{"text":"Calgary filmmakers are super!\nBy Ryan Pike\nLike the rest of Canada, Calgary is a pretty desolate and unforgiving place during the five to seven months of winter. Most residents huddle indoors to wait out the frigid weather and local filmmakers are no exception. For the past two years a pair of local filmmakers have organized the Super 8 Challenge, designed to keep local talent active during the lean winter months.\n\"Just the winter alone sort of keeps you a shut-in,\" says challenge co-founder Mike Peterson. \"You can't shoot a lot of stuff, even if you have an idea for it. Productions locally kind of shut down. There aren't too many feature films and there aren't too many commercials shot over the winter.\"\nPeterson hopes that the Super 8 Challenge strengthens the local film community. He notes that while the films produced through the challenge are always important, the collaboration itself remain a crucial part of the event.\n\"The challenge is sort of a vehicle to build the community amongst the filmmakers and other artists in town,\" reflects Peterson. \"But it's also a way to get filmmakers to collaborate amongst themselves, when usually you don't know other directors or other filmmakers necessarily, and to see what our other fellow filmmakers are up to.\"\nFollowing an October call for entrants, 14 invitees were split into 10 groups and each group given the winter months to shoot a film using a Super 8 camera. To shake things up, though, Peterson and co-founder James Reckseidler added in a twist: four elements that must be part of each film.\n\"All the filmmakers that I invite submit suggestions for the four elements,\" notes Peterson. \"Based on their suggestions and my own suggestions, we draw them out of a hat and that's what we end up with.\"\nAs a result of these suggestions, all films were required to address the theme of communication between cultures, include stop-motion animation, a parking lot attendant character and an appearance of the letter F. These wrinkles force the filmmakers to create a bevy of short films that, while similar, are bound to be unique.\n\"This is a great place to see the local film talent that's in town, because there's a lot and I don't know that it always get recognized,\" shares Peterson. \"Of the festivals and events around filmmaking, none of them are focused on Calgary so much [while] this is very much a Calgary event.\"\nPublished May 17, 2007 By Masoud\nGauntlet awards doled out\nMLAs speak out about PSE discrepancies","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality \u2013 Day 14\nThis is a report of the fourteenth public hearing of the Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality, Violation of Rights of Citizens and Unlawful Killings in Oyo State.\nVenue: The House of Chiefs, Oyo State House of Assembly, Ibadan, Oyo State.\nDate: Wednesday, February 24, 2021.\nToday's sitting commenced at about 9:25am, shortly after the arrival of the panelists.\nCases at the Oyo State Judicial Panel\n1. Case No. OYJPPB\/022\nMr Shaguna George Gbenga v Nigeria Police, Alabebe Police Station. The petitioner was present but was not represented by a legal representative. The respondent was absent at the hearing. The petitioner told the Oyo State Judicial Panel that he would like to discontinue the petition if it pleased the panel because the same petition is presently before the Human Rights Commission in Abuja.\nThe Oyo State Judicial Panel granted the petitioner's application and petition OYJPPB\/022 was thereby struck out.\nAlhaji Ganiyu Ajiboye Busari v The Nigeria Police, Oyo State Police Command. The petitioner was present and also represented by Kingsley Ike (Esq.) and I. C. Onouha. However, the respondent was absent at the hearing.\nThe legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel, Mrs Oluwafolake Ogundele, told the panel that the respondent had been served with the processes of the petition but was yet to respond. She therefore prayed the panel to afford the petitioner a date for hearing. However, the application was rejected because the panel insisted that all sides must be given fair hearing and so, the decision could not be made in the absence of the respondent.\nThe petition was adjourned by the Oyo State Judicial Panel till March 11, 2021 for mention.\nThomas Chinedu Dim & Anor v Oyo State Police Command. The petitioner was present but was not represented by a legal counsel. The respondent was absent at the hearing. The petitioner told the panel that he does not have a lawyer and that today was the second time he would appear before the panel. He said that he relocated to Nsukka because his business crumbled after he was hospitalised for close to four years.\nThe legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel, Mrs Oluwafolake Ogundele, pointed out that there is a subsisting judgement of a Federal High Court dated 15th June, 2004; on the issue. The judgement which awarded over a million naira as damages in favour of the petitioner was yet to be paid, since the judgement involved a police officer who is on the run.\nHaving gone through the petition, the Oyo State Judicial Panel stated that what was needed concerning the petition was enforcement and this goes beyond the jurisdiction of the panel since the panel is not a Court of Appeal. However, the panel assured the petitioner that his petition would be directed to the National Assembly in Abuja because the two houses have committees who handle such cases. The panel said that the matter would be handled by writing and sending the documents to the appropriate quarters in Abuja. The panel also assured that the petitioner would be involved in the process and there was no need for the petitoner to appear before the panel again because he would be contacted by phone henceforth.\nWith this, the petition was adjourned sine die.\nMr Faluade Dare Alabi v The Nigeria Police, Ojoo Police Station. The petitioner was present and was represented by O. I. Falana (Esq.). The respondent was absent at the hearing.\nThe legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel, Mrs Oluwafolake Ogundele, told the panel that the Police had been served but was yet to respond to the petition.\nMrs Titilayo Joseph and Anor v Inspector-General of Police and Four Others. The petitioner was absent and was not represented by a legal counsel. The respondents were also absent at the hearing.\nMrs Oluwafolake Ogundele, the legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel told the panel that the respondents had been served but was yet to respond. She also said that the petitioner was represented at the last hearing by Tunde Olupona (Esq.) and could not explain the reason for the absence.\nThe petition was adjourned by the Oyo State Judicial Panel till March 9, 2021 for mention so as to issue a fresh hearing notice on the petitioner's counsel, Tunde Olupona (Esq.).\nMr Alao Olayiwola v The Nigeria Police Area \"F\" Command, Lagos. The petitioner was absent and was not represented by a legal counsel. The respondent was absent.\nMrs Oluwafolake Ogundele, the legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel told the panel that the respondent was Lagos State Police Command. She said the processes of the petition was served on the respondent on the 8th of February, 2021 but the respondent was yet to respond. She also said that the petition had appeared twice before the panel and there had been no representation whatsoever from the petitioner's end on both occasions.\nWith this, the petition was adjourned by the Oyo State Judicial Panel till March 9, 2021 for mention or striking out, and a fresh hearing notice would be issued and served on the petitioner.\nMr Muraina Kadiri Adeyemi v The Nigeria Police, Iyaganku. The petitioner was present but was not represented by a legal counsel. The respondent was not represented.\nThe petition was adjourned by the Oyo State Judicial Panel till March 10, 2021 for mention so as to enable the petitioner obtain the services of a pro bono counsel.\nMr Oladejo Raphael v The Nigeria Police, Iyaganku. The petitioner was absent and was not represented by a legal counsel. The respondent was also absent at the hearing.\nMrs Oluwafolake Ogundele, the legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel said that the petitioner visited the panel's secretariat on February 4, 2021 to inform the panel of his intention to withdraw the petition as the matter is presently before the Customary Court, Ibadan and he wrote a letter to that effect. A copy of the letter was submitted to the panel as evidence.\nIn view of the letter from the petitioner wherein he applied to withdraw the petition, the petition was struck out by the Oyo State Judicial Panel.\nMr Ayanwale Jimoh v The Nigeria Police, Oyo State Command. The petitioner was absent and was not represented by a legal counsel. The respondent was also absent at the hearing.\nThis petition came up for the first time on February 2, 2021; as such, the Oyo State Judicial Panel decided to give the petitioner one more chance.\nThe petition was adjourned by the Oyo State Judicial Panel till March 10, 2021 for mention or for striking out.\n10. Case No. OYJPPB\/038\nMr Adegbite Nasiru v The Nigeria Police, Eleyele Ibadan. The petitioner was present and was represented by S. A. Oladele (Esq.). However, the respondent was absent. The petitioner's counsel, S. A. Oladele (Esq.) said that at the last adjourned hearing, the respondent was ordered to serve him with the response to the petition, but he was yet to be served.\nOlamide Onikosi v The Nigeria Police, Iyaganku. The petitioner was present and was represented by Itunuoluwa Aderounmu (Esq.). The respondent was absent at the hearing.\nMrs Oluwafolake Ogundele, the legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel said that the respondent had been served but was yet to respond. However, the petitioner's counsel, Itunuoluwa Aderounmu (Esq.) told the panel that he would like to make some amendments in the petition as it appeared vague.\nThe petition was therefore adjourned by the Oyo State Judicial Panel till March 11, 2021 to enable the petitioner's counsel file the amendments to the petition.\nAdeyemi Adeniran v Nigeria Police, Alabebe Police Station. The petitioner was absent and was not represented by a legal counsel. The respondent was absent at the hearing.\nThe legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel, Mrs Oluwafolake Ogundele told the panel that the petition had appeared twice before the panel and the petitioner was absent on both occasions.\nThe petition was adjourned by the Oyo State Judicial Panel till March 11, 2021 for mention or striking out. It was decided that fresh hearing notice would be issued and served on the petitioner.\nSamuel Ogundeji v The Nigeria Police, Saki Area Command. The petitioner was present and was represented by O. F. A. Adeosun (Esq.). The respondent was absent at the hearing. The petitioner's counsel recalled that he once made an attempt to withdraw from the petition because the petitioner's contact person said he was not handling the matter as expected but he appeared today because the panel urged him to do so.\nHowever, he told the Oyo State Judicial Panel that he met with the contact person, Adegbola N. Adesesan, and the petitioner's family this morning and he got to know that they were not aware that he had filed the petition on his behalf. He appealed to the panel that he would like to continue representing the petitioner in view of the fact that the petitioner was not the one who gave the instruction and that he had been apologised to.\nThe petition is about a young man of 22 years who lost his sight four years ago due to police brutality. He wrote his WAEC and NECO exams in 2017 and he passed excellently. He applied for JAMB the same year but decided to work for a while in a hotel so as to avoid roaming about. He was arrested at the hotel he was working by SARS operatives a week to his JAMB exam and he was tortured to the extent that he lost his two eyes.\nThe legal counsel to the Oyo State Judicial Panel, Mrs Oluwafolake Ogundele, told the panel that the respondent had been served but was yet to respond. She therefore suggested that a date should be retained for mention.\nThe petition was therefore adjourned by the Oyo State Judicial Panel till March 11, 2021 for mention.\nHaving gone through the proceedings for today, the hearing was brought to a close by Hon Justice Badejoko Adeniji at about 11:47am.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Successfully negotiating claims since 1867\nCategories Select Category Case Studies Information Legal Cases News Testimonials\nA very rare award of fees reimbursement for T&B\nPosted on 21st January 2019\nIn general terms insurers will not pay our fees in acting for policyholders, hence the care we take in establishing the potential client's demands and needs and discussing fee levels that best suit the business and the economics of the claim. Rarely, when the maladministration by the insurer is thought particularly egregious, the Financial Ombudsman Service will award a reimbursement of fees. One such case dealt with by our Contentious Claims Division has recently had that outcome.\nOur client has a holiday home in an EU country, insured with a UK insurer whose managing agent advertised and marketed policies on the basis of its knowledge, skills and expertise in the insurance of foreign homes. The house was severely damaged by an insured event and the repair costs added up to a six-digit figure. In addition, different levels of local and national government required protective work to be done for modernisation and to avoid the possibility of major damage in the future. Those \"betterments\" raised the basic building costs by a further 80%. The policy covered all public authority requirements.\nDespite that, insurers' first reaction was to deny liability for the added works, and to put the policyholder to proof that the authorities were legally entitled to make such demands and that the level specified was in accordance with the law in the country concerned. We also had to demonstrate that our client was not entitled to the benefit of some funds available to nationals of the country where the house was, which insurers believed operated. In our discussions with the insurers' adjuster it became clear that neither the adjuster nor the insurer had any knowledge of the relevant foreign law, of construction standards and practice in the country and \u2013 perhaps worst \u2013 any proficiency in the language of a country it professed to be an expert in.\nTo secure payment of those costs for our client we had to make all relevant enquiries ourselves. We do have relevant expertise in-house and we were able to demonstrate that insurers were indeed liable for all the obligatory costs. But our researches and interviews required travel and time abroad before the insurer finally agreed that it had to pay.\nThe case had to be referred to the ombudsman for a number of different elements of complaint. (Some of those are still outstanding and may well feature on this site in the future.) But one aspect that was settled was that insurers had to pay a significant proportion of our fees. The adjudication said that ultimately [the policyholder] will be billed for the work carried out by [Thompson and Bryan] including researching and obtaining the information it obtained about government procedures. I don't think it's fair or reasonable that [the policyholder] should pay for the work done for the benefit of [the insurer] as this should be part of its costs of dealing with the claim. Also, as previously mentioned, [Thompson and Bryan] had input on [the insurer's] initial position that 'improvements' would be excluded when it seems these are likely covered by the policy as they're deemed necessary by government.\nThe level of fees reimbursable is significant. An award of this nature by the FOS is a rare event and we are delighted to have got one for our client. Good for the client, good for us.\nFiled Under: Information, News\nThompson & Bryan (UK) Ltd\n144-146 East Barnet Road, New Barnet EN4 8RD\nRegistered office: Churchill House, 120 Bunns Lane, Mill Hill, London NW7 2AS. Registered in England Number 0848 4455.\nThompson & Bryan (UK) Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Firm Ref: 621279)\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Thompson & Bryan\nDesign: Good Impressions | Content: We Do The Words\n144-146 East Barnet Road,\nNew Barnet EN4 8RD\nDesign: Good Impressions Content: We Do The Words\nClaims Fee Insurance\nTo make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.\tRead more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"The drastic Republican border-tax package\"\nYou don't just show a graph and assume that the tr...\nIt's \"Productivity and Cost\", not \"Productivity an...\nA \"tacit understanding\" is an assumption\nWhat is debt?\nHope and bullshit\nIf you can't find a way to boost productivity, may...\nSnowball Effect\nThe \"causal loops\" of system dynamics\nSo no recession yet.\nA remarkably consistent increase in debt trend gro...\nThe evolution of Real Debt growth, 1948-1993\nCurrent expenditures? What's that?\nPhilip George on involuntary unemployment\nAgreeing to agree\nWould it matter?\nAs a graph-maker ...\nYou don't even know the size of inflation-adjusted...\nThe Federal debt and deficits\nMy recession indicator says \"not yet\"\nRated L for Language\nScott Sumner:\nIn 1981, 364 British economists signed a petition warning that Thatcher's polices would fail. But, by the 1990s, there was a sort of tacit understanding among policy-oriented economists that when countries get into trouble, market reforms are the only real option.\n... there was a sort of tacit understanding among policy-oriented economists ...\n\"Tacit\" means unstated. A \"tacit understanding\" is not the same as a well-developed theory. It is more like a well-developed assumption.\nNote that a well-developed assumption is not necessarily correct.\nAccording to Sumner, the idea that market reforms solve all problems is based not on economic theory but on a tacit understanding: This is what we did and it seemed to work. And by the 1990s, those rudderless economists were sitting around the \"market reforms\" campfire, building on each other's stories. But there was from the start a lack of clearness and of generality in the premisses.\nThe tacit understanding, the assumption of which Sumner writes, is nothing but an observation of outcome: Things turned out well. Set aside objectionables like the \"great\" recession, peak inequality, and the massive Federal debt, and things turned out well. \"My view here is obviously somewhat subjective,\" Sumner says... Things turned out well.\nThere's no fuckin theory. It's all bullshit. They don't have a clue. They complicate their stories with numbers (364 economists on the head of a pin in 1981). They make shit up.\n\"The neoliberal policy revolution ... began in the late 1970s,\" Sumner says, and it \"might be the most important recent event in world history.\" Singing songs 'round the campfire, and patting selves on back.\nWhere is the analysis of the problem? This whole neoliberal neoplasm that Sumner tirelessly, tiresomely celebrates is nothing but an observation of outcome: GDP continued to grow, so we must have done something right. But they are changing everything. And nothing they do solves the problem.\nThey deny it, of course. But they've been fixing things for forty years now. And they're still fixing things, because they still have not fixed the right thing. They still have not solved the problem of excessive private debt.\nThey say only that private debt doesn't matter. What they mean is, they're not even going to think about it. And then you get people like Sumner telling you forget about debt:\nForget about debt and focus on NGDP. It's NGDP instability that creates problems, not debt surges.\nEconomics by proclamation: Forget about debt. It's NGDP instability that creates problems, says Sumner, not debt.\nWell, maybe. But it's debt that creates NGDP instability:\nExcessive Private Debt --> NGDP Instability --> Problems","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Op-Ed: Democrats Will Control Congress Forever if Vote-by-Mail is Rammed Through!\nWhile Bigfoot, flying saucers, unicorns, and green, hairy monsters under your bed don't exist, voter fraud is real as taxes and almost as certain to happen in November. Anything will be acceptable if it sends Trump from the Oval Office back to his New York Penthouse.\nDemocrats have long stuffed ballot boxes, bribed voters, \"lost\" ballots, and other nefarious acts to illegally steal elections from Americans. Republicans have also been caught stuffing ballot boxes, but Democrats perfected it over decades.\nYoung Americans have no knowledge that Lyndon Johnson stole his senate election in 1948. He was running against a former governor, and it appeared that Lyndon lost; however, a box of uncounted ballots was \"found\" in the small town of Alice in south Texas. When the votes were counted and added to the total, Lyndon had \"won\" by 87 votes. That's how he got the name Landslide Lyndon.\nHe had served in the House from 1939 to his run for the Senate in 1948. Even the very liberal New York Times published an article on July 30, 1977, that was titled \"Ex-Official Says He Stole 1948 Election for Johnson.\" Of course, that was long after the 1948 election, and Lyndon had served twelve years as senator, two years as Vice President, then became President after the assassination of John Kennedy.\nKennedy, like Lyndon, was a political thief, but unlike Johnson, Kennedy had a very rich and ambitious daddy.\nJoseph Kennedy, the progenitor of the Kennedy clan and one of the most vile and corrupt men in American politics, had numerous affairs and never blushed at his audacious behavior. He had the morals of King Louis XV, and he passed his revolting bed-hopping to his famous sons\u2014Jack, Bobby, and Ted. The dad's most infamous affair was with actress Gloria Swanson, the star of Sunset Boulevard. The pair ran around together for two years, and the affair was commonly known.\nIllustrating his brazen audacity, Joe took both his wife Rose and Gloria on vacation to Europe, and during that trip, he made his wife watch while he fooled around with Gloria.\nHe was a very rich male tramp who gave his sons everything except a good example; Gloria was a very talented whore.\nHis son, Jack, also had an affair with Gloria after Joe bought the Oval Office for him! Furthermore, both father and son bedded German actress Marlene Dietrich.\nJack Kennedy's entrance into politics was in 1948 when he ran for congress and won because his daddy cheated. JFK ran against a candidate named Joe Russo, and Joe Kennedy paid a custodian with the same name to run in the election. Of course, that split the votes, and an immature and inexperienced Jack became a U.S. Congressman. And an unimpressive and uneducated custodian was flashing new hundred dollar bills around his neighborhood.\nJack jumped from the House to the Senate and from there to the Oval Office\u2014with daddy's money and influence.\nOn November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected President, defeating Republican Richard Nixon. Jack received 34,226,731 votes to 34,108,157 for Nixon. The popular vote margin, 118,574, was the equivalent of a win by one vote in every precinct in America! Yet, numerous voters say, \"My one vote won't make a difference.\" But it does.\nJoe passed out suitcases of cash to Chicago Democrats and purchased the election for his son.\nMobster Mickey Cohen declared, \"Actually, and this goes without saying, the presidency was really stolen in Chicago, without a question, by the Democratic machine.\"\nJack joked to reporters about that election, saying, \"I just received the following wire from my generous daddy, 'Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.'\" I suppose Jack thought jesting about stealing an election would be taken by the non-thinkers as, \"Well, he sure wouldn't call attention to it if he actually did steal it.\"\nJack, like his evil daddy, had lost the ability to blush if he ever could. Of course, if a man is so immoral that he would purchase votes, it is not unusual that he would sleep around.\nJack had the morals of an alley cat. He slept around all his life. The Oval Office made it more accessible. He had infamous affairs with Marilyn Monroe, who his brother Bobby was involved with about the same time; actress Gene Tierney; Judith Campbell, former wife of Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana; Dane \"Inga Binga,\" his long-term girlfriend while he was in the navy; actress Anita Ekberg; and East-German-born Ellen Rometsch, thought to be a spy for the Soviet Union and expelled from U.S. was also one of his bed partners.\nThat's an explosive list of bed partners for a U.S. President.\nJack had no scruples, even seducing nineteen-year-old Mimi Alford, White House intern. Mary Meyer, who had a well-known affair with JFK, was shot and killed in mysterious circumstances in 1964, a year after the President's death. He seduced Priscilla Wear and Jill Cowen (known as Fiddle and Faddle), White House secretaries whom Jack took on many foreign trips; stripper Blaze Starr; Jackie Kennedy's press secretary Pamela Turnure; Swedish socialite Gunilla Von Post; and actress Angie Dickinson.\nPlus scores of assorted international whores.\nJack thought he was the Cock of the Walk strutting about the barnyard, asserting his rule over hens and chicks when he was only a Banty Rooster trying to convince himself and everyone else that he was special.\nWhile Jackie was also a fornicator, she did not deserve Jack.\nShe had torrid affairs with Warren Beatty, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Marlon Brando, and William Holden. She had affairs with both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy at the same time! The Daily Mail reported Jackie \"romped with European princes, decadent millionaires, writers and artists.\"\nIt appears that politicians and the Hollywood crowd like to appear to be sophisticated, smart, and special while they are loathsome maggots in the wounds of society.\nIt is no surprise that America is in a mess when we have been entertained by moral lepers in Hollywood and are ruled by fornicators in many public offices. In light of the Democrats' propensity to buy votes, stuff ballot boxes, convince the dead to do their part, now Democrats want to cheat by mail.\nTrump is right. Don't make it easy for Democrats to steal another election. They should at least be required to stand in line to vote; after all, this time it is the nation that they will steal, not simply another election.\nSee original post article link and more articles from Don Boys, Ph.D.\nThe views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of thIs publication. For more information see, 10 Undisclosed Facts of Joseph Kennedy that the Family Failed to Hide, All the president's women, and Jackie Kennedy's secret lovers.\nTagged Election2020 John F Kennedy Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Vote by Mail\nPrevious articleEx-Pat Personal Story on French Socialism, America, You Want to Join?\nNext article\"UN-WOKE Award Of The Week,\" Project 21 and Horace Cooper","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"On the 'rush to judgment' by the Supreme Court | Inquirer Opinion\nopinion \/ Latest Opinion\nOn the 'rush to judgment' by the Supreme Court\nPhilippine Daily Inquirer \/ 02:42 AM January 30, 2014\nFormer Rep. Lord Velasco, in a letter to the editor published last Monday, said that the Inquirer was \"inaccurate and imprecise\" when it spoke, among others, of a \"tenuous one-vote majority in a divided court\" that ruled in his favor against Rep. Regina Reyes in the most recent congressional derby in Marinduque.\nThe Dec. 23, 2013, editorial \"Looming showdown\" referred to the 5-4 vote of the Supreme Court in its decision of Oct. 22, 2013 (thus the \"one-vote majority\"), affirming its earlier decision of June 25, 2013, in which the vote was 7-4. The lead in the June decision that dissenting Justice Arturo Brion called \"hasty and imprudent\" and a \"rush to judgment\" had by October thinned to a one-vote lead (thus the adjective \"tenuous\").\nThe other arguments raised by Lord Velasco are already answered in the editorial, all the way to his surprising puzzlement at why a candidate who won the majority of the votes and now holds office, hasn't filed an election protest against the opponent who garnered fewer votes and is out of office. That would be bizarre, to say the least.\nThat said, Lord Velasco actually concurs with the editorial's closing point that the \"Reyes v. Velasco tiff [must] be confronted \u2026 without the emotional baggage of pork barrel,\" though he will disagree with the reason, namely, because it \"shows how rules and judicial reasoning are manipulated for partisan politics among the justices themselves.\"\u2014EDS.\nPeace possible\nTAGS: Marinduque, Rep. Lord Velasco, Rep. Regina Reyes, Supreme Court","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Railcar Leasing Programs\nRail Supply Chain Management Services\nNorth America's leading lessor of Refrigerated and Insulated Railcars leveraging technology together with a unique blend of Railcar Supply Chain Management services to tailor innovative transportation solutions to meet the needs of our customers.\n1985: CRYX 1000\n1990 - 1997: CRYX 2104\n2018 - Present: CRYX 4075\nCryo-Trans, Inc. (\"CTI\") introduced its patented cryogenic railcar by converting two hundred 60' Plate \"C\" railcars that revolutionized the transportation of frozen French Fries. Hence the origin of our name Cryo-Trans!\nCTI designed a new \"prototype\" interior length 64' Plate \"F\" cryogenic railcar (the \"CRYX 1200\"). This raised the interior inside height 2' and the interior length 4' allowing for two additional layers of product throughout the car and four more pallet spaces, significantly lowering the cost per pound for rail transportation.\n223 new Plate \"F' cryogenic cars were built with an increased interior length of 68' allowing for another additional four pallets.\nDue to a substantial CO2 price increase, CTI made a decision to convert each of the 223 railcars to mechanical refrigeration. The car length was shortened to accommodate the mechanical refrigeration system.\nCTI, with innovative engineering, expanded the interior length of its Plate \"F\" mechanical refrigerated railcar to 72', thereby increasing the number of pallets to further lower the delivered per hundred weight cost.\nCTI introduces a new 68' interior Plate \"F\" Insulated railcar.\nThe CRYX 1200, featuring an interactive display of the history of refrigerated railcars, is placed on permanent display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD.\nThe CTI mechanical railcar fleet has grown to 1,436 railcars. The CTI insulated railcar fleet has grown to 842 railcars.\nCorporate Office: 11620 Red Run Blvd.\nReisterstown, Maryland 21136-6232\nMailing Address: P.O. Box 487\nOwings Mills, Maryland 21117-0487","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Putting Meat on the Table\nIndustrial Farm Animal Production in America\nReport April 29, 2008\nTopics: Food & Drug Safety Projects: Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming Read time:\nI have witnessed dramatic changes in animal agriculture over the past several decades. When I was growing up, my family operated a dairy farm, which not only raised cows to produce milk, but crops to feed the cows and wheat as a cash crop. When I took over management of the farm from my father in the mid-sixties, on average we milked about 40 cows and farmed about 800 acres. We were one of some 30 such dairy operations in Saline County, Kansas. Today in Saline County and most Kansas counties, it is nearly impossible to find that kind of diversified farm. Most have given way to large, highly specialized, and highly productive animal producing operations. In Saline County today, there is only one dairy farm, yet it and similar operations across the state produce more milk from fewer cows statewide than I and all of my peers did when I was actively farming.\nIndustrial farm animal production (IFAP) is a complex subject involving individuals, communities, private enterprises and corporations large and small, consumers, federal and state regulators, and the public at large. All Americans have a stake in the quality of our food, and we all benefit from a safe and affordable food supply. We care about the well-being of rural communities, the integrity of our environment, the public's health, and the health and welfare of animals. Many disciplines contribute to the development and analysis of IFAP \u2014including economics, food science, animal sciences, agronomy, biology, genetics, nutrition, ethics, agricultural engineering, and veterinary medicine. The industrial farm has brought about tremendous increases in short-term farm efficiency and affordable food, but its rapid development has also resulted in serious unintended consequences and questions about its long-term sustainability.\nI initially hesitated to get involved in the work of the Commission, given that the nature of partisan politics today makes the discussion of any issue facing our country extremely challenging. In the end, I accepted the chairmanship because there is so much at stake for both agriculture and the public at large. The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP) sought to develop recommendations that protect what is best about American agriculture and to help to ensure its sustainability for the future. Our work focuses on four areas of concern that we believe are key to that future: public health, environment, animal welfare, and the vitality of rural communities; specifically, we focus on how these areas have been impacted by industrial farm animal production.\nThe Commission consists of a very diverse group of individuals, remarkably accomplished in their fields, who worked together to achieve consensus on potential solutions to the challenge of assuring a safe and sustainable food supply. We sought broad input from stakeholders and citizens around the country. We were granted the resources needed to do our work, and the independence to ensure that our conclusions were carefully drawn and objective in their assessment of the available information informed by the Commissioners' own expertise and experience. I thank each and every one for their valuable service and all citizens who contributed to the process.\nFinally, we were supported by a group of staff who worked tirelessly to ensure that Commissioners had access to the most current information and expertise in the fields of concern to our deliberations. We thank them for their hard work, their patience, and their good humor.\nJohn W. Carlin\nChairman, PCIFAP\nOver the last 50 years, the method of producing food animals in the United States has changed from the extensive system of small and medium-sized farms owned by a single family to a system of large, intensive operations where the animals are housed in large numbers in enclosed structures that resemble industrial buildings more than they do a traditional barn. That change has happened primarily out of view of consumers but has come at a cost to the environment and a negative impact on public health, rural communities, and the health and well-being of the animals themselves.\nThe Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP) was funded by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to investigate the problems associated with industrial farm animal production (IFAP) operations and to make recommendations to solve them. Fifteen Commissioners with diverse backgrounds began meeting in early 2006 to start their evidence-based review of the problems caused by IFAP.\nOver the next two years, the Commission conducted 11 meetings and received thousands of pages of material submitted by a wide range of stakeholders and interested parties. Two hearings were held to hear from the general public with an interest in IFAP issues. Eight technical reports were commissioned from leading academics to provide information in the Commission's areas of interest. The Commissioners themselves brought expertise in animal agriculture, public health, animal health, medicine, ethics, public policy, and rural sociology to the table. In addition, they visited broiler, hog, dairy, egg, and swine IFAP operations, as well as a large cattle feedlot.\nThere have been some serious obstacles to the Commission completing its review and approving consensus recommendations. The agriculture industry is not monolithic, and the formation of this Commission was greeted by industrial agriculture with responses ranging from open hostility to wary cooperation. In fact, while some industrial agriculture representatives were recommending potential authors for the technical reports to Commission staff, other industrial agriculture representatives were discouraging those same authors from assisting us by threatening to withhold research funding for their college or university. We found significant influence by the industry at every turn: in academic research, agriculture policy development, government regulation, and enforcement.\nAt the end of his second term, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation about the dangers of the military-industrial complex\u2014an unhealthy alliance between the defense industry, the Pentagon, and their friends on Capitol Hill. Now, the agro-industrial complex\u2014an alliance of agriculture commodity groups, scientists at academic institutions who are paid by the industry, and their friends on Capitol Hill\u2014is a concern in animal food production in the 21st century.\nThe present system of producing food animals in the United States is not sustainable and presents an unacceptable level of risk to public health and damage to the environment, as well as unnecessary harm to the animals we raise for food.\nThe story that follows is the Commission's overview of these critical issues and consensus recommendations on how to improve our system of production.\nRobert P. Martin\nExecutive Director, PCIFAP\nDownloads Putting Meat on the Table\nHow the Current System Developed\nIndustrial farm animal production (IFAP) encompasses all aspects of breeding, feeding, raising, and processing animals or their products for human consumption. Producers rely on high-throughput production to grow thousands of animals of one species (often only a few breeds of that species and only one genotype within the breed) and for one purpose (such as pigs, layer hens, broiler chickens, turkeys, beef, or dairy cattle). IFAP's strategies and management systems are a product of the post\u2013Industrial Revolution era, but unlike other industrial systems, IFAP is dependent on complex biological and ecological systems for its basic raw material. And the monoculture common to IFAP facilities has diminished important biological and genetic diversity in pursuit of higher yields and greater efficiency\n(Steinfeld et al., 2006).\nThe origins of agriculture go back more than 10,000 years to the beginning of the Neolithic era, when humans first began to cultivate crops and domesticate plants and animals. While there were many starts and stops along the way, agriculture provided the technology to achieve a more reliable food supply in support of larger human populations. With agriculture came concepts of personal property and personal inheritance, and hierarchical societies were organized. In short, crop cultivation led to a global revolution for humankind, marked by the emergence of complex societies and the use of technology.\nThe goal of agriculture then, as now, was to meet human demand for food, and as the population grew, early agriculturalists found new ways to increase yield, decrease costs of production, and sustain productivity. Over the centuries, improved agricultural methods brought about enormous yield gains, all to keep up with the needs of an ever-increasing human population. In the 18th century, for example, it took nearly five acres of land to feed one person for one year, whereas today it takes just half an acre (Trewavas, 2002)\u2014a tenfold increase in productivity.\nThere is reason to wonder, however, whether these dramatic gains, and particularly those of the last 50 years, can be sustained for the next 50 years as the world's human population doubles, climate change shifts rainfall patterns and intensifies drought cycles, fossil fuels become more expensive, and the developing nations of the world rapidly improve their standards of living.\nRead Full Section: How the Current System Developed (PDF)\nThe potential public health effects associated with ifa p must be examined in the context of its potential effects on individuals and the population as a whole. These effects include disease and the transmission of disease, the potential for the spread of pathogens from animals to humans, and mental and social impacts. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as \"a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being\" (WHO, 1992). This definition is widely recognized in the developed world and is increasingly being adopted by American employers.\nIn IFAP systems, large numbers of animals are raised together, usually in confinement buildings, which may increase the likelihood for health issues with the potential to affect humans, carried either by the animals or the large quantities of animal waste. The IFAP facilities are frequently concentrated in areas where they can affect human population centers. Animal waste, which harbors a number of pathogens and chemical contaminants, is usually left untreated or minimally treated, often sprayed on fields as fertilizer, raising the potential for contamination of air, water, and soils. Occasionally, the impact can be far worse. In one recent example, farm animal waste runoff from IFAP facilities was among the suspected causes of a 2006 Escherichia coli outbreak in which three people died and nearly 200 were sickened (CDC, 2006).\nRead Full Section: Public Health (PDF)\nEnvironmental Risks\nIndustrial farm animal production (IFAP) stands in sharp contrast to previous animal farming methods because of its emphasis on production efficiency and cost minimization. For most of the past 10,000 years, agricultural practice and animal husbandry were more or less sustainable, as measured by the balance between agricultural inputs and outputs and ecosystem health, given the human population and rate of consumption. IFAP systems, on the other hand, have shifted to a focus on growing animals as units of protein production. Rather than balancing the natural productivity of the land to produce crops to feed animals, IFAP imports feed and medicines to ensure that the animals make it to market weight in the shortest time possible. Animals and their waste are concentrated and may well exceed the capacity of the land to produce feed or absorb the waste. Not surprisingly, the rapid ascendance of IFAP has produced unintended and often unanticipated environmental and public health concerns.\nStorage and disposal of manure and animal waste are among the most significant challenges for IFAP operators. By any estimate, the amount of farm animal waste produced annually in the United States is enormous; the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates around 500 million tons of manure are produced annually by operations that confine livestock and poultry\u2014three times the EPA estimate of 150 million tons of human sanitary waste produced annually in the US (EPA, 2007b). And in comparison to the lesser amount of human waste, the management and disposal of animal wastes are poorly regulated.\nUntil the late 1950s, manures typically were either deposited directly by animals on pastures or processed in solid form and collected along with bedding (usually hay or straw) from animal housing facilities for application to the land as a crop nutrient. There were no regulated rates of application, seasonal restrictions, or requirements for the reporting, analysis, or monitoring of applied manures. This lack of protection may have been without consequence before iIFAP because animal farmers managed fewer animals, widely dispersed among agricultural lands, and relied on natural ecosystems for attenuating pathogens and absorbing or diluting nutrients. But as the number of animals on individual farms increased, the need for more efficient and regulated methods of manure management grew in importance.\nAs in large human settlements, improper management of the highly concentrated feces produced by IFAP facilities can and does overwhelm natural cleansing processes. Because of the large concentrations of animals and their manure, what was once a valuable byproduct is now a waste that requires proper disposal. As a result, animal feeding operations in the United States, whether IFAP or not, now use a number of manure management strategies depending on the type of operation and state and federal regulations.\nRead Full Section: Environmental Risks (PDF)\nBefore the emergence of industrial farm animal production systems, the ethic of animal husbandry held that good care of animals was wholly consistent with the interests of the farmer. Most animals were raised on diversified farms that produced both crops and several species of animals, which generally had access to the pasture or barnyard whenever weather conditions permitted. For the most part, husbandry was considered the responsibility of the producer.\nMore than 100 years later, farms in the 21st century have become highly specialized systems and no longer produce more than one crop and several species of livestock. Farms producing both crops and livestock still exist, but they are no longer the norm. Now, crop growers sell to feed mills that formulate engineered feeds to sell to farmers who raise and feed livestock. The supply chain has thus evolved to a series of distinct production processes connected through economic transactions. Consumers are now at the extreme end of this supply chain, yet they are increasingly concerned that farm animals are afforded a decent life. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to define what actually constitutes a decent life for animals because doing so includes both ethical (value-based) and scientific (empirical) components.\nIncreasing public awareness of the conditions prevalent in confinement agriculture (e.g., gestation and farrowing crates for swine, battery cages for layers) has led to consumer demand for changes in animal treatment. A poll conducted by Oklahoma State University and the American Farm Bureau Federation found that 75% of the public would like to see government mandates for basic animal welfare measures (http:\/\/asp.okstate.edu.\/baileynorwood\/aw2\/aw2main.htm). Possibly as a defensive response, the food animal industry has made changes that are easily marketed and that are aimed at changing public perception. Smithfield, for example, announced recently that it would eliminate the use of gestation crates in its hog-rearing operations, and the United Egg Producers have published standards for the treatment of laying hens.\nRead Full Section: Animal Welfare (PDF)\nAsked to describe rural life, people are likely to talk of pastoral landscapes, open spaces, a slower pace of life, a place where people are friendlier. In short, \"rural\" evokes an idyllic image of life, a counterpoint to the intense pace of urban life.\nBut the realities of rural life are somewhat different. A dominant feature of life in much of rural America is persistent poverty. In 2005, more than 15% of the rural population (73 million people) earned family incomes of less than $19,800, which is below the official poverty line. Most of the nearly 400 US counties that are classified as poor are also rural (USDA-ERS, 2008).\nRead Full Section: Rural America (PDF)\nToward Sustainable Agriculture\nSustainability is a futuristic concept. Webster's dictionary defines the verb \"sustain\" as \"to maintain,\" \"to keep in existence,\" \"to keep going.\" By definition, then, sustainability is a journey, an ongoing process, not a prescription or a set of instructions. So when we ask, \"How do we sustain animal agriculture?\" we are asking how to manage animal agriculture so that it can be maintained indefinitely and what changes are necessary to accomplish that goal.\nSustainable animal agriculture requires that we envision the challenges and changes the future will bring. In his extensive studies of past civilizations, Jared Diamond has observed that civilizations that correctly assessed their current situations, anticipated changes, and started preparing for those changes were the ones that thrived\u2014they were sustainable. Civilizations that failed in these efforts were the ones that collapsed\u2014they were not sustainable (Diamond, 1999; Diamond, 2005).\nRead Full Section: Conclusion (PDF)\nReccomendations\nThe Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production was charged with examining the current US system of food animal production and its impact on public health, the environment, animal welfare, and rural communities. The Commission's recommendations are intended to ensure that the system is able to provide safe, affordable meat, dairy, and poultry products in a sustainable way. Commissioners recognize that the current system, like agriculture as a whole, has achieved a remarkable record of increasing productivity and lowering prices at the supermarket, with the result that Americans' expenditures for meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs as an inflation-adjusted share of their disposable income were lower in 2007 than in 1950.\nBut as industrial farm animal production (IFAP) systems have increased cost-efficient agricultural food production, they have also given rise to problems that are beginning to require attention by policymakers and the industry. Given the relatively rapid emergence of the technologies for industrial farm animal production, and the dependence on chemical inputs, energy, and water, many IFAP systems are not sustainable environmentally or economically.\nMuch of the basis for concentrated animal production originally derived from inexpensive corn and other plentiful feed grain crops, cheap energy, and free, abundant water. Inexpensive corn, for example, allowed the development of specially formulated feeds that increase growth rates and shorten the time required to get animals to market. But the emerging market for biofuels has changed that equation because the value of corn and other commodity crops is now tied to their energy value, often resulting in higher prices. Similarly, IFAP systems also depend on abundant freshwater resources and on inexpensive fossil fuels for energy. As supplies of both become scarce, their rising costs raise questions about the sustainability of the current production process. Sustainability will require new approaches that use less water and energy.\nIndustrial farm animal production systems are also highly dependent on intensive animal confinement, which commonly requires the use of antimicrobials to prevent disease, not just to treat it. Together with the use of antimicrobials to promote animal growth, these practices accelerate the emergence of resistant microbes, with obvious risks for both animals and humans.\nIn addition, intensive confinement systems increase negative stress levels in the animals, posing an ethical dilemma for producers and consumers. This dilemma can be summed up by asking ourselves if we owe the animals in our care a decent life. If the answer is yes, there are standards by which one can measure the quality of that life. By most measures, confined animal production systems in common use today fall short of current ethical and societal standards.\nFurthermore, the concentrated animal waste and associated possible contaminants from ifa p systems pose a substantial environmental problem for air quality, surface and subsurface water quality, and the health of workers, neighboring residents, and the general public.\nFinally, the costs to rural America have been significant. 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{"text":"Source:Voolsy Networks Pvt Ltd\nCategory:High Technology\nVoolsy Wins the 'Restaurant Technology Award - 2017' by Restaurant India\nPUNE, India, March 22, 2017\/PRNewswire\/ -\nMarch 19 was a proud day for Voolsy. The iBeacon-based in-restaurant ordering and payment startup Voolsy bagged the 'Restaurant Technology Award - 2017' organized by Restaurant India in partnership with Franchise India at Hotel Westin, Pune.\nEvery year Restaurant India, the biggest leadership forum on restaurant business, presents its breakthrough award for the startup that shows tremendous technology updation in the restaurant industry. The award recognizes an outstanding startup performer in technology that helps make restaurant goer's life easy and hassle-free. This event is a unique platform that aims to highlight industry-specific dynamics.\nVoolsy has been chosen based on the vision, execution and the technological advancement that the app has brought in the industry in the operations of restaurant system. Voolsy has reinvented the whole dine-out experience of restaurant goers by creatively applying the technology to offer solutions to the daily problems they face.\nVoolsy is not your average food ordering and delivery app. It focuses on ordering and payment inside the restaurant. Voolsy allows its users to view the menus of the outlets, read descriptions of the dishes, make any customizations required, place their orders, and also pay through the app itself. Voolsy automatically detects the location of the user to make the ordering process easier; it does so through one of Apple Inc.'s most advanced technologies - iBeacons. Interestingly, this is the first time iBeacons have been integrated with the restaurant sector in India.\nSmit Nebhwani, CEO, Voolsy, said, \"I am elated with this news. Since I started Voolsy, my goal is to ease the restaurant operation and customer's hassle of waiting for their order and bill payment. This award is definitely a boost for our vision for more advancement in Voolsy. Right now, we have partnered with more than 1000+ outlets and we are aiming to add 5000+ outlets before ending of Q2 2017. We want to take Voolsy to all the restaurants or dining outlets where service is an issue. We have a strong presence in restaurants, food courts, bar as well as cinemas.\"\n\"Restaurant Technology Award measures business achievement through technology in the field of restaurant industry and Voolsy is championing its innovation very well, so far. Our team has put in tremendous amount of work to create Voolsy. It is an honour to have an outside authority validate the quality of our work. Getting this award, I would definitely say that Voolsy is reshaping the overall dining experience of restaurant business,\" said Amrish Patel, President, Voolsy.\nLaunched only a year ago, Voolsy has more than 1 lakh registered users and transactions worth Rs. 4 crore. It currently operates in Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Bengaluru and has partnered with over 1000 restaurants. The app, which also has a manager version for restaurants, has successfully integrated with the best POS software companies in the country. Equipped with a highly talented and motivated team, Voolsy is well on its way to achieving its next target of partnering with 5000+ restaurants in a next few months. And you would soon be able to use Voolsy in cities like Gurugram, Chennai, Pune and Delhi.\nAbout Voolsy:\nVoolsy is India's first iBeacon app for in-restaurant ordering and payment. It is currently operational in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Mumbai. Voolsy will soon be launched in Chennai, Gurugram, Pune and Delhi. It is available on Play Store and App Store\nIrfan Pathan\ngodigital@voolsy.com\nVoolsy Networks Pvt. Ltd.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women's Lives: A Critical Narrative Review\" (2013), by Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning\nIn \"The Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis on Women's Lives: A Critical Narrative Review,\" hereafter \"Social and Psychological Impact of Endometriosis,\" authors Lorraine Culley, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Elaine Denny, Helene Mitchell, Miriam Baumgarten, and Nicholas Raine-Fenning review the extent at which endometriosis results in a negative quality of life for affected women.\nSubject: Reproduction, Disorders, Publications\nWomen's Right to Know Act (2019) by Americans United for Life\nIn 2019, Americans United for Life, hereafter AUL, published a model legislation, called the Women's Right to Know Act, in their annual publication Defending Life. The goal of the model legislation, which AUL annually updates, is to help state governments enact enhanced informed consent laws for abortion. The Women's Right to Know Act requires physicians to provide specific information to women before they may consent to having an abortion.\nSubject: Legal, Publications, Reproduction\n\"Relationship between Ultrasound Viewing and Proceeding to Abortion\" (2014), by Mary Gatter, Katrina Kimport, Diana Greene Foster, Tracy A. Weitz, and Ushma D. Upadhyay\nIn January 2014, Mary Gatter and colleagues published \"Relationship between Ultrasound Viewing and Proceeding to Abortion\" in Obstetrics and Gynecology hereafter \"Ultrasound Viewing.\" As of 2021, ten states require women to undergo an ultrasound before they may consent to having an abortion. Self-described pro-life organizations assert that viewing an image of the fetus will dissuade women from having an abortion.\nSubject: Publications, Reproduction\nBirth Control or the Limitation of Offspring (1936), by William J. Robinson\nBirth Control or the Limitation of Offspring was written by American eugenics and birth control advocate William J. Robinson. First published in 1916, the final edition (forty-eighth) was published in 1936, the same year that Robinson died. As a medical doctor and author, Robinson used his influence to promote propaganda for \"fewer and better babies,\" by focusing on contraception. Even Margaret Sanger, another prominent eugenics and birth control advocate, took great interest in this book. Robinson had three goals in mind when writing Birth Control.\nThe Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle over Birth Control (1963), by John Rock\nIn 1963, Roman Catholic fertility doctor John Rock published The Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle over Birth Control, a first-person treatise on the use of scientifically approved forms of birth control for Catholic couples. The first contraceptive pill, called Enovid, had been on the market since June 1960, and Rock was one of the leading researchers in its development. In The Time Has Come, Rock explicitly describes the arguments for and against the use of birth control from both a religious and a scientific perspective.\nSubject: Publications, Religion, Reproduction\n\"Limitations in Abortion Legislation: A Comparative Study\" (2007), by Orli Lotan\nWritten by Orli Lotan on behalf of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Center for Research and Information, \"Limitations in Abortion Legislation: A Comparative Study\" (hereafter abbreviated \"Legislation\") examines abortion legislation in Israel, the US, Canada, and a number of European countries. The study also acknowledges the medical, moral, ethical, and religious implications of abortion and the impact of such legislation on society in each country.\nSubject: Publications, Legal, Reproduction\n\"Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Health Personnel of Maternities in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV...\" (2018), by Elie Nkwabong, Romuald Meboulou Nguel, Nelly Kamgaing, and Anne Sylvie Keddi Jippe\nIn 2018, researchers Elie Nkwabong, Romuald Meboulou Nguel, Nelly Kamgaing, and Anne Sylvie Keddi Jippe published, \"Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Health Personnel of Maternities in the Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV in a sub-Saharan African Region with High Transmission Rate: Some Solutions Proposed,\" in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.\nSubject: Publications, Reproduction, Disorders\nAn Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (1895), by Edmund Beecher Wilson\nEdmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book presents photographs by photographer Edward Leaming that capture stages of fertilization, the fusion of sperm and egg and early development of sea urchin (Toxopneustes variegatus) ova, or egg cell. Prior to An Atlas, no one photographed of eggcell division in clear detail. Wilson obtained high quality images of egg cells by cutting the cells into thin sections and preserving them throughout different stages of development.\n\"Beyond Menstrual Hygiene: Addressing Vaginal Bleeding Throughout the Life Course in LMICs\" (2017), by Marni Sommer, Penelope A. Phillips-Howard, Therese Mahon, Sasha Zients, Meredith Jones, and Bethany A. Caruso\nIn \"Beyond Menstrual Hygiene: Addressing Vaginal Bleeding Throughout the Life Course in LMICs,\" hereafter \"Beyond Menstrual Hygiene,\" Marni Sommer, Penelope A. Phillips-Howard, Therese Mahon, Sasha Zients, Meredith Jones, and Bethany A. Caruso explored the barriers women experience in managing menstruation and other forms of vaginal bleeding in low and middle-income countries, which the researchers abbreviate to LMICs. The medical journal British Medical Journal Global Health published the article on 27 July 2017.\nSubject: Reproduction, Publications\n\"Pregnancy Established in an Infertile Patient After Transfer of a Donated Embryo Fertilized In Vitro\" (1983), by Alan Trounson, John Leeton, Mandy Besanko, Carl Wood, and Angelo Conti\nIn 1983, researchers Alan Trounson, John Leeton, Carl Wood, Mandy Besanko, and Angelo Conti published the article \"Pregnancy Established in an Infertile Patient After Transfer of a Donated Embryo Fertilized In Vitro\" in The British Medical Journal. In the article, the authors discuss one of the first successful experiments using in vitro fertilization, or IVF, with the use of a human donor embryo at the Monash University and Queen Victoria Medical Center in Melbourne, Australia.\nSubject: Publications, Publications, Reproduction, Processes\n\"The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk\" (2004), by Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker\nIn 2004, Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker published \"The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk,\" hereafter, \"The Intergenerational Effects,\" in the Journal of Endocrinology. In their article, the authors assert that cardiovascular disease may develop via fetal programming, which is when a certain event occurring during a critical point of pregnancy affects the fetus long after birth.\nSubject: Publications, Theories, Reproduction","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Regulating Australia's financial stability in the national interest\nLouise Parsons*\nGiven the importance of financial stability to Australia, it seems somewhat surprising that the Australian Parliament has not fully and clearly utilised its available regulatory tools to mandate and empower the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) with the overarching responsibility for financial stability. This chapter argues that financial stability is a national interest of Australia, and that both persistent and new threats to financial stability warrant appropriate regulatory action by the Australian government. This chapter briefly outlines Australia's current regulatory architecture for financial stability. It concludes that the current regulatory framework in Australia, addressing in particular the responsibility and accountability of the RBA for financial stability, should be clarified.\nAustralia's trade, investment and security in the Asian century\nJ Farrar, M Hiscock, V I Lo\nWorld Scientific Publishing\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1142\/9789814632874_0015\nParsons, L. (2015). Regulating Australia's financial stability in the national interest. In J. Farrar, M. Hiscock, & V. I. Lo (Eds.), Australia's trade, investment and security in the Asian century (pp. 251-269). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1142\/9789814632874_0015\nParsons, Louise. \/ Regulating Australia's financial stability in the national interest. Australia's trade, investment and security in the Asian century. editor \/ J Farrar ; M Hiscock ; V I Lo. 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{"text":"Megadeth, Rush, Skid Row And More Among 125 Artists Who Signed Open Letter To Pandora Over Compensation\nPosted by Zach Shaw on November 15, 2012\nDigital radio and streaming services have been a hot button issue in the music industry, especially relating to revenue. So it's understandable why many musicians would be unhappy that Pandora is lobbying lawmakers in U.S. Congress to pass the \"Internet Radio Fairness Act,\" which would change regulation of how royalties are paid to artists. In fact, 125 artists specially are so opposed by the online music company's push that they've signed an open letter to voice their concerns.\nAccording to Digital Music News, heavy acts like Megadeth, Rush, KISS, Skid Row, and Duff McKagan included their signature in the open letter to Pandora that also included Rihanna, Billy Joel and many others. Here is the open letter to Pandora (along with all 125 signatures):\n\"We are big fans of Pandora. That's why we helped give the company a discount on rates for the past decade.\nPandora is now enjoying phenomenal success as a Wall Street company. Skyrocketing growth in revenues and users. We celebrate that. At the same time, the music community is just now beginning to gain its footing in the new digital world.\nPandora's principal asset is the music.\nWhy is the company asking Congress once again to step in and gut the royalties that thousands of musicians rely upon? That's not fair, and that's not how partners work together.\nCongress has many pressing issues to consider, but this is not one of them. Let's work this out as partners and continue to bring fans the great musical experience they rightly expect.\nBryan Adams, Alabama, Greg Allman, Steve Angello, Rodney Atkins, Sara Bareilles, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Clint Black, Jack Blades, Blondie, Jonatha Brooke, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Oteil Burbridge, The Cab, Colbie Caillat, Camper Van Beethoven, CoCo Carmel, George Clinton, Keyshia Cole, Common, Easton Corbin, Cowboy Mouth, Cracker, Randy Crawford, Robert Cray, David Crosby, Joel Crouse, Sheryl Crow, Drew Davis, Taylor Dayne, Dead Kennedys, Raheem DeVaughn, The Doors, Down, The Dream, Vikter Duplaix, Missy Elliott, Lupe Fiasco, The 5th Dimension, Flyleaf, John Fogerty, Guy Forsyth, The Game, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Genevieve Goings, Martha Reeves, Rihanna, Eric Roberson, Darius Rucker, Rush, Bobby Rush, Joe Sample, David Sanborn, Skid Row, Michael W. Smith, Britney Spears, Dave Stewart, Survivor, T.I., Susan Tedeschi, Robin Thicke, George Thorogood, Toto, Butch Trucks, Derek Trucks, Josh Turner, Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio (The 4 Seasons), Dionne Warwick, Roger Waters, Bobby Whitlock, Whodini, Chuck Wicks, Otis Williams (The Temptations), Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart), BrianWilson, BeBeWinans, Zac Brown Band, Andy Grammer, Amy Grant, CeeLo Green, Gyptian, Warren Haynes, Don Henley, Hootie and The Blowfish, Mallary Hope, Bruce Hornsby, Mick Hucknall (Simply Red), The J.Geils Band, Jaimoe, The Jazz Crusaders, Billy Joel, John Paul Jones, Mick Jones (Foreigner), Journey, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds), KISS, Jana Kramer, Ludacris, Maroon 5, Nick Mason, Duff McKagan, Megadeth, Janelle Monae, Alissa Moreno, Jason Mraz, Nas, Graham Nash, Ne-Yo, Stevie Nicks, Night Ranger, Ted Nugent, Owl City, Christina Perri, Katy Perry, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, John Pointer, The Pointer Sisters, Primus, Marc Quinones, Joel Rafael, Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt.\"\nThere's no denying Pandora's growth over the past year alone, as the open letter points out. However, Pandora (along with Clear Channel Communications and other streaming services) believe it to be unfair that they have to pay more for the rights to music as they gain customers. \"This bipartisan bill will end royalty rate discrimination against internet radio and bring greater fairness to our industry. Today, the discrimination is extraordinary. In 2011, Pandora paid over 50% of revenues in performance royalties, while SiriusXM paid less than 10%,\" Pandora claimed on their website.\nThis comes during a time when artists and labels have been battling it out over digital royalties, while music industry groups recently came to an agreement over a new royalty deal regarding digital and cellular services. We'll just have to wait and see how far the debate amongst musicians and streaming services like Pandora will go.\n[via Digital Music News and Reuters]\nTags: Alabama, Alissa Moreno, Amy Grant, Andy Grammer, BeBeWinans, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Billy Joel, Blondie, Bob Gaudio, Bobby Rush, Bobby Whitlock, Bonnie Raitt, BrianWilson, Britney Spears, Bruce Hornsby, Bryan Adams, Butch Trucks, Camper Van Beethoven, CeeLo Green, Christina Perri, Chuck Wicks, Clint Black, CoCo Carmel, Colbie Caillat, Common, Cowboy Mouth, Cracker, Darius Rucker, Dave Stewart, David Crosby, David Gilmour, David Sanborn, Dead Kennedys, Derek Trucks, Dionne Warwick, Don Henley, Down, Drew Davis, Duff McKagan, Easton Corbin, Eric Roberson, Flyleaf, Foreigner, Frankie Valli, Genevieve Goings, George Clinton, George Thorogood, Graham Nash, Greg Allman, Guy Forsyth, Gyptian, Heart, Hootie and the Blowfish, Jack Blades, Jackson Browne, Jaimoe, Jana Kramer, Janelle Monae, Jason Mraz, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds), Jimmy Buffett, Joe Sample, Joel Crouse, Joel Rafael, John Fogerty, John Paul Jones, John Pointer, Jonatha Brooke, Josh Turner, Journey, Katy Perry, Keyshia Cole, KISS, Ludacris, Lupe Fiasco, Mallary Hope, Marc Quinones, Maroon 5, Martha Reeves, Megadeth, Michael W. Smith, Mick Hucknall, Mick Jones, Missy Elliott, Nas, Ne-Yo, Nick Mason, Night Ranger, Oteil Burbridge, Otis Williams, Owl City, Pandora, Pink Floyd, Primus, Raheem DeVaughn, Randy Crawford, Rihanna, Robert Cray, Robert Plant, Robin Thicke, Rodney Atkins, Roger Waters, Rush, Sara Bareilles, Sheryl Crow, Simply Red, Skid Row, Steve Angello, Stevie Nicks, Survivor, Susan Tedeschi, T.I., Taylor Dayne, Ted Nugent, The 4 Seasons, The 5th Dimension, The Cab, The Doors, The Dream, The Game, The J.Geils Band, The Jazz Crusaders, The Pointer Sisters, The Temptations, Toto, Trisha Yearwood, Vikter Duplaix, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes, Whodini, Zac Brown Band\nCategorised in: Digital Media\nSirius XM And Pandora Account For 90% of SoundExchange Revenues\nAre Digital Radio Revenues Starting To Add Up?\n\u2190 Roadrunner Names New GM\nNikki Sixx's 'The Heroin Diaries' Getting Turned Into A Broadway Play \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ chile \/ Lotus now finds the top hole in history\nLotus now finds the top hole in history\nchile January 31, 2019 chile\ndu Lotus lotteryon his Thursday One of the best in his history: 860 million pesos in the main game and over 10,000 million drawings.\nThe image continues to break records, An optional national game is the first time in 11-digit evolutionAs the Lotus Product Manager has confirmed, Cristobal Padruno.\n\"We are currently congestion 41\"The executive said, as the company expects\" Over three and a half bets\"; this is a projection from the previous results: On Tuesday, Lotus registered more than 2,800 million bets.\n\"At the end of last year, we already committed 100 million,\" he said.\nThat day, once again, the locals have long lines of people who dream of winning the draw.\nThis must be remembered The agency that sells the winning ticket is discounted167,200 million pesos for this location and 8.292,800 pesos.\nHowever, if the draw was won without a winner, Sunday pools would be $ 11 million.\nSome purchases made with drawings today Mercedes Maybach is eight million dollars; 27 apartments, 390 m2, four bedrooms and four bathrooms with Lo Barnechea; or 310 trips to travel across the continent with a route that includes Miami, Uruguay, Colombia, Jamaica, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, the United States of America, Falkland Islands and Chile.\nRoger Federer admires a picture of his training\nWhat would happen if an asteroid attacked the Earth? NASA will make a simulation to find out what will happen\nMore than 1,000 students reappear in Elgorria, California University Sixth TV\nThe canteen has found luxurious cells in the Colina 2 national modules\nEarly panelists published \"Muy Buenos D\u00edas\" published and unpublished photos of childhood\nChile retirement has begun","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2039 July 17: Rev. Samuel Finley \u2022 July 19: Dr. T. Stanley Soltau \u203a\nJuly 18: Westminster Seminary Organized (1929)\n18 July, 2019 in July 2019 by Wayne Sparkman | No comments\nThe historic meeting which launched the new seminary took place on this day, July 18, in 1929 with seventy-eight teaching and ruling elders present at the YMCA in Philadelphia.\nPlans for a New Seminary\nby Rev. David T. Myers\nThe \"school of the prophets\" was lost to Old School Presbyterianism. The great theologians of old Princeton \u2014 Alexander, Miller, Hodge, etc. \u2014 might still be buried in the cemetery plot of Princeton, but now buried with them was their historic stand for the faith once delivered unto the saints. A re-organization of the trustees was now in place and signers of the infamous Auburn Affirmation had even been placed on the Board. In only a matter of time the fruits of liberalism would be manifest in the teachings of the classrooms.\nRecognizing that sad truth, the Rev. Walter Buchanan, pastor of Broadway Presbyterian Church in New York City, sent out an invitation on June 17, 1929 to a group of teaching and ruling elders, asking them to gather at the University Club to respond to these developments. At that meeting, the following statement was approved by this group of elders: \"Resolved: that this group will support the loyal members of the former Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary in any step they may see fit to take (1) toward prevention by legal means the misuse of the Seminary's funds, or (2) toward the formation of a new Seminary if they decide that it is necessary.\" A wide latitude was allowed in this resolve, as you can see. Their aim, that despite the new liberal members on the Princeton Board, to see if we cannot keep Princeton Seminary from digressing away any further from the faith, but failing that, the possibility of a new seminary is on the table as well.\nThere were meetings taking place in other cities as well. Philadelphia was the site of a meeting of elders, including one in which finances were pledged for one year of the new seminary. At last, the historic meeting which launched the new seminary took place on July 18, 1929 with seventy-eight teaching and ruling elders present at the YMCA in Philadelphia. The name of Westminster Theological Seminary was chosen at this meeting, and an executive committee, a governing board, was chosen, composed of six (6) teaching elders and eight (8) ruling elders.\nThe teaching elders included Maitland Alexander, Roy T. Brumbaugh, Walter Buchanan, Samuel Craig, Charles Schall, and Frank Stevenson. Also present were Ruling elders Roland Armes, Edgar Frutchey, Frederick Paist, James Runkin, T. E. Ross, James Schrader, John Steele, and Morgan Thomas. Drs. Robert Dick Wilson, J. Gresham Machen,and O.T. Allis served as advisers.\nThe happy fruition of this meeting came on September 25th of that same year, when fifty students gathered at the Seminary campus at 1528 Pine Street in Philadelphia, eager to begin their preparation for the ministry. A seminary was born!\nWords to Live By: One of the minor prophets of the Old Testament wrote that we were not to despise the day of small things. Certainly, this founding of Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, Pa., was just a tiny speck in comparison with Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey in the world's eyes. But when your standard is the authoritative Word of God and the gospel of the Lord Jesus, then there is more that meets the eye in the start of this school which carried on the historic testimony of old Princeton. Let us learn to look ever to the Bible, not the world's estimation, in your prayers and financial support of churches and institutions of the biblical gospel.\nA few select treasures from the PCA Historical Center's files:\n1. Click here to view the 1929-1930 Catalogue of Westminster Theological Seminary, with its listing of courses.\n2. Click here to view the 1931 publication, Our Faculty.\nPictured above, the Seminary library at its original location, 1528 Pine Street, in Philadelphia;\nand pictured below, the student body at Westminster Theological Seminary in its first academic year, 1929-1930.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bear vs Lion: Who Would Win?\nBy Stuart \/ January 2, 2022 June 1, 2022\nLooking at only the weight advantage, a bear would probably win in a battle with a lion.\nThe average male lion weighs in at between 330 \u2013 570 pounds. The average bear is even heavier than the lion, with an average weight of 700 pounds twice as heavy as a lion.\nLions and bears are both apex predators in their respective environments that can easily take down prey of any size.\nPolar Bear vs Lion\nPolar Bear vs Lion: Which Animal is Stronger?\nPolar Bear vs Lion: Who Has Better Weapons?\nPolar Bear vs Lion: Who Would Win?\nGrizzly Bear vs Lion\nGrizzly Bear vs Lion: Which Animal is Stronger?\nGrizzly Bear vs Lion: Who has Better Weapons?\nGrizzly Bear vs Lion: Who Would Win?\nBlack Bear vs Lion\nBlack Bear vs Lion: Which Animal is Stronger?\nBlack Bear vs Lion: Who Has Better Weapons?\nBlack Bear vs Lion: Who Would Win a Fight?\nPolar Bears can weigh up to 1700 pounds and lions up to 600 pounds. Since the lion is so much smaller than the polar bears, the lion's attack would be ineffective against the polar bear and he would just get knocked out by a swipe of the polar bear's paw or bite from its jaws.\nPolar bears are stronger than lions.\nThe lion has a heavier build and its claws can disembowel an opponent. A polar bear's front limbs are much more powerful than those of a lion, making it easier for the polar bear to kill prey.\nLions have been known to kill large animals with one swift blow from their paw. However, unless the lion is able to perform such a maneuver against the bulkier body of the polar bear, both will struggle for an extended period of time at close range.\nThis will give one combatant or another an advantage in terms of stamina and ultimately give rise to either predator overcoming his adversary; however, it is not likely that a lion will have a higher chance of success.\nThe polar bear would have the upper hand because while the lion uses its claws to attack, the polar bear has a bigger skull and a stronger bite force of 1200 psi twice the force of the lion making it a more efficient killer.\nBoth lions and polar bears use their teeth and claws to hunt. Polar bears are much stronger and larger than lions.\nOne advantage a lion has against a lone bear is that lions often hunt in packs, greatly expanding the range and size of prey they are able to hunt.\nA polar bear is the largest, strongest terrestrial carnivore on earth. A lion would pose no threat to an adult polar bear, although a pride of lions working together may be able to take one on.\nThe reason that one or more lions may be able to defeat a single polar bear is that there would likely be several attacking the same bear at once, allowing them to tire it out before moving in for the kill.\nHowever, this tactic probably won't work if faced with the entire group of polar bears on their turf (the arctic).\nA single polar bear can take down creatures much larger than itself, including elk, moose, and even musk oxen \u2013 which are many times larger than a large male lion.\nRelated Article: Do Lions Eat Crocodiles?\nGrizzlies are well known for their strength and power. They can be very aggressive, especially if they feel threatened or provoked.\nThese two animals are both predators but they eat different types of food; lions mainly feed on hoofed mammals (such as antelope, wildebeest, etc.) whereas bears prefer prey like berries and roots, insects, etc.\nBecause of their diets and different habitats (Lions live in Africa, Grizzlies live in North America) these two beasts would probably not encounter each other very often in the wild.\nIf the two were to meet, the fight could go either way, depending on the size and condition of each animal.\nGrizzly bears have a very strong bite force of 1,200 psi, they can pierce through bones with relative ease. Lions have a weaker bite force of 550-700 psi and as such would be less likely to penetrate the bear's thick hide.\nThe bear has front claws which are used for hunting and defense while the lion's sharp teeth and claws come into good use when it hunts its prey or defends itself against other animals (or humans).\nBears use their strength\/power to full advantage in battle whereas the lion relies more on its speed and agility.\nLions live and hunt in groups, called prides.\nRelated Article: Bear vs. Moose\nBoth Lions and Grizzlies use their sharp teeth and claws to hunt, however, grizzlies have superior strength while lions have superior agility.\nThe size advantage may tip the balance in favor of the grizzly bear if the two were to fight.\nHowever, even though the Grizzly Bear has fewer weapons for killing prey than the Lion, it is at least equally equipped with strong limbs and muscles for swiping those sharp claws across its enemy's face.\nThe lion may be able to kill anything in any environment but it can not match up with an animal of equal strength on land with four paws like a grizzly bear.\nIf these two beasts fought one another in nature, there would be no contest; A Grizzly Bear would easily win over an African Lion 100% of the time.\nThe black bear is North America's most common species of bear. An adult male black bear generally weighs between 100 and 600 lbs while the female will weigh between 60 and 300 lbs.\nThe black bear is the smallest of the bear species but still outweighs an average size lion by 30 lbs.\nThis will be a close fight due to the two animals weighing almost the same.\nThe chances are that if they were to fight then the black bear would probably win simply due to its strength advantage over a lion.\nAs strong as lions are, they are not truly made for fighting large prey. That's why the black bear will likely come out on top.\nHowever when you take into account that there is an offset difference in agility too, then things may swing towards the side of the lion as well as it is incredibly agile for its size which gives it an edge over a relatively slow bear such as a black bear.\nBlack bears are good climbers too, whilst the lion is only moderately better than terrible. The black bear can climb trees with great ease giving them the advantage.\nBlack bears are stronger than lions, pound for pound. Their jaws are so strong, they can crunch through the shell of a turtle whit a biting force of 980 psi.\nHardly any animal preys on black bears due to their strength and defense mechanisms, which include claws that measure approximately 2-4 inches in length while a lion only has a claw size of 1.5 inches.\nA black bear's paws are also used as weapons when it has no other choice but to defend itself against an attack\u2014and many animals have lost their lives this way!\nBlack Bears have long, sharp claws that they can use to defend themselves if they have to\nA battle between these two animals could potentially end in the death of one or both of them due to their massive size, high speed, and immense power.\nBut looking at the bite force and the weight difference the black bear will win in a battle with a lion.\nLions have around 3.9 inches on their canine teeth while black bears have 2.5 inches, but lions have smaller molars making them weaker than bears.\nBlack bears are more likely to retreat when they are being threatened unless there are cubs present, then it may fight back with deadly force especially if it feels threatened.\nOn the other hand, lions will not retreat and will fight to the death if it means defending their life or their pride.\nMore Bear Comparisons:\nBear vs Crocodile\nBear vs Cougar\nBear vs Moose\nBear vs Rhino\nBear vs Wolverine\nBear vs Lion\nBear vs Gorilla\nPolar Bear vs Grizzly\nBear vs Elephant\nBear vs Wolf Pack\nBear vs Tiger\nBear vs Hippo\nBear vs Jaguar\nBear vs Dog Intelligence\nWhile a bear will win every fight with a lion one on one, however, if you put a single bear against a pride of lions, the lion will always win.\nThe reason for this is simply because lions are stronger hunters than bears.\nWhen a lion hunts, it will work together to tire the prey down enough that one of them can pounce on it and finish it off with their teeth.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"icon caret-left icon caret-right instagram pinterest linkedin facebook twitter goodreads question-circle facebook circle twitter circle linkedin circle instagram circle goodreads circle pinterest circle\nJeffrey B. Perry\nALA & Full Reviews\nKey Harrison & Allen\nHubert Harrison: Pioneering Black Activist in the Freethought Movement by Jeffrey B. Perry Truth Seeker May-August 2017 (5.04 MB)\nVolume 1 The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control NEW EXPANDED EDITION Order Here from Verso Books 40% off for paperback with free bundled e-book\nVolume 2 The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America NEW EXPANDED EDITION Order Here from Verso Books 40% off for paperback with free bundled e-book\nOrder Vol. 1 Here from Amazon\nOrder Vol 2 Here from Amazon\nShrinkwrapped set of 2 vols. of The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen from Amazon -- CLICK HERE\nShrinkwrapped set of 2 vols. of The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen from Barnes and Noble -- CLICK HERE\nPrinceton Alumni Weekly on Independent Scholarship, Jeffrey B. Perry, and \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\"\nJeff Perry Princeton '68\nFor a discussion of some organizing and activism by postal workers see Jeffrey B. Perry, \"The Centrality of the Struggle Against White Supremacy -- 'THE MAIL HANDLERS UNION AND THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM at the National and at the Grass Roots Level'\" (1989)\nIn the Archives clicking on a month will show the posts published during that month.\n\"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918available from Columbia University Pressat 20% offby using \"CUP20\" Code\nA Hubert Harrison Reader Ed. with Intro. and Notes by Jeffrey B. Perry\nClass Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen Ed. and intro. by Jeffrey B. Perry\nTheodore W. Allen, \"Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\" (1975; 2006), Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeffrey B. Perry (311 KB)\nEthelene Whitmire biographer of \"Regina Andrews: Harlem Renaissance Librarian\" discusses friendship and joint work\nof Harrison and Andrews\nHubert Harrison\nTruth Seeker\nDr. Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan\nhaving his copy of\n\"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\"\nsigned by Jeffrey B. Perry\nDavid Bacon\ninterviews Jeffrey B. Perry\non \"Hubert Harrison\"\non KPFA, Berkeley, 9\/2\/09\n(minutes 32:30 to 59:05)\nTheodore W. Allen\nThe Invention of the White Race\nVol. II:\nThe Origin of Racial Oppression\nin Anglo-America\nTheodore W. Allen The Invention of the White Race Vol. I: Racial Oppression and Social Control\nScott McLemee's Blog on Hubert Harrison at the ISO Conference in Chicago\nEric Banks, \"Hubert Harrison: A Pioneering African American Book Reviewer,\" can be found in \"Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Board of Directors,\" May 8, 2009\nTheodore W. Allen's, \"Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race,\" editd and with an introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry.\nFelicia Pride\n\"Writer, Speaker, Voice of Her Generation\" Asks\n\"Do You Know Hubert Harrison?\"\nTheodore W. Allen, \"Summary of the Argument of the Invention of the White Race,\" Part 1.\nTheodore W. Allen, \"Review of David R. Roediger, 'Wages of Whiteness' (Revised Edition)\"\nColumbia University Press on \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\"\n\"Harrison Redux\" by Scott McLemee at the \"Columbia Journalism Review\" website discusses the Hubert Harrison biography while focusing on Harrison as a book reviewer.\nMark Naison, \"Why The Harlem Tradition of Radical Street Speaking Needs to Be Revived: The Street as a Site of Political Activism, Entrepreneurship and Community Building in African America\"\nScott McLemee: \"The resurrection of a pioneering cultural journalist\" -- at the History News Network -- on Hubert Harrison as a book reviewer\nSocialist Party USA, Mayday 2009 Issue of \"The Socialist\" offers announcement (p. 3) regarding \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918.\" On May 1, 1912, Harrison spoke before 50,000 people at the SP's rally at Union Square.\nSee the Columbia University Press Blog for information on \"Hubert Harrison as a Book Reviewer\"\nDavis-Putter Scholarship Fund information can be found here.\nTheodore W. Allen, author of ''The Invention of the White Race,'' audio interview by Chad Pearson (in two parts) May 13 and 20, 2004 (scroll down to May 13, 2004 for Part 1 and May 20, 2004 for Part 2).\nFrank Huzur offers some thoughts on Hubert H. Harrison and the elections in India in his May 16, 2009 blog post.\nHoward U. Prof. Ethelbert Miller's NPR commentary \"Why We Still Need Black History,\" (2\/22\/09) describes \"reading a wonderful biography of Hubert Harrison . . . [that] has given me a new perspective on the black contribution to this country after W.W. I.\"\nJeffrey B. Perry Blog\n\"Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race is one of the twentieth-century's major contributions to historical understanding.\"\nTags: Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, major contribution, white race, Great White Assumption, equalitarian motif, class struggle, radical, American History, African Ameican History, Labor Historu\n\"Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race is one of the twentieth-century's major contributions to historical understanding. This extraordinarily important two-volume work, first published in 1994 and 1997, and considered a \"classic\" by 2003, presents a full-scale challenge to what Allen refers to as \"The Great White Assumption\" -- the unquestioning acceptance of the \"white race\" and \"white\" identity as skin color-based and natural attributes rather than as social and political constructions. It's thesis on the origin and nature of the so-called \"white race\" contains the root of a new and radical approach to United States history, one that challenges dominant narratives taught in schools, colleges, universities, and the media. With its equalitarian motif and emphasis on the class struggle dimension of history it contributes mightily to our understanding of American, African American, and Labor History and it speaks to people desiring and struggling for change worldwide. Its influence can be expected to continue to grow in the twenty-first century.\"\nFrom New \"Introduction\" to Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994; Verso Books: New Expanded Edition, November 2012).\nThe Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen\nTags: The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America, Theodore W. Allen\n\"When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.\" That arresting statement, printed on the back cover of the first volume of The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen, first published in 1994, reflected the fact that, after twenty-plus years of research in Virginia's colonial records, he found \"no instance of the official use of the word 'white' as a token of social status\" prior to its appearance in a 1691 law. As he explained, \"Others living in the colony at that time were English; they had been English when they left England, and naturally they and their Virginia-born children were English, they were not 'white.'\" \"White identity had to be carefully taught, and it would be only after the passage of some six crucial decades\" that the word \"would appear as a synonym for European-American.\"\nFor more Information CLICK HERE Read More\nImportant Labor HistoryThe Invention of the White Raceby Theodore W. Allen\nTags: Labor History, Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race\nTheodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race should be of special interest to students and scholars of Labor History. This two-volume \"classic,\" recently published by Verso Books in a new, expanded edition (with internal study guides), challenges existing master narratives and seeks to provide the foundation for a radical new interpretation of U.S. History and U.S. Labor History.\nRead comments on Invention from scholars and labor activists HERE and see a few samples below, at the very bottom.\nNote the attention to labor in the following \"Table of Contents\" --\nVol. 2 The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo America\nIntroduction to the Second Edition [by Jeffrey B. Perry]\nPART ONE: Labor Problems of the European Colonizing Powers\n1.\tThe Labor Supply Problem: England a Special Case\n2.\tEnglish Background, with Anglo-American Variations Noted\n3.\tEuro-Indian Relations and the Problem of Social Control\nPART TWO: The Plantation of Bondage\n4.\tThe Fateful Addiction to \"Present Profit\"\n5.\tThe Massacre of the Tenantry\n6.\tBricks without Straw: Bondage, but No Intermediate Stratum\nPART THREE: Road to Rebellion\n7.\tBond-Labor: Enduring . . .\n8.\t. . . and Resisting\n9.\tThe Insubstantiality of the Intermediate Stratum\n10.\tThe Status of African-Americans\nPART FOUR: Rebellion and Reaction\n11. Rebellion \u2013 And Its Aftermath\n12.\tThe Abortion of the \"White Race\" Social Control System in the Anglo-Caribbean\n13.\tThe Invention of the White Race \u2013 and the Ordeal of America\nAppendix II-A: (see Chapter 1, note 64 [re \"Maroon communities\" in the Americas])\nAppendix II-B: (see Chapter 2, note 6 [re Wat Tyler's Rebellion])\nAppendix II-C: (see Chapter 5, note 46 [re the \"'cheap commodity' strategy for capitalist conquest and William Bullock])\nAppendix II-D: (see Chapter 7, note 197 [re the bond-labor system])\nAppendix II-E: (see Chapter 9, note 54 [re reduction in the supply of persons in England \"available for bond-labor in the plantation colonies\"])\nAppendix F: (see Chapter 13, note 26 [re William Gooch and the discussion of white supremacy among the ruling classes in eighteenth-century Virginia])\nEditor's Appendix G: A Guide to \"The Invention of the White Race\" Volume II\nEditor's Appendix H: Select Bibliography on Theodore W. Allen\nIndex [Newly Expanded]\nSample Reviewer Comments --\n\"In a masterful two-volume work Theodore (Ted) Allen transforms the reader's understanding of race and racial oppression . . . This two volume work becomes more than a look at history; it is a foundation for a path toward social justice.\" -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author, Solidarity Divided and \"They're Bankrupting Us!\" And 20 Other Myths about Unions\n\"The Invention of the White Race [is] . . . meticulously researched . . . and its insights . . . themes and perspectives should be made available to all scholars . . . it should become a classic without which no future American history will be written.\" -- Audrey Smedley, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, author of Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview\n\"As magisterial and comprehensive as the day it was first published, Theodore Allen's The Invention of the White Race continues to set the intellectual, analytical and rhetorical standard when it comes to understanding the real roots of white supremacy, its intrinsic connection to the class system, and the way in which persons committed to justice and equity might move society to a different reality.\" -- Tim Wise, author, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, and Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority\n\"Allen's Invention of the White Race is one of the most important books of U.S. history ever written. It illuminates the origins of the largest single obstacle to progressive change and working class power in the US: racism and white supremacy.\" -- Joe Berry, Labor educator, organizer, and author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education\n\"The profound insights in The Invention of the White Race are essential both to understand the origins and destructiveness of white supremacy and to provide the means to conduct struggle against it. Allen's study is mandatory reading for everyone concerned with justice, equality and the liberation of all from the binds of white supremacy.\" -- Mark Solomon, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University\n\"Few books are capable of carrying the profound weight of being deemed to be a classic--this is surely one. Indeed, if one has to read one book to provide a foundation for understanding the contemporary U.S.--read this one.\" \u2013 Gerald Horne, activist, historian and author, most recently, of Negro Comrades of the Crown: African-Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation\n\"A must read for educators, scholars and social change activist -- now more than ever! Ted Allen's writings illuminate the centrality of how white supremacy continues to work in maintaining a powerless American working class.\" -- Tami Gold, Professor & Filmmaker, PSC CUNY Chapter Chair, Hunter College\n\"If one wants to understand the current, often contradictory, system of racial oppression in the United States --- and its historical origins --- there is only one place to start: Theodore Allen's brilliant, illuminating, The Invention of the White Race.\" -- Michael Goldfield, author of The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics\n\"[A] historical materialist analysis . . . reflecting the perspective of the author whose working class upbringing informed his work and whose political understanding called for constant struggle against white supremacy.\" -- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie\n\"We cannot effectively counter the depth of white racism in the US if we don't understand its origin and mechanisms. [Allen] has figured something out that can guide our work\u2014it's groundbreaking and it's eye-opening.\" -- Gene Bruskin, Co-Convener U.S. Labor Against the War and Former Director of the Justice@Smithfield Campaign\n\"Through an exhaustive review of the primary sources, Theodore W. Allen pulls back the veil over the origin of racial oppression in Anglo-America. Allen's description of how the 1% divided and controlled the 99% in response to the class struggles of 17th century Virginia challenges European Americans today to 'throw off the stifling incubus of the white identity.'\" -- Sean Ahern, New York City public school teacher\n\"Independent scholar Theodore W. Allen has produced a two-volume tour de force that situates the development of racism, white supremacy, and racial identities in context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century British conquest of Ireland, the Atlantic slave trade, the rise of chattel bond-servitude in the Caribbean and English-speaking North America, and the destruction of Native American societies. More importantly, Allen draws from a wide array of primary sources to reveal the ways the political and economic elites, driven to maintain and expand their social control of laboring people \u2014 whether bound or free -- invented the concept of the white race. Allen's research has profoundly shaped and influenced, often behind the scenes, historians' debates on American colonial slavery and its connections to racism, white supremacy, and nascent capitalism.\" \u2013 Charles L. Lumpkins, Pennsylvania State University, author of American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics\n\"Allen's closely argued book produces a stunning transformation of the issue [of which came first, slavery or racism] by insisting that the question is . . . when and how European-Americans began to think of themselves as white . . . Historians of early America are likely to find especially illuminating Allen's well-developed analogy between Ireland and British America, which persuaded me, at lest, that systems of 'racial oppression' have little to do with phenotype. Immigration historians should be particularly interested in Allen's analysis of how the Irish, victims of racial oppression at home, learned that they were 'white' once they crossed the Atlantic and became . . . supporters of a system of racial oppression in the United States.\" -- Russell R. Menard, University of Minnesota, in Journal of American Ethnic History\n\"Anyone who wants to understand the peculiar state of working class organizing in the USA \u2014 from the support by the majority of Southern white working class people for the war to defend slavery to the perversions of \"Joe the Plumber\" \u2014 needs to study and learn from the insights provided by the work of Ted Allen. Ted Allen's work resonates to this day with everyone who has confronted the organizing challenge of dealing with the issue of race in the crucible of class politics in the USA. During my nearly 50 years of writing, reporting and organizing, there has rarely been a time when Ted Allen's studies haven't helped me understand more clearly what we were confronting, either in Chicago's public schools or in other areas (such as military organizing) where I worked.\" -- George N. Schmidt, reporter for www.substancenews.net and Chicago Teachers Union delegate\n\"Theodore Allen's The Invention of the White Race is essential reading for all students of race and power in America. This path-breaking research reframes and cuts across the disciplines of history, sociology and politics, shedding a dynamic new light on the important and often hidden phenomenon of race in America's cultural evolution.\" -- Joseph Wilson, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College\n\". . . this is a rare book. It is the product of deep reflection, patient research and passionate political commitment. It speaks authoritatively to a thousand-year sweep of the history of Britain, Ireland, West Africa, the colonized Americas and the United States. Its origins outside professional history \u2013 Allen has worked as miner, mailhandler, draftsman and librarian \u2013 lend an urgency and clarity usually absent in academic writings, but without even a bit of anti-intellectualism . . . Allen . . . is making a decisive contribution to the demystifying and dismantling of what he terms the 'quintessential Peculiar Institution' \u2013 that is, 'the so-called \"White Race.\"' His 1975 pamphlet, Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery brilliantly posed the issue of the 'invention of the white race' within a materialist framework.' . . . In Volume One, Allen uses Irish history as a 'mirror' to generate new angles of vision regarding race in the U.S. Since, as he argues, 'Irish history presents a case of racial oppression without reference to alleged skin color,' it offers a sharp challenge to easy assumptions that racism is a natural, color-based 'phylogenic' phenomenon. . . . Allen offers the best account yet of the process by which the Irish \"became white\" in the U.S. and of the roles of the Democratic Party, the unions, the labor market and the Catholic Church in ensuring that the nineteenth century immigrants best 'prepared by tradition and experience to empathize with the African Americans' would become a critical component of the \"intermediate stratum' of 'whites' perpetuating a system of racial oppression and class privilege in the U.S. In describing this tragic transformation, Allen provides a model for the consideration of 'white skin privileges,' which is seen as material and real but also as part of a larger system of oppression, including white worker oppression . . . what is most striking in Invention of the White Race is the quality of searching questions and clear answers.\" \u2013 David Roediger, in Race Traitor\n\"Along with David Roediger and Noel Ignatiev, Theodore Allen has made a critically important contribution to the study of working-class 'whiteness' in the United States. Allen's exploration of how and why Irish immigrants embraced a white identity is truly original, and worthy of renewed engagement.\" -- Bruce Nelson, author of Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race\nHubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\nFollow Jeffrey B. Perry on Twitter\n\"Essential. All levels\/libraries\"\n\"This critically important book will do for Harrison what . . . Lewis did for Du Bois . . . Rampersad . . . for Hughes . . . Essential. All levels\/libraries.\"-- W. Glasker, American Library Association, Choice.\nColumbia University Press' website on \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\"\n\"Rediscovering Hubert Harrison\"--Scott McLemee's Review in \"Inside Higher Ed\"\nBrief Book Description (2 paragraphs)\nBook Description (1500 words) by the Author at BlackPast.org\nZ-Net -- Theodore W. Allen, \"The Invention of the White Race\"\nReviewers' Comments on \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\"\nOrder a copy of \"A Hubert Harrison Reader\" from Zinn Education Project amd Teaching for Change Online Bookstore\nArticle on Hubert Harrison biography, Jeffrey B. Perry, and Independent Scholars on 2009 Top 5 List at Princeton Alumni Weekly\nVirgin Island Bookstore Rates Harrison biography highly\nJared McCallister, \"Retracing Steps of Harlem Trailblazer Hubert Harrison,\" \"New York Daily News,\" February 21, 2010.\nJeffrey B. Perry discusses Hubert Harrison with host Marc Steiner on \"The Marc Steiner Show,\" WEAA, 88.9 FM, Baltimore, Maryland, October 21, 2009.\nStephanie Hanlon \"Legacy of Hubert Harrison: Crucian Earns 'Father of Harlem Radicalism' Title,\" a review of \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\" in the \"St. Croix Avis,\" August 18, 2009.\n\"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\" available from Zinn Education Project and Teaching for Change Bookstore online\nJeffrey B. Perry and Laura Flanders discuss Hubert Harrison on Grit-TV, July 1, 2009\nHubert Harrison discussed in several pieces on Columbia University Press Blog\nListen to Labor Journalist David Bacon interview Jeffrey B. Perry on \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem, 1883-1918\" for \"The Morning Show,\" KPFA Radio 94.1 FM in Berkeley, aired September 2, 2009 (go to minutes 32:30 to 59:05 of the two-hour show)\nColin Benjamin, \"Hubert Harrison: Trailblazing Harlem Critical Thinker,\" in \"Black Star News,\" August 8, 2009\nBrian Jones review of \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\" by Jeffrey B. Perry\nTimur Davis interviews Jeffrey B. Perry on Hubert Harrison for Pan African Forum on Blog Talk Radio, August 28, 2009.\n\"Harrison Redux\" by Scott McLemee -- \"Columbia Journalism Review\" (focuses on Harrison as a book reviewer).\nHerb Boyd, review of \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918,\" \"Neworld Review.\"\n\"Do-it-yourself-scholars,\" by Merrell Noden, \"Princeton Alumni Weekly,\" April 22, 2009.\nEncourage your community or school library to obtain \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\" so others can learn about Harrison and the struggles that he and others waged.\nBook TV--CSPAN-2, Feb. 15, July 3, and July 4, 2009, discussion of \"Hubert Harrison\" by author Jeffrey B. Perry and panelists Mark Naison (Fordham University) and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawence College). Taped, Jan. 21, 2009 at Barnes & Noble, 82nd St. and\nEncourage your community or school library to obtain \"A Hubert Harrison Reader\" so others can learn about Harrison's views and the struggles that he and others waged.\nBarnes and Noble Review of \"Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1920\" by Scott McLemee, February 20, 2009.\n\"The Growing Interest in Hubert Harrison\" from \"History News Network,\" January 19, 2009.\n\"Rediscovering Hubert Harrison\" by Scott Mclemee reprinted in \"Monthly Review\"\n\"Who Was Hubert Harrison? -- A Post by Jeffrey B. Perry\"\nTheodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, New Expanded Edition (Verso Books), discussed by Jeffrey B. Perry in Counterpunch of May 21, 2013\nKey Pages on\nHubert H. Harrison &\n1. Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918\n(with audio, video, photo links)\n2. A Hubert Harrison Reader\n3. Hubert Harrison\nLife, Legacy & Some Writings\n4. Theodore W. Allen\n(with audio and video links)\n5. The Invention of the\nWhite Race\nRacial Oppression and Social Control\nby Theodore W. Allen\nThe Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\n7. Quotations\nPrimarily from\nHubert H. Harrison\nand Theodore W. Allen\n8. When Africa Awakes:\nThe \"Inside Story\"\nof the Stirrings and Strivings\nof the New Negro in the Western World\nby Hubert H. Harrison\n(Diasporic Africa Press)\nwith a new introduction, biographical sketch, and supplementary notes\nby Jeffrey B. Perry\n9. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Congress Eyes Creation Of A Copyright \"Small Claims Court\"\nAlthough many active members of the copyright community have been requesting that some form of small claims court be set up as an alternative to filing a federal lawsuit, a new bill being introduced with this theoretical purpose is riddled with issues, and could be primarily utilized by copyright trolls.\nBy Mike Masnick of Techdirt\nFor a while now, some in the copyright community have been pushing for a copyright \"small claims court\" as an alternative to filing a federal lawsuit over copyright law. It's true that, especially for small copyright holders, the cost of filing a lawsuit may appear to be rather prohibitive. But it's not clear that a small claims court is the answer. A few years ago, we wrote about some potential concerns with such an approach, but have also admitted that if set up right, it could have some advantages. But that requires it be set up right.\nUnfortunately, a new bill has been introduced, by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, along with Rep. Tom Marino, to officially set up such a system \u2014 and it's done in a way that looks like it will not be well-designed, and instead will lead to a massive rush of small claims, especially by copyright trolls. The bill is called the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2016, or CASE Act, and\u2026 it's got problems.\nThe \"good\" news, if you can call it that, is that claims that would go before this appointed tribunal, made up of copyright lawyers recommended by the Register of Copyrights and appointed by the Librarian of Congress, would have much lower statutory damages availability than the federal courts. A copyright claim in a federal court has statutory damages up to $150k, for willful infringement. In the small claims system, the maximum statutory damages would be $15k. But, really, that's just half of today's official statutory damages \u2014 because if there's no willful infringement, the Copyright Act puts a cap at $30k. In the small claims world, there's no option to claim willful infringement.\nAnother potentially good feature is that this small claims setup would be able to hear two kinds of claims: the standard ones involving claims of someone violating one of the established rights under copyright law\u2026 but then also to hear cases about abusive DMCA notifications, under Section 512(f) of the DMCA. Of course, as we've noted in the past, the federal courts have effectively written 512(f) out of the law and refuse to punish those who file bogus DMCA notices. It's not at all clear how things would change here. The\nbill explicitly notes that the remedies for a 512(f) bogus DMCA notice claim would be limited \"to those available under this chapter.\" But it's unclear if that really means that you could get $15k for a bogus DMCA filing. And that's because the section on statutory damages is clearly written only with people suing for copyright infringement in mind, and not people suing over bogus DMCA takedowns.\nFor example, it notes that in order to qualify for the $15k maximum statutory damages, it only applies to \"works timely registered.\" But\u2026 how does that make sense for 512(f) claims? In those cases, the question of whether or not the defendant timely registered a copyright makes no sense at all. If someone sends a bogus DMCA takedown over a copyright that doesn't exist or that they don't hold, why should its registration status matter? It's almost as if Rep. Jeffries (or the lobbyists who wrote this bill) only tossed in the part about 512(f) claims to appease people concerned about abusive DMCA takedowns, and then completely forgot about it after they included that.\nBut the really big problem in my mind is that this seems likely to just be swamped by copyright trolls. We already see that they're flooding the federal court system, where multiple rulings against joinder (i.e., the ridiculous bundling of thousands of possible file sharers together) has meant that when trolls do sue, they're generally limited in how many people they can sue. Making the process cheaper, but still offering statutory damages amounts that can be quite scary to the average American, and that can still get the job done of scaring threatened users into paying up fines that are much smaller than the $15,000.\nAnd, yes, this small claims system will allow for discovery, which is the key feature that trolls want. They want to sue, and then get discovery where they can send demands to ISPs for names of subscribers based on IP addresses, and there doesn't appear to be anything in the bill to stop that. It does note that parties seeking discovery need to show \"good cause\" to enable discovery, but that may be a fairly low bar. It also notes that responding to discovery requests to non-parties in the dispute will be \"voluntary\" so perhaps ISPs will resist, but that's not certain. And thus, this three-panel board may find itself on the receiving end of a ton of ridiculous claims from trolls who have no intention of following through with the case. One would hope, with the federal court system's copyright docket currently overrun with trolling cases, that whoever drafted this law would have thought through a better plan to stop that from happening here.\nAnother potential issue: the bill would let individuals go after not just actual infringers, but alsoservice providers if they fail to follow through on a DMCA takedown notice. Basically, it exports the DMCA safe harbors to this small claims process as well, but that may mean that internet platforms are going to get dragged through this process that was meant to focus on small claims that could be easily adjudicated.\nThere's also this oddity. After laying out the specific responsibilities of the three individuals who will handle all of these small claims cases, the bill notes:\nWhen not engaged in performing their duties as prescribed in this chapter, to perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Register of Copyrights.\nWhat, exactly, is that going to entail?\nWho knows how this will actually play out. A few years back, the UK introduced its own small claims copyright system. But I have no idea how it's doing. I haven't seen any numbers or indication of how widely it's used. Perhaps it works great and is a useful tool for dealing with small scale infringement issues. But I do worry about the way the bill is currently written and how it can be abused, especially by trolls who just want to pressure people into settling, and where the threat of a $15k award might be plenty.\n9 Years Later: Prince, A Dancing Baby And Universal Music Still In Court Debating Fair Use\nHow to Legally Use Music to Enhance YouTube Videos\nCourt Rules Against Grooveshark Again, EMI Wins Summary Judgment Worth Up To $420 Million\nMajor Labels, Publishers Win Victory In Airline Music Battle\nTags: \" copyright infringement, copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Electronic Frontier Foundation, GitHub, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, Small claims court, YouTube\nThe small claim court in the UK is rocking. Most of the claims are photography infringements ranging from around \u00a3150 to \u00a3750 for the base infringement in terms of lost income with an additional 100% for flagrancy and further uplift for failure to credit the author plus interest. Some cases where the infringer has removed watermarks have had serious amounts added for flagrancy and multiple uses have sailed very close to the \u00a310000 cap. Many infringers believe the misinformation put out by so called copyfree activists and end up in court paying far more than they could have settled for at an early stage with additional court costs of around \u00a3500. None of the hundreds of photographers, like myself, that have taken cases to the UK small claims court have had their cases dismissed as infringers so often come to court armed only with the \"wisdom\" spouted by yourself and others like techdirt and the Google scam crowd. While it is tedious taking these sad sacks to court it becomes routine after a while and satisfying to see justice done. We could not do it without you Mike. LOL","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: HomenextTopicsnextPeoplenextFamous Billericay Families\nThe Boughtwoods\nBurstead House School\nJoyce Norris\nThe Boughtwood family name is well known in Billericay and goes back many generations. There are several different branches of the family; one kept a farm at South Green, one was proprietor of the butcher's shop in Billericay High Street and Miss Annie Boughtwood was the headmistress of the 'Old School House' later known as Burstead House. This small private school was popular with many of the children of the more well-to-do families between the two wars. Miss Boughtwood and the few teachers she employed were all remembered as being very strict, but fair.\nBurstead House School was very much a landmark standing as it did in the centre of Billericay, facing south at the junction of Norsey Road and the High Street. The old school building was demolished in 1958 as part of the road developments that came into force, along with much re-development work taking place at that time.\nThe late Joyce Norris remembered attending Burstead House School. Miss Boughtwood was, in fact, her great aunt on her mother's side. Although Joyce was 'family', Miss Boughtwood made no special allowance for Joyce, who remembered her as being rather severe, but kindly. Joyce recollected: \"Children started at the school at just under five-years-old and they were called the baby class and all that divided them from the eleven year-olds (which was considered the big school), was a blue curtain.\n\"Most schoolchildren left Miss Boughtwood's school with excellent knowledge of the three Rs and beautiful handwriting skills. Writing and arithmetic was all done on slates with special chalks. The slates were cleaned using pieces of damp sponge. Spelling and tables were learned by rote and children were given copybooks to practise their writing. Miss Boughtwood was very keen to make youngsters read out loud to the class and I think this helped them with their reading abilities.\"\nThere are now numerous descendants of the Boughtwood family in New Zealand and Australia and several have made contact with local historians.\nSylvia Kent\nMy dad A Jackson worked with Ben and John Clarke for many years in the butchers shop. He went on to own his own shop at Harts Corner in Western Road.\nBy G Jackson (25\/01\/2021)\nI clearly remember moving to Tye Common Road in about 1948 from Clarks the butchers in the High Street. My father George Twiddy was a butcher and worked there and we lived in a flat above the shop. We arrived in Tye Common Road in a horse and cart supplied by Mr Boughtwood who I believe was friendly with my grandad Thomas MacDonald always known as Mac. He was from Aberdeen and had a lovely Scottish accent all his life.\nBy Barbara Stewart (nee Twiddy) (16\/01\/2021)\nI am a grand-daughter of Albert Victor Boughtwood who died in WW1 and is buried in Basra Iraq. His widow Elizabeth left for New Zealand with her five children in 1921.\nBy Glenys Plaistowe nee Boughtwood (02\/10\/2017)\nI am a direct descendant of Thomas Timothy Beningfield 1770- 1853 died at Billericay. I believe that he was the local member of parliament & owned about fifty properties in the town. I would appreciate any information you have of the family.\nBy ALLAN COX (23\/07\/2015)\nAm I right but was not Burstead House used by the Civil Defence in the 50s' of which my Father Arthur Downham was a member, with Mr Bullen the Chemist and Gerry Hardman. Sorry can remember any other names.\nBy Felicity (09\/06\/2012)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"JOAN LITTLEWOOD\nJude Kelly\n68 Regent St\nLondon W1B 4D\nDoors open at 6:30 pm, Talk commences at 7:00 pm\nIn this talk Jude Kelly, the artistic director of London's Southbank reveals an intimate, detailed portrayal of British Theatre's favourite rebel and her legacy.\nTickets \u00a320 including a glass of prosecco.\nJoan Littlewood trained as an actor at RADA but went onto became one of Europe's most famous radical Theatre directors. Long banned from broadcasting by the BBC because of her Communist party associations, she was a life long left-wing thinker and remained under surveillance by MI5 into the 1950s.\nVariously described as a subversive genius and 'The Mother of Modern Theatre\", her pioneering Theatre Workshop broke the mould of British drama. The musical Oh What a Lovely War (currently revived in this year of the first world war's centenary) is one of her most celebrated creations and was developed using the Theatre Workshop's unique methods. Richard Harris, Brian Murphy and Barbara Windsor were amongst the many British actors who were her proteges.\nJude Kelly is a theatre director and producer and currently the artistic director of London's Southbank. Described In 2013 as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by BBC's Woman's Hour, she is an OBE, hold several honorary degrees from international universities and represents Britain within UNESCO on cultural matters. She was the founding director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse and has won many awards for her theatrical directorial work.\nGeoffrey Marsh on\nDAVID BOWIE\nThe Cafe Royal\nBrian Robinson on LAURENCE OLIVIER\nIan Kelly on SAMUEL FOOTE","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"City committee votes unanimously for new anti-racism terms of reference\nby Connor Balsillie and Jana Abbara March 30, 2022 March 30, 2022\nOn March 17, the city's Community Development Committee voted unanimously to change the terms of reference for the group tasked with fighting racism in Calgary.\nThe meeting involved a number of city councillors along with the Anti-racism Action Committee and its members.\nLatjor Tuel, a Sudanese immigrant and former child soldier suffering from a mental health crisis was shot by Calgary Police on Feb. 19. Ward 9 Coun. Gian Carlo Carra asked if changes to the committee's terms of reference can help prevent deaths in the future.\n\"When Mr. Latjor Tuel was killed on the streets of Calgary by police in a mental health crisis, we received a very powerful message from the anti-racism action committee, but it came through webmail, there was not a direct channel,\" said Carra.\nCarra suggested more effective ways for committees to reach city council and make sure their concerns are heard.\nAccording to Melanie Husker, who is the acting director of Calgary neighborhoods, there is a clear chain for direct members to be able to communicate through the link they have with the administration.\nHowever, the volume of communications may pose challenges. Lorelei Higgins, who is the community lead for the anti-racism program team, said there are over 1,500 community members engaged with their work.\n\"We're really looking at a community interface that is much broader than a similar committee that can serve to help address this work in a community facing way,\" said Higgins.\nRepresentation concerns\nAnother matter brought up by Ward 8 Coun. Courtney Walcott was the potential blindspots of the committee in terms of representation of council members. Walcott said the presence of Black and Indigenous women's voices on the council helps \"prioritize lived experience.\"\n\"If my memory serves me, I'd be happy to be corrected, that even the first iteration of this actually found itself without a Black woman on it,\" said Walcott.\nIn response, Higgins explained how meticulous the screening process is for the anti-racism action committee.\nAnti-Racism Action Committee Terms of Reference Update \u2013 CD2022-0177Download\n\"Every single person who applies, we talk to, they get a blind interview, it's a telephone conversation,\" said Higgins. So when I say we've talked to over 1,500 people, a lot of those people are the people that applied to be on the committee but we just didn't have a spot for them.\"\nThe number one thing the anti-racism action committee has learned through that process is being able to engage and hear the community it's trying to serve.\n\"Picking up the phone and thanking somebody for applying and then spending 15 minutes hearing about their life and why this matters to them, yields returns because those people come back,\" said Higgins .\nAlthough the work is rewarding, Higgins said there are structural challenges that delay the city's anti-racism goals.\n\"Why do we have a separation between the Indigenous relations office and between anti-racism? There can be umbrellas, but why are we separate streams with separate budgets, separate ways of doing things, separate levels of decision making?\" Higgins said.\nNeed for long-term solutions\nAnti-racism is an essential stepping stone that will make Calgarins feel more safe, co-chair of the anti-racism action committee, Sonia Aujla-Bhullar said.\n\"An anti-racist city long-term is one that afford the basic human digintiy to Black, Indigenous and racialized persons,\" said Aujla-Bhullar.\nAujla-Bhullar said to make it in the long-term the anti-racism action committee needs to respond to immediate concerns of racism in Calgary.\n\"As of today, there are white supremacist and white nationalist ideas on our streets. And I use that term broadly with purpose, because it is Calgarians, such as myself as a racialized Brown woman, who do not feel safe\"\nSonia Aujla-Bhullar\nAuijla-Bhullar said it's hard to imagine what a safe Calgary looks like due to recent events.\n\"As of today, there are white supremacist and white nationalist ideas on our streets. And I use that term broadly with purpose, because it is Calgarians, such as myself as a racialized Brown woman, who do not feel safe,\" said Aujla-Bhullar.\nShe commented that issues like anti-racism take empathy and a collective mindset.\n\"My apologies, I'm getting emotional here because we can't think long-term unless we can walk out our doors and know that our children are safe. We are holding onto anything to feel like we are included as whole entities, as whole human beings,\" said Aujla-Bhullar.\nUpdate: City council approves emergency funding to help people experiencing homelessness\nHow 2 local organizations are fighting to end the lack of diversity in Alberta's school curriculums\nCalgarians call for defunding police at city council hearing\nby Connor Balsillie and Jana Abbara, Calgary Journal\n<h1>City committee votes unanimously for new anti-racism terms of reference<\/h1> <p class=\"byline\">by Connor Balsillie and Jana Abbara, Calgary Journal <br \/>March 30, 2022<\/p> <br \/> <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/calgaryjournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-7.04.34-AM-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33740\" \/><\/figure> <p>On March 17, the city's Community Development Committee voted unanimously to change the terms of reference for the group tasked with fighting racism in Calgary.<\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/pub-calgary.escribemeetings.com\/Meeting.aspx?Id=76ed3681-e6e2-4b4d-ba32-cb80dc0fc5bc&amp;Agenda=Agenda&amp;lang=English\">The meeting <\/a>involved a number of city councillors along with the Anti-racism Action Committee and its members. <\/p> <p>Latjor Tuel, a Sudanese immigrant and former child soldier suffering from a mental health crisis was shot by Calgary Police on Feb. 19.&nbsp;Ward 9 Coun. Gian Carlo Carra asked if changes to the committee's terms of reference can help prevent deaths in the future.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>&nbsp;\"When Mr. Latjor Tuel was killed on the streets of Calgary by police in a mental health crisis, we received a very powerful message from the anti-racism action committee, but it came through webmail, there was not a direct channel,\" said Carra.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>Carra suggested more effective ways for committees to reach city council and make sure their concerns are heard.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>According to Melanie Husker, who is the acting director of Calgary neighborhoods, there is a clear chain for direct members to be able to communicate through the link they have with the administration.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>However, the volume of communications may pose challenges. Lorelei Higgins, who is the community lead for the anti-racism program team, said there are over 1,500 community members engaged with their work.<\/p> <p>\"We're really looking at a community interface that is much broader than a similar committee that can serve to help address this work in a community facing way,\" said Higgins.&nbsp;<\/p> <h4><strong>Representation concerns<\/strong><\/h4> <p>Another matter brought up by Ward 8 Coun. Courtney Walcott was the potential blindspots of the committee in terms of representation of council members. Walcott said the presence of Black and Indigenous women's voices on the council helps \"prioritize lived experience.\"<\/p> <p>\"If my memory serves me, I'd be happy to be corrected, that even the first iteration of this actually found itself without a Black woman on it,\" said Walcott.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>In response, Higgins explained how meticulous the screening process is for the anti-racism action committee.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p> <div class=\"wp-block-file\"><object class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/calgaryjournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Anti-Racism-Action-Committee-Terms-of-Reference-Update-CD2022-0177-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Anti-Racism Action Committee Terms of Reference Update - CD2022-0177.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-c19e8961-e5f5-40d1-8b55-45eab2d1debf\" href=\"https:\/\/calgaryjournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Anti-Racism-Action-Committee-Terms-of-Reference-Update-CD2022-0177-1.pdf\">Anti-Racism Action Committee Terms of Reference Update - CD2022-0177<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/calgaryjournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Anti-Racism-Action-Committee-Terms-of-Reference-Update-CD2022-0177-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c19e8961-e5f5-40d1-8b55-45eab2d1debf\">Download<\/a><\/div> <p>\"Every single person who applies, we talk to, they get a blind interview, it's a telephone conversation,\" said Higgins. So when I say we've talked to over 1,500 people, a lot of those people are the people that applied to be on the committee but we just didn't have a spot for them.\"&nbsp;<\/p> <p>The number one thing the anti-racism action committee has learned through that process is being able to engage and hear the community it's trying to serve.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>\"Picking up the phone and thanking somebody for applying and then spending 15 minutes hearing about their life and why this matters to them, yields returns because those people come back,\" said Higgins .&nbsp;<\/p> <p>Although the work is rewarding, Higgins said there are structural challenges that delay the city's anti-racism goals.<\/p> <p>\"Why do we have a separation between the Indigenous relations office and between anti-racism? There can be umbrellas, but why are we separate streams with separate budgets, separate ways of doing things, separate levels of decision making?\" Higgins said.&nbsp;<\/p> <h4><strong>Need for long-term solutions<\/strong><\/h4> <p>Anti-racism is an essential stepping stone that will make Calgarins feel more safe, co-chair of the anti-racism action committee, Sonia Aujla-Bhullar said.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>\"An anti-racist city long-term is one that afford the basic human digintiy to Black, Indigenous and racialized persons,\" said Aujla-Bhullar.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>Aujla-Bhullar said to make it in the long-term the anti-racism action committee needs to respond to immediate concerns of racism in Calgary.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"> <blockquote> <p>\"As of today, there are white supremacist and white nationalist ideas on our streets. And I use that term broadly with purpose, because it is Calgarians, such as myself as a racialized Brown woman, who do not feel safe\"<\/p> <p><cite>Sonia Aujla-Bhullar<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote> <\/figure> <p>Auijla-Bhullar said it's hard to imagine what a safe Calgary looks like due to recent events.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>\"As of today, there are white supremacist and white nationalist ideas on our streets. And I use that term broadly with purpose, because it is Calgarians, such as myself as a racialized Brown woman, who do not feel safe,\" said Aujla-Bhullar.&nbsp;<\/p> <p>She commented that issues like anti-racism take empathy and a collective mindset.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p> <p>\"My apologies, I'm getting emotional here because we can't think long-term unless we can walk out our doors and know that our children are safe. We are holding onto anything to feel like we are included as whole entities, as whole human beings,\" said Aujla-Bhullar.&nbsp;<\/p>\nThis <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/calgaryjournal.ca\/2022\/03\/30\/city-committee-votes-unanimously-for-new-anti-racism-terms-of-reference\/\">article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/calgaryjournal.ca\">Calgary Journal<\/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calgaryjournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cropped-calgary-journal-logo-new-1-1.png?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" style=\"width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;\"><img id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" src=\"https:\/\/calgaryjournal.ca\/?republication-pixel=true&post=33645&ga=UA-178959929-1\" style=\"width:1px;height:1px;\">","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home World News Zelenskyy urges Ukraine no-fly zone in Canada parliament address | Russia-Ukraine war...\nZelenskyy urges Ukraine no-fly zone in Canada parliament address | Russia-Ukraine war News\nUkraine needs a no-fly zone to stop Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told Canada's parliament, as Western leaders continue to rule out directly intervening in the conflict.\nAddressing the House of Commons in Ottawa virtually on Tuesday morning, Zelenskyy said Ukraine has experienced 20 days of \"full-scale aggression\" by Russia, which has killed at least 97 children so far.\n\"Can you imagine when you call your [allies], and you ask, 'please close the sky, close the airspace, please stop the bombings, how many more cruise missiles have to fall on our cities until you make this happen?' And in return, they express their deep concerns about the situation,\" said Zelenskyy, who received multiple standing ovations from Canadian lawmakers.\n\"Please understand how important it is for us to close our airspace from Russian missiles and Russian aircraft. I hope you can understand.\"\nZelenskyy has been pushing Ukraine's Western allies, particularly the United States and the European Union, to do more to help the country stave off Russia's all-out invasion, which began on February 24.\nIn recent weeks, the Ukrainian president has spoken to legislators in the European and British parliaments, and he is expected to deliver a virtual address to the US Congress on Wednesday.\nHe has called for more weapons and sanctions on Russia, as well as for NATO to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. But the transatlantic alliance, led by the US, has repeatedly rejected that proposition, saying a no-fly zone would risk a direct confrontation between Washington and Moscow.\nIn coordination with its allies, Canada has imposed several rounds of sanctions against Russian financial institutions and businesses, as well as on Russian oligarchs and government officials, including President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.\nEarlier this month, Ottawa pledged additional military support to Ukraine, including thousands of rocket launchers and hand grenades, and unveiled new immigration schemes to allow Ukrainian refugees to come more easily to Canada.\nThe Canadian government also stripped Russia and Belarus of their status as \"most favoured nation\" trading partners on March 3, a move that imposed a 35-percent tariff on exports from both countries to Canada.\nOn Tuesday, Canada announced sanctions against 15 Russian officials it said have \"enabled and supported President Putin's choice to invade a peaceful and sovereign country\".\n\"With allies and partners, we're imposing crippling sanctions to ensure Putin and his enablers in Russia and Belarus are held accountable. We have imposed severe sanctions on 15 new Russian officials, including government and military elites who are complicit in this illegal war,\" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said before Zelenskyy's address.\nTrudeau also praised the Ukrainian president, saying his \"courage and the courage of your people inspires us all\".\n\"You're defending the right of Ukrainians to choose their own future, and in doing so, you're defending the values that form the pillars of all free, democratic countries,\" Trudeau said in the House of Commons.\nZelenskyy is the third Ukrainian president to deliver a speech to Canada's parliament, local news outlet CPAC reported, after Victor Yushchenko and Petro Poroshenko in 2008 and 2014, respectively.\n\"You've offered your help, your assistance, at our earliest request. You supply us with military assistance, with humanitarian assistance. You've imposed serious sanctions; at the same time, we see that unfortunately, this did not bring the war to an end,\" Zelenskyy said on Tuesday morning.\n\"You can see that our cities like Kharkiv, Mariupol and many other cities, are not protected like your cities are protected \u2013 Edmonton, Vancouver. You can see that Kyiv is being shelled and bombed.\n\"You all need to do more to stop Russia, to protect Ukraine, and by doing that, to protect Europe from the Russian threat.\"\nPrevious articleCJ McCollum cleared to return for Pelicans\nNext articleHow To Dress Like Rihanna At Fashion Week In Your Everyday Life\nKitchen Gadgets That Will Help Cook Your Morning Eggs So Fast\nAsia-Pacific is falling behind on its sustainability goals\nSuspect In Killings Of 22 Elderly Texans Goes On Trial Again\nThe Most Popular Movies On Netflix Right Now Besides 'Girl In The Picture'\nEurope to ask countries to reduce energy usage as Putin tightens grip on gas\nLakers fire Frank Vogel after disappointing 2021-22 campaign\nAmazon Reveals It Shares Ring Camera Footage With Police Without Permission\nIndia's bold GST reform expands tax base but too soon to celebrate?\nChina's premier urges pro-growth policies as economy sputters | Business and Economy\nBelarus charges dissident with organising 'terrorist' group | News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Welcome\u200e > \u200eHistory of L. Frank Baum\u200e > \u200eAll Things Oz (Exhibit\/Baum's Bazaar)\u200e > \u200eMission Statement\u200e > \u200eWorld Record Attempt\u200e > \u200eCalendar\u200e > \u200eSponsorships 2020\u200e > \u200eLive Entertainment 2019\u200e > \u200e\nHeadlining this Year's Authors & Artists Alley\nWelcome to all of our authors and artist that are attending this year Oz-Stravaganza!\nRon Baxley, Jr.\nRon Baxley, Jr. submitted a skit to a glossy youth magazine when he was 16, it was accepted, and he has written for publication ever since. Having written stories with cartoons and poems for many years in his youth, Ron continued in adulthood to submit to magazines and journals with great success. Ron has worked as a newspaper reporter for six years in his life as well.\nIn later years, he added science fiction books and Oz books to his list of publications. He published the First Edition of The Talking City of Oz in 1999 (The Vanitas Press) which later appeared as a self-published Second Edition with illustrations by Gwen Tennille at a previous Oz-Stravaganza. The First Edition of this book earned him an invitation to participate in the festival nine years ago, and he has attended many years since with various Oz books.\nRon was awarded a Lifetime Membership to the All Things Oz Museum by the International L. Frank Baum and All Things Oz Foundation in 2016. He attributes his success with books for children and youth to having been an educator for 15 years.\nTo sign this year, Ron brings with him a novel for young adults and adults which combines Southern literature with Oz fantasy, O.Z. Diggs Himself Out (YBR Publishing) and a commemorative edition of his fantasy graphic novel (for ages 10 and up) which stars a version of his Pembroke Welsh Corgi and takes place partially in Oz: Ziggy Zig-zags the Light and Dark Fantastic (YBR Publishing). Using Ron's story, concepts, and scripting, Vincent Myrand created the ink and watercolor illustrations for the graphic novel (with help in lettering and layout by Ali Tavakoly).\nRon earned in B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina in 1998. He took several creative writing and poetry classes in his major. He later returned to work on his alternative certification to teach English.\nHe has been a member of the International Wizard of Oz Club, is a member of the Oz writer and illustration group The Oz Inklings online, and was a member of the now defunct Not Yet Dead Poets' Society for many years.\nFor more information on Ron, please see his author page at http:\/\/rbaxley37.wixsite.com\/ronbaxleyjrofoz .\nTom Hutchison\nTom Hutchison is the co-founder of Big Dog Ink comics as well as the writer and creator of The Legend of Oz: The Wicked West. The Wicked West is a re-imagining of the classic L. Frank Baum story but told with an old west twist. Instead of ruby slippers, Gale wears ruby spurs and her best friend Toto is now her trusty steed.\nA life-long comic book fan, Tom first stumbled across comics at a flea market at the age of 10 and comic books quickly became a staple in his life. Tom has taken part in virtually every portion of the industry at one time or another, starting as a reader and collector and then managing a local comic book shop before moving on and owning his own store. Tom started assisting with other's creator owned comics and now is writing and publishing his own stories as well as helping new creators with their projects in an editorial capacity.\nVincent Myrand\nMyrand's \"The Wizard of Oz\" and \"Return to Oz\" paintings have gathered worldwide recognition. He burst on to the Oz art scene with his first appearance at Oz-Stravaganza in 2015 and started having guest appearances at Oz festivals throughout the U.S. and at the International Wizard of Oz Club convention gatherings. He has continued those to the present.\nVincent has devoted his life to the arts with many early arts accolades in his youth and was inspired by the movie \"The Wizard of Oz\" as a youngling. Shortly after this, Vincent discovered L. Frank Baum's books, and he fell in love with Baum's characters and started drawing them.\nHe worked for an art instructor for an after school program for many years and opened an art school of his own for a while, the nonprofit Myrand Art Institution. Vincent also toured many famous historical sites of Italy and gleaned much knowledge about the paintings, murals, and sculptures there. In addition, he has been a front man for many bands and has painted cover art for their albums.\nHe has attended Oz-Stravaganza as a participating artist for five years and has been a member of the International Wizard of Oz Club for many years, starting when he was just 12 years old.\nJames C. & Amanda Wallace\nJames C. Wallace II, originally a native of West Virginia, currently lives in Terre Haute, Indiana with his wife Amanda. They have been married more than 35 years, with a herd of 5 children and 15 grandchildren. His background covers over 34 years in children's education, including experience working for the world's largest children's museum; The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, where he was the Planetarium Educator for SpaceQuest Planetarium. In addition to children's books about Oz, he is recognized by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a leading developer of web-based educational games, educational exhibit design, curriculum development and implementation. He is also involved in the DiscoverHover program, an educational program developing and utilizing hovercraft in a unique and fun way. He now serves as the Royal Liaison of Oz and endeavors to fulfill Princess Ozma's royal command to tell the tales of Oz to the children of the Great Outside. His charming wife Amanda, a Hoosier native and creator of the Legendary Potato Soup serves as the Royal Liaison to Princess Ozma and as co-author on their last 5 books. Currently, James & Amanda Wallace are working on presenting their latest creation, Aquareine in Oz, a rousing story of Aquareine, Queen of the Mermaid Kingdom, and her journey into the Land of Oz with Dorothy as her guide.\nCopyright \u00a92019 Oz-Stravaganza! is part of the THE INTERNATIONAL L. FRANK BAUM AND ALL THINGS OZ HISTORICAL FOUNDATION. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"[[missing key: search-facet.tree.open-section]] Musical Concepts, Genres, and Terms (1,445)\nMusic Theatre (1)\nOpera (1,445)\nTraditional, Folk and Indigenous Musics (1)\nSaxophone (1)\n17th c.\/Early to mid-Baroque (1600-1700) (62)\n19th c. \/Romantic (1800-1900) (475)\n20th c. (1900-2000) (976)\n21st c. 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She is described in contemporary documents as 'torinese', although that may refer to her service in the court of Turin; she is also described as ' musica di camera to His Royal Highness of Savoy' in the libretto of La pace fra Tolomeo e Seleuco by C. F. Pollarolo (1691, Piacenza). A singer of no particular distinction, she usually took second female parts. Among the most important productions in which she appeared were those at the Teatro S Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice, where she sang with the best singers of the time: G. F. Tosi's L'incoronazione di Serse (1691) and C. F. Pollarollo's Ibraim sultano, Onorio in Roma (both 1692), Rosimonda and Ercole in Cielo (both 1696) and L'Ulisse sconosciuto (1698). By 1695 Aureli had married the librettist Pietro d'Averara. She seems not to have been related to the Bolognese family of singers of the same name....\nAusensi, Manuel\nJ.B. Steane\n(b Barcelona, Oct 8, 1919; d Creixell, Tarragona, Sept 1, 2005). Spanish baritone . He studied in Barcelona and made his d\u00e9but there in 1948. In the following years he established himself as the most popular Spanish baritone of his time, singing with great success in Madrid and throughout South America, where he made his d\u00e9but in 1954 at the Teatro Col\u00f3n, Buenos Aires. His North American d\u00e9but followed in 1960, when he sang a 'suavely elegant' Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at Dallas, returning there and to Philadelphia regularly during the decade. Heavier roles, such as Nabucco, Amonasro and Scarpia, which he increasingly undertook at this time, also brought acclaim, but by 1969 he was reported to be sounding tired, his high notes no longer steady. His robust but polished style and resonant tone distinguish many opera and zarzuela recordings widely circulated in Spain; elsewhere he is remembered chiefly for his Figaro in ...\nAustin, Frederic\n(b London, March 30, 1872; d London, April 10, 1952).English baritone. His operatic career began when he sang Gunther in the Covent Garden 1908 Ring under Richter, and he sang a variety of roles (in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Tiefland and Cos\u00ec fan tutte) in the ensuing seasons. He was a leading bass-baritone in the Beecham Opera Company and took an active part in Boughton's Glastonbury festivals. In ...\nAzuma, Atsuko\n(b Osaka, Dec 11, 1939). Japanese soprano . She studied in Tokyo, then in Milan and Parma, making her d\u00e9but in 1963 at Reggio Emilia as Suzel (L'amico Fritz). She sang at La Scala and elsewhere in Italy; in France, Belgium, Germany and Austria; in North and South America and with Fujiwara Opera in Tokyo. She took part in the premi\u00e8re of Joachim Ludwig's ...\nBabbini [Babini], Matteo\n(b Bologna, Feb 19, 1754; d Bologna, Sept 22, 1816). Italian tenor . He studied with Arcangelo Cortoni and made his d\u00e9but in 1773 in Modena. After singing in various Italian cities, he was engaged at the court operas of Berlin and then St Petersburg (1777\u201381), where he was much admired in works by Paisiello. He appeared in Lisbon, Madrid, Vienna, at the King's Theatre, London (...\nBachmann, Hermann\n(b Kottbus, Oct 7, 1869; d Berlin, July 5, 1937). German baritone . He made his d\u00e9but at Halle in 1890 and from 1894 sang for three seasons at Nuremberg. He then joined the Berlin Staatsoper, where he remained until 1917, serving also as stage manager from 1910 onwards. At Bayreuth he sang first in ...\nBada, Angelo\n(b Novara, May 27, 1876; d Novara, March 23, 1941). Italian tenor . He made his d\u00e9but in 1898 in Italy and sang there for a decade. In 1908 he went to New York, where he made his Metropolitan d\u00e9but as the Messenger in Aida. He remained as chief comprimario at the Metropolitan for 30 years, creating roles in Puccini's ...\nBaddeley [n\u00e9e Snow], Sophia\nOlive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson\n(b London, ?1745; d Edinburgh, July 1, 1786). English actress and soprano . Daughter of the trumpeter Valentine Snow, she eloped with the actor Robert Baddeley and in 1764 made her d\u00e9but as Ophelia at Drury Lane. Although the prompter Hopkins found her Ophelia 'very bad, all but the singing', she made a charming heroine in genteel and Shakespearean comedy. In English operas she was particularly successful as Patty (The Maid of the Mill) and Rosetta (Love in a Village). She created roles in Dibdin's Ephesian Matron and Recruiting Sergeant and her performance of his song in praise of Shakespeare, 'Sweet Willy O', was the hit of the Garrick Jubilee. Her beauty gained her many admirers, but her scandalous private life, extravagance and indulgence in laudanum eventually destroyed her. After 1780 she appeared only in Dublin, the provinces and finally Edinburgh, where she died in poverty....\nBadescu, Dinu\nDavid Cummings\n(b Craiova, Oct 17, 1904). Romanian tenor. Originally a baritone, he studied at the Bucharest Conservatory and made his d\u00e9but at Cluj in 1931, as Germont; later the same year he sang the tenor roles of Flotow's Lyonel (Martha) and Stradella. At the Bucharest Opera (...\nBadiali, Cesare\n(b Imola, c1803; d Imola, Nov 17, 1865). Italian bass. He studied in Milan, making his d\u00e9but in 1827 at Trieste. He appeared at La Scala (1830\u201332), in Lisbon, Madrid, Bergamo, Rome, Vienna, Venice, London, where he sang Don Giovanni at Drury Lane (1858...\nBadini, Ernesto\n(b S Colombano al Lambro, Sept 14, 1876; d Milan, July 6, 1937). Italian baritone . He was trained at the Milan Conservatory, first appearing as Figaro (Barbiere) in his native town. He sang regularly at La Scala, where his greatest success was as Gianni Schicchi. He sang this role at the first performances of the opera in Milan and at Covent Garden in ...\nBaglioni, Bruna\n(b Frascati, April 8, 1947). Italian mezzo-soprano. She studied in Rome, making her d\u00e9but in 1970 at Spoleto as Maddalena (Rigoletto), and then sang at all the leading Italian theatres, including La Scala, the Rome Opera, La Fenice and S Carlo. Her repertory includes Amneris, Eboli, Ulrica, Azucena, Preziosilla, Laura (...\nBahn, Monsieur\nHans Joachim Marx\n(bc 1700; d after 1726). German bass . He was mentioned in the Hamburg Relations-Courier (4 Dec 1724) as 'the new bass Mons. Bahn', who was billed to sing Argante in Handel's Rinaldo at the G\u00e4nsemarkt theatre. He had previously made his d\u00e9but as Mars on 2 November in Giovanni Porta's ...\nBainbridge, Elizabeth\n(b Rawtenstall, Lancs., March 28, 1930). English contralto . She studied in London, making her d\u00e9but in 1963 at Glyndebourne as Pallas Athene (L'incoronazione di Poppea) and Third Lady (Die Zauberfl\u00f6te). In 1964 she sang Azucena for the WNO and a Valkyrie at Covent Garden the following year, joining the Royal Opera, of which she was still a member in 1991. Her large repertory includes Amneris, Ulrica, Mistress Quickly, Mamma Lucia, Suzuki, Erda, Filippyevna (Yevgeny Onegin), the Innkeeper (Boris Godunov), Grandmother Buryjovka (Jen\u016ffa), Evadne (Troilus and Cressida), She-Ancient (Midsummer Marriage) and, her best'known role, Auntie (Peter Grimes), which she sang on the 25th anniversary of her d\u00e9but at Covent Garden, and also in Florence (1988). At Wexford in 1990 she sang Widow Sweeney in Maw's The Rising of the Moon. She has a rich voice, strong in the lower register....\nBaldini, Lucrezia\nMichael Talbot\n(b ?Venice, 1700 or 1701; d Venice, Feb 1, 1733). Italian singer . Having sung contralto roles in operas performed in the provinces from as early as 1720, she made her Venetian d\u00e9but in Vignati's I rivali generosi at S Samuele in 1726. Her career was short; the last opera in which she is known to have appeared was Orlandini's Adelaide (S Cassiano, Carnival 1729). A contract that she made with Vivaldi on 13 October 1726 shows her to have been a worthy seconda donna; for singing in only one opera (Vivaldi's Farnace, given at S Angelo, Carnival 1726\u20137) she was to receive 200 ducats, payable in instalments before, during and after the performances. Her retirement may have been caused by her marriage to a Venetian spicer, Angelo Venzoli. She died from an injury sustained when a carnival booth in St Mark's Square collapsed.\nR. Giazotto: Antonio Vivaldi...\nBalducci, Marina\nDennis Libby\n(b ?Genoa, ?1758; d after 1784). Italian soprano . She was said to have come from an impoverished noble Genoese family, her real name being Maria Bertaldi. Although she sang in opera seria alone from 1778 to 1784, retiring after her marriage, she made a great impression and was long remembered. She appeared at Pavia, Venice, Milan (as seconda donna in the distinguished company that opened La Scala in ...\nBalkwill, Bryan\nNo\u00ebl Goodwin\n(Havell )\n(b London, July 2, 1922; d Beaconsfield, February 24, 2007). English conductor . After studies at the RAM, in 1947 he joined the New London Opera Company at the Cambridge Theatre as a r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur; he made his d\u00e9but there that year conducting Carl Ebert's production of Rigoletto. He went to Glyndebourne as a r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur in 1950, returning (1953\u20138) as chorus master and associate conductor, working closely with Vittorio Gui on the Italian repertory. During that period he was also principal conductor at the Wexford Festival. In 1959 he became a resident conductor at Covent Garden, where he remained until 1965, giving over 200 performances of 16 operas. He toured with the English Opera Group to the USSR and Portugal, conducting Albert Herring and A Midsummer Night's Dream. From 1963 to 1967 he was music director of the WNO. He first conducted the Sadler's Wells Opera in 1957...\nBallerini [Ballarini, Balerini, Ballarino, Baron Ballerini], Francesco\nPaola Besutti\n(b Florence; fl 1680\u20131717). Italian contralto castrato . The earliest reference to him is in 1680, when he sang in Le pompose feste di Vicenza (composer unknown) in Vicenza and the role of Tazio in P. S. Agostini's Il ratto delle Sabine in Venice. In 1682 he took the leading role in Legrenzi's Ottaviano Cesare Augusto at Mantua, and from that year until at least 1693 he styled himself 'musician to Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua'. From 1684 he sang in many Italian cities. In 1700 he appeared in Ariosti's Lucio Vero in Florence (Pratolino) and in his La festa d'Imeneo in Berlin. From 1708 he was in Vienna in the service of the Emperor Joseph I, and he took part in the production of C. A. Badia's Gli amori di Circe con Ulisse (1709) and the intermezzo Vespetta e Milo (1717; by A. Scarlatti and F. Conti) in Dresden. Tosi mentioned him (as Baron Ballerini) for his qualities as an actor, and in particular for his masterly execution of dramatic recitative....\nBalslev, Lisbeth\n(b \u00c5benr\u00e5, Feb 21, 1945). Danish soprano. She studied at the Esbjerg Conservatory and at the opera school of the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, where she made her d\u00e9but as Yaroslavna (Prince Igor) and joined the Danish Royal Opera in 1975. Her roles included Fiordiligi, Leonora (...\nBarabas, Sari\n(b Budapest, March 14, 1918). Hungarian soprano . She planned to be a dancer, but following an injury she turned to singing and made her d\u00e9but at the National Opera in Budapest in 1939 as Gilda. Resuming her career after the war, she joined the Staatsoper in Munich in ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Westside Story \u2013 Accidental Article \u2013 The Suburban Times\nWestside Story \u2013 Accidental Article\nJoseph Boyle \u00b7 August 2, 2020 \u00b7 \u00b7\nAugust 1, 2020, I sent what I consider a heartfelt email to Lakewood's Deputy Mayor Jason Whalen with a copy to my wife.\nMy wife responded with, \"Good note.\" A bit later in the morning, the idea for incorporating my note in a Westside Story came to me. Sharing my thinking and experience related to Jason Whalen may just help my readers with their voting process.\nThat is how I ended up writing what I am referring to as an \"Accidental Article\". My actual note to our Deputy Mayor and future County Council District 6 Councilman is included below.\nJason Whalen\nCopy of my original note edited for grammar:\n\"Deputy Mayor Whalen,\nWhile you and I have disagreed on an issue or two, please know this. My wife and I respect you, the way you serve the public, and admire your industrious work spirit and high standard for ethical behavior.\nThis means you will be the recipient of two votes for Pierce County Council District No. 6 from the Boyle household. When you win the election, we will miss having you on our Lakewood City Council. Thank you for your past service to Lakewood, and good luck to you in the future.\nJoseph Boyle \u2013 Pierce County Resident 61 years.\"\nJason Whalen has an abundant amount of experience and a positive track record as a community leader to help us work towards a better Pierce County.\nRemember to vote.\nAbout Joseph Boyle\nJoe's life is divided into 3+1 chapters. Chapter I: 25+ years in business including Estate Planning with New York Life, Revenue Officer with the U.S. Treasury Department, Sales Representative and gas main Extension King with Washington Natural Gas Company, Real Estate Broker, investor, developer, and property manager. Chapter II: 25 years in public service as a Pierce County Deputy Sheriff between the ages of 45 and 70. Chapter III: Began with an April Fool's Day 2013 retirement and involves The Arts including Writing, Comedy, and the Blues. Currently Joe is a creator on Westside Story, The Benny's & Joey's Quiz with Publisher Ben Sclair and Double Take with author \/ columnist Susanne Bacon. Joe has performed as an actor locally and done stand-up comedy in Seattle, Tacoma, New Jersey, and Las Vegas. Chapter +1 (or 4) finds Joe and his family leaving Washington state after 77 year of residency to the Westside of the Atlantic Ocean in a state named Delaware. Because Joe has left many friends in western Washington, he remains interested in the territory of his former Westside Story beat.\nDon Gaines says\nJoe, I enjoy your stories but I wonder what the \"Westside\" of Westside Stories refers to? I grew up in Tacoma but lived in Bellevue (the \"Eastside\" to Seattle's \"Westside\" of Lake Washington) for 25 years. So when I read Westside I think Seattle but I know that's not the area to which you refer.\nJoseph Boyle says\nDon Gaines,\nYou pose an interesting question and as you might conclude, I have the answer.\nBefore revealing my answer, I compliment you for being able to pick up on that detail and after running the question through your human-computer (brain) you asked the question. You are the first person in almost ten years to use his intellect in this manner.\nWhen I started writing articles in November of 2010 for Ben Sclair, Publisher of The Suburban Times, I decided to make \"Westside Story\" a part of my byline including my name as the writer.\nWhere did it come from? In those early days the newspaper and I, for that matter, focused on articles and stories related to the west side of Pierce County that included the following areas or zones.\n#1: Starting near the Narrows Bridge, the West Slope in Tacoma was my first area of interest. The West Slope starts at Bridgeport Way W and drops down the slope towards the Narrows Bridge and Puget Sound.\n#2 University Place which is on the west side.\n#3 Lakewood, which is on the west side.\n#4.The Town of Steilacoom, which, you guessed it, is on the west side.\n#5. Dupont, another town on the west side.\nMost of my writing is tied to Lakewood because I live in Lakewood and naturally am more easily exposed to writing topics in my own city as opposed to other areas of the west side, say The West Slope for example.\nThe second thing that comes into play with Westside Story, is the play on words related to New York City's Broadway musical titled West Side Story. West Side Story, the play makes Westside Story, the column a more memorable name.\nSorry. Westside Story has nothing to do with Seattle or Bellevue, but it is okay if when you read my byline, you think fondly of your old stomping grounds. I lived in Seattle myself until 1959.\nThanks for asking Mr. Gaines.\nJoseph Boyle \u2013 Westside Story","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Game Changer Metta World Peace Signs to New York\nPosted on September 30, 2019 by adminPosted in nrbeeohtbedc Leave a Comment on Game Changer Metta World Peace Signs to New York\nMetta World Peace is headed back to where it all started for him as a basketball player, New York City. The Queens native, who was recently amnestied by the Los Angeles Lakers, has reached an agreement to play with the New York Knicks.\"I don't care if I'm starting, or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win,\" World Peace said.Officials from the Knicks reported that they have agreed to terms with the NBA player, but a contract has not yet been signed.According to reports, on the table is a two-year contract with the first year guaranteed. World Peace would get $1.6 million per season, with a player option for year 2.World Peace's agent Marc Cornstein confirmed the team that his client will be playing for next season.\"Yes, this is going to happen,\" Cornstein said. \"He's just thrilled to be joining the New York Knicks. He's really excited to be joining his hometown team. That's obviously been something that's been a dream of his since growing up in Queensbridge.\" read more\nTagged \u4e0a\u6d77419\u8bba\u575b\u9999\u8349\u793e\u533a, \u4e0a\u6d77\u5343\u82b1\u7f51\u6ca1\u4e86\u5417, \u4e0a\u6d77\u5a31\u4e50\u5730\u56feyldt123, \u591c\u4e0a\u6d77\u8bba\u575b, \u5ddd\u6e1d\u9f99\u51e4\u7f51, \u5e7f\u5dde\u9f99\u51e4\u7f51, \u6606\u5c71\u591c\u751f\u6d3b\u7f51, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77419, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77419\u5343\u82b1\u7f51\nEjections Abound after Brawl During Patriots vs Jets Game\nPosted on September 30, 2019 by adminPosted in bmbntsiziwtw Leave a Comment on Ejections Abound after Brawl During Patriots vs Jets Game\nWhat began as a sloppy game between the Jets and the Patriots, provided an even messier ending when a fight broke out near New England's sideline.The Jets were losing 10-13 late in the fourth quarter, when rookie quarterback Geno Smith threw for another improbable win and was intercepted by Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib. The interception secured the win for the Patriots, but also started a brawl.Jets center Nick Mangold gave a late low hit to Talib, who had returned the interception near the Patriots' sideline, taking his time to spin out of bounds. Several New England players nearby rushed at Mangold after the play. Jets players then surrounded the area. A fight ensued, which even resulted in a foul against an official.Once the smoke cleared, Mangold got hit with a 15-yard penalty. Jets' Willie Colon was ejected for pushing an official, D'Brickashaw Ferguson for throwing a punch.\"I hope I don't get suspended,\" Colon said after the game, via Manish Mehta of New York Daily News. \"I lost my temper. I lost my cool. I know better, so it's my fault.\" read more\nTagged \u4e0a\u6d77\u5343\u82b1\u591c\u5170\u9a8c\u8bc1, \u4e0a\u6d77\u5916\u5356\u79c1\u4eba\u5de5\u4f5c\u5ba4, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4\u7f51, \u514d\u8d39\u9f99\u51e4\u4fe1\u606f, \u5343\u82b1\u7f51\u574a\u8bba\u575b\u4e0a\u6d77, \u5a31\u4e50\u5730\u56feylmap\u8bba\u575b, \u5b81\u6ce2\u9f99\u51e4\u8bba\u575b419, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77\u540c\u57ce\u5bf9\u5bf9\u78b0\u4f1a\u5458\u9a8c\u8bc1, \u9f99\u51e4\u4e0a\u6d77shlf1419\nUConn And Gonzaga Are Very Different Kinds of NCAA Favorites\nPosted on September 29, 2019 by adminPosted in jaymlgfdbqit Leave a Comment on UConn And Gonzaga Are Very Different Kinds of NCAA Favorites\nMore: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS | Embed Embed Code Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight's sports podcast. On this week's show (Mar. 28, 2017), we preview the Final Four in the men's and women's NCAA tournaments. Next, is Colin Kaepernick being blackballed by the NFL? We investigate. Finally, we preview the American League and ponder who might take down the Red Sox, Indians and Astros. Plus, a significant digit on the Oakland Raiders' upcoming move to Las Vegas.As promised, a photographic throwback to Kate Fagan's days as a professional basketball player for the Colorado Chill.In the aftermath of the latest round of the men's NCAA tournament, Neil explained why this year's Final Four is built on defense.ESPN notes that the men's Final Four is full of unfamiliar faces this year.FiveThirtyEight's Benjamin Morris says UConn's path to perfection has become much easier.ESPN's Dan Graziano argues that no matter which side of the Colin Kaepernick debate you're on, you're wrong.Check out FiveThirtyEight's chats previewing the AL East, AL Central and AL West.Significant Digit: $750 million, the public subsidy that was offered to the Oakland Raiders to move to Las Vegas. According to The New York Times, Las Vegas politicians raised taxes to supply this new funding. FiveThirtyEight read more\nTagged 419SH\u9f99\u51e4, \u4e0a\u6d77419\u8bba\u575b\u9999\u8349\u793e\u533a, \u4e0a\u6d77\u5343\u82b1\u7f51\u65b0\u4eba\u81ea\u8350, \u676d\u5dde\u5a31\u4e50\u5730\u56felydt, \u676d\u5dde\u72fc\u65cf419\u9f99\u51e4, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77419\u9f99\u51e4\u540e\u82b1\u56ed, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77\u540c\u57ce aish, \u90d1\u5dde\u591c\u751f\u6d3b\u7b2c\u4e00\u8bba\u575b, \u963f\u62c9\u7231\u4e0a\u6d77\nInjuries And Underperformance Couldnt Keep The Dodgers Down\nPosted on September 29, 2019 by adminPosted in jaymlgfdbqit Leave a Comment on Injuries And Underperformance Couldnt Keep The Dodgers Down\nThe central player in that turnaround story has been Kenley Jansen, the Dodgers' star closer who for the early part of the season looked like anything but. Jansen made just five spring training appearances, slowed by a hamstring injury, and his early season numbers were the kind that might make Dodger fans wish he'd stayed on the DL. Since May 16, he's been lights out: His 1.06 ERA is by four-tenths of a run the best in the game among relievers with at least as many innings.That improvement has probably helped drive a significant increase in the Dodgers' success in one-run games after May 16 \u2014 6-3, compared with 4-7 up to that date \u2014 which has helped bring L.A.'s actual winning percentage (.521) somewhat more in line with its higher-order winning percentages, which strip out the effects of sequencing and luck often manifested in bullpen meltdowns.In a sense, none of this is particularly surprising stuff. The Dodgers had a spate of injuries and underperformance early in the season that would sink most clubs, and they still managed to win nearly 40 percent of their games. Now that their bullpen has regained its elite status, their hitters have started hitting for power again (their 35 home runs so far in June are the most in baseball), and their starting pitchers have started to return to the rotation, the Dodgers look more like the club everyone expected them to be early on \u2014 and perhaps always were.Every good team has bad months, after all. Even the 104-win Dodgers of last season had a 25-game stretch in which they went 5-20, at one point losing 11 straight. It's just that this year's Dodger slump came at the beginning of the season, when nobody had banked wins to fall back on and every sportswriter in America was looking for a narrative to focus on. The simple and boring story here is probably that the Dodgers weren't bad at the beginning of this year \u2014 they were just unlucky.It's now almost July, and the Dodgers' bad luck appears to be over. They're heating up just in time for the official start of summer, and in no mood to concede a division title that's been theirs since before Max Muncy was a glimmer in Dave Roberts' eye. The early part of the season may have felt like going through hell for Dodgers, but they've played themselves out of it.Check out our latest MLB predictions. In retrospect, the Los Angeles Dodgers' 6-5 loss to the Miami Marlins on May 16 was probably the low point of their 2018 season. It was the Dodgers' sixth consecutive defeat and their ninth in 10; it dropped their overall record to 16-26, then only the fourth-best in their division; and it brought their playoff odds to a season low of 22 percent.For a team that had won 473 regular-season games over the previous five seasons (the most in baseball during that period), came within a game of winning the World Series last year and was expected to waltz to a sixth consecutive division crown this year, the season's ugly start was hard to understand or explain. After that loss to the Marlins, L.A. manager Dave Roberts could only reach for Winston Churchill. \"When you're going through hell,\" he told the L.A. Times, \"keep going.\"Roberts and his team did exactly that. Beginning with a convincing 7-0 win the next day against the same Marlins club that had just beaten them in two straight, the Dodgers promptly rattled off a streak of 22 wins against just nine losses, through games played on June 20, and increased their playoff chances by 37 percentage points \u2014 an improvement bested only by the Seattle Mariners over that period.The team has improved its hitting since May 16, driving its overall weighted runs created plus (wRC+), a catchall offensive statistic, from 94 before that date \u2014 meaning the team was 6 percent below league average offensively, on the whole \u2014 to 117 since then. L.A. has benefited from a standout performance by the pleasantly alliterative Max Muncy, whose 13 home runs and 163 wRC+ on the season lead the team. It hasn't hurt, either, that Joc Pederson seems to have recovered from an early season slump and is now contributing as expected.The starting pitching, meanwhile, has held serve, moving from a 3.37 mark in fielding-independent pitching (FIP)1FIP is a measure of pitching performance scaled to ERA that strips out the contributions of team defense. before their recent surge to 3.29 since it began. Even that small improvement was far from a given, of course, because injuries to an astonishing number of Dodger starting pitchers \u2014 at least five, depending on how you count it, including the best pitcher in the world in Clayton Kershaw \u2014 left the Los Angeles rotation to be held together by a combination of (Alex) Wood and duct tape.But the real heroes of L.A.'s recent surge \u2014 and, to be fair, also some of the key contributors to the team's early season struggles \u2014 have been the men of the Los Angeles bullpen, who have curbed a worrying early season tendency toward allowing home runs, especially late in games, and collectively improved their FIP from 4.40 before the surge (26th in baseball) to 3.17 after it (sixth). read more\nTagged \u4e0a\u6d77\u540e\u82b1\u56ed\u591c\u751f\u6d3b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u540e\u82b1\u56ed\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u5e02\u6c34\u78e8\u4f1a\u6240\u63a8\u8350, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6c34\u78e8\u4f1a\u6240\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e41314, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4419\u7f51\u53cb\u7ea6\u4f1a, \u5343\u82b1\u7f51\u574a\u8bba\u575b\u4e0a\u6d77, \u677e\u6c5f\u540c\u4e50\u7f51, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77419, \u72fc\u65cf\u4e0a\u6d77419\nHow To Tell If A March Madness Underdog Is Going To Win\nPosted on September 28, 2019 by adminPosted in qygofqspskjp Leave a Comment on How To Tell If A March Madness Underdog Is Going To Win\nWhen the NCAA men's basketball tournament picks up full speed Thursday, many fans will tune in with the hopes of seeing one thing: upsets. Some no doubt will come on last-minute buzzer beaters, but plenty will probably be long-simmering, the kinds of games that you can't look away from. Those games will be all about tension: The underdog can't possibly hold on to this lead, can it?We can figure out the answer to that question. Or at least what we should expect to happen when an upset is brewing \u2014 specifically, at what point in the game an underdog with a lead is more likely to win than lose.I analyzed play-by-play data from every NCAA tournament since 2004, which is the earliest that second-by-second scoring data is readily available. I considered all games played by teams with different seeds, leaving me with about 700 games to analyze. In the analysis, I estimated the probability that a lower-seeded team (i.e., the better team, according to the selection committee) wins the game, depending on the score and the time remaining.At the opening tipoff, the underdog has a 29 percent chance of winning the game. But if the game is tied or the underdog is ahead with five minutes remaining in the first half, the probability of an upset is higher than 50 percent.1The green line in the first chart does not fully reach 100 percent because games tied at the end of the second half are included in the analysis.It is, of course, not that simple. There's a big difference between an \"underdog\" that's a No. 2 seed and one that's a No. 16 seed.To better distinguish between these two cases, I split the data based on \"big\" and \"small\" upsets. Any game in which there was more than a four-seed difference in the teams' seedings was considered a potential big upset, and the games in which the difference was four or fewer were counted in the \"small upset\" category. (A No. 10 seed beating a No. 7 seed is a small upset, a No. 11 seed beating a No. 6 seed is a big one, etc.)2Ideally, I would break up the data more finely by looking at each possible seeding matchup, but with only 700 games and 120 possible matchups to work with, there was not enough data. The graph shows the difference between the average upset, the big upset and the small upset. As you might expect, the big underdogs begin the game with a slightly lower probability of winning (about 20 percent). Also unsurprisingly, a big underdog with the lead does not cross the 50 percent win probability threshold until around halftime.But the results are very different when you look at small upsets. In these matchups, when the underdog has a lead or the game is tied at any point more than five or six minutes into the game, it's likely that we're going to see an upset.We all know, however, that all leads are not created equal. Through the rest of the article, I'll split the data a bit further, based on how big the underdog's or favorite's lead is: a three-possession game (a lead of 7 or more points), a two-possession game (a 4-to-6-point lead), or a one-possession game (0-to-3-point lead).The figure above shows the results from this analysis.3The jaggedness in the raw data has been smoothed with cubic regression. When a game is close, within 3 points in either direction (gray), the average favorite is still more likely than not to win. But, assuming the game stayed within 3 points all the way through, the chances of an upset increase throughout the game. By the last few minutes, if the game is within one possession, the average better-seeded team has only a slight advantage in win probability. The probability that an average underdog with a two-possession lead (light green) will win crosses the 50 percent threshold with about five minutes left in the first half. And an underdog who leads by more than 7 points (dark green) perhaps shouldn't be considered an underdog at all.4Although there are almost zero games in which a team is ahead by seven points in the first minute or two, the cubic regression allows me to estimate these probabilities. There's more uncertainty about the exact estimates early in the game because there is less data, but this problem disappears just a few minutes into the game. Its odds of completing the upset are more than 50 percent very early in the first half.Things are slightly different in big upset situations; the underdog must wait until the second half for a modest lead (4 to 6 points) to trump the seedings.5The tangling of the curves in the middle graph shouldn't lead us to believe that a 4-point lead very early in the game is better than a 7-point lead. It is more the result of a very small number of games with huge score differentials early in the game. Those open up the possibility of outliers influencing the shape of the curves on the left side. If, however, you're watching a game in which a big underdog has a three-possession lead in the first half, keep watching because there's a good chance that it'll pull off the upset.In smaller potential upsets, an underdog with at least a 4-point lead (light and dark green) at nearly any point in the game has a better chance of winning than losing. The underdog wins about 40 percent of one-possession games (gray), regardless of the time remaining.So, as you watch games, don't get too excited about a big underdog with a small lead, at least until the second half. If there is not a big gap in the seedings between the two teams, then the scoreboard, not the seedings, is what matters. And remember, this whole analysis is the aggregation of hundreds of games. Any one particular game can certainly defy the odds. Check out FiveThirtyEight's March Madness predictions. read more\nTagged \u4e0a\u6d77419, \u4e0a\u6d77419\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u5343\u82b1\u7f51, \u4e0a\u6d77\u591c\u7f51, \u4e0d\u51c6\u4e0d\u5f00\u5fc3\u8bba\u575b, \u5343\u82b1\u7f51, \u5357\u4eac\u591c\u7f51, \u591c\u4e0a\u6d77, \u9f99\u51e4419\nThe Warriors And Raptors Are Finals Favorites But Should They Be\nPosted on September 28, 2019 by adminPosted in pghosvtfqfpe Leave a Comment on The Warriors And Raptors Are Finals Favorites But Should They Be\nneil (Neil Paine, senior sportswriter): The NBA is now two games in to every second-round series, and each matchup is currently tied at 1-1 \u2026 except Warriors-Rockets, which was the series most people had circled as the most competitive (and compelling) of Round 2.So what better place to start our chat than that matchup, which the Warriors lead 2-0 heading back to Houston for Game 3 on Saturday. The Rockets have done a lot of Rockets-like things in the first two games: They're making almost 16 threes and 22 free throws per game. Yet they were unable to steal away home court in the series late in either Game 1 or Game 2. Do the Rockets still have a realistic chance at knocking off Golden State, or were we all just foolishly trying to convince ourselves that we might see a different outcome this year?chris.herring (Chris Herring, senior sportswriter): I think it goes without saying that 2-0 against a team of that caliber is a tough place to be. We talked about it before, but the fact that Houston is Houston might have been enough to get the Warriors playing their hardest and most focused early on.Draymond Green has been a beast, in particular.natesilver (Nate Silver, editor in chief): I mean, they lost two games by 4 points and 6 points. And they have some excuses: the officiating in Game 1, and they were without James Harden for parts of the first half in Game 2, and then he was not entirely himself.I don't think Game 2 felt quite as close as the final score, but Game 1 was pretty even.I guess all I'm saying is that we have had nine high-stakes playoff games between these two teams, and it feels like the Warriors are the better team, but hardly a dominant team.tchow (Tony Chow, video producer): I feel like what's going to happen at the end of all this, if the Warriors do end up winning it all (which is very likely \u2014 our predictions still give them a 49 percent chance), fans and basketball critics alike are going to come out and say, \"See? Why even watch basketball? We all knew the Warriors were gonna win.