the law, investigating crimes, apprehending criminals, providing custody and control of arrested persons through our detention facilities, and serving the court system by service of civil and criminal process and furnishing court security. The Sampson County Sheriff's Office consists of the Office of Sheriff, Administration, Patrol Division, Bailiffs, Special Investigation Division, Criminal Investigation Division, Civil Division, Domestic Violence Division, Office and Detention Center Staff\n(Public Access)\nINMATE INFORMATION - Sheriff's Office Access Only\nDesigned by Marcus Smith\nand Scott Grantham","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Monday, January 30, 2023 - 16:11:29\nPost-pandemic recovery\nGreen transition\nEast Sea\nKeyword: Japanese Communist Party\nVietnamese, Japanese Party officials meet in Hanoi\nWednesday, March 16, 2016 19:16\nPermanent member of the Party Central Committee's Secretariat Dinh The Huynh has hosted a reception for the visiting Vice Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party Yasuo Ogata Yasuo Ogata in Hanoi.\nJapanese Communist Party congratulates on 12th National Party Congress\nThe Japanese Communist Party (JCP) Central Committee offered congratulations to the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on the 12 th National Party Congress, scheduled to take place from Jan. 20 - 28.\nParty General Secretary busy in Japan\nThursday, September 17, 2015 18:44\nParty General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong had a meeting with Japanese Communist Party (JCP) Chairman Kazuo Shii in Tokyo on September 17.\nTennis: Vietnam against Indonesia for Davis Cup World Group II berth\nVietnam to send 20 teams to VEX Robotics World Championship 2023\nVietnam posts trade surplus of 3.6 billion USD in January\nMinistry of Public Security hosts New Year concert 2023\nInfographicCuc Phuong national park among leading national parks in Asia\nVietnamplus Intellectual Property Terms Of Use RSS Support Languages VNA News Service Advertisements Contact\n\u00a9 Copyright, VietnamPlus, Vietnam News Agency (VNA).\nEditor-in-chief, Mr. Tran Tien Duan.\nLicence No. 1374\/GP-BTTTT dated September 11, 2008 by the Ministry of Information and Communications.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Many companies are using a Unified Endpoint Management system to manage and protect their devices. But there are many reasons why it may be necessary to change from one UEM system to another: Further development of technologies may lead to another system being better able to meet your requirements than the previous one or better interact with other software. Another system offering the same features as the previous one may be cheaper. A company acquisition may lead to the situation that several UEM systems are in use in a group and consolidation makes sense. Or a UEM system may no longer be supported, so that it may be necessary to switch to another system.\nChanging the UEM system is a challenge for many companies and seems to require a lot of effort. But with the EBF Onboarder, the EBF has developed a tool which makes it possible to migrate devices from one source UEM system to another target UEM system in a largely automated manner. The EBF Onboarder provides an easy-to-use interface for migrations from multiple UEM systems to all leading UEM systems and allows users to migrate their device with just a few clicks.\nThis documentation provides you with information about the EBF Onboarder, its prerequisites and the whole migration project. It describes how you can setup a migration project, how you can setup invitation emails and reminders which guide your users through the migration and it also tells you how to initiate the migration process and how to track the migration status.\nFor the target systems Microsoft Intune, MobileIron and VMware Workspace ONE there are separate documentations available which are important to read in addition to this one. You can find them here.\nFor the source systems MobileIron and VMware Workspace ONE there are separate documentations available which are important to read in addition to this one. You can find them here.\nUpdated on 3. Januar 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Visit Savannah Facebook\nThe Forsyth Park Fountain in Savannah\nWhy St. Patrick's Day is so big in Savannah, Georgia\nIn a few days, the Guinness will be flowing and the Irish, clad in Kelly green and covered in shamrocks, will take over Savannah for a memorable St. Patrick's Day celebration. The fountain in Forsyth Park will be dyed green, but the river won't \u2014 they tried that once and let's just say it didn't work out so well.\nAt over 200 years old, Savannah's St. Patrick's celebration is one of the largest in the country, second only to New York City, according to Savannah.com. Last year, almost half a million people from across the country flooded the streets of the port city to honor and celebrate their Irish heritage, and this year won't be any different.\nIrish roots run deep in Savannah, as well as in the rest of the state of Georgia. In fact, the Irish were among some of the first settlers to arrive in the new colony in 1734. Along with being some of the first people granted land, the Irish had their hand in shaping the colony and boosting the economy in the South. Dr. Howard Keely, the director of the Center for Irish Research and Teaching at Georgia Southern University, explained that while James Oglethorpe is the founder of Georgia, an important Irishman named Henry Ellis is responsible for keeping the colony afloat. Ellis was the second royal governor of the colony and created its county system. He also strengthened relationships with Native Americans, which helped settlers get access to more of the state.\n\"The influence of Henry Ellis is one of the major ways in which we see Savannah as an Irish city today,\" Keeley explained in a Reflector Magazine article. \"Ellis is known by some historians as the second founder of Georgia because of the way he relaunched the Georgia project.\"\nBy the early 1800s, a large population of working class Irish people were living in Savannah, and a large population had settled across 15,000 acres of land between Augusta and Savannah, the area of which is now the city of Louisville. \"At this point, [the population of] Savannah [began] to turn into a blend of the Presbyterian Scots-Irish and the often lower-class native Irish Catholics,\" explained writer Casey Rohlen in a Reflector Magazine article.\nThe Irish continued seeking work around Savannah, and they found it easily, as there was a great demand for help to build the canals, ports and, later on, even the railroad system.\nThe last, and largest, migration of the Irish came as Ireland was facing one of its most tragic moments in history: The Great Famine. \"In the 1850s, shipping routes carrying immigrants to America were running from southeastern Ireland to Savannah,\" Keeley explained in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Research suggests that as many as one in three white households in Savannah in 1860 were from Ireland \u2014 \"not just Irish, but Irish-born,\" he said.\nThroughout the Industrial Revolution and early 20th century, the Irish flocked to other cities around the country, like Boston, New York City and Chicago, but Savannah has always held a special place in the heart of Irishmen. Even though the mass immigrations slowed down in Savannah during the early 20th century, those who did find their way to Georgia thrived, and you can still feel their presence today.\nMore Georgians claim ancestry in Ireland than any specific foreign land other than England, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. According to a report from the AJC, that means almost 800,00 people have reported having Irish heritage. While the concentration of those claiming Irish ancestry has shifted to Northern Georgia, Savannah is still the central place to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the state.\nAlthough she comes from Scottish decent, Southern Kitchen's Visual Editor Ramona King felt the presence of the Irish while growing up in South Georgia. She remembers a childhood filled with potatoes and cabbage on the table. \"Potatoes are a true staple of every meal,\" she said. \"There was lots of cabbage too. My great-grandmother was Dutch, but had Irish influence in her cooking, and each summer they would make their own sauerkraut in large barrels and drink juices off the top as a sort of ancient Gatorade. Most people think of sauerkraut as a German dish, but it's definitely an Irish one, too.\"\nSavannah's St. Patrick's Day parade will kick off a weekend of celebrations, which include the Savannah Irish Festival, where guests will sample Irish foods and beverages while Irish music and entertainment fills the Civic Center, and the St. Patrick's Day Festival at River Street and City Market, where restaurants, food trucks and entertainment will provide merriment throughout the weekend.\nThose seeking a real Irish pub experience on St. Patrick's day should head to O'Connell's, McDonough's or the world-famous Kevin Barry's Irish Pub, which is owned by a second-generation Irishman Vic Powers.\nKevin Barry's is a 35-year-old establishment located in one of the city's oldest buildings on River Street with a great view of the Savannah River. In 2016, the pub was named the \"Most Authentic Irish Pub\" by the Irish Pubs Global Federation for its name, decor and live traditional Irish music.\n\"Kevin Barry's Irish Pub is not the Americanized Irish pub that you will get a green beer from, nor will you get a shamrock on top of your Guinness,\" the pub's PR manager Tara Reese told Southern Kitchen. \"But what you will find is a proper pint of Guinness being poured, traditional Irish music and customers from all over the world sharing stories.\"\nKing agrees that Kevin Barry's is very authentic. For her, it's the traditional live Gaelic music that completes the experience. \"My favorite experience there is getting an Irish coffee, which is served in traditional glass with Jameson, listening to beautiful music,\" King said.\nSavannah's other Irish pubs also have a lot to offer. The Rail Pub and Molly MacPherson's Pub and Grill are great places to sing karaoke and down a few shots of whiskey. After studying abroad in Ireland, King knows what a true Irish pub looks like, and she said that Molly MacPherson's transports her back to Ireland.\n\"The look and feel of Molly MacPherson's pub and grill reminds me the most of what you're going to find in Ireland,\" she said. \"It reminds me the most of Temple Bar; you're crowded by a lot of people and surrounded by lots of types of liquor.\"\nAnd for a true authentic Guinness, there's only one place to go: O'Connell's. \"Their Guinness is true to how you'll find a Guinness in Ireland,\" King said. \"They know how to pour a Guinness like a how a Guinness should be poured.\"\nPhoto credit: Visit Savannah Facebook\nPhoto credit: Savannah City Market Facebook\nPhoto credit: Kevin Barry's Irish Pub Facebook\nHow to celebrate the Irish like a Georgian\nPut some South in your soda bread this St. Patrick's Day\nDrool-worthy cakes perfect for all your Summer celebrations","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Yoder Strikes Bipartisan Tone But Defends Trump At Olathe Town Hall Meeting\nKMUW\nJim McLean\nCongressman Kevin Yoder, a Republican who represents Kansas' 3rd District, participated in his first in-person town hall meeting since last year's election. The meeting Tuesday at Olathe City Hall was hosted by the Kansas City Star.\nFacing what could be a tough race for re-election, Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder appeared determined to strike a bipartisan tone Tuesday night in his first in-person town hall meeting since last year's election.\nHe stressed the importance of civility and working across the aisle several times during the meeting sponsored by the Kansas City Star, touting his work with Democrats to expand child-care tax credits and strengthen privacy laws.\nBut the four-term Republican held to the party line when responding to repeated questions about his vote for a controversial GOP health care bill and President Donald Trump's fitness for office.\nYoder repeated his criticism of the president for not \"clearly and directly\" repudiating white nationalists and neo-Nazis for the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, but praised his \"strong leadership\" on the economy and national security.\nNoting that during his first six years in office he regularly received calls from people urging President Barack Obama's impeachment, Yoder said he saw no reason to take calls for Trump's ouster more seriously.\n\"The president has been duly elected,\" Yoder said. \"He deserves the right and chance to lead this country.\"\nMany in the audience of approximately 100 at Olathe City Hall booed Yoder when he responded to a question about the Trump's documented propensity for lying by saying: \"I don't know who lies in this country. But I will say the president \u2014 I believe \u2014 gets up every day with the best interests of this country at heart.\"\nYoder defended his vote for a controversial Obamacare replacement bill that would have increased the numbered of uninsured Americans by 22 million, insisting the bill included protections not accounted for in the Congressional Budget Office estimate.\nHe said he's willing to consider a bipartisan approach to stabilizing the Obamacare marketplace while Congress continues to debate long-term health policy.\n\"I'm not one of these people who says, 'You know, we ought to just let it fall apart,'\" Yoder said. \"I'm committed to doing what we need to do to stabilize and bring insurers into the market while we fix the broken parts of Obamacare.\"\nYoder's bid for a fifth term is expected to be his toughest. He's running in a district that Trump narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton that Democrats have targeted in their effort to regain the majority in the U.S. House.\nSensing opportunity in a potential anti-Trump wave, several Democrats are competing for the right to challenge Yoder in Kansas' 3rd District. In addition to 2016 nominee Jay Sidie, they include Andrea Ramsey, a retired corporate attorney and former president of a nonprofit health care clinic, Tom Niermann, a high school history teacher, and Brent Welder, a labor attorney who rose to prominence in the party as a supporter of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.\nSeveral of Yoder's opponents have criticized him for ducking town hall meetings. They were also critical of Tuesday's event because of limited seating and the process the Star's editorial board used to select participants.\nGovernmentAffordable Care ActKevin YoderDonald TrumpKansas News Service\nDemocrats Preparing To Challenge Congressman Yoder In 2018\nNational Democrats Focus On Kansas 3rd District","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"We are TMRA | FUN | EXCITING | MOTIVATED\nCome and join the exciting action\nAugust 20th and 21th, 2021\nCowboys from across the country will come to compete for points toward the PRCA finals and large cash purses in grueling events like bronc riding, steer wrestling and bull riding. Lightening fast Cowgirls will be taking razor sharp turns around the barrels and down to the finish line. The adrenaline will be pumping as bull-fighters and barrel men will serve as bodyguards for bull riders who've been thrown from bulls after their eight-second rides. World class stock will be bucking hard and kicking high to assure plenty of rodeo excitement.\u200b\u200b\n2021 Junior Rodeo, July 24-25 2021\nJunior Rodeo Registration\nHello Rodeo Fans,\nOur long awaited Junior Rodeo Registration is up!\u00a0 There will be no walk ups and there will be no late registration, all registration must be done by the 16th of July in order to compete in the 24th and 25th Rodeo.\u00a0 The link below is live and you may register now and it is highly recommended you register early.\u00a0 Cannot wait to see all the youngsters out there this\u00a0year!!!\nJr Rodeo Rule Book\nBad Bulls - July 4th 2021 ( watch for activities on 3 Jul as well)\n\"Eight seconds of pure adrenaline atop 2,000 pounds of muscle and fury\" best describes the wild rides that await the bull riders at the Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Associations' Bad Bulls Riding Tour. \u00a0Bad Bulls hosts the toughest Cowboys from across the U.S. and the baddest bulls at the Tehachapi Event Center and Rodeo Grounds on Dennison Road and Hwy 58.\nTMRA Jr. Rodeo is seeking your support for our upcoming July 24\/25 Junior Rodeo. Previously all stock utilized at our rodeos had been donated, which allowed us to put more money towards payouts and year end awards. This year, we are going to have to pay for our stock, which we will be utilizing during our rodeo. With that in mind, our cost is going to be significantly increased to host this event. We are seeking your support in Donation or as a Buckle Sponsor. We are looking to award buckles to the event winners and general prizes for other placing contestants.\nBuckle Sponsor form\nJunior Rodeo is not having an official season.\nPlanning to do a weekend buckle series:\n- Need sponsors for buckles (probably $100\n- Will have to rent stock\n- Entry fees may be raised\n- July 24th and 25th 2 day junior rodeo\n- People can camp at rodeo grounds and have Saturday night dinner\n- 2-day average payout\nIf you are interested in helping out with Junior rodeo or have any questions please feel free to contact Tom Tully at tullytom@att.net\nGeneral Meeting June 7th 2021 at 6pm\nThere will be a general meeting at 7pm June 7th 2021 Tanglewood Farms.\nIf you are interested in our events for the season please join us.\nWe greatly appreciate your participation in our organization.\nTMRA Secretary\nKick Off Dinner\nRodeo Queen\nHold on to your hats and crowns!\nBakersfield and Tehachapi are joining forces to bring you a brand new and improved pageant!!\nWork Day - May 15th 2021\nA work day is scheduled for 15 May at 8am at the Arena\n- Will have donuts and coffee\n- Please bring equipment like weed cutters and gloves\nAbout TMRA\nWe provide Quality family style entertainment.\nThe goal of the Association is to provide quality family style entertainment at affordable prices. All those involved with the TMRA are motivated by a deep love for the sport of professional rodeo, our western heritage, and the desire to educate our youth on the \"Western Way of Life.\"\nIn its humble beginning, the Tehachapi Rodeo began as a youth rodeo and evolved into an adult amateur rodeo. In 1985, the rodeo joined the ranks of what now includes over 900 rodeos in 48 states and 4 Canadian Provinces as a pro rodeo sanctioned by the PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) and is celebrating it's 19th year as a Ram Truck sponsored Rodeo. The Tehachapi Mountain Festival PRCA Rodeo was part of the Tehachapi Mountain Festival Committee and numerous members of the community worked diligently to help it evolve into one of the finest rodeos on the California Pro Rodeo Circuit. The rodeo and the committee continued to grow, and in 1997 the Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Association was formed. It included a dozen members who came together and spent approximately 6 months of the year in preparation for this event. Today the Association boasts a much larger membership as well as a large group of tireless volunteers who work year round in preparation for some of our annual events: The Kickoff Dinner & Dance; the Bad Bulls Tour on July 4th; and, the Tehachapi Mountain PRCA Rodeo in August. The success of the rodeo is due to the dedication of these members and countless volunteers over the past five decades who gave of their time, talents, and resources to preserve our western heritage.\nSection subtitle\nWe can be contacted directly by email through the box provided\nPlease fill out the form to the left.\nOr you can contact us at:\nP.O. Box 63 Tehachapi, CA 93581\ntmraprorodeo@gmail.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Crime, Supernatural and Adventure fiction. Obscure, Forgotten and Well Worth Reading.\nFFB: She Who Was No More - Boileau & Narcejac\nThe crime novel plot motif of losing a corpse is often the basis for a black comedy romp. Craig Rice used this gimmick repeatedly in her novels featuring Jake & Helene Justus and John J. Malone, and it shows up in hundreds of movies notably Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry. But in the hands of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac a disappearing corpse is hardly a laughing matter. Celle Qui N'Etait Plus (1952) was the first collaboration between these two French writers who previously had both won French crime fiction awards for their solo efforts. The success of the duo's first book would lead to a long lasting friendship and over thirty more books as a writing team. In a nod to the novels of James Cain we get an avaricious, adulterous couple who drown the man's wife in a bathtub then manage to lose the body after dumping it in the lavoir (a French communal laundry near a river). It's a study in guilt, remorse and madness more than it is a detective novel. In fact, there is only one policeman who appears and he's a traffic cop who makes a brief cameo at the very start of the book. Boileau and Narcejac are more interested in the terror that resides within the mind of a guilt ridden murderer than they are the usual criminal investigation plot.\nThere is very little action in this book with most of the novel focusing on the thoughts and delirium of the main character. You may know the story from one of the several movie adaptations, but they are just that - adaptations. The film tells the story of two women drowning a husband while in the book a philandering couple murder the wife. The only things the book and the film have in common are a bathtub and the guilty imaginings of one of the killers. While the film takes a very different path to convey the terror of a guilt ridden mind with some indulging in horror movie motifs, the book is a bit more mundane in the way the same terror is depicted.\nThe main character in the novel is Fernand Ravinel, the husband. Fernand is an ineffectual travelling salesman who hawks sporting goods. His special talent is designing and creating fishing flies which take up an entire page in his company's fisherman's supply catalog. But Fernand is otherwise dull, unassuming and in frail health the result of a minor heart attack. He and his mistress Lucienne, a doctor, conspire to do in Fernand's wife Mireille and claim the insurance money. It is Lucienne who does the dirty work while Fernand unable to watch his wife being drowned in a bathtub leaves the room and listens to the murder being carried out. His only act as an accomplice drugging a beverage his wife drinks and fetching the andirons from the fireplace that will hold the body under water. It's a clinical murder carried out with the precision of a surgery. Later they transport the body to the Ravinel's home and unload her into the river that flows through the lavoir. When Fernand coaxes one of his bar mates to visit the lavoir under the pretense of assessing it for repairs he is shocked when his wife's body is no longer there. Thus begins his slow descent into a surreal world of strange events and morbid imagination.\nThere is an abundance of fog imagery throughout the novel. Boileau and Narcejac use this old Gothic novel trapping in a unique way. Since his childhood Fernand was obsessed with fog and used to play an odd game in which he disappeared into the fog, sort of an astral projection, where he sent his mind into the fog imagining that he has crossed over from the living to the dead. This idea of crossing over is further elaborated throughout the novel as Fernand tries to come to terms with whether or not Mireille is actually dead. She keeps turning up in their house leaving notes. There is even a report that she visited her brother though he was the only witness. The brother-in-law's wife resents that Mireille did stay long enough so she could see her too. This fact plants the seed in Fernand's mind that his wife may have been a ghost. Then he obsesses about a small detail -- Mireille kissing her brother's cheek. He wonders how the kiss felt, if it actually took place, or if Germain (the brother) was merely telling a story to make him jealous. Is she a ghost? Is she alive? If so, why does she not show herself to him? Did the murder take place or has he completely lost his mind?\nThere is a subtle suggestion that Mireille and Lucienne are the real adulterous lovers. Typical of the 1950s Lucienne is described as \"mannish\" and being stronger than Fernand. He cannot remember why he was attracted to her or what started their affair. A telling moment of his ignorance -- of his own life being enveloped in a thick fog of overlooking the obvious -- is when he finds photographs of a vacation the three took together. The pictures show Lucienne and Mireille smiling and joyful. Fernand is absent from them all. He cannot even remember taking the photographs himself. All he wonders is \"Where am I? Why did no one take any photos of me?\"\nWhat little action there is comes in brief moments between Fernand and one other character. Very rarely are more than two people ever present in any scene. The novel is one of isolation. The real setting of the book is Fernand's mind. The story is almost exclusively made up of his thoughts, memories, reveries, and the \"fog game\". Boileau and Narcejac set the groundwork for their future crime novels centered on the aftermath of murder and how the criminal is in some ways more of a victim of his crime than the actual corpse. Like many of their best books this debut comes with one gut wrenching, shocking scene and a surprise twist in the final sentences.\nShe Who Was No More attempts to blend the conceits of a ghost story with a murder tale resulting in a claustrophobic, dreary world of doubt and mistrust. It is a loveless world with no real hope culminating in one of the most downbeat endings that rivals any American noir. French crime novels seem to be drenched in self-inflicted misery, more deeply affecting to the characters than the most violent crime.\nAfter decades being out of print and nearly all scarce paperback editions in English translation having being bought up by covetous collectors She Who Was No More is once more available in a new paperback edition from Pushkin Vertigo. They have reprinted the original 1954 English translation by Geoffrey Sainsbury (published as The Woman Who Was No More) rather than having a new edition translated. He does a fine job though he lapses into a stilted British idiom a bit too often. Nevertheless, fans of Boileau and Narcejac and those familiar with Les Diaboliques (or The Fiends), as it is known in the movie version, ought to grab a copy soon. Reading the novel is a revelation and an education into the beginnings of a writing team who unlike many lived up to the promise of their first book and proved to surpass this experimental crime novel with a handful of similarly groundbreaking work.\nPosted by J F Norris at 10:50 AM\nLabels: Boileau-Narcejac, First Books, French writers, Friday's Forgotten Books, Movies, Pushkin Vertigo\ndfordoom February 28, 2016 at 12:19 AM\nThe only Boileau-Narcejac book I've ever managed to get hold is VERTIGO. Which is excellent so I'll keep a lookout for this one.\nMartin Edwards February 29, 2016 at 4:18 PM\nTerrific review of a marvellous novel. I'm amazed that so much of their work has never been translated into English.\nTerrific post John - I have only ever seen the movie (which I love) and really had not realised how substantially it differs from the book - really fascinating, thanks chum.\n\"I Carry It With Me Wherever I Go\" (Flash Fiction)\n\"Laff in the Dark\" (Flash Fiction)\n\"The Dream of a Golden Mantled Tamarin\" (Flash Fiction)\n\"Manual Transmission\" (Flash Fiction)\nThe Culprit\nJ F Norris\nI am a part time writer and bookseller. Back in 1999 I started an internet bookselling business from which this blog gets its name. It is solely devoted to the sale of out-of-print & vintage crime, supernatural, adventure and other genre fiction. I have also written critical essays and reviews on detective & supernatural fiction for fanzines, internet sites and small press publishers.\nFFB: Three Green Bottles - Dominic Devine\nO Rare Arthur Bray!\nNEW STUFF: The Rabbit Back Literature Society - Pa...\nNEW STUFF: The Murdered Banker - Augusto DeAngelis...\nThe Death of Nevill Norway - John Rowland\nFFB: So Bad A Death - June Wright\nRolling, Rolling, Rolling\nThe Chinese Gold Murders (1959) by Robert van Gulik\nBitter Tea and Mystery\nCharlie M: Brian Freemantle\nChristopher Fowler's Blog\nLondon's 2nd Most Famous Landmark Vanishes\nClassic Mysteries (Les Blatt)\n\"The Phantom of the Opera\"\nThe Longer Bodies by Gladys Mitchell\nCross Examining Crime\nA Little Less Than Kind (1964) by Charlotte Armstrong\nDead Yesterday\nFear for Miss Betony (1941) by Dorothy Bowers\nDeath Can Read\nYokomizo Seishi : The Honjin Murders ( Honjin Satsujin Jiken (\u672c\u9663\u6bba\u4eba\u4e8b\u4ef6), 1946)\nDREAMS ARE WHAT LE CINEMA IS FOR...\nTOYS ARE NOT FOR CHILDREN 1972\nNine Elms (2020) by Robert Bryndza\nMY READER'S BLOCK\nThe Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle\nMysteries and More from Saskatchewan\nThere's a Murder Afoot by Vicki Delany\nMystery*File\nOnly Detect\nCARTER DICKSON. 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{"text":"Carolina Performing Arts Event: Soul Rebels with Special Guest Big Freedia: April 9, 2020\nPart of The Soul Rebels: Poetry in Motion tour\nThe Soul Rebels started with an idea: take the pop music they loved to hear on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition of their hometown and make it into something new. The result? A revolutionary, deep pocket funk fusing soul, hip-hop, jazz, and rock with a popping brass band sound. Joined by New Orleans-based rapper\u2014and Queen of Bounce music\u2014Big Freedia, they make their Carolina Performing Arts debut in style as part of their Poetry in Motion tour.\nRecordings by the Soul Rebels available from the UNC Libraries\nTestimony, a Tribute to Charlie Parker by Yusef Komunyakaa; Sandy Evans (Other); Christopher Williams (Contribution by); Miriam Zolin (Other); Sascha Feinstein (Other); Paul Grabowsky (Other); Christopher Williams (Other)\nPulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is well known for his jazz poetry, and this book is the first to bring together the verve and vitality of his oeuvre. The centerpiece of this volume is the libretto \"Testimony.\" Paying homage to Charlie Parker, \"Testimony\" was commissioned for a radio drama with original music by eminent Australian composer and saxophonist Sandy Evans. Remarkably rich and evocative, encompassing a wide range of musical energy and performers, this moving affirmation of Parker's genius became a milestone in contemporary radio theater. Twenty-eight additional poems spanning the breadth of Komunyakaa's career are included, including two never previously published. Accompanying the poems are interviews and essays featuring Komunyakaa, Evans, radio producer Christopher Williams, jazz critic Miriam Zolin, jazz writer and editor Sascha Feinstein, and musical director, Paul Grabowsky. Sascha Feinstein writes the foreword.\nURL: https:\/\/guides.lib.unc.edu\/SoulRebels0420","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About Andy Boyd\nAndy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts.\nNBN Episodes hosted by Andy:\nPerforming Arts December 10, 2021\nThe Girl Singer\nMarianne Worthington\nHosted by Andy Boyd\nIn The Girl Singer (Fireside Industries, 2021), her latest collection of poems, Marianne Worthington weaves together nature writing, feminism, and country music to form a powerful strand of interlocking poems. In the \u2026\nPerforming Arts November 23, 2021\nLove Like Light\nPlays and Performance Texts by Daniel Alexander Jones\nDaniel Alexander Jones\nDaniel Alexander Jones' Love Like Light: Plays and Performance Texts (53rd State Press, 2021) collects seven plays and performance texts from the past twenty-five years. Together, they provide a panoramic view \u2026\nPerforming Arts November 5, 2021\nThe Authorized Biography\nAndrea Warner\nAndrea Warner's Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography (Graystone Books, 2018) tells the story, often in Buffy's own words, of the life of the remarkable artist and activist. Buffy Sainte-Marie's musical career is \u2026\nPerforming Arts October 19, 2021\nChartist Drama\nGregory Vargo\nGreg Vargo's Chartist Drama (Manchester UP, 2021) opens a window into a fascinating aspect of working-class radical drama. This book includes scripts of four dramas performed or published by members \u2026\nPerforming Arts October 6, 2021\nThe Art of Resonance\nAnne Bogart\nAnne Bogart's The Art of Resonance (Methuen Drama, 2021) locates the essence of theatre in the experience of resonant vibration among performers and between performers and audience members. The point of art \u2026\nPerforming Arts September 10, 2021\nStarring Women\nCelebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851\nSara E. Lampert\nWomen performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. In Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851 (U Illinois Press, 2020), Sara \u2026\nPerforming Arts August 31, 2021\nThe Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way\nCaseen Gaines\nCaseen Gaines' Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way (Sourcebooks, 2021) is a rollicking, entertaining, and fascinating cultural history of the 1921 Broadway musical Shuffle Along. Created \u2026\nGreen River Valley\nRobert Lashley\nGreen River Valley, Robert Lashley's third book of poetry, is a moving and complex tribute to the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington. Whether writing about finding love in the aisles of \u2026\nWriting and the Modern Stage\nTheater beyond Drama\nJulia Jarcho\nJulia Jarcho's Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama (Cambridge UP, 2017) is a fascinating argument for the centrality of writing in experimental theater from Gertrude Stein to Suzan-Lori Parks \u2026\nPerforming Arts July 30, 2021\nThe First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic\nJessica Hopper\nThroughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined women recording and producing music, in all genres, through an intersectional feminist \u2026\nStaging Lives in Latin American Theater\nBodies, Objects, Archives\nPaola Hernandez's book Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives (Northwestern UP, 2021) looks at a wide range of documentary theatre practices across South and Central America, including the \u2026\nPerforming Arts June 25, 2021\nFrom Aphra Behn to Fun Home\nA Cultural History of Feminist Theater\nCarey Purcell\nTheatre has long been considered a feminine interest for which women consistently purchase the majority of tickets, while the shows they are seeing typically are written and brought to the \u2026\nBeeswing\nLosing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975\nRichard Thompson's Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 (Algonquin Books, 2021) gives fans of his music a tale as rollicking and entertaining as the reels and ballads he \u2026\n2 Washington Square\nConstance Congdon\nConstance Congdon's 2 Washington Square (Broadway Play Publishing, 2020) is a free-wheeling adaptation of Henry James' novel Washington Square set on the cusp of the 1960s as one era gives way to a startlingly \u2026\nPerforming Arts June 7, 2021\nDeviant Opera\nSex, Power, and Perversion on Stage\nAxel Englund\nIn Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage (University of California Press, 2020), Axel Englund examines an increasingly common trope in opera direction: the use of imagery associated with the kink \u2026\nAnn, Fran, and Mary Ann\nErin Courtney\nAnn, Fran, & Mary Ann (53rd State Press, 2020) is a new play by Erin Courtney, one of the most exciting contemporary American playwrights. This is a play that engages with \u2026\nPerforming Arts May 28, 2021\nHenry Cow\nThe World Is a Problem\nBenjamin Piekut\nBenjamin Piekut's Henry Cow: The World is a Problem (Duke UP, 2019) provides a compelling case study of the problems and possibilities of collective improvisation through the story of Henry Cow \u2026\nTragedy, the Greeks, and Us\nSimon Critchley\nSimon Critchley's Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Vintage, 2020) does not offer a comprehensive theory of tragedy. Instead, it takes issue with the bland simplifications that philosophers have offered in place of a \u2026\nRadical Black Theatre in the New Deal\nKate Dossett\nKate Dossett's book Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal (UNC Press, 2020) turns conventional understandings of the Federal Theatre Project on its head. This book shines a light on the \u2026\nPerforming Arts April 30, 2021\nA Play\nE. Patrick Johnson\nE. Patrick Johnson's Sweet Tea has been a monograph, a documentary film, a stage play, and now a published script from Northwestern University Press. This play weaves together interviews Johnson conducted \u2026\nMerce Cunningham\nAfter the Arbitrary\nCarrie Noland\nCarrie Noland's Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary (University of Chicago Press, 2020) goes past conventional understandings of Cunningham that insist that randomness was his central goal as a choreographer, instead \u2026\nThe Antiracist Writing Workshop\nHow to Decolonizethe Creative Classroom\nFelicia Rose Chavez\nFelicia Rose Chavez' The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom (Breakbeat Poets, 2020) is a practical and persuasive guide to revolutionizing the teaching of creative writing. Combining theory \u2026\nOwed\nJoshua Bennett\nOwed (Penguin, 2020) is the second collection of poems by Dr. Joshua Bennett, poet, professor, and artist. This volume is a wide-ranging, celebratory book focused on what Bennett calls \"the Black quotidian,\" \u2026\nPerforming Arts March 31, 2021\nMeander, Spiral, Explode\nDesign and Pattern in Narrative\nJane Alison\nJane Alison's Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Catapult, 2019) is a fascinating tour through a wide range of narrative structures that are inspired by forms in the \u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Natural Learning Enterprises, LLC\nCurious About Cannabis >\nCurious About Cannabis Podcast\nGardenWild >\nWhat Is Wild Gardening?\nWhy GardenWild?\nHow to GardenWild\nWild Gardening Resources\nToadstool's Treasures\nCannabis and Cannabinoid Education\nLooking for Reputable Information About Cannabis?\nAttitudes throughout the United States and across the world concerning Cannabis, or \"marijuana\", are quickly changing. As Cannabis becomes legally accessible to adults and qualified patients, the need for honest science driven Cannabis education has never been greater. Since medical professionals often fear reprimand for broaching the topic of Cannabis, individuals looking for information on the topic often turn to less-than-reputable resources such as internet forums, heavily biased publications, or misinformed individuals.\nAdditionally, Cannabis and cannabinoid science has been highly repressed due to ongoing prohibitive laws preventing researchers from conducting more sophisticated research and preventing medical professionals from exploring the health risks and therapeutic possibilities of Cannabis and cannabinoid based medicines. In fact many doctors and nurses report never learning about the endocannabinoid system during medical or nursing school, despite it being one of the major physiological systems in the human body, affecting everything from the immune system to pain\/itch responses and more. The end result is an incredible deficit in our health care systems concerning Cannabis and cannabinoid science.\nRecognizing the need for high quality, reputable Cannabis and cannabinoid science education, Natural Learning Enterprises has dedicated resources to connect the public with information about Cannabis that you can trust. Explore the categories below to discover reputable information about Cannabis and cannabinoid science. When possible, our Cannabis associated information is sourced from peer-reviewed scientific publications with references included.\nWhat Do You Want To Learn About?\nThe Cannabis Plant\nLearn about the botany and ecology of the Cannabis plant and answer questions like: How is Cannabis identified? How many species of Cannabis are there? What is the difference between \"hemp\" and Cannabis?\nHistory of Cannabis\nExplore the history of man's relationship with the Cannabis plant, including the history of its use as a medicine, recreational substance, and religious tool.\nCannabis and Health\nDiscover the current known health risks and therapeutic potential of the Cannabis plant and the various compounds produced by the plant.\nCannabis Chemistry\nThe Cannabis plant is responsible for producing hundreds of different chemical compounds, each with unique properties alone and in the presence of other compounds. Find answers to questions such as: What compounds are commonly found in the Cannabis plant? What are cannabinoids? What are terpenes? What is the 'entourage effect'?\nCannabidiol, or CBD, has gained a lot of attention in popular media recently for its success helping to control difficult-to-treat seizure activity in clinical trials. Find out everything you need to know about CBD here.\nThe Endocannabinoid System\nDid you know that the human body, as well as most, if not all, animals produce their own cannabinoids, which are similar in some respects to the cannabinoids produced by the Cannabis plant?\nCannabis and the Environment\nHow does Cannabis cultivation affect the environment? Can Cannabis be cultivated in a sustainable manner?\nThe Future of Cannabis Science\nCannabis and cannabinoid science has a promising future ahead. Learn about the big questions that Cannabis researchers hope to elucidate over the next several years and decades and what future Cannabis and cannabinoid based medicines may look like.