{"text":"Charity announces first programme to tackle superbugs\nCommon denominator that triggers allergic sensitisation and asthma identified\nIvacaftor: a quantum leap in treating cystic fibrosis?\nWarfarin and aspirin 'similar' for heart failure treatment\nNicOx releases first half 2012 results\nBehind the headlines: innovations in anticoagulation\nAntibiotic Research UK will announce at its Annual General meeting its first research programme to tackle antibiotic resistant bacteria (superbugs). Superbugs are becoming an increasing problem in hospitals as bacteria become more and more resistant to our existing antibiotics. The Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies recently said that if we don't tackle the problem now our grandchildren will not thank us. All the medical procedures we currently take for granted such as cancer treatment, open heart surgery, hip and knee replacement and organ transplantation will become much more risky. Ashley Burgess, the chairman of the charity said 'we should be afraid since so many of us rely on antibiotics working'.\nThe research programme, which requires the charity to raise \u00a3120,000, will focus on an under-researched area of finding drugs that can break antibiotic resistance allowing the life of our current antibiotics to be extended. Some 2000 existing drugs used to treat any disease will be tested as Antibiotic Resistance Breakers to see if any of them can work alongside the antibiotic to break resistance.\nProfessor Garner, the charity's Chief Executive, said 'this is an exciting opportunity to look at drugs such as those used for heart disease, arthritis, psychiatric disorders etc. to see if they when put together with an antibiotic can kill superbugs. The advantage of the approach is that it is faster and cheaper than trying to find a new antibiotic from scratch. We need the public to help us fund this programme, which we anticipate will start in early 2016'.\nThe charity, with some of the UK's top antibiotic resistance researchers behind it, aims to develop its first new antibiotic therapy by the early 2020's. The charity hopes to help in filling the hole left by many of the big pharmaceutical companies who have withdrawn from antibiotic drug development. The charity needs to raise up to \u00a330 million on the next 5\u20137 years, through a combination of traditional fundraising, corporate sponsorship, giving by trusts and foundations as well as newer fundraising methods such as crowd funding over the next five years.\nExpanded line of auxiliary labels for neuromuscular blocking agents announced\nCOPD: overview of updated NICE guidance\nManaging chronic hypoparathyroidism\nOnce-daily single inhaler triple therapy receives positive opinion for appropriate patients with COPD\nNicOx to present at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nu\u00f4i D\u1ea1y Con l\u00e0 tr\u00e1ch nhi\u1ec7m v\u00e0 ni\u1ec1m vui c\u1ee7a cha me\nV\u1ec1 Blog Nu\u00f4i D\u1ea1y Con\nOctober 20, 2008 Nu\u00f4i-D\u1ea1y-Con\nGi\u00e1o d\u1ee5c gi\u1edbi t\u00ednh cho tr\u1ebb \u2013 How to talk to your child about sex ( 6-8 years old)\nM\u1eddi c\u00e1c b\u1ea1n tham kh\u1ea3o th\u00eam b\u00e0i vi\u1ebft v\u1ec1 GDGT cho b\u00e9 6-8 tu\u1ed5i \u2026\nWhat to expect at this age\nDuring the early grade-school years, children's natural interest in their own bodies starts to give way \u2014 at least some of the time \u2014 to an increasingly compelling interest in their social world. They're busy trying to make and keep friends and develop their social and physical skills on the playground and ball field. Their interest in sex at this age can vary widely. In many grade-schoolers it surfaces only briefly, now and then \u2014 just one of many other things they're curious about. Other children are more consistently curious about sex and demand more detail than before.\nYour grade-schooler is also exposed to lots of opinions, ideas, and misconceptions that come from other children. He's likely to believe the \"facts\" he hears from his friends, no matter how outrageous they are. And if your 8-year-old has some 10-year-old buddies, he may be asking you questions you didn't think you'd have to handle so soon. When he hears your answers, he might take them in stride or he might react with a loud \"Yuck!\" This is a clear \u2014 and healthy \u2014 sign that he's just not ready to learn more details about sex yet. Most children under the age of 8 can't, and don't need to, grasp the actual mechanics of sex, and discussions of erections, periods, labor, and other aspects of sexuality may frighten them.\nHow to talk about it\nBe calm and relaxed. It's not easy to keep from cringing when your child asks you what a \"boner\" is. Just do your best to speak calmly, so you can respect your child's natural curiosity without being judgmental. Each time you successfully tackle a sensitive topic, the anxiety level (for both of you) goes down. If you avoid these talks, your child won't learn your values about sex, but will develop his own from what he gleans from friends and the media.\nMany adults feel awkward talking about sex with their child because they don't have much practice doing it and because they're afraid of telling too much once a discussion gets going . The best strategy is to try to answer questions calmly and succinctly, however unusual or embarrassing it seems. If talking about sex is difficult for you, try rehearsing your answers in advance, either alone or with your spouse or partner. Take advantage of questions that come up when you're both at ease \u2014 in the family room, on a walk, or during those quiet moments when you're tucking him into bed. The car is also a great place to talk, since having to keep your eyes on the road allows you to avoid eye contact, which may help you stay more relaxed.\n\"The important thing is for a parent to explain difficult topics without seeming anxious,\" says Jerome Kagan, professor of psychology at Harvard University. \"The child is picking up the melody line, not the words.\"\nReally listen. Resist the temptation to jump in with speeches the minute your child asks a question about sex. Parents have been known to embark on a long explanation of conception and birth only to hear their 6-year-old interrupt, \"No, I mean Timmy said he's from California; where did I come from?\" To make sure that you understand his question,you might try responding to your child's question with another question. \"How do babies grow \u2014 do you mean, how do a mom and dad start a baby growing? Or how does the baby get food when he's growing inside the mother?\"\nKeep it simple. Answers to questions about conception and birth can be a bit more detailed for grade-schoolers, but you probably don't need to go into detail about sexual intercourse yet. And while you don't want to sound like a doctor, you should use appropriate language (\"penis\" and \"vagina,\" not \"wee-wee\" or \"pee-pee\"). It will lessen the sense that sexual topics are off-limits and embarrassing. \"How are babies made? The dad has seeds, called sperm, which are made in the testes, in that special pouch of skin hanging behind his penis. Millions of tiny sperm are made there all the time. They get mixed with a white liquid called semen. The mom's eggs grow inside her body, in her ovaries. Every month the mom's ovaries make an egg. When we made you, semen from Daddy's penis carried the sperm into my womb. Just one sperm joined up with the egg, and that was the start of a new baby \u2014 you!\" Your child may or may not be satisfied with that answer. Keep answering his questions as long as he shows interest, but don't overload him with information if his next comment is, \"Okay. What's for dinner?\"\nEncourage his interest. No matter what your child's question, try not to snap, \"Where did you get that idea? We don't talk about things like that,\" and don't try to steer the conversation elsewhere. Either way, your grade-schooler will get the message that his perfectly normal questions are taboo, and that he's bad for even thinking of them. \"You want to be an 'ask-able' parent,\" says Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and coauthor of Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Sex and Character. \"Your kid should know you love this kind of conversation. He's constantly forming pictures in his mind of what reality is \u2014 and they're not always accurate. You want to be there to give him the truth and assuage any worries.\" So answer his questions and praise him for asking: \"What a good question! Ask me some more any time you want to.\" If you don't know the answer, tell him honestly, \"I'm not sure, but let's go look it up together.\" Your willingness to talk honestly with your child is an ongoing gift he'll need as he steers his way through the confusions of childhood, adolescence, and beyond.\nUse everyday opportunities. You don't have to wait for your child to ask all the questions. You've probably already been discussing sexuality for years, simply by talking about the mommy goat nursing her baby at the zoo or examining the broken bird's egg he found on the sidewalk. Keep using those moments, as well as scenes of family life in movies or on TV, to talk about relationships and sexuality. Books also provide perfect opportunities for talking about sex and birth. \"For grade-schoolers I highly recommend What's the Big Secret? by Laurie Krasny-Brown and Marc Brown, the creator of the Arthur books,\" says Pearl Simmons, an education specialist who teaches parenting classes at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.\nTeach privacy. Your grade-schooler understands the occasional need for \"private time,\" and he should know that he needs to knock before coming in when your door is closed. Be sure to follow the same rule yourself when your child has shut his door. It's also a good idea to continue to emphasize to your grade-schooler that his private parts are private. It's not unusual \u2014 and not really erotic \u2014 for 6-year-olds to experiment by \"playing doctor,\" so there's no need to scold your young grade-schooler if you catch him doing this. But he can learn that no one else should touch him there but Mom, Dad, or the doctor, and that he should say \"no\" to anyone who tries to touch his private parts against his wishes. \"This is an important issue, and you should teach it proactively,\" says Simmons.\nWhat kids ask \u2026 What parents answer\n\"What's sex?\" A 6-, 7-, or 8-year-old is most apt to ask this question if something he's seen or heard \u2014 usually from an older child or on TV \u2014 introduces the idea. Don't shy away from it, but remember that children this age are probably still too young for details about the mechanics of sex. However, even 6-year-olds can learn that there's an emotional element to sex. You can tell him, \"The word 'sex' is sometimes used to mean whether someone is a boy or a girl, like when we ask, 'What sex is the baby?' Sex is also one of the ways two grown-ups can show that they love each other very much, by touching each other's body during private time together. Or say, it's short for 'having sex' or, it is a way to say 'making love.' If he asks for more detail, you might say, \"Grown-ups use sex to make each other feel happy and wonderful. In sexual intercourse, a man's penis gets stiff and he puts it inside a woman's vagina. It feels good for both of them. If they want, a man and woman can have sex to start a baby.\" Related questions include, \"Why do people have sex? What's making love? Is sex what you do in bed? Does it hurt? Ugh \u2014 will I have to have sex?\"\n\"Can I make a baby?\" Here you can begin to explain the differences between children's and adults' bodies, as well as the differences in their emotional maturity levels. \"No, making babies is something only grown-ups can do. Your body isn't ready yet, but it will be when you're older. It also takes a lot of growing up on the inside to be ready to care for a baby, and so no one should make a baby until he or she is a mature adult.\" Similar questions include, \"How come teenagers can have babies?\" and \"Why can't dads have babies?\"\n\"How does the baby get out?\" Children are fascinated with pregnancy and birth, and they may envision anything from Mom vomiting up the baby to Dad unzipping Mom's belly and letting the baby walk out. Grade-schoolers can be told, \"When the baby is ready to be born, the bottom of the womb \u2014 which is called the cervix \u2014 slowly stretches open. Strong muscles in the womb push the baby down the vagina and out from between the mom's legs. This takes a few hours.\" Other questions about pregnancy and delivery include, \"Does it hurt to have the baby? How does the baby get food when he's inside of you? What does he look like now?\"\n\"What's masturbation?\" Odds are, your grade-schooler has already engaged in masturbation, but at this point he may be hearing the word (or euphemisms for it) at school and starting to wonder more about what it means. Because masturbation is a loaded topic for many adults, your child may also be wondering whether it's shameful or unnatural. You can tell him, \"Masturbation means touching your private parts \u2014 the penis for boys, the clitoris for girls. It doesn't do you any harm to masturbate; in fact, it's a normal thing to do. But because it involves your private parts, it's something people do in private only.\" Your child may also ask, \"Is it okay to masturbate? What does 'playing with yourself' mean? Is it dirty to touch myself down there?\"\n\"What's puberty?\" When your grade-schooler starts to think about puberty, he's thinking about growing up. Take his questions seriously, but pace your answers, deciding question by question how much information he's really ready for. You can tell him, \"Puberty is the time when your body starts to change from a child's body to a grown-up body. People go through puberty at different ages \u2014 some start as early as age 9 or 10, others not until 15 or 16, but most at around age 13. We can't predict exactly when you'll start, but it will be at the right time for your own body.\" This answer may be just enough for a 6- to 8-year-old, who could be overwhelmed by details of pubic hair growth and monthly periods.\nOn the other hand, a mature 8-year-old, particularly one who has an older sibling, may be ready for more information. \"During puberty, girls grow breasts and begin having their monthly periods \u2014 a few days of bleeding from their vagina \u2014 which shows that their bodies are getting ready to be able to have babies. Boys start to get wider shoulders, more muscles, facial hair, deeper voices, and they start making sperm in their testes \u2014 so they can make babies someday, too. Girls and boys both start growing more hair on their bodies and their private parts.\" Related questions include, \"When will I start puberty? Am I going to be different all of a sudden? Am I going to have to shave? What do you mean that David's voice is changing? Am I growing fast enough?\"\n\"What's a period?\" Because young children especially may link bleeding with pain, if they've heard about girls' monthly periods, they need to be reassured that this is a normal and positive part of growing up. Most girls will want specific information, but boys ask about periods, too. Tell your grade-schooler, \"A period and menstruation are the same thing \u2014 the time every month that a girl's body shows it's able to have a baby. Girls start having their periods when they go through puberty \u2014 and it could be anywhere from about age 10 to 15, though some start even earlier or even later. During her period, a girl bleeds through her vagina for a few days every month. Most girls wear a sanitary napkin, then, inside their underpants; later, many use tampons, which are like skinny napkins that fit inside the vagina.\" Related questions include, \"When am I going to get my period? Does it hurt? Can I have a baby then?\"\n\"When am I going to get breasts?\" Breasts are a big source of pride, envy, concern, and embarrassment to girls \u2014 and many boys tease about them. Let your grade-schooler know that breast size does not determine whether a person is pretty, sexy, or popular. \"Your breasts will start to develop when you start going through puberty,\" you can tell your grade-schooler. \"They might be one of the first signs that you're growing up, or other signs \u2014 like getting your period \u2014 could come first.\" Grade-school girls may also ask, \"How big are my breasts going to be? Can I get a bra? If I don't wear a bra when my breasts are growing, will they sag?\"\n\"What's a wet dream?\" Boys are as concerned about their penises as girls are about their breasts. Most 6- to 8-year-old boys aren't having wet dreams yet, but they may be hearing about them from older friends and siblings. You can explain, \"A wet dream is a sign that a boy is going through puberty. His testes are making a lot of sperm all the time, and when a lot of it has collected, it has to get out. The sperm comes out in semen when a boy's asleep. It's not the same as wetting your bed. Wet dreams are normal and natural, and most boys have them.\" Other questions about penises include, \"What's ejaculation? What's a boner? How big is my penis going to get? Do all boys have the same kind of penis?\"\n\"What does 'gay' mean?\" Unless he's already learned strong judgments about homosexuality from adults, a young grade-schooler is apt to accept same-sex relationships among adults fairly easily. But at this age, your child may be curious about how different relationships work. You can tell your grade-schooler, \"'Gay' is another word for 'homosexual.' A gay person is attracted to people of the same gender \u2014 so a gay man is attracted to men. A gay woman is called a lesbian, and she's attracted to women. If they love each other \u2014 like Mom and Dad love each other \u2014 homosexual adults can have sex together, live together, and raise children together.\" Your child may also ask, \"What's a 'homo'? Why is 'gay' a bad word? How can two women or men get married? How do gay people have babies?\"\n\"What are you and Dad doing?\" Many parents dread that their child might walk in on them during sex. It can also be acutely embarrassing for your grade-schooler. It's nearly impossible not to get flustered, but try (and then start locking the bedroom door!). You can say, \"Honey, Daddy and I need privacy right now. If you go back to your room, I'll be there in just a minute.\" Then put on a robe, take a few deep breaths, and go talk to your child. \"Mom and Dad were making love, showing how much we care about each other. We usually lock the door because that's private. We forgot this time.\" Depending on your child's reaction, you can ask, \"Did that upset you? Is there anything you need?\" Make sure your child isn't scared or worried by what he saw, and be sure to emphasize that he didn't do anything wrong. Don't chide, \"You should have knocked!\" By now your child is already wishing he hadn't gone in.\nIf you're sure your grade-schooler understood what he saw, you might try to ease the tension with a little humor by saying, \"Well, this isn't exactly how I'd planned to teach you about sex! I'm a little embarrassed, but I'll get over it. Now, ask me anything you want.\" A grade-schooler's response to seeing you making love can range from an upset, \"Were you hurting each other?\" to a curious \"Why were you making that noise?\" to an embarrassed, \"I'm getting out of here!\"\nPublished by Nu\u00f4i-D\u1ea1y-Con\nView all posts by Nu\u00f4i-D\u1ea1y-Con\nPrevious Gi\u00e1o d\u1ee5c gi\u1edbi t\u00ednh cho tr\u1ebb \u2013 How to talk to your child about sex ( 3 -4 years old)\nNext H\u00e3y chia s\u1ebb !\nnoramaj says:\nThank you for this post.Very interesting .You wrote a lot of interesting things about children and teenagers too.About sexual and interests between two sexes and go on.I can see that you worked very hard to give so many valueble informations.Very wise.I have read it with an enormous pleasant. and interesting.I'm greatful.You kept your promise and it is in English.Thanks, Thanks.\nNuoi-Day-Con says:\nThanks \ud83d\ude42 Pls. check tag \"English\", I will post more entries for you.\nAnonyme writes:\nK\u00caNH YOUTUBE BLOG NU\u00d4I D\u1ea0Y CON\nFACEBOOK BLOG NU\u00d4I D\u1ea0Y CON\nClick v\u00e0o \u1ea3nh \u0111\u1ec3 xem video clip h\u01b0\u1edbng d\u1eabn c\u00e1ch pha m\u00e0u n\u01b0\u1edbc tr\u1ef1c ti\u1ebfp tr\u00ean tranh\nFollow Blog \u0111\u1ec3 \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c c\u1eadp nh\u1eadt ngay khi c\u00f3 b\u00e0i m\u1edbi\nB\u00c0I & TRANG \u0110\u01af\u1ee2C CH\u00da \u00dd\nM\u1ed9t v\u00e0i th\u00f4ng tin v\u1ec1 luy\u1ec7n g\u00e0 \"Tr\u1ea7n \u0111\u1ea1i Ngh\u0129a\"\nReview v\u1ec1 c\u00e1c tr\u01b0\u1eddng qu\u1ed1c t\u1ebf\nTh\u1eddi kho\u00e1 bi\u1ec3u h\u1ebft s\u1ee9c l\u00e0 \"phong c\u00e1ch\"\nAN TO\u00c0N CHO TR\u1eba BLOG & BLOGGERS B\u1ec6NH TR\u1eba EM CH\u0102M S\u00d3C B\u00c9 0-1 TU\u1ed4I CH\u0102M S\u00d3C B\u00c9 1-3 TU\u1ed4I CH\u0102M S\u00d3C B\u00c9 3-5 TU\u1ed4I C\u00c1C M\u00d4N NGO\u1ea0I KH\u00d3A C\u00c2U CHUY\u1ec6N GI\u00c1O D\u1ee4C DINH D\u01af\u1ee0NG D\u00d2NG \u0110\u1edcI ENGLISH EXTRACURRICULUM GI\u00c1O D\u1ee4C GI\u1edaI T\u00cdNH GI\u00c1O D\u1ee4C NH\u00c2N C\u00c1CH GI\u00c1O D\u1ee4C TR\u00cd TU\u1ec6 GI\u1ea2I TR\u00cd H\u1eccC PH\u1ed4 TH\u00d4NG \u1ede M\u1ef8 KH\u00d4NG GIAN RI\u00caNG CHO CON L\u00c0M CHA M\u1eb8 MANG THAI V\u00c0 SINH N\u1ede MUA S\u1eaeM CHO CON S\u00c1CH M\u1eb8 \u0110\u1eccC S\u00c1CH V\u00c0 B\u0102NG \u0110\u0128A S\u1ee8C KH\u1eceE S\u1ef0 KI\u1ec6N","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Smart Meetings\nNew and Renovated\nSmart U: Meeting Professional Online Classes\nBaja Convention Managers Named\nby Emil Docev\nMexico City and Madrid firms have been awarded a contract as a private joint venture to manage the convention centers of Los Cabos and La Paz in Baja California Sur, the lower half of Mexico's Baja Peninsula. Trade Fair Institution of Madrid (IFEMA) and Actidea, S.A. de C.V. were declared winners of an international bidding contest.\n\"I'm sure they will be able to optimize this incredible infrastructure to stimulate the meetings and events industry in the state,\" said Luis Genaro Ruiz Hernandez, state minister of tourism. \"The meetings and events industry is a fundamental complement to diversify the tourism product of both destinations.\nThe convention center in Los Cabos has yet to be fully refurbished after damage by Hurricane Odile in 2014. The La Paz venue needs upgrading to be competitive in today's economic climate, especially in the areas of catering and audiovisual equipment.\n\"Now the next step is to establish contractual conditions in order to start with repairs, maintenance and equipment of both convention centers,\" Genaro Ruiz said.\nIFEMA has more than 30 years' experience as an event organizer of trade shows, conventions, large congresses and sporting events, making it one of Spain's biggest players in that arena. Actidea boasts two decades of coordinating and producing high-level events in Mexico and internationally\nThe Los Cabos Convention Center, which opened in 2012, features more than 58,000 sq. ft. of event space and can host groups of up to 6,000. The La Paz Convention Center, smaller but only two years old, offers 32,000 sq. ft. of event space and a capacity of 3,200 attendees.\nOctober 2022 Issue is Out Now\nIt can serve as your destination guide for the top CVBs in the US.\nSubscribe now View this Issue\nGalapagos: Natural Incentives and Inspiration\nEmil Docev\nA Local's Guide for Groups: Scotland\nMacao, Israel and Iceland: International Destinations on the Rise\nMeetings Update: We'll Always Have Paris\nAn Olympic Agenda: Plan Ahead for Tokyo, Beijing, Paris and Milan\nBe in touch with the hottest topics around & the breaking news around the world.\nEmail Address Field\nSmart Meetings is the leading meetings industry publisher and voice of inspiration for meeting professionals. We inspire our audience of meeting and event professionals to dream big\u2014and create brilliant experiences that delight attendees, achieve desired results and elevate the impact of the meetings industry. Smart Meetings publishes cutting-edge meetings content in print and digital magazines 12 times per year, hosts world-class networking events, produces CEU-accredited webinars and offers a myriad of digital resources.\nRegistration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our terms and conditions and privacy policy. Smart Meetings \u00a9 2023 Bright Business Media LLC. All rights reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Bright Business Media LLC.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Peering Into What Goes Awry in Schizophrenia\nDavid Dodell-Feder, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical & Social Sciences in Psychology, uses neuroimaging and MRI scanners in his studies on cognitive functioning in people with schizophrenia. (University of Rochester photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)\nPersonable, with a self-deprecating humor, David Dodell-Feder undertakes research that belies his easy-going manner. A new assistant professor in the University's psychology department with a secondary appointment in neuroscience, he studies the processes that underlie how humans navigate the social world and how those processes go awry in people with schizophrenia.\nEvery human's physical and mental constitution demands social connection and social contact, but \"large numbers of people don't have that social connection and therefore don't get to reap the benefits of having close social relationships,\" says Dodell-Feder. That's why people with schizophrenia have trouble forming, establishing, and maintaining healthy social relationships, romantic relationships, and relationships at work.\nHealthy interpersonal relationships matter\nAs social animals, the extent of our social connection carries important consequences for our health and well-being, he notes. \"When engaged in healthy social contact and rewarding social relationships, we thrive; when socially isolated, we wither.\" Studies have shown that social isolation is associated with psychiatric illness, physical illness, and early mortality, making social disconnection a major public health concern.\nDodell-Feder is now trying to figure out why people with schizophrenia are experiencing these social difficulties. To that end, he focuses on one process in particular\u2014theory of mind\u2014by which humans attribute and reason about the mental states of others.\n\"You can look at your husband, for example, and perhaps know what emotion he's feeling, or know what he wants to have for dinner, or do on the weekend,\" he says. \"These processes that we take for granted are actually really difficult for some groups of people.\"\nIt's this group of processes that seems to be disrupted in people with schizophrenia, affecting day-to-day social behavior. Dodell-Feder is working to establish how exactly the neural mechanisms are impaired\u2014a first step in designing any future interventions.\nHis research involves neuroimaging, something that made the University with its Rochester Center for Brain Imaging (RCBI) under the new leadership of John Foxe, chair of the Department of Neuroscience, very attractive to him. And Dodell-Feder says he's looking forward to working closely with schizophrenia expert Steven Lamberti, a professor of psychiatry at the Medical Center.\nReturn to Rochester\nThe new job at Rochester marks a return for Dodell-Feder. \"I just couldn't resist the prospect of six months of winter,\" the 32-year old jokes about Rochester's abrasive climate. But then he knew what he was getting himself into: he had left the University in 2008 with a BA in psychology and brain and cognitive sciences.\nIn the intervening decade, Dodell-Feder picked up a PhD in clinical psychology from Harvard University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Technology in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, before returning to the University of Rochester's Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology with a secondary appointment in the Medical Center's Department of Neuroscience.\n\"I'm fortunate that my colleagues are some of the best psychologists in the country,\" he says. \"To be able to work with them, and collaborate with them is just really exciting.\"\nThe Queens, New York, native fondly remembers his favorite undergraduate class at the University\u2014a seminar in humanistic psychotherapy, taught by psychology professor (and self-determination theory co-founder) Edward Deci. At his graduation ten years ago, Dodell-Feder had asked Deci for the honor to receive his diploma from his professor's hands. Deci was happy to oblige. Little did either man suspect that just a decade later his favorite prof would be voting enthusiastically to bring Dodell-Feder back as a colleague.\n\"David was an excellent student when he was an undergraduate here,\" Deci says. \"I had a sense that he would go on to a successful career in psychology, but I had, of course, no idea he'd end up here.\"\nAnother passion\nDuring his undergrad years in Rochester, Dodell-Feder followed his second passion\u2014music. He took saxophone lessons for credit at the Eastman School of Music. While an \"awesome\" experience, he felt somewhat bad for those professionals who taught him. \"I'm shocked they let me do it,\" laughs Dodell-Feder. \"I loved playing but, objectively, I wasn't terribly good.\" Yet, undeterred, he formed a jam band with friends on campus, played one semester in a chamber ensemble group, and for several semesters in a sax quartet.\nUltimately, it was his love of saxophone playing that prompted the idea for his undergraduate honors thesis\u2014a study comparing visual attention skills in musicians to non-musicians, hypothesizing that musicians would score higher.\nA great idea, he was convinced. But things didn't quite go as planned. For starters, it was difficult to recruit enough musicians.\nHis findings?\nNothing. At least nothing interesting.\n\"My sample size was just way too small to make any sort of conclusions or inferences from the data I collected, I'm sorry to say,\" he grins. Nevertheless, the experience whetted his appetite for academic inquiry.\nDoes reading fiction make us better human beings?\nMost recently, he's been looking at the effects of fiction reading on people's cognitive social skills, including the ability to feel empathy. Several studies have suggested that fiction reading serves as a way of priming humans' social skills, while others found no effect. Dodell-Feder's own meta-analysis of 14 studies confirmed that those people randomly assigned to read fiction performed better on a host of cognitive skills than those assigned to read non-fiction or nothing.\nYet, while Dodell-Feder found a \"robust\" effect, he's the first to admit that overall it was \"tiny.\" So small, in fact, that it might be the \"type of effect that a lot of researchers would disregard as not necessarily meaningful,\" he surmises. But for Dodell-Feder, who is looking to improve the social skills of people with schizophrenia with easily available, tolerable, and cost-effective treatments, a seed was planted.\n\"The finding is important and at the very least deserving of additional research,\" he says. The crux with the studies in his meta-analysis was that the test subjects had read fiction for a very short time, often just for five minutes. It's possible, he reasoned, that the short reading duration accounts for the very small effects.\nThat's why this summer, together with co-investigator Diana Tamir, a psychologist at Princeton University, and supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), he set out to study 300 healthy adults, randomly assigned to read fiction (or non-fiction) over the course of four weeks, hoping for a greater measurable impact on social cognition. Data collection has just begun and the results aren't in yet.\nCurrently, he's looking for a community partner in Rochester to test a similar hypothesis in adolescents to see whether fiction reading positively affects social and emotional development.\n\"What we really want to know is if fiction reading improves theory of mind and emotion processing, does this actually generalize to day-to-day social functioning and social behavior?\" he wonders. \"Does it actually help someone improve the quality and quantity of their social relationships? Does it make it easier for someone to connect socially with others?\"\nEssentially the question boils down to this\u2014does fiction reading teach you better social skills for the real world?\nHelping him in his quest for answers is a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation's NARSAD Young Investigator award for $70,000, paid out over two years, awarded this fall. It's for a project that employs real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rtfMRI) to see if social dysfunction in people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders can be improved through neurofeedback.\nBut all research aside, what's Dodell-Feder going to do about the long winters? As an undergraduate, he says, it didn't bother him as much, having spent much of his time working deep in the windowless stacks at Rush Rhees Library. This winter, however, he vows to be active outside\u2014either snow shoeing, or trying out cross country skiing.\nA habit from his undergrad times that he won't repeat any time soon?\n\"Drink a Genny Light,\" he says, referring to the somewhat watery but inexpensive, locally-brewed lager, a perennial favorite with students.\n\"I had a few since I came back and it's just the way I remembered it,\" Dodell-Feder laughs. \"Not good.\"\nDel Monte Institute for Neuroscience\nURMC Communications\nResearchers identify neurons that \"learn\" to smell a threat\nNew grant will use virtual reality to understand trauma and the brain\nResearchers reveal how trauma changes the brain\nRead the Full Issue\nLatest January 2023 December 2022 October 2022 September 2022 July 2022 June 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 May 2020 April 2020 February 2020 January 2020 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 May 2019 April 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 October 2018 September 2018 June 2018 April 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Julie Resynth, Acoustic Guitar, Marching Band Horn, Square Wave keyboard\nIt includes 4 packs:\nJulie Resynth: A fun cyborg vocal sample set, half human and half robot! This pack is based on one-shot samples of the voice of Julie, a Montreal jazz singer. But here the samples are resynthesized to create new ones that are playable chromatically across the keyboard. Both the demo and the full pack must be installed to have the complete content.\nSquare Wave: 13 PCMsynth presets and 2 Beatbox kits. The hardware electronic keyboard sampled here is a digital square wave instrument. It has 12 chromatic sounds, bass and 5 percussion sounds: kick, conga, snare, cymbal and hi-hat. All these do not sound like the acoustic instruments they're named after but more like the Sid chip, 80's and early 90's video games. Very good retro sounds for chip music (or chiptune). Square Wave video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oNjLvyevv30\nMarching Band Horn: It uses a French horn mouthpiece and the range is a little lower than a trumpet and a little higher than a trombone. To make most of the instruments in this set I played single notes and resynthesized them to create multi-samples. In all cases the resulting tone is still very brassy and close to the natural one. The demo has 7 PCMSynth instruments and the full version adds 30 for a total of 37 instruments. Most are multi-sampled. Both the demo and the full pack must be installed to have the complete content. More info in the PDF files included in the free preview for the 3 packs above. And their more extensive computer version (in various other formats) are also on Sampleism.\nAcoustic Guitar: A simple, good sounding multi-sampled acoustic guitar bank for the PCMSynth. The guitar had steel strings and was played with a pick. Recorded with 3 different microphones simultaneously: a condenser, a ribbon and a guitar pickup. The notes are not as even and perfect as in many sophisticated guitar libraries. Here's a comment Rej (Caustic's developer) made about it, the capitals are his: \"On the other hand, after having done a test pattern, it sounds VERY natural, probably because of these imperfections... For me, it's really cool to have something that sounds so natural... it's a REAL recording of an imperfect instrument.\" The guitar does not have a demo in the free preview but here's the demo video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ev3ftY-cDrg\nFuture House Bundle\nView Product From \u00a364.96 \u00a327.93 YOU SAVE 57%\nTrick Or Trap 2\nMore wild and dark Trap samples\nView Product From \u00a313.29\nIndustrial Terror Bundle\nView Product From \u00a349 \u00a337.73 YOU SAVE 23%\n113 samples\nMothership Sound Effects","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Christianity \/ Intan Jaya \/ military operation \/ shooting \/ West Papua \/ Indonesia's military says 2 soldiers killed in Papua clash\nIndonesia's military says 2 soldiers killed in Papua clash\n02:25 Christianity, Intan Jaya, military operation, shooting, West Papua\nBy Niniek Karmini\u2009|\u2009AP\nJAKARTA, Indonesia \u2014 Two soldiers were killed in a clash between security forces and independence fighters in Indonesia's restive easternmost province of Papua, the military said Wednesday.\nMilitary spokesman Col. Taibur Rahman said rebels opened fire at troops on patrol in a village in Intan Jaya district on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers. The village is known as a hotbed of separatist rebels.\nHe said the troops had been deployed to help police prevent any disturbances by separatists ahead of Christmas celebrations in the predominantly Christian region.\nThe shootout is the latest in a series of violent incidents this year in the mineral-rich but impoverished Papua region, where conflicts between indigenous Papuans and Indonesian security forces are common.\nThe military said two suspected rebels were killed in a gunbattle on Dec. 2 in Lanny Jaya district, in an apparent escalation of attacks by the West Papua National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Free Papua Movement, marking Dec. 1, which many Papuans consider to be the anniversary of what should have been their independence.\nPolice said they arrested at least 34 people accused of treason on Dec. 1 for attending a ceremony and raising flags with the separatist symbol. A declaration of independence from Dutch rule on Dec. 1, 1961, was rejected by the Dutch and later by Indonesia.\nIn September, more than 30 people were killed during violent protests by thousands of people in Papua and West Papua provinces against alleged racism toward Papuans.\nAn insurgency has simmered since the early 1960s in Papua, a a former Dutch colony in the western part of New Guinea that is ethnically and culturally distinct from much of Indonesia.\nPapua was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 after a U.N.-sponsored ballot that was widely seen as a sham.\nfrom WordPress https:\/\/ift.tt\/2Srkjcu\nvia IFTTT December 25, 2019 at 07:07PM\nIndonesia's military says 2 soldiers killed in Papua clash Reviewed by Kopi Papua on 02:25 Rating: 5","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Something Happened on the Day He Died': How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton at FSNNA19\nOctober 29, 2019 ~ valerie gritsch\nBelow you can find my slides and outline from the presentation I gave at the Fan Studies Network North America academic conference on October 25, 2019, at DePaul University, Chicago, IL in the Agency in Music Fandoms panel. This is part of my MA thesis research, that I am currently working on at the CUNY Graduate Center. Additionally, some of this work will be published soon in the Journal of Popular Culture.\nYou can watch the video of my presentation by clicking here! Thank you to Jessie Salfen for filming.\nThis presentation is part of my thesis research, where I am using David Bowie as a case study on the intersections of fandom, celebrity death, and tourism.\nAs you may know, musician, actor, and international icon David Bowie died on January 10th, 2016 after a secret battle with cancer. His death came as a shock to fans and occurred just two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his final album Blackstar.\nThe day after his death, about 4.3 million tweets were posted eulogizing and celebrating Bowie in the first 24 hours \u2013 per the DailyMail. One tweet, in particular, seen here below and left, suggested having a street party in Bowie's hometown of Brixton in South London, which was seen by other fans and eventually picked up by news outlets like NME, The Independent, and more. This led to a Facebook event being made to further spread the word of this spontaneous memorial, seen below, right. It did not seem to matter whose idea the party was, just that as many people as possible could join on short notice. This is an example of how social media posts can lead to \"support through action\" where fans meet up at \"real-life\" events to connect with their community (Courbet and Fourquet-Courbet 285).\nThe Bowie Brixton Street Party took place on the evening of January 11, 2016. The original proposed meet-up location was at The Ritzy \/ Windrush Square on Brixton Road (the bottom-most highlighted location). The Ritzy is a famous cinema on Brixton's high street and is situated at a large open, public space known as Windrush Square \u2013 which was named after the ship that brought the first Afro-Carribean Immigrants to London post-WWII. The Brixton Underground station is the very end of the Victoria line in London, and is located at the second lightning bolt \u2013 is where Brixton Road meets Tunstall Road. On Tunstall Road (which is really more of an alley) there is a huge mural of David Bowie as Aladdin Sane that was painted in 2013. Going slightly south from the tube station, one can find David Bowie's birthplace at 40 Stansfield Road.\nThe proximity of these three sites was the main reason Brixton stood apart from all the spontaneous gatherings happening in the wake of Bowie's death, and why this neighborhood has endured as a site of pilgrimage. The area is readily serviced by multiple bus routes, the London Underground and Overground lines, and all of these are accessible to disabled users. The neighborhood is flat ground, and easy to navigate, so fans could access these three points of interest the night of the street party \u2013 and beyond \u2013 to celebrate Bowie's life.\nNo official number is known, but it is estimated that thousands of fans gathered in Brixton to remember Bowie. Fans sang his songs, wore their Aladdin Sane face paint, danced, projected his videos on buildings, and left material tributes for Bowie at his birthplace and at the mural \u2013 typically graffiti, cards, newspaper articles, flowers, candles, and the like. \"Spontaneous memorials help mediate the crisis of sudden, inexplicable loss\u2026 that are highly scripted performances of mourning and managing grief\" (Doss, 298).\nHere we can see what these three sites looked like on January 11, 2016.\nThe local government of Brixton, the Lambeth Council, estimates about 5000 people left tributes at the mural on Tunstall Road the weekend of Bowie's death. Due to the massive public gathering in Brixton, news outlets and social media documented the \"spontaneous memorial\" that slowly turned permanent, if only by fans' persistence. This was the birth of the main ritual fans enact: coming to Brixton, visiting the mural, leaving a tribute, taking a photo, and remembering Bowie. Shrines like Brixton's mural allow the dead to remain in our lives, we can visit and connect with them whenever we want, and can become authors of their legacy. Death does not rob us of celebrities, it gives them to us. Death didn't take Bowie away, it made him more accessible.\nDue to fans' ongoing persistence and attention to the mural on Tunstall Road, The Lambeth Council has made it a protected site, reassuring that this will be a pilgrimage landscape for years to come. Originally they just had the artist of the mural come back on occasion to touch up the work, then they installed plexiglass sheets over the mural allowing notes to be tucked in, and finally, in 2018 they installed a massive plexiglass sheet that is properly secured to the wall and isn't going anywhere. But by installing these protective sheets, they are protecting not just the mural but the graffitied love letters to Bowie underneath. Thus, they are protecting the legacy of Bowie-in-Brixton, in addition to Bowie-fans-in-Brixton.\nThis means Brixton becomes a place to think about David Bowie's fans as much as it is a place to think about his life and career. His fandom is now as tied to Brixton as he is.\nDespite protecting this site, there is no official interpretation of it or the graffiti that surrounds it. This means the area is open to anyone's interpretation and anyone can take a photo, share it, and create their own narrative of what is happening there and why.\nArchaeologist Paul Graves-Brown argues that shrines, like this one for Bowie, \"are the product of collective and democratic popular activity\" \u2013 which means we can call this a site of participatory authorship.\nThe mural and its online archive, through social media, blogs, and travel sites, becomes a form of participatory memory, which Liza Potts defines as \"the ways in which people memorialize, celebrate, and reflect across physical and digital spaces.\" By engaging with the site, fans can influence the story that is being told about Bowie's life. Derek Alderman, writing of Graceland's graffitied outer wall, argues that landscapes like these show \"the visible articulation of multiple, sometimes competing discourses\u2026\" which demonstrates the versatile way in which these celebrities are important to visitors. (Alderman 28). The journeys fans make to Brixton, and the act of visiting sites like the mural and enacting these rituals we've discussed, allows fans to become authors of Bowie's memory rather than simply a consumer of it. Bowie's fans are ultimately the ones mediating and writing his image in Brixton. They are the ones creating the interpretation of these sites in question. This allows them to portray him in the ways that mean the most to them: other-worldly, comforting, iconic, a sex symbol, a friend. Every persona Bowie embodied throughout his career can be featured and remembered at the mural in Brixton, as long as a fan wants them there.\nThe otherwise average neighborhood where Bowie was born becomes sacred through the mediation of tourist literature and web-postings from fans, locals, and news outlets. Similar to the study Jennifer Otter Bickerdike and John Sparrowhawk conducted on Bowie's Berlin, the \"'sacralization' process\" occurring in Brixton is \"further reinforced by\u2026 the rise of Web 2.0, E-Word of Mouth and the growth of networked communities\u2026 which augment existing narratives about sacred places and peoples experience of them\" (53). Through the media coverage shared online about Bowie's Brixton, the importance of each site is strengthened and further reaffirmed with each new post on the subject.\nThis mediation of physical locations allows fans to enter Brixton with knowledge of the area, which can have two effects: fans can become desensitized to the scene and find themselves underwhelmed as the sites do not live up to the hype created around them, or the mediation can make Brixton feel familiar and therefore comfortable to fans upon their arrival. The mediation also conveys to fans at home what rituals they should enact once they are in the area. For example:: Media like this video and article from The Culture Trip contribute to Brixton's tourist literature. \"The Best Things To Do In Brixton\" begins with our host arriving at the Bowie mural, looking at tributes, and writing his own message on the wall.\nPreviously, pilgrimages to Brixton were folk events but the persistent fan attention given to the area led to the creation of commercial tours, like Bowie Tour London, which was created in 2017. They advertise their Brixton tour as \"an all encompassing journey from birth to death,\" and here you can see some photos from when I took their tour in January of this year. Brixton naturally lends itself to the story arc of Bowie's life, beginning at Stansfield Rd. (below, left) and ending at Windrush Square and the mural \u2013 where fans went when he died (right). To borrow Bickerdike and Sparrowhawk's words \u2013 By touring the area \u2013 alone or with a guide \u2013 fans \"normalize and rationalize the transformation of the spaces from overlooked to revered\" (Bickerdike & Sparrowhawk 57).\nWithout Bowie's fans, Brixton is just another place he temporarily lived. It only becomes a destination through their attention (ibid.). This is evident through the lack of landscape interpretation like heritage plaques or posthumously erected monuments, that has still become the place to spend an afternoon with David Bowie's life in a physical way. Visiting Brixton, to use Jennifer Otter Bickerdike's words, allows the \"fan to 'follow' Bowie, feel closer to them, if only for a few minutes. It happened here\" (Bickerdike 129).\nBrixton was always proud of it's hometown hero, and it has responded to the increased tourism from Bowie-mania in stride. For example, the mural is painted on the side of a Morleys department store, which features a large selection of Bowie merchandise in addition to general Brixton and London souvenirs. To me, this reaffirms Brixton and the mural in particular as a tourist destination for Bowie fans, as locals would not buy Brixton centric kitsch for themselves. Other shops in the area have also embraced Bowie in their own ways, like hanging artwork related to him on their walls, or like the cafe Brixton Blend having a special \"Stardust\" blend of espresso coffee. Even the UK hotel chain Premier Inn features a life-size reproduction of the Bowie mural in the hotel lobby of their Brixton location, despite being a two-minute walk from the actual wall. Additionally, fans can find a truly unique souvenir in a Brixton Pound note. Brixton has it's own local currency, and Bowie is featured on their ten pound note. This was created before his death, but it is truly something you can't find anywhere else but Brixton, and it has become even more of a collectible for fans since his passing.\nThis mediation and selling of Brixton and Bowie would theoretically clash with the idea of it being a scared site for fans, but it seems to only amplify the message that Brixton is the ultimate destination for them. It is also interesting that despite the merchandise and experiences for sale in Brixton, fans and tourists continue to focus on the mural as the main way to connect with David Bowie.\nSo what's the aftermath?\nBowie's fans are creating a new layer of meaning for Brixton, that is being embraced by the local government and businesses \u2013 because, It's good for business! And, for a neighborhood undergoing gentrification, Bowie tourism can signal safety to white people who in some cases are still scared to visit the area after multiple instances rioting in response to a series of police brutality acts against immigrants and people of color in the 1980s.\nBowie Mania sanitizes Brixton's occasionally troubled past and eclipses Brixton's vibrant history and culture, that is largely a history of Afro-Carribean immigrants. Bowie was actually a small part of Brixton's overall history \u2013 He only lived there for the first six years of his life, but to fans that seems to be a minor detail.\nYes, Something happened on the day he died: the three separate entities of Bowie, Brixton, and fandom became intertwined, inseparable and enduring. Bowie's fandom is now part of the history of the area, whether locals like it or not. His fans have forever left their mark on Brixton, and it remains to be seen just how severe the transformation will be based on their repeated visits to the neighborhood as time goes on.\nIf you enjoyed this and learned something, you can support my continued research and work by: buying me a cup of coffee: https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/valderie or becoming a patron: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/valderie\nAlderman, Derek H. \"Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in Pilgrimage Landscapes.\" Tourism Recreation Research, vol. 27, no. 2, 2002, pp. 27-33.\nBickerdike, Jennifer Otter. Fandom, Image and Authenticity: Joy Devotion and the Second Lives of Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.\nBickerdike, Jennifer Otter, and John Charles Sparrowhawk, \"Desperately Seeking Bowie: How Berlin Bowie Tourism Transcends the Sacred,\" Enchanting David Bowie: Space\/Time\/Body\/Memory, edited by Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore, and Sean Redmond, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, pp. 49-60.\nCourbet, Didier and Marie-Pierre Fourquet-Courbet \"When a Celebrity Dies \u2026Social Identity, Uses of Social Media, and the Mourning Process Among Fans: the Case of Michael Jackson.\" Celebrity Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2014, pp. 275-290.\nDean, Christina. \"The Best Things To Do in Brixton.\" The Culture Trip, 13 Mar. 2019. http:\/\/www.theculturetrip.com\/europe\/united-kingdom\/england\/london\/articles\/the-best-things-to-see-and-do-in-brixton\/. Accessed 20 Mar. 2019.\nDoss, Erika. \"Spontaneous Memorials and Contemporary Modes of Mourning in America.\" Material Religion, vol. 2, no. 3, 2006, pp. 294\u2013319.\nGiaimo, Cara. \"Decoding London's Spontaneous David Bowie Shrines.\" Atlas Obscura, 6 Apr. 2017. http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/david-bowie-shrine-study. Accessed 05 Jan. 2019.\nPotts, Liza. Participatory Memory: Fandom Experiences Across Time and Space, 2018. http:\/\/www.participatorymemory.org\/. 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{"text":"Support for Doncaster's ethnic minority projects\nMembers of an Ethnic Minority Regeneration Partnership, based in Doncaster, are celebrating after being awarded a cash injection of \u00a33,500.\nPeter Singh, Sarah Harvey and Mark Field\nThe funding from The Screwfix Foundation, a charity that supports projects to maintain and improve properties for those in need, will allow them to replace the flooring in their facility where they train. Here, the black and minority ethnic voluntary and community sector learn how to play a meaningful role in the economic, social and economic development of Doncaster.\nMark Field, Store Manager of Screwfix, Swinton, said: \"It's fantastic to see money we raised being invested back into a worthwhile community project.\"\nMark Field, along with Sarah Harvey and Peter Singh from the DEMRP are pictured at a cheque presentation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Features, History, Interviews, People\nInterview: McSorley's Historian Bill Wander Fills Us In on the Secrets of NYC's Oldest Bar\nPosted On Tue, March 17, 2015 By Dana Schulz In Features, History, Interviews, People\nUndoubtedly, there are hundreds of New Yorkers and out-of-towners planning to stop by McSorley's Old Ale House today for a St. Patrick's Day round of beers. But beyond the brews and bros, there's a deep history rooted in this East Village institution, and we've found the man who knows it all.\nThe official historian of McSorley's, Bill Wander can give you the full timeline that dates McSorley's to 1854, making it the oldest bar in the city. He can also fill you in on all the tchotchkes adorning the walls of this Irish tavern, none of which have been removed since 1910. But more important than the textbook facts related to McSorley's, Bill has an undeniable passion for this watering hole, for both its important cultural history and the unique social atmosphere that keeps the bar a neighborhood mainstay after all these years. We recently chatted with Bill to find out some of the lesser-known details about McSorley's and what the title of \"official historian\" entails.\nMcSorley's in 1937, taken by Berenice Abbot, via NYPL\nHow did you assume the role of official historian at McSorley's?\nI usually answer that by saying, \"I had the library card.\" And I give it a second or two for the joke to work.\nMcSorley's founding date was challenged in the mid 1990's. I realized that while the greatest piece ever written about McSorley's was Joseph Mitchell's 1940 New Yorker article \"The Old House at Home.\" But what did we know beyond that? I spent one day in the library and found the trail lead right to 1854. I took what I had back to Matty Maher, McSorley's owner, and he asked me if I'd stay on it. We shook hands with the agreement that we would stand or fall on the evidence. My reward was the title of historian. I had been a researcher in the documentary film world for years, but never tackled primary research. This was before Ancestry.com\u2013census records were on scratchy microfilm, and you found things with an indexing system called Soundex. In a way it was better than the digitized versions\u2013I often found things that had been mis-filed or mis-transcribed.\nSo my bulging file cabinet, and pile of notes, is a bar bet that got out of hand.\nCan you give us the background on John McSorley and what it was like when he first opened the tavern in 1854?\nJohn McSorley is considered a famine immigrant\u2013his ship landed in New York in January of 1851. He is not a dirt-poor Irishman\u2013he has relatives here, one a successful businessman, who probably paid John's passage. He does everything wrong\u2013his saloon is in a neighborhood that is more German than Irish, and his offering is ale, not lager beer, the popular drink of the time. He is not on a corner, and he is too close to a church. In the beginning the building was not five stories tall\u2013there was nothing in the neighborhood that tall. Tavern is the wrong word\u2013at the time tavern usually meant lodging and food. This was a saloon. In a town full of saloons. At first he shared the address\u2013the bar room was only half the size it is today. It would be ten years before the landlord improved the building to a tenement with flats above and the entire first floor became a saloon.\nIt was a good location, a transportation hub\u2013the horse cars transferred here, there was a booming market across the street, and the street was the uptown edge of the theater district. John's landlord plays a large part in this\u2013he is the social opposite of the McSorleys. He's a lawyer, a southern transplant from Charleston, a former slave owner, protestant, and he left a paper trail, showing that his association with the McSorleys begins in 1852 and continues to his grandchildren in the 1940's.\nOver the years, there's been a lot of debate about whether McSorley's actually holds the title for the city's oldest bar. In fact, just last month Neir's Tavern in Woodhaven, Queens said that it opened in 1829, 30 years before McSorley's. How do you defend McSorley's title?\nI can't comment on Neir's\u2013I haven't seen the research yet. It may very well be that a business of bar\/tavern\/of one sort has been there over the years\u2013so I am anxious to see the details. The last time McSorley's age was called in to question, the challenger's evidence turned out to be cherry picked\u2013closures and ownerships were left out, a trucking company occupying the premise ignored, documents misinterpreted at best, misrepresented at worst. The newspapers took off\u2013none of the press checked any of the claims, proclaiming that \"city records showed it to be an empty lot,\" and declaring a \"gotcha\" to McSorley's. Nobody grasped the fact that tax records are kept in fiscal years, and no one is taxed on what they are going to have. Rather than showing that McSorley's is not there, it shows that it is\u2013right on time.\nMcSorley's title \"oldest\" goes back to the end of Prohibition. The day after it ended, a New York Newspaper proclaimed that title (strangely enough they knew right where to find McSorley's). But McSorley's has the advantage of its stubborn refusal to change for fad or fashion, something that was noted when the place was less that forty-five years old. Neir's has had to change to keep a business going, but no matter how this sorts itself out, neither business will change or suffer from the facts.\n1912 painting by John Sloan titled \"McSorley's Bar\"\nHas the ownership changed much over the years?\nDepending on how you count, there have been seven owners of McSorley's\u2013John, his son Bill, then Dan O'Connell who bought the place. Daniel's daughter Dorothy inherited McSorley's at his death. Dot's husband Harry managed the place and was the owner for the briefest time, a few months after his wife's passing away. Some people don't count Harry, as the estate was still in court when he died. Their son Danny owned it then, but decided to sell it to the current owner Matthew Maher, a trusted employee since the early 1960's. But in 161 years, that ownership covers only three families.\nThe bar didn't allow women in until 1970. Tell us a bit about how that came to be (and did they have a restroom?).\nIt was not uncommon for respectable 19th century places to keep women out. A woman in a bar was considered to be up to no good. Women found their place at the bar with their foot on the rail after prohibition. McSorley's policy in its time was not unique, but it outlasted the custom. By 1969, it was almost all alone, but even then, the Biltmore Hotel did not allow \"unaccompanied\" women at the bar either. McSorley's didn't allow them at all, even though the owner at the time was a woman, Dorothy Kirwan.\nIn January of 1969, Faith Seidenberg and Karen DeCrow traveled from Syracuse with the express purpose of being served at McSorley's. They entered, were asked to leave, and then were escorted out. They brought suit against the bar, claiming that as they had a liquor license issued by the state, they had to serve all members of the public. By late June of 1970, a judge agreed with them and ordered McSorley's to serve women. While that is often the story cited, that is not what brought women into McSorley's. As soon as the judge ruled, McSorley's filed an appeal. City Council woman Carol Greitzer sponsored an anti-discrimination law and that was signed in August of 1970 forcing the opening of McSorley's to all. A lot of people don't understand the actual action that brought women through the door. Seidenberg and DeCrow got the ball rolling, but it was Carol Greitzer who finished the job.\nThere was no ladies' room for another 15 years because the law stated that they only needed sanitary facilities for their employees, and McSorley's only had men on the payroll. So, the \"sanitary facilities\" were shared. McSorley's didn't rush into this in case it was a fad.\nInside McSorley's \u00a9 MsSaraKelly on Flickr\nThe horseshoe surrounding a relief bust of Abe Lincoln behind the bar \u00a9 Bill Wander\nToday, the bar is a kind of museum to its own history, full of old tchotchkes, newspaper clippings, and photos of famed persons who have passed through the doors, such as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, John Lennon, and Woody Guthrie. What are some of the quirkier of the mementos? And do you have a favorite?\nThere are the shackles worn by a prisoner of war from the Civil War, an opium pipe, and there are rumors of the ashes of more than one regular. I like the Fenian bond, and there is a huge horseshoe that surrounds a relief bust of Abe Lincoln. The legend says that the shoe came from one of the horses that pulled Lincoln's hearse.\nWhat's with the sawdust on the floor?\nIt's one of those anachronisms of McSorley's because once upon a time, in the days of spittoons, not everybody had good aim. Likewise any other spillage. Sawdust is absorbent, and you can make any kind of mess that you might find on a saloon floor sweepable. It would also make it easy to slide a keg or beer box across the floor.\nMcSorley's famously only offers two bar options\u2013light beer or dark beer. How do you find the younger generations of patrons respond to this limited menu in the age of artisanal brews?\nIt comes down to the difference between beer and ale\u2013to a brewer they are not interchangeable. McSorley's is an ale house. After prohibition, many of the beer and ale styles vanished. Tastes favored light frothy drinks (think \"the King of Beers\" regional styles), and seasonal brews were gone. McSorley's had ale and kept the flag of ale flying when ale was all but forgotten. Now look at recent fads in brewing. Manhattan Brewery? Gone. New Amsterdam? Micro- breweries come and go. There are only so many styles of beer and ale, and the fad brewers are left with tricks\u2013hot peppers, fruit flavors, crazy amounts of hops\u2013 trying to outdo each other. Long after they are gone, McSorley's will still pull you a light or a dark. Limited menu? You didn't come here to change the place.\nHow would you describe the bar's regulars?\nOver fifty years ago manager Harry Kirwan described a McSorley's regular as someone who had been coming there for thirty years. That necessarily makes a regular a certain age. There are regulars from the neighborhood, either residents or workers. They are retired merchant mariners, book editors, real estate agents, a librarian, and once inside the doors they are members of a society without classes. I've sat at a table with multi-millionaires, and with students who just about had the price of an ale. They're tourists, Knickerbockers, and \"pilgrims\" in search of history.\nThe busy interior of the McSorley's historic bar \u00a9 Flickr user Vincent Desjardins\nYou're working on a book about McSorley's; when can we expect to find it on shelves?\nI could say \"Christmas\" and not say what year. Every time I think I am closing in on completion, something else roars in over the transom. Many people come in claiming kinship to the McSorleys. Last year somebody did who actually was and descends from John's sister. The revelations about the in-laws painted a picture of Old John as sharing the trade. I stumbled on the obituary of John's grandson and finally found what happened to John's daughter\u2013and it explains the fondness that Tammany Hall politicians had for the place.\nOther than McSorley's what are your historic interests?\nI am fascinated by New York City in the last half of the 19th century. I've researched house histories for friends, answering questions like \"who lived in my house 100 years ago?\" and \"when did that addition change the house?\" I got off on a tangent while researching a McSorley's lost tradition\u2013the Beefsteak Banquet\u2013and I delivered a presentation to the New York State Historical Association tracing it back to the 18th Century in Manhattan, and coincidentally a Beefsteak revival has sprung up.\nOkay, last question, and the one our readers are probably all wondering, how often do you frequent McSorley's?\nI can be in there three times in a week, and then not for three months. That does not mean I'm partaking of \"the ale that never lets you grow old,\" in the words of e.e.cummings. Sometime it's to check a fact, sometimes for lunch, and sometimes \"just for one. . .\" I can't put away as much as I used to, but that leaves more for everybody else.\n[This interview has been edited]\n5 Prohibition-Style Speakeasies to Transport You Back to the Gilded Age\nKleindeutschland: The History of the East Village's Little Germany\nWebsite \"WhatWasThere\" Lets Users Tour Their Neighborhoods Through Historic Photos\nTags : Bill Wander, McSorley's\nNeighborhoods : East Village\nThomas X. Casey\nIt was a lot of fun reading your article. I have had many doubles at McSorley's. We are all connected\u2026My friend Stephen Paul DeVillo has a new book coming out \u2013 The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street and of course discusses McSorley's. What he may not have mentioned, is that John Wroughton Mitchell, who died July 31, 1878 & estate owned the lot and building from the 1850's to 1888 and is in a NYC land-marked district. Mr. Mitchell's daughter Anna H. married Peter C. Van Schaick April 24,1850 and she died October 19, 1876. Mr. Van Schaick in his will directed his estate in 1880 to have a Library built in Anna's honor and donated to the Town of Westchester, now in the Bronx at 9 Westchester Square. The Library was designed by Frederick Clarke Withers, built by John Henderson & Sons and is now land-marked as the Huntington Free Library, of which I am President.\nPS Based on Mr. Mitchell's work with the Episcopal church, his wife Caroline Green, sister of Timothy Ruggles Green of Massachusetts ( trustee of Brown University and was active in religious circles) and Law partner with Mr. Mitchell, I do not believe Mr. Mitchell owned slaves. He may have documented ownership and treatment, but I do not believe he actually owned slaves.\nThomas Moriarty\nIn 1994 the late Richard McDermott research determined that McSorley's site was still an empty lot in 1861.his research was backed by the AIA GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY, AND THE NEW YORK TIMES.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"The portion of Sardis Road that was washed out following heavy rains in the area has reopened.\nHall County Engineer Kevin McInturff said the on-call contractor for the project, Simpson Trucking & Grading, completed work on the roadway Saturday.\n\"Despite continuous wet weather that caused unavoidable delays, Simpson's crews went above and beyond to make sure these repairs were made as quickly as possible,\" he said. \"Whenever the weather permitted, they were out there late into the night, making sure the job got done.\"\nHall County officials responded to the affected portion of the roadway between the Sardis Compactor Site and Sardis Elementary School on Oct. 2 and immediately secured the area.\n\"Our first priority is always the safety of our citizens,\" Hall County Administrator Randy Knighton said. \"We appreciate the public's patience as repairs were made to ensure this road was safe to drive on once again.\"\nA detour was put in place while repair work occurred. Sardis Road reopened shortly following the completion of those repairs.\n\u21d0Previous New judge appointed to Hall County Juvenile CourtNext\u21d2 Hall Co. Tax Commissioner reminds residents how to retrieve RIN for renewals","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jim Broadbent >\nJim Broadbent Page 3\nFollow Jim Broadbent\nJim Broadbent Quick Links News Pictures Video Film Quotes RSS\nJim Broadbent Quick Links\nNews Pictures Video Film Quotes RSS\nJim Broadbent Loves His Flawed Character In The Sense Of An Ending\nBy Rich Cline in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 17 April 2017\nThe Sense of an Ending is released Easter Monday\nTo play the lead role in the film adaptation of Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, Jim Broadbent says that going back to Julian Barnes' writing was the key. \"Just how someone speaks reveals so much about them,\" Broadbent says of his character, Tony. \"Hearing that voice is the most useful thing you can get.\"\nJim Broadbent in The Sense Of An Ending\nBroadbent says that the role resonated in his own past, especially his school days. \"I wasn't quite one of those smart, intellectual sixth-formers,\" he laughs, \"but those schoolboy relationships are fairly consistent over the generations, and I certainly recognise him from my own. I also recognise the arrogance and awkwardness of youth. So the arc of his life from school until now, I knew exactly where he was coming from.\"\nContinue reading: Jim Broadbent Loves His Flawed Character In The Sense Of An Ending\nThe Sense Of An Ending Review\nJulian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning novel is adapted into a remarkably intelligent, gently involving film anchored by a terrific performance from Jim Broadbent. With an unusually realistic depiction of London life, this an introspective story about finding closure, and it's nice that the filmmakers avoid ramping up the narrative to push a big emotional climax. Instead, it's in the small moments that the film rings true.\nBroadbent plays Tony, a pensioner who runs a small camera shop as a hobby. His primary distraction is his single daughter Susie (Michelle Dockery), who is in the final stages of pregnancy. So Tony and his ex-wife Margaret (Harriet Walter) are providing whatever support they can. Then out of the blue he is notified of an inheritance from someone in his distant past. This sends him down memory lane, as he remembers his life as a university student (then Billy Howle), falling in love with Veronica (Freya Mavor) and feeling crushed when she fell for his best friend Adrian (Joe Alwyn) instead. So Tony tracks down Veronica (now Charlotte Rampling) in the present day to try to sort out their loose ends.\nThis is a complex story about how tricky it is to make sense of a messy past. The film refuses to simplify things in any way, leaving the audience to see themselves in the characters and situations as it flickers back and forth between the two timelines, dropping hints and details until the final piece falls into the puzzle. And the message is that you can't get closure until you accept even the more difficult elements of your story.\nContinue reading: The Sense Of An Ending Review\nJim Broadbent Says The Sense Of An Ending Is About Complexity, Not Age\nBy Rich Cline in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 10 March 2017\nOscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent has had an unusually varied career ranging from acclaimed dramas like Iris and Brooklyn to lighter entertainment in the Bridget Jones and Harry Potter movies.\nAt 67 Jim Broadbent is also one of the few actors who plays his age on-screen. In the British drama The Sense of an Ending, he plays a retired man looking back at his life, pondering his regrets through the eyes of his ex-wife and an old flame (played by Harriet Walter and Charlotte Rampling, respectively).\nBroadbent says that the character was easy to identify with. \"He's actually not really grown up,\" he says. \"A lot of us older people like to think we're mature and grown-up and know what we're about. But we're still anxious and vulnerable and as arrogant and flawed as when we were at 20. We just get better at disguising it, at editing our life and behaving, supposedly, properly. I'm constantly astonished that I'm 67 years old and approaching 70. I think I'm just starting to think maybe somewhere down the line I'll get the hang of things. You never feel you've gotten there, that you've achieved any sort of wisdom.\"\nContinue reading: Jim Broadbent Says The Sense Of An Ending Is About Complexity, Not Age\nJim Broadbent Reveals Details About His 'Game Of Thrones' Season 7 Character\nBy Ed Biggs in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 08 March 2017\nSpeaking to Screencrush, the 67 year old stage and film mainstay spoke a little about his character from 'Game of Thrones'.\nVeteran British actor Jim Broadbent has teased a few details about the \"significant\" character he will portray in the upcoming seventh season of 'Game of Thrones' \u2013 and it turns out that a great deal of the fan speculation was correct!\nDespite the HBO hit show's producers wishing to keep almost everything about season seven under wraps ahead of its arrival later this year, Broadbent spilled a few crucial details for 'GoT' fans in a new interview with entertainment site Screencrush.\nJim Broadbent talked about his 'Game of Thrones' character\nContinue reading: Jim Broadbent Reveals Details About His 'Game Of Thrones' Season 7 Character\nThe Sense Of An Ending Trailer\nTony Webster is a retired man in his sixties whose past comes back to haunt him when he receives a strange letter in the post. It takes him back to his university days when he met the love of his life Veronica Ford. Though they have been estranged since then, she bequeaths him a diary in her will. Their separation was one of bitterness and heartbreak; his best friend Adrian Finn ended up stealing Veronica's heart, and Tony reacted by sending them a very angry letter in response to their partnership. Not long after, Adrian died in mysterious circumstances and with all the horror of those years brought up once again, Tony is forced to confront his guilt and innoncence in the whole saga - as well as other people's suspicions.\nContinue: The Sense Of An Ending Trailer\nBridget Jones's Baby Review\nAs it's been 12 years since the last Bridget Jones movie, expectations aren't too high for this sequel. So it's a very nice surprise that this film stands on its own as a charming and often very funny romantic comedy while rounding off the trilogy in style. The cast is terrific, and the script bristles with snappy dialogue and witty characters that lead the audience down an unpredictable route to a complicated happy ending.\nOn her 43rd birthday, Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is finally content with her single life. Although her romantic past continues to torment her, especially when she runs into former flame Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at a funeral. With a corporate shake-up underway at the TV news programme she produces, presenter Miranda (Sara Solemani) suggests that Bridget needs some sex to liven up her life, whisking her off to a music festival. There she has a cute, hot encounter with the dishy Jack (Patrick Dempsey). And a week later, she rekindles her romance with Mark when she learns that his marriage has ended. So when she discovers that she's pregnant, Bridget hasn't a clue which man is the father.\nThis premise offers plenty of scope for both thematic meaning and awkward plot turns, and the screenplay merrily dives right into all of it, mixing some silly slapstick with darker emotions as director Sharon Maguire maintains a breezy-comical tone. This kind of balance is difficult to get right, but the film feels effortlessly engaging.\nContinue reading: Bridget Jones's Baby Review\nJim Broadbent Joins Cast Of 'Game Of Thrones' For Season 7\nBy Ed Biggs in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 01 September 2016\nJim Broadbent HBO\nThe English actor is to play a \"significant\" role in season 7 of 'Game of Thrones', it has been announced.\nVeteran British actor Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of 'Game of Thrones' for its seventh series, in what is described as a \"significant\" role.\nThe 67 year old actor, renowned for dozens of award-winning roles in movies, on television and the stage, is to play a major part in the seventh and penultimate series of HBO's ever-popular fantasy drama when it returns in the summer of 2017, according to Entertainment Weekly.\nJim Broadbent is to play a \"significant\" role in 'Game of Thrones' series 7\nContinue reading: Jim Broadbent Joins Cast Of 'Game Of Thrones' For Season 7\nBridget Jones's Baby Trailer\nBridget has always known how to get herself into a muddle - catastrophic muddles at that - even though she's been separated from her last love, Mark, for five years it appears their journey together hasn't come to an end as yet.\nAfter taking advice from one of her colleagues, Bridget decides that it's time to get back on the dating scene and after deciding that the likes of Tinder aren't for her, Bridget finds herself being set up with Jack Qwant who she sees in the news room studio.\nThe pair get on remarkably well and soon find themselves spending the night together. A little fun is just what Bridget needed. When she finds herself at the christening of one of her friends little girls, her and Mark are forced to be amicable towards one another but the pair fall into old habits and Bridget and he also spend the night together.\nContinue: Bridget Jones's Baby Trailer\nJim Broadbent - Photographs of a variety of stars as they took to the red carpet for the world premiere of 'Paddington' which was held at the Odeon cinema in London, United Kingdom - Sunday 23rd November 2014\nJim Broadbent - The Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2014 (BAFTA) - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 18th May 2014\nJim Broadbent - Arqiva British Academy Television Awards held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane - Arrivals. - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 18th May 2014\nJim Broadbent - 'The Harry Hill Movie' World Premiere at the Vue Cinema, Leicester Square, London - London, United Kingdom - Thursday 19th December 2013\nJim Broadbent - The World Premiere of 'Harry Hill The Movie' - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Thursday 19th December 2013\nJim Broadbent - Moet British Independent Film Awards held at Old Billingsgate Market - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 8th December 2013\nLe Week-end Review\nBy Rich Cline\nLike a 20-years-later sequel to Before Midnight, this sharply observant comedy-drama follows a couple through a soul-searching weekend in which they evaluate their relationship with real wit and emotion. And transparent performances make it something to savour, as it offers us a rare grown-up movie about real issues we can identify with.\nAs the title suggests, the weekend in question takes place in France, and it's a 30th anniversary treat for Nick and Meg (Broadbent and Duncan). They can't really afford a trip to Paris, especially after ditching their dodgy pre-booked hotel in lieu of something far nicer, but they figure out ways to make their time special. Meanwhile, they talk about their years together, and the hopes and regrets that are haunting their thoughts. There are some hard questions to ask about their future, even as they haven't lost that spark of sexuality. Then they run into Nick's old Cambridge pal Morgan (Goldblum), who invites them to a party where they meet academics and artists just like them. Which only makes them think even more.\nThe key issues for them include Nick's early retirement (for an ill-timed comment to a student) and Meg's desire to change her life completely. As they consider the options, their conversations drive the film forward forcefully, flowing through cycles of flirtation and laughter to bitterness and cruelty. The depth of their love is never in doubt, even as they wonder how secure their relationship actually is. Broadbent and Duncan play these scenes effortlessly, taking our breath away because it's all so honest, often both funny and scary at the same time.\nContinue reading: Le Week-end Review\nFilth Review\nAs another full-on Irvine Welsh adaptation Trainspotting did in 1996, this bracingly original movie puts a new filmmaker on the map. Not only is this a loud blast of both style and substance, but it refuses to water down its subject matter, taking us through a shockingly profane story in a way that's both visually inventive and emotionally resonant.\nThis is the story of Bruce (McAvoy), an Edinburgh detective who's determined to beat his colleagues to a promotion. He's also a relentless womaniser, sexist, racist and drug addict. And he'll do anything to get ahead, hiding the sordid details of his private life from his boss (Sessions) while undermining the other cops at any chance while pretending to be their friends. In quick succession, he gets young Ray (Bell) addicted to cocaine, flirts continually with Amanda (Poots), has a fling with the kinky wife (Dickie) of fellow officer Gus (Lewis), torments Peter (Elliott) about his sexuality, and takes Bladesey (Marsan) on a sex-tourism holiday while making obscene calls to his needy wife (Henderson). All of this happens while Bruce leads the investigation into a grisly murder.\nMcAvoy dives so far into this role that we barely recognise him in there. Bruce is so amoral that we are taken aback by each degrading moment. And yet McAvoy somehow manages to hold our sympathy due to the film's blackly hilarious tone and a startling undercurrent of real emotion. Even though he's a monster, we see his boyish fragility, especially in surreal sequences involving his therapist (Broadbent), which merge with his fantasies, hallucinations and nightmares.\nContinue reading: Filth Review\nColin Firth Will Put On His Wellies & Raincoat As He Lends His Voice To Paddington Bear\nBy Joe Wilde in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 14 September 2013\nColin Firth Hugh Bonneville Julie Walters Jim Broadbent Nicole Kidman\nBrit actor Colin Firth will provide the voice of Paddington Bear in a new live-action movie\nColin Firth has agreed to play Paddington Bear in a re-boot of the famed Michael Bond books about a bear from Peru with a taste for marmalade. In the original Bond books, Paddington is found by the Brown family in London's Paddington Station after getting lost on the way over from his South American homeland. It is thought that the origins from the book will be mirrored on to the screen.\nColin Firth will play the marmalade-loving bear\nIn a discussion with the Daily Mail, Firth revealed that the movie will all be live action, except for the computer animated Paddington. Firth also revealed that as well as providing the voice for Paddington, his facial expressions will be mapped and used by the animators to construct the Paddington we see on stage, using the same methods used to capture Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films.\nContinue reading: Colin Firth Will Put On His Wellies & Raincoat As He Lends His Voice To Paddington Bear\nWith Bana And Hall, How Did 'Closed Circuit' Fail To Please?\nBy Michael West in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 28 August 2013\nEric Bana Rebecca Hall Jim Broadbent John Crowley\n'Closed Circuit' boasts a stunning cast, though fails to deliver when required.\nClosed Circuit, the new crime-thriller from Is Anybody There? director John Crowley, has failed to impress the critics ahead of its highly anticipated release this week. The international suspense thriller features a glittering cast including Eric Bana, the superb Rebecca Hall and Jim Broadbent, though was criticized for its pacing and urgency.\nThe movie focuses on a high-profile terrorism case that unexpectantly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team. One morning, a busy London market is hit by an bombing, though only one member of the accused survives and is arrested and jailed.\nPreparations begin for one of the trials of the century, though here's the hitch: the government will use classified information to prosecute the man - evidence so secret that neither he nor his lawyers can see it. When the accused's lawyer dies expectantly, a feisty young replacement (Bana) steps up to the plate and begins to untangle a web of conspiracy, which all sounds great, but the critics can take or leave it.\nContinue reading: With Bana And Hall, How Did 'Closed Circuit' Fail To Please?\nHarry Hill And Julie Walters Race Scooters For 'The Harry Hill Movie' [Pictures]\nBy Michael West in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 15 May 2013\nHarry Hill Julie Walters Jim Broadbent Matt Lucas Sheridan Smith\nThe Harry Hill Movie looks like a riot!\nForget The Fast & The Furious! This week, comedian Harry Hill and British movie legend Julie Walters took to their scooters and powered through a quiet London suburb to film scenes from Hill's new movie Harry Hill The Movie. In a pretty hilarious looking scene, the comedian drives a yellow mobility scooter in typically slapstick fashion, falling off it at one point as Walters - who plays his grandmother - cackles away.\nIconic actress Walters was almost unrecognizable in a white frizzy wig, dark sunglasses and purple jacket while Hill was dressed as, well, Harry Hill. The comedian opted for his signature suit with big collared shirt and creeper shoes. The movie follows Harry and his grandmother as they attempt to get his pet hamster from London to a vet in Blackpool before the clock winds down. It's seems a pretty silly premise, though Harry has assembled quite for the cast for the movie, including revered actor Jim Broadbent, comedian Matt Lucas and recent Olivier award winner Sheridan Smith.\nDirected by Steve Bendelack and co-written by Harry, Jon Forster and James Lamont, the movie is due to hit cinemas later in the year.\nContinue reading: Harry Hill And Julie Walters Race Scooters For 'The Harry Hill Movie' [Pictures]\nJames McAvoy Needs To Clean Up His Act In Filth (Trailer)\nBy Hayley Avron in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 12 April 2013\nJames McAvoy Irvine Welsh Jamie Bell Imogen Poots Jim Broadbent\nFilth, the latest movie to star James McAvoy, is an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name and it has all the hallmarks of a classic Irvine Welsh movie adaptation, with its fast-paced, seedy cinematography and wry, snappy humour. The word filth takes on two meanings here. McAvoy plays the central character Bruce Robertson, who \u2013 by all accounts, is a pretty filthy kinda guy, he's into some fairly unsavoury sexual practises and when his doctor asks if he's been taking his medication, he's only able to sort-of-honestly answer 'yes' because of all the illicit substances he's been snorting. That's not the only kind of 'filth' he is though \u2013 he's also a police officer. A Detective Sergeant no less.\nRobertson's not one for abiding by the law, however and even when he's on duty, he's a pretty deceitful, dishonest kind of guy and will do anything to get one over on his colleagues, so that he can get a promotion. However, the combination of mind-altering drugs and the fact that he's collapsing under a mountain of lies soon starts to take a toll on his sanity and wellbeing. Add to that the fact that he has a troubled marriage that he's desperate to save and things aren't looking great for him, all told.\nThis red-band trailer precedes the September release of the movie which also stars Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Joanne Froggett and Jim Broadbent.\nContinue reading: James McAvoy Needs To Clean Up His Act In Filth (Trailer)\nFilth - Red Band Trailer\nThis trailer is only suitable for persons aged 18 or over.\nBruce Robertson is a vile, devious and emotionally disturbed individual who also happens to be a Detective Sergeant. Off duty, he lives a life of debauchery; snorting line after line of cocaine and indulging in sordid sexual encounters with numerous women while trying to control his unpredictable bipolar personality. On duty, he does everything within his power to trick, deceive and ruin the lives of his colleagues with whom he competes to achieve a promotion to detective inspector. He does nothing to hide his radical views on race and women as he attempts to solve a grisly murder that seems to have more to it than he initially thought. With the web of lies he weaves throughout his life, will he be able to sort out truths from the untruths in order to maintain his sanity as his deteriorating mental health threatens to cripple him? And will he ever be reunited with the wife he is so desperate to resolve things with?\nAdapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, 'Filth' has been directed and written by Jon S. Baird ('Cass') and sees an intense star-studded cast convert to screen an compelling story of insanity, romance and deceit. This shocking 18-rated crime drama is set to hit UK cinemas in September 2013.\nJim Broadbent - South Bank Sky Arts Awards held at the Dorchester - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Tuesday 12th March 2013\nCloud Atlas Review\nMad geniuses Tom Tykwer (Perfume) and the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix) boldly take on David Mitchell's layered epic novel, which connects six generations through the power of storytelling. The film takes so many huge risks that it's breathtaking to watch even when it stumbles. And as each tale is passed on to the next generation, the swirling themes get under the skin.\nThe six stories are interlinked in a variety of ways, transcending time to find common themes. On a ship in 1849, a seriously ill American lawyer (Sturgess) shows kindness to a stowaway ex-slave (Gyasi). In 1936 Edinburgh, a great composer (Broadbent) hires a musician (Whishaw) to transcribe his work, then tries to steal the young man's magnificent Cloud Atlas symphony. In 1973 San Francisco, a Latina journalist (Berry) gets a tip about dodgy goings on in a local nuclear power plant. In present-day London, a publisher (Broadbent) is trapped in a nursing home by his brother (Grant) and plots a daring escape. In 2144 Neo Soul, an official (D'Arcy) interrogates a replicant (Bae) who started a rebellion alongside a notorious rebel (Sturgess). And in a distant stone-age future, an island goatherd (Hanks) teams up with an off-worlder (Berry) when they're attacked by a warlord (Grant).\nWhile the themes in this film are eerily involving, what makes this film unmissable is the way the entire cast turns up in each of the six story strands, changing age, race and gender along the way. Even so, they're essential variations on each other. Weaving is always a nemesis, whether he's a hitman, a demon or a nasty nurse. Hanks' characters are always strong-willed and often badly misguided. Grant goes against type to play sinister baddies. And D'Arcy is the only actor who plays the same character in two segments, as Whishaw's 1930s young lover and Berry's 1970s elderly informant. Meanwhile, each segment plays with a different genre: seafaring epic, twisted drama, political mystery, action comedy, sci-fi thriller and gritty adventure.\nContinue reading: Cloud Atlas Review\nJim Broadbent - UK film premiere of 'Cloud Atlas' held at the Curzon Mayfair - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Monday 18th February 2013\nJim Broadbent and Tim McInnerny - Great Expectations Gala Party London United Kingdom Thursday 7th February 2013\nJim Broadbent Wednesday 24th October 2012 \"Cloud Atlas\" Los Angeles Premiere held at Grauman's Chinese Theater - Arrivals\nJim Broadbent and Grauman's Chinese Theatre Wednesday 24th October 2012 Premiere of 'Cloud Atlas' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre\nCloud Atlas Is As Risky As Inception, Says Tom Hanks\nBy Joe Wilde in Movies \/ TV \/ Theatre on 21 October 2012\nTom Hanks Christopher Nolan Lilly Wachowski Halle Berry Jim Broadbent Jim Sturgess Doona Bae Zhou Xun Hugh Grant Hugo Weaving Susan Sarandon\nWith his upcoming film, Cloud Atlas ready for release later this month, one of the film's stars, Tom Hanks, has alluded to the deep plotline that runs through the book adaptation and said that the film is as \"risky as Inception\" was when it was release in 2010.\nHanks was plugging his new film during a chat with Canadian paper The Montreal Gazette, when he brought up the Christopher Nolan film, suggesting that it was the closest thing to compare to his latest movie outing. Cloud Atlas follows the intertwining lives of a massive cast that drifts between centuries both past and present, examining the impact of fate on good and bad behaviour.\nIn his discussion, he not only had praises to sing for Brit-director Nolan, but also his three \"bold\" directors for the upcoming project; Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski. And if three directors were a lot to take on board, then the number of characters the actors have to transform themselves into throughout the film will take some effort to get your heads round too, with Hanks alone taking on 6 different roles.\nContinue reading: Cloud Atlas Is As Risky As Inception, Says Tom Hanks\nJim Broadbent Saturday 8th September 2012 2012 Toronto International Film Festival - 'Cloud Atlas' - Afterparty\nCloud Atlas Trailer\n'Cloud Atlas' is the story of how the separate lives of individuals and their actions affect each other through time. It explores a variety of different themes making it difficult to be pigeon-holed into a particular genre; action, romance and drama create the twists and turns that can change a human being from being a violent killer to being a compassionate hero. This tale explores how one act of basic humanity can influence a revolution centuries into the future.\nContinue: Cloud Atlas Trailer\nElliot Gould and Jim Broadbent - Elliot Gould, Guest, Jim Broadbent, Chris Fujiwara Wednesday 20th June 2012 Edinburgh Film Festival 2012 - 'Killer Joe' Premiere\nJim Broadbent and BAFTA Sunday 12th February 2012 The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) held at the Royal Opera House - Arrivals.\nJim Broadbent Wednesday 4th January 2012 'The Iron Lady' UK film premiere held at the BFI Southbank - Arrivals London, England\nArthur Christmas Review\nThis lively holiday romp has a steady stream of sharp verbal and visual gags that hold our interest. Even when the plot stalls in the middle, it's difficult to stop chuckling at the filmmakers' deranged sense of humour.\nAt the North Pole, Santa (Broadbent) is a bit complacent after 70 years on the job, letting his heir-apparent son Steve (Laurie) convert Christmas Eve into a high-tech black-ops style mission executed with military precision. To Steve, missing one child is an insignificant statistic. But Steve's younger brother Arthur (McAvoy) disagrees, and teams up with his feisty Grandsanta (Nighy) to make sure the last gift is delivered the old fashioned way.\nYes, the film is a riot of clashes between tradition and progress, the wisdom of the years and youthful vigour. Fortunately, the serious themes are subverted, hilariously playing with our expectations and never turning into a nostalgic paean to the olden days. That said, this British production does feel eerily co-opted by Hollywood, from the use of the American \"Santa Claus\" (no one ever calls him \"Father Christmas\", which might have made sense of the film's odd title) to the somewhat feeble attempts to ramp up the action and suspense. Not to mention a massive wave of sentimentality at the end.\nBut even this is undermined by Baynham (Borat) and director Smith's script, which maintains a dry British sense of humour and gives the strong vocal cast plenty of snappy material to play with. While most of the characters are a bit unmemorable, Nighy gets the best lines: Grandsanta as an old coot full of surprises, including some terrific rude jokes and an amusingly animated hound-style old reindeer sidekick. Staunton also has some terrific dialog as the underestimated Mrs Santa.\nVisually the film is brightly colourful, amusingly designed with small sight gags and continual Christmas imagery. While the characters look a little plasticky, the settings are gorgeously rendered, and the flying sleigh sequences almost make it worth seeing in 3D. The problem is that the film feels stretched out by random antics and underdeveloped plot-threads along the way that add nothing to the overall story. So we get tired of the bumbling chaos, mainly because we know exactly where it's got to end up.\nThe Iron Lady Trailer\nWhen Margaret Thatcher started out in politics she always aspired to do something great, though just how far she'd take her career was beyond imagination. Having first made her mark in local politics in 1959, Margaret was named MP for the first time.\nContinue: The Iron Lady Trailer\nHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 Trailer\nHarry Potter and his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, continue their search for Voldemort's Horcruxes - dark magical objects that help the user gain immortality. Having found and destroyed one Horcrux - a locket belonging to Hogwarts founder Salazar Slytherin - the three friends travel from Ron's older brother Bill Weasley's house by the sea to the wizarding bank, Gringotts and then to Hogwarts to look for the final remaining Horcruxes.\nContinue: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 Trailer\nPerrier's Bounty Review\nLively and rude, this comical crime thriller keeps us engaged with its likeable characters even when the plot begins to feel pointless. In the end, there's not much to the film, but it's enjoyable while it lasts.\nMichael (Murphy) is a slacker who has four hours to pay back his loan shark Perrier (Gleeson) before a bounty is put out on him. On this fateful day, he teams up with his dying father Jim (Broadbent) and his neighbour Brenda (Whittaker), who accidentally gets involved in his mess. As they run around Dublin trying to stay one step ahead of the goons, as well as a couple of zealous traffic wardens, this trio is forced to examine their lives and relationships, often in the face of imminent injury.\nContinue reading: Perrier's Bounty Review\nHot Fuzz Review\nBy Rachel Gordon\nFor those who appreciated some gore alongside laughter in a movie, and were sick of seeing the slashers of the 1980s being constantly regurgitated for box office dollars, 2004's Shaun of the Dead was a refreshing cinematic experience. It wasn't perfect -- logic would randomly suspend itself and re-start again at the whim of plot, but the characters were fun to watch and listen to so it was difficult to hold these minor foibles against the film.\nThe filmmakers have returned, and corrected many of their mistakes. Hot Fuzz is not only hilariously funny, but every intelligent detail makes sense this time around, and the action is that much more engaging for what takes place because of it.\nContinue reading: Hot Fuzz Review\nBrazil Review\nBy Keith Breese\nSam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a civil servant Dilbert at the Ministry of Information. He's a low level office grunt typing his way through a lifetime of meaningless papers in a retro-future totalitarian state. His one escape from his dreary life is his dreams. Bursting with vivid colors, Sam's visions see him with armored wings rising into the bright sky above the cold city. There, in the firmament, Sam battles with Darkness to free a blonde beauty (Kim Greist) imprisoned in a floating cage.\nUnfortunately, there are no happy endings for dreamers in this alternate world. Sam always awakens to his mind-numbing existence, only plugging away in a system that rewards only blandness, appeasing his socialite mother (addicted to face lifts) whose only wish is to see her meek son move his way up a corporate ladder to nowhere.\nContinue reading: Brazil Review\nRobots Review\nBy Robert Strohmeyer\nThe 1995 release of Pixar's Toy Story forever altered the world of animated cinema. In an instant, decades of Disney-dominated traditional cartoons vanished in a pixilated puff of fairy dust and a new era of almost entirely computer-generated animation began. The ensuing wave of digital films has met with such astonishing box-office success that even such forgettable romps as Chris Wedge's Ice Age have managed to top the earnings charts in their opening weeks.\nBut things are changing in the animation scene. The freshness of CG has worn away, and audiences are no longer wowed by flashy technology alone. Disney\/Pixar's The Incredibles has raised the bar on both animation excellence and story-telling savvy to a level that will be hard to top in coming years. If such early hits as Toy Story or Antz premiered today, it's unlikely they would wow the crowds nearly as much as they did on their initial releases. It's a tough time to be an animated film.\nContinue reading: Robots Review\nLittle Voice Review\nBy Christopher Null\nSurprisingly powerful despite its cute premise, Horrocks shines as a timid young woman (known as Little Voice) who has the uncanny ability to unerringly reproduce the voice of dozens of great female vocalists (eg. Garland, Bassey, even Marilyn Monroe). Smarmy promoter Caine puts her onstage, where her neurosis only worsens, but not before a few sparkling hours before the crowds.\nContinue reading: Little Voice Review\nMoulin Rouge Review\nWhen a red curtain opens and an orchestra conductor emerges to \"direct\" the unmistakable 20th Century Fox theme music, we know we're in for something different. Really different. Good different.\nFilled with virtuoso special effects and spectacular song-and-dance sequences, Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited Moulin Rouge makes every minute of our collectively held breath worthwhile. In fact, during its opening hour, this critic found it hard to look away even for a second to jot down a note, for fear of missing even a nuanced sparkle in the eye of some French whore.\nContinue reading: Moulin Rouge Review\nIris Review\nBy Frank Ochieng\nIn the refined and sobering drama Iris, we witness a loving but unconventional relationship between a strangely elegant couple -- English critic John Bayley and his Alzheimer's-stricken, novelist wife Iris Murdoch. Writer-director Richard Eyre, who wrote the script with Charles Wood based on Bayley's memoirs Iris: A Memoir and Elegy for Iris, delivers an amazingly touching portrait of resilient and everlasting passion between two eccentric creative forces who have contributed to the literary world immensely. Iris is an enchanting and finely-acted personal drama that manages to absorb the pleasures and pain of an undying spirit of togetherness. Expressionistic and resoundingly involving, Eyre's thought-provoking film is perceptively engaging.\nEyre does a terrific job in showing us the deterioration of a brilliant-minded woman in Iris Murdoch. It is always frustrating to witness anybody's decline in health, but it must be particularly awful for a talented author with an impeccable series of written work to her name. The film shows us the two phases of Iris's life -- as a free-spirited young woman in 1950's Oxford, England and as an aged, sickly soul trying to survive her last days in the 1990s while her husband tends to her needs. Titanic heroine Kate Winslet plays the youngish and energetic Iris while Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench portrays her ailing years.\nContinue reading: Iris Review\nAround The World In 80 Days (2004) Review\nBy David Levine\nThe 50-year-old Jackie Chan has lost a step or two. This remake of the award winning 1956 classic Around the World in 80 Days is clearly just a vehicle to further his career; unfortunately it mainly showcases his age. His fight scenes are laughably choreographed and his acting comes across as forced.\nChan's problems are indicative of many others faced by this overblown $110 million mess. Even as production was finishing, a distributor had not been found. Not surprisingly, Disney eventually picked up the film. Yet, what is surprising is Disney's decision not to distribute a challenging film like Fahrenheit 9\/11, but instead to release this one, a flavorless and disgraceful remake.\nContinue reading: Around The World In 80 Days (2004) Review\nAround The World In 80 Days Review\nBy Rob Blackwelder\nJules Verne might have a hard time recognizing his source material in the Jackie Chan action-comedy adaptation of \"Around the World in 80 Days,\" but for non-purists, it's easy to forgive the many liberties taken in this funny, fleet-footed summer-matinee romp.\nAlthough the ostensible main character is still screwball Victorian inventor Phileas Fogg (lanky Steve Coogan) -- who wagers against the stuffed shirts of the English scientific establishment that he can circumnavigate the globe in the titular time period -- this version of the story more literally revolves around Passepartout (Chan), Fogg's valet who has his own reasons for traipsing across continents.\nPassepartout has stolen a jade Buddha from a Bank of London vault in order to return it to its rightful place: his native village in China. 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{"text":"NJ man lost a daughter to domestic abuse, now educating others to save lives\nDino Flammia\nDino Flammia Published: December 21, 2021\nMichele Sabia was 44 years old when she was killed by her husband on their front lawn in Carlstadt in 2016. (Photos provided by Pete Miragliotta)\nPete Miragliotta knows he missed some warnings signs before his daughter's life was cut short.\nBut he also knows that most people would miss the same signs.\nThat's why he's devoting much of his time today to educating others on the prevalence of domestic abuse, what to watch for in your own relationship or in others, and how to reach out for help. The guidance is arguably even more important in light of the pandemic, which had many people suffering in silence at the start and has since resulted in an uptick in activity for shelters and other resources across New Jersey.\nOn July 6, 2016, Pete's daughter Michele was fatally shot by her husband of 22 years on the front lawn of their Carlstadt home. Michele's husband took his own life soon after, and Pete and his wife instantly became the immediate guardians of Michele's three kids.\n\"There had never been any physical violence in their relationship ... but there were other things I learned later that are telltale signs,\" Pete told New Jersey 101.5.\nThe Rutherford resident said that people wrongly look only for physical signs of violence \u2014 a black eye, for example. But domestic abuse manifests in other ways that may be front and center in public.\n\"Putting the other person down in front of others \u2014 there's a difference between light teasing and being ultimately critical of someone,\" Pete said. \"It could be controlling behavior \u2014 if the spouse has to get permission from the other person to spend money or go somewhere.\"\nThese aren't automatic signs of an abusive relationship, but Pete noted that domestic violence hotlines aren't only meant for victims \u2014 people who are concerned about someone else's situation can pick up the phone for advice and potential resources.\nMichele was less than a month away from her 45th birthday. According to Pete, Michele yelled to her kids \u2014 aged 9, 11 and 14 at the time \u2014 to get out of the house when her husband entered with a gun. And they listened.\n\"There was some premeditation, in my mind, because he retrieved his shotgun ... by breaking into his mother and father's house,\" Pete said.\nMichele was shot once inside the house, Pete said, and the fatal shot occurred outside. By the time police entered the home after surrounding it, Michele's husband had killed himself.\nPete noted that his son-in-law had been dealing with depression for much of his life. He was committed for mental health issues a couple of times, and couldn't hold down a job.\n\"He expressed to me on more than one occasion his fear of her ever leaving him,\" Pete said.\nPete said he's learned \"an awful lot\" about domestic abuse since that tragic July evening. Presently, he is the board president at Center for Hope and Safety in Bergen County, which helps adults and children rebuild their lives beyond domestic violence.\nThe nonprofit has answered more than 6,000 calls during the coronavirus pandemic. Research shows that disasters such as the COVID emergency has the potential to not only increase the rate of abuse, but the severity of abuse as well.\n\"We're getting almost twice as many phone calls as we ever used to get, we have double the capacity in our shelter program, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down at all,\" he said.\nPete noted that in Bergen County, over 90% of all homicides are related to domestic abuse.\nNew Jersey Domestic Violence Hotline\n1 (800) 572-SAFE (7233)\n24 hours a day\/7 days a week\nContact reporter Dino Flammia at dino.flammia@townsquaremedia.com.\nFiled Under: Carlstadt, center for hope and safety, domestic violence\nNJ man charged with fatal hit-and-run of 61-year-old woman\nFormer NJ cop indicted in domestic violence attack, stalking\nNJ advocate: Children being damaged in homes with domestic violence\nConvicted Lodi, NJ domestic abuser is charged with wife's murder\nNJ domestic violence reports continue spike since pandemic lull\nNJ woman stabbed to death in Leonia tried to keep violent ex away, dad says\nDomestic Abuse is on the rise- New Jersey has 180 to help heal\nCarlstadt, NJ went to meet a woman at a hotel but disappeared\nJersey City first in NJ to provide safe space for victims in domestic cases","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"5-C NutriScore to be France's official nutrition label\nRelated tags: Public health, European union\nThe five-colour NutriScore is the most effective nutrition label in promoting healthier food choices and will be adopted as the official (but voluntary) label in France, the health minister has said.\nFour logos had been rolled out in 60 supermarkets across France for 10 weeks in a bid to determine which one was most effective\u200b\u200b in promoting healthy eating.\nHealth minister Marisol Touraine said in a statement: \"The first question was whether or not simplified nutrition labelling systems were likely to lead to changes in consumers' purchasing behaviour. The answer is clearly yes. Three of the tested systems (Nutri-Colours, Nutri-score and SENS) were unambiguously positive in terms of the criterion chosen by the scientific committee.\u200b\n\"The combination of multiple approaches systematically explored (by categories of products, buyers, etc.) reveals a clear overall superiority for Nutri-Score [...].\u200b This advantage of Nutri-score is even more marked when we observe specifically the behaviour of consumers who buy the cheapest products. [...] Nutri-Score therefore appears to be the most effective system for the whole study.\"\u200b\n\"We are taking a major step forward: for the first time, the value of a nutritional logo and the effectiveness of the NutriScore logo have been demonstrated,\" \u200bsaid Touraine.\nDirector of nutrition research at the University of Paris, Professor Serge Hercberg, who developed the 5-C NutriScore nutrition logo said: \"The recognition of the superiority of the NutriScore logo in terms of the impact on consumers' purchasing behaviour, and the adoption of this logo by the Minister of Health, are a great victory for public health and a great victory for consumer information. [It will] enable them to easily compare the nutritional quality of foods at the time of their purchase,\" \u200bhe said in a statement in French to FoodNavigator.\n\"Manufacturers who have strongly demanded scientific demonstrations of the impact of this logo, which are available today on the basis of several studies, must now accept the rules of the game that they themselves demanded.\"\u200b\nFDE: 'Another potential layer of complexity'\nANIA, the association which represents the interests of the French food industry, said it noted Touraine's announcement and maintained its commitment to the\nThe NutriRepeere\nconsultation but was waiting for the experiment's results to be officially presented \"out of respect for the stakeholders\".\u200b\nIt had developed its own logo which was trialled alongside the NutriScore, a UK-style traffic light logo and one developed by the retail and distribution sector.\nANIA also drew attention to a recent opinion\u200b\u200b issued by the French food safety agency ANSES which concluded that nutrition logos did not seem adapted to tackling public health issues such as obesity.\nPan-European industry group FoodDrinkEurope (FDE) said\n\"We regret that today's announcement of a French national scheme adds yet another potential layer of complexity to what should be a pan-European approach to front of pack labelling. Any proliferation of national schemes be avoided, as this may hamper the free movement of goods in the EU single market; instead, discussion on a co-ordinated approach to front of pack \u200b nutrition labelling should take place at EU level, in close consultation and agreement with all stakeholders.\"\u200b\nFDE called on the European Commission to assess whether the French recommendation complies with EU rules, particularly regulation on food information to consumers.\nFood industry watchdog FoodWatch had thrown its weight behind the UK's traffic light label\u200b.\u200b It welcomed policymakers' initiative of bringing about greater transparency for consumers but added: \"In order to be truly effective, such a device must be made compulsory for all manufacturers, and the logo must be affixed to the front of the packaging. This means putting the issue on the European agenda, because a single state cannot impose mandatory nutrition labelling,\" \u200bit said.\nSnowball effect\nSpeaking to Le Parisien\u200b this week, Touraine also lamented the fact that EU rules on the single market mean France cannot make the logo mandatory.\n\"I cannot impose [this on industry], European rules do not allow it. I regret it but it is so. I am counting on the pressure of consumers, who want to be informed, to ensure industry will take this route. Some will play the game and it will have a snowball effect. We cannot talk about public health without being transparent. Today, everyone is talking about preventative [measures]; this is the future of health.\"\u200b\nTouraine's next step will be to pass a decree in April allowing manufacturers to use the logo.\nThe logo has not received the unanimous backing of French lawmakers; agriculture minister Stephane Le Foll said it was \"stigmatising\u200b\" to certain foods.\nAccording to French state figures, 15% of French people, or nearly 7 million adults, are obese.\nRelated topics: Food labelling, Labelling, Policy, Carbohydrates and fibres (sugar, starches), Sweeteners (intense, bulk, polyols), Chocolate and confectionery ingredients\nNutri-Score labelling comes into force in France\nProduct visuals more impactful to parents than nutritional information: Study\nGame on: Four industry giants pledge to use French nutrition logo\nBeyond buzzwords: What you need to know to develop your packaging's sustainability strategy\nAmcor | Recorded the 28-May-2019 | Webinar\nAs brands strive to make responsible business decisions, how can you sort through the packaging myths and buzzwords to devise a more sustainable packaging...\nBlendhub | Department for International Trade | Domino Printing Sciences | Ecolean AB | FARAVELLI, The Best Ingredients for a tasty life! | HPS Product Recovery Solutions | Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany | Naturex | nutrineo \u2013 health food solutions by uelzena | Solvay Aroma Performance | Stevial\u00ae, a naturally inspired brand | Tate & Lyle | Tetra Pak Corporate Communications | Uelzena eG | Wacker Chemie AG | William Reed","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Copyright \u00a9 r.keep\nGUIDELINES FOR APPLICATIONS TO HASTINGS YOUTH TRUST\n1 Hastings Youth Trust was established in 1965 and, until 1994, operated a full-time residential centre for young people at Hurst Court, The Ridge, Hastings. Following the sale of Hurst Court the charity has invested the proceeds of sale and the Trustees have a discretionary power to distribute the annual income.\n2 Grants may be made to recognised organisations and to individuals who meet the following criteria:\n2.1 Beneficiaries must be under the age of twenty-five years.\n2.2 Beneficiaries must reside in the Borough of Hastings or within five miles of the Borough boundary.\n3 The objects for which grants may be made are:\n3.1 In the interests of social welfare to provide and assist in the provision of facilities (including the organising of any activity for recreation and other leisure-time occupation) for young persons resident in the Borough of Hastings or within five miles thereof being persons having need of such facilities by reason of their youth or social and economic circumstances and with the object of improving the conditions of life of such persons;\n3.2 To promote and provide facilities for the religious and social education and training of such young persons;\n3.3 To promote and provide facilities for the education and training of persons to be Youth Leaders;\n3.4 To further any other charitable purpose for the benefit of such young persons;\nProvided always that in furtherance of the said objects no distinction shall be made between persons on the grounds of race or political or other opinions.\n4 Subject to the criteria and the objects, the Trustees are prepared to consider applications for the following types of grant:\n4.1 Capital projects\nGrants to contribute towards the cost of erecting new buildings or the extension or renovation of existing buildings.\n4.2 Equipment grants\nGrants to provide equipment for specific purposes or for furnishings and fittings\n4.3 Individual Grants (which are usually means tested)\nGrants to contribute towards the costs of participating in the fields of music, the arts, sports and games, and with recreational groups.\nIneligible applications\n5 Grants will not normally be made:\n5.1 For recurring expenses unless they form part of a special programme approved by the Trustees;\n5.2 As a substitute for statutory funding;\n5.3 To other charities or organisation who redistribute funds;\n5.4 To cover overheads, running or administrative costs, VAT or professional fees.\n6 Applications by individuals:\n6.1 Applications must:\n6.1.1 Be on the authorised form provided by the Trustees which may be downloaded by following this link or obtained from the Clerk to the Trustees at 'Glenwood', 151 Old Roar Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7HH.\n6.1.2 When completed it should be sent to the Clerk.\n6.1.3 The application must have a fully completed financial section but should not be accompanied by additional written information unless asked for by the Trustees or absolutely necessary to explain the circumstances of the application.\n7 Applications by organisations:\n7.1 There is no fixed procedure for applications and the initial approach should be by letter addressed to the Clerk.\n8 Applicants may:\n8.1 Be required to supply references and\/or to attend for interview;\n8.2 Be requested to supply additional information. For example, the Trustees may require:\n8.2.1 for capital project: architects' or surveyors' costings, plans and the like;\n8.2.2 proposals for funding an entire project\n8.2.3 copies of accounts\n8.2.4 estimates of the subsequent running and maintenance costs and information about how these may be met.\n9 Applicants who are awarded a grant are required, following completion of the grant aided activity, to write to the Clerk to provide a summary of how the grant was spent and a brief summary of any outcomes.\n10 If there is any publicity of the grant aided activity then, where possible, it should include a reference to the assistance given by the Hastings Youth Trust .\nFurther information may be obtained from\nThe Clerk to the Trustees\nHastings Youth Trust\n'Glenwood'\n151 Old Roar Road\nEast Sussex TN37 7HH","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cathy & Marcy Celebrate Diverse Families with 'Dancin' in the Kitchen'\nBy Hannah Hodson\nGrammy Award winning children's musicians Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer release their 44th album today, titled Dancin' In The Kitchen: Songs For All Families. The recently married couple, who refer to their relationship as the \"30-year engagement,\" hope their album follows in the footsteps of Marlo Thomas, famous for creating the universally famous 1972 album celebrating diversity, Free To Be\u2026 You and Me. Surely you've heard it, maybe even suffered through assembly-time renditions in grade school. My middle school even printed Free To Be themed day planners. Thing is, though revolutionary for its time, Free To Be is a little dated. Fink and Marxer hope they can bring the spirit to contemporary issues.\nimage courtesy of Cathy & Marcy\nFink and Marxer want to expand our definition of diversity. They have songs about adoption (\"Happy Adoption Day\") and LGBT families (Dancin' In The Kitchen With Mama and Mommy\/Dancin' In The Kitchen With Daddy and Papa). Primarily, the duo are concerned with complicating the notion of the nuclear family, and instilling children with the notion that every family looks different. \"Marlo Thomas defined a family as a feeling of belonging,\" Fink tells me:\nI totally love that because that includes every family. It includes every family with an adopted kid, with a foster kid, it includes blended families, it includes multiracial families, it includes single parent families\u2026 Now, thanks to the work of so many great organizations, we live in a world where when you say the word 'family,' you aren't thinking of the Cleaver family anymore\u2026 you're not thinking of a nuclear family with a white mom and white dad and 2.3 children\u2026 every family is unique.\nIn the song \"Soccer Shoes,\" a child can't find their soccer shoes because he lives with separated or divorced parents. \"Twins\" is a song about identical twins, written and performed by actual identical twins. The album boasts multiple songs with titles like \"I Belong to A Family\" and \"Family Song,\" all celebrating the different ways to define family.\nFink and Marxer use this album to open up discussions about themes that many parents might be hesitant to tackle. The album contains a story written and told by storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin, \"Who's In Charge of Naming the Colors?\" during which we are prompted to discuss the oversimplified ways we identify skin color. A little boy sees some paint swatches at the hardware store, and uses them to name the colors of his multiracial family. Creating space for difficult conversations between parents and children has been both a goal and a side effect of their music making through the years. In 1992, the duo invited a children's chorus to perform on their song \"Everything Possible,\" written by Fred Durst. However, upon reading some of the lyrics, many parents decided to pull their children out of the project. The offending lyrics?\nThere are girls who grow up strong and bold\/There are boys quiet and kind\/ Some place on ahead, some follow behind\/ Some go on their own way and time\/\nSome women love women\/\nSome men love men\/\nSome raise children, some never do\/\nYou can dream all the day never reaching the end of everything possible for you.\nIn the end, no matter the parent's decision, each parent had to sit down with their child and explain exactly why they were not being allowed to participate in the chorus with their friends. I asked Fink if any of the parents ended up changing their minds about participating after a conversation with their child:\nThere was a family who came into the studio, they had a son in the sixth grade. The father was in the military, and apparently the mother and father had some pretty 'hearty discussions'. He was against it, she was for it and in the end they left it up to the child. And the child said 'I definitely want to sing that song.' The interesting discussion between the mom and dad was that they had a son in college. And the mother finally looked at the dad and said 'Are you trying to tell me that if our son comes home from college and says he's gay, you're not gonna love him?'\n\"Everything Possible\" is also included on the tracklist for Dancin' In The Kitchen.\nThe newlyweds will certainly be continuing to make music that embraces diversity, and you can keep up with their albums and children's concerts at their website, cathymarcy.com. Buy Dancin' in the Kitchen: Songs for All Families on Amazon.\nRelated:album reviewlesbian musiciansmusic\nHannah Hodson\nHannah Hodson is a 22-year old Brooklyn-bred writer and actor. She graduated Hampshire College with a very valuable BA in Theatre and Black Studies. She currently resides in DUMBO, Brooklyn, where she admires the view while writing poetry about gentrification, climate change, race, class and other heavy stuff, but tries to keep a positive outlook on it all. She recently met Abbi and Ilana from Broad City (IRL), and has photos to prove it. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter, for her thoughts on Beyonce.\nHannah has written 37 articles for us.\nLevel Up Your Staycation: Hang a Hammock, Build a Blanket Fort\nDIY Fizzy Bath Bombs For Your Filthy Hot Bods\nthis is so sweet and amazing and adorable! yay!\nomg. As a Free to Be You and Me DIE HARD (the CD is still in my car), I am SO ready for this album. Really into Dancin in the Kitchen, and excited to listen to the rest.\nlisa orton\nthis is great! it sounds like a catchy tune and i love the video.\nKaeLyn\nWell this is just adorable and great and lovely. Makes my heart happy!\nHow Do We Solve A Problem Like \"Queerbaiting\"?: On TV's Not-So-Subtle Gay Subtext\n\"You're So\u2026 You!\"\nRead a F*cking Book: 20 Best Young Adult Novels For Queer Girls\nqueer girl\n\"I'M SO GLAD SHAMBLEBOT\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"No rest for the wicked!\nDear devotees and friends,\nPlease accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.\nI haven't written for some weeks due to be overwhelmed with too many things to do. It's probably been the busiest period of my life. But as they say \"no rest for the wicked\", so I'm sure it's good for me.\nActually one of the main secrets of Krishna consciousness is to keep fully engaged in devotional service. Srila Prabhupada accepted the idea the \"an idle mind is the devil's workshop\" and we can certainly experience that it's true. If we stop engaging the mind then it starts taking off in all sorts of extreme directions, so it's better to have a little more devotional service than we can easily manage, rather than too little.\nSo anyway, the last time I wrote was at the end of the Navadvipa Parikama. There were many things I wanted to tell you about it, but you'll have to wait to see the DVD set we're making of it to find out !\nThen I went back to Mauritius, which I have now become co-GBC for, with BB Govinda Maharaja, and found some of the situation there embroiled in unfortunate tenseness, and had to start giving a lot of attention to that.\nI moved around South Africa for most of March and April. The highlight was the Durban Rathayatra from April 10 to 13. I think Their Lordships Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra devi were pleased, as it was one of the best Rathayatras we've had.\nTwo of my disciples from Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, Bhakta Rajesh and his wife Vraja Renu compiled a collection of diary entries of mine from earlier years and published them as a book \"Travelling in the Service of Srila Prabhupada \u2013 Volume 1\", and we launched it at the Rathayatra. Harideva prabhu, an expert presenter and MC, announced it from the main stage, and told people that I would sign copies if they came forward immediately.\nTo my surprise only about 3 people came forward, and it took them some minutes to come. I thought this was going to be a big disaster, and became quite anxious. However the next day, the Saturday of the Rathayatra, I went to the tent we had to display the books and my DVDs, and found a number of people had bought books. I stayed there for about 90 minutes, and a steady stream of people came and I signed books and DVDs for them, so in this way everything was saved.\nOn the 20th of April Govinda Maharaja and I went back to Mauritius to make a concerted effort to help the situation there. Actually Mauritius is one of the best places in the world for preaching. The people are incredibly favourable to Krishna consciousness and supportive of our activities, but sometimes among our devotees a tendency arises to become political and then things become disturbed.\nSo Maharaja and I separated the two main projects, the Phoenix temple and the Bon Accueill farm, plus a group of devotees doing congregational preaching also wanted to take direct responsibility for their programmes, so we allowed that, and basically the situation seems to have become more peaceful.\nFollowing that I returned to South Africa on the 26th, and then left for Moscow on the 27th. I landed there on the 28th and spent the night in the flat of Talavan prabhu, one of my disciples there, and then on the 29th set out for Izhevsk, about a 2 hour flight to the east.\nI had never been there before and didn't know what to expect, but to my surprise, when I walked through the airport there was a kirtana party mainly made up of my disciples from Kazan, about 400 kms to the south. The whole airport became transformed, and the people who had been on the same flight as me were smiling and appreciating the kirtana.\nOn the way in from the airport I talked to one of the leaders of the yatra, Vasudeva Suta prabhu, who is the husband of Madhavi Lata dd, one of my disciples there. He told me that the main industry there was making\nfirearms, particularly rifles. We drove through the downtown area and he pointed out a huge factory. \"This is the main factory for Kalashnikov, the makers of the famous AK47\" he told me.\nI was shocked to hear that, as the AK47 is probably the most famous weapon in the world, and is used not only by the Russian army, but by about every terrorist and revolutionary in the world. I asked Vasudeva Suta \"Who is this Kalashnikov person?\"\n\"Mr Kalashnikov's still living here in Izhevsk\" Vasudeva Suta told me. \"He's a very famous man.\"\nThat night and Thursday night, the 30th, we did programmes in the yatra's normal Sunday programme place. They rent a room in the Kalashnikov Museum every Sunday! About 80 devotees gather each week in one of the display rooms of the weapons museum, surrounded by rifles and photos from the revolution in the early 20th century.\nIn the middle of the room are two huge statues of soldiers (with Kalashnikov rifles of course) so we named them Jaya and VIjaya.\nEven though the environment was so unusual for a Krishna conscious programme, still, as the kirtana picked up and the devotees chanted and danced, the material situation was forgotten, and everyone relished pleasure on the transcendental platform.\nSo now I'm back in Moscow, and tonight I'm flying to a city named Omsk, further to the east. I had to fly back west to Moscow for two hours, and then I'll be flying more than three hours east, as there is no direct\nconnection between Izhevsk and Omsk, except by train, which takes more than 24 hours.\nI will keep you updated more regularly now.\nHoping this meets you well.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keyword Analysis & Research: earthquake\nearthquake 0.37 0.9 5714 32 10\nKeyword Research: People who searched earthquake also searched\nearthquake 0.81 0.6 6044 80\nWhat to expect in an earthquake?\nWhat to expect during an earthquake. Small or moderate earthquakes. These can last only a few seconds and represent no emergency risk. Ceiling lights may move and some minor rattling of objects may occur in your home. You may feel a slight quiver under your feet if you are outside.\nWhat was the most deadly earthquake?\n(50,000 deaths or more) The following table lists the deadliest earthquakes on record according to date, location, number of deaths, and magnitude. On Jan. 23, 1556, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Shansi, China killing 830,000 people.\nWhat are the hazards of earthquake?\nThe third main hazard is flooding. An earthquake can rupture (break) dams or levees along a river. The water from the river or the reservoir would then flood the area, damaging buildings and maybe sweeping away or drowning people.\nSearch Results related to earthquake on Search Engine\nLatest Earthquakes - USGS\nusgs.gov\nhttps:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/\nThe Latest Earthquakes application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. If the application does not load, try our legacy Latest Earthquakes application.\nhttps:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/map\/?extent=16.88866,-137.19727&extent=54.97761,-52.82227\nSearch Earthquake Catalog Time Zone. Display event dates and times using this time zone. User Time Zone . UTC-08:00 UTC . Distance. Display depth and distance using this unit of distance. Kilometers Miles . Notifications. To receive browser notifications toggle \u2026\nToday's Earthquakes\nearthquaketrack.com\nhttps:\/\/earthquaketrack.com\/recent\nThere have been: (M1.5 or greater) 102 earthquakes in the past 24 hours. 914 earthquakes in the past 7 days. 4,121 earthquakes in the past 30 days. 57,603 earthquakes in the past 365 days.\nEarthquakes today | Earthquake today | earthquake\nemsc-csem.org\nhttps:\/\/www.emsc-csem.org\/Earthquake\/\nOct 22, 2021 \u00b7 Latest Earthquakes in the world. World earthquake list. Earthquake information. earthquakes today - recent and latest earthquakes, earthquake map and earthquake information. Earthquake information for europe. EMSC (European Mediterranean Seismological Centre) provides real time earthquake information for seismic events with magnitude larger \u2026\nToday's Earthquakes in Greater Los Angeles Area, California\nhttps:\/\/earthquaketrack.com\/r\/greater-los-angeles-area-california\/recent\nAug 02, 2012 \u00b7 1.7 magnitude earthquake. Today 2022-01-18 20:28:29 UTC at 20:28 January 18, 2022 UTC Location: Epicenter at 34.062, -117.269 1.2 km from Loma Linda (1.2 miles) Greater Los Angeles Area, California. Depth: 16 km\nList of Earthquakes for Los Angeles\ncaltech.edu\nhttps:\/\/scedc.caltech.edu\/recent\/Maps\/Los_Angeles.html\n28 rows \u00b7 Jan 04, 2022 \u00b7 Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada Los Angeles Special \u2026\nHome | Recent LA Area Earthquakes\nlacity.org\nhttps:\/\/earthquake.lacity.org\/\nNumber of 1.0+ earthquakes in the past 24 hours. 0. See full list below.\nCalifornia hit with 4.2 earthquake near Pacoima, 3.9\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WMqwFGtB0ss\nJul 30, 2020 \u00b7 A 4.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacoima area near Los Angeles in Southern California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. https:\/\/abc7.com\/6342317\ngetprepared.gc.ca\nhttps:\/\/www.getprepared.gc.ca\/cnt\/rsrcs\/pblctns\/rthqks-wtd\/index-en.aspx\ninfoplease.com\nhttps:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/world\/earthquakes\/deadliest-earthquakes-record\nmtu.edu\nhttp:\/\/www.geo.mtu.edu\/UPSeis\/hazards.html","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roles and Responsibilites\nRole of the Reporter\nNational Convener\nPanel Members\nArea Support Teams\nSafeguarders\nRelevant Persons\nFoster carers\nKinship Carers\nLegal Representatives\nNamed Person\nLead Professional\nCOPFS\nSecure Care\nThe Sheriff Court\nLatest News Select Category CHIP Latest news Our Hearings Our Voice Partner news\nScotland's secure care provision consists of 90 beds in 5 separate settings. The units are owned and operated by 5 providers, 4 of whom are independent charitable organisations, Kibble (Paisley), Rossie (nr Montrose), St Mary's, Kenmure (Bishopbriggs) and The Good Shepherd (Bishopton) who provide beds under the Secure Care Contract. Scotland Excel manages the contract for the provision of secure care on behalf of all purchasers (local authorities for welfare and remand beds and Scottish Government for sentenced beds). The other unit is not part of the contract and is run by the City of Edinburgh Council.\nWhat is secure care?\nSecure care restricts the liberty of the children under the age of 18 placed in their care. The children \/ young people can be placed through the Children's Hearings Scotland or the Courts.\nSecure accommodation is a form of residential care for the very small number of children whose needs and risks, for a particular period in their lives, can only be managed in the controlled settings of secure care. Such children have been deemed to be a significant risk to themselves or others in the community.\nSecure care provides intensive support and safe boundaries that enable these highly vulnerable children to re-engage and move forward positively in their communities. Secure care provides a nurturing environment that is able to address specific needs whilst providing care, including health and education where the learning follows the Curriculum for Excellence.\nThe Head of Unit\nThe Head of Unit will be the Named Person for all the young people in their care. The Head must ensure their unit complies with all the relevant Laws and fully considers the guidance that is applicable to secure services.\nPlacing a Young Person in Secure\nIf a children's hearing makes a relevant order which contains a secure accommodation authorisation (SAA), it is the Chief Social Work Officer (CSWO) who decides whether or not to implement the SAA.\nA CSWO cannot implement an SAA without the consent of the Head of Unit (section 151 of the 2011 Act). If the Head of Unit refuses consent, the CSWO must notify the Principal Reporter so that a hearing can be arranged to review the relevant order (regulation 8 of the 2013 Regulations).\nThe Children's Hearing (Scotland) Act 2011 (Implementation of Secure Accommodation Authorisation) (Scotland) Regulations 2013, details the decision that the Head of Unit must make when the Chief Social Work Officer has decided to implement a secure accommodation authorisation.\nThe court can also place young people in secure care on remand or sentence using the Criminal Procedures (Scotland) Act 1995\nWellbeing\/Outcomes\nThe Purchaser (LA's or the Scottish Government) is responsible for planning the intended outcomes for the young person when they are placed in secure care using the appropriate care planning route, e.g. Child's Plan. When a young person is placed in secure care using the secure care contract the purchaser should complete an Individual Placement Agreement (IPA). If the IPA is not completed there is no binding contract in place.\nThe IPA should detail the identified outcomes based on the SHANARRI (safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible, included) wellbeing indicators and request appropriate interventions to help achieve the best outcomes for each individual young person.\nWhen considering the intended outcomes of the secure placement local authorities and providers should where possible take account of the child, their Parents, Relevant Person, and other professional's views.\nGetting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) is the national approach in Scotland to improving outcomes and supporting the wellbeing of our children and young people by offering the right help at the right time from the right people. The secure units use the SHANARRI wellbeing indicators to evidence the progress of each individual young person during their placement in secure care. Information is gathered at regular intervals from the young person, practitioners, lead professional and where appropriate the young person's parents. That information enables the units to measure the young person's progress.\nIn safeguarding the Child or Young Person each Provider of secure care has a set of policies and procedures which cover the delivery of the Service and meets the requirement of the Care Inspectorate, other regulatory bodies as appropriate and Councils as the lead bodies for Child Protection issues.\nThese policies and procedures should include, but not be limited to:\nPromoting Positive Behaviour\nManaging Challenging Behaviour\nHolding Safely\nDrugs and Alcohol policy\nMethods of Care and Control in compliance with the Holding Safely Guidelines\nSanctions and consequences\nConfidentiality and Data Protection\nChildren's and Young People's Rights\nParticipation strategy\nAnti-discriminatory Practice\nPromoting Children and Young People's Rights to be Safe, Well-Cared for and Listened to\nIndependent Advocacy for the Child or Young Person\nUnauthorised absence of a Child or Young Person \u2013 relevant policies, procedures, protocols\nRecord Keeping and Information Policy\nComplaints Register\nService User Agreement\nRisk assessment and risk management\nSingle separation and segregation\nBack to Roles and Responsibilities","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Federal Reserve Lowers US Economic Outlook\nObama lapdog, con artist extrordinaire Bernake further attempts to desensitize, water down coming holocaust in America\nThe US Federal Reserve has significantly cut its projection for the country's economic growth and says it does not expect the unemployment rate to fall much in 2012.\nObama poodle Bernake attempts to bullshit Americans again\nThe US central bank said on Wednesday that it now expected the economy to expand between 1.9 percent and 2.4 percent this year, a lot slower than the Fed's April forecast which predicted a 2.4 to 2.9 percent economic growth rate, The New York Times reported.\nThe Federal Reserve also projected that the jobless rate would fall to eight percent from the current 8.2 percent by the end of the year. In April, the Fed had predicted that the rate could fall to 7.8 percent at the end of 2012.\nAt a news conference in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the Fed misjudged the strength of the recovery in the past, adding that new facts forced it to change the estimates.\n\"The outlook has changed\u2026 Like many other forecasters, the Federal Reserve was too optimistic early in the recovery about the pace of the recovery,\" he said.\nWelcome home, America\n\"There has been a great deal of economic news since our last meeting,\" he stated. Bernanke also called the most recent data \"somewhat disappointing.\"\nA study by Indiana University, which was released in January, said about 10 million more US citizens joined the poor in the country between 2006 and 2010, with the number of the poor set to rise due to sluggish economic recovery.\nThe number of the US citizens living in poverty increased to 46.2 million in 2010, up 27 percent from 36.5 million in 2006.\nGJH\/MHB\/AS\/HN\nAny opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of The 5th Estate.\nImages: Google royalty free unless otherwise attributed.\nThis news site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.\nFood Stamp Vote In Senate Blocks Bid To Restore $4.5 Billion In Aid\nLittle by little, one small piece at a time, the Obama criminal regime, congress are dismantling our social services, strangling Americans: If this is not proof that Obama wants the homeless, poor, disabled Seniors and Veterans dead....\nBy Michael McAuliff\nWASHINGTON --\nThe Senate overwhelmingly rejected a bid to preserve some $4.5 billion in food stamps funding, as part of the massive farm bill, on Tuesday.\nCongress, Obama just guaranteed American children will starve\nThe amendment to keep that spending in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, offered by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), failed 33 to 66. Sixty votes were needed to pass.\nGillibrand had hoped to prevent food aid cuts in the $969 billion bill by trimming the guaranteed profit for crop insurance companies from 14 to 12 percent and by lowering payments for crop insurers from $1.3 billion to $825 million.\n\"We all here in this chamber take the ability to feed our children for granted. That is not the case for too many families in America,\" Gillibrand said just before the vote. \"Put yourselves for just a moment in their shoes. Imagine being a parent who cannot feed your children the food they need to grow. It's beneath this body to cut food assistance for those who are struggling the most among us.\"\nThe cuts target the so-called heat-and-eat initiative in which 14 states automatically make families eligible for more food aid if they receive even $1 in help paying their utility bills. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the decrease would amount to about $90 a month for an affected family, representing a quarter of its food budget.\nSen. Kirsten Gillibrand heroically tried to save funds\n\"Half of the food stamp beneficiaries are children, 17 percent are seniors, and unfortunately now 1.5 million households are veteran households that are receiving food stamps,\" Gillibrand said, referring not just to heat-and-eat participants, but the broader population of food stamp recipients.\nFour of Gillbrand's colleagues on the Republican side voted with her, including Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who was a co-sponsor of the amendment. But 22 of her fellow Democrats balked, seeing as abuse the heat-and-eat initiative she was trying to save. Those Democrats included the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.\n\"Here's what's going on: In a handful of states, they found a way to increase the SNAP benefits for people in their states by sending $1 checks in heating assistance to everyone who gets food assistance,\" said Stabenow. She allowed that heating costs are properly a factor in determining the need for aid, but said that states like New York and Massachusetts are going too far.\nTake, take, take: Stabenow explains \"accountability and integrity\"\n\"Sending out $1 checks to everyone isn't the intent of Congress,\" Stabenow said. \"For the small number of states that are doing that, it is undermining the integrity of the program in my judgment. This is about accountability and integrity.\"\nCongress has grown increasingly concerned about spending for the food stamp program. Some 26 million Americans received the aid in 2007, while more than 44 million received it last year, at a cost of $76 billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimated recently that demand will continue to grow through 2014 in the wake of the recession.\nThe House has proposed even steeper cuts. The 2013 budget resolution passed by the lower chamber calls for $134 billion in cuts over 10 years. The House Agriculture Committee's version of the farm bill would slash $33 billion over 10 years.\nThe future of the poor, middle class America: Eating out of trash cans to survive, or winding up in prison for stealing food for their children - prisons now being a booming industry in the U.S.\nThe Senate's version, while much more modest in its cuts, would move in the same direction. Moreover, it likely represents the best-case scenario for food stamp advocates when House and Senate negotiators work out the differences between their measures later in the year.\nThe Senate's farm bill is expected to pass later this week.\nMichael McAuliff covers politics and Congress for The Huffington Post. Talk to him on Facebook.\nTHE COUP OF 2012: Encroachment Upon Basic Freedoms, Militarized Police State in America\nBehold your future, America: The price of inaction\nBy Frank Morales\nBack in 1992 the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff held a \"Strategy Essay Competition.\"\nThe winner was a National War College student paper entitled, \"The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012.\" Authored by Colonel Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. the paper is a well documented, \"darkly imagined excursion into the future.\" The ostensibly fictional work is written from the perspective of an imprisoned senior military officer about to be executed for opposing the military takeover of America, a coup accomplished through \"legal\" means. The essay makes the point that the coup was \"the outgrowth of trends visible as far back as 1992,\" including \"the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses,\" particularly law enforcement.\nhttp:\/\/www.carlisle.army.mil\/USAWC\/Parameters\/Articles\/1992\/1992%20dunlap.pdf\nDunlap cites what he considered a dangerous precedent, the 1981 Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act, an act that sanctioned US military engagement with law enforcement in domestic \"support operations,\" including \"civil disturbance\" operations. The act codified the lawful status and use of military \"assets\" in domestic police work.\nhttp:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/10\/subtitle-A\/part-I\/chapter-18\nEncroachment upon Basic Freedoms\nSince that time the American people have been subject to a series of deeper and deeper encroachments upon our basic freedoms, increasingly extensive deployment of military operations on the home front, perpetrated by a corporate driven military mission creep that now claims the right and duty to arrest and detain us on the word of a Pentagon or White House operative. President Obama's signing of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) whose Section 1021 sanctions the military detention of American citizens without charge, essentially aims to put the last nail in the coffin of our Constitution, our teetering Republic and our most basic democratic traditions.\nThe statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had \"serious reservations\" about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration (\"you can trust me\") would use the authorities granted by the NDAA, and would not affect how the law is interpreted by subsequent administrations. The White House had threatened to veto an earlier version of the NDAA, but reversed course (of course) shortly before Congress voted on the final bill, which the President signed on the 31st of December 2011, a day that will go down in infamy.\n\"President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,\" said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director. \"The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.\" According to Senator Dianne Feinstein. \"Congress is essentially authorizing the indefinite imprisonment of American citizens, without charge,\" she said. \"We are not a nation that locks up its citizens without charge.\" Think again. (Guardian, 12\/14\/11)\nUnder the legislation, suspects can be held without trial \"until the end of hostilities.\" They will have the right to appear once a year before a committee that will decide if the detention will continue. A spokesperson for Human Rights Watch implied that the signing of such a bill by a President would have once been unthinkable, noting that \"the paradigm of the war on terror has advanced so far in people's minds that this has to appear more normal than it actually is.\" Further, \"it wasn't asked for by any of the agencies on the frontlines in the fight against terrorism in the United States. It breaks with over 200 years of tradition in America against using the military in domestic affairs.\"\nIn fact, the heads of several \"security agencies,\" including the FBI, CIA, the director of national intelligence and the attorney general objected to the legislation. Even some within the Pentagon itself said they were against the bill. No matter, and no matter the intention inherent in lip service opposition, the corporate elite who drive the disastrous and inhumane polices of this country see it otherwise, and they, not the generals or anyone else, call the shots!\nAnd they've been at this for some time. A persistent and on-gong counter-insurgency directed against the American people, the detention provisions embedded in the NDAA are about more than \"social control.\" It amounts to a direct attack on the person, an \"unreasonable search and seizure\" in the cause of maintaining the shaky capitalist ship of state; suppressing popular resistance, dissent and protest, movements of peace and justice, recast as \"civil disorder,\" \"civil disturbance\" and \"domestic terror.\"\nCurrent U.S. military preparations for suppressing \"civil disturbance\" and \"domestic terrorism\" including the training of National Guard troops, local police and the authorization of massive surveillance, are part of a long history of American \"internal security\" measures dating back to the first American Revolution. Generally, these measures have sought to thwart the aims of social justice movements, embodying the concept, promulgated by elite sectors intent on maintaining their grip on the levers of state; that within the civilian body politic lurks an enemy that one day the military might have to fight; or at least be ordered to fight. (See: Army Surveillance in America, 1775-1980, Joan M. Jensen, Yale University Press, 1991)\nThus, in reaction to a period of social upsurge flush with movements of liberation, justice and peace, and the mounting of powerful campaigns which threatened the status quo and elite control, the US military's stand alone apparatus for conducting \"civil disturbance suppression\" operations, including detention, was born, immediately on the heels of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968.\nThe Garden Plot Operation\nUS Military Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, code-named Operation Garden Plot, follows, as was mentioned, in the footsteps of a long tradition of US military involvement in the suppression of dissent. Intriguingly, the Garden Plot operation is cited in documents related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. (See: Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, William Pepper, Carroll and Graf, 1995)\nhttp:\/\/www.dod.gov\/pubs\/foi\/operation_and_plans\/Other\/GARDEN_PLOT_DoD_Civil_DisturbancePlan.pdf\nhttp:\/\/www.911truth.org\/osamas\/morales.html\nCurrently, the Garden Plot operation is centered at the Pentagon's Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). \"Stood up\" in 2002, (though In the works prior to 9\/11), NORTHCOM, America's \"domestic military command,\" is tasked with various \"counter-terror,\" \"homeland defense\" and \"homeland security\" activities, including \"civil disturbance suppression\" operations, and \"assisting law enforcement\" within Canada, the United States and Mexico. http:\/\/www.northcom.mil\/\nUnder NORTHCOM, Operation Garden Plot functions, with the US Army as \"executive agent,\" as \"ConPlan 2502.\" In two parts, the \"con plan\" is officially listed as: United States Northern Command, Concept Plan (CONPLAN) 3501 (formerly 2501), Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA), dated 11 April 2006; and the United States Northern Command, Concept Plan 3502 (formerly 2502), Defense Support of Civil Authorities for Civil Disturbance Operations (CDO), 23 January 2007.\nAs noted above, the latest development in the Pentagon's evolving mission of suppressing, at the behest of it's corporate \"civilian\" overseers, a detention provision, is buried within the massive National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 signed by President Obama in the fog (grog) of this past New Years Eve.\nhttp:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/BILLS-112hr1540enr\/pdf\/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf\nNDAA 2012\nSection 1021 of the NDAA 2012 seemingly allows (the language is evasive) for the detention (without trial or charges) of American citizens redefined by the \"executive\" elite as \"enemy combatants\" in the so-called \"war on terror, \" a \"war\" which has become in the eyes of many, a war against the Constitution and civil liberties, a war against the disenchanted, fed-up and dissenting American public, spearheaded by a militarized police state allied to imperial military courts and \"tribunals,\" buttressed and rationalized with mind-bending mil-speak of \"enemy combatants,\" \"unlawful combatants,\" \"enemy belligerents,\" \"homeland battlefield\" \"domestic extremists\" \"domestic terrorists\" and the like.\nAnd yet, behind all the sophistry, lies and manipulation, the brutal truth is obvious: The corporate elite that directs things has seen fit to unleash it's military on it's own people in a desperate attempt to suppress the democratic (read: protest) rights of it's citizenry, us! Why? Simple: the paranoia of the thief, the well founded fear that knows that forced deprivation and scarcities, violence at home and abroad, rooted in greed, has run it's course in America. And they are right! And so, it makes ominous sense that we are confronted with the horrific machinations of forced detention for those who resist a \"new world order\" come home in a \"homeland\" which opportunistically collapses all distinction between dissent and terrorism, police and military, right and wrong, obfuscating the truth of who the real terrorists are!\nWhen Congress passed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), it included provisions that authorized U.S. armed forces to detain persons who are captured in the conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or \"associated forces.\" Section 1021 entitled \"AFFIRMATION OF AUTHORITY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES TO DETAIN COVERED PERSONS PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY FORCE\" allows for the President (whoever that may be) \"to use all necessary and appropriate force pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force \u2026 to detain covered persons \u2026pending disposition under the law of war.\"\n\"A covered person,\" according to the edict's malleable lingo, is \"any person \u2026 who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored those responsible for those attacks \u2026\" or, who \"was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban,\" or \"associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.\"\nAccordingly, \"the disposition of a person under the law of war\" will include \"detention under the law of war without trial until the end of the hostilities \u2026\" Now, by stating that \"nothing in this section is intended to limit or expand the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force,\" and that \"nothing in this section shall be construed to affect existing law or authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the United States, or any other persons who are captured or arrested in the United States,\" it would appear that the law exempts American citizens from the threat of detention. Correct?\nDetention is a booming industry\nDon't be too confident. Detention is a booming industry. In 2006 the Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International reported that Halliburton off-spring, \"global engineering and technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellogg, Brown & Root] announced in January 2006 that its Government and Infrastructure division was awarded an Indefinite Delivery\/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the event of an emergency.\" The $385 million dollars over 5 year contract \"is to be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\" building \"temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.\" Could the 2012 NDAA \/ Section 1021 be such a \"new program?\"\nThere has been some confusion over what Section 1021 actually means, and that in and of itself is cause for concern. Congressional spokespeople have stated that the provisions of NDAA 2012 \/ Sec 1021 do not provide any \"new authority\" to detain U.S. citizens or others who may be captured in the United States. Obama waffled likewise in the lead up to his signing the provision. Sen. Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, ho-hummed and said that, \"we are simply codifying existing law.\" But that was an evasion, since existing law, like it or not, regarding the detention of U.S. persons in the \"war on terror\" is indeterminate in important respects. And \"indeterminate\" is not good enough!\nA recent report from the Congressional Research Service fleshes out the law of detention as set forth in Section 1021, identifying what is known to be true as well as what is unsettled and unresolved. It is perfectly clear, for example, that a U.S. citizen who fights alongside \"enemy forces\" against the United States on a foreign battlefield could be lawfully detained. This was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.\nhttp:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/natsec\/R42337.pdf\nOn the other hand, the CRS report explains, \"the President's legal authority to militarily detain terrorist suspects apprehended in the United States has not been definitively settled.\" Nor has Congress helped to settle it. \"This bill does not endorse either side's interpretation,\" said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, \"but leaves it to the courts to decide.\"\nSo, if a detention of a U.S. person does occur, the CRS said, \"it will be up to a court to determine Congress's intent when it enacted the AUMF [the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force], or alternatively, to decide whether the law as it was subsequently developed by the courts and executive branch sufficiently established that authority for such detention already exists.\"\nUp to now, \"lower courts that have addressed questions the Supreme Court left unanswered have not achieved a consensus on the extent to which Congress has authorized the detention without trial of U.S. persons as 'enemy combatants,' and Congress has not so far clarified its intent.\"\nWell, it is certainly reassuring that a New York court has sought to clarify it's intent on the matter. On May 16, 2012 a newly appointed federal district judge, Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued a ruling, hailed by many, which preliminarily enjoins (prohibits) enforcement of the indefinite detention provisions (Sec 1021) of the NDAA 2012.\nhttp:\/\/sdnyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/12-Civ.-00331-2012.05.16-Opinion-Granting-PI.pdf\nThe \"temporary restraining order\" came as a result of a lawsuit brought by seven dissident plaintiffs \u2014 including Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir \u2014 alleging that the NDAA violated both their free speech and associational rights guaranteed by the First Amendment as well as due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. \"The government was unwilling or unable to state that these plaintiffs would not be subject to indefinite detention under [Section] 1021,\" Judge Forrest said in her ruling. \"Plaintiffs are therefore at risk of detention, of losing their liberty, potentially for many years.\"\nWhere it will go from here is anybodies guess. Judge Forrest's ruling was not permanent. A day after the ruling, the Wall Street Journal, for it's part, offered it's sour grapes, pontificating that the ruling \"will be overturned on appeal,\" while \"its reasoning needs to be deconstructed so it doesn't do more harm in the meantime.\" A week later, on the 25th, federal prosecutors from Obama's Department of Justice, calling Judge Forrest's ruling \"extraordinary,\" suggested that she lift the injunction, claiming further that her ruling only effects those plaintiffs named and not other potential or future targets of the draconian legislation.\nhttp:\/\/sdnyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/12-Civ.-00331-2012.05.25-Govt-Motion-for-Reconsideration.pdf\nWell, a few days ago on June 6th the upright Judge Forrest responded with an 8 page, \"memorandum and opinion\" in which she sought to \"eliminate any doubt as to the May 16 order's scope.\" (New York Times, \"Detention Provision is Blocked\" 6\/7\/12). And as to whom and for whom her original order was intended: \"The May 16th order enjoined enforcement of Section 1021(b)(2) against anyone until further action by this, or a higher, court \u2013 or by Congress.\" That's clear enough!\nSo, as it stands now now, although Judge Forrest's decision may temporarily protect Americans from provision 1021, it remains to be seen what the higher courts do should Obama's people appeal. And unfortunately, Judge Forrest's ruling, as praiseworthy as it is, does nothing to spare both foreign reporters and civilians from a life of imprisonment, let alone the more than 6 billion citizens of foreign nations who can still be handcuffed and hauled away to a US military prison without ever being brought to trial.\nSo, bottom line, given the indeterminate nature of a law that would snatch us up off the streets, throw away the key, and grant us little or no access to a trial let alone legal counsel of choice not vetted by the Pentagon, we should have no illusions that we are well along the slippery indeterminate slope to a full blown militarized police state; the complete identification, coordination and consolidation of the police and military function in America in the interests of an elite who regard us as the enemy, maybe even their property! Maybe even as targets for assassination!\nNaked violation of the 4th and 5th Amendments to the US Constitution\nWe should recall, that the current attempt by the executive to designate American citizens for detention without trial; a naked violation of the 4th and 5th Amendments to the US Constitution against unreasonable search and seizure and the guarantee of a trial, was preceded by the administration's \"resolve\" to assassinate at will Americans abroad, place them on a \"kill list,\" and eliminate them. According to the New York Times \"Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will,\" (5\/29\/12) the President and his advisors have made it clear that they have the authority \"to order the targeted killing of an American citizen, in a country with which the United States was not at war, in secret and without the benefit of a trial.\"\nThe Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel rationalized such a move in \"a lengthy memo justifying that extraordinary step, asserting that while the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process applied, it could be satisfied by internal deliberations in the executive branch.\" (New York Times, \"Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen,\" 10\/8\/11) Accordingly, after a dubious period of \"internal deliberations,\" Mr. Obama gave his approval, and the cleric Anwar al-Awlak was assassinated in September 2011, along with an associate Samir Khan, an American citizen who was not on the target list but happened to be traveling with Mr. al-Awlak. Apparently, campaign rhetoric and public demeanor to the contrary, when asked what surprised him most about Mr. Obama, Mr. Donilon, the national security adviser, answered immediately: \"He's a president who is quite comfortable with the use of force on behalf of the United States.\"\nThe Posse Comitatus Act\nHow did we get here? We need to recognize that the \"massive diversion of military resources\" into domestic law enforcement for the purposes of suppressing dissent and worse has a long history, a history that has witnessed the steady evisceration of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, the sole federal statute that criminalizes military incursions into the domain of domestic law enforcement. The Act is the backbone of our democratic republican tradition of separating the military and police function in this country and represents the ultimate bulwark against military dictatorship in the interests of the rich. That is the reason it is and continues to be attacked, ridiculed and ignored by elements in both the corporate and military spheres. For example, \"Current Obstacles to Fully Preparing Title 10 Forces for Homeland Defense and Civil Support\" by Commander James S. Campbell, United States Navy, May 2008 and, \"The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Law Enforcement Title\" by COL (Ret) John R. Brinkerhoff, December 2004, both seek to delegitimize and undercut the status and importance of the Act, a law so critical to the maintenance of our freedoms, and yet, a law about which most Americans remain unaware.\nhttp:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/cgi-bin\/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA487235\nhttp:\/\/usacac.army.mil\/cac2\/call\/docs\/10-16\/ch_11.asp\nThe 1878 Act, 18 USC \u00a7 1385 - USE OF ARMY AND AIR FORCE AS POSSE COMITATUS, more popularly known as The Posse Comitatus Act, reads as follows:\n\"Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, wilfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a Posse Comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.\"\nAs noted, the 1981 Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement law would seemingly violate the spirit if not the letter of this Act. Nonetheless, like a slowly boiling pot relentlessly eating away at our freedom of movement, assembly, association and expression, the utilization of military assets, under cover of law enforcement to suppress our democratic rights has proceeded steadily by design, virtually un-noticed.\nHistorical milestones: eating away at our freedom of movement, assembly, association and expression\nA very limited listing of some historical milestones:\n* In 1968, as mentioned above, concurrent with the creation of the Federal Commission on Civil Disorder, better known as the Kerner Commission, the Pentagon hatched it's very own \"civil disorder\" operation. \"US Military Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2,\" code named \"Garden Plot,\" coordinates, until this day, all aspects of \"civil disturbance suppression\" in America, including the use of so-called \"non-lethal weapons\" during conveniently designated domestic \"operations other than war\" (OOTW), and \"military operations in urban terrain\" (MOUT), a \"war\" which pits \"non-combatant\" citizens and protesters (overwhelmingly non-violent) against militarized police on the streets of America.\n* Only a few months after the round up and detention of 7,000 anti-war protesters in Washington DC, imprisoned in RFK stadium, an early Garden Plot operation, the 1971 Non-Detention Act was passed, specifically to repeal portions of the 1950 \"anti-communist\" \"Emergency Detention Act\" which had allowed for detention of suspected subversives without the normal Constitutional checks required for imprisonment. The Non-Detention Act required specific Congressional authorization for such detention. It reads that, \"no citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress.\" In recent years, the statute has been used to challenge military detainment of U.S. citizens accused of terrorist activity, as in the case of Jose Padilla.\nhttp:\/\/www.jenner.com\/system\/assets\/assets\/5417\/original\/18.pdf?1321652398\nA Congressional Research Service report on the history of the Non-Detention Act noted that, \"legislative debate, committee reports, and the political context of 1971 indicate that when Congress enacted Section 4001(a) it intended the statutory language to restrict all detentions by the executive branch, not merely those by the Attorney General.\" Further, \"lawmakers, both supporters and opponents of Section 4001(a), recognized that it would restrict the President and military authorities.\"\nAs for the Padilla case, the Supreme Court of the United States originally took the 2004 case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla to decide the question of whether Congress's Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) authorized the President to detain a U.S. citizen, which would run afoul of the Non Detention Act. But it did not give an answer, instead ruling that the case had been \"improperly filed.\" And so the issue, as to whether and under what circumstances the military can pick you up, detain and imprison you, without charging you, from the point of view the Supreme Court, remains \"unsettled.\"\n* Also in 1971, the California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI) was created. Headed up by Louis Giuffrida, formerly of Army Combat Command, the first director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), CSTI introduced the Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) concept, offering courses on \"civil disorder management\" for select \"militarized\" police and National Guard units armed and trained for domestic operations in the urban centers of America. During this period the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) facilitated federal funding and other military largess to the burgeoning militarized sectors of the domestic police forces along with training of selected National Guard units. Still in operation, CSTI is currently headed up by William J. Hatch Colonel, USA (RET), while funding for militarizing local police departments these days is facilitated by the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA, funding which has increased drastically since 9\/11.\nhttp:\/\/americaswarwithin.org\/articles\/2011\/12\/21\/local-police-stockpile-high-tech-combat-ready-gear\n* In 1975 the Trilateral Commission, a Western European, Japanese, US corporate think-tank convened by David Rockefeller, issued a report entitled, \"The Crisis of Democracy.\" (NYU Press, 1975) Authored by none other than Samuel Huntington. (\"Clash of Civilizations\"). Huntington's book is a blueprint for the on-going counter-revolution in America, emphasizing the elite requirement of suppressing democratic \"insurgency,\" the \"distemper\" of the 60s, a \"distemper\" that according to Huntington, stemmed from an \"excess of democracy.\" The only and final solution therefore is to \"moderate\" and \"shrink democracy,\" concluding that, \"there are potentially desirable limits to the indefinite extension of political democracy.\"\nhttp:\/\/www.wrijneveld.nl\/Boekenplank\/BoekenVanAanhangersVanDeNieuweWereldOrde\/1975-TC-The-Crisis-of-Democracy.pdf\n* In 1983, the US Army published Field Manual 3-19-15, Civil Disturbance Operations (since updated in 2005). The manual addresses civil disturbance operations in both continental United States (CONUS) and outside continental United States (OCONUS). It states that, \"today, United States (US) forces are deployed on peacekeeping, peace enforcement, and humanitarian assistance operations worldwide. During these operations, US forces are often faced with unruly and violent crowds intent on disrupting peace and the ability of US forces to maintain peace. Worldwide instability coupled with increasing US military participation in peacekeeping and related operations requires that US forces have access to the most current doctrine and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) necessary to quell riots and restore public order.\"\n\"In addition to covering civil unrest doctrine for CONUS operations, FM 3-19.15 addresses domestic unrest and the military role in providing assistance to civil authorities requesting it for civil disturbance operations \u2026The principles of civil disturbance operations, planning and training for such operations, and the TTP [\"tactics, techniques and procedures\"] employed to control civil disturbances and neutralize special threats are discussed in this manual. It also addresses special planning and preparation that are needed to quell riots in confinement facilities are also discussed. In the past, commanders were limited to the type of force they could apply to quell a riot. Riot batons, riot control agents, or lethal force were often used. Today, there is a wide array of nonlethal weapons (NLW) available to the commander that extends his use of force along the force continuum. This manual addresses the use of nonlethal (NL) and lethal forces when quelling a riot.\" And as noted, the training is meant to be operative in both foreign and domestic contexts, the war abroad, the war at home.\nhttp:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/doddir\/army\/fm3-19-15.pdf\n* In 1986, the Pentagon issues Department of Defense Directive 5525.5, or DoD Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Officials. US military involvement in domestic law enforcement is subsumed and rationalized under \"doctrines\" entitled Operations Other Than War (OOTW) and Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT), along with divisions known as Military Support to Law Enforcement Agencies (MSLEA) and Military Support to Civil Authorities (MSCA)\nhttp:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/whs\/directives\/corres\/pdf\/552505p.pdf\n* In 1992 President Clinton's Justice Department consolidated a partnership with the Pentagon in the area of \"technology transfer.\" The so-called \"technology transfer agreements\" allowed for the military to weaponize domestic police forces, further enhancing the growth of para-military \"special forces\" like \"special units\" in local police departments across the country, including \"civil disturbance\" units and training. The Clinton administration extended the police\/military connection by mandating that the Department of Defense and its associated private industries form a partnership with the Department of Justice to \"engage the crime war with the same resolve they fought the Cold War.\" The program, entitled, \"Technology Transfer From Defense: Concealed Weapons Detection,\" (\"Technology Transfer from Defense: Concealed Weapons Detection,\" National Institute of Justice Journal, No 229, August, 1995), calls for the transfer of military technology to domestic police organizations to better fight \"crime.\" Previously, direct \"transfers\" of this sort were made only to friendly foreign governments. The Clinton directive enhanced and formalized direct militarization of domestic police forces.\nhttp:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/39680373\/The-Militarization-of-the-Police-by-Frank-Morales\nCurrently, Title XIV of an earlier NDAA in 2007 entitled, \"Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative Provisions,\" authorizes \"the Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department of Defense (DOD) processes for identifying and deploying relevant DOD technology to federal, State, and local first responders.\" In other words, the law facilitates the \"transfer\" of the newest in so-called \"crowd control\" and surveillance technology to local militarized (politicized) police units.\n* In 1993, the US Army and Marine Corps publish Domestic Support Operations Field Manual 100-19.\nhttp:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/doctrine\/jel\/service_pubs\/fm100_19.pdf\n* In 1994, the Department of Defense issued Directive 3025.12, Military Assistance for Civil Disturbances (MACDIS) that details the rationale and means (\"tactics, techniques and procedures\") for suppressing dissent. It states that, \"the President is authorized by the Constitution and laws of the United States to suppress insurrections, rebellions, and domestic violence under various conditions and circumstances. Planning and preparedness by the Federal Government and the Department of Defense for civil disturbances are important, do to the potential severity of the consequences of such events for the Nation and the population.\"\n* In 1995, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an key elite \"policymaker\" headquartered in New York City, set up an \"Independent Task Force on Nonlethal Weapons (NLW)\" in order \"to assess the current status of non-lethal weapons development and availability within the Department of Defense, in light of their potential to support U.S. military operations and foreign policy,\" not to mention the suppression of dissent at home. The 16 member Task Force, which published its' findings in 1999, was chaired by IBM executive Richard L. Garwin, CFR \"Senior Fellow for Science and Technology.\" Other members of the Task Force included CFR \"military fellow\" David Jones, United States Navy, Commander, Edward N. Luttwak, member, \"National Security Study Group administered by the Department of Defense,\" Edward C. Meyer, USA (Ret.), Chair of Mitretek Systems, formerly Chief of Staff, US Army, and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Janet and Christopher Morris, President\/Vice President, M2 Technologies, Inc, members US Global Strategy Council.\nThe Director of the CFR task force on non-lethal \"technologies\" was W. Montaque Winfield, former Executive Officer to the Commander of the \"Stabilization Force\" stationed in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Also a 1998-9 CFR \"military fellow,\" Brigadier General Winfield, some of you might recall, was the deputy director for operations (DDO) in the National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon on the morning of 9\/11, who according to the 9\/11 Commission, left his post that very morning to attend a \"pre-scheduled meeting\" and allowed a colleague who had only recently qualified to take over his position, to stand in for him. He didn't return to his post until after the terrorist attacks had ended. http:\/\/www.historycommons.org\/entity.jsp?entity=montague_winfield\nThe CFR had issued an earlier report on the subject of \"non-lethal\" weapons in 1995, and stated in the 1999 report that they had regrettably \"found that the DoD has made only limited progress developing and deploying nonlethal weapons since 1995.\" The CFR, offering a bit of a tongue lashing to it's hired generals, considered the \"shortfall\" the result of a \"continued lack of appreciation for NLW among civilian and military policymakers.\" Taking a firm line, the CFR report recommends that, \"senior civilian and military leaders should make NLW development a priority.\" After all, \"nonlethal weapons could give policymakers a more potent weapon than economic sanctions.\" In fact, \"used alone\", the report notes, \"NLW could penalize civilian economies without high civilian casualties.\" Looking for something between \"diplomatic table thumping and outright annihilation,\" the armchair corporate warriors at the CRR continued to pound away at the need for accelerated \"non-lethal\" R and D.\nhttp:\/\/revoltrevolt.org\/demilitarizethepolice\/nonlethal.html\n* Subsequently, on July 9, 1996, the Department of Defense complied, issuing Directive 3000.3, Policy for Non-Lethal Weapons. The Directive established Department of Defense policies and responsibilities for the development and employment of so-called \"non-lethal weapons,\" designating the Commandant of the Marine Corps as Executive Agent for the Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program. On July 1, 1997, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate was established to support the Executive Agent for Non-Lethal Weapons in the day-to-day management of the Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program putting the \"best and the brightest\" at work in designing soft-kill means (including neuro-weapons) of \"crowd dispersal\" and \"social control\" set within a strategy of so-called \"low-intensity warfare\" and \"counter-insurgency.\"\nhttp:\/\/jnlwp.defense.gov\/pdf\/2011%20Public%20%20Release%20%20NLW%20Reference%20Book%20V1.pdf\nhttp:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/electromagnetic-weapons-by-frank-morales\nhttp:\/\/www.thebulletin.org\/web-edition\/columnists\/hugh-gusterson\/the-militarization-neuroscience\nRecently, this past May 17, 2012 the DoD issued Instruction 3200.19. Entitled \"Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW) Human Effects Characterization,\" the \"instruction\" \"establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for a human effects characterization process in support of the development of NLW, non lethal technology and NLW systems.\" It also establishes a \"Human Effects Review Board,\" which \"scientifically\" evaluates and quantifies levels of pain, calculating the most desirable \"effects\" in regard to the use of non-lethal force against non-combatants and protesters. In this regard, they receive a lot of assistance from their friends and associates in academia.\nhttp:\/\/cryptome.org\/dodi\/dodi-3200-19.pdf\nIn 1997 Penn State University established the Institute for Non-Lethal Defense Technologies. The Institute is \"dedicated to providing a base of multidisciplinary knowledge and technology that supports development and responsible application of non-lethal options for both military and civilian law enforcement. \" The Institute is administered by Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), under the direction and support of the University's Office of the Vice President for Research. http:\/\/nldt2.arl.psu.edu\/\nIts Human Effects Advisory Panel sponsored a conference in September 2000, whose purpose was \"to assess crowd behavior and the potential for crowd control \u2026 a leading core capability sought by the Joint Non-lethal Weapons Program.\" Their 2001 report was entitled, \"Crowd Behavior, Crowd Control, and the Use of Non-Lethal Weapons.\"\nhttp:\/\/nldt2.arl.psu.edu\/documents\/crowd_control_report.pdf\nMeanwhile, the University of New Hampshire's Non-Lethal Technology Innovation Center (NTIC) was created by a grant from the DoD's Joint Non-lethal Weapons Directorate about the same time \"to effect the next generation of NL capabilities by identifying and promoting the development of innovative concepts, materials and technologies within the academic community.\" Its \"Society of Force Effectiveness, Analysis and Techniques\" (FEAT) was \"established to engage primary source scientists to share results and analyses from studies of applied force, whether physical, psychological, or emotional. The Society's scope of interests includes the impact of non-lethal or less lethal force intervention on sustained attention; performance degradation due to fatigue or intentional distraction; compliance; vigilance; and stress resilience.\" The Society, given its specific intent on affecting \"motivational behavior,\" is keen on identifying \"disciplines that support the development of tools of behavioral modification through force (e.g., kinetic and electromagnetic energies, psychological operations).\"\nhttp:\/\/www.unh.edu\/ntic\/\n* In August of 2001, the Pentagon issued Field Manual 3-19.40, Internment and Resettlement Operations. Explicating the role of military police engaged in law enforcement, including at the point of domestic detention activities set within the context of \"emergency\" support, the extensive manual covers detention policies and methodologies and the use of non-lethal weapons. Chapter 10, Sections 49-66 detail the nature of \"emergency services\" within the \"continental United States,\" explaining that \"MP (military police) units assisting ES (emergency service) operations in CONUS involve DoD-sponsored military programs that support the people and the government at all levels within the US and its territories.\" Classified as \"domestic support,\" the manual states that, \"federal armed forces can be employed when \u2026\" in the face of a declared \"emergency,\" \"state and local authorities do not take appropriate action.\"\nIn that instance, FEMA would serve as \"the single POC within the government.\" With a nod to the Posse Comitatus Act the document goes on to state that, \"the MP support to ES in CONUS varies significantly from other I\/R (internment\/resettlement) operations. The basic difference is that local and state governments and the federal government and its agencies have a greater impact and role in supporting and meeting the needs in an affected community.\" \"If tasked to set up and operate an I\/R facility, the MP commander retains control of military forces under his command,\" and can operate \"in conjunction with local, state and federal law enforcement officials.\"\nhttp:\/\/www.aclu.org\/torturefoia\/released\/a22.pdf\n* September 11 provided the elite Project for a New American Century and their associates with the \"new Pearl Harbor\" they sought, as set forth in Rebuilding America's Defenses (pg.51), a major consequence of which was the September 18, 2001 passage of the Authorization for Use of Military Force or AUMF.\nhttp:\/\/www.newamericancentury.org\/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\nhttp:\/\/news.findlaw.com\/hdocs\/docs\/terrorism\/sjres23.es.html\nThe Pentagon can invade, occupy and destroy at will, pre-emptively (with little or no reason), anyone, anywhere in the world\nThis singular, presumably legal rationale for much of what we now endure, the AUMF substantiates the notion that the Pentagon can invade, occupy and destroy at will, pre-emptively (with little or no reason), anyone, anywhere in the world, any time it chooses. In addition, apparently as we now see, the AUMF gives the Pentagon and it's covetous corporate directors justification for the military takeover of America itself and the detention of its people. Thus, the AUMF is cited by the peddlers of Section 1021 of the NDAA 2012.\nThe modern \"military tribunal\" structure, which is a major piece of the detention\/repression apparatus, came into formal existence as a consequence of the 2002 Department of Defense Military Commission Order No.1, issued on March 21, 2002 by former president (war criminal) George W. Bush.\nhttp:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/Mar2002\/d20020321ord.pdf\nThe entire military commission\/tribunal structure is a work in progress, or more precisely, a dynamic and strategic power play on the part of the rulers set in motion following 9\/11; a \"might makes right\" gambit undertaken by the militarist directors in the smoke of 9\/11. Like the so-called Patriot Act, it was forced down the throats of a submissive, clueless public, sufficiently softened by means of prime time terror, fear and panic. Taking two steps forward and one step back, the militarists act first and then rationalize (or more precisely have their employees in the Congress) baptize the move after the fact. Where do presidents like Dubya, and now Obama get the authority to issue such blanket, unilateral decrees, totalitarian \"executive orders,\" such as Obama's \"National Defense Preparedness Order\" of this year, which would force us to work for the Pentagon? The answer: No where! They have no authority! Particularly to set up parallel systems of jurisprudence as a means of by-passing Constitutional protections. In historical fact, this approach has a parallel in earlier maneuvers of another former \"executive,\" Adolph Hitler. (see Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich, Ingo Muller, Harvard, 1991)\nhttp:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/03\/16\/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness\nConcurrent with the round-up of over a thousand people following the September 11 attack, many of whom are still being held, many in solitary confinement, with no charges being filed, President Bush signed in November 2001 an order, establishing military \"tribunals\" for those non-citizens, accused, anywhere, of \"terrorist related crimes.\" And now, with the NDAA, citizens might soon face the same fate. Just imagine some smug and starchy government lawyer arguing that \"the right to equal protection,\" a fundamental principle of both U.S. and international law, demands that Americans be detained too!\nAt the time (2001), the National Legal Aid & Defender Association stated that the Bush promulgated \"military order\" violated the constitutional separation of powers:\n\"It has not been authorized by the Congress and is outside the President's constitutional powers ... the order strips away a variety of checks and balances on governmental power and the reliability and integrity of criminal judgments... undermines the rule of law worldwide, and invites reciprocal treatment of US nationals by hostile nations utilizing secret trials, a single entity as prosecutor, judge and jury, no judicial review and summary executions.\"\nMore recently, in October 2009, the U.S. Congress passed and Obama dutifully signed the Military Commissions Act of 2009 (2009 MCA), which remains in effect today, legalizing further, if you will, the naked power grab by the executive in behalf of the elite. Since then the \"Office of Military Commissions\" has been set up as a public relations\/propaganda front for the dictatorship. It promises to \"provide fair and transparent trials of those persons subject to trial by Military Commissions while protecting national security interests.\" Kind of like Fox's \"fair and balanced\" news reporting. http:\/\/www.mc.mil\/\nFinally, we should recall that the NDAA of past years, aside from providing the funding of vast sums for illegal and immoral wars, torture and assassination, has been the site of various embedded measures designed to further limit our democratic rights of free expression and assembly, which is the foundation of effective and meaningful dissent. One such measure dates back to 2007, to the then so-called John Warner NDAA, named after militarism's best friend and sponsor of the iconic AUMF.\nPublic Law 109-364, or the \"John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007\" (H.R.5122), was signed by George Bush on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony. It allowed the President to declare a \"public emergency\" and subsequently station troops anywhere in America, seizing control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to \"suppress public disorder.\" Well, fortunately, a massive protest ensued and the sections of the law that allowed for such were eventually repealed in the midst of which Senator Pat Leahy commented that, \"we certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law.\" Preparing to order the military onto the streets of America, the presumption is that some form of martial law would be in evidence. Note that the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is \"martial law.\"\nhttp:\/\/towardfreedom.com\/home\/content\/view\/911\/\nThe concept of martial rule, as distinct from martial law, is not written, and therefore is an eminently more workable arrangement for \"law enforcement forces.\" That's because, as US Army Field Manual 19-15 points out, \"martial rule is based on public necessity. Public necessity in this sense means public safety.\" According to the manual (cited above), updated in 2005, U.S. state authorities \"may take such action within their own jurisdictions.\" And yet, \"whether or not martial rule has been proclaimed, commanders must weigh each proposed action against the threat to public order and safety. If the need for martial rule arises, the military commander at the scene must so inform the Army Chief of Staff and await instructions. If martial rule is imposed, the civilian population must be informed of the restrictions and rules of conduct that the military can enforce.\"\nNow, respecting the power of free speech, the manual suggests that, \"during a civil disturbance, it may be advisable to prevent people from assembling. Civil law can make it unlawful for people to meet to plan an act of violence, rioting, or civil disturbance. Prohibitions on assembly may forbid gatherings at any place and time.\" And don't forget, \"making hostile or inflammatory speeches advocating the overthrow of the lawful government and threats against public officials, if it endangered public safety, could violate such law.\"\nFurther, during civil disturbance operations, \"authorities must be prepared to detain large numbers of people,\" forcing them into existing, though expanded \"detention facilities.\" Cautioning that, \"if there are more detainees than civil detention facilities can handle, civil authorities may ask the control forces to set up and operate temporary facilities.\" Pending the approval of the Army Chief of Staff, the military can detain and jail citizens en masse. \"The temporary facilities are set up on the nearest military installation or on suitable property under federal control.\" These \"temporary facilities\" are \"supervised and controlled by MP officers and NCOs trained and experienced in Army correctional operations. Guards and support personnel under direct supervision and control of MP officers and NCOs need not be trained or experienced in Army correctional operations. But they must be specifically instructed and closely supervised in the proper use of force.\"\nAccording to the Army, the detention facilities are situated near to the \"disturbance area,\" but far enough away \"not to be endangered by riotous acts.\" Given the large numbers of potential detainees, the logistics (holding, searching, processing areas) of such an undertaking, new construction of such facilities \"may be needed to provide the segregation for ensuring effective control and administration.\" It must be designed and \"organized for a smooth flow of traffic,\" while a medical \"treatment area\" would be utilized as a \"separate holding area for injured detainees.\" After a \"detainee is logged in and searched,\" \"a file is initiated,\" and a \"case number\" identifies the prisoner. In addition, \"facility personnel also may use hospital ID tags. Using indelible ink, they write the case number and attach the tag to the detainees wrist. Different colors may be used to identify different offender classifications \"\nFinally, if and when it should occur, \"release procedures must be coordinated with civil authorities and appropriate legal counsel.\" If the \"detainee\" should produce a writ of habeas corpus issued by a state court, thereby demanding ones day in court, the Army will \"respectfully reply that the prisoner is being held by authority of the United States.\"\nThere is no question that the militarized police state, in all its myriad permutations has arrived. In fact, the militarizing of American cities and society as a whole proceeds apace in lock step (Cities Under Seige: The New Military Urbanism, Stephen Graham, 2010) with the racist, anti-immigrant \"defense\" of the borders, a veritable cash cow for military contractors, booming. The cities, the borders, so how bout the skies? Well, as this is being written, the latest 2013 NDAA discussions include a Senate Armed Services Committee call to allow drones to operate \"freely and routinely\" in America!\nhttp:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/congress\/2012_cr\/sasc-uas.html\nhttp:\/\/nacla.org\/blog\/2012\/6\/7\/bringing-battlefield-border-wild-world-border-security-and-boundary-building-arizona\nMeanwhile, the GAO has just issued a report to Congress entitled \"DOD Should Reevaluate Requirements for the Selective Service System\" which calls for an evaluation of Pentagon \"manpower needs for the Selective Service System in light of current national security plans.\" Such an evaluation would, the report notes, \"better position Congress to make an informed decision about the necessity of the Selective Service System or any other alternatives that might substitute for it.\"\nhttp:\/\/cryptome.org\/2012\/06\/gao-12-623.pdf\nYes indeed, the water is boiling. Not to mix metaphors, but it's time to jump out of the frying pan and hopefully not into the fire, which I take to mean that we must confront and deconstruct, in a non-violent way, the increasing potential for far more violence and suppression of our basic freedoms. The handing over of our resources, lives, fortune and reputation to a clique of thieves and murderers dressed up as presidents, congress people and corporate military executives and underlings is to foster our continued enslavement to the perpetrators of injustice and genocide, here and broad, inequality and greed, here and abroad, and signals the political suicide for our republic. We have got to act to stop the police state and reassert the values of community, justice and equality in the councils of governance. And to do so we must dis-empower the militarists.\nOne thing we can do right now is to initiate organizing campaigns in neighborhoods and communities across the country aimed at the passing of Posse Comitatus-like legislation on the local and state level, encouraging dialogue on the de-militarization of our communities, and raising the human right to be free of the violation inherent in all forms of militarism. By removing all aspects of militarism from domestic policing, lock, stock and barrel, we can expand the terrain of dissent and begin to reclaim our country back from the economic vultures and parasites and their violent mercenaries who are killing this country and the world. But first we must criminalize, like the Posse Comitatus Act does, all military involvement in law enforcement.\nCommunities must organize to de-militarize their police\nCommunities must organize to de-militarize their police. By analyzing police budgets, cutting the \"special ops\" training and funding and weapons transfers that fuel the militarization of law enforcement, we will most certainly decrease the level of police violence directed against the citizenry, and bridge issues and communities concerned with the epidemic of racist \"police brutality\" and the burgeoning of militarized police forces, veritable occupation armies in communities of color across America.