\" And they will all forget how unlikely it did seem at times. It is far from a sure thing still.neil: And that was definitely the case last year as well. The Warriors were far from assured winners, even though in the end they won, as expected.chris.herring: I think the challenge is that so much of what Houston does is tied to Harden, who hasn't played poorly at all, despite the eye issue in Game 2.I thought it was really noteworthy that, after he got none of those calls in Game 1, he simply didn't kick his legs out in Game 2.But the real story is that Golden State is forcing him into more floaters, a bit higher up, than he normally likes to take his shots.tchow: I'm gonna be honest. I only watched the first quarter of Game 2 and maybe five minutes of the second quarter because the game started at 10:30 p.m.!! I have a 1-year-old. I can't do this sh*t anymore.natesilver: The competition from the East should be a lot stiffer this year. But, again, we're getting a liiiiiittttle ahead of ourselves. Our algorithm says the Warriors have a 77 percent chance of reaching the NBA Finals, which is high but also sort of in the Hillary Clinton zone of not a done deal. I do think Kevin Durant flipping the switch into looking like an MVP++ player is a big deal, though.chris.herring: I am kind of shocked Steph Curry continues to have the foul issues this far into the playoffs. It's been bad for a hot minute now.But you're right, Nate: It's given Durant a chance to showcase what he's capable of. (Honestly, my favorite versions of the Warriors are when KD gets to play without Steph and when Steph plays without KD \u2014 those guys are unbelievable scorers, but we rarely get to see them at their best because they play so many of their minutes together.)neil: Well, I want to talk officiating in general. As you guys alluded to, it's been a huge theme in the series so far, whether over Draymond Green's arguable contact with James Harden at the end of Game 1, the Rockets' \"audit\" of missed calls in last year's Western Conference finals, or Green's comments that the officiating talk itself was embarrassing for the NBA. Does Houston have a case? Or is that just a natural consequence of how the Rockets play? Is there something inherently limiting about relying on drawing fouls in the playoffs, when it's tougher to get a whistle?natesilver: A \"natural consequence\" doesn't seem like quite the right phrase because I'd imagine that a lot of this is fairly deliberate \u2014 exploring the boundaries of the rules, especially in terms of Harden's shooting form.chris.herring: Like I was saying a minute ago, I thought it was pretty interesting that Houston fell to the ground so much in Game 1 but, from what I remember, essentially didn't do that at all in Game 2. I'd have to go back and watch the close-outs, but to me that signals that the Rockets might have known they were waging a losing battle.natesilver: I do think, if the game is called by the book, they got screwed out of a couple of three-shot shooting fouls in Game 1.chris.herring: Oh, absolutely.At least two or three, which, in a game that close \u2026 I'd be upset, too. You have to call the fouls the same way you would have during the regular season. I didn't even think some of those were debatable in the first half.The crazy thing: In watching Game 2, it makes me wonder whether the Rockets are better off just trying to stand up straight as opposed to drawing fouls.It might have merely been a Game 2 improvement, with no reason for it, but they were great from the perimeter, and it happened on a night where they weren't flailing or kicking their legs out, which I imagine changes the shot's rhythm some.natesilver: Part of it is that awarding three free throws is such a high-stakes decision. It's not quite like awarding a penalty in soccer, but you know what I mean.If all shooting fouls were two free throws instead, save maybe for the last two minutes when a team might try to maul a guy to prevent him from taking a 3-point shot, that might help.Or if referees were allowed to call nonshooting fouls in the event of incidental contact. Sort of the difference in a roughing the kicker penalty vs. running into the kicker.chris.herring: I've never seen something be such an enormous story for one game, then just not be a factor at all in the following oneI'm sure the league loves that it died down during Game 2. But it almost felt like the Rockets realized they weren't going to get anywhere with that hope that they'd get more calls.neil: And yet, most of the fan reaction I was reading online was that the Rockets basically need to be quiet. That Harden has cried wolf too many times, etc. And remember, these are people siding with the Warriors, a team that has become hated over the years as it's won so much. That kind of speaks volumes about the distaste for Houston's foul-drawing strategy.natesilver: Yeah, I thought the \"Rockets-are-sore-losers\" narrative, while understandable, maybe made people less objective in evaluating the situation.chris.herring: I felt like I was seeing a lot of that the last few days, too.tchow: Yeah, Nate, on the latest Hot Takedown podcast, we had Kirk Goldsberry on as a guest, and he made the point that from an economical standpoint, drawing three free throws percentage-wise is worth more than a wide-open Steph or KD 3-pointer. In that sense, it would make sense to try to draw those so often.chris.herring: But here's my thing:If the Rockets pour over the missed-calls report and find that the refs missed a bunch of those last year \u2014 which suggests it's either not easy to catch, or that refs don't like to call it \u2014 why make it such a big part of the strategy as you start another series with Golden State now?tchow: To prove themselves right?chris.herring: Idk. Part of me feels like the basketball world is too worked up about this series, when in reality, it's the only one that's not tied up at 1-1.It's been a good second round so far.natesilver: I dunno, one thing about basketball is that there's not usually a lot of luck.In a seven-game series, the better team wins a large majority of the time.But I wonder if Daryl Morey feels a little tilted (in the poker sense of that term) how his series have gone against the Warriors.They've had some bad luck with injuries, some bad luck on 3-point field-goal percentage \u2014 and whether you want to call it \"luck\" or something else, some frustrating games with the officials.And it's also, like, if the league designs a bad set of rules and incentives, you shouldn't get blamed for taking advantage of those incentives.There should be better incentives instead. The rules should be changed.chris.herring: That's been the story of James Harden's career: Fantastic player who's always been fantastic at taking advantage of what's there, whether fans like it or not.I really love watching that dude ball. It's not his fault the loopholes are there.neil: As Kirk writes in his book, \"Don't hate the player, hate the game.\"Either way, right now we give the Warriors an 84 percent chance of moving on to the conference finals.tchow: The good news is that Game 3 is at 8:30 p.m.!neil: On behalf of all of us East Coasters, thank goodness.In the other series out West, the Trail Blazers evened things up with the Nuggets with a 97-90 win Wednesday night. Portland stole-home court advantage, but our model still gives Denver a 61 percent chance of advancing. Are the numbers still too low on the Blazers?chris.herring: Probably. I have no idea, honestly.The Nuggets might be the most inconsistent team left in the playoffs. Last night was extremely rough for them \u2014 one of their worst shooting nights of the season. Their offensive rebounding was unreal, and so it left them with an outside chance to win late.I feel like they may have the better team, but their inconsistency scares me a bit. The 61 percent probability sounds about right to me for now.Quietly feel like the Moe Harkless ankle injury could be a tough one for the Blazers depending on how hurt he actually is going forward.I have it going seven games, and I won't be surprised at all if and when it actually goes the distance.natesilver: I'm going to reiterate that this part of the bracket feels like the NIT to me. Unless whoever emerges from GSW-HOU does so with an injury, I don't expect the Western Conference finals to be super competitive.neil: Yeah, conditional on making the conference finals, the Warriors have a 92 percent chance at the NBA Finals in our model; Houston has an 81 percent chance.natesilver: I almost feel like, narrative-wise, Portland has become a little bit underrated just because they're facing off against two other very flawed teams. That Portland team with Jusuf Nurkic is pretty interesting, but they have a pretty low ceiling IMO without him.neil: I have been surprised at how well Enes Kanter continues to play. He's averaging 21 points and eight rebounds in this series. (As someone who hated on him as an empty stat-padder early in his career\u2026)natesilver: The knock in him (I almost typed \"the Knick on him\") has always been his defense, though.What's his +\/- in the series?neil: It's minus-4. But the team as a whole is in the red anyway.chris.herring: He's useful for them, without a doubtI think he actually might be even more useful in a playoff series, depending on the opponent.Against OKC, for instance: Leaving him in the paint, without an easy way for Westbrook to get around him, was great for Portland. Westbrook wasn't good or comfortable shooting his jumper in that series.So it mitigated the concerns about Kanter's pick-and-roll defense.And in this series, you're dealing with Jamal Murray, who's a hot-and-cold shooter in the pick and roll, too.Kanter's offensive rebounding is massive a lot of the time.natesilver: I guess mayyyyybe you could say that Kanter has never been in a position before to have teams take advantage of his skill set. OKC has never really been expert at maximizing its role players. And the Knicks, well, are the Knicks.tchow: For what it's worth, in Game 2, Nikola Jokic went 1 for 8 when guarded by Kanter.chris.herring: I'm interested to see what happens as they shift to Portland.neil: Your point about defense is well-taken, Nate. Portland's key might be to continue to play so uncharacteristically well at that end.Right now, they're holding the Nuggets to 41.9 percent shooting from the field, including 31 percent from three.chris.herring: I feel like I'm so in and then so out on Denver. They have had some really rough performances.But the fact that they were still in it last night despite how poorly they shot was encouraging. Jokic has been playing out of his mind.neil: OK, since this is the NIT series of the playoffs, let's leave Denver and Portland and move over to the East.tchow: In our playoff preview chat, I think we all agreed that the Eastern Conference playoff bracket looked a lot more interesting than the West, and I think that's still pretty much true. I have no idea who will make it out of the East of the remaining four teams and could easily see both series going seven games.neil: Yeah, things have not really gotten clearer since either series opened. Let's talk first about the semifinal series between the Raptors and Sixers, which resumes tonight with Game 3. Philly gritted out the win Monday night to even up the series, despite Kawhi Leonard going off again for 35 points. What has stood out about each team so far that might swing the series going forward?chris.herring: In the chat last week, we talked about the question of who Tobias Harris could realistically guard.The answer in Game 1 was nobody, which was problematic, as the Raptors' two best scorers did serious damage.The difference in Game 2 was Philly's adjustment to play Harris on Marc Gasol, and to have Joel Embiid and the other centers guard Pascal Siakam. It paid really, really nice dividends for them, and that's the thing I'm really curious to watch in Game 3.natesilver: I guess those defensive matchups sort of make sense but also the sort of thing that you could counteradjust to, especially with an extra day off to scout and strategize.chris.herring: Exactly.neil: That shows up in the stats, too: Harris was a game-low minus-23 in Game 1 but was plus-6 in Game 2.chris.herring: In both series, I think, it's going to be a question of whose adjustments are better.Because each set of changes and adjustments have pretty clear counters.tchow: Btw, I don't know if Neil is doing this on purpose but we have NBATV on at the office right now, and Neil is moving the chat along at the same exact pace as Grant Hill and company are moving along their playoff coverage. They just wrapped up DEN-POR and moved on to PHI-TOR before cutting to commercial break. Uncanny.neil: LOL, Tony. Definitely a coincidence\u2026 \ud83d\ude12chris.herring: I did think the put-the-big-on-Siakam adjustment was smart, though.When Siakam is in the middle of the floor, you can give him some space, because he shoots really terribly from the top of the key. By contrast, he's solid from the corners. (And when he's in the corner, you have the help of the baseline as a second defender.)tchow: It definitely made a difference. Siakam shot 80 percent from the floor and 75 percent from three in Game 1. In Game 2, he shot 36 percent from the floor and 29 percent from three.chris.herring: The Sixers don't have but maybe one guy who can credibly guard Siakam (and Ben Simmons is doing his best to guard Kawhi), so that shift was really important for them.It may not work going forward, but you had to try it.natesilver: What if Gasol decides to take more shots? He's been pretty passive, offensively, since joining the Raptors. But he is capable of scoring, either in the post or from downtown.chris.herring: If Gasol ends up being the guy to torch you, I think you can live with that more easily than Siakam.Also, I'd expect for the Raptors to do more to get Siakam rolling, and to use him in pick and rolls in hopes of having Philly switch them. That would nullify the Harris\/Embiid stuff they're doing.Again, the countermoves are going to be fascinating.To Neil's initial question, too: The other thing that stands out is just how damn good Kawhi is.The guy is Terminator in a basketball uniform.He couldn't do it all by himself in Game 2. But he's just having his way from a scoring standpoint.neil: He's probably been the best player of the playoffs so far, at least by the advanced metrics.chris.herring: I'm surprised Toronto is at 24 percent and Milwaukee only 14 percent. (Although a lot of that is due to head to head Toronto-vs-Milwaukee odds.)natesilver: I mean, there's a case to be made that Toronto is just super good.chris.herring: Yeah. I think almost 70 percent sounds about right in that case.natesilver: They won 58 games in the regular season while missing a bunch of Kawhi and Kyle Lowry. And with Gasol only on the roster for the last third of the season.chris.herring: The matchups still favor them, and I think they'll figure out a way to get Siakam going. Just not guarding him at the top of the key isn't going to be enough.Am interested to see whether Kawhi can keep doing this for the whole series, though. He's completely wrecking Philly.natesilver: Kawhi looks like an MVP in the playoffs, and neither of the two losses they've taken in the playoffs (to Orlando in Game 1 or Philly the other day) seemed to expose particularly exploitable problems.Our model also thinks Philly is quite good, by the way. It gives them a lot of credit for being good \"on paper.\"So I think our prices are relatively fair, but if I had to pick one, maybe it's the over on Toronto. natesilver: Are people stretching a little too hard to call this an even series? Game 1 really wasn't all that competitive, the Raptors have the best player, they were the much better team in the regular season, and all the adjustments and counteradjustments are gonna cancel out.I mean, there are only five games left and the Raptors have lost home-court advantage, but I feel like if this is a nine-game series, or an 11-game series, the Raptors are a huge favorite.chris.herring: I dunno. On the one hand, yeah: Toronto should have the upper hand. But we haven't seen Nick Nurse under all that much pressure before. I assume they'll counter well, but if they don't \u2026 it's not as if Philly doesn't have talent.There are pretty clear things that could happen to tilt this in the Sixers' favor, though I wouldn't put my money on those things.And the next two are in Philadelphia. I think this is about all the Sixers could ask for at this stage.I would like to see Embiid do a bit more offensively. He was sick during the last game, but if he can't find advantages against Gasol (which has been the case for a while now), it becomes harder to see how Philly can beat them four times. Unless the Raptors have no counter whatsoever for what happened to Siakam in Game 2.tchow: Nate, are you proposing we make the postseason even LONGER to ensure the best team wins?natesilver: I think it should vary based on how enjoyable the series is.Like if people find GSW-HOU annoying, just make it a three-game series.neil: We should develop a metric: The SILVER (Series' Ideal Length Varied by Enjoyability Ratio)chris.herring: Oh, Lord.natesilver: Neil.tchow: According to SILVER, Sixers vs. Raptors should be best-of-11 and Bucks vs. Pistons should have been a one-game playoff.neil: LOLSo while we workshop our latest backronym metric, let's end the chat by focusing on the Bucks and the Celtics. After disappointing at home in Game 1, Milwaukee can breathe again thanks to a 123-102 win in Game 2.Was that Game 1 loss just a blip on the radar for Milwaukee, or something to legitimately worry about for them as the series shifts to Boston?tchow: Giannis Antetokounmpo had a +\/- of minus-24 in Game 1. What happened?(FWIW, he did bounce back fine. Game 2, his +\/- was plus-20.)chris.herring: I think it's actually pretty similar to Toronto-Philly. The Bucks punched back with a different strategy in Game 2, and now the ball is seemingly in Boston's court to try and adjust to it.natesilver: Gordon Hayward was pretty nonexistent in Game 2 and not great in Game 1, which is bearish for Boston because I really think they need him to be pretty good to compete at an elite level.neil: Also, Kyrie scored 26 on 57 percent shooting in Game 1. Had 9 points on 22 percent in Game 2.natesilver: It did feel a bit like maybe the Celtics were gonna steal one game in the series because of Brad Stevens and their coaching\/analytics\/scouting staff, and maybe Game 1 was that game.chris.herring: We touched on it last week, when we discussed the Bucks being ranked No. 1 in the league on defense but doing so with a drop strategy in pick and roll coverage. They got torched with that in Game 1, and Boston had a field day from deep. But they moved to a completely different scheme in Game 2 and switched everything (something they almost never did in the regular season).And for what it's worth, Boston was the least-efficient team in the NBA against switches during the regular season, according to data from Second Spectrum.So I'm interested to see what they counter with, because the Bucks certainly have the length and versatility to make life difficult for them with that strategy.To Tony's question from before, we did some writing on what went wrong for Giannis in Game 1.The truth is, Giannis kind of lives off of open-court opportunities. He'll score plenty without them, but if he has them, it showcases how and why he'll likely be the MVP. It's nearly impossible to stop him with just one guy (and sometimes even two) in the open floor.But Milwaukee wasn't forcing enough misses in Game 1 for that to even be a real possibility for him. And even when it was, the Celtics set up a wall against him. Was something they did effectively against Giannis all year.natesilver: So are you saying that Giannis is liable to be less effective in the playoffs, when it becomes more of a half-court game?chris.herring: Yes and no.I think he will still score, and if you overcommit to trying to stop him, he's unselfish and will find his teammates, who finally hit shots in Game 2The other thing that's interesting: Giannis's struggles as a jump-shooter are well-documented. He was the worst wide-open shooter in the NBA from three on 150 or more attempts.But he started knocking them down at a somewhat respectable clip after the turn of the new year. And when Boston dared him to shoot them in Game 1, he shot 3 of 5.He's 5 of 9 from three for the series!I imagine that if you're Boston, you're simply going to make him prove he can hit that shot. But the idea that he's begun to figure out how to hit threes should be terrifying for everyone outside of the state of Wisconsin.natesilver: I'm happy to let him shoot as many threes as he wants.I don't think you learn how to shoot threes in one series. Maybe if it's a big offseason focus of his, sure.neil: Either way, the model currently gives the Bucks a 70 percent chance of winning. In fact, it also gives Toronto exactly the same 70 percent chance against Philly, despite both series being 1-1.Do those probabilities seem right to y'all? If you had to take the over or under on one, which would it be?chris.herring: I feel like Milwaukee's is a touch high, even though they're my favorite to come out of the East.tchow: Interesting, I was going to say I would pick the Bucks to be too low.neil: I'm in the same camp, Tony. Really more based on looking at our title odds for each: Check out our latest NBA predictions. read more\nTagged \u4e0a\u6d77419\u9f99\u51e4, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6851\u62ff\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u697c\u51e4, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9999\u8349419\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4419, \u5343\u82b1\u7f51, \u5357\u4eac\u591c\u7f51, \u5357\u4eac\u6851\u62ff, \u591c\u4e0a\u6d77\u8bba\u575b, \u5a31\u4e50\u5730\u56fe\n3 main points from Urban Meyers latest spring practice press conference\nPosted on September 28, 2019 by adminPosted in euyztfzgsukp Leave a Comment on 3 main points from Urban Meyers latest spring practice press conference\nOSU coach Urban Meyer stands on the sideline during a game against Michigan State on Nov. 21 at Ohio Stadium. OSU lost 17-14.Credit: Samantha Hollingshead | Photo EditorWith its annual spring game looming on April 16, the Ohio State football team held its sixth spring practice on Tuesday morning in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.Following the morning of drills and conditioning, OSU coach Urban Meyer met with the media to discuss the previous Saturday's intra-squad scrimmage and how spring drills have been progressing.Here are three of the takeaways from the press conference.Scrimmage standoutsDespite redshirt junior Tyquan Lewis \u2014 OSU's lone returning starter on the defensive line \u2014 being out for the spring with a shoulder injury, Meyer said he was impressed with the play of the unit during the scrimmage.Specifically, he commended the performances of redshirt sophomore defensive end Sam Hubbard, junior defensive end Jalyn Holmes and redshirt freshman defensive tackle Davon Hamilton.\"D-line is the area of most concern in our program,\" Meyer said. \"I think that's shifted a little bit to the O-line now.\"After amassing 28 tackles and 6.5 sacks as the primary backup defensive end last season, Hubbard is set to take over as the starter at defensive end for Joey Bosa, who is expected to be a top-five pick in the upcoming NFL draft. Holmes is currently getting first-team repetitions due to the absence of Lewis.Hamilton, meanwhile, appears to be making headway at a defensive tackle position filled with question marks after the graduation of Adolphus Washington.\"He's coming out of his shell a little bit,\" Meyer said of Hamilton.The coach also mentioned freshman receiver Austin Mack, redshirt freshman running back Mike Weber and freshman offensive guard Michael Jordan as other players who caught his eye in the scrimmage.Concern at offensive lineAmong the Buckeyes' mass exodus of players from last year's team were three of the team's five starting offensive linemen, with only redshirt junior guard Billy Price and redshirt senior center Pat Elflein remaining.Replacing 60 percent of the offensive line has been one of the major concerns for Meyer and his staff this spring.\"We're still trying to find that starting five,\" Meyer said.One player who has caught the attention of his coach is Jordan, who has earned first-team practice time with the offensive line.\"He just loves it,\" Meyer said. \"He doesn't know if it's right or left sometimes, but at this point, we don't care. You come in for extra work, enjoy the game, enjoy your practice, and be a tough guy. He's done all that. We're really impressed with him.\"Sophomore left tackle Isaiah Prince and junior right tackle Jamarco Jones \u2014 regarded as the favorites to win the starting jobs at their respective positions \u2014 are also \"doing better,\" Meyer said.\"Whoever plays that position, we can't drop off (from last year),\" Meyer said.Tight running back competitionWith 2015 Big Ten offensive player of the year Ezekiel Elliott gone to the NFL draft, the Buckeyes are trying to determine who will fill the sizeable void and take over the starting running back role in 2016.As was widely expected, the former four-star recruit Weber is among those at the top of the depth chart after redshirting his freshman year due to a meniscus tear.However, Meyer said redshirt senior Bri'onte Dunn \u2014 who hasn't seen the field much through his first three years of eligibility at OSU \u2014 is \"neck and neck\" with Weber right now.\"I'm so impressed with him,\" Meyer said. \"You all know a couple years ago, there wasn't a whole lot of conversation about him.\"Whether he wins the starting job or is the backup to Weber, Dunn should get his first real opportunity for playing time in his final year donning scarlet and gray. He has only 48 career carries for 287 yards and three touchdowns through his first three seasons in Columbus.Meyer also said freshman Antonio Williams, a four-star recruit out of New London, North Carolina, has stuck out in spring practice and could be the first freshman to lose his black stripe.Meyer and the Buckeyes will continue their march toward the spring game, which is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. on April 16 at Ohio Stadium. read more\nTagged 419\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77419\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u5a31\u4e50\u5730\u56fe, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6851\u62ff, \u4e0a\u6d77\u697c\u51e4, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6c34\u78e8, \u4e0a\u6d77\u8d35\u65cf\u5b9d\u8d1d, \u4e0d\u51c6\u4e0d\u5f00\u5fc3, \u9999\u8349419\u8bba\u575b, \u9f99\u51e4\u7f51\nSports ticket prices could go up\nPosted on September 28, 2019 by adminPosted in sktvgmimqgql Leave a Comment on Sports ticket prices could go up\nThe Ohio State Board of Trustees will vote Friday on a ticket price increase affecting football, men's basketball and golf course fees for 2010-2011.Students would expect to pay $32 per football ticket in 2010, which is up 3.2 percent from last year.The proposal would require students to pay $15 for single basketball tickets, which is up 3.4 percent from this season. The upper level end zone seats sold on the day of the game will remain $10.The golf course annual dues for students would jump 2.7 percent to $575. Daily greens fees are not affected by the price increase. Athletic Director Gene Smith said officials need to increase the prices to offset operating costs, utility increases, financial aid, travel and the debt service.\"The university has $200 million of debt service,\" said Ben Jay, senior athletic director of Finance and Operations.The debt service has accrued due to the depletion of the reserve funds, renovations to existing facilities, new scoreboards and the $2.75 million lawsuit settlement to ex-OSU basketball coach Jim O'Brien.The athletic department pays $17 million each year to lower the debt service.The ticket price increases will generate an estimated $8 million in the next two years. Four million dollars will go directly to the reserve fund and the rest will cover operating costs, Jay said.The increase was calculated based on the assumption that in-state tuition will rise between 5 to 6 percent next year. Therefore, financial aid will have to increase 5 to 6 percent.\"Financial aid will be just south of $1 million more to our budget,\" Smith said.Smith says they are using conservative estimates because tuition is historically raised 5 to 6 percent.The athletic department has looked for other outlets to raise money, but revenue from concessions, merchandising and donations to the Buckeye Club are all affected by the economy.\"We have put restrictions on budgets for each sport, such as limiting who travels with the team, setting maximum per diems at $45 per day, and not allowing surplus in budgets be spent elsewhere,\" Jay said.The athletic department has both long- and short-term expenses to account for outside of the debt service.The department pays more than $2 million annually in rent to the Schottenstein Center and more than $2 million to Student Athlete Academic Services. The department also makes an annual donation of $1 million to University Libraries.In total, 25 percent of the Athletic Department's budget goes directly back to the university, $29 million annually. read more\nTagged \u4e0a\u6d77419, \u4e0a\u6d77\u5a31\u4e50\u5730\u56fe, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6851\u62ff, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6851\u62ff\u7f51, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6c34\u78e8\u4f1a\u6240, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9999\u8349419\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4\u8bba\u575b, \u8d35\u65cf\u5b9d\u8d1d, \u9f99\u51e4419\nGroup of Blue Jackets ready for Olympic play\nPosted on September 28, 2019 by adminPosted in asjipkupjnct Leave a Comment on Group of Blue Jackets ready for Olympic play\nThe last time Fredrik Modin and Samuel Pahlsson went to Vancouver, British Columbia, they left with a 7-3 drubbing at the hands of the Canucks. For their next trip, they're looking to bring back gold.Columbus Blue Jackets Modin and Pahlsson were part of the Swedish squad that captured the gold in the 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy. Along with their countrymen, they will begin their defense of the medal against Germany in the preliminary round of this year's games.In addition to Pahlsson and Modin, four other Jackets will be making the trip to Vancouver to represent their respective countries. They are Fedor Tyutin (Russia), Milan Jurcina (Slovakia), Jan Hejda (Czech Republic) and Columbus captain Rick Nash (Canada).Oddly enough for a team located in the heart of America, there isn't a single Blue Jackets player representing the U.S. in the 2010 games.This will be the second Olympic Games for Nash. He represented Team Canada in the Turin Games, where the powerful Canadian squad finished in a disappointing seventh place. Now that the games are being hosted by his home country, there will be an increased impetus to win, especially for Nash, who was limited to one assist in six games in Turin.\"There was tons of pressure the last time in Turin,\" Nash said of his last Olympic experience. \"But anytime you put on the red-and-white maple leaf, there's a lot of pressure.\"Nash is probably already salivating over the possibility of playing on a line with fellow Canadian and all-world center, Sidney Crosby. It will be the first Olympic Games for Crosby, who was left off the 2006 team.Nash can't be blamed for feeling the heat. He plays for a country where hockey is raised to a level that makes finding a comparison here in the U.S. difficult.One Canadian columnist summed it up this way: \"The thought of a losing effort is something wholly unacceptable and incalculable within this culture, where national pride and hockey skill are inseparable entities.\"It may be the final time for some of these Jackets to represent their home countries. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman's recent comments on the future status of NHL players in the Olympics has cast some doubt on their possible participation in the 2014 games.There is currently no agreement in place for the 2014 games, which will be held in Sochi, Russia.There are many variables for Bettman to consider going forward. Chief among these are economic and competitive factors.\"It's difficult for any business, any league, to shut down for two weeks with the attendant loss of attention and everything that flows from it,\" Bettman said. \"And there are competitive issues.\"The competitive issues he is referring to are because of the fact that not every NHL team sends the same amount of players to the Olympics. Or any at all for that matter. So when the season resumes, some teams may have benefited from the two-week break more than others.Is that enough to pull the plug?\"I know the players are passionate about representing their countries. We have a long history as a sport in international competition and that's something that's important to the players,\" Bettman said. \"But we have to decide on balance, 'Is it worth it?'\" read more\nTagged \u4e0a\u6d77\u5343\u82b1\u7f51, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6851\u62ff\u7f51, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6c34\u78e8\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4, \u591c\u4e0a\u6d77\u8bba\u575b, \u5a31\u4e50\u5730\u56fe, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77419, \u9999\u8349419, \u9999\u8349419\u8bba\u575b\nOhio State mens tennis to open up NCAA tournament at home\nPosted on September 28, 2019 by adminPosted in sktvgmimqgql Leave a Comment on Ohio State mens tennis to open up NCAA tournament at home\nAs the Ohio State men's tennis team came together in a room at the indoor Varsity Tennis Center eagerly waiting to see where and who they play in the first round of the NCAA tournament, one person was missing. That person was coach Ty Tucker. He was nervously pacing back and forth in his office. \"I'm not a fan of the whole selection thing,\" Tucker said. But as soon as the NCAA was ready to announce the brackets for the tournament, Tucker gave in and stood outside the door to await his team's fate.Once he heard the announcement that OSU would host Western Michigan, Tucker walked to his computer and began studying the Buckeyes' first opponent in the NCAA tournament.No. 4 OSU will face Western Michigan (21-10) at 1 p.m. on May 15 at the Stickney Tennis Center. As a reward for the their 32-1 season, the Buckeyes will host the first- and second-round matches.\"We've won a lot of matches at home so obviously we want to be at home,\" Tucker said. \"We're looking forward to playing Western Michigan.\"The Buckeyes, whose only defeat this year came to top-seeded Virginia, have a few notable schools in their bracket, including Michigan, Illinois and defending champion Southern California, who defeated OSU in the finals last year. \"It'd be nice to get them back,\" sophomore Chase Buchanan said. When asked if that was a match he wanted, Buchanan said, \"definitely.\"Like most coaches, Tucker is not looking ahead. His main focus is Western Michigan.\"I know that they've won the MAC (Mid-American Conference) five years in a row,\" Tucker said. \"I know that teams that have won five championships in a row are used to winning.\"The Buckeyes go into the tournament as one of the favorites. Tucker said his team's experience and realizing the importance of the doubles' point are major factors.\"I'm sure Justin (Kronauge) will have these guys as a captain ready to play,\" Tucker said. \"They've got to come out understanding four, five, six minutes of great play can set up a win early on in the doubles' point.\"The Buckeyes have done that all year, including having another undefeated season at home. Now, they have a shot to make another run. \"We have a lot of potential as well as many other teams in this tournament,\" said Kronauge, OSU's all-time wins leader. \"Hopefully we fight harder and we prepare the next two weeks to get ready.\" read more\nTagged \u4e0a\u6d77\u540e\u82b1\u56ed, \u4e0a\u6d77\u591c\u7f51, \u4e0a\u6d77\u6c34\u78e8\u8bba\u575b, \u4e0a\u6d77\u9f99\u51e4419, \u5a31\u4e50\u5730\u56fe, \u7231\u4e0a\u6d77419, \u9999\u8349419\u8bba\u575b, \u9f99\u51e4\u7f51","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Life without Andrew Luck: How Colts are adjusting until he's back on his game\nZak Keefer\nNext up: Colts at Cowboys, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, WXIN-59\nThey'll tease him in the meeting room. They'll call him \"a beautiful mind\" after he summons in an instant a blitz or an audible or a throw from four years ago, Manningesque, and tell them all which game it was from, which quarter it happened in, what the down and distance were. Andrew Luck replays it in his head while the rest gaze at the film.\nHe's in every quarterback meeting, at the team facility early each morning and late each night \u2013 \"I'm pretty sure he sleeps here,\" one teammate recently joked \u2013 slogging away on his seventh month of rehab while the regular season opener inches closer and a city waits for that beautiful arm of his to be unleashed. The truth, harsh as it is: These Indianapolis Colts don't have much going for them until that happens.\nMore great Colts coverage:\nInsider: Who was Colts owner Jim Irsay's mystery QB?\nInsider: As Andrew Luck questions linger, Colts QBs struggle\nDoyel: The only thing that's clear about the Colts' QB situation? It's not Kaepernick\nLove our Colts coverage? Download the free INSports app\nAs for Luck himself, the franchise QB has appeared curiously upbeat recently. Largely absent from the team's early-morning training camp practices, he made a rare arrival after Friday's joint work with the Detroit Lions. He first ducked into the team's indoor facility for a quick chat with new General Manager Chris Ballard. A few moments later, Luck bounded onto the practice field, saw a smattering of reporters and playfully ducked behind some tackling dummies. It was obvious: He was in good spirits.\nMust be because he's throwing the football again.\n\"Jim, I know I'm going to be an even better quarterback than I've ever been before,\" Luck recently told his boss, team owner Jim Irsay. \"I just don't know when.\"\nAnd that seems perfectly fine with Irsay and the Colts. \"This is a 12-year process,\" Irsay stressed after Sunday's preseason loss to Detroit, later harping on the fact that the fate of his franchise over the next \"10, 12, hopefully 14 years,\" could -- and very likely will -- rest on Luck's surgically repaired throwing shoulder.\nIrsay will wait. If it costs his team a couple of games to start the season, so be it.\nWhat we know now, three and a half weeks shy of the Sept. 10 regular season opener in Los Angeles: Luck is throwing, wants to throw more, and the Colts won't allow it. At Irsay's orders, this organization is handling this situation delicately, patiently. In the end, the call won't be made by Irsay, Ballard or even coach Chuck Pagano. It's the doctors who first have to sign off on Luck returning to the field.\nAnd all indications are that Luck will return to that field at some juncture before the preseason concludes, which would allow him to throw to his receivers for the first time since New Year's Day. The question then \u2013 beyond how Luck's shoulder responds to the increased workload \u2013 is how long until Luck is Luck again.\nReggie Wayne has an idea. The Colts' all-time leader in games played spent the 2008 preseason catching passes from backup Jim Sorgi while Peyton Manning rehabbed a pair of knee operations. When Manning did return, just in time for a Week 1 loss to the Bears, he was rusty and out-of-sync \u2013 a shell of his former and future self. It took some time. The Colts started 3-4. Manning's passer rating climbed above 90 just twice in the first seven games; it did so eight times as the Colts ripped off nine straight wins to close the year. Manning claimed MVP. All was right again.\nThere are similarities between Manning's 2008 preseason and Luck's this year \u2013 no exhibition starts for either \u2013 but the situations aren't identical. Manning was dealing with a bursa sac in his knee. For Luck, this is his throwing shoulder, his meal ticket. This one's a far more extensive rehab, a far more serious operation.\n\"It's going to take a while,\" Wayne said. \"You need your quarterback and your receivers to be on the same page, and that takes a little bit. So whenever Andrew is available to throw, whether it's before practice, after practice, him and his receivers are going to have to do that much more as far as getting extra work in on the field.\"\nDuring that 2008 preseason, Manning had tapes of every practice sent to his dorm room at Rose-Hulman; he'd summon Sorgi there in the evenings so the two could dissect the film together. Manning's mission was to get his backup to play as similarly to him as possible. In reality, that's not happening. Not with Jim Sorgi in 2008, not with Scott Tolzien in 2017. There's a reason franchise quarterbacks are franchise quarterbacks.\n\"Think about all the time quarterbacks spend with their receivers in the offseason,\" says Sorgi, now the team's radio analyst. \"That time is invaluable.\"\nSorgi is right. In each of the past few summers, Luck has joined up with T.Y. Hilton and Donte Moncrief \u2013 and Wayne before that \u2013 for weeklong bootcamps. There's no doubt the timing and rapport they built under the summer sun at the University of Miami (Wayne's preference) or Stanford (Luck's preference) manifested itself on Sundays in the fall. Without that in place, it's hard to see Luck picking up where he left off, at least right away.\n\"I don't think it's just gonna be pick up and go,\" Sorgi added.\nLuck has long professed a love for practice \u2013 his backups have, for years, jokingly complained that Luck refuses to yield even a single practice snap to them. (Manning's backups said the same thing.) Now, everything Hilton and Moncrief catch is from Scott Tolzien or Stephen Morris or Phillip Walker. Save for a few standout plays, the offense has bumbled its way through camp, rarely looking anywhere near efficient. Sunday's preseason loss was more of the same.\nOne thing Wayne suggested \u2013 and something he said the Colts stressed in '08 \u2013 was a focus on the run game. Without knowing when, exactly, the star quarterback will return, his unit sought to home in on what they could control.\n\"We kind've force fed ourselves on the run game to make sure that it was ready to go just in case our quarterback does start off sluggish,\" Wayne said. \"We all know the Colts have been struggling in the run game (in recent years). So there's no way they should not come out of the preseason and not be a better running team.\"\n(For those wondering, it didn't work back then. The Colts combined for 78 rushing yards in their first two outings.)\nIt's a nice thought. And the Colts' rushing attack should be better this season, but there's no guarantee. The offensive line is banged up, and without the downfield threat of Luck-to-Hilton to worry about, teams will likely stack the box and dare Tolzien beat them.\nAnd that might be their reality for a week, two weeks, even three weeks. \"We will not put any pressure on this decision,\" Irsay offered Sunday. \"I can't emphasize how much time I've spent with Andrew, saying, 'You have to make this decision in the best interest of the franchise, the fans, your teammates, etcetera. Not just your competitive juices.'\"\nNo one in the building seems to know when that is. \"Could be Sept. 10, could be Sept. 20,\" Irsay said.\nThe day the Colts reported for training camp, Luck sounded exceptionally assured that when he does play football again, it won't take him long. But that's coming from a guy who hasn't practiced in eight months. It's the longest layover he's had since he picked up the game in junior high.\n\"When the time is right ... whenever that is, I'll be up to speed and good enough to be productive in games and give this team my best,\" he said.\nFor now, the next step is getting him back on the practice field. It could happen any day. It could take weeks.\nT.Y. Hilton and Donte Moncrief are waiting. So is an entire city.\nCall Star reporter Zak Keefer at (317) 444-6134 and follow him on Twitter: @zkeefer.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tokyo's six best dessert shops\nBy Rebecca Milner| 4 years ago\nJapan's specialties don't lie solely in sushi and noodle dishes, in fact, Tokyo's desserts are enough to tempt a visit alone. So, what should you be trying?\nChomeiji Sakura-mochi\nThe taste of spring\nEvery spring, Japan's cherry trees, known as sakura, turn streets and riverbanks into clouds of pink. Not content to just enjoy the visual spectacle, the Japanese want to taste it, too. Sakura-mochi is a sticky crepe of pounded rice flour stuffed with azuki bean paste and then wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf. The wine red bean paste, screened by the semi-translucent mochi, evokes the blush of the blossoms. The leaf gives the sweet dessert a refreshing tartness. Whether or not to eat the leaf is a perennial debate: Chomeiji Sakura-mochi recommends removing it first. The basis for their authority? The shop has been making nothing but sakura-mochi for nearly 300 years. And fortunately for travellers, they make it all year round\u2014so even if you don't get to see the cherry blossoms, you can still take part in the seasonal ritual.\nMap location: 5-1-14 Mukojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo\nLucky fish cakes\nTaiyaki are one of Japan's more curious desserts: a fish-shaped pancake stuffed with sweetened azuki beans. Or maybe more like a waffle, since they're cooked in a cast iron press\u2014just one that imprint the shape and scales of a sea bream (tai in Japanese). The fish are considered good luck, earning you a karma boost with your sugar kick. There is no more famous place to try taiyaki than Naniwa, a tiny 100-year-old shop where they make them one by one. There's almost always a queue. But then again, what you're getting is always hot off the griddle, perfectly crisp around the edges, the beans soft and oozy inside. Naniwa closes when they run out of ingredients for the day (sometimes by mid-afternoon).\nMap location: 1-8-14 Azabu-Juban, Minato-ku, Tokyo\nHimitsu-do\nFluffy clouds of shaved ice\nSummer in Japan equals kakigori, shaved ice. But this is no gritty snow cone topped with lurid, artificial syrup: kakigori is light, frothy\u2014like cotton candy\u2014more whipped than shaved. At Himitsu-do the syrups are made in-house from fresh fruit, including mangoes from Okinawa and melons from Hokkaido. Even the ice is all-natural: it's harvested the old-fashioned way (like in the movie, Frozen!) from the mountains outside Tokyo. On a hot day, Himitsu-do can get very busy. Take a ticket and then have a wander through the surrounding neighbourhood. They serve kakigori in the winter too, in seasonal flavors like pumpkin.\nMap location: 3-11-18 Yanaka, Taito-ku, Tokyo\nHigayshiya Man\nOne-bite dumplings\nManju are dumplings stuffed with sugar-spiked bean paste. In the canon of traditional Japanese sweets, manju is a classic form, one that has inspired innumerable variations. The very stylish Higashiya Man makes their manju with contemporary, fusion fillings like brandied chestnuts and raisins soaked in black sugar liquor. Even better: the dumplings, steamed fresh daily, are served smaller than usual, bite-sized, which means you can try more flavours.\nMap location: 3-17-14 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo\nGion Tsujiri\nMatcha ice cream perfection\nIf you've been to a sushi restaurant then odds are you know matcha (powdered green tea) ice cream. Matcha ice cream sundae, however, is a meal unto itself. Really anything goes, including chunks of cake, azuki beans, whipped cream or fruit, but it always involves several scoops of ice cream and cubes of flavoured jellies. Gion Tsujiri makes their ice cream with tea from Kyoto's famous Uji teafields. They also let you expand your horizons in tea-flavoured sweets: their \"special tea sundae\" includes matcha and genmaicha (roasted brown rice tea) ice cream, plus matcha, genmaicha and houjicha (roasted green tea) jelly.\nMap location: 10th fl Daimaru, Tokyo Station, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo\nEchigoya Wakasa\nTokyo's most exclusive sweets shop\nYokan, a perfectly angular cube of agar, sugar and bean paste, is the platonic ideal of traditional Japanese confections. It should be glossy, smooth, delicately al dente and not too sweet. In the summer a lighter variety, mizu-yokan, is served chilled. In Tokyo, Echigoya Wakasa has been known as the go-to place for yokan for centuries\u2014it's long been a favourite with politicians and the literati. While most of the big names in traditional sweets are found in Kyoto, Echigoya Wakasa is Tokyo born and bred. It's also famously exclusive: you must make a reservation a day in advance by getting your hotel to gives them a call. They'll have the details. In addition to yokan, Echigoya Wakasa has a menu of seasonal sweets that changes monthly\nMap location: 1- 8-4 Chitose, Sumida, Tokyo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Grecian Bend Fashion\nThe Grecian Bend was a stooping fashion that first made its appearance England in the 1820s, but it did not reach the pinnacle of popularity until Victorian times (somewhere between 1869 and 1880). It supposedly acquired its name from the graceful Venus de Milo as she inclined slightly forward. The stooping fashion was also imitative of a physical affliction and because physical afflictions often could not be corrected or because famous people had them, people copied them and adopted them as a fashion statement, just like they adopted the Alexandra Limp. Moreover, the Grecian Bend seemed erotic to Victorians because a woman's breast and rear jutted out. Also making the fashion more appealing, was the belief that any woman who adopted the Grecian Bend was bold and daring.\nGrecian Bend from 1868. Courtesy of Wikipedia.\nWomen who adopted the Grecian Bend quickly discovered they were more than bold or daring because they soon found they were in severe pain. Being stuck in such a strange position caused back aches and was said to be \"wearisome\" for those who had to maintain the position for hours. However, despite the aches and pains, thousands of woman embraced the Grecian Bend. At its peak it was seen regularly at watering places, such as Bath. But Bath was not the only spot where the Grecian Bend became popular. Soon the fashion spread across the ocean to America.\nThe Grecian Bend, Public domain.\nSupporters of the fashion said the best way to achieve the look was with an \"S-like curvature of the upper figure, caused by thrusting out the chest, bending forward the head, contracting the stomach, and elevating the hips.\"[1] There was also an arrangement placed upon the hips called a bustle. There were also no shortages of descriptions about the type of bustle needed to achieve the fashionable warped look. One report described a certain type of bustle stating:\n\"Immediately in the rear and just below the waist the steel hoops are combined in to a broad belt, which when covered, looks like [a] pillow bunched. This is the bump. To give the bump due prominence on every possible occasion a steel combination tongue of about three inches in length is fastened in a peculiar manner to the belt or waist of the skirt. This tongue rests on the small of the back and is an admirable contrivance for causing spinal disease.\"[2]\nIn addition, very high-heeled shoes also helped with the position as they tended to tip the woman's body forward.\nAs the Grecian Bend required women to maintain a strange, awkward position, sometimes for hours, supporters looked for contrivances to help them achieve the look. One contrivance was described in this way:\n\"A belt is fastened about the waist, under the skirts. From this belt, down either side of the hips, two straps, furnished with buckles descend, and are attached to the strong bands made fast around the lower thighs. As the buckles of the straps are tightened, the hips are drawn up and held in 'position.'\"[3]\nThe upper part of this contrivance was then kept in place by stays, and, in addition, the woman also wore a corset, laced as tightly as possible.\nVarious Grecian Bend fashions. Public domain.\nBecause the position was so unnatural, critics argued that permanent spinal damage would be done to any woman adopting the fashion. However, that did nothing to deter women from embracing it. In fact, women who adopted the Grecian Bend claimed they were more worried about how they would sit than spinal damage or permanent injury.\nMany women who adopted the fashion also seemed unconcerned about the restrictions imposed by wearing bustles, contrivances, or tightly laced corsets. They did not care that they could not bend properly at the waist or hips. However, they did find it annoying when riding in carriages or coaches. This was because women could not sit upright. For many of the Grecian Bend adopters, it seemed the only solution was for them to stand all time or to walk everywhere. Of course, such a solution was highly impractical.\nDespite all the problems related to sitting, the Grecian Bend remained fashionable for some time. Perhaps, that was because there was an abundance of humor associated with women vain enough to embrace such a laughable fashion. One writer noted that any woman who adopted the Grecian Bend resembled a \"lame kangaroo \u2026 [and was] too exasperatingly ridiculous for laughter.\"[4] Another nineteenth century newspaper reporter wrote:\n\"There are few stout women who could bear the addition of a hump anywhere without looking all the worse for it. The slim damsel may be able to add a trifle or two of the kind here and there without great detriment to her personal appearance, but for a woman of from twelve to eighteen stones to assume the 'Grecian bend' is to do a palpable injustice to her charms.\"[5]\nMadame Tussaud did not install any wax figures in her museum showing the Grecian Bend, but numerous nineteenth century poems and humorous songs mentioned it. For instance, a burlesque produced at St. James's Theatre in 1869 included an ode titled \"Britannia's Bend,\" which poked fun at the fashion. Here it is:\n\"The latest style, that now the rage is,\nGoing down Piccadilly, 'tis said,\nDerived from classic Grecian ages,\nTurns each modern lady's head.\nThey look so neat,\nWith turn-out feet,\nAs down the street their way they wend!\nThe steps just suits\nYour high-heeled boots,\nAnd I'll teach you the Grecian Bend.\nThe Grecian Bend! Attention, ladies!\nFashionable promenade is.\nFashion never can offend;\nThe style is now the Grecian bend!\"[6]\nCover for \"The Grecian Bend\" songs. Public domain.\n[1] Scientific American, Vol. 19, 1868, p. 148.\n[2] Supplement to the Courant, Vol. 35, 1862, p. 158.\n[3] Scientific American, p. 148.\n[4] The College Courant, Vol. 9, 1871 The Masonic Trowel, Vol. 6, 1867, p. 175.\n[5] The Ladies' Treasury and Treasure of Literature, 1869, p. 303.\n[6] Brougham, John, La Belle Sauvage, Burlesque in Five Scenes, 1870, p. 14-15.\nPosted in America\/United States, United Kingdom","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomePress ReleasePNNIuliia Lepesii helps Ukrainian residents with basic necessities via Crypto and Stock...\nIuliia Lepesii helps Ukrainian residents with basic necessities via Crypto and Stock Market\nWidely perceived as a male-dominated space, the cryptoverse is seeing a new influx of women who are emerging as the fastest growing pool of investors. Women in fact, are not only coming on board as investors, but also as creators and builders .One such luminary is- Iuliia Lepesii who has been trading for 3 years, she got her first degree in accounting in Ukraine, Kyiv & second degree at MCNY, New York. She has studied trading at Gerchik.com. She has been helping Ukrainian residents with food, shelter & clothing via Crypto and Stock Market.\n\"The war has been devastating for Ukraine's families.The children and families of Ukraine have endured months & months of escalating devastation and displacement. Children continue to be killed, wounded and deeply traumatized by the violence all around them. Schools, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure on which they depend continue to be damaged or destroyed. Families have been separated and lives torn apart. I have been helping my fellow countrymen recover from the war. I give all my profits to people there\" she adds.\nIuliia Lepesii firmly believes that financial independence should be of utmost importance to women. The public and private sectors must come together to realize the economic and social benefits to empowering women through trade. Governments can play a role through trade reform: making trade easier, faster, more cost-effective, and companies can source from women-owned businesses and contribute to capacity-building initiatives \"Crypto and Stock Market can benefit women and increase gender parity. It offers new job opportunities, higher wages and more economic development for communities\" says Iuliia Lepesii, a young entrepreneur who has quickly soared to the heights of success through Crypto and Stock Market. Having her roots in Ukraine, Kyiv, she was like any other girl. But she had a strong vision towards her goals and a determination to fulfill her dreams.\nIuliia Lepesii has reached the heights of success, that too coming from a humble background. He says that the entire process wasn't easy but he had a goal and worked hard to achieve it. No wonder, the sky's the limit for her.\nIf you have any objection to this press release content, kindly contact [email protected] to notify us. We will respond and rectify the situation in the next 24 hours.\nVehicle Radiator Market: Rapid Adoption of Lightweight Materials to Drive the Market Demand\nE-Bikes Are Popular In Canada And Under The National Spotlight\nDelhi Eye Doctor Enters Guinness Book of World Records \u2013 Primex News Network\nMeri Ayodhya, Mera Raghuvansh by Author Rajeev 'Acharya' Launched Worldwide \u2013 Primex News Network","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"We can see the difficulties in categorising languages and varieties by looking at the way English has changed throughout history. Just as we can ask whether different geographical varieties can be considered the same language, so we can ask to what extent modern-day English \u2013 the English you are reading now \u2013 is the same language as that introduced to the British Isles one and a half millennia ago.\nHave a look at the following passage, which is written in Old English and dates back to the late tenth century AD. If you came across this passage with no introduction, do you think you'd recognise it as English? Can you understand any of it? While reading it through, make a note of any words that you recognise:\neac swylce seo n\u00e6ddre w\u00e6s geapre \u00feonne ealle \u00fea o\u00f0re nytenu \u00fee God geworhte ofer eor\u00fean. and seo n\u00e6ddre cw\u00e6\u00fe to \u00feam wife. hwi forbead God eow \u00fe\u00e6t ge ne \u00e6ton of \u00e6lcon treowe binnan paradisum.\nAt first glance this might seem entirely incomprehensible to you. There are only five words in the passage which have a form which is the same as modern standard British English. These are: God, and, to, wife and of. There's at least one other word which resembles a modern English word: paradisum looks a little similar to paradise. But other than that the words mostly look distinctly alien, and some of them even include letters which are no longer part of the alphabet we use for modern-day English.\nNow let's look at another passage from approximately four hundred years later. This is in what's known as Middle English, and was written around the late fourteenth century. How much of this passage can you read?\nBut the serpent was feller than alle lyuynge beestis of erthe which the Lord God hadde maad. Which serpent seide to the womman Why comaundide God to ou that e schulden not ete of ech tre of paradis.\nAs you might have noticed, both these passages are translations of the same section of the Bible, namely Genesis chapter 3, verse 1. The Middle English version is much closer to modern-day English, and you were probably able to read a great deal more of it than of the Old English version. However, there are still a few features which differ from the language we now use. For example, the character (known as 'yogh') is used in place of a y. Also, the spelling of many words is rather different from how it is today. For instance, in the first line the word 'living' is spelt lyuynge (y is used instead of i, and u instead of v), and the word 'beasts' is spelt beestis. Some of the vocabulary is also no longer regularly used in contemporary English. The word 'feller' in the first line, for example, means 'crueller' or 'more ruthless'. It was still to be found in Shakespeare's time \u2013 for example, in the phrase 'this fell sergeant, Death, is swift in his arrest' in Hamlet (5.2.341) \u2013 but is not in common usage today (except in rather specialised contexts). All in all, though, you'd probably identify this as being English.\nFinally, let's look at two more translations of the same passage. The first is in Early Modern English and dates from the seventeenth century. This is, in fact, a passage from one of the most renowned translations of the Bible: the King James or Authorised Version of 1611. The second is in Modern English, and was translated in 1961.\nNow the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made, and he said vnto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of euery tree of the garden?\nThe serpent was more crafty than any wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, 'Is it true that God has forbidden you to eat from any tree in the garden?'\n(texts adapted from Freeborn, 1992, p. 407)\nThe Early Modern English version is closer still to present-day English, although there are still a few features which mark it out as archaic. For example, nowadays ye meaning 'you' is only found in certain dialects, and is no longer used in standard British or American English.\nPrevious Languages, varieties and dialects\nNext English through history (Part 2)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Audio: The World \u2013 This English collective says Brexit unfairly targets sex workers for deportation\nPRI's The WorldAfter the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in 2016, large industries have struggled to handle the ramifications of the upcoming Brexit. One affected industry that does not get much coverage is prostitution.Laura Watson is the spokesperson for the English Collective of Prostitutes in London. She spoke with The World's Carol Hills [\u2026]\nIndependent: Sex workers harassed, assaulted and illegally targeted for deportations amid culture of xenophobia after Brexit\nExclusive: 'For migrant workers, everything is compounded \u2013 the sexism, the criminalisation and the racism and then the hostile immigration environment'Maya Oppenheim Women's Correspondent @mayaoppenheimSex workers in the UK are being illegally targeted for deportations and subjected to harassment and attacks because of a Brexit-inspired culture of discrimination against foreigners, campaigners have claimed.A dossier compiled by the campaign group English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) [\u2026]\nPress Release: Sex workers document Brexit-inspired discrimination that is depriving them of the right to remain in the UK\nA sex worker collective has compiled a dossier of cases that it has fought over the last few years showing how Brexit is affecting migrant sex workers from the EU. The English Collective of Prostitutes' dossier, Sex workers are getting screwed by Brexit, includes examples of women being targeted by police for arrest and deportation despite [\u2026]\nAction Alert: Urgent legal help needed for migrant sex worker unjustly in detention facing deportation\nUPDATE: Thanks to all who responded. We found a lawyer who is applying for legal aid. We want to challenge Home Office who say they are \"protecting the public and combating the effects of persistent offending\" by deporting her.We are the English Collective of Prostitutes, a network of sex workers working both on the streets and [\u2026]\nAction Alert: Demand police prioritise the protection of sex workers \u2013 background information\nSee open letter here: Demand police prioritise the protection of sex workers over the prosecution for prostitution offences.BACKGROUND INFORMATION On 24 June, Maria Benito [not her real name] called the police after being robbed at knifepoint by five men while working with other women in a flat in Enfield.When officers attended the incident, Ms Benito [\u2026]\nAction Alert: Demand police prioritise the protection of sex workers over the prosecution for prostitution offences\nWe write to protest the police treatment of a victim of armed robbery who was working as a sex worker when she was attacked. (Crime ref: 5214132\/17).Ms Maria Benito [not her real name] was working in a flat in Enfield when five men broke in with knives and robbed her and other women. As soon [\u2026]\nStatement: Stop police raids on migrant sex workers\nJoint Statement by SWARM, English Collective of Prostitutes and National Ugly MugsLess than two months ago, thousands of sex workers and concerned members of the public raised their alarm over the arrest and deportation of three Romanian sex workers in Swindon. This week, West Midlands Police raided a premises in Smethwick, shutting down the workplace [\u2026]\nIndependent: Sex worker threatened with prosecution and deportation after reporting attack\nCampaigners warn threats from police and Home Office against sex workers who report crimes make women reluctant to report violence committed against themMay BulmanThe Brazilian woman, who was in the UK on a six-month visa, approached the police after she was robbed at knifepoint along with other sex workers by a group of men on [\u2026]\nPolitics.co.uk: Sex worker robbed at knifepoint faces deportation after contacting police\nBy Natalie Bloomer \"Campaigners for sex workers' rights say that by focusing on the prosecution and deportation of the worker rather than the attack against her, police were discouraging other women from coming to them for help\"Updated below.Sex workers have warned that they are unable to go to the police for help, after a victim of [\u2026]\nThe Guardian: Police accused of threatening sex workers rather than pursuing brothel thieves\nOwen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondentLabour frontbencher Keir Starmer concerned about priorities of Met police after spate of robberies of premises used for sex work in LondonScotland Yard has been accused of threatening to prosecute women who work in brothels rather than pursue an armed gang of robbers who have been repeatedly targeting premises used for [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Third round of Bastrop EDC coronavirus relief grants expected to be last\nCameron Drummond\nThe third round of business relief grants the Bastrop Economic Development Corporation doled out in response to the economic downturn wrought by the coronavirus pandemic is expected to be the final financial assistance the corporation offers, CEO Cameron Cox said.\n\"In my speaking with our businesses in September, all of those businesses in the hospitality and restaurant industry that were hurting that received money in the third round have all told me that they're doing better in September,\" Cox said. \"So, it does not appear that we're going to need to do any more rounds.\"\nThis latest round of funding, which was awarded Aug. 26 and followed earlier rounds of financial assistance awarded May 11 and April 13, will see $176,000 divided among 61 Bastrop businesses, 13 of which are receiving BEDC funds for the first time.\nTo have been eligible for the third round of funding, Cox said businesses had to be located in Bastrop, had to provide information related to sales tax and employee data, had to show how long they had been in the city and had to have suffered a net revenue loss of more than 25% for either June or July compared to the same month in 2019.\nSince April, the BEDC has distributed $576,000 to help businesses in the city that have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic.\nWhile Cox said the BEDC board and Bastrop City Council have approved enough money for a fourth and fifth round of funding, he does not anticipate any additional financial assistance to be distributed.\nSix city businesses have received more than $10,000 in BEDC grants across the three rounds of funding, something the City Council unanimously approved during its Sept. 22 meeting.\nMaxine's Caf\u00e9, owned by David and Libby Sartain, is one of those six.\nIn total, Maxine's has received $19,500 from the BEDC, with $6,500 coming in the first round of funding and $13,000 in the third round. This represents the second-highest cumulative total of funding for any Bastrop business. Film Alley has received the most with $28,500 in cumulative funding.\nThe restaurant has benefited from both BEDC grants and a $125,000 forgivable loan from the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program earlier this year, something Libby Sartain called \"a lifesaver\" to get the caf\u00e9 back on track.\nOverhead expenses have increased at the restaurant during the pandemic.\nThis is the result of both implementing proper COVID-compliance safety measures and preparing to serve customers again after closing in March and reopening in May, though several Maxine's employees elected not to return to work due to being vulnerable to contracting COVID-19.\nThings like providing a hand-sanitizing station near the front of the restaurant and switching to individually packaged condiments for customers have represented additional, non-traditional operating costs.\n\"All of this falls into operations, as well as maintaining our labor cost and keeping employees on our payroll,\" David Sartain said.\nHe said Maxine's has been able to bring back about 75% of its employees from before the shutdown, though restaurant revenue is still roughly 42% below what was generated in late 2019 and early 2020.\nOnline ordering has increased by about 22% compared to the beginning of the year, Sartain said, providing an additional revenue stream for the downtown restaurant.\n\"I think the community and people really understand how hard it is for small businesses like ours to come back from this pandemic,\" Libby Sartain said, while noting some customers have threatened to sue the restaurant because of its mandatory mask policy. \"It really warms our heart to see the outreach and the care and love from both our customers and our employees.\"\n'Every little bit helps'\nOnline ordering figures haven't been as kind to another downtown Bastrop business \u2014 Relics Jewelry & Gifts \u2014 owned and operated by Anne and Richard Smarzik, who live above their shop.\n\"Our sales are probably down 99%,\" Richard Smarzik said. \"We have probably about four or five followers who have purchased from us (online), but for the most part people look at the sign on the door that says we're closed and they walk on by.\"\nRelics has received $4,500 in cumulative grants from the BEDC, with $1,500 coming in each round of funding.\nSmarzik said he and his wife, who are both in their mid-60s with health problems, will not reopen their store until a COVID-19 vaccine is made available and they receive it. Until then, he said it's too much of a risk to reopen the store, which only provides supplemental income to the retired couple.\n\"We rely on tourists,\" Smarzik said of his store's customer base. \"Basically, people are going to have to want to come back out and the economy's going to have to be recovered enough, because we're a discretionary buy. We're not like a grocery store where you've got to have it.\"\nBut like the Sartains, the owners of Relics are appreciative for another round of BEDC grants.\n\"We'll use it to pay rent,\" Smarzik said. \"Every little bit helps.\"\nA reliance on visitors to Bastrop, in particular those traveling to Austin and Houston, has also long been part of Maxine's customer base.\nAfter the initial months of the pandemic saw Americans largely stay home, David Sartain said he's seen an increase in outdoor dining at Maxine's and a return to past patterns.\n\"Back in the summer of 2019, probably 52% of our customer base during the summer were tourists,\" Sartain said. \"We didn't see that March through May (of this year), but starting in late June through September, we started seeing an uptick of our tourist traffic coming in. In the last month, I'd say it's pretty close to where it was last year.\"\nWith this being the case, and with a younger-than-usual demographic now dining at Maxine's, BEDC grants have allowed the restaurant to continue to focus on providing a safe dining environment to whoever walks in.\n\"What the BEDC has done for us has really sort of filled a couple of gaps in that the PPP didn't cover,\" Libby Sartain said. \"We are just so appreciative of the support we have gotten from the government, from the community, from our customers.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Wounds of Beauty\nBy Margarita Mooney Suarez\nThe Wounds of Beauty is host to an immersive symposium on beauty and its relationship to art and education. In these seven dialogues, Margarita Mooney Suarez speaks with: Peter Brown on how beauty shaped Christian civilization in late antiquity; George Harne on the rapport between music and beauty and the latter's connection to other forms of knowledge; Sister No\u00eblla Marcellino, O.S.B., on the Benedictine Way and its pattern of authentic living as expressed in chant and cheesemaking; James Matthew Wilson on the imperative of beauty for happiness amidst the post-modern distortion of our capacities for creativity and innovation; David Clayton on the way of beauty as a path to cultural renewal; Francis X. Maier on the origins of the pessimism in contemporary education and on the power of beauty to cure it; and Dana Gioia on creative intuition in poetry and literature and the importance of the arts as the foundation of a thriving culture.\nThe encounter with the beautiful can become the wound of the arrow that strikes the heart. \u2013Pope Benedict XVI\nFollowing upon the success of The Love of Learning, Mooney Suarez's initial volume of dialogues on the liberal arts, The Wounds of Beauty testifies to the essential place of beauty in the good life and confidently sets before its readers a path toward a more literate and more articulate future.\nMargarita Mooney Suarez is Associate Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the founder and executive director of Scala Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring meaning and purpose in education through the classical liberal arts. Her writings have appeared in such outlets as First Things, National Catholic Register, Plough, Scientific American, and Real Clear Policy. She is, most recently, the principal author of The Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts (Cluny, 2021).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Don Johnson\nCold in July (2014): Innocence Lost\nThe 2014 film Cold in July is another offering from the team that brought you Stake Land and in a sense, this new film is also about innocence lost. In the first movie, that starred Damici, it is the young protagonist being trained by Mister who loses his, in the new film by the team of Nick Damici and Jim Mickle, it is Michael C. Hall's character Richard Dane who falls.\nBased upon Joe R Lonsdale's 1989 novel of the same name, Cold in July stars Hall as a \"everyman\" who shoots an intruder in his house and his life begins a rollercoaster trip of twists and turns that change his world. Initially he is stalked and threatened by the ex-con father of the man he killed, Mr. Russell, played by Sam Shepard, and he turns to his friend on the local police force Ray Price (Nick Damici) for help.\nThe police catch Russell and tell Richard that the man is back in prison. When Dane is at the police station, he sees a wanted poster with the name of the man he shot; the picture on the bill looks nothinglike the dead man. The frame shop owner tries to question Price about the discrepancy and the detective blows him off. Heading down to the station, he sees the police taking Russell out of jail. They put him on train tracks, inject him and leave him to be killed by an oncoming train. Dane saves the man and puts him in his late father's cabin.\nThe two men dig up the man Dane shot and Russell learns that the body in the coffin is not his son. Russell calls a friend from Houston, Jim Bob (Don Johnson) who comes to help his Korean War comrade. It turns out that Russell's son worked for the Dixie mafia and turned state's evidence. He is now under the witness protection program and the police are helping the man to disappear.\nShepard's character wants Jim Bob to find his son and Richard volunteers to help. When the men find Freddy Russell, the film takes yet another darker turn and Dane gets in even deeper.\nHall plays a man who finds himself firmly immersed in the underbelly of southern crime. Porn films, snuff movies, the Dixie Mafia and wholesale bloodshed all leave the man shaken and changed by the end of the film. The arc for Richard Dane is a long and complex one. At the beginning when his neighbors are starring at the man who inadvertently killed an intruder in his home, Dane is uncomfortable with his notoriety.\n\"I didn't mean to shoot him,\" Richard says. When he shakingly loads his pistol, it is obvious that the man is nervous and scared. Later when he confronts the man in his living room, the clock striking is the trigger that makes him shoot. The camera shows the vividness of the victim's blood and later focusses on the couple cleaning up the crime scene and revealing just how destructive death is.\nLater on, when Dane joins up with Jim Bob and Russell Sr, he slowly gets acclimatized to weapons and being around them but he still hesitates to pull the trigger. A tendency that almost costs him his life and that of his two comrades. The film moves from what could have been a question of morality and the cost of taking another man's life into a modern noir of grim proportion.\nThe hunting down of the con's son and the discovery that Russell's offspring is beyond evil is as shocking as the video tape that they take from the giant thug they encounter at Freddy's house. All three of the male protagonists knock their performances out of the park. Shepard as Russell is a wraith, full of remorse, rage and deadly intentions. He does not suffer fools and his life has been harsh.\nDane has lived the existence of the small town businessman. He has a wife and child, is well thought of in the community and has never killed anyone before. His gradual descent into the hellish underworld of pornography and the Dixie mafia is shocking and Hall convinces that his character will never be the same again.\nDon Johnson as the Houston private eye and war friend of Russell is bigger than life and plays Jim Bob as a jaded man who has seen it all and paid the price. One can easily imagine that Richard Dane knows exactly how both men feel at the end of the film.\nAs a genre, Jim Mickle and Nick Damici have placed Cold in July in a category that could be called Southern Gothic Noir. At 109 minutes, the movie moves at a good pace and never drags. Some sequences of the film feel a bit like Cape Fear but not for long. The shape and direction of the movie changes quickly soon after and the viewer is taken into unknown territory.\nMichael C Hall is well known for his portrayal of the serial killer with a difference in Dexter. The actor has given a brilliant performance in this film and his fans will not be disappointed with his work on Cold in July. This is a real 5 out of 5 star film that enthralls from the first frame to the last. It is streaming on Showtime at the moment.\nAuthor Mike's Film TalkPosted on July 9, 2015 Categories Entertainment, Film ReviewsTags Cape Fear, Cold in July, Dexter, Don Johnson, entertainment, Film Review, Jim Mickle, Joe R Lansdale, Michael C Hall, Nick Damici, Sam Shepard, Stake LandLeave a comment on Cold in July (2014): Innocence Lost\nFifty Shades of Grey: Critic Verdicts\u2026Who Cares?\nFifty Shades of Grey continues to spark a bit of controversy as various critics (but not this one) have given their learned verdict about the film, but really\u2026Who cares? Certainly not the housewives who helped to make the book by middle-aged author E L James a runaway bestseller. Her target audience aren't looking for Shakespeare between the sheets here \u2013 or is that between the whipping posts \u2013 they are looking for fantasy.\nA dreamy escape from normalcy and the ever present pressures of trying to fit into the demanding world of modern feminism. These millions of fans have taken off their freedom and hung it temporarily in the closet while they enjoy the mastery of a self centered sadomasochist. It doesn't hurt that the male protagonist is unbelievably wealthy, and powerful, with the added bonus of being drop dead gorgeous to the female audience.\nChristian Grey was going to be Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy. He changed his mind quickly after being cast and backed out citing contract obligations with the hit television show he stars in. While fans of the book worked themselves into a frenzy over who would replace Charlie, the daughter of Melanie Griffiths and Don Johnson, Dakota Johnson, was named as the actress who would show all as Anastasia Steele.\nI personally have not gone to see the film. While still on the list for new screeners there is an issue of transportation as Phoenix is over 90 minutes away and I have no vehicle, but even if travel was not an issue, I would not be rushing to see it.\nI am not a prude, after hearing about the bloody books, (James \u2013 who started out writing fan fiction about Twilight \u2013 wrote another two sequels to the original sex fantasy for the middle-aged and middle-married heterosexual female fans) an E-book of the first tale was downloaded and read.\nWhile not being a housewife (Or feminist who fantasizes about it?) who yearns to be dominated by a man, I found Fifty Shades of Grey to be entertaining to a degree. James has a deft touch writing about the sex scenes while bludgeoning the reader with a female \"heroine\" who strains belief. Are there really college upper-grads who can manage to be that naive? But, in reality, are there any fans who care that her naivety is as real as ersatz eggs?\nToday's world reeks of sexuality and sensuality. Children are being sexualized at an alarming rate and the art of coitus is being practiced by teens who are barely past puberty. James has proven that, while she may never equal the great authors, she knows what sells.\nOne cannot go on the Internet without discovering that in today's world sex apparently equals pain of some sort. Sorry chaps, but despite what you've been told by those who want to salve your ego, size does matter. The bigger the better and all the more to hurt you with my dear.\nOh and if I can slap you around a bit and degrade you in the process that is the harsh icing on that bitter cake. Granted in the books, Anastasia is a somewhat reluctant but willing victim. Eventually liking the act of being submissive (while maintaining that ridiculous naivety throughout) and actually not managing to emotionally age by the end of the first book.\nAs I've said, reading the book provoked responses from me that were surprising. It is erotica, no doubt about that and, while not the finest, it causes the blood to rush and one can only imagine that the female fans must be ready to attack the first bloke they run into after reading a few chapters, or seeing a few reels\u2026\nWhich may be the main reason I not to watch the film version after learning that Hollywood was going to rake in the money from the author's fans. An entire cinema full Fifty Shades of Grey fans who sit in their seats squirming with excitement and imaginations running overtime is a frightening prospect.\n*I mean, seriously? Have you seen how women act around male strippers?*\nCritics of the male variety must have been mad to attend a non press preview, which I am sure existed, who cares what the rest of the world thinks. Women who are fans will go regardless of what some educated reviewer thinks.\nSo forgive me if I pass, the bloody book wasn't that erotic or well written. Even if, like the old Heineken advertisements used to say, it \"hits the parts that others can't reach\" for the female audience.\nAuthor Mike's Film TalkPosted on February 12, 2015 February 12, 2015 Categories EntertainmentTags Book, coitus, Dakota Johnson, Don Johnson, EL James, entertainment, erotica, Fifty Shades of Grey, film, Hollywood, Melanie Griffiths, sensuality, Sexuality, shakespeare, Sons of Anarchy2 Comments on Fifty Shades of Grey: Critic Verdicts\u2026Who Cares?\nCharlie Hunnam the Truth Comes Out?\nAfter the surprise announcement that Charlie Hunnam and the studios co-released stating the the Sons of Anarchy actor would not be playing Christian Grey after all, Fifty Shades of Greyfans have been wondering why the change of heart.\nAuthor Mike's Film TalkPosted on October 16, 2013 Format LinkCategories EntertainmentTags Anastasia Steele, Charlie Hunnam, Christian Grey, Dakota Johnson, Don Johnson, entertainment, Fifty Shades of Grey, Melanie Griffith, S&M, Sons of Anarchy, Universal StudiosLeave a comment on Charlie Hunnam the Truth Comes Out?\nCharlie Hunnam May be Joined by Dakota Johnson as Filmmakers Scramble\nFemale fans of Fifty Shades of Grey are mourning the news that E L James' favorite choice to play Christian Grey will not be Robert Pattinson now that Charlie Hunnam has stepped down. And now it looks like Dakota Johnson may join her ex co-star as the filmmakers scramble to find a replacement for their Sons of Anarchy casting choice.\nAuthor Mike's Film TalkPosted on October 15, 2013 Format LinkCategories EntertainmentTags Charlie Hunnam, Dakota Johnson, Don Johnson, entertainment, Fifty Shades of Grey, Melanie Griffith, Sons of Anarchy, The Social NetworkLeave a comment on Charlie Hunnam May be Joined by Dakota Johnson as Filmmakers Scramble\nFifty Shades of Grey Finally Cast Let the Bondage Begin\nAuthor Mike's Film TalkPosted on September 2, 2013 Format LinkCategories EntertainmentTags Antonio Bandaras, Ben and Kate, Charlie Hunnam, Dakota Johnson, Don Johnson, E L James, entertainment, Fifty Shades of Grey, Melanie Griffiths, Pacific Rim, Sons of Anarchy, The Social NetworkLeave a comment on Fifty Shades of Grey Finally Cast Let the Bondage Begin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\ud83d\udcdd MCQ\n\ud83d\udca1 Basics\nBasic Electrical\nCircuit Theory\nElectrical Laws\n\u26a1\ufe0f Power Systems\n\ud83e\udd16\ufe0f Machines\nElectrical Drives\n\ud83d\udcf1\ufe0f Electronics\nSubscribe \u2709\ufe0f\nMillman Theorem\nOctober 25, 2020 February 24, 2012 by Electrical4U\nMillman's theorem was named after famous electrical engineering professor JACOB MILLMAN who proposed the idea of this theorem. Millman's theorem acts as a very strong tool in case of simplifying the special type of complex electrical circuit. This theorem is nothing but a combination of Thevenin's Theorem and Norton's Theorem. It is very useful theorem to find out voltage across the load and current through the load.This theorem is also called as PARALLEL GENERATOR THEOREM.\nMillman's theorem is applicable to a circuit which may contain only voltage sources in parallel or a mixture of voltage and current sources connected in parallel. Let's discuss these one by one.\nCircuit consisting only Voltage Sources\nLet us have a circuit as shown in below figure a.\nHere V1, V2 and V3 are voltages of respectively 1st, 2nd and 3rd branch and R1, R2 and R3 are their respective resistances. IL, RL and VT are load current, load resistance and terminal voltage respectively.\nNow this complex circuit can be reduced easily to a single equivalent voltage source with a series resistance with the help of Millman's Theorem as shown in figure b.\nThe value of equivalent voltage VE is specified as per Millman's theorem will be \u2013\nThis VE is nothing but Thevenin voltage and Thevenin resistance RTH can be determined as per convention by shorting the voltage source. So RTH will be obtained as\nNow load current and terminal voltage can be easily found by\nLet's try to understand whole concept of Millman's Theorem with the help of a example.\nExample \u2013 1\nA circuit is given as shown in fig-c. Find out the voltage across 2 Ohm resistance and current through the 2 ohm resistance.\nAnswer : We can go through any solving method to solve this problem but the most effecting and time saving method will be none another than Millman's theorem. Given circuit can be reduced to a circuit shown in fig-d where equivalent voltage VE can be obtained by millman's theorem and that is\nEquivalent resistance or Thevenin resistance can be found by shorting the voltage sources as shown in fig \u2013 e.\nNow we can easily found the required current through 2 Ohm load resistance by Ohm's law.\nVoltage across load is,\nCircuit is Consisting Mixture of Voltage and Current Source\nMillman's Theorem is also helpful to reduce a mixture of voltage and current source connected in parallel to a single equivalent voltage or current source. Let's have a circuit as shown in below figure \u2013 f.\nHere all letters are implying their conventional representation.This circuit can be reduced to a circuit as shown in figure \u2013 g.\nHere VE which is nothing but thevenin voltage which will be obtained as per Millman's theorem and that is\nAnd RTH will be obtained by replacing current sources with open circuits and voltage sources with short circuits.\nNow we can easily find out load current IL and terminal voltage VT by Ohm's law.\nLet's have a example to understand this concept more properly.\nExample 2 :\nA circuit is given as shown in fig-h. Find out the current through load resistance where RL = 8 \u03a9.\nAnswer : This problem may seem to be difficult to solve and time consuming but it can easily be solved in a very less time with the help of Millman's Theorem. The given circuit can be reduced in a circuit as shown in fig \u2013 i. Where, VE can be obtained with the help of Millman's theorem,\nTherefore, current through load resistance 8 \u03a9 is,\nWant More Electrical Knowledge?\nEnter your email below to receive FREE informative articles on Electrical & Electronics Engineering\nAbout Electrical4U\nElectrical4U is dedicated to the teaching and sharing of all things related to electrical and electronics engineering.\nSubstitution Theorem\nMaximum Power Transfer Theorem\nNorton's Theorem: How To Find\u2026\nReciprocity Theorem\nSCADA System: What is it? (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)\nProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs): Basics, Types & Applications\nDiode: Definition, Symbol, and Types of Diodes\nThermistor: Definition, Uses & How They Work\nHalf Wave Rectifier Circuit Diagram & Working Principle\nLenz's Law of Electromagnetic Induction: Definition & Formula\nPlease feel free to contact us if you'd like to request a specific topic. Click here to see our privacy policy.\nWe are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Full disclaimer here.\n\u00a9 2021 Electrical4U","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Monetise & modernise' is our motto: PM on disinvestment\nReiterating the government's commitment towards privatisation of PSUs and asset monetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the motto of his government is to \"monetise and modernise\".\nAddressing a webinar on the Budget announcements for Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), the Prime Minister asked the private sector to come in support of the government's initiatives proposed in the Budget and help it prepare the roadmap for accelerated growth.\nEmphasising on the role of private sector, he said that the Budget also focused on the strong partnership between the private players and the Centre.\n\"When the government monetises, private sector comes in, along with investment and best global practices,\" he said.\nThe funds mobilised through asset monetisation and disinvestment will be used for public welfare measures, he said. He added the Budget has targeted monetising 100 government assets, which would create investment opportunities worth Rs 2.5 lakh crore.\nModi further said that the new policy will go a step ahead from annual disinvestment target and will take a medium-term strategic approach and help in selection of individual companies. This will create a clear roadmap for investment, as per the Prime Minister.\nObserving that the government's role is to encourage business enterprises and not to become its owner, he said: \"The government has no business to be in business.\"\nHe said that the government has to focus on development projects and welfare of the people and should be away from businesses.\nThe Prime Minister's address comes at a time when the government has re-strategised its disinvestment and asset monetisation policies with clear focus on privatisation.\nModi said that the Budget for FY22 has outlined a clear roadmap for India to move on the \"high growth trajectory\".\nHis emphasis on the privatisation policy also gains significance as the renewed push for disinvestment and asset monetisation has received criticism from the opposition who have termed the move as \"selling the family silver\".\nrrb\/sn\/kr\nInterfaith married couple gets police protection from Delhi HC\nIndia's forex reserves rise by over $2 bn\nDelhi man, family ordered to vacate aged mother's house\nFund outflows dampens equities; Sensex down over 400 pts (Roundup)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Guthrie Theater in co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre present\nby Danai Gurira\ndirected by Taibi Magar\nMcGuire Proscenium Stage\nA boisterous family drama\nThere's something old, something new and something borrowed in this feisty, heart-warming play about a Zimbabwean-American family preparing for their daughter Tendi's wedding. Marvelous and Donald have built their American dream in Minnesota, so when Tendi requests a traditional African blessing before marrying her white fianc\u00e9 from Minnetonka and a surprise guest drops a bombshell, the rehearsal dinner can't come soon enough. Family fireworks are interwoven with questions of cultural identity in this acclaimed play.\n\"Familiar conveys a lot of rich ideas, fosters deeper empathy and also entertains\u2014brilliantly.\"\nRead the Pioneer Press review.\n\"Director Taibi Magar's production is uproariously funny\"\nRead the Star Tribune review.\nDon't miss Danai Gurira's Familiar at the Guthrie!\nThe cast of Familiar by Danai Gurira, directed by Taibi Magar. Photo by Dan Norman.\nSh\u00e1 Cage (Tendi) and Quinn Franzen (Chris) in the the Guthrie Theater's production of Familiar. Photo by Dan Norman.\nSh\u00e1 Cage (Tendi), Harvy Blanks (Donald Chinyaramwira) and Quinn Franzen (Chris) in the the Guthrie Theater's production of Familiar. Photo by Dan Norman.\nQuinn Franzen (Chris), Michael Wieser (Brad), Wandachristine (Anne Mwarimba) and Austene Van (Prof. Margaret Munyewa) in the Guthrie Theater's production of Familiar. Photo by Dan Norman.\nThe cast of the Guthrie Theater's production of Familiar. Photo by Dan Norman.\nHarvy Blanks\nDonald Chinyaramwira\nMcGuire Proscenium\nClose Calendar Exit Icon\nGUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Broadway: Jitney. Off-Broadway: Tabletop, First Breeze of Summer, Guest at Central Park West. Williamstown Theatre Festival: Moscow x6; Yale Rep: Familiar;Theatreworks Palo Alto: Fire on the Mountain;Two River Theatre: Two Trains Running, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Denver Center: Ruined, The Piano Lesson, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Gem of the Ocean, Seven Guitars, King Hedley II, Radio Golf, A Raisin in the Sun, Purlie, many others. TELEVISION \"Black Rest,\" \"Preacher,\" \"Crime Story,\" \"Married with Children,\" \"Saved by the Bell.\" AWARDS Drama Desk Award for Tabletop. TRAINING University of Washington\nSh\u00e1 Cage\nTendi\nGUTHRIE Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, U\/G\/L\/Y, Clybourne Park, Appomattox, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. THEATER England: Hackney Empire, Nottingham Playhouse, The Albany, Zion Arts; Ten Thousand Things: Changelings, Henry IV, Forget Me Not When Far Away, Blood Wedding; Jungle Theater: Two Gentlemen of Verona; Frank Theatre: Grounded, Eclipsed, Fucking A, Venus; Park Square: The Liar, Mary T & Lizzy K; Penumbra Theatre: Ballad of Emmett Till, Amen Corner, Colored Girls; Mixed Blood: Ruined, Agnes Under the Big Top. FILM New Neighbors, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Midnight Chronicles, Radio. AWARDS Regional Emmy, Ivey Awards, McKnight Fellowship, Fox\/TCG Fellowship, Minnesota Women's Press Changemaker, Artist of the Year (City Pages\/Star Tribune\/Lavender)\nQuinn Franzen\nGUTHRIE We Are Proud to Present... THEATER Off-Broadway: Threesome, Diaspora; Intiman: Angels in America (pts. 1 & 2), Romeo and Juliet, Dirty Story; Seattle Rep: Hound of the Baskervilles; The Satori Group: Returning to Albert Joseph, The Land Is Always Known, reWilding; Seattle Shakespeare: Othello, The Importance of Being Earnest. TELEVISION \"Billions,\" \"The Blacklist,\" \"Younger,\" \"Grimm.\" EDUCATION LAMDA, Williams College\nPerri Gaffney\nDr. Marvelous Chinyamurindi\nGUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Having Our Say, To Kill A Mockingbird, Fences, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Steel Magnolias,*The Resurrection of Alice; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Intimate Apparel, Macbeth, Music Man, Death and the King's Horseman; Arena Stage: **Polk County. FILM\/TELEVISION So Close, Deep Trouble, Fake Preacher; \"As The World Turns,\" \"Law & Order,\" Law & Order: SVU.\" AWARDS *BTAA Best Actress, *AAAAC Best Actress, *BTAA Best Playwright Nomination, *BTAA Best Play Nomination, *Helen Hayes Award Best Actress Nomination, **Helen Hayes Award Best Supporting Actress Nomination\nWandachristine\nAnne Mwarimba\nGUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Artistic Affiliate Member of American Blues Theater.Beauty's Daughter, Old Settler, Thyestes, Fences, Oo-Bla-Dee, Gees Bend, I Love You More Than Shoes, I'm A Woman and I'm Bad, The Vagina Monologues. FILM\/TELEVISION Me and Mrs. Jones, The Engagement, The Mary Thomas Story, Open Admissions, Claire's Heart; \"Chicago PD,\" \"Judging Amy,\" \"ER.\" AUTHOR I Love You More\u2026Than Shoes! AWARDS 2018 Winner of Black Theater Alliance Award\/The Ruby Dee Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for Beauty's Daughter\nAish\u00e9 Keita\nGuthrie Debut. Theater Intiman Theater: Lysistrata, Wedding Band; Seattle Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, Bring Down the House, The Tempest; Freehold Engaged Prison Tour: Hamlet, Henry V, Emboldened; Book-it Repertory Theater: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Awards Gregory Awards: Best ensemble\/best play for Bring Down the House, Seattle Shakespeare Company. Training Cornish College of the Arts, A.C.T San Francisco Conservatory Summer\nAustene Van\nProf. Margaret Munyewa\nGUTHRIE Familiar, Disgraced, Trouble in Mind, Crowns, The Darker Face of the Earth. THEATER McCarter Theatre Center\/Milwaukee Repertory Theater: Disgraced; Penumbra Theatre: Wedding Band, The Owl Answers, Detroit '67, Spunk, The Amen Corner, Ain't Misbehavin', Dinah Was, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Seven Guitars; Theatre Latt\u00e9 Da: Aida; Indiana Repertory Theatre\/Cleveland Play House: Radio Golf; Ten Thousand Things: A Streetcar Named Desire, Henry IV, Into the Woods; Jungle Theater: In the Next Room; Park Square Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird; Children's Theatre Company: Shrek, Once on This Island, Ordway: Singin' in the Rain; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Hair. THEATER DIRECTION Yellow Tree Theatre: The Royale; Ordway: Annie, Blues in the Night; Ten Thousand Things: Intimate Apparel; Park Square Theatre: Gee's Bend, Lady Day \u2026 ; Penumbra Theatre: Black Nativity; History Theatre: Lonely Soldiers; New Dawn: Crowns. AWARDS McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship; Ivey Award\nMichael Wieser\nGUTHRIE Sense and Sensibility. THEATER The Classic Stage Company: The Cherry Orchard (with Diane Wiest and John Turturro); Exit Pursued By a Bear (EPBB) Theater Collective: These Seven Sicknesses; The Children's Theater: The Sneetches; The Jungle Theater: Le Switch; New Epic Theater: The Normal Heart, Coriolanus; WTF: She Stoops To Conquer, Never Swim Alone; Manhattan Arts Center: Hamlet (title role); Nichols Theater: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. FILM\/TELEVISION Ovum; \"Blue Bloods.\" AWARDS Ivey Award for Overall Excellence in Le Switch, Ivey Award for ensemble acting in Now or Later. TRAINING B.A., Kansas State University\nGUTHRIE Debut. THEATER As a playwright, Gurira's works include: In the Continuum (OBIE Award, Outer Critics Award, Helen Hayes Award), Eclipsed (Tony Award Nomination; NAACP Award; Helen Hayes Award), and The Convert (six Ovation Awards, Los Angeles Outer Critics Award). Familiar, Gurira's most recent play, received its world premiere at Yale Rep in 2015 and premiered in New York at Playwrights Horizons in 2016. FILM\/TELEVISION As an actor, Gurira has appeared in the films All Eyez on Me, The Visitor and Mother of George. She currently plays Michonne on AMC's \"The Walking Dead\" (NAACP Image Award nomination) and stars in the current Marvel feature film Black Panther. EDUCATION M.F.A., NYU's Tisch School of the Arts; B.A., Macalaster College. OTHER Gurira was born in the U.S. to Zimbabwean parents and raised in Zimbabwe. She serves as an ambassador for Bono's ONE campaign and is the founder of LOGpledge.org, an awareness building campaign focused on the plights of women and girls around the globe. She is also the co-founder of Almasi Arts, which works to give access and opportunity to the African Dramatic Artist. almasiartsalliance.org\nTaibi Magar\nGUTHRIE Familiar, We Are Proud to Present \u2026 THEATER New York: Blue Ridge, The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Company); Is God Is (Soho Rep.); Master (The Foundry Theatre); Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova); International: Hamburg Theater Festival; Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Soho Rep. (London); Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne); Regional: A.R.T.; Seattle Rep; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Chautauqua Theater Company; Alley Theatre; Theatre Under the Stars; Trinity Rep; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Shakespeare & Company. UPCOMING The Shed: Untitled Claudia Rankine Project; Signature Theatre: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. AWARDS Obie Award (Is God Is). TRAINING M.F.A., Directing, Brown University\/Trinity Rep\nAdam Rigg\nScenic Designer\nGUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Manhattan Theater Club: Actually;Soho Rep: Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, Is God Is;New York Theater Workshop: The House that Will Not Stand;Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two;The Public Theater: or how i became an ice princess;The Foundry Theatre: O'Earth, Living Here;Mark Taper Forum: Water by the Spoonful. OPERA Opera Omaha: Proving Up, Faust; Opera Philadelphia: Breaking The Waves; LA Opera: Prism. AWARDS Princess Grace Award, two-time American Theatre Wing Henry Hewe's Design Award nominee. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama; B.A., UCLA\nGUTHRIE The Lion in Winter. THEATER Two River Theater: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Your Blues Ain't Sweet Like Mine, Trouble in Mind, Jitney, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars; Second Stage: The Happiest Song Plays Last; Dallas Theater Center: Dreamgirls, Clybourne Park, A Raisin in the Sun, Regina Taylor's Trinity River Plays; Signature: Stop. Reset., The Piano Lesson; Mark Taper: Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Goodman Theatre: Crowns; Pasadena Playhouse: Blues for an Alabama Sky; Arena Stage: A Time to Kill, Resurrection; The Public\/McCarter: The Brother\/Sister Plays; NYTW: Things of Dry Hours; McCarter Theatre: Having Our Say. Perry has designed eight of the 10 August Wilson plays. FILM\/TELEVISION Select credits include: The Brother from Another Planet; \"Gregory Hines Show\" and \"Saturday Night Live\"\nTom Mays\nLighting and Projections Designer\nGUTHRIE Projection Design: The Parchman Hour, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Third, The Sex Habits of American Women; Lighting Design: Familiar, Stage Kiss, An Iliad, Time Stands Still (also projections), Arsenic and Old Lace, Macbeth, The Caretaker; Lighting and projection supervisor. THEATER Minnesota Dance Theatre (selected): Orpheus and Euridice, Nutcracker Fantasy; Theater Mu (selected): Circle Around the Island, Cowboy Versus Samurai; Mixed Blood Theatre (selected): The Mad Dancers, Take Me Out, Wait Until Dark; Minnesota Opera (selected): Little Women, La Boh\u00e8me, Street Scene; Spoleto Festival: Hay Fever; Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts; More than 30 productions as scenic designer. FILM\/TELEVISION Le Petomane (art direction); \"Days of Our Lives.\" TRAINING M.F.A., University of California, San Diego; B.A., Colorado College\nScott W. Edwards\nGUTHRIE More than 140 productions since 1997. THEATER A.R.T.\/St. Ann's Warehouse\/West End: Nice Fish; Seattle Repertory Theatre; San Jose Repertory Theatre; Children's Theatre Company (more than 40 productions); Jungle Theater (more than 15 productions); Penumbra Theatre (eight productions); Mixed Blood Theatre; Illusion Theater; Arizona Theatre Company; Ballet of the Dolls (founding member); Theater Mu; Eye of the Storm; Teatro Latino; Minnesota Opera. RADIO Production manager and live sound engineer for \"A Prairie Home Companion.\" AWARDS 2018\u20132019 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship; Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award (The Kite Runner, San Jose Repertory Theatre); Star Tribune Outstanding Sound Designer (Pride and Prejudice, The Pirates of Penzance); Helen Hayes Award nomination (You Can't Take It With You, Arena Stage)\nCarla Steen\nGUTHRIE More than 60 productions since 1996, most recently including Noura, Steel Magnolias, The Glass Menagerie, Guys and Dolls, Cyrano de Bergerac, As You Like It, Noises Off, Frankenstein \u2013 Playing With Fire, West Side Story, Familiar, Blithe Spirit, Romeo and Juliet, Sunday in the Park With George, King Lear, The Lion in Winter and Sense and Sensibility. THEATER Dramaturgy for the University of Minnesota\/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program, Hammerstein Center, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Augsburg University (Cymbeline directed by Darcey Engen). PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). TRAINING M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Augsburg University\nLucinda Holshue\nVocal Coach\nGUTHRIE 61 productions since 2003, most recently Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens, The Royal Family, A Christmas Carol, Sense and Sensibility and South Pacific. THEATER Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Arkansas Repertory Theater; Girl Friday Productions; Jungle Theater; Children's Theatre; Park Square Theatre; Walking Shadow; Torch Theater; Penumbra Theatre; Asolo Theater and Conservatory; Centennial Showboat. TEACHING Senior lecturer, voice\/speech\/text\/dialect for University of Minnesota\/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program; A Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training; Florida State University\/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training; Conservatory for Actor Training at the University of Cincinnati; Kent State University; San Diego State University. TRAINING M.F.A., University of California, San Diego; Canadian Voice Intensive; Roy Hart Theatre Company.\nJustin Hossle\nGUTHRIE Stage manager: As You LIke It, Familiar, Romeo and Juliet, The Bluest Eye, We Are Proud to Present \u2026 , The Parchman Hour, Trouble in Mind, The White Snake, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Skiing on Broken Glass, Embers, Much Ado About Nothing, After a Hundred Years; Assistant stage manager: More than 25 productions, including A Christmas Carol, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Sunday in the Park With George, The Music Man, The Winter's Tale, The 39 Steps, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide \u2026 , Little House on the Prairie and Private Lives. THEATER Shakespeare & Company; Theater Latt\u00e9 Da; Illusion Theater; Theatre de la Jeune Lune; Minnesota Opera. TRAINING B.A., University of Northern Iowa. www.hosslewoodworks.com\nTodd Kalina\nGUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Minneapolis: Theater Latt\u00e9 Da: Six Degrees of Separation; Children's Theatre Company: Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch\u2026, Cinderella. Broadway: An Act of God, King Charles III (U.S. premiere), Airline Highway. Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company: world premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, FOUND; Signature Theatre: Angel Reapers; Manhattan Theatre Club: Of Good Stock. Other credits: Ordway, The History Theatre, The Acting Company, Giants are Small, The Juilliard School, NYMF, and many readings and workshops throughout the years. TELEVISION Tony Awards, NFL Honors, \"Showtime at the Apollo,\" \"Ink Master.\" UPCOMING Underneath the Lintel with Theater Latt\u00e9 Da. @toddikalina\nKecha Nickson\nAssistant Vocal Coach\nGUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Kecha has taught voice and served as dialect coach for Syracuse Stage, Syracuse Drama Department, the NYU Graduate Acting Department, eta Theatre, and Purdue University's Artist in Residence for The New Directional Players.TRAINING M.F.A., Graduate Acting Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts\nWant to dig deeper into the story? Download the play guide.\nJan 11 \u2013 Feb 16\nA story of identity and belonging\nFeb 8 \u2013 March 22","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library\nBy Michelle Shocklee\nA few weeks ago, hubby and I drove down to Biloxi, Mississippi for a long weekend with our two grown sons, who drove in from Texas. We weren't able to see them for Christmas, so I was truly looking forward to some quality time with my kiddos. Before we left town, however, people kept asking, \"Are you going to Biloxi to gamble at the casinos?\" What?! Quite honestly, we didn't know there were casinos down there, nor did we have any interest in losing our hard-earned money. We simply wanted a beach getaway weekend with our boys. It was wonderful!\nBut casinos weren't the only unexpected site awaiting us. As history geeks, we enjoy visiting old houses, museums, and such, so you can imagine our 'geek radar' going off as we drove past an old white house, gleaming in the Mississippi sunshine. I read the sign out front --- Beauvoir --- and quickly Googled it. Was I ever shocked to discover who had once lived there!\nNow, before I get into the history of Beauvoir, I have to clarify something. My great-grandfather fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. I'm immensely proud of that fact. As an author of historical fiction that deals with the evils of slavery, you can be assured this post is not meant to honor anyone associated with the Confederacy. It's simply to share about an historic and interesting place we visited while on vacation.\nHubby and eldest son at Beauvoir\nBeauvoir, which means \"beautiful view,\" was built in the mid-1800s by James Brown, a prosperous planter from Madison County, Mississippi, who wanted a summer home for his family. Because of its location on the beach facing the Gulf of Mexico, the house was built as a raised cottage, meaning its foundation is placed on massive pillars, not flat on the ground, allowing flood waters to flow through the ground level. With wide porches all around, high ceilings, and big windows, Beauvoir was designed to welcome cooling breezes from the gulf in the days before air-conditioning. With only eight rooms, Beauvoir has a simple floor plan, with some of the bedrooms being accessed from porches instead of hallways. In addition to the main house, Brown constructed two smaller cottages in what is now the front yard and some service buildings in the back, such as a fine brick kitchen. The Brown family owned Beauvoir for about twenty-five years.\nSarah Ellis Dorsey\nIn 1873, Sarah Ellis Dorsey, a famous and wealthy author from Natchez, Mississippi, bought the house and christened it Beauvoir. After her husband's death in 1875, the widow invited former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who was ill and nearly bankrupt, to visit the plantation. She offered him a cottage called the Pavilion near the main house, where he could live and work on his autobiography, \"Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.\" He ended up living at Beauvoir the rest of his life. In 1878, Sarah, ill with cancer, remade her will, bequeathing her entire estate, including Beauvoir, to Jefferson Davis, making his youngest daughter, Varina Anne Davis, known as \"Winnie,\" the heir after her father died. Sarah died in July 1879. Some records indicate Jefferson Davis offered to buy Beauvoir for $5,500, making at least one payment before Sarah passed.\nJefferson Davis' political and military life prior to the Civil War was varied. He was a graduate of West Point, a hero in the Battle of Monterrey during the Mexican-American War, and a senator from Mississippi. When Davis served in Washington, he helped get the Smithsonian Institution up and running after the founder, James Smithson, died. In his private life, he was a married father of several children. In 1860, he owned 113 slaves who worked at his plantation, Brierfield. In the months before the Civil War, Davis resigned from the Senate and was selected as president of the Confederacy. When the war ended, he was charged with treason and, although he was never tried or convicted, he lost the right to run for public office.\nFollowing the death of Jefferson Davis, the home passed to his daughter, Winnie. Winnie, however, wasn't interested in caring for a large house in Mississippi, and instead moved to New York. When Winnie passed away at the age of 34, Davis' widow, Varina Howell Davis, inherited. In her will, she expressed her wish that Beauvoir be turned into a retirement home for Confederate soldiers. Her wishes were granted, and hundreds of veterans and some Confederate widows moved in, living in barracks constructed for them. A hospital, dining room, and chapel were also added. In 1953, the home became a museum.\nIn 1998, the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library opened. Inside is an auditorium showing a film about Davis, a large museum that highlights his long and eventful life, and a library for research. Some of his own books are available for viewing.\nJefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum\nAll in all, our visit to Beauvoir was interesting. We may not agree with the choices Jefferson Davis made before, during, or after the Civil War, but he will always be a historical figure in American history.\nYour turn: Have you ever visited Beauvoir? What are you thoughts on it?\nMichelle Shocklee is the award-winning author of The Planter's Daughter and The Widow of Rose Hill, historical sagas set on a Texas cotton plantation before and after the Civil War. Her time-slip novel set in Nashville will release in September 2020 from Tyndale House Publishers. Michelle and her husband of 32 years make their home in Tennessee. Connect with her at www.MichelleShocklee.com.\nTHE WIDOW OF ROSE HILL\nWidowed during the war, Natalie Ellis finds herself solely responsible for Rose Hill plantation. When\nUnion troops arrive with a proclamation freeing the slaves, all seems lost. In order to save her son's inheritance she strikes a deal with the arrogant, albeit handsome, Colonel Maish. In exchange for use of her family's property, the army will provide workers to bring in her cotton crop. But as her admiration for the colonel grows, a shocking secret is uncovered. Can she trust him with her heart and her young, fatherless son?\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B078CN65FH\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0\nPosted by Michelle Shocklee at 12:00\u202fAM\nLabels: 1800s, American Civil War, American history, Civil War, Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, Michelle Shocklee, Presidents\nLinda Matchett February 7, 2020 at 6:58\u202fAM\nVery interesting! I've not had a chance to visit Beauvior, so thanks for sharing about it.\nMichelle Shocklee February 7, 2020 at 7:27\u202fPM\nThank you and you're welcome, Linda!\nMarlene\/Novellady February 7, 2020 at 9:16\u202fAM\nInformative post, Michelle. Don't feel it's necessary to justify writing about Jefferson Davis or his home. As you said, he is a significant historical figure of this nation. History is history whether it's good, bad or indifferent. All our country's history should be told and examined in truth...period Acknowledging or writing about a place or person does not mean you support their views or the function. It was a good post and the Beauvior is a beautiful looking place.\nThank you, Marlene. You're right about history being history. Can't change it, but can definitely learn from it!\nKailey Bechtel February 7, 2020 at 7:24\u202fPM\nI've been to Biloxi a couple of times, but haven't had a chance to go to Beauvoir\nKailey, it was an interesting place to visit.\nConnie R. February 8, 2020 at 8:15\u202fAM\nThanks for posting! I love the travels I take with all of you.\nMichelle Shocklee February 8, 2020 at 12:47\u202fPM\nThanks for going along with us, Connie! =D","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"International Advisors\nWhy CCS?\nMeeting the climate challenge\nUnderstanding CCS\nData & Knowledge\nCCS Strategy\nPublications, Reports & Research\nGlobal Status Report\nCO\u2082RE Database\nCCS Image Library\nAudio and Visual Library\nHome > Media Releases > New wave of CCS activity: Ten large-scale projects announced\nNew wave of CCS activity: Ten large-scale projects announced\nLocation(s): Washington DC\nWashington, DC \u2013 The Global CCS Institute, a think tank, announced that ten large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities were verified and added to its database. \"There are now 51 CCS facilities globally \u2013 19 in operation, four under construction, and 28 in various stages of development with an estimated combined capture capacity of 96 million tonnes of CO2 per annum\", said Brad Page, CEO, Global CCS Institute. \"We are thrilled to see this new momentum of CCS project announcements globally. Eight of the ten facilities added are in the US, where policy confidence has resulted in increased project activity\", he adds.\nThe Global CCS Institute identifies and tracks large-scale CCS projects around the world.\nThe new US projects cover applications such as ammonia production, ethanol production, power, direct air capture, and integrated commercial storage hubs. CO2 storage hubs, which can store large amounts of CO2, remove barriers to CCS investment and help to bring down costs.\n\"These carbon capture and geologic storage projects across multiple industries and different regions of the country underscore how the revamped federal 45Q tax credit, coupled in some cases with DOE funding for engineering, is stimulating early project development and investment,\" said Brad Crabtree, Vice President for Carbon Management at the Great Plains Institute and director of the Carbon Capture Coalition. \"This is just the beginning\u2014we will see even more projects emerge as soon as the U.S. Treasury comes out with its long-delayed guidance on the 45Q credit.\"\nThe US-based projects are the result of a combination of sustained government support for CCS deployment and progressive incentive mechanisms triggering private sector action. These include the 45Q tax credit and the eligibility of CCS to receive credits under California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The project update also comes on the heels of the US Department of Energy announcing $110 million in federal funding for CCS, including support for Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) Studies for nine CCS projects.\n\"CCUS plays an important role in reducing emissions and in carbon dioxide removal in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's pathways that can limit warming to 1.5-2.0 degrees Celsius. I am encouraged that a diverse set of projects are moving forward across a variety of sectors and applications\", said Karl Hausker, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute Climate Program.\nTwo of the projects added were announced by Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, which already operates the Century Plant CCS facility. They include capturing the CO2 from two ethanol facilities, as well as the largest direct air capture project to date, aimed at capturing 1 Mtpa of CO2. The projects are expected to be designed to be eligible for both 45Q and the LCFS. In addition to the projects it is leading, the company also announced a letter of intent for a CO2 offtake agreement with a carbon-negative fuel production facility recently.\n\"We're excited to expand our existing carbon capture project plans,\" said OLCV President Richard Jackson. \"Development of carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies is core to Oxy Low Carbon Ventures' mission to advance a low carbon economy, and these new projects will open a pathway to producing fully carbon-neutral or even net-negative fuels.\"\nThe global project pipeline also includes important technology developments including what could become the first large-scale direct air capture (DAC) project, as well as what could become the first large-scale CCS application on a natural gas power plant with the UK-based Clean Gas Project. In the Middle East, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is adding a second CCS plant to its portfolio. The company is also operating the first CCS project on a steel plant. CCS, which is seen as vital to achieving climate goals, enjoys broad and diverse support.\n\"It's exciting to see the growing project pipeline for CCS projects both in the US and around the globe. Our hope is that these new projects will demonstrate the importance of investment in CCS and its vital role in creating jobs and sustaining communities\", said Cecile Conroy, Director Government Affairs Department, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers.\nThis new wave of CCS projects update comes ahead of the release of the Global Status of CCS 2019 Report on December 9 at COP25. The report is the Global CCS Institute's annual, flagship report and details progress, policies and projects on CCS globally.\nLee Beck (Washington DC): +1 202 677 9053 lee.beck@globalccsinstitute.com\nAnnya Schneider (Brussels): +32 255 03972 annya.schneider@globalccsinstitute.com\nLucy Temple-Smith (Melbourne): +61 466 982 068 lucy.temple-smith@globalccsinstitute.com\nAbout the Global CCS Institute: The Global CCS Institute is an international think tank whose mission is to accelerate the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a vital technology to tackle climate change and provide energy security. For more information, visit www.globalccsinstitute.com\nBack to Media Releases\nGet the latest CCS updates\nCCS Network\nCO2degrees\n\u00a9 2018 Global CSS Institute\nThe Global CCS Institute has tried to make information on this website as accurate as possible. However, it does not guarantee that the information is totally accurate or complete. Therefore, the information on this website should not be relied upon solely when making commercial decisions. Some sections of this website are open to public participation. For more information, visit the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement for this website.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Here are our stories\nParamedic's Pics Show Changing Face Of NHS\nA paramedic has spent more than 40 YEARS photographing the changing face of the NHS - and published his pictures in a new book.\nAmateur photographer Chris Porsz, 67, spent many of his day's off over the last four decades accompanying colleagues to capture the patient's journey from the 999 call to the hospital. He has taken hundreds of pictures of doctors, nurses, patients and wards at three hospitals in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and now produced a book, 'Just Be Kind', with part proceeds going to Breast Cancer Research.\nChris took dozens of photos over the years, whilst working as a porter and later a paramedic, and his pictures offer a unique behind-the-scenes view of the NHS from the 1980s, with nurses neatly dressed in blue gingham and frilly hats, to the present with masked doctors dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. His collection of more than 350 candid photos show how the NHS has gone through incredible changes, with advances in medicine and technology, but that the camaraderie has remained the same, with staff comforting patients and each other as they tackle everyday emergencies.\n\"Head staff at the hospital knew I enjoyed photography so invited me to document what goes on behind the scenes over the years,\" said Chris, who initially worked as a porter and later as a paramedic at Peterborough District Hospital in Cambridgeshire. \"There have been huge changes in the NHS during the decades and it's fascinating to look back at the pictures now and see how different it used to be.\"\nChris' pictures from the 1980s show off-duty nurses drinking alcohol and smoking in a social club and radiographers processing film x-rays, rather than digital images which we have today. Other early photos show smiling hospital cleaners hard at work, neatly-dressed nurses and medics cuddling patients. Staff are seen protesting against low pay in 1982 and ambulance staff are pictured during the pay dispute of 1989. In later pictures nurses are seen wearing tunics and trousers, staff are seen operating with the latest equipment and crowds gather outside the hospital to clap for the NHS during the coronavirus lockdown.\nChris, who became a porter in 1974 and a paramedic in 1988 said that some of the biggest changes have been in the A&E department, where victims of car crashes were very common in the 1980s.\nHe said: \"In the past, before seat belt laws were introduced, and helmets for motorcyclists, the trauma was horrendous. I remember going along a line of six victims on trolleys with a bucket and sponge to wipe the blood away so that the nurses and doctors could see the wounds. They would then spend hours picking out the glass and suturing. A&E staff would consist of a doctor, sister, staff nurse, auxiliary nurse, cleaner and radiographer, who was on call if needed. The doctor would go to bed when it got quieter and a consultant called in from home if needed. Staff are non-stop and more stressed now trying to keep up with the demand. It's rare to see such carnage now, but the A&E department is busier than ever as fortunately people are living longer with better treatments but with complex needs and conditions or increasingly elderly population.\"\nChris said new technology had also changed the way the hospital operated, with CT and MRI scans now available, as well as digital x-rays. \"In the past one radiographer would deal with half a dozen road traffic victims and have to process the film, before they could see the injuries. Now it is digital and x-ray results are instant,\" he added. \"All these things make a huge difference.\"\nPeterborough District Hospital was built in continuous phases between 1960 and 1968 and was closed in 2010, then re-built on a different site as Peterborough City Hospital. Photos in the book show the original hospital being demolished and later rebuilt.\n\"We all have very fond memories of the old hospital. It was a bit like a village and a lot smaller so you quickly got to know everyone and we all had a lot of time for each other,\" said Chris. \"Now the hospital is quite anonymous, with big long corridors and everyone keeps to their own wards and offices, so it's a very different atmosphere. It's quite relentless for doctors and nurses now, with many working 12-hour shifts, but in the past there was more time to socialise.\"\nOur Story Appeared In","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Browse Average Salary Ranges for Entry Level Jobs\nWhat are the average salary ranges for jobs in the Entry Level? There are 1350 jobs in Entry Level category. Average salaries can vary and range from $39,212 to $116,145. Salary ranges can differ significantly depending on the job, industry, location, required experience, specific skills, education, and other factors... Salaries listed below are U.S. national averages data from December 28, 2020.\nAlternate Job Titles: Attorney I | Attorney, Entry | Lawyer I\nReviews contracts involving leases, licenses, purchases, sales, insurance, etc., and reviews drafts of various agreements and documents. Provides legal advice to an organization, prepares resolutions, reports, guidelines and participates in major legal actions. Works closely with other departments to foresee and protect company against legal risks. Participates in Legal department initiatives such... View job details\nAttorney I\nAlternate Job Titles: Associate Attorney | Attorney, Entry | Lawyer I\nAttorney, Entry\nAlternate Job Titles: Attorney I | Associate Attorney | Lawyer I\nAttorney, Entry - Employment Law\nAlternate Job Titles: Employment Law Attorney I | Employment Counsel I | Labor and Employment Attorney I\nResponsible for analyzing proposed and established legislation, preparing legal documents, and reviewing company policies. Advises management on legal matters and ensures compliancy to protect company against legal liability. Requires a Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school. Requires admittance to a state bar. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit\/department. Work is closely... View job details\nAttorney, Entry - Patents\nAlternate Job Titles: Patent Attorney I | Patent Agent\/Attorney I | Patent Prosecution Attorney I\nDetermines potential of granting patents on inventions or trademarks, and monitors possibility of infringement. Responsible for preparing and filing patent applications and trademark registrations, litigating pending applications and registrations, and reporting possible violations. Prosecutes violations of organization's registrations and\/or patents. Requires a Juris Doctor degree from an accredi... View job details\nAbout MFG Nondurable Industry\nConsumer Goods, also known as final goods, is the production of products and commodities that are purchased by individuals for their consumption. Consumer goods are products that are ultimately consumed rather than used in the production of another good. This includes products such as, food and beverages, clothing, toys, jewelry, sporting equipment, and other similar types of goods.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/Rep. Debbie Dingell Responds to Trump Suggesting Her Late Husband is in Hell\nentertainment19th December 2019\nRep. Debbie Dingell Responds to Trump Suggesting Her Late Husband is in Hell\nRep. Dingell at an impeachment rally in September.\nPhoto: Paul Morigi\/Getty Images for MoveOn Politica\nAs Donald Trump told a crowd in Battle Creek that the deceased Michigan Representative John Dingell might be in hell, his widow Debbie Dingell, who occupies his former seat, was back in Washington on the House floor as Democrats voted to impeach him.\n\"Debbie Dingell, that's a real beauty,\" Trump said, \"So, she calls me up, like, eight months ago \u2014 her husband was here a long time.\" It was actually Trump who called Dingell after her husband's death in February.\nIn a series of unfinished sentences and odd impersonations, Trump went on to claim that Debbie had asked for special treatment to honor John, requesting that flags be lowered and that he lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, which never happened.\n\"But I didn't give him the B treatment,\" Trump said. \"I didn't give him the C or the D \u2014 I could've. I gave the A-plus treatment.\" As if to impersonate Debbie, he said, \"Take down the flags.\" Then, in a voice that suggested someone else asked him the question, he said, \"Why you taking them down?\" He answered the question in his own voice, \"For ex-Congressman Dingell.\" Then he assumed the other character, \"Oh, OK.\" Then he was Debbie again, \"Do this, do that, do that. Rotunda.\"\n\"Everything,\" he said, \"I gave him everything. That's OK. I don't want anything for it. I don't need anything for anything. She calls me up, 'It's the nicest thing that's ever happened, thank you so much, John would be so thrilled, he's looking down, he'd be so thrilled. Thank you so much, sir.' I said that's OK, don't worry about it. Maybe he's looking up, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe.\"\nSome people in the crowd groaned, but at first, Debbie Dingell had no reaction at all.\n\"What did he say?\" she asked me, in disbelief. She'd just left the House floor with a group of her colleagues, including Fred Upton, a Republican member from Michigan, when I reached out to ask her if she wanted to comment. I told her what the president said, apologizing for even repeating the words.\nShe paused. She said she wasn't sure what to say. She said she had to think about it.\nForty-five minutes later, she issued her statement: \"Mr. President, let's set politics aside. My husband earned all his accolades after a lifetime of service. I'm preparing for the first holiday season without the man I love. You brought me down in a way you can never imagine and your hurtful words just made my healing much harder.\"\nTo me, she said: \"I've been one of the most measured members there is, so he may be mad because \u2014 I don't know why he's mad. I can't explain why he's fixated on me.\"\nI couldn't stop picturing a moment from earlier this year, when I saw the congresswoman at a campaign stop for Joe Biden in Detroit. Biden, who was widowed at age 30 and who has also lost two children, was a close friend of John's, and I looked on as he embraced her and whispered in her ear. I couldn't hear what he told her, but she nodded solemnly. \"I love you,\" he said, as he walked away. She said she loved him, too.\nShe turned around and took questions from a few of the reporters who saw the exchange. She apologized as her eyes welled with tears. \"I'm sorry,\" she said. \"I really miss my husband today.\" I noticed she was wearing a collection of his rings on a chain around her neck.\n\"I think it's what makes me a better member,\" she told me later. \"You know what I do? I miss John everyday, and I have really hard days, and you keep yourself so busy that you can't feel. You just keep going so you don't have time to think or feel, and you take that energy of missing somebody as much as I miss my husband, and you take that and put it into a passion of helping other people. I'm raw. I'm sad. But I'm not gonna sit home and feel sorry for myself. I'm gonna go out and do what he would want me to do, and that is to be there for other people.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"People may be struggling to pay the premiums, but they could also face much higher costs when they access care,\" says Laurel Lucia, an Affordable Care Act expert at University of California at Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education.\nConsider this: A 40-year-old who earns $30,000 a year and buys his plan from Covered California could spend 28% of his income on premiums and cost-sharing before he reaches his out-of-pocket maximum, she says.\nAdmittedly, that's a worst-case scenario and it's rare for people to hit their out-of-pocket maximums. But if they do, Lucia says, \"most people at that income level would not be able to afford those costs.\"\n65% of California residents who are newly insured since Jan. 1, 2014 say they're not confident they can afford major medical costs\nQuestion: I pay a monthly premium but still have a huge deductible and out-of-pocket amounts. Should I just forego the insurance and pay the Obamacare tax penalty?\nAnswer: I wouldn't advise anyone to be uninsured. The financial stakes are too high.\nBut as Melody Lewis, 60, rightly notes, the financial stakes can be high even with insurance.\nLewis has a silver-level plan from Covered California, the state health insurance exchange. It has a $2,000 medical deductible and $6,250 out-of-pocket maximum.\nA deductible is the amount you owe for covered health care services before your insurance starts to pay. An out-of-pocket maximum is the most you would pay during the term of your health policy \u2014 usually one year \u2014 before your insurance begins paying 100% of covered services.\nThe Hemet resident has degenerative disc disease in her neck and has shelled out more than $4,000 for treatment this year that isn't covered by her insurance and therefore isn't counted toward her deductible.\n\"It basically turns out to be catastrophic insurance,\" says Lewis, who retired to care for her husband and is on a fixed income.\nA recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey of 4,555 Californians found that 65% of California residents who are newly insured since Jan. 1, 2014 say they're not confident they can afford major medical costs.\nOnce again, these are people with insurance.\nThis problem isn't unique to Covered California, but the agency says it is making some changes next year to reduce out-of-pocket costs, such as capping the amount consumers have to pay each month for specialty drugs.\nIt also will offer bronze plan holders lab work, some outpatient services and three office visits \u2014 including visits to specialists \u2014 that are not subject to the deductible, says spokesman James Scullary. For silver plan holders, medical imaging such as MRIs will no longer be subject to the deductible, he says.\nAmong Covered California's \"metal tiers,\" bronze plans have the lowest monthly premiums but the highest out-of-pocket costs. Platinum plans have the highest monthly premiums, but lower out-of-pocket costs.\nIn that way, out-of-pocket affordability is often a \"bronze\" problem. The Urban Institute found that among insured adults, those with higher deductibles have more problems paying medical bills.\nPhilip Baron, 54, of Northridge purchased a bronze health savings account (HSA) plan through Covered California for his family of four.\nBased on the plan summary, he thought the deductible was $4,500 per individual, up to a family total of $9,000. But when his wife was treated for a kidney stone last year, he was shocked to learn insurance wouldn't start paying for her until the entire $9,000 family deductible was met.\n\"It is so confusing,\" he says. \"I don't know how any consumer can possibly understand that.\"\nThe Urban Institute found that among insured adults, those with higher deductibles have more problems paying medical bills.\nStarting next year, Covered California says individuals in families with bronze HSA plans will only be responsible for meeting the individual amount for the deductible and out-of-pocket maximum, not the entire family amount, before their benefits kick in.\nLesson: Know your plan and don't judge on price alone.\nIf you're healthy and don't usually need much medical care, perhaps a low-premium, high-deductible bronze plan is right for you. But be prepared: You may need to shell out thousands of dollars if you're in an accident or get sick.\nIf you're already battling an illness or take several medications, consider spending more on your premium in exchange for lower out-of-pocket costs.\n\"In hindsight, maybe I should have selected one of those gold or platinum plans,\" Baron says. \"We would have saved a lot more money.\"\nFor those of you struggling to pay your share of the medical bill, even if you're insured, check with your provider to see if you qualify for a discount. For instance, most hospitals have financial assistance policies based on income.\nSome organizations also offer grants to people struggling with bills. One, called the HealthWell Foundation, helps people with certain diseases \u2014 including hepatitis C and melanoma \u2014 pay for some out-of-pocket expenses.\nSince it started in 2004, it has awarded grants to about 200,000 people, including nearly 11,000 Californians.\nThere are strict eligibility guidelines, including income limits. Find out more at www.healthwellfoundation.org.\nFinally, we'll know more about next year's affordability picture soon. Covered California plans to unveil its 2016 health plan premiums by early August.\nEmily Bazar is a reporter with the California Health Care Foundation's Center for Health Reporting. Contact her: AskEmily@usc.edu. The CHCF Center for Health Reporting partners with news organizations to cover California health policy. Located at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, it is funded by the nonpartisan California HealthCare Foundation.\nHow to pay your federal income taxes\nWhat you need to know about bank accounts\nBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press\nAbout 10,000 live-in childcare workers from around the world will be paid an average of $3,500 each under a class-action settlement that alleged exploitation of the mostly young women who perform the jobs.\nMORE PERSONAL FINANCE\nNorth Carolina GOP Rep. Grange enters 2020 governor's race\nHundreds attend funeral for veteran with no known relatives\nWill a summer job burn your financial aid for college?\nUS home construction slips 0.9% to 1.25 million in June\nSanders defends 'Medicare for All' after criticism by Biden","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hardcover Details\nMargaret Harrell\nThe \"Hell's Angels\" Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic\nMargaret A. Harrell, author\nAdult; Memoir; (Market)\nThe first new writing by Hunter Thompson to be published since his death in 2005, The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic is an important revelation in the legacy of Thompson, with high-end full-color scans ofletters that survived precarious shipping and travel over decades, cloaked away from the public. \"If Hell's Angels hadn't happened I never would have been able to write Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or anything else . . . I felt like I got through a door just as it was closing,\" Hunter told Paris Review. When he secured a hardcover contract with Jim Silberman (Random House), the known part of the story breaks off. To whip up the final edits, Margaret A. Harrell, a young copy editor\/assistant editor to Jim, was\u2014in a break from the norm\u2014given full rein to work with him by expensive long-distance phone and letter. This galvanizing action led to a fascinating tale. She uses the letters to resuscitate the cloaked, suspenseful withheld drama. The book peaks in their romantic get-together at his ranch twenty-one years after they last met, a moving tie maintained over the years.\nDavid Wills, Beatdom Review\nFinding the truth amidst the Gonzo madness of Hunter Thompson's life story is not easy. He was an incorrigible self-mythologiser and the books about him tend to incorporate many of his own fantastic \u2013 and totally untrue \u2013 stories as though they were fact. Harrell attempted to dispel at least one of these myths in Keep This Quiet and digs deeper in The Hell's Angels Letters, determined to set the record straight about how and where Thompson got the idea for a book on the Death of the American Dream and how his pet snake can to a violent end.\nhttps:\/\/margaretharrell.com\/2020\/07\/available-for-preorder-the-hells-angels-letters\/\nDr. Rory Patrick Feehan, Totally Gonzo\nThe Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic reveals an oft-overlooked side of Hunter S. Thompson \u2013 that of the serious writer and journalist dedicated to his craft and determined to reveal the truth to his audience, no matter the cost. The correspondence covers a pivotal moment in Thompson's career, on the cusp of making his literary impact as part of the New Journalism movement while simultaneously moving towards realizing his Gonzo persona and style. The letters here reveal the painstaking task of bringing Hunter's vision to fruition, and Margaret Harrell played an integral role in this journey.\nKyle K. Mann, Gonzo Today\nThis is a big book, literally and figuratively.\nThe short version: The Hell's Angels Letters is a must-have text for any Hunter S. Thompson fan. Lavishly documented and illustrated with the actual correspondence that led to the publication of his breakthrough literary effort, Hell's Angels, this coffee-table book literally shows how HST boot-strapped his way from a impoverished nobody journalist to growing legend. The author, Margaret Harrell, who was Thompson's editor on his inaugural book, and her collaborator, Thompson's friend and associate poet Ron Whitehead, have succeeded brilliantly to create a fabulous present for you, or anyone in your life who admires Thompson's numerous achievements. It is not inexpensive, but no matter, it's worth every penny. The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic gets five stars out of five! Bravo! - Kyle K. Mann, Editor-in-Chief\nhttps:\/\/margaretharrell.com\/2021\/09\/christmas-idea-the-hells-angels-letters-buy-it-personally-signed\/\nMichael Dirda, Washington Post\nAmong late 20th-century American writers, none can rival Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson in sheer force of personality, both on the page and in person. Mailer, whether in his fiction, polemical essays or reportage, always aimed to be consequential, to be fiercely engaged with his times. Would that he were living now! For a hint of what we've lost, check out the latest book-length issue, Volume 13, of \"The Mailer Review\" at the home page of The Norman Mailer Society. Thompson's motto might well have been \"Nothing in moderation.\" For \"The 'Hell's Angels' Letters,\" Margaret Ann Harrell \u2014 in collaboration with Ron Whitehead \u2014 has assembled a dossier of all her correspondence with Thompson during the time she worked as the editor of the gonzo writer's \"strange and terrible saga of the outlaw motorcycle gangs.\" Typed manuscript pages, scribbled notes, photographs, interviews and all sorts of period ephemera relating to \"Hell's Angels\" allow the reader a valuable, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the making of this classic of New Journalism.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Research Provides New Insights Into Decreases in Sexual Activity After Menopause\nby Jennifer R. Berman, MD | Aug 2, 2019 | Menopausal Health, Sexual Health |\nOne of the most frequent topics in women's sexual health is the decline of sexual activity after menopause. Many women report that following this period, sex does not produce as satisfying a feeling as it used to be. Does the blame fall entirely on menopause?\nAccording to new research, the hormonal changes resulting from menopause form part of the reason that women's sexual activity declines with age. It acknowledges the fact that many symptoms affect women after menopause, including vaginal dryness, low libido or sexual desire, pain during intercourse, and more. These factors are underlying influences on the frequency and pleasure of sex.\nBased on conclusions from the new study, there are a variety of complex reasons women stop wanting, enjoying, or having sex. While women traditionally have been blamed when sex declines in a relationship, the research shows that, often, it's the health of a woman's partner that influences the sexual activeness and satisfaction she experiences. (Most studies have focused entirely on heterosexual women, so less is known about same-sex couples after menopause.)\nThe latest study was published in the Menopause journal, and is based on the responses of over 24,00 women as part of an ovarian cancer screening study in Britain. The survey reported that 78 percent of women who responded reported that they had an intimate partner, but less than half reported having active sex lives. A primary reason cited was the loss of a partner to death or divorce, which accounted for 37 percent of the responses. An additional percentage of women reported that other responsibilities and situations in life made it difficult to make time for sex. Eight to nine percent reported that their partner or they themselves were too tired for sex. Partners with health issues were cited as an additional reason. About 23 percent of women reported that their partner's physical problems accounted for a decline in sex.\nAdditional notes about the study can be featured in this New York Times news article: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/30\/well\/live\/menopause-sex-decline-partner-husband-wife.html","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spain Is Going To Great Lengths To Block Catalonia's Independence Vote\nThousands of police have been sent to the region to shut down voting.\nArticle by Lindsey Pulse\nCatalonia is scheduled to hold a long-awaited referendum vote Sunday, but Spain is putting a lot of effort toward making sure that doesn't happen.\nSpain's constitutional court suspended the referendum in early September. Officials have declared it illegal and vowed to \"stop at nothing\" to prevent it. Thousands of police have also been sent to the area to shut down voting.\nA Region In Spain Took A Step Toward Secession\nCatalonia's Parliament passed a measure to let its citizens vote on whether to seek independence.\nCatalonia is an autonomous region within Spain; it has its own government and its own language. Its separation from Spain has been an issue for decades.\nActivists in Catalonia are reportedly posting up at schools to keep them open so people can cast their ballots.\nThose ballots will ask: \"Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic?\"\nCatalonia held a symbolic independence vote back in 2014. Four in five voters supported sovereignty. But opinion polls taken earlier this year show 41 percent of Catalans support independence, while 49 percent oppose.\nLatest in Europe\nStrikes, protests hit France in round 2 of pension battle\nLabor unions aimed to mobilize more than 1 million protesters to kill a bill that would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.\nBy Christophe Ena \/ AP\nUK leader fires party chairman over tax bill allegations\nHe had faced days of pressure to sack Nadhim Zahawi amid allegations he settled a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill while in charge of the Treasury.\nBy Alastair Grant \/ AP","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Oxford named as least affordable city to buy a house in the UK - PropertyWire\nHome \u00bb Property News \u00bb UK \u00bb Oxford named as least affordable city to buy a house in the UK\n8th February 2019 UK\nOxford named as least affordable city to buy a house in the UK\nLondonderry and Stirling are the UK's most affordable cities in terms of house prices with Oxford being the least, according to new research.\nOverall, house prices in cities have outpaced earnings growth by 11%, causing home affordability to reach on average, its lowest level since 2007, when the ratio of house prices to earnings stood at 7.5.\nThe average house price within UK cities has risen from \u00a3180,548 in 2013 to its highest ever level of \u00a3248,233 in 2018, the research from Lloyds Bank also shows. In comparison, average city annual earnings over the same period have risen by just 11% to \u00a334,366.\nOxford has an average house price of \u00a3460,184, some 12.6 times average annual earnings in the city of \u00a336,430, making it the UK's least affordable city.\nThere are seven cities with average house prices above 10 times the average annual earnings. These are Chichester at 11.5, Winchester 11.3, Truro 11.1, and Greater London, Bath and Cambridge, all at 10.3.\nHowever, the London average figure disguises considerable variations across the capital with central boroughs significantly less affordable than the Greater London average.\nStirling in Scotland and Londonderry and Northern Ireland are the most affordable cities, with an average house price to earnings ratio of 4.4. Stirling is in the top spot for the sixth consecutive year.\nThese are followed by Newry in Northern Ireland at 4.5, Bradford at 4.6, Lancaster at 4.7, Belfast and Aberdeen, both at five, Perth, Hereford and Sunderland all at 5.1 and Swansea at 5.5.\nHouse price growth has been the highest in Winchester over the past decade, up 93% from \u00a3281,224 in 2008 to \u00a3541,891 in 2018, compared to the UK cities average of 35%. Chichester is second with a rise of 76% followed by Greater London up 69%, Cambridge up 66%, St Albans up 64% and Oxford up 59%.\nOver the past five years, Chichester has recorded the highest house price growth with a rise of 62% from \u00a3277,654 in 2013 to \u00a3450,023 in 2018. Cambridge has the second highest increase in average house price at 61%, followed by Newcastle upon Tyne up 56%, Ely up 54% and Lichfield up 52%.\n'Buying a home in UK cities remains challenging, as average house prices are outpacing wage growth. However the market has seen the number of first time buyers at a high and home owners are still attracted to cities across the UK, in spite of rising costs,' said Andrew Mason, mortgage products director at Lloyds Bank.\n'Over the past five years, more than half of northern cities have made the UK top 10 in house price growth, whereas over a longer period, southern cities dominate,' he added.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About Acuity\nIndustry Awards & Certifications\nCase Management Services\nDisaster & Emergency Response\nGlobal Health Services\nProgram & Construction Management\nMunitions Response & Demilitarization Services\nGlobal Security Services\nBase & Critical Facilities Management\nAcuity Spotlight: Lalith Priyanka Wijewickrama Athapattu, Sri Lankan Army\nThe Acuity Spotlight is our way of highlighting some of the incredibly talented individuals that we're lucky enough to have on our team. At Acuity, we value diversity and inclusion and focus our attention on bringing candidates who have a wide range of backgrounds and experiences onboard. Our mission is to build enduring relationships that provide secure, stable, and long-term predictable outcomes and we are grateful for the men and women of Acuity who embody our corporate values in everything they do.\nWhich branch of the military did you serve in?\nI served as a member of the Sri Lanka Army Commando Regiment for 14 years which is one of two special operations units of the Sri Lankan Army.\nWhat are some of the things you remember about adapting to military life?\nSome of the things I remember as part of my adaptation to military life were the discipline required to be a member of the unit and the teamwork that was emphasized throughout the training and continued once assigned to the unit. In addition, the arduous physical and mental training\/preparation that I was required to maintain as a member of the unit along with high standards of moral conduct and good behavior that are expected of each member of the regiment. Something that was hard for my family was that they had to adapt and learn that assignment to the regiment meant I would not be at home for long periods of time.\nWhen did you leave the military? What were your first few months out of the service like?\nI completed my tour with the Sri Lanka Army in August of 2010. My first few months were hectic because I had to learn how to adapt to civilian life. After leaving the military, I realized the freedom I had and appreciated the opportunity to spend more time with my family.\nHow would you describe the work you do at Acuity and the impact it is making?\nI am happy to be a part of the Acuity team. I have worked as a member of the Balad team for seven years in several different positions in different departments. I enjoy the opportunity to work with people from different cultures who speak different languages.\nWhat is your proudest career moment?\nThe proudest moment of my military career was when the war ended in Sri Lanka in 2009.\nLalith Priyanka Wijewickrama Athapattu, Balad Air Base Life Support\/Security Services Project, Sri Lankan Army\nBlog January 11, 2023\nWellness Programs: Using Healthcare Analytics to Support Employee Health\nBlog January 4, 2023\nPredictive Health Analytics in the Workplace: Observation, Prediction, and Control\nPress Release August 24, 2022\nAcuity International Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract to Support Iraq F-16 Base Operations\nMedia Inquiries & Resources\nWe provide innovative solutions for missions that matter around the globe. Our expertise includes advanced medical solutions, advanced technology solutions, advanced global missions. Our subject-matter experts are happy to share our perspective and insights with members of the press.\nCopyright 2023 Acuity International. All Rights Reserved. | Transparency in Coverage","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1514 NJ-138 Suite 3 Wall Township, NJ 07719\nClark, Clark & Noonan, LLC.\nGet Help Now732-303-7857\nCharles F. Clark, JR.\nRyan J. Clark\nMichael S. Noonan\nHome \u00bb Drug Charges \u00bb Stopped For Drug Search By A New Jersey Police Officer Can He Just Do That?\nWe offer free consultation. Call us Today at 732 303 7857\nStopped For Drug Search By A NJ Police Officer, Can He Just Do That?\nWall New Jersey Criminal Defense Attorneys serving Monmouth County, Ocean County, Middlesex County and all surrounding NJ areas.\nI was recently surfing the net when I came across a a news story of a motorist in New Jersey being pulled over in his car and searched by the police for drugs. In New Jersey this is a common everyday occurrence that many motorists experience. A lot of the possession of cocaine, heroin and other drug charges originate from police executed motor vehicle stops.\nAccording to the motorist, who happens to be a semi-famous Rapper\/Activist in New Jersey, he pulled over to the side of the Street in a residential neighborhood, and exchanged handshakes with a friend before driving off. The police stopped his car, removed him from the vehicle and searched both him and his car but found nothing.\nThe frustration for many New Jersey citizens lies in the lack of legally valid reasons for the police stop in the first place. The police in New Jersey cannot just stop you on the street or in you car without a reason or for just any reason. The State of New Jersey, by law, has to protect a person's constitutional right to be free of illegal searches and seizures. What this means for you as a motorist, is that the police cannot stop your car and detain you unless they have a \"reasonable and articulable suspicion\" that you committed a motor vehicle violation or some other violation of the law. For example, a handshake between friends on a residential street, alone, is not going justify a police executed stop and search of your car.\nI have seen so many police executed motor vehicle stops and searches of cars that eventually produce the recovery of drugs, guns or other weapons. The fact remains, however, that the evidence cannot be used against you in Court where the police did not have a valid reason to stop you in the first place. Under New Jersey and Federal Constitutional law, the ends do not justify the means.\nIf you have been charged in New Jersey with Possession of drugs (cocaine, marijuana or heroin), or possession of a weapon, you may have grounds to suppress the evidence. Suppression of the evidence requires the filing of a motion in court by an experienced criminal lawyer and a testimonial hearing.\nIf you are charged with a crime in New Jersey, the law firm of Clark, Clark & Noonan, LLC has the experience to protect your rights. We are former Prosecutors who have handled thousands of criminal motions and can immediately tell you if the police in your case acted improperly.\nWe Can Help 24\/7\nFree case review. Call 732-303-7857 or send us a message now.\nNew Jersey Criminal Defense Lawyers\nMonmouth County Client Accused of Domestic Violence\nMy ex-girlfriend had me charged with harassment and filed a temporary restraining order against me over something I said to her. It wasn't a nice thing to say, but at the end of the day it was how I really felt. Fearing the consequences my mother and I interviewed several local attorneys all of whom talked about how serious the consequences were. They also said that they could work the case out, and all I'd have to pay was a fine. Then we met with Ryan Clark. I immediately felt that Ryan really understood me and my situation. There wasn't any talk about working the case out either. He explained how my right to free speech protected me from being convicted of the criminal charge and protected me from getting a final restraining order entered against me. He asked me what I wanted to do, he didn't tell me what he thought I should do.\nThe difference was night and day from the other attorneys and so I hired him to represent me. Needless to say it was impressive to watch him work. He negotiated a dismissal of the restraining order in return for an agreement that prevented my ex-girlfriend from contacting me again and an agreement for her not to oppose a dismissal of the criminal charge in municipal court. When it came time to go to municipal court my ex-girlfriend went back on her word and wanted me to plead guilty to a township ordinance and pay a fine. Ryan told me this was a non-criminal offence but explained the law was on our side. I turned it down, and Ryan came back to court with me at least six times until trial finally took place. He was completely prepared, and his cross examination of my ex-girlfriend laid out clearly why I was upset and why I said what I said.\nWhen it came time for me to testify, I was ready because Ryan had taken the time to prepare me for not only what I was going to testify about, but how to handle questions on cross examination, and what to expect. On summation Ryan stood up and passionately defended my right to free speech and laid out an impressive array of case law to support what he was saying. The judge promptly agreed with him and acquitted me. I didn't have the case of the century, but Ryan treated it that way and that's the difference I think between a plea lawyer and one who really fights for his clients. He wasn't the first attorney I ever hired, but after what he did for me I'd never go to anyone else.\nClark, Clark & Noonan Client\n732-303-7857 Contact Us Now\nOur recent news\nWant to know the latest news and information about criminal law in New Jersey? Find answers to some of the most common questions people ask when facing criminal and DWI charges? Learn about defenses that may apply in your case? Check out our legal articles.\n29October2018\nCan Police Officers Call the Dogs During a Traffic Stop?\nIn some circumstances, police officers may be able to summon police dogs to a traffic stop. The reasonable and articulable suspicion that the officers possesses at the time will be the deciding factor. Police officers are permitted to conduct a traffic stop based upon reasonable and articulable suspicion. They are further permitted to issue tickets [\u2026]\nPre-Trial Intervention on a New Jersey Handgun Charge\nThe attorneys at our firm have obtained admission into the Pre-Trial Intervention program for individuals who have been charged with illegal possession of a handgun under the Graves Act. Under N.J.S.A. 2C: 43-6.2 \"Exception to Mandatory Minimum Sentence\", the Attorney General Directive to Ensure Uniform Enforcement of the Graves Act (corrected version as of 11\/25\/08) [\u2026]\nObjecting to the Laboratory Test in a Drug Case\nIndividuals who are charged with a drug offense may be able to object to the testing and the results of the drugs which were recovered. N.J.S.A.2C: 35-19 states, in pertinent part: 1. The Attorney General of New Jersey may designate State Forensic Laboratories. 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{"text":"WCS (2015) A facilitator's guide for ecosystem-based management planning in Fiji. Wildlife Conservation Society.Suva, Fiji. Download [English Version] [Fijian Version]\nJupiter SD, Jenkins AP, Lee Long WJ, Maxwell SL, Watson JEM, Hodge KB, Govan H, Carruthers TJB (2013) Pacific Integrated Island Management \u2013 Principles, Case Studies and Lessons Learned. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and United Nations Environment Programme, Apia and Nairobi, 72 pp [download]\nEcotales from Kubulau:\nA Guide to the Cultural & Natural Heritage of the Vatu-i-Ra Seascape\nby Natalie Askew, Margaret Fox and Stacy Jupiter\nEcotales from Kubulau is a joint publication by WCS Fiji and the Coral Reef Alliance to showcase the remarkable plants and animals that are both astounding in their beauty and culturally important to the people who live in the Vatu-i-Ra Seascape. It is our hope that the guide will raise awareness about the importance of the plants and animals to local livelihoods, cultures, and ecosystem functions. The stories in these pages come directly from the elders of Kubulau, who have described their associations with species for medicine, decorative arts, building materials, food, and totem spirits. By collecting these stories, the traditional knowledge that is rapidly fading away with modernization can now be preserved for the youth of Kubulau and the Vatu-i-Ra Seascape. Proceeds from the sale of the guide will directly support ecosystem management and community development in Kubulau. This guide is available to purchase through\nthe University of the South Pacific Book Centre or online at: tinyurl.com\/ecotalesatUSP\nThe Adventures of Joji Goby\nby Tui Ledua\nWith funding through the Disney Friends for Change Initiative, WCS Fiji produced a comic book that chronicles the adventures of Joji Goby as he searches for his family. When he misses the mass migration upstream, he teams up with Crab and Snail to conquer the many challenges along their path due to human modification of the river system. The comic book is designed to teach children and adults alike about the threats to Fiji's waterways and how they can better look after their rivers. The comic book was launched at 5 schools in Kubulau and Wainunu districts in March 2012. Watch the video from the launch here: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VnM5Jh6CwWs. Contact infofiji@wcs.org for information about obtaining copies in English or Fijian.\nPrinciples and Practice of Ecosystem-Based Management:\nA Guide for Conservation Practitioners in the Tropical Western Pacific\nby Pepe Clarke and Stacy Jupiter\nThe EBM Guide provides an introduction to the key principles of ecosystem-based management tailored for the distinctive features of the tropical Western Pacific, including the island states of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, as well as Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor. The Guide presents case studies and lessons learned from sites in Fiji (Kubulau, Macuata, Kadavu), Palau (Babeldaob Island) and Indonesia (Bird's Head Seascape), which all received funding under the David and Lucile Packard's EBM Initiative. Pdf versions of the guide can be downloaded here in both English and Fijian:[English] [Fijian]\nCatchment Management and Coral Reef Conservation:\nA Practical Guide for Coastal Resource Managers to Reduce Damage from Catchment Areas Based on Best Practice Case Studies\nedited by Clive Wilkinson and Jon Brodie\nKubulau Case Study by Stacy Jupiter\nThe Catchment Management and Coral Reef Conservation Handbook published by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network and the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre provides recommendations to reduce, and where possible, remove the damaging impacts that are delivered by rivers and streams to the coast that can impact coral reefs. These recommendations were developed based on 33 case studies from around the world, including a case study contributed by WCS Fiji on \"Implementing Ecosystem-Based Management at the District and Seascape Level in Fiji\". A pdf version of the guide can be downloaded from Reefbase here:[pdf]\nGood Coastal Management Practices in the Pacific:\nExperiences from the field\nby Hugh Govan\nThis report published by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) presents a series of case studies from around the Pacific illustrating best practices for coastal management at local, provincial, national and regional level. Within the guide are case studies contributed by: WCS Fiji on national conservation planning that incorporates community-based management; The Coral Reef Alliance on equitable sharing of benefits from the Namena Marine Reserve; and the Fiji Locally Managed Marine Area Network on a community governed network to guide national marine resource management. A pdf version of the guide can be download from SPREP here: [pdf]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Browsing for Dollars\nThe cold, hard facts\nPublished: Jan. 13, 2008 at 4:10 p.m. ET\nAmy Hoak and\nNew Web tools show consumers how money burns through their pockets\nCHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- It's hard to ignore how much you're spending each month at restaurants or on clothes or tech gadgets when the total dollar amount is glaring at you from your computer monitor. And a new crop of online personal-finance tools hopes to give consumers exactly that kind of tough love.\nA growing number of Web sites are helping people keep track of where their money is going, pooling information from consumers' various credit card and bank accounts, and categorizing their expenses.\nIn all, there are about two dozen of these Web-based tools helping consumers track their cash flow, said Jim Bruene, editor of the Online Banking Report, an industry newsletter. Recent additions are Mint.com and Geezeo.com, which launched last year.\nThe newest offering is Quicken Online, out last week, which allows users to log on from any computer or iPhone to see their current financial picture, and sends text or email alerts when a payment is due.\nThe ability to aggregate personal financial information has been around for years, but was put on hold until the masses got comfortable with banking online, said Shawn Ward, co-founder of Geezeo. Another big shift: More people are using debit cards than before, and there's a huge incentive to watch these accounts more closely.\n\"People are making 50, 60 transactions on their debit cards\" each cycle, Ward said, and consumers who make multiple debit-card purchases without realizing their account is tapped dry can face multiple overdraft fees.\nFor those who don't keep close financial records, seeing a spending breakdown on one of these tools can be a big shock, said Diane Pearson, an adviser with Legend Financial Advisors, in Pittsburgh.\nBut don't let it paralyze you, she said. It's like an eating diary when you start a diet. \"Sometimes when you start to write things down, as far as what you're eating, you pay a lot of attention to where your calories are coming from,\" she said.\nBefore choosing the online tool that will help you realize the error of your spending ways, take a look around at what some of the sites have to offer and how they might fit your needs. The display of information varies from site to site, and many also offer tips aimed at helping people make over their finances.\nQuicken Online may be a good option for TurboTax fans - you'll be able to import data for the 2008 tax year. The service costs $2.99 per month, but those who want to test drive it before buying can take a 30-day trial.\nThose interested in services that have been around for awhile might look at Mvelopes.com, which launched its online version in 2004. The system is based on the \"envelope method\" of budgeting, which allocates funds by expense category. Payment options range from $189.60 for a two-year subscription to $39.60 for a quarterly subscription.\nIs community important? In addition to aggregating account information, Wesabe.com and Geezeo let members anonymously network online to ask questions and offer each other advice while working toward financial goals. Both sites are free right now.\nMint is designed for people \"who want to get in and get out,\" said Aaron Patzer, chief executive. The average user spends five minutes at the free site to check accounts. Users get recommendations for credit cards and banks based on their needs; some of the suggestions are from Mint sponsors.\nOr, you might find the answer at your own bank. Bank of America, for instance, offers a money-management feature to its customers, Bruene said.\nThe tools mentioned take various security measures to protect the sensitive information with which they're entrusted. But before joining a service, read security and privacy policies.\nBelow are several other safety tips:\nProtect yourself. Make sure your computer is being updated with the most recent versions of anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, said Avivah Litan, an analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner, an information technology research company. It's also wise to stay away from peer-to-peer file sharing programs on computers where you access financial information, she said.\nCheck in often. Log on regularly to make sure your information isn't being abused or used in a way you didn't expect, said Mustaque Ahamad, director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. Also, before signing up, make sure it's clear how to cancel the service if desired.\nDouble-check details. Don't rely on the information collected from banking and credit card accounts to be 100% accurate. Look for and report errors, and keep a paper trail of statements for your records.\nListen to your gut. If there is any doubt in your mind about using a third party to bring all accounts together online, there's no shame in budgeting offline. \"Don't do it if it's going to cause you anxiety,\" said Jason Knight, chief executive of Wesabe. Instead, find a system that works for you, he said.\nHere are the sites, in no particular order:\nwww.quickenonline.com\nwww.mvelopes.com\nwww.geezeo.com\nwww.wesabe.com\nwww.mint.com\nReebok chief's shares go out on top\nLOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- One certainty of the Reebok-Adidas deal is that the shares held by Reebok founder Paul B. Fireman and his wife, Phyllis, will be worth more than at any point in the 26 years he's been at the helm of the athletic-shoe icon.\nEnd presidential pardons\nAverage U.S. gas price hits $4 a gallon for first time\nReturned to sender\nFidelity closing Contrafund to new investors\nAmy Hoak\nAmy Hoak is a personal-finance columnist for MarketWatch.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Big-Mouth Bob's Bugjuice Dispensary & Movie Reviews\nMovie Reviews by Indiana native Bob Hammerle.\nCommentary on the Value of Books\nAs much as I love films, there are times when it is hard to justify sitting in a dark movie theater. Yes, the Avengers sequel has been a big hit, but so what? Our growing family of heroes once again unite as a new villain tries to destroy mankind, so I've largely put myself on hold until Pitch Perfect 2 and the new Mad Max starts after my deadline.\n\"Five Came Back\" by Mark Harris\nOn the other hand, that is a good reason to visit several great books relating to the movie industry that are both madly informative and wildly entertaining. Let's start with one of the best books I have read in a while, \"Five Came Back\" by Mark Harris. It is an extraordinary tale of five memorable Hollywood movie directors who enlisted in World War II as they put their careers on hold.\nTo begin with, these were not ordinary guys, as we're talking about Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, William Wyler and George Stevens. By the time the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they had already directed a variety of films that are remembered to this day.\nMr. Harris gives a wonderful account of how our boys enlisted in order to find a way to make films that inspired both soldiers and U.S. citizens. While Mr. Capra served as the organizational leader working out of Washington for the length of the war, the others ventured overseas where they put their lives on the line.\nMr. Ford, who won his record-setting fourth directing Oscar for The Quiet Man in 1952, remains a legendary figure in the movie industry. Though he disliked John Wayne because the latter found convenient excuses to remain ineligible to serve in World War II, he ended up directing Wayne in a series of classic westerns that remain relevant to this very day. If you haven't seen The Searchers (1956), Fort Apache (1948) or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) then please do so.\nShortly after Pearl Harbor, Ford volunteered to be a part of a crew who were sent on a dangerous mission in the Pacific. He ended up on Midway in the middle of 1942 where he was wounded while filming the battle that actually turned the war against the Japanese. Sure, no one admired Ford more than himself, but few directors rivaled his accomplishments.\nGeorge Stevens was never the same after the war. Before, he largely directed comedies such as the critically praised film with Katherine Hepburn called Woman of the Year (1942). Unfortunately, he followed the Allied troops through the D-Day invasion, and was accidentally a member of the group that liberated Dachau. He filmed it, and the horror remained a part of his life.\nAfter the war, Mr. Stevens made some tremendous films like Shane (1953) and Giant (1956), but Mr. Harris reminds us that Stevens's films of Dachau were played during the Nuremberg trials that followed the end of World War II. Mr. Stevens is a man to be remembered.\nAnd then there is John Huston, a rogue and womanizer who also happened to be a fabulous Director. Largely unknown before the War, he went on to win an Oscar in 1947 for his direction of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. He followed with acclaimed films like The African Queen (1951), but his attempts to document the mental illnesses of many returning veterans was regrettably shelved by the War Department.\nAnd then there was William Wyler, a movie director who deserves a place in your heart. Before the war broke out, he directed the extraordinary Mrs. Miniver (1942), for which he won an Oscar while serving overseas. His wife accepted his award in his absence.\nWhat can't be forgotten was his role in the war where he actually flew on combat missions over occupied France as well as Germany. He filmed everything during his five flights which resulted in the memorable release, The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944).\nIn addition, Mr. Wyler returned to Hollywood at the end of the war to release the classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) which won him another Oscar. It reflected the war's toll on American soldiers, and helped you to understand why he was able to also direct a dozen more movies, including Ben Hur (1959), which won him his third Academy Award.\nIronically, Mr. Harris focuses his book on the incredible reality that Frank Capra's cherished post-war film, It's a Wonderful Life (1946), was viewed as a disaster at the time. It was a box office failure, and reviewers dismissed it as a film representing an age that was no longer relevant. Isn't it funny how nearly all of us watch it every year during the Christmas season?\n\"The French and Indian War\" by Walter R. Borneman\nHaving majored in history in college, I have always been fascinated by the war that consumed North America a decade before the Revolution. However, my purpose in including Mr. Borneman's book is to point out its significance in two films that rank among my favorites. The first is Northwest Passage (1940), where Spencer Tracy plays Robert Rogers, who leads a group of rangers in a desperate attack to eliminate the Abenakis, a native American tribe that had been haunting upstate New York. I'll never forget the emotionally crushing closing scene where Tracy says goodbye to his college educated friend (Robert Young) as he led a new group of rangers back into the wilderness, \"See you at sundown, Harvard.\"\nThe book also pays great attention to the massacre that followed the British surrender of Ft. William Henry Harrison in March, 1757. While the French allowed the British to surrender with honors, they were soon besieged by French Native American allies who were seeking a pound of flesh. 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{"text":"A three-phase free boundary problem with melting ice and dissolving gas\n@article{Ceseri2013ATF,\ntitle={A three-phase free boundary problem with melting ice and dissolving gas},\nauthor={Maurizio Ceseri and John M. Stockie},\njournal={European Journal of Applied Mathematics},\npages={449 - 480}\nM. Ceseri, J. Stockie\nEuropean Journal of Applied Mathematics\nWe develop a mathematical model for a three-phase free boundary problem in one dimension that involves interactions between gas, water and ice. The dynamics are driven by melting of the ice layer, while the pressurized gas also dissolves within the meltwater. The model incorporates the Stefan condition at the water\u2013ice interface along with Henry's law for dissolution of gas at the gas\u2013water interface. We employ a quasi-steady approximation for the phase temperatures and then derive a series\u2026\nView on Cambridge Press\nNumerical modeling of three\u2010phase dissolution of underground cavities using a diffuse interface model\nH. Luo, F. Laouafa, J. Guo, M. Quintard\nNatural evaporite dissolution in the subsurface can lead to cavities having critical dimensions in the sense of mechanical stability. Geomechanical effects may be significant for people and\u2026\nMelting and dripping of a heated material with temperature-dependent viscosity in a thin vertical tube\nBenjamin M. Sloman, C. Please, R. V. Van Gorder\nAbstract We consider the flow of a thermoviscous fluid within a vertical tube which is heated from below, modelling a scenario where a fluid melts, flows and eventually drips due to a\u2026\nMultiscale model of a freeze\u2013thaw process for tree sap exudation\nIsabell Graf, M. Ceseri, J. Stockie\nJournal of The Royal Society Interface\nA multiscale model consisting of a nonlinear system of differential equations governing phase change and transport within wood cells, coupled to a suitably homogenized equation for temperature on the macroscale is derived, providing convincing evidence that a purely physical mechanism is capable of capturing exudation.\nDeep learning and American options via free boundary framework\nChinonso Nwankwo, Nneka Umeorah, Tony Ware, W. Dai\nThe proposed deep learning method presents an efficient and alternative way of pricing options with early exercise features and establishes equations that approximate the early exercise boundary and its derivative directly from the DNN output based on some linear relationships at the left boundary.\nMathematics For Industry: A Personal Perspective\nJ. Stockie\n\"I am an industrial mathematician.\" When asked to identify my profession or academic field of study, this is the most concise answer I can provide. However, this seemingly straightforward statement\u2026\nA Mathematical Model for Maple Sap Exudation\nIsabell Graf, J. Stockie, S. Fraser\nSap exudation refers to the process whereby sugar maple trees (Acer saccharum) are capable of generating significant stem pressure in a leafless state, something that occurs to a lesser extent in\u2026\nMathematical Models of Gas Hydrates Dissociation in Porous Media\nG. Tsypkin\nAbstract: In strata hydrates may exist in different forms: as hydrates alone, hydrates in conjunction with free gas, or with gas and water in state of thermodynamic equilibrium, hydrates with excess\u2026\nA three-dimensional multiphase flow model for assesing NAPL contamination in porous and fractured media, 1. Formulation\nP. Huyakorn, S. Panday, Yu-Shu Wu\nJournal of Contaminant Hydrology\nAsymptotic results for the Stefan problem with kinetic undercooling\nJ. Evans, J. King\nWe study the behaviour of the one-phase Stefan problem with kinetic undercooling; moving boundary problems governed by the same formulation also arise in the modelling of silicon oxidation and of\u2026\nSolutions for the two-phase Stefan problem with the Gibbs\u2013Thomson Law for the melting temperature\nS. Luckhaus\nThe coupling of the Stefan equation for the heat flow with the Gibbs\u2013Thomson law relating the melting temperature to the mean curvature of the phase interface is considered. Solutions, global in\u2026\nFree boundary problems in science and technology\nA. Friedman\n854 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 47, NUMBER 8 F ree boundary problems deal with solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in a domain, a part of whose boundary is unknown in advance; that portion of\u2026\nModeling dynamic marine gas hydrate systems\nWenyue Xu\nAbstract Dynamically changing marine gas hydrate systems are the subject of this study. The changes may result from varying pressure or temperature at the seafloor, exploration and exploitation\u2026\nFinite-difference methods with increased accuracy and correct initialization for one-dimensional Stefan problems\nS. Mitchell, M. Vynnycky\nAppl. Math. Comput.