\nO'Shaughnessy's Online Journal - BeyondTHC.com\u200b\u200b\nHow CBD Works - ProjectCBD.com\nCannabis Genotype Galaxy by Phylos Bioscience\nHealer.com\nTaming THC: Potential Cannabis Synergies and Phytocannabinoid-Terpenoid Entourage Effects\nCannabis Pests\nA Review of Cannabis Diseases\nMicrobiological Contaminants of Marijuana\nAn Introduction to the Endocannabinoid System\nCare and Feeding of the Endocannabinoid System\nIs Lipid Signaling Through Cannabinoid 2 Receptors Part of a Protective System?\nThe Use of Cannabinoids in Animals and Therapeutic Implications for Veterinary Medicine\nCurious About Cannabis by Jason Wilson\nHandbook of Cannabis by Roger Pertwee\nMarijuana Botany by Robert Clarke\nCannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany by Robert Clarke\nHemp Diseases and Pests by John McPartland and Robert Clarke \u200b\u200b\nMarijuana Horticulture by Jorge Cervantes\nThe History of Cannabis\nThe Future of Cannabis\nNatural Learning Enterprises is dedicated to helping support science education about the natural world.\nCurious About Cannabis is Available Now on Amazon.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u203a Jake Chessum \u203a jake chessum\nJake Chessum's naturally spontaneous and exuberant approach to photography has led to a long and varied career. His timeless and engaging celebrity portraits have appeared in many prestigious magazines including GQ, Men's Journal, New York Magazine, Glamour, Paper, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. The range of celebrities he has been commissioned to shoot span the worlds of film, politics, sports and music and includes: Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Douglas, Mickey Rourke, Vince Vaughn, Chris Rock, Jennifer Connelly, 50 Cent, Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Clinton, Shaun White, Alec Baldwin, Reggie Bush, Spike Lee, Coldplay, Kofi Annan, Sir Ian McKellen, Bill Gates\u2026the list goes on and on.\nChessum studied graphic design at St. Martin's School of Art and after graduating began his photography career in London, where his first commission was for The Face magazine. This led to an enduring relationship with the title. The Face sent him to NYC and LA where he got a taste of life and work in the United States.\nJake Chessum Prints","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"St. Joe's Wildcats\nSouth Jersey Sports Report: Holy Spirit Dominates in State Final\nHoly Spirit completely overwhelmed St. Joseph, 38-0, on Sunday night at Rutgers University's SHI Stadium to resoundingly win the Non-Public Group 2 state championship.\nDave O'Sullivan\nSt. Joe's Uses Fourth Quarter Rally to Top Holy Spirit\nThe Wildcats trailed 19-7 heading into the fourth quarter, but came back to down the Spartans.\nWatch Live: Holy Spirit Spartans at St. Joe's Wildcats\nThe high school football season continues this afternoon on 973espn.com as the Holy Spirit Spartans (4-3) visit the St. Joe's Wildcats (7-1).\nSouth Jersey Sports Report: St. Augustine Prep Upsets St. Joe's\nIt was the Hermits' first win over the Wildcats in Hammonton in 11 years.\nSt. Joe's Captures 20th State Title with Win Over Holy Spirit\nThe top-seeded Wildcats pulled away late to beat No. 2 Holy Spirit, 41-22, on Friday night at MetLife Stadium\nListen Live: St. Joe's vs Holy Spirit\nSt. Joe's takes on Holy Spirit for the Non Public II State Championship.\nNick Kosko and Tom Williams are on the call on 104.1 WPG starting at 5pm and 97.3 ESPN starting at 5:30\nSt. Joe's too Much for St. Augustine - South Jersey Sports Report\nEach week Glory Days Magazine publisher Dave O'Sullivan and Nick Kosko will look at Cape-Atlantic League sports, local colleges and everything South Jersey sports related.\nListen Live: St. Joseph Wildcats (7) at Atlantic City Vikings (2)\nThe Cape-Atlantic League playoffs begin this week and some interesting first round games are on the schedule.\nWe've got an intriguing match-up between St. Joe's (17-6) and Atlantic City. The Wildcats had an impressive season, finishing second in the United Division.\nThe Wildcats are lead by sophomore \u2026\nPaul Rodio Jr. Helping St. Joe's Basketball FInd Identity\nThe St . Joe's Wildcats boys basketball team is off to an impressive start.\nListen Live: Ocean City at Atlantic City, 7pm\nThe Cape-Atlantic League Basketball playoffs tip-off tonight with some really interesting first round match-ups.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Can Korea lift abortion ban this time?\nCivic groups rally in front of the Constitutional Court ahead of a public petition on the constitutionality of the current abortion law. Protesters on one side claim the law is unconstitutional (front) while those on the other side support the ban. \/ Yonhap\nBy Lee Suh-yoon, Jung Da-min\nHours before a public debate on the country's abortion ban Thursday, civic groups surrounded the Constitutional Court in Jongno, downtown Seoul. Some clutched signs saying, \"The abortion ban is unconstitutional,\" while a smaller group held up graphic posters of dismembered fetuses with phrases like \"the Constitution must protect ALL life.\"\nThe case was brought to the Constitutional Court by a doctor who had been criminally charged for carrying out abortions. Last time the abortion ban was challenged in 2012, the court ruled in favor of it. Although rarely enforced, the current law imposes a two-year jail term on doctors for conducting abortions, while women who have abortions are fined 2 million won ($1,850) or may face one year in jail.\nWomen's self-determination\nThe doctor and his lawyers asserted that the abortion ban strips women of their constitutional right to self-determination.\n\"Under the current law, women cannot determine the timing of their motherhood, this disadvantages them in education, economic livelihood, and public life,\" Park Su-jin, a lawyer, said.\nHe also emphasized women's right to health was jeopardized by unsafe illegal procedures that are a result of the ban.\n\"Why does a high school student die while getting an illegal abortion for 6.5 million won?\" Park asked the court, citing the dire experience and reality faced by women under the ban.\nPark argued that motherhood cannot be imposed on pregnant women.\n\"Encouraging motherhood can only be done through a social welfare system, not by punishing abortion as a criminal offense,\" she said.\nMinistry of Justice \u2013 which defended the ban \u2013 was criticized by local media for describing women as \"those who have sex but reject its consequences of pregnancy and childbirth\" in a statement submitted to the court.\nMinistry of Justice attorney Seo Gyu-yeong said the claimant's side consciously excluded a fetus's right to life in a court statement.\n\"The fetus's right to life should come before the women's decision as the court's previous ruling said six years ago,\" Seo said. \"There's no need to overturn the ban now.\"\nThe ministry acknowledged the need to widen exceptional cases for pregnant women suffering social and economic pressures. But this could be accommodated through partial amendments rather than scrapping the ban, it said.\nThe ministry also claimed the law contributes to decreasing the number of abortions \u2013 even if the ban is rarely enforced.\nAccording to Article 10 of the Constitution, which states the state is obliged to protect its people, a fetus's life should also be protected, the ministry said. The Abortion Law allows the state to fulfill its obligation to protect a fetus's right to life.\nIf the law is abolished, there would be no alternative measure to protect the right to life of a fetus, thus bringing on another unconstitutional situation, the ministry pointed out.\nCall for paradigm shift\nSome called for a change in the current debate structure on abortion.\n\"Framing the abortion issue as a battle between women's self-determination and a fetus's life frames women as perpetrators, murderers,\" said gynecologist Koh Kyung-shim, who testified on the claimant's side.\nSince pregnancy and childbirth occur within the body of women, the issue of abortion should be discussed within the frame of health rights of mothers, Koh pointed out.\n\"Discussion should be in a new framework of reproductive health,\" she said.\n\"The chance of giving birth occurs for a woman not once but many times. Women have rights to deliberately decide whether and when to give a birth, depending on their life plans.\"\nThe court is expected to announce its decision by September.\nsylee@ktimes.com More articles by this reporter\ndamin.jung@ktimes.com More articles by this reporter\nKorea's 65-year-old abortion ban under review\nThe fate of the nation's 65-year-old anti-abortion law seems to stand at a crossroads as the Constitutional Court plans to review the legislation, Thursday. A woman who gets an abo...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Releasing Equity From Your Home\nCompare Prices For:\nSelect... House Extensions Conservatories Architect Windows Doors Bifold Doors Solar Panels Boilers Kitchens Loft Conversions Basement Conversions Garage Conversions Air Conditioning Heat Pumps Bathrooms Interior Painting Electrical Rewiring Asbestos Removal Porch\nIf you own your property and would like to free up some of the capital that it represents, one option available to you is to either take out a lifetime mortgage or enter a home reversion scheme. These are the two types of equity release available in the UK, and they both provide distinct advantages to anyone who wants to tap into the wealth that they have accumulated, as represented by the value of their property, but who doesn't want to have to move house.\nHowever, it should be noted that although both of these schemes offer a quick way of accessing ready cash, neither of them is cheap and in the long term that can both prove to be very expensive. Equity release schemes don't suit everyone, but those who fulfill the criteria in terms of their personal situation and the potential value of their property can enjoy many benefits by using their home to release equity.\nWho can benefit from Equity Release?\nAn equity release scheme is one that takes advantage of the fact that your home has capital value and therefore uses the value of your home to allow you to borrow money. This money is then repaid after you have died or moved into a retirement home, which is why equity release schemes are of most value to people who are retired and who don't plan to leave their property to their heirs after they have passed away.\nMortgage-free homeowners over the age 55 who need to meet a pension shortfall, or who need to access to money to meet a sudden large expense, or who want to enjoy their retirement to the full, are the type of people who most commonly tend to explore the possibility of entering an equity release scheme.\nAnyone under the age of 55 will not be eligible for equity release, although there are other options available. See Equity Release for the Under 50s\nFor many people over the age of 55, the biggest asset they have is their house. Anyone who wants to make the most that asset, but doesn't want to downsize and move into a smaller or cheaper property, is likely to be tempted by an equity release scheme. But they are lifetime commitments, and once you have entered into a scheme, you can find yourself very restricted if you change your mind, or if you suddenly need to move house. See Can I Release From My House? for more details.\nThe advantages and disadvantages of Equity Release\nDepending on the deal you can get from a lender, an equity release scheme can provide you with either a lump sum or a regular source income (annuity) that is index-linked and tax free. Another advantage is that it can also help to reduce the amount of inheritance tax that is owed by your estate after your death. It's worth remembering that it may also reduce the amount of money that you may be able to bequeath to charity, and if the value of the property grows at a slower rate than the interest rate on the mortgage, it may also mean that your family members will inherent less upon your death.\nCan I Release Money From My House?\nEquity Release For Home Improvements\nEquity Release Schemes Explained\nEquity Release Mortgages\nEquity Release For The Under 50s","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: Ghana\nGhana: Rights Lawyer Xavier-Sosu to face Court today\nMr Francis Xavier Sosu, Member of Parliament for Madina, will on Tuesday, November 16, appear before a Kaneshie District Court to answer charges of causing damage to public property and obstructing traffic on a highway.\nLast week, the legislator was billed to appear before the Court, but he absented himself because he was on Parliamentary duties outside the country.\nThe matter was therefore adjourned to November 16.\nSoon after the Court adjourned, it came to light that the Police had received a letter from the Speaker of Parliament indicating that the MP was on parliamentary duties outside Ghana.\nSosu's charge stem from a demonstration he led in his constituency on October 25, this year over bad roads in his area.\nThe protest was to compel stakeholders to repair the deplorable roads in the Madina Constituency.\nhttps:\/\/www.modernghana.com\/news\/1118811\/xavier-sosu-to-face-court-tomorrow.html\nhttps:\/\/www.modernghana.com\/news\/1116925\/xavier-sosu-to-face-court-today.html\nXavier Sosu escapes another arrest as police storm church over 'fix our roads' demo\nhttps:\/\/www.graphic.com.gh\/news\/politics\/sosu-trial-adjourned-to-nov-16.html\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Francis-Xavier-Sosu-to-appear-in-court-on-November-8-1394164\nhttps:\/\/www.pulse.com.gh\/news\/local\/francis-sosu-to-appear-in-court-today-over-unlawful-demo\/7269vhx\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Youth-fight-off-police-attempt-to-arrest-Francis-Xavier-Sosu-1387690\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Sosu-is-being-harassed-by-Police-Fighters-League-1401133\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Lawyer-Sosu-receives-2021-Timothy-Bowles-Africa-Human-Rights-Leadership-Award-1402549\nhttps:\/\/www.parliament.gh\/mps?mp=48\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis-Xavier_Kojo_Sosu\nMali\/Ghana: Alleged Terrorist Kidnaps His Ghanaian Lawyer In Mali\nHardened Yemeni\/Malian criminal, Mohammed Ould Ibrahim has kidnapped his lawyer, Isaac Eshun in Mali last week, this writer can confirm.\nPopularly referred to as Omar, the alleged rapist, terrorist and scammer subjected his Ghanaian lawyer to human rights abuses of the most degrading order in Bamako.\nThe lawyer was in Mali last upon invitation by the suspected Yemeni\/ Malian criminal, with the sole aim of putting to bed a protracted dispute between Omar on one side and the families of Yousef Jibril and Hassan Zein, a Ghanaian business mogul on the other side.\nNarrating his ordeal to the media on arrival last Friday, Eshun, lawyer for Omar said his client compelled him under duress (At gun point) to speak evil against Mr Zein, while his client recorded him on video in his (Omar) office, where his heavily built thugs and some corrupt elements of the gendarmerie.\nThe lawyer indicated that his client dictated his (Eshun) confession aimed at blackmailing Mr Zein.\nAccording to the emotionally traumatized lawyer, Omar masterminded the seizure of his passport few minutes on his arrival in Bamako.\nHe mentioned that he was later sent to the police for interrogation for committing no offense.\nHe pointed out that his ordeal attracted the attention of Ghana's Embassy in Bamako, which forced its officials to intervene in the matter some Malian police officials referred to as order from above.\nhttps:\/\/www.peacefmonline.com\/pages\/local\/news\/201909\/392547.php\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Alleged-Yemeni-rapist-kidnaps-Ghanaian-lawyer-in-Mali-785027\nAlleged Yemeni 'Rapist' Reportedly Kidnaps His Ghanaian Lawyer In Mali\nGhana: NDC Office Shooting: HAWKS lawyer attacked by deceased's family\nLawyer Evans Amankwah, Counsel for three suspects arrested in connection with the shooting incident at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Ashanti Regional Headquarters has confirmed to MyNewsGh.com of being attacked by members of the bereaved family\nAlso READ: We're battle ready for 2020 \u2013 NDC Hawks serve warning to Security Agencies\nThere was a drama at Asokwa district court in Kumasi on Thursday March 14, 2019 when the family of Wasiu who was shot dead at NDC Ashanti Regional Office attacked the private legal practitioner defending members of NDC vigilante group, the Hawks.\nIt would be recalled the Asokwa District Court on March 4, 2019 remanded the three members of 'The Hawks' who surrendered themselves to the police following the shooting incident at NDC regional office that left one dead and another badly injured.\nThe suspects were expected to make their appearance on Thursday March 14, 2019 as directed by the court during the last sitting.\nDauda Ibrahim alias Wayo, 40; Agyin Samuel alias Rock, 32 and Abdul Ganiyu alias Petit 37, were provisionally charged with conspiracy to commit and murder.\nBut during Thursday's sitting, the bereaved family stormed the court premises in their numbers with friends and were seen causing confusion disrupting proceedings.\nLawyer Evans Amankwah who was the target of the attacks had his car tyre destroyed by the bereaved family and their friends who were charged and ready to visit violence on anyone who stood on their way.\nSpeaking to MyNewsGh.com he revealed that he was kept hostage by the bereaved family and friends after the court proceedings which had adjourned the case to a later date.\nhttps:\/\/mynewsgh.com\/ndc-office-shooting-hawks-lawyer-attacked-by-deceaseds-family\/\nGhana: Sosu: Senior Lawyers Tried To Stop Me From Challenging GLC Suspension\nProminent human rights lawyer, Francis-Xavier Sosu says some senior colleagues attempted to discourage him from challenging his suspension from the legal practice by the General Legal Council (GLC).\nThese persons, some of whom are also influential in the society told him to give up the fight because no one has ever prevailed over the GLC, Sosu claimed Saturday, September 9. 2018.\n\"In my Challenge against the General Legal Council, many senior and influential Lawyers said, I should give up the fight because no one has ever won a case against the Council,\" he revealed while addressing the 2018 TED X Osu.\nIn June 2017, the body regulating legal profession in the country handed the popular layer a three-year ban after he was found guilty of professional misconduct contrary to the code regulating legal practice in the country.\nRead: Francis-Xavier Sosu banned from practicing as lawyer\nBut July 2018, the Human Rights Court presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei-Addo quashed the orders of the GLC suspending the private legal practitioner. The court also set-aside the one-year mentorship imposed by the GLC on Mr Sosu.\n\"I kept my focus and kept fighting that lonely battle. With persistence, I was successful,\" Sosu opened up for the first time since the Court ruling.\nhttps:\/\/www.modernghana.com\/news\/880975\/sosu-senior-lawyers-tried-to-stop-me-from-challenging-glc-s.html\nhttps:\/\/www.pulse.com.gh\/lifestyle\/events\/photos-from-the-tedxosu-september-8th-conference-id8832710.html\nGhana: Ban On Sosu Lifted\nAn Accra High Court (Human Rights Division) on Wednesday quashed the three-year ban imposed on human rights lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu by the General Legal Council (GLC).\nThe court, presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei-Addo, also set aside the one-year mentorship handed to the private legal practitioner.\nThe lawyer was barred from practising law in the country by the GLC in 2017 after he was found guilty of a number of offences.\nHis suspension followed a complaint by Francis Agyare, who claimed that Francis-Xavier Sosu and his law firm attempted to charge him exorbitantly.\nMr. Sosu was also indicted for advertising himself on social media in connection with a case involving Patrick Reynold, who was paralysed by a fallen billboard at Flower Pot in Accra contrary to the rules on the conduct of lawyers.\nHe was found guilty by the GLC and was handed the three-year ban.\nThe lawyer prayed the Appeal Court to overturn the suspension, but the court presided over by Justice Henry Anthony Kwofie, dismissed the application, saying the jurisdiction of the court had been improperly invoked by the applicant.\nhttp:\/\/dailyguideafrica.com\/ban-on-sosu-lifted\/\nhttps:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/news\/2018\/July-11th\/human-rights-court-quashes-3-years-ban-on-francis-sosu.php\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Albinos-jubilate-over-Lawyer-Sosu-s-freedom-667992\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Lawyer-Francis-Sosu-s-suspension-quashed-667725\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Only-Supreme-Court-can-overturn-Sosu-suspension-Okudzeto-slams-High-Court-decision-668308\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Only-Supreme-Court-can-overturn-Sosu-suspension-Okudzeto-668423\nhttps:\/\/www.modernghana.com\/news\/868218\/matters-arising-from-francis-xavier-sosus-stand-off-with-t.html\nhttps:\/\/peacefmonline.com\/pages\/local\/news\/201807\/357232.php\nhttp:\/\/ghananewsonline.com.gh\/statement-cenvi-gh-congratulates-lawyer-francis-sosu-for-his-victory-over-3year-ban\/\nGhana: Lawyer Sosu's suspension: Court to give judgement on May 29\nThe Human Rights Court 1 presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei-Addo, has set May 29, 2018 as Judgement day on one of Lawyer Fracis-Xavier Sosu's case against the General Legal Council (GLC).\nThis follows the hearing of an Application for Judicial Review filed by Lawyer Sosu on November 3, 2017. In the said suit numbered HR\/0098\/2017, the suspended lawyer challenged the basis of his charge, conviction and suspension.\nIn moving the Application, his Lawyer, Johnson Normesinu, who was holding brief for Samuel Codjoe maintained that the Disciplinary Committee of the GLC constituted itself into complainant, prosecutor and judges in their own cause in clear breach of the rules of Natural Justice and article 23 of the constitution.\nhttps:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/news\/2018\/may-17th\/lawyer-sosus-suspension-court-to-give-judgement-on-may-29.php\nhttps:\/\/www.modernghana.com\/news\/854589\/lawyer-sosu-to-know-his-fate-by-may-29th.html\nhttp:\/\/www.gbcghana.com\/1.12147650\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Francis-Xavier-Sosu-s-ban-The-full-story-hidden-facts-and-questions-545824\nGhana: Supreme Court to hear Sosu's suspension appeal\nThe Supreme Court has given approval for suspended Human Rights lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu to file an appeal against a three-year suspension imposed on him by the General Legal Council (GLC).\nThe court president over by Justice Yaw nullified an earlier judgement by the Appeals court that prevented Mr Sosu an application for stay of execution of the punishment, which prevents him from practicing law in Ghana.\nIn the wisdom of the court it will be an abuse of the fundamental human rights of Mr Sosu if he is prevented a hearing.\nMr Sosu has seven days to file his processes after which the court will hear the case.\nIt will be recalled that the GLC banned Mr Sosu from practising for three years on two major offences including overcharging a client.\nThe Council added that he had flouted the Professional Conduct and Etiquette rules by advertising his legal firm's name and address on social media platform, Facebook.\nDissatisfied with the GLC's decision, he went to the Court of Appeal to quash the suspension. But before the appeal would be heard, he also filed a motion seeking to halt the implementation of the suspension.\nBut on Wednesday, 26 July, the court presided over by Mr Justice Henry Anthony Kwofie dismissed the motion pending a determination of the substantive appeal case.\nThe judge said the jurisdiction of the court had not been triggered appropriately.\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Supreme-Court-to-hear-Sosu-s-suspension-appeal-626227\nhttp:\/\/www.ghananewsagency.org\/social\/supreme-court-grants-lawyer-seven-days-to-appeal-against-ban-128671\nhttp:\/\/googleweblight.com\/i?u=http%3A%2F%2Fm.classfmonline.com%2F1.11775249&hl=en-GH&tg=178&tk=387836110224711472\nhttp:\/\/starrfmonline.com\/2018\/02\/14\/supreme-court-paves-way-sosu-appeal-gba-suspension\/\nhttps:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/news\/2018\/January-25th\/lawyers-are-in-chains-gba-only-collects-dues-francis-sosu.php\nEgypt\/Day of the Endangered Lawyer: Ghana\nThe Petition the was submitted on behalf of Endangered Lawyers in Egypt and copied the Ghana Bar Association\n(Francis-Xavier Sosu Facebook)\nhttp:\/\/m.classfmonline.com\/1.11694700\nGhana: Lawyer Sosu's ban; read the full transcript of a meeting between him and GLC\nCelebrated human rights lawyer, Francis-Xavier Sosu was baned June this year by the General Legal Council for finding the lawyer guilty of overcharging a client, touting and personal advertising.\nAt one of the meetings at the GLC, this is what transpired.\nTRANSCRIPT OF MEETING BETWEEN GLC AND FRANCIS SOSU\nAY: Mr. Sosu, you were invited here by this committee because, I think early this year on Facebook, you appeared to have advertised yourself in such a way that we do not think as a lawyer it has to be done. Yes. How say you?\nFX: Well, I would say that I never had the intention of doing so.\nAY: You never had the intention of\u2026.\nFX: \u2026of doing so\nSA: But by accident\u2026.it was by accident? Well, if it is not intentional, then it was accidental.\nFX: My Lady, I thought I was only giving back information and didn't know\u2026.\nSA: For what purpose? Who? Who are you informing? Your client knows you had issued the writ or you had taken the step that he was hoping you would take on his behalf. After that, at that stage of matters, whose business is the rest, apart from you trying to do..working assiduously for your client?\nAY: And also this is not a public sort of\u2026\nSO: ..interest..\nAY: ..yes public interest \u2026yes, it's private. Somebody goes to court and says his fundamental human rights are\u2026his privacy is being abused..then you go wayward.\nhttp:\/\/awakeafrica.com\/lawyer-sosus-ban-read-full-transcript-meeting-glc\/\nhttp:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/18\/xavier-sosu-sues-biased-general-legal-council\/\nGhana: Embattled Sosu sues General Legal Council for violating his right to fair trial\nRenowned human rights lawyer, Francis-Xavier Sosu, has filed a writ at the Human Rights High Court, seeking an order to enforce his fundamental rights to a fair trial as guaranteed under the 1992 Constitution.\nHe also filed an interlocutory injunction restraining the General Legal Council (GLC), the regulator of the legal profession in Ghana, from taking any further disciplinary proceedings in respect of him pending the determination of his human rights by the court.\nHe has exhibited one of his previous proceedings, where he alleges he was abused and threatened by the Disciplinary Committee members.\nThe exhibit, according to him, shows the Committee members made serious pre-judicial, political and religious statements against him.\nMr Sosu was handed a four-year suspension earlier this year by the GLC after he was found guilty of professional misconduct contrary to the code regulating legal practice in Ghana.\nhttps:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/news\/2017\/December-18th\/lawyer-sosu-sues-the-general-legal-council-for-violating-his-right-to-fair-trial.php\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/General-Legal-Council-is-lawless-Francis-Xavier-Sosu-607832\nhttps:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Human-rights-issues-not-absolute-in-Ghana-Lawyer-asserts-608412\nhttps:\/\/3news.com\/transcript-francis-xavier-sosu-met-general-legal-council\/\nhttp:\/\/3news.com\/sosu-sues-glc-attempt-haul-disciplinary-committee\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Elbert County sheriff's deputy dies at 30\nClay Livingston leaves behind wife and two young children\nDeputy Clay Livingston of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office died on Dec. 3, his 30th birthday.\nPhoto courtesy of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office\nElbert County Sheriff's Deputy Clay Livingston, left, proudly took part in the Protectors of Elizabeth event on Aug. 18. With him were Canine Deputy Handler Eli Jarret and Canine Rico.\nPhoto by Chancy J. Gatlin-Anderson\nPosted Friday, December 3, 2021 9:56 pm\nChancy J. Gatlin-Anderson\nSpecial to Colorado Community Media\nElbert County Sheriff's Deputy Clay Livingston died of COVID on Dec. 3 \u2014 his 30th birthday \u2014 after a brief bout with the disease, according to announcements from the county and the sheriff's office.\nDeputy Livingston's memorial service, which is open to the public, is set for 11 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 13, at New Life Church, 11025 Voyager Parkway, Colorado Springs.\nLivingston had served with the Elbert County Sheriff's Office since 2019 and was a patrol officer on the night shift. He was a Marine Corps veteran and is survived by his wife and two young children. The Elbert County Sheriff's Office said his death is considered a line-of-duty death.\nLivingston spoke with the Elbert County News on Aug. 18 at the fourth annual Protectors of Elizabeth tribute to first responders. Livingston stood proudly in front of the Elbert County Sheriff's SWAT vehicle as he shared his excitement for the event.\n\"This is my second year at the event,\" said Livingston. \"It is nice to see the community come together and show their appreciation.\"\nIn the county's announcement of Livingston's death, Sheriff Tim Norton stated: \"Clay will be greatly missed by all who knew him. He was a dedicated public servant and worked honorably to help make Elbert County a safer community. He was a valuable member of our Sheriff's Office family and we are heartbroken by his loss.\"\nCounty Commission Chair Chris Richardson said: \"The entire Elbert County organization joins Sheriff Norton and the department in mourning the loss of Deputy Livingston. We will keep those close to Clay in our thoughts and prayers this holiday season.\"\nThe official Elbert County Government Facebook page posted about the death of Livingston around 2:30 p.m. on Friday. Two hours later, the post had been shared nearly 100 times.\n\"Another person gone too soon,\" one commenter stated. \"Thank you for your services, Deputy Livingston. Prayers to his wife and children.\" Another commenter added: \"too much loss in Elbert County.\"\nLivingston's death was the third among Elbert County public servants in the span of 10 days. William \"Mike\" Graeff, the county's deputy coroner and former coroner, died at age 73 on Nov. 24, and Bret Wade of the Elizabeth Board of Trustees died at age 47 on Nov. 28.\nThe county is collecting monetary donations through the Elbert County Sheriff's Office Foundation to support Deputy Livingston's family. There are three ways to donate:\nOnline via Paypal: paypal.me\/backthebadge721.\nIn person: Drop off a check made out to the Elbert County Sheriff's Office Foundation at 215 Comanche St. in Kiowa.\nMail: Mail a check made out to the Elbert County Sheriff's Office Foundation to P.O. Box 7, Kiowa, CO 80117.\nThis story has been updated to include memorial service details and the cause of death announcement.\nArapahoe Community College to be mostly remote until Feb. 1 amid COVID surge\nLittleton schools study could help in fight against youth suicide\nHighlands Ranch Historical Society delays 'Tree of Hope' event due to COVID surge\nParker King Soopers included in strike","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Capitol Attack Doesn't Justify Expanding Surveillance\nThey took our Capitol, stormed the halls, pilfered our documents, and shattered the norms of our democracy. The lasting damage from Wednesday's attack will not come from the mob itself, but from how we respond. Right now, a growing chorus is demanding we use facial recognition, cellphone tower data, and every manner of invasive surveillance to punish the mob. In the days since the attack, the airwaves have been full of former law enforcement officials claiming that surveillance is the answer, such retired FBI special agents Danny Coulson and Doug Kouns. Even many who are normally critical of policing have jumped on the surveillance bandwagon in the desire to find justice. As understandable as it feels to give police even more powers in this crisis, this would be a gigantic mistake.\nWe don't need a cutting-edge surveillance dragnet to find the perpetrators of this attack: They tracked themselves. They livestreamed their felonies from the halls of Congress, recording each crime in full HD. We don't need facial recognition, geofences, and cell tower data to find those responsible, we need police officers willing to do their job.\nIt's hard to state just how jarring the images from the Capitol were. Not the violence from the Republican rioters, but the passivity, even complicity, of the police. After a quarter century of activism, I've lost count of how many times I've seen protesters of color and progressives arrested, beaten, and worse.\nPeople speaking out against injustice are met with brutality as a matter of course. But while millions of Americans face violence for protesting legally, white conservatives can break the law with impunity. That's the failure we witnessed: not the angry mob but cooperative cops who were willing to look the other way or even pose for coup selfies.\nThis is nothing new in American history, but it's rarely been captured so vividly. This is our history, same as the countless officers who turned a blind eye, or even lent a hand, to the racist lynch mobs of the past. This is the same racism that fueled the targeting of BIPOC communities for so many generations. And it should also be a moment of reckoning for American police, not a moment to give them greater deference and power.\nThis is why it's so infuriating to now hear pundits call for even more powers for the officers who investigate the attack. PBS Newshour anchor Hari Sreenivasan tweeted \"Protesters who stormed the Capitol \u2013 who don't believe in Covid or mask-wearing\u2026 should be easier to identify with facial recognition.\" But why? Many of those who entered the Capitol gave their name to the press, posted their photos to social media, and continue to brag about their crimes. They broadcast their confessions to the world. Officers should be able to arrest these attackers with nothing more sophisticated than a DVR and a tip line.\nIf we give into the narrative that we need new invasive measures to solve this case, we will only further accelerate the growth of the national security state that failed to keep us secure from white extremists. Prior to this, there was a growing national movement to ban facial recognition, with cities across the country taking steps to ban the technology. Today, in the wake of this attack, some are seeing a justification for this biased and invasive technology, but we must not reverse course.\nThere's an old lawyer's saying: \"Bad facts give you bad law.\" And there are possibly no facts worse than what unfolded on January 6. But if we respond by giving police more powerful tracking tools, we know they'll simply turn them on the same BIPOC communities they always target. For the police charged with protecting our Capitol, the concern is not that they had too little power, it is that they lacked the willpower to use it against white conservatives.\nInstead, Congress should draw a very different lesson. Rather than responding to these attacks with a new mandate for expanded policing powers, we need to expand our civilian oversight. For years, we've done little to address police discrimination, even as we saw it take the lives of so many Black Americans. Today, we see that the price is even higher: Our unaccountable policing poses a threat to the republic itself.\nDon't Miss it Rupee surges 21 paise to 72.90 against the US dollar in early trade\nUp Next Kansas City Fed tops 5,000 laptop donations\nThey came prepared for war. 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{"text":"Home\/F-Them, Politics\/Every Aspect Of Our Politics Has Been Corrupted \u2014 And The NRA Has Helped Get Us Here\nEvery Aspect Of Our Politics Has Been Corrupted \u2014 And The NRA Has Helped Get Us Here\nBy Thom Hartmann, from The Trial Lawyer Magazine\nAs the school shooting in Parkland, Florida has shown, what was considered insanely corrupt political behavior 40 years ago is now normal. And you can thank right-wingers on the Supreme Court. Back in 1982, the late novelist Robert B. Parker was hard at work on one of his Spencer novels, titled The Widening Gyre. In the book, a local businessman owns a local politician; the politician then makes tax decisions and real estate zoning decisions that help the businessman. Both the politician and the businessman are working as hard as they can to cover it all up. In 1982 this sort of thing was a major, career-ending scandal for both the politician and the businessman. A wealthy man owning a politician, who, in turn, changed the tax code and altered regulations to increase the businessman's profits, was considered a symptom of intolerable corruption. [penci_related_posts taxonomies=\"undefined\" title=\"Related Posts\" background=\"\" border=\"\" thumbright=\"no\" number=\"2\u2033 style=\"grid\" align=\"none\" displayby=\"recent_posts\" orderby=\"random\"] But what Parker and most Americans didn't realize was that, in 1982, the die had already been cast and the oligarchs had already begun seizing the levers of power in America; a seizure that would lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. The billionaires doing the seizing of our nation just didn't come out about it until the presidency of Barack Obama, when the Koch Network, Adelson, the Mercers and the Waltons all became openly, and in some cases braggadociously political in their \"giving.\"\nPhoto from Amazon.com\nAs I noted in my book The Crash of 2016, The American Legislative Exchange Council was founded in 1973, right after Lewis Powell's memo \u2014 suggesting a propaganda program to promote the interests of big business and the rich \u2014 began circulating through top corporate and high-net-worth circles. That year, too, the Heritage Foundation was created. And in 1977, Charles Koch and friends founded the CATO Institute. While the efforts of these groups have been multifaceted, their most obvious and deadly impact has been on the ongoing proliferation of weapons of war in America, and the denial of healthcare to millions in so-called red states. With the installation of Reagan, big business and billionaires were finally to get the tax breaks and other goodies that they wanted from Congress and the Executive Branch, while waging war on unions and working people. But to Lewis Powell, a lawyer by training and the author of the infamous blueprint for billionaires to take over America (now known as The Powell Memo), nothing was more important than targeting the courts. In his memo, Powell wrote, [penci_blockquote style=\"style-2\u2033 align=\"none\" author=\"\"]\"Under our constitutional system, especially with an activist-minded Supreme Court, the judiciary may be the most important instrument for social, economic and political change.\"[\/penci_blockquote] He noted, \"This is a vast area of opportunity for the Chamber, if it is willing to undertake the role of spokesman for American business and if, in turn, business is willing to provide the funds.\" Laying out specifics, Powell added, \"The Chamber would need a highly competent staff of lawyers. In special situations it should be authorized to engage, to appear as counsel amicus in the Supreme Court, lawyers of national standing and reputation. The greatest care should be exercised in selecting the cases in which to participate, or the suits to institute. But the opportunity merits the necessary effort.\" In the 1970s, as the US Chamber of Commerce focused on the courts, employing high-priced, savvy lawyers, and flooding the Supreme Court chamber with amicus briefs, a string of explosive decisions throughout the decade gave the #MorbidlyRich what they needed to eventually overthrow FDR's New Deal and to radically reinterpret the 2nd Amendment. In 1976, in Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court (which Nixon appointed Lewis Powell to in 1972, the year after Powell wrote his infamous memo) ruled that political money is constitutionally protected free speech, changing American law so that those who have the most money would have the most \"First Amendment free speech\" in our political system. And if there was anything that the NRA was getting good at, it was raising money from weapons manufacturers and others. [penci_related_posts taxonomies=\"undefined\" title=\"Related Posts\" background=\"\" border=\"\" thumbright=\"no\" number=\"2\u2033 style=\"grid\" align=\"none\" displayby=\"cat\" orderby=\"random\"] That same year, in United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co., corporations \u2014 as persons \u2014 were given Fifth Amendment protections against double jeopardy, limiting the ability of citizens to go after gun manufacturers, among others. And in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, the Supreme Court ruled that corporate advertising (including promoting M15 weapons of war to our kids) is a protected form of free speech. (Ironically, William Rehnquist was the sole dissenter; he argued that corporate \"speech\" [advertising] was often deceptive. But the deed was done; Caveat emptor became the new American normal.) A year later, in 1977, in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, the Supreme Court overturned state restrictions on corporate political spending, saying such restrictions violate the First Amendment rights of corporations, and giving the NRA and other interest groups an added lever to use to extract legislation. In their dissents in that case, Justices White, Brennan, and Marshall argued, \"The special status of corporations has placed them in a position to control vast amounts of economic power which may, if not regulated, dominate not only our economy but the very heart of our democracy, the electoral process.