\nAlong with criminalizing the militarization of local police we must work to criminalize racial profiling on the part of the police, a practice (indoctrinated in soldiers) that provides naked justification for \"stop and frisk\" harassment and the murdering of young black men. Make killer cops liable for these murders, stripped of the \"sovereign immunity\" that is their 007 license to kill. Ditto for \"stand your ground\" or more-arms-for-the-white-right laws, which along with the high rates of gun ownership in certain demographic regions of the country, create the ominous potential for \"deputized\" armed posses, who along with state sponsored \"defense forces\" on a mission to presumably protect the \"homeland\" promise only more violence and repression. Disarm and expose them, expose the fraud of a hyped-up \"law enforcement\" establishment willing to break any laws to please the master, the financiers, the power brokers who manipulate them for gain, who are really only pawns in their game.\nIt is irrational and a violation of the civil and human rights of the citizenry to perpetuate the arming of militarized police trained to suppress constitutionally insured rights to free speech and assembly. They are supposed to defend the Constitution, not \"detain\" those who do! They are supposed to defend the civil rights of the people, not \"partner\" with the CIA and FBI and spy on activists and Muslim communities, entrapping their youth, victims of the racist charade called \"the war on terror.\" (Associated Press, \"Post-9\/11, NYPD targets ethnic communities, partners with CIA,\" 8\/24\/11)\nhttp:\/\/www.justice.gov\/oig\/special\/s1009r.pdf\nThey are supposed to defend the right to protest, not brutalize those who do, peacefully, as in the most recent police crack-down on the Occupy movement. (New York Times, \"When the Police Go Military\" 12\/3\/11). They are supposed to be sensitive to the civil and human rights of all the people, respect the cultural diversity of their environment, \"serve and protect,\" not to be trained in \"quick shoot reflex\" by outfits such as the Firearms Training Systems which trains both the NYPD and the US marines!\nPolice departments are public institutions subject to the will of local governments, to the will of the public, the people. But only if we act! Where and under what circumstances the police receive their training, are granted \"immunity\" and what armaments they possess, (paid for by public funds) and what sort of institutional relationships with US military and intelligence agencies (which public documents would make evident) are they engaged in \u2026\nThese are the kinds of questions and avenues of approach common throughout history in the struggle of citizens against police\/military dictatorships. And despite the recent May 17, 2012 issuance of the \"DoD Civil Liberties Program,\" which defines civil liberties as \"fundamental rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution of the United States,\" except when \"operational requirements\" of \"an authorized law enforcement, intelligence collection, or counterintelligence activity\" dictate otherwise; despite the tightening noose, in the end we must rely on the law, on \"the rule of law,\" specifically, on the ability (necessity) of reasonable people of good will acquiring sufficient power to draft new and enforceable laws, laws which promote justice, healing, growth, life and peace. And to make them stick!\nWe claim and hope to be a society of laws, by the people, for all the people. But we are not. Never have been. Nonetheless, we are capable of evolving, of igniting a revolution of values in this country and becoming the land we all aspire to \"with justice and freedom for all.\" But in order to get there, we will have to overcome the coup of 2012.\nStarving Greeks Queue for Food Handouts Amid Economic Crisis\nCongratulations you pathetic, coward bastards - this is what you voted for: Greece is now the laughing stock of the world, cowering on your knees before a female German Nazi - Greeks no different from Americans and will now pay for their folly just as they have, having only succeeded in delaying the inevitable\nThousands of starving Greeks have queued for free food handouts as the country continues to grapple with a falling economy.\nGreek children will now pay for the cowardice of their parents\nThis comes as the recession-bound country is hit hard by rising unemployment and crippling austerity measures.\nNative Greeks, immigrants, the elderly and children stood in a queue on Wednesday to receive vegetable handout from a coalition of farmers in Athens.\n\"We won't solve any feeding problems, but we're starting to show solidarity, a display of Greek solidarity that shows we're united in these tough times,\" Euronews quoted one charity worker as saying on Wednesday.\nThis is while earlier in the day, leader of the socialist Pasok party Evangelos Venizelos announced that a deal has been clinched for a coalition government in Greece in a bid to tackle the country's financial crisis.\nSo will the elderly, poor, homeless, disabled\nAlso on Wednesday Antonis Samaras, the country's new prime minister, said that he will ask for the new government to be formed on Thursday and pledged to \"work hard\" to \"give hope\" to Greeks.\nGreece is at the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis and is experiencing its fifth year of recession because of the government-introduced harsh austerity measures, which have left about half-a-million people without a job over the past years.\nOne in every five Greek workers is currently unemployed, banks are in a shaky position, and pensions and salaries have been slashed by up to 40 percent.\nGreek youths have also been badly affected and more than half of them are unemployed.\nThere are worries that more delays in resolving the eurozone debt crisis, which began in Greece in late 2009 and infected Italy, Spain and France last year, can push not only Europe, but also much of the rest of the developed world back into recession.\nMR\/JR \/AZ\nWhen Will We [U.S.] Attack Syria?\nObama, Merkel and the rest of the corporate banking criminals caught a break in the form of the coward Greek people, gaining some time until their exposure for draining The People's money from their national treasuries now that their fake \"austerity\" has failed, however attacking Iran or Syria has always been a stop-gap measure in the event they have to use it to declare Martial Law in America, reinstate the draft, close the borders to Americans attempting to flee - and now they are preparing to use it\nBy Representative Ron Paul*\nPlans, rumors, and war propaganda for attacking Syria and deposing Assad have been around for many months.\nCoward Americans doom world to endless war by doing nothing\nThis past week, however, it was reported that the Pentagon indeed has finalized plans to do just that. In my opinion, all the evidence to justify this attack is bogus. It is no more credible than the pretext given for the 2003 invasion of Iraq or the 2011 attack on Libya.\nThe total waste of those wars should cause us to pause before this all-out effort at occupation and regime change is initiated against Syria.\nThere are no national security concerns that require such a foolish escalation of violence in the Middle East. There should be no doubt that our security interests are best served by completely staying out of the internal strife now raging in Syria.\nObama will most likely \"sacrifice\" a U.S. carrier like Lyndon Johnson did the USS Liberty to enrage Americans into another illegal war, resulting in the deaths of thousands of naval personnel at the hands of Israel or Iran\nWe are already too much involved in supporting the forces within Syria anxious to overthrow the current government. Without outside interference, the strife \u2014 now characterized as a civil war \u2014 would likely be nonexistent.\nCIA owned and operated \"mainstream media\" shill for war\nWhether or not we attack yet another country, occupying it and setting up a new regime that we hope we can control, poses a serious constitutional question: from where does a president get such authority?\nSince World War II the proper authority to go to war has been ignored.\nIt has been replaced by international entities like the United Nations and NATO, or the president himself, while ignoring the Congress. And sadly, the people don't object.\nOur recent presidents explicitly maintain that the authority to go to war is not the U.S. Congress. This has been the case since 1950 when we were taken into war in Korea under a U.N. resolution and without congressional approval.\nThe fate of THOUSANDS of American servicemen and women should Obama get his next illegal \"war;\" U.S. parents, families have yet to take personal responsibility for the deaths of their loved ones because they were too cowardly to say no to Bush\/Obama, cannot live with themselves if they have to face up to the fact that their fathers, sons, brothers, sisters, mothers died for nothing and still beat war drums in a pathetic attempt to bullshit themselves and the world that their sacrifice was \"worth it\"\nAnd once again, we are about to engage in military action against Syria and at the same time irresponsibly reactivate the Cold War with Russia. We're now engaged in a game of \"chicken\" with Russia which presents a much greater threat to our security than does Syria.\nHow would we tolerate Russia in Mexico demanding a humanitarian solution to the violence on the U.S.-Mexican border? We would consider that a legitimate concern for us. But for us to be engaged in Syria, where the Russians have a legal naval base, is equivalent to the Russians being in our backyard in Mexico.\nMultiply these caskets by tens of thousands if Obama gets his next illegal war, and the real casualty numbers for Iraq and Afghanistan have still not been exposed\nWe are hypocritical when we condemn Russians for protecting their neighborhood interests for exactly what we have been doing ourselves, thousands of miles away from our shores. There's no benefit for us to be picking sides, secretly providing assistance, and encouraging civil strife in an effort to effect regime change in Syria.\nFalsely charging the Russians with supplying military helicopters to Assad is an unnecessary provocation. Falsely blaming the Assad government for a so-called massacre perpetrated by a violent warring rebel faction is nothing more than war propaganda.\nMost knowledgeable people now recognize that the planned war against Syria is merely the next step to take on the Iranian government, something the neocons openly admit.\nControlling Iranian oil, just as we have done in Saudi Arabia and are attempting to do in Iraq, is the real goal of the neoconservatives who have been in charge of our foreign policy for the past couple of decades.\nWar is inevitable without a significant change in our foreign policy, and soon. Disagreements between our two political parties are minor. Both agree the sequestration of any war funds must be canceled. Neither side wants to abandon our aggressive and growing presence in the Middle East and South Asia.\nThis crisis building can easily get out of control and become a much bigger war than just another routine occupation and regime change that the American people have grown to accept or ignore.\nIt's time the United States tried a policy of diplomacy, seeking peace, trade, and friendship. We must abandon our military effort to promote and secure an American empire.\nOne fine day - and probably sooner rather than later - the rest of the civilized world will decide that this criminally insane piece of shit must be stopped once and for all before he destroys the planet, just as the Allies did with Hitler - regardless of the cost\nBesides, we're broke, we can't afford it, and worst of all, we're fulfilling the strategy laid out by Osama bin Laden, whose goal had always been to bog us down in the Middle East and bring on our bankruptcy here at home.\nIt's time to bring our troops home and establish a noninterventionist foreign policy, which is the only road to peace and prosperity.\nThe future of what was once \"Free America:;\" endless illegal wars, an insane dictator \"for life\"\nThis week I am introducing legislation to prohibit the administration, absent a declaration of war by Congress, from supporting \u2014 directly or indirectly \u2014 any military or paramilitary operations in Syria. I hope my colleagues will join me in this effort.\n* The 5th Estate DOES NOT support Ron Paul, or any other \"politician.\"\nFood Stamp Vote In Senate Blocks Bid To Restore $4...\nTHE COUP OF 2012: Encroachment Upon Basic Freedoms...\nStarving Greeks Queue for Food Handouts Amid Econo...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ThunderStrike\nDeveloper Live Studios\nPublisher Millennium Software\nThunderstrike is an action-shooter game that combines impressive 3D graphics with some superb shooting gameplay. The game was released only for the 16bit Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and PC (MS-DOS) home computers by Millenium Software in 1991.\nYou participate on a TV show (!) in which you have to defend your home from a whole host of enemy robotic forces. This intergalactic TV program, watched by billions of entities, is produced by a company named Ground Defense and combines the politics the networks wanted to advertise along with hardware to show military might. The deadly show takes place in an arena where combat vehicles and are battling and certain ships leave energy pods, turbo boosters and shield enhancements when destroyed. Those items can be collected by simply flying over them. As it's a TV show, the better you perform and the more dramatic your performance is, determines marks of what type of ship you get on the next round! There are several ground installations as well and the computer controlled drones are attacking in hordes. Some of the ground installations are on your side, so you need to protect them while others are hostile, so they must be destroyed. You may select which craft suits you the most at the beginning of the game and each of those include sophisticated instruments like a radar that spots the attacking drones or the installations in differently colored dots. Do not forget to collect the pods dropped when drones are destroyed as they can prove useful during your unforgiving combats.\nThunderStrike includes 50 levels in total, split across five different planets. The controls may seem a bit awkward but you'll soon get the hang of them and the option screen allows you to set your mouse's sensitivity based on your personal preferences. So, take your time and you might just win the supreme accolade as the \"Defender of the Ground\"!\nThe Atari ST version has nice and fast moving 3D environments (a bit faster than the Amiga version) and 16 simultaneous colors. The combat vehicles and flying stuff move without any frame rate issues and each \"arena\" offers some nice details although there isn't too much variety in the landscapes. Still look colorful and satisfactory.\nThe sound is adequate with a bunch of combat sound effects (but not sampled on the ST) that seem to work well with the game.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeGermany Recognizes Algerian Jews As Holocaust Survivors\nGermany Recognizes Algerian Jews As Holocaust Survivors\nDebra Nussbaum CohenFebruary 5, 2018Image by United States Holocaust M...\nImage by United States Holocaust M...\nNEW YORK (JTA) \u2014 Close to 80 years after being persecuted by the Nazi-allied Vichy French government, some 25,000 elderly Algerian Jews are for the first time being recognized as Holocaust survivors by the German government.\nAlgerian Jews had their French citizenship stripped by the Vichy government, which then ruled the area, in 1940. Nuremberg-like laws banned Jews from working as doctors, lawyers, teachers and in government. Children were kicked out of French schools.\nOn Tuesday, 78 years after they endured suffering that left families penniless and starving, and pariahs in their own country, the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany will begin taking their applications for recognition as survivors, making each eligible for a one-time \"hardship grant\" and additional services like food vouchers and in-home care.\nEach survivor approved will receive a hardship grant of 2,556 euros, the equivalent of roughly $3,100. The euro figure is the equivalent of 5,000 deutschmarks, a sum the Claims Conference negotiated with the German government in 1980. The money will be distributed beginning in July.\nThe youngest Algerian survivors, born in 1942, would today be 76 years old. Most, however, are in their 80s and 90s, Schneider said. As important as the money is, even more valuable is acknowledgment of their suffering, Schneider told JTA. \"They weren't murdered but there were lots of deprivations\" under the anti-Semitic Vichy laws.\n\"There weren't extermination camps in Algeria but a person's childhood was turned upside down because of this persecution targeting Jews. It becomes a huge part of a person's identity. The experience during the war for so many people defines them, is the seminal experience of their lives. All these decades it's never been acknowledged,\" said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany.\nDebra Nussbaum Cohen\nDebra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist who covers philanthropy, religion, gender and other contemporary issues. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and New York magazine, among many other publications. She authored the book \"Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Society \/ Never let a good crisis go to waste\nNever let a good crisis go to waste\nJune 24, 2017\tSociety 232 Views\nAs the full horror of the Grenfell fire became apparent, millions of ordinary Britons experienced shock, sorrow and an outpouring of sympathy. Many people in the immediate area rushed to volunteer \u2013 opening up community facilities and distributing food and clothing. Others reached for their wallets to donate the cash that was essential to meeting the immediate needs of survivors who had fled the stricken building without stopping to look for cash, cards or essential documents.\nShock turned into anger in the days after the fire. The Prime Minister's apparent lack of humanity toward the victims seemed to sum up an out of touch austerity government that has spent the last seven years attacking Britain's poor. The local Tory council's failure to honour its legal duties to the victims of the fire had all of the hallmarks of a body that had long since sold its soul to London's luxury property developers. Even as government ministers mouthed the predictable platitudes in praise of the emergency services, nurses, fire fighters and police officers spoke about the additional risks that government cuts had created.\nAs the public mood hardened, however, a small band of cynical and possibly sociopathic property developers were rubbing their hands together with glee. Echoing the words attributed to Winston Churchill, they asked; \"why let a good crisis go to waste?\" After all, the property speculators have been trying to get their hands on the prime real estate land beneath Grenfell tower and its neighbouring properties for decades. Clearly Grenfell itself is going to be demolished. But the crisis also opens up the means to evict the residents and demolish blocks of social housing across London and beyond.\nIt fell to Iain Duncan Smith \u2013 his hands still dripping with the blood of a thousand disabled benefit claimants \u2013 to give political voice to the interests of the property speculators. Speaking immediately after the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Grenfell parliamentary debate on Thursday, Smith's cynical question was:\n\"I ask the Prime Minister to add one further remit to the public inquiry: to look at whether the whole process of retrofitting old tower blocks is viable at all and at whether there is a better way to house and support tenants in these areas without the use of the many incredibly badly designed and very faulty tower blocks. Will she ask the public inquiry to look carefully at whether it is feasible to bring some of the blocks down and provide more family friendly housing?\"\nNotice that Smith does not say who such \"family friendly housing\" would be for. Obviously not the people displaced from the towers that are demolished \u2013 that would require modern towers to be erected in their place. What Smith is talking about is the ongoing process of social cleansing of central London that has seen the working class dispersed to the outer suburbs and even to other UK towns and cities. This was entirely predictable. In the aftermath of the fire we pointed out that:\n\"It doesn't take a genius to realise that Grenfell tower is not going to be refurbished. Nor does one have to be particularly bright to understand that once the fallout from the tragedy has dissipated and the tower demolished, the local council is going to sell the land to a private developer to put up even more high-end property. If they are particularly cynical, they may even use the disaster as an excuse to tear down the neighbouring towers. After all, if the public inquiry recommends expensive retrofitting of safety systems, and if government incorporates these into regulations or legislation, it will be far cheaper to rehouse people. The council may even argue that the income they receive from the sale of the land can be used to rehouse the residents \u2013 but that rehousing will not be in Kensington & Chelsea, and may not even be in London.\"\nThat it should fall to Iain Duncan Smith to put these sentiments onto the political agenda is unsurprising. His cruelty and incompetence during his time as Work and Pensions Secretary brought about the premature deaths of thousands of sick and disabled people, while forcing hundreds of thousands of Britain's poorest households to turn to foodbanks to stay alive. Even more worryingly, though, is the fact that the Prime Minister chose not to reply to the question at all. If she had refuted Duncan Smith's question, this would have taken the issue off the table. If, on the other hand she had accepted it, this would demonstrate that Duncan Smith's thinking was in line with her own. By ducking the question, she leaves it on the table without having to take responsibility for it\u2026 which may explain why Duncan Smith's was the first question from the floor.\nIn the end at least some of the survivors of the Grenfell fire will be rehoused in better conditions in or close to their community \u2013 it would be political suicide for the government to do anything else. But the residents of similar towers across London and the wider UK can expect harsher treatment. Mr Duncan Smith and his property developing chums are coming for them, and they are not seen as victims. As their towers are pulled down and their communities dispersed to the four winds to make way for new developments, public sympathy will wane. After all, they are being saved from a future disaster\u2026 and it will be very difficult to defend against that.\nPrevious Science 'v' Economics criticisms work both ways\nNext Burning \u00a350 notes in front of the poor\nIn the more conspiratorial corners of the Internet, the \"Great Reset\" is a sinister public \u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EZ Rock Golden\nEZ Rock Kitimat\nEZ Rock Kootenays\nEZ Rock Nelson\nEZ Rock Osoyoos\nEZ Rock Penticton\nEZ Rock Prince Rupert\nEZ Rock Revelstoke\nEZ Rock Salmon Arm\nEZ Rock Summerland\nEZ Rock Terrace\nLogo EZ Rock terrace\nSkeena-Bulkley Valley MP hosts discussion on white supremacist groups in Canada\nJoshua Azizi\nSkeena-Bulkley Valley MP Taylor Bachrach held an online discussion with Hamilton Centre MP Matthew Green last Friday to chat about combatting white nationalist hate groups operating in Canada.\nBachrach explained that one of the reasons he held the discussion was to help break down the events that happened last week at the US capitol.\n\"I would say in this region, there's a fair bit of confusion and a need to unpack these things and to understand the meaning of the symbols, and -- I know you and I had a conversation about the confederate flags that we're flown in my community-\"\n\"That's right.\"\n\"-and to help people understand the connections between these things and the harm that's being done.\"\nSome topics they discussed include recent white nationalist activity in Canada, online disinformation, extremists' use of social media, the historical roots of racism in Canada and Green's own experiences with racism.\nBachrach and Green, who are both NDP MPs, also discussed their party's recent push for the government to recognize the Proud Boys, a white nationalist group, as a terrorist organization.\n\"If I were to show up to the local Caribbean association and there was a note on the door or if it was burned to the ground, or a mosque or a synagogue or any identifiable group, that is in and of its very self a message to the community that their lives are at danger, said Green.\n\"That's what white supremacist organizing does, and so they should be deemed as terrorist organizations and they should be completely outlawed in this country.\"\n\"Are we making progress on that front?,\" asked Bachrach.\n\"No. We have governments who want to play lip service to the aesthetics of taking on these big critical issues, they want to play identity politics without actually committing to justice.\"\nPublic Safety Minister Bill Blair said on Sunday that the federal government was considering designating the Proud Boys as a terrorist group.\nAmbulances are being used to transfer deceased people in Northwest B.C.\nAnother COVID exposure for Uplands Elementary School\nGroup element EZrock Terrace footer\nContact Information EZ Rock Terrace\n4625 Lazelle Avenue Terrace BC V8G 1S4\nStudio Line (250) 638-0181 or 1-888-556-8742\nNews (250) 638-6325\nReception Desk (250) 635-6316\nSales (250) 635-6316 #327","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Benefits of Modest Weight Loss\nModest Weight Loss Can Help Combat Obesity\nRelatively modest weight loss can have significant health benefits in tackling overweight and obesity, the Australian Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Kay Patterson, said today.\nShe announced new draft guidelines for doctors in the fight against Australia's obesity epidemic.\nThe draft clinical practice guidelines for weight control and obesity have been developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council and are now open for public comment.\nThe number of people who are overweight or obese \u2013 both adults and children \u2013 has reached epidemic proportions throughout the western world. In Australia alone in 1999-2000, an estimated 67 per cent of adult males, 52 per cent of adult females were classified as overweight or obese.\nSenator Patterson said: \"People's expectations of weight loss are often unrealistic, making successful treatment more difficult.\n\"Even a modest loss of 5-10% of starting weight can result in significant health benefits.\n\"That benefit is probably greater than people realise. If you lose 10% of your weight that is a good thing. It is not as if you are halfway to a goal you will never achieve \u2013 it is a success and can deliver sustainable health benefits.\"\nThe guidelines say that low fat eating plans resulting in a daily energy reduction of 2-4 megajoules a day, combined with increased physical activity, appear to be the most effective for long-term weight loss.\nA regular pattern of physical activity is one of the key factors involved in maintaining weight loss.\nSenator Patterson said: \"At first glance, the answers probably seem simple, eat less and move more, but in reality this is one of the most complex and difficult medical problems to deal with in modern disease management.\n\"Doctors and health professionals are at the front line, with current statistics showing that more than 50 per cent of patients visiting their general practitioner, likely to have overweight or obesity as a key symptom, if not the primary cause of disease.\"\nNot just adults are at risk \u2013 the prevalence of obesity and overweight in children and adolescents has doubled in the past 15 years, with between 20 and 25 per cent of children and adolescents now estimated to be overweight or obese.\nSenator Patterson said: \"There is much misleading, and sometimes confusing, information to be found in both public and scientific literature, and it is for these reasons that we need guidelines for doctors and health professionals.\n\"These are the first guidelines for weight control and obesity management ever issued in Australia and they provide detailed evidence-based guidance for doctors and health professionals in assessing and managing overweight and obesity.\"\nIt is expected that the draft guidelines will generate a great amount of interest from individuals, organisations and clinicians. Submissions will be accepted up until 17 January.\nSenator Patterson said: \"These guidelines highlight important health concerns associated with overweight and obesity and, through the provision of information to doctors for at-risk groups, aim to improve the health of people with conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2190 More Artistic Oppression\nThe Whining Begins \u2192\nWho Were the Victims?\nPosted on January 1, 2008 by Greg Hlatky\nDetails about the horrific Seattle killings have emerged:\nCourt documents said McEnroe, a store clerk, and Anderson, who is unemployed, told detectives they armed themselves on Christmas Eve and went to her parents' home near Carnation, about 25 miles east of Seattle. There, they confronted Anderson's parents, Wayne Anderson, 60, and Judy Anderson, 61, in their living room.\nMichele Anderson told detectives her brother, a carpenter, owed her money she had loaned to him years earlier, and that she was upset with her parents because they did not take her side, documents say. She also said her parents were pressuring her to start paying rent for staying on their property, where she lived in a trailer with McEnroe.\n\"Michelle stated that she was tired of everybody stepping on her,\" the court papers say. \"She stated that she was upset with her parents and her brother and that if the problems did not get resolved on Dec. 24, then her intent was definitely to kill everybody.\"\nSatterberg said Michele Anderson fired once at her father's head but missed. McEnroe stepped in, leveled his gun and fatally shot Wayne Anderson in the head, documents said.\nJudy Anderson heard the shots and ran from the back room where she had been wrapping gifts. She was shot by McEnroe, who apologized to her before shooting her again, this time in the head, the court documents said.\nSatterberg said that the two dragged the bodies to a shed behind the house, used towels and carpets to sop up blood stains and awaited the arrival of Anderson's brother, Scott. He was due for a Christmas Eve visit with his wife, Erica, and children Olivia, 6, and Nathan, 3.\nHer brother and sister-in-law put up a brave struggle, according to the documents. Scott Anderson charged her when she pulled out the gun, and was shot up to four times, records say\nMichele then shot Erica Anderson twice, but she was able to crawl over the back of a couch to call 911, authorities said. McEnroe tolddetectives he tore the phone from Erica's hands and destroyed it.\nHuddling with her children, Erica Anderson pleaded with McEnroe not to shoot her, saying: \"You don't have to do this.\"\n\"Yes, we do,\" McEnroe was quoted as replying in the affidavit. He fired at her head, authorities said.\nSatterberg said that McEnroe apologized to both of the children before he shot 6-year-old Olivia. He then turned to 3-year-old Nathan, who had picked up the batteries from the cordless phone his mother had used in her futile attempt to call for help, court documents said.\nMcEnroe than fired one last bullet through Nathan's head, according to the affidavit. When asked why he shot Erica, Olivia and Nathan, McEnroe told detectives three times: \"I didn't want them to turn us in.\"\nThree generations wiped out. The last and youngest, a toddler bewildered at the slaughter surrounding him, had his brains blown out to ensure his silence.\nBecause we're an advanced society, we no longer can grasp the concept of Evil in others:\n[E]ven as they filed aggravated first-degree murder charges against McEnroe and Michele Anderson, prosecutors could not say what might have driven the couple in the violent killing spree.\n\"In the end, what motive could you find that would make sense of the senseless slaying of the Anderson family?\" King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said in announcing the charges.\nMcEnroe and Anderson will now go on trial. They will be represented by counsel, of course, and well they should. If they have none or if they can't afford it, it will be provided for them, which is right and proper. The Law will be their tender and will not allow them to jeopardize their rights, which is only just.\nIf convicted on the six counts of aggravated first-degree murder, McEnroe and Anderson could face death sentences. If so, there will no doubt be automatic appeals, which there should be. These appeals will be lengthy; we will want the State to be careful about taking such an awesome step. During this time, bien pensants will continue to call the death penalty barbaric; perhaps they're right.\nThe alternative sentence is life imprisonment without possibility of parole. In that case, McEnroe and Anderson will spend years and years behind bars. During this time, our sensibilities may change; the same bien pensants are already saying that imprisonment for life is cruel and unusual punishment (see also here).\nBecause we can't acknowledge that anyone (except, perhaps, Bush and Cheney) are evil, that it must have been their environment or upbringing, slowly and inexorably the perpetrators will become the victims. Why, if sufficiently notorious, they could even have streets named after them and become honorary citizens in suitably progressive countries that look down their noses at us barbaric Americans.\nForgotten, of course, will be those they murdered. We won't even remember their names, the memory of which will be as decayed as their bodies. News reports will focus on poor McEnroe and Anderson and the miseries of death row or a lifetime cell, saying in a graf much farther down that they \"killed six people in a Christmas Eve spree.\"\nIn being so solicitous of the murderers, the true victims will die a second time. And we will have killed them.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Falling Short of the Stars: The crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo\nNote: this accident was previously featured in episode 31 of the plane crash series on April 7th, 2018, prior to the series' arrival on Medium. This article is written without reference to and supersedes the original.\nA sequence of photos captured SpaceShipTwo's brief flight and breakup. (AP)\nOn the 31st of October 2014, an experimental space plane operating for Virgin Galactic abruptly disintegrated at 55,000 feet during a test flight, scattering debris over a vast area of California's Mojave Desert. Although one of the two test pilots was killed, the other remarkably survived, parachuting to safety against all odds. The destruction of the VSS Enterprise and the death of one of its pilots promised to be a major setback for the commercial space flight industry, which was then, as now, in its infancy. Criticism was not hard to come by: was Virgin Galactic, under the direction of billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson, pushing things too far in pursuit of a mere toy for the super-rich? Some questioned the entire basis of commercial space flight; others suggested that Branson in particular was the problem. Against this background, the National Transportation Safety Board, in its first ever major investigation of a spacecraft accident, sought to determine why the vessel came apart. The answer was both shocking and disappointing: the deceased copilot had made a single erroneous control input which caused the catastrophic in-flight breakup, raising significant questions about the design of the spacecraft, its tolerance for human error, and the manufacturer's failure to grasp lessons that the commercial aviation industry had learned decades ago.\nRichard Branson and SpaceShipTwo. (Jared Ortega)\nIn 2004, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, launched a long-shot venture intended to push the frontier of commercial transportation by one day taking paying passengers on regular trips to space. Branson's ownership of Virgin Airlines and its subsidiaries as well as his exploits with hot air balloons had earned him a reputation as an aerospace enthusiast, but developing a reusable passenger spacecraft was a tall order, and there was plenty of skepticism that Branson's new company, christened Virgin Galactic, would ever get off the ground.\nAt that time, the idea of building a \"space plane\" which would fly to space, hang around for a few minutes, and then land at an airport was not new, and had in fact been around for a number of years. One aerospace company already working on such a project was Scaled Composites, which had partnered with billionaire Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to build a vehicle called \"SpaceShipOne.\" SpaceShipOne's objective was to carry a pilot and two passengers to space by launching from under the wing of a carrier airplane at high altitude, an interesting and novel approach which would save both weight and fuel by getting the vehicle closer to space before firing its rocket motor. SpaceShipOne first flew under its own power in 2004, becoming the first human spaceflight funded entirely by private capital. This attracted the interest of Richard Branson and his newly created space tourism company, which shortly thereafter became the primary customer for Scaled Composites' planned successor spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo.\nWhiteKnightTwo carrying SpaceShipTwo. (Virgin Galactic)\nAs the above statement implies, SpaceShipOne was a proof of concept only and was never intended to enter real commercial service. It was not possible to make a profit on flights only carrying two passengers, which was one of several reasons why production immediately began on SpaceShipTwo, which would be much larger but would employ many of the same design and operational features as SpaceShipOne. The 18-meter-long, 9,700-kilogram spacecraft would hang beneath the wing of a twin-fuselage \"mothership\" called WhiteKnightTwo, release at an altitude of 50,000 feet, activate its single rocket motor, climb almost vertically to a height of 110,000 meters (360,000 feet), then glide back to earth with the power off, all while carrying up to six paying passengers. In addition to the thrill of the ride itself, the passengers would experience approximately six minutes of weightlessness as the vehicle entered space at the height of its parabolic trajectory, known as its apogee. Richard Branson promised that tickets would cost USD $200,000, making the trip accessible to the merely very rich in addition to the super-rich.\nOne of the most significant challenges facing any space plane is the requirement that it survive reentry into the earth's atmosphere, a punishing experience which would melt a traditional airplane. The space shuttle, for instance, reentered at a speed of approximately 26,000 kilometers per hour, and decelerating from this speed caused so much compressional heating that an expensive and heavy heat shield was required on all parts of the shuttle facing into the airstream. By contrast, SpaceShipTwo was not designed to reach orbit and would therefore reenter at a relatively sedate speed of about 4,000 kilometers per hour, allowing it to employ a rather different reentry technique. Like the space shuttle, SpaceShipTwo had a heat-shielded belly, allowing it to generate drag by maintaining a high angle of attack, but it also incorporated a feathered reentry system which increased drag still further and was capable of stabilizing the spacecraft no matter its reentry angle.\nThe feathering system was essentially a gigantic hinge at the rear of the spacecraft which would rotate its entire tail section, including the flight control surfaces, 60 degrees upward, almost folding the vehicle in half. This caused the spacecraft to behave rather like a badminton cock, turning over into a center-of-gravity-down position regardless of its attitude at reentry. The vehicle could enter the atmosphere upside down, and aerodynamic forces acting on the feathered tail boom would immediately turn it over into an upright, nose-high position, ideal for re-entry, without any input from the crew. This design was supposed to make the spacecraft both safer and easier to fly, and indeed this was demonstrated in practice when an upset occurred during a flight test in 2011. During the incident, the pilots briefly lost control of the spacecraft, but were able to regain control by activating the feather system, which immediately forced the vehicle back into a safe descent attitude.\nThis animation from Mayday season 18 episode 6 depicts the full sequence of a SpaceShipTwo test flight, including the re-entry configuration with the tail boom feathered.\nLike any space project, however, development of SpaceShipTwo was fraught with setbacks. This would have been seen as normal and not a serious issue had Richard Branson not continually regaled the media with unrealistic predictions of the vehicle's imminent entry into commercial service. As early as 2008, when the first prototype was still being built, Branson repeatedly proclaimed that the first commercial flight would take place in 18 months, but in 2011 \u2014 several predictions later \u2014 he was still telling prospective customers that commercial service was 18 months away.\nMeanwhile, Scaled Composites continued to oversee the development and testing of the spacecraft, beginning with its first \"captive\" flight \u2014 without being released from WhiteKnightTwo \u2014 in March 2010, followed by its first gliding flight test in October. The flights, carried out at Mojave Air and Space Port in the California desert, were piloted by experienced test pilots working for Scaled Composites, whose job was not only to fly the spacecraft but to identify areas where there was room for improvement. Plenty of these were found, and the vehicle underwent constant modifications throughout the testing process.\nIn 2013 and early 2014, the program advanced to powered flight testing, in which SpaceShipTwo's rocket motor would be activated for longer and longer periods, eventually building up to the full 60-second burn required to reach its planned apogee of 360,000 feet. These test flights went off largely without a hitch, but they did reveal that the rocket engine was underpowered and caused serious vibrations that made it difficult for the pilots to read their instruments, forcing a major pause in testing while Scaled Composites worked with its engine subcontractor, Sierra Nevada Corp., to redesign the engine.\nThe pilots of PF04. (Scaled Composites)\nBy the summer of 2014, the two companies had put together a new rocket motor which would produce more power and fewer vibrations by burning a nylon-based solid fuel instead of the rubber-based fuel used previously. With the new engine in place, Scaled Composites planned to resume test flying SpaceShipTwo in the fall of that year, with a self-imposed deadline at the end of October.\nThe October test, designated \"powered flight #4,\" or PF04 for short, was to be the first powered flight since January 2014, and would feature a 38-second rocket burn, the longest thus far. Preparations for the flight were made months in advance, from acquiring the requisite permits from the federal government to training the flight crew, who spent the summer and early fall conducting dozens of mock test flights on Scaled Composites' SpaceShipTwo simulator.\nThe flight crew was to consist of 43-year-old Pete Siebold and 39-year-old Michael Alsbury, who both possessed commander ratings on SpaceShipTwo. Both had extensive test flying experience and were part of a tiny group of elite pilots qualified to fly the spacecraft. They were intimately familiar with both SpaceShipTwo and its mothership WhiteKnightTwo, and either Siebold, Alsbury, or both had been part of the crew of one vehicle or the other during all but two of the 30 gliding and three powered flights conducted so far. On this latest flight, Siebold would be the pilot flying from the left seat, while Alsbury acted as copilot from the right seat. In addition to the two pilots of SpaceShipTwo, the Virgin Galactic chief pilot would be serving as captain aboard WhiteKnightTwo, along with a copilot and a flight test engineer, who was the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo program manager. The test would also feature an Extra EA-300L aerobatic chase plane carrying a single pilot and a photographer.\nOn the left, the unfeathered configuration; on the right, the feathered configuration. (NTSB and Scaled Composites)\nAfter a five-day delay, PF04 was finally set to go ahead on the 31st of October 2014. Early that morning, the crews gathered at Mojave Air and Space Port to brief and prepare for the flight, which was to be the most ambitious to date. The plan was for WhiteKnightTwo to carry SpaceShipTwo up to a height of 46,400 feet, release the spacecraft, ensure adequate separation, then commence the 38-second rocket burn. After the end of the burn, the spacecraft would coast to its apogee before adopting the feathered reentry configuration, descending back into denser air, and finally unfeathering the tail boom and gliding back to Mojave Air and Space Port.\nAccomplishing this sequence of maneuvers would require no small amount of hands-on piloting by Siebold and Alsbury. Most of the required tasks, including the timing of the rocket burn and deployment of the feathering system, were not automated, and the latter was especially complicated. The mission plan required the pilots to first unlock, but not deploy, the feathering system while the spacecraft was accelerating through Mach 1.4 (1.4 times the speed of sound) early in the boost sequence, in order to ensure that the system could be deployed later. This step was intended to reveal any problems with the feathering system in time to abort the engine burn before the vehicle could get high enough to necessitate a reentry maneuver, which would be much more dangerous if the tail boom couldn't be feathered. In fact, the risk of reentering with the feather retracted was so great that if the pilot did not unlock the system, confirming its operability, by Mach 1.8, they were obligated to abort the flight.\nA diagram of the tail boom with the tusks highlighted. (NTSB and Virgin Galactic)\nTo unlock the feather system, the copilot must move the feather unlock handle on the center pedestal to the right and then down, unclipping hooks on the main wing body which grasp steel locks on the \"tusks,\" the forwardmost points of the feathering tail boom, as seen above. When these locks are in place, it is impossible to deploy the feather. However, once the locks are removed, the copilot can then pull a separate feather handle outward, causing two identical feather actuators to rotate the tail boom around its hinge until it reaches the 60-degree \"deployed\" position.\nOne vulnerability of this system was that if it were to be unlocked during a flight phase in which there was a significant upward aerodynamic force on the tail section, this force could overcome the actuators and cause an uncommanded feather deployment. This danger was particularly acute during the transonic region close to the speed of sound, between approximately Mach 0.9 and Mach 1.1. During this period, airflow over some parts of the spacecraft could reach supersonic speeds while airflow in other areas remained subsonic, subjecting the vehicle to unusual aerodynamic forces. On SpaceShipTwo, this manifested in the form of a \"transonic bobble,\" as shifting airflow patterns temporarily moved the spacecraft's center of lift forward and then aft again. During this bobble, the net aerodynamic force on the tail would shift from downward (feather retracted) to upward (feather deployed) before returning to downward after reaching supersonic speeds. It was therefore forbidden for the pilot to unlock the feather system earlier than Mach 1.4, because without the locks, this upward aerodynamic force on the tail boom could back-drive the actuators and force the feather to deploy.\nThis animation from Mayday season 18 episode 6 breaks down how aerodynamic forces on the tail change as SpaceShipTwo accelerates.\nThere was no doubt among Scaled Composites engineers that this step would be performed correctly, since both pilots had been drilled extensively on when to unlock the feather. Indeed, as the pilots of SpaceShipTwo briefed the maneuver that morning, they mentioned repeatedly that they would unlock the feather at Mach 1.4, as expected.\nFollowing the departure of WhiteKnightTwo at 9:19 a.m., with SpaceShipTwo hanging underneath it, Siebold and Alsbury continued to run through various routine checks, with only one significant anomaly, a momentary failure of the main multi-function computerized display, which was resolved by rebooting the computer.\nBy 9:59, WhiteKnightTwo had reached the launch height of 46,400 feet, and the SpaceShipTwo pilots were running through the \"10 minutes to launch,\" or L minus 10 checklist.\n\"Electrical system?\" Alsbury asked.\n\"All looks good,\" Siebold replied.\n\"Okay. Pneumatics?\"\n\"Greater than 23, good regulator pressures.\"\n\"Right, uh feather locks. Here comes the locks,\" said Alsbury.\nTo test whether the feather locks were working correctly, Alsbury moved the feather unlock handle right and down, causing a yellow \"feather unlocked\" light to illuminate on the instrument panel. The illumination of the light confirmed that the feather had indeed unlocked. \"Pressures good, indications, and locking,\" Alsbury said. He then returned the feather handle to the locked position. \"And show locked,\" he added. \"Backup indications look good.\"\nFor the next several minutes, the pilots continued to run through dozens of routine checks of various systems and flight controls. Everything appeared normal, so the crew moved on to the next checklist, L minus four. They checked that they had correctly set the rocket burn timer, checked that the speed brake was disabled, turned off the window heat, ensured that the transponder was on, and checked for any warning lights (there were none). With landing clearance already received from Mojave tower, Captain Siebold ran through their plan one last time. \"Alright, you're clear to arm [the rocket motor] at pylon release, I'll call for fire,\" he said. \"Call the pitch up, pitch down, trim, feather unlock one point four. Then after shutdown, roll boost while we have some speed, roll boost will come off. Primary RCS is coming on. Set the attitudes\u2026 feather up at apogee\u2026 reset trims for minus ten\u2026 you're cleared to feather at apogee if I haven't called for it, and remind me on the trims if I haven't got to 'em.\"\nIn plain English, the plan for the first 30 seconds after release looked like this: first, copilot Alsbury would arm the rocket motor, then Siebold would call for him to fire it when ready. Next, Alsbury would call out the pitch up and pitch down associated with the transonic bobble, then once the spacecraft was past the transonic zone, they would \"trim\" the nose up for the \"gamma turn,\" the transition from a shallow climb to a vertical ascent. During the gamma turn, at a speed of Mach 1.4, Alsbury would unlock the feather.\nSpaceShipTwo as it appeared near the start of its rocket burn, around 10 seconds before the accident. (NTSB)\nAt 10:07, with the briefings and checklists complete, the pilot of WhiteKnightTwo called out over the radio, \"Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Release, release, release.\"\nAt that moment SpaceShipTwo separated from WhiteKnightTwo's release pylon and began to fall away from the mothership.\n\"Clean release,\" someone announced.\nLess than one second later, Siebold called out, \"Fire.\"\nAlsbury reached for the rocket motor arm switch, flipped it, then flipped the rocket motor fire switch a split second later. \"Arm. Fire,\" he called out.\nThe pilots' displays switched to BOOST mode, and the spacecraft immediately soared forward and upward, propelled by the immense power of the rocket motor. Straining against the G-forces, Siebold announced, \"Good light. Yeehaw!\"\nSeven seconds after release, Alsbury called out their speed as \"Point eight.\"\nA cockpit camera then captured Alsbury placing his left hand on the feather unlock handle, apparently in anticipation of unlocking the feather at Mach 1.4, which they would reach in approximately 15 seconds. But instead of waiting, Alsbury immediately announced \"Unlocking,\" and over the next half second, he moved the feather unlock handles rightward and downward until the \"feather not locked\" light blinked on again. The speed of the spacecraft was only Mach 0.92, still deep inside the transonic zone and nowhere near the point where the feather system was supposed to be unlocked.\nStill images taken from the chase plane show SpaceShipTwo's brief flight and breakup. (AP)\nBefore anyone could notice or react, the feather locks disengaged, and the upward aerodynamic force on the tail boom started to overpower the feather actuators. Within two seconds, the tail boom began an uncommanded upward rotation into the feathered position, causing the spacecraft to pitch up without warning. Siebold called out \"Pitch up,\" followed by strained grunting as the G-forces of the sudden maneuver pressed the pilots even harder into their seats. Propelled by powerful aerodynamic forces, the tail boom rapidly reached the 60-degree deployed position and then kept right on going, causing cracks to spread through the wings and fuselage as the entire tail section threatened to rip away. Three seconds after Alsbury unlocked the feather, the video feed from SpaceShipTwo abruptly cut out as the spacecraft cartwheeled once and then disintegrated utterly, vanishing into a hail of debris at 55,000 feet.\nPete Siebold parachutes to safety over the Mojave. This photo appears to have been taken from aboard the chase plane. (NBC News)\nThe pilots' colleagues aboard WhiteKnightTwo, on the Extra chase plane, and back at base could only look on in horror as the wreckage of SpaceShipTwo fanned out into the sky high above the Mojave Desert. For three minutes, they watched the debris tumble to earth, spreading ever wider as it fell, until suddenly the pilot of the chase plane announced that he had seen something incredible \u2014 a parachute.\nRealizing that at least one pilot may have survived the accident, test personnel and controllers immediately began an effort to get emergency medical personnel to the crash site as quickly as possible. Ninety seconds after the parachute was first observed, the main wreckage of the spacecraft struck the ground in a remote swath of the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California. Due to a failure of planning, however, no helicopter equipped for emergency medevac was stationed at Mojave Air and Space Port. A helicopter operated by Kern County managed to depart at 10:30, 23 minutes after the accident, and another departed at 10:41, arriving 11 minutes later. The crew were able to spot a red and white parachute splayed out in the desert, and upon landing they confirmed that against all odds, pilot Pete Siebold had somehow survived the midair breakup. Although a flight surgeon was among the first rescuers to arrive, this helicopter was not medevac capable, and an unaffiliated medical helicopter had to be called in from a maintenance test flight, arriving at the scene to pick up Siebold more than an hour after the crash. Although Siebold's injuries were serious, he was stable enough that the delay did not cost him his life, and he arrived at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster at 11:53. Unfortunately, copilot Michael Alsbury was not so lucky: his body was found strapped into his seat in the cockpit, his parachute still stowed in its pack.\nA local TV channel breaks the news of the accident. (ABC 7 News)\nSiebold's remarkable escape made him the first person ever to survive a spacecraft accident in which someone else died. Despite early assumptions that he had ejected, Siebold in fact had no time to react, and was simply thrown out of the vehicle in his seat as it came apart. He was launched out into the rarefied air at 55,000 feet, nearly twice the height of Mount Everest, at a speed of more than 960 kilometers per hour, and yet somehow he lived to tell the tale. He told investigators that he remembered a loud noise, a brutal high-G pitch up, and the sensation of a sudden decompression, before his memory temporarily became blank. The next thing he knew, he was falling, still strapped into his seat, while looking down at the Mojave from a high altitude. He undid his seat belt and assumed the freefall position, then blacked out again, presumably due to lack of oxygen, waking up only when his parachute deployed automatically at a lower altitude. He then attempted to use the parachute's built-in emergency oxygen supply, but he couldn't get oxygen flowing. Investigators would later note that the oxygen delivery system was poorly designed, requiring a large pull force on the handle to initiate oxygen flow, but that even if Siebold had managed to activate it, he would not have received any oxygen because a key tube had been disconnected. On the other hand, they praised the parachute's automatic deployment system, which likely saved Siebold's life as he was falling unconscious toward the ground.\nNTSB investigators examine SpaceShipTwo's aft section. (NTSB)\nShortly after the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board moved to take charge of the investigation. However, the NTSB had never investigated a commercial space travel accident before, and its mandate did not explicitly state that it had jurisdiction, prompting the agency to send Congress a justification of its assertion of authority over the case. The justification was accepted by the relevant House and Senate committees, formally establishing the NTSB's authority to investigate commercial space accidents, a fascinating if esoteric piece of behind-the-scenes bureaucratic maneuvering.\nMeanwhile on the ground, NTSB investigators began poring over the vast amounts of telemetry data and recovered video footage from the fatal test flight in order to find out what went wrong. The video footage made the answer immediately obvious: somehow, the feathering tail boom, which should only deploy during reentry, had come open as the spacecraft approached the speed of sound during its ascent. Aerodynamic forces then ripped the tail boom off, and the rest of the spacecraft disintegrated a split second later. Footage from inside the cockpit, which was continually beamed to the ground, further confirmed that copilot Michael Alsbury had unlocked the feather prematurely.\nDebris litters a highway near where the cockpit came to rest. (Douglas Messier)\nScaled Composites engineers explained to the NTSB that if the feather system was unlocked during the transonic zone, aerodynamic forces would overcome the actuators and force the feather to deploy, a scenario which they were aware would be catastrophic. This led to two parallel lines of inquiry: first, why did Michael Alsbury unlock the feather too early; and second, why was it possible for him to do so in the first place?\nThe first question was by no means an easy one. Michael Alsbury was by all accounts a highly skilled and competent test pilot, and his colleagues were shocked and surprised that he would have made a mistake so basic as unlocking the feather at the wrong time. Indeed, it is and remains difficult to rationalize, even after picking apart the possible reasons. But the NTSB ultimately did find several contributing factors which increased the risk of such an error, even if they could not pinpoint the exact reason why Alsbury pulled the feather unlock handle at Mach 0.9 instead of Mach 1.4.\nOne of SpaceShipTwo's tail booms, which separated early in the breakup sequence. (ABC News)\nOne thing investigators noticed was that the window in which Alsbury was supposed to unlock the feather was incredibly narrow. It was forbidden to unlock the feather before Mach 1.4, but if he waited until past Mach 1.5, a caution light would illuminate on the instrument panel, and if he had not pulled the handle by Mach 1.8 the mission would be aborted. The actual time between Mach 1.4 and Mach 1.5 was only 2.7 seconds, an incredibly short window which he was nevertheless expected to hit on every flight.\nA review of Alsbury's training records revealed that he had not always hit the mark. Four days before the crash, Alsbury unlocked the feather after Mach 1.5 during a simulator run, triggering the caution message and a post-session debriefing about what went wrong. This experience would have been fresh on his mind when he embarked on the accident flight, perhaps making him anxious to avoid unlocking the feather too late.\nBy contrast, there was very little to suggest that Alsbury would have been concerned about unlocking the feather too early. Although he was aware that Mach 1.4 was a hard lower limit, he may not have been fully aware of the reasons why this limit existed. The NTSB searched for written evidence that the pilots had been informed of the catastrophic consequences of unlocking the feather too early, but they found this information only in a single email from 2010 and a powerpoint presentation slide from 2011. The pilot operations handbook didn't mention the catastrophic nature of such an error, nor was it part of the training curriculum. Although the pilots had likely learned of the matter at some point by word of mouth, the NTSB could find no evidence that they had encountered any official information about it in more than three years. All of this seemed to indicate that the pilots may have been only vaguely aware of the consequences of unlocking the feather too early. And without that awareness, Alsbury would have been much more anxious to avoid unlocking the feather after Mach 1.5 than he was about unlocking it before Mach 1.4. This type of emphasis on one boundary at the expense of another can result in overcompensation, causing a person to violate the less prominent boundary while trying hard to avoid the more prominent one.\nNTSB investigators examine the tail boom. (NTSB)\nThe NTSB also noted that Alsbury hadn't flown a powered flight on SpaceShipTwo since April 2013, a year and a half before the accident. He would have grown unused to the powerful G-forces and vibrations experienced during the rocket burn, which could have negatively affected his ability to handle this high-workload period of the flight. Although he had trained extensively in the simulator, the fidelity of these simulations was low because the simulator had a fixed base and could not replicate high G-forces or vibrations, and the pilots did not wear their full flight suits, parachutes, helmets, and oxygen masks while training on it. Although there was no direct relationship between these factors and the decision to release the feather when he did, it is known that the fidelity of a training exercise correlates with a person's ability to replicate a specific sequence of actions later.\nOne potential cause was, however, ruled out: that Alsbury misread his speed indication. He in fact correctly called out a speed of Mach 0.8 less than two seconds before he announced that he was \"unlocking.\" Alsbury was therefore aware of their speed, but was also aware that he wasn't supposed to unlock the feather until Mach 1.4, which is what makes his mistake so difficult to understand. If anything, it's a reminder that the human brain is an imperfect machine which is capable of holding simultaneous contradictory notions.\nAn aerial view of part of the tail section. (Reuters)\nIt is this very fact which prompted the NTSB to ask why it was even possible for a pilot to unlock the feather in a phase of flight where the consequences would be catastrophic. Scaled Composites' answer to this question was stunning in its na\u00efvet\u00e9: they simply didn't think a pilot would ever do this.\nNeedless to say, the attitude toward the test pilots expressed by Scaled Composites was hopelessly romantic. The fact that a test pilot made this supposedly unthinkable mistake after SpaceShipTwo had accumulated just 6.3 hours of powered flight time underscored its ridiculousness. One of the basic assumptions made during modern aircraft design is that if a pilot can do something, some pilot somewhere eventually will. Even if we accept the false notion that test pilots are infallible, it was hard to see how Scaled Composites could expect SpaceShipTwo to one day conduct regular commercial flights with regular pilots and still continue hiding from this fundamental reality.\nA review of Scaled Composites' safety program showed that it had conducted highly in-depth analyses of numerous potential mechanical faults and implemented redundancies to mitigate them, but had put almost no thought into human factors. The company had no human factors department and no dedicated human factors expert, nor did it hire an outside expert to provide advice. Some Scaled Composites engineers said that they had taken college-level courses on human factors, but that was it. When it came to ergonomic issues, such as user interface design, the engineers relied entirely on feedback from the pilots after testing was already underway.\nAnother view of the aft section. (The Guardian)\nThis enormous blind spot in the design process led to a number of bizarre design decisions that an experienced aircraft manufacturer probably would not have made. For example, engineers did consider the possibility that the pilot might try to lock the feather before it had finished retracting after reentry, so they added an \"OK TO LOCK\" annunciation on the multi-function display to assist them. Despite this, they didn't think to include an \"OK TO UNLOCK\" annunciation to prevent the opposite error. Nor did they include any kind of mechanical control lock to prevent the pilot from moving the feather unlock handle during phases of flight where it might as well have been a big red \"self-destruct\" button.\nThat a company in 2014 would make such design decisions is unforgivable, given the amount of information available to them about human factors in aerospace design. Granted, most of this information was aimed at manufacturers of regular aircraft, not spacecraft, but the lessons were equally applicable. To find a similar accident in commercial aviation, one might have to go all the way back to 1970, when the pilot of an Air Canada Douglas DC-8 accidentally deployed the ground spoilers before the plane touched the ground, causing a hard touchdown and fire which destroyed the aircraft. By that time most manufacturers had already realized the importance of including a lock to prevent pilots from deploying the ground spoilers in flight, since their sole purpose is to prevent the wings from generating lift after touchdown. Obviously there is no good reason for a pilot to be able to remove all of an airplane's lift while in the air, so the DC-8 was subsequently redesigned with a lock to prevent deployment of the ground spoilers unless the wheels were in fact on the ground. The applicability of this lesson to the case of SpaceShipTwo is plain enough, but if anyone at Scaled Composites had heard of Air Canada flight 621 or a similar accident, they didn't make the connection.\nNTSB investigators examine the spacecraft's other detached tail boom. (AFP)\nThat Scaled Composites was unaware of basic design lessons learned decades ago by the aviation industry was suggestive of a generally unsafe company culture. This poor safety culture was perhaps best exemplified by an incident which occurred, almost unnoticed, on SpaceShipTwo's second powered flight in 2013. During that flight, the spacecraft used a very short rocket burn which caused it to reach its apogee while still in the atmosphere. As a result, as it approached apogee, the spacecraft decelerated back through the transonic zone at an altitude where air was still present to generate an upward force on the tail boom. Because the pilots had already unlocked the feather system when they first accelerated through Mach 1.4, the tail boom was held in place by the actuators alone when it reentered the zone of upward forces on the tail. These forces exceeded the reactive capability of the feather actuators for a period of one second, causing the tail boom to move 0.8 degrees toward the feathered position before the forces reduced again. This incredibly unsafe situation was completely predictable based on the planned test parameters, and yet either no one had predicted it, or someone decided that the test should go ahead anyway. Either explanation would constitute a serious safety violation.\nSpaceShipTwo came down in a truly desolate location. (Reuters)\nThe focus of the investigation now turned to another related question: why didn't the Federal Aviation Administration catch on to Scaled Composites' poor safety culture? The company had even had a fatal accident before, when a SpaceShipTwo rocket motor exploded on a test bed in 2007, killing three engineers. As it turned out, however, the issue was not so much that the FAA didn't know, but that the FAA didn't care.\nIn order to receive its experimental flight permit from the FAA, Scaled Composites was required to conduct a hazard analysis, whose purpose was to identify hazards from a variety of sources, including human error. Scaled Composites stated that it based its hazard analysis on an advisory circular put out by the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation, or FAA\/AST, entitled \"Hazard Analysis for the Launch or Re-entry of a Reusable Suborbital Rocket Under an Experimental Permit,\" which stated, among other things, that a hazard analysis must address human errors, including \"decision errors, such as using the flight controls at the wrong time.\"\nHowever, in its hazard analysis, Scaled Composites addressed the possibility of human error only in response to another failure. The possibility that a pilot could unlock the feather too early was not considered, and the FAA\/AST was not told that this would be catastrophic. The company did, however, invoke a provision of the advisory circular which allowed the omission of certain human errors from the hazard analysis if an evaluation had found their exclusion to be reasonable based on evidence. After the accident, Scaled Composites claimed that the possibility of a pilot unlocking the feather too early could be excluded under this provision because it had trained its pilots to unlock the feather at the proper time. This was a grossly simplistic view of the matter, since pilot performance is affected by many factors other than training. It's also worth noting that longstanding theories of system safety consider training to be the least effective of the three main methods of improving safety, behind design changes and warning devices. Furthermore, Scaled Composites made no attempt to develop a training protocol designed to empirically reduce the risk of a pilot unlocking the feather too early.\nCloseup of the aft section. (AP)\nThe FAA\/AST initially approved, and then later renewed, Scaled Composites' experimental permit despite these deficiencies in its hazard analysis and mitigation program. However, following the permit renewal in 2013, an FAA\/AST systems safety engineer raised concerns that Scaled Composites' hazard analysis didn't meet regulatory requirements due to a lack of consideration of human and software errors. The FAA\/AST confirmed these shortfalls in a subsequent review, but instead of asking Scaled Composites to improve its hazard analysis, the agency simply granted the company a waiver which exempted it from the requirement to include human and software errors in its hazard analysis. Scaled Composites hadn't even requested such a waiver, but the FAA\/AST issued one unilaterally because it felt that the company had already designed the spacecraft to mitigate the consequences of these types of errors. The NTSB, for its part, could not understand how the FAA\/AST came to this conclusion when Scaled Composites' hazard analysis did not even identify which human errors were possible, let alone what it was doing to mitigate them. Indeed, some of the supposed mitigations cited in the FAA\/AST's justification for the waiver were later found not to have been in place.\nPete Siebold's parachute, where it fell after his long descent. (ABC News)\nLooking deeper into the matter, the NTSB found that the FAA\/AST's supervision of Scaled Composites was chaotic and ineffective at every level. It wasn't clear who was responsible for enforcing the mitigations specified in the waiver, and FAA\/AST inspectors involved with the company stated that they did not interpret the waiver provisions as regulatory requirements. In fact, no one was monitoring whether Scaled Composites was actually implementing the safety mitigations.\nIn addition, communication between the FAA\/AST and Scaled Composites was conducted via a single point of contact, creating an information bottleneck. FAA\/AST engineers complained that their technical questions were being \"scrubbed\" by management before being passed on to Scaled Composites, and that by the time the company's answers had worked their way back through the point of contact, the original intent of the questions had often been lost. Engineers with experience in space transportation were especially frustrated that their questions were being altered by FAA\/AST managers who had limited space flight knowledge. These failings prevented FAA\/AST staff from gaining a thorough understanding of how SpaceShipTwo worked and how Scaled Composites was operating it.\nFurthermore, the FAA\/AST had a policy of assigning inspectors to individual space launches, rather than having a single inspector dedicated to a particular space company, as is standard practice in the aviation industry. The NTSB noted that an inspector responsible only for a specific launch could not possibly get a good sense of the quality of a permit holder's operations.\nFinally, the most damning revelation of all came when FAA\/AST inspectors admitted to the NTSB that they felt political pressure to approve experimental permits for commercial space travel companies within the standard 120-day review period, even if they felt uncomfortable with an application. The US government was keen to promote the fledgling industry and seemingly wanted to get as many applications approved as possible. Unfortunately, this lax oversight had allowed an unsafe company to slip through the cracks.\nAs a result of these findings, the NTSB recommended, and the FAA implemented, a major overhaul of the mechanisms and procedures used to oversee commercial space travel companies.\nVSS Unity, the second SpaceShipTwo, built to replace the crashed VSS Enterprise. (Ron Rosano)\nThe crash, and the NTSB's findings, necessarily raised the question of whether the commercial space flight industry, and especially the space tourism industry, possessed the right mindset to succeed in conquering the final frontier. Many publications criticized the entire idea of space tourism as a playground for billionaires which brought nothing of value, and with so much money having been poured into Virgin Galactic and other similar companies with precious little to show for it, these critics had a point. Others leveled their criticism at Richard Branson in particular, as he was seen by many in the industry as unappreciative of the scale of the task at hand. \"It's Branson\u2026 who has always been the most troubling of the cosmic cowboys \u2014 selling not just himself on his fever dreams but his trusting customers [as well],\" a Time Magazine opinion columnist wrote in the aftermath of the crash. Indeed, Branson made headlines, and raised some eyebrows, by initially distancing Virgin Galactic from the accident, and then later declaring that testing of SpaceShipTwo would continue, and that the setback would not prevent the spacecraft from soon carrying paying passengers. Although some customers who had made down payments backed out, most didn't, and within two years, a replacement SpaceShipTwo was back in testing at Mojave Air and Space Port.\nThe crash did, however, prompt major soul-searching at Scaled Composites, which ended up making several major design changes to improve the safety of SpaceShipTwo. One of these changes was the installation of an electromechanical interlock to prevent the pilot from deploying the feather during the transonic phase. Under the supervision of Virgin Galactic, the company also amended the pilot operations handbook to warn about the consequences of releasing the locks too early; implemented a comprehensive crew resource management training program; added a challenge and response protocol for all critical in-flight tasks; and launched a broader review to find and eliminate any other \"single-point human performance actions that could result in a catastrophic event.\"\nRichard Branson and other Virgin Galactic employees aboard the company's sole passenger flight to date. (Virgin Galactic)\nThere is an argument, and not an unreasonable one, that modern spacecraft development, much like early aircraft development, is inherently dangerous, and that the loss of a single ship should not be allowed to set the industry back. In the author's opinion this is self-evidently true, although there are some who would disagree. At the same time, however, this truth doesn't excuse Scaled Composites and its poor design philosophy. Of course, there are still many aspects of space flight which push the boundaries of human technological capability, and when something goes wrong at the limits of our knowledge and foresight, that is forgivable. But the crash of SpaceShipTwo was caused by pure carelessness. Even in an emerging industry, it should not have happened. Installing an interlock on the feather unlock lever would have been easy, and the need should have been obvious.\nAnd then there's the question of whether the billionaires who fund most commercial spaceflight ventures were sufficiently humbled by the accident and its lessons. Although there are plenty of valid criticisms of controversial space projects by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, these ventures have so far progressed as slowly as they need to and have avoided fatal accidents. As for Richard Branson, his pronouncement in 2009 that SpaceShipTwo would be conducting regular commercial flights in 18 months looks especially silly given that, as of 2022, Virgin Galactic has conducted a grand total of one passenger flight, which carried four Virgin Galactic employees, including Branson himself, in a transparent attempt to get ahead of a similar flight by Jeff Bezos the following week.\nVSS Unity rockets toward space. (Virgin Galactic)\nIn its latest update, Virgin Galactic stated that commercial flights would begin in \"mid-2022,\" but as of September, the first scheduled flight still hasn't happened. In contrast, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin has at time of writing carried out six successful space tourist flights, and seems set to continue on an increasingly regular schedule. Of course, it shouldn't be a race, even if billionaires treat it like one. Pushing the boundaries of human space travel is a worthwhile endeavor for its own sake, regardless of who claims to be \"first.\" Billionaires, especially Branson, should keep that in mind. They should also strive to ensure that their projects enrich humanity, not just their egos \u2014 something which many of them have so far struggled to demonstrate. And while they should recognize that setbacks and accidents may be inevitable, they should avoid using that inevitability as an excuse to neglect lessons which we have already learned. 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{"text":"Blockchain afternoon news, Credit Suisse Group: the US economy may experience a more serious and longer recession\nTime : 22\/05\/2022 Author : l7zwf9 Click : + -\nOn August 7, according to the official Weibo of the higher education press, it was announced that the recommended book \"blockchain technology and application\" compiled by Gu Lumi was promoted to the whole society, which also marked the beginning of the systematic teaching of blockchain in Universities in China. This also marks that China's blockchain theory has once again led the world. On August 7, according to the tweet of bitcoin analyst bitcoinarchive, the president of the Central African Republic expressed support for the use of bitcoin throughout the country. It was reported on August 7 that the U.S. Senate voted 51 votes in favor and 50 votes against to promote the proposed inflation reduction act.\nThe legislative content of the bill includes coping with climate change and expanding the coverage of medical care. The bill will be put to a final vote in the next few days. According to the financial news of China's blockchain network, Zoltan pozsar of Credit Suisse said that the U.S. economy may need to experience a more serious and longer recession than investors currently expect to control inflation. According to the financial report of China blockchain network, according to the data compiled by Bloomberg, in the past 18 months, cryptocurrency companies have invested more than $2.4 billion in sports sponsorship, all of which are to attract more users to enter their Web3 world.\nBinan has worked with football idol Cristiano & middot; Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a contract with the African cup of nations. Coinbase has cooperated with top NBA star Kevin & middot; Kevin Durant reached an agreement. FTX has cooperated with the major league baseball, the Miami Heat of the NBA and the electronic sports team TSM in franchise rights. Even the drone competition alliance is getting cryptocurrency funds. According to the financial report of China blockchain network, the first NFT series \"nftiff\" launched by Tiffany & amp; CO, an American jewelry brand, has been sold out in 20 minutes after opening at 22:00 Beijing time. A total of 184 independent wallets have been cast. However, according to the latest data, there are still 183 \"nftiff\" that have not been redeemed, accounting for 73.2%.\nAccording to the transaction data, the current transaction volume of \"nftiff\" has reached 1.2 million US dollars, with a market value of 12.92 million US dollars. According to the financial report of China blockchain network, BlackRock has lost $1.7 trillion of customer funds in the first half of this year. At the company's earnings conference call, Larry Fink, chairman and CEO, said that for stocks and bonds, 2022 was the worst start in 50 years. It is reported that at the end of June, BlackRock actively managed only about a quarter of its assets to beat the benchmark. It is worth noting that this proportion is lower than one-third of that in 2009, when BlackRock acquired Barclays global investment company and became a leader in the ETF field.\nIn the past decade, BlackRock has about $21 billion flowing out of active stocks and $730 billion flowing into index stocks. Therefore, the company's passive stock holdings are ten times that of active stocks. Salim Ramji, global head of iShares and index investment at BlackRock, said that we will continue to study and focus on the cryptocurrency itself, including bitcoin, focusing on whether there is a way to make it easier and easier for investors, as we have done in the bond market, the gold market and other markets around the world. It was reported on August 6 that recently, the people's Bank of China held a working meeting for the second half of 2022 and proposed that the scope of the pilot test of digital RMB should be steadily expanded.\nWith the approval of the State Council, the digital RMB pilot area has been expanded from the original \"10 + 1\" pilot area to 23 areas in 15 provinces and cities. With the deepening and expansion of the scope and content of the digital RMB pilot, and its increasingly important role in the fields of residents' consumption, government services, enterprise capital settlement, etc., the voice for improving the relevant legislation of digital RMB is growing. The relevant person in charge of the people's Bank of China said that it would study and introduce relevant laws and regulations and industry supporting policies on digital RMB, continue to improve the technical standards of digital RMB, and consolidate the legal foundation of digital RMB. According to the financial report of China blockchain network, Beijing Municipal Bureau of economy and information technology officially released the first special support policy for the digital people industry in China, the Beijing action plan for promoting the innovation and development of the digital people industry (2022 & mdash; 2025). By 2025, the scale of the digital people industry in Beijing will exceed 50 billion yuan, and a technical system, business model and governance mechanism with the characteristics of Internet 3.0 will be initially formed.\nOn August 6, vitalikbuterin (V God) said at the webinar on Saturday that the merger of Ethereum would not have an adverse impact on the casting of new tokens on etc. He does not expect any adverse impact on the blockchain because most Ethereum communities support mergers. There are concerns that the influx of miners to etc may disrupt the merger. Developer Tim beiko says that ideally, users should not notice any difference. Buterin added that etc has a strong community and strong products to provide POW for. Etc community strongly advocates POW values.\nNevertheless, the market may still split. (BeinCrypto)\u3002 It was reported on August 6 that the global maritime decarbonization Center (GCMD) of Singapore is leading an alliance of 18 companies to carry out a pilot project to test the use of biofuels as marine fuel. In this pilot project, blockchain and traceability start-up bunkertrace is responsible for using synthetic DNA and blockchain technology to track the footprint of marine fuel. According to the financial report of China blockchain network, according to the official official account of Jiushi smart sports, the first Shanghai virtual sports open (hereinafter referred to as SVS) was opened on the 5th.\nThe SVS event is the first virtual sports comprehensive event in China, which includes five items: virtual rowing, virtual racing, virtual skiing, virtual cycling and virtual golf. According to the financial news of China blockchain network, bitmex, a cryptocurrency trading platform, is expanding beyond cryptocurrencies. It is entering the traditional financial market and launching a perpetual contract linked to foreign currencies. The company announced on Friday the launch of foreign exchange permanent swaps (fxperps), which will allow its users to trade more than 20 foreign currency linked contracts, even during after hours trading in these currencies. This is the most eye-catching move in the field of non encryption related products since the company changed its name and hired Alexander hoptner, a senior person of the exchange, to replace Arthur Hayes, the founder, as its CEO.\nWhen hoptner joined bitmex, the company said that this indicated that the company would explore \"a broader vision\". Nevertheless, there have been setbacks, including the recent layoffs and the company's cancellation of its acquisition of a German bank. The launch of fxperps reflects the ongoing strategy of providing bitmex's existing and new users with \"a wider range of crypto margin contracts, including products that allow traders to access a range of currencies and commodities\". Bitmex's quants said in a statement: \"for institutional users, Forex perpetual contracts provide a new way to create synthetic cryptocurrency pairs for arbitrage, such as bitcoin quoted in non US dollar currencies.\n\"\u3002 According to the message on August 6, defillama, a defi data provider, said that in view of the latest news about saber, the switch of \"double counting\" has been set to off by default, which eliminates the double counting between protocols. At present, the total amount of locked positions of defi displayed by defillama by default is 69.5 billion US dollars. The total amount of locked positions of Lido, convexfinance and other agreements is no longer included in the total amount of locked positions. If the option of \"double counting\" is selected, the total amount of locked positions is 90.6 billion US dollars, which means that defillama indirectly reduces the total amount of locked positions of defi displayed by default by more than 20 billion US dollars.\nOn August 6, harmony posted the details of the cross chain bridge theft of nearly 100 million US dollars, saying that it was a collaborative attack and phishing attack against its internal infrastructure, and about 64000 wallets were affected. So far, there is no evidence that the cross chain bridge smart contract or blockchain protocol has been damaged. Specifically, decrypting the cross chain bridge key requires multiple operations in a group of secure servers to generate the key on the server with privileged access (authorization role). Harmony believes that the attacker 1) uses the phishing scheme to lure at least one software developer to install malicious software on his laptop, 2) enables the attacker to read the chat thread to understand how to operate the cross chain bridge, and \/ or gain access to the non-public cross chain bridge infrastructure code, and 3) gain back door access to one or more servers to perform hacker attacks.\nThe perpetrators succeeded in doing these three things. On August 6, nomad, a cross chain interoperability protocol, tweeted that so far, 86 wallet addresses have returned assets worth 32 million US dollars to nomad's recovery wallet. It is hoped that white hat will continue to return the funds to 0x94a84433101a10aeda762968f6995c574d1bf154 address (ETH \/ erc-20). Yesterday, nomad said it would provide up to 10% reward to attackers who return at least 90% of the stolen funds. Previously, according to the oklink analysis report of oklink cloud chain, the nomadbridge attack incident involved 1251 eth addresses and 14 currencies, with a total amount of about 190 million US dollars.\nOn August 5, mester of the Federal Reserve said that the US economy is not in recession now, but the risk of recession has increased. The Federal Reserve is committed to reducing inflation to the target value and needs to further raise interest rates to ease demand. The inflation path will determine the scale of interest rate increase in the future. And said that considering the size of the balance sheet, the Fed should discuss selling some mortgage-backed securities. He also expressed the hope that the balance sheet size would be reduced to US $6.5-7 trillion.\nPrevious:WFC: the counter attack of ordinary people\nHype prices, false shipments, stolen collections. Digital col\n\"Cost price of 0.99 yuan, resell 400 yuan\" \"buy and earn\" &hellip& hellip; Recently, digital collections that are \"visible but untouchable\" have been popular. 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A block refers to a file that stores recorded data, in which all value exchange activities that have occurred are recorded in chronologica\nIntroduction to 10 common consensus mechanisms in blockchain\nIn the second open class of honeycomb college, tutor Hao Yukun (head of Wanxiang blockchain new chain space) explained 10 core keywords that must be mastered to understand blockchai\nBlockchain afternoon news, Cred\nWFC: the counter attack of ordi\nHuobi University Online special\n8 years of Ouke cloud chain: Xu\nRemember the blockchain content\nGuizhou Province issued blockch\nInside story of virtual currenc\nBlockchain e-commerce platform,\nWhat are the application prospe\nDetailed interpretation of the\nWang Guowen's new book: blockch\nThe first chain in the pet indu\nSolana, vs, egld, compete into\nACM conference information: the\nBlockchain should adhere to hig\nWhat is the blockchain that fre\nInterview with Li Ming, founder\nsevere winter! 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{"text":"Chabad.org Magazine The Chassidic Dimension TheRebbe.org\nWisdom & Teachings\nSEARCH Entire chabad.org TheRebbe.org\nTheRebbe.org Wisdom & Teachings Books by the Rebbe Culled from the Rebbe's Works The Chassidic Dimension Volume 4 Bereishis\nBereishis: Separate but Equal\nBased on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson\nBereishis: Who Knows Ten?\nAt the beginning of the Torah portion Bereishis , the verse states:1 \"G\u2011d made the two great luminaries [the sun and the moon], the greater luminary to rule the day and the smaller luminary to rule the night.\"\nThe Gemara notes2 that the phrase \"G\u2011d made the two great luminaries\" indicates that they were of equal stature. However, the verse goes on to say \"the greater luminary\u2026 and the smaller luminary.\"\nHow are these two portions of the verse to be reconciled? The Gemara answers that at the outset, G\u2011d made the sun and moon of equal brilliance. The moon then said to G\u2011d: \"Is it possible for two kings to use the same crown?\" G\u2011d responded: \"Go and diminish yourself.\"\nSince \"G\u2011d made\u2026 the greater luminary to rule the day and the smaller luminary to rule the night,\" it is clear that from the beginning His intention was that one luminary be greater than the other. Why was there a need for such a \"two-step process,\" first creating them of equal stature and then diminishing the moon as a result of its \"complaint\"?\nCreation resulted3 from G\u2011d's gazing in the Torah \u2014 \"The Blueprint of the World\"4 \u2014 and accordingly creating the universe. Thus the sun and moon were created in accordance to their source in Torah. The reason they were first equal will be understood accordingly.\nThe Shaloh explains5 that the two luminaries within Torah refer to the Written Torah (the sun) and the Oral Torah (the moon). The Oral Torah is called \"the moon\" because it obtains its illumination from the Written Torah, just as the moon obtains its luminosity from the sun. Thus the Talmud often employs the expression \"From whence do we know? For the verse states\u2026.\"6 In other words, the Oral Torah is based on the Written Torah.\nIn light of the above, we can understand why the two luminaries were first created as equals, and only afterwards was there a diminishment in the light of the moon. That the Oral Torah is dependent upon the Written Torah only applies as it relates to the Jewish people, who received the Torah \u2014 they derive the laws of the Oral Torah from their source in the Written Torah.\nHowever, from G\u2011d's perspective as the Giver of the Torah, the Written Torah and the Oral Torah are equally great. Thus the Rambam states:7 \"All the mitzvos were given [from Above] with their commentaries\" \u2026. He would tell him [Moshe] the commandment [the Written Torah], and then G\u2011d would relate to him its meaning and all its aspects [the Oral Torah].\"\nIn a deeper sense, the Written Torah and Oral Torah are referred to as sun and moon not only because the latter receives its illumination from the former, but also because the Written Torah emphasizes the Giver of the Torah \u2014 the \"sun\" and benefactor, while the Oral Torah stresses the recipient \u2014 the \"moon\" and receiver.\nThus the Written Torah was transmitted with an exact number of letters, stressing that it is G\u2011d's Torah and loftier than man's comprehension, while the Oral Torah is a reflection of man's comprehension. This is why when one does not comprehend what he is studying in the Oral Torah, it does not constitute Torah study at all.8\nJust as this is so with regard to the \"sun\" and \"moon\" of Torah, so too with regard to the physical sun and moon. The difference between them is only as they find themselves within the world; as they exist before G\u2011d, they are of equal stature, for the moon is just as much G\u2011d's creation as the sun. It is only that for them to serve their purpose within the world, the moon receives its illumination from the sun.\nThis is similar to a rich person and a pauper9 \u2014 another example of benefactor (sun) and recipient (moon). G\u2011d provides the pauper's sustenance through the intermediary of the well-to-do person. For inasmuch as G\u2011d desires the mitzvah of tzedakah, He created the world in such a manner that there would be givers and recipients, the wealthy and the poor.\nThus, the poor person does not actually receive from the wealthy individual, but from G\u2011d (for everything which the rich person owns also belongs to G\u2011d). It is only with regard to the physical channel that the poor receive their sustenance via the rich.\nSo too, the moon told G\u2011d that in order for it to act its part in the world \u2014 the part of a recipient \u2014 it must receive its light via the sun.\nBased on Likkutei Sichos , Vol. XXX, pp. 8-14.\nBereishis 1:16.\nChulin 60b.\nSee Zohar, Vol. II, p. 161a-b.\nBeginning of Bereishis Rabbah.\nIntroduction, 16a; Tractate Shavuos 191a.\nSee Likkutei Torah , Shir HaShirim, p. 11d.\nIntroduction to Sefer HaYad.\nHilchos Talmud Torah L'Admur HaZakein end of ch. 2, and sources cited there.\nSefer HaMaamarim 5627, p. 399ff.; Sefer HaMaamarim Kuntreisim, Vol. I, p. 119aff.\nMore from Lubavitcher Rebbe; adapted Sholom B. Wineberg | RSS\nThe Chassidic Dimension \u00bb\nThese essays were first published in monthly collections entitled From the Wellsprings of Chasidus. 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{"text":"A History of Mademoiselle Jeanne Lanvin\nBy: Fashion One\nRather than a runway show to present an updated look...\nArmani's Resolve\nImpeccably tailored blazers with matching cigarette pants are along the...\nThe Pucci Renaissance Under Peter Dundas\nThe renaissance of Pucci has become more evident with their...\nA Minimalist Purity at Trussardi\nAt first glance, the monochromatic nature of Trussardi's autumn\/winter collection...\nZac Posen Inspired by Kelly and Khan\nFocusing on sculptured evening looks instead of the flamboyant ballgowns...\nRather than a runway show to present an updated look from Lanvin's past collections, the Palais Galliera, a prominent fashion museum in Paris, collaborated with artistic director Alber Elbaz to curate an exhibition which honored the house's founder, Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946). The first exhibition of its kind, it features models from Lanvin's archive over the years, serving as an enchanting chronology of the fashion house's heritage.\nPatrons of the exhibit will get a first-hand look at premium embroidery fabrics, patterns and their usage in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is everything we think of when it comes to classic Parisian couture. The art d\u00e9co style is present as well, with black-and-white geometrical patterns, ribbons, silk tassels and crystals sponsored by Swarovski. Notable looks include a black shift dress with textured golden sleeves, a black A-line gown with abstract gold embroidery, and a cream ballgown with cape sleeves.\n\"I've never worked with a museum, and I was a bit worried about my lack of experience,\" said Elbaz in an interview with Fashion One. \"The only thing I asked for was to be a bit less intellectual, fewer details of being chronological, I just wanted to escape this world of information. Even if we might not have this high-tech feeling, we still live in an industry with women, couturiers, threads and dresses and fabrics and people. That's our strength.\"\nJeanne Lanvin was indeed a pioneer in the world of haute-couture fashion, and her experimental, yet accessible aesthetic has prevailed for the past 125 years. Patrons will be pleased to see her vintage work untouched by today's socio-technological climate.\nFASHION WEEK SPRING SUMMER 2015-2016 HIGHLIGHTS\nGauchere Takes Center-Stage with Cubist Collection for Spring\/Summer 2015\nChic Retro Cool Meets Fresh Sporty Formal Wear in an Elegant Menswear Collection from Cerruti\n'Zoolander 2' Welcomes Yet Another Major Star\nDo you have a Fashion story idea or tip? Email us at submissions@fashionone.com.\nUnit 17A, Winbase Centre\nNo. 208 Queen's Road Central\nC-1 Sarugaku\n26-2 Sarugaku-cho\nShibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033\nZweigniederlassung K\u00f6ln\nWallrafplatz 3\nTelefon +49-221-82829555\nIf you are interested in Fashion One covering an event that is relevant to our programming, please contact our local offices HERE\nMilan:\nParis:\nSaigon:\nWien:\nMEASAT-3 at 91.5\u00b0E ASTRA 1KR at 19.2 \u00b0E INTELSAT 805 at 55.5\u00b0W YAMAL 300 K\nYAHLIVE 52.5\u00b0 E HOTBIRD at 13\u00b0 E THAICOM 5 at 78.5\u00b0 E\nMotion Graphics Artists\nFreelance-Videographers\nTV Producer Internship\nThe content of the site includes, but is not limited to, all text, graphics, trademarks, logos, images, links, videos and underlying code. All Content on the website is protected under copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. The Content is the property of Fashion One or third-parties who have granted Fashion One a license to use the Content. Permission to use the Content may be obtained on a case-by-case basis. Please direct any requests to use the Content to\nFASHION ONE ON TWITTER\nFASHION ONE ON FACEBOOK\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 FASHION ONE TELEVISION LTD.\nSitemap | Links | Corporate | Contact","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"101 George Egles\n. . . Keatch Kendall Downloads Resources Contact Search Gabriell Egles (Bef 1642-1707) Mary Rideout (Bef 1668-Bef 1688) John Godly (Bef 1672-Bef 1708) Elizabeth Goring (Bef 1675-Bef 1704) George Egles (Bef 1688-Bef 1752) Barbara Godly (Bef 1697-Bef 1737) George Egles (Bef 1722-Bef 1767) Family Links Spouses\/Children: 1. Elizabeth Goring Barbara . . .\n[ 12.5 % ] URL: http:\/\/buist-keatch.org\/buist\/sussex\/1281.html - 10.9 kb\n102 Eleanor de Camoys\n. . . owing suit at Lewes in the early 17th century. Bevendean was sold by Master William de Pierpoint in about 1242 to John de Gatesden. After John's death in 1262 his widow Hawise had the manor of Bevendean as part of her dower until in 1264 it was seized by the overlord, Earl Warenne, on the pretext that she had joined the rebels against the king. . . .\n. . . as 'the farm called Bevingdeane', was settled by Thomas Covert on his wife Diana, daughter of George, 1st Lord Goring . In 1664 Diana Baynham, their daughter, was holding it. This estate, apparently, by the early part of the 17th century included also the Lewknor portion and was described as half the manor of Bevendean, the other half being. . .\n[ 12.5 % ] URL: http:\/\/buist-keatch.org\/buist\/goring\/2109.html - 15.3 kb\n103 Sir Roger Lewknor\n104 William Dering of Surrenden, Kent\n. . . death of Isabel, Litchfield passed to William and Eva [de Echingham], and was sold by them in 1315 to Edward de St. John of Barlavington (co. Suss.). Edward obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands of Litchfield in 1334 and died about 1340, l eaving a widow Eva, who in 1346 was stated to be holding half a fee in Litchfield which had . . .\n. . . two sisters and co-heirs, Eleanor the wife of William Dering of Surrenden (co. Kent) and Constance the wife of John Goring of Burton (co. Suss.). In 1514 the manor was settled on John Goring and Constance for life with remainder to their son William in tail-male, but this settlement seems later to have been set on one side, for in 1537 John . . .\n[ 12.5 % ] URL: http:\/\/buist-keatch.org\/buist\/goring\/2159.html - 9.4 kb\n. . . , T , U , V , W , X, Y, Z, [EARLE-ELLIS] Names Born Died EARLE Elizabeth born Bef 19 Oct 1600 died Bef 23 May 1626 John born Bef 12 Aug 1599 died Bef 20 Oct 1599 Thomas died Bef 28 May 1636 EDWARDS Joseph EGLES Andrew died After 15 Apr 1563 Ann born Bef 7 Sep 1620 died Bef 19 Jul 1635 Barbara Elizabeth born 7 Mar 1745\/46 died 1776 Barbara born . . .\n. . . 12 Oct 1600 Edward born 1 Dec 1762 died Bef 2 Oct 1838 Edward born Bef 29 Jun 1804 died Bef 8 Feb 1836 Elizabeth Goring born Between 8 Apr 1793 and 2 Apr 1794 died 14 Jan 1876 Elizabeth born Bef 21 Dec 1584 Elizabeth born Bef 8 Oct 1623 Elizabeth born Abt 1674 died 17 Jun 1737 Ellen born Abt 1602 Fanny born Bef 2 Jul 1802 died Between 1 Jun. . .\n[ 12.5 % ] URL: http:\/\/buist-keatch.org\/buist\/sussex\/names5.html - 12.9 kb\n106 Elizabeth Carew\n. . . Roger Lewknor or Thomas, his son, married Elizabeth Carew. We have concluded that: - Roger married a daughter of John Carew of Fulford; her name was possibly Margaret - Following his father's early death, Thomas was a ward of Nicholas Carew of Beddington - Thomas was first married to Elizabeth Carew, daughter of Nicholas, but she died in 1410 . . .\n. . . 5th Hen IV been found heir, through his grandmother Joane D'Oyly to the extensive estates of the Tregoze family at Goring, co Sussex, and elsewhere in that county, on the death of John Tregoze of Goring, son of Sir Henry Tregoze, Knt: on which occasion the jury returned that \"Thomas Lewknor was the cousin and heir of the deceased (being the son. . .\n[ 11.5 % ] URL: http:\/\/buist-keatch.org\/buist\/goring\/14213.html - 14.0 kb\n107 Sir Thomas Tregoz\n. . . in a beautifully written little volume now in the British Museum [Harl. MS. 173.]. It begins with the manor of Goring, held of Sir Robert de Mohaut, with Preston, Dedisham, and Waldrington [Walderton in Stoughton], as 5\u00bd knights' fees. It is noted that a knight's fee consisted of 4 hides, each containing 4 virgates, usually of 20 acres each. . . .\n. . . his absence on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella; he named as attorneys during his absence Henry Tregoz and John de Hayton [ Cal. Pat. 1317-21. pp. 556, 565.] Between 1320 and 1326 there were complicated transactions [ Add. Charter 56358] between Sir Thomas and his brother Henry, whose main seat seems to have been at 'Beausy', concerning. . .\n108 Edward Egles\n. . . Kendall Downloads Resources Contact Search George Egles (Bef 1688-Bef 1752) Barbara Godly (Bef 1697-Bef 1737) John Goring (Bef 1678-1735) Elizabeth Plumer (Bef 1689-Bef 1782) George Egles (Bef 1722-Bef 1767) Elizabeth Goring (Bef 1723-Bef 1812) Edward Egles (1762-Bef 1838) Family Links Edward Egles Born: 1 Dec 1762, Barcombe, Lewes, East . . .\n109 William Everard\n. . . Taylor Keatch Kendall Downloads Resources Contact Search Henry Everard (Abt 1430-Abt 1465) Alice (-After 1465) John Everard (-Abt 1488) Margaret Bedingfield William Everard (-Between 1524\/1525) Family Links Spouses\/Children: 1. Joan Ernle John Everard Dorothy Everard Mary Everard 2. Jane Shelley William Everard Marriage (1): Joan Ernle after . . .\n. . . his two sisters Mary and Dorothy. Mary married Richard Bellingham of Hangleton and Dorothy became the wife of Henry Goring . \u2022 Will, 24 Jun 1524. \u2022 Probate, 12 Feb 1525. William married Joan Ernle, daughter of Sir John Ernle and Anne Dawtry, after 1511. (Joan Ernle died about 1549.) William next married Jane Shelley, daughter of Sir John Shelley. . .\n110 Joan Ernle\nBuist-Taylor Keatch-Kendall Buist Taylor Keatch Kendall Downloads Resources Contact Search John Ernle (-1465) Margaret Morley (-Bef 1486) Sir John Dawtry Sir John Ernle (-1536) Anne Dawtry Joan Ernle (-Abt 1549) Family Links Spouses\/Children: 1. Edward Banester of Idsworth, Hampshire Edward Banester of Idsworth, Hampshire Barbara Banester 2. . . .\n. . . who in her will, made in 1549, decided that Idsworth should be occupied and maintained by her son-in-law Henry Goring, until Banester was 21. She hoped that his wardship would pass to her own family, the Erneleys, but it was bought in April 1551 by Sir William Goring, Henry's father. It was not until the summer of 1562 that Banester was. . .\nResult page:Previous 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jordan Sellers\n315 English Building\n608 S Wright\neseller2@illinois.edu\nW 12:00-3:00 PM (SP 2021)\n(Office Hours for SP 2021 are held over Zoom and by appointment)\nThe Romantic Era, The Victorian Era, The Gothic, 19th Century British Literature, Memoir and Autobiography, Visual Culture of the Romantic & Victorian Era, Student Activism, Digital Humanities Collection Development, Metadata Development, Antiquarianism, Historical Maps, Basic Writing Instruction\nConsequential Ground: Memorials of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Romantic Culture 1793-1877. http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2142\/106186\nPhD English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\nM.A. English, Old Dominion University\nB.A. English, Roanoke College\nENGL 207: Romantic Literature & Culture (FA 2016, SP 2011)\nENGL 208: Victorian Literature and Culture (SP 2017, SP 2013, SP 2012)\nENGL 115: Intro To English Literature (FA 2010, FA 2008)\nENGL 109: Intro To Fiction (Advanced Composition) SP 2019; FA 2013, FA 2011\nRHET 233: The Rhetoric of Student Activism ( Advanced Composition) FA 2018, SP2018, FA 2017, SP 2016)\nRHET 233: The Writing of Memory (Advanced Composition; FA 2013, SP 2011, FA 2010, SP 2010, FA 2009, SP 2009, FA 2008)\nRHET 105 Writing and Research (FA 2020, FA 2019, SP 2019, FA 2018, SP 2018, FA 2017, SP 2017, FA 2016, SP 2016, FA 2015)\nRHET 104 (SP 2010),\nRHET 102 (SP 2014, SP 2008)\nRHET 101 (FA 2007)\nDIGITAL HUMANITIES CORPUS DEVELOPMENT\nPulp Fiction Corpus, a digital corpus of selected short stories, novels, and serialized fiction published in pulp magazines 1897-1939, 2015.\nLiterary Language and Literary Prestige in the Long Nineteenth Century (A corpus of literary works reviewed by elite literary magazines), 2015.\nIllinois 19th-Century Corpus (1800-1923), a digital corpus of roughly 4000 volumes across genre, 2011-2012.\nUnderwood, Ted, and Jordan Sellers. \"The Longue Dur\u00e9e of Literary Prestige.\" Modern Language Quarterly 77.3 (2016): 321-344. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1215\/00267929-3570634\n\"Zero Ground: Mapping Maritime Commemoration in the Age of Nelson.\" European Romantic Review 26.6 (2015): 679-698. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10509585.2015.1092082\nUnderwood, Ted, and Jordan Sellers. \"The Emergence of Literary Diction.\" Journal of Digital Humanities 1.2 (2012): 21 Aug. 2012. <http:\/\/journalofdigitalhumanities.org\/1-2\/the-emergence-of-literary-diction-by-ted-underwood-and-jordan-sellers\/>.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"goTitans | a Tennessee Titans Fan Forum\n> The Rest > The Lounge > Video Games >\nDiscussion in 'Video Games' started by Crash Override, Dec 21, 2006.\nCrash Override inVINCEable\nWhen I first heard about this, and seen the commercial, I loved the game. The concept of being in a mall with Zombies is great. I remember watching dawn of the dead and saying this would make a great video game. I want to hear what you guys think about dead rising. This game is love it or hate it. Many people say that its boring, but here is my insight.\nWell you play the game as a photo journalist, Frank West, who is looking for a big story. I don't want to spoil it for anybody that didn't get it yet, but you get droped off at a mall in this town and you have 72 hours to find out what is going on. Basically anything is used as a weapon, and that's the true fun part of the game. The sounds of the game, ie hitting a zombie with a weapon, is the best I've ever heard. The amount of zombies that can be on your screen at a given point is truly amazing. There are thousands of zombies there waiting to be killed.\nBut let me get to the game. The point of the missions is not to kill zombies at all, they are just in your way. The missions are mostly saving people. And the bosses aren't zombies either, they are humans called physchopaths who have gone crazy because of what has happened. The major flaws of the game is by far the save system, but it is the most realistic save system, and it gives you the feeling of survival, which is a good thing. There are only a few save spots spread throughout the mall which is huge, and it's very difficult to access them. For example, you just beat a boss and you are low on health. The save spot could be on the other side of the mall, and you have to go through zombies to get there. If you die, you can't load up. LET ME REPEAT THIS. YOU CAN LOAD FROM YOUR LAST SAVED POINT ONLY, or start the game over. The game works on a time system and you have to be at certain places at a specific time. The case files, missions, start at a certain time, and if you don't get to one in time your done. You will probably have to start the game over once or twice, but you keep your level and your stats which is good.\nThe game is loads of fun, you will still play it for a while. But you have to be patient, and don't mind repeating things. I give dead rising an 8.0\/10. What do you guys think of it?\n#1 Crash Override, Dec 21, 2006\nYossarian I am Him.\nbought it .. it's awesome.. one of those games you play for a while, get bored of, then come back to.. and wonder why you left it to begin with..\n#2 Yossarian, Dec 22, 2006\nPhiSlammaJamma Critical Possession\nLoved it. I don't even see how anyone could hate it. It's a good game. The zombies actually become more fun the more you get. I normally get frustrated by mass kill games, but this one becomes more fun than headache.\nPlenty of fun.\nI have never let my schooling interfere with my education.\n#3 PhiSlammaJamma, Dec 22, 2006\nOILERTATTOO Starter\nI agree, a very cool game.\nBut, the save system really does hurt it.\nYou are either a 1 or a 2.\n#4 OILERTATTOO, Dec 22, 2006\nFry Welcome to the land of tomorrow!\ni only played the demo on my buddy's 360. it was fun, but it seemed like a game i wouldnt be able to play for an extended period of time.\nUndisputed 2018 2QBeaver Champion\nWilling and Vrable- 99(L)\nWinning with Winston- 157.8(W)\n#5 Fry, Dec 22, 2006\n^ Exactly. The concept is great, but it does get repitive and boring. It would have been better if it had a better save system, and you could actually just roam around the mall and kill zombies. But I still play it, there is no other game like it.\nTom Brady to the Titans?\nRockyTop Fox replied Jan 23, 2020 at 2:28 AM\nTitanoiler51 replied Jan 22, 2020 at 9:39 PM\nDean Pees Announces Retirement!\nrock8titans replied Jan 22, 2020 at 7:51 AM\nJaguars hire Jay Gruden as...\nHurrayTitans! replied Jan 21, 2020 at 9:20 PM\nHave we turned the corner?\nSalmonSlayer replied Jan 21, 2020 at 9:20 PM\nTweets from https:\/\/twitter.com\/gotitanscom\/lists\/gotitans-com\nWelcome to goTitans.com\nEstablished in 2000, goTitans.com is the place for Tennessee Titans fans to talk Titans. Our roots go back to the Tennessee Oilers Fan Page in 1997 and we currently have 4,000 diehard members with 1.5 million messages. To find out about advertising opportunities, contact TitanJeff.\nFor those of you interested in helping the cause, we offer The Tip Jar. For $2 a month, you can become a subscriber and enjoy goTitans.com without ads.\nHit the Tip Jar","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Advocacy NGOs Applaud New Joint Communications Report from UN Special Procedures\nNGOs Applaud New Joint Communications Report from UN Special Procedures\nPosted date: June 17, 2015 in: Advocacy, Bahrain 13, Casework, Maryam Al-khawaja, Sheikh Ali Salman, Statements, TimeLine, Uncategorized, UNHRCNo Comments\nAmericans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy applaud the reporting of the United Nations Special Procedures, especially the human rights experts who monitor these countries, in investigating the alleged violations of human rights in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. We call on the countries in question to immediately and impartially investigate any and all allegations raised by the Special Procedures, with the goal of remedying any victims found to have suffered abuse and holding accountable any persons found to have perpetrated human rights violations.\nThe Special Procedures of the United Nations are a body of independent human rights experts appointed by the Human Rights Council to report and to advise on human rights issues. Through these experts, abused persons are afforded a means of bringing alleged human rights violations to the international community's attention to be investigated. Since 2011, the Special Procedures have published joint communications reports at each session of the Human Rights Council summarizing allegations of human rights violations.\nIn the June 2015 joint communications report, human rights experts filed eleven communications regarding the alleged violations of human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Find below the summaries of the communications.\nMaryam Al-Khawaja is the Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights. On 1 December 2014, a Bahraini court sentenced Maryam in absentia to one year of imprisonment for allegedly assaulting security officers in connection to her peaceful advocacy for human rights. Maryam's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Arbitrary Detention; Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; and Human Rights Defenders.\nZainab Al-Khawaja is a human rights activist. On 4 December 2014, a Bahraini court sentenced Zainab to three years of imprisonment and an additional 16 months for destroying government property when she tore up a photograph of the Bahraini king. Zainab's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Arbitrary Detention; Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; and Human Rights Defenders.\nGhada Jamhseer is the Head of Women's Petition Committee, a human rights defenders network. On 15 September 2014, Bahraini security forces arrested Ghada and charged her with defamation in connection to her online posts alleging corruption within the King Hamad Hospital. Bahraini security forces released Ghada after one month of detainment, then arrested her again on alleged assault charges. Ghada's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Arbitrary Detention; Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; and Human Rights Defenders.\nSheikh Ali al-Salman is the Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the main opposition political party in Bahrain. On 26 December 2014, Bahraini security forces arrested Sheikh the day after his re-election then charged him with inciting a change of government by non-peaceful means and insulting the Ministry of Interior. Sheikh's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Arbitrary Detention; Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; Freedom of Religion; Human Rights Defenders; and Independence of Judges and Lawyers.\nMikhlif bin Daham al-Shammari is a human rights defender. On 5 March 2014, the Specialized Criminal Court of Saudi Arabia sentenced Mikhlif to five years of imprisonment, a ten-year travel ban, and a ban from appearing in the media. In a separate case, the Specialized Criminal Court also sentenced Mikhlif to two years of imprisonment and 200 lashes. Mikhlif's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; and Human Rights Defenders.\nWaleed Abu al-Khair is a human rights defender. On 6 July 2014, the Specialised Criminal Court of Saudi Arabia sentenced Waleed to 15 years of imprisonment, a 15-year travel ban, and a fine of 200,000 Saudi Arabian riyals. Waleed's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; and Human Rights Defenders.\nSamar Badawai is a human rights defender. On 16 September 2014, Samar delivered a statement to the Human Rights Council. She criticized the treatment of Saudi political prisoners, including her husband Waleed Abu al-Khair, a human rights lawyer currently serving a 15-year sentence of imprisonment. Afterwards, Saudi security forces prevented Samar from boarding a plane and banned her from traveling for an indefinite period of time. It is alleged that Saudi authorities imposed a travel ban on Samar in reprisal for her cooperation with the Human Rights Council. Samar's communication is signed by the mandates concerning the Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Defender.\nFadhel Maki al-Manasif is a human rights defender. On 9 September 2014, the Specialised Criminal Court of Saudi Arabia reduced Fadhel's sentence to 14 years of imprisonment, a 14-year travel ban, and a fine of 100,000 Saudi Riyals. Fadhel's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; and Human Rights Defenders.\nSaudi security forces arrested Loujain al-Hathlou and Maysaa al-Amoudi for driving their cars into Saudi Arabia in violation of the ban on women driving. It is alleged that Saudi security forces ordered Loujain and Maysaa to enter Saudi territory and to make a U-turn, which would return them to the United Arab Emirates. However, Saudi security forces arrested Loujain and Maysaa as soon as they crossed into Saudi territory. It is also alleged that Saudi security forces arrested both women in an attempt by the Saudi government to suppress women's right to freedom of opinion and expression. Loujain and Maysaa's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Arbitrary Detention; Discrimination against Women; Freedom of Expression; and Human Rights Defenders.\nRaef Badawi is a Saudi human rights defender. Saudi security forces arrested Raef in relation to materials he published on his blog. A Saudi court convicted Raef of founding a liberal website, adopting liberal thought, and for insulting Islam. On 9 January 2015, Saudi security forces subjected Raef to to 50 lashes outside of a mosque. Raef is due to receive 950 more lashes in weekly batches of 50. A doctor concluded that Raef's wounds from the first flogging had not healed and that he would not be able to withstand another round of lashes. It is alleged that the Saudi government is attempting to silence human rights activists in the country by arbitrarily arresting, detaining, and convicting Raef. Raef's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Arbitrary Detention; Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Religion; Human Rights Defenders; and Torture.\nOn 15 October 2014, the Specialized Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia convicted Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr of disobeying the ruler, inciting sectarian strife, and encouraging, leading, and participating in demonstrations. The Specialised Criminal Court sentenced Sheikh al-Nimr to death. It is alleged that Sheikh al-Nimr's trial did not comply with the most stringent due process and fair trail guarantees. It is also alleged that Saudi authorities denied Sheikh al-Nimr medical treatment while detaining him. Sheikh al-Nimr's communication is signed by the mandates concerning Arbitrary Detention; Freedom of Religion; Health; Independence of Judges and Lawyers; Minority Issues; and Summary Executions.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Microsoft Preview Build 18298 Makes Many Small Upgrades to Windows 10\nMicrosoft released Windows 10 Preview Build 18298 to Fast ring members of the Windows Insider Program this week. Rather than introducing one standout feature, this update makes a bunch of small improvements to various aspects of the operating system, from sign-in options to accessibility tools. The company's also released updates to Feedback Hub, Snip & Sketch and the Game bar via the Microsoft Store to upgrade those utilities. Preview Build 18298 is the first notable release to Windows Insider Program members in a while. That's probably because Microsoft suffered a series of failures involving Windows 10 updates over the last few months. The company infamously delayed the Windows 10 October 2018 Update to mid-November at least for people who aren't using certain hardware or software--and pulled a cumulative update because it was too unstable. It's hard to hype people up about upcoming versions of Windows 10 if the most recent versions are still unavailable on many systems. The show must go on, however, and that's where Preview Build 18298 comes in. The update introduced the ability to create a security key via the Settings app to quickly \"unpin\" folders and groups from the Start menu and to create bigger and brighter cursors that should be a little easier to see. For more turn to OUR FORUM.\nChinese court orders immediate ban on sale of various Apple iPhone models\nA Chinese court ordered a ban in the country on iPhone sales in a patent dispute between US chipmaker Qualcomm and Apple, according to a Qualcomm statement Monday. The statement said the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court had granted Qualcomm's request for two preliminary injunctions against four subsidiaries of Apple, ordering them to immediately to stop selling the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. The move marked the latest in a long-running dispute over patents and royalties between the two California tech giants playing out in courts and administrative bodies worldwide. \"We deeply value our relationships with customers, rarely resorting to the courts for assistance, but we also have an abiding belief in the need to protect intellectual property rights,\" said Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm executive vice president, and general counsel. \"Apple continues to benefit from our intellectual property while refusing to compensate us. These court orders are further confirmation of the strength of Qualcomm's vast patent portfolio.\" The China case is based on patents which enable consumers to adjust and reformat the size and appearance of photographs, and to manage applications using a touchscreen, Qualcomm said. An Apple statement to AFP called Qualcomm's effort a \"desperate move by a company whose illegal practices are under investigation by regulators around the world.\" Apple added that Qualcomm \"is asserting three patents they had never raised before, including one which has already been invalidated.\" Apple said that \"all iPhone models remain available for our customers in China,\" adding that \"we will pursue all our legal options through the courts.\" Follow this on OUR FORUM.\nSextortion Emails now Leading to Ransomware and Info-Stealing Trojans\nSextortion email scams have been a very successful way of generating money for criminals. A new Sextortion campaign is now taking it to the next level by tricking recipients into installing the Azorult information-stealing Trojan, which then downloads and installs the GandCrab ransomware. A sextortion scam is when you receive an email that states someone hacked your computer and has been creating videos of you while you are using adult websites. These emails may also contain passwords of yours that were leaked during data breaches in order to make the scams look more legitimate. The emails then tell you to send them bitcoins or they will share the videos they made with all of your contacts. It should be clear that these are scams; your computer was not hacked and there are no videos of you. A new campaign has been spotted by researchers at ProofPoint that instead of containing a bitcoin address to send a blackmail payment to, they instead prompt you to download a video they made of you doing certain \"activities\". The downloaded zip file, though, contains an executable that will install malware onto the computer. \"However, this week Proofpoint researchers observed a sextortion campaign that also included URLs linking to AZORult stealer that ultimately led to infection with GandCrab ransomware,\" stated ProofPoint's research. More on this dirty deed can be found on OUR FORUM.\nDuckDuckGo finds Google personalizes search results even if logged out\nYou might well expect that if you perform a Google search while signed into your Google account that the results will be tailored according to what that company has learned about you over the years. But what about when you're not signed into your account? A study carried out by the privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo yielded some slightly surprising results. In tests earlier in the year, it was found that even when people searched without logging into a Google account -- or when they used private browsing mode -- \"most participants saw results unique to them\", suggesting there was still personalization of results. While this was a small study with just 87 results involved, the findings are interesting, nonetheless. Conducted back in June -- during the US midterms -- DuckDuckGo wanted to use its study to test the influence of Google's \"filter bubble\". This \"bubble\" is the activity you would expect from Google -- the personalization of search results based on what it has been able to learn about you. When you're logged into your Google account, it's easy to understand how the company gathers information about you. But when you're using private browsing mode -- or just logged out of your account -- and you see similar personalization, it is a little worrying. More content posted on OUR FORUM.\nQualcomm announces powerful Snapdragon 8cx processor for Windows 10 PCs\nToday at Snapdragon Summit, the chipmaker Qualcomm announced Snapdragon 8cx for Always Connected, Always On Windows 10 devices. This new high-end Snapdragon 8cx chipset will power 2-in-1s instead of smartphones and tablets. At its event, Qualcomm shared more details about the chip that will rival Intel that powers the high-end PCs. Qualcomm also detailed how its Snapdragon processors can contribute to the PC industry and address the battery backup and internet connectivity problems. Earlier this year, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 850 platform which is made specifically for Windows laptops. The new Snapdragon processor takes the Windows on ARM project to the next level. Qualcomm is calling the 8cx its \"most extreme\" package yet. This new platform promises a major boost to Windows performance. The key changes include enhanced AI and machine learning capabilities, improved performance and up to 24 hours of battery backup from traditional 2-in-1s. The Snapdragon 8cx is more powerful than the Snapdragon 850 and it is set to come out next year. The Snapdragon 8cx, a 7nm chip that's currently in testing and it's going to power the future Always Connected PCs from Microsoft partners. This is the most powerful and fastest Snapdragon chipset ever made. The new system-on-chip (SoC) features the highly-anticipated eight-core design. The platform also contains support for faster LPDDR4X memory which ensures faster performance. The Qualcomm's \"Extreme\" chipset for Windows 10 ARM devices promises better performance, more power, improved connectivity, and up to 25 hours battery backup. More details are posted on OUR FORUM.\nGoogle and Mozilla reacts to Chrome-powered Edge announcement\nMicrosoft confirmed the leaks that they will be using Google's Chromium web rendering engine for the Edge browser, and would be contributing their developer expertise to evolving the Chromium and other open source web engines. VentureBeat has asked Google and Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox browser, what they thought of the announcement. Not afraid of being embraced and extended by Microsoft, Google has welcomed the move, saying: \"Chrome has been a champion of the open web since inception and we welcome Microsoft to the community of Chromium contributors. We look forward to working with Microsoft and the web standards community to advance the open web, support user choice, and deliver great browsing experiences.\" Mozilla, on the other hand, was not encouraged, and painted themselves as the last bastion of the free web, saying: \"This just increases the importance of Mozilla's role as the only independent choice. We are not going to concede that Google's implementation of the web is the only option consumers should have. That's why we built Firefox in the first place and why we will. Follow this and more browser news on OUR FORUM.\n\u00abStartPrev48495051525354555657NextEnd\u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"washingtonpost.com > World > Asia\/Pacific\nTaiwan Says It Is Not Ready for Peace Talks With China\nBy Jane Rickards and Ariana Eunjung Cha\nTAIPEI, Taiwan, March 5 -- Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou on Thursday ruled out any near-term prospect of peace talks with China, saying relations are too tenuous to consider discussing political or military issues.\n\"At this stage we will only talk about economic and trade issues,\" Taiwanese presidential spokesman Wang Yu-chi said.\nWang was responding to new calls for discussions between Beijing and Taipei that were made by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday at the opening session of the annual National People's Congress. In a speech to China's parliament, Wen said he is \"ready to hold talks on cross-strait political and military issues and create conditions for ending the state of hostility and concluding a peace agreement between the two sides.\"\nChina has claimed that Taiwan is a part of China since the Communist forces defeated the Nationalists during a civil war in 1949 and the latter group fled to the island.\nSince Ma took office in May, cooperation has increased dramatically and the two sides have worked together to launch direct flights and postal service.\nDiscussions about further economic cooperation, perhaps in the form of a free-trade agreement, have accelerated as the global economic crisis has battered both Taiwan and China. Chinese officials have said the continued support of Taiwanese factory owners is important to their country's manufacturing sector, and Taiwan has said it hopes to remove barriers so that wealthy Chinese can begin investing more easily in the other direction. China is Taiwan's largest trading partner, with volume of more than $130 billion each year.\nAnalysts in Taiwan and on the mainland said Wen's overtures are unlikely to bring substantial results in the short term, given the substantial domestic political pressure on Ma from those who remain wary of Beijing's motives.\n\"Accepting the 'one China' principle would be political suicide for Ma,\" said George Tsai, a professor of politics at Taipei's Chinese Culture University.\nBefore moving forward with any discussion with China, Taiwan must first resolve its domestic debate, said Zhang Wensheng, a Taiwan researcher from Xiamen University on the mainland. \"There is a lack of consensus on military and political talks within the island itself,\" Zhang said.\nMa, who is expected to run for election again in 2012, has said he wants to put aside political differences to focus on creating closer business and economic ties.\nWen did not announce plans for additional economic stimulus measures at Thursday's National People's Congress, as some analysts had expected him to do. China had announced a $586 billion stimulus plan late last year, but Wen's decision not to introduce a second round of spending -- at least for now -- sent global markets lower.\nCha reported from Beijing. Researcher Wang Juan in Beijing contributed to this report.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Myths About Russia That Simply Aren't True\nAsia Russia\nVaria Makagonova\nKitti Boonnitrod\/Getty Images\nYou've probably heard a lot of \"facts\" about Russia that you assume to be true. They are irritating and sometimes even offensive. Don't make the same mistake: These myths about Russia are just that \u2013 myths.\nIt's Always Cold\nalexxx-malev\/Flickr\/CC BY-SA 2.0\nYes, Russia is one of the coldest countries in the world in the winter, with frosts of up to -30 degrees Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) common in the Moscow area and getting even colder further North. However, a lot of regions in Russia also have incredibly warm summers, and very mild fall and spring seasons.\nIt's Dangerous\nRussia is not any more dangerous than any other big country! Of course, every city has its bad neighborhoods, and if you're looking for trouble, you will always find it. However, if you abide by normal safety rules and don't do anything illegal, you will not be in any more danger than you would be in New York or Paris. There \u200bis also a lot of police in Russia, which can be a different problem, but also means that it's very safe on Russian streets.\nRussians Are Alcoholics\nRodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images\nRussians love alcohol in general, and vodka especially, but most of them are not alcoholics. Russians drink a lot but because of this, they have a very high alcohol tolerance! Yes, alcohol is present at almost every occasion in Russia, but this is a matter of custom and tradition \u2013 not alcoholism.\nRussians Hate Americans\nRussians actually love American trends, media, music, and culture. They tend to get access to these things later than the rest of the Western world \u2013 the first Starbucks in Russia did not appear until 2007 \u2013 but they appreciate them even more. Starbucks, for example, is outrageously popular in Russia.\n\"Na Zdorov'ye!\"\nCliqueImages\/Getty Images\nWhen raising a glass with a group of Russian people, do not say \"Na zdorov'ye!\". This is not a toast; it's something Russian people say when somebody thanks them for a nice meal. Although Russian people make toasts with practically every sip of a drink, they usually say a unique toast every time, e.g. \"To our friendship!\". If you want to make a toast in Russia, stick with \"\u0417\u0430 \u0412\u0430\u0441!\" (Za vas!), which means \"To you!\" and is very acceptable.\nIt's Impossible, Difficult, And\/Or Expensive to Travel There\nUnfortunately, you do need an invitation and a visa to travel to Russia, but these are a lot easier to get than you may think! Hotels in Russia and travel agencies will send you an invitation for a small fee, and the visa process itself consists of a couple of simple visits to your nearest Russian embassy.\nRussians Are Racist\nRussian people are actually very open-minded. They may not be aware of the polite way to talk about people from other cultures, but that does not mean that they have any malicious intent. In fact, they are usually curious about and happy to talk with visitors from other countries.\nRussians Are Gloomy\nRoman Alyabev\/EyeEm\/Getty Images\nIf you take a look at Russian people on the streets, in the metro, or in the stores, you may well think that they never smile. The truth is, however, that Russians are warm, friendly, and extremely funny \u2013 just not in public. It is a norm in Russia to have one's \"serious face\" on while in public places, and being too loud or showing too much emotion is considered strange and perhaps even impolite.\nRussians Are Spies\nThis one doesn't really need elaboration because obviously, all Russians are not spies. There are probably as many Russian secret service workers as there are American, French, or Canadian \"spies\". This myth comes from the Cold War and from Hollywood movies, and bringing it up to Russian people is not funny \u2013 it only irritates them, because it is so pervasive.\nThey Are All Communists\nThis is another Cold War-era myth that is best not mentioned to Russian people. There are some Russian people that still think Communism was a good idea, but they are few and far between. For most Russian people, Communism meant \u200bthe scarcity of food and other resources and being afraid of both one's government and one's neighbors. Not only are most Russians not Communists, but Russians are especially unlikely to endorse a Communist regime.\nVodka, Dolls, and Onion Domes on a Russian River Cruise\nLearn the Facts About Russian Culture\nWhat Types of Gifts Should You Bring to Russia?\nTips for Having a Safe and Healthy Journey to Russia\nBest Gifts to Give When You Attend a Russian Party\nThese 10 Russian Stereotypes are Actually True\nHelpful Russian Phrases and Words for Travelers\nThe History Behind Men's Day in Russia\nPaper or Plastic? Debit, Credit Cards, Cash in Russia\nWhat to Expect for Breakfast in Russia\nFebruary in Moscow: Weather, What to Pack, and What to See\nInteresting Facts About Mongolia\nHow to Travel to Russia on a Budget\nHow Easter Is Celebrated in Russia\nRussian Traditional New Year Celebrations\nJanuary in Moscow: Weather, What to Pack, and What to See","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Caring for Catholic education in New Orleans\nby Matthew A. Rarey\nLegatus' New Orleans chaplain gives his all for children and the Catholic faith . . .\nVery Rev. Neal McDermott\nVery Rev. Neal McDermott, OP\nNew Orleans Chapter\nAfter retiring last year as executive director of New Orleans' archdiocesan Department of Christian Formation, Fr. Neal McDermott, 80, humorously referenced his ancestry: \"Irishmen cry at the opening of a Kmart, so if I shed a tear it's because I'm Irish,\" he told colleagues at his going-away party. Fifty-two years a priest and in love with his vocation, Fr. McDermott did not truly retire. He now serves as president of Legate Joseph C. Canizaro's Donum Dei Foundation, which makes grants to support Catholic education.\nTell us about your call to the priesthood.\nThe call came early. I was taught by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I loved everything to do with the Church, to be around the sisters. I'd come by the school on Saturday to clean boards and sweep. By the time I was 14, I was very sure. I wanted to join a teaching order. One day my dentist handed me a brochure he got in the mail from Dominicans, and the rest is history.\nHow did you become acquainted with Legatus?\nI became spiritual director to Joseph Canizaro, who built the library at Ave Maria University. He was the man whom Tom Monaghan turned to in New Orleans to start a Legatus chapter in 1999. Joe asked me to be one of the chaplains.\n\"One\" of the chaplains?\nYes. We have three: a diocesan priest, a member of the Josephite order, and me. We have a big chapter to serve, nearly 50 member couples. And since we three priests have so many other obligations, we needed more than one chaplain. But we're all usually present at meetings and we take turns dividing duties.\nWhat impact has Legatus had on the archdiocese?\nA number of Legates have committed themselves to Catholic education, like providing needy children with scholarships. We also have a seminary in the process of being renovated, and many Legates generously support that. In fact, we're planning a special meeting in which we'll invite some 100 seminarians to have dinner with us to introduce them to Legatus.\nHow would you like to see the chapter progress?\nI'd like to see every member choose one student to sponsor at Ave Maria University. I'd like them to continue in their affirmation of the priesthood and religious life, supporting schools and teachers. And among all the different Catholic charities in New Orleans \u2014 like feeding the poor \u2014 I think every one of the members has helped in each area. And I'd like to see each of them pick up the concept of ambassador and concretize it in their own way.\nHow do you approach your role as chaplain?\nI'm available for spiritual direction. I also help them in their various charitable activities, doing the footwork in ways like securing grants.\nYou have a vocation, of course. Any avocations?\nI'm a dog lover. I'm in love with animals. I work with some of the women in the chapter in their efforts to save animals, like running a sanctuary for abused pitbulls.\nCan you recommend any devotions?\nDominicans are very committed to the rosary. Legates need quiet time for reflection, and Eucharistic adoration is just perfect for that.\nAre there any lessons you've learned that are apt for business leaders?\nHaving been an administrator of some 105 schools in the archdiocese, I learned that you need to take the time to meet your people. They need to know they're loved. People remember that. When you say you're an ambassador, an ambassador needs a diplomatic touch \u2014 and let your faith shine through!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Uncategorized > ACLU and SEIU surprisingly and confusingly gang up on congregate care for the developmentally disabled during COVID crisis\nACLU and SEIU surprisingly and confusingly gang up on congregate care for the developmentally disabled during COVID crisis\nThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are usually strong advocates of accountability and transparency in government.\nThat's why it is surprising that both of those organizations appear to be using the coronavirus pandemic to further a longstanding agenda, which we never knew they shared, to privatize services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.\nIt's particularly surprising that the SEIU, a human services employee union that represents caregivers in the state's two remaining developmental centers, would be on board with closing down state-run care facilities.\nIn a petition filed June 23 with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the ACLU, SEIU, and a number of other advocacy organizations appear to start off on the right track in criticizing the federal government for its mismanaged response to the pandemic.\nThe petition identifies nursing homes, Intermediate Care Facilities for the developmentally disabled (ICFs), and group homes as sites of large numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths that could have been prevented with better guidance for infection control, more testing, and better patient and worker protections.\nBut the petition then goes on to make a number of, at times, poorly conceived and even confusing claims and recommendations that ultimately appear intended to support a privatized care agenda.\nAt least some of the confusion centers around group homes, which the petition lumps together with ICFs as sources of \"congregate care.\"\nThe petition suggests that among the causes of the infections and deaths is the federal government's failure \"to divert people from entering nursing homes or other congregate settings\" or to increase discharges from those settings \"to the community.\"\nThe argument the petition makes is that reducing the population in all of those facilities would \"make social distancing possible.\"\nThe petition defines congregate settings as including ICFs, psychiatric facilities, and group homes. Yet, group homes are considered part of the community-based system of care in Massachusetts and other states. As a result, it isn't clear what the ACLU and SEIU mean in stating that people living in group homes would be among those in congregate settings who should move \"to the community.\"\nThe petition, moreover, calls for reducing the population of nursing homes and congregate settings by 50 percent. Should HHS neglect to act within three weeks to enact that and other suggested measures, the groups will sue, the petition states.\nIt is unclear whether the ACLU and SEIU mean that nursing homes, ICFs, and group homes should all be emptied of 50 percent of their residents, or where those residents would then go.\nVOR, COFAR's national affiliate, issued a statement sharply critical of the petition, maintaining that:\n\u2026the ACLU has cast its net too wide, and falsely claimed to represent the interests of everyone receiving federally funded services who is classified as elderly or who has intellectual and developmental disabilities. In doing so, it apparently assumes that all such persons look and feel alike and need the same supports and level of care.\nFurther confusion over the HCBS waiver\nAdding to the confusion over group homes is language in the ACLU\/SEIU petition calling on HHS to \"provide incentives to states to redesign their Medicaid programs to expand Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) and other community-based services and supports\" with the goal of the 50 percent reduction in the population in congregate settings.\nOnce again, that language is confusing in that group homes in Massachusetts and other states have long been recipients of federal funding under an HCBS waiver of Medicaid regulations governing ICFs. In asking for an expansion of Medicaid funding under the HCBS waiver, is the petition suggesting that the money go toward care in a setting other than group homes?\nACLU\/SEIU petition misreads the Olmstead Supreme Court decision\nThe ACLU\/SEIU petition further misreads the landmark Olmstead v. L.C. U.S. Supreme Court decision, which paved the way for expansion of privatized care. Although the 1999 decision held that community-based care should be made available for those who desire it, it nevertheless recognized the role played by institutional care for those who can't function under community-based care.\nThe Olmstead ruling stated that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) \"does not condone or require removing individuals from institutional settings when they are unable to benefit from, or do not desire, a community-based setting.\"\nWe have asked the SEIU's Massachusetts affiliate, Local 509, whether it is in support of the ACLU\/SEIU petition. We have not heard back yet, but we hope they are in a position to disavow it.\nThere is a lot to be concerned about regarding the efforts of both the federal government and the state government here in Massachusetts to protect persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the virus. We've raised a lot of those concerns over the past few months.\nAt the same time, and for that reason, we don't think it is appropriate for any organization to use the pandemic to support an anti-institutional agenda.\nCategories: Uncategorized Tags: community-based care, COVID-19, deinstitutionalization, developmental disabilities, privatization\ntmspell\nHi David I know I can sound like a broken record but we still need a writer to produce the response to the NDRN Segregated and Exploited and now this by the ACLU. That is the safest effort for now. We could put together an advance for Amy Lutz and figure out the ownership etc WE NEED a response to these idiots that carries some weight.\nPeace Tom Spellman 414 493 1341\nI've done some research on this. SEIU and ACLU have a well documented long term goal of expanding Home and Community Based services, and this is in line with that goal.\nThe focus on this specific petition is primarily on the crisis in nursing homes, where I assume you are aware, a disproportional number of deaths have been occuring due to Covid. \"Other congregate settings\" such as DD ICFs are implied in the filing, but the focus is on the crisis in nursing homes, so it's a stretch to say this is a call to reduce DD ICFs by 50%. I'd say you and AFSCME are being alarmist and disingenuous since there is zero action being taken in Massachusetts to accelerate moving people out of DD faciilities due to the Covid crisis. Is the position of COFAR that people should not be moved out of nursing homes even if it increases the change of dieing from COVID? I look forward to your response. \u2013 Cliff\nThis is in reply to the message above from Cliff, who is a member of SEIU Local 509 in Massachusetts.\nThe ACLU\/SEIU petition does call for a series of actions by the federal government that would ultimately dismantle all institutional and congregate care if carried out.\nSpecifically, you contend it is a \"stretch\" on our part to say the petition calls for reducing the ICFs by 50%.\nSection II of the petition includes a specific demand that the Department of Health and Human Services \"provide incentives to states\u2026with the goal of reducing the population of nursing homes and congregate settings by 50 percent.\" (my emphasis).\n\"Congregate settings\" are explicitly defined in the petition as including ICFs, psychiatric facilities, and group homes. So there is no escaping the plain language of the petition that the ACLU and SEIU are seeking a reduction of 50% of the population of the ICFs.\nAs far as our position regarding nursing homes is concerned, it sounds as though you didn't read our blog post, which starts by supporting the statement in the petition that the federal government has mismanaged response to the pandemic. We agree with the ACLU and SEIU that the government has failed to provide adequate guidance for infection control, adequate testing, and proper patient and worker protections in nursing homes and all other congregate settings.\nWe don't have a position on whether people should be moved out of nursing homes. But we do have a concern that the petition does not say where the residents of any of these facilities would go if they were moved out.\nAdministration keeping records hidden and declining comment on COVID-19 in DDS system Baker administration now relying on provider claims, not tests, to measure COVID-19 rate in DDS group home system","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The best and worst Tamil movies of 2022 so far: Vikram, Beast, Don, Valimai\nIn the first half of 2022, some of the biggest stars of Tamil cinema picked shallow movies that had little to offer to the audience.\nWritten by Manoj Kumar R\nUpdated: July 8, 2022 08:27 IST\nTamil film industry saw several hits and misses in the first half of 2022.\nIn the first half of 2022, some of the biggest stars of Tamil cinema let the audience down. The actors knew the crucial roles they played in reviving the box office business in the state, which had been grappling with uncertainty in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. And yet these stars picked shallow movies that had little to offer to the audience. Even in the middle of a pandemic and the rise of the streaming platforms challenging the supremacy of theatres, these stars remained defiant by refurbishing the formulas of the by-gone era. The choices they made suggest one of two things: either they don't understand the gravity of the situation that the business of cinema is in today or they simply continue to take the movie-going crowd for granted.\nAlso Read |The best and the worst Telugu films of 2022 so far: RRR, Major, Sarkaru Vaari Patta, Bheemla Nayak on the list\nThe bad ones\nVijay in Beast. (Photo: Sun TV\/YouTube)\nStarring Vijay in the lead role, Beast tells the story of a stoic protagonist, who accidentally gets sucked into a high-stake hostage situation. As the terrorists take control of a popular mall, Vijay's Veeraraghavan becomes the only hope for innocent people who are held at gunpoint. Beast could have been Tamil cinema's own Die Hard, only if director Nelson Nelson Dilipkumar had the strength to do what's necessary, instead of what's popular. Nelson solely relied on the stardom of Vijay to make up for the absence of creative will to do something original and memorable.\nValimai\nIn Valimai, Ajith Kumar plays the role of a smart cop who loves to pop a wheelie. The makers seemed to have desperately hoped and prayed that Ajith's motorbike riding skills would make up for the shortcomings in the movie like an acceptable story, interesting screenplay or good acting. This film was a pure shocker. It's not the first time Ajith has delivered a dull movie. But, Valimai is not the kind of movie we have come to expect from director H Vinoth, after movies like Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru. It felt like a betrayal.\nEtharkkum Thunindhavan\nSuriya in Etharkkum Thunindhavan.\nWritten and directed by Pandiraj, Etharkkum Thunindhavan is loosely based on the Pollachi sexual assault case. In the movie, several young women are subjected to sexual assault through the means of blackmail. And Pandiraj seemed to have given no deeper thought to the crime while fashioning a film about respecting women. After delivering terrific performances in movies like Soorarai Pottru and Jai Bhim, Suriya seemed to have been in some sort of compulsion to do something totally dull and mindless.\nStarring Vishnu Vishal in the lead role, FIR sheds light on the ills of islamophobia. While the Manu Anand directorial means well, the film flounders when it comes to a much deeper and comparative understanding of the subject it's dealing with. The film is sort of dishonest with what it wants to convey and resorts to stereotypes of differentiating good Muslims from bad Muslims.\nHey Sinamika\nThe romantic comedy marked the directorial debut of choreographer Brinda. Brinda seemed to have been under the assumption that as long as she could get a cast made up of gorgeous people and set her story against the backdrop of monsoon, she could pull off a passable romantic movie that would appeal to the young audience. Well, she was wrong. The good looks and charms of Dulquer Salmaan, Aditi Rao Hydari and Kajal Aggarwal failed to save this flimsy movie.\nMaaran\nMaaran tells the story of a firebrand journalist, who doesn't think twice before publishing what he thinks is the truth. Again, it is a by-product of a filmmaker, who hasn't done his homework on how the news publishing industry works. Talents like Dhanush, Malavika Mohanan, Samuthirakani and Ameer are totally wasted in this film.\nKaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal\nNayanthara, Vijay Sethupathi and Samantha Ruth Prabhu sin Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal.\nKaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal revolves around an average Joe, who has made peace with his misfortune. He has come to strongly believe that he's a bad omen, and he poses a certain danger to his loved ones. His fortunes change when he runs into two beautiful women, who are way out of his league. He gets greedy and wants to marry both of them. So it leads to the age-old drama of two women fighting for one man. Director Vignesh Shivan made this movie to appeal to the lowest common denominator.\nThe good ones\nA still from Vikram.\nDirector Lokesh Kanagaraj borrowed the character of Vikram from Kamal Haasan and reinvented it to suit the taste of the current generation of movie-going audience. Vikram is a fast-paced, fun, playful and very enjoyable popcorn entertainer. It is Kanagaraj's love letter to Haasan. But, at the same time, it is also a film that allows space for the supporting actors to shine.\nIn Mahaan, director Karthik Subbaraj did a swell job exploring the shrinking space for individualism and society's sinister ways of forcing a person into an ideological trap. Vikram is in-form as a man who wants to live on his own terms and pushes against the restrictions imposed by society at every turn. The film also provides ample opportunity for Vikram's son Dhruv Vikram to showcase his acting chops. But, his craft is yet to evolve like his father's to hold our attention through a range of emotions.\nKadaisi Vivasayi\nWith Kadaisi Vivasayi, M Manikandan delivered a nearly perfect piece of cinema. The movie follows the life of a farmer, who refuses to give up his piece of land for money. Because that farmland, even though it has stopped being his source of livelihood, gives him a reason to wake up every day in the morning. It gives him a purpose to stay alive and be active. Farmer Mayandi speaks only a few words but the way he lives his life speaks volumes about the collective moral and spiritual bankruptcy that we are facing today.\nSaani Kaayidham\nThis unapologetic revenge drama tells the story of two siblings going on a killing spree to avenge the injustice meted out to them. The caste violence and its dehumanising effects on innocent people are at the heart of this film. And director Arun Matheswaran tackles these issues in a style that feels like a cross between Vetrimaaran's rawness and Mari Selvaraj's poeticism.\nMaamanithan\nVijay Sethupathi seems to have a certain policy when it comes to picking movies. He's not trapped by an onscreen image that he wants to protect at the expense of good characters. He is an actor who does big-budget films like Vikram and Master and small-budget movies like Maamanithan. While the movies in the former category help him to maintain a healthy bank balance, the latter nourishes the artiste in him.\nDon is an absolute comfort film. It simply reproduced the familiar themes, humour, sentiments and message that have been deeply imprinted in our memories by all the movies that dealt with Indian parents' obsession with engineering. And yet, this film works.\nApple to add 'lockdown' mode on iPhones, iPads, Macs against spyware\nAjith KumarExpress PremiumKamal HaasanVijay","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Woodbury, Vermont\nMorse Farm Maple Sugarworks\nMontpelier, VT\nFree sugar house tours and tasting, multimedia displays in a real woodshed theater, a nature trail, country store, and an outdoor Vermont farm life museum make up the Morse Farm experience, and sprinkled throughout, are whimsical carved folklife characters created by Burr Morse. (Curated content from www.morsefarm.com)\nNorth Branch Vineyards\nFamily owned and operated, established in 2007, North Branch Vineyards is a small winery, which lies beside the North Branch River, a branch on the Winooski River in Montpelier's picturesque valley, producing unique wines using locally and regionally grown grapes. (Curated content from www.northbranchvineyards.com)\nBarre, VT\nFounded in 1924, the Country Club of Barre is considered one of the \"must play\" courses in central Vermont. Nestled in the rolling hills of Plainfield, Vermont, the Country Club of Barre offers a unique and rewarding golf experience. You will experience not only golf at its finest, but scenic views of the beautiful Vermont landscape. (Curated content from www.ccofbarre.com)\nMountain View Country Club\nGreensboro, VT\nGolf was first played in 1898 on a cow-pasture course laid out by club members. The trees have grown larger and the forests have tightened up the fairways, but little else has changed. Only minor rerouting has occurred. Though little actual evidence exists today, the cows remained active on the course until well into the 1960s. The hilly 9-hole course is a links style layout with a rating\/slope from the middle tees of 67.9\/112 for men and 71.5\/116 for women. From the Blue Tees the course measures 2927 yards. The par 35 layout was featured in Travel + Leisure Golf. (Curated content from mvccvt.com)\nBoulder Beach State Park\nGroton, VT\nThis state park gets its name for the many large rocks left by glaciers on the sandy beach of Lake Groton and throughout Groton State Forest. The park is located on the eastern shore of 423-acre Lake Groton. (Curated content from vtstateparks.com)\nElmore State Park\nElmore, VT\nThe Town of Lake Elmore calls itself \"The Beauty Spot of Vermont.\" Located in the southeastern part of Lamoille County, Elmore is mostly forested and agricultural land. Lake Elmore and Elmore Mountain, which rises almost from the lake's shore, are prominent features of the town. Lake Elmore is 219 acres, and lies northwest of the village and empties into the Lamoille River through Pond Brook. Elmore Mountain is in the \"Worcester Range\" and its timber is mostly hardwood. The mountain has an elevation of 2,608 feet. (Curated content from vtstateparks.com)\nRyder Brook Golf Club\nJohnson, VT\nEnjoy panoramic mountain views while you golf on this meticulously maintained 9-hole course situated between Mt. Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak, and the rolling Worcester range. Ryder Brook is peacefully removed from traffic and crowds, yet still within easy reach of Stowe's famous skiing, restaurants, shops, and entertainment. (Curated content from www.ryderbrookgc.com)\nNoyes House Museum\nHyde Park, VT\nLocated in the historic village of Morrisville, the Noyes House Museum presents within its seventeen rooms and barn exhibits focusing on nineteenth-century life in Morristown, Vermont. The museum's collection includes furniture, textiles, military objects, clothing, photographs, pottery, folk and fine art, and many of the tools and objects of daily life. (Curated content from www.noyeshousemuseum.org)\nVermont Historical Society Museum\nLearn about Vermont's exciting past in our museum, heritage exhibits, and library! Or make new discoveries for your research project, family or community history with our programs, educational offerings, and books. (Curated content from vermonthistory.org)\nVermont Ski and Snowboard Museum\nStowe, VT\nSince 1988, the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum has been dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the rich history of skiing and riding in Vermont. (Curated content from www.vtssm.org)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Trump lays out plan for first 100 days in 'Gettysburg Address'\n22 October 2016 | 6:00 pm\nDonald Trump on Saturday unveiled plans for the first 100 days of his presidency, vowing to create 25 million jobs over a decade and middle class tax cuts, as he and Hillary Clinton courted undecided swing state voters.\nGETTYSBURG, PA \u2013 OCTOBER 22: Republican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump holds an event at the Eisenhower Hotel and Conference Center October 22, 2016 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Trump delivered a policy speech announcing his plans for his first 100 days in office. Mark Makela\/Getty Images\/AFP<br \/>Mark Makela \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ AFP\nWhile offering a number of concrete policy initiatives, the Republican billionaire also attacked his critics, threatening to sue the \"liars\" who have accused him of sexual assault, and saying Clinton should have been barred from running.\nTrump's campaign team cast his 45-minute speech in Gettysburg \u2014 where Abraham Lincoln delivered his key Civil War address to try to unite the nation \u2014 as his \"closing arguments\" with 17 days to go before Election Day.\nHis appearance in Pennsylvania \u2014 a key swing state in the November 8 battle for the White House where his Democratic rival was due to stage rallies later in the day \u2014 came at the start of a weekend battleground campaign blitz.\nClinton, the 68-year-old former secretary of state, is leading in the national polls by an average of more than 5.3 percentage points in a two- or four-way contest, according to RealClearPolitics.\n\"Change has to come from outside our very broken system,\" Trump told a room of several hundred supporters, saying the nation needed to look to Lincoln's example to heal sharp divisions.\n\"Our campaign represents the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime.\"\nThe 70-year-old Manhattan real estate mogul then listed a number of measures he would undertake in the first 100 days of his administration, delivering prepared remarks rather than using his trademark off-the-cuff style.\n\"We now find ourselves at that very special fork in the road. Do we repeat the mistakes of the past or do we choose to believe that a great future, yet unwritten lies ahead for us and for our wonderful, beloved country?\" he asked.\n\"I think it does. I know it does.\"\nTrump pledged to deliver \"at least 25 million jobs in one decade,\" tame illegal immigration, impose Congressional term limits, renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement \u2014 and repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care reform.\n\"Hillary Clinton is not running against me, she's running against change,\" he said.\n\u2013 'Liars' \u2013\nTrump has seen his campaign spiral downwards in recent weeks, after a number of women made allegations that he sexually assaulted them \u2014 claims he again insisted Saturday were false.\n\"The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over,\" he said to cheers.\nThose allegations came on the heels of the release of a 2005 video, in which Trump is heard making lewd comments about women to a television talk show host and saying his fame entitles him to grope women.\nHe also revisited his claims of vote \"rigging\" \u2014 comments that have outraged even fellow Republicans and drawn scorn from President Barack Obama for breaking with political decorum \u2014 and blamed the media for his dip in the polls.\nClinton on Friday excoriated Trump as a threat to American democracy for not pledging to honor the results of the election.\n\"We know the difference between leadership and dictatorship, and the peaceful transition of power is one of the things that sets us apart,\" Clinton told a rally in Cleveland, Ohio, another key swing state up for grabs.\n\"Donald Trump refused to say that he'd respect the results of this election. By doing that, he's threatening our democracy.\"\nDespite isolated allegations of voter fraud, controversy over the tight 2000 vote and rampant gerrymandering, US elections have been regarded as free and fair.\n\u2013 Clinton in Pennsylvania \u2013\nInvigorated by both her commanding poll numbers and Trump's eyebrow-raising declarations, the candidate vying to become America's first female president was set for two campaign stops in Pennsylvania on Saturday.\nClinton holds leads in several battleground states, ranging from razor-thin, such as in North Carolina, to moderate in Florida and Pennsylvania and commanding in Virginia.\nTrump, well aware that no Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio, campaigned in the Buckeye State Thursday and was due there later Saturday for a rally with running mate Mike Pence.\nIf Trump loses Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Clinton is all but assured of victory, experts have said.\nOn Friday, Trump said he would give the campaign everything he had, \"right up until the actual vote\" \u2014 but also offered a rare acknowledgement that he might lose.\n\"Win, lose or draw\u2026 I will be happy with myself,\" he said in North Carolina.\nIn Christmas greeting, Biden commends Americans' Covid resilience\nUS President Joe Biden on Saturday commended Americans for their strength and resilience in the face of the raging Covid-19 pandemic,\nTrumpism without Trump: the Republican playbook for 2022?\nAs US Republicans cheered impressive gains in state elections in the fall, their leader may not have been so delighted\nSouth Africa mourns anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu\nSouth Africa on Monday began a week of mourning for the revered anti-apartheid fighter Archbishop Desmond Tutu...\nIran seeks assurances as nuclear talks resume\nIran said nuclear talks that are set to resume Monday in Vienna should focus on lifting sanctions on the Islamic republic and \"guarantees\"\nWorld mourns anti-apartheid icon Tutu, 'warrior for justice'\nSouth Africa on Monday began a week of mourning for revered anti-apartheid fighter Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n20 years on, dreams of euro rivalling dollar persist\nWhen 12 countries adopted the euro two decades ago, French president Jacques Chirac hailed a Europe that was \"affirming its identity and its power\".","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Animated Riley Reid Balls Deep Throatpie Gifs\nDecember 17, 2022 by selectografix.com\nRiley Reid \u2013 Actress, Singer, Dancer, and Model\nRiley Reid is an award-winning adult film actress. She has appeared in numerous X-rated feature films and has over 45 awards to her name. Her most recent wins include the XBIZ Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2014, and the AVN Award for Best Pornstar of the Year in 2016. She is also set to be inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2021.\nRiley Reid is an award-winning adult film actress\nRiley Reid is an award-winning adult film actor who has been in the business for nearly two decades. She is originally from Miami Beach, Florida, but has lived in many other places, including Tampa, Carol City, and Fort Lauderdale. She studied at Florida International University and majored in psychology. She originally wanted to become a teacher, but instead chose to pursue her passion for adult films.\nRiley Reid rose to the top in the adult film industry and won several awards for her work. She was awarded the XBIZ Award as Female Performer and the AVN Award as \"Female Performer\" in 2014. In 2016, she was nominated for the AVN Award for \"Best Social Media Star.\" Riley also earned the AVN Award for Best New Starlet, as well as several other awards.\nShe has appeared in many X-rated feature videos\nRiley Reid is an actor, singer, dancer and model with a wide range of experience. She was born in Miami Beach, Florida and has a large family with Dominican, Puerto Rican and Irish heritage. Since 2011, Reid has performed in explicit hardcore movies. She has worked with companies like Evil Angel, Mile High and Smash Pictures.\nThis teen actress is known for her roles in adult films. Her performances have won her numerous awards. She was awarded the Best Female Performer in Three-Way Sex Scene 2016 and Female Performer Of The Year 2016. She also won numerous XBIZ Awards and was named Best New Starlet.\nPavel Petkuns is her husband\nPavel Petkun is Riley Reid's husband. He is an athlete and Lativian-free runner. They were engaged in July 2021 and were married in July 2021. Reid is an Instagram sensation with over 44,000 followers and a high-profiting OnlyFans account. Her net worth is estimated at $12 million. The couple plans to have a daughter together.\nThey met in 2000 and dated for many years before they got married. Reid was pregnant during this period and shared the news on THE SH*TSHOW. Reid recorded an interview and uploaded a clip to YouTube. Within four months, the video has received over 10,000 views.\nShe has tattoos on her body\nRiley Reid is a popular young actor. She has tattoos all over her body. Her body is adorned with Yin Yang symbols, which symbolize dualism and peace. It is not clear if the tattoos are permanent. She has blonde hair and green eyes.\nDespite this, Riley Reid has not halted her pornography career. She continues to appear in pornography and has a large fan following on her social networking accounts. She has 1.6 million followers on Twitter and 2.2 million subscribers on Instagram. This is enough proof that Riley Reid is far from a flash in the pan!\nRiley Reid isn't the only porn star with body art. The diverse collection of female performers featured in AVN's September body art cover story. This porn star sports a tattoo on her chest that is written in Chinese. Many people are curious what this means. While most tattoos are sweet expressions or other sayings, this tattoo is an entire sentence.\nShe is afraid that cyberbullying could lead to bullying her children.\nRiley Reid, a mother of three, fears that cyberbullying will cause her children to be victims of bullying. Cyberbullying can have long-lasting effects and can cause victims to feel low self-esteem, poor academic performance, and disrupt their social interactions. Victims are also at higher risk for developing mental disorders.\nResearch has shown that bullying can be linked to depression and suicide in teenagers. Yale University's study found that bullying affected children were more likely than those who did not. Furthermore, one study found that nearly 30 percent of students were bullies. It is estimated that around 160,000 kids stay home from school daily because they fear being bullied.\nRiley Reid Pregnancy Photos\nFree Riley Reid Snaps","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Great QE2 Flush Out\nJune 10, 2011 6:13am by\nWe've updated our Treasury flow charts with new data from today's release of the Federal Reserve's Flow of Funds Accounts. The quarterly data are seasonally adjusted and annualized. They reveal quite an interesting picture.\nIn Q1 2011, the Fed's QE2 purchases of Treasuries totaled $1.3 TN on a seasonally adjusted annual basis. This number far exceeds the QE2 total program and is one of the reasons why we tend to discount government statistics which have been seasonally adjusted, annualized, and sliced and diced eight ways to Sunday. It's all we have to work with, however.\nRather than obsessing over absolute numbers, we focus on the relative movements and flows which are quite revealing. The Fed's QE2 program has been quite successful in flushing households and nonprofits out of their Treasury holdings into asset classes such as mutual funds (see table F.100).\nIt's also interesting that foreign flows into Treasuries has declined significantly since the start of QE2 and as a proportional source of financing for the U.S. budget deficit is at one of the lowest levels in years. Though the Fed will continue buying Treasuries with the proceeds from maturing securities \u2014 which we estimate to be around $230.4 BN from July1, 2011 to December 2012 \u2014 the end of QE2 will be a big test for the markets.\nUnless credit markets begin to recover in a significant way, the source of new liquidity to drive major markets is in question, in our opinion. Flows into one market \u2014 whether it be equities, bonds, commodities, or foreign assets \u2014 will likely be at the expense at another and follow a zero-sum game.\nThe trick now for traders and investors will be to try and get ahead of the reallocation and determine which market gets sold and which receive the proceeds. Our best guess (and that's all it is) is the first post QE2 trade will be commodities and Treasuries get sold and high quality\/strong balance sheet corporate equities and bonds are bought. It's about to get very interesting. Stay tuned.\nclick for larger charts\nMarch 24, 2007 Saturday Afternoon Funnies\nApril 7, 2006 Some recent trades\nMay 11, 2012 UoM confidence up, lower gasoline prices likely helped\nThe Handling of the Economic Crisis May Lead to Civil Unrest\nGoogle Home Page Les Paul Tribute","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roundup 7 January 2022\nWelcome to this week's Technical Roundup.\nIn developments in recent weeks, IAASA has issued new standards on quality management, the IAASB is consulting on a new auditing standard for Less Complex Entities and the prescribed forms and notices under the Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Act 2021 legislation are now available.\nRead more on these and other developments that may be of interest to members below.\nIAASA has decided to revoke the recognition of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland ('ICAS') granted under S.930 of the Act with effect from 22 December 2021.\nFollowing public consultation, IAASA has issued the following standards:\nInternational Standard on Quality Management ('ISQM') (Ireland) 1, Quality Management for Firms that Perform Audits or Reviews of Financial Statements, or Other Assurance or Related Services Engagements;\nInternational Standard on Quality Management (Ireland) 2, Engagement Quality Reviews; and\nInternational Standard on Auditing ('ISA') (Ireland) 220 (Revised December 2021), Quality Management for an Audit of Financial Statements.\nThey will replace International Standard on Quality Control (Ireland) 1 (Revised November 2020) and ISA (Ireland) 220 (Revised November 2020).\nThe IFAC-IAASB less complex entities survey\u2014part of the IAASB's consultation on audits of financial statements of less complex entities\u2014is open until January 14. While the IAASB encourages all interested stakeholders to respond to the consultation in writing, the survey provides a way to participate and provide feedback that is less time and resource intensive.\nThe European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) is seeking comments on its draft endorsement advice letter on the initial application of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9 \u2013 Comparative information (Amendment to IFRS 17). Comments are requested by 19 January 2022.\nEFRAG has also published its December 2021 update.\nIn its recent publication, Accountancy Europe has highlighted the work carried out on SME related guidance material in 2020 and 2021.\nWe recently reported on the Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Act 2021 which commenced on 7 December 2021.The prescribed forms and notices under the legislation, for example, the company statement of affairs and notice of appointment of process adviser can now be found in S.I. No. 675 of 2021.\nAnti-Money laundering \/Fraud\/Cybersecurity\nThe European Banking Authority recently issued its latest EBA AML\/CFT Newsletter. It gives details of matters it has dealt with in 2021 in the AML\/CTF area. For example, draft Regulatory Technical Standards on an AML\/CFT database which will act as an early warning tool, helping competent authorities to take action before ML\/TF risk materialise. Another example is Guidelines on cooperation and information exchange between prudential supervisors, AML\/CFT supervisors and financial intelligence units which were published in December 2021. Details and links are contained in the newsletter.\nOn 22 December 2021, the European Commission presented a key initiative to fight against the misuse of shell entities for improper tax purposes.\nEuropol recently published on its website its six key highlights of 2021: a year in review. It includes its Flagship report: Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment 2021 which contains a detailed analysis of the threat of serious and organised crime facing the EU.\nHMRC reported recently that since the department's Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) was launched in April 2016 it has taken back \u00a31 billion from offenders from the proceeds of crime. Details of the story and some of the bigger and varied seizures and confiscations can be read here.\nThe HMRC Trust Registration Service Manual which was issued in May 2021 has been updated several times .The latest update was in December 2021 when some updates were made in respect of insurance policies.\nThe Irish Charities Regulator has issued its year end e zine which will be of interest to members dealing with the charity sector .It contains a round up of interesting information from throughout the year including a note which sets out a number of changes and additions to the Annual Report Form which will take effect from January 2022 and reminding users of new FAQs on the website on how to file a charitable bequest form and what to do if a new charitable organisation or trust is established in a will.\nThe UK FCA has published two Policy Statements confirming final rules and guidance to promote better climate-related financial disclosures. They concern issuers of standard listed shares and Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) and asset managers, life insurers and FCA-regulated pension providers The rules will come into effect from 1 January 2022 and you can read more from the FCA and the policy statements here.\nThe European Parliament President, the Slovenian Prime Minister on behalf of the Presidency of the Council, and Commission President recently signed a joint declaration agreeing priorities for 2022 for a resilient and reinvigorated EU including a more sustainable, more digital Europe. Follow the link to read the press release, joint declaration and working document on EU legislative priorities.\nThe Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment recently published an Information Handbook for employees facing collective redundancy. The booklet gives general advice in relation to an employee's legal rights in a redundancy situation and there is a particular focus on the rights of those employees facing a collective redundancy. Separately, information is also included for employees whose positions are no longer available because the business is insolvent.\nA recent case taken by the Pensions Authority underlines the importance of employers remitting pension contributions within the statutory timeframe. The case resulted in the criminal conviction of a company and its director .You can read more about the case here.\nThe EDPS has recently issued its last newsletter of 2021. In it you can follow the link to read the EPDS Opinion on data risks where European institutions, bodies and agencies (EUIs) are carrying out recruitment and selection procedures - including written and practical tests - remotely. You can also read about data protection issues and challenges of card-based payments in the EPDS Tech dispatch published in December 2021.\nA reminder that the National Minimum Wage rate will increase from \u20ac10.20 to \u20ac10.50 per hour from 1 January 2022.You can read more information on the changes here .\nThe Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) recently published its Regulatory Strategy for 2022-2027. The strategy sets out an ambitious vision for the next five years in the evolution of data protection law, regulation and culture. The DPC acknowledges the breadth of its regulatory remit cutting across all areas of personal and public life; both at national and international level.\nThe DPC has recently invited people to register their interest in upcoming SME Workshops. Email DPONetwork@dataprotection.ie, subject line 'SME Workshops', giving your name & business\/sector for further information on available dates. The workshops will be online and free of charge.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PREVIEW: First Look at 'Ballers', New HBO Series starring Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson\nMay 28, 2015 By Funmbi Leave a Comment\nDwayne Johnson returns to the small screen in the upcoming HBO original TV series Ballers as retired football superstar Spencer Strasmore. Ballers premieres Sunday, June 21 at 10:00pm ET|PT.\nSeriously, what can't The Rock do?! After blockbuster films like the Fast and Furious franchise, San Andreas, and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Dwayne Johnson is one of Hollywood's go-to action heroes.\nWell, this summer he's bringing his skills to the small screen in the upcoming HBO original series Ballers:\nCreated by Stephen Levinson (Entourage, Boardwalk Empire) and executive produced by Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Peter Berg, Evan Reilly, Rob Weiss, Julian Farino, and Denis Biggs, BALLERS explores the whirlwind lifestyle and real-life problems of a group of former and current football players.\nBALLERS stars Dwayne Johnson as Spencer Strasmore, John David Washington as Ricky Jerret, Omar Miller as Charles Greane, and Donovan Carter as Vernon Littlefield.\nThe show kicks off its ten-episode season on Sunday, June 21 (10:00pm ET|PT), exclusively on HBO. Take a look at the official trailer below:\n\"Legends don't retire. They reinvent.\" WOW\u2026that trailer is the full embodiment of BALLIN'\u2026the cars, real estate, parties! But it won't be all fun and games; you can tell there will be an element of drama. Perhaps the reinvention process isn't as straightforward as one might hope. Also, I love seeing Arielle Kebbel (Lexi on The Vampire Diaries, one of my fave characters in the entire series.\nTake a look at the synopses for the first two episodes and make sure to tune in to HBO on June 21 for the series premiere of Ballers!\nEpisode #1: \"Pilot\"\nDebut date: SUNDAY, JUNE 21 (10:00-10:30pm ET|PT)\nAfter the unexpected demise of a friend and former teammate, retired football superstar Spencer ramps up his efforts to build a post-football career in Miami, and feels pressure from Joe (Rob Corddry), his boss at a financial firm, to \"monetize his friendships.\" Meanwhile, recently retired player Charles, copes with the realities of finding a new job. Talented wide receiver Ricky is forced to put his pride aside to find a new home. Vernon, a player on the rise, finds himself in a tight spot and reaches out to Spencer for help.\nEpisode #2: \"Raise Up\"\nA cash-strapped Spencer struggles to close a deal when Vernon's best friend, Reggie (London Brown), refuses to step aside, while Jason (Troy Garity) works hard to renegotiate for his client. On his first day of workouts, Ricky finds that not all his new teammates are friendly. At his new job, Charles finds it hard to keep his mind off the game. At a brunch to talk business, Spencer counsels Vernon to learn from his mistakes.\nSOURCE: Ballers HBO\nConnect with Ballers Online:\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/BallersHBO\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BallersHBO\nhttp:\/\/www.hbo.com\/ballers\nFiled Under: News, TV Tagged With: Arielle Kebbel, Ballers, Charles Greane, Dany Garcia, Denis Biggs, Donovan Carter, Dwayne Johnson, Evan Reilly, HBO, John David Washington, Julian Farino, Mark Wahlberg, official poster, official trailer, Omar Miller, Peter Berg, Ricky Jerret, Rob Weiss, Spencer Strasmore, Stephen Levinson, The Rock, TV season premiere, TV series premiere, Vernon Littlefield, video","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Quebec's underground cannabis market isn't all 'bikers and Mafia,' grower says\nObservers are watching closely to see how legalization affects the province's well-established black market, from street dealers peddling dime bags outside Metro stations to the high-end growers who deliver a range of strains directly to your door.\n'Luke,' who maintains a grow-op in Montreal, says there's a 'mom and pop' element to the scene\nBenjamin Shingler \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Oct 15, 2018 5:00 PM ET | Last Updated: October 16, 2018\nThere are scores of small-time cannabis grow-ops like this one in Montreal whose products will remain illegal after marijuana becomes legal on Oct. 17. (Submitted )\nInside a loft not far from downtown Montreal, silver ventilation tubes snake across the ceiling of a long, narrow room where blooming cannabis plants reach for powerful lights.\n\"Luke,\" an experienced grower, has a valid medical licence to treat an existing condition. But he also sells illegally to a half-dozen clients, many of whom he says rely on the drug to treat conditions of their own.\nHe estimates there are more than 100 small operations like his own, hidden in plain sight in businesses and homes around the city.\n\"There's a big conception that it's all bikers and Mafia,\" Luke said of the city's illegal cannabis market.\n\"There's a 'mom and pop' element to it, as well.\"\nCBC News has agreed not to identify Luke by his real name because he fears legal repercussions.\nAlthough cannabis will be legal and available for purchase across Canada as of Wednesday, Luke \u2014 like many who grow and sell cannabis outside the legal framework \u2014 has no plans to stop growing and selling his own product.\nWhat you need to know about legalized cannabis in Quebec\nLuke is passionate about the plant's medicinal applications and believes the quality of his own offerings far exceeds that of what will be sold through the province's government-run Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise du cannabis (SQDC).\nHe wants to expand his reach and hopes, ultimately, to be able to do that legally.\n\"We're not trying to get rich,\" he says.\n\"I think a lot of people think they have been let down by the established medical system.\"\nAs it stands now, however, Luke will remain a black-market supplier. The federal legislation, he says, is \"heavy handed and dismissive of the community that brought cannabis to the place it is today.\"\nWill legalization stamp out black market?\nObservers are watching closely to see how legalization affects the province's well-established black market, from street dealers peddling dime bags outside Metro stations to the high-end growers who deliver a range of strains directly to their customers' door.\nUnder legalization, some activities that fall outside the legal framework will remain subject to criminal or penal offences, such as production, possession for the purpose of trafficking, selling on the black market, as well as importing and exporting cannabis.\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau has argued against the incoming Quebec government's plan to raise the legal age for smoking cannabis from 18 to 21, suggesting organized crime will step in to fill a void.\nTrudeau says Quebec plan to make cannabis legal at 21 leaves opening for organized crime\nIt's difficult to say, however, to what extent organized crime is behind the production and sale of illegal marijuana.\nAs recently as last year, Quebec was the second-largest producer of cannabis in the country, after British Columbia.\nJust how big is that? Statistics Canada estimated that, in 2014, Quebec's cannabis industry was slightly larger than Quebec's forestry and logging industry.\nThe Hells Angels, however, has moved on to harder drugs, such as cocaine and opiates, ceding the production and export of cannabis to Asian street gangs, police sources told Radio-Canada.\nAt the same time, the emergence of hydroponics and other technologies has made it easier for regular folks to grow cannabis indoors on a smaller scale.\nPhilippe Paul, a retired Montreal police officer, is skeptical that legalization and what advocates call the \"democratization\" of cannabis production will stamp out the presence of organized crime altogether.\n\"Organized crime will always find a way to make money with it,\" he said.\n\"It's very simple: they can play with prices. They can play with quality. They can play with ease of distribution.\"\n(Roberto Rocha\/CBC)\nOpportunity for 'micro growers'\nLawyer Alan Young, a veteran marijuana legalization proponent and professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School, believes that the legal framework is \"overly restrictive\" but will likely \"evolve and change.\"\n\"It will be an up-and-down battle for years between what the government calls the black market and the regulated market,\" said Young, who has represented a number of cannabis growers.\nAlan Young, a professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School and longtime proponent of legalized marijuana, says the legal framework is 'overly restrictive' but will likely evolve over time. (Lisa Xing\/CBC)\nYoung said he's encouraged that Ottawa recently announced a plan to open up production to \"micro growers.\"\nIn the meantime, the people who have been using cannabis for a decade or more are unlikely to end their relationship with their dealer any time soon.\nHe said the price and quality of the government's products will need to improve substantially for the government-run suppliers to compete with the black market.\nMontreal says cannabis can be smoked wherever cigarettes are allowed\nYoung drivers who use cannabis at higher risk of collisions for at least 5 hours, McGill finds\nHowever, the Quebec provincial police is not throwing in the towel and accepting a continued role for black market pot. In a recent news release, the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec said it would continue \"its fight against the illegal production and sale of cannabis.\"\nLast month, it announced the formation of a new unit to fight illegal cannabis, modelled on programs that already exist to combat alcohol smuggling and illegal tobacco products.\nThe unit will include 54 new members from provincial and municipal forces across the province who will combat illegal production of cannabis \u2014 including online smuggling.\nThe SQ offered a glimpse of its new approach last week, when it raided eight unauthorized cannabis dispensaries around the province.\nDo you have questions about how cannabis legislation is going to work in Quebec? The CBC's Benjamin Shingler has the answers. Join us live on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 12 p.m. on the CBC Montreal Facebook page for our Q&A on cannabis.\nBenjamin Shingler\nBenjamin Shingler is a journalist with CBC Montreal. Follow him on Twitter @benshingler.\nCannabis in Canada: Everything you need to know about pot legalization\nKanien'keh\u00e1:ka chiefs fear cannabis will lead to tobacco's lingering problems\n'Money drove the policy': How dreams of dividends got Canada to legal pot\nHow will Canadians buy pot? It depends where they live","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"by Mike Husleag , on February 1, 2006, 09:59\nby Alina Moore, on November 30, 2005, 17:01\nBack to Volvo\nVolvo S80 Generations:\n2006 Volvo S80 2005 Volvo S80\n232@6300\nby Mike Husleag , on Posted on February 1, 2006, 09:59\nVolvo is now unveiling the first pictures of the all new Volvo S80. The S80 makes its entry onto the market with a dynamic design language, firm focus on premium comfort, smooth driving properties and world-class safety.\nRead the full 2006 Volvo S80 review\n2006 Volvo S80 photos (10) \/ videos (4)\nLatest Volvo S80 news and reviews:\nVolvo's New Era will Include New Names for all Models\nSeptember 5, 2014 17:00 by Ciprian Florea\nThe second-generation Volvo XC90 came with a bang in August 2014. Redesigned from the ground up, the SUV ditched the first-gen's dated image for a stunning, new exterior looks and an ultra-luxurious interior that are about to spread across the company's entire lineup. And it seems a few Volvo products will shift to brand-new nameplates in the process, if we are to believe a report coming from Dutch paper De Telegraaf.\nSpecifically, Volvo is has decided that the next-generation S80 sedan, V70 wagon and XC70 crossover need not just makeovers, but new names too. And all three will be launched within the 90-Series family. The range-topping sedan will switch to S90, the station wagon will become the V90, while the XC70 will be renamed V90 Cross Country. The motivation behind this decision is that all three vehicles will grow bigger and include even more luxury amenities, De Telegraaf adds.\nAlso in the mix, per reports, is an entry-level 40-Series lineup and a mid-range 60-Series line. Within these series will be S sedans, V wagons and XC SUVs. There is also the chance for slightly heavier-duty Cross Country versions of the V40 and V60 wagons.\nThere's no official information when these new vehicles will arrive, but rumor has it the S90 is scheduled to debut in late 2015. The sedan will reportedly be followed by a coupe version and long-wheelbase S90 L for the Chinese market. Volvo will launch new-generation models of its entire lineup by 2017.\nClick past the jump to read more about the Volvo XC90\n2015 Volvo XC60 and S80 Inscription Package\nMarch 31, 2014 16:00 by Ciprian Florea\nWhen talking about Volvo, safety is the first thing that comes to mind. The Swedes have been one step ahead, as far as safety is concerned, for decades now. But Volvo is more than that. Although it lags behind the German premium automakers like Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi in terms of sales, the Chinese-owned brand's lineup is as luxurious as it gets.\nWith the U.S. having remained Volvo's largest market in 2013, the automaker is bound to look toward improving its position in North America. Its first steps were the 2015 V60 station wagon and the introduction of the new Drive-E engine family, but now the Swedes have announced that the S80 sedan and XC60 crossover will receive an even more luxurious package for the 2015 model year.\nDubbed Inscription, the new range-topping trim level take the aforementioned vehicles up a notch by wrapping the interior in Sovereign Hide soft leather upholstery and adding a few more premium features inside and out. The exterior options, for instance, will include three extra body colors (White Pearl, Electric Silver and Ember Black) and 19-inch wheels for the S80 and 20-inch rollers for the XC60, both with a ten-spoke design.\nClick past the jump to read more about the Volvo XC60 & S80 Inscription Package.\nAugust 2, 2013 15:00 by Kirby Garlitos\nVolvo is one of those automakers that rarely makes a splash in the auto scene. Unless it comes out with a concept - a feat in itself - it's usually content with just sitting out of the spotlight and producing cars that are known for their fuel efficiency and safety.\nThat being said, we still have to give due attention to the automaker, especially when it decided to roll out a bevy of new models for nearly its entire product line.\nOne of these models is the new S80, the Swedish automaker's luxury sedan. Previous versions didn't really inspire a whole lot of interest from the market, but that doesn't mean that the new S80 doesn't come with some interesting new features about it that could make it a safe choice for a luxury model.\nWe certainly see some merits on the new S80. Sure, there are some things we don't like about it too, but with a brand like Volvo, the case is always the customer taking what he can get.\nUpdated 08\/02\/2013: Volvo announced today that the 2014 S80 luxury sedan starts at $39,900. Click past the jump to see all of the pricing details.\nFind out more about the 2013 Volvo S80 after the jump\nVolvo putting V70 and V8 Sedans on the chopping block\nMarch 25, 2010 15:44 by Alexander\nVolvo seems to be trimming the fat in regards to their product lineup. A leaked Volvo product update shows the elimination of some models while others receive modifications that Volvo hopes will fill the void. The first model to go was the S80 V8 whose orders have already ceased. The S80 V6 will be supercharged to 300hp and 325lb-ft of torque to make up for the disappearing act of the V8.\nIn addition, Volvo will be dropping the 168hp and 170lb-ft 2.4i engine that was offered in the S40 and V50 and only offering the models in the higher powered T5 engine with a 227hp and 236 lb-ft engine. The models will still maintain the combined fuel economy rating of 24mpg. The T5 will also only be available in FWD with an automatic transmission powertrain.\nThe biggest change happening at Volvo is the elimination of the V70. The launch of the 2011 models will bring an updated model of the XC70 who has outsold the V70 every year since 2000. The XC70 will now include a FWD model eliminating the key reason consumers chose the V70 over the XC70.\nFinal production for the eliminated models will be on May 14, 2010 with a projected sales rundown at the end of the 3rd quarter.\nAs we close yet another chapter in car history, we must wonder where the original, reliable wagons of yesteryear have gone. Volvo seemed to have the market cornered in the wagon department and, with a foul societal swoop, has decided to join the ranks of the high-powered SUVs. Is this a decision that will make the Volvo rise in status or break the spirit that once was? You decide.\nFollow the jump to see the leaked Volvo product update.\n2010 Volvo V70 and S80 DRIVe\nFebruary 2, 2010 14:00 by Alina Moore\nVolvo has added today a new diesel version for the V70 and S80. The new DRIVe models have a fuel consumption of just 4.5 l\/100 km and a CO2 emissions below 120 g\/km.\nThe new models are equipped with a 1.6-liter diesel engine that deliver a total of 109 hp and maximum torque is 240 Nm mated to a manual gearbox.\nPress release after the jump.\nFebruary 26, 2009 09:22 by Alina Moore\nVolvo will unveil at the Geneva Motor Show the refreshed S80. Sales will begin in spring 2009.\nThe S80 will be powered by an entirely new twin-turbo five-cylinder 2.4-litre turbodiesel. The new D5 engine offers 205 hp, 420 Nm of torque over a very wide range of engine revs. Fuel consumption (EU combined) is only 6.2 l\/100 km (164g\/km) - a record-low figure for a car of this size and performance level. This state-of-the-art engine delivers all the fun without the headache.\nThe refreshed S80 is also available with an upgraded Euro 4-compliant 2.4-litre diesel engine with 175 hp, 420 Nm of torque, fuel consumption (EU Combined) at 5.8 l\/100 km and CO2 emissions of 154 g\/km (preliminary figures).\n2009 Volvo S80L\nNovember 10, 2008 18:05 by Alina Moore\nVolvo presented in China the S80L, the long wheelbase version of the popular S80 sedan. The S80L has been specially designed and will be locally produced in China.\nThe S80L is specially designed for Chinese consumers, with larger and more comfortable rear seat space. In addition, the S80L boasts top-level features and equipment. Volvo's world-leading innovative technology, guarantees premium appointments, a comfortable driving experience and unsurpassed safety. The S80L targets successful mature achievers who have a strong sense of responsibility for their families and the society.\nThe S80L shares all the features and qualities of the S80 sedan and it exceeds its sibling by being 14 cm longer and all this extra length appears in the rear seat creating an outstanding comfort for the passengers. The popularity of the S80 sedan has set a solid foundation for the introduction of the S80L in China. Volvo believe S80L's world leading safety technology, premium quality, and luxurious design will give it powerful market competitiveness and win the S80L a significant share of the luxury car segment in China.