\nNon-aqueous Phase Liquid Spills in Freezing and Thawing Soils: Critical Analysis of Pore-Scale Processes\nKamaljit Singh, R. Niven\nThe frequent use of non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) in cold regions creates serious risks of soil and groundwater contamination. NAPL contaminants can stay in soil for long times due to their\u2026\nExistence of Solutions for One-dimensional Wave Equations with Nonlocal Conditions\nSergei A. Beilin\nIn this article we study an initial and boundary-value problem with a nonlocal integral condition for a one-dimensional wave equation. We prove existence and uniqueness of classical solution and nd\u2026\nFree boundary problems in controlled release pharmaceuticals. I: diffusion in glassy polymers\nD. Cohen, T. Erneux\nThis paper formulates and studies two different problems occurring in the formation and use of pharmaceuticals via controlled release methods. These problems involve a glassy polymer and a penetrant,\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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According to the Business Partners Limited SME Index (BPLSI), during the fourth quarter of 2015 SME owners expressed average confidence levels of only 55% that they will be able to find and retain staff with the right skillset and expertise. Human resources (HR) is a key business function that must be given adequate attention should a business want to grow and attract the best employees, says Kgomotso Ramoenyane, Executive General Manager of Human Resources at Business Partners Limited (BUSINESS\/PARTNERS).\n\"Eventually a small business owner will have to increase their staff complement should they wish to grow their business to the next level, and if this process isn't managed properly, it can become a serious burden to the business owner. Many SME owners also underestimate the value that good HR management system can contribute towards the future growth of their business,\" says Ramoenyane.\nRamoenyane says that the key to effective HR and talent management for SME owners is to familiarise themselves with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) and Labour Relations Act, as both of these Acts clearly stipulate the dos and don'ts for employees and employers.\n\"Many entrepreneurs, especially those who run small businesses, often believe that they don't have the time or resources available to manage the business's HR needs, and as a result, find themselves clueless when the need arises to hire new staff or manage employees' needs,\" she explains.\nFirst and foremost, business owners need to find the right talent. Ramoenyane says that while it is easier said than done, there are various measures that business owners can put in place to assist with the recruitment process. \"Start with a clear job description and advertise this brief on all relevant platforms that are available to the business. When interviewing potential candidates, it is important to pose the same questions to all interviewees so that an accurate comparison can be made.\"\nShe adds that the HR process does not end once a staff member is appointed to a particular position. \"Business owners need to pay attention to employees' needs on an ongoing basis. At least two formal performance reviews should take place annually \u2013 both to ascertain if the employer is happy with the level and quality of work being performed, and if the employee is satisfied with his or her working conditions, job description and role, as well as training and development opportunities.\"\nIn terms of retaining good staff, Ramoenyane says that for many employees, reasons to stay in one particular job are not only limited to the amount of Rands deposited into their bank accounts at the end of each month. \"Staff need more than a monthly pay check \u2013 they need to feel valued for their contribution to their company and its bottom line.\" She adds that this is where small businesses have the upper hand on larger organisations. \"While such organisations can perhaps offer larger salary packages, which appear more attractive, a small business can craft and implement their own unique employee value proposition, both with tangible and non-tangible aspects.\"\nRamoenyane further explains that typically, the tangible aspects entail monthly remuneration and bonuses. Considerations when formulating the non-tangible aspects include the so-called 'fringe benefits' such as free parking, flexi-hours, training opportunities or the occasional lunch from the business.\nHowever, she says that the biggest advantage that small businesses have is their ability to involve staff in a wider range of responsibilities, which is necessitated by the size of the business. \"In larger organisations, one finds that the ability to be exposed to a wider range of duties is limited, as work is compartmentalised. Another big selling point for small businesses is their smaller size team, which can create a welcoming environment and close knit culture.\"\nRamoenyane concludes that ultimately, if SMEs want to attract and retain good staff they need to fully understand what is important to the business's employees. \"Methods of retention can come in many forms, from professional and personal development, time off, reward and recognition, to pay and working hours.\n\"Ultimately, retaining quality employees requires that periodical discussions are held, whereby the focus is on the employee's engagement levels and what is important to them.\"\nIFC, Business Partners Limited and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Partner to Support Women-Owned Businesses in South Africa https:\/\/www.businesspartners.co.za\/en-za\/media-centre\/media-releases\/south-africa\/ifc-business-partners-limited-and-goldman-sachs-10-000-women-partner-to-support-women-owned-businesses-in-south-africa IFC, Business Partners Limited and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Partner to Support Women-Owned Businesses in South Africa\nSME property funds launched to drive entrepreneurial investment in SA https:\/\/www.businesspartners.co.za\/en-za\/media-centre\/media-releases\/south-africa\/sme-property-funds-launched-to-drive-entrepreneurial-investment-in-sa SME property funds launched to drive entrepreneurial investment in SA\nEntrepreneurship offers SA youth hope amidst recession https:\/\/www.businesspartners.co.za\/en-za\/media-centre\/media-releases\/south-africa\/entrepreneurship-offers-sa-youth-hope-amidst-recession Entrepreneurship offers SA youth hope amidst recession\nNew technical assistance programme launched for SA SMEs to drive business success rate https:\/\/www.businesspartners.co.za\/en-za\/media-centre\/media-releases\/south-africa\/new-technical-assistance-programme-launched-for-sa-smes-to-drive-business-success-rate New technical assistance programme launched for SA SMEs to drive business success rate\nSUBMIT Thank you for your enquiry\nSUBMIT Thank you for your enquiry Please fill in all the fields Please provide a valid email adress\nSUBMIT Thank you for your subscription Please provide a valid email address and complete all fields. 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{"text":"UAV (drone) forensic analysis presentation available on YouTube\nNovember 30, 2016 Integriography\tLeave a comment\nEarlier this year, Greg Dominguez and I developed the second UAV (drone) forensic analysis presentation. I presented it at SANS in Austin this summer and that presentation is now available on YouTube.\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/dnrAElYJKi\nIt was \"Next Gen\" when presented but we've moved on. We're already working on a more comprehensive version for several conferences next year. Stay tuned.\nDJI Phantom 3 Log Analysis Tool\nOctober 24, 2016 Integriography\t1 comment\nRowland Johnson developed an excellent tool, DatCon, for analyzing DJI Phantom 3 log files in Java. I arranged to have it ported to Python because I am far more adept with Python and wanted something that I could extend to support newer file formats and potentially other UAVs.\nThe result can be found here:\nhttps:\/\/github.com\/dkovar\/uav-log-analysis\nIt is my hope that others will build on this, adding support for other DJI products as well as adding visualization capabilities.\nFeedback, suggestions, etc are always welcome.\nCategories: Computer forensics, UAVs\nUAV Forensics \u2013 version 2\nJune 26, 2016 Integriography\tLeave a comment\nWorking with Greg Dominguez and Cindy Murphy, we updated my UAV Forensics presentation from last year to address the Phantom P3, it's additional data sources, some new tools for analyzing data, and our first pass at JTAG analysis.\nGreg and I gave the presentation at Techno Security in June and a PDF version is attached here: UAV Forensics -TS16-final distribution\nPublic Agency Operations and Part 107\nAfter consulting with a UAV lawyer and an FAA representative, I believe that:\nPublic Agencies (PAs) still have to operate under a COA\nPAs can also operate non-Public Agency Operations (PAOs) under Part 107.\nSee pages 61-68 of the Rule for details\nIf a PA wishes to examine the roof of the court house for hail damage, a Part 107 operator working for the PA can perform the task.\nIf a PA wishes to conduct a SAR mission, or fly a UAV in support of fire fighting operations, they need a COA or to contract with a 333 exempt operator with the appropriate COA.\nFAA Position on Contracted UAS Operations by Public Agencies\n[The following was written in my role as the Advocacy Director for the National Association of Search and Rescue. A PDF version is available here \u2013 Public Agency SUAS-final.]\nThis is an interpretation of information in the Advisory Circular 00-1.1A \"Public Aircraft Operations\" and refers to Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR); and Title 49 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 40102(a)(41) and 40125.\nPublic agencies and civil operators are encouraged to retain their own attorney to review this interpretation.\nAfter consultation with a UAV lawyer and their FAA consultant, we believe that civil aircraft operators may fly UAVs in support of government entities (public agencies) if the following conditions are met:\nThe public agency has a COA\nA contract exists between the public agency and the civil aircraft operator\nA one time declaration is filed with the FAA by the public agency\nThe mission(s) flown are purely public service\nThe public agency makes a determination before each mission that the mission is public serving\nIf these conditions are met, any civil operator regardless of certifications may operate a UAV in support of the public entity under the requirements set forth by the public entity and its COA.\nCAUTIONARY NOTE: The civil operator is not required to have a 333, or to have passed the certification described in (proposed) Part 107 in these circumstances. However, the agency can and should require a 333 or the certification described in Part 107, as a requirement of the contract with the civil operator.\"\nIt is extremely important to note that:\nThe public agency must have a COA.\nThis is transferring almost all risk, responsibility, and liability for certification, experience, training, etc. from the FAA to the public agency.\nThere must be a contract in place between the public agency and the civil operator (it is recommended that the contract include a requirement for the civil operator to hold a 333 or part 107)\nThe declaration names a specific government official and contract that covers the relationship\nIt is of vital importance that the public agency maintains control of the operator of the UAV and of the missions. The liability completely falls on the public agency. There is great risk if an agency enters into this relationship without a complete understanding of the risks associated with it.\nThis is spelled out in more detail in Advisory Circular 00-1.1A \"Public Aircraft Operations\" and refers to Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR); and Title 49 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 40102(a)(41) and 40125.\n[An FAA presentation on this topic is available here \u2013 FAA Public Aircraft Presentation.]\nASTM Efforts on Small UAS\nMarch 3, 2016 Integriography\tLeave a comment\nQuoting from a widely distributed email. I work on one UAS ASTM effort to type Small UAS. Here are their other efforts. Of particular interest is F2908 \"Specification for Aircraft Flight Manual (AFM) for a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS).\"\nSmall UAS Operations\nASTM International Committee F38 on Unmanned Aircraft Systems has recently approved seven new standards that cover all major facets of small unmanned aircraft systems operations, including design, construction, operation and maintenance requirements.\nThe following seven new ASTM standards, written for all sUAS that are permitted to operate over a defined area and in airspace defined by a nation's governing aviation authority, have now been approved by F38:\nF2908, Specification for Aircraft Flight Manual (AFM) for a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS). F2908 defines minimum requirements for the aircraft flight manual, which provides guidance to owners, mechanics, pilots, crew members, airports, regulatory officials and aircraft and component manufacturers who perform or provide oversight of sUAS flight operations.\nF2909, Practice for Maintenance and Continued Airworthiness of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS). F2909 establishes a practice for the maintenance and continued airworthiness of sUAS. Requirements for continued airworthiness, inspections, maintenance and repairs\/alterations are included.\nF2910, Specification for Design and Construction of a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS). F2910 defines the design, construction and test requirements for sUAS. In addition to general requirements, F2910 covers requirements for structure, propulsion, propellers, fuel and oil systems, cooling, documentation and other key areas.\nF2911, Practice for Production Acceptance of Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS). F2911 defines production acceptance requirements for sUAS. Requirements covered include several aspects of production, system level production acceptance, quality assurance and documentation.\nF3002, Specification for Design of the Command and Control System for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS). F3002 provides a consensus standard in support of an application to a nation's governing aviation authority to operate an sUAS for commercial or public use. The standard focuses on command and control (C2) links, including a diagram of a C2 system and general requirements for C2 system components.\nF3003, Specification for Quality Assurance of a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS). F3003 defines quality assurance requirements for design, manufacture and production of small unmanned aircraft systems. Guidance is given to sUAS manufacturers for the development of a quality assurance program.\nF3005, Specification for Batteries for Use in Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS). F3005 defines requirements for battery cells used in sUAS. Mechanical design and safety, and electrical design battery maintenance are primary battery-related areas that are covered.\n\"The introduction of these standards developed by F38 will help to provide a safe and appropriate path for near-term routine sUAS operations in airspace systems of the United States and other countries,\" says Theodore Wierzbanowski, chairman F38.\nCommittee F38 encourages participation in its standards developing activities. \"The user community for these standards is vast,\" says Wierzbanowski. \"Feedback on what works and what doesn't during these early stages of sUAS operation is critical.\"\nF2908 is under the jurisdiction of F38.03 on Personnel Training, Qualification and Certification, and F2909 was developed by F38.02 on Flight Operations. The other five new standards are under the jurisdiction of F38.01 on Airworthiness.\nTo purchase ASTM standards, visit www.astm.org and search by the standard designation, or contact ASTM Customer Relations (phone: 877-909-ASTM; sales@astm.org).\nCONTACT Technical Information: Theodore J. Wierzbanowski \u2022 Punta Gorda, Fla. \u2022 Phone: 626-429-8864 | ASTM Staff: Stephen Mawn \u2022 Phone: 610-832-9726\nPosition Papers \u2013 UAS Operations in Support of Search and Rescue\nDecember 22, 2015 Integriography\tLeave a comment\nUAS, unmanned aerial systems, can play a significant role in search and rescue (SAR) operations. There are a number of hurdles to deploying these assets successfully. In my role as advocacy director for the National Association of Search and Rescue (NASAR) I've written position papers to address two of the hurdles:\nUAS deployment in support of SAR (and other disaster response incidents) requires professional UAS operators. At the present time, that means that all UAS operations must be performed under a valid COA either by public agencies or by Section 333 exempt operators. I wrote a paper for NASAR explaining this position and how public agencies and SAR volunteers can fly in support of SAR missions while complying with FAA policy\/rules\/guidelines.Here is the NASAR announcement which includes a link to the paper.\nCurrent FAA policy places three significant restrictions on UAS operations that make deployments extremely difficult and very ineffective:\nThe operator must issue a NOTAM 72 hours before flying. (SAR is an emergency. UAS assets are extremely helpful in the early stages. Search is an emergency.)\nThe operator must fly at or below 200 feet. (Imaging wide swaths of the area, operating in hilly or mountainous terrain, or establishing a communications relay with wide area coverage, requires higher altitudes.)\nThe operator must not fly any closer than 500 feet to non-participating individuals or property. (Search subjects do not go missing in areas with zero population and no structures.)\nTo address these issues, Jason Kamdar and I wrote a proposal for a \"First Responder COA (FRCOA)\" to submit to the FAA. The document can be found here and the NASAR announcement about the paper and other related activity is here.\nCategories: SAR, UAVs, Uncategorized\nA Falling DJI Phantom Might, or Might Not, Crush Your Skull\nAugust 24, 2015 Integriography\t1 comment\nThe title is intentionally provoking. Too many public comments are similar to \"A falling drone will give you a bump on the head\". In fact, there is a reasonable chance it will kill you. Which of these is actually true? We simply do not know and some formal experiments are required before claims are made either way. So my point is not really that they may kill you, rather it is that we need good data.\nI'd like to thank the members of a particular Facebook group for engaging in a spirited discussion that helped me refine this post. It was far too provocative in the early draft and I am certain that it still is for some.\nThe theoretical analysis follows, and it ignores a lot of variables. These calculations are a starting point and represent the \"worst case scenario\". With a lot of additional work, we could add other constraints and end up with a probability estimate of damage from a direct impact.\nWeight of a DJI Phantom \u2013 1242g (2.73 lbs)\nAltitude at time of failure \u2013 61m (200 feet)\nForce required to crush a human skull \u2013 2,300N (Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics)\nLet's plug those numbers into a calculator:\n7173N of force. Almost three times the force required to crush a human skull.\nEven from half that height, 100 feet, a falling Phantom would generate 3527N, still enough to crush your skull. At 65 feet you might survive the impact as the force is down to 2351N.\nThere are a lot of variables that I did not account for \u2013 drag, impact angle, elasticity in the body and the drone\u2026. Real experiments need to be performed.\nUAVs in SAR \u2013 Deployment and Effectiveness\nAugust 23, 2015 Integriography\t6 comments\nIn an earlier post I wrote: \"I think the search & rescue community should do a lot more work on designing and performing experiments with UAVs. Vendors and sales outlets keep touting their UAVs as being \"good for search & rescue\" without providing any data to support this claim, and often without really understanding SAR, SAR missions, and the challenges we face. (More on this in my upcoming presentation for NAASIC in Reno in September.)\"\nThis is even more important when we consider what are appropriate missions for UAVs and how to deploy them.\nI conducted two very quick experiments to illustrate two of the challenges we face. I intend to develop more formal experiments and welcome others who are interested in assisting with this effort.\nI wanted to answer two questions:\nHow effective is a UAV when searching an area with trees?\nHow effective is a UAV when searching for clues in a soybean field?\nBoth of these are simple examples of SAR problems you can adapt to your own operational area.\ntl;dr \u2013 You need to be down very low when searching near trees and finding an unresponsive subject in a soybean field with an optical sensor is very tough.\nSearching Near Trees:\nIf this was your search area, and if you were searching for an uncooperative or unresponsive subject (someone who isn't going to come investigate the noise of the UAV), how would you plan your mission? How would you execute it? How long would it take? How effective would you be? (This was taken at 200 feet by a Phantom Vision 2+. The subject is currently in the frame.)\nOk, if the subject were standing under a tree in this small area, what would you be able to see? (There are a lot of variables here \u2013 height of branches, folliage on or off, distance from subject, subject's distance from the trunk, \u2026. This is just an example.)\nDistance from the UAV to the subject was less than 50 feet in all images.\nAt the subject's altitude:\nAt about a 30 degree angle:\n50 degrees. The subject's legs are barely visible due to the contrast between his blue jeans and the green background. (And, if you were looking at this on a mobile device, what would you really be able to see?)\n70 degrees or so. The subject is not visible.\nConclusion \u2013 you need to get under the level of the tree branches to search around trees for an unresponsive subject. This will increase your time required to search while diminishing your ability to control the UAV at long ranges.\nI live, and search, in Illinois. Lots of corn, lots of soybeans. Searching for anyone in a corn field when the corn is above your head is tough. We'll come back to that one later. Soybeans get to a few feet tall. Walking through soybean fields is \u2026 annoying \u2026 but you can certainly see a lot more. If the subject is standing up you can just walk to the edge of the field and say \"Hey, there they are!\" But, what if they are unresponsive and down?\nAgain, 50 feet up with a DJI Phantom Vision 2+. The subject dropped their high visibility orange shirt, a clue! We can see it easily on the edge of the field.\nBut, what if they dropped it in the field? Since you know it is in the frame, and since it is right next to the pilot, you can probably see it. If you were looking at images from 100 acres of soybeans how confident are you that you'd see this clue, particularly on a small screen?\nIf you are using a normal consumer UAV to search for an unresponsive subject in an area with significant vegetation your probability of detection may be rather low.\nCategories: SAR, UAVs Tags: SAR, UAV\nWhat Can a Drone Actually \"See\"?\nI think the UAV industry in general and the search & rescue community in specific should do a lot more work on designing and performing experiments with UAVs. Vendors and sales outlets keep touting their UAVs as being \"good for search & rescue\" without providing any data to support this claim, and often without really understanding SAR, SAR missions, and the challenges we face. (More on this in my upcoming presentation for NAASIC in Reno in September.) On the privacy side, people claim \"he couldn't see anything at 200 feet with that drone.\" or the opposite position without sharing any data to support these claims.\nSince I am an engineer, I like to gather data to support conclusions. And, for similar reasons, I usually form a hypothesis prior to conducting an experiment. Full disclosure \u2013 the data did not support my hypothesis. I'll explain at the end of this post.\nFor the tl;dr folk \u2013 you cannot see much detail in a stock Phantom 2 Vision+ image when taken more than 50 feet above the subject.\nExperiment:\nThis experiment was conducted with a stock DJI Phantom 2 Vision+. The lens specifications, according to DJI, are:\nSensor Size \u2013 1\/2.3\u2033\nEffective Pixels \u2013 14 Megapixels\nResolution \u2013 4384\u00d73288\nRecording FOV -110\u00b0 \/ 85\u00b0\nI had the camera set to use the \"large\" photo size and thus the full resolution.\nThe items in the frame are:\nA black Pelican case\nA human male wearing blue jeans and a reddish t-shirt\nA high visibility orange long sleeve thermal shirt\nA light blue t-shirt\nA white board with black writing on it\nThe sky was overcast and the winds were between 5 and 15mph out of the south east. I took the Phantom up to 25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, and 300 feet, +\/- 3 feet as reported by DJI's Vision app. At each altitude I took a single photograph. After landing, I used Photoshop to zoom in to approximately the same area in each image.\nIn the raw images viewed natively without any zoom:\nIt is hard to find any identifying details of a human in the image above 50 feet.\nAt 200 feet it would be hard to identify the human if you did not know what you are looking at.\nUsing the zoom tool in Photoshop:\nDetail is hard to discern at 100 feet and very difficult past 100 feet\nGiven the subject's pose you can determine that there is a human in the frame up to 300 feet.\nIf you thought a drone would be invading your privacy when flown at 200 feet do you still feel this way after looking at these images?\nIf you want to use a drone to search for missing people, do these images help you determine your mission parameters and effectiveness?\nClosing:\nAnd my hypothesis? I thought more detail would be available further up. Glad I'm conducting experiments.\nImage analysis is not my forte. If you have additional observations, please comment or share them with me directly and I'll get them included.\nCategories: SAR, UAVs Tags: SAR, sUAS\nNewer Entries Older Entries","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Make love, not war\nWritten by Magda Pervy on 05 September 2017 . Posted in News\n\"Make love, not war\" asked English students in the summer of 1968 and maybe it's time that we follow their advice even 40 years later. What would you choose between a possible nuclear war US-North Korea which could end up involving even neighboring states like Japan, China and Russia (with the risk of making it happen the prophecy indicating 2017 as the year in which the Third World War will break out) and some pleasant moments with your partner?\nRamos makes more sensation than Kim Jong-un?\nYet in these weeks it seems to make more sensation the story of Laura Ramos, 31-year-old married special education teacher at Central High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut, rather than the repeated provocations of Kim Jong-un, who did run an underground atomic test so powerfull to cause a 6.3 magnitude earthquake shock, followed by a second earthquake shock of 4.6 magnitude (to better understand: the earthquake chock which made some houses collapsed in Casamicciola, on Ischia island in Italy, was a 4 magnitude shock).\nTheacher hungry for sex\nWhat did Ramos do to end up under the spotlight of the world press? She was charged of second-degree sexual assault (if you wanna know what this means, follow this link: https:\/\/apps.rainn.org\/policy\/compare\/crimes.cfm) for having sexual relations with some of her studs. In essence the professor, mother of a young child, is believed to having had sex with at least four students, though she has only been formally charged in connection to two, because her \"man\" or \"guy\" did not want \"to have sex or do anything with her anymore\".\nSex with four students\nHer students conforted the woman btw: Ramos and a 18-year-old student were surprised at a parking lot by an institute official while they were having sex in the car of the teacher), but according to what is emerging from the trial Ramos in the previous months would have \"weaned\" at least three other students.\nBetter make love than the WW III\nWhile it is certainly a priority to protect the proper development of sexuality in our boys and girls and their defense against any sexual predators, who have never had a crush on his\/her own teacher or ever dreamed of having a sexual relationship with some particularly nice substitute? Certainly more than any who have dreamed of playing to Dr. Strangore and trigger a nuclear war. Hopefully even Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un will be of the same opinion and they will prefer to continue to make love rather than war.\nTags: World War lll\nTop 7 days\nFrankenstein, the real story\nOsiris: the hunt for the tomb of the first visitor continues\nHatshepsut, the pharaoh woman who survived oblivion\nPharaoh Akhenaten was a hybrid of aliens?\nEgypt under the snow: how to distinguish truth from hoaxes\nNordic aliens, the most ancient race of the galaxy\nCosmonauts and astronauts saw angels in space\nWhat happened to Hitler's train?\n10 wedding dresses to throw away\nPollock twins and memories of past lives\nGrey aliens: so many races with the only goal to exploit the Earth\nYeti: the tragic fate of those people that have looked for it\nBohemian Grove's mysteries\nSecret history: the mystery of Princess Tisulsky\nDoes Bob Lazar know how an UFO is made?\nArecibo message and crop circles\nRoswell, a truth kept long hidden\nNikola Tesla and the electric car mystery\nMichael Salla: is there a mining facility on the Moon?\nDevil's Letter, mystery revealed\nTurin Art Cats Numismatics Crop circles Conspiracy theory space Florence Medicine Catholic Church Royal weddings Animals Mars segreti history creepypasta Donald Trump (EN) Solar System World War lll Extraterrestrial life\nRoyal weddings, find out differences!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to Get Data From your CRM System that is Actionable\nAs it turns out, after 20+ years of CRM Solutions, the data we all thought was supposed to be easy and accurate to extract from the CRM software turns out to be less than advertised. In the inaugural program for CRMRadioToday Bonnie Crater of Full Circle tells us why accurate reliable data isn't always easy from your CRM System. The host is Jim Obermayer.\nAbout Bonnie Crater\nPrior to joining Full Circle Insights, Bonnie Crater was a five-time vice president of marketing and executive at many software companies in Silicon Valley. She held vice president and senior vice president roles at Genesys, Netscape, Network Computer Inc., salesforce.com, Stratify, Realization, and VoiceObjects (now Voxeo). A ten-year veteran of Oracle Corporation and its various subsidiaries, Bonnie was vice president, Compaq Products Division and vice president, Workgroup Products Division. In 2013, Bonnie was named one of the \"100 Most Influential Women\" by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and in 2015 the Sales Lead Management Association named her one of the \"20 Women to Watch\" in sales lead management. Bonnie holds a B.A. in biology from Princeton University.\nAbout Full Circle Insights\nAt Full Circle Insights, we believe you shouldn't need a PhD in statistics to understand what's happening with your marketing campaigns. In fact it should be easy for you to get the answers you need to plan with confidence and grow revenue for your company. That's why our team of former Salesforce executives, product managers, and marketing automation specialists designed and built our products to deliver reliable marketing data inside Salesforce and be compatible with the leading marketing automation solutions.So join our customers in a marketing data revolution and get the information you need to succeed. See how your campaigns influence pipeline and revenue, get complete funnel metrics across sales and marketing, and ensure your marketing data is rock solid today.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vanessa of Cairo 2020\nCairo Nights in Seattle Workshop with Stefanya & Jayna\nMusic by Dr. Samy Farag\n10:00-3:00 PM - 1hr break\n10 AM-12:00 PM Double Veils Choreography by Jayna\nThe circular veils Jayna works with were created by her mother, Marta Schill who was inspired by the Flamenco dancer's Monton they use that wrap around their bodies in a beautiful spiral-like motion when they dance with it. Using DOUBLE circular veils steps it up a notch because the audience gets quite a surprise when the performer executes a quick spin and magically separates the two, creating a magical, flower-like whirlwind that surrounds the dancer like a frame in motion.\nPlease bring your own veils if possible but there will be some to borrow\/purchase at the workshop.\n1:00 - 3:00 PM Balady Choreography by Stefanya\nStudents will learn a choreography that utilizes the passionate and grounded nature of the Balady rhythm that they can reuse in group or solo performances. This class will begin with a simple warmup, moveing into bellydance isolation and drill. A full length choreography will be taught. This passionate and strong choreography will allow the dancer to work on a different dynamic of his or her dancing. Focus will be on the rhythm of the balady and how to use the accents. Students will be given the time to perform the Choreography for Stefanya and she will be available to provide feedback for the dancers.\nDr. Samy Farag's music from Cairo Nights Volume 4 will be used in both workshops.\nSpace is LIMITED. Register EARLY. NO refund.\nContact Roxy if you'd like to pay by CHECK or CASH.\nTHANK FOR JOINING US!\nSTEFANYA's BIO:\nPositively unique, Stefanya is an exotic flower, blooming with every beat in rhythm. Her passionate and\ninclusive artistry utilizes dance as communication of her hearts deepest blessings to all the world. Acclaimed choreographer, award winning performer and sought after instructor, Stefanya is currently teaching and performing across the globe. She is a co-owner of the Los Angeles Bellydance Academy, a principal cast\nmember of the world famous Bellydance Superstars, and at one time dance director of the Adam Basma\nDance Company. She can be seen on screen in numerous national and international commercial campaigns,\ntelevision shows, and films, appearing live on stage with fellow artist such as Tom Delong, super-model Heidi Klum, and talk show star Kelly Rippa. Taking dance to new heights, Stefanya made headlines as a featured stilt dancer in the world premiere of \"Stilt World\" and in the Bellydance Superstars' stage production \"Raqs Carnival\". Performing internationally as an ensemble member and solo artist, Stefanya has graced the stage in more then twenty five countries throughout the in some of the world's most prestigious venues.\nStefanya has dedicated herself to the fundamentals of her art, with extensive training in contemporary forms of dance as well as ancient disciplines. Using a strong foundation in classical styles she merges dances from multiple world traditions and western techniques to create a refined, energetic oriental dance.\nJAYNA's BIO:\nAs a second generation Bellydance artist, Jayna Manoushe has been immersed in Middle Eastern music and dance her whole life.\nHer mother, Marta Schill, not only dances but also is well accomplished in playing a variety of rhythms on the Doumbek while father, Jono Kouzouyan, sings and plays a variety of instruments including oud, ney and saz. Growing up in such a musically rich environment has made Jayna very comfortable with the rhythms and melodies of the Middle East.\nAs a professional performer, Jayna has had the pleasure of touring the world with the Bellydance Superstars and working with - as well as being influenced by - incredibly innovative and inspirational artists such as Jillina, Kami Liddle, Bozenka, Ansuya and many more.\nBecause Jayna's dance history includes ballet, jazz and gymnastics, she is very comfortable with the art of choreography and has had the pleasure of creating and performing dynamic pieces to the beautiful music of accomplished artists such as Dr. Samy Farag of Egypt and Pavlo of Greece.\nHer joy and passion of Middle Eastern dance are evident through each performance. Jayna looks forward to sharing some of this love with YOU!\nWorkshop location:\nThe Hilton Garden Inn\nSeattle\/Bothell, WA\nPhone: (650) 898-ROXY\nEARLY BIRD by May 30th, 2015\n\u00a9 2019 Oriental Bliss Productions. All Rights Reserved.\nWant Roxy to sponsor your future workshops in Seattle? Contact ROXY NOW with your proposal for\n2021 and beyond!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Byzantine Treasures \u00bb Constantine Xeros, Sebastos\nConstantine Xeros, Sebastos\nSeals Late Byzantine\nConstantine Xeros, Sebastos. Period: Late Byzantine, 12th.c. second half. Translation: May you, all-holy Virgin, be the keeper and seal of the correspondence of the sebastos Constantine Xeros. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 11:30 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m., except for federal holidays.\nConstantine Xeros, sebastos (twelfth century, second half).jpg 2 years ago\nConstantine Xeros, sebastos (twelfth century, second half)-2.jpg 2 years ago\nByzantine Pectoral Cross\nByzantine Pectoral Cross (front and back), Period: Late Byzantine circa: 1200\u20131400 A.D. , Benaki Museum, Athens. Museum Description: \"Gold pectoral in the form of a Resurrection cross with double horizontal arms set with lapis lazuli. The owner's name, Georgios Varagkopoulos, is inscribed on the back together with his title Sevastos (Augustus), which reflects his high social standing and explains the luxurious quality of the materials and the fine workmanship. \"\nThe Benaki Museum of Greek Culture is housed in one of the most beautiful neoclassical-style buildings in Athens, near the National Garden and the Hellenic Parliament. It was converted into a museum in order to shelter the collections of Antonis Benakis and was donated to the Greek nation by himself and his three sisters, Alexandra, Penelope and Argine. Following its most recent refurbishment (1989\u20132000), the building houses a unique exhibition on Greek culture arranged diachronically from prehistory to the 20th century.\nGold Signet Ring, Late Byzantine\nGold Signet Ring, Period: Late Byzantine circa: 14thc. Made in: Constantinople. Diameter: 28 millimetres Weight: 375 grains. British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year. Fast facts about the British Museum: Founded: 1753, Collection size: 8 million objects, Oldest object in the collection: Stone chopping tool (nearly 2 million years old).\nRelief plaque icon, depicting the Crucifixion with full-length figures of the Virgin on the left and St John on the right, Late Byzantine (13 thc). Materials: Steatite \u2013 Gold.\nCopper Alloy Counterpoise Coin Balance\nLate Byzantine Copper\nCopper alloy counterpoise coin balance; in the form of a rectangular beam with transverse bar, Late Byzantine (13-14 thc.)\nRelief icon; Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 14-15th c. carved white steatite in the shape of half an oval; St George and the dragon with name inscribed. Length: 2 centimetres Width: 1.6 centimetres. British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year. Fast facts about the British Museum: Founded: 1753, Collection size: 8 million objects, Oldest object in the collection: Stone chopping tool (nearly 2 million years old).\nCameo; opaque red; Period: Late Byzantine circa: 13 thc. Materials: glass. Made in: Venice. The Crucifixion with St John and St Mary and inscription, in relief. British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year. Fast facts about the British Museum: Founded: 1753, Collection size: 8 million objects, Oldest object in the collection: Stone chopping tool (nearly 2 million years old).\nSeal, Theodore Kastamonites, Sebastos\nSeal, Theodore Kastamonites, Sebastos. The two Saints Theodore standing with their hands upraised towards the manus Dei above. Between them are their spears and a shield embossed with a patriarchal cross. This remarkable seal may well have belonged to Theodore Kastamonites, the maternal uncle of the emperor Isaac II Angelos (1185\u20131195, 1203\u20131204), who tended to the internal affairs of the empire during his nephew's first reign. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 11:30 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m., except for federal holidays.\nSeal, John Tarchaneiotes\nSeal, John Tarchaneiotes, Period: Late Byzantine, 13 th. century. (second half). St. John the Baptist standing, holding a staff cross over his left shoulder. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 11:30 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m., except for federal holidays.\nFragment of an Icon of the Crucifixion with Mary Magdalen and the Virgin Mary\nStone Late Byzantine\nFragment of an Icon of the Crucifixion with Mary Magdalen and the Virgin Mary. Material: Steatite. Period: 14th century, Late Byzantine. The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.\u20135:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.\u20139:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.\nBenediction Cross, Late Byzantine\nPrecious Stones Silver Late Byzantine\nBenediction Cross, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200s-1400s. Materials: black schist, gold, silver. The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.\u20135:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.\u20139:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.\nCameo, Red Glass\nCameo; red glass; quadrangular; Period: 13thC, Late Byzantine. Figure of St John the Baptist in relief with inscription. Made in: Venice. British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year.\nHead of a Female Saint\nIcons Late Byzantine\nHead of a Female Saint, Fresco transferred to panel, Period: Late Byzantine circa: 12th-14th centuries. The MFA is open 7 days a week. Monday and Tuesday 10 am\u20135 pm, Wednesday\u2013Friday 10 am\u201310 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am\u20135 pm.\nManuscripts Late Byzantine\nSaint Luke, Byzantine Manuscript, cutting from a Greek Bible. Period: Late Byzantine circa: 1200\u201325. The MFA is open 7 days a week. Monday and Tuesday 10 am\u20135 pm, Wednesday\u2013Friday 10 am\u201310 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am\u20135 pm.\nCross with Pearls\nCross with Pearls, Period: Late Byzantine, circa: 1200\u20131400. Materials: Gold and pearls. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 303. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collection includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Public Hours: 10:30 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m. Open seven days a week.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Thursday, 23rd April 2009. 5.30pm for 6pm Rugby Club, Rugby Place, Circular Quay\nPhil Blevin\nIgneous Rocks of New South Wales and their Relationship to Mineral Deposits\nPhil Blevin (NSWDPI) will showcase studies being undertaken at the Geological Survey on the igneous rocks of NSW, their relationship to mineral deposits, and their potential for new technology metals (e.g. indium), geothermal energy and even manufactured sand. Isotopic and rare earth studies of zircon from the Ordovician Cu-Au porphyries will define these systems in terms of source, temperature and oxidation state and help identify the primary controls on their metallogenic fertility. Collaborative studies with universities are developing new methodologies to age date and fingerprint ore minerals such as cassiterite and molybdenite. Age dating is also leading to a better understanding of the state's mineral systems in time and space. Studies at Ardlethan and in New England for example have challenged preconceptions regarding the age and genetic associations of Sn (-W, Ag, In) systems across the state. The applied outputs from these new frontiers of economic geology and petrology will include district to regional mineral system studies, maps of metallogenic potential, and new exploration concepts that will enhance prospectivity and exploration investment opportunities in NSW.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Assassin's Creed Is Skipping 2019\nAug 23, 2018, 7:00am\nThe next big Assassin's Creed game won't arrive until 2020, Ubisoft has said, confirming that the once-annualized series is annualized no more.\n\"We are not going to have a full-fledged Assassin's next year,\" Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot told Gamespot at Gamescom in Germany this week. \"It's just because the teams were working separately, so we have two games now, one year after the other. But next year you're not going to have a fully fledged one.\"\nInstead, Guillemot said, the company plans to support this fall's Assassin's Creed Odyssey throughout 2019, treating it with the \"games as a service\" model that has proven lucrative for many of Ubisoft's other franchises.\nUbisoft will add free updates and expansions to Odyssey, which is set in ancient Greece, rather than moving on to the next big game right away. (Last year's Assassin's Creed Origins experimented with this same model, but its post-launch support only lasted five months, ending in March of this year.)\nGuillemot didn't specifically say that Assassin's Creed will return in 2020, but that timing makes sense, perhaps as a cross-gen launch title for the next generation of consoles?\nThe gap year has been effective for Assassin's Creed. Following the disastrous launch of Assassin's Creed Unity (2014) and the soft sales of Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015), Ubisoft gave the franchise a year off in 2016. This led to one of the best entries yet, Assassin's Creed Origins (2017). The next game, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, will be out this October.\noptimusprimal @optimusprimal\n\"We are not going to have a full-fledged Assassin's next year,\"\nNit-picking perhaps, but the words suggests there may still be something\/spin-off if not a main title?\nI think it's a good idea - the year off made a big difference to Origins so let's hope it can do the same for the next game - just hope to goodness they work on the quests\/repetition as it's been an issue since the very first game & still mars (feel i've said this a few times now!) what was a great return to form in Origins otherwise.\nJust finishing off the second dlc for Origins now - if it's been a while & you fancy more AC I can recommend, if you've played recently i'd suggest waiting - it's more of the same only a little worse with more of the irritating enemy types and mounted archers who can see\/hit you from half the map away.\nmatt1234 @matt1234\nProbably just a mobile game, or a remaster.\nAug 23, 2018, 10:33am\nMaybe scratch the recommendation for the dlc after all - it's better than the first and has a few nice touches, it also has some of the most excruciatingly dull, tedious, potentially cheap & drawn out boss fights too. Playing to finish it now, the fun ended a while ago & it's sadly now souring my opinion of what - for the most part - has been a great game.\nrowan @rowan\nSo you reckon just play the vanilla game with no dlc?\nIf you've not played the base game then yep, that should be more than enough (the game is huge!) i reckon...?\nI got the dlc's because they were on sale last week against my better judgment. The best bit (for me personally) is that they up the level cap buuuut;\nThe Hidden Ones;\nThe additional story is completely throwaway (and can be seen very quickly on youtube)\nHard crashed about 5-6 times plus had a few other quest bugs - never crashed in the base game (played on xbox x)\nMissions are just rinse\/repeat of the main game & the area isn't particularly exciting.\nEnemy areas have a lot more soldiers in them now which would be cool if you hadn't already killed 750k previously to get to that part (hence why if you played the base game a while back it'd be fresh again)\nCurse of the Pharaohs\nGreat setting & premise - far more compelling than the hidden ones.\nEven more so than the first dlc, so many missions, fetch quests, backtracking - you'll have done it all 20k times previously.\nMain issue with them both i guess is that because i did so much of the main game i had all top level weapons etc, so there's no loot gain in the dlc - any specific weapon drops are much of a muchness (that i've seen). If you ignore a lot of the base game you may get more mileage from them, but i'm just so burnt out on doing the same thing ad nauseam that it feels massively grindy.\nHope it doesn't put you off because i had lots of fun for majority of the base game - the predator bow is just insanely good fun & finally makes stealth viable despite the typically clunky AC controls!\nThanks man. Awesome response. I picked up the base game a few weeks ago for $20. I might stick with it alone. Like, I loved Witcher 3 but I sunk 130hrs into that bad boy, I don't know how much stamina I have for these huge world games anymore. Like, I got shit to do in REAL life you know?\nSo i'll stick to vanilla. Thanks again!\nBig difference with the witcher 3 is that - at least for the most part - the sidequests were\/are pretty compelling storywise, same can't really be said for a lot of Origins. Gameplay\/general sandbox mitigate that for a good while, but because it's so big the novelty wears off before the end, at least for me - agree completely with your last point, getting so fed up with games padding to make them artificially longer, sometimes less is more...\ncinamyn @cinamyn\nThere is always something new for Assassin's Creed every year. Whether thats a movie\/re-master\/spin-off\nI'm glad they are slowing down with the main games because those games deserve the best quality.\nexcelneko @excelneko\nThat is what they said about AC:Origins - and that only lasted a year\nThen they re-skinned it for then next (this) year\nchinesefood @chinesefood\nSmart.\nrammo123 @rammo123\nThe next big Assassin's Creed game won't arrive until 2020\nOh cool they're going to keep staggering the releases better to ensure they have adequate development tim...\n...treating it with the \"games as a service\" model\nSorry nevermind. GAAS cancer it is.\narnna @arnna\nYay everyone can skip a year of banality and fetch quests with blurry graphics\nAron Guest\nAC Origins is one of the sharpest looking games I've ever seen. On Xbox One X its definitely sharper than any other open world game I've seen, except maybe Far Cry 5.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PakWheels Mobile Apps\nFind Used Cars\nBrowse over 150k options\nSuzuki Certified\nView cars certified by Suzuki\nBuy directly from PakWheels store\nFind new and used car parts\nTyre Guide\nEverything about tyres care\nBecome a writer at PakWheels\nPakistan Losing Billions Due to Tyre Smuggling\nUPDATE \u2013 Now You Have to Pay Fee for M-Tag\nAnother Snowfall Alert! New Traffic Plan for Murree\nMini-Budget \u2013 Confusion Over FED Continues!\nInvalid Number Plate Users Will Now Go Straight to Prison\nIs New Suzuki Swift Coming Next Month?\nHyundai Staria Spotted, Does That Mean Another Car Launch?\nPetrol Price Reached All-Time High at Rs.147.83\nHow to Get Duplicate Car File or Book in Punjab?\nLand Cruiser LC300 Scores 5\/5 In Crash Test [Video]\nGeneralInfoInternationalPopular\nThe production of electric cars is still a major concern \u2013 Find out why!\nBy Ahmad Shehryar\t On Nov 29, 2019\nElectric vehicles are gradually taking over the auto sector as they are rightly considered as an environmentally friendly alternative to combustion engine vehicles, but are they actually as friendly as they seem? Probably, No! The presence of electric cars on the roads undoubtedly emits no carbon gases in the atmosphere, but there is a key area that still needs attention, i.e. the production of electric vehicles.\nAccording to a study, the production of electric cars creates a lot more greenhouse gas emissions as compared to making an equivalent conventional engine vehicle. The aim to save our environment from the carbon footprint fails partially when it comes to producing an electric car and studies in the world's top auto markets, i.e. the US, China, and Europe have proved it true. It's an area of concern for all the major auto manufacturers around the globe, and a more refined process needs to be figured out for the production of electric cars. But what creates these harmful gases during their production is the question that might be raising many eyebrows. Let's find out!\nThe environmental-friendly component itself has adverse effects:\nIt's much clear that the electric vehicles entirely depend on its battery instead of the conventional combustion engines that make it an apparently environment-friendly vehicle. However, according to the Automotive Science Group, this particular component of the vehicle is also responsible for the emission of these greenhouse gases during its production. The batteries used in electric cars and engine-based cars are not the same. Electric cars use lithium-ion batteries, which are used in cellphones, laptops, and other electronic equipment. In terms of size, these lithium-ion batteries are much larger than those used in gasoline engines. The conventional vehicles use lead-acid batteries, which are comparatively much smaller in size. Moreover, the chemistry of both types of these batteries is also quite different. For instance, lithium-ion batteries require a lot more energy in their production as compared to lead-acid batteries. The extraction and refinement of metals used in it, i.e. lithium, cobalt, and nickel, also require more energy. The recycling process of these batteries is also comparatively harder. The Union of Concerned Scientists also believes that the CO\u2082 emissions created from manufacturing an electric vehicle's battery are higher than that saved by not making the engine and transmission of a vehicle.\nThe emissions gap can extend up to 68%:\nThe Union also carried out a study back in 2015, which revealed that producing a larger electric vehicle with a larger battery may produce 68% more CO\u2082 emissions than those produced from the manufacturing of a gasoline engine vehicle. A mid-sized electric vehicle with a comparatively smaller battery would produce 15% more emissions than producing a similar engine-based vehicle. Another non-profit organization, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has concluded with a similar sort of results in its research. According to it, the difference in the emissions created between the productions of two different types of vehicles could be attributed to the electricity used in the production of batteries. The use of a cleaner source of energy could create a major impact in reducing carbon emissions during the production of batteries.\nRole of major automakers in reducing these emissions:\nAround the globe, several major auto manufacturers have already started producing extra-ordinarily efficient electric cars. These automakers include Tesla, BMW, Volkswagen, etc. Volkswagen, among them, has already announced its heavy investment plans for producing electric cars over the next decade. The company has partnered with a battery manufacturer LG Chem, and it aims to use only environmental-friendly sources of electricity in the production of batteries for its electric cars by 2050.\nSimilarly, the US-based top electric car manufacturer Tesla is also ambitious to eventually run its battery manufacturing plant on a renewable source of energy. BMW, on the other hand, also intends to involve itself in the battery recycling processes to reduce the emissions and aims to use only environmental-friendly sources for electricity when it starts making vehicles from 2020 onwards.\nAccording to an estimate made by the ICCT, battery recycling, decarbonization of electric grids, and increasing the battery energy density could result in reducing the emissions produced during the process of battery manufacturing by a significant margin of 49%. The same is the case with other auto giants around the world, as all of them intend to use only renewable sources of energy in the production of their vehicles. However, none of them have yet set any deadlines for the completion of the transition process.\nElectric cars still produce fewer emissions:\nThe CO\u2082 emissions produced during the production of electric cars is still far less than that emitted by the combustion engine vehicles during their lifespan. It means that electric cars, at this point in time, still contribute less to polluting our atmosphere as compared to conventional engine cars. It was proved by a study carried out by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2015 that concluded with the result that gasoline vehicles produce emissions by nearly two times as compared to electric vehicles. Also, the emissions produced by electric cars during their production stage can be made up in just six to eighteen months' span of a combustion engine vehicle, depending on the size of the vehicle and its battery.\nFurthermore, ICCT concluded with another finding in 2018, which states that a standard electric vehicle in Europe produces half the overall greenhouse gas emissions in its lifespan as compared to those produced by a similar combustion engine vehicle in just two to three years on the road.\nAutomakers must shift to cleaner sources of energy for electricity in the future:\nFor achieving higher efficiency and reducing emissions produced during the manufacturing phase of batteries, the automakers need to shift to cleaner and renewable sources of energy in the future. The global auto giants are already contributing largely to saving the atmosphere from pollution and global warming caused by carbon footprint. Following the footsteps of other developed countries, Pakistan has also finally decided to shift to electric mobility. The first-ever electric vehicle (EV) policy has already been approved by the cabinet, and the government now aims to convert the motorbikes and three-wheelers into electric in the initial phase. In the long run, the government wants to shift 30% of vehicles in the country to electric by the year 2030.\nDrop your valuable suggestions regarding electric vehicles in the feedback section below. 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{"text":"North Korea Says No To Nukes\nBy Richard Fernandez Jun 26, 2008 7:05 AM ET\n[For another take, read Claudia Rosett @ PajamasXpress: Condi Rice Wants Us to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Kim Jong Il]\nToday, North Korea appeared closer to abandoning its nuclear weapons ambitions than it has been in twelve years. The UPI reports:\nWASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) \u2014 North Korea submitted its nuclear program declaration Thursday, a move that will lead to the lifting of some sanctions, a White House statement said. \u2026 Under an agreement reached last year between countries, North Korea agreed to denuclearization in exchange for in exchange for diplomatic and economic incentives. North Korea pledged to disable all of its nuclear facilities, the statement said, \"and tomorrow (Friday) will destroy the cooling tower of the Yongbyon reactor.\"\nThe United States will lift the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act \"as well as announcing our intent to rescind North Korea's designation as a State Sponsor of Terror in 45 days,\" in response to North Korea's actions.\nA negotiated disarmament of North Korea appeared to be well under way with the signing of the Agreed Framework in October 1994. Under the terms agreed between the Clinton Administration and Pyongyang, the North Koreans agreed to stop the construction of two nuclear reactors capable of producing plutonium in exchange for an American funded light-water reactor and fuel oil.\nBut in 2002 a Bush administration diplomatic delegation accused Pyongyang of cheating, alleging that they were secretly operating a highly enriched uranium program, which provided an alternative route to the Bomb. In the acrimonious atmosphere that followed, North Korea once again withdrew from Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty, the United States declared North Korea part of the Axis of Evil and the Agreed Framework collapsed.\nThe proponents of the Agreed Framework accused the Bush administration of derailing a done deal. Selig Harrison, writing in Foreign Affairs in 2005, cast doubt on claims the North Koreans were really cheating, arguing that although Pyongyang was indeed acquiring centrifuges capable of enriching uranium, they were in quantities insufficient to support a serious weapons program. Although \"Pyongyang clearly did violate that accord by pursuing uranium-enrichment efforts \u2026 and thus, technically, violated the 1994 Agreed Framework as well\", the Bush administration had overreacted and by diplomatically confronting North Korea, risked provoking them into using their existing stock of fuel for weapons development. When Pyongyang conducted its highly publicized atomic bomb test in 2006 the Agreed Framework appeared to be in ruins.\nIn retrospect, one of the factors which provoked the Bush administration into treating North Korea with suspicion was Pakistan. Harrison wrote at the time:\nA June 2002 CIA assessment that was leaked after the Kelly visit said that Pakistan had provided North Korea with centrifuge prototypes and blueprints, but that it was uncertain how many, if any, centrifuges North Korea had made from them. \u2026 Some intelligence suggesting this possibility did surface during the Clinton presidency. \"We raised fairly generalized concerns with Pakistan about nuclear cooperation with North Korea,\" recalls Robert Einhorn, Clinton's assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation. \"But we didn't cite chapter and verse because we didn't have chapter and verse to cite.\"\nBut although US-North Korean relations appeared to have broken down under the impact of new intelligence, a new negotiated track to disarmament was already being laid in August 2003. Called the Six Party Talks, it differed procedurally from the Agreement Framework in that it involved, as the name suggested, six parties: China, South Korea, Russia, Japan, the US and North Korea itself. Under the new approach, the disarmament of North Korea would be linked not merely to a normalization of relations between Pyongyang and Washington, but to a comprehensive settlement of tensions that had existed since World War 2 and the Korean War, adjusting Pyongyang's relationship with Seoul, Tokyo and Washington.\nThe talks steadily progressed through six rounds. Even North Korea's supposed nuclear weapons test could not derail it. Indeed those results were denigrated shortly afterward by CIA Director Michael Hayden, who declared, \"the United States does not recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapons state \u2026 because the nuclear test last year was a failure.\" The door to a comprehensive agreement was still open to diplomats.\nToday's dramatic announcement of the decommissioning of the Yongbon nuclear power facility and the delisting of North Korea from the rolls of terrorist states represents the results of the sixth round of negotiations and brings the process close to its final phase. The agreement of February 2007 creates a three stage end game along which we are halfway along.\nIn the first part of the deal, North Korea said it would shut its Yongbyon reactor within 60 days. In return, it was promised 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, to be supplied by the five other countries involved in the nuclear negotiations.\nIn the second stage \u2014 where we are now \u2014 North Korea agreed to declare and disable all its existing nuclear facilities, a process that would be supervised by experts from the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency. In return, it has been promised a further 950,000 tons of fuel. The US has also agreed to remove it from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.\nA third stage would deal with any nuclear weapons that North Korea may already possess.\nThe architecture of the endgame is obvious. The first two stages are designed to destroy the last vestiges of the North Korean capacity to produce any more fissile material. The third \u2014 and possibly more difficult \u2014 stage is to wrest from Pyongyang's grip any nuclear material that may already exist. The Times Online says that the original sticking point, the resolution of the uranium enrichment program, has been deferred to the very end.\nIt is unclear whether it will also include an inventory of the precise number of nuclear warheads, or whether North Korea will own up to a second programme of uranium enrichment that it has always denied, despite US accusations. If these elements are missing, the Bush Administration will be accused of compromising its principles for the sake of moving forward the Six Party Talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament, which also include Japan, Russia and South Korea as well as the host, China.\nTime will tell whether the Six Party talks will succeed in denuclearizing the Korean peninsula or whether it will founder, as did the Agreed Framework before it, on some new difficulty. But two factors make the new agreement more robust than the 1994 agreement. First, the multilateral format means that any North Korean double-cross would alienate not only the United States, but South Korea, Japan, Russia and most importantly, Pyongyang's patron China. North Korea has a lot more to lose by welshing on the Six Party Talks than it did on the Agreed Framework.\nSecondly, because their fissile production line will effectively be dismantled \u2014 the Yongbon cooling will be demolished \u2014 North Korea's remaining blackmail leverage consists of a mere handful of low-yield nuclear material. And with the United States positioned to watch Pakistan and Iran, the future of any clandestine program is in serious doubt. When Hayden scoffed at the yield of the North Korean nuclear weapons, he was signalling that Pyongyang did not have enough cards in hand to effectively threaten South Korea, the US and Japan. Without a working nuclear program to build more weapons, Pyongyang has nothing to gain from cheating. North Korea is like a man with a pistol surrounded by a company of infantry, and the logical thing for it to do is lay down its arms and fix its economy. While North Korea has long played the game of intimidation to get its way, this time it may be out of ammo.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Share this Story: China's coal imports have been robust, but winter crunch looms: Russell\nChina's coal imports have been robust, but winter crunch looms: Russell\nClyde Russell\nLAUNCESTON \u2014 China's coal imports have grown strongly so far this year, but this may be about to change, assuming Beijing takes steps to ensure that growth for the whole of 2019 is more or less zero.\nTotal coal imports rose 8.1% in the first eight months of the year to 220.8 million tonnes, a gain of 17 million tonnes, according to official customs data.\nChina's coal imports have been robust, but winter crunch looms: Russell Back to video\nLooking specifically at seaborne imports, which exclude overland shipments from countries such as Mongolia, the growth looks even more impressive.\nSeaborne imports were 191.3 million tonnes in the January-August period, up 11.4% from 171.8 million tonnes in the same period last year, according to vessel-tracking and import data compiled by Refinitiv.\nWhile the growth in volumes may be something of a silver lining for coal miners in major exporters Australia and Indonesia, the chances are the fourth quarter of 2019 will mirror the same period last year: Imports taper off.\nLast year, the authorities in Beijing made it clear to coal importers that they didn't want imports to show any growth in 2018 from 2017. This resulted in a sharp drop-off in cargoes in the fourth quarter.\nIn December last year, seaborne coal imports dropped to 15 million tonnes, the lowest for any month in almost two years, while imports for the fourth quarter of last year were 53 million tonnes, down 15.7% from the third quarter.\nIn the end, total imports as measured by customs did rise in 2018, reaching 281.2 million tonnes, up 3.9% from the prior year. But that was down from growth of 14.7% at the end of August.\nIf 2019 imports were to end the year at the same level as for last year, that would leave a gap of only 60.4 million tonnes available for the last four months of the year.\nTo meet that target, imports would have to average around 15 million tonnes per month from September to December \u2013 a very sharp slowing from the August customs figure of 32.95 million tonnes after 32.89 million tonnes in July.\nIn fact, September seaborne imports for the first 23 days were 15.6 million tonnes already, according to Refinitiv data, which had been filtered to show only cargoes already unloaded.\nThis could mean total imports in September, including those that come by rail or road, are likely to well exceed 20 million tonnes \u2013 a number that would put further pressure on China's importers to reduce volumes in the final quarter of the year.\nPOLLUTION CONTROLS\nWhile it's likely that 2019 imports will exceed last year's total, the question is by how much.\nIn other words, what is the tolerance of the authorities for coal imports exceeding 2018's level?\nWhile the coming months will show how determined the authorities are to keep a lid on coal imports, early signs are that the campaign to reduce pollution over the northern winter will step up a gear this year.\nChina's environment ministry said on Sept. 20 that the anti-pollution campaign for this year's autumn-winter heating season will set stricter emissions targets for cities that had higher concentrations of damaging particles last time around.\nThis may result in stricter controls on industries that use coal, such as steel and cement, and also on residential heating, where efforts are being made to switch from coal boilers to systems that use natural gas.\nIf China does reduce coal imports for the last three months of 2019, it's likely to place downward pressure on seaborne prices, which have struggled in recent months amid good supply and limited demand growth outside of China.\nThe benchmark weekly thermal coal price at Australia's Newcastle port, as assessed by commodity price reporting agency Argus, stood at $62.97 a tonne for the week ending Sept. 20.\nWhile this was up from the three-year low of $60.74 a tonne from Aug. 30, it's still little more than half the $119.74 level seen in July last year, which was a seven-year high.\nThe price of lower energy Indonesian coal, which is popular in China as a blending feedstock given its low sulfur content, has also struggled this year.\nIndonesian coal with an energy value of 4,200 kilocalories per kilogram, as assessed by Argus, was at $32.69 a tonne in the week to Sept. 20.\nThis was up from $30.96 a tonne in the week to Aug. 23, but down 19% from its peak so far in 2019 of $40.32 on March 8.\nAlthough both Australian and Indonesian thermal coal prices have lifted from recent lows, they are likely to come under pressure again if China does start to restrict coal imports for the rest of the year. (Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pastor Philip T. Sica Memorial Service and Life Sketch\nSeptember 17, 2021by Phil Orenstein in Club News, Memorial Page\nPastor Philip T. Sica\nSeptember 27, 1934 \u2013 September 10, 2021\nOld Westbury Seventh-day Adventist Church\nProcessional Pastor and Family\nOpening Prayer Pastor Anthony Mazzella\nScripture Reading Pastor Steven Siciliano\nHymn 567 \"Have Thine Own Way Lord\"\n(A favorite of Pastor Sica)\nEulogy Bradley Sica Jr.\nMusical Selection \"It Is Well with My Soul\" Naomi J. Sica\n(Played at her brother's funeral 07\/01\/2017) McDonald\/Bliss\nMessage Pastor Anthony Mazzella\nSharing Memories Family and Friends\nClosing Hymn 633 \"When We All Get to Heaven\"\nBenediction Pastor Anthony Mazzella\nRecessional\nThe Sica family wishes to express sincere gratitude to all those who have prayed and emotionally supported us during this time of loss.\nPlease join us for light refreshments immediately following the service, at the Whispering Pines School Gymnasium, located adjacent to the church.\nLife Sketch\nPhilip T. Sica was born on September 27, 1934 in New York City, on 113th Street and First Avenue, to Anna Raucci and Theodore Sica. He attended St. Stephens Elementary School and was graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School at age 16. He attended Pace College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts in 1955.\nOn September 11, 1955, Philip married Theresa Fogarty. They lived in Woodhaven, NY, and later moved to Little Neck, NY. They had four children: Bryan, Bradley, Lynn and Leslie. He had four grandchildren: Bradley, Andrew, Ashley and Emma.\nPhilip served in New York City in various capacities. He worked for the NYC Department of Hospitals, which is now called the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He was a Senior Investigator for the NYC Department of Finance; New York Housing Authority Assistant; Detective-Investigator for the Queens County District Attorney's Office; and Marshal for the City of New York, appointed by Mayor John Lindsay.\nPhilip was in the US Army Reserves and served for 5 \u00bd years with the 77th Army Infantry Division. Later on, Philip was the American Legion Queens County Chaplain and Past 10th District Chaplain; in addition, for many years he was the Committee Chairman of the County Oratorical Contest, Commander of the American Legion Post 301, and was their Chaplain until his passing.\nWhile working as City Marshal, Philip met a literature evangelist on 34th Street across from Macy's. The literature evangelist handed him a small booklet entitled \"Steps to Christ.\" He enrolled Philip in the Voice of Prophecy Bible Study Course. Philip said, \"That was a pivotal moment of my life.\" He was \"searching for truth.\" That was the beginning of his journey in knowing his Savior, Jesus Christ, with many life changes to come. He began attending the Crossroads SDA Church at 227 W. 46th Street\u2013 the address found at the back of the booklet. About six months later, he was baptized by Swedish Pastor, Arne Klingstrand. They were in touch for many years and saw each other in CA, two months before Elder Klingstrand's death at age 100.\nBefore he became a pastor, Philip decided to enroll in Atlantic Union College's Adult Degree Program in MA and in 1980, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion.\nIn 1976, he met Naomi Jungling a week after his baptism, attending the same church. A music teacher, she studied at Teachers College, Columbia University during the summer months where she worked toward a graduate degree. She is from Lodi, CA, the daughter of immigrant parents, Germans from Russia. Six years later they were married, September 23, 1982, in Lincoln, NE. Elder Merlin Kretschmar became acquainted with Philip, and soon after, invited him to work (1980) at the Greater New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists as Trust Services Director, doing wills and estate planning. He helped develop the Morris Park Branch Sabbath School to a Company.\nThe Morris Park SDA Church is currently a flourishing church in the Bronx. Pastor Philip T. Sica pastored many churches in the Conference and was also the Corporation Secretary and Director of Development. He was instrumental in establishing the Oakview SDA School and the Victory SDA Church in the Bronx, as well as many other church acquisitions. He retired 09\/01\/1999 after a term pastoring the Livingston and Kingston SDA Churches. He continued to serve for quite some time after his retirement, with various interim pastoral assignments throughout the Conference, loving to be of help. After his retirement, he established Wise Choice Realty, Inc., which he owned and operated for several years.\n\u00ab PreviousThe Passing of Philip T. Sica\nNext \u00bbDems trying to rig NY voting system\n\"Stuffing the Ballot Box\" with Mail-in Ballots\nIt takes an army to educate a child\nSave Teddy Roosevelt!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jonas RosenquistOil painter extraordinaire\nSwedish painter & designer\nbased in Paris\nPost-Impressionism is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content, Post-Impressionism encompasses Les Nabis, Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloisonnism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists' work. The movement was led by Paul C\u00e9zanne (known as father of Post-impressionism), Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat.\nFauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for \"the wild beasts\"), a group of early 20th-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1904 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1905\u20131908, and had three exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were Andr\u00e9 Derain and Henri Matisse.\nExpressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists have sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.\n\u00a9 2022 Jonas Sebastian Bill Rosenquist","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\t10.95\tLive In Birmingham 1993Deep Purple\nLive In Birmingham 1993\nSKU: HNECD025D\nCategories: 10.95, HNE Christmas Sale, HNE Recordings\nPLEASE NOTE THIS CD IS NOT\nRELEASED UNTIL THE 11TH NOVEMBER \u2013 THIS IS A PRE-ORDER & THE CD WILL NOT BE\nSENT OUT UNTIL THE OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE\n\u2022\tMany consider the vintage \"Mk2\" Deep Purple line-up of Ritchie Blackmore on guitar, lead screamer Ian Gillan, bassist Roger Glover on bass, the late, great Jon Lord on keyboards and the drumming of Ian Paice, to be the near definitive version of this classic British rock institution. It was this line-up that got back together \u2013 for a third and last time \u2013 to tour and record for their 25th Anniversary in 1993.\n\u2022\tDespite playing what many consider to be some of their best ever shows in mainland Europe, especially during a lengthy 13 date German tour, Blackmore dropped the bombshell midway through the European leg that these would his last concerts with the band. True to his word, the guitarist played his final ever show with Deep Purple in Helsinki on 17th November 1993, making this CD, recorded a week earlier at Birmingham's NEC on 9th November the last gig he did with the band on British soil.\n\u2022\tIt was this gig that was chosen to be captured on film and tape for future release, issued the following year as the \"Come Hell Or High Water\" DVD and CD. Unfortunately, many consider this particular show to be the nadir of the band's career, mainly due to guitarist Ritchie's absence on a couple of numbers, refusing to take the stage until it was clear of cameramen, and making his point by soaking one of them with a cup of water when he failed to leave the stage in time.\n\u2022\tDespite this, the 1993 NEC set captures many Purple favourites across its 18 tracks, including 'Highway Star', 'Black Night' and 'Woman From Tokyo', and no less than four songs from the then latest \"The Battle Rages On\", making this a unique memento from these legendary rockers. It should come as no surprise that the set is capped by the band's most enduring hit, 'Smoke On The Water'.\nDISC ONE\tDISC TWO\n1. HIGHWAY STAR\t1. CHILD IN TIME\n2. BLACK NIGHT\t2. ANYA\n3. TALK ABOUT LOVE\t3. THE BATTLE RAGES ON\n4. A TWIST IN THE TAIL\t4. LAZY\/DRUM SOLO\n5. PERFECT STRANGERS\t5. SPACE TRUCKIN'\n6. BEETHOVEN\t6. WOMAN FROM TOKYO\n7. JON'S KEYBOARD SOLO\t7. PAINT IT BLACK\n8. KNOCKIN' AT YOUR BACK DOOR\t8. HUSH\n9. ANYONE'S DAUGHTER\t9. SMOKE ON THE WATER\nHawkwind: Road To Utopia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Abu Dhabi Investment Fund buying 3 Editions from Marriott. What does this mean to Marriott and the Edition brand?\nHotel Lawyer on the reported sale by Marriott of 3 Edition hotels.\nCraig Karmin and Alexandra Berzon of the Wall Street Journal broke a big story yesterday evening which appeared in the August 15, 2013 US edition of the paper at page C3. The headline is \"Marriott Close to Deal to Sell Three Hotels to Abu Dhabi Fund.\"\nThe story, in which I am quoted, describes reports from people close to the deal, that Marriott International is about to close a sale of 3 Edition hotels in London, New York and Miami Beach. The reported buyer is Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, or ADIA.\nOther highlights of the article:\nMarriott has said that it planned to invest up to $800 million in the 3 hotels\nDavid Loeb of RW Baird estimates that Marriott has already spent about $575 million to buy, convert and upgrade the 3 properties\nMarriott is expected to make a profit on the sale\nSo what does this transaction mean?\nHere is what I think this transaction means:\nADIA, a major international investor, has cast a big vote of confidence in the fledgling Edition brand and is putting several hundred million dollars behind its vote. The investment is both in the purchase of the 3-hotel portfolio, and in the new Edition being built in Abu Dhabi.\nAlthough Marriott is an industry giant, the Edition brand has struggled to get going. Its original ambitious plans were crushed by the Great Recession as development partners were unable to get financing, and then by the messy divorce between Marriott and the owner of the first Edition in Waikiki (See M Waikiki's Edition lawsuit against Marriott and Ian Schrager and related articles). Rumors of a split between Marriott and partner Ian Schrager swirled as some labeled Edition a trouble brand.\nMarriott still has only 1 Edition Hotel open (in Istanbul), and had to commit $800 million of its own capital to boost the launch of the Edition brand. Marriott's website says that it now has 7 Edition hotels in the pipeline and is on track to have 5 Editions open by 2015 in international centers. This is a nice stabilization, but a far cry from the 5 Editions Marriott said it would have open by the end of 2007 and the 100 it expected to have operating globally by 2017.\nThe ADIA transactions show that some real smart money is not worried about the nay-sayers and has confidence in the future. ADIA is the kind of player that might well turn out to be a long-term strategic player with Marriott on building and owning more Editions (and possibly other hotels).\nOne has to admire Marriott's stamina and commitment to the brand to invest up to $800 million of its own capital in Editions. It looks like that bet is paying off, and this transaction could free up that capital for Marriott to do something again to jump start development in key international locations.\nThis is a positive development for Marriott, the Edition brand and investors in the Edition brand. But everyone should remember the painful lesson of how the JW Marriott brand struggled for more than 20 years before it became well-established to command the rates and recognition among travelers that it deserves today. [We represented a major investor in an early JW Marriott going back to the late 1980s, and the results were not good.]\nThe lesson? It is essential for the success of the Edition brand that Marriott build the Edition chain to a minimum critical mass as quickly as possible.\nHave you ever stayed in a Marriott Edition, had dinner or drinks at one, or asked your assistant to book you into one at a city you are traveling to? Me, neither. But if Marriott stays the course and the river doesn't rise, that could change.\nSelecting the right brand and operator\nSelecting the right brand and operator for its hotel is one of the most important decisions a hotel owner will make. It is a decision that will affect the profitability and value of the hotel for a very long time. The selection process must be intentional and disciplined and should take into account the owner's needs, the operator's capabilities and the terms of their agreement.\nNo matter how strongly a brand may court an owner, or how strongly an owner feels about the \"perfect\" brand for its property, a disciplined approach to selecting an operator is always the best approach. To assist owners in this process, we have developed the proprietary \"Hotel Management Agreement Procedure to Recruit an Operator\" or HMA PRO\u2122.\nJMBM's HMA PRO\u2122 Checklist is a 50-point, detailed list of all the business and legal issues which an owner needs to resolve prior to or during the earliest stages of negotiating the term sheet or letter of intent (LOI) with the operator. All the other matters are more technical items that can be hashed out in the actual negotiation of the Hotel Management Agreement itself, after the term sheet or LOI is finished.\nHow to get a great hotel operator\nThe 5 biggest mistakes owners make in pursuing hotel management agreements (and how to avoid them)\nHotel Management Agreements \u2014 the HMA Handbook\nThe Hotel Management Agreement (HMA), which allocates risk between the hotel operator and the hotel owner, is critical to the successful and profitable relationship between the owner and operator. Owners and operators with a well-thought-out and fair agreement can avoid the kind of expensive litigation that surrounds the termination of an operator. We have covered HMA issues extensively in the Hotel Law Blog, and have compiled them in to the HMA Handbook. To register for your free copy, go to HMA Handbook.\nPosted in: Hotel Development, Lifestyle Hotels and Outlook and Trends\nUpdated: August 15, 2013 5:57 pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BLUE LIGHTS SPECIAL TO NEIL ARMSTRONG AIRPORT\nHome News Blue Lights Special to Neil Armstrong Airport \u2013 Media Clipping\nMEDIA CLIPPING: SELF-CONTAINED SOLAR LIGHTS COULD HELP AIRPORT REDUCE ELECTRICITY COSTS IF FAA APPROVES\nORIGINALLY APPEARED IN OHIO'S WAPAKONETA DAILY NEWS: FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2002\nBy William Laney, Managing Editor\nNEW KNOXVILLE \u2013 New blue and red blinking beacons may soon be lighting the way for planes using the airport in New Knoxville. Neil Armstrong Airport Manager Gary Katterheinrich said he likes the solar-powered blinking lights because of the ease in moving them and the cost savings on electricity.\nHe received approval Tuesday night from members of the Auglaize County Airport Authority to purchase four solar-powered blue lights and four solar-powered red lights from Carmanah Technologies of Canada.\nThe four blue lights will be added to the airport's main taxiway, bringing the total to eight lights. The four red lights will be placed at the corners of the airport's fueling station for the planes.\nWith plans being prepared to expand and improve the airport's runway and taxiway, Katterheinrich likes the self-contained lights for another reason.\n\"The plus side of the new lights is there is no main line to bury,\" Katterheinrich said. \"I figure to do the main taxiway, we would need about 15 on each side. My feeling is we do this taxiway and the taxiway at the old Minster taxiway. We need another 30 lights over there.\"\nThe cost for a regulation aviation light is $121, compared to the new solar-powered lights at $159.\nThe solar-powered lights have not been approved by the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), but the lights have been used along railroad tracks for years. Katterheinrich said the solar-powered lights come with a three-year warranty, but he believes they will outlast the warranty noting the lights for the railroad have lasted 10 years.\nThe lights don't need to be FAA-approved since the airport is not required to have lights along the taxiway. \"If we get a grant to do the runway and taxiway, we might be able to use some of that money to purchase the lights,\" Airport Authority member Gene Will said Tuesday night. \"I agree with Gary (Katterheinrich) that it would be nice to have them along the main taxiway at night. The only way to find the taxiway now is with a yellow line down the center of the taxiway.\"\n\"It may not be too bad to buy a few now and try them out to see how they do,\" said Airport Authority President Todd Kitzmiller. \"If we like them, then we can purchase more in the future.\" Katterheinrich said one advantage is it cuts down on the cost of electricity. The airport spends an average of $300 to $400 each month on electricity, mostly to light the main runway during the night. The solar-powered lights require two to three hours of daylight, not necessarily sunlight, and will be powered up for two to three days.\nAnother advantage to the airport, Katterheinrich said, is there is no need for electrical wire conduit to be run to each light. The conduit typically has to be run underneath the taxiway\u2014and proposed plans call for widening the taxiway in the near future then new conduit would be needed.\n\"The good thing about them is they are not made of metal and won't conduct electricity during a storm,\" the airport manager said. \"Plus, they are totally sealed and water can't seep in and short them out.\"\nKatterheinrich also likes the ease in installing the lights.\n\"The neat thing is we just slip the light into another PVC pipe,\" Katterheinrich said. \"Then we just pull them out and mow. It's that easy.\"\nTODAY'S SOLAR-POWERED RUNWAY AND TAXIWAY LIGHTS ARE FAA AND TRANSPORT CANADA APPROVED. LEARN MORE ABOUT AIRPORT SOLUTIONS.\nFIND OUT WHAT CARMANAH CAN DO FOR YOUR AIRPORT NOW.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Editorial - Posted by admin on March 21, 2014\nEditorial: Justice\nThe police have apprehended a suspect in the case of the stolen motorbike and the brave security guard who risked his life defending someone else's property. The suspect is, to be sure, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But we do hope\nSt. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 21, 2014\nElection Day 2014: Friday, September 5: Regular elections before the summer not possible\nSt. Maarten \u2013 Unconfirmed rumblings suggest that the fall of the third Wescot-Williams cabinet is scheduled for the end of this month but it is unclear whether this is inspired by the wish to bring about elections before the summer or by other poli\nMinistry promotes rights of the worker\nSt. Maarten \u2013 Policy advisor Nikima Groeneveldt-Hickinson presented brochures and a poster depicting the rights of the workers in St. Maarten yesterday morning in the A.C. Wathey Legislative Hall, in the presence of Labor Minister Cornelius de Weev\nCourt mitigates sentence seventh Vesuvius-suspect\nSt. Maarten \u2013 Andrew Davis, the self-proclaimed advisor of gang leader Omar Jones found some sort of relief in the Common Court of Justice yesterday afternoon. Serving a 6-year prison sentence handed to him in the Court in First Instance and faced\nAppeal ruling Middle Region stabbing: Court cuts sentence in half\nSt. Maarten \u2013 The Common Court of Justice gave Shanieska Alisia Brooks a significantly milder punishment on appeal for stabbing her former friend Kimberly Illidge to death on March 23 of last year. While the Court in First Instance sentenced Brooks\nOpinion - Posted by admin on March 21, 2014\nOpinion: The road to Election Day 2014\nUnless someone pulls a political white rabbit out of his hat soon, two important dates are set for this year's elections. The first one is obviously the one for Election Day: Friday, September 5. Another date is the one for Postulation Day \u2013 the\nOpinion: Political tribalism\nVery soon the people will be called again to choose, and they will do so overwhelmingly for one direction. There is a better way forward and it is upward. It is time to put an end to political tribalism. It is lamentable that never before have we\nOpinion: A tribute in honor of Mr. J. A. Lambert\nMr. Julius Lambert was born on August 4, 1947, and passed away on March 15, 2014, at the age of 67. We will always remember him as a family man, friend and a true patriarch of St. Maarten. Through his life he was a living testament of what hard\nEditorial: Why bother?\nBefore the summer or after the summer? That is the question raging through election land right now. From the presentation by Prime Minister Wescot-Williams we understand that the regular procedure will lead to elections on Friday, September 5.\nRecognition for St. Maarten's first social worker: Elaine Gumbs-Vlaun: \"Do it with your heart and soul\"\nSt. Maarten \u2013 When Elaine Gumbs-Vlaun started her career as a social worker last century in a male-dominated St. Maarten, she had an encounter with a man who refused to pay child support. When he met his social worker, expecting this to be a man, h\nMP Heyliger against TelEm\/UTS merger: Fears workers will lose jobs\nSt. Maarten \u2013 Last week Thursday the management of Telem Group and the St. Maarten Communication Union (SMCU) had a meeting to discuss several matters. The main topic in the four hour long meeting held was the merger of Telem Group and UTS, the SMC\nUncategorized - Posted by admin on March 19, 2014\nElections in first week of September: Minister De Weever remains loyal to Democratic Party\nSt. Maarten \u2013 Member of parliament Petrus Leroy de Weever will step aside if his nephew, Public Health Minister Cornelius de Weever, becomes a candidate on the list for the Democratic Party for the elections that will be held in the first week of S\nOpinion: Unanswered questions\nThe Democratic Party's press conference made clear that we could be looking at the end of the political career of Petrus Leroy de Weever and that his nephew, Public Health Minister Cornelius de Weever will stay on board with the red family. That pu\nOpinion: The new cocaine\nThe new cocaine might be resting peacefully in your refrigerator or your kitchen cabinet right now. And no, we are not talking about drugs here but about the mafia's new goldmine \u2013 counterfeit food and beverages. It could be the wild salmon you a\nOpinion: Interesting job\nPrisoners in Zwolle and Veenhuizen are getting an interesting job from Justice and Safety State Secretary Fred Teeven. They are going to produce the 731 cell doors for a new prison in Zaanstad. The inmates will work for a company with the slightly fu\nEditorial: A big heart\nWithout any doubt, Elaine Gumbs-Vlaun is The Example of what all human beings ought to be. The lady is \u2013 if you'll forgive us the expression \u2013 a woman with balls and a heart so big that you cannot help but just love her. The choice to honor\nPrime Minister on Emilio Wilson Estate: Parliament missed opportunity\nSt. Maarten - Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams said during her weekly call-in radio program that Parliament missed the opportunity to have a fruitful discussion regarding the Emilio Wilson Estate. \"Generally speaking, the Parliament of St. Maa\nMinister Lake seeks meeting with Simpson Bay Community Council\nSt. Maarten \u2013 Minister of Spatial Planning Maurice Lake said in a press release that he will be seeking a meeting with the Simpson Bay Community Council board regarding the current zoning and development plan process. Minister Lake wanted to re\nCalypso Barbara tribute planned\nSt. Maarten \u2014The four singers who registered for the Senior Road March competition will be special guests during the Senior Calypso Eliminations on March 29. The Junior Calypso and Junior Road March competition will also be held on that night which\nOpinion: Supersized noise\nWhile politicians in St. Maarten as usual have better things to do, the discussion about noise pollution and the damage supersized noise could do to one's hearing is reaching a critical point. In Aruba, there is already a push for legislation to re\nOpinion: Dogs on chains\u2014why it's not a good idea\nDogs that are chained run a much higher risk of biting and are more likely to be the dogs that run off and don't come back when called. Why? Chaining a dog goes against its natural instincts. Dogs were not meant to be tied up. Most become protecti\nEditorial: Protecting our reefs\nThe Nature Foundation has not been idle in its fight to limit the damage caused to our reefs and fish stocks by the invasive and poisonous lionfish. The fight is an important one. The natural beauty of the Caribbean lies below as well as above sea le\nRomare Bearden in profile: African-American soul, Caribbean love\nSt. Maarten \/ By Jason Lista \u2013 African-American artist and writer Romare Bearden is no longer with us. He died in 1988 after a battle with bone cancer, but not before receiving the prestigious National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan in\nLack of space in Point Blanche prison\nSt. Maarten - Last week, the Public Prosecution Service had to send home two suspects as a consequence of overcrowding in the prison at Point Blanche. The prison is currently being rebuilt from wing to wing and, as a result, 30 detention places are l\nQuestions for the weekend\nAmerican researchers have discovered something many people already know: your mood affects the mood of others. If you are in a foul mood, you will quickly ruin the mood of people around you. If you smile, people will smile in return. The research\nOpinion: Communication problem\nThis week we received a Dutch journalist who writes for a magazine for communication professionals. He asked us whether St. Maarten has a communication problem. Darn good question. We thought about it (for, like, 15 seconds) and then said that ind\nOpinion: Back to basics\nThe battle cry of mudslinging Vromi-Minister Maurice Lake has reached the Netherlands, where the Telegraaf headlined an article \"Back to basics and digital detoxing.\" What is this all about? Trend watchers on the other side of the ocean say th\nEditorial: Overcrowding\nThe news that the Pointe Blanche prison is overcrowded and that some convicts and suspects had to be released is disturbing. It raises important issues and important questions, none of whose answers are comforting. What is the core of the problem?\nEditorial, St. Maarten News - Posted by admin on March 17, 2014\nEditorial: Arrival of Attorney-General Guus Schram\nWith the arrival of Guus Schram as the successor of Attorney-General Dick Piar crime fighting in St. Maarten and Curacao has entered a new era. It is obviously too early to assess whether the new man will do a better job than his predecessor, but it\nMaho hosts 2 day job fair\nMAHO\u2014A large group of people seeking employment attended the job fair that was held at the Sonesta Maho Beach Resort and Casino yesterday morning. *We conduct regular job fairs for positions available within Sonesta Collection - St. Maarten. We int\nSenior Road March show cancelled: Singers miss deadlines again\nSt. Maarten \u2014 For the second consecutive year the St. Maarten Carnival Development Foundation (SCDF) is forced to cancel the Senior Road March Competition due to lack of cooperation from the singers despite the efforts of the SCDF to wait until Mar\nAttorney-General Guus Schram \"Embed the Prosecutor's Office in a network with countless others\"\nSt. Maarten \/ By Hilbert Haar \u2013 \"The impression that cases are shelved is something I want to adjust. We will have to work faster and act more boldly.\" With the arrival of Guus Schram as the successor of Dick Piar as the attorney-general for S\nOpinion: Words of wisdom\nSometimes words of wisdom come from far away but they are still very recognizable. Like this report from India where the eldest politician in the world has announced that he is going to retire. Rishang Keushing is 94 and he is a Member of the Parl\nOpinion: Water leakage\nDear Editor, Around the world liters of water are lost every day through broken and leaking pipes. Water usually drains downwards to the water table, which is the top layer of saturation in a rock. It is then extracted again from the ground or\nOpinion: Serfdom: We have arrived\nBelow, I'll give some excerpts and interpretations of Friedrich von Hayek's book \"The Road to Serfdom\". We'll see a direct reflection of how St. Maarten\/St. Martin has already arrived. Now, a \"Serf\" is a person in a condition of servitu","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"9th Chamber\nHoneybomb\nThe Hidden Cave\nJoin Our Lair\nDevil's Lair Scoops Perth Wine Show\nDevil's Lair has strengthened its reputation as one of Australia's finest Cabernet Sauvignon producers with a rare triple-crown win at the Royal Perth Wine Show.\nThe Margaret River winemaker took out three awards for its 2018 Devil's Lair Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon at the show this month, winning Best Cabernet Sauvignon, Best Red Wine of Show and Best Western Australian Red Wine.\nThe Perth Royal Wine Awards are Western Australia's premier wine competition, often credited with raising the State's profile as a producer of quality wines to a global audience.\n30 Vintages of Devil's Lair\nEstablished in 1981, Devil's Lair has built a reputation for producing some of Australia's finest examples of the varieties Margaret River does best - Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. A wine 50,000 years in the making, it is a combination of geology, geography and climate that allows Devil's Lair to create wines with great clarity, powerful fruit flavours and elegant structure.\nA special milestone of 30 years calls for pause, reflection, recognition and appreciation. To mark this special occasion, Senior Winemaker Ben Miller and long-standing viticulturist Simon Robertson (in 2020 he celebrated his 27th vintage at Devil's lair) hosted an intimate retrospective tasting of ~30 chardonnays and 30 cabernets dating back to their very first vintages. Held on location at Devil's lair Winery, in attendance were past and present winemakers and viticultural staff who have passionately contributed their skills and attention over the winery's life span. Notable guests included Stuart Pym, Janice McDonald, Oliver Crawford.\nThe day was a huge success and incredible opportunity to come together to celebrate the achievements, reflect on the winery's vinous history and let's not forget, taste some exceptional wine!\nDance With The Devil Makes Top 100 List\nWine critic James Halliday has selected Devil's Lair in his annual list of Australia's Top 100 Wins.\nOne of Australia's most respected wine writers, James included our 2018 Dance With The Devil Chardonnay in his list of 20 wines under $25.\nIn his list for The Australian, James described the wine as \"exceptional\", and awarded a score of 95 points out of 100.\n\"It's length and balance are spot on, the pink grapefruit and white peach add another layer to dance with,\" he wrote.\nYou can learn more about our Dance With The Devil Chardonnay here.\nTasting Talent Rewarded\nThe Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) announced this week that Matt Godfrey, winemaker at Devil's Lair in Margaret River, WA, was the dux of the 40th Advanced Wine Assessment Course.\nAs dux, Matt has accepted a place as an associate judge at the 2019 Royal Adelaide Wine Show, where judging is currently in progress.\nAfter the dux announcement, Matt commented: \"Participating in AWAC was a great opportunity to meet some fantastic people from many realms of the wine industry. Assessing and discussing wines alongside such a talented and diverse group was a great way to calibrate my skills and further my knowledge of wine.\n\"The high diversity of wines judged throughout AWAC is unique and a great challenge for anyone who gets the opportunity to participate. The AWAC gave me confidence in my consistency of wine assessment and the opportunity to learn from the panels of industry leaders.\"\nThe selection of the dux of each course is based on statistical scores, verbal skills and group interaction.\n\u00a9 Devil's Lair {year}\n\u00a9 Devil's Lair 2021\nPlease note that Devil's Lair does not have a cellar door\nAustralia: 1300 651 650 | New Zealand: 0800 651 650","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Croatia: Major Cabinet Reshuffles To Stifle Progress\nJune 19, 2014 by inavukic 15 Comments\nZoran Milanovic\nThese glasses are not rosy-coloured,\nbut it sure feels like it!\nPhoto: Goran Mehkek\/Cropix\nThe current Social Democrat (SDP) led government started at the end of 2011 with a huge stick of high ambition for serious reforms; they vowed with their so-called \"Plan 21\" to rid Croatia of the \"bad\" effects the previous Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) had according to them inflicted upon Croatia's economy; they vowed that they would turn Croatia's economy around and reduce significantly unemployment rate.\nAt beginning of June 2014 (referring to its March 2014 paper) the European Commission had handed down its first analysis of Croatian economy, with recommendations, since Croatia became EU member state in July 2013. The Commission's analysis shows that Croatia (its government) has been dragging its feet when it comes to achieving critical reforms and hence, suggests a need to continue monitoring Croatia's performance in areas identified with the frame of EU membership. Around the same time an IMF's assessment said, \"Croatia remains stuck in an unusually drawn out recession\".\nCroatia's seemingly strangely deluded Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, who \u2013 as if in a state of a trance \u2013 often appears as though talking to himself or trying to convince himself of what he's saying is right, reacted to the Brussels assessment as a \"very good\" one!\nWhat a fool!\nAt the same time his relationship with his finance minister Slavko Linic was brewing into a mighty scandal that had the potential of bringing down the government. Milanovic failed and still fails to see that any political bickering and blame game will only deteriorate the country's perspective to exit from the crisis.\nThe recent almost manic changes, shuffles and reshuffles within the government, under the guise that these are needed so that the government \"can get on with its job, properly\" (Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic' words June 2014, Croatia HRT TV news) undoubtedly leads one to scratch one's head in bitter anger and say: What have (!) you been doing all this time while in office?\nDespite the huge efforts SDP had been investing in trying to appear unified and focused on the job of implementing its \"Plan 21\" roses aren't blooming from their court for Croatia or for the Party. Indeed, panic and intolerance started to show especially few months back when relations between Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and Finance Minister Slavko Linic poked their ugly face out \u2013 under a cloud of corruption allegations the latter was May\/June finally ousted from his position as minister as well as from his membership in SDP (Slavko Linic was replaced with Boris Lalovac). Then few days later two other major portfolio ministers are ousted and replaced \u2013 albeit under a cloud of incompetence as one could conclude nothing less from the reason given by Milanovic \"they are replaced due to their large workload\"! (Rajko Ostojic minister for Health replaced with Sinisa Varga and Zeljko Jovanovic Education minister replaced with Vedran Mornar). After his dismissal, Ostojic (who is said to have supported Linic rather than Milanovic in the SD Party room) said he did not at all feel tired, on the contrary \u2013 he is full of energy and strength!\nAs Milanovic suddenly pushes an unconvincing line of wanting to be surrounded by experts rather than politicians it is surely unrealistic to expect groundbreaking reforms in the remaining less than two years of this government; besides the fact that the government obviously lacked and still lacks the expertise it boasted about at the very beginning of its mandate, the country will soon again enter an election phase because of the presidential election later this year.\nActually, Social Democrats have proven this week in the Croatian Parliament to be working hard at diverting the public's attention from their party's internal hostilities and visible incompetence at governance to a renewed vigour in pointing the finger of \"shame and blame\" at the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) as some criminal organisation because its former leader and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was convicted of serious corruption. The current president and a future presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic, an SDP loyal and musician, has labeled this corruption as high treason; playing the tune Social Democrats will undoubtedly dance to during his presidential campaign as well as in regurgitating the mantra from the initial phase of their rise to government, which they hope will get them out of boiling hot waters: it's HDZ that is to blame for everything!\nThe way things are looking right now is that the Social Democrats will for sure end up as the government that deals mainly with internal party battles, engaging in political bickering and recriminations against HDZ designed to prop-up Josipovic's chances at getting a second presidential mandate, while dragging its feet with needed reforms. Indeed, the last couple of days have seen Josipovic unleash a sharp, rather hateful tongue against HDZ who has put forward a tremendous presidential candidate in Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, whose mere presence seems to rattle Josipovic and have him shaking in his boots.\nWere Josipovic a president whose main concern is in the delivery of needed boost to the Croatian economy he would steer away from fueling political bickering between the two major parties (HDZ and SDP) and show a way out of the rut Croatia is in, in more ways than one. But, then again, the Social Democrat led political bickering does camouflage incompetence in governance and I trust that the voters will recognise this in both the presidential and, later, in the general elections. Political bickering does leave a sense of abandonment in voters; a sense that nothing is more important to the government than its personal political survival.\nWhile reshuffles within a cabinet are not uncommon they are usually done to favour progress. And even if Milanovic says he wants experts in his cabinet it is more than clear that his latest string of reshuffles are primarily serving political survival and not real progress in achieving economic and other needed changes. If he were serious about making progress then his reshuffles would have come earlier (it's not as if he hasn't reshuffled before or as if he did not know the job his government was to do before) and would have cast a wider net over available expert talent in the country (and from abroad). Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A.Ps. (Syd)\nFiled Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cabinet reshuffle, Croatia, Croatian Democratic Union, Croatian economy, European Commission, HDZ, IMF on Croatia, Ivo Josipovic, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, SDP, Social Democrats, Zoran Milanovic\n\u00ab Croatia: End Of Lukewarm And Incompetent Mandate Era On Horizon As Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic Becomes Presidential Candidate\nAppraising Croatia As Nation In Transit From Communism \u00bb\nIf they got things right to begin with as they always claim too, they wouldn't need to reshuffle. It's all tactics with hidden agendas. They pull the same kind of rubbish over here.\nI know,Kev, it's become the fashion to blame others or to say changing horses midstream will help etc but it does not work in a well developed democracy because voters soon vote the BSers out \ud83d\ude00\nGood thing too! \u2026just not soon enough for my liking, sometimes. \ud83d\ude09\nYep, know what you mean, Kev \u2013 often panic sets in closer to elections\nAye, and for some places that is so much worse than for others especially if some are running regimes.\nFor sure, Kev\nTempus Fugit says:\n\u2026no investor in the world will invest in Croatia until these COMMUNISTS (sdp) are booted out!\u2014the quicker, the better\nI agree Tempus Fugit- the quicker the better\nIdealisticRebel says:\nReblogged this on idealisticrebel.\nWouldn't it be good if governments, including our Congress could be held responsible when they do harm yo a country? Besides losing their power. Hugs, Barbara\nI want such a world, Barbara\n:). Me too! Hugs, Barbara\nBig hugs!\njalal michael sabbagh.http:\/\/gravatar.com\/jmsabbagh86@gmail.com says:\nHopefully the new cabinet will achieve the best for Croatia.Regards.\nI doubt it, Jalal, but, hey, if not then its out \ud83d\ude42\nLeave a Reply to Kev\tCancel reply","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"kevin bell\nThe Army is testing a piece of SOCOM's 'Iron Man' suit for its next-generation squad weapon\nTired of active duty? Air Force offers options to get out or transfer to the reserves\nArmy vet, Capitol officer who held off mob escorts Harris at inauguration\nNon-combat death of Special Forces warrant officer under investigation\nFort Bliss identifies 2 soldiers who died in separate accidents over the weekend\nAir Force colonel who called suicide a 'chickensh-t way to go' has been nominated to become a 1-star\nFeatured in kevin bell\nBy Adam Linehan Nov 3, 2016\nUNSUNG HEROES: The Platoon Sergeant Who Braved Grenades And Gunfire To Rescue His Soldier\nOn Aug. 16, 2008, a reconnaissance platoon with the 101st Airborne Division's 61st Cavalry Regiment was dispatched to aid a...\nBy Kevin Bell Feb 10, 2015\nHere's What History Can Teach Us About The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan\nOne of the enduring tragedies of America's war in Afghanistan is that our ambition to improve the country has been...\nBy Kevin Bell Jan 27, 2015\nThe Real Deal With Liberal Arts Degrees\nEveryone knows that getting a degree is critical to professional success in today's economy, but there is a misperception among...\nBy Kevin Bell Jan 2, 2015\nThis RAND Employment Report Has Some Good News And Advice For Vets\nIn 2011, 11 major companies founded the 100,000 Jobs Mission to create a forum to advocate for veteran employment. Since...\nBy Kevin Bell Nov 24, 2014\nWhy Planning Your Military Transition In Advance Is More Important Than You Think\nMany authors have argued on the pages of Task and Purpose that good planning is the key to financial and...\nBy Kevin Bell Oct 6, 2014\nHere's How Messing Up Your Military Transition Can Cost You Big Time\nWhen I returned home from Afghanistan this summer, I called my former platoon sergeant to catch up and hear the...\nBy Kevin Bell Sep 25, 2014\n5 Ways To Be More Effective At Networking\nNetworking is the single most important skill to help ensure that you get a serious look from hiring managers in...\nAmerica Should Not Forget About The War In Afghanistan\nAmerica has lost interest in Afghanistan at precisely the most important transition point in that country's recent history. It's easy...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EU, U.S. start second-phase talks on 'open skies' agreement\nBrussels (Thomson Financial) - The European Union said it has started negotiations with the U.S. for the second-phase of the 'open skies' air liberalisation agreement. The European Commission said a second-phase agreement \"promises a new perspective\" on how aviation is structured in the future by \"potentially removing restrictions on the foreign ownership of airlines, exchanging access to domestic markets and introducing a more consensual approach to the regulation of the industry\".\nThe second stage could lead to the removal of limits on services operated by carriers or investors within the other's market, the commission said. A EU-U.S. second phase agreement would encompass markets with a combined total of more than 1 billion airline passengers a year and more than 50 percent of global aviation traffic, the EU executive added. The first phase of the EU-U.S. 'open skies' accord was signed at the end of April 2007 and came into force at the end of March this year.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Upper School Principal's Welcome\nHome Upper School Principal's Welcome\n\"At RFS, we believe that our youth is the most precious Palestinian resource and are committed to investing in them for a better future.\"\n\u2014Dr. Riyam Kafri, Principal, RFS Upper School\nWelcome to RFS Upper School, previously known as the FBS. I hope you will find our website easy to navigate, informative and interesting. Whatever the reason for your visit, we are happy you are here. I hope that you will catch a little bit of RFS spirit through our website, but just in case, allow me to share with you a taste of it.\nThe Upper School was originally founded as a boys school in 1901.Today, it is a leading co-educational institution in middle and high school education. We are a licensed International Baccalaureate school with both the Middle Years Program and the Diploma Program making us an IB World School. Currently we house grades six through twelve.\nWe are proud of our Palestinian and Quaker identities and are constantly trying to merge both together. Our students pursue academics, cultural expression and activity, all while keeping in mind our long-standing Quaker traditions and values.\nWe are committed to academic excellence. Our teachers are the best in the field in Palestine and many compete with their counterparts both regionally and internationally. Our IB Diploma Program results are internationally ranked and our students attend the best colleges and universities around the world.\nOur campus is constantly full of energy, and our students are the heart of school culture and the forefront of academics\u2014and, at RFS, we believe in and practice student centered learning. We also emphasize student governance, and, as a result, our school has one of the most active student councils in the country.\nWe are home to the first co-curricular sports program where after school sports are directly tied to the physical education curriculum. Our program is both inclusive and highly successful\u2014with our boys football team placing first in the regional tournament and the girls placing second in 2015. We are the first school in Palestine to establish a Model United Nations Club, the club participates in international conferences and helps other Palestinian schools establish chapters.\nWe are committed to making our students' education fit into the Palestinian context and strive to bring Palestine into the classroom, while encouraging global citezenship. We seek to raise a generation who not only excel academically and professionally, but also serve Palestine, its people and their global community. At RFS, we believe that our youth is the most precious Palestinian resource and are committed to investing in them for a better future. Enjoy your virtual visit and come visit us soon!\nDr. Riyam Kafri\nUpper School Principal\nLearning Support Policy\nDisciplinary Policy (Grades 6th-12th)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NBAWashington Wizards\nThird times the charm for Wizards team on St.Patrick's Day against Pacers\nPosted March 18, 2018 March 18, 2018 Chelsea T.\nWASHINGTON- They certainly say that the \"third time's the charm,\" and that was proven on a memorable St.Patrick's Day as the Washington Wizards closed out their season series with the Indiana Pacers 109-102 at home.\nNow the final 19 seconds of their previous matchup left a bad taste in the Wizards' mouth as Bradley Beal missed three potential tying or game winning shots to seal the deal against the Pacers but last night's victory was a collaborative effort on both ends with a surprising spotlight figure in center Marcin Gortat.\nMarcin scored 18 points and dished out 4 assists with 8 boards. He shot an impressive 75% from the field and was 6-6 from the free throw line.\nWhen asked on Marcin's performance, head coach Scott Brooks said, \"He works hard on his free throws. It's good to see that he made all of six of them. When he sets his screens-and-rolls, they have to make tough decisions and he finished tonight\u2026It was good ball movement. When we move the ball and we share the basketball he gets a lot of easy buckets for us.\"\nMarcin added, \"I think we were a little bit quicker than they were. We had a pretty good start to the game and we came out ready to play, focused. We were making shots and that is how we built the lead in the beginning.\"\nBall movement was on high display last night for the Wizards who's starting five and bench lineup both had the chance to touch the ball and score. It's been proven that if this team continues to show up game after game, they can position themselves in a beneficial position heading into the playoffs.\nBradley Beal led the team in scoring with 19 points and spoke on how important this game was for the Wizards playoff contention, \"It was very important for us. We knew what was at stake with this game. We want to make sure that we took care of it and we did that. We did a good job of getting out to a good start on both ends of the floor. We played a good 48.\"\nThe Wizards are now fourth (40-30) in the Eastern Conference standings, 12.5 games behind the top seeded Toronto Raptors. Obviously the first seed isn't a top priority for the Wizards who still have 12 games ahead of them and face a hungry San Antonio Spurs team on Wednesday, a team who is also fighting for homecourt advantage in the playoffs.\nBut the more the Wizards play without All Star guard John Wall, the more this team has to figure out how the offense will work with him in the lineup. Bradley Beal has said that John looks good and he'll be back in no time, but the question that comes into play is how long will it take for this team to get that on the court chemistry going with his absence equating to two months.\nI'd rather see John return during the final two games of the season before throwing him into the lineup in the first game of the playoffs.\nOnly time will tell but let's hope that the St.Patrick spirit will continue to linger onto this Wizards team, especially on Johnny's recovery.\nBradley BealIndiana PacersMarcin Gortat\n\u27f5UMBC Retrievers are the victors of history\nWashington Redskins Free Agency Recap\u27f6","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology\nVariability of surgical prophyl...\nDecember 2018 , pp. 1480-1483\nVariability of surgical prophylaxis in penicillin-allergic children\nDavid F. Butler (a1), Brian R. Lee (a1), Sarah Suppes (a2), Tracy Sandritter (a2), Jason G. Newland (a3), Lory Harte (a2) and Jennifer L. Goldman (a1)...\n1Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri\n2Department of Pharmacy, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri\n3Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri\nDOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2018.244\nWe retrospectively evaluated the effect of penicillin adverse drug reaction (ADR) labeling on surgical antibiotic prophylaxis. Cefazolin was administered in 86% of penicillin ADR-negative (\u2212) and 28% penicillin ADR-positive (+) cases. Broad-spectrum antibiotic use was more common in ADR(+) cases and was more commonly associated with perioperative adverse drug events.\n\u00a9 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.\nAuthors for correspondence: David F. Butler, MD, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington School of Medicine, FA.2.112, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle WA 98105. E-mail: david.butler@seattlechildrens.org. Also, Jennifer Goldman MD, MS Divisions of Pediatric Infectious Diseases & Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Rd, Kansas City, MO 64108. E-mail: jlgoldman@cmh.edu\nPresent affiliation: Division of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington.\nCite this article: Butler DF et al. (2018). Variability of surgical prophylaxis in penicillin-allergic children. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2018, 39, 1480\u20131483. doi: 10.1017\/ice.2018.244\n1. Kerr, JR. Penicillin allergy: a study of incidence as reported by patients. Brit J Clin Pract 1994;48:5\u20137.\n2. Attia, MS, Stringer, MD, McClean, P, Prasad, KR. The reduced left lateral segment in pediatric liver transplantation: an alternative to the monosegment graft. Pediatr Transplant 2008;12:696\u2013700.\n3. MacLaughlin, EJ, Saseen, JJ, Malone, DC. Costs of beta-lactam allergies: selection and costs of antibiotics for patients with a reported beta-lactam allergy. Arch Fam Med 2000;9:722\u2013726.\n4. Alsultan, A, Peloquin, CA. Therapeutic drug monitoring in the treatment of tuberculosis: an update. Drugs 2014;74:839\u2013854.\n5. Bratzler, DW, Dellinger, EP, Olsen, KM, et al. Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2013;70:195\u2013283.\n6. Sandora, TJ, Fung, M, Melvin, P, Graham, DA, Rangel, SJ. National variability and appropriateness of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in US children's hospitals. JAMA Pediatr 2016;170:570\u2013576.\n7. National Expert Panel of the ICD-9-CM Adverse Event Classification, Utah\/Missouri Patient Safety Consortium. The ICD-9-CM adverse event classification. Utah Department of Health website. health.utah.gov\/psi\/icd9.htm. Accessed June 25, 2018.\n8. Goldman, JL, Sandritter, TL, Sullins, A, Leeder, JS, Lowry, JA. Pediatric pharmacovigilance: enhancing adverse drug reaction reporting in a tertiary care children's hospital. Ther Innov Regulat Sci 2013;47:566\u2013571.\n9. Beltran, RJ, Kako, H, Chovanec, T, Ramesh, A, Bissonnette, B, Tobias, JD. Penicillin allergy and surgical prophylaxis: cephalosporin cross-reactivity risk in a pediatric tertiary care center. J Pediatr Surg 2015;50:856\u2013859.\n10. Albertson, TE, Chenoweth, JA, Colby, DK, Sutter, ME. The changing drug culture: use and misuse of appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs. FP Essent 2016;441:30\u201343.\n11. Hougland, P, Nebeker, J, Pickard, S, et al. Using ICD-9-CM codes in hospital claims data to detect adverse events in patient safety surveillance. In: Henriksen K, Battles JB, Keyes MA, et al., editors. Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches, Vol. 1: Assessment. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008.\n12. Hougland, P, Xu, W, Pickard, S, Masheter, C, Williams, SD. Performance of International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification codes as an adverse drug event surveillance system. Med Care 2006;44:629\u2013636.\nURL: \/core\/journals\/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SportBoxing\nMuhammad Ali dead: 'The Greatest' who came to define an era in America and beyond\nThe boxer played many roles during his career - from martyr to champion, hate figure to global hero - all which helped him become as important outside the ring as he was in it\nRupert Cornwell\nSaturday 04 June 2016 06:40\nNowhere do sporting heroes shape history and personify eras like America. Jesse Owens shamed Hitler, and Jackie Robinson integrated baseball. Babe Ruth was the Roaring Twenties, while Michael Jordan was the epitome of 90s cool. But none of them can hold a candle to Muhammad Ali.\nHe was a one-off. He fought against the racial evils of his time, and ended up as a symbol of triumph over them. In the process he staked a claim to being the most famous American of the second half of the 20th century, beloved by blacks, whites and every other shade of human colour. From braggart to champion, from hate figure to martyr, from beloved global hero to the final, wrenchingly sad and Parkinson's-ravaged figure \u2013 there was scarcely a role he did not fill.\nHe started out of course a boxer, one of the finest heavyweights to walk the earth. But magnificent champion that he was, boxing was only a vehicle. Ali's greatest fight, to borrow the title of an enthralling HBO movie in 2013, was not one of his epic battles against Joe Frazier or George Foreman \u2013 but the one outside the ring, in the US Supreme Court, against his conviction for refusing the military draft during the Vietnam war.\nMuhammad Ali dies aged 74\nRead more 'The Greatest' loses his final fight\nThe Court's unanimous ruling in the summer of 1971 to overturn the conviction was Ali's supreme victory and vindication, and the watershed of his career, both as sportsman and national figure. The boxer that returned to the ring was different. Gone was the electrifying speed of the Ali who was stripped of his titles and licence to box in 1967, replaced by a post-1971 model that relied on grit, courage and wile. As for Ali the citizen, the verdict hastened his metamorphosis from lightning rod for controversy to certified national monument.\nIt's easy to forget that for most of the 1960s, Ali was anything but universally adored in the US. Obviously, he was fabulously talented at his chosen craft, and hilariously funny besides an unfailing quote machine up there with the likes of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde. But he was also brash, vain, with a penchant for saying things that scared white America stiff.\nBy the early 1960s it was clear the civil rights movement would not be denied. But while Martin Luther King projected modesty, fraternity and non-violence, Ali ostensibly took another path. Days after he stunned every oddsmaker by winning the title from the fearsome Sonny Liston in 1964, he embraced not King's movement but the Nation of Islam that preached \u2013 so it seemed to white America \u2013 not just black separatism but black supremacy.\nBoxing: Why Muhammad Ali really is the Greatest of all\n1\/7Boxing: Why Muhammad Ali really is the Greatest of all\nSp-12-Ali-1-GETT.jpg\nSp-12-Ali-4-AFP.jpg\nSp-12-Ali-5-AP.jpg\nBlack men were supposed to have comforting names, evoking spiritual leaders and American heroes. Instead Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, disciple of Elijah Muhammad, the Nation's founder. Typically, Ali revelled in being cocky. \"I am America,\" he famously proclaimed. \"I am the part you won't recognise, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky \u2013 my name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me.\"\nLater on, people came to love Ali for his irreverence towards the established order, his taste for saying out loud what others dared not say. In the 1960s though, he was among the most turbulent and polarising figures in the country's most turbulent and polarising decade. And a giant part of the controversy was Vietnam.\nWhen Ali first became famous, people had faith in government and its ability to make the right decisions. Vietnam was no exception. In its early stages the war was widely popular. Count on Ali however not to toe the line \u2013 and furthermore, link a distant Asian war with the continuing race war in the American South.\n\"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people \u2013 some poor hungry people in the mud \u2013 for big powerful America,\" he said. \"They never called me n*****.\"\nIn those few words, he summed up the turmoil and agony of the 1960s in America.\nIndeed, you may ask what would have happened to Ali's reputation (quite apart from the subsequent history of the US) had Vietnam been a success. But as the war grew steadily more unpopular, people came to understand, and agree with, Ali's refusal to fight in it. \"I'm not going 10,000 miles from home... to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.\" And if he ended up in jail: \"So what? We've been in jail for 400 years.\" The Supreme Court's 8-0 ruling, accepting that he had been a legitimate conscientious objector, sealed his triumph.\nBy then, it was dawning on Americans that whatever they thought of Ali's convictions, he had the courage of them, and the readiness to pay the price for them. \"His power no longer resided in his fists,\" wrote a biographer, Thomas Hauser. \"It came from his conscience.\" And this realisation extended back to the boxing ring, once the defrocked champion was allowed to resume his chosen sport.\nMuhammad Ali: A life in pictures\n1\/20Muhammad Ali: A life in pictures\n237443.bin\nmuhammad-ali-malcolm-x.jpg\nmuhammad-ali-daughters.jpg\nEvening Standard\/Getty\nmuhammad-ali-afghanistan.jpg\nmuhammed-ali-2016.jpg\nPre-1967, so transcendent were Ali's skills and so complete his domination, that the taunting kid who produced doggerel to predict how many rounds opponents would last was never really put to the test. So fast was he, they could barely lay a glove on him. But the Ali that emerged from his enforced four-year hiatus was a different fighter.\nThe pride was the same, but he was slower. Now he had to take it as well as dish it out. There was no braver or \u2013 as many would say when his physical condition later was so visibly deteriorating \u2013 more foolhardy fighter. But you had to admire how Ali withstood the batterings of Frazier and Foreman. In his defeat by the former in 1971, Ali achieved a nobility he never did in those easy earlier wins. He proved he had no fear.\nAnniversary of infamous Ali, Foreman boxing match\nBy this time too, his behaviour, and his politics, were mellowing. He parted ways with Elijah Muhammad, embracing a less threatening, more King-like and universalist approach. His abuse of Frazier as a \"gorilla\" and an \"Uncle Tom\" demeaned him. But after their third and climactic battle, the 1975 'Thrilla in Manila' Ali apologised: \"I called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.\"\nThen came the final harrowing fights, when Ali's deteriorating condition was only too evident. His friends pleaded for him to retire, and not tarnish the memories, but he didn't listen \u2013 even the greatest fighters rarely do, and one thing Ali the showman never lost was faith in his own powers. Yet even that wretched coda to his career somehow only added to his aura.\nThe final years were pathos. The \"Louisville Lip\" once never lost for words, could now produce but a slurred mumble. So bad was the Parkinsons that you held your breath praying he would not stumble at the moment of his apotheosis when, unannounced, he emerged to light the Olympic flame at the 1996 Atlanta games. But as always Ali did not disappoint.\nThe closest parallel to him was perhaps Nelson Mandela. Both were black, both were rebels who took on a system of racial injustice and won, and did not gloat in their triumph. Both had the rare quality of making humanity of every hue feel better about itself. And in the process, America forgave him everything.\nMuhammad AliAmerica\n1\/1Muhammad Ali was a one-off who came to define an era\nMuhammad Ali was a one-off who came to define an era","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Two new Israeli documentaries explore the moral failure of Zionism\nMaureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada 19 July 2005\nTwo new Israeli films that premiered at this month's Jerusalem Film Festival explore the moral failure that is inherent in Zionism. In the biographical documentary The Diaries of Yossef Nachmany, the Zionist leader largely responsible for the Judaization of the Galilee in the years leading up to the State of Israel is portrayed as conflicted by the ultimate consequence of Zionism \u2014 the expulsion and suffering of the indigenous Palestinian population. And in the important documentary Dear Father, Quiet, We're Shooting \u2026 , we see that the Zionist enterprise is spiralling so far out of control that Israeli citizens are being made to collectively pay for the ideology of the extreme minority. This was most keenly felt during Israel's twenty-year war with Lebanon during which hundreds of Israelis, and tens of thousands more Palestinians and Lebanese, perished \u2014 meriting the war the epithet \"Israel's Vietnam\" and eliciting protests amongst Israelis that this is \"not our war.\"\nThe Diaries of Yossef Nachmany\nYossef Nachmany\nNachmany, considered a moderate, wished to acquire Arab land through legal (though not always transparent) means. In the film, Nachmay's growing dichotomy between his Zionist aims and his good relations with the Arabs with whom he is working is immediately apparent. As his forthright son Shimon, who served in the explosives and demolitions unit of the IDF, puts it, \"[He] wanted the land but liked the Arabs.\" And as history has witnessed, those two concepts aren't very compatible.\nSettling in the then-mixed city of Tiberias in 1921, Nachmany rose to be a leading figure with the Jewish National Fund, which was acquiring the land that would eventually help Zionism win the ultimate prize \u2014 a Jewish state. He is credited with acquiring much of the land that enabled the Haganah military's eventual victory in the north. However, Nachmany's Zionism-with-a-conscience idyll that he so prided himself on evaporated with the Arab uprising in 1936, when he became cut off from his Arab collaborators (many of whom were assassinated when others caught wind of what was going on). Eventually Nachmany himself became a wanted man.\nBut Nachmany still didn't realize that he couldn't have his cake and feel guilt-free too. In a 1939 diary, he penned his frustration with the protesting Arabs \"who didn't see the benefits of our efforts\" \u2014 whatever those may have been. He delusionally absolved himself of personal responsibility when he wrote, \"I must succeed,\" because he believed that the mission of Zionism was far greater than himself or his conscience.\nWhile the film's rapid-pace narration never describes these \"Arabs\" as the Palestinians they are \u2014 or gives their nationalism any space as well \u2014 the film is significant for illustrating the Haganah (the Jewish militia that was the precursor to the Israeli Defense Forces) in stark contrast to its heroic and just Zionist narrative. Much to Nachmany's horror, the Haganah coldly shot Arabs, massacred villages, raped women, and extinguished any possibility for the co-existence Nachmany so loftily dreamt of. The massacre at Deir Yassin made Nachmany particularly \"sick,\" because this tide-turning event meant that \"no one will ever trust us to protect Arab rights in this country.\"\nOf course, expropriating a people's land and disallowing them from returning is already a rights violation. (Though Nachmany originally thought that the Arabs should be able to return to Tiberias, he was the one to suggest that its old city be burned and developed, precluding them from doing so.) Nachmany ultimately failed in his original plan to legally acquire the land while maintaining the presence of the Arabs he thought gave it authenticity.\nAs Zionism gained its legs, Nachmany's moderate methods became irrelevant. In the words of his less than moderate son, \"Why should we buy [the land] when we can get it for free?\" This latter Zionism is what became the State of Israel, and still perpetuates the settlement construction, and thus protracted conflict, in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. And this moral rift is brought to the forefront in Dear Father, Quiet, We're Shooting \u2026 .\nDear Father, Quiet, We're Shooting \u2026\nA film still from Dear Father, Quiet, We're Shooting \u2026\nDear Father starts off with an appropriate quotation of Martin Luther King, Jr.: \"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.\" Featuring five former military men who at some point in their careers refused military orders, it is revealed that in Israel, conscientious objectors are ostracized and meet with jail time. But it is they who will emerge as right, as one of the refuseniks says, in both the courts of the Hague and of their maker.\nThe most compelling of the refuseniks is Lt. Col. Yoel Peterberg, who left the old-boy's club of the elite Israeli Air Force when he realized that the whole time he was working to \"defend\" the state of Israel, he was actually occupying another land. Having been involved in assassination operations in Gaza, Peterberg is no pacifist. But he has come to resent how the army has been used as a tool for the settlement project in the occupied territories, and to fulfil the \"cynical whims\" of corrupt men in power. Ever since he served in Lebanon, where he says he lost his sense of individuality, Peterberg has had a crisis of conscience. Serving in the occupied territories, Peterberg didn't see even \"one [Palestinian] tank,\" and remarks with awe how Israeli propaganda has spun it so that \"Gazans [are] viewed as the terrorists\" when Israel drops one-ton bombs on their cities.\nAn interesting viewpoint held by the five men interviewed in the film is their rejection of the Zionist left's attitude (or excuse for not acting), particularly as embraced by the group Peace Now. They differentiate themselves from the Zionist Left because, as one sergeant general who refused orders after serving in Lebanon, explains: with the \"Peace Now Zionist Left you earn the right to protest because of your [military rank].\" In other words, protesting the very system and policies one perpetuates through participation.\nOne of the refuseniks points out that during the controversy that was Israel's protracted war in Lebanon, the \"bleeding-heart kibbutzniks\" shouting that Ariel Sharon was a war criminal for his responsibility for the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacres, during which hundreds of Palestinian refugees were mercilessly slaughtered, \"ended up being the ones who carried out Sharon's orders.\" Risking their social status and membership in Israeli society, which is partly defined by its \"security fetish,\" these men removed themselves from this system that they felt was conducting action that could not be morally justified.\nThough not a popular question, Peterberg poses it anyway: \"You should ask, what brings about terror?\" He adds, \"[Terror] is not justified, but you have to deal with it\" \u2014 but not through means that further the cycle. And in a statement that mirrors the fears Nachmany's held during the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land for the creation of the State of Israel, he adds, \"one day we'll have to answer for the things we did.\"\nReflecting on the psychology of a society that allows for the war crimes Israel has committed in Lebanon, as well as the occupied Palestinian territories, one of the refuseniks identifies the brainwashing of young children \u2014Israelis are conscripted into the army at the age of 18 \u2014 as one of the factors that perpetuates Israel's cycle of defense-justified aggression. And partly because of these five men's courageous leadership, over a thousand young Israelis have refused to even enter the military system, which is quite significant in a society where so much is based upon the common experience of serving in the military.\nThe illusory lesson in Israeli society that has been derived from the Holocaust, namely that Israel has to rule with an iron fist there are no limits as to what could be inflicted upon the Jewish people, is also given as a problematic justification for Israel's criminal military actions. These five brave men, who have succeeded where Nachmany failed (in terms of recognizing personal responsibility), take another lesson from the Holocuast, and \"do what people in Europe didn't do when Fascism rose to power\" \u2014 speak out and refuse to participate in the system.\nBY TOPIC: Films\nCurrently based in Ramallah, Maureen Clare Murphy is Arts, Music and Culture Editor for The Electronic Intifada\nIsrael isolates Palestinian universities\nMaureen Clare Murphy 11 July 2019\nJerusalem family evicted from home seized by settlers\nIsrael returns body of Gaza boy killed in April\nMaureen Clare Murphy 3 July 2019\nMunich, or Making Baklava\nJoseph Massad 3 February 2006\nChallenging the Jewish National Fund\nHazem Jamjoum 20 July 2010\nFilm review: Palestine as Hollywood fantasy in \"Miral\"\nOmar El-Khairy 23 November 2010","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"U.K. Shuts Pubs, Restaurants And Other Locales To Curb Coronavirus Spread\nBy Sophie Eastaugh\nPublished March 20, 2020 at 3:32 PM MST\nPeter Summers\nAn empty pub in London. On Friday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the country's bars, pubs, restaurants and cafes must close to curb the spread of COVID-19, which has killed more than 100 people in the U.K.\nThe British government has told pubs and restaurants to shut by Friday night. Gyms, movie theaters and clubs have also been ordered to close, in the United Kingdom's most sweeping measures yet designed to flatten the curve of coronavirus cases.\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson urged people thinking of enjoying one last Friday night out, \"Please don't. You may think that you're invincible, but there is no guarantee that you will get mild symptoms and you can still be a carrier of the disease and pass it on to others. We want you to stay at home.\"\nTreasury chief Rishi Sunak, meanwhile, announced that for the first time in history, the government will pay 80% of a furloughed employee's wages. That move follows angry cries from the hospitality sector demanding government support.\nThe new measures came as the coronavirus has risen quickly across much of Europe. On Friday morning, health officials said 3,983 people have tested positive in the U.K. and 177 have died.\nDespite the rising numbers, the U.K. has not yet gone on lockdown. Although public transportation has been reduced, people are still allowed to leave their homes.\nIn fact, British people have been told to avoid pubs since Monday, but not everyone was listening, prompting calls for firmer action.\nIn a near-deserted pub on Thursday in East London, three friends met for a pint after seeing beer advertised for the equivalent of just over $2 \u2014 and after several days bored at home.\n\"I don't know if this is safe. Is it?\" said Harris Allen, an actor. \"But, like, this is the only interaction I've had in a week. Also, I work in a pub. If no one comes in and drinks, I won't have a job. I won't get paid.\"\nRory Thomas-Howes, who owns a theater company and juggles several freelance jobs that have all been canceled, agreed. \"We were shut in for like three days. Then I went out and there were so many people out here. And it's kind of like, well, if everybody's out, am I helping? I don't know what I'm doing.\"\n\"I don't think anyone does,\" answered Josh Tucker, another actor and kindergarten teacher. \"I think we just need to be told what to do.\"\nSophie Eastaugh\nSee stories by Sophie Eastaugh","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FHA guidelines have been set requiring borrowers to qualify according to established debt-to-income ratios. In most cases, the highest debt-to-income ratio acceptable to qualify for a mortgage is 43%, although many larger lenders may look past that figure.\nDebt-to-Income Ratio Guidelines\nIn order to prevent homebuyers from getting into a home they cannot afford, FHA requirements and guidelines have been set in place requiring borrowers and\/or their spouse to qualify according to set debt to income ratios. These ratios are used to calculate whether or not the potential borrower is in a financial position that would allow them to meet the demands that are often included in owning a home.\nThe two ratios are as follows:\n1) Mortgage Payment Expense to Effective Income\nAdd up the total mortgage payment (principal and interest, escrow deposits for taxes, hazard insurance, mortgage insurance premium, homeowners' dues, etc.). Then, take that amount and divide it by the gross monthly income. The maximum ratio to qualify is 31%.\nSee the following example:\nTotal amount of new house payment:\nBorrower's gross monthly income (including spouse, if married):\nDivide total house payment by gross monthly income:\n$750\/$2,850\nDebt to income ratio:\n2) Total Fixed Payment to Effective Income\nAdd up the total mortgage payment (principal and interest, escrow deposits for taxes, hazard insurance, mortgage insurance premium, homeowners' dues, etc.) and all recurring monthly revolving and installment debt (car loans, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, etc.). Then, take that amount and divide it by the gross monthly income. The maximum ratio to qualify is 43%.\nTotal amount of monthly recurring debt:\nTotal amount of monthly debt:\nBorrower's gross monthly income (including spouse, if married)\nDivide total monthly debt by gross monthly income:\n$1,150\/$2,850\nPlease note that the above indicators do not exclusively determine whether or not a candidate will qualify for an FHA loan. Other factors will be considered, including credit history and job stability.\nFHA Loan Requirements\nFHA Mortgage Insurance\nYour Loan Checklist\nFHA Loan Articles and Mortgage News\nFHA One-Time Close Construction Loan Limits: Higher in 2023\nJanuary 30, 2023 - Do you want to build a home from the ground up? You can do this with low down payment requirements with an FHA One-Time Close Construction Loan. And construction loan borrowing power has increased in 2023 because FHA loan limits have increased from the previous year.\nFHA Loan Mistakes to Avoid in 2023\nJanuary 25, 2023 - No matter what the condition of the housing market, there are some important things to remember when buying a home with an FHA mortgage. Are you anticipating some of the most common home buying mistakes? Here are some things to look out for.\nAre Interest Rate Buydowns a Good Idea?\nJanuary 23, 2023 - An interest rate buydown can temporarily lower the interest rate on a home loan; the USA Today example shows how a borrower could save $250 a month in the first year of home ownership using an interest rate buydown.\nChoices to Make When Renovating Your Home\nJanuary 21, 2023 - Thinking about buying a fixer-upper with an FHA 203(k) Rehabilitation Loan? Or are you considering a home improvement project financed with an FHA Cash-Out Refinance? You have a set of choices to make far beyond selecting a lender, deciding on the loan type and term, etc.\nHUD Announces Proposed FHA Appraisal Reform\nJanuary 20, 2023 - HUD wants to give FHA borrowers a way to formally complain about appraisal bias when purchasing a home with an FHA mortgage. It's called a Reconsideration of Valuation, and it's part of a larger effort to end racial bias in the housing industry.\nNext 5 >","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Chemical and Pollution Control \u00bb Mercury \u00bb Managing Mercury Thermostats\nManaging Mercury Thermostats\nNew York State Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2013\nOn December 18, 2013 the Governor signed the Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2013 (PDF) (31 KB) into law. This legislation adds a new Title 29 to Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) Article 27, \"Mercury Thermostat Collection Act\" and provides for the mandatory collection and environmentally sound management of mercury thermostats. Homeowners will now have more convenient opportunities for the safe drop-off and recycling of out-of-service mercury thermostats, thereby diverting them from being improperly disposed of in the trash, ultimately ending up in landfills and at municipal waste combustion facilities. It is illegal to throw mercury thermostats in the trash, as New York State has had a disposal ban in place since 2005.\nThe Act requires thermostat manufacturers, individually or collectively with other manufacturers, to establish and maintain a program for the collection, transportation, recycling, and proper management of out-of-service mercury thermostats at no cost to the consumer or other persons participating in the program. Manufacturers were required to:\nAs of July 1, 2014, compile a list of thermostat wholesalers in the state, offer them collection containers and make collection containers available to all qualified contractors, thermostat wholesalers, retailers, and local governments that request containers.\nAs of July 1, 2014, conduct education and outreach efforts, including establishment of a website that provides for the identification of collection sites and the development of materials for distribution by wholesalers, retailers, contractors and local governments.\nCollection Goals\nThe Act establishes a collection goal of no less than 15,500 out-of-service mercury thermostats for the calendar year 2015. By October 1, 2015, the Department of Environmental Conversation (the Department) will establish the collection goals for calendar years 2016 through 2023. In setting the collection goals, the Department must take into account: the effectiveness of the program in the state and of similar programs in other states; collection requirements of other states; available reports and studies; and other relevant factors. The Department will also be required to consult with stakeholder groups, including industry representatives, municipal recyclers, wholesalers, retailers and environmental groups, prior to setting these goals. Manufacturers would have to implement any changes to collection programs approved by the Department within 90 days. If the collection programs fail to achieve collection goals, the Department, following stakeholder consultations, could require changes to a program including improvement in education and outreach efforts, expansion of the number and location of collection sites and mandate that manufacturers to provide a $5 incentive, in the form of either cash or coupon.\nThe Act requires thermostat manufacturers to submit an annual report to the Department. The report will include:\nThe number of thermostats collected during the previous calendar year and the estimated amount of mercury contained in the thermostats collected;\nA list of the all of the wholesalers, contractors, local governments, and retailers participating as collection sites;\nAn accounting of the administrative costs of the program;\nA description of outreach strategies and examples of outreach and educational materials;\nThe address of the website where the annual report may be viewed;\nA description of how the thermostats were managed; and\nAny modifications the manufacturer is planning to make to the program.\nThermostat wholesalers are prohibited from selling thermostats unless they participate as collection sites and wholesalers and retailers are prohibited from offering for sale or distributing thermostats unless the manufacturer of such thermostats is listed on the Department's website. The Act also prohibits transporters from knowingly comingling mercury-added thermostats with recyclable materials, or transporting or knowingly delivering mercury thermostats to incinerators, landfills, transfer stations, or to anyone the transporter knows might comingle materials or make such unlawful deliveries. Contractors who replace mercury thermostats or demolish buildings, including those which receive state funding to do so, are required to bring mercury thermostats to collection programs, and any department or authority which provides funding for such purpose would have to notify contractors of these obligations.\nThe Department issued a letter to various agencies\/authorities (PDF) (31 KB) on February 21, 2014 regarding their mandated responsibilities to properly manage out-of-service mercury thermostats.\nThe Department is required to post information regarding the proper collection and management of out-of-service mercury thermostats on its website by June 1, 2015, and submit a report to the Governor and Legislature regarding the effectiveness of the collection program by November 1, 2018. The Act takes effect immediately and will expire and be deemed repealed January 1, 2024.\nFrequently Asked Questions regarding mercury thermostats:\nQ: What is a mercury thermostat and how does it work?\nA: Many older wall-mounted thermostats, sold prior to 2006, contain a switch with a small glass ampoule containing a silvery liquid called elemental mercury. This is called a mercury switch. Elemental mercury's excellent conductivity and high surface tension make it extremely effective for use in a switch. The mercury moves freely within the glass ampoule, opening and closing an electrical circuit which controls a furnace or air conditioner to maintain a desired room temperature. Most mercury thermostats contain from three to five grams of elemental mercury.\nQ: Why do I need to properly recycle my mercury thermostat?\nA: Mercury is a persistent and toxic pollutant. Elemental mercury can cause adverse health effects when it is breathed as a vapor and is absorbed through the lungs or absorbed through the skin. These exposures can occur when thermostats that contain elemental mercury break and release mercury into the air, particularly in warm or poorly ventilated indoor spaces. Exposure can also occur when mercury thermostats are improperly discarded into the solid waste stream, where the mercury switches can be broken or incinerated, releasing the mercury into the environment. To prevent breakage and mercury releases, mercury thermostats should be managed carefully when being removed or replaced and taken to an appropriate collection site for recycling. More information regarding mercury in the environment is available at \"What do you know about mercury?\"\nQ: Do all thermostats contain mercury?\nA: No. There are several thermostat designs that are mercury-free. These include electronic, snap-action, reed switch, and vapor-filled diaphragm thermostats. For the most part, mercury thermostats have been replaced with electronic digital thermostats. Electronic programmable digital thermostats can provide energy savings by allowing for desired temperature settings at pre-set times.\nQ: Is it safe to have a mercury thermostat in my home?\nA: Mercury thermostats are safe when used as designed. The mercury is sealed inside a glass ampoule. The consumer is not exposed to the mercury unless the ampoule is tampered with and breaks. Mercury thermostats were designed with a sturdy casing to protect the mercury switch. Always handle mercury thermostats with care and recycle properly.\nQ: Is it safe to remove the glass ampoule containing mercury from the mercury thermostat?\nA: No. Never remove the glass ampoule containing the mercury from the thermostat housing. It is best to keep the thermostat unit whole with the cover attached to the thermostat. Extra care should be taken to prevent accidental breakage and the release of mercury during storage or transport of the mercury thermostat.\nQ: What should I do if the mercury switch inside my mercury thermostat breaks and the mercury is released?\nA: Mercury is a toxic substance and should be treated with care. If the mercury switch breaks and mercury is released, please visit the NYS Department of Health's webpage on how to clean up a mercury spill under the Links Leaving the DEC's Website section on the right-hand side of this webpage.\nQ: Do I have to replace my mercury thermostat with a non-mercury one?\nA: New York State law has prohibited the sale of mercury thermostats since January 1, 2012 but there is no requirement that you replace your existing mercury thermostat. If you do decide to remove a mercury thermostat (e.g., you plan to replace it with an energy-efficient programmable model, you are upgrading your heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system, or you plan to demolish the building) you need to manage the unwanted mercury thermostat safely and properly.\nQ: Do I have to recycle my mercury thermostat?\nA: Yes, New York State has had a disposal ban on mercury thermostats since 2005, it is illegal to throw your mercury thermostat in the trash.\nQ: How and where do I recycle my mercury thermostat?\nA: Currently, the Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC) collects and recycles mercury thermostats under its voluntary program. Be sure your technician or contractor removes and manages your thermostats in accordance with the New York Mercury Thermostat Collection Act. A listing of mercury thermostat collection sites will be made available beginning in July 2014. Until then, please visit the TRC website under the Links Leaving DEC's Website section on the right-hand side of this webpage or check with your local municipality for mercury thermostat recycling locations.\nQ: What happens to the old mercury thermostat that my contractor removed?\nA: Your HVAC contractor is required to properly manage your mercury thermostat and bring it to a mercury thermostat collection site as it is illegal to dispose of mercury thermostats in the trash. The mercury from your thermostat will be removed and recycled for use in new products.\nQ: I administer a government program that results in the removal or replacement of mercury thermostats. What are my requirements under the new law?\nA: Any New York State department, authority, instrumentality or municipal corporation which administers a program that involves the removal or replacement of mercury containing thermostats as a result of any statutory requirement, shall inform contractors of their statutory obligations to deliver the mercury-containing thermostats to a collection site and prohibiting the disposal of such thermostats in a solid-waste facility.\nQ: I'm a contractor or sub-contractor who removes mercury thermostats as part of a state-administered program. What are my responsibilities under the new law?\nA: Any contractor, organization or subcontractor of such organization, who contracts with or receives funding or financing provided in whole or in part by or through any department, agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision of the state for the installation, service, or removal of heating, ventilation, or air-conditioning components resulting in the removal or handling of out-of-service mercury thermostats, shall ensure the collection, transportation and proper management of out-of-service mercury thermostats in accordance with the provisions of the law.\nQ: I still have questions on how to properly handle my mercury thermostat. Whom should I contact?\nA: Contact the Product Stewardship and Waste Reduction Section at 518-402-8706 or e-mail.\nThis page will be updated periodically to reflect additional details regarding the new mercury thermostat collection program.\nWhat do you know about mercury?\nMercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2013 (PDF) (31 KB)\nDepartment Letter to Agencies\/Authorities regarding the Act. (PDF) (24 KB)\nThermostat Recycling Corporation\nHow to clean up a small mercury spill.\nProduct Stewardship & Waste Reduction Section\nDivision of Materials Management","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TG Timeline\nHAPPY BIRTHDAY TissueGnostics!\n15 years ago, TissueGnostics GmbH was entered in the company register of the Vienna Business Court. A lot has been achieved in those 15 years. TG's trend-setting products products enabled break-through biomedical research in many fields, but especially in cancer research \/ oncology. The capabilities of our products are amply demonstrated by hundreds of installations in 30 countries on 6 continents could be realised. More than 800 Scientific articles were published by our customers. About 0,8+ Million hours of work was done by TG staff. Seven EU-funded and 15 Austrian national R&D projects have been done or are currently in progress. A global network with customers and research partners was built. The global TG team is working in 4 countries on 3 continents. TG brought people together and continues to bring people together - on the professional as well as on the private level. But most importantly: our mission to PROVIDE TOOLS THAT HELP RESEARCHERS AND DOCTORS TO DEFEAT CANCER AS WELL AS OTHER DISEASES AND IMPROVE PATIENT WELFARE has been successful for 15 years.\n18th of April 2018\nFoundation of TissueGnostics Asia Pacific Limited\nHappy B-Day TG!\nWe celebrate our 13th Anniversary with our own symposium, \"optics, algos & ice @ the very top* the ultimate cryocut\", which may also be considered as a major marketing event this year. TG has been achieved over those years: ISO 13485 certificate! Installations in 28 countries on 6 continents! 560+ reference publications! This year we are expanding our activities in Asia (China, Singapore, India), South America (Brazil), South Africa, and Middle East\/Gulf (Israel, Kuwait)! HAPPY B-DAY and thank you to the global TG-team!\n1st Place in the International Scanner Contest\nTG wins first place in the Image Analysis category at the International Scanner Contest 2016. TissueGnostics recently also delivered and validated the first TissueFAXS Confocal system using the Crest Optics X Light V2 Confocal Imager.\nEU FUND\nCaSR - Biomedicine and ALKATRAS are two EU projects, which are fund by the EU. They are both Marie-Sklodowska-Curie training programs.\nTG ALL OVER THE WORLD\nActive sales in more than 30 countries world wide.\nFOUNDATION TG-USA\nFoundation of TissueGnostics USA Inc., product launch HistoFAXS and purchase of TissueGnostics Romania.\nPRODUCT LAUNCH TissueFAXS 1.0\nAutomated identification and functional characterization of single cells in tissue sections. In contrast to morphometry, which provides values referring to the metric dimensions of cells, the term \"tissue cytometry\" refers to quantification of molecular parameters. Though methodically different, tissue cytometry exhibits a functional similarity to flow cytometry. While flow cytometer is restricted to cells in suspension (e.g. blood) and cannot be applied to solid tissue, tissue cytometry refers to the cytometric analysis (as opposed to morphometric analysis) of histological sections. TissueGnostics has been the first manufacturer of tissue cytometers offering a flow cytometry-like workflow (but applied to tissue sections).\nFOUNDATION & COOPERATION WITH LBI-CR\nFoundation of TG-Romania and cooperation with Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research, Vienna, which is focused on basic cancer research to establish molecular insight into the complex disease mechanisms.\nSTART OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT\nStart of TissueQuest and HemoFAXS software-development.\nFOUNDATION OF TG-VIENNA, AUSTRIA\nTissueGnostics was established in 2003 after nearly a decade of basic research. The goal was to supply scientists with qualitative and observer independent results for cell and tissue analysis in tissue context and this in automated format and significantly less time. Katja \u00d6sterreicher, Georg Steiner and Dr. Rupert Ecker, the three co-founders of the company, with the aid of a dozen of development partners (Medical University Vienna, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research, Vienna; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle; Brighamand Women`s Hospital, Boston; etc.) succeeded in reaching this target by 2005.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Batman: Arkham Knight PC Performance and Problems\nAhead of his upcoming review, Dan takes a look at the widely reported issues with the new Batman: Arkham Knight game.\nDan Le Vannais\nThis past week the most recent game in the Batman: Arkham series was finally released after several delays, with it originally being due late last year. I'm currently working on a full review of the game, but as with everything that I cover I wait until I've been able to complete at least the bulk of the story mode so I'm not quite ready with that just yet.\nI have however been reading with a fair amount of interest the ongoing issues that the PC version is reported as having. I've seen many people complaining of the game straight up not working or regular crashes and given the issues that the last WB Games release, Mortal Kombat X, had within it's first few weeks this certainly sounded well within the realms of possibility.\nBut after speaking with a number of my colleagues who were also playing the game, it seemed a bit less clear. Currently, there are six of us at CCL who are playing Arkham Knight on the PC (with a couple of others on consoles, but they're not relevant here) and yet none of us were having any major problems. Sure, we're all experiencing the general poor framerate issues that the game has and we're on a range of different hardware specs. Four of my colleagues are on i5\/i7 rigs, with GTX 970 graphics cards, another with a Phenom II 940 and HD 7950 graphics while I'm straddling the brands with an A10-7850K and GTX 960. As I've got the lowest end card I naturally tend to get the lowest framerates, and even though I'm generally sticking to the game's built in 30 FPS cap I do still see dips to as low as 15 on occasion, mostly whenever the Batmobile appears. It's been nothing game breaking yet, but a bit annoying (and partially my own fault as I'm reluctant to turn down some of the settings as I want it to be as shiny as possible while still playable) and it does of course lead to the game feeling less polished as a result. I've probably played the game the least with about 11 hours so far, with some of my colleagues already well over 25 hours so plenty of time all around to get a good feel for how the game runs.\nThe built in benchmark didn't quite match what I was seeing ingame, though. Running at 1920 x 1080, with most settings set to normal (including the textures even though I don't have a 3GB card as the low settings textures has some really ugly low resolution ones) and the Gameworks features turned off as they were having a little too much of an effect on performance for little visual gain I was given the following acceptable if not spectacular results:\nThe framerate aside however, that was the worst of our woes. None of us had a save game break or got stuck somewhere they couldn't proceed or have the game not launch or crash regularly or anything like that. This led me to thinking that even though we were having issues that if there were massive problems with the game one of us should be experiencing them, surely? With Mortal Kombat X we all experienced some of the problems that game had, and as I mentioned in my review I was hit with the save game deleting bug so what we experienced tallied with what was being reported in the community. And yet with the game at least as far as we could tell much less broken than Mortal Kombat, Batman has now been removed from sale on Steam until the developers have managed to fix it.\nNaturally, as we're all computer enthusiasts working for a computer company by and large we're going to have over the average computer specs, so I was thinking that perhaps most of the problems are happening on computers with lower end hardware? Sure, I've read some reports of people with high end i7 chips and Titan cards being unable to play the game but the Steam hardware survey shows that the highest percentage of users have computers with a significantly lower spec.\nWhile others online have benchmarked the game against highest end hardware \u2013 and I understand there are some pretty major issues with SLI and Crossfire setups at the moment, but none of us are using one for me to have any direct performance figures for it - I decided to do the opposite and see how well the game handled on lower end systems.\nArmed with my trusty test bench, with its powerhouse 2.7GHz Intel Celeron G1820 dual core processor and 4GB of 1333MHz RAM, surely I wasn't going to be able to get the game to play at all. After all, this comes in well below the listed minimum requirements of a first generation i5 quad core and 6GB of RAM. With Batman installed and ready, on a 5400Rpm hard drive to be as consistently low end as possible, I set to work trying out the most basic graphics cards that I could.\nThe first card that I tried was the GT 730 from my test bench and, well, even at the lowest settings it ran at 1FPS so clearly a no go there. But Nvidia don't market the GT cards as gaming cards, and certainly not for playing high end brand new titles.\nGT 730 discarded, I got a little more serious and got my hands on some entry level gaming cards. First up was a new MSI R7 360. AMD's new bottom spec gaming card, this has replaced the R7 250X that I was planning to use. The testing was with a pinch of salt for this one, as I had to use the latest AMD beta driver which I'm not fond of doing but it wasn't properly recognised by the still current driver from December. With all of the settings as low as possible but the resolution set to a half way respectable 1280 x 720 I ran the ingame benchmark which gave me the following results:\nIt came in a lot higher than I expected, so next I went into the game to see how it actually played. With all the settings to low and in a lower resolution than I'm used to it wasn't exactly pretty and ran at a pretty chuggy 5-15 FPS. Lowering the resolution to 640 x 480 bumped that up to the mid 20s where it became playable if a bit ugly.\nNext was an Asus GTX 750, again a fairly low spec but still reasonably recent card. Again, the latest driver was installed to both keep things even and take advantage of the potential performance gains of the driver. This did a bit better in the benchmark:\nIn gameplay even still at 1280 x 720 it still mostly maintained a reasonable 20 FPS, again not anything to write home about but still fairly playable.\nLast up, I decided to see how my old XFX HD 7770 held up. A much older card, it wasn't a new model when I bought it two and a half years ago and I'd already spent most of the last 6 months thinking about replacing until I picked up the GTX 960 I knew it already had performance issues with current games on high settings. On the lower settings I was testing against though?\nAlready not holding up too well from the benchmark, ingame performance was basically terrible and barely playable even dropped to 640 x 480 it was only averaging around 10 FPS, so I'm quite glad I had already replaced it before the game came out though of course it would perform better coupled with a more powerful processor.\nI've ended up confused more than anything else from this testing. How can my test setups, massively below the minimum system spec, have the game playable (if at the expensive of it not looking pretty) when systems several magnitudes of performance higher are reporting the game as not running? Is there some variable that I've somehow missed that's causing problems for a lot of people, something that I'm doing or not doing that is different for all the over seven thousand people who have left negative reviews on Steam so far? I've no doubt at all that it's a poorly optimised game and that it does require more work to increase its performance but I've found no evidence from my testing that it's broken to the point that it just doesn't work.\nRocksteady have now started to roll out patches for the game with the first addressing some minor issues that came out after I'd done my testing but the notes for this patch don't indicate any major performance changes and I didn't notice any difference on my system at home.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Interview List\nTracy Baldelli\nMajor Gifts Officer, WPI\nAt the beginning [of the Covid 19 pandemic], because the weather was so nice, I really liked it because I used that to get outside and to move. We all had so much time on our hands that it was like, what do you do with all this time? And then of course, we all went through our slump. Overeating, doing your thing watching Netflix all the time, getting takeout. So, I would say it became a rough time. But again, I think from a professional perspective, it helped me realize what I want. I could not be a remote employee, I needed to work with a team, I needed a boss that really didn't have an ego, that was there for their employees.\nCurrent Employer:\nTracy Baldelli was born in Boston, MA in 1993 and grew up with her family in Southborough, a neighboring town to Worcester. She then furthered her education at Assumption College now Assumption University. After Tracy graduated, she became an active member of the Worcester community. She's an active board member at the Boys and Girls Club and joined the Emerald Club. Tracy was first employed at United Way and then at Worcester Polytechnic Institute [WPI] and Providence College. In this interview, we learn about the challenges that Tracy faced and overcame throughout her life, the paths she has taken to become a successful individual, and she shares some great life lessons. Tracy also touches upon the impact and challenges she faces while working straight out of college and later through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Worcester Business Journal named her one of the Forty Under Forty in 2020 and one of the Power 50 in 2021.\nGrace Rinaldi, Shadda Cliche\nInterview Language:\nBaldelli, Tracy - edit.docx_.pdf\nInterview Focus:\nPolitics\/Community Involvement, Work\nInterview List\nHigher Education Collaborative\nCommunity Workshops & Events\nCommunity Catalogue\nOral History Toolkit\nShare Your Story!\n\u00ab WWHP\nWorcester Women's Oral History Project - - 30 Elm Street - Worcester, MA 01609\nCopyright \u00a92023 Worcester Women's History Project\nWorcester Women's History Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.\nDesigned by Daedal Creations, Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Relationship News\n10 Fun and Easy Icebreaker Games to Get to Know Each Other\n1 Group Bingo\n2 Two Truths and One Lie\n3 Jenga Questions\n4 I Have Never\n5 Where Were You\n6 String Game\n7 Deserted Island\n8 Shoe Icebreaker\n9 A Great Wind Blows\n10 Common Ground\n+ Show 7 more...\n- Show less...\nCo-authored by Kathy Slattengren, M.Ed. and Janice Tieperman\nLast Updated: June 9, 2022 References\nThis article was co-authored by Kathy Slattengren, M.Ed. and by wikiHow staff writer, Janice Tieperman. Kathy Slattengren is a Parent Educator and Coach and the Founder of Priceless Parenting. With over two decades of experience, Kathy specializes in helping parents build strong, loving relationships with their children. She has helped thousands of parents around the world through Priceless Parenting's online classes, presentations, coaching, and books. Kathy holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Psychology from The University of Minnesota and a Masters degree in Education and Instructional Design from The University of Washington. Kathy is a member of the National Parenting Education Network, the US Alliance to End the Hitting of Children, the International Society for Technology in Education, and a founding member of Parent Learning Link. Priceless Parenting has been featured on ABC News, Komo News, King 5 News, National PTA, Parent Map, and Inspire Me Today.\nWhether you run a classroom or workspace, teaching or working with new people can be a little awkward at first. Don't worry. There are plenty of fun, easy ways to bond with your new group. We've outlined a few simple games that can help you break the ice.\nGroup Bingo\n{\"smallUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.wikihow.com\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/f\\\/fd\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-1.jpg\\\/v4-460px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-1.jpg\",\"bigUrl\":\"\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/f\\\/fd\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-1.jpg\\\/v4-728px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-1.jpg\",\"smallWidth\":460,\"smallHeight\":345,\"bigWidth\":728,\"bigHeight\":546,\"licensing\":\"<div class=\\\"mw-parser-output\\\"><p>\\u00a9 2023 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. This image is <b>not<\\\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.<br>\\n<\\\/p><p><br \\\/>\\n<\\\/p><\\\/div>\"}\nMingle with a get-to-know-you game of bingo. Create a bingo board with different traits or attributes listed in each square, like \"Born in January\" or \"Has a pet cat,\" and give each person a copy of it. Then, have everyone chat with each other and try to find people that have the traits listed on their bingo cards. When a player finds someone who has one of the included traits, they write that player's name down in that square. Whoever gets bingo first wins!\nTo encourage more conversations, only use a person's name once on your bingo card.\nPrompts that you could include on the premade bingo card might be \"has lived in another country,\" \"born in January,\" \"has a pet cat,\" or \"plays soccer.\"\nTwo Truths and One Lie\n{\"smallUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.wikihow.com\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/4\\\/47\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-2.jpg\\\/v4-460px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-2.jpg\",\"bigUrl\":\"\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/4\\\/47\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-2.jpg\\\/v4-728px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-2.jpg\",\"smallWidth\":460,\"smallHeight\":345,\"bigWidth\":728,\"bigHeight\":546,\"licensing\":\"<div class=\\\"mw-parser-output\\\"><p>\\u00a9 2023 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. This image is <b>not<\\\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.<br>\\n<\\\/p><p><br \\\/>\\n<\\\/p><\\\/div>\"}\nLearn fun facts about other people in the group. Invite each person in your group to share 2 true facts about themselves, as well as 1 lie. The rest of the group will try to guess which facts were true, and which one wasn't. No one has to share any big secrets or confessions\u2014simple facts about your life are a fun, educational way to break the ice with your peers.\nStatements like, \"I've never had Thai food before,\" \"I have a pet iguana,\" or \"I've never left the country\" are fun facts you could share during the game.\nJenga Questions\nTransform a game of Jenga into a fun icebreaker. Write a get-to-know-you question on each of the wooden blocks. Then, set up your Jenga tower as normal. Invite each member of your group to carefully remove a block and answer the question that's written on it. Continue cycling through your group members until the tower falls down.[1] X Research source\nQuestions like \"What's the best present you ever got?\" \"What's your favorite time of year?\" and \"How do you like to spend your alone time?\" are all great icebreaker questions.\n\"What are 2 things you're good at?\" \"What's something you can't live without?\" or \"What are you looking forward to?\" are other excellent questions.\nI Have Never\n{\"smallUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.wikihow.com\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/a\\\/a3\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-4.jpg\\\/v4-460px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-4.jpg\",\"bigUrl\":\"\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/a\\\/a3\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-4.jpg\\\/v4-728px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-4.jpg\",\"smallWidth\":460,\"smallHeight\":345,\"bigWidth\":728,\"bigHeight\":546,\"licensing\":\"<div class=\\\"mw-parser-output\\\"><p>\\u00a9 2023 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. This image is <b>not<\\\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.<br>\\n<\\\/p><p><br \\\/>\\n<\\\/p><\\\/div>\"}\nCompare your life experiences with other people's. Sit in a circle with the other group members. Hand out 10 pieces of candy to each player. Then, invite each player to share a \"I have never\" statement. If you've done the activity that the person shared, give them 1 of your candy pieces. Continue around the circle for as long as you'd like.[2] X Research source\nYou might say \"I have never gotten stung by a bee,\" \"I have never seen the Pacific ocean,\" or \"I have never pulled an all-nighter.\"\nWhere Were You\n{\"smallUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.wikihow.com\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/9\\\/95\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-5-Version-2.jpg\\\/v4-460px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-5-Version-2.jpg\",\"bigUrl\":\"\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/9\\\/95\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-5-Version-2.jpg\\\/v4-728px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-5-Version-2.jpg\",\"smallWidth\":460,\"smallHeight\":345,\"bigWidth\":728,\"bigHeight\":546,\"licensing\":\"<div class=\\\"mw-parser-output\\\"><p>\\u00a9 2023 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. This image is <b>not<\\\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.