\"\nBut their warnings were ignored.\nThen came the Federalist Society, founded in 1982 with millions of dollars in funding by the Koch-connected Bradley Foundation. They built a nationwide network of jurists, attorneys, legal scholars, and politicians to indoctrinate a new generation's legal system with billionaire-friendly interpretations: Corporate personhood is real, money is speech, democracy is not sacred, and organized money should always have privilege over organized people. They also helped lay the case for the Heller decision, which, for the first time in nearly 230 years, found a \"right to individual gun ownership\" in the 2nd Amendment. In 2010 the Supreme Court wrapped its gift to corporations and gun manufacturers all up in a neat little bundle with their 5\u20134 Citizen's United ruling. With that decision, America was nearly completely turned over to the wealthy and corporations. Thereafter, oligarchs like Adelson and the Kochs began openly bragging about how much they were spending to buy politicians, legislation, tax breaks, and the deregulation of consumer protections. President Obama called this out in his 2010 State of the Union speech: [penci_blockquote style=\"style-2\u2033 align=\"none\" author=\"\"]\"It's time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my administration or with Congress. It's time to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office. With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests or, worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people.\"[\/penci_blockquote] Hard-right corporatist judge Sam Alito silently (and disrespectfully) mouthed, \"Not true!\" at Obama, but history shows that Alito was the one in error, not Obama. Right on down to the ability of foreign entities to influence our elections and lawmaking by, for example, the possible laundering of campaign money through the NRA. And so, a few days after Paul Ryan shepherded through Congress a law that confers potentially billions of dollars in tax benefits to them, the Kochs and their friends put a half-million dollars into Ryan's fundraising committee, while the NRA continues to shower him and Mitch McConnell with support. In Robert B. Parker's 1982, this would have been the end of Ryan's career, and the Kochs and the NRA would be vilified as corrupters of the political process. In 1971, only 175 companies had registered lobbyists. By 1982, there were nearly 2,500, and today there are over 12,000 lobbyists just registered in DC. Oligarchs were dumping huge amounts of money lobbying for favorable legislation, although it still isn't really visible to most Americans until tragedies like mass shootings give us an insight into how it all works. As the Reagan administration rolled into power in 1981, so, too, did the morbidly rich oligarchs, who were seeding brand-new right-wing think tanks devoted to espousing the same free-market, Andrew Mellon\/Warren Harding ideologies that led to the 1929 Great Crash: massive tax cuts, deregulation, and privatization.\nBack during the era of Nixon, Americans understood the power and dangers of corruption.\nAs Lamar Waldron and I point out in our book Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, when the milk producers association wanted the Nixon administration to increase milk price supports (to increase their profitability by over $3 billion), they hid\/laundered their \"campaign donations\" through local GOP groups and a briefcase with $3 million in cash, which were later determined to be illegal, an event that became a major part of the Watergate-era Nixon scandals.\nBut that was all so pre-1976, the year when the Supreme Court's Buckley decision ruled that rich people (or rich corporations) owning their own personal politicians wasn't corruption; it was free speech. While it's taken us over 40 years to fully integrate the 1976 Buckley decision and its spawn into our body politic, the corruption of this entirely new interpretation of the First Amendment is systematically taking apart our nation. And has made it easier and easier for maladjusted people among us to stockpile weapons of war. For example, can you imagine Richard Nixon lying about how environmentally destructive some industrial poisons are? Nixon couldn't imagine it; he put into place the Environmental Protection Agency. And he was fine with the fairly strong gun control laws that several states, from California to New York, had in place. But today's Republican Party (with a few very, very rare exceptions) is so in debt to \u2014 so owned by \u2014 a few petrobillionaires and coal multimillionaires and oil companies that they're perfectly willing to look the world in the face and lie through their teeth about the science of global warming. They're so fully-owned by the gun lobby\/NRA that they've made it illegal for the US government to do any meaningful research into gun deaths; they've banned doctors, in a number of states including Florida, from even asking kids if there's a gun in their home; and McConnell and Ryan have successfully prevented any sort of meaningful legislation to restrict guns from getting a vote even when they know it would pass. [penci_related_posts taxonomies=\"undefined\" title=\"Inline Related Posts\" background=\"\" border=\"\" thumbright=\"no\" number=\"2\u2033 style=\"grid\" align=\"none\" displayby=\"tag\" orderby=\"random\"]As a result, we're the laughingstock of the world, and we lose over 30,000 people a year to guns and another 40,000 a year to a lack of access to health care. That's a lot of blood on GOP hands. Good government was perceived, prior to the Buckley decision and its embrace by the Reagan administration, as the singular hallmark of American democracy. Today it's a joke. In the wake of the most recent Florida school shooting, we find politicians who've taken literally millions of dollars through their careers from groups like the NRA refusing to engage in any meaningful discussion about gun control. Forget legislation; they won't even allow a debate. This echoes the legislators who've taken Koch or ExxonMobil money and refuse to discuss climate change. Or those indebted to Big Pharma who won't talk about reforming Medicare Part D so the government can negotiate discounted drug prices. Or those taking money from agricultural chemical and seed companies who ignore evidence of cancer and other problems with GMOs and the herbicides and pesticides associated with them.\nThe young people of Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida see this situation with new and clear eyes. They see it for what it is: Corruption.\nAnd they're mad as hell about how that corruption has led to the deaths of 17 of their friends and teachers. Every new assault \u2014 be it from an \"active shooter\" or a corporate raider \u2014 shows us how the radical shift in the Supreme Court starting with the 1976 Buckley decision has turned America from a democracy into an oligarchy. Even former President Jimmy Carter came onto my radio\/TV program in 2015 to proclaim it: Hartmann: Our Supreme Court has now said, \"unlimited money in politics.\" It seems like a violation of principles of democracy. Your thoughts on that? Carter: It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over. The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody's who's already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who's just a challenger. The most effective way to solve this problem is to pass a constitutional amendment that will proclaim, clearly and unambiguously, that corporations are not persons and that money is not \"free speech.\" Groups like MoveToAmend.org and Public Citizen have been working on these campaigns for years, and they're bearing fruit. [penci_related_posts taxonomies=\"undefined\" title=\"Related Posts\" background=\"\" border=\"\" thumbright=\"no\" number=\"2\u2033 style=\"grid\" align=\"none\" displayby=\"recent_posts\" orderby=\"random\"]Once the power of money is stripped from our political system, the power of gun manufacturers through the NRA will largely evaporate. During the years I lived and worked in DC, several Republican politicians confided in me \u2014 off the record \u2014 that they would love to be out of the clutches of their wealthy donors. And that they'd quickly vote with Democrats to get free of the need to fundraise for hours every day. This could easily become bipartisan quickly, with the right leadership. The NRA's essentially outright purchase of senators like Richard Burr ($6.3 million in 2016), Marco Rubio ($3.2 million in 2016), Roy Blunt ($3 million), and Rob Portman ($2.2 million) \u2014 and Donald Trump ($30 million in the presidential race) \u2014 is so obviously corrupt to many of the students in Parkland that they're furious.\nWe should all share their anger and use it to fight to amend our Constitution to undo the damage these oligarchs and their toadies on the Supreme Court have done to our republic.\nBy Adminixx|2018-04-26T00:00:00+00:00April 26th, 2018|F-Them, Politics|0 Comments\nAbout the Author: Adminixx\nFather of Parkland victim rips new NRA ad\nTexas governor scraps shotgun giveaway after school shooting\nAmerica's Paranoid Heart Is the NRA Convention\nNRA requests anonymity for plaintiff in lawsuit against the state\nBackground check gap could allow Florida mentally ill to buy guns","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ann J\u00e4derlund\nUlla Montan\nDjupa, k\u00e4rlek, ingen. Dikter 1992\u20132015. Poetry collection, Albert Bonniers f\u00f6rlag, 2016.\nDjupa k\u00e4rlek ingen (in English, \"Deep love no one\") is the result of more than twenty years of poetic study into love and loneliness, bodily sensuality, and the pleasure and pain these bring. In this volume, Ann J\u00e4derlund has brought together twelve suites of poems written between 1992 and 2015 into a subtly cohesive whole that revolves around the inherent negation of deep love \u2013 to love deeply is to love no one, to love dearly is to be alone. This poetry is fragile yet strong, mysterious yet inviting, at times brutal yet always exceptionally beautiful. J\u00e4derlund is a poet of the eye \u2013\nthis collection is no exception and the eye and vision play central roles,as do water, trees, light, colours (white in particular \u2013 the colour of life and death). J\u00e4derlund's poetry is deeply rooted in the physical world, and sight is the primary sense through which she filters it. Here, love also serves as a means of contemplation: \"You are unknown \/ but I \/ see you\". A mother and child feature in several of the poems \u2013 a sort of violent origin of love that arises at the moment they \"stretch each other out\" with their eyes. Such is the power of a look \u2013 it transforms everything it touches. To see is to move. The same, of course, can be said of language \u2013 humankind's sixth sense.\nJ\u00e4derlund's style and form have been distinctive from the outset, not least with regard to the visual dimensions of the text. She frequently uses text that is italicised or spaced-out, perhaps to emphasise its qualities as text. The reader must not be allowed to forget that text is matter, but matter of a very different kind \u2013 the poem is an obscure construction that can never be fully picked apart or demystified. In J\u00e4derlund's case, however, this is a kind of welcoming mysticism. As she puts it: \"These are words. Do with them as you will.\"\nThe long gestation of Djupa k\u00e4rlek ingen is evident in the changing form and focus of the twelve suites. The language of Synen (Sight) is dense, containing every possible and every impossible shade of white and painted in weighty chunks with a broad brush. En Narkissosdikt (A Narkissos poem) is rhythmic, hypnotic, and circular, while Ginstfl\u00e4ckar skuren is (Broom-scrubbed ice) is austere yet elegant. Several untitled suites contain pattering, tender poems about nature with a dark edge, while Repulsion Polanski and Kantele till Stina Aronson (Kantele for Stina Aronson) are influenced by film and literature. Common to the entire collection, however, is the tremendous force that vibrates in each of the poems \u2013 a force brought about by the collision between despondency and vivacity.\nJ\u00e4derlund made her debut in 1985 with the fragmentary poetry collection Vimpelstaden (in English, \"Pennant City\"). Since then she has time and again reaffirmed her stature as one of Sweden's most unique living poets. Besides authoring ten poetry collections and two children's books, she has translated poems by Emily Dickinson, published in the acclaimed volume G\u00e5ng p\u00e5 g\u00e5ng \u00e4r skogarna rosa (in English, \"Time and again, the forests are pink\") (2012). J\u00e4derlund was previously nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2010 for her poetry collection Vad hj\u00e4lper det en m\u00e4nniska om hon h\u00e4ller rent vatten \u00f6ver sig i alla sina dagar (in English, \"What good does it do if someone pours clean water over themselves every day of their life\"). Djupa k\u00e4rlek ingen was nominated for the August Prize in 2016.\nThe purpose of the Literature Prize is to promote interest in the literature and language of the neighbouring countries.\nThe Nordic Council Environment Prize\nThe Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize\nThe Nordic Council Film Prize\nNordic Council Music Prize","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Boulder Hot Springs Inn, Spa, and Retreat Center\nSpa & Mineral Pools\nSteam Rooms & Plunges\nConference & Retreat Facilities\nBuffets & Events\nSpecial Occasion Buffets\nCelebrations, Wedding, Anniversaries & Reunions\nSelf-Directed Day Trips\nHistory of Boulder Hot Springs Inn, Spa and Retreat Center\nNestled in the foothills of Montana's snow-covered peaks of the Elkhorn Mountains is a place called Peace Valley.\nThis place was named Peace Valley by the First People of this land because they believed that all people should be able to come here to heal in the hot mineral waters. This valley was a place of healing, gathering, and celebration which gives it a unique history of being a place of peace and healing with no hostilities.\nBoulder Hot Springs Inn and Spa is an historic landmark which once catered to Presidents, celebrities, and wealthy ranchers. It is reported that Teddy Roosevelt stayed here during his time in office while hunting in the area, that Warren Harding stayed here and FDR made a stop here after visiting associates in Butte.\nThe first of the buildings on this site was constructed in 1863 by a prospector, James E. Riley. Mr. Riley built a saloon and bathhouse catering to local miners and ranchers who came here to soak, bathe, and enjoy the amenities.\nIn 1881, Riley enlarged the hotel at the springs, and the following year began to construct a new hotel that would accommodate fifty people. In September of that same year, Riley died of smallpox.\nAfter Riley's death, Abel C. Quaintance and Cornelius Griswold bought the springs and the hotel was completed.\nIn 1890, C.K. Kerrick of Minneapolis secured a ten-year lease on the property. He supervised the construction of a large addition to the old hotel structure, resulting in a Victorian hotel with veranda surrounding the building. He renamed the hotel the Hotel May after his daughter.\nAt the time of the lease, the hotel was two hours by rail from Helena and Butte. The Elkhorn line of the Northern Pacific completed that year brought rail service to the hotel. Kerrick disposed of his interest in the Hotel May that same year to a local businessman. During this time period, the Keeley Cure, a treatment for alcohol and drug addiction, was available at the hotel.\nThe property changed hands several times, and in 1909, James A. Murray, a Butte millionaire miner and banker, purchased the springs.\nIn 1910, the hotel underwent a thorough renovation. Murray hired an interior decorator from New York City who redecorated the card room in a Chinese motif and added fancy fresco work in the huge lobby. Murray also hung the lobby's 12-foot ceiling with light globes of exclusive amber glass reportedly made by Tiffany's of New York.\nMurray, who frequently visited California, was enamored with the architecture there, and added arches and fountains to the hot springs building plus having it stuccoed. The result was a huge building, resembling a Spanish mission and built in the California Mission Arts & Crafts' style.\nDuring the Murray years, there were many managers of the springs, and it was often closed until someone would lease it. During the early '30's, gambling was legal, and it was also the time of the \"Big Bands,\" so Saturday night in Peace Valley was a big night.\nAfter the death of James A. Murray, his nephew, James E. Murray, later to become United States Senator, became the owner. He operated the hotel, with various managers, until 1940, when he sold it to C.L. \"Pappy\" Smith. Pappy Smith changed the name to the Diamond S Ranchotel by which it was to be known for the next 35 years or so.\nThe ranch was operated as a dude ranch, complete with trail rides and cook-outs. In about 1960, Smith's nephew Art Hulbert and his wife Beth, came to work for him and instituted the tradition of Saturday night smorgasbords. These sumptuous meals, featuring baron of beef prepared by Walt Nettick, were enjoyed by as many as 400 or 500 people, with lines extending far out into the lobby.\nMr. And Mrs. Albert Lane purchased the Diamond S from Smith in 1960 and the ranch became a functioning cattle ranch. They also operated the guest hotel, bar and dining room.\nA number of other owners were involved with the ranch\/hotel over the years from 1965 through 1972, at which time Willard Mack and Robert Ryan from Billings purchased the property and subdivided the ranch.\nThe next owner, Stuart Lewin, changed the name back to Boulder Hot Springs and had it placed on the National Historic Register. Lewin attempted to make a success of the place for 11 years and was finally forced to close the Hot Springs in 1989.\nIn his years as owner, Lewin made many improvements to the hotel. Eventually, the property was returned to the former owners, Willard Mack and Robert Ryan.\nIn early 1990, the Hot Springs was purchased by Anne Wilson Schaef and it is now owned by a Limited Partnership. Under the present owners, the plunges were tiled for the first time, the bathhouse was completely renovated, an innovative heating system was installed using the thermal waters, and the East Wing was completely renovated with new heating, plumbing and electricity as well as custom-made, natural-wool carpeting in the hallways and rooms.\nThe rooms have been furnished with antiques and art relating to the history of the hotel. The veranda has been restored with the traditional fifty rocking chairs looking out over Peace valley. After a great deal of time and money was spent on renovation and repairs, the Boulder Hot Springs again opened in the summer of 1991. The spa buildings, the small dining room and the east wing of the hotel have been completely refurbished.\n31 Hot Springs Road\nBoulder, MT 59632\nLiving in Process Intensive\nLiving in Process Training\nJanuary 31-February 2\nAdventureful Life\nWeather forecast Boulder, Montana \u25b8\n\u00a9 2020 Boulder Hot Springs Inn, Spa, and Retreat Center. Website design and hosting by Tempest Technologies LLC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Young Life N.Z. Trust\nEast Auckland Youth Work\nWhat is Young Life?\nSecondary School Youth Workers\nCommunity Based Youth Work\nBotany Downs Secondary College\nEdgewater College\nHowick College\nPakuranga College\nGiving\/SarahSaunders\nThe Sarah Saunders Family Fund\nsarah1\nOn Thursday, 10th March 2022, Theia's father, passed away suddenly. Theia is only 7 years old. She has three siblings, Caitlan, Reece, and Eryn, and Mum (Sarah). They live in Botany. They are just ordinary Kiwis like you and me. Please help me help Theia and her family.\nIt is rare in life that one can make something better when tragedy strikes. We can't bring Daryl back. But if we all work together, we can help this family stay on track.\nDaryl was a hard worker. He was the high school sweetheart of Sarah and they were together for 24 years. They raised four lovely children together. He was the best dad ever. What more can I say?\nSarah Saunders works part-time as a youth worker with teenagers at Edgewater College. She is trying to make a difference in her community. She is also in her final year of study to become a trauma counsellor. It is what she was made to do. But she does not have a full \"breadwinner\" type income right now.\nWe want Sarah to be able to return to her work and study. We don't want her to stop working toward the future plans that she had made. That is what Daryl would have wanted.\nSo that is where you come in.\nWould you consider giving to help Sarah and her family through this crisis? Please consider if you could give a regular gift: weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, for up to one year. We want to help support this family for one year until Sarah finishes her degree in counselling.\n1. Set up Payments Online\nIf you wish to set up a bank payment or please visit your bank's website and use the account details below. Please note these instructions are for those within New Zealand.\nIf you live in New Zealand, use the details below:\nAccount name: YOUNG LIFE NZ\nBank: Westpac\nAccount number 03-0166-0392091-000\nParticulars: DONATION\nCode: SSaunders\nAll donations to Young Life New Zealand qualify for the charitable donations tax rebate. Donation receipts will be sent at the end of the financial year, (by 1st of May) unless requested earlier. Thank you again for your support!\nDid you know that you can receive up to 33% of a Young Life donation back as a tax credit from Inland Revenue? For more information, please visit www.ird.govt.nz.\nA Few Ways to Give\nSee instructions in the left column on this page.\n2. Give-A-Little Page\nJust click here to go to the give-a-little page:\nhttps:\/\/givealittle.co.nz\/cause\/help-sarah-saunders\n3. Contact the Young Life office\nPlease feel free to call the Young Life office and discuss your intended giving with us directly at 09-534-3868 or email (click here).\n4. Overseas Supporters -\nIf you are in the USA, email us and we can give you a sister organisation that you can give to that can get a donation to us, however, the give-a-little works too. In other countries the give-a-little is probably the best choice.\nYoung Life NZ\n\u00a9 2022 by Young Life New Zealand Trust\nHowick, Auckland 2145","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cooley to Launch in Hong Kong\nLeading Hong Kong corporate partner Will Cai joins Cooley to lead firm's capital markets practice in Asia.Business Wire\nBusiness Wire News Releases\nPartner Will Cai to lead firm's capital markets practice in Asia\nHONG KONG \u2014 Cooley is continuing its global growth with the announcement of plans to launch in Hong Kong. Leading Hong Kong corporate lawyer Will Cai is joining the firm from Skadden, where he had been a partner since 2014.\nCooley is the #1 law firm in the US advising on tech and life sciences IPOs and has been the #1 law firm taking companies public in the United States over the last five years. In addition, Cooley is one of the world's top firms working on global capital markets transactions for non-US issuers.\n\"Given our proven success in capital markets in the United States, Asia and around the world, a physical presence in this leading center for finance and innovation is a fundamental next step in our global growth strategy,\" said Joe Conroy, Cooley's chief executive officer. \"Will's exceptionally strong background in US and Hong Kong capital markets deals and cross-border M&A further extends our ability to support our global clients seamlessly.\"\nFor more than a decade, Will Cai, who is qualified in the US and Hong Kong, has been a trusted legal adviser for many of Asia's most exciting companies on their landmark transactions across capital markets and M&A. He represents Chinese issuers and global investment banks in US and Hong Kong capital markets transactions. He frequently advises private equity funds and multinationals on their investments in the Greater China region, as well as Chinese companies on cross-border M&A work. Since 2008, he has worked on more than 40 completed IPOs in the US and Hong Kong capital markets.\n\"Cooley's unique platform, leading client base and collegial culture make this opportunity extremely attractive,\" said Cai. \"I am looking forward to playing a role in its continued investment and achievement across the Asia-Pacific region and globally.\"\nCai, a native Mandarin speaker who is fluent in English, earned his JD from Stanford Law School and his LLB from China University of Political Science and Law. Prior to joining Skadden, he worked for the Supreme People's Court of China as a judicial clerk. He will lead Cooley's capital markets practice in the region.\nFollowing on the success of the firm's Shanghai office, which opened in 2011, Cooley expanded its Asia- Pacific presence with its launch in Beijing in 2018. The firm represents some of Asia's most innovative and dynamic tech and life sciences companies, advising on their financing, joint venture and other strategic transactions. In addition, Cooley has helped more than 80 fund managers form 100+ Chinese venture capital and private equity funds. It was named Investment Funds International Firm of the Year at the China Law & Practice Awards and has been broadly recognized for its strong tech, life sciences and VC practices.\nCooley LLP has submitted an application with The Law Society of Hong Kong to form a registered foreign law firm as its Hong Kong office. Upon registration, it will enter into an association with Cai, Lee & Partners, the local Hong Kong solicitor's firm recently formed by Will Cai and Cooley partner Pang Lee, who is also qualified in Hong Kong and whose work focuses on global private equity and venture capital fund formation matters. Both the registered foreign law firm and the association with the new local firm are subject to approval by The Law Society of Hong Kong. Cooley's Beijing and Shanghai offices operate as representative offices of Cooley LLP.\nAbout Cooley LLP\nClients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation, where innovation meets the law.\nCooley has 1,000+ lawyers across 14 offices in the United States, China and Europe.\nAndrea Orzehoski, 212-479-6732\nAorzehoski@cooley.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Japan Between Cosmopolitanism and Ritualised Tradition\nViewpoint by Siegfried Knittel\nThe writer studied German literature and political science. He now works as a freelance journalist and, since 2011, lives in Japan. This article first appeared on the website of International Politics and Society on 5 November 2019.\nTOKYO (IDN-INPS) \u2013 In Japan, harmony lies at the heart of everything, from politics to society in general. The recent change on the imperial throne, however, has brought to the fore how much Japan searches for its core identity beneath the harmonious surface.\nThe Japanese government and the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were at a loss how to handle Emperor Akihito's wish to abdicate. The Japanese constitution doesn't provide a procedure for an emperor's resignation and there are no corresponding legal regulations.\nTherefore, the Emperor's televised announcement came as a complete surprise to the political class, although his desire was long known. He did not want to die as a senile man in office. Instead of being a prisoner of his office, he availed himself of the right to determine his own life.\nIn Japan's House of Representatives, the national conservative deputies of the LDP opposed the abdication of the emperor. But he had swayed public opinion in his favour, showing a wilfulness quite unusual in Japanese affairs. However, the law then introduced regulating the emperor's resignation is not a general rule. It allowed only the resignation of Emperor Akihito. If someday the new Emperor Naruhito wants to resign, he will need to ask for permission as his father did.\nThe Emperor's symbolic role\nJapan's political class fears every possible change in the institutional system like the devil hates holy water. It's difficult for foreigners to understand the ritualisation of the imperial ceremony, with its constant emphasis on the supposedly ancient traditions of the imperial family \u2013 it must be recognised as an attempt at self-reassurance.\nThe nation as a whole gains assurance through the person of the Emperor. He does not express himself on political issues. Thus everyone can identify with him: in him they can see what they want to see.\nNevertheless, Emperor Hirohito and, above all, his son Akihito, have repeatedly and with subtle gestures expressed that they stand for a shift away from imperialist Japan' policy up to 1945. In 1978, 14 war criminals sentenced to death by the Tokyo military tribunal for the crimes of World War II were taken to Yasukuni Shrine. After this, Emperor Hirohito no longer visited the shrine \u2013 without giving a reason. In this way, he avoided a conflict between social groups that would have threatened the unity of the nation.\nThe new Emperor Naruhito, when he was Crown Prince, showed that he will follow his father's line in dealing with Japan's imperialist past.\nHis successor, Akihito, has continued this path, even after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine in each year of his term of office, from 2001 to 2006, and even as national conservative circles gained increasing influence with the publication of textbooks that relativised or even denied Japan's war crimes.\nThe fact that Akihito did not honour the war criminals at the shrine was a clear rejection of their politics. Moreover, Akihito visited most of the countries that Japan had overrun with war and expressed regret over the suffering that it had brought these countries. In Asia, where symbolism plays a much greater role in public discourse than in Western culture, Akihito's gestures were well understood. Any further indication in the direction of an apology would have been construed in Japan as a political statement \u2013 which the Emperor is forbidden from making.\nJapan's Meghan Markle\nThe new Emperor Naruhito, when he was Crown Prince, showed that he will follow his father's line in dealing with Japan's imperialist past. More so than his father, he has the image of a cosmopolitan man. And even more strongly than his father, he sees the need to open up Japan's rigid social structures and to support the diversification of society by standing up for tolerance.\nNaruhito is married to Masako Owada, the daughter of a senior diplomat who also served as President of the International Court of Justice. She studied at Harvard, Oxford and Tokyo University. Her path to a top career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs seemed clear. When the then Crown Prince Naruhito's desired to marry her, she hesitated for a long time.\nIt was clear that her knowledge and her skills would not be demanded while at the Emperor's side. Above all, she needed to give birth to a male heir to the throne to ensure the survival of the Japanese imperial family. Masako Owada knew for certain that without a male heir to the throne, without the identification figure of an emperor, Japan's unity as a nation would be at stake. To some extent it was incumbent upon her to ensure the survival of the Japanese nation.\nAfter much hesitation, Masako Owada decided to renounce her prospective brilliant diplomatic career and to marry the crown prince. When she gave birth to a daughter, she promptly experienced a prolonged depression. She has apparently largely overcome this phase by now. The media no longer speak of her depression, but rather of her extraordinary abilities.\nHowever, the high hopes placed in Empress Masako only show that Japan is losing the self-confidence of a country with a great tradition.\nShe's the former diplomat who meets and greets the statesmen of the world in various languages \u2013 without the aid of interpreters \u2013 and represents a modern, cosmopolitan Japan. Meanwhile in Japan, her skills are a mixed blessing. Japan's conservatives frown on excessive cosmopolitanism. If it becomes clear that she's more agile than the Emperor in dealing with foreign statesmen, she will draw criticism from those conservatives.\nWhat's identity crisis in Japanese?\nHowever, the high hopes placed in Empress Masako only show that Japan is losing the self-confidence of a country with a great tradition. The repeated emphasis on its status as the world's oldest monarchy doesn't change that. Quite the opposite, the everlasting appeal to tradition and the practice of supposedly ancient rituals are actually an expression of the fragility of national identity. With the Meiji Restoration after 1868, Japan has reinvented itself, but the newly invented identity is still a vulnerable one and must be reiterated in an exaggerated fashion.\nNeighbouring countries, which were particularly affected by Japan's imperial policies and fear a resurgence of Japanese imperialism, criticise Japan's Shinto religion as the ideology of Japanese imperialism. Shinto is considered the original Japanese religion. It's the oldest and, next to Buddhism, the most widely practiced religion in Japan.\nIn the constitution adopted in 1946, religion and state are separated. But there are a number of Shinto rituals performed by the Emperor, for example, during his enthronement. This directly contradicts the Constitution. The rituals include the annual Daij\u014d-sai, or Great Thanksgiving Festival, in which the Emperor makes an offering of sacred rice to his divine mother, the sun goddess Amaterasu. At Emperor Akihito's accession to the throne in 1990, a complaint was lodged before the Supreme Court against state financing the religious ritual. The Supreme Court, Japan's highest court, ruled that the degree of mixing religion and state was acceptable.\nNow another such lawsuit is being filed. Most likely, the Supreme Court won't be able to reach a verdict against the conservative forces. Premier Shinzo Abe is a staunch supporter of the interweaving of the state and Shinto religion. The new Emperor Naruhito would hardly dare take a stand against this core piece of conservative politics. And so, Japan's struggle between cosmopolitanism and ideological narrow-mindedness continues even under the new emperor. [IDN-InDepthNews \u2013 08 November 2019]\nPhoto: Enthronement Ceremony of Emperor Naruhito, the 126th Emperor of Japan. Prime minister Abe made congratulatory speeches on 22 October 2019. CC BY 4.0.\nAsia Editor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TEL: 0151 364 4509 MOB: 07957 608 216\nMy Little Pony Bouncy Castle\nS - \u00a340.00 GBP M - \u00a345.00 GBP L - \u00a350.00 GBP\nProduct Sizes & Prices\nSmall \u2013 (10ft x 12ft) - \u00a340\nMedium \u2013 (12ft x 14ft) - \u00a345\nLarge \u2013 (15ft x 15ft) - \u00a350\nThe 1990's hit children's television show My Little Pony was given a reboot recently with a feature length movie, and it's once again every little's girls favourite animated subject!\nOur My Little Pony bouncy castle brings the charm and fun of the franchise to your very own party or event, giving kids the times of their lives.\nOf course, you can trace the history of My Little Pony back to the early 1980s when the original toy line was released. Each generation of children since then have had their own incarnations of the much-loved characters to enjoy.\nTheir popularity shows no signs of slowing up either, and with so many toys, apps, birthday wrap and cakes available to celebrate a birthday, why not making it in to a My Little Pony birthday party?\nIf you do so, our My Little Pony bouncy castle is the perfect centre piece.\nBeautifully coloured with soft shades of blue and pink, and adorned with images of some of the most popular characters, the bouncy castle is the perfect focal point to any event at which fans of the My Little Pony series are present.\nFor more information, or to book it out for your event, contact us today.\nBouncy Castles Liverpool\n10 Birch Street, Liverpool, L5 9TE\n\u00a9 2021, Bouncy Castles Liverpool","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2016 election beefs bernie sanders campaign schedule changes clinton rumors dave weigel deep rifts Donald Trump fact checking feud hillary clinton interviews journalism millennials pt Oh For Fuckssake wishful thinking\nRightwing Rag Gonna Make Some Sh*t Up At You About How Hillary And Bernie Are Beefing\n'OK, Bern, but I wish you wouldn't call me that'\nIn a campaign where there's already enough real news to go around, we have to say we're impressed by the ability of some media outlets to find controversy where there isn't any. Last week, the Washington Free Beacon leaked terrible horrible scandalous audio of Hilary Clinton saying back in February that a lot of millennials were supporting Bernie Sanders because the economy was tough for them. This was supposedly scandalous because she said some were living in their parents' basements and unable to find good jobs after graduating during the post-2008 recession. Sunday, Bernie Sanders went on CNN and ABC and said her comments were spot on. On ABC's This Week:\n\"During the campaign we had our differences, but what she was saying there was absolutely correct,\" Sanders said during an interview Sunday morning in response to the newly leaked audio of Clinton talking about his supporters during a private fundraiser in February.\n\"You have millions of young people, many of whom took out loans in order to go to college, hoping to go out and get decent-paying jobs, and they are unable to do that,\" said Sanders, who endorsed Clinton two months ago. \"And yes, they do want a political revolution. They want to transform this society.\"\nOn CNN's State of the Union:\n\"If you listen to the whole discussion that she had, a very important point that she made is that a lot of young people who went into debt, worked very hard to get a good education, can't find a job commensurate to the education that they received,\" Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper[.]\nAh, but Tapper also asked Sanders if Clinton's February remarks about his plan for free college being unrealistic had bothered him, and he replied,\nOf course it does, but we are in the middle of a campaign ... If you go to some of the statements I made about Hillary Clinton, we have real differences.\nIn the ABC interview, Sanders went on to say that on issues like climate change, increasing the minimum wage, equal pay, and campaign finance reform, Clinton is close to his positions, and agreed that voting for a third party candidate would be equivalent to a vote for Donald Trump.\nSo, hey, what did The Hill do with those interviews Sunday night? They combined them with a fairly routine announcement about changes to Clinton's campaign schedule to suggest DEEP RIFTS between Clinton and Sanders, because now they hate each other SO HARD:\nHillary Clinton's campaign announced Sunday night that it had canceled tentatively planned events with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for Monday.\nInstead, her primary rival will now be on the campaign trail Wednesday in Iowa and Wisconsin.\n\"Wednesday's Des Moines stop was added to make up for appearances tentatively scheduled in Iowa on Monday, October 3,\" the campaign said in a release [ ...]\nThough unclear if it's related, the schedule change comes a few days after audio from a February fundraiser leaked that made public Clinton's take on fans of her then-rival Sanders, whom she suggested were overly idealistic.\nThe rightwing Washington Examiner took The Hill's speculation and turned it into the lede for their story:\nThe Hillary Clinton campaign has canceled joint appearances with former primary opponent Bernie Sanders after he admitted that \"of course\" it bothered him that Clinton seemed to be talking down to his supporters in hacked audio from a fundraiser.\nThe two were set to have joint appearance together Monday. Instead, Sanders will appear in both Iowa and Wisconsin on Monday to boost her candidacy without her.\nOh noes! Despite Bernie devoting two TV interviews to saying Clinton's February remarks about millennials and the economy were in complete agreement with his own views, they now can't even stand to be onstage together.\nThere's just one teensy problem with that narrative, according to Esteemed Wonkette Alumnus Dave Weigel:\nOh. Well, that's inconvenient, even if it's factual.\nNow, to prove they've patched over their wholly imaginary DEEP RIFTS, Clinton and Sanders are pretty much required to reshuffle their schedules again so they can be onstage together right quick, and everyone will have to examine the video for body language to determine whether Clinton and Sanders are just barely holding back from slugging each other. And if they did, would Clinton's pacemaker, colostomy bag, and catheter all pop out at once????\n[ABC \/ CNN \/ The Hill \/ Washington Examiner \/ Dave Weigel on Twitter]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Charleston Mayor Is Sold on New Urbanism\nBy Amos Maki\n\u2013 The Commercial Appeal \u2013\nAs Memphis officials continue seeking ways to deal with urban sprawl, Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joe Riley was in town Tuesday preaching the gospel of smart growth and new urbanism.\nRiley, in his eighth term, was at Bridges Inc. Downtown touting smart growth to a lunch crowd of about 400 people.\nDescribed by his detractors as a dictator and by his supporters as a visionary, Riley is above all else a lover of cities.\n\"This isn't a rural country anymore,\" Riley told the crowd. \"Our success, socially and economically, increasingly depends on what kind of cities we have. The city is a place where every citizen's heart should sing.\"\n\"He obviously understands everything about city building,\" said Rusty Bloodworth, executive vice president of Memphis-based Boyle Investment Co. and one of the chief local supporters of smart growth. \"He's probably as well-credentialed as anyone in the country at the craft of creating great places.