\nFlexifuel engine for Volvo V70 and S80\nMay 13, 2008 11:35 by Alina Moore\nThe Volvo V70 andS80 are now also available with a five-cylinder, 2.5-litre turbocharged Flexifuel engine with a power output of 200 hp and 300 Nm of torque.\nFuel consumption (EU combined) for the new 2.5-litre Flexifuel version is 9.2 l\/100 km (V70 and S80) with the manual gearbox and 10.2 l\/100 km (V70) and 10.1 l\/100 km (S80) with the automatic gearbox.\nThe Flexifuel cars can run on E85 bioethanol or 95-octane unleaded petrol - or any mix of these two fuels. Due to its lower energy content, fuel consumption when running on E85 is 30-40 percent higher than when running on petrol. The exact difference depends on variables such as driving style, exterior temperature and variations in the fuel specification.\nThe Flexifuel variants of the Volvo S40, V50 and C30 have a four-cylinder 1.8-litre naturally aspirated engine, the 1.8F, which produces 125 hp (92 kW) and 165 Nm of torque.\nAll engines and other relevant components have been adapted for driving on E85 through a number of modifications.\n2009 Volvo S80 and XC90 Executive Edition\nApril 10, 2008 09:48 by Alina Moore\nVolvo's most exclusive cars guarantee discreet Scandinavian luxury designed to appeal to all one's senses. For model year 2009 the aura is reinforced still further through a unique combination of massage and ventilation functions in the front seats along with a range of enhanced materials and trim details.\nThe engine alternatives in the Volvo S80 and XC90 Executive encompass a wide range of powerful and energy-efficient power-plants that provide a high-class driving experience. There is a powerful V8 engine, the swift T6 turbo and Volvo's high-efficiency in-line six-cylinder petrol engine with a displacement of 3.2 litres. There is also the very latest generation of D5 diesel engines offering a superb alternative for customers looking for diesel power under the bonnet.\nWhat is more, model year 2009 of the Volvo S80 Executive is now also available with Volvo's new 2.5-litre turbocharged Flexifuel engine that can run on either bioethanol or petrol or any combination of the two. All the engines are extremely compact and are installed transversely for optimum safety and maximum passenger space. All the engines are mated to a six-speed automatic transmission engineered to handle the massive power available in these cars. The Volvo S80 Executive is also available with Volvo's AWD (All-Wheel Drive) featuring Instant Traction for extra comfort, driving pleasure and safety. The Volvo XC90 Executive features four-wheel drive as standard.\n2008 Volvo XC70 and S80 Winter Edition\nJanuary 22, 2008 14:53 by Alina Moore\nVolvo's Scandinavian heritage and industry-leading test framework create the foundations for the world's safest winter properties. Customers should be able to rely on Volvo everywhere. Irrespective of climate and road conditions. That is why Volvo's cars are tested under the most extreme conditions found on this planet. In Arizona's blisteringly hot desert and in the biting cold of the Arctic north.\n2008 Volvo S80 Executive\nJanuary 3, 2008 00:00 by Alina Moore\nQuiet beauty, rather than flashy bling. That is the essence of Swedish luxury. Designer entrepreneur and trend analyst Mathilda Tham jumps in a Volvo S80 Executive to go looking for the roots of Swedish style - and ends up in nature and tranquility.\n2007 Volvo S80 by Heico\nOctober 30, 2007 14:00 by Alina Moore\nFive years, five cars. As a commemoration to Volvo's fifth straight year at the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) tradeshow, the Swedish manufacturer will show five highly modified versions of its vehicles.\n2008 Volvo S80 High Performance Concept\nSeptember 10, 2007 18:00 by Alina Moore\nGerman tuning and motor sport experts Heico Sportiv has developed a spectacular high-performance version of the Volvo S80. With a high-tech aluminium-look exterior and a 350 hp bioethanol engine, the S80 High Performance Concept is destined to be a true attention-grabber at the SEMA show in Las Vegas.\nJuly 28, 2007 18:00 by Alina Moore\nThe all new Volvo S80 is the second generation of Volvo's large prestige sedan, launched at the Geneva motor show in the spring of 2006. The new S80 model is a luxurious car with an elegant and dynamic profile influenced by modern Scandinavian design.\nVolvo announces pricing of its 2008 model lineup\nJune 5, 2007 04:00 by Alina Moore\nVolvo has announced today pricing for its 2008 model year lineup. The 2008 Volvo vehicle line has undergone enhancements to its model mix along with the introduction of the exciting C30. Other highlights include the addition of the new T6 turbocharged engine in the S80 luxury sedan, while the S40 sport sedan and V50 sportwagon receive major appearance updates and a bump in horsepower from 218 to 227.\nLater in 2007 Volvo will announce pricing for the all-new V70 and XC70 wagons. (...)\nVolvo S80 gets T6 turbo and D5 diesel with AWD\nMay 8, 2007 09:25 by Blas Nicusor\nThe Volvo S80 is now available with the six-cylinder, 285 hp T6 performance engine with All Wheel Drive that was first introduced in the all-new Volvo V70 in March 2007. Another new power train combination for the S80 is the 185 D5 turbo diesel with AWD.\n\"The T6 engine adds an extra dimension to the S80 engine range,\" says Hans Wikman, Vice President Vehicle Line Large Cars at Volvo Cars. \"The engine has been programmed to provide the highest possible performance with the (...)\nVolvo S80 - 2007 AutoMundo Magazine Car of the Year\nMarch 23, 2007 22:00 by Alina Moore\nAutoMundo, the nation's premier Spanish-language automotive enthusiast publication, today named the all-new Volvo S80 as its 2007 Car of the Year. The prestigious accolade which appears in the magazine's April issue, follows the S80's recent debut in the U.S. marketplace and echoes what others are saying about Volvo's first V8-powered luxury sedan.\nThe S80 was selected for its revolutionary design, dynamic and youthful driving attributes and Volvo's legendary safety systems. \"The new 2007 (...)\nAll Wheel Drive and six cylinders for the Volvo S80\nNovember 29, 2006 10:29 by Blas Nicusor\nAlso the six-cylinder models of the new Volvo S80 can from now on be equipped with Volvo's intelligent All Wheel Drive system.\nElectronically controlled hydraulics and automatic distribution of engine power between the front and rear wheels mean the car's performance capability can be exploited effectively whatever the road conditions.\nThe result is increased driving pleasure and enhanced stability.\nThe World's Most Beautiful Automobile for 2006\nNovember 6, 2006 22:00 by Alina Moore\nThe 14th edition of \"L'Automobile pi\u00f9 Bella del Mondo\" competition took place at the Arena Civica in Milan, Italy, on 27th October. And the winners were: City cars and compact cars Mini Cooper Mid-size hatchback cars Volvo C30 Mid-size sedans Volvo S80 Limousine Bentley Continental GTC Coupe (...)\nVolvo S80 won the \"Autorevue Award\"\nThe new Volvo S80 has won the \"Autorevue Award\", the most important car award in Austria. Based on the readers' choice of the car magazine \"Autorevue\", the best selling car magazine in Austria, the new Volvo S80 was number one in the sedan category.\nOver 40,000 readers voted for cars in a number of different classes. The new S80 won its category by the largest margin of all. The S80 received 35.7 percent of the votes, ahead of the Citro\u00ebn C6 (17.1 percent) and the Lexus IS (16.8 percent).\nThe (...)\nVolvo S80 pricing announced\nAll New Volvo S80 3.2 I6 priced from $38,705 All New Volvo S80 V8 priced from $47,350\n\"The all new Volvo S80 is very aggressively priced in its segment while offering the latest in terms of safety, technology, design and performance,\" says Anne B\u00e9lec, president and CEO, Volvo Cars of North America. \"This all new car represents Volvo's on-going commitment to offering outstanding value in the premium segment.\" The all new S80, Volvo's flagship sedan, enters the very (...)\nVolvo S80 helps to ease security worries\nJuly 3, 2006 10:42 by Alina Moore\nThe all new S80is Volvo's leading-edge product in terms of safety. The model incorporates the latest technology both as regards safe driving and personal security. \"Safety is not just a matter of avoiding accidents, explains Silvia G\u00fcllsdorf, business project manager for the all new Volvo S80. \"In an increasingly insecure world, safety also extends to control over our immediate environment, both at home and in the car.\" The all new Volvo S80 comes with a unique optional feature in the form of (...)\n2007 Volvo S80 Executive Edition\nThe all new Volvo S80, which was introduced in late January, will also be launched during the year as a prestigious Executive model. Unique details and a very rich content are indications of the ambition of Volvo Cars to reinforce its position in the prestige segment.\nVolvo S80 unveiled at Geneva Motor Show\nThe all new Volvo S80 is the flagship of the Volvo sedan line, a completely new luxury car with elegant styling, two highly sophisticated new engine choices, a long list of breakthrough safety technologies and a premium driving experience \u2014 all packaged in an aura of 'Scandinavian luxury.'\nVolvo Car Corporation anticipates sales of about 50,000 new S80 cars annually. North America will be the largest market.\nWith its clean, elegant lines and dynamic profile, the second generation Volvo S80 (...)\nFebruary 1, 2006 09:59 by Mike Husleag\nLast year Volvo updated and upgraded its flagship S80 with more than 700 changes, improving the ride, handling and cabin quietness and generally raising the level of refinement. 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{"text":"Chicago Academy of Interdisciplinary Dentofacial Therapy\nExcellence in Dentistry thru Teamwork & Vision\nPast Schedule\nIrena Sailer\nIrena Sailer, D.D.S.\nIrena Sailer received her Dr. med. dent. Degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany, in 1998. In 2003 Dr. Sailer became an assistant professor at the Clinic of Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics and Dental Material Sciences in Zurich, and since 2010 she has been an associate professor at the same clinic. Since 2013 she has been the Head of the Division of Fixed Prosthodontics and Biomaterials at the University of Geneva.\nIn 2007 Dr. Sailer was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Biomaterials and Biomimetics, Dental College, New York University. Additionally, since 2009 she holds an adjunct associate professorship at the Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences, Robert Schattner Center, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She is a Specialist for Prosthodontics in the Swiss Society for Reconstructive Dentistry and was awarded a Certificate in Oral Implantology by the Swiss Society for Dentistry. From 2002 to 2012 Irena Sailer received nine research grants, and in 2008 she and John L. Ricci were granted a patent for metallic dental implants and prosthetic appliances having colored ceramic surfaces.\nFixed Reconstructions Today: New Materials and New Technology-Improved Outcomes\nThere is an increasing use of ceramic materials for fabricating tooth-and implant-supported reconstructions. Advantages of all-ceramic materials over the traditional metal ceramics include their tooth-resembling color and enamel-like translucency. The main limitation of ceramics is their brittleness which presents a fracture risk. To reduce this risk, ceramics with increased stability such as high-strength ceramic zirconia tooth and implant reconstructions have been developed.\nFor the processing of zirconia, numerous CAD\/CAM manufacturing procedures are available today. For these fabrication procedures, clinical and technical factors (tooth preparation, design of the abutment or framework, and cementation) are important for the clinical long-term success of ceramic reconstructions. With the aid of these new materials, recent treatments, allow for comprehensive restorative patient care.\nLearning objectives include today's treatment concepts and indications, the most suitable type of restoration and material, preparation and cementation guidelines, and the benefits and limitations of digital dentistry.\nCAIDT Facebook\nZappos Insights in Las Vegas\nJohan Figueira\nPictures from David Brownstein Lecture\nDavid Brownstein MD\nCAIDT hosts Kevin Boyd & Stephen Sheldon \u2013 Pediatric Airway and Pediatric Sleep Medicine: A Dental Perspective","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ethnography: Doing research with young people outside of education and employment\nLisa Russell\nDepartment of Education and Community Studies\nSchool of Education and Professional Development\nResearch output: Chapter in Book\/Report\/Conference proceeding \u203a Other chapter contribution\nThis case explores the issues involved when doing a three-year ethnography with 24 not in employment, education, or training (NEET) young people in the North of England. Young people not in employment, education or training are not a static, homogeneous group. For most, being not in employment, education, or training is a temporary state as they move between different forms of participation and nonparticipation. The ethnography aimed to understand what life was like for these young people as they existed outside of education and employment spheres, as well as how and why they moved between them. 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{"text":"Events The Real Honda Stage Year in Music 2019 Hot 100 Billboard 200 Podcasts Chart Beat\nEvents Hot 100 Billboard 200 Honda Stage Year in Music 2019 Chart Search Boxscore Chart Beat Touring\nAlgiers Talks Resisting Trump, Fascism & the Need for 'Militant Politics'\n6\/23\/2017 by Chris Payne\nJoe Dilworth\nRyan Mahan, Franklin James Fisher, Lee Tesche and Matt Tong of Algiers.\nThe band released its sophomore LP 'The Underside of Power' today (June 23).\nAlgiers was signed by longstanding indie rock powerhouse Matador Records before ever playing a show.\nSuddenly, their post-punk-gospel salvos could reach people outside their trans-Atlantic email chain, the signal boost leading to 2015's self-titled debut and affirmation that vocalist Franklin James Fisher, guitarist Lee Tesche, and bassist Ryan Mahan could stare down the onslaught of relentless capitalism, murderous cops, and civilian-killing drone strikes in a live setting, too. This was all before Brexit, President Donald Trump, and the sudden woke-ness much of the population was jolted into.\nStill, on Algiers' staggering sophomore album, the quartet -- now officially including former Bloc Party drummer Matt Tong -- isn't dousing its lyrics with names from Twitter's trending topics. \"It's important not to be topical writer,\" Fisher explains over burgers and drinks at an innocuous SoHo brunch spot. \"The motivations behind it are a bit dubious sometimes and it borderlines on being a gimmick.\" The Underside of Power is more concerned with themes that have defined socio-political strife for centuries, particularly the struggles of the disadvantaged many against the mighty few. \"Power's not total, and if you work together, it can crumble pretty easily,\" Mahan says.\nThe topics are heavy, and no, Algiers do not fit in easily with most of the decidedly less-political indie rock world. But that's not to say hanging out with Algiers is like office hours with your professor. At one point, \"Layla\" blares on the restaurant speakers, to Fisher's groan of, \"I hate this song\" and Mahan's \"F-ck Eric Clapton,\" referencing less-than-savory moments from the guitarist's past. The multi-racial band is well aware of the exploitation and appropriation guitar music has indulged over the years; not only do they bring rock back to the revolution, they make it sound bafflingly unidentifiable, unlike much of anything on the circuit today. The new album was co-produced by Portishead's Adrian Utley and Ali Chant, with post-production from The Men's Ben Greenberg and mixing from Sunn O)))'s Randall Dunn. Experimental rock input abounds, while it also claims influence in '90s Atlanta hip-hop, '70s soul, and zombie film soundtracks. Great as it is, it's a lot to process without hearing from Algiers themselves.\nHere are the highlights from our lengthy conversation with Fisher and Mahan.\nWhat's it been like adding Matt Tong as an official member, especially to a band with such established viewpoints on the world?\nFranklin James Fisher: It's funny. Matt has been touring with us since before the first record came out\u2026 For the vast majority of the existence of Algiers as a live band, Matt's been involved. He's such a good guy and he's such a good friend, I feel like I've known him just as long as I've known Lee and Ryan. It's totally natural.\nRyan Mahan: He's a really wonderful person. He's had success in his career, but you don't get that from him. He has no ego, puts on no airs, and he's also a really talented guy.\nFJF: I'll still forget sometimes [that he was in Bloc Party]. It's crazy. I'll be at the gym listening to my headphones and \"Like Eating Glass\" will come on and I'll be like, holy sh-t, I'm in a band with this guy.\nRM: He's an artist and you get a sense that sometimes he's able to express that with us. You really get the sense that Matt is actually getting more and more artistic, flying his freak flag\u2026 He's also a political person. People don't recognize that Matt is political.\nWhen your label rep first played \"The Underside of Power\" for me and a few others at Billboard, we were all like, \"This is the first Algiers song in a major key!\" How'd that happen?\nFJF: Never let anyone tell you Ryan Mahan can't write major key music; he can do anything if he wants to! He wrote that part.\nWhile everyone went away and was demo-ing things, we made a shared folder and uploaded what we'd been working on. Ryan had the demo for what became \"Underside,\" but Lee also had a demo that turned into it. They'd essentially written really similar Northern soul-inspired songs in the same key, basically the same BPM. When I heard them they just sounded like compliments, like a Lennon-McCartney thing.\nRM: I wanted to do something that was super referential to Suicide as well. Most of their music is notoriously intense, but it's mostly major key. It made sense to me to inject a different vibe to it. Also, the other thing to remember -- it's a false major.\nFJF: The operation of relative minor -- the chorus starts on the major but it still resolves on a minor.\nRM: [Laughs] It still functions in a minor! But it does lift you up.\nFJF: This record, we wanted to emphasize the hope that may have been lost on a lot of people on that first album. I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, but a lot of what this album's about is this sense of purpose and hope and drive in spite of the impending apocalypse, symbolic or otherwise. A lot of songs on this record touch on those themes. A major influence on this record, thematically, was The Plague by Camus. There's at least five or six songs that deal with those concepts.\nRM: It's really interesting because we only specifically referenced specifically it on \"Mme Rieux\" but it does come up a lot, with the contagion, the way the capital operates, the insidious way it controls and manifests itself\u2026 what was the question?\nWe were riffing on \"Underside.\"\nRM: The record itself [concerns] coming to terms with impossibility and going one of two ways: you can be completely cynical -- nothing's gonna change -- or you can find some sort of hope in that impossibility. It's quite philosophical but at the same time it's really powerful to say despite all the odds, we're still going to push forward.\nIn terms of Trump, Brexit, and other big societal issues that play a role in the album, where along the timeline were these songs written?\nFJF: Ryan wrote \"Mme Rieux\" when he came to visit me when I was living in France and he was in grad school in London in 2006. That existed in various incarnations before this record. Generally, the songs were written between Brexit and Trump. That's a nice bookmark. It's more nuanced than that obviously. \"Cleveland,\" for example, was written about a year prior to us going into the studio.\nRM: Our music is usually not directly relational to what's happening. We're not a \"current events band.\" We analyze structures and institutional power and that provides a critique no matter who's in power. It just happened to be a particularly bleak point in time for people living in Britain and the United States... The way that Franklin writes lyrics is amazing because it's, at once, direct and oblique. So you can pull from it so many different meanings, even on a political level.\nFJF: I think the best \"political music\" is usually written from that same sort of standpoint. Bob Dylan is my favorite lyricist, in rock music anyway, and you can just mull over his lyrics for hours and they can speak directly to your current political situation and you still won't ever know for sure what he's talking about\u2026 [1963's] \"Masters of War\" is one of the greatest political songs ever. It's important not to be a topical writer, because usually people that do that, the motivations behind it are a bit dubious sometimes and it borderlines on being a gimmick.\nRM: It can be a part of an album campaign. This is not to question anybody's politics, but if you think about the Green Day record, American Idiot, it was very much a part of an entire campaign. There's a fine line to walk and we always recognize that.\nDo you think a lot of musicians -- because Trump -- are just starting to get political?\nFJF: Yeah, I do. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, but I think it is necessary to differentiate us from any sort of spirit that would be \"of the day.\" For the aforementioned reasons, we don't want to come across as exploitative, disingenuous or opportunistic because the current political situation presents itself. That's not what we do.\nRM: We wrote the first album throughout the Obama years. We criticize and critique anyone who's occupying positions of power. In terms of other musicians, we can't really speak to it, but it doesn't mean it's bad. The more people that are actually politicized, the better. At the end of the day, I would rather people be politicized than not. However fleeting that may be, sometimes people who are engaged in a longer term analysis of the issues of the day -- that's sometimes their responsibility to maintain that: Okay, well how about this? What happens now? It's not just Trump.\nTrump, as grotesque as he is, is a difficult character to address, because he's so ridiculous. If you grow up using logic and challenging, say Obama's drone strikes, you can rationalize and argue against it. But with Trump, he's so absurd. Sometimes it's hard to find an entry point and I find myself going back to when I first got into punk rock --just being, \"F-ck Trump.\" It functions really well, because it's direct and he doesn't deserve a rational critique. He deserves to be cast away.\nRyan, I've read that you also work in fighting human trafficking. What's that like?\nRM: We work with unaccompanied children, so in the UK that's places like Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, Iraq, all those places. Even though the UK has brutal immigration policies as well, so they don't really support or care for that many refugees or asylum seekers. We fight against trafficking on a legal level. One of my goals in the organization is to change UK law, so that it better protects refugees and trafficked children. You'd think that's normal and that makes sense, but because they're so focused on immigration, they discriminate against trafficked children who weren't born in the UK, more than they do UK children. So we have to really focus on changing systems, changing laws. I work mostly with boys who've been brought over from Vietnam and are forced to grow marijuana, usually locked in a house, don't speak the language, always exposed to noxious fumes and horrible lighting\u2026 Then the police raid and arrest them and put them in jail. So we do a lot with the police to get them to understand they're victims of crime, rather than perpetrators of crime.\nFor the next few years -- as ordinary citizens or with Algiers -- what are some realistic goals for things you'd like to change in the world around you?\nFJF: I'd like to see New York City reclaim its soul from the super wealthy. I'm talking about New York because I'm thinking locally and I think people really need to start engaging with their local communities on a very basic level, to see what they can do to change the misery around them. The way the status quo thrives is by convincing people they're powerless and they can't change anything. People buy into that, so they just become disaffected.\nThis is happening in every major city: you have luxury condos being put up on every corner, but the number of working homeless keeps going up, which is obscene. The majority of these condos go uninhabited. They're like blue chips for millionaires that will never step foot in them. It just drives up prices of living for everyone. That needs to stop.\nRM: I'd like to see a continuation and further development of militant politics, because I think politics require militancy to shift things. If you can shift -- even a discursive shift, the way people talk about things -- it's really important, to shift it to the left. That's really important to me. There are a lot of bands that are doing that.\nThe Jacobin, for example, is a very popular publication. Black Lives Matter comes from a similar place as the [Black] Panthers. They're taking a more militant approach. In the UK, it's actually happening now with the Labour Party\u2026 They came out with a manifesto that asserts all these things we've been talking about: free tuition, nationalizing the railways, and that's been shifting the discourse. It's important to challenge this malaise. Like the Democratic Party -- what the f-ck? What they've done to Bernie Sanders.\nFJF: They played themselves. And I don't think they realize that yet. Still.\nRM: I read something the other day, Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the United f-cking States. The dupes and the idiots in the party did everything they could do to get rid of him.\nFJF: The United F-cking States. That's the name for the third album!\nFor now, Algiers' second album, The Underside of Power, is available on Matador Records.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Family Tree Premium Articles \/ How-Tos & Tutorials \/ Genealogy Fun \/ Social History \/ History of Voting\nHistory of Voting\nDavid A. Fryxell November 4, 2008 updated on August 18, 2017\nDid your ancestor support his or her candidate by tossing a rock in a bucket, writing on a color-coded ballot or pulling a lever?\nWhen you vote this Election Day, whether you lean to donkeys or elephants, you'll assume the ballot will be prepared by election officials, you'll make a mark or punch a hole or pull a lever, and your ballot will be secret.\nBut these practices would surprise most of our ancestors. The first election fitting those three criteria was only 150 years ago, in Australia, and didn't happen in the US until 30 years after that.\nOstrakas, ballots and voice votes\nThe world's first votes were cast as early as 508 BC in ancient Athens. Officials were chosen by lottery, and voting was negative: Politicians' names were inscribed on pieces of broken pots\u2014ostrakas, the root of our word ostracize\u2014and if any received more than 6,000 votes, the \"winner\" was exiled for 10 years.\nPositive voting wouldn't catch on until 13th-century Venice, which elected a 40-member Great Council. Back when, citizens cast their votes with colored balls. The word ballot derives from the Italian ballota for \"ball.\"\nOne alternative was voice voting. Voters would take an oath\u2014much of early America lacked voter registration\u2014and then announce their votes. Election clerks would record these voice votes, a system that persisted in some locales into the 1860s.\nPaper ballots\nIn the United States, paper ballots were first used in 1629, to select a church pastor in Salem, Mass. At first, voters supplid scraps of paper. As political parties grew, however, partisans began printing ballots to make supporting their candidates easier. You could depart from the party line by crossing out a name and writing in the opponent\u2014although tightly printed, barely legible partisan ballots made this almost impossible by the 1880s.\nIn urban areas, ballots were printed on colored paper, so poll watchers could easily tell how people voted (in a transparent ballot box, meant to avoid stuffing).\nSecret voting\nWilliam Robinson Boothby (1829-1903), an Australian electoral commissioner and sheriff, pioneered officially preprinted ballots cast in secret. In 1856, the Australian ballot required voters to strike through the names of unwanted candidates. But in 1858, ballots instructed voters to make \"a cross within the square opposite the name [of] the candidate for whom he intends to vote.\" The modern ballot was born\u2014and cast.\nBoothby's ballot caught on slowly in the United States, but the disputed presidential election of 1876 gave impetus to reform. In 1892, Grover Cleveland became the first president elected in part with Australian ballots. The old party-printed ballots persisted in pockets of America, however: As late as 1940, Delaware and South Carolina still used partisan ballots.\nLevers and scanners\nNewfangled technology began to replace paper ballots even as the Australian system spread. First came the lever voting machine, whose clicking and whooshing remains the sound of democracy for many Americans who came of age in the 20th century. The Myers Automated Booth was designed to \"protect mechanically the voter from rascaldom, and make the process of casting the ballot perfectly plain, simple and secret.\" First used in Lockport, NY, in 1892, lever voting machines were standard in every major US city by 1930.\nLever machines went out of production in 1982, however, and by 2004 represented only 14 percent of American voting. Several technologies supplanted them, beginning with the \"mark-sense scanning\" originally used for standardized testing. In 1962, Kern City, Calif., became the first to use optical mark-sense ballots; the system to scan them weighed 15,000 pounds. By 2004, optical scan ballots accounted for 35 percent of US votes, more than any other system.\nHow the chad got its start\nThe punched-card machine was patented by Herman Hollerith in 1889, but wasn't applied to voting for decades. The Harris Votomatic company patented a punch-card voting machine in 1965. Its descendant was involved in the 2000 Florida \"hanging chad\" controversy; punched-card votes dropped from 31 percent to 13 percent of US ballots by 2004.\nDirect recording\nThe latest wrinkle in voting technology, with nearly 30 percent of 2004 ballots, is the direct recording machine\u2014an electronic twist on the old lever machine. The first direct-recording machine, the Video Voter, was used in Illinois elections in 1975.\nOur ancestors would be amazed to see us voting by computer, with official ballots cast affirmatively and in secret. But not every change represents progress, of course: You never heard of the Athenians having problems with \"hanging ostrakas.\"\n1789: Constitution empowers states to set voting rights; most enfranchise only white male property owners age 21 and older\n1830s: Property requirements begin to ease\n1848: Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY, launches suffrage movement\n1870: 15th Amendment extends voting rights to African-American men\n1890: Wyoming allows women to vote\n1920: 19th Amendment grants women's suffrage\n1940: American Indians are recognized as citizens, although not all are allowed to vote until 1947\n1964: 24th Amendment prohibits poll taxes\n1965: Voting Rights Act protects minority voters\n1971: 26th Amendment lowers voting age to 18\nThis entry was posted in Social History and tagged ancestor, bucket, candidate, color, history, rock, support, tossing, voting, writing. 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{"text":"\u00cele de la Cit\u00e9\n\"Island of Paris\" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Parris Island or \u00cele-de-France.\nIsland in the river Seine, Paris, France\n\u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 as seen from the Pont des Arts shortly before sunrise\nNotre Dame de Paris on \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 from upstream (the east)\nAerial view from Northwest, \u00cele Saint-Louis in the background\nNotre Dame de Paris (1944)\nThe \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 (French pronunciation: \u200b[il d\u0259 la site])[1] is one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris (the other being the \u00cele Saint-Louis).[a] It is the centre of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded.\nThe western end has held a palace since Merovingian times, and its eastern end since the same period has been consecrated to religion, especially after the 10th-century construction of a cathedral preceding today's Notre-Dame. The land between the two was, until the 1850s, largely residential and commercial, but has since been filled by the city's Prefecture de Police, Palais de Justice, H\u00f4tel-Dieu hospital, and Tribunal de commerce. Only the westernmost and northeastern extremities of the island remain residential today, and the latter preserves some vestiges of its 16th-century canon's houses. As of 2013, the island's population was 981. The M\u00e9morial des Martyrs de la D\u00e9portation, a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War, is located at the upriver end of the island.\n3 Pont Neuf\nMap[edit]\nMap of the \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9\nRemains of a defensive Roman wall beneath the parvis facing Notre Dame de Paris.\nThe \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 in the Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, circa 1410, showing the Sainte-Chapelle at right.\nIn 52 BC, at the time of Vercingetorix's struggle with Julius Caesar, the island may have been a fortified crossing point held by the Parisii, a small Gallic tribe. At that point in time, the island was a low-lying area subject to flooding that offered a convenient place to cross the Seine and a refuge in times of invasion. After the conquest of the Celts, the Roman Labienus developed a settlement on the slopes above the Left Bank, where Roman Lutetia was established. The Emperor Julian, in Gaul from 355 to 361, described Lutetia as \"a small island lying in the river; a wall entirely surrounds it, and wooden bridges lead to it on both sides.\"[2]\nLater Romans under Saint Genevieve escaped to the island when their city was attacked by Huns. Clovis established a Merovingian palace on the island, which became the capital of Merovingian Neustria. The island remained an important military and political centre throughout the Middle Ages. Odo used the island as a defensive position to fend off Viking attacks at the Siege of Paris in 885-86, and in the 10th century, a cathedral (the predecessor of Notre-Dame) was built on the island.[citation needed]\nFrom early times wooden bridges linked the island to the riverbanks on either side, the Grand Pont (the Pont au Change) spanning the wider reach to the Right Bank, and the Petit Pont spanning the narrower crossing to the Left Bank. The first bridge rebuilt in stone (in 1378) was at the site of the present Pont Saint-Michel, but ice floes carried it away with the houses that had been built on it in 1408.[b] The Grand Pont or Pont Notre-Dame, also swept away at intervals by floodwaters, and the Petit Pont, were rebuilt by Fra Giovanni Giocondo at the beginning of the 16th century. The six arches of the Pont Notre-Dame supported gabled houses, some of half-timbered construction, until all were demolished in 1786.[c]\nThe \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 remains the heart of Paris. All road distances in France are calculated from the 0 km point located in the Place du Parvis de Notre-Dame, the square facing Notre-Dame's pair of western towers.[3]\nPont Neuf[edit]\nMain article: Pont Neuf\nThe Pont Neuf, the \"new bridge\" that is now the oldest bridge in Paris, was completed by Henry IV, who inaugurated it in 1607. The bronze equestrian statue of Henry IV was commissioned from Giambologna under the orders of Marie de Medici, Henry's widow and Regent of France, in 1614. After his death, Giambologna's assistant Pietro Tacca completed the statue, which was erected on its pedestal by Pietro Francavilla in 1618. It was destroyed in 1792 during the French Revolution, but was remade from surviving casts in 1818. The sculpture originally rose from the river on its own foundations, abutting the bridge; since then, the natural sandbar building of a mid-river island, aided by stone-faced embankments called quais, has extended the island, which is planted as the teardrop-shaped Parc Vert Galant in honour of Henry IV, the \"Green Gallant\" King.\nPlace Dauphine[edit]\nThe Place Dauphine, laid out in 1609 while the Place des Vosges was still under construction and named for the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XIII,[d] was among the earliest city-planning projects of Henry IV. The space, essentially a triangle because of its promontory location, was made over to Achille de Harlay [fr] for development. Twelve lots were sold, and forty-five irregularly sized houses were constructed behind a standardised fa\u00e7ade.[4] The houses were built of brick with limestone quoins supported on arcaded stone ground floors and capped by steep slate roofs with dormers, very like the contemporaneous fa\u00e7ades of Place des Vosges. There were originally two entrances to the Place Dauphine, one at the \"downstream\" point, through a kind of gateway centred on paired pavilions facing the equestrian statue of Henry IV on the far side of the Pont Neuf, and the second in the centre of the eastern range. Badly damaged during the turmoil of the Paris Commune of 1871, the eastern range was swept away in 1872 to open the view to the monumental white marble Second Empire Palais de Justice (built 1857\u201368), like a glazed colonnade[e] centred on the Place Dauphine, the remains of which now form a kind of forecourt to it.[5] Few visitors penetrate the Place Dauphine, which lies behind them, and where all the other buildings have been raised in height, given new fa\u00e7ades, rebuilt or replaced with heightened pastiches of the originals.\nThe \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 seen from the west, downstream\nSights[edit]\nThree medieval buildings remain on the \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 (east to west):\nCathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, built from 1163 on the site of a church dedicated to Saint \u00c9tienne, which in turn occupied a sacred pagan site of Roman times. During the French Revolution the cathedral was badly damaged, then restored by Eug\u00e8ne Viollet-le-Duc. The Cathedral was damaged in a fire on 15 April 2019, while undergoing the initial stages of a massive renovation- materials from the renovation are currently believed to have started the devastating, large fire.\nLouis IX's Sainte-Chapelle (1245), built as a reliquary to house the Crown of Thorns and a piece of the True Cross, enclosed within the mid-19th century Palais de Justice.\nConciergerie prison, where Marie Antoinette awaited execution in 1793.\nNotre Dame de Paris, western fa\u00e7ade, as seen from the quai de Montebello\nNotre-Dame, southern facade, view from the square Jean XXIII\n\u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 1609\nThe oldest remaining residential quarter is the Ancien Clo\u00eetre. Baron Haussmann demolished some of the network of narrow streets, but was dismissed in 1869 before the entire quarter was lost.\nOld engraved maps of Paris show how, when the Pont Neuf was built, it grazed the downstream tip, the \"stern\" of the island-ship. Since then, the natural sandbar building of a mid-river island, aided by stone-faced embankments called quais, has extended the island, which is planted as the small Vert Galant park (\"square du Vert-Galant\"), named for Henry IV of France, the \"Green Gallant\" king whose statue stands near the center of the bridge. It retains the original low-lying riverside level of the island. Nearby, a discreet plaque (removed prior to 01\/06\/2017 and replaced with a printed sign) commemorates the spot where Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burnt at the stake, 18 March 1314. The upstream tip of the island is the site of the M\u00e9morial des Martyrs de la D\u00e9portation, a memorial to the 200,000 French citizens who were deported to German labour camps during the Second World War.\nThe \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 is connected to the rest of Paris by bridges to both banks of the river and to the \u00cele Saint-Louis. The oldest surviving bridge is the Pont Neuf ('New Bridge'), which lies at the western end of the island.\nPlaque commemorating the burning of Jacques de Molay\nThe island has one Paris M\u00e9tro station, Cit\u00e9; and the RER station Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame on the Left Bank has an exit in the square in front of the Cathedral.\n^ The \u00cele aux Cygnes is artificial.\n^ Floods destroyed the bridge at intervals, the last houses being removed in 1809, and the present bridge was constructed in 1857. (Photos et historique: Le pont Saint-Michel).\n^ The present bridge dates from 1853, with the central arches replaced by an iron span in 1967. (Photos et historique: Le pont Notre Dame).\n^ Place is feminine, not dauphin\n^ The architects were Joseph-Louis Duc and Honor\u00e9 Daumet. Palais de Justice\n^ Pronunciation of \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 at PronounceItRight.com (retrieved 6 October 2015).\n^ Julianus Augustus. Misopogon 340d.\n^ Chrisafis, Angelique (16 April 2019). \"'On our watch we let it burn': Notre Dame fire leaves hole in heart of Paris\". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 April 2019. The most-visited monument in the capital, attracting 12 million tourists a year, it is a symbol of literature and history, and is France's \"zero kilometre\" point from which all road distances are measured.\n^ Ballon 1991, p. 151.\n^ La Place Dauphine.\nBallon, Hilary (1991). The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262023092.\nde Brunhoff, Jacques (1987). La place Dauphine et l'\u00eele de la Cit\u00e9 (in French). Lyon. 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{"text":"Logic And Eminem's 'Homicide' Video Stars Chris D'Elia And A Sandlot Alum\nEm hilariously flips the script on his comedian impersonator\nMadeline Roth madfitzroth 06\/28\/2019\nWhat do you do when you can't get Eminem in your video? If you're Logic, you get creative and enlist the help of some friends.\nIn the comedic clip for the rappers' Confessions of a Dangerous Mind collaboration, \"Homicide,\" Logic gets a phone call from Def Jam CEO Paul Rosenberg, who informs him that Em can't make the shoot. What ensues is seven minutes of sardonic and meta ridiculousness, as Logic resorts to using body doubles for him and Em.\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eQkSArQxYJg\nChauncey Leopardi \u2014 a.k.a. Michael \"Squints\" Palledorous from The Sandlot \u2014 does an awesomely accurate take on Logic, but the real hilarity begins when Eminem's double is introduced. It's none other than Chris D'Elia, whose parody videos imitating Em's freestyles got the attention of the MC himself. And if you're thinking, \"Uhh... Chris D'Elia doesn't look anything like Eminem,\" just wait until you see the comedian in a Slim Shady-esque blonde wig and a white tank.\nThe best part? In the end, the real Marshall Mathers does appear, flipping the script and flawlessly impersonating D'Elia's viral impression of him. Everything comes full circle.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apps to Keep Children Safe Online May be Counterproductive\nBy Barbara Abney & Zenaida Kotala | April 2, 2018\nMobile apps designed to help parents keep their children safe from online predators may actually be counterproductive, harming the trust between a parent and child and reducing the child's ability to respond to online threats, conclude two new studies from the University of Central Florida.\nAccording to the national Crimes Against Children Research Center, 23 percent of youth have experienced accidental exposure to internet pornography. Another 11 percent have been victims of online harassment and 9 percent report receiving unwanted sexual solicitations online\nIn a pair of studies led by the University of Central Florida, researchers examined the types of parents who use parental-control apps on their teen's mobile smartphone, whether the apps actually helped keep teens safe online, and what teens and younger children thought about their parents using these apps.\nFor a generation that has grown up with network technology and uses it for almost every facet of their lives, from completing homework assignments to connecting with friends and sharing personal information, the results of this research may be life changing.\nThe research team found that authoritarian parents, who were less responsive to their teen's need for autonomy, were the most likely to use the parental control apps, and the use of these apps was associated with teens experiencing more, not fewer, online risks, including unwanted explicit content, harassment and online sexual solicitations. This NSF-funded study was based on a survey of 215 parent-and-teen pairs in the United States.\n\"Parental involvement and direct supervision were both associated with fewer peer problems and less online victimization for teens, but neither of these factors correlated with the use of parental control apps,\" said Arup Kumar Ghosh, a doctoral student in UCF's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who conducted this research as part of his dissertation.\n\"The fear that teens will fall victim to unthinkable online dangers persists, and our research is challenging the current solutions for protecting teens online by tightening the reins. Instead, we suggest empowering teens to be agents of their own online safety,\" said Pamela Wisniewski, an assistant professor of engineering and computer science, who is an expert on adolescent online safety and advises Ghosh.\n\"Our findings suggest that most parental-control apps are just that\u2014apps that attempt to control what teens can do online, but ultimately do little to keep them safe online,\" said Wisniewski.\nIn the second study, Ghosh, Wisniewski and their collaborators wanted to know how teens and younger children felt about these parental-control apps. The researchers analyzed 736 publicly posted reviews written by teens and younger children for parental-control apps available for download on Google Play.\nThey found that approximately 79 percent of the reviews written by children rated the apps at either two stars or less out of a possible five. Further analysis uncovered three major themes behind the negative ratings \u2013 children found the apps overly restrictive, were an invasion of their personal privacy, and supported \"lazy\" or bad parenting instead of improving communication channels between them and their parents. The children explained that the apps prevented them from doing everyday tasks, such as homework assignments, and turned their parents into \"stalkers.\"\n\"Teens, and even younger children, told us loudly and clearly that they would rather their parents talk to them than use parental control apps,\" Ghosh said. \"Not because they wanted to get away with something bad, but because they wanted their parents' trust and respect.\"\nWisniewski added, \"The more fearful we are as parents the more tightly we tend to hold on. In some cases, that can mean our children are not learning how to manage risk on their own.\"\nBy trying to completely shield teens from experiencing any and all online risks, some parents are keeping teens from developing the necessary coping mechanisms that they will need throughout their lives, the researchers suggested.\nThe researchers concluded that more parental control does not ensure teen safety and that a certain amount of autonomy in allowing teenagers to make appropriate decisions may be the best approach for parenting.\nFuture app designs should consider incorporating features that support engaged parenting and teach teens how to more effectively manage online risks. These studies suggest that children, particularly teens, should play a pivotal role in the design and development of mobile apps designed to keep them safe online.\nBoth research studies will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Montreal this month.\nUCF Cheer Team Wins 2020 National Championship\nSix UCF Med Students Match into Competitive Residencies\nAuthor, Historian Jon Meacham to Deliver Historical Perspective on Presidency\nJoseph Trubacz Named Interim Chief Financial Officer\nMore About College of Engineering and Computer Science\nHe Wants to Fly to Paris for Brunch\nMore About Colleges & Campus News\nFighting Fire with Fire: How Controlled Burns Keep Us Safe\nUCF Online Programs Rank Among Top 20 in Nation \u2014 Again\nOffer Your Feedback on UCF's Presidential Search\nCollege of Engineering and Computer Science Research","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The evolution and essence of Goju-ryu karate.\nby Ryan Gregory, June 4th, 2015\n(This is a brief overview of the history of Goju-ryu that was required as part of my recent black stripe grading. Given the format, it is obviously just a simplified summary of a much more complex history. Nevertheless, I think it might be of some interest, so I am re-posting it here. The main point I wanted to make is that we cannot, nor should we want to, preserve a single version of a style that has always been evolving.)\nIntroduction: the rise of Ryukyuan martial arts\nThe Ryukyu Islands represent an archipelago of more than 100 volcanic islands located south of Japan, extending southwest nearly the entire distance from the southern Japanese island of Kyushu to Taiwan (Figure 1). The largest of these islands, Okinawa, is roughly equidistant from Japan to the north and China to the west, and has long been the political and cultural centre of the Ryukyu Island system. Today, the Ryukyu Islands are part of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, having been formally annexed in 1879. However, for centuries prior to this, there existed an independent Ryukyu Kingdom that maintained strong economic and cultural ties with several of its neighbours, most notably China.\nFigure 1. The Ryukyu Islands, an archipelago consisting of more than 100 small islands located between Japan and Taiwan of the coast of China. The largest island in the chain, Okinawa, is the original home of karate.\nAs part of an ongoing cultural exchange, a large number of Chinese families (traditional sources put the number at 36) were sent from Fujian Province in China to settle in Okinawa around 1392. These families brought with them various aspects of Chinese culture, including knowledge of traditional Chinese martial arts. This exchange was enhanced through frequent visits by Chinese nationals to Okinawa and vice-versa. It is from this foundation in Chinese martial arts, especially Fujian White Crane, that the indigenous unarmed fighting system of the Ryukyu Kingdom evolved.\nFor the most part, this Ryukyuan martial art \u2013 initially known as Tode (\"China hand\") or simply Te (\"hand\") \u2013 was practiced by members of the Pechin class, a class of feudal scholar-officials roughly equivalent to the Samurai class of Japan. In time, regionally distinct versions of the art developed and were dubbed Naha-te, Shuri-te, and Tomari-te after the towns in which they originated (Figure 2).\nFigure 2. The island of Okinawa, showing the towns in which regional versions of the indigenous martial art known as \"Te\" developed. These became known as Naha-te, Shur-te, and Tomari-te. Goju-ryu is a descendant of Naha-te.\nThe connection with Chinese martial arts remained strong despite these local innovations, however. As a notable example, the founder of Naha-te, Kanryo Higaonna (1853-1915), spent many years training in China under Fujian White Crane master Ry\u016b Ry\u016b Ko before returning to Okinawa (Figure 3). Higaonna's Naha-te was notable for its combination of hard and soft techniques and its focus on the kata Sanchin (\"Three battles\"), which he had learned while studying Fujian White Crane in China. Similarly, the early masters of Shuri-te and Tomari-te adapted various kata of Chinese origin as their unique Okinawan martial art continued to evolve.\nFigure 3. Kanryo Higaonna, founder of Naha-te.\nChojun Miyagi and the evolution of Goju-ryu\nOne of Kanryo Higaonna's primary students was the young son of a wealthy shop owner in Naha named Chojun Miyagi (1888-1953) (Figure 4). Miyagi had begun training with Higaonna at the age of 14 and continued as his student until Higaonna's death 15 years later, interrupted only by a period of military service and a trip to China to visit the grave of Ryu Ryu Ko. Miyagi returned to China a second time shortly after Higaonna's death and spent some time training in Chinese martial arts. Upon his return to Naha, Miyagi opened a dojo and began training students. In addition to teaching the core aspects of Higaonna's Naha-te, Miyagi continued to innovate. In the early 1920s, he created the kata Tensho (\"Rotating palms\") based on forms that he had learned while in China. Miyagi considered Tensho to be a \"soft\" counterpart to the \"hard\" kata Sanchin that had been taught to him by Higaonna. He also modified Sanchin from its original Chinese form, most notably by changing the kata to use closed rather than open hands.\nFigure 4. Chojun Miyagi, founder of Goju-ryu.\nJust as a cultural exchange between China and the Ryukyu Kingdom involved sharing of martial arts knowledge centuries before, the Okinawan system of combat began to spread to mainland Japan in the early 20th century. In 1922, Gichin Funakoshi (a practitioner of Shuri-te and founder of the Shotokan style) travelled to Tokyo to demonstrate his art, which by then had become known as Kara-te, the kanji for which (\u5510\u624b) translated as \"Tang hand\" or \"Chinese hand\", in reference to its derivation from Chinese martial arts. Later, in the face of growing tensions between Japan and China, the kanji used for the term Kara-te was changed to \u7a7a\u624b, meaning simply \"empty hand\" (but pronounced in the same way as before).\nIn 1929, a demonstration of various Japanese martial arts was held in Kyoto. Representatives of Okinawan karate were present, but Chojun Miyagi himself was unable to take part. One of his students, Jin'an Shinsato, attended in his place. When asked the name of his particular brand of martial arts, Shinsato had no formal name to offer as Miyagi had not yet christened his particular style. Miyagi subsequently chose the name Goju-ryu, or \"hard-soft style\", to reflect the particular characteristics of the style. The name itself was taken from a line in the Hakku Kenpo (\"The eight laws of the fist\"), which is part of the Bubishi \u2013 a centuries-old manual of Chinese martial arts that has long been revered by many Okinawan karate masters. The precept in question, Ho wa G\u014dj\u016b wa Donto su, asserts that \"inhaling represents softness while exhaling represents hardness\".\nThe exchange between Okinawa and Japan occurred in both directions, with significant impacts on the evolution of how karate was practiced in its native Okinawa. The change in in the meaning of karate to \"empty hand\" is one example, but there were many other influences. Inspired by Japanese martial arts such as Kendo and Judo, Karate evolved from a largely combative art to one with an expanded emphasis on personal character development. This is reflected in the modern term \"Karate-Do\" \u2013 not just a system of fighting with empty hands, but of following the Do (\"way\" or \"path\") of Karate training. Other features of modern Karate, such as the use of the dogi as the standard training uniform, the Kyu\/Dan ranking system, and the implementation of coloured belts (obi) to signify level of advancement are all relatively recent imports from Judo. Chojun Miyagi, for his part, never granted Dan ranks to any of his students, although he did adopt the use of the dogi and obi.\nBy the 1930s, Karate training was no longer the exclusive domain of a masters and a handful of their personal students. Instead, Karate had become part of the curriculum in many schools and was adapted in various ways to fit this new audience. The combative nature of the art was further deemphasized, and additional training kata were developed. In the case of Goju-ryu, this included the kata Gekisai Ichi and Gekisai Ni, which were developed for use in schools by Chojun Miyagi in 1940. These have since been included in the standard Goju-ryu curriculum, which consists of 12 kata \u2013 many of which are of Chinese origin, adapted and modified by Higaonna, Miyagi, and their successors.\nGoju-ryu after Chojun Miyagi\nAlong with the other major styles of Karate, Goju-ryu began to spread beyond the borders of Okinawa and Japan following World War II. In particular, many American servicemen stationed in Okinawa began to train in Karate, bringing some knowledge of the art with them when they returned home. Nevertheless, the primary home of Karate remained (and remains) Japan, and Okinawa in particular.\nBeginning in the late 1920s, Chojun Miyagi taught Karate at the Okinawan police academy. He also trained a number of personal students in his \"garden dojo\" at home, several of whom began training under Miyagi in their early teenage years and continued as his student until his death in 1953. Following his death, it fell to these students to carry on Miyagi's legacy of Goju-ryu. This was made somewhat challenging by the fact that Chojun Miyagi did not publically appoint any successor and very little photographic or written record exists of his specific teachings. Perhaps not surprisingly, this has led to the emergence of several distinct schools of Okinawan Goju-ryu karate, in addition to off-shoots of Okinawan Goju-ryu such as the Japanese version Goju-ryu developed and promoted by Gogen Yamaguchi.\nThree of Chojun Miyagi's senior students, in particular, have played a major role in the preservation and ongoing evolution of Okinawan Goju-ryu: Meitoku Yagi (1912-2003), who founded the Meibukan school (\"House of the pure-minded warrior\"); Ei'ichi Miyazato (1922-1999), founder of the Jundokan school (\"House in which we follow in the master's footsteps\"); and Seikichi Toguchi (1917-1998), who created the Shorei-kan school (\"House of politeness and respect\") (Figure 5).\nFigure 5. Three of Chojun Miyagi's senior students who founded their own schools of Goju-ryu.\nSome of these schools have, in turn, spawned descendant organizations such as the IOGKF of Morio Higaonna (a former student of Ei'ichi Miyazato) and different branches of Meibukan Goju-ryu (Figure 6).\nFigure 6. Predecessor styles and descendant branches of Goju-ryu and their respective founders.\nModern Goju-ryu\nThe three major schools of Goju-ryu have diverged in various ways over the intervening decades. Some of the changes relate to minor aspects of kata performance (Figure 7). There are also distinctions in the order and number of kata taught in the curricula of the different schools. For example, the Jundokan school has two versions of Sanchin, one in which the practitioner executes two 180\u00b0 turns during the kata (based on Higaonna's version), and one that is restricted to forward and backward movements only (a version developed by Miyagi). The Meibukan school features five original kata that were developed by Meitoku Yagi and differ from traditional Goju-ryu kata in a number of notable ways (especially the opening pose, chambered fist orientation, and distancing).\nFigure 7. An example of minor differences in kata performance between schools of Goju-ryu. This shows the first two techniques in Gekisai Ichi. The Jundokan version (top; from Okinawa Den Gojuryu Karate-do by Ei'ichi Miyazato ) uses a high punch, whereas the Meibukan (middle; Karate Goju Ryu Meibukan by Lex Opdam) and Shorei-kan (bottom; from Okinawan Goju Ryu: The Fundamentals of Shorei-kan Karate by Seikichi Toguchi) versions use a middle punch.\nIt is not difficult to understand how different lineages of Goju-ryu have have diverged. Minor differences in kata performance, training regime, drills, and other elements arise even among dojos within the same organization. It is also possible that each of the founders of the major schools of Goju-ryu were taught slightly differently by Chojun Miyagi. Each may have taken away different details from common teachings as well. The important issue, it would seem, is that these schools have sought to preserve the core aspects of Goju-ryu \u2013 something that is not affected by comparatively minor deviations or differences in emphasis. That core includes a focus on the balance between hard (go) and soft (ju) techniques, a foundation built on Sanchin (and Tensho) kata, an emphasis on close-quarters fighting and efficiency of movement, and the use of circular movements that reflect Goju-ryu's roots in Chinese martial arts. That these masters embodied the fundamental essence of Goju-ryu laid down by Chojun Miyagi is reflected by the fact that, following his death, Ei'ichi Miyazato carried on teaching at Miyagi's \"garden dojo\". A few years later, Miyagi's family presented Meitoku Yagi with Miyagi's gi and obi.\nNotwithstanding their lifelong dedication to preserving traditional Goju-ryu as they had learned it, the founders of the major lineages of modern Goju-ryu were each masters in their own right. They all lived and trained much longer than Chojun Miyagi himself, and each has provided a unique perspective on the essence of Goju-ryu while also introducing new innovations into their respective schools.\nThis theme of evolution, innovation, and a preserved essence is common throughout the entire history of Goju-ryu karate. Kanryo Higaonna's adaptation of the arts he learned in China led to the advent of Naha-te, and Chojun Miyagi's further innovation was essential in the rise of Goju-ryu from this Naha-te foundation. Miyagi's senior students \u2013 who became grandmasters in their turn \u2013 have carried on this legacy.\nIndeed, change is as much a part of traditional Okinawan Goju-ryu as is tradition itself.\nGradings, History, Kata\t| No Comments\nExpectation and perception.\nby Ryan Gregory, September 30th, 2013\nFriday, January 12th, 2007. A metro station in Washington, DC. Around 8:00AM, morning rush hour. A man in jeans, a long-sleeve t-shirt, and a Washington Nationals baseball hat began playing the violin as the busy commuters passed by on their way to work. Nearly 1,100 people walked past as he played a total of six classical pieces over a period of about 45 minutes. Some tossed change or small bills into his open violin case. Most took no real notice at all. A pretty common scene for a busy subway station in a busy city at the busiest hour of the day.\nBut this was no ordinary busker. The man playing the violin was Joshua Bell, one of the most highly regarded concert violinists in the world, playing on a violin that was handcrafted in 1713 by Antonio Stradivari and valued at $3.5 million. Only days before, Bell had played a sold-out concert where ticket prices averaged $100. And yet, in this context, almost no one paid any attention.\nThis little social experiment, which was devised by Bell and The Washington Post, showed how important expectation can be in shaping our perceptions. Nobody expects Joshua Bell to be playing in a metro station, so the experience of hearing him barely registers.\nThe same effect can occur in the opposite direction: where there is expectation that something significant will happen, and this shapes one's subsequent perception \u2014 even to the point of affecting people's mental, physical, or physiological state.\nCase in point, true believers fainting when a charismatic preacher waves his arm at the audience:\nThis phenomenon is also alarmingly common in the martial arts. Often it seems that the students of a particular teacher have an expectation that a certain technique will have a specific effect, and then lo and behold, it does.\nBut what happens when you try such techniques on someone who doesn't have an expectation that it will work?\nUsually nothing\u2026\n\u2026or worse.\nI don't think it's necessarily a case of \"faking\" the effect, but rather a demonstration of the power of expectation \u2014 either based on the belief of the student that the technique works, or the subconscious effects of social expectation from the rest of the audience.\nIf you want to know if your technique is really effective or if it only works on believers, try it on a resisting partner or someone who doesn't know what is supposed to happen.\nAnd always think about what explanation is most likely. One, that your student is faking, or reacting to your cues, or is being affected by expectation. Or two, that you actually possess magical powers. This is one case where it really does pay to be a skeptic.\nMyths, Psycology, Science\t| No Comments\nQuite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever read about karate.\nby Ryan Gregory, August 11th, 2013\nI was looking through my copy of Okinawan Karate: Teachers, Styles and Secret Techniques by Mark Bishop, and I skipped to the section on Goju-ryu to see what he had to say. Below is the section that really caught my attention, reproduced in its entirety with my comments (in italics) interspersed throughout.\nGoju-ryu and health\nDuring the course of my research I met quite a few karate teachers who berated Goju-ryu for its general hardness and warned me to discontinue the training (which I eventually did) or face high blood pressure-related illnesses and a premature death.\nNot teachers of competing styles, surely! What reason could they possibly have for berating Goju-ryu?\nThe critics gained much of their visual evidence from watching unskilled practitioners doing dynamic-tension demonstrations of Sanchin.\nI see. So, they base their \"visual evidence\" on unreliable information. Gotcha.\nIn this exercise all the body muscles are hardened into one rigid structure as the sweating demonstrator performs the Sanchin moves as if pushing against a heavy weight, whilst being punched and kicked by an associate and issuing a loud guttural \"hiss\".\nDuring Sanchin exercise, I was told, certain blood vessels are shut off at the limb joints, the blood cannot flow freely, reverses and accumulates around the chest, neck, and shoulders causing a red flush in that area. Blood vessels of the neck and arms become swollen as the heart tries in vain to keep the circulation going and forces the blood up to the brain. The result of the exertion on the heart, blood vessels and internal organs is not considered by critics to be good for the health, and regular daily practice is said to be the cause of high blood pressure and obesity amongst Goju-ryu practitioners over the age of 40. Rumour also has it that some older practitioners have difficulty lifting their arms higher than their shoulders.\nI have never met a Goju-ryu practitioner who couldn't raise their arms above their shoulders. Certainly, Chojun Miyagi's top students had no such problems in their old age.\n(See here for more examples)\nMoreover, is there any evidence whatsoever of increased rates of high blood pressure among Goju-ryu practitioners?\nAnd what on Earth is the possible connection with obesity that the author imagines?\nFinally, it should go without saying that if \"the heart tries in vain to keep the circulation going\" \u2014 meaning that it tries but fails \u2014 obesity won't be the problem, instant death will be the problem.\nAlthough this type of dynamic-tension Sanchin training is fast becoming popular, I could find no really convincing explanations for its practice, apart from being a crowd gatherer and a somewhat dangerous body builder.\nRead: I could find no convincing explanation for the practices of Goju-ryu by people unfamiliar with Goju-ryu.\nWhether or not Chojun Miyagi encouraged dynamic-tension and the resulting overall hardening process of Goju-ryu is not clear\u2026\n'Nuff said.\n\u2026but the fact that premature deaths through illnesses associated with high blood pressure are common among Goju-ryu practitioners cannot be disputed.\nActually, it can be disputed quite easily because there is no evidence to support these claims. Chojun Miyagi may have died at the relatively young age of 65 of a heart attack, but Ei'ichi Miyazato was 77, Seikichi Toguchi was 81, Meitoku Yagi was 91, Gogen Yamaguchi was 80, and Morio Higaonna is 74 and still practicing.\nThe following is a generalisation of other \"evidence\" passed on to me by those who believed Goju-ryu practice to be coincidental with poor health:\n1. In order to harden the buttocks during the Sanchin exercise, forceful closing of the anal sphincter is practised. This, I was assured, will result in haemorrhoids after only two or three years of regular practice.\nI don't know about the author, but my anal sphincter is closed by default. In fact, the definition of a sphincter is \"a circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning.\"\nThe sphincter ani externus muscle is under some voluntary control, but this is not the same thing as tightening the large muscles of the buttocks. In any case, this wouldn't be a significant cause of haemorrhoids anyway:\n\"The exact cause of symptomatic hemorrhoids is unknown. A number of factors are believed to play a role including: irregular bowel habits (constipation or diarrhea), a lack of exercise, nutritional factors (low-fiber diets), increased intra-abdominal pressure (prolonged straining [i.e. pushing, not tightening], ascitis, an intra-abdominal mass, or pregnancy), genetics, an absence of valves within the hemorrhoidal veins, and aging.\"\n2. When blocking, the thumb side of the fist is forced sideways towards the forearm, causing pressure to be exerted on a vital point at the side of the wrist. This point may be detected by relaxing the left hand and running the thumb of the right hand to the base of the left thumb until a hollow is found. Even slight pressure at this point will bring pain. In actual fact, an abnormal amount of pressure should not be exerted here as, I was assured, it will have adverse effects on the lungs which may result in various lung complaints including TB and asthma.\nLet me get this straight. Even touching this spot can cause significant pain, but Goju-ryu practitioners regularly whack each others' arms with it while blocking and either a) don't feel it, or b) are too stupid to change how they block? Also, banging on this spot on the wrist will mess up your lungs? And it will cause tuberculosis (infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and asthma in particular? Um, ok.\n3. The testing of Sanchin \"hardness\", by punching and kicking the abdomen, will have adverse effects on the intestines and may result in stomach cancer.\nI see. You heard it here, folks. Apparently being hit in the abdomen while doing your kata can give you stomach cancer. Never mind the fact that most stomach cancer is associated with infection by Helicobacter pylori and\/or other risk factors such as smoking and\/or genetic factors.\nMaybe the rest of the book is great, but man this section sure was not researched or thought out well.\nUPDATE: Here's a nice analysis of this silly claim.\nAnatomy, Books, Kata, Myths, Styles\t| 2 Comments\nTen reasons why karateka should try grappling.\nby Ryan Gregory, July 19th, 2013\nI've really been enjoying my experience in studying judo and BJJ, and I decided to compile a list of reasons why I think this is something that could benefit my fellow karateka. But before I get to that, here are some caveats:\n* I'm not implying that all karateka ignore grappling completely. Lots of dojos incorporate relevant techniques in their sparring, bunkai, or self-defense drills. Many also include some type of formal jujutsu training in the curriculum, for example in the form of various wrist locks, arm bars, etc., albeit often from standing.\n* I am fully aware that traditional karate contains take-downs, locks, and throws in the kata. However, this raises two important questions: 1) How often do you practice those take-downs, locks, and throws? Is it every single class? If not, then 2) Why not learn from people who specialize in those things and who practice them all the time, including on resisting opponents?\n* I am not saying that striking arts are ineffective, and I am not saying that they are inferior to grappling arts.\n* I am not saying that grapplers always beat strikers. Clearly they don't, and no one in MMA only strikes or only grapples anymore. In fact, one could argue that these days more fights end by knockouts than by submissions.\n* I am writing this based on my experiences to date, but I do not claim in any way to be an expert in either karate or grappling.\n* I am not endorsing BJJ or Judo or Sambo or any particular grappling art. This is about grappling in general, not a promotion for one style or another.\n* Yes, I could also write an article about why grapplers should try training in a striking art.\nSo, with those points in mind, here are some reasons that I think karateka would benefit greatly from some formal training in grappling arts.\n1. You need a ground game. As a striker, you probably feel that staying on your feet is the best strategy, and in fact that the ground is the last place that you want to be in a real fight. Especially if you need to be able to get away, if there are multiple opponents, if the guy may have a weapon. I agree. And yes, the \"99.99% of fights go to the ground!\" internet statistic is complete nonsense. But, even though it makes sense to start out fighting standing up and at your comfortable striking distance, you have to be aware that sometimes it will go to a clinch and\/or to the ground. You might be taken down. Or you might take your opponent down and end up on the ground with him. Either way, you could end up in a bad position and suddenly find that your punches and kicks are not going to help you. Some grappling skills will help in all of these situations. They will help you to avoid being taken down, they will make it easier for you to avoid or escape a bad position (and, preferably, to get back to your feet), and they will give you more tools to finish the fight on the ground.\nThink of a beginning student in your dojo. Chances are, he doesn't know how to punch (or even how to make a proper fist), his stances are all wrong, and he seems awkward and uncoordinated. You know he'll get better with training, but right now he really has no idea what he's doing. It's the same for a striker with no grappling experience who ends up in a bad position on the ground.\nHere's an example of what I mean:\nI guarantee you that even a BJJ or Judo white belt with only a few months of training will be able to tell you several of the major mistakes that the karateka makes once he gets taken down. They'll know because they will have made many of those mistakes in sparring and will have learned quickly what gets you choked out.\nEven if you train some grappling techniques in your dojo, they are unlikely to be as refined as those taught by expert grapplers. Case in point, here's a karate dojo working on an arm bar, but unfortunately a rather sloppy version. A resisting opponent would probably escape this easily. But then look at the difference when they get some advice from someone who has grappling expertise.\nEven better:\n2. Training with grapplers will improve your stand-up game. Knowing what to do if you are taken down will allow you to be more confident and committed with your stand-up techniques because you won't have to worry so much about the opponent catching your kick or trapping you in a clinch when you move in for a strike. Worrying about being taken down is one reason why strikers are often tentative with their initial attacks. These \"toe dipping\" sorts of techniques do zero damage and provide a prime opportunity for a grappler to move in and attempt a take-down.\nThat's exactly what we see over and over in the early Gracie challenge videos involving people who have trained exclusively in striking arts:\nTraining with a grappler will improve your stand-up game because it will show you very quickly what kinds of attacks do and don't work on someone who is intent on going to a clinch or on taking you down. In particular, it will show you why it is a bad idea to do a half-ass kick or single technique rather than a full-on combination attack. It will also show you what you need to do in order to counter a take-down attempt using strikes, which definitely can work if you practice it:\n3. Randori is a very effective way to learn, and it provides an excellent reality check. In most striking arts, sparring is done either for points or as something resembling a game of \"tag\". That is, it is generally not done at full power because you would quickly run out of partners if everyone fought for real in the dojo. Point or semi-contact sparring can have benefits, such as helping with timing and distance, but it can also give a very misleading sense of what a real fight is like. Remember, how you train is how you will fight, and if you play tag in the dojo, you may try it in the street as well. This is another reason that you see strikers throwing weak, single attacks in far too many fight videos.\nIt's not just against grapplers that this bad habit can land you in trouble. Here's an example of some taekwondo students against amateur boxers. While the TKD guys are playing tag, the boxers are throwing real punches.\nIt's very different in grappling arts. Because of the nature of the techniques (throws, arm bars, chokes) and the option of \"tapping out\" before any major damage is done, students can engage in free sparring (\"randori\" in judo, \"rolling\" in BJJ) that involves 100% resistance. In other words, the opponent is doing everything he can to submit you and to keep you from submitting him. Any assumptions that you may have about how your techniques work on a resisting opponent are put to the test and any illusions about their effectiveness dissolve immediately. You simply cannot become deluded about your prowess in the way that many strikers do.\nObviously, there are some very serious strikers out there who put their skills to the test in full contact competition. Kyokushin karate and muay thai come to mind.\nBut then there are guys like this:\nThat's an extreme example, but the point is that these guys can go all the way through the ranks and never realize that they have zero fighting ability. By contrast, this is a critical lesson that you will learn on day one in a grappling class.\nSimilar points were made recently by author Sam Harris,\n[A] form of self-deception can be found in most martial artists, because almost all training occurs with some degree of partner compliance: Students tend to trade stereotyped attacks in a predictable sequence, stopping to reset before repeating the drill. This staccato pattern of practice, while inevitable when learning a technique for the first time, can become a mere pantomime of combat that does little to prepare a person for real encounters with violence.\nAnother problem is that many combative techniques are too dangerous to perform realistically (e.g., gouging the eyes, striking the groin). As result, students are merely left to imagine that these weapons decisively end a fight whenever deployed in earnest. Reports from the real world suggest otherwise.\nThese concerns make BJJ and other grappling arts unique in two ways: BJJ can be safely practiced under conditions of 100 percent resistance and, therefore, any doubts or illusions about its effectiveness can be removed. Striking-based arts can also be performed under full resistance, of course, but not safely\u2014because getting repeatedly hit in the head is bad for your health. And, whatever the intensity of training, it is difficult to remove uncertainty from the striker's art: Not even a professional boxer can be sure what will happen if he hits an assailant squarely on the jaw with a closed fist. The other man might fall to the ground unconscious, or he might not\u2014and without gloves, the boxer might break his hand on the first punch. By contrast, even a novice at BJJ knows beyond any doubt what will happen if he correctly applies a triangle choke. It is a remarkable property of grappling that the distance between theory and reality can be fully bridged.\n4. Striking is not always effective. One of the problems with the safety-related limitations on full-contact training in striking arts is that it means that many strikers have to assume that their punches and kicks will be effective if they ever need to use them for real.\nSometimes a powerful strike or kick is all it takes:\nBut you simply can't assume that your strikes will work every time and against every opponent. Look at the damage that boxers and MMA fighters can take without going down. As one example, here is the last few minutes of the famous UFC fight between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen:\nSonnen spent 23 minutes using Anderson Silva as a punching bag, but he still lost the match. At the last moment, Silva managed to pull out a win by catching Sonnen in a triangle. Chael Sonnen is no 90-pound weakling. He's a strong, well-trained fighter. And yet, he landed strike after strike for more than 20 minutes, and it did nothing to stop Silva. Yes, he was wearing gloves, but lots of fighters get knocked out in UFC matches even with gloves (including Anderson Silva), so that's not the explanation for why strikes did not end the fight. The point is that sometimes strikes end a fight quickly and sometimes they don't, and you cannot assume that one or two strikes will be enough in every situation.\nIf that doesn't convince you, consider that UFC heavyweight Roy Nelson recently set a UFC record by being hit with 437 significant strikes without being stopped by any of them. Those are strikes by trained heavyweight UFC fighters. Maybe you hit a lot harder than they do, but I wouldn't count on it.\n5. Striking is not always appropriate. One of my favorite scenes in the brilliant web comedy series Enter the Dojo comes in the very first episode, in which Master Ken instructs his students in how to deal with someone poking them in the chest (skip ahead to 1:50):\nThis is a parody, of course, but serious examples like this are pretty common. Consider these extreme responses to someone throwing a punch:\nThe truth is, you can't unleash hell on someone for grabbing you or trying to punch you and expect there to be no legal or moral consequences. Sometimes doing damage with strikes is just not appropriate at all. Consider the \"drunkle\" scenario, which is a drunk uncle at some family gathering who is causing a scene. You can't very well do a circling destruction on him in front of all your relatives. In cases such as that, you need a less violent alternative for controlling the individual. Grappling arts specialize in joint locks, hold downs, and chokes that can end a situation effectively without doing permanent damage or landing you in jail. This is why many karateka also train in at least some basic locks and take-downs, but more training means more options.\n5. It will expand your ideas about bunkai. One of the most interesting aspects of karate training is learning the applications of kata. It's amazing how much information is packed into kata, and not just obvious things like blocking and punching, but joint locks, throws, and take-downs. Perhaps this is not surprising, given that many of the early masters of karate also had experience with some form of grappling art such as judo or jujutsu.\nAs an excellent modern example, Iain Abernethy has various books and DVDs which emphasize the use of throws and grappling techniques derived from katas.\nOf course, no one knows more about throws, locks, and take-downs than someone who has trained extensively in an art that focuses on these techniques. They may also practice using them against attacks that are different from those that are typically practiced in karate. Learning from experts in throws and locks can greatly expand your repertoire in this area, which you can then apply to your own understanding and interpretation of kata to see how they can fit within your karate training.\n6. Most people don't train in martial arts, but a lot of people watch UFC and YouTube. Self-defense oriented training in most martial arts includes defenses against grabs, haymaker punches, and other common attacks, because this is what you are much more likely to encounter in a real situation. Nonetheless, most of what is taught and practiced in karate is how to defend against karate-style attacks such as straight punches and kicks. This may or may not translate into fighting skills that work well against untrained opponents with no martial arts background.\nYet, odds are that you if you do get into a fight, it won't be with one of these guys:\nBut it could very well be against a guy like this:\nA person like this has no formal training, but has watched many UFC fights and YouTube videos and will be trying to use an amateur version of MMA moves. That includes imitations of take-downs and grappling techniques, which are pretty easily countered if you have real training in these areas.\n7. It will expand your knowledge of body mechanics. Applied knowledge of how the body can and can't move is what makes the martial arts effective. Striking arts like karate may emphasize strong stances, power generation, speed, and torque. Grappling arts like judo emphasize the proper use of balance (and disruption thereof), leverage, and momentum. Karate teaches how to maximize the force of impact and to attack the most vulnerable targets. Judo and BJJ focus on how to control an opponent using minimal effort and to disable an attacker using joint manipulations and chokes. Put this knowledge together, and you will have a formidable understanding of applied biomechanics.\n8. It's a new challenge. One of the goals of martial arts training in general is to constantly challenge oneself. Unfortunately, once a certain level of proficiency is reached in one art, it can be difficult to follow through on this \u2014 especially if it means leaving one's comfort zone. Trying a martial art that is quite different can be a real challenge and very exciting, once you get over the idea of being a white belt again.\n9. It's a great workout. If you take part in multiple sports, then you'll know that they do not all use the same muscles in the same way. You can ride a bicycle all you want, you're still going to be sore if you go rollerblading for the first time. Likewise, the muscles and the way they are used is different in karate versus grappling arts. Combined with the sustained strenuous exercise of randori, this provides a different and highly complementary workout to your normal training.\n10. It's fun. 'Nuff said.\nSo there you have it, ten good reasons for karateka to give grappling arts a try.\nBunkai, Grappling, Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Mixed Martial Arts, Self-defence, Techniques, Training\t| tags: BJJ, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, grappling, judo, karate, kung fu, MMA, muay thai, self-defence, striking, tae kwon do | 2 Comments\nTimeline of a karate grading.\nThis is the story of a recent senior belt grading at our dojo. Bear in mind that every dojo's gradings are different, and that they may emphasize different things or include different components. In fact, every grading within a dojo is different. The point isn't what the students are required to do at the grading, it's that the experience represents a significant physical and mental and challenge that provides a major sense of accomplishment in earning the next promotion in rank.\nHere is what it was like for us at this particular grading.\n9:45 AM \u2014 Breakfast. Shreddies and a protein bar. Coffee. Forecast for today is hot and humid. Packed several bottles of Gatorade and water, energy bars, and two gis.\n10:20 AM \u2014 I arrive at the dojo and meet up with others who are grading, along with a few senior belts who aren't grading today but have come early. Each grading has a fitness component at the start, and we generally have a choice between a run or a series of exercises back at the dojo (for example, 150 pushups + 150 situps + 150 mountain climbers + 150 jumping jacks). Today I decide to do the run, so we get ourselves organized and head down to Riverside Park.\n10:40 AM \u2014 At Riverside Park and ready to roll. Time for a nice little 7km run through the trails at the park to get things started. And by \"nice\" and \"little\", I mean \"hot\" and \"gruelling\".\nDid I mention that it's really hot out? At least I have on proper running shoes, not like the ones I wore for the Spartan Race which gave me a nasty blister. I also remembered to wear some sports socks, which happened to be ones I got from the publishers of the scientific journal Evolution at a conference last summer.\n11:45 AM \u2014 We arrive back at the dojo, which is now filling up with black belts from our dojo and Senseis and students from five other cities. We change out of our sweaty running clothes and into our gis. People are milling about, stretching, chatting. There are obviously some nerves among those grading, but the mood is positive and people are happy to see friends from other dojos. I realize that I am the only person below the rank of brown belt grading today. There is someone grading for Yondan, someone for Sandan, two for Nidan, two for Shodan, and one for black stripe. And me (grading for blue).\n12:00 PM \u2014 Everyone lines up. We hear a welcome message from Sensei, followed by a formal bow-in. We start off with walking basics, then walking basics with partners.\nAfter the basics, we do some kakete and koteketae with a partner. It is extremely hot in the dojo, and almost everyone is already sweating heavily. Eventually, Sensei turns on the air conditioning to provide a bit of relief (and, presumably, to prevent anyone from passing out).\n12:30 PM \u2014 A short break for a drink. It's very hot today, by the way.\n12:35 PM \u2014 Now it's time for renzoku kumite. This is one of the most physically demanding parts of the grading, especially in the heat. I have to do 10 rounds, which is bad enough, but those grading for nidan have to do 25 rounds. I finish and have a little time to catch my breath, but the nidan guys are still going.\nHere is an example of renzoku kumite. Note that this is only half a round, and it's slower than some people tend to go. It's also the simplest set of techniques, but we did any number of combinations.\n1:05 PM \u2014 I do my kakomi kumite. 6 rounds. The guys grading for nidan are still doing their renzoku. They don't finish until 1:30 and then they have to do their kakomi. There's a bit of waiting for me, since I got mine done first and had the fewest rounds to do. But then I join in for one of the people grading for nidan. However, it's much easier being on the outside of the circle than in the middle since you're not blocking or striking the entire time.\nHere's an example of kakomi kumite.\n1:50 PM \u2014 Everyone finishes their kakomi. Time for another short break and a quick snack and lots of liquids. I also put on my clean gi. Bringing it was a great idea. The air conditioning is humming now, and the sweat-soaked gi was feeling pretty gross by this point.\n2:05 PM \u2014 Now it's time for kata (and bunkai for black belts), ippon kumite (and nihon kumite for black belts), and oral questions. Here's the panel of black belts that we're facing:\nThis part of the grading is my least favourite and is the one that causes me more stress than anything else. I'm not a fan of doing my katas under pressure and in front of an audience, with every move being scrutinized. The fact that we're exhausted from the run and the first half of the grading doesn't help. Plus, there's a fair bit of sitting and waiting for our turn, because this part is done individually. This means that the muscles start to stiffen up, making kata performance even more difficult.\nSeveral people go through their kata, bunkai, and oral questions. The black belts have been giving each person very good corrections and constructive criticisms on their katas.\n3:25 PM \u2014 It's been over an hour. I still haven't done my katas yet. I'm getting rather stiff, so I'm grateful for a short break and chance to stretch.\n3:30 PM \u2014 Back to finish the rest of the kata. I go dead last. I am asked to do two katas: Saifa and Seiryu. They go pretty well \u2014 meaning no major mistakes, not forgetting anything, or any of the various things that can go wrong in these situations. Obviously there are various comments for improvement, however.\nAfter my katas and the comments, it's time for my oral question. Up to this point, many of the questions have been stuff like \"What have you learned since you started karate?\" or \"What do you hope to accomplish in the future?\". Not for me. I get \"Why do you think Chojun Miyagi created Goju-ryu?\". My answer, in true professorial manner, was somewhat complicated. I said that I don't think he set out to create a style from scratch that would be part hard and part soft, but rather that it evolved that way more organically. So, to me, the question actually had two components: one, why did his style end up being hard and soft, and two, why did he decide to name it Goju-ryu and emphasize this aspect of it? I talked a little about these, and then I was asked whether I had read a particular document by Miyagi and who the intended audience was. I believe the question was referring to this document, entitled \"Historical Outline of Karate-Do, Martial Arts Of Ryukyu\" \u2014 at least, that's what I based my answer on.\nThe last thing to do is my ippon kumite, with Sempai Wes as my partner. I only had to do the Jo and Chu ippons but the shodan candidates had to do all the ippons and nihons.\n4:25 PM \u2014 The grading is essentially done. People are chatting or getting a drink while the judges discuss the results and fill out the certificates.\n4:45 PM \u2014 The moment everyone has been waiting for: presentation of the new belts, shaking hands, bow-out, and group photo. It's done!\nIn case I forgot to mention, it was really hot today.\nGradings\t| 1 Comment\nWhich martial art has the worst music?\nThere is a long-running debate about which martial art is the best on \"the street\". What you hear about far less is which martial art has inspired the worst music.\nHumour\t| No Comments\nVideo analysis as a useful training tool.\nby Ryan Gregory, June 20th, 2013\nLast night at Judo class, Sensei was trying to correct a mistake that I kept making during a certain throw. The throw in question was O Soto Gari (large outer reap).\nHere's the throw broken down:\nAnd here it is in action:\nThe problem is that I was not getting in close enough or getting my partner off balance in the right direction. I watched him demonstrate the throw on my partner and on me, and I understood the concepts involved, but I kept making the same mistake. So, Sensei went over and grabbed his iPad and had me to do the throw a couple of times while recording video. He then played back the video in slow motion, pausing at a certain point and noting the gap between my body and that of my partner.\nLet me just say, I was very impressed by how informative this little exercise was. Of course, lots of sports use video analysis to look in detail at one's technique and find areas for improvement. I had also video taped my own karate kata not too long ago and found it very useful to review.\nThe difference, though, is that with the tablet and its large screen and the particular app that Sensei used, we were able to scrub through the video to find the problematic element(s) of my throw, and pause on a particularly revealing image, all in real-time. I have an Android tablet and phone, and I was able to find the same app. It's not free (costs about $5), but it I am sure I will get a ton of use out of it in training, both in judo and karate. And I suspect that my dojo mates would benefit enormously from seeing their own technique in real-time like that as well. Sometimes you can be told something over and over and understand the correction, but until you see yourself making the mistake it can be difficult to correct.\nFor those who are interested, the app in question is Coach's Eye:\nIt is available for iPad and iPhone from the iTunes Store, and for Android devices from the Google Play Store.\nResources, Techniques, Training\t| No Comments\nLike Back in the Gi on Facebook.\nFor those of you who would like more frequent posts, please check out the Back in the Gi Facebook page. I post short updates and interesting links much more often there.\nIf you're a Facebook user, feel free to like the page here:\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BackInTheGi\nBlogs\t| No Comments\nRyuism.\nby Ryan Gregory, May 5th, 2013\nRyuism:\n(noun; Japanese ry\u016b, \"school\" + Greek via Latin and French -ism, denoting action, state, condition, doctrine).\n1. A belief or doctrine that one's own specific martial art and style or school thereof is inherently superior to all others. Often rationalized on the basis of \"purity\" and\/or assumed efficacy under hypothetical conditions.\n2. Mistrust, lack of respect, and\/or unwillingness to learn from fellow martial artists on the basis of their style or affiliation and not their individual characteristics or skills.\n3. Criticism of the performance of other martial artists as judged from one's own specific understanding of similar techniques, without regard for legitimate and\/or arbitrary differences that exist among arts and\/or styles or schools.\nRelated: ryuist (adjective or noun); racism; tribalism.\nHumour, Myths, Styles\t| 1 Comment\nJudo belt requirements: White to Yellow.\nThere is lots of information online about Judo techniques and curricula, but I thought it would be useful (for me, at least) to have some of this material combined in one place. For example, here is a summary of the belt requirements for White (6th kyu) to Yellow (5th kyu), based on the Judo Canada syllabus. The animations are from the excellent site JudoInfo.com which is run by Neil Ohlenkamp. Clicking on a technique name will link to a YouTube video.\nNage-waza\n(Throwing techniques)\nOsoto-otoshi Large outer drop\nOsoto-gari Large outer reap\nUki-goshi (or o-goshi or tsuri-goshi) Floating half-hip throw (or full hip throw or lifting hip throw)\nIppon seio-nage One arm shoulder throw\nDeashi-barai Advanced foot sweep\nTai-otoshi Body drop\nOuchi-gari Large inner reap\nKouchi-gari or kouchi-gake Small inner reap\nKosoto-gake or kosotogari Small outer reap or small outer hook\n(Breakfalls)\nZempo-ukemi Front breakfall\nKoho-ukemi Back breakfall\nYoko-ukemi Side breakfall\nZempo-kaiten Forward roll\nNe-waza\n(Grappling techniques)\nKesa-gatame \/ kuzure-kesa-gatame Scarf hold \/ broken scarf hold\nYoko-shiho-gatame Side four quarter hold\nEscapes from kesa-gatame\nEscapes from yoko-shiho-gatame\nBasic attack and defense\nShizen Hontai; Migi\/Hidari Shizentai Basic posture (left and right)\nJigo Hontai:Migi\/Hidari Jigotai Defensive posture (left and right)\nTai-sabaki; Tsugi-ashi Body movement\nKumi-kata Grips\nKuzushi Breaking opponent's balance\nTsukuri Turning into the throw\nKake Executing the throw\n9 of the specified 9 techniques performed in motion. Chosen goshi-waza must be performed to the right and left.\nServing as uke for the tori attempting a grading examination.\nMinimum of 15 weeks of practice 2 x 120 minutes \/week, as a white belt.\nKnowledge of Judo origin and history.\nFitness goals: 20 full push-ups; 30 modified sit-ups, 20 burpees in 60 seconds.\nGradings, Judo, Techniques\t| No Comments\nMeibukan Goju-ryu Karate\nKodokan Judo\nKitchener-Waterloo Meibukan Centre for Martial Arts\nKohbukan Sisu Judo and Jiu-Jitsu\nCurrent Readers\nVisitors since Feb. 9, 2012","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Captain America: Civil War - 11 Things Learned From AsiaPop ComiCon Trailer\nSimilarity to the source material: zero.\nIt's always frustrating sitting on the outside of ComiCons knowing the choice material on show will remain secret to all but those lucky few inside the sardine-crammed screening rooms. That's basically what the Internet is for most people - a heaving mass of comic book fans trying to beg information with those in the know, and luckily there's a new answer to that begging in the wake of the new Civil War trailer that screened at AsiaPop. The trailer - which was initially suggested to be just a recut of the D23 footage - featured some brand new scenes that were conspicuously kept away from pesky Internet leakers with mobile phones trained on the screen by a crack security team. So this time fans are going to have to wait until the official trailer releases to see at least some of that content. But luckily - and inevitably - some fans, including one charitable Redditor, have offered run-downs of the footage, which was shown twice for effect. It goes without saying that the reaction on the ground (mostly from fans who were already very aroused for the film) verged on the hyperbolic (especially when Sebastian Stan turned up for a panel), and there were some choice morsels of information in there...\n11. Thanos Is In It\nWell, sort of. When he appeared in the mid-credits stinger at the end of the first Avengers movie and was then unceremoniously dropped for Josh Brolin, Damion Poitier joined the list of actors who were removed from on-screen jobs before the character got big. But luckily for him - and as something of an Easter Egg - Poitier is back in the MCU, playing one of Crossbones' thugs.\n15 Most Paused Movie Moments Of 2019\nGodzilla: 20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know\nPosted On: 20th Sep 2015\nSimon Gallagher\nWhatCulture's COO and the guy who deletes your comments.\nSee more from Simon","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Olga Rapunzel gave birth to live\nThe star of \"House-2\" became a mother.\nOlga Rapunzel, the popular participant of \"House-2\" gave birth to a daughter. The TV star was led out of the clinic, live stream, whereby thousands of her fans have become \"accomplices\" of the process.\nOlga came to the hospital at six in the morning, when I felt the first contractions. A Rapunzel took the icon, which is not removed until the very end.\nHusband Rapunzel \u2014 Dmitry Dmitrienko was present at birth. He was doing his wife a foot massage and strongly supported during labor. \"It was not my idea, but only his desire. He offered \u2013 say, want to see how the baby is born. I would have a hand to hold me. But if I wanted to see Dima at birth, and he was against it, I would not began to persuade him!\" \u2014 said Olga shortly before birth.\nAgain the athlete! Olga Buzova caught on a date\nYelena Isinbayeva showed the first photo of the newborn","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Davis2017-07-10 12:08:242017-12-31 08:40:47Preserving Our Seafaring Traditions - The Nautical Arts Workshop\nDown By the BAY - Niantic's Little Red Barn for Artistic Youth\nhttps:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/barn-for-art-crop.jpg 1004 1200 Sarah Crisp https:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ink-publications-finer-living-logo-300x163.png Sarah Crisp2017-06-25 12:22:372017-07-10 12:15:00Down By the BAY - Niantic's Little Red Barn for Artistic Youth\nRace4Chase \"Taking the High Road\" A Little Boy and his Legacy\nhttps:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/race-4-chase-crop.jpg 448 1000 Ink Publications https:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ink-publications-finer-living-logo-300x163.png Ink Publications2017-06-24 10:55:162017-07-10 11:22:08Race4Chase \"Taking the High Road\" A Little Boy and his Legacy\nLife's Fine Lines - Artist Robert Crawford\nhttps:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC2510-crop.jpg 585 1000 Nancy LaMar-Rogers https:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ink-publications-finer-living-logo-300x163.png Nancy LaMar-Rogers2017-06-17 07:22:022017-06-25 13:49:17Life's Fine Lines - Artist Robert Crawford\nDiversity in the Woods - Bingham Camp Theatre Retreat\nhttps:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/105_BINGHAMCAMP.jpg 667 1000 Caryn B. 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Davis2017-06-17 06:28:452017-06-25 13:49:06Diversity in the Woods - Bingham Camp Theatre Retreat\nMentors, Lyrical Fireworks, & the Alamo -The Ascendancy of Opera Star, Brian Cheney\nhttps:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/As-Captain-JamesTBelmonte-in-Mozarts-Abduction-from-the-seraglio-crop.jpg 471 1000 Sarah Crisp https:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ink-publications-finer-living-logo-300x163.png Sarah Crisp2017-06-17 06:06:312017-12-31 08:36:52Mentors, Lyrical Fireworks, & the Alamo -The Ascendancy of Opera Star, Brian Cheney\nTwo Wrasslin' Cats - The River Towns' \"Community Center\"\nhttps:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CF001271ab-1.jpg 779 1000 Rona Mann https:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ink-publications-finer-living-logo-300x163.png Rona Mann2017-06-13 15:36:572017-12-31 08:34:35Two Wrasslin' Cats - The River Towns' \"Community Center\"\n\"My Mother Had No Eyebrows!\" The Backstory behind A Nu Yu Studio\nhttps:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC03023_crop.jpg 480 1000 Rona Mann https:\/\/inkct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ink-publications-finer-living-logo-300x163.png Rona Mann2017-06-13 15:08:282017-06-25 12:30:22\"My Mother Had No Eyebrows!\" The Backstory behind A Nu Yu Studio\nCategories Select Category Arts & Culture Explore Connecticut Featured Articles Food & Drink Health & Wellness Home & Garden Last Month in Ink Local Events Main Feature Marketplace People Theater & Performance Travel\nYour Ultimate Guide to Finer Living\nin Connecticut and Abroad\nemail: info@inkct.com\nThe Maggie P\u2026 \"Was, and Still Is, Home\"\nThe Rebirth of Ocean Beach \u2013 1938: Devastation \u2013 2018: A Jewel\nAuthenticating Lady Margaret\nRoxbury Market and Deli \u2013 The Pulse of Roxbury\nThe Maggie P\u2026 \"Was, and Still Is, Home\"July 16, 2018 - 3:31 pm\nThe Rebirth of Ocean Beach \u2013 1938: Devastation \u2013 2018: A JewelJuly 16, 2018 - 3:09 pm\nAuthenticating Lady MargaretJuly 16, 2018 - 2:55 pm\nRoxbury Market and Deli \u2013 The Pulse of RoxburyJuly 16, 2018 - 2:00 pm\nTaylor Rental and Party Plus \u2013 \"Do You Have\u2026?\" Taylor Does!July 16, 2018 - 1:39 pm\nEcho Salon, Guliford \u2013 Serenity, Artistry, and the Love of Romeo ValentinoMarch 25, 2018 - 9:41 am\nArt Art Festival Artisan Beauty charity Culture cupckaes Dance Design Dining Education Entrepreneur Explore CT Fashion Food Gourmet Health Home Marketplace Music Outdoors People Photography Shopping Theater Travel\nWe encourage the public to submit stories, poems, photographs, essays and all things creative. 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{"text":"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/journals\/iawa\/15\/1\/article-p65_7.xml\nGet New Issue Alerts\nGet Advance Article alerts\nAnatomy and Ultrastructure of Pith Fleck-Like Tissues in Some Rosaceae Tree Species\nIn: IAWA Journal\nAuthor: Danny Rioux\nUnusual xylem tissues were found in Amelanchier laevis, Prunus pensylvanica, P. virginiana, Sorbus americana and S. aucuparia. These zones of abnormal xylem were composed of hypertrophied cells and bands that apparently comprised collapsed cells. The hypertrophied cells appeared to occupy gaps that began to form in the cambial zone. Histochemical tests indicated that the bands were highly lignified and impermeable to an aqueous solution of KMnO4, as revealed by fluorescence. Transmission electron microscope examination disclosed clearly that the bands were composed of collapsed cells and showed that the hypertrophied cells had thicker walls which contained, at times, additional layers. Although the cause of this tissue formation is unknown, its anatomy is quite similar to pith fleck tissues reported by others as being caused by cambium mining insects.\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/22941932-90001344\nPith flecks; Amelanchier; Prunus; Sorbus; hypertrophied cells; collapsed cells; histochemical tests; lignin\nIAWA Journal\nBotany, Biology\nDownload PDF Download Citation Get Permissions","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: north buffalo\nUncovering History One Porch Project At a Time\nYou can't go far in Buffalo without tripping over something historically significant, or randomly meeting the guy who's grandfather built your house. Or something like that.\nIt's always interesting to open up these old porches and see for ourselves why there are now so many building codes and regulations. One reason we have to get our foundations inspected and plans drawn up and approved before getting a permit is because back in the day people would just throw a 2\u00d74 on top of an I-beam that was anchored in nothing but heavy clay and maybe some rocks and call it a day. If you need any more convincing that this is nowhere near enough to support that porch roof, take a look at how that 2\u00d74 is bowing under the weight.\nDuring our Greenfield porch project last year our on-site inspector made us swap out the 4\u00d74 posts the permit inspector had approved with 6x6s because of concerns that the porch roof would be too much for them to carry.The framing around those posts that the shingles were nailed to was all tied in and carried some of the load, but that's probably the only reason this porch wasn't in worse shape. And by worse, I mean it hadn't started to collapse and take the porch roof and part of the second story with it.\nThat's even more surprising when we learned a little about the house and its neighborhood. It turns out that Matt, who rented us the dump trailer to haul away the old porch, had some history with the house. His grandfather had actually helped build the house we were working on back in the 1920s, as well as many more on the street. It was a company neighborhood, with the houses being built first for the executives of the Pierce Arrow Company and later, as the neighborhood expanded, for the rest of the workers.\nThe Pierce Arrow complex at Elmwood and Great Arrow, which is undergoing massive renovations, was designed in 1906 and operated until 1938 and during that time produced some of the most powerful and efficient automobiles in the country. President Taft ordered two Pierce-Arrows and two White Model M Tourers to serve as the first official cars of the White House, in addition to many Hollywood stars and tycoons of the day owning one of luxury cars.\nOne interesting feature of these executive homes that Matt learned from his mother was that apparently the porches sported a steel I-beam as the header. This explains why there is absolutely no sag to the front of the porch but makes it even more baffling that with a steel beam running along the top there would be only a 2\u00d74 at either end supporting all that weight. But who knows, those columns could have been rebuilt later by someone who didn't realize what was hidden above. Either way, I'm glad that I'm some cases they don't make them they used to.\nVisit us at PreferredServicesWNY on Instagram to see more photos of our projects!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Events\nhomepage - dont delete the block, it used to detect which main nav to show on homepage\nBrain & Behavior Research Foundation Awards $13.7 Million in NARSAD Young Investigator Grants to 198 Scientists Pursuing Innovative Mental Health Research\nGo Back to the Press Releases\nRubenstein Associates, Inc.\nContact: Nadine Woloshin 212-843-8041\/917-699-9456 [email protected]\nNEW YORK CITY (October 13, 2016)\u2014The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation today announced the award of its NARSAD Young Investigator Grants valued at $13.7 million to 198 of the world's most promising young scientists. The $70,000 grants ($35,000 a year for two years) support the work of talented young scientists with innovative ideas for groundbreaking neurobiological research seeking to identify causes, improve treatments and develop prevention strategies for psychiatric disorders\u2014including addiction, attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, anxiety, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and schizophrenia\u2014that affect one in five people.\nRecipients of the 29th annual NARSAD Young Investigator Grants are from 70 institutions in 13 countries. They were selected by the Foundation's Scientific Council, which is comprised of 173 leading experts across disciplines in brain and behavior research, including two Nobel Prizewinners; four former directors of the National Institute of Mental Health; four recipients of the National Medal of Science; 13 members of the National Academy of Sciences; 26 chairs of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Departments at leading medical institutions; and 55 members of the National Academy of Medicine.\n\"These young scientists are conducting research into the underpinnings of mental illness that will improve efforts to prevent, diagnose and treat mental illness,\" says Foundation President and CEO Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D. \"We are grateful to all of our donors whose generosity makes this important research possible and brings us closer to cures that will alleviate the suffering mental illness brings.\"\nAccording to Dr. Borenstein, the Foundation's successful model for funding brain research not only supports scientists throughout their careers, but can make a huge difference for young investigators, permitting them to begin careers as independent research faculty or garner pilot data for innovative ideas to develop \"proof of concept\" for their work.\nOnce the grant project is complete, these young investigators usually go on to receive subsequent funding valued at 11 to 19 times the original grant amount. In many cases, NARSAD Grants offer the first critical support for a young scientist's work that may not otherwise receive funding.\n\"NARSAD Young Investigator Grants have led to groundbreaking and important new research that has improved the lives of people living with mental illness through enhanced treatments and therapies, and a better understanding of the causes of mental illness,\" says Herbert Pardes, M.D., President of the Foundation's Scientific Council and Executive Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. \"These early career scientists are making great strides in basic research, new technologies, next generation therapies, and early intervention techniques. This is the kind of out-of-the-box research that offers the best hope for change.\"\nSince 1987, the Foundation has awarded more than 4,000 Young Investigator Grants for an overall investment of $244 million; recipients of these grants received more than $2.4 billion in subsequent research funding. Overall, the Foundation has awarded $360 million to fund more than 5,000 grants to 4,000 leading scientists around the world, generating over $3.5 billion in additional funding for these scientists.\nThis year, the Scientific Council reviewed more than 750 applications to select 198 Young Investigators. The breakdown of funding for Young Investigator Grants is as follows: 75 percent funds basic research to understand what happens in the brain to cause mental illness; 18 percent funds next generation therapies for early diagnosis, treatment, symptom reduction and, ultimately, the prevention and cure of mental illness, and brain and behavior disorders; and seven percent funds the development of new technologies to advance or create new ways of studying and understanding the brain.\nAbout the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation:\nThe Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is committed to alleviating the suffering of mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research. The Foundation funds the most innovative ideas in neuroscience and psychiatry to better understand the causes and develop new ways to treat brain and behavior disorders. These disorders include depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Since 1987, the Foundation has awarded more than $360 million to fund more than 5,000 grants to more than 4,000 leading scientists around the world. This has led to over $3.5 billion in additional funding for these scientists. The Foundation is also dedicated to educating the public about mental health and the importance of research, including the impact that new discoveries have on improving the lives of those with mental illness, which will ultimately enable people to live full, happy and productive lives. For more information, visit www.bbrfoundation.org.\nEnter your amount\n100% of every dollar donated for research is invested in our research grants. Our operating expenses are covered by separate foundation grants.\nThe Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, our Tax ID # is 31-1020010.\nThe Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is committed to alleviating the suffering caused by mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research.\nGeneral Contact Information:\nBrain & Behavior Research Foundation 747 Third Avenue, 33rd Floor New York, NY 10017 646-681-4888 \/ 800-829-8289\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ben Affleck: Everybody Needs an Uncle Charlie\nBaller Awards\nOn the heels of last year's critically acclaimed performance in Gavin O'Connor's The Way Back, Ben Affleck is back with two stellar acting turns, arguably the best of his career. Earlier this fall, he was featured in Ridley Scott's riveting epic The Last Duel, which he wrote along with Nicole Holofcener and longtime bud Matt [\u2026]\nThe post Ben Affleck: Everybody Needs an Uncle Charlie appeared first on Awardsdaily \u2013 The Oscars, the Films and everything in between..\nBy: Frank J. Avella\nTitle: Ben Affleck: Everybody Needs an Uncle Charlie\nSourced From: www.awardsdaily.com\/2021\/12\/16\/ben-affleck-everybody-needs-an-uncle-charlie\/\nPublished Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:00:49 +0000\nhttps:\/\/www.mansbrand.com\/darts-betting-tips-the-best-free-bets-promotions-available-on-the-darts-world-championships\/\nRelated Topics:benaffleckthelastduel\nBenedict Cumberbatch opens up on tragic death of his sister\nDarts Betting Tips: The Best Free Bets & Promotions Available on the Darts World Championships\nA spokesperson for Taylor Swift has responded to a report that named the singer as the celebrity with the worst private jet CO2 emissions.\nYesterday, a report released by Yard claimed the American singer was the biggest CO2 polluter of the year so far, having flown in her private jet 170 times since January and totalling 8,294.54 tonnes of CO2.\nHowever, Swift's spokesperson told Buzzfeed News the statistics are inaccurate.\nFor context, the report claims the average person produces just seven tonnes of carbon emissions per year.\nSwift's representative said only some of the 170 flights can be attributed to the singer: \"Taylor's jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.\"\nRegardless, it is clear Swift's jet is racking up significant amounts of carbon emissions due to its inefficient use.\nAccording to the Yard report, her average flight time is just 80 minutes, and her jet's shortest recorded flight flew between Missouri and Nashville for just 36 minutes.\nOther significant celebrity polluters include boxer and domestic violence perpetrator Floyd Mayweather, whose shortest flight was just 10 minutes long but emitted one ton of carbon; Kim Kardashian, who has emitted 609 times more carbon than the average person; and director Steven Spielberg, who took an 18-minute flight between Rotterdam and Amsterdam \u2013 a route which, when taken by train, takes only an hour.\nThe subject of celebrity carbon emissions has blown up ever since Kylie Jenner shared an out-of-touch photo of her and partner Travis Scott posing in front of their private jets with the caption, \"you wanna take mine or yours?\"\nIn the midst of the backlash, many began diving deeper into Jenner's private jet use by examining the Celebrity Jets Twitter account, which records celebrity private jet trips.\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/CelebJets\/status\/1547047653690822661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\nMany were horrified she was regularly taking flights as short as 12 minutes and reprimanded her for \"her absolute disregard for the planet\".\nMany found it hypocritical that ordinary people were being asked by big companies to reduce their car trips and use paper straws when celebrities are constantly leaving huge carbon footprints with frivolous trips in their private jets.\nDespite the wave of criticism, celebrities have continued to take private flights between short distances.\nTitle: Taylor Swift's rep responds to reports the singer has the worst private jet carbon emissions\nSourced From: celebrity.nine.com.au\/latest\/taylor-swift-private-jet-co2-emissions-highest-celebrity-rep-statement\/589119a2-fb57-48bc-9547-73c28db53d21\nPublished Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 03:07:00 GMT\nhttps:\/\/www.mansbrand.com\/jodie-sweetin-marries-mescal-wasilewski-with-fuller-house-co-stars-in-attendance\/\nJodie Sweetin is married!\nThe 40-year-old actress, best known for playing Stephanie Tanner on Full House and Fuller House, married social worker Mescal Wasilewski on Saturday (July 30) at a private home in Malibu, Calif. after five years together.\nClick inside to read more\u2026\nJodie and Mescal wed in an intimate backyard ceremony that included her two daughters \u2013 Zoie, 14, and Beatrix, 11 \u2013 and her Fuller House co-stars including John Stamos, Candace Cameron Bure, and Andrea Barber.\n\"I know I have the right partner for the rest of whatever life brings me,\" Jodie shared with People. \"And I couldn't be more grateful.\"\nJodie and Mescal were first introduced through friends in 2017 and dated long-distanced before Mescal moved from New York City to Los Angeles in 2020. They got engaged in January 2022.\nThis is the fourth marriage for Jodie \u2013 she was first married to Shaun Holguin from 2002 to 2006, to Cody Herpin from 2007 until 2010, and to Morty Coyle from 2012 to 2016. She shares Zoie with Cody and Beatrix with Morty.\nCongrats to the newlyweds!\nBy: Just Jared\nTitle: Jodie Sweetin Marries Mescal Wasilewski with 'Fuller House' Co-Stars in Attendance!\nSourced From: www.justjared.com\/2022\/07\/31\/jodie-sweetin-marries-mescal-wasilewski-with-fuller-house-co-stars-in-attendance\/\nPublished Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 04:26:28 +0000\nhttps:\/\/www.mansbrand.com\/how-to-make-sense-of-a-very-unpredictable-fall-movie-season\/\nAll of a sudden, the fall movie season looks very busy. This week brought two big festival announcements loaded with major films to come: First came Venice, with a lineup that includes everything from Darren Aronofsky's \"The Whale\" to \"Bardo\"; it was followed by TIFF, where Steven Spielberg's \"The Fabelmans\" will premiere alongside Sam Mendes' \"Empire of Light\" and Sarah Polley's \"Women Talking,\" among many others. Meanwhile, Telluride continues to shroud its selections in secret, but the latest lineups help us get a sense of what to expect there as well.\nIn this week's episode of Screen Talk, Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson dig through both lineups to get a sense for which films could impact the coming awards season and why it's almost certain to be an unpredictable ride. They also address the return of competitiveness between festivals that seemed to subside earlier in the pandemic, and touch on the recent changes to the Oscar submission rules in France.\nWatch the full episode above or listen it below.\nScreen Talk is produced by Azwan Badruzaman and available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify, and hosted by Megaphone. Browse previous installments here, subscribe here, and be sure to let us know if you'd like to hear the hosts address specific issues in upcoming editions of Screen Talk.\nBy: Anne Thompson\nTitle: How to Make Sense of a Very Unpredictable Fall Movie Season\nSourced From: www.indiewire.com\/video\/tiff-venice-2022-analysis-spielberg-screen-talk-391-1234746652\/\nPublished Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:52:17 +0000\nBook a Night In the Imperial Hotel's Suite dedicated to Frank Lloyd Wright","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"F.C.C. Is Set to Regulate Net Access\nBy: Brian Stelter, The New York Times\nThe proposed rules of the online road would prevent fixed-line broadband providers like Comcast and Qwest from blocking access to sites and applications. The rules, however, would allow wireless companies more latitude in putting limits on access to services and applications.\nBefore a vote set for Tuesday, two Democratic commissioners said Monday that they would back the rules proposed by the F.C.C. chairman, Julius Genachowski, which try to satisfy both sides in the protracted debate over so-called network neutrality. But analysts said the debate would soon resume in the courts, as challenges to the rules are expected in the months to come.\nNet neutrality, broadly speaking, is an effort to ensure equal access to Web sites and cutting-edge online services. Mr. Genachowski said these proposed rules aimed to both encourage Internet innovation and protect consumers from abuses.\n\"These rules fulfill a promise to the future \u2014 to companies that don't yet exist, and the entrepreneurs that haven't yet started work in their dorm rooms or garages,\" Mr. Genachowski said in remarks prepared for the commission's meeting on Tuesday in Washington. At present, there are no enforceable rules \"to protect basic Internet values,\" he added.\nMany Internet providers, developers and venture capitalists have indicated that they would accept the proposal by Mr. Genachowski, which Rebecca Arbogast, a regulatory analyst for Stifel Nicolaus, a financial services firm, said \"is by definition a compromise.\"\nThe companies have said the rules would provide some regulatory certainty. In private, they have acknowledged the proposal could have been much worse. If approved, they \"will give some assurances to the companies that are building Web applications \u2014 companies like Netflix, Skype and Google \u2014 that they will get even treatment on broadband networks,\" Ms. Arbogast said.\nBut a wide swath of public interest groups have lambasted the proposal as \"fake net neutrality\" and said it was rife with loopholes. One group, Public Knowledge, said that instead of providing clear protections, the F.C.C. \"created a vague and shifting landscape open to interpretation. Consumers deserved better.\"\nNotably, the rules are watered down for wireless Net providers like AT&T and Verizon, which would be prohibited from blocking Web sites, but not from blocking applications or services unless those applications directly compete with providers' voice and video products, like Skype.\nF.C.C. officials said there were technological reasons for the wireless distinctions, and that they would continue to closely monitor the medium.\nCiting the wireless proposal, Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, said over the weekend that the F.C.C. was effectively allowing discrimination on the mobile Net, a fast-growing sector.\n\"Maybe you like Google Maps. Well, tough,\" Mr. Franken said on Saturday on the Senate floor. \"If the F.C.C. passes this weak rule, Verizon will be able to cut off access to the Google Maps app on your phone and force you to use their own mapping program, Verizon Navigator, even if it is not as good. And even if they charge money, when Google Maps is free.\"\nHe added, \"If corporations are allowed to prioritize content on the Internet, or they are allowed to block applications you access on your iPhone, there is nothing to prevent those same corporations from censoring political speech.\"\nMr. Franken and other critics say the rules come with major caveats; for instance, they would allow for \"reasonable network management\" by broadband providers. And they would discourage but not expressly forbid something called \"paid prioritization,\" which would allow a media or technology company to pay the provider for faster transmission of data, potentially creating an uneven playing field.\nThe F.C.C. officials also said that the order would require transparency about those network management practices. \"That sunshine will help deter bad behavior,\" one of the officials said. They spoke only on the condition of anonymity because the F.C.C. order has not been made public.\nPresident Obama has repeatedly indicated his support for net neutrality principles, and his chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, said on Dec. 1 that the F.C.C. proposal was an \"important step in preventing abuses and continuing to advance the Internet as an engine of productivity growth and innovation.\"\nThe two Democratic commissioners, Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn, acknowledged on Monday that the order was not as strong as they would have liked. But they said it had been improved this month in discussions with Mr. Genachowski, and they said they would not oppose it.\nTheir votes along with Mr. Genachowski's would be enough to approve the order at the F.C.C. meeting on Tuesday.\nTwo Republican commissioners, Meredith Baker and Robert McDowell, are expected to oppose it. Republicans have suggested that the net neutrality rules are an example of government overreach; in an opinion piece on Monday in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. McDowell asserted that \"nothing is broken that needs fixing.\"\nIn a statement Monday afternoon, Mr. Copps strongly disagreed. He said he wanted to ensure that the Internet \"doesn't travel down the same road of special interest consolidation and gate-keeper control that other media and telecommunications industries \u2014 radio, television, film and cable \u2014 have traveled.\"\n\"What an historic tragedy it would be,\" he said, \"to let that fate befall the dynamism of the Internet.\"\nSource: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/21\/business\/media\/21fcc.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FeaturedScience\nNew Geometric Model Improves Predictions of Fluid Flow in Rock\nBy Katie Elyce Jones \u2022 4 years ago\nSupercomputing validates mathematical approach for describing geological features\nDeep beneath the Earth's surface, oil and groundwater percolate through gaps in rock and other geologic material. Hidden from sight, these critical resources pose a significant challenge for scientists seeking to evaluate the state of such two-phase fluid flows. Fortunately, the combination of supercomputing and synchrotron-based imaging techniques enables more accurate methods for modeling fluid flow in large subsurface systems like oil reservoirs, sinks for carbon sequestration, and groundwater aquifers.\nResearchers led by computational scientist James McClure of Virginia Tech used the 27-petaflop Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) to develop a geometric model that requires only a few key measurements to characterize how fluids are arranged within porous rock\u2014that is, their geometric state.\nThe OLCF is a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team's results were published in Physical Review Fluids in 2018.\nThe new geometric model offers geologists a way to uniquely predict the fluid state and overcome a well-known shortcoming associated with models that have been used for more than half a century.\nAround the turn of the 20th century, the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski demonstrated that 3D objects are associated with four essential measures: volume, surface area, integral mean curvature, and Euler characteristic. However, in the traditional computational models for subsurface flow, the volume fraction provides the only measure of the fluid state and relies on observational data collected over time for greatest accuracy. Based on Minkowski's fundamental analysis, these traditional models are incomplete.\n\"The mathematics in our model is different from the traditional model, but it works quite well,\" McClure said. \"The geometric model is characterizing the microstructure of the medium using a very limited number of measures.\"\nTo apply Minkowski's result to the complex, multiphase fluid configurations found in porous rock, McClure's team needed to generate a large amount of data, and Titan provided the extreme computational power needed.\nWorking with international collaborators, the team selected five micro-computed tomography (microCT) datasets collected by x-ray synchrotrons to represent the microscopic structure of real rocks. The datasets included two sandstones, a sand pack, a carbonate rock, and a synthetic porous system known as Robuglas. The team also included a simulated pack of spheres.\nSimulations of different geometric states of fluid (red) in rock (tan). Using Titan, researchers validated a geometric model for characterizing fluid flow in porous rock and geologic materials from theory. Image courtesy of James McClure\nWithin each rock, thousands of possible fluid configurations were simulated and analyzed, totaling more than 250,000 fluid configurations. Using the simulation data, the team was able to show that a unique relationship exists among the four geometric variables, paving the way for a new generation of models that predict the fluid state from theory rather than by relying on a historical set of data.\n\"Relationships once thought to be inherently history-dependent can now be reconsidered based on rigorous geometric theory,\" McClure said.\nThe team used the open source Lattice Boltzmann for Porous Media (LBPM) code, developed by McClure and named for the statistics-driven lattice Boltzmann method that calculates fluid flow across a range of scales more rapidly than calculations using finite methods, which are most accurate at small scales. The LBPM code, which uses Titan's GPUs to speed fluid flow simulations, is released through the Open Porous Media Initiative, which maintains open-source codes for the research community.\n\"Lattice Boltzmann methods perform very well on GPUs,\" McClure said. \"In our implementation, the simulation runs on the GPUs while the CPU cores analyze information or modify the state of the fluids.\"\nAt exceptional computing speeds, the team was able to analyze the simulation state at about every 1,000 time steps, or at about every minute of computing time.\n\"This allowed us to generate a very large number of data points that can be used to study not only the geometric state but also other aspects of flow physics as we move forward,\" McClure said.\nLarger simulations will be needed to study how the diverse properties and microstructure of real rocks influence the behavior of the geometric relationship across length scales. A new generation of supercomputers like the OLCF's latest system\u2014the 200-petaflop IBM AC922 Summit\u2014will be needed to connect flow physics across length scales that range from nanometer- to millimeter-sized pores to reservoirs that can span several kilometers.\n\"The release of the Summit supercomputer enables larger simulations that will further push the boundaries of our understanding for these complex multiscale systems,\" McClure said.\nRelated publication:\nJ. E. McClure, R. T. Armstrong, M. A. Berrill, S. Sch\u00fclter, S. Berg, W. G. Gray, and C. T. Miller, \"Geometric State Function for Two-Fluid Flow in Porous Media.\" Physical Review Fluids 3, 084306 (2018), doi:10.1103\/PhysRevFluids.3.084306.\nUT-Battelle LLC manages ORNL for DOE's Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit https:\/\/science.energy.gov.\ngeology HPC Physics Supercomputing Titan\nBig Success at OLCF's Largest User Meeting\nVampir Takes a Bite Out of Inefficiency as Codes Run on Bigger Supercompute...\nVampir Takes a Bite Out of Inefficiency as Codes Run on Bigger Supercomputers\nRealizing the Dream of Rotating Detonation Engines through an OLCF, NETL, GE, and University of Michigan Collaboration","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Donda 2': Producer Digital Nas on Balancing Projects, Finding Peace and Human Life Events\nYe's in-demand beatsmith from the ATL shares his excitement on the highly anticipated rap sequel.\nBy Kevin L. Clark\nPhoto by Ian Shuckerow via BStarPR.\nDigital Nas.\nFebruary 9, 2022 \/ 1:43 PM\nDigital Nas represents the new wave of creative force who can be transparent in effort and transplanted through the spirit to ensure a productive day. The rapper and producer, whose real name is Nasir Pemberton, has been clocking in major time with the likes of Future, Antonio Brown, and, of course, Ye (also known as Kanye West) to put the finishing touches on Donda 2.\nBased out of Atlanta, Nas made a name for himself after producing \"Junya\" and \"Remote Control\" (as well as a \"Part 2\" for each) on last year's Donda. He met Ye in Los Angeles after the \"Eazy\" rapper heard his tracks through Mowalola Ogunlesi, design director, Yeezy Gap collection. Ye and Digital Nas connected on those two tracks plus the 150 others that were in the chamber, bringing their variant of \"monk music\" to the masses. (And the Grammys.)\nRELATED: Ye Is Actively Working On 'DONDA 2'\nThe \"NO STAIN\" architect also received some specific requests for how this sequel should differ from the original. Rolling Stone reported that there are directives for the album: \"If it cannot be played at a funeral, childbirth, graduation, a wedding, it will not be on our record,\" he said to the publication. \"We learned a lot from 'Donda 1.' We learned what hit. We learned what was sticking. So we took [it] from there.\"\nIn-between bouts of sleep, Nas took a brief moment to share his excitement for Donda 2, balancing his own project, DN3, with what he learned from the original, and which human life event he'll play the sequel album at first.\nBET.com: The musical directives on Donda 2 were learned from what y'all executed on Donda. Thematically, though, does anything from the original carry over or apply to the sequel?\nDigital Nas: Yeah, we took the same formula [from Donda] as far as simplifying the music \u2014 and kept it where there's not a lot of stuff going on. We kept things like high hats or too many snares and left them on the cutting room floor.\nBET.com \"Junya\" and \"Remote Control\" gave you insight on how to craft a part two, but what did you learn about tracklisting\/sequencing that you're applying to DN3?\nDigital Nas: Oh, man! From Donda, I was able to discover that with tracklisting and sequencing \u2014 less is more, you know what I'm saying? When I put out DN3, listeners will hear that there are not too many tracks \u2014 11 to be specific.\nBET.com Are there any non-spoiler surprises that longtime listeners can be excited about on DN3?\nDigital Nas: I can tell you one thing [laughs], they're going to be extremely excited about how well put together the music is now. I'm no longer speaking out of immaturity, I have lived and with this project, I'm speaking much in tune with how my current life is going and in the best way possible.\nDN3 is so much different than DN2. During DN2, I was recording from a place of feeling slept on. I was in a place in my life where I felt I was putting out some of the best art in the world and people weren't appreciating it. So, I was angry and it was an angry album \u2014 which there's nothing wrong with. A lot of music is full of rage.\nBut on DN3, I'm happy, and everything I said [that] I was going to do on DN2, I did. Everything I said I was going to do, I did. My music [on DN3] is amazing and all I can talk about is how I wish the world was a better place with peace. You feel there's a joy coming through this album.\nBET.com: There were some directives delivered for Donda 2 where this album must be playable at \"funerals, during childbirth, graduations, or at weddings.\" With that said, which human life event will you play the album at first? Can you share the title?\nDigital Nas: [Laughs] No, I can't share the title, but I am playing it at a wedding \u2014 and if I could, it would be at [A$AP] Rocky and Rihanna's reception. That would be epic!\nBET.com: For longtime listeners of your previous efforts, was there anything from these DN3 and Donda 2 sessions that they would be excited to learn?\nDigital Nas: I'm ain't going to lie to you. [For my projects,] I'm putting out two projects this year. I have DN3 coming and another one on the way. Right now, we're working on getting me into all of the [music] festivals. I've already met with the people who put together Rolling Loud. There's someone from there right now with us where we're recording Donda 2.\nI'm also looking to perform at Smokers Club. We're just excited to be working and are going to get added to everything, everywhere now that my project is going to be up.\nWatch and listen to below \"BUSSIN',\" and keep in mind that Donda 2 is slated for release on Feb. 22, 2022.\nKevin L. Clark is a screenwriter and entertainment director for BET Digital, who covers the intersection of music, film, pop culture, and social justice. Follow him on @KevitoClark.\nKanye WestDonda 2dondaHip hopRap MusicFuture - rapperMowalola OgunlesiDigital Nas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"RECAP: Seattle Seahawks Hang On To Beat Chicago Bears, 23-20\nBy Jeff Nusser@PodvsEveryone Oct 17, 2010, 6:18pm PDT\nShare All sharing options for: RECAP: Seattle Seahawks Hang On To Beat Chicago Bears, 23-20\nChicago, IL (Sports Network) - Matt Hasselbeck threw for 242 yards and one touchdown on 25-of-40 passing as Seattle nipped Chicago, 23-20, at Soldier Field.\nJustin Forsett gained 67 yards and rushed for a score on 10 carries, while Marshawn Lynch added 44 yards and a touchdown on 17 totes for the Seahawks (3-2), who were coming off a bye week that followed a 20-3 defeat at St. Louis.\nMike Williams posted game-highs of 10 receptions for 123 yards and Deon Butler recorded a 22-yard TD catch for Seattle, which registered its first road win of 2010.\n\"I really think we waited too long to get one (a road win),\" said Seattle head coach Pete Carroll. \"We wanted all the guys to answer the call and play well in all three phases of the game. We had six sacks, knocked the quarterback around all day long, and we were able to run the football today.\"\nJay Cutler finished 17-of-39 for 290 yards for the Bears (4-2), who have dropped two of three since beginning the year with three straight wins.\nDevin Hester had an 89-yard punt return for a touchdown, Johnny Knox added five catches for 120 yards and Matt Forte posted a rushing score in the loss.\nSeattle went up 23-13 three plays into fourth quarter after a one-yard run from Lynch to cap a 92-yard drive, then the Bears had an 89-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Danieal Manning negated due to a holding penalty.\nBoth clubs traded three straight possessions each without much offense. Chicago wasted its third drive in the series of futility when Robbie Gould missed a 54-yard try.\nHowever, after Seattle went three-and-out on the next series, Hester took a punt 89 yards for a 23-20 game with 1:54 remaining. The onside kick was hauled in by a Seahawks special teamer on Chicago's 42, and Hasselbeck worked off the remaining time with three kneels.\n\"You have to be ready each week to play your best ball, and we didn't play our best ball today,\" said Bears head coach Lovie Smith. \"If you can't convert offensively and let them convert and not get takeaways, it'll be a tough day.\"\nChicago struck on the first possession of the game, helped by a defensive pass interference call on Seattle which set up the Bears on the visitors' 22. Cutler hit Forte for a 13-yard gain, then a three-yard rush preceded his six- yard touchdown run.\nSeattle responded on its first drive on a Hasselbeck pass to Butler for a 22- yard score, then moved ahead 14-7 early in the second on Forsett's nine-yard scamper.\nA 34-yard make from Gould on the ensuing possession brought the Bears within four, and his 24-yarder with 1:10 on the clock made it 14-13 at the half.\nCutler was brought down by Jordan Babineaux in the end zone on the Bears' first drive of the third quarter, and though the Seahawks failed to capitalize, they kept that slim edge heading into the fourth after halting a pair of successive Chicago drives.\nSeattle has won eight of 13 meetings with Chicago, including two of the last three matchups...The Bears listed linebacker Lance Briggs as inactive with an ankle issue that kept him out of practice all week, and guard Roberto Garza was absent following knee surgery...Safety Major Wright also missed his fourth straight week with a hamstring issue...The Seahawks listed defensive tackle Brandon Mebane as inactive with a calf injury that was aggravated in practice...Forte ended with 11 yards on eight carries and three catches for 40 yards...The Seahawks racked up 353 yards of total offense to 307 for the Bears...Seattle punter Jon Ryan suffered injured ribs during Hester's TD run in the fourth quarter, and cornerback Kelly Jennings left the game with a hamstring issue.\nSeattle Seahawks Hang On To Beat Chicago Bears, 23-20\nSeahawks Recover Onside Kick, Hang On To Beat Bears, 23-20","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posted inNational\nReport: FBI Chief Orders Washington, DC Agents to \"Report to Work Immediately\"\nFriday, November 4, 2016 Friday, November 4, 2016\nALLEGED SOURCE: \"WE'RE PREPARING FOR MANY ARRESTS FROM THE TOP DOWN\"\nby Sharon Rondeau\n(Nov. 4, 2016) \u2014 The website TruePundit, whose owners pride themselves on complete accuracy, reported on Twitter and online that FBI Director James Comey has \"mandated all FBI agents [to] report to D.C. Offices. Prep for Raids. Possible Arrests in Clinton Probes.\"\nIt is believed by this writer that the website's operators are former US intelligence officials with inside sources unavailable to most media.\nIn an article published on Friday morning, TruePundit quoted an FBI source as having said, \"we are preparing for many arrests from the top down. I cannot elaborate beyond that.\"\nPrior to the release of 28 batches of emails involving Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta beginning on October 7, TruePundit correctly predicted that at least one of the emails which show that Clinton suggested killing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with a drone in a national security meeting held on November 23, 2010 with Obama and national security personnel in attendance.\nIn a subsequent tweet, TruePundit wrote, \"We have not been wrong yet. Wait & see.\"\nOn September 25, TruePundit issued a highly-detailed report quoting anonymous FBI sources as having come to the conclusion that they were \"used\" \"as pawns to insulate Hillary, aides & Clinton Foundation from prosecutions\" during their year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private server to conduct government business. WikiLeaks release #27 posted on Thursday reveals that Clinton operatives admitted that, contrary to Clinton's claim of having released all of her emails relevant to her tenure as Secretary of State, there were \"definitely\" some withheld from the State Department and therefore the American people.\nOn Wednesday, TruePundit reported that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has gathered evidence from a laptop computer belonging to the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin with enough evidence to send people to prison, with Clinton, some of her aides and several past and present members of Congress reportedly implicated.\nIn that report, TruePundit wrote:\nNew revelations from newly-recovered Clinton emails, according to law enforcement sources, implicate the Democratic presidential candidate, her subordinates, and even select elected officials in far more alleged serious crimes than mishandling classified and top secret emails, sources said. NYPD sources linked to the probe said these new emails include evidence linking Clinton herself and associates to:\nSex crimes with minors (children)\nPay to play through Clinton Foundation\nObstruction of justice\nOther felony crimes\nTagged: classified information, FBI, FBI Director James Comey, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton's private server, Huma Abedin, John Podesta, Julian Assange, national security, NYPD, The Clinton Foundation, TruePundit, Twitter, Wikileaks\nJunius Oates says:\nSaturday, November 5, 2016 at 1:02 PM\nThe mechanism for justice is controlled be the executive branch and therefore there will be no justice.\nThis appears to be a flaw in our system of justice. As many have said a Constitutional Crisis.\nFriday, November 4, 2016 at 5:43 PM\nI pray this is true and the nightmare we have been living in ends.\nNothing like sunlight as the ultimate disinfectant. A\npersonal saying of mine is, \"truth is like air bubbles\nthat eventually comes to the surface\". The Bible says\nsin has a season, but in the end it destroys and requires\na fee.\nSoon, the rats will be jumping ship. Others can be expected\nto \"roll over\" and \"squeal like swine\" and \"give info and\nevidence\" to save their own skin\u2026\nIn addition to snagging Hillary, can Obama be on the hook\nPeople like Cathy O'Brien, Ted Gunderson, Brice Taylor, and the list goes on and on will be verified of their testimony! Thank you Jesus! I have prayed and prayed that the evil should be exposed. One last request dear Lord\u2026 expose the ties to the Vatican and the occult to free my family.\nFriday, November 4, 2016 at 12:24 PM\nis there any truth to the fbi getting ready to make arrests, and Hilary involved in child sex ring. thanks\nEd Sunderland says:\nFriday, November 4, 2016 at 10:16 AM\nIf this is true it is long overdue and they had better not forget Sandy Hook and the other false operations the Obama admin has been into.\nStephen Hiller says:\nFriday, November 4, 2016 at 8:45 AM\nO Happy Day !!!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"India needs to remove growing negative perceptions of its domestic policies in the Muslim world\nDelhi might be giving an opportunity to an otherwise divided world, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, to agree in their disapproval of India's domestic politics.\nWritten by C. Raja Mohan | Updated: December 24, 2019 10:39:20 am\nMalaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah speaks during Kuala Lumpur Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 19, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS)\nThe Islamic summit in Kuala Lumpur last week raised many familiar questions about the role of religion in promoting solidarity between nations; it also reminded us of the well-known answer that national interest often tends to trump shared faith. The gathering in Kuala Lumpur did bring some key Islamic nations together, but it also revealed the deepening schisms in the Muslim world today that are of considerable importance for the Subcontinent.\nWhile Malaysia, Turkey and Qatar were the moving forces behind the summit, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates were among the notable absentees. Indonesia, the world's largest Islamic nation, kept a low profile at the summit, while Pakistan's Imran Khan was a surprising dropout at the last minute.\nFor Mahathir Mohamad, the summit, and the diplomacy surrounding it are means to increase his domestic room for manoeuvering and win a leadership role in the Muslim world. Many in the Middle East, however, see the claims for Islamic leadership from outside the region with either bemusement or condescension.\nThe real contestation for leading the Islamic world remains within the Middle East. Turkey and Iran have a long tradition of challenging the Saudi leadership of the Islamic world. Qatar, which punches way above its weight, has now joined their ranks.\nThe Saudis expressed displeasure at convening the Islamic nations outside the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation. Mahathir, of course, claimed that the summit was not about undermining the OIC and its Saudi leadership. But, he said enough to suggest that the OIC has not been an effective instrument in addressing the contemporary challenges facing the Islamic world.\nThe idea that religion can bind people together has an enduring appeal. In practice though, religion has not been enough to sustain unity within and among nations that profess a common faith. Many countries in the Islamic world struggle to respect the rights of minorities, Muslim or non-Muslim, and cope with the problems of religious sectarianism and ethnic separatism.\nIf keeping the faithful together within a nation is hard enough, it is a lot harder to promote supra-national solidarity in the name of Islam. The origins of pan Islamism date back to the late 19th century, but its record in binding nations has not been impressive.\nThe same is true of ethnicity-based solidarity in the world. For example, the pan-Arab and pan-Asian movements that stirred the world in the 20th century, are today, pale shadows of themselves. While the decline of pan-Arabism has been evident, the idea of Asian solidarity endures. But, just look beneath the rhetoric on \"Asian solidarity\", and you will find deep contradictions between, for example, China and India, and China and Japan.\nSolidarity based on other ideologies, class or political values, too has been difficult to sustain for long periods. The communist solidarity that seemed so powerful in the middle of the 20th century crashed quickly against the rocks of nationalism in Central Europe, Russia and China.\nOn the face of it, shared values \u2014 political and economic liberalism \u2014 have been far more successful in holding together the so-called political and economic \"West\". After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it became ever harder to sustain harmony within the western world. US president Donald Trump appears determined to restructure the political-economic institutions built after the World War II. Intra-Western contradictions shaped the world before the middle of the 20th century, and are becoming an important factor in the 21st century. In all these cases, the tension between transcendental ideologies and narrow national interests has often been resolved in favour of the latter.\nThe splits in the Islamic world exposed by the Malaysian summit should be of great interest to the Subcontinent. The main differences are about political Islam and its role in shaping the domestic structures in Muslim nations. Turkey and Qatar have championed the Muslim Brotherhood that seeks to overthrow the current political order in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, as well as in Egypt. Iran has its own variant of political Islam for export.\nSaudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE seek to protect their own societies and state structures from external onslaught, and are pushing back. Beyond the nature and role of Islam, there is also the growing competition among the major Middle Eastern states for strategic influence in the region and beyond.\nThe South-Asian political discourse tends to see the Muslim world as a monolith. That has become increasingly difficult to maintain amidst the current conflicts in the Middle East.\nImran Khan has showcased his special relationships with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Malaysia's Mahathir. He was supposed to play a leading role at the Kuala Lumpur summit. But, apparently under pressure from the Saudis and the Emiratis, his main economic benefactors, he chose to stay home.\nFor Delhi too, the divisions in the Islamic world are of significance. If Malaysia and Turkey have become increasingly critical of the NDA government's policies, the UAE and the Saudis have given India the benefit of doubt, until now. The Qatar-owned Al Jazeera channel has run a far more damaging campaign against Delhi in recent months than the much-maligned New York Times.\nDelhi has an urgent need to remove the growing negative perceptions of its domestic policies in the Middle East and more broadly the Muslim world. In his speech at a rally in Delhi on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to India's expanding friendships in the Middle East during the last few years. The PM, however, might be in the danger of squandering a major diplomatic achievement, if he miscalculates the external costs of the government's domestic politics. Worse still, Delhi might be giving an opportunity to an otherwise divided world, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, to agree in their disapproval of India's domestic politics.\nThis article first appeared in the print edition on December 24, 2019 under the title \"When politics hurts diplomacy.\" The writer is director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore and contributing editor on international affairs for The Indian Express\nMore From C. Raja Mohan\nXi starts Myanmar visit today, Beijing hopes to draw new power lines in Bay of Bengal region\nIn Myanmar to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Xi is expected to nudge his hosts to\u2026\nA new compact to deal with domestic crisis can open up risks for the Khamenei regime\nThe Iranian people, who had apparently rallied behind the flag after the US killing of Soleimani were now turning their rage against the government. The\u2026\nA direct military contest between US and Iran is loaded in America's favour\nBoth Trump and Khamenei are realists. There are political constrains on them that limit the pressures of a further escalation of conflict between US and\u2026\nC. Raja MohanC. Raja Mohan is Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National ... read more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The distinguished firm that brought French style to the world\nBy Elizabeth Lambert\nAround 1900 several of the great Paris decorating firms, such as Allard et ses Fils and Alavoine, began to expand their operations, establishing showrooms in the Americas in the hope of attracting new clients eager to add a veneer of sophisticated French taste to their already opulently gilded lifestyles. Few of them, however, equaled the energy and ambition of the House of Jansen, which opened offices not only in New York but also in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Havana.\nThe business was founded in Paris in 1880 by Henri Jansen, who, although Dutch by birth, had made himself a prominent figure in the Paris worlds of antiques dealing and furniture making, and in that curious gray area that lies somewhere between. Progressing naturally to the creation of complete rooms and the decoration of whole houses, Jansen specialized in solidly grand, if rather vague, \"tous les Louis\" period\u2013style work. He rapidly outdistanced his rivals in amassing a superb stock of furniture as well as exquisite French boiseries and entire rooms of carved woodwork from important houses across Europe\u2014for example, the Hotel Parr in Vienna. Then, momentously, in 1923 Jansen was joined by St\u00e9phane Boudin, who within little more than a decade would become one of the era's most celebrated decorators and make the name Jansen a byword for grandeur and chic.\nBoudin was born in 1888, the son of a passementerie manufacturer who was a major supplier of tassels and trim for Jansen. He rose quickly to be the firm's principal designer and was soon working for prestigious clients, such as the Prince of Wales (later duke of Windsor), for whose country retreat Fort Belvedere he laid out stylish, comfortable interiors. As the thirties began he was doing several projects in France, but most were in England.\nHe had a formative influence on the making of the grandiose interiors at Ditchley Park, the home of Nancy Astor's niece Nancy Lancaster, who later took up decoration herself, becoming the partner of John Fowler. Coming from widely differing traditions, Lancaster and Boudin agreed completely on the subtle painting of old woodwork. \"He had the most extraordinary good taste,\" she said, \"and understood color.\"\nBoudin was \"the greatest decorator in the world,\" according to Sir Henry \"Chips\" Channon, the American millionaire socialite who settled himself at the very heart of the English political establishment. For him Boudin designed in 1934 the most frivolous room of the era, and one of the most expensive\u2014a rococo fantasy based on the riotous pale-blue-and-silver Amalienburg Pavilion of the Nymphenburg Palace, near Munich. Installing a mirrored table and thirty rococo chairs and side tables inspired by furniture from the Hotel Parr, Boudin charged his client a cool six thousand pounds, which would be approximately half a million dollars today. Ironically, wartime bomb damage revealed that much of the decoration was not the carved wood Channon imagined but cast plaster.\nHis 1938 commission to design a tented pavilion for a party for Elsie de Wolfe earned Boudin the sobriquet the \"decorator's decorator.\" He went on to do extensive work for the duke and duchess of Windsor: first in their Paris house; then, after the war, at their country place, the Moulin de la Tuilerie (famously damned by Billy Baldwin as revealing Wallis Simpson's \"tacky\" southern taste); and culminating in their house in the Bois de Boulogne. Neatly judging the ambiguous semi-royal status of the place, Boudin invented effects that somehow hinted at both Buckingham Palace and Miami. The drawing room, with boiseries carved with rope tassels, was inspired by a Bavarian palace; the English wit John Cornforth likened it to \"almost a smart restaurant.\"\nThe fifties and sixties brought Boudin a stream of important commissions. He did residences for the Paleys, C. Z. Guest, H. J. Heinz and the Wrightsmans in the United States, and in Europe he designed sumptuous houses for the Agnellis and the king of Belgium. Much of this superb work remained discreetly unpublicized. By contrast, his involvement in the early-1960s redecoration of a number of rooms at the White House put him right in the public eye.\nChosen by a committee headed by the renowned collector Henry F. du Pont, Boudin found himself working closely with Jacqueline Kennedy. His arrangements emphasized the crucial role that French taste and furnishings had played in the decorations of the White House since Jefferson's day. Although perhaps for political reasons the role of Boudin (because he was a Frenchman) was minimized, the White House project nonetheless represented his finest hour.\nSt\u00e9phane Boudin died in 1967, leaving the New York side of the business in the hands of Paul Manno, who had been with the firm since the thirties. Pierre Delb\u00e9e continued to carry the torch in Paris. He was responsible for major projects, such as the spectacular library in the Madrid mansion of Bartolom\u00e9 March and his own extraordinary residence, one of the last classic set pieces in the Jansen style; its contents were sold by Christie's in Monaco in December 1999.\nShortly after the sale of the business to new owners in 1979, the dynamic young design duo of Elisabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti were invited to set up installations of their weirdly innovative \"Stone Age baroque\" furniture in Jansen's august Louis XVI\u2013style rooms. Sadly, this memorable show was the swan song of one of the last of the great Paris houses; in the late eighties, just over a century after its inception, the House of Jansen finally closed its doors.\nExplorearchitects and designersdesign legendsinterior designArchitecturearchive","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Spring 2018 Distinguished Lecture by Professor Victoria Orphan\nProfessor Victoria Orphan (California Institute of Technology) gave the Spring 2018 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Friday, April 20.\nOver 250 faculty, students, and researchers attended Orphan's lecture titled \"Syntrophy, Interspecies Electron Transfer, and Sulfate-Coupled Methane Oxidation: Fueling Chemosynthetic Life in the Deep Sea\" in the Kenneth Trueblood Lecture Hall CS50. A photo gallery from the event can be viewed here and select photos can be viewed below.\nOver 250 people attended Orphan's lecture which took place in the Kenneth Trueblood Lecture Hall CS50.\nOrphan is the James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. She received her B.A. in aquatic biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994, and her Ph.D. in the Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology program at UCSB in 2001. During 2002\u20132004, she served as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center before joining the geobiology faculty in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech in 2004. She was named the James Irvine Professor in Environmental Science and Geobiology in 2016. Orphan is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and was recently named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow.\nAt the lecture, Department Chair Professor Catherine Clarke gave the welcoming remarks and Orphan was introduced by Professor Tina Treude of the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (EPSS) and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS). After the lecture Clarke presented Orphan with an engraved crystal plaque.\nDepartment Chair Professor Catherine Clarke (left) gave the welcoming remarks and Professor Tina Treude (UCLA EPSS and AOS) (right) introduced Orphan.\nProfessor Kevin McKeegan (UCLA EPSS) (left) during the question and answer period.\nProfessor Joan Valentine (left) asks a question during the question and answer period.\n(Left) After the lecture, Clarke presented Orphan with an engraved crystal plaque. (Right) Orphan, Clarke, and Treude.\nAt the reception following the lecture - Orphan, Stephen Young (UCLA Cardiology), and Sabeeha Merchant.\nProfessors Richard Kaner, Joan Valentine, Tina Treude, and Kevin McKeegan.\nAt the reception following the lecture, Orphan with postdocs and graduate students - (from left) Dr. Stefan Schmollinger (Merchant Group), Victoria Orphan, Sebastian Krause (Treude Group EPSS), Mojhgan Haghnegahdar (Schaubles Group EPSS), Jeffrey Osterhout (Schopf Group EPSS).\nAbout The Distinguished Lecture Series\nThe UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a department-wide colloquium in a special week once per quarter when there are no other seminars in our department. Since beginning the series in 2013, we have invited some of the world's most accomplished and engaging scientists to speak - Frances Arnold (Caltech), Barry Honig (Columbia), Nobel Laureate Roger Kornberg (Stanford), Harry Gray (Caltech), Francois Diederich (ETH Zurich), Yi Lu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), JoAnne Stubbe (MIT), Douglas Rees (Caltech), Kimberly Prather (UCSD, Scripps), Jacqueline Barton (Caltech), Nobel Laureate Thomas Cech (University of Colorado, Boulder), and David Baker (University of Washington). Their lectures have consistently encouraged thought-provoking conversations and ideas.\nIn lieu of a Fall 2018 Distinguished Lecture, George Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University, will give the 2018 John D. Roberts Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 at 4 p.m. in the CNSI auditorium, followed by a piano tribute to Roberts by Prof. David Schuster (NYU). A reception and dinner will take place at the Faculty Center California patio and dining room. More details about this event will be provided soon.\nThe lectures are open to the public. While the research covered in the lectures is meant to appeal to a broad range of chemists and biochemists, the lectures also include a general introduction to the research for those who are further separated in research expertise. For more information, visit the Distinguished Lecture series website.\nPhotos by Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Acquco Launches Inaugural 3PS Awards for Third-party Sellers\nFebruary 23, 2022 09:00 ET | Source: Acquco\nNEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acquco, one of the fastest-growing aggregators on Amazon, has launched its inaugural 3PS Awards to honor exceptional Amazon third-party sellers. Acquco...\nAcquco Generates More Than $420M in Revenue\nNEW YORK, Feb. 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acquco, one of the fastest-growing aggregators on Amazon, generated more than $420 million in revenue last year, 60% higher than the company's initial...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Scenario House: AJ retrofit awards finalist and long-listed for two further awards\nWe are delighted to announce the scenario house has been acknowledged by these three prestigious architecture awards.\nThe AJ Retrofit Awards by The Architects' Journal, recognise and celebrate design, engineering and construction excellence that prolongs and improves the life of the built environment.\nWe have reached the final 10 in the category of 'Retrofit House (Under \u00a3500,000)'.\nCrystal Palace: an ode to Modernism and Structural History\nHow to add character to your home with a fireplace\nThe Garden City: Built Heritage and Landscape Character\nEscape to the country: leaving London behind post-pandemic","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PCMag Australia Software & Services Mobile Apps\nApple Offers to Relax Some App Store Rules to Settle Class-Action Lawsuit\nDevelopers will be able to contact customers about alternative payment methods.\n27 Aug 2021, 9 p.m.\nApple is offering to make a number of App Store rule concessions in a bid to settle a class-action lawsuit the company has been fighting for a couple of years.\nThe lawsuit was originally filed back in June 2019 by two developers claiming Apple had an \"abusive monopoly\" in the iOS App Store and in-app distribution service. The complaint states that Apple doesn't allow any form of competition, charges a high commission on each app sale as well as charging developers for access to the store, and dictates price points.\nAs Axios reports, Apple has offered to make a number of changes, providing the court approves, in order to settle the lawsuit. The most headline-grabbing change is Apple allowing app developers to communicate directly with customers about alternative payment options outside of the App Store ecosystem.\nOn the face of it, that reads like a huge concession, but not really. Apple is allowing developers to contact customer outside of the app with their consent. It's still forbidden to tell customers inside an app that other payment methods exists. Customers (rightly) also need to be given the ability to opt-out of such communication from developers.\nOther concessions Apple proposes include increasing the number of price points available for apps from less than 100 to more than 500. The company promises to make sure App Store search results are \"based on objective criteria\" and that a three year program is being maintained to lower commissions to small businesses. A transparently report will also be produced including \"data on the number of apps rejected and removed and customer and developer accounts deactivated.\"\nFor the US specifically, a new $100 million fund is being created for small developers, which will offer between $250 and $30,000 to developers who generated less than $1 million during the last five years.\n\"From the beginning, the App Store has been an economic miracle; it is the safest and most trusted place for users to get apps, and an incredible business opportunity for developers to innovate, thrive, and grow,\" said Phil Schiller, Apple Fellow who oversees the App Store. \"We would like to thank the developers who worked with us to reach these agreements in support of the goals of the App Store and to the benefit of all of our users.\"\nIt's now up to Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to assess whether this settlement offer is good enough to conclude the lawsuit. Meanwhile, Apple is still fighting Epic in a separate lawsuit, which happens to have the same federal judge.\nApple Will Let Dating Apps in the Netherlands Use Alternative Payments\nFortnite Returns to iOS Via Nvidia GeForce Now Game Streaming\nUber Ends Support for Apple Watch\nWhatsApp Co-Founder to Lead Signal Messaging App as Interim CEO\nIndia Starts Investigating the App Store's Payment Rules\nNaughty Dog Shows Us How Good Uncharted Looks on PS5\nAmazon Reveals Full Title for The Lord of the Rings TV Series","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Heat wave holds more than 150 million Americans in stifling grip this weekend\nTake the heat seriously.\nThat's what the National Weather Service is warning as a dangerous heat wave reaches its peak this weekend, with more than two-thirds of the US feeling temperatures push into the triple digits.\nSo far, one death has been attributed to the high temperatures. Former NFL player Mitch Petrus, 32, fell ill while working outside Thursday during a heat advisory in Arkansas. He died of heat stroke, officials said.\nCities in Virginia and North Carolina will see some of the hottest air of the season. New York, meanwhile, has opened almost 500 cooling centers. And officials in Massachusetts are urging residents to wear loose clothing and be alert for signs of a heat stroke.\nAbout 157 million people are under heat warnings and heat advisories Saturday as daytime temperatures will climb into the mid to upper 90s \u2014 and feel like more than 100 degrees \u2014 from the Great Plains to the East Coast.\nUnfortunately, it won't get any better at night. Overnight temperatures over the weekend will not drop below 80 degrees in many cities across the East Coast, the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said.\nAcross the upper East Coast on Saturday, the weather service said, the most dangerous time will be mid-afternoon into early evening, when temperatures and humidity will peak.\n\"Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside,\" the service said. \"When possible, reschedule strenuous activities to the early morning the late evening.\"\nIn Philadelphia and New Jersey, the weather service warned the heat may cause heat stress or heat stroke. The elderly and people with pre-existing conditions are most at risk.\nIn Detroit, where residents will see a heat index of up to 105 degrees Saturday, more than 200,000 people did not have power in the early morning hours after thunderstorms caused trees and branches to take down power lines.\nBy Saturday afternoon, power had been restored to all but about 70,000, officials said.\nBut relief is coming. A cold front will drop into the central US and portions of the Midwest late Saturday, which will bring cool air in the Midwest Sunday, CNN meteorologist Ivan Cabrera said. The East Coast will begin cooling down Monday, Cabrera said.\nUntil then, city officials are taking precautions against the sweltering heat and preparing for what could be a deadly weekend.\nTrack the extreme heat here\nHeat wave in the Big Apple\nIn New York \u2014 which has declared an emergency \u2014 many events have been canceled or postponed after concerns of participants' health.\nSaturday's card of horse racing at New York's Saratoga Race Course was canceled. So were all races Saturday and Sunday at the Maryland Jockey Club in Laurel.\n\"The health and safety of our horses and jockeys is our highest priority,\" Maryland Jockey Club President and General Manager Sal Sinatra said.\nThe New York City Triathlon also was canceled.\n\"After exhausting all options to mitigate athlete, volunteer, spectator and staff exposure alike, we are unable to provide either a safe event experience or an alternate race weekend,\" organizers said.\nIn an executive order that lasts until Sunday night, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered office buildings 100 feet or taller to raise thermostats to 78 degrees and encouraged residents to set their thermostats higher to reduce energy use.\nThe city is opening about 500 air-conditioned \"cooling centers\" in public facilities. Public pools were to be open an extra hour (until 8 p.m.) from Friday through Sunday, And the city will set up portable drinking fountains at busy pedestrian areas through Sunday.\nThe Brooklyn Defender Services called on the mayor and the Department of Corrections Commissioner Cynthia Brann to protect inmates from the heat.\n\"Most incarcerated people are without air conditioning and the limited number of fans are only in the day rooms, leaving people to swelter, particularly while in their cells,\" the organization said. \"DOC is not providing appropriate summer clothes to many of our clients. People with medical needs have reported feeling nauseous and dizzy.\"\nWhat is the heat index?\nPeter Thorne, DOC deputy commissioner of public information, said in a statement that the health and safety of inmates was \"top priority.\"\n\"During these warm weather conditions, as always, we remain in close contact with Correctional Health Services, the department's health care provider,\" Thorne said in a statement.\nMayor de Blasio tweeted Saturday that Brann \"has been on Rikers Island to monitor response to the heatwave.\"\n\"Summer clothes have been distributed, clinics are open 24\/7, and medical personnel are on site for emergencies,\" the mayor tweeted. \"DOC senior leadership have been on site to monitor the response and protect health and safety of everyone in the facility.\"\nProtect your animals\nIn many locations across the country, city officials and emergency departments are warning against the danger that pets will face.\n\"A closed car can rise to 125 degrees in just 8 minutes,\" the Massachusetts Department of Public Health wrote on Twitter.\nAnimals, according to the weather service, can die of heat stroke within 15 minutes. Cracking car windows won't help. Keep your pets at home during hot weather, the service said, and if you see an animal inside a car, don't leave without solving the problem.\nThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals recommends lots of fresh, clean water.\n\"Know the symptoms of overheating in pets, which include excessive panting or difficulty breathing, increased heart and respiratory rate, drooling, mild weakness, stupor or even collapse,\" the organization said.\nHow climate change has played a role\nEach year, summer heat kills more Americans on average than any other natural disaster, CNN meteorologist Cabrera said.\nThe threat of heat waves will become more serious across the globe and more widespread as the climate crisis continues, says Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.\nA new report by the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre says 17 of the 18 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001.\n\"Climate projections indicate that if greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current pathway, by the year 2100 three out of four people on Earth could be subject to at least 20 days per year of potentially deadly heat and humidity levels,\" the report says.\nAnd in the US, the number of days each year with a heat index of more than 100 degrees will more than double by mid-century, a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists says.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Senior Anna Cizek Selected for Teaching Assistantship Program in France\nMACON \u2013 Mercer University senior Anna Cizek was recently accepted into the Teaching Assistantship Program in France (TAPIF) and will teach secondary English at the Acad\u00e9mie de Nancy-Metz for seven months during the 2017-2018 academic year.\nA joint initiative of the French Ministry of Education, the Centre international d'\u00e9tudes p\u00e9dagogiques and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the program's goal is to strengthen English language instruction in French schools by establishing a native speaker presence while also providing American Francophiles with excellent teaching experience and first-hand knowledge of French language and culture.\n\"Anna has been a wonderful student, loving the language and culture of France so much that she used her French name, Yvonne, in all of her classes with us,\" said Dr. Anna Weaver, associate professor and chair of foreign languages and literatures. \"While she has thoroughly enjoyed learning French on a personal level, it has also helped her achieve her career goals. We are proud of all that she has accomplished and know she will be a great assistante.\"\nCizek, from Naperville, Illinois, is a triple-major in international affairs, French, and global health studies. Following her teaching assistantship, she intends to pursue graduate school for international affairs or language interpretation and translation.\n\"The Teaching Assistantship Program in France is the ideal next step to achieving my career goals. The program will allow me to grow academically and culturally while expanding my professional network,\" said Cizek. \"I would like to thank my advisers, Dr. Eimad Houry and Dr. Anna Weaver, as well as Dr. David Davis for their encouragement and guidance throughout my time at Mercer. I would also like to give a special thanks to Deputy Director of Athletics Sybil Blalock for giving me the opportunity to achieve my full potential both on and off the field.\"\nA student assistant and former infielder and pinch runner on Mercer's softball team, Cizek has traveled with Mercer On Mission to Greece and South Africa, presented research in Doha, Qatar, studied abroad in Morocco and interned with the Qu\u00e9bec Government Office in Chicago, Illinois. This summer, she will intern with the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington, D.C.\nCizek is secretary of Mercer's French Club and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Sigma Alpha honor societies. She was a National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I All-America Scholar-Athlete, received departmental honors for her work in international affairs and multiple awards in Model Arab League and Mock World Health Organization, and was inducted into the Order of Omega Executive Council for exemplifying high standards of scholarship, leadership and involvement in the Greek community.\nTAPIF allows more than 1,100 American citizens and permanent residents to teach each year in public schools across all of metropolitan France as well as in overseas regions such as Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and R\u00e9union. For more information, visit http:\/\/highereducation.frenchculture.org\/teach-in-france.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"For IOC Member Lindberg, A Stockholm-\u00c5re 2026 Olympics Is A Personal Dream\nPosted on Jan 14, 2019 2:10 PM by Robert Livingstone in Featured, 2026 Olympic Bid News\nIOC Executive Board Member and Swedish Olympic Committee Secretary-General Gunilla Lindberg (SOK Photo)\nInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board member Gunilla Lindberg has this week strongly backed the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid from Stockholm-\u00c5re in Sweden.\nThe Swede had remained low-key until the submission of her bid's application file Friday along with rival Milan-Cortina from Italy. The prominent and outspoken Lindberg most recently led the IOC Coordination Commission that was instrumental in helping deliver the PyeongChang 2018 Games.\nShe sees the Stockholm-\u00c5re proposal as a great fit for the kind of Games the Olympic Movement needs now.\n\"The question is not what the Olympic Movement can give Sweden, but rather what Sweden can contribute to the Olympic Movement,\" Lindberg said.\n\"It's really simple. Just think about what Sweden stands for. Democracy, humility, equality, sustainability, transparency, the environment, reliability, honesty, public health, and interest in sport just to name a few.\n\"In all these areas, Sweden is a world leader.\n\"That is why I say these Games are about much more than 2026, they are about the future of the Winter Games.\"\nAs an influential member of the IOC and Secretary-General of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), her strong support of Sweden's bid is expected to give the project a major boost when her IOC colleagues gather to elect a winner in Lausanne, Switzlerland in June.\nBut in order to reach the finish line, bid officials will first need to get local politicians to buy into the project. A Stockholm city coalition government formed last year on the condition that it not fund the hosting of an Olympic Games, and a currently hung parliament has made it impossible for organizers to secure national government support.\nStockholm-\u00c5re is bidding to host the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (Photo: Malcolm Hanes)\nThe IOC deadline to provide government assurances passed on Friday, but IOC Executive Director Christophe Dubi agreed to grant extensions, providing both bids more time to comply.\nA parliamentary vote is expected this month that may open the door for government approval, and the bid said it remains in talks with the city to change its position. Last week three governors representing regions with host venues voiced their support for the project.\nMilan-Cortina claim to have all of the necessary support after securing government 'approval' last week, but it is still unclear if it meets IOC requirements. Further guarantees from both bids are required by April 12.\nAn Evaluation Commission to be led by Octavian Morariu will visit the Swedish capital from March 12 to 16 before inspecting the rival Italian bid from April 2 to 6.\n\"Hosting the Games is a personal dream,\" Lindberg said.\n\"Of course, it is. Even a Board Member of the IOC must have her own private dreams. For me personally it would be absolutely amazing.\"\nWhile Lindberg is optimistic, she remains aware of both the hurdles and competition that must be faced in the months ahead.\n\"Hosting an Olympic Games is not a right; every Host City has to earn it. It's a competition where there is only one medal, and very few have had the privilege of winning. It is a very exclusive club\".\nSweden has bid for, and lost, seven Winter Games bids. The Capital has only hosted the Summer Games once in 1912.\n\"Someone else was better. It's that simple,\" Lindberg said.\nMilan-Cortina And Newly Branded Stockholm-\u00c5re Submit 2026 Olympic Bid Books To IOC\n\"There is no room for excuses in sport. As an athlete you can't go to an Olympic Games assuming you'll win a gold medal just because you've participated; no one wins anything for simply showing up. It takes decades of preparation, almost beyond the imaginable to succeed \u2013 and it takes a lot of people such as coaches and officials helping as well.\n\"Yet in some ways, it's even harder to win an Olympic bid. In that competition, there is only one winner.\n\"Therefore, I see it differently. Sweden has practiced hard for a long time. Sweden has shown dedication and perseverance beyond the imaginable. Sweden has planned and prepared. Sweden has leaders and coaches who have done everything they can, and we are now in the final. Our position is this race could not be better. That is my message to the doubters.\n\"I believe that 'moderation' is really something the Olympic Movement, and indeed the world, is looking for. This is really what the IOC's new approach is all about: make hosting the Games more affordable, more sustainable and frankly more inspiring for cities and communities around the world. The good news is that this new focus of the IOC is exactly the way Sweden has always conducted business.\"\nThe Milan-Cortina bid is also proposing a sustainable regional project with mostly existing venues and minimal permanent builds.\nWhen tested, Lindberg immediately steps back into her role as IOC Executive Board member and remains diplomatic.\nOn the competition she said \"Italy has a good concept and I think it will be an even match. 50\/50\".\nGunilla LINDBERG\nStockholm-\u00c5re 2026\nItalian Sport Secretary Says Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Bid \"Doesn't Need A Referendum\" As Momentum Builds\nItalian Government Set To Guarantee Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games Bid\nSwedish Prime Minister Says \"It's Time\" For A Stockholm \u00c5re 2026 Winter Olympics As Leaders Rally Behind Bid\nThe Race Is On: Swedish Government To Guarantee Stockholm-\u00c5re 2026 Winter Olympic Bid\nSweden's Crown Princess Victoria Says Stockholm \u00c5re 2026 Olympic Bid Can Deliver Exactly What The IOC Asks\nSwedish PM L\u00f6fven Will Lead Stockholm \u00c5re 2026 Olympic Bid Delegation In Lausanne Ahead Of Vote\nBidWeek: Should The IOC Dispense With Olympic Host City Elections? There May Be No Choice\nIOC Insists Guarantees Will Be \"Flexible\" For 2026 Olympic Bids Ahead Of Site Evaluation Visits\nBidWeek: How Sweden And Italy Became Unlikely Finalists To Host The Winter Olympics In 2026\nStockholm Mayor Offers Limited Support For Sweden's 2026 Olympic Bid\nIOC Accepts Challenges As 2026 Olympic Bids From Italy And Sweden Run Neck And Neck\nBoth 2026 Winter Olympic Bids Claim Technical Presentations A Success","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Main Blog > Handcarved Credits\nHandcarved Credits\nQueuebot \u2022 Monday, February 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM\n\"...whittled like a toy whistle from the stick that is the movie.\"\nEvery time film score enthusiast Erin Murray sees a movie, she writes a song for the end credits. She's outfitted 'Hellboy 2' with a soul theme, 'Doubt' with an organ hymn, 'Lost in Translation' with an Indie tune, and even made a 80s sitcom theme for Battlestar Galactica. Some of them are silly, some of them are serious, but they're all crafted to fit with the subject. She also takes requests for films and for styles.\nHer latest one is for the film 'Coraline'.\n[on the Coraline score]Bruno Coulais leads the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra and the Children's Choir of Nice, among others, in this eerie and enchanting score. There were two things I wanted to duplicate in my piece: the choral works, and the sounds of the words. The lyrics, in French I believe, are fantastic, simply in the sounds they make. It was like a consonant rhythm section!\nLink to website.\nLink to song La Belle Dame Sans Merci.\nFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by rebelrebel.\nTags: Movies, Songs\ntpr \u2022 13Feb09 1:25pm \u2022 0\nZselmon-\nI just wanted to say that makes total sense! I was so impressed by how well the words worked in the score, and now I know why. Thanks for posting the interview, that's insanely neat.\n-Erin, from the website in question\nzselmon \u2022 12Feb09 5:04pm \u2022 0\n\"The lyrics, in French I believe, are fantastic, simply in the sounds they make. It was like a consonant rhythm section!\"\nThe lyrics are actually in a nonsense language that the composer concocts solely for their sounds!\n... from an interview with the director...\nhttp:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/39977\nkodabear \u2022 09Feb09 9:51pm \u2022 0\nLoved this! Singer\/Songwriter is talented and I agree with previous post definitely worth the time to listen to her!\npookie 1 \u2022 09Feb09 9:01pm \u2022 0\nThis is one deep kitty kat. Checked her out on YouTube and was blown away by her talent. What a pure sound - this is the real thing!\nkeeter \u2022 09Feb09 5:39pm \u2022 0\nThis writer has tremendously eclectic talents in her writing. You really have to listen to a number of the songs to get an understanding of her amazing range, from the haunting and moody piece she wrote for Coraline, to the playful \"Simple Things\" and heartbreaking \"Whisper.\"\nAnd the \"If Battlestar was and 80's sitcom\" theme is frakkin' inspired... think Larry and Balki meet the Cylons...\nDefinitely worth the time to listen to a number of the writer's compositions.\n\"Handcarved Credits\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The AC\/DC wine\nYou've been, THUNDERDRUNK!\nIt's common knowledge that rock stars like to drink. In fact, a recent study showed that 9 out of 10 people in rehab did at one stage in their life release an album. Okay so that's not true but it could be.\nBut when you think of hard-partying rockers, you don't expect them to be swigging a light and fruity bottle of Sauvignon Blanc. Well, it's time to stop thinking in damn stereotypes...\nAC\/DC have gone and surprised the lot of us by creating their own set of wines. They've already been a success over in Australia but they're now bringing them to the UK for further grape-related winnings. There are two AC\/DC wines to enjoy: the Back in Black Shiraz and the Hells Bells Sauvignon Blanc.\nBoth are available to buy from Laithwaites.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Albanians of Afghanistan, the 2300-years old unwritten History\nJean-Jacques Vinamont\u200e & Renaissance Paienne Europ\u00e9enne (via facebook)\nWe are dealing with a unique case of the existence of our ancestors, the Illyrians, in another corner of the world, with thousands of kilometers away, which could shed light on their history, but also can enrich our historiography. Because it was a hideaway for thousands of years, they have kept alive popular features, language and Arberesh-Pelasgian-Illyrian-Albanian customs.\nThere is existence of Illyrians in the region Indochina in Qafiristan (today Nuristan), a place where Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tajikistan, are met, precisely in the area where some time ago was killed Bin Laden, originally discovered by American screenwriter James Hilton, who shot a documentary titled Lost Horizons. In May 1983, Ernesto Skura wrote on League newspaper of Antonio Bellushi an article entitled \"The Illyrians in Afghanistan.\" The same thing did in his book \"Arvanites\" the great historian of Albanian descent, Aristides Kola, which describes the time of placement of the Illyrians in this distant place.\nThe most stable hypothesis, descendants of Alexander's army\nHistory explored to date shows that they are descendants of 6000 Illyrian fighters fled their country after the assassination of king Kliti by Alexander the Great around 300 BC. They remained there, because of distance they could not return home, but settled in this region, where they were forced to marry local women. Their language was called \"burrashka\", the language of men, while women spoke another language. Now this language is called again \"burrashka\", but is mixed and not written.\nLanguage, many words are vestiges of Albanian\nThe characteristics of these residents are different from those of the Pakistanis, they live longer, are taller and have brown hair, they make and drink wine as none of these areas and the region where they live. Valley where they live nowadays is called \"hund\u00ebza\" (small nose) and really it closes with a spout between two mountains that surround it. Another site called is called \"balta\" (mud). The mounting in front is called Torabora (falling snow). Another mountain next to the valley is covered with glaciers, that slide over time. This mountain is called \"rakaposhi\" (falling downwards).\nAlthough the country is mountainous, it is very prolific in producing vegetables, fruits and various grains, such as: potatoes, peas, cucumbers, wheat, corn, barley, apricots, pears, apples, peaches, plums, figs, cherries , grapes, watermelon, etc., products that locals does not cultivate. The inhabitants are excellent farmers and have created a stunning and majestic system of rooftops and irrigation that connect and feed terraces with. People are very friendly and helpful to each other. President of Hundz\u00ebs has the title Mir (the best). Their largest holiday is the solar New Year (as Pelasgians and Arberesh), called Naurosh (wish us) and falls on March 21.\nThe Hunza are very different compared with the Pakistanis with dark skin or the Afghans and the Chinese. Hunza are white skinned with red cheeks. Most of the 50 thousand Hunza have blue, green or gray eyes, and hairs ranging from the yellow of maize to the black of raven. Some children also have red hair. Up in the mountains is a great tribe called Kalash and their similarity with European ancestors leaves you dumbfound. Kalash gods headed by the god Di-Zau (Sun-Zeus). Kalash display on their gates a symbol which expresses their ancient origins of Illyrian and their connection to Alexander the Great, two-horned goat (the goat of Skanderbeg had two horns on the helmet). A wild flower in yellow that children gather it in the mountain or field is called \"Bisha\". Men wear white pants called \"shal\u00ebvare\" (hanged saddle), while women call their shirt kamish (worn in the flesh). Hundza dances are accompanied by drums, pipes or nozzles and the dancers jump to catch it around the circle. An important folk dance is the dance of the swords, which is always danced by men and the dancers wear colorful robes called \"kamarbunde\".\nScholar Dr. J. M. Hoffman has twice visited Hunza and draw the following conclusions: The settlement of the Illyrians is where Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Tajikistan are meet and is part of Pakistan. The valley where they live today is called spout (small nose). It closes with a spout area, surrounded by two mountains 6000-7500 meters above sea level. A swampy place there is called Clay, etc.\nLivre recenc\u00e9 en 1987 dans \"Orientations\"\n12:07 Publi\u00e9 dans anthropologie, Ethnologie | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Tags : hunza, hounzas, anthropologie, ethnologie, pakistan, afghanistan, illyriens, indo-europ\u00e9ens, albanais, asie centrale, himalaya | | del.icio.us | | Digg | Facebook","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A film to watch: Aidan Walsh \u2013 Master of the Universe\nIn the PopLives Q&A from the Irish Times today, I mentioned that I finally got to see the film Aidan Walsh Master Of The Universe thanks to it being on Volta.ie who have it for rent or download. I first wrote about the film four years ago. At that time, it was kind of lost to the switch between VHS and DVD and there was no copy available other than a few people on Thumped who offered a copy.\nAt the time, all I knew about him was that he put on gigs for young bands during the day, took photos of touring bands at night and talked funny. Shimmy Marcus's film is well worth watching as it goes beyond the publicity stunts. The stunts are a great watch mind \u2013 witness Aidan astride a white horse entering the old Virgin Megastore on Dublin's Quays led by Gerry Ryan, his performances on TV, his bizarre musical appearances and his rent-dodging stringently-secured recording studio.\nThe film delves into Walsh's difficult life, growing up in an orphanage in Cork, witnessing physical abuse by priests, losing his family, finding them, only to lose them again. Despite all his troubles and adversity, he persevered and entertained people in his own unique way. You don't need to wait til someone dies to celebrate them and Aidan Walsh is true Dublin character worth celebrating. A once off. Volta.ieSo go watch the film.\nAidan Walsh Master of the Universe\nNialler9 Thursday, October 25, 2012\nMinimum Maximum #4 in photos\nHalloween song series #8: Broadcast \u2013 'The Equestrian Vortex'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Eating Out in Bristol\nBristol's Boston Tea Party loses quarter of a million pounds after coffee cup ban\n\"We don't have a planet B\"\nHannah BakerBusiness Editor\nUpdated 09:30, 4 APR 2019\nBoston Tea Party on Whiteladies Road (Image: Jon Hurst)\nBristol cafe chain Boston Tea Party has lost a quarter of a million pounds since banning single use cups last year.\nThe coffee shop group, which was founded in Bristol in 2004, has taken a massive financial hit since it stopped selling throwaway cups in June 2018.\nThe chain has 22 branches in the UK including a number in Bristol - in Clifton, on Park Street, Whiteladies Road, Gloucester Road and Stokes Croft.\n\"Someone's got to take a stand,\" said co-founder and chief executive Sam Roberts. \"We don't have a planet B.\"\nThis is where your tip money goes in some of Bristol's most popular restaurants\nSam says Boston Tea Party was aware the financial impact to the business would be significant, but has no regrets about the decision.\n\"It would be incredibly contradictory to change tack,\" he told Bristol Live. \"As much as the loss is a painful amount of money to lose, at some point businesses have got to start prioritising the impact on the planet ahead of profits.\"\nBoston Tea Party started the ban in June 2018\nBoston Tea Party has lost 25 per cent of its takeaway coffee sales since implementing the ban, but says it has prevented 125,000 cups going to landfill.\nCustomers visiting the cafe now have to bring in their own cup, buy a reusable cup from \u00a34.25 or pay a deposit to loan a cup, which they can bring back to any branch.\n\"Bristolians have reacted really positively. It's not enough to compensate for the loss but ours is a long-term strategy.\nA list of the most child-friendly places to eat in Bristol\n\"Bristol always has been and will always be our spiritual home. It's a super ethical, environmental and bohemian city, and our brand does really well here. What we have done has been really warmly received.\n\"That's not to say other places haven't been supportive but Bristol has been a particularly special place. The customers have been amazing.\"\nThe business is not worried about the future, believing it's \"only a matter of time\" before Government brings in legislation to stop shops selling single use cups.\nSam added: \"Anyone who ignores this is on borrowed time.\nThe ultimate guide to where to eat in Bristol\nOur top 40 favourite Bristol restaurants\nThe best chips in Bristol: Ranked\nThe top Sunday lunches in town\nTHE places for veggies and vegans\n\"We are dealing with this up front and we challenge other businesses in the sector to do the same.\n\"I am not worried about the long term. We truly believe we have acted in the right way and we are proud of that.\"\nStokes Croft\nBristol Live","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home News Briefs Transom acquires SemiTorr from Riverlake Partners\nTransom acquires SemiTorr from Riverlake Partners\nTransom Capital Group has acquired SemiTorr Group from Riverlake Partners. No financial terms were disclosed. Oregon-based SemiTorr is a provider of high purity products.\nPORTLAND, Ore. \u2013 January 8, 2019 \u2013 Transom Capital Group (Transom), a leading operations-focused middle market private equity firm, today announced it has acquired SemiTorr Group, Inc. (SemiTorr), a leading distributor of high purity products, from Riverlake Partners.\nSemiTorr is a leading distributor for high purity gas and fluid handling systems and components supporting the microelectronics, sanitary and industrial markets. SemiTorr's family of products includes process equipment, tubing, hoses, fittings, valves, filtration and instrumentation. Founded in 1988, SemiTorr's headquarters are located in Tualatin, Oregon with eight distribution centers located across the country.\n\"SemiTorr provides a unique value proposition to its suppliers and customers and has a best-in-class management team. It represents the market-leading brands in the high purity space, and maintains a blue-chip customer base in its respective end-markets. Partnering with SemiTorr's leadership team was an easy decision for us and we look forward to supporting them in growing the business,\" said James Oh, Partner at Transom Capital.