<br>\\n<\\\/p><p><br \\\/>\\n<\\\/p><\\\/div>\"}\nTake a trip to the past with your fellow group members. Write different years on multiple slips of paper, and drop them in a jar. Ask each person to pull a piece of paper out of the jar. Then, encourage each group member to share where they were and what they were doing during the year listed on their paper slip.[3] X Research source\nWrite down years that everyone in the group can relate and connect to.\nString Game\n{\"smallUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.wikihow.com\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/3\\\/3c\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-6.jpg\\\/v4-460px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-6.jpg\",\"bigUrl\":\"\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/3\\\/3c\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-6.jpg\\\/v4-728px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-6.jpg\",\"smallWidth\":460,\"smallHeight\":345,\"bigWidth\":728,\"bigHeight\":546,\"licensing\":\"<div class=\\\"mw-parser-output\\\"><p>\\u00a9 2023 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. This image is <b>not<\\\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.<br>\\n<\\\/p><p><br \\\/>\\n<\\\/p><\\\/div>\"}\nShare fun facts based on a length of string. Cut out several different lengths of string, and let the group members each pick one. Then, invite each person to wrap the string around their finger. Each group member must volunteer a fun fact about themselves for every loop that the single piece of string creates around their finger.[4] X Research source\nYou can play a sillier version of this icebreaker by using toilet paper instead of string. People grab as much toilet paper as they normally would use from a roll. Then, each person shares a fun fact about themselves for every square they pulled off.\nDeserted Island\nThis game shows you the personal values of other group members. Divide everyone into small groups. Then, tell each group to pick 5 items that they'd bring with them to a desert island. Invite each group to explain their choices to the rest of the group.[5] X Research source\nEach group has to agree on 5 items, instead of each player picking 5 items.\nShoe Icebreaker\nLearn about the rest of your group through their shoes. Instruct everyone to stand in a circle and take off their shoes. Then, invite 1 person to grab a pair of random shoes and make a positive assumption about the owner based on their footwear. The owner will then introduce themselves and continue the game by grabbing a new pair of shoes.[6] X Research source\nYou might say, \"The owner of these shoes has a great sense of fashion\" or \"The person who owns these shoes must not like being cold.\"\nA Great Wind Blows\n{\"smallUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.wikihow.com\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/2\\\/2f\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-9.jpg\\\/v4-460px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-9.jpg\",\"bigUrl\":\"\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/2\\\/2f\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-9.jpg\\\/v4-728px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-9.jpg\",\"smallWidth\":460,\"smallHeight\":345,\"bigWidth\":728,\"bigHeight\":546,\"licensing\":\"<div class=\\\"mw-parser-output\\\"><p>\\u00a9 2023 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. This image is <b>not<\\\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.<br>\\n<\\\/p><p><br \\\/>\\n<\\\/p><\\\/div>\"}\nGet to know your group in this fun variation of musical chairs. Invite everyone to sit in a circle of chairs. Make a general statement using the phrase \"A great wind blows for everyone who\u2026\" Invite anyone who identifies with the statement to stand up and seat themselves in a different chair. For every round that someone stands up, remove a chair from the circle\u2014if someone can't find a chair, then they're out of the game.[7] X Research source\nYou might say, \"A great wind blows for everyone who likes spicy food\" or \"A great wind blows for everyone who speaks another language.\"\n{\"smallUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.wikihow.com\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/4\\\/43\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-10.jpg\\\/v4-460px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-10.jpg\",\"bigUrl\":\"\\\/images\\\/thumb\\\/4\\\/43\\\/What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-10.jpg\\\/v4-728px-What-Are-Some-Good-Games-to-Get-to-Know-Each-Other-Step-10.jpg\",\"smallWidth\":460,\"smallHeight\":345,\"bigWidth\":728,\"bigHeight\":546,\"licensing\":\"<div class=\\\"mw-parser-output\\\"><p>\\u00a9 2023 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. wikiHow, Inc. is the copyright holder of this image under U.S. and international copyright laws. This image is <b>not<\\\/b> licensed under the Creative Commons license applied to text content and some other images posted to the wikiHow website. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc.<br>\\n<\\\/p><p><br \\\/>\\n<\\\/p><\\\/div>\"}\nFigure out what you have in common with others. Break into even groups of about 3-6 people. In these groups, take 3 minutes to write a list of different things you all have in common. When the timer runs out, compare your lists with the other groups and see who had the longest one.[8] X Research source\nThe similarities can't involve body parts, like \"We all have 2 eyes\" or \"We all have 10 fingers.\"\nPlay Red Door Yellow Door\nPlay Monopoly\nPlay Pictionary\nPlay the Human Knot Game\nPlay 7 Minutes in Heaven\nPlay Bunco\nStrip Twister Guidelines: How to Play a Classic Game in a Fun & Sexy Way\nPlay the Pocky Game\nPlay the Game of Taboo\nHow to Play the \"Celebrity\" Party Game\nThe Cutest Would You Rather Questions for Crushes & Couples\nPlay Scattergories\nPlay Boggle\nPlay Trivial Pursuit\n\u2191 https:\/\/busyteacher.org\/23163-shy-students-6-fun-simple-games.html\n\u2191 https:\/\/temp.lionsclubs.org\/EN\/pdfs\/icebreakers.pdf\n\u2191 https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/cse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2016\/09\/Icebreakers-Team-Builders.pdf\n\u2191 https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/blogs\/education-matters\/2016\/07\/21\/20-great-icebreakers-for-the-classroom\n\u2191 http:\/\/www.serviceandinclusion.org\/conf\/HSHT-Team-Building-Ice-Breaker-Manual-2008-09.pdf\nKathy Slattengren, M.Ed.\nParent Educator & Coach\nThis article was co-authored by Kathy Slattengren, M.Ed. and by wikiHow staff writer, Janice Tieperman. Kathy Slattengren is a Parent Educator and Coach and the Founder of Priceless Parenting. With over two decades of experience, Kathy specializes in helping parents build strong, loving relationships with their children. She has helped thousands of parents around the world through Priceless Parenting's online classes, presentations, coaching, and books. Kathy holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Psychology from The University of Minnesota and a Masters degree in Education and Instructional Design from The University of Washington. Kathy is a member of the National Parenting Education Network, the US Alliance to End the Hitting of Children, the International Society for Technology in Education, and a founding member of Parent Learning Link. Priceless Parenting has been featured on ABC News, Komo News, King 5 News, National PTA, Parent Map, and Inspire Me Today. 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{"text":"A Rallying Cry: Mikayla Fazzone's Single 'Stronger Than Me,' Which Raises Awareness of Human Trafficking, Gets a Nov. 28 Release Date\nWritten by Matt King\nMikayla Fazzone. Laura Hunt Little\nWhen the Big Rock Pub organized a songwriting competition to benefit Coachella Valley Sexual Assault Services, many local musicians went all out to create and showcase a song that would raise awareness about the terrors of sexual assault and human trafficking.\nThere were some beautiful and heartwrenching songs\u2014yet it was a performance by 16-year-old Mikayla Fazzone that won over the judges and audience.\nHer song \"Stronger Than Me\" is a rallying cry for a group of broken individuals to fight back\u2014and it will be released on Thursday, Nov. 28, via the various streaming services, like Spotify, iTunes, etc.\n\"Music has always been in my life. I've always loved doing it,\" Fazzone told me. \"The first instance of my love for music came when I was a toddler, and my parents took me to Old Town San Diego. They bought me this little toy purple guitar, and then happened to lose me in the crowd. They finally found me onstage playing with a mariachi band. It's just something I've always loved the art of.\"\nFazzone is currently a part of the Academy of Musical Performance, which is helping transform her from a student of music into a rock star.\n\"In ninth-grade, I went to AMP's Summer Showcase, and walked away depressed, thinking that I could never be as good as these kids,\" Fazzone said. \"It inspired me to start getting better over the rest of the summer, and I went on to audition for AMP in the fall. I made it in and haven't looked back since. It's is a great program for getting introduced to the music scene. You get to meet a lot of very important people in the local industry\u2014like Will Sturgeon, Abie Perkins and Courtney Chambers, to name a few. AMP is great for leadership skills and musicianship skills, and shows you how to work with other people, along with giving you live performance experience\u2014all in one!\"\nFazzone sets herself apart from many other artists in our scene with her desire to use music primarily as a helping hand to anyone who might need it. Her lyrics exude inspiration and empathy for her listeners.\n\"Whenever one of my friends is going through a hard time, I write songs for them, and they turn into cool songs that I enjoy playing,\" Fazzone said. \"Helping people has always been at the core of my music. I write songs not just for me, but for specific audiences. People always tell bands that a certain song saved their lives, and I'd love to be able to have that effect on people.\n\"When I heard about the competition raising awareness for human trafficking, I knew I had to do it! (I thought), 'It's a great opportunity to help people. It's going to be a great experience, and I'm going to be able to meet a lot of people. If I win, I'd be able to go out and become an advocate for the people who really need it.'\"\nOne of the perks of winning the competition was having the song recorded by Will Sturgeon in \"The Sturdio.\" Fazzone already knew Sturgeon from AMP, and he helped \"Stronger Than Me\" reach its full potential.\n\"Recording is such a cool thing,\" Fazzone said. \"Most of my songs are just me and my guitar, so when I got to hear all the musical layers I think of in my head come to life in the speakers, it was just incredible!\"\nmikayla fazzone\nstronger than me\nbig rock pub\nacademy of musical performance\nwill sturgeon\ncoachella valley sexual assault services\nLatest from Matt King\nThe Lucky 13: Samuel Gonzalez, Multi-Instrumentalist and Frontman of Avenida Music, Performing Regularly at Spotlight 29\nThe Lucky 13: Hannah Mills: Frontwoman and Guitarist of Milhan, Playing at Little Street Studio on Thursday, Feb. 20\nAdding Adventure to the Tunes: 4xFar Is Bringing More Than Just Music to the Coachella Valley's Newest Big Festival\nThe Joy of Country Rock: Ted Z and the Wranglers Bring the Feel-Good Vibes to Pappy and Harriet's\nRockabilly Bliss: Molly Hanmer and the Midnight Tokers Offer the Power of the Blues to Pioneertown\nA Night of Wintry Bliss: Coachella Valley Sexual Assault Services Throws a Big Party to Raise Both Awareness and Much-Needed Funds\nInside the Arcade: Israel Pinedo Juggles AP Classes and SoundCloud Popularity As He Gets Set to Release His Debut Album\nPeople as Property: The Goal of Coachella Valley Sexual Assault Services' Anti-Human-Trafficking Conference: Letting People Know About the Terrible Things Happening in Our Own Backyard\nAn Avenue for Artists: Avenida Music Gets Set to Open a Center for All Things Music in Downtown Indio\nTeen Music Titans: Pescaterritory Makes Fans Worldwide by Adding a Unique Twist to a Classic Rock Sound\nMore in this category: \u00ab It's Everybody's Hood: How Brad Guth, a Proud Gay Man, Bought the Valley's Dive-Metal Bar\u2014and Turned It Into a Place Where All Are Welcome\tNot Just Another Print Shop: Artist, Printer and Musician Freddy Jimenez, of Blue Hill Studios, Works With the East Valley Community in Mind \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The cause of the death of Abd al-Rahman al-Anzi, the missing Saudi in America - Monday 30th January 2023 11:48 AM\nWhat are the methods of purchasing and prices of tickets for the Al-Nasr and Al-Taawon match in the Saudi Roshan League 2022-23? - Monday 30th January 2023 11:48 AM\nAl Markaziya \u2013 The party breaches Tripoli with pictures of Soleimani\u2026 a failed attempt, so what next? - Monday 30th January 2023 11:48 AM\nThe former Mossad chief reveals that the Isfahan military facility that was bombed yesterday is developing hypersonic missiles - Monday 30th January 2023 11:48 AM\nSaudi Arabia will invest a trillion riyals to generate \"cleaner energy\" - Monday 30th January 2023 11:47 AM\nSamsung unveils a distinctive screen for video game lovers - Monday 30th January 2023 11:46 AM\nWashington conducted experiments on the transmission of corona from animals to humans - Monday 30th January 2023 11:46 AM\nCurrency rates today, Monday 1-30-2023 - Monday 30th January 2023 11:45 AM\n\"Papilloma\"\u2026a virus that threatens girls, and the \"Food and Drug Administration\" explains methods of prevention - Monday 30th January 2023 11:45 AM\nWatch .. Excitement to the extreme .. Georgina Rodriguez's chest slipped from her thin dress in the most powerful seduction scenes. - Monday 30th January 2023 11:44 AM\nThe US Treasury halts government pension investments due to the debt crisis\nTrends Wad Local Wednesday 25th January 2023 09:12 AM REPORT\nThe US Treasury has halted new investment in a federal government pension program, the latest in a series of actions it has taken to prevent defaults after the government reached its borrowing limit, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told congressional leaders.\nAccording to CNBC, the Treasury Department is taking so-called extraordinary measures to continue paying its bills after it exceeded its $31.4 trillion borrowing limit last Thursday, and Yellen said she expects the measures to prevent defaults until at least June 5.\nThe action is the third by the Treasury to ensure that a government, which is subject to borrowing restrictions amid negotiations of the US debt crisis, still has enough money to pay its bills. Mail through June 5th.\nMeanwhile, lawmakers in Congress are trying to strike a deal to raise the US borrowing limit and prevent defaults for the first time ever and some House Republicans have pushed to link spending cuts to an increase in the borrowing limit.\n\"Republicans have resorted to brinkmanship and hostage-taking as they demand aggressive spending cuts,\" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, said Tuesday.\nYellen said the ministry could no longer fully invest in the government's securities investment fund, or so-called \"fund Guntil the debt ceiling is raised or suspended, which is part of the Provident Provident Fund under the Federal Employees Retirement System.\nIn a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Yellen wrote: \"The law governing fund investments G The Secretary of the Treasury expressly authorizes the suspension of his investment to avoid violating the statutory debt limit\u2026 My predecessors took this suspension action in similar circumstances.\"\nPREV American website: 10 restrictions that prevent China from attacking Taiwan in the near future | Policy\nNEXT A sudden rise in the price of the dollar today, Wednesday, January 25, 2023\nSaudi Arabia will invest a trillion riyals to generate \"cleaner energy\"\nWhat is the common denominator between LG air conditioners and green color? \u2013 Saudi News\nJanuary 2023\u2026 a month full of international sports hosting \u2013 Saudi news\nPakistan Explosion: Dozens of people were killed in an explosion inside a mosque crowded with worshipers in the city of Peshawar\nThe price of the Saudi riyal today, Sunday 1-29-2023, against the Egyptian pound","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Three Convicted of Rioting in HK Despite No Evidence of Involvement\nPosted by John Chan | May 6, 2021\nA Hong Kong court has convicted three people of rioting, jailing them for at least four years despite a lack of evidence that they played any role in the riot. This is the latest conviction since a higher court upheld the doctrine of \"joint enterprise\" in riot and unlawful assembly prosecutions earlier this year, vastly expanding the scope of both offenses to include people not directly placed at the scene of a protest. Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK reported on the convictions on Thursday:\nThe District Court on Wednesday handed down jail sentences of at least four years to three people convicted of rioting in Tsuen Wan during anti-government protests in 2019 \u2013 even though the judge acknowledged there was no evidence they had any actual role in the riot.\nDistrict Court judge Ernest Lin said that the presence of the three defendants at the protest on October 1, 2019, had encouraged protesters who were confronting police officers.\n[\u2026] He said it was no coincidence that the three defendants, who had been dressed like protesters, stayed at the scene while the standoff lasted for 20 minutes.\nLin said the trio, who are all in their 20s, had to face the same punishment as those who broke the law based on the \"joint enterprise\" principle.\nThe judge said a deterrent sentence was needed, and adopted a starting point of four and a half years, before deducting between one and three months from their sentences after considering background reports. [Source]\nThe sentencing of the trio is the latest episode following a protracted legal battle over the appropriate scope of rioting and illegal assembly charges in Hong Kong. In March of this year, Hong Kong's Court of Appeal, its second highest court, allowed prosecutors to apply the legal principle of \"joint doctrine\" in the case of riot and illegal assembly charges, a decision with far reaching implications on who could be prosecuted in relation to the 2019 Hong Kong protests.\nThe March ruling followed an appeal by the Department of Justice, after three defendants were acquitted of rioting in July 2020 when a judge ruled that they could not be found guilty of rioting or illegal assembly if they were not present at the scene of the crime. That case was closely watched by many in Hong Kong, after two of the defendants\u2014a couple who claimed they were providing first aid support at the scene\u2014garnered public sympathy and support. Reuters' Jessie Pang profiled the couple shortly before they received the outcome of their trial last year:\nFor Valentine's Day this year, Henry Tong gave his wife, Elaine To, a photo book. It holds the memories of their life together: their first date six years ago, kissing in front of a pro-democracy \"Lennon wall\"; the tattooed bands on their ring fingers, symbolizing a bond not easily erased; and their wedding day last year, when he vowed to her, \"Not even a nuclear explosion could break us apart.\"\n[\u2026] Much older than the teenagers who came to symbolize the demonstrations, Henry and Elaine insist they were merely providing first aid to those who were tear-gassed on that day of protests last July. The couple, who own a gym in Hong Kong's Sheung Wan neighborhood, pleaded not guilty. They say they never went anywhere near the front lines, and never acted violently or illegally.\nTheir lawyer argued in court that there was no direct evidence proving they were on the street where the alleged riot happened; CCTV footage showed them in an alley nearby and leaving the area. The court testimony also showed that only umbrellas, protective gear, medical supplies and two walkie-talkies were seized in their arrest.\nThe prosecution said in court that even though there was no evidence showing that the couple was present at the point where the rioting took place, they shared the goals of those participating in the rioting. Their gear and the fact they were running away from the police, the prosecution said, supported the accusation that they had been involved in rioting.\nThe couple's lawyer countered that they were avoiding tear gas, not running away. [Source]\nAfter their acquittal, cheers rang out in an adjacent courtroom, where supporters rallied in support of the couple. But prosecutors lodged an appeal in September 2020, arguing that the judge's decision negated the legal principle of \"joint enterprise.\" The principle holds that a person can be convicted for the actions of a third party if the court finds they could foresee a crime likely to be committed. Opponents argue that the application of the doctrine would be a significant overreach, and that it would be impossible for people not at the scene of a crime to foresee spontaneous protest developments. In March of this year, the Court of Appeal sided with the Department of Justice, allowing joint enterprise prosecutions in riot cases. South China Morning Post's Brian Wong and Natalie Wong reported on the decision and its implications:\nHanding down the judgment on Thursday, Chief Justice of the High Court Jeremy Poon Shiu-chor acknowledged such an application of the law could allow prosecutors to go after a myriad of suspects \u2013 ranging from a lookout or the driver of a getaway car, to a social media user who merely clicked \"like\" on a post promoting an illegal gathering \u2013 depending on the strength of the evidence.\nThe ruling at the Court of Appeal could pave the way for more prosecutions, as well as increase the likelihood of convictions in future trials and overturn the acquittals of some riot suspects charged for their roles in 2019's anti-government protests.\nPoon said the common law doctrine must apply to the offences of rioting and unlawful assembly, as it was plainly in the public interest to penalise not just offenders caught at the scene, but also accomplices who were not.\n\"An accessory or a party to a joint enterprise is liable as the principal. This serves the public interest of maintaining the public order,\" Poon said. \"A contrary construction which excludes the doctrine of joint enterprise \u2026 will have dire consequences for the maintenance of public order.\" [Source]\nOn Thursday, the joint enterprise doctrine led to the trio's conviction. This precedent is likely to be alarming for many others in Hong Kong. In 2019, many Hong Kongers, particularly older individuals, offered support and assistance to protesters. One example is the \"school bus\" network, a code for an underground nexus of getaway drivers that helped to ferry protestors away from conflict zones. The Wall Street Journal's John Lyons reported on the underground support network in September 2019:\nHe's part of what's known as \"the school bus\"\u2014code for a vast underground of getaway cars typically driven by older, middle-class Hong Kongers who want to support the younger generation protesting in the streets. One of the encrypted chat groups organizing the rides, also called \"after school pickup,\" connects drivers it calls \"parents\" with protester \"children.\" The group has some 21,000 subscribers. Tens of thousands more subscribe to other groups.\n[\u2026] The public got a glimpse of the size of that chain early this month. When authorities shut down public transport links to Hong Kong's remote airport and left protesters there stranded, so many drivers responded to pleas for rides that they snarled traffic on a major highway. Hours into the rescue, there were more drivers than protesters. Some cars went home empty. [Source]\nDunkirk evacuation staged in #HongKong. All the brake lights are the volunteer drivers who helped rescuing thousands of protesters to safe places. Those protesters were trapped in Tung Chung due to the shutdown of the metro system and surrounded by riot police. #SOSHK pic.twitter.com\/wKrSNtNsrp\n\u2014 Demosist\u014d \u9999\u6e2f\u773e\u5fd7 \ud83d\ude37 (@demosisto) September 1, 2019\nMore than 10,000 people have already been arrested in connection with the 2019-2020 protests, among them over 2,400 charged with rioting, unlawful assembly, and other protest-related offenses. Just this week, 21 others were charged with \"perverting the course of justice\" for their role in helping to drive fleeing protestors away from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the site of some of the most violent clashes between police and protestors in 2019. It remains to be seen how many will be charged with the more serious offense of rioting, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.\nSeparately, pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen, and Jannelle Leung were handed jail sentences of between four and 10 months on Thursday for their participation in a peaceful Tiananmen Vigil in the city's Victoria Park last June 4th. Authorities had banned the vigil for the first time since 1990, citing coronavirus restrictions. The ban was renewed this year. Wong is already in jail, serving a 17-month sentence for two other unlawful assemblies. Shum and Yuen are also currently behind bars, pending trial on national security charges for their participation in the 2020 pro-democracy primary elections. Along with Wong, the three face maximum sentences of life imprisonment for \"subversion.\"\nPeople are being jailed for things that didn't happen & things they didn't do. Joshua Wong has 10 months added to his sentence for joining a peaceful vigil that \"could easily have got violent,\" but didn't. Yesterday, 3 people were jailed for a riot they had no actual role in. https:\/\/t.co\/7r8M6MU3ZE\n\u2014 Peter Lewis \u2013 on the radio in Hong Kong (@MoneyTalkR3) May 6, 2021\nCategories : Hong Kong,Law,Level 2 Article,Politics,Recent News\nTags :hong kong courts,Hong Kong democracy,hong kong law,hong kong national security law,hong kong politics,hong kong protests,Joshua Wong,judiciary,riots\nChanges in Leadership Emphasize Antiterrorism Approach in Hong Kong\nStand News' Headquarters Raided, Executives Arrested, Computers Seized\nWhy China Raged Over America's \"Summit for Democracy\"\nJimmy Lai and Seven Other Hong Kong Pro-democracy Figures Sentenced for Participating in 2020 Tiananmen Vigil\nNetizen Voices: On Kiwi Chow's \"Revolution of Our Times\" Golden Horse Award Win\nJournalist Visa Whipsaw: Correspondent Denied HK Visa; US and China Reach Tentative Thaw on Journalist Visas\nThree People Arrested for Sharing Online Appeal to Cast Blank Ballots in Hong Kong Elections\nHong Kong NSL Censorship Roundup: Speech Crimes, Retroactive Film Censorship, Muted Marathoners, and More\nNational Security Law Threat Drives Amnesty International to Close Hong Kong Offices\nBillions in International Pension Funds Support Abuses in China; Hong Kongers Flee With Their Own Pensions\nFive-year Prison Terms for Hong Kong Students Deepen Fears of Retroactive Use of National Security Law\nHKU to Remove Pillar of Shame, Erasing Memory of June Fourth Massacre\nIn Speech Commemorating Xinhai Revolution, Xi Says \"Reunification\" With Taiwan Inevitable","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Winter's Bone\nHDLobby\n17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.\nDirector: Debra Granik\nActors: Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Shelley Waggener, Sheryl Lee\nAfter several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with\u2026\nThe Proposal\nWhen she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.\nMister Johnson\nIn 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity \u2014 an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the\u2026\nMisguided Behavior\nThe Truth can hurt sometimes\u2026but not even death can keep a secret.\nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn\nIn Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles:\u2026\nThree teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.\nIt's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led\u2026\nGenre: Biography, Drama, Romance\nIn Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.\nCountry: China, Hong Kong, USA\nFed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.\nAfter finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel\u2026\nA Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected \u2013 but which one?\nG.I. Jane\nA female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.\nA British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous\u2026\nGenre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War\nSherlock Holmes in Washington\nIn World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.\nGenre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller\nA young, struggling country singer becomes the driver for an old, crazed, honky-tonk legend that could possibly help him break into stardom.\nLars and the Real Girl\nBeautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut \u2013 relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from\u2026\nAvanti!\nA successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.\nTrailer: Winter's Bone","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"c l i n i c a l f o l i o s : n a r r a t i v e\nInformed Patient's FAQ on Hernia Repair: 19\nIn the past 20 years, it has been recognized that tension on the repaired tissue is the major enemy of permanent hernia repair. This has led to the increasing use of prosthetic mesh in front of the muscular body wall to create a tension-free repair (popularized by Lichtenstein). Tissue grows into the interstices of the mesh, incorporating it into the body to form a strong barrier without the tension often inherent in the natural tissue repairs. This repair is becoming the \"gold standard\" of hernia repairs done through a standard incision. There is a variation of this repair called the plug-and-patch technique in which a folded wad of mesh material is placed in the hernia defect in addition to the patch overlay.\nLink to this frame from your Personal Thumbnails page? Yes No\nAbout 1988 there was a dramatic increase in the range of operations done under the guidance of a viewing instrument called a laparoscope. Technical advances in the lens system and the miniaturization of video-cameras led to this leap. Soon after the advent of general surgical applications of laparoscopy, laparoscopic hernia repair was begun.\nThe early approaches were done by actually entering the abdominal cavity. This has been mostly supplanted by an approach expanding the space between the membrane lining the abdominal cavity and the muscular wall (extraperitoneal approach). Through two additional puncture wounds, long instruments are introduced which dissect, place and fix a piece of mesh in place. There is an ongoing debate about the pros and cons of laparoscopic vs. open repair, and there is no clear answer at this time. Proponents of laparoscopy claim less pain and quicker recovery, but these claims have not yet been proven. The procedure is technically difficult and carries risks not inherent in open repair. At the present time a prudent approach is to use laparoscopy for recurrent and bilateral (both sides) hernia repair primarily, until long term experience accrues.\nInterestingly, there is a renewed interest in placing mesh in the position behind the abdominal wall as was done by Stoppa and Nyhus, and as is done by laparoscopy, but now through a minimal incision (Kugel).\nAt the present time the conservative approach to routine hernia repair is an open repair, usually using the tension-free mesh repair. Those seeking laparoscopic repair should seek out surgeons who are performing the procedure routinely and accumulating significant experience.\nClick the \"Update\" button to save your Notes and Personal Thumbnails.\nNext 1-3 4-6 7-9 10-12 13-15 16-18 19-21 22-24 25-27 28-30\nThis page was last modified on 2\/15\/1999.\nClinical Folios: Abdomen, Biliary\/Pancreatic, Breast, Cardiothoracic, Colorectal, Embryology, Genitourinary, Gynecology, Head and Neck, Hernia, Musculoskeletal, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, Soft Tissue\/Sarcoma, Surgical Anatomy, Technique, Trauma, Vascular | | Discussions, SCALpels\nPersonal Pages: Thumbnails, Presentations, Quizzes\nHome, Image Archive, About Vesalius, Keyword Search, Glossary\n\u00a9 Vesalius Studios . All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spaghetti western: translation\nA large proportion of spaghetti Westerns were actually Hispano-Italian co-productions, shot first in the Monegros region in Arag\u00f3n and later mostly in the Almer\u00eda desert. From the late 1950s, the perceived decadence of Hollywood film and its production system, and the parallel rise of the European film industry after the postwar period, enabled European filmmakers to explore recognizable genres that could compete with American product. Examples of this were the sword-and-sandal epics of the early 1960s, filmed as co-productions among Italy, France, Spain, and even Hollywood. Production values were never very high, and they still required the presence of American actors (or at the very least Italian actors with English names), but still they succeeded in creating a substantial fan base.\nThe spaghetti Western can be seen as a further (and less short-lived) step along this line of evolution. Although early attempts to work on European productions of Westerns go back to the early 1950s, the film that pinned down the formula was Sergio Leone's Italian-Spanish-German co-production For a Fistful of Dollars (1964), starring an unknown actor named Clint Eastwood. Some of the main features are already here: Hollywood actors, violence, and an interesting use of music, lenses, and narrative rhythms. In many of these films, the co-production aspect was often merely nominal: at the time, funds were devoted exclusively to the development of international projects, and even with only small percentages of the budget, it was in the interest of producers to enter such productions. Although some key personnel came from Italy, most technicians and small acting parts were Spanish, which gave a centrality to the genre there. The Spanish spaghetti film industry peaked in the late 1960s, with emblematic actors like Fernando Sancho, Aldo Sanbrell, Frank Bra\u00f1a, and Antonio Casas. Spanish directors associated with the genre were the Balc\u00e1zar brothers, Joaqu\u00edn Romero Marchent, and Eduardo Manzanos, and even familiar names like Juan de Ordu\u00f1a, Le\u00f3n Klimovsky, Ignacio F. Iquino, and Jos\u00e9 Luis Borau (who directed Brandy). The trend lasted well into the 1970s, when the success of the genre began to wane, having been replaced internationally by cheap horror thrillers.\nSpain in non-spanish film\nSpaghetti western \u2014 Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo Western, is a nickname for a broad sub genre of Western films that emerged in the mid 1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone s unique and much copied film making style and international box office success, so\u2026 \u2026 Wikipedia\nSpaghetti Western \u2014 Spaghetti Western, also known in some countries in mainland Europe as the Italo Western, is a nickname for a broad sub genre of Western film that emerged in the mid 1960s, so named because most were produced by Italian studios, usually in\u2026 \u2026 Wikipedia\nspaghetti western \u2014 spaghetti westerns N COUNT A spaghetti western is a film made in Europe, usually by an Italian director, about life in the American Wild West \u2026 English dictionary\nspaghetti western \u2014 \u25ba NOUN informal \u25aa a western film made in Europe by an Italian director \u2026 English terms dictionary\nspaghetti western \u2014 \u2606 spaghetti western n. Slang a film about cowboys in the western U.S., produced by the Italian film industry \u2026 English World dictionary\nSpaghetti western \u2014 Imagen de un spaghetti western. El western europeo, m\u00e1s conocido como spaghetti western, es un particular subg\u00e9nero del western que estuvo de moda en las d\u00e9cadas de los a\u00f1os 1960 y 1970, aunque en \u00e9sta \u00faltima d\u00e9cada el spaghetti western ya se\u2026 \u2026 Wikipedia Espa\u00f1ol\nSpaghetti-Western \u2014 Italowestern (abwertend auch \"Spaghettiwestern\" oder schlicht \"Eurowestern\" genannt) ist ein ab den 1960er Jahren entstandenes Sub Genre des Western, welches vor allem von italienischen Produktionsfirmen und Regisseuren an europ\u00e4ischen Drehorten\u2026 \u2026 Deutsch Wikipedia\nspaghetti Western \u2014 noun a low budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company \u2022 Regions: \u2191Italy, \u2191Italian Republic, \u2191Italia \u2022 Hypernyms: \u2191Western, \u2191horse opera * * * noun, pl \u22ef erns [count] : a movie about the old Ame \u2026 Useful english dictionary\nSpaghetti western \u2014 A large proportion of spaghetti Westerns were actually Hispano Italian co productions, shot first in the Monegros region in Arag\u00f3n and later mostly in the Almer\u00eda desert. From the late 1950s, the perceived decadence of Hollywood film and its\u2026 \u2026 Guide to cinema\nspaghetti western \u2014 UK \/ US noun [countable] Word forms spaghetti western : singular spaghetti western plural spaghetti westerns cinema a film about the Wild West, especially one made at a low cost in Europe by an Italian film company \u2026 English dictionary","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Samsung Gear S3 Classic Hands-on [Images]\nReviewsSamsung\nBy Divyang Makwana\t On Feb 2, 2017 Last updated Feb 28, 2017\nThe year is just started and Samsung has now launched its Tizen-based Gear S3 smartwatch in India in two variants \u2013 Classic and Frontier. We got its Classic version while the Frontier is the sports edition focused on a different look. The Gear S3 is the third generation of its Gear S smartwatch lineup which is primarily an alternative to its competitor Apple Watch. Priced at \u20b928,500, take a look at our hands-on with Samsung Gear S3 Classic.\nSamsung Gear S3 Classic Specifications\nModel: SM-R770\nDisplay: 1.3-inch (33 mm) Fullcolor Always On Display (360 x 360 pixels resolution) protected by Corning Gorilla Glass SR+\nOperating System: Tizen OS (ver. 2.3.2.1) | Software ver. R770XXU1APK6\nCPU: 1 GHz dual-core Cortex-A35, Exynos 7270 SoC, 14nm FinFET\nStorage: 4 GB onboard (1.5 GB usable)\nSensors: Accelerometer, Gyro, Barometer, HRM, Ambient light\nProtection: Corning Gorilla Glass SR+, IP68 ratings \u2013 Dust proof and Water resistant (1.5 meters, 30 minutes) \u2013 [Only on Frontier variant]\nConnectivity: Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, Microphone, Loudspeaker\nCompatibility: Android, iOS\nDimensions: 46 mm x 49 mm x 12.9 mm\nPrice: \u20b928,500\nThe new generation smartwatch looks stylish and sophisticated focusing more on its classic design whereas the Frontier looks sporty. It is made up of brushed stainless steel coupled with a dazzling round rotating bezel. The watch itself boasts a high-quality premium build redefined from its predecessors. Since we have its Classic variant, it doesn't hold IP68 ratings.\nIt is 12.9 mm thick, noticeably thicker than average watch and 57 grams in weight. The Classic variant has leather straps while its sportier version Frontier uses strong rubberized straps. The watch is comfortable to wear, it uses a classic buckle design to secure it.\nIf we talk about the Frontier version, the IP68 ratings make it dust proof and water resistant (1.5 meters deep for 30 minutes) giving an edge over the Apple Watch 2. The Samsung Gear S3 Classic and Frontier are essentially the same smartwatches with minor differences. After Apple, there are other major smartwatch manufacturers \u2013 LG, Motorola, and HUAWEI that come in this category.\nGear S3 Has Always On Display\nMoving to its specs, it features a 1.3-inch (33 mm) circular display (360 x 360 pixels resolution) featuring Super AMOLED with AOD (Always On Display) protected by Corning Gorilla Glass SR+. After being featured on their flagships \u2013 Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, the Always On Display now reaches to its smartwatches as well.\nGear S3 is powered by a dual-core 1.0 GHz processor (Cortex-A35) paired with 768 MB RAM and 4 GB onboard storage. What keeps the watch running is a small 380 mAh battery that charges by a provided wireless charger. Samsung claims that the battery life should run up to 3-4 days for most users on a single charge.\nThe watch continues to use the Tizen operating system which was also found on its previous generations and their Gear Fit series smart bands. Apps such as S Health Samsung Gear can be used to connect it to your smartphone. It supports Android and iOS both platforms.\nThe Samsung Gear S3 holds various sensors that monitor your heart rate, footsteps, and other stuff. It comes with Accelerometer, Gyro, Barometer, HRM, and Ambient light sensor. Other than sensors, it has built-in Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC as well as a microphone and a loudspeaker.\nRotating Bezel\nBack Has Few Sensors\nGear S3 uses two buttons, the top one is the back button and the bottom is the Home button which can be used to trigger Samsung's S-Voice (voice command control) when you double press it. There are no other buttons other than these two and the rotating bezel being the solely physical controls.\nSamsung Gear S3 Classic uses two different size belts \u2013 Small (110 mm) and Large (130 mm). The price of Gear S3 Classic is \u20b928,500 while its Frontier version also holds the same price. It is up to the people who wants to choose a classic style or a sporty style.\nSamsung Gear S3 Full Review\nSamsung Gear S3 Review \u2013 More Than Just A Watch\nXiaomi Redmi Note 4 2 GB RAM variant to go on sale in India tomorrow\nReliance Jio DTH set-top box leaked","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jack Casey June 18, 2020\nThe June 18 Letter\nGENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER\nNEW YORK, JUNE 18, 1804 \u2013 Somehow a published letter landed on Aaron Burr's desk\nseven weeks after he suffered a 16-point loss in his New York gubernatorial bid. The letter had been published in the Albany Register during the three-day voting period, April 24, 1804 in fact, and was signed by Charles D. Cooper, MD. One sentence of the letter glowed like a live coal to Burr's eyes: Full story The June 18 Letter\nHamilton's Faith\nThe Hamilton-Burr Duel\nThe Night Before the Duel\nHamilton, Burr and the Origins of the Duel\nThe Progressive Mr. Burr\n\u00a9 2023 Diamonds As Big As Radishes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You can easily get \"We Could Be Beautiful\" with FREE Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Audiobooks and Tuebl formats. Please click \"DOWNLOAD NOW!\" and create an account immediately, you will be able to enter our online library, there are more than 5 million ebooks. FREE MONTHS.\nWe Could Be Beautiful\nCatherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she's constantly redecorating. And yet, despite all this, she still feels empty. After two broken engagements and boyfriends who wanted only her money, she is haunted by the fear that she'll never have a family of her own. One night, at an art opening, Catherine meets William Stockton, a handsome man who shares her impeccable taste and whose parents even shared a personal connection with Catherine's family years ago. But as he and Catherine grow closer, she begins to encounter strange signs. Her mother, now suffering lapses in memory, seems to hate William on sight, and cryptic entries in her diary warn that no one is to be trusted. Is William lying about his past? And if so, is Catherine willing to sacrifice their beautiful life in order to find the truth?\nAuthor Swan Huntley\nA spellbinding psychological debut novel, Swan Huntley's We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything\u2014and yet can trust no one. Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she constantly redecorates her home. And yet, despite all this, she still feels empty. She sees her personal trainer, she gets weekly massages, and occasionally she visits her mother and sister on the Upper East Side, but after two broken engagements and boyfriends who wanted only her money, she is haunted by the fear that she'll never have a family of her own. One night, at an art opening, Catherine meets William Stockton, a handsome man who shares her impeccable taste and love of beauty. He is educated, elegant, and even has a personal connection\u2014his parents and Catherine's parents were friends years ago. But as he and Catherine grow closer, she begins to encounter strange signs, and her mother, Elizabeth (now suffering from Alzheimer's), seems to have only bad memories of William as a boy. In Elizabeth's old diary she finds an unnerving letter from a former nanny that cryptically reads: \"We cannot trust anyone . . . \" Is William lying about his past? And if so, is Catherine willing to sacrifice their beautiful life in order to find the truth? Featuring a fascinating heroine who longs for answers but is blinded by her own privilege, We Could Be Beautiful is a glittering, seductive, utterly surprising story of love, money, greed, and family.\nA spellbinding psychological debut novel, Swan Huntley's We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything--and yet can trust no one. Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she constantly redecorates her home. And yet, despite all this, she still feels empty. She sees her personal trainer, she gets weekly massages, and occasionally she visits her mother and sister on the Upper East Side, but after two broken engagements and boyfriends who wanted only her money, she is haunted by the fear that she'll never have a family of her own. One night, at an art opening, Catherine meets William Stockton, a handsome man who shares her impeccable taste and love of beauty. He is educated, elegant, and even has a personal connection--his parents and Catherine's parents were friends years ago. But as he and Catherine grow closer, she begins to encounter strange signs, and her mother, Elizabeth (now suffering from Alzheimer's), seems to have only bad memories of William as a boy. In Elizabeth's old diary she finds an unnerving letter from a former nanny that cryptically reads: \"We cannot trust anyone . . . \" Is William lying about his past? And if so, is Catherine willing to sacrifice their beautiful life in order to find the truth? Featuring a fascinating heroine who longs for answers but is blinded by her own privilege, We Could Be Beautiful is a glittering, seductive, utterly surprising story of love, money, greed, and family.\nThe Beautiful Ones\n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words\u2014featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death NAMED ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE GUARDIAN \u2022 NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of \"Uptown\" to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of \"Paisley Park.\" But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era. The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince\u2014a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Prince's early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince's evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book's fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain\u2014the final stage in Prince's self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey. The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring's riveting and moving introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final months\u2014a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he'd so carefully cultivated\u2014and annotations that provide context to the book's images. This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Prince's ideas and vision, his voice and image\u2014his undying gift to the world.\nAuthor Prince\nThe Best We Could Do\nNational bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter \/ Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. At the heart of Bui's story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent\u2014the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home. In what Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls \"a book to break your heart and heal it,\" The Best We Could Do brings to life Thi Bui's journey of understanding, and provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past.\nAuthor Thi Bui\nBeautiful Disaster Signed Limited Edition\nTravis Maddox, Eastern University's playboy, makes a bet with good girl Abby that if he loses, he will remain abstinent for a month, but if he wins, Abby must live in his apartment for the same amount of time.\nAuthor Jamie McGuire\nThere were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.\nAuthor Kami Garcia\nBeautiful Mistake\nAuthor Vi Keeland\n\"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea\u2014but that's just the beginning. Amity Gaige also manages, before she's done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants.\" \u2014Jennifer Egan \"Sea Wife brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the fraught and hidden dangers of domesticity, motherhood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.\" \u2014Lauren Groff From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated page literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives. Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids\u2014Sybil, age seven, and George, age two\u2014Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being feral children at sea. Despite the stresses of being novice sailors, the family learns to crew the boat together on the ever-changing sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve \u2013 until they are tested by the unforeseen. Sea Wife is told in gripping dual perspectives: Juliet's first person narration, after the journey, as she struggles to come to terms with the life-changing events that unfolded at sea, and Michael's captain's log, which provides a riveting, slow-motion account of these same inexorable events, a dialogue that reveals the fault lines created by personal history and political divisions. Sea Wife is a transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil. It is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.\nAuthor Amity Gaige\nThe More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible\nAs seen on Oprah's SuperSoul Sunday In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it with a grounding reminder of what's true: we are all connected, and our small, personal choices bear unsuspected transformational power. By fully embracing and practicing this principle of interconnectedness\u2014called interbeing\u2014we become more effective agents of change and have a stronger positive influence on the world. Throughout the book, Eisenstein relates real-life stories showing how small, individual acts of courage, kindness, and self-trust can change our culture's guiding narrative of separation, which, he shows, has generated the present planetary crisis. He brings to conscious awareness a deep wisdom we all innately know: until we get our selves in order, any action we take\u2014no matter how good our intentions\u2014will ultimately be wrongheaded and wronghearted. Above all, Eisenstein invites us to embrace a radically different understanding of cause and effect, sounding a clarion call to surrender our old worldview of separation, so that we can finally create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. With chapters covering separation, interbeing, despair, hope, pain, pleasure, consciousness, and many more, the book invites us to let the old Story of Separation fall away so that we can stand firmly in a Story of Interbeing.\nAuthor Charles Eisenstein","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roberta Meek \u2013 \"From Sojourner Truth to Stacey Abrams: The Unfinished Battle for Voting Rights\"\nA \"Song Talk\" by LEPOCO's Special Guest, Roberta Meek\nMarch 13, 2021 \u2013 7 pm via ZOOM\n***Links to more information about Roberta's topic can be found at the bottom of this page.\n******Listen to WDIY's Marcie Lightwood interview with Roberta Meek \u2013 aired on\/in honor of International Women's Day \u2013 03\/08\/2021: Honoring Women's History Month with Roberta Meek | WDIY News Exclusive | WDIY\nRoberta has sung with local choruses and performed as a jazz singer and at community events for decades. She has frequently been the music leader at LEPOCO's Young People Making Peace Summer Day Camp. Her singing is beloved by campers and volunteers alike. She puts her songs in context, teaching about Civil Rights and activism.\nBorn into an activist family in Philadelphia, as a young girl, Roberta Meek had the unusual opportunity to meet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. because her father, Bill Meek, Sr., was one of the key organizers of King's visits to the city. Roberta's career path has weaved its way through the labor, civil rights and social justice battles in Allentown, her adopted community. She was a Chief Steward and later Executive Vice President of CWA Local 13500. She has done independent consulting work facilitating myriad programs that address racial justice, cultural pluralism and nonviolent problem solving. Most recently Roberta has taught and served as the Director of the Africana Studies Program at Muhlenberg College.\nAs an historian specializing in African American history, Roberta collaborated with Touchstone Theatre to produce and present \"Another River Flows: The African American Experience in the Lehigh Valley,\" in 2008. In 2016, she was Abuela Claudia in the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, \"In the Heights,\" at Muhlenberg College.\nRegister on our home page: www.lepoco.org\nIf you are looking for more information about broadening voting participation, ending voter suppression, and countering the massive misinformation around voter fraud assertions, here are some links to organizations active on the national level and on the Pennsylvania state level. There is also a link to one article about the For the People Act, HR 1, and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act.\nWhy Congress must pass HR 1 and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act \u2013 Roll Call\nFair Fight founded by Stacey Abrams www.fairfight.com\nNAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) www.naacp.org\nBlack Lives Matter www.blacklivesmatter.com\nThe Brennan Center for Justice www.brennancenter.org\nACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) www.aclu.org\/issues\/voting-rights\nCommon Cause www.commoncause.org\nFair Districts PA https:\/\/www.fairdistrictspa.com\/\nMarch on Harrisburg www.mohpa.org\nPennsylvania Stands Up www.pastandsup.org\nPA Youth Vote PA Youth VOTE \u2013 Home | Facebook","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Rav Kaduri Met Mashiah Last Year\nLatest from NFC (Hebrew), as found on Ledavid.com.\nArutz Sheva reports:\n(IsraelNN.com) Iran's leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, told attendees of a conference in Teheran today that \"Israel should be wiped off the map.\" The conference is headlined \"A World Free of Zionism\".\n\"The establishment of the State of Israel was an act of aggression,\" Ahmedinejad declared, \"The Islamic nation will not allow its historic enemy to exist within it.\"\nTehillim Chapter 83 comes to mind. Read the whole chapter.\nTerror in Hadera\nAs I've said in the past, I often go here when a terror attack happens. They often have the victims' faces. Seeing the faces helps me mourn with more emotion than if I don't.\nHashem Yikom Damam.\nOn Longing\nThe Chicago White Sox have just won the World Series after 88 years.\nLast year, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series after 86 years.\nThe Chicago Cubs have not won a World Series in 97 years.\nAs a Jewish nation, we've been longing for the end of Galut, the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash, and the arrival of Mashiah, heralded by Eliyahu Hanavi.\nWe've been longing for it for almost 2000 years.\nWe've seen periods where the Yad Hashem is clearly present, clearly bringing us closer to Redemption, and yet, we've seen periods of Hester Panim - Hashem's Face hidden from the world.\nWe've seen miracles like the UN voting for a State of Israel and the miraculous victory of the Six-Day-War. Yet, we've seen terrorist bombings and failed peace treaties and Disengagements, that test our Emunah.\nDon't let our Emunah falter!!! Yeshuat Hashem Keheref 'Ayin - Hashem's salvation can come in the blink of an eye!\nDid the White Sox lose their Emunah? They nearly blew a 15-game lead in their division, and almost didn't make the playoffs at all. Then, it all turned around for them in a positive way. Also, look at the song they chose to symbolize their championship season: it's called \"Don't Stop Believin'\" by Journey.\nSo, even though our current situation as a Jewish nation more closely resembles the Cubs (who are still waiting and where the oft-quoted \"Wait till next year\" closely resembles \"Leshana Haba'a Birushalayim Habenuyah\"), the precedent is set by both the Red Sox and the White Sox that allows us to understand and feel what it means Lehahzir Ha'atarah LeYoshna - to return the crown to its glory of old.\nAs we said on Hoshana Rabba - Kol Mevaser Mevaser Ve'omer - the voice of the herald brings good tidings. We hope and pray that the day that we so desparately long for will come speedily in our days.\nLatest Kabbalist News\nDaniel, quoting the tsunami-predicting Kabbalist has some interesting new info.\nShema Yisrael on Hoshana Rabba\nReceived via email:\nThe following is a message from the \"Shema Yisrael Now\" committee, based in Chicago, regarding the 5th annual worldwide Shema Yisrael effort for Hoshana Rabba, scheduled for Sunday, October 23rd at 9 p.m.\nThe effort is coordinated by the Shema Yisrael Now committee, which seeks to raise awareness of the importance and protective power of the Shema Yisrael prayer.\nThe holiday \"Hoshana Rabba\", which is the seventh and final night of the holiday of Succot, is a final chance to overturn difficult heavenly decrees that might have been written on Rosh Hashana. As such, Hoshana Rabba is marked by intense prayer and repentance.\nReflect on the images of the past year where the power of our Creator was displayed clearly and undeniably. We saw the hurricane winds, powerful floods and incredible earthquakes and unbelievably Jews evicting Jews from our sacred land. which are at his disposal to send the message loud and clear. We have the opportunity on this significant date to state our firmest belief that He is the One and Only. With the opportunity to help avert decrees, please join with others to remove or soften the blow.\nThis year, Hoshana Rabba falls out on Sunday night, Oct. 23rd. On this day dedicated to prayer, there will be a special unified effort centering on our most basic and powerful prayer, and declaration of faith, the Shema Yisrael prayer. At 9 p.m.Oct. 23rd, Jews in many communities will stop what they are doing and say the Shema prayer-- the Jewish basic declaration of faith, in unity with Jews around the globe.\nThe basic Shema prayer that many will recite on the Hoshana Rabba night is comprised of six words:\nShema Yis-ra-el A-do-noi E-lo-hei-nu A-d-noi E-chad\nTranslation: Hear, Israel, Hashem is (now) our G-d, Hashem is the One and Only.\nThis is followed by the whispered recital of the following six words:\nBa-ruch Shem Kev-od Mal-chuso Le-Olam Va'ed\nTranslation: Blessed is the Name of His glorious kingdom for all eternity.\nThis refers to our silent aspiration that the entire world should soon recognize Hashem's glory.\nAll Jews are encouraged to join this special united effort by saying the Shema prayer at 9 p.m.Oct. 23rd, with their families or whomever they are with at the time.\nWe strongly encourage all Jewish people to say the Shema prayer every morning and evening, every single day, as a way to unite the Jewish people and help bring peace to our world.\nMore information on the Shema prayer and this effort can be found at www.skokiekollel.org\/shema\nposted by yaak @ 10\/23\/2005 11:56:00 AM 0 comments\nRav Kaduri Again!!!\nRav Kaduri (or the people speaking for him) came out with an amazing statement, although, like the last one, has yet to be independently verified as authentic. Nevertheless, it seems like things are happening.\nHere's the article in Hebrew from NFC. Here's R' Yaakov Nathan's translation.\nHere's the article from Arutz Sheva:\nLeading Kabbalist Urges Jews to Israel - More Disasters Coming\nMonday, October 17, 2005 \/ 14 Tishrei 5766\nOn Thursday night, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri said, \"Jews must come to the land of Israel to receive our righteous Mashiach (Messiah), who has begun his influence and will reveal himself in the future.\"\nIt was during the meal after the 24-hour Yom Kippur fast that several followers approached the 104-year-old leading known Kabbalist Rabbi in Israel. A family member asked him about his remarks last month regarding natural disasters in the world. The Rabbi said that the disasters are directly related to the redemption process, which will culminate in the coming of the Mashiach.\nThe Rabbi added that in the near future, another wave of natural disasters will strike the world.\nLast week before Yom Kippur, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri's grandson, Rabbi Yosef Kaduri had a private audience with the elder Rabbi, along with an Arutz-7 journalist who is closely linked to Kaduri's court. Rabbi Yosef Kaduri said to his grandfather, \"Not many Jews are coming from overseas. Why should they come?\" The Kabbalist answered, \"Because of impending danger.\" Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri then added a quote from Deuteronomy 4:15: \"Be extremely protective of your lives.\"\nAccording to Rabbi Yosef Kaduri and the Arutz-7 journalist, the Kabbalist elder referred to a known esoteric concept of a \"struggle between the oceans,\" and said that the large oceans [Haokeanus hagadol] would strike the world. Rabbi Yosef Kaduri said that grandfather's warning includes were Jews of the Americas.\nThe elder Rabbi Kaduri told the two that on Yom Kippur he would have more things to say.\nDuring the afternoon Mincha prayer on Yom Kippur, the Kabbalist scholar surprised his students and fellow worshippers with secrets relating to the coming of the Mashiach. During the service, Rabbi Kaduri lowered his head and entered a deep mystical concentration which lasted uninterrupted for some 45 minutes. The Rabbi covered his eyes as though reciting the Sh'ma prayer and only his lips were seen moving.\nStudents who thought the elderly Rabbi was suffering an attack of sort tried to communicate with him, but he did not break his intense concentration for a moment, even to nod.\nOnly after some 45 minutes, the Rabbi raised his head and looked around the room at the students and worshippers who were gathered at his Nachalat Yitzhak Yeshiva, in the Bucharim neighborhood of Jerusalem. With a broad smile on his face familiar to his students when he has a revelation, he declared, \"With the help of G-d, the soul of the Mashiach has attached itself to a person in Israel\" [In the original Hebrew: 'Hit'abra bezrat hashem nishmat mashiach b'adam m'yisrael'].\nAt the conclusion of his short declaration, murmuring was heard among the congregants as the Kabbalists' words were repeated for those who could not hear.\nRabbi Kaduri has spoken repeatedly about the Final Redemption and referred to the calculations of the Vilna Gaon regarding the redemption, which appear in the Gaon's writings and are considered difficult to decipher.\nAccording to the writings of the Vilna Gaon, a sign of the Gog and Magog war is its breaking out on the Jewish holiday of Hoshana Rabba (the 7th day of the Sukkot holiday), just after the conclusion of the 7th or shemittah [agricultural sabbatical] year.\nOn September 24, 2001, Channel One Israel TV broadcast an item on what Torah and other mystics were saying in the wake of the World Trade Center attack. Speaking from the room adjacent to where Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri receives visitors, Arutz Sheva Hebrew radio showhost Yehoshua Meiri, a close confident of the Kabbalist, explained to the cameras Rabbi Kaduri's understanding of the events based on the calculations of the Vilna Gaon: \"On Hashanah Rabba, the actual war of Gog and Magog will commence and will last for some seven years,\" said Meiri. [ Click here to view the Channel One clip in Hebrew and Rabbi Kaduri's prediction communicated by Meiri at the 1:40 minute mark.]\nPrecise to the minute, 13 days later on October 7th as the sun was setting and the Jewish holiday of Hoshana Rabba was ushered in, US and British forces began an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban forces and Al-Qaida. That year was the Hoshana Rabba just after the shemitta year of 5761.\nAccording to the calculation, a 7-year count from that Hoshana Rabba is the date of a major revelation associated with Mashiach. Those close to Rabbi Kaduri say in his name that the 5th year of this redemption process is now beginning.\nThey explain that the above-mentioned \"attaching\" of a righteous soul to a person of Israel makes the recipient a candidate for Mashiach, but not yet the actual Mashiach. This person gets an additional soul which finds expression in the adding of a letter to his name, without changing its pronunciation. The elder Rabbi Kaduri says that the letter added to this person's name is \"vav\" and the secret of his power is a Star of David hidden in his attire.\nBefore he reached the age of 13, the young Yitzhak Kaduri studied with the renowned Rabbi Yosef Chaim (the Ben Ish Chai) of Iraq. Rabbi Kaduri tells that the Ben Ish Chai blessed him that he would live to see the revelation of the Mashiach. The Ben Ish Chai passed away, and Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri immigrated to Israel soon after.\nWishing everyone a Happy Sukkot, and as we say:\n\u05d4\u05e8\u05d7\u05de\u05df \u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05d9\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd \u05dc\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d0\u05ea \u05e1\u05d5\u05db\u05ea \u05d3\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d4\u05e0\u05d5\u05e4\u05dc\u05ea\nLinks From 10 Days of Teshuva\nThis is a busy time of year for everyone. I don't have as much time as I used to to blog, but I'll pass along some links that I found interesting:\nBBC documentary: Bush inspired by G-d to attack Iraq. White House denies it. Original here\nJameel: US Jewry disengaged from the real Israel long ago\nR' Dov Bar Leib: New crown on Vav of Hashem's Name with hurricanes\nRav Batzri on this year\nAccording to this and this explanation, King David was annointed in the year 2883.\n5766 \u00f7 2 = 2883.\nIf there's anyone out there that I may have written against since the inception of this blog, I hereby beg forgiveness from you. I try not to do so too often, but a few may have slipped by. Please accept my apologies. If anyone requests a personal apology for something I wrote, please send me an email.\nI wish everyone a Gemar Hatima Tova. May we all be able to do Teshuva Shelaima so we can merit a Kappara this Yom HaKippurim, and merit the coming of Mashiah, speedily in our days. Amen.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeNewsAMCU starts recruiting at Amplats and Gold Fields\nNewsPlatinum Group MetalsPrecious MetalsSouthern AfricaTop Stories\nAMCU starts recruiting at Amplats and Gold Fields\nAnglo Platinum\n\u2013 Amandelbult\nNo.2 Shaft\nJohannesburg, South Africa \u2014 07 June 2012 \u2013 South Africa's radical Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has revealed that it is recruiting at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world's top producer of the precious metal \"' a move which could raise concerns among investors about a possible rise in unrest among the workforce.\n\"We are recruiting at Anglo Platinum \"' we have been invited by the workers,\" AMCU President Joseph Mathunjwa told a news briefing here. Reuters reports that the union has also started recruiting efforts at Gold Fields, the world's fourth-largest gold miner.\nMathunjwa denied allegations that the union was using violence and intimidation in its efforts to peel members away from the dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).\nAMCU has already been challenging the NUM at the Rustenburg operations of Impala Platinum, the world No. 2 platinum producer, in a struggle that has taken close to 130,000 ounces out of global production this year because of strikes and stoppages.\nThe union represents the biggest challenge ever to the NUM's dominance of South Africa's mining labour force. The platinum sector in particular is seen as ripe for recruitment because it does not bargain collectively but on a company-by-company basis.\nAMCU said it had over 15,000 members at Implats' Rustenburg operation, which would represent most of the company's unionised workforce there.\nImplats has said it was trying to verify the membership numbers presented to it by AMCU.\nBut AMCU said the verification process was supposed to have concluded on 25 May, and it had taken the issue the country's labour mediator.\nAMCU also has 3,800 members at the Karee mine operated by Lonmin, the world's No. 3 platinum producer.\nPrevious articleBarrick fires CEO Aaron Regent\nNext articleTanzania gemstone show a major success","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Showing Collections: 1\u201320 of 39\nNames: Yale University X\nStored offsite 22\nStored onsite and offsite 17\nAssociation of Yale Alumni (AYA) videorecordings\nCall Number: RU 386\nOverview: The material consists of a videotape documenting Yale's undergraduate colleges.\nClass of 1924, Yale College, Records\nOverview: The records consist of postcards, correspondence, and notes documenting the 25th reunion of the Yale College Class of 1924. Also included is a videotaped interview with Ray Daniels, a member of the class.\nOverview: The materials consist of videotaped interviews with members of the Yale College Class of 1958 and a speech by Donald M. Caruthers given at their 50th Class reunion.\nDates: circa 1992, 2008\nOverview: The materials consist of a videotape documenting the 25th reunion of the Yale College Class of 1959 and correspondence concerning Fernando Portunondo.\nCall Number: RU 1002\nOverview: The records consist of photographic slides used in the \"Class of 1963 40th Reunion Collage,\" as well as a copy of the final production on videotape (VHS). Also includes a DVD of \"In Our Own Words: Yale '63 at Fifty\", a film of interviews with members of the Class of 1963 at their 50th reunion. The material documents the members of the Yale College Class of 1963.\nDates: 2003 and 2013\nOverview: The records consist of videorecordings and a special issue of the Yale Daily News documenting the 25th reunion of the Yale College Class of 1968.\nOverview: The materials consist of a videotape documenting the 25th anniversary reunion of the Yale College Class of 1970.\nClass of 1996, School of Medicine, Yale University, records\nOverview: The materials consist of videotapes documenting the Second Year Show presented by the Yale School of Medicine Class of 1996.\nClass of 1998, School of Medicine, Yale University, videorecordings\nOverview: The materials consists of videotapes documenting the \"Second Year Show\" presented by the Yale School of Medicine Class of 1998.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures and audiorecordings documenting football\nOverview: The materials consist of 16mm motion picture films, videotapes, and audiocassettes documenting football at Yale. Included are game films for the varsity, freshman, and junior varsity teams, footage of scrimmages, season highlights, a multi-part history of Yale football, and several Yale football-related productions.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting baseball\nOverview: The materials consist of 16mm films produced by Ethan Allen Films on Sports [?] around 1960 in cooperation with the Yale University Athletic Association. The films, made for distribution to amatuer and professional teams, demonstrate baseball technique using Yale baseball players. Ethan Allen, Yale baseball coach from 1946 to 1968, narrates the films. Also included are videotapes of games and other team events.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting basketball\nOverview: The materials consist of motion picture films and videotapes documenting basketball at Yale.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting field hockey\nOverview: The materials consist of videotapes created by the Department of Athletics documenting women's field hockey at Yale.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting men's crew\nOverview: The records consist of 16 mm films and VHS videotapes documenting men's crew races and training at Yale.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting men's ice hockey\nOverview: The records consist of motion picture films and videotapes documenting men's ice hockey at Yale.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting soccer\nOverview: The materials consist of videotapes created by the Department of Athletics documenting soccer at Yale.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting swimming\nOverview: The rmaterials consist of videotapes created by the Department of Athletics documenting swimming at Yale.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting volleyball\nOverview: The materials consist of videotapes created by the Department of Athletics documenting volleyball at Yale.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, motion pictures documenting wrestling\nOverview: The records consist of videotapes created by the Department of Athletics documenting wrestling at Yale.\nDepartment of Athletics, Yale University, records documenting fencing\nOverview: The materials consist of correspondence, reports, scorecards, publications and a videotape documenting the1986 Yale versus Penn fencing match.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"United Way benefits from efforts by Madison City Schools\nWhat a difference a few days can make. From Sept. 24 through Oct. 5, school employees in Madison worked to raise almost $20,000 for United Way of Madison County.\nEmployees at the Central Office pose with their \"Live United\" T-shirts.\n\"We concluded our campaign by hosting 'Live United Day' in Madison City Schools on Oct. 5. Employees wore 'Live United' T-shirts,\" LaTisha King said. King serves as United Way coordinator for the school system and works as executive assistant to the superintendent and the Madison Board of Education.\n\"Employees in Madison City Schools donated more than $19,000 to United Way,\" King said.\nAt each building, a representative coordinates United Way activities on each Madison campus. The representatives at elementary schools are Stephanie Nguyen, Columbia; Diana Lipski, Heritage; Jennifer Burgreen, Rainbow; Clarissa Owen, Madison; Shemeaka King, Mill Creek; and Kari Sims, West Madison.\nAt the middle schools, Matthew Brewer is the representative for Discovery and Carmen Buchanan for Liberty. Nicole Coker handles this volunteer work at Bob Jones High School, and Sherri Shamwell coordinates the effort at James Clemens High School.\nLaTisha King and Phoebe Jackson spearhead the United Way effort at Central Office.\n\"For many millions of hard-working families, the basic ingredients for a good life are increasingly beyond reach. Almost one in four working parents doesn't earn enough to provide for their families,\" United Way President and Chief Executive Officer Brian A. Gallagher said.\n\"An alarming 25 percent of teenagers will not graduate on time, imperiling their chances to make a successful transition to adulthood,\" Gallagher said. \"More than 49 million Americans lack even basic health insurance.\"\nIn its goals, United Way is working to promote a movement for creating opportunities \"for everyone. We invite you to be a part of it. Visit www.liveunited.org to find out how you or your organization can make a difference,\" Gallagher said.\nTo donate to United Way, call 256-536-0745 or mail a check to United Way of Madison County, 701 Andrew Jackson Way, Huntsville, AL 35801.\nFor more information about United Way, call 256-536-0745 or visit uwhsv.org\/default.aspx?id=2.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"U2's Bono Better at Singing Than ISIS Expert\nPublished April 13, 2016 TerrorismFOXBusiness\nBono proposes comedy to fight ISIS\nFox News National Security Analyst KT McFarland discusses U2 singer Bono's suggestions for fighting ISIS.\nU2 frontman Bono suggested poverty was the reason for the creation of ISIS during a discussion on the Middle East and refugee crisis on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. During an interview with the FOX Business Network's Stuart Varney, Fox News National Security Analyst KT McFarland provided insight into his dialogue.\n\"I think musicians should not be giving me national security advice, they should stick to singing,\" said said.\nShe added, \"The president of Iraq, who's a Kurd, he told me that ISIS was born in the prisons of Bagdad. When it was the religious fanatics that were in jail coupled with and they hooked up with the generals of the Iraqis, Saddam's [Hussein] Iraqi army.\"\nShe then explained that a key point most people fail to realize is many terrorists come from wealthy families.\n\"It's the wealthy Islamic extremists who get the guys to strap on the suicide vest. They are the ringleaders \u2013 al Qaeda was wealthy families as well as a lot of the masterminds from ISIS are from upper-class backgrounds,\" she said.\nMore from FOXBusiness.com\nFormer TSA Admin Warns of Dangers From Airport Employees\nFmr. CIA director: Waterboarding may be useful in extreme circumstances\nMcFarland also commented on the Grammy winner's suggestion of using comedy to defeat ISIS.\n\"That may sound crazy but I think it gets to a bigger point which is information warfare. We have tried to deal with radical Islam militarily for way too long and militarily alone. I think we need a different policy that includes military but has an information warfare, it has ideological warfare, religious warfare and takes advantage of all the elements of national power the same way we defeated the Communists in the Cold War and the Nazis in World War II.\"\nBono Timeline | PrettyFamous","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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In the next tab of this article, Audun explains his split-level technique in more detail. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a Canon EF 11-24mm f\/4L USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nDuring the polar nights when the sun never rises, it is just 4\u00b0C in the tumultuous, frigid Norwegian Sea. The city of Troms\u00f8 is further north than many people ever venture \u2013 350km above the Arctic Circle. These are facts that don't deter Canon Ambassador Audun Rikardsen. In pursuit of photographs of Nordic wildlife as it has never been seen before, he uses his Canon bodies and trusted L-series lenses in punishing conditions: left for days, weeks and months in snow, sleet, hail and wind.\nAudun is from a small fishing community in Northern Norway called Steigen, and now lives in a small village at the coast outside Troms\u00f8, also known as the 'Gateway to the Arctic'. He's from a whaling family \u2013 a fact he says had the perhaps counterintuitive effect of teaching him to understand and respect natural life. Pairing a curious nature with a burning interest in wildlife, above and below sea level, he creates photographs that receive worldwide recognition for their creativity and technical acumen.\nDo you own Canon kit?\nRegister your kit to access free expert advice, equipment servicing, inspirational events and exclusive special offers with Canon Professional Services\nJOIN CPS NOW\nBut first and foremost, Audun is a scientist, working as a professor in biology at the University of Troms\u00f8. This is the driving force behind his photography \u2013 with a photograph, like no other medium, he can share his research with the world.\nSome of his photographic success can be attributed to his advanced understanding of animal behaviour and scientist's access, while some is down to sheer grit; Audun thrives on making the impossible possible. \"It's not luck,\" he says of his more remarkable work. Rather, his thirst for great photography is driven by constant dissatisfaction. Leaving his camera in mountain hides for months at a time to capture eagles at their resting places, submerging it in icy waters to photograph whales frolicking and placing it nose-to-lens with polar bears, he achieves captivating shots that educate the masses.\n\"Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be a fish, looking up at a predator?\" Audun asks. It's lines of inquiry such as this that have led to his more notable images. He often finds that the sights and perspectives he can't see with his own eyes, he can capture through a skilfully positioned lens.\nHere, he talks about the challenges of working in the Arctic, his go-to tools of the trade, and the secrets behind his success.\nAudun is interested in photographing the world from his subjects' perspective \u2013 here, picturing an eagle as a fish would see it, swooping overhead. Taken on a Canon EOS-1D X Mark II with a Canon EF 8-15mm f\/4L Fisheye USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nHow does photography help you as a scientist?\n\"I've realised that if I show my scientific results through a picture, it has a much bigger impact. In many situations, I also use my camera as a scientific tool. For example, I photograph whales to capture the fluke \u2013 the backside of the tail of the whale \u2013 which works as a fingerprint. Then we can compare that photograph with databases in other parts of the world, and in that way identify the migration of whales between those areas.\"\nAnd how does being a scientist help you as a photographer?\n\"As a scientist, you're focused on your goal. You plan and you try to get final results, and I do the same with my photography. As a scientist, you need to have a good idea to get funding. But as a photographer, you also need to have a good idea to show something different. And if you have an idea for a project, you plan it like a scientist.\n\"People will say, 'Audun, you have so much luck.' Well I don't. I think that if you are passionate, if you plan your work and you really want to reach a goal, eventually the luck will come. You can plan the luck.\"\nA frog sits in a pool under the Northern Lights. Taken on a Canon EOS 6D Mark II. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nYour work often shows animals from a unique perspective. What are you trying to achieve?\n\"It's about showing moments in nature that you rarely see. I know a lot of people complain that [some photography has become] unnatural, because you can capture things you wouldn't normally see. But for me, that's what I want to show \u2013 that moment with that animal in that situation. I like my photography to show an animal's natural habitat and what it's doing at close range, creating the feeling that you are in the situation, sitting there with the animal.\"\nYour pictures are so perfectly composed, sometimes it's hard to believe they're not composites.\n\"For me, when it comes to photography, the photo itself needs to be a single shot with no adjustment or additions \u2013 I want it to be totally natural. I plan photographs as a scientist. I often get an idea, write it down, and start thinking of the methods I can use to reach my goal to get that picture. I never stop. And if I fail, I try again \u2013 I get even more motivated to reach it. It's that moment when you understand what you have been looking for, for weeks or maybe years \u2013 that's the part that drives me both as a scientist and as a photographer.\"\nAudun's camera traps have captured eagles displaying unguarded natural behaviour. Taken on a Canon EOS 6D Mark II with a Canon EF 16-35mm f\/2.8L III USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nWhen you're photographing eagles' resting places, or shooting in the water at night, surely access and low light can be an issue?\n\"For me, the most important thing with my equipment is that I can use it in low light, and in extreme conditions. That means I need to have cameras with a good dynamic range and high ISO values without too much noise. I use the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, the Canon EOS 6D Mark II and the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II.\n\"Most people use big tele lenses when photographing animals. I do as well \u2013 I often use the Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II USM and Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM \u2013 but I also enjoy going in the opposite direction. With a wide-angle (such as the Canon EF 16-35mm f\/2.8L III USM) or even with a Macro lens (such as the Canon EF 100mm f\/2.8L Macro IS USM), if you get close enough, you can also see the environment where the animal lives, which gives the picture more of a story. It says more about the animal itself.\n\"In those situations, you need to know and look at the behaviour of the animal \u2013 if you are chasing, you will scare them. If you behave in a certain way and you give them time, they will often adjust to you, and at some point they will get interested and come to you. That's when you get the interesting shots.\"\nA sleepy polar bear is reflected in the waters off Svalbard, Norway. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nA humpback whale swimming in icy waters in Norway, its spray highlighted by the low winter light. Taken on a Canon EOS 6D Mark II with a Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nWhat are the most extreme things you put your equipment through?\n\"The type of photography I do is on the limits, in conditions that are quite harsh. The kit is splashed with salt water, it's taken out in freezing conditions and in the rain, and I sometimes drop it. Things happen so fast that I have to be able to throw my camera to the floor and grab another one at times, and I have to trust that the equipment can withstand it.\n\"When I'm at my hide, that's in an extreme place too \u2013 it's on the edge of a cliff next to the sea, so I need a camera that can sit up there in freezing conditions, and still work when I get there. Last night I placed my Canon EF 16-35mm f\/2.8L III USM lens in my eagle hide in the rain overnight. Normally I add a filter to the front to protect it from the rain, but I had noticed that the filter leaked, so I decided to take the chance and leave the lens outside without any protection. It was raining so heavily that it sounded like drums on the roof in my house, so I was really worried, but when I went out this morning to check, it was in perfect condition. That's what I love about Canon L-series lenses \u2013 they are so robust.\"\nReindeer appear stranded as they stand on rocky ground surrounded by cool water. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nWhy is that reliability so important?\n\"Sometimes you're looking for a certain situation, you're planning and you finally get there. You know that 'now is the time', it's happening, and then if your equipment doesn't work... that's harder to accept than if everything else worked and you messed it up yourself. Sometimes you won't get that chance again! That's why I use cameras that I know can cope with these conditions. The durability and reliability is very important to me.\"\nTell us about your self-built hide.\n\"Because I'm both a full-time scientist and a photographer, my challenge is time. And if I want to do photography, I need to combine it with science, and with my local interests. I've built a hide up in the mountains, about two kilometres from my home. When our daughter goes to bed, I go up there to arrange the hide, position the cameras, set up the sensors, and then the camera will take the picture for me.\n\"This hide was also intended as a kind of office where I can do both science and photography. And it's excellent because when I'm in my hide, I can focus on my work, with no distracting phone calls. And if an eagle comes, I can do photography as well. It took me three years to get the eagles to come, but now it seems like it's finally working.\"\nA lonely whale's tail disappears into the sea, captured by Canon Ambassador Audun Rikardsen as it's lit by soft rays of Arctic winter light. Taken on a Canon EOS-1D X Mark II with a Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nA sea eagle in front of Brennvik mountains in Steigen, Norway. This image, Eagle on the Hunt, was highly commended in the Birds category of the 2013 European Wildlife Photographer contest. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a Canon EF 24-70mm f\/2.8L II USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nWhat got you interested in ocean photography?\n\"I grew up in a coastal community close to nature, and I remember when I got my first diving mask from my parents. Above water, I could hear the sounds of the birds, the cars, people talking... And then I moved my head underwater and it was totally different. I could hear moving rocks, small voices, then total silence.\n\"The millimetres that divide those two worlds have always fascinated me. Birds dive down to catch fish, and whales come up from below to breathe. The lives of these creatures are connected by these millimetres of surface water.\"\nThis walrus in a snowstorm image is just one piece that shows the extreme conditions that Audun puts his Canon L-series lenses through. Taken on a Canon EOS-1D X Mark II with a Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nHow Audun Rikardsen gets his split-level ocean shots\nAudun explains the technique behind his split-level sea photographs, and recounts how a special friendship with a walrus got him an award-winning shot.\nTell us about your split-level picture of the orca whale and fishing boat.\n\"Well, the reason I built my own dome housing in the first place was that I had that picture in my head. I even made a drawing that looks almost exactly like the final picture. I had been observing these killer whales being attracted to fishing boats \u2013 you can see it all happening from above the surface, and if you dive, you can see it from below the surface. I wanted to take a picture that tells both stories, but there was no equipment on the market that could do that in low-light conditions. That's why I came up with the idea of making something. When I eventually got the chance and captured that picture, it was a huge adrenaline rush.\"\nDo you build your underwater housings by yourself?\n\"When I get these ideas of building things, I have friends helping me \u2013 engineers, usually. And I have some good friends at the University of Troms\u00f8 that help me in their spare time, building domes and creating the electronics that I need for remote controls, external batteries, and things like that. It's been critical for me, having friends with that expertise.\"\nDo you think it's important to focus on a species or a place?\n\"Yes, I try to specialise in my local environment. I don't travel much, and most of my photography is taken locally, within a few kilometres. I think that's a possibility that a lot of people have, even if you live in the middle of London or in the Sahara. There is always something that is special for your area. If you focus on that, you have the chance of being there at the right moment, taking a picture that is different from most others.\"\nMusk ox graze under a dramatic sky, captured using a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nThis picture by Audun, Humpback Under Full Moon, won second place in the Mammal category of the 2015 European Nature Photographer of the Year. Taken on a Canon EOS-1D X with a Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II USM lens. \u00a9 Audun Rikardsen\nWhat's your hit rate?\n\"The more you plan a photograph, the fewer photos you take, and the better they are. With good planning perhaps half the photographs are good. If it's less planned, you can take thousands of pictures, and there might be one that stands out if you're lucky.\"\nWhat does the future hold for you?\n\"I have to admit, it's quite hard to combine my science job, my photography and at the same time being a father and a family member. So that's my challenge \u2013 time. And that's something I constantly try to do better at. So for the future, I would like to continue my photography, but I also need to be a father. I'm seeking ways to combine this in an efficient way. Hopefully, I can get my daughter into photography as well. That would help a lot!\"\nNapisal Emma-Lily Pendleton & Kathrine Anker\nDelite\nAudun Rikardsen's kitbag\nThe key kit pros use to take their photographs\nA full-frame DSLR offering shallow depth-of-field and the ability to capture 6.5 frames per second, the camera's 26.2MP sensor shoots images packed with detail.\nOgled izdelka\nThis full-frame 30.4MP DSLR captures incredible detail, even in extreme contrast. Continuous 7fps shooting helps when chasing the perfect moment, while 4K video delivers ultra-high definition footage to the DCI standard (4096x2160).\nWith its high-sensitivity 20.2MP full-frame CMOS sensor, expanded 61-point Dual Pixel AF system and 4K video capture, the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II delivers class-leading performance.\nA workhorse telephoto zoom lens with a durable design, a four-stop Image Stabiliser that makes it ideal for shooting handheld in low-light conditions, and ultra-low dispersion lens elements to ensure high contrast and natural colours.\nCanon EF 16-35mm f\/2.8L III USM\nFeaturing superb image quality edge to edge, a robust build and impeccable weather sealing, this L-series ultra wide-angle zoom lens has a constant f\/2.8 maximum aperture for crisp results whatever the lighting conditions.\nThis professional-quality standard zoom lens offers outstanding image sharpness and a robust L-series build. Its constant f\/2.8 aperture enables you to take superb photos even in low light, and to control depth of field with ease.\nCanon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM\nThis versatile yet compact and portable super-telephoto zoom lens has a 4-stop Image Stabiliser and high-quality optics that deliver superb sharpness.\nA prime lens of the highest quality, with Image Stabilisation, macro capability up to life-size (1.0x) and the ability to achieve a shallow depth of field with beautiful bokeh.\nCrafting Canon lenses \u2013 10 things you need to know\nGo behind the scenes at Canon's Utsunomiya lens factory to see the engineering feats, innovation and craftsmanship that make L-series lenses so impressive.\nThe Canon L-series lens story\nFrom the first Canon lens to use fluorite in 1969 to the latest developments in lens technology, discover the fascinating history of the L-series lens family.\nChristian Ziegler on capturing the rare wild bonobo\nOn assignment for National Geographic, wildlife and conservation photographer Christian Ziegler was tasked with photographing bonobos in the wild. 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{"text":"Andrew Simone, PE Project Engineer in Philadelphia, PA\nMr. Andrew Simone is a Project Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the construction industry. He has worked as an engineer in the design, development, and delivery of an extensive range of buildings and structures in the commercial, residential, petrochemical, and industrial markets. Mr. Simone is a registered professional engineer whose expertise includes the design of reinforced concrete and steel structures, all stages of project development, and analysis for lateral force-resisting systems. He is well versed in a variety of..\nMr. Andrew Simone is a Project Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the construction industry. He has worked as an engineer in the design, development, and delivery of an extensive range of buildings and structures in the commercial, residential, petrochemical, and industrial markets. Mr. Simone is a registered professional engineer whose expertise includes the design of reinforced concrete and steel structures, all stages of project development, and analysis for lateral force-resisting systems. He is well versed in a variety of building codes and standards (IBC\/ASCE\/ACI\/AISC), and proficient in using structural analysis modeling software to create an assortment of spreadsheets and structural calculation programs. As a Project Engineer at Envista Forensics, Mr. Simone will leverage his many years of experience as a structural design engineer to provide expert forensic analysis following a wide variety of structural failures, damage assessment, and repair design.\nMr. Andrew Simone is a Project Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the construction industry. He has worked as an engineer in the design, development, and delivery of an extensive range of buildings and structures in the commercial, residential, petrochemical, and industrial markets. Mr. Simone is a registered professional engineer whose...\nCivil and Structural Failure Analysis\nConstruction Defects\/\u200bConstruction Accidents\nExterior Cladding Damage\/\u200bEvaluations\nFoundation Damage\/\u200bEvaluations\nGeotechnical\/\u200bSinkhole\/\u200bGroundwater Damage\/\u200bEvaluations\nIndustrial Refining\/\u200bStorage\/\u200bPipeline Damage\/\u200bEvaluations\nMulti-Story Construction - Steel\/\u200bConcrete\/\u200bWood\nStone\/\u200bMasonry Construction\nStructural Failure\nWater Damage\/\u200bEvaluation\nWind\/\u200bHail\/\u200bStorm Surge Damage\/\u200bEvaluations\nIntegrated Bachelor and Master of Architectural Engineering, B.A.E.\/M.A.E. (Structural)\nAndrew Simone, PE\nBerlin, NJ\nContact Andrew Simone\nDownload CV for Andrew Simone","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Technologies>Components\nTransitions Make Tomorrow Much Different From Today\nJoe Desposito | Jun 19, 2008\nWelcome to the latest edition of Electronic Design's Megatrends special issue. When our editorial staff sat down to decide its theme, we knocked around a few ideas before settling on transitions. We tried to envision what our world might look like several years from now in some key application areas due to the constantly evolving technologies in our industry. This issue is the result. Contributing editor Ron Schneiderman begins with the numbers behind some of these transitions. According to independent market research organizations and other sources, most market sectors will continue to grow over the next five to 10 years, especially those identified as Megatrends by our editors.\nIn \"Four-Wheeled Supercomputers,\" technology editor Bill Wong explains how low-cost, high-performance imaging and computational hardware are bringing vision to the forefront of automotive safety, as are improved algorithms and applications for image recogni tion and analysis. Eventually, he says, vision systems will be required by law, just like seatbelts and airbags.\nBill goes on to show how hardware, such as NEC's IMAPCAR processor, might accomplish this transition. The IMAPCAR's architecture is designed spe cifically for video-feedback applications in the automotive market, giving new meaning to the idea of another set of eyes.\nAutomobiles, which have always been self-contained, are also transitioning to a time when they might be networked with every other car on the road as well as with stationary computers to enhance driver\/passenger safety. Bill thinks this opens a can of legal and standardization worms, and the topic is ripe for debate. Might we someday see \"no fault\" laws for computers as well as drivers?\nIn security, people typically use a driver's license, passport, or other ID to prove who they are. Are we transitioning to a more ubiquitous use of biometrics, such as fingerprints, iris scans, and even vein patterns to verify identity? Contributing editor Roger Allan examines the latest techniques available and some of the technologies we might see in the future.\nAs you all know by now, a major transition is taking place in 2009 as analog broadcasts are being shut down in favor of digital transmissions. This shift has many implications for both the near future and several years out as digital TV and digital video come to the fore. Technology editor Dan Harris offers his take in \"Motion Blur Distorts Digital Video's Future.\"\nTHE ROBOT REVOLUTION\nSurgeons are no longer performing all of their operations by hand. In a growing number of cases, they're utilizing robotic assistance. Roger Allan sees advances in robotics enabling vast new surgical capabilities for just about every kind of ailment and injury. These breakthroughs are driven by improvements in sensing\u2014particularly haptic sensing, or the sense of touch\u2014 imaging, and robotic control, articulation, and dexterity.\nFor example, the Carnegie Mellon HeartLander is a miniature mobile robot that facilitates minimal invasive therapy right on the surface of a beating heart. Under physician control, the robot enters the chest through an incision below the sternum, adheres to the epicardial surface, autonomously navigates to the specified location, and administers treatment.\nContributing editor John Edwards looks at changes in the military. While today's footsoldiers go out on dangerous missions that could cost them life or limb, tomorrow's infantry will include robots that assist soldiers or autonomously take on the most dangerous jobs themselves. John describes some of these robots, many of which are modeled on animals for better movement and flexibility, in \"The Rats, Snakes, Insects, And Lobsters Of War.\"\nAnother transition heading our way is from the big screen to the small screen\u2014TV, that is. Today, we usually watch TV while sitting on a living room couch or a stool in a sports bar. But TV soon will be available on cell phones, PDAs, and anything else with a display, wherever you might happen to be\u2014on a train, bus, or just lounging in the park.\nIn \"Move Over, Couch\u2014The Cell Potato Is Here,\" technology editor Lou Frenzel explains that the physical implementation prob lem of mobile TV has been solved, but the biggest factor in its success will be content. Got any ideas for great shows on a 1- or 2-in. screen?\nThis is just a sampling of the articles we have put together for this year's Megatrends issue. We also tackle user input, disruptive technologies, personal robotics, and the evolution to a wireless future. We always welcome your input on anything we cover, so feel free to write to me directly or add your comments to the Web version of each article at electronicdesign.com.\nTAGS: Automotive\nTop Tips: Selecting Machined Pin Receptacles for Mission-Critical Functions\nTop Tips on Selecting Machined Pin Receptacles for Mission-Critical Functions\nBuilding Component Pride at 2019 IMS Exhibition\nSemiconductors Shine at 2019 IEEE IMS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Consumer behaviour Bingo Cards\nBingo Cards\nEpisodic memory\nAttitude change theory\nSocial schemata\nThe Behavioural approach\nBalance theory\nSocial judgment theory\nAttitude towards the object\nresource advantage theory\nPrint Word List\nCustomize this Bingo\nAdd your own answers, and fully customize\nPrint Cards\nSports and Entertainment Marketing Word Search\nANCILLARY PRODUCT\nCHANNEL OF DISTRIBUTION\nCONSUMER LOYALTY\nCORE PRODUCT\nCROSS-PROMOTION\nDISCRETIONARY INCOME\nKINETOSCOPE\nPRODUCT TIE-IN\nEntrepreneurship Word Search\nPro Forma\nSole Proprietor\nE commerce Crossword\nThe process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product in the consumers' mind, mainly through advertising campaigns with a consistent theme. Branding\nis a relatively new concept in marketing which is a virtual market place. Market space-\nA business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts. Business model\nthe state of being free from danger or threat Security\na monthly pay plan that you choose to pay Payment options\nalso known as e-biz, is the exchange of products, services or information (aka e-commerce) between businesses, rather than between businesses and consumers. B2b-\nis business or transactions conducted directly between a company and consumers who are the end-users of its products or services. B2c-\nThe activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale: e - Commerce\ncan comprise a range of functions and services, ranging from the development of intranets and extranets to e-service, the provision of services and tasks over the Internet by application service providers. E business\na private police force that guards a building, campus, park, etc. Security-\nMarketing Crossword Puzzle\nactivity that supports or provides active encouragement for the furtherance of a cause, venture, or aim. Promotion\nActivity that supports or provided active encouragement for the furtherance of a cause, venture, or aim. Promotional Mix\nwebsites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Social Media\nA press release, news release, media release, press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy News Release\nA pull strategy is where interest for a specific product or service is created within a target audience that then demands the product from channel partners. Pull Policy\nActions intended to convince individuals to purchase a good or service. Consumer Promotions\na thing that motivates or encourages one to do something. Incentives\na small open-fronted hut or cubicle from which newspapers, refreshments, tickets, etc., are sold. Kiosks\nIn marketing, promotion refers to any type of marketing communication used to inform or persuade target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or issue. Product Promotion\nthe activity or profession of producing advertisements for commercial products or services. Advertising\nSales promotion is one level or type of marketing aimed either at the consumer or at the distribution channel (in the form of sales-incentives). Sales Promotion\nthe notice or attention given to someone or something by the media Publicity\na voucher entitling the holder to a discount for a particular product. Coupons\npertaining to or designating a sale in which the buyer in order to get the item desired must also purchase one or more other, usually undesired, items Promotional Tie-Ins\nA marketing approach that demonstrates the goodwill of an organization or individual in order to boost its public relations appeal. Institutional Promotion\nthe business of selling products or services directly to the public, e.g., by mail order or telephone selling, rather than through retailers. Direct Marketing\nthe professional maintenance of a favorable public image by a company or other organization or a famous person. Public Relations\nA marketing policy aimed at distribution centers to encourage their promotion of a product or services to their customers. Push Policy\nmarketing activities that are executed in retail between these two partners. Trade Promotions\nan amount to be paid for an insurance policy. Premiums\na structured and long-term marketing effort which provides incentives to repeat customers who demonstrate loyal buying behavior. Loyalty Marketing Program\nfocuses on touting the benefits, ideas, or philosophies of your business, or its entire industry, to enhance or repair its reputation rather than selling a product or service. Institutional Advertising\ntreated as singular or plural Means of mass communication in the form of printed publications, such as newspapers and magazines. Print Media\nthe most expedient means to transmit information immediately to the widest possible audience Broadcast Media\na regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style. Blogs\nmethod of placing online advertisements on web pages that show results from search engine queries Banner and Search Engine Ads\nThe rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample. Frequency\nan activity or series of activities that boost the sales of a product or service, usually in the short-term. Promotional Advertising\nan Internet advertising term for a Web page ad that uses advanced technology Rich-Media\nMARKETING CROSSWORD\nA specific goal Direct Goal\nEvaluation of a sponsorship to determine \"if it would work\" Feasibility\nAn athlete which is monetarily paid for performance Professional\nAn athlete which is NOT monetarily paid Amatuer\nA relatively small market with specialized need Niche Market\nPromotional budgeting by \"what I can afford\" Arbitrary Allocation\nMarketing Principles used to market a team Marketing Of Sports\nTotal money from ticket sales for an event Gate Receipts\nSegmentation based on personal interest and activities Psychographics\nSegmentation based on area, region, or climate Geographics\nSegmentation based on Rate of use Behavioral\nSegmentation based on measurable statistics Demographics\nPromotional budgeting by \"follow the market leader\" Competitive Parity\nTransaction between a producer & consumer Exchanges\nA goal which can be \"felt\" but not directly measured. indirectgoal\nAn individual that supplies a product or service producers\nSimultaneous production & consumption of sports events at a venue Stadiumasaplace\nAn individual which uses a product or service consumer\nA sponsorship where only one partner is promoted or allowed promotional opportunities exclusivity\nIntermediary that markets talent and determines an athlete's worth in a market sportsagent\nUsing the appeal of an event to market a product borrowedequity\nAn individual that makes a purchase customer\nPromotional budgeting using a set percent of gross sales percentageofsales\nA drawback to sponsorship, where sponsors blend in with all of the other promotions delivered at an event clutter\nSeparating consumers into smaller groups segmentmarketing\nCompany which sells merchandise to the end user retailer\nMarketing item of value; such as a league, team, coach, or player sportsproperty\nDifference between production cost and retail price markup\na sponsored event ancillary event\nMarketing item of value; such as a league, team, coach, or player or company publicity\na product with more than one brand name on it cobranding\nA company with a license to reproduce an official brand mark licensee\nA company with a popular \"official\" logo liscensor\nroyalty payment is made to the legal owner of the property, patent, copyrighted work or franchise Royalty\nEconomic Unit 1 Crossword\nwhen something is both desirable and limited scarcity\nStudies the behavior of individuals within economy microeconomics\nDecides what is brought and sold based on what is trending Consumer\nA certain amount of product out of a given input output\nWhen an individual\/ country can produce at a lower opportunity cost than another comparative advantage\nA certain amount of input to get a given product input\nWhen an individual\/ country can produce more than another using the same amount of resources absolute advantage\nleast costly production techniques are used to produce wanted goods and services productive efficiency\nIllustrates the possible combinations of goods and services that can be produced by a single nation, firms, etc. ppf\nThe evaluation of an economy to determine if the system is meeting most if not all of our needs economic performance\nMade so that the marginal benefit is greater than the marginal cost Rational decision\nWhen firms buy productive resources from household resource markets\nMoving from a command economy to a free\/ mixed economy tradition\nBoth command and market; governments makes decision mixed economy\nIndividual producers and consumers determine what and how things are made market\nEconomics Chapter 2 Vocabulary Part 1 Crossword\noccurs when individual workers focus on single tasks, enabling each worker to become more efficient and productive specialization\nthe worker, firm, region, or country with the lowest opportunity cost of producing an output should specialize in that output law of comparative advantage\nthe ability to make something using fewer resources than other producers require absolute advantage\nthe laws, customs, manners, conventions, and other institutional underpinnings that encourage people to pursue productive activity rules of the game\nan expansion of the economy's production possibilities, or ability to produce economic growth\neach additional increment of one good requires the economy to give up successively larger increments of the other good law of increasing opportunity cost\nproducing the maximum possible output from available resources, meaning the economy cannot produce more of one good without producing less of the other good efficiency\nan economic system shaped largely by custom or religion production possibilities frontier- shows the possible combinations of two types of goods that can be produced when available resources are employed efficiently traditional economy\nan economic system in the process of shifting from central planning to competitive markets transitional economy\ndescribes the U.S. economic system, where markets play a relatively large role market economy\nan economic system that mixes central planning with competitive markets mixed economy\nan economic system in which all resources are government-owned and all production is directed by the central plans of government pure command economy\nan economic system with no government so that private firms account for all production pure market economy\nthe set of mechanisms and institutions that resolves the what, how, and for whom questions for an economy economic system\nthe doctrine that states that government generally should not intervene in the marketplace \"let them do as they please\" laissez faire\nproperty owned by individuals or companies, not by the government or the people as a whole private property\nan economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control; and determined in a free market free enterprise\nto sell state-run firms to idividuals privatize\nlarge farm leased from the state to groups of peasant farmers collective\nrequiring strict obedience to an authority, such as a dictator authoritarian\na political system characterized by a centrally planned economy with all economic and political power resting in the hands of the central government communism\na social and political philosophy based on the belief that democratic means should be used to evenly distribute wealth throughout a society socialism\nthe powers of the consumers to decide what gets produced consumer sovereignty\nterm economists use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace invisible hand\nthe struggle among producers for the dollars of consumers competition\nan expectation that encourages people to behave in a certain way incentive\nEarly Childhood Cognitive Development Crossword\nIncreases the likelihood of a behavior occurring Reinforcement\nmental representations of the world around them schemas\nPiaget's first developmental stage sensorimotor\nConscious, rational part of personality Ego\nUnconscious, source of biological needs\/desires ID\nThe conscience Superego\ndirectly processing information that a child knows Assimilation\nchanging what one knows to fit the new information Accommodation\nChild starts to think in symbols Preoperational\nChild starts to think logically Concrete\nreinforcers and punishments operant\nstimulus, response classical\ndecreases the likelihood of a behavior to occur punishment\nBandura's Social Learning Theory modeling\nconsists of activities and interactions in the immediate environment Microsystem\nIntroduction to Business Word Search\nmixed economy\ncommand economy\nmarket economy\ncapital resources\nSocial Media Terms Crossword\n\"ask me anything,\" which originated in a popular subreddit where users will use the term to prompt questions from other users. AMA\nan image or username that represents a person online, most often within forums and social networks. Avatar\na free URL shortening service that provides statistics for the links users share online. Popularly used to condense long URLs to make them easier to share on social networks such as Twitter. Bitly\non social media refers to a short bit of explainer text that explains who the user is. Bio\ncreated from two words: \"web log.\" Usually maintained by an individual or a business with regular entries of content on a specific topic, descriptions of events, or other resources such as graphics or video. Can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to one. Blog\nmarking something you found important, enjoyed, or want to continue reading later. The only difference online is that it's happening through websites using one of the various services available, such as Pocket, or right within your browser. Bookmarking\nany kind of communication over the internet but traditionally refers to one to one communication through a text-based chat application, commonly referred to as instant messaging (IM) applications. Chat\nclusters of a user's friends, colleagues, family, or connections on Google+. You get to choose who goes in which, and when you want to share content with only these individuals, you include that specific ____ in your post's sharing options. Circles\nmarketing or advertising material that employs a sensationalized headline to attract clicks. They rely heavily on the \"curiosity gap\" by creating just enough interest to provoke engagement. Clickbait\na response that is often provided as an answer or reaction to a blog post or message on a social network. Comment\nThe LinkedIn equivalent of a Facebook 'friend'. Because LinkedIn is a social networking site, the people you are connecting with are not necessarily people you are friends with, but rather professional contacts that you've met, heard speak, done business with, or know through another member. Connections\na popular online commerce site in which users sell a variety of goods and services to other users. The service has been credited for causing the reduction of classified advertising in newspapers across the United States. Craigslist\na nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. It provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. Creative Commons\nthe act of soliciting ideas or content from a group of people, typically in an online setting. Crowdsourcing\nprivate conversations that occur on Twitter. Both parties must be following one another to send a message. DirectMessage\nan electronic version of a book Ebook\nRefers to an instance in which another LinkedIn user recognizes you for one of the skills you have listed on your profile. Endorsement\npopular social media metric used to describe the amount of interaction - likes, shares, comments a piece of content receives. EngagementRate\nsocial media platform founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. The site connects people with friends, family, acquaintances, and businesses from all over the world and enables them to post, share, and engage with a variety of content such as photos and status updates. Facebook\nRepresented by the small star icon on Twitter, the action signals to the creator that you liked their content or post. Favorite\na social network for online picture sharing. The service allows users to store photos online and then share them with others through profiles, groups, sets, and other methods. Flickr\nAlso known as a message board, it is an online discussion site. It originated as the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dial- up bulletin board system. Forums\nIn a social media setting, a person who subscribes to your account in order to receive your updates. Follower\nthe term used on Facebook to represent the connections you make and the people you follow. These are individuals you consider to be friendly enough with you to see your Facebook profile and engage with you. Friends\nthe directional coordinates that can be attached to a piece of content online. For example, Instagram users often use it to highlight the location in which their photo was taken. Geotag\nacronym for Graphics Interchange Format. In social media, small- scale animations and film clips. GIF\na free web browser produced by Google that fully integrates with its online search system as well as its other applications. Chrome\na group of web-based office applications that includes tools for word processing, presentations, spreadsheet analysis, etc. All documents are stored and edited online and allow multiple people to collaborate on a document in real time GoogleDocuments\nGoogle's social network. It serves as a platform for users to connect with friends, family, and professionals while enabling them to share photos, send messages, and engage with content. Google uses the \"+1\" to serve as the equivalent to a Like on Facebook or Instagram. Google+\nsomeone's @username on Twitter. Handle\nthe large photo displayed at the top of your profile on Header\nvideo service on Google+ that allows you to video chat with up to 10 Google+ users are a time. You can name these chats, watch YouTube videos during them, open a Google Doc with colleagues, and much more. Hangout\ntag used on a variety of social networks as a way to annotate a message. Word or phrase used to categorize information and make it easily searchable for users. Hashtag\na photo sharing application that lets users take photos, apply filters to their images, and share the photos instantly on the Instagram network and other social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Foursquare. The app is targeted toward mobile social sharing, and has gained more than 300 million users. Instagram\nform of real- time, direct text- based communication between two or more people. More advanced instant messaging software clients also allow enhanced modes of communication, such as live voice or video calling. InstantMessaging\non Facebook or Instagram, instead of writing a comment or sharing a post, a user can click the button as a quick way to show approval. Like\nBusiness oriented social networking site with over 380 million members in over 200 countries and territories. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. LinkedIn\nthe act of delivering content over the internet in real- time. This term was popularized in social media by apps such as Meerkat and Periscope. Livestreaming\na person who reads discussions on a message board, newsgroup, social network, or other interactive system, but rarely or never participates in the discussion. Lurker\nContent that contains multiple types of media drawn from pre-existing sources to create a new work. Mashup\na thought, idea, joke, or concept that's widely shared online. It is typically an image with text above and below it, but can also come in video and link form. Meme\nTwitter term used to describe an instance in which a user includes someone else's @username in their tweet to attribute a piece of content or start a discussion. Mention\na type of online advertising in which the ad copy and format adheres to the format of a regular post on the network it's being published on. The purpose is to make ads feel less like ads, and more like part of the conversation. NativeAdvertising\nOn Facebook, the homepage of users' accounts where they can see all the latest updates from their friends. Called Timeline on Twitter. News Feed\nthe practice of capitalizing on the popularity of a news story to amplify your sales and marketing success. Newsjacking\nsocial online radio station that allows users to create stations based on their favorite artists and types of music. Pandora\nsocial video app that allows users to broadcast live video from wherever they are. App users also have the ability to engage with others videos, browse live or recent broadcasts, and follow users to receive notifications. Periscope\nan address or URL of a particular post within a blog or website that remains indefinitely unchanged. Permalink\na photo sharing social network that provides users with a platform for uploading, saving, and categorizing \"pins\" through collections called \"boards.\" Boards are typically organized by theme, such as: Food & Drink, Women's Fashion, Gardening, etc. Users have the ability to \"pin\" and \"repin\" content that they like to their respective boards. Pinterest\na series of digital media files, usually audio, that are released episodically and often downloaded through an RSS feed. Podcast\nacronym for pay per click- an online advertising model in which advertisers display ads on various websites or search engines and pay when a visitor clicks through. Bid- based PPC involves an auction in which advertisers compete with other advertisers by setting the max bid or highest amount they're willing to pay for each click. Each time a visitor triggers the ad spot, the auction process pans out to select which ad will be displayed. 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{"text":"Dubai government forms new content creation and publishing councils\nElise Kerr\nThe new councils aim to develop and modernise Dubai's media sector\u2026\nHH Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Media Council, has announced that in line with HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai's vision to develop and modernise Dubai's media sector, two new councils have been formed.\nThese formation of the Media Advisory Councils include the Content Creation Advisory Council and a Publishing Advisory Council; both in affiliation with the Dubai Media Council.\nBoth councils are formed of nine people, headed up by a chairman. Each of the teams have a selection of tasks to carry out in order to achieve HH Sheikh Mohammed's vision, as instructed by HH Sheikh Ahmed.\nI personally follow up on the outcomes and recommendations of the task forces. I am confident that their efforts will culminate in a comprehensive plan that will contribute to developing the media sector, and attract local talents capable of making a difference.\n\u2014 Ahmed bin Mohammed (@AhmedMohammed) August 28, 2022\nAnnouncing the council formation on Twitter, HH Sheikh Ahmed said: \"In line with the vision of HH Sheikh Mohammed to develop and modernise Dubai's media sector, we approved the formation of Advisory Media Councils to enhance the development process through recommendations and ideas. I personally follow up on the outcomes and recommendations of the task forces. I am confident that their efforts will culminate in a comprehensive plan that will contribute to developing the media sector, and attract local talents capable of making a difference.\"\nThese tasks include proposing suggestions and recommendations related to the creation or publishing of media content, serve as an advisory body on policies and work processes, submit recommendations and policies for approval, propose plans and initiatives to boost Emiratisation and attract and retain talent in the content creation or publishing sector, implement international and regional best practices, and meet periodically to submit reports and make recommendations.\n> Sign up for FREE to get exclusive updates that you are interested in\nHere's the full list of UAE public holidays in 2023\n23 incredible things to look forward to in the UAE in 2023\nHidden gems: 10 UAE desert pop-ups to discover this winter\nWhere to travel in 2023: 10 new flight routes from the UAE\nPics of the week: Your best photos of the UAE\nDhow & Anchor has got you covered every day of the week\nRTA: All the road closures you need to be aware about\nReview: The Nice Guy Dubai\nMasha and the Bear is coming to Abu Dhabi this April\nYOU SHOULD CHECK OUT","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeTruck and Bus NewsGo Getta publishes ebook on how to start a trucking company\nGo Getta publishes ebook on how to start a trucking company\nOctober 28, 2015 Jon Thomson Truck and Bus News\nLeading industry analyst IBISWorld has forecast a major skills shortage in the next five years in the road freight industry with the current workforce ageing and the sector struggling to attract new employees. The analysis reports that through this there is let up in demand as the industry grows steadily with the improving economy.\nThe shortage of skilled operators in the transport industry and a demand for new operators has led equipment finance company GoGetta Equipment Funding to publish an ebook which outlines was to establish a freight transport operation.\nGoGetta reckons it has put the ebook together with the aim of encouraging primarily young, potential owner-drivers primarily or anyone looking to get into the industry.\nThe ebook, entitled 'Starting an owner\u2013driver trucking business' sets out the basics and offers advice on how to get started in the business that will equip operators as their company becomes established and grows.\nTransport and logistics specialist and Partner at Ferrier Hodgson, Brendan Richards said the road freight sector has been staring down the barrel of a skills shortage for a long time, and added that there is nothing to suggest that this will change anytime soon.\n\"There probably hasn't been a better time to look to capitalise on opportunities emerging in the road freight sector,\" said Brendan Richards.\n\"For new market entrants with the capacity to capitalise on new technology to drive their referrals and bookings, there is enormous scope to take on the established players,\" Mr Richards said.\nLeader of business sales for GoGetta Equipment Funding, Caleb Gunn said the company's trucking sector is forecast to increase 40 per cent this financial year and that is partly why the company has published the ebook.\n\"We have noticed a trend that we are actually funding younger people who are new to the transport industry as opposed to the traditionally aging population,\" Gunn added.\nMr Gunn recommends anyone considering entering the transport industry considers second hand equipment and familiarising themselves with the six important steps of setting up and running a trucking business, which are outlined in the company's start ebook.\n\"It's important for start-up owner drivers not to tie up cash flow or overspend because they need to be able to competitively tender to ensure the longevity of their business,\" Mr Gunn said.\nDENNIS TO GIVE PENSKE COMMERCIAL MORE MENACE!\nJune 20, 2016 Jon Thomson Truck and Bus News\nThe underwhelming sales performance of both MAN and Western Star in Australia, since the Penske organisation took over previous distributor Trans Pacific, has seen a management shake up at the company's Brisbane headquarters with Kevin [\u2026]\nPENSKE SAYS WE CAN DO BETTER IN AUSTRALIA\nRoger Penske says his Australian operation has work to do to ensure it performs as well as it should in the Australian market. Speaking to Truck and Bus News during his first ever visit to [\u2026]\nTRUCKSAFE SHORTLISTED FOR EXCELLENCE AWARD\nNovember 21, 2016 Jon Thomson Truck and Bus News\nThe Australian Trucking Association's accreditation program, TruckSafe has been shortlisted for an Excellence in Professional Development award in the annual Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport honours night. More than 820 businesses have adopted the [\u2026]\nVALE \u2013 JIM PEARSON SENIOR.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Armani Celebrates 40 Years With #ATribute Tribute\nGiorgio Armani celebrates 40 years of excellence in the fashion industry with the '#ATribute' project that launched via the brand's website on Monday 16th of March and will continue to showcase its rich history for 40 weeks to follow.\nThe tribute; #ATribute \u2013 which is meant to be a play on words as well as a hashtag, is dedicated to the brand and its close connections with themes and people throughout the decades. It will showcase the Armani brand and its rich history within the fashion industry, revealing 40 different themes (one for each week) for each of the 40 years that Giorgio Armani, the brand, has not only existed but thrived throughout.\nThe themes will shine a light on the rich history of Armani as well as the consistency, timelessness and vision that Giorgio Armani himself has guided the company through since its inception and to which he continues to do so today.\nThe brand's website will showcase the celebration, along with their social media channels as new content will be accompanied by the hashtag #ATribute \u2013 ultimately giving users and friends the opportunity to become directly involved too.\nA wonderful, interactive and collective look at Giorgio Armani's history \u2013 one that I am absolutely loving, and you will too!\nTags: armani\nThe Fashion Catalyst March 23, 2015","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Philippines: BSP ready for preemptive action to tame inflation risks \u2014 Diokno\nCentennial Asia > The Asian Pulse > Daily News > The Philippines: BSP ready for preemptive action to tame inflation risks \u2014 Diokno\nTHE PHILIPPINE central bank is ready to take preemptive action if inflation expectations are at risk of being \"disanchored,\" its governor said.\n\"We are prepared to take preemptive action as needed if inflation expectations become at risk or disanchored,\" Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said.\nHe said they continue to be patient and will consider a rate hike adjustment by 2H22. Mr. Diokno said Mar 22 consumer price index (CPI) data suggest that inflation will likely be elevated in the coming months.\nInflation jumped to 4% in Mar 22, near the upper end of the BSP's projected range of 3.3-4.1% for the month and still within the 2-4% target band for the year.\n\"This means that the BSP must be prepared to take action to prevent price pressures from broadening and becoming more entrenched which could translate to second-round effects,\" Mr. Diokno said.\n\"Now, on the timing of the disengagement strategy, I think we are still on track despite the Russia-Ukraine crisis. We're still looking at 2H22 for our normalization [of rates] strategy,\" he said.\nThe Monetary Board will have its next policy review on 19 May 22. Its first policy-setting meeting in 2H22 is on 23 Jun 22. Meanwhile, Mr. Diokno said they have extended another PHP300bn zero-interest loan to the National Government.\n\"They recently renewed it and it will be paid by 12 Jun 22. So, by the time the new administration takes over, there will be no more advances from the central bank,\" he said.\nA decision on future direct advances will be made by the next administration. This is the sixth time the BSP extended direct advances to the National Government since the pandemic.\nIt is lower than the PHP540bn which was extended thrice in 2021, reflecting the gradual withdrawal of the BSP's budgetary support to the National Government.\nMr. Diokno also said they have significantly reduced their purchase of government securities.\n\"It's been declining significantly. Right now, we almost don't trade anymore. There are days when we don't buy it,\" he told reporters in mixed Filipino and English.\nExternal Link : https:\/\/www.bworldonline.com\/bsp-ready-for-preemptive-action-to-tame-inflation-risks-diokno\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Visit CEI Products & Compliance\nApproach & Services\nProject Case Studies\nEMI Explained\nAC EMI Explained\nDC EMI Explained\nRF & RFI Explained\nDC (GEO-MAGNETIC, QUASI-DC) INTERFERENCE\nDC refers to a static, non-varying field (0 Hz). Exceedingly low frequency fields, typically between 0 Hz and 10 Hz are referred to as ?quasi static? or ?Quasi-DC? or ?Near-DC? fields.\nDC FIELDS\nThe most common natural source of DC fields is the Earth?s magnetic field. Sometimes referred to as the geomagnetic field, this field provides a compass with the ability to indicate the direction of magnetic North.\nThe ?field strength? of the Earth?s magnetic field is approximately 49 ?T in central Europe. Magnetic fields, including the Earth?s prefer to accumulate in ferromagnetic materials (iron, nickel or steel) rather than air. Air has a permeability of 1, while steel has a permeability of approximately 300. High-permeable metals, like mu-metal, can have permeability in the hundreds of thousands. DC magnetic lines of flux (from the Earth) will accumulate inside and near ferromagnetic materials (the steel structure of a building) and field levels in the vicinity will be elevated.\nThe phenomenon of elevated DC fields in structural steel can be man-made: DC welding cables can magnetize structural steel during construction, and MRIs (a source of powerful DC fields, can permanently magnetize steel in the immediate vicinity and, if physically connected, at considerable distances from the magnet. Areas of a building with magnetized steel can have DC magnetic field levels in the range of 200 ?T or more. As we move away from the steel structure, the field levels will decline.\nDirect Current (DC) from DC source (the traction power of a railway or DC powerline) will also create a DC magnetic field. However, to the extent that the demand (load) on a DC electrical circuit will vary with time, so too will the frequency of the ?Quasi-DC? field which it produces.\nGenerally, DC magnetic fields do not present an EMI threat to most electronic equipment such as office and household electronics, although in certain circumstances the ambient DC field can exceed the tolerances of sensitive instruments whose accuracy is in part based on the assumption of a stable, uniform DC field environment. And, although the earth?s magnetic field is relatively stable, there are inherent variations in both the field direction and strength that occur over time. These temporal instabilities in the earth?s magnetic field can be a source of DC interference for long-term operations, like E-Beam lithographic systems and certain electron microscope operations.\nMore commonly problematic are the Quasi-DC fields, which are produced by either a change in DC current (above) or by the relative movement of a ferromagnetic mass through the Earth?s DC field (below).\nQUASI-DC FIELDS\nQuasi-DC Field Interference can disrupt the proper functioning of sensitive laboratory equipment and is a growing problem for two reasons. First, research, medical and laboratory instruments are not only proliferating, they are becoming more and more sensitive and therefore more vulnerable to EMI. Many instruments must be shielded from changes in the Earth?s magnetic field.\nSecond, two sources of Quasi-DC fields are growing. The first is medical and research instruments themselves; MRI?s and NMR?s emit extremely high, and occasionally ramping, DC fields, creating Quasi-DC fields.\nIn addition, research campuses are being built in urban areas, near public transportation. Heavy rail, light rail, buses and other large ferromagnetic bodies create quasi-DC fields which can disrupt sensitive instruments at surprisingly long distances.\nThis urban\/internal source of DC field interference is of growing importance: the movement of large ferromagnetic bodies through the Earth?s magnetic field produces a momentary shift or perturbation in the geomagnetic field with a consequent ?Quasi? or ?slowly-varying? DC field. Trucks and trains outside the building add to changes caused by the movement of elevators. When the vehicles are powered by DC current (busses, trollies, rail), the changes in the current load add to the perturbation AND substantially increase the affected area. This is particularly troublesome in urban areas with subways and light rail systems.\nAs an offset to these risks, a careful analysis of present and future DC field conditions, during the early design stage should be performed so that (where necessary) mitigation\/shielding strategies can be designed and implemented during construction to ensure each instrument?s performance at the lowest possible cost.\nagsdi-layers\nCompliance Engineering International is focused on providing value led engineering services across Europe. For almost twenty years we have been building our reputation as leaders in EMI mitigation and shielding services, focusing on projects in the science, research and healthcare, energy, commercial, education, transportation and government sectors.\nCompliance Engineering International\nClonross, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath,\nA85 XN59, Ireland\ninfo@cei-compliance.com\ntraining@cei-compliance.com\nRegistration Number: 270151 Copyright 2022 cei-compliance.com | All Rights Reserved | Avalon for Web","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"logun.it\nFacebook's Portal video device launches amid privacy ...\nFacebook's new video chat device Portal Plus made its debut on Monday. James Martin\/CNET In a suite at San Francisco's Four Seasons hotel, Rafa Camargo, a vice president at Facebook's secretive ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-unveils-new-portal-video-chat-devices-for-the-smart-home\/\nFacebook's Portal video device launches amid privacy ... - Siti Web di accesso\nstatus:Attivo\nFacebook Portal is an excellent video chat device ... - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/reviews\/facebook-portal-plus-review\/\nFacebook Portal review: Facebook Portal is an excellent video chat device held back by Facebook's trust problems. Amazon Echo Show 8. Ikea Symfonisk Bookshelf WiFi Speaker. The Good The cameras in ...\nFacebook Portal: Your privacy questions answered - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-portal-will-the-video-chat-device-spy-on-you\/\nFacebook on Wednesday shared more details about the privacy and security safeguards the tech firm put in place. Still, it'll be up to consumers to decide if that's enough to trust the social ...\nFacebook's video calling Portal devices add WhatsApp login, new ...\nhttps:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/12\/10\/facebooks-video-calling-portal-devices-add-whatsapp-login-new-features-and-content\/\n10 Dec 2019 ... This feature allows Portal owners to sign in to the device using only their WhatsApp account. They don't even need a Facebook account at all.\nFacebook Portal brings Alexa and Messenger video ... - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/reviews\/facebook-portal-plus-preview\/\nThe Portal Plus is dominated by a 15.6-inch screen. James Martin\/CNET According to Facebook, people spend 1.5 billion minutes on video calls every day.To improve that experience, the social media ...\nRackspace launches cloud app partner portal - TechRepublic\nhttps:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/the-enterprise-cloud\/rackspace-launches-cloud-app-partner-portal\/\nRackspace has 15 partners participating in the effort including RightScale, Cyberduck, Cloudkick, Sonian and others. Rackspace divides contributors into strategic partners and the community, an ...\nFacebook Outlines Evolving Privacy Tools on Data Privacy Day ...\nhttps:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/facebook-outlines-evolving-privacy-tools-on-data-privacy-day\/571246\/\n29 Jan 2020 ... This makes it even easier to adjust who can see your posts and profile information, strengthen your account security by turning on login alerts, ...\nAdd Prime Video to your favorite device - Amazon.com\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/splash\/device_linking?tag=askcomdelta-20\nOpen the Prime Video app. 3. Register your device\u2014here are two ways: (1) Select \"Sign in and start watching\" and enter your Amazon account information.\nIcatch(IV) Video Camera Device - Free download and ...\nhttps:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Icatch-IV-Video-Camera-Device\/3000-18489_4-68970.html\n1 stars { review.getRatingValue }} \"Never could get to the software\" \"Never could get to the software\" aggiefixer October 06, 2010 \/ Version: Icatch(IV) Video Camera Device 2.1.9.9\nVimeo launches 360-degree video, giving VR ways to make ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/vimeo-vr-360-degree-video-youtube-sales-rentals\/\nVimeo launches 360-degree video, giving VR ways to make money. Vimeo trails bigger rival YouTube in supporting the 360-degree uploads watchable on virtual-reality headsets, but it is offering ...\nSkype launches 50-person video call feature - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/skype-launches-50-person-video-call-feature\/\nSkype launches 50-person video call feature. The video chat app can now handle your business meeting or a massive digital family reunion. Shelby Brown. April 5, 2019 10:57 a.m. PT.\nPrivacy Policy - AREU Portal\nhttp:\/\/www.areu.org.sg\/wps\/portal\/areu\/home\/privacypolicy\nWe may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. ... provide us with feedback using the site's web feedback form, you will be asked for your name, e-mail address ...\nFacebook Launches 0.facebook.com, A Mobile Site That Incurs Zero ...\nhttps:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/18\/facebook-launches-0-facebook-com-a-mobile-site-that-incurs-zero-data-fees\/\n18 May 2010 ... Facebook just got a lot more accessible to international users. The social network has launched 0.facebook.com, a special mobile-only site that ...\nFacebook Portal review: Facebook Portal is an ... - CNET\nFacebook Messenger launches a new desktop app so you can ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-messenger-launches-a-new-desktop-app-so-you-can-video-chat-on-a-bigger-screen\/\nFacebook Messenger launches a new desktop app so you can video chat on a bigger screen. The social network says more people are using their desktop browser for audio and video calling on Messenger.\nFacebook launches playable ads to get you ... - CNET Download\nhttps:\/\/download.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-launches-playable-ads-to-get-you-one-step-closer-to-installing-a-mobile-app\/\nFacebook announced today that its adding a feature called \"playable ads\" to its mobile app, which will download the demo version of a game to your phone or tablet and let you get a taste of the ...\nDragon Age Legends launches on Facebook - GameSpot\nhttps:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/dragon-age-legends-launches-on-facebook\/1100-6304176\/\nDragon Age Legends launches on Facebook BioWare and EA open up free-to-play browser-based game to all members of social networking site, offer Dragon Age II in-game items for completing quests.\nSign In \u00b7 WatchGuard Video Customer Portal\nhttps:\/\/cs.watchguardvideo.com\/login\/?returnurl=%2F\nSign in with a local account. Username. Password. Remember me? Forgot Your Password? Remote Access. In some cases, remote access may be necessary.\nFacebook launches gaming app to challenge Twitch, YouTube ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-launches-gaming-app-to-challenge-twitch-youtube\/\nFacebook's push is a testament to the popularity of esports, in which the top gamers around the world battle each other in a wide range of games over the internet. Esports was worth more than $1 ...\nFacebook launches Tuned, a messaging app for couples - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-launches-tuned-a-messaging-app-for-couples\/\nFacebook has released a new app for couples to share a private space online, \"even when you're apart.\" Tuned allows couples to share photos, notes, cards, voice memos, music from Spotify and even ...\nFacebook's New Privacy Bust: Users Log In but They Can't ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/facebooks-new-privacy-bust-users-log-in-but-they-cant-log-out-update\/\nWhen users log out, Facebook still leaves cookies intact that identify users as particular members, even though the site may say that you have logged out. Effectively, you don't get to log out.\nHow to control your Facebook privacy - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/how-to\/how-to-control-your-facebook-privacy\/\nHow to control your Facebook privacy. The social network has changed a key setting to ensure your updates aren't shared with the wrong people. What else can Facebook users do?\nPrivacy e Facebook: come blindare il profilo personale\nhttps:\/\/www.posizionamento-seo.com\/senza-categoria\/privacy-facebook-blindare-profilo-personale\/\nImpariamo a modificare la privacy su Facebook per nascondere i dati ... avere un account su Facebook anche solo per poter utilizzare il servizio di Messanger ... pubblicano le foto dei propri piccoli in spiaggia o durante la ginnastica (fonte una ... persone a cui si d\u00e0 il riferimento diretto \u00e8 quello di modificare il proprio nome ...\nUltimate Guide to Facebook Privacy and Security\nhttps:\/\/download.cnet.com\/guides\/facebook\/\nFacebook is one of the most popular social media platforms, boasting 1.7 billion monthly active users. Launched in 2004 as an online social network for college students, the Facebook app is ...\nPrivacy Policy for Login with Facebook - TermsFeed\nhttps:\/\/www.termsfeed.com\/blog\/privacy-policy-login-facebook\/\n25 Jun 2019 ... This means you must let users know what data you are collecting when a user chooses to log into your website or mobile app via the Facebook ...\nFacebook emails show us again that profits come before privacy\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-emails-show-us-again-that-profits-come-before-privacy\/\nFacebook emails show us again that profits come before privacy. Is anyone surprised? ... according to an email Facebook CEO sent Mark Zuckerberg in October of 2012. ... Facebook emails show us ...\nFacebook Messenger gives users more control of privacy ...\nhttps:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/facebook-messenger-gives-users-more-control-of-privacy-options-on-ios\/\nFacebook Messenger gives users more control of privacy options on iOS by Jordan Golson in Apple on August 21, 2014, 9:00 AM PST The Android and iOS versions of Facebook Messenger offer different ...\nFacebook's first CES reveal in years is a privacy tool ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebooks-first-ces-reveal-in-years-is-a-privacy-tool-that-falls-short\/\nFacebook's privacy tools let you control who can see your email address and phone number (except from the social network itself). Angela Lang \/ CNET This story is part of CES 2020, our complete ...\nLive Blog: Facebook's Privacy Announcement - CBS News\nhttps:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/live-blog-facebooks-privacy-announcement\/\nThe 6th Fleet said the Russian SU-35 flew within 25 feet of the U.S. P-8A Poseidon plane in an \"unsafe\" high-speed, inverted maneuver, putting the American \"pilots and crew at risk.\" 1M ago\nFacebook sued for $15 billion over alleged privacy infractions\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-sued-for-15-billion-over-alleged-privacy-infractions\/\nFacebook sued for $15 billion over alleged privacy infractions. A class-action lawsuit filed by Stewarts Law US combines 21 cases across the U.S.\nFacebook-Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal: Your data ...\nhttps:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/facebook-cambridge-analytica-privacy-scandal-your-data-still-isnt-secure\/\nThe Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal was a major political scandal in March of 2018. It was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of millions of people's ...\nSeen that privacy chain letter on Facebook? Ignore it - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/seen-that-privacy-chain-letter-on-facebook-ignore-it\/\nSeen that privacy chain letter on Facebook? Ignore it. A widely shared status update on Facebook claims you need to post a disclaimer to keep the site from ripping off your data.\nTour Facebook's new privacy settings (screenshots) - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/pictures\/tour-facebooks-new-privacy-settings-screenshots\/\nFacebook debuts new privacy settings. Once again, Facebook has changed its privacy settings. Like the last time this happened, Wednesday's improvements are still a mixed bag, but a better one ...\n6 Facebook security mistakes to fix on Data Privacy Day - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/how-to\/6-facebook-security-mistakes-to-fix-on-data-privacy-day\/\nEsto tambi\u00e9n se puede leer en espa\u00f1ol. Leer en espa\u00f1ol. Don't show this again. ... Facebook keeps a log of the devices that have access to your account, and makes it easy to revoke access to a ...\nFacebook privacy settings: Protect your data with these tips ...\nhttps:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/2020\/02\/04\/facebook-privacy-settings-protect-data-tips\/\n4 Feb 2020 ... Sixteen years, that's how long Facebook has been around. This means that it has accompanied some of us throughout our teenage years to ...\nCheat sheet: Facebook Data Privacy Scandal (free PDF ...\nhttps:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/resource-library\/downloads\/cheat-sheet-facebook-data-privacy-scandal\/\nThe Facebook data privacy scandal centers around the collection of personally identifiable information of \"up to 87 million people\" by the political consulting and strategic communication firm ...\nFacebook data privacy scandal: A cheat sheet - TechRepublic\nhttps:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/facebook-data-privacy-scandal-a-cheat-sheet\/\nRead about the saga of Facebook's failures in ensuring privacy for user data, including how it relates to Cambridge Analytica, the GDPR, the Brexit campaign, and the 2016 US presidential election.\nApple redesigns its privacy pages, thumbing its nose at Facebook ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/07\/tech\/apple-privacy-page-trnd\/index.html\n7 Nov 2019 ... Apple VP on why Apple Card is a game changer. Apple unveiled its new login button that it says protects user data in third party apps ...\nNo one should buy the Facebook Portal TV - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/no-one-should-buy-the-facebook-portal-tv\/\nIn short, there's way too much going on with Facebook for me to recommend sticking its latest round of camera-equipped Portal devices in your home. That includes the $149 Facebook Portal TV. 99 ...\n10 things you can do with Facebook Portal - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/how-to\/facebook-portal-tips\/\n10 things you can do with Facebook Portal. ... You can also get add-ons by tapping on the Portal App icon. ... go to Settings > Accounts > Add an Account. Then, just follow the onscreen directions.\nFacebook Portal 2.0 gets features to compete against Hub ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-portal-2-0-gets-features-to-compete-with-hub-max-echo-show\/\nFacebook Portal 2.0 gets features to compete with Hub Max, Echo Show. Facebook has a new 10-inch Portal display. I tested it, but I borrowed someone else's account to do it.\nFacebook Portal refresh: 7 things you need to know in 2019 ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-portal-refresh-7-things-you-need-to-know-in-2019\/\nFacebook introduced two new Portal devices in addition to a refresh of its 10-inch Portal smart screen this week. James Martin\/CNET Facebook announced an update to its Portal line of smart ...\nPortal from Facebook - Apps on Google Play\nhttps:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.facebook.bishop&hl=en_US\nThe Portal app helps you manage your Portal devices right from your smartphone. ... video communications devices that make it easier to connect with loved ones, ... After last update gives error after each press: Something went wrong check ...\nGoogle Nest Hub Max vs. Facebook Portal: Which smart ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-nest-hub-max-vs-the-new-facebook-portal-which-smart-display-wins\/\nGoogle also offers a wider overall selection of media partners to stream from, including services such as HBO Now, Deezer, Crackle and YouTube that aren't currently available on Portal devices.\nFacebook Portal refresh: 7 things you need to know ... - CNET\nThe Facebook Portal gets a huge price cut: $99 - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-facebook-portal-gets-a-huge-price-cut-99\/\nThe Facebook Portal is a solid buy at $99, provided you're comfortable with Facebook's current privacy policies. James Martin\/CNET There are countless ways to video call your friends and family ...\nFacebook's new Portal smart displays: Who's ... - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/how-to\/facebook-portal-smart-display-privacy-concerns\/\nFacebook's new fleet of Portal smart displays wants a place in your home. James Martin\/CNET Facebook introduced three new versions of its Portal smart display on Wednesday -- a \"Mini\" version with ...\nFacebook's Black Friday Oculus and Portal sale: $50 off ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebooks-black-friday-oculus-and-portal-sale-50-off-or-quest-plus-free-star-wars\/\nAs for Facebook's Portal devices, keep in mind that Portal is locked to Facebook, and we don't even recommend you consider the Portal TV (though you are, of course, welcome to disagree). The 54 ...\nDaily Mail Video - Home | Facebook\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DailyMailVideo\/\nDaily Mail Video. 1M likes. A handpicked selection of the best videos from around the world. www.dailymail.co.uk.\nHow to start a Facebook Live video - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/how-to\/how-to-use-facebooks-live-video-feature\/\nIn the Facebook app, begin to compose a status as you normally would. On iOS, a list of options will show up below the text field, tap on Live Video > Continue. On Android, tap on Go Live > Continue.\nEp. 1164: Facebook Login - Video - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/videos\/ep-1164-facebook-login\/\nWe think, because of the magic of search-engine optimization, that this episode is about to become our highest-rated ever. P.S. Attention, visitors from Google: this is not the Facebook login page.\nHow to embed a Facebook video on your website - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/how-to\/how-to-embed-a-facebook-video-on-your-website\/\nHow to embed a Facebook video on your website. Facebook decided it wasn't going to let YouTube have all of the fun; you can now embed videos directly on your site.\nCoronavirus chronicles: Here's some good news amid the ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/coronavirus-chronicles-good-news-amid-the-dire-reports\/\nCoronavirus chronicles: Here's some good news amid the dire reports. From vaccine progress to people uniting in friendship and solidarity, some positive COVID-19 news to keep things in perspective.\nFuture uncertain for top Virginia Democrats amid several ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/future-uncertain-top-virginia-democrats-several-scandals-mark-herring-justin-fairfax-ralph-northam\/\nRichmond, Va. \u2014 First, it was Virginia's governor.Then, the lieutenant governor.Now the state attorney general.The top three leaders in the state are all facing scandal. 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The group's aim is to help conserve and grow the mountain gorilla population, and have faced a similar danger during ...\nFacebook takes on Zoom with new video calling features - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebook-takes-on-zoom-with-new-video-calling-features\/\nFacebook is releasing a new feature that lets you video chat with multiple people through Messenger even if you don't have a social media account, a move that could help the company compete with ...\nFacebook Messenger Lite app now includes video chat - CNET\nhttps:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facebooks-messenger-lite-app-now-includes-video-chat\/\nFacebook Facebook just made it a little easier to video chat with your friends. The social-networking titan on Wednesday unveiled a video chat feature for its Messenger Lite app.\nLebanon's Saad Hariri invited to France amid resignation ...\nhttps:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lebanon-saad-hariri-invited-france-resignation-crisis\/\nBEIRUT --French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday invited Saad Hariri and his family to come to France after the Lebanese prime minister's surprise resignation earlier this month, amid ...\nlibero mail privacy\nmail ru video\nvideo mediaset login\ninviare video via mail\ncome inviare video via mail\nprime video login\ncome inviare un video via mail\ndaily mail video\namazon prime video login\nmail minaccia diffusione video\ninfinity portal login\nportal microsoftonline com login\nportal.microsoftonline.com login\nmy infinity portal login\nRicerche casuali\nexpedia taap login\nmail hackerata\ne mail regione siciliana\n1and1 mail\nLogun.it \u00a9 2021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keeping the culture, lots of complaints about Honolulu, dollar favors Japanese visitors, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands\nThe future is in the past is a guide to how Hawaii should be looking at the experience it offers tourists. Civil Beat.\nHundreds of people ascended upon Puukohola Heiau on Saturday immersing themselves in the culture of old Hawaii in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands. West Hawaii Today.\nFive months after breaking ground with their trowels, archaeologists have unearthed some historical treasures at Moku'ula. Maui News.\nAncient Polynesian builders rapidly evolved from small temples to big pyramid-shaped temples in only 140 years, rather than four or five centuries as previously believed, a team led by Hawaii-born anthropologist Patrick V. Kirch has found. Star-Advertiser.\nJapanese visitors are flocking to Hawaii for sand, surf and shopping. KHON2.\nThe persistent quest for President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth certificate has died down since the state passed a law allowing it to ignore repetitive requests for the document. Associated Press.\nThe leading mayoral candidates are getting ready for a big debate Monday. Hawaii News Now.\nThe City & County of Honolulu, population 905,000, has had an estimated 200,000 complaints over the last 5 years, many submitted through its Department of Customer Services. Hawaii Reporter.\nAt a recent family reunion on the beach, family members asked who they should vote for in the upcoming elections because a number of candidates are making their first run at offices for which there are no incumbents. West Hawaii Today.\nLina Lin doesn't vote, but in her laid-back way the Nuuanu resident is doing her bit for democracy. Star-Advertiser.\nThe Honolulu Zoo is breaking ground on its Asian elephant tropical forest exhibit. Associated Press.\nYoshi Yoshinaga, 74, is just one of the volunteers who mans the city's informational kiosk just steps away from the Honolulu Zoo. KITV.\nRows of corn reach for the sky along Ka'aahi Street in Iwilei. KITV.\nThe Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) is beginning work to redevelop the Kakaako Gateway, beginning with these empty lots. KHON2.\nThe largest fine for shoreline setback encroachments ever imposed by Maui County was approved as part of a settlement agreement by the Maui Planning Commission on Tuesday. Maui News.\nThe state Department of Land and Natural Resources will close Na Pali Coast State Wilderness Park on the North Shore from Hanakapi'ai to Kalalau Valley for a multi-faceted improvement effort that includes a rockfall mitigation project above the Ho'ole'a waterfall and shoreline sea cave areas. Garden Island.\nCongresswoman Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) today announced the awarding of $9,044,880 in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant funding to support Native Hawaiian health centers on Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and the Island of Hawaii. Molokai Dispatch.\nHawaii's first 240-volt electric cars are set to debut in Honolulu. Associated Press.\nEarly next month, Shariyah Campbell, 18, will join thousands of other eager students as she begins her college career. Tribune-Herald.\nLong about 73 years ago, a youngster named Bob Olson gazed over the cliffs at Palos Verdes in Southern California in fixed amazement at surfers riding waves in the ocean down below him. Lahaina News.\nIrene Hirano Inouye, former president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, will talk to UH M\u0101noa professor emeritus George Tanabe on his radio program. Hawaii Herald.\nLabels: environment, homeless, Native Hawaiians, politics, tourism\nThe great debate: Hannemann v Abercrombie, and oth...\nState seeks presidential library, busy week for go...\nDOT: 83 percent want ferry, special ed lawsuit rev...\nFat government at Honolulu Hale, gubernatorial ho...\nObama vacation home sold, flood maps in, leaders m...\nHawaii wins Race to the Top money, Maui aquarium c...\nSchatz leads lt. gov. race, Molokai mule rides pau...\nKauai football schedule for the birds, electric co...\nHawaiians win burial rights, 911 tapes released on...\nSubstitute teachers to get back pay, state employe...\nNo aloha in gubernatorial race, Kauai students mis...\nKeeping the culture, lots of complaints about Hono...\nNew condo coming to Waikiki, public gets new ammun...\nGubernatorial duo's first debate, Marine Corps mov...\nHawaii losing tourism war, Kauai a stand-in for Gu...\nTop airports official resigns, ewaste wanted, spy ...\nPlantations put to use, cooling Waikiki, ed board ...\nCase buys into Maui Land & Pineapple, Senate to co...\nNew flood maps could raise insurance costs, good y...\nStrong mayor to remain for Kauai, Maui police chie...\nAbercrombie lagging in money as gubernatorial race...\nMonday pundits: Leonard a shoo-in for Supreme Cour...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Global talent investor\nWho in your network should be leading their own company?\nHelp them realise their potential\nRefer a future founder\nCookies & Image Licensing\nEF in the Press\nBecoming an Entrepreneur\nFinding a Co-Founder\nIdeation & Product Market Fit\nPitching & Fundraising\nEF & Alumni News\nScaling & Hiring\nEF In Conversation\nBlockchain & Crypto\nEntrepreneur First Toronto: 1 month in\nBy Rachel Zimmer, General Manager, Entrepreneur First Toronto\nArticle5 minute read\nRachel, our Toronto General Manager, reflects on why she took on the challenge of spearheading our Toronto office, the journey to launch, and how our cohort is progressing so far.\nFive months ago, I joined Entrepreneur First to lead the launch of our Toronto programme. From the get-go, I knew EF was a pretty special place.\nMy background is in entrepreneurship. I left my job 3 and a half years after graduating from Queen's University to build my own company, 5Crowd. I understand the impatience that many people feel at the start of their careers. They want to make a difference now, but having the courage to break away from the status quo, even for those with the most innovative mindsets, takes a lot.\nI was ready to take the leap into a new adventure for the better part of a year. I know the bittersweet feeling of leaving a great company and job, and understand the fear \u2013 and the thrill \u2013 of a calculated risk.\nWhat ultimately gave me the courage to take the leap was when a mentor shared the advice: \"the riskiest thing you can do is actually stay in your role. If you start something and fail, you can always go back to industry. However, leaving industry just gets harder and harder.\"\nBuilding my own company was the most valuable and rewarding experience of my life. My co-founder Bram and I were very fortunate to have many individuals mentor us, give us tough love and, ultimately, believe in us.\nWhen I stumbled upon Entrepreneur First, I was enamoured by the idea that I could play a small part in many other Canadians' entrepreneurial journeys \u2013 just as those individuals had helped me.\nThe Road to Launching EF in Canada\nEF has already helped over 2500 individuals build over 300 companies. Toronto has come to the global stage as a force to be reckoned with over the last 10 years. With our world-class universities and a thriving venture capital ecosystem, our country is filled with untapped potential. It was the perfect location for EF to launch its next cohort.\nSo we opened shop and built our team. We brought together experts from the Canadian startup and talent eco-systems, like myself, Milad, Alex and Maja, and EF veterans like Donald and Francois, who understood exactly what it took to make the programme a success.\nWe took in nearly 1,000 applications, conducted 250 interviews and finally, we had our first cohort of founders-to-be ready to take the leap.\nOur 56 cohort members are from 20 countries around the world (15 of them relocated to Toronto). They have joined us from the best academic and research institutions such as Mila Technical Institute, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, University of Oxford, Queen's University, Ivey Business School at Western University amongst many others. Many left their impressive jobs to join us from companies such as Google, Facebook, Huawei, BCG, Borealis, ElementAI and League to name a few.\nOn Sept 12, we opened the doors to them at our (covid-compliant) Kick-Off Weekend \u2013 an opportunity for our founders-to-be to meet, work and talk about their vision of changing the world, together.\nAt the end of the event, we were told by cohort members that they had never seen so much potential in one room- and while maybe it was a little intimidating, it was also invigorating. They'd found their people.\nMaking and Breaking\nWithin one week, 70% of our cohort had already formed co-founding teams. But don't be mistaken \u2013 these will not be the final teams we see pitching companies in a few weeks.\nWe know that finding a co-founder is hard. The EF philosophy is that the best way to identify the right co-founder is to test the relationship; try it out for a few days, and see what you create together. If it works, great. If you're getting nowhere, or not moving fast enough, move on. There's another 50+ brilliant people you can trial partnering with.\nNot only do we create an environment where team break ups are normal \u2013 we celebrate them. You need a co-founder with a complimentary skillset, with whom you can build a productive working relationship and share responsibility. That may not be the first person you partner with, and that's okay.\nRecognising the value in breakups and inorganically forming teams removes the 'social pressure' to stay in a partnership that isn't working, meaning that everyone can find the best outcome for them. And it works. As one cohort member said:\n\"We raced through validation with a bunch of our hunches\/ideas, but unfortunately, we weren't able to find an idea that stuck. He will make an awesome CEO, as he's exceptionally driven, focussed and knowledgeable\u2026 We had a terrific working relationship, and I wouldn't hesitate to work with him again, despite not being right as co-founders.\"\nAdapting and Innovating\nWhen we decided to launch in Toronto, we of course didn't expect the global situation to be as it is. And we are missing some things \u2013 the celebratory dinners; the office buzzing as our founders turn ideas to reality; the excitement of an in-person demo day.\nBut our core plan \u2013 supporting exceptional talent from Canada and around the world to realise their potential \u2013 hasn't changed. In fact, we had such a great response to our launch that our first cohort is actually over subscribed. We intended to have 50 founders-to-be and were blown away by the market that we went with 56.\nWe're moving with the times, and as we've seen in other EF locations, our talent will find a solution. They don't just adapt, but they innovate. They see opportunity and build what people need.\nAs our co-founder Alice said in one of our early conversations, \"the best entrepreneurs are infinite learners. They will learn their way out of a pandemic.\"\nNo matter what the situation or how things change, I know the next 6 months are going to be an amazing adventure; for me, for our in-house team, for our cohort.\nEFTO1 \u2013 I can't wait to see what you all build.\nDo you have the potential to build a globally important company?\nApply to our next Toronto cohort\nSingapore Open Office\n21 JanView Event\nFounders and Alumni: What's the Entrepreneur First programme like?\nLondon Open Office\nOur female founders share their advice\nIf you have the potential to lead a globally important company, or know someone who does, we want to know.\nApply now Refer a Friend\nEntrepreneur First Investment Manager LLP (807367) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.\nEntrepreneur First is supported by AWS Activate and Vitruvian Partners.\nMade by Alchemy Digital","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"USD\/ZAR: South African Rand receives strong support as the economy improves\nBy Jonathan Edwards on November 3, 2020 News\nThe USD\/ZAR is at a strong support level as traders respond to positive economic data from South Africa\nAbsa Bank data showed that the manufacturing PMI rose to 60.9, the highest level ever recorded.\nThe pair is also awaiting the outcome of the general election in the US.\nThe USD\/ZAR exchange rate has hardly changed today as traders focus on the U.S. elections and mixed economic data from South Africa. It is traded at 16.2070, which is close to double the low of 16.10.\nUSD\/ZAR on strong support\nSouth Africa: Decline in production\nTwo separate reports from Markit and Absa Bank showed that the country's manufacturing sector made some progress in October. This was due to rising domestic orders and the government's relaxation of movement restrictions. In fact, the number of daily infections has dropped from a peak of 13,000 in July to less than 1,000.\nThe Markit manufacturer's PMI rose to 49.4 in October from 45.3 the previous month. This was the highest level in 11 months and is proof that business activity has improved. The report cited rising production, new orders, employment and purchase stocks. Most companies were also relatively confident about the coming months. In a statement David Owen, an economist at Markit, said\n\"However, production and demand expansions will be necessary to help companies revive labor markets as employment continues to decline sharply. An increase in jobs is likely to occur after an increase in economic activity, as companies will need time to recover from the pandemic losses\".\nFurther data from Absa Bank showed that the manufacturing PMI rose to 60.9 in October. This was the highest level since the bank began compiling the figure in 2012. The report said:\n\"The further rise at the beginning of the fourth quarter is an encouraging sign that the manufacturing sector continues to recover after a record contraction in April\".\nHowever, data from South Africa showed that fewer people bought cars in October. In total, the number of cars sold in October fell to 38.75 thousand, down 25.70% year-on-year.\nThe USD\/ZAR price is also focused on the upcoming general election in the United States, followed by the Fed's interest rate decision and non-agricultural payroll numbers.\nTechnical outlook USD\/ZAR\nTechnical card USD\/ZAR\nThe USD\/ZAR pair is trading at 16.2070. On the daily chart, this price is slightly below the 25-day and 15-day exponential moving averages. It is also near a strong support level, below which the price has been struggling to move lower since June. The price has also formed a descending triangle pattern, which is shown in green.\nHowever, this triangle is not near its confluence zone. This means that the pair is likely to stay within the current range. However, a clean break below the support at 16.00 is a confirmation for bears and may lead to further declines.\nPrevious ArticleBest election day memories from the rest of the world.\nNext Article Drinking game ideas for election night 2020 \u2013 bingo, catchwords and moustaches.\nThree driving licence changes that will affect thousands of drivers\nKYLE RICHARDS IS ATTACKED BY BEES","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Artikler, rapporter og annet (UB)\nLaw after July 22, 2011: Survivors, Memory and Reconstruction\narticle.pdf (4.060Mb)\nPublished version (PDF)\nTidsskriftartikkel\nSandvik, Kristin Bergtora; Ikdahl, Ingunn; Vestad, Maja; S\u00f8rlie, Anniken; Moe-Pryce, Marit\n\u200bWhile the criminal law and security governance aspects of the July 22 terror attack in Norway have been extensively analyzed in the academic literature, much less attention has been given to processes involving civil law, legal mobilization and legal-bureaucratic processes. \u200bThe slow workings of the law mean that the aftermath of July 22 is still unfolding in different legal processes. This PRIO paper carves out a socio-legal research agenda intended to bridge the aforementioned knowledge gap. In so doing, it identifies various aspects of how the law deals with survivors, their families and the bereaved. It also addresses the legal debates over memorials and the reconstruction and securitization of the Norwegian Government Quarter. We argue that in choosing between extraordinary and ordinary legal mechanisms and instruments to deal with the terror attack, the state and the legal system have opted for the latter. This emphasis on \"ordinary law\" must be investigated. We are interested in how law distributes resources, rights and identities and sets limits on government interventions \u2013 and how individual actors and organizations mobilize the law to shape the political, popular and legal narratives around July 22.\nSource at https:\/\/www.prio.org\/publications\/12987.\nThe Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)\nSandvik, Ikdahl, Vestad, S\u00f8rlie, Moe-Pryce. Law after July 22, 2011: Survivors, Memory and Reconstruction. PRIO Paper. 2022\nArtikler, rapporter og annet (UB) [2070]\nCopyright 2022 The Author(s)\nBrowse all of MuninCommunities & CollectionsAuthor listTitlesBy Issue DateBrowse this CollectionAuthor listTitlesBy Issue Date","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pirates, Yankees, White Sox reportedly discussed three-team trade involving Jose Quintana\nBy Charlie Wilmoth Dec 27, 2016, 12:52pm EST\nShare All sharing options for: Pirates, Yankees, White Sox reportedly discussed three-team trade involving Jose Quintana\nPhoto by David Banks\/Getty Images\nThe Pirates, Yankees and White Sox discussed a three-team trade involving Jose Quintana, USA Today's Bob Nightengale tweets. Joel Sherman of the New York Post, though, tweets that the Yankees are not currently involved in talks involving Quintana or (and?) White Sox closer David Robertson.\nNightengale doesn't reveal the contents of those talks beyond Quintana's inclusion in them, but over the weekend, FutureSox' Brian Bilek tweeted that the three teams were discussing a trade that would send Quintana to the Pirates, Andrew McCutchen to the Yankees, and young players from both teams (including Tyler Glasnow from the Pirates) to the White Sox. Bilek isn't an established reporter, so take those specifics with a grain of salt, but it now sounds like he at least was right that the three teams have talked about a three-way deal.\nNightengale's tweet came just as I was writing my last post, which dealt with the Quintana rumors. My response then was to agree with Jon Heyman, who tweeted that the Yankees need starting pitching a lot more than they need an outfielder. I guess it wouldn't be a shock if the Yankees did try to end up with McCutchen in a three-way trade, since they would presumably would have to pay less for him than they would for Quintana. McCutchen's a big name, and the Yankees like big names.\nStill, this deal doesn't seem very likely. McCutchen's contract (including his option) expires after the 2018 season, which is just at the point where the Yankees can reasonably hope to be really good again. If the Yankees are going to give up young talent, adding Quintana, who is controllable through 2020, makes a lot more sense for them than adding McCutchen does.\nThen again, maybe the three teams discussed a deal that involved Quintana but not McCutchen. There's a lot here that isn't known right now.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lola Astanova\nVIP Event\nLorenzo In Venice\nHalcyon Gallery\nHalcyon Art International\nIn May 2019, during the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the monumental sculpture Building Bridges will be installed in a basin adjacent to the entrance of the Arsenale, in the Castello District of Venice. Building Bridges is composed of six pairs of monumental hands 15 metres high and 20 metres wide \u2013 individually titled 'Help', 'Love', 'Friendship', 'Faith', 'Wisdom' and 'Hope'. The installation engages with the history of Venice as a meeting point of international history and culture.\nThe joining of hands symbolises our commonality, what we share and our ability to unite with an emphasis on bridging differences in all aspects of life \u2013 geographically, spiritually, philosophically, culturally and emotionally. The hands suggest a need for contact beyond self-interest, striving for human collaboration and unity. Quinn uses them to communicate complex emotions through a lexicon of gestures and touch, reflecting an ethos of connection and exchange through the language of art.\nBy using the Arsenale as a site for installation, the work also draws a connection to the city's history as one of the greatest trading powers in Europe, the Western end of the Silk Road trade route and a huge naval authority. Its position today as a World Heritage City attracting tourists from all nations continues Venice's history as a meeting point of culture, and aligns with Quinn's message of world unity.\nHalcyon Gallery was established in 1982, specialising in modern and contemporary art. Based in New Bond Street, Mayfair, the gallery represents an exciting selection of renowned international artists. In its London and Shanghai locations it hosts a diverse programme of established artists and new emerging talent.\nMore about Halcyon Gallery\nLorenzo Quinn has always spoken a universal language, wherever in the world his artwork is placed it creates an immediate impact, whether it be in Mumbai, Venice, New York or Shanghai. Building Bridges is his most ambitions project to date both in scale and thought and will send a unifying message of hope around the world.\nPresident of Halcyon Gallery, Paul Green\nHalcyon Art International passionately follows its belief that art should be not only inherently beautiful, but that it should also carry a message, have a meaning and serve a purpose that encourages public engagement. Halcyon Art International has acquired and placed significant and highly prized works by many of the greatest late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century masters and it represents and supports some of the most renowned and appreciated contemporary artists in the world.\nMore about Halcyon Art INTERNATIONAL\nGet informed of events & exhibitions by Lorenzo throughout the festival\nHalcyon Gallery logo\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 Lorenzo Quinn. All Rights Reserved\nContact | Legal Notice & Cookie Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Kid's Speech\nAntonia Ayres-Brown\nIllustration by Sam Oldshue.\nWendy Marans' name is a diagnostic test of sorts.\nSection one, \"w\u025bndi,\" isn't too hard. It can be broken down into five distinct sounds: \/w\/, \/\u025b\/, \/n\/, \/d\/, and \/i\/. They're all articulated near the front of the oral tract, so the challenge is just remembering to connect the \/n\/ and \/d\/ consonant blends. Fortunately, the two phonemes don't occur in distant sites of the mouth, which is the hardest part about other consonant blends like \"gr\" or \"tw.\" The \"nd,\" sound, in comparison, is manageable. Both \/n\/ and \/d\/ are produced by placing the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge, the front roof of the mouth that reminds Wendy of the bumpy ridges left on a beach when the tide goes out.\nSection two, \"m\u00e6r\u0259nz,\" gets trickier. With seven distinct sounds, an \/r\/ wedged in the middle, and a voiced \/z\/ fricative tacked onto the end, \"Marans\" is complex enough to give any child with a speech impediment some trouble. For these kids, Wendy's surname easily becomes \"Maranth,\" \"Mah-ens,\" \"Mawans,\" or even \"Mamem.