\"\nSmart growth, or new urbanism, combines residential and commercial projects while accommodating vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The concept features various-sized and various-priced dwellings built as high-density rates and integrated with a \"commercial core\" of storefronts and strategically placed gathering spaces \u2013 all within walking distance.\nMemphis and Shelby County officials are in the midst of developing a \"unified development code\" for the metropolitan area.\nShelby County Mayor A C Wharton said Riley's approach shows that smart planning can happen anywhere, not just in big cities on the coasts, as long as the public is involved and supportive.\n\"The biggest thing is that it's doable,\" Wharton said. \"When it comes to our environment and our surroundings, we have to answer to the public.\"\nCharleston, under Riley's leadership, has revitalized its historic downtown area and business district, reduced crime and created new parks.\nThe city has also transformed its affordable housing complexes from areas where the city's poorest citizens were segregated in dreary public housing to one that was attractive and inclusive. Now, middle-class workers live side by side with the city's elite.\nDuring the past 30 years, the city's tourism industry has surged and retailers and residents began pouring into the downtown area.\nWhen Riley was elected in 1975, Charleston had 1.7 million tourists visit the city. That number now stands at 4.5 million annually.\nToday, downtown Charleston is thriving. On King Street, the city's main thoroughfare, Saks Fifth Avenue opened a store. Charleston Place, a major shopping and hotel complex, welcomes visitors from across the country.\nMuch of the revitalization centered around improving and strengthening the city's \"public realm,\" which to Riley means virtually everything citizens experience away from their homes.\nFrom creation of new parks and the preservation of old ones, to the rejuvenation of downtown, Riley said careful stewardship of the public realm can produce a great city.\n\"You need a healthy downtown,\" Riley said. \"It's part of the public realm, meaning everybody owns it. When it looks good, then people feel better about it and themselves.\"\nRiley used every tool at his disposal to transform Charleston.\nInstead of razing abandoned or dilapidated buildings, Riley ordered them to be restored and redeveloped.\nInstead of caving in to the wishes of developers and city planning bureaucrats, Riley simply said no.\nInstead of allowing seas of asphalt parking lots across the city, Riley insisted that buildings be built closer to the street and that parking garages be designed to include ground floor retail or resemble anything other than a typical parking garage.\nRiley is also a believer in smart planning, the kind that makes money for developers while producing sustainable communities.\n\"Without it being well planned, you do create a development that is not sustainable,\" he said. \"It's just a matter of good community planning as opposed to letting what will happen happen, which produces an end result that is not sustainable.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pope Advances One World Religion Agenda: Presents Buddhist Leader with Manifesto\nBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz December 1, 2019 , 1:36 pm\nThus he said: 'The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.'\" Daniel 7:23 (The Israel Bible\u2122)\nPope Francis Meets Thailand's Buddhist Patriarch in Golden Temple (screenshot)\nPope Francis topped off his three-day visit to Thailand last Saturday with a meeting with Thailand's supreme Buddhist patriarch Somdej Phra Maha Muneewong at Bangkok's Ratchabophit Temple. The meeting took place in front of a 150-year-old gold statue of Buddha. The Pope followed Buddhist custom by removing his shoes.\nDuring the meeting, the Pope gave the Buddhist Patriarch the Declaration on Human Brotherhood. The Declaration s a joint statement signed by Pope Francis of the Catholic Church and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, last February in Abu Dhabi. The Pope met with the Imam last month to reinforce the Declaration.\nThe agreement between the two religious leaders was criticized for its stance on the diversity of religions.\n\"The fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected,\" the document read. \"As too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept.\"\nMany theologians from both Catholicism and Islam have criticized the agreement as untenable and essentially unacceptable to either religion which both have supersessionism as a basic tenet. While members of other religions may see this as a praiseworthy effort, Catholics and Muslims have expressed concern that this agreement represents a commitment by the leaders to a process that is unacceptable. This is especially problematic for Islam which punishes apostasy with death.\nIt would seem that bridging the gap between Islam and Buddhism will be an even more insurmountable task for the Pontiff. Islam was founded in the 7th century CE, approximately 600 years after the founding of Christianity and several thousand years after Judaism began. As an aggressive form of replacement theology, Islam appropriated all of the figures in the Christian and Jewish Bible as Muslim prophets. Even though Buddhism was founded in the 6th century BCE, Islam did not appropriate Siddh\u0101rtha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, as a Mulsim prophet. This may be because Islam considers Buddhism to be a forbidden form of idolatry.\nDr. Mordechai Kedar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, noted the irreconcilable differences that make a pact of brotherhood between Islam, Catholicism, and Buddhism unlikely.\n\"Islam absolutely considers Buddhism to be a form of idolatry,\" Dr. Kedar told Breaking Israel News. \"Islam cannot make a pact with Buddhism. Only fake Islam can sit with Buddhists and sing Kumbaya together.\"\nDr. Kedar had doubts concerning the possibility of a faith-based pact between Islam and other religions.\n\"Even though Islam sees Christianity as a religion that they absorbed into Islam, they have a problem with Catholicism which shows Jesus on the actual cross. They cannot tolerate a religion that worships a man.\"\n\"The pope is trying to make a global peace, or at least show his followers that he is trying to make world peace. But Islam does not allow a peace with infidels. They can make a tactical retreat or make gestures that look like peace but people who accept these pacts are just fooling themselves\"\nRabbi Daniel Asore, a member of the nascent Sanhedrin, noted that the Pope's intentions were precisely as presented, with no subterfuge at all.\n\"The Pope wants to unify all religions and all governments under one world order,\" Rabbi Assur said. \"What is the big surprise? He is not hiding anything. Just listen to what he says and who he is and his plans are right there for all to see.\"\nThe rabbi noted that Pope Francis was unique in several respects; he is the first pope from the southern hemisphere and, most significantly, he is the first Jesuit to be appointed to the position. Though established by papal order in 1540 to stop the spread of Protestantism and convert the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas, the Jesuit order has historically been treated with suspicion by the Catholic Church for being power-hungry.\n\"You assume that the pope is Catholic but he is certainly not acting like a Catholic,\" Rabbi Asore said. \"These alliances, his actions, are certainly not what a Catholic would do.\"\n\"Brotherhood is a wonderful thing but one religion is only good if it is worshipping the true God,\" Rabbi Asore said. \"The pope's vision of brotherhood does not prevent him from sitting in front of a gold idol or uniting with Ishmael. If he wants one religion, we know what God he is not worshipping.\"\nWhile in Thailand, the Vatican's Press Office released a statement that calling Jewish cities and towns in Judea-Samaria 'legal', \"further undermines the Israeli-Palestinian peace process\". Although the Pope didn't explicitly refer to Trump's landmark decision, the reference appeared to be obvious as he referred to the \"context of recent decisions.\"\nPope Francis has come under fire before for connecting the Catholic Church with the children of Ishmael. In 2015, 71 elders of the Sanhedrin tried the Pope in absentia for recognizing a \"State of Palestine\" with an official treaty. By doing so, the Sanhedrin claimed, the Pope was denying the covenant as described in the Bible in which God gives the land of Israel to the descendants of Jacob.\nThis marked the first visit by a Pope to Thailand in over four decades. Pope Francis was accompanied throughout the visit by his cousin Sister Ana Rosa, who has lived in Thailand for decades and is helping the pontiff as a translator. Thailand is a majority Buddhist country with 388,000 Catholics, representing .59 percent of its population. The Pope held mass in the National Stadium which was attended by over 50,000.\nAfter leaving Thailand, the Pope traveled to Japan. Though he did not meet with any religious leaders, he gave a press conference in which he pursued his vision he euphemistically called \"brotherhood.\" Pope Franci criticized \"Christian culture\u2026that speaks of peace and lives on weapons.\"\nPope Francis has also made displays similar to his sitting barefoot in front of the Golden idol of Budda in Bankok that showed a shocking level of tolerance for idolatry. In October, a video emerged of what appears to be Pope Francis blessing a Pachama Goddess statue.\nPope Francis has also taken on a policy in which homosexuals are welcomed into the church so much so that the American LGBT magazine The Advocate named Pope Francis their Person of the Year for 2013.\nAdam Eliyahu Berkowitz is a features writer for Breaking Israel News. He made Aliyah to Israel in 1991 and served in the IDF as a combat medic. Berkowitz studied Jewish law and received rabbinical ordination in Israel. He has worked as a freelance writer and two works of fiction, The Hope Merchant and Dolphins on the Moon, are available on Amazon. He lives in the Golan Heights with his wife and their four children.\nBy Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz\nFinnish Media Lies About Politician Arrested After Cutting Gaza Security Fence\nGod's Fury Unleashed as ICE, FBI, DOJ, and Dept. of Education Called in to Investigate Ilhan Omar\nPalestinian \"Prayer Rally\" at Temple Mount Turns Into Violent Riot","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Oxford Networks for the Environment, University of Oxford\nNew publication: A simulated lagged response of the North Atlantic Oscillation to the solar cycle over the period 1960\u20132009\nM B Andrews, J R Knight and L J Gray (2015) A simulated lagged response of the North Atlantic Oscillation to the solar cycle over the period 1960\u20132009 Environmental Research Letters doi:10.1088\/1748-9326\/10\/5\/054022\nNumerous studies have suggested an impact of the 11 year solar cycle on the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), with an increased tendency for positive (negative) NAO signals to occur at maxima (minima) of the solar cycle. Climate models have successfully reproduced this solar cycle modulation of the NAO, although the magnitude of the effect is often considerably weaker than implied by observations. A leading candidate for the mechanism of solar influence is via the impact of ultraviolet radiation variability on heating rates in the tropical upper stratosphere, and consequently on the meridional temperature gradient and zonal winds. Model simulations show a zonal mean wind anomaly that migrates polewards and downwards through wave\u2013mean flow interaction. On reaching the troposphere this produces a response similar to the winter NAO. Recent analyses of observations have shown that solar cycle\u2013NAO link becomes clearer approximately three years after solar maximum and minimum. Previous modelling studies have been unable to reproduce a lagged response of the observed magnitude. In this study, the impact of solar cycle on the NAO is investigated using an atmosphere\u2013ocean coupled climate model. Simulations that include climate forcings are performed over the period 1960\u20132009 for two solar forcing scenarios: constant solar irradiance, and time-varying solar irradiance. We show that the model produces significant NAO responses peaking several years after extrema of the solar cycle, persisting even when the solar forcing becomes neutral. This confirms suggestions of a further component to the solar influence on the NAO beyond direct atmospheric heating and its dynamical response. Analysis of simulated upper ocean temperature anomalies confirms that the North Atlantic Ocean provides the memory of the solar forcing required to produce the lagged NAO response. These results have implications for improving skill in decadal predictions of the European and North American winter climate.\nInterdisciplinary research into how society responds to the threats and opportunities of a changing climate.\nMulti-disciplinary leadership in climate research, focusing on the physical science, impacts, adaptation and policy.\n\u00a9 Oxford University 2019 | Based upon an original site design by One","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ONE LOUDER\nLouder Astounding sounds, amazing music\nNew issue on sale now!\n40 Greatest Yes songs\nTen best Genesis songs ever!\nGet Prog\nMusic journalist Malcolm Dome dead at 66\nBy Jerry Ewing ( Prog ) published 1 November 21\nCelebrated rock author and journalist Malcolm Dome has died, aged 66\nMalcolm Dome, the pioneering rock and metal journalist and long-term contributor to Classic Rock, Prog, Metal Hammer and Louder, has died aged 66.\nDome had an illustrious and celebrated career which stretched back to working for Record Mirror magazine in the late 70s and Metal Fury in the early 80s before joining Kerrang! at its launch in 1981.\nHis first book, Encyclopedia Metallica, published in 1981, may have been the inspiration for the name of a certain band formed that same year. Dome is also credited with inventing the term \"thrash metal\" while writing about the Anthrax song Metal Thrashing Mad in 1984. He would later become a founding member of RAW rock magazine in 1988.\nIn the early 90s, Malcolm Dome was the Editor of Metal Forces magazine, and also involved in the horror film magazine Terror, before returning to Kerrang! for a spell. With the launch of Classic Rock magazine in 1998 he became involved with that title, sister magazine Metal Hammer, and has also been a contributor to Prog magazine since its inception in 2009.\nHe was actively involved in Total Rock Radio, which launched as Rock Radio Network in 1997, changing its name to Total Rock in 2000. In 2014 he joined the TeamRock online team as Archive Editor, uploading stories from all of our print titles and helping lay the foundation for what became Louder.\nDome was the author of many books on a host of bands from AC\/DC to Led Zeppelin and Metallica, some of which he co-wrote with Prog Editor Jerry Ewing.\n\"Malcolm was a great friend to me from the very first time I met him as a writer just starting out, as he was for many other writers as well,\" says Ewing. \"The word legend gets bandied around far too often these days but Malcolm most certainly was. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge about music and was one of the most genuinely widely loved and respected men I know. I will miss him terribly.\"\nMalcolm Dome at Download Festival, 2014 (Image credit: Brad Merret)\nLooking back over his career for Earache record's Wicked World website, Malcolm remembered the era in which he first started writing. \"It was a time when there was genuine feeling that we in the UK had the most exciting bands in the world,\" he said. \"These were acts who could take the energy of punk and the class of 70s metal, and take it to another level.\n\"Suddenly, there were young British metal bands who were confident, powerful and relevant. And it did change the world. The band who best summed it up have to be Iron Maiden \u2013 they represented everything that was good about the genre. But what NWOBHM did best of all was bring it back to the roots and to the people. The fans, the bands \u2013 we were as one. Such an era has never happened again.\"\nIron Maiden tweeted: \"We are all very much saddened and shocked to hear about the passing of our friend Malcolm Dome. He was fearless, intrepid, passionate and forthright as a journalist and latterly a broadcaster and we respected him immensely.\"\nTributes have also come from Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Lars Ulrich, Slash, Motley Crue, Hawkwind, Foreigner, Bernie Marsden, Mike Portnoy, Black Star Riders, Blackie Lawless, Devin Townsend, Doro Pesch, Motorhead's Phil Campbell, Saxon, Luke Morley of Thunder, Charlie Benante, Derek Sherinian, Dino Cazares, Banger Films, Frankie Kazarian, Metal Allegiance, Sick Of It All and more.\nWe are all very much saddened and shocked to hear about the passing of our friend Malcolm Dome. He was fearless, intrepid, passionate and forthright as a journalist and latterly a broadcaster and we respected him immensely. pic.twitter.com\/NMRWqGT1zVNovember 1, 2021\nMalcolm was a lovely guy, he interviewed me many times and was always positive about the music. He was one of the first journalists to totally get metal. We even worked together last year when he helped me sort out my Wikipedia entry. Sadly missed. - Tonyhttps:\/\/t.co\/Te8hippkxBNovember 1, 2021\nSo sad to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome, one of rock and metal's great journalists. It was always a pleasure giving interviews and generally having a chat. RIP Malcolm, you will be missed. pic.twitter.com\/cmNGQ6bedpNovember 2, 2021\nWords cannot express how sorry I feel to hear about the passing of Malcolm Dome. Rest In Peace. God BlessNovember 1, 2021\nRIP Rock Journalist & friend #MalcomDomewe'll miss you https:\/\/t.co\/m8mfEZjj5PNovember 1, 2021\nMalcolm Dome: 1955 \u2013 2021. https:\/\/t.co\/wx03MqSIpR pic.twitter.com\/PpPEeFC5M4November 1, 2021\nExtremely sad to hear of Malcolm Dome's passing. Not only was he an incredible talent who helped guide my relationship with heavy music, but he was also a great person. Today, I'm thinking of the fun, memorable times we spent together back in the day. https:\/\/t.co\/9chlIVjSMmNovember 1, 2021\nHow can we express what Malcolm meant to us.Truly one of the good guys. You didn't only champion us, but the many bands that you listened to & appreciated. A lot of musicians owe a great deal to you. Till we meet again, fly high our friend. Love all at HWhttps:\/\/t.co\/OddbRv0yQu pic.twitter.com\/vRBdkVuE7nNovember 2, 2021\nIt is with deep regret that we learned yesterday of the passing of our dear friend, Malcolm Dome. Malcolm was a rock journalist and author of great integrity who was a staple in such influential magazines as Kerrang! and Classic Rock.November 2, 2021\nSo sorry to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome.I knew Malcolm for forty plus years, he loved his music, was an accomplished writer and a fervent football man, so we had a lot in common.I, and all he knew, mourn him. My deepest condolences to his family & many friends. RIP. \u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/i9gw7jnKjkNovember 1, 2021\nSaddened to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome. I've done countless interviews with him throughout the 30+ years we've known each other and always enjoyed our discussions. RIP Malcolm \ud83d\ude4f pic.twitter.com\/uwJddSPv1ENovember 1, 2021\nWe are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome. Malcolm was a fine journalist and a fine human being. His passion for rock n roll was clear in abundance and he always told it like it was. Condolences to Malcolm's family. RIP Malcolm you were one of the good guys !November 2, 2021\nMalcolm Dome was part of W.A.S.P.'s initial success with Kerrang. He was part of the team that had the courage to put me on the cover when nobody really knew who we were and that cover got banned from all the WH Smith outlets. Rock n roll lost a real champion. \u2014 Blackie Lawless pic.twitter.com\/IaEmsbP938November 1, 2021\nI'm #so #sorry to hear of the #passing of #MalcolmDome. He was one of my best journalist friends. We knew each other since the early 80s. He was always so supportive & kind to me. I will miss you terribly. Keep on rocking in heaven.\ud83d\udda4\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\udda4\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udda4\ud83e\udd18\ud83d\udda4Love, Doro#doropesch#warlock pic.twitter.com\/NX41q8Ta6wNovember 1, 2021\nVery sorry to here that Malcolm Dome has left us. He was a champion of great rock music and a supporter of \u2066@myMotorhead\u2069 all the way through to \u2066@PCATBS\u2069. RIP Malcolm. https:\/\/t.co\/C6v5F2eSqgNovember 1, 2021\nWe are saddened to hear of the passing of our friend Malcolm Dome.Malcolm was a great supporter of Saxon, and will be missed by all.Our sympathies to his family and friends in this terrible time.Saxon https:\/\/t.co\/RPHO3v6z0ZNovember 1, 2021\nShit. RIP Malcolm Dome. \ud83d\udc94November 1, 2021\nThank you and goodnight to Malcolm Dome. He was the first journalist to ever write about Thunder and a thoroughly nice bloke who genuinely cared about rock music.November 1, 2021\nSo sad to see Malcolm Dome has left us. He was an amazing writer, a passionate supporter of UK rock music and a great sport, even after we trashed his desk at the Kerrang! offices. Another very dark day for UK rock music. I will miss him so much. \ud83d\udc94November 1, 2021\nExtremely sad to hear about the passing of legendary journalist\/writer Malcolm Dome. He was a lovely, gentle man and time spent with him was always time well spent. We'll all miss him, a huge loss to the music world.November 1, 2021\nTotally gutted to hear of Malcolm Dome's passing, far too early. He was a supporter of Million Dead from the get-go, always a friendly, charming and kind face, incredibly knowledgeable and a legendary journalist. A sad day for music.https:\/\/t.co\/TugyUrnaDUNovember 1, 2021\nI am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome. I have known Malcolm well over 30 years from the early days of The Almighty right up to the present day. He was a fine journalist and a fine human being. Condolences to Malcolm's family. Rest easy mate.November 1, 2021\nVery sad to hear of Malcom's passing . He was a true music aficionado and a damn Great writer. #ripmalcomdome https:\/\/t.co\/Z2NOGcKSPgNovember 1, 2021\nI am very sad to hear of the passing of my friend and legendary journalist Malcolm Dome. He has interviewed me, written my bios, and has been a great guy over the last 30 years. Rest in Peace Malcolm\ud83d\ude4f pic.twitter.com\/sBxFz7ThZFNovember 2, 2021\nLong time friend and Twisted Sister champion #MalcolmDome has just died. His liner notes are in many TS albums including our new release called #tearitloose. incredible loss of a champion of the metal community. RIP Mr. DomeNovember 1, 2021\nTrailblazing metal journalist Malcolm Dome has passed away at the age of 66. Malcolm appeared in \"Metal: A Headbangers Journey\" and is also credited with coining the term \"thrash metal\" while referencing Anthrax's \"Metal Thrashing Mad\" in @KerrangMagazine in 1984.RIP \ud83d\udda4 pic.twitter.com\/BbjANcjRbkNovember 2, 2021\nRIP Malcolm Dome. Thank you for spreading the word and waiving the flag of hard rock & heavy metal for over 4 decades. Godspeed sir.\ud83e\udd18\ud83c\udffcNovember 1, 2021\nRIP to the great Malcolm Dome. He helped spread the word on us when MA first started and had this to say about our debut album \"...one of the year's best metal albums\" in his @ClassicRockMag reivew back in 2015. After all, Malcolm did coin the term \"thrash metal\" pic.twitter.com\/kowVSewtNPNovember 1, 2021\nSo sad to hear this. R.I.P. Malcolm Dome, Veteran Music Journalist Who Coined the Term \"Thrash Metal\" Dies at 66 https:\/\/t.co\/T94CxP2peENovember 2, 2021\nTony Wilson of TotalRock commented: \"Malcolm was a key part of Total Rock, joining us before we were even called TotalRock. He was part of our DNA and his absence among us will leave a void that no other can fill.\"\nOrange Goblin's Ben Ward paid tribute on Facebook: \"Malcolm was a great friend, a true inspiration and legend of the Heavy Metal world, THE best music journalist ever, someone's whose opinion I always valued and just a lovely, humble, intelligent, kind, generous and very funny man.\"\nMark Powell of Esoteric records, for whom Dome wrote sleevenotes, commented: \"Malcolm was one of life's kind and charming people and his encyclopaedic knowledge of rock music knew no limits. My heartfelt condolences to his friends and family. Will miss you very much Malcolm, so will the world of music journalism.\"\nA post shared by \ud835\udd78\ud835\udd8e\ud835\udd88\ud835\udd8d\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd8a\ud835\udd91 \ud835\udd6c\ud835\udd92\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd99\ud835\udd99 (@michael_amott)\nToday we lost another legend, Malcolm Dome is a great journalist who's written many stories on Fear Factory since 1992 R.I.P. pic.twitter.com\/BsJYFi0xBKNovember 1, 2021\nJerry Ewing\nWriter and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock, as well as sleevenotes for many major record labels. He lives in North London and happily indulges a passion for AC\/DC Chelsea Football Club and Sydney Roosters.\nProg Newsletter\nSign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox!\nThank you for signing up to Prog. You will receive a verification email shortly.\nMORE FROM PROG\nAustralian djent guitarist Keyan Houshmand premieres video for Black\nNew US prog outfit Vast Conduit announce debut album with new trailer\nHaken announce return of original keyboard player Pete Jones\nArjen Lucassen's Star One premiere 'zany', Bill & Ted-inspired video for Revel In Time\nDarkher unveils video for brand new single Lowly Weep","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chair's 3 Minutes \u00b7 National Association of Counties\nHistoric national leadership opportunity for Maui County\nPublished in The Maui News July 6, 2014\nBy GLADYS C. BAISA, for The Maui News\nCounty Council members are headed to New Orleans this week to confer with county officials and policy experts from across the country and celebrate the installation of our colleague Riki Hokama as president of the National Association of Counties.\nNACo's annual conference provides a historic opportunity for the County of Maui to provide leadership on the national level as Hokama, who holds the council's Lanai residency seat, takes charge of the organization that represents 3,069 counties.\nHokama announced that transportation will be the theme for his one-year presidency. He will seek reauthorization of the federal transportation bill known as MAP-21 and pursue other initiatives supporting counties' needs for highways, transit and other components of intermodal transportation.\nConference attendees will learn about programs to foster employee wellness, means of becoming more self-reliant through economic diversification and tips on accessing federal funding opportunities.\nDuring the conference, NACo will unveil County Intelligence Connection 2.0, or CIC 2.0, described as \"a big-data tool to help counties make informed policy decisions.\" CIC 2.0, which should complement local open-data initiatives, will include an interactive map featuring all U.S. counties, providing nearly 70 data sets.\nFollow the conference by using the hashtag #NACoAnn on social media or visiting naco.org.\nPrior to the conference, council members will work through a heavy agenda at a council meeting on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Twelve reports from the council's standing committees will be presented.\nThe council will consider on first reading a bill to ban the consumption of intoxicating liquor within the boundaries of Kamaole Beach Park II in Kihei. The bill, introduced by Council Member Don Couch and recommended for passage by the Economic Development, Energy, Agriculture and Recreation Committee, follows existing bans at other South Maui beaches.\nRepresentatives from the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Police Department expressed support for the bill to the committee. One MPD officer reported a decrease in complaints since alcohol prohibitions went into effect at other nearby parks.\nA resolution will also be considered, as recommended by the committee, to authorize acceptance of a donation of a batting cage for the Wailuku Elementary School Park.\nAs recommended by the Land Use Committee, the council will consider a resolution to approve the location and boundaries of the Makawao Cemetery on approximately 7 acres, as required by state law.\nA change in zoning to accommodate expansion plans for nonprofit Ka Lima O Maui on 2 acres in Wailuku will also be considered by the council. If the zoning is approved, the organization, which provides employment opportunities for adults with disabilities, will construct buildings for office and program purposes.\nAs part of the county's ongoing effort to improve the zoning code, the council will consider a bill to change how the permitted uses for the B-3 Central Business District are described to make them more easily understood, as recommended by the Planning Committee.\nTo learn more about these and other the measures passed out of committee, review committee reports at mauicounty.gov\/committees. Testimony may be submitted via email at county.clerk@mauicounty.us.\nA hui hou.\n* Gladys Baisa is chairwoman of the Maui County Council and holds the council's Pukalani-Kula-Ulupalakua area residency seat. \"Chair's 3 Minutes\" is a weekly column to explain the latest news on county legislative matters.\nTags: NACoNACo Annual ConferenceRiki Hokama\nPrevious story Council updates: June 2014\nNext story Guzman introduces bill to allow child care homes in the agricultural district\nMaui County wins national award for civic engagement June 14, 2014\nDefinition of 'agriculture,' alcohol ban at Kamaole II considered March 17, 2014\nCongressional delegation briefed on county issues March 14, 2016\nFoundation set for a promising new year December 30, 2013","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dartboard Standings File for FMON - Faribault Monday League\nLeague: FMON, Faribault Monday League\n8 Games 501  4 Games Ckt           |\n$6 per player                      |\nBoxers               |   168 |  119 |     49 |  70.8 |\n4 Leaf Mafia         |   168 |   96 |     72 |  57.1 |\nMISFITS              |   168 |   93 |     75 |  55.4 |\nDivorce Club         |   168 |   83 |     85 |  49.4 |\nSMELLS LIKE BULLSHIT |   168 |   72 |     96 |  42.9 |\nWe Aim To Misbehave  |   168 |   41 |    127 |  24.4 |\nMost Improved Players for week 14, All X01 games:\nPlayer     | Team         | Previous PPD | PPD   | PPD Improvement |\n------------+--------------+--------------+-------+-----------------+\nMark Meyer | Divorce Club |        22.93 | 23.22 |            0.29 |\nPlayer            | Team         | Previous MPR | MPR  | MPR Improvement |\n-------------------+--------------+--------------+------+-----------------+\nBruce Ebersberger | Divorce Club |         1.81 | 1.88 |            0.07 |\nAll X01 games, sorted by Team + PPD:\nPlayer                 | PPD   | Gam | Win | LTN | HAT | HTN | 15DO | 14DO | 13DO | 12DO | 11DO | 10DO | SpotDarts |\n------------------------+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+-----------+\n4 Leaf Mafia           |\nPaul Mathern           | 32.64 |   4 |   2 |   5 |   3 |   1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         0 |\nJeremy Phillips        | 25.72 |  52 |  19 |  78 |  12 |   3 |    3 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         2 |\nMike Yantes            | 24.77 |   8 |   5 |  12 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         2 |\nJohn Reysack           | 22.98 |  52 |  16 |  61 |  13 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |\nTim Balfe              | 22.81 |  56 |  15 |  68 |  14 |   1 |    0 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |\nChelsie Thistlethwaite | 18.15 |  52 |   5 |  26 |   3 |   1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |\nTeam Totals:           | 22.40 | 224 |  62 | 250 |  46 |   6 |    3 |    2 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |\nBoxers                 |\nRich Moravec           | 29.21 |  56 |  23 |  92 |  34 |   1 |    1 |    4 |    2 |    0 |    1 |    0 |         1 |\nMike Rotta             | 26.42 |  56 |  21 |  97 |  19 |   1 |    3 |    4 |    0 |    1 |    0 |    0 |         2 |\nMatt Hilley            | 24.60 |  56 |  23 |  83 |  16 |   0 |    1 |    0 |    2 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         2 |\nRod Sammon             | 20.62 |  52 |  12 |  53 |   8 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         4 |\nNort Johnson           | 17.84 |   4 |   0 |   2 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         6 |\nDivorce Club           |\nJason Olson            | 23.34 |  56 |  13 |  84 |   5 |   5 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |\nMark Meyer             | 23.22 |  52 |  17 |  69 |  10 |   1 |    0 |    1 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |\nTJ Krause              | 22.34 |  52 |  17 |  67 |   3 |   7 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |\nBruce Ebersberger      | 18.63 |  52 |   7 |  43 |   3 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |\nTravis Hollingsworth   | 17.16 |  12 |   0 |   5 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         6 |\nTeam Totals:           | 21.57 | 224 |  54 | 268 |  21 |  13 |    0 |    1 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         6 |\nMISFITS                |\nJohn Jacobson          | 24.55 |  44 |  24 |  71 |  11 |   0 |    3 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         2 |\nMike McDermott         | 23.49 |  48 |  14 |  63 |  12 |   0 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |\nJeff Schmidt           | 22.96 |   8 |   1 |   7 |   2 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |\nBRANDON TALLEY         | 21.79 |  56 |  17 |  66 |  10 |   0 |    3 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         4 |\nTobey Masso            | 19.10 |  12 |   1 |   9 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |\nDoug Masso             | 18.06 |   4 |   1 |   3 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |\nJORDAN OLSON           | 15.43 |  44 |   4 |  13 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |\nTim Kalm               | 15.11 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |\nKasi Olson             | 15.00 |   4 |   1 |   2 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |\nSMELLS LIKE BULLSHIT   |\nSean David             | 26.77 |  56 |  31 |  98 |  20 |   1 |    3 |    2 |    3 |    1 |    0 |    0 |         2 |\nStacy Dimmick          | 20.51 |   4 |   1 |   3 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         4 |\nCharlie Headline       | 19.76 |   4 |   1 |   4 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |\nTOM ROKEH              | 19.66 |   4 |   1 |   3 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |\nTom Lester             | 16.08 |  48 |   7 |  17 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         7 |\nJENNY LOSEN            | 15.55 |  52 |   3 |  24 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |\nJAKE LOSEN             | 15.53 |  52 |   3 |  18 |   2 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |\nWe Aim To Misbehave    |\nGeorge Hemphill        | 18.82 |  48 |   9 |  46 |   2 |   1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |\nJAMIE JENSEN           | 17.86 |   4 |   1 |   3 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         6 |\nJeff Isaacson          | 16.81 |  48 |   7 |  17 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         7 |\nScott Hoffbeck         | 16.18 |  36 |   4 |  17 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         7 |\nMissy Thibodeau        | 15.14 |  56 |   4 |  15 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |\nBob Erickson           | 14.90 |  24 |   4 |   5 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |\nMACKENZIE BAUER        | 13.38 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |\nLaurie Kagan           | 12.81 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |\nTeam Totals:           | 16.30 | 224 |  29 | 103 |   3 |   1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |\nPlayer                 | MPR  | Gam | Win | AST | HAT | WHS | 5MR | 6MR | 7MR | 8MR | 9MR | SpotDarts |\n------------------------+------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----------+\nPaul Mathern           | 3.45 |   2 |   1 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         0 |\nJeremy Phillips        | 2.81 |  26 |  13 |   8 |   1 |   0 |   8 |   7 |   3 |   0 |   1 |         0 |\nJohn Reysack           | 2.63 |  26 |   9 |   5 |   2 |   0 |   6 |   5 |   1 |   0 |   1 |         0 |\nMike Yantes            | 2.61 |   4 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   2 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         0 |\nTim Balfe              | 2.44 |  28 |   8 |  10 |   0 |   0 |  11 |   5 |   2 |   0 |   0 |         1 |\nChelsie Thistlethwaite | 1.74 |  26 |   3 |   9 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nTeam Totals:           | 2.41 | 112 |  34 |  34 |   3 |   0 |  31 |  22 |   8 |   0 |   2 |         4 |\nRich Moravec           | 3.31 |  28 |  10 |  11 |   6 |   1 |   5 |  10 |   9 |   0 |   3 |         0 |\nMike Rotta             | 2.70 |  28 |   9 |  10 |   2 |   0 |  15 |   9 |   2 |   0 |   0 |         0 |\nMatt Hilley            | 2.28 |  28 |  12 |   8 |   1 |   0 |  11 |   3 |   1 |   0 |   1 |         1 |\nRod Sammon             | 1.79 |  26 |   8 |  11 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   5 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         3 |\nNort Johnson           | 1.64 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nTeam Totals:           | 2.47 | 112 |  40 |  40 |   9 |   1 |  36 |  27 |  12 |   0 |   4 |         4 |\nTJ Krause              | 2.58 |  26 |  10 |   6 |   1 |   0 |  11 |   8 |   2 |   2 |   0 |         0 |\nMark Meyer             | 2.51 |  26 |   9 |   5 |   0 |   0 |   9 |   6 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         0 |\nJason Olson            | 2.14 |  28 |   5 |   7 |   1 |   0 |   9 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         2 |\nBruce Ebersberger      | 1.88 |  26 |   3 |   7 |   0 |   0 |   3 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         3 |\nTravis Hollingsworth   | 1.43 |   6 |   1 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         5 |\nJohn Jacobson          | 2.47 |  22 |  12 |   3 |   1 |   0 |   7 |   4 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         1 |\nJeff Schmidt           | 2.39 |   4 |   0 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         1 |\nBRANDON TALLEY         | 2.31 |  28 |   5 |   6 |   0 |   0 |   9 |   7 |   1 |   2 |   0 |         1 |\nMike McDermott         | 2.29 |  24 |   8 |   8 |   0 |   0 |   9 |   4 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         1 |\nDoug Masso             | 2.25 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         1 |\nTobey Masso            | 1.75 |   6 |   0 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         3 |\nJORDAN OLSON           | 1.52 |  22 |   4 |   8 |   0 |   0 |   3 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nTim Kalm               | 1.43 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |\nKasi Olson             | 1.21 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nSean David             | 2.82 |  28 |  12 |   5 |   4 |   0 |  16 |   7 |   6 |   0 |   1 |         0 |\nCharlie Headline       | 2.73 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   1 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         0 |\nTOM ROKEH              | 2.33 |   2 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         1 |\nJAKE LOSEN             | 1.57 |  26 |   3 |  12 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nStacy Dimmick          | 1.54 |   2 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nJENNY LOSEN            | 1.51 |  26 |   5 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nTom Lester             | 1.42 |  24 |   3 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |\nGeorge Hemphill        | 1.74 |  24 |   8 |   2 |   1 |   0 |  13 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nJAMIE JENSEN           | 1.73 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nJeff Isaacson          | 1.73 |  24 |   2 |   6 |   0 |   0 |   5 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |\nMissy Thibodeau        | 1.49 |  28 |   1 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   1 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         5 |\nScott Hoffbeck         | 1.36 |  18 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |\nBob Erickson           | 1.34 |  12 |   1 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |\nLaurie Kagan           | 1.13 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |\nMACKENZIE BAUER        | 1.00 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |\nTeam Totals:           | 1.55 | 112 |  12 |  12 |   1 |   0 |  23 |   4 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         5 |","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Work Starts on 103-Unit NJ Affordable Project\nVolunteers of America Delaware Valley is building the community, Centerton Village, in the township of Mount Laurel. Funded in part by NJHMFA, the project is slated for completion in May 2020.\nGreg Isaacson\nCenterton Village groundbreaking. Image courtesy of NJHMFA\nVolunteers of America Delaware Valley has broken ground on a 103-unit affordable apartment community in Mount Laurel, N.J. The project, Centerton Village, consisting of two four-story buildings, is slated for completion in May 2020.\nThe affordable property catering to families and veterans will feature apartments ranging in size from one to three bedrooms, including seven units for veterans and two for supportive housing. Amenities will include a community room, onsite laundry and playground.