\n\"We spent considerable time and energy evaluating the landscape of potential partners to find one that can support SemiTorr's next phase of growth. Transom strongly believes in what we have done over the past several years to grow the business and has encouraged us to do more of the same. We are excited to work with them to develop new ways to serve our business partners,\" said Kevin Waddell, President and CEO at SemiTorr.\nTerms of the transaction were not disclosed. Transom was represented by O'Melveny and Myers LLP as M&A counsel and Perkins Coie as debt finance counsel on this transaction. Bank of America Merrill Lynch and PNC Mezzanine Capital provided the debt financing for the transaction.\nAbout Transom Capital Group\nTransom (www.transomcap.com) is a leading operations-focused private equity firm in the middle market with more than $500M in assets under management. The firm's functional pattern recognition, access to capital, and proven ARMOR Value Creation Process combine with management's industry expertise to create improved operational efficiency, significant top-line growth, cultural transformation and overall distinctive outcomes. Transom is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.\nAbout SemiTorr Group, Inc.\nThe SemiTorr Group, Inc. is a leading sales and distribution company supporting the Semiconductor\/Microelectronic, Sanitary and Industrial Markets. Founded in 1988, its headquarters are located in Tualatin, Oregon with eight distribution centers located across the country. SemiTorr believes in providing the best products and giving its customers outstanding service and support. Effectiveness stems from the experience of the Company's technical sales staff coupled with a dedicated inside sales support team. SemiTorr prides itself on assisting its customers to find the right solution.\nWestcap funds invest in growth of Degelman Industries","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2013 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final London\nResults: 2013 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final London | Junior Women\nLondon, Great Britain \u2022 12 Sep, 2013\nElite Men Elite Women U23 Men U23 Women Junior Men Junior Women Paratriathlon Male TRI-1 Paratriathlon Female TRI-1 Paratriathlon Male TRI-2 Paratriathlon Female TRI-2 Paratriathlon Male TRI-3 Paratriathlon Female TRI-3 Paratriathlon Male TRI-4 Paratriathlon Female TRI-4 Paratriathlon Male TRI-5 Paratriathlon Female TRI-5 Paratriathlon Male TRI-6a Paratriathlon Female TRI-6a Paratriathlon Male TRI-6b Paratriathlon Female TRI-6b 18-19 Male AG 18-19 Female AG 20-24 Male AG 20-24 Female AG 25-29 Male AG 25-29 Female AG 30-34 Male AG 30-34 Female AG 35-39 Male AG 35-39 Female AG 40-44 Male AG 40-44 Female AG 45-49 Male AG 45-49 Female AG 50-54 Male AG 50-54 Female AG 55-59 Male AG 55-59 Female AG 60-64 Male AG 60-64 Female AG 65-69 Male AG 65-69 Female AG 70-74 Male AG 70-74 Female AG 75-79 Male AG 75-79 Female AG 80-84 Male 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00:09:30 00:00:46 00:29:21 00:00:30 00:17:45\n6 Cassandre Beaugrand 1997 FRA 39 00:58:02 00:09:28 00:00:54 00:29:19 00:00:35 00:17:49\n7 Ditte Kristensen 1995 DEN 7 00:58:28 00:09:24 00:00:53 00:29:20 00:00:33 00:18:21\n8 Holly Grice 1994 AUS 34 00:58:47 00:09:29 00:00:53 00:29:15 00:00:37 00:18:35\n9 Maya Kingma 1995 NED 21 00:58:54 00:09:18 00:00:58 00:29:23 00:00:41 00:18:36\n10 Sophia Saller 1994 GER 11 00:58:56 00:09:45 00:00:51 00:30:21 00:00:32 00:17:29\n11 Anastasia Gorbunova 1994 RUS 26 00:58:58 00:09:24 00:00:56 00:29:18 00:00:34 00:18:47\n12 Leonie Periault 1994 FRA 9 00:59:06 00:09:46 00:00:50 00:30:22 00:00:34 00:17:36\n13 Emma Sharkey 1994 IRL 15 00:59:13 00:09:20 00:00:49 00:29:28 00:00:30 00:19:08\n14 Zsanett Bragmayer 1994 HUN 42 00:59:21 00:09:20 00:00:45 00:29:33 00:00:37 00:19:07\n15 Giulia Sforza 1995 ITA 44 00:59:26 00:09:22 00:00:45 00:29:31 00:00:33 00:19:19\n16 Jaimee Leader 1997 NZL 23 00:59:39 00:09:38 00:00:54 00:30:25 00:00:33 00:18:11\n17 Melanie Santos 1995 POR 24 00:59:43 00:09:24 00:00:47 00:29:26 00:00:35 00:19:32\n18 Mikayla Nielsen 1994 NZL 64 00:59:58 00:09:54 00:00:59 00:30:43 00:00:32 00:17:52\n19 Angelica Olmo 1996 ITA 60 01:00:03 00:09:42 00:00:52 00:30:23 00:00:32 00:18:37\n20 Lotte Miller 1996 NOR 22 01:00:03 00:09:37 00:01:14 00:30:43 00:00:37 00:17:54\n21 Vanesa De La Torre 1995 MEX 62 01:00:05 00:09:57 00:00:52 00:31:07 00:00:33 00:17:38\n22 Sian Rainsley 1997 GBR 69 01:00:11 00:09:38 00:00:46 00:30:34 00:00:29 00:18:46\n23 Sophie Malowiecki 1997 AUS 68 01:00:12 00:10:29 00:00:50 00:30:36 00:00:31 00:17:49\n24 Jodie Duff 1994 AUS 55 01:00:16 00:09:50 00:00:51 00:30:53 00:00:34 00:18:11\n25 Verena Steinhauser 1994 ITA 17 01:00:24 00:09:49 00:00:49 00:30:19 00:00:33 00:18:56\n26 Sveva Fascetti 1994 ITA 70 01:00:26 00:10:15 00:00:53 00:30:46 00:00:31 00:18:02\n27 Sophie Coldwell 1995 GBR 57 01:00:31 00:09:42 00:00:50 00:30:24 00:00:28 00:19:08\n28 Ivana Kuriackova 1994 SVK 29 01:00:33 00:09:34 00:00:51 00:30:32 00:00:37 00:19:01\n29 Luisa Baptista 1994 BRA 36 01:00:37 00:10:17 00:00:48 00:30:48 00:00:33 00:18:13\n30 Luisa Conde\u00e7o 1996 POR 50 01:00:45 00:09:47 00:00:50 00:30:19 00:00:33 00:19:17\n31 Hrista Stoyneva 1995 BUL 37 01:00:45 00:10:03 00:00:50 00:30:43 00:00:31 00:18:40\n32 Anna Wagenknecht 1994 GER 58 01:00:52 00:10:20 00:00:52 00:30:41 00:00:33 00:18:28\n33 Devon Dabney 1995 USA 67 01:00:55 00:09:25 00:00:43 00:30:50 00:00:31 00:19:27\n34 Jeanine Kocken 1996 NED 48 01:01:11 00:09:27 00:00:49 00:30:42 00:00:36 00:19:39\n35 Laura Gomez Ramon 1994 ESP 8 01:01:13 00:10:33 00:00:49 00:30:31 00:00:36 00:18:45\n36 Kate Curran 1996 GBR 40 01:01:19 00:10:02 00:00:51 00:30:47 00:00:37 00:19:03\n37 Julia Hauser 1994 AUT 35 01:01:20 00:10:26 00:00:50 00:30:38 00:00:39 00:18:49\n38 Maria Molyarova 1994 RUS 52 01:01:24 00:10:01 00:00:51 00:30:43 00:00:33 00:19:19\n39 Fumika Matsumoto 1995 JPN 46 01:01:35 00:10:29 00:00:56 00:30:29 00:00:32 00:19:10\n40 Maria Cristina Farez Pucha 1994 ECU 18 01:01:37 00:09:50 00:00:54 00:30:52 00:00:32 00:19:31\n41 Tea Milos 1994 CRO 5 01:01:41 00:10:09 00:00:55 00:30:51 00:00:41 00:19:06\n42 Yan Yin Hilda Choi 1994 HKG 12 01:01:56 00:10:31 00:00:50 00:30:33 00:00:36 00:19:28\n43 Kirsten Nuyes 1997 NED 63 01:02:00 00:09:55 00:00:52 00:30:48 00:00:34 00:19:54\n44 Gabrielle Edwards 1994 CAN 1 01:02:02 00:10:30 00:00:46 00:30:36 00:00:31 00:19:40\n45 Akane Makita 1995 JPN 19 01:02:06 00:10:11 00:00:52 00:30:52 00:00:34 00:19:39\n46 Henrietta Hargitai 1995 HUN 59 01:02:09 00:09:56 00:00:53 00:30:49 00:00:34 00:20:00\n47 Stephanie Jenks 1997 USA 54 01:02:17 00:10:09 00:00:49 00:33:00 00:00:32 00:17:50\n48 Chia-Chia Chang 1995 TPE 30 01:02:18 00:09:47 00:01:00 00:30:49 00:00:39 00:20:05\n49 Michelle Derron 1994 SUI 28 01:02:26 00:10:24 00:00:59 00:30:30 00:00:42 00:19:52\n50 Noam Fishman 1997 ISR 43 01:02:35 00:09:54 00:00:58 00:30:45 00:00:40 00:20:20\n51 Andrea Berenice Gutierrez Gonzalez 1994 MEX 20 01:02:36 00:10:17 00:00:57 00:31:53 00:00:39 00:18:51\n52 Elena Lokhmanova 1994 RUS 66 01:03:02 00:10:07 00:01:01 00:31:39 00:00:35 00:19:43\n53 Valeria Antuna 1996 MEX 47 01:03:26 00:10:10 00:00:55 00:32:52 00:00:35 00:18:55\n54 Fabiola Gomes 1994 BRA 56 01:03:36 00:10:06 00:00:58 00:30:52 00:00:35 00:21:07\n55 Laurelle Brown 1994 ZIM 33 01:04:19 00:10:46 00:00:59 00:32:13 00:00:35 00:19:47\n56 Steffy Mishel Salazar Perez 1994 ECU 45 01:05:07 00:10:14 00:00:57 00:32:56 00:00:39 00:20:23\n57 Charne Prinsloo 1994 RSA 25 01:05:12 00:10:40 00:00:53 00:32:26 00:00:39 00:20:36\n58 Jodie Berry 1995 RSA 51 01:05:34 00:11:31 00:00:58 00:33:59 00:00:34 00:18:33\n59 Laura Daniela Ramirez 1994 COL 4 01:05:46 00:10:45 00:01:14 00:33:42 00:00:35 00:19:32\n60 Yuval Gome 1996 ISR 16 01:05:52 00:11:10 00:00:51 00:33:37 00:00:36 00:19:39\n61 Ipek Oztosun 1994 TUR 31 01:06:01 00:10:16 00:00:59 00:32:46 00:00:41 00:21:21\n62 Ana Ramos 1995 POR 65 01:06:46 00:10:06 00:00:55 00:34:36 00:00:33 00:20:38\n63 Lei Pan 1996 CHN 3 01:07:23 00:10:11 00:00:59 00:34:32 00:00:39 00:21:03\n64 Catalina Salazar 1997 CHI 2 01:09:34 00:10:44 00:00:56 00:35:41 00:00:33 00:21:41\nDSQ Nicole Van Der Kaay 1996 NZL 49 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00\nDNF Marika Zahradnickova 1994 CZE 6 00:00:00 00:10:28 00:00:57 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00\nDNF Fl\u00f3ra Bics\u00e1k 1997 HUN 14 00:00:00 00:10:19 00:01:01 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00\nDNF Su Yin Denise Chia 1997 SGP 27 00:00:00 00:10:51 00:01:03 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00\nDNF Emy Legault 1996 CAN 38 00:00:00 00:09:57 00:00:45 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00\nDNF Romana Gajdo\u0161ov\u00e1 1994 SVK 53 00:00:00 00:10:25 00:00:56 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00:00\nWater Temperature 16.4 C","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Scimago Lab Blog\nScience Analytics\nNormalized Impact of Universities (I)\nWe, at Scimago Lab, include the Normalized Impact indicator in every ranking SIR we build, both in world and iberoamerican series. This indicator can be seen as a substitute to the overused Impact Factor as it conveniently captures the scientific impact of institutions and corrects the biases generated when heterogeneous outputs \u2013such as those coming from big universities\u2013 are analyzed. This post is the first of a series of two in which we describe its main features and computation methods.\nWhen the scientific output of an university is analyzed to evaluate its impact and compare it to other universities', we must have in mind that there exists many factors influencing the amount of citations achieved by the university such as the research thematic profile, the document types where its output is published, the \"age\" of the papers under analysis, etc. These biases make a direct comparison on the quantity of citations obtained by universities unfeasible, therefore rankings built over raw citation counts should be avoided. It should happen the same to journal rankings (as IF based journal rankings), but that matter will not be discussed here.\nAt the level of Universities and large Research Centres (national agencies, big companies, etc), the Normalized Impact indicator is more efficient to reveal the scientific impact (or visibility) of institutions outputs because it includes some tools to correct the topic-type-age biases. The Normalized Impact amends the citation value achieved by every paper by comparing it to an international standard, thus in this way it normalizes the disparity of citation scores obtained by papers in different domains, with different ages and of different types.\nThis citedeness bias is due to the different citation dynamics:\nBetween Thematic Domains. There exists different citation behaviours in different areas of Science, so it cannot be directly compared the citedeness of papers in Medicine with works on Social Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences nor Health Life. Every thematic domain has its own citation patterns.\nThe following bubble chart shows Germany's 30 Top Subject Categories by number of documents published in the period 2009-2010. Bubble size represents Citations per Document in the area. The big light green bubble correspond to Cell Biology \u2013located between 20,000 and 25,000 Cites in the vertical axis\u2013 (11.13 citations per document) while the wine-red little one down in the middle correspond to Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2.23 citations per document). So how would influence this parameter to a university output that had a strong Engineering focus? It seems clear that using Impact Factor (or any other non-standardized methodology) to build the rank would push it down, no matter how good it was in its research.\nGermany's 30 Top Subject Categories by number of documents published in the period 2009-2010\nSource: SCImago Journal and Country Rankg. Period: 2009-2010. Link\nBetween different document types. There also exists different citation patterns among the various types of papers\/articles\/reviews\/etc. traditionally included in scholarly journals. So reviews should not be directly compared with papers (original article), conference papers, letters, etc.\nAmong different papers' \"ages\". Usually, when a ranking is built, the output of universities to be compared includes sets of papers with different ages, that is, papers that have been published in several years. But a paper that has been published three years before another one has more chances to achieve citations because it has had more time to be known by the scientific community, so the ages of the papers in the set influence the number of expected citations.\nThe following chart shows year by year citedeness achieved by Canada's output, both the total number of citations and self-citations (that is, canadian papers citing ohter canadian papers). It is clear how the line declines at the end, when it approximates to the current date. So should 2006 output be evenly compared to 2010's when less citations are \"being played\"? It must be taken into account that when universities are compared to build rankings, papers from differente ages a measured with this evident age bias.\nAnnual Series of Citations achieved by Canada's Output\nHow international standards are built\nWhat NI makes is to build citation standards that are used to normalize the citation achieved by an institution. The normalization is then carried out paper by paper o just in one time by summing up all the university citations (i.e. citations received by the whole output of and institution) and normalizing later.\nThe citation value of a \"standard paper\" is computed for every topic-type-age relationship. For instance, to build a \"standard 2008 review in Oncology\" the citations to every Review in Oncolgy published in 2008 are counted and then divided by the number of reviews or to build a \"standard 2009 original article in Applied Mathematics\" the mean of citations achieved by all the Original Articles in Applied Mathematics published in 2009 is computed. This is done for each one of these triads so at the end of this process we have a bunch of standard paper values ready to be used to normalize the output of institutions.\nHow to interpret NI scores\nNI scores are standardized to the world average which is asigned a value of 1, then a score of 0.8 means the institution is cited 20% below world average and 1.3 means the institution is cited 30% above world average.\nThe following chart shows the Top Ten universities by output in China and France ordering them by NI scores. As can be seen, just two Chinese universities equal or exceed the world average barrier, to the rest their scientific impact is lower than the international standard, in some a 40% lower (those that have 0.6 score) On the other hand, french largest universities present scientific outputs with significant impact, all of the over 40% of the world average (1.4 to 1.7)\nSource: SCImago Insitutions Rankings. Period: 2006-2010\nIn the following post of this series we will talk about the two main methods to compute the Normalized Impact indicator: the so called CROWN indicator by the University of Leiden and the \"Field Normalized Citation Score\" set by the Karolinska Instituet. We will also compare NI with other indicators used in SIR Rankings and describe its features.\nBorja Gonz\u00e1lez Pereira works at Scimago Lab as Content and Media Manager, he is also a researcher at SCImago Research Group where participates in the development of the SJR indicator and in renowned bibliometic projects including Scimago Journal & Country Rank, Scimago Institution Rankings and The Atlas of Science. His main interest included Bibliometrics and Scientometrics.\nWorld's Top 100 Companies by Scientific Knowledge Output, a Scientometric Characterization (SCOPUS 2003-2010)\nDistribution by country of the research institutions in the SIR 2012 among the first 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2000 and all (3290)\ngetintouch@scimagolab.com\n@scimago\nScimago Lab is a division of the SRG S.L. company. Copyright 2010-2016.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\/ Healthcare\nCramer: This Is Why You Keep Cash on Hand\nBecause the selloff isn't over.\nAug 14, 2017 | 03:14 PM EDT\nStocks quotes in this article: NVDA, ATVI, MU, STX, WDC, HD, GPS, WMT, TGT, DDS, M, KSS, JCP, MRK\nIs that all there is? Was that it to the selloff? Point blank, I am going to tell you no. The market does not work like that. August is notorious for the kinds of declines we had last week, as is September. They are short. They are sharp. They are fear -inducing.\nAnd you have to be mentally as well as financially ready for them.\nRemember that last week we had a combination of weak retail earnings -- although I could contest that -- terrible bank stock performance and a noted hedge fund manager who came on television to tell you there was far more risk to this market than he thought people realized.\nThat combination caused fear to spike and a serious run for the exits.\nIt was a wholesale panic, and with all panics there are bargains.\nThis kind of activity is why I always recommend raising some cash after big runs like we have had because you need to be ready with your shopping list, as we were with my charitable trust club, and we had stocks like those of Nvidia (NVDA) and Activision (ATVI) , which we were waiting to come down to our levels so we could buy them. (Nvidia and Activision are part of TheStreet's Action Alerts PLUS portfolio.)\nBefore I tell you why you have to get used to these declines, let me explain why dip buying worked.\nFirst, the positive backdrop for stocks did not change. We have low inflation and low interest rates, good earnings and a weak dollar.\nLow inflation makes the earnings in the out years worth more. Remember, that's what we need to have if we are investing in growth stocks. High inflation erodes the long-term value case for equities.\nLower interest rates remain both a positive spur to business -- think the incredibly robust housing stocks -- and a reason to buy stocks with good yields.\nThe earnings picture is very strong. We just came through the bulk of the season and there were incredibly few downside surprises. Other than oil and some retailers, most companies' managements raised estimates after beating the numbers for the quarter.\nEven the very controversial Nvidia, which took a drubbing on Friday, actually reported amazing earnings. There was simply one business line in transition that kept the company from blowing away the estimates even more than it did.\nThe weak dollar is nothing short of amazing. Say what you want about President Trump -- and a lot of people do -- this weak dollar may be the story of 2017 because the international companies that are based here are seeing their earnings from overseas being transformed into much higher numbers that are allowing estimates to be beaten handily. It's possible that the weak dollar may be early on the decline, especially against the yen with Japanese gross domestic product growth running double what people expected, and Europe growing at a level that means its low interest rates are unsustainable.\nSo then, what are my reservations about saying it is \"game on\"?\nFirst, Congress is not in session. Given how at odds Congress -- both sides of the aisle -- seems to be with the president, we have a real opportunity to move up here. But when Congress reconvenes in September, we will be back to the old set of disappointments. There will be difficulties raising the debt ceiling. There will be more calls to repeal and replace. There will be more heartbreaks about tax reform as the fiscally conservative Republicans in both houses align with the Democrats to block anything that causes more spending -- even if it is temporary.\nSecond, there is an undercurrent of worry in tech that today obscured. The undercurrent is that the plain vanilla tech, the semiconductors that go into autos, the semis that go into personal computers, and even the semis that go into cellphones, are just one disappointment away from blowing up.\nThe action in the stock of Micron (MU) is instructive. Here's a company that has blown away the estimates for two quarters and yet hasn't seen its stock go up to its old high. Micron makes commodity semis like Drams as well as specialty flash storage devices. We know from Seagate (STX) that disk drives are in trouble, given how badly that company missed its quarter -- the worst of the season. We know Western Digital (WDC) was not able to crush the estimates as it has. We know the whole group has ridiculously low price to earnings ratios on next year's numbers, which typically means those estimates will prove way too high. Today we got a short-covering rally in the group, but I think analysts are itching to downgrade them.\nThird, interest rates were higher today and that should continue, but for the most part it hasn't and we've been stalled here. When rates go up, we get a good move in the bank stocks, which are ideal leaders. We need rates to go high enough to attract buyers into the financials but not so high that we lose the advantage to the companies with high yields. Without the banks, we cannot mount a sustained advance.\nFourth, today the transports went up and that group, whether it be freight forwarding or railroads or airlines, has been trashed endlessly. Sure, perhaps today the group bottomed. They were all red-hot and I don't believe they deserve the opprobrium they have received of late. But I also think any prediction of a sustained bounce may be too positive.\nFifth and finally, a slew of retailers report this week, everything from Home Depot (HD) and Gap (GPS) to Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) . This group, which is heavily relied upon as a leadership sector, demonstrated some pretty paltry performance last week when Dillard's (DDS) , Macy's (M) , Kohl's (KSS) and J.C. Penney (JCP) all reported fairly decent earnings and saw their stocks get killed anyway.\nThat can't happen again.\nDoes that mean you raise cash into this move? I think you do some selling of your worst stocks that have managed to move up as part of the S&P's rally so you have cash for the next downturn. Believe me, there was plenty of weakness underneath today, including the drug stocks -- and not just because of a spat between President Trump and Ken Frazier, CEO of Merck (MRK) , who resigned from Trump's business council in protest of the president's initial response to the heinous Charlottesville attacks. I saw weakness in anything related to the oils again, which are simply horrendous. And some of the commodity stocks were weak off some subpar Chinese economic numbers.\nSo my take is to remember that in the dog days of summer, things can happen at lightning speed. Unless you have some cash and some stock ideas and some levels where that money can be put to work in a cool and methodical way, I predict you will miss the next buying opportunity when it comes forward in the not-too-distant future.\nAction Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, is long NVDA and ATVI.\nTAGS: Investing | U.S. Equity | Healthcare | Consumer Discretionary | Technology | Jim Cramer | Markets | Politics | Stocks\nMore from Healthcare\nHere's a Prescription for Eli Lilly Stock: Don't Swallow Yet\nWith prices in a downtrend with a $95 price target, hold off on purchases until prices hold for the drugmaker.\nSarepta Therapeutics Looks Ready to Break Out to the Upside\nHere's how to play this stock.\nAmbiomed Stock: A Look Forward\nABMD has been one of the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 over the past five years.\nCareDx Looks Like It Can Continue Its Impressive Rally, So Go Long\nAll the charts of the molecular diagnostics company look bullish.\nEdwards Lifesciences Has Formula for Long-Lasting Rally\nEW has had some corrections and pullbacks along the way during this long and strong rally from $80 to nearly $200, but its price target is $240.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ebola Deaths Top 4,000; Screening Begins At New York's JFK Airport\nPublished October 11, 2014 at 7:26 AM PDT\nJUSTIN LANE\nEPA \/LANDOV\nPassengers from three West African countries will face screening for Ebola symptoms when they arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Travelers are seen here at a JFK checkpoint earlier this week. Four other airports will begin screening next week.\nOfficials at five busy U.S. airports are putting in place screening measures meant to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Screening began at JFK Airport today; it will start at other international airports next week.\nThe push comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the outbreak has killed at least 4,024 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.\nThe screening procedure will include passengers having their temperature taken with non-contact thermometers and answering questions to determine their potential exposure. Here are more details:\nIn addition to JFK, the airports are O'Hare in Chicago; Hartsfield in Atlanta; Newark in N.J.; and Dulles in Northern Virginia.\nPeople who arrive on flights \"from or through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone\" will be subjected to the tighter screening.\nThe agency says the plan will let it \"evaluate over 94 percent of travelers from the affected countries.\"\nThe list of origin countries does not include Nigeria, which currently has 20 Ebola cases; the CDC says officials have contained the disease there.\nThe CDC and U.S. announced the new procedures Thursday \u2014 the same day that the first Ebola patient died on U.S. soil. Thomas Eric Duncan died in Texas nearly three weeks after he traveled to the United States from Liberia; his itinerary included the Dulles airport, which is on the new screening list.\n\"But some public health officials say the procedures are unlikely to prevent anyone with Ebola from entering the country,\" NPR's Joel Rose reports. \"They probably would not have stopped Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. He had no symptoms when he flew from Liberia to Dallas last month.\"\nAs the CDC notes, airports in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have screened 36,000 potential travelers in the past two months. In that time, 77 people were kept off flights, the agency says, but none had Ebola; many of them were diagnosed with malaria.\n\"There's no approved medicine on the market to treat Ebola,\" as NPR's Jason Beaubien reported Friday, when he told the story of a Liberian doctor who developed his own regimen for treating the disease, using the antiviral drug lamivudine and other measures.\nDuncan's case has led to many questions, from general ones about how America would stop the internal spread of Ebola to very specific ones about why Duncan was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital two days before he was admitted and diagnosed with the deadly virus.\nAccording to member station KERA, Duncan's family might take legal action over his treatment; a family spokeswoman announced that possibility Friday, citing details such as the drugs Duncan received and his condition during the initial exam, when he reportedly had a 103-degree fever.\nThe Ebola outbreak has raised tensions in many areas \u2014 including on flights that don't go anywhere near Africa. As the Two-Way reported Friday, after a passenger joked about spreading Ebola on a flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, he was taken off the plane by agents in hazmat suits.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Casting: Pearce, Brolin, Wilson, Collins, Scott\nThursday, June 12th 2014 2:08 pm\nGuy Pearce will join Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult in Drake Doremus' \"Equals\". Filming begins in Japan and Singapore in August.\nThe futuristic love story takes place in a society where emotions have been eradicated. Ridley Scott will produce. [Source: Screen]\nVeteran actor James Brolin is set to play the father of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's characters in Jason Moore's comedy \"The Nest\" at Universal Pictures.\nThe story follows two sisters who throw one last rager before their parents' house is sold. Ike Barinholtz also stars in the film currently targeting a December 18th 2015. [Source: Deadline]\nRebel Wilson is set to join the cast of the action comedy \"Grimsby\" at Sony Pictures. Annabelle Wallis, David Harewood, Ian McShane, Gabourey Sidibe and Johnny Vegas also star.\nMark Strong plays a British black ops agent forced to go on the run with his long-lost English soccer hooligan brother (Sacha Baron Cohen). [Source: Variety]\nTriple Nine\nClifton Collins Jr. (\"Capote,\" \"Pacific Rim\") has joined the cast of John Hillcoat's cop drama \"Triple Nine\". Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Kate Winslet also star and filming begins next month.\nThe story follows a crew of dirty cops who are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack. [Source: Deadline]\nStefanie Scott is set to star in Leigh Whannell's \"Insidious: Chapter 3\" for Focus Features, eOne, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, and Blumhouse Productions.\nPlot and character details are being kept under wraps. Scott is currently filming the \"Jem and the Holograms\" film which Blumhouse Productions is also producing. [Source: Deadline]\nPrevious articleNew Photos From \"Jurassic World\" Arrive\nNext articleDreamworks Animation Sets 2017, 2018 Films","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ind. guardsman faces federal explosives complaint\nAndrew Boguslawski\nMark Babb\nBy ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press - Monday, March 3, 2014\nCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Explosive devices seized from an Indiana Guardsman who was pulled over for speeding in Ohio were capable of causing injuries and death to people nearby if they were detonated, according to a federal complaint.\nInvestigators also found numerous videos and photographs showing defendant Andrew Boguslawski, family members and associates - including Boguslawski's 16-year-old niece - blowing up several devices, according to the court papers.\nThe 44-year-old Boguslawski appeared briefly in court Monday afternoon at hearing where he acknowledged he'd read the charge against him: possession of destructive devices not registered to him in a national firearms database.\nHe was not required to enter a plea and waived a bond and preliminary hearing, meaning the government now has 30 days to seek an indictment. Defense attorney Mark Babb declined to comment.\nVideo evidence showed that Boguslawski had used explosive devices as weapons and distraction devices near civilians and military personnel, according to the complaint by Timothy Burt, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The government says nine of the devices could have caused injuries or death if they went off.\n\"These explosions would produce blast, thermal effects and propel pieces of plastic at high velocities in all directions,\" the complaint said of the devices' potential.\n\"These devices would be capable of causing property damage and personal injuries and\/or deaths to persons near the explosion,\" the complaint said. They were described as heavy plastic bottles filled with explosive \"flash\" powder with fuses in lids for ignition.\nThe complaint doesn't say where the devices were blown up but says his niece lives in Ford City, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh.\nOhio police stopped Boguslawski in January for doing 88 mph in a 70 mph zone on Interstate 70. He was on his way back to Indiana after visiting family in Pennsylvania, said Fred Alverson, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney in Columbus.\nBoguslawski had worked at an Indiana National Guard training center near Butlerville, Ind., and told troopers he had items for training purposes. He had been in the Indiana guard's medical discharge unit since November, but a guard spokeswoman has said she couldn't discuss his medical condition.\nBoguslawski remains in custody without bond. The new federal charge carries up to 10 years in prison, and preliminary state charges have been dropped.\nA message was left with the Indiana National Guard. Alverson says Boguslawski is still a Guardsman. Babb has contended there was no indication that Boguslawski had any plans to hurt anyone.\nThe Indiana guard said Boguslawski received military intelligence training and had served there since 2007, after transferring from the Tennessee National Guard. He joined the Pennsylvania National Guard out of high school and also served in the Ohio National Guard, according to Indiana guard records. Officials at Wright State University near Dayton said he earned a bachelor's degree in organizational leadership in 2006.\nDuring the traffic stop, Boguslawski told Trooper William Scott Davis that he didn't have weapons. Davis said he spotted the butt of a gun tucked between his legs. Davis then held Boguslawski at gunpoint and called for backup, leading to a search that police say turned up the explosives and weapons.\nAndrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https:\/\/twitter.com\/awhcolumbus.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Consolidating India's Indian Ocean Strategy\nBy Vivek Mishra\nAltered national interests in the Indian Ocean are rapidly transforming the region into an arena of reoriented strategic disposition for traditional powers like the United States, France, Russia, and the U.K., as well as an area of emerging interests for China, Australia, and Japan. Since the Cold War, India has remained a peninsular witness to this pivotal shift in the region's importance, but its recent policy reformulations vis-\u00e0-vis the Indian Ocean region and the larger Indo-Pacific are signs of growing awareness to the changes underway. However, despite the gains made, challenges remain in this important maritime domain of remerging Asian geopolitics.\nThe new government in India starts on the back of quite a few gains, which seem to have consolidated its regional maritime strategy in the Indian Ocean region (IOR). Early in his last term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi significantly visited three important Indian Ocean countries, the Seychelles, Mauritius, and Sri Lanka, in 2015. In the following year, he visited Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya, four littoral countries of the Indian Ocean. Besides these, in the last five years India has partly undone the damage to relations with its critical IOR neighbor, the Maldives; ties had suffered under the previous pro-China government in Male under Abdulla Yameen. As for strategic steps in the IOR, securing port access in Duqm, Oman for military use; India's decision to develop its maiden deep-sea port in Indonesia's Sabang; furthering talks for a possible military base at Assumption Island in the Seychelles; and securing logistics agreements with the U.S., France, and Singapore have been critical decisions for consolidating India's regional naval presence as well as deterring external power dominance.\nPosted by Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM(Retd) at 00:40 No comments:\nThe Secret Profits Behind China's Rare Earth Metals Threat\nby Peter Krauth, Money Morning\nChina's latest ploy in the trade war could be to limit its supply of rare earth metals to the United States. But that's an opportunity for investors too.\nChina has found its tariffs are having limited effects on the United States. The U.S. had $539 billion worth of imports from China in 2018, compared to $120.3 billion in exports to China. That means China can't match American tariffs.\nBut China has a few more weapons in its arsenal, and it might be desperate enough to use them. That's why we're taking the China rare earths threat so seriously.\nRare earth metals is one sector where the United States is acutely dependent on China. These are 17 elements crucial to the \"green economy\" including technology, energy, healthcare, transportation, and even national security.\nU.S. President Donald Trump's blacklisting of Chinese telecom giant Huawei may have been the final straw. And in an effort to retaliate, China's recent moves read like an obvious warning that the trade of rare earths could become weaponized.\nPosted by Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM(Retd) at 00:25 1 comment:\nJ. BRADFORD DELONG\nBy attempting to \"get tough\" with China, US President Donald Trump's administration is highlighting the extent to which America's star has fallen this century. If the US ever wants to reclaim the standing it once had in the world, it must become the country it would have been if Al Gore had won the 2000 presidential election.\nBERKELEY \u2013 In a recent issue of The New York Review of Books, the historian Adam Tooze notes that, \"across the American political spectrum, if there is agreement on anything, it is on the need for a firmer line against China.\" He's right: On this singular issue, the war hawks, liberal internationalists, and blame-somebody-else crowd all tend to agree. They have concluded that because the United States needs to protect its relative position on the world stage, China's standing must be diminished.\nBut that is the wrong way to approach the challenge. In the near term (1-4 years), the US certainly could inflict a lot of damage on China through tariffs, bans on technology purchases, and other trade-war policies. But it would also inflict a lot of damage on itself; and in the end, the Chinese would suffer less. Whereas the Chinese government can buy up Chinese-made products that previously would have been sold to the US, thereby preventing mass unemployment and social turmoil, the US government could scarcely do the same for American workers displaced by the loss of the Chinese market.1\nUS Blacklist On Huawei: Leverage For The US-China Trade Talks? \u2013 Analysis\nBy Lyu Mengting and Chia-yi Lee*\nThe United States added Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to the US Entity List of threats to the US telecommunications industry. Google and other US companies suspended some businesses with Huawei after the blacklisting. Trump seems to use the blacklisting as leverage in the US-China trade negotiations, which does not bode well for a successful deal.\nPresident DonaldTrump on 15 May 2019 issued an executive order on \"securing the information and communications technology and services supply chain\", which declared a \"national emergency\" regarding \"critical national security threat\" to information and telecommunications of the US. Following the order, the US Commerce Department listed Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, and its 68 affiliates on the Entity List, which prohibits the company from buying components and services from US companies without approval by the US government. Google, Intel, Qualcomm, ARM and other companies were reported to follow the order.\nThe move of the Trump administration is believed to be a direct blow at Huawei. In an apparent tit-for-tat, Beijing asserted its support for the legal rights of Chinese companies and urged Washington to avoid miscalculations that further strain US-China trade relations. China also reportedly drafted a new cybersecurity law that will result in blocking US telecom companies from entering its market\u2014the largest in the world.\nSierra Leone, 2000: A Case History in Successful Interventionism\nThere is one place in the world where Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, is not vilified for his part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a West African country where, less than three years earlier, his government's intervention helped to end one of the most vicious conflicts in recent history. In Sierra Leone, where he is a hero, the \"Blair Doctrine\" was a rare case of an overseas military operation not for strategic or commercial interest, but for humanitarian purposes and in the name of an ethical foreign policy. Blair would later write in his autobiography that the episode was one of his proudest moments in office.\nA paradox of this claim is that the scope and success of the intervention depended less on deliberate policy and careful planning in Downing Street or Whitehall than on a daring degree of improvisation by the commanding officer on the ground. \"Operation Palliser,\" which began in May 2000, was led by General Sir David Richards, then a brigadier, later appointed chief of the British general staff and NATO commander in Afghanistan. Without official sanction from London, Richards protected the capital Freetown from rebel attacks and prevented it from falling. In so doing, he made a remarkable unilateral decision to go beyond his mandate in order to save a civilian population from the overwhelming likelihood of an all-out slaughter. The military historian David Ucko, writing in the Journal of Strategic Studies in 2015, calls Richards's action \"A rare success story, but\u2026 a poorly understood and little studied case.\"\nIs Russia Having Second Thoughts About Integration With China?\nBy Bruno Ma\u00e7\u00e3es\nThe last few years made possible a significant rapprochement, but the potential for sudden shifts cannot be excluded.\nEverything seems in flux at the moment. Will the two countries move even closer together \u2014 is an Eastern Alliance possible? \u2014 or will China's rise face new resistance in this area as well \u2014 problems it is now facing almost everywhere?\nBeijing has been extraordinarily successful in managing Russia, perhaps the most brilliant success of Chinese foreign policy in recent years. But in the recent Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, president Putin poured some cold water on the Eastern Alliance.\nHe did not do so explicitly, but the main message was that China's Maritime Silk Road \u2014 one of its routes goes through the Arctic, connecting Europe and Asia \u2014 would have to link with Russia's Northern Sea Route.\nNow, on paper the Maritime Silk Road would need no such extension as it is already designed to reach Europe in Norway or Greenland or even Finland. So Putin was essentially saying: not so fast.\nErdogan Pushes to Cement His Hold on Turkey\nBy Sinan Ciddi\nThe annulment of the March 31 mayoral election in Istanbul and the ordering of a do-over on June 23 raises questions about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government's willingness to recognize election results that do not produce favorable outcomes.\nIf the opposition candidate again wins the Istanbul mayoral election, there is a chance that Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party will not recognize the outcome and will appoint a caretaker appointee.\nErdogan and the ruling party seem determined to maintain their hold on Istanbul, which has served as a base of power for the party and offers lucrative financial resources.\nTurkey's Supreme Electoral Board (YSK) last month narrowly voted to annul the results of the March 31 mayoral race in Istanbul and schedule a new election. So, on June 23, voters in Turkey's largest city will once again go to the polls to elect their next mayor. Under strong pressure from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's inner circle, the YSK cited unsubstantiated polling irregularities to justify the revote, thus underscoring a point that many Turkey watchers have long cautioned was coming: For the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), some electoral outcomes are only fair and valid if the AKP wins. Just as they did three months ago, the same candidates of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the AKP are running to be mayor of Istanbul in what is expected to be another highly contentious race.\nAs Challenges Mount, Can Europe Correct Its Course?\nThe liberal European order that emerged after World War II and spread after the collapse of the Soviet Union is now under attack from both within and without. The European Union\u2014the ultimate expression of the European project\u2014has become a convenient punching bag for opportunistic politicians in many of its member countries, as anti-EU sentiment has become part of the broader populist platform of protectionism and opposition to immigration. The EU still managed to withstand its latest challenge when the gains made by populist parties in recent European Parliamentary elections fell short of expectations.\nNevertheless, Britain's withdrawal from the union, known as Brexit, continues to loom over the grouping, and there is no way of knowing whether the populist wave has crested. Illiberal governments hold power in Hungary and Poland, and a far-right party was part of a coalition government in Austria until its recent collapse. Centrist leaders seem unable to come up with a response to immigration that doesn't alienate more voters than it unites.\nEven as leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel try to fend off challenges from right-wing opposition parties at home, they are also seeking to salvage major international initiatives, including the Paris climate agreement, as the United States under President Donald Trump questions its global role.\nRUSSIA\/CHINA JOINT STATEMENT ON STRENGTHENING GLOBAL STRATEGIC STABILITY\nThe Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, based on the relations of a comprehensive equal trust partnership and strategic interaction between the two states, recognizing their responsibility for ensuring international security and on the basis of the importance of maintaining global and regional strategic stability, state the following.\nThe parties recognize that at the moment international security is facing serious challenges, in connection with which the Parties intend to deepen mutual trust and strengthen cooperation in the strategic sphere, to insistently protect global and regional strategic stability.\nThe parties intend to continue to act in the spirit of the Joint Statement of the President of the Russian Federation and the President of the People's Republic of China signed on June 25, 2016 in Beijing to strengthen global strategic stability and confirm the significance of the principles set forth in it.\nRussia and China note with alarm the extremely dangerous actions of individual states, which, on the basis of their own geopolitical and even commercial gain, destroy or alter the existing architecture of arms control and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In the pursuit of a strategic advantage in the military sphere, in the intention to ensure \"absolute security\" and in order to gain unlimited opportunities for military-political pressure on opponents of such states, mechanisms working to maintain stability are unceremoniously destroyed.\nWorld Economic Leaders Warn of Fallout From Trade War Between U.S. and China\nBy Alan Rappeport\nFUKUOKA, Japan \u2014 Global finance leaders meeting in Japan this weekend said they were increasingly worried that the trade dispute between the United States and China, which shows no signs of abating, could propel the world economy into a crisis.\nThe sense of gloom at the gathering of the Group of 20 major economies came amid increasing evidence that global economic growth is slowing amid President Trump's renewed trade war with Beijing. In a closing statement, or communiqu\u00e9, officials at the G-20 warned that trade tensions have \"intensified\" and agreed to address the risks.\nBut the Trump administration, intent on rewriting the rules of international commerce in America's favor, gave no sign that it was ready to back down. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin continued to blame China for prolonging the fight and insisted that the trade dispute was not hurting America's economy or hampering global growth.\n\"I don't think in any way that the slowdowns you're seeing in parts of the world are a result of trade tensions at the moment,\" Mr. Mnuchin told reporters on the sidelines of the G-20.\nWill There Be Winners in the U.S.-China Trade War?\nAndrew Chatzky\nWith tariffs slowing U.S. trade with China, several countries are hoping their exports will become more affordable and that their economies will reap the rewards.\nWith recent talks running aground, the trade dispute between the United States and China looks like it's here to stay. While most experts agree that both sides lose in a trade war, some note that resulting changes to supply chains and investment patterns could set some other countries up to be potential winners.\nU.S. tariffs on Chinese imports\u2014and China's retaliatory tariffs on American goods\u2014have already cut bilateral trade. Economists think the spat could eventually reduce global gross domestic product (GDP) by hundreds of billions of dollars.\nThat's because the United States buys more goods from China than from any other country, importing $540 billion worth in 2018. American businesses and families benefit from low-priced goods, ranging from industrial machinery to consumer goods such as electronics, furniture, clothing, and toys.\nMeanwhile, U.S. exporters send more than $120 billion worth of goods to China's enormous market each year. The U.S. automotive, aerospace, and agricultural industries in particular have benefited from China's economic expansion over the past few decades, and the U.S. government calculates that exports to China support more than nine hundred thousand jobs.\nIs anyone benefiting from the dispute?\nResolving the US\u2013China Trade Impasse\nYUKON HUANG\nSummary: The new round of tariffs has put U.S.-China trade negotiations on hold. Just a month ago, a deal to end the trade war was deemed likely. So why did this process unravel so quickly and what is the way going forward?\nJust a month ago, an agreement to end the US\u2013China trade war was deemed likely. Then came a flurry of accusations and another round of tariffs that have put negotiations on hold. Why did this process unravel so quickly and what might be the endgame?\nBeijing ostensibly recoiled after senior leadership saw the entire package of demands as an infringement on national sovereignty. Meanwhile, Washington became more unified in its objectives and sensed that politically it was not the right time to strike a deal. Under such conditions, many saw an enduring solution as unlikely given the complexity of the issues. Any agreement would have been more of a negotiated truce, transforming the process from an unruly to a more regulated trade war.\nHuawei Chairman Willing To Sign A 'No-Spy' Deal With The United States\nPALLAVI GOGOI\nHuawei Chairman Liang Hua, shown in 2018, said Tuesday that Huawei is willing to sign a \"no-spy agreement\" to reassure U.S. leaders who worry the company's technology could be used for surveillance.VCG via Getty Images\nA top Huawei executive said Tuesday that the company is willing to sign a \"no-spy agreement\" with the United States to reassure U.S. leaders who say the company's technology could be used for surveillance.\nThe offer is similar to proposals the Chinese tech giant has made to the United Kingdom and Germany, and it comes after weeks of intense pressure from the Trump administration.\n\"We are willing to sign no-spy agreements with countries,\" said Huawei Chairman Liang Hua at the company's headquarters in Shenzhen, China, when asked specifically if Huawei would sign a \"no-spy\" agreement with the U.S. \"But since the U.S. has not bought from us, is not buying from us, and might not buy from us in the future, I don't know if there is such an opportunity to sign such an agreement.\"\nLiang made the comments while speaking with a small group of U.S. journalists who were visiting with the China-United States Exchange Foundation.\nThe Ever-Shifting 'Strategic Triangle' Between Russia, China and the U.S.\nBy Eugene Chausovsky\nRussia and China are on a trajectory to increase ties across the economic, energy and security realms, but this path is by no means set.\nThe evolving relationship between Russia and China will inherently be shaped by each country's links to \u2014 and contention with \u2014 the United States as part of a \"strategic triangle\" of relations.\nAs China rises in terms of its relative economic and military power, Russia and the United States could eventually seek a strategic rapprochement to constrain Beijing's ascension.\nHowever, any alignment between the United States and Russia would be limited to specific shared interests and could ultimately shift again with prevailing geopolitical conditions.\nThe U.S. trade war with China and Washington's prolonged standoff with Russia \u2014 over matters from Iran to Venezuela to arms control \u2014 are increasingly driving Moscow and Beijing toward each other. Chinese President Xi Jinping is attending the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum June 6-7, but not before meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier in the week. China and Russia have signed economic deals that span everything from 5G networks to hydropower plant construction to establishing a joint research and technology innovation fund. The deals come in the wake of Moscow's recently indicated desire to collaborate with China in the Arctic's Northern Sea Route as part of Beijing's Maritime Silk Road initiative, while the massive Power of Siberia pipeline is completing the final phase of construction and is set to begin pumping ever-larger volumes of Russian natural gas to China by the end of this year.\nIn Poland, a Fixed U.S. Presence Will Warrant a Russian Response\nThe United States will likely move forward with plans to expand its military presence in Poland in the coming quarter, which could include more than 1,000 new troops and the permanent stationing of forces in the country.\nWhile Washington's presence may not come in the form of Warsaw's proposed \"Fort Trump,\" it will nonetheless establish a more fixed measure of U.S. security support for Poland as an added layer of defense against Russia.\nMoscow will likely respond to such an agreement with military buildups of its own near Poland's borders, most likely by boosting defense assets in Belarus.\nEditor's Note: This assessment is part of a series of analyses supporting Stratfor's upcoming 2019 Third-Quarter Forecast. These assessments are designed to provide more context and in-depth analysis of key developments over the next quarter.\nPoland has long courted the United States for a permanent military presence to serve as a barricade against Russian influence. Despite Poland's pleas, however, Washington has stuck with a more flexible defense approach in the country. But that may soon change now that U.S. President Donald Trump's at the helm. For more than a year, the United States and Poland have been in talks over such an agreement, which Polish officials have indicated could be finalized by as soon as Sept. 1. However, such a fixed U.S. presence near Russia will undoubtedly spur Moscow to ramp up its own military presence near Poland's borders \u2014 placing Warsaw squarely in the middle of Moscow and Washington's increasingly heated great power competition.\nHow the US government can counter China's growing media influence\nThe Chinese state media advertorial supplement \"China Watch\" runs regularly in major U.S. newspapers, and a 2018 supplement in the Des Moines Register took a particularly politicized tone on the U.S.-China trade war.\nChinese Americans have seen posts on Chinese firm Tencent's WeChat social media platform silenced in group conversations, including when the messages touched on local Asian American political issues.\nAnd Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) dominates the Chinese-language cable landscape in the United States, relative to the Taiwanese station ETTV and the US-based NTDTV, despite the latter's online popularity and reports of behind-the-scenes Chinese pressure on U.S. cable companies to keep it off the air.\nThese are a few examples of the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is affecting news that Americans consume and share in the United States, noted a Freedom House report released this week on the implications for democracy of China's global media influence.\nRare Earth Elements: Global Reserves and Production\nDownload this article as PDF\nWith China's recent threat to ban exports of rare earth elements to the United States, it may be time to find an alternative.\nBlacklisted Huawei Loses Facebook, Instagram And WhatsApp Preinstalled Apps\nZak Doffman\nThe impact of the U.S. blacklisting on Huawei's smartphone business continues to increase. Facebook is the latest major U.S. technology player to withdraw support for Huawei smartphones. Reuters was the first to report on June 7 that \"Facebook is no longer allowing preinstallation of its apps on Huawei phones... Customers who already have Huawei phones will still be able to use its apps and receive updates, Facebook told Reuters. But new Huawei phones will no longer be able to have Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram apps preinstalled.\"\nA week ago, there were reports that Huawei had shut down a number of Foxconn smartphone production lines as demand for the company's devices dropped. The company flatly denied that those reports were true. But then this week came a second report from Asia, this time claiming that Huawei had slashed its smartphone shipment forecast for the second half of 2019 by as much as 20-30%.\nHuawei held onto its lead over Apple for smartphone sales in the first quarter of the year, but will likely struggle to maintain that lead for the rest of the year. SCMP's article quoted Zhao Ming, president of one of Huawei's brands, acknowledging that the company objective of catching Samsung by the end of next year was at risk. \"As the new situation has emerged,\" he reportedly said, \"it is too early to say whether we are able to achieve the goal.\"\nCyber Diplomacy: The Spirit Of D-Day Can Unite Us\nSam Curry\nPresident Trump has been on tour in Europe this week for D-Day events on the 75th Anniversary of the allied invasion with visits in the UK, Ireland and France. Noticeably absent from the talk track as world leaders gather is the entire subject of cybersecurity. This is remarkable because of the emphasis and slow ramp of attention from the administration on cyber in recent months.\nPerhaps the solemnity of the D-Day anniversary events made it hard to talk business, but the opportunity exists now to make a difference. But in the shadow of the 75th anniversary of the largest conflict in Human history, wouldn't it make sense to talk about the new cyber battlefield and how erstwhile allies and former enemies that have since maintained alignment or built new coalitions can continue to promote global prosperity?\nBritain might have a reprieve until October on Brexit, but there's clearly a cyber dimension brewing and maybe staring down across the channel. Further, cyber relations between the US and Europe and amongst European nations shouldn't be a back burner discussion; it should be front and center if we're to avoid an escalation of tension and issues in the future.\nUsing Public-private Partnerships to Tackle Extreme Poverty\nNena Stoiljkovic, vice president for Asia and Pacific at the World Bank's IFC, and Djordjija Petkoski, senior fellow at the Zicklin Center and lecturer at the Wharton legal studies and business ethics department, discuss how solid business models that can attract private investment to blend with public funds are the best driver for spreading sustainable growth in underdeveloped regions.\nAttracting private capital is a critical complement to government financing if the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development that the United Nations identified are to be met. For that to happen, it is important to redefine how corporations can work sustainable development into their strategies, say experts from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Wharton's Zicklin Center for Business Ethics. The IFC is an arm of the World Bank Group that helps leverage private capital for development efforts, such as in \"ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.\" The Zicklin Center and the World Bank Group are partners in Ideas for Action, a joint program to connect young leaders with sustainable development goals. Nena Stoiljkovic, IFC's vice president for Asia and Pacific, and Djordjija Petkoski, senior fellow at the Zicklin Center and a lecturer in Wharton's legal studies and business ethics department, spoke recently with Knowledge@Wharton about how public-private partnerships can help reduce poverty, especially in the Asia Pacific region. (Listen to the podcast at the top of this page.) Below is an edited version of their discussion.\nDon't let cybersecurity be driven by fear, warns NCSC chief\nBy Danny Palmer\nAs cyberattacks and hacking incidents increase in frequency and scope, it's important that organisations and governments don't revert to a fear-based approach to cybersecurity: it won't help users and it doesn't help to prevent attacks.\nToday's security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions -- or even billions -- of dollars at risk when information security isn't handled properly.\nReflecting on how cybersecurity guidance has changed since the UK's National Cyber Security Centre started operating in 2016, NCSC chief executive Ciaran Martin said the cyber-arm of GCHQ began as if its job was scaring people into staying safe online. But now the approach is based around promoting a deeper understanding of threats, he said.\n\"Four years ago, as GCHQ and government, we were still reluctantly in the role of the 'Monsters Inc' Top Scarcer. We still had to convince people about the threat and that it was all very scary and so forth,\" said Martin, comparing the government's approach to cybersecurity to that of the Pixar movie during a keynote address at Infosecurity Europe 2019 in London.\nStates Must Explain When a Cyber Attack Might Draw a Violent Reprisal\nBY JONATHAN REIBERHEAD OF CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY, ILLUMIO\nWithout clear explanations that affirm rules of the road, countries make it easier for conflicts to spiral out of control.\nWhen conducting a kinetic military response to a cyberattack, it's better to explain why and how you are doing so.\nA month ago, the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, responded to a Hamas cyberattack with an online counter-attack against the hackers followed by an airstrike that destroyed their building in Gaza. It remains unclear whether any Hamas cyberspace operators died in the operation.\nThis was the first time that a military has conducted a kinetic operation directly in response to a cyberattack in real time. It occurred in the context of decades-long hostilities between Israel and Hamas, and amid the worst fighting between the parties since 2014.\nPentagon Chief to Suspend Turkey's F-35 Pilot Training\nBY LARA SELIGMAN\nActing U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is taking significant steps toward cutting Turkey out of the F-35 fighter jet program over concerns about Ankara's plans to purchase a Russian missile system, telling his Turkish counterpart that pilots currently training in the United States must leave the country by July 31 and halting training for new students.\nTurkey can still change its mind on purchasing the S-400 missile system, which is expected to arrive on Turkish soil as soon as this month, and the steps regarding F-35 training will be reversed, a senior U.S. defense official told Foreign Policy.\nThe United States has already halted delivery of F-35 materials and related equipment to Turkey. Without the training provided by the U.S. military, future Turkish F-35 pilots will not be able to operate the jet, which will provide the bulk of tactical airpower for the United States and many of its allied militaries for decades to come.\nFreedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral\nBy Sarah Repucci\nFreedom of the media has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade.\nIn some of the most influential democracies in the world, populist leaders have overseen concerted attempts to throttle the independence of the media sector.\nWhile the threats to global media freedom are real and concerning in their own right, their impact on the state of democracy is what makes them truly dangerous.\nExperience has shown, however, that press freedom can rebound from even lengthy stints of repression when given the opportunity. The basic desire for democratic liberties, including access to honest and fact-based journalism, can never be extinguished.\nUnconventional Warfare: Think Outside the G-Base\nGeorge Schwartz\nThe Green Berets are in danger of self-inflicted irrelevancy because of shortcomings in their training. Most current Unconventional Warfare (UW) training events take the Unconventional Warfare template from Robin Sage and simply impose it on other environments and threat situations. This trend has persisted despite the lack of modern UW examples that resemble Robin Sage. Green Berets should be considering other models of UW that may be more relevant today.\nSpecial Forces doctrine depicts resistance partner forces as having three elements: a rural-based full-time paramilitary guerrilla force, an urban-based underground, and an auxiliary that serves as the link between the two. The ODA partners with the guerrilla force and teaches them US-style small unit tactics. That is what every Green Beret did in Robin Sage. It is the common understanding of UW shared by all SF Soldiers. Virtually every UW exercise I have taken part in (Cobra Gold, Foal Eagle, Jade Helm, home station UW mission profiles) mirrors this model. 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{"text":"Maneater Is Now Available For Xbox One\nJim Sterling May 22, 2020\nTripwire Interactive LLC\nBECOME THE MANEATER!Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas \u2013 a terrifying SHARK! Maneater is a single player, open world action RPG (ShaRkPG) where YOU are the shark. Starting as a small shark pup you are tasked with surviving the harsh world while eating your way up the ecosystem. To do this you will explore a large and varied open world encountering diverse enemies \u2013 both human and wildlife. Find the right resources and you can grow and evolve far beyond what nature intended, allowing the player to tailor the shark to their play style. This is fortunate, because to get revenge on the cruel fisherman that dismembered you will take evolving into a massive shark, an apex predator of legends. Eat. Explore. Evolve.\nUnique Story \u2013 Play through a full narrative, story-based campaign narrated by Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, Rick and Morty) and set against the backdrop of a reality TV show.\nDiverse, Compelling Combat \u2013 Battle fierce wildlife including other apex predators or fight against various types of human hunters ranging from town drunks all the way up to the Coast Guard.\nEvolve Into a Legend \u2013 Feed on humans and wildlife to grow your shark, and find shark loot to evolve your shark down multiple possible paths.\nExplore the Gulf \u2013 7 large regions including bayous of the gulf coast, resort beaches, industrial docks, the open ocean and more. Experience a living world with a full day\/night cycle.\nDeveloper: Tripwire Interactive\nWebsite: Maneater\nTwitter: @TripwireInt \/ @maneatergame\nManeater Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One\nRoad Redemption Is Now Available For Xbox One\nKilling Floor 2 Is Now Available For Xbox One\nBurnout Paradise Remastered Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One\nACA NEOGEO AERO FIGHTERS 3 Is Now Available For Xbox One\nSweet Witches Is Now Available For Xbox One\nUltimate Chicken Horse Is Now Available For Xbox One","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Interpol Hosts Latest Digital Currency Conference in Middle East\nInternational law enforcement groups and government agencies are hosting a conference on money laundering and digital currencies this week.\nBackers of the event, running between 16th and 18th January, include Interpol, Europol (the European Union's top police agency) and the Qatar National Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Committee, a unit of the emirate's central bank. The event is being held in Doha, the capital of Qatar.\nLocal news sources report that during the event, deputy central bank governor Sheikh Fahad Faisal Al-Thani (who also chairs the AML committee) called for more collaboration among law enforcement agencies worldwide during investigations involving the tech.\nHe was quoted by The Peninsula as saying:\n\"We expect from this conference to contribute in enhancing the capacity of the relevant competent authorities in conducting investigations in any crimes related to virtual currencies; and in establishing a network of practitioners and experts of this field.\"\nInterpol has held similar events in the past, and the organization has even created its own digital currency to assist in training exercises.\nLast March, Interpol held a four-day war game involving law enforcement officials from more than sixty countries during which a fictional blackmailer demanded payment in bitcoin.\nImage Credit: HUANG Zheng \/ Shutterstock, Inc\nEuropolInterpolQatar","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alta Asks Live: Rishi Reddi\nAuthor Rishi Reddi joins Alta Asks Live to discuss Passage West, the complexities of the migrant experience in California and beyond, and much more.\nWho is welcome in America? It's the abiding question explored by author Rishi Reddi in her critically-acclaimed novel, Passage West. Reddi joins Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington to discuss her new book, the complexities of the migrant experience in California and beyond, and much more.\nBuy the book: Passage West\nRead Talking with Rishi Reddi\nAbout the book and the author\nA sweeping saga set in rural California at the onset of World War I, Passage West relates the story of a Punjabi family, their Mexican in-laws, and their Japanese neighbors during an era of rising xenophobia.\nRishi Reddi is the author of the novel Passage West and the collection Karma and Other Stories, which received the 2008 L. L. Winship \/PEN New England Award for fiction. Her work appears in Best American Short Stories, has been broadcast on National Public Radio, and was chosen for honorable mention in the Pushcart Prize. She was born in Hyderabad, India, and grew up in Great Britain and the United States. She lives in Cambridge, MA.\nHeather Scott Partington is a writer, teacher, and book critic. She is the winner of an emerging critic fellowship from the National Book Critics Circle and the critic in residence for UC Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books among other publications. She lives in Elk Grove, California, with her husband and two kids.\nHeather Scott Partington Heather Scott Partington is a writer, teacher, and book critic.\nAlta Asks Live: Kimi Eisele\nAlta Asks Live: Vanessa Hua","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeSwertresPCSO Lotto Result December 21, 2022 6\/55, 6\/45, 4D, Swertres, EZ2\nAdminWD Thursday, December 22, 2022 1\nMANILA, Philippines \u2013 The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) releases the official lotto result for Wednesday, December 21, 2022. View here the winning numbers for 6\/45, 6\/55, EZ2 (2D Lotto), Swertres (3D lotto) and 4D Lotto.\nPCSO said jackpot prize for the evening major draws \u2013 Mega Lotto 6\/45 and Grand Lotto 6\/55 \u2013 now hitting Php 104.8 million and Php 89.5 million, respectively.\nTips: Bettors who missed yesterday's PCSO lotto and STL draw results may check the links below. You may also monitor announcement of results via our new website pcsolotto.ph - PCSO Lotto and STL.\nPCSO Lotto Result December 20, 2022 6\/58, 6\/49, 6\/42, 6D, Swertres, EZ2\nPCSO Lotto Result Today, December 21, 2022 (Wednesday):\nCOMBINATIONS 13-43-04-31-25-35\nWINNER\/S 0\nUltra Lotto 6\/58 32-34-19-06-27-35 12\/20\/2022 446,857,427.60 0\nGrand Lotto 6\/55 24-48-08-38-45-11 12\/19\/2022 83,661,736.80 0\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 33-37-04-19-02-16 12\/20\/2022 16,025,912.20 0\nMega Lotto 6\/45 09-04-11-19-14-08 12\/19\/2022 96,600,838.40 0\nLotto 6\/42 42-13-09-15-24-32 12\/20\/2022 33,742,504.20 0\nMega Lotto 6\/45 July 18, 2022 Las Pi\u00f1as City, Metro Manila 53.9 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 December 29, 2021 Las Pi\u00f1as City and Guiguinto, Bulacan 27.9 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 December 10, 2021 Sta. Rosa City, Laguna 83.8 million\nLotto 6\/42 December 4, 2021 Urdaneta City, Pangasinan 6 million\nLotto 6\/42 December 2, 2021 Dasmari\u00f1as City, Cavite 6 million\nGrand Lotto 6\/55 November 29, 2021 Para\u00f1aque City 162.3 million\nLotto 6\/42 November 27, 2021 Tanauan, Batangas 5.9 million\nUltra Lotto 6\/58 November 26, 2021 Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro 378.8 million\nLotto 6\/42 November 25, 2021 City of Manila 16 million\nLotto 6\/42 November 13, 2021 Calamba City, Laguna 8.5 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 November 9, 2021 Quezon City 15.8 million\nLotto 6\/42 November 6, 2021 Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental 8.2 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 November 4, 2021 San Carlos City, Pangasinan 125.7 million\nLotto 6\/42 October 30, 2021 Valenzuela City 5.9 million\nLotto 6\/42 October 28, 2021 Ormoc City, Leyte 5.9 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 October 27, 2021 Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo 35.2 million\nLotto 6\/42 October 23, 2021 Para\u00f1aque City 33 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 October 1, 2021 Malvar, Batangas 8.9 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 September 29, 2021 Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental 55 million\nLotto 6\/42 September 28, 2021 Samboan, Cebu 36.8 million\nLotto 6\/55 August 30, 2021 Mandaue City, Cebu 120.1 million\nLotto 6\/42 August 28, 2021 City of Manila 5.9 million\nLotto 6\/42 August 26, 2021 Tarlac City, Tarlac 17.9 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 August 20, 2021 Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte 24.3 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 August 15, 2021 San Jose Del Monte City, Bulacan 48.6 million\nLotto 6\/42 August 5, 2021 San Jose, Batangas 77.2 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 July 26, 2021 Batangas City and Muntinlupa City 36.1 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 July 1, 2021 Nasugbu, Batangas 84 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 June 30, 2021 Calamba City, Laguna 54.4 million\nUltra Lotto 6\/58 June 22, 2021 Calbayog City, Samar 49.5 million\nLotto 6\/42 June 19, 2021 San Jose City, Nueva Ecija 15.4 million\nGrand Lotto 6\/55 June 7, 2021 Baguio City, Benguet 29.7 million\nLotto 6\/42 June 5, 2021 San Mateo, Rizal 10 million\nUltra Lotto 6\/58 May 28, 2021 Lipa City, Batangas 49.5 million\nLotto 6\/42 May 27, 2021 Makati City 16.8 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 May 26, 2021 Davao City 181.7 million\nGrand Lotto 6\/55 May 15, 2021 Abucay, Bataan 29.7 million\nLotto 6\/42 May 8, 2021 Iriga City, Camarines Sur and Davao City 101.3 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 April 22, 2021 Lucban, Quezon 24.4 million\nGrand Lotto 6\/55 March 27, 2021 Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur 298.8 million\nUltra Lotto 6\/58 March 23, 2021 BF Homes, Las Pi\u00f1as City and North Fairview, Quezon City 55.98 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 March 14, 2021 Himamaylan, Negros Occidental 24.1 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 February 23, 2021 Cainta, Rizal 15.8 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 February 18, 2021 Porac, Pampanga 69.3 million\nLotto 6\/42 February 16, 2021 Las Pi\u00f1as City 8.1 million\nUltra Lotto 6\/58 February 12, 2021 Banga, Aklan 246.1 million\nLotto 6\/42 February 9, 2021 Bagong Barrio, Caloocan City 10.3 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 February 5, 2021 Bacong, Negros Oriental 12.4 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 January 27, 2021 Polangui, Albay 36 million\nLotto 6\/42 January 23, 2021 Dasmari\u00f1as, Cavite 20.1 million\nLotto 6\/42 January 7, 2021 Tabaco City, Albay 21.3 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 January 3, 2021 Gapan, Nueva Ecija 34.7 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 December 30, 2020 Baguio City 21 million\nLotto 6\/42 December 19, 2020 Rodriguez, Rizal 23.9 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 December 14, 2020 Marilao, Bulacan 166.5 million\nSuper Lotto 6\/49 December 6, 2020 City of Manila 265.4 million\nLotto 6\/42 December 1, 2020 Angeles City, Pampanga 9.4 million\nLotto 6\/42 November 21, 2020 Guiuan, Eastern Samar 20.4 million\nGrand Lotto 6\/55 October 31, 2020 Talisay City, Cebu 35.5 million\nLotto 6\/42 October 31, 2020 Ormoc City, Leyte 48.7 million\nGrand Lotto 6\/55 September 23, 2020 Valenzuela City 128.4 million\nLotto 6\/42 September 15, 2020 Lian, Batangas 8.6 million\nMega Lotto 6\/45 September 7, 2020 Marikina City 24.0 million\nUltra Lotto 6\/58 September 6, 2020 Quezon City 339.2 million\nLotto 6\/42 September 3, 2020 San Fernando, La Union 49.7 million\nDECEMBER 21, 2022 LOTTO UPDATES\n2D Lotto 3D Lotto 4D Lotto EZ2 Grand Lotto 6\/55 Lotto Result Today Mega Lotto 6\/45 PCSO PCSO Lotto Result Swertres\nAbout AdminWD\npahingi po ako ng update sa pcso lotto result today december 21 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\/ Politics\nTax Reform Law Gets Mixed Reviews From Financial Planners\nFinancial planners say they've seen mixed effects from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with many clients surprised by lower refunds.\nScott Van Voorhis\nMay 9, 2019 1:14 PM EDT\nThe much-touted overhaul of the nation's tax system has finally all but completed its debut performance, with the vast majority of country having settled up with Uncle Sam by April 15 under the new rules of the road.\nAnd the verdict from financial planners on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which went into full effect this year? Well, it's a mixed one.\nWhile some clients have wound up paying less, others, especially those with a vacation home or two, have had the opposite experience, planners say.\nOthers have saved money, but have been upset nonetheless because they wound up losing tax refunds they have come to depend on -- or getting reduced payments -- since less is being withheld in the first place from their paychecks.\n\"We saw surprises in both directions,\" said DeDe Jones, managing director of Innovative Financial in Lakewood, Col., who is both a CPA and a CFP. \"Some clients paying quite a bit more and some paying quite a bit less. We did a projection for everyone last year to prepare them, but for many of them that were expected to see higher tax bills the prediction was ignored. Human nature is a strange thing.\"\nFor some, lower taxes\nClients who are business owners, with S-Corps, LPs and LLCs, have done particularly well under the new tax bill, said Scott Bishop, an executive vice president for financial planning and a partner at STA Wealth Management in Houston.\nUnder the law, you can deduct 20% of your \"qualified business income,\" from your taxable income. Basically, QBI is what you earn through your business -- it excludes things like capital gains or losses, dividend income, interest income, among other things.\nThe process of claiming the deduction is relatively simple if your business income falls below two key thresholds -- for single filers, $157,500 and for joint filers $315,000.\n\"This can be very powerful for those that can utilize the benefits,\" Bishop said.\nDeAnna D'Attilio, tax director at Acorn Financial Services in Reston, Va., noted that business owners who take the 20% deduction can lower their taxable income even more by claiming the many expenses that come with running any enterprise.\n\"The real winners with tax reform are taxpayers who receive the majority of their income through pass-through entities and small businesses and qualify for the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction,\" she said.\nRetirees have also benefited from the lower tax rates as well, Bishop said. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act includes several rate reductions, from a cut the very top to 37.6% from 39%, to a drop to 12% from 15% near the bottom.\nHowever, Bishop's older clients have had to become more creative in finding ways to get over the $24,000 standard deduction, after which they can itemize and save even more.\nThe new tax law's $10,000 cap on deductions for state and local taxes has made it more difficult to get over that $24,000 number.\nBishop has been advising his older clients to bunch their charitable contributions together, say giving $20,000 in one year, instead of spreading that out over two years.\n\"This \"bunching\" of deductions will allow them to have well over $24k of deductions every other year and take the standard deduction in the off (or lesser giving year),\" Bishop said.\nMeanwhile, some clients are paying less in taxes overall, but have been thrown off by the fact that their tax refunds are either smaller now, or have evaporate altogether. That's because they are paying less on the front end in payroll taxes, Luis Rosa, a CFP at Build a Better Financial Future in Las Vegas.\nThey just haven't noticed their slightly larger paychecks.\n\"Most people did not feel the positive impact of the slightly higher take home pay and were shocked when their refunds were less at tax time,\" Rosa said. \"So although they're paying less in taxes, they felt as if they paid more because their refunds got lowered. That was a surprise.\"\nBut some pay more\nBut other clients have not made out so well under the 2017 tax code overhaul, financial planners say.\nThe $10,000 cap on deductions for state and local taxes, also known as SALT, has meant higher taxes for clients who own a vacation home or two and owe much more than that in property taxes to local town and city governments.\n\"Those that have larger homes that have large property taxes in Texas are getting hit with the $10k SALT limitation to deduct those taxes,\" Bishop said. \"That is mitigated somewhat with the lower tax rates, but some with first and second homes had large property taxes.\"\nYoung professionals who rent, and so have no mortgage deduction, and who also live in states with high tax rates, such as New York, have also taken a hit under the new tax law.\n\"My high-state-tax clients from New York felt the pinch even more,\" Rosa said. \"The SALT (State and Local Tax) deduction was capped at $10,000 and my clients in NY who normally have $35,000 in state and local tax or more, certainly felt the impact of not being able to take those deductions, some of which ended up not even itemizing as a result.\"\nTaxesTax PlanningTax TipsPolitics\nBitcoin Wilts as U.S. Lawmakers Challenge Facebook's 'Libra' Ambitions\nBitcoin wilts back below the $10,000-mark on Wednesday alongside other cryptocurrencies as U.S. lawmakers cast doubts that they will give the nod to Facebook's own cryptocurrency plans, legitimizing the space in the process.\nM. Corey Goldman\nRailroad Stocks to Ride as CSX Results Promote a Sectorwide Slide\nWhen there is fear in a sector, there is often opportunity as well.\nCSX Derailed By Rare Earnings Miss, Lowered Guidance\nThe railroad has run into a snag amid what its CEO termed \"the most puzzling\" economic backdrop he has seen in his career.\nJim Cramer: Big Tech in Washington Will Mean an EPS Hit\nBreaking down the impact on Facebook, Alphabet and Amazon of congressional hearings.\nGermany's Ursula von der Leyen Cleared to Be Next EU Commission President\nEU lawmakers approved her nomination on Tuesday amid some contention.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"The COVID-19 Vaccine May Change Your Menstrual Cycle\u2014Here's What to Know\nA new study confirms anecdotal evidence from menstruating people.\nElizabeth Narins\nElizabeth Narins is a freelance writer and content strategist with more than a decade of experience. She's held staff positions at Women's Health and Cosmopolitan, and was previously the senior director of digital content and social media at WW (formerly Weight Watchers).\nSoon after the COVID-19 vaccine became available to the general public, people who menstruate began reporting an unexpected side effect: changes to their cycle. Now, research based on those anecdotal claims confirms at least one post-vaccine change to menstruation.\nAccording to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), individuals who received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine saw about a one-day increase in the length of their menstrual cycle\u2014this showed up as a longer time between periods, with periods showing up about one day late, on average. For people who received two doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in the same cycle, periods were delayed up to two days, study authors said.\nThe research, published January 5 in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, was the first to look at the potential reproductive side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, unrelated to pregnancy. While study authors say more research is needed to examine other potential period-related vaccine side effects\u2014like changes in symptoms or bleeding patterns\u2014the results are still able to provide guidance to menstruating people and reassurance that the slight changes are \"within the range of normal variability.\"\nHere, experts help to parse out this new research on COVID-19 vaccines and changes in menstruation, and what they mean for you and your reproductive health.\nAlex Sandoval\nResearch About COVID-19 Vaccines and Menstrual Cycles\nInitially, researchers chose to examine the link between abnormal menstrual cycles and the COVID-19 vaccine due to anecdotal reports on social media and on VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System). According to researchers, the reports could lead to vaccine hesitancy\u2014which is why more evidence was needed to accurately address people who menstruate on the effects a COVID-19 vaccine may have on cycles.\nFor the study, researchers looked at de-identified data from the fertility tracking app Natural Cycles. The cycle information from 3,959 people\u20142,403 vaccinated and 1,556 unvaccinated\u2014represented 23,574 menstrual cycles, or six cycles for each person, all of whom were between the age of 18 and 45. In vaccinated people, that meant three pre-vaccine cycles and three post-first vaccine dose cycles. (It should be noted, however, that data from Natural Cycles is not nationally representative, according to The New York Times\u2014the app's users are more likely to be white, college-educated, and thinner than the average woman.)\nOverall, the data showed that COVID-19 vaccination was associated with small (but still statistically significant) increase to a person's menstrual cycle by about one day. In some people who received two COVID-19 shots over the course of one menstrual cycle, a two-day increase in cycle length was observed. There were no significant effects on period length itself, and, on average, cycles returned to normal after one month of being abnormal.\nAccording to the study authors, the vaccine's effect on something called hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis, which helps regulate menstrual cycle timing may be at the root of these changes. The HPO axis \"can be affected by life, environment, and health stressors,\" according to the study\u2014and while researchers said the menstruation changes could not be explained by generalized pandemic stress, they wrote that \"mRNA vaccines create a robust immune response or stressor, which could temporarily affect the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis if timed correctly.\"\nThat HPO axis is \"so finely tuned that it can shut down or produce a change in cycling any time we introduce something new to the body,\" Dr. Taraneh Shirazian, MD, associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU Langone Health, tells Health\u2014so it's not all that surprising that a vaccine could initiate such a response.\nBut while the vaccine can have a short-term effect on periods, it's important to remember that contracting COVID-19 could have an even longer effect: \"In the most extreme cases, where you're admitted to the ICU and intubated, you can go months without menses,\" says Dr. Shirazian. \"Severe COVID-19 illness doesn't just change your periods, but can cause reproductive repercussions far worse than one irregular cycle, like miscarriage, preterm labor, and other bad fertility-specific outcomes.\"\nThe COVID-19 Vaccine's Effect on Fertility\nOne major concern regarding the COVID-19 vaccine has been among people looking to get pregnant\u2014particularly that the vaccine would affect their fertility. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have specifically stated that there's no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine would cause issues with becoming pregnant at any point, and this new study adds more evidence to that claim.\nFor reference: A normal menstrual cycle lasts between 24 and 38 days, and study authors verify that as much as an eight-day change in cycle length is still considered normal. That means even a one- or two-day change in cycle related to the COVID-19 vaccine is still not of clinical concern, according to researchers.\n\"If your period is off by a day, that doesn't mean you can't get pregnant,\" says Dr. Shirazian. \"There's no biological mechanism to suggest the vaccine would cause any problems for future fertility. It doesn't affect your eggs. It doesn't affect your ovaries. It doesn't affect your uterus. It's just a small stressor that the body recovers from like anything else.\"\nWhat if Your Period Changed in a Different Way?\nUnfortunately, those answers doesn't exist right now\u2014researchers said questions still remain around other possible changes to menstrual cycles like changes in menstrual symptoms, unscheduled bleeding, or the quality or quantity of menstrual bleeding.\nOne thing the study did help point out, however, is that perfectly regular cycles\u2014ones that come exactly every 28 days, without fail, for example\u2014are very rare, says Dr. Shirazian. And now, partly because of the COVID-19 vaccine, people may be watching their menstrual cycles more carefully. \"All of a sudden, everyone is paying a lot of attention to their periods, and noticing what we already know: There is always some irregularity to the cycle,\" she says, citing what she calls observer bias. \"You just notice [changes] more when you're really watching.\"\nThat said, if you're experiencing pain, heavy bleeding, or a period that's otherwise super out of whack, don't just chalk it up to baseline irregularity or the vaccine. Call your doctor\u2014especially if you're among the women who've reported postmenopausal bleeding, as reported by the NYT. That can be a sign of endometrial or uterine cancer, according to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, and needs to be evaluated right away.\nAs for the information we do know right now\u2014regarding menstrual cycle length and delayed periods\u2014researchers say that the changes are insignificant and temporary. \"The new data points to no significant change in period patterns with vaccination,\" says Dr. Shirazian. \"It helps us understand that minor cycle changes are possible and common in response to vaccination, so women shouldn't be surprised if their cycles change slightly.\"\nThe information in this story is accurate as of press time. However, as the situation surrounding COVID-19 continues to evolve, it's possible that some data have changed since publication. While Health is trying to keep our stories as up-to-date as possible, we also encourage readers to stay informed on news and recommendations for their own communities by using the CDC, WHO, and their local public health department as resources.\nEven People Who No Longer Menstruate Saw COVID Vaccine-Related Period Symptoms, Research Shows\nCan the COVID-19 Vaccine Affect Your Period?\nMessed Up Pandemic Periods? Here's Why That's Not Unusual\nThis Is Why Your Period Might Get Screwed Up When You Travel\nCOVID-19 Vaccine Shedding\u2014Why Vaccine Shedding Won't Happen\nHere's How Your Breasts Can Change During Your Menstrual Cycle\nGoing Off Birth Control: 12 Ways Your Body Could Change\n10 Things That Can Throw Off Your Period\nShingles\u2014Herpes Zoster\u2014Infection May Be Linked to the COVID-19 Vaccine\nTwo Periods in One Month: How Does This Happen?\nProgesterone as a Supplement: What To Know\nWhy You're Not Getting Pregnant: 6 Lifestyle Reasons To Consider\nFacts About the Uterus Every Person Needs to Know\nThe Truth About Your Menstrual Cycle and Your Appetite\nReasons, Risks, and Treatment for Premature or Early Menopause\nSide Effects of Ovulation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Barack Obama vs. John McCain: 2008 US Presidential Election\nAugust 6, 2008 August 6, 2008 2008, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama, John McCain, Lead Story\nWith three months until the election, Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain have started to lay the groundwork for their respective strategies for the November presidential election and both have spoken of reshaping the electoral map. The first steps of their general election strategies have been implemented and based on where they are campaigning and advertising it becomes clear what states they believe will decide the election.\nBarack Obama has outlined his electoral map strategy and identified 18 states that his campaign will target. Of the eighteen, four states were won by John Kerry in 2004 (Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin) and fourteen of these states were won by George W. Bush in 2004 (Iowa, New Mexico, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana, North Dakota, North Carolina, Montana, Georgia, and Alaska).\nimage from FiveThirtyEight.com\nJohn McCain has also outlined his electoral map strategy, which is to hold the states that George Bush won in 2004 and go after a Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota which John Kerry won in 2004. McCain also lists several states that seem to be solidly in his column, including Arizona, Kentucky and West Virginia, but neglects to mention Virginia, which is now widely considered to be a swing state this year.\nimage from John McCain's Strategy Briefing\nMore info on 2008 swing states:\nNew York Times: Interactive Swing State Map\nReal Clear Politics: Interactive Electoral Map\nFive Thirty Eight: Electoral Predictions\n270 to Win: McCain v. Obama Electoral Map\nSalon: Swing States of 2008\nMap Mash Political Maps\nThe Changing Electoral Map","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sorted by date Results 26 - 50 of 3275\nAbout Town December 15, 2022\nOnline series focuses on preserving Alaska's natural foods\nLearn to safely preserve foods at home in a five-week series of online classes available statewide from January 7 to February 4, 2023. Sarah Lewis,...\nArtifact Archive\nMantle ewers were a popular decor item in the Victorian years between 1837 and 1901. Not a vase,...\nAbout Town December 8, 2022\nWild ice\nYesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago\nDecember 8, 1922 \u2013 Official announcement has been made by E. Brokke, representative of the Norwegian Young People's Society of the United States,...\nSons of Norway Holiday Bazaar\nHoliday season kicks off with parade and tree lighting ceremony\nDecember 1, 1922 \u2013 \"I love them all \u2013 their father saved my life,\" rejoiced Mrs. A. W. Thomas, widely known Alaska sportswoman, as she...\nWinter wind\nThe northern end of Mitkof Island caught its share of strong winds Tuesday, with overnight gusts of...\nThe Mitkof Mummers Theater Co. presents Dorothy in Wonderland\nBy Lizzie Thompson About Town November 24, 2022\nMcMahon's first solo exhibition arrives after decades of working with glass\nLocal artist Debi McMahon's first solo art exhibit will open at 5:30 p.m. this Friday at the...\nAbout Town November 24, 2022\nNovember 24, 1922 \u2013 Forced to turn out to sea for six days, with the engines running every minute without a stop, and one member of the crew kept a...\nObserving Veterans Day\nNovember 17, 1922 \u2013 In what is said to be an attempt to influence election judges in Southeastern Alaska, a suit was filed in the District Court rec...\nBig preparations\nKinder Skog squad cleaned up\nNovember 10, 1922 \u2013 In a talk before the Juneau Commercial Association luncheon, Roy Jones, an aviator from Ketchikan currently in Juneau with his...\nAbout Town November 3, 2022\nHalloween Cute and Brute\nNovember 3, 1922 \u2013 The famous \"Lost Rocker\" placer gold claim for which prospectors have been searching for the past thirty years has been...\nDressing up for a cause\nEide and Lyons to wed\nWomen's basketball was a sport in Petersburg as early as 1914, when the Petersburg Progressive...\nPHS Cheer Squad is tak...Lizzie Thompson\nUSDA will restore the...James Brooks\nWolf on the loop\nVikings wrangle Wolves...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Select a City All Cities Amsterdam Auckland Basel Berlin Be'er Sheva, Israel Brescia, Italy Chicago Dubai Dublin Hamburg Houston Kochi, India London Los Angeles Madrid Mexico City Milan Munich Naples New Delhi New York Ostend, Belgium Paris Philadelphia Shanghai Toronto Vienna Wakefield, UK Zurich\nPRINT March 2017\nBe'er Sheva, Israel\nBrescia, Italy\nKochi, India\nOstend, Belgium\nK. M. Madhusudhanan, Parade, 2016, fiberglass, iron, rubber, 55 1\/2 \u00d7 12 \u00d7 37\".\nK. M. Madhusudhanan\nVadehra Art Gallery | D-40\nJoseph Stalin, a rubber horn, and a pig might seem like an incongruous mix. Yet K. M. Madhusudhanan pulled them all together in his sculpture Parade, 2016. By placing the erstwhile Soviet leader's torso atop a creature whose name is a byword for greed and ignorance, the artist pulled down a onetime icon from his lofty pedestal. Parade is a three-dimensional rendition of an untitled 2016 charcoal drawing from Madhusudhanan's ongoing series \"The Marx Archive: Logic of Disappearance,\" 2014\u2013. In these works, five of which were on display, symbols of power from the Soviet era are depicted in a state","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Criclink.com\nHome of Cricket News\nCategories Select Category Blog (64) CRICKET SCHEDULES (3) Fact Corner (23) Images (1) News (22) Player Profile (2) Uncategorized (3)\nFact Corner\nIndia's Axar Patel Ranked 10th in ICC ODI Rankings. But How?\nSeptember 5, 2017 November 16, 2017 - by admin - Leave a Comment\nIt seems that now ICC must need to revisit its ranking structure big time. Recent shocking inclusion of India's slow left arm spinner Axar Patel in ICC top 10 bowlers in one day international matches must have also caught the spinner by a big surprise.\nFor a bowler who is making his way back into the Indian side after being thrown into wilderness for about 9 months which was largely due to Axar Patel's ordinary returns on spin friendly Indian pitches. To be jumped to # 10 in ICC top bowlers is a thing which only international cricket council can explain.\nIn a 34 matches old one day international career during which Axar Patel only managed to capture 41 wickets at an average of almost 30 runs per wicket. Axar hasn't had a match winning performance to his name in one day international cricket as yet as he only managed to pick up three wickets in an innings thrice in his international bowling career.\nDuring his last 10 one day international matches spanned in 10 months Axar Patel just had a mediocre of 11 wickets to his name at an average of more than 32 runs per wicket with a best of 3 wickets for 34 runs against Sri Lanka. If you look at Axar Patel's recent form which becomes the main reason for his upward jump in ICC ratings than it will also not understandable that what he has done to impress the statistician who are behind this ICC ranking system.\nAxar Patel was not a first choice spinner for this tour as he only came in to replace injured Ravindra Jadeja. In 4 matches of the series Axar Patel had added 6 wickets in his One Day International career on pitches where Indian bowlers dominated the game in every format.\nIf ICC continues to put anyone in top 10 bowlers than may be in coming months we will see a debutant start his international cricket career with # 1 rank in ICC bowling charts.\nGlamorgan Signs Pakistan Fakhar Zaman for Vitality Blast 2019\nPakistan Players in Vitality Blast 2019\nAmbati Rayudu announced Retirement from all forms of Cricket\nPrevious Article Youngsters give hope to the hopeless West Indies Cricket\nNext Article 5 Pakistani Cricketers Inducted in ICC Cricket Hall of Fame\nA cricket enthusiast who is keenly following cricket since years and now transforming his passion for the game by analyzing events taking place on the cricket field.\nDid You Know! Who is the Youngest Player to score century on test debut\nDid You know! Shane Warne has a batting record to his name.\nDid you know! Graham Gooch had scored most runs in a test match ?\nDid You Know: Which player took most wickets in debut series ?\nDid You Know: Which player scored most runs in debut series ?\nDid you know: Record of Pakistani pair Ali Naqvi & Azhar Mahmood?\nDid you know about Chris Gayle unique record in test Matches ?\nDid you know about the bowling record of Waqar Younis ??\nGlen Mcgrath failed to achieve a unique feat by one delivery ?\nTimeless test match between England & South Africa 1939\nDid you know about the awful record associated with Shadab Kabir ??\nDid you know bowling record made by Phil Simmons?\nDid you know about the batting record made by Geoff Allot ?\nDid you know world record shared by Russell and Devilliers ?\nDid you know what awful feat associated with Mohammad Sami?\nDid you aware of the world record Shahid Afridi made in his first ODI ?\nDid you know that how Marvan Attapatu started his test career ?\nDid you know Gus Logie won man of the match award because of fielding ?\nDid you know about the bowling record made by Inzamam ul Haq ?\nWho scored the fastest pair in test cricket history?\nDid You Know About Record Made By Lawrence Rowe ?\nMartin Crowe is the only man to get dismissed for 299\nWaqar Younis \u2013 Most Five Wicket Hauls in ODI cricket\nArchives Select Month July 2019 (6) June 2019 (2) April 2019 (6) March 2019 (3) February 2019 (4) January 2019 (1) November 2018 (1) September 2018 (6) August 2018 (3) July 2018 (3) June 2018 (2) May 2018 (3) April 2018 (13) March 2018 (4) February 2018 (13) January 2018 (4) December 2017 (7) November 2017 (7) October 2017 (1) September 2017 (9) August 2017 (10) July 2017 (5) June 2017 (4) September 2016 (1)\nMohammad Zahid \u2013 Unlucky Fast Bowler From Pakistan\nAugust 2, 2018 July 8, 2019\nHanif Mohammad, the Original Little Master\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 Criclink.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brexit Statement from Allgood plc\nCurrent indications are that the UK Government intends to conclude a trade deal with the EU ahead of the March 2019 deadline for the UK's departure from the EU. However, this is far from certain, and Allgood \u2013 along with all UK businesses \u2013 must consider the possible impacts of a 'no deal' scenario.\nSupply chain resilience\n\u2022 Availability of product\n\u2022 Lead times for supply of product\n\u2022 Cost implications for imported goods\nCurrency risk\nTaxation risk\nCertification & standards\nAllgood maintains a policy of 'UK first' in its manufacturing and sourcing decisions, and has done for years.\nWe are unique in the industry because we source 90% of our products from UK-based suppliers, including our own factory in Birmingham which manufactures around 25% of what we sell. The factory supplies Allgood alone and does not sell into the open market.\nIf border delays arise for imports following a 'hard Brexit', we are therefore largely insulated from potential product shortages, although we recognise that some of our UK suppliers are importers of raw materials and finished product. We are in discussions with them to understand their own contingency plans \u2013 such as to increase stock holdings \u2013 in the event of an abrupt departure.\nBreakdown of spend\nSpend By Location\n% Spend\nSpend By Currency\n* Of which 24.20% is from our own factory.\nAdditionally, we maintain stock holdings in our central warehouse, as below:\nWe stock 6-8 weeks of all our own 'UK stock' SKU's.\nWe forward-buy and maintain WIP with our UK\/Euro suppliers, an additional 8-12 weeks.\nWe stock 4-6 months of all our own 'China stock' SKU's.\nWe forward-buy and maintain WIP with our Chinese suppliers, an additional 8-12 weeks.\nWe forward-buy currency at preferential rates based on our projected annual spend.\nShould the UK be obliged to trade with Europe under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules \u2013 which would be presumed to apply in the event of 'no deal' \u2013 certain tariffs will be applied on imported products, thereby increasing costs on that small proportion of our supply chain which is from the EU. We are studying the potential implications of this, but the impact is likely to be minimal given our limited exposure.\nFor non-GBP denominated purchases, we forward-buy currency based on our projected annual spend, and also negotiate 12 month forward material purchase rates for material used by our own factory.\nThe taxation (e.g. VAT) impact on our trade to and from the EU countries in case of a no-deal Brexit would be re-aligned to the procedures and rules currently relating to trading with non-EU countries, which Allgood already have in place, so the transition risk would be minimal.\nOur customers, suppliers or even ourselves would not be adversely affected by cash flow impact on import\/export taxation as the UK government would be introducing postponed accounting for import VAT on goods brought in (allowing us to account for import VAT on our VAT returns rather than when the goods arrive in the UK) and allow us to continue to zero-rate goods sold to EU customers.\nCertification and standards\nIn response to this question; \"Can the Commission confirm which UK conformity assessment bodies will be able to continue certifying products for sale on the EU market during the transition period? \"The following was the response from the European Commission:\n\"In all other procedures than those covered by Article 123(6), UK authorities and UK designated bodies will continue to be recognised as competent authorities and competent bodies under Union law during the transition period. This will be the case, for instance, as regards type-approval of motor vehicles or certificates issued by notified bodies.\nIn other words, subject to the transitional period being agreed between UK and EU the UK notified bodies will continue to be recognised for certification by the European Commission.\nGiven that there is a precedent in the EU's commercial policy (e.g. with Canada), there is the potential for the mutual recognition of notified bodies in the future relationship between the UK and EU. This will be subject to agreement between UK and EU and will form part of the final negotiations, should a 'no deal' scenario arise.\nIn conclusion, we believe \u2013 in the event of 'no deal' and the application of WTO rules \u2013 that Allgood plc is well positioned to maintain supply and continue to offer our 90 day price guarantee on quoted projects.\nFor us to advise on specific projects, these should be discussed on a project by project basis, given that the product mix within projects varies depending upon the ranges specified. For example, a project designed using our Modric range and associated items would contain between 95-99% of UK-sourced product.\nAlistair Higgins\nChief Executive, Allgood plc\nAllgood launches Art Deco inspired solid brass Continental range\nReintroducing the wooden ironmongery range, Holt","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"9 Things You Didn't Know About Poison\nSnow White totally could have happened\nBy Mac Irvine\nA new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History explores the weird and wonderful world of poisons. Curated by evolutionary biologist Mark Siddall, \"The Power of Poison\" recreates a Columbian forest filled with deadly natural toxins, delves into the history of criminal ;poisonings, and brings to life famous fictional characters to investigate the science behind mythical poisons. The exhibit, which opened Saturday and runs through August 20, 2014, ends by examining how otherwise-deadly toxins can be used in medicine.\nHere are nine little-known facts about poison you can impress your relatives with over Thanksgiving dinner. Or not.\nPoison Dart Frogs Aren't Inherently Toxic\nThat is, until you let them eat. The batrachotoxins found on the skin of the frogs are likely synthesized from the insects they eat in the wild; frogs raised in captivity often produce no detectible toxins. Similarly, three New Guinean birds produce the same batrachotoxins thanks to beetles in their diet.\u00a9 AMNH\/T. Grant\nVenomous And Poisonous? Not The Same\nWhile the terms are often used interchangeably, the delivery method\u2014not the substance\u2014determines if something is venomous or poisonous. A venomous creature actively delivers toxins, typically with a sting, scratch, or bite. Poisonous organisms have poisonous tissue or secretions that are harmful to but not actively injected into others.\u00a9AMNH\/R. Mickens\nCyanide Is Probably In Your Food\nEither that, or a cyanide-producing compound. Six of the world's 10 leading food crops, including paddy rice, wheat, sugar cane, soy beans, cassava, and maize, contain varying amounts of compounds that metabolize into cyanide. So do lima beans, almonds, barley, and many fruit seeds and pits. You might not sprout an apple tree from your gut, but watch out for cyanide poisoning.Mullookkaaran via Wikimedia Commons\nEating Nicotine Can Be Good For You\nThe tobacco plant isn't the only source of nicotine. In fact, the defensive poison is found many plants, including some vegetables, such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and cauliflower. Eating foods that contain small amounts of nicotine has even been linked to a decreased risk of developing Parkinson's disease.Hedwig Storch via Wikimedia Commons\nA Poison Apple Could Have Paralyzed Snow White\nSome poisons and venoms can incapacitate humans for up to a week. After a bite of an apple poisoned with pufferfish toxins, Snow White would become paralyzed in 4 to 20 hours. It can take up to a week to fully recover from a non-lethal dose. As for true love's restorative qualities: the jury's still out.\u00a9AMNH\/R. Mickens\nYou Can Build Immunity To Some Poisons\nProtein toxins produced by venomous snakes and some poisonous plants can be incredibly lethal, but small and properly administered doses of these lethal toxins can activate an immune reaction. This process of inoculation produces antibodies that reduce the severity of subsequent reactions. Snake handler Bill Haast regularly injected himself with snake venoms to increase his immunity. Other poisons, such as mercury and arsenic, accumulate in tissue over time, and prolonged exposure can be lethal.Bj\u00f8rn Christian T\u00f8rrissen via Wikimedia Commons\nMacbeth's Witches' Brew Was Full Of Real Poisons\nShakespeare's recipe calls for some grotesque-sounding ingredients like newt eyes, dog tongues, and wolf teeth. But most of these were common nicknames for poisonous plants. \"Tooth of wolf\" is the highly toxic monkshood, and \"tongue of dog\" is the carcinogenic houndstongue. Brewed with well-known poisons, such as yew, nightshade, and hemlock, the potion is loaded with aphrodisiacs, neurotoxins, anesthetics, and psychoactives. The witches likely didn't drink it, but inhaling the concoction's vapor could induce a powerful reaction thought to be a magical trance. A life-size model of the witches with their glowing brew is on display at AMNH.\u00a9AMNH\/R. Mickens\nChemical Weapons Are Older Than You Might Think\nHumans have used poisons as weapons for more than 3,000 years. Greeks tipped arrows and spears with poisons and tainted waters with toxic plants. But Roman soldiers favored a more unconventional biological warhead. Roman forces were said to throw fragile clay pots filled with venomous snakes or scorpions at their enemies. Here, the story of Hercules defeating a ravenous centaur with a Hydra-poison-tipped arrow appears on Greek-style urns at the AMNH exhibit.\u00a9AMNH\/D. Finnin\nPoisons And Venoms Can Be Good For You\nWhile some early attempts to use poisons and venoms medicinally were ill fated, and they often deserve their infamy, scientists now use many toxins for medical treatments. Gila monster saliva lowers blood sugar, some viper venoms reduce blood pressure, killer cone snail venom is a powerful pain reliever, and poison yew bark was developed into one of the first chemotherapy drugs. Many more examples of these medicinal qualities line the walls of the exhibit's \"Science for Good\" section.\u00a9AMNH\/D. Finnin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About ee News Embedded\nHigh-performance RISC-V processors boost wearable and consumer products\nBy Jean-Pierre Joosting\nVector Cryptography Advanced Interrupt Architecture Virtualization Wearables RISC-V\nSiFive has announced two new RISC-V processors that address the need for high performance and efficiency in a small size in high volume applications like wearables, smart home, industrial automation, AR\/VR, and other consumer devices. The SiFive Performance\u2122 P670 and P470 RISC-V processors bring unparalleled compute performance and efficiency that is significantly raising the bar for innovative designs in these high-volume markets. The modern and innovative SiFive design methodologies bring raw compute density that is a substantial advantage for Performance products and also translates into significant cost savings for customers.\n\"The P670 and P470 processors are specifically designed for, and capable of handling the most demanding workloads for wearables and other advanced consumer applications. These new products offer powerful performance and compute density for companies looking to upgrade from legacy ISAs,\" said Chris Jones, SiFive VP of Product. \"We have optimized these new RISC-V Vector enabled products to deliver the performance and efficiency improvements the industry has long been asking for, and we are in evaluations with a number of top-tier customers. Additionally, as the upstream enablement of RISC-V has started within the Android Open Source Project, (AOSP), designers will have unrivaled choice and flexibility as they consider the positive implications with that platform for future designs.\"\n\"SiFive continues to be a market leader in the growing and maturing RISC-V space and again shows its leadership with its new SiFive Performance P670 and P470 RISC-V processors,\" said Todd R. Weiss, an analyst with Futurum Research. \"These latest and powerful new processors give SiFive feature and performance advantages that will gain plenty of attention from device makers and consumers who want more from their devices.\"\nThe SiFive Performance P470 and P670 products offer a finely-tuned combination of compute-density, power efficiency, and robust feature sets ideal for a wide range of applications and markets:\nSupport for virtualization, including a separate IOMMU for accelerating virtualized device IO;\nFull, Out-of-Order, RISC-V Vector implementation, based on the ratified RISC-V Vector v1.0 Specification;\nFirst to market with the RISC-V Vector Cryptography extensions;\nSiFive WorldGuard system security;\nFull RISC-V RVA22 profile compliance;\nNew, Advanced Interrupt Architecture (AIA) compliant interrupt controller, with better support for Message Signal Interrupts (MSI) and virtualization;\nEnhanced scalability with fully coherent multi-core, multi-cluster, with support for up to 16 cores.\nP670 processors are ideal for applications like premium wearables, networking, robotics, and mobile. The P650, which excludes the vector unit, is already shipping to lead customers and is being used in applications that do not require the additional capabilities that vector compute offers or are more area constrained.\nThe feature rich P670 achieves a maximum frequency exceeding 3.4 GHz in 5nm and has performance of greater than 12 SpecINT2k6\/GHz, offering optimized performance in a constrained area and power envelope. The P670 provides higher single threaded performance and 2x compute density compared to legacy products, and includes a 2x 128-bit Vector ALUs compliant with the ratified RISC-V Vector v1.0 specification.\nThe P470 is SiFive's first efficiency-focused Out-of-Order, area optimized, vector processor, ideal for applications like wearables, consumer, and smart home devices. Expanding on the proven P500-Series, the P470 is significantly smaller than competing offerings and is optimized to have best-in-class performance efficiency and area density.\nThe P470 was designed to also serve as a companion to the P670 processor for demanding applications that require a sharing of compute resources while optimizing power consumption. It offers a significant upgrade to legacy efficiency cores, achieving a maximum frequency exceeding 3.4 GHz in 5nm, and greater than 8 SpecINT2k6\/GHz, within a minimal area and power envelope.\nOther P470 features include: 4x compute density in comparison to leading competitor and a 1x 128-bit RISC-V Vector ALU compliant with the ratified RISC-V Vector v1.0 specification.\nSiFive will also release the P450 \u2014 an area-optimized version of the P470 that excludes the Vector Unit.\nwww.sifive.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: Paul Ryan\nBudget office chief: ObamaCare creates 'disincentive' to work\n\u2248 Comments Off on Budget office chief: ObamaCare creates 'disincentive' to work\nbudget office, CBO, creates disincentivism, dependency class, Elmendorf, Obamacare, Paul Ryan, politics, work ACA\n[FoxNews.com]\nFILE: Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf delivers testimony before the first Joint Deficit Reduction Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.REUTERS\nThe head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office delivered a damning assessment Wednesday of the Affordable Care Act, telling lawmakers that ObamaCare creates a \"disincentive for people to work,\" adding fuel to Republican arguments that the law will hurt the economy.\nThe testimony from CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf comes after his office released a highly controversial report that detailed how millions of workers could cut back their hours or opt out of the job market entirely because of benefits under the health law.\nBipartisan Budget Deal Puts Ryan Under Fire From Fellow Conservatives\n\u2248 Comments Off on Bipartisan Budget Deal Puts Ryan Under Fire From Fellow Conservatives\nbudget deal, conflict, Conservatives, government shutdown, Mike Huckabee, Paul Ryan, Representative Paul D. Ryan, Representative Ryan, Ryan, Senator Patty Murray, Washington\n[New York Times]\nBy JONATHAN WEISMAN\nPublished: December 11, 2013 (h\/t Drudge Report)\nPaul Ryan Discusses Budget Deal: Representative Ryan and Senator Patty Murray agreed on a budget plan that could possibly prevent another government shutdown.\nRepresentative Paul D. Ryan's eight terms in Congress have produced much political celebrity and Republican respect but just two laws bearing the Ryan name \u2014 a renamed post office and a modified excise tax on arrows like the ones he uses for bow hunting.\nRepresentative Paul D. Ryan and Senator Patty Murray took questions about their bipartisan budget deal on Tuesday in Washington.\nThen on Tuesday he struck a budget deal with Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, that affixed a new label to the polished veneer of Mr. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican: deal maker and, to some, traitor.\nExclusive \u2014 Ryan to Obama: Get 'Revenue Through Growth,' Not Taxes\nPosted by Various Writers in Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Government, Liberal Media Bias, Liberal Progressive Left, National Debt, National Security, New Media News, Politics\n\u2248 Comments Off on Exclusive \u2014 Ryan to Obama: Get 'Revenue Through Growth,' Not Taxes\nbudget, economy, failed idea, government, House Budge Committee, not taxes, Obama, Paul Ryan, politics, revenue through growth, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, tax and spend progressives\n[Breitbart.com]\nby Joel B. Pollak\nHouse Budget Committee chair Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has rejected President Barack Obama's demand to raise taxes as part of Obama's proposal to achieve $1.6 trillion in additional tax revenues to avoid the \"fiscal cliff.\"\nInstead, Ryan backed Speaker John Boehner's position, which is that any new tax revenues must be achieved without passing higher tax rates.\nIn an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, Ryan specified that new revenues should come through economic growth and tax reform, not tax hikes:\nSpeaker Boehner has outlined a bipartisan way forward to avoid the \"fiscal cliff\" and get our economy growing: common-sense entitlement reform coupled with pro-growth tax reform. We can find common ground on responsible spending restraint and greater revenue through economic growth, but we have yet to see either a serious plan or leadership from President Obama. Speaker Boehner and House Republicans have delivered both.\nEarlier today, President Obama signaled an openness to tax reform, but said that \"closing loopholes in deductions\" would not cover the cost of extending the current tax rates for the top two percent of earners.\nObama reiterated that he interpreted last week's election results as a mandate to raise taxes as a means to balance the federal budget. Ryan told ABC News yesterday that the electorate had not voted for higher taxes, since Republicans had retained control of the House of Representatives after opposing tax hikes.\nRyan's support for Boehner signals growing unity among House Republicans behind the Speaker's refusal to consider new taxes. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also made a firm commitment to prevent tax hikes in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News last week. Bipartisan talks on the \"fiscal cliff' begin Friday.\nRyan on tap to deliver 'hard truths' in VP nomination speech\nPosted by Various Writers in Corruption, Deficit, Elections - Politics, Government, International News, Jobs and Unemployment, Liberal Media Bias, Liberal Progressive Left, National Debt, National Security, New Media News, Politics, Scandals, Tea Party Conservatives, Terrorism, The Economy\n\u2248 Comments Off on Ryan on tap to deliver 'hard truths' in VP nomination speech\nabsentee leadership, Chris Christie, Conservatives, current-events, Fox News, GOP, hard-fought two-month battle, keynote address, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, politics, presidential nomination, RNC Convention, truth in Washington, VP Nomination Speech\nIf Chris Christie lit a fire under Republicans last night, it's now up to Paul Ryan to provide the fuel to keep it burning for what promises to be a hard-fought two-month battle to win the White House.\nThe Republican vice presidential candidate is teed up Wednesday to deliver the \"hard truths\" Christie talked about in his rousing keynote address on opening night. While Christie is known as the GOP fighter, Ryan is the point-man for budget-balancing solutions the party claims to represent.\nThe Wisconsin congressman has been quietly preparing his speech for days. Members of Ryan's staff contacted by Fox News earlier this week said they couldn't say precisely how long it would be, but that he has \"teased\" some of the ideas in it before.\nRyan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is best known for his controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and the tax system. They are likely the kinds of \"hard truths\" Christie raised Tuesday night, as the New Jersey governor claimed Mitt Romney and Ryan would lead a \"new era of truth-telling\" in Washington.\nVideos surface of Dems, including President Obama, praising Paul Ryan\nPosted by Various Writers in Corruption, Deficit, Elections - Politics, Government, Liberal Media Bias, Liberal Progressive Left, National Debt, National Security, New Media News, Politics, Tea Party Conservatives, The Economy\nCulture of Corruption, deficit reduction committee, Democrats, Erskine Bowles, former president bill clinton, government, Marxists in the White House, medicare overhaul, Obama praising Ryan, Paul Ryan, pbs interview, pinned as \"extreme\" and \"radical\", politics, president bill clinton, Reject Socialism, University of North Carolina, video surfaces\nBefore Paul Ryan was pinned as an \"extreme\" and \"radical\" ideologue, Democrats actually kind of liked the guy.\nSeveral clips of prominent Democrats \u2014 including President Obama \u2014 praising Ryan have surged through the Internet in the days since Mitt Romney tapped the Wisconsin congressman as his running mate. They once called his ideas \"serious\" and \"honest,\" which is not what the Obama campaign and its affiliates are saying about him now.\nArguably the most robust praise came from Erskine Bowles, the White House chief of staff under former President Bill Clinton who recently co-chaired President Obama's deficit-reduction committee.\nIn a late 2011 talk at the University of North Carolina, Bowles told the audience \"this guy is amazing.\"\nIn Iowa face-off, Ryan hammers jobs message as Obama employs drought politics\nPosted by Various Writers in Corruption, Deficit, Elections - Politics, Foreign Policy, Government, National Debt, National Security, New Media News\n\u2248 Comments Off on In Iowa face-off, Ryan hammers jobs message as Obama employs drought politics\nAmericans reject Socialism, Barack Obama, big government, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, disaster relief bill, hammering jobs message, Hawkeye State, Iowa face-off, iowa state fair, Marxists in the White House, Mitt Romney, no record for Obama, Obama employs drought politics, Paul Ryan, politics, Romney-Ryan Presidential ticket, stricken farmers, Winning Elections, Wisconsin\nPaul Ryan used his first solo campaign swing as Mitt Romney's running mate Monday to hammer President Obama as a jobs killer, forcefully echoing Romney's message, while Obama used a pair of nearby campaign stops to accuse Ryan of hurting drought-stricken farmers.\nRyan was dispatched to Iowa by team Romney to challenge the president as Obama kicked off a three-day bus tour across the Hawkeye State.\nRyan, a Wisconsin congressman, was occasionally interrupted by hecklers during a speech at the Iowa State Fair but stuck to a meat-and-potatoes message of jobs and the deficit.\n\"As you see the president come through on his bus tour, you might ask him the same question that I'm getting asked from people all around America, and that is, 'Where are the jobs Mr. President?'\" Ryan said in Des Moines.\nRomney Breitbart Exclusive \u2013 Paul Ryan: We Win, We Repeal\nPosted by Various Writers in Corruption, Deficit, Elections - Politics, Foreign Policy, Government, Liberal Media Bias, Liberal Progressive Left, National Security, New Media News, Politics, Tea Party Conservatives\nChief Justice Roberts, critical movement, GOP, government, Mitt Romney, obamacare decision, Paul Ryan, politics, president demagogued, Reince Priebus, repeal Obamacare, romney campaign, We Win - We Repeal, Winning Elections\nJuly 5, 2012 by Joel B. Pollak\nRep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), chair of the House Budget Committee\u2013and potential running mate of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney\u2013told Breitbart News this week that the party's leaders are \"absolutely\" committed to repealing Obamacare.\n\"It would have been nice for the Supreme Court to repeal it for us,\" he said, \"but it's no harder today than it was the day before the decision. We win, we repeal. It's just that simple.\"\nRyan, speaking exclusively with Breitbart News, added that there was no disagreement about repealing Obamacare among the various Republican leaders, or with the Romney campaign. \"Not in any of the meetings I have been having,\" he said.\nEarlier in the week, conservatives criticized apparently conciliatory postures by the Romney campaign and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell and Romney have since confirmed their commitment to repealing Obamacare as a first priority after the election.\nAsked whether Republicans had a plan ready to replace Obamacare, Ryan pointed to several plans that had already been proposed, including his own and that of Rep.Tom Price (R-GA). While there was common agreement on the need for a \"patient-centered\" system, Ryan said there were \"differences of opinion\" on the details of an alternative, particularly on the issue of whether to use tax credits to help people buy insurance.\n\"I don't think those differences will be resolved between now and the election,\" Ryan said. \"There will be a cacophony of ideas.\" He explained that Republican leaders would introduce reforms one-by-one, following repeal of Obamacare in the 113th Congress.\nPaul Ryan: 'Meet this moment, and bring about change from the debt-laden welfare state'\nPosted by Various Writers in Constitution, Consumer Issues, Corruption, Deficit, Elections - Politics, Government, Healthcare, Liberal Media Bias, Liberal Progressive Left, National Debt, National Security, New Media News, Politics, Tea Party Conservatives, The Economy\n\u2248 Comments Off on Paul Ryan: 'Meet this moment, and bring about change from the debt-laden welfare state'\nbudget, debt-laden welfare state, Democrats have not passed budget, Dems call it \"doom and gloom\", HighBeam research, House, House Budget Committee, john gizzi, national ledger, News, Paul Ryan, politics, republican officeholders, roadmap privitizing Medicare, Ryan budget\n[HumanEvents.com]\nby John Gizzi\nIf Paul Ryan were to become president or vice president someday, or speaker of the House, he would still likely be remembered for the work with which his name is almost always linked: the House GOP's alternative budget, officially known as \"The Path To Prosperity,\" but inevitably referred to in media shorthand as \"The Ryan Budget\" or \"The Ryan Plan.\"\nIt is a plan that has carried him to the nation's front pages in the years since he introduced the first version in 2008 and indeed, it propelled him to being the Veep candidate with the most media coverage between March 16 and April 16, according to HighBeam research. He bested popular Sen. Marco Rubio, 27 percent to 23.5 percent, according to the analysis of media attention, released last week.\nThe Ryan Budget, unlike its predecessors, has special significance in 2012: This is a presidential election year and The Ryan Budget is sure to be targeted by Democrats as a repository of \"gloom and doom\" and, perhaps, embraced by Republican officeholders and candidates as a program they will enact if they maintain control of the House and win the Senate and presidency this fall.\nPaul Ryan: I'd 'Consider' a Vice Presidential Run\nPosted by Various Writers in Corruption, Deficit, Elections - Politics, Government, Jobs and Unemployment, Liberal Media Bias, Liberal Progressive Left, National Debt, National Security, New Media News, Politics, The Economy\n\u2248 Comments Off on Paul Ryan: I'd 'Consider' a Vice Presidential Run\nAmerica Against Government Healthcare, America Rejects Obama, Americans reject Socialism, CBS News, Culture of Corruption, Face the Nation, GOP, Marxists in the White House, Paul Ryan, Romney-Ryan, unemployment, VP run, would consider\n[TheBlaze.com]\nPosted on March 25, 2012 at 2:57pm by Madeleine Morgenstern\nCBS \u2013 Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Sunday he \"would consider\" running in the vice presidential slot on the 2012 Republican ticket, though is \"so focused\" on his current job that it's \"not even\" in his mind.\nRyan, chair of the House Budget Committee, unveiled a budget plan this week that has been praised by GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney \u2014 and been dubbed the \"Romney-Ryan budget\" by top Obama administration adviser David Plouffe.\n\"I'm so focused on my job in Congress. If I wanted to be president or vice president so badly I would have run for president. I don't \u2014 so I didn't,\" Ryan said on CBS' \"Face the Nation.\"\nStill, Ryan wouldn't entirely close the door on the No. 2 spot when pressed by host Norah O'Donnell.\n\"I would consider it but it's not even something in my mind because it's a decision someone else makes at a later time,\" he said. \"It's a bridge I haven't gotten close to having to cross so in the meantime I think it's important to do my job.\"\nDemocrats Say U.S. House Victory Sends Message on Medicare\nPosted by Various Writers in Corruption, Deficit, Elections - Politics, Government, Healthcare, Jobs and Unemployment, Liberal Media Bias, Liberal Progressive Left, National Debt, National Security, New Media News, Politics, Terrorism, The Economy\n\u2248 Comments Off on Democrats Say U.S. House Victory Sends Message on Medicare\nDNC blast with Mediscare spots, GOP, health care plan, Medicare, NY loss, Paul Ryan, progressives deception, public opposition\nNewsmax.com\nWednesday, 25 May 2011 08:24 AM\nBy Newsmax Wires\nDemocratic national leaders touted Kathy Hochul's victory in an election for an open congressional seat in a western New York district that traditionally has been safe GOP turf as a clear sign of public opposition to the Republican plan to privatize Medicare.Analysts cautioned about reading too much into the election results from one congressional district, even one long controlled by Republicans. Still, they said the Democratic win should make Republicans nervous about voters' reception to their Medicare proposal.Don't count Rep. Paul Ryan among the nervous, the author of the budget plan involving Medicare, who defiantly predicted on MSNBC's \"Morning Joe\" this morning that the Democrats would ramp up what he described as their \"Mediscare\" tactics. The Wisconsin Republican denounced the Democratic attacks as \"demagoguery.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Shout Event\n12:00 AM, April 12, 2018 \/ LAST MODIFIED: 12:00 AM, April 12, 2018\nAcademia Robotics Team to join NASA's competition in USA\nFrom right to left: Syeda Sarah Shahrin, Saquib Shahzad, Mohammad Jawadul Hassan, Chowdhury Miftah Mahmood Sagir, Kazi Shahul Hossain, Uzair Tahamid Siam, and Sadequa Nusrat\nSyeda Sarah Shahrin\nAn inter-school team of six Bangladeshi high school students are all set to compete at the upcoming NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge 2018 to be held at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA from April 12-15, 2018. This is the first ever high school team from Bangladesh to participate in any international rover challenge.\nEach year, the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge features an engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of human space exploration. The competition challenges high school and college students to create a vehicle designed to traverse the simulated surface of Mars. Since last year, this competition started welcoming international high school and undergraduate students. The students design, build, and test technologies that enable rovers to perform in a wide variety of environments. Guided by a theme of overcoming the problems of planetary exploration, this year the competition will mimic the opportunities, challenges, and decision-making that future explorers will face in interplanetary space.\nThis year, around 100 teams from all over the world have been invited to take part in the final round after meeting the competition requirements. The key task is to design and create rovers capable of traversing a challenging exoplanetary landscape in accordance to a 60 page guidebook provided by NASA. The planned course for the competition requires two students, one female and one male, to traverse a terrain of 0.50 miles that includes a simulated field of asteroid debris, erosion ruts and crevasses of varying widths and depths. The challenge's weight and time requirements encourage compactness, light weight, high performance and efficiency. Teams earn points by sending an eight page long technical report before the competition. During the competition, they have to assemble the rover, complete course obstacles, perform tasks throughout the mission following proper strategy and reach the final destination by touching the ground as few times as possible.\nTo take part in the competition a team is required to have 6 students and 1 Advisor. Six rover enthusiast friends, Muhammad Jawadul Hassan (Captain), Saquib Shahzad, Kazi Shahul Hossain, and Sadequa Nusrat from Academia School; Syeda Sarah Shahrin from Maple Leaf International School, and Uzair Tahamid Siam from Sea Breeze International School, came together to form \"Academia Robotics Team\" to become the first ever high school team from Bangladesh to participate in this coveted global competition organized by NASA. Over the last few months, the team has collectively designed and built a fully functional manually driven rover and has since submitted a thorough technical report to the competition body. The team is mentored by Chowdhury Miftah Mahmood Sagir, a recent EEE graduate from American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) and a robotics enthusiast, who also has a past record of participating in International Rover Competitions and representing our country in a global stage.\nAs making a competent rover and participating in international competitions requires huge expense, the team is seeking sponsors' help to invest on their rover and other expenditures. This will help them to put up a good fight or even bring back success for our country. The team hopes that many more such enthusiastic Bangladeshi teens can participate in global competitions in the future without funding restrictions as more sponsors come forward to help facilitate youth interest in STEM fields or otherwise.\nCheck out the team's Facebook page at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AcademiaRoboticsTeam. To help or become a sponsor, e-mail them at jawadulhas01@gmail.com or miftahmahmood@gmail.com\nPopular In Shout\nSHOULD YOU WATCH MOTU-PATLU?\nGENDER-BASED EXPECTATIONS AND WHY THEY ARE WRONG\nDownsizing my life\nBeing the youngest at work\nSigns that you are a mint addict\nHumayun Ahmed characters in Hogwarts houses\nLOOK INTO HER EYES\nGearing Up Your Reading Experience\nRealising your own privilege\nI LOST MY GIRLFRIEND'S CAT\nMore from Event\nThe significance of Charukola Art Festival\nHappy Bengali New Year","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Versium?\nREACH for B2B\nREACH for B2C\nREACH APIs\nVersium Predict\nAbout Versium\nVersium Blog\nB2B Paid Advertising\nB2B Agencies\nEmail Append\nPhone Append\nGartner names Versium a \"Cool Vendor\" in retail 2016\nREDMOND, WA \u2013 (Marketwired \u2013 May 11, 2016) \u2013 Versium, a leading data technology company that delivers automated data technology solutions to marketing agencies and enterprises, today announced it has been selected as a \"Cool Vendor\" in the Cool Vendors in Retail, 2016 report by Gartner, Inc., a leading global independent information technology research and advisory company.\nGartner found that \"low-cost, available computing power, together with the abundance of complex unstructured data, is fueling the rise of artificial intelligence solutions that can go beyond the traditional big data analytics.\" The report also predicts that \"the rise of automated, self-service machine learning applications will provide retailers new and scalable ways to leverage their massive amounts of information, thus disintermediating traditional data brokerage services.\"\n\"We believe that Versium's inclusion in Gartner's Retail Cool Vendor report further confirms our mission to help marketers harness the power of big data through automated solutions that reduce the dependency on data science teams,\" said Chris Matty, founder and CEO of Versium. \"Our automated predictive analytics services are changing the way marketers leverage big data and we've only just started to capitalize on the market opportunity.\"\nVersium's solution, available at Datafinder.com, automates the underlying machine learning modeling process, allowing marketing professionals, agencies and application providers to build predictive models for their clients within hours versus the weeks or sometimes months required by large professional service engagements. Unlike simplistic \"select-based\" lists that limit the marketer to a finite set of attributes and rely on human intuition, Versium uses identity mapping technology that allows large volumes of data to be used in predictive models, making the output more reliable and accurate.\nGartner \"Cool Vendors in Retail, 2016\" was published on April 28, 2016 by Kelsie Marian, Miriam Burt, Robert Hetu, Joanne Joliet, and Frances Karamouzis.\nGartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.\nVersium is a data technology company that operates a powerful B2B2C identity graph and automated predictive analytics engine. Its self-serve demand generation and powerful visualization tools help B2B marketers greatly improve their effectiveness. Versium has spent nearly a decade building its database of over 5.9 million North American companies, 33 million people, over 1 trillion demographic attributes, and more than 1,000 industries. The result is the richest B2B2C identity graph that enables B2B marketers to identify, understand and reach their most ideal prospects.\nHeather Gonio\n\u200dhgonio@versium.com\nVersium and Salesmaster.ai Partner to Improve Reach of Digital Ad Campaigns\nBlending the best of identity resolution and real-time ad audience creation, the partnership will drive predictable growth for advertisers and agencies\nIdentity Resolution Leader Versium Expands its Data Enrichment Capabilities Through Partnership with KD Interactive\nCustomers Gain Enhanced Data Sets with Demographics and Related Data Sets to Give a Fuller Picture of Consumers' Shopping Behavior\nVersium Announces Record Subscription Revenue Growth as Demand for Cookieless Advertising Solutions Rises\nVersium reports tremendous momentum through Q3 2022, focusing on growing solutions and partnerships through the remainder of the year\nWhat Powers Versium\nVERSIUM REACH\nREACH B2B\nREACH B2C\nStay in the loop for industry and company updates.\nLinkedin-in Facebook-f Twitter Instagram\n\u00a9 2021 Versium | All rights reserved | Privacy Policy\u200b\n\u00a9 2023 Versium | All rights reserved | Privacy Policy\nCCPA\/CDPA Do not sell my personal information\nWe use cookies to give you the best experience on our website. By clicking \"ACCEPT\" or continuing to use this site, you agree that this is OK. For more information, see our Privacy Policy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"500 Year Anniversary of Moctezuma and Cort\u00e9s' First Meeting\nNetworking | Public lectures\nThe 3 speakers will be delivering a lecture of approximately I hour (20 minutes each) on different aspects of the significance of the 500 year anniversary, followed by a q&a and reception for further questions\/networking opportunities.\nFrom: Friday 8 November 2019, 6 pm\nTo: Friday 8 November 2019, 8 pm\nLocation: LT5, Newton Building, City Campus, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU\nBooking deadline: Friday 8 November 2019, 12.00 pm\nOn 8th November 1519, Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s and Moctezuma Xocoyotzin met for the first time, and less than two years later, in August 1521, the Spanish had completed their conquest with the aid of thousands of native auxiliaries who fought against the Aztecs. While this anniversary is being commemorated in Spain, Mexico have requested an apology from its former colonial master for the atrocities committed against its indigenous population. As such, this anniversary, and the subsequent anniversaries that will be remembered in the run up to the end of the siege of Tenochtitl\u00e1n have very different connotations depending on your point of view.\n500 years on, this guest panel aims to interrogate the contentious nature of historic anniversaries; the significance of this meeting for the Aztecs and other indigenous Mexicans, and its importance for the Spaniards and the narrative that it would help create. The guest speakers are: public historian, author and historical adviser for Horrible Histories, Greg Jenner; the UK's leading Aztec specialist, Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, and NTU History's Dr Amy Fuller, who has published and lectured on the Conquest of Mexico.\nSponsored by the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict.\nDr Caroline Dodds Pennock\nMr Greg Jenner\nDr Amy Fuller\nNewton Building\nBurton Street\nNG1 4BU\namy.fuller@ntu.ac.uk\nOpen Dome Event - A charming year with ASTEC\nDeveloping detectors for large telescopes and visiting them in remote places on Earth is the dream of many an astronomy student. Our own Eimear Gallagher (NTU) - awarded the Undergraduate Prize 2019 by the Royal Astronomical Society - did just that and will be telling us more about her placement year in her talk \"CHARMing\" \u2013 My year developing an international scientific instrument at RAL Space.\nntu.ac.uk\/about-us\/events\/events\/2020\/01\/open-dome-event-a-charming-year-with-astec\nUpScaler Forum: Supplier Development & Understanding Customer Needs\nSupplier Development & Understanding Customer Needs\nOur keynote speaker Rob Johnson has years of experience in procurement and quality management, most recently at Jaguar Landrover. In this forum Rob will share some of his knowledge, experience and enthusiasm in helping you to understand what customers really want and the challenges that they look to suppliers to solve - from technology to sustainability\nntu.ac.uk\/about-us\/events\/events\/2020\/01\/upscaler-forum-supplier-development-and-understanding-customer-needs2\nProfessor Christine Moffatt CBE Inaugural Lecture\nChronic oedema and wounds: a neglected global scandal and an international response (the LIMPRINT story)\nThis lecture will give a review of the international research (LIMPRINT) that has been led by Professor Moffatt though a partnership with 9 countries to define the size and impact of people living with chronic oedema, Lymphoedema and un-healing wounds across the world.\nntu.ac.uk\/about-us\/events\/events\/2020\/01\/professor-christine-moffatt-cbe-inaugural-lecture\nView all related events\nAlso in Events\nUpcoming events Previous events Contact us","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CrimLaw\nJail: Suspended License\nTheft: Petty Theft v Shoplifting\nCriminal Traffic\nSuspended License & No License\n1st DUI\nDUI New Laws 2019\nPetty Theft\nSpeed Contest\nDisturbing the Peace\nUrinating in Public\nDMV POINTS\nCriminal Case Stages\nCriminal Case, All About It.\nEvidence in Court\nCOVID-19 PANDEMIC COURT ORDERS\nCourts & Criminal Defense\nOrange County Law\nPay Legal Fee\nBankruptcy Dictionary\n\u200bDavid Dastrup\nTraffic Criminal Defense\nConsumer Bankruptcy\nDriving on a suspended license is a crime in California. This comes as a shock to most people since it does not sound that serious, and it does not involve violence, drugs, or theft. However, as a misdemeanor, there can be mandatory jail, making it more serious than one might expect.\nIn addition, driving on a suspended license is punishable with high fines and serious California Drivers License consequences and DMV records. Jail can be up to six months or one year, and, depending on your situation, may carry mandatory jail. However, occasionally, driving on a suspended license can be filed in court as an infraction, specifically California Vehicle Code section 14601.1(a). An infraction removes the concerns with jail. Nevertheless, the fine may still be relatively high. Furthermore, an infraction still carries serious DMV consequences: two negligent operator points for seven years. Once the points are added to a DMV record and a Los Angeles driver's auto insurance company takes notice, the insurance rates will go up significantly. Some insurance companies may even drop a driver or deny insurance.\nThere are different kinds of \"driving on a suspended license\" charges. However, the most common is probably CVC 14601.1(a) for driving a motor vehicle while the license is suspended or revoked for offenses not related to driving ability. This usually occurs for failure to appear on another case. For example, if a driver gets a speeding ticket in San Diego California, but fails to appear in North County Traffic Court in Vista, in San Diego County by the due date on the bottom of the speeding ticket, the Court Clerk will notify the DMV of the failure to appear. The California Department of Motor Vehicles will then eventually suspended the California Drivers License of the licensee. If, subsequently, the licensee\/driver is pulled over for any reason in the South Bay by a Torrance Police officer, then the driver will be charged with driving on a suspended license filed at the Southwest District Court by the Torrance City Attorney's Office. (The driver should still resolve the Compton Courthouse speeding ticket immediately, the case with the CVC 40508 and 40509.5 failure to appear that caused the suspension.)\nThe other extremely common driving on a suspended license charge is 14601.2(a) for driving on a suspended license due to a DUI. This usually occurs when a driver fails to provided proper proof of completion of a post-DUI-conviction alcohol program or fails to pay the mandatory license re-issue fee to the DMV even after complying with all of the other DMV requirements post-DUI-conviction. A first offense of VC 14601.2 in the Superior Court of California, whether in Orange County or Los Angeles County, carries mandatory jail of ten days with a maximum of six months. A second offense within five years carries mandatory jail of thirty days with a maximum of one year in jail. The fine also goes up significantly.\nThe main defense to driving on a suspended license is lack of knowledge of the suspension. If the driver did not know his\/her license was suspended, that element of the crime is not met, and should not be convicted. The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, the prosecution, or, unfortunately, the judicial officer (when acting improperly as a prosecutor) will show that the driver\/defendant was notified of the suspension based on the DMV records. This notice is most commonly a letter from the DMV sent to the driver's address that is on file with the DMV. It can also be a police officer giving verbal notice, or any other notice that is recorded by the DMV. Then, the driver\/defendant can overcome this presumption of knowledge of the suspension with evidence that the driver did not know that the license was suspended. This may involve showing that no letter was received from the DMV, was never told of the suspension, shows proof of total compliance with any item required to avoid the suspension, or some other evidence demonstrating lack of knowledge of the suspension.\nRegardless of the reason for the suspension, the best approach to resolving a driving on a suspended license case in East Los Angeles Courthouse or Metropolitan Courthouse on Hill Street may be to have an experienced attorney negotiate a favorable resolution with the prosecutor, even the Los Angeles District Attorney or the Los Angeles City Attorney. Driving on a suspended license requires careful legal representation to avoid both a criminal conviction and DMV points. Our attorney has extensive experience resolving suspended license cases throughout the Orange County Superior Court of California and the Los Angeles County Superior Court of California.\nAttorney David Dastrup has successfully represented many clients on serious traffic tickets at Compton Court, Long Beach Court, Torrance Court, Metropolitan Court or Los Angeles Court, Bellflower Courthouse, Downey Court, Airport Court or LAX Court, and even all courts in Orange County. 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{"text":"Workshop \"Art, Science, and Philosophy\"\nThe workshop \"Art, Science, and Philosophy\" will bring on Monday, December 12, 2016 philosophers, artists and scientists together to rethink the concepts of art, nature and \"human nature\" in the age of technoscience, where the biological sciences become the new technological frontier, at: Vordere Zollamtsstra\u00dfe 3, Room ZG 24, 14:00\u201318.15 hrs.\nThe workshop and the Angewandte Innovation Laboratory Talk of the Mexican philosopher Mar\u00eda Antonia Gonz\u00e1lez Valerio is part of the research collaboration \"Question about the Limits: Art, Science, and Philosophy\" between the Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of M\u00e9xico, Mexico City.\nThe collaboration project aims to initiate and develop a debate about the relationship of ontology and aesthetics in the age of technoscience from the perspectives of art, science, and philosophy: During the twentieth century science and technology acquired a dominant role in redefining the concept of life. Technology-driven science and research rendered the basic physical and functional unit of heredity, the gene, accessible to human manipulation, thus turning biology into technology. The genetic code and computer code became interchangeable, opening up new possible constellations for designing the biological sphere. Simultaneously we saw big shifts in the developments of the sciences in the least two decades, when fundamental principles and ways of doing science and research in the field of biotechnology began to erode, like the reproducibility of experimental settings. Today research processes are getting more and more outsourced, away from the laboratories of scientific institution to new start-ups, turning the research process into a black box for the scientist involved. On the other hand we see with the growing DIY movement cutting-edge technologies getting into the hands on non-professionals, and new genome editing technologies like CRISPR cheap and easy to use revolutionizing the question about the ontology of life.\nThis ground-breaking development went unnoticed in the art world: it was not until the 1990s that artists began to make increased use advanced technology to explore and create new art forms, such as digital art or bioart. Science-based art emerged, enhancing progressive encounters with science and technology and shifting the terrain of art towards cutting-edge technologies and the technosciences. With the rise of bioart, a variety of new materials, such as DNA, bacteria, cells, tissue cultures, and transgenic organisms, entered the art world as a means of artistic expression. Obviously, this also made it necessary for artists to get acquainted with new epistemologies and a new logic of producing reality within the techno-scientific regime. By bringing their artistic endeavour with cutting-edge technology to the public's attention, science-based art has provoked greater reflection on the limits of manipulating and\/or creating life with biotechnology, highlighting the new genome editing technologies like CRISPR and new approaches in the field of synthetic biology. Therefore, it is high time to shed some light on the relationship of ontology and aesthetics in the age of technoscience by focusing on the production of art that is related to technoscience; not only because of the technologies it uses \u2014 and recently also biotechnologies \u2014 but most importantly because from this relationship a model emerges which is fruitful for understanding and interpreting reality. Therefore, the question \"What is art?\" needs to be posed in the light of an ontology that deals with technoscience and the production of reality within biotechnologies. The philosopher Mar\u00eda Antonia Gonz\u00e1lez Valerio will frame the workshop with her introduction and investigation about the revival and reappraisal of natural philosophy in the light of biotechnology. Her approach, which she calls \"the ontology of immanence\" engages above all with predominant traditions that seek to answer the question as to the essence of nature and its relationality either with reference to language or to history. In the twentieth century these lines of thought have resulted in nature being subsumed under culture, and this is why it has repeatedly been deemed necessary to try to close off and dislocate parts of nature. In recent decades the remnants of nature left over from the grasp of culture have tended to be made over to philosophical anthropology, which does not offer any solution to the philosophical issues involved. A revival and renewal of natural philosophy must engage with the recent findings of the technosciences and biotechnology and relate them theoretically to the novel aesthetic ontologies that now seek to interpret the world of sensate organisms (plants and animals including humans).\n14:00\u201314:15 Ingeborg Reichle, Welcome and Introduction\n14:15\u201314.45 Mar\u00eda Antonia Gonz\u00e1lez Valerio, Landscape, Environment and Molecular Biology: Perspectives about Teleology\n14:45\u201315:15 Virgil Widrich, Art & Science & the Small Bang Theory\n15:15\u201315:45 Bernd Kr\u00e4ftner, \"Don't leave the kitchen!\" A Recipe for Art-Science Incubations\n15:45-16:15 Herwig Turk, Labscapes and Landlabs: Re-Reading Environments\n16:15\u201316:45 Coffee Break\n16:45\u201317:15 Tanja Gesell, Present Absent: Biomolecular & Artistic Structure Research\n17:15\u201317:45 Christoph Bock, What if \u2026 we all know each other's genomes?\n17:45\u201318:15 Frank R\u00f6sl, Personalized Medicine: A critical view from the perspective of a basic researcher\n19:00 Angewandte Innovation Laboratory Talk: Mar\u00eda Antonia Gonz\u00e1lez Valerio, Art, Science and Technology\nProf. Ingeborg Reichle, Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna\nProf. Mar\u00eda Antonia Gonz\u00e1lez Valerio, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City\nProf. Virgil Widrich, Department of Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna\nDr. Bernd Kr\u00e4ftner, Department of Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna\nHerwig Turk, Department of Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna\nDr. Tanja Gesell, Department of Structural and Computational Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories & University of Vienna\nProf. Christoph Bock, CeMM Principal Investigator, Visiting Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, Coordinator of the Biomedical Sequencing Facility\nProf. Frank R\u00f6sl, Division of Viral Transformation Mechanisms, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg\n[themify_icon icon=\"fa-file-pdf-o\" link=\"https:\/\/medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/Einladung_Workshop_2016.pdf\"]Download Einladung\n[themify_icon icon=\"fa-file-pdf-o\" link=\"https:\/\/medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/Plakat_Workshop_2016.pdf\"]Download Plakat\n[themify_icon icon=\"fa-file-pdf-o\" link=\"https:\/\/medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reader_Workshop_2016.pdf\"]Download Reader\nIngeborg Reichle is a media and cultural theorist writing on contemporary art, new technologies, and new media with a focus on biotechnology and artificial life. She is chair of the Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. In 2004 she received her Ph.D. from the Humboldt University Berlin with her dissertation Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art, published 2005 in German and 2009 in English by Springer publishers, Vienna and New York. She is co-editor of seven books, the most recent being IMAGE MATCH. Visueller Transfer, \"Imagescapes\" und Intervisualit\u00e4t in globalen Bildkulturen (Fink, Munich 2012). She completed her habilitation thesis in 2013 titled Bilderwissen \u2013 Wissensbilder: Zur Gegenwart der Epistemologie der Bilder at the Humboldt University Berlin, where she was FONTE professor from 2014 on. In 2010 she curated the BioArt exhibition jenseits des menschen \u2013 beyond humans at the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charit\u00e9 in the context of the conference Leben 3.0 und die Zukunft der Evolution at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin. Since 2000 she has been a guest lecturer and guest professor at various international institutions, including the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston; the Life-Science Lab, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg; Timbusu College, National University of Singapore; and the National Autonomous University of M\u00e9xico (UNAM), M\u00e9xico City.\nMar\u00eda Antonia Gonz\u00e1lez Valerio is a philosopher working in the fields of aesthetics and ontology with a focus on biotechnology and the arts. Since 2007 she is a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of M\u00e9xico (UNAM). She is the author of three books: Proleg\u00f3menos a una filosof\u00eda natural. Escritos de ontolog\u00eda est\u00e9tica (Herder, 2015), Un tratado de ficci\u00f3n. Ontolog\u00eda de la mimesis (Herder, 2010), and El arte develado (Herder, 2005). She is co-editor of five books, the most recent: Pr\u00f2s B\u00edon: Reflexiones naturales desde el arte, la ciencia y la filosof\u00eda (UNAM, 2014). She is the coordinator of the art collective BIOS Ex machinA (workshop for the fabrication of the human and the non-human) and the head of the interdisciplinary research group Arte + Ciencia (Art + Science) based at UNAM. Mar\u00eda Antonia Gonz\u00e1lez Valerio founded Arte + Ciencia in 2011 and it seeks to produce art and knowledge (art research) at the intersection of the humanities, arts, and sciences. Arte + Ciencia has organised several exhibitions including Sin origen\/Sin Semilla (the first transgenic and biotechnological exhibition in M\u00e9xico), MUCA Roma-MUAC, UNAM, M\u00e9xico, 2012\u20132013; Bioartefactos: Desgranar lentamente un ma\u00edz MACO, Oaxaca, M\u00e9xico, 2014; and Bestiario del d\u00eda final, Quinto Piso, M\u00e9xico, 2015. It has organized workshops that reflect on the collaboration between art and science: \"Artistic investigations into Robots and Plants\" (2015), \"Antropolog\u00eda del cerdo\" (2015), \"Vida maquinaria: Limitaciones y transgresiones en la relaci\u00f3n arte-vida-sociedad\" (2014), and \"From Bioethics to Bioart: The Question about the Limits\" (2014).\nVirgil Widrich is a director, screenwriter, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. He works on a large number of films and multimedia projects, sometimes as part of a creative team, and is especially known for his short films and multimedia works. In 2004 Virgil Widrich was a member of the Ars Electronica jury and he chaired of the Austrian Film Directors' Association until 2007. He is also a member of the Academy of Austrian Film. From 2007 to 2010 Virgil Widrich taught the class of digital arts as a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2010 he is the chair of the Department of Art & Science with a post-graduate Master Programme in art and science. He is one of the founders and managing directors of the multimedia company Checkpointmedia GmbH and owner and managing director of Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H.\nBernd Kr\u00e4ftner is an artist and researcher. He studied medicine, has worked as a filmmaker and a writer, and since 1998 he explores the messy interfaces between science and society. He has carried out various transdisciplinary research projects funded, for example, by the Austrian Ministry of Science; the Wellcome Trust's SciArt Programme, London; the ZKM, Karlsruhe, and the Humboldt University, Berlin. He was co-curator of the science exhibition The True\/False Inc, Vienna 2006. From 2008 to 2010, he was the principal investigator of the research and art project \"Pillow Research: Multiple Diagnoses and Hidden Talents\", sponsored by the Translational Research Programme of the Austrian Science Foundation, and additionally he is principal investigator of the science and art project (2010\u20132012) \"'In the Event of?' Anticipatory and Participatory Politics of Emergency Provision\", sponsored by the Arts & Science Call 2009, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). Bernd Kr\u00e4ftner has conducted numerous transdisciplinary research projects on and at the interfaces of science, society, and art, he is the founder of the research group Shared Inc. (Research Centre for Shared Incompetence), and is a senior lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the Departments of Art & Science and Digital Art.\nHerwig Turk is a media artist, working in installations, photography, film and digital media at the intersection of art and science, with a particular focus on the biosciences. He creates his artworks in the context of interdisciplinary discourses and in close collaboration with scientists and researchers. From 2010 to 2013 he was Artist in Residence at the IMM (Instituto da Medicina Molecular), Lisbon. From 2003 to 2009 he collaborated with Paulo Pereira, Director of the Centre of Ophthalmology at IBILI (Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra). Recent exhibitions of Herwig Turk's work include shows at the MAK Museum f\u00fcr angewandte Kunst, Vienna, the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, the Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, the TESLA Labor f\u00fcr Medienkunst, the Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, and the Transmediale festival, Berlin. His work is currently on show at the MMKK (Museum Moderner Kunst K\u00e4rnten) in his solo show Herwig Turk. Landschaft = Labor (September 29, 2016 \u2013 January 8, 2017). Since 2014 Herwig Turk teaches as a senior artist at the Institute of Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna.\nTanja Gesell is a postdoctoral scientist from the University of Vienna and a free artist. She holds master's degrees in biology and fine arts from the University and the Academy of Fine Arts in D\u00fcsseldorf, where she was a student in the master class of Rosemarie Trockel. In 2009, she obtained her Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Vienna. Before her maternity leave, Tanja Gesell also did research as a mobility fellow at Harvard University and at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as a Marie Curie Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK. Tanja Gesell is a cofounder of and lecturer in the new Connectivity Seminar at the University of Vienna. In this seminar connections between various natural science disciplines, the humanities, and the arts are established with regard to the aspect of structure.\nChristoph Bock is a principal investigator at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on dissecting the role of epigenetics in cancer and on developing high-throughput technologies for precision medicine. He is also a guest professor at the Medical University of Vienna's Department of Laboratory Medicine, scientific coordinator of the Biomedical Sequencing Facility at CeMM, and an adjunct group leader for bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Christoph Bock obtained his PhD summa cum laude from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in 2008, followed by three years of postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, where he contributed to the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics project. At CeMM, he co-initiated and leads Genom Austria, the Austrian contribution to the International Network of Personal Genome Projects, and he is a principal investigator in BLUEPRINT (International Human Epigenome Consortium). Christoph Bock has received several research awards, including the Max Planck Society's Otto Hahn Medal (2009), a New Frontier Group grant by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2015\u20132020), and an ERC Starting Grant (2016\u20132021).\nFrank R\u00f6sl is a scientist and since 2002 head of the Division of Viral Transformation Mechanisms, Research Programme \"Infection, Inflammation and Cancer\", German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg. This field of research received considerable publicity when Harald zur Hausen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, his mentor and colleague with whom Frank R\u00f6sl worked together for more than 15 years. Frank R\u00f6sl has been a professor at the faculty of Theoretical Medicine, University of Heidelberg since 2001. His research fields are: innate immunity and viral escape mechanisms; metabolic aspects, intracellular energy sensoring; papillomaviruses and non-melanoma skin cancer, vaccine development. In 1986 he received his doctorate from the Department of Molecular Biology of DNA Tumor Viruses, German Cancer Research Center. His habilitation thesis in 1994 was in virology at the faculty of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Heidelberg. Because knowledge and innovation evolve not only within a well-defined field, but rather through transgressing boundaries and through developing open and creative communication, Frank R\u00f6sl endeavours to bring art, science, and the humanities together to enable epistemic transfers. From 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the interdisciplinary research group \"Bildkulturen\" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin, and in 2008 was co-applicant of the research project \"Transfer-Knowledge \u2013 Knowledge-Transfer. On the History and Contemporary Relevance of Transfers between the Life Sciences and Humanities (1930\/1970\/2010)\" in collaboration with the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from 2009 to 2013.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Eric Fox\nBrad Button\nPaul Justice\nPaul, Graduate Hospital\n\"I was a first-time home buyer when I was strongly recommended to Eric due to his undying professionalism, unique knowledge of Philadelphia neighborhoods and the ever-changing trends, and honesty. Eric made the entire home-buying experience easy, enjoyable, and stress-free from start-to-finish. I am confident to say that Eric has my utmost respect, provides savvy advice, is someone who I would always recommend, and his goal is to provide a buyer with best experience rather than making a quick sale. Thank you, Eric!\"\nBHHS Fox & Roach, REALTOR\u00ae\n210 W. Rittenhouse Square\n\u00a9 BHHS Affiliates, LLC. An independently operated subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, and a franchisee of BHHS Affiliates, LLC. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices symbol are registered service marks of HomeServices of America, Inc.\u00ae Equal Housing Opportunity. 2019.\nGet in touch for more information:\n\u00a9 2019 Eric Fox | Designed by Networks Plus","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roughing It by Mark Twain\nPrevious: Chapter XLVI.\nNext: Chapter XLVIII.\nChapter XLVII.\nSomebody has said that in order to know a community, one must observe the style of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony. I cannot say which class we buried with most eclat in our \"flush times,\" the distinguished public benefactor or the distinguished rough--possibly the two chief grades or grand divisions of society honored their illustrious dead about equally; and hence, no doubt the philosopher I have quoted from would have needed to see two representative funerals in Virginia before forming his estimate of the people.\nThere was a grand time over Buck Fanshaw when he died. He was a representative citizen. He had \"killed his man\"--not in his own quarrel, it is true, but in defence of a stranger unfairly beset by numbers. He had kept a sumptuous saloon. He had been the proprietor of a dashing helpmeet whom he could have discarded without the formality of a divorce. He had held a high position in the fire department and been a very Warwick in politics. When he died there was great lamentation throughout the town, but especially in the vast bottom-stratum of society.\nOn the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck--and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death \"by the visitation of God.\" What could the world do without juries?\nProdigious preparations were made for the funeral. All the vehicles in town were hired, all the saloons put in mourning, all the municipal and fire-company flags hung at half-mast, and all the firemen ordered to muster in uniform and bring their machines duly draped in black. Now-- let us remark in parenthesis--as all the peoples of the earth had representative adventurers in the Silverland, and as each adventurer had brought the slang of his nation or his locality with him, the combination made the slang of Nevada the richest and the most infinitely varied and copious that had ever existed anywhere in the world, perhaps, except in the mines of California in the \"early days.\" Slang was the language of Nevada. It was hard to preach a sermon without it, and be understood. Such phrases as \"You bet!\" \"Oh, no, I reckon not!\" \"No Irish need apply,\" and a hundred others, became so common as to fall from the lips of a speaker unconsciously--and very often when they did not touch the subject under discussion and consequently failed to mean anything.\nAfter Buck Fanshaw's inquest, a meeting of the short-haired brotherhood was held, for nothing can be done on the Pacific coast without a public meeting and an expression of sentiment. Regretful resolutions were passed and various committees appointed; among others, a committee of one was deputed to call on the minister, a fragile, gentle, spiritual new fledgling from an Eastern theological seminary, and as yet unacquainted with the ways of the mines. The committeeman, \"Scotty\" Briggs, made his visit; and in after days it was worth something to hear the minister tell about it. Scotty was a stalwart rough, whose customary suit, when on weighty official business, like committee work, was a fire helmet, flaming red flannel shirt, patent leather belt with spanner and revolver attached, coat hung over arm, and pants stuffed into boot tops. He formed something of a contrast to the pale theological student. It is fair to say of Scotty, however, in passing, that he had a warm heart, and a strong love for his friends, and never entered into a quarrel when he could reasonably keep out of it. Indeed, it was commonly said that whenever one of Scotty's fights was investigated, it always turned out that it had originally been no affair of his, but that out of native good-heartedness he had dropped in of his own accord to help the man who was getting the worst of it. He and Buck Fanshaw were bosom friends, for years, and had often taken adventurous \"pot-luck\" together. On one occasion, they had thrown off their coats and taken the weaker side in a fight among strangers, and after gaining a hard-earned victory, turned and found that the men they were helping had deserted early, and not only that, but had stolen their coats and made off with them! But to return to Scotty's visit to the minister. He was on a sorrowful mission, now, and his face was the picture of woe. Being admitted to the presence he sat down before the clergyman, placed his fire-hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressiveness, explanatory of his business.\nHe choked, and even shed tears; but with an effort he mastered his voice and said in lugubrious tones:\n\"Are you the duck that runs the gospel-mill next door?\"\n\"Am I the--pardon me, I believe I do not understand?\"\nWith another sigh and a half-sob, Scotty rejoined:\n\"Why you see we are in a bit of trouble, and the boys thought maybe you would give us a lift, if we'd tackle you--that is, if I've got the rights of it and you are the head clerk of the doxology-works next door.\"\n\"I am the shepherd in charge of the flock whose fold is next door.\"\n\"The which?\"\n\"The spiritual adviser of the little company of believers whose sanctuary adjoins these premises.\"\nScotty scratched his head, reflected a moment, and then said:\n\"You ruther hold over me, pard. I reckon I can't call that hand. Ante and pass the buck.\"\n\"How? I beg pardon. What did I understand you to say?\"\n\"Well, you've ruther got the bulge on me. Or maybe we've both got the bulge, somehow. You don't smoke me and I don't smoke you. You see, one of the boys has passed in his checks and we want to give him a good send- off, and so the thing I'm on now is to roust out somebody to jerk a little chin-music for us and waltz him through handsome.\"\n\"My friend, I seem to grow more and more bewildered. Your observations are wholly incomprehensible to me. Cannot you simplify them in some way? At first I thought perhaps I understood you, but I grope now. Would it not expedite matters if you restricted yourself to categorical statements of fact unencumbered with obstructing accumulations of metaphor and allegory?\"\nAnother pause, and more reflection. Then, said Scotty:\n\"I'll have to pass, I judge.\"\n\"How?\"\n\"You've raised me out, pard.\"\n\"I still fail to catch your meaning.\"\n\"Why, that last lead of yourn is too many for me--that's the idea. I can't neither-trump nor follow suit.\"\nThe clergyman sank back in his chair perplexed. Scotty leaned his head on his hand and gave himself up to thought.\nPresently his face came up, sorrowful but confident.\n\"I've got it now, so's you can savvy,\" he said. \"What we want is a gospel-sharp. See?\"\n\"A what?\"\n\"Gospel-sharp. Parson.\"\n\"Oh! Why did you not say so before? I am a clergyman--a parson.\"\n\"Now you talk! You see my blind and straddle it like a man. Put it there!\"--extending a brawny paw, which closed over the minister's small hand and gave it a shake indicative of fraternal sympathy and fervent gratification.\n\"Now we're all right, pard. Let's start fresh. Don't you mind my snuffling a little--becuz we're in a power of trouble. You see, one of the boys has gone up the flume--\"\n\"Gone where?\"\n\"Up the flume--throwed up the sponge, you understand.\"\n\"Thrown up the sponge?\"\n\"Yes--kicked the bucket--\"\n\"Ah--has departed to that mysterious country from whose bourne no traveler returns.\"\n\"Return! I reckon not. Why pard, he's dead!\"\n\"Yes, I understand.\"\n\"Oh, you do? Well I thought maybe you might be getting tangled some more. Yes, you see he's dead again--\"\n\"Again? Why, has he ever been dead before?\"\n\"Dead before? No! Do you reckon a man has got as many lives as a cat? But you bet you he's awful dead now, poor old boy, and I wish I'd never seen this day. I don't want no better friend than Buck Fanshaw. I knowed him by the back; and when I know a man and like him, I freeze to him--you hear me. Take him all round, pard, there never was a bullier man in the mines. No man ever knowed Buck Fanshaw to go back on a friend. But it's all up, you know, it's all up. It ain't no use. They've scooped him.\"\n\"Scooped him?\"\n\"Yes--death has. Well, well, well, we've got to give him up. Yes indeed. It's a kind of a hard world, after all, ain't it? But pard, he was a rustler! You ought to seen him get started once. He was a bully boy with a glass eye! Just spit in his face and give him room according to his strength, and it was just beautiful to see him peel and go in. He was the worst son of a thief that ever drawed breath. Pard, he was on it! He was on it bigger than an Injun!\"\n\"On it? On what?\"\n\"On the shoot. On the shoulder. On the fight, you understand. He didn't give a continental for any body. Beg your pardon, friend, for coming so near saying a cuss-word--but you see I'm on an awful strain, in this palaver, on account of having to cramp down and draw everything so mild. But we've got to give him up. There ain't any getting around that, I don't reckon. Now if we can get you to help plant him--\"\n\"Preach the funeral discourse? Assist at the obsequies?\"\n\"Obs'quies is good. Yes. That's it--that's our little game. We are going to get the thing up regardless, you know. He was always nifty himself, and so you bet you his funeral ain't going to be no slouch-- solid silver door-plate on his coffin, six plumes on the hearse, and a nigger on the box in a biled shirt and a plug hat--how's that for high? And we'll take care of you, pard. We'll fix you all right. There'll be a kerridge for you; and whatever you want, you just 'scape out and we'll 'tend to it. We've got a shebang fixed up for you to stand behind, in No. 1's house, and don't you be afraid. Just go in and toot your horn, if you don't sell a clam. Put Buck through as bully as you can, pard, for anybody that knowed him will tell you that he was one of the whitest men that was ever in the mines. You can't draw it too strong. He never could stand it to see things going wrong. He's done more to make this town quiet and peaceable than any man in it. I've seen him lick four Greasers in eleven minutes, myself. If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't a man to go browsing around after somebody to do it, but he would prance in and regulate it himself. He warn't a Catholic. Scasely. He was down on 'em. His word was, 'No Irish need apply!' But it didn't make no difference about that when it came down to what a man's rights was--and so, when some roughs jumped the Catholic bone-yard and started in to stake out town-lots in it he went for 'em! And he cleaned 'em, too! I was there, pard, and I seen it myself.\"\n\"That was very well indeed--at least the impulse was--whether the act was strictly defensible or not. Had deceased any religious convictions? That is to say, did he feel a dependence upon, or acknowledge allegiance to a higher power?'\nMore reflection.\n\"I reckon you've stumped me again, pard. Could you say it over once more, and say it slow?\"\n\"Well, to simplify it somewhat, was he, or rather had he ever been connected with any organization sequestered from secular concerns and devoted to self-sacrifice in the interests of morality?\"\n\"All down but nine--set 'em up on the other alley, pard.\"\n\"What did I understand you to say?\"\n\"Why, you're most too many for me, you know. When you get in with your left I hunt grass every time. Every time you draw, you fill; but I don't seem to have any luck. Lets have a new deal.\"\n\"How? Begin again?\"\n\"That's it.\"\n\"Very well. Was he a good man, and--\"\n\"There--I see that; don't put up another chip till I look at my hand. A good man, says you? Pard, it ain't no name for it. He was the best man that ever--pard, you would have doted on that man. He could lam any galoot of his inches in America. It was him that put down the riot last election before it got a start; and everybody said he was the only man that could have done it. He waltzed in with a spanner in one hand and a trumpet in the other, and sent fourteen men home on a shutter in less than three minutes. He had that riot all broke up and prevented nice before anybody ever got a chance to strike a blow. He was always for peace, and he would have peace--he could not stand disturbances. Pard, he was a great loss to this town. It would please the boys if you could chip in something like that and do him justice. Here once when the Micks got to throwing stones through the Methodis' Sunday school windows, Buck Fanshaw, all of his own notion, shut up his saloon and took a couple of six-shooters and mounted guard over the Sunday school. Says he, 'No Irish need apply!' And they didn't. He was the bulliest man in the mountains, pard! He could run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and hold more tangle-foot whisky without spilling it than any man in seventeen counties. Put that in, pard--it'll please the boys more than anything you could say. And you can say, pard, that he never shook his mother.\"\n\"Never shook his mother?\"\n\"That's it--any of the boys will tell you so.\"\n\"Well, but why should he shake her?\"\n\"That's what I say--but some people does.\"\n\"Not people of any repute?\"\n\"Well, some that averages pretty so-so.\"\n\"In my opinion the man that would offer personal violence to his own mother, ought to--\"\n\"Cheese it, pard; you've banked your ball clean outside the string. What I was a drivin' at, was, that he never throwed off on his mother-- don't you see? No indeedy. He give her a house to live in, and town lots, and plenty of money; and he looked after her and took care of her all the time; and when she was down with the small-pox I'm d---d if he didn't set up nights and nuss her himself! Beg your pardon for saying it, but it hopped out too quick for yours truly.\nYou've treated me like a gentleman, pard, and I ain't the man to hurt your feelings intentional. I think you're white. I think you're a square man, pard. I like you, and I'll lick any man that don't. I'll lick him till he can't tell himself from a last year's corpse! Put it there!\" [Another fraternal hand-shake--and exit.]\nThe obsequies were all that \"the boys\" could desire. Such a marvel of funeral pomp had never been seen in Virginia. The plumed hearse, the dirge-breathing brass bands, the closed marts of business, the flags drooping at half mast, the long, plodding procession of uniformed secret societies, military battalions and fire companies, draped engines, carriages of officials, and citizens in vehicles and on foot, attracted multitudes of spectators to the sidewalks, roofs and windows; and for years afterward, the degree of grandeur attained by any civic display in Virginia was determined by comparison with Buck Fanshaw's funeral.\nScotty Briggs, as a pall-bearer and a mourner, occupied a prominent place at the funeral, and when the sermon was finished and the last sentence of the prayer for the dead man's soul ascended, he responded, in a low voice, but with feelings:\n\"AMEN. No Irish need apply.\"\nAs the bulk of the response was without apparent relevancy, it was probably nothing more than a humble tribute to the memory of the friend that was gone; for, as Scotty had once said, it was \"his word.\"\nScotty Briggs, in after days, achieved the distinction of becoming the only convert to religion that was ever gathered from the Virginia roughs; and it transpired that the man who had it in him to espouse the quarrel of the weak out of inborn nobility of spirit was no mean timber whereof to construct a Christian. The making him one did not warp his generosity or diminish his courage; on the contrary it gave intelligent direction to the one and a broader field to the other.\nIf his Sunday-school class progressed faster than the other classes, was it matter for wonder? I think not. He talked to his pioneer small-fry in a language they understood! It was my large privilege, a month before he died, to hear him tell the beautiful story of Joseph and his brethren to his class \"without looking at the book.\" I leave it to the reader to fancy what it was like, as it fell, riddled with slang, from the lips of that grave, earnest teacher, and was listened to by his little learners with a consuming interest that showed that they were as unconscious as he was that any violence was being done to the sacred proprieties!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Drama as ex President Storms Ekweremadu Residence Over Assassination Attempt (photos)\nBy Ifeanyi Dimkpa Last updated Nov 8, 2018\nFollowing the alleged assassination attempt on the life of the Deputy Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and son at their Abuja residence, the former President, Goodluck Jonathan has paid them a visit\nEkweremadu revealed this via his social media page saying:\n'AND GEJ CAME CALLING\"\n\"It was an honour for me and my wife to receive His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR and my friends, who came to strengthen us over the recent attack on our household. My appreciation and respect, sir.\"\n\"Meanwhile, I have received so much love and solidarity from Nigeria and all parts of the world since the event of the early hours of Tuesday. Let me, therefore, seize this opportunity to convey my profound appreciation you \u2013 friends, my colleagues, associates, dear country men and women \u2013 for the outpour of solidarity and prayers. I am humbled and overwhelmed by your kindness.\"\nassassinationEkweremaduEx-PresidentGoodluck Jonathan\nMassive Jubilation In Aso Rock, As Obasanjo, Danjuma Dragged To ICC\n\"I Won't keep quiet, Ogoniland Clean-Up is a Total Fraud\" \u2013 Governor Wike Speaks Up","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Emirates still top brand associated with Melbourne Cup\nJanuary 14, 2020 roymorgansocial Leave a comment\nOriginal article by Roy Morgan\nMarket Research Update \u2013 Page: Online : 14-Jan-20\nNew research from Roy Morgan shows that Emirates is still the top brand associated with the Melbourne Cup, two years after the Dubai-based airline ended its naming rights sponsorship of Australia's most watched horse race. Nearly 3.9 million Australians (19%) associate Emirates with the Melbourne Cup, down from a high of 5.3 million (27%) in 2016. Emirates held naming rights sponsorship for the Cup from 2004 to 2017. New naming rights sponsor Lexus is associated with the Cup by nearly 830,000 Australians (4%). However, recognition rises to 10% among Australians who watch the Cup on TV and to 15% among Australians who bet on horse racing in an average week. Lexus signed a five-year naming rights sponsorship agreement for the Melbourne Cup, covering the years 2018-2022 and has ground to make up on previous sponsor Emirates, which had a sponsorship association of 9% in its first year. Other sponsors Australians associate with the Melbourne Cup include Myer, Foster's, AAMI and Sky Channel. Sponsorship recall is higher for all key brands among those who bet on horse racing, ahead of those who watch the race on TV.\nROY MORGAN LIMITED, THE LEXUS MELBOURNE CUP, EMIRATES AIRLINES, LEXUS, MYER HOLDINGS LIMITED \u2013 ASX MYR, FOSTER'S GROUP LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED MOTOR INSURERS LIMITED, SKY CHANNEL PTY LTD\nMelbourne Cup in turmoil as ratings and attendance plunge in 2019\nNovember 7, 2019 roymorgansocial Leave a comment\nMedia Update \u2013 Page: Online : 7-Nov-19\nTV viewership of the Melbourne Cup has plunged in 2019, dropping by more than half-a-million viewers compared to 2018 (a drop of 28% in only one year) and down over 330,000 in Melbourne \u2013 the home of the race. In total 1.324 million Australians in the 5 Capital Cities tuned in to Network 10's coverage of Australia's most important horse race. Sydney viewing was down by over 100,000 and down by tens of thousands in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. As reported yesterday attendance at the Melbourne Cup was only 81,408, the lowest attendance for nearly a quarter of a century since 1995. In line with plunging attendance figures, TV viewership was down across the whole day including the Race, Presentation, Mounting Yard and other viewing segments. Attendance at the Melbourne Cup has now dropped for five years in a row and is a clear indicator of problems facing Australia's Racing Industry which Roy Morgan shows has among the highest level of distrust of all sports.\nAussie winner declared bad for the bookies\nOriginal article by Mark Schliebs\nThe Australian \u2013 Page: 6 : 6-Nov-19\nTAB has reported that its turnover for the 10 races at Flemington on 5 November was $160.7m, which is 5.9 per cent lower than previously. TAB's turnover on the Melbourne Cup itself was $106m. TAB processed up to 108,000 bets per minute on Cup Day, while the numbers of wagers process by Sportsbet peaked at 35,000 per minute. Racing Victoria CEO Giles Thompson says the fact that an Australian-bred and trained horse won the Melbourne Cup is likely to have affected bookmakers' profits, as many punters backed the local horse.\nTAB LIMITED, TABCORP HOLDINGS LIMITED \u2013 ASX TAH, SPORTSBET AUSTRALIA, RACING VICTORIA LIMITED, BETEASY PTY LTD, LADBROKES GROUP PLC, MELBOURNE RACING CLUB\nHow a bunch of blokes beat the sheiks and princes to deliver an Aussie Cup\nOriginal article by John Stensholt\nThe Australian \u2013 Page: 1 & 7 : 6-Nov-19\nVow And Declare, the first Australian-bred horse to win the Melbourne Cup since 2009, was passed in at the 2017 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale. The horse was bred by builder and hobby breeder Paul Lanskey; it had a reserve of $60,000 but failed to attract a bid. Vow And Declare was subsequently bought by a diverse group of investors from across Australia. Trainer Danny O'Brien was cleared over a long-running cobalt scandal in 2018, while it was the first Melbourne Cup win for jockey Craig Williams in his 16th attempt.\nLANSKEY CONSTRUCTIONS\nSheik up, as McEvoy streaks to third Cup\nOriginal article by Chip Le Grand\nThe Godolpin racing stable of Dubai's Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum has won its first Melbourne Cup after trying to do so for two decades. Godolphin's \"Cross Counter\" has become the first British-trained horse to win the prestigious race, with jockey Kerrin McEvoy riding a Melbourne Cup winner for the third time. Race favourite \"Yucatan\", which is part-owned by businessman Lloyd Williams, finished in 11th place. Another horse owned by Williams, \"The Cliffs of Moher\", was put down after fracturing its right shoulder.\nGODOLPHIN RACING\nWilliams chasing Cup three-peat\nOriginal article by James Thomson\nThe Australian Financial Review \u2013 Page: 3 : 6-Nov-18\nAustralian businessman Lloyd Williams is confident of winning a seventh Melbourne Cup with Irish horse \"Yucatan\". Williams is a co-owner of the Cup favourite, whose other owners include fellow entrepreneurs Brian Singer, Alan Green and Gerry Ryan. Williams is also the co-owner of another Melbourne Cup contender, \"The Cliffs of Moher\". Horses owned by Williams won the Melbourne Cup in 2016 and 2017.\nCOOLMORE STUD\nField wide open as VRC spruiks media rights\nMay 18, 2018 roymorgansocial Leave a comment\nOriginal article by Max Mason\nThe Australian Financial Review \u2013 Page: 28 : 18-May-18\nVictoria Racing Club hopes to use a new broadcasting rights deal for the Melbourne Cup carnival to attract more people to Flemington Racecourse for the event, arguing that it is more than just about horse racing. The VRC has not issued a tender for the four-day carnival since Seven West Media gained the rights in 2002. VRC CEO Neil Wilson says it is open to deals with more than one partner, including a sub-licensing arrangement.\nVICTORIA RACING CLUB LIMITED, THE LEXUS MELBOURNE CUP, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED \u2013 ASX SWM, TWITTER INCORPORATED\nLexus set to be named as Cup sponsor as prizemoney rises\nOriginal article by Brendan Cormick\nThe Australian \u2013 Page: 36 : 8-Nov-17\nLexus is expected to replace Emirates as the naming rights sponsor of the Melbourne Cup, with a deal likely to be finalised in coming weeks. The car-maker is already the sponsor of the Lexus Stakes during the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Victoria Racing Club is also expected to announce an increase in prizemoney for the Melbourne Cup, although it will still fall well short of The Everest, which boasted prizemoney of $A10m in its first year. More than 90,000 people attended the 2017 Melbourne Cup, which was won by the Lloyd Williams-owned \"Rekindling\".\nTHE EMIRATES MELBOURNE CUP, LEXUS, EMIRATES AIRLINES, VICTORIA RACING CLUB LIMITED, RACING NSW, AUSTRALIAN TURF CLUB LIMITED\nMarmelo's the mother of all Cup tips\nMarmelo, part-owned by property developer Ozzie Kheir and wife Linsey, is current favourite to win the $A6.25 million Melbourne Cup on 7 November. Kheir runs property group Resimax, while Phil Mehrten, who also has an interest in Marmelo, founded Probuild, a construction company that generates around $A2 billion a year in revenue. The Kheirs had an interest in 2011 Cup third-place getter Lucas Cranach and 2014 winner Protectionist. Linsey Kheir was heavily pregnant on both occasions, as is the case at the moment.\nRESIMAX,PROBUILD PTY LTD\nEarly birds win big as bookies take a bruising\nOriginal article by Rick Wallace\nTabcorp estimates that about $A95m was wagered on the 2016 Melbourne Cup via its TAB outlets in Victoria and New South Wales. Meanwhile, Sportsbet is said to have taken about $A25m worth of bets on the race, compared with $A20m in 2015. It paid out $A13.6m to punters who backed Cup winner Almandin. One Sportsbet customer won $A241,000 on a $A10 bet after correctly picking the first four horses to pass the winning post.\nTABCORP HOLDINGS LIMITED \u2013 ASX TAH, SPORTSBET AUSTRALIA, UBET, CROWNBET PTY LTD, THE EMIRATES MELBOURNE CUP","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UPDATE: Landslide in Sri Lanka KILLS 180 people with more than a 100 missing and 75,000 displaced the flooding affecting 500,000 people\nPhoto theafricom.com\nSearch and rescue teams in southwestern Sri Lanka worked Monday to locate and evacuate people affected by days of floods and mudslides from monsoon rains that have killed 180 people.\nThe country's Disaster Management Center said more than 100 people were missing, and that about 75,000 people had taken shelter in relief camps set up in the south and west.\nIt added that floodwaters were retreating in the worst-hit areas, but that the need for immediate humanitarian relief supplies remained high.\nThe military has used aircraft, boats and troops on the ground to try to reach those in need of help.\nIn all, the flooding has affected more than 550,000 people.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Comic Strip of the Day.com\n\u00ab Friday Funnies | Main | Perspectives \u00bb\nAny Given Saturday\nGenerally, Saturday is the day for burying weak gags and inconsequential \"group hug\" story arc endings. For some reason, a whole lot of people ignored that pattern today, including Olivia Jaimes, who broke out of the New, Improved Nancy's dadaist pattern for this more insightful piece.\nNot her first. A few more in the mix and I'll be a true fan.\nAnd speaking of insight, Pajama Diaries delivers a strong blow with this overly-familiar story.\nI've seen the basic gag before -- though with the demise of video stores, it's now set on the couch as the couple goes through Netflix choices -- but the circularity here, plus the addition of the next generation's participation, is brilliantly compact.\nAnd it could easily have been stretched into a Sunday strip, but it would have lost power and become argumentative. It's far better as a bang\/boom daily.\nSolution: When my boys were little, we set up a pattern of odd and even days to determine who got to ride shotgun in the front seat. And we'd reverse it each year since kids miss nothing and, yes, the person with \"odds\" got two days in a row when a month had 31 days.\nI think marriages would last longer if whole families had a similar rule across the board: \"It's an even day. You get to make the decision.\"\nOr was that have to?\nCareful what you wish for\nToday's Pooch Cafe echoes Pope Francis's assurance that we will be united in Heaven with our dogs, which has, for some reason, started popping up in my news feed despite being a couple of years old.\nIt's an interesting barometer of papal kindness: According to the above-linked piece, grumpy old Pius IX and Benedict XVI said dogs have no souls, while kindly JPII and Frances teach that they will be joining us in the hereafter. I suspect this divide is more about luring flies with honey or with vinegar than it is about actual theology.\nNobody has approached it with a formal finality that would invoke Papal Infallibility, which, assuming the current pope made such a proclamation, would mean that, when I personally cross the Rainbow Bridge, I would be up for a whole lot of halo-tug and halo-toss, since I'd be greeted at least by Buttons, Puddles, Taylor, Mordecai, Szabo, Ziggy, Josh, O'Malley, Destry, Nellie, Ziwa and Vaska, and also perhaps a few I only lived with temporarily, like Thief, Suzie Creamcheese, Jack and Puck.\nAnd let's just hope their view of heaven doesn't include being reunited with parents and littermates, because this could quickly get totally out of control.\nA Mesmerizing Juxtaposition\n(Carpe Diem)\n(Big Ben Bolt Sundays)\nI have no idea if Niklas Eriksson reads Big Ben Bolt's Sunday strips, which, two months ago, featured a hypnotized opponent. I kind of doubt he saw it when it first ran in 1957.\nWhatever his inspiration, I suspect it would indeed be easier to hypnotize someone into going down for the count than to use it to make his brain invulnerable to repeated blows to the head.\nThough, if you wear that kind of hat, I think you can gesture hypnotically and make just about anything happen.\nObservational Excellence\nI may be overthinking the funnies today, but Dave Coverly is way ahead of me on that score with today's Speed Bump.\nNot only is crowding the entire team onto one part of a single rod an excellent way to simulate youth soccer, but note that he has modified the table itself with a slot such that the teams can run up and down the field in their knot.\nThis man has watched too much youth soccer, and I say that as someone who has coached the sport.\nI would have taught them to play their positions, but we spent most of our instructional time teaching them to kick the ball without stepping on it and falling down.\nAlso Sprach Alexa\nSeveral cartoonists greeted the re-release of \"2001: A Space Odyssey\" with jokes about Alexa and HAL, apparently without taking the time to ask Alexa to open the pod bay doors.\nIt was one of the first things I asked her and, yes, she came preloaded with a snippy answer suggesting that I wasn't the first to think of it and it wasn't funny.\nI got my Echo when it was first released in January, 2015, which means that her programmers anticipated the question before anyone had actually asked it.\nBut Brewster Rockit goes beyond the obvious and has been running a delightfully silly Alexa\/HAL story arc all week.\nThough I would note that they already make a tiny monolith, which I know because my kids persuaded me to trade in my flip phone and get one.\nAnd if you think the monolith in 2001 was enigmatically black, you should see my pocket monolith in direct sunlight. You need one of those Matthew Brady over-your-head hood thingies to see the screen at all, which, of course, would enhance the \"walking around without watching where you're going\" factor cartoonists prize.\nIt's only occasionally a problem, because, while I kept my flip phone in my pocket along with my car keys, my monolith is large enough that it isn't comfortable to keep pocketed and I usually end up forgetting it when I leave the house.\nWhich doesn't much matter because, like Lemont, I work at home.\nThe times I leave the house are brief and I'm not so self-important that I fear my temporary disconnectedness will disrupt the cosmos.\nThough today being, as noted in Candorville, the day everyone else agrees is Saturday, and specifically the Saturday that my favorite lobster place opens for the season, I'll be leaving the house for several hours.\nI'll bring the damn monolith.\nBut I liked today's Free Range because I'm sorry I ever let those whippersnappers talk me into trading in my phone.\n(Yeah, you can look up phone numbers on the monolith. I don't care.)\nWhat can I say? It was apparently a great day for funny comics, and with GoComics down (reason varies\u2014either there's a bad gate or they're so popular nobody can read them), you're just about the only game in town!