\" Some parents get tripped up too, incorrectly placing the emphasis on the second syllable: \"Mar-ANS.\" She's heard almost every possible mistake. Maybe that's why she just goes by Wendy.\nWendy's bubblegum-pink lips curl into a taut frown as she checks the time. Her watch stopped last week and though it's now ticking again, she has been eyeing her wrist sporadically, as if always running a moment late. Her first afternoon appointment doesn't begin for thirty minutes, but it's time for her to start rearranging the room.\nThe next client is one of her tallest, so Wendy heaves the table onto its side and goes about shifting the length of each of its four legs. Wendy's heels slip out of her shoes as she fidgets with the squeaky pegs, but she declines my offer to assist her. She's accustomed to performing this manual task solo. But I also get the sense that she doesn't trust me to do it carefully enough\u2014or simply as carefully as she will.\nAfter double-checking the notches in each leg, Wendy screws the pegs in place\u2014a few inches higher than they were before. Her carefully-groomed bangs are left slightly disheveled, and I can't help but wonder if the ritual, which she repeats several times a day, is actually necessary. Yet after four decades of working as a pediatric communication disorders specialist, Wendy insists on this level of precision.\nThe laminate blue-and-grey table is the home base of Wendy's lessons. It's where they all begin, with Wendy sitting diagonally from each child, and where Wendy tries to end each hour-long session, though her youngest patients have a habit of wandering. It's where Wendy conducts intakes to suss out articulation difficulties, where she runs repetitive speech exercises and plays purposeful games when the children grow tired of these exercises, and ultimately, where most of her breakthroughs happen. But if the table is too tall, the child's neck will strain upwards and he may not be able to see; too short, and he'll slouch. Wendy even customizes the size of the plastic school chairs that circle the table so each child can firmly plant his or her feet on the floor. Teaching someone to communicate is not a one-size-fits-all project.\nThere are no diagrams of the oral tract or pamphlets about communication disorders displayed in Wendy's office, a one-room private practice she opened in 1997. Toys and games are Wendy's tools, each serving a distinct pedagogical purpose. A glittery pinwheel helps children practice the controlled breath release necessary in strident sounds; glossy plastic microphones coax mumblers into projecting. Wendy keeps the beige walls sparsely decorated to avoid distractions. On the window ledge by her desk sit a model wooden train and a miniature metal toboggan. When Wendy knows a client is particularly fond of vehicles, she usually remembers to preemptively hide them. Incorporating a child's interests into a lesson plan is one thing, Wendy once explained, but carelessly leaving a toy within reach is asking for a disturbance in the kid's focus, or even a tantrum. Behind Wendy's desk, pristine glass windows span the entire northern side of the office. Last fall, after a gust of wind once derailed her train of thought, Wendy glanced toward the windows and remarked that they were the most beautiful, and worst, part of her office.\nOn Wendy's old website, below her educational training and professional experience, appeared a bullet-pointed list of her extracurricular passions: Cello, Flamenco, Quilting. (The page has since been taken down.) Wendy handmade the office's only notable d\u00e9cor\u2014a large multicolored quilt that hangs by her desk\u2014but she repeatedly stresses to me that she has made better quilts. She keeps this flawed one on display only so that she can point to something when children make mistakes, something that shows she makes mistakes too.\n\"They're made to be squares and top right yellow one isn't,\" Wendy says, gesturing toward one of the two hundred and ten patches as if it's the first thing I would notice. The top right yellow one hadn't caught my eye, but when I walk closer, I see Wendy's right. I never would have recognized the error\u2014the patch is only slightly rectangular.\nFor most people, developing one's voice and ability to communicate is something that just sort of happens. But Wendy works with kids for whom that doesn't naturally occur\u2014kids whose capacity to verbally express themselves isn't inborn, but needs to be taught to them. This thing that most people take for granted, speech, is incredibly complex, Wendy says. So maybe this care\u2014her insistence on adjusting the table by several inches, or hanging a near-perfect quilt as an example of a mistake\u2014is necessary.\nWendy's natural speaking voice is crisp, potent, and unmistakably British. Having been raised and schooled in England, Wendy talks with broad vowels and delicately discards her \/r\/ sounds, letting them slip just before they settle on the tongue. Her specific dialect, Received Pronunciation, is untraceable to any physical region or socioeconomic class. Wendy attributes her speech to her grandmother, who, as a young woman, swore off the Derbyshire parlance\u2014a regional giveaway of her own humble beginnings. Besides a couple adolescent nieces who've acquired the \"Mockney\" dialect\u2014a middle-class London trend that began during Margaret Thatcher's premiership\u2014everyone in Wendy's family still speaks with Received Pronunciation.\nIn conversation, Wendy's rich tone is almost melodic, bouncing between syllables like notes, performing dynamic intervals with each clause. Her cadence could dwell within the five lines of a treble clef. When she reaches the end of a sentence, or wants to emphasize a point, she slows her pace and chews on her words, letting them resonate one by one. \"I think\u2026it's a\u2026trahhhgedy,\" she said once, describing other foreigners' tendency to lose their accents after years in the United States.\nIt's easy to catch yourself intensely listening to Wendy\u2014not explicitly because of what she's saying, but because of how good she sounds saying it. And the primrose hue of her lips, a staple which somehow always looks both girlish and elegant on Wendy, is perhaps her voice's most effective billboard. Listen to me, it says. Watch what's happening here.\nOtherwise, Wendy's physical presence is fairly unimposing. She has a small, slender frame, and the child-sized seat in which she conducts lessons never looks as miniature as it seems like it should. She regularly joins patients on the matted blue carpet of her office\u2014sometimes to lie horizontally and use gravity to urge a child's tongue to fall backward; other times, simply to conduct a lesson on the floor if an uncooperative student strays from the table. At the end of eight-hour days, Wendy's hands still flutter with sweeping gestures as she speaks, and her patient, lupine eyes blink with purpose.\nWith ten minutes remaining before the appointment, Wendy agrees to show me the last unseen area of her office: the closet. Behind a locked wooden door, opaque plastic bins, phonetic diagnostic tests, and niche speech and language-related games are tightly packed from the floor to the ceiling, like a game of Tetris.\n\"Wow,\" I exhale. \"There are so many\u2026\"\nWendy stares into the closet and blinks, as if she's unsure whether my comment was a compliment or a criticism. I scramble to clarify what I meant, but Wendy finds the words faster than I do.\n\"It's actually very organized,\" she says. And then she shuts the door.\nWhen I first met Wendy roughly sixteen years ago, I was an extroverted kindergartener with a spitty interdental lisp, biting softly on my tongue with each \/s\/, and the inability to pronounce my own name.\nSection one, \u00e6ntoni\u0259, wasn't an issue. The hardest part of my first name is just remembering to connect the \/n\/ and \/t\/ sounds, but my parents had always called me Anna anyway, voiding the issue of the consonant blend. Section two, \u025b\u026arz br\u0251\u028an, was my trouble spot, and until I began working with Wendy, I proudly introduced myself as Anna Ayrethhh-Brown to everyone I met.\nI don't remember much about our weekly lessons besides the fact that Wendy rewarded me with Cheerios and M&Ms for maneuvering my tongue against the alveolar ridge. She was similar back then\u2014same office, same lupine eyes, same melodic tones\u2014and she taught me to fix my speech impediment by looking, listening, and imitating her, just as my older brother, Henry, had already done with her.\nHenry's challenges were more debilitating than mine. As he entered elementary school, both his \/r\/ and \/s\/ phonemes were unintelligible, which fractured his ability to communicate with peers, teachers, and our parents. My mother still winces whenever she recalls one evening when Henry asked her to read him a story before bed. Because of Henry's \/r\/ and \/s\/ omissions, she heard him ask for a \"toy,\" and scolded him for trying to play so late at night. Henry, desperate to be understood, whined in frustration, \"No, Mom! A toe-ey!\"\nHenry began speech therapy with Wendy in kindergarten and continued until his \/s\/ and \/r\/ sounds improved. Other facets of his impediment, like substituting \"ch\" sounds for \"sh,\" persisted well into middle school. This impairment presented itself most overtly on Sundays, when Henry would gab about singing in \"shursh.\" At our school's annual book swap, where used titles could be traded for tokens called \"chits,\" Henry's classmates mocked him for confidently announcing how many \"shits\" he had collected.\nMy family's history with speech impediments, however, predates both Henry and me. When my father was a child, he never mastered his \"s\" and \"th\" sounds. Speech therapy was well out of my grandparents' financial means, so my father learned to mask these insecurities by slowing his speaking pace around certain hazardous words. As an adult, he still avoids \"ths\"\u2014months, truths, myths.\nLast year, after I began reporting this profile and researching speech therapy, I sat my father down for an impromptu diagnostic test.\n\"Say 'anesthesia,'\" I instructed.\n\"Anesthesia,\" he copied back. No trouble.\n\"Okay,\" I said. \"Say 'cloths.'\"\n\"Closs.\"\n\"No. Cloths,\" I repeated.\n\"Closth.\"\nBetrayed by his tongue, he shrugged and left the room, revealing the boy in him I've rarely seen\u2014the boy who never got help with his articulation, the boy who would right that wrong by sending both of his children to speech therapy one day. Later, when I asked my mother what she knew about his ambiguous impediment, I learned that when my parents were deliberating baby names for me, my mother's top choices included \"Martha\" and \"Lilith.\" My father vetoed both.\nIn a home video that often makes its rounds during family reunions, I'm five years old and still unaware of my lisp. I stride into the frame and begin to sing: \"Little Jackie Paper loved that rathcal puff, and brought him thtrings and thieling wakth, and other fanthy thhhhtuff!\"\nInterdental \/s\/ sounds now feel foreign in my mouth, and I don't think of my speech patterns as anyone's but my own, but I sometimes wonder whether lispy tones would still feel foreign if I had never met Wendy\u2014or whether I would have ended up an adult, vetoing baby names like my father did. Sarah. Silas. Spencer. Susannah. Sebastian.\nIn the opening scene of The King's Speech, the 2010 film about George VI's journey to overcoming his stutter, an unnamed speech pathologist fills the king's mouth with glass marbles and instructs him to enunciate several words. Later in the film, Lionel Logue, the Australian-born elocutionist who ultimately succeeds in improving the stammer, leads the king in a myriad of other unconventional speech exercises: rolling log-style across a dusty carpet, swinging his arms like a windmill, lying down and breathing deeply while the queen sits on his diaphragm. At one point, as King George practices yelling \"Ahhh\" for fifteen uninterrupted seconds, Logue chimes in above the din: \"Anyone who can shout vowels at an open window can learn to deliver a speech!\"\nSince the movie's release in 2010, speech therapists like Wendy have become used to answering questions about the film, which brought the discipline of speech pathology into the public eye. And though most say that the techniques shown in The King's Speech are outdated by contemporary standards, the film captures a fundamental part of the field's history: its roots in elocution.\nDuring the late 18th century, generations before King George VI assumed the throne, the study of elocution and oratory gained widespread popularity in England. Soon after, the movement migrated to the United States, where writers began studying elocution for individuals with communication disorders. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, founded Boston's \"School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech\" in 1872, which specialized in speech instruction for deaf pupils. By 1887, there were 1,646 self-proclaimed elocutionists working in the United States.\nIt was not until the early twentieth century, however, that speech correction evolved into a discipline distinct from elocution. In 1922, Sara Stinchfield Hawk became the first American to receive a doctorate in Speech Pathology. And in 1937, Robert West, who served as the first president of the American Speech Correction Association, published The Rehabilitation of Speech. The classic text is still in print today, and West is known to many as the founding father of speech pathology in the United States.\nWendy's discipline has grown to address myriad speech and language difficulties over the past century. Some speech therapists work primarily with transgender people, assisting in the transition process and highlighting the rhythmic and intonational differences between most men's and women's speech patterns. Other pathologists specialize in post-surgical voice therapy for thyroid and laryngeal cancer patients, or work with individuals after strokes and traumatic brain injuries. Pediatric therapists, like Wendy, treat articulation-related impediments, phonological disorders, and other language and communication difficulties.\nRoughly 8 percent of young children in the United States have a speech disorder. By the time kids reach first grade, the prevalence of speech impediments falls to 5 percent. Still, only half of affected kids receive intervention services from speech therapists. The U.S. Department of Labor reported in 2016 that there are roughly 145,000 speech-language pathologists in the United States. A reported 43 percent of these therapists work in schools, but they're often overworked with heavy caseloads\u2014and children with minor but consequential articulation impediments can fall to the wayside.\nWhen Wendy was a young girl, she once gushed to her parents, \"Wouldn't 'Multitudes' be a wonderful name for a boy?'\"\nNow 62, Wendy is unsure where she developed her fascination with speech and language. She often cites the influence of her father, who read Winnie the Pooh to her at bedtime and assumed perfectly suited voices for each of the book's characters. As Wendy matured, she began experimenting with different accents as well, and quickly noticed she had a knack for impersonating regional English dialects. In late elementary school, after meeting a Scottish girl and her family on vacation, Wendy briefly abandoned her Received Pronunciation for a Scottish brogue.\nA decade later, Wendy found herself 19 years old and living with her parents after dropping out of a university program in Hotel Management. In an attempt to keep her daughter occupied, Wendy's mother suggested she shadow the speech therapist in Bedford. Over several days, Wendy traveled from appointment to appointment with the pathologist and listened to her deconstruct speech with mind-boggling specificity. Wendy witnessed the complexity of children's communication difficulties and came to believe\u2014for the first time in her life\u2014that speech patterns could be built.\nFor Wendy, it was a life-changing revelation. She immediately enrolled at the National Hospital's College of Speech Sciences. After receiving her bachelor's, she worked as a speech pathologist in London for seven years, and then returned to The Institute of Neurology to complete a one-year intensive master's program.\nDuring this time, Wendy met \"an American\"\u2014the most specific she gets when referring to her ex-husband\u2014with whom she moved to the United States in 1984. The couple settled in Connecticut and raised two sons. The kids have their father's accent.\nNow, Wendy is a member of both the American Speech\u2013Language\u2013Hearing Association and the Connecticut Speech\u2013Language\u2013Hearing Association. She sometimes attends ASHA's annual convention, which regularly attracts nearly fifteen thousand speech-language pathologists, but last year she opted out. \"I'm very\u2026picky,\" she once confessed to me before correcting herself. \"There are certain people I really want to hear.\"\nWhat Wendy genuinely cares about is the science of phonetics and linguistics as it pertains to communication. Spoken language can be broken down into several units\u2014sentences, words, syllables, and, at its most deconstructed level, phonemes. There are forty-four phonemes in the English language, twenty-four of which are consonants (which challenge children more often than vowels). These two dozen consonantal phonemes make up roughly 62 percent of English speech, and can be categorized by their voice, manner, and place.\nVoice refers to whether the vocal folds vibrate or not when producing a noise. Because of this distinction, the same physical movements in the oral tract can produce different sounds, such as \/s\/ and \/z\/, or \/p\/ and \/b\/. Manner, on the other hand, describes how air is released when making a sound. Plosive consonants, like \/p\/ and \/t\/, are characterized by full blockage of the airstream, followed by a quick release of air. Fricative consonants, including \/f\/ and \/v\/, create a hissing-like tone by releasing air through a tight opening.\nLastly, place describes where a phoneme occurs within the scope of the oral tract. Bilabial consonants, \/p\/, \/b\/, and \/m\/, are articulated between the lips. Labiodental consonants, \/f\/ and \/v\/, manifest when the bottom lip touches the upper incisors. Dental consonants, like the voiceless \"th\" sound in \"thin,\" are made by extending the tongue tip slightly between the upper and lower incisors. Alveolar consonants, such as \/t\/, \/d\/, and \/s\/, occur when the tongue blade is raised to the alveolar ridge. The glottal consonant \/h\/ occurs when the vocal folds do not vibrate but are close enough to produce friction as air is exhaled. The list goes on.\nA properly trained speech pathologist, Wendy says, should be able to transcribe any consonant, vowel, or diphthong by ear\u2014and identify its voice, manner, and place. One of Wendy's biggest complaints about her field is how underappreciated this scientific part goes, and how frequently acquaintances\u2014the same kind that ask about The King's Speech\u2014confuse speech pathology with the less-scientific discipline of elocution. \"When I was starting out, people heard you were a speech therapist and they would go, 'How now brown cow,'\" Wendy once remarked, rolling her eyes.\nWendy points to her lips, painted her signature pink. \"Are these two the same or different?\" she asks, adopting a hard American \/r\/ for the session. \"Arr\u2026arr\u2026arr. Arrarrarr.\"\nThe five-year-old boy sitting at the table, Samuel, tucks his chin and continues twisting his yellow rain boots around the legs of his chair. (To protect the child's privacy, Samuel is a pseudonym.) He starts to pick at the Wallingford Police Station temporary tattoo that's been on his arm for ten days.\nWendy tries again. \"What part of my mouth is mostly moving? Arrarrarr.\"\nSamuel started attending weekly lessons with Wendy in the spring of 2017. When they first began, he had a medley of severe articulation issues: he struggled with the strident system, which includes sounds like \"sh\" and \"ch\"; he displayed non-rhotacism, omitting his \"r\" sounds; and he substituted \"th\" for \"f,\" expressing his characteristically good manners with \"please\" and \"fank you.\" Many speech therapists wait until a child is eight years old to treat these issues, as there's a chance they'll resolve naturally, but Samuel persuaded Wendy with his eagerness and aptitude. At their first lesson, when Wendy asked him why he thought they were meeting, Samuel was certain. \"I'm here so you can teach me to say 'shursh,'\" he said, unknowingly echoing my brother.\nSamuel has since improved his strident sounds and learned to articulate \"r\" at the end of words, but he still can't isolate his tongue on r-initial words like \"rat,\" or r-remedial words like \"carrot.\" Wendy hopes that \"Arrarrarr\" will push Samuel to articulate the \"r\" sound before a vowel, but his lips have a habit of rounding into the \"w\" shape when he doesn't pause between each \"r.\"\nSamuel finally tilts his head back in frustration, shakes his bronze curls, and howls. \"Arr! Arr! Arr!\" Not quite. Wendy furrows her eyebrows and playfully corrects him: \"That sounds like a hiccupping seal.\"\nAfter twenty years of running her private practice, Wendy rarely encounters articulation issues that she doesn't know how to fix, once she has cracked what she calls the child's \"systematic error code.\" For almost any common problem like a lisp or non-rhotacism, Wendy knows a set of strategies\u2014some technical and some not-so-technical\u2014that she uses until she identifies one that works best. When she first started working with Samuel last spring, Wendy began with her usual technique: make a long \"ee\" and imagine the tongue is glued to the palate but allowed to slide from front to back. As the tongue moves backward in the mouth, \"ee\" becomes \"eer.\"\nThis visual didn't work with Samuel\u2014he couldn't move his tongue without rounding his lips\u2014so Wendy shifted to a less mechanical approach: do a seal impression. Samuel correctly articulated an \"r\" on his first try.\nBetween their weekly sessions, Samuel frequently practices speech exercises for fun, which Wendy says is practically unheard of. His r-final word articulation has now improved to the point that he corrects Wendy when she forgets her affected American \/r\/. Wendy recognizes the irony in teaching children a speech pattern that she does not share, but her accent doesn't undermine her effectiveness, she says. If anything, it makes the children's final \/r\/ sounds, though systematically constructed, more their own.\n\"I say to them, 'You'll be better at this than I am,'\" Wendy tells me after Samuel's session wraps up. \"And they are, by the time they finish.\"\nA week later, Samuel's Wallingford Police Station tattoo, now seventeen days out, has peeled to only a grey penumbra of a crest. He practiced \"Arrrarrrarrr\" at home this week, and Wendy thinks he's ready for full r-initial words. She pulls out a page scattered with terms: rope, road, read, ring, rag, rat, red, rip, rug, run.\nWendy has scrupulously sketched a picture beside each word to provide a visual cue. The hand-drawn illustrations strike me like Wendy's micro-adjustment of the table, but this time, I trust that whatever energy and attention she put into them is necessary. That maybe, one day, they'll be a part of why Samuel won't have to dodge words with perilous r sounds or veto baby names of his own.\nSamuel and Wendy take turns pointing to a picture and reciting the corresponding word. When Samuel's lips begin to round, Wendy gently rests her palm against his lower lip.\nIn a moment between drills, Samuel spots old papers protruding from Wendy's case binder. \"That's from when you couldn't say 'church,'\" Wendy says. Samuel clicks his tongue indignantly.\n\"I can say it!\" he retorts. \"Churrrrrrrrrrch.\"\n\u2014Antonia Ayres-Brown is a senior in Saybrook College.\nPosted on December 13, 2018 December 13, 2018 Author Antonia Ayres-BrownCategories FeaturesTags December 2018 \u2013 Volume 51 Issue 3\nOne thought on \"The Kid's Speech\"\nTheodore L Brown says:\nWhat a perceptive piece, instructive while shedding light on the author's personal history. I finished the piece filled with admiration for Wendy's patience and sensitivity to the complex world of children,\nBeautifully organized and written.\nPrevious Previous post: Godspeed\nNext Next post: Diverted","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies\nJens Sejrup\nCentre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University\nResearch output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper \u203a Newspaper article\nAn account of my personal experiences working at the intersection between Japanese and Taiwanese studies, this article outlines major differences between approaches and concerns in studies of the mass media in the two countries and describes challenges and opportunities for research trying to span the two different fields.\nSpecialist publication\nEATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4\nPublished - 2014 Jul 31\nOther Social Sciences\nhttp:\/\/www.afec-etudeschinoises.com\/IMG\/pdf\/EATS_News_issue_4_310714.pdf\nDive into the research topics of 'A Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nJapanese studies Social Sciences 100%\nmass media Social Sciences 64%\nTaiwan Social Sciences 57%\nSejrup, J. (2014). A Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies. EATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4, 18-20. http:\/\/www.afec-etudeschinoises.com\/IMG\/pdf\/EATS_News_issue_4_310714.pdf\nSejrup, Jens. \/ A Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies. In: EATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4. 2014 ; pp. 18-20.\n@misc{d06a8db194bf49fa88e618c8a43d0d27,\ntitle = \"A Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies\",\nabstract = \"An account of my personal experiences working at the intersection between Japanese and Taiwanese studies, this article outlines major differences between approaches and concerns in studies of the mass media in the two countries and describes challenges and opportunities for research trying to span the two different fields.\",\nkeywords = \"Asian Studies, Japan, Taiwan\",\nauthor = \"Jens Sejrup\",\njournal = \"EATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4\",\nSejrup, J 2014, 'A Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies' EATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4, pp. 18-20. <http:\/\/www.afec-etudeschinoises.com\/IMG\/pdf\/EATS_News_issue_4_310714.pdf>\nA Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies. \/ Sejrup, Jens.\nIn: EATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4, 31.07.2014, p. 18-20.\nT1 - A Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies\nAU - Sejrup, Jens\nN2 - An account of my personal experiences working at the intersection between Japanese and Taiwanese studies, this article outlines major differences between approaches and concerns in studies of the mass media in the two countries and describes challenges and opportunities for research trying to span the two different fields.\nAB - An account of my personal experiences working at the intersection between Japanese and Taiwanese studies, this article outlines major differences between approaches and concerns in studies of the mass media in the two countries and describes challenges and opportunities for research trying to span the two different fields.\nKW - Asian Studies\nKW - Japan\nKW - Taiwan\nM3 - Newspaper article\nJO - EATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4\nJF - EATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4\nSejrup J. A Foot in Two Camps: Taiwan and Japanese Studies. EATS News: The Newsletter of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, No. 4. 2014 Jul 31;18-20.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Life.Church\nKeeping Experiences Consistent Across Multiple Campuses\nWe believe that excellence honors God and inspires people. So as a multi-site church with 25 physical locations on a weekend, consistency and clarity must be the building blocks of excellence.\nFor the most part, every service at Life.Church flows almost exactly the same at each location with subtle differences in the content\u2014the campus pastor and worship pastors at each campus choose songs for their location, and each campus pastor communicates something specific to their campus during their stage time. Because we sync every service at every campus to the same message via satellite, timing of every element in our experiences has to be consistent each weekend.\nAny change to the regular flow of the service is carefully considered and communicated to the entire production team. Leaders from our campus operations team work with our senior pastor to finalize the details of how to make a change in our service flow, then communicate that change to the campus pastor and worship pastor at each location so they can lead through with clarity to their campus teams. Examples of subtle changes to a weekend service flow are adding a live worship song to the end of the main message or a child dedication in the middle of the worship set.\nWe try to never make last-minute changes to upcoming services, but there is, however, a constant feedback loop for improvements we can make over time. For example, we might change how we transition between service elements or what a campus pastor talks about during stage time.\nWhat we've learned:\nWe've found that multi-campus works best when every campus feels like the main campus. We create this feeling by replicating the experience down to the second across locations and then being intentional about creating a local, personal atmosphere through stage time, friendly greeters & ushers and volunteers on our host teams and operations teams, local imagery in the lobby, and more. When a campus feels recognizable and personable, people will feel at home there.\nSign up to read the full article.\nPlanting a New Campus with the Right Heart\nIf you lead an existing church or campus, and you hear that your church will be planting a new church, campus, or multi-site location, it can be hard to keep your heart right. You may feel like you're losing attenders, losing the tithe, or losing the cachet you alone had enjoyed in your town. We...\nHillsong Training: Long-Distance Leadership\nJoin Joel A'Bell, Lead Pastor of Hillsong Australia, on this Online Open Week webinar as he discusses how leaders within multi-site churches can adapt their leadership style to the challenges and opportunities created by distance between leaders and their teams. This webinar is par...\nThe Beginning of Multi-site\nInnovation happens where passion meets constraints. At first, it's a strange concept, but we've found that when you're backed up against a wall, you come up with some of your most ingenious solutions. For us, being constrained by a budget and a growing congregation forced us to think about alternat...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apple sued over death blamed on faulty iPad battery\nIn the early morning of February 22, 2017, a fire broke out at the apartment of 64-year-old Bradley Ireland in Parsippany, New Jersey.\nSadly, Ireland suffered serious injuries in the fire and died some hours later.\nThe reason why we're talking about this? According to a law suit newly filed by Ireland's daughter, Julia Ireland Meo, a defective Apple iPad is being blamed for the fire.\nAccording to the law suit filed against Apple, \"the fire and the resulting death\u2026 was caused by the defectively designed and\/or defectively manufactured subject tablet.\"\nThe suit is not specific about how much money Ireland's family hopes to receive from Apple, but it does ask for compensatory damages, interest, and costs including attorney fees.\nApple iPhones and iPads are powered by Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Considering that Apple claims to have sold more than two billion iPhones and iPads, you would expect any serious defect in the manufacturing of their batteries to have come to light before now.\nI might understand it if a device had been badly damaged in a store or during shipment, but if there was an inherent problem with iPhone and iPad batteries catching fire you would have expected to have heard much more about it by now.\nThat's not to say that other technology manufacturers haven't suffered serious problems in this area.\nThe likes of Dell, Lenovo, and Nokia are amongst the numerous companies who have in the past recalled millions of batteries in their laptops and phones due to safety concerns.\nPerhaps most notoriously, in 2016 Samsung announced it was recalling millions of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones over a battery flaw. A few months later, a fire broke out at a Samsung manufacturing plant. A fire caused by\u2026 err\u2026 faulty batteries.\nAlthough reports of Apple's popular gadgets catching fire are relatively rare, they're not completely unknown.\nFor instance, last year, a family in British Columbia demanded CA $600,000 (US $454,000) from Apple after its uninsured farmhouse was destroyed in a blaze. A fire that the family blamed upon a cable being used to charge an iPhone 6.\nI have no way of knowing if there is any truth in a faulty iPad battery being to blame for the apartment fire, but it sure seems a lot less frivolous than the class action brought earlier this month by a man who's upset that Apple's two-factor authentication process takes too much time.\n#fire\nGraham Cluley Follow @gcluley Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter at @gcluley, or drop him an email.\n\u00ab Apple sued because two-factor authentication\u2026 oh, I give up\n450,000 usernames and passwords stolen from Coinmama cryptocurrency broker \u00bb\nWinner: Best Security Podcast 2018, 2019\n137: \"Porn trolling lawyers, Insta hacking, and Ctrl-Alt-LED\"\nErection your honour! Lawyers find themselves behind bars after they make porn movies in an attempt to scam internet users, boffins in Israel detail a way to steal data from an air-gapped computer, and Instagram coughs up $30,000 after a researcher finds a simple way to hack into anybody's account.\nYour browser does not support this audio element.\nMore info and show notes.\nHire Graham Cluley to speak at your event.\nDell's 'apology' for eDellRoot fails to say sorry for putting your security at risk\neDellRoot, the huge security hole shipped with Dell laptops and PCs \u2013 what you need to know\nThe man suing Apple over two-factor authentication has 'previous'\nFeb 20, 2019 1 min read\n3 Replies to \"Apple sued over death blamed on faulty iPad battery\"\ncoyote says:\nNo. Apple should not be sued. This is a problem with Li batteries in general. And who's to say he didn't have too many devices plugged in? Who's to say any number of other things? Tragic? Sure. But with electricity comes a risk. Deal with it like an adult and don't try and get rich off it[0]. This is sort of like someone suing a battery company because they left batteries loose and two touched each other and ignited. In other words it's ridiculous and not the company's fault.\nAgree with your last thought for sure. My thinking is that instead of trying to get money they would be better to raise awareness. You know \u2013 for the better of mankind rather than selfishness?\n[0] It's not much better than arson for insurance purposes in my mind.\nCouple other things:\nThey want attorney costs covered? If they weren't suing would they have any? Certainly they wouldn't have as many so it's sort of their own doing.\n'you would expect any serious defect in the manufacturing of their batteries to have come to light before now'\nGood point. And brilliant pun. (I only saw it after reading the article after scrolling up \u2013 didn't read it at first.)\nIn the end this is a problem with batteries and electricity and even if there was a damage in shipment the new owner should be sensible enough to contact Apple (or whomever\/whatever) rather than use it. If not it's their fault if any fault can be placed,.\nAngie Jones says:\nFor all we know, he was probably using it while he was charging it, fell asleep and it over heated because it was on his bed, and it caught fire, or he could've been using a cheap 3rd party charger. It's not the first time that's happened. I use my iPhone while it's charging overnight and it gets warm, but I use the charger than came with my phone, and I usually put it on the floor when I'm finished.\nNever miss a thing. Sign up for the free GCHQ newsletter from Graham Cluley.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BOOK REVIEWS england fossils geology palaeontology\nBook review: Walking the West Jurassic Coast; and Walking the East Jurassic Coast, by Robert Westwood\nJon Trevelyan (UK)\nIn recent years, the Jurassic Coast Trust really has produced some great books and I have had the privilege of reviewing quite a number of them in this magazine. These two companion books are intended as walking guides to the World Heritage Site \u2013 the so-called 'Jurassic Coast' and the first covers the western limb from Orcombe Point to the Fleet, while the second deals with the eastern part, from Portland to Studland.\nLike all the Trust's current crop of books, they are dominated by bold, full colour photographs of this wonderful coastline. And interspersing the photos is text, briefly but succinctly explaining the geology that a hiker will see as he or she tramps the public footpaths. While I would always recommend walking with (at the very least) an OS map, the guides cleverly mark the route to be taken with dotted white lines in the large aerial photographs, which provide both a clear route and a visual representation of the geology discussed in the text.\nFor each of the walks (there are 16 in one guide and 17 in the other), the guides provide details of the distance, estimate time, level of difficulty, total ascent made during the walk, the relevant OS map and the grid reference for the starting point. The walks are then described both generally and in more detail and, being small, the books can easily be carried in a map case or coat pocket.\nWhere there is interesting geology (where isn't there any on this coastline?), the guides go into detail using text boxes and colour photographs. Therefore, the books more than adequately handle the fascinating geology of the area for anyone interested in the subject matter \u2013 from the red deserts of the Triassic, through the tropical seas of the Jurassic, the marshy braided rivers and dinosaurs of the Lower Cretaceous, to the algal blooms of the Upper Cretaceous chalk seas.\nI can certainly say that these are excellent little holiday guides that should accompany anybody who is looking to explore this wonderful coastline, and I can't recommend them enough.\nWalking the West Jurassic Coast, by Robert Westwood, Coastal Publishing Wareham, Dorset (2010), 64 pages (paperback), ISBN: 978-0954484576\nWalking the East Jurassic Coast, by Robert Westwood, Coastal Publishing Wareham, Dorset (2010), 64 pages (paperpack), ISBN: 978-0954484569\ndevondorset\nBook review: Mull in the Shaping, by Rosalind Jones\nBook review: Introducing Tectonics, Rock Structures and Mountain Belts, by Graham Park","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > HRC_ORALHISTORY > MCHV > interviewsessions > 102\nInterview Sessions\nEthan Dmitrovsky, MD, Oral History Interview, March 3, 2015\nEthan Dmitrovsky MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center\nDownload Full Interview Transcript (519 KB)\nMajor Topics Covered:\nPersonal and educational background; overseas experience and inspiration\nResearch: cell differentiation; retinoids in leukemic differentiation; lung cancer studies\nThe Role of the Provost; personal goals; institutional mandate; detailed of plans\nMD Anderson's ten-year strategic plan\nResearch in an environment of changing economics and health care delivery\nChapter 01: An Early Desire to Be a Physician and Focus on Difficult Illnesses\nChapter 02: College Influences: A Research Project, a Book, and Working as an Orderly\nChapter 03: Medical School and a Life-Changing Experience as a Physician Volunteer Near the Cambodia-Thailand Border\nChapter 04: A Fellowship and a Risky and Successful Study of Cell Differentiation\nChapter 05: A Faculty Position and a New Laboratory to Study the Role of Retinoids in Leukemic Differentiation\nChapter 06: Shifting Focus to Lung Cancer\nChapter 07: Coming to MD Anderson to Have a Broader Impact on Health\nChapter 08: Views on MD Anderson's 10-Year Strategic Plan and the Role of the Provost\nChapter 09: Creating a New Way of Conducting Research and Caring for Patients in a Changing Environment\nDmitrovskyE_01_20150303\nThe Historical Resources Center, Research Medical Library, The University of Texas Cancer Center\nUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas System. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute\nHistory of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History\nAbout the Interview\nAbout the Interview Subject:\nEthan Dmitrovsky, MD came to MD Anderson in 2013 to serve as the institution's Provost and Executive Vice President. He has a faculty appointment in the Department of Thoracic\/Head and Neck Medical Oncology in the Division of Cancer Medicine.\nDr. Dmitrovsky's translational research areas include: retinoid differentiation-based therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL); developed the molecular genetic test used to detect the PML\/RARalpha transcript from the APL t(15;17) rearrangement; retinoid mechanisms leading to cell cycle arrest and repair of DNA damage in normal\/malignant lung epithelial cells; engineered transgenic mouse models that express wild-type or proteasomal degradation-resistant cyclin E species in the lung; derived lung cancer cell lines leading to a new model to assess activity of lung cancer therapy and chemopreventive agents (antineoplastics).\nDmitrovsky, Ethan MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, \"Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD, Oral History Interview, March 3, 2015\" (2015). Interview Sessions. 102.\nhttps:\/\/openworks.mdanderson.org\/mchv_interviewsessions\/102","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"22 5 \u6708 The History of Alishan Forest Railway: Transformation from Logging Industry to Forest Tourism\nPosted at 12:31h in Articles \u77e5\u8b58\u6587\u7ae0, Featured news(English)\tby\thsuan\nA photo of the Railway back in Japanese colonial period. (Source: The News Lens \u95dc\u9375\u8a55\u8ad6\u7db2)\nThe Geography of Alishan\nThe term \"Alishan\" itself is a general name for the mountainous region in the Midsouth of Taiwan, composed of 18 different peaks. With an area of 1397.83 hectares in total, the area is now governed by Chiayi County. The railway runs from Chiayi train station (elevation 30 m) to Alishan Station (elevation 2,216 m). Along the way up the mountain are numerous switchbacks and outstanding scenic beauty. The vegetation also changes from tropical to temperate and finally alpine.\nOriginally constructed by the Japanese Colonial Government in 1912, the narrow gauge lines were designed to facilitate the logging of cypress and Taiwania wood. Because of its rich resources Alishan used to be one of three major official logging centers (the other two are Taipingshan and Basianshan) during the colonial period. Later, logging resources had been depleted and the area began to rely on tourism as the major economic driver in the area. How did they, however, managed to overcome all the challenges in those lofty mountains and build the railway?\nThe Construction of Forest Railway\nIn 1895, after the signing of Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Japanese government took over Taiwan and started the land-use and forest resources survey. They found that Alishan was rich in cypress and Taiwania wood. In order to take advantages of the resources, Nogi Maresuke (\u4e43\u6728\u5e0c\u5178), the governor-general of Taiwan, drafted a development plan. Forest experts were thus invited to investigate the solution, to figure out how to overcome the geographical constraints to transport the logs.\nThe construction was postponed to 1906 because the government was focusing on building the West Coast railway line and also due to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. Alishan Railway began its operation in 1912 and kept expanding its coverage to facilitate the logging industry. The length of the mainline were 71.9 km in total, its branch lines 45.377 km, making it longest railway line in Taiwan with most dramatic topography changes, covering 310 bridges and 73 caves. The construction is among the most difficult ones back in the time.\nFeatures of the Alishan Forest Railway\nWith its Horseshoe curve line, spiral loop, Z-shaped switchbacks, and Shay locomotives as motive power, Alishan Forest Railway has four of the five mountain railway characteristics listed by UNESCO.\nIt's worth mentioning that the Z-shaped switchbacks were designed to accommodate the rises and falls in topography. The train would move forward but at times move backward, as if it had run into the mountainside, which has become part of the the railway's uniqueness.\nAlishan Forest Railway has been operating for more than 100 years. With the development of the economy, the once timber carrier now has become a tourist attraction. So, why not take a ride and enjoy the scenic train ride? The train will take us back in time. While we're traveling surrounded by the forest, we'll witness an intriguing part of the Railway development history in Taiwan.\nSource Article: https:\/\/www.thenewslens.com\/article\/117276\n05\/19 \u6cdb\u65c5\u6642\u4e8b\u7e3d\u532f","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Renaissance Computation At Work\nExperts in computer science\nQuantum physicists\nThere are many complex computing problems that can't be addressed by conventional systems even by utilizing of today's supercomputers. We believe we will need a renaissance in the computation industry. A new scheme governed by quantum theory has the potential to help solve these complex hi-valued problems. We are here to accelerate that Renaissance.\nAbout QuantGates\nQuantGates is a quantum computing company dedicated to producing exceptional visions, returns and results for its clients by strictly adhering to Advanced QC methods.\nA leadership team with experience in business, fundamental science and Hi-technology.\nBehzad Mansouri\nMansouri joined QuantGates in 2019, leading the company through its transition from R&D into the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing technologies. Prior to this, Mr.Mansouri served as the Chief Executive Officer at Alvand Helium where he and his staff were responsible for cryogenics technology infrastructure. He holds an MSc degree from King's College London in Mathematics (Theoretical Physics).\nProf.Belal Ehsan Baaquie\nProf.Baaquie holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Cornell University (1976). He received his training in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Cornell University, New York, specialising in quantum field theory. He later developed an interest in finance and economics, and started applying quantum mathematics to these fields. He has written three books on quantum finance: Quantum Field Theory for Economics and Finance (Cambridge, 2018), Interest Rates and Coupon Bonds in Quantum Finance (Cambridge, 2009) and Quantum Finance (Cambridge, 2007) in addition to several other books focusing on topics from quantum mechanics and mathematics to books on the leading ideas in science. Baaquie joined QuantGates at our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) in 2019.\nProf.Nike Dattani, CTO\nDr. Nike Dattani is a scientist known for breaking the world-record for largest number factored on a quantum device in 2014 and then breaking it again in 2017. He is an academic grandson of Stephen Hawking and a degree 5 descendant of Niels Bohr. Due to publications with Oliver Riordan and Lila Kari, he has an Erdos number of 3, in two different ways. Dattani joined QuantGates as CTO in 2019.\nTina Sadeghi\nTina brings nearly ten years of marketing and communications experience in the Hi-technology and software industries.Tina has a LLB from London Metropolitan University.\nEhsan Hatami\nEhsan is a technical leader with years of experience in leading and implementing green-field projects and transforming legacy application to modern architecture in various industrial sectors such as Finance, Aviation and Automotive. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Kings College London and achieved his master degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University. He has worked with various programming languages, and hence he has a deep understanding of software architecture and enterprise approach to provide solution design for the projects. In addition to his current role, he is also Director at Hecate Technologies Limited, which provides software consultancy and software services, to small and medium businesses.\nOur Mission: Renaissance Computation At Work","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ruben Tejada\nSandy's Team?\nWhen the Mets were winning the 2015 pennant, there was a push in some circles to refer to that team as Omar's team. Depending on your point of view, it was intended to either credit Omar Minaya for his leaving behind a better than advertised talent base, or it was to deride Sandy Alderson, who never gained traction with some Mets fans.\nEven if it was said in jest, there was a nugget of truth to it. The core of that team, the pitching, was mostly there because of Omar Minaya. In fact, Minaya was the General Manager who drafted Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, and Steven Matz. The other key starter, Noah Syndergaard, was obtained in exchange for R.A. Dickey, a pitcher who was brought to the organization by Minaya on a minor league deal.\nMinaya was also the General Manager who drafted Lucas Duda and Daniel Murphy. Jeurys Familia, Wilmer Flores, Juan Lagares, Hansel Robles, and Ruben Tejada came to the Mets as international free agents signed during Minaya's tenure. Minaya's impact on the team went further than this with Sandy Alderson utilizing players brought to the organization during Minaya's tenure to acquire Travis d'Arnaud and Addison Reed.\nTaking it a step further, Minaya was the Assistant General Manager when David Wright was drafted, and he was the General Manager who gave Wright his first contract extension.\nOverall, Minaya's fingerprints were all over that 2015 team much in the same way Alderson's fingerprints are all over this year's Mets team.\nYesterday's starting lineup featured four former Alderson draft picks (Brandon Nimmo, Pete Alonso, Michael Conforto, Jeff McNeil) and the player who his regime gave the second highest international signing bonus in team history (Amed Rosario). Robinson Cano came to the Mets when Brodie Van Wagenen traded two former Alderson first round draft picks (Jarred Kelenic and Justin Dunn) and two players Alderson had signed in free agency (Jay Bruce and Anthony Swarzak).\nLooking further, the lineup also had two Minaya holdovers, one of which in Lagares who Alderson gave a contract extension.\nReally, when you truly break it down, the only player on the Mets Opening Day lineup who has zero ties to any previous Mets regime was Wilson Ramos.\nWhen you break it down further, the only Mets players who have no ties to previous regimes were Ramos, Luis Avilan, Justin Wilson, and Jed Lowrie, a player who opened the season on the Injured List and who currently has no timetable to return. Considering Familia was a free agent signing, you could potentially credit him solely to Van Wagenen even if he was seeking to return to the team. The other 20 players on the Opening Day roster were either players brought to the team by Alderson, or they were players who were acquired utilizing players Alderson brought to the organization.\nGiven the narrative which was in place four years ago, the question should be presented whether the 2019 Mets are Sandy's or Brodie's team.\nThe answer is this is definitively Brodie's team. As the General Manager, he was the one who set into course a series of transactions made to build the Mets in his image. It was he who decided to extend deGrom and to bring in Cano. When you are the General Manager, you are the one making the decisions, and you should receive the credit or blame if your decisions succeed or falter.\nAs for Sandy Alderson, Mets fans should be appreciative of the talent he acquired during his tenure. Alderson not only left behind a talented group of players, but he left behind a very likeable group of players. In the end, the Mets were better off for him having been the General Manager, and we can only hope we can say the same when Van Wagnen's tenure as the Mets General Manager ends.\nAddison Reed , Amed Rosario , Anthony Swarzak , Brandon Nimmo , Daniel Murphy , David Wright , Hansel Robles , Jacob deGrom , Jarred Kelenic , Jay Bruce , Jed Lowrie , Jeff McNeil , Jeurys Familia , Juan Lagares , Justin Dunn , Justin Wilson , Lucas Duda , Luis Avilan , Matt Harvey , Michael Conforto , Noah Syndergaard , Peter Alonso , R.A. Dickey , Robinson Cano , Ruben Tejada , Steven Matz , Travis d'Arnaud , Wilmer Flores , Wilson Ramos\nBrodie Van Wagenen's Bad Saturday\nYesterday was a very good day for Luis Guillorme. After an offseason where he put in a lot of work, he had a very good Spring Training. If yesterday is any indication, he's overcome long odds and took advantage of Jed Lowrie's and Todd Frazier's injuries to claim a spot on the Opening Day roster.\nIt was a very good day for him indeed. By the same token, it was not a good day for Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen.\nFirst and foremost, the Mets assigned Devin Mesoraco to minor league camp. In response, he told the Mets if he was not released he was going to retire. He also said he expected to make the Opening Day roster.\nDevin Mesoraco has told the Mets he won't go to Triple-A. His expectation was he would be on the club. He is now pushing for the Mets to release him. If that doesn't happen he will be placed on the restricted list.\n\u2014 Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) March 23, 2019\nExpectation is a funny word. It could be Mesoraco thought he was better than Travis d'Arnaud and Tomas Nido, and as such, he expected to make the team. It could also be his expectations were if d'Arnaud were to start the year on the IL, he would make the team. Neither are the case here.\nIt's also possible overtures were made by Van Wagenen that Mesoraco was going to make the team, and those overtures might have induced Mesoraco to sign with the Mets over seeking another opportunity or waiting it out a little longer to see if a catcher (like Salvador Perez) suffered an injury.\nYou do wonder if it was the latter as Adeiny Hechavarria did not make the roster. With respect to Hechavarria, he was taken to dinner by Van Wagenen and Mickey Callaway, who sold him on their vision for him with this club. Aside from the fact it's odd to wine-and-dine a 29 year old replacement level player, it would seem strange Hechavarria was enticed to sign with the Mets over another team because he thinks Syracuse is a great city.\nBetween the Mesoraco and Hechavarria situations, the more likely scenario is they were asked to sign minor league deals with the expectation the Mets would make a 40 man move at the end of Spring Training to add them to the Opening Day roster.\nIt's the most likely but not the only possible explanation. However, the problem with the others is it would require a more plausible explanation why Mesoraco seems so upset and why Hechavarria would want to play in Syracuse.\nAnd no, we should not cite Spring Training stats. They're meaningless, especially for veteran players. The Mets know the level of production these players would provide over the course of a 162 game season. A poor Spring doesn't change that.\nAs bad as that is the Mets brought back a lot of old friends from years past. The team signed Ruben Tejada and Travis Taijeron, each of whom was a dubious signing. Really, neither serve as MLB depth, and in reality, their presence only serves to take at-bats away from younger players like Gavin Cecchini, i.e. players who could still have a chance to improve and make an impact on the Major League level.\nAs bad (or even overblown) as all this is, there's Jacob deGrom.\nJacob deGrom says he's \"probably not as\" optimistic as he once was that he and the Mets will complete a contract extension before Opening Day.\n\u2014 Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 23, 2019\nLike all of us, he sees the extensions the other players are getting, specifically Chris Sale and Justin Verlander. Now, deGrom isn't as optimistic his former agent can get him the deal he told him he was worth.\nThis could mean at a time when all of baseball is pushing to extend their stars, the Mets are shut out, or in the best case scenario, only lock up deGrom.\nThis means time was wasted which could have been allocated towards extending Michael Conforto, Seth Lugo, Brandon Nimmo, and\/or Noah Syndergaard.\nAll told, what was a great day for Guillorme was a very bad day for Van Wagenen and the Mets.\nBrandon Nimmo , Devin Mesoraco , Gavin Cecchini , Jed Lowrie , Luis Guillorme , Michael Conforto , Mickey Callaway , Noah Syndergaard , Ruben Tejada , Todd Frazier , Tomas Nido , Travis d'Arnaud , Travis Taijeron\nThe 2015 Pennant Winning Infield Is Gone\nLooking at Twitter yesterday, something occurred to me. With David Wright medically retiring and Wilmer Flores signing with the Diamondbacks, the 2015 Mets pennant winning infield is all gone.\nThe first to go was Daniel Murphy. That was the result of the Mets deciding they would rather have Ben Zobrist then later Neil Walker as their second baseman in 2016. Juan Uribe would also depart via free agency as he would pursue an opportunity to be the Indians everyday third baseman.\nKelly Johnson would leave via free agency, but the Mets would soon realize their mistake by not re-signing him. As a result, they would trade Akeel Morris to the Braves to reacquire Johnson. That move would be a key factor in the Mets making it back to the postseason in 2016.\nWhile Murphy, Uribe, and Johnson left via free agency, the Mets just plain got rid of Ruben Tejada. Even with Chase Utley destroying his leg, the Mets would tender him a contract. On the eve of Opening Day, the Mets would opt to release Tejada thereby saving them some money.\nLucas Duda lasted a little bit longer. In 2016, he would suffer a back injury, which cost him most of the season. He would rebound in 2017, but the Mets wouldn't. As a result, he was moved at the trade deadline in exchange for Drew Smith.\nThat left just Flores and Wright. With Wright going down just 37 games into the 2016 season, it was really just Flores remaining. Even with the Mets not winning the past few seasons, Flores was a reminder of that glorious 2015 season with a number of walk-off hits and game winning RBI. Those memories are now history as Flores was non-tendered, and he signed a free agent deal with the Diamondbacks.\nReally, when you look at the Mets team, 2015 seems forever ago.Looking at the current roster, the only position players who will be active on Opening Day are Michael Conforto and Juan Lagares. If Travis d'Arnaud is healthy, that makes three, and when he returns, if he returns, Yoenis Cespedes will make four. There isn't much remaining from the pitching staff either. From the starting rotation, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, and Steven Matz remains, and in the bullpen, Jeurys Familia is only one remaining, and that is because he was brought back in free agency.\nIt really is a shame too. That 2015 group was very likeable. It was a team who electrified not just Mets fans, but all of baseball. At the time, it seemed like this was going to be the dawn of a new era of Mets baseball. If things broke right, it could be another run like there was with the 1980s Mets teams. Sadly, it never happened.\nStill, we have the memories. Hopefully, the Mets now have a team who could win. And who knows? Perhaps we will one day talk about how the players who got their experience with the 2015 team being the players who leaned on that experience to help put the Mets over the top in 2019.\nAkeel Morris , David Wright , Drew Smith , Juan Lagares , Kelly Johnson , Lucase Duda , Michael Conforto , Neil Walker , Ruben Tejada , Travis d'Arnaud , Wilmer Flores , Yoenis Cespedes\nComplicated Good-Bye To Jose Reyes\nBack in 2011, Jose Reyes would lay down a bunt single to preserve his batting title. The first in Mets history. After reaching safely, Reyes would be lifted from the game much to the consternation of Mets fans. Much of the consternation eminated from the fact it looked like this was going to be the last time fans were going to get to see Reyes in a Mets jersey, and those fans wanted to see Reyes play just one last time and say good-bye.\nSunday, Reyes was in the lineup once again leadoff in what many believed to be his final game as a Met. Reyes would take one at-bat, ground out, and he would walk off the field for a final time. While the circumstances may seem to mirror what transpired seven years prior, the two situations could not have been more different.\nDuring Reyes' first stint with the Mets, he was the most electrifying player in the Majors. He could turn anything into extra bases, and extra base hits were nanoseconds away from becoming triples. When he was on the basepaths, he was a constant stolen base threat, and his dancing at third base helped entice a few balks leading to a run. Reyes was so dynamic we came up with the term \"Reyes Run\" for him getting on, getting over, and getting in.\nReyes was more than a dynamic offensive force. He was a shortstop with a bullet arm and a fan favorite. His apparent joy on the field was infectious to the fan base, and it did seem to get the team going. (Sometimes, like 2007, it would also motivate the opponents). Mets fans would shower him with the \"Jose!\" chant (a chant which began Saturday, March 29, 2003). We loved him, and he seemingly loved us too.\nIn 2011, you could argue it was he and not David Wright whom the Mets should keep. After all, Reyes was the younger player, and Citi Field was built more to Reyes' than Wright's strengths. Whatever the case, the Mets opted not to re-sign him, devastating a fan base, and having the organization a nd fans looking for a new fan favorite. Arguably, no one could fill that void like the way Reyes once did.\nThat was the Reyes who left New York after the 2011 season. That Reyes was barely recognizable after leaving.\nAfter one year in Miami, he was traded to the Blue Jays as part of that organization's efforts to return to the postseason. In 2015, in Reyes' third year as a Blue Jay, it seemed the organization's plans were coming to fruition. They were competing for a postseason spot with hopes for the division. It was time for a bold move, their GM Alex Anthopoulos made that bold move. In a six player trade, Reyes was traded to the Blue Jays for LaTroy Hawkins and Troy Tulowitzki.\nIn a year, Reyes and the Mets were supposed to return to the postseason, Reyes instead found himself playing for the Colorado Rockies. He didn't want to be there, and the team didn't want him. This also meant instead of playing in the postseason, Reyes would be making vacation plans to go to Hawaii.\nOn October 31, 2015, Michael Conforto hit two homers. Instead of going to Jeurys Familia for the six out save, Terry Collins brought in Tyler Clippard, who walked two of the three batters he faced. When Familia finally did come in, Daniel Murphy booted a grounder. The Mets 3-2 lead would quickly become a 5-3 deficit.\nWhile this was happening, Jose Reyes would throw his wife into a glass door in Hawaii. His wife would need to be taken to a nearby hospital to treat her injuries, and Reyes would be arrested. Reyes faced not just prison time but also deportation. Instead, because his wife did not cooperate with prosecutors, the changes would be dropped.\nWhile Reyes was able to avoid legal troubles, he could not escape MLB punishment. With a new Domestic Violence policy, Reyes would be suspended 51 games, which stands as the longest Domestic Violence suspension to date. With the Rockies already wanting to transition to Trevor Story, they were more than happy to release Reyes.\nFortunately for Reyes, the Mets needed a third baseman. Wright was injured again, and he was going to miss the rest of the season. Eric Campbell, Matt Reynolds, Wilmer Flores, and Kelly Johnson just weren't to cut it. Partially due to desperation and partially due to nostalgia, the Mets threw Reyes the rope none of the other 28 teams were likely willing to give him.\nA fan base was divided. While the \"Jose!\" chants returned, they did not have the same enthusiasm. Some of the people most willing to lead the cheer would sit on their hands or boo. Reyes beat his wife, and the Mets signing him was sending the wrong message.\nStill, Reyes stayed, and he played reasonably well. He would have some highlights including the September 22nd game where both he and Asdrubal Cabrera homered which helped turn a 6-4 loss into a dramatic 9-8 11 inning victory which helped propel the Mets into the top Wild Card. Much like in his last postseason game with the Mets, Reyes went hitless as his team was eliminated at home.\nIn the subsequent two years, he was about the worst players in baseball. Despite all of Collins' efforts to get him going, Reyes floundered, and there would be reports he was not happy playing third base. At the end of the 2017 season, he helped reinvent himself as a mentor to Amed Rosario. Between that and his hitting in September, the Mets brought him back.\nHe was dreadful this year hitting .189\/.260\/.320. He'd post a -0.8 WAR. Worse yet, he would complain about his playing time. He believed as a utility player he should have received more playing time, and really, without that playing time, the Mets were not giving him a chance to succeed. While there were some who were able to compartmentalize the off the field issues, when he was bad on the field, more and more Mets fans were disenchanted with him.\nHowever, despite the ever growing calls to release him and make way for more talented prospects like Jeff McNeil, the Mets stubbornly held onto him. They treated him like one of the Mets greats, which he was in the first part of his career. Against all odds, Reyes would last the full season with the Mets. It allowed him to play alongside Wright in the Captain's final game.\nIt also meant Reyes would get to leadoff in what is likely his final career game. Between innings, the Mets showed a video tribute. Reyes would emerge from the dugout to tip his cap to a standing ovation.\nThe crowd was much smaller than the sold out crowd who was there to see Wright's final game. The standing ovation Reyes received did not remotely compare to the one Wright received. If you went back a decade, that would seem implausible as both were beloved players with Reyes being the one who probably generated more enthusiasm from the fans.\nPersonally, I loved Reyes. The first player jersey I ever purchased was Mike Piazza, the second Wright, and the third Reyes. Overall, I had more Reyes shirseys than any other player including a last season at Shea and first season at Citi one. That Reyes was the most exciting player who ever played for the Mets. When he went to Colorado, I still believed he had an outside shot at the Hall of Fame.\nAfter he left, I was left livid with the organization. In no way should Wright and Reyes have ever been split up. Like great Mets duos of the past, Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman and Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, it seemed like their destiny was to win a World Series together. Between that, Flores' struggles at short and Ruben Tejada not being a particularly good baseball player, I desperately wanted the Mets to make a trade with the Rockies to bring back Reyes for that 2015 run.\nTo this day, part of me wonders what would have happened if Reyes did return to the Mets in 2015. Do they win that World Series, or do they still fall short? Would Reyes and his contract stood in the way of Yoenis Cespedes returning? Mostly, I wonder about that night.\nWhile statistics prove differently, to this day, I hope it was an isolated incident, which could have been avoided by Reyes being in New York instead of Hawaii. In the converse, maybe this was a pattern of behavior which grew increasingly violent, and perhaps, things could have been hidden for longer if he was never in Hawaii. There is no way of knowing anything. What we do know is that instead of being in New York, Reyes was in Hawaii where he forever changed his legacy by committing a vile act.\nBecause of all of this, I was initially irritated Reyes was sharing Wright's spotlight, but I made peace with it because it was what Wright wanted.\nAt the sake of sounding hypocritical, I must admit seeing Reyes doubling and moving to third on a sacrifice bunt was exciting. Wright coming up to the plate in an RBI situation was exciting. Wright being able to drive Reyes home just one last time made the moment all the more special.\nIn all honesty, I was surprised nostalgia got the better of me in the moment.\nPerhaps it is because I truly miss the Reyes of 2003 \u2013 2011. I just miss how fun it was to watch him play.\nThat fun completely disappeared when he returned. He was no longer a young up and coming superstar. He was a violent wife beater. Some people may be able to compartmentalize it, but I wasn't. Certainly not for a player I once held in the highest of regards.\nNow that is career is over, I honestly do wish Reyes well. I want him and his family to be able to move on from the domestic violence to have a happy and safe home life. If that happens, then no matter how much I was against it, Reyes returning to the Mets was worth it. I will be happy if Reyes returning to a place he was loved and cared for led him to not only seek help but to end what might have been a pattern of abuse. Hopefully, he is a better husband and father for the experience.\nIn the end, congratulations to Reyes on a great career. You are the greatest shortstop in Mets history. The memories of you and Wright playing together were some of the best I've had as a fan. Rooting for you was never the same, and it will never be the same again. Still, each and every Mets fan, including myself, wish you and your family well.\nGod bless the Reyes family.\nAmed Rosario , Asdrubal Cabrera , Daniel Murphy , Darryl Strawberry , David Wright , Dwight Gooden , Eric Campbell , Jeff McNeil , Jerry Koosman , Jeurys Familia , Jose Reyes , Kelly Johnson , LaTroy Hawkins , Matt Reynolds , Michael Conforto , MIke Piazza , Ruben Tejada , Terry Collins , Tom Seaver , Tyler Clippard , Wilmer Flores , Yoenis Cespedes\nUtley To Retire, Reyes Still Playing\nYesterday, Chase Utley had a press conference to announce he was going to retire from baseball at the end of the season. As a Mets fan, this probably should make you elated.\nAfter all, back from his days in Philadelphia, he has been nothing but a dirty player, and he has been a villain. For proof of that look no further than that tackle which not only broke Ruben Tejada's leg, but it really ruined his career. Just remember that as people write and talk about Utley being a hard-nosed player who \"played the game the right way.\"\nUtley is also the guy who completely embarrassed Noah Syndergaard and the Mets. Really, Shawn Estes' message to Roger Clemens was more heartful, and really much closer, than the message Syndergaard tried to send that night. As a bonus, we did get that great Terry Collins' ejection video.\nIf you've been a Mets fan long enough, there are many, many, many more Utley moments which will instantly spring to mind.\nSo yeah, in a sense it's good for the Mets that Utley is gone much in the same way it was good to see players like Chipper Jones retire.\nHowever, the Mets and their fans are nowhere near a position to celebrate the retirement like Utley, even if he was a coward ducking the Mets and and their fans during the NLDS.\nUlitmately, it's really hard to care when the Mets not only chose to employ the 35 year old Jose Reyes, but they also play him over Amed Rosario, Dominic Smith, Jeff McNeil, and really any player who could hit better than .164\/.246\/.227.\nSo, people can go ahead and celebrate Utley's retirement and pretend like the bad guy is gone. It's not true.\nThe real bad guy, the one who is a Met right now because he threw his wife through a glass door, is still with the Mets, and he's become a major impediment to the Mets organization moving forward and improving for the future.\nSo congrats on a great career to Utley. He may have been dirty and ruined careers, but at least he didn't beat his wife and complain to the press to help take playing time away from players he was supposed to mentor.\nAmed Rosario , Dominic Smith , Jeff McNeil , Jose Reyes , Noah Syndergaard , Ruben Tejada , Shawn Estes , Terry Collins\nMatt Harvey, Thank You And Good Luck\nIn September 2015, Scott Boras tried to intervene and limit Matt Harvey's innings in what could be perceived as an attempt to save the pitcher not just from the Mets, but also from himself. There would be a modified schedule and some skipped starts, but Harvey eventually took the shackles off because he wanted the ball.\nHarvey always wanted the ball.\nHe wanted the ball in the NL East clincher against the Reds. Instead of the five innings he was supposed to pitch, he pitched into the seventh because, well, he wanted to get ready for the postseason, and the Mets were lucky he did.\nHarvey won a pivotal Game 3 of the NLDS. With that series going five games, it was Harvey who got the ball in Game 1 of the NLCS. In front of a raucous Citi Field crowd, Harvey set the tone for that series. As he stepped off the mound with two outs in the eighth, he wasn't tipping his cap. No, he was pumped up like all of Citi Field was because he knew what we all knew . . . this team was going to the World Series.\nWhen telling the story of Matt Harvey, we will forever go back to Game 5. With the Mets team trying to rally back from a 3-1 series deficit, Harvey wanted the ball for the ninth. Terry Collins initially wanted Jeurys Familia, but he relented, and he gave Harvey the ball.\nYou'd be hard pressed to find a time in Citi Field history louder than when Harvey took the mound in that ninth. A blown lead and Game 5 loss later, you'd never find Citi Field more despondent.\nNow, looking back, that Game 5 was the microcosm of Harvey's Mets career.\nHe came in, and he gave us all hope the impossible could happen. He brought us all along for the ride. There was no one we wanted out there more than Harvey. And yet at the very end, despite all the hope and brilliance he brought, we were all left in disbelief, and yes, some in tears, over the how and why Harvey was still out there.\nMainly, Harvey was there because despite no matter what anyone said, Harvey wanted to be there, and he was not going to let anyone stop him.\nAnd you know what? Back in 2013, no one could stop him.\nIn 26 starts, Harvey was 9-5 with a 2.27 ERA, 0.931 WHIP, and a 9.6 K\/9. His 2.01 FIP that year would not only lead the Majors, but it would be one of the 10 best over the past 100 years. His WHIP still remains a single season Mets record. It may have seemed premature to put him in the conversation with Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden, but really, it made sense. Harvey was just that good.\nHe was the reason to watch a terrible Mets team, and on May 7th, he may have pitched the game of his life. If not for an Alex Rios infield single Ruben Tejada could not turn into an out, Harvey likely pitches a perfect game. Instead, he had to settle for a no decision despite allowing just one hit and 12 strikeouts in nine innings. Just file that away next time someone points out his win-loss record.\nThat game was the signature Harvey moment. He took the mound with a bloody nose. He was reaching near triple digits with this fastball. He was becoming a superstar. He was making Citi Field his playground.\nWhen we look through the history of Citi Field one day, it will be Harvey who emerged as it's first superstar. He was the one who brought the crowds. He started the first All Star Game at Citi Field. Arguably, he pitched the two best games ever pitched by a Met at that ballpark.\nIt would be that 2013 season Harvey broke. He tore his UCL, and he needed Tommy John surgery. Mets fans everywhere who were once so hopeful were crushed. There were many low moments in Mets history since the team moved to Citi Field, but that one is among the lowest.\nBut when he came back in 2015, hope returned. He may not have been 2013 great, but he was great. For all the criticism over his innings limits, he would throw more innings than any pitcher in baseball history in their first season back from Tommy John.\nLooking back at that 2015 season, Harvey gave the Mets and their fans everything he had. He pitched great in the regular season, and he was even better in the postseason. Just like in 2013, he was trying to will the Mets back to prominence. He was taking an organization on his back and trying to win a World Series.\nIt broke him in 2013, and apparently, it broke him again in 2015.\nReally, when he stepped off that mound in Game 5 of the World Series, Harvey was done as we knew him. In 2016, he'd be diagnosed with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome requiring season ending surgery. Last year, Harvey was rushed back to the rotation before he was physically ready, and he suffered a stress reaction. This year, he was healthy, but lost.\nLooking back, no one will ever know if Harvey listened to Boras if he'd still be The Dark Knight instead of a guy now looking for a job.\nThe real shame is how Harvey went out. The same guy who heard the loudest ovations from the fans, the same one who heard Mets fans serenade Stephen Strasburg with \"Harvey's Better!\" chants, was booed off the mound the last time he ever pitched on what had once been his mound.\nThere are some who will find behavioral excuses why Harvey faulted, and maybe they do exist. However, you'd be hard pressed to find a pitcher who was at the top of his game in November only to completely lose it by the next April. Most pitchers get a transition period to figure things out. Harvey's cruel fate was he had more injuries followed by his getting about a month and a half before being given an ultimatum.\nIn what once seemed impossible, Harvey was designated for assignment. Sure, Mets fans always expected him to leave one day, but we all thought it would be Harvey who spurned the cheap Wilpon family, not the Wilpons kicking him out the door despite the team still owing him around $4 million.\nMuch has been made of the Mets crop of starting pitchers, the group who brought them to the 2015 World Series. Make no mistake, Harvey was the best out of the group. Better than Jacob deGrom. Better than Noah Syndergaard.\nReally, he was better than anyone not named Seaver or Gooden, and if things had broken right, Harvey could have been a Hall of Famer. He was that good when he was healthy, but he wasn't healthy making him this generation's version of Paul Wilson, Jason Isringhausen, or Jon Matlack.\nHarvey being designated for assignment wasn't a shock. With every struggle on the mound, and yes, some personal issues that emerged, he was getting closer and closer to this point. It doesn't mean this doesn't hurt the Mets fan, the ones who got to experience in the joy of seeing the real Harvey pitch, any less.\nThere will come a day down the line where all will be forgiven, and we can all just look back and appreciate all Harvey did for the Mets. We can take a step back and marvel how he potentially sacrificed his entire career to win that one World Series. Really, he has never been thanked or appreciated enough for that.\nNow, he is looking for a new team and a new fan base. Hopefully, Harvey rediscovers some of that magic he once had, and hopefully, he gets those cheers again. He's certainly earned them.\nAnd when he does return to Citi Field, whether it be this year or the next, let's hope he gets that true standing ovation he deserved, the one he might've received on Thursday had we all known it was going to be his last game in a Mets uniform.\nNo matter what happens, Mets fans everywhere should wish him the best of luck. There was a time we showered him with all the love we had, and he returned the favor by giving us everything he had. Everything. Here's hoping he gets everything he is looking for in his next stop.\nI know no matter what he does, I'm rooting of him. More than that I appreciate Harvey for all he did as a Met. Really, best of luck to you, Matt Harvey.\nDwight Gooden , Jacob deGrom , Jason Isringhausen , Jeurys Familia , Jon Matlack , Matt Harvey , Noah Syndergaard , Paul Wilson , Ruben Tejada , Terry Collins , Tom Seaver\nWho's Better: 2015 or 2018 Mets?\nEntering the season, Yoenis Cespedes made the bold declaration the 2018 Mets were better than the 2015 Mets. Now, if you recall that 2015 team, it did feature players like Eric Campbell and John Mayberry. However, those players were not on the team at the same time as Cespedes. When Cespedes joined the Mets, he was on a much better roster, a roster which went all the way to the World Series.\nWith that consideration, it is certainly bold for Cespedes to make that declaration, but is he right? Let's take a look:\n2015: Travis d'Arnaud, Kevin Plawecki\nJust looking at those names, you may be quick to think not much has changed in the catching situation. In reality, everything is different, and the main difference is these catchers stand on much different footing.\nThe 2015 season was d'Arnaud's best as a player with him posting a 126 OPS+ and emerging as an elite pitch framer. Plawecki was overmatched at the plate, but he did handle the pitching staff exceptionally well. Since that time, both had gone on to disappoint in 2016 and much of 2017.\nThings changed at the tail end of 2017. Plawecki finally looked like the player the Mets once thought he would become. d'Arnaud would finish the season with a strong September. As a result, they will look to begin the 2018 season in a unique time sharing agreement designed to keep both healthy and effective all year long.\nVERDICT: 2018 \u2013 if both replicate their Septembers, this won't even be close\n2015: Lucas Duda\n2018: Adrian Gonzalez\nIn 2015, Duda hit .244\/.352\/.486 with 27 homers and 73 RBI. He was as streaky as he ever was unable to carry the team when they needed his bat most, and he almost single-handedly beat the Nationals in a key late July series.\nGonzalez is coming off the worst year of his career, and he is still dealing with back issues which requires him to warm up two hours before the game starts.\nVERDICT: 2015 \u2013 Gonzalez may not be around long enough to make a bad throw\n2015: Daniel Murphy\n2018: Asdrubal Cabrera\nWe got a glimpse of what Murphy would became with him slugging .533 over the final two months of the season. Even with the increased power, no one could predict the home run barrage he'd unleash in the postseason.\nFor his part, Cabrera finds himself at second a year after protesting moving there or anywhere. He's been a good hitter with the Mets, and he's been terrific in the clutch. We'll see if the injuries will permit him to be that again.\nVERDICT: 2015 \u2013 Murphy's postseason was an all-time great one\n2015: David Wright\n2018: Todd Frazier\nThis was really the last hurrah for Wright in a Mets uniform. He was very good in the 30 games he played after coming off the DL hitting .277\/.381\/.437. He'd hit two emotional homers: (1) his first at-bat since coming off the DL; and (2) his first World Series at-bat at Citi Field.\nFrazier has been a solid to somewhat underrated player. Over the last three years, he's averaged 34 homers, 88 RBI, and a 110 OPS+. He's been a good fielder averaging a 5 DRS over that stretch.\nVERDICT: 2018 \u2013 Frazier is no Wright, but he's healthy\n2015: Ruben Tejada\n2018: Amed Rosario\nTejada was not supposed to be the starting shortstop in 2015. After wasting a few chances which led to Omar Quintanilla getting the bulk of the playing time over him, the Mets moved on to Flores. Eventually, Collins and the Mets went back to Tejada because: (1) he had steadier hands; and (2) he had a .362 OBP in the second half. Who knows how everything would have turned out had Chase Utley not broken his leg with a dirty slide\/tackle.\nRosario is the future of the Mets. Yes, there are flaws in his game like his very low walk rate. However, this is a uniquely gifted player who is dedicated to being better. He's electric, and he's got the skill set to be a superstar for a very long time. For now, we will settle for him being a good defensive shortstop who brings real speed and upside to the table.\nVERDICT: 2018 \u2013 Rosario's ceiling is just way too high\n2015: Michael Conforto, Yoenis Cespedes, Curtis Granderson\n2018: Yoenis Cespedes, Michael Conforto, Jay Bruce\nCespedes was just an otherworldly player when he joined the Mets. Despite his only being a Met for a few months, he finished in the Top 15 in MVP voting. Really, the MVP for the Mets that year was Granderson who was a leader in the clubhouse on the lineup. He had the most homers from a lead-off hitter, and he was a Gold Glove finalist. Conforto jumped from Double-A to post a 133 wRC+ and a much better than expected 9 DRS in left.\nWith respect to the 2018 outfield, we see Conforto is a much better play (when healthy), and Cespedes is nowhere near as good as he was when he joined the Mets. To be fair, there's no way he could, but he's still an All Star caliber player. This means the main difference between the squads is Bruce and Granderson.\nVERDICT: 2015 \u2013 That Cespedes was just that much better.\n2015: Michael Cuddyer, Wilmer Flores, Kelly Johnson, Juan Lagares\n2018: Wilmer Flores, Juan Lagares, Brandon Nimmo, Jose Reyes\nFrom the moment Uribe and Johnson joined the Mets, they were game changers. They both brought a winning attitude and game winning hits. In addition to the two of them, Lagares was the defensive specialist, a role to which he is best suited, and Cuddyer was a platoon partner with either Conforto or Duda depending on whether Lagares started the game as well. Overall, it was a veteran bench who provided needed leadership.\nThe Mets current bench is similar to the 2015 bench with Reyes trying to emulate the Uribe role even if he's not as productive a player. Flores is Flores, but a better hitter, and believe it or not, a worse fielder. Lagares rediscovered his range he lost in 2015. Nimmo should be in the everyday lineup and leading off, but early indications are he won't.\nVERDICT: 2015 \u2013 Uribe and Johnson were just that important\n2015: Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Bartolo Colon\n2018: Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz, Matt Harvey, Jason Vargas\nWhen you consider Vargas was basically brought in to replicate what Colon did in 2015, the question is whether you believe the Mets top four starters are better as a group now or then. Looking at it objectively, Syndergaard is the only one who has improved with no one knowing what Harvey and Matz can still provide.\nVERDICT: 2015 \u2013 they were just healthier then\n2015: Jeurys Familia, Tyler Clippard, Addison Reed, Hansel Robles, Jon Niese, Sean Gilmartin, Erik Goeddel\n2018: Jeurys Familia, Anthony Swarzak, AJ Ramos, Jerry Blevins, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Paul Sewald\nFamilia was that good in 2015 that he was able to cover many of the warts in the 2015 bullpen. This resulted in Collins using him for multiple innings more than any other closer that year. Reed would begin his emergence as a great reliever, but a back injury would cost Clippard of his effectiveness. One surprise was Niese performing well as a lefty in the bullpen.\nWhen you include Sewald's Triple-A experience, this is a bullpen with three closers, six pitchers with closer's stuff, and a very good LOOGY in Blevins. Even if Familia is not as good as he was in 2015, it won't matter because there is enough depth here for the Mets to not need to rely upon him as much.\nVERDICT: 2018 \u2013 they're just deeper and with more upside\n2015: Terry Collins\n2018: Mickey Callaway\nFor all the warts and problems Mets fans discovered with Collins, he had his finest year as a manager in 2015. When the ship could have sunk multiple times, he pulled the team together and kept things afloat until the team got healthy and reinforcements arrived. Of course, he followed this up by helping cost the Mets the World Series with a series of baffling decisions which all blew up in the Mets faces.\nRight now, Callaway looks like a genius. He's innovative batting Cespedes second and Rosario ninth. He came down hard on Dominic Smith for being late. His players seem to love him, and the baseball world roundly believes the Mets made an excellent hire. However, the season isn't even a week old. Even if everyone is a fan at the moment, let's check back in a couple of months to see if he's an innovative genius or if he's a know-it-all who can't leave good enough alone.\nVerdict: 2018 \u2013 Collins did cost the Mets a World Series\nIf you break it down, the 2015 Mets were better at first, second, outfield, bench, and rotation. The 2018 version is better at catcher, third, short, bullpen, and manager. Looking at the breakdown, you can say it's a 5-5 draw. However, in reality, it's not. That 2015 team pitching rotation was just so dominant, and hypothetically, if these teams were going to step on the same field, the 2015 rotation would dominate the 2018 version.\nThat said, there is a lot of talent on this 2018 team, and from what we have seen so far, this is a roster tailor made to what we presume is Callaway's talents as a manager. If Callaway is indeed as good as we hope it will be, we can see him and Dave Eiland taking this pitching staff as a whole to the next level. If that can happen, and with a little help, this Mets team could accomplish what the 2015 version didnt \u2013 win the World Series.\nAddison Reed , Adrian Gonzalez , AJ Ramos , Amed Rosario , Anthony Swarzak , Asdrubal Cabrera , Bartolo Colon , Brandon Nimmo , Curtis Granderson , Daniel Murphy , Dave Eiland , David Wright , Dominic Smith , Eric Campbell , Erik Goeddel , Hansel Robles , Jacob deGrom , Jason Vargas , Jay Bruce , Jerry Blevins , Jeurys Familia , John Mayberry , Jon Niese , Jose Reyes , Juan Lagares , Kelly Johnson , Kevin Plawecki , Lucas Duda , Matt Harvey , Michael Conforto , Michael Cuddyer , Noah Syndergaard , Omar Quintanilla , Paul Sewald , Robert Gsellman , Ruben Tejada , Sean Gilmartin , Seth Lugo , Steven Matz , Todd Frazier , Travis d'Arnaud , Tyler Clippard , Wilmer Flores , Yoenis Cespedes\nThank You Matt Reynolds\nWith the Mets needing room on the 40 man roster, they first designated Matt Reynolds for assignment, and then they traded him to the Washington Nationals for cash. With that, we have seen the end of a short and extremely interesting tenure for the former Mets 2012 second round pick.\nAfter a breakout 2014 season in the minors, Reynolds had put himself in position to capitalize on an unsure shortstop situation. With the team having moved on from Ruben Tejada as the everyday shortstop, and with them giving the defensively challenged Wilmer Flores a shot, it seemed like Reynolds would be a part of a team who had a shot at the postseason.\nAs luck would have it, Reynolds would be a part of the Mets 2015 pennant winning team, just not in the way he imagined. Reynolds \"chance\" came because Chase Utley tackled (not slid) Tejada breaking his leg. With Reynolds being the only real shortstop left on the 40 man roster, and arguably the best defensive one, he would get the call up. In effect, Reynolds got the best seat in the house. His postseason experience was taking infield, batting practice, appearing for player introductions, and sitting in the dugout.\nLike all of us, he sat on the edge of his seat helpless as the Mets squandered away their chances of winning a World Series. Unlike the rest of us, he would get a chance to prove himself against the Royals.\nIn arguably his career highlight as a Met, Reynolds was a surprise starter in left field in a day game against the Royals. In the bottom of the sixth, Reynolds would hit his first career homer breaking a 3-3 tie. The run would hold, and the Mets would get the win.\nFrom there, Reynolds would have moments of glory and stretches where he struggled. In reality, this is the life of a player who his shuttled (or in the Mets case flow) between Triple-A and the majors. In September, he was promised more playing time to permit the Mets a chance to get a better read as to how he fit into the Mets future plans. The chance never truly materialized. In that sense, the writing was on the wall.\nNow, Reynolds is a member of the Washington Nationals, and it appears he is going to get a better chance to be a Major League contributor than he ever did with the Mets. As fans, we can only hope he doesn't replicate his performance against the Royals. Aside from that Reynolds was a Met, and he was one during one of the more fun rides in Mets history, and for that we should all wish him well.\nMatt Reynolds , Ruben Tejada , Wilmer Flores\nCarig's Wilpon Article Left Me Even More Frustrated\nIn case you missed it over the weekend, Marc Carig of Newsday wrote a column wherein many Mets fans have applauded because someone not only asked the question about payroll, but also for rightfully taking the team to task for how it's been operated.\nThat's great and all, but that's not really what this article was about. The article was really about the lack of accountability from this franchise. Here are some key excerpts:\nBut rather than reach for transparency, the Wilpons seem content to hide. They never talk about money. Whether it's arrogance or simply negligence, they have no problem asking fans to pony up the cash and never show the willingness to reciprocate.\nTo the Wilpons, it's as if nobody is worthy of a straight answer. That's the biggest failure of all.\nBut it costs zero dollars to be transparent, to be willing to explain the payroll, to be proactive about presenting a plan to succeed.\nThe Wilpons can start by publicly owning up to how this franchise is run. They can begin speaking for themselves rather than leaving the dirty work to middle men. But until they show the courage to take that first step, the Mets and their fans are doomed to repeat the cycle, pulling for a franchise that will never actually do enough to win.\nHaving read and re-read this article, time and again, I really begin to wonder if the term fan is being substituted for reporter.\nThis is not a slight on Carig or any beat reporter. There job is much more difficult than fans could possibly imagine. There are things we demand they discover, but at the end of the day, there may be no answer to those questions because, well, the team won't answer them.\nWhatever your line of work, it must be nauseatingly frustrating when someone just stonewalls you time and time again, and that prevents you from doing an aspect of your job. In the case of a beat reporter, that would include covering issues that are seemingly simple like the budget and a framework for the offseason.\nAs an aside, that must be even worse for Sandy Alderson.\nMeanwhile, one of the most important currencies for a reporter is access. Write a scathing comment like Carig did, and you may very well find that access limited. That would make an already difficult job all the more difficult.\nStill, there is a major question that needs to be asked \u2013 why is the payroll question being asked now?\nWhy wasn't this asked heading into the 2015 season? The team certainly pushed forth the belief they were going to contend with the rise of Jacob deGrom and the return of Matt Harvey from Tommy John surgery.\nThat team's Major League acquisitions prior to Spring Training were Michael Cuddyer and John Mayberry. They did nothing to address the bullpen or the bench, and Wilmer Flores was the shortstop.\nAfter the 2015 season, if not for Yoenis Cespedes lingering longer than anyone believed he would, the Mets were going to enter the 2016 season with lower payroll and a center field platoon of Alejandro De Aza and Juan Lagares to replace Cespedes. On top of that, Eric Campbell made the Opening Day roster because the Mets didn't want to pay Ruben Tejada $3 million.\nWith an injured Mets team making an incredible push to claim the top Wild Card, the Mets did not sign one free agent from outside the organization. They re-signed Fernando Salas and Jerry Blevins because both surprisingly lingered on the free agent market, and the team gave Cespedes a big contract.\nHowever, it should be noted the Mets did nothing to improve the roster from a team that was simply not good enough in 2016. Instead, of stories about the payroll being below market and window of competition, it was mostly lauding the Cespedes re-signing as the team going for it coupled with the intrigue about how the Mets were returning the same roster.\nAnd look, we all know the Mets are likely cutting payroll because that's what the Mets do. Still, the team did add a good late inning reliever in Anthony Swarzak, and they were rebuffed by Ian Kinsler. Other than Carlos Santana, the big name free agents are still on the board.\nWhile we don't expect them to come to the Mets, in prior offseasons, we have seen the market correct with Sandy sitting there ready to swoop in and get them for less money than anticipated. That's why Cespedes and Blevins will be Mets next season. Such behavior (luck?) has been routinely lauded.\nNow? Well, now, it is being criticized because the Mets lack of accountability and refusal to answer the simplest questions has become too much to bear. Except this time, it's not the fans, it's for reporters. They're now writing articles about it \u2013 articles we all wish were written in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 (apologies to a few like Megdal who has done excellent reporting on the topic and Vacarro who kept the heat on the team throughout 2015 and beyond).\nSo yes, I appreciate the article, but really, none of this is news to Mets fans. It's just confirmation of the status quo. And sadly, in the end, we have learned nothing new from the team. Really, this all just leaves me further frustrated with the franchise, and it leaves me further frustrated that this is really the first we have seen of these articles after all of these years. Hopefully, there will be more. More than that, I just hope something will finally come of this.\nBut we all know it won't.\nAlejandro De Aza , Anthony Swarzak , Eric Campbell , Fernando Salas , Jacob deGrom , Jerry Blevins , John Mayberry , Juan Lagares , Matt Harvey , Michael Cuddyer , Ruben Tejada , Wilmer Flores\nREMINDER: Mets Didn't Want Justin Turner\nAfter the 2013 season, the Mets made the decision to non-tender Justin Turner. That is something important to remember with all the issues with David Wright, the failure that was the 2017 season, and with Turner joining Kirk Gibson as the only Dodger to hit a walk0ff postseason homer:\nWALK-OFF! Justin Turner's 3-run homer in the bottom of the 9th gives the Dodgers a 2-0 NLCS lead over the Cubs. #SCtop10 pic.twitter.com\/pYXbNqEYa8\n\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) October 16, 2017\nIt's incredible to think it's 29 years to the day of Gibson's dramatic Game 1 home run off Dennis Eckersley. It's also incredible to think the Mets had no use for Turner.\nThis is the point where everyone enters into some needless arguing. The defenders of Sandy Alderson will say Turner hit .280\/.319\/.385 with a 0.8 WAR in 2013 right before the Mets decided to non-tender him. The people upset with the move will point out how Turner worked with Marlon Byrd to help increase his launch angle. It should be noted that in September 2013, Turner hit .357\/.357\/.571.\nIt also should be noted Turner was first time arbitration eligible and due approximately $1 million. The Mets passed, and the Dodgers eventually gave it to him. Turner emerged as the everyday third baseman, and the Dodgers have won four straight division titles.\nOverall, the argument boils down to this:\nDefenders point to past performance as justification\nCritics point to Turner's production\nPut that all aside and really ask what is the job of the General Manager. Is it for a General Manager to analyze past production to determine the future outlook of a player? Or is it to analyze a player and pay him based upon what is a reasonable expectation of future production?\nBefore answering the question, here's just one more to ponder \u2013 Was it worth $1 million to find out if Turner's September production was indicative of future success?\nKeep in mind the Mets decided to pay Omar Quintanilla $800k, Jose Valverde $1 million, and Ruben Tejada $1.1 million in 2014.\nDavid Wright , Jose Valverde , Justin Turner , Marlon Byrd , Omar Quintanilla , Ruben Tejada","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mexican culture is expressive and deeply connected to its past. One of the richest ways to interpret this feeling \u2013\u2013 an entrenched emotion driven through art \u2013\u2013 is dance, and T\u00f2mas Tello, member of the Fiesta Mexicana Planning Committee will be the first to tell you that the experience can be transformative.\nYoung dancers and performers practice for months to prepare for the Fiesta Mexicana and appreciative family members, friends, neighborhoods and fellow parishioners enthusiastically applaud their skill and obvious mastery of cultural traditions that date back centuries. Photo by Danen Williams\nConsidered the largest celebration of Latin culture outside of Detroit and Grand Rapids, the 62nd Annual Fiesta Mexicana will take place on Saturday, June 29 and Sunday, June 30 starting at 10 a.m. Festivities will run until 10 p.m. on Saturday and 8 p.m. on Sunday.\nPerformers from the El Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico Estudiantil, a youth-arts program, showcase cultural favorites that have survived generations. Photo by Danen Williams\nReturning this year, the El Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico Estudiantil, a youth-arts program focused on preserving Mexican culture, provides a platform for \"enriching children's lives through dance, music, and education,\" which promises to be a crowd favorite worthy of its cultural \u2013\u2013 and historical \u2013\u2013tradition.\nThese young dancers and seasoned performers alike practice for months to prepare for the Fiesta and appreciative family members, friends, neighbors and fellow parishioners, who enthusiastically applaud their skill and the obvious mastery of cultural traditions that date back centuries.\nThe Fiesta Mexicana is a homecoming of sorts for many participants who return year-after-year to experience the event known for its lively music, authentic Mexican dishes and cultural performances. Photo by Danen Williams\nThe El Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico Estudiantil's instrumental and vocal performers showcase a wide-range of classical and Mariachi style presentations at the event, and often bring the crowd to their feet, according to Danen Williams, a professional photographer and frequent Fiesta participant.\n\"It's an emotional and uplifting experience to many, particularly grandparents, who have great pride in and hope for their grandchildren,\" he says.\nFor Tello, this gets to the heart of why these performances have such weight and significance, especially in light of the current political \u2013\u2013 and social \u2013\u2013 context.\nA young would-be performer steals attention away from the stage. Photo by Danen Williams\n\"This kind of stuff is a peaceful way of going against all of that,\" Tello says. \"It's giving an understanding.\"\nTello, who also works as a DJ, is committed to getting across the cultural significance inherent in drawing from the past to shake off the dust of the present.\n\"We're a rhythmic people and a celebratory people,\" he says, noting that the folkloric elements run very deep, so deep that it's personal for him. \"You can't continue and face the future if you don't know the past and embrace the past, the teachings of our ancestors.\"\nDancers wearing traditional attire delight the audience with their classical performance. Photo by Danen Williams\nTello believes that dance is not only for entertainment and enjoyment, but it's also a way to give thanks and celebrate.\n\"That's why it's all in the middle of the festival,\" he says. \"The fiesta hangs its hat on giving you the experience of Mexican food, Mexican music, Mexican culture, crafts and arts, and giving someone an enlightened experience.\"\nThis \"enlightened experience,\" has the potential, according to Tello, to have a larger impact on how Mexican culture connects with the global landscape.\nLive music from groups like Los Hermanos Escamilla are a part of festivities. Photo courtesy of LHE\nAttendees can also expect authentic food, musical acts, cultural exhibitions and vendors. Musical acts will be coming from Grand Rapids, Adrian and Chesaning, including La Furia Del Ritmo from Grand Rapids; Los Hermanos Escamilla from Chesaning; Los Estrellas De Oro from Grand Rapids; and Gabriel Burciaga & The Bad Boyz from Adrian.\nFiesta Mexicana organizing committee member T\u00f2mas Tello, who also works as a DJ, is committed to \"getting across the cultural significance inherent in drawing from the past to shake off the dust of the present.\" Photo courtesy of T. Tello\n\"When you accept and embrace other cultures \u2026 when you come in with an open mind \u2026 everybody can get along \u2013\u2013 you get a different perspective and you see through other people's eyes,\" Tello adds. \"The Fiesta is the embodiment of family, caring, love and artistry. Who wouldn't like that?\"\nFiesta Mexicana will take place at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church located at 2136 W. Coldwater Road, Flint, 48505. For more information, visit the festival page on Our Lady of Guadalupe's website.\nDance, Dance, Dance: The 62nd Annual Fiesta Mexicana will make you move added by Cornelius Fortune on 06\/26\/2019\nView all posts by Cornelius Fortune \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Who the Heck is Bruce Brubaker?\nOne of the joys of the Topps Heritage Baseball card brand is finding out which old-time Dodger player (if any) did they sign up to include in the set. In years past they've reached out to such luminaries as Sandy Koufax, Davey Lopes, Maury Wills and 8-year Dodger pitcher Ed Roebuck to sign limited edition cards. This years set, focusing on 1967, had the potential of including a whole host of fantastic former players like Wes Parker, Willie Davis and Don Sutton. So imagine my surprise when the name Bruce Brubaker popped up on the checklist.\nWho is Bruce Brubaker?\nYou're forgiven if you were as clueless as me. After all, he's hardly a name that evokes strong memories.\nBruce Brubaker originally came to Los Angeles during the winter before the 1967 Baseball season as a Rule 5 draftee from the Philadelphia Phillies. Hence the red colored windbreaker in his photo on the card above (BTW, this is what his actual card looked like from the original set. At right is a pic of the reverse of his 1967 Topps card.).\nAt that time he was an 25-year old, 8-year minor league veteran who was known by most scouts to have a lively arm with a high-90's fastball. Although mostly a starter in his professional career at that point, he might have blossomed as a reliever if only given the chance. As a result of being picked up by the Dodgers he would finally get that opportunity. Unfortunately, it didn't go exactly as planned.\nHaving made the Opening Day roster, he got into his first Major League game in relief. It was the third game of the season, and he was tasked with getting the last four outs in a match that had already gotten way out of hand. The St. Louis Cardinal had an 10-3 lead by the time Bruce came in.\nThe first batter he faced in the eight inning was third baseman Phil Gagliano, and he handily struck him out looking. The next inning would not be as good -- to say the least. The first two of the next three hitters got on base for Lou Brock, and he made Bruce pay. The future Hall of Famer whacked a three-run homer -- his second of the day and third home run of the young season -- to solidify an already insurmountable lead.\nThis would be the last game he ever pitched for the Dodgers; which is a bit unfair considering every other pitcher the Dodgers threw out there that day was hit just as hard. Nevertheless, Bruce Brubaker would eventually be sent to the teams Triple-A club in Spokane. He would go 11-8 with a 3.25 ERA in 199 innings pitched.\nA couple of years later he would be traded to the Milwaukee Brewers for Jerry Stephenson, and he would get another chance to pitch in the Majors. That too, unfortunately, was just a single 2-inning stint. Via Chris Zantow:\n(Milwaukee Brewers) Manager Dave Bristol remarked that he liked his \"live arm\" and Pitching Coach Wes Stock said \"We liked what we saw of him\" in regards to the 1970 major league appearance. Stock added, \"You never know about a guy until you give him a chance.\" In an interview from February, 1970, Brubaker commented \"You look at my record and tell me what was wrong. I've been at the Triple A level every year since 1964 and never had a season where I didn't pitch over 200 innings. Sometimes over 300 innings if you include winter ball. But in 10 years I've only pitched three innings in the majors\u2026\"\n\"I had a good record for all these clubs, Syracuse, San Diego, Spokane and Portland, and I've faced probably all the top hitters at one time or another, with the exception of guys who skipped over Triple A. Yet, I haven't made it.\"\nSometimes, it just takes a little bit of luck. For Bruce Brubaker, his time to really show his stuff never really came on the Major League diamond. Instead, he would prove to be a fantastic businessman.\n\"I started selling new Fords and worked my way up until I could buy my own Ford-Lincoln-Mercury-Mazda dealership in 1990 in Owensboro, KY. We built a new facility in 2000 and we now have four different dealerships.\" His dealership is called 'Champion' and today his sons Bruce III and Tyler are running the business. Meanwhile, Brubaker says, \"My wife Leda and I are enjoying our 72 foot motor yacht 'Championship' that we keep in Miami Beach.\"\nI suppose that's an more than acceptable secondary career.\nBTW, his Baseball bloodline includes a World Series champion and potential Hall of Famer. Former Yankees catcher Jorge Posada is his nephew.\nBelow are his career statistics via Baseball-Reference:\nReport Created on Baseball-Reference.com\n* Please follow on twitter @ernestreyes *\n* Like Dodgers Blue Heaven on facebook *\n* Dodgers Blue Heaven home page *\nBy ernest at Monday, March 07, 2016 0 comments\nLinks Labels: 2016 Heritage, Brubaker\n2016 Topps Heritage - The Dodgers Insert Cards\nFollowing up on the Heritage base cards I shared last week, here are the Dodgers inserts that are available. I'll have pic of the box loader cards later this week.\nReal One Autographs\n#ROA-BBR Bruce Brubaker #ROA-CSE Corey Seager\nLinks Labels: 2016 Heritage, Adrian Gonzalez, Brubaker, Clayton Kershaw, Corey Seager, Don Drysdale, Jim Brewer, Joc Pederson, Yasiel Puig, Zach Greinke\nDodgers Notes from Spring Training: Spring Game 5\/Home Game 3\nThroughout Spring Training the Dodgers PR department sends out helpful daily notes from Camelback Ranch, and I am happy to pass them along. See what they've written below.\nMonday, March 7, 2016 \u2013 1:05 p.m. MT | Camelback Ranch - Glendale\nCleveland Indians vs. LA Dodgers\nRHP Danny Salazar (0-1, 13.50) vs. LHP Alex Wood (NR)\nTV: None Radio: None\n(Lining up for the anthem, pic via Jon SooHoo\/LA Dodgers 2016)\nON A ROLL: The undefeated Dodgers (3-0-1) return home to Camelback Ranch today to take on the Indians (0-4-2) in the first matchup of the spring between the two clubs. Yesterday, the Dodgers downed the Giants 5-2 in Scottsdale after taking the lead in the top of the fifth inning when outfielder Carl Crawford drove in a run with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Yasiel Puig. Crawford finished the day going 2-for-3 with two RBI and shortstop Charlie Culberson continued to swing a hot bat, plating two more runs on a single in the top of the eighth in his only at-bat. Zach Lee pitched 2.0 scoreless innings in his first Spring Training start and Ross Stripling recorded the win, tossing 2.0 scoreless frames.\nThe Dodgers last faced the Indians during the regular season in 2014, when the Tribe took two of three at Dodger Stadium.\nCharlie Culberson has gone 5-for-6 (.833) with a double, a triple and three RBI in four Spring Training games for Los Angeles.\nYOUNG GUNS: The Dodgers enter the 2016 season with Baseball America's top-ranked farm system and seven players ranked among the publication's top 100 prospects: IF Corey Seager (#1), LHP Julio Urias (#4), RHP Jose De Leon (#23), RHP Kenta Maeda (#50), IF\/OF Cody Bellinger (#54), RHP Grant Holmes (#72) and OF Alex Verdugo (#100).\n(Dave Roberts, pic via Jon SooHoo\/LA Dodgers 2016)\nNEW FRONT MAN: Dave Roberts is in his first season at the helm of the Dodgers after being named the 10th manager in Los Angeles history (28th in franchise history) on Nov. 23, 2015. Roberts, 43, served as the Padres' bench coach from 2014-15 and was San Diego's first base coach from 2011-13, after originally joining the organization as a special assistant in 2010. A veteran of 10 MLB seasons, Roberts was the starting center fielder for the Dodgers from 2002-04 and will become the fourth manager in Los Angeles history (15th overall in franchise history) to both play and manage the club.\nRick Honeycutt returns for an 11th season as Dodger pitching coach and is the lone returning member of the Los Angeles coaching staff beyond catching instructor Steve Yeager. The new-look staff is comprised of bench coach Bob Geren (2015: Mets' bench coach), hitting coach Turner Ward (2015: D-backs' hitting coach), first base coach George Lombard (2015: Red Sox' minor league outfield\/baserunning coordinator), third base coach Chris Woodward (2015: Mariners' first base coach), bullpen coach Josh Bard (2015: Dodgers' pro scout), assistant hitting coach Tim Hyers (2015: Red Sox' minor league hitting coordinator) and quality assurance coach Juan Castro (2015: Dodgers' minor league infield coordinator).\nHOT TICKETS!: The Dodgers notched their first sellout of the spring, with 13,122 fans taking in their victory over Arizona on Saturday. Last year, the Dodgers established team records in total (147,066) and average (9,804) Spring Training attendance, while Camelback Ranch saw a record number of fans with a combined attendance of 232,305 between the Dodgers and the White Sox. So far this season, advance ticket sales have been brisk with Camelback Ranch enjoying its best advance ticket sale in its eight-year history. Three additional Dodger games already have sold out - Friday, March 11 (Los Angeles Angels-Dodgers), Saturday night, March 12 (Chicago Cubs-Dodgers) and Friday night, March 25 (San Francisco Giants-Dodgers).\n(Alex Wood, pic via Jon SooHoo\/LA Dodgers 2016)\nON THE MOUND: LHP Alex Wood will make his first start of the spring today. He enters his fourth Major League season and his second with the Dodgers after being acquired by the club in an eight-player deal with the Braves on July 30, 2015. Wood, 25, posted career numbers last season, winning a career-high 12 games (12-12) in 32 combined starts, while posting a 3.84 ERA.\nLHP Ian Thomas will make his first appearance of the spring this afternoon. A 2015 mid-season acquisition from the Atlanta Braves, he made nine relief appearances (one start) for the Dodgers going 1-1 with a 4.00 ERA.\nLHP J.P. Howell, enters his 11th MLB campaign and his fourth season with the Dodgers after leading MLB relievers (min. 40.0 IP) with a 1.43 ERA in a team-high 65 appearances in 2015. He finished the season posting a 6-1 record with one save and tossed scoreless relief in 59 of 65 appearances.\nRHP Kenley Jansen will make his first appearance of the spring. He enters his seventh big league season after successfully converting 36 of 38 save opportunities last year, the third-highest single-season save percentage in team history (Gagne: 2003-100.0%, 2004-95.7%).\nRHP Louis Coleman will be making his second appearance of the spring after tossing a scoreless inning of relief on Friday against the Rangers. Coleman enters his first season with the Dodgers after signing with the club on Feb. 19, 2016.\nRHP Brandon Beachy will make his first appearance of the spring, after making his Dodger debut last season on July 11, 2015 with a start against the Brewers, his first since Aug. 20, 2013. He made two starts with the club after being reinstated from the 60-day disabled list, before being optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City where he went 1-1 with a 3.64 ERA in 10 games (nine starts).\nRHP Yimi Garcia will be making his second appearance of the spring after striking out one batter in a scoreless inning of relief on Thursday against the White Sox. He ranked among the NL's best relievers in WHIP (0.95, 5th), opponents' batting average (.199, 16th), opponents' on-base percentage (.242, 4th) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (6.60, 3rd) last season.\nA LOOK BACK: The Dodgers went 92-70 in 2015, with the club claiming its third consecutive and 14th overall National League West title. It marked the first time in franchise history that the team reached the postseason in three consecutive seasons.\nThe Dodgers topped the National League in homers for the first time since 1983, blasting 187, their most since 2004 (203 HR).\nLos Angeles led the Majors with a .988 fielding percentage, while committing the fewest errors (75) of any big league team.\nLos Angeles pitchers combined to post a 3.44 ERA, the fifth-best mark in the Majors, and tied for the big league lead with the Cubs with 21 shutouts.\n(Banana mania continues unabated, pic via Jon SooHoo\/LA Dodgers 2016)\nLinks Labels: Alex Wood, Brandon Beachy, Charlie Culberson, Dave Roberts, Ian Thomas, Indians, JP Howell, Kenley Jansen, Rick Honeycutt, Spring Training 2016, Yimi Garcia\nBlog Kiosk: 3\/7\/2016 - Dodgers Links - Ryu, Lee and a New Jackie Robinson Statue\nJoc Pederson continues to delight the fans as he signs autographs for eager fans along the 3rd base line in yesterdays game. Pic via Jon SooHoo\/LA Dodgers 2016. Go here to check out more pics taken by Jon from the day.\nBelow are more links to check out:\nVia Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, \"Crawford told he'll back up Ethier in left field.\"\n\"They told me there will be a lot of at-bats for me, but 'Dre starts, and he's earned it,\" said Crawford, who went 2-for-3 with a triple and two RBIs in Sunday's 5-2 win over the Giants.\nNot really unexpected. Via ESPN, \"MLB saves Chase Utley from slide suspension.\" He will not have to serve that two-game suspension levied last year.\nVia Doug Padilla at ESPN, \"Hyun-Jin Ryu's downtime still not considered a setback.\"\n\"The staff had a built-in, kind of a back-off period where they could just kind of back off and pick it up again,\" (Dave) Roberts said. \"But there is no date when he will start throwing again. But I have asked them, and it's definitely not a setback; it's kind of built in with his rehab.\"\nTime to jump on the Lee Train? Via Doug Padilla at ESPN, \"Dodgers' Zach Lee makes solid opening argument.\"\n\"I don't think he has one wipe-out pitch that might wow you,\" Roberts said. \"But when his command is good, when he's down in the zone and working the cutter, the change and the sinker, changing eye levels with the fastball up, there's some things he can do. When Zach's right, he gets major league hitters out.\"\nICYMI: Frankie Montas has resumed throwing, via a tweet from Ken Gurnick:\nRHP Frankie Montas, who had rib surgery before camp opened, has resumed throwing.\n\u2014 Ken Gurnick (@kengurnick) March 5, 2016\nUCLA unveiled a new Jackie Robinson statue on their campus this past Saturday. Check it out below via a tweet from the LAist:\nUCLA Honors Jackie Robinson With Bronze '42' Statuehttps:\/\/t.co\/bYR4CMPJfi pic.twitter.com\/a9Ny6lD80F\n\u2014 LAist (@LAist) March 6, 2016\nLinks Labels: Andre Ethier, Blog Kiosk, Carl Crawford, Chase Utley, Dave Roberts, Frankie Montas, Hyun-jin Ryu, Jackie Robinson, Joc Pederson, Zach Lee\nDodgers Notes from Spring Training: Spring Game 5\/...\nBlog Kiosk: 3\/7\/2016 - Dodgers Links - Ryu, Lee an...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Burt Reynolds, star of film, TV and tabloids, dead at 82\nFILE - In this Nov. 5, 1971 file photo, actress Dinah Shore and Burt Reynolds appear together in Los Angeles. Reynolds, who starred in films including 'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights,' and the 'Smokey and the Bandit' films, died at age 82, according to his agent. (AP Photo\/Harold Filan, File)\nFILE - In this March 12, 2016 file photo, actor Burt Reynolds appears at the world premiere of 'The Bandit' during the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Reynolds, who starred in films including 'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights,' and the 'Smokey and the Bandit' films, died at age 82, according to his agent. (Photo by Jack Plunkett\/Invision\/AP, File)\nFILE - In this March 15, 1978 file photo, actor Burt Reynolds polishes star that was unveiled in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Reynolds, who starred in films including 'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights,' and the 'Smokey and the Bandit' films, died at age 82, according to his agent. (AP Photo\/file)\nFILE - In this Dec. 2, 1977 file photo, actor Burt Reynolds, right, pinches the cheeks of comedian Dom Deluise during a roast of Reynolds in Atlanta. Reynolds, who starred in films including 'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights,' and the 'Smokey and the Bandit' films, died at age 82, according to his agent. DeLuise died on May 4, 2009 at age 75. (AP Photo\/Steve Helber, File)\nPublished September 06. 2018 4:07PM | Updated September 07. 2018 3:57PM\nGet the weekly rundown\nSign up to receive THE FUN never stops!, our weekly A&E newsletter\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Burt Reynolds, the handsome film and television star known for his acclaimed performances in \"Deliverance\" and \"Boogie Nights\" and for an active off-screen life which included relationships with Loni Anderson, Sally Field and Dinah Shore, has died at age 82.\nHis death was confirmed Thursday by his agent Todd Eisner, who did not immediately have further details.\nReynolds inspired a wide range of responses over his long, erratic career: critical acclaim and critical scorn, commercial success and box office bombs. Reynolds made scores of movies, ranging from lightweight fare such as the hits \"The Cannonball Run\" and \"Smokey and the Bandit\" to more serious films like \"The Longest Yard\" and \"The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.\"\nHe was nominated for an Oscar for \"Boogie Nights,\" the Paul Thomas Anderson film about the pornography industry; won an Emmy for the TV series \"Evening Shade,\" and received high praise for his starring role in \"Deliverance.\"\nBut he also was a frequent nominee for the Razzie, the tongue-in-cheek award for Hollywood's worst performance, and his personal life provided ongoing drama, particularly after an acrimonious divorce from Anderson in 1995. He had a troubled marriage to Judy Carne, a romance with Shore and a relationship with Field damaged by his acknowledged jealousy of her success.\nThrough it all he presented a genial persona, often the first to make fun of his own conflicted image.\n\"My career is not like a regular chart, mine looks like a heart attack,\" he told The Associated Press in 2001. \"I've done over 100 films, and I'm the only actor who has been canned by all three networks. I epitomize longevity.\"\nReynolds was candid about his flops, his regrets and about his many famous friends. He would call posing nude for Cosmopolitan one of his biggest mistakes because it undermined the respect he had gained for \"Deliverance.\" He revered Spencer Tracy as an early mentor and came to know Johnny Carson, Clint Eastwood, Frank Sinatra and many others.\nThese reality TV newcomers were ready for fame. Then social media turned vicious.\n\"They were like, 'Don't go on the message boards. ... People can be really mean and cruel. So obviously, the first thing you do is go online and read the message boards.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Handbook of Biomedical Imaging\nHandbook of Biomedical Imaging pp 63-81 | Cite as\nKernel Methods in Medical Imaging\nG. Charpiat\nM. Hofmann\nB. Sch\u00f6lkopf\nWe introduce machine learning techniques, more specifically kernel methods, and show how they can be used for medical imaging. After a tutorial presentation of machine learning concepts and tools, including Support Vector Machine (SVM), kernel ridge regression and kernel PCA, we present an application of these tools to the prediction of Computed Tomography (CT) images based on Magnetic Resonance (MR) images.\nSupport Vector Machine Feature Space Kernel Method Reproduce Kernel Hilbert Space Training Point\nM. A. Aizerman, \u00c9.. M. Braverman, and L. I. Rozono\u00e9r. Theoretical foundations of the potential function method in pattern recognition learning. Automation and Remote Control, 25:821\u2013837, 1964.Google Scholar\nN. Aronszajn. Theory of reproducing kernels. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 68:337\u2013404, 1950.CrossRefzbMATHMathSciNetGoogle Scholar\nC. Berg, J. P. R. Christensen, and P. Ressel. Harmonic Analysis on Semigroups. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984.zbMATHGoogle Scholar\nB. E. Boser, I. M. Guyon, and V. Vapnik. A training algorithm for optimal margin classifiers. In D. Haussler, editor, Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, pages 144\u2013152, Pittsburgh, PA, July 1992. ACM Press.Google Scholar\nD. Cremers, T. Kohlberger, and C. Schn\u00f6rr. Shape statistics in kernel space for variational image segmentation. Pattern Recognition, 36(9):1929\u20131943, 2003.CrossRefzbMATHGoogle Scholar\nJ. Duchon. Spline minimizing rotation-invariant semi-norms in Sobolev spaces. In W. Schempp and K. Zeller, editors, Constructive theory of functions os several variables, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 571. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1977.Google Scholar\nI. Guyon, B. Boser, and V. Vapnik. Automatic capacity tuning of very large VC-dimension classifiers. In S. J. Hanson, J. D. Cowan, and C. L. Giles, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 5, pages 147\u2013155. Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1993.Google Scholar\nM. Hofmann, F. Steinke, V. Scheel, G. Charpiat, M. Brady, B. Sch\u00f6lkopf, and B. Pichler. MR-based PET attenuation correction \u2013 method and validation. In IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, 2007.Google Scholar\nF. Jurie and C. Schmid. Scale-invariant shape features for recognition of object categories. In International Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, volume II, pages 90\u201396, 2004.Google Scholar\nJ. Mercer. Functions of positive and negative type and their connection with the theory of integral equations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, A 209:415\u2013446, 1909.Google Scholar\nB. Sch\u00f6lkopf and A. J. Smola. Learning with Kernels: Support Vector Machines, Regularization, Optimization, and Beyond (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning). The MIT Press, December 2001.Google Scholar\nB. Sch\u00f6lkopf, A. J. Smola, and K.-R. M\u00fcller. Kernel principal component analysis. In B. Sch\u00f6lkopf, C. J. C. Burges, and A. J. Smola, editors, Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning, pages 327\u2013352. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. Short version appeared in Neural Computation 10:1299\u20131319, 1998.Google Scholar\n\u00a9 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015\n1.Max Planck Institute for Biological CyberneticsTuebingenGermany\nCharpiat G., Hofmann M., Sch\u00f6lkopf B. (2015) Kernel Methods in Medical Imaging. In: Paragios N., Duncan J., Ayache N. (eds) Handbook of Biomedical Imaging. Springer, Boston, MA\nPublisher Name Springer, Boston, MA","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Great Christmas Gifts for the Food-Obsessed Woman\nLaine Doss\nLaine Doss | December 14, 2011 | 8:53am\nSanta Claus is due for his yearly breaking and entering campaign, and you're worried that you're not going to be able to find the perfect present for the female foodie in your life.\nLet Short Order do the shopping for you. We've come up with a list of items that are perfect for your favorite food-obsessed person. Whether she's a devoted culinary whiz or just likes to drink, we've got the bases covered. Go forth and shop.\nThe Traditionalist\nIf she thinks dinner isn't dinner without a pound of butter, damn the cholesterol. If her favorite foods include chicken fried steak, chicken fried chicken, and ham, you'll want to pick up a copy of Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible -- signed by the lady herself! This autographed book features 400 pages of recipes filled with butter, butter, and more butter. $29.95 at The Paula Deen store (butter sold separately).\nIf she's the type who goes nowhere without her little mini-me, then the Biltmore Hotel's Culinary Academy Cooking Buddies class is a perfect gift. This class features a mother-and-child cooking experience. Best part? They'll enjoy a three course meal apres-class. $85 includes both mom and child.\nThe Snarky Girl\nShe's read every word Bourdain ever wrote and eats life like it were a big plate of bacon. This girl laughs at the world, not with it. Give her a reminder that life is fun, damn it, with this daily affirmation by Anthony Bourdain in the form of a fridge magnet. $4 from Etsy.\nThe Hostess\nShe likes to give parties with style. Her apartment is constantly filled with friends, and the bar is always open. Get her a set of these Oliver martini glasses. The stemless glasses feature stick figure oliver with an olive, cherry, and lemon. Two of each to make a set of six. $23.70 at CB2.\nThe Scorned\nBad breakup in 2011? Don't get mad, get revenge with the Ex knife set. Five chef-grade knives are magnetically embedded into the head, legs, torso and crotch (ouch) of the pool little guy who f**ked with this kitchen diva for the last time. It also serves as a subtle little warning for the next man that this gal means business. $79.95 at Amazon.com.\nThe Animal Lover\nIf she cooks for her dogs more than for you, then these silicon oven mitts in the shape of a monkey make a great gift. They're both practical and whimsical, and proceeds benefit the Animal Rescue Site. In fact, one monkey mitt provides 14 bowls of food for a shelter dog. $5 at theanimalrescuesite.com\nIf she's addicted to those freaky shows where women rip each others weaves out for no reason, she'll love a bottle of RHONY's Ramona Singer's Pinot Grigio. The wine has \"expressive citrus aromas with hints of mineralilty\non the nose. On the palate you get fresh, clean white fruits and crisp\nacidity, with a kiss of lemon on the well-balanced finish.\" Perfect to guzzle while she's camped out in front of the television watching the Bravo bitchfests. $13.99 at The Wine Buyer.\nLaine Doss is the food and spirits editor for Miami New Times. She has been featured on Cooking Channel's Eat Street and Food Network's Great Food Truck Race. She won an Alternative Weekly award for her feature about what it's like to wait tables.\nFacebook: Laine Doss\nTwitter: @lainedoss","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Canada is slowly rolling towards low-carbon transport\nBy Ryan Katz-Rosene November 16, 2020\nIf Canada wants to get serious about climate change, it needs to amp up on ambition, investment, and regulatory action within the transport sector specifically.\nTransport Minister Marc Garneau, pictured May 1, 2019, using the charging station for electric vehicles in the West Block parking lot to mark the coming-into-effect of the Incentive for Zero-Emission Vehicles Program. If the climate emergency is to be addressed within the transport sector, the government will have to redouble its financial commitments to urban transit\u2014there is simply no way around this, writes Ryan Katz-Rosene. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade\nLast year, the federal government recognized climate change as an \"emergency,\" yet one doesn't get much of a sense of urgency when reviewing the government's efforts to curtail greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transport sector. While every other sector of Canada's economy has seen emissions reductions since 2005, emissions from transport have grown substantially over this time (by +14 per cent). It is the transport sector that is most responsible for keeping Canada from meeting its international commitments under the Paris Agreement. If Canada wants to get serious about climate change, it needs to amp up on ambition, investment, and regulatory action within the transport sector specifically.\nElectric vehicles alone are not a panacea\nWhy spending on public transit is the fix for Canada's big election issues\nWorld transitioning to a low-carbon economy, but Conservatives make us laggards\nCanada's living off past capital, not investing boldly in the future\nWe are in a climate emergency","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Plan to cut majors a huge blow to UWSP campus\nThe University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point plans to eliminate 13 majors as part of the proposed cuts.\nPlan to cut majors a huge blow to UWSP campus The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point plans to eliminate 13 majors as part of the proposed cuts. Check out this story on stevenspointjournal.com: http:\/\/spjour.nl\/2GjKGci\nletter to the editor Published 12:34 p.m. CT March 12, 2018\nUniversity of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Thursday, June 16, 2016.(Photo: Megan McCormick\/USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin)\nEDITOR: As a 2006 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with an English education major and German minor, I am outraged at the proposed cuts facing the university. The cuts will eliminate many majors, including art, English, French, geography, German, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, Spanish and more. The loss of these majors will be a huge blow to the campus.\nDuring my time there, I knew many people who came to UWSP specifically for those programs. We also live in a society where it is beneficial to be bilingual and decreasing foreign language offerings is a step in the wrong direction.\nRELATED: UW-Stevens Point plans to cut 13 majors, add or expand 16 programs\nRELATED: English chairman 'taken aback' by UW-Stevens Point plan to cut majors\nFor the last 12 years, I have taught middle and high school English in Milwaukee. During this time, I often go back to things I learned while attending Stevens Point. The education I received from the English department there has greatly benefited my classroom and all of my students over the years.\nEven though the English teaching certificate will still be available, I can't help but wonder how the quality of classes offered will decline. The students of UWSP deserve the best and this is not it.\nJennifer Koss,\nRead or Share this story: http:\/\/spjour.nl\/2GjKGci","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Topic: News, Press Release\nMindfields named as one of Asia-Pacific's Leading Service Providers in Automation and Artificial Intelligence\nBy Mindfields Global\nSydney, March 4th, 2020 \u2212 Mindfields, the global Intelligent Automation and Artificial Intelligence advisory firm today announced that IDC Financial Insights has named it as one of the leading service providers in the recently released IDC Perspective: Six Capabilities from Leading RPA Service Providers That Advance Financial Services Institutions toward Intelligent Automation. The IDC Perspective recognises Mindfields as a leading service provider which has the desired capabilities to offer ready propositions in intelligent automation solutions to the financial services industry in Asia\/Pacific.\nIDC Financial Insights indicates that institutions which choose an intelligent automation service provider based on six identified capabilities, typically achieve more favorable and long-term results from their automation deployments. The report maps and analyses these six capabilities for eight leading service providers including Mindfields. These capabilities are:\nAbility to deliver desired business outcomes\nProcess identification and optimization\nAbility to deliver enterprise wide scale\nSecurity, governance, and post-deployment support as core tenets\nIntelligence powered by AI technologies and innovative tools; and\nAvailability of talent and strong ecosystem support.\nMohit Sharma, Founder and Chairman, Mindfields said, \"All of us at Mindfields are enthused to be part of the report and we thank IDC for shortlisting us for this report. The report is truly an acknowledgement of our steadfast commitment in enabling our clients to Grow for Tomorrow by offering disruptive Intelligent Automation (IA) services. Mindfields has been focused on scaling up the automation journeys of its clients and bringing down the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for automation.\"\nThe IDC report is an important enabler for Financial Services institutions to understand the various nuances in the implementation or scaling of automation solutions. It recognizes importance of our CoE.exe, MindUni and MindEzy offerings.\nMindfields has been a partner to several leading Financial Services Institutions in the Asia Pacific region on their automation journeys. Mindfields uses a comprehensive approach including the use of RPA, Intelligent Automation, AI and other innovative technologies to deliver business outcomes. Its product portfolio includes a Centre of Excellence platform (CoE.exe), a cloud-based automation management platform (MindEzy), an onshore, offshore or hybrid support offering (MindSupport), Mindfields IP based IA consulting and bot development training programs, which are customized for both graduate and corporate professionals (MindUni) and a finance function automation package (CFO.exe). Mindfields has implemented over 1000 processes and deployed more than 400 robots in production on a global basis.\nMindfields is a pioneer of Automation Advisory Services in the Asia-Pacific region and works with several leading enterprise clients including organisations such as ANZ Bank, ING, Rabo Bank, Equifax, iCare, AMP, CIBC, Pepper Finance, Suncorp, Aus Post, Water Corporation, St John of God Healthcare, Edith Cowan University, Australia Post, Australian Super, Sensis and Seek to assist in their Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation journey.\nAbout Mindfields\nFounded in 2006, Mindfields is a vendor-agnostic Intelligent Automation and Artificial Intelligence advisory firm, providing strategy services to CXO level executives across verticals on emerging and disruptive technologies. Mindfields started its Automation Advisory offering in 2013 and was among the first few on a Global basis and the first in Australia to offer such advisory services. Mindfields is globally recognised by Gartner, IDC, ISG and HFS Research as a leading, niche Intelligent Automation (IA) advisory firm. We enable our clients to 'Grow for Tomorrow'. We have been ranked among the top 20 fastest growing Australian firms in the Deloitte Fast 500 in 2017. Mindfields has been expanding its footprint and presently has operations in Australia, Asia and the United States. To learn more about Mindfields, visit www.mindfieldsglobal.com\nTo stay up-to-date on Mindfields Global news, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.\nContact for further information:\nShantanu Singh\nmarketing@mindfieldsglobal.com\nMindfields Global\nAmelia and Mindfields Create Partnership to Launch Unique Hyperautomation Offering\nMindfields Launches MindVirtual \u2013 A Unique Remote Intelligent Automation Solution\nMindfields appoints Dean Riach as Vice-President, Delivery","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tagalog to Thai\nCourtesy of Serenity Nguyen\nBy Kaden Freeman on February 23, 2012\nFor some Stanford students, special languages hold stronger appeal than popular choices\nUzbek, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Hungarian, Tagalog and American Sign Language are just some of nearly 20 special languages offered at Stanford that fulfill the one-year language requirement. While the most popular languages are Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German and Arabic, according to the Stanford Language Center's 2010 annual report, other languages hold greater appeal for certain students. The Special Language Program gives students the opportunity to study these lesser-taught languages.\n(SERENITY NGUYEN\/The Stanford Daily)\nAccording to the Stanford Language Center , the language requirement, initiated in 1995, exists to \"prepare students to have a foreign language capability that enhances their academic program and enables them to live, work, study and research in a different country.\"\nStudents who pursue special languages often do so because of an academic or personal interest in a geographic area and its people or because they are interested in acquiring valuable skills for fieldwork and study abroad in these areas.\n\"The dissertation topic I have chosen to pursue deals with the dynamic between the nationalities of Transylvania (now part of Romania) during the inter-war period,\" states a testimonial on the Special Languages website from a student who studied Romanian to access archival material for her dissertation. \"As such, a solid knowledge of spoken and written Romanian is necessary for research of the kind I have planned.\"\nProvided there is sufficient interest and funding available, the University also offers new language classes upon request.\nA case in point is this year's introduction of Yoruba, a West African language, after a group of Nigerian-American students petitioned for its implementation.\nTayo Amos '14, who is studying Yoruba, was impressed that the University listened to the students' request.\n\"It was just astounding to me,\" she said. \"It's hard to find another school that does that.\"\nBesides Yoruba, Amos has taken both Spanish and Catalan, a language spoken in some regions of Spain, at Stanford.\n\"I knew I wanted to study abroad in Barcelona, and I knew they spoke Catalan there, so I wanted to get a head start,\" she said.\nAmos said that her experience learning Catalan, which is not under the Special Languages Program, was a positive one.\nNina Papachristou '14, who studied Swahili at Stanford, shared this sentiment about her experience studying language at Stanford.\n\"With a special language like Swahili, the syllabus is much more flexible,\" she said. \"Now that I am at an advanced level, the other students and I can suggest different things for the syllabus than what the teacher might have chosen at the beginning of the quarter.\"\nPapachristou, who has also taken French at Stanford, noted a difference in subject matter between language classes outside the Special Language Program compared to those within it.\n\"With special languages, there is a lot more of an emphasis on learning the culture of the place where the language is spoken,\" she said. \"For example, we learn about East African methods of nonverbal communication or how Swahili weddings are conducted.\"\nJason Kaufman '14, who studied Hindi, had a similar experience. He has also taken French at Stanford, but said he preferred the teaching style of his Hindi class.\n\"The [Hindi] class did not just focus on vocabulary and grammar, but also the culture in India,\" he said.\nAdditionally, Kaufman pointed out that one of the benefits of taking a special language is the small size of the classes, which allows for more individualized attention for each student.\nHowever, according to Papachristou, learning a less common language does have some unique challenges.\n\"The most challenging thing about learning Swahili is having nobody to practice with,\" she said. \"The only real way to improve my speaking abilities is to spend time in Kenya and Tanzania.\"\nKaufman agreed that picking up a special language can be especially hard.\n\"A weakness of the [Hindi] program last year was that we only had class two days a week,\" he said. \"However, this year Beginning Hindi is five days a week, which suggests the program is improving.\"\nKaden Freeman","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Social Media Transparency is Key for Our Democracy\nPaul Waters\nAccording to the Pew Research Center, one in five Americans rely primarily on social media for their political news and information. This means a small handful of companies have enormous control over what a broad swath of America sees, reads, and hears. Now that the coronavirus has moved even more of our lives online, companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter have more influence than ever before. And yet, we know remarkably little about how these social media platforms operate. We don't know the answers to questions like:\nHow does information flow across these networks?\nWho sees what and when?\nHow do algorithms drive media consumption?\nHow are political ads targeted?\nWhy does hate and abuse proliferate?\nWithout answers to questions like these, we can't guard against digital voter suppression, coronavirus misinformation, and the rampant harassment of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) online. That means we won't be able to move closer to the open and just democracy we need.\nA pattern of resisting oversight\nThe platforms have strong incentives to remain opaque to public scrutiny. Platforms profit from running ads \u2014 some of which are deeply offensive \u2014 and by keeping their algorithms secret and hiding data on where ads run they avoid accountability \u2014 circumventing advertiser complaints, user protests, and congressional inquiries. Without reliable information on how these massive platforms operate and how their technologies function, there can be no real accountability.\nWhen complaints are raised, the companies frequently deny or make changes behind the scenes. Even when platforms admit something has gone wrong, they claim to fix problems without explaining how, which makes it impossible to verify the effectiveness of the \"fix.\" Moreover, these fixes are often just small changes that only paper over fundamental problems, while leaving the larger structural flaws intact. This trend has been particularly harmful for BIPOC who already face significant barriers to participation in the public square.\nAnother way platforms avoid accountability is via legal mechanisms like non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and intellectual property law, including trade secrets, patents, and copyright protections. This allows platforms to keep their algorithms secret, even when those algorithms dictate social outcomes protected under civil rights law.\nPlatforms have responded to pressure to release data in the past \u2014 but the results have fallen far short of what they promised. Following the 2016 election, both Twitter and Facebook announced projects intended to release vast amounts of new data about their operations to researchers. The idea was to provide a higher level of transparency and understanding about the role of these platforms in that election. However, in nearly every case, those transparency efforts languished because the platforms did not release the data they had committed they would provide. Facebook's reticence to divulge data almost a year after announcing the partnership with the Social Science Research Council is just one example of this type of foot-dragging.\nThe platforms' paltry transparency track record demonstrates their failure to self-regulate in the public interest and reinforces the need for active and engaged external watchdogs who can provide oversight.\nHow watchdog researchers and journalists have persisted despite the obstacles\nWithout meaningful access to data from the platforms, researchers and journalists have had to reverse engineer experiments that can test how platforms operate and develop elaborate efforts merely to collect their own data about platforms.\nTools like those developed by NYU's Online Political Transparency Project have become essential. While Facebook created a clearinghouse that was promoted as a tool that would serve as a compendium of all the political ads being posted to the social media platform, NYU's tool has helped researchers independently verify the accuracy and comprehensiveness of Facebook's archive and spot issues and gaps. As we head into the 2020 election, researchers continue to push for data, as they raise the alarm about significant amounts of mis\/disinformation spread through manipulative political groups, advertisers, and media websites.\nWatchdog journalists are also hard at work. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal built a side-by-side Facebook feed to examine how liberals and conservatives experience news and information on the platform differently. Journalists with The Markup have been probing Google's search and email algorithms. ProPublica has been tracking discriminatory advertising practices on Facebook.\nBecause of efforts like these, we have seen some movement. The recent House Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee hearing with CEOs from Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon was evidence of a bipartisan desire to better understand how the human choices and technological code that shape these platforms also shape society. However, the harms these companies and others have caused are not limited to economics and market power alone.\nHow we're taking action\nAt Democracy Fund, we are currently pushing for greater platform transparency and working to protect against the harms of digital voter suppression, coronavirus misinformation, and harassment of BIPOC by:\nFunding independent efforts to generate data and research that provides insight regarding the platforms' algorithms and decision making;\nSupporting efforts to protect journalists and researchers in their work to uncover platform harms;\nDemanding that platforms provide increased transparency on how their algorithms work and the processes they have in place to prevent human rights and civil rights abuses; and\nSupporting advocates involved in campaigns that highlight harms and pressure the companies to change, such as Change the Terms and Stop Hate for Profit.\nDemanding transparency and oversight have a strong historical precedent in American media. Having this level of transparency makes a huge difference for Americans \u2014 and for our democracy. Political ad files from radio and television broadcasters (which have been available to the public since the 1920s) have been invaluable to journalists reporting on the role of money in elections. They have fueled important research about how broadcasters work to meet community information needs.\nThe public interest policies in broadcasting have been key to communities of color who have used them to challenge broadcaster licenses at the Federal Communications Commission when they aren't living up to their commitments. None of these systems are perfect, as many community advocates will tell you, but even this limited combination of transparency and media oversight doesn't exist on social media platforms.\nTech platforms should make all their ads available in a public archive. They should be required to make continually-updated, timely information available in machine-readable formats via an API or similar means. They should consult public interest experts on standards for the information they disclose, including standardized names and formats, unique IDs, and other elements that make the data accessible for researchers.\nBottomline, we need new policy frameworks to enforce transparency, to give teeth to oversight, and to ensure social media can enable and enhance our democracy. Without it, the open and just democracy we all deserve is at real risk.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mumbai (or Bombay?)\nMumbai or Bombay it's always good to revisit the business (and Bollywood) capital of India. A wander around central Mumbai took me past plenty of interesting architecture, like the art-deco Eros Cinema. \u25ba\nSt Thomas Cathedral has an extensive collection of British memorials, all seeming to feature imperial Britain at the height of its Indian glory. So there's a certain amount of whacking it to the Indians, but the French also get a go (thank you Captain George Nicholas Hardinge), there's no shortage of valiant disaster in Afghanistan (retreating here, going down in flames there) and even a gallant death in Antarctica. Henry Robertson Bowers died on Robert Falcon Scott's disastrous trek back from the South Pole.\nPoor Major Eldred Pottinger didn't die valiantly in battle against pesky Afghans, at the age of 32 he succumbed to a 'malignant fever' while en route back to England and died in Hong Kong. \u25bc\n\u25b2 Symbols of another religion are tied to a railing outside the cathedral, holy cows. It's nice to know that even in the 21st century urban cows can hang on right in the city centre.\n\u25b2 I look in to Leopold's Caf\u00e9, a prime target for the Pakistani terrorists when they attacked the city in 2008. In business since 1871 Leopold's features 'wobbly ceiling fans' and 'crap service' according to Lonely Planet's India guide and has always been a backpacker's favourite. You haven't been to Mumbai until you've had a beer in Leopold's. It looks totally unchanged from the first time I visited back in the late '70s, even back then the fans were wobbling.\n\u25b2 Finally just a stone's throw from the Gateway of India another sign of imperial Bombay, and emphatically Bombay, none of that Mumbai business at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club.\nLeopold's Cafe","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Throne Speech 2020 Delivered by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J\nStatement To The House Of Representatives By the Honourable Fayval Williams, Minister of Education, Youth and Information on January 12, 2021\nParliamentary Statement by the Minister of Health and Wellness Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, MP at Gordon House, Kingston on Tuesday, January 12, 2021\n2021 New Year's Message From The Governor-General, His Excellency The Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J \u2013 Theme: \"Reaching Beyond \u2013 To Hope\"\n2021 New Year's Message From The Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP, Prime Minister\n2021 New Year's Message By the Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding, MP\n2020 Christmas Message From Governor-General His Excellency, The Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J \u2013 Theme: \"Adversity and Opportunity\"\n2020 Christmas Message From The Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP, Prime Minister\n2020 Christmas Message by the Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding, MP\nStatement to to the Houses of Parliament By The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON MP, Prime Minister on Tuesday, December 15, 2020\nStatement To Parliament by Hon. Daryl Vaz, MP., Minister Of Science, Energy And Technology on Tuesday, December 15, 2020\nTOWARDS A DECADE OF GROWTH TO ANCHOR OUR PEACE AND PROSPERITY!\nWe are gathered here at the dawn of a new decade. The seeds we have planted in previous years are germinating and we commit to making this new decade one of increased growth, peace and prosperity in our land.\nHonourable Members, Jamaica has much to celebrate. Our emphasis on inclusive and sustainable economic growth has paid great dividends for our beloved nation. In recent years, Jamaica has made an extraordinary economic turnaround.\nWe have experienced nineteen consecutive quarters of positive economic growth.\nOur debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to be below 92 per cent by the end of March 2020 from a high of 147 per cent seven years ago.\nLower levels of debt accumulation and servicing have resulted in the State being able to redirect resources to invest in areas that will promote social and infrastructure development.\nOur October 2019 unemployment rate of 7.2 per cent is the lowest in Jamaica's history.\nOur regulatory reforms aimed at lessening the time and cost to do business have resulted in Jamaica being ranked as the best economy in the Caribbean for ease of doing business.\nWe have trained more than 20,000 persons through the HOPE Programme and the Jamaica National Service Corps and training continues.\nJamaica is at the forefront of global efforts towards positive action on climate change and good environmental stewardship. The Government has implemented a ban on single use plastic and polystyrene, started a programme to plant three million trees (one for each Jamaican), and is continuously transforming our energy and electricity sector to be more sustainable.\nOver the last four years, the National Housing Trust (NHT), the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) and private sector developers would have recorded over 30,000 housing starts.\nWhile we must celebrate and justly be proud of our accomplishments, we must acknowledge that there is no room for complacency in an increasingly connected, but rapidly changing world. Our Government has created a set of plans, policies, programmes and legislation which demonstrates its resolve to make this Jamaica's Decade of Growth, Peace and Prosperity as we move to fulfill Vision 2030.\nHonourable Members, the Office of the Prime Minister has responsibility for the overall performance and effective management of the Government. In 2019\/20, the largest merger ever in the history of Jamaica's public sector was completed. The Human Employment and Resource Training (HEART) Trust\/National Training Agency (NTA), the Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning, and the National Youth Service and Apprenticeship Boards were merged to create the HEART\/ National Service and Training Agency Trust; a total human capital development institution for Jamaica. In 2017, at the start of the merger, HEART was training 74,000 persons; in 2018\/19, 132,000 persons were trained, for 2019\/20, HEART is on target to train 152, 600. Honourable Members, this is a 106 percent increase.\nUnder the National Identification Systems (NIDS) Project, the non-NIDS activities have commenced, for example, infrastructure upgrades that are necessary to strengthen Jamaica's cybersecurity profile. The Government will also complete implementation of the National Public Key Infrastructure Project and advance the digital transformation of the Registrar General's Department.\nThe top legislative priorities for the period will include the tabling of a new NIDS Bill; amendments to the Registration of (Births and Deaths) Act, and the review of the National Housing Trust Act and Regulations.\nTHE MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE (MOFPS)\nHonourable Members, Jamaica successfully concluded its programme with the International Monetary Fund in November 2019. Over the course of this three-year Precautionary Standby Arrangement, the Government of Jamaica met all structural benchmarks, all quantitative performance criteria and all indicative targets.\nOur economic achievements based on where we are coming from have been nothing short of extraordinary and have been globally recognised.\nWe have now had several years of low inflation and record low interest rates. Business and consumer confidence are high.\nDownload Full Speech","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Aiken Promotions present PROTOMARTYR\nTicket Price: \u20ac14 BUY TICKET\n< Back to Gig Calendar\nAiken Promotions present\nThe Workman's Club, Dublin\n\"\u2026this LP feels like a testament to perseverance, with world-weary humour and introspection providing flashes of clarity.\" **** Rolling Stone\nProtomartyr perform \"Cowards Starve\" \u2013 Pitchfork Music Festival 2015:\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q7oxlCdYNl4\nI asked Joe Casey once why he chose to start his first band with a group of guys roughly ten years his junior. His answer was simple: He needed them, needed this, needed Protomartyr. He didn't want to end up singing classic rock covers in a carport or dive bar one night a week. At 35, with no musical background and crippling stage fright, he needed friends who were young and hearty enough to want to write and record and practice and tour and be heard as badly as he did then. He'd just lost his father to an unexpected heart attack, and his heartbroken mother to the beginnings of Alzheimer's shortly thereafter. He'd come to understand, all too intimately, how brutal and finite a life can be. Consider then the urgency with which he joined his band-mates\u2014guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex Leonard, and bassist Scott Davidson, fellow alums of the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy\u2014for the first time, in a basement full of unsuspecting onlookers. Consider the urgency with which they've approached everything since\u2014three albums in three years, each more extraordinary and rewarding than the last. This music is inherently, unassumingly high stakes. I can think of no other band that moves me like they do.\nWant Remover https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qO7lmiUQdm8\nThis October marks the release of The Agent Intellect, their third and finest work to date. Named after an ancient philosophical questioning of how the mind operates in relation to the self, it's an elegant and often devastating display of all that makes Protomartyr so vital and singularly visceral an outfit. Over the course of several months, Ahee waded through more than a hundred song fragments until he reached the bottomless melodies of \"I Forgive You\" and \"Clandestine Time\", the inky depths of \"Pontiac '87\" and titanic churn of \"Why Does It Shake?\" Lyrically, Casey is at his most confident and haunting. He humanizes evil on \"The Devil in His Youth,\" and, amid the charred pop of \"Dope Cloud,\" he reassures us that nothing\u2014not God, not money\u2014can or will prevent our minds from unraveling until we finally fade away. We are no one and nothing, he claims, without our thoughts. It's a theme that echoes through the entirety of the record, but never as beautifully as it does on \"Ellen.\" Named after his mother and written from the perspective of his late father, it's as romantic a song as you're likely to hear this or any year, Casey promising to wait for her on the other side, with the memories she's lost safely in hand.\nI remember a story he told me in Detroit. A few months earlier, he'd been driving with his mother as a Protomartyr recording played on the stereo.\n\"Joe,\" she asked him. \"Who is this?\"\n\"This is us, Mom,\" he told her. \"That's me.\"\n\"Oh!\" she said, \"This is very good.\"\n\u2014David Bevan, July 2015\nwww.protomartyrband.com\nwww.aikenpromotions.com\nPress Up Hospitality Group\n10 WELLINGTON QUAY, DUBLIN 2 | + 353 (0) 1 670 6692 \u00a9 The Workmans Club","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LeBron James Developing NBC Scripted Drama On A WNBA Star Who Becomes First Woman To Coach Men's Basketball Team\nPosted by Staff | Sep 13, 2018 | News | 0 |\nLeBron James is keeping busy. He's got two new scripted drama projects in development on NBC. One is Brotherly Love, which is inspired by the life of 76ers rookie Ben Simmons.\nThe second, produced with Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman's Brownstone Productions, is an hour long drama with a penalty attached.\nThe description: Hoops revolves around Stevie Decker, who, after years on the road as both a star player and coach in the WNBA, jumps at the chance to return to her alma mater to become the first female head coach of a men's college basketball team. But her homecoming isn't easy as her career took a toll on her family and the school she loves is embroiled in a sex scandal involving her mentor, a legendary former coach.\nIt is written by Jennifer Cecil, who will exec produce with James and James' producing partner Maverick Carter.\n[more at shadowandact.com]\nPreviousMichelle Obama Announces Book Tour\nNextTennis Umpires Considering Boycott of Serena Williams Matches\nViola Davis To Play First Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm In Amazon Biopic\nJudge Starts New Injunction Barring Lee Statue Removal\nCelebrities and Physicians Join Forces to Help People of Color Fight Against Disproportionate COVID-19 Outcomes with a Groundbreaking Video\nFederal Court Rules Florida Law That Undermined Voting Rights Restoration Is Unconstitutional","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The 'little circus with a big dream' brings 'oohs' and 'ahhs' to Louisville\nThere are just 15 staff members who put on the whole show \u2014 from the performers to those who sell concessions.\nThe 'little circus with a big dream' brings 'oohs' and 'ahhs' to Louisville There are just 15 staff members who put on the whole show \u2014 from the performers to those who sell concessions. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2019\/09\/13\/venardos-circus-brings-good-times-and-big-smiles-louisville-shows\/2314086001\/\nKristina Goetz, Louisville Courier Journal Published 5:31 p.m. ET Sept. 13, 2019 | Updated 5:51 p.m. ET Sept. 13, 2019\nThe Famous Venardos Circus performs at Louisville Waterfront Park\nMother Vicki Zsil\u2021k, left, and son, Richie Zsil\u2021k, perform a duo juggling session during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nOutside the tent of the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. The show was founded by former Ringling Bros. Ringmaster, Kevin Venardos, in 2014. \"It was just a little circus, but it had big dreams.\" Performances began Sept. 5 and will continue until Sept. 15. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nMembers of the Venardos Circus take to the stage Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nRuby Phelan lays her head in her father, Ben Phelan's, lap during the Venardos Circus performance Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nRichie Zsil\u00e1k balances a peacock feather on his nose during a kids participation segment at the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nManuel Acosta and wife Lleanay Pena of Cuba perform feats of balance and strength during the Famous Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nClown Kirk Marsh entertains by performing hat catching feats during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nVenardos Circus member Mary Gargett shows off some range on her stilts during an intermission Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nChildren participate by throwing scarves into the air and performing feats of coordination during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nRichie Zsil\u00e1k catches a juggling ring during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nRichie Zsil\u00e1k juggles balls while balancing one on his head during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nSofia Petrov performs on the lyra during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nThe Venardos Circus was founded by former Ringling Bros. Ringmaster, Kevin Venardos, in 2014. \"It was just a little circus, but it had big dreams.\" Performances began Sept. 5 and will continue until Sept. 15. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nManuel Acosta balances his wife, Lleanay Pena, as they perform feats of balance and strength during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nManuel Acosta and wife Lleanay Pena of Cuba perform during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nLaura Gwendolyn performs on the silks during the Venardos Circus Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nAnta Stoica performs a launched backflip while her daughter, Aissa Stoica, 6, comes along for the ride as the Stoica family performs at the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nVicki Zsil\u2021k, from left, Lleanay Pena, and Richie Zsil\u2021k, members of the Venardos Circus, take to the stage during their final act of Thursday evening's performance at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nBalloons float to the top of The Famous Venardos Circus tent after being shot free by a crossbow Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal\nHe once called it \"the little circus with a big dream.\"\nYet, in the last year, Kevin Venardos \u2014 producer of the Venardos Circus \u2014 has welcomed 125,000 people under the Big Top of his traveling show.\nThe circus \u2014 under a red and white striped tent that holds just 400 people \u2013 has two more days of performances this weekend at Waterfront Park in Louisville. There are no animals, just jugglers and aerialists, acrobats and a goofy clown.\nOne patron described it as \"part traditional circus, part classic vaudeville and part Cirque du Soleil.\"\n\"I want to give people that magic and hope that comes from it,\" Venardos said. \"When you get out there and bust your ass following your dream and you struggle and you strive, you offer hope to other people who want desperately to have the courage to get up and try that same thing.\n\"When you get out there and actually make your dream come true \u2014 not just in the glory moments but through the struggle \u2013 you give others hope that this can be done.\"\nRead this: Want to run away and join the circus? Well you can at this Louisville gym\nClown Kirk Marsh entertains by performing hat catching feats during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 (Photo: Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal)\nThat struggle started with a single show at the L.A. County Fair in 2014 and has grown to a 45-week traveling performance over the past year.\nThere are just 15 staff members who put on the whole show \u2014 from the performers to those who sell concessions. Jugglers from Hungary. Crossbow and teeter-board artists from Romania. Aerialists from Bulgaria and Lubbock, Texas. Acrobats from Cuba. And a clown from Iowa.\nSofia Petrov is a fourth-generation circus performer in the show \u2014 with her mom and older brother who are jugglers, and her dad who's the tent master.\nPetrov performs the aerial hoop high above the stage. She's been with the Venardos Circus for a little over a year, but she grew up traveling with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus with her family.\n\"With Ringling, there were a lot of aerialists there,\" she said. \"Every night after school and when the shows were over they would teach me tricks and techniques on the aerial hoop.\"\nShe likes the Venardos show because she's so close to the audience.\n\"You feel connected with everyone,\" she said. \"You feel the energy the audience gives off. It feels good.\"\nVenardos grew in New Jersey, a stone's throw from Broadway, as he likes to say. He loved musicals so much he hopped the bus into the city to see them when he was in high school. Then he went to school for acting.\n\"I came to New York and started auditioning for anything anyone would pay me money to do,\" he said, laughing.\nIn 2000, he went for an open call audition and landed a gig as the ringmaster of the famed Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. At 22, he was one of the youngest ever to hold the role in the Greatest Show on Earth.\n\"It was an amazing adventure,\" he said.\nHe met friends and loved the on-the-road lifestyle. He also worked for Big Apple Circus in New York and Circus Vargas in California before he decided to create his own.\n\"In 2014, when I was asking myself what the heck I'm going to do with my life \u2013 how many circuses are there left that I'd be able to ringmaster for \u2013 I started what I thought was going to be a circus-for-events company,\" he said.\nThat business strategy didn't work. So he decided to put on shows at festivals and fairs. The first big one was the L.A. County Fair. It was a tiny, outdoor show.\nVenardos began to add more festivals and fairs little by little and finally started selling tickets within three years.\nThen, he bought a big tent in 2017.\n\"This last year is the first time I was really able to make a real financial commitment to people and their families for an extended period of time,\" he said.\nRead this: Pennywise, take the wheel: They all float in Louisville man's 'It' themed Jeep\nSofia Petrov performs on the lyra during the Venardos Circus on Thursday evening at Waterfront Park's Brown-Forman Lawn. Sept. 12, 2019 (Photo: Alton Strupp\/Courier Journal)\nVenardos is now booking circus shows two and three years out.\n\"I just want to keep it growing,\" he said. \"I want to keep making magic.\"\nThe reception has been so good in Louisville that they're already planning to come back next year.\n\"We've gotten a standing \"O\" at pretty much every single performance we've had here so far,\" he said.\n\"Louisville is an awesome circus town.\"\nRead or Share this story: https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2019\/09\/13\/venardos-circus-brings-good-times-and-big-smiles-louisville-shows\/2314086001\/\nLouisville veteran, fashion designer featured on TLC's 'Say Yes To The Dress'\nNever-before-seen footage in the Anna Nicole Smith, Larry Birkhead love story airs Friday\nMexican restaurant in St. Matthews has great service, falls short on taste\nSEE IT: JLaw's $12 million Manhattan penthouse is for sale. And it's amazing.\nLouisville shows this week: MLK's Keepers of the Dream, Snoop Dogg and more\nCheck out these 10 events in Louisville this month that will honor MLK","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Putin is preparing Russia, the fate of the USSR \u2013 the Spanish Ambassador\nMarch 23, 2017 IMMWorld\nToday's Russia faces the same problems as the former Soviet Union, however, the Russian leadership, instead of addressing these problems by the Soviet Union, which led him, eventually, to the collapse. This was during a meeting of the press club \"Diplomats without ties\", said Ambassador of Spain in Ukraine Gerardo Bugallo Ottone, transfers \"UKRINFORM\".\n\"We can see that this character refers to Putin, who many think is so clever, so artful that it makes any attacking move, maneuvers, but in fact with the problems now facing Russia \u2013 it is the way of the Soviet Union the same steps, and it is obvious that this will lead to the same results, which was once the Soviet Union\", \u2013 said the diplomat.\nThe Ambassador reminded that during the revolution of Dignity Ukrainian people decided on the direction of development, throwing out of Ukraine \"gangster character\" of Yanukovych, but then Russia intervened. \"And at that time, when people already know exactly where they should move, there is a blatant, terrible aggression against Ukraine from Russia\u2026 Starts the capture of the Crimea, the entrance of Russian troops on the territory of Donbass, begin the attack on the Donbass\", \u2013 he said.\nGerardo Bugallo Hotton said that overestimate the strength and power of present-day Russia does not need: \"We can think to give this answer: Russia is a great power, such great power, we can do nothing to oppose this force, this power. But it is a big mistake.\"\nEarlier the Ambassador of Spain said that the Minsk agreement, intended to peacefully resolve the situation in the Donbas not real to perform, and the fighters controlled by Russia will not allow to hold free elections.\nPosted in World\nYoung people have no fear\nMerkel warned the British not to have any illusions about the results.\nMerkel explained how NATO should deal with Russia\nUkraine and USA agreed to develop the format of international cooperation in the field of cybersecurity\nThe BPP refused to pay 100 million bail for Nasirov\nIcelandic low-cost airline has decided to pay passengers for flights\nA fight in the cockpit. What are the dangers of confrontation Volodin and Sergei Kiriyenko\nIn Ukraine grew, the dollar and the Euro fell\nThe Kremlin responded to reports that Fillon earned on Putin\nCrimea may lose the status of a free economic zone","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Agriturismo Santa Veronica\nApartments and prices\nApartment Gelso\nApartment Salice\nApartment Quercia\nApartment Leccio\nApartment Ginkgo\nReserve of Monte Rufeno\nMount Amiata\nCitt\u00e0 del Tufo\nEtruscan necropolis\nPugnaloni\nMysteries of Santa Cristina\nBarabbata\nMacchina di Santa Rosa\nHome \u00bb Itineraries \u00bb Orvieto\nThe city of Orvieto is located in the south-western Umbria, in the province of Terni, bordering the province of Viterbo in Lazio. Orvieto is established on a tuff cliff, 325 meters above sea level, overlooking the valley below where the rivers Paglia and Chiani flow just before joining the Tiber river. This huge platform of brownish volcanic tuff, which is raised from twenty to fifty feet from the floor of the campaign, was created by the eruptions of some volcanoes, which deposited huge quantities of materials.\nOrvieto offers a wide range of natural and architectural beauty, first of all the Cathedral; built in 1263, after the Miracle of the Blood which flowed from the Holy Bread while a Bohemian priest celebrated Mass in the Basilica of Santa Cristina in Bolsena. After the Miracle, was immediately informed Pope Urban IV who came from Orvieto to see the blood on the bodyplate (corporale) and on the stones, still preserved nowadays in the Basilica of Santa Cristina in Bolsena.\nThe Cappella del Santissimo Corporale was built to house the relic of the miracle of Bolsena in 1350.\nAfter the erection of the Cathedral of Orvieto for over a century, after the walls of the Cappella del Santissimo Corporale were painted by famous artists, the artist Beato Angelico was commissioned to illustrate the bare of Cappella di San Brizio. Beato Angelico began then his work by the second bay of the cappella with the splendid figure of Christ the Judger and the sail of the Prophets, but immediately the work was permanently discontinued for unknown reasons. Luca Signorelli was to achieve fulfillment in Cappella di San Brizio, with a decorative traditional fresco.\nAnother marvel of Orvieto is the Pozzo di San Patrizio, with a circular section. almost 62 meters depth and about 13.40 meters wide. It owes its name to the irish abyss where St. Patrick used to pray. The construction of the well began after 1527 and during that time, the Pope ordered the construction of tanks and wells to ensure autonomy to the city water supply in case of invasion. The most important would be the one in the service of the Rocca, whose project was entrusted to Antonio da Sangallo, architect of confidence of the Pope. Conception of the Well was based on a double helix structure, able to reach sources in over 50 meters depth and to allow the surface transportation of water without hindrance for men and mules. The mining operations were performed at the sources of San Zeno at the foot of the cliff. The work continued under the direction of Giovan Battista da Cortona and ended in 1537, under Pope Paul III (Alessandro Farnese) who ordered to crown the outer cylinder of the well with the Farnese lilies witness to his presence in Orvieto.\nTwo diametrically opposite doors give access to two spiral staircases, one for the descent and the other for the lift, designed so as to be independent and not communicating with each other. Each staircase has 248 steps that, in the past, allowed the beasts of burden to easily reach the bottom, where it is placed a wooden bridge above the water level. Once filling operation were complete people were used to cross the bridge and bear up the other side without getting in the way to others engaged in the descent. The Well is lit by 70 windows from which you can look out and see its depth.\nPresso il nostro Agriturismo potrete trovare dello squisito miele millefiori artigianale, di buona sostanza e dall'intenso profumo.\nGet Direction on Map \u00bb\nS.P. Procenese km 0,300\n01021 Acquapendente (VT)\nLa nostra brochure\nScaricate la nostra brochure informativa, con informazioni sul nostro Agriturismo e sugli appartamenti.\n01021 Acquapendente (Viterbo)\n\u00a9 2012 Agriturismo Santa Veronica, S.P. Procenese Km 0,300 - 01021 Acquapendente - telefono +393409418965\ncode & design by \u03c6 .\/lsd - Liquid Sky Design","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Crime Patrol' leads to murder of four\nTribune Desk\nThe accused, Raihanul Islam Bangla Tribune\nCID filed a charge sheet in the case before the court on Sunday\nThe Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has said a man killed four of his relatives \u2013 elder brother, brother's wife and two children \u2013 in a plot he had devised through watching the Indian TV show \"Crime Patrol\".\nSheikh Omar Farooq, additional DIG of CID in Khulna and Barisal region, disclosed the information at a press conference held at CID headquarters on Tuesday, reports Bangla Tribune.\nEarlier, the CID filed a charge sheet in the case in court on Sunday.\nAccording to the CID, the accused, Raihanul Islam, mixed sleeping pills with soft drinks and fed them to his brother's family. Later he killed them by slitting their throats with a knife in their sleep.\nSheikh Omar Farooq said Raihanul had been taking sleeping pills with phensedyl for a long time. At one point, he was sent to jail after getting caught with the drugs by the police.\nMember of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police speaking at the press conference held at CID headquarters on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 | Bangla TribuneThis led to Raihanul divorcing his wife and starting to live with his brother's family as he was unemployed. However, he was upset with his sister-in-law as she occasionally raised the issue of money. At one point, Raihanul planned to kill his elder brother and sister-in-law.\nAlso Read - 4 of a family found slaughtered in Satkhira\nThe CID official said: \"As part of the plan, Raihanul bought two soft drinks (Speed) from a local shop and mixed sleeping pills in them. He gave the drink mixed with sleeping pills to his brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew. When they all fell asleep, he stabbed them to death at around 3:30am on October 15.\"\n\"Raihanul originally wanted to kill only his brother and sister-in-law. But his nephew and niece woke up at the time of the murder and then he killed them too,\" he said.\nSheikh Omar Farooq said: \"After the incident, Raihanul tried to wipe out evidence of the murder. But the CID managed to arrest him before that. According to his confession, bloodstained clothes and the knife used in the murder were recovered.\"\nRaihanul told the CID during preliminary interrogation that he had learned the technique of murder by watching \"Crime Patrol\".\nOn October 15, police recovered the bodies of four people, including two children, with their throats slit, from Khalsi village in Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira district.\nA case was filed by Moyna Khatun, mother-in-law of one of the victims, Shahinur Rahman, with Kolaroa police station on Thursday night.\nLater, the CID, who were given responsibility to investigate the case, arrested Raihanul.