\nThe project is located on Centerton Road and Marne Highway, with close proximity to food stores, dining options and retailers, and is nearby Interstate 295 and the New Jersey Turnpike. Mount Laurel, a township of Burlington County in southern New Jersey, is less than 15 miles east of Philadelphia.\nThe development is funded in part by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA), which provided 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) that brought in $16.6 million in private equity and $4.4 million in mortgage financing for the project.\nEasing post-nursing transitions\nNJHMFA also awarded $150,000 for two apartments through its Money Follows the Person Partnership Fund (MFPPF), which supports the construction of apartments for residents that are transitioning out of nursing facilities into community settings. The apartments will also receive Section 811 Project Rental Assistance vouchers, awarded to the agency by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\nRents for one-bedroom apartments will range from $423 to $874 for residents earning anywhere from 20 to 57.5 percent of the area median income (AMI). For residents earning between 47.5 and 57.5 percent of AMI, rents for two-bedroom apartments will range from $852 to $1,049, and for three-bedroom units, from $985 to $1,212.\nVolunteers of America Delaware Valley will provide onsite social services to residents at the community. The developer broke ground last October on its Brittin Village project, a community in Pennsauken, N.J. that will provide 66 affordable apartments for families and veterans. The development also received NJHMFA financing.\nLast December, NJHMFA started construction on Freedom Village at Gibbsboro, a 72-unit affordable community for families in Gibbsboro, N.J., south of Mount Laurel.\nVolunteers of America Delaware Valley\nNJHMFA\nWilmington Community Changes Hands in $7M Deal\nCAPREIT Acquires Delaware Community\nPhiladelphia Luxury Apartments Trade for $22M\nPhiladelphia Multifamily Report \u2013 Fall 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dominic Monaghan Talks 'Molly Moon' Magic & That Kids' Movie 'Lord Of The Rings'\nBy Katherine Cusumano\nIf I could have any magical power, it would be simple: to breathe underwater. But if Dominic Monaghan could have any magical power, surviving while submerged would be just the start; he'd elect shapeshifting, the Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism star tells me, because it's essentially all the powers rolled into one.\n\"I could turn into an eagle and be able to fly,\" Monaghan says. \"I could turn into a piece of dust and be able to turn invisible.\" And he could also turn into a fish and be able to breathe underwater.\nUnfortunately, the actor's character in his latest film, out Aug. 14, never quite achieves the supernatural power he's searching for. (Don't worry, it's a good thing! He's the bad guy.) Monaghan plays Professor Nockman, a bank robber and petty thief on the hunt for a book called Hypnotism, An Ancient Art that is purported to instruct a worthy reader on the secrets of hypnotism. The titular Molly Moon, a young girl living at an oppressive, Dickensian orphanage, finds it before Nockman can get his hands on it, sending her on an escapade across the British countryside, with the professor in hot pursuit. There are charming pups and pop sensations \u2014 and an entire nation under a hypnotist's enchantment \u2014 in a 90-minute span.\nBased on Monaghan's performance in the film, it seems as though he's already got the shapeshifter routine down pat. Nockman, the actor says, is something of a caricature of the classic villain \u2014 someone humorous, easily ridiculed. He walks on the fine edge between soft parody and hardened criminal.\n\"Once someone's silly, they're less scary,\" Monaghan says.\nMolly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism is his first children's film (\"unless you count Lord of the Rings,\" he says), but the new territory allowed him to embrace a totally foreign character.\n\"I thought, I could have some fun with this,\" says the actor. \"I could play with it, if they'll let me.\" Judging by the outcome, Monaghan did indeed play with the role. He's nearly incognito as Professor Nockman, with his slick parted hair, outmoded glasses, \"peculiar, odd\" mustache, and questionable wardrobe choices. Right down to his mannerisms and facial expressions, this is not the Dominic Monaghan who played Charlie Pace on Lost or Merry Brandybuck in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.\n\"Once I got into my costume and makeup and pulled those Nockman faces, it all became very automatic,\" he says, recalling his approach to the role. \"Costume and makeup can be really significant in creating a character.\"\nIt's probably the closest thing filmmaking has to a shapeshifting power \u2014 think of Ralph Fiennes in Harry Potter, or Brad Pitt at the beginning of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, or pretty much any Johnny Depp film ever (unfortunately, this kind of metamorphosis is more often than not a boys' game). And from his false underbite and eternal grimace to the uneasy swing of his gait, there is little of the unappealing character that Monaghan can find in his own personality. He's effusive as he recalls his preparations for the role, but refers to Nockman as an individual apart from himself, saying, \"I kind of found him.\"\nOff camera, the cast had far more fun than the conniving Nockman could ever conceive. Surrounded by a cast of children \u2014 as well as adult stars like Emily Watson \u2014 Monaghan found himself embracing a juvenile side.\n\"Young people ... like to enjoy themselves and mess about,\" he explains, \"and it's nice to be around young people because I can just be a little more like me \u2014 I can mess about and do magic tricks.\"\n\"Rubbish magic,\" he quickly adds, when I express my delight. \"I'm not Dynamo.\"\nThe character, too, undergoes a kind of transformation by the end of the film (spoilers!). He steps out from under the reign of his mother, who is also a bank robber (and a more successful one, at that), and helps Molly Moon right the trouble she caused by exploiting her hypnotic powers. They prevent a massive bank robbery, recover Molly's kidnapped dog Petula, and restore the pre-Ancient Art status quo. Monaghan draws a parallel between Nockman's interactions with character Molly Moon and his interactions with Raffey Cassidy (Tomorrowland), the film's 12-year-old actress. \"He [Nockman] finds her personality refreshing,\" he says. \"And I find being around young people to be quite inspiring.\"\nStill, his performance as Professor Nockman is something of a vanishing act for Monaghan \u2014 he disappears into costume and emerges as a new man. In his first family film, Monaghan demonstrates his chameleon powers, playing the child on set and the villain on screen. It's an impressive transformation act \u2014 and definitely more than \"rubbish magic.\"\nImages: ARC Entertainment (3)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Talk:List of articles every Wikipedia should have\nSee the list of removed entries for articles that were listed in the past or are still under consideration.\nArchives of this page\n2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014\nPlease add new topics to the bottom of this page\n1 The list should be more focused (in mathematics)\n1.1 Structure change first\n2 Anatomy & Medicine\n2.1 for your consideration\n3 Dubai City\/Emirate\n4 Please add The Divine Comedy\n5 Video game and Smartphone\n6 Wikidata Q15645384 and Q12106 (Wheat)\n7 Catholic Church\n8 Can we add Shenzhen into the list?\n9 Philosophers and social scientists: Martin Heidegger\n11 16th century\n12 Wagner, Richard\n13 Roman empire - Ancient Rome\n14 remove feminism \/ add rape\n15 Hormone\n16 art of war\n17 Wikidata:List of 1000 articles every Wikipedia should have\n18 Global Perspective: History\n19 Religious figures and theologians\n20 Items should be selected and sorted into several lists regardless of sitelinks\n21 Split the list\n22 Suggest adding outer space and removing spaceflight\n23 Replace biological classification by taxonomy\n24 remove Flamenco\n25 Lemon (and Soybean): Fruit vs Taxon\n26 Add Poverty\n27 Add HUNGARY\n28 Giza pyramids\n29 Michael Jackson\n30 International organizations\n31 replace Flamenco with Esperanto\n33 21st Century Scientists\n34 20th Century revolutionaries\n35 About \"Military\"\n36 Global Perspective: Geography\n36.1 Cities\n36.2 Countries\n36.3 Islands\n36.4 Comments\n36.5 Comments 2\n37 Vaccine\n38 Literature\n39 Biography section\n40 Elephant\n41 Continents and Water\n42 Replace Anime with Video Game\n43 Change Science and Nature to be top-priority entries\n44 The entire topic of crimes and laws\n45 Replace pages for specific African Great Lakes with African Great Lakes, and more\n46 Alphabetically order all lists\n47 Change Algebra to be top-priority entry and remove Moses from top-priority entry\n48 Crime instead Abortion\n49 Russian Empire instead Apartheid\n50 Empire of Japan instead Meiji Restoration\n51 Mark this page for translation.\n52 Add some basic terms from psychology\nThe list should be more focused (in mathematics)Edit\nCatch-all term like \"algebra\" is vital for wikipedias as a category, but not as an article. We could compare wikipedias of different languages better by articles of more focused, clearly defined topics. I propose a new list for mathematics:\n(Algebra)\nFermat's Last Theorem\nAbel\u2013Ruffini theorem\n(Geometry)\nPythagorean theorem\nEuler characteristicPolyhedron\n(Analysis)\n(Statistics)\n(Logic \/ others)\nThe following is the list of changes:\nRemove: algebra, arithmetic, mathematical analysis, numerical analysis, equation, geometry, trigonometry, number, number theory, statistics.\nAdd: Fermat's Last Theorem (Q132469), Abel-Ruffini theorem (Q657482), M\u00f6bius strip (Q226843), polyhedra (Q172937), limit (Q177239), Taylor series (Q131187), trigonometric functions (Q93344), normal distribution (Q133871), probability theory (Q5862903), Boolean algebra (Q173183)\nOther candidates of consideration might be:\nNegative numbers\nFundamental theorem of calculus\nG\u00f6del's incompleteness theorems\nMarkov process\n--Rollingfrenzy (talk) 09:11, 30 January 2015 (UTC)\nSounds reasonable in gerenal, but are you sure that highly technical topics like Fermat's Last Theorem and Abel\u2013Ruffini theorem are suitable for a list like this? \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 18:50, 31 January 2015 (UTC)\nI agree with the overall reorganization, but not most of the topic substitutions. In particular, I think it's worth keeping the major divisions of mathematics, algebra, mathematical analysis, and geometry, as well as the elementary mathematical concepts arithmetic, equation, and number; and somehow I just can't part with trigonometry or statistics, either. (Full disclosure: I have a degree in statistics.) The items in bold are so marked in the List itself, meaning they are considered \"top priority\" articles, so their removal should not be undertaken lightly. This leaves me two substitutions to make: I could let number theory and numerical analysis go and add normal distribution (central to the study of probability and statistics) and parallel postulate (one of the most important statements in the history of mathematics). - dcljr (talk) 02:37, 1 February 2015 (UTC)\nThe word arithmetic is too ambiguous and does not have clearly corresponding word in some languages (in Japanese, we usually say \"\u56db\u5247\u6f14\u7b97\", literally \"the mathematical operations of the four rules\", since distinction between calculations, mathematical operations and arithmetics is not clear) while individual operation like addition has. In many languages, the article for \"arithmetics\" seems to be merely a collection of the description of the four basic arithmetics. Some of the major divisions may be worth keeping, but we should care about how the article should look like and examine whether we really need that content. I also think this list should provide a list of good sample points of wikipedia, rather than the complete coverage of the basic mathematics.\nParallel postulate. Hmm, it sounds worth considering ... (replacing Boolean algebra, maybe) --Rollingfrenzy (talk) 19:13, 3 February 2015 (UTC)\nRegarding arithmetic, Wikidata lists 117 Wikipedia languages having corresponding articles, including ja:\u7b97\u8853. I can't say whether that's a good Japanese title for this concept or not, but it is one of 2 terms listed in one of my English\u2013Japanese dictionaries under \"mathematics\". [g] Note that the Wikidata item is about the \"elementary branch of mathematics\", not just the four operations. If the existing Wikiepdia articles are so limited, they need expanding. As for \"complete coverage of the basic mathematics\", that is clearly not what this list is aiming for, nor is that even a realistic goal. I see it more as a collection of major topics that can serve to point out (as they are expanded and wikified) what other articles are worth writing. Also, most of them are the kinds of articles that would naturally split off into more specific, related articles as they develop. In other words, they serve as \"seeds\" that can help a small Wikipedia to grow. When viewed in this light, many of the topics I cite above as things I wouldn't want to lose could serve in this role nicely, whereas more narrowly-tailored articles about specific theorems, say, would not necessarily function the same way. - dcljr (talk) 03:33, 4 February 2015 (UTC)\nI think we should take balance of the divisions, the theorems, the (proof) systems, and the object of studies in mathematics. In this point of view, wikipedias should have some articles on some of the most famous theorems, IMHO. (Pythagorean theorem is rather a definition of Euclidean norms in modern mathematics.) I picked up FLT and Abel-Ruffini's because they are famous and easy to understand and describe while difficult to prove. (Maybe one of the two (Abel-Ruffini's?) should be replaced by a famous theorem which is easy to understand and prove, but I just couldn't illustrate a good example.)--Rollingfrenzy (talk) 19:13, 3 February 2015 (UTC)\nDoesn't Pythagorean theorem play that role already? - dcljr (talk) 03:38, 4 February 2015 (UTC)\nStructure change firstEdit\nWe can continue to talk about possible topic substitutions, but I don't see any disagreement about the basic idea of restructuring the mathematics portion of the list along the lines outlined above. Might I suggest the following scheme using the current set of topics?\nLogic and foundations\nFunction (mathematics)\nSome of these things are kind of hard to place, so I welcome other suggestions. - dcljr (talk) 03:33, 4 February 2015 (UTC)\nI agree the structure change--Wolfch (talk) 01:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)\nI mostly agree with dcljr in first considering the structure. Concerning the possible changes, I think that the present list is not bad, but if it has to be more \"focused\" then perhaps I would replace Arithmetic, Number theory and Set theory by Zero, Derivative and Set (mathematics). With these changes, I would rename section 2: Numbers. --Txebixev (talk) 13:03, 16 March 2015 (UTC)\nI've gone ahead and made the structure change exactly as I proposed above. Further discussion is, of course, welcome\u2026 - dcljr (talk) 03:16, 6 February 2016 (UTC)\nAnatomy & MedicineEdit\nAfter discussion elsewhere the following (hopefully) uncontroversial changes were made by myself and Doc James (although on the wrong page).\nPenicillin -> COPD\nAntibacterial -> Antibiotic\nLungs -> Nerve\nI'm creating this section for future discussion, as I find some of the choices within these fields a tad arbitrary, especially when it comes to anatomy. Doc James Would you like to weigh in here?\nI'm going to appropriate the above argument from the mathematics section - a catch all article such as Anatomy isn't very useful, and would do well to be replaced by something more important - such as Thyroid. CFCF (talk) 16:36, 21 May 2015 (UTC)\nFirst of all, please list all of the changes you two made, as this is kinda confusing and I'm not even sure if we're still at 1000 entries anymore. It is generally preferable to discuss before changing, but most of the changes I could agree with (and I know Doc James is an expert). Still, at least linking to that \"discussion elsewhere\" would be helpful... I do have an issue with a few changes, such as:\nremoving en:Cholera which is still one of the most important diseases in the developing world (we strive for balance here)\nreplacing en:Lungs with en:Nerve - I don't see how the latter is so much more important than the former. Perhaps Nerve could replace something else instead?\nAlso, en:Anatomy should stay in my opinion, as it is not just a catch all term, but one of the oldest scientific disciplines and so important both as a natural science topic and within science history. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 07:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)\nWhile I will at large agree with Yerpo, and admit that the concessions we made are far from ideal, I will try to justify them. I believe some non-medical topics are overrepresented here, and that medicine\/anatomy\/biology topics are lacking in this list. I am not currently willing to take that debate, instead to justify the reordering within med\/anat\/bio topics:\nCholera causes a form of gastroenteritis, so while a very important subject the term also includes similar diseases caused by other pathogens. Often the treatment is similar, and in lieu of having both we should choose gastroenteritis.\nLungs are covered under respiratory system, and in such a limited list it is superfluous to include both. That said I'm willing to replace respiratory system with lungs.\nWhile I agree that anatomy is an important subject (not in the least because I primarily work on anatomy articles), with such a limited number of articles I find including the actual organs far more important.\nCFCF (talk) 11:38, 23 May 2015 (UTC)\nYou're right about the respiratory system, and I think replacing it with lungs would be a good idea. Let's see what others think about these changes before making a final decision. For this purpose, please list all the changes that you made, here or in the Template:Top1000 recent changes. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 05:58, 24 May 2015 (UTC)\nfor your considerationEdit\nInstead of Influenza, Smallpox, Dentistry, Pneumonia or Alzheimer's disease. --Igel B TyMaHe (talk) 08:42, 4 June 2015 (UTC)\nDubai City\/EmirateEdit\nAnother one of those silly distinctions that only serve as a field for ping-ponging links in Wikidata (remember Brussels?)... Encyclopedially, the city (d:Q612) and the emirate (d:Q613) are largely coterminous - just look at the articles linked with what is supposed to be the item representing the city d:Q612. Almost all talk primarily about Dubai as a political entity, including en:Dubai. Any ideas how to solve this? \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 08:02, 6 June 2015 (UTC)\nI would prefer keeping Dubai City (d:Q612) for the following reasons:\nIn our list, \"Dubai\" is listed in the \"Cities\" section.\nDubai City has more interwiki links, which means there are more languages treating Dubai City as vital article than the emirate.\n--Romethus (talk) 05:04, 8 June 2015 (UTC)\nPlease add The Divine ComedyEdit\nI think that the Divine Comedy should be added to this list. It is a masterpiece of the Italian literature and one of the most important works of the world literature. Dante's work also established solid foundations to the theological and scientific thinking of the following centuries. \u2014The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rapper skull (talk) 17:56, 17. september 2015\u200e\nWhich entry do you propose to remove to make room? \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 06:44, 18 September 2015 (UTC)\nI can't propose to remove anything from the poetry section, since there are only four entries, but maybe we could remove metal and steel from the physics section. \u2014 Rapper_skull 13:58, 19 September 2015 (UTC)\nI strongly oppose removing such important topics. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 15:02, 19 September 2015 (UTC)\nVideo game and SmartphoneEdit\nI think Video game (already discussed here two years ago) and Smartphone should be in the list. I suggest to remove Litre, Physical chemistry, Hard disk drive, Email or Acceleration. Paucabot (talk) 19:31, 18 September 2015 (UTC)\nLitre could go, possibly also Physical chemistry, other topics are too core. Although I'm not sure I'd replace them with these two (as per the comment two years ago). \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 07:09, 19 September 2015 (UTC)\nI agree with Litre and physical chemistry. I also think hard disk is not very core. I would compare hard disk to Chipset, RAM or Motherboard. Maybe replace it by Computer data storage or Integrated circuit? I neither don't see the cority of acceleration, as we do have Force. Taking a look at the article, it seems a very mathematical definition, not a core physical concept as you can see comparing its background with the corresponding to Force.\nAnd yes, video game and smartphone are very recent, but the former is approximately as recent as email, artificial intelligence, hard disk and CPU. I think video game is comparable to cinema (or Film): video game industry is earning more money than film industry and is replacing TV, movies as the main leisure activity in some age segments. As for smarthpone, I think it's a big big revolution and it's the next step in computing (they are much more popular in the third world than normal computers), but I admit this item it's much more recent than video games. We could change it for Cell phone to gain more time length but we also have Telephone, which is maybe too much overlapping. Paucabot (talk) 11:03, 19 September 2015 (UTC)\nWikidata Q15645384 and Q12106 (Wheat)Edit\nPlease consider change d:Q12106 with d:Q15645384 in this list. Currently, none of the \"big\" Wikipedias doesn't have this article. (very similar problem with banana, apple etc.)--C3r4 (talk) 14:25, 6 February 2016 (UTC)\nSupport There is a user on Wikidata who separated the taxon Triticum d:Q12106 and the cereal d:Q15645384. I think that in this list the cereal would be much more properly than the botanical genus. --Holder (talk) 06:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)\nSupport Wheat is listed as \"Foodstuffs\" instead of botanical.--Wolfch (talk) 08:02, 12 February 2016 (UTC)\nCatholic ChurchEdit\nI'm new to wikidata and meta, and I need your help with the following issue:\n\"Catholic Church\" is clearly the odd one in \"Specific religions\", as it refers to a church (an organisation), and not a religion like every other item in that section.\nThis makes good sense in the context of enwiki, where en:Catholic Church describes both the church and its doctrine, i.e. [Roman] Catholicism. At the same time, en:Catholicism describes one of the en:Four Marks of the Church, which applies to most christian churches, and starts with a caveat: \"This sense is to be distinguished from the use of these words to refer to the Roman Catholic Church...\"\nIn other languages -- and particularly in ruwiki, where I'm coming from -- the two meanings of Catholicism are expressed with different terms. Thus, the Russian interwiki of en:Catholicism came to describe the doctrine of the [Roman] Catholic Church; the Russian interwiki of en:Catholic Church -- the church itself and its organisation; and a third article is for the catholicity as one of the en:Four Marks of the Church.\nNow, our question is, how can we align that with WP:HAVE? Naturally, we want our main article on [Roman] Catholicism to be on the list; the Russian article on Catholic Church is essentially a subarticle of Catholicism. At the same time, we want to preserve the interwiki between en:Catholic Church and its Russian counterpart, since the subjects (though not the scope) of the two articles are the same.\nLooking at wikidata, Catholicism \"has parts\" Catholic Church and Old Catholic Church, but none of the other catholic churches in the sense of the en:Four Marks of the Church -- in particular, not en:Orthodox Catholic Church. This seems to imply that Q1841 \"Catholicism\" stands for the second meaning of the term, i.e. the doctrine of the [Roman] Catholic Church, -- and not the one described at en:Catholicism. I don't know if there exists a wikidata entry for the other meaning of catholicity.\nSo, the source of our confusion is: there are three subjects, loosely mapped to two enwiki articles. One of the three merits an entry on WP:HAVE -- the religious doctrine; but it's not the main subject of its enwiki article. How can all this be handled? --146.200.13.17 23:58, 13 March 2016 (UTC)\nCan we add Shenzhen into the list?Edit\nShenzhen is a city of more than ten million inhabitants in Southern China and among the fastest growing in the world. Wishva de Silva (talk) 15:02, 6 May 2016 (UTC)\nWhat do you propose to remove to make place for a new entry? \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 16:06, 7 May 2016 (UTC)\nYes, we can. Not only Shenzen, but also Guangzhou (Canton). They should replace Cape Town and Nairobi which are much smaller. Propositum (talk) 15:25, 21 August 2016 (UTC)\nSize is not the same as importance. The lead of the en-wp article gives the impression that Shenzhen does not have a very important history. And by size it is not (yet?) in the absolute top. --LPfi (talk) 11:08, 1 December 2016 (UTC)\nSo should we add Venice, Agra or Xi'an which used to be very important? Moreover, Guangzhou-Shenzen-Hong Kong is actually the biggest urban area in the world. Propositum (talk) 20:16, 27 January 2017 (UTC)\nPhilosophers and social scientists: Martin HeideggerEdit\nHello. I suggest to add Martin Heidegger instead of Noam Chomsky or Simone de Beauvoir. I think the most important and influential philosopher in the continental tradition in the 20th century should be in this list. Please comment. Ratte (talk) 18:28, 18 July 2016 (UTC)\nZhu Xi is the first to be removed. Chomsky and Beauvoir are not less appreciated than Heidegger. Propositum (talk) 18:54, 22 August 2016 (UTC)\nArtistsEdit\nAmong early modern architects, Bernini should replace Sinan; as regards 16th-century painters, Caravaggio ought to take over D\u00fcrer's slot. The former are more famous, as the Wikimedia Tool Labs prove, and both were more important for the development of art. Propositum (talk) 20:19, 21 August 2016 (UTC)\nPopularity is not a relevant measure. We're here to educate, not entertain. Sinan should stay as the sole representative of eastern art in that section - it's a matter of balance. Similarly, D\u00fcrer represents a totally different period than Caravaggio and is also important as a humanist and a natural scientist. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 06:40, 13 December 2016 (UTC)\nPopularity is the most relevant measure. And nationality is not an argument; we should take into account achievements. By the way, Turkey is more Western that Eastern. Propositum (talk) 17:45, 28 December 2016 (UTC)\nNah, popularity is just the most lazy measure. We can do better than that. By the way, Turkey has been more Western than Eastern only for the past century or so. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 07:32, 30 December 2016 (UTC)\nIt is not a lazy measure. It is the most unbiased one. NPOV is the core of Wikipedia. Have You any better method? As regerds Turkey, it has been always connected with the West, but this is another story. Propositum (talk) 20:26, 27 January 2017 (UTC)\nView count of an English-language website unbiased? You have got to be joking. It's also self-referential apart from other wiki \"sins\". \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 11:39, 3 February 2017 (UTC)\nIt is necessary to put Charles V instead of Palestrina. The former created an empire encompassing Germany, Spain, Italy, the Americas and the Philippines. The latter is much less popular than the other listed composers. Propositum (talk) 18:15, 22 August 2016 (UTC)\nAlternatively, we can replace Palestrina with Benjamin Franklin, which is one of the crucial figures in the history of America. Only few people listen nowadays to the papal composer. Propositum (talk) 17:49, 28 December 2016 (UTC)\nTo keep the list balanced, you should either suggest removing someone from the political leader section or adding someone to the composer section. --MarsRover 22:51, 15 May 2017 (UTC)\nWagner, RichardEdit\nWhy he is more meaningfull than other? I think it will be better to remove bold font writing for Wagner.--SEA99 (talk) 13:08, 7 September 2016 (UTC)\nMay be highlite Beatles instead?--SEA99 (talk) 16:35, 7 September 2016 (UTC)\nThis is a good idea, because they have much more articles and views in Wikipedia than him (159\/32,568 per day in 2016 compared with 132\/8,319). But it is particularly necessary to include Michael Jackson who has better statistics than any other composer or musician in the history (190\/54,677). Last but not least, the highlight for Stravinsky is more strange than for Wagner, because the former has only 111\/4,005. Propositum (talk) 08:32, 28 January 2017 (UTC)\nRoman empire - Ancient RomeEdit\nI suggest that Ancient Rome is made the base article instead of Roman empire. In that way we would include all the history and culture of the Roman civilization, and not just its second half. --Chandra Varena (talk) 08:01, 1 December 2016 (UTC)\nNot a bad suggestion, but we already have the Byzantine Empire and the earlier part of the Roman civilization might not be as important as the latter. --MarsRover 21:58, 15 May 2017 (UTC)\nremove feminism \/ add rapeEdit\nFeminism is a eurocentristic\/western topic. It hasn't had much effect on many Asian and African societies. Rape however was always present through human history, worldwide, and was and still is an important issue. It is also an often underestimated genocidal war tactic even though it is rarely spoken about. 185.100.87.228 03:35, 8 December 2016 (UTC)\ndisagree. feminism represents the rise of women as equal to men in society, a huge issue, some would argue the largest social issue facing mankind. that is has roots in the West is not a reason to denigrate it. women's equality is much larger than any eurocentric idea of what women are. rape, while of course deadly serious, is taken more seriously now BECAUSE of feminism. there was a time when rape was in most of its forms not noteworthy.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 09:54, 25 February 2017 (UTC)\nWhen was this time that you are speaking of? Rape has always been illegal in most societies, often punishable by death. 134.130.182.31 23:55, 23 July 2017 (UTC)\nagree with anon on this. Generally the list should lean more toward specific topics. Also to recommend to Yazidi women or Chibok schoolgirls that the world need to read about equal rights seems a bit elitist. We have more basic issues, IMHO. --MarsRover 22:23, 15 May 2017 (UTC)\nshould be done similar to \"Slavery\"\nright now \"Slavery\" is included, but \"slave-ownership\" (or slave-owner) is not D1gggg (talk) 19:29, 25 October 2017 (UTC)\nHormoneEdit\nHormone doesn't belong in organic chemistry as there is no way that an organic chemist could tell whether a substance acts as a hormone or not. It should be moved to biochemistry or perhaps even to biology(physiology). --Episcophagus (talk) 18:51, 12 December 2016 (UTC)\nAgree, I suggest you put it under biochemistry. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 20:08, 13 December 2016 (UTC)\nart of warEdit\nremove art of war from literature, add divine comedy by dante. art of war doesnt belong here, maybe in philosophy. the literature list is really short, i must say. we should probably also have don quixote in it.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 09:51, 25 February 2017 (UTC)\nNot against removing Art of War, but we already have Dante in the list. I don't think we also need his most famous work. Maybe another choice would work. --MarsRover 22:32, 15 May 2017 (UTC)\nWikidata:List of 1000 articles every Wikipedia should haveEdit\nThe lists in the individual Wikipedias are often outdated. Maybe they should be maintained by ListeriaBot. For this, the data must be in Wikidata. Is there a plain list of all WD item ids?\nSee 282 items at d:Wikidata:List of 1000 articles every Wikipedia should have maintained by ListeriaBot, based on data at the corresponding WD item page d:Q5460604. User:Yerpo, can you provide a list of Q-ids or even better can you somehow add them to d:Q5460604? 85.180.34.213 06:26, 13 March 2017 (UTC)\nI can do this, but is it sensible\/possible to list a thousand objects under \"has part\" in Q5460604? Besides, all the objects would then have to be equipped with the inverse property \"part of\" (P361) and I'm not sure what are the rules for such metadata. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 09:19, 13 March 2017 (UTC)\nPS: where exactly did ListeriaBot get the partial list from? Maybe it's better to make a full list in the project space? \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 09:20, 13 March 2017 (UTC)\nI guess the list was created when Q5460604 had lots of \"has part\", see history. A discussion about it can be found at d:Wikidata:Project_chat\/Archive\/2017\/01#Q5460604.23P527. I agree it would be useful if Wikidata could hold the information from this list somehow. But I'm not familiar enough with Wikidata to know how it should be done in the best way, if it is \"allowed\" at all. Boivie (talk) 11:45, 13 March 2017 (UTC)\nMaybe a new property has-list-item is needed, to avoid revers statements. Could that help? 77.179.239.159 14:24, 13 March 2017 (UTC)\nI don't think this will be approved, seeing that the strategy for WD is to facilitate dynamic querying for lists. Perhaps ask around the Community portal how this could be done, but for now it's better to make it outside the mainspace. I put the raw list of items at List of articles every Wikipedia should have\/Itemlist. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 06:34, 15 March 2017 (UTC)\nYerpo: There are lists that can be dynamically generated (Wikidata lists), and there are lists that are maintained externally (e.g. Music charts, but also this Meta list). If one wants to describe the external lists, one has to store the information. \"dynamic querying for lists\" does not work if the information is not stored. Thanks for the raw item list!!! 77.179.181.135 15:32, 8 April 2017 (UTC)\nGlobal Perspective: HistoryEdit\nFrom reading the list, it is clear that the aim is to have a global perspective, which is great and critical for a global project like Wikipedia. With important entries like Ibn Battuta, Zheng He and the Gupta Empire, it is less anglo-centric and less euro-centric than most of these types of lists. Kudos to the creators for achieving that. There are still some critical gaps though, and it will require some additional work to make the list truly global in nature. Under History, I suggest adding the following four topics:\nMali Empire, the richest civilization during the 14th century, with extensive trade reaching three continents, and with a highly developed and sophisticated culture. In comparison, Medieval Europe was at the time a stagnant backwater.\nMaya, one of the great early civilizations in the world, an independent inventor of writing and with sophisticated science and architecture.\nInca, the great civilization of South America, with direct or indirect reach over almost a whole continent\nSumer, the cradle of western civilization. While Sumer is part of Mesopotamia, which is on the list, it definitely deserves its own entry.\nOf course, to add also means to subtract. I propose removing the Hundred Years' War, the Thirty Years' War, The crusades and the Treaty of Versailles. These are all important events in European history, but they are not the most important and defining trends of European history, which are represented by the existing entries of Medieval Europe, The Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and World War 1. For example, the Hundred Years' War was a long lasting local skirmish between the French speaking lords of France and the French speaking lords of England, neither of which were of global importance at the time, and the Thirty Years' War was one of many violent periods in European history.\nTo double check my own thoughts on this, I consulted Felipe Fernandez-Armestos book Millenium: The history of the last 1000 years, which attempts to take a truly global perspective on world history. The Maya, Inca and Mali Empire all have several pages devoted to them, while the Hundred Years' War is not mentioned at all, the Thirty Years' War is given a couple of paragraphs, and the Treaty of Versailles is briefly mentioned in the chapter on the First World War. The Crusades get almost the same amount of coverage as the Maya and the Inca, but considerable less that the Mali Empire. (Sumer is older than 1000 years so it falls outside the scope of the book).\nIn summary, in order to make the list more global and less euro-centric, my suggestions are to include:\nThe Mali Empire instead of the Hundred Years' War\nThe Maya instead of the Thirty Years' War\nThe Inca instead of the Treaty of Versailles, and\nSumer instead of The Crusades.\nLooking forward to hear what others think. Martinogk (talk) 03:13, 26 May 2017 (UTC)\nThat looks like reasonable and well motivated changes. Boivie (talk) 11:31, 27 May 2017 (UTC)\nI'm inclined to agree with these arguments, except perhaps regarding the crusades which impacted the wider region (Europe, Middle East, North Africa) and two civilizations. Maybe we could postpone including either Maya or Inca until a better alternative to replace is found. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 07:47, 30 May 2017 (UTC)\nYes, that sounds like a better approach, to instead remove something from a different category. With only 45 entries, the history section is surprisingly short compared to some of the other sections. To make room for both the Maya Civilization and the Inca, I suggest that we instead remove Esperanto, a constructed European language with 2000 native speakers and a couple of million fluent speakers overall. While Esperanto has some interest as the most successful constructed language, there are hundreds of languages around the world that are more commonly spoken, including Quich\u00e9, a modern Maya language with 2.3 million native speakers. Martinogk (talk) 03:03, 31 May 2017 (UTC)\nAm I right to understand this comment was the only piece of \"discussion\" on deleting Esperanto from the list? Amikeco (talk) 21:07, 18 March 2018 (UTC)\nIt seems to me that you are right, Amikeco. So the method was, one person, Martinogk, suggested to take out Esperanto, waited 18 days, no one else commented - and then Martinogk deleted Esperanto. I am sorry, this is not what I consider to be appropriate. Esperanto has a very special role in the world. It's not amazing that Esperanto is offered on a lot of language learning sites. A search of \"Esperanto\" via Google gets at least 100 million results. Just to count the number of speakers is not enough to understand the special role of this language. We should consider e. g. that China publishes daily news in Esperanto, along with only nine other languages. Esperanto has a world wide role and there are not a lot of languages that are learnt in so many countries.\nMartinogk argued that e. g. Hundred Years' War is also part of Medieval Europe. OK. But with the deletion of Esperanto the whole subject and the idea of an international language, much quicker to learn than other languages, is omitted. --Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven (talk) 13:20, 19 March 2018 (UTC)\nEven if the method was not perfect, I could hardly argue against removing Esperanto. Its role as a universal language has been completely overshadowed by English, so its actual impact is probably on par with the number of speakers. The idea behind it may be noble, but that's not enough in my view. At least presently; I might be persuaded to change my opinion if the autor's wishes come closer to realization in the next few decades, but for now, I support the removal. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 17:31, 19 March 2018 (UTC)\nYou didn't touch the subject of the uniqueness of Esperanto, Yerpo. The fact that English is the most learned and used foreign language is nothing new in principle in human history - there were international languages like Latin or French before English. The unique thing with Esperanto is that one man put together the basis of Esperanto. Then people learned Esperanto and are still learning Esperanto and an international language community of a new kind was created and is expanding more and more. This community developed its own culture with books and songs etc., being a supranational community. This is something quite different from English. There is no real alternative between English and Esperanto (as many people seem to believe) - Esperanto has a very distinct approach, it's rather a complement. This special aspect of Esperanto was one main reason to include it in this wikipedia list.