\nPosted by: Kip W | 05\/12\/2018 at 10:34 AM\nAlso, I like the economy with which James depicted Nancy's teacher going into 'brief reverie' mode.\n\u2026Jaimes! I don't understand it. I was thinking the right spelling as I typed the wrong one.\nGlad you've stuck with Jaimes' Nancy and posted it. Today's is good enough that I'll go back to reading it, at least for awhile. I had quit soon after Jerry Scott took it over, and the Gilchrists' version wasn't much better. Jaimes' drawing of Nancy's head is a bit jarring, and the humor is different, but it's all somehow pleasing anyway.\nPosted by: Bookworm | 05\/12\/2018 at 03:06 PM\nWhat's so funny?\nI read some 175 or more comics a day. Each day, I post a strip or two here that made me laugh, made me think or impressed me with its artistry. It's my hope that you'll see some new strips here and decide to follow that artist's work, and perhaps even to support that work by purchasing a collection of strips. But, mostly, I hope you'll find this a place to get a laugh or share a thought each day. After all, comic strips are a very demanding art form, but the ultimate point of all that work and all those deadlines is to give readers a little pleasure each day. If you find a comic hard to read, clicking on it will open a slightly larger version. (You may find that right-clicking and opening in a new tab produces a better result.) All comics here are copyrighted by their creators. -- Mike Peterson\nThe Prime Directive\nThe Prime Directive is that we don't single out comics for snark and abuse. This may change once I've won a couple of Pulitzers and a Reuben or two.\nHow to conduct a \"comics survey\"\nIf your newspaper is considering freshening their comics page, come see how to do it easily and with minimal complaints.\nTwitteronomy\nWant a daily reminder and link? My Twitter handle is @ComicStripOTD and I promise that you will never hear about what I had for lunch or the cute thing the dog said.\nIndependent comic collections\nNot all cartoonists market their collections through Amazon. Here's where cartoonists can list their independently published, and marketed, collections and where fans can find, and buy, them.\nComics Worth Reading\nIndependent Opinions by Johanna Draper Carlson and friends News and reviews of graphic novels, manga, comic books, and related subjects\nComic Riffs\nMichael Cavna's Washington Post column on comics and related media news.\nMike Lynch Cartoons\nCartoonist Mike Lynch's blog: Fascinating archival stuff he's found and scanned, tips on how cartooning really works and progress reports on his garden (in season).\nTom Spurgeon's Web site of comics news, reviews, interviews and commentary\nCartoon Movement\nAn international site with sociopolitical cartoons from around the world, curated by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards. A real mix of impressionistic panels and short-form graphic journalism.\nAfricartoons\nCartoons from across Africa, which has an extremely lively cartooning culture. Most of the material requires you to be on top of African current events and political personalities, but even when you're not sure of the specifics, there's some creative stuff to envy in the lively nature of the art form as practiced there.\nGoComics.com\nUniversal Press Syndicate's page. You can click on each strip and read for free, but for $11.88 a year, you can create your own page of strips and also avoid pop-ups. It's worth it.\nKing Features' site, with free comics if you don't mind a truncated service, or a very good paid site for $20 a year. Some of the benefits, including Vintage strips, require that paid subscription. It's worth it.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani(as)Muslims who believe in the Messiah, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (as), Love for All, Hatred for None.\nThe Official Website of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.\nGo to Chapter Chapter 1: Al-FatihahChapter 2: Al-BaqarahChapter 3: Aal-e-`ImranChapter 4: An-Nisa'Chapter 5: Al-Ma'idahChapter 6: Al-An`amChapter 7: Al-A`rafChapter 8: Al-AnfalChapter 9: At-TaubahChapter 10: YunusChapter 11: HudChapter 12: YusufChapter 13: Ar-Ra`dChapter 14: IbrahimChapter 15: Al-HijrChapter 16: An-NahlChapter 17: Bani Isra'ilChapter 18: Al-KahfChapter 19: MaryamChapter 20: TaHaChapter 21: Al-Anbiya'Chapter 22: Al-HajjChapter 23: Al-Mu'minunChapter 24: An-NurChapter 25: Al-FurqanChapter 26: Ash-Shu`ara'Chapter 27: An-NamlChapter 28: Al-QasasChapter 29: Al-`AnkabutChapter 30: Ar-RumChapter 31: LuqmanChapter 32: As-SajdahChapter 33: Al-AhzabChapter 34: SabaChapter 35: FatirChapter 36: Ya SinChapter 37: As-SaffatChapter 38: SadChapter 39: Az-ZumarChapter 40: Al-Mu'minChapter 41: Ha Mim As-SajdahChapter 42: Ash-ShuraChapter 43: Az-ZukhrufChapter 44: Ad-DukhanChapter 45: Al-JathiyahChapter 46: Al-AhqafChapter 47: MuhammadChapter 48: Al-FathChapter 49: Al-HujuratChapter 50: QafChapter 51: Adh-DhariyatChapter 52: At-TurChapter 53: An-NajmChapter 54: Al-QamarChapter 55: Ar-RahmanChapter 56: Al-Waqi`ahChapter 57: Al-HadidChapter 58: Al-MujadalahChapter 59: Al-HashrChapter 60: Al-MumtahanahChapter 61: As-SaffChapter 62: Al-Jumu`ahChapter 63: Al-MunafiqunChapter 64: At-TaghabunChapter 65: At-TalaqChapter 66: At-TahrimChapter 67: Al-MulkChapter 68: Al-QalamChapter 69: Al-HaqqahChapter 70: Al-Ma`arijChapter 71: NoohChapter 72: Al-JinnChapter 73: Al-MuzzammilChapter 74: Al-MuddaththirChapter 75: Al-QiyamahChapter 76: Ad-DahrChapter 77: Al-MursalatChapter 78: An-Naba'Chapter 79: An-Nazi`atChapter 80: `AbasaChapter 81: At-TakwirChapter 82: Al-InfitarChapter 83: At-TatfifChapter 84: Al-InshiqaqChapter 85: Al-BurujChapter 86: At-TariqChapter 87: Al-A`laChapter 88: Al-GhashiyahChapter 89: Al-FajrChapter 90: Al-BaladChapter 91: Ash-ShamsChapter 92: Al-LailChapter 93: Ad-DuhaChapter 94: Al-InshirahChapter 95: At-TinChapter 96: Al-`AlaqChapter 97: Al-QadrChapter 98: Al-BayyinahChapter 99: Az-ZilzalChapter 100: Al-`AdiyatChapter 101: Al-Qari`ahChapter 102: At-TakathurChapter 103: Al-`AsrChapter 104: Al-HumazahChapter 105: Al-FilChapter 106: QuraishChapter 107: Al-Ma`unChapter 108: Al-KautharChapter 109: Al-KafirunChapter 110: An-NasrChapter 111: Al-LahabChapter 112: Al-IkhlasChapter 113: Al-FalaqChapter 114: An-Nas Topics Index\nVerse 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158159160161162163164165166167168169170171172173174175176177178179180181182183184185186187188189190191192193194195196197198199200201202203204205206207208209210211212213214215216217218219220221222223224225226227228229230231232233234235236237238239240241242243244245246247248249250251252253254255256257258259260261262263264265266267268269270271272273274275276277278279280281282283284285286287\nEnglish French German Spanish \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u06cc\u0629\t\u0627\u064f\u0631\u062f\u0648\nEnglish translation by Maulvi Sher Ali(ra)\nEnglish Short Commentary edited by Malik Ghulam Farid\nEnglish Five Volume Commentary\nFran\u00e7ais translation\nEspa\u00f1ol translation\nDeutsch translation\n\u0627\u064f\u0631\u062f\u0648 \u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u06c1\u06d4 \u062d\u0636\u0631\u062a \u0645\u0631\u0632\u0627 \u0637\u0627\u06c1\u0631 \u0627\u062d\u0645\u062f\u060c \u062e\u0644\u06cc\u0641\u06c3 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u06cc\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0627\u0628\u0639\u0612\n\u0627\u064f\u0631\u062f\u0648 \u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u06c1 \u06d4 \u062a\u0641\u0633\u06cc\u0631 \u0635\u063a\u06cc\u0631 \u062d\u0636\u0631\u062a \u0645\u0631\u0632\u0627 \u0628\u0634\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0644\u062f\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u0648\u062f\u060c\u0645\u0635\u0644\u062d \u0645\u0648\u0639\u0648\u062f\u0613\nTilawat (Recitation)\nQari Muhammad Ashiq\nMaulana Feroz Alam\nAiman Almaliki\nQuranic Font Style\nIndo-Pak Text (noorehuda)\nModern Persian Images\nUthmanic Text (KFGQPC Uthman Hafs)\nShow Urdu commentary (\u0627\u064f\u0631\u062f\u0648 \u062a\u0641\u0627\u0633\u06cc\u0631) links\nClose Search Result\nIntroduction of Al-Baqarah\n\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0631\u0641 \u0633\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0642\u0631\u06c1\n(Revealed after Hijrah)\nThis, the longest chapter of the Quran, is known as Al-Baqarah. The name was used by the Holy Prophet himself and is probably revealed. The Surah was given this name probably because the word Baqarah (Cow) symbolizes an important incident (related in this Surah) in the life of the Jewish nation and points to the fact that nations decay and fall not only on account of \u0634\u0631\u0643 \u062c\u0644\u06cc (manifest shirk) but also on account of \u0634\u0631\u0643 \u062e\u0641\u06cc (hidden shirk) which being likely to be overlooked is, in a sense, more dangerous than the former and spells the spiritual ruin of a people that do not properly guard themselves against it. The Surah has another name also, i.e. \u0627\u0644\u0632\u06be\u0631\u0627\u0621 and both this Surah and the one that follows, viz. the Al-e-'Imranare jointly known as \u0627\u0644\u0632\u06be\u0631\u0648\u0627\u0646 i.e. the two bright ones (Muslim). The Holy Prophet is reported to have once said: \"Everything has its peak, and the peak of the Quran is Al-Baqarah; and in this Surah there is a verse which is the most eminent among the verses of the Quran and that is Ayatul-Kursi\" (Tirmidhi). Again, \"Whosoever shall recite ten verses of this chapter\u2014the first four verses, the Ayatul-Kursi, along with the two verses which come after it, and the last three verses\u2014Satan will not enter his house.\" This only means that these verses embody the essence of Islamic teaching, and that Satan cannot come near the man who faithfully acts on these teachings.\nDate of Revelation\nAl-Baqarah was revealed at Medina. It began to be revealed in the first year of the Hijrah and was completed only a short time before the death of the Holy Prophet.\nPlace of the Surah in the Quran\nIt is sometimes asked why this chapter, which, as stated above, began to be revealed after the Hijrah and was completed only a short time before the death of the Holy Prophet, was placed at the head of the Quran being second only to Al-Fatihah. The question forms part of the general question relating to the arrangement of the Quran, and will be found discussed in the General Introduction to this Commentary. Here it should suffice to say that\nAl-Baqarah has been placed next to Al-Fatihah, not because it is the longest, but because it deals with questions which at once confront a reader who turns from Al-Fatihah to a study of the main Book.\nThe literary merit of this Surah is unparalleled. It is on record that Labid bin Rabi'ah, one of the seven outstanding Arab poets of the pre-Islamic days, who later embraced Islam, was once asked by 'Umar, the Second Khalifah, to recite from his recent poetry. Upon this, Labid began to recite Al-Baqarah, and when asked about it, he only said, \"How can I think of composing anything after God has taught me Al-Baqarah and Al-e-'Imran\" (Ghabbah).\nThe subject matter of this long chapter is epitomized in its 130th verse. This verse contains a prayer of the Prophet Abraham in which he implores God to raise a Prophet from among the Meccans who should (1) recite to them the signs of God; (2) give the world a perfect Book containing perfect laws; (3) explain the wisdom underlying them; and (4) lay down principles which should lead to a spiritual transformation in the people and make them a great and powerful nation. The four ends which Abraham prayed for are dealt with at length in this chapter in the same order in which he prayed for them. The \"signs\" are discussed in the beginning in vv. 1-168; then the \"Book and Wisdom\" in vv. 169-243 and lastly the \"Means of National Progress\" in vv. 244-287.\n\"The recitation of the signs\" refers to the arguments for the truth of the Holy Prophet's message. We are told, for instance, that he appeared in the fulness of time in fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham. The Holy Prophet was no innovator. Messengers of God had appeared before, and Islam was only the culmination of the religious history of man. Accounts of the Prophets of Israel and the working of the law of nature have been cited in support of the Holy Prophet's claim. Unbelievers are warned that if they reject the Signs that have appeared in support of the Holy Prophet, it will lead to their own extinction.\n\"The teaching of the Book and Wisdom\" refers to the laws of Shari'ah laid down in the chapter and to the wisdom or philosophy which underlies them. After a description of fundamentals like belief in God, the Last Day, the divine revelations and the Prophets of God, we have ordinances about Prayer, Fasting and Pilgrimage, and then laws relating to marriage, divorce, the care of orphans and widows, the law of inheritance, etc. along with the wisdom underlying these laws and ordinances.\nLast of all, in elucidation of the subject of spiritual change spoken of in Abraham's prayer, the principles that lead to national awakening are briefly but effectively dealt with, and the lesson is brought home that no people could hope to live who are not always prepared to die for their ideals. The giving and taking of interest is denounced, as this practice not only kills the spirit of sacrifice and mutual cooperation but also leads to war and helps to prolong it.\nThe Surah ends with a moving prayer in which God's help is invoked by believers for the discharge of their great responsibilities.\nConnection with Al-Fatihah\nAl-Fatihah, though connected with all the other Surahs, is specially connected with Al-Baqarah. The latter is the fulfilment of the prayer, Guide us in the right path, contained in the opening chapter of the Quran. 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(close)\n[a]In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.[8]\n8. Commentary:\nSee note under 1:1. (close)\n\u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0646\u0627\u0645 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0633\u0627\u062a\u06be \u062c\u0648 \u0628\u06d2 \u0627\u0646\u062a\u06c1\u0627 \u0631\u062d\u0645 \u06a9\u0631\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0627\u060c \u0628\u0650\u0646 \u0645\u0627\u0646\u06af\u06d2 \u062f\u06cc\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0627 (\u0627\u0648\u0631) \u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0631\u062d\u0645 \u06a9\u0631\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0627 \u06c1\u06d2\u06d4\n\u0627\u064f\u0631\u062f\u0648 \u062a\u0641\u0633\u06cc\u0631 \u0635\u063a\u06cc\u0631\n(\u0645\u06cc\u06ba) \u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u06a9\u0627 \u0646\u0627\u0645 \u0644\u06d2 \u06a9\u0631 \u062c\u0648 \u0628\u06d2 \u062d\u062f \u06a9\u0631\u0645 \u06a9\u0631\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0627 (\u0627\u0648\u0631) \u0628\u0627\u0631\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0631\u062d\u0645 \u06a9\u0631\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0627 \u06c1\u06d2 (\u067e\u0691\u06be\u062a\u0627 \u06c1\u0648\u06ba\u06d4)\nAu nom d'All\u0101h, le Gracieux, le Mis\u00e9ricordieux.\nEn el nombre de Al-lah, el Clemente, el Misericordioso.\nIm Namen Allahs, des Gn\u00e4digen, des Barmherzigen.\nRead: Urdu Tafaseer \u0627\u0631\u062f\u0648 \u062a\u0641\u0627\u0633\u06cc\u0631\n\u0627\u0644\u0653\u0640\u0645\u0651\u0653 \u06da\ufd3f\u06f2\ufd3e\n\u0627\u0644\u0653\u0645\u0653 \u06dd\nAlif Lam Mim.\nAlif Lam Mim.[16]\n16. Abbreviations, like Alif Lam Mim, are known as al-Muqatta'at (letters used and pronounced separately), and occur in the beginning of not less than 28 Surahs, and are made up of one or more, to a maximum of five, letters of the Arabic alphabet. The letters out of which these abbreviations are constituted are fourteen in number: Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad, Ra, Kaf, Ha, Ya, 'Ain, Ta, Sin, Ha, Qaf and Nun. Of these Qaf and Nun occur alone in the beginning of Surahs Qaf and Qalam, the rest occur in combinations of two or more in the beginning of certain Surahs. The use of Muqatta'at was in vogue among the Arabs. They used them in their poems and conversation. An Arab poet says: Qulna Qifi Lana, Faqalat Qaf i.e. \"We said to her, 'Stop for us for a while' and she said that she was stopping\" the letter Qaf standing for Waqaftu (I am stopping). There is also a saying of the Holy Prophet as reported by Qurtubi to the effect: Kafa Bis-Saifi Sha, i.e. sufficient is sword as a remedy, Sha standing for Shafiyan. In the modern West and in its imitation in Eastern countries also abbreviations are very popular and widespread. Every dictionary provides a list of them. The Muqatta'at are abbreviations for specific attributes of God and the subject-matter of a Surah before which they are placed has a deep connection with the Divine attributes for which they stand. They have not been haphazardly placed at the beginning of different Surahs, nor are their letters combined arbitrarily. There runs a deep and far- reaching connection between their various sets, and the letters of which they are made also serve a definite purpose. The subject-matter of those Chapters which have no abbreviated letters is subordinate to, and follows the pattern of the subject-matter of the preceding Chapters possessing them. Of the meanings ascribed to Muqatta'at two seem to be more authentic: (a) That each letter has a definite numerical value (Jarir). The letters Alif Lam Mim have the numerical value 71 (Alif having the numerical value 1, Lam 30 and Mim 40). Thus the placing of Alif Lam Mim in the beginning of the Surah may signify that its subject-matter, i.e. the special consolidation of early Islam, would take 71 years to unfold itself completely. (b) They are, as stated above, abbreviations for specific attributes of God and the Surah before which Muqatta'at are placed is, in its subject-matter, connected with the Divine attributes for which the specific Muqatta'at stand. Thus the abbreviation Alif Lam Mim placed here and in the beginning of the 3rd, 29th, 30th, 31st and 32nd Chapters of the Qur'an signifies, \"I am Allah, the All-Knowing\" which has the authority of Ibn-e-'Abbas and Ibn-e-Mas'ud, Alif standing for Ana, Lam for Allah and Mim for A'lamu; or according to some Alif stands for Allah, Lam for Jibril and Mim for Muhammad, indicating that the central theme of the Surah is Divine knowledge which was given to Muhammad by Allah through Jibril. These abbreviated letters form an integral part of the Quranic revelation (Bukhari). (close)\n[b]Alif L\u0101m M\u012bm.[8A]\nb. 3:2; 7:2; 13:2; 29:2; 30:2; 31:2; 32:2. (close)\n8A. Commentary:\nAbbreviations like \u0627\u0644\u0645 (Alif Lam Mim) are known as \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0642\u0637\u0639\u0627\u062a (Al-Muqatta'at), i.e. letters used and pronounced separately. They occur in the beginning of not less than 28 Surahs, and are made up of one or more, to a maximum of five, letters of the Arabic alphabet. The letters out of which these abbreviations are constituted are thirteen in number: Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad, Ra, Kaf, Ha, Ya, 'Ain, Ta, Sin, Ha, Nun and Qaf. Of these Sad, Qaf and Nun occur alone in the beginning of one Surah only; the rest occur in combinations of two or more in the beginning of certain Surahs.\nOf the meanings ascribed to Muqatta'at two seem to be more authentic:\n1. that each letter has a definite numerical value. Thus \u0627 has the value of 1, \u0628 of 2, \u062c of 3, \u062f of 4, \u06be of 5, and so on (Aqrab). This system was known to the early Arabs and is mentioned in some well-known books of tradition (e.g. Jarir, 70 & 71). In numerical terms the letters \u0627\u0644\u0645 (Alif Lam Mim) could signify the length of time which the full manifestation of the inner significance of the Surah was meant to take.\nThe letters \u0627\u0644\u0645 have the numerical value of 71 (\u0627 being 1, \u0644 30 and \u0645 40). Thus the placing of Alif Lam Mim in the beginning of the Surah would mean that the subject matter of Al-Baqarah, i.e. the special consolidation of early Islam, would take 71 years to unfold itself completely. It is well known that this consolidation went on until the year 71 Nabawi (after claim of Prophethood), the year of the coming to power of Yazid, son of Mu'awiyah, when the history of Islam took a different turn.\n2. The second and much more important significance of the Muqatta'at is that they are abbreviations for specific attributes of God and a Surah before which the Muqatta'at are placed is, in its subject matter, connected with the divine attributes for which the Muqatta'at stand. The Arabs used such abbreviations. Says an Arab poet:\n\u0628\u0627\u0644\u062e\u06cc\u0631 \u062e\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u062a \u0648 \u0627\u0646 \u0634\u0631 \u0641\u0627\n\u0648\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u0631\u06cc\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0627 \u0627\u0646 \u062a\u0627\n\"I will certainly return good for good; but if you are bent on mischief, so will I. I do not contemplate mischief except that you yourself should desire it\" (Jarir). Here \u0641\u0627 and \u062a\u0627 stand for \u0641\u0634\u0631 and \u062a\u0634\u0627\u0621 respectively. Similarly, the letters \u0627\u0644\u0645 stand for \u0627\u0646\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0627\u0639\u0644\u0645 i.e. \"I am Allah, the All-Knowing\"\u2014a meaning which has the authority of Ibn 'Abbas, cousin of the Holy Prophet (Jarir). Thus Alif Lam Mim placed in the beginning of Al-Baqarah indicate that the central theme of this chapter is divineknowledge. God proclaims, as it were, that Muslims, weak in the beginning, will soon become strong and attain to knowledge, wisdom and power.\nThe system of using Muqatta'at was in vogue among the Arabs, who used them in their poems and conversations. In the modern West also the use of abbreviations has become very widespread. Nearly every dictionary provides a list of them along with their meanings (For fuller discussion of the Muqatta'at see Tafsir-e-Kabir by Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II, Qadian). (close)\n\u0627\u0674\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0627\u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1\u064f \u0627\u0674\u064e\u0639\u0652\u0644\u064e\u0645\u064f: \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u0633\u0628 \u0633\u06d2 \u0632\u06cc\u0627\u062f\u06c1 \u062c\u0627\u0646\u0646\u06d2\u0648\u0627\u0644\u0627 \u06c1\u0648\u06ba\u06d4\n\u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u0633\u0628 \u0633\u06d2 \u0632\u06cc\u0627\u062f\u06c1 \u062c\u0627\u0646\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0627 \u06c1\u0648\u06ba\u06d4\nAlif L\u0101m M\u012bm (Je suis All\u0101h, le Plus-Savant).\nAlif L\u00e2m M\u00eem.\n\u0630\u0670\u0644\u0650\u06a9\u064e \u0627\u0644\u06e1\u06a9\u0650\u062a\u0670\u0628\u064f \u0644\u064e\u0627 \u0631\u064e\u06cc\u06e1\u0628\u064e \u06da\u06d6\u06db \u0641\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u06c1\u0650 \u06da\u06db \u06c1\u064f\u062f\u064b\u06cc \u0644\u0650\u0651\u0644\u06e1\u0645\u064f\u062a\u064e\u0651\u0642\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u06d9\ufd3f\u06f3\ufd3e\n\u0630\u064e\u0670\u0644\u0650\u0643\u064e \u0671\u0644\u06e1\u0643\u0650\u062a\u064e\u0670\u0628\u064f \u0644\u064e\u0627 \u0631\u064e\u064a\u06e1\u0628\u064e\u06db \u0641\u0650\u064a\u0647\u0650\u06db \u0647\u064f\u062f\u0657\u0649 \u0644\u0650\u0651\u0644\u06e1\u0645\u064f\u062a\u064e\u0651\u0642\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u06dd\nThis is a perfect Book; there is no doubt in it; it is a guidance for the righteous,\nThis[17] is a perfect[17A] Book; [a]there is no doubt[18] in it; [b]it is a guidance for the righteous,[19]\n1717Aa18b19\n17. Dhalika is primarily used in the sense of \"that,\" but is also sometimes used in the sense of \"this\" (Aqrab). Sometimes it is used to indicate the high rank and dignity of the subject to which it refers. Here it signifies that the Book is, as it were, remote from the reader in eminence and loftiness of merit (Fath). (close)\n17A. The particle al, like the definite article \"the\" in the English language, is used to denote a definite object known to the reader. In this sense the word Dhalikal-Kitabu would mean, this is the Book, or this is that Book\u2014the promised Book. The particle is also used to denote the combination of all possible attributes in one individual. The expression thus means, this is a Book which possesses all those excellent qualities which a perfect book should possess. Or it means, this alone is a perfect Book. (close)\na. 2:24; 10:38; 32:3; 41:43. (close)\n18. Raib means, disquietude or uneasiness of mind; doubt; affliction or calamity and evil opinion; false charge or calumny (Aqrab). The verse does not mean that nobody will ever entertain any doubt about the Qur'an. It only means that its teaching is so rational that a right-thinking person, who approaches it with an unbiased mind, will find it a safe and sure guide. (close)\nb. 2:186; 3:139; 31:4. (close)\n19. Muttaqi is derived from Waqa which has the sense of guarding against that which harms or injures. Wiqayah means, a shield and Ittaqa bihi (Muttaqi is in the nominative case of Ittaqa) means, he took him or it as a shield (Lane). Ubayy bin K'ab, a distinguished Companion of the Holy Prophet, aptly explains Taqwa by likening Muttaqi to one who walks through thorny bushes, taking all possible care that his clothes are not caught in, and torn by, their branches (Kathir). A Muttaqi, therefore, is one who is ever on his guard against sins and takes God for his shield or shelter and is very regardful of his duty. The words, \"a guidance for the righteous,\" mean that guidance contained in the Qur'an knows no limit. It helps man to attain limitless stage of spiritual perfection and makes him more and more deserving of God's favours. (close)\nThis is a perfect Book; [a]there is no doubt in [b]it; it is a guidance for the righteous,[9]\n9. Important Words:\n\u0630\u0627\u0644\u0643 (this) is derived from \u0630\u0627 meaning \"this\". The word is primarily used in the sense of \"that,\" but it is also sometimes used in the sense of \"this\" (Aqrab). Here it is used to denote that the Book, as it were, is remote from the reader in eminence and loftiness of merit (Fath).\n\u0627\u0644 (perfect), like the definite article \"the\" in the English language, is used to denote a definite object known to the hearer or reader. In this sense the words \u0630\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 would mean, this is the Book, or this is that Book. The article \u0627\u0644 is also used to denote a species in its totality or the properties of an individual in their totality. It is also used to denote the combination of all attributes in one individual, as one says \u0632\u06cc\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062c\u0644 (Zaidu nir-rajulu), i.e. Zaid is a perfect specimen of humanity. In this sense the words \u0630\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 would mean, this is a Perfect Book, or this Book alone is Perfect.\n\u0631\u06cc\u0628 (doubt) is derived from \u0631\u0627\u0628. They say \u0631\u0627\u0628\u0647 meaning, he caused him uneasiness of mind, or he put him in doubt, etc. \u0631\u06cc\u0628 means: (1) disquietude or uneasiness of mind; (2) doubt; (3) affliction or calamity and (4) evil opinion, false charge or calumny (Aqrab). The word has been used in the Quran at different places; but in the sense of \"doubt\" it is always used in a bad sense. The Quran addresses disbelievers, saying: If you are in doubt as to what We have sent down to Our servant (2:24). Here \u0631\u06cc\u0628 means \"doubt\" about a truth. The Holy Prophet says: \"Give up that which creates \u0631\u06cc\u0628 (doubt) in your mind in favour of that which does not create any doubt\" (Musnad). Here again \u0631\u06cc\u0628 is used in a bad sense. So the word \u0631\u06cc\u0628 when used in the sense of \"doubt\", means such doubt as is based on prejudice or suspicion, and not the doubt which helps in research and the promotion of knowledge.\n\u06be\u062f\u06cc (guidance), as explained under 1:6, signifies: (1) calling to, or showing, the right path; (2) leading up to the right path; and (3) making one follow the right path till one reaches one's goal or destination.\n\u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc\u0646 (the righteous) is derived from \u0627\u062a\u0642\u06cc which is derived from \u0648\u0642\u06cc. They say \u0648\u0642\u0627\u06c1 i.e. he guarded or shielded him against evil, etc. \u0627\u062a\u0642\u06cc means, he was on his guard against, or he guarded himself against. \u0627\u062a\u0642\u06cc \u0628\u0647 means, he took it or him as a \u0648\u0642\u0627\u06cc\u0629(shield) for himself (Aqrab). In religious language the word means, to guard oneself against sins or harmful things; or to take God as a shield for protection against sins. It is wrong, therefore, to translate the word as \"fear\", unless it is for want of a better word. \u062a\u0642\u0648\u06cc or \u0627\u062a\u0642\u0627 or \u062a\u0642\u06cc means, ever guarding oneself against sins. Ubayy bin Ka'b, a distinguished Companion of the Holy Prophet, aptly explains \u062a\u0642\u0648\u06cc by likening \u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc to a man who walks through thorny bushes, taking every possible care that his clothes are not caught in, and torn by, the branches (Kathir). An Arab poet, Ibnul-Mu'tazz, has expressed the same idea in the following beautiful verses:\n\u062e\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u0646\u0648\u0628 \u0635\u063a\u06cc\u0631\u06be\u0627\n\u0648\u06a9\u0628\u06cc\u0631\u06be\u0627 \u0630\u0627\u06a9 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u06cc\n\u0648\u0627\u0635\u0646\u0639 \u06a9\u0645\u0627\u0674\u0634 \u0641\u0648\u0642 \u0627\u0631\n\u0636 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0648\u06a9 \u06cc\u062d\u0630\u0631 \u0645\u0627\u06cc\u0631\u06cc\n\u0644\u0627 \u062a\u062d\u0642\u0631\u0646 \u0635\u063a\u06cc\u0631\u0629\n\u0627\u0674\u0646 \u0627\u0674\u0644\u062c\u0628\u0627\u0674\u0644 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0635\u06cc\ni.e. \"Avoid all sins both small and great\u2014that is \u062a\u0642\u0648\u06cc. And act like one who walks through a land full of thorny bushes, cautious of all things that one sees. Do not think lightly of small sins, for even big mountains are made up of tiny pebbles\" (Kathir). A Muttaqi (righteous person), therefore, is one who is ever on his guard against sins and takes God for his shield or shelter.\nThe clause \u0630\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 (this is a perfect Book) placed in the beginning of the verse, is capable of several interpretations, the following two being more in harmony with the Quranic text:\n1. This is a Complete and Perfect Book, a Book which possesses all the excellences that a complete and perfect Book should possess.\n2. This is that Book or this is the Book (which you prayed for, or which was promised to you).\nCombined with the words \u0644\u0627 \u0631\u06cc\u0628 \u0641\u06cc\u0647 the full clause \u0630\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0644\u0627 \u0631\u06cc\u0628 \u0641\u06cc\u0647 would mean that this Book is perfect in all respects and contains nothing of \u0631\u06cc\u0628 in it, i.e. nothing that may make one's mind uneasy, nothing doubtful, nothing that may cause affliction, etc.\nA Book claiming to be revealed and demanding acceptance in the presence of other Books which also claim Divineorigin must at the very outset make such a claim to set at rest the natural question as to what was the necessity of a new Book when already so many Books existed in the world. So the Quran, in the very beginning, asserts that of all Books it alone is perfect, satisfying human needs in a perfect manner.\nThe above claim of the Quran is capable of detailed substantiation. Briefly, however, it is founded on the comprehensiveness of its teaching. The Quran deals clearly and adequately with all important questions such as God and His attributes; the origin, nature and purpose of man; and his life here and in the hereafter. It instructs man in the regulation of his relations with God and his fellow men in a manner unequalled by other religious Books. It instructs parents and children, husbands and wives and other relatives in their duties. It teaches about wills and inheritance and about the rights of neighbours, employers and employees, rulers and ruled. Above all, it tells how man should conduct himself in relation to God and His Prophets. The other Books either do not teach about these matters at all or their treatment of them is very fragmentary.\nThe Quran also gives a very systematic account of morals\u2014a subject on which the other Books say either little or nothing. In the Buddhist teaching we have a discussion on the basic instincts of man, but that discussion is very meagre compared with the account of the Quran. The Quran tells us about the roots of instincts, the ends which they serve and the use to which they may rightly be put. It also tells us how instincts become transformed into good or bad moral qualities, and how good qualities may be promoted and bad ones eradicated or discouraged. The Buddhist teaching inculcates the killing of desires but does not tell how bad desires arise and how they can be checked. The Quran teaches about the sources of sin and about the means of damming them.\nDealing with all these subjects in detail, the Quran is yet a book of very small dimensions, a fact which makes the reading, understanding and remembering of it a comparatively easy task. Thousands of persons know it completely by heart. The claim of the Quran that it is a perfect Book is, therefore, based on fact, and is appropriately made in the beginning of the text.\nThe second meaning of \u0630\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 (this is the Book) is that the prayer, Guide us in the right path, contained in Al-Fatihah meets with acceptance in this verse. Man prayed for guidance and guidance has come. \"This is the Book\" thus means, \"this is the Book which contains the guidance prayed for in Al-Fatihah.\" The expression may also mean, \"This is the Book which was promised to you.\"\nThe full meaning of \u0630\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 (this is a perfect Book) becomes clear when we read it together with the ensuing words \u0644\u0627\u0631\u06cc\u0628 \u0641\u06cc\u0647 \u06be\u062f\u06cc \u0644\u0644\u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc\u0646 i.e. this is a perfect Book; there is nothing of doubt in it; it is a guidance for the righteous. The first natural reaction to a new message is that of fear lest it should lead one into error or evil; the second reaction is the hope that the message may prove beneficial. Both these reactions\u2014the first negative and the second positive\u2014have thus been addressed in this verse. The Quran is a Perfect Book, because on the one hand there is nothing in the Quran to cause uneasiness or to create doubt or despair, and on the other, there is everything in it which can be a guidance for the God-fearing. Else\u00adwhere in the Quran we read, Aye! it is in the word of God (more literally, the remembrance of Allah) that hearts can find comfort (13:29.)\nThe words, there is no doubt in it, do not mean that nobody will ever entertain any doubt about the Quran. The Quran itself refers to objections that disbelievers raised against it. The words, therefore, only mean that the teaching of the Quran is so rational that a right-thinking person who approaches it impartially cannot but accept it as a guide. Wherry and other Christian critics, thinking that the words, there is no doubt in it, have only one meaning, have jumped to the con\u00adclusion that the Holy Prophet must have been afraid of the doubtful nature of the Quran. These critics forget that this verse was revealed at Medina after a large part of the Quran had already been revealed. Disbelievers had already raised many objections against it, and it was in reply to these objections that the words were revealed. The imputation of a guilty conscience is therefore utterly false. Assertion of truth and denial of doubt is common to other Scriptures as well. In the Proverbs we read, \"All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them\" (Pro. 8:\u200c8; see also Isa. 45:\u200c19; Tit. 3:\u200c8; 1. Tim. 4:\u200c9; Rev. 22:\u200c6).\nMoreover, the word \u0631\u06cc\u0628 does not mean a doubt which helps the investigation of truth but a doubt born of unfounded suspicion. Accordingly, the words \u0644\u0627\u0631\u06cc\u0628 \u0641\u06cc\u0647 would mean that there is nothing in the Quran which is based on doubt, i.e.everything is based on truth and certainty. The Quran asserts no doctrine or principle without also giving cogent reasons for it.\nThe word \u0631\u06cc\u0628 also means, \"affliction or calamity.\" The Quran contains nothing that may in any way cause misery or affliction to an individual or a people. It raised nations from the quagmire of moral degradation and social depravity to the highest pinnacles of worldly and spiritual glory. Little wonder they became convinced through experience that there was not a single commandment by acting upon which they could come to grief.\nThe word \u0631\u06cc\u0628 is also used in the sense of \"evil opinion or false charge or calumny\". In this sense the clause would mean that the Quran contains nothing that may, in any way, lay a false charge against anyone. Indeed, the Quran seeks to usurp the right of no one, and it slanders nobody\u2014neither God nor any revealed Book nor any Prophet.\nIt may seem strange, but is nevertheless true, that religious Books, such as the Vedas, the Zend-Avesta, the Old and the New Testament, ascribe to God imperfections of one kind or another. The Quran, on the contrary, declares Him free of all defects, the Most Perfect in Power, Majesty and Holiness. This point will be discussed in detail when we come to the relevant verses.\nThe Word of God has also come in for much criticism. There is the school which holds the view that revelation is man's own mental response to the problems on which he reflects. Thus, certainty of faith, which comes of the spokenWord of God, is denied to man, and there remains no distinction between man's own thoughts and those revealed by God. The Quran exonerates the revealed Books of different religions from the charge that they are not the spoken Word of God but only a reflection of peculiarly sensitive individuals' own thoughts (4:165). The Quran accepts the Divineorigin of the Books of other religions (3:4; 35:25).\nThe Prophets of God\u2014Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Krishna\u2014also have been calumniated unknowingly by their own followers and knowingly by others. The Quran declares them all to be innocent. Belief in the sinlessness of Prophets is among the cardinal beliefs of Islam (6:125). The Quran also proclaims their innocence individually (20:116; 53:38; 20:23; 20:88; 20:91; 2:103; 21:92; 2:88; 19:14).\nTo sum up, the words \u0644\u0627\u0631\u06cc\u0628 \u0641\u06cc\u0647 would mean: (1) that the Quran contains nothing that may make one's mind uneasy; (2) that there is nothing doubtful in it; every teaching and every statement made in it is supported by arguments; (3) that it contains nothing that may bring misery or affliction to an individual or a nation; And (4) that it contains no accusation against, or low opinion about, any object of faith.\nThe words \u06be\u062f\u06cc \u0644\u0644\u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc\u0646 (guidance for the righteous) bring before us the positive side of the Quran. The reader is assured that the Quran contains not only nothing negative, but also everything positive of the highest order. As explained above, guidance has three stages: (1) showing the right path; (2) leading one to it; and (3) helping one follow it till reaching the goal. The words, guidance for the righteous, therefore, mean that guidance contained in the Quran is limitless, helping man to higher and still higher stages of perfection and making him more and more deserving of the favours of God. The ways and means by which a devotee attains to nearness to his Creator are infinite and unfold themselves one after another without end (29:70). The process of the spiritual advance of man does not stop with death but continues in the life to come (66:9),\nThe objection has been raised that, if the Quran guides only the righteous, what about those who have not attained righteousness? The objection is groundless. The Quran abounds in verses which prove that it is a guidance not only for the righteous but for all seekers, to whatever stage they may have attained (2:22; 2:186; 3:139; 17:42; 18:55; 30:59). (close)\n\u06cc\u06c1 \"\u0648\u06c1\" \u06a9\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u06c1\u06d2\u06d4 \u0627\u0633 \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u06a9\u0648\u0626\u06cc \u0634\u06a9 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4 \u06c1\u062f\u0627\u06cc\u062a \u062f\u06cc\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u06cc \u06c1\u06d2 \u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc\u0648\u06ba \u06a9\u0648\u06d4\n\u06cc\u06c1\u06cc \u06a9\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u06a9\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u06c1\u06d2' \u0627\u0633 (\u0627\u0645\u0631) \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u06a9\u0648\u0626\u06cc \u0634\u06a9 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba' \u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc\u0648\u06ba \u06a9\u0648 \u06c1\u062f\u0627\u06cc\u062a \u062f\u06cc\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u06cc \u06c1\u06d2\u06d4\nCeci est le Livre parfait, dans lequel il n'y a pas de doute. C'est une direction pour les gens pieux,\n\u00c9ste es un Libro perfecto; no hay duda en \u00e9l; es una gu\u00eda para los justos,\nDies ist ein vollkommenes Buch; es ist kein Zweifel darin: eine Richtschnur f\u00fcr die Rechtschaffenen;\n\u0627\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u06cc\u064f\u0624\u06e1\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u06e1\u063a\u064e\u06cc\u06e1\u0628\u0650 \u0648\u064e \u06cc\u064f\u0642\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0645\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0635\u064e\u0651\u0644\u0670\u0648\u06c3\u064e \u0648\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0651\u0627 \u0631\u064e\u0632\u064e\u0642\u06e1\u0646\u0670\u06c1\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u06cc\u064f\u0646\u06e1\u0641\u0650\u0642\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u06d9\ufd3f\u06f4\ufd3e\n\u0671\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u064a\u064f\u0624\u06e1\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0628\u0650\u0671\u0644\u06e1\u063a\u064e\u064a\u06e1\u0628\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u064a\u064f\u0642\u0650\u064a\u0645\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0671\u0644\u0635\u064e\u0651\u0644\u064e\u0648\u0670\u0629\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0645\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0651\u0627 \u0631\u064e\u0632\u064e\u0642\u06e1\u0646\u064e\u0670\u0647\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u064a\u064f\u0646\u0641\u0650\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u06dd\nWho believe in the unseen and observe Prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them;\nWho believe in [c]the unseen[20] and [d]observe Prayer[21] and [a]spend out of what We have provided[22] for them;\nc20d21a22\nc. 5:95; 6:104; 21:50; 35:19; 36:12; 50:34; 57:26; 67:13. (close)\n20. Al-Ghaib means anything hidden or invisible; anything unseen, absent or far away (Aqrab). God, the angels and the Last Day are all al-Ghaib. Moreover, the word as used in the Qur'an does not mean imaginary and unreal things, but real and verified things, though unseen (32:7; 49:19). It is, therefore, wrong to suppose, as some Western critics of the Qur'an do, that Islam forces upon its followers some mysteries of Faith and invites them to believe in them blindly. The word signifies things which, though beyond the comprehension of human senses, can nevertheless be proved by reason or experience. The supersensible need not necessarily be irrational. Nothing of \"the unseen\" in which a Muslim is called upon to believe is outside the scope of reason. There are many things in the world which, though unseen, are yet proved to exist by invincible arguments, and nobody can deny their existence. (close)\nd. 2:44, 84; 111; 4:78; 5:56; 8:4; 9:71; 20:15; 27:4; 30:32; 31:5; 73:21. (close)\n21. The clause, \"they observe Prayer,\" means, they perform their Prayers with all the prescribed conditions; Aqama meaning, he kept the thing or the affair in a right state (Lane). Worship is the outer expression of the inner relationship of man to God. Moreover, God's favours surround the body as well as the soul. So, perfect worship is that in which body and soul both play their part. Without the two the true spirit of worship cannot be preserved, for though adoration by the heart is the substance and adoration by the body only the shell, yet the substance cannot be preserved without the shell. If the shell is destroyed, the substance is bound to meet with a similar fate. (close)\na. 2:196, 255, 263, 268; 3:93; 8:4; 9:34; 13:23; 14:32; 22:36; 28:55; 32:17; 42:39. (close)\n22. Rizq means, anything bestowed by God on man, whether material or otherwise (Mufradat). The verse lays down three directions and describes three stages for the spiritual well-being of man: (1) He should believe in the truths which are hidden from his eyes and are beyond his physical senses, for it is such a belief which shows that he is possessed of the right sort of Taqwa or righteousness. (2) When he reflects on the creation of the universe and the marvellous order and design which exist in it and when, as a result of this reflection, he becomes convinced of the existence of the Creator, an irresistible longing to have a real and true union with Him takes hold of him. This finds consummation in the observance of Prayer. (3) Lastly, when the believer succeeds in establishing a living contact with his Creator, he feels an inward urge to serve his fellow-beings. (close)\nWho believe in [a]the unseen and [b]observe Prayer, and [c]spend out of what We have provided for them;[10]\na. 5:95; 6:104; 21:50; 35:19; 36:12; 50:34; 57:26; 67:13. (close)\nb. 2:44, 84, 111, 278; 5:56; 8:4; 9:71; 20:15; 27:4; 30:32; 31:5; 73:21. (close)\nc. 2:196, 255, 263, 268; 3:93; 8:4; 9:34; 13:23; 14:32; 22:36; 28:55; 32:17; 42:39. (close)\n10. Important Words:\n\u06cc\u0624\u0645\u0646\u0648\u0646 (who believe) is derived from \u0627\u0645\u0646 i.e. he felt safe, or he placed his trust in. \u0622\u0645\u0646\u0647 means, he rendered him safe; he trusted him. \u0622\u0645\u0646 \u0628\u0647 means, he believed him to be true, or he believed in him, or he trusted in him. \u0622\u0645\u0646 \u0628\u0647 means, he became submissive and obedient to him (Aqrab). Thus the word \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 (belief) is the opposite of \u0643\u0641\u0631 (disbelief). It is particularly used with reference to God and other fundamental objects of faith.\n\u0627\u0644\u063a\u06cc\u0628 (the unseen) is derived from \u063a\u0627\u0628 i.e. he or it became screened or invisible; he went far away and became separated. Thus \u063a\u06cc\u0628 means, anything unseen, anything invisible or hidden, anything absent or far away (Aqrab & Lane). All objects of faith\u2014God, the Angels, the Books, the Prophets and the Last Day\u2014are unseen. A revealed Book is visible as a book, but the fact that it is a revealed Book is unseen. Similarly, we see the Prophet as a human being, but the fact that he has a mission from God remains unseen. The word \u063a\u06cc\u0628 however, is not confined to objects of faith alone.\n\u06cc\u0642\u06cc\u0645\u0648\u0646 (observe) is derived from \u0627\u0642\u0627\u0645. They say \u0627\u0642\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u06cc\u0621 meaning, he set the thing up, or he set the thing erect or upright. \u0627\u0642\u0627\u0645again is derived from \u0642\u0627\u0645 meaning, he stood erect, or he stood up, or he stood still. \u0627\u0642\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0648\u0629 means, he performed his Prayers regularly (Aqrab). \u0627\u0642\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0648\u0629 also means, he performed Prayers in accordance with all the prescribed conditions (Mufradat).\n\u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0648\u0629 (Prayer) is derived from \u0635\u0644\u06cc i.e. he prayed. The word gives different meanings with reference to different objects.When used about God, it means, He showed mercy to, or bestowed praise on; used about the angels, it means, they asked forgiveness for men, etc.; and used about man it means, he prayed. In Islam the word \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0648\u0629 has generally come to mean the prescribed form of Prayer (Aqrab).\n\u0631\u0632\u0642\u0646\u0627\u06be\u0645 (We have provided for them) is from \u0631\u0632\u0642 i.e. he provided or he gave. \u0631\u0632\u0642 means, a thing whereby one profits, or from which one derives an advantage; any article of food; any means of sustenance; anything bestowed by God on man, material or otherwise (Aqrab & Mufradat).\n\u06cc\u0646\u0641\u0642\u0648\u0646 (they spend) is derived from \u0646\u0641\u0642. They say \u0646\u0641\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u06cc\u0621 i.e. the thing became spent up or reduced. \u0627\u0646\u0641\u0642 means, he spent freely and constantly so as to reduce his wealth (Aqrab & Mufradat).\nIn this verse three important qualities of a \u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc (muttaqi) have been mentioned: (1) a believer in the unseen; (2) steadfast in Prayer; and (3) spending out of what God has provided for him. Of these the first relates to faith or belief which must always come first; the other two relate to actions. Belief in the unseen does not mean blind belief or belief in things which cannot be grasped or understood. Nothing can be farther from the spirit of the Quran than to imagine that it demands from Muslims belief which reason and understanding do not support. The Quran strongly denounces such beliefs. True faith, according to it, is that which is supported by reason and argument (53:23; 46:5; 30:36; 6:149, 150; 25:74).\nMoreover, the word \u063a\u06cc\u0628 used in the Quran does not mean, as assumed by some hostile critics, imaginary and unreal things, but real and verified things, though unseen (49:19; 32:7). It is, therefore, wrong to suppose, as Wherry has done in his Commentary, that Islam forces upon its followers some mysteries of faith and invites them to believe in them blindly. It is Christianity which forces on its followers mysteries like Trinity in Unity and the Sonship of Jesus, completely beyond human understanding and human reason.\nThe word \u063a\u06cc\u0628 as stated above, means things which, though beyond the comprehension of human senses, can nevertheless be proved by reason or experience. The supersensible need not necessarily be irrational. Nothing of \"the unseen\" which a Muslim is called upon to believe is outside the scope of reason. There are many things in the world which, though unseen, are yet proved to exist by invincible arguments, and nobody can deny their existence. God cannot be perceived by the physical senses nor, for that matter, can angels or life after death. But can the existence of God and the angels be denied because of this? Can life after death be denied because it remains unseen?\nThe words, who believe in the unseen, may also mean that the Faithful discharge their duties and perform their acts of worship without a bargaining spirit. They are above such bargaining. They suffer hardships, undergo tribulations and make sacrifices not for the sake of any visible or immediate reward, but out of a selfless desire to serve the large and, as it were, invisible cause of community or country or humanity at large. This is all believing in the unseen.\nAnother meaning of the word \u063a\u06cc\u0628 as given above, is the state of being hidden from the public eye. In this sense, the expression would mean that the faith of a true believer is ever firm and steadfast, whether he is in the company of other believers or is alone. The faith that needs constant watching and exhortation is not worth much. True and real faith has roots deep in the heart of the Faithful and lives by itself. It does not fail or falter when a Muslim is deprived of the company of other Muslims or even when surrounded by disbelievers. Such faith is described in 21:50 and 57:26.\nThe second quality of \u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc relates to actions. According to the different meanings of \u0627\u0642\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0648\u0629 explained above, the expression, observe Prayer, would mean: 1. That a Muslim should observe Prayers throughout his life, keeping constant vigil over them. In fact, irregular Prayers are no prayers (70:35). 2. That he should say Prayers regularly at their appointed hours and in accordance with the rules prescrib\u00aded for them (4:104). 3. That he should say his Prayers in a true spirit and not allow them to be spoilt by wandering thoughts which may disturb and distract his attention (23:3). 4. That he should say his Prayers in congregation (2:44). 5. That he should also exhort others to say their Prayers regularly and thus help to spread the habit (20:133).\nPrayer is not a form of bargaining with God, in which a Muslim looks for something in return. Islam strongly repudiates this idea and describes Prayers as a purifying agent for man himself. Through worship man attains certainty of knowledge which dispels doubt and helps to establish a real and living contact between him and his Creator.\nThere is a tendency to condemn institutional worship as useless and ceremonial. Worship, it is said, is an attitude of the mind and should be confined strictly to it. There is no doubt that attitudes belong to the mind and if the mind is corrupt, humility of the body can be of no avail. A person whose heart is unimpressed by the Majesty and Glory of God and who yet sings His praise is a hypocrite; but so also is the person who claims to accept a certain truth, yet his body and behaviour show no signs of it. When a person is in love, his face betrays a peculiar emotion when the beloved appears before him. Parents fondle and kiss their children and friends express their affection by visible movements. These demonstrations of affection are spontaneous, not assumed. It is, therefore, impossible that a man should love God and entertain a true longing for Him, but should not seek to express this love or longing by some outward acts; and this is the secret of all worship. Worship is the outer expression of the inner relationship of man with God. Moreover, God's favours surround the body as well as the soul. Thus, perfect worship is only that in which body and soul both play their part. Without the two the true spirit of worship cannot be preserved, for though adoration by the heart is the substance and adoration by the body only the shell, yet the substance cannot be preserved without the shell. If the shell is destroyed, the substance is bound to meet with a similar fate.\nBesides other advantages, Prayers in congregation, as Muslim Prayers always are, foster the spirit of brotherhood. Five times a day believers, both rich and poor, have to stand unceremoniously together, shoulder to shoulder, and offer their humble supplications to God. The busiest and the biggest of them have to find the time and join in this united act of worship. Such a fellowship cannot but wholesomely impact the worshippers' hearts.\nIncidentally, it may also be remarked that the outward form of the Islamic Prayer includes all the poses of the body expressive of humility, i.e. standing with folded arms, bowing, prostrating, and sitting with folded knees, each pose being allotted a corresponding prayer. Besides the prescribed Prayers, one is free to pray in one's own words and one's own way.\nThe expression, they spend out of what We have provided for them, includes not only spending in the cause of Allah but also spending for the welfare of the individual and the community. The words used here are used in their widest possible sense. Wealth, power, influence, physical and intellectual capacities\u2014in short, all that one may receive from God\u2014must be devoted, partly at least, to the well-being of others.\nThe beneficiaries of this injunction are not confined to the poor alone. All who have claims over the belongings of a Muslim are entitled to a share in them. The injunction applies to a mother who gives suck to her child, to a father who spends upon the education and upbringing of his children, to a husband who provides for the needs of his wife, and to the children who serve their parents. The commandment is aptly explained in the famous hadith: \"Your self has a claim upon you, and your Lord has a claim upon you, and your guest has a claim upon you, and your family has a claim upon you. So you should give to everyone his due\" (Tirmidhi).\nThe verse, in short, lays down three directions and describes three stages for the spiritual well-being of man:\n1. A Muslim should believe in the truths which are hidden from his eyes and beyond his physical senses, for it is such a belief that proves he is possessed of the right sort of \u062a\u0642\u0648\u06cc or righteousness. An intelligent person does not remain satisfied with natural phenomena as he sees them, but looks deeper into their source and origin; and it is this delving into the depths of the unknown that leads to great knowledge and great achievement. All this comes under \"belief in the unseen\" which has special reference to God, Who is the source of all creation.\n2. When the believer reflects on the creation of the universe and the marvellous order and design which exists in it and when, as a result of this reflection, he becomes convinced of the existence of the Creator, an irresistible longing to have a real and true union with Him takes hold of him. This finds consummation in \u0627\u0642\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0644\u0648\u0629 or observance of Prayer.\n3. Lastly, when the believer succeeds in establishing a living contact with his Creator, he feels an inward urge to serve his fellow beings who, being the creatures of his own Lord and Master, are members of the large family to which he himself belongs. So, in order to meet their needs and requirements, he spends willingly and freely out of the wealth, knowledge or anything else which God has given him. (close)\n\u062c\u0648 \u0644\u0648\u06af \u063a\u06cc\u0628 \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0646\u0645\u0627\u0632 \u0642\u0627\u0626\u0645 \u06a9\u0631\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u062c\u0648 \u06a9\u0686\u06be \u06c1\u0645 \u0627\u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0631\u0632\u0642 \u062f\u06cc\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0633 \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u0633\u06d2 \u062e\u0631\u0686 \u06a9\u0631\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4\n\u062c\u0648 \u063a\u06cc\u0628 \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u062a\u06d2 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0646\u0645\u0627\u0632 \u06a9\u0648 \u0642\u0627\u0626\u0645 \u0631\u06a9\u06be\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u062c\u0648 (\u06a9\u0686\u06be) \u06c1\u0645 \u0646\u06d2 \u0627\u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062f\u06cc\u0627 \u06c1\u06d2 \u0627\u0633 \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u0633\u06d2 \u062e\u0631\u0686 \u06a9\u0631\u062a\u06d2 \u0631\u06c1\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4\nQui croient \u00e0 l'invisible, qui observent la Pri\u00e8re, et qui d\u00e9pensent de ces dons et richesses que Nous leur avons accord\u00e9s ;\nQuienes creen en lo invisible y observan la Oraci\u00f3n y gastan de lo que les hemos provisto;\ndie da glauben an das Ungesehene und das Gebet verrichten und spenden von dem, was Wir ihnen gegeben haben;\n\u0648\u064e \u0627\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u06cc\u064f\u0624\u06e1\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0628\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0627\u06e4 \u0627\u064f\u0646\u06e1\u0632\u0650\u0644\u064e \u0627\u0650\u0644\u064e\u06cc\u06e1\u06a9\u064e \u0648\u064e \u0645\u064e\u0627\u06e4 \u0627\u064f\u0646\u06e1\u0632\u0650\u0644\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646\u06e1 \u0642\u064e\u0628\u06e1\u0644\u0650\u06a9\u064e \u06da \u0648\u064e \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u06e1\u0627\u0670\u062e\u0650\u0631\u064e\u06c3\u0650 \u06c1\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u06cc\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0642\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0615\ufd3f\u06f5\ufd3e\n\u0648\u064e\u0671\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u064a\u064f\u0624\u06e1\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0628\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0622 \u0623\u064f\u0646\u0632\u0650\u0644\u064e \u0625\u0650\u0644\u064e\u064a\u06e1\u0643\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0622 \u0623\u064f\u0646\u0632\u0650\u0644\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0642\u064e\u0628\u06e1\u0644\u0650\u0643\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0628\u0650\u0671\u0644\u06e1\u0623\u0653\u062e\u0650\u0631\u064e\u0629\u0650 \u0647\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u064a\u064f\u0648\u0642\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u06dd\nAnd who believe in that which has been revealed to thee, and that which was revealed before thee, and they have firm faith in what is yet to come.\nAnd who believe in that which has been [b]revealed to thee[23] and that which was revealed before thee[24] and they have firm faith in the [a]Hereafter.[25]\nb. 2:137, 286; 3:200; 4:61, 137, 163; 5:60. (close)\n23. Belief in the Holy Prophet is the central point so far as belief in the Prophets of God is concerned (2:286; 4:66, 4:137). (close)\n24. Islam makes it obligatory upon its followers to believe in the Divine origin of the teachings of all previous Prophets because God sent His Messengers to all peoples (13:8; 35:25). (close)\na. 6:93; 27:4; 31:5. (close)\n25. Al-Akhirah means, (a) the Last Abode, i.e. the next life; (b) it may also signify the revelation which is to follow. This second meaning of the word finds further exposition in 62:3, 4 where the Qur'an speaks of two advents of the Holy Prophet. His first advent took place among the Arabs in the 7th century of the Christian era when the Qur'an was revealed to him; and his second advent was to take place in the Latter Days in the person of one of his followers. This prophecy found its fulfilment in the person of Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement. (close)\nAnd who believe in that which has been [a]revealed to thee, and that which was revealed before thee, and they have firm faith in [b]what is yet to come.[11]\na. 2:137, 286; 3:200; 4:61, 137, 163; 5:60. (close)\nb. 4:70; 7:36; 61:7; 62:4. (close)\n\u0627\u0646\u0632\u0644 (has been revealed) is derived from \u0646\u0632\u0644 which means, he descended; or he came down. The literal meaning of the transitive form \u0627\u0646\u0632\u0644 would, therefore, be, he sent down, or he caused to descend. Figuratively, however, the word has come to be used about anything bestowed by God on man. God being high, everything that comes from Him may be said to descend from above. When used with reference to God's Word, \u0627\u0646\u0632\u0644 would mean, He revealed. Thus we say, \u0627\u0646\u0632\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0643\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0647 in the sense of \u0627\u0648\u062d\u06cc i.e. God revealed His word (Aqrab).\n\u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631\u0629 (what is yet to come) is derived from \u0627\u062e\u0631. They say \u0627\u062e\u0631\u06c1 i.e. he put it back; he put it behind; he postponed it. The word \u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631\u0629 which is the feminine of \u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631 i.e. the last one or the latter one, is used as an epithet or an adjective opposed to \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0648\u0644 i.e. the first one. \u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631 with a different vowel-point in the central letter, means, \"the other\" or \"another\" (Aqrab). The object which the adjective \u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631\u0629 in the verse qualifies is understood, most commentators taking it to be \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u0631, the full expression thus being \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631\u0629 (the last abode). The context, however, shows that here the word understood is not \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u0631but \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0633\u0627\u0644\u0629 i.e. \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0633\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631\u0629 (the message or revelation which is to come). The word; \u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631\u0629 has, therefore, been rightly translated here as \"that (i.e. the revelation) which is yet to come\".\n\u06cc\u0648\u0642\u0646\u0648\u0646 (they have firm faith) is derived from \u0627\u06cc\u0642\u0646 which again is derived from \u06cc\u0642\u0646 i.e. it became clear and established. \u0627\u06cc\u0642\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0631 means, he knew the matter well and made sure of it; he was certain about it. \u06cc\u0642\u06cc\u0646 means, certainty; becoming sure of a thing beyond doubt; anything sure and established (Aqrab).\nThis verse describes three more qualities of a \u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc i.e. a righteous person. In the previous verse mention was made of faith in general. But as a true believer seeks to know the details of \u062a\u0642\u0648\u06cc (righteousness) in order to perfect his faith, he is told here that for its consummation he must believe in the Holy Prophet and through him in the previous Prophets, and must at the same time believe in \"what is yet to come\". Thus, belief in the Holy Prophet is the central point so far as belief in the Prophets of God is concerned, and no person can become \u0645\u062a\u0642\u06cc (a truly righteous person) unless he believes in the Holy Prophet.\nFrom the words, that which has been revealed to thee, quite an erroneous inference is some\u00adtimes drawn to the effect that it is belief in the Quran and not belief in the Holy Prophet that is enjoined. This view the Quran forcefully contradicts. Besides making it clear in several places that belief in the Prophet is as essential as belief in the Book (e.g.2:286; 4:66; 4:137), the Quran makes the point clear in another way also. At one place we have, He it is Who has sent down to you the Book clearly explained (6:115), and at another, and in like manner have We sent down the Book to thee(O Prophet) (29:48). The fact that God sometimes speaks of the Quran as having been sent to the people and sometimes to the Prophet is not without point. In fact, the difference in construction is full of meaning; for where the Quran is spoken of as having been sent to the people, the intention is to point out that the Quranic teaching is suitable and appropriate for them and is meant for their good; and where the Quran is spoken of as having been sent to the Prophet, the intention is to emphasize that he is not merely the bearer of a message but is the person best fitted to explain the message he has brought and to become an exemplar of the teaching contained in the message. Elsewhere God says, Allah knows best where to place His message (6:125), which is a clear proof of the fact that a Prophet is not merely the bearer of a message, but is selected by God for a higher purpose, i.e. to become a model for his followers; otherwise, anybody can be sent as a bearer of a message and the question of special selection does not arise.\nThe words, and that which was revealed before thee, illustrate a special characteristic of Islam, i.e. it not only recognizes the truth of all previous Prophets but makes it obligatory upon its followers to believe in the Divine origin of the teachings they brought with them (see also 13:8; 35:25). But it must be remembered that Islam is a complete and final teaching which has superseded all previous teachings. Belief in them, therefore, is only in the sense of reverence for them and not in the sense that a Muslim should act upon them. That is why in the verse under comment God mentions the earlier Scriptures after the Quran and not before it, as the chronological order required, so that the attention of the believers may be drawn to the fact that belief in the previous books is based on the Quran and is not independent of it.\nAccording to the Quran (35:25), Prophets have appeared among all peoples and all nations and we are commanded to believe in all previous revelations, and thus an effective step has been taken to promote peace and harmony among the followers of different religions. The verse applies to no particular Book. Any earlier Book which claims Divine origin and has been accepted for a long time and by a large section of mankind to be the Word of God falls within the meaning of this verse.\nThe word \u0627\u0644\u0622\u062e\u0631\u0629 (what is yet to come) means either \"the message or revelation which is to follow\" or \"the Last Abode\", i.e. the next life. Of these two meanings the first is more applicable here; for it fits in with the other two parts of the verse which speak of God's revelations. In this connection it is also noteworthy that while the word \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 has been used in reference to the past and present revelations, the word \u06cc\u0642\u06cc\u0646 has been used in reference to the future ones. This is because \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 relates to something definite and determined, and as the future revelation was not yet definite and determined at the time when the verse was revealed, so the word \u06cc\u0642\u06cc\u0646 was used for it.\nThe subject of the latter part of this verse, referred to in the words, what is yet to come, finds further exposition in 62:3, 4 where the Quran speaks of two advents of the Holy Prophet. His first advent took place among the Arabs in the 7th century of the Christian era when the Quran was revealed to him; and his second advent was to take place in the latter days of the world in the person of one of his followers who was to come in his spirit and power. This prophecy found its fulfilment in the person of Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, in whose advent have been fulfilled also the prophecies of other Prophets regarding the appearance of a World-Messenger in the Latter Days. (close)\n\u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u06c1 \u0644\u0648\u06af \u062c\u0648 \u0627\u0633 \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062c\u0648 \u062a\u06cc\u0631\u06cc \u0637\u0631\u0641 \u0627\u064f\u062a\u0627\u0631\u0627 \u06af\u06cc\u0627 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0633 \u067e\u0631 \u0628\u06be\u06cc \u062c\u0648 \u062a\u062c\u06be \u0633\u06d2 \u067e\u06c1\u0644\u06d2 \u0627\u064f\u062a\u0627\u0631\u0627 \u06af\u06cc\u0627 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u06c1 \u0622\u062e\u0631\u062a \u067e\u0631 \u06cc\u0642\u06cc\u0646 \u0631\u06a9\u06be\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4\n\u0627\u0648\u0631 \u062c\u0648 \u062a\u062c\u06be \u067e\u0631 \u0646\u0627\u0632\u0644 \u06a9\u06cc\u0627 \u06af\u06cc\u0627 \u06c1\u06d2 \u06cc\u0627 \u062c\u0648 \u062a\u062c\u06be \u0633\u06d2 \u067e\u06c1\u0644\u06d2 \u0646\u0627\u0632\u0644 \u06a9\u06cc\u0627 \u06af\u06cc\u0627 \u062a\u06be\u0627 \u0627\u0633 \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0648\u0631\u0622\u0626\u0646\u062f\u06c1 \u06c1\u0648\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u06cc (\u0645\u0648\u0639\u0648\u062f \u0628\u0627\u062a\u0648\u06ba) \u067e\u0631( \u0628\u06be\u06cc ) \u06cc\u0642\u06cc\u0646 \u0631\u06a9\u06be\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4\nEt qui croient \u00e0 ce qui t'a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9, et \u00e0 ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 avant ton av\u00e8nement, et qui croient fermement \u00e0 ce qui est encore \u00e0 venir.\nY creen en lo que te ha sido revelado y en lo que fue revelado con anterioridad a ti y tienen una fe firme en lo que a\u00fan est\u00e1 por venir.\nund die glauben an das, was dir offenbart worden, und an das, was vor dir offenbart ward, und fest auf das bauen, was kommen wird.\n\u0627\u064f\u0648\u0644\u0670\u0653\u0626\u0650\u06a9\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0644\u0670\u06cc \u06c1\u064f\u062f\u064b\u06cc \u0645\u0650\u0651\u0646\u06e1 \u0631\u064e\u0651\u0628\u0650\u0651\u06c1\u0650\u0645\u06e1 \u066d \u0648\u064e \u0627\u064f\u0648\u0644\u0670\u0653\u0626\u0650\u06a9\u064e \u06c1\u064f\u0645\u064f \u0627\u0644\u06e1\u0645\u064f\u0641\u06e1\u0644\u0650\u062d\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \ufd3f\u06f6\ufd3e\n\u0623\u064f\u0648\u0652\u0644\u064e\u0670\u0653\u0626\u0650\u0643\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0649\u0670 \u0647\u064f\u062f\u0657\u0649 \u0645\u0650\u0651\u0646 \u0631\u064e\u0651\u0628\u0650\u0651\u0647\u0650\u0645\u06e1\u06d6 \u0648\u064e\u0623\u064f\u0648\u0652\u0644\u064e\u0670\u0653\u0626\u0650\u0643\u064e \u0647\u064f\u0645\u064f \u0671\u0644\u06e1\u0645\u064f\u0641\u06e1\u0644\u0650\u062d\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u06dd\nIt is they who follow the guidance of their Lord and it is they who shall prosper.\nIt is they who [b]follow the guidance from their Lord and it is they [c]who shall prosper.\nb. 2:158; 31:6. (close)\nc. 23:2; 28:68; 31:6; 87:15; 91:10. (close)\nIt is they who [a]follow the guidance of their Lord and it is they [b]who shall prosper.[12]\na. 2:158; 31:6. (close)\nb. 23:2; 28:68; 87:15; 91:10. (close)\n\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0641\u0644\u062d\u0648\u0646 (those who shall prosper) is derived from \u0627\u0641\u0644\u062d i.e. he was successful and attained what he desired or sought. When we say \u0627\u0641\u0644\u062d \u0632\u06cc\u062f we mean, Zaid reaped the fruits of his labour and his endeavours proved successful (Aqrab). Thus \u0645\u0641\u0644\u062d is one who is successful and attains what he desires and reaps the fruits of his labour. The word is also used about one who acquires any substantial good, be it material or spiritual, the word \u0641\u0644\u0627\u062d being used for such success or gain as others may envy (Taj).\nThe word \u0639\u0644\u06cc in the clause \u0627\u0648\u0644\u0626\u0643 \u0639\u0644\u06cc \u06be\u062f\u06cc is significant. If the idea had been of simple guidance, the Quran could easily have used the words \u0627\u0648\u0644\u0626\u0643 \u06be\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u06be\u062a\u062f\u0648\u0646. But it leaves the common construction and uses the words \u0639\u0644\u06cc \u06be\u062f\u06cc which literally mean, they are on guidance or, in other words, they are mounted on guidance. Guidance becomes, as it were, a riding animal for them which they conveniently use in their march towards God. The construction is not peculiar to the Quran. The Arabs say of a person steeped in ignorance \u062c\u0639\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u063a\u0648\u0627\u06cc\u0629 \u0645\u0631\u0643\u0628\u0627 i.e. such a one has made error and ignorance a riding beast for himself (Kashshaf).\nThe verse explains that when a man has fulfilled all the conditions of \u062a\u0642\u0648\u06cc (righteousness) in respect of both belief and actions, then he may be sure not only of being rightly guided but also of being a master of guidance whose success in this life as well as in the life to come is assured. The words \u0639\u0644\u06cc \u06be\u062f\u06cc (lit. on guidance) also hint that as the believer prayed for guidance in the opening chapter of the Quran, so guidance of the highest order has been provided for him\u2014a guidance on which he can ride comfortably and speed on happily towards his Lord and Master. (close)\n\u06cc\u06c1\u06cc \u0648\u06c1 \u0644\u0648\u06af \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062c\u0648 \u0627\u067e\u0646\u06d2 \u0631\u0628\u0651 \u06a9\u06cc \u0637\u0631\u0641 \u0633\u06d2 \u06c1\u062f\u0627\u06cc\u062a \u067e\u0631 \u0642\u0627\u0626\u0645 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u06cc\u06c1\u06cc \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0648\u06c1 \u062c\u0648 \u0641\u0644\u0627\u062d \u067e\u0627\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4\n\u06cc\u06c1 \u0644\u0648\u06af (\u06cc\u0642\u06cc\u0646\u0627\u064b) \u0627\u0633 \u06c1\u062f\u0627\u06cc\u062a \u067e\u0631 (\u0642\u0627\u0626\u0645) \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062c\u0648 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0631\u0628 \u06a9\u06cc \u0637\u0631\u0641 \u0633\u06d2 (\u0622\u0626\u06cc) \u06c1\u06d2 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u06cc\u06c1\u06cc \u0644\u0648\u06af \u06a9\u0627\u0645\u06cc\u0627\u0628 \u06c1\u0648\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4\nCeux-l\u00e0 suivent la voie indiqu\u00e9e par leur Seigneur et ce sont eux qui prosp\u00e9reront.\nSon los que siguen la gu\u00eda de su Se\u00f1or y son los que alcanzar\u00e1n la felicidad.\nSie sind es, die der F\u00fchrung ihres Herrn folgen, und sie werden Erfolg haben.\n\u0627\u0650\u0646\u064e\u0651 \u0627\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u06a9\u064e\u0641\u064e\u0631\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0627 \u0633\u064e\u0648\u064e\u0622\u0621\u064c \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u06cc\u06e1\u06c1\u0650\u0645\u06e1 \u0621\u064e\u0627\u064e\u0646\u06e1\u0630\u064e\u0631\u06e1\u062a\u064e\u06c1\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0627\u064e\u0645\u06e1 \u0644\u064e\u0645\u06e1 \u062a\u064f\u0646\u06e1\u0630\u0650\u0631\u06e1\u06c1\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0644\u064e\u0627 \u06cc\u064f\u0624\u06e1\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \ufd3f\u06f7\ufd3e\n\u0625\u0650\u0646\u064e\u0651 \u0671\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u0643\u064e\u0641\u064e\u0631\u064f\u0648\u0627\u0652 \u0633\u064e\u0648\u064e\u0622\u0621\u064c \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u064a\u06e1\u0647\u0650\u0645\u06e1 \u0621\u064e\u0623\u064e\u0646\u0630\u064e\u0631\u06e1\u062a\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0623\u064e\u0645\u06e1 \u0644\u064e\u0645\u06e1 \u062a\u064f\u0646\u0630\u0650\u0631\u06e1\u0647\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0644\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064f\u0624\u06e1\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u06dd\nThose who have disbelieved \u2014 it being equal to them whether thou warn them or warn them not \u2014 they will not believe.\nThose who have disbelieved\u2014[d]it being alike to them whether thou warn them or warn them not\u2014they will not believe.[26]\nd. 26:137; 36:11. (close)\n26. The verse speaks of such disbelievers as become so indifferent to truth that it does not matter whether they receive a warning or not. Of these it is declared that as long as their present condition continues, they will not believe. (close)\nThose who have disbelieved\u2014[c]it being equal to them whether thou warn them or warn them not\u2014they will not believe.[13]\nc. 4:169, 170; 26:137; 36:11. (close)\n\u0643\u0641\u0631\u0648\u0627 (they disbelieved) is derived from \u0643\u0641\u0631 which is the opposite of \u0622\u0645\u0646 and means, he disbelieved. The literal meaning of \u0643\u0641\u0631 (kufr) is \u0633\u062a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u06cc\u0621 i.e. to cover up a thing. Thence it has also come to mean \"ungratefulness\" and \"disbelief\" (Aqrab). When the word is used singly, without any qualifying word, it means the rejection of any fundamental object of faith, i.e.the Unity of God or the prophethood of the Holy Prophet, or the Holy Book, etc (Mufradat).\n\u0621\u0627\u0646\u0630\u0631\u062a\u06be\u0645 (whether thou warn them). \u0627\u0646\u0630\u0631 is derived from \u0646\u0630\u0631. They say \u0646\u0630\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u06cc\u0621 i.e. he knew the danger underlying the thing and was on his guard against it. \u0627\u0646\u0630\u0631 is the transitive form of \u0646\u0630\u0631; so \u0627\u0646\u0630\u0631\u06c1 means, he warned him of a coming danger. \u0646\u0630\u06cc\u0631means, a warner (Aqrab). The \u06be\u0645\u0632\u06c1 (hamzah) used in the beginning of the word \u0621\u0627\u0646\u0630\u0631\u062a\u06be\u0645 does not give the meaning of interrogation. It is simply used to make the word infinitive, and the clause beginning with it would be taken to mean whether thou warn them or warn them not. It is a parenthetical clause which goes to qualify the words, those who have disbelieved (Mufradat).\nAfter speaking of the class of true believers and describing the high stage of faith, God now speaks of the extreme type of disbelievers who have become so indifferent to truth that it matters not whether they receive a warning or not. Of such disbelievers it has been declared that as long as their present condition continues, they will not believe. The verse does not at all mean that no disbeliever will henceforward believe. The idea is not only repugnant to the teaching of the Quran but is also opposed to all established facts of history; for people continued to embrace Islam even after this verse was revealed. Again, it was after this verse that the Surah \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0635\u0631 (Ch.110) was revealed to the Holy Prophet, in which God spoke to him saying that people would soon begin to join Islam in very large numbers (110:3), and so it actually came to pass. In short, the words, they will not believe, refer only to such disbelievers as turn a deaf ear to the warnings of the Prophet, and to them also the words apply only so long as they do not change their present condition. A person who turns a deaf ear to a warning today but begins to heed it tomorrow does not, indeed cannot, come under the so-called ban. (close)\n\u06cc\u0642\u06cc\u0646\u0627\u064b \u0648\u06c1 \u0644\u0648\u06af \u062c\u0646\u06c1\u0648\u06ba \u0646\u06d2 \u06a9\u0641\u0631 \u06a9\u06cc\u0627 (\u0627\u0633 \u062d\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u06a9\u06c1) \u0628\u0631\u0627\u0628\u0631 \u06c1\u06d2 \u0627\u064f\u0646 \u067e\u0631 \u062e\u0648\u0627\u06c1 \u062a\u064f\u0648 \u0627\u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0688\u0631\u0627\u0626\u06d2 \u06cc\u0627 \u0646\u06c1 \u0688\u0631\u0627\u0626\u06d2\u060c \u0648\u06c1 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0644\u0627\u0626\u06cc\u06ba \u06af\u06d2\u06d4\n\u0627\u06cc\u0633\u06d2 \u0644\u0648\u06af \u062c\u0646\u06c1\u0648\u06ba \u0646\u06d2 \u06a9\u0641\u0631 \u06a9\u06cc\u0627 \u06c1\u06d2 (\u0627\u0648\u0631) \u062a\u06cc\u0631\u0627 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u0648 \u0688\u0631\u0627\u0646\u0627 \u06cc\u0627 \u0646\u06c1 \u0688\u0631\u0627\u0646\u0627 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0644\u0626\u06d2 \u06cc\u06a9\u0633\u0627\u06ba (\u0627\u062b\u0631 \u067e\u06cc\u062f\u0627 \u06a9\u0631\u062a\u0627) \u06c1\u06d2 (\u062c\u0628 \u062a\u06a9 \u0648\u06c1 \u0627\u0633 \u062d\u0627\u0644\u062a \u06a9\u0648 \u0646\u06c1 \u0628\u062f\u0644\u06cc\u06ba) \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0644\u0627\u0626\u06cc\u06ba \u06af\u06d2\u06d4\nQuant \u00e0 ceux qui n'ont pas cru \u2013 cela leur est \u00e9gal que tu les avertisses ou que tu ne les avertisses pas \u2013 ils ne croiront pas.\nLos que son incr\u00e9dulos \u2013les es igual que les adviertas o no\u2013 no creer\u00e1n.\nDie nicht geglaubt haben \u2013 und denen gleich ist, ob du sie warnst oder nicht warnst \u2013, sie werden nicht glauben.\n\u062e\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0645\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0670\u06c1\u064f \u0639\u064e\u0644\u0670\u06cc \u0642\u064f\u0644\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0628\u0650\u06c1\u0650\u0645\u06e1 \u0648\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0644\u0670\u06cc \u0633\u064e\u0645\u06e1\u0639\u0650\u06c1\u0650\u0645\u06e1 \u0615 \u0648\u064e \u0639\u064e\u0644\u0670\u06e4\u06cc \u0627\u064e\u0628\u06e1\u0635\u064e\u0627\u0631\u0650\u06c1\u0650\u0645\u06e1 \u063a\u0650\u0634\u064e\u0627\u0648\u064e\u06c3\u064c \u06eb \u0648\u064e\u0651 \u0644\u064e\u06c1\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0639\u064e\u0630\u064e\u0627\u0628\u064c \u0639\u064e\u0638\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0645\u064c \u066a\ufd3f\u06f8\ufd3e\n\u062e\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0645\u064e \u0671\u0644\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0647\u064f \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0649\u0670 \u0642\u064f\u0644\u064f\u0648\u0628\u0650\u0647\u0650\u0645\u06e1 \u0648\u064e\u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0649\u0670 \u0633\u064e\u0645\u06e1\u0639\u0650\u0647\u0650\u0645\u06e1\u06d6 \u0648\u064e\u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0649\u0670\u0653 \u0623\u064e\u0628\u06e1\u0635\u064e\u0670\u0631\u0650\u0647\u0650\u0645\u06e1 \u063a\u0650\u0634\u064e\u0670\u0648\u064e\u0629\u065e\u06d6 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0639\u064e\u0630\u064e\u0627\u0628\u064c \u0639\u064e\u0638\u0650\u064a\u0645\u065e \u06dd\nAllah has set a seal on their hearts and their ears, and over their eyes is a covering; and for them is a great punishment.\nAllah [e]has set a seal[27] on their hearts and their ears, and over their eyes is a covering; and for them is a grievous chastisement.\ne. 4:156; 6:26, 47; 7:102, 180; 10:75; 16:109; 45:24; 83:15. (close)\n27. Organs which remain unused for a long time atrophy and become useless. The disbelievers mentioned here refused to employ their hearts and ears for the comprehension of truth, consequently their capacities for hearing and understanding were lost. It is only the natural consequence of wilful indifference which is described in the clause, Allah has set a seal. As all laws proceed from God and every cause is followed by its natural effect under His Will, so the sealing of the hearts and the ears of disbelievers is ascribed to Him. (close)\nAllah [a]has set a seal on their hearts and their ears, and over their eyes is a covering; and for them is a great punishment.[14]\na. 4:156; 6:26, 47; 7:102, 180; 10:75; 16:109; 45:24; 83:15. (close)\n\u062e\u062a\u0645 (set a seal) means, he set a seal on; or he stamped a thing so that there should remain no likelihood of its being regarded as forged. \u062e\u0627\u062a\u0645 means, a seal (Aqrab). The expression \u062e\u062a\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u06cc \u0642\u0644\u0628\u0647 (lit. God has set a seal on his heart) means, God made his heart such that it could neither understand anything nor could anything come out of it, i.e. it could not make itself understood by others (Baqa).\n\u0642\u0644\u0648\u0628 (hearts) is the plural of \u0642\u0644\u0628 which is derived from \u0642\u0644\u0628 (qalaba). They say\u0642\u0644\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u06cc\u0621 i.e. he turned the thing; or he turned it upside down or inside out, etc. \u0642\u0644\u0628 means, the heart, or the central point of a thing. The word \u0642\u0644\u0628 is also used in the sense of \u0639\u0642\u0644 i.e. reason, as well as for such qualities as knowledge, courage and spirit (Aqrab). It also signifies the faculty of thinking and reasoning, i.e. the mind (Lisan).\n\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0645\u0639 (the ears) is derived from \u0633\u0645\u0639 i.e. he heard. \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0645\u0639 \u06be\u0627\u0633 three different meanings (1) the ear or ears; (2) the sense of hearing; (3) the sound which one hears (Aqrab).\n\u0627\u0628\u0635\u0627\u0631 (eyes) is the plural of \u0628\u0635\u0631 (eye). They say \u0628\u0635\u0631 (basura) or \u0628\u0635\u0631 (basira), i.e. he saw, or he perceived, or he knew. \u0628\u0635\u0631means: (1) the eye; (2) the sense of sight; and (3) knowledge (Aqrab).\n\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0630\u0627\u0628 (punishment) is derived from \u0639\u0630\u0628 ('adhaba). They say \u0639\u0630\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062c\u0644 i.e. the man left off eating, owing to intense thirst. \u0639\u0630\u0628 \u0639\u0646\u0647 means, he kept back from it. \u0639\u0630\u0628 \u0641\u0644\u0627\u0646\u0627 means, he prevented him or deprived him. \u0639\u0630\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0627\u0628 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0637\u0639\u0627\u0645 means, the drink and food became good and tasteful. \u0639\u0630\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0621 means, the water became very dirty. \u0639\u0630\u0628\u0647 ('adhdhabahu) means, he inflicted pain or punishment on him; he detained him; he prevented or deprived him (Aqrab). \u062a\u0639\u0630\u06cc\u0628 means, inflicting pain or punishment; forcing a man to remain without food and sleep; depriving one of the sweetness or goodness of life; making life miserable (Mufradat). Thus \u0639\u0630\u0627\u0628 means, anything which is hard and painful for man and prevents him from attaining his object; pain inflicted as punishment in order to prevent one from repeating an act or prevent others from doing the same; the inflicting of such punishment; anything that deprives a person of the sweetness of life and makes life miserable; anything that prevents a man from attaining the object of his life (Aqrab & Mufradat).\nThe verse refers to the disbelievers mentioned in the last verse and explains how they have reached their present woeful condition. It is a common observation that organs which remain unused for a long time become dead and useless. The eyes lose their sight and the ears their hearing if they remain out of use, and the limbs become stunted for the same reason. The disbelievers mentioned here refused to employ their hearts and ears for the comprehension of the truth, and as a result their capacities for hearing and understanding were lost. It is thus only the natural consequence of wilful indifference which is described in the clause, Allah has set a seal on their hearts and their ears, and over their eyes is a covering. As all laws proceed from God, the final Controller of the universe, and every cause is followed by its natural effect under His will, so the sealing of the hearts and the ears of disbelievers is ascribed to Him. It is, therefore, a mistake to take the verse to mean that as God had Himself sealed up their hearts, so the disbelievers could not believe. The Quran contradicts this view and states clearly that it is the disbelievers themselves who seal their fate and God's seal follows only as a result of their action (see 4:156; 40:36; 47:25; 83:15). Says the Holy Prophet: \"When a man commits a sin, a black spot is thereby formed on his heart. Then if he repents and gives up the sin and asks God's forgiveness, the black spot is washed off, leaving the heart clean. But if he repents not and commits another sin, another black spot is formed on his heart and so on, until his whole heart is covered with a black covering, and that is the covering of rust to which the Quran refers in Surah Tatfif \" (Jarir).\nIt may also be noted that in the present verse the word \"ears\" has been put before the word \"eyes\". This is in conformity with the law of nature that the ears of a newborn baby begin to function earlier than the eyes. (close)\n\u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u0646\u06d2 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06d2 \u062f\u0644\u0648\u06ba \u067e\u0631 \u0645\u06c1\u0631 \u0644\u06af\u0627 \u062f\u06cc \u06c1\u06d2 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06cc \u0634\u0646\u0648\u0627\u0626\u06cc \u067e\u0631 \u0628\u06be\u06cc\u06d4 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06cc \u0622\u0646\u06a9\u06be\u0648\u06ba \u067e\u0631 \u067e\u0631\u062f\u06c1 \u06c1\u06d2\u06d4 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0644\u0626\u06d2 \u0628\u0691\u0627 \u0639\u0630\u0627\u0628 (\u0645\u0642\u062f\u0631) \u06c1\u06d2\u06d4\n\u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u0646\u06d2 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06d2 \u062f\u0644\u0648\u06ba \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06d2 \u06a9\u0627\u0646\u0648\u06ba \u067e\u0631 \u0645\u06c1\u0631 \u06a9\u0631 \u062f\u06cc \u06c1\u06d2 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06cc \u0622\u0646\u06a9\u06be\u0648\u06ba \u067e\u0631 \u067e\u0631\u062f\u06c1 (\u067e\u0691\u0627 \u06c1\u0648\u0627) \u06c1\u06d2 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0646 \u06a9\u06d2 \u0644\u0626\u06d2 \u0627\u06cc\u06a9 \u0628\u0691\u0627 \u0639\u0630\u0627\u0628 (\u0645\u0642\u062f\u0631) \u06c1\u06d2\u06d4\nAll\u0101h a scell\u00e9 leur c\u0153ur et leurs oreilles ; ils ont un voile sur les yeux. Et pour eux il y a un tr\u00e8s grand ch\u00e2timent.\nAl-lah ha puesto un sello en sus corazones y en sus o\u00eddos; y un velo cubre sus ojos; y para ellos hay reservado un grave castigo.\nVersiegelt hat Allah ihre Herzen und ihre Ohren, und \u00fcber ihren Augen liegt eine H\u00fclle, und ihnen wird schwere Strafe.\n\u0648\u064e \u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0646\u064e\u0651\u0627\u0633\u0650 \u0645\u064e\u0646\u06e1 \u06cc\u064e\u0651\u0642\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0644\u064f \u0627\u0670\u0645\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0651\u0627 \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0670\u06c1\u0650 \u0648\u064e \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u06e1\u06cc\u064e\u0648\u06e1\u0645\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u06e1\u0627\u0670\u062e\u0650\u0631\u0650 \u0648\u064e \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u06c1\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0628\u0650\u0645\u064f\u0624\u06e1\u0645\u0650\u0646\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u06d8\ufd3f\u06f9\ufd3e\n\u0648\u064e\u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0671\u0644\u0646\u064e\u0651\u0627\u0633\u0650 \u0645\u064e\u0646 \u064a\u064e\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0644\u064f \u0621\u064e\u0627\u0645\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0651\u0627 \u0628\u0650\u0671\u0644\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0647\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0628\u0650\u0671\u0644\u06e1\u064a\u064e\u0648\u06e1\u0645\u0650 \u0671\u0644\u06e1\u0623\u0653\u062e\u0650\u0631\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0647\u064f\u0645 \u0628\u0650\u0645\u064f\u0624\u06e1\u0645\u0650\u0646\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u06dd\nAnd of the people there are some who say, 'We believe in Allah and the Last Day;' while they are not believers at all.\nAnd of the people there are some who say, [a]'We believe in Allah and the Last Day;' while they are not believers at all.[28]\na. 2:178; 3:115; 4:40, 60; 6:93; 58:23. (close)\n28. Only God and the Last Day are mentioned, other Islamic beliefs being left out, because God and the Last Day are respectively the first and the last items in the Islamic formula of faith and a profession of belief in them ipso facto implies profession of belief in the other items. Elsewhere, the Qur'an states that belief in the Last Day implies belief in angels as well as in the Divine Books (6:93). (close)\n\u0622\u0645\u0646\u0627 (we believe) is derived from \u0627\u0645\u0646 for which see 2:4. The word \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 (belief or faith) does not consist in a lip-profession of truth, or a vague realization of it. It combines three necessary elements, viz. (1) conviction of mind; (2) profession by tongue; and (3) demonstration through actions (Mufradat). The Quran itself explains \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 in this light (49:15; 27:15).\nAfter describing the condition of believers (vv. 4-6) and that of disbelievers (vv. 7-8) the Quran proceeds to describe the condition of a third group, the hypocrites. They intermingled with the believers and posed as such. They were divided into two classes: (1) disbelievers at heart but united with the believers for the sake of some material or communal advantages; (2) believers at heart but lacking the strength of conviction necessary for thorough conversion and complete obedience. The reference here is to the first class of hypocrites, those who mixed with the believers but did not at heart believe in the truth of Islam.\nIt may be noted that only God and the Last Day are mentioned here, other Islamic beliefs being left out. This has led some to think that Islam requires belief only in God and the Last Day. The truth, however, is that 'God' and the 'Last Day' are respectively the first and the last items in the Islamic formula of faith and a profession of them ipso facto implies profession of the other items. Elsewhere the Quran clearly states how belief in the Last Day implies belief in angels as well as in the Divine Books (6:93).\nThe omission may also be explained in another way. The hypocrites wanted to deceive the believers, so possibly they expressed themselves purposely in these words, omitting all reference to the Prophet and the Quran. By mentioning God and the Last Day they would induce believers to think that they subscribed fully to the Islamic faith, but in their hearts they made a reservation as regards belief in the Quran and the Prophet. This interpretation finds support in the following verse which says that the hypocrites wished to deceive the believers. The expression, they are not believers at all, has been used to intensify the repudiation of the claim of the hypocrites to be believers. If a mere negation of their claim had been intended, it would have been expressed by some such expression as \"they are hypocrites\".\nStrong denunciation of hypocrites is characteristic of the Quran (3:168; 5:42 & 5:62). According to the Quran, hypocrites are sheer disbelievers. This view of the Quran furnishes a strong refutation of the criticism that Islam permits the use of force in religious matters. Conversion by force can never be sincere, while the Quran insists upon sincerity in believers. A religion which makes sincerity a necessary quality of belief cannot tolerate, much less encourage, the use of force in religion. (close)\n\u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0644\u0648\u06af\u0648\u06ba \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u0633\u06d2 \u06a9\u0686\u06be \u0627\u06cc\u0633\u06d2 \u0628\u06be\u06cc \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062c\u0648 \u06a9\u06c1\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u06a9\u06c1 \u06c1\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u06d2 \u0622\u0626\u06d2 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u06cc\u0648\u0645\u0650 \u0622\u062e\u0631 \u067e\u0631 \u0628\u06be\u06cc\u060c \u062d\u0627\u0644\u0627\u0646\u06a9\u06c1 \u0648\u06c1 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u06d2 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4\n\u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0628\u0639\u0636 \u0644\u0648\u06af \u0627\u06cc\u0633\u06d2 \u0628\u06be\u06cc \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062c\u0648 \u06a9\u06c1\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u06a9\u06c1 \u06c1\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0622\u0646\u06d2 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u06d2 \u062f\u0646 \u067e\u0631 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0631\u06a9\u06be\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba' \u062d\u0627\u0644\u0627\u0646\u06a9\u06c1 \u0648\u06c1 \u06c1\u0631\u06af\u0632 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0631\u06a9\u06be\u062a\u06d2\u06d4\nEt parmi les hommes, certains disent : \u00ab Nous croyons en All\u0101h et au Jour Dernier ; et pourtant ce sont des m\u00e9cr\u00e9ants.\nY entre los hombres hay algunos que dicen: \"creemos en Al-lah y en el \u00daltimo D\u00eda\"; pero no son en absoluto creyentes.\nUnter den Leuten sind solche, die sagen: \"Wir glauben an Allah und an den J\u00fcngsten Tag\", und sind gar nicht Gl\u00e4ubige.\n\u06cc\u064f\u062e\u0670\u062f\u0650\u0639\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0670\u06c1\u064e \u0648\u064e \u0627\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u06cc\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0670\u0645\u064e\u0646\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0627 \u06da \u0648\u064e \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u06cc\u064e\u062e\u06e1\u062f\u064e\u0639\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0650\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0627\u06e4 \u0627\u064e\u0646\u06e1\u0641\u064f\u0633\u064e\u06c1\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0648\u064e \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u06cc\u064e\u0634\u06e1\u0639\u064f\u0631\u064f\u0648\u06e1\u0646\u064e \u0615\ufd3f\u06f1\u06f0\ufd3e\n\u064a\u064f\u062e\u064e\u0670\u062f\u0650\u0639\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0671\u0644\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0647\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0671\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0630\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u0621\u064e\u0627\u0645\u064e\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0627\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u062e\u06e1\u062f\u064e\u0639\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0625\u0650\u0644\u064e\u0651\u0622 \u0623\u064e\u0646\u0641\u064f\u0633\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645\u06e1 \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u0634\u06e1\u0639\u064f\u0631\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u06dd\nThey would deceive Allah and those who believe, and they deceive none but themselves; only they perceive it not.\nThey [b]would deceive[29] Allah and those who believe, but they deceive none but themselves; only they perceive it not.\nb. 4:143. (close)\n29. Khada'a-hu means, he sought or desired to deceive him but did not succeed in his attempt. Khada'a-hu means, he succeeded in his attempt to deceive him; he forsook him or it (Baqa'). The former word is used about a man when he has not attained his desire and the latter when he has attained it (Lane). (close)\nThey [a]would deceive Allah and those who believe, and they deceive none but themselves; only they perceive it not.[16]\na. 4:143. (close)\n\u06cc\u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639\u0648\u0646 (would deceive) is derived from \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639 and \u06cc\u062e\u062f\u0639\u0648\u0646 (deceive) is derived from \u062e\u062f\u0639. They say \u062e\u062f\u0639\u0647 i.e. he deceived him; he made a show of what he was not; he tried to harm him in a way unknown to the latter. \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639\u0647 is sometimes loosely used to give the same meaning as \u062e\u062f\u0639 but in reality it is different. \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639 is used when the deceiver is not successful in his attempt at deception and \u062e\u062f\u0639 is used when the party intended to be deceived actually falls a victim to the deception (Baqa & Aqrab). This distinction is corroborated by Lane who says, \"One says of a man \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639 when he has not attained his desire, and \u062e\u062f\u0639 when he has attained his desire.\" The word \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639 also means: (1) he forsook or he abandoned; (2) it (the market) was variable. They say \u0633\u0648\u0642 \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639\u0629 i.e. a market varying in its state, at one time brisk, at another dull in respect of traffic (Lane). Following this signification \u06cc\u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 would mean (1) they forsake and abandon God; and (2) they are variable with respect to Allah, believing at one time and disbelieving at another.\n\u06cc\u0634\u0639\u0631\u0648\u0646 (they perceive) is derived from \u0634\u0639\u0631. They say \u0634\u0639\u0631\u06c1 meaning, he perceived it; he came to know of it; he understood it; he felt it (Aqrab). \u0634\u0639\u0648\u0631 is the faculty of insight not depending upon the senses for its exercise, something that rises from within. In the verse the word \u06cc\u0634\u0639\u0631\u0648\u0646 has been used to signify that though the disease of the hypocrites lies in their hearts, yet their insight gives them no warning.\nThe verse makes it clear that effective faith is based upon truth and sincerity. Faith not so based amounts to deception and God cannot be deceived.\nThe verse has given rise to some objections: 1. How can it be possible for any man to deceive God? 2. The word \u06cc\u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639\u0648\u0646 is derived from the verb \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639 in the measure of \u0645\u0641\u0627\u0639\u0644\u0629 which denotes two parties mutually engaged in the same operation. The words \u06cc\u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 would, therefore, mean that hypocrites and God are both engaged in deceiving each other.\nIn answer to the first objection it may be said that the word used here is \u062e\u0627\u062f\u0639 and not \u062e\u062f\u0639, the former, as explained above, signifying only an attempt at deception and not actual deception. The objection is, therefore, without foundation.\nThe second objection also does not hold good. The measure \u0645\u0641\u0627\u0639\u0644\u0629 does not always carry the sense of mutual participation. Sometimes it signifies only one of the parties so engaged. For example, in the sentence \u0639\u0627\u0642\u0628\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0635 meaning, \"I punished the thief\" the word \u0639\u0627\u0642\u0628\u062a belongs to the measure of \u0645\u0641\u0627\u0639\u0644\u0629, yet here it does not denote mutual participation in the act. It only means, I punished the thief.\nA note on the hypocrites will not be out of place here. Before the coming of Islam into Medina, the city's inhabitants included two pagan Arab tribes known as Aus and Khazraj, and three Jewish tribes named Banu Quraizah, Banu Nadirand Banu Qainuqa'. The two pagan tribes outnumbered the Jews but were inferior to them in wealth and education. The Jews thus exercised great influence over the pagans of Medina. In order to further increase their influence, they encouraged internecine feuds among their idolatrous neighbours. A few years before the rise of Islam the pagan tribes of Medina, realizing how they had been duped, decided to organize themselves under a duly elected king. Their choice fell upon one 'Abdullah bin Ubayy, chief of the tribe of Khazraj, and they were preparing for his coronation when news came to them of the rise of Islam in Mecca. Events suddenly began to take a different turn. The idolatrous tribes of Ausand Khazraj became attracted towards Islam and began to embrace the new faith in large numbers, believing that the solution of their difficulties lay not in electing a king but in accepting Islam. Soon after the Holy Prophet migrated to Medina, the tide of enthusiasm became irresistible; and 'Abdullah bin Ubayy and his party felt it wise to follow their tribesmen into the new faith. They did not realize at the time that the establishment of Islam would mean the frustration of their own hopes. When, however, the power of Islam became established, they realized that they had put an end to their hopes. This realization destroyed any attachment they had for Islam. Instead, they developed actual hostility towards it. However, as a preponderant majority of their tribesmen had already become zealous followers of Islam, they could not openly leave its fold. Thus came into being the hypocrites\u2014a party professing Islam outwardly but hostile to it at heart. Not strong enough to oppose Islam openly, they naturally thought of entering into a secret alliance with the Jews in order to injure the cause of Islam. In the beginning they had nothing to do with the Meccans for whom they bore a long-standing tribal antipathy. After the Battle of Uhud, however, at the instigation of the Jews and prompted by their own jealousy, they forgot their enmity and began to secretly conspire with the Quraish of Mecca, keeping up a show of attachment for Islam. Their leader 'Abdullah continued to accompany the Holy Prophet in many of his expeditions.\nIn the Quran this party of hypocrites is mentioned in several places. Their last act of hostility towards Islam was their attempt, after the Fall of Mecca, to conspire with the Byzantine Christian power. The occasion was the Tabuk expedition led by the Holy Prophet in the ninth year of Hijrah. The attempt met with discomfiture. It was probably the shock of its failure that caused, only two months later, the death of 'Abdullah bin Ubayy. The party then broke up. Some of its members entered Islam sincerely; others ended their days in obscurity. (close)\n\u0648\u06c1 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u06a9\u0648 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0648\u06af\u0648\u06ba \u06a9\u0648 \u062c\u0648 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u0626\u06d2 \u062f\u06be\u0648\u06a9\u06c1 \u062f\u06cc\u0646\u06d2 \u06a9\u06cc \u06a9\u0648\u0634\u0634 \u06a9\u0631\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4 \u062c\u0628\u06a9\u06c1 \u0648\u06c1 \u0627\u067e\u0646\u06d2 \u0633\u0648\u0627 \u06a9\u0633\u06cc \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u06a9\u0648 \u062f\u06be\u0648\u06a9\u06c1 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062f\u06cc\u062a\u06d2\u06d4 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u06c1 \u0634\u0639\u0648\u0631 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u0631\u06a9\u06be\u062a\u06d2\u06d4\n\u0648\u06c1 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u06c1 \u06a9\u0648 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0648\u06af\u0648\u06ba \u06a9\u0648 \u062c\u0648 \u0627\u06cc\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u0626\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062f\u06be\u0648\u06a9\u0627 \u062f\u06cc\u0646\u0627 \u0686\u0627\u06c1\u062a\u06d2 \u06c1\u06cc\u06ba' \u0645\u06af\u0631 (\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639\u06c1 \u0645\u06cc\u06ba) \u0648\u06c1 \u0627\u067e\u0646\u06d2 \u0633\u0648\u0627 \u06a9\u0633\u06cc \u06a9\u0648 \u062f\u06be\u0648\u06a9\u06c1 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba \u062f\u06cc\u062a\u06d2\u06d4 \u0627\u0648\u0631 \u0648\u06c1 \u0633\u0645\u062c\u06be\u062a\u06d2 \u0646\u06c1\u06cc\u06ba\u06d4\nIls cherchent \u00e0 tromper All\u0101h et les croyants, alors qu'ils ne trompent qu'eux-m\u00eames ; seulement, ils ne s'en rendent pas compte.\nTratan de enga\u00f1ar a Al-lah y a los que creen, y no enga\u00f1an a nadie sino a ellos mismos; pero no se dan cuenta de ello.\nSie m\u00f6chten Allah betr\u00fcgen und diejenigen, die gl\u00e4ubig sind; doch sie betr\u00fcgen nur sich selbst; allein sie begreifen es nicht.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Leftists In Latvia Long For EU Socialist Super State, Didn't Get Enough Under USSR\nBaltics News\nby L Todd Wood May 6, 2018 01592\nMany in the Baltic press have expressed displeasure to Western news outlets who describe the Baltic nations as 'former Soviet republics'. Having won their freedom and independence again in the early 1990s after the fall of the USSR, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have been strident in their support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and in fighting hybrid warfare emanating from Moscow, disinformation campaigns, propaganda, et cetera.\nLiberal EU Pressures Conservative Central Europe With New Long-Term Budget\nSo it is surprising to hear politicians in the Baltic nations call for giving up their sovereignty to powerful capitals in the West in an EU 'federal superpower', which would be nothing but another attempt at a socialist nirvana.\n\"Latvians will be pained to hear this but the federalization of the EU will mean that we will have to give up more of our sovereignty. Latvia will get to keep only its flag, the coat of arms and the national anthem. Everything else will be decided by Brussels. In my opinion, it is good as I am a convinced federalist and never pretended otherwise,\" said leftist Latvian MEP Andrejs Mamikins, reported The Baltic Times.\n\"There is only one very important step to be taken in the euro area. We will be able to revive foreign trade and economy, if there was a strong monetary union and all EU members had single currency. Now there are the euro area countries, the countries which want to stay outside the euro area and the countries which want in but do not meet the criteria,\" he added, speaking of further reforms suggested by Berlin and Paris.\nEuropean Commission Head Juncker Declares Europe Dying, Wants To Be Friends With Russia, Blames Obama\nMamikins was also supportive of the 'open borders' policies supported by Merkel, Soros, and other globalist politicians in Europe. The importation of millions of Islamic 'economic' migrants from the Middle East and Northern Africa have forever changed the culture and security situation in many parts of the European Union.\nBalticsBrusselsEUGlobalistLatviaMigrationopen bordersUSSRShare00\nThis Isn't About Trump, It's About Keeping Obama And Hillary Out Of The Big House\nSerbia-Russia-Turkey\u2026New Love Triangle In The Balkans Challenging The EU\nL Todd Wood\nL. Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is \"Currency.\" Todd is a national security columnist for The Washington Times and has contributed to One American News, Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, the New York Post, National Review, the Jerusalem Post, Zero Hedge and others. He is also publisher of Creative Destruction Media and editor-in-chief of Tsarizm.com. For more information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.\nUS And Russia Negotiate Over 'Dachas'\nKadyrov Says There Are No Gays In Chechnya\nL Todd Wood July 15, 2017 May 26, 2018\nPentagon Investigating If Russia Involved In Syrian Chemical Attacks\nL Todd Wood April 7, 2017 April 8, 2017","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Season of Miracles\nStone Soup & Other Stories\nStorytelling by Gerald Fierst\nmr. RAY\nEllis Island: Gateway to America\nPublic Performance Calendar\nWeb Series \u2013 The Office at Pushcart\nADA & EDI Statement\nFunders & Affiliations\nGia Ware\nGia is a graduate of Montclair State University, with a B.F.A. in Theatre. She's an International Performer seen in Off- Broadway, Regional Productions, and International Tours around the World. At the young age of 8, she got her start as a vocalist at the Apollo Theater's Amateur Night. Since perfecting her craft, she's traveled the world singing and acting in various theatrical performances. Countries have included the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, France, Taiwan and more. Favorite show's include : National\/International Tour of Dreamgirls, Aida, and Little Shop of Horrors. In 2007 she was in the original cast for It Happened In Little Rock in Little Rock, Arkansas for the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine. In 2015, she starred in the revised production of Little Rock leading to win the 2015 Barrymore Award. As a vocalist she's been featured with VH1 events, Summerstage, and much more. She's currently a vocalist and acting coach throughout the tri-state area. Along with her husband, Jonathan Ware, Gia is partial producer of The Reactivation Series. Her produced and written cartoon show Gia's World can be seen on Youtube. \"To God Be The Glory, Forever and Ever\u2026 AMEN.\"\n261 Bloomfield Avenue, Suite A\nVerona, New Jersey 07044\n(973) 857-1115 (973) 857-4366 (fax)\ninformation@pushcartplayers.org\n\u00a9 2021 Pushcart Players. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"White House aides struggle to defend Trump wiretap claims\n(Monica Akhtar\/The Washington Post)\nBy Ashley Parker and\nWhite House reporter\nJenna Johnson\nNational political correspondent covering campaigns and voters\nThe White House on Monday attempted to defend President Trump's unfounded claim that former president Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower near the end of the presidential campaign, sending out several administration officials \u2014 both on and off camera \u2014 to reiterate the assertion without providing supporting evidence.\nIn tweets over the weekend, Trump claimed he had \"just learned\" that Obama wiretapped his midtown Manhattan skyscraper, where he lives and which housed his presidential campaign \u2014 accusing the former president of a potentially illegal act and writing that Obama was a \"bad (or sick) guy.\"\nTrump has since provided no proof to back up his assertion, which has been rebuffed by Obama, FBI Director James B. Comey and former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. On Monday, senior administration officials contorted themselves trying to defend the president's claims, which seemed to emanate largely in response to a rant on conservative talk radio and in an article on Breitbart News, the conservative website that Stephen K. Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, formerly led.\nSpeaking to reporters from the White House briefing room without cameras present, White House press secretary Sean Spicer referred reporters to his weekend statement calling on the House and Senate intelligence committees to investigate the wiretapping charges as part of their broader probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He refused to add clarity or context to Trump's Twitter missives, saying neither the president nor the White House would comment further until the congressional investigations are completed.\n\"I'm just going to let the tweet speak for itself,\" Spicer said. \"I think the president speaks very candidly.\"\n(Bastien Inzaurralde\/The Washington Post)\n[Inside Trump's fury: The president rages at leaks, setbacks and accusations]\nSpicer, citing news reports, said there was sufficient evidence to warrant further investigation at the congressional level.\n\"I think that there's no question that something happened. The question is, is it surveillance, is it a wiretap or whatever?\" Spicer said. \"But there's been enough reporting that strongly suggests that something occurred.\"\nAsked whether he could unequivocally say that Trump's tweet was based on more than a talk radio report and the Breitbart article, Spicer declined, again referring to his calls for the intelligence panels to take the lead.\nAsked about the specific sourcing behind the president's tweets, Spicer said there were several options: \"It could be FISA, it could be surveillance,\" he said, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, under which a secret court can issue warrants for electronic surveillance on potential spies or terrorists. If there was a FISA wiretap of Trump during the campaign, it would mean that the court had found there was probable cause to believe he was acting as an \"agent of a foreign power,\" as the law requires.\nIn perhaps the clearest sign of the uncomfortable situation the president's tweets created for his aides, the normally media-\nhungry White House went largely dark Monday. Although several top officials did defend Trump in TV interviews, Spicer did not allow cameras into the briefing room for his news conference Monday, and Trump signed an executive order for his revamped travel ban in private.\nSpeaking on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" on Sunday, Clapper did provide the White House with a bit of cover, saying there was \"no evidence\" of collusion between Trump and Russia during the campaign. But he also undercut the president's assertion that Obama had wiretapped him, saying, \"There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign.\"\nPresident Trump and former president Barack Obama at the Capitol on Inauguration Day. On Monday, the White House attempted to defend Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. (Pool photo by Jack Gruber\/USA TODAY NETWORK)\nSpicer urged reporters to note Clapper's comments about an apparent lack of collusion, but gave less weight to his remarks rebutting Trump's claims of wiretapping. Asked about the difference, Spicer said, \"He said that he wasn't aware of anything. I take him at his word that he wasn't aware, but that doesn't mean that it didn't exist.\"\n[Daily 202: Wiretapping allegations accomplished what Trump wanted \u2014 but may backfire]\nThis reverse-engineering of evidence has happened before, as when the president declared erroneously that his inauguration crowd was the largest in history and when he claimed without evidence that at least 3 million undocumented immigrants illegally voted for Hillary Clinton in the general election.\nThe public face of this latest effort has mostly been deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was dispatched to a Sunday news show \u2014 even though Spicer and chief of staff Reince Priebus usually take that task \u2014 and to two Monday morning talk shows.\nHuckabee Sanders admitted that she had not discussed the matter with the president, and she lacked answers to questions. When asked Monday by ABC News's George Stephanopoulos whether the president accepted that Comey had refuted his tweets, she responded: \"You know, I don't think he does.\"\nLike Spicer, Huckabee Sanders claimed Trump's accusations are supported by news media reports, even though a list of such articles provided by the White House contained no such evidence. She also attempted to recast the president's words with a softer tone.\n\"Look, the president firmly believes that the Obama administration may have tapped into the phones at Trump Tower,\" Huckabee Sanders said on NBC's \"Today\" show on Monday. \"This is something that we should look into. We'd like to know for sure.\"\nHuckabee Sanders repeatedly urged that the news media and others give the president the same benefit of the doubt that they seemed to be giving to those accusing the Trump campaign of coordinating with the Russian government.\n[Upheaval is now standard operating procedure in the White House]\n\"Look,\" she said on the \"Today\" show, \"I haven't had the chance to have the conversation directly with the president, and he's at a much higher classification than I am, so he may have access to documents that I don't know about, but I do know that we take this very seriously.\"\nWhite House counselor Kellyanne Conway followed a similar script Monday on Fox News's \"Fox & Friends,\" saying there have been numerous media reports that there was \"politically motivated activity all during the campaign and suggesting that there may be more there.\"\n\"He's the president of the United States,\" Conway said. \"He has information and intelligence that the rest of us do not. And that's the way it should be for presidents.\"\nAt times, it seemed that even West Wing officials had not coordinated their responses with one another. Asked about Conway's comment Monday, Spicer said he hadn't talked with her about what she meant.\n\"I can't specifically respond to you in terms of what she was referring to, whether she was referring to the exact nature of this charge or whether generally speaking he is given information,\" Spicer said.\nUltimately, the White House all but stated that the best person to explain or defend the president's claims was the president himself. Asked by a reporter how it was appropriate for Trump to make an explosive statement and then send out his aides to \"clean it up,\" Spicer again referred back to Trump's social media feed.\n\"The president's tweets,\" he said, \"speak for themselves.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EPISODE #2009-31 Part #1\nJudge Ellen Landregan was starting to get a headache, not to mention some nasty eyestrain, from watching Kevin Fowler and Cass Winthrop ping-pong their arguments back and forth in front of her.\n\"Your honor, I think this is pretty self-explanatory,\" Fowler said, then proceeded to explain it to her anyway. \"Mr. Harrison never gave up parental rights to his son. With the death of Victoria McKinnon, custody of Kirkland Harrison should have gone to his biological father \u2014 \"\n\"Which it would have,\" Winthrop interrupted. \"Had Mr. Harrison been something trivial like legally alive. At the time of Mrs. McKinnon's death, he was believed dead, as well.\"\n\"A fact that Mr. Harrison did not know due to having fled Bay City in fear for his life. He was in hiding, cut off from communicating with anyone from his past.\"\n\"Grant was the one who faked his own death, but he didn't expect to be declared dead?\" Cass feigned confusion.\n\"What Mr. Harrison hoped and what he knew are two different things.\"\n\"Be that as it may, surely your client can understand that as Mrs. McKinnon believed Grant Harrison to be dead, she made other arrangements for her children's well-being, namely that her sister, Marley Frame, would be given legal custody of Kirkland.\"\n\"Understand? Yes. Accept? No. The threat to Mr. Harrison's life is no longer an issue. In light of this, my client has come to claim his son.\"\n\"After ten years of abandonment. During which there was no attempt to contact the child at all. No phone calls, no e-mails. Not even a birthday card.\"\n\"A fact that Mr. Harrison's son seems to have moved past. A fifteen year old boy has no trouble understanding that until the threat to his father's life was neutralized, Mr. Harrison did not want to put Kirkland in harm's way.\"\n\"Tabling the debate of whether any child should be around Mr. Harrison due to the fact that he has to deal with death threats on a regular basis, Your Honor, Mr. Harrison faked his death with the assumption that he would be considered dead. By doing so, Mr. Harrison, for all intents, surrendered his custodial rights to Kirkland's mother. Therefore, whatever arrangements she made are perfectly legal.\"\n\"But not necessarily binding. Upon learning of Mrs. McKinnon's death and the situation regarding his son \u2014 \"\n\"Took him a decade to pick up a newspaper or figure out how to boot up his Internet connection, did it?\"\n\"\u2014 Mr. Harrison returned to Bay City to assume custody of Kirkland. Which, as the biological father, he has every legal right to do.\"\n\"Not when he knowingly allowed himself to be declared dead.\"\n\"A fact which, as I have stated over and over, he did not know.\"\n\"Oh, please.\"\n\"My sentiments exactly,\" Judge Landregan interrupted, and genuinely tired of the two attorneys, turned her focus to their clients, who, after a quick assessment, puzzled her even more.\nOn one side, you had Grant Harrison, former Senator and Mayor of Bay City. Quite familiar with his sordid history and the accusations made but never proven, not to mention his self-confessed ten-year abandonment, the deck was certainly stacked against him.\nBut then you had the new Mr. and Mrs. Frame, who, quite frankly, puzzled her even more.\nJudge Landregan had reviewed the circumstances under which Mr. Frame had taken on the daily care of the boy he referred to as Kirkland Frame, and everything seemed quite reasonable. What threw up a red flag was that, given that he'd raised Kirkland for over ten years, one would think Mr. Frame might appear more invested in the current proceedings. Yet his head was obviously not on what was going on in the courtroom, which was also quite apparent to his new bride, judging by the confused and anxious looks she kept throwing him.\nEven forgiving the obvious, desperate move of their rushed nuptials; somewhat understandable and actually quite common when single parents felt threatened and were looking for ways to solidify their position, there was something going on between the pair that warranted a closer examination...\nFortunately, Judge Landregan was perfectly positioned to do just that.\n\"It is the decision of this court,\" she pronounced. \"That before final custody of Kirkland Harrison can be decided, a more thorough assessment of both petitioners needs to be conducted. Mr. Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. Frame will each individually submit to several interviews with agents from Social Services. Kirkland Harrison will also be interviewed as to his feelings and wishes on this matter.\"\n\"And in regards to visitation, Your Honor?\" Kevin raised.\n\"Visitation is granted. Mr. Harrison is to work out the details with the boy's current legal guardian, Mrs. Marley Frame. I will order that, given Mr. Harrison's past history, he surrender his passport to the court until further notice.\"\n\"That's all?\" Jamie suddenly started, his attention jolted back to the proceedings. \"Grant gets to pick right back up where he left off after dumping his son for ten years?\"\nFinally, some emotion. \"If proof of the claim of abandonment is forthcoming, it will be taken into consideration when determining custody.\"\nJamie shook his head incredulously. \"You have got to be \u2014\"\nA restraining hand over each of Mr. Frame's shoulders from both his lawyer and his wife prevented Jamie from completing that statement, and Judge Landregan from having to charge him with contempt of court.\n\"That's my decision,\" she said to Mr. Frame, all the while noting the smug smile on Mr. Harrison's face.\n\"Bollocks,\" Carl spat and jerked his head across the table towards the entrance to TOPS.\nRachel turned in her chair to see what, or whom, exactly her husband was currently glaring daggers at, and realized that Donna was walking towards them. Escorted by Matt.\n\"Agreed,\" she told him.\n\"Hi, Mom. Carl,\" Matt appeared ready to at least slow down; out of politeness and obligation, if nothing else.\nBut Donna refused to break her stride, sweeping by them with only a curt nod and a vague, social smile in Carl and Rachel's direction, pulling Matt with her.\nCarl gripped his knife and fork so tightly, he was amazed he didn't feel the metal liquefy and dissolve in his hands. He couldn't hear Matt's greeting over the roar in his head as every blood cell in his body boiled and pounded against his skull. He tensed, wanting to spring, wanting to pounce, wanting to act.\nBut all Carl did was nod politely in return.\nAnd remind himself, \"Soon....\"\nAll things considered, the hearing didn't go nearly as badly as Marley had feared it would. One look at Jamie, though, and she knew he didn't agree.\nBut, then again, he'd been in a foul mood when she first met him at the courthouse. She didn't have a chance to ask him what was going on before they were ushered into the courtroom, where instead of her having a rock to lean on, Jamie had just sat there like a rock.\nShe simply did not understand him these days. What happened to her Jamie?\n\"Let's get out of here,\" Marley smiled up at him, hoping to soften the hard look in his eyes. \"I'll buy the first round.\"\nHe shook his head and she felt the slam of a wall go up between them. \"I can't. Not tonight. I have to \u2014 \"\n\"No,\" Marley shook her head, patience gone. \"You've brushed me off long enough. Whatever it is you think you need to do can wait. Tonight you're focusing on me.\"\n\"Marley, let the good doctor tend to his duties,\" Grant warmly suggested behind her. \"We can't have the poor and huddled masses suffering. Besides, you and I have business to discuss regarding Kirkland. Which we don't need Jamie for.\"\n\"Go screw yourself,\" Jamie bit at Grant before stalking away without a word to Marley.\n\"Jamie!\" she called after him, ready to follow, but stopping when she realized it would be useless.\nWhatever was going on with him, Jamie didn't want to let her in. And frankly, between him and Donna, Marley was beginning to tire of beating her head against their walls.\nBesides, she had other things to worry about. Things that were at least willing to give her the time of day.\n\"Now, how about that dinner?\" Grant continued without missing a beat. \"I'm famished. Would you prefer The Bay City Grille or Carlinos?\"\n\"Carlinos,\" Marley sighed, defeated. \"First rounds of drinks is on you.\"\nGregory knocked on the door to Steven's dorm room, gambling that if, as Allie said, Sarah had moved out of the Cory mansion, this was the logical place for her to go. Despite her waxing poetic about her mother way back when the five of them first went out to dinner, Gregory still got the feeling it wouldn't be Sarah's first choice of living arrangements.\nSteven, shirtless and wearing only pajama bottoms, opened the door. As Gregory predicted, Sarah, dressed in the matching navy top, was behind him, sitting cross-legged on the bed, highlighting passages in a thick textbook on Cognitive Science.\n\"I'm sorry to interrupt,\" Gregory meant it, too. \"I needed to talk to Sarah.\"\nShe looked up. \"I'm kind of busy.\"\n\"You hurt Allie a lot,\" Gregory said.\nShe shrugged, but refused to meet his eyes. \"Yeah, well, sucks to be her.\"\nGregory closed the door behind him, crossed the room and sat down across from Sarah. He asked simply, \"Why?\"\n\"None of your business.\"\nGregory didn't reply. He sat, waiting quietly and expectantly.\nAnd, from Steven's point of view, creepily. \"What's going on?\" he asked Sarah.\n\"Nothing. Allie and I had a fight. Stuff happens. Didn't know she'd sic her lap-dog on me.\"\nIf Gregory was offended, his face didn't show it. Which, to be honest, kind of pissed Steven off even more. Ever since they were kids, his younger cousin's utter inscrutability had always kind of pissed Steven off. And that was before Gregory had humiliated him in public. \"Okay. You heard her. It's none of your business. Go away.\"\nGregory ignored Steven and reminded Sarah, \"You told Allie she wasn't worth being friends with anymore. Did you mean it?\"\nSteven wanted to know the answer to that one himself. \"Ouch. That's kind of cold.\"\n\"It was also personal. Between the two of us. I didn't ask for our conversation to be taken to committee.\"\n\"Look, believe me, Sarah,\" Steven offered. \"I know what it's like to get angry and blurt out stuff other people sometimes see as... harsh.\"\nNow Gregory looked amused.\nAnd Steven really wanted to punch him. Instead, he focused on Sarah, admitting, \"When I get angry, my mouth starts operating without a run code from my brain. I'm sure if you just told Allie you didn't mean it \u2014\"\n\"I meant it,\" Sarah said. She turned to Gregory. \"You can tell her I meant it.\"\n\"Sarah...\" Steven began. \"You guys have been friends, like, forever.\"\n\"Exactly. Which means a whole lot of stuff has gone on that neither one of you knows anything about. And I plan to keep it that way.\"\n\"I want you to destroy him,\" Felicia calmly told Cass as he and Frankie sat across from her in their living room. \"Kevin Fowler. I want you to do whatever you can \u2014 legally and otherwise \u2014 to obliterate him. I want him to lose, I want him disbarred, and I want him to suffer. Actually, in all honesty, I would like him to drop dead. But I'll settle for suffering. Or, at the very least, losing.\"\nFor the umpteenth time since it had first been presented to him, Cass parsed through Lori Ann's guardianship document. \"The problem is, if we challenge this, it's not like custody will automatically go to you. Lori Ann would become a ward of the state. The court will appoint her an advocate, and while he or she will undoubtedly be less obnoxious about it than Fowler \u2014 \"\n\"Hard to imagine anyone could be more, isn't it?\"\n\"I don't think they'd be any better or any easier for us to work with. All those issues he listed for why you wouldn't make the best guardian for Lori Ann, he didn't pull them out of thin air. They're Adoption 101. Judges do care about those things. Besides, there isn't a lot here to work with for a legal challenge. He didn't miss a comma.\"\n\"You mean, he didn't miss a trick. I caught him interviewing a couple of prospective adoptive parents.\"\n\"For Lori Ann?\" Frankie queried.\n\"He said not. But I'd be an idiot to believe him. You can't let a total stranger decide the fate of my own daughter's child, Cass.\"\n\"A court-appointed advocate would be a total stranger, too,\" Cass pointed out. \"And I've already gone ahead and filed a petition to have you named Lori Ann's guardian.\"\n\"Kevin,\" Felicia pronounced the name as if it were a synonym for pestilence. \"Doesn't think the court will like my petition. Remember, I'm single, I'm old, I'm an alcoholic \u2014 \"\n\"Recovering!\" Cass held up a finger and corrected, angrily.\n\"You think Kevin cares?\" Felicia shook her head. \"All he has to do is come up with some picture-perfect, young married couple to make me look bad in comparison...\"\nCass looked at Frankie. Frankie looked at Cass. He raised an eyebrow. She smiled and nodded her head, just once. Cass grinned back and squeezed her hand.\nThen, in near unison, they both turned to Felicia and announced, \"We can adopt her!\"\nAllie realized that a public bathroom on the Bay City University campus was probably not the optimal location for her mission. On the other hand, she doubted that she was the first \u2014 or the last \u2014 person to use it for precisely this purpose, and if evidence was discovered, there'd be a lot of potential suspects in addition to her. Such was the beauty of a large university.\nFurthermore, since her grandmother's house was out of the question, a public bathroom was exactly where Allie was when she took a deep breath and pondered the results of an unquestionably positive home pregnancy test.\nBack in his suite after Kirkland's custody hearing, Kevin filed his day's notes from the Harrison case, and took out the file he'd started for Rick and Mindy Lewis of Springfield.\nSifting through the stack of personal documents they'd provided at his request, Kevin frowned, and reached for the phone, calling Mindy.\nWhen she picked up, he asked, \"You do know that your birth certificate isn't valid, right?\"\nTo read more of Kevin's conversation with Mindy (including her take on the encounter with Felicia), go to: http:\/\/twitter.com\/melindasuelewis","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to Find Road Closures\nHow to Plan an East Coast Road Trip\nHow to Check Road & Weather Conditions\nby Matt McGew; Updated October 05, 2017\nHow to Plan a Road Trip From Chicago to Memphis\nHow to Get Free State Road Maps\nHow to Track a Private Plane in Flight\nHow to Check for Cancelled Flights\nThe U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Highway Administration maintains an online database that links you to the DOT website in each state. These state websites feature real-time road and weather conditions. Searching road and weather conditions allows you to check for weather and construction-related issues you may encounter on specific highways and roadways across the United States.\nGo to the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Traffic and Road Closure Information tool at fhwa.dot.gov\/trafficinfo. Or, you can find a link to this tool in the resources section of this article.\nClick on the state to search road and weather conditions in that state.\nClick on the \"Department of Transportation\" link for the specific state and click the specific website to go to the DOT website for that state.\nClick on the \"Travel\" link or button and select the \"Highway Conditions\" link. Enter the highway number you want to check road and weather conditions for and click the \"Search\" button. Alternatively, some states have clickable maps you can use to search for specific highways. The website will display any adverse conditions you may experience traveling on the highway including weather related problems.\nFHWA: National Traffic and Road Closure Information\nSince 1992 Matt McGew has provided content for on and offline businesses and publications. Previous work has appeared in the \"Los Angeles Times,\" Travelocity and \"GQ Magazine.\" McGew specializes in search engine optimization and has a Master of Arts in journalism from New York University.\nState Park Camping Near Cherokee, NC\nDefinition of a Travel Lane\nHow to Calculate Tolls for a Trip","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Games > DOS games > Sports > Serve & Volley\nServe & Volley\nClick here to play Serve & Volley online\nSports game released by Accolade, Inc. in the year 1988 by the name Serve & Volley is an excellent 3rd-person (Other) perspective game that can be played online by clicking on the link here.\nServe & Volley description\nA simple tennis game with a side view and a completely static camera (i.e., view \u2013 always from the side and from a single point, although the figures of players and moving, of course).\nPlaying on hardcourt surface\nCentre court with grass surface\nReturning a serve on a clay court\nServe & Volley screenshots\nBy the way \u2013 the word \"simple\" is applicable to all the components of this game, that is, to the gameplay, and graphics, but in any case is not a pejorative, on the contrary \u2013 the game is a wonderful feeling of light nostalgia for long-past time fascinating arcades. Because it's still much more arcade than true sports simulator controls \u2013 very simple.\nBeginning a new tournament\nStarting a new game\nMain menu.\nSelect players.\nAbout the game itself to say almost nothing. A choice of two game modes \u2013 single game or a championship with successive passages (and to save the result, then to not start again). You can play together on one computer (it is possible that the game is focused primarily on this mode, as the computer's AI in it is not very strong), and the role of education performs a demo mode where the computer plays with the computer. Graphics, as has been seen above, fairly simple but quite vivid, colorful and though not particularly strong in terms of drawing, but attentive to detail (see the judge and stands with spectators). So though Serve & Volley and can not claim the status of a tennis masterpiece, but to play it to anyone who likes old arcade (even not necessarily sports) games, still stands.\nDo you want to play Serve & Volley online, in your browser? Now you can. Click here to play Serve & Volley online.\nOnce Upon A Time: Abracadabra\nFisher-Price: School Bus Driver\nCircus Games\nMajor Indoor Soccer League\nThe Nine Lives of Secret Agent Katt\nSherlock Holmes in \"Another Bow\"\nQuadrel\nRad Warrior\nBeerworm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home | Book | Airline Tickets | From El Paso | To Victoria\nAirline tickets from El Paso to Victoria\nIf it's airline tickets from El Paso to Victoria you're looking for, you've come to the right place. We fly into more than 100 destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Europe \u2014 including Victoria International Airport \u2014 which means we're able to take you wherever you want to go. Because one of our main priorities has always been to provide superior guests experiences, you can trust that you'll always have a safe, affordable trip. These are just some of the many reasons why Canadians book with WestJet and why you should too.\nFind your tickets to the Garden City at WestJet\nAirport Details: From ELP, El Paso International Airport To YYJ, Victoria International Airport\nBritish Columbia's picture-perfect capital city isn't simply rich with history and heritage \u2014 it's also the perfect destination for a quintessentially relaxing city break. It's a good thing that you're only a quick WestJet flight away from enjoying the all that this great city has to offer. Just don't forget to include the time-honoured tradition of afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel in your itinerary.\nFind airline tickets now and you'll soon be on your way to one of British Columbia's most refreshing and relaxing destinations. No matter the reason for your travel, you can rely on WestJet to get you from El Paso to Victoria so that you can enjoy Beacon Hill Park, the Royal British Columbia Museum and the British Columbia Parliament Buildings.\nFor an exceptional guest experience, book with WestJet today.\nFlights from El Paso to Victoria\nCheap Flights from El Paso to Victoria\nCheap Tickets from El Paso to Victoria\nAirfare from El Paso to Victoria\nLast Minute Flights from El Paso to Victoria\nFlight Deals from El Paso to Victoria\nFlight Tickets from El Paso to Victoria\nLast Minute Flight Deals from El Paso to Victoria\nRound Trip Flights from El Paso to Victoria","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"3 Minutes To Midnight Cracks A Conspiracy On Nintendo Switch In Mid-2019\nScarecrow Studio have announced that 3 Minutes to Midnight will release on Nintendo Switch, a point-and-click comedy adventure that takes inspiration from LucasArts classics like The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam & Max Hit the Road.\nWhen an explosion in New Mexico shatters the night, plucky teenager Betty Anderson wakes with a jolt. But, where is she? And, who is she? Whatever blew up in the desert has wiped her memory clean, but Betty has far more to worry about than amnesia.\nWhether that be a town full of people who aren't what they seem, a corrupt mayor, a secret military base, the mafia, or a potbelly pig with a vendetta, there's also a doomsday plot counting down to the extinction of the human race\u2026 It's down to you to help to crack the conspiracy.\n3 Minutes to Midnight will release on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch worldwide in mid-2019.\nRelated TopicsNintendo eShopNintendo SwitchScarecrow Studio\nRad Rodgers: Radical Edition Out On Nintendo Switch In Early 2019\nPanty Party Out On Nintendo Switch In Spring 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Clinical Trials About \"Symphony Guild\"\nHome \u00bb Clinical Trials \u00bb Clinical Trials About \"Symphony Guild\"\nWe list hundreds of Clinical Trials about \"Symphony Guild\" on BioPortfolio. We draw our references from global clinical trials data listed on ClinicalTrials.gov and refresh our database daily.\nMore Information about \"Symphony Guild\" on BioPortfolio\nWe have published hundreds of Symphony Guild news stories on BioPortfolio along with dozens of Symphony Guild Clinical Trials and PubMed Articles about Symphony Guild for you to read. In addition to the medical data, news and clinical trials, BioPortfolio also has a large collection of Symphony Guild Companies in our database. You can also find out about relevant Symphony Guild Drugs and Medications on this site too.\nSearch Clinical Trials Only by Keyword: Relevance Date\nShowing \"Symphony Guild\" Clinical Trials, all 8\nSingle Arm Study Using the Symphony -- MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound System for the Treatment of Leiomyomas\nSingle arm, first-in human feasibility study using the Symphony - MRI guided focused ultrasound system for the treatment of leiomyomas. The study is expected to accrue over 12 months. This study will help determine the feasibility to ablate leiomyomas, as measured by MR thermometry and contrast enhanced imaging. In addition, the study will look at the efficacy and safety of the treatment, as measured by the reduction in fibroid size and reduction in symptom severity score and a...\nEvaluation of the SafeR Mode in Patients With a Dual Chamber Pacemaker Indication\nThe aim of this study is to assess the benefits from the AAISafeR\/SafeR algorithm of Symphony 2550 or REPLY DR in a wide range of pacemaker patients. The expected benefits will be a result of the reduction of the percentage of ventricular pacing. It contributes to the longevity of the cardiac pacemaker and has an effect on the incidence of sustained (or persistent) Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure. These clinical benefits are a result of spontaneous ventricular act...\nEvaluation of the Reliability and Usability of the Reusable \"BrownieForSymphony\" Pump Set in Home Use\nThe overall purpose of this study is to evaluate the reliability and usability of the reusable BrownieForSymphony pump set in home use. The primary objectives of this study is to asses and compare the System Usability Scale (SUS) score of the BrownieForSymphony pump set and the current used Symphony pump set. Secondary Objectives The secondary objectives of this study are: to evaluate the rate of usability problems with the BrownieForSymphony pump set - to e...\nSYMPHONY: A Study of Macitentan in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension to Validate the PAH-SYMPACT\nSYMPHONY is prospective, multi-center, open-label, single-arm, Phase 3b psychometric validation study of the PAH-SYMPACT, a new quality of life questionnaire for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Patients will be in the study for 5 1\/2 months, 4 months of which they will receive macitentan, 10 mg, once daily. The primary objectives are to demonstrate the final content validity of the PAH SYMPACT instrument, to demonstrate the psychometric characteristics of reliab...\nSpontaneous Atrio Ventricular Conduction Preservation\nIn case of sinus node dysfunction, it is often necessary to choose the safer option provided by a DDD pacemaker even though the most appropriate mode of pacing is AAI mode. In addition to saving energy, the latter mode allows spontaneous ventricular activation, the haemodynamic consequences of which are, in most cases, better than those obtained with dual chamber pacing. Recent studies as the MOST study suggest also that ventricular desynchronization imposed by right ve...\nThe Symphony Triple A Study: Using Symphony in Treatment Decisions Concerning Adjuvant Systemic Therapy\nRationale: Prediction of prognosis in patients with breast cancer is important to determine the indication for adjuvant chemo-, endocrine- and immunotherapy. Apart from the clinicopathological parameters incorporated into the Adjuvant!Online predictive model, the validated 70-gene signature MammaPrint\u00ae is predictive of outcome too. MammaPrint\u00ae is advised in the current Dutch CBO guideline (2012) for hormone receptor positive, invasive ductal breast cancer in individual...\nProbably Relevant\nWomen's Health Research Registry\nWomen have been disproportionately underrepresented in clinical research. Few of the many drugs approved by the FDA have been adequately tested in women. Most common health conditions experienced by both women and men are managed by treatments that have been developed and tested most in men. A new barrier to enrolling women in clinical trials is in effect: HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). The positive benefit of HIPAA\u2014protecting a person...\nComparison of Visual Performance of Four Types of Multifocal Intraocular Lenses\nThis investigation assessed the visual performance of presbyopia and cataract patients after bilateral implantation of 4 distinct sorts of multifocal IOLs: At lisa tri, PanOptix, ReSTOR, and Symfony. The clinical results demonstrated here were excellent for four groups, however, there were also differences in group ReSTOR, UCVA and BCVA for the intermediate and near of the other groups showed less vision also symphony group for far distance demonstrated less vision than other g...\nMore From BioPortfolio on \"Symphony Guild\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u03a3\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u03b9\u03be\u03ad \u03bc\u03b1\u03c2!\n\u0399\u03b4\u03b9\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1 \u03bc\u03ad\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2\n\u0391\u03b9\u03b3\u03af\u03b4\u03b1\n\u0391\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\n\u03a3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b4\u03b5\u03c3\u03b7 \u039c\u03ad\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2\n\u0399\u03b4\u03ad\u03b1\n\u0395\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u03b9\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03ad\u03c2\n\u039d\u03bf\u03bc\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac, \u0391\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03c7\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2 \u039a\u03ce\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1\u03c2 & \u0399\u03b4\u03b9\u03c9\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\n\u039c\u03b5\u03c3\u03bf \u039c\u0391\u0396\u0399\u039a\u0397\u03a3 \u0395\u039d\u0397\u039c\u0395\u03a1\u03a9\u03a3\u0397\u03a3\nCell phone data not \"personal\"? noyb appeals to federal administrative court\n\u039d\u03bf\u03b5\u03bc 15, 2021\n\u0391\u03c5\u03c4\u03ae \u03b7 \u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03af\u03b4\u03b1 \u03b4\u03b5\u03bd \u03b5\u03af\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b8\u03ad\u03c3\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7 \u03b3\u03bb\u03ce\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1 \u03c3\u03b1\u03c2, \u03b4\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03ad\u03ba\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3\u03b7 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9.\n\u0391\u03c5\u03c4\u03ae \u03b7 \u03c3\u03b5\u03bb\u03af\u03b4\u03b1 \u03b5\u03af\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b8\u03ad\u03c3\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7 \u03bc\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf \u03c9\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03cc\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b7 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac. \u039c\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b2\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u0391\u03b3\u03b3\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03c0\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03cc\u03c4\u03c5\u03c0\u03b7 \u03ad\u03ba\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3\u03b7.\nnoyb (free to use)\nData protection authority finds traffic and location data from cell phones not \"personal\" - noyb appeals to federal administrative court\nIn June 2020, noyb had filed a formal complaint against the Austrian mobile provider A1. The reason: A1 had persistently refused to disclose location data and certain traffic data to a customer, citing the outdated ruling practice of the data protection authority prior to the applicability of the GDPR (25.05.2018). The argument: the data on a cell phone would not be \"personal\" because someone other than the owner of the cell phone could have used the device. In mid-October, the Austrian data protection authority (DSB) issued a decision stating that A1 had been justified in refusing to provide the information and that there was no reason to deviate from the previous decision. The decision, which is only superficially substantiated, is not legally binding - noyb has now filed a notice of appeal with the Federal Administrative Court, which will now review the matter.\nLocation data: Your cell phone - but not your data!\nWho else could it have been. Regarding the location data generated by the user's cell phone - these indicate the geographical location of the cell phone - the DSB regrettably saw no reason to depart from its old ruling practice before the GDPR. Since a user cannot prove that the location data generated relates exclusively to him or her, location data is generally not covered by the right to receive a copy of the data under Article 15 of the GDPR. The DPA thus concludes from the abstract possibility that someone else may have used the user's cell phone that the user has no right of access to the data generated by his cell phone - a highly personal, password-protected device. This is despite the fact that the person concerned has protected the cell phone with a PIN, has made a declaration that he has never lent the cell phone and there is no other indication that someone else could have used the cell phone. If one continues this reasoning of the DSB, there is virtually no claim to receive a copy of the data. After all, with any Internet-enabled device or account, it is theoretically possible that someone else is using it.\n\"It is disappointing that the DSB has not taken our complaint as an opportunity to revise your simply illogical ruling practice. Let's think this through: you have a smartwatch? No data disclosure on collected health data, someone else might have been wearing it! You use Netflix? No data disclosure, someone else might have been watching TV with your account! You order regularly on Amazon? No data disclosure, someone else might have placed an order! As a result, the fundamental right to data access would only exist in exceptional cases.\" - Marco Blocher, data protection lawyer at noyb.\nImpossible to prove. Of course, there are scenarios in which, contract holder and cell phone user fall apart - e.g. in the case of a company cell phone or the contract for a minor child. In the case at hand, however, it is a private individual contract of a childless user. Nevertheless, A1 and now also the DSB insinuate without any evidence that he would pass on his cell phone - which, on top of that, is locked by PIN and fingerprint. He would have to prove the opposite, but he could not - even an affidavit of exclusively own use was not accepted by the authority.\n\"Apart from the fact that even the blanket insinuation of third-party use of the private cell phone is completely out of touch with life, the DSB does not allow a user to show that it is indeed exclusively his cell phone. This is also a bottomless pit: A user simply cannot prove exclusive use of a device or account unless he or she videotapes his or her entire life. Here, the DSB should have relied on general life experience and settled for prima facie evidence. With decisions like this one, the DPA is becoming the gravedigger of the data subject rights provided for in the GDPR.\" - Marco Blocher, data protection lawyer at noyb.\nTraffic data: Only the authorities are allowed to know\nMisinterpretation of the legal situation. Regarding traffic data, the DPA also saw no reason to depart from its questionable historical ruling practice. Traffic data includes IP addresses, log data, time and duration of the connection, or the amount of data transmitted. Although the GDPR requires that a user receives a copy of all personal data concerning him, A1 only transmitted an itemized bill, the rest is concealed from the user. The DPA covers this procedure with an undifferentiated standing sentence: the Austrian Telecommunications Act takes precedence over the GDPR as a more specific rule:\n\"Also with regard to traffic data, the DPA simply cited a historical decision as justification and did not respond to our complaint with a single word. The fact that the Austrian Telecommunications Act displaces the rights under the GDPR would only be possible if it implemented rights under the e-Privacy Directive that actually conflict with the GDPR. This is not the case: the e-Privacy Directive does not require a restriction of the right to information under data protection law in any word. Although legal doctrine is also clearly in favor of a right to information also within the scope of the e-Privacy Directive, mobile providers are given what appears to be arbitrary special treatment.\" - Marco Blocher, data protection lawyer at noyb.\nAuthorities may know more than the user? Moreover, it is particularly problematic that the DPA relies, among other things, on \u00a7 99 para 5 TKG 2003 to justify why a mobile user is not to be provided with information about all traffic data. This provision does not even implement the e-Privacy Directive, but was introduced in the course of the \"Data Retention Directive\", which was repealed by the ECJ, and was retained as appropriate. It allows police, public prosecutors and courts to demand a user's traffic data from the mobile network provider in connection with possible criminal data. From this, the DPA concludes that only these state institutions are entitled to access all traffic data - but not the user himself, although Article 15 of the GDPR and Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights enshrine a fundamental right to self-disclosure.\n\"Here, the DPA is completely barking up the wrong tree. Because authorities and courts are allowed to get traffic data from the mobile provider under strict conditions, the user himself should never get it? That is not at all the content or purpose of the provision and not compatible with the GDPR!\" - Marco Blocher, data protection lawyer at noyb.\nNational traditions and special treatments must give way to the GDPR. The GDPR is applicable in all EU member states since 25.05.2018 and replaces national data protection laws that existed before. Within the scope of the e-Privacy Directive (e-Privacy Directive for electronic communications), the member states may or must in some cases also issue special rules under data protection law for \"providers of electronic communications services\" (such as A1). In relation to the GDPR, the following applies: If a national provision implementing the e-Privacy Directive and a GDPR provision pursue the same objective, the GDPR provision must take a back seat if it would impose additional obligations on the provider (Article 95 GDPR). For this reason, consent is not required under the GDPR for technically necessary cookies, for example. For the objective \"data protection rights of data subjects\", however, the e-Privacy Directive does not provide any regulation at all - not even regarding traffic or location data - so that the GDPR rights of data subjects \" (access, rectification, deletion, etc.) apply as everywhere else. There are no additional obligations; a mobile operator such as A1 simply has the same obligations to data subjects under the GDPR as any other company.\nAgainst this background, national special approaches - such as the historical practice of the DPAs - must not be maintained. After all, the GDPR requires uniform application throughout the EU. noyb is committed to ensuring that this European standard is also enforced. 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Austrian privacy and data rights campaigner Max Schrems's NYOB organisation, which filed the original complaint against the technology giant, has published the commission's draft decision online.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bromances Proven To Reduce Stress\n\u00a9 AskMen\nTrending News: Stressed? You, My Friend, Need A Bromance\nBecause beers with the boys on Friday is actually good for you.\nBromances can help keep you calm by producing the stress-busting hormone oxytocin \u2014 and perhaps give you the urge to have a quick cuddle, too. Hug it out, big guy.\nEmbrace the bromance, because new research shows that men who have friendships with other men have higher levels of the \"cuddle hormone\" oxytocin, which helps you cope with stress.\nScientists at the University of California tested the benefits of the male friendships on rats, and found that it helped them cope with mild stress. You know, like having their cheese taken away or stumbling across a mousetrap.\nThey put pairs of rats in cages together, before moving them into a confined space on their own for three hours. When the rats were reunited, they were friendlier with each other than they were before, and they touched and huddled together more \u2014 quite a surprise since male rats can often be aggressive when housed together.\nThe researchers measured oxytocin levels in the rats' brains, and found that levels were higher in the rats who had buddies.\nRELATED: Why Men Lose Friends In Their 20s\nThe researchers didn't test whether the same was true of male-female relationships, because the experiment would have invariably ended in sex, said Elizabeth Kirby, author of the paper. Presumably she was still talking about the rats.\nBut she said the study showed that male friendships can help to combat stress.\n\"A bromance can be a good thing. Males are getting a bad rap when you look at animal models of social interactions, because they are assumed to be instinctively aggressive. But even rats can have a good cuddle \u2014 essentially a male-male bromance \u2014 to help recover from a bad day.\"\n\"Having friends is not un-masculine,\" she added. \"These rats are using their rat friendships to recover from what would otherwise be a negative experience. If rats can do it, men can do it too,\" she said.\nBut, she says, a bromance doesn't have to be deep and meaningful to be healthy.\n\"Any sort of social bonding increases oxytocin levels \u2014 it doesn't have to be a deep discussion,\" she says.\nAsk The Big Question\nWho says the male-female scenario wouldn't have been good for stress levels, too?\nDisrupt Your Feed\nSo now we know rats don't like to be alone \u2014 that means where there's one\u2026\nDrop This Fact\nEven a handshake can increase oxytocin levels.\nTrending News: Get Over Bad Memories By Moving Your Eyes\nHow To Stay Calm Under Pressure, According To A Former Secret Agent","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"From My Perspective\nViews From The Ring Side\nFor The Culture\nHealth Is Wealth\nWorld Press Winning Photo\nMY ART MY RULES\nTerrell Groggins Presents his winning photo by World Press Photo, and Istanbul Photo.\n\"Claressa Shields Strikes Back\"\nOlympic champion Claressa Shields (right) meets Hanna Gabriels in a boxing match at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on 22 June.\nShields suffered a first-round knock-down by Gabriels\u2014the first in her career\u2014but went on to win the match by unanimous decision. Shields is the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing, and the first (male or female) to win a gold back-to-back in successive Olympic Games. She has had only one loss in her career, against British World Champion Savannah Marshall, in 2012.\nhttps:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/8941764\/from-migrant-caravans-to-undercover-iran-the-highlights-of-the-2019-istanbul-photo-awards\/\nterrell@myartmyrules.com\n\u2014 MY ART MY RULES\u2014\nAVAILABLE FOR ASSIGNMENT","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"U.S. Track & Field Athlete Kenna Wolter Accepts Sanction for Anti-Doping Rule Violations\nSanction, Track & Field \/ December 22, 2017 October 29, 2019\nUSADA announced today that Kenna Wolter of Santa Maria, Calif., an athlete in the sport of track and field, has accepted a two-year sanction for her anti-doping rule violations while a member of the Thinking Feet Track Club.\nIn 2016, USADA obtained non-analytical evidence that Wolter, 28, used and possessed two dietary supplements, one containing ostarine and the other containing methylstenbolone. She used one of the supplements for a couple weeks in late 2015 and the other supplement for two to three weeks in March 2016. Ostarine and methylstenbolone are non-Specified Substances in the class of Anabolic Agents and prohibited at all times under the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing, the United States Olympic Committee National Anti-Doping Policies, and the International Association of Athletics Federations Anti-Doping Rules, all of which have adopted the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code) and the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List.\nDuring USADA's investigation, Wolter, who had previously been in the USADA Registered Testing Pool and received anti-doping education, immediately admitted to using dietary supplements containing prohibited substances based on the recommendation and assurances of her coach, Kenta Bell of the Thinking Feet Track Club. USADA concluded that a reduction in the otherwise applicable four-year period of ineligibility was appropriate based on Wolter's prompt admission of her anti-doping rule violations, full cooperation, and substantial assistance to USADA officials since the start of its investigation.\nWolter's two-year period of ineligibility began on December 13, 2016, the date she admitted her anti-doping rule violations. In addition, Wolter has been disqualified from all competitive results obtained on and subsequent to November 30, 2015, the approximate date she first possessed and used a prohibited substance, including forfeiture of any medals, points and prizes. To date, Wolter is one of nine individuals affiliated with the Thinking Feet Track Club to have accepted a sanction during the course of USADA's investigation.\nAlong with education and testing, robust anti-doping programs enable investigations stemming from tips and whistleblowers. USADA makes available a number of ways to report the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in sport in an effort to protect clean athletes and promote clean competition. Any tip can be reported using the USADA Play Clean Tip Center, by email at playclean@usada.org, by phone at 1-877-Play Clean (1-877-752-9253) or by mail at the address below.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Qld shuts border to Sydney amid outbreak\nMarty Silk\n20 December 2020, 12:44 am \u00b73-min read\nQueensland will close its border to greater Sydney amid an outbreak of coronavirus that has reached 70 cases in the NSW capital.\nPremier Annastacia Palaszczuk says people from Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Illawarra-Shoalhaven will be ordered into 14-day quarantine on arrival in Queensland from 1am on Monday.\nQueenslanders in the NSW capital have been given until 1am Tuesday to get home, but they will need to be tested for COVID-19 and go into self-isolation on arrival.\n\"If you are from greater Sydney now is not the time to travel to Queensland,\" Ms Palaszczuk said.\n\"We love you, we want you to have a peaceful Christmas at home, and hopefully in the months to come we'll be able to welcome you back to our wonderful Sunshine State, but now is not the time.\"\nThe premier said police checkpoints will return to the state's road borders with NSW and at the state's airports, just three weeks after they were removed.\nDeputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the checkpoints will be set up as soon as possible.\n\"So anyone that's in Sydney now thinking 'I can drive through to Queensland and slip through', they will probably find a checkpoint by the time they get here,\" he warned.\nCommissioner Gollschewski said home quarantine orders will also be strictly enforced, with a northern beaches resident and an international flight crew member recently fined for breaches.\nMs Palaszczuk also warned venues to \"get their house in order\" after an inadequate check-in system at a Brisbane pub hindered the work of contact tracers earlier this week.\nShe said some names on paper sign-in forms at the Glen Hotel at Eight Mile Plains were illegible, making it hard to trace people who may have come into contact with a NSW COVID-19 case who visited on Tuesday.\nThe premier said all clubs, pubs and restaurants must implement electronic check-in systems by 3pm on Wednesday.\n\"As I said the majority of people are doing the right thing, but people now have had months to get their house in order and we are in a serious situation, so that means we must be able to contact trace at any step in time,\" Ms Palaszczuk said.\nHealth Minister Yvette D'Ath said inspectors will blitz venues and businesses across the state to enforce COVID-19 health measures from Sunday.\nShe also said even though many restrictions had been relaxed in recent weeks, social distancing, hygiene measures and checking into venues remain critical.\n\"Let's not wait until we have community transmission again before we act, COVID-19 is as contagious today as it was at the start of 2020,\" Ms D'Ath said.\nChief Health Officer Jeannette Young is worried that traces of the virus have turned up in sewage testing in tourist areas including the Gold Coast and Cairns, as well as Cleveland on Brisbane's bayside and Townsville in the state's north.\nShe urged anyone from Sydney, and particularly the northern beaches, who is already in Queensland to get tested.\nMs Palaszczuk said if cases continue to balloon in NSW it would be necessary to hold a national cabinet meeting.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Croatia \/ The Museum of naive art and modern art Gallery\nThe Museum of naive art and modern art Gallery\nPhotos and description\nThe Museum of naive art - Museum of fine arts in Zagreb, devoted to the work of naive artists of the 20th century. The Museum Fund consists of more than 1,850 works of art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and engravings are mostly Croats, but there are other well-known international artists of this genre.\nIn 1952 in Zagreb was founded Peasant art Gallery. In 1956 it was known as the Gallery of primitive art and was part of the Municipal Gallery (now Gallery of modern art). Since 1994, in accordance with the decision of the Croatian Parliament, the Museum called the Croatian Museum of Naive Art. The Museum works according to strict museological principles, and is considered the world's first Museum of Naive Art. Since 2002, the Museum focused on coverage of schools and students and the intensification of education each year prior to the International day of the Museum.\nNaive, or primitive, primitive art is an independent segment of art of the 20th century. Naive art appeared in Croatia at the beginning of 30-ies. Naive art was originally associated with the works of peasants and workers, of which the most successful over time, became professional artists. To the naive art is represented by works by artists that are somehow self-taught, have not undergone special training, but who have reached a high level of art. Recognizable individual style and poetic nature distinguishes naive artists from \"fans\". The vision of the artist-primitivist typically display unusual proportions and certain non-Boolean form and space. Thus, the artists Express their free creative imagination by analogy with other areas of 20th-century art, such as symbolism, expressionism, cubism and surrealism.\nIn Croatia, naive art is also seen as a democratic movement, which proves that, regardless of formal training, anyone can create a work of art. The overall themes of the work include such as \"joy of life\", \"lost childhood\" \"in the world\", etc.\nIn the Museum collection, the focus is on Croatian artists famous Chlebinska school, and also some independent artists. The collection of work, starting in 1930. Known generali\u0107 was one of the first naive artists in Croatia, who developed a distinct creative style and have attained a high professional level in his art. In the 30-ies is dominated by social issues, while in later works show an idealistic landscapes that give the imagination greater scope than image just open space. The work of the second generation Chlebinska school artists (50-60) include the figures of the burlesque and the grotesque, as well as works inspired by biblical topics, with a strong use of colors.\nThe Museum organizes special thematic exhibitions focusing on individual artists or to highlight certain aspects of naive art.\nIn the gallery of modern art exhibited the most complete collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings 19th-20th centuries Croatian artists. The collection numbers around 10,000 works of art from 1934 in the historic Palace Vranyczany in the centre of Zagreb.\nGallery of modern art, and originally national for Croatian art, dates from the early 1900's, when it was founded the artistic society of the paintings and sculptures acquired by their members, as well as donations from Bishop Strossmayer. In 1905 was purchased 3 works in Foundation future Gallery of contemporary art. The collection grew gradually and until 1914 was presented only to interested parties. As the collection expanded, in 1934, the gallery moved into its present building. Vranyczany Palace was built in 1882. Great techniques of the past were replaced by the contemplative atmosphere of the Gallery of modern art.\nComplete reconstruction of the Palace took place from 1993 to 2005, when the current exhibition was presented to the public. Two floors of the Palace became equipped contemporary galleries, showing visitors a permanent collection of Croatian modern paintings and sculptures. In a completely renovated historical rooms, the gallery presents \"200 years of Croatian fine arts (1800-2000)\", a representative selection of 650-700 of the best artists, sculptors and manufacturers of medals. Gallery of modern art has become the best known and most complete Museum of Croatian modern art. Since 1960, there are retrospective and monographic exhibitions of works by famous Croatian artists as well as theme exhibitions of Croatian and European modern art.\nIn addition to the permanent exhibition, the Gallery of Modern art holds a special exhibition. In 2009 he created a multi-sensory Tactile Gallery, which aims to help visually impaired visitors to experience the main features of the Croatian modern art through touch and sound.\nIn 2010 was opened a new multimedia exhibition entitled \"the iconography of the cities in the Croatian art of the first half of the 20th century.\" The viewer presents the motif of the city in drawing, painting, graphics, artistic photos: on posters and in films, in literature and music. The exhibition includes more than 150 works.\nGallery Me\u0161trovi\u0107\nThe Strossmayer Gallery\nThe Croatian school Museum\nGallery old and new masters in the Palace of Sermage\nThe Croatian railway Museum\nThe Croatian historical Museum\nTechnical Museum of Zagreb\nCroatian natural history Museum\nSpain-Canaries\n\u00a9 2016 Worldtourisminfo.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Says \"if the (Iran nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get\" $150 billion.\n\u2014 Donald Trump on Sunday, August 16th, 2015 in an interview on \"Meet the Press\"\nDonald Trump: Iran gets to keep $150 billion even if U.S. rejects nuclear deal\nBy Lauren Carroll on Sunday, August 16th, 2015 at 6:26 p.m.\nBillionaire GOP candidate Donald Trump sits down with Chuck Todd for an expansive interview about his positions on immigration, Iran and ISIS on Aug. 16, 2015.\nWhether Congress approves it or not, Iran will still reap all the financial benefits of the nuclear deal, Donald Trump said on NBC's Meet the Press Aug. 16.\nWhen asked by host Chuck Todd how he would work with the Iran deal if he becomes president, Trump, running for the Republican nomination, said he would be \"tough\" on the contract, but it would be hard given all the money Iran would already have acquired as a result of the deal.\n\"The problem is by the time I got in there, they will have already received the $150 billion,\" Trump said. \"Do you know if the deal gets rejected they still get the money? Which is something I found out a week ago. I couldn't believe it. If the deal gets rejected, they still get all of this money. Iran is going to be unbelievably powerful and unbelievably rich.\"\nDoes Iran actually get $150 billion from this deal? And if Congress rejects the deal, does Iran still get the money? Let's take one question at a time.\nThe $150 billion\nIt's true that Iran will reap significant economic benefits from the deal because many sanctions levied against Iran will be lifted as long as Iran complies with restrictions on its nuclear program. But it's not like Iran will automatically receive a check or, as some critics have called it, a signing bonus.\n\"Will some considerable portion get transferred to Iran? Sure. But not all of it will automatically. That's not how this works,\" said Michael Malloy, a law professor at University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and an expert on economic sanctions.\nFirst, the money already belongs to Iran; Iran just hasn't been able to access it. The $150 billion figure, primarily thrown around by critics, typically refers to the dollar amounts of Iran's foreign assets that could be unfrozen when sanctions are lifted. An example is money Iran has earned from selling oil but is held by a foreign bank.\nThere's also the many billions of dollars Iran has lost in revenues and opportunity costs because the country has not been able to fully participate in the global marketplace, Malloy said.\nBut $150 billion is on the high end of estimates of the value of Iran's foreign assets, which start as low as $25 billion, said Garbis Iradian, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance. Most experts we interviewed, including Iradian, peg the amount of unfrozen assets at about $100 billion, but no one is 100 percent sure of the amount.\nYou can probably get to $150 billion if you count up every possible type of money that sanctions have made difficult for Iran to access and use, said Richard Nephew, an expert on economic sanctions at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.\nIran has financial obligations other than the sanctions, so even if all the sanctions are lifted, they won't suddenly have all of these assets at their disposal. For example, Iran owes billions to China for infrastructure projects. Lower estimates take into account restrictions on the money other than the sanctions, Nephew said.\nSo even if the total assets are $150 billion, it's unlikely that that much will actually be available to Iran when sanctions are lifted.\nThe Obama administration has said that after Iran pays its outstanding financial obligations, it will have about $56 billion at its disposal.\nWhat if Congress rejects the deal?\nWhile the exact amount of Iran's unlocked sanctions is less precise than Trump describes, experts told us that Trump's broader point is largely correct: Even if Congress does not approve lifting the United States' sanctions, Iran will likely be able to get a good chunk of the money it currently cannot access.\nThis is because other countries and international bodies, including the European Union and the United Nations, could decide to stop enforcing their own sanctions against Iran anyway.\nIradian estimated that Iran would be able to access $40 billion of its currently inaccessible assets in that scenario, and the Iranian economy could get an even bigger boost if European companies decided to invest heavily in Iran.\nThe United Nations, for one, has already passed a resolution to provide Iran with the funds withheld under the sanctions if Iran meets its end of the bargain, noted George Perkovich, an expert on nuclear strategy and vice president of studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.\nOf course, Iran wouldn't be able to access all of its assets in this scenario because much of them are tied up in the United States' sanctions.\n\"There would be some crumbling of the sanctions wall, but that does not on its own free up the entire $100 billion,\" Malloy said, adding that the United States controls much of the petroleum market, which is important to Iran's economy.\nAt the end of the day, the discussion entails a lot of speculation, but nearly every expert said there's a reasonable likelihood that other countries would choose to stop enforcing sanctions no matter what the United States decides to do.\nIt's worth noting that it will be difficult for Congress to maintain the sanctions because there would have to be enough votes to survive a presidential veto.\nTrump said of Iran that \"if the (nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get\" $150 billion.\nExperts told us that even if Congress rejected the nuclear deal -- thus maintaining current U.S. sanctions -- other countries could stop enforcing their own sanctions anyway. As a result, Iran would be able to access at least some of its assets that have been frozen under international sanctions. However, experts said it's highly unlikely that this would amount to $150 billion, the maximum estimate of how much Iran could benefit by the lifting of all international sanctions without regard to Iran's outstanding financial obligations. Without United States participation, the best estimate we could find was $40 billion.\nTrump's claim is partially accurate but cherry-picks the high end of estimates for the unfrozen assets. We rate Trump's claim Half True.\nPublished: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 at 6:26 p.m.\nResearched by: Lauren Carroll\nEdited by: Katie Sanders\nSubjects: Foreign Policy, Nuclear\nNBC, Meet the Press transcript, Aug. 16, 2015\nNew York Times, \"Value of Iran Sanctions Relief Is Hard to Measure,\" Aug. 5, 2015\nPolitiFact, \"Bill O'Reilly tells Huckabee: Russia, China 'said clearly' they would not keep Iran sanctions,\" July 30, 2015\nPolitiFact, \"Israeli ambassador uses odd logic to relate Iran's frozen assets to the U.S. treasury,\" July 17, 2015\nWhite House, Iran Deal Q&A, accessed Aug. 16, 2015\nLobeLog, \"Iran's Economy after the Nuclear Deal,\" July 20, 2015\nPhone interview, Michael Malloy, law professor at McGeorge School of Law, Aug. 16, 2015\nPhone interview, George Perkovich, vice president at Carnegie Endowment, Aug. 16, 2015\nEmail interview, Garbis Iradian, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance, Aug. 16, 2015\nEmail interview, Richard Nephew, program director at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Aug. 16, 2015\nEmail interview, Jim Walsh, research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program, Aug. 16, 2015\nEmail interview, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, economics professor at Virginia Tech, Aug. 16, 2015\nEmail interview, Matthew Bunn, professor at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affaris, Aug. 16, 2015","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"April 2018, Week 2\nSCREEN-L April 2018, Week 2\ntext\/plain; charset=\"Windows-1252\"\nMon, 9 Apr 2018 14:32:36 +0000\nScreening a Place of Darkness\nAlison Mailloux <[log in to unmask]>\nDear Screen-L Subscribers,\nWe would like to announce two new horror publications from University of Texas Press, which we hope will be of interest.\nScreening Stephen King\nAdaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television\nhttp:\/\/www.combinedacademic.co.uk\/screening-stephen-king\nSince the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer's work has been adapted over a long period within a single genre and across a variety of media\u2014and what that can tell us about King, about adaptation, and about film and TV horror. Starting from the premise that King has transcended ideas of authorship to become his own literary, cinematic, and televisual brand, Screening Stephen King explores the impact and legacy of over forty years of King film and television adaptations.\nSimon Brown first examines the reasons for King's literary success and then, starting with Brian De Palma's Carrie, explores how King's themes and style have been adapted for the big and small screens. He looks at mainstream multiplex horror adaptations from Cujo to Cell, low-budget DVD horror films such as The Mangler and Children of the Corn franchises, non-horror films, including Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, and TV works from Salem's Lot to Under the Dome. Through this discussion, Brown identifies what a Stephen King film or series is or has been, how these works have influenced film and TV horror, and what these influences reveal about the shifting preoccupations and industrial contexts of the post-1960s horror genre in film and TV.\nUniversity of Texas Press |  | March 2018 | 240pp | 9781477314920 | Paperback | \u00a322.99*\n*Price subject to change.\nA Place of Darkness\nThe Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema\nKendall R. Phillips\nhttp:\/\/www.combinedacademic.co.uk\/a-place-of-darkness\n\"Film is a telling lens for cultural history. . .[and] the book's central arguments make for great reading, as Phillips lays out the ways that proto-horror movies contained distinct and disparate rhythms (suspense, surprise, superstition), how the need for legitimacy led to literary adaptation as a horror standard, how movies developed alongside audiences to bring new immediacy to onscreen dread, and how shifting visions of the Other forced movies to constantly renegotiate what, exactly, people were meant to be afraid of.\" - NPR Books\nHorror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term \"horror film\" was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty kinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term \"horror film.\"\nUsing a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since.\nWith all best wishes,\nCombined Academic Publishers\nOnline resources for film\/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite\nhttp:\/\/www.ScreenSite.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vincent Kompany set to return for Manchester City's Champions League semi-final clash with Real Madrid... but Yaya Toure is a doubt\nVincent Kompany was rested for Manchester City's win against Stoke\nBut Manuel Pellegrini has confirmed Kompany is set to return on Tuesday\nManchester City host Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals\nYaya Toure is a doubt after coming off with a thigh injury\nBy Chris Wheeler for MailOnline\nVincent Kompany is ready to lead Manchester City into Tuesday's Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, but Yaya Toure could be a doubt for the Etihad clash.\nKompany was rested for City's win over Stoke on Saturday after making a comeback from his latest calf injury at Newcastle on Tuesday.\nManager Manuel Pellegrini thought it would have been too much of a risk to play his skipper three times in seven days, but confirmed that Kompany is set to take on Cristiano Ronaldo.\nVincent Kompany pictured in training earlier this week - he is set to play against Real Madrid on Tuesday\nYaya Toure leaves the pitch after suffering an injury during Saturday's match against Stoke City\nToure walks off to recieve treatment as Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini looks on concerned\nManchester City 4-0 Stoke: Fernando, Sergio Aguero and... Manuel Pellegrini admits Manchester City spared him feeling... Isco was on the brink of joining Manchester City before he... Everton and Leicester interested in signing Manchester City...\n'Vincent is okay, he worked this morning,' said the City boss, who also rested Fernandinho and left Kevin De Bruyne on the bench.\n'It was a risk to play two games in 72 hours. If he had played today he could maybe have had problems for Tuesday. It was better for him not to take a risk.'\nDavid Silva played 57 minutes on his return from an ankle injury, and Pellegrini also took off Fernando as a precaution after the Brazilian felt discomfort in his knee.\nHowever, Toure struggled to finish the game with a thigh injury.\n'The doctor will assess him,' said Pellegrini. 'Yaya finished with a muscle injury so we'll see tomorrow.'\nToure is helped to his feet on the Etihad pitch as his Manchester City team-mates look on\nKompany (right) shares a hug with team-mate Kelechi Iheanacho during Thursday's training session","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Flying Clubs Club Connector Newsletter Question of the Month: Can a Club Enter into A Reciprocal Use Agreement with Another Club?\nQuestion of the Month: Can a Club Enter into A Reciprocal Use Agreement with Another Club?\nOctober 18, 2020 By Stephen Bateman\nWe rarely get a question that we can answer with a definitive yea or nay. Most flying club and other aviation questions require vague responses such as \"may be\", followed by an examination of rules, regulations and interpretations. This one, however, is definitive and is categorially and resoundingly\u2026NO!\nWe do see the point and intent, though. Perhaps flying club A operates a Piper Lance, whereas flying club B has a Stinson. Members of both clubs agree that it would be nice to have access to both planes, so they can share the features of the aircraft with a wider group of pilots. All they have to do is include each other's member roster on the scheduling system, and off they go\u2026right? Again, a resounding\u2026NO!\nRegular readers of Club Connector will know that flying clubs, whilst not themselves identified in any Federal Aviation Regulation (unlike members who, when acting as PIC must abide by all regulations relating to their certificate and the certification of the aircraft), clubs are most definitely controlled in behavior, operations and membership\u2014especially those clubs that operate from airports that have received public funding and are so obligated under \"grant assurances\". This applies to pretty much every public use, publicly funded airport and even some privately owned airfields. See the link at the end of this article to determine if your airport is so obligated.\nWith the demise of Advisory Circular 00-25, the legal book-of-words pertaining to flying clubs is FAA Order 5190.6: The Airport Compliance Manual and its Amendment. Surprisingly, the amendment did not revise the Order from version 6B to 6C and so it is still relatively unknown by airport managers, FSDOs and others.\nThe Order is quite clear in the definition of a flying club (operating at a federally obligated airport):\n\u2026a flying club is a nonprofit or not-for-profit entity (e.g., corporation, association, or partnership) organized for the express purpose of providing its members with aircraft for their personal use and enjoyment, only.\nThe definition continues to state that club aircraft must be vested in the name of the club and (equally) owned by all its members. As an aside, in a Directors Determination, the FAA expanded the meaning of \"ownership\" to include the case of clubs that lease aircraft. More details can be found in Question of the Month in the March 2018 edition of the Club Connector newsletter.\nIt is clear, then, that only club members can fly club aircraft and those members must have an equal responsibility for those aircraft. To do otherwise, for example non-members acting as PIC in club aircraft, would mean that the \"club\" is acting as a provider of commercial aviation services (such as an FBO renting aircraft), which puts the operation on a whole different footing, as detailed in the Amendment. Moreover, you may get into big trouble with the airport, FAA, IRS and your insurance company.\nSo, there can be no notion of one club providing reciprocal services to another club. They are separate organizations, with separate members and operate aircraft for those members, only.\nPerhaps the same end can be achieved by looking at the intention\u2014which let's assume is that club members want to get access to aircraft not in the club's fleet, or perhaps to fly in an area different from home base. Of course, there is nothing wrong with buddying-up with other clubs to participate in fly-outs (and ins!), club meetings, safety sessions and so on.\nWorking with the assumption that your club members want access to different airplanes and different flying experiences, let's look at a few ways you can achieve the same end, but without becoming a rogue club:\nChange the fleet. This sounds a bit drastic, but we know of at least one club that discovered during a strategic planning survey of members, that they all would prefer a different club aircraft! So, ask the question\u2014are members still satisfied with the club's mission and equipment? If not, change it!\nExpand the fleet. If members are looking for different flying experiences, perhaps it is time to expand the fleet. This can get a bit involved, as everyone will likely have a different airplane in mind, so we suggest you review Chapter 7 in \"The Guide to Starting a Flying Club\", as well as read the Club Connector article Question of the Month July 2019: How do we go about adding a club aircraft?\nExpand your reach. If you want to expand your radius of operations and attract new members, think about setting up multiple bases of operations\u2014under one club banner, of course. Depending on your location, this may look like a \"wing\" of your club at a resort airport, an island strip, a floatplane base\u2014anything that fits your dream and mission. This is the theme of this month's Flying Club Spotlight. We also spoke about this back in 2014, when we followed the Octopus Flying Club as it expanded operations from its home base in Maryland, to additional location in Florida.\nMerge with another club. We have heard of situations where one club might think about \"amalgamating\" with another. Perhaps the clubs operate from the same airport or at least close by, and they see value in joining together to get economies of scale. As mentioned earlier, only club members can fly that club's aircraft, so merging the clubs would appear to be a solution. It's not quite as easy as merging the rosters, as presumably both clubs are established as legal entities (non-profit corporation or LLC) in their respective states, and aircraft for each club are likely owned and registered, or leased, in the name of each club. The way around this would be close down one club and transfer its assets to the other club (or close down both ands start from scratch). We strongly advise you to speak with a business lawyer in your state to ensure that this is done correctly, and to minimize tax (including sales tax) implications.\nIs Your Airport Federally Obligated?\nTo determine if your airport is federally obligated (has received federal funds for improvements and so is held to the contract of grant assurances), follow this link https:\/\/www.gcr1.com\/5010web\/\nEnter the three-character airport identifier\u2014for example FDK for Frederick Airport\u2014and click on SUBMIT.\nOn the \"General Information Tab\", which is the initial page that pops up, scroll down to the NPIAS line (National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems).\nIt will look something like: NPIAS\/Federal Agreement: NGY\nThe NGY means: N = Airport is in the NPIAS. G = Grant Obligations. Y = Civil rights related assurance (always accompanies G). The other letter that you might see is \"S\" = Surplus Property\u2014meaning the airport land is obligated in perpetuity.\nAn airport that is not bound under grant assurance will not have any codes on the NPIAS line, for example at York Airport, in Pennsylvania (THV)\nAs always, fly lots and fly safe.\nStephen Bateman\nDirector, Flying Clubs Initiative\nSteve is Director of the You Can Fly Flying Clubs Initiative, which helps start and grow flying clubs, nationwide. Steve is a CFI, an AOPA staff instructor, LSRM-A and FAASTeam lead representative. Contact Steve at [email protected]\nGo to Stephen Bateman's Profile","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ News \/ Erewash MP presents train station petition to Downing Street\nErewash MP presents train station petition to Downing Street\nApril 20, 2012 By Ilkeston Railway Station Leave a Comment\nMember of Parliament for Erewash Jessica Lee welcomed Peter Hemmett, Editor of the Ilkeston Advertiser to Westminster yesterday (Thursday 19th April 2012) where they handed the Advertiser's \"Get Ilkeston Back on Track\" petition into Number 10 Downing Street.\nThe petition, organised by the Ilkeston Advertiser, contains 1,564 signatures calling on the Government to reopen a railway station in Ilkeston.\nIt marks the latest step in Miss Lee's long running campaign to re-establish a station in the town after a gap of more than 45 years. Ms Lee and Mr Hemmett had previously made one final push for signatures for the petition on Saturday (14th April 2012) in Ilkeston market place.\nImmediately after the Downing Street presentation at 2:30pm, Ms Lee returned to Parliament where she spoke in the Westminster Hall Debate on Regeneration. In her speech Ms Lee highlighted how infrastructure and in particular a new train station would be a integral to the successful regeneration of Ilkeston as a town.\n\"Thank you very much, Mr Howarth, for calling me to speak. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon.\nI apologise to all present for my late arrival for this debate. It was not without sending a note to the Chairman in advance to explain, and indeed the reason I was detained is entirely material to the speech that I will now make.\nI was on the way to Downing Street for an appointment at 2.30 pm to hand in a petition. It is a petition prepared by my local newspaper, the Ilkeston Advertiser, which has been running a campaign to reopen the train station in Ilkeston, one of the two towns in my constituency of Erewash. This is a long-running campaign by the newspaper; indeed, it has been a community campaign for many years. The reason it is relevant to this debate is that we have already heard about a number of different aspects of regeneration, but for me infrastructure is at the heart of regeneration and it is a key element of what we are trying to achieve around the country when we consider regeneration.\nI will expand on that point about infrastructure and say why it is relevant to my constituency of Erewash. Ilkeston is now the largest town in the country without a train station and, as I have already said, it is one of the two towns in the constituency of Erewash.\nThe lack of a train station in the town brings difficulties because it deprives people in my area, particularly young people, of the mobility to go out and seek extra training and new jobs. They could get to both Nottingham and Derby much more quickly if they had the mobility that a train service offers. Of course, a train service would also bring visitors, shoppers and new businesses into the town and, in my view, the resulting opportunities would be endless. Derbyshire county council, which is doing a great deal to try and press for this project, says that there would be 150,000 extra journeys if the project were successful, which would bring massive economic benefits to Ilkeston and indeed beyond.\nSo I have started my speech by referring to what I regard as a key component of the whole concept of regeneration, which is mobility for people, and that mobility is achieved through infrastructure.\nIn many other ways, my constituency is quite blessed in terms of infrastructure. The M1 motorway runs right through the heart of my constituency and, as I have explained, we are near to both Nottingham and Derby, and we are also near to Sheffield. However, in terms of social mobility and particularly for young people, train travel is extremely important, and local rail services\u2014along with longer term and larger infrastructure projects such as High Speed 2\u2014are key in achieving that social mobility. I will certainly continue to do all that I can to campaign for the train station in Ilkeston to reopen. I can tell all right hon. and hon. Members in Westminster Hall today that our campaign group has been lucky enough to have had a meeting with the Secretary of State for Transport on this matter, and we are waiting for a response from her. I look forward to receiving her response and I know that our campaign has backing from across the community in Erewash.