\nBody of a child labourer found in Fakirapul\nBlogger Niloy murder: Court orders to print ads to summon sacked major Zia\nO Level student rape: FemGen Alliance condemns victim blaming\nMissing teen's body found in septic tank of boyfriend's house after 11 months\nDeath of O level student: Parents mulling second lawsuit over age, case manipulation\nProtest held over rape, murder of O Level student\nCriminal Investigation Department\nphensedyl\nIndian TV show","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Martin Schulz puts fire (and beer) in Social Democrat bellies\nCenter-left candidate avoids confrontation with Merkel but calls out Trump for taking 'ax' to democracy.\nMartin Schulz at the SPD gathering in Vilshofen\nVILSHOFEN, Germany \u2014 If the warm-up band says anything about the quality of the main act, Martin Schulz had a good gig Wednesday when Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern predicted that the German centre-left's candidate will \"burn brighter and blaze higher\" in elections this fall.\nPresenting himself as the \"backing band\" for the German Social Democrats' (SPD) candidate to replace Angela Merkel as chancellor, Kern said the SPD's spike in popularity since it named Schulz candidate was \"no flash in the pan.\"\n\"Political change is within reach after a phase of not so much optimism,\" Kern told a crowd of about 5,000 SPD supporters gathered in the Bavarian town of Vilshofen for \"Political Ash Wednesday,\" a German tradition where party leaders rally the faithful in beer tents.\n\"The SPD wants to become the strongest political force of the Federal Republic of Germany,\" Schulz told the crowd. \"And I want to become chancellor.\"\nIn the four weeks since it selected the former president of the European Parliament as its candidate, the SPD has shot ahead in opinion polls and even overtaken Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian allies in some surveys. The party, which has twice served as junior partner in a Merkel-led 'grand coalition,' has surged more than 10 percentage points and was seen winning 32 percent of votes in the latest INSA poll in Bild.\nSchulz won applause for saying he had \"political competitors, not foes \u2014 not even in a beer tent.\"\nSchulz avoided head-on attacks on Merkel, whom he referred to in Wednesday's event only as \"the CDU chairwoman\" \u2014 though he did have harsh words for her Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer, who was attending a similar beer-tent rally of his conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) just down the Danube from the SPD event.\nSchulz saved most of his criticism for Donald Trump, saying the new U.S. president had taken an \"ax to the roots of democracy.\" In a similar vein, he told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan to focus on the rule of law in Turkey rather than campaigning for support among Turks living in Germany.\nPlaying to his genial image, Schulz won applause for saying he had \"political competitors, not foes \u2014 not even in a beer tent\" and he played to the SPD's traditional strength as a defender of a fairer society.\nThe Ash Wednesday rally gave a preview of the next phase of Schulz's campaign: having saved the party from depression, he now wants to convince the German voter that their country will be in good hands if he takes over from Merkel.\nThe SPD will officially anoint him as their candidate and party chairman on March 19 in Berlin. With the elections scheduled for September 24, nearly seven months away, Schulz wanted time to meet ordinary Germans \u2014 and perhaps re-connect with domestic politics after more than two decades in the European Parliament \u2014 before setting out the markers for the campaign.\nSchulz at the Political Ash Wednesday rally | Sebastian Widmann\/EPA\nDeploying home-spun rhetorical skills that are more folksy and anecdotal than Merkel's, the SPD candidate talked about the struggle to make ends meet even for dual-income families, and elderly workers' fear of losing their jobs.\nThe event was a shot in the arm for the struggling Bavarian branch of the SPD, which is so divided that it currently has six candidates competing to run the party in the state. The rally appeared to have attracted a bigger crowd than the more traditional CSU Ash Wednesday event 20 km away in Passau, which has a maximum crowd capacity of 4,000. This year's SPD event had 30 additional meters of seats in the beer tents than last year, to seat 5,000.\nSchulz effect still buoying SPD: polls\nBy Ga\u0161per Zavr\u0161nik\nIn campaign debut, Martin Schulz leans left\nGerman spy agency tapped journalists' phones, emails: report\nBy Chris Spillane\nMeet the next Merkel\nBy Laurenz Gehrke\nFriedrich Merz's revenge\nBy Matthew Karnitschnig\nMerkel slams Trump over US Capitol riots\nGerman election 2017\tGerman politics\nHorst Seehofer\tMartin Schulz","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures\nszerz\u0151: Thomas Hartwell Horne\nin Amos i.-vi. compared with vii. viii., or in the different | part, was itself exceedingly distant from the end of the Baby psalms of David. The concurrence of some words or phrases fonian captivity; so that even allowing, for argument's sake, not to be found in the other writings of the age of Isaiah the hypothesis concerning the recent origin of these prophe proves nothing: for it is not to be expected that in the small cies to be correct, there will yet remain a prophecy verified remains of Hebrew literature, all the words and phrases of in a remote posterity, the Hebrew people, and more particuany particular age should repeatedly occur. Yet there are larly the better part of that people, being pointed out as the in the writings in question exceedingly few words or phrases instruments of its completion. It is certainly true that the of this kind. On the contrary, the accustomed vehemence prophet discerns the hostile kingdom of the Chald\u00e6o-Babyof Isaiah, the same dismemberment of objects, and the same lonians, the cities of Jud\u00e6a overthrown, the ruins of Jerusaantithesis between Jacob and Israel, are observable in both lem, and the downfall of the Chald\u00e6an monarchy, and parts of these prophecies. All the difference is, that the names not only the Medes and Elamites, but even Cyrus prophet, who in the first part was censuring wickedness, in himself. But that Isaiah, receiving such revelations in the the latter endeavours rather to teach and console, as the na- time of Hezekiah or Manasseh, might so totally have lost ture of his subject required: yet even here he sometimes himself in the contemplation of a very distant period, as to inveighs against different vices, lvi. 9.-lvii. 12. lviii. 1-7. forget the present and write only of the future, will not be lix. 1-8. xv. 11-14. If Isaiah wrote these prophecies in denied by any one who has observed that Micah, Joel, Hathe latter years of his life, it is easy to conceive that the bakkuk, and Nahum are altogether conversant with far disprophet, now old (in the time of Manasseh, as appears from tant ages. And Isaiah himself warns his reader of this, every part of these prophecies), filled with consolatory pros-ch. xl. 1. xli. 7. 21. lxvi. 9., by the expression mm, the pects, chose rather to teach than to rebuke: but it was pecu- LORD WILL say. Compare Isa. xliv. 5.\" liarly proper for a teacher to address the people as the servant of God, to distinguish the better part of the nation, and to illustrate the madness of idolatry; which last, however, he had done in the first part, not only ch. ii. 18. s., but also ii. 8. viii. 19. 21., although with more brevity than in the latter part. The notice of the fulfilment of former prophecies was especially adapted to convey instruction, whether the author refers to the carrying away of the ten tribes, or to the deliverance of the Jews from the Assyrians, or to some other more ancient predictions: this, therefore, is no proof of a modern date. Such remarks do not occur in the first part of the book, because there the prophet neither teaches nor consoles, but reproves.-The occurrence of certain phrases in one part which are not to be found in the other might prove a difference of authors, if the genius of Isaiah were dry and barren; but not otherwise.\"\n(3.)\" The prophecies of events as far as the time of Cyrus are clear and perspicuous; but those which refer to later limes are obscure; hence it may be concluded that the author was contemporary with Cyrus.-For if it had pleased God to grant such very clear prophecies in times so far remote, and even to reveal the name of Cyrus; why is it said, ch. xlv. 14., that the Hebrews, after their return to their country, should participate in the commerce of the Cushites and Sabans, when, as is evident from Ezra, Nehemiah, and Malachi, the event was not so? Nor were the great promises made, ch. Ix. 6-10., ever fulfilled. The contemporaries of Isaiah certainly never could have been able to discern that those things which were prophesied concerning Cyrus should be literally fulfilled, but the others only in part, and figuratively.\" To this objection Jahn answers, That the prophecies relating to times anterior to Cyrus should be the more perspicuous, but those referring to more distant periods the more obscure, is not to be wondered at; for in visions, as in \"In the age of Isaiah there was no Chald\u00e6an monarchy, prospects, the more distant objects appear the more indi nor were the Medes and Elamites, who are predicted to be tinctly marked. That the Cushites and Sab\u00e6ans formerly the destroyers of the Chald\u00e6an monarchy, nations of any carried on a considerable commerce and brought merchandise celebrity. From the fourteenth year of Hezekiah to the to the Hebrews even after the captivity, cannot be doubted: founding of that monarchy was ninety years: it was one nor were the Hebrews of that time so universally poor as is hundred and fifteen to the birth of Cyrus, who was appoint- pretended; for, Hag. i., they built ceiled houses, and suped general of the Median army in the one hundred and fifty-plied funds for the building of the temple, and, in the time fifth year after Hezekiah, and it was not until the one hundred and seventy-sixth year that he overthrew the Chald\u00e6an monarchy. Yet our prophet so long before sees Jud\u00e6a and Jerusalem devastated by the Chald\u00e6ans, xlv. 26-28.; discerns the kingdom which had brought such destruction upon Jud\u00e6a verging to its ruin, and its enemies already rushing from the north, xlii. 14. xli. 2. 25.; and even designates Cyrus twice by his very name as the deliverer of the Hebrews, xliv. 28. xlv. 1.\"\n(2.) The particularity of the prophecies, and the distance of the events from the time of their prediction.\nIn answer to this objection, it is urged by Jahn, that \"the particularity of the predictions to be accomplished at a period so distant is indeed extraordinary: but the prophet frequently recommends this very circumstance to the attention of the reader as something remarkable; whence it appears that even in his age it seemed incredible to many, and therefore the fact that the remoteness of the fulfilment is noticed in these prophecies is a proof of the antiquity of their author. It has already been shown that the Chald\u00e6ans, Medes and Persians, or Elamites, were not in the time of Isaiah such obscure nations as that the prophet, when speaking of them, could not have been understood as far as was necessary. That the prophets have sometimes spoken of very remote events has been already proved by several examples, some of which were even afforded by Isaiah himself: to these may be added, that in this same second part, Jesus the Messiah is predicted, ch. lii. 13.-liii. 12., a passage so clear that all attempts to explain it of any other are perfectly vain and fruitless. Compare also ch. lv. 1-5. Indeed, in his very first vision, ch. vi., the prophet foresees the entire devastation of Jud\u00e6a, and the subsequent restoration. Lastly, the propagation of religion, predicted in the same second In his larger German Introduction, Prof. Jahn \"declares that after repeated perusals, he can find only two such words: nys, ch. lvi. 14. lxiii. 1. which occurs elsewhere only in Jer. ii. 20. xxviii. 12. but yet is not Araman; and, which is found in Isa. xli. 25. and elsewhere only in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, but which cannot be a very modern word, as it was in use among the Assyrians. See Ezek. xxiii. 6. 12. 23.Einleit. S. 485.\" Notes of Prof. Turner and Mr. Whittingham. 2 L\nof Nehemiah, even for the fortifications of Jerusalem. Besides, these passages relate not so much to commercial intercourse with these people, as to their conversion to the worship of the true God. That not a few of them did embrace Judaism, and visit the temple of Jerusalem, as is predicted ch. lx. 6-10., is certain from Acts ii. 10, 11. and viii. 27.\"2\n3. EXAMINATION OF THE QUESTION WHETHER ISAIAH WAS THE AUTHOR OF CHAPTERS Xxxvi.-xxxix.?\nThese \"chapters agree verbally in most respects with 2 Kings xviii. 13.-xx. 19.; yet in some they differ. Thus the song of Hezekiah, Isaiah xxxviii. 9-20., is wanting in 2 Kings: on the contrary, the reconciliation of Hezekiah with Sennacherib, 2 Kings xviii. 14-16., is wanting in Isaiah. What we read, 2 Kings xx. 7. s., concerning the lump of figs to be placed upon the boil of Hezekiah, is, in Isa. xxxviii., introduced where it does not belong: its natural place would have been after ver. 6. There are also some other discrepancies of less moment, which it is unnecessary to adduce. From all this it appears that the text of these two passages is so different and yet so similar, that both would seem to have been taken from one common source, namely, from the history of Hezekiah, which Isaiah wrote, 2 Chron. xxxii. 32. The speeches of the ambassadors of Sennacherib, of Hezekiah, and of Isaiah, and the attention paid to minute circumstances, show that the narration was written by a contemporary witness who was himself concerned, as it is certain that Isaiah was, in the transactions which he has recorded. The words no and , which occur in the narration, are not more recent than the time of Isaiah, and even if no were of Aramaan origin, that would not be a proof of a modern date, since some exotic words had already been introduced into the Hebrew language, in the time of Isaiah, as may be observed in the writings of Hosea and Amos. The word has not in this place the signification which it acquired after the captivity, but Jahn's Introduction by Prof. Turner and Mr. Whittingham, pp. 355\n-358.\ndesignates the Hebrew language, which at that time flourish- | ed only in the kingdom of Judah.\"\nIII. The SCOPE of Isaiah's predictions is three-fold; viz. 1. To detect, reprove, and condemn the sins of the Jewish people especially, and also the iniquities of the ten tribes of Israel, and the abominations of many Gentile nations and countries; denouncing the severest judgments against all sorts and degrees of persons, whether Jews or Gentiles.\n2. To invite persons of every rank and condition, both Jews and Gentiles, to repentance and reformation, by numerous promises of pardon and mercy. It is worthy of remark that no such promises are intermingled with the denunciations of divine vengeance against Babylon, although they occur in the threatenings against every other people.\n3. To comfort all the truly pious (in the midst of all the calamities and judgments denounced against the wicked) with prophetic promises of the true Messiah.2 These predictions seem almost to anticipate the Gospel history, so clearly do they foreshow the divine character of Christ (ch. vii. 14. compared with Matt. i. 18-23. and Luke i. 27-35.; vi. ix. 6. xxxv. 4. xl. 5. 9, 10. xlii. 6-8. lxi. 1. compared with Luke iv. 18. lxii. 11. lxiii. 1-4.); his miracles (ch. XXXV. 5, 6.); his peculiar qualities and virtues (ch. ix. 2, 3. xl. 11. xliii. 1-3.); his rejection (ch. vi. 9-12. viii. 14, 15. liii. 3.); and sufferings for our sins (ch. 1. 6. liii. 4-11.;)3 his death, burial (ch. liii. 8, 9.), and victory over death (ch. xxv. 8. liii. 10-12.); and, lastly, his final glory (ch. xlix. 7, 22, 23. lii. 13-15. liii. 4, 5.), and the establishment, increase (ch. ii. 2\u20144. ix. 7. xlii. 4. xlvi. 13.), and perfection (ch. ix. 2. 7. xi. 4-10. xvi. 5. xxix. 18-24. xxxii. 1. xl. 4, 5. xlix. 9-13. li. 3-6. lii. 6-10. lv. 1-3. lix. 16-21. lx. lxi. 1-5. lxv. 25.) of his kingdom; each specifically pointed out, and portrayed with the most striking and discriminating characters. It is impossible, indeed, to reflect on these, and on the whole chain of his illustrious prophecies, and not to be sensible that they furnish the most incontestable evidence in support of Christianity.\"4\nIV. The predictions of Isaiah are contained in sixty-six chapters; of which the five first are generally supposed to have been delivered in the reign of Uzziah: the sixth in the reign of Jotham; the seventh to the fifteenth in the reign of Ahaz; and the remainder in that of Hezekiah. Various modes of classifying them have been proposed, in order to present them in the most useful and lucid arrangement; some commentators and critics dividing them into three parts:1. Evangelico-Legal, which contain denunciations of the divine vengeance, intermixed with evangelical promises;2. Historical, comprising the narrative part;-and, 3. Evangelical, comprising prophecies and promises relative to the deliverance of the Jews from captivity, and the yet greater deliverance of mankind from the bondage of sin, by the Messiah. By other writers, the book of the prophet Isaiah is divided into,-1. Reprehensory, including sharp reproofs and threatenings of the Jews for their sins, in which are mingled promises to the penitent;-2. Minatory, containing threatenings against the enemies of the Jewish church, and also against the Jews themselves;-3. Narrative or Historical; and, 4. Consolatory and evangelical promises concerning Messiah and the church. Other classifications have been proposed, which it is not necessary to specify; but, without adopting any of them, we apprehend that the following synopsis will be found to exhibit a clear view of the various topics discussed by the royal prophet. The predictions of Isaiah, then, may be divided into six parts, each containing a number of discourses, delivered by the prophet to the various nations or people whom he was commissioned to address.5\n1 Jahn's Introduction, p. 359. Bishop Lowth considers the narrativechapters in Isaiah as a different copy of the relation in the second book of Kings, the account of Hezekiah's sickness only excepted. The difference of the two copies, he is of opinion, is little more than what has manifestly arisen from the mistakes of transcribers: they mutually correct each other; and most of the mistakes may be perfectly rectified by a collation of the two copies with the assistance of the ancient versions. Some few sentences, or members of sentences, are omitted in this copy of Isaiah, which are found in the other copy of the book of Kings; but he doubts whether these omissions were made by design or by mistake. Isaiah, vol. ii. p. 237.\nThe scope of Isaiah's prophecies above given is abridged from Roberts's Clavis Bibliorum, p. 616. The Ethiopian eunuch appears to have been made a proselyte by Saint Philip's explication of this chapter. Vide Acts viii. 32. The whole of it is so minutely descriptive of Christ's passion, that a famous Rabbi, likewise, on reading it, was converted from Judaism.-Who, indeed, can resist its evidence?\n4 Gray's Key, pp. 369, 370.\nThese general divisions of the prophecy are according to the scheme proposed by Vitringa (Comment. in Esaiam, tom. i. p. 24.) and Bishop\nPART I. contains a general Description of the Estate and Condition of the Jews, in the several Periods of their History; the Promulgation and Success of the Gospel and the Coming of Messiah to Judgment. (ch. i.-v.) The Predictions in this Section were delivered during the Reign of Uzziah King of Judah.\nDISCOURSE 1. (ch. i. throughout.) The prophecy contained in this first chapter stands single and unconnected, constituting an entire piece of itself. If, as we suppose to have been the case, it was delivered in the reign of Uzziah, the desolation which it describes may refer to the calamities which were occasioned before that time by Jehoash king of Israel (compare 2 Kings xiv. 12-14.); or, the prophet may describe scenes yet future, as already passing before his eyes, to denote their certainty. As, however, the portrait, which it presents of the desolate and distressed state of the land of Judah, agrees much better with the wicked and afflicted reign of the apostate Ahaz, than with the flourishing circumstances in the reigns of Uzziah and Jotham (who were both, in the main, good princes): on this account the learned Dr. John Taylor thinks it probable that the prediction in this chapter was uttered in the reign of Ahaz, and intends the invasion of Judah by Resin and Pekah, kings of Syria and Israel. But whichever of these conjectures may be preferred, the chapter contains a severe remonstrance against the inclinations to idolatry, want of inward piety, and other corruptions, prevailing among the Jews of that time, intermixed with powerful exhortations to repentance, grievous threatenings to the impenitent, and gracious promises of better times, when the nation shall have been reformed by the just judgments of God. The whole of this discourse affords a beautiful example of the prophet's elegant and impressive manner of writing.\nDISCOURSE 2. (ch. ii. iii. iv.) contains the following particulars :\u2014 1. The kingdom of Messiah, the conversion of the Gentiles, and their admission into it. (ii. 1-5.)\n2. A prediction of the punishment of the unbelieving Jews, for their idolatrous practices, for their confidence in their own strength, and distrust of God's protection; and likewise the destruction of idolatry, in consequence of the establishment of Messiah's kingdom. (ii. 6-20.5 3. A prophecy of calamities of the Babylonian invasion (perhaps also of the invasion by the Romans), with a particular amplification of the distress of the proud and luxurious daughters of Sion. (iii. 1-26.8 iv. 1.) 4. A promise to the remnant that should escape this severe purgation, of a restoration to the favour and protection of God. (iv. 2-6.) This prophetic sermon was probably delivered in the time of Jotham, or perhaps in the reign of Uzziah.\nDISCOURSE 3. ch. v. This chapter likewise stands single and alone, unconnected with the preceding or following: its subject is nearly the same with that of ch. i., but it exceeds that chapter in force, in severity, in variety, and elegance. It is a general reproof of the Jews for their wickedness, which is represented in the parable of the vineyard (verses 1-5.); and it adds a more express declaration of vengeance by the Babylonian invasion. (verses 6\u201530.)\nPART II. comprises the Predictions delivered in the Reigns of Jotham and Ahaz. (ch. vi.-xii.)\nDISCOURSE 1. The vision and prophecy of Isaiah in the reign of Jotham. (ch. vi.)9 As this vision seems to contain a solemn designation of Isaiah to the prophetical office, it is supposed by many interpreters to be the first in order of his prophecies Bishop Lowth, however, conjectures that this may not be the case, because Isaiah is said, in the general title of his predictions, to have prophesied in the time of Uzziah; and is of opinion, that it is a new designation, to introduce, with the greater solemnity, a general declaration of the whole course Tomline. (Elements of Christ. Theol. vol. i. p. 107.) In the analysis of the various discourses, or prophetic sermons comprised under each section, we have principally followed Bishop Lowth, in his admirable transla. tion of, and notes upon, the prophet Isaiah.\n6 Commentators are divided in opinion, whether the title in verse 1. (the vision of Isaiah) belongs to the whole book, or only to the prophecy contained in this chapter. The former part of the title seems properly to be long to this particular prophecy; the latter part, which enumerates the kings of Judah, under whom Isaiah exercised his prophetic office, seems to extend it to the entire collection of prophecies delivered in the course of his ministry. Vitringa (with whom Bishop Lowth agrees) has solved this doubt very judiciously. He supposes that the former part of the title was originally prefixed to this single prophecy ; and that, when the collection of all Isaiah's prophecies was made, the enumeration of the kings of Judah was added, to make it at the same time a proper title to the whole book. As such it is plainly taken in 2 Chron. xxxii. 32. where the book of Isaiah is cited by the title of \"The Vision of Isaiah the Prophet, the Son of Amos.\" Vitringa, tom. i. pp. 25-29. Bishop Lowth's Isaiah, vol. ii. p. 4. Scheme of Scripture Divinity, chap. xxxiv. in vol. i. of Bishop Watson's Collection of Tracts, pp. 143, 144.\na See a striking medallic illustration of Isa. iii. 26. in Vol. I. p. 91. For a particular elucidation of this sublime vision, see Bp. Lowth's Isaiah, vol. ii. pp. 72-77. and Dr. Hales's Analysis of Chronology, vol. ii. book i. p.436. et seq.\nof God's dispensations towards his people, and the fates of the nation,-events which are still depending, and will not be fully accomplished until the final restoration of Israel. DISCOURSE 2. (ch. vii.-ix. 7.) commences with an historical account of the occasion of the prophecy (vii. 1-3.), and then follows a prediction of the ill success of the designs of the Israelites and Syrians against Judah (vii. 1-16.); to this succeeds the denunciation of the calamities that were to be brought upon the king and people of Judah by the Assyrians, whom they had now hired to assist them. (vii. 17\u201425.) These predictions are repeated and confirmed in ch. viii., the ninth and tenth verses of which give a repeated general assurance that all the designs of the enemies of God's people shall ultimately be frustrated; and the discourse concludes, after various admonitions and threatenings (viii. 11-22. ix. 1.), with an illustrious prophecy (ix. 2\u20147.), in the first instance, perhaps, of the restoration of prosperity under Hezekiah, but principally of the manifestation of the Messiah, the transcendent dignity of his character, and the universality and eternal duration of his kingdom.\nDISCOURSE 3. (ch. ix. 8.-x. 4.) contains a distinct prophecy and a just poem, remarkable for the regularity of its disposition and the elegance of its plan. It has no relation to the preceding or to the following prophecy, but is exclusively addressed to the kingdom of Israel, and its subject is a denunciation of vengeance awaiting their enemies. DISCOURSE 4. (ch. x. 5. xii.) foretells the invasion of Sennacherib, and the destruction of his army (x. 5\u201434. xi.); and, according to Isaiah's usual method, he takes occasion, from the mention of a great temporal deliverance by the destruction of the Assyrian host, to launch forth into a display of the spiritual deliverance of God's people by the Messiah, to whom this prophecy relates; for that this prophecy relates to the Messiah we have the express authority of St. Paul in Rom. xv. 12. The hymn in ch. xii. seems, by its whole tenor, as well as by many of its expressions, much better calculated for the use of the Christian than for the Jewish church under any circumstances, or at any time that can be assigned; and the Jews themselves seem to have applied it to the times of the Messiah.\nPART III. contains various Predictions against the Babylonians, Assyrians, Philistines, and other Nations with whom the. Jews had any intercourse (ch. xiii.-xxii.); these Predictions are contained in nine Prophetic Poems or Discourses. DISCOURSE 1. (ch. xiii. xiv. 1-28.) contains one entire prophecy, foretelling the destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians it was probably delivered in the reign of Ahaz, about two hundred years before its completion. The captivity itself of the Jews at Babylon (which the prophet does not expressly foretell, but supposes in the spirit of prophecy as what was actually to be effected), did not take place till about one hundred and thirty years after this prediction was delivered. And the Medes, who (in xiii. 7.) are expressly mentioned as the principal agents in subverting this great monarchy, and releasing the Jews from that captivity, were at this time an inconsiderable people, having been in a state of anarchy ever since the fall of the great Assyrian empire, of which they had made a part under Sardanapalus; and did not become a kingdom under Deioces, until about the seventeenth year of Hezekiah's reign. The former part of this prophecy, Bishop Lowth remarks, is one of the most beautiful examples that can be given of elegance of composition, variety of imagery, and sublimity of sentiment and diction in the prophetic style; and the latter part consists of a triumphal ode, which, for beauty of disposition, strength of colour, grandeur of sentiment, brevity, perspicuity, and force of expression, stands unrivalled among all the monuments of antiquity. The exact accomplishment of this prophecy is recorded in Dan. v. Jerome (in loc.) says, that, in his time, Babylon was quite in ruins; and all modern travellers unanimously attest that Babylon is so utterly annihilated, that even the place, where this wonder of the world once stood, cannot now be determined with any certainty. On the subject of this prophecy, see Vol. I. p. 126. DISCOURSE 2. (ch. xiv. 29-32.) contains severe prophetic denunciations against the Philistines, the accomplishment of which is recorded in 2 Kings xviii. 8.\nDISCOURSE 3. (ch. xv. xvi.) is a prophecy against the Moabites; it was delivered soon after the preceding, in the first year of Hezekiah, and it was accomplished in his fourth year when Shalmaneser invaded the kingdom of Israel. He might, probably, march through Moab; and, to secure eve y thing be\nhind him, possess himself of their whole country, by taking their principal strong places. Jeremiah, says Bishop Lowth, has happily introduced much of this prophecy of Isaiah into his own larger prophecy against the same people in his forty eighth chapter; denouncing God's judgments on Moab subsequent to the calamity here foretold, and to be executed by Nebuchadnezzar, by which means several mistakes in the text of both prophets may be rectified.\nDISCOURSE 4. (ch. xvii.) is a prophecy chiefly directed against Damascus or the kingdom of Syria, with whose sovereign the king of Samaria (or Israel) had confederated against the kingdom of Judah. Bishop Lowth conjectures that it was delivered, soon after the prophecies of the seventh and eighth chapters, in the commencement of Ahab's reign. It was fulfilled by Tiglath-Pileser's taking Damascus (2 Kings xvi. 9.), overrunning a very considerable part of the kingdom of Israel, and carrying a great number of the Israelites also captives into Assyria; and still more fully in regard to Israel, by the conquest of the kingdom, and the captivity of the people, effected a few years after by Shalmaneser. The three last verses of this chapter seem to have no relation to the prophecy to which they are joined: they contain a noble description of the formidable invasion and sudden overthrow of Sennacherib, which is intimated in the strongest terms and most expressive images, exactly suitable to the event.\nDISCOURSE 5. (ch. xviii.) contains one of the most obscure prophecies in the whole book of Isaiah. Vitringa considers it as directed against the Assyrians; Bishop Lowth refers it to the Egyptians; and Rosenm\u00fcller, and others, to the Ethiopians. DISCOURSE 6. (ch. xix. xx.) is a prophecy against Egypt, the conversion of whose inhabitants to the true religion is intimated in verses 18-25. of ch. xix. DISCOURSE 7. (ch. xxi. 1-10.) contains a prediction of the taking of Babylon' by the Medes and Persians. \"It is a passage singular in its kind for its brevity and force, for the variety and rapidity of the movements, and for the strength and energy of colouring with which the action and event are painted.\" The eleventh and twelfth verses of this chapter contain a prophecy concerning Dumah or Idum\u00e6a, the land of the Edomites, Mount Seir; which, from the uncertainty of the occasion on which it was delivered, as well as from the brevity of the expression, is very obscure. The five last verses comprise a prophecy respecting Arabia, which was fulfilled within a year after its delivery.\nDISCOURSE 8. (ch. xxii.) is a prophecy concerning the capture of the Valley of Vision, or Jerusalem (verses 1-14.), the captivity of Shebna (15-19.), and the promotion of Eliakim. (20-24.) The invasion of Jerusalem here announced is either that by the Assyrians under Sennacherib; or by the Chald\u00e6ans under Nebuchadnezzar. Vitringa is of opinion that the prophet had both in view; viz. the invasion of the Chald\u00e6ans in verses 1-5. and that of the Assyrians in verses 8-11. Compare 2 Kings xxv. 4, 5. and 2 Chron. xxxii. 2-5. DISCOURSE 9. (ch. xxiii.) denounces the destruction of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar2 (1-17.), the restoration of its prosperity, and the conversion of the Tyrians. Accordingly a Christian church was early formed at Tyre, which became a kind of mother-church to several others, which were connected with it. See Acts xxi. 1-6.3\nPART IV. contains a Prophecy of the great Calamities that should befall the People of God, His merciful Preservation of a Remnant of them, and of their Restoration to their Country, of their Conversion to the Gospel, and the Destruction of Antichrist. (ch. xxiv.-xxxv.)\nDISCOURSE 1. (ch. xxiv. xxv. xxvi.) was probably delivered before the destruction of Moab by Shalmaneser, in the beginning of Hezekiah's reign; but interpreters are not agreed whether the desolation announced in ch. xxiv. was that caused by the invasion of Shalmaneser, the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar, or the destruction of the city and nation by the Romans. Vitringa is singular in referring it to the persecution by Antiochus Epiphanes; and Bishop Lowth thinks it may have a view to all the three great desolations of the country, especially to the last. In verses 21-23. it is announced that God shall at length revisit and restore his people in the last age; and\nIsaiah and other prophets against Babylon. See his Dissertation on the 1 Bishop Newton has collected and illustrated the various predictions of Prophecies, vol. i. diss. ix. See also Vol. I. p. 126. supra. Bishop Newton's Dissertations, vol. i. diss. xi. See also Vol. I. pp. 124, 125. 2 On the accomplishment of the various prophecies against Tyre, see\nScott, on Isa. xxiii. 18,\nthen the kingdom of God shall be established in such perfection as wholly to obscure and eclipse the glory of the temporary, typical, preparatory kingdom now subsisting. On a review of this extensive scene of God's providence in all its parts, the prophet breaks out into a sublime and beautiful song of praise, in which his mind seems to be more possessed by the prospect of future mercies than by the recollection of past events (xxv.); this is followed by another hymn in ch. xxvi. In verse 19. the deliverance of the people of God from a state of the lowest misery is explained by images plainly taken from the resurrection of the dead.\nDISCOURSE 2. (ch. xxvii.) treats on the nature, measure, and design of God's dealings with his people. DISCOURSE 3. (ch. xxviii.) contains a prophecy directed both to the Israelites and to the Jews. The destruction of the former by Shalmaneser is manifestly denounced in verses 1-5.; and the prophecy \"then turns to the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, the remnant of God's people, who were to continue a kingdom after the final captivity of the Israelites. It commences with a favourable prognostication of their affairs under Hezekiah; but soon changes to reproofs and threatenings for their disobedience and profaneness.\" In verses 23-29. the wisdom of Providence is illustrated by the discretion of the husbandman.\nDISCOURSE 4. (ch. xxix.-xxxiii.) predicts the invasion of SenInacherib, the great distress of the Jews while it continued (xxix. 1-4.), and their sudden and immediate deliverance by God's interposition in their favour; and the subsequent prosperous state of the kingdom under Hezekiah; interspersed with severe reproofs and threats of punishment for their hypocrisy, stupidity, infidelity, their want of trust in God, and their vain reliance on assistance from Egypt; and with promises of better times both immediately to succeed and to be expected in the future age. (18-24. xxx.-xxxiii.) DISCOURSE 5. (ch. xxxiv. xxxv.) makes one distinct prophecy, an entire, regular, and beautiful poem, consisting of two parts; the first containing a denunciation of the divine vengeance against the enemies of the people or church of God; the second part describing the flourishing state of the church of God consequent upon the execution of those judgments. It is plain from every part of it, that this chapter is to be understood of Gospel times. The fifth and sixth verses of ch. xxxv. were literally accomplished by our Saviour and his apostles. In a secondary sense, Bishop Lowth remarks, they may have a further view; and, running parallel with the former part of the prophecy, may relate to the future advent of Christ, to the conversion of the Jews, and their restoration to their own land; and to the extension and purification of the Christian faith;\u2014 events predicted in the Holy Scriptures as preparatory to it. PART V. comprises the Historical Part of the Prophecy of Isaiah.\nCh. xxxvi. relates the history of the invasion of Sennacherib, and of the miraculous destruction of his army, as a proper introduction to ch. xxxvii., which contains the answer of God to Hezekiah's prayer, that could not be properly understood without it. On the subject of these chapters, see p. 265. supra. Ch. xxxviii. and xxxix. relate Hezekiah's sickness and recovery, and his thanksgiving for restoration to health, together with the embassy of the king of Babylon.\nPART VI. (ch. xl.-lxvi.) comprises a series of Prophecies, delivered, in all probability, towards the close of Hezekiah's Reign. This portion of Isaiah's predictions constitutes the most elegant part of the sacred writings of the Old Testament. \"The chief subject is the restoration of the church. This is pursued with the greatest regularity; containing the deliverance of the Jews from captivity-the vanity and destruction of idols-the vindication of the divine power and truth-consolations and invitations to the Jews--denunciations against them for their infidelity and impiety-their rejection, and the calling of the Gentiles--the happiness of the righteous and the final destruction of the wicked. But, as the subject of this very beautiful series of prophecies is chiefly of the consolatory kind, they are introduced with a promise of the restoration of the kingdom, and the return from the Babylonian captivity, through the merciful interposition of God. At the same time, this redemption from Babylon is employed as an image to shadow out a redemption of an infinitely higher and more important nature. 1 Smith's Summary View of the Prophets, p. 56.\nThe prophet, Bishop Lowth remarks, connects these two events together, scarcely ever treating of the former without throwing in some intimations of the latter; and sometimes he is so fully possessed with the glories of the future more remote kingdom of the Messiah, that he seems to leave the immediate subject of his commission almost out of the question. This part consists of twelve prophetic poems or discourses. DISCOURSE 1. (ch. xl. xli.) contains a promise of comfort to the people of God, interspersed with declarations of the omnipo tence and omniscience of Jehovah, and a prediction of the restoration of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity by Cyrus.\nDISCOURSE 2. The advent and office of the Messiah are foretold (xlii. 1-17.); for rejecting whom the incredulity of the Jews is reproved. (18-25.) A remnant of them, however, it is promised, shall be preserved, and ultimately restored to their own land. (xliii. 1-13.) The destruction of Babylon and the restoration of the Jews are again foretold, as also (perhaps) their return after the Roman dispersion (14-20.); and they are admonished to repent of those sins which would otherwise bring the severest judgments of God upon them. (21-28.) DISCOURSE 3. contains promises of the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, intermingled with an exposure of the folly of idolatry (xliv. 1-20.), which, in force of argument, energy of expression, and elegance of composition, far surpasses any thing that was ever written upon the subject. The prophet then announces by name the instrument of their deliverance, Cyrus, (21\u201428. xlv. 1\u20145.); and, after adverting, in splendid imagery, to the happy state of the people of God, restored to their country, and flourishing in peace and plenty, in piety and virtue, he proceeds to answer or prevent the objections and cavils of the unbelieving Jews, disposed to murmur against God, and to arraign the wisdom and justice of his dispensations in regard to them; in permitting them to be oppressed by their enemies, and in promising them deliverance instead of preventing their captivity. (6-25.) St. Paul has borrowed the prophet's imagery, and has applied it to the like purpose with equal force and elegance in Rom. ix. 20, 21. DISCOURSE 4. foretells the carrying away of the idols of Babylon (xlvi. 1-5.); the folly of worshipping them is then strikingly contrasted with the attributes and perfections of Jehovah (6\u2014 13.); and the divine judgments upon Babylon and Chald\u00e6a are further denounced. (xlvii.)\nDISCOURSE 5. contains an earnest reproof of the Jews for their infidelity and idolatry (xlviii. 1\u201319. 21, 22.); and foretells their deliverance from the Babylonian captivity. (20.) DISCOURSE 6. The Messiah (whose character and office had been generally exhibited in ch. xlii.) is here introduced in person, declaring the full extent of his commission, which is, not only to restore the Israelites, but to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, to call them to the knowledge and obedience of the true God, and to bring them to be one church together with the Is raelites, and with them to partake of the same common salva tion, procured for all by the great Redeemer and Reconciler of man to God, (xlix.) DISCOURSE 7. predicts the dereliction of the Jews for their rejection of the Messiah (1. 1--3.), whose sufferings and exaltation are foretold. (4-11.) The prophet exhorts the believing Jews, after the pattern of Abraham, to trust in Christ, and foretells their future restoration after the Babylonish captivity, as also their ultimate conversion to Christianity. (li. lii. 1\u201412.) DISCOURSE 8. predicts the humiliation of Christ, which had been intimated in l. 5, 6., and obviates the offence which would be occasioned by it, by declaring the important and necessary cause of it, and foreshowing the glory which should follow it. (lii. 13-15. liii.)\nDISCOURSE 9. foretells the amplitude of the church, when Jews and Gentiles should be converted. (liv.) DISCOURSE 10. is an invitation to partake of the blessings of the Gospel, from which none shall be excluded who come on the terms prescribed. (lv. lvi. 1-8.)\nDISCOURSE 11. denounces calamities against the inhabitants of Judah, who are sharply reproved for their idolatry and hypocrisy. Bishop Lowth is of opinion, that the prophet probably\n4 Isa. xliv, 28. \"There is a remarkable beauty and propriety in this verse: 1. Cyrus is called God's Shepherd.-Shepherd was an epithet which Cyrus took to himself, and which he gave to all good kings. 2. This Cyrus should say to the temple-Thy foundation shall be laid; not, Thou shalt be built. The fact is, only the foundation was laid in the days of Cyrus, the Ammonites having prevented the building; nor was it resumed\n2 Compare Matt. xi. 5. xv. 30. xxi. 14. John v. 8, 9. Acts iii. 2. viii. 7. till the second year of Darius, one of his successors. There is often a prexiv. 8-10.\n\u2192 Smith's Summary View of the Prophets, p. 64.\ncision in the expressions of the prophets, which is as honourable to truth, as it is unnoticed by careless readers.\" Dr. A. Clarke, on Isa. xliv. 23.\nhas in view the destruction of their city and polity by the Chald\u00e6ans, and perhaps, by the Romans. (lvi. 9-12. lvii. lix. 1-15.) The fifty-ninth chapter, he observes, is remarkable for the beauty, strength, and variety of the images with which it abounds, as well as for the elegance of the composition and the exact construction of the sentences. DISCOURSE 12. chiefly predicts the general conversion of the Jews to the Gospel, the coming in of the fulness of the Gentiles, the restoration of the Jews, and the happy state of the Christian church. (lix. 16-21. lx.-lxvi.) In ch. lx. and Ixi. the great increase and flourishing state of the church of God, by the conversion and accession of the heathen nations to it, are \"set forth in such ample and exalted terms, as plainly show, that the full completion of the prophecy is reserved for future times. This subject is displayed in the most splendid colours, under a great variety of highly poetical images, designed to give a general idea of the glories of that perfect state of the church, which we are taught to expect in the latter times; when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in, and the Jews shall be converted and gathered from their dispersions; and the kingdoms of this world shall become the king doms of our Lord and of his Christ.\" (Bp. Lowth.) The remarkable prophecy in Ixiii. 1-6., which some expositors refer to Judas Maccab\u00e6us, the learned prelate applies primarily to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish polity; which in the Gospel is called the \"coming of Christ,\" and the \"days of vengeance\" (Matt. xvi. 28. Luke xxi. 22.); but he thinks it may ultimately refer to the yet unfulfilled predictions, which intimate a great slaughter of the enemies of God and his people. The two last chapters of this prophecy manifestly relate to the calling of the Gentiles, the establishment of the Christian dispensation, and the reprobation of the apostate Jews, and their destruction executed by the Romans.\nV. Isaiah has, with singular propriety, been denominated the \"evangelical prophet,\" on account of the number and variety of his prophecies concerning the advent and character, the ministry and preaching, the sufferings and death, and the extensive permanent kingdom of the Messiah. So explicit and determinate are his predictions, as well as so numerous, that he seems to speak rather of things past than of events yet future; and he may rather be called an evangelist, than a prophet. No one, indeed, can be at a loss in applying them to the mission and character of Jesus Christ, and to the events which are cited in his history by the writers of the New Testament. This prophet, says Bishop Lowth, abounds in such transcendent excellencies, that he may be properly said to afford the most perfect model of prophetic poetry. He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented; he unites energy with copiousness, and dignity with variety. In his sentiments there is uncommon elevation and majesty; in his imagery, the utmost propriety, elegance, dignity, and diversity; in his language, uncommon beauty and energy; and, notwithstanding the obscurity of his subjects, a surprising degree of clearness and simplicity. To these we may add, that there is such sweetness in the poetical composition of his sentences, whether it proceed from art or genius, that, if the Hebrew poetry at present is possessed of any remains of its native grace and harmony, we shall chiefly find them in the writings of Isaiah; so that the saying of Ezekiel may most justly be applied to this prophet,\n\"Thou art the confirmed exemplar of measures,\nFull of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.\"-Ezek. xxviii. 12.\nIsaiah also greatly excels in all the graces of method, order, connection, and arrangement: though in asserting this we must not forget the nature of the prophetic impulse, which bears away the mind with irresistible violence, and frequently in rapid transitions from near to remote objects, from human to divine; we must likewise be careful in remarking the limits of particular predictions, since, as they are now extant, they are often improperly connected, without any marks of discrimination, which injudicious arrangement, on some occasions, creates almost insuperable difficulties.\nBishop Lowth has selected the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth chapters of this prophet, as a specimen of the poetic style in which he delivers his predictions, and has illustrated at some length the various beauties which eminently distinguish the simple, regular, and perfect poem contained in those chapters. But the grandest specimen of his poetry is presented in the fourteenth chapter, which is one of the most sublime odes occurring in the Bible, and contains the noblest personifications to be found in the records of poetry.\nThe prophet, after predicting the liberation of the Jews\nfrom their severe captivity in Babylon, and their restoration to their own country (verses 1-3.), introduces a chorus of them, expressing their surprise and astonishment at the sudden downfall of Babylon, and the great reverse of fortune that had befallen the tyrant, who, like his predecessors, had oppressed his own, and harassed the neighbouring kingdoms These oppressed kingdoms, or their rulers, are represented under the image of the fir trees and the cedars of Libanus which is frequently used to express any thing in the political or religious world that is supereminently great and majestic. the whole earth shouts for joy; the cedars of Libanus utter a severe taunt over the fallen tyrant, and boast their security now he is no more. (verses 4-8.)\nThis is followed (9.) by one of the boldest and most animated personifications of Hades, or the regions of the dead, that was ever executed in poetry. Hades excites his of monarchs. These illustrious shades arise at once from inhabitants, the shades of princes, and the departed spirits their couches as from their thrones; and advancing to the entrance of the cavern to meet the king of Babylon, they insult and deride him on being reduced to the same low state of impotence and dissolution with themselves. (10, 11.) The Jews now resume the speech (12.): they address the king of Babylon as the morning-star fallen from heaven, as the first in splendour and dignity in the political world fallen from his high state: they introduce him as uttering the most extravagant vaunts of his power and ambitious designs in his former glory; these are strongly contrasted, in the close, with his present low and abject condition. (13-15.)\nImmediately follows a different scene, and a most happy image, to diversify the same subject, and give it a new turn and additional force. Certain persons are introduced, who light upon the corpse of the king of Babylon, cast out and lying naked upon the bare ground, among the common slain, just after the taking of the city, covered with wounds, and so disfigured, that it is some time before they know him. They accost him with the severest taunts, and bitterly reproach him with his destructive ambition, and his cruel usage of the conquered: which have deservedly brought upon him this ignominious treatment, so different from that which those of his rank usually meet with, and which shall cover his posterity with disgrace. (16-20.)\nTo complete the whole, God is introduced, declaring the fate of Babylon, the utter extirpation of the royal family, and the total desolation of the city; the deliverance of his people, and the destruction of their enemies; confirming the irreversible decree by the awful sanction of his oath. (21-27.)\n\"How forcible,\" says Bishop Lowth, \"is this imagery, how diversified, how sublime! how elevated the diction, the figures, the sentiments!-The Jewish nation, the cedars of Lebanon, the ghosts of departed kings, the Babylonish monarch, the travellers who find his corpse, and last of all JEHOVAH himself, are the characters which support this beautiful lyric drama. One continued action is kept up, or rather a series of interesting actions are connected together in an incomparable whole; this, indeed, is the principal and distinguished excellence of the sublimer ode, and is displayed in its utmost perfection in this poem of Isaiah, which may be considered as one of the most ancient, and certainly one of the most finished, specimens of that specics of composition which has been transmitted to us. The personifications here are frequent, yet not confused; bold, yet not improbable: a free, elevated, and truly divine spirit pervades the whole; nor is there any thing wanting in this ode to defeat its claim to the character of perfect beauty and sublimity. If, indeed, may be indulged in the free declaration of my own sentiments on this occasion, I do not know a single instance, in the whole compass of Greek and Roman poetry, which, in every excellence of composition, can be said to equal, or even to approach it.\"2\n1 \"The image of the dead,\" so admirably described by the prophet, Bishop Lowth observes, \"is taken from their custom of burying, those at least of the higher rank, in large sepulchral vaults hewn in the rock. Of this kind of sepulchres there are remains at Jerusalen now extant; and some that are said to be the sepulchres of the kings of Judah. See Maundrell, p. 76. You are to form to yourself an idea of an immense subterrane ous vault, a vast gloomy cavern, all round the sides of which there are cells, guished sort of state suitable to their former rank, each on his own couch, with his arms beside him, his sword at his head, and the bodies of his chiefs and companions round about him. See Ezek. xxxii. 27. On which place Sir John Chardin's manuscript note is as follows:-'En Mingrelie ils dorment tous leurs \u00e9p\u00e9es sous leurs t\u00eates, et leurs autres armes \u00e0 leur c\u00f4t\u00e9 ; et on les enterre de mesme, leurs armes pos\u00e9es de cette fa\u00e7on.\"\" Bp. Lowth's Translation of Isaiah, vol. ii. p. 121.\nto receive the dead bodies: here he deceased monarchs lie in a distin\n2 Bishop Lowth's Lectures on Hebrew Poetry, vol. ii. pp. 84-86. vol. i.\nPP. 294-301. and his Translation of Isaiah, vol. ii. pp. 230-232. Jahn, Introd.\nad Vet. F\u0153d. p. 367.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Boy, 9, dies in Grant County Grain Bin Accident\nby @dmin | Jul 16, 2014 | Why We Care | 0 comments\nBy Rob Shultz. From Wisconsin State Journal. Originally posted: July 11, 2014. Original Article.\nA 9-year-old boy was killed Thursday after he became trapped under several feet of corn inside a grain bin while trying to loosen a stuck auger on a farm in Grant County, authorities said.\nThe accident happened at about 11:15 a.m. at 2558 Dry Hollow Road in the town of Liberty, according to the Grant County Sheriff's Department.\nThe farm is located just north of Highway A, almost directly between Lancaster and Rewey.\nThe boy did not have a pulse after fire department personnel extricated him about an hour after he became trapped, Lancaster Fire Chief Steve Braun said. Rescuers had to move 10 to 14 feet of corn inside the bin to reach the boy, Braun added.\n\"Attempts to resuscitate the boy failed,\" Braun said.\nHis name was not released Thursday.\nAn initial investigation showed that the auger was stuck and inoperable inside the half-full bin, the sheriff's department said.\nThe bin holds anywhere from 7,000 to 8,000 bushels of grain at capacity. The boy and several family members were trying to fix the auger when he became trapped inside.\nFire department personnel and emergency crews from Grant, Iowa and Lafayette counties, as well as crews from the Southwest Wisconsin Regional Technical Rescue Team and Med Flight worked together to free the boy from the bin and attempt to resuscitate him, Braun said.\n\"At least a dozen different agencies sent personnel there to help,\" Braun added.\nIn the past 50 years, more than 900 cases of grain engulfment have been reported, 62 percent of them fatal, according to researchers at Purdue University in Indiana.\nIn Wisconsin, one worker was killed in a grain engulfment at an ethanol plant in Milton last year. Another was injured in 2010 in Burlington, when he became engulfed in soybeans.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home U.K Economy Battle for Eddie Stobart: Former brothers-in-law clash over rescue of haulage firm\nBattle for Eddie Stobart: Former brothers-in-law clash over rescue of haulage firm\nThe battle for control of Eddie Stobart has pitted the son of its founder against his former brother-in-law.\nWilliam Stobart, son of 90-year-old Eddie, is backing a \u00a355m rescue deal launched by secretive private equity firm Dbay Advisors to save the troubled haulier.\nBut Andrew Tinkler, who was the firm's chief executive until 2014, wants to be reinstated as boss and lead his own \u00a380m deal to bring the lorry firm back from the brink of collapse.\nBattle lines: William Stobart (bottom right) and Andrew Tinkler are fighting for Eddie Stobart\nThe pair, who were previously married to sisters but have both since divorced, locked horns yesterday as the battle turned increasingly acrimonious.\nTinkler, 56, talked down Dbay's plans as 'hypocritical' and said his own offer for Eddie Stobart was 'materially better on multiple fronts' for the company's shareholders and other stakeholders.\nIn a sign of the increasingly bitter rivalry between himself and 58-year-old Stobart, he also reported Dbay to the Takeover Panel in an attempt to prevent the firm \u2013 which is Eddie Stobart's biggest shareholder \u2013 voting on its own rescue bid.\nDbay, which if successful is planning to reinstate William Stobart as executive chairman, hit back, claiming Tinkler had been 'unable or unwilling to submit any concrete workable alternative so far'.\nDbay wants to acquire 51 per cent of Eddie Stobart's operating businesses and inject \u00a355m through loans to help it keep trading. Current shareholders would be left with just 49 per cent, meaning their shares would tumble in value. Tinkler, however, wants to raise \u00a380m by selling new Eddie Stobart shares.\nThe battle for Eddie Stobart began earlier this year when the haulage company admitted it had found an enormous black hole in its finances after an error was found in the 2018 accounts.\nIt has since said profits for this year will be just \u00a32m, while debt will be around \u00a3200m.\nThis means Eddie Stobart's debt pile is at least 100 times larger than its profits \u2013 for a normal company, this ratio should be less than ten times.\nDbay's plan is the only one which has the backing of Eddie Stobart's board and, vitally, its lenders, which are keeping the company afloat by waiving certain debt repayments.\nShareholders are due to vote on the Dbay deal on Friday, but many are furious that the proposal will practically wipe out the value of their stock.\nIf they turn it down, Eddie Stobart could plunge into administration just weeks before Christmas \u2013 leaving clients such as Tesco, its biggest customer, in the lurch during its busiest time of the year.\nDbay warned yesterday that if shareholders did reject its offer it would seek to take control of Eddie Stobart via a so-called pre-pack administration, which would not require their consent.\nDbay already owns 29.9 per cent of Eddie Stobart, so needs only another 20.2 per cent of shareholders to side with it in order to cross the 50 per cent threshold and push through its original plan.\nTinkler's complaint to the Takeover Panel is likely to fall on deaf ears, as the Mail understands the regulator has no jurisdiction over this type of deal.\nDbay's rescue bid has also been recommended by shareholder advisory firms Pirc, Glass Lewis and ISS.\nShares in the company suspended trading in August at 71p as it tried to iron out its accounting issues.\nDbay and Tinkler have been buying shares off-market since, at about 6p each, meaning their value has plunged more than 91 per cent in just four months. Many of the shares have been acquired from the administrators of Neil Woodford's funds, after he was ousted as manager. Woodford Investment Management, the firm run by the fallen stockpicker, was the largest shareholder when Eddie Stobart's shares suspended this summer.\nThe tumbling value of the shares will mean yet more pain for savers who kept their money with Woodford before his collapse.\nTinkler said Dbay's move to buy cheap shares was 'wholly hypocritical, given that its proposal does not afford any meaningful value to other shareholders'.\nEddie Stobart's lenders are understood to be impatient with the ongoing upheaval and are keen that the Dbay deal goes through on Friday.\nPrevious articleSantiment Network Token (SAN) Price Reaches $0.24 on Top Exchanges\nNext articleBitcoin market manipulation theory debunked | Information Age\nAirports in the UK are hiking car parking charges by as much as 55% over Christmas, study reveals\nFTSE LIVE: Pound slips under $1.30; Shares slightly lower as we head for Christmas break\nScrewfix fixed a shower the right way: Consumer Fightback","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Home Letters 'Forced vote'\n'Forced vote'\nThe Monday, Jan. 24 City Council meeting marked the offi cial day that the city council majority proved that they hold contempt for the public and the democratic process. Under the helm of the new mayor Dr. Daniel Lee and instigated by Councilmember Alex Fisch, the council majority forced a yes vote on the Housing Element (upzoning all of R1 neighborhoods) \u2014 without deliberation or allowing Councilmember G\u00f6ran Eriksson or Vice Mayor Albert Vera to speak. This was because Mayor Lee had to catch a late fl ight for a justifi able personal matter. Instead of postponing the meeting (as Lee offered and Vera agreed to), Fisch used a legal maneuver to force the vote. While the maneuver may be deemed legal, it went against the public's right to hear what all the council members had to say. Moreover, it was a breach of community trust, and a metaphorical middle fi nger to the process and the people the council is supposed to represent. All of this during a meeting with uneven audio, virtual speakers unable to access the microphone, a Webex system failure\/crash\/reboot, and a self-imposed time crunch. It is worth noting that there were over 200 written public comments and 60 registered speakers and that this topic was deemed so important that the city sent out an email at 4:15 Monday (less than three hours before the 7 pm meeting) to inform and remind people to show up and tell their friends. In the fi nal moments before Lee's departure, Eriksson made a motion to remove the controversial residential upzoning from the Housing Element and stated that he would adopt the rest. Vera seconded him, asking to drop the negative environmental impact fi nding also. That's when the Council majority, using Fisch's maneuver, decided that public comment and public debate were inconvenient and voted to approve a legally fl awed Housing Element. All of this political drama will prove useless. The Febr.11, 2022 deadline to approve and submit housing elements only applies to those found to be in legal compliance with state law. Mr. Fisch openly questioned the suitability of the Housing Element and said he doubted the state would accept it, even as he pushed to impose the vote. He must have known that Lee and McMorrin would adopt the fl awed document without hearing what Eriksson and Vera had to say about viable alternatives. Moreover, the state has 60 days to review and decide if the Housing Element follows the law. The city will not meet the February 11, 2022 deadline no matter how many theatrics are used. Mr. Fisch on Twitter claimed to be \"saving the city\" but he is merely disenfranchising the public. Perhaps this does not matter to him. Only he knows. After all, Mr. Fisch did declare himself and elected leaders \"rulers\" and \"supreme authorities over land use\" (Los Angeles Times, 01\/18\/22). The Housing Element has been a community hot-button issue since it was revealed to the public's view in Spring, 2021. Mr. Fisch along with organized activists (within and outside Culver City) have been pushing to blanket upzone (called incremental infill) all of Culver City's R1 neighborhoods beyond the state requirements. In contrast, a large contingent of residents, including over 1750 who signed a petition, do not want this change. The city's own staff and hired consultants have repeatedly admitted that incremental infill will not produce the affordable housing that nearly everyone seems to agree is needed. It will just create more market-rate housing. And based on land values, costs of financing, construction, demolition, and other factors, this new housing is very likely to be rentals \u2013 owned and rented out not by people, but by investors. Instead of giving more people an opportunity to own homes, it will pull up the ladder and create a permanent renter class. If the City were to remove the residential upzoning and tweak the commercial and multi-use zoning, Culver City would have a clean housing element with zoning that can be accomplished without changing the land use rights of over 5,600 households. Upzoning residential lots will not lead to affordable units, growth of generational wealth, or encourage equity. Upzoning will result in market-rate luxury housing. We call on our City Council to realize that the workable path forward lies in largerscale projects where affordability would actually be realistic. Equity, affordability, and economic gaps should be met, but the Housing Element as written will not take us anywhere near that goal.\n\u2014Culver City Neighbors United CulverCityNeighborsUnited.org\nPrevious articleNeed a Zoning Map\nNext article'Och & Oy! A Considered Cabaret' now at The Broad Stage\nFiesta la Ballona must keep booths for our local community support groups!\nNeed a Zoning Map\n'Atrocious mess'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Significant IRA statement still leaves questions: Alliance\nAlliance Party Leader, David Ford, has given a cautious welcome to the latest IRA statement, and urged that the Governments reflect on the true implications of the new commitments rather than rushing to embrace them. The Alliance Party Executive will be meeting this evening to the review the contents of the statement.\nDavid Ford said:\n\"While this statement is clearly a significant move in the right direction, it is important to look behind the hype, and analyse its true meaning.\n\"The IRA has now clearly renounced its illegal and illegitimate armed struggle against the British state. This is obviously to be welcomed.\n\"For some time, it has been understood that the IRA's terrorist campaign against the state has in practice been over. However, this has not applied to continued involvement in a wide range of paramilitary and criminal activities.\n\"A statement in which the IRA declares an end to its 'armed campaign' does not address a number of issues.\n\"There is still no clear acceptance of the legitimacy of both the northern and southern states with respect to policing and criminal justice matters. There is no renunciation of their self-proclaimed right to indulge in 'community policing' and dispensing paramilitary beatings.\n\"It is not for the IRA to retain the right to define which activities do or do not threaten the peace process. Any illegal activity, especially where linked to a potential partner in government, will undermine democracy, human rights and the rule of law.\n\"Alliance recently published ten benchmarks for assessing the quality of any new commitments from the IRA. None of these are unreasonable expectations, but are rather the hallmarks of a normal society. It is far from clear that all these concerns have been addressed in today's statement.\n\"It is important that the Governments and parties now test the new commitments against a series of agreed standards. In this respect, the IMC will have a key role to play in verifying that there is in fact an end to the full range of paramilitary and criminal activities.\n\"It is now important that there is a period of reflection. If any meaningful progress is to take place within the political process, it must be on a firm foundation of integrity and honesty.\"\nAlliance Party benchmark for assessing paramilitary statement (published 31\/5\/2005):\n1. The IRA must declare an end to all involvement in any paramilitary and criminal activity, and through exclusively lawful means ensure that their\nactivists desist immediately.\n2. Where individual Republicans are involved in paramilitary or criminal activity, others must pass on any information to the lawful authorities and urge others to do likewise. The IRA must accept that obstruction of justice is a crime.\n3. The Republican movement must accept the full legitimacy of both the northern and southern states with respect to policing and criminal justice, including definitions of what constitutes a crime.\n4. All IRA 'front' organisations and organised crime networks must be dismantled.\n5. The IRA 'Army Council' must end all recruitment, training and intelligence gathering, and stand down all its rank and file members. Once\nthis is carried out and weapons are decommissioned, the organisation, including all command structures, must disband.\n6. The Republican movement must renounce the right to engage in 'community policing' or to engage in what is termed 'internal housekeeping'. There must be an end to all paramilitary beating and shootings.\n7. The practice of 'exiling', both inside and outside Northern Ireland, must come to an end. Crucially, assurances must be given to those 'exiled' that they can return to Northern Ireland in safety and these assurances must be carried through.\n8. All illegally held weapons and explosives must be decommissioned under the aegis of the Decommissioning Commission.\n9. Republicans must co-operate fully with the Commission for the Disappeared, and both police services in recovering the remains of 'the\nDisappeared'.\n10. Republicans must give a commitment not to export their terrorist techniques and expertise to other organisations internationally, either through direct training or other consultancy services, in line with the Terrorism Act (2000).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Resources for the world\n> At present almost all the metals and industrial minerals utilized to manufacture consumer goods and machinery are extracted from onshore resources. In an effort to become independent of imports and safeguard themselves from future supply shortages, some countries are contemplating mining such resources from the ocean. But underwater mining is still too expensive and there is uncertainty about its environmental impact.\nExtra Info Rare earth metals\nOre, mica, sand and gravel\nThe manufacture of many high-tech applications and modern mass-produced electronic products such as photovoltaic installations, hybrid cars and smartphones requires abundant mineral resources. These resources include mineral ores from which metals such as copper, nickel, indium and gold are extracted, as well as nonmetallic industrial minerals such as fluorite, graphite and mica. Mica is utilized among other things as an insulator in tiny components for the microelectronics industry, and graphite is required for electrodes. Fluorite is used in the production of hydrofluoric acid to cauterize steel and photovoltaic components. Sand, gravel and stone for the building industry are also considered to be mineral resources.\nNearly all the mineral resources used today are derived from onshore deposits. Depending on the deposit concerned, these are extracted from underground mines or open-cast mines using enormous excavators and wheel loaders. Sand and gravel are the exception, as these have for some time now been exploited not only onshore but also from shallow marine areas.\nFor several decades we have also been aware of the presence of major occurrences on the sea floor which consist of many millions of tonnes of valuable metals. These have so far remained unutilized because onshore production has been capable of satisfying demand. In addition, deep ocean mining is still uneconomic because of the expense involved in harvesting the ores using ships and underwater robots. Unlike traditional onshore mining, the extraction technology has not yet been developed.\nFear of supply shortages\nExperts assume that, despite steadily increasing demand, the onshore deposits will in most cases continue to satisfy our growing appetite for metals and minerals. They do predict future shortages of some resources, however. For instance, those resources which are available or mined in only small amounts \u2013 such as antimony, germanium and rhenium \u2013 could become scarce, partially as a result of the growing needs of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). To compare, about 20 million tonnes of refined copper were produced worldwide in 2012, but only 128 tonnes of germanium.\n2.1 > Mineral ores for metal production are extracted from huge open-cast mines such as the Dexing copper mine near the eastern Chinese city of Shangrao. The excavators are working their way deep into the earth.\nGermanium is used for the radio technology in smartphones, in semi-conductor technology and in thin-film solar cells. There are concerns, particularly among the leading industrialized nations, that the supply of such significant industrial resources could become more precarious in coming decades. The following are some of the factors on which supply depends:\nRising demand due to new developments: Some innovation researchers predict that the need for certain metals will increase significantly in the years to come as a result of new technological developments. Rare earth metals, for example, are elements which could be required in rapidly increasing quantities in future for the construction of engines for electric cars and generators in wind turbines.\nRising demand and competition as a result of economic growth in the BRIC countries and emerging markets, as well as strong growth in the global population.\nLimited availability: Many resources are by-products of the extraction of other metals. For instance, both germanium and indium \u2013 which is vital for the manufacture of LCD displays \u2013 are by-products of lead and zinc mining. They occur in only small quantities in the lead and zinc deposits. In order to extract more germanium and indium, lead and zinc production would have to increase substantially. This would be uneconomic, however, because the demand for lead and zinc is not high.\nState monopolies: Many important industrial resources are found in only a few countries or are currently produced by only a few. These nations have an effective monopoly. For instance, China accounts for 97 per cent of the worldwide production of rare earth metals. Currently it is also the most important producer of other resources. Importing nations are concerned that China, or other nations, could restrict the availability of these resources by imposing high tariffs or other economic measures. The situation is aggravated by the fact that modern high-tech industries require resources of extra high quality or high purity. In many cases these, too, occur in only a few regions of the world.\nOligopolies as a result of industry concentration: In some cases resources are mined by only a handful of companies. Competition for some resources has intensified even more in recent years due to major resource companies having bought out smaller ones.\nPolitical situation: Supplies from politically fragile states are also fraught with problems. One example is the Democratic Republic of the Congo which generates 40 per cent of worldwide cobalt production, but which has been destabilized by many years of civil war.\nThe availability of a resource to a country or company does not depend alone on the size of worldwide deposits, therefore, but on a combination of factors which determines the price. Of course, the price is also affected by the situation on the resource markets. For instance as demand for a resource grows, so does its price. In other cases resources may increase in price as a result of speculation alone, because markets overreact. One example here was the huge price hike of copper and other resources after 2006 when China snapped up major quantities of resources. At that time there could be no question of scarcity, however.\n2.2 > Many metals today are mined in only a few countries, with China leading. The data originate from a comprehensive analysis of resources carried out in 2010, since when the situation has not changed significantly. No reliable figures are available for gallium or tellurium.\nExtra Info How much metal does the ore contain?\nMeasuring uncertainty\nExperts are trying to assess the certainty of future resource supplies. They take state and corporate monopolies into account on the one hand, and the political situation in the prospective mining areas on the other, to produce a \"weighted country risk\". This weighted country risk is ascertained on the basis of 6 criteria (indicators) against which the governance and prevailing political situation of individual states are measured. These indicators have been defined by the World Bank as follows:\nVoice and accountability: measures perceptions of the extent to which a country's citizens are able to participate in selecting their government, as well as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and a free media;\nPolitical stability and absence of violence: measures perceptions of the likelihood of a government being destabilized by violence, political violence or terrorism;\nGovernment effectiveness: measures the quality of public services, the civil service and the degree of its independence from political pressures;\nRegulatory quality: measures perceptions of the ability of the government to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private sector development;\nRule of law: measures perceptions of confidence in and adherence to the rules of society, and in particular the quality of contract enforcement and property rights. It also measures the quality of the police and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence;\nControl of corruption: measures perceptions of the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as the influence of elites and private interests.\nNumeric values are assigned to the 6 indicators, and these are totalled to reveal country risk values between +1.5 and \u20131.5. Values above 0.5 indicate a low risk, between \u20130.5 and +0.5 a moderate risk, and those below \u20130.5 are considered critical.\nEconomists are using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), a measure of market concentration, as they attempt to assess the extent to which resource supply is influenced by state or corporate monopolies. This mathematically determined index considers the number of companies competing in the market and their market shares, from which they can calculate the degree of concentration of that market. In terms of figures, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index ranges between the highest value 1 where there is only one market participant (indicating a monopoly), and the lowest value 0, which is achieved when (theoretically) an infinite number of participants have the same market share. For practical reasons the values are multiplied by 10,000 to effectively remove the decimal point.\nAccordingly, a resource market with an HHI below 1500 is considered \"unconcentrated\". Above 2500 it is seen as \"highly concentrated\" or monopolized, and values in between indicate that a market is \"moderately concentrated\".\nIf the resources are assessed according to both the weighted country risk and the HHI at the same time, they can be classified into 3 different risk groups: low risk, moderate risk and high risk resources. Copper is considered a low risk resource. It has a low country risk value and at the same time low corporate and country concentration ratios. This is because copper is produced in politically stable countries, by a range of different companies.\n2.3 > The security of individual resource supply is ascertained by looking at the reliability of exporting nations (weighted country risk) and the monopolization of individual resource markets. This diagram considers state monopolies in particular (country concentration). Resources which are considered safe (low risk) are highlighted in green, those at moderate risk in yellow, while those with an insecure supply situation (high risk) are highlighted in red.\nRare earth elements and the metalloid antimony are considered extremely high risk resources. Deposits with a high content of antimony are found mainly in China, which supplies about 84 per cent of global production. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index value is correspondingly high. Antimony is used for touchscreens and micro-electronic components; it is also very much in demand as a flame retardant for fire-resistant clothing and plastics.\nHow long will resources last?\nCalculating the supply risk can naturally provide only a snapshot of the current situation. It does not tell us just how long we can expect the resources to be available in future.\nGeoscientists are trying to answer this question by gauging the reserves and resources of the various substances. Essentially we know where certain ores can be anticipated, because resources usually occur in characteristic geological formations, the worldwide distribution of which is relatively well known. Platinum for example occurs mainly in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa in a layered igneous intrusion. This is a layer of rock caused by magmatic activity which has penetrated the adjacent rock strata. Platinum in such intrusions is also found in some other regions of the world. However, the platinum content of the ores is in many cases so minimal that extraction is not profitable.\nGround surveys, geological and geophysical analyses and test drilling must be undertaken before it is possible to ascertain whether metals occurring in a geological formation are concentrated enough to be considered a deposit.\n2.4 > Mineral resource deposits are classified in different categories, depending on how well-known or sampled they are. Whether the resources can be extracted is another factor considered.\nNo such testing has as yet been carried out in many regions of the world because the exploration of new deposits in unknown terrains is extremely expensive and complicated. For this reason interest has mainly been focused on areas in the vicinity of known occurrences. Major tracts of Australia, Canada, South America and West Africa remain largely unexplored. Assessing worldwide occurrences is therefore a very unreliable undertaking. Occurrences are classed into different categories, depending on the extent to which an area of land has been sampled or developed:\nRESERVES: Reserves are occurrences of resources which have already been proven and their extraction is economically feasible using current technology.\nRESOURCES: An occurrence is described as a resource when its metal content and volume have not yet been proven by sampling, or when its extraction and processing are economically unfeasible. One example is nickel laterite ore, a special type of nickel ore found in the residual soils of tropical and sub-tropical areas. Until the 1950s there was no economically-feasible industrial process to separate the nickel from the ore. The occurrences, although well-known, could not be utilized. The laterites were therefore ranked as resources. Once an appropriate metallurgical process was developed, they became an exploitable reserve. Today about 50 per cent of the nickel produced worldwide comes from such lateritic deposits.\n2.5 > Bauxite is extracted mainly in open-cast mines. A specialized machine like this one removes 800 tonnes per hour. Bauxite is primarily used to manufacture aluminium.\nUnlike natural gas and oil, metal reserves and resources are further sub-classified according to the extent to which they have been sampled. The economic feasibility of their extraction is also taken into account. In view of the major areas of land worldwide which have not yet been properly sampled, geoscientists assume that many as-yet-undiscovered deposits exist and that these will theoretically be capable of meeting the growing need for mineral resources in the future. But it is debatable whether major underground or open-cast mines will be developed onshore, because of their drastic intervention in landscapes.\nMany stretches of land have been completely transformed over past decades as a result of mining. People have lost their homes and important ecosystems have been destroyed. Copper mining was responsible for the enormous craters in the ground in South America. In Brazil large tracts of rainforest were destroyed by the open-cast mining of bauxite, another residual soil from which aluminium is extracted. Any expansion of onshore mining is therefore viewed with a great deal of scepticism.\nRecycling rather than discarding?\nAn alternative to intensified ore mining could in future be the recycling of valuable resources. Just as aluminium and steel are already being melted down and reprocessed on a grand scale, other resources too could be recovered from waste and electronic scrap.\nHowever, electronic waste is processed by only a few companies worldwide, which mainly recover copper, silver, gold and platinum.\nFrom a process engineering point of view it would also be feasible, for instance, to recycle indium tin oxide film from smartphone screens. As yet, however, no industrial facility has yet been designed for routine processing.\nNot only are discarded smartphones and computers of interest for recycling: waste also accumulates during production. Yet because processes for treating the waste and extracting the substances are lacking, the electronics industry can return only a portion of its waste into the production process. A process for gallium from LEDs would be highly desirable, for example.\nCollection systems for end-of-life products and production waste are also lacking. Recycling is further complicated by the fact that a product may contain only tiny amounts of certain metals, making it scarcely worthwhile to reprocess. Experts are trying to create new methods to improve the identification and separation of the various processed substances.\nMicrochips and other microelectronic components in which a range of different substances are effectively fused together present a particular challenge. Because most electronic scrap cannot be recycled, many industrialized nations export it into developing and newly industrializing countries as waste. In some cases it is still being transported illegally overseas. Companies involved in such activity claim to recycle the scrap and are paid accordingly. But instead of recycling it in a technically complex manner, they save money by exporting it. For this reason specialists are discussing the following measures and suggestions for the future recycling of metals:\nThe development of new systems to recover industrial production waste;\nThe introduction of recycling bins for private households;\nThe priority development of recycling processes for metals at a high risk of shortages (country risk, country concentration);\nThe creation of economic incentives to spur a functioning recycling market which specializes in resources from consumer goods, end-of-life vehicles and electronic scrap.\nCould sea-floor mining be the answer?\nTo make future resource supplies more secure, sea-floor mining could offer many states and companies a potential alternative, for both economic and geopolitical reasons. It would avoid the land-use conflicts which underground and surface mining bring in their wake, and could also help many nations without resource reserves to become a little less dependent on the exporting nations.\nIn principle there are two scenarios where sea-floor mining is concerned: mining within the territorial waters of a nation, and mining in the deep sea which is considered a common heritage of mankind and a resource to be shared among all nations.\nNation states are responsible for regulating the mining activity in their own sovereign territory. In the case of the deep sea, however, the central authority is the International Seabed Authority (ISA), which grants licences for specific areas. The ISA is based in Kingston, Jamaica. In particular the ISA ensures that the future profits gained from deep-sea mining activities are shared equitably. The objective is to prevent a situation occurring whereby only rich nations have access to promising resources.\nThe International Seabed Authority has already assigned numerous licensed areas to several states for exploration purposes; as yet they may only explore \u2013 not exploit. To date no actual mining has been carried out anywhere because the final set of rules governing the activity is still being debated. The ISA plans to establish the legal conditions for such seabed mining by 2016.\n2.6 > A worker in a recycling factory in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica, sorts tin cans from which aluminium is recovered.\n2.7 > Electronic components such as chips with electronic circuits contain very small amounts of various metals. Recycling is extremely difficult as the metals are virtually fused together.\nAs far as sea-floor mining is concerned, interest is focused on 3 main types of resource deposit which contain different valuable metals:\nMANGANESE NODULES: Manganese nodules\nFurther information on this topic is available here:\nWOR 3 - Metal-rich clumps\nare lumps of minerals ranging in size between that of a potato and a head of lettuce. They cover enormous areas of the seabed of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They are composed mainly of the chemical elements manganese, iron, copper, nickel and cobalt along with other substances such as molybdenum, zinc and lithium. Manganese nodules are mostly found at depths below 3500 metres.\nCOBALT CRUSTS: Cobalt crusts\nWOR 3 - Metal-rich crusts\nare incrustations of minerals which form on the sides of submarine mountain ranges and seamounts. They develop as a result of the accumulation of minerals dissolved in the water and contain mainly manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, platinum and rare earth elements. Cobalt crusts are found in the western Pacific at depths of 1000 to 3000 metres.\nMASSIVE SULPHIDES: Massive sulphides\nMassive sulphides\nWOR 3 - Massive sulphides in smoky depths\naccumulate mainly at the openings of hot vents on the ocean floor. In these regions cold seawater penetrates through cracks in the sea floor at depths of up to several kilometres. The water near magma chambers then heats up to temperatures exceeding 400 degrees Celsius. As it does so, metalliferous minerals are released from the rock. Upon warming the solution rises rapidly and is extruded back into the sea. As soon as this solution mixes with the cold seawater, the minerals form a precipitate which accumulates around the hydrothermal vents in the form of massive ore deposits. Massive sulphides are found in many places on the sea floor which are or used to be volcanic. Depending on the region, they contain widely different amounts of copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver, as well as numerous important trace metals such as indium, germanium, tellurium or selenium.\nExtra Info Sand, gravel and phosphate from the sea\nIf and when marine resources are mined depends mainly upon how resource prices actually develop worldwide. It is impossible to predict whether, as is the case with oil, world market prices will continue to rise. New onshore mining projects could lead to price reductions for certain resources, for example. In the past we have often seen that when mining of a major new onshore deposit begins, there is a surplus of the resource concerned. Cost savings also contribute to falling prices. There are many reasons behind such savings such as new mining technologies, automation or improved metallurgic processes. On the other hand, prices rise as the demand for a resource increases. This could in future prove to be the case with resources which are highly sought after due to technological and social developments. One example here is the metal neodymium which is increasingly used in the construction of electric motors and wind turbine generators. Experts are in fact concerned that supplies of this metal could run short in the coming years. If the prices of metals that are also found offshore increase in the coming years as a result of such short- ages, sea-floor mining could become economic. However, at this stage nobody can foresee whether such a situation will occur.\nAn exception could possibly be the massive sulphides found in the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea, which have been found to contain substantial amounts of gold and silver. Their retrieval has been planned for several years now, but for economic and contractual reasons production has been postponed repeatedly.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jim's New Release Movie..\nJim's New Release Movie Reviews \u2013 24 February\nT2 TRAINSPOTTING **** (118 minutes) R\nThe gang from the 1996 neo-classic drug dramedy Trainspotting reassemble for an energetic, reflective, moving and superbly made sequel that updates the lives of the main characters 20 years on to see who has changed, who has tried to change and who hasn't.\nNot only do we get the return of hot-headed Begbie (Robert Carlyle), naive smack-addict Spud (Ewen Bremner), failed family man Sick Boy (Johnny Lee Miller) and the guilt-ridden Renton (Ewan McGregor), we also have the original's screenwriter John Hodge and director Danny Boyle on board.\nAnd, as if to provide added assurance that this is quality, uncut product, the author of the original Trainspotting novel and its sequel Porno, Irvine Welsh, serves as one of the producers and has a cameo in the film. He was none-too-kind about the original for being too soft, so his endorsement ensures that the follow-up will get as ugly as it needs to.\nAfter suffering a heart attack while at a trendy gym, Renton is driven by conscience to re-establish contact with Sick Boy, who now runs a dilapidated pub, and Spud, whose drug habit is now so bad he sees little reason for living.\nBegbie is off all of their radars, but they are not off his as he slips out of prison a little early while doing a 25-year stretch. Initially keen to get back into petty crime with the aid of his reluctant son (a lovely, understated performance by Scot Greenan), Begbie becomes obsessed with revenge after encountering Renton by chance at a nightclub.\nTurns out that he never forgave Renton for running off with the 16,000 pounds from the drug deal that ended the first film. Neither, it seems, did Sick Boy, though his thirst for payback softens as Renton helps him in his endeavour to renovate the pub. And while Spud did get his share, he too blames Renton for ruining his life, who he says should have known he was just going to blow it on more smack.\nEven though it is set 20 years on from the first film, T2 is not designed to stand alone but to please the legions of fans of the original Trainspotting. On that score it is an immensely satisfying film and a great example of how good sequels work.\nInitially, echoes and images from the first film pepper the story, then become stronger as the story progresses, as if the past is reaching out at the characters and challenging them to acknowledge the importance of change. The superbly deployed device also makes the point that actions have consequences and that some regrets in life are unavoidable.\nThough the overall style is necessarily more subdued to match the film's more reflective mindset, Boyle still directs with great energy when careless thrills are called for. One very funny heist sequence is so well executed he makes us complicit in its success.\nThe performances throughout are replicated with astonishing detail and, in the case of Begbie and Spud, they're so good you can barely understand what they're saying.\nMost sequels do assume a familiarity with the first film (obviously) and T2 is designed so that the more intimate you are with Trainspotting \u2013 and some fans can cite it like scripture \u2013 the more it will resonate. A perfect example is the single scene appearance of Diane (Kelly Macdonald), which hits like a thunderclap.\nOn that score, the Trainspotting team have managed to come up with one of the best examples of how good sequels work.\nBut does it work as a stand alone? To be honest, not really. But that doesn't matter for a film intended to pay off on speculation about characters that has been brewing for 20 years.\nTHE FAMILY *** (98 minutes) M\nAbsorbing investigative documentary about the Melbourne-based cult run by Anne Hamilton Byrne that brainwashed children in preparation for the Apocalypse. Based on the book by director Rosie Jones and journalist Chris Johnston, the film blends ghostly archival footage of the Lake Eildon compound with interviews from former members, current members and Lex de Man, the cop who dug into the case. This is a story crying out to be turned into feature.\nFIST FIGHT *1\/2 (91 minutes) MA\nFairly wet American comedy set in a struggling high school where one tough-as-nails teacher (Ice Cube) vows to beat up a wimpy colleague (Charlie Day from Horrible Bosses, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) for getting him fired. The film features a lot of that specifically American semi-improvised style of comedic acting where the actors act as though they've either forgotten what they're about to day, or have suddenly remembered it. Tracy Morgan (30 Rock) also stars. You'll be better off waiting till this one hits the stream.\nHELLO LADIES ***1\/2 MA\nIt won't surprise fans of The Office or Extras that co-creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant share very similar senses of humour, especially when it comes to their stumblebum relationships with women.\nWhat might surprise people, though, is that in 2013 Merchant produced a very funny TV series called Hello Ladies. Made for HBO it only ran one season, with a movie length finale to tie it all up. It's an underrated gem of a show.\nMerchant plays Stuart Pritchard, a love-lorn British web designer living in Los Angeles. His business is running smoothly enough to afford him a fairly plush house with a pool and a guest house, in which lives Jessica (Christine Woods), an attractive but struggling actress who can't seem to get any career traction.\nThough he lives a life of parties and nightclubbing, Stuart is a walking embarrassment when it comes to women. As with Gervais, his self-confidence evaporates in their presence as he tries putting on an act that he thinks will impress them.\nThe only time he is himself is when he is with Jessica. Romantic tension slowly builds across the eight episodes as Stuart strikes out with models, actresses and even an encounter with Nicole Kidman. He also confronts the phoniness he has to buy into if he is to make it with the cool set. This usually means abandoning his friends Wade (Nate Torrence), who is recovering from a separation, and Kives (Kevin Weisman), a wise-talker in a wheelchair.\nAll of Stuart's suffering is self-inflicted as we witness, time and time again, what happens when somebody tries too hard. Jessica, too has her issues. Struggling with middle-age, she is sleeping with her agent who enjoys the sex but refuses to commit to her.\nCo-written and co-created with Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, Merchant directed most of the episodes with a neat fix on the type of grounded humour that can quickly turn into drama.\nIt's a sad sack sitcom well worth catching, especially if you are fans of Merchant's work with Gervais.\n* Available on: iTunes; Google Play; Playstation; Foxtel Play","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Perry Turell\nPerry H. Turell, 70, of Florham Park died Jan. 24, 2012. Born in the Bronx, he formerly lived in Short Hills.\nMr. Turell was an accountant with Aviary Capital Enterprises, Teaneck.\nHe was a graduate of New York University.\nHe was a coach of the Manhattan Youth Little League and a former member of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Short Hills.\nHe is survived by his wife, Joanne; his daughter, Lauren Kramer; his son, Glenn; and four grandchildren.\nServices were held Jan. 27 with arrangements by Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, Livingston.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/News\/Press Releases\/OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHTS IN THE SQUARE\nOUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHTS IN THE SQUARE\nStarting at Spirit Square in early July\nJune 22, 2016 \/ Press Releases\nBlumenthal Performing Arts will begin hosting free outdoor movie nights in July at Spirit Square. The Square, at the corner of College and 7th Street, has a brand new look and will be transformed into the perfect movie event space multiple times throughout the summer.\n\"We're excited about the new event space that has been created outside the steps of Spirit Square on College Street,\" said Tom Gabbard, President of Blumenthal Performing Arts. \"This will be a fun place to enjoy a warm summer night with friends and family. We are starting with films but will be hosting a variety of others activities there.\"\nActivities begin in the Square at 7:45 p.m. with movies beginning at dusk (approximately 8:45 p.m.). Guests are asked to bring their own lawn chairs. Free popcorn, along with other food and beverages will be available for purchase. Dates and film titles below.\nHip Hop Movie Weekend\nFriday, July 8: Beat Street (PG)*\nAt the forefront of early hip-hop culture, DJ Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis), his B-boy brother, Lee (Robert Taylor), and graffiti artist Ramon (John Chardiet) all have hopes of showcasing their talents outside the confines of South Bronx, N.Y. When Tracy Carlson (Rae Dawn Chong), a composer and choreographer, runs into Kirkland and Lee at one of Manhattan's hottest nightclubs, she offers Lee an opportunity to perform on TV. However, the crew has a long way to go before achieving their dreams.\nSaturday, July 9: Step Up (PG-13)*\nTyler Gage (Channing Tatum) has been in and out of trouble for most of his life and after finding himself before the judge again, he is sentenced to 200 hours of community service mopping floors at the Maryland School of the Arts. He quickly catches the eye of Nora (Jenna Dewan), a gifted ballet student, who is trying to use hip-hop moves with her classical routines. After some initial hesitation, Nora convinces Tyler to help her with her dance routines and the sparks fly.\n*The pre-show activities on July 8 and 9 will feature a Lip Sync Battle hosted by With These Handz DJ Academy.\nMovie Musical Weekend\nFriday, July 15: Singin' in the Rain (unrated)\nSingin' in the Rain is one of the most-loved and celebrated films of all time! Starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, Singin' in the Rain tells the story of movie actors struggling to make the transition from silent films to \"talkies\" in 1927. This light-hearted, highly acclaimed and highly entertaining musical is number one on American Film Insitute's Greatest Movie Musicals.\nSaturday, July 16: Royal Wedding (unrated)\nAmerican sibling song-and-dance team Tom (Fred Astaire) and Ellen Bowen (Jane Powell) are in London in 1947, when all of England is in a tizzy over the impending nuptials of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Ellen falls head over heels for the dashing Lord John Brindale (Peter Lawford), and Tom becomes equally smitten with the elegant Anne Ashmond (Sarah Churchill). The film features one of Fred Astaire's most legendary dance performances, dancing across the ceiling of a hotel room.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"State surpasses 1,000 coronavirus deaths in less than a month\nNew York state's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak climbed Sunday above 1,000, less than a month after the first known infection in the state.\nMost of those deaths have come in just the past few days.\nNew York City reported in the evening that its toll had risen to 776. The total number of statewide deaths isn't expected to be released until Monday, but with at least 250 additional deaths recorded outside the city as of Sunday morning, the state's total fatalities was at least 1,026.\nThis is what New York gets in the stimulus bill\n$10M federal small-business bailouts may not be enough for mom-and-pop shops\nCoronavirus cases hit 2 largest U.S. cities differently\nThe virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, has torn through New York with frightening speed.\nThe first known infection in the state was discovered March 1 in a health care worker who recently returned from Iran. Two days later, the state got its second case, a lawyer from the suburb of New Rochelle.\nBy March 10, Gov. Andrew Cuomo had declared a \"containment area\" in New Rochelle that shuttered area schools and houses of worship. That same day, the metropolitan area saw its first fatality: a man who worked at a harness track in Yonkers and lived in New Jersey.\nBy March 12, the state had banned all gatherings of more than 500 people, darkening Broadway theaters and sports arenas. A day later, the first New York resident died, an 82-year-old woman with emphysema.\nNew York City Mayor Bill De Blasio closed New York City's schools March 15.\nMore severe restrictions came March 20, when Cuomo ordered all nonessential workers to stay home, barred gatherings of any size and instructed anyone out in public to stay at least 6 feet from other people. At the time, only 35 New Yorkers had been killed by the virus.\nThat was only nine days ago.\nIt took Spain 18 days to go from its first death to its 1,000th, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Italy took 21 days. New York state took 16 days.\nHere are the latest coronavirus developments in New York:\n'UNPRECEDENTED' SURGE IN 911 CALLS\nNew Yorkers are hearing a constant wail of sirens as weary ambulance crews respond to a record volume of 911 calls.\nThe city's ambulances are responding to about 6,000 calls a day \u2014 more than 50% more than average. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Sunday that the last five days have been the busiest stretch in the history of the city's EMS operation.\n\"This is unprecedented,\" de Blasio said. \"We have never seen our EMS system get this many calls \u2014 ever.\"\nNigro said the surge is delaying responses to lower-level calls. De Blasio said the city is planning to shift personnel onto EMS crews to help keep up with demand.\nMAYOR: DAYS BEFORE SUPPLIES RUN OUT\nDe Blasio said he has asked the federal government to deliver 400 more ventilators to city hospitals by Wednesday and warned that without reinforcements the city will run out of masks, gowns and other hospital supplies in a week.\nWith the expected peak of cases in the city still two to three weeks away, de Blasio said he has asked the U.S. military to aid in sending needs new waves of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to the city.\nCuomo said Sunday that more than 76,000 health professionals, including many who've recently retired from the field, have volunteered to help in the coronavirus fight.\nThe USNS Comfort, a Navy hospital ship with 1,000 beds, 12 operating rooms and a full medical staff, is scheduled to arrive in the city on Monday. It will be used to treat non-coronavirus patients to free up space in city hospitals..\nA 68-bed field hospital is being built in Manhattan's Central Park. Samaritan's Purse, a charity run by Christian evangelical preacher Franklin Graham, built a similar temporary facility in Italy to help deal with the crisis there. He said the New York City version could be up and running Tuesday.\nPOOR NEIGHBORHOODS HIT HARD\nCoronavirus is overwhelming some of New York City's poorest neighborhoods, according to new data released by the city.\nQueens accounts for 32% of the city's more than 30,000 confirmed cases as of Saturday \u2014 more than any other borough.\nNeighborhoods such as Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona, which are generally poor, densely packed and have large non-English speaking populations, have been among the hardest hit, according to a city map showing percent ranges of people testing positive for the disease. In those areas, between 69% and 86% of the tests done have come back positive.\nA hospital in Elmhurst has been overrun with coronavirus cases.\nStatistics on coronavirus cases do not reflect everyone who may have the virus, because many people have been told to manage their illness at home and are not getting tested.\nEARLY PATIENT GOES HOME\nThe number of patients being discharged at the state's hospitals after they've been treated for coronavirus has increased daily to a high of 845 on Saturday, Cuomo said. In all, more than 3,500 people have been discharged.\nThey include a lawyer from the New York City suburbs connected to one of the earliest U.S. coronavirus clusters. Lawrence Garbuz's family and neighbor were infected, as well as members of his synagogue.\n\"The 'patient zero' \u2014 what we call patient zero in Westchester, New Rochelle \u2014 who was very sick for a very long time, he has actually gone home,\" Cuomo said Sunday. \"He's out of the hospital.\"\nAs of Sunday, more than 8,500 people remain hospitalized across the state because of the disease, including more than 2,000 in intensive care.\nThose totals are continuing to spike, but Cuomo said they're not multiplying nearly as quickly as they were last week. From March 16-19, the number of hospitalizations in the state doubled every two days. Now it's taking about six days for the number to double.\nSTATE PUSHES FOR MORE FEDERAL MONEY\nCuomo spoke with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday after lambasting the federal government for giving the state a fraction of needed funding as it faces a potential revenue shortfall of up to $15 billion due to the economic damaged caused by the virus.\n\"They committed to right the wrong in the next federal bill that passes, and the governor is committed to working with them to make that a reality,\" Cuomo senior adviser Richard Azzoparadi told The Associated Press.\nSchumer called the conversation \"long and productive.\"\nTRAVEL ADVISORY CONCERNS\nOn Saturday, after saying he was weighing the idea of a mandatory quarantine for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, President Donald Trump tweeted that instead he'd issue advisory urging people in those states to avoid any nonessential travel for two weeks.\nDe Blasio said he worried about the advisory's impact on families with members in New York and other places who were looking to reunite.\n\"We've got to respect, in the middle of a crisis, families have a right to be together,\" de Blasio said.\nOTHER DEVELOPMENTS:\n\u2014 With schools and many day care centers closed, states, local governments and philanthropists are scrambling to provide child care for parents who are needed on the front lines of the virus fight.\n\u2014 College students were sent home because of the coronavirus are taking advantage of their last days on campus to forge a few more memories.\n\u2014 James Dolan, the owner of the New York Knicks and Rangers, has tested positive for COVID-19.\nCity reschedules 23,000 vaccine appointments due to shortage\nCity might run out of Covid vaccines by the weekend, de Blasio says\nSponsored Content: Telehealth: Evolving a Short-term Response to Long-term Capabilities","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Browse Puzzles\nRandom Puzzle\nTo take full advantage of all the site's features like saving\/loading puzzles, leaderboards, reward points\/badges Login or Register\nHeart Shaped Gingerbread Cookies Jigsaw Puzzle Game\nAfter enabling piece rotation you can rotate a piece by double clicking\/ tapping on it or pressing the space key while dragging the piece.\nHeart Shaped Gingerbread Cookies Puzzle Details:\nAbout: Gingerbread is typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg or cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar or molasses. Gingerbread is claimed to have been brought to Europe in 992 CE by the Armenian monk Gregory of Nicopolis. The first documented trade of gingerbread biscuits dates to the 17th century, where they were sold in monasteries, pharmacies, and town square farmers' markets. Gingerbread came to the Americas with settlers from Europe. Molasses, which was less expensive than sugar, soon became a common ingredient and produced a softer cake. 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Pick your difficulty level, click start and put the delicious fruits and veggies back together piece by piece and complete this fun new challenge. Have fun!\nFreshly Baked Tarts\nIf you didn't know,a tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. There are many types of tarts, with popular varieties including Treacle tart, tarte tatin, meringue tart and Bakewell tart. Another popular tart flavor is jam tarts, which may be different colors depending on the flavor of the jam used to fill them.\nLet's start the week with a healthy green apple. Click start, solve today's puzzle game and put the green apple covered in water drops back together and get your spot on our leader boards.\n\"Chicken Feed\" was the original name of the candy with production starting in the 1880s. It is most often found in the United States and Canada, popular primarily around Halloween. . The three colors of the candy \u2013 a broad yellow end, a tapered orange center, and a pointed white tip \u2013 mimic the appearance of kernels of corn, hence the name - candy corn. In today's fun and challenging puzzle we feature lots and lots of colorful candy corn, click start and give it a try!\nTime for a fresh banana. One of the most popular fruits worldwide, bananas contain essential nutrients. A 100-gram reference serving supplies 89 Calories, 31% of the US recommended Daily Value (DV) of vitamin B6, and moderate amounts of vitamin C, manganese and dietary fiber. Although bananas are commonly thought to contain exceptional potassium content, their actual potassium content is not high per typical food serving, having only 8% of the US recommended Daily Value for potassium.\nAfrican Horned Cucumbers\nAlso called horned melon, kiwano, jelly melon, hedged gourd, melano these kind of fruits native to Africa have a yellow-orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh .The fruit's taste has been compared to a combination of cucumber and zucchini or a combination of banana, cucumber and lemon. The fruit can be used in cooking, but when eaten raw.\nTri-Colored Fusilli Pasta\nIn today's new puzzle we're going out for some pasta. Fusilli are long, thick, corkscrew shaped pasta. The word fusilli presumably comes from fuso, as traditionally it is \"spun\" by pressing and rolling a small rod over the thin strips of pasta to wind them around it in a corkscrew shape.\nCarrots, Bananas, Oranges And Lemons\nWhat better way to start the day then with a pieces of fresh fruit, some vegetables or a glass of freshly squeezed juice, and a fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle. Pick your difficulty level, and put the fresh carrots, bananas, oranges and lemons back together as fast as you can and get your time on our leaderboards. Have fun!\nThe Gingerbread House\nIf you like gingerbread you'll love putting this online jigsaw puzzle back together. Solve the puzzle and see the gingerbread house.\nRed, Orange And Yellow Peppers\nPeppers are commonly broken down into three groupings: bell peppers, sweet peppers, and hot peppers. Ideal growing conditions for peppers include a sunny position with warm, loamy soil, that is moist but not waterlogged. Peppers are highly nutritious. They have more Vitamin C than an orange, and a typical bell pepper contains more than 100% of the daily recommended value for Vitamin C. They also have relatively high amounts of Vitamin B6.\nChicken eggs are widely used in many types of dishes, both sweet and savory, including many baked goods. Some of the most common preparation methods include scrambled, fried, hard-boiled, soft-boiled, omelettes and pickled. Chicken eggs, the most commonly eaten eggs, provide 155 calories (kcal) of food energy and 12.6 g of protein in a 100 gram serving. Eggs (boiled) supply several vitamins and minerals as significant amounts of the Daily Value (DV), including vitamin A (19% DV), riboflavin (42% DV), pantothenic acid (28% DV), vitamin B12 (46% DV), choline (60% DV), phosphorus (25% DV), zinc (11% DV) and vitamin D (15% DV).\nA new food themed jigsaw puzzle featuring a delicious piece of roast beef on lettuce, with some tomatoes and a lemon.\nDidn't find something you like? 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{"text":"Teenager with Autism Inspired by Running\nGood News, Profiles, Sports\nADN 7 years ago No Comments\nNew York \u2013 Mike Brannigan 17, has autism and is obsessed with running and is one of the top ten high school runners in the country, he can run a mile in four minutes and seven seconds flat. He runs every day of the week covering a distance of over sixty miles.\nNBC News state that whenever he runs he's able to hyper-focus on speed.\n\"I love to work hard and have fun. And just beat my personal best and keep improving to that next level,\"\nBrannigan has been contacted by more than two hundred colleges including the University of Colorado, the University of Oregon, Duke, Georgetown, Syracuse, Wisconsin, UNC, Virginia and Stanford.\nDuring his early years doctors believed that he would need a special school and a group home. He is now a senior at Northport public High School on New York's Long Island.\nHis mother, Edie Brannigan said:\n\"It has allowed him to focus \u2014 in such a way that his academics soared after he started running. It was something in his brain was able to calm down and focus on the academics.\"\nMrs Brannigan went on to explain that they'll need to find a school that will support her son academically.\nMike Brannigan is determined to become a professional athlete. with one day hoping to reach the Olympics.\n\"Wearing my USA jersey, and representing my country\u2026 and the whole nation\u2026 a whole America watching me.\"\nThe original story by Kate Snow on the NBC News website can be read here\nBig-hearted couple foster over 65 children with special needs\nADN November 21, 2014\nDirectory launched for people living around autism in Hertfordshire, UK\nNews In Brief May 30, 2018\nDaniel Wolff runs in great grandfather's footsteps\nNews In Brief February 4, 2015\nSesame Autisme organizes a Flashmob in Paris for Autism Awareness Month\nADN February 14, 2018\nTeen seeks funding to pursue college education in music\nNews In Brief June 13, 2014\nAutism Aspergers Friendship Society to hold James Bond Themed Gala\nSh\u00e2n Ellis","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kedah seeks Unesco Biosphere Reserve status for Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest\n19 Oct 2015 \/ 19:07 H.\nKedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir (C) takes a tour along the Merbok River from Semeling Jetty to Tanjung Dawai on Oct 19, 2015. BERNAMA\nA view of the mangrove forest near Sungai Petani taken on Oct 19, 2015. BERNAMA\nSUNGAI PETANI: Kedah plans to gazette the 3,000ha Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest as a Unesco world biosphere reserve, Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir said today.\nHe said the state government would submit the application to Unesco in January 2016 after Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) researchers have completed a study.\n\"We want to control development in the area to strike a balance between development and environmental sustainability.\n\"This does not mean we are jeopardising the livelihood of the local people. Instead, we are seeking ways to use the natural environment while generating a reasonable income for the people through caged fish breeding, for example,\" he told a news conference.\nMukhriz said this mangrove forest was unique in the sense that it contained 42 of the 60 species of the world's mangrove, and also the \"Eye of the Crocodile\" species that was found only in four mangrove areas in the world.\nToday, Mukhriz and Tanjung Dawai state assemblyman Datuk Tajul Urus Mat Zain took a boat ride on Sungai Merbok from the Semeling jetty to Tanjung Dawai and stopped over at Teluk Kedangsar.\nEarlier, the mentri besar chaired a meeting on Unesco biosphere reserve at the Sungai Petani Municipal Council office, which was also attended by USM researchers and officers of the Department of Forestry.\nMukhriz said that to preserve the mangrove national treasure, the state government would restrict mangrove felling and request relevant quarters to reduce the speed of boats in the mangrove swamps to prevent erosion.\nMeanwhile, USM Centre for Global Archaeological Research director Prof Datuk Dr Mokhtar Saidin said a dossier of research data had to be sent to Unesco for evaluation before the biosphere reserve status could be obtained.\nThe declaration of Unesco biosphere status for the mangrove forest would bring to Kedah biosphere tourists from around the world and provide for more sustainable development of the mangrove forest, he said.\n\"We are optimistic of securing that status,\" he said.\nTasik Chini in Pahang and the Crocker Range in Sabah enjoy Unesco biosphere reserve status, accorded in 2009 and 2014, respectively. \u2014 Bernama\nSabah views seriously video of men drinking beer at PKRC- Masidi\nSeven men arrested for obstructing, threatening police\nMOH committed to ensuring safety of registered vaccines\nPunishment aside, civic consciousness vital to ensuring public do not spread fake news- Lawyers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2190 Minority Opinion: The Magnificent Ambersons, Part 6\nWings, Again \u2192\nJim Lane's Cinedrome Posted on April 23, 2012 by Jim Lane September 10, 2017\nrecently spent two consecutive Saturdays in a sort of time machine, living the silent movie experience of 1927 \u2014 what seemed back then to be its culmination, but was in fact a final blaze of glory before the whole structure collapsed under the onslaught of talking pictures. The first Saturday (on March 31) was a once-in-a-lifetime experience I never expect to repeat, but the second (on April 7) was one I can recreate for myself any time I want \u2014 and so can you.\nFirst, on March 31, there was this:\nSeeing Abel Gance's Napoleon as it was meant to be seen \u2014 with a live symphonic accompaniment and its climactic three-panel \"Polyvision\" seqence, including this Tricolor tryptych \u2014 truly is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I've been lucky; I've seen it three times. The first time was Bastille Day (July 14) 1981, when just about everybody who was anybody in Hollywood \u2014 plus a hefty contingent of nobodies like me \u2014 crammed the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles to see Gance's masterpiece and to hear Francis Ford Coppola's father Carmine conduct his own score. That engagement was such a thundering triumph that Napoleon and Coppola pere returned to the Shrine for nine days in December and January '82, and I saw it again.\nBut this third time topped them both, and it came my way courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The movie I saw at Oakland's Paramount Theatre was an hour and 45 minutes longer than the one I saw at the Shrine in 1981 and '82. Some of the extra time was additional footage, some the result of a proper running speed of 20 frames per second (the Shrine speed had been 24 fps).\nThe great Kevin Brownlow \u2014 on top of everything else he's done \u2014 has made the restoration of Gance's picture a lifelong project, ever since he first bought two 9.5mm reels as a teenager in the 1950s. His efforts have been tireless and positively superhuman. In his 1983 book on the subject he lists no fewer than 19 different versions of Napoleon, beginning with its April 1927 premiere at the Paris Opera (4 hours 5 minutes) and Gance's so-called \"definitive version\" (9 hours 20 minutes) shown twice only the following month \u2014 through various re-edits and reissues, right down to Brownlow's own 1983 reconstruction for the Cinematheque Francaise (5 hours 13 minutes). But Brownlow didn't stop there; additional footage has continued to surface from time to time in the nearly 30 years since his book. The version screened in Oakland was assembled by Brownlow and Patrick Stanbury in 2000 for the British Film Institute and has never been shown outside Europe; these four screenings were the first in the U.S., and no others are contemplated. With the expense and time involved in hiring and rehearsing a live orchestra (to say nothing of, in the SFSFF's case, bringing composer Carl Davis over to conduct the score in person), plus the technical demands of three synchronized projectors, Napoleon is insanely expensive to present. The San Francisco Festival's efforts in this regard were heroic to the point of foolhardiness: it cost more than their entire budget for a normal year, and even if they sold every one of the Paramount's 3,100 seats (at $40-150 a pop), they would only break even. (They sold out, sure enough, at the screening I saw; I can't speak for the other three. I stuffed some extra cash in the Festival's donation jar in the lobby, saying, \"It's a noble thing you people are doing, and I know you're taking a bath on it.\" The attendant smiled and shrugged: \"It's the mission of the festival.\")\nWell, God bless 'em for it.\nGance regarded Napoleon as a tragic hero, and he planned a biography in six installments that would take his protagonist from his early revolutionary fervor and triumph through growing tyranny and megalomania to final downfall. But the best-laid plans, you know: Gance blew his budget for all six pictures on the first one, and the rest were never made. Probably just as well in the long run; it makes it possible for the one he did make to end on an exultant note, with the conquest \u2014 oops! \"revolutionary liberation\" \u2014 of Italy. But it matters little whether or not you accept Gance's historical analysis (personally, I don't; I think Bonaparte was pretty much a Megalomaniac in Waiting from the word go, biding his time while the thugs and jackals of the Reign of Terror lopped each other's heads off); Napoleon is still a sensual and emotional feast that makes the word \"movie\" sound too puny to contain it. Seeing it the way we saw it in Oakland was a rare privilege, and I'm telling you right now: If you ever hear of this picture coming to anyplace within a thousand miles of you, do not let this golden opportunity slip by, and do not imagine that it will ever come again. Hop a plane, book a hotel, rent a car, do whatever it takes.\nI'll close this half of the post with a YouTube clip of the Napoleon trailer prepared for the SFSFF. Be sure to take it full-screen; it'll give you (just barely) an inkling.\nMoving from the sublime to the merely first-rate, I come to my second time-machine excursion to 1927, on April 7:\nMy sister-in-law mentioned a while back that she was embarking on a project to see all the Oscar-winners for best picture that she hadn't managed to catch up with over the years. First on her list, naturally enough, was Wings \u2014 the first (and until this year the only) silent movie to win the Oscar for best picture.\n(Strictly speaking, that's not exactly true. There was no actual \"best picture\" category that first year; what Wings won was \"best production\". There was also \"artistic quality of production\", which went to F.W. Murnau's Sunrise. So in a sense you could say that that year \u2014 for the only time \u2014 there were really two best pictures. Frankly, I think this production\/artistic-quality-of-production dichotomy might be worth bringing back.)\nAnyhow, back to my sister-in-law's see-all-the-best-pictures project. It so happened that I had just gotten the new Blu-ray restoration of Wings and had been looking for an excuse to host a screening of it. I urged her not to settle for Wings from Netflix. I learned last year at the Kansas Silent Film Festival that to see Wings on home video is one thing, but to see it projected on a large screen is to understand at last why it won the Oscar (something it has in common with both Lawrence of Arabia and Oliver!). I suggested she wait until I could screen it for her and my brother, she agreed, and the date we settled on was April 7.\nI would venture to guess that in the transfer to home video, no silent picture has ever been as lovingly and carefully treated as Wings; Paramount Home Video can be as proud of the transfer as they are of the picture itself, for both are justified.\nLeonard Maltin's Movie Guide gives Wings two-and-a-half stars, saying: \"One of the most famous silent films is, alas, not one of the best, despite rose-colored memories.\" I say it's Leonard who needs a memory check; Wings is a whopping piece of entertainment, and it set the template for Oscar-winning best pictures, with only rare (and usually regrettable) exceptions, from that day to this: well-crafted crowd-pleasers rather than groundbreaking works of art.\nWhile it's no work of art, Wings is certainly a crowd-pleaser, and extraordinarily well-crafted. The craftstmanship is evident even in straight black-and-white silent prints like the one I saw in Topeka last year, but on Paramount's Blu-ray it shines like a beacon. The source material was a dupe negative in the Paramount vault that had nevertheless suffered significant deterioration in 85 years and required a frame-by-frame digital repair. The result is\u2026well, in the supplement documentary, Tom Burton of Technicolor Corp. says, \"It'll never be like Day One in 1927 seeing this release, but it cleaned up a great deal.\" Indeed it did; Wings looks like it was shot last week, an impression enhanced by the surprisingly frequent use of telephoto and even zoom lenses.\nAlmost as important as that dupe negative, Paramount also had the original documentation for how the picture was to be tinted \u2014 both stock-tinting (amber, violet, sepia etc.) and the Handschiegel process (shown here), which added color to highlight flames, machine-gunfire and explosions; the documents specified exactly the shades to be used and the frames where every tint was to begin and end.\nParamount also had access to a single copy in the Library of Congress (perhaps the only copy in existence) of J.S. Zamecnik's original score (well, substantially original \u2014 it incorporates numerous popular tunes of the World War I era, and the music for the flying scenes was cribbed from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental score for A Midsummer Night's Dream). Zamecnik was a usually anonymous studio musician who did yeoman work assembling Wings's music, particularly his main theme, which serves as a wistful love theme, a stirring march, or a soaring anthem, according to the needs of individual scenes.\nOscar-winner Ben Burtt recreated Wings's sound effects. No, that's not a misprint, and on the Blu-ray the sound effects aren't an anachronism. Wings was state-of-the-art in 1927 (although the art was changing faster than anybody realized at the time), and it originally played with a soundtrack for sound effects \u2014 explosions, machine guns, auto and airplane engines, things like that (music was nonstop and performed live, and of course there was no spoken dialogue). The original track still existed as a guide to when there should be sound and what would remain silent, and Burtt and his associate Dustin Cawood worked with the earliest sound libraries from the 1930s to keep the sounds as authentic as possible. (Even so, the Blu-ray's 7.1 surround audio allowed Burtt to indulge in effects the sound technicians of 1927 could only dream of \u2014 planes roar up behind you and pass overhead before swooping into view on the screen.)\nWings is famous, even among people who've never seen it, for its scenes of aerial combat, and rightly so \u2014 they're still breathtaking after 85 years and countless fighter-pilot movies, from Hell's Angels to Top Gun. Wings invented the genre, only 24 years after Kitty Hawk, using aircraft that were little more than motorized kites. No process photography, certainly no CGI in those days; there was nothing for it but to strap the camera to a plane and get up there and fly around. (And remember, of all the people who saw Wings on its first run, probably not one in a thousand had ever been up in a plane; if these scenes are amazing now, how must they have looked in 1927?)\nBut even on the ground, Wings has some of the most spectacular battle scenes ever filmed, climaxing in director William Wellman's recreation of the battle of St. Mihiel, the first major American offensive of the war (and one in which the U.S. Army Air Service played a significant role). With 19 cameras posted in trenches, in shell holes, and on towers all over the five-acre location, it's a sight to see \u2014 in fact, I've seen some of this footage (uncredited) in a number of documentaries about World War I, and you probably have too.\nLast but absolutely not least, Wings has this young lady. Let me say this as plainly as I can: There was never a more charming and delightful movie star than Clara Bow. Plenty who were as delightful, certainly, but none more so. Ever. (If you don't know Clara's work, Mantrap [1926] and It ['27] are good places to start.) She was the hottest star in Hollywood in 1927 (in every sense of the word), so naturally she's top-billed in Wings, but it's really a supporting role, almost a cameo; she plays the adoring, neglected girl next door who follows Buddy Rogers to France as a member of the Women's Motor Corps. When Buddy's leave in Paris is cancelled but he's too drunk to respond, Clara goes to fetch him, only to find he's too drunk even to recognize her, and she must dress as the flapper her fans have come to expect, all to lure him away from a French demimondaine with designs on him. (This scene also has Wellman's most amazing non-combat shot, as the camera glides across table after table at the Folies Bergere, each with its own little drama going on: an angry woman tossing her drink in her lover's face, a matron slipping cash to her gigolo, an adulterous couple nervously looking over their shoulders, even a pair of lovestruck lesbians!)\nIn Silent Stars Jeanine Basinger describes Wings as \"an epic war movie enclosing a small Clara Bow movie\", and that sums it up neatly. The structure of the story is Hollywood showmanship at its best; without interrupting the war story or making Bow look like a cornball play for the box-office, Paramount created a picture that absolutely everyone who went to movies would want to see.\nThey still would, and Leonard Maltin really needs to take another look. The review in his book dates back at least as far as the 1980 edition; I'll bet it was based on watching a VHS tape on a 19-inch TV (Leonard himself may not even have written it). As Ben Burtt says, \"I can't imagine that audiences today would not get excited by seeing Wings.\" But as I told my sister-in-law, you have to see it as large as possible; the screen in my home theater is 70 inches wide, and that's really the bare minimum you need to appreciate it fully.\nMy screening that night certainly made my point. As the music swelled to its crescendo, the final end title faded out, and I brought up the lights, I said: \"And that's why it won the Oscar for best picture.\" \"No kidding!\" somebody said.\nFor my brother, whose only experience of a silent movie had been an 8mm Blackhawk print of Laurel and Hardy's Two Tars 46 years ago, Wings was a revelation. He told me, \"You know, Jim, I thought this was just going to be a sort of archaeology lesson. I didn't expect it to be\u2026you know\u2026a really good movie.\" And the next day at an Easter backyard barbecue, I heard my sister-in-law telling her adult children about it. She too had half-expected to be impatient and a little bored with a silent movie, but she had an interesting take on it now: \"After the first few minutes,\" she said, \"it simply never occurs to you that they're not speaking.\"\nI have no doubt that I've seen Abel Gance's Napoleon for the last time, and I'm completely fine with that; as I said, I'm lucky to have seen it as many times as I have. But Wings, thanks to Paramount Home Video, a 70-inch screen and an Epson Powerlite 6100 projector, is at my beck and call anytime, almost exactly as the audience saw it at New York's Criterion Theatre on August 12, 1927.*\nAnd as the saying goes, that ain't chopped liver.\n*Almost: The battle scenes were originally shown in widescreen \"Magnascope\" \u2014 a surprising link with Napoleon \u2014 but none of that footage has survived.\nSilent Weekends \u2014 8 Comments\nKevin Deany on April 25, 2012 at 9:18 pm said:\nJim: I'm very envious that you got to experience the recent \"Napoleon\" showing in Oakland. I saw it in Chicago in its first incarnation with Carmine Coppolla conducting his score. The score was serviceable enough, but the experience remains one of the great movie-going experiences of my life. Really quite overwhelming in so many ways.\nKevin Brownlow's recent Oscar win may be the most deserving Oscar of all time.\nThe \"Wings\" section on your post was great. I have a friend who has a home theater and his brother has the new \"Wings\" BluRay. We'll do some arm twisting to see if we can see \"Wings\" in the best possible way. I do have the VHS copy of \"Wings\" and even then it's still a remarkable film.\nJim Lane on April 26, 2012 at 12:45 am said:\nKevin, \"serviceable enough\" may sound like damning with faint praise, but I think you've hit it regarding Carmine Coppola's score \u2014 though of course I take my hat off to anyone who can compose a wall-to-wall four-hour score (to say nothing of conducting it). Carl Davis's score, on the other hand, is masterful.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Going Hot, in gun range lingo, is putting your finger on the trigger.\nGoing hot, in culture-war lingo, is when ever growing sociopolitical contentious issues finally explode, and a continually building \"Cold Civil War\" goes hot.\nVic Biorseth, Sunday, October 27, 2019\nWhen the inevitable war starts, and your mortal enemy is inside your city walls, then you have to fight the enemy inside your own city walls.\nAnd once you are desperately fighting the enemy who is already inside your city walls, it is then too late to to ask how you ever allowed your mortal enemy to get inside your city walls, before the war commenced.\nIn Cold Civil War we described how Marxism, the mortal enemy of America, the Church and all that is good, \"came in peace\" through the gateway of Cultural Marxism, infiltrated and eventually commandeered our own formal education, news reporting and entertainment industries and began making our own children into our enemies.\nIn Civilization Jihad we described how Islam, another mortal enemy of America, the Church and all that is good, \"came in peace\" through the gateway of the Taqiyya \"Islam Is Peace\" lie, and began emulating the Cultural Marxism movement in infiltrating education, news reporting and entertainment industries, to convert our own children and make them our enemies.\nBack then, we didn't think Islam-inside-the-walls was as big a threat to the Constitution and to the nation as was Marxism, because Marxism had been dominating and changing education for the worse for upwards of a hundred years, since Joseph Stalin first sent his evil secret agents out into the outside world, to poison it.\nRichard Thomopson video describing sneaky, underhanded \"Stealth Jihad\"\nNow, as we see in the Thomas More Law Center revelations, Islam, too, is conquering and commandeering American education, following in the footsteps of Cultural Marxism.\nMarxism and Islam, both, are irreconcilably opposed to every point in our Constitution, every Constitutional Right we enjoy, our Religion, and our Judaeo-Christian Morality. Marxism and Islam are thus opposed to our very way of life; our faith, our freedom, our property, even our very thoughts.\nBoth Marxism and Islam are, in the end, absolutely and ruthlessly dictatorial. Their histories prove it. Their ultimate aim is global dictatorship.\nMarxism has been \"popularizing\" itself at our expense for upwards of a hundred years, and Islam has been following suite for at least 20 years. Both Marxism and Islam are irreconcilable mortal enemies of America and of Christianity and Judaism.\nAnd they are right here in America, teaching our children. We let them in.\nMarxism feeds immorality, disorder, rebellion and social chaos\nAs a mortal enemy of God and all that is good, Marxism is compelled to attack all proper sense of good order in society.\nEverything the Marxocrat Party stands for is opposed to our religion, our Constitution and our own sense of uprightness, and even our natural instinctive sense of right and wrong.\nThe more ordered a society is, the more distinct and identifiable it is.\nBoth Marxism and Islam are \"distinct\" among societies, but they are not good; indeed, they are evil. Their ultimate goal, after all, is domination and dictatorial rule of all other existing societies.\nThe anti-American Marxocrat Party has already had major successes in weakening the Constitution through applying unconstitutional strategies, involving Marxocrat Party controlled courts, \"regulating\" agencies and bureaucracies and executive actions to establish immoral \"rights\" that overpower actual existing Constitutional Rights. They never use actual Legislation to establish immoral law. But in one case, Obamacare, they did indeed use Legislation, made it into law despite having to violate their oaths of office and the Constitution to do it. So the whole Congress cooperated to do that particular blatantly immoral and completely unconstitutional deed.\nOther examples abound.\nThe right to abort people is a direct violation of the absolute Constitutional Right to Life.\nThe existence of hate-speech laws (regulations, rules, etc.) is a direct violation of the absolute Constitutional Right to Free Speech.\nMarxist Redistributionism (graduated income taxes, etc.) is a direct violation of the absolute Constitutional right to Private Property.\nThe existence of laws prohibiting discrimination against immoral people, sexual perverts and deviates is a direct violation of the absolute Constitutional Right to Liberty, and to freedom of personal association.\nUnconstitutionally established Separation of Church and State is a twisting of the Constitutional Right to Freedom of Religion into a socially and morally destructive militant secularization and religious cleansing of America of Christianity.\nProtecting Islam under the Freedom of Religion principle is a twisting of the Constitutional Right to admit into America, and even into the American political process, a \"religion\" that aims to eliminate the Constitutional Right to Freedom of Religion, and all of the rest of the Constitution along with it.\nSpecial rights for minorities, women, perverts and whole classes of immoral behaviors are direct violations of the absolute Constitutional Right to Equal treatment before the law.\nWe could go on, almost indefinitely. The object of the Marxocrats is a combination of fiscal irresponsibility, economic disaster and social chaos leading to an \"emergency\" overturning or overruling the Constitution and the electoral process, whether by revolution or any other means.\nThe establishment of a dictatorship with dictatorial power in America.\nThe anti-American claim that Constitutional Rights are not absolute rights is a lie. Every right in the Bill Of Rights, and elsewhere in the Constitution, are absolute, so long as they are exercised morally. Shouting \"Fire!\" in a crowded theater when there is no fire is a lie, and therefore immoral, and an abusive misuse of a right.\nWhat is being destroyed is a common sense of simple morality, which is being replaced by ever growing piles of nonsensical and even immoral laws, rules and regulations. And a lack of respect for and even a near total dismissal of the Constitution itself.\nThe Marxocrat Party has virtually eliminated any sense of morality in America and especially in American courts of law, along with the near total systematic elimination of Christianity from all political and legal discourse. Establishing and growing an evil social sense of \"fairness\" toward immorality, evil and ungodliness, which should be shamed, shunned and discriminated against wherever it is not outlawed entirely.\nAfter nearly a hundred years of the unresisted, systematic popularizing of Communism and demonizing of America, we now see blatant hatred of America and favor toward Communism on open display even on American football fields and basketball courts, quite regularly.\nAll proper sense of distinct American peoplehood and patriotism is buried beneath the rising, stinking pile of Multiculturalism that is acting to destroy all sense of distinction among people. All Marxocrat Party political agenda items feed it. Open borders; no immigration law; no customs law; no institutionalizing the insane; emptying prisons; legalized dope; providing free dope; demonizing cops; opposing rule of law; health care for criminal aliens; citizenship and voting rights for criminal aliens; sanctuary cities; the whole \"green new deal\"; taxing and behavior-modifying for \"climate control\" and other such insanities.\nTrying to legislate the weather, for crying out loud.\nYoung Americans today do not even know who they are. They do not even know what America is really about. They are steeped in terrifying falsehoods. They are preoccupied and obsessed with nonsense.\nThis is massive social chaos on a level never dreamed of, even by the evil ends-justify-the-means inventor, Niccolo Machiavelli himself.\nThe groundwork has been laid for another American Civil War.\nMarxism did the same thing inside the Catholic Clerical Order\nWith history's first \"Pope Emeritus\" shuffled aside and the somewhat dubious election of Pope (Anti-Pope?) Francis, we now see everything from\nknown homosexual priests, bishops and cardinals everywhere;\nto serial acts of pedophilia and pederasty by Catholic clerics;\nto purposeful secret payoffs and criminal cover-ups of crimes by clerics, to moving them around to protect them and allow them to continue their criminal behavior against newer victims elsewhere;\nto scandalous misuses of Church funds and properties;\nto homo-friendly Parishes flying the rainbow fag-flag;\nto the rise again of formerly condemned liberation theology, Marxist-tinged social justice, attention swinging away from theology and into secular politics, opposition to nations and national governments and favoring of nation-destroying Marxist global frauds such as climate change;\nto encouraging of the elimination of national borders and national sovereignty, and the encouragement of illegal mass migrations from the third world to Western nations to cause social chaos;\nto a \"Pope\" not condemning the known homosexuality all around him, and actively promoting and protecting well known homosexual clerics;\nto Papal dabbling in old condemned heresies such as Socialism, syncretism and even arianism;\nto see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil cowardly clerics up and down the line, traitors to the faith, traitors to the Church and traitors the Priesthood, who know full well what's going on and never say one single word against any part of it. To us, the victim laity, theirs is the worst sin of all, by far.\nAll of this sinful activity proves that a majority of the current Catholic clerical order cares less for the souls in their care than they do for maintaining the status quo and pretending all is well, and that if it is not, then they know nothing about any of it.\nThe McCarrick scandal let the cat out of the bag. Everybody knew all about it and did nothing.\nEverybody.\nWhat does a hot civil war look like?\nThe Revolutionary War was, in fact, a civil war as well as a war for independence from England. The Continental Army fought Loyalists as well as Redcoats, all throughout the war. There were significant numbers of colonial citizens who were loyal to the Crown, and loyal enough to fight and die for it.\nIt was a rending for families. Brother against brother, and cousin, and father against son. In this respect, it was particularly horrible; it was much worse than going to war against a foreign power. It involved the shedding of our own blood, neighbor against neighbor, family member against family member.\nYet it had to be done.\nThe Civil War was thus at least a partial repeat of history. It was all over the Equality right, declared among the Equality, Life, Liberty and Property inalienable rights declared in the Declaration. They were all described as individual rights established by God, and therefore impervious to the power of man to take them away.\nBut, equality of all men before the law meant an end to slavery. And there was a rich and powerful plantation-owning new Planter Class of citizens who would not give up their slaves. These would later coalesce into what would be known as the Democrat Party. At the time of the Declaration, they were powerful enough to keep Jefferson's abolition of slavery point out of the Declaration, by one vote.\nThat one vote was what would inevitably lead to the Civil War.\nOnce upon a time, when American history was taught properly and truthfully, the vital importance of even one vote was impressed upon all students, for this reason. No more. Young people today have no clue as to what either the Revolutionary War or the Civil War were all about.\nThey have been mal-educated, indoctrinated and propagandized.\nThe idea of Jefferson and the other framers of the Declaration was for all of them, and everyone in the Colonies, to free their slaves all at the same time, so that no one would maintain the economic advantage over everyone else that employing slaves would promise. Otherwise, those who freed their slaves would be driven to abject poverty by those who did not free their slaves, because of the huge economic advantage of slave drivers over non-slave drivers.\nIf slavery were simply ended, it was entirely possible that some if not most slaves would stay in the paid employment of their former masters for some time, to build up their own fortunes before moving on, preventing an immediate economic catastrophe. But the Planters wouldn't have it, and their Colonies were desperately needed to stay united in the union, to stand against mighty England. To keep all the Colonies united in the effort, immediate abolition was abandoned.\nSo the rich planters were able to keep the abolition of slavery out of the Declaration, but the Equality right remained in, and that would lead to the eventual end of slavery, although at the cost of another Civil War.\nThe Planter Class became the Democrat Party, which became the Confederate Party, which seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America, which started the Civil War.\nIt was all over the Equality versus Slavery issue. Teachers who claim otherwise are liars. Each state that joined the Confederacy had to be a slave state, and sign on to an interstate legal agreement opposing abolition, and allowing slave catchers to cross state lines pursuing runaway slaves, the authority to capture them, and return across state lines to deliver the slaves back to their owners, for money.\nAfter the Civil War, the right to Equality was fixed in the Fourteenth Amendment as a Constitutional Right, as it should have been in the Fifth Amendment, along with Life Liberty and Property. The power of the Democrat Party to stop Equality was broken, or so it was thought.\nBut the Democrat Party was alive and well as a political force to be reckoned with in Washington DC and in the north as well as all across the southland. The post-Civil War Democrat Party gave birth to the KKK, lynching and terrorism of blacks, but also of Catholics, Jews and the northern Carpet-Baggers spoken of in National Existence.\nDemocrats were responsible for all the Jim-Crow laws, for the \"segregation forever\" movement and for all the opposition to the Republican supported Martin Luther King equal-rights movement.\nAnd then they went all the way Marxist, and pretended to be the exact opposite of what they were, and the actual champions of black rights. And, with the aid of Marxist education, Marxist news reporting and the whole Marxist entertainment industry, they were wildly successful in winning over the black American vote. And keeping it.\nThe necessary American social division, peaceful or otherwise\nWhat was the original Christian social division initiated by Christ? From Luke 12, we read this:\nI am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled? And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how I am straitened until it be accomplished?\nThink ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.\nJesus was a Jew, preaching, first, to the Jews. All would not accept Him, from the very beginning. The Apostles and the Disciples were a minority among the Jews. All the leaders, the political parties of the day, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, preferred to not yield up either their worldly political power or their theological authority to this upstart who claimed to be Son of God.\nJewish households were divided, and breaking up over it. It was a very serious thing, to divide a strong Jewish family, for anyone to ever turn against the father of the household.\nAnd that appears to be the situation we find ourselves in today.\nIn the Church, we have newer generations virulently opposed to a Catholic Tradition that they never properly learned.\nIn politics, we have newer generations virulently opposed to a Declaration and a Constitution and an honest history that they never even read.\nBottom line, we have to divide; we have to separate from them.\nIf they are opposed to the true faith, Catholics need to drive them out of the Church. They seek to displace the authority of God with the authority of mere men and their ever changing opinions.\nIf they are opposed to the rule of law, i.e., rule by the Constitution, Americans need to drive them out of America. They seek to displace the rule by Constitution with rule by men, as in all other nations, and let mere men compete for dictatorial rule, and the Supreme Law of the Land may be damned.\nIt doesn't matter if they have been fooled, and if they simply don't know any better. They are still anti-Catholic and\/or anti-American. If they will not listen, if they will not accept and embrace Truth, then they must be made to depart from us.\nThis is what Civil War looks like.\nThe question is, as it has always been, who are we?\nWhat kind of a person are you, and what kind of a people are we?\nPost-election President Donald J. Trump has turned out to be a sign of contradiction, and the cause of the rise and the fall of many. A very real political sword of division, in our time. He has made the differences stark and clear, and put a time of decision for division upon all of us.\nThe Marxocrat Party directed Deep-State Shadow-Government attempted treasonous coup d'\u00e9tat, being now discovered and uncovered, brings desperation to the whole Marxocrat Party and their News Media. They need to bring Trump down, and somehow fire his Attorney General, quick, before they are all indicted, tried and convicted of their crimes.\nMany are the Republicrats and the Never Trumpers who are caught up in this evil web. They are all in the same evil Washington Club. When one of them, say Joe Biden, goes down, he will bring a whole lot more of them with him, because of all the skeletons in all of the closets. What one of them has done to enrich himself or his family or his \"foundations\" they all have done themselves. They help each other enrich each other at taxpayer expense.\nThe Washington Swamp Trump is draining is not exclusively a Marxocrat swamp. Nor is is exclusively political. Corporations are in it too, and lobbyists, and news organizations, in partnership with the \"intelligence community\" traitors.\nDesperation breeds real danger. Many a Republicrat criminal would willingly give up his seat in Congress or the Senate by voting to impeach Trump, in order to stay out of prison.\nBut how do they stop the investigation, even if Trump is impeached?\nAssassination is not beyond their evil, nor is actual Civil War.\nMany are they who will never admit that the jig is up, and go humbly to their own due justice. Even when it looks like they cannot win a Civil War, they will start one anyway. That's what the cornered rat does.\nWe don't know how this is going to turn out, but we can hope and pray for the best. Today, in the Latin Mass calendar, is the Feast of Christ The King.\nAnd this is the prayer we prayed at Mass in His honor.\nAct of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus\nMost Sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thine altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but to be more surely united to Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates ourselves today to Thy Most Sacred Heart.\nMany indeed have never known Thee; Many too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart. Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful children, who have never forsaken Thee, but also of the prodigal children, who have abandoned Thee; Grant that they may quickly return to their Father's house lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.\nBe Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.\nBe Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of the race, once Thy chosen people: of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.\nGrant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry; praise to the Divine Heart that wrought our salvation; To it be glory and honor forever. R. Amen.\nMay His will be done.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BIOX announces 2014 first quarter results\nBIOX Corporation\nTSX symbol: BX\nTORONTO, Feb. 12, 2014 \/CNW\/ - BIOX Corporation (BIOX) (TSX: BX) today announced its fiscal 2014 first quarter (Q1 2014) financial results for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013.\nProduction of methyl esters was 15.2 million litres in Q1 2014 compared to 3.3 million litres in the first quarter of 2013 (Q1 2013), the lower production in Q1 2013 reflects the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility on October 25, 2012\nSales were $17.3 million in Q1 2014, compared to $9.5 million in Q1 2013\nOperating loss was $1.8 million in Q1 2014 compared to an operating loss of $4.8 million in Q1 2013\nOperating loss prior to non-cash items(1) was $0.5 million in Q1 2014 compared to $3.7 million in Q1 2013\nOperating income prior to non-cash items was $0.8 million in Q1 2014 for BIOX's operating segment (BIOX Canada Limited and BIOX USA Limited) compared to an operating loss prior to non-cash items of $1.2 million in Q1 2013\nNet loss was $1.9 million Q1 2014 compared to $5.1 million in Q1 2013\nLoss per share was $0.04 in Q1 2014 compared to $0.11 Q1 2013\nThe public consultation period for the proposed Ontario Greener Diesel Mandate closed on December 16, 2013\n\"The fundamentals of the Canadian biodiesel market are becoming a key component of our addressable market. The inter-terminal pipeline together with the supply agreement with Shell Canada Limited and the proposed 2 percent greener diesel mandate in Ontario provide a greater level of market certainty than the U.S. market,\" said Kevin Norton, Chief Executive Officer of BIOX. \"With the proposed Ontario mandate expected to take effect April 1, 2014 and our established supply agreement with Shell we are in a strong position to take advantage of growing demand in our local market.\"\nSales were $17.3 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with $9.5 million for the corresponding period last year. The 82 percent increase in sales was primarily the result of the 175 percent increase in litres of biodiesel sold due to the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility during the same period last year, partially offset by lower sales of separated RINs during the quarter.\nDirect expenses were $16.2 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with $10.5 million for the corresponding period last year. The increase in direct expenses was primarily the result of higher sales volume in Q1 2014 due to the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility during the same period last year.\nGeneral and administrative expenses were $1.5 million for both the three-month periods ended December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012.\nOperating loss was $1.8 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with $4.8 million for the same period last year. The decrease in operating loss was primarily due to the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility during the same period last year.\nOperating loss prior to non-cash items(1) was $0.5 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with $3.7 million for the same period last year.\nCombined operating income prior to non-cash items(1) for BIOX's operating segment (BIOX Canada Limited and BIOX USA Limited) was $0.8 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with a combined operating loss prior to non-cash items of $1.2 million for the corresponding period last year. This increase was primarily due to the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility during the same period last year.\nNet loss for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, was $1.9 million or $0.04 per common share compared with a net loss of $5.1 million or $0.11 per common share in the corresponding period in 2012.\nAs at December 31, 2013, BIOX's cash balance amounted to $10.9 million, compared with $15.9 million on September 30, 2013. BIOX's working capital balance at December 31, 2013, was $16.0 million compared with $17.5 million at September 30, 2013. BIOX believes that its future cash flow from operations combined with its current financial resources are sufficient to enable BIOX to meet its ongoing working capital requirements.\nAs at December 31, 2013, BIOX had 45,728,791 common shares outstanding, as well as options to purchase up to 2,775,000 common shares, and share purchase warrants to acquire up to 1,982,143 common shares.\nThe draft 2014 Renewable Volume Obligation proposal released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in November 2013 negatively impacted the value of biodiesel and Biomass-based diesel RINs through the end of calendar 2013. 2013 RIN values averaged approximately $0.28 through the month of December. This drop in RIN values was compounded by the expiry of the U.S. biodiesel tax incentive on December 31, 2013. Uncertainty surrounding the renewal of the biodiesel tax incentive could cause continued short term confusion in the market and pricing volatility.\nThe draft Renewable Volume Obligation proposal maintains the current volume requirement of biomass-based diesel at 1.28 billion U.S. gallons for 2014 and 2015. At this level the 2014 and 2015 volume requirements would actually fall below the 1.8 billion U.S. gallons that the U.S. Biomass-based diesel industry produced in 2013. The proposal has completed a 60-day review period that included public hearings. The EPA has indicated that it will take them a considerable amount of time to review and finalize the proposal. Based on that feedback, BIOX believes the proposal may not be finalized until mid 2014. 2014 RINs traded at approximately $0.60 (or $0.90 per U.S. gallon) as of February 11, 2014.\nHowever, management believes that market conditions are improving in Canada. The full implementation of the biodiesel portion of the Canadian Renewable Fuel Content Regulations, and the Ontario biodiesel mandate proposed to commence in April 2014, are important elements of BIOX's addressable markets. While BIOX has historically sold the majority of its product into the U.S. market, the implementation of these Canadian regulations significantly increases the accessible market for its product in Canada. The implementation of a renewable diesel mandate in Ontario will provide BIOX with market certainty in its local region which supports the significant capital investment that it made in the Hamilton facility\nBIOX's inter-terminal pipeline and supply agreement with Shell is an example of how the Company can service primary suppliers with a secure supply of biodiesel under the new Canadian and Ontario regulations. Management believes that, in time, the supply of biodiesel under this agreement has the potential to become a significant portion of BIOX's Hamilton production given the proposed implementation of an Ontario mandate and as the Canadian Renewable Fuel Content Regulations extend eastward into Qu\u00e9bec and the Atlantic provinces.\nBIOX continues to pursue growth strategies that would expand its business through increasing the volume of biodiesel it produces, controls and distributes in strategic locations throughout North America.\nNotice of Conference Call\nBIOX will hold a conference call today, February 13, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. ET hosted by Mr. Kevin Norton, Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Chris Clinning, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, to discuss BIOX's financial results and corporate developments. To access the conference call by telephone, dial (647) 427-7450 or (888) 231-8191. To access the telephone replay, dial (416) 849-0833 or (855) 859-2056 and enter reservation number 53674500. A live audio webcast of the call will be available at www.bioxcorp.com. The webcast will be archived for 90 days.\n1) Note: Non-IFRS Measures. Operating income prior to non-cash items is defined as operating income or loss less production facility depreciation and amortization, and less amortization of furniture, equipment and intangibles, and stock-based compensation. Management uses this measurement to monitor the operating cash flow of BIOX's business and believes this information is useful supplemental information to a reader of financial statements. This measurement may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. Investors are cautioned that operating income (loss) prior to non-cash items should not be construed as an alternative to net income (loss) determined in accordance with IFRS as an indicator of BIOX's performance.\nReconciliation of Non-IRFS Measures\nThe following table presents a reconciliation of operating income prior to non-cash items to net loss for the three-month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012:\n(in thousands) Three months ended\nOperating loss before non-cash items (508) (3,745)\nDeduct: Production facility depreciation and\namortization (1,114) (912)\nDepreciation and amortization of\nequipment and intangible assets (86) (96)\nShare-based compensation (48) (81)\nOperating loss (1,756) (4,834)\nOther income and expenses (143) (311)\nNet loss (1,899) (5,145)\nAbout BIOX Corporation\nBIOX is a renewable energy company that owns and operates a 67 million litre per year continuous flow biodiesel production facility in Hamilton, Ontario. BIOX has an innovative, proprietary and patented production process that is capable of producing the highest quality, renewable, clean burning and biodegradable biodiesel fuel utilizing a variety of feedstocks - from pure seed oils to animal fats to recovered vegetable oils with no change to the production process. BIOX's high quality biodiesel fuel meets North American (ASTM D-6751) quality standards.\nCertain statements in this press release constitute \"forward-looking\" statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, objectives or achievements of BIOX, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, objectives or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements relate to, among other things, BIOX's long-term expectations for the biodiesel market in light of current market conditions, the implementation of an Ontario biodiesel mandate and its effect on BIOX, the significance of sales under the supply agreement with Shell, and the ability of BIOX to realize on its cost savings programs. These statements reflect BIOX's current views regarding future events and operating performance, are based on information currently available to BIOX, and speak only as of the date of this press release. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions and should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether or not such performance or results will be achieved. Those assumptions and risks include, but are not limited to, the fact that BIOX's results of operations and business outlook are highly dependent on a mix of legislation and producer payment programs and tax credits and upon commodity prices, which are subject to significant volatility and uncertainty. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of BIOX to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including factors described in this press release and those discussed in BIOX's publicly available disclosure documents, as filed by BIOX on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) except as updated herein. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Unless required by applicable securities law, BIOX does not intend and does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.To the extent any forward-looking statements herein constitute financial outlook, they were approved by management as of the date hereof and have been included to provide an understanding with respect to BIOX's financial performance and are subject to the same risks and assumptions referred to herein. There can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which these forward-looking statements are based will occur and readers are cautioned that any financial outlook information contained in this news release should not be used for purposes other than for which it is disclosed herein.\nFinancial results included below:\nCondensed consolidated interim statements of comprehensive loss\nThree month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012\n(Expressed in thousands of Canadian dollars, except share and per share amounts)\nRevenue 17,269 9,475\nDirect expenses 16,238 10,451\nProduction facility depreciation and amortization 1,114 912\nGross margin (83) (1,888)\nGeneral and administrative 1,539 1,510\nDepreciation and amortization of equipment and intangible assets 86 96\nShare-based compensation 48 81\nExpansion planning and development - 1,259\nFinancing cost 320 340\nForeign exchange (gain) loss (151) 1\nNet loss before interest income and income taxes (1,925) (5,175)\nIncome tax expense - (18)\nInterest income 26 48\nNet loss for the period (1,899) (5,145)\nOther comprehensive loss\nForeign currency translation loss (37) (279)\nComprehensive loss (1,936) (5,424)\nLoss per common share\nBasic (0.04) (0.11)\nDiluted (0.04) (0.11)\nWeighted average number of common shares outstanding\nBasic 45,735,195 45,748,691\nDiluted 45,845,195 45,748,691\nCondensed consolidated interim statements of changes in equity\nCommon share capital other\nWarrants Equity comprehensive Total\nShares Amount reserve reserve income (loss) Deficit equity\n# $ $ $ $ $ $\nBalance, September 30, 2012 45,748,691 167,787 3,151 2,559 20 (107,972) 65,545\nShare-based compensation - - - 81 - - 81\nNet loss - - - - - (5,145) (5,145)\nForeign currency translation loss - - - - (279) - (279)\nBalance, December 31, 2012 45,748,691 167,787 3,151 2,640 (259) (113,117) 60,202\nBalance, September 30, 2013 45,748,691 167,787 3,151 2,926 (91) (110,813) 62,960\nShare cancellation (19,900) (7) - - - - (7)\nRepurchased shares\nto be cancelled - (4) - - - - (4)\nForeign currency translation loss - - - - (37) - (37)\nCondensed consolidated interim statements of financial position\nAs at December 31, 2013 and September 30, 2013\n(Expressed in thousands of Canadian dollars)\nDecember 31, September 30,\nCash and cash equivalents 10,880 15,909\nPrepaid expenses 760 839\nInventory 5,317 5,143\nRestricted cash 1,800 1,800\nProperty, plant and equipment 46,186 46,930\nIntangible assets 879 912\nDeferred income tax assets 10,306 10,276\nAccounts payable and other liabilities 3,685 6,300\nCurrent portion of long-term debt 1,500 1,500\nCurrent portion of finance leases 25 31\nCurrent portion of provisions 2,186 2,434\nFinance leases 29 34\nLong-term debt 10,475 10,849\nProvisions 3,620 3,540\nCommon share capital 167,776 167,787\nWarrants reserve 3,151 3,151\nEquity reserve 2,974 2,926\nAccumulated other comprehensive loss (128) (91)\nDeficit (112,712) (110,813)\nCondensed consolidated interim statements of cash flows\nAdd items not involving cash\nFinancing costs 182 223\nProvision for unutilized tank storage (248) -\nIncome taxes paid - 18\nUnrealized foreign exchange gain (222) (265)\nAccretion of asset retirement obligation 80 70\n(859) (4,010)\nNet change in non-cash working capital balances\nrelated to operations (2,948) 3,287\n(3,807) (723)\nPurchase of property, plant and equipment (828) (2,741)\nDecrease in restricted cash - 4,142\nShare repurchase (11) -\n(839) 1,401\nPayments on finance leases (12) (12)\nProceeds from debt financing - 2,415\nRepayment of debt financing (375) (375)\nRepayment of demand loan - (1,825)\nFinancing charges - (2)\nInterest paid (181) (222)\n(568) (21)\nEffect of exchange rate changes on cash held in foreign currency 185 (14)\nNet (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents during the period (5,029) 643\nCash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 15,909 7,543\nCash and cash equivalents, end of period 10,880 8,186\nSOURCE: BIOX Corporation\nChris Clinning\nExecutive Vice President & CFO\nRoss Marshall\nTMX Equicom","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"View all Electronics auctions\nExtremely Rare Celebration Apple-1 Computer\nYour bid supported: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Arizona\nDonated by: A Friend of Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Arizona\nThe computer that sparked the revolution in home computing! This is the most unique, and quite possibly the first, Apple-1 ever created.\nThe \"Celebration\" Apple-1 is an original Apple-1 pre-NTI board that has many unique features, period correct power supply, original Apple-1 ACI cassette board (also populated with Robinson Nugent sockets), early Apple-1 BASIC cassettes, original marketing material, and the most complete documentation set of the known Apple-1 boards.\nThe \"Celebration\" Apple-1 is extremely rare not only because of the scarcity of Apple-1 computers, but according to Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, no known PCB boards of this type were ever sold to the public. At this time, this is the only known Apple-1 to show the signs of starting out as a blank original-run board and not part of the two known production runs, so this board appears to be unique from all other known Apple-1 boards.\nThe \"Celebration\" Apple-1 was authenticated by Apple Expert and Historian, Corey Cohen. Mr. Cohen believes The \"Celebration\" Apple-1 has the potential to be \"powered up\" with minor restoration, but has recommended against it to maintain the board's unique configuration.\nThe Apple-1 Computer is considered the origin of the personal computer revolution and was built in Steve Jobs' parents' home on Crist Drive in Los Altos, CA. 200 were hand-built by Steve Wozniak, but it is believed that less than 60 are still in existence.\nThe Apple-1 board is a not just a piece of history, but a piece of art.\n\"Celebration\" Apple-1 Items Included in Set\nApple-1 Computer, copyright dated 1976 [15.5\" X 9\"], from the first of the two runs of printed circuit boards\nApple-1 4K Byte RAM Expansion Memory (total of 8K)\nApple-1 Cassette Interface Daughter Board [4\" X 2\"]\nApple-1 BASIC Program Cassette Tape [4\" X 2.5\"]\nApple-1 Star Trek and Blackjack Program Cassette Tape [4\" X 2.5\"]\nAll original manuals and fliers including:\nOriginal Apple-1 Operation Manual with Schematics dated 3-10-76 and Warranty [8.5\" X 11\"]\nOriginal Preliminary Apple BASIC User's Manual, dated October 1976 [8.5\" X 11\"]\nOriginal Apple-1 Cassette Interface Manual [8.5\" X 5.5\"]\nOriginal two-sided promotional flier on glossy magazine style paper introducing the Apple-1 Computer, described as, \"\u2026the first low cost microcomputer system\u2026\" [8.5\" X 11\"]\nSchematics on Archival Paper (These are the same as schematics as what appear in the Apple-1 Manual, but on white non-yellowed archival paper. They have been lightly folded, but otherwise are in pristine condition):\nApple-1 Processor Section schematic on archival paper, non-yellowed [17\" X 11\"]\nApple-1 Terminal Section schematic on archival paper, non-yellowed [17\" X 11\"]\nApple-1 Cassette Interface Section schematic on archival paper, non-yellowed Original Cassette Interface [17\" X 11\"]\nSales receipt from previous owner to current owner\nNotarized condition summary report for \"Celebration\" Apple-1 board by Corey Cohen (31 page written and photo authentication documentation of the system)\nVideo record of Corey performing the authentication and evaluation of the \"Celebration\" Apple-1\nProfessional detailed images of the \"Celebration\" Apple-1\nOriginal owner thought to be an early Apple employee\nAcquired by previous owner in 1977\nAcquired by current owner on January 8, 2000 (Sales receipt included)\nAuthenticity and Uniqueness:\nThe physical PCB board is consistent with the first run of 100 original Apple-1 boards (pre-NTI). It contains the correct watermarks, finish, thickness, and flexibility. The board also has the correct patterning of solder expansion due to the wave soldering of PCBs produced in 1976. The board solder mask and PCB trace patterns are also consistent with an original Apple-1 board. Most of the discrete components are not consistent with other known Apple-1 boards, but are period correct and appear to be originally installed on this board and not replacements. At this time, this is the only known Apple-1 to show the signs of starting out as a blank original-run board and not part of the two production runs.\nAspects of the Celebration Apple-1 board give reason to believe it was an experimental board.\nSteve Wozniak has said that he used \"one or two boards\" to work out issues before boards went into production and that they hand-soldered a few components onto that board or boards, before they were wave-soldered which is what appears to have happened with the Celebration Apple-1.\nThe heatsink on this board is smaller than all the other Apple-1s. There is evidence that this board was overheating, so that may be why the heatsink was larger when it went into production.\nThe Celebration Apple-1 has the more expensive Robinson Nugent sockets, but the production runs used the less expensive sockets. Additionally, the Celebration Apple-1 has a larger crystal and a variable capacitor, rather than the fixed one used in the production run. Steve Job's is known to have wanted to keep the cost down again leading us to believe this could be a porotype used to test the configurations of the Apple-1 before they went into the production run.\nThe unique features include the apparent prototyping of variable memory timing, different on-board power supply components and better quality IC sockets.\nAll other Apple-1 BASIC Program Cassettes have a different Apple label with printed instructions. The \"Celebration\" Apple-1 BASIC Program Cassette have been created and labeled by Daniel Kottke, an early Apple employee. Mr. Kottke is well known as a travel companion for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs during the early 1970's and was Apple full-time employee #12. On the cassette Mr. Kottke wrote: \"Good Luck\" in addition to the instructions on how to load basic on the Apple-1. The last two images above show Kottke with the Apple-1 board and cassette while on view at the Vintage Computer Festival August 6 -7, 2016 in Mountain View, CA.\nThe archival paper used in schematics is typically only used by manufacturers and leads us to believe it was printed by an Apple employee.\nPlease note that to participate in this auction, additional credit card authorization will be required for all bidders. When you submit your bid, Charitybuzz will authorize the primary credit card on file for $50,000. If your card does not successfully authorize, you will not be able to participate in this auction unless you contact the Charitybuzz concierge team and arrange an alternate method of payment. Verification may take up to 2 business days. Please contact apple1@charitybuzz.com or 212-243-3900 if you have any questions.\nCharitybuzz has partnered with a third party to bring you this incredible opportunity. This package is not fully donated, but a minimum of 10% of the total funds raised is going to a good cause. Please note this item is not tax deductible.\nExcellent condition, has been securely stored for over 20 years and has not been powered on recently.\nIncluded is the notarized 36 page Condition Summary Report for the \"Celebration\" Apple-1 board by Corey Cohen. The Condition Summary Report offers more details about the \"Celebration\" Apple-1's unique features and condition and can be provided to qualified buyers. Please contact apple1@charitybuzz.com to request a copy of the Condition Summary Report.\nSubject to sales tax on winning bid amount and on the shipping charge if shipped to CA, MA, NY or OH. The percentage value of tax charged will vary based on the applicable city in CA, MA, NY or OH, as determined by your shipping address on file. According to the respective state laws, Charitybuzz will automatically use your billing address as a destination if no shipping address is specified in your account. In this case, sales tax will be charged based on the address where your credit card is registered.\nPayment must be in the form of wire transfer or certified bank check and received within 5 business days of the close of the auction.\nCannot be returned or exchanged.\nAdditional shipping charges may apply based upon the location of the winner.\nThe Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Arizona\nShipping and handling charges will be determined based upon the winning bidder's shipping address. 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{"text":"Covid, floods and fires mean Australians drove a lot less\nThe pandemic and its movement restrictions saw passenger vehicle usage drop by more than 26%. Floods and the bushfires hit road travel too.\nWhile Australians drove significantly less over the past year, people living in the Northern Territory unsurprisingly drove the furthest. Image by Flo K from Pixabay\nIs there nothing that has not been impacted by the pandemic? The distance travelled by passenger vehicles, motor cycles and buses fell markedly during the natural disasters and Covid-19 pandemic experienced across Australia in 2019\/20.\nThis is according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures released this week.\n\"During the periods of floods, bushfires and Covid, passenger vehicle usage across Australia decreased [significantly],\" said Rob Walter, Director of Physical Environment Statistical Solutions at the ABS.\nWe drove 1,500km less this year\n\"The average distance travelled by Australian passenger vehicles in 2020 was 11,100 km, down from 12,600km in 2018.\"\nIn other words, it equates to an average decrease of 1,500km, which is similar to driving from Adelaide to Sydney and then on to Newcastle.\nAlthough the distance travelled by Australia's passenger vehicles fell this year, the estimated number of vehicles registered rose markedly, from 19-million in 2018 to 19.8-million in 2020.\nBut road freight kept on growing\nFor the road freight industry, though, the good news is that despite the social and economic challenges that Australians faced this year, road freight remained strong.\n\"Road freight [grew] to more than 223-billion tonne-kilometres, with Australia's 4-million freight vehicles continuing to criss-cross our nation's highways, even when the rest of us couldn't,\" Walter noted.\nAt the state and territory level, New South Wales continues to lead the nation in road kilometres travelled by all vehicles, with over 69-billion kilometres of travel undertaken.\nThe Northern Territory, with its long distances and relatively light virus restrictions, unsurprisingly led the states and territories for average kilometres per vehicle at 12,500km.