\nThe other relevant aspect certainly was the fact that Esperanto can be learned in about a fourth of the time needed for English and similar languages. This also is a unique aspect of the language Esperanto and one more reason why Esperanto should be included again. (And thanks that you agree about the method of deletion.) --Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven (talk) 07:56, 20 March 2018 (UTC)\nWe should also consider that a lot of linguists and others constantly misinform about Esperanto. That's why a well documented article about Esperanto is necessary in every wikipedia. --Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven (talk) 08:37, 20 March 2018 (UTC)\nUniqueness is certainly a criterion to consider, but is not sufficient for inclusion, in my opinion. Existence of misinformation, on the other hand, is definitely not relevant here - see also WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 18:35, 20 March 2018 (UTC)\nProbably we should think twice before deleting a unique subject; this obviously didn't take place. - Existence of misinformation is relevant, because a lot of people have ideas about Esperanto which are obviously false. Just reading the wikipedia article about Esperanto will help them to understand their errors. I do not speak about facts without sources, so RIGHTGREATWRONGS is not relevant here. But I would like to know, if those speaking against Esperanto already read the WP:Esperanto article. Did they? - Up to now there are only two people here who speak for the deletion of the Esperanto article from the list. Not a lot, it seems to me. --Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven (talk) 16:38, 21 March 2018 (UTC)\nI fully support Lu Wunsch-Rohlshoven's proposal to undo the deletion of Esperanto from the list. The reason given when deleting it was short-sighted: The number of speakers is not what is relevant, but the attention it gets in scholarly and popular discourse. Esperanto gets much much more attention than languages of comparable size of speakers due to its special role as by far the most successful planned language ever. Marcos (talk) 18:28, 21 March 2018 (UTC)\nAs there isn't any further comment for quite some time, I hope, it will be ok to revert the change which deleted Esperanto. If someone wants to include Mayan Civilization (this is quite ok for me), he or she should find another topic to delete. Esperanto as a worldwide language should not be deleted, certainly not while speaking of a \"Global Perspective\"; Esperanto should stay in the list. Yerpo already commented, that the method (of deleting Esperanto) \"was not perfect\"... --Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven (talk) 06:26, 7 April 2018 (UTC)\nSeeing that two people support and two oppose the removal, the final consensus is not clear, so restoring and then debating again would be overly bureaucratic at this point. Can't we just make another, specific discussion and then act according to its outcome? \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 17:08, 7 April 2018 (UTC)\n@Boivie: hope you don't mind, but I reverted your changes to the list until tomorrow. We agreed a while ago that changes wouldn't be made just before the ranking is updated, to give communities more time to write\/expand new articles and prevent them from score decrease. I'll self-revert back when the ranking is updated. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 17:43, 4 June 2017 (UTC)\nReligious figures and theologiansEdit\nIn the religious figures section, 5 out of 10 personalities represent Christianity (7 if you include Abraham and Moses). Buddha is the only personality representing a non-semitic, non-monotheistic religion. I propose to remove Paul the Apostle, Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas in favor of Mahavira, Nagarjuna and Zoroaster.--Edler von Udinium 20:27, 6 July 2017 (UTC)\nI don't look at Augustine and Thomas as representing Christianity but Medieval philosophy - I would rather remove Abraham, Moses and Paul. Also Mahavira\/Zoroaster would be rather redundant with Jainism\/Zoroastrism. --Nk (talk) 19:32, 8 July 2017 (UTC)\nI'd keep Abraham and Moses, but I wouldn't object to replacing Paul or Augustine with Nagarjuna. A. Mahoney (talk) 13:10, 12 July 2017 (UTC)\nThank you Edler von Udinium for noting the lack of personalities from non-semitic religions. With a total of ten entries, it could make sense to include 2-4 from each of the four major world religions. I agree that Nagarjuna should definitely be added, as the key person of Mahayana, the most widely followed branch of Buddhism. Would also be nice to add some important Hindu religious figures such as Ramanuja. I agree that we can remove Paul, as well as either Abraham, Moses or Augustine. Martinogk (talk) 16:07, 27 June 2018 (UTC)\nAbraham and Moses are pretty crucial (why the name 'Abrahamic' for all these religions is from Abraham), Augustine and Aquinas not so for as many religions as Abraham and Moses are Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 12:27, 17 July 2018 (UTC)\nItems should be selected and sorted into several lists regardless of sitelinksEdit\nD1gggg (talk) 19:26, 25 October 2017 (UTC)\nSplit the listEdit\nI split the list as in it.wiki. I hope this is not a problem. --Geoide (talk) 11:40, 5 November 2017 (UTC)\nSuggest adding outer space and removing spaceflightEdit\nouter space is an important topic which is not included here, so I suggest removing spaceflight to free the quota for that. --Jason6698 (talk) 04:35, 19 November 2017 (UTC)\nThough they are both vital, as the list can contain just 1,000 articles, and spaceflight means \"ballistic flight into or through outer space\", a small Wikipedia should have and then maintain outer space first.--RekishiEJ (talk) 06:02, 22 December 2017 (UTC)\nAs no people oppose this suggestion, if no further comments are raised by the following week, I will make the change by myself.--Jason6698 (talk) 08:33, 28 January 2018 (UTC)\nI think outer space is a bit redundant to Universe. Many Wikipedias just describe outer space astronomical objects\/structures in the article about the latter (96 vs. 151 interwikis). Spaceflight, on the other hand, is important as a technological topic, which this list lacks. So I'd prefer to keep spaceflight here. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 06:42, 21 February 2018 (UTC)\nI agree; \"outer space\" can also be discussed in an article on the solar system, so I'd keep space flight in the 1000-page list. Both, of course, can be in the 10,000 page list. A. Mahoney (talk) 15:25, 23 February 2018 (UTC)\nAgree with Yerpo and A. Mahoney that with the Solar System and the Universe, we do not also need to include Outer Space. Martinogk (talk) 00:29, 15 June 2018 (UTC)\nReplace biological classification by taxonomyEdit\nNow that in the English Wikipedia the former was merged into the latter, and the list asks that each Wikipedia should contain every article in the list, the former should be replaced with the latter here since English Wikipedia is the largest one, and a smaller Wikipedia does not have to have the article on biological classification as the English Wikipedia used to, but should have taxonomy instead. The list should contain zoology and genetics as well, since it is absurd that the list contains botany but not these two articles. RNA, Gene and heredity should be included as well. We can add these four articles without exceeding the 1,000 quota by removing five people, for instance, Marilyn Monroe need not to be kept, as the English Wikipedia page on vital articles (Lv3) does not contain her.--RekishiEJ (talk) 18:03, 21 December 2017 (UTC) added and changed a word 18:23, 21 December 2017 (UTC)\nWeek oppose for replacing biological classification, as it has far more languages (107) then taxonomy (54).\nIn principle, I argee that the quota of biography can be reduced. Howerver, further discussion is needed to find out who should be removed.--Jason6698 (talk) 08:41, 28 January 2018 (UTC)\nremove FlamencoEdit\nI don't see why it should be in this list. --Gnom (talk) Let's make Wikipedia green! 13:41, 24 February 2018 (UTC)\nWhat would you propose instead? A. Mahoney (talk) 18:32, 28 February 2018 (UTC)\nWell, maybe with \"pop music\", which surprisingly isn't in the list yet. --Gnom (talk) Let's make Wikipedia green! 21:33, 4 March 2018 (UTC)\n@Gnom:,@Amahoney: Agree that Flamenco can be removed. If we want to replace it with another music genre\/dance, salsa is much more widely spread across the globe, making the list less euro-centric. Martinogk (talk) 00:20, 15 June 2018 (UTC)\n@Gnom:, @Amahoney:, @Amahoney: Folk music would be a more general replacement. --Nk (talk) 19:35, 2 November 2018 (UTC)\nLemon (and Soybean): Fruit vs TaxonEdit\nCurrently Lemon is listed under foodstuffs\/fruit as the species\/taxon Citrus \u00d7limon (Q500) (instance of: taxon). While I was trying to have this reflected in Wikidata, @Succu: (d:) was disputing my edits [1]. If I understand his very brief remarks correctly, he is convinced that this list should rather reference the fruit lemon (Q1093742) (class: hesperidium and citrus fruit), but seems not to bother to do anything about it, so let me play proxy here for his request: @Succu: asks to replace Lemon(-tree) (Q500) with Lemon(-fruit) (Q1093742). See also [2]\nThe same issue also applies to Glycine max (Q11006) (listed here as a taxon under foodstuffs\/fruit as Soybean), but I couldn't find a separate article or wd-item for its fruit\/bean.\nFollowing his request, we would consequently replace the plants with the fruits (lemon for now) and end up with no english (or simple) articles for it. I find this problematic due to the nature of this list, but it is certainly possible. E.g. in german we can live with those holes as we include see-also-notes with them [3]. But whoever wants to track adoption of this list automatically will have to deal with it (already).\nCitrus \u00d7limon (Q500) has far more sitelinks than lemon (Q1093742) 138 vs 25.\nThe taxon-item has sitelinks to simple and german talking about fruit and taxon, englisch says it's about the fruit, but actually also is about both.\nThe fruit-item has no sitelinks to english, no german, no chinese...\nAs a general rule, we could keep Wikidata-Items for taxons on this list as long as there are no separare Wikidata-Items for their fruits. Thus soybean would be replaced as well, once we find the fuit item.\nMy intend here is to seek clarification and as a German could also live without a sitelink to english, especially as lemon only appears there in the expanded list (level 4, 10.000 articles). --Aeroid (talk) 12:49, 4 March 2018 (UTC)\nI'd like to participate in this discussion. My edition was reverted when I changed Citrus \u00d7limon (Q500) for lemon (Q1093742) and I'm going to explain why I think it might be in that way. Firstly, let's take a look to this list. In Foodstuffs, part 7 is about fruits (fruit (Q1364)), defined here in wikidata as a \"part of a flowering plant\" but I prefer the more complete definition in the english wikipedia: \"a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants\". Taking in account these definitions, it seems to be clear that the fruit is not the whole plant or tree. Now, let's take a look to the fruits mentioned in this part 7 and their definitions in the linked pages in wikidata: apple (Q89) \"fruit of the apple tree\", banana (Q503) \"fruit\", grape (Q10978) \"the fruit, use Q191019 for the genus, use Q30046 for the species\", Glycine max (Q11006) \"species of plant\", Citrus \u00d7limon (Q500) \"nothospecies of plant (for lemon use Q1093742)\" and nut (Q11009) \"edible seed (with or without the rest of the fruit)\". We can see that 4 out of 6 linked pages in wikidata talk about fruit (it could be doubtful \"nut\", but an extended definition of fruit is \"any plant product useful to man, including grain, vegetables, etc\" or \"any edible part of a plant\", but never the whole plant). As a conclusion, in my opinion, there are two mistakes concerning to \"soybean\" (in this list, it might be only the grain of the plant) and \"lemon\" (clearly concerning to lemon (Q1093742)). I think that Citrus \u00d7limon (Q500) has far more sitelinks than lemon (Q1093742) is not a strong reason to maintain Citrus \u00d7limon (Q500) because a repeated mistake (in my modest opinion, of course) doesn't make it true. Most of the languages that sounds, more or less, familiar to me, make the difference between the fruit and the fruit tree: lemon and lemon tree (english), lim\u00f3n and limonero (spanish), citron and citronnier (french), zitrone and zitronenbaum (german), limao and limoeiro (portuguese), lim\u00f3n and limoeiro (galician), llimona and llimoner (catalan), limone and (albero di) limone (italian); but only two (french and galician) have a page for everyone. The other have only one page for the lemon tree or two pages, being one a redirection to the other. On the contrary, for example, grape (Q10978) and Vitis vinifera polfex (Q30046) have their own page on everyone of the mentioned wikis. Why all of these wikis have different pages for \"grape\" and \"grape vine\" but not for \"lemon\" and \"lemon tree\"? That seems not to be so coherent. Yours, --Xos\u00e9 Antonio (talk) 01:30, 16 July 2018 (UTC)\nHi, I think that if apple, banana, grape, and nut point to the articles of the fruits, lemon has to point to its article too. In other hand, I think that soybean can't be considered a fruit, and I suggest change it for pineapple. Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 12:28, 16 July 2018 (UTC)\nAdd PovertyEdit\nAdd Poverty (social issues), remove Auto racing. (Really? Auto racing???) Guido den Broeder (talk) 22:44, 4 March 2018 (UTC)\nSupport poverty is a human socioeconomic condition issue since the beginning of the civilizations and a core theme. Auto racing... well... --Zerabat (discusi\u00f3n) 18:48, 21 March 2018 (UTC)\nSupport Poverty has been linked with biodiversity and ecosystem issues - biodiversity is also an article that is missing. Shyamal (talk) 04:23, 22 March 2018 (UTC)\nDone Guido den Broeder (talk) 22:37, 10 April 2018 (UTC)\nGood change. Thank you. Martinogk (talk) 00:23, 15 June 2018 (UTC)\nAdd HUNGARYEdit\nI suggest either adding the Hungarian language (because of its unique position of being a major non-Indo-European language in Europe, just as important as most other European languages and more important than most non-European languages) or the country Hungary (a regional superpower which contributed a lot to European culture and history over more than a millennium, probably more important than countries like Afghanistan, Congo, New Zealand, Sudan, Venezuela etc). \u2014The preceding unsigned comment was added by 185.79.93.4 (talk)\nThese assertions don't convince me, so I suggest we keep the balance and not remove non-European topics to accommodate Hungary or Hungarian. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 11:06, 25 June 2018 (UTC)\nI do not think we should add more languages to the 18 that are already listed, but if we do, I would add Korean, Javanese, Vietnamese or Thai, all with over 50 million native speakers, rather than Hungarian, with 13 million. Martinogk (talk) 18:11, 25 June 2018 (UTC)\nGiza pyramidsEdit\nAt the moment the list shows \"Giza Necropolis\", which is listed under wikidata Giza pyramid complex (Q13217298). This looks like a mixup because it is not about the pyramids but about the surrounding cemeteries. Surely the whole Giza Pyramid complex is meant, of which the cemeteries (\"necropolis\") are not the main interest. So I propose to link to Giza Pyramids (Q12508) . Kipala (talk) 14:35, 26 June 2018 (UTC)\nYes, I agree. I think it will upset a lot of people who organized their wikipedia a bit differently but the German Wikipedia shows after you expand both articles. One is about graves and the other buildings. --MarsRover 16:24, 26 June 2018 (UTC)\nI guess if people organized different then with a look at this list and the connected ranking. But i do not see any reason to keep articles about the bunch of graves around Giza among the 1000 most important topics every wikipedias should have. The argument is for the pyramids; and also the German article de:Nekropole von Gizeh which is now connected to this entry has no place among the 1000 top, the de:Pyramiden von Gizeh however is, even though not connected here. So what can be done to correct this? Kipala (talk) 06:49, 3 July 2018 (UTC)\nUnless someone disagrees I think you can switch it. There are a lot of articles that have even more challenging issues (e.g. Is \"blindness\" or \"sight impairment\"? Is this \"nose\" or \"human nose\"? Is it \"biological classification\" or \"taxonomy\"?). Probably there isn't a perfect solution but I think in this case graves vs buildings is easy to explain. --MarsRover 17:52, 9 July 2018 (UTC)\nI agree, both about Giza and about the larger problem. In Latin Wikipedia we spend a lot of time chasing our tails as the specific Wikidata items on lists like this one keep flopping around; neither English, nor German, nor any other of the big WPs seems to have an ideal organization for everything! A. Mahoney (talk) 12:55, 12 July 2018 (UTC)\nMichael JacksonEdit\nWhy Michael Jackson not listed here?.He has wikipedia in 231 languages (Only trailing Ronald Reagan).I dont know what is the criteria to be listed here but i think Jackson should be listed here. Akhiljaxxn (talk) 00:30, 10 July 2018 (UTC)\nThis was already discussed, even more than once, I think. Please check archives. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 09:35, 13 July 2018 (UTC)\nI think he is safely more notable than Louis Armstrong. 201.27.100.86 15:14, 6 July 2019 (UTC)\nInternational organizationsEdit\nJust stumbled about 'International organizations'. The major organizations like EU, AU, ASEAN, .. are there, but UNASUR is missing. IMO it is much more important an representing many more inhabitants than Commonwealth of Independent States (a more or less Russian organization). --Murma174 (talk) 11:47, 10 August 2018 (UTC)\nAgree that Commonwealth of Independent States could potentially be removed. Founded in 2008,UNASUR is a young and fledgling organization, with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru having recently suspended their membership. I would rather add the Organization of American States, which is older, larger, more active and more important. Martinogk (talk) 19:47, 10 August 2018 (UTC)\nYes, I'd agree to Organization of American States, as America is not represented in this chapter. --Murma174 (talk) 12:26, 11 August 2018 (UTC)\nreplace Flamenco with EsperantoEdit\nAs I read the discussion. I can see that people are being annoyed that Esperanto get removed from the list. So I propose bringing Esperanto back and putting Flamenco away. Worra Mait Kosit (talk) 20:28, 16 August 2018 (UTC)\nAs a regional Andalusian dance not widely practiced outside of Spain, I agree that we can remove flamenco, even though I think it is an absolutely fabulous dance. With only three entries (\"dance\", \"samba\" and \"flamenco\"), dance is underrepresented on the list though, considering its world wide practice and popularity. I think we should replace flamenco with either salsa, belly dance, bharatanatyam or tango, all of which are more popular and more widely practiced than flamenco. What do others think? Martinogk (talk) 22:23, 21 August 2018 (UTC)\nIn spite of I'm Spanish, I'm not specially interested in Flamenco, but I'm not agree with the assert that is not widely practiced outside of Spain. In some far countries from Spain, like Japan and many latin american countries, included United States, there is a crescent interest in flamenco with people learning it and opening locals where flamenco is danced. Also, UNESCO has recognized that Flamenco is a form of popular artistic expression representing a long-standing tradition that appears on the UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. --Xos\u00e9 Antonio (talk) 20:35, 25 September 2018 (UTC)\nAgree w\/ Xos\u00e9 Antonio's reasoning, even though I, too, do not follow this particular art form. Acwilson9 Acwilson9 (talk) 01:35, 9 January 2019 (UTC)\nI am not sure how much UNESCO's classification matters here. I agree with replacing it with a more popular dance like the ones suggested. 201.27.100.86 15:17, 6 July 2019 (UTC)\nClaude Monet has 110 articles \u2014 more than Mimar Sinan, although he his listed as compulsory. In the pageviews the gap is much bigger: 9471 to 798. The former should replace the latter. And yet 5 artists is too much for a single century (the 15th or 18th have no one). Propositum (talk) 19:07, 3 September 2018 (UTC)\n21st Century ScientistsEdit\nThe list of great scientists and inventors is missing Stephen Hawking who is number 23 on Wikipedia:Multiyear ranking of most viewed pages. I suggest deleting the 19th century British physicist James Prescott Joule to make way. More generally, I think the list skews towards ancient scientists at the expense of modern ones.T0mpr1c3 (talk) 12:07, 4 October 2018 (UTC)\nI agree Hawking is missing, however Joule needs to be kept as well - his contributions to physics were so significant, that the Joule energy measuring unit is named after him - ever heard of the kiloJoule instead of the older calories? That's from him. Best regards. AntekVeganova (talk) 01:53, 14 November 2018 (UTC)\n20th Century revolutionariesEdit\nChe Guevara attracts attention, but Fidel Castro is surely a more important historical figure. For similar reasons I prefer Trotsky over Rosa Luxemburg.T0mpr1c3 (talk) 12:26, 4 October 2018 (UTC)\nI hope this is not a list of personal preferences? I agree we should keep both Fidel and Che - Fidel for the historical importance (Bay of Pigs, Cuba crisis etc) and Che, well... for the Wiki-popularity. Furthermore I politely ask to keep both Rosa Lux as well as Trotsky, on behalf of the Eastern Europe states who were affected by these figures directly. Rosa was a Polish revolutionary woman, fighting for the rights of the working class, and unfortunately she got brutally murdered and thrown in the river in Berlin by a German socialist militant dictator. While Trotsky was quite a murderous git himself, he used to be Stalin's henchman (much like Lenin) and led the \"Trotsky slaughterers\" - a squad effing opponents until Trotsky himself fell out of Soso's favour and had to flee. Leonid wasn't exactly as warm and endearing as the Hollywood Frida-Hayek movie portrays him as. Both were significant historical figures and miss Rosa is a special source of pride for the Polish people. Best regards. AntekVeganova (talk) 01:49, 14 November 2018 (UTC)\nOn the list of political leaders, it is important to not only have heads of state, but also important popular movement figures such as Che Guevara and Rosa Luxemburg. The only other three on the list are Martin Luther King, Joan of Arc and Mohandas Gandhi. Martinogk (talk) 01:16, 15 March 2019 (UTC)\nAbout \"Military\"Edit\nThere are two concepts here that are dealt with in different ways by different language versions of Wikipedia: \"Armed forces\" and \"Military\". Some versions have separate articles for these concepts, while others have a single article that spans both.\nWhile there may be certain nuances of meaning between these two terms in certain languages, in many other languages they may not be substantial enough to merit separate articles. It makes no sense to \"force\" Wikipedias that have an article under item Q772547 to create a second, likely redundant, article under item Q8473 to be able to complete the List of articles every Wikipedia should have.\nI therefore suggest replacing \"Military\" with some related concept that avoids such problems, e.g. Army.--Leptictidium (talk) 11:20, 9 January 2019 (UTC)\nI agree with replacing \"Military\" with \"Army\". The purpose of this list shouldn't be force a standard structure across various languages. If something is commonly expressed multiple ways we should just avoid those topics and select a more specific subset of the topic. I think not doing that is just wasting people's time creating shadow topics or having someone delete their work as duplicative. --MarsRover 20:23, 11 January 2019 (UTC)\n+1. --Nk (talk) 14:51, 25 March 2019 (UTC)\nGlobal Perspective: GeographyEdit\nIt is nice to see how this list is becoming more and more global in nature, which is both natural and important for a global project like Wikipedia, but we are not quite there yet.\nCitiesEdit\nThe list of cities is truly global in perspective, which is very nice and impressive to see. I would suggest a few minor tweaks though:\nReplace Bogota with Colombia\nReplace Nairobi with Kenya\nWhile both Bogota and Nairobi are natural members of a list of the most important cities in the world, I think it is more important to include their respective countries, which are among the largest and most important on their continents.\nThe only truly global city that is missing from the list is Canton\/Guangzhou, which is not only one of the biggest cities of the world with over 20 million people in its metropolitan area, but also the cultural and historical center of southern China, with several hundred million people. To make room for Canton, I would remove Vatican City. Both Rome and the Catholic Church are on the list, which is good, and I do not think we need the Vatican City as well.\nAs a very minor item, one could also consider moving the city-state of Singapore from the list of countries to the list of cities. While the city and the country are the same, as a city Singapore is of truly global importance, but as a country it is rather small and less important than for example neighboring Malaysia.\nCountriesEdit\nTo make the list of countries more global in nature, I would add\nThe Phillippines, with over 100 million people it is the largest country not currently on the list\nColombia, with 49 million people, one of the major countries in South America\nKenya, with 47 million people, one of the major countries in Africa\nSyria, with 18 million people, and historically a very important country.\nMorocco, with 34 million people, a culturally and historically important country in both Africa and in the Arab world\nYemen, with 27 million people, also historically very important\nGuatemala, with 16 million people, which is both historically and currently the most important country in Central America.\nWhat seven items do we then remove? In addition to (i) Bogota and (ii) Nairobi, mentioned above, I suggest removing (iii) Austria with 9 million, (iv) Switzerland with 8 million and (v) New Zealand with 5 million people. Regarding Austria, I rather keep Vienna on the list, for its historical and cultural importance. With two more to go, it is hard to find other candidate countries to remove. Instead, I suggest removing (vi) the North Sea. There are other Seas that are equally or more important, such as the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the en:Sea of Japan, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico, but I find it more desirable to include more countries than more seas. It is also questionable if we need to have (vii) Ocean on the list since we already have Sea. It is linguistically a little tricky though, as these have slightly different meaning in English (Sea can mean either part of an ocean or the collection of all oceans), while most languages have a word that are commonly used for all three concepts, such as mar in Spanish, hav in Norweigian, and Meer in German, even though some also use an ocean equivalent word as a less used specialty term.\nIslandsEdit\nWhile the list includes the longest rivers, the tallest mountain, the biggest lakes, all the oceans and the most extensive dessert, the biggest island is missing. I suggest adding Greenland, while removing the Arctic ocean.\nLooking forward to learn what others think. Martinogk (talk) 02:44, 15 March 2019 (UTC)\nCommentsEdit\nI have looked through the archives since 2010, and there has been proposals to add\/remove some of the entries listed above:\nAdd Guangzhou, 2016, by Propositum, with no comments either in favor or opposed\nRemove Bogota, 2011, by BokicaK, no comments\nRemove Bogota, 2010, by Igrek, no comments\nRemove Bogota, 2010, by RekishiEJ, no comments\nAdd Philippines, 2012, by Liliana, no comments\nAdd Phillipines, 2011, by Nk, with Igrek in favor\nAdd Phillipines, 2011, by Liliana, with MarsRover opposed arguing that New Zealand is more significant\nAdd Philippines, 2011, by Quintucket with Nk in favor\nAdd Colombia, 2011, by Santista1982, with Prince Kassad in favor\nAdd Colombia, 2011, by Santista1982, with Prince Kassad and Igrek in favor and MarsRover arguing that we already have Bogota.\nAdd Colombia, 2011, by Quintucket, no comments\nAdd Colombia, 2010, by Santista1982, with Igrek, MarsRover and Boivie in favor, Yerpo not opposed, but no consensus on what to remove\nAdd Kenya, 2011, by Quintucket, with Liliana in favor\nAdd Kenya, 2010, by MarsRover, no comments\nAdd Morocco, 2011, by Quintucket, no comments\nRemove Vatican City, 2013, by Liliana, with PiRSquared17 in favor and Barcelona stating \"perhaps\"\nRemove Vatican City, 2012, by Liliana, no comments\nRemove Vatican City, 2012, by Andreykor, with Barcelona in favor and Helt opposed\nRemove Vatican City, 2011, by Prince Kassad, no comments\nRemove Vatican City, 2011, by Nk, no comments\nRemove Vatican City, 2011, by Liliana, with MarsRover and Guido den Broeder in favor and Almafeta opposed\nRemove New Zealand, 2011, by Nk, with Igrek in favor\nRemove New Zealand, 2011, by Liliana, with Guido den Broeder in favor, Almafeta opposed and MarsRover arguing that New Zealand is more \"significant\" than Phillipines\nKeep New Zealand, 2011, by Quintucket, no comments\nRemove Austria, 2011, by Nk, with Igrek in favor\nRemove Austria, 2011, by Reder, with Liliana, Nk and Barcelona in favor\nRemove Switzerland, 2011, by Nk, with Prince Kassad opposed\nKeep Switzerland, 2011, by Quintucket with Liliana in favor\nAdd Greenland, 2011, by Nk, with Prince Kassad opposed\nRemove Ocean, 2012, by Wikijens, with inconclusive discussion on whether to remove Sea or Ocean\nRemove North Sea, 2010, by Igrek, with Prince Kassad and Macdonald-Ross opposed\nI hope these archival discussion can help us today. Based on the historical comments, I think there must have been some Divine intervention that has kept \"Vatican City\" on the list. Martinogk (talk) 02:25, 25 March 2019 (UTC)\nMost of the proposals are reasonable (I'm not 100% convinced about some of the newly proposed countries). I would consider replacing Ocean\/Sea with en:World Ocean - anyway most of the content of the 2 articles is about the general concept. --Nk (talk) 14:53, 25 March 2019 (UTC)\nIn general I agree with the suggested changes, but with some nuances:\nIn the list of countries, Myanmar, Malaysia and Peru should also be included. Peru is more important than Guatemala, both in size and history. As a Central American country, Cuba is included, which is smaller than Guatemala although I do not know if it is of more interest. As there is limited space to include countries, I would choose one or the other.\nIn cities I would remove Washington DC. The only relevant reason to include that city is that it is the capital of United States, but is it enough? If being the capital of an important country is enough to be included in the list, then Bras\u00edlia should also be included, which is larger. Honestly, I do not think that reason is enough, and neither by size nor importance do I see reasons to maintain it.\nI see no reason to change Singapore from \"countries\" to \"cities\" only because as a country it is small. In general it is considered a country (even if it is a city-state), which also has a special relevance in Asia. I would keep it as such.\nI see no reason to include Greenland. Although we include it as an island, the Wikipedias will treat it as a country.\nI see no reason to eliminate Ocean. Although sea and ocean may be similar, I believe that all languages \u200b\u200bhave a different term for both concepts, so in all languages \u200b\u200bthere is therefore a difference in the concept. If there was a language in which it was not, we could study the case, but otherwise I see no reason to eliminate any.\nTherefore, of the 7 countries that you propose, I would remove Guatemala and I would include the 3 that I have indicated, with which we would have 9 countries to add.\nIn addition to the indicated cities and countries for remove, I would also remove Washington DC, so we have 6 spaces. In seas I would add article Seven Seas (very poor article in English for a very important historical denomination) and remove the seas from that list (Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Mediterranean Sea) and also the North Sea. In this way we have 3 more spaces, with a total of 9 spaces for the indicated countries. The doubt could be with the Mediterranean Sea, which is an important sea, but I think it would be covered by the article of Seven Seas. --Tximitx (talk) 22:59, 25 March 2019 (UTC)\nMediterranean Sea is one of the most important civilizational area (Roman Empire, Carthage, Greece, Egypt...), an economic center (from Antiquity to nowadays) and a major geopolitical issue (Suez channel, maritime roads, border between North and South countries, border between several big religions, US\/NATO\/Russian presence...). AMHO, its presence is then expected in the list and I disagree with its removal. --Nicolas Eynaud (talk) 11:53, 13 April 2019 (UTC)\nI agree with Nicholas about the Mediterranean. Seven Seas, on the other hand, is a vague and historically shifting concept, much overlapping with World Ocean, so not very relevant. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 07:13, 14 April 2019 (UTC)\nComments 2Edit\nComments about the different proposals :\nSupport Replace Bogota with Colombia : I think it's a good idea. Even if Bogoto is a major city, Colombia is one of the most important regional in South America and, to me, the country is more important than its capital.\nSupport Replace Nairobi with Kenya : for the same reasons (Kenya is one of the regional power in East Africa).\nOppose Remove Austria but {{support} Remove Viena : AMHO, Austria is the heir Austria-Hungary which was a major power in Europe during centuries and an important cultural center. AMHO, keeping Austria will allow to remove Viena (which is the center of Austrian culture) and to justify easily the absence of Austria-Hungary.\nOppose Remove Swiss : Swiss is of course not a very populated area but the country has an important politic and economic influence.\nSupport Remove Vatican City : AMHO, the proposal is right : Vatican is included in Catholic Church.\nSupport Remove New Zealand : AMHO, the country is not a regional power in Oceania (it's Australia) and its cultural and economic influence is limited.\nSupport Include Song Dynasty which is missing despite its importance in Chinese History.\nSupport Include Yemen and Syria as there are historical region.\nSupport Remove Black Sea, Caspian Sea and North Sea : there are important geopolitical and economic theatres but we can consider others elements (as major countries) are more important.\nSupport Then include Phillippines (a demographic and regional power), Morocco (a regional power with an important cultural and historical influences) and Peru (major cultural importance in South America).\nOppose Remove Arctic Ocean as it is one of the major ocean and an important region (future crude oil production area ? geopolitical issue between USA and Russia...). To me, Greeland seems to be included in Arctic Ocean (at least in the current list).\nOppose Remove Mediterranean Sea (as explained).\nOppose Include Seven Seas in the list : the concept was important during Middle Ages but, AMHO, it is just now an historical curiosity. Its presence in the list is then not expected.\n--Nicolas Eynaud (talk) 07:49, 15 April 2019 (UTC)\nComment Austria is not the heir Austria-Hungary. This empire was dissolved in several states, Austria being one of them, but not the heir. That it is preferred to keep Austria instead of Vienna is something else (which I do not share), but not because he was the heir Austria-Hungary, since it is not. --Tximitx (talk) 10:41, 15 April 2019 (UTC)\nVaccineEdit\nI am surprised to see that this list does not include the vaccine as one of the most important articles, that it should even be in bold. The vaccine is considered the most important invention of modern medicine and the medicine that has saved the most lives.\nInstead, I propose to withdraw the \"headache\", which seems to me a minor element to include it in the list of the most important.\nAs for the articles in bold, I think the \"vaccine\" is important enough to include it in this way, eliminating the \"virus\" from the list in bold. --Tximitx (talk) 12:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)\nThank you Tximitx for this important suggestion. I agree that \"vaccine\" should be added, and that it can be bolded instead of \"virus\". What to remove is a little bit more of a headache. Considering the importance of medicine\/health, the section is rather short. Can we remove something from a different section? How about \"Machine gun\", \"Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger\", \"Le Corbusier\", \"Michael Faraday\", \"Commonwealth of Independent States\" or \"Lipid\"? Other suggestions? Martinogk (talk) 22:25, 21 March 2019 (UTC)\nI have no objection to deleting an article from another section. Of those proposed, \"Commonwealth of Independent States\" I don't consider it as relevant enough. There are even more important political and commercial blocs that aren't on the list. --Tximitx (talk) 22:56, 21 March 2019 (UTC)\nI fully agree on the importance of this topic. But, as usual, a dilemma can't be avoided - should we include vaccine (Q134808) or vaccination (Q192995) as a broader topic? \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 08:10, 22 March 2019 (UTC)\nAlthough \"vaccination\" is important, from the encyclopedic point of view, what is important is the vaccine. Without it, vaccination would not exist. Therefore, I maintain that \"vaccine\" should be included as the relevant article. --Tximitx (talk) 12:00, 22 March 2019 (UTC)\nGood question Yerpo. I agree with Tximitx that \"Vaccine\" is the better choice. It also fits with other entries, as we have \"Food\" instead of \"Eating\", \"Agriculture\" instead of \"Farming\", \"Bicycle\" instead of \"Cycling\", \"Milk\" instead of \"Milking\", \"Song\" instead of \"Singing\", \"Antibiotic\" instead of \"???\", etc. Martinogk (talk) 19:41, 22 March 2019 (UTC)\nI'm a novice here and I don't know how to proceed with the change of the articles in the list. Do I have to make the change? Is someone responsible? Are they done every so often and we have to wait? I appreciate the clarifications. --Tximitx (talk) 17:03, 24 March 2019 (UTC)\nAnyone can do it. I would wait a week to give others more opportunity to comment. As for timing, there is a wish not to change the list just before the ranking is updated. Martinogk (talk) 23:53, 24 March 2019 (UTC)\nAll right. I will wait until the ranking is updated to make the change. --Tximitx (talk) 13:10, 25 March 2019 (UTC)\nLiteratureEdit\nHello, without bothering anyone, I wonder if the literature section has ever been discussed. The added articles are good, but I think it would be more enriching if there were representation of other cultures, because most of the added works are Asian. What do you think?. --Rodelar (talk) 15:33, 23 March 2019 (UTC)\nGood observation Rodelar. All eight works of literature are from Asia, including the Iliad. Except for Dream of the Red Chamber, all of them are also ancient literature, while Roman literature as well as modern literature from the last 800 years are covered under the authors in the biography section. I think there are two issues:\nIt is hard to make room for both the authors and their major work. Is it then better to include Dante or Devine Comedy? Tolstoy or War and Peace? Shikibu or Tale of Genji? Cervantes or Don Quixote? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Cao Xueqin or Dream of the Red Chamber? Virgil or Aeneid? Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez or One hundred years of solitude? etc... Should we replace some of the authors with their books or vice versa?\nFor a more global perspective on ancient literature, what could be added? Kebra Nagast? Beowulf? Popul Vuh? the Icelandic Sagas? Martinogk (talk) 20:32, 23 March 2019 (UTC)\nMartinogk, about the observations indicated, I think we have to differentiate each case. For example, Cervantes is a writer recognized especially for his work Don Quixote, but as a writer he is not a relevant writer, since he does not have other works that are especially relevant. I am spanish, and I can affirm that there are many spanish writers and other spanish-speaking countries that are much more important. But, of course, there is no doubt that his work Don Quixote is the most important work of literature in spanish and one of the most important and recognized in the world. In this case, the work surpasses the author, so I think it is more relevant to include his work in the list instead of the author. As shown, the article in es.wiki of Don Quixote is twice the size of Cervantes.\nDifferent is the case of, for example, Shakespeare or Jules Verne, whose set of works are practically classics of universal literature. In this case I think it's better to include the authors.\nAfter these explanations, about the indicated authors I would make the following changes:\nI would keep the authors Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Virgil and Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, because I think they stand out more for their complete work than for a specific title.\nI would include the works Don Quixote, Devine Comedy, Tale of Genji and Dream of the Red Chamber, replacing their authors, because they are works of universal literature that stand out over their authors (in my opinion).\nIn authors I would include Jules Verne, which I consider an important reference. In substitution, can eliminate the article of \"machine gun\", which I think is not a particularly remarkable invention.