\"\nCommenting further after the debate Miss Lee added:\n\"We in Ilkeston no longer want to be known as the largest town in the country without a train station and the fantastic response from local resident to this petition is testament to that. This campaign goes beyond political affiliation; it is first and foremost about doing what is right for the people of Ilkeston. I believe a new station is key to the regeneration of the town, bring us massive social and economic benefits and can assure the people of Ilkeston that I will continue to work hard to make the proposed station a reality. I would like thank Peter and The Ilkeston Advertiser for their continued support for the Ilkeston Train Station Campaign.\"\nSource: Ilkeston Advertiser\nFiled Under: News Tagged With: Downing Street, Erewash, ilkeston, Ilkeston Advertiser, railway, Westminster","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WWF files court proceedings against government department\nover Sakhalin II oil-and-gas project\nby WWF-UK and The Corner House\nfirst published 15 August 2007\nOn 15 August 2007, WWF and The Corner House filed for a judicial review of the decision by the UK Government's Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) to support Sakhalin II oil-and-gas project off the far eastern coast of Russia.\nUnder the Freedom of Information Act, The Corner House obtained a letter written by ECGD to the Bermuda-registered Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC) on 4 March 2004. The letter confirms that ECGD has approved conditional financial support for $650 million of contracts for two British sub-contractors of SEIC (with interest, the amount of public money at risk amounts to $1 billion according to ECGD's figures). (Until December 2006, Royal Dutch Shell was the majority shareholder of SEIC, but has since sold most of its holdings in the company to the Russian state-owned Gazprom.)\nDespite the March 2004 letter, the then Department of Trade and Industry government minister, Mike O'Brien, subsequently told Parliament that no decision on ECGD support had been taken, a position that the ECGD still maintains.\nIn correspondence with Friends of the Earth UK, ECGD has since confirmed that its March 2004 conditional decision on Sakhalin is legally-binding. The decision thus conflicts with ECGD's stated policy to give preliminary indications of support \"entirely without commitment\".\nThe ECGD's promise of support, moreover, was made before assessing the environmental and social impacts arising from Sakhalin II, whereas its own policy stipulates that support can be given only after such assessments have been made.\nThe oil-and-gas project threatens the critically endangered Pacific Gray Whale, salmon fisheries, internationally-important wetlands and migratory bird habitats. Local communities have been adversely affected without having been consulted or provided with adequate compensation.\nAlthough the ECGD states that its support is conditional upon being reassured as to these impacts, it is now impossible to mitigate many of them since the Sakhalin II oil-and-gas project has already been substantially constructed.\nWWF has today filed court proceedings [1] against a British Government department to expose operations that undermine the UK's 'ethical foreign policy' and are seriously damaging the environment.\nWWF, in partnership with environmental and social justice organisation The Corner House, has filed the case against the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) -- the government department charged with facilitating British business abroad.\nThis follows the discovery, through a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, that ECGD had committed to underwriting $1bn of contracts for the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC) -- despite three years of assurances to the British public that this decision was still being considered.\nSEIC is a Bermuda registered company responsible for Sakhalin II, a major oil and gas development in Russia. The Sakhalin II project, which is in fact almost completed, has already caused serious environmental damage and threatens the extinction of the Western Pacific gray whale.\nIn a letter from ECGD to SEIC dated 4 March 2004 [2], which WWF received as part of the FoI request, ECGD gave a legally-binding commitment to support Sakhalin II subject to certain conditions being met.\nBut the very next day (March 5 2004), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) minister Mike O'Brien told parliament that no decision had been made. \"ECGD is awaiting further information on this issue and will want to be sure that the potential impact on the Western gray whales is minimised. I am aware of the range of issues to which this project gives rise and I will approve support only if I am satisfied that these have been addressed,\" he said.\nAlmost $1 billion of UK taxpayers' money would be at risk from ECGD's support for the project.\nJames Leaton, WWF-UK's Oil and Gas Policy Adviser, said:\n\"ECGD's support for the Sakhalin II project effectively gave the backing of the UK government to an environmental catastrophe. ECGD has paid lip-service to the environment, but shows no intention of taking concrete action to prevent damage caused by the projects it backs. Supporting this project shows no coherence across the UK government on protecting biodiversity or tackling climate change.\"\nNick Hildyard, a co-director of The Corner House, said:\n\"ECGD has broken its own policies. It says that it only gives a commitment to support after it has assessed the environmental impacts of a project. But, in this case, it gave a legally-binding promise before getting assurances on the environment. It is impossible now to address many of those impacts, since the work has already been done. ECGD must not be allowed to offer UK government money willy-nilly to environmentally damaging business ventures benefiting foreign countries.\"\nDocuments comprise:\nWWF and Corner House Research vs Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.\nWitness Statement of Nicholas Hildyard, The Corner House\nWitness Statement of James Leaton, WWF-UK\nLetter from ECGD to the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC), 4 March 2004, released under Freedom of Information request.\nSakhalin Environment Watch\nWWF (UK)\nSakhalin oil & gas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to Use End-to-End Encryption in Facebook Messenger Right Now\nMeta is still rolling out end-to-end encryption to Messenger, but here's how to enable it now.\nJake Peterson\nUpdatedJanuary 24, 2023\nImage: Meta\nMeta might not be a bastion of digital privacy (and very well may be an enemy of it), but the times might be a-changin'. Last summer, the company announced it is testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Facebook Messenger as the default, meaning all Messenger users would have their chats protected from spying eyes unless they choose not to. A fresh announcement this week, on Jan. 23, confirms these tests are expanding, which means you may soon be able to enjoy the protections of E2EE on your Messenger app without doing a thing.\nBut until that happens, it's pretty easy to enable E2EE in Messenger right now. Here's how to do it.\nShould You Use Nextdoor Instead of Facebook Marketplace?\nThe Best Hidden Features on Facebook Messenger\nHow to Actually #DeleteFacebook\nHow end-to-end encryption works\nWith typical messaging, texts are stored openly on your device, the device you send them to, and the server of the messaging platform (i.e. Facebook Messenger itself). Those messages can be read by anyone with access to the devices where those messages are stored, including the hosts of the messaging platform. That makes it easy for a company like Meta to hand over your messages to an authority, should such a request come through.\nWith end-to-end encryption, however, messages aren't sent and stored in plain text, but rather they're \"scrambled.\" If you were to try to read an encrypted message, it would appear as an unrecognizable jumble of characters, making it useless to intercept.\nTo unscramble the message, you need a \"key.\" For messaging purposes, that key is either your device or the recipient's device. Those two devices are the only devices capable of unscrambling your particular conversation\u2014even though Meta is facilitating the passage of these messages, it has no way to unscramble the messages for itself or anyone who comes asking for them.\nMeta is testing E2EE as the default messaging protocol for all conversations in Messenger, which would offer these benefits to all users out of the box. While the initial tests only included a few hundred users, Meta has expanded the pool of testers as of Monday, Jan. 23. However, chances are your chats still aren't E2EE yet, and you probably need to enable them yourself.\nHow to enable end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger\nThis hidden feature is called \"secret conversation,\" and it's fairly straightforward to use (albeit a bit buried). To start, open a chat you'd like E2EE for, then tap the person or group name at the top of the display. Under \"More actions,\" tap \"Go to secret conversation\" or \"Start end-to-end encrypted chat,\" and Messenger will instantly open up a new E2EE chat.\nThe catch is that the other user needs to be using a device and Messenger app that is compatible with secret conversations and E2EE. If they aren't, you'll get an error message when you try to send anything in a secret conversation.\nE2EE used to be quite limited on Messenger. You'd get a simple black and white theme to denote the special nature of the chat, all without the usual bells and whistles you'd expect from a Messenger chat. However, thanks to a recent update, you can access many of the usual Messenger features, like chat themes, custom emojis and reactions, group chats, group pictures, link previews, active status, and chat bubbles (Android only).\nThat said, there are still some limitations as of this article. You can't make audio or video calls, encrypt large groups, or send payments just yet. Still, we're making major E2EE progress in Messenger. Just keep in mind, you'll see two chats in your app for each contact you started a secret conversation with. Make sure you tap on the thread with the lock icon, not the normal conversation, if you want your messages protected. Once E2EE is fully rolled out, I expect this won't be a problem.\nTechPrivacy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The forgotten heroes\nRandor Guy\nchennai:, October 05, 2013 16:08 IST\nThey once walked tall in the world of Tamil films but are now mere names in the pages of history. Randor Guy recalls the pioneers without whom Tamil cinema couldn't have made such giant strides\nFilmmaker K. Subramanyam\nOn the occasion of the centenary of Indian cinema, particularly the 80th year of Tamil cinema, many of the pioneers of Tamil cinema \u2014 filmmakers, on-screen artists, producers and technicians \u2014 have sadly been forgotten. In this article, we look back on those men and women who laid the foundation on which the current magnificent edifice stands.\nSamikannu Vincent, a clerk with the South Indian Railway, Tiruchi, threw up his job to become the founding father of cinema in South India by building the first cinema house \u2014 oddly named 'Variety Hall' \u2014 in Coimbatore, which still exists under a different name and ownership.\nHailing from Machilipatnam, Raghupathi Venkaiah, a successful Madras City still photographer, built the first cinema in Madras City 'Gaiety' and also made movies, silent and talkie. He sent his son, Raghupathi Surya Prakash, better known as R. Prakash, to England for training in moviemaking. On his return, Prakash made movies and with his father built a studio, Star of India - Glass Studio, in Purasawalkam behind the famed cinema, Roxy, built by Venkaiah.\nThe credit for making the first silent film in Madras City goes to R. Nataraja Mudaliar \u2014 he made Keechaka Vadham (1916) in his own studio, The India Film Company, on Millers Road, Purasawalkam. This film was a hit and he also made a few more before calling it a day. As Keechaka Vadham was silent, there were 'inter-title cards' between shots, explaining the dialogue or action. They were written in several languages including English, Tamil and Hindi. The Tamil inter-titles were written by Pammal Sambandam Mudaliar; one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance of Tamil Theatre, he was also involved in films in the early days (he was a city civil court judge). The Hindi inter-titles were written by Devdas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi's son and Rajaji's son-in-law), later a well-known journalist and editor of the Delhi-based English daily Hindustan Times.\nAnother pioneer was A. Narayanan who was associated with Prakash on his first film Bhishma Pratigna, in which Narayanan played Lord Krishna.\nSupplying films\nOne of the important figures in early Indian film history, Ananthanarayanan Narayanan (1900-1939) was an actor, writer, producer, director, studio-owner and more. Narayanan who hailed from Sivaganga was a graduate of the famed Presidency College, Madras. After entering films, he founded Exhibitor Film Services. This firm supplied films, Indian and foreign, to cinema houses in South India. This led to Narayanan taking theatres on lease in many towns of South India such as Madurai and Calicut. As a representative of Ardeshir M. Irani's famous Imperial Film Company production, Anarkali, Narayanan went West hawking the film. He spent some days in Hollywood, visiting Universal Studios and others. Besides, he established contact with legends such as Douglas Fairbanks, Carl Laemmle, Cecil B. DeMille, John Barrymore and Robert Flaherty.\nAnother pioneer of Tamil Cinema was one of the disciples of Prakash, and Narayanan's brother, C. V. Raman. A lawyer, he loved to have his name in the credit titles as \"C. V. Raman B. A. LL.B.\" His motto: \"Enterprise with caution!\" He made good use of his legal knowledge to promote joint stock companies with limited liability.\nA historic site\nRaman floated Lalitha Cinetone as a limited company with Kasi Chettiar as his main money-backer. Friends like R. Prakash also contributed to the kitty. He acquired a large tract of land on lease with some superstructures in Adayar with Greenways Road on the north and the Adayar River on the south. Brodie Castle was one of the borders. The property belonged to the Nawab of Arcot and the monthly rental was Rs. 150! Thus came into existence the studio that had a chequered history changing hands over half a century and more before finally becoming Sathya Studio and passing into the ownership of the M. G. Ramachandran family. Many memorable movies were made on this historic site, where MGR-Janaki Women's College functions now.\nC.V. Raman, however, did not produce any film after establishing his studio at Adayar. Soon Lalitha Cinetone sank into crises and drowned without a trace. Unfazed, Raman at once promoted another movie company, National Theaters Limited. With great difficulty, he produced a silent film Vishnu Leela (1932) after movies began to talk Tamil in 1931. It was directed by R. Prakash.\nNarayanan promoted a studio of his own in Kilpauk opposite the Nehru Park at a site called 'Nadar Gardens', and named it after his son, Srinivasa Cinetone. This was the first studio in South India to record songs. Earlier producers went to Calcutta, Bombay, Poona and Kolhapur for this. His wife, Meenakshi Narayanan, worked in the studio as a sound recordist. An orthodox woman attired in a 'madisaar,' she sat at the sound console-mixer and worked. She is the first female sound recordist of Indian Cinema.\nYet another forgotten pioneer is Srinivasa Soundararaja Ayyangar or S. Soundararajan as he preferred to be known. Born in Kumbakonam, he and his father had a successful business in brassware in Madras. He had a flair for the fine arts, and lent financial support to Narayanan. This link laid the foundation for his brilliant career in cinema as director, producer, distributor, laboratory-owner, talent scout and more! He named his production Tamil Nadu Talkies as early as the 1930s.\nLike Narayanan, R. Padmanabhan was also born in Sivaganga in 1896, and entered the industry with his firm, Oriental Film Service. Under this banner, he imported foreign films, arc light carbons and other spares. He also bought films made in Bombay for distribution in the South and soon opted for production promoting Associated Films. He had a financial backer, a wealthy lawyer from the port town of Tamil Nadu, Nagapattinam, K. S. Venkatarama Iyer. With Iyer, came his grandson-in-law, also a lawyer named Krishnaswamy Subramaniam.\nK. Subramanyam or \"Director K. Subramanyam,\" as he chose to call himself, rose to great heights, carving a niche in Indian Cinema, and making classics such as Seva Sadanam ( which introduced the legend 'MS' to movies), Thyaga Bhoomi and Balayogini.\nSandow's brush with fame\nAnother sadly neglected figure of Indian Cinema is Raja Sandow (original name P.K. Nagalingam). Born in Pudukottai, he was obsessed from a young age with bodybuilding, gymnastics and wrestling. He developed a stunning physique and started a gymnasium, which proved a success. His reputation as a wrestler spread far and wide reaching Bombay and beyond. Omar Sobhani, a Bombay-based millionaire, textile magnate and philanthropist with an active interest in wrestling, took the south Indian gymnast to Bombay. Sobhani engaged Nagalingam to train him and his rich friends. While in Bombay, Sandow, an avid movie goer, began to feel why he should not act in films. One evening, he walked into the office of National Film Corporation and met producer and director S. N. Patankar who was then making Bhaktha Bhodhana (1922).\nImpressed with the visitor's physique and good looks, Patankar instructed one of his assistants to give Sandow a screen test. The assistant director took him to the set and called five of his actors and explained to the newcomer the scene to be shot: Five bad men on horses surround a farming family and ask the farmer to surrender the bags of grain for their granary. When he refuses, the men attack him and he fights back.... Sandow heard it all and then the \"acting test\" began.\nThe \"Madrasi pehalwan\" who knew nothing about acting took his job seriously. In a matter of moments, the horsemen lay on the floor writhing and screaming in pain, blood gushing out of their broken noses and crushed mouths! The poor assistant director hid himself in a corner shivering in fright! Hearing the screams, Patankar rushed out of his office and the sight on the set shocked him! At once he understood what had happened and explained to Sandow that acting meant pretending where bloody realism had no place. Patankar then asked him to do a scene of pathos and Sandow did it so realistically that even the producer found himself sobbing!\n(Many years later during the 1960s, the beating-up scene was brilliantly used in the Vijaya-Vauhini production, the M. G. Ramachandran-starrer Enga Veettu Pillai. MGR who knew Sandow and on learning about this incident incorporated it into his film. He enacted the sequence so well it had the audience in splits.)\nT.G. Raghavachari was a successful Madras High Court lawyer who ventured into films. In those days cinema did not enjoy a good reputation and so he initially worked anonymously for producers such as S. Soundararajan and AV. Meiyappan. He directed Rishyashringar starring Ranjan and Vasundhara Devi for Soundararajan but his name did not appear in the credits. Then S.S. Vasan brought him into the Gemini Studios family and Raghavachari directed the box office bonanza Mangamma Sapatham in 1943. At Vasan's insistence, he directed this film under the pseudonym 'Acharya'. Many people thought that it was Vasan hiding behind that name! Besides, he worked on the early parts of Chandralekha (1948). The famous drum dance, which finds mention in every book about Indian Cinema, was actually directed by Raghavachari and not by K. Ramnoth as many people think. He used four cameras to shoot the sequence and as he walked out of the film midway for personal reasons Vasan took over and spent as many as six months to edit this single sequence. Later TGR directed for Vasan Apoorva Sahotharargal, also a hit.\nThe multi-faceted Ramnoth wrote scripts, handled the camera, edited the film and did everything to make the final product glossy. The circus scenes in Chandralekha were his creation. His 'alter ego' A.K. Sekhar was another genius. Besides being an ace art director, he was a sound recordist, editor and director.\nSundar Rao Nadkarni began acting in silent films in Bangalore and soon became an editor and director, making several films in more than one language. His best hit was the MKT-starrer Haridas.\nAnother forgotten filmmaker who made most of the early films of the first superstar of the Indian Cinema, MKT, was Raja Chandrasekhar. His brother T.R. Raghunath was more successful.\nThe contribution of music composers such as S.V. Venkataraman, G. Ramanathan and S. Rajeswara Rao, cinematographers Kamal Ghosh and Marcus Bartley cannot be brushed aside. It is difficult to mention all the personalities, especially the stars of Tamil cinema, within the scope of this article.\nDuring the recent centenary celebrations of Indian cinema held in the city, in the full-page ads in colour, drawings of people who contributed to the success of Tamil cinema were highlighted. To the shock of many, there was no illustration of Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, S.S. Rajendran, P. Kannamba, T.R. Rajakumari or such other greats.\nS.P. 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{"text":"Coalition of scientists, land grant officials urge intervention in ERS, NIFA moves\n-The Hagstrom Report\nA coalition of former Agriculture Department chief scientists and current and former university administration officials on Tuesday sent letters to the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture and Agricultural Appropriations subcommittees urging them to intervene in the Trump administration's plans to relocate most of the employees of the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture outside of Washington.\n\"We write to express our profound concern for USDA's plan to relocate the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture outside of Washington, D.C., and to realign ERS out of the USDA Research, Education, and Economics mission area,\" the officials wrote. \"We believe the restructuring will undermine our food and agriculture enterprise by disrupting and hampering the agencies' vital work in support of it \u2014 through research, analyses, and statistics. We are also deeply troubled such a major upheaval of the USDA research arm would be carried out with such haste and without the input and prior consultation of the USDA research stakeholders.\n\"In the best interests of American agricultural, food, and rural sectors, we respectfully request that you intervene to stop the restructuring of REE at least until there has been a comprehensive independent study and full consultation with the stakeholder community.\"\nWyoming Pork Producers and the National Pork Board to elect delegates\nUSDA has more than $400 million available for Renewable Energy System and Energy Efficiency Loan Guarantees\nFox TV's MasterChef to feature \"Beef. It's What's For Dinner.\"\nWyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame Region 1 inductions July 20\nNew farmers.gov feature helps producers find farm loans that fit their operation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How God Is Al-Mutakabbir (The Exalted in Might)\nBy Dr. Muhammad Ratib An-Nabulsi\nAs far as God's sovereignty, loftiness and majesty are addressed Allah is \"Al-Mutakabbir\".\nIn order to let us know that there is no god but Him, alone, that nothing is the like of Him, that He has no partners, and that He allows none to take part with Him in His divine decision, God desires to introduce Himself to us by setting the following example:\n\"He (Allah) sets forth for you a parable from your own selves: do you have partners among those whom your right hands possess (i.e. your slaves) to share as equals in the wealth that We have bestowed on you whom you fear as you fear each other? Thus do We explain the Signs in detail to a people who have sense.\" [Ar-Rum 30; 28]\nThe word \"Al-Mutakabbir\" (the Sublime, the Supreme), is also used to describe a human being, it has an evil negative connotation, simply because such an attribute belongs to God alone. Al-Mutakabbir is someone who sees that all others are little compared to him; and he sees neither might nor glory but in himself. Put differently, he looks upon others just like kings do towards their slaves.\nThe Arabic noun At-Takabur (being sublime and supreme) therefore reflects divine perfection but human imperfection. It is because Allah is the creator of all worlds, in His Hand is the dominion of all things. If He desires a thing, His command is: \"Be!\" and it is. To Him all matters are returned for judgment and decision. His divine glory and might are Infinite. Both His divine perfection and knowledge are infinite. His divine power is also infinite: {Allah is He, than Whom there is no other god;- the Sovereign, the Holy One, the Source of Peace (and Perfection), the Guardian of Faith, the Preserver of Safety, the Exalted in Might, the Irresistible, the Supreme: Glory to Allah! (High is He) above the partners they attribute to Him.}(Al-Hashr 59; 23)\nIf Allah says about Himself that He is Al-Mutakabbir, this means that He knows Himself perfectly. For that the name, Al-Mutakabbir, has to do with another divine name of Allah's, namely Al-Mu'min, which means that He perfectly knows Himself.\nTherefore, if a coward says: \"I am brave!\", this would be a false claim that reflects a serious defect in him. If a mean person says: \"I am generous!\", this would be imperfect of him. If someone ignorant says: \"I am knowledgeable!\", it would also be imperfect of him. But if someone knowledgeable says: \"I know, and I will answer your question.\", and he does answer the question, it would be perfect of him. If a brave person says: \"I am brave, and I shall defend you.\", and he really does, it would be perfect of him. If someone generous sys: \"I am generous. Here you are! Take this money!\", it would be perfect of him.\nWhen we say: Allah is Al-Mutakabbir (the Sublime, the Supreme) in actual fact it denotes divine perfection. But when we say that a certain human being is mutakabbir, it denotes serious imperfection because it means that he\/she is an insolent arrogant person. Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon Him, says: \"Allah, All-Mighty, says: 'Sublimity is My cloak, and so is Might: if anyone rivals with Me for either of them, I shall cast him into the Fire.\" [Sunan Abi Dawood]\nDifferent Meanings of Allah Being Al-Mutakabbir\n1- Some scholars hold that: \"The word \"Al-Mutakabbir\" is derived from 'Al-Kibria' (Sublimity, Pride); and he who has the right to claim for sublimity or pride is the king.\" To this effect He says: {They said (to Moses): 'You have come to us to turn us away from that (Faith) which we found our fathers following, and that you two may have sublimity in the land? We are not going to believe you two!} [(Yunus 10; 78]\n2- Allah is also Mutakabbir in the sense that His divine sublimity is Infinite, He is great, the one whose divine greatness is Infinite. Thus 'Al-Mutakabbir' (the Sublime) is God, the king, Whose sovereignty never perishes, the Great, in Whose Kingdom nothing happens except by His leave, the One, the Omnipotent.\n3- Another meaning is derived from the Arabic word 'Al-Kabeer' (the Great). Allah says: \"So when she heard of their accusation, she sent for them and prepared a banquet for them; she gave each one of them a knife (to cut the foodstuff with); and she said (to Joseph): 'Come out before them.' Then, when they saw him (Joseph), they exalted him (because of his great beauty) and (in great astonishment) cut their hands. They said: 'How Perfect is Allah, (Who created Joseph)! This is not a human being! This is none other than a noble angel!\" [Yusuf 12; 31] And 'exalted him' here means the deemed him great, as due to Joseph's great beauty, the women cut their fingers.\n'Al-Mutakabbir' (the Sublime) is God, the king, Whose sovereignty never perishes, the Great, in Whose Kingdom nothing happens except by His leave, the One, the Omnipotent.\n4- Al-Mutakabbir is Allah Who is far exalted above being unjust or unfair to His slaves.\n5- Allah, Most Gracious, is Al-Mutakabbir in the sense that in His Hand is Beneficence and from Him is forgiveness.\n6- Al-Mutakabbir indicates that His sovereignty, dominion and greatness are imperishable.\n7- Another meaning of God's name Al-Mutakabbir is: the great and sublime in the way that sublimity comes from self-existence and self-guidance. Allah has a free will, and Al-Mutakabbir is, who is far above any kind of imperfection or defect that does not befit His divine perfection, and who is far exalted above anthropomorphic qualities. To this effect, Prophet Muhammad says: \"Verily, Allah revealed to me that you should be modest so that no one boasts before another and so that no one transgresses against another\u2026\" (Sahih Muslim)\nTherefore, we have to know Allah, since if we know Him, we obey Him. To this effect, Allah says: {And likewise of men and moving living creatures, beasts and cattle, are of various colors (species). It is only those who have knowledge from among His (Allah's) slaves that fear Allah. Verily, Allah is All-Mighty, Oft-Forgiving.} (Fatir 35; 28)\nWhat Does the Universe Say of Allah's Greatness?\nAs He cannot possibly be seen by the human eye, the universe, as His Creation, is quite visible and clearly substantiates God's infinite divine might, majesty and power. To this effect, God says: {We shall show them Our Signs in the universe and in their own selves until it becomes manifest to them that this (the Quran) is the truth. Is it not sufficient in regard to your Lord that He witnesses all things.} (Fussilat 41; 53)\nAllah's sovereignty, supremacy and perfection cannot be known except by means of His divine cosmic signs which are wide-spread in the universe, and which betoken His infinite divine might and power: {Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of the night and day, there are indeed Signs for men of understanding: those who (constantly) remember Allah (while they are) standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and contemplate the creation of the heavens and the earth, (saying): 'Our Lord! You have not created (all) this in vain! Glory to You! Give us salvation from the Fire-Torment.} (Al-Imran 3; 190-191)\nDo you believe that in the human brain there is a most accurate organ that measures the difference of the sound received by both ears?! This is because the same sound reaches the ear that is nearer to the sound-source 1\/1000 of a second before the other. The brain measures such difference and determines the direction of the sound-source. Without such organ, the direction of sound-sources cannot possibly be perceived. Yes, indeed! Allah is Al-Mutakabbir, the Sublime, the Supreme!\nAll of us have stores of liquid fuel for our heating systems; and it is known that five cubic meters of oil make five barrels. Do you believe that the human heart pumps eight cubic meters of blood in one single day, the size of the highest sky-scraper in the world in the average life-span of a human being.\nDo you believe that the human liver performs more than 5,000 (five thousand) jobs in the human body and that without a liver man can survive only for three hours. The speech about Allah's Divine Miracles in both man and the universe is endless.\nThus, our own body is a teaching aid; the organs of your body, different and numerous as they are, are the greatest teaching aid that leads you to God. To that, He calls our attention: {And also in your own selves (are Signs): will you not then see?!} (Adh-Dhariyat; 21)\nEdited from:\nhttp:\/\/www.onislam.net\/english\/reading-islam\/understanding-islam\/belief\/allah\/449968-how-allah-is-al-mutakabbirthe-exalted-in-might.html","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CultureMusic\nKwati : A Flavorful Nepali Soup\nHistoryFoodPlanning A Trip\nButterfly Watching in Nepal\nBirdwatching in Nepal\nTourist Visa Informations\nTrekking Permit\nGeography Of Nepal\nTravelling to Nepal with Children\nSatye Mohan Joshi : Nepal's Literary Expert\nNepali Thali Set : A touch of the Local Lifestyle\nA Trip through Nepal\nNepal is located in South Asia between China in the north and India in the south, east and west.\nGuidePlanning A Trip\nLife In Nepal\nWith 651 species, which is 3.72 percent of the...\nNepal may be a small country in size but...\nTribhuvan International Airport is the only international airport of...\nTo visit Restricted Areas in Nepal. a Trekking Permit...\nNepal is located in South Asia between China in...\nNepal is a landlocked country located in South Asia with China in the north and India in the south, east and west. The country occupies 147,516 sq. km of land and lies between coordinates approximately 28\u00b0N and 84\u00b0E. Nepal falls in the temperate zone north of the Tropic of Cancer. The entire distance from east to west is about 800 km while from north to south is only 150 to 250 km. Nepal has vast water systems which drain south into India. The country can be divided into three main geographical regions: Himalayan region, mid hill region and the Tarai region. The highest point in the country is Mt. Everest (8,848 m) while the lowest point is in the Tarai plains of Kechana Kalan in Jhapa (60 m).\nMap courtesy: Survey Department (Government of Nepal, Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation)\nThe Tarai region has a width ranging from 26km to 32 km and varies in altitude from 60m to 305 m. It occupies about 17 percent of total land area of the country. Further north, the Siwalik zone (700 \u2013 1,500 m) and the Mahabharat range (1,500m \u2013 2,700m) give way to the Duns (valleys), such as Trijuga, Sindhuli, Chitwan, Dang and Surkhet. The Midlands (600 \u2013 3,500 m), north of the Mahabharat range is where the two beautiful valleys of Kathmandu and Pokhara lie.\nThe mountainous region begins at 3000m leading up to the alpine pastures and temperate forests limited by the tree-line at 4,000 m and the snow line beginning at 5000 m. Eight of the world's highest peaks (out of fourteen) that are above 8000m lie in Nepal: Mount Everest (8,848 m), Kanchenjunga (8,586 m), Lhotse (8,516 m), Makalu (8,463 m), Cho Oyu (8,201m), Dhaulagiri (8,167 m), Manaslu (8,163 m) and Annapurna (8,091 m). The inner Himalayan valley (above 3,600 m) such as Mustang and Dolpo are cold deserts sharing topographical characteristics with the Tibetan plateau. Nepal holds the so called \"waters towers of South Asia\" with its 6,000 rivers which are either snow-fed or dependent on rain. The perennial rivers include Mahakali, Karnali, Narayani and Koshi rivers originating in the Himalayas. Medium-sized rivers like Babai, West Rapti, Bagmati, Kamla, Kankai and Mechi originate in the Midlands and Mahabharat range.\nOf the163 wetlands documented, the nine globally recognized Ramsar Sites are: Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Beeshazarital (Chitwan), Jagdishpur Reservoir (Kapilvastu) Ghodaghodi Tal (Kailali) in the Tarai, and Gokyo (Solukhumbu), Phoksundo (Dolpa), Rara (Mugu) and Mai Pokhari (Ilam) in the mountainous region. There are more than 30 natural caves in the country out of which only a few are accessible by road. Maratika Cave (also known as Haleshi) is a pilgrimage site associated with both Buddhism and Hinduism. Siddha Cave is below BNDIPUR near Bimal Nagar along the Kathmandu-Pokhara highway. Pokhara is also known for caves namely Bats' shed (Mahendra Gufa), Batulechar, Gupteswar, Patale Chhango. The numerous caves around Lo Manthang in Mustang include Luri and Tashi Kabum which house ancient murals and chortens dating back to the 13th century.\nSourceNepal Tourism Board\nPlanning a Trip to Nepal\nPrevious articleTravelling to Nepal with Children\nNext articleTrekking Permit\nCopyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Life In Nepal | All Right Reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Brandon Tsay honored at Alhambra Lunar New Year Festival \u2026\nEl Paso funeral homes offer services free-of-charge to Walmart shooting victims\nby: KTSM\nPosted: Aug 3, 2019 \/ 07:45 PM PDT\nUpdated: Aug 3, 2019 \/ 07:45 PM PDT\nEL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 El Paso area funeral homes have reached out to the media, offering funeral assistance to families affected by Saturday's shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart.\nEach funeral home has offered services free-of-charge.\nMartin Funeral Homes East and West \u2013 Please contact Operation Hope at (915) 479-0164.\nPerches Funeral Homes (Services in El Paso & Juarez) \u2013 Please contact (915) 532-2101.\nSunset Funeral Homes \u2013 Please contact them at (915) 587-4408.\nSocorro Funeral Home \u2013 Please Contact them at (915) 860-7084.\n\"This is one of the most tragic events in El Paso's history. My heart and prayers go out to the families who lost a loved one, as well as to the survivors and to our entire community who is mourning at this time,\" Salvador Perches, owner of Perches Funeral Home said. \"We must unite as a community to help those directly impacted by this tragedy.\"\n\"Sunset Funeral Homes is available to assist and guide families during this tragic and difficult time for our city. All funeral arrangements will be at no cost to families. We stand with our community and ready to help,\" Jos\u00e9 Amezcua, Manager of Sunset Funeral Homes.\nMartin Funeral Home has partnered with local non-profit, Operation HOPE to ensure all victims and their families are taken care of during this time of need.\nVideo: Fire crews respond to two-alarm fire in Oakland\nBay Area \/ 6 mins ago\nAP U.S. News \/ 4 hours ago","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00a9 2020 myhowbook.com\nWe use cookies to analyze traffic, provide social media features and to personalise ads. We also share information about your use of our site with our analytics, social media and advertising partners who may combine it with other information that you've provided to them or that they've collected from your use of their services.\nSelect cookie types you want to enable: [Show Details]\nNecessary cookies are lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nStatistics cookies are lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nAdvertisement cookies are lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nSocial Media Features\nSocial Media Features cookies are lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.\nRead our Cookie Policy Close\nScott Pelley | Biography\nBy MyHowBook Team \u2688 Published On: 2013-10-29 13:45:14\nScott Pelley 's facts\nProfession Journalist\nMarried to Jane Boone\nChildren Blair Pelley, Reece Pelley\nEducation High School Completed, College Dropout\nEducation at Coronado High School\nNet Worth(s) $ 15 million\nPlace of Birth San Antonio, Texas\nScott Pelley, originally called as Scott Cameron Pelley, is an American Journalist, who is regarded as one of the most well-qualified and proven television journalists. Currently he is contributing as an anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News and a correspondent for the CBS news magazine 60 minutes. His date of birth is July 28, 1957. Scott was born in San Antonio, Texas. He moved to and grew up in Lubbock. While he was in Lubbock, he graduated from Coronado High School. His father's name is John Elmer Pelley Jr. and mother's name is Wanda Graves Pelley. Scott Pelley and Jane Boone, who once used to work as a correspondent at KXAS in Dallas, Fort Worth, have met for the first time in 1979.Four years later he tied marital knot with Jane Boone Pelley in 1983. He is a happy father of two children- one daughter, Blair Pelley and son, Reece Pelley. Scott Pelley has one brother John Pelley. He joined Texas Tech University in Lubbock to finish his studies majoring in journalism but he didn't.\nHe started his career in Journalism as a copyboy for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal in Texas at such a tender age of fifteen. As law prohibited working at the tender age of fifteen he lied his real age for which the age of sixteen was legal. After that he worked in a local television \u2013then called KSEL now KAMC holding several positions from 1975 to 1978. Scott Pelley, who was born for journalism, can be said, started getting hooked with his job but in different organizations like at KXAS from 1978 to 1981 and WFAA TV from 1982 to 1989. In 1985 Pelley made a report on Guatemalan refugees who were living a hard life in the remote jungle of Mexico. This report was a milestone in his career which helped him to gain the attention of executives at CBS News. Then his real network career started as a New York based reporter along with CBS News in 1989. Since then he commenced to show his magic to the world in the media. He conducted investigations and interviewing key Newsmakers ranging from Darfur refugees, Guatemalan refugees to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to the US President George W. Bush to the US President Barack Obama and many others. Furthermore, Pelley conducted interview with former president Bill Clinton in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on world trade center. Thus, Scott legacy can not be merely described in a few words. He is a man of iron will who seized every valuable and honorary award since his arrival on the network.\nIn 1999, Scott discontinued working as chief White House correspondent to join '60 minutes'. As soon as Pelley joined the show, he started showing his charm there by reporting several rare stories. In 2004 almost fifty percent of the vital awards gained by the network have been on the account covered by him. Throughout his tenure at the network, Pelley has been providing viewers with major breaking news of the world. During the great economic depression in 2008-2009, Pelley interviewed Ben Bernanke who was a chairman of the Federal Reserve. Later he was honored with a prestigious Emmy Award. In addition to that Pelley has extensively covered the war reports from many deadly spots of the world which includes from the Persian Gulf war to the Iraq invasion. Lately in his show '60 minutes' Pelley conducted interviews with one of Navy SEALS who assisted to kill Osama Bin Laden. Throughout his career Pelley has been honored with many awards and titles. Journalism has been ruling passion in his life. He has presented a report of many rare and sensitive stories from all across the globe. Pelley, along with team has won 'George Foster Peabody Award'.\nAt the moment Pelley is running at the age of fifty six. He possessed a net worth of $ 15 million. His annual salary is estimated to be $ 5 million. Pelley has not yet divorced with his wife Jane Boone. His complete and detail biography can also be obtained from Wiki and the official site of CBS News Channel. Mentioning more of his trivial matter, his height is 6 feet and 1 inch. At the moment he is happily living with his family.\nMasayori Oka, popularly known as, \"Masi Oka\" is a Japanese-American actor. He is also known as digital effects artist. Oka became widely popular after he played the role of Hiro Nakamura on NBC's 'Heroes'. Masi was born in Tokyo, Japan. Oka celebrates his birthday every year on December 27 as he was born on December 27, 1974. He moved to Los Angeles from Japan with his mother when he was six years old. He made appearance on CBS TV game show 'Child's Play' when he was eight. Oka was even featured on the cover of Time's 'Those Asian-American Whiz Kids'. As per his education, he completed schooling from The Mirman School and completed graduation from the Harvard-Westlake School in the year 1992. Soon after completing graduation, he started working as an English, Japanese and Spanish translator on 1992 Summer Olympics. Oka holds graduation degree from the Brown University majoring in Computer science and mathematics. Oka worked as the musical director of The Bear Necessities while he was studying at Brown.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Haile Gebrselassie Pacing London, Racing Hamburg\nThe legend talks about Farah, Bekele and his future: \"I'm addicted to running\"\nBy Cathal Dennehy\nGiancarlo Colombo \/PhotoRun\nOn Sunday, Haile Gebrselassie will pace the London Marathon as he continues his preparations for the Hamburg Marathon on May 4, an event in which he will face Kenya's Martin Lel and look to break the over-40 world best of 2:08:46. Today, the 40-year-old spoke to Running Times from London about how he trains, what still motivates him to keep racing, and whether he thinks Mo Farah and Kenenisa Bekele will master the marathon.\nRunning Times: How are things?\nHaile Gebrselassie: I'm good. My training is going well. I can do a good marathon in Hamburg. I can't say I'm going to break the world record, but to run a good time is my plan.\nRT: This weekend you're pacing the London Marathon. What time are you planning to go through halfway?\nHG: It depends on what the athletes need. They don't want to go a crazy pace, because here in London they want to win. Winning is the most important part.\nRT: What do you think about Mo Farah's debut? Can he be successful in his first marathon?\nHG: He is preparing well; what he needs on Sunday is to learn about the distance, about the marathon itself. In the future he can win many other races. Sunday, maybe, you never know. He can win if he follows the leading athletes until the last 5K. If he can do that, it's going to be his race, no question. Sometimes this kind of race is more tactical, though. The Kenyans and Ethiopians, they start doing crazy things.\nRT: Who do you think will win?\nHG: There are many, many big names. I have no idea. This marathon is very interesting, not only for you, but for myself, to see who is the best.\nRT: How many marathons did it take for you to fully learn the event?\nHG: I came to my first marathon not only to win, but to do something fast. The first one, though, is always just to study. I learned how to be patient. When you come from 5,000m, the marathon pace is too slow for you, especially at the beginning. The problem is at the end of the race. At the beginning you always think: Why are the athletes so slow? It then gets harder and harder.\nRT: What did you think about Kenenisa Bekele's debut in Paris, winning in 2:05:04?\nHG: It was fantastic; he did a very good job. The next marathon he can do something better. There is no question he can break the world record. He has the speed, and everything is there. The only thing is the endurance.\nRT: Do you talk much with him?\nHG: We meet sometimes in Addis Ababa, but he's training alone. I'm training alone too, so I don't have time to talk more.\nRT: What is your training like these days?\nHG: It's not like before. I don't run so much, and the quality is a little bit less. You cannot do the whole program that you did years ago. I run about 180 to 200 kilometers a week [110 to 125 miles]; it used to be more than that. I'm trying to do what is important, so I can run well on Sunday, and run well in Hamburg. That is all I need.\nRT: What workouts do you do to get ready for a marathon?\nHG: On the road, I do fast runs of 20K, 25K or 30K, plus a very important session is the long run in the forest. I go for two to three hours, and can do up to 35 miles; those kinds of thing are very useful for the marathon.\nRT: Why motivates you to keep racing at the age of 40?\nHG: I think once you start running, it's very difficult to stop. If you are properly disciplined, you can run for years. When I talk about discipline, I mean in training, recovery, what we eat, those things. I'm very busy these days with my business, but I'm addicted to running. To stop running is not an easy thing. I could be jogging, but without competition how are you sweating? If I compete, I sweat; that's what I need. When you don't do competitions, you stop your training runs halfway.\nRT: How long will you keep racing?\nHG: I have no idea. I can't tell you how long; it's very difficult.\nRT: What are your main activities outside of running these days?\nHG: My businesses are many things: schools, hotels, cars, real estate. There is other work too, like organizing the Great Ethiopian Run, or work for UNICEF. There are many.\nRT: What is your daily routine like?\nHG: I wake up at 5 a.m., start my training by 5:30. I finish by 8:30, and after that I go to work until 5 p.m., then I start in my gym. After that I come home and at night by 10 o'clock, I'm asleep.\nRT: Do you still do much gym work?\nHG: Yeah, a lot. I do a bit of running on the treadmill, cycling, light weights for muscles. I started this gym training in 1993. It's very important. One of our problems used to be because of not doing enough exercises in the gym, but nowadays I think runners are doing the right job.\nRT: What are your plans for the future, outside of running. Will you go into politics?\nHG: You never know, but for now I only concentrate on running and business, and in the future we will see.\nRT: Do your children run? Would you like them to run competitively?\nHG: One of them runs, but it's up to them. They can do what they want. I don't push them. My son is trying to play soccer, and that's okay; it's up to him.\nRT: Finally, the question everybody asks: What is it about Ethiopia that produces such good distance runners?\nHG: If you look at Ethiopians, a crazy amount are running, especially marathons. That's because of history. In 1960, when Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon, everybody wanted to be a runner. People love watching athletics, especially the marathon, and that's a big thing. It's why the Brazilians are crazy about the soccer, because they love the sport, and we're the same in Ethiopia with running.\nMore From Marathon\nTraining for a Marathon? Brush Up on These Basics\nEliud Kipchoge Will Attempt Sub-2:00 in Vienna\nGalen Rupp Is 'Reinvigorated' by Racing Break\nThe Most Iconic American Races\nClose to Half a Million Enter London Marathon\nWhy He Ran Pittsburgh With an 11-Pound Vest\n48-Year-Old Mom of 3 Qualifies for Marathon Trials\nChicago Marathon Breaks Charity Record\nA Seventh World Marathon Major May Be Coming\nHaile Gebrselassie Retires From Racing\nThe Dominator: Haile Gebrselassie\nThe Haile Gebrselassie Show\nHaile Gebrselassie to Enter Ethiopian Politics\nHaile Gebrselassie Ponders Presidential Run\nHaile Gebrselassie Returns to the Olympic Stage","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00ab The Witness | Main | From Nevada \u00bb\nCalifornia to Appeal Federal Court Ruling on State's Death Penalty\nToday's Los Angeles Times reports, \"Atty. Gen. Harris seeks to overturn ban on California executions,\" by Maura Dolan.\nA federal judge's \"flawed\" decision declaring California's enforcement of the death penalty unconstitutional will be appealed, Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris announced Thursday.\nHarris will ask the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn last month's ruling by U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who said decades-long delays and uncertainty about whether inmates will be executed violated the Constitution's 8th Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.\n\"I am appealing the court's decision because it is not supported by the law, and it undermines important protections that our courts provide to defendants,\" Harris said.\nHarris personally opposes the death penalty, but promised voters that she would enforce it. Legal analysts said the fate of Carney's ruling will depend in part on which 9th Circuit judges are randomly selected to review it.\nCarney's ruling that California's death penalty system was dysfunctional sparked national attention. The judge, who serves in Orange County and was appointed by former President George W. Bush, noted that more than 900 people have been sentenced to death in California since 1978, but only 13 have been executed.\n\"California to appeal federal ruling on state's death penalty practices,\" is AP coverage, via the Guardian.\nThe announcement Thursday by Attorney General Kamala Harris came after US District Judge Cormac Carney in Los Angeles ruled last month that the state's death penalty takes too long to carry out, and that the unpredictable delays are arbitrary and unfair.\nDeath penalty foes have long argued that California's delays amounted to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment, but until Carney's ruling, the argument failed to persuade a judge.\nHarris, however, said the amount of time it takes to execute inmates in California ensures they receive due process.\n\"I am appealing the court's decision because it is not supported by the law, and it undermines important protections that our courts provide to defendants,\" Harris said in a prepared statement. \"This flawed ruling requires appellate review.\"\nDeath penalty foes had called on Harris to let Carney's ruling stand rather than risk a reversal in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals.\n\"We hope the 9th Circuit will recognize that California's death penalty system is as broken and unconstitutional as Judge Cormac found,\" Matt Cherry, executive director of Death Penalty Focus, which seeks to abolish capital punishment, said in response to Harris's move.\n\"Kamala Harris will appeal death penalty ruling,\" is by David Siders for the Sacramento Bee.\nCalifornia Attorney General Kamala Harris said Thursday she will appeal a federal judge's ruling that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional.\n\"I am appealing the court's decision because it is not supported by the law, and it undermines important protections that our courts provide to defendants,\" Harris, a Democrat, said in a prepared statement. \"This flawed ruling requires appellate review.\"\nThe appeal comes after U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney ruled in July that the state's administration of the death penalty is so dysfunctional that it violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.\nEarlier coverage of the California Federal District Court's ruling begins at the link.\nFriday, 22 August 2014 at 10:41 AM in Abolition, Capital Punishment, Incarceration, Judiciary, Post-Conviction Review, Sentencing | Permalink\nTags: 9th Circuit, California, California Attorney General, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, capital punishment, death penalty, death row, death sentence, Ernest Dewayne Jones, federal district court, Judge Cormac J. Carney, Kamala Harris, post-conviction review, sentencing, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeClips\nClipsManchester United\nSancho still faces 'hurdles' before being ready for Man Utd return says Ten Hag\nERIK TEN HAG admits Jadon Sancho still faces \"hurdles\" before he is mentally and physically ready to return to action. But the Manchester United boss is desperate to get his winger back. 1Jadon Sancho hasn't played for Manchester United since October 22Credit: Getty Sancho is not injured, yet the \u00a373million star has not featured in the squad since the home game against West Ham on October 30, when he remained on the bench. Ten Hag said: \"We have some hurdles to take \u2014 but I think he's in a good direction. The physical is also a connection with the mental. \"He is now making good progress on the physical part and it will help him. \"I think, let's say I hope, he can return quickly \u2014 but I also can't say a duration of how long that will be.\" Having missed out on Gareth Southgate's England squad for Qatar, Sancho, 22, was also left out of United's group which went on a training camp to Spain during the World Cup. Instead, Ten Hag sent the ex-Borussia Dortmund ace to Holland for some individual fitness sessions. And, while Sancho is now back at Carrington, he is still training away from the first-team squad. Dutchman Ten Hag added: \"Sometimes it's good to go away from the place where you are every day to get a new vibe and experience. HOW TO GET FREE BETS ON FOOTBALL \"People have a different approach and this can give you the right push to get back on track. Football players are not robots. \"I would like him back as soon as possible. \"I will do everything in my power \u2014 but there are some processes that you cannot force. \"I will be really happy the moment he returns to the squad for team training, that's the next thing. \"The good thing is that he is back at Carrington \u2014 it shows he is making progress and he is ready for the next step.\"\nFrank Lampard demands his Everton flops show 'big balls' to keep him in a job\nMan Utd to step up Randal Kolo Muani transfer pursuit as replacement for Ronaldo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New Zealand judge rules Dotcom warrants invalid\nKim Schmitz\nBy Associated Press - Associated Press - Thursday, June 28, 2012\nWELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND (AP) - A New Zealand judge has ruled that police warrants used to seize computer hard drives from Kim Dotcom's mansion weren't legally valid.\nPolice executed the search and seizure warrants during a January raid on Dotcom's home near Auckland.\nDotcom is the founder of Hong Kong-based file-sharing site Megaupload. He's accused by U.S. prosecutors of facilitating Internet piracy on a massive scale. Charged with racketeering and money laundering, he's fighting U.S. attempts to extradite him.\nJustice Helen Winklemann ruled Thursday the warrants were overly broad and that New Zealand authorities also acted unlawfully by handing digital copies to the FBI.\nWinkelmann has not yet decided upon any remedies. What impact her ruling, which is likely to be appealed, will have on the complex case will likely become clearer in coming weeks.\nCopyright \u00a9 2023 The Washington Times, LLC.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"25 reasons the whole world is obsessed with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\nThe world is obsessed with Justin Trudeau.\nTrudeau was elected the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada in October 2015, and instantly won fans with his progressive and liberal policies.\nHe's handsome, he's a feminist, and he's a family man.\nIn honor of Canada Day on Friday, July 1, here are 25 reasons why the world is obsessed with Canada's prime minister:\nTrudeau is a progressive leader and isn't afraid of immigration. More than 28,000 Syrian refugees have been welcomed to Canada since November 2015.\nHe doesn't just speak; he acts. Trudeau went to the airport to personally greet refugees arriving in December and gave them winter coats.\n\"This is a wonderful night where we get to show not just a plane load of new Canadians what Canada is all about, but we get to show the world how to open our hearts and welcome in people who are fleeing extraordinarily difficult situations,\" he said, according to the New York Times.\nHe has repeatedly called himself a feminist. \"If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have,\" he said.\nHe's combating climate change and promoting clean energy practices. 81% of Canada's electricity is already provided by hydroelectric, solar, wind, and nuclear power. He signed the Paris Agreement in 2016.\nHe's an LGBT ally and will be the first sitting prime minister to march in Toronto's Pride Parade, which takes place July 3. He has attended pride parades before, like the Toronto parade in 2013 (seen below) and the Vancouver parade in 2015.\nHe's all for the legalization of marijuana on the basis of minimizing underage access and reducing crime around selling illegal pot. He's also admitted to smoking in the past.\nWhen he was sworn is as the 23rd prime minister, he established a diverse cabinet with an equal number of men and women. When asked to explain why, he said, \"Because it's 2015.\"\nHe's fighting to reduce childhood poverty.\nHe's a family man. He and his wife, Canadian TV host Sophie Gr\u00e9goire Trudeau, are the parents of Xavier, eight, Ella-Grace, seven, and Hadrien, two.\nHe was once a schoolteacher! He studied literature in college, started (but didn't finish) an engineering degree, and studied environmental geography for a year. He went on to teach math and French for a bit.\nHe and Obama are now besties.\nHappy Canada Day, JT!\n\u10ec\u10e7\u10d0\u10e0\u10dd\n\u10e2\u10d4\u10d2\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8: Canada Day Justin Trudeau","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hacienda announces first New Year's Eve Party in five years \u2013 how to get tickets\nArts & Culture, City of Manchester, Music, Nightlife\nPic Dominic Simpson\nThe Hacienda has announced that it's holding its first New Year's Eve party for five years at a new intimate warehouse space just a stone's throw away from the original club on Whitworth Street West.\nThe event at Viadux Warehouse will bring together six of the club's original residents who helped shape its musical direction, playing week in, week out at the club, breaking the records that went on to influence dance music worldwide \u2013 Graeme Park, Greg Wilson, Tom Wainwright, Jon Dasilva, Allister Whitehead and Chad Jackson.\nGreg Wilson was the first DJ ever to mix live on TV on Channel 4's The Tube, was Saturday night resident 1983 to 1984. He was followed by Chad Jackson, then DMC World Mix Champion, as Saturday's resident from 1985 to 1986.\nAs acid house took charge of the club in the late eighties, Jon Dasilva ushered in a new era with the revolutionary Hot night. Graeme Park arrived in August 1988 to share Nude night duties with Mike Pickering.\nWhen the club reopened in May 1991, Mike and Graeme took charge of Friday and Saturday nights respectively and brought in new residents \u2013 Allister Whitehead was added to Shine whilst Tom Wainwright formed a legendary partnership with Graeme on what became known as Squiggle.\n\"I'm very excited to be bringing in the New Year with the Ha\u00e7ienda this Hogmanay,\" said Graeme.\n\"It's been years since I DJ'd in Manchester on New Year's Eve and they were always among the highlights of any year at The Ha\u00e7ienda. This amazing new venue promises to make this a very special event indeed. And it's across the road from the original Ha\u00e7ienda! What? Yes! Come on then!\"\nBand on the Wall to reopen following \u00a33.5 million expansion project\nGet your footie fix this August bank holiday weekend at Dive Bar\nManchester's 'baby grand' hotel launches exclusive private dining and screening rooms\nUnlock your inner Hogwarts student and help break this Guinness World Record attempt at The Printworks","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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If necessary, any interested individuals might be guided by information on the name, location and address, as well as e-mail address of the Firm, given in this Agreement.\n5.2. The Users are able to change the terms of subscription and unsubscribe at any time in the corresponding sections of the Website. The Firm has the right at own discretion to cancel the subscription of any User or reject the User's subscription without explanation. The Firm is not entitled to unilaterally change the terms of mailing with respect to the subject of messages sent.\n5.3. When subscribing, it is forbidden to use an e-mail address which does not belong to the User.\n6. Personal cabinet\n6.1. The restricted access section may be maintained on the Website that is intended for clients of the Firm (hereinafter \u2013 \u00abPersonal cabinet\u00bb). The User needs to pass the procedure of registration and authentication for gaining access to the Personal cabinet.\n6.2. The registration procedure is performed once and consists in creating unique login and password for the User \u2013 the client of the Firm. The login name and password is provided in agreement with the Firm. The Firm may establish regulations regarding periodical replacement of login names and passwords for security purposes.\n6.3. The authentication procedure is performed every time the User intends to use the Personal cabinet. This procedure consists in entering login and password assigned to the User in the web-form fields, accordingly, the information about that matter shall be transmitted to the Firm after clicking on the relevant button of the web-form. From that point, the User is considered to be an authorized representative of the Firm's client and perform all the activities on the Website on behalf of a designated client prior to the logout from the Personal cabinet.\n6.4. The User, namely the client of the Firm, has no right to take screenshots, as well as save or print the pages of Personal cabinet, unless this type of function is provided on the relevant pages.\n7. External references\n7.1. The Website may contain references to other web-resources of a third-party. The Firm applies every effort to ensure removing any references to unreliable, fraudulent or any other similar web-resources. However, their work is not governed by this Agreement. The Firm is not responsible for the content of web-resources belonging to the third party and their functioning, including possible harm that could be caused to the Users on the referred web-resources.\n8. Insecurity\n8.1. AN ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO THE USER ON AN \u00abAS IS\u00bb BASIS. THE FIRM HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY WITH RESPECT TO THE CONTENT AND THE WEBSITE. AMONG OTHERS, THE FIRM CANNOT GIVE GUARANTEES TO THE USER THAT: (i) the Website does not contain software errors, shall work without outages, is also consistent with the User's devices and shall be correctly displayed on such devices; (ii) the Website and its separate pages shall be constantly available to the User; (iii) the Website contains complete, comprehensive, accurate, error-free and suitable for the User's needs information about the Firm and its activities and reference, news, analytical materials on the legal and other issues; (iv) the pages of the Website shall look the same as they do online while printing or recording on a machine-readable storage device; (v) the Website does not contain information denied or restricted in the country of the User's location; (vi) the Website does not contain information that, in the User's view, might be incorrect or offensive.\n8.2. When using the Website, the User is obliged to rely on his own antiviruses, firewalls and other information security assets. The Firm makes every possible effort to ensure the protection of the Website from the hacker attacks, cybercrimes and other harmful and dangerous activities committed by unidentified external parties that might harm the User. However, the Firm disclaims any warranty concerning illegal use of the Website and its Content by the third parties that could result in damage to the User.\n9.1. The Firm is not liable for any violation of obligations under the Agreement and incurring User's loss as the result of using the Website, save in cases of intent of the Firm. The Firm is not liable for causing any other harm to the User, unless it caused through the fault of the Firm.\n9.2. The User is liable for the violation of this Agreement, as well as intellectual rights and other rights of the Firm in its entirety in accordance with the applicable legislation (paragraph 11 of the Agreement), and also the legislation in force in the User's location (if the User's actions constitute a crime or any other offence under the law of this State).\n10. Confidentiality\n10.1. The User login and password (to login to Personal cabinet) is considered confidential information. The User has no right to disclose logins and passwords to the third parties, as well as use and store them in such a way that the third party can get an access to them.\n10.2. The User's personal data is a confidential information and is processed in accordance with the Policy of \u00abGorodissky & Partners Law Firm, LLC\u00bb regarding personal data processing on the Website.\n10.3. Messages sent through the Feedback form are considered to be confidential information and shall not be disclosed by the Firm, except in the following cases: (i) the User who sent the Message asked by himself in written form for its disclosure to the third party or its promulgation; (ii) the Message is to be disclosed as directed by the competent court upon legitimate demand of law enforcement bodies and other public authorities on an equal basis with applicable legislation (paragraph 11 of the Agreement); (iii) access to the Message is given to the contractors of the Firm delivering technical support, maintenance of the Website and information systems of the Firm on condition that a confidentiality agreement extending to the Messages were signed with them; (iv) Messages contain information on the committed or prepared crimes, administrative offences or offence indications.\n10.4. Use of cookies\nPersonal data is never collected by the Firm in secret from the Users. The statistics service may be applied on the Website, as well as identifying of public interest and other similar instruments collecting and analyzing only non-personal data.\nThe Website can automatically save cookies on the Users' computers (small text files of a technical nature) not containing personal data and are not used to identify the User. In case the User does not want to save the specified files on his computer, he can at any time change the browser settings and delete the saved files by using the standard browser functionality.\n11. Applicable law and dispute resolution\n11.1. This Agreement and all relations of the Parties due to the use of the Website are regulated by the law of Ukraine.\n11.2. All disputes arising in connection with the present Agreement or related to the use of the Website shall be settled through the courts at the location of the Firm.\n12.1. Requests on issues related to the Website and allegations of copyright infringement and (or) related rights should be sent by e-mail: office@gorodissky.ua or to the following mailbox: 25 (A) Vyacheslava Chernovola street, Office 227, 01135 Kiev, Ukraine\nWEBSITE DATA PRIVACY POLICY\n1.1 This Website Data Privacy Policy (the Policy) is adopted by Law Firm \u00abGorodissky & Partners\u00bb Ltd. registered at 25, Bolshaya Spasskaya str., bldg. 3, Moscow, 129090, Russia, taxpayer identification number (TIN) 7702195561, primary state registration number (OGRN) 1027739045630 (hereinafter referred to as the Operator). The Policy applies to personal data processing through websites www.gorodissky.ru and www.gorodissky.com administered by the Operator (jointly, the Websites).\n1.2 This Policy is based on the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Federal Law On Information, Information Technologies and Information Security No. 149-\u0424\u0417 dated 27 July 2006, the Federal Law On Personal Data No. 152-\u0424\u0417 dated 27 July 2006 and other data protection and processing regulations of Russia.\n1.3 This Policy sets forth the main principles, purposes, procedure and conditions of the personal data processing and the implemented data security requirements. The purpose of this Policy is to ensure that the data subjects rights and freedoms are protected.\n1.4 This Policy is permanently published (posted) on the Websites to ensure unimpeded access to this Policy.\n1.5 The personal data is processed in the Russian Federation and in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation (the Applicable Laws).\n2. MAIN TERMS AND DEFINITIONS\n2.1 Unless otherwise expressly stated herein, this Policy shall be applied, construed and interpreted according to the following terms in singular or plural, whether capitalized or regular.\n\u2014 Applicable Laws shall mean the laws of the Russian Federation.\n\u2014 Feedback Forms shall mean web forms intended for sending electronic messages to the Operator.\n\u2014 Information shall mean details (messages, data), regardless of their form.\n\u2014 Operator shall mean Law Firm Gorodissky & Partners LLC.\n\u2014 Data Blocking shall mean temporary suspension of personal data processing (except where the processing is required to clarify personal data).\n\u2014 Collection of Personal Data shall mean a dedicated process of obtaining the Personal Data directly from the User.\n\u2014 Destruction of Personal Data shall mean any actions resulting in impossibility to restore the contents of the Personal Data in the Personal Data Information System and (or) in the destruction of media containing Personal Data.\n\u2014 Distribution of Personal Data shall mean any actions aimed at the public disclosure of the Personal Data.\n\u2014 Personal Data Information System shall mean a set of personal data contained in databases together with information technologies and data processing tools.\n\u2014 Data Processing shall mean an action (operation) or set of actions (operations) with the Personal Data as described in this Policy.\n\u2014 Provision of Personal Data shall mean any actions aimed at the disclosure of personal data to a particular person or a particular group of persons.\n\u2014 Personal Data shall mean any information relating to a directly or indirectly identified or identifiable individual (data subject).\n\u2014 Personal Data Storage shall mean a process of keeping systematized Personal Data in the Operators possession.\n\u2014 Personal Data Subject shall mean an individual to whom the Personal Data pertain.\n\u2014 Policy shall mean this Website Data Privacy Policy.\n\u2014 User shall mean an individual visiting (using) the Websites according to the User Agreement .\n\u2014 Websites shall mean the websites www.gorodissky.ru and www.gorodissky.com administered by the Operator.\n3. DATA PROCESSING PRINCIPLES\n3.1 The privacy policy for the Websites is that the Personal Data must be processed only in cases and according to the procedure specified by law with a view to the main business of the Operator and the balance of interests of the Operator and the Data Subjects. The Personal Data shall be processed in a way ensuring legal protection of the Data Subjects rights and freedoms including the protection of their right to privacy, personal and family secrets. The Data Processing shall be based on the following principles:\n\u2014 Operator shall process the Personal Data on a legal and fair basis;\n\u2014 Data Processing shall be limited to concrete, pre-determined and lawful purposes;\n\u2014 Data Processing incompatible with the purposes of the Collection of Personal Data is prohibited;\n\u2014 Integration of databases containing the Personal Data, which is processed for the purposes incompatible with each other, is prohibited;\n\u2014 Personal Data shall be processed only if it meets the Data Processing purposes;\n\u2014 Contents and scope of the Personal Data being processed shall meet the declared processing purposes; it is prohibited to process excessive Personal Data as compared to the declared processing purposes;\n\u2014 Accuracy, sufficiency and, where necessary, relevancy to the purposes of the Data Processing shall be ensured. The Operator shall take all necessary actions (or ensure that they are taken) to delete or clarify incomplete or inaccurate Personal Data;\n\u2014 Personal Data shall be stored in the form enabling identification of the Data Subject for no longer than it is required for the purposes of the Data Processing unless otherwise agreed and the Data Subject shall act as a party, beneficiary or guarantor under such agreement. Unless otherwise established by law, the processed Personal Data shall be destroyed when the processing purposes are achieved or become irrelevant.\n4. PERSONAL DATA CATEGORIES AND PROCESSING PURPOSES\n4.1 The User Personal Data may be processed on the Websites for the following purposes:\n\u2014 Communications;\n\u2014 Mailings and promotion of services;\n\u2014 Events registration;\n\u2014 User account; and\n\u2014 Other purposes determined as set forth in the Operators internal documents.\nSpecific purposes may be also specified in a Feedback Form.\n4.2 The Feedback Forms shall be composed in a way ensuring that the contents and scope of the Personal Data are consistent with the declared processing purposes.\n4.3 The Operator shall not process sensitive categories of the Personal Data, such as race, national identity, criminal record, political views, and religious or philosophical beliefs. No biometric Personal Data of the User (for example, photos) shall be processed on the Websites.\n4.4 The Operator shall never collect the Personal Data secretly. The Websites may contain analytical services calculating visits, assessing the level of visitors interest and any other similar tools collecting and analysing solely depersonalized information (not personal data). The Websites may automatically save cookies (small technical text files) to the User computer. Such cookies shall not contain the Personal Data and they shall not be used for establishing the identity of the User. If the User does not want to save the said files to his or her computer, he or she may at any time change the browser settings and delete the files already saved using the standard functions of the browser.\n4.5 The Operator shall not use the Websites to process any financial information or credit card details of the User.\n5. LEGAL GROUNDS FOR DATA PROCESSING\n5.1 The legal grounds for the Data Processing include a set of legal acts, according to which the Operator processes the Personal Data and protects the Data Subjects rights.\n5.2 The legal grounds for the Data Processing with the use of the Websites include the following legal rules: Article 10 of the Federal Law On Information, Information Technologies and Information Security No. 149-\u0424\u0417 dated 27 July 2006, Article 18 of the Federal Law On Advertising No. 38-\u0424\u0417 dated 13 March 2006, Article 6 (1) (1, 5) and Article 14(3) of the Federal Law On Personal Data No. 152-\u0424\u0417 dated 27 July 2006, and other regulations depending on the specific processing purposes.\n6. DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURE AND CONDITIONS\n6.1 The Personal Data shall be processed on the Websites with and without the automation tools within the time period as necessary for the processing purposes. The Operator may cease the Data Processing upon achieving the processing purposes, Data Subjects consent withdrawal, winding-up of the Operator business or the Websites, or changing the Websites functions.\n6.2 The Operator uses the Websites to collect, record, extract and use the User personal data. The Operator may perform transborder transfer of the Personal Data if and where necessary and subject to the Applicable Laws. Prior to a transborder transfer, the Operator shall check whether the country where the Personal Data will be transferred ensures an adequate level of protection of the Data Subjects rights.\n6.3 Other operations with the Personal Data, including storage, shall be carried out without the Websites. These operations are regulated by the Operator internal documents.\n6.4 In order to communicate with the Users, the Operator provides the Feedback Forms and processes the submitted inquiries for the purpose of liaising with the Users. The Operator does not keep the inquiries on the Websites. All inquiries are forwarded for processing to the authorized employees. The Operator shall process only those User Personal Data that is specified in appropriate fields of the Feedback Forms. For example, such Personal Data may include the following (depending on a specific Feedback Form): full name; contact details; data contained in the CV and its attachments; name of the employer; position; message content; and others. The Operator's employees do not use the Websites for sending responses to the User's inquiries.\n6.5 The Websites offer mailings to the Users. The Users may determine the mailing topics, such as: advertisements, reviews of laws and case law, news, reference information, and other materials. The Operator may organize the mailings with or without the User Personal Data as described below:\n6.5.1 Subject to the User's consent, the Organizer may collect the Personal Data (for example, full name, contact details, positions, employer name, etc.) through the relevant mailing web-form and use it to customize the mailings, direct targeted advertisements, and for other similar purposes;\n6.5.2 User may key in his\/her email address in the relevant mailing form. In such a case, no Personal Data shall be processed and no information relating to a directly or indirectly identified or identifiable individual shall be requested or collected.\n6.6 The Users may register for an informational or marketing event on the Websites. Full name, contact details, position, and other Personal Data may be processed for the registration purposes. The User may receive the registration confirmation or refusal by e-mail or phone.\n6.7 The Users', acting as the Operator's clients shall complete their online registration to use their accounts. For this purpose, they shall provide the Operator with their full names, contact details (i.e. emails), logins and passwords chosen by the Users, and other Personal Data through the relevant Feedback Form.\n6.8 The Operator shall always process the Personal Data upon the User consent unless otherwise prescribed by the laws of Russia.\n6.9 For the declared purposes, the Operator may disclose the Personal Data to third parties, including its affiliated companies, and assign the Data Processing to a third party processor according to an agreement which must contain confidentiality clauses and other mandatory clauses prescribed by the Applicable Laws.\n6.10 The Operator always collects the Personal Data based on the following:\n\u2014 all Personal Data belongs only to the User who filled out the Feedback Form (use of third-party data is prohibited);\n\u2014 User is 18 or older and he\/she is legally capable; and\n\u2014 User has provided accurate and up-to-date Personal Data.\nIf the Operator believes that any of the above conditions is not met, the Operator may request that the User clarify the Personal Data prior to considering his\/her message.\n6.11 When collecting the Personal Data, the Operator shall ensure recording, systematizing, accumulating, storing, clarifying (updating, changing) and retrieving of the Personal Data of the Russian Federation citizens with the use of the databases located in the territory of the Russian Federation.\n6.12 The Users' Personal Data constitute confidential information according to the Applicable Laws. The Operator shall take actions necessary and sufficient to ensure due performance of the obligations prescribed by the Russian personal data law. If necessary, the Operator shall take the following actions aimed at protecting the Data Subjects' rights:\n\u2014 Appointment of the data protection officer;\n\u2014 Adoption of the Privacy Policy, other internal policies on the Data Processing matters, data breach revealing, preventing and elimination procedures;\n\u2014 Application of legal, organizational and technical measures ensuring the security of the Personal Data as prescribed by the Applicable Laws;\n\u2014 Internal control and\/or audit of the compliance of the Data Processing with the Russian personal data law and other regulations adopted in accordance with them, the requirements to Personal Data protection, the Operator's Privacy Policy and other internal policies;\n\u2014 Assessment of harm that may be caused to the Data Subjects in case of a data breach, correlation between the said harm and measures taken by the Operator to ensure performance of the obligations established by the Russian personal data law;\n\u2014 Acquaintance of the Operator's employees directly processing the Personal Data with the provisions of the Russian personal data law, including the data protection requirements, the Privacy Policy, other internal policies on Personal Data Processing, and\/or training of the said employees; and\n\u2014 Ensuring unrestricted access to the Privacy Policy and to the information on the implemented data protection requirements including the publication of this Policy on the Websites.\n6.13 The Personal Data security shall be ensured by the Operator, in particular, by:\n\u2014 Determining the data security threats during the processing in the Personal Data Information Systems;\n\u2014 Applying organizational and technical measures to ensure the data security during its processing in the Personal Data Information Systems according to the data protection requirements corresponding to the data protection levels established by the Government of the Russian Federation;\n\u2014 Applying the information security tools that were assessed according to the prescribed procedure for compliance assessment;\n\u2014 Assessing the efficiency of the measures taken to ensure data security before putting the Personal Data Information Systems into operation;\n\u2014 Keeping records of digital media;\n\u2014 Detecting unauthorized access to the Personal Data and implementing the relevant measures;\n\u2014 Recovering the Personal Data modified or destroyed as a result of the unauthorized access;\n\u2014 Setting forth the rules for access to the Personal Data processed in the Personal Data Information Systems and ensuring the registration and record of all actions taken with regard to the Personal Data in the Personal Data Information Systems; and\n\u2014 Controlling the data security measures and the data protection level relevant for the Personal Data Information System.\n6.14 The Operator hereby publishes the information on the implemented data protection requirements. As necessary and subject to the threats relevant to the information systems ensuring the operation of the Websites, the Operator shall comply with the following requirements (or ensure their implementation by the third-party processors):\n\u2014 Ensures the security of premises accommodating the information systems to prevent any person without appropriate access rights from uncontrolled intrusion or stay in these premises;\n\u2014 Ensures the safety of data media;\n\u2014 Adopts a list of employees whose work duties require access to the Personal Data processed in the information systems (by a CEO's decision);\n\u2014 Uses information security tools, of which compliance with the information security requirements of the applicable laws is duly assessed and confirmed, when such tools are necessary for the neutralization of actual threats; and\n\u2014 Appoints an employee or a business unit as a data protection officer.\n7.1 The User shall have the right to\n\u2014 Receive the information relating to his or her Data Processing, access to his\/her Personal Data, and receive a copy of any record containing his\/her Personal Data, except for the cases prescribed by the laws of Russia;\n\u2014 Detail his\/her Personal Data, block or destroy when so prescribed by law;\n\u2014 Appeal against the Operator's actions (omissions) to the competent authorities;\n\u2014 Protect his\/her rights and legitimate interests including the compensation of damages and\/or moral hazard in a judicial or other appropriate legal procedure;\n\u2014 Revoke his\/her consent to the Data Processing; and\n\u2014 Exercise any other rights provided by the Russian personal data law.\n8. PERSONAL DATA UPDATE, CORRECTION, DELETION AND DESTRUCTION\n8.1 If it is revealed and confirmed that the Personal Data is inaccurate or processed illegally, this Personal Data shall be updated or the Data Processing shall be terminated.\n8.2 Unless otherwise prescribed by the Applicable Laws, the Personal Data shall be destroyed upon achieving the Data Processing purposes or revoking the Data Subject's consent.\n9. RESPONSES TO REQUESTS AND INQUIRIES\n9.1 The Operator uses its best efforts to process the Personal Data transparently and promptly respond to requests and inquiries received from the Users, the Data Protection Authority and other state authorities.\n9.2 Requests, inquiries, and other messages about the inaccuracy of Personal Data, illegal Data Processing, revocation of consent, Data Subject's access to his or her data, and any other issues concerning the Data Processing and protection, shall be sent to pat@gorodissky.ru or by regular mail to: 25, bldg 3, Bolshaya Spasskaya street, Moscow, 129090, Russia.\n10.1 This Policy shall enter into force when published (posted) on the Websites and remain effective until cancelled or replaced with a new version.\n10.2 The Operator may unilaterally amend or supplement this Policy. The new version of this Policy shall enter into force when it is published (posted) on the Websites unless otherwise specified in that new version. Should the amendments affect the Users' rights, the Operator may notify the Users of these amendments by sending a notice according to their contact details or otherwise.\n10.3 In case of any dispute connected with the application or fulfilment of this Policy, the Operator and the affected Data Subject shall use their best efforts to resolve it through negotiations and (or) mutual compromises. In case the dispute is not resolved through negotiations and (or) mutual compromises, the dispute shall be resolved according to the laws of Russia.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jewish World Review Nov. 15, 2006 \/ 24 Mar-Cheshvan, 5767\nVoters sent Congress a clear message: End corruption now. Will Democrats listen and, more important, act?\nBy Jonathan Turley\nhttp:\/\/www.JewishWorldReview.com | In her first statement after the Democratic takeover of the House, the presumptive new speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, pledged that her party would create \"the most honest, the most open and the most ethical Congress in history.\"\nHistory, however, should give citizens pause before they celebrate the dawn of a new day. Pelosi's promise is eerily similar to the vows of her two predecessors.\nNotably, in this election, Democrats took back the seats that they lost in 1994 when Newt Gingrich, who became speaker, led a Republican takeover based in part on his promise to create the most ethical Congress in history. Yet, ethics quickly gave way to earmarks, and Gingrich left the House in scandal.\nWe heard the same words from Dennis Hastert in 1999, when he became speaker. During Hastert's speakership, the leadership actually loosened ethics rules and prevented some bipartisan reforms from coming to the House floor. Hastert even engineered the removal of GOP members from the ethics committee who had voted to admonish former majority leader Tom DeLay for his misconduct - before DeLay resigned under indictment.\nThis history explains why lobbyists on K Street are not packing moving boxes in anticipation of an outbreak of good government. After all, these same Democrats remained silent for many years in the face of corrupt practices, often engaging in the very conduct that would now have to be prohibited.\nA vote against corruption\nEven so, there is one unexpected glimmer of hope: They might not have a choice. To the surprise of both parties, exit polls cited corruption in Congress as one of the most important issues motivating citizens to vote. President Bush had campaigned for some of the most corrupt members of Congress. His political adviser, Karl Rove, admitted after the elections that \"the profile of corruption in the exit polls was bigger than I'd expected.\"\nOf course, \"reform\" can take the most curious forms in the parallel moral universe of Congress. For example, in 1997, the mislabeled House Ethics Reform Task Force moved to prevent ethics charges rather than ethics violations. Not only did the members bar citizens from bringing charges, but both parties also entered into a secret 7-year moratorium on any ethics charges by members.\nWhile Republicans richly deserve the lion's share of blame for the grotesquely corrupt 109th Congress, it is only fair to note that ranking Democrats have long fought to preserve and benefit from many of the same loopholes and technicalities.\nDemocratic whip Dick Durbin of Illinois has been criticized for accepting trips for himself and his wife that were paid for by outside groups such as the not-for-profit Aspen Institute. Likewise, the presumptive Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, was recently scrutinized for alleged ethics lapses, including a controversial land deal in Las Vegas and the use of campaign funds to give Christmas bonuses to workers at his luxury condo building in Washington.\nNone of this means that the Democrats cannot show that they are capable of personal change with needed political reform. Yet, the last Democratic proposals for ethics reforms contain obvious gaps that would allow the continuation of corrupt practices, including some favored by their leadership.\nIf Pelosi is serious about \"draining the swamp,\" here are 10 practices that would have to end:\nFree vacations.\nProhibit travel for members and their family and staff paid by outside groups, including not-for-profit organizations.\nPlaying the market.\nBar members from legislating in areas where they have financial interests by closing a loophole in the definition of \"outside income,\" which excludes investments and stocks. Better yet, require the use of blind trusts by members (already used by executive and judicial officers).\nQuid pro quo deals.\nEnd the practice of receiving windfall private deals from partners, who then receive generous government contracts. Require recusal from any matter in which a business partner has a direct financial interest.\nSelf-policing.\nCreate an independent office of ethics in which non-members investigate and rule on allegations of unethical conduct.\nMisuse of campaign funds.\nProhibit the use of such funds for any purpose other than direct campaign costs for the original recipient, barring the transfer of funds to other candidates.\nFamily lobbyists.\nBar members from any official contact with family members who are employed as lobbyists and require recusal from any committee with jurisdiction over issues on which a spouse or a child is a lobbyist. Enact an ethics principle that expressly condemns the employment of spouses or children as lobbyists as harmful to the institution.\nFamily businesses.\nStrengthen nepotism rules, including a ban on the hiring of spouses and family as campaign staff or contractors.\nChange the scope of prohibited gifts to include the use of private jets by members and catered food for members or staff. Also require the valuation of gifts by an independent ethics committee.\nClub privileges.\nEnd all special access to the floor and other areas for former members that allows them free access as lobbyists.\nEarmarks.\nThe primary currency for corrupt practices and pork barrel projects remains earmarks - special pet projects inserted into budgets outside of the usual competitive bidding and appropriations processes. Democrats have proposed changes but not the most obvious: Ban earmarks.\nBelieving in Pelosi's promise is the ultimate victory of hope over experience. Indeed, Democratic proposals still fall short of a true cleaning as opposed to a quick dust and polish in the \"first 100 hours.\" Yet, if she implements these 10 reforms, Pelosi can prove that it is possible for reformed sinners to sin no more.\nJWR contributor Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University. Click here to visit his website. Comment by clicking here.\n\u00a9 2005, Jonathan Turley","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Plague in the United States and International Responses\nTwo cases of plague contracted in a Yosemite campground have made headlines nationally and internationally. In part, the shock value of the story is due to the assumption that plague has been subdued by civilization. But the truth of the matter is, that the United States experiences numerous cases of plague each year, most ocurring in the southwest, where plague remains endemic in rodent populations. About half of the cases of plague in the United States occur in New Mexico, where it has caused ten human fatailities since 2010. In 2014, Colorado reported eight cases and earlier this summer reported its first two fatalities due to plague since 1999. And it isn't just human cases. The 2014 cases in Colorado were tied to a dog, which died of plague like symptoms As the students in my Politics of Global Health class know, rodent populations are key to forcasting incidences of plague. Prairie dogs, squirrel and chipmunk populations have been hard hit during the latest plague season --- and entire colony of prairie dogs was wiped out in Utah in July.\nWhile there is debate about the scientific explanation for recent increases in plague, the real novelty of the story is the non-response to plague in the United States. Because plague is viewed as controlled and subdued, there is little domestic concern and no international response. In contrast, outbreaks of plague in developing countries often result in severe international response.\nFor example, in 1994 seven patients with pneumonic plague-like symptoms in Surat, India led to local panic. Under the International Health Regulations (IHR) countries are required to notify the WHO of cases of epidemic-prone diseases of special concern. In the midst of public panic, India notified the WHO of a potential outbreak and implemented all recommended regulations, prior to confirmation that the outbreak was plague. Before a single case of plague was confirmed, several countries had stopped importing Indian foodstuffs and Italy placed an immediate embargo on all goods from India. Likewise, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the USA all issued travel warning to their citizens. Not only was travel to India discouraged, Indians traveling abroad were subjected to unwarranted measures that are prohibited by the IHR. The result was a loss of at least 2.2 million tourists and quantifiable losses of over US$2 billion. (See Deodhar, Yemul and Banerjee's \"Plague that never was\" in Journal of Public Health Policy, 1998 for more). Only after the Indian Ministry of Health reported the outbreak under control, did the WHO issue a statement that there was evidence of a limited outbreak in Surat, but not of person-to-person. Morevoer, a follow-up report indicated that no case of plague was confirmed on the basis of WHO bacteriological standards.\nThe difference in responses to US outbreaks and those in India or other developing countries are part of a larger pattern. Countries have long struggled with the dilemma of reporting outbreaks or not. While reporting outbreaks ensures international action to prevent disease spread, it may also results in severe economic losses. Early treaties intended to prevent the spread of disease were frequently discarded because of disparities in their application. While richer countries implemented quarantines and embargoes in response to reported outbreaks in their poorer trade partners, poorer countries were unwilling to implement such measures against their richer trade partners for fear of economic losses. The IHR is intended to overcome this dilemma. In addition to required reportingof specific health threats, the IHR identify and limit acceptable measures that other states can implement to prevent the spread of disease in order to minimize disruptions to trade and travel.\nIn the Indian case, the swift and severe international response caused additional and unnecessary harm. That response was in part due to panic among the local population. While the lack of ability to confirm cases as plague may have contributed to panic, the lack of confirmation should have resulted in calls for calm and restraint by other countries. Ultimately, the primary cause of the exaggerated response was the continued power dfiferential between developing and developed countries --- behaviors the IHR was created to prevent. However, the usefulness of the IHR rests upon three key factors: 1) maintanence of public calm; 2) accurate and timely scientific information and; 3) the willingness of other countries to wait for scientific information --- all of which were lacking the the case of India's outbreak.\nSimilar responses have been seen throughout the recent Ebola outbreak. Authorities at various levels in numerous countries opted to implement a variety of measures and restrictions ranging from temperature readings to mandatory quarantines and full travel bans. While some travel restrictions were important for disease control efforts, the effectiveness of the most drastic of these measures and their impact on the general disease control effort has been widely debated. Without a stronger deterent to hasty reactions, disproportionate responses will likely continue. However, a question remains: how do the harms associated with disproportionate responses affect future health and disease control in the country of origin?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"This Portfolio (a1louis)\nThe Night Halloween Became Real\nAn interesting guest list.\nRemembering. Feb. 28, 2020\nWelcome To The Hotel Covid-19\nGovernment Puppets trick you by slow opens of the Economy. Till Covid-19 rears his head...\nShow, Don't Tell Contest\nShow Don't Tell Contest Message Forum\nThe Reluctant Vampire\nAn anorexic vampire looks for a way out.\nA major scientific breakthrough occurs, with a little help.\nStory on Experience of a girl who is writing a book about her father, who is now dead.\nOld Mirror (Completed)\nThe girl receives an heirloom mirror and her life changes forever.\nThe Jack-O-Lantern's\nEntry for Writing 4 Kids Contest 748 WDC word count. 2nd Place winner!\nWriting in Multiple Genres: Good or Bad?\nDoes writing in multiple genres help or hurt an aspiring writer's chances of success?\nThe Light of the World\nA poem I wrote: \"May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace\"\nPrinted from https:\/\/www.writing.com\/main\/view_item\/item_id\/2003602-Choas-Vs-Madness\nChoas Vs. Madness\nby A1\nRated: E \u00b7 Essay \u00b7 Drama \u00b7 #2003602\nCompare and contrast essay on World War I and World War II.\nCreated: August 6th, 2014 at 12:52pm\nModified: August 6th, 2014 at 12:52pm\nGenres: Drama, Death, War\nSeales8\nLouis Seales\nProf. Darius Frasure\nEnglish 1302-66002\nChaos vs. Madness\nWWI and WWII are two of the biggest wars and the most impactful outcomes that resulted. The First World War took place between 1914 and 1918 and The Second World War took place between 1939 and 1945 (\"World\"). The two world wars started from the wars that preceded them. Hall said \"Balkan Wars virtually set the stage of warfare, tactics and beginning of the First World War\". The instability that WWI caused mixed with the political instability in Germany created an inevitable Second World War (\"World\"). Both wars were brutal as the death toll was quickly piling up while the wars raged on. In the First World War the Bulgarians and Ottomans lined up alongside the Central Powers, though by the end of the war, the former enemies were close to renewing hostilities between themselves (\"World\"). The trench warfare made the First World War an all-out dog fight. Guns, tanks, and poisonous gas were used in WWI and were very effective. In WWII Guns, tanks, and poisonous gas were replaced by larger aircrafts and atomic bombs. WWI and WWII had similarities and differences in the way they began, the tactics used, and the outcomes.\nHall said, \"The outbreak of the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 initiated a period of conflict in Europe that has endured off and on for almost a century\". Hall also pointed out the Balkan Wars involvement in conscripted armies that opened with large flanking movements that featured the use of massed artillery, concentrated machine guns, assaults on entrenched positions and airplanes. According to Hall, \"this resulted in huge military losses numbering over 150,000 dead\". Hall continues to say that \"the effects and unresolved conflicts of the Balkan Wars lead to WWI and the effects and unresolved issues of WWI lead to WWII\". Civilian dead from disease, displacement and deliberate atrocity were numbered in the tens of thousands (\"World\"). Balkan War battlefields at Doiran, Gallipoli and Kosovo again saw fighting during the First World War (\"World\"). The issues at the end of the Balkan wars stirred up a conflict that led to WWI. By the end of the Second Balkan War, Serbia was isolated militarily against its rival Austria-Hungary, a development that eventually doomed Serbia in the coming war a year later (\"World\"). When a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand Austria-Hungary determined that the proper response was to prepare for a possible military invasion of Serbia, which was the outbreak of the First World War (\"World\"). The instability created in Europe at the end of the First World War set the stage for another worldwide clash. World War II broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating (\"World\").\nDifferent political issues in countries initiated both World Wars. According to Hall, the consequence of the Balkan Wars was the erosion of the Russian position in the region. Hall also says \"that due to the collapse of the Balkan League and Russia's failure to save Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War caused the government in Sofia to turn to Berlin and Vienna for redress\". Hall spoke about Bulgaria being more important for Russia strategically than Serbia. Hall said \"after the loss of Bulgaria only Serbia remained as a viable Russian ally in southeastern Europe\". Hall also says \"when the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia the war in the Balkans entered the First World War\". Tensions had been brewing in Europe and the Balkan region for years before conflict actually broke out (\"World\"). The spark that ignited World War I was struck in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death along with his wife by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914 (\"World\"). Austria-Hungary and other countries blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the question of Slavic nationalism once and for all (\"World\"). As Russia supported Serbia, Austria-Hungary waited to declare war until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russian intervention, which would likely involve Russia's ally, France, and possibly Great Britain as well (\"World\"). This conflict pitted the Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, against the Allied Powers, Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan (\"World\").\nThe Second World War was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 (\"World\"). It involved the massive majority of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances, with more than 100 million people serving in military units from over 30 different countries . Bloom says \"in a state of total war, the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial... [And] scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources\".\nDue to the economically and politically instability in Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National socialist rose to power and rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination (\"World\"). Hitler had long planned an invasion of Poland, a nation to which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it was attacked by Germany (\"World\"). The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war on two fronts once he invaded Poland, and would have Soviet assistance in conquering and dividing the nation itself (\"World\"). On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, Beginning World War II (\"World\"). Hui says \"leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of which would likely involve Russia's alternate protocol appended to the Nonaggression Pact\". During the six months following the invasion of Poland, the lack of action on the part of Germany and the Allies in the west led to talk in the news media of a \"phony war (\"World\"). At sea however, Hui says \"the British and German navies faced off in heated battle, and lethal German U-boat submarines struck at merchant shipping bound for Britain, sinking more than 100 vessels in the first four months of World War II (\"World\").\nThe massive counts of deaths in the World Wars were both recording (\"World\"). This was a result of the military weaponry and the alliances that formed during the brutal battles of the wars (Hui). WWI and WWII used little similar weaponry like airplanes, tanks, and machine guns (\"World\"). The biggest comparison of the two wars was the involvement of military alliances between different groups of countries (\"World\"). In the First World War, the Allied Powers, which were Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan, fought the Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. Thomas Hone wrote in his article that \"the Central Powers renamed their group as the Axis Powers and fought the Allied Powers again in the Second World War\".\nThe First World War was fought from lines of trenches and battleships at sea and was supported by artillery and machine guns, infantry assault, tanks, early airplanes and poisonous gas (\"World\"). Neither side proved able to deliver a decisive blow for the next two years. Around 1.1 to 1.2 million soldiers from the British and Dominion armies were on the Western Front at any one time (\"World\"). A thousand battalions, occupying sectors of the line from the North Sea to the Orne River, operated on a month-long four-stage rotation system, unless an offensive was underway (\"World\"). Each battalion held its sector for about a week before moving back to support lines and then further back to the reserve lines before a week out of line, often in the Poperinge or Amiens areas. Naval Warfare in the First World War was mainly characterized by the efforts of the Allied Powers (\"World\"). The Allied Powers used larger fleets and surrounding position to blockade the Central Powers by sea, and the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade or to establish an effective blockade of the United Kingdom and France with submarines and raiders (\"World\"). Trench warfare made WWI a brutal and gory war. Less an offensive was underway (\"World\"). The front contained over 9,600 kilometers of trenches (\"World\"). In the first battle of World War I, the Germans assaulted the heavily fortified city of Liege, used enormous siege cannons to capture the city in a short time (\"World\"). German trenches snaked for hundreds of miles through the countryside near the Somme River (\"World\").\nAfter the First World War, WWII moved into effect with upgraded weapons and aircraft. WWII used nuclear power, missiles, modern concepts of covert and special operations, submarines and tanks were also more heavily used (\"World\"). WWII replacing battleships with aircrafts brought the ability to strike enemy ships and bases from sea, with the ability to gain information about the enemy while preventing enemy from doing the same with regard for friendly forces (\"World\"). Hone stated that \"WWII used raids and ambushes to win battles and take control of war territories\".\nWWI was a war between countries for acquiring colonies or territory or resources. The nature of the First World War caused for trench warfare. The countries armies dug into the territory of the colonies to use the resources to help fight (\"World\"). The nature of WWII was more political. The instability in the politics of Germany made WWII was a war of ideologies, such as Fascism and Communism (\"World\"). The weaponry and warfare WWII brought made the war more deadly and fast-paced. Blitzkrieg, aerial bombardment, and the use of aircraft carriers made World War II a war of movement (\"World\").\nAt the end of WWI, the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were all defeated. Both Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires had ceased to exist (\"World\"). World War I resulted in peace treaties radically changing the face of Europe and precipitated political, social, and economic changes (\"World\"). By the Treaty of Versailles Germany was forced to acknowledge guilt for the war (\"World\"). Later, prompted by the Bolshevik publication of the secret diplomacy of the czarist Russian government, the warring powers gradually released their own state papers, and the long historical debate on war guilt began (\"World\"). It has with some justice been claimed that the conditions of the peace treaties were partially responsible for World War II (\"World\"). The front contained over 9,600 kilometers of trenches (\"World\"). A large part of mankind placed its hopes in the newly created League of Nations (\"World\"). The League of Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another worldwide conflict. The rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and its aggression can be dated directly back to World War I (\"World\"). Following that war, Germany was economically devastated because, the Treaty of Versailles unfairly placed the full blame for the war on Germany and demanded heavy reparations payments in return (\"World\"). Germany never paid the main part of these reparations, the treaty humiliated the German people and obstructed the nation's efforts to rebuild and move forward economically and technologically (\"World\"). The resentment with the onerous terms of the Treaty of Versailles fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler's party in Germany (\"World). This would lead to the Second World War broke two decades later.\nThe Second World War ended with the Allies winning again, reigning victorious over Germany and Japan in 1945. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers (\"World\"). Greece gained Bulgaria's Aegean coastline, but by being driven by the same nationalist ardors that marked its participation in the Balkan Wars and the First World War, suffered a catastrophic defeat in Anatolia (\"World\"). Bloom stated \"Bulgaria occupied Macedonia but failed to maintain it and lost the Thracian coast and small territories to the new Yugoslav state\". Similar to the League of Nations, the United Nations was formed to prevent further international conflicts. WWI estimated to have 10 million military dead, 7 million civilian deaths, 21 million wounded, and 7.7 million missing or imprisoned (\"World\"). While the Second World War had over 60 million people deaths, with 38 to 55 million civilians dead from war-related disease and famine (\"World\").\nWorld War I and World War II were both devastating and destructive to Europe and America. Millions of lives were lost and the severe economic consequences for all nations involved, and the public grew war weary as both went on for extended periods of time. Events of the Balkan war lead to WWI and the result of WWI lead to WWII (\"Progonati\"). WWII was fought for six years, while WWI was fought for four years (\"World\"). WWII had the highest death toll of the two World Wars. WWI and WWII were the largest wars fought in human history (\"World\"). The wars started differently but they were both part of a war-related domino effect that the Balkan wars started. WWI and WWII had similarities and differences in the way they began, the tactics used, and the outcomes.\nBloom, Jonathan. \"An Island within an Island V. S. Pritchett during World War II.\" Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 June 2013.\nCooper, Stephen. \"Taking Sides on the Great War.\" History Today 64.3 (2014): 19-22. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 Aug. 2014.\nGannon, Paul. \"The First Intelligence War.\" Engineering & Technology (17509637) 9.6 (2014): 48-51. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 Aug. 2014.\nHall, Richard C. \"Balkan Wars.\" History Today 62.11 (2012): 36-42. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4-August-2014.\nHone, Thomas C. \"Replacing Battleships with Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific in World War Ii.\" Naval War College Review 66.1 (2013): 56-76. Academic Search Complete. Web.\nHui, Wang. \"The Transformation of Culture and Politics: War, Revolution, and the 'Thought Warfare' Of the 1910S.\" Twentieth-Century China 38.1 (2013): 5-33. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4-August-2014.\nProgonati, Erjada. \"The Chronicle of the First World War and Its Impact on the Balkans.\" Journal of Gazi Academic View 7.14 (2014): 97-116. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 Aug. 2014.\n\"World War I.\" 2013. The History Channel website. 4-August-2014, 9:10 http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/world-war-i\n\"World War I.\" Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition (2013): 1-4. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4-August-2014.\n\"World War II.\" 2013. The History Channel website. 4-August-2014, 9:10 http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/world-war-ii\n\u00a9 Copyright 2014 A1 (a1louis at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WATCH: Evan Felker of Turnpike Troubadours BACK on Stage with Teague Brothers Band\nBuddy Logan Published: March 1, 2021\nEvan Felker is back. Well, he was back for one night at least, as he joined The Teague Brothes Band at a fundraiser for Eric Neal, who was diagnosed Sclerosing Epitheloid Fibrosarcoma in 2018.\nWhile we still don't know the full story behind the sighting, and perhaps we never will, it was just great to see Felker back on stage again. Texas-based radio promoter, Jennifer Redding, was quick to get pictures up on Facebook, oh, and she recorded the best video we've seen in a couple of years. The former Turnpike Troubadours front man and his new mustache didn't miss a beat as he sang \"7&7,\" \"Gin, Smoke, Lies,\" \"Good Lord, Lorrie,\" and \"Every Girl,\" with the Teague Brothers Band\n\"February 27, 2021, was truly amazing to be a part of. Eric you are consistently in our thoughts and prayers. I'm proud to call you a friend and it was an absolute pleasure to be there. What a community we have. Evan Felker of the The Turnpike Troubadours was a true gentleman and performed beautifully for Eric. A dream come true to everyone in the room. Godspeed Eric & Shelby Neal.\" - John Teague\nThe Teague Brothers Band released their debut album Harvest Day in 2019, their newest single \"American Folk Song\" is out now.\nMy new podcast a listen, Buddy Logan's Aircheck, is available to stream or download anywhere fine podcasts can be found. And if you're craving more Texas and Red Dirt music, check out the Radio Texas, LIVE! app available on ANDROID or IOS -- through it you can continuously stream the best music in the world.\nLOOK: Celebs Share Their Personal Paranormal Stories\nFiled Under: Evan Felker, Teague Brothers Band, Turnpike Troubadours\nCategories: Articles, News, Videos","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Large folio [55.0 x 39.2 cm]. (1) f. etched\/engraved Latin title page, (1) f. etched Italian title page, (4) ff. letterpress dedication with (2) large etched headpieces, 69 pp. letterpress text with (2) large etched initials and (2) large etched tailpieces, (1) p. blank verso, XII pp. letterpress Latin and Italian 'indexes' (keys) to plates III and IV, xvii pp. letterpress Latin and Italian 'catalogues' to the folding plan, and with (52) etched\/engraved coppers on XLVIII consecutively numbered plates (2 folding, 1 double page), mainly by Piranesi, including the 6 sheet map (joined) comprising plates numbered V-X. Bound in contemporary calf, spine elaborately gilt, morocco lettering piece laid to spine, gold-tooled borders and edges to upper and lower covers, block-printed endpapers. Minor rubbing and edge wear to spine and boards, head- and tail-bands renewed. Occasional minor toning, the occasional minor stain, a few short separations at the folds of the large plan.\nFirst edition \u2013 and fine copy \u2013 of Piranesi's incomparable reconstruction of Rome's Campus Martius, a work famed for its archaeological ambition, its graphic inventiveness, and as a sourcebook for the architectural imagination which continues to influence architectural theorists and practitioners today. \"An exceptional personality, Piranesi transfigured his personal failure as an architect by re-creating ancient Roman architecture and urbanism through a richly complex representation\" (Millard, Italian, p. 297). In the Campus Martius Piranesi illustrates the region's topography, discusses its archeology, and provides theatrical views of surviving monuments (e.g., Tiber Island, Porticus Octaviae, Mausoleum of Augustus, the Pantheon, Theater of Marcellus, Mausoleum of Hadrian, etc.), but the most arresting feature of the work is Piranesi's most ambitious cartographic effort, the Ichnographia, a 6-sheet fantastic reconstruction of the Campus Martius in plan, measuring 1.35 x 1.17 meters.\nIn the Ichnographia and in the work's other ideal imaginings of Rome's ancient urban environment (e.g., plate LXVIII and the Italian title page), Piranesi overcomes the limitations of practical architecture, building his visions on paper instead of in stone: \"The map is the quintessential product of an architect, and it privileges buildings above all else\" (J. Maier, p. 13). The Campus Martius, in fact, marked the culmination of the friendship between Piranesi and the great Scottish architect Robert Adam (1754-98), the work's dedicatee (see below), making it of Grand Tour and British interest and an important source for the active architectural interpretation of ancient Rome far from the Eternal City itself.\nThe contents of the work are well described by M. Pollak (in Millard, Italian), from which we may excerpt as follows: \"The publication borrows from the two main interests of the author, the archaeological research and the polemical battles of the early 1760s. His historical inquiry is here committed to supporting his view of the primacy of Roman builders \u2026 [The] plan is one of Piranesi's most feverish fantasies, marshalling a huge range of imaginary constructs for the celebration of ancient Rome. Within this plan he proposes an urban and architectural landscape of the utmost complexity. Piranesi achieves this tour de force through a great variety of illustrations and employs every means of representation at his disposal.\n\"In this work, Piranesi refined his method of graphic juxtaposition. The Campo Marzio opens with a great plan of Rome with stone fragments illusionistically 'placed' on it; subsequently sheets of details are 'pinned' onto larger plans and views. Thus Piranesi uses trompe l'oeil to juxtapose differently scaled drawings \u2026 He practices, throughout, an X-ray vision that enables him to locate the extant fragments of ancient ruins within existing buildings, such as the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata. He is no longer merely illustrating but re-creating a lost world \u2026 His innovation, then, as Wilton-Ely has summarized, is to show the ruins as a view rather than merely offering a dry archaeological reconstruction\" (Pollak, Millard Italian, pp. 312-13).\nPiranesi's earlier works on the antiquities of ancient Rome (Antichita romane, 1756-7) ran into difficulties with its dedicatee, Lord Charlemont. For his new volume, Piranesi required a new patron. \"The Campus Martius owes its existence as a separate volume of the Antichita romane to the vanity of the young Scots architect Robert Adam,\" notes Joseph Connors in his recent monograph on the work (p. 36). Adam had come to admire Piranesi during his stay in Rome (1755-57) and accepted the latter's offer knowing it would entail the purchase of some 100 copies for resale in England and Scotland. However, in exchange Adam insisted that Piranesi publish the Campus Martius as a stand-alone study, divorced from the Antichita romane which had borne the name of Charlemont. Adam's name thus features prominently on the title page of the present work, where Piranesi also proudly flaunts his own membership in the Royal Society of London. A medallion on the right of the large folding plate also shows the two friends in profile, in the fashion of duumviri. (Adam's name also appears in the dedication of the 6-sheet map.)\nPiranesi never abandoned his architectural ambitions, and in 1764-66 the Chiesa di Santa Maria del Priorato on the Aventine in Rome was remodeled according to his designs. He also designed the fanciful square in front of the church, the Piazza dei Cavaliere di Malta. These constituted Piranesi's only built works.\nPiranesi broke the boundaries of etching and engraving through his acts of improvisation during the printing process, especially in the variable applications of ink in different areas of the copperplate. This results in a perhaps unprecedented amount of creative variation among copies, in which the exigencies of the printing process enter into the creative act as never before in the graphic arts. The present example of the Campus Martius is distinguished by its excellent preservation and fine strikes throughout.\n* Millard, Italian, no. 91; J. Connors, Piranesi and the Campus Martius: The Missing Corso: Topography and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Rome; M. Bevilacqua, Roma nel secolo dei lumi. Architettura, erudizione, scienza nella pianta di G. B. Nolli 'celebre geometra'; M. Bevilacqua, ed., Nolli, Vasi, Piranesi: immagine di Roma antica e moderna Rappresentare e conoscere la metropoli dei lumi; M. Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s; J. Wilton-Ely, \"Utopia or Megalopolis? The 'Ichnographia' of Piranesi's Campus Martius Reconsidered,\" in A. Bettagno, ed., Piranesi tra Venezia e l'Europa, pp. 293-304; J. Maier, \"Rome Lost and Found: A Review of Piranesi and the Campus Martius: The Missing Corso \u2013 Topography and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Rome,\" Architectural Histories, 1(1) (2013), p. 13.\nSee all items in Rare Books\nSee all items by Giovanni Battista PIRANESI","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home News Students question UW's pandemic compensation strategy\nStudents question UW's pandemic compensation strategy\nAlicia Wang\nPhoto from Unsplash\nOn Feb. 4, undergraduate students from the University of Waterloo received a memo stating that students would be partially compensated for pandemic-induced costs.\nThe message from the president and vice-president informed undergraduates that full-time students would see $125 of credit added to their accounts, $37.50 for part-time students. Students will be eligible for the credit if their registered status is \"Fees Arranged\" on Quest by Feb. 7, or if they are on a co-op term for winter 2022.\nThe amount is expected to appear in Quest on March 3.\nDue to the additional stress the pandemic has caused students, several students expressed concerns that the university was not doing all that they could to alleviate the strain.\n\"What could help is reducing our tuition instead of making us pay full price because at the end of the day we're teaching ourselves when we're online. We're not in the university buildings, it's not the same experience. They just post something, we read it or watch it and do whatever assignment or quiz we have that week,\" first-year honours arts student Leyla Koc said.\nTuition for many Canadian universities has increased in recent years even before the impacts of the pandemic. According to a research paper by Statistics Canada, universities have increasingly relied on tuition as a source of revenue as provincial grants to postsecondary institutions have steadily declined \u2014 the 2009\/2010 academic year was the last year that grants were UW's primary source of income, making up 45.1 per cent of operating revenue. In the 2020\/2021 academic year, academic fees made up 63.6 per cent of the university's operating revenue, whereas grants amounted to only 29 per cent of its income.\nAs a result, tuition fees have been steadily increasing, with Canadian students' tuition rising by an average of 1.6 per cent and international students' tuition rising by an average of 4.3 per cent from the 2020\/2021 academic year to the 2021\/2022 academic year. The increased financial strain is aggravated by the overall increase in the cost of living in Canada, which in 2021 experienced its fastest growth since 1991.\nThe long-term benefits of postsecondary education, particularly higher earnings and increased financial stability, have often been used to justify the financial stress of acquiring one. However, with the additional financial and mental strain placed on students by the pandemic, some have begun to ask whether or not universities could be doing more to help students now.\nFirst-year AFM student Xander Chong initially appreciated the thought behind the $125 credit gesture. \"Especially cause of the pandemic, for a lot of students money has been kinda tight, so it's nice even though it can only cover the cost of one textbook,\" he said. However, Chong pointed out that due to the relatively small amount, \"they could give compensation as often as they could to show their support for students in these times cause especially for students only just returning to campus after a few months or years, knowing that the school cares even a little bit is nice.\"\nWith the number of undergraduates at UW in the fall 2021 term totalling 34,609, a credit compensation of $125 to each full-time student and $37.50 to every part-time student would amount to over $4M CAD. UW's total operating revenue for the 2020\/2021 academic year amounted to approximately $595M CAD.\nLukas Salib, a first-year honours arts student, was similarly hesitant to give the move his full approval. \"It's a step in the right direction, but it still doesn't compensate for the entirety of the two terms because a lot of students have taken a hit from their grades since they had to basically teach [the content] to themselves, so it doesn't feel like a lot\u2026 there's still such a really big number we gotta pay.\"\nThese frustrations are compounded by the fact that this is not the first time UW has given students small amounts of credit in order to resolve underlying issues. Koc explained to Imprint a previous situation where she received credit from UW in response to a mistake the university had made regarding her residence contract.\nIn August 2021, Koc received an email from Campus Housing stating her contract had been cancelled due to missing signatures, despite her having evidence to the contrary. When she contacted campus housing, she was told that she had to fill out a vacancy form and wait for a confirmation email \u2014 information that she later learned was inaccurate.\n\"I waited a couple of days and I heard nothing, so I emailed them back because obviously I'm anxious, and a completely different person got back to me and told me something completely different on top of that. They told me I had to resign the contract again, repay the $500 deposit, and then I'd be good,\" Koc said. \"The deadline was literally the day after I emailed them, so if I hadn't gone out of my way to email them I wouldn't have had a place to sleep. I paid another $500 deposit, but there was just so much misinformation.\"\nKoc received a $50 credit compensation for her troubles. \"What is that gonna do for all the anxiety and stress they put me through? I was in a different country at the time too, so getting that email that I didn't sign something even though I did was terrifying.\"\nRegarding situations like Koc's, as well as increasing concerns about the ever-rising cost of tuition, the question of whether or not compensation has been \"enough\" weighs on many Canadian students' minds.\n\"We're already paying so much to be here, but they make you feel good by giving you money when really, it's nothing,\" said first-year chemical engineering student Melissa Ramdial.\npandemic compensation strategy\nreduce tuition\nFeds attempts to squash campus press\nStarting from the ground up\nWaterloo to launch interactive gathering space map in Spring 2021\nThe Urban Circus\nResearch dollars pouring in\nZumba class takes up the cause of Think Pink\nFire at UW residence\nUW researchers replicate the cosmic 'Unruh effect' in lab","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"weare new hampshire paintball, weare new hampshire middle school\nWeare is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States The population was 8,785 at the 2010 census1 It is close to two important New Hampshire cities, Manchester and Concord\nThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message\nPiscataquog River in 1912\nIt was granted to veterans of the Canadian wars in 1735 by Governor Jonathan Belcher, who named it Beverly-Canada after their hometown, Beverly, Massachusetts But the charter was ruled invalid because of a prior claim by the Masonian proprietors, who granted six square miles as Hale's Town to Ichabod Robie in 17492 It was also known as Robie's Town or Weare's Town before being incorporated by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1764 as Weare, after Meshech Weare, who served as the town's first clerk and later went on to become New Hampshire's first governor3\nIn 1834, Moses Cartland founded Clinton Grove Academy, the first Quaker seminary in the state A cousin of John Greenleaf Whittier, Cartland named the village where the school was located Clinton Grove, in honor of Dewitt Clinton, chief sponsor of the Erie Canal The original academy served as a private high school The complex, which included a classroom building, boarding house, barn and sheds, burned in 1872 Classes were then held in the Quaker meetinghouse across the common until 1874, when a new building was completed4 It would serve as the Weare school district from 1877 to 1938\nOn September 21, 1938, following several days of heavy rain, the New England Hurricane of 1938 passed through the center of New England The additional rains from the storm caused the Deering Reservoir dam to breach, releasing a wall of water that rushed down to the Weare Reservoir dam Although the dam held, the flash flood broke through the land at the side of the dam, releasing millions of gallons of reservoir water The raging river, completely out of control, washed away everything in its path, leaving parts of Weare devastated Many active mills were destroyed in the disaster\nIn response to the disaster and seasonal flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers built the 2,000-foot 610 m long Everett Dam, as part of the Hopkinton-Everett Flood Control Project, which had been authorized by Congress to prevent a recurrence of the devastating floods The overall project was completed in 1963 at a total cost of $21,400,000 The dam required the village of East Weare to be permanently abandoned, and formed Everett Lake\nIn 2005, the town was proposed as the site of the Lost Liberty Hotel, a farmhouse owned at the time by US Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter The effort to seize Souter's property for the project, in retaliation for a June 2005 court ruling he supported concerning eminent domain, received international media coverage However, at the February 4, 2006, deliberative session of the town meeting, a warrant article that would have empowered town officials to take the property was amended by residents in a way that made the March 14, 2006, ballot measure moot\nOld bridge c 1905\nBaptist Church c 1910\nBoston & Maine Railroad station in 1910\nEast Weare c 1910\nGeographyedit\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 599 square miles 1551 km2, of which 588 sq mi 1523 km2 is land and 10 sq mi 26 km2 is water, comprising 174% of the town Weare is drained by the Piscataquog River, which is impounded by Lake Horace in the northwest and by Everett Lake in the northeast The three highest summits in Weare form a cluster near the center of town From south to north, they are Mount Dearborn, at 1,211 feet 369 m above sea level, Mine Hill 1,211 feet 369 m, and Mount Wallingford, approximately 1,210 feet 370 m\nThe town is crossed by New Hampshire Route 77, New Hampshire Route 114 and New Hampshire Route 149\nDemographicsedit\n1800 2,517 308%\n1810 2,634 46%\n1830 2,430 \u2212126%\n1840 2,375 \u221223%\nEst 2015 8,913 15%\nUS Decennial Census6\nAs of the census7 of 2000, there were 7,776 people, 2,618 households, and 2,117 families residing in the town The population density was 1321 people per square mile 510\/km\u00b2 There were 2,828 housing units at an average density of 481 per square mile 186\/km\u00b2 The racial makeup of the town was 9825% White, 017% African American, 022% Native American, 042% Asian, 022% from other races, and 072% from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 069% of the population\nThere were 2,618 households out of which 482% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 710% were married couples living together, 56% had a female householder with no husband present, and 191% were non-families 134% of all households were made up of individuals and 26% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 297 and the average family size was 328\nIn the town, the population was spread out with 320% under the age of 18, 57% from 18 to 24, 368% from 25 to 44, 207% from 45 to 64, and 47% who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 34 years For every 100 females there were 1011 males For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 995 males\nThe median income for a household in the town was $59,924, and the median income for a family was $62,661 Males had a median income of $38,986 versus $27,643 for females The per capita income for the town was $22,217 About 15% of families and 25% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11% of those under age 18 and 82% of those age 65 or over\nEducationedit\nWeare has one elementary school, Center Woods Elementary School, serving children in kindergarten through fourth grade\nWeare Middle School serves children from fifth through eighth grade Construction on a new middle school facility began in late 2005\nHigh school students in Weare attend John Stark Regional High School\nNotable peopleedit\nElma Gove, painter\nGene Robinson, ninth Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshirecitation needed\nDavid Souter, former associate justice of the US Supreme Court\n^ United States Census Bureau, American FactFinder, 2010 Census figures Retrieved March 23, 2011\n^ Warren Brown, Volume 1 of History of Hampton Falls, NH Rumford Press, 1900\n^ Austin J Coolidge & John B Mansfield, A History and Description of New England; Boston, Massachusetts 1859\n^ History of Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; JW Lewis & Company, Philadelphia 1885\n^ \"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015\" Retrieved July 2, 2016\n^ \"Census of Population and Housing\" Censusgov Retrieved June 4, 2016\n^ \"American FactFinder\" United States Census Bureau Retrieved 2008-01-31\nTown of Weare, official 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To shield individuals, the government has actually set needs that each center have to comply prior to they can open up. These demands consist of the sort of solutions that they can supply to the individuals, employee and also their working times. The requirements concentrate on the center accepting people from all profession at any given time that the urgent treatment facility is in operation. The members of the personnel ought to also have the ability to deal with the more typical diseases, illness and troubles that these individuals bring with them. Generally, the government or the state requires that several of the extra required tools be existing in the facility before they can be functional. Most centers do not urge moms and dads with youngsters listed below 2 years of ages to head to them for any kind of severe problems like an autumn, loss of awareness and others.BenefitsThere are a number of blazing advantages of mosting likely to an urgent care center. One of the most obvious is the prompt focus that a private gets for the issue that she or he has. The state advises going to this kind of center if the matter at hand is not an emergency situation and also not of a pushing nature. The doctor there are additionally certified doctors, nurses and also clinical team who are educated to deal with the majority of the much more common health and wellness troubles that do not need surgical treatment or emergency situation attention. Because of the nature of a lot of problems that pass via the facility daily, turnaround is faster than set up sees to the healthcare facility. One more benefit is the schedule of most of the medical staff in the establishment. Given that they are obliged to stay open at the allotted hours, individuals can rest ensured that they can chat to a qualified and certified physician when they go there. This implies that one can get practically instant interest without the benefit of a routine. 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The needs concentrate on the facility approving individuals from all profession at any type of given time that the urgent care center functions. The participants of the staff need to likewise be able to address the extra typical illnesses, diseases and also problems that these people bring with them. Typically, the government or the state requires that a few of the more required tools exist in the facility before they can be functional. A lot of centers do not encourage moms and dads with kids listed below 2 years of ages to visit them for any type of significant issues like an autumn, loss of awareness as well as others.BenefitsThere are a number of blazing advantages of going to an immediate care center. One of the most obvious is the prompt attention that a specific obtains for the concern that she or he has. The state suggests mosting likely to this kind of center if the matter at hand is not an emergency and also not of a pushing nature. The physician there are likewise certified doctors, registered nurses as well as clinical staff who are educated to handle a lot of the much more typical health issue that do not require surgical treatment or emergency interest. Due to the nature of most issues that go through the center daily, turn-around is faster than set up check outs to the healthcare facility. Another advantage is the schedule of the majority of the medical team in the facility. Because they are required to remain open at the allotted hours, patients can feel confident that they can speak to a qualified and also licensed physician when they go there. This suggests that can receive virtually prompt focus without the advantage of a schedule. 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{"text":"Qatar Eyeing More German Investments: Minister - ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive\nQatar Eyeing More German Investments: Minister\nby Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 17, 2010 | Business |\nBERLIN, (AFP) \u2013 Gas-rich Qatar, already heavily involved in car giant Volkswagen and construction group Hochtief, is eyeing further investments in Germany, Economy and Finance Minister Yussef Hussein Kamal said on Friday.\n\"We've only just begun in Germany,\" Kamal told the Financial Times Deutschland in an interview, adding the emirate has its eye on the IT sector and the small- and medium-sized firms that form the backbone of Europe's top economy.\nSovereign wealth fund Qatar Holding has an estimated 100 billion dollars under management.\n\"We have already begun negotiations with some small and medium firms,\" the minister said without citing individual companies.\n\"We have to import everything, including construction expertise \u2026 This is an opportunity for German firms,\" he said.\nEarlier this month, Qatar bought a 9.1-percent stake in Hochtief, a company which is the subject of a takeover bid from Spanish rival ACS.\nHochtief is now eyeing some juicy contracts as Qatar prepares to host the 2022 Soccer World Cup.\nQatar holds some 17 percent of Volkswagen. 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{"text":"The Epitome of German Horology: A. Lange & Sohne\nBy Roberta Naas \/ September 4, 2014\nBy Gordon Henderson With the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989 and the official reunification of East and West Germany in January of 1990, the reestablishment of East German business was paramount. For Walter Lange, the great grandson of Ferdinand Adolf Lange, the demise of the wall was a great opportunity to revive\u2026\n5 years ago in A. Lange & Sohne, Features, Timepieces News, Reviews and Articles, WristWatch Brands, Wristwatch Reviews\nA. Lange & Sohne Watches: Love Affairs come Easy with the 1815 Tourbillon\nBy Roberta Naas \/ May 23, 2014\nBy Gordon Henderson A. Lange & Sohne watches are all about precision and ultimate craftsmanship \u2013 especially with the new A. Lange & Sohne 1815 tourbillon. A tourbillon watch movement is more a feat of human engineering than an actual watch complication. The development of the movement was done to counteract the most basic of\u2026\n6 years ago in A. Lange & Sohne, SIHH 2014, Time Capsules: Product, Timepieces News, Reviews and Articles, Watches\/Reviews, WristWatch Brands, Wristwatch Reviews\nNew York Area Watch Collectors Have Rare Opp to see Luxury Watches at TimeCrafters 2014\nIf you are in or close to New York City this week, you may want to take some time to attend the third annual TimeCrafters show at the Park Avenue Armory to get your own close-up look at 15 top luxury watch brands and their superb new luxury watches. Open to the public, TimeCrafters is\u2026\n6 years ago in A Timely Event, A. Lange & Sohne, Around the World \/ Watch stops, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Other Watch Shows 2014, Timepieces News, Reviews and Articles, Watch Industry Interviews, WristWatch Brands, Wristwatch Reviews\nExperience the Moon's Influence on Man: The Must-Have A. Lange & S\u00f6hne Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar Terraluna\nBy Roberta Naas \/ February 19, 2014\nAs promised yesterday, we focus on astronomy this week- with some of the most scintillating timepieces coming out of SIHH 2014 in Geneva recently. Among them\u2014the absolute must-have A. Lange &Sohne Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar Terraluna. Intriguing, alluring and complex, this watch demonstrates better than most how influential the moon's lure is over man \u2013\u2026\n6 years ago in A. Lange & Sohne, Around the World \/ Watch stops, Features, Moonphase Watches, News, Other Watch Shows 2014, SIHH 2014, Time Capsules: Product, Timepieces News, Reviews and Articles, Watch Industry Interviews, Watch Stops, Wristwatch Reviews\nWe're Off to See the Wizards! The Wonderful Wizards of SIHH 2014\nYou may have noticed that this week we brought you a lot of cool new watches just arriving in retail stores. That's because we wanted to temper next week's coverage of hot new watches being unveiled at the SIHH Show\u2014to which we now embark on our annual journey. The watches introduced at the SIHH \u2013\u2026\n6 years ago in A. Lange & Sohne, Around the World \/ Watch stops, Audemars Piguet, Cartier, Features, Panerai, Parmigiani, SIHH 2014, Timepieces News, Reviews and Articles, Vacheron Constantin, Watch Industry Interviews, Watch Stops, Wristwatch Reviews\nA Practical Guide to Watch Collecting\nBy Alex Lam Yesterday, we waxed poetic about our passion for watches and the drive to collect and curate them. That article was all about the emotion involved in buying a watch and the relationship one forms with it. Today, we bring a more practical view to the concept of watch collecting. After considering the\u2026\n6 years ago in A. Lange & Sohne, Audemars Piguet, Collectors' Corner, Features, Rolex, TAG Heuer, Timepieces News, Reviews and Articles, Watch Education, Wristwatch Education, Wristwatch Reviews","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Strategic PlanningSustainable Business strategySustainable Product StrategyTotal Experience (TX) strategyLatest Key Insights\nInformation TechologyInnovation and StrategyMarketing and CommunicationProductCustomer Service and Support\nEducationFinancial ServicesHealthcareHigh Tech & TelecomRetail\nBlogCareersExpert Guidance\nDesign that boosts trust\nWhen it comes to building trust and loyalty with potential customers, design is king. Subtle cues such as color can signal safety and security online which promotes product trustworthiness in a way that's less invasive than other tactics like heavy-handed sales copy or lengthy legal policies.\nRatomir Jovanovic\nThe trustworthiness of a website or app can be improved with design. By implementing subtle cues that signal safety and security, companies are able to establish product trust and loyalty online. For instance, the color green is traditionally associated with nature which creates feelings of calmness while red is connected to danger so it should never be used on an e-commerce site for anything other than error messages because its negative connotations will discourage conversion rates by making users feel anxious about transacting business when they see these colors together in one place.\nTrust is important when making a decision on what to buy, and it can be difficult knowing which things are safe. A study by Edelman found that more than 80% of customers said their concern over privacy impacted how much they trusted brands online.\nIt's hard because trust isn't something you get without spending some time researching the company or product first, but we all know buying anything these days relies heavily in being able to connect with people who share similar values as us through social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc., so if your friends have bought products from them before then this would help build up trust for future purchases too!\nHow do I decide whom or what should I put my faith in? Why is trusting others an integral part of society? One thing is clear: Consumers will not stick around for long if they don't have full confidence in the digital product they are using.\nWhy should I trust a company with my personal information? You might be asking yourself this question, especially when everything we do online is tracked by companies.\nCompanies track everything you do online for different reasons, and when they know what your interests are, it helps them show ads that will be more relevant to you.\nThis is all part of the User Experience Design process which can help build trust with potential customers who may not have any prior experience working with this company.\nDesign consistency is the foundation of trust because it reassures people that they are interacting with a site that they intended to. A consistent look and feel suggests an organized company, competent workers, and efficient systems which all contribute to trust in your brand or product as well!\nPeople's brains are hardwired to be attracted to things that do not stand out. With this in mind, it is important for designers and developers alike to stay consistent with their design choices so as not distract users from the content they want them viewing. Sometimes these discrepancies happen unintentionally or due time constraints but when caught early enough can easily be fixed by implementing a set of guidelines within your team such as colors used on call-to-action buttons across all pages, making sure calendar forms look similar throughout the site etcetera.\nIf you want to make your site more user-friendly, design with their expectations in mind. Will they expect the shopping cart on top? Or will it be underlined?\nEvery detail must be cohesive and consistent for a user to feel at home on your site or app. This extends from the color palette, logo, navigation mechanics - all of it. A reliable experience means that users will always know how they can navigate through screens without having to learn each time they visit what happens when you click this button instead of that one!\nDesigners must step back and think about how their work fits in with the company's broader vision of what customer journey should look like. To create a consistent, trustworthy design experience, there are some critical questions that need to be answered from the outset: Does my UX align with these expectations for this point in time? Is it aligned at all within an overarching strategy or plan? These high-level considerations will help designers make decisions on more granular elements as they go down into detail - such as who needs input when creating new features or functionality; whether research is needed before proceeding forward.\nBE AWARE OF DARK PATTERNS!\nDesign can be deployed to trick a user into doing something unintentionally, usually taking advantage of the fact that people tend to skim and not read carefully. This is what's known as dark patterns in UX research\u2014a term coined more than a decade ago by British researcher Harry Brignull.\nThere are many ways that companies trick their customers to keep them there, the most common of which is making it nearly impossible for a customer to unsubscribe from an email service.\nFor example, they might have some hidden button or link on every page that's meant only for use by employees and makes it very difficult for customers who want out. Another way companies try this tactic is with x's; since everyone knows what these symbols mean in regards to closing windows, company websites will often place one at the bottom of each screen so when you think you're about done surfing through products online and ready leave - bam! You've accidentally downloaded software onto your computer without realizing what happened.\nThe dark patterns that are used now may earn you some clicks and even generate extra revenue in the short term. However, if your goal is designing a product intended to foster trust; they should be left out of the design equation.\nDON'T LIE ABOUT IN-APP PERMISSIONS\nThe UI for in-app permissions is as important to the experience of using an app, and can be used to encourage users. One study found that people were more likely to give their permission if they're told why it's necessary!\nWhen a user initiates an action, they should be prompted to grant permission for the app's use of that specific information. This prompt would appear directly after initiating such actions (such as searching nearby places on Google Maps). For example: first time you search \"places near me\" or open Facebook Messenger.\nBE ACCOUNTABLE\nAfter an outage or data breach, companies need to have a communications plan in place with updates for customers. Designers can collaborate with them by designing templates and posts about the situation so that users are well informed of what is happening.\nIf a company doesn't have an emergency communications plan in place, the consequences can be severe. For example, following 2017's Equifax data breach that affected over 145 million consumers' personal information; after discovering their systems had been compromised and then failing to immediately notify users of this issue with sensitive detailed financial records such as social security numbers. They instead sent out two notices via email more than six weeks apart while millions of Americans were unaware whether or not they'd become victims themselves until it was too late for them to take preventative measures against identity theft...\nSocial media sites and apps are notorious for spying on their users, so it's no surprise that they don't always keep your best interests in mind. But you can hold the company accountable if something goes wrong with a service by forcing them to be transparent about what happened through an online environment such as a dedicated web page.\nTHIRD-PARTY FEATURES MUST FOLLOW BRAND GUIDELINES\nDevelopers who are working on an app or website often need to embed features of other apps into their product. This way, they can say that the chat and payment feature is already included and not have to design them from scratch in addition with perfecting whatever it was originally intended for. But when developers integrate these pages or apps, it's important to make sure the navigation system stays consistent throughout all parts of your site so that people don't get too lost while using this individual part you just added onto your main project.\nA customer might not want to chat with a bot, but they will be reassured when their favorite brand is advertised.\nThis means the user can spend more time on in-app features and less on another app for assistance. Brands need to make sure customers know that this is an authentic experience or else it could backfire by making them feel like they are being tricked into interacting only with bots rather than humans at all times of day.\nREMIND USERS TO SECURE THEIR ACCOUNTS (DISCREETLY)\nThe creators of a website can use creative ways to nudge people into more secure behavior. For example, they could offer reminders or security strength meters on sign-up pages when it is apparent that the password was weak and reused multiple times before. Or remind them to enable dual-factor authentication for their accounts which provides one of the best means of protection against data breaches in this day and age where 80% are traced back as being due from poor passwords or using an old ones repeatedly!\nBinance, a cryptocurrency trader that offers two-factor authentication for its customers to keep their data safe and secure, has implemented clever design so as not let users pass without setting up the protection. They have taken steps to protect customer privacy with an unobtrusive banner which can't be dismissed until the option is enabled on one's account page.\nSEND TRUSTWORTHY SIGNALS\nCompanies should use this to their advantage and work on building up customer trust in order to keep them coming back. It is a shame that nowadays there are more reasons for customers than ever before not to take risks online, but it's also an opportunity! Companies need only build up the level of trust between themselves and their clients\/customers by focusing on transparency so they can continue running successful businesses despite these threats from hackers. Other studies show that people base their decisions about where to place trust based on intuition. It only takes a split second for customers to have this instinct, so incorporating principles of trustworthy design can go a long way in instilling confidence with your users.\nWhile it's important for companies to have a website that is aesthetically pleasing and easy to navigate, the design of your site can also positively affect how trustworthy you seem. Subtle cues like color or font choice are powerful tools when used strategically. For example, if you want customers to feel calm while browsing your products then use green because this color traditionally reminds people of nature and peace which will encourage them to stay longer on your site; but don't forget about red! This color should never be incorporated into any marketing material for e-commerce sites as its negative connotations discourage conversion rates by making users anxious about transacting business when they see these colors together in one place. Companies who implement these subtle changes may find themselves with a more successful, and trustworthy site.\nUX is not Art!\nMinimalistic UX\nApp Settings Design Architecture\nSubsribe to the Latest Insight.\nBy clicking the \"Continue\" button, you are agreeing to the Inordo Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.\nStay on top of the latest news by exploring our deep-dive content.\nPersuasive design principles the power of pixel\nNewbie Guide on How to start tech startup in 2022\nWe create amazing User Interface and User Experience\nfor your Digital products\nAbout UsCorporate ResponsibilityNewsroom\nResearch & AdvisoryConferencesConsulting\nContact UsBecome a ClientOffice Locations\nWhy InordoSearch CareersOur Culture\nInstagramFacebookLinkedInDribbbleBehance\n\u00a9 2022 Inordo. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BFG Podcast #086: 'White Noise,' 'M3GAN,' and 'Jack Ryan'\nOur editor and writers cut through the culture\nJanuary 10, 2023 January 10, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Don DeLillo, Jack Ryan, John Krasinski, M3GAN, Noah Baumbach, White Noise\nIn this week's audio-enhanced edition of the BFG Podcast, editor Neal Pollack, an AI-assisted lifeform, welcomes contributors JonPaul Guinn and Pablo Gallaga. JP proves his versatility and then some, starting off by talking about the Noah Baumbach adaptation of Don DeLillo's 'White Noise.' JP prefers the middle part of the movie, when the \"Airborne Toxic Event\" means there's actually some action, and also the closing credits, a dance sequence in a 1980s grocery store set to an LCD Soundsystem song. The rest of the movie, not so much. He doesn't find statements like \"men are killers. They kill\" to be very profound. And both he and Neal agree that DeLillo's jokes about \"Hitler Studies\", made in a novel nearly 40 years ago, have aged quite poorly. An arthouse rendition of a book we previously thought was unfilmable, this is definitely not family fun.\nLater, JP pops back to talk about season 3 of 'Jack Ryan.' This is an odd show, he says, because there's no actual spy intrigue, and not a lot of fun chase scenes. It's just kind of boring, and no one will ever be as good a Jack Ryan as Alec Baldwin was in The Hunt For Red October. He and Neal find the Jack Ryan universe so unengaging that they actually end up talking about better pulp-fiction characters who have become TV heroes, like 'Reacher' and 'Bosch.\" And then they make fun of the CIA for a bit.\nPablo Gallaga had the fun job of reviewing 'M3GAN' for us, and he and Neal both really appreciate the spot-on satire of artificial intelligence, as well as the many memorable and meme-able creepy doll movements sprinkled throughout the Blumhouse pulp hit. Pablo's thesis is that horror movies have moved out of their brutal dissection-of-personal trauma phase, and have now just transitioned into bonkers fun.\nJust like BFG itself. Enjoy the show!\nhttps:\/\/bookandfilmglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BFG-Podcast-086-White-Noise-M3gan-1923-2.00-PM.mp3\nPress play to hear this AudioHopper Original production. Listen and follow at Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.\nBFG Podcast #080\nEB White Kin Join Actors to Read to Kids\nTags: Don DeLillo, Jack Ryan, John Krasinski, M3GAN, Noah Baumbach, White Noise\n\u2190 Russell Banks, RIP\nWhat Lies Beneath \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Support WRUR Student Club\nToday's Playlist\nNPR Music Live\nWRUR News\nWRUR 88.5 Different Radio\nBad Bunny Shows Us His Version Of Old-School\nBy Isabella Gomez Sarmiento \u2022 Mar 2, 2020\nBad Bunny, photographed at the 2018 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on Oct. 09, 2018 in Los Angeles.\nFrazer Harrison \/ Getty Images\nOriginally published on March 2, 2020 12:28 pm\nWhat can't Bad Bunny do?\nChallenging traditional gender norms and aesthetics in the male-dominated world of urbano? Check. Revealing, via the heartfelt closing track of his new album, that he might be retiring at the end of this year? Check.\nThe 25-year-old Puerto Rican artist, born Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, joyfully skews convention \u2014 in his music, his style, his outspoken politics. It's this anti-conformist attitude that has helped make him an international star, rising from a college student working at a grocery store to one of the biggest names in Latin trap in just a few years.\nBunny's sophomore album, a 20-song set aptly titled YHLQMDLG \u2014 Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana, \"I do what I want\" \u2014 and released on Feb. 29 is, thankfully, more of the same.\nYHLQMDLG comes less than a year after Oasis, his dual EP with Colombian superstar J Balvin, and opens with a synthesized sample of bossa nova staple \"The Girl from Ipanema.\" But make it Sad Bunny: In typical Conejo Malo fashion, he declares from the get-go that he's still missing an ex, and imagines all the things he'd say to her mom if he ran into her. But unlike most of the darker, psychedelic beats on his debut, X 100PRE, or the tropical, genre-bending jokes of Oasis, this lovesick rundown of all the things going wrong in Bad Bunny's life cruises along over a breezy backdrop that perfectly sets up the party anthems to come across the rest of the album.\nYHLQMDLG is full of reggaeton throwbacks, finding Bad Bunny re-grounding himself in the roots of the heavy perreo he grew up listening to, in the Puerto Rican tradition of marquesinas (garage parties), including features from genre veterans like Daddy Yankee, \u00d1engo Flow, Yaviah and Jowell & Randy. On standout track \"Safaera,\" produced by Tainy and DJ Orma, a quivering beat switches gears multiple times, while Bunny describes just how much he's planning to drink and smoke tonight, as a woman moans \"Papi, sigue\" in the background \u2014 a straight-up urbano formula. \u00d1engo Flow, who tweeted that the song is an ode to the marquesina sound, perfectly sums it up with his line:\nReal G, orientando la' generacione' nueva', con la verdadera\nBellaqueo a lo galactic\nHe's showing the younger generations just how far the genre has come, and his game is astronomical. The old-school feel of the album is underscored in the video for \"La Dificil,\" released on the same day as the album, which follows the story of a backup dancer in an early-aughts reggaeton music video.\nThe trademark cosmopolitanism of the renegade rapper maintains throughout, with lyrics representing bad girls who like to get down by themselves at the club (\"Yo Perreo Sola\") and elevating bisexual visibility in several lines about how both guys and girls are into it (\"Los nene' y las nena' quieren con ella\"). The statements are effortless for a figure like Bad Bunny, who's made waves for defying toxic masculinity in his own self-presentation and in his music videos, which have addressed issues like gender fluidity and domestic violence. On Feb. 27, during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, he performed the YHLQMDLG single \"Ignorantes\" with Panamanian singer Sech, wearing a shirt calling out the recent murder of a trans woman in Puerto Rico. \"They killed Alexa, not a man in a skirt,\" it read.\nBad Bunny's woke politics have made him an outlier in a genre deeply rooted in sexist and homophobic language, proving that perreo with a clean conscience is, in fact, possible. (However, \"Yo Perreo Sola\" lacks complete follow-through on its message of empowerment \u2014 Genesis Rios, a.k.a. Nesi, who sings the opening hook, is credited only as a writer and not a performer on the song.)\nBad Bunny, photographed while taking part in a demonstration demanding Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello's resignation in San Juan on July 17, 2019.\nEric Rojas \/ AFP via Getty Images\nYHLQMDLG is an expansive celebration of Bad Bunny's inability to be confined within one theme \u2014 it dynamically weaves its way through heartbreak, yearning, a good time at the club and, of course, his pride for Puerto Rico. The outro, \"<3\", finds an earnest Conejo thanking everybody who's supported him through his career, and also mic-dropping quite the big news:\nEste disco est\u00e1 cabr\u00f3n, lo hice pa' vosotros, ey\nY en nueve mese' vuelvo y saco otro\nPa' retirarme tranquilo como Miguel Cotto\nHe confesses that he'll put out another album in nine months, but will probably retire after that due to the toll this lifestyle is taking on him. Between spitting bars at the Super Bowl halftime show, selling out world tours, protesting for former Gov. Ricardo Rossello's resignation in San Juan last year and cranking out A-list collabs left and right, it makes sense Bad Bunny's in need of a break. YHLQMDLG delivers 20 solid songs for the summer, a full-fledged pop album that fully leans into its Caribbean roots. But, as Bunny says in his closing remarks, he knows his best songs are still ahead of him \u2014 hinting that he's still saving some surprises for December. For now, he's just doing what he wants.\n\u00a9 2021 WRUR","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cranberries singer and Smiths bassist form surprisingly upbeat supergroup\nFiled to:Music\nIn what should be a recipe for some great European moping, Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan and Andy Rourke from The Smiths have formed two-thirds of a supergroup called D.A.R.K. that\u2014going off of its first single\u2014doesn't sound very mopey at all. The band's unexpectedly upbeat attitude presumably comes from the third member of its triumvirate, a songwriter\/DJ from New York named Ol\u00e9 Koretsky, who is referred to as \"little known\" by the press release.\nAccording to that same press release, though, the whole idea behind D.A.R.K. (short for Dolores O'Riordan, Andy Rourke, and Ol\u00e9 Kortesky) is that the three members each have \"distinctive personalities\" and bring their own thing to the group. However, they all share a \"love of electronica and new wave\" that heavily influenced their debut album, Science Agrees. That album will be available on May 27, and you can preorder it in various different formats at this link.\nThe aforementioned first single, \"Curvy,\" is below.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EA Showcase 2012: SimCity returns with multi-city ...\nEA Showcase 2012: SimCity returns with multi-city play\nMaxis shows off its eagerly anticipated reimagining of SimCity in Sydney\nPatrick Budmar (PC World) on 13 December, 2012 17:39\nMaxis SimCity producer, Jason Haber, presents during EA's Showcase 2012 event in Sydney\nEA has been quiet on the PC gaming front, but it hopes to rectify that with the March 7 release of Maxis' SimCity.\nThe game picks up from where 2003's SimCity 4 left off and ramps up the possibilities when it comes to creating your own metropolises.\nMaxis SimCity producer, Jason Haber, says the game is running on an all new, reimagined, Glassbox simulation engine, which makes use of a tilt\u2013shift effect to give the game a miniature toy look.\n\"The game has been designed with multi-city play in mind,\" Haber said.\nGlassbox engine allows the player to see individual Sims and what they are doing when clicked.\n\"You can get into a Sims' car and follow them around as they navigate the city,\" Haber said.\nThe game now allows for curved roads that take advantage of the terrain, and roads can be simply drawn over water to create bridges, which can later be upgraded.\nSims live in residential, work in industrial, shop in commercial areas as before, but land value can now be influenced by the surroundings, such as the addition of a park adding to the value.\n\"Roads can be upgraded to provide density, and in the process nearby buildings also increase in size,\" Haber said.\nStreet cars and buses can be used to reduce traffic, with the player choosing where to put stops.\n\"There are even boats, ferries and aircrafts that allow Sims to travel between cities,\" Haber said.\nTourists in your town can be tracked from what town they came from, and this is useful as a happy Sim brings their happiness back to their own city, which in turn influences the development of that city.\nIn addition to being able to see sources of happiness, Haber says players can also see what is causing unhappiness, such as criminals.\n\"If holding cells at a jail become full, criminals begin to get released out on the streets and create unhappiness in the area,\" he said.\n\"The solution is to upgrade the police station.\"\nThe game also depicts seasonal change, such as leaves turning colours, and natural disasters from past iterations, such as meteor showers, are included so players can destroy their cities.\nThe large amount of features and flexibility of the game will allow players to design not one but many cities which can be used to support each other.\nAn example Haber used is making one city in an area entirely focused on sewerage treatment and maintaining garbage dumps.\n\"You can create a sustainable city around trash and also make a lot of money in the process,\" he said.\nTags pc gameselectronic artsSimulation\nPatrick Budmar","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Managers Need to Boost Their Emotional Intelligence\nWritten by Adam Rowe\nTelling people they need to raise their emotional intelligence sounds like an insult: Who wants to hear they aren't intelligent enough for their job? But emotional intelligence, also called emotional quotient or EQ, is an essential factor in the work life. Here's why a high EQ matters, and what steps you can take today towards boosting yours.\nEQ: The \"Hidden Key\" to Success\nEmotions tend to be overlooked in favor of logic and facts: How many times have you seen a tortured, self-centered genius on a TV show, for example? Walter White and Dr. House definitely should have taken a few emotional intelligence remedial courses.\nBut you don't want your life to be gripping TV. You want a better job performance \u2014 and 90 percent of top performers have a high emotional intelligence. You want a higher salary \u2014 and those with a high EQ average $29,000 more per year than those without. You want be the competitive choice for a tech position \u2014 and 21.5% of IT professionals say that emotional intelligence is the most difficult quality to find at their organization.\nThe final proof that EQ will take you farther than IQ? 70 percent of the time, according to a Visual Capitalist article, \"a person with an average IQ can actually outperform a person with more smarts.\" Those fictional TV geniuses don't look so great now.\nHow to Boost Your EQ\nWriting at performance management software company Lattice, Sulagna Misra unpacks the elements of a strong EQ via the four-quadrant method: Self-awareness, awareness of others, self-control, and control of others all comprise a high EQ.\nYou can check out the article for a deeper explanation of each quadrant, complete with examples of good and bad responses to a situation.\nWith a healthy EQ, managers can respond to their employees' needs while ensuring everyone's goals are met by providing compromises when required.\nRead more business tips on TechCo\nAdam Rowe Writer\nAdam is a writer at Tech.co and has worked as a tech writer, blogger and copy editor for more than a decade. He was a Forbes Contributor on the publishing industry, for which he was named a Digital Book World 2018 award finalist. His work has appeared in publications including Popular Mechanics and IDG Connect, and he has an art history book on 1970s sci-fi out from Abrams Books in 2023. In the meantime, he's hunting down the latest news on VPNs, POS systems, and the future of tech.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Earlier EU petrol and diesel car phase-out would save drivers \u20ac635 billion on fuel\nBrussels, 20 June 2022 \u2013 An earlier EU phase-out date for cars and vans with internal combustion engines would net significant savings for European drivers and hugely reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to new calculations by Greenpeace Germany. An end to sales of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars in 2028 would reduce oil use enough to save drivers \u20ac635 billion by 2049 compared to the EU Commission's current proposal for a phase-out in 2035, and would reduce CO2 emissions by an additional 1.7 Gigatonnes \u2013 equivalent to Russia's entire emissions for a year.\nA phase-out of internal combustion engine cars in 2030, a position already supported by several EU governments, would save \u20ac460 billion in fuel costs and reduce CO2 emissions by 1.2 Gigatonnes by 2049 compared to the European Commission's proposal. Greenpeace Germany's calculations on the potential savings for drivers are conservative, based on fuel and electricity prices before the spike caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\nGreenpeace EU transport campaigner Lorelei Limousin said: \"Transport in the EU is desperately dependent on oil, which is a disaster not only for the climate but also people's wallets. A huge amount of the oil burned in the EU comes from repressive countries \u2013 a quarter from Russia \u2013 where the money Europeans pay at the pump ends up funding war and human rights abuses. Environment ministers must speed up the phase-out of oil-burning cars, because the climate can't afford to wait longer, and drivers can't afford the prices.\"\nThe calculations also show the potential for national savings on fuel costs, and CO2 emission reductions, for Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.\nGreenpeace is calling for an end to sales in the EU of new cars and vans with internal combustion engines in 2028, in line with the EU's contribution to the Paris climate agreement's goal of limiting global heating to 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels and avoiding the worst effects of climate breakdown.\nEU environment ministers are due to decide on a joint position on the ban of new fossil fuelled cars and CO2 targets from 2025 when they meet on 28 June. Governments such as Germany and Spain back the EU Commission's proposal of a 2035 phase-out, which was also backed by the European Parliament in a vote on 8 June. Several EU countries, including Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium, have backed a phase-out by 2030.\nIn recent months, car lobby and fossil fuel groups have lobbied heavily against a ban on internal combustion engine cars, and for the introduction of CO2 credits to carmakers for the use of synthetic fuel that would further weaken the regulation and the outcome of the Council. The French and the German car industries have already slammed the 2035 date after the Parliament vote earlier this month.\nTransport accounts for almost two thirds of the oil used in the EU, with Russia as the single biggest supplier. Greenhouse gas emissions from transport in the EU have risen by over 25% since 1990 and make up 30% of the EU's total greenhouse gas emissions, with vans and cars accounting for 14.5% of CO2 emissions.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Flat-Globe of the World Edited by Robert E. Peary...\nInternational Globe Company\nFlat-Globe of the World Edited by Robert E. Peary Pres. American Geographical Society\nNew York \/ 1905\nA Two-Sided Flat Earth Globe?\nFascinating \"Flat-Globe\" of the World, published in New York by the International Globe Company.\nIncludes a note that it was edited by Robert Peary, the American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.\nThe map was described in The Publishers Weekly, Volume 71, Part 2 (June 15, 1907), page 1836 as follows:\nThe International Globe Company, 115 Nassau Street, New York City, have brought out an educational apparatus of great value in their \"International Flat Globe of the World,\" with its geographical history, edited by Commander Robert E. Peary. The globe is printed in eight colors on one flat disc, two feet four inches in diameter\u2014the western hemisphere on one side and the eastern on the reverse of the disc\u2014showing at a glance oceans, seas, lakes, mountains, international boundaries, colonial possessions, ocean currents, steamship routes, distances between ports, prevailing trade winds, latitude and longitude, cable routes, limits of ice drifts, railroad systems, and the longitudinal time at any point, east or west, by a series of clock faces.\nThe globe may be hung flat on the wall or laid flat on the table, and gives an unobstructed view of the earth's surface, and, being flexible, it can be rolled small so as to go in a trunk or valise. \"The International Geographical History of the World,\" accompanying the globe, edited by Commander Peary, is a handy flexible book of 100 large pages, thoroughly indexed, and practically takes the place of a whole geographical library, because it gives the really important facts on geography in an instantly accessible form. It treats the subject under three heads: (1) Physical Geography, and the Phenomena and Forces of Nature; (2) Mathematical Geography, with Its Interesting Data; (3) National and Political Geography, which really embraces all the activities of the human race. It treats all these important subjects concisely, entertainingly, and with the very latest, up-to-date statistics and science. The globe and the accompanying book will be found as desirable and useful in the home and counting room as in school.\nThe \"Flat-Globe\" is apparently very rare. We located examples at the Library of Congress (copyright depository copy), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (likely the AGS\/Peary copy) and 4 other examples in American and Canadian Libraries.\nWe find no record of another example at auction or in a dealer catalog.\nTwo sided map.Paper laid on each side thin card stock, with cloth tie at the top for hanging. Minor abrasions, minor paper loss, soiling and some dampstaining.\nAntique Maps \/ World \/ World\n[A Map of the World] Bankoku Ichiran no Zu\nThe Original Protype For An Important World Map By An Influential Neo-Confucian Scholar and Mapmaker\n[Map of the Five Parts of the World Accroding to Mercator's Projection] \u041a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430 \u041f\u044f\u0442\u0438 \u0427\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0439 \u0421\u0432\u0463\u0442\u0430 \u043f\u043e \u041f\u0440\u043e\u0435\u043a\u0446\u0456\u0438 \u041c\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430\nDetailed and very rare Russian-language the World, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836.\nMappe Monde ou Description Du Globe Terrestre & Aquatique\u2026MDCCXCII\nHubert Jaillot's World Map Re-Issued At the End of the 18th Century\nCarte Physique de L'Ocean ou l'on voit des Grandes Chaines de Montagnes. . .\nAn Example of Philippe Buache's Theories on Submarine Mountain Chains, an Important Part of the Early History of Thematic Mapping\nPlanisphere Physique, Politique, Historique, Economique, Industriel, Commercial et Agricole\nFantastic and very rare late-19th-century French mappemonde, showing the world with a number of fascinating features, including currents, the heights of principal mountains, distances between cities, exchange rates, and much more. This map was first published in Paris in 1876 or 1877 by Artheme Fayard, and here reissued in a previously unknown 1882 edition.\nNova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula -- To the Right Reverend Father \u2026. by divine permission Ld. Bishop of Oxon. This Mapp is humbly Dedicated\u2026\nA striking example of this scarce 17th Century English Map of the World, based upon the earlier map of Willem Blaeu by Pieter Van Den Keere.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Rushes are often the first species to colonise bare peat and are one of the most common plants found in Lough Boora. However, in some areas it is quickly succeeded by other species such as Purple Moor-grass, Devil's-bit Scabious, Wild Carrot and Heath Groundsel. At Turraun Wetland, the oldest site in the park, these grasslands often develop into rich wildflower meadows where orchids such as the Common Spotted, Bee, Early Purple Fragrant and Marsh Helleborine can be found.\nLarge areas of the park have developed into naturally regenerating open woodlands, predominantly made up of Downy Birch and Willow, with some Rowan and recolonising Scots Pine also present. Meanwhile, Bent Grass, Hard Fern, Bramble and Raspberry are found among the trees.\nThe site's wetlands are characterised by species such as; Bog Cotton, Water Mint, Water Horsetail, Phragmites Reeds, Bulrush, Marsh Arrowgrass and Marsh-bedstraw. The natural wetlands at Finnamore Lakes are of special significance as some areas are dominated by Fen species such as: Blunt-flowered or Fen Rush, Yellow Sedges, Marsh Cinquefoil and Bog Thistle.\nUncover Lough Boora's variety of flora.\nPlease remember to respect the nature and conservation value of Lough Boora Discovery Park.\nView other related content:\nThere is space and wildness, the breeze that's always there, the sky, a dome protecting! Joan via Facebook","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Just for kids: May\nResources and classes for children in the Upstate.\nJust for kids: May Resources and classes for children in the Upstate. Check out this story on UpstateParent.com: https:\/\/www.upstateparent.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/children\/2016\/04\/29\/just-kids-may\/83705464\/\nChris Worthy, Contributing Writer Published 1:17 p.m. ET April 29, 2016 | Updated 1:25 p.m. ET April 29, 2016\nThe Spartanburg Science Center in the Chapman Cultural Center offers a variety of interactive exhibits perfect for kids. Call 864-583-2777.(Photo: FILE)\nKEY: G=Greenville County; S=Spartanburg County; P=Pickens County\niCAN BIKE CAMP for children with special needs is Aug. 1 \u2013 5 at Eastside Family YMCA. Volunteers are needed. For details, visit http:\/\/icanshine.org\/ican-bike-taylors-sc.\nTHE S.C. 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM uses a learn-by-doing approach for a variety of activities and interests, including animals, natural resources, shooting sports, food and nutrition, science and technology and more. For more information, visit http:\/\/www.clemson.edu\/extension\/4h\/.\nTHE HALTER PROGRAM \u2013 Handicapped Athletes Learning to Enjoy Riding \u2013 is an equestrian program at the S.C. School for the Deaf and Blind. Contact Mike Hollifield at 864-577-7638 or mhollifield@scsdb.org.\nG \u2014 LIL CHEFS for ages 4 \u2013 12 is offered at the GHS Family YMCA. Create a main course and dessert. Email ldredge@ymcagreenville.org.\nG \u2014 THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE offers a variety of interactive exhibits. Daily programs are offered for ages 5 and younger and programs for older children are offered throughout the month. Trivial Pursuit: The 50-State Adventure is open through May 15. Fun and Games opens May 28. Bib's World, a permanent outdoor exhibit, is now open. For details, visit http:\/\/www.tcmupstate.org\/.\nG \u2014 RANDOM ACTS OF SCIENCE are at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays \u2013 Saturdays and 3:30 p.m. Sundays at the Children's Museum of the Upstate. For details, visit http:\/\/www.tcmupstate.org\/.\nG \u2014 STORY TIME AND MORE is at 10 and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesdays \u2013 Saturdays at the Children's Museum of the Upstate. For details, visit http:\/\/www.tcmupstate.org\/.\nG \u2014 STRIDES, a nonprofit program, provides tutoring in reading and math to children who are below grade level. Parents pay by sliding scale and some scholarships are available. Strides has locations in Greer, Easley, Fountain Inn, Travelers Rest, Piedmont and Cherrydale. Students with disabilities and speakers of other languages are welcome. For information about tutoring, call 864-246-9898 or visit http:\/\/www.stridestutor.org\/.\nS \u2014 THE SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER is in the Chapman Cultural Center. A variety of interactive exhibits are available. Call 864-583-2777.\nP \u2014 OUR VILLAGE, a play group sponsored by Stroller Strides, is at 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays at 334 Rock Springs Road, Easley. The program is free. Come early at 9:30 am with baby and stroller for a workout. For details, call 864-608-6727.\nP \u2014 PICKENS COUNTY 4H CLUBS are open. For details, visit http:\/\/www.clemson.edu\/extension\/4h\/index.html. To start a club, email jsutter@clemson.edu.\nP \u2014 LEGO STORY BUILDERS for all ages is at 3:30 p.m. Fridays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.\nP \u2014 LIFE-SIZED BOARD GAMES for ages 10 \u2013 12 are at 4:30 p.m. Mondays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.\nP \u2014 WIGGLES AND GIGGLES for ages 2 and younger with a caregiver is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.\nP \u2014 POKEMON LEAGUE is at 5:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.\nTOTALLY TURTLES is 10 a.m. \u2013 1 p.m. May 7 at Myrtle Beach State Park. The park offers interactive nature programs June \u2013 August. For details, visit, www.myrtlebeachsp.com.\nTHE CENTRAL RAILWAY MUSEUM is open 9 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m. every Saturday in downtown Central. The museum has a variety of model railroad layouts on display. For details, visit http:\/\/www.crmha.org\/.\nA 4D THEATER, planetarium and more are open at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia. For details, visit http:\/\/scmuseum.org\/.\nBLOOMING BUTTERFILES is open at EdVenture in Columbia. For details, visit http:\/\/www.edventure.org\/.\nDISCOVERY PLACE is in Charlotte. Visit http:\/\/www.discoveryplace.org\/ or call 704-372-6261, ext. 300.\nRIVERBANKS ZOO is in Columbia. For ticket information and a calendar of events, visit http:\/\/www.riverbanks.org\/.\nTHE FERNBANK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY is in Atlanta. Visit http:\/\/www.fernbank.edu\/ or call 404-929-6300.\nTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE LOWCOUNTRY in Charleston is open Tuesdays \u2013 Sundays. Visit http:\/\/explorecml.org\/.\nG \u2014 GIRLS ON THE RUN and Girls on Track combine training for a 5K with esteem-enhancing workouts for girls ages 8 \u2013 15. To register, visit http:\/\/www.ghschildrens.org\/girls-on-the-run.php.\nG \u2014 HAPPY FEET\/LEGENDS SOCCER for boys and girls ages 2 \u2013 8 is offered in May at Pelham Road Baptist Church. For details, visit http:\/\/www.upstatehappyfeet.com\/content\/happyfeet_league-2016-programs\/happyfeet_spring-2016-league.\nG \u2014 YOUTH CONDITIONING is offered at the GHS Family YMCA. For details, call 864-963-3605.\nG \u2014 MAULDIN MIRACLE LEAGUE is for children ages 3 and older with special needs. For details, contact Jeff Powers at 864-303-2362 or Sandy Somerville at 864-346-7688.\nG \u2014 HOME-SCHOOL PE is offered at the Kroc Center. For details, call 864-527-5948.\nG \u2014 HOME SCHOOL P.E. is offered at by Greenville County Rec. For details, visit http:\/\/greenvillerec.com\/.\nG \u2014 THE PALMETTO CURLING CLUB offers a variety of opportunities in the sport of curling. For membership and event information, visit https:\/\/www.palmettocurling.com\/.\nG \u2014 YOUTH TENNIS PROGRAMS for ages 5 \u2013 18 are offered at the Greenville County Recreation District. For details, visit http:\/\/greenvillerec.com\/ or email timd@gcrd.org.\nG \u2014 JUNIOR TEAM TENNIS, a USTA program for ages 6 \u2013 18, is at sites in Greenville. For more information, email greenvillejtt@gmail.com.\nG \u2014 YOUTH PROGRAMS are offered all year by the Eastside Family YMCA. Sports programs for ages 4 \u2013 14 include spring and fall soccer, summer and winter basketball, T-ball, softball and tennis. Additional programs include home-school physical education programs, swim lessons for ages 6 months \u2013 adult and family fitness for parents and their children ages 10 \u2013 12. Call 864-292-2790.\nS \u2014 THE FIRST TEE OF SPARTANBURG teaches life skills through golf. After-school classes are held at Willow Creek in Greer, The Creek Golf Club in Spartanburg, Woodfin Ridge Golf Club in Inman and Cherokee National Golf Club in Gaffney. Schedules, applications and online registration are available at http:\/\/www.thefirstteespartanburg.org. For more information, call 864-583-7084, ext. 6.\nS \u2014 MARTIAL ARTS classes for ages 5 and older are offered at the Thomas E. Hannah Family YMCA. Call 864-585-0306.\nS \u2014 GIRLS ON THE RUN is available for Spartanburg County girls ages 8 \u2013 11. Visit http:\/\/www.gotrspartanburg.org\/.\nS \u2014 CAROLINA MIRACLE LEAGUE is a baseball league is for children with special needs. Games are played at Miracle Park. For more information, call 864-579-1805 or visit http:\/\/carolinamiracleleague.org\/.\nS \u2014 YOUTH SOCCER is offered through the Spartanburg Parks Commission. For details, visit http:\/\/spartanburgparks.org\/.\nS \u2014 KINDERGYM is offered at the Middle Tyger YMCA. Call 864-433-9623.\nP \u2014 THE CITY OF EASLEY offers a variety of youth sports programs, including football, flag football, basketball, volleyball and baseball. Call 864-855-7933, ext. 110.\nSTORY TIME AND BOOKS\nS \u2014 PAJAMA HOUR is at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays in May at the Middle Tyger Branch Library. Call 864-439-4759.\nG \u2014 THE TEEN ADVISORY BOARD is open to students ages 13 \u2013 18 and meets monthly at the Hughes Main Library. The program lets teens have input into library programming. Call 864-527-9248 or email jbabb@greenvillelibrary.org.\nG \u2014 STORY TIME is offered at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 735 Haywood Road. Call 864-458-9113 or visit http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/.\nG \u2014 STORY TIME is offered at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1125 Woodruff Road at the Shops at Greenridge. Call 864-627-9197.\nG \u2014 PRESCHOOL STORY TIMES are offered at Greenville County Library System branches. Visit http:\/\/greenvillelibrary.org\/.\nS \u2014 STORY TIME is offered at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1489 W.O. Ezell Blvd. The event is free. Call 864-587-8822.\nS \u2014 PRESCHOOL STORY TIMES are offered at Spartanburg County Library System branches. Visit http:\/\/infodepot.org\/.\nP \u2014 PRESCHOOL STORY TIME for ages 2 \u2013 5 is at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.\nG \u2014 TEAM GREENVILLE is a year-round competitive swim team that provides opportunities for all ages, skills and commitment levels. The program is at Westside Park and Aquatic Complex. For details, call Roy at 864-220-0209 or email coachroy@gcrd.org.\nG \u2014 SWIM LESSONS are offered monthly at Eastside Family YMCA. Call 864-292-2790 or visit https:\/\/www.ymcagreenville.org\/.\nG \u2014 YOUTH SWIM LESSONS for ages 6 months and older are at the Caine Halter Family YMCA. The programs provide goal setting and workouts for advanced swimmers. Call 864-679-9622.\nG \u2014 SWIM LESSONS are offered in monthly sessions at the Cleveland Street Family YMCA. Call 864-242-4651.\nG \u2014 SWIM LESSONS are offered for all ages at the GHS Family YMCA. Sessions include stroke school, Kinderswim, parent\/child lessons, adult lessons and more. Call 864-963-3605.\nS \u2014 THE SWIM ZONE is at C.C. Woodson Center. For details, visit http:\/\/www.cityofspartanburg.org\/ or call 864-562-0459.\nS \u2014 SWIM SPARTANBURG, a competitive swim program based at Converse College, is accepting swimmers ages 5 and older. Groups are designed for beginning swimmers who can swim a 25-yard lap, through advanced. Instruction emphasizes stroke and turn techniques. Fees apply. Call 828-287-4429 or email swimspartanburg@rfci.net.\nS \u2014 Y-SPARTAQUATICS SWIM CLUB is based at the Middle Tyger YMCA. For more information or to schedule an evaluation, call 864-433-9623 or visit https:\/\/www.teamunify.com\/Home.jsp?team=scsyssc.\nS \u2014 PARENT AND CHILD SWIM LESSONS are taught at the Middle Tyger and Thomas E. Hannah Family locations of the Spartanburg YMCA. Competitive swim programs are available for ages 6 and older. Call the Middle Tyger YMCA at 864-433-9623 or the Thomas E. Hannah Family YMCA at 864-585-0306.\nTHEATER AND ARTS\nAUDITIONS FOR DISNEY'S \"BEAUTY AND THE BEAST\" presented by South Carolina Children's Theatre are May 24 \u2013 26. For details, visit http:\/\/www.scchildrenstheatre.org.\nAUDITIONS FOR CAROLINA YOUTH SYMPHONY'S 2016 \u2013 2017 season are May 21 and 28 at Furman University. For details, visit http:\/\/carolinayouthsymphony.org or email lee@carolinayouthsymphony.org.\nCHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATRE (CYT Upstate) offers theater arts classes for ages 6 \u2013 19. For information call 864-209-1884 or visit http:\/\/www.cytupstate.org\/.\nG \u2014 MAKE THEMED ART during Off the Wall art time 2 \u2013 4 p.m. Tuesdays \u2013 Fridays and 1 \u2013 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays in May at The Children's Museum of the Upstate. Visit http:\/\/www.tcmupstate.org\/.\nG \u2014 BABIES AND FRIENDS free play dates for ages 2 and younger are May 2 \u2013 23 at Piano Central Studios. For scheduling information and reservations, call 864-232-5010 or visit http:\/\/www.pianocentralstudios.com\/.\nS \u2014 BALLET SPARTANBURG offers classes for ages 3 \u2013 10 at the Middle Tyger YMCA. Call 864-433-9623 or visit http:\/\/www.spartanburgymca.org\/.\nG \u2014 DANCE AND CRAFT CLASSES are offered at Greenville County Community Centers. Visit http:\/\/greenvillerec.com\/.\nG \u2014 THE ARTS ACADEMY at Younts Center for Performing Arts offers a variety of classes. For more information, call 864-409-1050.\nG \u2014 PIANO FOR YOUNG PEOPLE for grades K \u2013 12 is at Furman University. This program provides comprehensive training through theory classes and private lessons. Enrollment is by audition. For details, call 864-294-3134.\nG \u2014 YOUTH ART CLASSES are offered at Furman University, the Mauldin Cultural Center and the Greenville County Museum of Art. Call 864-294-2153.\nG \u2014 THE S.C. CHILDREN'S THEATRE offers classes at every level for grades K3 \u2013 12. For more information or to receive a brochure, visit http:\/\/www.scchildrenstheatre.org\/ or call 864-235-2885, ext. 21.\nS \u2014 ART CLASSES for ages 4 and older are offered at the Spartanburg Art Museum. For details, visit http:\/\/www.spartanburgartmuseum.org\/.\nG \u2014 THE GREER CULTURAL ARTS COUNCIL offers a variety of classes and programs for children and adults. Call 864-848-5383 or visit http:\/\/www.greerculturalarts.com\/.\nS \u2014 SPARTANBURG YOUTH THEATRE offers youth classes. Call 864-585-8278 or visit http:\/\/www.spartanburgyouththeatre.com\/.\nS \u2014 PIANO LESSONS for ages 4 and older are offered at Spartanburg County Recreation Centers. Visit http:\/\/spartanburgparks.org\/.2.5.43 PP\nRead or Share this story: https:\/\/www.upstateparent.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/children\/2016\/04\/29\/just-kids-may\/83705464\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Christianity Today: COG Founder Berg Dead at 75\nRevision as of 05:55, 22 August 2005 by Panglossolalia (talk | contribs) (archived article from 1995-01-09)\nA checked version of this page, approved on 18 August 2008, was based on this revision.\nCOG Founder Berg Dead at 75\nChristianity Today\/1995-01-09\nBy Joe Maxwell\nDavid Brandt Berg, known by followers in the controversial Children of God (COG) as Father David or Moses David, died in November at age 75. He remained in hiding for years prior to his death. Berg wrote that his second wife, Maria, will receive his \"mantle and anointing\" and hear from him from heaven.\nIn 1969, Berg founded the COG, now called the Family, with followers among former West Coast hippies. The communal group drifted into deviant beliefs, teaching that God approved of unmarried adults having consensual sex. COG members also practiced \"flirty fishing,\" allowing women members to evangelize by having sex with non-members. The Family says that practiced ceased in 1987.\nThe Family recently returned to the United States (CT, Dec. 14, 1992, p.42) and now claims 9,000 full-time members in more than 200 communes in 43 countries. The group has been hounded by legal battles in foreign countries over child sex abuse charges, although no convictions have resulted.\nDeborah Davis, Berg's daughter, left the Family and wrote a book against it. \"They are going to keep going strong with the people they've got in it,\" Davis predicts, although she believes the group might \"lose some of its continuity,\" noting Maria is not as \"radical\" or charismatic as Berg.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/www.xfamily.org\/index.php?title=Christianity_Today:_COG_Founder_Berg_Dead_at_75&oldid=8931\"\nPress:Christianity Today","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Szasz on Freud\nIn his first professional years Szasz is an admirer of Freud. He conspicuously examines whether his positions correspond with Freud's in his earliest works. When he quotes Freud in 1949, he adds praise, such as: \"as Freud \u2026 so clearly describes\u2026\"; \"this beautiful analogy of Freud's\u2026\" In a 1955 article he stresses in a footnote that certain of his positions should not be taken as criticism of Freud's views. When, fairly early in his career, Szasz criticizes aspects of psychoanalytic theory, he carefully avoids personal criticism of Freud. By 1959 he openly attacks Freud about the ambiguity of using both biomedical-therapeutic and psychological-moral frames of reference. Shortly afterwards Szasz states that Freud's motives for vacillating between stressing a medical approach to psychoanalysis and a psychological one were not scientific but of a social, professional, legal, and political nature. Just how dangerous it was in those days to attack Freud becomes apparent in the ensuing discussion about Szasz. Several of his opponents accuse him of shortchanging Freud and quoting him out of context, even though to varying degrees they concede to the criticism.\nSzasz's criticism of Freud becomes clearer in The Myth of Mental Illness, but remains circuitous and is directed at Freud's theory, not at him personally. Two years later in an article entitled \"Freud as a Leader\" Szasz directly attacks Freud. He describes him as a kind of industrialist who wished to patent psychoanalytic discoveries, who opposed anyone with ideas on psychoanalysis that differed from his own, and who wished to monopolize the determination of what is included in the concept of psychoanalysis and what is not. That is why, according to Szasz, Freud had endless confrontations with his disciples as soon as they tried to make their own contributions. Freud made psychoanalysis a movement rather than a science. Not only was he an autocratic leader \u2013 this had been claimed before \u2013 but he was also deceitful, pseudo-democratic, and pseudo-scientific. Szasz ascribes psychoanalysis's resemblance to a movement rather than a science to Freud's leadership. In 1913 Freud wrote to Ferenczi, \"We possess the truth; I am as sure of it as 15 years ago.\" Szasz calls that an example of how leadership ought not be. On the side, I note that although Szasz has no ambition to form a movement comparable to psychoanalysis, it is ironic that he responded to Roth's criticism of his (Szasz's) views on schizophrenia as follows: \"I believe, therefore, that my influence is due \u2026 to the fact that I tell the truth \u2026\"\nKarl Kraus and the Soul Doctors is published in 1976. Karl Kraus was a Viennese journalist who published a magazine, Die Fackel, for decades at the beginning of the twentieth century. He wrote most of the articles himself. Szasz describes him as an individualist with integrity who opposed every form of collectivism and advocated human freedom and dignity, as well as purity of language. Thus Kraus is presented as a man who strives for the same ideals as Szasz. The book about Kraus is however as much about Freud, and opposes him as well as the psychoanalysts around him. Szasz scathingly criticizes Freud as a man whose \"basic aims\" were \"to annex morals to medicine, to create a cryptoreligious ideology and be its leader.\" (p. 52)\nSzasz posits that both Kraus and Freud were rhetoricians, describing rhetoric as the use of language with the intention of influencing others. He quotes Richard Weaver: there are three ways in which language can influence us. It can move us in the direction of good (\"noble rhetoric\"), it can move us in the direction of evil (\"base rhetoric\"), or, hypothetically, in no direction. Weaver states, \"Base rhetoric is therefore always trying to keep its object from the support which personal courage, noble associations, and divine philosophy provide a man.