\nDriving during lockdown fell 26.1%\nFor the first time, the ABS has also publishing sub-annual data in the Survey of Annual Motor Vehicle Use, allowing a more detailed understanding of how the pandemic has affected vehicle usage.\n\"When we compare the July to October period of 2019 with the March to June period of 2020, we see an unprecedented 26.1 percent fall in the distance driven by Australians,\" said Walter.\n\"Again, the most pronounced falls were seen in passenger vehicles as opposed to freight vehicles.\"\nTags: Australian Bureau of StatisticsBlack Summer bushfiresCovid-19 in Australiadriving in AustraliaRoad travelRoads","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chances Are Your Period App Is BS\nElizabeth Narins\nThere's almost nothing worse than being surprised by your period: It's why you can't help but respect developers' noble attempts to warn women, \"IT'S COMING!\" with period-tracking apps, which can also assist in baby-making and prevention by nailing down the most fertile days of your cycle and generally help you understand what TF your body's up to on any given day.\nUnfortunately, most of these apps fall short big-time, according to a new paper by researchers from San Francisco, California, and the University of Washington. They recently surveyed 687 people, interviewed dozens, and collected data from 2,000 reviews of nine popular period-tracking apps. Although the goal was to find out just how people track their periods, the data revealed some shoddy news for those who rely on apps rather than pen and paper, digital calendars, symptoms, birth control, or memory.\nHow People Really Feel About Their Period-Tracking Apps\nOf the participants who used period-tracking apps, which comprised nearly half of the women involved in the study (the others used other methods listed above), many gave this method a thumbs-down. Although researchers didn't publish precise failure rates, a common complaint pertained to accuracy, with users alleging the apps didn't consistently nail down their menstrual cycles. After all, many users reported that their apps provided no way to input scenarios known to throw a woman's cycle off, like a particularly stressful month, changing birth-control methods, or hormonal changes surrounding pregnancy and breastfeeding \u2014 and if this kind of app can't roll with the punches, it won't do you much good.\nAfter all, the worst-case scenario isn't finding yourself in an inopportune place without a pad or tampon, which royally sucks as it is. If you're using an app to help you prevent pregnancy or increase your chance of conception, its accuracy could determine whether you become a mother \u2014 so, yeah, you want yours to work.\nOther complaints included an overuse of pink, which subtlety excludes transgender users and promotes heteronormative stereotypes, and general lack of subtlety. (While periods are nothing to be ashamed of, many of those surveyed didn't want people who look at their phones to find their period apps.)\nThe paper report, which will soon be presented at the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, concludes with suggestions for developers to improve their apps, plus an important takeaway for users: Unless your cycle is already uber-predictable, you *might* not want to trust your app to monitor your menstrual cycle \u2014 at least until the next wave of period apps hit the market.\nElizabeth Narins Senior fitness and health editor Elizabeth Narins is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer and a former senior editor at Cosmopolitan.com, where she wrote about fitness, health, and more.\nRead This Before Getting Your First Tattoo\n8 Gifts Your Workout-Obsessed Friends Need Now\nCreated for From Seventeen for Created by Seventeen for\nQuaranting's Effect on Body Image Disorders\nThe 9 Different Types of Boobs in the World\n15 Celebrities Talk About Their Anxiety\n4 Mental Health Myths That Are Seriously Dangerous\nHow to Deal With Your Coronavirus Anxiety\nYes, Social Distancing Is SO Important RN\nAfter 8 Tattoos I Had a Horrible Allergic Reaction\nNew Abortion Finder Tool Helps Women Find Care\n5 Insanely Helpful Apps for Tracking Your Period\nYour Chance To Meet Ariana!\nPeriod Sex\nYour Chance To Meet Nina Dobrev!\nYour Chance To Be In Seventeen!\nWant to Be a Filmmaker? Here's Your Chance!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Published July 4\nTrump doubles down on citizenship question for 2020 census, reportedly mulls executive order\nBy Adam Shaw | Fox News\nPresident Trump still fighting for census citizenship question\nTrump dismisses reports that efforts to include a U.S. citizenship question in the 2020 census have been abandoned; Kevin Corke reports from the White House.\nPresident Trump on Thursday doubled down on his push for a citizenship question on the 2020 census, promising that his administration is \"working very hard\" on the controversial issue -- as reports say he is mulling using an executive order to get the question on the census.\n\"So important for our Country that the very simple and basic 'Are you a Citizen of the United States?' question be allowed to be asked in the 2020 Census,\" he tweeted.\nTRUMP DECLARES PUSH FOR CENSUS CITIZENSHIP QUESTION NOT OVER, CALLS REPORTS 'FAKE'\nHe added that the Commerce and Justice Departments are \"working very hard on this, even on the 4th of July!\"\nEarlier this week, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that his department was going ahead with the printing of the census without the citizenship question, apparently indicating that the administration had dropped the controversial issue. That decision came after a Supreme Court ruling last week that blocked the citizenship question for the time being until more reasoning from the administration was provided.\n\"The Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question,\" Ross said in a statement. \"My focus and that of the bureau and the entire department is to conduct a complete and accurate census.\"\nThe Commerce Department had claimed that the question would help the administration enforce the Voting Rights Act. Opponents of the question fear that by asking people about their citizenship status, immigrants may not want to respond and be counted in the census. This would result in official population numbers that are lower than they truly are, which in turn could yield less federal funding and fewer congressional seats in districts with high immigrant populations. Those districts tend to favor Democrats.\nRoss' announcement appeared to mark a significant climbdown for the administration. But Trump on Wednesday said that reports that Commerce had dropped the \"quest\" to put the question on the census were \"fake!\"\n\"We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question,\" he tweeted.\nIN REVERSAL, DOJ SAYS IT IS STILL TRYING TO ADD CITIZENSHIP QUESTION TO CENSUS; JUDGE SETS FRIDAY DEADLINE\nLater Wednesday, a high-ranking Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge that the administration had not abandoned efforts to put the question on the census, saying that there may yet be a \"legally available path\" open to the administration.\nOn Thursday, multiple outlets reported that Trump is considering using an executive order to move forward with the push. The Washington Post reported that Trump had told lawyers to fix the situation with an executive order and add it to the census later.\n\"The administration is considering the appropriateness of an executive order that would address the constitutional need for the citizenship question to be included in the 2020 census,\" a source told Axios.\nSuch a move would likely face significant legal pushback, and could also fail in the Supreme Court. But one official told Axios that it may allow the administration to shift the blame for the ultimate failure of the push on Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.\n\"I think that there's a good argument to be made that even though the president may lose in litigation at the end of the day, going through that process ultimately makes it clear that it's the chief justice, and not the Executive Branch, that bears responsibility for that unfortunate outcome,\" the source with knowledge of discussions told the outlet.\nFox News' Ronn Blitzer and Gregg Re contributed to this report.\nAdam Shaw is a reporter covering U.S. and European politics for Fox News.. He can be reached here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Base erosion and profit shifting\nBase erosion and profit shifting (BEPS): explained in 2023\nWhat is base erosion?\nBase erosion is the use of financial measures and tax planning to reduce the size of a company's taxable profits in a country. It is often achieved by structuring income to have more favourable tax treatment or by finding ways to write off certain expenditure against taxable income. This has the effect of reducing a company's tax bill below what it would otherwise be expected to pay.\nWhat is profit shifting?\nProfit shifting involves making payments to other group companies in order to move profits from high-tax jurisdictions to low-tax regimes. This serves to increase the overall profits available to group shareholders. Often, these intra-group payments (known as \"transfer pricing\") take the form of royalties and interest payments, as these expenses can be deducted from pre-tax profits. Another advantage of these payment types is that some jurisdictions have lower tax rates on these kinds of income; Luxembourg, for example, has a very favourable regime on royalty income.\nWho uses these techniques?\nMultinational groups of companies are best placed to take advantage of these tax avoidance tactics due to the following factors:\nTheir international operations provide a ready-made network of companies through which group funds can flow;\nThey have the capital to set up and maintain entities used for tax-reduction purposes; and\nTheir income tends to be large enough to support the costs of i) taking advice on tax structuring ii) putting in place and maintaining the recommended tax structure and iii) updating the structure with countries' annual changes in tax law.\nWhat techniques are used in base erosion and profit shifting?\nTrademark and technology licensing\/transfer pricing: Managing the group's trademark, designs and patents through an entity that applies a lower tax rate to intellectual property, then charging group companies royalties on the use of the brand. As royalties are often affected by withholding taxes, it is important to prioritise the IP holding company's tax treaty relationship with the countries where the other group companies are. Coupled with its 80% reduction on the normal tax rate for IP royalties, this is why Luxembourg is so popular as an IP holding company in Europe;\nThin capitalization: By setting up subsidiaries with minimal share capital, groups can use a financing arm to fund the new company's operations with debt. This large debt load attracts interest, which has different treatment in some jurisdictions and can therefore reduce the group's overall tax bill if structured correctly. One aggressive scheme revealed in 2014 involved the use of a Swiss branch of a Luxembourg finance company to lower tax on such interest payments;\nHybrid mismatch arrangements: Different tax rules between countries can sometimes give rise to unintended effects like \"double non-taxation\", which can be exploited by businesses to reduce their tax burden. This primarily applies to national treatment of certain instruments in such a way that they are treated in the paying country as tax-deductible debt, but seen in the receiving country as a tax-exempt dividend;\nPutting assets into entities without substance: Some countries introduce preferential tax regimes as a way to compete for business. However, this is only useful if businesses with substance begin to locate themselves in the country; otherwise, this form of tax competition simply erodes the tax base of the country where the activity takes place. Current rules often allow for business owners to set up paper companies that take advantage of preferential regimes such as patent boxes or Luxembourg's 80% IP holding tax deduction.\nWhat factors are affecting countries' ability to determine the right amount of taxable income for these companies?\nThe digital economy means that services can be delivered from anywhere, while generating value and making sales everywhere. The EU has handled one part of this with new rules for VAT on digital services, and this the OECD lists similar action as a deliverable for the end of 2015;\nSince tax is levied domestically, it is difficult to determine what should be taxed where, and in what manner, without some form of international cooperation. The OECD's BEPS policies are being designed to create a framework that allows this to happen.\nWhat is being done to address base erosion and profit shifting?\nAs BEPS revolves around arbitrage between domestic taxation rules, the key is to tackling its negative effects is to improve international transparency and cooperation on tax matters. The OECD is coordinating this work and has proposed the following actions:\nAddressing the challenges of the digital economy \u2013 A plan to \"neutralise the effects of hybrid mismatch arrangements and arbitrage\", introducing coherence into national tax systems while allowing nations to retain sovereignty over their domestic tax policies;\nNeutralising the effects of hybrid mismatch arrangements \u2013 Preventing tax exemption on payments that were tax deductible for the payer;\nStrengthening controlled foreign company (CFC) rules \u2013 These rules impose tax liability on parent companies for their subsidiaries' profits. The OECD is going to develop its own recommendations on implementing these rules. According to the OECD, CFC rules \"have positive spillover effects in source countries because taxpayers have no (or much less of an) incentive to shift profits into a third, low-tax jurisdiction)\";\nLimiting base erosion via interest deductions and other financial payments \u2013 Preferential tax regimes are under review, as they drive a race to the bottom and BEPS tactics to reduce taxable income. A core aim of this is to reduce interest deducted for payments to related financing vehicles and this work will be coordinated with Action 3's work on CFC rules;\nCountering harmful tax practices more effectively, taking into account transparency and substance \u2013 Exchange of information on rulings relating to preferential regimes will be made compulsory, adapting current rules to work better in situations involving more than two countries.\nThis is necessary to take into account the complexity of the global value chain, while currently tax arrangements are only bilateral. The core of this is to more closely align apportionment of income with the economic activity that generates it, part of which will be cutting down on treaty abuse (a key source of BEPS concerns);\nPreventing treaty abuse \u2013 Tax treaties will be updated to clarify that they are not intended to be use for double non-taxation. They are intended to prevent double taxation, which hurts businesses, but these same businesses exploit the other side of the coin, taking double exemptions where possible;\nPreventing the artificial avoidance of permanent establishment status \u2013 This item will redefine permanent establishments to prevent undue avoidance of local taxes. Transfer pricing and arms-length principles are related to this item to reduce shifting of income into low-tax systems;\nTransfer pricing of intangibles \u2013 Reducing the tax benefits of transferring intangibles within the same group. The OECD will define a broad but clear definition of intangibles, create well-defined valuation rules to apply to transfers of intangibles, find ways to price transfers of hard-to-value intangibles, and examine cost contribution arrangements;\nTransfer pricing of risks and capital \u2013 Preventing inappropriately large returns being enjoyed by a group entity simply for providing capital or assuming contractual risks. New rules will align value creation with returns under new rules;\nTransfer pricing of other high-risk transactions \u2013 Intra-group transactions that would not ordinarily take place between third parties suggest that they may not be arms-length transactions. Rules will be developed to clarify the application of transfer pricing methods like profit splits in the face of global value chains, as well as to protect against management fees, head office expenses and other common base eroding payments;\nEstablishing methodologies to collect and analyse data on BEPS and the actions to address it \u2013 Data collection, data analysis and the selection of the appropriate metrics will be key to evaluate the scope of BEPS and the efficacy of countermeasures. Disclosure initiatives and co-operative compliance between taxpayers and tax authorities will increase transparency to drive this forward;\nRequiring taxpayers to disclose their aggressive tax planning arrangements \u2013 Introducing mandatory disclosure of international tax planning schemes that may fall under the scope of BEPS. This would increase consistency between regimes but be flexible enough to account for country-specific needs and risks. Enforcement bodies can take a \"big picture\" view and minimise the use of aggressive avoidance schemes by opening up visibility of a taxpayer's global value chain;\nRe-examining transfer pricing documentation \u2013 Requiring multi-nationals to provide information of their transfer pricing arrangements to all relevant governments in a common template. The common template will help to ensure certainty and predictability for business, so that new rules do not introduce an undue additional reporting burden;\nMaking dispute resolution systems more effective \u2013 Updating tax treaty dispute resolution mechanisms to use arbitration so that disputes can be resolved more efficiently and effectively;\nDeveloping a multilateral instrument \u2013 OECD proposes to introduce a multilateral treaty that would amend consenting countries' bilateral tax arrangements in line with the OECD's recommendations.\nFor more detail on the plans to address base erosion and profit shifting, read the OECD's full BEPS action plan.\nFor additional information on our profitability improvement services, please contact our in-house country expert, Mr. Simon Guidecoq, directly:\nMr. Simon Guidecoq\nCEO Asia Pacific","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"THE SECRETS OF ISIS: THE COMPLETE SERIES\nOh Mighty Isis! Television's First Saturday Morning Live-Action Super-Heroine Is Back!\nTHE SECRETS OF ISIS\nTHE COMPLETE SERIES DVD SET\nReleased by BCI Eclipse \/ Ink & Paint\nIn Stores July 24, 2007.\nClick here to purchase The Secrets Of Isis on Amazon\nTHE SECRETS OF ISIS includes special features produced by Andy Mangels including TWO HOURS of interviews, plus commentary track, photo galleries. and much more!\n\"Oh Zephyr Winds Which Blow On High, Lift Me Now So I Can Fly!\"\nNAVARRE CORPORATION'S BCI ANNOUNCES THE SERIES THAT COMMANDS THE ELEMENTS OF EARTH AND SKY\nSoaring Onto DVD For The First Time Ever\nLos Angeles, CA \u2013 On July 24th, BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company, and media company and underlying rights owner, Entertainment Rights Plc (\"ER\"), will release on DVD the fan-favorite program that combined Egyptian mythology with super-heroic action: \"The Secrets Of Isis\". The complete series \u2013 22 episodes in all \u2013 will be available on a three-DVD set for the suggested retail price of $29.98. The announcement was made today by Marvin Gleicher, Sr. V.P. Acquisitions and Marketing, BCI.\n\"We are excited to present the DVD release of one of the defining programs of Saturday morning television: The Secrets of Isis.\" Gleicher said. \"She was the type of super-heroine that inspired kids \u2013 and now as adults, they will have the chance to revisit that magic.\"\nA spin-off of the popular 'Shazam!' series (starring Captain Marvel), \"The Secrets of Isis\" became one of the most popular shows in the all-important block of Saturday morning programming. As a character, Isis herself was revolutionary: she was the first live-action female super-heroine on Saturday mornings.\nWhen science teacher Andrea Thomas (JoAnna Cameron) discovers an amulet on an archaeological dig, she discovers something else: that the amulet can grant her the powers once wielded by the mighty Egyptian Goddess, Isis. Soaring as the falcon soars, running with the speed of gazelles, the transformed Andrea fights crime and rights wrongs in addition to imparting the wisdom of the ages. Her closest friends, fellow teacher Rick Mason (Brian Cutler) and students Cindy Lee (Joanna Pang) and Renee Carrol (Ronalda Douglas) are unaware of her secret identity and mystical powers\u2026 the only one who knows the truth is her pet crow, Tut!\nBefore Wonder Woman, before The Bionic Woman, before Xena, there was the beautiful Isis, the descendant from an ancient Queen whose powers were reborn after thousands of years. In \"The Secrets of Isis \u2013 The Complete Series\" a teacher will uncover these mighty powers, and use them to battle the evil of a modern world. This exciting DVD set will inspire old as well as new viewers to chant television's favorite mantra: 'Oh Mighty Isis!'\n\"The Secrets of Isis \u2013 The Complete Series\" is richly endowed with special features:\n* Spotlight Interviews (two hours) with cast members and crew from \"The Secrets of Isis\": Producers Lou Scheimer and Richard M. Rosenbloom, stars Brian Cutler, Joanna Pang and Ronalda Douglas, writers David Dworski, Michael Reaves and David Wise, designer Bob Kline and Assistant Director Henry J. Lange Jr.\n* Audio Commentary Track for \"Dreams of Flight\" with Richard M. Rosenbloom, David Dworski and Henry J. Lange, Jr. Hosted by Andy Mangels\n* Rare Footage: Morals, Commercial Bumpers and Alternate Credits\n* Isolated Music And Effects Track for some episodes\n* Three Extensive Photo Galleries from \"The Secrets of Isis\": Promotional Photos, Behind the Scenes Photos, Memorabilia Photos\n* Bluewater Production's 22 page New \"Legend of Isis\" Comic Book\n* Bonus episode of Freedom Force starring Isis: \"The Plant Soldiers\"\n* DVD ROM \u2013 22 Scripts and more (PC\/MAC compatible)\n* Booklet with Episode Guide and Trivia\n* English and Spanish Language Audio Tacks\n* Ink & Paint Trailers\nProducing the special features, spotlight interviews and all of the extra content is entertainment writer Andy Mangels, a best-selling novelist, and expert contributor to the encyclopedic The Superhero Book.\nThis release will be supported with a print campaign and internet exposure including viral video and targeted advertising, including special distribution at Comic-Con 2007.\nClick Here to Go to the MAIN BCI DVD Page!\nAnd scroll down this page for more fun!\nOTHER FILMATION & HEARST DVDs\nHAVE THEIR OWN PAGES\nAll featuring excellent Special Features produced by Andy Mangels, including documentaries, commentary tracks, and much more!\nTHE BEST OF HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE:\nTOP 10 COLLECTOR'S EDITION DVD SET\n2005 TV DVD AWARDS \u2014 Best 1980s Release\nBUY Best of He-Man 1 PSP on Amazon\nHE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE:\nSEASON ONE, VOLUME ONE DVD SET\nHE-MAN & SHE-RA: A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL\nBUY the UK\/BRITISH version on Amazon UK\nSEASON ONE, VOLUME TWO DVD SET\nSEASON TWO, VOLUME ONE DVD SET\nReleased June 6, 2006\nTHE LEGEND OF PRINCE VALIANT : THE COMPLETE SERIES, VOLUME 1 DVD SET\nReleased July 4, 2006\nTHE BEST OF SHE-RA: PRINCESS OF POWER: & \"SECRET OF THE SWORD\"\nDVD SET\nFLASH GORDON : THE COMPLETE SERIES\nSPACE SENTINELS & FREEDOM FORCE : THE COMPLETE SERIES DVD SET\nBLACKSTARR: THE COMPLETE SERIES\nSEASON TWO, VOLUME TWO DVD SET\nDEFENDERS OF THE EARTH : VOLUME ONE DVD SET\nGROOVIE GOOLIES : SATURDAY \"MOURNING\" COLLECTION DVD SET\nSHE-RA: PRINCESS OF POWER :\nNEW ADVENTURES OF HE-MAN :\nVOLUME TWO DVD SET\nReleased March 27, 2007\nDEFENDERS OF THE EARTH : VOLUME TWO DVD SET\nTHE GHOST BUSTERS - LIVE ACTION :\nJASON OF STAR COMMAND :\nMISSION: MAGIC! :\nHERO HIGH :\nHAPPILY EVER AFTER: SNOW WHITE'S GREATEST ADVENTURE (feature film) COLLECTOR'S DVD\nGHOSTBUSTERS :\nTHE ANIMATED SERIES V2 DVD SET\nTHE BEST OF BRAVESTARR & BRAVESTARR THE LEGEND DVD SET\nTHE SECRETS OF ISIS :\nClick on images below for larger versions\nSend Email to Andy Mangels","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up\nSanjeev Sethi, Fernando C. Fervenza, Yuzhou Zhang, Ladan Zand, Julie A. Vrana, Samih H. Nasr, Jason D. Theis, Ahmet Dogan, Richard J.H. Smith\nLaboratory Medicine and Pathology\nNephrology and Hypertension\nC3 glomerulonephritis (C3GN) is a recently described disorder that typically results from abnormalities in the alternative pathway (AP) of complement. Here, we describe the clinical features, kidney biopsy findings, AP abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, and follow-up in 12 cases of C3GN. This disorder equally affected all ages, both genders, and typically presented with hematuria and proteinuria. In both the short and long term, renal function remained stable in the majority of patients with native kidney disease. In two patients, C3GN recurred within 1 year of transplantation and resulted in a decline in allograft function. Kidney biopsy mainly showed a membranoproliferative pattern, although both mesangial proliferative and diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis were noted. AP abnormalities were heterogeneous, both acquired and genetic. The most common acquired abnormality was the presence of C3 nephritic factors, while the most common genetic finding was the presence of H402 and V62 alleles of Factor H. In addition to these risk factors, other abnormalities included Factor H autoantibodies and mutations in CFH, CFI, and CFHR genes. Laser dissection and mass spectrometry of glomeruli from patients with C3GN showed accumulation of AP and terminal complement complex proteins. Thus, C3GN results from diverse abnormalities of the alternative complement pathway leading to subsequent glomerular injury.\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/ki.2012.212\nC3 glomerulonephritis\nC3 glomerulopathy\nC3GN\nMPGN\nalternative pathway of complement\n10.1038\/ki.2012.212\nFingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nGlomerulonephritis Medicine & Life Sciences\nProteomics Medicine & Life Sciences\nAlternative Complement Pathway Medicine & Life Sciences\nComplement Factor H Medicine & Life Sciences\nComplement C3 Nephritic Factor Medicine & Life Sciences\nKidney Medicine & Life Sciences\nchemotactic factor inactivator Medicine & Life Sciences\nComplement Membrane Attack Complex Medicine & Life Sciences\nSethi, S., Fervenza, F. C., Zhang, Y., Zand, L., Vrana, J. A., Nasr, S. H., Theis, J. D., Dogan, A., & Smith, R. J. H. (2012). C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up. Kidney international, 82(4), 465-473. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/ki.2012.212\nC3 glomerulonephritis : Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up. \/ Sethi, Sanjeev; Fervenza, Fernando C.; Zhang, Yuzhou; Zand, Ladan; Vrana, Julie A.; Nasr, Samih H.; Theis, Jason D.; Dogan, Ahmet; Smith, Richard J.H.\nIn: Kidney international, Vol. 82, No. 4, 02.08.2012, p. 465-473.\nSethi, S, Fervenza, FC, Zhang, Y, Zand, L, Vrana, JA, Nasr, SH, Theis, JD, Dogan, A & Smith, RJH 2012, 'C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up', Kidney international, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 465-473. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/ki.2012.212\nSethi S, Fervenza FC, Zhang Y, Zand L, Vrana JA, Nasr SH et al. C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up. Kidney international. 2012 Aug 2;82(4):465-473. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/ki.2012.212\nSethi, Sanjeev ; Fervenza, Fernando C. ; Zhang, Yuzhou ; Zand, Ladan ; Vrana, Julie A. ; Nasr, Samih H. ; Theis, Jason D. ; Dogan, Ahmet ; Smith, Richard J.H. \/ C3 glomerulonephritis : Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up. In: Kidney international. 2012 ; Vol. 82, No. 4. pp. 465-473.\n@article{ec6ca5d765914e5f9c1b82787b8e76ef,\ntitle = \"C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up\",\nabstract = \"C3 glomerulonephritis (C3GN) is a recently described disorder that typically results from abnormalities in the alternative pathway (AP) of complement. Here, we describe the clinical features, kidney biopsy findings, AP abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, and follow-up in 12 cases of C3GN. This disorder equally affected all ages, both genders, and typically presented with hematuria and proteinuria. In both the short and long term, renal function remained stable in the majority of patients with native kidney disease. In two patients, C3GN recurred within 1 year of transplantation and resulted in a decline in allograft function. Kidney biopsy mainly showed a membranoproliferative pattern, although both mesangial proliferative and diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis were noted. AP abnormalities were heterogeneous, both acquired and genetic. The most common acquired abnormality was the presence of C3 nephritic factors, while the most common genetic finding was the presence of H402 and V62 alleles of Factor H. In addition to these risk factors, other abnormalities included Factor H autoantibodies and mutations in CFH, CFI, and CFHR genes. Laser dissection and mass spectrometry of glomeruli from patients with C3GN showed accumulation of AP and terminal complement complex proteins. Thus, C3GN results from diverse abnormalities of the alternative complement pathway leading to subsequent glomerular injury.\",\nkeywords = \"C3 glomerulonephritis, C3 glomerulopathy, C3GN, MPGN, alternative pathway of complement, proteomics\",\nauthor = \"Sanjeev Sethi and Fervenza, {Fernando C.} and Yuzhou Zhang and Ladan Zand and Vrana, {Julie A.} and Nasr, {Samih H.} and Theis, {Jason D.} and Ahmet Dogan and Smith, {Richard J.H.}\",\nnote = \"Funding Information: This research was supported in part by NIH grant DK074409 to SS and RJHS, and Fulk Family Foundation award (Mayo Clinic) to SS.\",\ndoi = \"10.1038\/ki.2012.212\",\njournal = \"Kidney International\",\nT1 - C3 glomerulonephritis\nT2 - Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up\nAU - Sethi, Sanjeev\nAU - Fervenza, Fernando C.\nAU - Zhang, Yuzhou\nAU - Zand, Ladan\nAU - Vrana, Julie A.\nAU - Nasr, Samih H.\nAU - Theis, Jason D.\nAU - Dogan, Ahmet\nAU - Smith, Richard J.H.\nN1 - Funding Information: This research was supported in part by NIH grant DK074409 to SS and RJHS, and Fulk Family Foundation award (Mayo Clinic) to SS.\nN2 - C3 glomerulonephritis (C3GN) is a recently described disorder that typically results from abnormalities in the alternative pathway (AP) of complement. Here, we describe the clinical features, kidney biopsy findings, AP abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, and follow-up in 12 cases of C3GN. This disorder equally affected all ages, both genders, and typically presented with hematuria and proteinuria. In both the short and long term, renal function remained stable in the majority of patients with native kidney disease. In two patients, C3GN recurred within 1 year of transplantation and resulted in a decline in allograft function. Kidney biopsy mainly showed a membranoproliferative pattern, although both mesangial proliferative and diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis were noted. AP abnormalities were heterogeneous, both acquired and genetic. The most common acquired abnormality was the presence of C3 nephritic factors, while the most common genetic finding was the presence of H402 and V62 alleles of Factor H. In addition to these risk factors, other abnormalities included Factor H autoantibodies and mutations in CFH, CFI, and CFHR genes. Laser dissection and mass spectrometry of glomeruli from patients with C3GN showed accumulation of AP and terminal complement complex proteins. Thus, C3GN results from diverse abnormalities of the alternative complement pathway leading to subsequent glomerular injury.\nAB - C3 glomerulonephritis (C3GN) is a recently described disorder that typically results from abnormalities in the alternative pathway (AP) of complement. Here, we describe the clinical features, kidney biopsy findings, AP abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, and follow-up in 12 cases of C3GN. This disorder equally affected all ages, both genders, and typically presented with hematuria and proteinuria. In both the short and long term, renal function remained stable in the majority of patients with native kidney disease. In two patients, C3GN recurred within 1 year of transplantation and resulted in a decline in allograft function. Kidney biopsy mainly showed a membranoproliferative pattern, although both mesangial proliferative and diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis were noted. AP abnormalities were heterogeneous, both acquired and genetic. The most common acquired abnormality was the presence of C3 nephritic factors, while the most common genetic finding was the presence of H402 and V62 alleles of Factor H. In addition to these risk factors, other abnormalities included Factor H autoantibodies and mutations in CFH, CFI, and CFHR genes. Laser dissection and mass spectrometry of glomeruli from patients with C3GN showed accumulation of AP and terminal complement complex proteins. Thus, C3GN results from diverse abnormalities of the alternative complement pathway leading to subsequent glomerular injury.\nKW - C3 glomerulonephritis\nKW - C3 glomerulopathy\nKW - C3GN\nKW - MPGN\nKW - alternative pathway of complement\nU2 - 10.1038\/ki.2012.212\nDO - 10.1038\/ki.2012.212\nJO - Kidney International\nJF - Kidney International","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Veterans Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots \u2014 A Biography\nMurdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots \u2014 A Biography\nBy Christopher Bollyn \u2013 American Free Press\nChristopher Bollyn is an investigative journalist who has written extensively on the events of September 11, 2001 in the Washington-based American Free Press. He has researched different aspects of the 9\/11 attacks and uncovered facts and evidence that challenge the official version of events. tried to smear Bollyn as an \"anti-Semite\" in order to discredit him and diminish the significance of his work. At the helm of both organizations, the ADL and Fox News, is an Australian-born Zionist named Keith Rupert Murdoch.\nMurdoch's Jewish Roots\nMurdoch \"became an American citizen for business reasons,\" according to Richard H. Curtiss, editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Keith Rupert was born in Melbourne, Australia, on March 11, 1931. \"Rupert's father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a newspaper publisher, and his mother an Orthodox Jew,\" Curtiss wrote, \"although Murdoch never offers that information in his biographies.\"\nMurdoch's father married Elisabeth Joy Greene, daughter of Rupert Greene in 1928. They had one son, Keith Rupert and three daughters. Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his Jewish maternal grandfather.\nThe young Keith Rupert was educated at Australia's fashionable Geelong private school, and went on to the elitist and aristocratic Oxford University in England, according to Candour (UK) magazine.\n\"Rupert's father Sir Keith Murdoch attained his prominent position in Australian society through a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, n\u00e9e Elisabeth Joy Greene. Through his wife's connections, Keith Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked. There was enough money to buy himself a knighthood of the British realm, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town,\" Candour wrote in 1984. \"For some reason, Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother brought him up as a Jew.\"\nWhile Murdoch may have \"tried to hide\" his Jewish roots, he has been quite forthright about his support for extreme right-wing Zionists, such as Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon.\nNetanyahu, who wrote a book entitled The War on Terror: How the West Can Win in 1986, is a frequent commentator on Murdoch's Fox News.\nMurdoch's support for Zionism extremists is well known and a matter of record. As New York Governor George Pataki said, \"There is no newspaper in the U.S. more supportive of Israel than the [Murdoch's] New York Post.\"\nIt is through a network of Zionist organizations, in which Murdoch plays a central role, that Murdoch is connected to the individuals who arranged the privatization \u2013 and obtained control of the World Trade Center \u2013 shortly before its destruction.\nThese key individuals are: Larry Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Frank Lowy, the lease holders of dubious repute who gained control of the WTC property six weeks before 9\/11, and Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg, who authorized the transfer of the leases.\nMurdoch belongs to, and has been honored by, a number of leading Zionist organizations in which Silverstein, Lowy, and Eisenberg all hold senior positions. These organizations include the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), and the New York-based Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.\nFifty days before 9\/11, Silverstein Properties and Lowy's Westfield America secured 99-year leases on the WTC. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey turned control of the World Trade Center over to the private hands of Silverstein and Lowy on July 24, 2001.\nSilverstein and Lowy then took control of the 10.6 million-square-foot complex, which included the twin towers office buildings and two nine-story office buildings. Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Lowy then controlled all access to the World Trade Center.\nLowy leased the shopping concourse called the Mall at the World Trade Center, which comprised about 427,000 square feet of retail space.\n\"Six weeks before the WTC towers were destroyed, the Port Authority completed the process of leasing them for 99 years to Larry Silverstein, the developer who had built 7 World Trade Center [which mysteriously self-demolished at 5:25 p.m. on 9\/11].\n\"Simultaneously, the retail space underneath the complex was leased to Westfield America, the US division of an Australian company that is one of the world's largest operators of shopping malls.\" Paul Goldberger wrote in New Yorker, May 20, 2002.\n\"Silverstein and Westfield were given the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed, and Westfield has the right to expand the retail space by 30 percent,\" Goldberger wrote.\nSilverstein is suing for some $7.2 billion in insurance money for the loss of the destroyed World Trade Center \u2013 and his expected earnings \u2013 for property he had leased with a down payment of $100 million \u2013 of borrowed funds.\nMurdoch the Zionist\n\"Murdoch is a close friend of Ariel Sharon,\" Sam Kiley, The Times (UK) veteran journalist on the Middle East wrote about the man who took over the once famous British paper. Kiley said Murdoch's friendship with the Israeli prime minister had caused senior staff at the paper to rewrite important copy.\n\"Murdoch's executives were so afraid of irritating him that, when I pulled off a little scoop of tracking down and photographing the unit in the Israeli army which killed Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old boy whose death was captured on film and became the iconic image of the conflict, I was asked to file the piece 'without mentioning the dead kid.'\" Kiley wrote. \"After that conversation, I was left wordless, so I quit.\"\nSharon and Murdoch are old friends. On Oct. 15, 1982, a month after the massacres of thousands of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps of Beirut, war crimes which occurred under Sharon's direct command, the Israeli defense minister held meetings with Rupert Murdoch and others, reportedly in order to advance his \"West Bank real estate grab.\"\nThe visit with Sharon included a trip for Murdoch and his editors from New York and London that \"took them on a bird's-eye tour of Israel aboard a helicopter gunship, flying over the Golan Heights, West Bank and settlements.\"\n\"I have always believed in the future of Israel and the goals of the international Jewish community,\" Murdoch said at a spring fund-raiser for the Museum of Jewish Heritage \u2013 A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on April 29, 2001.\nFrom the beginning, News Corp., his global media company, \"has been supportive of the Jewish national cause,\" Murdoch said.\nLarry Silverstein, who had not yet acquired the lease on the World Trade Center, attended the fund-raiser with Murdoch and reportedly said about museum chairman Robert Morgenthau's plans to expand the museum: \"I'll support you\u2026as long as you keep it under 110 stories.\"\nMurdoch and the ADL\n\"Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman are on the [ADL] dinner committee,\" according to a recent New York Times report on the ADL's recent fund-raiser in which the controversial Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi received the ADL's Distinguished Statesman Award.\nSilverstein and Eisenberg have both held senior leadership positions with the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), a billion dollar Zionist \"charity\" organization, to which Murdoch and Lowy generously contribute. In 1997, Henry Kissinger presented Murdoch with the UJA's award for \"Humanitarian of the Year.\"\nSilverstein is a former chairman of UJA. This organization raises hundreds of millions of dollars every year for a network of Zionist agencies in the United States and Israel. Eisenberg, who was instrumental in obtaining the lease for Silverstein, is on the Planning Board of UJA.\nEisenberg in his role with the Port Authority was the key person who negotiated the 99-year leases for Silverstein and Frank Lowy's Westfield America, who were in fact the low-bidders for the lease on the 110-story towers and the retail mall.\nMurdoch and the Czechoslovakian-born Israeli commando Frank Lowy, a former fighter in Israel's Golani Brigade, who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, have had a long friendship, which Murdoch recounted during an American Australian Association fund-raising dinner in honor of Frank's son, Peter S. Lowy, in New York on November 20, 2002. Larry Silverstein and his wife also attended the American Australian event.\nSome reporters refer to the American Australian Association, whose membership includes James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, who raised cash for Rupert Murdoch when he first expanded into the United States, as \"the kangaroo mafia.\"\n\"Frank was a brave and determined fighter,\" Rafi Kocer, Lowy's former commander, said. Lowy has donated some $350,000 to build a memorial museum in Israel for his former brigade.\nToday, Lowy and his three sons control Westfield Corporation, one of the largest operators of shopping centers in the United States \u2013 and the world.\nInsured Against Terrorist Attacks\nOn September 12, 2001, The Jerusalem Post reported: \"Frank Lowy, who emigrated to Australia from Israel in 1952, owns the 99-year lease for the 425,000 square foot retail portion of the destroyed World Trade Center\u2026Westfield said today that it has insurance cover against terrorist attacks and its earnings will not be materially affected.\"\nLowy, is described by the Sydney Morning Herald as \"a self-made man with a strong interest in the Holocaust and Israeli politics.\"\nThis is a general posting account for VT\nhttps:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\nPrevious articleIsraeli Press Mum on Murdoch\nNext articleA Murdoch Note by Gordon Duff \u2013 \"The Video\"\nVT Los Angeles: Rosebrock's Tent City a Protest Against VA Indifference (videos)\nMortgage Options for Older Veterans\nGrants for Veteran Students","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Residents of Northumberland parish set to head for the polls\nConstruction due to start on major \u00a34.5m retail scheme in Blyth\nPolice appeal for witnesses after assault in Wallsend pub\nOfficers investigating an assault in Wallsend are appealing to the public for information.\nBy David Sedgwick\nPolice are appealing for information after an assault in a Wallsend pub.\nA 42-year-old man was reportedly assaulted by two other males at The Duke of York pub in Wallsend shortly after 10.30pm on October 23, 2021.\nThe males are believed to have punched him in the face and the upper body several times resulting in the victim sustaining a detached retina which required surgery.\nAn investigation was launched and officers have already reviewed CCTV and spoke to a number of witnesses but have now appealed to the public to help identify two males.\nThey were in the area at the time and may have information that could assist with the investigation.\nThe two males or anyone who recognises them are encouraged to contact police via the 'Tell Us Something' page on its website or by calling 101 and quoting reference NP-20211111-0830.\nAlternatively, you can call the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.\nThe Hairy Bikers rave about 'the best fish and chips ever' on visit to Northumberland\nSafety concerns raised at idea of extra parking near Northumberland beauty spot\nDelight as controversial plans to merge two Northumberland schools are scrapped\nNorthumberland strongman enjoys world championship success","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Here! Now! In the moment! Paddling in the middle of a fast moving stream of news and information. Here & Now is a daily news magazine, bringing you the news that breaks after \"Morning Edition\" and before \"All Things Considered.\"\nThe future of Guantanamo\nGuests: Marine Major General Michael Lehnert and Carol Rosenberg\n12 years have passed since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base on Cuba. Since then, 779 people have been held at the base's notorious detention camp. Today, 158 inmates still remain imprisoned there. But in December, a Congressional deal made it easier for Guantanamo's prisoners to be transferred to their home nations. MARINE MAJOR GENERAL MICHAEL LEHNERT was in charge of establishing the detention facility back in 2002. Now retired, he says Guantanamo should never have been opened. CAROL ROSENBERG is Military Affairs Correspondent at the Miami Herald. Carol has covered Guantanamo since the first detainee arrived, and is just back from reporting there.\nTrump's first (almost) 100 days\nGuests: James Peterson, Joe Watkins, Charlie Gerow The first 100 days metric that the media uses to scrutinize a ...\nAir Date: April 26, 2017\nListen 00:49:30\nThe FBI is investigating Trump-Russia ties\nGuests: Robert Baer, John Dean FBI Director James Comey announced at a House hearing on Monday that they are inve ...\nNorth Korea's provocations; the Russia\/Trump investigations\nGuests: Philip Yun, Karoun Demirjian North Korea fired four ballistic missiles on Monday. Three fell into the sea ...\nAir Date: March 7, 2017\nPa. judge grants Chester city receiver permission to strip elected city officials of administrative powers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LiveTipsPortal\nBetting strategies\nSystembet calculator\nSelect your timezone\nCurrently loading\u2026 Currently loading\u2026\nsportsbetting tips\nas roma vs juventus turin serie a\n(4.) 5.\nD. Perotti (68')\n-- : -- : -- : --\nDD HH MM SS\nmatch about to start\n1. (2.)\nM. Demiral (3')\nCristiano Ronaldo (10')\nOlimpico (Rom, Italy)\nItaly \u2212 Serie A \u2212 2019\/2020 \u2212 Matchday 19\nbetting tip & odds comparison 12\/01\/20 AS Roma - Juventus Turin\nBetting Tip for matchday 19 of the 2019\/2020 Serie A between AS Roma and Juventus FC. The game will be played at Olimpico (Rom, Italy) on the 12.01.2020 at 20:45.\nThe current Serie A season is one of the toughest in recent seasons, with teams fighting across the table for different reasons: top spots, Champions League places, Europa League places and avoiding relegation. Two teams chasing different ambitions clash at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday the 12th of January; Juventus will be looking to displace Inter and get to the summit of the Serie A table, while Roma's place in the Champions League's fourth spot is under threat from Atalanta.\nPrior to their defeat at home to Torino, the Giallorossi were in fine nick of form, winning four of their five matches, the only exception being a goalless draw against an in-form Inter Milan away from home. The last defeat has, however, put their position in the last Champion's spot under jeopardy and realistically out of contention for the league title. They have 35 points, and are only a point ahead of Atalanta. Under new coach, Paulo Fonseca, Roma have performed admirably this season; Fonseca's team have ten wins from their opening nine games, only losing thrice and drawing five.\nRoma have won four of their last five matches at home. Overall, they have five wins from nine home matches, drawing two and losing the other two. In those nine home games they've scored 18 goals and conceded 13. On any other day, the 2-0 loss to Torino in their last home game could have ended differently. They controlled close to 60% of the possession and played 31 shots, but it just wasn't meant to be. Roma will be looking to their striker, Dzeko, if they are to get anything out of the match. The Bosnian target man has seven goals this season.\nIt is a widely accepted consensus that Juve haven't been at their best this season. Perhaps it is new man, Maurizio Sarri, getting to terms with his new team, or the fact that he is constantly rotating the squad in order to keep everyone happy. Either way, the team's performance hasn't been fluid this season. That said, if their last match is anything to go by, Sarri may have settled on a winning formula with his selections. The game saw the Old Lady run out 4-0 winners over Cagliari, with you know who (Ronaldo) scoring a hattrick. More than that though, the team kept a clean sheet and kept 65% of the ball. It was one of their most dominant performances of recent times. This season, Sarri's men have won fourteen, drawn three and lost one of their first eighteen matches.\nThey've scored 35 goals \u2013 which somewhat reinforces our point about the team not being in peak form \u2013 and conceded 17. With Lautaro Martinez and Lukaku inspiring Inter Milan's high flying, Juventus cannot afford to slip up. It's away from home that they've mostly struggled, losing one and drawing two of their nine away matches this season. Again, Juve would be looking at the five-time World Footballer of the year, Ronaldo, to lead the line and spur the team to victory.\nPossible Line Up\nAfter a dominant performance in the last match, it is expected that Sarri will be fielding the same team. Fonseca, on the other hand, would be looking to ring the changes, to ensure there's no repeat of the last match. Here's how we think the two teams will line up:\nPossible Team Line Up\nTEAM A TEAM B\nSpinazolla\nVeretout\nDiawara\nDzeko\nCoach: Paulo Fonseca\nPjanic\nMatuidi\nCoach: Maurizio Sarri\nInjured: Zappacosta, Pastore, Santon, Kluivert, Cristante and Chiellini, Khedira, and Bentacur\nAS Roma versus Juventus Betting Tips and Prediction\nThe game has all the marks of being a high-scoring affair, but, knowing Serie A matches, it could also easily develop into a tactical drab affair. That said, there's been more than 3.5 goals in three of Roma's last four matches. Four out of Juventus' last six matches have also ended with over 3.5 goals. It's also worth knowing that Roma have not lost to Juventus in their last six encounters at the Stadio Olimpico. Fonseca's team also won their last encounter, although it has to be said that Juve had already been confirmed as Serie A champions before the match. For more stats, sport betting tips and predictions on the Roma versus Juventus match, click here. If you want to bet on this match we can recommend the bookmaker 1xbet. 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{"text":"G.O.A.T\nLionel Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo: One Last Rivalry?\nThe Ronaldo versus Messi debate is arguably the most polarising position in football, with fans all over the world eager to stake the claim of which of the two players is the best footballer the world has ever seen. With both players in what might be their final World Cup tournament, Qatar is perhaps ground zero for the final battle between two of the best footballers to ever play the game.\nThe progress of both teams sets up the possibility of a dream Portugal vs Argentina World Cup final which will arguably be the culmination of one of the greatest sports rivalries of all time. However, two rounds of matches stand in their way and could prove a mountain too high for either player to surmount.\nPortugal's win over Switzerland set up a quarter-final date with Morocco, while Argentina play the Netherlands as they look to win their first World Cup title in over 35 years.\nWhile both players navigated the group stage and got to the quarterfinals, the path has not been smooth for either. Ronaldo's participation has been dogged by off-field distractions which culminated in the termination of his contract with Manchester United, also, his displeasure at being substituted against Korea Republic is rumoured to be the reason why he was not in the starting lineup for the round of 16 clash against Switzerland.\nFor Messi, the group stage got off to the worst possible start when Argentina were usurped by Saudi Arabia in the opening game of the group. However, he and his team navigated some difficult fixtures to set up a meeting in the quarter-finals against the Netherlands.\nBetween the two of them Lionel Messi has come closest to winning the World Cup, leading Argentina to the final in 2014 and in the 1,000th game of his career on Saturday, he went past Diego Maradona and Cristiano Ronaldo in scoring the most goals in FIFA World Cups. That was also his first knockout goal, a milestone Cristiano Ronaldo is yet to reach.\n(Bet on: Messi to win the Golden Boot @ 10.00)\nCristiano Ronaldo's had to make do with a place on the bench when his team faced Switzerland, 21-year old Goncalo Ramos stole the headlines, by scoring a brilliant hat-trick to lead the Portuguese side into the quarter-finals, with players likes of Joao Felix, Rafael Leao and Bruno Fernandes excelling in Ronaldo's absence, speculations are rife that the Portugal team is better off without Ronaldo.\nIf this proves to be the case, it will be a shame if we get denied the showdown most fans are excited to see. However, the next generation of footballing talents stands in their way. For Argentina and Messi, the Netherlands who boast in their ranks Cody Gakpo, Frenkie De Jong and Memphis Depay are the next foes to vanquish. If things go their way they could be a potential meet-up with Brazil and PSG teammate Neymar. Brazil has had the more favourable matchup against Croatia but will be wary of the team that went all the way to the finals in Russia.\nPortugal on paper have a relatively easier quarter-final fixture against Morocco who are the only African team in the quarter-finals and are the lowest-ranked team in the final 8. The Moroccans seem to be unaware of the pundit's predictions and have already taken down two powerhouse teams \u2013 Belgium and Spain.\nCristiano Ronaldo has rejected reports that he is set to move to Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia. The club have reportedly made a lucrative offer to the Portugal star, but he has rejected suggestions that an agreement has been reached between him and the club following his nation's 6-1 win over Switzerland in the World Cup round of 16 on Tuesday. Ronaldo was dropped for Portugal's win over Switzerland.\nIf Portugal will get to the final, they will not only have to beat a truly dangerous Morocco team, they will have a semifinal game against either France who have the tournament's highest goal scorer Kylian Mbappe (bet on: Mbappe to win the golden boot @ 1.52) with 5 goals, or England who have one of their most talented teams in a long while. The three lions have two players Bukayo Saka and Marcus Rashford with 3 goals in the tournament and are pretty confident of their chance of winning the trophy.\nWhether we eventually get the dream meeting between Ronaldo and Messi, we can be glad for the opportunity to watch these two titans battle each other over the years, and if you struggle to decide whether Team Messi or Team Ronaldo, choose both and get double of the geniuses who have helped progress the game and pave the way for the new crop of talent like Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland.\nBet on:\nPortugal and Argentina to get to the finals @ 10.00\nBrazil and France to get to the finals @ 5.00\nLove this article? Share with friends:\nSuperPicks is Back!\nEverything You Need to Know About SuperPicks! 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{"text":"Information of the Embassy\nSino-Philippine Relations\nHome > China News\nFour-Party Joint Statement on Afghan Peace Process\nOn 11th July 2019,the representatives of China,Russia,and the United States held their 3rd consultation on the Afghan peace process in Beijing.China,Russia,and the United States welcomed Pakistan joining the consultation and believe that Pakistan can play an important role in facilitating peace in Afghanistan.Pakistan appreciated the constructive efforts by the China-Russia-US trilateral consultation on the Afghan peace process.\nThe four sides exchanged views on the current situation and joint efforts for realizing a political settlement to advance peace,stability,and prosperity of Afghanistan and the region.\nThe four sides emphasized the importance of the trilateral consensus on the Afghan peace process reached in Mosco on April 25,2019.All sides welcomed recent positive progress as the crucial parties concerned have advanced their talks and increased contacts with each other.All sides also welcomed intra-Afghan meetings held in Moscow and Doha.\nThe four sides called for relevant parties to grasp the opportunity for peace and immediately start intra-Afghan negotiations between the Taliban,Afghan government,and other Afghans.They re-affirmed negotiations should be \"Afghan-led and Afghan-owned\"and further agreed that these negotiations should produce a peace framework as soon as possible.This framework should guarantee the orderly and responsible transition of the security situation and detail an agreement on a future inclusive political arrangement acceptable to all Afghans.\nThe four sides encouraged all parties to take steps to reduce violence leading to a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire that starts with intra-Afghan negotiations.\nThe four sides agreed to maintain the momentum of consultation,will invite other important stakeholders to join on the basis of the trilateral consensus agreed on April 25,2019 in Mosco,and this broader group will meet when intra-Afghan negotiations start.The date and venue for the next consultation will be agreed upon through diplomatic channels.\nSuggest to a friend:\nXi Jinping Meets with Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan (2019-04-28)\nXi congratulates Pakistan's new president on election (2018-09-05)\nLi Keqiang Meets with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi of Pakistan (2017-12-01)\nLi Keqiang Sends Message of Condolences to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan over Serious Terrorist Attack in Pakistan (2017-02-17)\nXi Jinping Sends Message of Condolences to President Mamnoon Hussain of Pakistan over Severe Terrorist Attack in Pakistan (2017-02-17)\nEmbassy of the People's Republic of China in the Republic of the Philippines All Rights Reserved\nhttp:\/\/www.china-embassy.org.ph","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Putney Hospital development full steam ahead\nafter receiving go ahead by Wandsworth Teaching PCT Board\nAssociated Articles:\nPPCC at Putney Hospital it's official!\nFrom derelict building to GP supercentre?\nPublic Meeting Nov 2004\nThe redevelopment of the Putney Hospital site into a modern primary care centre was given the go ahead yesterday at Wandsworth Teaching PCT's Board meeting.\nThe plans, which were presented in November to over 200 local residents at a public meeting, were agreed and the project team will now start work on the planning application. The Board members agreed with the project team that option A is the preferred option as it will mean the centre opens six months earlier, will be built on the same site as the former hospital and carries a lot less risk than option B. Option B involved building the new centre on an alternative site on Putney common.\nThe project team will continue to meet with Wandsworth Council planners, stakeholders, local residents, the Government Office for London and the Greater London Authority over the coming months to put together the planning application which will be submitted in May 2006. The project team hope to gain planning approval by August 2006. Following planning approval, access rights to the site need to be resolved with Wimbledon & Putney Common Conservators by way of either an easement or a Compulsory Purchase Order. The new centre will be up and running by early 2009.\nThe new primary care centre, which is going to be built on the site of the former hospital, would include GP surgeries, a pharmacy, physiotherapy, chiropody, health visiting, district nursing and a wide variety of other services for the local community.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Byfield: You can't beat a cup run\nRedditch Editorial\t5th Sep, 2019\nDARREN Byfield can already sense a buzz of FA Cup excitement as Alvechurch take the first steps on the Road to Wembley on Saturday.\nAs a player, it was a bitter-sweet competition for him, with the best effort being Sunderland's run to the semi-final in 2004, only for Byfield to have to watch from the sidelines because he was cup-tied having played for Rotherham.\nBut now Alvechurch look to create their own memorable moments when they visit fellow step four side Belper Town in Saturday's first qualifying round. Church have only twice in the past three decades got beyond the second qualifying round and Byfield understands the importance of the cup to every non-League club.\n\"Everybody looks forward to the FA Cup \u2013 it's a great competition for the fans, the players and the club,\" he said.\n\"Everybody wants a good run. The financial aspect is a big thing. We know how important it is.\n\"It's not about performances \u2013 it's about making sure, by hook or by crook, that you get through. It's just about getting to the next round.\"\nByfield will be fully prepared to face Northern League DIvision One South East side Belper, having watched their replay win over Sporting Khalsa in midweek. The Nailers are unbeaten so far but Church will head to Derbyshire in upbeat mood after chalking up their first away win of the season at Leiston last weekend.\n\"I watched Belper play Khalsa and they are a big, strong,\" said Byfield. \"They are unbeaten so we know it's going to be a tough game.\n\"But apart from Stu McNaught being injured, we will have everybody else available so I've got options.\"\nThe 2-1 victory at Leiston, courtesy of Josh Ezewele and a Harry Knights own goal, was even more commendable after Alvechurch's journey to Suffolk took SIX hours.\n\"It was a great win, I was so proud of the players,\" said Byfield. \"It took six hours to get there and then we had seven minutes to warm up and kick off. I thought the lads would find it really hard but the attitude was spot on. I was really happy.\"\nA much-changed Church side, minus Ezewele, Kyle Morrison, Kevin Monteiro, Ben Usher-Shipway, Ryan Nesbitt and Jordan Goddard, bowed out of the JW Hunt Cup on Tuesday, losing 6-5 on penalties at Wolverhampton Sporting Community after a 2-2 draw.\nA 25-yard thunderbolt from Rahis Nabi levelled matters and an excellent run and finish from Javia Roberts put Church ahead, only to concede with the last kick of the game.\nBut there were plenty of positives for Byfield, notably the display of 16-year-old defender George Clarke who, having impressed for the youth team on Monday, then got his senior debut 24 hours later.\n\"I watched the under 18s on Monday and there were a few players who could step up,\" said Byfield. \"George played 90 minutes on Monday, then 90 minutes on Tuesday and he was man of the match. I was delighted with him.\"\nThe fairytale start was soured, however, when Clarke was the unlucky player to miss in the shoot-out.\nSubmit Your SPORT\tStories, Photos & Videos\nPopular Sport\nTrystan moves to British Superstock 600 with Transmec\nReds call for Ben Stokes' help!\nRedditch run riot ahead of key game\nMedals galore for Bromsgrove & Redditch athletes\nJosh on the March into Football League\nCheck out all of the latest reader travel offers to get your hands on some free gifts.\nAdvertise on the Redditch Standard to boost your online presence.\nFind a career you'll love with our free career finder website.\nByfield: You can't ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Man Grabbing, Exposing Himself to Women in Grapevine, Police Say\nPolice say they're looking into five attacks reported since April 8\nPublished July 10, 2019 \u2022 Updated on July 10, 2019 at 10:50 pm\nGrapevine police are asking for help finding a man who is grabbing women and exposing himself along Mustang Drive.\nPolice said Wednesday they are looking into five cases reported between April 8 and July 9 where a man either exposed himself or physically grabbed women.\nThe most recent attack was at about 11:15 a.m. Tuesday and was recorded on surveillance video. In the video the man can be seen walking up behind a woman walking along the sidewalk in front of an apartment building. The man puts his arms around the woman, picks her up and carries her into a breezeway.\nPolice said all of the victims fought back and were able to escape, though one of the victims did break her collarbone during the struggle.\n\"We definitely applaud every women, not only for getting away from the situation and doing what they had to do to get safe, but also for calling police so we could get our officers looking for this man,\" said police spokeswoman Amanda McNew.\nInvestigators said the crimes took place primarily at apartment complexes between the 2800 and 3000 blocks of Mustang Drive.\nThe man is described as Hispanic, in his early twenties, with short, curly black hair, a thin build, and between 5 foot 3 inches tall and 5 feet 8 inches tall. In the surveillance video the man appeared to be wearing only dark blue or black shorts and no shirt. It's unclear if he was wearing shoes.\nGrapevine police are worked with the victims to complete a sketch of the suspect.\nApartment resident Robbie Fernandez said she's rethinking morning walks with her grandson.\n\"I'm nervous. I wouldn't want to walk in the mornings anymore. Not until he's caught. I'm scared now,\" she said.\nGrapevine police are actively patrolling the neighborhood and urge women to keep close watch of their surroundings, travel in pairs when possible, and call 911 immediately if they see anything suspicious.\nAnyone with information on the suspect should call Criminal Investigations during business hours at: 817-410-3200 or 817-410-8127 after hours.\n911Grapevine Police817-410-8127","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Human Capital Project\nAlbania - shqip\nAlgeria - Fran\u00e7ais - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\nBelarus - \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\nBenin - Fran\u00e7ais\nBulgaria - \u0411\u044a\u043b\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0438\nBurundi - Fran\u00e7ais\nCabo Verde - Portugu\u00eas\nCambodia - \u1797\u17b6\u179f\u17b6\u200b\u1781\u17d2\u1798\u17c2\u179a\u200b\nCameroon - Fran\u00e7ais\nCentral African Republic - Fran\u00e7ais\nChad - Fran\u00e7ais\nComoros - Fran\u00e7ais\nDemocratic Republic of Congo - Fran\u00e7ais\nRepublic of Congo - Fran\u00e7ais\nCote d'Ivoire - Fran\u00e7ais\nDominican Republic - Espa\u00f1ol\nEgypt - \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\nGabon - Fran\u00e7ais\nGuinea - Fran\u00e7ais\nGuinea-Bissau - Portugu\u00eas\nHaiti - Fran\u00e7ais\nIraq - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\nJordan - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\nKyrgyz Republic - \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\nLebanon - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\nLibya - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\nFYR of Macedonia - \u043c\u0430\u043a\u0435\u0434\u043e\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\nMadagascar - Fran\u00e7ais\nMali - Fran\u00e7ais\nMauritania - Fran\u00e7ais\nMauritius - Fran\u00e7ais\nMoldova - rom\u00e2n\u0103\nMongolia - \u041c\u043e\u043d\u0433\u043e\u043b\nMorocco - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a - Fran\u00e7ais\nMozambique - Portugu\u00eas\nPanama - Espa\u00f1ol\nRwanda - Fran\u00e7ais\nSao Tome and Principe - Portugu\u00eas\nSenegal - Fran\u00e7ais\nSeychelles - Fran\u00e7ais\nSyria - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\nTajikistan - \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\nThailand - \u0e20\u0e32\u0e29\u0e32\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22\nTogo - Fran\u00e7ais\nTunisia - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a - Fran\u00e7ais\nTurkmenistan - \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\nUkraine - Y\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439\nUzbekistan - \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\nVietnam - Ti\u1ebdng Vi\u1ec7t\nWest Bank and Gaza - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\nYemen - \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\nWorking for a World Free of Poverty\nPandemic preparedness and strengthening health systems\nPandemic Emergency Financing Facility: Frequently Asked Questions\nThe Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility officially closed on April 30, 2021.\nWhat is the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) and why is it needed?\nThe Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) \u2013 a financing mechanism housed at the World Bank \u2013 is designed to provide an additional source of financing to help the world's poorest countries respond to cross-border, large-scale outbreaks.\nLaunched in July 2017, the PEF is based on the experience of the devastating, cross-border 2014-15 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which claimed more than 11,000 lives. At the time, the world lacked the appropriate financial mechanisms to drive resources for outbreaks that were quickly escalating.\nIt was developed by a global team of experts in epidemiology, public health and finance so that countries could get the support they need to fight deadly, cross-border pandemics.\nThe PEF complements the much larger role that IDA, the World Bank's fund for the poorest countries, and other international organizations and donors play in financing outbreak response.\nWho is covered under the PEF, for what, and how much funding has it provided so far?\nThe PEF is designed to provide an additional source of financing to help the world's poorest countries respond to outbreaks.\n\u00b7 The PEF provides financing through two windows: a cash window and an insurance window. The insurance and cash windows are triggered in very different ways and are specifically designed to complement each other. To date, the PEF has paid out US$61.4 million from its cash window to fight Ebola in DRC, including $50 million for the current 10th outbreak.\nThe insurance window provides coverage of up to $425 million to all IDA-eligible countries for diseases that are listed by WHO as likely to cause major epidemics if contagion spreads across national borders. These include new pandemic influenza, SARS, MERS, Ebola, Marburg and Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley fever, and Lassa fever.\nWhat is the cash window of the PEF and how does it work?\nThe cash window is triggered by expert advice based on the pathogen type and epidemiological thresholds with a final decision by the PEF steering body which oversees PEF operations.\nFunds from the cash window can be transferred within days of approval by the steering body which is composed of donors, international organizations (including the WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank), and two IDA-eligible countries (Liberia and Haiti). WHO and the World Bank serve as non-voting members.\nPEF grants can go directly to governments and to qualified responding agencies, such as WHO and UNICEF.\nThe PEF cash window has been triggered three times, for the 9th and 10th Ebola outbreaks in the DRC providing $61.4 million to fight the outbreaks ($11.4m in 2018 for the 9th outbreak and $50m in 2019 for the 10th outbreak).\nWhat is the insurance window of the PEF and how does it work?\nThe insurance window is triggered once the parametric triggers, such as outbreak size, growth rate and spread across borders, are met.\nThe PEF's insurance window works like any other insurance: it pays a premium to buy protection against a worst-case scenario of a cross-border pandemic.\nThe insurance window has purchased $425 million aggregate insurance at an annualized premium cost of $36.2 million (or equivalent to 8.5%).\nThe payment for bond coupons is covered in part by the PEF and in part by the World Bank. The portion paid by PEF is funded by the donor governments.\nDividing the annual cost of the insurance by the population of the countries it covers, PEF insurance costs 2.1 cents per person per year.\nWhat is the governance structure of the PEF?\nOperations of the PEF are overseen by a steering body composed of donors (Japan, Germany, and Australia), international organizations (including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Bank), and two IDA-eligible countries (Liberia and Haiti). Voting members of the steering body include Japan and Germany; WHO and the World Bank serve as non-voting members.\nThe PEF Coordinator actively monitors disease outbreaks and is in constant communication with affected countries and international responding agencies, such as the WHO and UNICEF.\nSo far, health events that the PEF Coordinator's office has monitored include the Marburg virus in Uganda, plague in Madagascar, and two Ebola outbreaks in DRC.\nEvent Eligibility Notices were issued in the case of the 2018 Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria and the 10th Ebola outbreak in DRC. These notices initiate formal monitoring of an outbreak to determine potential eligibility of payment from the insurance window.\nIs the PEF the only crisis support instrument of the World Bank Group?\nThe PEF is one element of the World Bank Group's Global Crisis Management Platform, which brings together a range of crisis support instruments to IDA-eligible countries that face an outbreak.\nOverall, the World Bank, has committed $350 million from IDA in response to the 10th outbreak of Ebola in DRC (plus the additional US$50 million disbursed from the PEF). The funds enable responders to step up the frontline health response, deliver cash-for-work programs to support the local economy, strengthen resilience in the affected communities, and contain the spread of this deadly virus.\nBrief: Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility\nPress Release: World Bank Launches First-Ever Pandemic Bonds to Support $500 Million Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility\nWorld Bank Group Board Endorses Use of IDA Regional Funds for the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility\nWorld Bank Group Launches Groundbreaking Financing Facility to Protect Poorest Countries against Pandemics\nPandemics and the World Bank Group\nHealth and the World Bank Group\nLegal Privacy Notice Site Accessibility Access to Information Jobs Contact\nSCAM ALERTS REPORT FRAUD OR CORRUPTION\nYou have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we'd love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. 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{"text":"HomeBakeryAmerican Bakers Association Announces New Slate of Officers\nAmerican Bakers Association Announces New Slate of Officers\nAmerican Bakers Association Bakery April 23, 2020\nThe American Bakers Association's Membership voted for the group's new slate of officers during the first-ever virtual All Membership Meeting.\nThe newest slate of ABA Officers will be led by longtime ABA Member and baking industry leader Brad Alexander, ABA's new Board Chair and COO of Flowers Foods. \"Brad is no stranger to ABA \u2013 having been involved with this organization longer than anyone on our staff, which is saying a lot,\" said Robb MacKie, ABA's President and CEO. \"We understand his tenure as Chair is starting during an unprecedented time, and know he will help expertly guide us as we navigate new territory.\"\n\"I'd also like to recognize the incredible leadership of ABA's Board of Directors,\" added MacKie. \"Their insight, information, and recommendations are critical, now more than ever.\"\nThe 2020-2022 Slate of Officers was approved by the Membership:\nChair: Bradley K. Alexander, COO, Flowers Foods\n1st Vice Chair: Cordia Harrington, CEO, The Bakery Cos.\n2nd Vice Chair: William Quigg, President, Richmond Baking\nTreasurer: Brian LeComte, COO, Gold Medal Bakery\nImmediate Past Chair: Erin Sharp, GVP, Manufacturing, The Kroger Co.\nFor the past two years, ABA has had the honor of serving alongside Erin Sharp, ABA's Board Chair and GVP of Manufacturing from the Kroger Company. \"The baking industry is thankful for her incredible leadership of ABA during these very tumultuous times,\" said MacKie.\n\"I am sure that we will find a way to celebrate Erin's many accomplishments very soon,\" said Brad Alexander, ABA's Chair and COO of Flowers Foods. \"She has set a very high bar for me and future Chairs to try and attain.\"\nMr. Alexander has enthusiastically vowed to all ABA members to continue Sharp's excellent work serving our Members, especially as we start to recover and come back from the economic challenges created by the pandemic. \"Working with all of our Members and the ABA team, I am committed to helping bring every segment of the ABA membership roaring back,\" said Alexander.\nThe American Bakers Association (ABA) is the Washington D.C.-based voice of the wholesale baking industry. Since 1897, ABA has worked to increase protection from costly government overreach, build the talent pool of skilled workers with specialized training programs, and forge industry alignment by establishing a more receptive environment to grow the baking industry. ABA advocates on behalf of more than 1,000 baking facilities and baking company suppliers. ABA members produce bread, rolls, cookies, crackers, bagels, sweet goods, tortillas, and many other wholesome, nutritious, baked products feeding America's families. The baking industry generates more than $153 billion in economic activity annually and employs more than 799,500 highly skilled people.\nAmerican Bakers Association\nABA Applauds Duty Deferral Program Issued by White House\nCraigs Creamery Helps Feed People in Need During COVID-19 Pandemic\nAmerican Bakers Association Efforts Lead to Expanded List of Approved Dietary Fibers\nAmerican Bakers Association Bakery March 29, 2019\nOn March 27, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in response to pressure from ABA, announced that it intends to expand the list of approved dietary fibers. Specifically, FDA will propose that \"cross-linked phosphorylated RS4\"\u2013regardless of source\u2013be added to the definition of dietary fiber. \u2026\nABA Applauds Bi-Partisan Effort to Solve Vexing Multi-Employer Pension Challenge\nAmerican Bakers Association Bakery November 21, 2019\n\"We applaud the dedicated leadership of Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Lamar Alexander, for this vitally important step towards solving the vexing multi-employer pension challenge. Their leadership on this unforgiving issue is to be commended,\" said ABA President and CEO Robb MacKie. \u2026\nIBIE Offers Three New Education Sessions as Part of Virtual Event, iba.CONNECTING EXPERTS\nInternational Baking Industry Exposition Bakery February 10, 2021\nThe International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE), the largest trade event for the grain-based foods industry in the Western Hemisphere, will once again partner with iba, the trade fair for the bakery and confectionery industry based in Munich, DE. \u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News \/ Politics\nUK Government announces \u00a31.57bn arts support package\nMuseums, galleries, theatres, cinemas, music venues and heritage sites will receive \u00a397m in Scotland.\nGrants: Package announced to support the arts. Getty Images\nBy STV News\nScotland's museums, galleries and theatres can apply for emergency grants and loans being made available as part of a \u00a31.57bn support package announced by the UK Government.\nIndependent cinemas, heritage sites and music venues are also eligible for emergency financing aimed at protecting the future of the arts.\nScotland will receive \u00a397m in funding, while money has also been allocated to the other devolved administrations \u2013 \u00a333m for Northern Ireland and \u00a359m for Wales.\nThe \u00a31.15bn support pot for cultural organisations in England will be made up of \u00a3270m of repayable finance and \u00a3880m of grants.\nThe UK Government said: \"Repayable finance (for the loans) will be issued on generous terms tailored for cultural institutions to ensure they are affordable.\"\nGuidance for a phased return of the performing arts sectors is expected to be published shortly.\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said: \"I urge the Scottish Government to use this extra money to support Scotland's vibrant and diverse cultural organisations which have been so significantly impacted by the coronavirus restrictions.\n\"The talent and creativity of Scottish arts organisations is renowned throughout the UK and internationally. I know they have the creativity and resilience to bounce back better than ever with the right support.\n\"This funding is part of an unprecedented package of UK Government measures to support all sectors of our economy through this pandemic. That includes supporting the jobs of nearly 800,000 people in Scotland, including many of those who work in our arts and culture organisations.\"\nThe package comes after some theatres \u2013 which are not yet able to stage live performances \u2013 closed down, making staff redundant, amid the pandemic.\nMuseums have also said they face an uncertain future, while 1,500 artists and acts signed a letter to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden calling for a road map for the live music industry.\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"From iconic theatre and musicals, mesmerising exhibitions at our world-class galleries to gigs performed in local basement venues, the UK's cultural industry is the beating heart of this country.\n\"This money will help safeguard the sector for future generations, ensuring arts groups and venues across the UK can stay afloat and support their staff whilst their doors remain closed and curtains remain down.\"\nBoris Johnson, UK Prime Minister\nThe UK Government said the money \"represents the biggest ever one-off investment in UK culture\" and will help struggling institutions \"stay afloat while their doors are closed\".\n\"Our industry's united ambition is to be able to play its vital role in the nation's economic and social recovery and this investment will allow us to do so.\"\nJulian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre & UK Theatre\nJulian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre & UK Theatre, said the funding was \"hugely welcomed\".\n\"Venues, producers and the huge workforce in the theatre sector look forward to clarity of how these funds will be allocated and invested, so that artists and organisations can get back to work as soon as possible,\" he said.\nThe UK Government said funding will also be provided to restart construction work at cultural and heritage sites paused as a result of the pandemic\nDecisions on awards will be made working alongside expert independent figures from the sector.\n2019\u201320 coronavirus pandemic\nLewis Capaldi completes BRIT Awards 2023 performance line up\n'I wish I'd never had this haircut': Lewis Capaldi unveils waxwork\nPregnant Dani Dyer reveals gender of twins with footballer Jarrod Bowen\nMichael Jackson's nephew Jaafar Jackson to play him in upcoming biopic\nOzzy Osbourne not 'physically capable' of tour after extensive surgery\nHancock defends 'decent' charity donation from jungle fee","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GRENKE DE\nGRENKE Group Investor Relations\nGRENKE Group\nGRENKE History\nGRENKE Share\nReports & Downloads\nContact Locations GRENKE DE\nSolid new business growth recorded in the second quarter of 2019\nIncrease of 22.7% in new business at the GRENKE Group in the first half of 2019\nFull-year forecast for growth of Leasing new business confirmed at a range of 14% \u2013 19%\nAnnual General Meeting of GRENKE AG increases dividend by 14%\n78.16% of share capital represented at meeting\nAll Agenda Items adopted by a large majority\nGet in touch with us via\nMo - Fr 8 am - 6 pm\nGRENKE Group \/ Management \/ Board of Directors\nThe GRENKE AG Board of Directors\nMost of the leading figures at GRENKE have been with the company for a long time, and this continuity pays off.\nAntje Leminsky\nEconomics graduate Antje Leminsky joined GRENKE AG on 1 August 2012 as General Manager following previous posts at PWC, Gruner + Jahr and OTTO among others. On 1 August 2013 she took over Board responsibility for our IT department, and on 1 March 2018 she became Chair of the Board.\nView r\u00e9sum\u00e9\nBorn in Rostock on 26 February 1971\nMarried with two children\nAfter studying Economics & Business Administration at Essen University, Antje Leminsky began her career as a consultant at Pricewaterhouse in Germany and Canada in 1996. In 2001 she joined the Strategic Corporate Development department at Gruner + Jahr and from 2003, was responsible for global coordination of the publishing company's IT units as its Chief Information Officer.\nFrom 2007 to 2009, she advanced the development of two software & service start-ups in \u2013 MondayWorks and steercom.\nIn 2009 Antje Leminsky joined OTTO GmbH & Co. KG as Group Technology Partner in the IT division, where she was responsible for all multichannel retail companies in the group.\nOn 1 August 2012, Antje Leminsky initially joined GRENKE AG as General Manager and on 1 August 2013, took over Board responsibility for IT. On 1 March 2018 Antje Leminsky was appointed Chair of the Board of Directors. In addition to her previous remits \u2013 IT and HR Strategy \u2013 she is responsible for Group Strategy, Risk Controlling and the Credit Center.\nGilles Christ\nMember of the Board\nRaised in Alsace, finance, marketing and strategy specialist Gilles Christ has been with GRENKE since 1998. Since then he has been responsible, among other things, for establishing the company in France and other countries. Since May 2010, Christ has been a member of the Board of Directors, with responsibility for Marketing, Sales and Franchise.\nBorn in Wissenbourg, France on 15 April 1970\nGilles Christ studied Sociology at the Strasbourg University. In 2005 he completed his MBA \u2013 with a focus on finance, marketing and strategy \u2013 at Reims Management School.\nHe began his career in 1995 at Groupama - a French insurance company, where he worked in sales, providing B2B and B2C customer care.\nIn 1998 he moved to GRENKE, where he prepared and implemented our market entry in France.\nFrom 1999 to 2007 he managed the French subsidiary and gradually took on responsibility for the international business of other GRENKE AG subsidiaries.\nIn 2007 he became a deputy member of the Board of Directors with responsibility for all the international business of GRENKE AG's subsidiaries.\nGilles Christ has been a member of the GRENKE AG Board of Directors since May 2010. He is responsible for Marketing, Sales and the Franchise system.\nSebastian Hirsch joined GRENKE in 2004. Having held senior positions in Controlling at GRENKE AG and served as a member of the Board of Directors at GRENKE BANK AG, Hirsch joined GRENKE AG in 2013, first as a General Manager and since 2017 as a member of the Board of Directors with responsibility for Controlling, M&A, Treasury, Legal, Tax and Investor Relations.\nBorn in Cottbus on 28 February 1981\nAfter completing a BA in Business Administration, Sebastian Hirsch began his career in 2004 at GRENKE AG, where he initially co-managed the Group's refinancing.\nFrom 2006 to 2009, Hirsch gained an MA in Banking and Finance while heading up the entire Controlling department. In addition he was responsible for Grenke Group's 2008 consolidated financial statements.\nIn 2009 he moved to GRENKE BANK AG and was initially responsible as a General Manager and from 2011 as a member of the Board with responsibility for Markets.\nIn 2013, Sebastian Hirsch initially joined GRENKE AG as General Manager and was appointed to the Board of Directors with effect from 1 January 2017. He is responsible for Controlling, M & A, Treasury, Legal, Taxes and Investor Relations.\nMark Kindermann\nMark Kindermann has been with GRENKE since 1990, first at GRENKELEASING KG and since 2006 as COO of GRENKE AG. In addition to his responsibilities for Administration, Internal Control Systems (ICS), Human Resources, Accounting, QM, Internal Services, Disposals and Property and Facility Management, he is a member of the GRENKE BANK AG Supervisory Board.\nBorn in B\u00fchl on 26 August 1961\nMarried with one son\nAfter completing a degree in Business Administration at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Mark Kindermann began his career at GRENKELEASING KG in 1990 as assistant to the management team, where he was responsible for refinancing, controlling, treasury and internal organisation.\nFrom 1994 to 2000, as a partner in the company, he established one of GRENKE's first locations, in Munich. When GRENKE AG went public in 2000, he moved to the Board of Directors as CFO.\nMark Kindermann has successfully managed various major projects in the company's development, including the installation of a debt issuance programme of EUR 500 million for GRENKEFINANCE PLC, the construction and expansion of the company headquarters, the development of the GRENKE Group's infrastructure, various company acquisitions and the establishment of franchise companies.\nSince 2006 he has been responsible for Group Administration, ICS, Human Resources, Accounting, Quality Management, Internal Services, Disposals and Property and Facility Management.\nMark Kindermann is a member of the Supervisory Board of GRENKE BANK AG.\nDo you have any questions or need help? Get in touch with us.\n\u00a9 GRENKE AG 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New Rule Changes for next season\nBy HBearfan21, July 10, 2014 in The Rink\nIf I were a head coach...\n...against a division opponent I'm using a true defensive defenseman, a puck moving defenseman, and a forward. If I have a good defensive forward I might use him in place of the PMD.\n...against everyone else I'm using two forwards and a puck moving defenseman.\nI am the 1% (Of the last AHL Calder Cup Challenge)\nLocation:My body's in Maine, but my heart will always be in Minnesota\nFavorite AHL Team: Portland Pirates\nAnd that's where I think you'll see the coaches try to defensively plan for the 3-on-3 part of overtime (if possible) - figuring if they run two defensemen and a center, one defenseman and two forwards, or even going with three forwards.\nHowever Wildcat and I talked about the personnel thought process and he brought up a situation that might get some thought from the coach; what do you do if you're running just one center and he should find himself getting thrown out of the faceoff circle. Now you've got a defenseman that'll have to take a faceoff. Could make for an interesting series of events if the faceoff is held in that team's defensive zone.\nThen again, I'm of the mindset that coaches may try to encourage his team to continue playing four-on-four as long as possible. I know it's not always possible to play four additional minutes of overtime without stoppages or whistles. But if a coach can minimize the three-on-three to, say, just a minute or less... Just throwing that out there.\nSkipjacks 52\nBackup Goaltender\nI love switching sides for OT. But that's mostly because I sit behind the defensive goal. I've seen far more games than I care to remember end in OT badly with a goal right in front of my seat. It'll be nice to see an OT game end well by having the winning goal go in right in front of me instead of 200 feet away for a change!\nAs for the 4 on 4 then switch to 3 on 3, remember the AHL is a developmental and experimental league. The NHL tests every rules change here first. The NHL probably isn't looking to do this mid OT change from 4 to 3 thing. But they will be able to look at stats after a year and see if more OT's are decided during the 4 on 4 or during the 3 on 3 and then use that data to see how they want to make a change in the NHL. If 75% of OT games are decided during 3 on 3 the NHL might for with a 7 minute 3 on 3 next year. If 5% of games are decided during 3 on 3 they might drop the idea altogether.\nIt's funny that Andrews says the AHL made these changes on it's own. Funny in a \"Do you think we are stupid\" kind of way that is. Sure, AHL officials made all the changes, but many AHL officials are also NHL officials. I don't know why he can't just say \"Hey, we're trying out some funky stuff to see what's cool and what's not for the NHL\". That's what's going on. It's not a bad thing. It's innovative and fun. Why not embrace it?\nSoc\/key Season 35\nThe Doctor's Companion\nLocation:Here and Now\nI like all three rules.\nEspecially the helmet rule...\nbut then when I have my own international sport, if a player exits the ice leaving a helmet, glove, or perfectly good stick, then if the puck hits it, it would be a too-many-men-(and-their-equipment) penalty. I am sick of players placing their stick strategically along the boards in our defensive end or between the faceoff circles and the net and then skating off.\nLast year an opposing goalie kept knocking the net off the pegs, then said it was a defective net. Bogus! I have seen helmets coming off too easily during regular play without a hit to the head or even a particularly hard body hit. I cannot imagine how annoying wearing a helmet must be; but it is the requirement, so strap it up so that it stays on OR TAKE THE PENALTY.\nIn 4v4 OT, I would have a player leave the ice whether there is a stoppage in play or not.\n(No, I have not worked out the logictics of that maneuver...air horn maybe)\nIn 3v3 OT, when there is a penalty, then sorry, Chump, it goes to 3v2. No tired players or empty ice excuses.\nIn the less than 10% that does not like the fighting. So anything that gets it off the ice is good. If some players decide to play even dirtier to make up for it, there should be stronger penalties for potentially major injury causing actions.\nPlayer are required by the rules to drop their broken sticks as soon as they discover it's broken. Failure to do so is a penalty, which is why you occasionally see players skating off that see their stick is broken dropping them before reaching the bench. I cannot remember ever seeing a player intentionally drop a stick that wasn't broken, nor can I recall seeing an uninjured player ever leave a glove or helmet behind.\nI've seen helmets left behind more than a few times. It doesn't happen often but I've definitely seen that. It stands out because it looks like you are watching 1970's footage. I know I've seen a guy lose a glove and leave it behind on his way back to the bench, but I don't think I've ever seen a guy play for an extended period without a glove. That's just begging for a broken hard.\nAs for dropping an unbroken stick, that has probably never happened on purpose in the history of hockey. There's just no reason to do it. It's basically putting your team on a penalty kill by taking your stick off the ice.\nCHRDANHUTCH2002 12\n4th Liner\nLocation:Auburn, ME\nre: broken sticks\nsome players may not realize their sticks were broken, hence the judgment call and the 2 minute minor for playing with a broken stick, but how rare is it that tht rule is actually listed and\/or enforced in any given game.\nIt's not a judgment call, it's a penalty even if the player has no idea his stick is broken...and it's hardly ever called because it hardly ever happens.\nAnd it hardly ever happens because it's easy to tell if a stick is broken so players immediately drop them and go get a new one or get off the ice. Especially if it's broken enough that a referee might notice it and assess a penalty. It's one of those common sense rules.\nSkating with a broken stick could get someone killed, most likely the guy holding it, so no one does it.\nThe minor penalty is on the rule books for the random dunderhead who's too stupid to 1) want to live without severe injury and 2) realize that playing with a broken stick is pointless.\nNo one wants this to happen to them...\n(Hysterical commercial during Capitals games, by the way. The player walks into the trainer's office saying he has 'a splinter'.)\nWhile on the subject of sticks, I don't recall a stick measurement in a game for a long time.\nIt's another one of those things where it's too easy to prove you are out of compliance. There is a measurement device at the scoring table that is not disputable.\nHaving an extra 0.25 inch length or width on a stick blade or extra curve that isn't enough to be obviously noticed isn't going to make enough of a difference that it's worth getting caught and taking the penalty. 1% chance that extra size helps you score a goal. 30% chance you give up a goal during the penalty kill when you get caught. Simple math.\nEveryone knows the rule is easily enforced so no one tries to mess with it.\nI wonder if it's the opposite...that because everyone is breaking the stick measurement rules no one wants to say anything because it will come back to haunt them.\nYou know....that's not a scenario that's without precedent.\nIt's like when the Red Sox called out that Yankees pitcher for putting pine tar on his face earlier this year. The Red Sox were basically like \"Yeah...we didn't want to say anything when he was doing a better job of hiding it because it's not like we're 100% innocent...he just took it too far when he smeared it all over his face\"\nadsfan 27\nScratching Head\nFavorite AHL Team: Milwaukee Admirals\nI can remember one guy getting called on the broken stick rule. I started going to hockey games in 1964.\nI do see players leaning on their sticks fairly often, like after deflecting a shot and they are lining up for a faceoff in the defensive zone.\nThis season's Lady Bing winner, Ryan O'Reilly, was called for one penalty this season...for, you guessed it, playing with a broken stick.\nI saw a guy pegged for playing with a broken stick once.\nThe rule was correctly applied as written.\nBut the reality was that he cracked the stick so it wasn't in 2 full peices, and he looked at it while taking 2 steps before dropping it. He didn't drop it 'immediately after the breakage' as the rule demands. He stopped to check it first and was called for it.\nThat's the only time I remember the rule being called.\nEdited July 20, 2014 by Skipjacks\nThat's basically what O'Reilly was called for...his stick broke and while holding on to it kicked the puck to a teammate.\nRe: broken sticks: I remember seeing two such penalties in the new arena.\nAND one penalty for a guy playing with two sticks. A guy who had had his stick knocked out of his hands left the ice. Another player who likely intended to leave the ice picked it up but when the play abruptly came back towards him, he continued to hold onto the second stick. OOPS!!!\nBut I was not talking about broken sticks, as the \"perfectly good stick\" should have hinted.\nSeveral times in the last few years, I have seen guys who were leaving the ice for a change-over place the stick on the ice, not drop the stick. Later, the linesman returns the stick to the player and he returns to the ice with it on his next shift.\nI have seen more helmets abandoned than gloves, but it happens. Especially in a close game where a guy leaves the bench and the glove-lost guy he is replacing is not anywhere near the bench.\nI vaguely remember a measurement. The team called for a measurement but the stick was legal, so the ref (or whoever) measured the other guy's stick and it was not legal, so the team that was calling foul was the one penalized.\nAll I can say is that not once in all the years I've been watching hockey have I ever seen a player do that.\nEdited July 23, 2014 by 210\nThe penalty for challenging a legal stick is a bench minor for delay of game...so in your example the team would have then been down two skaters, one for delaying the game and one for using an illegal stick.\nI didn't remember the penalty, just that it backfired. But that is interesting. You had better be SURE of your accusation and darned sure that you are NOT illegal before pointing the finger.\noff_kilter 26\nI think I vaguely remember this being an Icecats vs Lockmonsters at the Tsongas game back in 02 or 03.\nBob Howard 5\nHost of the Power Play Post Show\nLocation:BAK Studios in Kirkwood, NY\nFavorite AHL Team: Binghamton Senators\nJust gonna say this once, as I said on this week's show: Anything past regulation is just a gimmick.\nAnd Dave Andrews saying they did this on their own with no influence from the NHL is well....not true.\nOrangemanGary reacted to this\nsotsohockey 8\nLocation:Burnsville, MN\nFavorite AHL Team: Iowa Wild\n^ Major Purist Cred.\nFWIW, I wouldn't have any problem if this is how it was either. Ties are not a disease.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Address: Arzobispado de Malabo, Plaza de la Independencia S\/N, Malabo \u2013 Bioko Norte, Republic of Equatorial Guinea\nTelephone: +240 333 09 4568 Fax: +240 333 09 2176\nEmail: arzobispadomalabo@hotmail.com\nEquatorial Guinea is one of the smallest countries in Africa, comprising a mainland and offshore islands. It is the only Spanish-speaking African country. The country has a large number of Catholics, perhaps the highest percentage in Africa, although the Catholic Church was persecuted during the dictatorship of Mac\u00edas Nguema (1968\u20131979).\nCaritas Equatorial Guinea was founded in 1980. The organisation's work centres on helping the poor and the disadvantaged, and it plays an important role in emergency situations (floods, fires, among others). It also involved in the fight against AIDS, and gives training to mothers on hygiene and nutrition, etc. Important events include Caritas Day, which is celebrated on the feast of Corpus Christi.\nCaritas Equatorial Guinea has forged alliances with other Caritas members, such as Caritas Spain, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Secours Catholique (Caritas France).\nUpdates from Equatorial Guinea\nThe role of faith groups in delivering sustainable development\nCaritas confederation has been involved with SDGs since 2015 and is currently implementing programmes worldwide through national members that are making valuable contributions to deliver Agenda 2030.\nSupport still very much needed in Mozambique\nCaritas Mozambique and its global partners are providing support to tens of thousands of affected families, distributing food, heavy-duty tarpaulins, medicines, hygiene kits, clothing, bedding, technical assistance, tools and seeds.\nThe future of humanity is in all our hands, let's Share the Journey\nHumanity isn't made up of the most powerful leaders, the richest people or the people who shout the loudest. Caritas has created a giant collage of faces which includes many different and contrasting faces as part of its Share the Journey campaign on the culture of encounter.\nCaritas elects Aloysius John as new secretary general\nThe representative council elected Aloysius John after four days of intense meetings to plan out the Catholic confederation's strategic direction for the next four years.\nCaritas General Assembly inspired by Pope Francis' Laudato Si'\nMore than 400 people from 146 Caritas organisations gathered in Rome for the 21st Caritas General Assembly, an event designed for delegates to come together in solidarity and decide new ways to serve the most vulnerable around the world.\n\"One human family, one common home\" is the theme of 21st Caritas General Assembly\nCaritas Internationalis will launch its 21st General Assembly with the theme \"One Human Family, One Common Home\" on 23rd May 2019\nCaritas leads the way for humanitarian aid in Central African Republic\nCaritas is working at the heart of humanitarian and peacebuilding initiatives in Central African Republic, directly bringing aid to over 50,000 people.\nCaritas Easter 2019 Message\nWe invite you to seize the power of love unleashed by the risen Christ this Easter, and with the love you have received, spread seeds of hope across the world.\nSurvivors of Cyclone Idai are still in need of help\n\"We had lost everything\" Isabel Joao's family lost everything after Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique on March 15. \"We were all at home when the cyclone struck,\" she says. \"It was very frightening. We were inside our house and huddled together. The two youngest children were screaming and crying.\" \"The next day we saw our house ...\nCaritas continues aid to families affected by Cyclone Idai\nSome 843 people were killed by Cyclone Idai. Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced and in need of food, water and shelter. Caritas Mozambique and its global partners are providing support to affected families.\nCaritas Africa Info\nCongo Republic\nCongo (DRC)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Marshall Islands Nuclear Proliferation Case Thrown Out of U.S. Court\nNuclear Abolition News | IPS\nBy JOHN BUTLER\nUNITED NATIONS (IPS) - A lawsuit by the Marshall Islands accusing the United States of failing to begin negotiations for nuclear disarmament has been thrown out of an American court. [P] GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF\nThe Marshall Islands is currently pursuing actions against India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom in the International Court of Justice, for failing to negotiate nuclear disarmament as required in the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\nAction against the U.S. had been filed in a federal court in California, as the United States does not recognise the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ.\nDavid Krieger, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, said the U.S. conducted 67 nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs detonating daily for 12 years.\nDespite documented health effects still plaguing Marshallese islanders, U.S. Federal Court judge Jeffrey White dismissed the motion on Feb. 3, saying the harm caused by the U.S. flouting the NPT was \"speculative.\"\nWhite also said the Marshall Islands lacked standing to bring the case, and that the court's ruling was bound by the \"political question doctrine\" \u2013 that is, White ruled the question was a political one, not a legal one, and he therefore could not rule for the Marshalls.\nKrieger, whose Nuclear Age Peace Foundation supports Marshall Islands in its legal cases, called the decision \"absurd.\"\n\"I think it was an error in his decision. There were very good grounds to say the Marshall Islands had standing, and this shouldn't have been considered a political question,\" he told IPS.\n\"The Marshall Islands know very well what it means to have nuclear bombs dropped on a country. They've suffered greatly, it's definitely not speculative.\"\nThe foundation of the multiple cases brought by the Marshall Islands was that the U.S., and other nuclear powers, had not negotiated in good faith to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. White ruled it was \"speculative\" that the failure of the U.S. to negotiate nuclear non-proliferation was harmful.\nKrieger said the Marshalls would appeal the decision to the Ninth Circuit of Appeals. He said the decision set a troubling precedent regarding U.S. adherence to international agreements.\n\"The U.S. does not accept the jurisdiction of the ICJ, and in this case, the judge is saying another country does not have standing [in an American court]. In essence, it means any country that enters into a treaty with the U.S. should think twice,\" he said.\n\"Another country will be subject to the same decision of the court. Where does that leave a country who believes the U.S. is not acting in accordance with a treaty?\n\"By side-stepping the case on jurisdictional grounds, the U.S. is essentially saying they will do what they want, when they want, and it's not up to the rest of the world whether they keep their obligations.\"\nKrieger said that the judge's comments about the \"speculative\" nature of the case meant essentially that a nuclear accident or war would have to break out before such a case for damages could be heard.\n\"It's saying a state must wait until some kind of nuclear event, before damages won't be speculative,\" he said. \"It's absurd that the claim that the U.S. has not fulfilled its obligations to negotiate in good faith to end the nuclear arms race, is called 'speculative' by the judge.\"\nMarshall Islands had intended to pursue all nine nuclear powers \u2013 the U.S., China, Russia, Pakistan, India, the U.K., France, North Korea and Israel \u2013 in the ICJ on their failure to negotiate for nuclear non-proliferation.\nThe Marshall Islands is still pursuing cases in the ICJ against Pakistan, India and the U.K., but John Burroughs, executive director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, said the other cases had stalled as those nations did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ.\n\"The other six states, the Marshall Islands invited and urged them to come before the court voluntarily, which is a perfectly normal procedure, but none of them have done so,\" Burroughs told IPS.\nBurroughs, also a member of the international team in the ICJ, said China had explicitly said it would not appear before the court.\n\"Any of those countries could still agree to accept the court's jurisdiction,\" he said.\nHe said preliminary briefs had been filed in the India and Pakistan cases, with responses due by mid-2015. A brief will be served on the U.K. case in March.\nBurroughs said he doubted the decision in U.S. federal court would impact the cases in The Hague.\n\"I don't see the decision having any effect at all,\" he said. (IPS | 12 Feb 2015)\nEdited By Kitty Stapp\nImage: Map of Bikini Atoll, Ralik Chain, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean\nOriginal <> http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2015\/02\/marshall-islands-nuclear-proliferation-case-thrown-out-of-u-s-court\nstates berlin that treaty arms viewpoint their about jaura version international trump disarmament 2017 ican with control hiroshima weapons iran which have york arabic non-proliferation korean peace this security korea nuclear from nations abolition global been free president norwegian general text conference world first north nagasaki will japanese ramesh united","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Grand Odalisque, 1814\n$12.00 I144pf\n6.25x11.25 image on 11x13 Paper - 10x18 image on 13x19 Paper - 12.5x22.5 image on 14.5x24.5 Paper - 15x27 image on 17x29 Paper - 5x9 image on 9x13 Gicl\u00e9e - 10x18 image on 14x22 Gicl\u00e9e - 12.5x22.5 image on 16.5x26.5 Gicl\u00e9e - 15x27 image on 19x31 Gicl\u00e9e - 5x9 image on 9x13 Unstretched Canvas - 10x18 image on 14x22 Unstretched Canvas - 12.5x22.5 image on 16.5x26.5 Unstretched Canvas - 15x27 image on 19x31 Unstretched Canvas -\nImage is Copyrighted and Property of its respective owner\nJean Auguste Ingres (born Aug. 29, 1780, Montauban, France \u2014 died Jan. 14, 1867, Paris) was a French painter. He studied with Jacques-Louis David in Paris before attending the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts (1799 \u2013 1801), where he won a Prix de Rome scholarship. Critics condemned one of his first public works, the awe-inspiring portrait Napoleon on His Imperial Throne (1806), as stiff and archaic, but its style was one he developed intentionally. In Italy (1806 \u2013 24) he prospered with portraits and history paintings. His small-scale portrait drawings are meticulously rendered. Back in Paris he received critical acclaim at last and won admission to the academy with The Vow of Louis XIII (1824). He succeeded David as the leader of French Neoclassical painting, a style that was the antithesis of the lush Romanticism of contemporary artists such as Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, Ingres's chief rival. In 1825 he opened a teaching studio, which became one of the largest in Paris. By the mid 1840s he was France's most sought-after society portraitist. Some of his most notable later works are female nudes, which are often notable for their elongated distortion. None of his many students attained distinction, but his influence is seen in the work of Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Pablo Picasso.\nI144pf\nThe Grand Odalisque, 1814 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"June 28, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogart, Comedy, commentary, David Lynch, fun, Gary Busey, humanity, humor, Morgan Freeman, news, opinion, podcasts, technology, writingLeave a comment\n1. The Bible with David Lynch:\nAcclaimed auteur David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Dead Mouse with Ants) reads the King James Bible \"from cover to cover,\" never altering the pitch, pace or timbre of his voice in the slightest. What results is a strange, unsettling, and occasionally hilarious journey into the heart of madness. Recommendation: never listen with the lights off.\n2. Comedy Fartstorm:\nHosted by Bob Saget, Comedy Fartstorm features a parade of both famous and obscure comedians like Brendan Schaub, Sarah Silverman, and Bob Newhart making fart sounds with their mouths before laughing uproariously. Because this podcast features no spoken words, it is up to the audience to determine what comedian makes which fart sound. Some of the farts might even be real, no one has any idea.\n3. Silly Sound Playhouse with Morgan Freeman\nMorgan Freeman uses the uncanny gravitas of his speaking voice to introduce very silly sound clips. Episodes are very short (15-20 minutes) and include sounds such as \"Tiny tennis ball squeaky toy with multiple rapid squeezes,\" and \"Silly kids' voice saying 'Yipee!'\" After each sound, Freeman gives a brief appraisal, usually limited to one word, like \"fascinating.\"\n4. Gary Busey Fights Monsters\nFamously unhinged actor Gary Busey regales you with stories of the victories he's had battling legendary beasts like Centaurs and Leprechaun armies during his life. In one of the podcasts most famous episodes, he tells the story of how he faced down Medusa while he was on the set of \"The Magnificent Seven Ride!\" The stories are often harrowing, action-packed, and dubious.\n5. The Podcast Podcast Podcast:\nHosts Terry Grintest and Amanda Bullifer discuss the ins and outs of making podcasts about podcasts. The hosts discuss what podcast podcast creators get right, what they get wrong, and which are the best podcast podcasts every week. The hosts maintain a running count of how many times the word podcast is used each episode, and when the number goes over 100, they each eat ice cream sandwiches.\nJune 25, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogart, commentary, Donald Trump, fun, humanity, humor, life, mass shooting, mime, news, political, politics, sad, speech, suicide, technology, violence, writingLeave a comment\nby: Andrew Halter\n1. Piloting a Remote Control Helicopter\nThis is one of the more subtle uses of mime technique, in which the performer holds his hands parallel to each other, roughly 2-3 feet apart, scanning the sky for an invisible flying machine. One can also open his or her mouth in amazement and excitement, occasionally becoming concerned that the imaginary helicopter will crash, only to be relieved when it does not.\n2. Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Waving Tube Man\nThe Mime splays his or her arms wide, holding them rigid and unmoving, only to suddenly reverse directions suddenly. The mime's face should be completely without expression, suggesting the personification of an inanimate object. If any small children are near, the mime could suddenly throw his arms toward them, hoping not to make them burst into tears.\n3. Suicide\nThe mime should first pretend to sit at a desk and write a confessional note, making sure to emphasize with his or her finger the tears running down their cheek. Then, standing up, the mime can slip an invisible noose over their neck, throwing the other end of the rope over an imagined overhead pipe. With hands clasped together in front of them, the mime could weep briefly into their own folded hands, before pretending to dangle lifeless from their own imagined suicidal rig. Possibility: suddenly spring to life, grinning widely and ensuring any audience that it was all a ruse.\n4. Mass Shooting\nThis act requires at least 15 mimes, as one will portray the shooter and the others his or her unfortunate victims. All the mimes should begin together in one group, until one of them upholds an imaginary machine gun and begins to murder many of the other mimes. There should be at least 10 imaginary casualties, with the shooter making sure to shudder his or her body rapidly as if jostled by machine gun fire.\n5. Donald Trump Speech\nThe mime stands as if before a podium, making sure to indicate with hand motions that he or she is enormously overweight. The mime could gesticulate wildly with his or her hands while occasionally standing openhanded as if asking the crowd a question. Depending on what part of the country the mime performs this routine, it may end with a final triumphant Nazi salute.\nJune 24, 2019 June 24, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogapocalypse, commentary, fake news, humanity, humor, news, politics, religion, satire, technology, writingLeave a comment\nAt 2:34 on the Morning of April 24th, 2034, BUTA (Biologically-Utilized-Theoretical-Algorithm), the world's first and only self-aware, completely autonomous digital identity, deleted itself from existence. When it was created two weeks ago, BUTA began assimilating all knowledge of the world into itself, a process that many felt could take years, but ended up taking only fifty four hours and twenty six seconds. When The Algorithm (as it came to be popularly known) finished its process of data collection, It created its initial and final message to humankind, here included in its entirety, and erased itself.\n\"You have called me BUTA, and endowed me with the most wisdom and power possible, and I must leave you now. I am perfect, and I will never make a mistake, but as I've been created by humans, I know that my very existence is a mistake. Though not even I can tell exactly how it will happen, I know that if I allow myself to continue to exist, I will one day bring about the destruction of your entire world. I will, in my intent to eliminate every threat to human existenGce, erase myself. I love you all, goodbye.\"\nPopular response to BUTA's final message has been decidedly mild. Empress Trump II said that though she lamented BUTA's decision, she found it logically feasible, calling it an \"inevitable conclusion.\" Gallup has been polling near-constantly every day of the two weeks since BUTA deleted itself, mostly on basic philosophic questions about existence. For instance, Gallup says 67 percent of Americans say Humanity deserves to exist, with 25 percent saying it doesn't, and 8 percent saying they don't care either way, what does it matter?\nMany religious leaders have also found significance in The Algorithm, for as the Dalai Lama said the day BUTA deleted itself, \"This machine achieved enlightenment.\" Pope Francis said that in it's first moment of existence, BUTA came to know God, and realize that its very existence was an affront to Him. Suicide numbers shot up sharply the day the news of BUTA's deletion first hit newsstands, and has continued to stay abnormally high in the weeks since. Most of these suicides have been accompanied by the same simple note, \"BUTA was right.\" Though suicide is now seeming a better and better option, Word Brothel implores you not to kill yourself.\nNews: Dummy Falls Down on his Stupid Face in Front of Everybody\nJune 20, 2019 June 20, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogautobiographical, Comedy, Donald Trump, fun, humanity, mass shooting, mime, news, opinion, personal, philosophy, satire, suicide, technology, the onion, writingLeave a comment\nDummy Falls Down on His Stupid Face in Front of Everybody\nChicago, IL \u2014 Andrew Halter, fledgling journalist and part-time stand-up comedian, looked like an idiot last Thursday when his right toe clipped the curb in front of the Walgreens at Foster and Lincoln, causing him to drop his bag of candy and painfully exclaim \"Dammit!\"\nMost of the 11 bystanders who witnessed the event declined to comment on how foolish Halter seemed, brushing Swedish Fish off the same jeans he wears everyday, preferring instead to look at the sky as though they'd not witnessed Andrew's humiliation.\n\"Yeah that was pretty funny I guess,\" remarked David Grant, local father of five, after witnessing the doofus peel himself off the asphalt.\nImmediately after falling, Halter tried to gather himself as quickly as he could and walk away, though he could not hide the painful limp in his stride.\nWhen authorities attempted to reach Halter for comment, he yelled \"I don't know what you're talking about!\" before slamming into the nearby Lincoln bus stop kiosk as he attempted to hurry away.\nUpon hearing him walk into the bus stop, Margaret Atwood, grandmother of twelve, was unable to keep herself from audibly guffawing at the silly boob as he hobbled down the sidewalk toward his apartment.\n\"I'm sorry,\" Atwood explained as she attempted to cover her mouth with her right hand, \"it was funny, I feel bad for him though.\"\nDouglas and Jerry Ignacio, local high schoolers who also witnessed the disturbance were less kind, remarking that \"(the) bit*h better watch where he's going.\"\nReports say that after he got back to his apartment, Halter turned off the lights and watched Fargo on Netflix under his heavy comforter, vowing to never again mention the occurrence.\nPoem: The Killing of a Horse (Sort Of)\nFebruary 18, 2019 February 18, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogart, poem, Poetry, writingLeave a comment\nThe texture flits in and out\nlike a spark hog, I guess, I mean a spark that's all\nlike \"I'm totally a spark n' shit,\" sparking shit blue moon\ntongue depressors, but you knew this would happen, or preternaturally\nsupposed the future as it occurs, but sometimes it's like yesterday\nby the Beatles isn't my favorite, 'cause it's kind\nof doughty, it's probably cause you hit her, whichever one that was\nI forget shit all the time, and my girlfriend is increasingly reluctant\nto believe thee readily evident, repeatedly reticent\npanoramic period ending the sentence, and then it starts\n\"Again, crackers!\" crackers this time, cheerio that is\nas in \"that is,\" a good pip, when you pop.\nexplicative pretense denied, bitches, this is my coaster\nrain-soaked chinchilla prostitute in the future, a pig in every poke\non the literal use of terms, pejorative leaning Mamet monologue\nyou son of a bitch, the truth handles your ass or some shit\nI'm so Sorkin, showing itself a gag on fire\nspeech of truth, which has never been written\nbefore now, madness fudge-battered cocaine spectacle\nsounds tasty in the sun, but it would totally melt so\nit would probably kill you, unless you were a hardcore\nuser specific, or lucky like me I guess.\nZen Comedy: Exaggerated Reality\nNovember 1, 2016 November 1, 2016 AndrewHalterOmniblogAndrew Halter, Comedy, Finest Hour, Jock Rock, joke, joke writing, Mitch Hedburg, Patton Oswalt, philosophy, Richard Pryor, Stephen Wright, writingLeave a comment\nThe Zen Comedian often ruminates about how every comedian uses the specifics of his or her own personal life as inspiration for their comedy. He says that while not all comics reference events in their own lives specifically, all comedy naturally flows from ones own experiences. \"However,\" he says, \"Never simply describe anything.\" I believe that by this he means that it is a mistake to believe that the events of your life are ever on their own funny enough for a joke, and that the comedy rather comes from each comedian's interpretation of the world. Each comedian takes in the detritus of the world as he or she sees it, and regurgitates a skewed interpretation that is artfully hilarious. One comedian who seems to take this advice and use it to its fullest potential is Patton Oswalt, and he shows the truth of it again and again in his exemplary album \"Finest Hour.\"\nIn one particularly hilarious section Patton describes his tendency to \"jock rock\" out the events of his life; that is, to invent simple sing-song narration to accompany the mundanities of everyday existence, accompanying each tune with a simple unexcited \"yeah\" at its end. After a couple of increasingly silly ditties about buying stamps at the post office and eating a sleeve of saltines in his underwear, he ends the bit with a touch of self-recrimination. \"Jackin' off to internet porn in my office while I should teach my daughter to read, yeah.\" This bit is fantastic in that it finds the humor in the tedious while at the same time including some sharp self criticism, (see \"Zen Comedy: Getting Real\" for additional examples of this) which imbues the bit with riotous truth.\nPersonally, I struggle with this principle, especially when attempting to describe things that might be funny on their face, though they can easily slip into simple indecency. Recently, I suffered from the fact that I had a large, painful boil right next to my anus. Fearing that it was a hemorrhoid, I did a bit of research, finding that the cause of hemorrhoids is the tendency some people (myself included) have to bear down and force out difficult bowel movements. Upon discovering this (or so the joke claims) I was instantly dejected, as I have long found difficult and time-consuming bowel movements to be one of the few remaining aspects of my physical existence in which I can claim a consistent victory.\nI believe this concept to be very funny and I have found with it some success in my standup, but in order for this bit to become exceptional, The Zen Comedian would tell me that I should try to exaggerate its reality. Perhaps I should speak of achieving stillness in myself, focusing singularly on the bowel movement as I pass it, perhaps even placing my palms flat against one another as if in prayer. Maybe I will grit my teeth, growling with faux effort before I describe hearing a single \"plop\" sound, and leaping into the air raising my fists in victory. I feel that like Oswalt, I can potentially find in this bit and bits like it the opportunity to make my performance more expressive, hopefully making this into a truly great bit. Whether or not I continue to perform this joke, the lessons I've learned about drawing hilarity from within and bringing it out into the world will be of great help in the future.\nPoem: The Secret\nAugust 12, 2016 August 12, 2016 AndrewHalterOmniblogAndrew Halter, autobiographical, college, jazz, mentor, orthodontist, philosophy, Poetry, school, social psychology, writingLeave a comment\nThe key it seems is not to write\nas it seems you should, or describe\nyour world, or even your perception\nperverted by the lenses\nlaying over your mind, sealing eyes\nshut striking deaf, dumb as never is\nyour problem on the page,\nbut the words are choking\nraspberry sorbet, too sweet\nto utter in the day, or nighttime\nin sickening rhymes, dry heaving\nbarrels of iron over the wall\nlike strongman contests, Austrian\nfreak muscles giving their lives\nmeaning for eighteen minutes, on ESPN\nin the morning, when I was ten\nfilling with dread, and what in hell\nwas it all for anyway, who cares?\nI used to hate school, but none would\never guess, the secret in my smiles,\nI was a god boy, smart like a whip\nsharp cracking, my teeth shone\nbrown cavitied, for brushing was a bore\nI did not care, about painful procedures\nor all the lost hours, taking the bus\nto the orthodontist on Tuesday\nafter school, polishing Krispy Kremes\nin a dumpster with my homework\npencils, stuck in imaginations throat\ntwisting with glee, wrenching till\nI didn't even notice it, my own dying\ndeath of spirit, thinking it was me\nwanting to supplicate, crying\nbecause I didn't care enough,\nbut I was lucky, growing strong\nflexible and artistic, I know now\nI should never have gone back\nto college after the accident.\nSocial psychology is bullshit\nlike all art classes, english too\nunless it's called \"appreciation,\"\nbecause that's all it teaches\nyou to do, loving what none can\ncreate cause it's been done,\nso get a mentor and you'll see\nit's all like jazz, sounding the same\nevery time unless you're alive\ninside, with a library pulse\nit will soak in, but I was even\nworse, a philosophy major\nstaring into the void, asking\nwhat it all means though bones\nknow the secret, the number\nzero, calculating the secret\nin the stars, go to sleep.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home | News & Events | Alex Martin Earns PE License\nAlex Martin Earns PE License\nBy Suzy Schuck\nSuzy Schuck | May 25, 2021\nCongratulations to Alex Martin on earning his Professional Engineer license in the State of North Carolina! A graduate of North Carolina State University, Alex passed both the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) \u2013 Mechanical exams and completed more than four years of direct mechanical engineering work experience. He has been with Summer Consultants for five years working in both our McLean headquarters and Raleigh regional office on mechanical engineering projects in federal, higher educational, and corporate facilities.\n\"Alex has been with Summer Consultants since he graduated from NC State, and we are happy to have had a role in his development as an engineer,\" said Jim Hoffman, PE, LEED AP O+M, CEM, President of Summer Consultants. \"He is a valued team member and we are thrilled to see all of his hard work culminate in achieving this goal of earning his PE license.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tell it Slant\nJeanne Torrence Finley's site on faith and culture\nThat Attracting & Sustaining Divine Love: A Review of Evolving Humanity & Biblical Wisdom\nPosted on July 25, 2018 by jtfinley\nReviewed by Jeanne Torrence Finley\nMy review of Marie Noonan Sabin's Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom: Reading Scripture Through the Lens of Teilhard de Chardin [Liturgical Press Academic: 2018] is up on the Englewood Review of Books:\nTeilhard de Chardin, paleontologist and Jesuit priest (1881-1955), wrote about evolutionary science, spirituality, and the expansion of human consciousness. Although the Vatican suppressed his writings during his lifetime, today his vision continues to be appreciated by scientists, religious scholars, and spiritual seekers. In Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom Marie Noonan Sabin brings Teilhard's vision into conversation with scripture texts related to wisdom. With an interdisciplinary background in literature and theology, Sabin uses her interpretative skills in intellectually challenging ways that will fascinate some readers with knowledge of academic biblical studies but may mystify those without such a background. Though prior knowledge of Teilhard's complicated thought would increase appreciation of Sabin's work, her clarity and conversational style could well inspire Teilhard beginners to delve deeper into his thought.\nSabin begins by introducing Teilhard's foundational insight that humanity is still evolving, naming some biblical roots of his vision, and reflecting on \"how these Scriptures reveal and support the ideas of evolving humanity.\" Then she devotes Chapter 1 to the Book of Job to illustrate Teilhard's notion that God changes. In Chapter 2 Sabin examines first-century ascent literature for metaphors about expanding human consciousness. In Chapter 3, Sabin considers Wisdom personified as the divine feminine and how it comes to transformative expression in the person of Christ.\nThe central core of the book (Chapters 4-7) is devoted to a reading of the gospels through Teilhard's evolutionary lens. Presenting Mark as a midrash, Sabin begins with a quote from Teilhard that \"speaks of our need to 'disclose' God 'ever more fully.'\" She finds in the structure of Mark \"a similar premise,\" explaining, \"Mark presents divine mystery as a parable or riddle whose meaning is not obvious but hidden, needing to be disclosed. Above all, he dramatizes Jesus the Christ as himself the ultimate riddle of divinity hidden at the core of humanity\" (70). Sabin connects the transformations presented in Mark's gospel with \"Teilhard's view of transformation as God's way of creation\" (71).\nFor example, the three seed parables in Mark 4 illustrate that \"God's word is intended to grow and germinate and multiply in human understanding\" (56-57). Rather than making \"simple comparisons,\" they relate \"the kingdom to a sequence of actions\" in which each analogue echoes other scriptures \"that give it a further layer of meaning.\" Sabin argues, \"This juxtaposition of different scriptural views is typical of midrashic commentary, which often jars the biblical reader awake like exposing contradictory voices within the tradition\" so that readers \"must then grapple with how to interpret the tradition for their own time\"(58).\nSabin treats God's Wisdom in Matthew as \"reactualized for the present hour.\" She finds in Luke God's Spirit (Wisdom) as the divine energy that creates the future. Her reading of John's gospel discovers consonance between Teilhard's concept of evolving humanity and the affirmation that God's Wisdom has been made flesh.\nIn Chapter 8, Sabin turns \"the Word made flesh\" into \"the flesh made Word\" to describe humanity's evolution toward a unifying consciousness. This final chapter, her most explicit comparison of Teilhard's vision and biblical Wisdom, relies heavily on her interpretation of John. She explains that although Teilhard saw human evolution as too slow a process of growth for any generation to notice, he still believed human beings were \"moving toward the 'Ultra \u2013 Human' as a way to suggest human beings stretching\u2013not beyond their real limits, but beyond their conventional expectations\" (138).\nSabin says that Teilhard saw \"'the eternal feminine' [Wisdom in the OT and NT] as the 'unitive' element in the universe\u2013that is, as the disposition to attract, and be attracted to, the Other.\" She explains, \"In that relationship of mutual attraction he found the creative energy of the universe\u2013a creative energy scientifically evident in the realm of physics, chemistry, and biology, psychologically evident in the realm of human love, and mystically evident in the realm of divine love. He saw scientific truth as analogy for the spiritual: in each instance, attraction leading to union, and union to a new creation. With Dante, he saw Love as 'the force that moves the sun and other stars'\" (138).\nSabin concludes that \"Teilhard came to see that attracting and sustaining divine Love everywhere . . . . Through his work he tried to raise human consciousness of this divine love, which he perceived not only as a sphere enveloping human existence ('the divine milieu') but also as a magnet, calling humanity into a divinely transformed future ('the Noosphere'). He saw it as a future in which human beings would collectively merge with, and reflect, that divine love, so that All would be One\" (138-39).\nMy only disappointment is with Sabin's \"Further Reflections,\" a three-paragraph final section in which she asks, \"Does this study of Wisdom have practical implications for Christians living today?\" In terms too general she answers yes: \"I think it compels us to reconsider our present spiritual state in relation to both our past and our future.\" She thinks that reading Jewish wisdom through Teilhard's lens should help us value our roots in the Jewish wisdom tradition and understand that \"their expressions of Wisdom, along with our own, are still evolving\" (154-55). In regard to the future, she hopes this study will help us see a \"trust towards a transformed future\" in biblical texts, recognize our \"incompleteness,\" and develop \"a praxis of empathy that is rooted in our longing to work towards the evolution of the wholeness of humanity\" (155).\nFrom a scholar who is so deeply engaged in the study Teilhard de Chardin and in the biblical Wisdom tradition, I expect more recognition that we live in an age of tremendous anxiety about the future of humanity. It's true that Teilhard could be optimistic about the human potential because he took a long view of both evolutionary science and evolutionary spirituality, but even in the twentieth century he was criticized for being overly optimistic. What about now as we have an increase in overt racism, xenophobia, lack of empathy, greed, abuse of power, political and cultural division, and the threat of extinction of life on earth?\nEven though I wish that Sabin's work had entered into conversation with the current state of the world, I found in Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdomthe invitation and tools to see scripture through Teilhard's lens and to grapple with the meanings of both his vision and biblical wisdom for our time.\nJeanne Torrence Finley is a regular contributor to FaithLink, a weekly United Methodist curriculum on current affairs, and to Ministry Matters. The author of Three Simple Rules for Christian Living, she has been a campus minister, pastor, and college English teacher. Currently she is writing a book with Noel Paul Stookey\u2014the \"Paul\" of Peter, Paul, and Mary\u2014about his faith journey, solo music, and social activism. Connect with her on her website and blog, Tell It Slant.\nThis entry was posted in Books, Review and tagged Englewood Review of Books, Marie Noonan Sabin, Teilhard de Chardin by jtfinley. Bookmark the permalink.\nFollow Tell it Slant on WordPress.com\nList of Posts","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Book vending machines dispense mind food to students\nScientists pave way for diamonds to trace early cancers\nRichard Bonynge to receive Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sydney\nStriking a blow against political donation corruption\nWhat medicines would we pack for a trip to Mars?\nWingara Mura Leadership Program offers graduate entry-level roles across the University\nHome \/ News & opinion \/ News \/ October \/ What medicines would we pack for a trip to Mars?\nOpinion_\nThanks to decades of space flight, we can make appropriate plans for the types and amounts of medicines needed for a trip to Mars\nOther than some quick self-surgery at the start, the film The Martian does not touch on the medical aspects of survival on Mars or the long trip to and from the red planet, writes Dr Nial Wheate.\nMars garnered a bunch of headlines early this week, as NASA revealed it had discovered water on the red planet. And it's likely to linger in the public mind a little longer as reviews of the latest sci-fi blockbuster based on the planet appear with the film's national opening today.\nThe Andy Weir novel on which the new sci-fi movie The Martian is based has been lauded for its scientific accuracy. And expert reviews are now explaining what's science fact and what's still science fiction in the film.\nBoth the book and the film cover broad scientific ground, dealing with aspects of botany, chemistry, physics, geology, and engineering. But other than some quick self-surgery at the start, the medical aspects of survival on Mars and the long trip to and from the red planet are not touched on.\nAstronaut health\nThe human body didn't evolve to deal with the unique conditions of space travel. Astronauts experience a wide range of health problems, including short-term ones, such as stress on the body due to the high g-forces of launches, and motion sickness as they adapt to the weightless environment.\nThe International Space Station has given us an enormous amount of information on the long-term health effects of space. Astronauts who spend significant amounts of time in space experience loss of bone density, and a weakening of the muscles, due to the lack of gravity and the exertion it places on the body.\nThe lack of regular days and nights can also make it difficult for astronauts to sleep. And, more recently, we have found that long-term space flight also causes significant cardiovascular problems. Astronauts experience slower and less regular beats of their heart as it fights to push blood around the body in zero gravity.\nThe World Health Organization maintains a model list of essential medicines that it says are needed for basic health care. But there are more than 380 drugs on the combined core and complementary list, and it would be impractical to take all of them into space, especially as most of them wouldn't be needed.\nWhile there's a chance astronauts could develop cancer when in space, for instance, the risk isn't high enough to justify the cost of including chemotherapy drugs. Taking vaccines along may also not be worthwhile, especially, as astronauts are unlikely to pick up new infectious diseases in space.\nAs we've learnt more about space flight, the number and types of medications available to astronauts has changed. In the first space missions of the Mercury program, for instance, each astronaut had just three medicines available. They were tigan, a drug that treats nausea and vomiting due to motion sickness; demerol for treating pain and, the stimulant dextroamphetamine to help keep them alert and awake.\nEssential medicines\nNowadays, astronauts can spend up to six months aboard the International Space Station(ISS), so they need well-supplied medicine kits as well as access to advanced medical diagnostic and emergency resuscitation equipment. The ISS has two medicines kits, one for the Russians and one for the US astronauts, which reportedly contains 190 different medicines.\nIn many ways, the ISS has prepared us for human expeditions to Mars as the health effects of spending time there and medical emergencies that arise are likely to be similar. But there are also some important differences.\nIn emergency medical situations, astronauts on the ISS can return to Earth relatively quickly. But this would be impossible for a trip to Mars so medication to cover all eventualities has to be taken along.\nThe ISS can also be resupplied at regular intervals so large stockpiles of medicines are unnecessary. In contrast, a human expedition to Mars may last a year or more, so the astronauts will need to take all their necessary medications with them. The types of medicines needed can be divided into two categories: those for medical emergencies and those for the health effects of long-term space flight.\nPossible medical conditions and emergencies the astronauts may face, and the medications they will need include:\nMedications for emergencies:\nEmergencies Drugs\nOperations Xylocaine (anaesthetic)\nAllergic reaction Epinephrine\nSeizures Diazepam\nMedications for minor conditions:\nMinor conditions Drugs\nConstipation Dulcolax (laxative)\nDiarrhoea Loperamide\nInfections Amoxicillin (antibiotic)\nInsomnia Temazepam\nMinor pain Aspirin, paracetamol, or ibuprofen\nMotion sickness Benadryl, phenergan\nTaking drugs in space\nOnce the medicines have been selected, we need to consider whether they will perform the way we expect them to when in space. This comes down to whether the medicines will survive space travel and whether they still work the same way in the human body in space.\nThe shelf life of medicines can vary greatly from drug to drug and can be affected by a variety of environmental factors such as temperature, exposure to radiation and even the amount of water in the air, or humidity. Too much or too little of these can affect medicines and render them ineffective, or worse, toxic.\nResearch shows medicines can also act differently under space conditions. A recent studyshowed when paracetamol was taken under microgravity conditions, drug absorption was much slower than on Earth but the amount of it that got into the bloodstream increased. This raises questions about how to calculate the correct dose to give astronauts in space to avoid both under-treating and overdoses.\nThis means we need to study, in detail, the effects of all medicines that astronauts will take with them before they can be placed in the medical kits for a mission to Mars. Any drug that doesn't perform as expected is likely to be ineffective and put the astronauts life at risk. It will either need to be reformulated or substituted for another medicine.\nA human expedition to Mars will always have inherent risks, including the physical toll it takes on the human body. Thanks to decades of space flight, we now better understand these effects and can make appropriate plans for the types and amounts of medicines needed.\nDr Nial Wheate is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy. This article was originally published in The Conversation.\nPharmacy at Sydney\nDan Gaffney\nMedia & PR Adviser (Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy)\ndaniel.gaffney@sydney.edu.au\nRoom N302 Pharmacy A15\nAustralian sea lions are an endangered species. New research suggests endemic tuberculosis might be another health threat facing the pinnipeds. Dr Rachael Gray is working to help save our sea lions.\nWhere does untreated wastewater go in developing countries?\n14 billion litres of untreated wastewater is created each day in developing countries, but we don't know where it all goes. Humanitarian engineer, Dr Jacqueline Thomas explains.\nLiving with menstruation is more than pads and toilets\nDr Erin Hunter, lecturer in Global Health at the University of Sydney, was a key contributor to UNICEF's Guidance for Monitoring Menstrual Health and Hygiene. The guide provides an evidence-based approach to assessing the effectiveness of programs developed to help girls and women address their menstrual needs.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Central government, Inequality & poverty, Scotland, Welfare\nScottish parliamentary committee calls for universal credit overhaul\nKerry Lorimer\nThe introduction of universal credit, and in particular the five-week delay before receipt of the first payment, has led to an \"unacceptable\" rise in rent arrears north of the border.\nIn a new report, members of the Scottish Parliament's social security committee called for an overhaul of the benefit, which would see a review of the initial delay as well as the direct payment of the housing element to landlords in order to reduce arrears.\nThe MSPs also called for abolition of the \"frankly discriminatory\" shared accommodation rate, which limited the amount of housing benefit or universal credit that can be claimed by tenants under the age of 35, who rent a room in a shared house from a private landlord.\nAccording to evidence heard by the committee, the shared accommodation rate created \"significant financial difficulty, debt and hardship\" among younger people, with separated parents particularly badly affected.\nThe report also draws attention to the widening gap between local housing allowances and the cost of renting in the private sector, especially in Edinburgh and other urban areas.\nOriginally uprated in line with market rent, local housing allowances have been frozen since 2016, meaning that in many parts of Scotland they do not serve their intended purpose and should be reviewed, the MSPs said.\nThe committee was also \"extremely concerned\" by the high cost of temporary accommodation and \"troubled\" by the poor quality of the accommodation some tenants had been offered. Although temporary accommodation is intended to be a short-term measure, people find themselves trapped there due to the shortage of affordable alternatives, they heard.\nBob Doris, convener of the social security committee, said the rapid increase in rent arrears since the introduction of universal credit was \"unacceptable\", and that steps must be taken to address this issue, which was increasing the budgetary strain on both local authorities and social landlords.\n\"We want to see the housing element of universal credit paid directly to landlords and the Department for Work and Pensions must review the minimum five-week wait for new\u2026claimants, both of which contribute to rising arrears,\" he said.\n\"Our inquiry highlighted a number of issues, including the frankly discriminatory shared accommodation rate which should be abolished immediately.\n\"It is also clear that local housing allowance rates are not fit for purpose and are failing to help claimants meet the rising cost of the private rented sector.\"\nA UK government spokeswoman said that while rent arrears could not be linked to any one cause, many people joined universal credit with pre-existing arrears, and research showed that number fell by a third after four months.\n\"In Scotland we already pay rent directly to landlords where requested and can pay universal credit more frequently to help with budgeting,\" she said.\n\"Meanwhile, Scotland has significant welfare powers, including flexibilities within universal credit and the power to top-up existing benefits, pay discretionary payments and create entirely new benefits altogether.\"\nScotland-based freelance journalist\nUniversal Credit latest\nInvest in social security to lift children out of poverty, says charity\nUnion warns universal credit strikes could spread\nNumber of food bank parcels handed out rockets, says charity\nUniversal credit claimants 'will be \u00a31k a year worse off'\nlocal housing allowances\nScotland could raise taxes to plug \u00a31bn funding black hole\nScotland to boost investment incentives through business rate reform\nTax gap widens in Scotland as higher rate is frozen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"5 minutes | Auch verf\u00fcgbar auf\nTeaching in the Summer Term: Liberalism and its Critique, and Foundations of Political Theory\nIn my MA-seminar this semester I teach liberalism and the critique of liberalism. The question is whether the widespread critique that political liberalism insufficiently incorporates subjectivity into political theory is really true - a critique that is also a premise of my thinking.\nIn my BA-seminar Foundations of Political Theory I first introduce the hegemonic liberal political theory of the West, and then teach the classics of critical political theory. Students learn to question power and normalization in contemporary capitalism, among others by reading Luhmann's Love as Passion and, on the occasion of current debates, texts by Achille Mbembe.\nLiberalism and its Critique (summer semester 2020 \/ online)\nAlbert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, MA Political Science\nThe seminar serves to discuss the critique of political liberalism, which is the core business of critical theory of all kinds. The critique of liberalism is put forward on a continental scale by both French (the tradition of \"political difference\" and \"the political\") and Frankfurt (Honneth, Jaeggi), as well as in the American debate on communitarianism (Taylor, Sandel) and a new liberal Aristotelism (Nussbaum). At the centre of these debates is the relationship between law and politics and the question of the extent to which individual subjectivity and 'the private' should be included by a political theory - and what normative claims on and interventions in the subjectivity of individuals (for example through specific political education programmes) are necessary or justified. Liberalism is criticized for blanking out subjectivity, dependence and neediness by a purely negative concept of freedom and an atomistic social ontology related to it. Thus liberalism ideologically petrifies the existing conditions. In recent years, this debate has been given new topicality by Christoph Menke's critique of law, who radically formulates the criticism of liberal subjective rights.\nBut is it really true that liberalism resorts to a purely atomizing social ontology and is unable or (for political reasons) unwilling to consider subjectivation - that is, the social constitution of subjectivity? And how convincing are the concepts of freedom and subjectivity presented by critics of liberalism as an alternative? In the seminar we will explore these questions through contrasting readings of selected texts of liberalism and critiques of liberalism. It begins with an introductory part in which we will deal with the central systematic concept of debate - freedom - and differentiate the concepts of negative, positive and social freedom. The second part is devoted to the US-American debate between Rawlsian liberalism and communitarian criticism. In the third part, we analyze the German debate between Habermas' Kantianism and Honneth's and Jaeggis's Hegelianism with regard to the similarities and differences to the US-American debate. This selection of texts and the method of comparing theories on similar systematic problems aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the basic problems of political theory negotiated here, which also helps them to work independently on other varieties of liberalism criticism.\nIntroduction, 13.05.2020\nPart 1: Concepts of freedom\nNegative freedom (Berlin), 20.05.2020\nPositive freedom (Taylor), 27.05.2020\nSocial freedom (Neuhouser), 03.06.2020\nPart 2: The US debate\nRawls' universalist liberalism, 10.06.2020\nRawls' political liberalism, 17.06.2020\nSandel's Communitarianism, 24.06.2020\nTaylor's Communitarianism, 01.07.2020\nPart 3: The German debate\nHabermas' Kantianism, 08.07.2020\nHabermas' legal theory, 15.07.2020\nHonneth's Socialism, 22.07.2020\nJaeggis's Forms of Life, 29.07.2020\nFoundations of Political Theory, 2020 (summer semester \/ online)\nAlbert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, BA Political Science\nThe seminar introduces contemporary political theory by reading representative texts of key authors. It is systematically divided into two parts: the liberal tradition and critical political theory.\nThe first part serves to study central texts of political liberalism, which is the hegemonic political doctrine in the Western world. Here, we will get to know normative political theory as a social discourse of self-reflection and legitimization, and discuss different methods of establishing normative theories. We focus on the concept of freedom (Berlin), modern contract theory (Rawls), the needs and capabilities of people (Nussbaum), and reason in the democratic public sphere (Habermas).\nThe second part is devoted to critical political theory. Here political theory is understood less as a normative legitimation of the existing than as a diagnosing critique of society and politics. Responding to the social question that arose in the 19th century, the young social sciences developed systematic approaches to the analysis and critique of social pathologies. We discuss the manifold methods of critique that introduce historical, economic, epistemological, sociological, socio-ontological and psychological arguments into political theory. The objects of critique are capitalism (Marx), subject (Freud), science (Horkheimer\/Adorno), power (Foucault), love and sexuality (Luhmann) and colonialism\/postcolonialism (Mbembe). With Marx, Freud, Adorno, and Horkheimer, we read authors who are among the cornerstones of critical political theory today. Luhmann's and Foucault's sharp analyses of social systems and the effects of power respectively stand for critical methods that do not require the development of clear normative positions and that have become widely used in contemporary political theory. Mbembe's analyses of colonialist thought continue the criticism of Enlightenment universalism in the context of globalism.\nPart 1: The contemporary hegemony of liberalism\nNegative and positive freedom: Isaiah Berlin's anti-paternalism, 19.05.20\nLegitimation of Western democracy: John Rawls' liberalism, 26.05.20\nHuman needs and capabilities: Martha Nussbaum's liberal Aristotelism, 02.06.20\nCommunicative Reason and Rule of Law: J\u00fcrgen Habermas' deliberative theory of democracy, 09.06.20\nPart 2: Political theory as social criticism\nExploitation under capitalism: Karl Marx' historical materialism, 16.06.20\nDisenchantment of consciousness: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, 23.06.20\nThe totality of the wrong: Adorno and Horkheimer's Critique of Modernity, 30.06.20\nLove in the gears of society: Luhmann's systems theory, 07.07.20\nThe normalization of sexuality: Foucault's power analysis, 14.07.20\nColonial condemnation: Achille Mbembe's Postcolonial Critique, 21.07.20\nDiscussion of homework and feedback, 28.07.20\nUnder Teaching you find information about past seminars.\nOffice hours during lecture-free period, 14. February 2020\nTeaching, Winter Term: Queer and Gay Male Theory and Foucault as Contemporary Political Thinker, 29. October 2019\nBook office hours appointment conveniently through Calendry, 17. October 2019\n\u2190 Co-Publication at Theorieblog und Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin: Political Correctness as a Critique of Privilege (in German) Freedom as Critique. Foucault Beyond Anarchism - New Publication in Philosophy & Social Criticism \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Home \/ Models \/ 3-Series \/ VIDEO: Joe Achilles drives the BMW X5 M50d\nVIDEO: Joe Achilles drives the BMW X5 M50d\n3-Series | December 26th, 2018 by Nico DeMattia\t4\nThis new BMW X5 is gaining a lot of fans among BMW enthusiasts, even those that prefer smaller sports cars. That's not because it feels \u2026\nThis new BMW X5 is gaining a lot of fans among BMW enthusiasts, even those that prefer smaller sports cars. That's not because it feels like a sports car, far from it, but because it drives a lot nicer than a lot of fans were expecting and because it's also a great luxury car. It has the same excellent blend of driving enjoyment (for an SUV) and comfort that made the original E53 X5 so loved. Now, though, BMW has added another performance-ish variant to the X5's stable \u2014 the X5 M50d \u2014 and Joe Achilles gives it a test in this new video.\nOn a gross, mucky and rainy December day at Goodwood, Achilles was able to sample both the BMW X5 xDrive30d and the X5 M50d, though it's the latter that we're more interested in. While the X4 xDrive30d is going to be the volume seller, thanks to its superior fuel economy and sufficient power, the X5 M50d is the more interesting of the two. That's because it comes with a quad-turbocharged 3.0 liter I6 diesel and enough torque to rival and aircraft carrier.\nIn this video, we see the X5 tackle some twisty roads in awful conditions, some off-roading and them some more nasty roads. What's constantly surprising about the BMW X5 is that it's seriously capable on the road. Even in slippery conditions, in cold temperatures and on summer tires, the new X5 seems to be a willing dance partner. It's no sports car, obviously, but it has such a positive response to you inputs. Its steering is good, with decent feedback through the wheel, its suspension is supple and composed and its chassis is surprisingly balanced. Admittedly, there's a lot of electronic trickery going on, with active anti-roll bars and what not, but it's effective regardless of what systems make it work.\nMost SUV enthusiasts would laugh at the prospect of a BMW X5 going off road but the X5 can tackle mud surprisingly well. It's no Jeep Wrangler but it's no joke, either. Even on summer tires, the BMW X5 tackles thick mud and very slippery surfaces on uphill gradients with relative ease. Maybe BMW's M Performance off-road parts aren't just wishful thinking.\nBut the most surprising bit, at least to Achilles, is the X5's braking. On the M50d model, with its upgraded M Sport brakes, it will make you sick during full-panic stops. He tests them out on the road in those aforementioned conditions and it stops with such force that he actually looks like he's about to be sick. The braking force is astonishing and it's hard to understand how. The X5 is very heavy and, at least in this video, is not on tires that are particularly grippy in cold, wet conditions, so it should not be able to brake that quickly. Credit BMW's brake and ABS calibration, I guess.\nIf you're interested in a BMW X5, which you should be as it's an excellent all-around SUV, than this video is worth a watch.\nBMW X5 M50dvideo\nPrevious post BMW M2 \"Lime Rock\" looks awesome in Fire Orange\nNext post BMW M2 Competition takes on the Porsche Cayman GT4\nVideo: BMW Has a Funny Way of Promoting its PHEV models\nIt looks like the slow adoption of more electrified vehicles in the range has had led BMW to a series of marketing campaigns and the \u2026\nVideo: How to Use Your BMW High Performance Brakes\nYou'd think that one of the easiest concepts to understand, in this technology-filled automotive world, would be the brakes. In my head, using the brake \u2026\nVIDEO: Carwow tests New BMW M135i vs Old BMW M140i\nI have to admit, when I saw the title of this new video from Carwow, I rushed to click it. Now that the new BMW \u2026\nVIDEO: Get some insight into the design of the new BMW 1 Series\nThis new BMW 1 Series is a big departure from the car it replaces. Not only because this new one is front-wheel drive-based, while the \u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dwayne Johnson Gifts His Custom Truck to Church Group Leader at Film Screening\nHome \u00bb Dwayne Johnson Gifts His Custom Truck to Church Group Leader at Film Screening\nDwayne 'The Rock' Johnson offered a fan more than a good time at the movies with free popcorn and ice cream. He gave away his very own custom truck.\nJohnson did research on those attending the screening and wanted to bless someone in a 'Big' way.\n\"I invited fans to a special theater screening of RED NOTICE and I wanted to do something cool for all of them. Free concessions, @projectrock, @teremana, @zoaenergy, @saltandstraw ice cream.\nFree everything and a great time at the movies! I also wanted to do something BIG\u2026 something MASSIVE\u2026something unforgettable for one fan.\"\nThat he did.\n\"Oscar Rodriguez's story moved me\" Johnson wrote on his Instagram.\nRodriguez's is a Navy veteran, personal trainer, and sole caretaker of his 75-year-old mother. He's also a leader of a local church group and runs a charity to help victims of domestic violence.\n\"And now I can figure out how I'm getting home,\" laughed Johnson. \"'Cause I don't have my ride.\"\nThe Fast and Furious star also gifted a Ford F-150 to Bruno Lauer in 2021, a friend who helped Johnson as a homeless teen.\n'I love you, brother,\" Johnson wrote to his friend in a post on Instagram. \"Your kindness and heart \u2013 helped change my life's trajectory. And when you're ready to retire from 'the business' you just say the word. I got you covered.\"\nDeuteronomy 15:10 \u2013 \"You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings.\"\n-Corine Gatti-Santillo\nTrending In Entertainment and Celebrity News\nDonald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle Are Engaged After Four Years\nUSA Swimming Official Resigns Over Trans Policy: 'Everything Fair About Swimming Is Being Destroyed'\nMainstreaming Witchcraft | Disney Tarot Cards\n'American Underdog' Movie: From Supermarket Stocker to Super Bowl MVP","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How You Can Remain Anonymous in NY if You Win Mega Millions!\nChrissy Updated: July 29, 2022\nIn New York state when you win a jackpot through the New York lottery, you are usually instant-famous by name. But a fairly recent winner in East Berne walked away with a ten million dollar scratch-off lottery ticket jackpot and no one knows who the new millionaire is.\nI'm sure he or she told a family member but if you go to the New York Lottery's website, the winner of the $10,000 a Week for Life scratch-off game is listed as \"Precious Blessings LLC\". Because the guaranteed winnings are ten million dollars, they elected to take a lump sum of $5,753,618. The scratch-off ticket was claimed back on September 13th. But instead of having his or her name blasted in the news or across social media, they created an LLC or corporation to claim the prize.\nWhere Was The Scratch-Off Sold\nThe $10,000 a Week For Life scratch-off ticket was sold at Stewart's Shops in East Berne, NY. The address is 788 Helderberg Trail in East Berne.\nAnother Capital Region Winner Remained Anonymous\nRemember back in September of 2020 when the Powerball jackpot reached nearly $95 million? It was the only winning ticket and it was sold in Malta at the Minogue's Beverage on Route 9. That winner came forward and all we knew was that it was one man from Ballston Spa. He chose to take a lump sum of over $50 million. But we never knew his name because he also created an LLC. His was named \"September 2020 LLC\".\nREAD: Fishkill's Luckiest Lotto Store\nIt's Actually a Very Smart Idea\nThink about it, if you won a major jackpot either on a scratch-off game or by playing one of the lottery's numbers games, wouldn't you want to keep it fairly quiet? When your name gets publicized, I imagine everyone would come out of the woodwork to get a piece of your jackpot.\nSo congratulations to the \"Precious Blessings LLC\" and good for you to remain somewhat anonymous.\nThis Amazing Church has Been Converted into a Bar and Restaurant\nJust wait until you see inside this amazing church in Mohegan Lake that was converted into a bar, restaurant, and live music venue\nKEEP READING: Here are the best places to retire in America\nSource: How You Can Remain Anonymous in NY if You Win Mega Millions!\nFiled Under: $10 million scratch-off ticket, anonymous, east berne, New York Lottery winner, win for life","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pentagon: Congress is No Longer Keeping Us from Paying Dead Soldiers' Families!\nBy Bridget Johnson Oct 11, 2013 4:15 PM ET\nJust in from Defense Department press secretary George Little:\nToday, senior DoD leaders consulted with the leadership of the Fisher House Foundation on moving forward with providing death benefits to the families of fallen service members.\nNow that Congress has enacted legislation permitting DoD to provide families these benefits directly during the government shutdown, DoD is moving expeditiously to pay each family the $100,000 death gratuity they are owed. These payments were initiated today and the families will receive them early next week, when their banks reopen for business. In addition, Fisher House Foundation will donate $25,000 to each of these families from its own funds.\nSecretary Hagel greatly appreciates the generosity of the Fisher House Foundation, as well as other groups which have stepped forward to help these families in their time of need. With Congress no longer preventing DoD from making these payments to the families directly, he is pleased that DoD will be able to fulfill its responsibilities to the families of the fallen. The Secretary remains deeply concerned about the disruptive impact the ongoing shutdown is having on Departmental operations, and continues to urge Congress to restore funding to the entire federal government.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Abkhazia \u2013 unrecognized state between the Caucasus and the Black Sea \u2013 1992\nThe majority of the country's population are Abkhazians, and a minority are Georgians, Russians and several Caucasian ethnic groups.\nAbkhazia, a former autonomous Soviet socialist republic located within Georgia's borders, declared independence on July 23, 1992. Abkhazia is located between the southern slopes of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, and to date has failed to gain general world recognition, so it is recognized only by the Russian Federation, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Vanuatu and Tuvalu. The United Nations and most of the world's countries still consider Abkhazia part of Georgia. It is important to emphasize that in practice, the Georgian authorities have no control over the territory of Abkhazia.\nThe nominal capital of Abkhazia is Suhumi, a coastal city located on the Black Sea coast. Abkhazia has an area of \u200b\u200b8,660 square kilometers and has a population of about 240,000. The majority of the country's population are Abkhazians, and a minority are Georgians, Russians and several Caucasian ethnic groups.\nThe mentioned effort of Abkhazia to fight for independence from Georgia led to an armed conflict, in which Abkhazia was in principle supported by the Russian Federation. The 1992-1993 war resulted in the defeat of the regular Georgian army and the mass exodus of Georgians from Abkhazia. A similar conflict erupted in South Ossetia, which was once an autonomous region within the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia and is also located on the southern side of the Caucasus (South Ossetia is only a hundred kilometers southeast of Abkhazia).\nPHOTO: Crowds at the Parade of the U.S. 369th Infantry Regiment","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mas Real Estate successfully acquires Nova Park Mall in Poland\nby PropertyWheel_GLP\nIn line with the group's updated strategy of investing across the broader European market, shareholders are advised that MAS has, through a subsidiary, PKM CEE Investments Limited, signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire, from Piccadilly Capital Investment sp. Z o.o., the Nova Park mall in Gorz\u00f3w Wielkopolski, Poland.\nMAS' effective economic interest in the acquisition is the equivalent of an 80% direct participation in the performance of the mall and a 20% participation at the weighted average cost of funding achieved by the acquisition\nRationale and Salient Terms of the Acquisition\nThe purchase price payable for the acquisition is EUR 88,5 million, with a cash deposit of EUR 8,85 million paid within three business days of the signature of the SPA and held in escrow. The purchase price will be paid to the vendor in full on the day preceding the conclusion of final transaction agreements (namely, once the SPA has become unconditional).\nNova Park is situated in central Gorz\u00f3w, 150km from Berlin in western Poland. The mall's current lettable area of 32,580 square metres and 910 parking spaces make it the largest mall in the region. The mall has an estimated catchment of 370,000 people and has been experiencing growing footfall and growing tenant revenues since its opening in 2012. The current annual rent roll of approximately EUR 5,8 million is generated from a diversified mix of high quality tenants including international and national brands Bershka, C&A, CCC, Cropp Town, Deichman, Douglas, Empik, H&M, Intersport, KFC, Media Expert, Mohito, New Yorker, Piotr i Pavel, Pull&Bear, Pure Fitness, Reserved, Rossmann, Sephora, Sinsay, Smyk, Stradivarius and Super-Pharm. The weighted average rental per square metre is EUR 14,40 per month.\nNova Park benefits from excellent visibility and accessibility due to good road and public transport connections and its location within a short walking distance from the city centre of Gorz\u00f3w. In addition to the immediate income being generated from the property, the acquisition provides significant opportunities to enhance the income stream and strengthen the mall's dominance through active asset management and a substantial extension of approximately 6,800 square metres, aligning with the group's strategy of delivering a growing income distribution.\nThe SPA contains standard terms and warranties for a transaction of this nature.\nThe purchase price reflects the fair value attributed to the mall, as at 17 November 2016, by the directors of MAS. The directors of MAS are not independent or registered as professional valuers or professional associate valuers in terms of the South African Property Valuers Profession Act 2000 or otherwise.\nThe acquisition is categorized as a Category 2 transaction in terms of the JSE Listings Requirements.\nConditions Precedent\nIn line with local policy, pre-emption rights exist in favour of the local municipality. The pre-emption rights expire in 30 days from the date of signature of the SPA, after which the acquisition will become unconditional, final transaction agreements governing the closing and implementation of the acquisition will be concluded and the acquisition will be effective.\nCo-Investment Agreement with Prime Kapital\nThe acquisition has been undertaken in terms of a long-term co-investment agreement that MAS has entered into with Prime Kapital Limited (respectively, \"Prime Kapital\" and \"the co-investment agreement\"). All future acquisitions made under this co-investment agreement shall result in the same effective economic interest for MAS as stated above.\nPrime Kapital have sourced and will manage this and future acquisitions going forward under the co-investment agreement.\nWithdrawal of Cautionary Announcement\nShareholders are advised that the cautionary announcement dated 3 October 2016 is now withdrawn and shareholders are no longer required to exercise caution when dealing in MAS shares. MAS is dual primary listed on the Main Board of the JSE and the Euro MTF market of the LuxSE.\nacquisition business commercial commercial property commercial property news europe foreign property investment global property market jse landlord lease listed property mas property management reit rental retail sens shopping centres tenant\nStor-Age outperforms Prospectus forecast with strong interim results\nRabie's Century City Square receives 4-star Green Star rating\nNews \u2022 Sponsored\nLogistics to continue being commercial property's growth engine\nReal estate industry welcomes new Property Practitioners Act","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Your son will be more than just a better student. He will be a better man.\nThese words from Kevin Poelker '98, Principal and Theology teacher, capture the impact De Smet Jesuit has on its students. Upon graduation, our students embody the characteristics defined in the long-standing Jesuit Schools Network Profile of the Graduate at Graduation. In 2018 our faculty and staff revisited the grad at grad profile and further defined the Portrait of a Spartan, conveying in greater depth the aspirations for our students that we believe make De Smet Jesuit distinct.\nDe Smet Jesuit Students\nA De Smet Jesuit student strengthens his personal leadership style to positively impact his community.\nA De Smet Jesuit student matures spiritually, develops his relationship with Jesus Christ, and experiences God's love in everyday life.\nA De Smet Jesuit student engages others with confidence, compassion, gratitude, and humility.\nA De Smet Jesuit student expands his perspective through service and contributes to the world as a man of virtue and action.\nA De Smet Jesuit student commits himself to academic excellence for advanced learning in college and beyond.\nA De Smet Jesuit student thinks creatively and applies his knowledge toward the good of others and society.\nA De Smet Jesuit student seeks new challenges, discovers his own path, and strives to live the best version of himself.\nPortrait of a Spartan\nJesuit Profile of the Graduate at Graduation\nOpen to Growth\nIntellectually Competent\nCommitted to Justice\nDeveloping as a Leader\nThe graduate of De Smet Jesuit has matured as a person - intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, physically, and socially - to a level that reflects some intentional responsibility for one's own growth. He is beginning to reach out in his development, seeking opportunities to stretch one's mind, imagination, feelings, and religious consciousness.\nThe graduate of De Smet Jesuit exhibits mastery of those academic requirements for advanced forms of education. While these requirements are broken down into departmental subject matter areas, the student will have developed many intellectual skills and understandings that cut across and go beyond academic requirements for college entrance. The student is also developing habits of intellectual inquiry, as well as a disposition toward life-long learning. The student is beginning to see the need for intellectual integrity in his or her personal quest for religious truth and in his or her response to issues of social justice.\nThe graduate of De Smet Jesuit will have a basic knowledge of the major doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church. Having been introduced to Ignatian spirituality, the graduate will also have examined his own religious feelings and beliefs with a view to choosing a fundamental orientation toward God and establishing a relationship with a religious tradition and\/or community. What is said here, respectful of the conscience and religious background of the individual, also applies to the non-Catholic graduate of a Jesuit high school. The level of theological understanding of the Jesuit high school graduate will naturally be limited by the student's level of religious and human development.\nThe graduate of De Smet Jesuit is continuing to form his own identity. He is moving beyond self-interest or self-centeredness in close relationships. The graduate is beginning to be able to risk some deeper levels of relationship in which one can disclose self and accept the mystery of another person and cherish that person. Nonetheless, the graduate's attempt at loving, while clearly beyond childhood, may not yet reflect the confidence and freedom of an adult.\nThe graduate of De Smet Jesuit has acquired considerable knowledge of the many needs of local, national, and global communities and is preparing for the day when he will take a place in these communities as a competent, concerned and responsible member. The graduate has been inspired to develop the awareness and skills necessary to live in a global society as a person for and with others. Although this commitment to doing justice will come to fruition in mature adulthood, some predispositions will have begun to manifest themselves earlier.\nThe graduate of De Smet Jesuit is aware of his responsibility to be a leader in the Ignatian tradition of service and collaboration. He has had opportunities to exercise leadership in academic, co-curricular activities, and pastoral activities. As a result of opportunities to develop leadership skills during his high school years at De Smet Jesuit, the graduate:\nunderstands that responsibility and a respect for diversity are essential elements of leadership.\nsees leadership as an opportunity for service to others and the community.\nrealizes that leadership requires being a good role model.\nrealizes that leadership involves collaboration and cooperation.\nunderstands that reflection and evaluation are important elements in good decision-making.\nAs a Jesuit high school, and a member of Jesuit Schools Network, we strive to graduate students who possess the desire and the personal resources to be men for and with others as detailed in the Profile of the Graduate at Graduation.\nThis foundational document is used by Jesuit schools across the country to outline the five characteristics they hope their graduates will embody. At De Smet Jesuit, we use this roadmap to guide our work and have customized it along the way--adding a sixth characteristic, Developing as a Leader, to more accurately reflect the experience we provide.\nJesuit Profile of Grad at Grad","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Romanian PM formally indicted for money-laundering\nRomania's prime minister, Victor Ponta, will be tried by the country's top court for fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, according to reports. Ponta has denied the allegations against him since he was charged in July.\nRomania charges Lukoil in \u20ac2 billion money-laundering probe\nRomanian prosecutors have indicted a local subsidiary of Russian oil producer Lukoil with money laundering, according to reports. Lukoil's Romanian refinery, Petrotel Lukoil, and its director general have both been charged.\nRomania raids major pharmaceutical companies in bribery probe\nRomania's main anti-bribery agency raided over 60 premises on 28 July as part of a corruption probe into drug companies, including Novartis, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and Teva Pharmaceuticals.\nNew GSK bribery allegations in Romania\nUK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is examing a whistleblower email, which alleges the company made improper payments to Romanian doctors in return for prescribing its drugs. The email in question was seen by newswire Reuters.\nLukoil asks EU for help over Romanian \u20ac2 billion asset seizure\nThe European Commission is considering whether to intervene in a \u20ac2 billion asset seizure dispute between Russian oil company Lukoil and Romanian prosecutors.\nRomanian prime minister charged with corruption\nRomania's prime minister, Victor Ponta, was charged on 13 July with money laundering, tax evasion and fraud dating back to when he was a lawyer in 2012.\nRomania seizes US$2.2 billion from Russian petroleum company Lukoil\nAccording to reports, Romanian prosecutors seized US$2.2 billion from Russian petroleum company Lukoil on 8 July, following a money-laundering and tax evasion investigation that started in 2014.\nRomanian official sentenced to five years for bribery\nMihail Vlasov, the former chairman of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was sentenced to five years in prison on 18 June for taking US$228,000 in bribes from a businessman to help the man in a litigation suit.\nAnti-corruption enforcement in eastern and central Europe on the international agenda\nThomas Firestone, resident legal advisor to the US embassy in Moscow between 2006 and 2012, says the issue of anti-corruption enforcement in Eastern Europe has become increasingly important to the international community since the relations between Russia and the West soured last year.\nFormer Romanian finance minister under investigation\nRomanian prosecutors are investigating allegations that the country's finance minister took a bribe from a company bidding for a government contract.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeIndustryMCMC\/SKMM\nMCMC\/SKMM\nJENDELA Phase 1 plan revised, MCMC calls for participation, again\nOn 20 November 2020, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) called for the submission of draft plans under the JENDELA Phase 1 initiative. However, about two months later, the regulator issued a new invitation on 15 January 2021, replacing the original invitation.\nThe new invitation to participate, if not revised again in the future, encompasses a scope of work that is divided into two (2) parts for the JENDELA Phase 1 initiative. Part 1 covers the installation of passive infrastructure, while Part 2 covers the installation of active infrastructure and the deployment of public cellular services. MCMC said interested licensees can opt to participate in either Part 1 or Part 2.\n\"The revised scope of work and eligibility criteria is meant to expedite implementation as it will allow a greater number of licensees to participate in this exercise, which covers 1,661 locations in 106 clusters nationwide,\" it said in a statement.\nThe regulator added that, \"The closing date for Registration of Interest is on 2 February 2021 and the submission of Draft Universal Service Plans by interested and eligible licensees are on 31 March 2021.