\nOn ancient literature, some titles: Beowulf, the Icelandic Sagas, Cantar de Mio Cid, Nibelungenlied or The Travels of Marco Polo. The importance of the works or what articles to eliminate, I leave it at the discretion of others. --Tximitx (talk) 18:33, 24 March 2019 (UTC)\nTximitx: Thank you for your very thoughtful comments. I like your thinking about author\/work. Martinogk (talk) 23:53, 24 March 2019 (UTC)\nI agree with Tximitx in including Don Quixote, Devine Comedy, Tale of Genji and Dream of the Red Chamber as works in lieu of authors. Also, the inclusion of Jules Verne instead of machine gun. Among the ancient literature, I find significant the Icelandic Sagas, Popul Vuh and The Travels of Marco Polo. --Rodelar (talk) 23:57, 24 March 2019 (UTC)\nAbout Marco Polo, I hadn't realized that he was already included as an explorer. In this case, I don't know if it is better to include the person or the book. I don't find necessary is to include both. --Tximitx (talk) 21:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)\nAgree with Tximitx to include Don Quixote and Devine Comedy instead of their authors, as is already the case for Tale of Genji and Dream of the Red Chamber. Thanks for pointing out that Marco Polo is already on the list, which I find sufficient and more natural to include than The Travels of Marco Polo. For ancient literature, I agree with Rodelar's selection of Popul Vuh and the Icelandic Sagas, the latter being more extensive and culturally reflective than Beowulf or Nibelungenlied, the other ancient Germanic literature mentioned. What can we remove to make room for these two? The only instance of having both a literary work and its author on the list is the Iliad and Homer, and I suggest we keep the former and remove the latter as it is not certain that Homer existed and who actually wrote the Iliad. Two other potential options for removal are phoneme and syllable. Martinogk (talk) 12:10, 26 March 2019 (UTC)\nI agree with Martinogk in everything expressed. Also in keep Iliad and remove Homer. Between phoneme and syllable, the phoneme is important, since it is the representation of the sound that the words would have. However, the syllable is the division of the word according to the phonemes. Therefore, it would keep phoneme and remove syllable.\nBy the way, Homer is in bold, and I don't think that Iliad should be (yes Don Quixote and Divine Comedy by Cervantes and Dante). What is put in bold by Homer? Maybe Novel? Another biography? Bearing in mind that several writers are removed in bold from Biography, I suggest including Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, who is considered one of the best writers in history. It may also be that my preference is influenced because my native language is Spanish. --Tximitx (talk) 12:52, 26 March 2019 (UTC)\nBiography sectionEdit\nYerpo: You are both a long-time and a very thoughtful participant in these list discussions. What is the thinking behind having a separate biography section rather than including authors in the language and literature section, scientists in the science section, musicians in the music section, explorers in the geography section, etc? Was this a conscious decision or it just happened that way? Martinogk (talk) 12:29, 26 March 2019 (UTC)\nThe biography section was there from the first day this list was being created. I tried spreading the biographies 10 years ago. But it was reverted two months later. I can't find anything on the talk page about why it was reverted. Boivie (talk) 10:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)\nThe best answer I have is also something along the line of \"that's how it's always been done\". Sorry. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 20:11, 29 March 2019 (UTC)\nMaybe we should make another try to split out the biography section, if the current users of this page think it's a good idea? Boivie (talk) 09:30, 3 April 2019 (UTC)\nI don't consider it a good idea. I don't think mixing biographies with other articles is better than the current way. --Tximitx (talk) 12:14, 5 April 2019 (UTC)\nElephantEdit\nThe item elephant presents problems in some languages, specifically in those that, like Spanish, use exclusively the scientific classification of species to create articles. In this case elephant refers to a group of species that doesn't have a scientific classification as a group (they are several different species). The family they belong to (Elephantidae) also includes mammoths, but there is no scientific group for elephants alone. I don't doubt the importance of the elephants, but the selected items shouldn't impose a structure in the languages on the articles to be included. In this case I suggest as an alternative to include marine mammal, which are more important than elephants. Within this item would be whales, dolphins and porpoises, which would be keep. --Tximitx (talk) 13:15, 26 March 2019 (UTC)\n+1. --Maqivi (talk) 19:00, 26 March 2019 (UTC)\nWe made a dubious change from Whale to Cetacea a while back because there wasn't a Swedish word for whale. IMHO, a core article's purpose is to link to other articles and a biological classification doesn't really do that. For example, the \"Whale\" concept links to \"Whaling\", \"Save the Whales\", \"Moby Dick\", \"Jonah and the Whale\". I think this change is a similar situation. Would you link \"Elephantidae\" to what Hannibal rode through the Alps. So, don't really agree on this. But you do have precedence on your side so am neutral on this. --MarsRover 04:02, 5 April 2019 (UTC)\nI agree in part with your opinion, but I'm not proposing to change \"Elephant\" to \"Elephantidae\". I'm proposing remove \"Elephant\" and add \"marine mammals\", which is also important and allows link other items. The reason is that the scientific classification doesn't consider the elephants as a specie, and we cann't force a wiki to use another classification. That's why I ask for a change from one item to another, which I don't think means a relevant change. --Tximitx (talk) 12:29, 5 April 2019 (UTC)\nI agree with Tximitx, for this list having a therm confussing is not the best. MarsRover, no, I would not link Elephantidae to what Hannibal rode through the Alps, but Loxodonta (African elephant), that is a specie, and elephant is not. Millars (talk) 22:55, 9 April 2019 (UTC)\nAnd now we have both Marine mammal and Cetacea wich creates quite important overlap. Isn't it better to replace Cetacea with a different group, for example bat (Q28425)? --Nk (talk) 18:25, 8 May 2019 (UTC)\nContinents and WaterEdit\nI observe that in continents North America and South America appear as two continents instead of Americas as a single continent, but this meaning is only used in English and a few related languages \u200b\u200bsuch as German. However, for most languages, Americas is a single continent, and the North\/South division is political, and not geographical. In fact, the normal thing in almost all languages \u200b\u200bis to use North\/Central\/South America as a political division of a single continent, not including Central America as part of North America. It is enough to see the articles linked in Wikidata to North America to realize that there is no uniform criterion and in most cases they don't refer to the subcontinent. Some only include United States and Canada; others add to Mexico, and only a few add Central America. International organizations such as UN, IOC, etc., also recognize Americas as a single continent, this being the most globally accepted meaning. I don't find a reason to maintain the sense of the english language that is a minority and that in most languages \u200b\u200bis a political concept and not a geographical. I propose to eliminate items from North and South America as continents and to include only Americas as a single continent, since this is the most universally accepted meaning.\nIn the free space, I realize that there is not an element as important as Water, essential for life. I propose to include it also with bold. I don't know in which section to include it, since as a chemical element it is not an important element, but it is in other scientific disciplines. I think the best place to include it is in Science, within Nature. --Tximitx (talk) 16:38, 10 April 2019 (UTC)\nNote: water is not a chemical element, but a compound. It is in the list under Beverages. This is indeed slightly odd, so I would support moving it from Beverages to Chemistry (under chemical compound). \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 09:42, 15 April 2019 (UTC)\nI hadn't seen that Water is under Beverages. However, I don't consider that under Chemistry is the most suitable place (although better than under Beverages). The reason is that although water is a chemical compound, within chemistry is a compound of little importance and with few applications. Much more important is in Biology, Nature, or Earth Science. AMHO I think the most appropriate place would be to move it to Science, under Nature.\nIn the case of the continents, if the items North and South America are eliminated for the Americas, there would be a free space with bold. As I have indicated before, I see no reason to keep both items as separate continents, since it is a concept that, except in the English language, is a minority. Any suggestions to add? --Tximitx (talk) 10:30, 15 April 2019 (UTC)\n\"within chemistry is a compound of little importance and with few applications\" - that's a joke, right? Because it's definitely far from truth. Its only logical place is under compounds. \u2014 Yerpo Eh? 10:40, 15 April 2019 (UTC)\nI cannot say anything about most languages, but both in Russian (distantly related to English) and Hebrew (not related whatsoever) North and South Americas are considered separate entities defined as continents. Moreover, they are different not only politically but first and foremost geomorphologically, with Isthmus of Panama forming relatively recently. --Deinocheirus (talk) 15:28, 16 April 2019 (UTC)\nReplace Anime with Video GameEdit\nHello, first-time contributor to any Wikipedia talk page at all here.\nWhen reading this list, \"anime\" stuck out to me as an entrant. We already have \"animation\". There should be sufficient information on anime within the animation article, right? It seems just a little too specific for this list. Checking the archives shows a bit more talk about anime's worthiness, too. I suggest replacing it with \"video game\"(Q7889), a topic that by contrast seems too broad for its containing article, \"game\". There's incredible variation within video games, and, unlike most other kinds of game, the video game is often considered an emerging art medium. I think these qualities distinguish video games enough from games as a whole to warrant their separate place on the list. Granted, they're somewhat Western, but then again so is anime.\nThanks, I'd love to hear your thoughts. --Megaskizzen (talk) 03:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)\nAlthough I haven't read the English Wikipedia articles on animation, anime, game and video game yet, Megaskizzen's argument makes sense since for a very small Wikipedia Wikipedians should create an article on video game before one on anime (although anime is quite influential on the world currently).--RekishiEJ (talk) 14:42, 4 July 2019 (UTC)\nI agree with this proposal. Not sure if my opinion counts, since I am an unregistered user, but it is very reasonable. Anime is much closer to animation than video game is to toy. 177.68.136.138 14:17, 6 July 2019 (UTC)\nSeems to be a well-supported proposal then. Should I make the change? --Megaskizzen (talk) 12:56, 16 July 2019 (UTC)\nEdit made. My apologies if I've approved the proposal too soon. --Megaskizzen (talk) 04:00, 20 July 2019 (UTC)\nChange Science and Nature to be top-priority entriesEdit\nIt is puzzling to me why Science and Nature, which are root-level articles under Science section (Science is even included in Vital articles\/Level\/1), are not included as one of the top-priority entries. I suggest just to add these two, but if it is required to remove two entries from top priority, I would name (1) Photosynthesis, (2) Mineral, though both are difficult choices.--\u30cd\u30a4 (talk) 13:07, 3 July 2019 (UTC)\nAgreed that science and nature should be top-priority entries, since for very small Wikipedias science and nature should be created before botany or species. However, photosynthesis can be removed from top priority since IMO it should not be deliberately created before suicide.--RekishiEJ (talk) 14:18, 4 July 2019 (UTC)\nDone Changed Science and Nature to be top-priority and removed Photosynthesis from top-priority.--\u30cd\u30a4 (talk) 17:32, 11 July 2019 (UTC)\nThe entire topic of crimes and lawsEdit\nSomeone mentioned adding rape before, but I now see that there are no crimes or criminal activities at all; no murder, no rape, no theft (or the concept of property, for that matter), not even the concept of crime itself, or the related religious concept of sin. In fact, the section on Law is quite bare bones, having only law and constitution. I have no proposition on how to change this, but since this is a talk page I figured I would talk about it. Maybe such ideas could perhaps be more important than having so many specific rivers\/languages\/countries\/leaders? 177.68.136.138 13:32, 6 July 2019 (UTC)\nReplace pages for specific African Great Lakes with African Great Lakes, and moreEdit\nI propose we remove both pages for specific African Great Lakes, add an African Great Lakes page, and use the extra slot for some other proposed page, such as property or crime or video game. I would suggest property (video game can replace anime, as seen above). This would maintain the lakes in some capacity, be more comprehensive (since that page would cover more than two lakes), and be in keeping with the procedure adopted for the North American Great Lakes. It would also free up a slot for an important concept such as property, or someone else's proposal. 177.68.136.138 14:45, 6 July 2019 (UTC)\nAlphabetically order all listsEdit\nThis is currently done inconsistently. I think it should be done consistently unless there is a more obvious rationale, such as:\nChronological order, for historical events\nDistance from the Sun, for planets\n201.27.100.86 15:22, 6 July 2019 (UTC)\nI brought up a similar topic on the extended list, that we should make these lists conform to the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style for lists. That would require ordering the list, which I think should be done anyway, but the manual also mentions that numbered lists should only be used for a reason. I don't know of any reason to refer to the list items by number, so I think we should convert to bulleted lists as well as order the lists. --Megaskizzen (talk) 12:53, 17 July 2019 (UTC)\nChange Algebra to be top-priority entry and remove Moses from top-priority entryEdit\nI would like to propose (1) Change Algebra to be top-priority entry, and (2) Remove Moses from top-priority entry. These can be treated as separate proposals.\nAlgebra - it is odd that Geometry is a top-priority while Algebra is not. These two entires appear to have similar level of importance.\nMoses - it is a bit unbalanced under \"Religious figures and theologians\" where there is one top-priority entry for buddhism, one for islam but two for christianity. Choosing between Jesus and Moses, it should be quite obvious that Jesus is of higher priority.\n--\u30cd\u30a4 (talk) 17:53, 11 July 2019 (UTC)Fixed typo--\u30cd\u30a4 (talk) 18:22, 12 July 2019 (UTC)\nI believe Moses is left high-priority for Judaism, not Christianity.\n--Megaskizzen (talk) 12:51, 16 July 2019 (UTC)\nMade the change for Algebra given there are no objections at all; for Moses, I am treating Megaskizzen's comments as an alternative opinion and taking down the proposal.--\u30cd\u30a4 (talk) 02:03, 22 July 2019 (UTC)\nCrime instead AbortionEdit\nInclude Crime instead Abortion.--SEA99 (talk) 05:30, 29 October 2019 (UTC)\nOppose Crime is a legal matter and abortion a social right. Not the same category. --Toku (talk) 18:39, 4 November 2019 (UTC)\nI mean crime as social issue.--SEA99 (talk) 07:10, 8 December 2019 (UTC)\nThere are 22 topics about Crime in extended list, but no one here.--SEA99 (talk) 06:44, 18 December 2019 (UTC)\nRussian Empire instead ApartheidEdit\nInclude Russian Empire instead Apartheid.--SEA99 (talk) 06:20, 29 October 2019 (UTC)\nOppose Russian Empire can be included in Russia --Toku (talk) 18:40, 4 November 2019 (UTC)\nBritish and Ottoman empires also can be included...--SEA99 (talk) 06:47, 18 December 2019 (UTC)\nEmpire of Japan instead Meiji RestorationEdit\nInclude Empire of Japan instead Meiji Restoration.--SEA99 (talk) 06:20, 29 October 2019 (UTC)\nOppose Empire of Japan can be included in Japon. --Toku (talk) 18:41, 4 November 2019 (UTC)\nMark this page for translation.Edit\nMany Wikipedia already have a translated version of this list, why don't we just take advantage of the translation builtin to meta, instead of relying on volunteers to manually update each wiki?\nAdd some basic terms from psychologyEdit\nI would add some of the terms like: Personality, Motivation, Attention, Mood, Temperament. I think that at least the first two are more important than Love and Mind. Matinee71 (talk) 22:12, 19 December 2019 (UTC)\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_articles_every_Wikipedia_should_have&oldid=19650087\"\nReturn to \"List of articles every Wikipedia should have\" page.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UDC picks BMD candidate\nSHARE | Thursday, 04 July 2019\t| By Tebogo Mmolawa\nUDC's; Ntsima and AP's; Mmolotsi\nIn a surprising turn of events, strange bedfellows the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) are united behind Francistown South parliamentary candidate, Tiroyaone Ntsima.\nNtsima, who is a BMD activist, has been unanimously endorsed by the coalition partners in Francistown South constituency to challenge the incumbent, Wynter Mmolotsi, the Vice President of the Alliance for Progressives (AP).\nThe announcement was made by BCP vice president, Dr Kesetegile Gobotswang during the party's leadership forum that was held in the second city recently. The declaration brings to finality a matter that has been dragging for far too long after the expulsion of the BMD from the coalition. After BMD was kicked out some BCP activists showed interest to contest in the constituency. Their main reason was that they have a huge following and thus stand a better chance to give the incumbent Mmolotsi a run for his money.\nSince the 2014 General Elections, political dynamics in the constituency have changed. In the previous polls, Mmolotsi contested under the UDC ticket but currently he is the vice president of the Alliance for Progressives \u2013 a breakaway formation from the BMD.\nAmong those that were harbouring ambitions of contesting for the constituency was David Tawele and BCP Youth League president, Thabologo Furniture. Some within the BCP, among them being Gift Keakitse, were pushing for the UDC leadership to order primary elections in the constituency for the duo to battle it out.\nSome within the alliance strongly believe that Ntsima is a political novice who cannot match Mmolotsi. They insist that the coalition could have opted for a more experienced politician to face the incumbent.\nNtsima has confirmed the latest developments within the UDC. \"Yes, it is true that the UDC National Executive Committee has confirmed me as the candidate for Francistown South. After BMD was expelled, UDC president Duma Boko said during a press conference in Gaborone that all BMD candidates willing to contest under the UDC ticket could apply to do so and I swiftly seized that moment,\" the youthful Ntsima said.\nNow that the matter has been put to rest, Ntsima revealed that he has instantly intensified his campaigns in the constituency, adding that he has had a good working relationship with BCP members who have been supporting his candidature.\n\"With the help of other coalition partners, I am confident that we will win the constituency during the upcoming general elections. I am aware that Mmolotsi has turned the constituency into his fortress but we will oust him,\" he declared.\nAccording to Ntsima, a consensus was also reached concerning all the seven wards in the constituency. He stated that Botswana People's Party and Botswana National Front were given one ward each while the remaining five went to BCP.\nNtsima has also confirmed that he will soon dump the BMD to join one of the parties under the Umbrella. He will now face Mmolotsi and the ruling Botswana Democratic Party's Modiri Jojo Lucas at the October polls which political observers have predicted that they will be tightly contested. It remains to be seen whether the new political formation, Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) will field a candidate at the constituency but sources have hinted that Ford Moiteela might throw his name into the ring.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hayek and the Common Law\nWhy Doesn't Hayek Answer the Questions That I Feel Are Important?\nBruce Caldwell \u2022 December 31, 2009 \u2022\nI have attended a lot of Liberty Fund meetings on Hayek and have noticed that as a rule economists tend to like Hayek's ideas much more than political philosophers (whether housed in philosophy or political science departments) do. The fascinating and instructive exchange between Sandefur and Hasnas has helped me to understand why. Hayek doesn't answer the questions they feel are important.\nFor economists the existence of spontaneous orders is obvious. I am writing from home so do not have the texts in front of me, but I believe that Hayek in his 1933 inaugural lecture said something like recognizing the existence of such an order (though I think the word that he used there was \"organism\") was the beginning of economics as a discipline. That sounds about right. That a whole new field studying complex adaptive systems has emerged since Hayek first began writing about these issues suggests at a minimum that economists are not alone. Because such orders when humans are involved contain intentional action which gives rise to unintended orders does provide complications, but I think that Hasnas' careful discussion in his second reply answers the questions that Sandefur raised.\nIn his latest post, Sandefur writes,\nIn Law, Legislation And Liberty and The Constitution of Liberty, Hayek is not writing simply as an economist: he's writing as a lawyer, and he promises us a clear-cut conceptual distinction \u2014 he even comes up with Greek names (taxis and kosmos) and always speaks of spontaneous and constructed orders as though they are conceptually distinct; this distinction is crucial to his prescriptive sociology.\nThis gets at, I think, a key reason why he and I read Hayek so differently. I am not trained as a lawyer and I never thought of Hayek in either Law, Legislation and Liberty or Constitution of Liberty as writing as a lawyer. (I do not have either text at home with me, so cannot check whether he anywhere \"promised us a clear-cut conceptual distinction,\" but perhaps Sandefur has a particular passage in mind that he might provide.) More important, I don't think Hayek saw himself as doing so, either. That may account for why he does not set his problem up in the way that Sandefur would prefer, or provide answers to questions he'd like to have answers to.\nEconomists sometimes feel a similar frustration. Hayek always wrote at a very abstract level. A lot of economists who hope to find in his writings direct answers to specific policy questions will not come away satisfied. I challenge our audience to tell me what Hayek thought about anti-trust policy. I think that he had good reasons to keep things vague \u2014 the Mont Pelerin Society had members from countries who defined a liberal society very differently, and he wanted to keep them talking to one another. But in the end it is also true that Hayek was no policy wonk, and those who are would probably do better reading either Milton Friedman or the Cato Handbook for Policymakers (the latest copy of which I would be delighted to receive from our good host as a belated Christmas present!) than him. [I'll see to it. \u2014 Ed.]\nI'd like briefly to defend Hayek's recourse to evolutionary theory and in particular his claim that our morals are a product of evolution. Both Sandefur and Hasnas see this as a weakness, whereas I see it as a strength, at least for what I think Hayek was trying to do. I read Hayek as a scientist trying to explain how we moved from a hunter-gatherer society to what he termed \"the great society,\" and also to explain why humans so often hate markets, even though the evolution of a market society was fundamental in the movement to the great society. The evolution of our morals also played a fundamental role. In the end, Hayek was no foundationalist when it came to morals. This was the reason why Bill Bartley, the Popperian philosopher who was the first General Editor of Hayek's Collected Works and who as a follower of Popper argued that Popper's whole enterprise involved replacing the problem of justification with that of criticism, was so attracted to Hayek's late work, what Bartley called his evolutionary epistemology and his evolutionary ethics.[1] Bartley was pleased with Hayek's lack of foundations. And it is why people with specifically normative concerns, people like Hasnas and Sandefur who are seeking for that elusive \"Archimedean fixed point,\" find this aspect of Hayek's work so unsatisfactory. Hasnas finds Hayek to be a bad moral philosopher. I think it is more accurate to say that he was a good scientist and social theorist, and not really a moral philosopher at all, at least not of the foundationalist variety.\nI'll close by saying that the Austrian wertfreiheit tradition which feels so comfortable to those trained as economists \u2014 we tell ourselves that our task is not to make judgments, but to evaluate whether a particular set of means will achieve the ends that people say they want to pursue \u2014 is probably also part of the \"problem.\"[2] We consider this stance a \"virtue,\" but that is as far as we feel comfortable to go normatively.\n[1] For more on this see my paper \"Clarifying Popper,\" Journal of Economic Literature 29, March 1991, pp. 1\u201333, especially the section on \"Popper on Critical Rationalism.\"\n[2]Although Robert Nelson is probably right that as the 20th century progressed the economics profession moved from \"neutral policy experts\" to advocates for efficiency in policymaking. See his \"The Economics Profession and the Making of Public Policy,\" Journal of Economic Literature 25, March 1987, pp. 49\u201391.\nAlso from this issue\nLead Essay\nFour Problems with Spontaneous Order by Timothy Sandefur\nIn his lead essay, lawyer and legal theorist Timothy Sandefur proposes that Friedrich Hayek's understanding of law and justice is flawed: Spontaneous order may be a descriptively accurate concept, but it has little or no effective normative content. Depending on how one chooses to focus, those who wish to reform a spontaneous order are either constructive rationalists \u2014 thus, outside the order, and presumptively bad \u2014 or they are manifestations of the spontaneous order itself, which changes over time. He suggests that the Hayekian approach to legal reform is simply \"be careful,\" and that this is not terribly helpful advice.\nResponse Essays\nFour Solutions to Sandefur's Problems by John Hasnas\nIn his response essay, John Hasnas offers solutions to Sandefur's problems. He suggests that genuine spontaneous orders can be recognized as having no final decision makers, and hence as recognizing a multitude of individual choices. Constructed orders have a final decision maker, and do not respect individual choice. The normative benefits of a spontaneous order are therefore clear: It offers a greater scope for peaceful cooperation, while tending to reduce coercion incrementally. Still, Hasnas admits, spontaneous orders will always be \"riddled with injustice,\" in part owing to our own limited knowledge and virtue. He suggests that one key missing insight helps rescue much of Hayekian legal thought: the notion that laws, too, respond to market forces.\nLiberty between the Lines in a Modernist Age by Daniel B. Klein\nDaniel Klein argues that much of the fuzziness in Hayek's writing was strategic \u2014 designed to bring lapsed liberals back into the fold, or to appeal to people who would never accept an unvarnished liberalism. Still, Klein finds great value in Hayek's work. He argues that, while out of fashion at the time, Hayek's own willingness to be indeterminate, and to embrace indeterminateness, was both consistent with the Smithian understanding of the social order \u2014 and predictive of some of the best work being done today in economics and in other social sciences.\nMaking Sense of Hayek on Spontaneous Order by Bruce Caldwell\nBruce Caldwell proposes two solutions to Sandefur's problems. The first is to acknowledge that Hayek was a rule utilitarian, albeit one who recognized that the rules we have inherited are the products of a spontaneous order. The second is to claim that Hayek wasn't proposing any normative conclusions at all \u2014 he was simply making observations in a value-neutral way, as might befit a member of the Austrian School, which was deeply influenced by Max Weber's ideal of a value-neutral social science. Both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, Caldwell admits, yet in the end he cannot accept Sandefur's claim that there is no meaningful distinction between spontaneous and designed orders. Although the difference can be difficult to put into words, we know them when we see them.\nUnmade, Amoral Orders Composed of Made, Moral Orders? A Response to John Hasnas by Timothy Sandefur\nThe Light \"Between the Lines\" Is Doing All the Work: A Response to Prof. Klein by Timothy Sandefur\nOnce More unto the Breach: A Reply to Timothy Sandefur's Response by John Hasnas\nThe Mind-Society Spiral by Daniel B. Klein\nIs \"Know It When I See It\" Enough? by Timothy Sandefur\nReflections on Dead Horses, Semantic Confusion, and Straw Men by John Hasnas\n1 1\/2 Cheers for Tim's Impetus by Daniel B. Klein\nWhy Doesn't Hayek Answer the Questions That I Feel Are Important? by Bruce Caldwell\nA Bit of Backpedaling by John Hasnas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Manufacturing, agri sectors perk up economic growth from April till Nov\nDec 2, 2020 @ 16:24\nBy Adrian Lim\nKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2: The manufacturing and agriculture sectors were the main contributors to the economic growth of the country during the Covid-19 pandemic between April to November this year.\nDeputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Economic Affairs) Arthur Joseph Kurup said a few economic indicators have shown signs of economic recovery for the country in recent months.\nFor instance, he said the manufacturing index has risen by 2.1 per cent in September 2020 as compared to a contraction of 2.1 per cent in August 2020.\n\"The sales of manufactured goods have increased by 3.7 per cent in September 2020 to RM121.2 billion and crude palm oil prices (CPO) have climbed up to RM3,422 per tonne recently from the lowest point of RM2,047 per tonne in May this year.\n\"The Standard Malaysian Rubber (SMR 20) rubber price was traded at RM6.33 per kilogramme in November as compared to the lowest price of RM4.73 per kilogramme in April 2020.\n\"Based on those developments, it means that the manufacturing and agriculture sectors are among the main contributors for the economic growth during Covid-19,\" he said in Parliament today.\nArthur was replying to Kota Samarahan MP Rubiah Wang who asked the government as to what are the five biggest economic sectors of the country and which sectors contributed major economic growth during the Covid-19 pandemic.\nArthur disclosed that the five biggest economic sectors of the country were services which contributed 57.7 per cent to the gross domestic product (GDP) followed by manufacturing (22.3 per cent), agriculture (7.1 per cent), mining and quarry (7.1 per cent) and construction (4.7 per cent).\nHe asserted that the economy for the country is expected to return to the growth path next year between 6.5 per cent and 7.5 per cent after projected to contract by 4.5 per cent this year.\nTo a supplementary question by Rubiah on the efforts by the government to assist the tourism industry which was impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Arthur who is also Pensiangan MP said the tourism industry will only be able to chart a recovery path once a vaccine for the virus is available for the public.\nHe added the recovery for the tourism sector is also depending on foreign countries opening up their borders.\nIn the meantime, Arthur said the government has rolled out the domestic travel bubble by promoting domestic tourism as part of the efforts to rejuvenate the tourism industry in Malaysia.\nHe added the economic stimulus packages introduced by the federal government have also managed to lower the unemployment rate to 4.6 per cent in September 2020 from 5.3 per cent in May 2020.\nThose include two rounds of wage subsidy schemes amounted to RM18 billion and economic stimulus packages such as the Prihatin Economic Stimulus Package (Prihatin), the National Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana) and the Prihatin Supplementary Initiative Package (Kita Prihatin) announced by the federal government.\nArthur added various incentives and assistance announced in Budget 2021 will also aid airline workers who were retrenched and reduce the impact of Covid-19 pandemic for tourism industry players affected by the coronavirus. \u2014DayakDaily\nPrevious articleMardi disaran wujudkan platform hasil benih padi daftar Sarawak\nNext articleCoffeeshop fire disaster averted thanks to quick thinking, availability of extinguishers\nEditorJM\nProjek pembinaan jalan baharu Long Lama boleh dipohon semula dalam RMK-12\nInternal, external demand to power Sarawak's economic rebound next year\nWorst of Covid-19's impact will be felt by Malaysia's most vulnerable\nJPJ: Lakukan transaksi berkaitan kenderaan persendirian secara atas talian\nKPDNHEP: Kedai cermin mata dan dobi layan diri dibenar beroperasi\nJPJ dan Polis berkolaborasi dalam ops Covid-19","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Aurora Semerano, MD\n@semerano_aurora\nKamel H, Navi BB, Parikh NS, Merkler AE, Okin PM, Devereux RB, Weinsaft JW, Kim J, Cheung JW, Kim LK, et al. Machine Learning Prediction of Stroke Mechanism in Embolic Strokes of Undetermined Source. Stroke. 2020;51:e203\u2013e210.\nIn 2014, when the concept of embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) was proposed,1 confidence existed that ESUS could represent a single entity which would have benefitted from a unified treatment. However, after two randomized clinical trials did not show benefit of direct oral anticoagulation for secondary prevention of ESUS patients,2,3 it is now common opinion that these patients rather represent a heterogeneous population and are likely to benefit from tailored, personalized therapies. Today, ESUS represents a useful definition to identify patients deserving extended diagnostic workup, while prevention therapy for these patients remains elusive, and clinical stroke recurrence is still an issue. Both subgroup analyses from the above-mentioned clinical trials and new research studies have been developed or are ongoing, to better understand the pathophysiology of ESUS and help in patient selection.\nIn such a phenotypically heterogeneous population, one big effort is to identify patient subsets with a single or group of underlying mechanisms likely to respond to an established treatment. With this right purpose of uncover the \"hidden structure\" in a complex scenario, the recent study from Kamel et al.4 employs a machine learning approach. Firstly, a supervised machine-learning algorithm was developed to distinguish cardioembolic versus non-cardioembolic strokes in a population of 1083 patients with known stroke etiology, by entering data about demographics, comorbidities, vitals, laboratory results, and echocardiograms. After the learning process, the system finally resulted to distinguish cardioembolic from non-cardioembolic strokes with excellent accuracy (area under the curve, AUC=0.85).\nSecondly, the classifier was applied to a population of 580 ESUS patients and predicted that 44% of ESUS cases (95% credibility interval, 39%\u201349%) could result from occult cardiac embolism in the studied cohort. When comparing ESUS patients with the lowest and those with the highest quartile of likelihood for occult cardioembolism, patients with the highest probability of a cardioembolic mechanism resulted to be older; more likely White; with a clinical history of coronary artery disease, heart failure, and peripheral vascular disease; they were less likely active smokers; and they presented more severe strokes, lower ejection fractions, larger left atria, and lower blood pressure.\nFinally, in order to test the validity of the classifier, the results of the prediction model were compared with the diagnosis rate of atrial fibrillation after hospital discharge, since ESUS patients routinely underwent 30 days of continuous heart-rhythm monitoring with an external loop recorder in the authors' center. Interestingly, atrial fibrillation was detected in 9.1% of patients in the highest quartile vs. 2.9% of those in the lowest quartile of predicted likelihood for a cardioembolic source.\nThe presented article is an encouraging example of how machine learning techniques can complement and extend conventional statistical methods in stroke medicine, providing unique tools to better understand complex data sets. Which are indeed the potential clinical implications and perspectives of this study? The proposed machine-learning approach may assist in setting the stage for future clinical trials, helping in the definition of appropriate eligibility criteria. It is interesting to note that the two ongoing randomized clinical trials,5,6 which are assessing the efficacy of oral anticoagulants in secondary prevention in ESUS, include a selected population of patients with markers of cardiac disease, being illustrative of the most recent attitude towards a personalized treatment in stroke medicine. Also, machine-learning could represent a tool to help in the decision about the intensity and the most appropriate protocols of the diagnostic workup of these patients. In addition, the data-driven comparison between the two distinguished (cardioembolic vs. non-cardioembolic) stroke subpopulations may provide novel pathophysiological insights.\nLimitations are also extensively discussed in the article. Results need validations in other cohorts since local factors can influence the performance of artificial intelligence models. Also, the final validity assessment by means of post-discharge diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (lasting > 30 seconds) represents indirect, though not definitive, proof of an underlying cardioembolic mechanism, and longer-lasting atrial fibrillation could be proposed as an alternative validation criterion. Brain imaging features from a subset of patients were also analyzed, but did not result to add value to the prediction model. However, comprehensive data from imaging of large vessels should be the object of further investigations. Future machine-learning approaches focusing on other occult stroke mechanisms (e.g., non-stenosing large artery atherosclerosis) and\/or examining recurrent stroke rates to identify the characteristics of patients at the highest risk are only two further examples of possible applications of artificial intelligence to stroke etiological investigation.\nArtificial intelligence is an exciting resource in stroke research, with promising implications in various aspects of clinical stroke care.7,8 It is daily practice for every stroke physician to report big amounts of data in electronic records, which often result to be underutilized in the busy clinical setting, and can be hardly handled by conventional statistical methods. Nonetheless, it is now emerging that they may turn into information able to potentially influence clinical evaluations if properly integrated and interpreted by machine-learning approaches. Intensifying the dialogue with data scientists, as well as providing specific training for interested residents, fellows, and specialists, are both desirable for the present and the future of stroke medicine. Public dissemination in scientific literature with reported details about employed methods, data transformation, handling of missing data, etc., is pivotal for research generalizability and development of useful clinical algorithms.\n1. Hart RG, Diener HC, Coutts SB, et al. Embolic strokes of undetermined source: the case for a new clinical construct. Lancet Neurol. 2014;13(4):429-438.\n2. Hart RG, Sharma M, Mundell H, et al. Rivaroxaban for Stroke Prevention after Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source. N Engl J Med. 2018;378(23):2191-2201.\n3. Diener HC, Sacco RL, Easton JD, et al. Dabigatran for Prevention of Stroke after Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source. N Engl J Med. 2019;380(20):1906-1917.\n4. Kamel H, Navi BB, Parikh NS, et al. Machine Learning Prediction of Stroke Mechanism in Embolic Strokes of Undetermined Source. Stroke. 2020.\n5. Kamel H, Longstreth WT Jr, Tirschwell DL, et al. The AtRial cardiopathy and antithrombotic drugs in prevention after cryptogenic stroke randomized trial: rationale and methods. Int J Stroke. 2019;14:207\u2013214.\n6. Geisler T, Poli S, Meisner C, et al. Apixaban for treatment of embolic stroke of undetermined source (ATTICUS randomized trial): Rationale and study design. Int J Stroke. 2017.\n7. Shameer K, Johnson KW, Glicksberg BS, Dudley JT, Sengupta PP. Machine learning in cardiovascular medicine: are we there yet? Heart. 2018;104(14):1156-1164.\n8. Mouridsen K, Thurner P, Zaharchuk G. Artificial Intelligence Applications in Stroke. 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{"text":"United for Equality in Sports & Entertainment is a Nonprofit Organization\nFootball Banners and Their Roles in a Successful Match\nAugust 7, 2020 August 7, 2020 by uese\nThe history of banners and its use in society can be traced back to as late as the nineteenth century. Banners presented a means of expression for revolutions and demonstrations.\nThese banners played a significant role in our communications and appearance, and this trend has not stopped.\nThe Roles of Football Banners in a Successful Match\nThe use of banners in the world of sports has a history to it as well, and this dates way back too. They serve for football, baseball, softball, basketball and all kinds of sports.\nSport team banners are affordable and effective in displaying support. The production of these banners requires skills and expertise. They are a visual expression of visual and textual artistry.