\" (p. 53) Szasz considers Kraus a noble rhetorician, whereas Freud is a base rhetorician, someone who \"uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his person.\" (pp. 53-54) Freud was also a \"base rhetorician\" because he aimed to mislead people by labeling their conflicts illnesses, and by humiliating his opponents, defaming them, and often even stigmatizing them as sick.\nSzasz accuses the historians of psychoanalysis of falsifying history. They ascribe Kraus's opposition to psychoanalysis to his personality, as assessed by one of Freud's followers, Wittels, at a meeting of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society in 1910. Such a procedure, \"psychoanalysis\" of a personage from the past or present in his absence and without his consent, was customary in the at the time still small circle of psychoanalysts. In fact, Freud himself did so in his writing on Leonardo Da Vinci, about which Szasz says, \"Where Freud is at his best as a base rhetorician, defaming one of the most revered artists the world has ever known.\" Szasz demonstrates that Kraus already rejected psychoanalysis in 1908, and that Wittels' view was \"an exercise in psychoanalytic denigration and defamation for which no special knowledge of the victim's personality is required.\" (p. 27) This book will not be further discussed here. Szasz's condemnation of Freud as a person and as a practitioner of a pseudo-science has been sufficiently highlighted. Also Szasz's view on the role of Freud's Jewishness, which is discussed thoroughly in The Myth of Psychotherapy (1978), is omitted here for the sake of brevity.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Signup for email updates:\nBrowse our archive of posts by topic\nBrowse our archive of posts on key right-wing groups\nBrowse our archive of posts on key right-wing figures\nRead in-depth reports on key people, organizations and issues on the Right\nCapitol Insurrection Christian Nationalism Disinformation\nPaul Joseph Watson: 'I Hate Conspiracy Theories'\nBy Jared Holt | July 29, 2019 2:21 pm\n(Screenshot \/ YouTube)\nPaul Joseph Watson, a right-wing YouTube creator and editor-at-large at the prolific conspiracy theory outlet Infowars, wants you to forget the last decade of his career and to now believe he doesn't like conspiracy theories.\nIn an interview uploaded yesterday to Dennis Prager's digital media outlet PragerU, Watson joined conservative commentator Candace Owens on her podcast to discuss issues of social media moderation as interpreted through the right-wing lens that defines it as \"censorship.\" Watson was banned from Facebook earlier this year.\nDuring the interview, Watson took issue with how the media has characterized the content he produces, often identifying him as a conspiracy theorist and sympathetic to the alt-right. Watson rejected being considered alt-right, since he said he does not believe in the pursuit of a white ethnostate, and similarly rejected being called a conspiracy theorist.\n\"I hate conspiracy theories. I think most of them are really dumb,\" Watson said.\nOwens chimed in that she doesn't watch CNN because it's a \"conspiracy theorist network.\" It's worth noting that Owens got her start in right-wing media thanks in part to an in-studio appearance she made on Alex Jones' Infowars show while she still operated under the moniker \"Red Pill Black.\"\nWatson said, \"I was a conspiracy theorist when I was a kid, like 15 years ago. That's where I came from, so I know how those ideas\u2014you take disparate bits of information and fuse them together to create a conspiracy. That doesn't mean there aren't some conspiracies. But I know how they're created and I know mentally how people are lulled into believing them.\"\nAfter making his claim, Watson maintained his newfound anti-conspiracy theory position for about 10 minutes. Then, Watson and Owens theorized that tech companies were banning right-wing figures from their platforms because they are involved in a conspiracy to silence political dissidents and enforce homogeneous political thought.\nWatson appeared in-studio on Infowars in March to talk about a new project he was working on to \"generate the next generation of YouTubers, of young political commentators.\"\nTags: Candace Owens Paul Joseph Watson conspiracy theories social media PragerU\nPaul Joseph Watson: 'Me Too' Movement Has Been Co-Opted By Conspiracy To Demoralize Men\nPaul Joseph Watson Is Back On His Soy\nPaul Joseph Watson Tries To Apply Science To An Alt-Right Meme About Soy\nSomething Reeks About Mike Cernovich's Appearance At Columbia University\n\u00a9 2022 Right Wing Watch, a project of People For the American Way.\nSign up for updates and more ways to get involved:\nAs right-wing extremism across the country continues to grow, our reporting becomes even more important. Sign up below to get the latest updates on the Far Right and opportunities you can engage in to fight back.\nTo our readers: Right Wing Watch, a project for People For the American Way, is run by a dedicated staff driven to shed light on the activities of right-wing political organizations. As a non-profit working hard every day to expose the Far-Right's extreme and intolerant agenda, our main source of support is donations from readers like you. If you use Right Wing Watch, please consider making a contribution to support this content.\nYour Year-End Support is More Important Than Ever\nALL GIFTS 3X-MATCHED BY 12\/31!\nFor 15 years, Right Wing Watch has monitored, exposed, and disrupted right-wing extremists across the country.\nAs their influence grows, our work becomes even more important \u2013 as does your support. Please make a year-end donation to keep this critical work going.\n3X-MATCH my donation of:\n$500 Other Amount\nOr, continue to site \u203a","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Has Gone Before\nMany people think that \"political correctness\" means \"politeness\" or \"inclusive language\" or \"avoiding words that hurt people's feelings\". It follows that \"political correctness gone mad\" means \"taking that to a crazy extreme, objecting to language that no one has ever objected to\"; but that people who complain about \"political correctness gone mad\" are often rude people who think they should be able to say bad words if they fucking well want to. If Mrs Whitehouse came back to earth and tried to stop the television saying bum and bloody and ding-a-a-ling, the news people would almost certainly accuse her of being politically correct. And also mad, which she very probably was.\nHowever, \"political correctness\" is also in use to describe a conspiracy theory in which the world is secretly run by a Marxist cabal based in Frankfurt. \"Political Correctness\" -- and 20th century literary theory, and human rights legislation, and health and safety at work rules, and, very especially and, the idea of man made climate change -- were created by this Marxist clique in order to destroy civilization. What they have in common is that they rationalize unreasonable behavior, and make people do obviously bad things in the name of the greater good. It is obvious that Christian civilization is based upon citizens having cars, refrigerators, and central heating, and air conditioning, so the Marxists have invented the fiction of \"global warming\" -- which no reasonable person could believe in, and for which there is not a shred of scientific evidence -- in order to make people feel bad about owning these things. PC is an overarching term for the whole plot: believers very often say that it is Political Correctness that says that children have to wear crash helmets to play conkers, or that there is a modern Politically Correct notion that we should reduce carbon emissions. (*)\nObviously, not everyone who has ever used the word \"Political Correctness\" believes in the conspiracy theory. (I myself have occasionally said things like \"some of the older children's books are not very PC\"). But believers in the conspiracy theory talk a lot about Political Correctness. And lots of people do believe in the conspiracy. The Daily Mail went so far as to run a headline \"How the BBC fell victim to a Marxist plot to destroy civilization\". I took this as rather strong evidence that the Daily Mail believed that there was a Marxist plot to destroy western civilization and that the BBC had fallen victim to it, although some people thought that I was reading a bit too much into it.\nSo. It is possible that when people say that something called \"Political Correctness\" (\"the evil doctrine of Political Correctness\" according to Norman Tebbit) was to blame for the Rotheram child abuse scandal, they are talking about \"Political Correctness\" in the sense of \"not saying stuff that hurts other people's feelings, being careful about what words you use\". I suppose that what they have in mind is that \"you have to be so careful about what language you use about race that it's really hard to talk about race at all; so when there actually is a racial component in some specific crime; it's easier not to talk about it at all and if you can't talk about it, well, obviously, you don't see it.\"\nIt is also very possible that Flying Rodent (**) is correct and that after a shocking cock up where serious child abuse was taking place under the police's noses, someone, by way of a damage limitation exercise, said \"I know! If we pretend that we can't do anything about dark skinned people molesting little kids because Political Correctness Gone Mad, the papers will swallow it because they love that kind of thing.\" I can just about believe that PC Copper honestly thought that dark skinned people were free to molest kids if they really wanted to because it was part of their culture and Political Correctness meant that the law couldn't touch them. I don't believe that the entire police hierarchy believed that. (It's also hard to believe that any officer would independently come up with the idea think that \"you have to let them rape kids\" followed naturally from \"you aren't allowed to call them Pakis\" unless he had already been told that \"Political Correctness\" and \"Human Rights\" were basically the same thing.)\nBut I think that it is also very likely that when people say that the child abuse scandal was the result of \"Political Correctness\" they mean that a shadowy group of Marxists was secretly controlling the police, and forcing them to act against \"Common Sense\" as part of an active plot to bring down Civilization and replace it with a communist superstate. Tebbit definitely thinks that there was a plot to establish an enclave in England that functioned under Pakistani law, as if that followed on naturally from \"please use inclusive language\".\nIt seems to me that a lot of these claims -- that Isis or Rotheram or the Girl Guide Oath are \"caused\" by Political Correctness -- read like nonsense if \"Political Correctness\" means \"the belief that it is nicer to say 'black person' rather than 'n----r'\". But they make a kind of sense if you believe that Political Correctness and Common Sense are two dueling ideologies, the one committed to destroying \"civilization\" and the the other committed to preserving it.\nBut maybe they are simply nonsense.\n(*) I grant that Political Correctness could in those contexts mean simply \"Prevailing Orthodoxy.\"\n(**) http:\/\/flyingrodent.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/09\/chicken.html Note that the New York Times essay that Mr Rodent links to is rather more nuanced than he give it credit for\nI can just about believe that PC Copper honestly thought that dark skinned people were free to molest kids if they really wanted to because it was part of their culture and Political Correctness meant that the law couldn't touch them. I don't believe that the entire police hierarchy believed that\nNever underestimate the human capacity for wilful blindness in the face of unpleasantness.\n'Of course it's not okay for dark skinned people to rape kids. If dark skinned people were raping kids then I would have to do something about it. But doing something about it would mean saying publicly that dark skinned people are raping kids, and if I am the first person to do that then my career will be over. Therefore because dark skinned people raping kids would cause me to have to do something that would end my career, dark skinned people must not actually be raping any kids, and any apparent evidence that they are must be being misinterpreted. If I investigate just enough \u2014 not too much and not too little \u2014 then I am sure I can uncover lots of no evidence that this bad thing is happening. And if I continue to uncover lots of no evidence, that means that nobody is being raped, which is good, and I can keep my job, which is also good. So the best possible thing is that I continue to find no evidence that dark-skinned men are raping little girls.'\n(I have no idea how this fits into your bit about political correctness, but it's what I think happened at a lot of levels.)\n(It's pretty much the same as how it works in, say, a political party picked totally at random: 'It is clearly not okay for anyone to molest women, even if they are our master election strategist. Therefore if our master election strategist really has been molesting women, then we will have to get rid of him. But then we won't have our master election strategist, and the publicity will be terrible, and beside, I know him and he's a good bloke. So he mustn't actually be molesting women, because if he was then the consequences would be terrible. So there must be some perfectly innocent explanation for any situations where he apparently molested a woman, that means it's all a misunderstanding, no women have actually been molested (thank goodness!) and we can continue to have our master election strategist and I don't have to face the possibility that I was very mistaken about how good a bloke someone was.')\n(Also note that it need not be true that publicly saying dark-skinned men are raping kids would end a career: it is enough that the person believes in the bad consequences, for them to begin the process of finding ways to interpret the evidence such that the bad consequences can be avoided.)\nHarland said...\nThe Frankfurt School is real.\n\"In the 1950s and 1960s, Herbert Marcuse translated the abstruse work of the other Frankfurt School thinkers into books college students could understand, such as Eros and Civilization, which became the Bible of the New Left in the 1960s. Marcuse injected the Frankfurt School's cultural Marxism into the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now that generation's ideology. We know it as \"multiculturalism,\" \"diversity\" or just Political Correctness.\nThat is the dirty little secret of Political Correctness, folks: it is a form of Marxism. If the average American knew that, I suspect Political Correctness would be in serious trouble.\nThe Ft. Hood killings raise an interesting question: why would Marxists of any variety come to the support of Islam? After all, if the Islamics took over, they would cut Marxists' throats even before they cut the throats of Christians and Jews. The answer is that cultural Marxism will ally with any force that helps it to achieve its goals, destroying Western culture and Christianity.\"\nhttp:\/\/dnipogo.org\/2009\/11\/17\/on-war-322-what-is-\"political-correctness\"\/\nSunday, 28 September, 2014\nRodger C: The above troll posting may be mysterious to most readers because it references a peculiarly American bugaboo of the moment. But it leads me to the observation that Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man and C. S. Leeis' Abolition of man have essentially the same thesis.\nMonday, 29 September, 2014\nAndrew Rilstone said...\nYou have just proved my point. Thank you very much.\nThursday, 02 October, 2014\nRC: You're very welcome.\nFriday, 03 October, 2014\nThat was me, Andrew, claiming that Mr Harland had proved my point, in case that wasn't clear. Sorry for lack of postings, I've been too busy plotting the downfall of civilization.\nSunday, 05 October, 2014\nWhat are \"Islamics\", by the way? Are they different from \"Islamists\" or indeed \"Muslims\"? From now on I shall refer to people who go to church as \"Christianities\".\nRC: I figured out what you meant right after I posted, of course. Reality is always ahead of satire.\nThe Frankfurt School is definitely real. It has a web site and everything:\nhttp:\/\/www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de\/\n(Okay I guess not everything that has a web site is real. But this one is.)\nMonday, 06 October, 2014\nRC: Of course the Frankfurt School is real. I could have told you that; I've read most of them. The question is whether (a) this is a Bad Thing and (b) it has anything to do with the case, tra-la.\nThe site has taught me a new German word, \"Drittmittel.\" Nice, but not as nice as \"Futternutzung.\"\nWhat are \"Islamics\", by the way?\nIt's funny how some adjectives can be used as person-nouns ('American', 'Christian', 'Italian', indeed 'Muslim') and some can't ('Scottish', 'French').\nI can understand it would be confusing to someone for whom English is not their native language.\nFluffy Bunnies","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kevin Harvick to Host \"Happy Hours\" on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio\nTuesday, Mar 14 1988\nSiriusXM today announced that 2014 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Ford Fusion for Stewart-Haas Racing and one of the sport's most popular drivers, will host a new exclusive show on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, available to listeners nationwide on satellite radios and the SiriusXM app.\nHappy Hours will debut on March 28 and air every Tuesday from 7:00 to 9:00 pm ET, featuring Harvick's distinctive perspective on his sport and life outside the track. Harvick and co-host Matt Yocum will take calls from listeners and give NASCAR fans a unique view on the driver's life and interests when he is away from the race car. In June the show will begin airing every other week.\n\"I'm excited to partner up with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio and give the fans an inside look at what it's like to be a NASCAR driver in today's age,\" said Kevin Harvick. \"It will be fun to give the listeners my opinion on things that are happening within our sport.\"\n\"Kevin is one of the most exciting drivers on the track, and an extremely fun-loving person off the track,\" said Steve Cohen, SiriusXM's SVP of Sports Programming. \"That combination of competitiveness and personality is perfect for SiriusXM. Kevin and Matt will create a show that is enlightening, entertaining and unlike anything else on the airwaves.\"\nHarvick has 35 career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victories, including wins in such crown-jewel events as the DAYTONA 500 at Daytona International Speedway (Fla.), the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Ind.) and the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway (S.C.). In addition to his impressive performance in the Monster Energy Series, Harvick is a two-time NASCAR XFINITY Series champion with 46 series wins and 14 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victories.\nSiriusXM NASCAR Radio (channel 90) airs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and delivers in-depth racing coverage and inside access to NASCAR news, including live broadcasts of every Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series\u2122, NASCAR XFINITY Series\u2122 and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series\u2122 event. Fans can call in to the channel to share their opinions and be a part of the daily discussion, and can also access SiriusXM NASCAR Radio programming when they want it on SiriusXM On Demand. The channel's roster of expert hosts features current and former drivers, crew chiefs, crew members and a host of NASCAR insiders. For more info on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio's programming and personalities go to www.SiriusXM.com\/NASCAR.\nSXM PR\n\u00ab BK Racing Graphics on board with Corey Lajoie in Phoenix Ty Dillion's Roll Continues with Strong run at Vegas \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"They Used Her As A Test Subject And Took Away Her Babies. Now Foxie Has A New Lease On Life.\nFinally free.\nJason Pollak @runninwithit\nFoxie the chimp has had a rough life.\nAs her bio says, she was born in August 1976, and knew nothing besides her home, the test lab.\nAccording to the sanctuary that rescued her, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, \"Foxie was used in hepatitis vaccine research and as a breeder for the biomedical research industry.\"\nAs a breeder, that meant Foxie had babies, but they were taken away from her at birth to be raised as more test subjects. In total, she had four babies and even a set of twins.\nTowards the end of her time as a test chimp, she was mainly kept in a cage in a basement with no windows, companions or toys to occupy her mind.\nHowever, in 2008, her life finally changed for the better.\nFoxie was found by Diana Goodrich, the co-director of Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, a 26-acre farm in the Cascade mountains, located 90 miles east of Seattle.\nAs Diana explained in Foxie's bio, the caretaker at the lab warned her that the chimp couldn't be trusted if given the opportunity, but that wasn't something Diana easily accepted.\nShe decided to give Foxie that opportunity, saying of their first meeting, \"She watched my every move and by the end of the visit she presented her belly for me to tickle with a rolled up newspaper.\"\nAt this point, you might be wondering why Foxie is so fond of her troll dolls.\nDue to the years of isolation and mistreatment, Foxie was initially very aloof when it came to interacting with people and her surroundings.\nHowever, one toy, the troll, piqued Foxie's interest and she adopted the toy almost as if it were her own baby.\nNot only has Foxie warmed up to her surroundings, Diana also reports that Foxie does not try to attack her caregivers in the least bit. Instead, \"She is mostly interested in playing with us, and she can't get enough of play! She nowplays with any of her chimpanzee 'family members' who are up for a romp and her human caregivers throughout the day.\"\nWhile there are six other chimps which make up Foxie's new family (Annie, Jamie, Jody, Missy & Negra), one chimp by the name of Burrito spends the most time with her.\nLike Foxie, Burrito spent most of his life as a test subject. He did spend some time in a human home during his toddler years though and also some time as an entertainment act.\nWhile they may have found each other later in their lives, there is certainly a strong bond between the pair, who spend time grooming one another and playing.\nWhile these seven chimps have found happiness, there are still many more out there that need support.\nIf you would like to donate to the sanctuary, volunteer and more, please check out their website here.\nAs you can see, Foxie is extremely friendly and certainly enjoys her backflips even at 39. Stay young Foxie.\nYou can watch more amazing videos of the chimps on their YouTube page here.\nFollow them on Facebook here.\nTags: chimpanzees, rescues\nAdventure Danute Rasimaviciute\nThis Norwegian School Figured Out A Way For Everyone In Oslo To Know Your Name Before You Even Arrive\nThis is real, and it is happening.\nEntertainment Victor Beigelman\nEXCLUSIVE: Watch The Music Video For Matthew West's Powerful New Single 'Grace Wins'\nRise up.\nNews Steven Lerner\nAmericans Benefiting From Lowest Gas Prices Since 2008\nSavings for all Americans.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nepal Telecom is a Government-owned pioneering Telecom operator of Nepal. Nepal Telecom is mostly known by the short name NDCL or Ntc or NT or Doorsanchar (in Nepali). It has almost all telecom services, available throughout the country. It is also the one and only Landline (Home phone)\/PSTN service provider in the country. Whereas other services to name a few are:\nGSM (2G, 3G, 4G)\nYou can find here: All the offers in Nepal Telecom.\nTheir subscriber base has already crossed 20 million (2 crores) by the no of distribution lines in several services. Among these, the majority of Ntc customers are in their GSM service (2G, 3G, 4G). NTC is the first telecom company to launch 4G in the country back in 2017.\nThe company history dates back to when the first telecom service started in 1973 B.S and Mohan Akashwani established in 2005 B.S. Then Telecommunication Department established as Nation Five year plan was converted into a Telecommunication Development board for the modernization and expansion. Later they changed the same as a Nepal Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) in 2032 B.S. Lastly, the corporation was changed to a company called Nepal Doorsanchar Company Ltd. or Nepal Telecom, under the company act.\nThe government owns a 91.5% stake in the company while others are with the public and its employees. Although the Government has decided to sell some stake (~30%) of the company to a Telecom giant as a strategic partner, significant result or development has not yet achieved till date.\nRecently Ntc expanded 4G coverage to all 77 districts with more than 2000 towers.\n4G Nepal 5G 6G Apps Blogging Chipset Comparision\nNepal Telecom Hosts Its 15th Annual General Meeting, Passes Proposal to Pay Rs 40 Per Share\nNepal Telecom (NTC) also known as Nepal Doorsanchar Company Limited has celebrated its 15th annual general meeting (AGM) today on Thursday, Poush 28, 2079BS (January 12, 2023). Held at Rastriya Sabha Griha (City Hall), Exhibition Road,Nepal Telecom, the pioneering telecom operator provides various range of communication services in the country. They also have various offers for all of those services. Likewise, they put all of their promotions in the seasonal offersNTC (Nepal Telecom) has confirmed the date for the start of its 5G trial in the 2600 MHz band. Very likely, the operator will start its trial on Magh 22 after having to cancel its recently scheduled trial from Sundhara and Babarmahal, inNtc network has been restored in Province no 1 after the entire region suffered an outage recently. The company quickly mobilized a team and got its network up and running after its mobile network and fiber service were down in the eastern\nDinesh Jan 4, 2023\nNepal Telecom (NTC) has requested its users to use SIM cards registered in their own names to stay safe digitally. The company states that phone numbers have become essential for daily uses from banking to many other digital services andNepal Telecom (NTC) has proposed a dividend for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2078\/79. The company, if approved, will be offering Rs 40 per share to its shareholders. The company has also called for its 15th annual general meeting (AGM) on JanuaryNepal Telecom (NTC) implements a strict set of criteria for users to buy or replace NTC SIM card for user privacy. Taking customers' security into consideration, the telco has also requested them to use SIM cards registered in their own Nepal's largest telecom operator Nepal Telecom (NTC) has shifted its customer service center from Pulchowk to Jawalakhel. Previously, the telco operated its services from Sajha Bhawan, Pulchowk which it rented. The building also had a\nNepal Telecom appoints Paras Khadka and Priyanka Rani Joshi as its brand ambassadors\nDinesh Dec 7, 2022\nNepal Telecom (NTC) has appointed the former captain of Nepal's national cricket team Paras Khadka and Miss Nepal World 2022 Priyanka Rani Joshi as its new brand ambassadors. Both the figures and the company have formally reached an The government-backed operator Nepal Telecom (NTC) has brought a new offer bringing bonus data on recharge. The new offer brings up to 10 GB of mobile data for recharging customers. The offer is effective from Mangsir 20 to Poush 19.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Thursday, 1 September, 2005 by L\n..@\n.@\n@ \"So thou thought thou couldst kill me, fAAARGH!!\"\n@ \"Yes, actually.\"\nMeanwhile, far\nabove...\nRaijinThe god of thunder.\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. \"Hey, Sun GoddessGoddesses and Gods operate in ones, threesomes, or whole\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details., why are you so... mortally afraid?\"\n&           v\n\/-\\\nE  | |-\\\n\/-\\\/ |\n| |\\-\/    @\nE  \\-\/\nThe rockets explode! The ozone layer is depleted!\nMeanwhile, above...\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. \"You don't mean... he gave Dudley the artifact of the Destroyer?!\"\n...........}}}}..%..\n..E.................\n...}}}}}^...%...^..}\n.....}}}}...........\n.E.....:}}..^..@.%.}\n....^...H}}..&....}}\n.v.E...&..}}}}}}}}}.\n&ds'.:..S........}..\nvEdH.E.v...E.:....S.\n@ \"You can run, my pretties, but YOU CAN'T HIDE! Ahahahaha!!\"\nMeanwhile, just\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. \"...also called 'Deicide', 'Omnibane', 'Heat Death[Pestilence:] And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.' and 'the Weapon of Undoing.'\"\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. \"Only the one who shall bring about the End of Everything should wield it.\"\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. \"In the hands of a mortal... even I dare not imagine.\"\n}}}}^^^}}}}}}}}}}}}}\n}}}}^^^^^\/-\\}}}}}}}}\n}}}}^^^\/-|^|}}}}}}}}\n}}}}}}^|^\\-\/}}}}}}}}\n}}}}}}}\\-\/ }}}}}}}}}\n}}}}}}}}} @ }}}}}}}}\n}}}}}}}}}} }}}}}}}}}\n}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}\n@ \"I can shoot holes in the plane. Maybe I can write my name with them!\"\nDaverd\nIs anyone else getting PHP errors at the top?\nJack Simth\nshel's theory (http:\/\/www.nicolaas.net\/dudley\/index.php?f=20050822) is that when we give the site a ) then the parse error goes away. I was unable to move my unicorn hornMen have always sought the elusive unicorn, for the single\ntwisted horn which projected from its forehead was thought to\nbe a powerful talisman. It was said that the unicorn had\nsimply to dip the tip of its horn in a muddy pool for the water\nto become pure. Men also believed that to drink from this horn\nwas a protection against all sickness, and that if the horn was\nground to a powder it would act as an antidote to all poisons.\nLess than 200 years ago in France, the horn of a unicorn was\nused in a ceremony to test the royal food for poison.\nAlthough only the size of a small horse, the unicorn is a very\nfierce beast, capable of killing an elephant with a single\nthrust from its horn. Its fleetness of foot also makes this\nsolitary creature difficult to capture. However, it can be\ntamed and captured by a maiden. Made gentle by the sight of a\nvirgin, the unicorn can be lured to lay its head in her lap, and\nin this docile mood, the maiden may secure it with a golden rope.\n[ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]\nMartin took a small sip of beer. \"Almost ready,\" he said.\n\"You hold your beer awfully well.\"\nTlingel laughed. \"A unicorn's horn is a detoxicant. Its\npossession is a universal remedy. I wait until I reach the\nwarm glow stage, then I use my horn to burn off any excess and\nkeep me right there.\"\n[ Unicorn Variations, by Roger Zelazny ]\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. from nethack.alt.org to www.nicolaas.net before I died to try to cure the error, Maybe we can borrow Dudley's Bazooka and offer it to the parse error as the requested weapon. (Dudley's dungeon, Google ads, and now parse error are here! What comes here next?)\nRecently I found a newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of\nNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. in the real world. It was black, had four legs, and was smaller than the bottom of my shoe. I saw it hurry across my path. Luckily it was not interested in me. Sometimes I do have difficulty understanding how those things kill Dudley.\nThe newts grow to be pretty big in those dungeons.\nPoor Dudley... he'll perish tomorrow.\nThose comics are just not funny any more\nA little plot arc never hurt noone. Now eat your lichenThe chamber was of unhewn rock, round, as near as might\nbe, eighteen or twenty feet across, and gay with rich\nvariety of fern and moss and lichen. The fern was in\nits winter still, or coiling for the spring-tide; but\nmoss was in abundant life, some feathering, and some\ngobleted, and some with fringe of red to it.\n[ Lorna Doone, by R.D. Blackmore ]\nAlso, I just recieved an email from Dion -\nFrom: \"Dion Nicolaas\" <dion@nicolaas.net>\nTo: \"L\"\nSubject: Holiday. Back 5\/9.\n...and the message was empty. Cryptic, very cryptic. : )\nI have a sneaking feeling that both the PHP problem and Dion's whereabouts will all be resolved come this \"5\/9,\" doncha think?\nKernigh: Because we really want to give a Holy Bazooka of Deadening to php: \"Expected T_STRING at... *foom*\", no more site at all!\nAnyway this arc was good but has been going on a bit long now.\nM'ladapiro\nNo; this cannot be. If the weapon is capable of bringing all to ruin, I must stop Dudley from causing an early Armageddon!\nI think this arc's pretty good. Not as good as Dion's stuff but still good.\nAnd I get the PHP error too.\nOoh, gross.\nGo Dudley, Go Dudley, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Dud-\nBazooka of Deadening has killed Grognor.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'It Happened in Hollywood' Podcast Travel Dining Theater Real Estate Books Podcasts\n'Photograph 51': Theater Review\n6:50 PM PDT 9\/14\/2015 by Stephen Dalton\nCourtesy of Johan Perrson\nNicole Kidman in 'Photograph 51'\nKidman just about manages to shine, despite uninspired staging and dowdy source material. TWITTER\nNicole Kidman returns to the West End to play scientist and feminist icon Rosalind Franklin, long denied full credit for her groundbreaking work on DNA.\nBack on the London stage for the first time in 17 years, Nicole Kidman sharpens her feminist credentials in the first British production of Anna Ziegler's 2008 play Photograph 51. The last time she appeared on the West End, directed by Sam Mendes in David Hare's The Blue Room, one critic famously branded Kidman's sizzling performance \"pure theatrical Viagra.\" Her latest role is almost the polar opposite, playing the frosty and spinsterish Rosalind Franklin, the young British-Jewish chemist whose crucial role in mapping the structure of DNA was overlooked for years by a male-dominated scientific establishment.\nThe production is directed by Michael Grandage, formerly of the Donmar Warehouse, now heading his own theater company, who has recently wrapped his debut feature film with Kidman, Genius. Grandage has a long track record of starry productions in both London and New York, yet Photograph 51 feels oddly staid and conventional, perhaps because Ziegler's play is essentially a middling blend of straight bio-drama and high-school science lesson. Without Kidman's marquee appeal, it would have been an unusually dowdy choice for the West End.\nRead more Benedict Cumberbatch in 'Hamlet': Theater Review\nFortunately, Kidman delivers. Sporting a lab coat and tidy brunette hair, and deploying that clipped English accent familiar from screen roles like The Hours, her performance is muted but reliably intense, hinting at wounded depths beneath Franklin's implacably chilly exterior. Constrained by the obligation to keep his heroine within the limits of plausibility, Grandage settles for milking maximum comic bite from Mary Poppins-ish lines like \"As a girl, I prided myself on always being right,\" and \"Laziness? I don't believe in it.\" But there are no emotional fireworks, no grandstanding epiphanies, no Viagra moments here. Even if some of Franklin's male colleagues found her stern ice-queen aura arousing, as Ziegler hints, this is not Fifty Shades of DNA.\nThe play compresses Franklin's crucial career phase during the early 1950s into a single 95-minute act, specifically her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA at King's College in London. Here, she fights daily battles for respect and equality against her condescending, chauvinistic boss Maurice Wilkins (Stephen Campbell Moore), while his charmingly goofy assistant Ray Gosling (Joshua Silver) serves as comic relief.\nActually taken by Gosling under Franklin's tutelage, the photograph of the title became the key image that helped confirm DNA's double helix structure, eventually winning a Nobel Prize for Wilkins and his friendly rivals at Cambridge University, James Watson (Will Attenborough, grandson of Sir Richard) and Francis Crick (Edward Bennett). By this time, Franklin was already four years dead from ovarian cancer, aged just 37.\nRead more Nicole Kidman: \"Society Tells Us That We Need to Be Less Smart to Get Further\"\nChristopher Oram's stage design is static and spacious, a single all-purpose set lined with stone archways suggestive of Victor Frankenstein's dank basement laboratory, which resonates on both a literal and symbolic level. The stage itself is a grid of opaque white squares that light up intermittently, chiefly when characters step out of a scene to address the audience. Alas, Grandage resists the temptation to use them as an illuminated disco dance floor, Saturday Night Fever-style. Strangely, he also makes no attempt to visually represent the DNA double helix onstage, as some U.S. productions did. A glaring missed opportunity.\nPhotograph 51 slips fluidly between two time frames, one during Franklin's life, the other after her death, with Wilkins and his fellow scientists reflecting on her posthumous reputation \u2014 and, on some level, trying to salvage their own. The tone initially feels like a creaky English drawing-room comedy from the 1960s, overly reliant on stuffed-shirt caricatures and labored banter, sprinkled with casual sexism and anti-Semitism. The lines get faster, smarter and more poetic in the final half-hour, but never quite shake off the sense of a musty provincial theater piece.\nGrandage's production is a worthy effort, but a little passionless, inherently limited in dramatic force by its subject matter. Because Franklin died tragically young, lived mainly for her work and reportedly never had any kind of romantic relationship, directors and playwright are faced with the options to speculate or fabricate if they want emotional context to help sweeten long stretches of dry scientific detail. Ziegler drops a few hints about Franklin's secret crushes and minor flirtations, but these are very inconclusive and timidly handled.\nKidman says she chose Photograph 51 partly to correct the injustices of history, and partly to pay tribute to her biochemist father Anthony, who died last year. In truth, Franklin's reputation has been thoroughly rehabilitated in the decades since her death. She even has a university faculty named after her barely 10 minutes' walk from this theater.\nBut sexism in science remains a live issue. Recent off-color jokes by Nobel Prize-winning professor Tim Hunt about the dangers of allowing \"girls\" into laboratories became a major news story in Britain, helping to generate an extra blast of free publicity for Kidman's stage comeback. Not that she will need it. Photograph 51 is already heavily booked for much of its three-month run, a testament to celebrity power more than to strong writing or great directing.\nEDITOR'S NOTE: The production was reviewed at a preview performance prior to its official opening.\nCast: Nicole Kidman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Joshua Silver, Will Attenborough, Edward Bennett, Patrick Kennedy\nDirector: Michael Grandage\nPlaywright: Anna Ziegler\nSet and costume designer: Christopher Oram\nLighting designer: Neil Austin\nMusic and sound designer: Adam Cork\nPresented by Michael Grandage Company\nStephen Dalton\nTHRnews@thr.com @thr","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"True Tribe's Luxury Swim Shorts Are Proudly Not Made In France\nMurray Clark\n14 August 2020, 4:30 am \u00b75-min read\nPhoto credit: True Tribe\nFrom Esquire\nYou walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht. And yet, Carly Simon wasn't talking about you. Or him. Or those two city boys over there. Or the guy across the way that you faintly remember from first year who, actually, looks a lot like every other guy you met in first year.\nBut you, and everyone else, could well be mistaken for the chief antagonist of Ms Simon's seminal 1972 FU hit. Not because you're a bad man. But because, in the last eight years or so, men's swimwear \u2013 the sort worn to actual yacht parties, and every other water-based party not hosted by a Belarusian cabinet minister \u2013 has become a homogenous body of Riviera-tinged, my-father-the-land-baron short shorts. They're often tailored, clean, best-worn by Ralph Lauren models, but also standard kit for those who weren't so successful in the DNA lottery. They come in classic shades of aquamarine and cerulean and Sean Connery (never blue, though), or in a print inspired by the architecture of an exclusive LA postcode. And they're very good. Hence, very popular.\nWhat's more, it's in line with the resurgence of that whole prep 2.0 thing: the trust fund kid down the skate park. But what if you're not into that? What if you want something different, something built for more than Sicilian sunbathing? It was a conundrum faced by Alexandre Sundberg: a born and bred Parisian who high schooled in Sweden, and who that wanted proper flexibility with his summer essentials.\n\"I wanted shorts that were versatile, and shorts that you can swim in, and run in, or go to the gym in or, y'know, go for a stroll in Rome,\" he says. Which, coincidentally, was exactly what Sundberg was doing when we shared a phone call earlier this month, during which he was also wearing a shorts solution of his own making: True Tribe.\nPhoto credit: Browns\nAs a label that's yet to reach its third birthday, Sundberg's brainchild hasn't yet faced that difficult sixth season quandary: doing something different just to attract attention. It knows exactly who it is. Which means it's not much like the current rotation of yachty swimwear, but it's also not so left-field that it's \"deconstructing the shorts paradigm\" (there are, for example, still two leg holes). Instead, True Tribe is simple: a bit sporty and informed by Sundberg's travels abroad.\n\"I didn't have many clothes, just a backpack, and I went to Australia with some swim short samples I'd sorted with some Portuguese suppliers as a bit of a side project,\" says the former Saint Laurent staffer. \"I went hitchhiking from Perth to Darwin in these shorts, so I had some exposure to tribal and Aboriginal culture, and that's kind of what triggered the whole brand. I saw some extremely beautiful prints and designs, and it was such a defined, individual sort of art, and the whole philosophy of True Tribe emerged from there: you just need shorts and a backpack and the bare minimum.\"\nAlongside the kaleidoscopic patterns of Aboriginal art are iridescent fabrics, quieter takes on camo (elevated in name to the rather French special forces-sounding \"camo verde\") and mosaics that are much easier to wear than all-over prints. These are shorts you can just throw on, but which won't look out of place if you wear them straight from the beach to the bar. Less formal than what we've grown used to over the last decade, but that's sort of the point.\nMost brands at this price point trumpet their homegrown manufacturing, but True Tribe's early marketing campaigns proudly bore the slogan: 'Not Made In France'. \"My family is in production, and they work a lot in Pakistan,\" says Lundberg, \"So, we decided to start our own workshop there, and we saw a massive opportunity for a new way to do business in developing countries where fast fashion is the dominant industry.\n\"We wanted to focus on craftsmanship, so we started with around five pieces and each pair of shorts takes about four hours to make. And it's all made from recycled materials, using nylon from fishing nets and other trash from the ocean. That whole circularity in the fashion business is really key, and we partner up with Survival International that covers the rights of Aboriginal peoples around the world with different projects.\" Quality over quantity then. And, unlike major players in fashion, True Tribe's dedicated artisans have faces, and names, and fairer salaries \u2013 all introduced to shoppers on the brand's website.\nThat tightly curated initial line of five pieces has grown to 20. That includes a pair of well-made t-shirts which, again, make their presence known with subtle design details \u2013 and a focus on the sustainable. \"It's something we were able to produce using organic cotton, but now everyone's going for that. So we looked at interesting options like tencel, which is a tree fibre,\" says Sundberg. \"Then, we went for something slightly more raw, so the edges of the collar are a little torn. It sits with shorts that are designed to go exploring in, and it's a change from the regular clean collar most brands are doing.\"\nWho, coincidentally, are all sat on deck right now, Aperol in hand, Ibiza Chill Classics snaking from the sound system. True Tribe is nowhere to be seen. And as for the guys opting for its unique strain of fun-to-look-at functionality? Don't worry: that Carly Simon song is most certainly not about you ('bout you, 'bout you).\nLike this article? Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox\nNeed some positivity right now? Subscribe to Esquire now for a hit of style, fitness, culture and advice from the experts\nThe Best Men's Sunglasses For Summer '19\nThere's A Smartwatch For Every Sort Of Guy\nWhat You Should Buy For Your Groomsmen (And What They Really Want)\nMOH to establish Covid-19 Assessment Centre to rank patients' illness severity","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Suda 51 keen to develop No More Heroes 3\nWhilst there were no new game announcements at Grasshopper Manufacture's Grassstream 2 Travis VS. Garcia charity event yesterday, Grashopper CEO Suda 51 has commented that he would like to make a third instalment within cult-hit series, No More Heroes.\nWhen speaking of the possibility of a further No More Heroes sequel, as reported by Famitsu, Suda explained: \"Although it won't happen soon, I'd like to do it at some point.\" Then, referring to his two colleagues by his side, character designer Yusuke Kozaki and mecha designer Shigeto Koyama, he added \"Let's make it together.\"\nSuch comments were made during the first part of the event, which centred upon the No More Heroes series and featured a talk session with Suda, Kozaki and Koyama. During this, Kozaki revealed that he made many characters that were unused in the past games with which they could make at least another two more No More Heroes games. He also stated that he would like to direct a game where the game's Shinobu character plays the central role.\n[Thanks, Andriasang]\nRanking The BIT.TRIP Games\nSatirical Medieval Fantasy Balancelot Coming To Nintendo Switch","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cyber Security Range Opens in Baltimore with a Little Help from Israel\nJustin Silberman\nBruce Spector shows off the training center at the Baltimore Cyber Range. (David Stuck)\nBruce Spector couldn't help but smile and revel in the moment. Less than a year after he helped conceptualize the idea for a city-based cybersecurity training center, Baltimore Cyber Range celebrated its opening at Power Plant Live on Aug. 3.\nSpector's company, Pikesville- based Electronic Technology Associates (ETA), operates the range, which uses a platform developed by Israeli technology firm Cyberbit to provide security teams hands-on simulations in realistic settings.\nSpector, 61, founder and CEO of ETA, told the JT the goal of the range is to attract the most talented individuals to meet a growing demand in the cybersecurity industry. In turn, he hopes Baltimore morphs into the \"cyber- security training mecca of the United States, if not\" the world.\n\"Anybody who is involved in cybersecurity, we want them to join us, because we think we can make them better,\" Spector said. \"I'm a Baltimore boy, and I've been doing this kind of work for 35 years. Nothing gives me greater joy than being able to see a project like this happen.\"\nThe range's ribbon-cutting ceremony drew Gov. Larry Hogan, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, former City Councilwoman Rochelle \"Rikki\" Spector (Bruce's mother) and other state and city officials, all eager to praise the partnership between ETA and Cyberbit.\nHogan, a Republican, said that Baltimore \"is quickly becoming the hotbed of cybersecurity activity\" and that the range makes the area an attractive destination for more cybersecurity companies to bring their business.\nThe idea for the project took shape last September when Spector accompanied Hogan on a week-long trade mission to Israel, where the partnership between ETA and Cyberbit was first announced. The trip was part of a statewide effort Hogan has undertaken to bring resources from Israel's cybersecurity industry to Maryland as a way to help boost local jobs and businesses.\nFor its part, the Baltimore Cyber Range is working to lay the groundwork to meet the burgeoning needs of the industry.\nLabor statistics data indicate that more than 200,000 U.S. cybersecurity jobs are currently unfilled, Spector said, underscoring the need to develop and train more information technology and cybersecurity professionals. The shortfall is projected to swell to more than 1.5 million by 2019.\n\"Most of these jobs are right in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., corridor,\" Spector said. \"We have the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon and other government agencies all right here, so we couldn't ask for a better fit.\"\nMaryland boasts more than 12,000 information technology and cybersecurity companies \u2014 including four from Israel \u2014 that serve organizations such as the NSA, making the state an ideal breeding ground for cybersecurity specialists.\nStephen Thomas, general manager of Cyberbit North America, said he expects 1,000 people annually to receive training at the range, which is Cyberbit's 12th location worldwide but first in the United States. There are plans in development for Cyberbit, a subsidiary of defense company Elbit Systems, to expand in the region, including Virginia.\n\"This is probably the best example of how quickly we can bring technologies from Israel here to the U.S. market,\" Thomas said.\nThe center welcomes anyone, Spector said, including fresh-faced high school and college graduates with no cyber- security experience and well-trained, skilled professionals looking to enhance their skills. Participants will be trained on Cyberbit's \"Range Platform,\" allowing them a chance to combat cyberattacks in real time without the risk of damaging a real network.\nSpector said he expects the range, which has held classes since July, to grow from its current total of 10 employees to 100 by year's end.\n\"It would give me no greater satisfaction than to bring more high-paying jobs to my hometown,\" Spector said. \"We want to provide long-term, viable careers for people who come to this range.\"\nPugh, a Democrat, agreed, noting it's essential that individuals are equipped with the proper tools to make their mark in a booming industry.\n\"We are going to create jobs and connect people to the jobs of the future,\" Pugh said. \"It's more than just training people for jobs \u2014 it's training people for the right jobs.\"\nFrom left: Former City Councilwoman Rochelle \"Rikki Spector, Gov. Larry Hogan and Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg of Beth Tfiloh Congregation celebrate the Cyber Range's opening. (David Stuck)\nThe center is funded with a $250,000 state grant through the Employment Advancement Right Now (EARN) that paved the way for ETA to put together a consortium of public and private companies. The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore provided the consortium a $10,000 grant for locating within the city, creating an opportunity Spector said was too good to pass up.\nThe range compromises 6,000 square feet on two separate floors in Spark Baltimore at 8 Market Place. It's part classrooms, part office space, part training center and also includes a lobby. The training center, which takes up about 1,000 square feet, seats five professionals, one instructor and one observer in a tightly bunched space with state-of-the-art computers, servers and routers.\nBut at the opening, part of the lobby had been cleared to make way for a lectern, dozens of chairs and refreshment tables. Crowd members were taken up to the training center in small groups and treated to live demonstrations and discussions of the \"Range Platform.\"\nAfter hearing the dignitaries speak, some in the audience said they felt the addition of the range would fill a niche to assist private and public-sector organizations against the latest real-world cyber threats.\nAbba Poliakoff, president of the Baltimore Jewish Council, said the range will do a lot for cybersecurity innovation.\n\"This is what is really going to propel Baltimore into the next generation and help propel the area into the Silicon Valley of cybersecurity,\" said Poliakoff, who was on last year's trade mission to Israel.\nBarry Bogage, executive director of the Maryland\/Israel Development Center, pointed to the high priority he feels Maryland and Israel have put on cybersecurity as a reason to be optimistic for the range's success.\n\"It's a natural for this area to blossom in cybersecurity,\" said Bogage, who was also on the Israel mission trip and introduced Spector to Hogan. \"Israel and Maryland are arguably the strongest places in the world for developing cybersecurity.\"\nRabbi Mitchell Wohlberg of Beth Tfiloh Congregation \u2014 mentioning economic, academic, societal and religious ties \u2014 said individuals should take comfort in the protection the range will provide to their digital experience.\n\"Anything involving Israeli businesses and the city and state and country is very important to the future,\" said Wohlberg, who delivered a prayer and hung a mezuzah outside the door to the training center. \"We live in a world in which we need protection from the evil spirits that are out there. In this place, advances are being made to provide us with security, security for threats from without and security from jobseekers within.\"\nThe benefits for Israel and Maryland run both ways, Spector said.\n\"The Israeli and Jewish technology is so well thought of that the officials in Maryland want to bring that technology here,\" Spector said. \"So I'm extremely proud that we're going to be able to do that.\"\njsilberman@midatlanticmedia.com\nAbba Poliakoff\nBaltimore Cyber Range\nBaltimore Jewish Council\nBaltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh\nBarry Bogage\nBruce Spector\nCyberbit\nElectronic Technology Associates\nGov. 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{"text":"Home > Net News > ONErpm Signs Brit Taylor To Distribution Deal\nONErpm Signs Brit Taylor To Distribution Deal\nDecember 7, 2020 at 11:44 AM (PT)\nGlobal music company ONERPM has signed Americana singer\/songwriter BRIT TAYLOR to a distribution deal. The KENTUCKY native recently released her debut, 10-song album, titled \"Real Me.\" BOBBIE GENTRY, LORETTA LYNN, WAYLON JENNINGS and WILLIE NELSON are among some of the album's influences.\n\"It's not often you get to work with artists who have honed in on who they are and what they're trying to say through their music,\" said ONERPM A&R rep JEFF TOBIAS. \"BRIT is a one-of-a-kind artist who is creating undeniably standout music that will continue to wow audiences everywhere.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Back to KUBIK series\nFEATURES Gallery ABOUT KUBIK XTRA Finishes DOWNLOAD VIDEO Awards\nDALI KUBIK XTRA\nThe DALI KUBIK XTRA is the passive sibling of the new active DALI KUBIK FREE. By adding the KUBIK XTRA, you extend the listening experience into a true stereo performance.\nThis mix paper pulp and wood fibre makes the cones stiff and light which ensures that every micro detail in the signal is reproduced unfiltered.\nA rigid construction that facilitates a huge inner volume enabling a powerful bass performance in a compact cabinet.\nSTEREO SOLUTION\nThe KUBIK series provides a true stereo solution with a genuine sound stage through traditional speaker technology.\nEXCHANGEABLE GRILLES\nAll KUBIK products are available in all colours of the rainbow. 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Well, you have to make the coach play you.Sitting on the patio of a hotel restaurant the day before a 4-0 loss to Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifier this past week -- which hugely increased his own job pressure- Klinsmann addressed the topic of player development during a 50-minute sit-down with American reporters. He looked to the future of forwards Bobby Wood and Jordan Morris, calling them potential difference makers.You see a lot of talent not having that inner drive. You see a lot of talents not going to the highest level possible, and you feel for them, Klinsmann said. You feel for them because, well, you put in years of talking, guiding, explaining, videoing, and it hasnt clicked. It hasnt made that difference. And you can go through a palette of players that weve had coming through the last five years that unfortunately were not able to intellectually take that message or messages and make it into a huge career.A World Cup champion with West Germany in 1990, a European champion with Germany six years later and coach of the 2006 German team that reached the World Cup semifinals, Klinsmann was hired five years ago to help impart to Americans the routines of high-level soccer -- what it takes to succeed at the highest level, the daily demands of being the best. He has an American wife and has lived in California since retiring as a player in 1998, giving him perspective on how U.S. soccer is unique.Klinsmann said academics and the desire of parents to have American prospects attend college has hurt player development, frustrating both him and U.S. under-20 coach Tab Ramos. Klinsmann understands the motivation -- his son Jonathan is a goalkeeper at the University of California at Berkeley. He is impatient with those who are distracted by their non-soccer lives.Theyre not going to the next level because they want to go partying, he said. And Tab and I, we go crazy, and said `Why are you settling now? Well, because the parents are happy.When he asks something of a player, and gets the response, Oh, let me call my agent, Klinsmann said his reaction is then: You know what? Conversation over.And with that, Klinsmann clapped his hands twice.But some players do break through.Pulisic, from Hershey, Pennsylvania, and already among the Americans most technically skilled players, was noticed by Dortmund scouts three years ago in Florida. He signed as a 16-year-old, made his debut in January and scored twice in nine league games last season. He has two more Bundesliga goals this season, and he made his Champions League debut.Lynden Gooch, a 20-year-old midfielder from Santa Cruz, California, got noticed by Sunderland when he was with the Santa Cruz Breakers Academy team, traveled to England during time off from school and joined Sunderlands youth system at age 16. He made his first-team debut for the Black Cats in this years Premier League opener and has eight league appearances.I called David Moyes: What is it about the kid? Klinsmann said of his phone call to the Sunderland manager. He remembered how Moyes told him: `Oh my gosh, Jurgen, this kid is hungry. I dont even know how to keep him on the bench.Cameron Carter-Vickers, the 18-year-old son of former NBA guard Howard Carter, grew up in Southend, England, and joined Tottenhams academy system when he was 11. He made his first-team debut this season in the League Cup.Hes pushing. Hes getting there. Hes the future. Hes with the A team there all the time now, Klinsmann said.The best group of American youth players arguably was the team that finished fourth at the 1999 FIFA Under-17 World Championship, a group that included Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Kyle Beckerman, Oguchi Onyewu and Bobby Convey.Klinsmann thinks a coach like Moyes or Thomas Tuchel at Dortmund impacts the level these young men reach quickly.You cannot copy-paste it into their environment, because you need a coach that believes in young players, Klinsmann said. You need a coach that says, `We play him maybe 20 games in the second team but them I see that talent, then I bring him up. NCAA Basketball Jerseys China . PETERSBURG, Fla. College Jerseys Cheap . 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It was the final non-conference match of the regular season for both teams.Scoring in the Match: The only goal of the opening half came in the 33rd minute. Pamela Begi? received the ball high from Samantha Chung above the box and then dribbled toward goal. Her right-footed 22-yard shot just beat the outstretched hands of UCFs goalkeeper.Floridas second goal started when Meggie Dougherty Howard spied Mayra Pelayo making a right-side run. Pelayo took a touch, then sent a cross to the far post. Savannah Jordan was at the end of that cross, one-touching the ball in just inside the far post.That goal was the No. 72 of Jordans career, moving her into sole possession of second on Floridas and the Southeastern Conference career goals charts.The Knights cut the lead with a 14-yard strike from Morgan Ferrara in the 58th minute and then tied the score 16 minutes later. The Knights were awarded a corner kick and Kayla Adamek found the ball in the scrum to score at the far post.With regulation time evaporating, the Gators made a push toward the Knights goal. Pelayo had the ball out wide at the endline. The cross she put into the box was cleared by UCF to just above the box. Chung stepped up and her right-footed shot hit the inside of the right post and kicked in.Worth Noting: Chungs goal was the first of her Florida career.Begi?s goal was her first of the season and gives her an even dozen for her Gator career.Jordans goal moved her into sole possession of second on the Florida and SEC Career Goals chart at 72. She is one of 31 players in NCAA Division I history to score 72 or more goals and among the 10 who have done that since 2000.Briana Solis made her first start of the season Sunday, taking a spot in the defensive midfield.Sundays match was Floridas first home action since Aug. 21 as the Gators traveled more than 11,400 miles on their five-match road stretch.2016 Records: Florida: 6-2, 1-1 SECUCF: 5-4, 0-0 AACWhat Burleigh Said: On her overall thoughts on tonights match... It was great. I think we had to show some resilience by coming back. We knew that UCF was not going to go quietly. If you look at the history of the games that they have played this year, you can tell that they have some history of that. I think trust is the biggest word for us; we have to trust. When we play the ball out wide and put balls across the six, its really difficult to deefend. Stitched NCAA Jerseys. Every opportunity we had tonight came from that scenario. - Florida Head Coach Becky BurleighOn Samantha Chungs winning goal... I think that was a great finish. Anytime you can have a quality finish is great. I was excited for her, she can hit a great ball and she has done it numerous times in practice. To see her finish that in the game was exciting. - - Florida Head Coach Becky Burleigh On her game winning goal... The coaches told us to start dishing it out wide. As soon as we started doing that, we got out to Myra, who crossed it in, it came to me and I hit it first time. We all put in a great effort, and we worked hard. We finally got the goal, and it felt good. - sophomore midfielder Samantha ChungOn scoring her 72nd goal... Its pretty cool. Its always an honor to be up in those rankings. I give a lot of credit to my team, - without those crosses and balls in to me I wouldnt be able to score any of those. Im really grateful for the opportunity to have that. - senior forward Savannah JordanOn Pam Begi?s first goal of the season... I thought Pam did a really great job of playing simple and getting us to the point that weve talked about. That was big. She made a big difference when she came in. - Florida Head Coach Becky BurleighOn winning after coming home from a long road trip...It means so much. Its been three or four weeks, and our traveling has been pretty rough. To be able to perform in front of our home crowd has been incredible. Its amazing to be back. - senior midfielder Pam Begi?On Kaylan Marckeses saves tonight... That equalizer was a bit challenging. There was a big crowd around it. It was a difficult situation for her, but I thought she made some big saves to keep us in it. - Florida Head Coach Becky BurleighOn tonights match... First of all, it was great to play at home. Weve been on a long road trip, so it was great to play here in front of our fans. I think our team fought hard tonight. UCF has shown this season that theyve been able to come back from being down. We knew it would be a tough match, but our team showed a lot of resilience coming back from Friday. - senior forward Savannah JordanPreseason Conference Votes: Florida swept the 2015 SEC titles (regular-season and tournament). UCF was third in 2015 American Athletic Conference standings.Florida - The Gators are picked to win the 2016 Southeastern Conference title.UCF - The Knights are picked to take third in the 2016 American Athletic Conference.Rankings:Florida is ranked No. 4 on the latest National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) poll.Next up: The Gators continue home play Thursday when Auburn (5-4, 1-1 SEC) visits Pressly Stadium for a 6 p.m. match. The Tigers come into the match off a 1-0 home loss to No. 14 South Carolina Sunday. Admission is free for all Gator home regular season matches. 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{"text":"U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke to step down, rejoin family in Seattle\nU.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke\nThe former governor of Washington and commerce secretary announces that he will be stepping down from the Beijing post in 2014 to rejoin his family in Seattle. The first U.S. ambassador to China of Chinese descent, Locke's low-key, unassuming attitude charmed the Chinese populace.\nDec. 16, 2013 In his final days as U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke made one last visit to relatives at his family's ancestral village in Taishan in southern China. William Wan\/The Washington Post\nBy Simon Denyer\nSimon Denyer\nTokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea.\nBEIJING \u2014 U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, who won plaudits for his low-key style and for cutting visa waiting times for Chinese citizens entering the United States, announced Wednesday that he will step down early next year to rejoin his family in Seattle.\nLocke, the first Chinese American to hold the Beijing post, might be best remembered in China for a photograph taken even before he arrived in 2011 that shows him with his young daughter at the Seattle airport, wearing a backpack and trying to pay for coffee with a coupon. The image circulated widely on social media, with many Chinese concluding that Locke, who was also seen flying economy class, was much more down-to-earth and less reliant on publicly funded luxuries than their own officials.\nThe biggest tests Locke faced as ambassador came in 2012. In February, a high-profile police chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing sought refuge in a U.S. consulate. Two months later, a blind human rights activist escaped from house arrest and sought sanctuary at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.\nLocke's greatest achievement may have been cutting waiting times for U.S. visas to three to five days, down from 70 to 100 days when he took over. Locke said the improvement had \"significantly increased Chinese business and travel tourism to the U.S.\"\nDouglas Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, said Locke should be applauded for the visa progress. At the same time, he said, it was \"not evident\" that the ambassador had a grand strategic vision for the U.S.-China relationship.\nGary Locke, nominated to be next U.S. ambassador to China, talks to Post editor Lillian Cunningham about the leadership imperative for US-Chinese relations. (The Washington Post)\nLocke suffered somewhat for his Chinese heritage, something that did not necessarily boost his authority with officials here, Paal said. \"That plays well in the United States but doesn't translate in the host environment. They don't treat you as an equal in China.\"\nThe first major diplomatic standoff during Locke's tenure involved police chief Wang Lijun, who gave the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu, near Chongqing, information about the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, unleashing one of China's biggest political scandals in decades. The case eventually led to the life imprisonment of Chongqing's leader, Bo Xilai, on corruption charges.\nIn April, just days before then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in China for an important bilateral dialogue, the blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng was given shelter in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for six days.\nLocke was on vacation at the time, but he hurried back to China to manage the crisis. Again, he won praise for a photograph \u2014 this time, showing him holding Chen's hand as the two entered a hospital. The activist was later allowed to leave China with his family and settle in the United States.\nSun Zhe, a professor in the department of international relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said Locke had helped stabilize U.S.-China ties and handled the 2012 situations well by communicating with the governments in Washington and Beijing round-the-clock.\n\"It is not an easy job to be the American ambassador to China,\" Sun said. \"Gary Locke is not a shining star, but a simple and unadorned ambassador.\"\nLocke, a former commerce secretary and governor of Washington state, also focused on promoting U.S. exports to China and on Chinese investment in the United States, which he said had helped create American jobs. But experts said he had never seemed to hold much sway with the Obama administration.\nIn a statement announcing his departure, Locke said he had also \"advanced American values by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers, and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang.\"\nEmbassy officials said Locke decided to leave his post to reunite with his family and ensure that his children could finish their schooling in one place, rather than over concerns about pollution or schooling in China.\n\"Mrs. Locke and the Locke children moved back to the Seattle area last summer so that the two eldest children could complete their high school education there,\" spokesman Nolan Barkhouse said.\nShen Dingli, executive dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, praised Locke for promoting trade and people-to-people ties, adding that he \"showed us how a U.S. minister-level official behaves by taking economy-class flights.\" But he said Locke had \"caused a twist\" in U.S.-China relations when a subordinate allowed activist Chen to take shelter in the embassy in his absence.\nDespite that controversy, China's Foreign Ministry said it appreciated the \"positive efforts\" Locke had made in promoting bilateral cooperation, including helping arrange a meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Obama at the Sunnylands estate in California in June.\nThat meeting, said spokesman Hong Lei, \"established the direction of building a new type of relationship between great powers.\"\nLiu Liu contributed to this report.\nThe five craziest moments from Gary Locke's tenure as U.S. ambassador to China","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"An Alternate Reality of Delusion\n\u200bvs\nIn this episode Beth and Elizabeth - who is filling in for Kelly on vacation - talk about something *good* in the land of fake news.\nWait. What? Yes - it's true, something good happened, a bridge was crossed... we think. In August 2018 Apple, Facebook, Google and Spotify among others all announced that they would be removing all or most of content created by Alex Jones and his website, Infowars.\nThe move came as these companies declared that Jones had violated the terms of conditions by posting either hate speech, or bullying that violated the terms of conditions these private companies post.\nWho is this elusive Alex Jones? According to his Wikipedia page he started in public access TV in Austin in the 1990's. He progressed to radio and was syndicated and has built a reputation for himself as \"American's leading Conspiracy Theorist\" a title given to him by The New Yorker magazine.\nHe has pumped his listeners full of conspiracy theories starting with the Oklahoma City Bombing, The Bilderberg Group, and of course - recent shootings such as the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In addition, he also encourages his listeners to pump themselves full of his supplements and other items that he sells under the Infowars brand.\nSo is this censorship? Not according to Jones own terms of service.\nThis does seem like it's a great thing that Alex Jones and Infowars has been removed from these platforms - but there are many other fish in the sea. Particularly on You Tube - where the \"You Tube Right\" has emerged as a place where the right can say what ever they want without fear of retribution of ads being pulled or FCC rules that apply to regular talk radio or TV shows.\nHowever - You Tube has started to take action - they have demonetized certain videos on the site - although the process is arbitrary, it does seem like You Tube is taking steps to be the platform that they want to be instead of a cesspool of hate speech and bullying.\n\u200bBeth's Jam of the week:\nTaylor Swift's \"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\"\nHint, hint... You Tube, Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher....\n\u200bElizabeth's Jam of the Week:\n\u200bThe Elephant in the Room by Jon Ronson\n\u200bElizabeth is pretty sure she read this because of one of Kelly's previous Jams... which is pretty cool!\nBut it was such a perfect fit for this episode that she couldn't *not* recommend it.\nIt takes you through the real journey with the author and an idea he had for Alex Jones...\nPick it up and find out what happened!\nhttps:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/08\/08\/meet-jared-holt-the-guy-whos-getting-alex-jones-kicked-off-the-internet\/\nhttps:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2018\/08\/07\/censorship-platforms-delete-infowars-content-not-according-infowars\/\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Vox\/videos\/969159249938344\/\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alex_Jones\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bilderberg_Group\nhttps:\/\/www.infowars.com\/forbidden-information-in-the-age-of-the-internet\/\nhttps:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/politics\/alex-joness-attorneys-defamation-suit-argue-no-reasonable-person-believe-says\/\nhttps:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/news\/is-alex-jones-empire-in-trouble\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home NEWS Kiss the Ground\nJan Koon\nKiss the Ground\nThe Documentary Features Various Voices in the Industry and Highlights the Importance of Regenerative Agriculture\nby Ray Douglas\nFCS Hands Government Budget Plan to Fight Climate Change\nThe Deep Space Food Challenge\nKiss the Ground is documentary that follows a group of activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians as they band together in a global movement of regenerative agriculture. The film makes the case that by regenerating the Earth's soils, the climate could be balanced, water supplies can be replenished, species can be saved from extinction, and the world could be fed.\nThe film features various voices in the industry. Some of the opinions featured come from Conservation Agronomist Ray Archuleta, Co-Founder of the Marin Carbon Project John Wick, Author of bestselling novel The Soil Will Save Us Kristin Ohlson, and Chief Scientist at Rodale Institute Kristine Nichols. The film is narrated by Environmental Activist and Actor Woody Harrelson.\n\"We realized that [regenerative agriculture] was the biggest single thing that people could do to reverse climate change, and people didn't even know what it was, including ourselves at the time when we started,\" said Co-Director Rebecca Tickell. \"So for us, that seemed like a huge breakthrough, but I think people are more interested in this now because there is a feeling of paralysis and fear around climate issues. We have a whole young generation of people who don't want to go to school because they want adults to wake up around this issue. And then on the other hand, here we have this very simple solution and an information gap.\"\nKiss the Ground explains that the widespread use of pesticides has decimated microbes in soil around the world, killed the microbes in humans, caused soil degradation, and hurt the planet in numerous other ways. The film argues that regenerative agriculture is the solution and presents it quite simply: Transforming dirt to soil through a regenerative ethic will be the key.\nThe film also suggests things individuals can do to contribute. Eating a more plant-based diet, composting, and applying the principles stated in the film to personal gardens will all have an impact.\nThe film \"Kiss the Ground\" is currently streaming on Netflix and available to rent on Vimeo.\nsmall farm rural regenerative agriculture documentary industry Kiss the Ground","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The stock market nudged higher Monday morning after a handful of U.S. companies announced acquisitions. Family Dollar's stock jumped following news that investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in the company.\nKEEPING SCORE: A half hour after the market opened, Standard & Poor's 500 index crept up two points, or 0.1 percent, to 1,951.\nThe Dow Jones industrial average rose 20 points, or 0.1 percent, to 16,944, while the Nasdaq composite index rose eight points, or 0.1 percent, to 4,329.\nOn Friday, the S&P 500 index notched another record high, its eighth in 10 trading days. The index notched its third straight week of solid gains.\nTYSON WINS: Tyson Foods emerged as the winner in a bidding war for Hillshire Brands, beating an offer by Pilgrim's Pride for the meat-processing company. Tyson raised its offer to $63 a share, beating Pilgrim's Pride's offer of $55 a share. Hillshire Brands jumped $2.95, or 5 percent, to $61.87, while Tyson Foods slipped $1.69, or 4.2 percent, to $38.32.\nMERGER MONDAY: Merck announced a deal to buy Idenix Pharmaceuticals for $3.85 billion. Merck & Co. said Indenix has built a promising array of treatments for hepatitis C. Indenix soared $16.97, or 234 percent, to $24.20, while Merck eased 15 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $57.70.\nICAHN: In a regulatory filing on Friday, Carl Icahn said he and his affiliates have picked up a 9 percent stake in Family Dollar, a discount store, and plan to look for changes to boost the company's value. Family Dollar's stock jumped $7, or 12 percent, to $67.52.\nAPPLE SPLITS: Apple's stock fell 37 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $9185. That's after closing at of $645.57 on Friday. What happened? The difference reflects Apple's 7-for-1 stock split. Every Apple stockholder received six additional shares for every share they owned. The move doesn't affect Apple's market value.\nBONDS AND COMMODITIES: In the market for U.S. government bonds, the yield on the 10-year Treasury inched up to 2.60 percent from 2.59 percent late Friday. Yields rise when bond prices fall. The price of oil rose 87 cents to $103.53 a barrel.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Haneefah Adam, A Nigerian Artist, Magically Turns Food Into Art\nHaneefah Adam is a female Nigerian artist who is currently making a career from turning food into art. For most people, leftovers should be disposed of, but for Haneefah Adam, leftovers are only a tool to creating beautiful and magical art.\n28 year old Haneefah Adam loves to present food creatively by using it to make portraits and other works of art.\nArcording to her, she has always been artistic.\nIn an interview with CNN, Haneefah Adam was quoted saying, \"Growing up, my mother said I had a flair for art.\"\nHaneefah Adam first made a name for herself in 2015 when she transformed Barbie into Hijarbie \u2013 a hijab wearing muslim doll.\nIn 2016, she went on to win the #TechMeetsArtNG exhibition which was sponsored by Samsung Nigeria and Rele Art Gallery. The aim of this competition was to explore the artistic presentation of Nigeria's local meals.\nHer entry (pictured below) which won the competition was inspired by Ogbono soup, a southern delicacy which she confesses is a favorite meal of hers.\nIn 2016, she went on to win the #TechMeetsArtNG exhibition which was sponsored by Samsung Nigeria and Rele Art Gallery.\n\"Before the competition, my art was mostly random, and I was just documenting food on social media. But after winning, I started to think about actively making a living from food art,\" she says.\nToday, she is building a career out of creating art from food. \"I do regular portraits, I sew and paint, but what excites me the most is food,\" she says.\nHaneefah Adam says that her inspiration comes from random things including life experiences and culture.\nIn the next couple of years, Haneefah Adam wants to be more present in the vibrant art scene in Africa, including that of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial center.\n\"I want to partake in more exhibitions. I currently live in Kwara, northern Nigeria; it is difficult to make a mark in the country's art scene from here,\" she says.\nRead Also: Nigerians are not very educated about art, and digital art especially | Morenike Olusanya (aka Renike), A Digital Artist talks about her art and life as an artist in Nigeria\nPrevious articleTanzanian Governor, Paul Makonda Is Proposing A National Database Of Married Men To Protect Single Women\nNext articleThe Milkmaid Trailer Shows The Effects Of Insurgency On Women And Girls","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"First Down Funding, Paul Pitcher, Brings Jacoby Jones on Board to Run, Dance and Fund Nationwide\nMarch 10, 2017 10:14 ET | Source: First Down Funding\nView Image: S L\nJacoby Jones and First Down Funding Managing Partner Paul Pitcher\nFirst Down Funding and Jacoby Jones\nJacoby Jones from First Down Funding\nWASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - March 10, 2017) - First Down Funding Managing Partner, Paul Pitcher, has brought NFL Superstar and Super Bowl champion Jacoby Jones on board to encourage business owners across the United States to get \"1st Down and Funded.\" First Down Funding specializes in structuring and approving cash advances for small to medium-sized businesses. The team of advisors recently added Micah Terrill, Welterweight Shogun Champion, and C.J. Mosley, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker to their number and look forward to incorporating a whole new set of skills in welcoming New Orleans-born and bred American footballer Jacoby Jones.\nJones certainly does bring a whole new set of talents and capabilities to First Down Funding. Not only has he played football at a professional level with the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens, Jones has proven he is more than competent on the dance-floor. He was awarded third-place in the finals of Dancing with the Stars in 2013 when he partnered with professional ballroom dancer Karina Smirnoff, receiving top marks from all three judges for his Salsa performance.\nWhile Jones may not be required to show off his foxtrot or samba at First Down Funding, Pitcher is keen to point out that their values and ethics are completely in alignment. Like many sports players, both men believe in working hard, running fast and enjoying life. Pitcher said he receives more than a fair share of satisfaction in life from helping entrepreneurs and local business owners grow their business and achieve success after receiving the capital they need from First Down Funding.\nA sportsman himself, Pitcher was born and raised in Annapolis, MD, and played NCAA Collegiate golf for Coach Christie at the University of Tampa. \"I have always had the mindset of wake up, work hard, help anyone you can daily, work harder, and smile,\" said Pitcher. \"It's amazing what great things can and will happen with a positive attitude.\"\nAmazing things have certainly happened for Jones. He became a three-time All Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference player while attending Lane College in Tennessee in 2003 and was drafted by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He was signed by NFL member club, the Baltimore Ravens, five years later in May 2012.\nDuring the 2012 NFL playoffs against the Denver Broncos, Jones caught a 70-yard touchdown pass with just 31 seconds of the game remaining. The play was dubbed the \"Mile High Miracle\" and was a game changer for the victorious Ravens. Then, in Super Bowl XLVII against the San Francisco 49ers, Jones scored a receiving touchdown and return touchdown. During the second half of the game, he returned the opening kickoff for a 108-yard touchdown. It was the longest play in Super Bowl history; the Ravens won the game and Jones was awarded his first Super Bowl ring.\nAbout First Down Funding\nFirst Down Funding has a large selection of merchant services designed to help with a business's needs, whether they need funding for payroll, to hire staff, buy equipment, or to purchase inventory. They offer creative solutions tailored to a business's unique requirements and provide alternative business financing as well as advice.\nThe application process is straightforward; an applicant completes an online application; a loan specialist from First Down Funding gets in touch; and then funding is arranged. First Down Funding approves 95% of all business applications and many applicants are pre-approved just minutes after they complete the 30-second on-line form.\nImage Available: http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/library\/MwGo\/2017\/3\/9\/11G132677\/Images\/BRP_9638-d4a10df87de680b585018d7dc55deeda.jpg\nImage Available: http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/library\/MwGo\/2017\/3\/9\/11G132677\/Images\/BRP_9646-7d21d394672d888e92780713ed9d12bd.jpg\nImage Available: http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/library\/MwGo\/2017\/3\/9\/11G132677\/Images\/SI-2c49203f6f8e88ee9f45b5f74b6feb61.jpg\nImage Available: http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/library\/MwGo\/2017\/3\/9\/11G132677\/Images\/BRP_9637-4877859441728ccb8c1be310b820e060.jpg\nFirst Down Funding\nWebsite: www.firstdownfunding.com\nOffice (866) 644 1353\nSales (202) 719 2750\nCustomer Service (202) 350 9053\nEmail info@firstdownfunding.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Deal imports American bottom-line accounting to Italy's Catholic churches\nA new church management program founded between an American and a Roman university will train church workers in ethics and managing finances. CNS photo\/Toru Hanai, Reuters\nBy Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service\nVATICAN CITY - A number of Catholic parishes in Italy are set for a management overall, following a new training program launched May 5 between the Villanova School of Business in the United States and the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.\nThe deal signed between the two universities will see Villanova bring educators from its Center for Church Management and Business Ethics to the classroom in Rome.\nThe new program will bring a measure of American financial savvy to Italy's notoriously murky Church finances, dovetailing with Pope Francis' push for reform and transparency, especially when it comes to Church bank accounts.\nStudents at the Pontifical Lateran University's new School of Pastoral Management will also receive online training from Villanova, in addition to the chance to take part in a one-week summer program at Villanova's main campus in suburban Philadelphia.\nCharles Zech, director of the Center for Church Management and Business Ethics at Villanova, said pupils would benefit from his team's 11-year experience of running such programs.\n\"They're all aimed at improving Church management; it's a real problem that parishes aren't better run,\" he said after a signing ceremony to mark the partnership.\nThe first students to attend Rome's School of Pastoral Management began their training in February and are due to visit the U.S. campus in April 2016. The collaboration will see Villanova faculty teach modules starting next February, after which Zech anticipated seeing an immediate impact.\n\"The nicest thing I've heard is pastors who have students in the program, who say: 'Our Church workers learn something in the class one week, then they apply it in our parish the following week.' So we have immediate applicability to the things we're teaching,\" he said.\nBefore Villanova professors arrive in Rome, pupils will this fall learn how to assess the needs of the communities they serve. After studying areas such as ethics and precisely how to start a pastoral service, they will be trained in managing financial resources.\nGiulio Carpi, director of the School of Pastoral Management in Rome, said the course was designed to improve the handling of both economic and human resources. \"There's a great need today to have better management in churches,\" he said, adding that Europe had perhaps fallen behind the United States in this regard.\nAfter speaking to pupils in Rome, Zech agreed that there were significant differences in the way parishes are run in the United States and Italy. \"A lot of the concepts that I took for granted were foreign to the students, they didn't understand what I was referring to,\" he said, using \"pledging,\" or planned annual financial giving, as one example of a fundraising technique unheard of in Rome.\n\"Promising that at the beginning of the year I will contribute a certain number of dollars over the year \u2014 many of the students in the program found that to be a strange concept,\" Zech said.\nHe chalked the knowledge gap up to the lack of state funding for churches in the United States, meaning church managers had to diversify the way they raised money. \"In Italy that's not the case,\" Zech noted, \"but it might be someday.\"\nWhile the pupils had much to learn from Villanova, Capri noted that change was already underway in Italy. He said the papacy of Pope Francis \u2014 who has pushed for an overhaul of the Vatican administration \u2014 has sped up the reform process in Rome.\n\"Certainly the Holy Father has prompted a great acceleration from this point of view. Two years ago an exercise like this would probably have been more difficult,\" he said.\nCapri has high hopes for a new and global generation of church managers, with both laypeople and clergymen currently taking the Pontifical Lateran University course. \"In the first edition, we already have four countries represented. The second edition will be at the international level, in English, Spanish and Italian,\" he said, adding that people had already signed up to take the next available seats in the classroom.\nPontifical Lateran University\nlay people\nPope invites young people to pledge to build a new economy\nPope: Without Holy Spirit, dioceses can become worldly businesses\nMorals, taxes do not mix well: Jesuit economist\nCloudy future facing corporate watchdog\nIndian bishop, guard hospitalized after 'planned attack' by parishioners\nMore in this category: \u00ab Vatican unveils logo, prayer, details of Holy Year of Mercy\tPope Francis to meet Raul Castro ahead of Cuba visit \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bryan Ferry Announces North America Dates on 'Avalon' Tour\nBryan Ferry will revisit Roxy Music's 1982 album 'Avalon' in 18 cities across North America.\n30 Years Ago: Bryan Ferry Returns With More Upbeat 'Bete Noire'\nAs with so much of Bryan Ferry's career, 'Bete Noire' took longer than he'd ever imagined.\nNick DeRiso\nRoxy Music and Bryan Ferry Albums Ranked in Order of Awesomeness\nIn a way, Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry are inseparable, even though the band and its singer have taken slightly different career paths over the past four decades.\nMichael Gallucci\n40 Years Ago: Bryan Ferry Ditches the Covers for 'In Your Mind'\nWith Roxy Music on an extended break, Bryan Ferry wrote a batch of original songs for his fourth solo LP, 'In Your Mind,' released in February 1977.\nBryan Wawzenek\n40 Years Ago: Bryan Ferry Vows 'Let's Stick Together'\nIn September 1976, Bryan Ferry released his third solo album. 'Let's Stick Together' featured covers of various songs, including ones by his band, Roxy Music.\nNew Bryan Ferry Album to Feature Johnny Marr, Flea + More\nWhile still touring North America, the one and only Bryan Ferry has just announced details for his new album, 'Avonmore.'\nMichael Haskoor\n69 Times Rock Music Made 'Stranger Things' Even Stranger\nThe Best Song From Every Radiohead Album\nThe Best Song From Every David Bowie Album\nWho's Next? A Look at the Next Five Years of Rock Hall Candidates\nThe Best Song From Every Pearl Jam Album\nFrom Tragedy to Lucky Escapes: Rock's Lockerbie Bombing Stories\nThe Cure Albums Ranked Worst to Best","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Afghan forces free 100 prisoners from Taliban jail\nBy The Frontier Post | June 1, 2018 | 0\nMonitoring Desk LASHKARGAH: Afghan commando forces freed more than 100 prisoners from Taliban jails in the Kajaki district, Helmand, they said. The ANA commandoes raided two Taliban jails in Sur Karez and Deh Baba aeas of Kajaki district and freed 103 hostages including five women and two children from the jails, said Abdul Qadar Bahadarzoi,\u2026\nAbdullah, Khanna confer on security cooperation\nMonitoring Desk KABUL: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah and visiting Indian Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) Rajinder Khanna have discussed security and regional situation. The CEO office said on Thursday Abdullah hailed India's assistance to Afghanistan and praised relations between the two countries as strong and based on shared cultural values. Khanna assured closer\u2026\nGovt forces retake Dasht Kala district centre from Taliban\nMonitoring Desk KUNDUZ: Afghan officials claimed that Taliban suffered defeat at all fronts in the recent clashes in Dasht Kala and Khwaja Bahuddin districts of northeastern Takhar province. The Taliban fighters overrun the Dasht Kala district and conducted attacks in Khwaja Bahuddin district but retreated after making some advancement at both the fronts. Asmatullah Qurbani,\u2026\n1,000 Afghan returnees given carpet-weaving tools\nMonitoring Desk JALALABAD: The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) on Thursday distributed carpet-weaving equipment to 1,000 Afghans who recently returned from Pakistan to eastern Nangarhar province. The tools were distributed to carpet-weavers at a special ceremony at the governor's house in Jalalabad. Besides Governor Hayatullah Hayat, a number other officials attended the event.\u2026\nPMEX index closes at 3,503 points\nF.P. Report KARACHI: Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited's commodity Index on Wednesday closed at 3,503 points; with traded value of metals, energy and COTS\/FX recorded at 5.790 billion. The number of lots traded was 9,613, said PMEX release on Thursday. (The data is compiled and released after 24 hours). Major business was contributed by currencies through\u2026\nNearly 8m foreigners visit Turkey in Jan-April\nMonitoring Desk ANKARA: Nearly 7.8 million foreigners visited Turkey in the first four months of 2018, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced on Thursday. The ministry said that the figure rose by 32.55 percent on a yearly basis, up from 5.87 million in January-April last year. Istanbul, Turkey's largest city by population and one of\u2026\nEurozone inflation leaps to 1.9% in May: Eurostat\nMonitoring Desk BRUSSELS: Inflation in the eurozone leaped to the ECB's target in May, data showed on Thursday, fuelled by a huge increase in oil prices as the US decided to pull out of a nuclear deal with Iran. The EU's statistics authority, Eurostat, said inflation in the eurozone jumped to 1.9 percent in May,\u2026\nEU cigarette production down in 2016\nMonitoring Desk ANKARA: Cigarette production in the European Union dropped by 36 billion items to 527 billion in 2016, Eurostat said on Thursday. Production is therefore down a third, or almost 300 billion cigarettes, from 2006, the report stressed. The report said: \"In 2016, the EU's production was equivalent to more than 1,000 cigarettes, or\u2026\nABL asset management launches ABL Islamic asset allocation fund\nF.P. Report KARACHI: ABL Asset Management is pleased to announce the launch of ABL Islamic Asset Allocation Fund (ABLIAAF), an open-end Shariah Compliant Asset Allocation Scheme. ABLIAAF provides an ideal opportunity for investors to generate competitive returns through a mix of Shariah Compliant fixed income and equity investments. The fund is now open for subscription.\u2026\nHow will US withdrawal from nuclear deal affect Iran?\nSelim Celal On May 8, 2018, the US withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which had been signed in 2015 between Iran and P5+1 group of world powers \u2014 the US, the UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany. According to the pact, the Islamic Republic agreed to freeze its nuclear activities till\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Literary Analysis with 7 sources on William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily\nThe representation of death and decay, involving the house, the town, and Emily herself are shown through her relationships with the male characters of the story. Emily symbolizes the victimized generation in South America after the civil war. She also stands as a metaphor of changes in womanhood and the society. This paper is a critical appreciation of the story. The central character in the story, Emily Grierson, stands as a symbol, representing a tradition. She is given the responsibility of upholding that tradition. The unknown narrator in the story calls her a fallen monument. Faulkner deliberately takes a woman to represent a fading tradition. Her emotions are shaped by her community which is responsible for creating such female victims. As Abby H. P. Weslock has written in her brief note on feminism, A feminist critique, however, reveals Emily as a casualty of patriarchy and literally of her own father and lover (Abby 245). She is both an idol and a victim because she is admired for keeping the tradition and also victimized for doing her duty. At the surface level, the story is about death, murder, and the changes in the social conditions during a transition period in America. However, at the bottom level, the theme is love and passion. Emily very desperately needs a man. Her passions were suppressed by the conventions of her society in which she lived, and she had absolutely no control over the situations. The narrator comments that even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized (Faulkner). The only white light in her life is seen when Baron steps in, but that too does not last. The denial of this only chance drives her into insanity, turning her into a murderer. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, points out the narrator (Faulkner). Emily, therefore, lives as a representative of those who made her pace between social obligations and physical passion. She is a fine example showing how one's passions turn into psychic illness. In short, her case is that of necrophilia. The attitudes of the people in the town serves as a contrast to Emily's options in her life: she is a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town (Faulkner). In other words, the attitudes of the people are patriarchal. Emily lives an isolated life, no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier (Faulkner). It is important to note that her miseries are not the result of her actions in life. In fact, she has no choice to act. The imagery used by the narrator to show the quantum of her isolation is: She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water (Faulkner). The story can, therefore, be called a sexist text, because, basically it deals with the victimization of female sex. However, the narrator remains neutral to the old and new attitudes, leaving the readers to decide who wins, whether man or Emily. Robert Crosman observes that If there is a battle between the sexes in A Rose for Emily, the reader must decide who wins (Robert 361). Faulkner thus very cleverly involves the readers too with his skilful narrative techniques for judging Emily's actions in the old mansion. A second closer look at how the tradition of patriarchy has made her insane is imperative. The story, A Rose for Emily\nPrevious Previous post: Marys Concept of Social Evil and Humanization of the Monster\nNext Next post: Trauma Narratives and Treatment","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gary Goodpaster\nGary Goodpaster, Professor Emeritus of Law at UC Davis, died on November 1, 2012.He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and spent his childhood there. At a very early age, he acknowledged in himself a yearning to excel and to rise above his origins. He entered the seminary after grade school, but realized he did not want to be a priest. Following high school, he was appointed to the first class of the U.S. Air Force Academy; finding that he did not want a military career, he resigned after two years and began to pursue a life of the mind.In June 1958, Gary married his high school sweetheart, Gracie, and enrolled in Indiana University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key and received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study philosophy at Columbia University in New York. At the end of the fellowship, he enrolled in the Indiana University School of Law.Receiving his J.D. degree, Gary took a position as the law clerk to Chief Judge John Hastings in Chicago. He was invited to join the law faculty of the University of Iowa two years later. While at the university, he took a leave of absence to serve as a law and poverty lawyer at Colorado Rural Legal Services in Boulder.In 1971, Gary joined the faculty at the recently opened Martin Luther King Jr. Law School at UC Davis. During his tenure at Davis, Gary worked for three summers as a Criminal Trial Attorney for Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. He also served as Chief Assistant State Public Defender, setting up and managing the new state Public Defender's Office. He took a year's leave of absence to teach at the University of Hong Kong Law School under a Fulbright Award.In 1992, Gary became involved in international development consulting, focusing on a broad array of legal and economic concerns: governance reform; decentralization; development project design; law and legal system reform; and a comprehensive list of other development interests. As part of this work, Gary taught the first negotiation skills course to select faculty at the University of Indonesia Law School, a course that became the seed of negotiation skills training courses in many Indonesian law schools. On two leaves of absence from Davis, he was Chief of Party for two major law and economics projects in Indonesia.Upon retirement from UC Davis, Gary continued his international development work ' as a consultant to USAID, the Asia Foundation, and numerous other groups ' working for the most part on short-term projects in Afghanistan, East Timor, Egypt, Mongolia, the Philippines and Zambia. In 2005, he taught for a semester at the Johns Hopkins University International School in Nanjing, China.Gary wrote two books, one on constitutional law and one on negotiation and dispute resolution. The latter was translated into Bahasa Indonesia, and it became the standard negotiation skills text in many Indonesian law schools. He also wrote many academic articles. The Human Arts of Lawyering: Interviewing and Counseling\" was ground-breaking, one of the first in the then-nascent field of academic writing on the teaching of lawyering skills. \"The Trial for Life: Effective Assistance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases\" was a major article aimed at establishing the basic law on this issue, and it received acclaim from lawyers and judges working on death penalty cases.Throughout his life, Gary was compelled by an endless, restless striving ' for knowledge, for excellence, for understanding, for the transcendent. He read constantly, investigating deeply and broadly all of the leading currents of thought. He travelled the world over, and involved himself thoroughly in the lives of the people whose countries he visited.He responded to a deep sense of adventurousness and inquisitiveness, and gave form to his curiosity by taking photographs. Over the course of many decades, he honed his photographic skill, sharpened his observing eye, and amassed an impressive catalog of marvelous fine art and travel photographs. In the force of his intellect, the depth of his integrity, his progressive views, and his profound, comprehensive knowledge, Gary was admired, respected and loved by all who had the opportunity to know him.Gary died at home surrounded by his family. He is survived by wife Gracie; sons Jude, Blaise and Adam; daughter Jessica; daughters-in-law MaiAnh, Stacie and Gina; grandchildren Joaquin, Maisha, Kai, Cody and Mari; sister Yolanda, nieces Nicole and nephew Victor.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Justin Masterson\nMonday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: Justin Masterson vs. Wei-Yin Chen\nFollowing Sunday's loss to the Orioles, the Red Sox have surrendered sole possession of first place and now are tied with Baltimore for the top spot. Boston has a chance to end its two-game mini-skid in a Marathon Monday series finale when Justin Masterson takes the mound for the Sox and Wei-Yin Chen gets the ball for the O's. Masterson got a no-decision after lasting 4 2\/3 innings against the Nationals on Tuesday. Though he allowed seven runs, walking three and striking out four, the Red Sox were able to give him run support and edge out Washington in an 8-7 victory. \"Didn't have his best stuff overall,\" said manager John Farrell. \"I thought he threw enough strikes early on to keep away from a big inning, and then it seemed like the stuff kind of ran out of gas a little bit with a couple of walks in that fifth inning -- where multiple baserunners and a pitch up on the plate, where they're able to start chipping away.\" Despite the outcome, Masterson is confident in what he brings as a pitcher and knows that his most recent campaign is best viewed as a learning experience. \"We had some close balls. It is all a part of getting better and learning from it,\" he said. \"I have a lot of things we can continue on, some good, some bad to take into the next one. I think we'll be just fine.\" When tasked with taking on the Orioles, Masterson has a 6-6 record in 12 starts, appearing in 16 games, with a 5.53 ERA. With 71 2\/3 innings against Baltimore under his belt, Masterson is averaging 7.7 strikeouts per nine innings and has a 2.35 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Chen is no stranger his opposition, either. In 11 starts and 63 2\/3 innings of work facing Boston, the southpaw has a 4.24 ERA with a 5-3 record. Chen has given up six homers to the Sox, the fewest of any team he's started at least seven games against, but he's been letting them hit at a .307 clip in the meantime. In two starts in 2015, Chen has yet to earn a decision. He saw the Rays to open his season, striking out four and giving up three runs on four hits before being yanked 4 1\/3 innings in. The Orioles went on to win that game, 6-5. His second outing came against the Yankees on April 13 when he pitched six innings, giving up four hits again but allowing just two runs. New York was able to score four runs in the seventh inning, erasing Baltimore's 4-2 lead, and grab a 6-5 victory. Orioles vs. Masterson (RHP) Alejandro De Aza (38 plate appearances): .324 AVG\/.378 OBP\/.412 SLG, 1 home run, 4 RBI, 3 walks, 2 strikeouts Adam Jones (33): .250\/.364\/.429, 3 doubles, 1 triple, 3 RBI, 3 walks, 3 strikeouts Delmon Young (21): .150\/.143\/.200, 1 double, 2 RBI, 5 strikeouts Ryan Flaherty (11): .625\/.727\/1.125, 1 double, 1 home run, 4 RBI, 1 strikeout Manny Machado (9): .375\/.444\/.875, 1 double, 1 home run, 3 RBI, 1 strikeout Steve Clevenger (3): .500\/.667\/.500, 1 RBI, 1 walk Travis Snider (1): .000\/.000\/.000 Red Sox vs. Chen (LHP) Dustin Pedroia (30 plate appearances): .519 AVG\/.567 OBP\/.778 SLG, 5 doubles, 1 triple, 5 RBI, 3 walks, 2 strikeouts David Ortiz (24): .381\/.417\/.571, 1 double, 1 home run, 5 RBI, 2 walks, 4 strikeouts Mike Napoli (18): .176\/.222\/.588, 1 double, 2 home runs, 2 RBI, 1 walk, 5 strikeouts Daniel Nava (17): .438\/.471\/.625, 1 home run, 3 RBI, 1 walk, 4 strikeouts Shane Victorino (12): .400\/.500\/.700, 1 home run, 2 RBI, 1 walk, 1 strikeout Xander Bogaerts (11): .300\/.364\/.600, 1 home run, 1 RBI, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts Ryan Hanigan (11): .111\/.273\/.444, 1 home run, 2 RBI, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts Brock Holt (6): .000\/.000\/.000, 1 RBI, 1 strikeout Mookie Betts (3): .000\/.000\/.000 Allen Craig (3): .000\/.000\/.000, 2 strikeouts Pablo Sandoval (3): .000\/.000\/.000\nWei-Yin Chen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cambodia Climate Change Alliance \u2013 Phase 3 (CCCA-III)\nPhoto: Manuth Buth\/UNDP Cambodia\nCambodia is a Least Developed Country, regularly ranked amongst the countries most vulnerable to climate change. This is due to a combination of its geography, relatively high reliance on agriculture, forestry and fisheries (30% of GDP) and low adaptive capacity resulting from the shortage of technically skilled human resources, institutional capacities and adaptation financing. Over 80% of the population live in rural areas and are overly exposed to increasing and more unpredictable floods and prolonged droughts. Unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and limited water management systems further compromise the coping strategies of rural communities and increase food security concerns. With urbanization and industrialization identified as major trends for the coming decade, additional climate change-related challenges are also emerging both in relation to adaptation and mitigation in urban areas.\nDifficulties in managing climate risks are aggravated by the minimal availability of reliable climate information. 42% of Cambodian communes are ranked as either vulnerable or highly vulnerable to climate change. Women and children are among the most vulnerable groups, but very little information is available on the distributional impacts of climate change in Cambodia. A recent study led by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the National Council for Sustainable Development indicated that without additional action, Cambodia's GDP could be almost 10% lower than planned by 2050, due to the impacts of climate change, with outdoor (agriculture, construction) and industry workers being particularly vulnerable to heat impacts.\nCambodia is a very small contributor to global GHG emissions (less than 0.1%), but the country is committed to contributing to mitigation actions in the context of rapid economic growth (7% per annum) and industrialization. This commitment is recent, and there is no roadmap yet to implement Cambodia's mitigation targets under its Nationally Determined Contribution. Recent public perception studies show that awareness of climate impacts and political support for climate action has increased in recent years.\nThe Cambodia Climate Change Alliance is a partnership between UNDP, Sweden, the European Union, and the government of Cambodia through the National Council for Sustainable Development. It has supported the climate change response in Cambodia since 2010 through a mix of technical assistance and financing for innovative projects on the ground. The third phase of support was launched in July 2019 for the period up to June 2024.\nKey Expected Outputs\nAt the impact level, the programme will contribute to a Cambodia development path that is increasingly climate-resilient and low carbon, measured by the level of GHG emissions reduced with programme support and the number of beneficiaries of adaptation measures supported by the programme.\nMore specifically, the programme will contribute to a scaled-up response to climate change, with a focus on coordinating institutions (National Council for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Economy and Finance), and five strategic sector ministries (environment, public works and transport, rural development, mines and energy, and education, youth and sports).\nThis will be done through the achievement of three main outcomes:\nOutcome 1: Relevant climate information is generated in a reliable and timely manner, suitable to sectors and targeting specific needs.\nOutcome 2: Tools are developed and implemented for the effective mainstreaming of climate change into policies, regulatory frameworks, programmes and budgets of priority sectors.\nOutcome 3: National capacities for the mobilizing, coordinating and tracking of public and private climate change resources are strengthened.\nAchievements to Date\nThe main achievement for the CCCA3 in 2020 was the successful support of the preparation of the Cambodia updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which was submitted to the UNFCCC. The new document improves on the first NDC in several ways, including a much more extensive consultation process with ministries, civil society, development partners, and the private sector, resulting in better alignment with sectoral strategies and targets, and ultimately more national ownership. The updated NDC also includes cross-sectoral issues such as youth, private sector engagement and gender. The CCCA3 supported the Department of Climate Change to coordinate extensive partnerships with World Bank, GGGI, UNWOMEN, UNICEF, UNDP, and the NDC Partnership to deliver this NDC update. The NDC presents an updated business as usual scenario and updated emissions reduction targets linked to a detailed list of mitigation actions. The AFOLU target is in line with the recently approved REDD+ strategy, and for the first time, renewable energy and energy efficiency targets for 2030 have been included. In 2021, the CCCA3 will focus on the NDC tracking systems and addressing data gaps for monitoring.\nThe Climate Change Action Plans (CCAPs) of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT), and the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) are finalized. The CCCA3 provided technical support to the process and recruited additional technical consultants to enhance the formulation of the plans, including harmonizing the process with the updated NDC process.\nThe vulnerability index and the indicator of people affected by extreme climate events have been updated with the data for 2017, 2018, and 2019 in collaboration with the NCDD Secretariat and using data from the commune database (CDB). The indicator related to GHG emissions (2016) is also updated on the official climate change data portal.\nRegarding the research partnerships supported by the CCCA3, three partnerships with the ITC, the University of Battambang (UBB[1]), and the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) are at the implementation stage. All partnerships include cooperation with international research institutions to build local capacities and are connected to government priorities, respectively impacts of heat on human health, climate-resilient agricultural soil management, and climate-resilient infrastructures.\nThe five target ministries (MME, MRD, MPWT, MoEYS, and MoE) are now implementing their respective CCCA-supported projects, focused on off-grid solar and energy efficiency, resilient water infrastructures, promotion of e-bikes, climate-resilient schools and improved monitoring of industrial GHG emissions.\n12 innovation grants have been funded to date and are currently ongoing in a variety of sectors, including but not limited to: energy efficiency in buildings, electric mobility and ride-sharing; climate-smart solutions for agriculture and livestock, climate-sensitive community forestry savings schemes, clean cooking solutions, and resilient access to drinking water in rural areas.\nProject start date:\nEstimated end date:\nFocus area:\naccelerate structural transformations\nProject office:\nUNDP in Cambodia\nImplementing partner:\nNatl Council Sustainable Dev.\nFull project information\nFunding Support by\nUnited Nations Development Pro\nSwedish International Development Cooperation (sida)\nCommonwealth & Development Office\nAmount contributed\nDelivery in previous fiscal year\n2021 $2,012,801\n2019 $637,958","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Consultation on FE maintenance loans launched\nJude Burke\nThu 24th Mar 2016, 15.55\nThe Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has today launched a long-awaited consultation into introducing maintenance loans for learners in FE.\nThe consultation, which closes on June 16, is around the premise of introducing loans for FE learners aged 19 and above at levels 4 to 6.\nThe aim of introducing the loans, the consultation document states, is to increase take-up of technical and professional learning, particularly at National Colleges and Institutes of Technology.\n\"The central proposition is for the introduction of maintenance loans on a par with the level of support available in higher education (HE) to support learners aged 19 plus undertaking level 4 to level 6 technical and professional learning (excluding apprenticeships) at specialist providers, including the new National Colleges, and longer term, at the emerging Institutes of Technology,\" the consultation states.\nThe loans are designed to make technical and professional learning \"accessible to the best learners, irrespective of their background or location\", the consultation states.\nThe government's assumption, the document goes on to say, is that the \"higher technical provision\" covered by the loans \"will primarily be delivered through National Colleges and Institutes of Technology.\nIntroducing loans would mean \"providing individuals with the choice to attend a college outside their local area, for example a National college or future Institute of Technology in another region\", the document states.\n\"We need to ensure that the incentives are there for National Colleges, the future Institutes of Technology, and other institutions to focus on delivering high quality vocational qualifications, while ensuring that learners can afford to take advantage of new opportunities even if they require living costs to be provided,\" it continues.\nIn his foreword to the consultation, Skills Minister Nick Boles says: \"This consultation is also about what more we can do to get the new National Colleges and the emerging Institutes of Technology off to a flying start.\"\nThe consultation also includes questions around eligibility for the maintenance loans, including whether they should be means-tested.\nThe government's intention is \"that the personal eligibility rules for FE maintenance loans would mirror the personal eligibility rules for HE maintenance loans\", the document states.\n\"As a guiding principle it is reasonable to assume that learners should be neither worse nor better off whether they choose to study in HE or FE,\" it continues.\nMartin Doel, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, questioned the focus on National Colleges and Institutes of Technology.\nMr Doel told FE Week: \"We have been pressing for many years for maintenance loans to be available to FE students and we can see that this proposal could serve to stimulate technical and professional education.\n\"But if the government is serious in its intention to promote technical and professional learning, it cannot be right to limit the loans an embryonic and pre-embryonic set of institutions,\" he said.\nPolicy consultant Mark Corney called the consultation \"potentially path-breaking\".\n\"The opportunity exists to breakdown the unfairness between maintenance support for full time and part time higher education and full time and part time adult professional and technical education,\" he said.\nMaintenance loans in FE were first announced as part of the government's spending review in November, as part of expanded package of loans for FE learners.\nThe consultation closes on June 16 and is available via the Gov.uk website.\nOfsted watch: Unimpressive week for new private providers\nMPs urge DfE to 'urgently' raise the 16-18 rate and develop a 10-year funding plan\nSix things we learned from the IfATE's 2018\/19 accounts\nHard to believe? Ofsted found apprentices and their employers did not know they were on the programme\nOfsted misses FE inspection target by more than 10%\nFormer principal of Bournville College was referred to police for operating fraudulently\nRevealed: Learner satisfaction scores for 2018\/19\nMichael Farmer\nNot before time. How will this work with Devolution?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"home | about | documents | news | publications | FOIA | research | internships | search | donate | mailing list\nPresident Barack Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea shake hands during their press conference at the Blue House in Seoul, Republic of Korea, March 25, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)\nReading the North Korean Tea Leaves: The Perpetual Struggle to Fathom Pyongyang's Motives and Goals\n\"Brinkmanship\" Seen As a \"Mainstay of the North's Negotiating Repertoire,\" Say State Department Records\n\"This Will Not Be a Situation Like the Iraq War,\" North Koreans Warned in 1994\nNational Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 421\nPosted \u2013 April 11, 2013\nEdited by Robert A. Wampler, PhD\nRobert A. Wampler, PhD 202\/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu\nFrom ForeignPolicy.com\nWill Chinese Troops Cross the Yalu?\nBy Robert A. Wampler, PhD, April 11, 2013\nRelated Archive Links\nHow Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea?\nSeeing human rights in the \"proper manner\"\nNorth Korea's Collapse?\nNorth Korea and the United States: Declassified Documents from the Bush I and Clinton Administrations\nNorth Korea and Nuclear Weapons: The Declassified U.S. Record\nWashington, D.C., April 11, 2013 \u2013 For decades, the erratic behavior of North Korea's enigmatic leaders has often masked a mix of symbolic and pragmatic motives, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive. During earlier crises, Kim Jong Un's father and grandfather postured and threatened the region in ways markedly similar to the behavior of the new leader, the records show.\nWhile the current Kim is acting even more stridently in some cases, the documents reveal a past pattern characterized by bellicose conduct. In 1994, for instance, North Korean military officers threatened the U.S. with a possible preemptive strike if circumstances called for it: \"This will not be a situation like the Iraq war,\" U.S. officials were told. \"We will not give you time to collect troops around Korea to attack us.\" Yet American analysts believed during these earlier episodes that Pyongyang's tone was aimed less at stoking hostilities than advancing a combination of practical objectives \u2013 from pushing the international community to accept North Korea's position, to playing for time, to bolstering the leader's political position at home.\nToday's posting provides a window into prior efforts to penetrate beneath North Korea's shrill rhetoric to understand the logic, political dynamics and ultimate objectives underlying Pyongyang's repeated threats against the U.S. and South Korea. Obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, mostly from the State Department, these records describe events during the 1990s (the Clinton presidency) with notable echoes in the current crisis. Additional cables made public by WikiLeaks (Documents 12-14) take the story up to the Obama administration and provide assessments of Kim Jong Un himself.\nThe documents from 1994-95, which saw the first nuclear crisis with North Korea and the death of Kim Il Sung, include excerpts from the morning intelligence summaries prepared for the secretary of state that seek to assess the factors and interests driving such developments as:\nNorth Korea's initial response to U.S. plans to station Patriot missiles in North Korea, deemed by Pyongyang to be an \"unpardonable grave military challenge.\" This step was viewed as typical: \"to record its strong opposition without committing itself to any particular line of action while it sorts out its options.\" (Document 1)\nThe deepening crisis in 1994 over the North's nuclear weapons program, and confrontations over inspections of North Korea's nuclear facilities. One document records a frank warning from North Korean military officials during a meeting at Panmunjon: \"this will not be a situation like the Iraq war. We will not give you time to collect troops around Korea to attack us. We will not attack the South first, but if it is clear you are going to attack, then we will attack.\" Another document provides a fascinating evaluation of how China might respond to the outbreak of war on the peninsula should the nuclear crisis escalate. (Documents 2, 3 and 11)\nPyongyang's withdrawal nearly 20 years ago from the Military Armistice Commission (MAC). The North described the MAC as part of the \"useless\" armistice. U.S. diplomats saw the issue as possibly tied to the leadership succession in Pyongyang, as Kim Jong Il was North Korea's \"supreme commander\" and needed to be seen as directing any military negotiations. (Documents 4, 5, 9 and 10); and\nThe implications for North Korean policies of the death of Kim Il Sung and the prolonged consolidation of Kim Jong Il in power, a delay caused in part by Kim's health problems. This led INR to conclude that \"Kim Jong Il will have to make some leadership changes soon, to root out pockets of opposition and to put his own stamp on his regime.\" (Documents 6, 7 and 8)\nThree additional documents from 2009-2010, originally made public by WikiLeaks, provide reports from the U.S. embassy in Seoul about:\nThe possible motivations and goals behind the \"rapid deterioration\" in inter-Korea relations since the election of conservative Lee Myung Bak as president. Lee had begun turning away from the policy of engagement with North Korea followed by his predecessors (Documents 12 and 13). As the cables report, Pyongyang was motivated to drive home its conviction that it, not Seoul, called the shots on the peninsula. The embassy stressed, however, \"the apathy \u2013 even nonchalance \u2013 with which the ROK public has reacted to the DPRK's blasts. They see the DPRK as an object of pity, and the heightened North Korea rhetoric as a sign of distress rather than a realistic threat;\" and\nA discussion between former Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and South Korean officials and scholars on the prospects for the post-Kim Jong Il leadership (Document 14). The latter provides interesting assessments of Kim Jong Un's background and possible challenges to his claim to the leadership position, particularly from his brother-in-law, Jang Song Taek. The State Department viewed these in light of three alleged coup attempts against Kim Jong Il in the late 1990s.\nNot since the first Clinton administration, when the U.S. seriously considered military options to counter Pyongyang's nuclear weapons ambitions, have North Korea's rhetoric and actions seemed to carry such potentially grave consequences, intended or not. North Korea has pronounced the 1953 armistice null and void, declared the Korean peninsula in a state of war, closed the Kaesong inter-Korean industrial complex, warned other governments to evacuate their embassies in Pyongyang due to the threat of war, announced it is restarting nuclear processing facilities to support production of nuclear weapons, and making preparations to test a medium-range missile from the east coast of North Korea, possibly on the anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth. South Korea \u2013 all in response to the imposition of new UN economic sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for its recent nuclear weapons test.\nWhile many if not most observers believe these actions are driven at heart by North Korea's persistent demand to be taken seriously by the U.S. and to engage in direct talks with Washington about such key topics as a final peace settlement for the peninsula, political recognition and economic assistance, (not to mention solidifying Kim Jong Un's leadership position with the military), these analysts also stress the potential for miscalculation by the young, untested North Korean leader. Current efforts to assess Kim Jong Un's personality and rationality can be viewed against the background of prior such efforts, discussed in these documents, which provide something of a baseline for seeing how far he may be departing from what has been taken as \"normal\" for North Korea.\nDocument 1: DPRK - Reaction to Patriots, The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, January 29, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nSource: FOIA\nThis assessment looks at how North Korea might react to reports that the U.S. planned to deploy Patriot missiles in South Korea. Pyongyang's initial response is characterized as typical: \"to record its strong opposition without committing itself to any particular line of action while it sorts out its options.\" Looking at an unattributed commentary issued by North Korea, the analysis notes that while the Patriot plan is called an \"unpardonable grave military challenge,\" no direct threats have yet been issued. North Korea's precise reactions will turn on future events, i.e., actual deployment of the missiles, or an announcement of the start of the Team Spirit joint military exercises.\nDocument 2: China: Potential Response to Korean Contingencies, DIA Special Report, January 31, 1994 (Secret)\nThis DIA analysis examines possible Chinese responses in different Korean contingencies related to North Korea's nuclear weapons program: the imposition of UN economic sanctions, and a military confrontation with North Korea. The report notes that Beijing faces special problems in dealing with Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. They need to \"reconcile their interest in stability on the Korean Peninsula and long-standing ties to Pyongyang with their interests in a denuclearized peninsula, in avoiding isolation among UN Security Council (SC) members, and in maintaining stable relations with the US, Japan and South Korea.\" In the event of economic sanctions, China would likely work to ameliorate the impact on North Korea, with the primary goal of preventing a political crisis growing out of North Korea's economic collapse. If Pyongyang attacked South Korea, China would likely want to avoid giving military support and would work for an end to hostilities. Finally, if a broader war erupts involving US and South Korean forces, China likely would not respond with aggressive military action, but would take steps to secure its border and might consider deploying Chinese forces across the Yalu River to forestall the loss of all of North Korea to US and South Korea forces.\nDocument 3: DPRK: Hoping for Best, Bracing for Worst; The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, March 29, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nThis assessment comes as the crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons program is deepening. The analysis argues that Pyongyang was surprised at how quickly the situation deteriorated with the US over the nuclear issue, and seemed to believe that the crisis was moving toward war. During what are described as cordial recent talks at Panmunjon, the North Koreans still presented with \"remarkable frankness\" the possibility of a pre-emptive attack by Pyongyang: \"this will not be a situation like the Iraq war. We will not give you time to collect troops around Korea to attack us. We will not attack the South first, but if it is clear you are going to attack, then we will attack.\" There is also a possible internal political angle, as Kim Jong Il, who is closely associated with the negotiations with the U.S. on the nuclear issue, may be anxious to demonstrate he has not been \"taken in\" by Washington and can stand up to outside pressure.\nDocument 4: Cable, Seoul 03560 to SecState, Subject: North Korea Unilaterally Declares Military Armistice Commission (MAC) \"Useless,\" Calls for \"New Peace System,\" April 28, 1994 (Secret)\nThis cable reports a statement North Korea presented to the Military Armistice Commission (MAC) that declared the armistice had become \"useless\" and that the Korean People's Army (KPA) was going to cease participation in all MAC activities, would not recognize UNC participation in MAC functions, and that the KPA Supreme Command would deal directly with US Army representatives at Panmunjon to discuss military issues, including a new peace agreement. The South Korean Foreign Ministry's reaction to this announcement was calm, viewing it as a \"step in a very familiar pattern.\" The US embassy in Seoul recommends taking a similarly calm approach, stressing there has been no change in the military situation on the peninsula, rejecting Pyongyang's claim that the armistice was \"abrogated\" by US actions such as the planned deployment of Patriot missiles, and refusing to negotiate bilaterally with North Korea a new arrangement to replace the armistice.\nDocument 5: DPRK: New Arrangements; The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, April 29, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nHere, INR gives its initial read on North Korea's actions regarding the armistice reported on in the cable above. The move to do away with the armistice is seen as one of Pyongyang's central goals, one which it has pursued with additional diligence since the appointment of an ROK general as the UN Command's MAC member in 1991. The move is also seen as possibly tied to the leadership succession in Pyongyang, as Kim Jong Il is North Korea's \"supreme commander\" and needs to be seen as directing any military negotiations.\nDocument 6: DPRK: Death of Kim Il Sung; The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, July 9, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nIn its early comment on the rise of Kim Jong Il to lead North Korea, INR notes that the new leader is not an unknown factor: he had been in charge of most affairs in North Korea for years, and had been taking credit and \"calling the shots\" for the third round of US-DPRK talks on the nuclear issue.\nDocument 7: DPRK: Not Much Movement; The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, July 23, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nHere, INR continues its assessments of the power succession in North Korea, examining the usual signs that Kim Jong Il is moving to solidify his position as the new leader, but notes there is no information, positive or negative, to judge the security of his position inside the North Korean leadership. Statements in the party-controlled press have warned against \"the slightest attempt to damage\" Kim Il Sung's accomplishments, which suggest that the policy of engagement with the U.S. begun under him will continue to receive support from the new leadership. On the other hand, because of South Korea's perceived disrespectful response to the elder Kim's death, prospects for a North-South summit seem diminished, if only for the moment.\nDocument 8: DPRK: Slow-Motion Succession; The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, August 25, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nINR continues to sift the tea leaves on Kim Jong Il's leadership position, as health issues and signs of other \"forces at work\" seem to be delaying consolidation of his succession. Kim's health issues, reportedly including diabetes, have resulted in his prolonged public absence during a critical time, during which a leadership debate has seemed to reopen on two crucial policy areas: reunification and the economy. All in all, the INR analysts conclude that \"Kim Jong Il will have to make some leadership changes soon, to root out pockets of opposition and to put his own stamp on his regime.\"\nDocument 9: China\/DPRK: MAC \"Recall;\" The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, September 2, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nINR reports here on Beijing's decision, apparently made with little enthusiasm and only to signal support for Kim Jong Il, to recall its delegation from the Military Armistice Commission, inactive since North Korea rescinded its participation in April 1994 (see Documents 4 and 5 above). In reviewing this step, INR again tries to probe the motivations for North Korea's decision to withdraw from the MAC: while these steps were personally identified with Kim Jong Il, it was unclear whether they were tied into the next round of US-DPRK talks or to a longer-range strategy related to broader questions of peace and security on the peninsula after the nuclear issue has been resolved. Even after withdrawing from the MAC, Pyongyang stressed that it would continue to abide by the essential provisions of the armistice.\nDocument 10: DPRK: Raising the Armistice Issue; The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, September 10, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nINR continues to probe and weigh the likely motivations behind North Korea's decision to replace the 1953 armistice with a new agreement, a step that INR believes is driven by practical and symbolic reasons. In taking this step, Pyongyang seems to be sensitive to South Korea's concerns, being both willing to play on these concerns for tactical reasons and aware that it is not realistic to exclude South Korea from any peace process. Internally, there are signs that the North Korean leadership reasoned that tangible changes in relations with the US would give pragmatists in the leadership leverage to carry out changes in economic and foreign policy. In moving slowly and carefully to dismantle the MAC machinery, it seems that North Korea does not want to destabilize the situation but does want the US to focus on the question of a new peace agreement.\nDocument 11: North Korea: \"No\" to Special Inspections; The Secretary's Morning Intelligence Summary, INR, September 28, 1994 (Top Secret\/Codeword)\nA particularly sharp escalation in North Korean rhetoric, issued in a rare, toughly worded public statement by the Ministry of People's Armed Forces regarding the negotiations over inspection of North Korea's nuclear facilities, provides the occasion for another INR attempt to read the tea leaves. The North Korean broadside accused the U.S. of looking for the opportunity to build up its forces on the peninsula \"behind the curtain of talks,\" and of resorting to military threats, including operations of the USS Kitty Hawk and Independence in the waters around Korea. INR saw this statement as a challenge to members of the leadership who supported talks with the US, as the ministry's statement echoed traditional, hard-line rhetoric referring to the military's mission \"to protect the socialist fatherland with guns, not words.\" While INR saw the tough statement as a reaction to perceived pressure by the US and believed it might be targeted as much at the domestic audience as at the US, analysts thought it might also signify leadership differences coming to a head, and in a more visible fashion given the slow pace of the leadership succession. Regardless of these contending factors, \"brinkmanship is a mainstay of the North's negotiating repertoire,\" and a manufactured crisis may in the end force the US to agree to a better deal.\nDocument 12: Cable, Seoul 000062 to SecState, Subject: North-South Rhetoric: A Year of Chill, January 13, 2009 (Confidential)\nSource: Wikileaks\nThis cable provides the U.S. embassy's assessment of the \"rapid deterioration\" in inter-Korea relations since the election of conservative Lee Myung Bak as ROK president a year earlier. (This begs comparison to the situation in 2013 confronting the new South Korea leader Park Geun Hye, daughter of long-time South Korean leader Park Chung Hee.) As the embassy sees it, Lee's decision to rewrite the ground rules of inter-Korea relations (established over the past ten years by his predecessors Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Dae Jung, and marked by the deliberate cutting off of all North-South contacts), demanded a strong response to demonstrate that Pyongyang is still calling the shots. Seoul's response has been \"calm, even nonchalant,\" a position which enjoys significant public support. The cable provides a good summary of the back-and-forth between Seoul and Pyongyang over the past year. In its closing comments, the embassy observes that \"The North greeted Lee Myung-bak, as it has done with other past ROK presidents, with hostility and bluster.\" but the cables author also notes that Pyongyang observed a certain etiquette, such warning Seoul several times before placing restrictions on border crossings.\nDocument 13: Cable, Seoul 000186 to SecState, Subject: Heated DPRK Rhetoric Gets Cool ROK Reaction, February 5, 2009 (Confidential)\nThis cable reports on the South Korean reaction to recent North Korean statements \"nullifying\" past inter-Korean agreements. Pyongyang's comments seemed designed to increase tensions among South Koreans, though that was not the result so far, based on talks at Blue House, the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and Unification. Here, Pyongyang's \"increasingly shrill\" rhetoric is seen as a \"desperate, but ineffective\" effort to persuade ROK President Lee to change the South's policies on North-South relations (see cable above). The embassy also views the North's statement as a \"plea for attention\" from the new Obama administration. One concern voiced in the cable is that once the DRPK runs out of \"rhetorical cards\" to play, it may need to resort to a military provocation at sea or along the DMZ. The embassy also believes it unlikely that Pyongyang will close the Kaesong Industrial Complex, given the North's continued encouragement of business there in late 2008. In its comment, the embassy stresses \"the apathy \u2013 even nonchalance \u2013 with which the ROK public has reacted to the DPRK's blasts. They see the DPRK as an object of pity, and the heightened North Korea rhetoric as a sign of distress rather than a realistic threat.\"\nDocument 14: Cable, Seoul 000248 to SecState, Subject: A\/S Campbell Discusses DP\nRK Future with Experts, February 18, 2010 (C)\nThis embassy cable reports on a meeting that Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell held with five South Korean opinion leaders and experts about future prospects in North Korea, where \"regime succession\" was fully underway to prepare for the post-Kim Jong Il era. Here, Campbell hears that it is difficult to predict if Kim Jong Un will be able to succeed his father, Kim Jong Il, without \"sparking instability\" in North Korea. There is disagreement among the experts about Kim Jong Un's ability to secure the support of the ruling elites, with some arguing that his brother-in-law, Jang Song Taek, who has been spearheading the succession drive, could prove a strong rival and would probably be tempted to challenge him. Such coups were not unprecedented, as Kim Jong Il had foiled three such attempts in the late 1990s. Doubts are also expressed about Kim Jong Un's lack of experience, compared to his father who had twenty years of experience as an official of the Korean Worker's Party before his father died, as well as the benefit of years of guidance from Kim Jong Il after being officially named his father's successor in 1980. Finally, the experts agree that a critical factor is Beijing's obsession with North Korean stability at all costs.\nContents of this website Copyright 1995-2017 National Security Archive. All rights reserved.\nTerms and conditions for use of materials found on this website.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rogue Sonoma County cannabis grows costing state $1.5M to clean - By Christina Molcillo \u2013 Emerald Report\nAssembly member Jim Wood (D- Healdsburg) has just announced that the administration is providing $1.5 million in the state budget to fund environmental cleanup of illegal cannabis grow sites in Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino Counties. \"Our beautiful pristine forests have become havens for these illegal grow sites,\" said Mr. Wood, who represents these North Coast counties. \"These illegitimate growers have continued to ignore not only state laws for farming cannabis, but have left these sites ravaged by lethal chemicals, clear-cutting and thousands of pounds of trash.\"\nGov. Brown earmarks $1.5M for cleanup of Emerald Triangle marijuana grow sites \u2013 Redwood Times - By Will Houston\nCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown is earmarking $1.5 million in his May revise budget for cleanup of environmental damage caused by illegal marijuana farms within the state's cultivation heartland in Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties. \"These illegal grow sites do untold damage to forests and wildlife along the North Coast and with Assemblymember [Jim] Wood's leadership, we're doing something about it,\" Brown said in a Wednesday statement.\nState Kicks Down $1.5M for Cleanup of Illegal Weed Grow Operations in the Emerald Triangle \u2013 Lost Coast Outpost - Ryan Burns\nThe Brown administration, a passionate proponent of environmental protection, is providing $1.5 million in the state budget to fund environmental cleanup of illegal cannabis grow sites in Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino Counties. \"These illegal grow sites do untold damage to forests and wildlife along the North Coast and with Assemblymember Wood's leadership, we're doing something about it,\" said Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.\nBrown earmarks $1.5M for cleanup of illegal marijuana grows in Emerald Triangle - By Will Houston, Eureka Times\nCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown is earmarking $1.5 million in his May revise budget for cleanup of environmental damage caused by illegal marijuana farms within the state's cultivation heartland in Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties. \"These illegal grow sites do untold damage to forests and wildlife along the North Coast and with Assemblymember [Jim] Wood's leadership, we're doing something about it,\" Brown said in a statement Wednesday.\nGov. Brown to budget $1.5 million to clean up after illegal pot farming along North Coast \u2013 LA Times - Patrick McGreevy\nGov. Jerry Brown's amended budget to be released Thursday includes $1.5 million to pay for cleanup of environmental damage caused by illegal marijuana grows in the Emerald Triangle \u2014 the counties of Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino, officials said Wednesday. Brown's proposal comes just months before the state is expected to begin issuing licenses for growing pot to be sold for recreational and medical uses.\nGov. Brown earmarks $1.5M for cleanup of Emerald Triangle marijuana grow sites - By The Times-Standard\nThe following is a press release issued by the office of North Coast Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg): The Brown administration, a passionate proponent of environmental protection, is providing $1.5 million in the state budget to fund environmental cleanup of illegal cannabis grow sites in Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino Counties. \"These illegal grow sites do untold damage to forests and wildlife along the North Coast and with Assemblymember Wood's leadership, we're doing something about it,\" said Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.\nWood and Caltrans reach broadband agreement\nMENDOCINO VOICE--After more than two years of legislative discussion, the north coast's Assemblyman Jim Wood has announced an agreement with Caltrans over the installation of broadband conduit during Caltrans projects. According to a press release from Wood sent last week, Caltrans has agreed to establish a policy by July 1 that would require the agency to install broadband conduit in priority corridors throughout the state when undertaking trenching projects.\nDrug Prices, Opioids, And Obamacare: A Conversation With Assemblyman Jim Wood\nCalifornia policymakers are facing a busy year, as a Republican-controlled Congress inches closer to rolling back key provisions of the Affordable Care Act and debate over high drug costs continues.\nAssemblymember Jim Wood, D\u2013Healdsburg, helps set priorities for health policymaking as chairman of the Assembly Health Committee. The former family dentist represents a 300-mile Northern California coastal stretch that spans from Sonoma County all the way up to the Oregon border.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Newsroom > News archive > 2019 > July > Brexit deal \"wasn't imposed\" on UK, says Minister\nEuropean Union \u2013 Climate\/Brexit \u2013 Interview given by Mme Am\u00e9lie de Montchalin, Minister of State for European Affairs, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, to France 2 (excerpts)\nQ. \u2013 So European politics has been extremely intense this week, but we're going to begin by talking about the heatwave, which hasn't just been affecting France: several records have been broken all over Europe. One question: what is Europe doing about the climate and global warming? It doesn't feel like much.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 Actually Europe is already trying to move beyond the notion that this can be dealt with by national emergency plans, and get to the bottom, to the root of these wholly unusual climate patterns \u2013 climate change. So in March France proposed that we set a very ambitious target so that in September, at the major global climate meeting at the United Nations, Europe arrives united and puts across a strong message, and above all, proposals. We, four countries, did this in March, there were eight of us in May and we've ended up with 24 countries. So 24 countries out of 28 are today saying that if we aren't carbon neutral by 2050, the phenomena we've experienced this week will be repeated. As regards the solutions, we're trying to set money aside for investment right now.\nQ. \u2013 Tangible things.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 Very tangible things as regards mobility, housing, agriculture too, in order to have a genuine transition. When there are times like what has happened, you pool resources. Didier Guillaume negotiated on the CAP, so we could get aid for farmers, and also money, because clearly a lot of crops are going to be lost, and Canadair planes too, because often, with droughts come major fires. And so we're pooling resources.\nWhat matters is for us to have in our European budget, which is going to be negotiated in the next few weeks, the wherewithal for the transition to take place. And clearly there are countries which need to invest on a huge scale \u2013 including France. We want to put 1,000 billion [euros] into this ecological, environmental climate transition. This also concerns biodiversity, pollution. It's a huge effort, and what we're doing here is, basically, we're the guarantors of the Paris Agreement. It was signed in Paris, we need to keep the agreement strong and therefore implement it in Europe in full.\nBoris Johnson\/Brexit\nQ. \u2013 (\u2026) This week in London, Boris Johnson made his entry into 10 Downing Street, officially Britain's new prime minister, a sensational entry; we're less than 100 days away from the date scheduled for Brexit. He's promising \u2013 I quote \u2013 \"a better deal\" for the British, deeming the current terms \"unacceptable\". Is France prepared to renegotiate the deal?\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 I think we need to reset the terms of the debate a bit. Firstly, I prefer to comment on deeds rather than words \u2013 especially what's said during a campaign or what's said on entering government\u2026\nQ. \u2013 He's Prime Minister now.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 So I prefer to work with him; I'll be having discussions with my counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian with his, Bruno Le Maire \u2013 we're working with the government which is being formed. The President will have a meeting with Boris Johnson in France in the next few weeks.\nQ. \u2013 It's being said this may be at Br\u00e9gan\u00e7on [an official residence of the President]?\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 At the moment I don't know where or when, but at any rate we're looking forward to working with him.\nQ. \u2013 Does this mean he isn't a bogeyman, as some are saying?\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 Look, above all we need \u2013 you know he's a partner who will remain so after Brexit, [the UK] is a country which will remain very close to us. We've always had very strong links when it comes to defence and the economy, and social and cultural ties, so the future relationship will be strong.\nQ. \u2013 But do you agree on renegotiating the deal that was negotiated with Theresa May, yes or no?\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 We have to be very clear on this. We've always said that if the United Kingdom wants to leave the European Union, and if it wants to do so in an orderly fashion, the best thing we have is the deal. Why is the deal being talked about?\nQ. \u2013 So no question of renegotiating the deal that is on the table?\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 Look, it wasn't imposed on the British: it was two years of work between Michel Barnier's teams in Brussels and the British teams to tell each other, point by point, pragmatically, realistically, concretely, how we can establish that there's a before and an after. It's not us who want there to be a before and an after.\nQ. \u2013 It was rejected three times by the British Parliament.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 Yes, and so what we're trying to say is that \u2013 in this agreement we're just trying to say: this is how we separate. But for me the key thing, what I'd like to do in the coming weeks, is for us to get through this stage and negotiate coolly, calmly, under calm conditions, how we work afterwards, how we work tomorrow.\nQ. \u2013 So you're ready to negotiate the future relationship, but we're not going back on the divorce agreement.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 That's what we all say, because we think this divorce agreement, if you call it that, was prepared over two years, it wasn't imposed as an obligation on the British.\nQ. \u2013 Boris Johnson is saying: we'll leave at all costs on 31 October, even if it's what's called a \"no deal\", even if it's without an agreement.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 I know he's saying that. The European Council actually set that deadline. What I myself see is that the European project has been a project of trust, a project of responsibility, of understanding that others apply the same standards as me, the same rules as me, and therefore I trust them. It means I trust them to ensure goods and people can move back and forth across borders.\nQ. \u2013 You'd clearly rather there was an agreement.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 Yes.\nQ. \u2013 As for this withdrawal by 31 October, could the 31 October date be postponed or not?\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 We've always said there must be very, very good reasons to postpone the date.\nQ. \u2013 So you're not ruling it out.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 In diplomacy, if you have absolute red lines, that often creates tensions. We set 31 October, we have the agreement on the table; what there is to renegotiate and still to negotiate is the future relationship, and we must be responsible. That means we must be clear and predictable \u2013 that's what I'm saying to you. And we should also manage to create a working relationship, not get involved in game-playing, posturing and provocation. That's what we're trying to do.\nBut I want to say, and French people really must understand, that if there's no deal it basically means we'll have no relations of trust. The Swiss and the Norwegians are not in the European Union, but we trust them because we've created a trading relationship with them, a cultural relationship, a calm economic relationship. What we're seeking is to calm things down.\nQ. \u2013 You want to keep that pact of trust for what comes later.\nTHE MINISTER \u2013 Exactly. (\u2026).\/.\nUK sovereignty on Brexit must be respected - Minister\nBrexit extension: reaction from Europe Minister\nFrance wants EU budget to support ecological transition\nBurma: France is \"fully mobilized\" with its partners regarding Rohingya situation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy\nResults 22 resources\nSort by: Title A-Z\nEh, E. (2018). A Confucian Perspective on Tertiary Education for the Common Good. The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute, 3, 26\u201334. https:\/\/mrijournal.riccimac.org\/articles\/issue_03\/eng\/3_MRI_Journal_Issue_Three_(EE_English).pdf\nEh, E. (2021). Aristotle, Lubich And Ratzinger On A New Economic Paradigm. The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute, 7. http:\/\/mrijournal.riccimac.org\/index.php\/en\/issues\/issue-7\/160-aristotle-lubich-and-ratzinger-on-a-new-economic-paradigm\nMONERA, A. (2016). Baptism as Christian Initiation in the New Testament. Orientis Aura, 1(1), 7\u201330.\nMcNabb, T., & DeVito, M. (2021). Basic Beliefs, the Embryo Rescue Case, and Single-Issue Voting: A Response to Dustin Crummett. The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 21(2), 203\u2013208. https:\/\/www.pdcnet.org\/pdc\/bvdb.nsf\/purchase?openform&fp=ncbq&id=ncbq_2021_0021_0002_0203_0208\nEh, E. (2017). Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau | Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies. 2, 61\u201378. https:\/\/journals.usj.edu.mo\/index.php\/orientisaura\/article\/view\/20\/16\nEleut\u00e9rio, J. M. (2017). Church in the Making: An Apophatic Ecclesiology of Consubstantiality. Theological Studies, 4(78), 1007\u20131008.\nDeVito, M., & McNabb, T. D. (2021). Divine foreknowledge and human free will: Embracing the paradox. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11153-021-09791-1\nGassner, F. (2016). Education in Religious Freedom. Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies, 1, 77\u201399. https:\/\/journals.usj.edu.mo\/index.php\/orientisaura\/article\/view\/10\nGassner, F. (2016). Education in Religious Freedom: Path to Peace and Stability. Orientis Aura, 1, 77\u201399.\nMorgan, S. (2021). 'Em Prociss\u00e3o Solene a Deus Orando, para os Bat\u00e9is Viemos Caminhando'\u2014The Long Ebb-Tide of Catholic Public Piety in the Former-Portuguese Enclave of Macao. Religions, 12(3). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rel12030193\nGassner, F. (2021). Ethical Investment's Visible Hand: Methods And Transformative Potentials. The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute, 7. http:\/\/mrijournal.riccimac.org\/index.php\/en\/issues\/issue-7\/166-ethical-investment-s-visible-hand-methods-and-transformative-potentials\nMcNabb, T., & DeVito, M. (2020). Has Oppy Done Away with the Aristotelian Proof? The Heythrop Journal, 61(5), 723\u2013731. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/heyj.13604\nMcIntosh, C. A., & McNabb, T. D. (2021). Houston, Do We Have a Problem? Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life and Christian Belief. Philosophia Christi, 23(1), 101\u2013124. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5840\/pc202123110\nMorgan, S. (2021). 'Navigation for an ocean of interminable scepticism' revisited: John Henry Newman and the place of theology in the university. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 21(2), 1\u201315. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1474225X.2021.1997030\nMcNabb, T. D. (2020). Pestilent Popes or a Pestilent Church? Judaism, Catholicism, and Skeptical Theism. The Heythrop Journal, 61(4), 671\u2013676. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/heyj.13571\nGassner, F. (2018). Science and Laudato Si' on the Paradigm Shift towards Sustainable Development. The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute, 2. https:\/\/mrijournal.riccimac.org\/index.php\/en\/issues\/issue-2\/24-science-and-laudato-si-on-the-paradigmshifttowards-sustainable-development\nStilwell, P. (2013). Signos de los tiempos: desaf\u00edo a la Nueva Evangelizaci\u00f3n. El Concilo Vaticano II. Uma Perspectiva teol\u00f3gia. Vicente Vide - Jos\u00e9 R. Villar (Eds.) San Pablo: Madrid, 2013: 545\u2013559.\nGomez, F. (2016). Vatican II. Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives In Religious Studies, 1. https:\/\/journals.usj.edu.mo\/index.php\/orientisaura\/article\/view\/9\nSivin, N., Akasoy, A., Anderson, W., Colas, G., & Eh, E. (2018). What Kinds of Comparison Are Most Useful in the Study of World Philosophies? Journal of World Philosophies, 3(2), 75\u201397. https:\/\/scholarworks.iu.edu\/iupjournals\/index.php\/jwp\/article\/view\/2156\/192\nEh, E. (2017). \"Wisdom in Aristotle and Aquinas,\" Existenz. International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics and the Arts, 2(12), 19\u201324.\nPrint 22 citations\nDownload 22 citations\nEdmond Eh (6)\nFranz Gassner (4)\nStephen Morgan (2)\nTyler McNabb (5)\n11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities (1)\nBetween 2000 and 2022 (22)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Africa Social\nIs the US Warming Up to Working at Berbera?\nOdindo Ayeko,\nIn yet another clear indication that the United States is warming up to Somaliland with interest in the port city of Berbera, a US Air Force plane over the weekend landed in the port city of the Horn of Africa nation for an undisclosed mission.\nReports emanating from Somaliland indicate the United States Air Force C-130J-30 Super Hercules transport plane landed in Berbera airport, the first military plane from the country to land at the base since it was upgraded and opened in June.\nSources close to Somaliland leadership indicate has approached President Muse Bihi Abdi through a third party for a potential alternative aid corridor to Djibouti.\nWhile reports show no agreement has been reached, the US has previously indicated it was ready to work with Somaliland after it supported the newfound partnership between the East African nation and Taiwan last year against to the chagrin of Asian superpower China.\nThe United States is indicated is interested in using the Berbera airport and port. Both facilities have been recently upgraded to international standards.\nConflict in Ethiopia's northern regions Tigray, Afar, and Amhara is also creating a potential chokepoint that may hamper humanitarian aid delivery to the people of Tigray through Djibouti. Most imports to Ethiopia come via this rail system.\nSomaliland which remains unrecognized since parting with Somalia in May 1991, has operated as an independent state and a rare bastion of peace and stability in the Horn of Africa.\nThe country with its own government, military, police and currency has primed itself into a position where it can challenge Djibouti's dominance as the region's military and shipping hub.\nThe Horn of Africa is one of the most strategic regions on earth and Somaliland's Port of Berbera will be able to mount a challenge against Djibouti's dominance in the region as a hub for shipping and military bases for foreign countries.\nSomaliland's development is also tied to Ethiopia's economic and population boom and the significant Chinese investment in that part of the Horn of Africa.\nTanzania Fuel Shortages \u2013 African Energy Chamber Hopeful for a Quick Resolution\n7th July 2020 Godfrey Ivudria\nThe African Energy Chamber is calling for the respect of the rule of law, and asking that they be afforded all due processes as required by Tanzanian law JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 6, 2020\/ \u2014 The African Energy Chamber expresses its concerns over the alleged arrest and detention of three energy executives in Tanzania last [\u2026]\nAfrica needs policies to protect its economies from vulnerabilities \u2013 ECA\n21st March 2019 EABW Editor\nAfrican countries need policies that can help build resilience, raise potential growth and inclusiveness if the continent is to achieve the sustainable development goals and aspirations of Africa's Agenda 2063. This was said Wednesday by Adam Elhiraika, Director of the Macroeconomics and Governance Division of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in his presentation to [\u2026]\nTrade Misinvoicing Leads to Massive Revenue Losses in South Africa \u2013 Study\nAnalysis of trade misinvoicing in South Africa from 2010 \u2013 2014 shows that the potential average loss of revenue to the government was approximately $7.4 billion per year or $37 billion during the period studied, according to a new study by Global Financial Integrity. The report, titled South Africa: Potential Revenue Losses Associated with Trade Misinvoicing, [\u2026]\nBybit Brings Annual Trading Competition World Series of Trading (WSOT) 2021 to the Next Level With Record $7.5M Prize Pool\nIs Africa really cursed? \u2013 Part II\n3000 benefit from Hima Cement medical Camp\nKenya looks to avoid negative effects of oil faced by many other States","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"We were able to make 100% electrification in Ampara District\n11438 houses received electricity under the new government. Indigenous people in[...]\nInterruption of Electricity supply due to the limitation of power generation owing to a break down at the Lakvijaya Coal power plant, Norochcholai\nAt the moment, generation of electricity has been limited due to a break down occurred[...]\nConcessionary electricity fare for Agriculture\nMinister of Power and Renewable Energy Mr. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says that the[...]\nMedia release regarding the Sampur coal power plant\nHon. Attorney General has apprised the Supreme Court (SC) that the Ministry of Power[...]\nQualified manpower employees and meter readers of CEB will be absorbed to the permanent carder from 17 th October\nThe first batch of CEB manpower employees (2363) out from 6191 who had completed[...]\n'Battle for Solar Energy' begins from President's house\nThe Government's new community based power generation project[...]\nThe Report of three member committee was handedover to the subject minister\nThe committee of three members appointed by the minister Power and Renewable Energy[...]\nThe coal deal was done with transparency\nIn some places the coal deal had been exaggerated as a huge loss for the country.[...]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Telemedicine market may touch Rs 200 cr-mark by 2020: Assocham\nBy: PTI |\nNew Delhi | Updated: June 5, 2016 10:57:50 AM\nThe country's telemedicine sector is expected to double to USD 32 million (about Rs 210 crore) by 2020, industry body Assocham has said.\n\"With limited resources and much of the population living in remote, rural areas (68 per cent), telemedicine has the potential to revolutionise delivery of healthcare in India,\" it said. (PTI)\nThe country's telemedicine sector is expected to double to USD 32 million (about Rs 210 crore) by 2020, industry body Assocham has said.\nCurrently, the sector's market size stands at USD 15 million (about Rs 100 crore), it said.\n\"With limited resources and much of the population living in remote, rural areas (68 per cent), telemedicine has the potential to revolutionise delivery of healthcare in India,\" it said.\nTelemedicine involves use of telecommunication and IT in extending healthcare facilities particularly in remote areas.\nThe chamber said efforts are needed to create an overarching framework from primary to district healthcare centres and issues like bandwidth and connectivity need to be fixed to boost the sector's growth.\n\"Growth of a sustainable telemedicine network in India depends upon introduction of legal frameworks, development of national e-health policies, trained human resource and regular funding,\" it added.\nImproved access to specialists, increased patient satisfaction with care, improved clinical outcomes, reduction in emergency room utilisation, cost savings are certain key benefits of telemedicine, it said.\nDon't treat credit ratings as gospel truth: Study\nJat stir should not affect people's confidence again: Assocham\nASSOCHAM hails India growth story; advocates investments for job growth","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The new Dao Ming Si\nojpy \/ September 4, 2018\nDao Ming Si\/Domyouji has always been my favorite character in the manga and live drama.\nAs a character, Dao Ming Si is spoiled, rude, violent. Not really positive traits and enough to make girls run very, very fast to very, very far (though when it comes to the girl he loves, Ah Si is both a fighter and a lover.) Obviously, he's not exactly a politically correct character. We all know that. Yet we still swooned over his many resurrections anyway from Jerry Yan to Matsumoto Jun to Lee Min Ho and now, Dylan Wang He Di.\nBut relax. This is just a drama character (thank goodness).\nWhat I like about the latest adaptation, Meteor Garden 2018, is that it was able to flesh out and make room for substantial character development. It's obviously because they had many episodes to do that so Dao Ming Si's emotional and mental growth from a spoiled boy to a grown man felt organic.\nAt the root of Dao Ming Si's immaturity is a poor little rich boy who grew up with money and not much else. But this Dao Ming Si was also different. He's got the smarts (earned his first million from stock trading when he was 18) and didn't mix up his idioms though this was the root of many things funny about the character in the first place. In fact, this was one thing I missed most in Dylan's version because this made for such genuine comedic moments in the previous Dao Ming Si\/Domyouji.\nAnd while previous portrayals made Ah Si such an overbearing classist, it was toned down in this version (in accordance with censorship guidelines in China). Sure, he still commented on how small the Dongs' house was and even attempted to transform Shan Cai into a woman of class by giving her a makeover he thought she'd appreciate. Most of this snobbishness came from the fact that he has been surrounded by wealth since he was young (he's puzzled why Shan Cai can't afford to go to Hawaii for a vacation) so he hasn't known of any other world but that of luxury and comfort and he thought that everything can be bought or compensated with money and influence. Poverty and mundane concerns of regular folks were alien to him. To his credit, he did not dwell or obsess over these details and realized that being insensitive was not going to win her over.\nSure, it took him a long time to understand this but when he begrudgingly started to pursue Shan Cai seriously instead of playing childish pranks on her, he did it in the most endearing ways. He tried to adjust to her lifestyle (such as moving in to the apartment next to her that had a lot of bugs and a small bed his tall frame couldn't fit in), be friends with her friends (he accompanied Shan Cai to karaoke to cheer up Xiao You even if he wasn't really keen on it) and be a reliable support she and her family could rely on (he offered his black card without any second thoughts to help out Shan Cai's father when he got into trouble, and even stated with pride that it's money he earned). He also tried to see things from her perspective. For instance, in that scene where he bought her shoes, he didn't take her to his usual playground of signature shops (the old Dao Ming Si would have done so) but instead they went to the small shop where she's been buying her shoes since grade school, and in the end, even declared that the shoes were \"surprisingly okay.\" He tried out commoners' food, attempted to go on a commoners' date and remained polite in dealing with them (unless provoked); and maybe, to a certain extent, all these new experiences represented an adventure for him.\nLet's not forget that Ah Si is just a child at heart, wrought by a lonely childhood where his authority figure was his older sister. The way he behaved towards his friends and Shan Cai was akin to a grade schooler in a playground fight. In his sister's words: \"Ah Si is actually a kind person. He's not mean at all. He just doesn't know how to express himself. Actually he's just a big kid that wants to be loved.\"\nAs a newbie actor, Didi did very well. On the surface it may seem that the Dao Ming Si role is easy to play. Just act like a brat and bully and that's it. But the truth is, Dao Ming Si is wrapped in many layers of complexities: a kid who did not get the attention of his parents growing up, a kid who was used to have his way and if he didn't, getting his way by means of force, and yet, buried deeper within was a boy who has built all these walls to protect himself from loneliness, and who just wanted to be loved.\nThe range that Didi exhibited to express all these layers was very impressive, considering that this is his first acting role. These are some of the scenes that stood out and displayed his thespic talent: that bridge game when he looked at Shan Cai with the hurt and fear of losing her to his best friend and rival; that drunk scene where he cried yet pretended to be very happy; that hotpot scene in London where he put a brave front while letting her go; and basically just every scene where Shan Cai rejected him and you could see the pain, confusion, frustration and anger all mirrored palpably in his eyes.\nThat's why when Shan Cai finally accepted and loved him unconditionally the same way that he did, and despite her fears of only being able to return 10 percent of his feelings, you couldn't blame her. Because despite Ah Si's personality flaws, he has endeared himself at this point not only to her but to the audience, including me who has watched two other drama adaptations with equally convincing and memorable Dao Ming Si and Domyouji.\nAn article has described Dylan's Dao Ming Si as endearing, and this is so true. It would seem that Didi has studied the manga so thoroughly that he perfectly translated his facial expressions from the comics pages to the small screen. His chiseled looks made it look like the manga had come to life indeed; but even if he's the best looking actor in the entire universe, the portrayal would have fallen flat like when Dao Ming Si was kicked by Shan Cai, if he couldn't act. Dylan's looks may be the first thing that gets people's attention but it's his effective portrayal as Dao Ming Si that they'd remember. And more than his height and looks, it's his eyes that are his primary asset. And as an actor, this would propel him to greater heights if used and developed properly. Rest assured he will be able to hone that talent further in future projects.\nI'm looking forward to how Dylan will chart his course from hereon. Thank you for giving us a Dao Ming Si that was simple yet complex, that captured the essence of a man-child and his journey to self-discovery, love and happiness.\nSeptember 4, 2018 in blog, popasia. Tags: China, Drama, Dylan Wang, MeteorGarden\nMeteor Garden, and 17 years in between\npandas, shui zhu yu and Dylan Wang\nDomyouji returns\u2026\n\u2190 Meteor Garden, and 17 years in between\nnotes from a battle-scarred fan \u2192\n2 thoughts on \"The new Dao Ming Si\"\n101% agreed!!! I am so happy I stumbled upon this adaptation as I was introduced to this awesome newbie\u2026 and now I am a fan. I pray for more successes and all that he deserves\nojpy says:\nAmen! Looking forward to him reaching his full potential. He is still young, I hope he sustains and nurtures the gains he has made from his debut role.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Book\/Printed Material Consolidation of rural schools and transportation of pupils at public expense\nView 146 images in sequence.\nTranscript: PDF | FULL TEXT | XML\nDownload: PDF Text ( all pages ) JPEG (2133x3601px) JPEG (1066x1800px) JPEG (533x900px) JPEG2000 (811.7 KB)\nConsolidation of rural schools and transportation of pupils at public expense\nMonahan, A. C. (Arthur Coleman), 1877-\nWashington : G.P.O., 1914.\n- Schools--Centralization\n- Rural schools\n- School children--Transportation\n- Includes index.\n- L111.A6 with: Agricultural teaching \/ American Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching. Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1914. Bound together subsequent to publication.\n- Bibliography: p. 101-104.\n- Also available in digital form.\n108 p., 17 p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.\nL111 .A6 1914, no. 30\nLB2861 .M6\nhttps:\/\/lccn.loc.gov\/e15000098\nGeneral Collections (133,368)\nSelected Digitized Books (152,688)\nMonahan, A. C. (Arthur Coleman)\nThe books in this collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.\nCredit Line: Library of Congress\nMore about Copyright and other Restrictions.\nMonahan, A. C. Consolidation of Rural Schools and Transportation of Pupils at Public Expense . Washington: G.P.O, 1914. Image. https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/e15000098\/.\nMonahan, A. C. (1914) Consolidation of Rural Schools and Transportation of Pupils at Public Expense . Washington: G.P.O. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/e15000098\/.\nMonahan, A. C. Consolidation of Rural Schools and Transportation of Pupils at Public Expense . Washington: G.P.O, 1914. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov\/item\/e15000098\/>.\nEssential features of laws concerning transportation of pupils Caption title. At head of title: ... Department of the interior. Bureau of education. Washington, D. C. Also available in digital form.\nContributor: Lathrop, Edith A. (Edith Anna)\nRural school situation in Tennessee; bulletin of information regarding consolidation of schools and transportation of pupils. Also available in digital form.\nContributor: Tennessee. Department of Public Instruction\nConsolidation of rural schools. State of Nebraska, Department of public instruction... E. C. Bishop, state superintendent. Also available in digital form.\nContributor: Nebraska. Department of Public Instructon\nPossible consolidations of rural schools in Delaware, Also available in digital form.\nContributor: Strayer, George D. (George Drayton) - Hart, F. W. - Engelhardt, N. L. (Nickolaus Louis)\nRural school consolidation in Missouri Bibliography: p. 35-36. Also available in digital form.\nContributor: Kunkel, L. O. (Louis Otto) - Charters, Werrett Wallace\n[Smiling young school children running out the entrance of a school building in the Kiangsu Province ... 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.\nContributor: Rothstein, Arthur\nInch by inch 1 drawing on layered paper board : crayon, ink, blue pencil and white out over pencil. | Cartoon shows three schoolchildren pushing against the door of \"School segregation.\" They have managed to...\nContributor: Mauldin, Bill\nCaesar Mt. School, - one of the remote rural schools in Pocahontas Co. An average school ... 1 photographic print.\nContributor: Hine, Lewis Wickes\nThe first day at school - one of the Pocahontas County rural schools. Location: Pocahontas County, ... 1 photographic print.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Otis December 16, 2022 No Comments\nRussian forces fired 60 missiles and carried out drone attacks across Ukraine on Friday, officials said, striking the capital Kyiv and cities in the north, south, west and centre.\nTwo people were killed when a residential building was hit in Kryvyi Rih and a third died in Kherson.\nAttacks have intensified this week as Russia targets Ukraine's civilian infrastructure.\nPower was completely down in Kharkiv in the north and several other regions.\nThe alarm was raised across Ukraine and air force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said in total 60 missiles had been fired. Earlier reports said drones were also involved.\nOne rocket hit a residential building in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, leaving at least two people dead and eight wounded, authorities said.\nAnd in the southern city of Kherson, a third death was announced by prosecutors in an attack that set a block of flats alight before dawn on Friday. Two people were killed in shelling in the centre of Kherson on Thursday.\nThe attacks cut power throughout Ukraine's second biggest city Kharkiv as well as in the Sumy region close to the northern border with Russia and in the central cities of Poltava and Kremenchuk. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the presidential office, said emergency power outages were taking place across the country.\nUkraine has accused Russia of \"weaponising winter\" by striking essential facilities as temperatures plummet. Defence ministry adviser Yuriy Sak told the BBC that emergency services were working to restore supplies but the situation was \"still difficult\".\nRussia has launched more than 1,000 missiles and Iranian-made attack drones since mid-October, although most of them have been intercepted by air defence.\nUN human rights commissioner Volker Turk warned on Thursday that further attacks on power facilities could \"lead to a further serious deterioration in the humanitarian situation and spark more displacement\".\nPrime Minister Denys Shmyhal said this week that Russian strikes had damaged \"all thermal and hydroelectric power plants\", leading to widespread blackouts and interruptions in heating and water supplies.\nIn some areas, electricity is only available a few hours per day.\nFifteen rockets were reportedly fired at Zaporizhzhia in the south while Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said several areas of the city were hit. Damage to energy infrastructure had affected the capital's water supplies and city metro lines were for the moment not running, he said.\nThe head of the regional administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said Russia was \"massively attacking Ukraine\".\nAuthorities say Russia is responding to military setbacks on the battlefield, following Ukraine's recent successes in retaking occupied territory, including Kherson a month ago.\n\"They need to compensate for it. They're trying to create conditions to force Ukraine to negotiate. This will not happen. This is not going to work,\" Mr Sak told the BBC. He said Russia's Vladimir Putin still wanted to control the whole of Ukraine and the message was that the war was far from over.\nIt is unclear why Russia has intensified its strikes this week, but US President Joe Biden is reportedly finalising plans to send Patriot air defence missiles to Ukraine, after months of requests from Kyiv.\nUkraine's air defences have had considerable success in limiting casualties from Russian air attack and Kyiv authorities said all 13 drones launched at Kyiv on Wednesday were successfully shot down.\nRussia's war in Ukraine has been losing momentum, almost 10 months into its invasion. But Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov warned there was mounting evidence that Russia was planning a broad new offensive, possibly early next year.\n\"The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops. I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv,\" the head of the armed forces, Gen Valery Zaluzhny, told the Economist.\nPrevious Previous post: Berlin's giant AquaDom aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes\nNext Next post: Transport fares will go down by 10% effective December 19","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Advertise With Women Love Tech\nin GAMES, NEWS, TECH, TRENDS\nThe Augmented Reality Game Grows In Australia And Asia-Pacific\nSimon Lockington, Director of Global Solutions Enablement, Equinix Asia-Pacific, reviews the growth and effectiveness of Augmented Reality.\nby Women Love Tech 29\/08\/2019, 9:59 am\nA couple of years ago, people went crazy over Pok\u00e9mon Go, an Augmented Reality mobile game which sent gamers from all walks of life and of different ages, on to the streets with their smart phones in hand to capture Pok\u00e9mon as they appeared.\nUsing the phone's camera with mobile location services, a Pok\u00e9mon overlay video would appear on the phone display as if seen in a real-world environment. This proved to be a winning mix for gamers in search of a truly interactive experience.\nPokemon Go used Augmented Reality to enrich the gaming experience\nThe game introduced AR to consumers and mainstream businesses alike. It took a technology that had been deemed 'difficult' and 'expensive' and showed the revolutionary impact it could have on consumer experiences.\nAccording to IDC, spending in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) on augmented reality and virtual reality will reach approximately AU$10.15 billion in 2019, representing an increase of 75.2% on the previous year. On top of this, consumer and enterprise\/commercial spend on AR\/VR products and services is expected to grow at a five-year CAGR of 70.7% between 2017 and 2022.\nThis rapid growth is hardly surprising. AR gives a user an interactive and immersive experience in a real-world environment, by adding layers of data and virtual objects onto a live view. Today, it's not only gaming that is embracing AR. Different sectors are also applying it to enrich customer experience and interactivity with apps as they seek to gain competitive advantage.\nAR in action in Australia\nAccording to PayPal's 2018 mobile commerce Trends Report around a third of Australian SMB retailers with online stores are currently developing, or intending to develop, an AR experience for their customers. AR is expected to be a huge trend for retailers in 2019, with the AR market expected to reach AU$215 billion by 2021.\nSweep Augmented Reality Retail app : https:\/\/womenlovetech.com\/shopping-apps-to-help-you-save-money-sweep-and-shping\/\nIn 2016, Specsavers launched Virtual Try On; an app that allows its customers to upload an image of their face and try on glasses using mobile devices \u2013 whether it's a tablet, laptop or smartphone. The feature allows shoppers to see themselves in the hundreds of styles of glasses and sunglasses Specsavers has on offer. In a similar move, IKEA launched the IKEA Place app that enables customers to virtually place a full range of IKEA products \u2013 including sofas, lamps, rugs and tables \u2013 into their space to ensure it's right for their room.\nAugmented Reality is now used effectively by Ikea\nAR is an exciting innovation for the tourism industry, allowing travellers access to more information about the destinations they want to visit to better plan their trips. Airlines and hotels are starting to provide AR apps offering virtual tours to explore different rooms and other facilities before making a booking. For example, Airbus iflyA380 is an iOS app with AR incorporated to let passengers take a virtual tour of the jetliner, including a peak into the cockpit.\nTourist hotspots such as museums, theme parks and historical sites are adopting AR to create interactive maps and direct visitors to interesting locations. For example, indigital uses drones, 4D mapping software, image recognition software and cultural law to bring Indigenous Australian cultural sites to life.\nEducation and Workforce Training\nAs the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and this is particularly true when it comes to education. When a student can see, touch and interact with an object, the lesson becomes far more engaging. As a result, AR has made its way into workforce training programs, particularly in specialised industries due to its cost-effectiveness, safety and reach.\nIn 2018, The NSW Department of Education and the Aboriginal Education and Communities Directorate launched Australia's first augmented reality and digital skills initiative, The Njulgang Project. The program helped 20 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to learn about local culture and language from a group of Dharawal Elders and bring to life what they learned by creating an AR language learning resource based on the Dharawal Dreaming Story \u2013 'How the Animals Came to Dharawal Country'.\nAR's ability to combine reality with digital content is proving beneficial to car manufacturers on a variety of fronts, including allowing sales staff to demonstrate safety features in dealerships before customers make a purchase.\nHyundai rolled out an AR tool in 2017 to dealerships across Australia to help sales staff demonstrate the features of its new 'Reinvented i30' hatchback. The AR app enables sales staff to show potential buyers a car's built in safety features as well as colour and accessory options.\nAR is also a powerful technology for those in the healthcare sector, providing immersive training for surgical procedures and offering a way to practice without risk.\nScans are a key diagnostic tool for today's doctors, but MRIs and CT reports are one-dimensional. Using AR, a surgeon can layer virtual three-dimensional images of the same scans to produce an overview of the inside of the patient \u2013 complete with organs, blood vessels, and muscles \u2013 to understand any potential complications before surgery.\nInterconnection: Speeding up AR\nThe successful applications of AR highly depend on the rapid transfer of real-time data generated from multiple touchpoints, such as customers, enterprises and service providers. The increased use of mobile and IoT devices also demands the processing of big data to make AR apps feasible for practical use.\nThe data involved in these apps includes images, visuals and audio, which need to be stored, analysed and transmitted constantly and instantaneously to enable users of AR apps to react and interact in real-time.\nWhile cloud and network service providers play an important role in supporting the use of AR, enterprises need scalable storage and high interconnectivity between multiple parties to ensure the seamless delivery of AR-enabled experiences to app users and customers. How can they achieve this? Through Interconnection, also known as the private data exchange between businesses.\nThe second annual Global Interconnection Index, a market study published by Equinix, reveals Asia-Pacific's Interconnection Bandwidth is expected to grow at a 51% CAGR to 2,200+ Tbps by 2021, meaning that interconnection is becoming the defacto method for companies to operate in today's digital world. Businesses need to adopt an interconnection-first approach in order to directly and securely interconnect partners and service providers as well as users, analyse data and engage with customers in real time.\nAR is transforming the way we work. With interconnection, the potential of AR can be fully unlocked to further enhance customer experience and offer more benefits to enterprises in the digital era.\nWomen Love Tech would like to thank Simon Lockington, Director of Global Solutions Enablement, Equinix Asia-Pacific for his article.\naugmented realityAugmented Reality Shopping Appsreality game\nPrevious article BrainHQ Neurocognitive Training Improves Efficiency of Tech Workers\nNext article The Naked Traveller Tyson Mayr Shares His Top Travel Photography Tips\nWritten by Women Love Tech\nWomen Love Tech is an award-winning lifestyle technology site. Discover the best smartphones, latest apps, cool gadgets, social media, emerging tech and news. 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{"text":"Why hasn't Michigan set PFAS limits for drinking water yet?\nUpdated Jan 29, 2019; Posted Oct 17, 2018\nInside Plainfield Township's new PFAS water treatment\nGallery: Inside Plainfield Township's new PFAS water treatment\nBy Garret Ellison | gellison@mlive.com\nIn a state where toxic chemicals from both military and industrial sources are found at dozens of sites and in water serving thousands of people, regulators soon will propose hard, enforceable limits for how much of those contaminants can be in drinking water.\nThat state is not Michigan.\nThe Republican-led government in New Hampshire is joining the state of New Jersey in taking a logical next step in PFAS response: Namely, establishing a legally enforceable standard for the chemicals in drinking water that public supply operators would be required to comply with under the Safe Drinking Water Act.\nStarting Jan. 1, New Hampshire will begin setting an MCL, or maximum contaminant level, for PFOA, PFOS, PFNA and PFHxS -- four PFAS compounds which are now regularly being found in both public and private drinking water supplies across Michigan.\nDespite Michigan's widely praised effort to find PFAS contamination, state leaders have moved slowly toward setting a drinking water standard to regulate the persistent, toxic and pervasive \"forever chemicals.\" This failure to act swiftly comes despite data showing that nearly 1.9 million people have been drinking some level of PFAS chemicals -- and statewide testing isn't even done yet.\nWhat is stopping Michigan, which lauds itself as a national leader in tackling PFAS pollution, from doing what other states already are?\nThe question has been raised with increasing urgency.\n\"I think it's imperative that states pass a drinking water standard for these chemicals and they do it quickly,\" said Judith Enck, a former regional administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama Administration.\nSlow to take next step\nExperts who are watching and waiting to see how Michigan will act say the next step is obvious: Pass a drinking water standard, preferably a strict one set at low concentration levels adequate to protect infants and unborn children from developmental effects of PFAS exposure.\nBut Michigan has been reluctant to make that move.\nThroughout the spring and summer, Michigan Democrats kept asking why a House bill proposing a very low standard was languishing in committee, unable to get any acknowledgement from Republicans even as contamination was found in ever more places.\nAs of Oct. 16, 55 municipal systems in Michigan have found at least traces of PFAS their supply. The list includes cities like Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Bay City, Saginaw, Port Huron, Monroe, Escanaba, Grand Haven and many others.\nRepublicans finally answered this month, saying they will hold PFAS hearings after the election that will, among other things, consider a statewide PFAS standard of 5 parts-per-trillion in drinking water proposed by Rep. Winnie Brinks, D-Grand Rapids.\n\"We need to determine what our standard is going to be,\" said Rep. Gary Howell, R-Lapeer, chair of the Natural Resources Committee, where the bill sits. \"I don't know if the standard in Rep. Brinks' bill is the right one, but I want to get to the bottom of it.\"\nAri Adler, communications director for the governor, said that Snyder would support a PFAS drinking water standard \"if it is done based on sound science and not soundbites.\"\n\"This is an easy issue to politicize and we have heard of instances where states have passed laws prematurely and then had to deal with unintended consequences,\" he said.\nAdler said state regulators will recommend whether to pursue a standard after getting formal input this fall from a panel of science advisors led by Brown University epidemiologist David Savitz, who says his team is distilling the scientific evidence related to health impacts into a report that won't include recommended actions.\nOn setting an MCL through legislation, Adler said \"any time we can do something through the Legislature and state statute is preferred.\"\nIn the wake of Flint's water crisis, the governor's office has been sensitive to criticism about its response to PFAS contamination. Snyder's team has responded to calls for investigation into early internal Department of Environmental Quality reports about PFAS that were largely ignored by declaring that Michigan is \"leading the nation\" on multiple fronts related to the issue.\nThe talking point has been repeated in reference to the creation of MPART, the Michigan PFAS Action Response Team that Snyder started in November in response to a mushrooming PFAS contamination problem in northern Kent County.\nWhat MPART has done so far has indeed garnered praise, from critics and peer state regulators alike. Other states credit Michigan for aggressively seeking out PFAS in drinking water and sewage plants. The testing effort is pointing to the manufacturing sector as a significant source of PFAS-tainted wastewater getting into waterways like the Huron River, which is the primary source of drinking water for 118,000 people in and around Ann Arbor.\nNonetheless, David Andrews, a senior scientist at the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, which tracks PFAS emergence and regulations, said reducing exposure through rule-setting is a critical step that can happen concurrently with testing efforts.\n\"Testing is an important step, but it's not the be-all, end-all,\" Andrews said. \"It's not the step that necessarily formalizes or ensures clean drinking water. Just being a leader on that first step doesn't necessarily make you a leader across the board.\"\nChris Kolb, president of the Michigan Environmental Council, called MPART's testing \"good triage,\" but said \"we need to do more.\"\n\"Once you start to test for these compounds, you are going to find them,\" Kolb said. \"Then, the question becomes: What next?\"\nWaiting for the EPA\nMichigan officials have repeatedly pointed to Washington, D.C., when asked about passing a drinking water standard. Snyder and the DEQ wants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pass national rules, which is something federal officials say they're \"considering\" but have not firmly committed to doing.\nThe state has been vocal about getting national standards in place, both in public meetings and in private, where Snyder's team is pushing lawmakers and groups like the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators to pressure EPA on the issue.\nMichigan hopes Congress can put its thumb on EPA and, perhaps, get the federal agency to do what it hasn't done since 1996 -- pass a national drinking water standard.\n\"That's what we're hoping for, is some political pressure,\" said Eric Oswald, director of the drinking water division at the Michigan DEQ.\nOswald estimated it could take up to two years for Michigan to set an MCL through administrative rule-making \"depending on how much push it got.\" The process would involve public input, but would likely settle on a level that water utilities felt they could achieve through treatment technology like activated carbon, which Ann Arbor is moving toward and Plainfield Township has installed.\nThere's appetite for a standard among utilities. Ann Arbor's water treatment manager Brian Steglitz told EPA that during a public roundtable in Kalamazoo on Oct. 5.\n\"They want a number,\" said Oswald.\nBonnifer Ballard, director of the American Water Works Association in Michigan, said utilities are struggling to figure out how best to treat PFAS. Technologies like granular activated carbon don't remove all PFAS compounds with equal effectiveness.\nUtility operators and drinking water regulators are quick to highlight scientific uncertainty around the risk posed by exposure to low levels of different PFAS compounds, arguing that requiring expensive treatment may not be the best use of limited funds.\nBallard said utilities want to see a \"better understanding\" of PFAS, but acknowledged that the science around health and engineering is \"never going to be wrapped up in a bow.\"\n\"I don't know what the critical point is, but we have to do our due diligence before we can answer that question,\" she said.\nA national leader: New Jersey\nNationally, whenever talk of standards comes up -- particularly in the context of establishing a strict one that sets maximum parts-per-trillion levels in the single digits or teens -- one state in particular is often cited as being the national leader: New Jersey.\nRob Bilott, an attorney instrumental in bringing PFAS contamination to light nationwide through a high-profile class action lawsuit against DuPont, cited New Jersey's deep knowledge of PFAS as a good example of how significant expertise exists at the state level.\n\"I think some of the states have some of the best people,\" Bilott said during a panel appearance in Flint this month. \"New Jersey, in particular, is leading the country on really understanding comprehensively not only individual chemicals, but the whole class.\"\n\"Some of the states are leading on this much more so than the federal government,\" Bilott said.\nIn 2006 -- years before the federal government began nationwide sampling -- the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection began testing for two PFAS compounds, PFOS and PFOA, in some drinking water systems after being alerted to contaminants found in Delaware River samples. Shortly afterward, state toxicologists analyzed health studies and developed a non-binding safety guidance number of 40 parts-per-trillion (ppt).\nBy contrast, the EPA was using much higher provisional numbers. In 2009, the EPA's interim advisory level was set at 400-ppt -- about five times the eventual advisory level set at 70-ppt in 2016.\nLike Michigan, New Jersey is not shackled by laws that prohibit state rules from being more stringent than federal regulations. State scientists reviewed animal studies which showed PFAS exposure caused increased liver weight, liver toxicity and delayed mammary gland development. They concluded EPA's level was too high.\n\"We looked at literally thousands of papers on these PFAS -- or PFCs, as they were called then -- and saw some more subtle effects than EPA, including low-dose developmental effects,\" said Gary Buchanan, who heads the New Jersey DEP Office of Science.\nNew Jersey scientists even went to Washington to argue their case. \"We pointed out where they weren't even following their own guidance for risk assessment,\" said Buchanan.\nIn September, the state formally passed a standard for PFNA, a lesser-known PFAS compound, of 13-ppt. The state is poised to set similarly low standards for PFOS and PFOA.\nALL MICHIGAN MUNICIPAL SYSTEMS WITH PFAS DETECTION\nOther states are adopting New Jersey's work.\nCalifornia took a step toward developing PFAS drinking water standards this summer by using New Jersey's work to set notification levels of 13-ppt for PFOS and 14-ppt for PFOA.