\nThe game of football is loved and watched by many, as it is one of the most popular games with a huge fan base. Banners are a useful tool for use in the game. Football is gaining popularity, and it keeps increasing.to the supporters, football is more than a game; it is a culture\/tradition, an art of expression. It gives people an identity, a family, a group they belong to and connect. Supporting a team goes beyond being interested in a sport; it is an identity. Through this means, you form connections, mark out distinctions and have a sense of belonging to a group. It offers you the opportunity to celebrate with your favourite football team and enjoy the excitement that comes with it. Football has the potential to foster lasting bonds and friendships between people and associations.\nIn the game of football, you show your support to a team and state clearly that you belong with them and not with the opposite side. What better way to show and express your support than with a football banner? Showing your commitment to a football team arouses strong feelings among the supporters.\nBoth men and women play football as a sport. Football banners portray a powerful message of encouragement to the team and an identification. They are a common feature to see in football matches, be it a local club or an international organisation. You can celebrate your team using these banners.\nTeam sports banners contain texts, logos and images in some cases. You should know to the extent that your audience is knowledgeable, so you should consider this when you want to get a banner for your football team. The images may be of your team players, a logo or team mascot.\nWhat comes to your mind first when you see a football banner? Is it the colours that attract you or the images? Team sports banners go beyond what you can see. They are an expression of words. Before you purchase a football banner, consider the words or inscriptions that will appear on it, as well as the material to use, the colours and the images. Ensure to use durable materials that will last longer and stand the test of time. You can express the team's colour on this banner and its logo.\nTeam sports banners are a popular item to see at football pitches. As a coach, you can spur your team to become better and win at their games. When a layer sees his or her name on a team sports banner, it creates a feeling of motivation and satisfaction. These banners also provide a lovely backdrop for photos of the soccer team.\nFeatures of Football Banners\nTeam sports banners should be durable because they serve indoor and outdoor purposes. Sometimes, they may get wet or muddy if not adequately taken care. To avoid a tear of destruction, the best material to use is vinyl as it is durable for this purpose.\nBanners are of different sizes. However, we recommend a rectangular shaped banner with 5' x 3' dimensions. Also, use a team sports banner with pole pockets. It is easier to use Pole pockets with a display stand. All you have to do is slide the poles into the pockets when you want to put it in the field. Poles pockets are preferred to grommets because grommets are smaller and require more work during the installation. Also, more accessories grommets need more than with pole pockets.\nYou don't have to break the bank to get the best team sports banner for your team. Many online stores provide templates for football banner designs, or you can put on your thinking cap and design something unique for the team, like a hand-crafted football banner. Nothing says \"I support you\" to a football team louder than a football banner. Therefore, your team should have one. You never know, you may draw sponsors to your team and win more fans with it.\nWith that in mind, use bold and readable texts for your football banners so they can easily be seen from anywhere in the field and ensure the colours used are not too flashy.\nThe aim is to show support to a team and motivate the players to do well, so it is essential to consider these factors before you set out to buy a football banner for your club.\nA Guide to Different Types of Soccer Banners\nImportant Things to Consider Before Getting a Baseball Banner\nProudly powered by WordPress | Theme: eBlog Lite by UESE.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The News Scroll 30 July 2020 Last Updated at 4:43 pm | Source: PTI\nSend accused in judicial custody after COVID-19 test: Odisha prison authority to police\nOutlook July 30, 2020 16:43 IST Send accused in judicial custody after COVID-19 test: Odisha prison authority to police\nBhubaneswar, Jul 30 (PTI) The Odisha prison authority has asked the police to conduct RT-PCR test to detect coronavirus infection in accused before sending them to judicial custody, an official said on Thursday.\nAccording to sources in the state prison directorate, 96 inmates of 10 prisons in the state were found to have been infected by the novel coronavirus. Seventeen staff of four jails have also tested positive for COVID-19, they said.\nThe officials expressed anxiety over the viral infection spreading in prisons despite several precautionary measures. They said the highest 54 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in prisons of Berhampur circle, that also includes Ganjam district which has been hit hardest by the pandemic in Odisha.\n\"We have urged the police to conduct RT-PCR tests of the arrested persons before sending them to jails,\" Director General, Prison, S K Upadhay told PTI.\nA total of 17,509 inmates are lodged in the 85 prisons of Odisha, an official said, adding the first confirmed case was found in the Puri jail on May 17 when an accused arrested by Kumbhapada police station tested positive.\nAdequate measures under COVID-19 protocol are being taken to check the spread of the virus in jails.\nUpadhay said 16,789 inmates have been released from jails across the state on parole to decongest prisons in the wake of the pandemic. Besides, the authorities have shifted over 1,200 inmates to other prisons in order to reduce crowding, Upadhay said.\nOf those released on parole by July 28, 16,639 are undertrials and 150 convicts, he said.\nThe highest 5,231 inmates were released on parole under Berhampur circle keeping in view the vulnerability of Ganjam district, which has so far reported 9996 positive cases and accounted for 90 deaths.\nOdisha has a caseload of 30,378, while the death toll has mounted to 169.\nMeanwhile, authorities of the special jail in Bhubaneswar conducted antigen tests on 150 inmates and all the prisoners are being given a herbal concoction (''Kadha'') to boost immunity, said jail superintendent Dhiren Kumar Barik.\nThis apart, isolation wards are being disinfected in all jails as soon as the arrival of a new inmate, a senior official at the prison directorate said, adding inmates in some jails are also being given homoeopathic medicines to boost their immunity. PTI AAM SNS NSD\nDisclaimer :- This story has not been edited by Outlook staff and is auto-generated from news agency feeds. Source: PTI\nAugsburg 0-1 Bayern Munich: A Tale Of Two Penalties Wins It For Out-of-sorts Bundesliga Champions\nNext Story : Equity AUM rises 21 pc to Rs 7 lakh cr on rebound in mkts, SIP inflow: Report","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Information on 1kb9\nPDB: 1kb9\nCompound: ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase complex core prot\nClassification: OXIDOREDUCTASE\/ELECTRON TRANSPORT\nKEYWORD: 3D-structure Electron transport Inner membrane Mitochondrion Oxidoreductase Respiratory chain Transit peptide\nEC: 1.10.2.2\nSCOP: d.185.1.1 Alpha and beta proteins (a+b) LuxS\/MPP-like metallohydrolase LuxS\/MPP-like metallohydrolase MPP-like Cytochrome bc1 core subunit 1 Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)\nGO:\nGO: metalloendopeptidase activity proteolysis and peptidolysis\nKEYWORD: 3D-structure Electron transport Heme Mitochondrion Respiratory chain Transmembrane\nSCOP: f.32.1.1 Membrane and cell surface proteins and peptides a domain\/subunit of cytochrome bc1 complex (Ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase) a domain\/subunit of cytochrome bc1 complex (Ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase) a domain\/subunit of cytochrome bc1 complex (Ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase) Mitochondrial cytochrome b subunit, C-terminal domain 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{"text":"MAYOR LONDON BREED AND BUSINESS LEADERS ANNOUNCE COMMITMENT TO SAN FRANCISCO\nWritten on March 3, 2022 .\nContact: Mayor's Office of Communications, mayorspressoffice@sfgov.org\n*** PRESS RELEASE ***\nMajor businesses join City in committing to return to work plans starting in the month of March\nSan Francisco, CA \u2014 Today, Mayor London N. Breed and business leaders announced plans to commit to returning to in-person work in San Francisco throughout the month of March. Mayor Breed has worked with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and business leaders on implementing return to in-person work policies through the \"Welcome Back to SF\" pledge as the Omicron surge subsides.\nAs one of the highest vaccinated cities in the country, San Francisco is poised to welcome workers back to the office. The Omicron surge tested and proved the efficacy of vaccines\u2014despite a peak case rate 6.5 times the peak of the largest previous surge in January 2021, San Francisco's COVID mortality rate during the same period was less than half what it was in January 2021 and even lower amongst vaccinated individuals. After two years of primarily remote work policies by office-based industries, San Francisco's office core, comprised of the Financial District, East Cut, Union Square, Yerba Buena, Civic Center, and Mission Bay neighborhoods, has not shown the same degree of economic recovery as that of other City neighborhoods. The decrease in the number of workers has had significant repercussions for the small businesses that cater to offices and their employees.\nCity and County of San Francisco workers, many of whom have been telecommuting since the start of the Omicron surge, are scheduled to return to the office in varied capacities beginning Monday, March 7. Joining the City in this commitment to implement policies to bring employees back to offices are companies including Bank of America, Blackrock, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, FibroGen, Gap, the Golden State Warriors, Google, HOK, Invitae, JP Morgan Chase, Kilroy, Mastercard, Meta, Microsoft, Orrick, Salesforce, the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco Symphony, SPUR, Uber, United Airlines, University of California San Francisco, Visa, and Wells Fargo.\nBy pledging to Welcome Back to SF, each of these companies is committed to implementing return to in-person work policies in March. However, in the wake of widespread telecommute policies adopted during the pandemic, return to office policies may vary across companies. Regardless, the Welcome Back to SF pledge signifies a critical milestone in the resumption of economic activity and progression towards adopting long-term operating models that respond to the needs and considerations of individual businesses and their employees.\n\"By committing to San Francisco, these businesses and many more are investing in this City and what makes it special \u2013 the people who live and work here,\" said Mayor Breed. \"We are excited to welcome people back to downtown to work, to dine, and to experience the arts and culture that make this City special. This March is the start of a new beginning for this City, and I want to thank all the businesses and workers who are committed to supporting our city and our small businesses.\"\n\"We cannot overstate how important workers returning to their offices is to our survival and ultimately to the richness of San Francisco,\" said Denise Tran from Bun Mee. \"We have been tightening our belts and doing the best we can over the last two years, but without workers filling our downtown, it has been difficult. We've missed the bustle, the laughter, and the energy of having a full house each day. We depend on each other and can't wait to welcome the return of employees downtown.\"\nThe City has also partnered with several downtown stakeholders, including Boston Properties at Embarcadero Center, East Cut Community Benefits District, the Ferry Building, Union Square Alliance, Transbay Joint Powers Authority, Westfield San Francisco Centre, and the Crossing at East Cut to curate a series of events spanning the last week of March as part of efforts to welcome workers back downtown. More details on programming will be announced soon.\nAdditionally, through a $12.2 million investment by the City, Welcome Ambassadors are stationed throughout San Francisco's office core, including transit hubs and popular congregation points, to provide a welcoming atmosphere for returning office workers, residents, and tourists. Welcome Ambassadors also assist with street cleanliness, and maintenance. These Ambassadors supplement similar existing programs within each of the four Community Benefits Districts that serve San Francisco's office core.\nSupport from the Business Community on Returning to SF\nSonia Syngal, CEO of Gap Inc: \"Our culture is fueled by teams connecting meaningfully with each other to create and innovate for our customers. With that as our north star, we have spent the last year and a half completely redesigning our 2 Folsom San Francisco office with more agile workspaces, supported by technology that enables new ways of working. As we welcome more employees back to the office, there's a palpable energy with teams working together in a new, beautiful environment where they are inspired to do their best work. And we look forward to contributing to the revival of downtown San Francisco through the opening of four new retail stores \u2013 Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta \u2013 on the ground floor of our 2 Folsom building later this year.\"\nEnrique Conterno, Chief Executive Officer of FibroGen: \"We are proud to be part of the vibrant Mission Bay community, which is a factor in our attraction and retention of great talent. We have remained open throughout the pandemic, and we're delighted that more of our employees feel safe returning to the office, which we believe helps to deepen connection, foster collaboration, progress our science and invest in the local community in which we operate.\"\nDara Khosrowshahi, Uber CEO: \"One thing that the pandemic has taught us is that the benefits of in-person collaboration and camaraderie cannot be replaced. While we have not yet mandated in-person work, more and more colleagues have been returning voluntarily to our Mission Bay offices recently, and it has been reinvigorating to be with them in person again. As this trend continues, the city of San Francisco will benefit as well. Employees heading back to the office \u2013 and the coffee they may grab along the way \u2013 directly impacts small businesses and services, only strengthening the backbone of our economy. Alongside other company leaders, I have been working regularly from the office each week, and will be encouraging my team to do so. While we've made things work virtually the last two years, better days are ahead for the Bay Area.\"\nBrandon Schneider, Warriors President & Chief Operating Officer: \"In the live entertainment industry, it is no secret that nothing tops in-person interactions and experiences. I am so proud of how the Warriors organization has responded throughout the pandemic in a virtual setting, offering resources for all different facets of our community in need. However, our return to the office has elevated our ability to impact the community's ongoing needs, offer world-class events and games at Chase Center, and foster a more inclusive, engaging and exciting future for Dub Nation, San Francisco, and the entire Bay Area community. We applaud Mayor Breed's leadership throughout the pandemic in keeping San Franciscans safe, and are excited for this next phase of welcoming our employees back to the office!\"\nBrent Hyder, Salesforce President and Chief People Officer: \"Our employees are looking for ways to safely connect in person, and we're proud to welcome hundreds and soon-to-be thousands of employees to Salesforce Tower daily. As the largest private employer in San Francisco, we are deeply committed to the city and are excited our offices are buzzing again.\"\nThomas Li, Meta's San Francisco Community Engagement Lead: \"Bringing the world closer together and connecting people \u2013 is our mission and our business. It's about more than just working remotely; the future of work has community-building at its heart. We look forward to continuing to build that community right here in San Francisco both in and out of the office. We've always taken pride in creating vibrant office communities for employees, clients, and partners. We're committed to San Francisco \u2013 as are many of our employees who live here, raise families here and put down roots here. We can't wait to welcome our teams back to the office as well as this new chapter of the future of work.\"\nAndrew Livingston, Orrick's San Francisco Office Leader: \"We are excited to make our offices more accessible this month and expect to transition to the next phase of our hybrid working model in April. While our approach to the workplace will change, we will always have a strong presence in this great community to which we trace our roots. Our team is greatly looking forward to reconnecting in person.\"\nEd McLaughlin, Mastercard's President of Operations and Technology: \"As much as technology has helped us collaborate throughout the pandemic, there's no replacing human connections. They help reinforce who we are and what defines our culture. We look forward to our teams continuing to come together in our San Francisco office to maximize all the city, its small businesses and the broader Bay Area have to offer.\"\nShawn Villaron, Microsoft Bay Area Regional Site Leader and Vice President for PowerPoint: \"At Microsoft, we understand there is a deep connection between the community and the work we are doing to achieve our mission. We are excited to join other businesses and fully open our facilities in San Francisco to employees, visitors, and guests, as we value the ability to bring people together. With flexibility and inclusion at the core of our workplace approach, we look forward to this next chapter of our hybrid journey.\"\nJoshua Adler, MD, Chief Clinical Officer of UCSF Health: \"Since the pandemic began two years ago, thousands of our care providers, researchers, and frontline workers have continued to come on site every day to our hospitals, clinics and laboratories to serve our public mission. With all that we have learned about preventing transmission in the workplace, we feel very confident about bringing more of our workers back on site.\"\nRob Tibbets, Marketing Principle for HOK: \"HOK is thrilled to welcome its entire staff back to San Francisco \u2013 the city we all love. We look forward to the regeneration of our small business neighbors.\"\nDave Graham, head of Google's San Francisco office: \"We've long believed in the power that comes from having people come together in person to build community, drive innovation, support creativity and solve complex problems \u2014 it's why our campus will play an important role in supporting a flexible hybrid future. Many of our employees in San Francisco have already been coming into the office voluntarily to work and connect with colleagues, and we're excited that our local Google community will grow even more vibrant as we soon embark on our new hybrid work week journey in the city.\"\nJason Strle, CIO Enterprise Functions Technology and San Francisco Bay Area Site Leader for Wells Fargo: \"The health and safety of our employees is our top priority and we have prepared for a safe return into the office after two years. We believe in individual and collective benefits from in-person interactions and human connections, including networking, career development, team building, and key business collaboration. We also believe that we benefit from flexibility and will offer flexible schedules to many of our employees. Our customers, clients and company benefit from employees who are empowered to work in a way that fits, including balancing personal schedules, caring for their wellbeing, and pursuing their passions.\"\nMatthew Spivey, Interim Chief Executive Officer of the San Francisco Symphony: \"Ever since the San Francisco Symphony returned to giving in-person performances at Davies Symphony Hall last spring, our musicians have been sharing the joy and energy of live music making with our community again. We see firsthand the vibrancy and liveliness that the arts and our audiences bring to our neighborhood and our city as a whole. This month, the rest of the Symphony staff will also be returning to our offices, joining many of our neighbors in collaborating safely in person again in the heart of San Francisco.\"\nAlicia John-Baptiste, SPUR President and CEO: \"At SPUR, we believe that part of what makes cities so important is the way they bring people together. During the pandemic, we've seen many neighborhoods pull together as people started living much more local lives, and that community cohesion has been a real benefit to many. But there is something special about downtowns \u2013 where hundreds of thousands of people can come together in community, for arts and culture, for work, to make their voices heard, to explore and learn \u2013 and that's been missing for so much of the past two years. I'm looking forward to seeing our downtowns return, with all their vitality.\"\nRodney Fong, President and CEO of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce: \"San Francisco's business districts are the economic core of our city and their vibrance is key to the economic recovery. The Chamber of Commerce is back in the office in a hybrid model. We are eager to work with our member businesses and Mayor Breed to bring San Franciscans and Bay Area residents back to the office to reinvigorate neighborhoods that have suffered during the pandemic.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \/ ODF \/ The OOXML Compatibility Pack\nThe OOXML Compatibility Pack\n2006\/09\/06 By Rob\nJust saw something worth noting. I was on a machine running Office XP and tried to open an Office Open XML (OOXML) formatted document. I don't know why I tried that, but I did.\nWord was smart enough to put up the following dialog:\nNow, that is something I hadn't seen before. I think we all knew that Microsoft was planning a compatibility pack for enabling OOXML on Office 2003 and Office XP. But my 2002 version of Windows XP knows about OOXML? I guess this wisdom must have come down in a previously downloaded Office patch.\nIn any case, if you click yes, you are directed to this page where you are offered a download of \"Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats (Beta 2)\". I had the pre-req's, which included Windows XP SP2 and Office XP SP 3. So downloading a few file conversion filters should be simple and small, right?\nWell, simple, but not so small. I was suprised to see that the convertors download was 43MB. That seems a bit large. In comparison, you can download a complete copy of OpenOffice.org, with included support for ODF documents and the Office binary formats, and the entire product is only a 93MB download. The 0.2 ODF Add-in for Word is only 1MB in size. So why does adding OOXML support to Office XP require a 43MB download?\nIn any case, once it is downloaded and installed, the integration with Office appears seemless. You can open OOXML files from the Windows Explorer by double-clicking on them, you can browse and load them as expected from the File Open dialog in Office, you can re-save files in OOXML format via the File Save, you can create a new document and save it as OOXML, you can even configure Word XP so the OOXML formats are the default format for all saved documents in Word. In fact, you can do all of those things that the Microsoft-supported ODF Add-in is not doing.\nAs reported earlier, the Microsoft support for ODF puts this ISO standard at a distinct disadvantage, providing no shell integration, removing it from its expected place in the File\/Open and File\/Save menus, and preventing users from making it the default format in Office.\nSo, let's update the file format support matrix:\nDOC Format in OpenOffice\nODF Format in Word 2007\nOOXML Format in Word XP\n1. Format supported in default install Yes. No. Requires a download and install of separate, unsupported Add-in. No, but you are prompted to download a free converter pack the first time you attempt to open an OOXML file\n2. File Open integration Yes. No. ODF is not listed in the default File Open dialog and doing a Control-O will not show ODF documents. However, ODF import is available in a separate menu item elsewhere in the menu system. Yes.\n3. Save new document integration Yes. No. In fact no ODF save ability exists in the current version of the Add-in. There is a place holder for the ODF save operation, though it is on its own menu, and would not be shown when doing a simple Control-S to save a new document. Yes.\n4. Can be made the default format Yes. No. Although other non-Microsoft formats, such as \"Plain Text\" can be made the default format, ODF cannot. Yes.\n5. Simple round-tripping Yes. No. When an ODF document is loaded, its name is automatically changed and it is made read-only. So loading sampler.odt results in Word having a read-only version of sampler_tmp.docx. Attempting a simple Control-S to save will give an error. Yes.\n6. Shell integration Yes. No. Yes.\nI tip my hat to Microsoft for the way they have provided OOXML support in earlier versions of Office. Aside from the size of the download, the process was simple and the integration was seamless. That's the way it should be. But what makes them think that customers using ODF format would want anything less than this? That fact that they've been able to integrate OOXML so well only increases the shame in having integrated ODF so poorly.\nFiled Under: ODF, Office, OOXML\nI see no reason why the support of MS Office for ODF should be simular to their own formats.\nUsers of MS Office are better of with a format that supports all of the functionality.\nODF support is only usefull for compatibility reasons. So I find it very logical that the support is via a plugin simular to support for other Office documents formats like PDF or XPS.\nIt seems you are of the opinion that alle Office progrmas should support ODF as a native file format but quess what, some parties think their format is better for them and will only offer limited support.\nLive with it !!\nYou know what is better off for Office users? If so, I am awed by your prescience. Personally I would not presume.\nHowever, some organizations have already spoken for themselves and said that they want to use ODF. Some have also said that they want to continue to use MS Office at the same time. So for them, the Add-in support being offered by Microsoft is clearly inadaquete.\n\"Live with it!!\" you say? Remember, these are paying Office customers. They would just prefer to use an open file format. They deserve far more than scorn.\nhAl says\nODF does not support full MS Office functionality. It would not be prudent to use that format unless you would also limit your users in using MS Office functionality.\nSo that is why MS Office users are better of with Office Open XML.\nThere is no real advantage in using ODF over Office Open XML. I have followed your blog for a while and also those of some OOXML supporters and except for some nitpicking on minor issues the formats both have it's own merits.\nThe clear merit for OOXML is competability with all of MS Office functionality including that of former formats. ODF does not offer any advantage icm with MS Office.\nThe fact that some organisations have said they want to use ODF with MS Office is probalby due to concern about the openness of the OOXML format still often raised as arguments for ODF, but those issues are all in the past now that MS has given it's covenant not to sue.\nTHE most important reason for using ODF is when you plan to use OpenOffice as your Office suite as it is basically build on the format of that suite. The ODF format will be good for supporting the functionality of that suite.\nAs each format is open enough you should let your choice not be led by the format but by the functionality you need from your Office applications. At this moment the functionality offered by MS Office seem the better option especially if you need spreadsheet or presentations functionality where I find OOo to be weak.\nOOo is certainly an alternative with it's own merits (I like the standard PDF support) and if it fits your need why not. It is definitly cheaper than MS Office.\nCertainly the format is not a merit to me as long as there is a method of converting the format which there clearly will be.\nHi hAl,\nYou say that \"The clear merit for OOXML is competability with all of MS Office functionality including that of former formats.\" Are you quite sure of this? I have not heard Microsoft make this statement, and I would be surprised if they did. I've heard them say that alternatives like ODF did not support the full range of Office functionality, but I have never heard them say that OOXML does indeed support the full range of Office functionality.\nI think there is a good reason for this. My reading of the OOXML specification leads me to believe that OOXML does not represent everything that Office can do. In particular, OOXML does not specify macros or scripting, both important Office features. OOXML leaves these features unspecified, as amorphous blobs.\nNo doubt, Office 2007 can handle these features, and will find some way of saving them to the document, but it will be by using using binary blobs that are not explained in OOXML.\nIn any case, as individuals we regularly choose based purely on features and price (if that is a constraining factor). That's fine. But organizations, small and large, and government agencies, etc., would be in a horrible mess if every individual in their organization, or even every department, made their IT decisions in a completely uncoordinated fashion. Diversity and competition is good to have in the marketplace, but you don't necessary want that within an organization. So, IT standards emerge and corporations and government agencies make choices and adopt standards. So, the format war may be something that the average person will never care about, but to those who set IT policy, it is a very important question.\nHonestly, I don't see these IT policy decisions being made on the basis of feature checklists, like the feature-wars we had between spreadsheets and word processors in the early 1990's. I was around back then, working on Lotus SmartSuite, and all companies competing then were tossing in features of marginal merit (my opinion) to each release to feed those checklist-hungry editors of magazine reviews. Art Borders in Word? Talking Paperclips? The hangover from that feature orgy was a decade of security flaws in Office.\nFor the average user, today almost any modern word processor has more features than they need. If anything, I see users migrating to the simplicity and easy-access of web-based alternatives. 95% of the time I can manage with the word processing facilities in Blogger, MoinMoin or email. The other 5% require OpenOffice.org.\nFinally, you mention that ODF was based on the formats from OpenOffice.org. I won't dispute the fact that ODF came from OpenOffice.org, but I do think that this is merely a statement of historical fact, not a limitation. By your same argument, you could say that the most important thing about HTML is it is based on the format that NCSA Mosaic used. But HTML and ODF have moved out beyond their original applications and their spread continues.\nFrom the Ecma 1.4 draft:\n\"The goal is to enable the implementation of the Office Open XML formats by the widest set of tools and 5 platforms, fostering interoperability across office productivity applications and line-of-business systems, as well 6 as to support and strengthen document archival and preservation, all in a way that is fully compatible with the 7 large existing investments in Microsoft Office documents.\"\nSo competability with MS Office document which essentially represent office features is mentioned as a main goal for the OOXML format.\nI am not exactly sure how VBA script is added but I did notice that OOXML in it's standard uses different filenames for macro enabled files so you can easily identify potentially dangerous script files.\nVBA script might be a part of .NET and therefore doe not need separate doucmentation except on how to embed a .NET object.\nCurrently I find both formats lacking somewhat in embedding information. Basically I have not seen any limititation to ODF to what you can embed in the format but not quite the information on how to handle that embedded data ?\nI think both formats should take care in describing the behaviour more exact as this is a major new source for introducing virusses.\nFor the average user, today almost any modern word processor has more features than they need.\nYou know what is better off for word processor users? I am awed by your prescience.\nIf you could articulate a single benefit that ODF provides over Open XML for the \"average user\", perhaps more people would be persuaded.\nSurely, having a goal is not the same thing as the achievement of the goal. I'd like to hear Microsoft state unequivocally that the OOXML specification which will be voted on by Ecma will specify the storage, the syntax and the semantics of macros, scripts and OLE embeddings.\nI encourage anyone who is considering OOXML as a solution to their problems to ask the same question, \"Does OOXML specify the storage, syntax and semantics of macros, scripts and OLE embeddings\"? If the answer is not simply \"Yes\", then we do not have a complete and open specification.\nIf Microsoft wants to claim the OOXML is both an \"open standard\" and at the same time say that it is fully compatible with the \"large existing investments in Microsoft Office documents\", then they will have problems if things like macros are not specified. Where do you think this large investment comes from? It isn't just text and styles. A large part of the investment is in script automation. If that part is not specified, then the value proposition fly out the window.\nI'd like to see the scripting formats included in the Ecma specification, reviewed by Ecma's community process, with a patent covenant, etc. References to propriatary specifications on MSDN are insufficient. You can't make an open standard by merely referencing to a stack of proprietary technologies.\nIf MS decides to add the VBA script as CLI objects then it is already in an open Ecma standard (335).\nThe .NET framework is just a free implementation of that.\njonbailor says\n\"Well, simple, but not so small. I was suprised to see that the convertors download was 43MB. That seems a bit large.\"\nFYI \u2013 The Beta 2 Technical Refresh version of the Compatibility Pack is 26.6MB (http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/office\/preview\/beta\/converter.mspx)\nThe scripting format oculd be added as CLI components.\nCLI is already an Open Ecma standard.\nUsing CLI wouldn't require any need for descrbing the format in OOXML.\np.s. I wrote simular comments in the days before. This is my 3rd try. Are those lost\u2026???\nhAl,\nSorry, I've been on the road, at the OpenOffice.org conference in Lyon, and now taking a few days off for a mini-vacation in Paris. Finally got a wireless connection. As I've said before, all comments go into a moderation queue so I can remove the ones which are spam or simply obscene.\nIn any case, I only see two comments from you in the queue, so if there is a third one, please resend.\nTo your point on CLI \u2014 For OOXML to specify something which is compatible with \"billions of existing documents\", then the scripting interfaces need to be specified, by inclusion or by reference. This means the the storage formats, the language syntax and semantics, the Office object model, etc. As you know, the CLI only specifies the language type system and the virtual machine.\nI want to provide my opinion on two issues from different posts:\n1. \"It seems you are of the opinion that alle Office progrmas should support ODF as a native file format \"\u2026\nMSOffice has the ability to save as RTF or even ASCII format. When saving to these formats all pictures and lots of formatting information is lost. Why does Microsoft not include the ODF export at the same location as the RTF and ASCII export? I find only the answer Rob gave us: Trying to exclude ODF as much as possible. If MS has a technical or usability reason I would really like to hear it.\n1. \"If you could articulate a single benefit that ODF provides over Open XML for the \"average user\", perhaps more people would be persuaded.\"\nThe most important benefit for the average user is, that ODF is used as the native format by many office applications, OOXML is used natively only by MSOffice. The second advantage is, it is standardized, so the documents created today will be fully readable in 20 or 50 years, OOXML which contains macros will most likely not be as long \u2013 time stable as ODF with macros. The third advantage is, that there are several applications available at zero license cost which natively use ODF. The average asian or african user currently steals MSOffice to be compatible with that ugly \"MSOffice97 de-facto standard\" in the industry. Not stealing MSOffice is currently no option for a small welding company at a chinese village, because he could not communicate with his business partners effectively enough.\nThe ODF-creators explicitly begged MS repeatedly to join into the ODF specifying process. MS refused to participate, which leaves us with two XML standards, one which is completely new, one which reuses several established standards. Microsoft deliberately messed up an opportunity to standardize the office application file formats, at least that is what it looks like from the outside. It is quite comparable to what happend to the HD-DVD standard. It got messed up by some companies who thought \"we can make a thing which has 5% more storage and is 10% faster\". WOW! Really an advance! What they are ending up with now is a Market which is no market at all. Nobody buys HD drives unless they can read and write whatever is in widespread use. The rest of the economy is paying billions for this underuse of technical ability.\nGustl\nFor the visitors of this page, there is now an OOXML converter from Sun, also. Please look here:\nhttp:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/star\/openoffice\/\nWhile I'm not too knowledgeable about ooxml, I wonder how long it will be supported by Microsoft. And if they quit, who can support it?\nSupport Open Document Format | Dreambox says:\n[\u2026] [Robweir, OOXML] http:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/ooxml-compatibility-pack.html [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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The country's present per capita power consumption stands at 733.54 kilowatt-hours per year (kw\/yr).\nHowever, in a country with cities bursting at their seams with a population which threatens to multiply like piranhas in a feeding frenzy, the demand for power is a major concern. Technical advancements have today enabled the country to generate power from renewable sources, of which solar prevails as the most exciting sector. With around 300 days of sunshine each year, India enjoys ideal conditions for overcoming its energy deficit with the aid of solar power in the future. With much of the country not having the support of an electrical grid, solar power is expected to emerge as a boon, especially for water pumping, to begin replacing India's four to five million diesel powered water pumps, each consuming about 3.5 kilowatt of off-grid lighting.\nPower shortages are estimated at about 11 per cent of total energy and 15 per cent of peak capacity requirements which is likely to increase in the coming years.\nGrowth Prospects\nAccording to the report published by Bridge To India, India has the potential to install 145 GW of solar power capacity across various project sizes by 2024. The report states the capacity addition potential across four plant sizes: residential rooftop (1-5 kW), industrial and commercial rooftop (10-500 kW), utility-scale projects (5-50 MW) and ultra mega solar power projects (1-3 GW). Furthermore, the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) from solar energy is now at par with that of imported coal. While the LCOE for imported coal is expected to increase with a compounded annual growth rate of 12 per cent over the next ten years, the LCOE for solar power is expected to fall with a CAGR of 4 per cent. Solar power is expected to match LCOE of new domestic coal-fired power plants in 2019. Furthermore, commercial, industrial and utility-scale projects are expected to have the highest potential for capacity addition in the next ten years, according to industry experts.\nIn addition, ultra mega solar power projects with capacities of up to 4 GW have been planned by the Indian government. The segment is anticipated to witness a cumulative capacity addition of up to 2 GW by 2024. Such projects are being planned across India, and will also be supported by dedicated transmission corridors. The Central government has announced a financial package of $83 million for four such projects this year. Also, under the National Solar Mission, India plans to have a cumulative installed solar power capacity of 22 GW. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy hopes to have 100 GW capacity installed by 2030.\nJNNSM: GROWTH DRIVER\nThe Modi government has set its eyes to double the target of the upcoming phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) to 3,000 MW, the largest-ever tender for solar power in the country. The second batch of bidding under the second phase of JNNSM hopes to achieve 10,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2017. The cumulative target of the mission is to have 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022. The current solar power capacity of the country is 2,600 MW.\nSince many regions currently have no working power grid, off-grid solar installations (or 'microgrids') play an important role alongside large-scale solar power plants. 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