\nDarrin Polhemus, California water board deputy director for drinking water, said he asked the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to look at the analysis other states had done on PFAS when water systems there began to detect the chemicals.\nThe state plans to do its own analysis for a standard-setting process, but Polhemus said New Jersey's work offered a good leg to stand on in the meantime. The administrative process in California is slow and it could take several years to pass a standard. If the EPA were to pass a national rule, California could likely adopt it within one year.\nBut he's not optimistic.\n\"I think we (peers in other states) all kind of understand that we're on our own at the moment,\" Polhemus said. \"None of us are holding our breath for EPA to step in.\"\nWhat is the right safety level?\nNew Jersey's standards have been seized on by public health advocates who want to see either state or national PFAS standards set as low as possible.\nYet, were Michigan officials to even acknowledge New Jersey's low PFAS numbers in a meaningful way at this point, some say the state would face not just embarrassment because of the lengths to which it has defended the adequacy of 70-ppt as a safe water threshold, but also big questions about emergency decisions made thus far.\nSnyder's team says 70-ppt is the action level used for \"decision-making purposes.\" In public meetings, state toxicologists routinely give lengthy, esoteric explanations about how EPA developed its level.\nOfficial literature and FAQ sheets sent to schools where the well is being tested call 70-ppt safe water. Michigan even enshrined the level into state law this year when it passed a PFAS cleanup criteria of 70-ppt for groundwater used as drinking water.\nBut all of that was undercut when the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR) released toxicological profiles for PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS and PFNA this summer with risk levels that mirror the lower thresholds New Jersey is formalizing into law.\nIn New Jersey, Buchanan called the ATSDR's numbers an \"affirmation of the science we found by looking at what's out in the literature.\"\nMichigan officials have lauded their emergency response in Parchment, where PFOS and PFOA at 1,520-ppt was found in city water in July. The statewide testing regimen helped get 3,000 people there off contaminated water, officials say.\nBut if Michigan were using New Jersey's pending standard for PFOS and PFOA, the water now pushed into Parchment pipes from the city of Kalamazoo system -- water already being drank daily by about 190,000 people -- would, itself, be considered unsafe. In June, finished Kalamazoo water tested at 19-ppt for PFOS and PFOA.\nOther Michigan cities have moderate levels of Total PFAS, which is the sum of all PFAS compounds -- not just PFOS and PFOA -- in a given sample. Some systems have only found detections of these other compounds, putting them in a kind of regulatory netherworld where there's neither rules that require any action, nor solid health guidance from the federal government on how to act.\nNonetheless, the chemicals are there.\nGrand Haven -- which pulls from a Lake Michigan intake right next to the Grand River mouth -- tested at 20-ppt for Total PFAS in August. Their PFOS and PFOA number is 8-ppt. Kalamazoo's Total PFAS, found in a groundwater peaking station this summer, is 72-ppt.\nThe city of Evart in Osceola County recently tested at 20-ppt Total PFAS. In Calhoun County, Albion also tested at 20-ppt Total PFAS. The commonly-known compounds PFOS and PFOA -- the basis of the EPA advisory level -- were not found in either of those samples.\nKolb, the Michigan Environmental Council president, said whether a standard moves forward through administrative rule-making or in the legislature, it's high time to get the ball rolling.\n\"At some point, the legislature and the administration need to recognize the severity of the situation and put forward a process that's going to establish a drinking water standard. We need to make sure we're protecting the public, whether through filtration and treatment, dollars to clean up sites and plans to address the next contaminant of concern.\"\n\"I'm not sure what we're waiting for.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BOUSTEAD: Real estate spin-off is a double-edged sword?\nExcerpts of report by Lim & Tan Securities\nBoustead Singapore ($1.795, up 8.0 cents) released more details of its real estate division - Boustead Projects (BP) spin-off, by distributing no more than 49% of its BP subsidiary via listing on the SGX Mainboard by way of introduction. The proposed distribution will be subject to, interalia, the approval of shareholders at an EGM and upon completion, Boustead will still have a direct interest of at least 51% stake in BP.\nBP presently has three key businesses with core engineering expertise in the design-and-build and development of build-to-suit projects comprising industrial facilities, industrial parks and business parks for MNCs and local enterprises. The 14 wholly-owned industrial properties that BP will retain are currently valued in its books at S$162.5mln as at end-Sept 2014, where 13 are in Singapore with the remaining one located in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. According to the latest independent valuation, these assets have an estimated aggregate market valuation of approximately S$367.5 mln.\nIn addition, BP part-owns four joint investments worth S$21.6mln, based on their costs. These will be adjusted upwards to their market valuation of S$53mln pending the spin off. BP had reported FY14 revenue and net profi t at S$209.2mln and S$35.8mln respectively while its NAV was S$164.9mln. For 1H15, revenue and net profit stood at S$107.3mln and S$14.2mln respectively.\nWe understand that there are also plans for BP to form an industrial REIT, although no specifics were given. Boustead added that the number of BP distribution shares entitled to shareholders has not yet been determined but assured shareholders they will not be required to pay for the shares received through the proposed distribution. Assuming this demerger was completed in FY14, Boustead's NAV would decrease to S$0.541 from S$0.684 while EPS would decline to S$0.104 from S$0.139.\nOne of the rationales for the proposed demerger is to unlock shareholders' value so that the market can better appraise the underlying business and even trades at a higher valuation by reducing any possible conglomerate discount. However, we think this could be a double-edged sword as investors generally like Boustead due to the diversified nature of its three different segments and hence, countercyclical that helps to buffer each other in terms of earnings volatility.\nRecent story: BOUSTEAD: Value has emerged after share price decline, says UOB KH\nCIMB's small-cap alpha picks for 2H17: AEM, Best World, CSE, Boustead Projects, etc\nBOUSTEAD: \"We like it as it is cheap...\"\nBOUSTEAD: Value has emerged after share price decline, says UOB KH\nNAM CHEONG -- buy, target 48 c, BOUSTEAD --- hold, $2.00 target","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cowgirl Basketball\nCowgirls Win Sixth Straight Against Tech\nBrittney Martin puts in another monster performance as the Cowgirls just made another BIG accomplishment - just days after sweeping Bedlam, winning six straight for the first time since 1992.\nBy Caroline Lee@AMNewsEditor Feb 7, 2016, 5:43pm CST\nShare All sharing options for: Cowgirls Win Sixth Straight Against Tech\nRob Ferguson-USA TODAY Sports\nIt wasn't a pretty win, but as they say, \"a win is a win,\" as Oklahoma State beat Texas Tech, 70-57.\nIn the first quarter, the Cowgirls (18-4) had no sign of trouble as they went on a 10-0 run and didn't fall behind throughout most of the game. However, Texas Tech showed signs of life by shooting 67 percent from the beyond the arc to stay close within the game. At the end of the first half, OSU had a slim lead over the Red Raiders, 34-30.\nIn the second half, the Cowgirls cooled Texas Tech's three-point performance down, but the Red Raiders were not far from the Cowgirls. Senior All-American Brittney Martin recorded her eighth double-double of the season (had 18 points and nine rebounds at half) and would end up with 32 shooting 11-of-19 from the field. Sophmore Kaylee Jensen helped the Cowgirls stay on top by scoring 14-out-16 attempts - most of them in the fourth quarter. However, Sophmore Mandy Coleman had an impressive performance scoring 14 points - in large part due to Jensen getting into foul trouble. Senior Roddricka Patton recorded double-double assists for the fourth time in the last five games.\nMartin finished the game with 32 points and 15 rebounds. Despite the gutsy win, Oklahoma State moves to 18-4 overall and 8-3 in Big 12 play. For the first time since 1992, the Cowgirls have won six straight in conference play and have a one game lead for third place in the Big 12 over West Virginia. With this victory, OSU is likely to be a certain lock for this year's NCAA Tournament. Oklahoma State has a tough road test ahead as they travel to Austin to face No. 4 Texas on Wednesday.\nNext Game: Wednesday, February 10th @ 7:00 p.m.\nNo. 4 Texas Longhorns (21-1,10-1)\nTV: Longhorn Network","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie\nDirecting For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program\nWriting For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program\nNon-Fiction Program (Reality)\nOustanding Art Direction For A Variety Or Music Program\nArt Direction For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special\nInteractive Television Programming\nAnimated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)\nAnimated Program (For Programming One Hour Or More)\nCinematography For A Multi-Camera Series\nCinematography For A Single-Camera Series\nCinematography For Non-Fiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera)\nClassical Music-Dance Program\nCostumes For A Variety Or Music Program\nHairstyling For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special\nHairstyling For A Series\nMakeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Non-Prosthetic)\nMakeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Prosthetic)\nMakeup For A Series (Non-Prosthetic)\nMakeup For A Series (Prosthetic)\nLighting Direction (Electronic, Multi-Camera) For Vmc Programming\nTechnical Direction, Camerawork, Video For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special\nTechnical Direction, Camerawork, Video For A Series\nMain Title Theme Music\nMusic And Lyrics\nMusic Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Dramatic Underscore)\nMusic Composition For A Series (Dramatic Underscore)\nMulti-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special\nMulti-Camera Picture Editing For A Series\nPicture Editing For Non-Fiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera)\nSingle-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special\nSingle-Camera Picture Editing For A Series\nMulti-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series Or Special\nSingle-Camera Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie\nSingle-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series\nSound Mixing For Non-Fiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera)\nNon-Fiction Series (Informational)\nNon-Fiction Special (Informational)\nSound Editing For Non-Fiction Programming (Single Or Multi-Camera)\nSpecial Class Program\nVoice-Over Performance (Narrator)\nOutstanding Hairstyling For A Series - 2002\nKaren Bartek\nMichael Reitz\nLinda Arnold\nSean Flanigan\nDept. Head Hair\nThomas Real\nLisa Marie Rosenberg\nFrancine Shermaine\nLaura Connolly\nRoma Goddard\nGloria Casny\nCheri Ruff\nAngel DeAngelis\nKey Hairstylist\nMichelle Johnson\nSuzana Neziri\nSacha Quarles\nPinky Babajian\nRandy Sayer\nKimberley Spiteri\n2000 - 52nd2001 - 53rd2002 - 54th2003 - 55th2004 - 56th\nOutstanding Sound Editing For A Series\nOutstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Special","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Susquehanna Off-Limits To Tournaments?\n12y \u2022 MLF \u2022 Archives\nOctober 20, 2010 \u2022 MLF \u2022 Archives\nPennsylvania fishery managers plan to tighten restrictions on the harvest of smallmouth bass in the famed Susquehanna River, citing a decline in the quantity and quality of fish in the waterway. Pollution and overharvest are blamed for the declining numbers of bass.\nIf approved by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission at its meeting in April, the Susquehanna will become a catch-and-release fishery throughout much of its range. The Juniata River, from the Route 75 bridge at Port Royal downriver 32 miles to where it enters the Susquehanna above Harrisburg at Duncannon, also will be included in the catch-and-release zone. In the Susquehanna, catch-and-release regulations will be imposed from the dam site at Sunbury downriver 98 miles to the Holtwood Dam in York County.\nBass tournament also will be affected by the ruling, as tournaments will be banned during the spring spawning season, and because of the catch-and-release restrictions, weigh-ins will not be allowed.\n\"What does tournament fishing have to do with poor water quality, disease and decreases in young of the year [bass], which is supposedly why the regulation was instituted?\" asked Carlisle tournament angler Mick Schulkins at the meeting where the management changes were announced. \"Also, I don't think they have realized the impact that it is going to have on the economic side. They have just put the bait business out of business, the sale of tackle, licenses, gas, boats and motors. And the list could go on.\"\nSchulkins also noted that many organizations from fire companies and youth organizations to charity groups benefit from money raised through bass tournaments on the river.\n\"They [state fishery managers] have no data to support that tournaments have any impact on a fishery, since they have done no studies,\" noted Schulkins. \"And, if tournament fishing is the problem, how is it that the river at Sunbury and Williamsport, where there are three times more tournaments being held than Goldsboro and Harrisburg, has no problem with young of the year?\"\nSchulkins believes the new regulations will bring an end to most tournaments on the river because \"paper [catch-and-release] tournaments are a joke and nobody will participate, other than small club tournaments.\" He suggested that the Fish and Boat Commission could have employed alternatives to the restriction on tournaments, including special permits to \"the good catch-and-release tournaments groups,\" experimenting with the emergency regulations on a smaller area of the river and closing the season entirely during the smallmouth spawning season.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dedicated Short Range Communications Gaining Momentum in the US\nStaff Writer\tby Staff Writer 10 August 2018 15 March\nfacebook share - Dedicated Short Range Communications Gaining Momentum in the US\ntwitter share - Dedicated Short Range Communications Gaining Momentum in the US\npinterest share - Dedicated Short Range Communications Gaining Momentum in the US\nlinkedin share - Dedicated Short Range Communications Gaining Momentum in the US\ngmail share - Dedicated Short Range Communications Gaining Momentum in the US\nprintfriendly share - Dedicated Short Range Communications Gaining Momentum in the US\nThere are many ongoing innovations in the auto industry that strengthen autonomous vehicle technology and road safety. One of these is Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), which is a one-way or two-way short-to-medium-range wireless communications capability. It allows for high data transmission in active safety applications. This technology allows autonomous cars to talk to and inform each other about the surrounding environment. In April 2018, Toyota announced its plans to begin deployment of vehicles that utilize Dedicated Short Range Communications by 2021.\nCommunication Model Types\nCurrent automation systems in autonomous vehicles rely on cameras and sensors to analyze its surroundings. And while this has its benefits, it has limits in protecting motorists as it relies on visuals like humans do. Dedicated Short Range Communications builds on this visual foundation and uses information from other cars from different distances, essentially creating a wider and more informative driving landscape.\nToyota reveals its plan to deploy vehicles using Dedicated Short Range Communications in 2021\nDSRC is based on Wi-Fi, and it has three different communication models that allow this autonomous vehicle technology to work. First, there is the V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) where cars and other motor vehicles pass messages to each other as a way of defensive driving. Ninety-two percent of Toyota's current line-up is equipped with V2V.\nSecond, there is the V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure), which capitalizes on road infrastructure and features such as road signs and traffic lights. These systems communicate with vehicles to notify them of lane markings, speed limits, intersections, accidents, and road conditions ahead. V2I also allows autonomous vehicles to park by themselves in designated areas, and manage traffic on a larger scale.\nLastly, there is the V2X or vehicle-to everything communication. It is a combination of V2V and V2I which allows cars to communicate with other cars, bikes, and motorcycles, road systems, networks, even with pedestrians through their smartphones. This gives a more comprehensive awareness of a car's immediate and approaching environment.\nIndustry Momentum in Autonomous Vehicle Technology\nIn the US, the Federal Communications Commission allotted 5.9 GHz in the radio spectrum for connected transportation. Toyota will then make use of this frequency for its autonomous vehicles. It plans to integrate its own V2V communications system across its vehicle lineup within three years.\nThe Japanese automaker was actually the first to use DSRC-based V2V communications in Japan in 2015. To date, car brands like Toyota and Lexus have sold at least 100,000 cars with V2V capability.\nToyota's announcement of its DSRC plans points to its aim to be a global leader in autonomous vehicle technology. And it also seeks to convince other car manufacturers to head in the same direction to push the advancement of DSRC everywhere. The full benefits of DSRC can only be achieved once there is a significant number of vehicles equipped with the technology so they can talk to each other and manage a moving network of self-driving cars.\nDedicated Short Range Communications Vs. Cellular\nDedicated Short Range Communications' competing technology is 5GLTE cellular communication, and Volkswagen preferred to power its self-driving cars with 5GLTE. Cellular communication has its advantages for its interoperability, wider bandwidth, and increased cybersecurity.\n5GLTE also operates from private cell towers instead of dedicated roadside systems by the government. It offers numerous advantages for other IoT (Internet of Things) devices and applications, so developing this whole network for cars is inevitable.\nWhile both have their advantages and disadvantages, experts say they are more complementary than competitive. Perhaps autonomous vehicles could benefit from using both in their systems as a way to ensure the safety and of its systems and its passengers.\nHow DSRC Addresses Safety\nUp until the invention of autonomous vehicle technology, traffic management has always been about saving people from road and highway accidents. Traffic control and emergency response teams are always present to address any road hazards and casualties. But now technology is allowing us to move onto a more preventive approach by allowing vehicles to make even more calculated and informed decisions than humans.\nDSRC may just be more effective than sensors and cameras because it creates a broader perspective of its surroundings by understanding road and traffic that are not easily visible to cameras. It helps self-driving cars identify nearby and looming dangers and allows them to react accurately and accordingly. This, in turn, reduces the risks of collisions and accidents. Experts say this may be one of the most important safety innovations since the creation of seatbelts and airbags.\nDSRC Concerns\nLike with many comprehensively connected devices, privacy is a great concern. People would like to know that the vehicles will not compromise passengers' identities and personal information. There is also a concern that these autonomous vehicles might be hacked, which would compromise the safety of passengers and everyone else on the road. These cars must be impenetrable by hackers, and must continually develop ways to ward off any cybersecurity threats. Software developers and car makers must address these concerns before this technology becomes available globally. Recently, a hearing was held by the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to talk about how self-driving cars will affect US road infrastructure, and touched on the issue of human privacy.\nAnd while it has safety concerns, Dedicated Short Range Communications proves to be a transformational technology that will greatly impact urban and rural societies all over the world. 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{"text":"Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan is an annual convention of Bengali literary personages of India, held annually. The first annual conference Prabasi Banga-Sahitya Sammelan was held in Banaras at Central Hindu Boys School in 1923 and was presided over by Rabindranath Tagore.\nThe love for Bengali literature and the language brought the eminent personalities in one stage.\nThe inauguration of the centenary celebration of the concluding ceremony of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan was held at Sister Nivedita University Campus on 25th December.\nAll the eminent personalities including Governor C V Ananda Bose, ex- speaker of Lok Sabha Meera Kumar, veteran actor Sharmila Tagore and noted Bikash Sinha graced the inauguration. Bose announced his wish to write a book in Bengali and release it in SNU.\nFor Satyam Roychowdhury it was a historic moment to be sharing the stage with such influential personalities, \" I am delighted to host a galaxy of respected guests on the SNU campus. It's a historic day for all of us. The institution, which has been associated with names like Tagore, Atulprasad, Sen, Ashapurna Devi, and others, is 100 years old today. I cannot recall any Bengali organisation, which has crossed 100 years. It is indeed surreal that 100 years ago, a group of Bengalis in Kanpur felt the need to return to their roots and created a historic organisation like NBBSS. Today it is the same connection with the roots and the love for the Bengali language, which has kept this organisation alive for 100 years,\" he said.\nTagNikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Music Top 10 Neil Diamond's Songs\nTop 10 Neil Diamond's Songs\nWe all know and love this amazing musician by many hits like \"Sweet Caroline,\" \"Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon,\" and \"Solitary Man.\" Born in 41\u2032 this golden man started writing songs when he was a student at New York University. He was pre-med, but he followed his love for music. Eventually dropped out in college and dropped in on our hearts.\n#10. Longfellow Serenade\n#9. Heartlight\n#8. Play Me\n#7. Forever In Blue Jeans\n#6. Love On The Rocks\n#5. Song Sung Blue\n#4. Solitary Man\n#3. Cracklin' Rosie\n#2. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon\n#1. Sweet Caroline\nThis song was Neil's second, number one hit in '74. It climbed up all the way to number five on Billboard's Hot 100.\nThe heartlight is actually the glowing heart of E.T. when he flies. This song was inspired by the sincere movie E.T.\nThis song was released on the Moods album in '72. This song is simply put \" beautiful \". It is so beautiful It's hard to describe. It took 11th place on the Billboard Hot 100 of that year.\nThis song is not literal because Neil doesn't wear jeans that often. But this nice tune was once featured in Gat T.V. advertisement.\nThis song was written by Diamond for the film, which he starred in, \"The Jazz Singer.\" The movie was a fail at the box office and shot down by critics, yet the soundtrack was a success and went up to number three on charts.\nThis song was inspired by the one and only Mozart's \"Concerto number 21\" for piano. One might say It is the most energetic track inspired by Mozart.\nThis classic N.D. hit makes It into our number 4. It was his first-ever single. It was recorded in '66 and issued before his album \"The Feel of Neil Diamond,\" which makes it into the racks of music stores.\nThis lovely song was Diamond's first number 1 single. It was in the album \"Tap Root Manuscript\" which was released in '70.\nWe all know this one from the scene in the movie \"Pulp Fiction\" where John Travolta enters the house Uma Thruman for the second time to drop her back where she overdoses on heroin. It was released with the album \"Just For You\" in '67.\nThis is most people's favorite song by Neil Diamond. It was a song that shaped a generation and formed pop culture on a core level. And the number one goes to \"Sweet Caroline.\"\nPrevious articleTop 10 John Denver Songs\nNext articleTop 10 Linda Ronstadt's Songs","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FT is sure that new gold exchange in South Korea will flop\nSubmitted by cpowell on Mon, 2013-07-22 20:10. Section: Daily Dispatches\nSouth Korea's New Gold Trading Platform May Lack Sparkle\nBy Song Jung-a\nFinancial Times, London\nhttp:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/beyond-brics\/2013\/07\/22\/s-korea-new-gold-trading-pla...\nTo much fanfare South Korea has announced it plans to set up a gold exchange in 2014 -- but analysts warned that it might be poorly timed, given weak demand for bullion amid the global economic slowdown.\nThe country's financial watchdog said on Monday that spot gold will be traded on its main bourse from early next year as the government is keen to boost transparency of gold trades and root out shady deals used for tax evasion.\nThe gold exchange will be set up in the first quarter so that individuals as well as institutional investors can trade bullion in the open market as they do stocks, the Financial Supervisory Commission said. It also added that local authorities would strengthen the clampdown on illegal deals through tougher tax probes.\n... Dispatch continues below ...\nHow to profit with silver --\nand which stocks to buy now\nFuture Money Trends is offering a special 16-page silver report with our forecast for 2013 that includes profiles of nine companies and technical analysis of their stock performance. Six of the companies have market capitalizations of less than $800 million and one company has a market cap of only $30 million. The most exciting of these companies will begin production in a few weeks and has a market cap of just $150 million.\nHalf of all proceeds from the sale of this report will be donated to the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee to support its efforts exposing manipulation and fraud in the gold and silver markets.\nTo learn about this report, please visit:\nhttp:\/\/www.futuremoneytrends.com\/index.php?option=com_content&id=376&tmp...\nGovernment officials have pointed to gold buying as one of the most common ways used for tax evasion. About 100-110 tonnes of gold are traded in South Korea each year but more than half of the transactions are made illegally to avoid paying a 10 per cent value-added tax, the FSC said.\nThe move comes after the country's new president, Park Geun-hye, promised to strengthen tax collection through regularisation of the informal sector to boost welfare spending. Park promised to implement $119 billion of social spending over the next five years, without increasing public debt or most tax rates.\nGovernment officials believe that the illegal gold trade could increase further as business leaders try to hide assets. Local authorities have strengthened their corporate tax probes since Park came to power in late February. The authorities said in May they had launched a probe into 23 companies and individuals suspected of tax evasion through shell companies in tax havens.\nTo encourage participation of individual investors, the trading units of gold will be as small as 1-10 grammes while 1kg of gold bar will be used for physical delivery, the FSC said. And the 3 per cent import tariff will be exempted on the gold traded on the exchange, it added.\nStocks, bonds, and financial derivatives are traded on the Korea Exchange. Although the country has a vibrant derivatives market for stock futures and options, the trading volume for gold futures remains very low.\nAnalysts were sceptical about the prospects of the gold exchange, saying it is an ill-timed plan. \"Investor sentiment toward gold remains extremely weak, as no one expects gold price to go up any time soon,\" said Suh Ji-young, a researcher at Daishin Economic Research Institute. \"Initial trading volume will be very low, although demand could recover in two to three years once the global economy recovers.\"\nThe precious metal dropped nearly 30 per cent from the start of the year to a low of $1,180 a troy ounce last month amid low inflation and the dollar's strength, although it has rebounded more than 10 per cent since to above $1,317 a troy ounce as fears of a rapid exit from monetary stimulus by the Federal Reserve eased.\nSuh also noted that regularisation of gold trade could actually reduce demand for the metal. \"For many of the buyers, tax evasion was one of the biggest merits because gold allowed them to hoard wealth without paying taxes. Now that the merit is gone, demand will likely be reduced,\" she said.\nSupport GATA by purchasing DVDs of our London conference in August 2011 or our Dawson City conference in August 2006:\nhttp:\/\/www.goldrush21.com\/order.html\nOr by purchasing a colorful GATA T-shirt:\nhttp:\/\/gata.org\/tshirts\nOr a colorful poster of GATA's full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal on January 31, 2009:\nhttp:\/\/gata.org\/node\/wallstreetjournal\nGATA is a civil rights and educational organization based in the United States and tax-exempt under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Its e-mail dispatches are free, and you can subscribe at:\nhttp:\/\/www.gata.org\nTo contribute to GATA, please visit:\nhttp:\/\/www.gata.org\/node\/16\nBuy metals at GoldMoney and enjoy international storage\nGoldMoney was established in 2001 by James and Geoff Turk and is safeguarding more than $1.7 billion in metals and currencies. Buy gold, silver, platinum, and palladium from GoldMoney over the Internet and store them in vaults in Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, \u00adtaking advantage of GoldMoney's low storage rates, among the most competitive in the industry. GoldMoney also offers delivery of 100-gram and 1-kilogram gold bars and 1-kilogram silver bars. To learn more, please visit:\nhttp:\/\/www.goldmoney.com\/?gmrefcode=gata\nRegulators find an investment house not too... Eventually confidence will rest only with g...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New laws of refinement\nCode Civil is the new luxury fashion and lifestyle destination in Belgium. A two-stage opening: a pilot boutique in Knokke-Heist on the coast in the summer of 2018 before the flagship opens on the prestigious Avenue Louise in Brussels, in a splendid building of 1500m\u00b2 and 4 floors dating from the mid-19th century, initially intended for a law firm. Beyond the simple concept store gathering the most prominent designers, from Courr\u00e8ges to MSGM via Neil Barrett or C\u00e9dric Charlier, Code Civil is a lifetsyle destination at the antipodes of the cold and elitist luxury boutique, where you can dine, meet your friends, enjoy the services of a high-end concierge or get dressed up in the beauty lounge, organize an event and occasionally enjoy works of art.\nThe founder of the place contacted us in order to build with her her brand, her identity and her positioning from the very beginning, as close as possible to her convictions and the passion that animates her. We have imagined the name, Civil Code, in reference both to the initial occupants of the Brussels address, the lawyers, but also to the vocation of the place: redefining the laws of civil life, elegance and luxury.\nWe then built a visual identity based on an observation: traditional luxury, based on an indisputable heritage, can claim more grandiloquence and decorative elements. The new luxury, a reflection of our times, takes the complete opposite of what characterizes the luxury of the golden age of neoliberalism. We have developed a graphic language based on the juxtaposition, even the collision of the exquisite and the banal.\nThe logo is a dedicated monospaced typographic design with certain graphic subtleties, which give it a personality that is both raw and sophisticated. The graphic language is composed of a minimum number of visual elements; it is built solely on the basis of typographical compositions, a certain management of space and white circulation. The rest of the branding will be to discover at the end of the year when the Brussels address opens.\nBehance, Best of Behance\nMindsparkle Mag\nInspofinds\nHey Design\nNaming \/ copywriting\nShow me more case studies !\nM Capital\nAmplifying the extraordinary\nDualist\nThe Reversible Story\nZetaly\nThe one-stop mainframe solution\nBakery & Workshop, Paris 18\n\u00a9 Brand Brothers\n\u2014 Brand design studio\n\u2014 Paris \/ Toulouse \u2014 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sort By: DATETIME rating\nIdeas Search Result\ncjwichitaks\nIdea(s): 1\n\/Relationships\n\/Shopping\n\/Hobbies and Collectibles\nCode Of Honor. COH. In this web site everything is contributed two being real and honest. So if your looking for a relationship, or a new tatto. Or maybe your just look see who is real or not. Make new friends and collect new ideas.\nBump mark to check for freshness by feel\n\/Food and Cooking\nCreated with the visually impaired in mind but useful to everyone, the bump mark bio-reactive label will change texture as the food within begins to spoil. The bump mark will be used with existing packaging, and will be made up of a layer of gelatin (which decays at the same rate as other proteins) coated over a bumpy plastic sheet. The sheet will feel smooth at first, but as the gelatin ages and becomes less solid, the bumps will begin to emerge. The gelatin will be applied in...\nNicotine patch that delivers personalized doses\n\/Shopping\/Tobacco and Tobacco Products\n\/Technology\nThe smart nicotine patch will inject a specific dose of nicotine on demand, helping to prevent cravings and making it easier to stop smoking. Instead of delivering a steady stream of nicotine like conventional nicotine patches, the smart patch will deliver doses that are synchronized with the user's cravings. The system will also be equipped with Bluetooth, which will allow it to send real-time data to smartphones regarding nicotine consumption while also providing a way to control...\nBag that inflates to protect fragile devices\n\/Travel\nDesigned for device-lugging people who live in urban environments, this bag will protect fragile electronic devices by inflating to form a cushion of air that can be released on command. The bag will be made of polyurethane-coated, carbon-fiber fabric panels welded together for extra durability and waterproofing. The bag's inflatable sections will be made from thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) films, which can be inflated with a pump in just a minute and deflated in ten seconds. The...\nSolar powered sunglasses\n\/Shopping\/Fashion\/Shoes and Accessories\n\/Science\/Energy\/Renewable Energy\/Solar Power\nNew sunglasses will do more than protect your eyes from UV rays - they will also harness power from the sun to top off mobile gadgets. The sunglasses will be made from a pair of Ray Ban Wayfarer sunglasses that have been fitted with photovoltaic cells on the plastic ear pieces. The cells will collect solar rays to charge a battery embedded in the frame, and the ear pieces can be removed to reveal a microUSB or Lightening connector that can be used to charge an iPhone.\nCoffee socks offer new heat and odor defense\n\/Shopping\/Fashion\/Clothing\nSocks will be made from a mix of cotton, recycled polyester and carbonized coffee, which will filter and absorb sweat and odor to keep feet cool. After a long day, traditional dress socks are not always very gentle to the feet, what with all the heat and sweat they keep in. But this new technology can provide new levels of comfort that were not previously possible. Carbonized coffee is a weapon against odor, attracting molecules (composed mostly of carbon) with its spongy...\nNew umbrella design\nThe new umbrella will let you text in the rain, and will also offer a comfortable option for arthritis or carpal tunnel sufferers. The new umbrella difference will lie in its unique grip made up of four finger holes and a soft, ergonomic handle. The rubber material of the hand will conform to the user's hand for maximum comfort and will be strong enough to hold up to stormy conditions. The grip will also leave both thumbs free for texting, because texting doesn't stop just because...\nQR-tagged clothes for those who hate shopping\nI suggest using a new tactic to encourage people to shop by using QR coded clothes and automated dressing rooms. The store will contain multiple styles of clothes, but only one item in each style will actually be on display. The items will be hung on racks so customers can check the brands and styling, and will each be tagged with a QR code. When the customer scans the code with the store's app, they will be directed to a dressing room where the item in their size will be delivered...\nJacket that carries your load\nThe jacket will be basically a wearable bag, carrying your gear and clothing and leaving your hands free. The jacket will be a lightweight vest with twelve pockets hidden in the lining and two zip pockets on the outside. The jacket will hold up to 11 pounds of clothes, including a pair of jeans, a sweater, and four t-shirts, and will be made of durable ripstop Nylon and polyester with a microfleece- lined collar.\nHands-free suitcase\n\/Shopping\/Fashion\/Luggage\nThe suitcase will communicate with a smartphone to automatically follow the user, even locking itself and sounding an alert if it gets lost. The suitcase will move about on small set of treads powered by compressed air and will include a microcontroller able to identify and triangulate signals from the user's smartphone. It will follow at a constant distance, and will lock itself and send a vibration alert to the phone if the signal is lost. The bags can also be programmed to...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DOT proposes $79 billion budget\nU.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday, Feb. 1, said President Obama's $79 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation continues strong levels of investment for safety, the department's top priority, along with critical investments for infrastructure to generate economic growth and support livable communities.\n\"President Obama's budget builds on an historic first year for this Department of Transportation,\" LaHood says. \"In addition to making critical investments in our nation's infrastructure, we jump-started high-speed rail across America, launched a campaign against distracted driving and proposed landmark transit safety legislation. This budget reflects our priorities and values by continuing to invest in safety, livable communities and an improved national transportation system.\"\nLaHood says the budget promotes safety in a number of areas, starting with a new $50 million incentive grant program to the states to combat distracted driving. Since LaHood convened a national Distracted Driving Summit last fall, he has undertaken a nationwide campaign to put an end to the deadly epidemic.\nThe budget further advances traffic safety with $12 million to improve the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Five-Star Safety Rating System, which is used to rank the safety of new automobiles, and 66 additional personnel in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration assigned to highway and vehicle safety issues.\nSafety personnel will be added across agencies, with $7 million and 118 people for additional motor carrier safety inspectors; $1.4 million to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to continue carrying out their action plan to address pipeline and hazardous material safety; and $14 million for the FAA to hire 82 new safety and certification inspectors and safety technical specialists.\nAviation safety is a top priority, receiving $1.1 billion for NextGen air traffic control technology, an increase of $275 million, 32 percent, over the FY 2010 enacted levels.\nThe budget also places a strong emphasis on transit safety by including $30 million and up to 260 positions to support the Obama administration's Public Transportation Safety Program Act of 2009, which the administration proposed to Congress last year to ensure a high and standard level of safety across all transit systems.\nRecognizing that a strong transportation infrastructure is an engine for future economic growth, LaHood says the budget establishes and provides $4 billion for a National Infrastructure Innovation and Finance Fund (NIIFF) to issue grants and loans in support of projects that provide a significant economic benefit to the nation or a region.\nThe budget includes an additional $1 billion for high-speed rail, coming on the heels of Obama's and Vice President Joe Biden's Jan. 28 announcement of $8 billion in Recovery Act funds for states across the country to develop America's first nationwide program of high-speed intercity passenger rail service.\nLaHood also highlighted the importance of livable communities and providing greater choices for transportation users through the integration of transportation, housing and commercial development decisions. The budget provides $527 million for livable communities by establishing an Office of Livable Communities, creating a program to improve local and state project planning and development capabilities, and funding programs that expand transit access for low-income persons.\nKnight orders 370 Volvo VNs with SCR\nGetting components to talk\nMarket Report: Medium-Duty Truck Prices","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Debate changes coming; commission to add structure for 'orderly discussion'\nPresident Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden traded barbs in a chaotic presidential debate on Tuesday. Here are five key takeaways from Tuesday's debate.\nBy: Sam Cohen\nThe organization that manages presidential debates says there will be changes made \"to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues\" at future debates this season.\nThe Commission on Presidential Debates released a statement Wednesday following the first presidential debate held in Cleveland.\nThe debate has been called \"chaotic\" and hard to follow. Trump's frequent interruptions of the Democratic presidential nominee defined Tuesday night's debate, with Biden frequently unable to complete a sentence.\nThe commission makes it clear the debates are \"for the benefit of the American electorate,\" and they \"will be carefully considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce those measures shortly.\"\nModerator Chris Wallace of Fox News pleaded with Trump several times to allow Biden to speak uninterrupted, to no avail.\nIn their statement, the commission thanked Wallace, saying they are \"grateful to Chris Wallace for the professionalism and skill he brought to last night's debate.\"\nThe Commission on Presidential Debates sponsors televised debates for the benefit of the American electorate. Last night's debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues. The CPD will be carefully considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce those measures shortly. The commission is grateful to Chris Wallace for the professionalism and skill he brought to last night's debate and intends to ensure that additional tools to maintain order are in place for the remaining debates.\nThe Commission on Presidential Debates\nThe commission is a nonpartisan group that has organized every general election presidential debate since 1988.\nThe next debate is between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris on October 7 in Salt Lake City. The next presidential debate is on October 15 in Miami.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"[View Live Version] [Hide]\nAnti-Violence\nProtecting Youth\nHIV\/AIDS Work\nRural Youth Empowerment Fellowship\nOut Electeds\nElecteds for Equality\nEquality Works\nPolitical Endorsements\n730 More North Carolina Jobs Lost Under Governor McCrory's Watch: HRC & Equality NC Slam McCrory for Putting Discrimination First\nRALEIGH - Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin and Equality North Carolina Executive Director Chris Sgro released the following statements after news broke today that North Carolina lost out on 730 jobs because Pat McCrory has refused to support the full repeal of HB2.\n\"With each passing day that Governor McCrory's discriminatory HB2 remains law the people of North Carolina continue to pay the price,\" said HRC President Chad Griffin. \"North Carolina and its people are suffering under HB2, and yet Governor McCrory and his allies continue to defend the indefensible. Governor McCrory has proven he is unfit to lead this great state, and the majority of fair-minded North Carolinians will finally have a chance to make their voices heard on Election Day.\"\n\"What a travesty -- our state has lost 730 more jobs because of Governor McCrory's bad bill,\" said Equality NC Executive Director Chris Sgro. \"HB2 puts LGBT people at risk for discrimination and violence and it's hurting all North Carolinians every day. Where are Pat McCrory's priorities? 200 days after he signed this bill, he still refuses to step up and fix the mess he made of our state. Shame on him for putting his politics above our economy.\"\nPat McCrory has refused to fully repeal HB2, despite massive economic fallout as companies concerned with protecting their consumers and employees have moved conventions, trainings, operations and productions out of state. Since Gov. McCrory and state lawmakers rammed HB2 into law, the outcry has continued to grow:\n\u00b7 The NBA announced it was moving the 2017 All-Star Game because of the failure of the General Assembly to repeal HB2, costing North Carolina an estimated $100 million in All-Star Game related profits.\n\u00b7 The NCAA and the ACC also announced they would stand up for the safety of their employees, players, and fans by moving championship games out of North Carolina due to the state's refusal to repeal its anti-LGBTQ HB2 law.\n\u00b7 More than 200 major CEOs and business leaders signed an open letter calling for full repeal of HB2 \u2013 including many of North Carolina's largest employers. More than 50 investment managers with more than $2.1 trillion in investments signed a similar letter.\n\u00b7 Major film studios and corporations, from PayPal to Deutsche Bank, have stopped investments in the state because of the new law's threat to employees and consumers. Conventions have withdrawn from the state, taking substantial revenue with them. Prior to the NBA and NCAA decisions, the Tar Heel State had already taken a hit of at least $329.9 million in lost business, and in taxpayer money used to defend the measure \u2013 including funding Gov. Pat McCrory's road trips to explain why he signed discrimination into law.\n\u00b7 Artists including Beyonc\u00e9, Bruce Springsteen, Dead & Company and Cyndi Lauper have spoken out.\n\u00b7 In May, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit in federal court, stating that HB2's state-mandated discrimination against transgender people, including government workers and students, violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Violence Against Women Act of 2011.\n\u00b7 Joined by 68 major companies, HRC filed an amicus brief in support of DOJ's effort to block some of the most egregious and discriminatory components of HB2.\n\u00b7 Duke University men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski called the bill \"embarrassing\" and North Carolina State University men's basketball coach Mark Gottfried said it \"appalled\" and \"embarrassed\" him.\nThe Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.\nEquality NC is a statewide organization working to secure equal rights and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender North Carolinians. For more information, please visit www.equalitync.org\nPaid for by Human Rights Campaign PAC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.\nENC Condemns Trump Administration Attack on Transgender Healthcare\nOppose Suppression of Transgender Voters in North Carolina\n2018 EQUALITY NC VOTER GUIDE\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/tBPOakbNBe\n\u2014 Equality NC (@equalitync) July 9, 2019\n\"A lot of young athletes, especially #trans athletes, are leaving sports because they don't feel safe. We need to make them feel welcome, accepted, so they can go out there and play their sport.\" -@jasoncollins98 #WorldPride #sportisforall ht @AthleteAllyhttps:\/\/t.co\/mle50UCSg1\nWant to stay updated on the work of Equality North Carolina and the happenings in our state that affect the most vulnerable North Carolinians? Sign up for our updates.\nEquality North Carolina\nWho We Are | What We Do | The Latest | Take Action | Contact Us\n\u00a9 2019 EqualityNC. All rights reserved.\nPowered by ARCOS | Design by Plus Three","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Make-A-Wish Launches Wishes Need Stars Like You in Conjunction with 40th Anniversary\nApril 29 marked the 40th anniversary of the wish that inspired the founding of Make-A-Wish Foundation, the organization that grants life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses worldwide.\nAfter 40 years of wish granting, Make-A-Wish has proven time and time again that light can shine in even the darkest and most uncertain times. Make-A-Wish remains committed to delivering hope to wish kids and their families despite facing an unprecedented number of wishes waiting to be granted. As a result, Make-A-Wish is used April 29, recognized annually as World Wish Day, to launch Wishes Need Stars Like You \u2013 a new campaign that rallies the collective star power of everyday people and corporate sponsors who help wish kids and their families when they need it most. The campaign serves as the first effort under the multi-year When Stars Align strategy, intended to highlight the past, present and future stars who align their time, talents and resources to fuel the Make-A-Wish mission.\nBoth the new campaign and the overarching When Stars Align strategy were developed in partnership with Team One, the organization's pro bono brand agency of record. Make-A-Wish kicks off Wishes Need Stars Like You with the release of Lasso, a brand-new PSA. The PSA features a voiceover from actor and WWE Superstar John Cena, who has granted more wishes than any other celebrity wish granter, in addition to a special re-recording of \"A Sky Full of Stars\" from award-winning musicians Coldplay. The cast of the PSA includes current wish kids, wish alumni, volunteers and community supporters like Tony Adkins, a physician assistant at Children's Hospital of Orange County famously known as \"the dancing doctor.\" There's even a cameo from Make-A-Wish co-founder Linda Pauling, whose son, Chris Greicius, inspired the founding of Make-A-Wish when his wish to be a police officer was granted on April 29, 1980.\n\"While on set for the new PSA, I had a chance to reflect on the growth that has taken place at Make-A-Wish since the founding in 1980,\" said Pauling. \"All of us co-founders knew that we had tapped into something truly special when we granted Chris' wish, but back then, we would have never anticipated the wish would lead to an organization that would bring hope and healing to more than half a million children with critical illnesses worldwide.\"\nA production team of more than 200 people supported the PSA in order to tell a compelling story that clearly and effectively conveys the essence of Wishes Need Stars Like You. Thanks to the generosity of Disney, the PSA was able to be filmed on the life-like neighborhood set of Golden Oak Ranch in Newhall, Calif.\nThe PSA and the overarching Wishes Need Stars Like You campaign center around the Make-A-Wish star that the public already associates with wish granting. Inspired by its logo, Make-A-Wish has created a glowing, blue version of the iconic star in the form of a glow-in-the-dark pin. The star pin is intended to be worn as a signal that everyone can be a star in the lives of wish kids and their families. Celebrities, influencers and supporters alike have already started to wear and share the star pin on social media with the hashtags, #WorldWishDay and #WishesAreWaiting. There will be other chances to display the star pin throughout the next year and the years to come, so people are encouraged to buy their own online. In addition, there is a digital version of the star pin available as a sticker to be incorporated into Facebook Stories or Instagram Stories.\n\"Wishes Need Stars Like You is a call-to-action to the shining stars all around us \u2013 the people and organizations who have the power to bring hope to children, families and communities who need it most. Together, they've helped Make-A-Wish transform countless lives over the past 40 years, but there's still lots more work to be done before every eligible child can experience the power of a wish,\" said Richard K. Davis, Make-A-Wish America president and CEO. Luciano Manzo, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish International, added, \"Make-A-Wish is facing a situation unlike any other in our 40-year history. To ensure the next 40 years are even more impactful than the first, we are launching Wishes Need Stars Like You to help people recognize the power they have to be a shining star for wish kids because every child deserves a childhood.\"\nMake-A-Wish will continue to recognize the 40th anniversary for the next 12 months. Between now and World Wish Day 2021, Make-A-Wish will shine a light on 40 years of wishes across the national and chapter social media platforms. In addition, many Make-A-Wish national sponsors will take part in the 40th anniversary alongside Make-A-Wish, including The Walt Disney Company, Macy's, GameStop, WWE, ABC Supply, Allegiant Air, American Airlines, American Freight, Avis, Brooks Brothers, Fairmont Hotels, Frigo Cheese Heads, Keebler, Lokai, Marquis Spas, NowMobile, Party City, Petland, Southwest Airlines, Subaru of America, Topgolf, Torchy's Tacos, Trusted Choice, and United Airlines.\nMake-A-Wish Spotlights the Impact of a Wish During World Wish Day Apr 29, 2022\nMake-A-Wish, the organization that grants life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, will celebrate its annual World Wish Day on April 29. More \u2192\nTim McGraw Joins 50+ Celebrities to Help Raise $2.5 Million during Iconic Grand Finale Event Apr 27, 2022\nMake-A-Wish America Reveals the 2021 Class of Chris Greicius Celebrity Award Winners Nov 17, 2021\nStars Support Make-A-Wish Singapore's Christmas Campaign on ACE Dec 15, 2020\nJohn Cena throws down the Make-A-Wish Arm Wrestle Challenge #ArmWrestleChallenge\nA Wish Takes More Than Magic. It Takes Muscle. | World Wish Day\u00ae 2018\nDon't Judge a Bull by His Cover (:30) | Learning & Attention Issues | Ad Council\nWish Granted: The \"Cake Boss\" Bakes With Miranda\nEdward R. Matthews, CEO of ADAPT Community Network, announced today the honorees for the ADAPT Leadership Awards, which will take place on Thursday, March 9th, 2023, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. The awards gala will support the important ongoing work of the non-profit organization. More \u2192\nGLAAD Announces Nominees for the 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Jan 19, 2023","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Cloud\nGoogle-Cisco Hybrid Cloud Offering Now Generally Available\nJaikumar Vijayan\nA hybrid cloud offering that Google launched last October in collaboration with Cisco is now generally available to customers of Google's cloud platform.\nThe Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud is designed to give enterprises a way to develop, deploy manage and secure applications across both on-premises environments and on Google's Cloud Platform (GCP).\nOrganizations can use the service to enable applications running in the cloud to access on-premises IT capabilities and applications running on-premises to take advantage of cloud infrastructure. Developers will be able to access cloud Application Programming Interfaces while cloud developers can access enterprise APIs and resources.\nThe flexibility enables enterprises to migrate workloads to the cloud at their pace, said Eyal Manor, vice president of engineering at Google Cloud in a blog Sept. 7. \"Whether they're cloud-ready or modernizing their infrastructure on-premises, many businesses can benefit from a well-supported path that lets them move to the cloud on their own terms,\" Manor said.\nAccording to Manor, the hybrid offering will allow developers to tap capabilities such as Kubernetes cloud container management technology, GCP service catalog and Cisco's portfolio of network and security configurations to develop apps capable of running optimally in hybrid environments. The idea is give developers a way to write applications once and deploy them anywhere using their choice of operating system, hypervisor, software, and management tools.\nSpecific areas where enterprise can benefit from the partnership include orchestration and lifecycle management of applications; managing network security policy and application monitoring and better service management across hybrid environments the two companies had noted in October.\nCustomers will also be able to use Google's Apigee API management technology to let workloads running on-premise to connect to the cloud and tools from Cisco's Developer Center to write code for hybrid environments.\nManor pointed to several examples of how such capabilities can help enterprises. One use case for the hybrid offering is on-premise application modernization. Organizations will be able to take advantage of technologies such as Kubernetes to build and manage cloud-ready apps that they can run on Cisco's on-premise Hyperflex container-optimized infrastructure.\nSimilarly, developers can use the hybrid offering to implement new portable services and manage them centrally using the Istio open-source microservices management technology. Istio is designed to let developers use policy-based controls to discover, connect, secure and manage services in a distributed microservices environment. By using it organizations can deploy microservices in hybrid environments with built-in load balancing, service authentication and monitoring, according to Google.\nThe Google and Cisco partnership will also allow enterprises to more securely extend their Cisco security policies and monitoring to applications running in the cloud.\nThe hybrid Google and Cisco offering includes hardware software and cloud services components that organizations can purchase separately or together and customize it for their needs, Google has previously noted.\nVijayan is an award-winning independent journalist and tech content creation specialist covering data security and privacy, business intelligence, big data and data analytics.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\u00bbSport\u00bbColumnist\nLARRY RYAN: Can El Maestro Unai Emery wake up sleeping Arsenal?\nUnai Emery has set a mean stall out. On Arsenal's pre-season tour of Singapore, the team coach drove by the hotel from the airport and straight to the training ground. A signal of intent to his new players, perhaps, and certainly an instant contribution to the 'narrative'.\nWord gradually slipped out of extra training sessions and that artificial fruit juice had been banned, a subtle hint that the galactico of nutrition Arsene Wenger had even let standards slip in the canteen.\nAnd though Arsenal lost their opening games to Manchester City and Chelsea, Petr Cech's tangles with the ball at his feet served as a billboard advertising campaign that change was happening.\nProceeding through the 'instant impact' manual, Emery has even dabbled in bantz 101, answering a reporter's phone at a presser. And after a suggestion Mesut Ozil might fill the role, Aaron Ramsey soon found himself the ceremonial scapegoat every regime change needs.\nEmery describes neatly the challenge facing a new gaffer.\n\"Being convincing is the most fundamental thing to coaching: the players have to believe in you. Whether they believe in you because you have won many trophies, because you are a great coach, because you are imposing, because everything you say ends up happening\u2026 whatever the reason may be, they have to believe in you.\"\nIn the 'project' manager era, time can be short to secure this unbelievable belief, as Emery's compatriot Julen Lopetegui has discovered in Madrid.\nFortunately for Emery, the things he's been saying have ended up happening. Arsenal embarked on a winning run against modest opponents, even if nobody is quite sure why they are now winning matches they might have drawn or lost last year.\nBut it is notable that previously hapless players such as Rob Holding are now parroting standard Emery phrases like \"winning mentality\", the title of the Spaniard's first book.\nSo Emery has safely negotiated phase one of his Arsenal stay. Likely defeat at home by Liverpool this evening may kick off a more challenging period, when he will have to convince the fans to believe in him too.\nIn the opening months of his reign, Emery has held one key trump card with the fans; the fact that he is not Arsene Wenger.\nIt has allowed supporters to rejoice again in beating lesser sides with beautiful goals, as though this is a new and exciting phenomenon at the Emirates. And it has damaged the business models of outlets of discontent such as Arsenal Fan TV.\nIt has given Arsenal fans back their hope, if perhaps not yet their belief.\nDefeat at home by Liverpool would rebuild a familiar barrier between Arsenal and the top sides. And it would challenge Emery to match the achievements of the manager in the opposing dugout, who convinced fans with his personality even before he had a convincing team on the field.\nIn that regard, it remains to be seen if the eve of a meeting with Klopp was the best time to put it out there that Emery is prone to putting his players to sleep with his team talks.\nThat insight comes from another Emery book \u2014 an authorised biography by Romain Molina, subtitled El Maestro, published on Thursday.\nTalking up Emery yesterday, Klopp provided a clue why all these books and manifestos are piling up from Europe's preeminent gaffers. \"Not all Arsenal fans were over the moon when they heard it was Emery. But that's England a little bit, you want the poster boys.\"\nWhen you're not Zidane Zidane, you have to put yourself on the posters, as Klopp's Anfield predecessor Brendan Rodgers once admitted. \"I've had to create a brand for myself around my philosophy, because I was never a big player.\"\nSo this week, we learned more about El Maestro, how he likes to treat his players to long sermons, even reading them passages from whatever book is on his nightstand.\n\"A kind of seminar,\" testifies Juan Mata, who played under Emery at Valencia.\n\"I remember that once a player fell asleep,\" El Maestro admits, \"and I didn't notice because I was so caught up in my talk.\n\"If not everyone listens, I couldn't give a damn because if there's just one player listening to me 100 per cent that's reason enough to give the talk.\"\nThere are echoes of Rodgers' towards the end of his Anfield reign in that theory. Scouring El Maestro's manifesto, there isn't the obvious sense of purpose that Klopp brought with him to Anfield.\nOne of the reasons I wanted to take on PSG is because they already have a well-defined idea of how to play, which gives them comfort,\" Emery has explained.\nHe has found something similar at Arsenal and he sells himself as the kind of flexible, pragmatic manager who can improve whatever setup he encounters through attention to detail.\nPragmatism may well be exactly what Arsenal need right now. But there may be another clue in El Maestro's teachings as to how he reportedly impressed the Arsenal board with a wide-ranging presentation, perhaps like the famous dossier that won Rodgers the Liverpool job.\n\"Unai Emery works with types of players, and not specific names,\" says Molina, playing sweet music to the ears of club directors in charge of tight pursestrings.\nKlopp has learned that a 'type of player' will only take you so far, no matter how great your sense of destiny.\nAnd there comes a time when you must wait, and pay, for the right player, if you want to close in on that destiny. Players such as Van Dijk and Allison and Keita.\nIn latter-day Wenger, Arsenal had a manager content to make do.\nIf Arsenal's willingness to make do continues, it may not matter very much how convincingly Emery sells his narrative. Arsenal fans may have to ask whether theirs is a club to believe in.\nEmery has promised another book \"which will look at what it means to compete\". It remains to be seen if Arsenal are on the same page.\nEuro plot hits fans\nThere was further encouragement for a potentially lucrative Arsenal future hanging on the coattails of the top clubs in yesterday's Der Spiegel story about a proposed European Super League.\nWhile more excitable outlets reported the latest Football Leaks revelations as \"shocking football\", they will likely come as little surprise to anybody who has been hearing of an impending Super League as long ago as the early eighties and on the pages of Roy of the Rovers.\nThe dreams of the European powerhouses have thus far been daunted, but the ideal of a beautiful, closed-shop carve-up of all the game's wealth still persists.\nAs recently as last month, Der Spiegel reports, Real Madrid received an email discussing plans for a competition which would start in 2021.\nIt reportedly says the 11 'founders' of the European Super League would \"not be at risk of relegation and would be guaranteed membership for 20 years\".\nDer Spiegel claimed the English clubs involved would be Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Arsenal.\nWith the other 'founders' reportedly exchanging clandestine discussions named as Real, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, PSG, and AC Milan.\nDer Spiegel say that five 'initial guests', would be Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Olympique Marseille, Inter Milan, and AS Roma.\nA gilded two decades free from relegation and the necessity to chase glory would certainly chime with Arsenal's business model.\nIt would be less helpful to Tottenham, even if the new White Hart Lane is completed in time for 2021.\nThey wouldn't be the only ones pressing their noses against the glass ceiling, should these plans come to pass.\nAs Football Leaks whistleblower 'John' put it: \"The clubs are constantly talking about the Super League and how they can market all this shit even better and make even more money.\n\"But there's one thing they never talk about: The fans. About the people who made this sport great. What does a league like this, with matches being televised around the world, do with the spectators?\"\nHave them watching at home via umpteen different TV subscriptions, the clubs undoubtedly hope.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ROONEY READY FOR MANAGERIAL STEP UP\nPosted on February 9, 2022 By indexPosted in Football NewsTagged louis saha\nLouis Saha is certain that Derby County manager Wayne Rooney is ready to move to the next level in his managerial career. Louis Saha talked about a managerial step up for former Manchester United teammate Rooney in a chat with Genting Casino. According to him, Rooney has what it takes if he moves up to the Premier League.\nhttps:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FI_onCtXsAAMJFO.jpg\nDerby County boss Rooney has been seriously linked with the vacant managerial job at Merseyside club Everton. Rooney is not a stranger to Everton having come through the academy at the club before making his bow as a professional footballer in the colours of the club. The English football icon also returned to the club for a second spell towards the end of his football career. Rooney was at Everton before he moved to D. C. United in the MLS (Major League Soccer).\nOn Rooney being linked with the managerial job at Goodison Park, former Everton striker Louis Saha said he's ready for the role.\nRooney has impressed in his first managerial role at Derby County and he has kept the focus on the pitch despite the distractions off it. The Rams were slammed with two separate points deduction last year. Derby County were given a 12-point deduction for entering into administration at the start of this season before an additional nine-point deduction followed after the club breached EFL rules. Rooney has been able to lead his team off the foot of the table in the English Championship despite the two points deduction.\nEverton are on the search for a new manager after Rafael Benitez was sacked on the back of the 2-1 away defeat against Norwich City last weekend. Club legend Duncan Ferguson has been placed in an interim capacity for the upcoming matches. Apart from Rooney, the likes of Frank Lampard and former manager Roberto Martinez have been linked with the job.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Blog Online Essay & Help Coursework\nShipwrecked on an island essay about myself\nAs to what is meant by land ownership in the full modern sense, the question may not have arisen, or it might have come in gradually sooner or later, as agriculture came more and more into prominence. Why grieve for the immortals? These things are an extension of one's idea of humanity. Yet we may talk crisis until our brains reel; we may say nothing of the weather. If a freeman kill a slave let him likewise pay to the _parentes_ xl pence and two 'muffles' and a capon. shipwrecked on an island essay about myself Still, if we wish to improve on Walker Miles in this way, the remedy is in our own hands; and more, we shall often find that some of the greatest moments of our line are his. We were cordially welcomed in by a young peasant (a soldier's wife) with a complexion as fresh as the winds, and an expression as pure as the mountain-snows. But dynamism is not anxious so much to arrange the notions in the most convenient order as to find out their real relationship: often, in fact, the so-called simple notion\u2013that which the believer in mechanism regards as primitive\u2013has been obtained by the blending together of several richer notions which seem to be derived from it, and which have more or less neutralized one another in this very process of blending, just as darkness may be produced by the interference of two lights. Lang says of Theocritus may be as truly said of Carducci: \"There is nothing in Wordsworth more real, more full of the incommunicable sense of nature\u2026. I wanted to see Brunet, but did not. There seems no reason why a similarly improved terminology should not some day be introduced into the ordinary modal language of common life. Celatos Veneti nobis transmittere libros Cedite: nos aliis, vendimus, O Veneti. (Tit. This was quite intelligible, for it referred to the long run. The face that has once held communion with the Most High, or been wrought to madness by deep thought and passion, or that inly broods over its sacred or its magic lore, must be 'as a book where one may read strange matters,' that cannot be opened without a correspondent awe and reverence. [Sidenote: The gradations of rank in the family.] The King of course stands at the head of the list with a cro of 1000 cows. The clause does not mention to whom the payments are to be made, whether to the l?t himself or, as in the case of the freedman, to his late owner or lord. Nothing in the world is so remote, so pensive, so musty-fragrant of long ago, as the antique City churches where the dead are the only congregation; where the effigies of Rahere the founder, Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, John Gower, and our old friend Stow are awake, in their scattered neighborhoods, to make the responses; and where the voices of the daily choir, disembodied by the unfilled space about, breathe ghostly four-part Amens, to waver like bubbles up and down the aisles. I venture to say that this form of entertainment, besides being far cheaper than existing forms, would produce results in the way of intimacy-statistics beyond the wildest dreams of present-day organisers, and everything which Lord Tennyson so beautifully prophesied in that speech at the end of the _Princess_ would be accomplished. Pan, as the name imports, represents the universe, about whose origin there are two opinions, viz: that it either sprung from Mercury, that is, the divine word, according to the Scriptures and philosophical divines, or from the confused seeds of things. So, also, we find that at Cyprus the women who devoted themselves to the good goddess walked about the shores of the island to attract the strangers who disembarked. John Preaching in the Wilderness_, by Guido, is an extraordinary picture, and very unlike this painter's usual manner. Subsequently Mrs. The old Roman, Pilate, who was apparently an educated man, clever and not bad at heart, though weak in character, could neither understand nor elucidate the cause of the strange struggle which took place before him. It takes the following form,\u2013'You have no right to be surprised, for nothing remarkable has really occurred. But how shall a man struggle with materialism? _L._ What was your opinion of the 'Last Judgment' itself? Also, it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others, that they may have somewhat to repay. According to the authorities which he there quotes it would seem that in about one birth in 5500 the mother was of the age of 50 or upwards. The issue of so auspicious a match is left, in _The Tempest_, as in the _Conference of Pleasure_, to the imagination. and the analogy of other tribal custom seem to warrant the conclusion that here also the _three proximiores_ on the paternal and the maternal side were originally not three persons next of kin, but the three _parentill?_, _i.e._, according to Brunner, the descendants of the grandparents, the great-grandparents, and the great-great-grandparents of the slayer on both the paternal and maternal sides. ?onne bi? But it was not exactly so, for, according to s.\nMyself essay about an shipwrecked on island. In reply to a letter from this writer he promised to make a correction if a second edition of his large and interesting biography was called for. He indeed learned to see the finer qualities of nature through the works of art, which he, perhaps, might never have discovered in nature itself. Now, whilst 240 of the former would equal the pound of the _nova moneta_ of Charlemagne, and of later Anglo-Saxon reckoning, 240 of the _curt_ pence or scripula would equal the older Roman pound or half-mina-Italica. No period was so likely to have originated it as the earliest, when the foundations of the national life were laid. The Venetians may still live to be old, but they do not paint like Titian! They are, however, beautifully grouped, with various and expressive attitudes, and remind one, by their half antic, half serious homage, shipwrecked on an island essay about myself of the line\u2014 'Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.' They are laden with baskets of flowers\u2014the tone of the picture is rosy, florid; it seems to have been painted at 'The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,' and the angels over-head sport and gambol in the air with butterfly-wings, like butterflies. For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind. When they were all drawn up in battle-array, in the scene near the beginning, which Sheridan has copied, it presented a very formidable aspect indeed, and the effect was an historical deception. It fills a gap, but nothing more. Dominice passionis trium partium notabilium sermo preclarus domini Gabrielis Biel supranotati. Tacitus adds, that the care of house and lands and of the family affairs, was usually committed to the women, while the men spent their time in feasting, fighting, and sleeping. \" V. West's productions; and in all that relates to composition, and the introduction of the adjuncts of historical design, it shows, like his other works, the hand of a master. A dark landscape (by the same hand) in a corner of the room is a proof of this. The one tends without any irregular variation towards a fixed numerical proportion in its uniformity; in the other the uniformity is found at last to fluctuate, and to fluctuate, it may be, in a manner utterly irreducible to rule. Dowse says that the only explanation of this entry that he has heard is that it was suggested by Bacon's behaviour in the Essex case. And as the actions of life, and the determinations of the will, depend upon the understanding, they are distracted as much in opinion as in will; and therefore judge very inconsistently, or contradictorily; and see, as it were, Thebes double; for Thebes being the refuge and habitation of Pentheus, here denotes the ends of actions; whence they know not what course to take, but remaining undetermined and unresolved in their views and designs, they are merely driven about by every sudden gust and impulse of the mind. Where the gentile organisation is established the duty of revenging private injuries is confined to the other members of the common gens. cit._, p. These are known to numismatists as silver pence of the _Sceatt_ series. 'True,' says Mr. 120. Dowse. His own moral weakness stopped Coleridge; but Erasmus might have uttered with Sidney: \"My life melts with too much thinking.\" Socrates, it will be remembered, \"corrupted the Athenian youth.\" Not one of them he moulded or breathed upon, except the transient pupil Alcibiades, turned his hand cordially to the practical, or ramped in the civic china-shop. The marks and the ores remained, but the old division of _ores_ into ortugs or staters had long ago disappeared. Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination;[412] their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds are, after, as they have been accustomed; and, therefore, as Machiavel well noteth (though in an evil-favored instance), there is no trusting to the force of nature, nor to the bravery of words, except it be corroborate by custom.[413] His instance is, that, for the achieving of a desperate conspiracy, a man should not rest upon the fierceness of any man's nature, or his resolute undertakings, but take such a one as hath had his hands formerly in blood; but Machiavel knew not of a Friar Clement,[414] nor a Ravaillac,[415] nor a Jaureguy,[416] nor a Baltazar Gerard;[417] yet his rule holdeth still, that nature, nor the engagement of words, are not so forcible as custom. (ss. From the windows of our room we could see the young people of the town walking out in a fine open country, to breathe the clear fresh air, and the priests sauntering in groups and enjoying the _otium cum dignitate_. All those years, those years of ours and the world's, wasted in prison on casuist industries, he had been at large with the wind, he had been playing!\n19, 20. It would then be the latter which would by comparison be regarded as 'not always a ground of disbelief,' whereas in the case of the former we should then have it maintained that it always was so. Such also may have been the case with the Chinese and the lighter Polynesians, who are now nearly dolichocephalic.[229] Throughout all the regions where these peoples are found there would appear to have been an indigenous long-headed stock, which has more or less nearly absorbed the brachycephalic element, which was introduced long ages ago from the vast regions of Central Asia, and which, for want of a better term, may be called Scythic. Most persons, we may presume, would receive the statement of the naturalist in this latter case almost as readily as in the former: whereas when the same story came from the unscientific observer it would be received with considerable hesitation. And it will retain nothing of it if it is merely the conscious translation of a movement of molecules; for, just because this movement is translated into the sensation of pleasure or pain, it remains unconscious as molecular movement. 1907, Jan. If one could sneak off with one's disappointment in one's pocket, and say nothing about it, or whisper it to the reeds, or bury it in a hole, or throw it into the river (Arno), where no one would fish it up, it would not signify; but to be obliged to note it in one's common-place book, and publish it to all the world, 'tis villainous! The sounds of the bell certainly reach me one after the other; but one of two alternatives must be true. Si servus ingenuum occiderit et culpa ingenui fuerit hoc, de fuste aut dextrali aut dubio aut de cultello fuerit interemptus, ipse homicida parentibus tradatur, et quidquid faciendi voluerint habeant potestatem. I do not think that this ultimate hesitation, if understood rightly, diminishes in any way from the interest of his writings: but it does suggest that there may be awaiting him a certain paralysis of endeavour. 'There's no such thing;' but hatred has its phantoms as well as fear; and the English traduce and indulge their prejudices against other nations in order to have a pretence for maltreating them. It is also the vilest affection, and the most depraved; for which cause it is the proper attribute of the devil, who is called \"The envious man, that soweth tares amongst the wheat by night;\"[123] as it always cometh to pass that envy worketh subtilely, and in the dark, and to the prejudice of good things, such as is the wheat. He is a fountain of honor, which should not run with a waste-pipe, lest the courtiers sell the water, and then, as Papists say of their holy wells, it loses the virtue. Dowse, unless I much misunderstand him, himself confesses. The _New Atlantis_ of Bacon was another state of this kind. The King's smith shipwrecked on an island essay about myself in his smithy forging a weapon, and the outrider forcing a way for the King through a crowd, might very easily through carelessness or in the excitement of work cause the death of another. Printed at Venice. II WALKER MILES When Macaulay's New Zealander has finished his meditations on London Bridge, and comes to sum up the history of this country, he will, if he is a wise man, have something to say on the subject of names. I have indicated the new chapters and sections by printing them in italics in the Table of Contents. Sed ubi inter _nepotes aut pronepotes_ post longum tempus de alode terr? Let a man have a turn and taste for landscape, she whispers him that nothing is truly interesting but the human face: if he makes a successful _debut_ in portrait, he soon (under the same auspices) aspires to history; but if painting in its highest walks seems within his reach, she then plays off the solid forms and shining surfaces of sculpture before his eyes, urging him to combine the simple grandeur of the Antique with Canova's polished elegance; or he is haunted with the majestic effects and scientific rules of architecture, and ruined temples and broken fragments nod in his bewildered imagination! That is twice 80 solidi if he leave an heir. The Elgin Marbles give a flat contradiction to this gratuitous separation of grandeur of design and exactness of detail, as incompatible in works of art, and we conceive that, with their whole ponderous weight to crush it, it will be difficult to set this theory on its legs again. There was a dead child painted at the bottom of it, which Sir Joshua Reynolds afterwards disliked, and he had the canvas doubled upon the frame to hide it. The landscape opposite to it (in the same room) by Albert Cuyp, has a richer colouring and a stronger contrast of light and shade, but it has not that tender bloom of a spring morning (so delicate, yet so powerful in its effect) which the other possesses. Gif bana o?byrste, twam manwyr?um hine man forgelde ? 'If two men,' says Buffon, 'were to determine to play for their whole property, what would be the effect of this agreement? _Shakespeare and his Critic, Brandes._ 1900. _Apollo and Daphne._ Not equal to the rest. 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{"text":"Helping Us to Unstraighten Things Out\nThe Great British Sex Survey, Ch4\nClick the kink link for Vimeo video\nHowdy ho my Helping Hedonists\nLast night (25th Feb, 2016) saw the broadcast of a British first.\nNo, not titillation, not exploitation or even a late-night frapfeste; but the ground-breaking turnaround of a programme supporting kink and fetish.\nThe Great British Sex Survey was flawed but ultimately fantastic: I can't recall another show asking us to mostly celebrate people's kinks as courageous and inspirational as opposed to keeping kinksters at a safe distance to be watched and entertained by.\nIndeed, this was the first sex education show of it's kind ask us to follow our sexual calling instead of suggesting we might also need to get some help, just in case. Special praise must go to psychologist and presenter Phillipa Perry (wife of Grayson) for embracing so much diversity and daring to explain it all to us in a palatable form.\nWhat was interesting was the mix of straight sex affiliations plus kink.\nLet's get this straight, straight people, kink makes us go eurrghh or uh-oh. Just a little bit. There's a bit of the unknown, a shiver of fear, distaste, uncertainty. I'm not convinced sex toys or threesomes make us feel so off-kilter. They don't necessarily require a reassessment of our personality. Kink and fetish practice does.\nThis is not to knock the show.\nWe'll get to my minor quibbles, it's just that, as taboos melt into stuff everyone tries at least once, it seems the mainstream world can only bring itself around to a kink mindset only through the window of 'dirty sex', hedonism, taking our clothes off or being Cosmopolitan-carefully wild. Although it was amazing to see the formerly taboo Watersports in at No.9 on their survey list (and computer-animated as little plastic people pissing on each other), I would have liked to have seen five minutes spent talking about anal play and strap-ons (and it's widespread integration), instead of slipping them in to the BDSM category. Did you feel what I did there?\nSo how did the programme misfire?\nWell it needs to be said The Great British Sex Survey was mostly brilliant, especially people trying to guess the sex toy. But here for example is where calling it a sex survey while presenting it as a kink show might have a benefited from one more production meeting. You have to ask, is a humbler a sex toy or a BDSM device? Am I being pedantic when you think that sex toys are generally designed to get people off? A humbler is a ball-stretching, prevention tool (see slide-show), so the opposite in fact.\nStill, I loved the way the show championed diversity, we do that here.\nBut employing the Road Drill dom was probably ill-advised, his use of pro-nouns telling. And his 'for show' drill, the size of something you'd use for digging up tarmac, made Perry laugh. Indeed, the bloody thing with it's bollard-sized rubber donger, was laughable. He talked of fear, she agreed. Then she said that BDSM was safe (with consent), which is a conflict.\nThe truth is this:\nBDSM is not safe. That's why the Road Drill dom said it scared people. The truth is, even with safety, sanity and consensuality we can only endeavour to make BDSM safer. Let's say that a different way.\nBDSM can only be made safer, there are no guarantees it's 100% safe.\nHave you got it yet? If you think about it, this explains why BDSM practitioners in the know recoil when you kill the vibe with 'health and safety' advice (and I've had my share of such accusations thank you) and why kink-haters are repulsed. Yes, the Road Drill dom knows, fear is the key, and fear is, hey, healthy and safety inducing.\nPerry also seemed to believe, as many psychologists do, that people who practice kink are transferring negative experiences from their childhood and making them controllable by sexualizing them. I wouldn't say it's strictly 'transference', although I know Philippa Perry didn't actually say this. But the problem I have with it even as an intimation is that if we were to use instead the word 'transformation' as a less-negative, less-connected-to-the-past definition, we're still 'connecting' dots just to 'explain kink'.\nThere are plenty of victims of childhood trauma who didn't go on to be kinky, probably more. And many kinksters I know are not so gauche to connect their sexual practice to say, their parents' shortcomings or past pain. All I'm saying is that this age-old transfer theory comes across cod and is ultimately a moot point. I personally think perves tend to be simply more conscious of their needs:\nHere is a quote from my breakdown of my much-copied Fifty Shades analysis, in relation to El James' linking her character Christian Grey's past to his perversions, from myth-bust No.43\/50: \"...only the receptive kink explorers are investigating, harnessing (literally!) and learning to control adrenaline rushes at their behest, in a consented-to environment: the exact opposite of negative and traumatic situations of yesteryear. Yes, in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the outland interests of kinksters are 'potentially problematic'. But this is because fetishists and BDSM practitioners (and all manner of sadist, masochist, sub, dom\/domme, top, bottom, mistress, master and slave) have not just had more experiences, and are not the only ones open to new experience, they've actually been more conscious of experience happening (the aforesaid receptive element).\"\nIt was wonderful that Phillipa Perry expanded her mind too and gamely got into a vac-bed. But she did it a bit like it was a children's party, with the Road Drill Dom master monitoring, who to be fair \u2013 and having hung up his Road Drill \u2013 kindly cleaned and dried the latex bed for her.\nPerry then entered the rubber sheets a) fully-dressed, while b) working (journalistic piece-to-camera) while c) not entering a 'scene' with the dom or d) at least trying out any sensory play. It didn't live up to her expectations, she said. Well, no surprises there then: a reminder, eh-hum, *clears throat: that these are sexual practices.\nBut in celebration of sexual difference, even the worms guy had a special place.\nAlbeit the Ch4 default outrageous sketch. And once you saw the worms guy doing his thing (or or in reality, the worms doing his thing) then you could never unsee the worms guy doing his thing. Interesting how they left a lot of other things left still unshown. And we've discussed extreme stuff here too.\nSuch is the nature of journalism and the minefield subject of kink: You're not going to please everyone with a programme about individual sexual or perverted pursuits. It's not easy, yet Perry and Ch4 have not only made life slightly easier for many chasing their deviant dreams, they've helped show that kinksters actually set the standard for bravery, self-emancipation and human happiness.\nTake care and kink well","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The continued global battle against SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19\nChu-Xia Deng1,2,\n1. Editor in Chief, International Journal of Biological Sciences\n2. Chair Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau\n\u2709 Corresponding author\nDeng CX. The continued global battle against SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Int J Biol Sci 2021; 17(6):1440-1442. doi:10.7150\/ijbs.60639. Available from https:\/\/www.ijbs.com\/v17p1440.htm\nSince the initial identification of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as the cause of the viral outbreak near the end of 2019, over a year has passed. As of writing, Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) has spread over 219 countries and territories, infected more than 126,852,304 people, and caused at least 2,782,183 deaths as of March 27, 2021 (Table 1).\nComparison among COVID-19, SARS and MERS.\nName of Disease\n(Name of Virus)\nCoronavirus Disease-2019\n(SARS-CoV-2) *\nSevere Acute Respiratory\nSyndrome (SARS-CoV)\nMiddle East Respiratory\nSyndrome (MERS-CoV)\nTotal cases (Death) during outbreak 131,910,867\n(2,865,921) 8096 (774) 2499 (861)\nFatality rate 2.2% 9.6% 34.4%\nMajor Symptoms Fever, cough, shortness of breath, and difficult to breath, pneumonia Fever, cough, sore throat, muscle pain, lethargy,\nheadache, diarrheal, shivering, and breathing difficulties fever, cough, shortness of breath, muscle pain, vomiting, and abdominal\nLikely animal hosts Bats, pangolin Bats, civet cats dromedary camels\nIncubation period, days (range) 3.0 (0-24.0) 6.4 (2-10) 7 (2-17)\nMale:female ratio 1.06:1 1: 1.25 1:2.52\nMajor routes of transmission Respiratory aspirates, droplets, contacts and feces Respiratory aspirates, droplets and contacts Unprotected contact with infected dromedary camels or infected people\nCountries and territories 219 29 27\n*Updated by April 4, 2021 based on information released by World Health Organization, and also modified from Deng, CX [1].\nThe COVID-19 pandemic affects all age groups with its highest peak in the world of over 800,000 infected cases per day in January 6-8, 2021. A steady decline was observed in February, dropping to 305,334 infected cases\/day on February 15, which was correlated with the increasing usage of anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. However, the daily infected cases started to increase again in March, reaching the record high in several countries. Thus, although the vaccines represent a powerful weapon to fight with the pandemic and prevent its spreading, many factors could affect their efficacy. In this special issue, we have organized 18 articles, which share our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 from various angles.\nSeveral articles discussed the current status of vaccines and addressed specific questions about the types of vaccines and clinic trials, as well as their safety, effectiveness, or possible side effects [2-5]. Herd immunity through vaccination is the major expectation to prevent the SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, the emergence and wide spread of genetic variants could potentially undermine vaccines' efficacy. Guo et al. summarized the current understanding on five notable genetic variants, i.e., D614G, Cluster 5, VOC 202012\/01, 501Y.V2 and P.1, and discussed the potential impact of these variants on the virus transmission, pathogenesis and vaccine efficacy [6]. Ning et al. focused on the progress of therapeutic COVID-19 antibody development and application, as well as related problems and challenges, suggesting new strategies and solutions [7]. Chen et al. discussed the effectiveness of the use of antibodies against multiple inflammatory molecules and pathways especially in the patients of acute kidney diseases [8]. Cytokine storm is the most striking immunopathology of advanced COVID-19 that is attributable to the deficiencies in immune regulatory mechanisms. Wang et al. discussed the possible role of CD4+Foxp3+ regulatory T cell in the immunopathogenesis of COVID-19. They reviewed and summarized the emerging concept of Treg-targeting therapies, including both adoptive Treg transfer and a low dose of IL-2 treatment, in the therapeutic treatment of COVID-19 patients [9]. Several articles also discussed the application of other therapeutic approaches against COVID-19, including siRNA to reduce the expression of key viral genes of COVID-19 [10], Glucocorticoids [11], and Hydroxychloroquine [12]. Fung et al. found that NSP5 is a main protease of SARS-CoV-2 that suppresses type I interferon production by preventing nuclear translocation of phosphorylated IRF3 [13]. This finding provides the rationale for combinatory therapy using type I IFNs and NSP5 inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2. Wen et al. analyzed the structure of SARS-CoV-2 and identified some potential protease inhibitors for suppressing the virus [14].\nXue et al. have studied 289 COVID-19 patients and found that krebs von den lungen-6 (KL-6) could diagnose the severity of COVID-19 (AUC=0.862) and predict the occurrence of pulmonary fibrosis (AUC = 0.741) and irreversible pulmonary fibrosis (AUC=0.872). Based on this data, they concluded that KL-6 could be used as an important predictor to evaluate the severity of the secondary pulmonary fibrosis, which commonly occurs in COVID-19 patients [15]. The study involves SARS-CoV-2 itself needs to be carried out in biosafety level 3 laboratory, which prevents the participation of many scientists. Chen and Zhang discussed the construction of pseudotyped viruses based on different packaging systems, current applications, limitations, and further explorations. As the pseudotyped viruses lack certain gene sequences of the virulent virus, they can be investigated in biosafety level 2 laboratories, providing a useful virological tool for the study of SARS-CoV-2 [16]. Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to aid in various aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, including epidemiology, molecular research and drug development, medical diagnosis and treatment, and socioeconomics. Huang et al. reviewed the clinical applications of machine learning and deep learning, including clinical characteristics, electronic medical records, medical images (CT, X-ray, ultrasound images, etc.) in the COVID-19 diagnosis and therapeutic treatment [17]. Liu et al. presented a global landscape for the seven coronaviruses known to infect humans. The information provides a strong intellectual groundwork for the ongoing development of therapeutic agents and vaccines along with a deeper discussion of intellectual property rights under epidemic conditions. Notable technological issues related to human coronaviruses include pharmacochemical treatment, diagnosis of viral infection, viral-vector vaccines, and traditional Chinese medicine [18].\nAs the infected cases and deaths are still increasing, preventing the virus from spreading is still necessary to protect most people, especially the ones with existing conditions. In this regard, Tai et al. discussed in detail approaches that were implemented by the China government to suppress the virus spread by considering the unique characteristics of this virus and the paths of the virus transmission. Both the pros and cons of these strategies will also be analyzed. The experiences and lessons learned during the virus-fighting in China, expectedly, will be a useful source of reference for other regions in overcoming the threat caused by the COVID-19 virus [19].\nWe believe that the information of this special issue should facilitate the continued global war against the SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. This unbelievable disaster will be remembered and the lessons will be learned and converted into challenges and opportunities in the post-pandemic era to guide the development of our world, especially in global health systems, medical education and the responsibilities to prevent the occurrence of similar events.\nThis work was supported by the Chair Professor Grant (CPG) CPG2021- 00021-FHS.\nThe author has declared that no competing interest exists.\n1. Deng CX. The global battle against SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Int J Biol Sci. 2020;16(10):1676-1677 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.45587\n2. Yang Y, Li W, Zhang Q, Zhang L, Cheung T, Ng CH, Xiang YT. Should people with severe mental illness be prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccination?. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1443-1445 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.57750\n3. Park JW, Lagniton PNP, Liu Y, Xu RH. mRNA vaccines for COVID-19: what, why and how. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1446-1460 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.59233\n4. Kwok HF. Review of Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials - A puzzle with missing pieces. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1461-1468 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.59170\n5. Bai W, Cai H, Liu S, Liu H, Qi H, Chen X, Liu R, Cheung T, Su Z, Ng CH, Xiang YT. Attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines in Chinese college students. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1469-1475\n6. Guo S, Liu K, Zheng J. The Genetic Variant of SARS-CoV-2: Would it matter for Controlling the Devastating Pandemic?. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1476-1485 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.59137\n7. Ning L, Abagna HB, Jiang Q, Liu S, Huang J. Development and application of therapeutic antibodies against COVID-19. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1486-1496 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.59149\n8. Chen J, Wang W, Tang Y, Huang Xr, Yu X, Lan HY. Inflammatory stress in SARS-COV-2 associated Acute Kidney Injury. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1497-1506 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.58791\n9. Wang Y, Zheng J, Islam MS, Yang Y, Hu Y, Chen X. The role of CD4+FoxP3+ regulatory T cells in the immunopathogenesis of COVID-19: implications for treatment\n10. Wu R, Luo KQ. Developing effective siRNAs to reduce the expression of key viral genes of COVID-19. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1521-1529\n11. Yang R, Yu Y. Glucocorticoids are double-edged sword in the treatment of COVID-19 and cancers. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1530-1537 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.58695\n12. Chen Y, Li MX, Lu GD, Shen HM, Zhou J. Hydroxychloroquine\/Chloroquine as Therapeutics for COVID-19: Truth under the Mystery. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1538-1546 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.59547\n13. Fung SY, Siu KL, Lin H, Yeung ML, Jin DY. SARS-CoV-2 main protease suppresses type I interferon production by preventing nuclear translocation of phosphorylated IRF3. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1547-1554\n14. Wen L, Tang K, Chik KKH, Chan CCY, Tsang JOL, Liang R, Cao J, Huang Y, Luo C, Cai JP, Ye ZW, Yin F, Chu H, Jin DY, Yuen KY, Yuan S, Chan JFW. In silico structure-based discovery of a SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1555-1564 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.59191\n15. Xue M, Zhang T, Chen H, Zeng Y, Lin R, Zhen Y, Li N, Huang Z, Hu H, Zhou L, Wang H, Zhang XD, Sun B. Krebs Von den Lungen-6 as a predictive indicator for the risk of secondary pulmonary fibrosis and its reversibility in COVID-19 patients. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1565-1573 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.58825\n16. Chen M, Zhang XE. Construction and applications of SARS-CoV-2 pseudoviruses: a mini review. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1574-1580 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.59184\n17. Huang S, Yang J, Fong S, Zhao Q. Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of COVID-19: challenges and perspectives. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1581-1587\n18. Liu K, Gu Z, Islam MS, Scherngell T, Kong X, Zhao J, Chen X, Hu Y. Global landscape of patents related to human coronaviruses. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1588-1599 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.58807\n19. Tai L, Wong K, Wang L, Di Lj. From impossible to possible: the lessons from the control of recent COVID-19 outbreaks in China. Int J Biol Sci. 2021;17(6):1600-1612 doi:10.7150\/ijbs.58906","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spelunker HD\n+ Combo Co-Op\nSpelunker HD Coming Stateside with 6 Player Online Co-Op\nVideo 9\/18\/2009 at 8:00 AM by Nick Puleo 4\nSpelunker HD is already available on the Japanese PlayStation Network, and the remake of the classic NES game has garnered some fairly solid buzz. Now we have word that the game will be making its way stateside, along with the included 6 player online co-op mode!\nIf you never played the original, the game is a mix of platforming and puzzles set in underground caves filled with snakes, ghosts, and of course precious gems! The HD version looks gorgeous with completely redone graphics, but it will also contain a mode that allows you to play with the classic graphics.\nWe've posted the Japanese trailer below - which plays out a bit like a Japanese gameshow. Seriously, how can you not get excited for this after watching? The game is currently priced at around $25 in Japan, so hopefully we'll see a bit of a discount when it reaches the rest of the world.\nThanks seshat for the tip!\nOver a Year Later, Spelunker HD Finally Arrives\nNew Content Coming to Spelunker HD\nSpelunker HD Co-Op Review","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Breaking Into Startups: How Divine broke the cycle of recidivism to become a leader in criminal justice reform\nRuben Harris 6 years\nRuben Harris Contributor\nRuben Harris is a professional cellist and a recovering investment banker who now leads partnerships in San Francisco for Honor, a healthcare startup focused on seniors. He is also a founder of the Breaking Into Startups podcast.\nMore posts by this contributor\nHow the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals brought Rocio Lopez into the startup world\nHow sales took Ysiad Ferreiras from gang violence in the Bronx to Silicon Valley\nWhen people are released from prison, it is often hard for them to reintegrate into society because of their \"criminal\" history \u2014 even when they have been in prison for a \"non-violent crime.\"\nTo that end, finding a job is almost impossible when a company runs a background check, and the recently \"freed\" person is forced to return to crime in order to put food on the table.\nThat cycle is called recidivism, and today our guest Divine talks about how he broke through.\nFolks may have already read the story about how Divine met Ben Horowitz, which is certainly impressive, but this episode talks about Divine's environment growing up. His decisions led to making $200,000 a month at 19 years old, and eventually landed him in prison.\nAfterward, he learned about how important education is to break the cycle of recidivism and how private corporations are benefiting from mass incarceration. Divine also reached out to learn what tech leaders are doing for criminal justice reform and more.\nIf you are someone who was formerly incarcerated, or if you know someone seeking to start over after incarceration, Divine lays out a playbook to go from incarceration to innovation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Smartphones and 3D Technology: A Cool Feature or Lame Gimmick?\nUpdated on December 15th, 2016 by Quertime Writer in Mobile\nOver the past decade, 3D technology has seemingly come into its own. The biggest blockbuster movie releases come in 3D variations, 3D printers are on the rise, and now smartphones have even tried to dabble in this technology as they seek to differentiate themselves from a crowded and competitive marketplace. Although the idea of a 3D smartphone isn't exactly a new notion, the idea of a smartphone that has working 3D features that consumers actually use has yet to hit the market. The real question, however, is whether or not 3-dimensional interfaces and features matter in the mobile phone space. Is this something that could benefit users, or is it a gimmick meant to drive sales and benefit the marketing department of a major manufacturer?\nWe know that the goal of every major mobile phone producer is to come up with a way to top their competitors, which has resulted in several ridiculous features that aren't necessary, but designed to attract consumers. Although this technology is still in its beginning stages, it is still intriguing\u2014especially if it works. Read on to get a better idea of the true potential of 3D smartphones and whether or not it's a legitimate feature, or a marketing ploy to attract customers.\n3D Has a Disappointing Past for Smartphone Users\nOnce upon a time, both HTC and LG announced that the future was here: The smartphone interface had gone 3D! People were excited about this news, especially since this was during the rising popularity of 3D televisions and movies. Consumers were eager until they got their hands on each of the respective devices and performance fell short of promises and expectations. At that point, they became disappointed with the feature's lack of user-friendly qualities, and poor performance over all. The feature was inconsistent, and often produced hard-to-use interfaces with illegible menus and fragmented applications. Additionally, the quality of images was so poor that it wasn't worth it to use the feature. It wasn't even particularly useful on the home screen, either. Most people turned the feature off since it started to be more of a bother than a cool features.\nAfter Several Years, Amazon is Considering Rehashing 3D Interfaces\nThe future is here again. Amazon has released a new smartphone that leverages the power of 3D interfaces, eye tracking, and glasses-free immersion in a multidimensional world. Will it matter? Most experts agree that the feature is still largely in the gimmick phase: There are currently no useful applications of 3D outside the movie theater, and virtually all applications available to Android customers are designed for 3D use. That means a poor translation of user interfaces, a disjointed experience, and all of the same negative factors that forced HTC and LG to pull their 3D models. Even if the technology runs smoothly now, the failure of the first-round attempt of 3D smartphones has left consumers cautious of the feature. It will likely take some convincing before smartphone users are spending their pretty pennies for a new 3D phone. Every smartphone company is eager to be the first to taste 3D success, however, this has caused a serious rush on the release of these devices. A premature release likely means that bugs have not yet been worked out yet, which will no doubt result in dissatisfied customers once again.\nCarriers Use it as a Marketing Tool\nSmartphone developers and companies aren't the only ones who are constantly fighting against competitors for customers' attention. Carriers have become highly invested in the development of 3D technology because it offers them exclusivity, thus attracting more consumers. Carriers like Sprint and AT&T got in on the 3D action several years ago when the first models began to hit the market in hopes that this feature alone would set them apart and give them a leg up on the competition. Since this is cutting edge technology, carriers have been and will continue to use the feature as a marketing draw for consumers, which adds to the gimmick-y nature of 3D smartphone technology.\nCould 3D Features Drive the Market Toward 3D-Capable Apps?\nDevelopers tend to follow market trends only in terms of what their applications do and how they interact with the base Android or iOS interface. One smartphone going 3D isn't an impetus to developers to create a brand new application interface that leaps off the screen and into the user's visual field. With that said, Amazon's new embrace of 3D interfaces could be a test case. If people are particularly drawn to this device, developers may take notice and attempt to accommodate users of the phone. If the device isn't a hit, and 3D doesn't become a selling point for the Amazon phone, look for developers to continue shunning three-dimensional interfaces for a long time to come. While the consumers might resist, developers will continue to research and perfect the feature. This technology has been in development for a long time, but no one has truly mastered this feature yet. It's unlikely that developers will give up on mastering the 3D feature until it is perfected, however, consumers could be completely dissuaded at that point due to so many failed attempts in the past.\nPromising Technology, But Not Yet a Useful Feature\n3D is shiny and new, however, it's not an extremely useful feature for smartphone makers, developers, or users, at this point. So far, it's just a gimmick to gain attention. But this technology is still in development and could quickly take the smartphone market by storm as soon as it is fully functional. For this feature to become main stream, it is going to take time, further development, and a few early adopters to make this new technology a reality. For now, the technology is seen as merely a gimmick as opposed to an attractive feature, but the smartphone industry changes daily, and we could see 3D success overnight when developers finally get it right.\nAuthor: Dixie Somers\nInformation for this article was provided by the smartphone professionals at Apple Shark who allow consumers to sell used iPhone 3Gs and other models, no matter the condition of the phone.\nSay Cheese! 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{"text":"Tag: Funemployment Diary\nFunemployment Diary, Entry #16: Commence Secret Side Trip!\n7 Comments on Funemployment Diary, Entry #16: Commence Secret Side Trip!\nI'm in Tampa right now, but I won't be for long. Later tonight, after a quick bite at the Cheesecake Factory (a guilty pleasure of mine), I'm boarding a US Airways flight and heading\u2026somewhere\u2026until Friday. I'll go into more detail later, but it should suffice to say that the local climate calls for a hoodie and the trip may or may not be concerned about changing my funemployed status. I'll be back in Tampa this weekend, when I have a visit to a giraffe farm on the agenda.\nTags Funemployment Diary, Secret Side Trip\nFunemployment Diary, Entry #15: Bohol Bee Farm\n1 Comment on Funemployment Diary, Entry #15: Bohol Bee Farm\nMy cousin suggested that while we were on the island of Bohol (which I talked about earlier here, here and here), we should visit Bohol Bee Farm, a small agricultural project that combines beekeeping with sustainable farming, ecotourism and support for a local crafts industry.\nSince bees and pollination go together, many apiaries tend to either place themselves close to a farm that grows plants or operate as part of one. At Bohol Bee Farm, they grow a number of flowers that bees prefer to pollinate, but they also grow herbs and lettuce.\nRomel, our tour guide, gave us samples of the herbs they grew and challenged my nephews to identify them. Among the herbs they grow are cilantro, mint, basil and lemongrass.\nThey also grow arugula, romaine and other varieties of lettuce here. I was a bit surprised by this, as leafy green salads aren't traditional in this part of Asia. Romel said that they've been catching on in recent years and that we should try their house specialty salad at the restaurant, which is made with the lettuce and other fruits and vegetables grown on the farm.\nYou can't visit a bee farm without actually getting up close and personal with some bees, so here I am doing just that. Note that I'm not wearing a beekeeping hat or any protective gear.\nThe bees were pretty mellow, concentrating more on their work rather than us. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you, Romel assured us, especially since these were European bees, which have a reputation for being less agressive than their Africanized counterparts.\nThere's a lot of hype about Africanized bees that comes from disaster movies like The Swarm, the way they're often referred to a \"Killer Bees\" and the familiar tropes of good peaceful Europeans versus bad violent Africans as well and the discomfort some people have with interracial dating and marriage. The term \"Africanized bee\" has little meaning today because there's no generally-accepted genetic definition for what one is and because they're hard to identify \u2014 you can only tell the difference through statistical analysis on micro-measurements of their wings (Africanized bees have slightly shorter wings) on a reasonably large sample.\nThey practice organic farming at Bohol Bee Farm, so they produce their fertilizer through the use of animal manure, composting and vermiculture.\nIn addition to agriculutre, Bohol Bee Farm has a number of arts and crafts projects where they produce goods made from local materials such as raffia palm, coconut and seashells.\nThey've also opened up a hotel on the property. The farm is pretty close to the ocean and some good places to go diving (the water's quite clear and warm, and a \"shorty\" wetsuit is all you need), so they're taking advantage of it.\nAs with the arts and crafts, they've taken great pains to built the hotel out of locally-available material wherever possible. It's not just green, it's also a good way to stretch their limited budget.\nPictured above is the side wall of the hotel. From a distance, it looks like stones set in mortar. But take a closer look:\nThey're actually coconut husks!\nI have no idea how long they last, but it's a pretty interesting way to set up a facade for a building. It looks much better than simply having a pre-stressed concrete wall.\nLooking out from the hotel grounds, you can see the Bohol Sea.\nIt provides a great view for the restaurant.\nThe menu offerings looked pretty good, so we decided to have lunch there.\nIn the farm's spirit of \"we make as much our stuff as we can\", even the menu was produced by the craftspeople on site.\nThe salad was one of the standout parts of the meal. It was made with greens, fruits, edible flowers (flowers pollinated by bees are generally edible) and goat cheese, all of which were made on the farm, and served with a honey mustard dressing made with the farm's honey. It was excellent, and we all had seconds.\nThe other standout dish was their homemade squash bread, a sweet, hearty loaf served with three kinds of spreads: a mango spread, a pesto spread and a honey spread, made with their own honey.\nBefore I left, I picked up a few items in the gift shop. One of them was bahalina, a wine or arrack made from coconuts. On my home island of Luzon (where Manila is), there's a similar drink called lambanog. Bohol Bee Farm's bahalina is reddish in colour thanks to the inclusion of mangrove bark and has a fair bit of honey in it, making it rather mead-like. I brought a bottle back with me to share with Anitra, and it goes really well with Chinese food.\nIf you're going to Bohol to enjoy their beaches and diving, make sure to add Bohol Bee Farm to your itinerary. It's an interesting place to visit, a great place to take the kids (they'll even learn a thing or two), they've got a great restaurant with a nice view, and their shop has a lot of crafts and food that make excellent souvenirs or gifts.\nTags Funemployment Diary\nFunemployment Diary, Entry #14: Flying Home (if Only for a Day)\n4 Comments on Funemployment Diary, Entry #14: Flying Home (if Only for a Day)\nManila skyline photo by Henno Kruger. Click to see the original.\nAll trips have to come to an end, and my trip to Manila ended yesterday with my flight home. In total, my trip lasted a little over 24 hours with me arriving at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on the 4th of July at 8:30 a.m. Philippines time (8:30 p.m. on July 3rd Eastern daylight time) and having cleared customs, grabbing my luggage and hopping into a cab at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson Airport on the 5th of July at 9:15 a.m. Philippines time (9:15 p.m. on July 4th Eastern daylight time). I went to bed last night around midnight and woke up at 6:30 this morning, which I hope means that I'll adjust quickly to North American time.\nTerminal 1 is NAIA's international terminal, and one of the first things you'll see is Paris Hilton. Right now, the big billboard that you see after crossing the security threshold at the door (where all your bags, including checked luggage, get x-rayed) is an ad for some new condo development somewhere in the Metro Manila area for which Ms. Hilton is a spokesmodel. She really does get around.\nHere's something you'll see if you're flying Cathay Pacific from Manila: a reminder that you can't bring ammunition on a flight to Hong Kong, whether it's as carry-on or checked luggage. The rules seem to allow guns, however; you just can't bring bullets.\nThis is just plain wrong. Yes, the evidence of millions of flyers every year suggests that packing heat is quite unnecessary for air travel, but there just might come a time when I need to blast some chump, and what am I going to do then, hippie?\nNAIA's Terminal 1, which serves all the non-Filipino international airlines, is totally ghetto. In fact, it's infamous for being terrible, having been ranked #1 in Sleeping in Airports' 2011 \"Worst Airports\" list as well as appearing in Frommer's recent \"10 Worst Airports\" article. It's poorly organized, sloppily run, terribly lit and plagued with the ambience of a flea market. Don't get me wrong: I like the flea market vibe, but not at an airport.\nYou could pluck someone from 1985 and drop them in the present-day counters at NAIA and they wouldn't know anything was amiss until they saw someone pull out a mobile phone. There are no advance check-in terminals to speed up the process, and even with a dozen counters, each manned by more than one person in the make-work tradition of the Philippines, it's still slow going.\nLuckily, in one of its few concessions to actually being in the 21st century, NAIA has free wifi, and I amused myself by reading an article that attempted to explain why there isn't a word in Tagalog for \"efficiency\".\nThis is Asia, so every airport has to provide some kind of place within the airport to smoke. In NAIA, it's a combination whiskey and cigar bar.\nI made my way down the long hallway leading to the gates\u2026\n\u2026and was disappointed to find that they still hadn't changed the way gate lounges work.\nThe set of chairs around each gate is cordoned off. You can sit only in the seats near the gate for your flight; you have to show your boarding pass to be let into the cordoned-off area for those seats. Each cordoned-off area has some airport workers acting as gatekeepers (again, more Filipino make-work).\nOf course, the washrooms and snack bars are outside the cordoned-off areas, so if you want to relieve yourself or get a drink, you have leave the cordoned-off area, which requires leaving your boarding pass with the area's gatekeepers, and reclaiming it when you return.\nNaturally, there are no power outlets in the waiting area. It's all part of the \"third world country in the 1970s\" vibe that NAIA seems to be going for.\nI like visiting the Philippines, but I hate that ghetto airport.\nSoon, it was time to board the flight to Hong Kong. It's probably the most travelled-to destination from Manila, which is why it needs a high-capacity jet like a 747, even though it's barely a 90-minute flight, well within the range of a regional jet.\nThe inflight entertainment system needed a quick reboot.\nMuch better!\nThis plane's inflight entertainment system was an older one from the previous decade, before they made the switch to touchscreens. It had one of those old-school controllers with a phone and \"TV remote\"-style controls on the front\u2026\n\u2026and a QWERTY keyboard and game controls on the back:\nI tried a few of the games, and they were terribly clunky and pokey, as if I was playing on a bargain basement PC from the early 2000s. Which, in fact, was what I was doing.\nHong Kong's airport may be only an hour and a half away from Manila's, but it's worlds away. It gets consistently good reviews on Skytrax, and with good reason: it's bright, clean, spacious, modern, efficient, full of amenities and comfortable. It also has some spectacular views of the mountains and the harbor.\nI love the airport's huge windows:\nThe central hub is like a high-end shopping mall, and there are plenty of places to get all sorts of food there:\nIf you're running short of time, there are also restaurants by the gates. \"My Nosh\" \u2014 a great Engrish name for a place \u2014 was one of the spots near my gate, but I chose to go to the noodle place across the hall:\nI'm a bit of a planespotter, so I spent a fair bit of time just looking out the window and checking out the jets. There are all sorts of airlines that you don't normally see in North America, so it was a bit of a treat. Note the China Airlines jet in the background \u2014 that's one of the Airbus A380 monsters.\nOnce again, it's an Asian airport, so there has to be a smoking room. This one was packed:\nHere's the noodle place where I grabbed some lunch, which was thick noodles and char siu pork:\nEach of the tables came with a complete set of condiments: salt, pepper, soy sauce, two kinds of chili oil, sugar, sugar substitute, non-dairy creamer and a TV! I caught a bit of a medieval Chinese drama. Couldn't understand a word. but there was a cool chase scene with some soliders.\nHere's the Boeing 777ER that took me from Hong Kong to Toronto, non-stop:\nIt's a 15-hour flight. Luckily, I had reading material on my iPad and there were a number of good options on the inflight entertainment system (this flight had a more modern one with a touchscreen).\nHere's the view from my seat (made up of a set of stitched-together photos):\nWe took off from Hong Kong\u2026\n\u2026passed by Taiwan\u2026\n\u2026swung east of Japan, after which I decided to finally watch The Hunger Games (not bad)\u2026\n\u2026and about fifteen hours later, we landed in Toronto.\nI'm back in Toronto as I write this, but not for long. Tomorrow, I'm off to Tampa to catch up with Anitra and be her date for a wedding on Saturday, and shortly afterwards, I have to make a quick jaunt over to the west coast\u2026for reasons I'll reveal soon. I may be funemployed, but I'm certainly not idle!\nFunemployment Diary, Entry #13: Touring Bohol\n3 Comments on Funemployment Diary, Entry #13: Touring Bohol\nThe Chocolate Hills\nThe Amorita Resort, where we stayed while we were in Bohol, provides its own tours and guides for its guests. Me and my family \u2014 mom, sister, bro-in-law and her kids \u2014 signed up and got a guide named Cathy and a tour van to take us around. Our first stop: the Chocolate Hills.\nBohol, with its combination of rolling hilly terrain and being an island sheltered by large islands or island groups, would be a great place to hold an Ironman triathlon. It's got all the challenges for the athletes and for the spectators, it provides a lot of breathtaking views.\nCreative Commons image courtesy of Wikipedia. Click to see the original.\nIt took a while \u2014 the better part of an hour \u2014 to get from the resort to the hills, but it was worth it for the view.\nThe Chocolate Hills set Bohol apart from just about anyplace else on Earth. They're naturally-occurring cone- and dome-shaped hills formed by the erosion of the island's mostly-limestone geography. They get their name from the colour they get during the Philippines' dry season (October to May), when the sun dries their vegetation to a chocolate brown.\nWe're currently a month into the wet season, so our tour guide said that right now, they're more like the Pistachio Hills.\nBetween the hills are lush green valleys, like the one pictured above. To get a better view, we were taken to an observation point atop the highest hill in the valley. The staircase below took us up to the top:\nFrom there, we got a commanding view of the surrounding hills:\nHere's a shot taken from where all those other tourists were posing for photos:\nHere's the obligatory self-portrait:\nAfter a little looking around, it was time to head back down to the road where the van was waiting:\nBefore heading to our next destination, I took one last photo from road level. There was a great view of some of the hills and a lot of the surrounding greenery:\nThe Tarsiers\nTarsiers are weird little creatures \u2014 they're the smallest of all the primates. They're found only on a number of Southeast Asian islands, including Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumatra and in the Philippines, where they live on the island of Bohol.\nThey're tiny little monkeys with big eyes (each eye is about equal to the size of their brain). The eyes are a product of evolution and their being nocturnal. They prefer to stay in forests with small branches, as they climb only those things that they can wrap their fingers around.\nThey don't move much during the day, which made it possible to get some pictures of them at their sanctuary. Of the four tarsiers we managed to see, only one was awake, but he was positioned in such a way that it was only possible to get backlit photos of him.\nLoboc River Cruise\nThe Loboc River on a sunny day.\nCreative Commons photo courtesy of Wikipedia. Click to see the original.\nAfter the tarsier sanctuary, our next destination was the Loboc River, a slow-moving river and tourist attraction. There are as many as a dozen riverboats taking tourists up and down the river, many of which are floating restaurants. In addition to being part of our tour, it was also our lunch spot.\nThese boats \u2014 basically platforms mounted on two large outrigger boats and pushed by a small tug \u2014 carry about fifty passengers, not including the crew and serving staff.\nLunch is served from a buffet and is made up of classic Filipino comfort food: chicken and pork adobo, shrimp, pinakbet (a stew of vegetables including bitter melon, okra, string beans and eggplant), philippine barbecue (grilled pork kebabs), fried chicken and all sorts of tropical fruit.\nThis was my view from where I ate:\nOnce again, the obligatory self-portrait:\nThe boat travels about an hour upriver while the passengers eat, after which it reaches this point and turns around:\nOn the way back, we made a stop at this floating platform to catch a performance by a chorus of two dozen women, each one playing a ukelele, all performing pop songs that anyone from North America (or steeped in its culture) would recognize:\nWhen we arrived, they were playing The Everly Brothers' classic, Bye Bye Love. We hopped off the boat and onto the platform, caught a few more numbers and then continued downriver:\nSeeing our boat, a number of stray dogs gathered nearby on the shore:\nThey're used to getting scraps thrown to them from tourists on the boats, so they all sat at attention, waiting for their lunch. After a while, about eight or nine dogs had gathered, some scrapping with each other for the best spot on the riverbank:\nNext: More beach bummin'\nFunemployment Diary, Entry #12: More Beach Bummin' in Bohol\n1 Comment on Funemployment Diary, Entry #12: More Beach Bummin' in Bohol\nI am now living in a beer commercial. Those are my feet in the photo above, and just past them are the sands and waters of Alona Beach on the island of Panglao, a satellite island of another island named Bohol, which in turn is one of the islands in the Visayas region of the country where I was born: the Philippines. In the distance are catamarans which take tourists farther out to sea to visit some of the neighbouring islands or go snorkelling, scuba diving or dolphin watching. Above me is the welcome shade provided by palm trees. To my right and out of the shot are a couple of ice-cold cans of San Miguel beer.\nThe view above is the fulfillment of a promise I made to myself when my view was the one below:\nThis view is from \"my hospital week\", when I spent in the ICU shortly after getting separated (\"dying of a broken heart\" is no longer an abstract concept, as far as I'm concerned). Fever-induced delirium \u2014 and hey, I'll admit it, fear also played a role \u2014 makes you do things you normally wouldn't, and I remember putting together a mental list of things that I would do if I got out of the hospital alive. If you noticed that I've been living larger than usual over the past several months, you now know why.\nOne of the items on the list was to visit the Philippines and go to a beach there with my family. My prior situation was such that I'd made peace with the fact that I'd never see the homeland again, but after twelve years, I'm back.\nI stayed at Amorita Resort, which is located atop a cliff on one end of Alona Beach. The photo above shows a view of the beach from the resort.\nThe photo below was taken from the same vantage point, just with the camera panned slightly to the right:\nThe months of June through September are the lean season for this area; June is the start of the wet season as well as the school year here, so there's elbow room aplenty. For every occupied lounge chair on the beach (which are mere steps from the water, yet quite well-covered with shade), there were two free ones.\nThere were more boats moored offshore than there were people swimming. It was probably as close as I was going to get to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's private beach setup (he just bought most of the Hawaiian island of Lanai).\nI took the photo above from the same lounge chair where I took the first photo for this article. Amorita Resort is at the top of that small cliff.\nAs you walk farther down the beach, you'll see all manner of places to eat. Most of them are cheap, cheerful and locally owned \u2014 no chains like McDonald's here \u2014 serving a mix of Filipino food as well as half-decent approximations of \"foreign\" food. A couple of places are owned by expats who married Filipinas, moved here and set up shop, so there's a place that bills itself as a bierstube as well as a joint run by a French guy who includes crepes suzette and coupe denmark (which is really just a French fancypants way of saying \"chocolate sundae\") on his menu.\nIf dining on sand and patio furniture is too much like roughing it for you, there are other places on the beach that might be more to your liking.\nSunset happens more quickly as you get closer to the equator, and the effect is kind of magical. It's even more so on the beach.\nAt night, the restaurants turn on the lights and the beach becomes a patio party.\nWe had dinner at one of those cheap-and-cheerful places on the beach. This one has plenty of freshly-caught fish on display; you could point at one and they'd happily grill it for you. I picked out a red snapper and fifteen minutes later, it came to me simply and perfectly grilled with a bowl of a soy sauce\/fish sauce\/chopped tomato\/chopped onion mixture and a heap of garlic fried rice on the side.\nThis was my view at dinner:\nAll in all, a very nice Tuesday.\nFunemployment Diary, Entry #10: Seen at the Fitness Center\n2 Comments on Funemployment Diary, Entry #10: Seen at the Fitness Center\nThe executive apartments where I'm staying in Manila \u2014 The Ascott \u2014 has a pretty nicely-equipped fitness center. Here's a photo I took of its entrance:\nNote the refrigerator to the left of the reception desk. I decided to zoom in to get a closer look:\nNothing tops off a good workout like a pint of Haagen-Dazs!\nFunemployment Diary #8: Random Stuff, Then Back to Accordion City\nNo Comments on Funemployment Diary #8: Random Stuff, Then Back to Accordion City\nI'm back in Accordion City (as seen from my seat on Tuesday's flight)\u2026\n\u2026but I'm only here until Sunday.\nI've been spending the last couple of weeks with Anitra, this lovely lady\u2026\n\u2026as part of my summer vacation. I've been enjoying myself, relaxing\u2026\n\u2026but also teaching myself how to write apps for the iPhone and iPad\u2026\n\u2026and doing some behind-the-scenes hustling:\nClick image above to download my resume (107KB PDF).\nIf you like the grand old American tradition of the all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant, you should try Der Dutchman, who have a branch in Sarasota. It blends the American buffet line and its ridiculous amounts of food with down-home Amish cooking.\nWe were there to see the Ringling Museum and Ca' d'Zan, the mansion of John Ringling, one of the Ringling Brothers who created the circus of the same name. In a time before the internet, television, film and even radio, circuses were probably the most spectacular and compelling form of entertainment, and it made John Ringling incredibly rich.\nIt's right on the water, and has some stunning views:\nBut this view's my favourite:\nAh, the couple self-portrait. Once a tricky thing before phones with cameras on both sides, but still tricky when it's a windy day:\nThe wind was a little more cooperative with this snapshot:\nWe made our way to Sarasota's boutique drag afterwards\u2026\n\u2026where we had a nice dinner at Cafe L'Europe, complete with Crepes Suzette for dessert. Table-side flambe cooking may be considered to be gauche by some of the snootier people in the foodie crowd, but I think it's due for a comeback.\nPhoto from Crunchy Granola Suite. Click to see it at the source.\nAnitra managed to snag some tickets for the Neil Diamond concert on June 3rd, and wow, did he put on a great show! He was in fine form, his voice was still like the recordings, and he sang and played pretty much non-stop for two straight hours, which included an encore and three reprises of Sweet Caroline (he knows it's a hit and that many in the crowd would have listened to just that song all night if given the chance). I hope I'm as in good shape when I'm 71.\nHere's a shot of the venue \u2014 the Tampa Bay Times Forum, where the Lightning play \u2014 which I took after the show:\nIt's been a while since I've been to a concert where the vast majority of the audience were older than me. This crowd came in nice cars \u2014 Mercedes, Cadillacs and Lexuses \u2014 and I don't think I've ever been to a rock concert where so many guys were wearing khaki shorts and Topsiders. And instead of lots of beefy security guys, there were lots of beefy paramedics:\nAnitra and I hit a lot of places and ate all sorts of food, from Ted Peters' Smoked Fish to Cally's Sticky Bones barbecue\u2026\n\u2026to chateaubriand at Vizcaya to a great birthday dinner for her at Six Tables to the Florida steamer basket at Shrimp and Co. in Ybor:\nGotta love the down-home signs hanging on the walls at Shrimp and Co.:\nWe also got to hang out with Anitra's friends, and I got to sample sangria-in-a-juice-pouch, something we badly need here in Canada:\nAfter 18 days in Tampa, it was time to head home. There was stuff to take care of at home, and I have to pack for my next trip!\nI saw this sign at a construction site on the way to the airport:\nOne of the perks of flying about as much as I do on Air Canada and Star Alliance is that you get Elite status, which got me bumped to the coveted exit row, with legroom to spare.\nSo much better than United's \"Economy Minus\" seating:\nWe departed on time in clear skies\u2026\nSayonara, Tampa and Anitra. I'll see you both in July.\nAs I write this, I'm folding up my aloha shirts for my next destination\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Preschool raises morality levels, says study\nThu, Nov 11, 2010, 00:00\nCHILDREN WHO have the benefit of preschool are less likely to lie, cheat or steal as adults, a conference was told yesterday.\nUS educator Dr Larry Schweinhart, who pioneered a long-term longitudinal study into the benefits of early childhood education, said it was an accepted fact that those programmes helped with children's cognitive development.\nSuch children had higher educational attainment as adults, earned more money and were less likely to get in trouble with the law as a result.\nHowever, Dr Schweinhart said researchers were surprised to find that such children also exhibited higher levels of ethical behaviour in later life and had stronger moral values.\nDr Schweinhart said the modern preschool might have a similar impact to schools from Victorian times which emphasised good manners and taught children how to be proper men and women, although both methods of learning were very different.\nDr Schweinhart is the lead researcher on the HighScope Perry Preschool Study in the United States, which has traced the development of children from impoverished backgrounds who were the subjects of a radical preschool programme in the 1960s.\nThe research has found that every dollar spent on preschool yielded a return of $16 in terms of increased earning power, taxes and less demand on the criminal justice system.\nDr Schweinhart compared countries which cut back on preschool funding during harsh economic times to starving people who eat their seed corn during a famine.\n\"We are so focused on looking at the cost, we don't look at the benefits until the lack of a benefit comes and bites us like crazy,\" he told the youngballymun annual conference in Ballymun's Axis Centre yesterday.\nYoungballymun is the early intervention programme which is jointly funded by the Office of the Minister for Children and Atlantic Philanthropies.\nDr Schweinhart recommended those involved in preschool education should have a bachelor's degree or a teaching certificate.\nProf N\u00f3ir\u00edn Hayes said she expected the imminent workforce development plan from the Office of the Minister for Children will insist that those involved in preschool education have at least a post-Leaving Certificate type of qualification, most likely the Further Education and Training Awards Council (Fetac) Certificate in Childcare level 5.\nYoungballymun chief executive Eleanor McClorey said society had \"non-negotiable\" responsibilities towards children and the economic case for funding preschool education was \"watertight\".\nShe said the ECCE scheme must be kept whatever other cuts are made in the budget.\nThere needs to be a \"seismic shift\" in the attitudes towards children in Ireland, social campaigner Sr Stanislaus Kennedy has claimed.\nShe cited a recent report in The Irish Timeswhich found there were 800 unaccompanied homeless children in Ireland. At the \"SoulScapes\" festival in Kilmallock, Co Limerick, last night, she estimated there were now 1,500 homeless children in Ireland.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Online Advanced Release\nOrthopedics Topics\nAll Orthopedics\nBusiness of Orthopedics\nShoulder\/Elbow\nTotal Joint Reconstruction\nAnalysis of Musculoskeletal Injuries Sustained in Falls From the United States\u2013Mexico Border Fence\nDavid R. Burk, MD; Adam R. Pah, PhD; John T. Ruth, MD\nOrthopedics. 2017;40(3):e432-e435\nInjuries sustained by unauthorized individuals who jump or fall from the United States\u2013Mexico border fence are frequently treated by trauma centers in border states. The authors investigated patterns of musculoskeletal injury occurring in these individuals to improve emergency department assessment and to identify strategies to prevent future injuries. A retrospective chart review was performed for patients presenting to an urban, level I trauma center with musculoskeletal injuries sustained in a jump or fall from the United States\u2013Mexico border fence between February 2004 and February 2010. Frequency of fracture by site, frequency of open fracture, and associated patterns of injury were recorded. The population was stratified by age and sex to identify disparity in injury pattern. Average length of stay and number of surgical interventions were also recorded. During the study period, 174 individuals who had jumped or fallen from the United States\u2013Mexico border fence were identified. The population contained 93 (53%) women and 81 (47%) men with an average age of 31.5 years (range, 11\u201356 years). On average (\u00b1standard error), men sustained slightly more fractures than women (1.77\u00b10.12 vs 1.43\u00b10.07; P=.015). There were no significant differences in the number of fractures sustained between age groups. Average length of stay for patients admitted to the hospital was 3.5 days. Patients underwent an average of 0.75 surgical interventions during admission. Falls from the United States\u2013Mexico border fence are a significant cause of morbidity among unauthorized immigrants. [Orthopedics. 2017; 40(3):e432\u2013e435.]\nFalls from height are the fourth leading cause of unintentional injury in the United States.1 Variable patterns of injury may be observed owing to the height of the fall, the nature of the impact surface, and body position.2 In addition, differences in injury pattern between intentional and accidental fallers have also been reported.3,4 However, the height of the United States\u2013Mexico border fence is relatively uniform and the impact surface is somewhat homogeneous, so these individuals intend to land safely on his or her feet. Injured individuals are often transferred to trauma centers in the United States for evaluation and management and are largely or completely unable to assume the cost of their hospitalizations.\nEach year, an untold number of unauthorized immigrants attempt to cross the United States\u2013Mexico border. This border extends approximately 1980 miles from San Diego, California, to Brownsville, Texas.5 The US Border Patrol Tucson Sector is responsible for patrolling the 262 miles of international border between the Arizona\u2013New Mexico state line and the Yuma county line. Of that 262 miles, 210 miles has some form of a barrier in place with 71 miles consisting of pedestrian style fencing (Vivien McLoughlin, email communication, January 2017). Unauthorized individuals frequently attempt to scale these fences to avoid detection by US Border Patrol agents and often do so without the use any safety apparatus. A recent report suggests that the incidence of jumping and falling injuries at the border fence are increasing, posing a public health dilemma.6 A thorough understanding of these patterns of injury may help emergency department personnel more accurately diagnose and treat this population.\nThe purpose of this study was to assess patterns of injury, sex disparity, and length of stay in individuals presenting with musculoskeletal injuries sustained in a fall from the international border fence. To the authors' knowledge, no previous studies addressing patterns of musculoskeletal injury in this population exist.\nAfter obtaining institutional review board approval, The University of Arizona Medical Center Trauma Registry was queried to identify all patients who sustained falls from the United States\u2013 Mexico border fence between February 1, 2004, and February 1, 2010. Unauthorized border crossers who presented after falls while trekking through harsh terrain or were admitted for dehydration or other exposure-related diagnoses were excluded. Injury radiographs and medical records were reviewed. The following data were extracted and analyzed: age, sex, fracture location, type, laterality, presence of open fracture, length of stay, and number of operative procedures.\nFractures were classified by the involved bone or pattern of fracture to include the following: metatarsal, tarsal, calcaneus, talus, rotational ankle injuries, pilon, diaphyseal tibia and\/or fibula, plateau, patella, distal femur, diaphyseal femur, proximal femur, acetabulum, pelvic ring, clavicle, scapula, proximal humerus, diaphyseal humerus, distal humerus, proximal radius and\/or ulna, diaphyseal radius and\/or ulna, distal radius and\/or ulna, carpus, metacarpal, phalangeal, and rib. Long bones were divided into thirds such that proximal and distal groupings included fractures of the both epiphysis and metaphysis. Dislocations were recorded by involved joint. Vertebral fractures were classified into thoracolumbar spine (T10-L5), thoracic spine (T1\u2013T9), and cervical spine (C1\u2013C7).\nAverage number of fractures between sexes was compared using Student's t test. Patients were further divided by sex and into 5 age groups: 10 to 20, 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, and 51 to 60 years. The average number of fractures and frequency of open fracture in each age group were then compared with the total population and between groups with a Student's t test (adjusted for multiple hypotheses). The association between fractures types was assessed using a Monte Carlo simulation, where the number of fractures per patient was controlled, whereas the type of fracture sustained was randomized. The significance of the association was assessed with a 2-tailed test that was adjusted for the multiple hypotheses tested.\nAdmission was defined as a hospital stay requiring a physician admission or observation order. Where applicable, operative reports were reviewed to determine the number of procedures performed to treat each individual requiring formal, operative intervention. Nonbillable procedures and reductions performed by resident orthopedic surgeons in the emergency department were excluded. All statistical analyses were performed using the Anaconda Python distribution (Continuum Analytics, Austin, Texas).\nDuring the study period, 174 individuals who had sustained orthopedic injuries as a result of falls from the United States\u2013Mexico border fence were identified. The study population contained 93 (53%) women and 81 (47%) men with an average age of 31.5 years (range, 11\u201356 years). The age group distributions were 14 (8%) patients in the 10 to 20 years group, 65 (37.4%) in the 20 to 30 years group, 57 (32.8%) in the 30 to 40 years group, 31 (17.8%) in the 40 to 50 years group, and 7 (4%) in the 50 to 60 years group.\nThe average\u00b1standard error (SE) number of fractures observed in the study population at-large was 1.58\u00b10.07 fractures. Men sustained an average\u00b1SE of 1.77\u00b10.12 fractures per individual compared with 1.43\u00b10.07 for women; this difference was statistically significant (P=.015). However, there were no statistically significant differences in average number of fractures between age groups. Overall, fractures of the thoracolumbar spine occurred most commonly, followed by rotational ankle and tibial pilon fractures. In total, 50 open fractures were observed, occurring in 44 patients (25.2% of individuals; 18.4% of all fractures). There were no significant associations between sex and frequency of open fracture. The Table lists the frequency of fracture and percentage of open fracture by site.\nFrequency of Fracture and Percentage of Open Fracture by Type\nSeveral associated fracture types were observed, including fractures of the thoracolumbar spine and calcaneus (z=15.82) and thoracolumbar spine and tibial pilon (z=21.08). Fractures of the pelvic ring were associated with numerous fracture types, including the thoracolumbar spine (z=13.3), humerus (z=20.5), and radius (z=13.3). In addition, fractures of the diaphyseal tibia and fibula were associated with fractures of the calcaneus (z=6.81).\nOf the patients presenting to the trauma center, 144 (82.8%) required admission for management of their injuries. On average, length of stay for admitted patients was 3.5 days (range, 1\u201315 days) and underwent 0.75 (range, 0\u20133) surgical procedures. There was no mortality observed in this series.\nThe severity of an injury in a fall can depend on the height, nature of the impact surface, and body orientation.7 Reproducible patterns of injury may be observed between individuals who sustain vertical deceleration injuries from similar height and circumstance. Previous authors have described patterns of injuries that occur in those who jump intentionally with suicidal intent and those who fall accidentally.3,4 In the current series, the authors examine several vertical deceleration injuries in individuals who intend to land safely on their feet and continue their journey. To the authors' knowledge, no such series exists to date.\nOverall, the injury patterns the authors identified in falls from the international border fence are consistent with patterns found in prior studies of vertical deceleration injuries. In 1948, Ciccone and Richman8 reported the anatomical distribution of 2709 fractures due to accidents related to parachute jumps. Although fractures of spine occurred much less frequently in their series, the proportion of lower extremity injuries is relatively similar. In addition, fractures of the calcaneus, which are typically thought to occur as a result of axial loading on the heels when landing on one's feet, occurred in 16% of individuals in this study group. This is similar to rates cited in the literature.3,4,8 In addition, concurrent fractures of the calcaneus and spine are reported to occur in as many 10% to 75% of patients who fall from height.4,9\nThe current authors also found a statistically significant association between fractures of the thoracolumbar spine and calcaneus. Surprisingly, they also observed a significant association between fractures of the thoracolumbar spine and tibial pilon fractures, which supports the hypothesis of loading through the appendicular skeleton with subsequent transmission to the spinal column. Fractures of the pelvis are also known to occur during high-energy, vertical deceleration events.9,10 This may explain the association of pelvic fractures with other fracture types observed in this series. The observed association between fractures of the diaphyseal tibia and calcaneus was somewhat surprising and, to the authors' knowledge, has not been described elsewhere.\nThe average number of fractures sustained by male fallers in the current series was significantly higher than that observed in female fallers. This gender disparity is somewhat unexpected but may represent an important difference in border crossing behavior between genders. Sapkota et al5 have suggested that young, Mexican men are more likely to use dangerous routes and crossing points when attempting to gain unauthorized access to the United States. The current authors believe this variation may be explained by attempts to cross in urban centers where the border fence is highest.\nUnauthorized immigrant populations entering the United States receive considerable attention in the lay press. The topic of border security and financial costs of unauthorized immigration are frequently debated among policy experts and the efficacy of federal anti-immigration measures remains questionable.11 This study illustrates the humanitarian and financial crisis faced by trauma centers in the southwestern United States charged with caring for unauthorized immigrants who fall from the international border fence. More than 80% of the individuals represented in this study required hospital admission. The true cost of these admissions is difficult to quantify; however, the overwhelming majority of these individuals are largely or completely unable to pay for their stays and hospitals have no means of recovering the associated expenses once repatriation has occurred.\nThe current study has several limitations. First, its retrospective nature is associated with inherent inaccuracies of data collection. The authors also assume that individuals crossing the border fence are doing so with intent to land safely on the opposite side. However, human smugglers in the authors' state are known to push, kick, or intentionally drop fence crossers to flee approaching law enforcement agents. Unfortunately, there is no method for separating these individuals from the remainder of the study group. In addition, unauthorized border crossers are transferred to several medical facilities in the authors' area, only the most severely injured present to our level I trauma center. Finally, the current sample size of 172 patients may be underpowered to detect significant differences in injury patterns.\nFalls from the United States\u2013Mexico border fence are an important, and often underappreciated, cause of musculoskeletal injury in the southwestern United States. Patterns of injury observed in this population are similar to those reported for other populations of vertical deceleration injury. A significant proportion of these individuals require hospital admission but are unable to pay for services rendered, leaving hospitals and physicians uncompensated. Prevention strategies targeting young, Mexican men and women that discourage crossing the international border fence are needed to decrease incidence of border fence related injury and decrease strain on health care systems.\nRockett IR, Regier MD, Kapusta ND, et al. Leading causes of unintentional and in tentional injury mortality: United States, 2000\u20132009. 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Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1982; 3(1):35\u201343. doi:10.1097\/00000433-198203000-00008 [CrossRef]\nAmuedo-Dorantes C, Puttitanun T, Martinez-Donate AP. How do tougher immigration measures affect unauthorized immigrants?Demography. 2013; 50(3):1067\u20131091. doi:10.1007\/s13524-013-0200-x [CrossRef]\nNo. of Occurrences\nNo. of Open Fractures\nOpen Fractures by Site\nThoracolumbar 72 0 0%\nAnkle 45 14 33%\nPilon 30 12 44%\nDiaphyseal tibia\/fibula 25 9 41%\nCalcaneus 18 1 7%\nPelvic ring 11 0 0%\nPlateau 10 0 0%\nTalus 10 4 44%\nDistal radius 7 0 0%\nDistal femur 6 3 60%\nDiaphyseal humerus 4 0 0%\nPhalangeal (hand) 3 3 100%\nDiaphyseal femur 3 0 0%\nProximal femur 3 0 0%\nMetatarsal 3 0 0%\nElbow dislocation 2 1 50%\nCervical spine 2 0 0%\nDiaphyseal radius 2 0 0%\nAcetabulum 2 0 0%\nPatella 2 1 50%\nTarsal 1 1 100%\nRib 1 0 0%\nProximal ulna 1 0 0%\nClavicle 1 0 0%\nProximal radius 2 0 0%\nProximal humerus 1 0 0%\nTibiotalar dislocation 1 1 100%\nDistal ulna 1 0 0%\nCarpus 1 0 0%\nScapula 1 0 0%\nMetacarpal 1 0 0%\nTotal 272 50 18.40%\nThe authors are from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (DRB, JTR), University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona; and Management and Organizations (ARP), Kellogg School of Management, and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (ARP), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.\nThe authors have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.\nCorrespondence should be addressed to: David R. 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{"text":"Home \u00bb Topics \u00bb Psychiatry Information Center\nPsychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Applications in Mental Health\nMelissa Kalensky, DNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, CNE\nPsychedelic-assisted therapy has been relatively consistent in producing antidepressant and anxiolytic effects. Credit: Getty Images\nThe United States is experiencing a mental health crisis and psychedelics (ketamine, LSD, MDMA, psilocybin) have emerged as a potential new drug class to add to the treatment armamentarium. Approximately 21% of adults in the US have experienced mental illness in the last year.1 Major depressive disorder alone accounts for $326 billion in economic burden annually,2 with a national average of 22% of adults taking psychotropic medications in March 2022.3\nThe most commonly available medications for mental health \u2014 serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), tricyclic antidepressants, antipsychotic agents \u2014 are not always effective in achieving complete remission of symptoms or restoring function. In fact, despite an increased utilization of prescription medications for mental health, the overall rate of suicide has climbed by 35% over the last 2 decades.4 In comparison to the scope and scale of the mental health crisis in the US, the current prescription drug development pipeline is incredibly small.5\nPsychedelics as a Drug Class\nInitially researched in the 1940s, psychedelics are reemerging as one potential solution in the treatment of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance use disorders.5 No widely agreed-upon definition of psychedelic exists, however, drugs with this classification generally are thought to have fundamental properties related to producing hallucinations, as well as providing an experience that expands consciousness.6\nAt the chemical level, the efficacy of psychedelics is thought to derive from their role as psychoplastogens, compounds that promote neural plasticity as a function of chemical modulation within the brain.7 Psychedelics broadly encompass 3 drug classes: serotonin agonists, serotonin-releasing agents, and N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists (Table).6-11 Classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), act as serotoninagonists.6-8 Entactogens, such as methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), act as serotonin-releasing agents.7,8 Dissociative anesthetic substances, such as phencyclidine (PCP) and ketamine, act as N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists.7,8\nTable. Mechanism of Action and Potential Mental Health Applications of Psychedelics6-11\nDrug Chemical Derivation Neurologic Effects Clinical Effects Potential Uses Potential Adverse Effects\nPsilocybin8-10 Psilocybe and other types of mushrooms Serotonin agonist at 5-HT2A of pyramidal neurons \u2022 Dizziness\n\u2022 Weakness\n\u2022 Tremor\n\u2022 Paresthesias\n\u2022 Altered consciousness (acute perceptual auditory or visual distortions)\n\u2022 Altered mood (happiness, dysphoria, anxiety, panic)\n\u2022 Distorted sense of space or time\n\u2022 Sensation of having a mystical experience \u2022 Depression\n\u2022 Anxiety related to terminal illness\n\u2022 ETOH use disorder \u2022 Psychosis\n\u2022 Persistent hallucinogenic perceptions\n\u2022 Nausea\n\u2022 Headache\nLSD8-10 Ergot fungus Serotonin agonist at 5-HT2A of pyramidal neurons \u2022 Dizziness\n\u2022 Altered consciousness (visual hallucinations, audiovisual synesthesia, and positively experienced depersonalization and derealization)\n\u2022 Altered mood (subjective wellbeing, openness, fear, or irritability)\n\u2022 Distorted sense of space or time \u2022 Anxiety related to terminal illness\n\u2022 ETOH and tobacco use disorder \u2022 Psychosis\n\u2022 Modest increases in blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature\nMDMA8,9 Sassafras tree Serotonin, dopamine, and noradrenaline agonist \u2022 Weakness\n\u2022 Fatigue\n\u2022 Euphoria\n\u2022 Arousal\n\u2022 Perceptual alteration\n\u2022 Enhanced empathy\n\u2022 Enhanced sociability \u2022 PTSD \u2022 Elevated blood pressure\n\u2022 Potential neurocognitive deficits\n\u2022 Memory impairment\n\u2022 Sleep disruption\n\u2022 Acute anxiety\n\u2022 Short-term depression\n\u2022 Toxicity \/ overdose\nKetamine7,9,11 Synthetic NMDA receptor antagonists \u2022 Dizziness\n\u2022 Sedation\n\u2022 Dose-related psychedelic or dissociative effects\n\u2022 Short-term cognitive impairment\n\u2022 Memory loss \u2022 Depression\n\u2022 Refractory anxiety\n\u2022 PTSD\n\u2022 Substance use\n\u2022 Acute suicidality \u2022 Potential for abuse\n\u2022 Increased blood pressure or heart rate\nETOH, ethyl alcohol; MDMA, methylenedioxymethamphetamine; NMDA, N-methyl-d-aspartate; PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder\nPotential Applications of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy\nAs a result of the potential effects on perception (eg, psychosis, fear, increased anxiety, and panic), the vast majority of research involving psychedelics has explored the impact of concurrent administration of various drug formulations within a clinical setting and the application of psychotherapy. Though the term \"psychotherapy\" is not standardized in either approach or application within the literature, ideally the process of psychedelic-assisted therapy should involve preparation, treatment, and integration phases.7 Minimizing adverse experiences may include screening to identify ideal candidates for psychedelic-assisted therapy, monitoring physiologic and psychological effects throughout therapy by multiple health care providers (medical and professional therapists), as well as providing a session targeted at assisting an individual to process and gain insight from the experience.7\nIn measuring outcomes, many available clinical rating tools have been found to demonstrate high variability and low sensitivity and\/or specificity in the setting of psychedelic-assisted therapy.9 Tools demonstrating the most potential validity in this area may include the Hallucinogen Rating Scale (HRS), Mysticism Scale (MS), and Altered States of Consciousness Rating Scale (OAV), although even these scales have limited dose-response data firmly supporting their use in this context.9\nDerived from psilocybe and other types of mushrooms, psilocybin undergoes biotransformation into active metabolites through first-pass hepatic metabolism, reaches peak plasma concentration 100 minutes after oral administration, and has a half-life of 160 minutes.9 Dose-dependent, primarily pleasant changes in mood and perception and production of a mystical experience commonly occur.9 Adverse effects tend to be minimal and transient but can include dose-dependent dysphoria, anxiety, panic, and delayed-onset headaches and nausea.8,9\nThe most well-researched applications for psilocybin are depression and anxiety; in particular, research has examined use of psilocybin in reducing anxiety and improving mood\/quality of life among individuals with advanced-stage cancer.8-13 In a phase 2 randomized controlled trial (RCT) of psilocybin vs escitalopram (n=59) for the treatment of moderate to severe MDD, mean changes in 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self-Report (QIDS-SR-16) scores were similar among the treatment arms: -8.0\u00b11.0 points in the psilocybin group vs -6.0\u00b11.0 in the escitalopram group with a between-group difference of 2.0 points (95% CI, -5.0 to 0.9; P = 0.17).14 A QIDS-SR-16 response occurred in 70% of the psilocybin group vs in 48% of the escitalopram group (this difference was not deemed to be statistically significant) and QIDS-SR-16 remission occurred in 57% vs 28%. Though outcomes appear encouraging, it is important to note that approximately 90% of patients screened (891 out of 1000) did not meet inclusion criteria (primarily because of another pre-existing psychiatric diagnosis), most self-referred, and many expressed a preference for treatment with psilocybin, which may have impacted perceived efficacy of the treatment. Five out of 29 patients in the escitalopram group did not complete the protocol requirements, including 4 who stopped taking the medication because of adverse events and 1 who guessed they were taking escitalopram and halved the dose because of perceived adverse events. In the psilocybin arm, 3 out of 30 patients did not complete all dosing procedures.\nStudies have demonstrated that psilocybin-assisted therapy may also be effective in treating alcohol and tobacco dependence, with study findings demonstrating reductions in mean drinking days, 50% reduction in heavy drinking days from baseline levels, and improved rates of smoking cessation in individuals who had failed in previous attempts.8\nPsilocybin gained FDA-designated status as a breakthrough therapy for treatment-resistant depression in 2018 and major depressive disorder (MDD) in 2019. In addition to these conditions, current clinical trials are investigating use of psilocybin in PTSD, depression in Alzheimer disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anorexia nervosa, and substance use disorders (such as cocaine and opioids).5,12\nDerived from multiple plant products (eg, ergot fungus, morning glory, wood rose), LSD has a high degree of biotransformation with peak plasma levels reached approximately 1.5 hours after administration and a variable half-life ranging from 3.6 to 12 hours.9 Initial studies largely looked to validate the effects of LSD (any vs good vs bad effects) with alterations in consciousness \u2014 visual hallucinations, audiovisual synesthesia, subjective wellbeing, openness to experience, and positive experiences with derealization and depersonalization \u2014 found to last approximately 12 hours.9\nStudies have demonstrated improvements in state anxiety and depressed mood in patients with terminal illness treated with LSD-assisted psychotherapy, with sustained effects for up to 1 year and no adverse effects lasting more than 24 hours.6,10-13 In patients with alcohol use disorder, reductions in alcohol misuse and increased abstinence were associated with the administration of a single dose of LSD.10,12 In a study assessing the effects of a single dose of LSD in healthy individuals, the intervention was associated with increased positive life attitude, improved mood, altruistic effects, and life satisfaction at both 1- and 12-month intervals post-treatment.12 Ongoing clinical trials are evaluating LSD in the treatment of mood disorders, migraine headache, and anxiety associated with terminal illness.12\nDerived from the oil of the sassafras tree, MDMA consists of stereoisomers that undergo biotransformation at various rates via cytochrome P450 (CYP450; CYP2D6) and catechol-O-methyltransferase pathways.9 The half-life of a single dose is approximately 9 hours but due to a complex mechanism of inhibition, the drug has nonlinear pharmacokinetics that can reduce drug metabolism for weeks at a time with the administration of multiple doses.9 Phase 2 RCTs examining the efficacy of 2 MDMA-assisted psychotherapy sessions in the treatment of PTSD demonstrated reductions in symptoms of greater than 30% in a majority of participants, with some individuals no longer meeting the criteria for PTSD.8,12,15,16 Of note, three-quarters of participants in one of the studies showed sustained remission of symptoms for 3.5 years after initial treatment.8,12,16 In phase 3 a placebo-controlled RCT, two-thirds (67%) of participants who received MDMA-assisted therapy (28 out of 42) no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis after 18 weeks and three sessions vs 32% of participants in the placebo group.17\nIn 2017, the FDA granted MDMA breakthrough therapy designation for the treatment of PTSD.12 Since then, proposed treatment targets in ongoing studies of MDMA also include depression, anxiety related to life-threatening illness, and social anxiety in adults with autism spectrum disorder.9,12\nAs a synthetically produced combination of stereoisomers (S+\/R-) with differing NMDA receptor affinity, ketamine does not appear to produce dose-dependent effects, which is not unexpected given more recent data demonstrating that binding likely occurs at a variety of non-NMDA mediated receptor sites as well.9,11 Women experience a more rapid rate of drug elimination (20% higher) resulting in men reporting more prominent side effects.9 The clinical effects and half-life of ketamine vary by administration route with intravenous administration having the most rapid onset and predictable linear dose-dependent plasma concentration.9\nEsketamine nasal spray became the first fully FDA-approved psychedelic therapy in 2019 for treatment-resistant depression when used in combination with an antidepressant.7 The indication was later expanded to include depressive symptoms in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) with acute suicidal ideation or behavior; however, the effectiveness of esketamine in preventing suicide or in reducing suicidal ideation or behavior had not been demonstrated when the drug went to market.18 The drug's long-standing efficacy in the treatment of depression is marked by rapid onset of subanesthetic doses at 4 hours after infusion and at 2 to 4 hours with intranasal esketamine, sustained efficacy, sustained antidepressant effects with repeated treatment, and up to a 69% reduction of suicidal ideation demonstrated in subsequent studies.11,19\nIn a phase 3 RCT involving patients with treatment-resistant depression (non-response to 2 antidepressants), patients treated with esketamine plus an antidepressant had a significantly greater change in Montgomery-\u00c5sberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) score compared with those given an antidepressant plus placebo at day 28 (difference of least square means=-4.0, 95% CI, -7.31 to -0.64).20 Clinically meaningful improvement was observed at earlier time points in the esketamine plus antidepressant group, and these results were consistent across various subgroups (age, sex, geography, baseline symptom severity, level of functional impairment, and class of oral antidepressants).\nPotential Contraindications of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy\nMuch of the evidence looking at the indications and contraindications of psychedelic-assisted therapy is primarily theoretical at this point. As such, several populations have been excluded from studies thus far due to concern for physiologic toxicity or the potential of acute psychological distress.9 This has included individuals with a personal or family history of psychosis or psychotic disorder and those with known cardiovascular disease (eg, hypertension, tachycardia, tachyarrhythmias).7,9 Use of concurrent psychiatric medications that may confound results has primarily excluded individuals currently receiving therapy with SSRIs, lithium, antipsychotics, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).9 No studies to date have been inclusive of pediatric or older adult populations.\nConcern for Potential Abuse With Psychedelics\nThe potential for abuse of psychedelic agents historically has been a topic of controversy. The majority of these drugs are classified as DEA Schedule I controlled substances (and are similarly scheduled in UK and Europe) with no approved medical uses and labeled as having a high potential for abuse.12 Yet, there is no existing data-driven research documenting the potential risks for abuse and\/or dependence on psychedelics used in the clinical setting.6,12 In 2010 an expert panel in the UK, the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, reviewed data on 20 potential drugs of abuse to indicate the level of risk for harm to self and others and provided a harm score ranging from 0 to 100, with a higher score indicating an increased risk of morbidity, mortality, and dependence among several other measures.21 Alcohol received the highest score (72), followed by heroin (55), while cocaine was tied to moderate risk (27) and hallucinogens such as ketamine, MDMD, and LSD (15, 9, and 7, respectively) ranking substantially lower.21 Although direct clinical data is lagging, this suggests that existing drug scheduling may be more rooted in historic social biases than actual evidence of abuse potential for psychedelics.5 While we understand from prior evidence regarding the use of street drugs there is a potential for misuse or abuse, little supporting data exists outside of animal studies to determine the true potential for prescription psychedelic abuse, making it most likely to be determined in postmarketing analysis.6,12,21\nPotential Risk vs Benefits of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy\nPsychedelics present several potential advantages when compared to existing prescription drug therapy. When administered in conjunction with psychotherapeutic support, psychedelics have been relatively consistent in producing antidepressant and anxiolytic effects.12 In contrast to traditional psychopharmacologic options, the onset of action of psychedelics appears to be significantly faster, often providing immediate effects rather than waiting weeks or even months for clinical improvement.5,13 Perhaps most promising is initial data demonstrating a strong dose-response relationship with sustained benefits, such as a single dose of psilocybin reducing depression and anxiety for up to 1 year.5,7 The majority of evidence also demonstrates these drugs are generally well-tolerated with adverse effects that seem to be relatively minor and short lived (<72 hours) postadministration.13\nClinical research remains limited in this area with a small amount of well-controlled studies published to date, many lacking randomization and\/or double blinding and most of which have small sample sizes and relatively short duration of treatment and follow-up.5,9,10,13 Most available studies provide minimal insight regarding the dose vs response as it relates to efficacy because the primary initial outcome of psychedelic research to date has focused on determining dosing as it relates to safety.9,12 Almost all studies look at psychedelic use in combination with psychotherapy \u2014 in most cases with well-trained and experienced staff \u2014 which on its own is traditionally considered a first-line treatment for most mental health conditions and may potentially represent a significant confounding factor.9\nMoving forward, cost will be a large limitation in how widely available and easily assessable psychedelic therapies become. Coupled with the cost of administration, the initial month of esketamine treatment ranges between$4720 and $6785, with maintenance therapy continuing at $2360 to $3540 a month thereafter.7 Even with the potential for reduced dose frequency with newer agents such as psilocybin, the administration costs are estimated to be similar (or even more) because of the length of time required for the administration of a single dose (6 to 8 hours vs 2 hours for esketamine).7 Psychedelic drugs that are indicated exclusively for use in conjunction with psychotherapy may be effective but at the expense of limiting widespread use because of financial barriers and clinician availability, which may ultimately worsen already existing inequities in the health care system.\nTo reclassify psychedelics into the DEA Schedule II and move these agents into clinical trials and clinical practice, many gaps in both practice and research will need to be addressed.22 Because these drugs were recently approved or are early in the FDA approval process, clear clinical guidelines\/expert recommendations on the application of research into practice are still forthcoming. Though the clinical impact is potentially promising, treatment involving psychedelics is largely theoretical at this point and thus not included in current professional training models for the majority of mainstream medical, nursing, or psychotherapy programs.\nMoving forward clinical drug trials investigating the efficacy of psychedelics will need to more consistently include RCTs with large sample sizes and recruitment of diverse participants; double-blinded research will continue to present a challenge in this area as it is difficult to assign participants to a control group when obvious drug effects are absent.9 One practical consideration researchers may face moving forward is how to effectively uncouple hallucinogenic and therapeutic effects to maximize efficacy while minimizing abuse potential.7,9 Ultimately, the structure of our health care system as it stands now does not support the widespread application of psychedelic-assisted therapy in terms of financial cost and given the paucity of currently available psychiatric care providers.7\nMelissa Kalensky, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, CNE, is an assistant professor at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago.\nNational Institute of Mental Health. 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{"text":"La Quinta is considering new rules on short-term rentals, and you have a chance to weigh in\nNicole Hayden\nPalm Springs Desert Sun\nLa Quinta has extended a moratorium that temporarily banned residents from converting non-bedroom space into additional bedrooms as the city continues to consider new rules for short-term vacation rentals.\nFor at least the next 120 days, residents won't be able to erect a new wall in their living room.\nThe action comes after a handful of residents in La Quinta began converting living areas into bedroom space \u2013 without the proper permits \u2013 to make room for more short-term vacation renters, according to Gabriel Perez, La Quinta planning manager.\nThe city found three homes in the Del Oro neighborhood, east of Washington Street and north of Miles Avenue, that advertised eight rentable bedrooms, but the city only had a record of five permitted bedrooms. While the La Quinta Municipal Code currently does not have any rules that restricts homeowners from adding more bedrooms, city staff and residents said that the additional rooms led to more noise complaints and greater parking congestion in the neighborhood.\nMore:La Quinta temporarily bans homeowners from adding additional bedrooms\nMore:Yes, you can make bank renting your home during Coachella. But here's what you need to know.\nMore:Palm Springs resident sues his homeowners association for blocking short-term rentals\nThe La Quinta City Council originally approved a 45-day ban in January, extended that with a 120-day ban in February and last week extended it for another 120 days, giving council until September to make final decisions on new short-term rental rules.\nVacation rentals boost Coachella Valley economy by $7M\nThe council is discussing changes to two different ordinances \u2013 Title 9, a zoning ordinance that address bedroom conversations, and Title 3, an ordinance that addresses short-term rental rules. The council will host a public hearing on Title 9 on June 5 and another study session on Title 3 on June 15.\nThe proposed rule changes would apply to additions or modifications made to existing single-family homes. The changes would not apply to new construction.\nProposed Title 9 changes include:\nA maximum number of bedrooms allowed based on square feet. A 2,000-square-foot home could have a maximum of four bedrooms; a 2,001 to 2,850-square-foot home could have five bedrooms; a 2,851 to 3,500-square-foot home could have six bedrooms; and a home greater than 3,500-square-feet could have eight bedrooms.\nBedroom space could only take up 35 percent of a home. During the May 15 meeting, councilmembers discussed possibly changing that to 45 percent.\nAdditional garage space would be required if four or more new bedrooms are created.\nLimiting the number of short-term rental permits allowed in each neighborhood\nLimiting occupancy to two guests per bedroom\nShort-term rentals would be inspected by the city and home owners will be billed for the inspections\nRequiring guests to have a parking permit for street parking near the short-term rental\nIncreasing violation fines. First-time violations would range from $100 to $500; subsequent fines are proposed in the range of $500 to $5,000.\nDisallowing residents from renting out tents or RVs on their property\nRequiring evacuation maps to be posted in the short-term renal\nLa Quinta Mayor Linda Evans said she didn't think requiring homeowners to add additional garage space was necessary, as it would require additional building and most homeowners don't let short-term rental guests access their garages anyways. Mayor Pro-Tem Kathleen Fitzpatrick concurred and suggested they drop the garage requirement.\nEvans said while the discussion is focused on rules for short-term renters, the city still needs to be conscious that these rules will also impact families who just want to add more bedrooms for their growing families.\nCouncilman Steve Sanchez said he, too, is leery of too many rules because he is worried about property owner's rights and he doesn't \"like bring told what to do.\"\nThe rules are an attempt to find balance between residents who want to keep their neighborhoods family-friendly and residents who want to capitalize on the growing business of short-term rentals.\nMelissa Labayog, who lives in La Quinta full-time, said while she sees the positive changes that some short-term rentals have brought to the city, she is still against having them in her neighborhood.\nMore:La Quinta residents outraged at grocery store, gas station proposal\n\"Neighborhoods look nicer than they did years ago,\" she said. \"But I wouldn't let my daughter ride her bike around or leave her bike in the yard because my neighborhood is filled with strangers.\"\nLynne Daniels, who has two short-term rentals in La Quinta, said when she rents her homes out she thoroughly vets the renters before OK'ing their stay. Daniels said she works to make sure her homes are not filled with raucous parties, but quiet visitors who just want to enjoy the peace of La Quinta.\nCity leaders have stressed the proposed rules are just an attempt to remedy everyone's concerns by putting the tools in place for more effective policing of problem rentals. La Quinta currently allow short-term rentals and isn't looking to eliminate them.\nIn November, the city updated the existing ordinance to allow up to two overnight guests per bedroom and no more than nine bedrooms. The ordinance also has rules for daytime guests. From 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., STRs that are a studio up to a two-bedroom home are allowed up to eight daytime guests while a home with nine bedrooms can have up to 24 daytime guests.\nCouncilmembers also discussed how best to police the daytime versus overnight rules for STR guests. Sanchez said it would be challenging to show up at 10 p.m. each night to make sure each daytime visitor left. And Fitzpatrick said, she would prefer those visitors spend the night, potentially breaking the STR rules limiting the number of overnight guests, than drive home drunk. The city council, staff and residents will continue to discuss at the upcoming meetings.\nDesert Sun reporter Nicole Hayden covers the cities of La Quinta, Indian Wells, Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert. She can be reached at Nicole.Hayden@desertsun.com or (760) 778-4623. Follow her on Twitter @nicoleandpig.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"USMNT heads to Qatar for January camp, roster to include 'some surprising selections'\nBy Emily Olsen and Pro Soccer USA\nUSMNT head coach Gregg Berhalter looks on before their international friendly match against Costa Rica at Avaya Stadium on February 2, 2019 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham\/Getty Images)\nThe United States men's national team opens 2020 with January camp in Doha, Qatar, followed by its first friendly of the decade Feb. 1 against Costa Rica in Carson, California.\nU.S. coach Gregg Berhalter is schedule to announce his roster for the camp and friendly Monday at 2 p.m. ET. It will include some surprising selections, according to a USMNT spokesperson.\nThe annual camp typically features mainly Major League Soccer players since it falls outside of a FIFA international window and European and Mexican clubs do not often release players midseason.\nThe United States Soccer Federation has long held its early-year trainings in Southern California. Choosing to change locations this year to Qatar was \"with the confidence and anticipation of qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup,\" according to a statement released by the federation.\n\"The USMNT will take a first opportunity to experience the football facilities, customs, weather and other logistical and performance considerations in the host nation,\" the statement read.\nThe USMNT held similar on-location camps in South Africa and Brazil prior to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups respectively.\nThe team will train at the Aspire Academy in Qatar's capital city of Doha Jan. 5-25, including closed-door scrimmages, before heading stateside for the friendly against Costa Rica.\nRelentless Gators rout No. 4 Auburn behind freshman Omar Payne\nPro Bowl-themed events dominate NFL's return to Orlando this week\n\"Our priority is to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, so it's certainly a big benefit to get a head start on experiencing the facilities, environment and culture of the tournament hosts,\" Berhalter said.\nIn preparation for the Concacaf Nations League semifinal in June and the start of 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying, which kicks off in September, the U.S. will host Costa Rica at the LA Galaxy's Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson.\n\"The chance to play against a likely World Cup qualifying opponent is fantastic,\" Berhalter said. \"As we continue to develop, it's important to challenge our group against a variety of different opponents. At the end of a January Camp, we want the players to have a chance to put all the work to the test.\"\nSee the original story on Pro Soccer USA\nSorry, LSU, but FSU's 2013 championship was most dominant in modern history | Commentary","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Life\nThis chatbot allows you to order coffee via Facebook Messenger\nJeeves de Veyra\nPosted at Aug 04 2019 05:57 PM\nBOTTY is now available at 47 Bo's Coffee branches nationwide. Jeeves de Veyra\nMANILA -- Tech-savvy Filipinos are spoiled for many modern ways of ordering products -- through websites, touch-screens, apps, and now, through chat.\nBOTTY is a new chatbot-powered ordering system being piloted in the Philippines by Filipino-owned coffee chain Bo's Coffee.\nThe system was developed in Bangkok by Cary Gee, inspired by the widespread use of the WeChat platform in China for payments, money remittance, and shopping. Gee saw the opportunity and penetration of chat, notably Facebook Messenger, in the Philippines and BOTTY is his attempt to replicate the WeChat experience outside of China. Gee said that BOTTY is now being used in Thailand, Singapore, and Australia.\nAt first, it may seem gimmicky but after a hands-on experience with the system, there are distinct advantages.\nThe first is that chatting is second nature to the Filipino. The second is that there is no need to install additional software or additional apps on your device. BOTTY currently works with Facebook Messenger with support for Viber to be released soon. Another plus is the ability to order even before getting to the restaurant or caf\u00e9 so that when you get there, there is no more wait for your coffee. The system has even given Bo's the ability for curbside service as customers don't have to get out of their cars to get their orders.\nBo's Coffee founder and CEO Steve Benitez and COO Rachel Fallarme talk to BOTTY creator Cary Gee. Jeeves de Veyra\n\"We'd like to try to eliminate any friction in the service where people have to wait. So, we don't want a line in the store. So, before you come here, your coffee's ready. It's really enhancing the whole customer experience,\" explained Steve Benitez, founder and CEO of Bo's Coffee.\nBOTTY is also a boon for backend operations as it offers management real-time access to their data and operations. It will also give restaurant operators the ability to create curated personalized loyalty programs for customers based on their order history and favorites.\nTo use BOTTY, users must first look for \"Bo's Coffee Advance Ordering BOTTY\" on Facebook Messenger. First time users will be shown current promos and then will be prompted to \"Order Now.\" Users will then be asked for their location and confirm the branch they are ordering from. The restaurant's menu categories will then be shown. After selecting a category, the products under that are listed and the user can then select what to order, the quantity, special instructions and modifications.\nFor coffee, sample modifications are adding sugar, adding another shot, or not including whipped cream. Users can then add or remove items from the order as desired.\nWatch more on iWantTFC\nUpon check-out, users are given the option to pay at the counter or to use any of the integrated payment solutions. After that, users are given a claim code and an estimate how much time is needed to prepare the order. When the order is ready, the user gets a notification from BOTTY to claim the items at the counter.\nBOTTY is just one part of the Bo's Coffee digital transformation program. The brand is also working on its app and loyalty program, revamping uts website, and building an online e-commerce platform for merchandise and single origin coffee beans.\nOrdering through BOTTY is currently supported at 47 branches of Bo's Coffee nationwide.\nchatbot, Facebook Messenger, Bo's Coffee, coffee, tech\nRead More: chatbot Facebook Messenger Bo's Coffee coffee tech\nMilo launches program to reel Pinoy kids back to sports\n'Angry' Trump jumpstarts faltering 2024 campaign\nPaano ka babangon sa 2023?\nFeng Shui tips for getting lucky this 2023\nCashless transactions anytime, anywhere\nJoin the awesome celebration at Dinagyang Festival\nWhat happens if you fail to register your SIM on time\n'BANGON' and take charge this 2023\nKeep kids healthy this New Year\nCondiments that compliment nature\nJollibee Group helps level up farmers to entrepreneurs\nHow to make new year resolutions happen\nPhones to watch out for in 2023\nDelivery scams up by 780%, here's how to stay protected","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mustang Rules 2021\n1. Game length is six innings. No new inning shall start after one hour and 45 minutes. If a game cannot be completed due to weather, it is considered complete after four complete innings (3-1\/2 if the home team is leading). Before this point, it shall be considered postponed, and rescheduled. Re-started from the exact point where the game left off.\n3. Batting rotations shall be continuous from the beginning of the game, including the ENTIRE ROSTER. The batting order cannot be changed once the game is started. (The only exceptions are if a player has to leave the game for an injury or sickness or, if both coaches agree before the game, church obligations, etc. In that case, that batter shall be skipped and no out shall be recorded. The other exception is if a player shows up late to a game, he\/she can be inserted as the last batter before that spot in the lineup is approached.) Otherwise, outs shall be recorded until the player arrives and that player shall still bat last in the order.\n4. No player shall sit out (defensively) more than three innings.\n5. Teams may play three or four players in the outfield (in - LF, LC, RC & RF). This is a coach's decision.\n6. Lead-offs, Base Runners and Stealing: Base Length is 60 feet.\nA. Lead offs are limited to 1 step from any base.\nB. Base runners at 1st and 2nd may attempt to steal once the pitch crosses the plate. If a base runner steals 2nd base and the ball is overthrown, the base runner may advance to 3rd base at his\/her own risk, but cannot advance home. (See rule 5.D.) Umpire shall give one warning for leadoffs, after that any runner from that team shall be called out if leading off more than one step.\nC. Pitchers are allowed to attempt to pick off base runners. If a pitcher attempts to pick off a base runner at 1st or 2nd, and the ball is overthrown, any runner(s) may attempt to advance as far as 3rd base, but not home (see rule 5.D). The ball is considered live until the pitcher has control of the ball and is on the pitcher's mound.\nD. A base runner at 3rd base cannot steal home. However, if the defense attempts to pick off the base runner at 3rd, the base runner may advance at his\/her own risk. A base runner attempting to steal 3rd base from 2nd base shall not advance home on an overthrow from the catcher attempting to throw the base runner out. A base runner established at 3rd base shall only advance home on a batted ball, attempted pick off, walked in, or \"balked\" in from 3rd. (See 18. K) Runner can't advance home on a pickoff attempt at another base. Because of this, the runner at 3rd can't take a secondary lead.\nE. Base runners shall slide when a situation requires sliding. A base runner shall be called out if he\/she attempts to run over a defensive player.\nF. Base runners may advance as far as they wish on an overthrow while the ball is still live after a batted ball (Only exception is on a steal, rule 5. B.).\nG. Base runners are allowed to tag up after a player catches a batted ball in the air.\nH. Courtesy runners are allowed and encouraged for catchers and pitchers at any time regardless of outs, but shall be the last batted out. Pinch runners are allowed for injured players.\nI. No fire drill play is allowed.\n7. There is no dropped third strike rule.\n8. There is no infield fly rule.\n9. Maximum of seven runs per inning until the sixth inning, where there is no limit on runs. In tie games, extra innings may be played, and shall have no scoring limit. However, the time limit (rule #1) is still in effect, and as a result, ties may happen during the regular season. Plate umpire shall determine the final inning.\n10. Slaughter rule is in effect if 15 runs after four innings, 10 runs after five innings.\n12. The home team shall provide two new game balls. Homerun balls may be kept if replaced with a new ball.\n13. Teams shall exchange batting lineups before the start of the game. Head coaches shall attend a pre-game meeting at the plate with the umpire(s). The Umpire-In-Chief (plate umpire) shall call the official start time, which shall be recorded in both teams' scorebooks. The Umpire-In-Chief shall also have sole authority in enforcing the time limit (See Rule #1 above.).\n14. A game may be started with eight players. In this case, the ninth spot in the batting order is an out.\n15. Catchers are to be in full gear (A regular baseball glove may be used.). Male catchers shall wear a cup.\n16. Interference and obstruction shall be called and enforced without warning. (Defensive players shall not obstruct runners in the base paths, unless they are in the act of fielding. Runners shall avoid contact with defensive players who are in the act of fielding.)\n17. The home team is responsible for calling the away team with a minimum of one hour notice if a game is to be cancelled due to field conditions or weather. Makeup games shall be scheduled by the home team as soon as possible. The home team coach shall check field availability before rescheduling.\n19. Pitching rules:\nA. Pitchers can only pitch a maximum of three innings per game.\nC. Pitchers are allowed a maximum of eight innings a week (Week starts on Monday\/ends on Sunday).\nD. A pitcher shall be removed from the mound after hitting four batters in a single game.\nF. A pitcher removed from the mound cannot return to pitch.\nI. A pitcher that is brought into a game in the middle of an inning gets a maximum of eight pitches to warm up. A new pitcher that starts out a new inning gets the maximum of eight pitches. A pitcher that pitched the previous inning gets a maximum of five pitches. (This will speed up the games.)\nJ. A coach is allowed to make one trip to the mound per inning to talk to the pitcher. However, a second trip within the same inning requires a pitching change.\nK. Balks shall be called, but all pitchers shall get two warnings. On the balk warning, runners shall not be awarded a base. After the warning, any more balks for that pitcher shall count, and each base runner shall be awarded the next base. (Baseball rules state that a balk is a delayed dead ball, and that if the pitcher continues with the pitch and the batter puts it in play, play continues and the balk is not enforced unless each runner does not safely advance one base and no out is recorded. If any runner fails to advance or is put out on the play, the balk is enforced.)\n20. Mustang teams are allowed to bring up Pinto players, if needed, but shall not use other Mustang players.\nA. A player brought up from Pinto shall only play in the outfield.\nB. A player brought up from Pinto shall be the last batter in the lineup.\nC. In a case when a Mustang player shows up to a game that they told their coach that they would not be there and a Pinto player was called up for this player the Pinto player may be entered into the lineup. If the Pinto player is entered into the lineup, he\/she shall play one inning in the field.\nD. At no time shall Mustang players sit out while Pinto players play (One exception is 19. C.).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"REELpoetry, Houston, 24\u201328 February 21\nREELpoetry, Houston, 24-28 February. Online this year, REELpoetry was a wonderful event. At https:\/\/www.publicpoetry.net and directed by Fran Sanders the festival was available to view from all time zones. I was lucky enough to work with Mary McDonald on a project for the festival where we helped selected poets make poetry films from pre-chosen films and soundscapes. Fran also invited Mary and I to judge the competition entries with her, and it was a difficult choice but the results were as follows:\nThe judges' prize went to \"The '90s\" by poet Kathleen Flenniken and filmmaker Elizabeth Flenniken. The poem is from \"Post Romantic: Poems\" by Kathleen Flenniken.\nThe audience award went to \"#BlackLivesMatter\" by Ijeoma \"E&J\" Eke.\nThe deconstructed film winner is \"A Moving Portrait\" by poet Linda Eve Diamond. The watercolor animation is by Matvey Rezenov, and the music is by simondsouza.\nIt was a big festival to organise and so well put together by Fran, David and Leila, I was very impressed. It was full to the brim of different events to watch online. Fran asked each of the presenters to give a 15-minute presentation of their work and I chose three very different poetry films: Lockdowning with short one-minute diary footage of the early days of lockdown; Selfie with Marilyn (much said elsewhere, except that the collection the poem is from has now won the PANK Books Prize for Poetry. It will be published on June 1st, Marilyn's 95th birthday. Huge congratulations to Heidi! And also Tom Konvyes has had some interesting things to say about the film on Liberated Words.com). The final film Firewash is a poem and poetry film about a mediaeval mining ancestor, from my family history project Tree. Firewash, the poem, is in the forthcoming collection Earth Lines by Edinburgh Geological Society. The poem arose from a visit to an old site in Cornwall where my ancestor mined, and which fortuitously is now a farm shepherd's hut retreat. I stayed there during a gale and, aside from factual elements, I cannot really say where much of the poem came from.\nI was also interviewed by Dr Meriel Lland on my forthcoming book The Poetics of Poetry Film, and the link for that is here","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hazard expected Lampard to be success at Blues\nFormer Chelsea star Eden Hazard believes Blues boss Frank Lampard has the potential to be one of the best managers in the world.\nHaving almost taken Derby County up into the Premier League, Lampard was handed the Chelsea job following the departure of Maurizio Sarri.\nIn just his second season in management, Lampard has taken Chelsea up to third place in the table as they look ahead to their next outing against Manchester City on Saturday.\nBelgium international Hazard decided to end his time in west London over the summer and did not get the opportunity to work under the new Blues boss.\nWhen asked if he was surprised by the start Lampard has made in the dugout at Stamford Bridge, Hazard said: \"No, not at all. I know Frank as a player, not as a manager, but he's a great guy. He's showed already after four months that he can be one of the best managers in the world.\n\"The good thing is that they are playing with young players, young English players. For England it's good, for Chelsea it's good. They are lucky to have young players with quality.\"\nHazard added: \"I still have good friends there. I follow them all the time. They are winning at the moment so I'm just happy for them.\"\nAll has not gone according to plan so far for Hazard in Spain, with the Belgian seemingly struggling to get up to speed with life at the Santiago Bernabeu.\nMeanwhile, the in-form Blues have a one-point advantage over Premier League champions Manchester City ahead of their encounter at the Etihad Stadium this weekend.\nChelsea find themselves eight points behind frontrunners Liverpool and victory over the Citizens on Saturday would be a real boost to Lampard's hopes of entering the title race.\nLabels: Chelsea, Eden Hazard, Frank Lampard, International News, News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}