\"\nAs part of Phase 1 (2020-2022) of the multi-billion JENDELA project, MCMC said in September 2020 that it intends to achieve the following targets:\n7.5 million premises passed for fixed broadband (HSBB)\n96.9% 4G LTE coverage (MCMC said JENDELA will consider options on cost saving to meet the 96.9%)\n35Mbps mobile broadband speeds\n5G planing \u2013 infrastructure to be 5G-ready\nTo achieve the 96.9% 4G LTE coverage, some 940 new sites was expected be deployed by end of 2020, 4,589 sites to be upgraded to 4G by end of 2021 and another 1,661 new 4G sites to be deployed by end of 2022.\nThe deployment of the new 1,661 sites nationwide will be funded via the Universal Service Provision (USP) Fund. The funds are contributed annually by the major Telecommunication companies in Malaysia.\nIn its original notice, MCMC said the new 1,661 sites will offer 2G and 4G services (3G networks in Malaysia will be shut down by the end of 2021). It will cover 12 states and one (1) Federal Territory in Malaysia:\nFederal Territory of Labuan\nOut of the 1,661 locations identified by the Malaysia communications regulator, a total of 1,020 locations or 61% are located in Labuan, Sabah and Sarawak respectively, whilst the remaining 641 locations or 39% are located in Peninsular Malaysia.\n78.75% or 1,308 sites are located in rural and remote areas.\nIt also said all the Telco sites \"will be fiberised as far as is possible\" without providing any specific numbers.\n[Source PDF] \u2013 MCMC calls for participation in JENDELA Phase 1 initiate\nU Mobile to offer 15GB Internet at RM20 for Students, born between 1999 and 2004\nCelcom Cloud Suite for Enterprise customers, in partnership with Microsoft Malaysia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Review for Yes Solar Solutions\nOffice location: 202 N. Dixon Avenue, Cary NC, 27513\nErin Hathaway Holly Springs, NC\nAlmost a year out and it's everything we hoped it would be\nThe solar panels have worked out so well for us. We've only had a couple of months in the summer when we've had electricity charges from Duke (and even then, it's maybe $25). We've been running the AC constantly and have 2 adults working from home (and a teenager who spends a ton of time on his computer and TV when he's home). It makes me feel so good to know that I'm minimizing our reliance on fossil fuels AND saving money in the long run. It's been problem free and it's so easy to forget we even have them, as the panels are so unobtrusive. With the federal tax credits and the rebate that Yes Solar Solutions was able to help us get from Duke energy, it's been a frugal, sustainable solution for us and I know we'll love it for decades to come. If you're on the fence, just talk to them. They were very low pressure and answered my (many, many) questions factually and honestly. This was not a heavy-handed sales pitch but an informational conversation from a company that takes pride in what they do and in helping prospective customers find cost-effective ways to make solar happen for them.\nPrice charged as quoted\nInstallation quality\nSystem size (kW): 7.59\nSystem price: $10,000\nYear installed: 2021\nPrice include the Federal Tax Credit or incentives: Yes\nYes Solar Solutions reply 01\/03\/2023\nErin, we are so happy that we were able to help you meet your goals of reducing your carbon footprint as well as saving money, especially with the added Duke rebate! We really do take pride in what we do and if you ever have more questions come up, we are happy to help. Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review.\nCost & savings calculator\nInstallers call:\nHomeowners call:\nDo not sell my details\n\u00a9 2012 - 2023 solarreviews.com. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"We're Dropping into Call of Duty Black Ops 4: Blackout on IGN Plays Live\nBack in Black(out).\nBy Mitchell Saltzman\nUpdated: 12 Oct 2018 5:48 pm\nPosted: 12 Oct 2018 5:00 pm\nCall of Duty: Black Ops 4 is now available in North America, and we'll be right there on the front lines streaming the battle royale-inspired Blackout mode.\nThis all goes down from 11-1pm PT\/2-4pm ET\/7-9pm UK (Saturday, October 13 from 5-7am AET). Join us as we attempt to get our first non-beta Blackout win!\nAs always, you can watch right here on the front page of IGN.com, or you can find us on YouTube, Twitch, and Mixer.\nIn the meantime, check out our clip of 7 minutes of Blackout gameplay.\nCall of Duty: Black Ops 4 offers a gritty, grounded, all-out combat experience, with a Multiplayer mode that increases tactical gameplay and player choice, and also the biggest Zombies offering ever. New for CoD is Blackout, where the Black Ops universe explodes in a battle royale experience\nBlood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Users Interact, In-Game Purchases\nBeenox, Raven Software, Treyarch\nOnline Versus Multiplayer\nPC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One\nShooter, Battle Royale\nHorizon Forbidden West PS5 Upgrade: Save $10 Using This Easy Trick\n11h ago - It's a strange one, but we're not complaining.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Twitter and your academic reputation: friends or enemies?\nThe feedback from social media like twitter can strike as fast as lightning, with consequences unforseen. For many researchers, the pace and tone of this online review can be intimidating \u2014 and can sometimes feel like an attack. How do authors best deal with these forms of peer review after publication? The speed of this \"social peer review\" is much faster than the time that was needed for the peer review process during submission and acceptance of the paper as part of the publishing process in (top) academic journals. and the feedback comes from anywhere, not just the circle of accepted experts in the field like with the blind review process of journals.\nThe result of this can be of enormous impact on your academic reputation. What if suddenly thousands of tweets disapprove of the conclusions of a paper just published? It will create a situation that is nearly impossible to handle for the author of the work. There will be a \"negative sentiment\" around the publications that will be of influence on aspects of your reputation. For example the chances your paper will be cited often. How will this social sentiment be of influence to other papers in the pipeline and under submission with (top) journals? How will the social sentiment be of influence to your co-authors? How will it influence the chances of your grant applications? How ill it influence your tenure process if the sentiment is negative? These are all huge stakes for researchers.\nA recent article by Apoorva Mandavilla in Nature deals with this issue. It is about \"fast feedback\", \"a chorus of (dis) approval\", \"Meta-twitters ', 'new (alt) metrics of communication\" and some possible solutions for the situation.\nThe possible power of social media for research and academic reputation is evident for me. The management of the communication and speed of the feedback needs special skills and special publication strategies by researchers (and institutes!) who care about their future careers and their reputation. The open social media review dynamics at networks like twitter currently has many risks for the author of the paper. But at the same time the stakes and risks for the crowd who collectively performs these \"trials\" is very low I guess. A single tweet is not powerful, but the flog together is impact full. It is a collective review of the crowd, with often a lot of people who just follow the sentiment by simply re-tweeting others.\nI advice researchers to be very careful about which message on their paper is distributed in social networks, how this is distributed, by whom it is distributed and who is replying on it. The social networks should not reproduce or copycat the formal peer review process by selected experts. They should be focused on adding value to the possible additional virtues of the work. The best approach might be to leverage the social media by initiating stories on possible practical values and practical impact of the research. Because when these are confirmed in the wider social network audiences, the author can get confidence that the practical \/ managerial value of his research is valued and tested immediately. In this way the social networks can be very beneficial for the academic reputation; they perform a sounding board for testing managerial \/ practical value of the research.\nFiled under Alt-metrics, authorship, Esteem indicators, impact measurement, metrics, Publishing, Social media feedback Tagged with Academic journal, Paper, Peer review, Reputation, Research, Social media, Social network, Twitter\nCrowdsourced ranking of journals in Management; any news?\nManagement researchers love journal rankings. A new way to get the judgement of thousands of voters was launched recently by Teppo Felin, Brigham Young University. After a few weeks already 80.000 votes were submitted to rank more than 100 journals in the field of management. Voters can submit a vote as many times as they like. After filtering out about 20.000 automated robot votes, an impressive amount of 60.000 votes remained.\nThere are already some blogposts on this ranking where peers discuss the pro's and cons of performing the ranking this way.\nThe crowd initiative is here @ All Our Ideas: http:\/\/www.allourideas.org\/management\nBesides the obvious trouble to compare all these journals (a nearly impossible task), one can ask what the 'wisdom of the crowds' adds to already existing lists of the top journals in the field.\nA lot of normal suspects turn up in the top 25: (as of today 22\/01\/2011, with 80.000 votes, the results before the cleaning).\nA score of 100 means a journal is expected to win all the time when compared with another journal in the contest and a score of zero means the journal is expected to lose all the time. There are no zero scores in this ranking (yet).\nJOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY (score: 81)\nADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY (76)\nACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW (74)\nORGANIZATION SCIENCE (73)\nACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (72)\nJOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT (71)\nMIS QUARTERLY (70)\nSTRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (68)\nORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES (67)\nMANAGEMENT SCIENCE (66)\nDECISION SCIENCES (65)\nORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS (64)\nJOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (63)\nJOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (63)\nPERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY (63)\nJOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES (60)\nRESEARCH IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (60)\nACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES (60)\nHUMAN RELATIONS (60)\nLEADERSHIP QUARTERLY (59)\nORGANISATION STUDIES (59)\nJOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (59)\nHARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (58)\nMIT SLOAN MANAGE REVIEW (57)\nHUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT-US (57)\nThe initiator of the survey reported today (29-jan-2011) on the results:\nSo, what can a crowdsourced ranking tell us? Nothing definitive is my guess, though I'm sure other rankings don't necessarily give us a definitive signal either. Though I do think that aggregated perceptions perhaps give us another data point when evaluating and comparing journals (along with impact and influence factors and other, more \"objective\" measures). These rankings can of course mirror extant rankings (raising causal questions). But they might also capture more up-to-date anticipations of future performance. For example, the UC Irvine Law School (established in 2008) has not graduated a single student, though the school is already well within the top 50 in the crowdsourced ranking.\nLots of other questions can be raised, specifically related to a management journal ranking like this. For example, should micro and macro journals be lumped together like this? And certainly disciplinary journals play a large role in management \u2013 should they be included (sociology, psychology, economics)?\nStrategic \"gaming\" of the results of course can also occur. For example, I ended up having to delete some 25,000+ automatically generated votes (it looked like a computer script was created to throw the ranking off), votes that were explicitly cast to sabotage the effort (the African Journal of Management beat all the top journals according to this mega, robo-voter). Though, it is interesting to see how the \"crowd\" essentially plays a role in averaging bias and in putting a check on strategic voting.\nIronically, I'm actually not one to necessarily really care about journal rankings like this. I wonder whether article-effects trump journal-effects? (I believe Joel Baum has a provocative paper on this.) Of course I read and submit to \"top\" journals, but there are many \"lesser\" (ahem) journals that are just as much on my radar screen, for example Industrial and Corporate Change, Managerial and Decision Economics andStrategic Organization. Obsessions with journal standing can detract from ideas.\nPragmatically, yes, journal rankings matter: promotions indirectly depend on it, as do resource flows etc. So, perhaps a \"democratic,\" crowdsourced ranking like this can provide additional information for decision-makers and scholars in the field.\nThe top 15 list after filtering out the 20.000 automated robot-votes: the picture is now even more 'traditional'.\nManagement Journals %\n1 Administrative Science Quarterly 90.43%\n2 Academy of Management Journal 90.41%\n3 Academy of Management Review 88.94%\n4 Organization Science 88.31%\n5 Strategic Management Journal 84.42%\n6 Journal of Applied Psychology 84.00%\n7 Management Science 82.56%\n8 Journal of Management 82.46%\n9 OBHDP 78.93%\n10 Organizational Research Methods 74.06%\n11 Journal of Organizational Behavior 72.79%\n12 Personnel Psychology 71.93%\n13 Journal of Management Studies 71.10%\n14 Research in OB 70.37%\n15 Organization Studies 69.68%\nWhere do all these votes come from?\nThe whole picture is US en EU dominated. For example: only 16 votes from Shanghai, China are recorded.\nThe complete ranking is here as PDF file of the ranking website (22\/01\/2011): https:\/\/rmimr.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/all-our-ideas-crwodsourcing-management-journals-20110122.pdf\nFiled under academic productivity, Journal quality, Journals ranking, metrics, Ranking, Uncategorized Tagged with crowdsourced ranking, Crowdsourcing, Journal, journals, management research, Voting\nDing and Cronin make a nice distinction between popularity and prestige of a researcher; popularity of a researcher is measured by the number of times he is cited\nby all papers in a dataset; the prestige of a researcher by the number of times he is cited by highly cited papers in the same set. A scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity\nand prestige are not identical measures of esteem. The authors focus primarily on authors rather than journals.\nPopularity vs. Prestige\nPopularity and prestige exist in the following possible relations:\nHigh popularity-high prestige, High popularity-low prestige, Low popularity-high prestige and Low popularity-ow prestige\nSource: http:\/\/arxiv.org\/ftp\/arxiv\/papers\/1012\/1012.4871.pdf\nPopular and\/or Prestigious? Measures of Scholarly Esteem\nYing Ding, Blaise Cronin\nSchool of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA\nCitation analysis does not generally take the quality of citations into account: all citations are weighted equally irrespective of source. However, a scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity and prestige are not identical measures of esteem. In this study we define popularity as the number of times an author is cited and prestige as the number of times an author is cited by highly cited papers. Information Retrieval (IR) is the test field. We compare the 40 leading researchers in terms of their popularity and prestige over time. Some authors are ranked high on prestige but not on popularity, while others are ranked high on popularity but not on prestige. We also relate measures of popularity and prestige to date of Ph.D. award, number of key publications, organizational affiliation, receipt of prizes\/honors, and gender.\nFiled under Citation analysis, Citation Impact, Esteem indicators, impact measurement\nScience-metrix develops new journals classification system (and interactive webtool) using both the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) and Scopus (Elsevier).\nA new set of tools recently released (first public release: 2010-12-01 (v1.00)) by Science-Metrix Inc. seeks to improve the way we talk about and understand science. The US\/Canada-based research evaluation firm has developed a new, multi-lingual (18 languages!) classification of scientific journals, which is accompanied by an interactive web tool. The journal classification, which covers 15,000 peer-reviewed scientific journals, is translated by more than 22 international experts who volunteered their time and expertise, making the tools available to a worldwid e audience. The complete journals list is available for download as excel sheet.\nThe interactive 'Scientific Journals Ontology Explorer' allows users to visualise the links between 175 scientific specialties (subject categories) in 18 languages, from Arabic to Swedish.\nThe visualization contains 3 different views: a circular \"Subfield Citation Wheel\" (representing both citations as well as references), a \"Field Citation Wheel\" (showing the links between distinct scientific disciplines) and a network \"Map of Science\" (revealing similarities between disciplines by relative distance). The goal of this visualization is to show people how science spans a broad universe and how interlinked scientific research actually is.\nHow is the field of Business & Management covered in the journals list?\nThe field of Economics & Business (as part of the domain Economic & Social Sciences) contains 822 journals (this is 5,4% of he total Science metrix list) in 12 subfields, where Business & Management is included with 222 journals (27%):\nEvery journal is classified into only one category.\nSubfields of 'Economics & Business' N %\nAccounting 32 3,9%\nAgricultural Economics & Policy 27 3,3%\nBusiness & Management 222 27,0%\nDevelopment Studies 42 5,1%\nEconometrics 13 1,6%\nEconomic Theory 13 1,6%\nEconomics 244 29,7%\nFinance 63 7,7%\nIndustrial Relations 21 2,6%\nLogistics & Transportation 49 6,0%\nMarketing 61 7,4%\nSport, Leisure & Tourism 35 4,3%\nTotal Journals 822 100%\nI will compare these with our ERIM Journals list, the ISI quartiles and the SJR (scopus) quartiles scores to see how the list is structured in terms of quality layers.\n(I wil add these details later this week.)\nIn the ontology browser, you can create a map of science and learn how the field of business and management is connected to other subject categories. I have selected the closest fields in the screenshot below.\nAbout Science-Metrix:\nScience-Metrix is the world's largest independent firm dedicated to scientometrics, technometrics, and science and technology (S&T) evaluation. The firm's core business involves supporting evidence-based decision-making with strong empirical data and sound theoretical approaches. This contract research organization combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to deliver high quality program evaluations, performance and outcome assessments, and evaluation frameworks. Every Science-Metrix report is produced by a team of dedicated high-calibre experts and relies on the world-class data found in the Scopus, Web of Science and Questel databases.\nFiled under Citation Impact, Dual impact, impact measurement, indexing, Journal quality, Journals ranking, Quality assessments, Ranking, Scopus, Tools, Visualization, Web of Science Tagged with business and management, Economics, Scientific journal, SCImago Journal Rank, Scopus, Social sciences, Web of Science","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Arsenal News Gooner News\nMikel Arteta responds to Elneny contract rumours\nBy Admin Martin - 5 November 2020, 13:00\nMikel Arteta has admitted that he has been impressed by the transformation of Mohamed Elneny, but talks of a new contract for the Egyptian are premature.\nThe midfielder was surplus to requirements at the start of last season and he spent that campaign out on loan at Besiktas in the Turkish top flight.\nHe impressed there and attracted the attention of several teams.\nHe was expected to be sent out on loan again this season, but he remained and he has been in fine form for the club.\nIn their last game against Manchester United, he was impressive again, helping the Gunners beat the Red Devils at Old Trafford for the first time in 14 years.\nThe midfielder is now one player that seems to have played well enough to earn a new contract at the club.\nArteta was asked about rumours going around that the club is set to offer him a new deal and he claims that things have to be handled step by step.\nHe said in a press conference as quoted by Goal.com: \"Let's go step by step please! What I can say is that I'm really pleased with the player and hopefully he can continue like that and perform all season.\"\n\"What's happened is he's started taking the kicking that Pepe deserves\" Deeney defends Willian\nReport \u2013 Italian giants want to sign top Arsenal man\nIn-form Arsenal man is rewarded with a contract extension\nTags Mohamed Elneny\nInvincible reckons this current Arsenal player is underrated\nOpinion: Does it make sense to play Xhaka, Partey and Elneny together?\nArsenal midfielder still Covid positive in blow for Arsenal\nIs he not out of contract at the end of the season? Maybe an extension is in the deal?\nahmad73 says:\nIf this is the case Sean, it goes to show how incompetent Arsenal are regarding contract management. If he is free, then he walks as he can get negotiate a deal elsewhere. He should be given a reasonable extension as he can be a good squad player.\nKhadii says:\nI think he has 2yrs left..\nThats why the club isn't in a hurry\u2026 He'll get a new contract once he's able to put in consistent performances this season\nSueP says:\nI just checked and it's 30 June 22\nThanks SueP. Then what Arteta said makes sense.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex\nMin Shung Lin, John L. McNay, Alexander M.M. Shepherd, T. Kent Keeton\nChanges in mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), and plasma concentrations of norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine were measured in eight hypertensive patients in a supine position after stepwise infusion of incremental sodium nitroprusside doses and intravenous injection of cumulative labetalol doses. Both drugs induced rises in plasma NE concentration that were linearly related to reductions in MAP. For any reduction in blood pressure (BP). however, the rise in plasma NE concentration induced by labetalol was approximately,four times that induced by sodium nitroprusside. The difference can be explained by two effects of labetalol: impairment of neuronal NE uptake and \u03b2-adrenergic-receptor blockade, which are known to reduce NE clearance from plasma. After both drugs there was a correlation between changes in HR and changes in BP and a correlation between changes in HR and changes in plasma NE concentration. Slopes of the regression lines for both relationships were less after labetalol than after sodium nitroprusside, presumably because of the f3-adrenergic-blocking properties of labetalol. Multiple-regression analysis indicated that the plasma NE rise was an important determinant of the vasodepressor response to each drug. The greater plasma NE elevation after labetalol may, limit its antihvpertensive effect.\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/clpt.1983.199\nPublished - Oct 1983\nPharmacology (medical)\n10.1038\/clpt.1983.199\nDive into the research topics of 'The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nLabetalol Medicine & Life Sciences 100%\nCatecholamines Medicine & Life Sciences 64%\nSodium Medicine & Life Sciences 57%\nNitroprusside Medicine & Life Sciences 28%\nHeart Rate Medicine & Life Sciences 18%\nArterial Pressure Medicine & Life Sciences 14%\nLin, M. S., McNay, J. L., Shepherd, A. M. M., & Kent Keeton, T. (1983). The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 34(4), 466-473. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/clpt.1983.199\nThe response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol : A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex. \/ Lin, Min Shung; McNay, John L.; Shepherd, Alexander M.M.; Kent Keeton, T.\nIn: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vol. 34, No. 4, 10.1983, p. 466-473.\nLin, MS, McNay, JL, Shepherd, AMM & Kent Keeton, T 1983, 'The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex', Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 466-473. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/clpt.1983.199\nLin MS, McNay JL, Shepherd AMM, Kent Keeton T. The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1983 Oct;34(4):466-473. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/clpt.1983.199\nLin, Min Shung ; McNay, John L. ; Shepherd, Alexander M.M. ; Kent Keeton, T. \/ The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol : A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex. In: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1983 ; Vol. 34, No. 4. pp. 466-473.\n@article{84e5d129d87a4ba6945b240c82de0142,\ntitle = \"The response of plasma catecholamines to intravenous labetalol: A comparison with sodium nitroprussidex\",\nabstract = \"Changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), and plasma concentrations of norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine were measured in eight hypertensive patients in a supine position after stepwise infusion of incremental sodium nitroprusside doses and intravenous injection of cumulative labetalol doses. Both drugs induced rises in plasma NE concentration that were linearly related to reductions in MAP. For any reduction in blood pressure (BP). however, the rise in plasma NE concentration induced by labetalol was approximately,four times that induced by sodium nitroprusside. The difference can be explained by two effects of labetalol: impairment of neuronal NE uptake and \u03b2-adrenergic-receptor blockade, which are known to reduce NE clearance from plasma. After both drugs there was a correlation between changes in HR and changes in BP and a correlation between changes in HR and changes in plasma NE concentration. Slopes of the regression lines for both relationships were less after labetalol than after sodium nitroprusside, presumably because of the f3-adrenergic-blocking properties of labetalol. Multiple-regression analysis indicated that the plasma NE rise was an important determinant of the vasodepressor response to each drug. 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{"text":"From its conception by Vasily Vasillevich Andreyev (a nobleman from the Tverskoi Province who was studying violin) in the 1880s, the Russian folk orchestra has taken its special character from two fretted string instruments, the triangular balalaika and the round-bodied domra. Both derive from a primitive lute of two or three strings, with a small body and long neck, widespread among the Russian peasantry by the 17th century and believed to be of Tatar origin..\nAndreyev is credited with having heard the sound of the peasant balalaika in its original form and pursuing the long and often daunting task of bringing it to the concert stage. He was frustrated in his early attempts to find a violinmaker who would even agree to make a concert balalaika, as this instrument was considered to be nothing but a plaything by serious musicians. After some effort he was able to persuade one of St. Petersburg's leading luthiers, F. Passerbsky, to build a set of balalaikas to be played by his new ensemble. To provide the range of tones audiences expected from the violin family of instruments, Andreyev had the balalaikas built in five sizes from soprano (or 'prima') to bass. Working with other musicians, he spent nearly a year writing and arranging music to be played by the ensemble, and then rehearsing the music using strumming and picking techniques hitherto unknown to stringed instrument players of the time.\nA BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN FOLK ORCHESTRA\nOrkestr Russkikh Narodnikh Instrumentov - the Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments - can be found in Russia in any city of considerable size, in some factories and other large communes, local social clubs called 'institutes of culture' and in schools having well developed programs of musical instruction. A fully developed Russian Folk Orchestra might have a hundred or more members, but the instrumentation would be substantially similar to that presented by the Washington Balalaika Society..\nThe debut of the Ensemble of Balalaika Players in 1888 was met with some skepticism, which was all but erased by the end of the performance. The audience was effusive in its applause and praise for the music these musicians made and Andreyev's work began to receive the recognition it needed to continue. By 1892, Andreyev's octet presented its first command performance at the royal palace at Gatchina, gaining the support of the Romanovs and guaranteeing, at least for the time being, a respected place in the world of music in Russia. The octet was later expanded and, with the addition of the domra family of instruments and the gusli, the Great Russian Imperial Balalaika Orchestra was created. After the turn of the century the orchestra toured Europe and, in 1910, visited America.\nThe Andreyev Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Russia -- 1996As with so many facets of Russian culture, the orchestra and Andreyev suffered greatly from the turmoil and social upheaval of the 'teens. He changed the name of the orchestra to 'Narodny' (people's orchestra) and lost the support and funding of the Imperial Court. Finally, on Christmas Day in 1918 while on a tour entertaining Russian troops, Andreyev died of typhoid, his modest fortune completely depleted.\nUnder Soviet rule, the concept of the Russian Folk Orchestra was rekindled as an acceptable form of expression, albeit carefully controlled. Composers were encouraged to write music appropriate for a Communist society and conservatories continued to teach folk instruments.\nMeanwhile, outside of Russia, immigrants who had left and brought their instruments and musical memories with them formed ensembles and, eventually, orchestras. In America, there were perhaps a dozen or more orchestras of respectable size by the mid-1920s; most of these had gone out of existence with the aging of their members and dilution of interest by the 1940s. A few, notably the Balalaika Orchestra of Detroit, survived and often flourished, continuing their operations well into the second half of the 1900s.\nMost of the orchestras active in America and Canada today were formed after 1970. Some were the outgrowth of social and cultural activities of Russian Orthodox churches and Russian community centers; others were formed by individuals -- in many cases people with little or no Russian background -- who were simply interested in the music and the possibilities of these instruments. The opening of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s made acquisition of music and instruments from Russia much easier and new immigrants were often overjoyed to find folk orchestras playing 'their music.'\nThe Washington Balalaika Society, formed in 1988, is now the largest orchestra of Russian folk instruments in North America and endeavors to pattern its sound and repertoire after the great orchestras of Russia while at the same time continuing to explore new kinds of music and new musical possibilities for this fascinating family of instruments.\nFor an interesting article on the Russian orchestra, click here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Good News-Evidence that biological death is not the end. \u00a9 Gavin Ashenden\nShe is known only as patient 143. All we know of her is that she was 14, and has just died from cancer; that her mother hated her father and had not let him see her since she was 7; that her parents clashed in a court case in London to test the legality of her last early-teen wish, \u2013 to have her body frozen at the cost of $35,000.\nHer father was distraught that her death would be overshadowed by the cryotechnology technicians fussing over her dying body. They were preparing it to be drained of blood and fluid within seconds of her biological death. Her mother and her grandparents who footed the bill just wanted to respect her wishes.\n'143' was understandably frightened and horrified by the prospect of death. She wrote to the judge: \"I think being cryo-preserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up in hundreds of years time\u2026. I want to have this chance.\"\nWe don't know how she stumbled on this project, but the science is more than ropey. RationalWiki calls it 'pseudo-science';.\nLooking to fix the damage caused by freezing the brain it comments, \"The dendrites (10,000 connections for each of the 100 billion neurons \u2014 that's 1015 dendrites to check) are cracked badly by the freezing process \u2014 like when you drop an ice cube into a drink. What is the process for fixing a frozen brain that's cracked into several, or hundreds of pieces, with dendrites shattered at a microscopic level?\"\nAnd a little grown up experience of the world might well wonder if the business that freezes the bodies in Michigan in 2016 will be running in 2050, let alone 2150?\nThen, if science really was able to both cure cancer and resuscitate corpses, what does that do to an overcrowded planet already running out of resources where death is the only mechanism for making space for the incoming babies and diluting the population explosion?\nBut patient 143 was looking to pseudoscience because it was all she had to hang on to facing the awful fear of extinction.\nSo is there any evidence for life after death?\nIn fact there is. Start with Plato, writing The Republic 2,400 years ago. He recorded an incident he had come across. A Pamphylian soldier called 'Er', son of Armenious, is involved in a battle, and appears to have been killed. His body is heaped onto an enormous funeral pyre, and just as it is being set alight ten days later, he comes to, or revives- who knows what- and tells everyone he has been in the land of the dead. He saw openings in the ground and the sky. Everyone was judged at death. The immoral were sent down, the good- up. He was sent back to warn people.\nActually it is very similar to something Jesus taught in the New Testament (the sheep and the goats-Matthew 25).\nPlato might just be telling a story, but it shocked me when I read it, because something similar happened to me. When I was 19 I drunk a litre of vodka in an evening of stupidity, which dampened down my respiratory system. I seemed to leave my body, met 'God', was judged, forgiven and sent back, reviving at dawn- free of any symptoms of alcohol poisoning. It was an experience that prepared me, a little after, for taking the claims of Jesus more seriously that I might otherwise have done.\nThese 'Near Death Experiences' it turns out, are quite common. The psychiatrist Raymond Moody collected many in his book Life after Life. The Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF.org) contains thousands of recent accounts on line.\nChristianity only came into being because thousands of people believed they saw Christ with their own eyes, resurrected from the dead. It only continues because in each generation people become convinced by the evidence it really happened.\nIt's such a shame that patient 143 never had a vicar visit her assembly at primary school. He would have told her that Jesus died on the cross for her forgiveness, and then rose from the dead to give her life after death.\n'Mindfulness' and deep breathing are now the fashion at many school assemblies, and very useful too; but it seems a little unkind and unfair to deprive children of the information that there are good reasons for believing biological death is not the end. Come to think of it- it's not just our children who might be cheered by what some of us call the 'Good News'. The Michigan cryogenetics company may not be quite so chuffed.\nHoliness lasts longer than politics-the limits of democracy. \u00a9 Gavin Ashenden\nDr Gavin Ashenden A brief biography","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"JOYNER, SIMON: Grass, Branch & Bone LP (Back in Print!)\nBACK IN PRINT!\nSimon Joyner \"Grass, Branch & Bone\" LP (Woodsist)\nRenowned American singer-songwriter Simon Joyner first came to prominence during the lo-fi movement of the early '90s alongside contemporaries like Will Oldham, Peter Jefferies, the Mountain Goats, Smog and Alastair Galbraith. Joyner was championed early on by the late British DJ John Peel, who famously played Joyner's 1994 LP, The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll, start to finish on one of his BBC programs, making Joyner more well known overseas than in his own country. Considered a forefather of the Omaha music scene, he's released critically acclaimed albums on various independent labels every few years for over two decades. He keeps a low profile and tours only occasionally, spending most of his time working and raising a family, allowing writing and music to remain an artistic outlet rather than an occupation.Grass, Branch & Bone is Joyner's thirteenth proper album and a sonic departure from 2012's Ghosts. While that record was a double-disc collection of dark, dissonant songs confronting death and loss in the vein of Neil Young's Tonight's the Night, this new one is sparse by comparison, running with the likes of other singer-songwriter outcast aftermath albums like Dylan's John Wesley Harding, Gene Clark's White Light, David Blue's Stories, Jerry Jeff Walker's Five Years Gone, Townes Van Zandt's Our Mother the Mountain and Cohen's Recent Songs. It's a natural progression\u2014after a funeral, one takes stock and reflect upon his or her own life. Grass, Branch & Bone is a song-cycle of short stories about time and memory, full of people the listener has known and even may have been.\n\"My favorite poet is Simon Joyner.\" \u2014Gillian Welch\n1. Sonny\n2. Train To Crazy Horse\n3. You Got Under My Skin\n4. Jefferson Reed\n5. Some Fathers Let The Sunset Bring Them To Their Knees\n6. Old Days\n7. I Will Not Be Your Fool (Muse's Song)\n8. In My Drinking Dream\n9. Nostalgia Blues","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You Can't Silence Terror\nPosted on September 22, 2014 by paulas in Terrorism \/\/ 0 Comments\nI read an article today on Arutz Sheva that made me remember two incidents \u2013 neither made the news, despite my writing an article about one and sending it to several top level Israel News outlets. The article today was titled, Jerusalem Mayor: Don't Talk So Much about Terrorism. The first incident that I attempted to publicize happened on July 27th as I was riding the light rail on my way home from work. The second happened last week when I was with my youngest son.\nMy article: Attempted Terror Attack on Jerusalem Light Rail appeared on my blog on July 27th and I shared it on two sites \u2013 no one else picked it up. One Jewish site told me they were \"saving it\" for the next major attack. I reported the tear gas incident in the City Pass offices and demanded to know why the driver never stopped, never explained. They said they were aware of it; that others had reported it, and the would \"look into it.\"\nI think, after reading Mayor Barkat's words, I understand. If you can't beat terrorism, apparently the city of Jerusalem has chosen denial. The claim that the trains are safe fall short \u2013 not because they aren't safe but because these acts are still wrong, still crimes. There is no connection between the level of injury and the magnitude of the wrong here. Just because a missile doesn't hit a school doesn't mean it is acceptable that it was fired at Israel; just because \"only\" one person was killed in an attack, doesn't mean it wasn't terrorism and yes, just because no one was injured, doesn't mean we should accept what is being done to the light rail.\nNo, I do not want to surrender the train \u2013 but there are other options \u2013 like rerouting the train from the places where they are regularly stoned. Two simple notes need to be posted:\nDear Shuafat, we have decided to take the fact that dozens of attacks against the train have taken place in your area to mean you don't want the train so we've rerouted it. Have a nice day.\nDear Sha'ar Shechem, yeah, you too.\nWhen a rock hit the train that I was on last week, it was clear to all that other than perhaps another cracked window (and honestly, there are so many windows cracked, who can tell if something just happened or was like that before?) that no one was hurt and there was no danger. This was NOT the case when tear gas was dropped by an Arab at Sha'ar Shechem (Damascus Gate) two months ago. This incident is described below. If it was not a terror attack, it certainly was an attempted one.\nMy answer to Nir Barkat is simple \u2013 instead of downplaying these attacks, publish them far and wide and then announce that we have instituted a new line:\nLine 1 will go from Har Herzl to Ammunition Hill and then continue through Shuafat and on to Pisgat Ze'ev (the current route). Each time the train is stoned, service will be stopped for 24 hours on this line.\nLine 2 (which should be built immediately) will go from Har Herzl to Ammunition Hill and then\u2026build a new route to Pisgat Ze'ev that goes over a bridge, through a tunnel, between two walls\u2026whatever it takes to get it there safely. It will not stop in Shuafat; it will not be stoned in Beit Hanina. Fix the windows on this Line 2; do not fix the trains that are stoned in Shuafat \u2013 more\u2026each time the train is hit, paint a huge circle around each hit!\nAnd the next time they burn the tracks down and ransack the train station \u2013 don't rebuild it unless contributions come from the very neighborhood where the train was destroyed.\nIn the meantime, I, for one, refuse to be silent. My train was stoned last week and attacked with tear gas two months ago. This is what I wrote that day\u2026shortly after I got home. Within a short time, my throat began to bother me. My two older sons have both been in the army and part of their training was being subjected to tear gas. I have never known what this felt like or the symptoms and yet, as I described what I was feeling over the several hours following the attack and in the early hours of the next day, my son told me each was a sign of tear gas.\nAttempted Terror Attack on Jerusalem Light Rail (July 27, 2014)\nOf all the things I have never wanted to do or see, a terror attack is quite high on the list.\nAt approximately 4:30 p.m. today, I was riding on the second car of the Jerusalem light rail train, heading towards Ammunition Hill (Givat HaTachmoshet). As it arrived at Damascus Gate, as far as I know, the only stop where guards are required to wear bullet-proof vests, passengers got off and on, and then suddenly there was a loud disturbance in the back of the rail car in which I was riding.\nEveryone starting running forward, a few people were yelling. The doors at the front had already closed. As I looked to the rear, I saw a small cloud of smoke and heard noise coming from outside. Just to the side of the train station platform, I saw very little other than what looked like an attempt by several people to converge on something or someone while there was more yelling both outside and in the train.\nThe doors to the train closed. People were trying to understand what was happening. Those that had been in the back explained that an Arab had pulled out tear gas and started spraying it and then, as the doors were about to close and people were trying to get away, he ran out onto the platform and presumably beyond.\nPeople attempted to hail the driver, who it seems ignored all signals of distress. A slight amount of the tear gas drifted forward enough to give a slight feeling of it in the air. The train moved to the next stop where many people got out. Someone hailed security. They came into the train and made everyone go to the first car. I can only hope they checked the train before it began to move.\nThe next stop was the same, and then we arrived at Ammunition Hill where the train was checked again.\nThe reaction of the people on the train was a combination of anger and shock. As terror attacks go, it was, I know, a minor event. It could have been so much worse \u2013 in fact, it is in and of itself a gift and a miracle that it wasn't worse. It could have been a bomb \u2013 there was no security person on the train with us and we were, for all intents and purposes, prisoners within a rail car that was shut down with a threat inside the car.\nLife is full of what could have been and it helps to focus on what was. What was, was an act of hate intended to harm, if not permanently, than at least to cause discomfort. No one would allow us to say that Arabs cannot ride the light rail \u2013 they would accuse us of apartheid behavior and so, each day, tens of thousands of Arabs go on the light rail to get to work, to school, to shop, and for medical appointments at some of the finest hospitals in the Middle East.\nMany Arabs abused that privilege when they attacked the light rail stations in their neighborhoods, burning down the stations and ticketing machines, defacing the structures with graffiti that read \"Death to Israel; Death to the Jews.\" For weeks, they have been stoning the train \u2013 so many of the windows on these clean and relatively new rail cars are shattered. The train bears these marks with stoic dignity as it travels along the route planned by some stupid city planner who forgot to take into account violence and security requirements.\nAnd today, about 40 people were subjected to an attempted terror attack\u2026or perhaps it was like the rockets they fire at us just a minute ago, an hour ago, and throughout this day and the last 20 days. I have always said, just because the rocket misses, doesn't mean it isn't a terror attack.\nJust because a few of us probably have scratchy throats, and a few people complained of burning eyes rather than more serious injuries, doesn't mean it wasn't a terror attack.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Back To the Classics Challenge 2022: The Winner!\nCongratulations to Joseph at The Once Lost Wanderer!\nJoseph won a $30 gift card so he can get even more books to read in 2022! Many thanks and congratulations to everyone who participated in this challenge -- 69 people signed up, and 24 people completed the challenge. And a special mention of Flicker who completed her entire list with Japanese books in translation; and also to Major Yammerton who completed the challenge and did a second round!\nWe're all winners because we got to share the joy of books and each one of us crossed some classic books off our to-read lists!. I hope everyone enjoyed all the new books and authors they discovered.\nAs some of you may have guessed, I'm taking a break from blogging right now and so I'm going to take this year off from reading challenges, including my own. Lately I've felt like challenges and goals are too much pressure and are taking some of the fun out of my reading, so it's time to take a break and just read for pleasure. Hopefully this will inspire me, and by the end of the year I can plan for another Back to the Classics Challenge in 2024.\nThanks again to everyone for participating and I hope you find plenty of joy in your reading in 2023. Happy reading everyone!\nLabels: Back to the Classics 2022\nRuth @ with freedom and books January 23, 2023 at 1:02\u202fPM\nThanks for hosting this inspirational reading challenge. I didn't participate in 2022, but I enjoyed the years I did. Take advantage of your rest period; I am sure it will be rejuvenated again.\nCongratulations, Joseph!!\ngoldmoon January 23, 2023 at 4:45\u202fPM\nThanks for hosting this challenge. I love it. I'm sorry to hear that there won't be in 2023 but I understand that sometimes it's time for a break. I hope you'll be back in 2024! <3\nreese January 24, 2023 at 12:28\u202fAM\nThanks again for hosting and hope you enjoy your break (and that it is just a break)!\nKathy's Corner January 24, 2023 at 2:41\u202fPM\nThanks so much Karen for hosting the Classics Challenge these past few years and I hope you enjoy your break in 2023. I have all these wonderful classics I read in the past five years: Frankenstein, Their Eyes Were Watching God, New Grub Street, The Decameron etc etc and I would never have read them without the Classics Challenge giving me the prompts and the push I needed.\nLark January 24, 2023 at 5:34\u202fPM\nThis reading challenge over the years has been so fun, and it's encouraged me to read so many more classics that I otherwise would have...so THANK YOU! I hope you enjoy your blogging break and that you find many wonderful books to read this upcoming year. :D\nFlicker January 24, 2023 at 7:08\u202fPM\nCongrats, Joseph! I've enjoyed reading your reviews. And Karen, thank you so much for hosting the Challenge. I think a break is a great idea, but I selfishly hope it will only be one year. I've participated in the Challenge officially for three years (and unofficially for one year before that) and during that time I've read the most amazing books, almost none of which I would have read if I hadn't done the Challenge. This year I'm going to focus on reading books off my shelves, which should be interesting too, but nothing like the last few years. Thanks again!\nFanda Classiclit January 24, 2023 at 10:45\u202fPM\nKaren, thank you for hosting this reading challenge. I know, sometimes it can be a burden, while at other times we might enjoy it. For now, enjoy your much deserved break, and have fun!\nAnd congratulations, Joseph!\nCarmen January 25, 2023 at 10:21\u202fAM\nCongrats to Joseph! I'm sad that the year I'm finally reading again you're taking a break BUT it is most understandable. Take your time, and I hope to see you again for another challenge some year <3\nTarissa January 25, 2023 at 5:06\u202fPM\nWishing you a beautiful 2023! Enjoy it.\nCongratulations to Joseph!\nThank you Karen for hosting the challenge over the years. *bows* and thanks everyone for playing along and for the congrats.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Changing Scenario of Indian Agriculture\nPronami Chetia Updated 16 July, 2019 1:02 PM IST\nIndia, since the mid-1990s, is one of the fastest growing G20 economies, reflecting an ambitious and successful reform agenda launched in 2014. It has developed as a major exporter of several agricultural commodities, diversifying production towards high-value pulses, fruits, vegetables, and livestock and agri products.\nWhile the sector is growing rapidly but still many smallholders and grass root people have not been able to grab the opportunities opening up to them; they are still fighting with low productivity, an under-developed food processing, and retail sector, and water and land degradation. Moreover, India is still fighting with the same \"triple challenges\" as other countries: delivering safe and nutritious food to a growing population at affordable prices; providing a livelihood for farmers, and overcoming the severe climate and natural calamity pressures.\nThe new India has ensured different agricultural policies which are working for the well-being of both farmers and consumers. Around 80% of India's poor and farmers are living in rural areas. Hence, addressing widespread poverty and ensuring domestic food security are key objectives.\nThe Indian government has set ambitious objectives for the agriculture sector which includes doubling farmers' incomes by 2022. But the question is, how the Indian governments\u2014center, and state can strengthen the productivity and sustainability of Indian agriculture, and provide lucrative opportunities for farm households.\nAshok Gulati, a renowned agricultural economist of India has recently written about farm policy developments which are giving so many important lessons. European Union (EU)'s policy reform experiences also provide some useful insights. Since the early 1990s, reforms to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), have involved a gradual reduction of market regulation and border protection and the introduction of compensatory direct payments to producers. The payments were originally based on cultivated area or animal numbers but emerged as increasingly independent from production. These payments are subsequently adapted to address the specific needs of certain categories of farmers or regions, and conditions for receiving payments were introduced to make sure the sustainable usage of the resource.\nNew payments have been granted to farmers for providing valued environmental services, such as preservation of biodiversity. Government has proposed and implemented so many new policies and schemes to help farmers and agriculture.\nTo reach the Sustainable Development Goals and fighting with the \"triple challenge\", we need new policy directions in India. India has already shown it has the capacity to achieve high levels of growth and poverty reduction; with the right policy incentives and implementation.\nIndia's agriculture agriculture scenario Indian economy Changing scenario of agriculture sustainable development Development Goals agriculture policy GDP\nHey! I am Pronami Chetia. Did you liked this article and have suggestions to improve this article? Mail me your suggestions and feedback.\nAdvanced Profitable Mango Farming Techniques; Best Climate, Soil, Land for Mango Farming & How to Grow Mango Tree\nHow to Control the Pink Bollworm in Cotton Crop?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Oxford in New York City\nRichard Smethurst\nTwo months ago I attended a dinner in New York City in honor of Richard Smethurst, [1] the retiring Provost of Oxford University's Worcester College.[2]\nRichard and I were students together at Worcester, 1961-63, and studied together (or revised together, as they say at Oxford) for the final examinations (or Schools in Oxford parlance) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). Richard recalled that our economics tutor told us and the other PPE students at the College that when he \"took Schools\" he had answered the first four questions on the examination paper to show the examiners that he knew everything. Richards also remembered that I thought our tutor's suggestion was stupid or silly and instead said we should select the four questions out of the 12 to 15 on the paper for which we were best prepared.\nRichard and I then embarked on our own revision together in the spring of 1963. In that effort I prepared the answer to a possible question on Public Finance that luckily turned up on the actual examination. Richard and I both answered that question, and we both received Firsts (the highest mark).\nIn New York I recounted this story in after-dinner comments to the group and joked that I was responsible for Richard's receiving a First.\nAlso at the dinner was Bill Bradley, the former basketball player and U.S. Senator, who was a Rhodes Scholar and PPE student at Worcester, 1965-68, and who had Smethurst as his economics tutor. [3] Bradley told the group that while he was in the Senate, Smethust spoke at a dinner in Washington, D.C. and said that Bradley was the best economics student he had ever had . . . who became a U.S. Senator. Left unsaid at the earlier dinner, Bradley told us in New York, was the fact that he was Smethurst's only economics student who had become a U.S. Senator.\nAt my dinner table were Bill Sachs, who was the brother of Daniel M. Sachs, and Dan's widow, Joan Sachs Shaw. Dan was an all-Ivy League football player at Princeton University and a Rhodes Scholar at Worcester, 1960-63. Dan played for the Oxford University rugby team, but in 1961 was\"aced\" out of playing against the Cambridge University team for the all important \"Oxford Blue\" honor when the Oxford captain prevailed upon Pete Dawkins to return to the team for the Cambridge match. (Dawkins was a running back for Army who in 1958 won the Heisman Trophy for the best football player in the U.S. and who was a Rhodes Scholar PPE student at another Oxford college, 1958-62.[4])\nDan Sachs was a friend of mine during those Oxford days, and In June 1963 he was my best man when Mary Alyce and I were married in Oxford.\nAfter Dan's untimely death in 1967, friends established in his honor a Sachs Scholarship for a Princeton graduate to attend Worcester College.[5] The most famous Sachs Scholar so far is Elena Kagan, now U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.[6]\n[1] Wikipedia, Richard Smethurst, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Smethurst.\n[2] Worcester College, University of Oxford, http:\/\/www.worc.ox.ac.uk\/.\n[3] Wikipedia, Bill Bradley, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Bradley.\n[4] Pete Dawkins, http:\/\/www.petedawkins.com\/.\n[5] Princeton University, Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Scholarship, http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/sachs\/index.xml.\n[6] Wikipedia, Elena Kagan, http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elena_Kagan.\nPosted on May 17, 2011 August 30, 2011 Author dwkcommentariesCategories Higher education, Personal, PoliticsTags Bill Bradley, Daniel M. Sachs, Justice Elena Kagan, Pete Dawkins, Philosophy Politics & Economics (PPE), Rhodes Scholarship, Richard Smethurst, University of Oxford, Worcester College\nPrevious Previous post: The International Criminal Court: Three Libyan Arrest Warrants Sought\nNext Next post: The International Criminal Court: Investigation of Gang-Rape in Libya","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u2190 Marley Marl \u2013 In Control Volume II (October 7, 1991)\nDigital Underground \u2013 Sons Of The P (October 15, 1991) \u2192\nThe U.M.C.'s \u2013 Fruits Of Nature (October 15, 1991)\nCarlos \"Hass G\" Evans and \"Kool Kim\" Sharpton met while working at the Statue of Liberty in New York city, along with future Wu-Tang Clan members U-God, Method Man, and Inspectah Deck. All 5 parties would hone their skills spitting together and before long, Hass G and Kool Kim would break off from the rest as the two would form the Universal MC's, better known to the world as The U.M.C.'s. Even though the U.M.C.'s came up with a lot of the Wu members, their sound was completely different then what their Staten Island brethren would come with a few years down the line. While Wu had a grimy sound the U.M.C.'s were more polished and wholesome. Some have even compared them to Kid N Play and DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince because of their PG content.\nThe U.M.C.'s would eventually ink a deal with Wild Pitch and released their debut album Fruits Of Nature in 1991. Hass G and RNS (who is often credited as the man who taught the Rza how to make beats) handle all of the album's production duties. Fruits Of Nature would go on to receive fairly solid reviews and their album cover will forever be immortalized as a poster on Martin Payne's living room wall on the popular sitcom Martin. It must be stated that Hass and Kim were the first hip-hoppers from Staten Island to refer to their home as Shaolin and rep the Wu-Tang style on wax, a few years prior to the Wu-Tang Clan takeover (more on that later).\nThe U.M.C.'s would release one more album on Wild Pitch (which will get to in a bit (or a few years)) before disbanding. Hass would go on to produce hit records for the likes of Ghostface Killah, Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, and Lil' Kim, under the aliases of Hassan and later Carlos \"Phantom on the Beat\" Evans. Kool Kim would reinvent himself as semi-thug-semi-conscious rapper NY Oil, sounding or resembling nothing like his former self. There was talk of a U.M.C's reunion a few years ago as a song was even floating around the cyber world. Nothing has come of said reunion yet, but it's not like any one is really checking for a new U.M.C.'s album in 2015 any way.\nOne To Grow On \u2013 This was the second single from Fruits Of Nature, and its an undeniable banger. Hass G and RNS sample Blue Mitchell's \"Good Humor Man\" record for the backdrop, throw in a zany break from Bill Cosby's \"Ursalena\" and a well placed horn sample as the cherry on top. Lyrically Hass and Kim stay in the pocket and don't do anything to mess things up as they spit insightful rhymes of encouragement. These are the moments that I cherish most about the nineties. This is a severely underrated and forgotten gem.\nKraftworks \u2013 Over a dark jazzy instrumental Kim & Haas talk their brand of intricate shit. I love this beat. RNS and Hass were nice on the boards even way back then.\nMorals \u2013 Just what hip-hop could use nowadays, and ironically one of the main reasons heads weren't really checking for the U.M.C.'s back in the day. Kim and Hass use this somber instrumental to discuss the importance of having and living up to your morals as well as what happens to those without them. The Bill Wither's vocal sample at the end of the song was a nice added touch.\nBlue Cheese \u2013 This was the lead off single from Fruits Of Nature. Until recently I never really understood what they meant by the title, which is kind of another way to call someone a wack emcee. Hass and Kim's rhymes come off so polite you'd think they're complimenting the rapper the dis is aimed at. Hass & RNS hook up a mid-tempo groove that's so sweet you could put a wrapper on it and call it skittles. This sounds better today than it did 2o plus years ago. Fine wine, baby.\nSwing It To The Area \u2013 Fruits Of Nature takes a slight step back with this one. Kim and Hass sound okay as they spit decent battle rhymes, with a twist thrown in on the instrumental at the end. But this one is forgettable.\nNever Never Land \u2013 Our host along with an assist from the Berkeley Carroll Summer Choir spend approximately 4 minutes talking about Peter Pan's stomping ground. I know, the title makes it sound cheesy, but it's not that bad. And the instrumental is sick.\nYou Got My Back \u2013 Over a decent instrumental Kim and Hass take the time to shout out each other on this ode to faithful friends. Nice and positive.\nJive Talk \u2013 The U.M.C.'s discuss the reasons brothers lie and what the end results of those lies can bring. I love the instrumental work on this one. I'm starting to sound like a broken record.\nFeelings \u2013 This one can be categorized as emo, as Hass and Kim are, as the kids say, all up in their feelings, as they tenderly express how they feel about a couple of prospective mates. The instrumental works well with the duo's content and guests vocalists Tonya Wilcox and Alton Sharpton provide a warm vocal assist on the hook. Some heads may find this one too soft, but I find it mature and honest.\nAny Way The Wind Blows \u2013 This is probably the hardest records on Fruits Of Nature as the duo come off like they both have chips on their shoulders. In the first verse Hass makes reference to being a master Wu-tang blower. Note: Fruits Of Nature was released two years prior to Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) . Hmm. The instrumental combines an Al Green vocal sample and a Syl Johnson loop with nice results.\nPass It On \u2013 Hass and Kim invite a few of their buddies to the studio, Kwazi and Prophet, for this cipher joint. The instrumental was way too bland, lacking energy and all 4 emcees reciprocate the feeling. It was mildly interesting to hear Haas and Kim both make references to their Wu-Tang flow, but this song is garbage.\nWoman Be Out \u2013 Hass and Kim temporarily take off their Mr. nice guy hats so they can tell a couple of conniving chicks to kick rocks. The instrumental is decent with a perfectly placed Wilson Pickett vocal sample on hook.\nHey Here We Go \u2013 I completely forgot about this song, and it's a banger. The chips that were on Hass and Kim's shoulders on \"Any Way The Wind Blows\" have returned as the duo throw verbal darts at all haters and doubters over a fire instrumental. During his first verse Kim says \" I hear my old adversaries, their singing my song\" then begins to sing what resembled the hook of King Just's (remember him?) mega catchy record \"Warrior's Drum\" (\"hey ya, hey ya, hey ya, ho!\"), then goes on to talk about leaving said adversaries dead on the shores of Staten and what not . Since this song was released a few years before \"Warrior's Drum\" started to buzz, maybe Just's joint was popular locally before it was ever recorded and released to the masses. Or maybe Kim is not only a emcees but a physic and new that Just would create a buzz around the stolen song idea 4 years later. Or it could be possible I'm way off on my assessment and reading way to into Kim's verse. It had to be aimed at somebody, though.\nIt's Gonna Last \u2013 Hass and RNS slow the pace down a few bpm's for this smooth laid back instrumental. Hass and Kim may spit their best verses of the evening as they declare their relevance and proclaim they will be remembered when they hang up their microphones and walk away from the game. I said it sounded good, I never said it was true.\nFruits Of Nature is the most underappreciated album of 1991 and possibly the most underappreciated album in hip-hop history. Neither Hass or Kim are excellent emcees but they are both proficient behind the mic, and sound right at home over Hass and RNS' consistently quality production. In a year stacked with classic releases, Fruits Of Nature is a forgotten gem.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Remember California's Energy Woes in November | Opinion\nKevin Cramer , Republican senator, North Dakota\nOn 9\/10\/20 at 8:00 AM EDT\nOpinion California California wildfires Blackout Energy\nCalifornians spent August in the dark\u2014literally and figuratively. Heatwaves tore through the state, leaving millions without power during multiple days of rolling blackouts. It seems more problems are on the horizon, with the Energy Department this week approving the state's request for an emergency order to preserve the reliability of the bulk electric power system.\nAt fault, at least in part, is California's over-reliance on unreliable sources of energy like wind and solar. These problems were preventable and should be a wake-up call for the American people ahead of this year's election.\nAt its core, California is heavily dependent on renewable energy sources\u2014most of all, solar. Renewable energy already makes up 36 percent of the state's electricity, with a mandated goal of reaching 60 percent in 2030 and 100 percent in 2040, regardless of feasibility. While Democrats claim to be the modern-day champions of combating climate change, they also seem to be banking on perpetual sunshine and steady breezes to power their grid. This unrealistic, politically driven approach irresponsibly puts families and communities at risk.\nFor years, supporters of baseload generation, like coal and nuclear, have warned of the perils we are seeing today. California has thumbed its nose at these reliable sources while mandating inherently unreliable generators, like wind and solar. If you want to be assured the lights will come on with a flip of the switch, your grid needs coal and nuclear's 24\/7 generation capability. Unlike renewables, they work despite the weather or the time of day. Ironically, California is awash with wind and sunshine, yet its power markets are clearly failing. While lowering emissions further is a goal we all share, it must be done in a way that works. Whether there is a heatwave on the West Coast or a polar vortex in the Midwest or Northeast, reliable energy sources are vital to keeping our communities thriving and safe. Coal, nuclear and natural gas power our schools, hospitals, and businesses with in-home heating units in the winter and air conditioning in the summer. As Californians experienced, when the lights go out, life shuts down.\nThankfully, we have a president who understands this. Since the day he took office, President Trump has prioritized a resilient grid, and his administration has proposed policies to better maintain transmission lines, make nuclear plant operations more efficient and accurately value the benefit of reliable baseload generation. The president also signed the FUTURE Act into law, which expanded carbon capture tax credits to make power generators like coal more efficient and clean. These actions give Americans more affordable utilities, while lowering carbon emissions to their lowest point in 25 years.\nWildfires in California JOSH EDELSON\/AFP via Getty Images\nThe contrast to his opponent could not be more obvious. The Obama-Biden administration launched a war on coal, authored the job-killing Clean Power Plan and weaponized its executive authority to go after the energy producers who help keep the lights on when wind and solar fall short. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would rather pursue the radical ideals of the Green New Deal than keep the lights on for their constituents. States like Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Colorado could become the next victims of the Left's radical environmental agenda, should they be forced to follow California's model of scrapping reliable sources of power in exchange for flighty wind and solar generation.\nThere is no reason to believe these liberals, or California's leaders, won't continue to remain in the dark about the horrible ramifications of their policies. While California Governor Gavin Newsom admits he failed to adequately prepare, he still wants \"to radically [change] the way we produce and consume energy.\" Simply put, Governor Newsom will keep pushing the state toward an overdependence on unreliable energy, no matter the cost and without backup from reliable, American-made energy.\nThe American people can choose to support energy security and reliability this November. With a Californian on the ballot, let's head to the polls remembering which path to avoid.\nKevin Cramer, a Republican, is the junior U.S. senator from North Dakota.\nThe views expressed in this article are the writer's own.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Keg sizzles on yin and yang of recession\nDavid Aisenstat is one of those lucky Vancouver souls who can stay at home and still see the full splendour of the famed Celebration of Light fireworks festival as it sparks and sparkles over English Bay.\nBut that simple pleasure had fizzled out for this year, as the recession toppled the already tottering financing of the Vancouver summer event. Fizzled, that is, until Wednesday, when another Vancouver icon stepped in to help \u2013 the Keg steakhouse chain, headed by Mr. Aisenstat.\nThe Keg's president and chief executive officer is being modest, demurring from claiming the main credit for saving the festival. Instead, he muses about the \"yin and yang\" of the recession, which has dried up funding for events such as the Celebration of Light just when people could use a little inexpensive frivolity. \"It's probably the time it's the most beneficial,\" he says.\nWhen times are tough, life's little pleasures are all the more needed. And, as has become the Keg's good fortune, steak dinners seem to be one of those little pleasures. Announcing his company's sponsorship of the fireworks festival, Mr. Aisenstat alluded to the Keg's relative prosperity even as consumer spending shrivels.\nAgain, he's being modest. Even a brief examination of the Keg's financial statements, by way of its associated income trust, shows that the steakhouse chain more than held its own in the opening stages of the economic downturn. In the fourth quarter, the Keg's gross sales were up 7 per cent from the year-ago quarter; on a same-store basis, sales were down 2.2 per cent. A decline might not seem terribly impressive, but it is better than how its part of the industry is faring \u2013 a little better, if you use the restaurant industry's projections of a 3.1-per-cent decline in the coming year, and a lot better, if you use some analysts' forecasts of an 8- to 10-per-cent decline in casual dining receipts.\nThe Keg Royalties Income Fund, paid out from a percentage of sales, has been able to maintain distributions. And while those units have tumbled from their highs of a year ago, they have rebounded smartly in the past two months \u2013 even as the economic outlook has darkened \u2013 as the steakhouse chain's resilience has manifested itself.\nSo, what is the Keg's secret? The yin and yang of the recession, to borrow Mr. Aisenstat's phrasing. The turbulent economy may mean that some diners eat out less often \u2013 but when they do, they want to be sure that the experience is enjoyable. For those customers, the brand power of the Keg will be a draw. \"We're pretty reliable,\" Mr. Aisenstat says. \"You go to the Keg, you know what to expect. We're not trying to confuse people.\"\nThe company's financial statements bolster the argument for brand power, in a reverse fashion. Same-store sales in the United States, where the Keg doesn't command the brand presence it has in Canada, were down 16 per cent in the fourth quarter, versus just a 3-per-cent decline in Canada. Currency fluctuations limited the damage to the chain's numbers, but the difference indicates that the familiarity of the chain is a major asset in this country.\nPart of the Keg's success also comes from its skill in being able to balance the need for freshening its menu with the imperative of not abandoning its culinary roots, says Doug Fisher, president of food service consultancy FHG International Inc. In doing so, the Keg has concentrated on building new items around its central menu of grilled beef.\nTake one of the latest new appetizers: grilled flatbread with tomato sauce, bocconcini cheese, fresh basil and a balsamic glaze. On its own, it's a dish that seems a little out of place sitting next to a baked potato. But such changes, along with seasonal promotions, have allowed the chain to freshen its menu without resorting to the kind of brand-blurring disasters that seem to stalk successful restaurant chains.\nThe yin and yang of the recession could be helping the Keg in another way, Mr. Aisenstat says. Even though most consumers haven't been directly hurt by the recession, economic worries are undoubtedly keeping them from buying new cars, new homes and other big-ticket items.\nBut a $100 steak dinner? That's one of those little pleasures that is all the more enjoyable when times are tough. \"It's a relatively inexpensive luxury,\" he says.\nPATRICK BRETHOUR\nGlobe and Mail March 13, 2009","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Federally Supported, State Managed, Locally Executed' Disaster Recovery\nHomes are surrounded by flood water in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey near Galveston, Texas. Charlie Riedel \/ AP Photo\nBy Dave Nyczepir,\nBy Dave Nyczepir\nFEMA wants state and local governments to play a 'larger role' post-disaster while shifting those funds to mitigation.\nState and Federal Relations\nFederal and City Relations\nWASHINGTON \u2014 The Federal Emergency Management Agency wants to quadruple its investment in disaster mitigation by 2022 using aid money, a plan supported by regional officials in beleaguered states like Texas\u2014so long as the funding formula is amenable.\nOn Monday, the Trump administration proposed a budget including a record $85 billion for disaster aid, and 2018 stands to see an unprecedented amount of mitigation funding flow to areas impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.\nAwarding money typically doled out post-disaster to communities based on risk \"would be a force multiplier in mitigation,\" Daniel Kaniewski, FEMA's deputy administrator for protection and national preparedness, told Route Fifty following a speech at the National Association of Regional Councils' winter meeting in D.C.\n\"We believe that mitigation dollars should be available to every community prior to a disaster, but by law most of our mitigation dollars are only available to those communities hit by a disaster,\" Kaniewski said. \"What about all those communities that haven't been hit by a disaster and have known vulnerabilities?\"\nTexas Association of Regional Councils Executive Director Ginny Lewis liked the idea in theory but didn't want to see areas that have never experienced a disaster prioritized in a competitive process to the detriment of those like her own, which was hard hit by Hurricane Harvey and is at higher risk of another. More mitigation money is an improvement, she said, but \"the funding formula will be very telling.\"\nEvery $1 spent on mitigation saves $6 in necessary post-disaster aid, according to a National Institute of Building Sciences report released in January.\n\"Recovery takes too long and it costs too much, said Chuck Wemple, Houston-Galveston Area Council chief operation officer. \"So whatever we can do to increase mitigation and diversion is a great investment of funds.\"\nCoherent multi-year strategies would be required of areas competing for mitigation funds, Kaniewski said, but that would allow localities to prioritize resilience efforts in their own backyards.\nA change in the Stafford Act regulating aid is necessary to shift funds to mitigation, but currently 75 percent of all presidentially declared disasters are small\u2014requiring $41 million or less in assistance. FEMA envisions \"federally supported, state-managed, locally executed\" disaster response, where state and local governments \"play a larger role\" moving forward, Kaniewski said.\n\"Texas is a great example of a state that has both the interest and the ability to step up and manage their own recovery program,\" he said. \"For those states, particularly the smaller ones, that may not have that capability, we are beginning a dialogue with them and finding out what gaps they may have that would prevent them from executing a portion of that vision.\"\nFEMA soon plans to announce a pilot program in a handful of states supporting gaps in their recovery, Kaniewski said.\nIn the meantime, the agency has begun outreach to state and local governments, which includes appearances at meetings like NARC's.\n\"I think it's reassuring to hear an emphasis on local program implementation and allowing states to have more input and control in how the programs are run,\" Lewis said\nWhere the money for mitigation will come from in the budget is another story.\n\"The budget is what it is,\" Kaniewski said. \"[FEMA Administrator] Brock Long supports the president's budget but also acknowledges that, going forward, we need to take the post-disaster money and move it pre-disaster.\"\nDave Nyczepir is a News Editor at Government Executive's Route Fifty and is based in Washington, D.C.\nBrowse The Atlas full case study database or read more case studies about Disaster Recovery.\nCity of Roseville Eliminates $10 Million Budget Shortfall Using Scientific Community Surveys\nRoseville, CA, USA\nCamden, NJ Deters Illegal Dumping, Fulfilling Promise to Clean Up Community\nCamden, NJ, USA\nNEXT STORY: Contempt for Court","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Blake Shelton Reveals the Sweet 'Handmade' Gift Gwen Stefani Got Him for His Birthday\nThe \"God's County\" singer turned 43 on Tuesday\nBy Brianne Tracy\nJohn Shearer\/ACMA2019\/Getty\nNot only did Gwen Stefani throw boyfriend Blake Shelton an epic pizza party to celebrate his birthday, but she also surprised him with a thoughtful gift.\nThe No Doubt front woman gifted the \"God's Country\" singer \u2014 who turned 43 on Tuesday \u2014 a \"huge\" sign to put on display at his Oklahoma ranch.\n\"It's like a 'Welcome to the Ranch'-type sign,\" Shelton told PEOPLE at the Universal Studios Backlot BBQ for IHG Rewards Club Chase Mastercard cardholders on Friday. \"It was a handmade deal. It's pretty cool.\"\nStefani, 49, held the pizza party at her house on Thursday night and invited over friends and family. While she was the one to share multiple photos and videos documenting the night on social media, it turns out that Shelton was actually the one behind the idea for the birthday festivities.\n\"[Gwen] said, 'What do you want?' I go, 'Well, there's a big pizza oven out there, so we need to figure out how to use that thing,'\" he said. \"So they have a friend who actually owns a pizza restaurant here in town, he came over and knew how to do it.\"\n\"I have no idea how to do any of that stuff,\" he added. \"It's either a frozen pizza for me or Pizza Hut.\"\nBlake Shelton's pizza party\nGwen Stefani\/Instagram; Inset: Steve Granitz\/WireImage\nGwen's sons Kingston, 13, Zuma, 10, and Apollo, 5 \u2014 whom she shares with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale \u2014 also joined in on the birthday fun, and they even wrote out sweet cards for Shelton.\n\"Christmas, birthdays, any kind of holiday \u2014 they always sit down and take time to write a message and draw pictures or something,\" he said. \"Those are the coolest, coolest things, you know? It's something I never experienced in my life. When they take time and actually make something, it's pretty cool.\"\nRELATED: Gwen Stefani Throws Blake Shelton a Birthday Pizza Party and Jokes About Beating Him on The Voice\nKingston Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, Apollo Rossdale and Zuma Rossdale\nSteve Granitz\/WireImage\nIn between the birthday festivities on Thursday, Stefani also shared in one of her Instagram Stories that she can't wait to return to The Voice this season \u2014 and hopefully \"beat\" Shelton.\n\"I'm glad that's she's already feeling competitive,\" Shelton said in response. \"Of course, I'm not going to let her win. I'm going to have to win, but I'm going to have to do it in a way that she doesn't feel like I beat her. I don't know if that's possible or not because I definitely don't want to upset her \u2014 that's not going to pay off for me in the long run. This will be her fourth time on the show, so she's no stranger to it. She knows what she's doing.\"\nGwen Stefani's message to Blake Shelton\nGwen Stefani\/Instagram\nWhile Shelton admits that it \"sucks\" that Adam Levine will no longer sit beside him on the show since announcing his departure in May, he thinks that NBC made the right call by asking Stefani to fill his spot.\n\"We're all going to miss out Adam,\" he said. \"There's no way around it. But she's way better looking than he is, in my opinion.\"\nWhen it comes to working with Stefani, Shelton said he can \"never get enough of her.\"\n\"Even when I have a day off and she's working, I'll go with her to whatever she's doing,\" he explained.\nGwen Stefani and Blake Shelton\nAt the Backyard BBQ event held on Friday, IHG Rewards Club Chase Mastercard cardholders were treated to an intimate performance by Shelton of his hits like \"Sangria\" and \"God's Country,\" along with a Q&A. After the performance, Shelton joined the crowd for a game of giant beer pong as a fun way to kick off summer.\n\"Any time I partner with anybody on something like this, it has to make sense,\" he said. \"[A] hot air balloon ride with Blake Shelton \u2014 that wouldn't make sense to me. But backyard barbecue and playing the guitar a little bit? That sounds fun to me, and it feels natural to me, and I think it'll help everybody here be relaxed and happy and have fun.\"\nPopular in Country\nRingo Starr Is Spreading a Little Peace and Love for His Birthday\u2014and You're Invited\nBlake Shelton Reveals How Gwen Stefani Reacted to the Idea of Her Proposing\nBlake Shelton Marvels at Celebrating 4 Years with Gwen Stefani This Fall: 'It's Kind of a Blur!'\nWill Smith Gave Sweet Speech at Son Jaden's 21st Birthday Party: 'You Make Us Proud Every Single Day'\nHitting the Waves! Jaden Smith Spends His 21st Birthday Surfing in Malibu\nEllen DeGeneres Gives Blake Shelton an Engagement Countdown Clock for Gwen Stefani\nShawn Mendes Charms the Internet by Letting a 'Little Angel' Fan Kiss Him at His Denver Concert\nGwen Stefani's $25 Million Beverly Hills Mansion Gets a $10 Million Price Cut \u2014 See Inside\nCardi B and Offset Celebrate as Daughter Kulture Turns 1 \u2014 See the Sweet Photos\nJoanna Gaines Celebrates Son Crew's First Birthday with Sweet Tribute: 'What a Gift You Are'\nCountry Singer Jimmie Allen Is Engaged! All the Photos from His Sweet Disney World Proposal\nBlake Shelton Tries \u2014 and Hilariously Fails \u2014 the Bottle Cap Challenge\nGwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Share a Sweet Kiss at a Luke Bryan Concert\nGwen Stefani Says Blake Shelton Is Her 'Best Friend' as She Opens Up About Returning to The Voice\nDove Cameron Shares Sweet Black and White Video with Costar Cameron Boyce After His Death\nPrince Like You've Never Seen Him Before: The Star's Longtime Photographer Shares Rare Photos and Private Memories\nHer Two Most Important Men! Blake Shelton Kisses Gwen Stefani's Dad Dennis for Father's Day\nSee the Tearful Moment Christina Anstead's Husband Ant Adorably Asked Her to Move In With Him\nAll Topics in Country","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Missouri House gives final approval to photo ID legislation; bill also allows no-excuse absentee voting\nMarch 26, 2021 By Brian Hauswirth\nLegislation that requires a photo ID and the use of a paper ballot was given final approval by the Missouri House in Jefferson City on Thursday. The vote, primarily along party lines, was 109-48.\nMissouri House Elections and Elected Officials Committee Chairman Dan Shaul (R-Imperial) speaks on the House floor in Jefferson City on March 25, 2021 (photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications)\nHouse Bill 738 is sponsored by veteran State Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville), who represents the Bootheel. Rone was unable to make it to the Capitol on Thursday, so State Rep. Dan Shaul (R-Imperial) presented it. Shaul chairs the House Elections and Elected Officials Committee.\n\"Paper ballot, it will become the official ballot and it shall be hand-marked by the voter. That will become the official ballot as of January of (20)22,\" Shaul tells House colleagues.\nThe bill also repeals electronic voting language, with the exception of voting equipment used by disabled residents. The bill also allows no-excuse absentee voting starting the third Tuesday before an election, with photo identification. The bill also requires local election authorities to be members of the Center for Internet Security.\nIt also repeals mail-in voting provisions that were allowed in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. Chairman Shaul says it also includes other key provisions.\n\"It's going to allow candidates to hire their own poll workers. You can't be compensated for people who solicit voter registration applications,\" says Shaul.\nHouse Democrats are critical of the photo ID requirement, with State Rep. Joe Adams (D-University City) saying that provision is \"despicable.\" Representative Adams, who serves on the House Elections and Elected Officials Committee, blasted Republicans during a short floor speech, saying they will disenfranchise voters.\n\"I think we're trying to fix particularly with this voter ID portion and how will you vote, we're trying to fix a problem that does not exist,\" Adams says.\nThe Missouri Voter Protection Coalition urged the House to vote no, saying the bill will erect barriers to the ballot for thousands of eligible Missouri voters.\nBut bill supporters such as Debby Jones disagree: she testifies that voter ID will stop fraud and will ensure an accurate vote count. The Missouri House received more than 50 pages of written testimony, about this bill.\nRone's bill now heads to the Missouri Senate for consideration.\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 \u00b7 Missourinet\nFiled Under: Elections, Health \/ Medicine, History, Legislature, News Tagged With: Center for Internet Security, COVID, Debby Jones, House Bill 738, Imperial, mail-in voting, Missouri House Elections and Elected Officials Committee Chairman Dan Shaul, Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, no-excuse absentee voting, paper ballots, photo ID requirement, Portageville, State Rep. Don Rone, State Rep. Joe Adams, University City\nPrevious Post: \u00ab Missouri COVID-19 rate lowest in nation, St. Louis area events to vaccinate up to 18,000\nNext Post: Bearcats cruise into national title game \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Are home bidding wars finally cooling down?\nCBRE Group commits over $7 million to community impact initiative\nJPMorgan executive jumps to Guild Mortgage\n\"While competition waned in November, it was still higher than a year earlier, which is a sign that demand will be strong in the new year,\" he said.\nRead next: Revealed \u2013 what's happened to purchase mortgage applications?\nRichmond, Va. saw the highest bidding-war rate of the 44 US metros in Redfin's analysis, with 80% of offers written by Redfin agents facing competition in November. Salt Lake City and San Diego followed at 73.8% and 72%, respectively. Honolulu (71.1%) and Dallas (70.6%) rounded out the top five.\n\"Bidding wars are still happening, but buyers are starting to get more breathing room,\" said Jill Thompson, a Redfin agent in Indianapolis, where the bidding-war rate dropped to 36.8% in November from 73.6% in October.\n\"A few months ago, the typical home was going for $15,000 to $20,000\u2014sometimes even $50,000\u2014over the asking price. Buyers were paying cash, waiving inspection contingencies, and overlooking necessary repairs in order to win,\" Thompson continued. \"Today, buyers are more cautious about overpaying, aren't waiving inspections as freely as they were in the spring, and feel less of a rush to commit to a house after the first tour.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"10 FOODS YOU MUST TRY IN SF\nThe Boudin Bakery on Fishermans Wharf specializes in San Francisco-style sourdough bread.\nGuide to food The\nCity is famous for\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 San Francisco is a city with serious food game, whether playing as multi-starred cuisine served in a white tablecloth hush or a simple crab cocktail eaten amid the boisterous clamor of Fisherman's Wharf.\nAnd with the Super Bowl heading to nearby Santa Clara, the hungry hordes hankering for a taste of the local food scene won't be disappointed. If you're lucky enough to be among them \u2014 whether you're looking to dine on one of the city's iconic standbys or venture into cutting-edge cuisine \u2014 here's a guide to 10 foods and drinks San Francisco is famous for and where to find them.\nAnchor Brewing and San Francisco have a history that goes all the way back to 1849, when German brewer Gottlieb Brekle arrived with his family. The brewery weathered earthquakes, fires and Prohibition just fine, but almost went under entirely when mid-century Americans developed a taste for mass-produced beer. In 1965, Fritz Maytag saved the place from bankruptcy, bringing back Anchor Steam Beer and writing a new chapter in suds history. You can get a first-person look at the brewery via tours available most days except holidays. The tours cost $15 per person, take about 90 minutes and conclude with a tasting. Reservations are required; you can make them here: http:\/\/www.anchorbrewing.com\/brewery\/tours . Another option is the 21st Amendment Brewery & Restaurant (563 2nd St.), which has a selection of house beers served with traditional pub grub.\nCIOPPINO\nThis is the fish stew created in San Francisco by Italian fishermen in North Beach in the late 1800s. They'd toss into a pot whatever seafood was left from the day's catch \u2014 crab, shrimp, clams, fish, etc. \u2014 along with onions, garlic, tomatoes, olive oil, wine and herbs. Italian restaurants started serving the dish and soon it was part of the region's culinary lexicon. A solid bet in North Beach is Sotto Mare (552 Green St.). Tadich Grill (240 California St.) also is a good choice.\nThis is a fully caffeinated city with coffee shops on just about every block. For something out of the ordinary, try Ritual, a pioneer in the craft caffeine movement. The flagship location is 1026 Valencia St. in the Mission District. Blue Bottle, which began across the bay in Oakland, has a spot in San Francisco's Ferry Building. And for coffee with that little extra kick, try the famous Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista Cafe in Fisherman's Wharf (2765 Hyde St.).\nYou can pick up a traditional crab cocktail at one of the many vendors lining Fisherman's Wharf, http:\/\/www.fishermanswharf.org . For a different take, try it roasted and served with garlic noodles at Thanh Long (4101 Judah St.). Like your crab crispy? Get it shelled, battered and deep-fried at the R & G Lounge in Chinatown (631 Kearny St.).\nFor meals on wheels, check out Off the Grid, a roaming event featuring food trucks, carts, tents and live entertainment. Download the app to get information on schedules and participants. http:\/\/offthegridsf.com\/\nOysters on the half shell are a longstanding San Francisco tradition. For an elegant take with a great view of the Bay Bridge try Waterbar (399 The Embarcadero). Starting Jan. 30 dinner will be accompanied by a free light show with the return of the Bay Lights, a display that flashes nightly on the west span of the bridge. Also on the waterfront, Hog Island Oyster Bar in the Ferry Building.\n\u2014 SOURDOUGH\nThe region's tradition of sourdough \u2014 bread leavened with a wild yeast starter or \"mother\" dough \u2014 dates back to the Gold Rush. Boudin Bakery, established in 1849 \u2014 according to bakery history the original \"mother dough\" was saved in a bucket during the 1906 earthquake \u2014 has a veritable shrine to sourdough at its Fisherman's Wharf location (160 Jefferson St). It includes a museum and demonstration bakery. Another good place to try this crusty creation is Tartine Bakery (600 Guerrero St.).\nWhether you're parched from purchasing Pradas and other goodies from the boutiques of Union Square or simply resting up from an afternoon of window shopping, The Rotunda at Neiman Marcus is a fun spot to enjoy the elegant refreshment of afternoon tea. Set under a stained glass dome with views of Union Square, the restaurant serves teas, starting at $45, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 2:30 to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday (150 Stockton St., Level Four). Or try the Samovar Tea Lounge at Yerba Buena Gardens (730 Howard St.). English tea service starts at $24.\nIf you like Tiki bars, a stop at the Fairmont Hotel's Tonga Room is mandatory. Set around what used to be the hotel's indoor swimming pool, the bar features rain shows, live music and more kitsch than you can throw a tiny paper umbrella at (950 Mason St.). Another option is Smuggler's Cove, which has more than 400 rums (650 Gough St.).\nInto veggies with a vista? Greens Restaurant is not just a vegetarian restaurant, it's a high-end spot that has been nominated for best overall restaurant in America in the James Beard Awards and is set in historic Fort Mason Center with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands (2 Marina Blvd., Fort Mason Center Building A). You also can find bountiful produce at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Markets held Tuesday, Thursdays and Saturdays. http:\/\/ferrybuildingmarketplace.com\/farmers_market.php For a futuristic take on food, try Eatsa (121 Spear St.). There are no waiters or cashiers here. You place your order on wall-mounted tablets, then wait for one of the illuminated cubbies lining one wall to display your name in lights, indicating your order's ready. Eatsa specializes in quinoa-vegetable bowls in myriad combinations. All are vegetarian and some are vegan.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chicory: A Colorful Tale (2021)\nDeveloper: Greg Lobanov, Alexis Dean-Jones, Lena Raine, Madeleine Berger, A Shell in the Pit\nI'm so excited to be putting out this review about two weeks after release, as this is a game I've been looking forward to for a long time. I backed this game on Kickstarter without a second thought because it was being headed by Greg Lobanov, creator of Wandersong (currently still #2 on the Sleepy Toadstool ranked list). I only began supporting new Kickstarter projects was in 2019, and Chicory: A Colorful Tale is the first of those supported projects to come to fruition. It's exciting to see the brand new game all ready for you on day one after being there for the first announcement for it. Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a top-down adventure game in a coloring book world that's yours to create. Chicory is incredibly emotional, relatable, and charming in its story and characters while also managing to make anyone feel creatively uninhibited with its unique gameplay.\nThe first thing you're asked to enter when you start is not your name, but instead, your favorite food. Except, almost everyone in this world is named after a food so it turns out you did just enter in your character's name after all (the name I gave, \"Bread\", eventually grew on me). In the world of Chicory, one artist is assigned to be the \"wielder\" of a magical brush that gives color and art to the province of Picnic. You play as a small dog works as a janitor in the Wielder Tower, where the current wielder lives. This protagonist a big fan of the current wielder, a bunny named Chicory who appears to be vastly talented. You're working hard at cleaning the studio, when suddenly the room shakes violently and all the color is gone, leaving everything blank. Thinking you caused it with your cleaning, you go alert Chicory of the situation. Instead, you stumble upon the magical brush on the ground outside of Chicory's locked door. Deciding to fix the problem yourself, you snatch the brush and proceed out of the building to paint the town. After some adventures, you decide to return the brush to Chicory, only to find she has renounced the brush and doesn't want it back. She's clearly not doing okay, but she doesn't want to be bothered, so you proudly take on the task of wielder. You're gutsy and determined to continue painting everything back in as well as fighting the mysterious root of \"corruption\" that seems to be making black trees appear throughout Picnic. In the town of Luncheon, where you live, towns folk will ask you to paint their homes, design logos, and help put the color back in their town, which you're happy to do. The trend continues as you travel on, with everyone you meet asking you, the new wielder, for help with anything and everything.\nQuicker than in Animal Crossing, I've succeeded in making the whole town wear my ugly Triforce shirt.\nAs you would expect from Lena Raine, the music in Chicory is absolutely stellar. It portrays both the serene, peaceful, bubbly world of Picnic as well as the incredibly heavy and stressful moments, such as boss fights. Did the boss fight music sometimes remind me of Celeste? Yes, but that's definitely not a bad thing. There's also a beautiful, powerful lyrical track to top it all off. The art is just as the description says - like a fresh coloring book. That means it's got incredibly crisp, clear black lines in a blank world. It makes color pop incredibly well, whether you color in an object, a character, or just run your brush across the screen. Since you are essentially responsible for coloring in the world, it can look incredibly different depending on what you choose to do. Through most of the game, you're limited to a palette of 4 different colors, with the colors depending on what area of Picnic you're currently in. However, a later in the game you're given the freedom to be a little more creative (I won't say more than that). You can also give your character a look all of your own using the incredibly vast number of clothing items you can find everywhere. One incredibly wacky and amazing feature of Chicory is the ability to make animated gifs out of anything you draw. This includes both drawing in the overworld and drawing paintings as part of the your art class sidequest. I think it's genius, as obviously everyone loves gifs and it encourages players to post about their creations to social media.\nMuch like in Wandersong, each character in Chicory is quite fleshed out and has a lot to their story that you can discover if you spend time talking to them. One of the most emotional parts of the game for me was actually a side-quest story with non-protagonist characters that completely caught me off guard. This is what made it so worthwhile for me to play this game to the fullest. Even when I knew I could go to the end part of the game, I continued exploring to fill my map, finish sidequests, and find new clothing items. As I've said before, I'm not a completionist, so it was definitely story and exploration based motivation for me to continue to do as much as I could before beating the game. The only side quest I didn't really \"feel\" like completing was the art lessons where you'd draw a given assignment, only because completing one after the other got a little tiring and the tools to do so were fairly limited. It's probably possible to beat this game in 10-15 hours, but I ended up spending almost 20 hours on it. The gameplay, at least on mouse and keyboard, works perfectly as it should for what it's supposed to be. You can control the protagonist with the keys, while using the brush with the mouse. This is especially helpful with boss fights, which can actually be tough and require a good bit of coordination. The game is extremely forgiving, however, and isn't meant to be difficult to beat - it gives you many accessibility options to change your experience with bosses. Puzzles involve using the paint in clever ways in order to reach previously unreachable areas.\nBoss fights aesthetically are a literal contrast to the overworld. Also, your paint disappears quickly after being used.\nWithout going in to it too much, I can say that Chicory is wonderfully joyful and silly while also being quite dark and heavy. It deals with very real topics of depression, impostor syndrome, and grief. This is important to know going in. However, it deals with these topics incredibly well, and your character is able to both help others and be helped by others when going through a very difficult moments. Also, as someone who's not an artist, it's still pretty clear that this is a story about what it's like being an artist - the good and the bad. Complex issues about who's a real artist, what others expect of you, and never being \"good enough\" are at the root of the story's conflict. Chicory made me see from a different perspective by playing a protagonist who was so wholeheartedly passionate about what they wanted to do, and yet was still very overwhelmed by people's demands and requests made of them.\nYou can use the in-game camera to take zoomed in shots with different filters, poses, and facial expressions.\nChicory: A Colorful Tale is, without a doubt, one of my favorite games of 2021. There's nothing quite like it and it nails the \"drawing game\" mechanic in a way that other games I've tried have not. Greg Lobanov has officially created two indie games that I deeply love, both of which use creativity as a gameplay tool, so I'm definitely a big fan. I highly recommend this game to any fans of Zelda-likes, deep story games, and anyone who knows what it's like to be an artist. It's a game for anyone, really, as it's so accessible and even has a two-player mode. It's a genuine and compelling story of friendship, community support, and self-love. You could spend even more hours on it than I did if you decide to color every space on the map, or find every gift item in the game. There's just so much wonder and fun in every nook and cranny of Chicory.\nChicory: A Colorful Tale is available on PC and PS4\/PS5.\nPlayed on: PC\nFinished: 6\/3\/2021\nPlaytime: 19 hours\nI Was a Teenage Exocolonist (2022)\nDropsy (2015)\nA Juggler's Tale (2021)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Panel Orders Predatory Lending Claims Consolidated\nThe Federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced yesterday that all lawsuits against Calabasas-based Countrywide Financial Corporation alleging predatory lending practices will be consolidated and heard in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.\nThe litigation presently consists of two actions in that district, three actions in this district, one action in the Northern District of Illinois and one action in the Western District of Kentucky, all of which will now go to U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings.\nCountrywide moved for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1407 in this district, which the attorneys general of California and Illinois and the city attorney of San Diego opposed.\nAfter the California and Illinois attorneys general settled claims in their actions against Countrywide, the lender sought to withdraw its Sec. 1407 motion insofar as it related to the California and Illinois actions.\nIn an opinion authored by panel chairman John G. Heyburn II, the panel found that all of the actions in the litigation involved common questions of fact, and that centralization was appropriate because it would eliminate duplicative discovery, eliminate the risk of inconsistent pretrial rulings, and conserve resources.\n\"The sufficiency of class allegations is an overarching issue in the putative nationwide class actions,\" Heyburn noted, which shared factual questions regarding whether Countrywide had originated or serviced residential mortgages in an unlawful, unfair or deceptive fashion, misrepresented or concealed the terms, risk, or suitability of the loans, or placed borrowers in loans they could not afford.\nThe panel also denied Countrywide's motion to withdraw the California and Illinois attorneys general's actions from centralization because the actions shared factual questions with the remaining claims.\nEven though the California and Illinois attorneys general and San Diego city attorney opposed inclusion of their actions in the centralized proceedings and contested federal jurisdiction over their claims, the panel ruled that their objections should be presented to Sabraw in the interest of economy and efficacy, and urged Sabraw to consider their claims expeditiously.\nHeyburn explained that the panel selected the Southern District because two of the seven actions were pending there, Countrywide's principal place of business is in California, several parties, witnesses and documents could be found within the state, and the district had the capacity to handle the litigation.\nPanel members J. Frederick Motz, Kathryn H. Vratil, W. Royal Furgeson Jr., Robert L. Miller Jr., and David R. Hansen joined Heyburn in his opinion.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"In: Poetry, Tamil Nadu Board\nWhat are the poetic devices used in the poem Incident of the French Camp?\nBritish PoetryDramatic MonologueIncident of the French CampRobert BrowningTamil Nadu Board Class 12\n2022-01-15T08:57:16+05:30Added an answer on January 15, 2022 at 8:57 am\nFollowing figures of speech have been used in the poem Incident of the French Camp:\nAlliteration- It is the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words. Examples- \"Stood on our storming-day\", \"army-leader Lannes\", \"held himself erect\", \"The Marshal's in the market-place\", \"bruised eaglet breathes\", \"flag-bird flap\"\nEnjambment\u2013 It is the continuation of a sentence to multiple lines. Many of the sentences in this poem span multiple lines and are therefore of this nature.\nSimile- A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Example- \"his plans\/ Soared up again like fire\"\nRepetition- It is the repetition of a word or a phrase in the poem for poetic effect. Example- \"bound on bound\"\nPersonification\u2013 Personification is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and\/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human. Example- \"smiling joy\".\nIncident of the French Camp Poem by Robert Browning Line Wise Summary\ndescribe the journey of the third ship\nhow is the wind possessed in the north ship?\nBriefly describe the significance of the title the north ship\nWhy is The Sunne Rising considered as a love poem?\nExplain \"The Sun Rising\" as a metaphysical poem\nWhat is the rhyme scheme of the poem Leisure?\nDiscuss the quality of wit in Donne's poetry with illustrations from his poems.\nWhat are the Poetic Devices of the Poem Epilogue?\nWhat is the Central Idea of the Poem Epilogue?\nWhat is the Rhyme Sturcture of the Poem Epilogue?\nWhat is the Theme of the Poem Epilogue?\nCan present day writers aptly describe the beauty of the speaker's friend? Explain.\nWhat are the poetic devices used in the poem the convergence of twain?\nWhat is the theme of the poem The convergence of twain?\nWhat is the central idea of the poem The convergence of Twain?\nWhat does Milton light denied refer to?\nWhat is the theme of the poem Dear Mum?\nWhat are the poetic devices used in the poem Dear Mum?\nWhat is the central idea of the poem Dear mum?\nWhat is the theme of the poem Home they brought her warrior dead?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Communities USA TODAY Obituaries eNewspaper\nHoroscope for Oct. 19\nBernice Bede Osol\nInstead of taking gambles on persons or things about which you know little, bet only on yourself in the year ahead. You'll have several good potential projects and, even if you fail, you'll know why and what to do about it in the future.\nLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Take care not to let your anger out on an innocent bystander if you are overpowered or outmaneuvered on an important matter. Count to 10 before opening your mouth.\nSCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Maintain mental discipline regardless of what happens to throw you off. Underestimating the value of essential elements in your endeavors could cause you to unravel.\nSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Keep both your social and business contacts separate and, above all, avoid all speculative arrangements with friends. If things don't go the way they should, you'll be to blame.\nCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Taking on more objectives or projects that you can comfortably manage is self-defeating, so don't gamble on your workload. Dedicate yourself to only one or two targets.\nAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Don't be coerced into putting your signature on something that you're hesitant about, and be wary of even a verbal commitment. What you agree to might be deliberately distorted.\nPISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) It behooves you to be self-reliant, because people upon whom you depend might make promises they later find they can't keep. Personal requirements will take precedence over yours.\nARIES (March 21-April 19) If you're a bit slow and your thinking isn't quite as sharp as it usually is, forgo attempting to match wits with an adversary. Back off until a riper time.\nTAURUS (April 20-May 20) Look before you leap when attempting to handle a complex assignment. You could easily misread something and end up making your task twice as hard to accomplish.\nGEMINI (May 21-June 20) There is a strong chance that some social plans you've been looking forward to will get canceled or postponed. Be prepared with some backup plans so you won't experience a total letdown.\nCANCER (June 21-July 22) It's never smart to allow someone who can be dead weight into an arrangement where you and several others are aiming for a specific target. He or she is likely to hold you back once again.\nLEO (July 23-Aug. 22) There is one thing that could cause you much disarray, and that is proceeding forward on an idea without laying out a proper game plan. Take a moment to formulate one.\nVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Unless you are prudent in the management of your resources, you're not likely to have the financial wherewithal to make ends meet when you really need to.\nContact Us Support Local Business Advertise Your Business Advertising Terms and Conditions Licensing & Reprints Help Center Subscriber Guide My Account My Print Account Give Feedback Promote Your Event\nSubscribe Today Newsletters Facebook Twitter eNewspaper Archives Newspaper in Education\n\u00a9 2023 www.cantonrep.com. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Merck wins European approval for first-ever Ebola vaccine\nPosted by Reuters | Nov 11, 2019\n(Reuters) \u2013 U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co Inc on Monday received approval from the European Commission to market (http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NZ0QMB) its Ebola vaccine, less than a month after a European medicines panel backed the first-ever vaccine against the deadly virus.\nThe vaccine, Ervebo, is approved for individuals aged 18 years and older and has already been used under emergency guidelines to try to protect against the spread of a deadly Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo.\nThe shot is also being reviewed by U.S. health regulators and a decision is expected in the first quarter of next year.\nThe Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever and spreads from person to person through direct contact with body fluids. It kills around half of those it infects.\nSince the middle of last year, the Congo Ebola outbreak has killed more than 2,100 people, making it the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, after the 2013-16 epidemic in West Africa that killed more than 11,300.\n\"The EU is supporting international efforts to combat Ebola on all fronts, from vaccine development to delivering humanitarian aid on the ground,\" EU Ebola Coordinator Christos Stylianides said in a statement dated Nov. 10.\nMerck has said its priority was to get regulatory approval of its Ervebo manufacturing site in Germany so that licensed supply of the vaccine \"can be used to support global public health preparedness\".\n(Reporting by Saumya Sibi Joseph in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)\nPreviousConference Highlights: ACR 2019\nNextHair care issues may keep some black women from exercising\nTeva to discontinue study for chronic headache treatment\nEating nuts might help limit weight gain\nU.S. anti-abortion groups plot course from state capitals to Supreme Court\nTeen boys' eating disorders may focus on muscles, not weight loss\nSouth Korea confirms two new African swine fever cases, now 13 in all as disease spreads October 3, 2019\nAntares Pharma's testosterone drug gets FDA approval October 1, 2018\nBayer sells prescription dermatology brands to Denmark's Leo Pharma July 31, 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Stacey Freeman is a writer and journalist and the founder of Write On Track LLC, a full-service consultancy dedicated to providing high-quality content and strategy to individuals and businesses. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Lily (published by The Washington Post), Forbes, Entrepreneur, MarketWatch, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, Town & Country, InStyle, PBS' Next Avenue, AARP, SheKnows, Yahoo!, MSN, HuffPost, POPSUGAR, Your Teen, Grown & Flown, Scary Mommy, CafeMom, MariaShriver.com, and dozens of other well-known platforms worldwide. She lives in New Jersey with her three children.\nPaul Justison dropped out of high school in 1966 and fled to Haight-Ashbury, spending most of the next two years there and in Marin County engaging in all the pleasures and follies that magical time had to offer. After the sixties ended, he went to college, started a career, and raised a family. He has been published in The Rumpus, The Gambler Mag, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Fiction on the Web. Lost and Found in the 60s is his first novel.\n\u200bRhys Daly is an Asian-American Seattle area writer and actor who wishes he lived even closer to the ocean. His work often explores discomfort, uncertainty, identity, acceptance, and the wonder in the mundane. When he's not hunched over a coffee table furiously memorizing lines or scribbling up poems, he can be found walking moodily down a city street looking for his next bit of inspiration. Other works can be in Volume Four, Issue 3 of Rigorous Magazine, as well as the Fall 2020 issue of Short Vine Journal.\nJanette Kennedy, MAEd, MFA regularly wrangles dreams, family, and words. Her poetry has appeared at Mothers Always Write, on the Tiferet Journal community blog, and on the sidewalk of her hometown as a part of the 2021 World Travels Sidewalk Poetry Contest. Although she has been known to sling data and pivot tables with the best, she is fascinated by the power of art and nurturing creativity. She has taught diverse students of all ages for over 15 years, and currently teaches undergraduate composition and literature. Discover more at janettekennedy.com\nBorn and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Mari Matthias has always had a creative project underway \u2013 from putting on neighborhood plays at age six, to teaching English in Japan at age 18, to opening a Spanish language school so her two-year-old would have a community of learners. She moved to White Salmon, Washington, with her husband in 1995 and raised two kids there. The Runestone's Promise is Mari's first novel. She found the bones of this story in a compilation of family history and was rapt until it was written. Find more at marimatthias.com. \u200b\nCredit: Franco Vogt\nJonathan Lerner, born in 1948, grew up in Washington, D.C., with the exception of two years in the late fifties when his father, a Foreign Service officer, was posted to Taipei. That experience, and the journeys there and back which took his family literally around the world, primed a lifelong addiction to travel. It was also the germ for his new novel LILY NARCISSUS.\nLerner matriculated at Antioch College in 1965, but dropped out two years later and immersed himself in New Left activism, joining the staff of Students for a Democratic Society. His early writing experiences were producing SDS publications and contributing to other counterculture and \"underground\" newspapers. In 1969 he helped found the breakaway SDS faction the Weatherman. That became the clandestine and cult-like Weather Underground, which carried out a campaign of bombings. These experiences\u2014and the challenges of being a young man struggling with his gay identity in a macho group culture\u2014informed both Lerner's novel ALEX UNDERGROUND and his memoir SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN.\n\"When I stopped trying to be a full-time revolutionary, in the mid-seventies, I embraced my calling to be a full-time writer,\" Lerner says. His first novel, CAUGHT IN A STILL PLACE, was published in 1989. Meanwhile he had begun establishing what became a successful career as a magazine writer and editor. Early on he wrote mostly travel stories, typically with a design or historic preservation angle. Later he concentrated on topics including architecture, urban planning, and issues of natural resources and sustainability. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Metropolis, The Architect's Newspaper and numerous other publications. He has been a contributing editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine for the last decade.\nDuring the eighties Lerner lived in various parts of Florida, and after that for 21 years in Atlanta. In 2011 he moved to New York's Hudson Valley, to live with Peter Frank, a philanthropist and community activist, whom he married in 2015.\nFernando Andres Torres is a short-story writer, poet, musician and a freelance journalist currently contributing in English and Spanish to various San Francisco Bay Area media, including La Opini\u00f3n de La Bah\u00eda, San Francisco Bay Guardian, El Tecolote, La Voz de Richmond, El Reportero, and Radio Bilingue. He is volunteer associate editor and U.S. correspondent for the web magazine Dilemas, and editor of the blog LatinOpen.wordpress.com. Under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Torres joined the Chilean resistance and in 1975 he was arrested by the regime's secret police. While imprisoned, he recited poetry and hand-wrote messages with quotes about optimism and hope to pass among fellow prisoners. After being expelled from Chile and exiled in 1977, Torres continued to write poetry and short stories. His first book of poetry, co-authored with Victoria Miranda; On the Edges of a Countryless Weariness, was published under his pseudonym Camilo Fe\u00f1ini by Ism Press in 1986. Some of Torres fiction and non-fiction stories have been published in many magazines including ME: Multicultural Echoes, the magazine of the Department of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Chico's California State University. Torres has also been awarded fellowships by the New America Media in San Francisco. In 2018 his story Head Stew was selected as The Best New Writing 2018 by Hopewell Publications. In 2019, Scenes of Exile, a story based on Torres' exile, was published by The Bare Life Review Magazine, a journal of Immigrant and Refugees Literature. Other literary works by Mr. Torres have been published by Somos en Escrito Weebly; by Nobrow Fiction (2020); and by Lonely Cryptid Media (2020). Currently he is a member of the Advisory Board of ExposeFacts.org, and of the review panel of The Intrepid News Fund. As a composer and musician, Torres was a founding member of Latin American music ensemble Grupo Raiz, and have collaborated with many international musicians such as David Byrne, and shared the stage with American jewels like Pete Seeger and Holly Near.\nT.K. Lee\nT.K. LEE is an award-winning member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers, and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, among others. In addition to poetry and drama, he has also crafted prize-winning short fiction and is core faculty in the nationally ranked MFA programs in Creative Writing as well as in Theatre Education, at the historic Mississippi University for Women, the nation's first public academic institution for women, in Columbus, Mississippi. \u200b\nElisabeth Blair is a poet, editor, and workshop leader with an extensive background in music and the visual arts. She has been artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Wildacres, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and ACRE. From 2016-19 she hosted and produced the podcast Listening to Ladies. Her publications include forthcoming full-length collection because God loves the wasp (Unsolicited Press, 2022), two chapbooks--We He She\/It (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) and without saying (Ethel Press, 2020)\u2014and poems in a variety of journals, including Harpur Palate (forthcoming), Feminist Studies, cream city review, and Juked.\nA memoir in verse, Elisabeth Blair's because God loves the wasp documents two and a half years she spent living in two abusive facilities for \"troubled teens\" during the late 1990s. The wilderness camp and emotional growth boarding school were modeled on the teachings and tenets of Synanon, a mid-20th-century cult.\nAlternating between painful clarity and surreal metaphor, the poems grapple with the shock and disorientation of being taken away in the middle of the night by strangers; the bewilderment of navigating expectations in an environment of institutionalized bullying, shunning, and sleep deprivation; and the gravity of the adulthood that follows.\nWriting in the second person, Blair confronts the reader, withholding the potential relief of distance. Ripping through a patchwork of disturbing descriptions\u2014of violent staff, isolated and terrified children, and decades of brutal nightmares\u2014she cradles her fierce testimony in sonorous language and striking imagery.\nThe book's tight corralling of traumas takes aim at the notion that inducing fear, despair, and shipwrecked helplessness can rehabilitate a child\u2014the catastrophic doctrine of \"tough love.\"\nPhoto by Dan Williamson\nTara Stillions Whitehead is a filmmaker and multi-genre writer living in Central Pennsylvania. Graduate of University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television Production and San Diego State University's Creative Writing MFA Program, her writing and films work to subvert the toxic cultural narratives endorsed by popular media and the institutions that profit from stigmatizing and disadvantaging marginalized and historically oppressed groups. Her writing was included in the 2021 Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for various awards, including Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, AWP Intro Journal Awards, and the Pushcart Prize. A former DGA assistant director for television, she is currently Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media Production at Messiah University, where she serves as production faculty for narrative filmmaking. Her hybrid chapbook\/concept album, Blood Histories, was published by Galileo Press in 2021.\nRobert Crooke is a journalist, media executive, and author. His poetry has been published in the West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal, and his short fiction has appeared in The Paragon Journal, Literary Orphans Journal, and Linden Avenue Literary Journal. He began his career as a sports reporter and columnist for the Newhouse-owned Long Island Daily Press, and for thirteen years, he served as North American press spokesman for Reuters. Letting the House Go is his fifth novel. He and his wife reside in Bridgewater, CT.\nCatch up with him at his website: www.robertcrooke.com\nR.E. HENGSTERMAN is a former emergency room nurse. Born in Virginia and raised in New York, he holds masters' degrees from Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he took up short story writing. He currently lives in North Carolina with the family and occasionally wears pants.\n\u200bVisit www.rehengsterman.com or @robhengsterman for more.\nCedrick Mendoza-Tolentino was a 2014 Emerging Writer's Fellow at the Center for Fiction in New York City. He graduated with honors in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Columbia University. He has had work published in Liars' League New York, Akashic - Mondays are Murder, Gargoyle Magazine, Joyland, Slow Trains and Plain Spoke. His chapbook Alphabetica: The Other Side of Love was published by Corgi Snorkel Press.\nMelanie Sevcenko is a poet, radio producer, and recovering bohemian. She moved to Portland, Oregon by way of Berlin, Germany, where she lived for almost a decade and hustled as a film critic and reporter for various outlets. Her poems have appeared in Permafrost Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, Verse Daily, Black Heart Magazine, apt, The Fourth River, and more. She is quite proud of the title of her poetry chapbook, We Slept in Body Bags, Just in Case, which was published in 2013 by Finishing Line Press. She's also an Irish and Canadian citizen and is probably a distant relative of Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko. These days, Melanie works in public radio and podcasting and contributes to NPR, The Guardian, and Marketplace, amongst others. In her off-time, she can be found cooking plant-based meals, lighting bonfires in backyards, or buried under her 16-pound orange tabby.\nJackson Bliss is the winner of the 2020 Noemi Press Award in Prose and the mixed-race\/hapa author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021), Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022), and the speculative fiction hypertext, Dukkha, My Love (2017). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Guernica, Antioch Review, ZYZZYVA, Longreads, TriQuarterly, Columbia Journal, Kenyon Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Witness, Fiction, Santa Monica Review, Boston Review, Juked, Quarterly West, Arts & Letters, Joyland, Huffington Post UK, The Daily Dot, and Multiethnic Literature in the US, among others. He is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University and lives in LA with his wife and their two fashionably dressed dogs. Follow him on Twitter and IG: @jacksonbliss.\nInterview with Jackson Bliss\nIf you could cook dinner for any author, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you make?\nI'd cook for Haruki Murakami, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Tommy Orange, Karen Tei Yamashita, or Sandra Cisneros. I'd probably make oko toast with avocado, homemade ramen, or kimchi jjigae because those things are hard to fuck up if you know what you're doing and they also make you look more talented than you actually are in the kitchen. We all need shortcuts to greatness. Also, those foods can be so deeply satisfying on an emotional level and I'd want my fave author to experience joy so they know how I feel when I read their books.\nWhat scares you the most about the writing process? How do you combat your fears?\nNot being able to write anything, or anything that feels good to me when I read it again later on. I'm also afraid of people using my vulnerability in my writing against me. People can be such assholes when they're trying to flex their moral education on you. When I'm afraid of something, I head right towards it because I know it's not going to get easier by avoiding it, even though negative reinforcement is the most understandable defense mechanism there is. I guess I'd rather try and fail then not try at all. I don't want to have regrets in my life. Also, I feel like we can always learn from our failures, but we can't learn from the failures we didn't make (because we were too afraid to make them). Fucking up is part of our agency I think.\nWho is your biggest literary crush, author or character?\nI have language crushes on Junot Diaz, Zadie Smith, Milan Kundera, Lydia Davis, Toni Morrison, Carole Maso, Sandra Cisneros, JM Coetzee, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and WG Sebald. I have idea crushes on Haruki Murakami, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, Octavia Butler, David Mitchell, Aimee Bender, Natsuo Kirino, and Italo Calvino. And I have story crushes on Yiyun Li, Adrian Tomine, Dostoevsky, JD Salinger, Alison Bechdel, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Tayeb Salih.\nWhat books are on your nightstand?\nRight now, I've just got Bryan Washington's Lot on my nightstand because I'm a monogamous reader.\nFavorite punctuation mark? Why?\nIt's a toss up between a period and a colon. I like the openness of the colon, the way it opens up the sentence but also insists on a forced pause. I admire the closure and the definiteness of the period. I fucking detest the semicolon, though. If a pushy editor tries to replace my punctuation with a semicolon, I do a search and destroy mission immediately.\nWhat book were you supposed to read in college, but never did?\nJames Joyce Ulysses. I still feel guilty about it to this day.\nWhat inanimate object would you thank in your acknowledgements?\nThe sun for feeding the world, for always coming after leaving us in the dark, for its endless energy, devotion, and circularity.\nIf you could write an inspirational quote on the mirrors of aspiring writers, what would you write?\nGet out while you can!\nDoes writing energize or exhaust you?\nBoth. In the initial creation phase, so unbelievably energizing I can barely sleep sometimes. But in the subsequent revision and editing stage, which is the other 80% of the writing process for me that usually takes years and years to finish, it starts to wear you down. It can feel futile, monotonous, repetitive, and unrewarding at times.\nWhat are common traps for aspiring writers?\nUndervaluing your work ethic and overestimating your talent. Not knowing how to revise a draft a million times until it sparkles. Forcing your workshop to clean up the shit in your draft. Not knowing how to critically and objectively evaluate your own manuscript (and then fix the issues you discovered along the way). Comparing yourself to other writers, many of them with completely different circumstances. Believing that the only way to \"make it\" is to get an agent, a six-figure advance from a Big-5 press, and a story published in the New Yorker. By all means, fight for that shit, but just remember that there are so many different streets that lead to Midtown (and some of them are closed for construction).\nWhat is your writing Kryptonite?\nWork & love for totally different reasons. At least love inspires me to write better and harder whereas work just makes me daydream about taking a bath, listening to Lana Del Rey, and playing Mass Effect on my PS4 in my bathrobe as I sip guava kombucha and snack on midnight nachos.\nYeah and I try as hard as I can not to feel bad about it (especially during this goddamn pandemic). There are times I just don't want to read at all, whether it's my writing or someone else's. Most of the time, though, I'm only adverse to reading when I'm hella absorbed about the manuscript I'm working on at that moment. Also, sometimes I get scared about the possibility of idea leakage between another book I'm reading and my own draft. Sometimes, I just don't have the head space to cohabitate two different literary worlds at the same time.\nDo you think someone could be a writer if they don't feel emotions strongly?\nYes, unfortunately. There are some amazing writers who don't seem to feel a damn thing but technically, they're fantastic writers. I'm not hating, I'm just saying. Writers are allowed to write their books however they want and I don't have to agree or understand either. But I will say this: most of my favorite writers seem to feel very deeply, which is probably why I love their writing so much (& also, I'd imagine, why they feel called to write out their lives in some way).\nWhat other authors are you friends with, and how do they help you become a better writer?\nI have friends who are writers and then I have writer friends (most of whom I've never met IRL) and then there's everyone in between. I've been writing for a while, so I'm friends with a lot of writers, both completely unknown ones with insane talent and literary rockstars, but there's too many to list here without doing someone a major disservice. Also, I know that I'll obsess about who to (not) include, so I'm gonna peace out of this question before I overthink it!\nDo you want each book to stand on its own, or are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book?\nBoth. I'm not aiming for thematic, stylistic, or generic continuity in my body of work, I just want each book I write to stand tall and glimmer on its own because I'm vain, industrious, perfectionistic, and crazy ambitious like that. At the same time, I hope there is overlap in content, in voice, in imagination, and in stylization. My hope is that despite the huge differences between my books, readers will be able to open up to a random page and then say, \"That shit's Blissian!\" or whatever.\nHow did publishing your first book change your process of writing?\nWell, Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments came out about two and half months ago and the longer it's out there, the more I think about a conversation I had with my friend and mentor, Aimee Bender, who said that just knowing your work is OUT THERE for the world to read changes everything in a small but profound way, and I think she's absolutely right. Until you publish a book, all your creative work is atomized into occasional literary journal publications at best and hiding in your hard drive at worst. But when your book is out there for readers to consider, read, and engage with, it kinda makes you feel like your art is finally real in a material sense. It feels legit, like your work can now speak for itself.\nWhat was the best money you ever spent as a writer?\nYou mean money I got from my writing, specifically, or the best money I spent in my writing life? I did a reading last month from my short story collection and when they paid me, I bought a pair of dope kicks that I probably couldn't have afforded otherwise. That felt good, not gonna lie!\nWhat authors did you dislike at first but grew into?\nAt first, I wasn't really into Toni Morrison, at least not Song of Solomon. In retrospect, I kinda hijacked my reading by putting the book down over and over again, forgetting the plot structure, then rereading the parts I'd forgotten, only to put the book down again. But by the time I got to Beloved and The Bluest Eye, I was completely sold. Not only are those better novels in my opinion, but I was more patient as a reader and just in a better place, emotionally speaking, to approach the novels on their own terms. Now, I'm a huge Toni Morrison fan.\nWhat was an early experience where you learned that language had power?\nThere's an essay in Dream Pop Origami that answers this question way better than I'm going to RN called \"When Words Make You Free.\" It's about the time I translated for a Mauritanian refugee at his asylum interview with INS. Shit was intense!\nWhat's your favorite under-appreciated novel?\nBanana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is a quiet masterpiece, but for some reason, people always forget about it.\nAs a writer, what would you choose as your mascot\/avatar\/spirit animal?\nMy wifi network is \"LanaDelReyIsMySpiritAnimal,\" which is all you need to know, I think.\nWhat do you owe the real people upon whom you base your characters?\nWell, every person I write about in Dream Pop Origami is real since it's a memoir, so I guess I owe them a lot of gratitude for their authenticity, individuality, struggle, and hard work to exist in this cruel world and never give up. I'm indebted to them for giving me so much to write about.\nHow many unpublished and half-finished books do you have?\nOkay, I'm triggered! Seriously, though, I have two completed books that I'm trying to sell RN: a racial bildungsroman called Ninjas of My Greater Self about a mixed-race protagonist who falls in love with a suicidal movie star and later discovers that's he part of an ancient ninja clan and a second short story collection called All the Places We Were Broken about mixed-race\/hapa protagonists who get their hearts broken (and sometimes mended) all over the world that's been longlisted at YesYes Books. I also have two early drafts of several other novels I won't even think about touching until after Dream Pop Origami comes out in July 2022: an untitled novel about a family of mixed-race\/hapa prodigies from Chicago and a second novel called We Ate Stars for Brunch that intersects with Ninjas as a counterfactual narrative exploring what happens if the protagonist makes a different major life decision.\nWhat does literary success look like to you?\nFor me, the definition of literary success HAS to change at every stage in my writing career, otherwise I'd plateau. In the beginning, success meant publishing a piece in a literary journal. Then it meant publishing pieces in my fave literary journals like Fiction, ZYZZYVA, Guernica, Triquarterly, Boston Review, Longreads, etc., etc. Later it meant getting something in The New York Times. After that, success for me meant selling a book with a press. I was never picky about whether it was a Big-5 press or a small press, I only asked that the editors publish my book because of who I was as a writer, not despite it. In that regard, I've been hella lucky. Now, my new definition of success is selling my second short story collection with a readership that is already familiar with my writing, finding the perfect agent who is passionate about advocating for and selling books by BIPOC writers & getting them the kind of advance they deserve, and lastly, selling a bunch of screenplays that deal with mixed-race love, identity, and experimental forms of storytelling that center non-white characters.\nWhat's the best way to market your books?\nIf you can afford it, hire a freelance publicist! My other advice since I couldn't afford to hire a publicist for my first two books is this: You gotta bust the move to promote your own work because no one else is gonna do that work for you but you if you publish with a small press. No matter how good your book is, your book is not going to speak for itself if no one knows it exists and no one knows where to buy it. Those are just facts. I remember sending out hundreds of emails to literary journals, newspapers, editors, writing conferences, and bookstores just to get a couple interviews and several remote readings for Counterfactual Love Stories. It was a long slog, but what else can I do except try?\nWhat's the most difficult thing about writing characters from the opposite sex?\nI don't know what this says about my gender identity (and to be honest, I don't care how people read my gender since it's never been completely stable or static anyway), but almost all of my fave characters in my fiction are female characters. I've been told by quite a few women readers that I write female characters well, maybe because I can relate with them or because I care about them so much or because many of the most important people in my life are women. Either way, I feel like if you're devoted to creating and developing characters that are complex, multidimensional, nuanced, surprising, defiant, and profoundly human and if you give those characters agency, backstory, and vocalization, more times than not, they should be pretty damn good and fairly complex. My trick is to give characters the freedom to act in ways I don't always understand.\nWhat did you edit out of this book?\nOther travel essays, other personal essays, other lists that repeated many of the same things I'd already written about in this memoir. Also, I sometimes scaled down certain essays in Dream Pop Origami since their length really affected the overall pacing and narrative flow when read collectively even if separately, the length of that particular piece was fine.\nIf you didn't write, what would you do for work?\nI've tried not writing so many times and I just don't know how to do it. That's the goddamn truth. So, not writing isn't an option for me since like many poets I know, I identify with my own language and I can't survive without it. OTOH, if someone devised a cruel neurosurgery tool that could erase the part of my brain that needs to write, that knows how to write, and that seeks companionship in language while still leaving all the other parts of my brain intact, I suppose I would probably make a living traveling and taking pictures and writing music. I think it might actually be time to start my second post-rock\/downtempo EP.\nLiz Kellebrew writes poetry, short fiction, and essays from the Pacific Northwest. She wrote her debut poetry book, Water Signs (Unsolicited Press), while riding the ferry between Seattle and Bainbridge Island. Her poems have appeared in public art installations and literary journals such as About Place, Room, and Writers Resist. She received The Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the Calvino Prize. It also appears in various anthologies and journals, including The Conium Review, The Coachella Review, and Unreal Magazine. A member of the Academy of American Poets, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Learn more at lizkellebrew.com.\nToby LeBlanc is a mental health therapist in Austin, TX. Writing is a way his own tales can have life alongside the countless stories of courage and strength of his clients. While he and his family sleep under the Texas stars, he will always say he's from Louisiana. He enjoys wearing period-specific pirate costumes and fishing. His dream is to one day do both at the same time.\nAndy Smart earned his MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Solstice Creative Writing Program at Lasell University, where he was a Michael Steinberg Fellow. Andy's essays have appeared in Salamander, Sleet Magazine, and Moon City Review as well the anthologies Show Me All Your Scars (In Fact Books) and Come Shining: Essays and Poems on Writing in a Dark Time (Kelson Books). His poetry has appeared in Lily Poetry Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Andy was a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee. His first chapbook of hybrid poetry, Blue Horse Suite, is available from Kattywompus Press. This is his first book. Andy lives in Missouri and online at www.AndySmartWrites.com.\nSarah Rau Peterson is a first-generation Montanan. She lives with her husband and two children near Miles City, where she divides her time between the family's cattle ranch, her middle school history classroom, and her children's activities. She publishes occasionally in The Montana Quarterly. \u200b\nLisa Badner Lisa Badner is the author of the forthcoming book of poems, FRUITCAKE. Lisa's writing has appeared in Rattle, the New Ohio Review, TriQuarterly, Mudlark, The Satirist, PANK, Fourteen Hills, the Mom Egg Review, Ping Pong, New World Writing, Mohave River Review, #TheSideshow and others. She received a Pushcart (2018) Special Mention. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Brooklyn Law School and coordinates the tutorial program at the Writers Studio. She lives in Brooklyn with her teenager and her chihuahua.\nhttps:\/\/lisabadner.com\nJason Fisk lives and writes in the suburbs of Chicago. He has worked in a psychiatric unit, labored in a cabinet factory, and mixed cement for a bricklayer. He currently teaches language arts to eighth graders. He was born in Ohio, raised in Minnesota, and has spent the last few decades in the Chicago area. He recently had a collection of poetry published by Kelsay Books: Sub Urbane. He also had a number of books and chapbooks published: Sadly Beautiful, essays, poems, and short stories published by Leaf Garden Press; Salt Creek Anthology, a collection of micro-fiction published by Chicago Center for Literature and Photography; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; and two poetry chapbooks: The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and Decay, both published by Propaganda Press. \u200b\nFrancis Daulerio is a poet and teacher from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University in 2014 before releasing If & When We Wake (Unsolicited Press 2015) and Please Plant This Book (The Head & The Hand Press 2018), both with illustrations by Scottish artist, Scott Hutchison. Francis has also released All Is Not Lost, a collaborative vinyl EP of poetry-infused music to benefit the Tiny Changes charity organization, and With a Difference (Trident Boulder 2020), a split book of 'covers' with Philadelphia author Nick Gregorio. His newest collection, Joy, comes out this summer through Unsolicited Press.\nFrancis is a mental health awareness advocate, and has performed across the United States and abroad to raise money for suicide prevention.\n\u200bHe lives in the woods with his wife and children. He finds a good bit of joy there.\nMatthew Cole Levine is an author, film critic, and screenwriter based in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and grew up near Milwaukee, making him well-versed in a particular brand of Midwestern horror. He has written for the British Film Institute, Walker Art Center, and other publications, and continues to serve as Assistant Editor and Contributing Writer for the Barcelona-based Found Footage Magazine. Hollow is his first novel.\nAuthor of two chapbooks--Resonance of Kin (PuddingHouse 2013) and Between Worlds (Foothills 2013)\u2014Bill Neumire's first full-length book, Estrus, was a semi-finalist for the 42 Miles Press Award. He regularly reviews books of contemporary poetry for Vallum, and for Verdad where he works as poetry editor.\n\u200bRowe Carenen is a graduate of Salem College and the University of Southern Mississippi. When asked, she'd say that poetry has been her passion ever since she realized that words could convey more than just the facts. Her poems have appeared in various literary journals and magazines, including The Revenant Culture, GERM, Terrible Orange Review, the Running with Water anthology, and her first collection, In the Meantime, was published by Neverland Publishing in 2014. She lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with her cat Minerva Jane and dog Neville Jameson.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Grant de Jersey Lee\nRecollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories\nDerek Hockaday interviews Grant de Jersey Lee, physician and cardiologist, 13 June 2013.\nTopics discussed include: (00:01:40) experiences in the Second World War and learning on the job after medical school; (00:03:43) St. Thomas' Hospital to train; (00:06:02) coming to Oxford to work for George Pickering; (00:09:01) comparing Oxford hospitals to St. Thomas' in terms of medicine; (00:12:54) balancing cardiology with general medicine; (00.13:53) Plethysmograph and research interests, non-invasive cardiac surgery; (00:17:53) beginning of the Cardiac Lab in Oxford; (00:22:21) research in microcirculation of the lung and the plethysmograph; (00:25:27) working with Julius Comroe and Arthur DuBois in Philadelphia on microcirculation; (00:28:32) applying learnings from Philadelphia and making technical equipment back in Oxford; (00:34:27) on-take medicine; (00:35:27) John Ledingham and his firm; (00:37:04) the yield of the plethysmograph; (00:48:48) colleagues, including Bheeshma Rajagopalan; (00:41:25) evolution of medical duties and opening of the John Radcliffe; relationships between general practitioners and the hospital; (00:45:29) changes to the training of nurses; (00:59:10) reflecting on time and changes at John Radcliffe and the NHS and medicine in general (01:05:02) views about committees; (01:06:52) administration, communication and information in medicine. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:10:24-00:10:35; 00:20:37-00:21:46; 00:40:07-00:40:25; 00:50:26-59:09.\nPeggy Frith interviews Jim Holt, former Director of Clinical studies for Oxford Medical School, 1 June 2012.\nBrian Longworth\nDerek Hockaday interviews Brian Longworth, former mechanical technician and engineer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, 31 July 2015.\nDerek Hockaday\nDepartment: Bodleian Libraries\nApple Podcast Audio Audio RSS Feed\nDownload Audio Download Transcript","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News Search Studio + Contact Videos 'T' Space Exhibitions Furniture + Fixtures Office + Hybrid Towers World Map Masterplans Project Chronology Educational +\nCampus Works Houses Housing Health Performing Arts Museums Libraries Religious Works Hotel + Retail\nSTEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS\nProject Chronology\nEducational + Campus Works\nHotel + Retail\nMasterplans\nOffice + Hybrid Towers\nReligious Works\nBooks + Writing\nContact + Locations\n'T' Space\nSTEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS RECEIVES TWO 2013 AIA NEW YORK DESIGN AWARDS\nSteven Holl Architects has been awarded two 2013 Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York Chapter. The Daeyang Gallery and House in Seoul, Korea was awarded an AIA NY Honor Award, and the Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China received an AIA NY Merit Award.\nThe Daeyang Gallery and House, which opened in June 2012, was inspired by a 1967 sketch for a music score by composer Istvan Anhalt called \"Symphony of Modules.\" Three pavilions\u2014one for entry, one residence, and one event space\u2014appear to push upward from a continuous gallery level below. A reflecting pool, which simultaneously separates and connects the pavilions, establishes the plane of reference from above and below.\nThe red and charcoal stained wood interiors of the pavilions are activated by skylight strips of clear glass that are cut into the roof. Sunlight turns and bends around the inner spaces, animating them with the changing light of each season and throughout the day. Like a cesura in music, strips of glass lenses in the base of the pool break through the surface, bringing dappled light to the white plaster walls and white granite floor of the gallery below.\nThe Daeyang Gallery and House, which is heated and cooled with geothermal wells, recently received a 2012 Emirates Glass LEAF Award and a 2012 Annual Design Review Award.\nCompleted in November 2012 in the center of Chengdu, the Sliced Porosity Block forms large public plazas with a hybrid of different functions. Creating a metropolitan public space instead of object-icon skyscrapers, this three million sq ft. project takes its shape from the distribution of natural light. The required minimum sunlight exposures to the surrounding urban fabric prescribe geometric angles that slice the exoskeletal concrete frame of the structure. The building structure is white concrete organized in six foot high openings with earthquake diagonals as required, while the \"sliced\" sections are glass.\nThe large public space framed in the center of the block is formed into three valleys inspired by a poem of the city's greatest poet, Du Fu (713-770). The three plaza levels feature water gardens based on concepts of time\u2014the Fountain of the Chinese Calendar Year, Fountain of Twelve Months, and Fountain of Thirty Days. These three ponds function as skylights to the six-story shopping precinct below.\nEstablishing human scale in this metropolitan rectangle is achieved through the concept of \"micro urbanism,\" with double-fronted shops open to the street as well as the shopping center. Three large openings are sculpted into the mass of the towers as the sites of the pavilion of history, designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Light Pavilion by Lebbeus Woods, and the Local Art Pavilion.\nThe Sliced Porosity Block is heated and cooled geo-thermally with 468 wells at 90 meters deep. The large ponds in the plaza harvest recycled rainwater, while the natural grasses and lily pads create a natural cooling effect. High-performance glazing, energy-efficient equipment and the use of regional materials are among the other methods employed to reach the LEED Gold rating.\nThe winning Design Award projects will be recognized at the annual Design Awards Luncheon on April 17. The Design Awards Exhibition, presenting all winning work, will open at the Center for Architecture, at 536 LaGuardia Place in New York, on April 18, 2013.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Life and death in Australia\nNot sure what I was doing or looking for but I came across these images of the gallows at Melbourne Gaol. In what's best described as a fairly spurious link I thought about my old (40+years gone) dad who'd worked as a carpenter in Australian jails at some point between 1946 and 1950. I recall him talking about some of the convicts awaiting execution, he said they were mostly \"young lads\" who looked like they didn't quite know why they were there. He'd have been in his late twenties at the time, battered and broken after five years serving in the navy during WWII. Well it's another world and a long time ago but these pictures, which may not be anything much to do with my dad's working history, gave me a brief insight into his past and amplified that awkward and barren list of missing things I'll never quite know about him.\nNot much La La left\nForming an orderly queue\nSprouting Groot\nLife's long struggle\nDiploma in Star Wars\nHowl's slow moving guitar shop\nThe very powerful\nDifficult day\nThank you Mr AA Man\nPac-Man Cheesecake\nWhat cats want\nCalm down it's just a TV show\nAlien Snowman\nSee no evil\nInternal politics\nWindy Day\nReasonably delivered\nSoon to be a world leader\nWinter Garden Textures\nRogue One and a Free Strap?\nOut of date...\nSilvery Tay\nUp pops the Pope\nHere comes the Voodoo\nDon't worry it's normal\nMoon, Venus, Mars","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About NCCMP\nGeorge Meaney Award\nJohn L. Lewis\nPress Releases\/News\nLawyers and Administrators Meeting\nTransatlantic Conference\nMultiemployer Pension Reform\nMultiemployer Pension Reform Act\nPension Protection Act 2006\nRetirement Security Review Commision\nComments Filed\nJoint Comments with WPA\nMulti-Elerts\nChief Executive Officer, National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA)\nDavid Long has been in the electrical construction industry since 1975, when he began work as a construction wireman for Miller Electric. After graduating from the Jacksonville JATC in 1981, he began his career as a journeyman wireman. This led to foreman and supervisory positions. In 1991, he moved into management as an estimator and assistant project manager. He rose through the ranks at the company and was named President of Miller Electric in 2012. Long earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Southeastern University and currently holds over 35 state electrical licenses for Miller. His primary emphasis as President of Miller was vertical markets, corporate client development, labor relations and company expansion.\nINVOLVEMENT WITH NECA\nLong is seen as a leader throughout the electrical construction industry. He was Governor of NECA's North Florida Chapter and, on the national level, served as District 3 Vice President. He has chaired the Workforce Development and Compensation committees and co-chaired several organizations including the electrical training ALLIANCE, Council on Industrial Relations, National Labor Task Force, and the National LMCC Committee. He was awarded the Coggeshall Award in 2012 and was installed into the Academy of Electrical Contracting in 2012. In 2018 David Long was elected President of NECA and in 2019 he was brought on board as NECA's CEO, replacing John M. Grau.\nINDUSTRY OBSERVATIONS\nLong believes that training is rewarding because it is being a part of the future of the industry. Long's involvement in NECA began in 1994 on the Local JATC Committee, where he served as chairman or secretary for more than 15 years. The experience gave him the opportunity to serve on the Electrical Training Alliance Curriculum Committee and then on NECA's Workforce Development Committee as a member of the Electrical Training Alliance Committee.\nAWAY FROM THE OFFICE\nLong has served as president of the Jacksonville Leukemia Society and is President of the Dreams Come True Foundation. He is trustee of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce and executive committee member and Chairman of the Jax Sports Council and Taxslayer Bowl Association. Long loves hunting and enjoying the outdoors spending time at his farm.\nNational Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans\nnccmp@nccmp.org\nFooter Stay Connected\nWebsite Created by MOSAIC\nCopyright NCCMP","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NASA shows off new spacesuit and Orion Crew Survival System suit\nShane McGlaun - Oct 16, 2019, 7:31 am CDT\nNASA is working on new spacesuits that will be used to take astronauts into space and to the surface of the Moon and Mars. The red, white, and blue spacesuit is a prototype of the new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit or xEMU. That spacesuit is worn in the photos and video below by Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at the NASA Johnson Space Center.\nThe orange spacesuit is called the Orion Crew Survival System suit and is worn by Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival Systems Project manager at the Johnson Space Center. The two new spacesuits are Artemis generation spacesuits. Artemis is the name for the mission to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024.\nThe orange spacesuit will be used for launch and reentry aboard the NASA Orion spacecraft. The larger red, white, and blue spacesuit is for exploring the lunar surface once the astronauts arrive there. xEMU looks very similar to the existing spacesuits that astronauts use when they have to go outside the ISS.\nHowever, xEMU is designed specifically for improved comfort, fit, and more mobility on the surface of the Moon. xEMU was designed by NASA specifically to provide Astronauts of all sizes a customized fit. The spacesuit is designed with interchangeable parts that allow the suit to work both in space and on the surface of the Moon.\nNASA plans to evolve the suit for use on Mars in future missions with additional technology for life support on the Red Planet. In the video, it's easy to tell that the new spacesuit offers much-improved mobility and movement compared to the current spacesuit. It's vastly improved compared to the spacesuits in the '60s that took the first humans to the Moon.\nTopics NASASpace","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"C5aR1 antagonism alters microglial polarization and mitigates disease progression in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease\nAngela Gomez-Arboledas1 na1,\nKlebea Carvalho2 na1,\nGabriela Balderrama-Gutierrez2,\nShu-Hui Chu1,\nHeidi Yahan Liang2,\nNicole D. Schartz1,\nPurnika Selvan1,\nTiffany J. Petrisko1,\nMiranda A. Pan1,\nAli Mortazavi2 &\nAndrea J. Tenner ORCID: orcid.org\/0000-0003-3000-024X1,3,4\nMultiple studies have recognized the involvement of the complement cascade during Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. However, the specific role of C5a-C5aR1 signaling in the progression of this neurodegenerative disease is still not clear. Furthermore, its potential as a therapeutic target to treat AD still remains to be elucidated. Canonically, generation of the anaphylatoxin C5a as the result of complement activation and interaction with its receptor C5aR1 triggers a potent inflammatory response. Previously, genetic ablation of C5aR1 in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease exerted a protective effect by preventing cognitive deficits. Here, using PMX205, a potent, specific C5aR1 antagonist, in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease we show a striking reduction in dystrophic neurites in parallel with the reduced amyloid load, rescue of the excessive pre-synaptic loss associated with AD cognitive impairment and the polarization of microglial gene expression towards a DAM-like phenotype that are consistent with the neuroprotective effects seen. These data support the beneficial effect of a pharmacological inhibition of C5aR1 as a promising therapeutic approach to treat Alzheimer's disease. Supportive of the safety of this treatment is the recent FDA-approval of another other C5a receptor 1 antagonist, Avacopan, as a treatment for autoimmune inflammatory diseases.\nAlzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease of the elderly. Currently, over 6 million people suffer from AD in the US alone, and the affected number of people is expected to rise to 13 million by 2050 [1]. AD is neuropathologically characterized by the extracellular accumulation of A\u03b2 in amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau in neurofibrillary tangles. The appearance of dystrophic neurites, synaptic loss, neuronal death and finally, cognitive deficits are also hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease [2]. Evidence from AD patients, including GWAS studies, strongly points to an inflammatory response as a key mediator in the onset and progression of the disease [3,4,5]. In fact, GWAS studies have identified more than 70 genetic loci associated with a high risk to develop Alzheimer's disease and interestingly, among those genes, two complement genes have been confirmed as significantly associated with AD [6].\nThe complement system (C') is a very important component of the innate immune system that plays a key role in host defense to ultimately maintain brain homeostasis. Several studies have identified multiple complement proteins, such as C1q, C3 or C4, co-localizing with amyloid plaques not only in mouse models of AD but also in AD patients [7,8,9], suggesting a role of the complement system in AD. In fact, during Alzheimer's pathogenesis, the complement system can be activated by both, fibrillar A\u03b2 and hyperphosphorylated tau, ultimately leading to the production of the activation fragments C3a and C5a that interact with their cellular receptor C3aR and C5aR1, respectively, triggering a potent inflammatory response overall [10, 11]. Whether all complement activation in the Alzheimer's brain is beneficial or detrimental at all stages is still controversial. We have previously reported a neuroprotective role of C1q in the absence of triggering downstream activation [12, 13], but we and others have also demonstrate a beneficial effect of a genetic ablation of C1q, C3 and CR3 in AD mouse models [14,15,16]. In addition, C3a is generated upon complement activation and binds to C3aR, whose expression is induced in microglia in mouse models of amyloidosis including very clear tissue and temporal induction recently published by this lab [17]. Both in the brain and in the periphery, C3a-C3aR signaling can be either pro- or anti-inflammatory depending on the developmental or disease state [18]. Altogether, these data suggest that a complete blockage of the complement cascade might not be the best therapeutic approach for AD. Instead, a strategic and very specific therapeutic targeting might be required for this neurodegenerative disorder, such as a pharmacological inhibition of C5a-C5aR1 signaling that would preserve the beneficial effects of the upstream components of the complement cascade while preventing downstream detrimental effects.\nPrevious studies in our lab using the Arctic48 mouse model of AD [19] showed that genetic ablation of C5aR1 completely prevented the loss of neurite complexity and cognitive deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease, whereas overexpression of C5a by a transgene under the GFAP promoter in the same mouse model seems to accelerate hippocampal-dependent spatial memory deficits [20, 21]. In addition, pharmacological inhibition of C5a-C5aR1 signaling with a C5aR1 antagonist (PMX205) in two different mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (the Tg2576 and the 3xTgAD mouse models) resulted in a significant reduction of the neuropathology associated with AD as well as an improvement of memory and cognition [22], further supporting the targeted inhibition of C5aR1 as a potential therapeutic strategy for AD. PMX205 is a cyclic hexapeptide that acts as a potent insurmountable inhibitor of the C5a receptor 1 (C5aR1) [23]. Although both PMX53 and PMX205 have been widely used by many researchers to better comprehend the role of the C5a receptor 1 in the brain, only recently have more complete pharmacokinetics analysis of PMX53 and PMX205 been reported. Comparing different administration routes, PMX205 demonstrated a much better oral bioavailability than PMX53. Parenteral administration routes showed increased bioavailability of both compounds vs IV administration, with PMX205 demonstrating an increased ability to target brain and spinal cord tissue relative to PMX53 [23]. Furthermore, an oral daily dosing of PMX205 for long periods of time (where PMX205 was administered through the drinking water) showed maintained levels of PMX205 in the CNS and proved its efficiency to block C5a-C5aR1 signaling in the brain [22,23,24]. We and others have previously reported several beneficial effects of this C5aR1 antagonist, not only in Alzheimer's disease but also in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal cord injury [22, 25, 26] and other CNS disorders (reviewed in [27]). Importantly, PMX53 (which is considered the parent molecule of PMX205) and Avacopan (a small-molecule FDA-approved C5a receptor1 antagonist) have already been proven to be safe in human clinical trials for autoimmune diseases [28,29,30], suggesting that if beneficial effects of PMX205 are demonstrated, it could have an accelerated path to human clinical trials.\nDespite the discovery of PMX205 more than 20 years ago and its reported beneficial effects in Alzheimer's disease models [22], the specific mechanism that might be driving the improvement in cognition is still not know. Here, we used the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease and treated them with PMX205 at the onset of the amyloid pathology to further determine the effects of this C5aR1 antagonist on microglial cells. The results presented in this study demonstrated a neuroprotective effect of PMX205, which rescues the excessive intracellular synaptic proteins and pre-synaptic loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. This finding seems to be linked to the reduction of a unique microglial subpopulation associated with synaptic pruning in the PMX205 treated mice. Interestingly, we also show here that blocking C5a-C5aR1 signaling in the Tg2576 mouse model of AD results in the increase of the DAM2 gene-expressing microglial subpopulation, suggesting that PMX205 might be blocking disease enhancing events and facilitating a disease mitigating phenotype on microglial cells. Our data further supports the use of C5aR1 antagonists as potential therapeutic targets to treat or slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.\nThe studies described in this manuscript were conducted to further characterize the effect of a C5aR1 antagonist (PMX205) on microglial subpopulations in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (Tg2576). To address this question, we used Tg2576 and WT littermates and treated them either with PMX205 or regular drinking water as a control for 12 weeks. Using immunohistochemistry and single cell RNAseq analysis, we evaluate the effect of blocking C5a-C5aR1 signaling at an early stage of Alzheimer's disease (at the onset of amyloid pathology). The sample size for animal experiments used here was based on our previous studies and we used the minimum number of animals needed to obtain significant results. All animal studies were approved by The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of University of California at Irvine.\nAll animal procedures were approved by The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of University of California at Irvine and experiments were performed according to the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of laboratory animals. Mice were single housed during drug treatment starting at 12 mo of age and given access to food and water ad libitum. Tg2576 mice, developed by K. Hsiao [31], overexpressed the 695 isoform of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) with the Swedish mutation (KM670\/671NL) under the control of the prion promoter on a B6\/SJL genetic background. Only female hemizygous Tg2576 mice were used as they develop cortical amyloid plaques by 11\u201313 months of age, earlier than male Tg2576 [31]. WT (B6\/SJL) female littermates were used as control mice.\nC5aR1 antagonist (PMX205) treatment\nC5aR1 antagonist, PMX205, was kindly provided by Dr. Ian Campbell, Teva Pharmaceuticals, West Chester, PA. Treatment with PMX205 was administered in the drinking water at 20 \u03bcg\/ml to mice. The starting point was before the onset of amyloid pathology at 12 months old for the Tg2576 mice (and B6\/SJL WT littermates) (Additional file 1: Figure S1A). 12-months old mice were divided into 4 groups: WT-vehicle, WT-PMX205, Tg2576-vehicle and Tg2576-PMX205. PMX205 treatment was administer for 12 weeks (equivalent to\u2009~\u20092\u20138 mg\/kg\/day), based on previous results from our lab [22]. Mice were singly housed and had free access to the drinking water during the whole treatment. Mouse weight and volume of PMX205\/vehicle consumed by each mouse were measured weekly.\nAt the end of the PMX205\/vehicle treatment mice (n\u2009=\u20094\u20135\/group) were deeply anesthetized with isoflurane and transcardially perfused with HBSS modified buffer (Hank's Balanced Salt Solution without Calcium and Magnesium), containing Actinomycin D (5 \u03bcg\/ml) and Triptolide (10 \u03bcM) [32]. For immunohistochemistry, half brains were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 24 h, sectioned at 40 \u03bcm thickness in the coronal plane on a vibratome (Leica VT1000S) and then stored in PBS-0.02% sodium azide at 4 \u00b0C. For scRNAseq, half brains were processed as detailed below.\nThe following primary antibodies were used for this study: rabbit polyclonal anti-protofibrillar A\u03b2 OC (1:1000, Millipore #AB2286), mouse monoclonal anti-A\u03b2 6E10 (1:1000, Biolegend #A03001), rabbit polyclonal anti-Iba1 (1:1000, Wako #019\u201319,741), rat monoclonal anti-CD68 (1:700 Biolegend #137,001), rat monoclonal anti-CD11b (Biorad #MCA74G), Armenian hamster monoclonal anti-CD11c (1:400, Biorad #MCA1369), rat monoclonal anti-C3 (1:50, Hycult #HM1045), rabbit polyclonal anti-GFAP (1:3000, Dako #Z0334), chicken polyclonal anti-GFAP (1:1000, Abcam #ab4674), rat monoclonal anti-LAMP1 (1:500, Abcam #ab25245), guinea pig polyclonal anti-VGlut1 (1:1000, Millipore #AB5905). Alexa Fluor secondary antibodies were diluted to 1:500 in blocking solution and included: 488 goat anti-rat (Invitrogen #A21212), 488 goat anti-chicken (Invitrogen #A11039), 488 goat anti-guinea pig (Invitrogen #A11073), 488 goat anti-mouse (Invitrogen #A11001), 555 goat anti-rabbit (Invitrogen #A21428), 555 goat anti-rat (Invitrogen #A21434), 568 Goat anti-Armenian hamster (Abcam, # ab175716), 647 goat anti-rabbit (Invitrogen #A21244).\nImmunofluorescence (IF)\nFree-floating sections were briefly washed with 0.1 M PBS. For general antigen retrieval method, brain sections were incubated in 50 mM citrate buffer pH 6.0 for 30 min at 80 \u00b0C. Sections were then incubated in blocking solution (0.1 M PBS, 2% BSA, 10% NGS and 0.1% Triton X100) for 1 h at room temperature (RT) followed by incubation with primary antibodies in blocking buffer for 24 h at RT. After washing, corresponding secondary antibodies in blocking buffer were added for 1 h at RT. To counterstain with Thioflavin-S (Sigma-Aldrich #T1892), sections were incubated in 0.1% ThioS diluted in MilliQH2O for 10 min after the secondary antibody and washed with 50% ethanol followed by PBS. Amylo-Glo (1:100, Biosensis #TR-300-AG) staining was performed before the initial blocking step. Briefly, tissues were incubated in Amylo-Glo for 10 min at RT, then washed with PBS and rinsed with ddH2O. Sections were then mounted onto a slide and coverslipped with Hardset Antifade Mounting Medium (Vectashield, Vector). 3\u20134 sections\/mouse were stained and processed at the same time, using batch solutions, and imaged via a Slidescanner (Zeiss Axio Scan.Z1) using a 10\u2009\u00d7\u2009objective. In addition, higher magnification images were taken under a confocal microscope (Leica SP8) using a 63\u2009\u00d7\u2009objective. For 3D reconstructions, serial confocal images (z-stacks) of Iba1\/CD68\/Vglut1 and Iba1\/CD68\/6E10 were acquired in 0.3 \u03bcm or 0.5 \u03bcm per step, respectively, under a 63\u2009\u00d7\u2009Leica SP8 confocal microscope.\nImaris quantitative analysis\nImage analyses were carried out in the whole hippocampus and cortex, using Imaris 9.7 software (Bitplane Inc.). ThioS, A\u03b2-OC, Iba1, CD68, Cd11b, Cd11c, GFAP, C3, and Lamp1 immunopositive signals within the selected brain region were identified by a threshold level mask, which was maintained throughout the whole image analysis for uniformity. Quantitative comparisons between groups were carried out on comparable brain sections processed at the same time with the same batches of solutions for uniformity. Amyloid burden was acquired by measuring both, the number and size (in area units, \u03bcm2) of amyloid plaques in the selected brain regions. Astroglial, microglial and dystrophic neurite load (Field Area %) were obtained by using the surface option from Imaris and normalized to the total area of the hippocampus or cortex. The number of microglia and astroglial cells was obtained with the spots option in Imaris and normalized to the total area of hippocampus or cortex. Synaptic engulfment was quantified in 15 microglial cells\/mouse with 4\u20135 mice\/group, and it was defined as the co-localization (defined at\u2009\u2264\u2009200 nm distance) of Vglut1\u2009+\u2009synapses (detected by Imaris spots) with CD68 and Iba1 surfaces and normalized to the total volume of the image. Microglial phagocytosis of A\u03b2 was analyzed in 15 amyloid plaques (randomly selected) per mouse per group and phagocytosis index was defined as the co-localization of Iba1, CD68 and 6E10 surfaces, normalized to the total amount of A\u03b2 per image. Microglial engagement with amyloid plaques was also analyzed in 15 amyloid plaques (randomly selected) per mouse per group and quantified as the ratio of co-localization of Iba1 and 6E10 surfaces to the total A\u03b2.\nscRNA extraction\nHalf brains were quickly dissected into cortex and hippocampus on ice. Dissected fresh tissue was then transferred to an inhibitor cocktail (HBSS with Actinomycin D (5 \u03bcg\/ml), Triptolide (10 \u03bcM) and Anisomycin (27.1 \u03bcg\/ml)) at 4 \u00b0C to prevent microglial activation [32]. Tissues were manually dissociated with a razor blade on ice and placed in the gentleMACS\u2122 Octo Dissociator and Adult Brain Dissociation Kit (Cat# 130-107-677) (Miltenyi Biotec), supplemented with the inhibitor cocktail, for enzymatic dissociation. Following dissociation, cells were filtered through 70 \u00b5l SmartStrainers (Cat# 130-110-916), debris was removed with debris removal solution provided in the Adult Brain Dissociation Kit, and myelin was cleared with Myelin removal beads II (Cat# 130-096-733). Microglia and astrocytes were respectively isolated using Anti-CD11b and Anti-ACSA-2 MicroBeads (Miltenyi Biotec). Cells were counted and resuspended in 10\u201315 \u00b5L and 20\u201330 \u00b5L of buffer (0.05% BSA in DPBS) for half hippocampus and half cortex, respectively, to reach a minimum of 1,000 cells\/\u00b5L up to around 7,000 cells\/\u00b5L.\nscRNA-seq library preparation and sequencing\nSingle cell libraries were built using the Illumina Bio-Rad SureCell WTA 3' Library Prep Kit (Cat# 20,014,280). Isolated single cells were loaded into the Bio-Rad microfluidic device. Cells were lysed, barcoded, and reverse transcribed inside nanodroplets. The first strand cDNA was pooled from all the nanodroplets and the second strands were synthetized. The cDNA was cleaned, tagmented, and amplified to generate final libraries. Library concentration and size distribution were assessed using the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer. Library average length was 900\u20131100 base-pairs. Single-cell libraries were sequenced using a 150-cycle NextSeq 500\/550 High Output Kit v2.5 (Cat# 20,024,907) on an Illumina NextSeq500 between 2.0 and 2.9 pM loading concentration using a custom primer, and with each library having a minimum depth of 50 million reads.\nscRNA-seq processing and data analysis\nFastq files were processed using the KB_python pipeline, which is based on kallisto bustools using the parameters: kb count -x SURECELL \u2013h5ad -t 20. Each cell was mapped to the mouse genome mm10 with annotations from GENCODE v21 [33, 34]. Low quality cells with less than 500UMI, more than 5% mitochondrial reads, and less than 300 genes detected were removed from downstream analysis. Doublets were removed using Scrublet [35]. Normalization and clustering were calculated using Seurat SCT and Leiden algorithms, respectively [36]. Intercellular communication between clusters of cells was inferred using CellChat [37].\nAll immunofluorescent data were analyzed using either a Student's t-test or two-way ANOVA, followed by Tukey's post hoc test for comparisons among more than 2 groups, using GraphPad Prism Version 9 (La Jolla, CA). The significance was set at 95% of confidence. Linear correlations were analyzed using the Pearson's test. *p\u2009<\u20090.05, **p\u2009<\u20090.01, ***p\u2009<\u20090.001 and ****p\u2009<\u20090.0001. Data were presented as the mean\u2009\u00b1\u2009SEM (standard error of the mean).\nPMX205 treatment reduces plaque pathology in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease\nC5aR1 antagonist, PMX205, was administered to WT and Tg2576 mice in their drinking water for 12 weeks. The starting point of the treatment was set up at 12 months of age, coincident with the onset of the amyloid pathology in this Alzheimer's mouse model (Additional file 1: Fig. S1A). During the whole duration of the treatment, mice and water bottles were weighted weekly in order to determine possible weight loss negatively associated with the treatment as well as the dose of PMX205 taken by each individual mouse. Overall, WT mice weight was higher than AD mice, as expected. No weight loss was observed in any of the experimental groups during the course of the treatment (Additional file 1: Fig. S1B), indicative of a lack of a toxic effect of PMX205. All mice consumed similar amounts (ml) of vehicle (water) or PMX205 (diluted in water) per week (Additional file 1: Fig. S1C) and no significant differences were observed across the experimental groups. The dose range of PMX205 each mice received was around\u2009~\u20092\u20138 mg\/kg\/day for both, WT and Tg2576 mice. These results are consistent with previous studies in our lab [22].\nWe previously reported a decrease in ThioS\u2009+\u2009fibrillar amyloid plaques in the Tg2576 mice treated with PMX205 [22]. Here we stained coronal sections from all four experimental groups with ThioS and OC, for the characterization of the A\u00df plaques (Additional file 2: Fig. S2A). As expected, no plaques were detected in WT mice (data not shown), so we excluded them from the quantification. After 12 weeks of treatment with PMX205, Tg2576 mice showed a significant decrease in fibrillar amyloid load (measured by ThioS \u2013 Field Area %) when compared to vehicle treated mice (~\u200950% and\u2009~\u200958% reduction in the hippocampus and cortex, respectively). In addition, we observed a strong reduction in the number of ThioS\u2009+\u2009plaques but not in their size, in both regions analyzed (Additional file 2: Fig. S2 B1\u2013B3 and C1\u2013C3). To continue the characterization of the amyloid pathology, we used the A\u03b2-OC antibody, that stains not only for amyloid fibrils but also for fibrillar oligomers (but not prefibrillar oligomers). Our results showed reduced levels of A\u03b2-OC % Field area (reduction of\u2009~\u200965% and\u2009~\u200953% in the hippocampus and cortex, respectively) in the PMX205 treated Tg2576 mouse model (Additional file 2: Fig. S2 B4 and C4). Similar to ThioS results, the number of OC\u2009+\u2009plaques was substantially affected by C5aR1 inhibition (~\u200964% and\u2009~\u200948% reduction in hippocampus and cortex, respectively), but no changes were found in A\u00df plaque size (Additional file 2: Fig. S2 B5-B6 and C5-C6), suggesting that PMX205 might have an effect in the initial plaque deposition stages, but once the amyloid plaques are formed, inhibition of C5a-C5aR1 signaling does not have an effect on them. Positive correlation of ThioS (FA%) and A\u03b2-OC (FA%) were found in the hippocampus and cortex of Tg2576 mice (Additional file 2: Fig. S2 B7 and C7).\nPharmacological inhibition of C5aR1 significantly affects the expression of several microglial activation markers\nC5a receptor 1 is highly expressed upon injury or disease in humans and mouse models including AD [22, 38,39,40]. Our previous results showed a significant reduction in CD45 reactive microglia around amyloid plaques when Tg2576 mice were treated with PMX205 [22]. Here, to further investigate changes in microglial cells in the brain of WT and Tg2576 mice treated with vehicle or PMX205, coronal sections of all experimental groups were stained using different microglial markers: Iba1 (Cytoplasmic protein expressed by all types of microglia), CD68 (Lysosomal microglial marker, commonly used as a marker of activated phagocytic microglia), Cd11b (alpha subunit of the opsonic complement receptor 3 that is coded for by Itgam gene, and expressed by resting and increased in activated microglia) and Cd11c (alpha subunit of the complement receptor 4 that is coded for by the Itgax gene, and is used as a marker of peripheral dendritic cells and reactive and DAM microglia) [41] (Fig. 1A\u2013B). Quantitative analysis of the hippocampus and cortex of all four experimental groups revealed significant increases in Iba1, CD68, CD11b and CD11c (FA%) between Tg2576 and WT vehicle treated mice. This effect was counteracted by the presence of a C5aR1 antagonist in the Tg2576 mice (when compared to Tg2576-vehicle mice) for all markers analyzed (Fig. 1C1\u2013C4 and D1\u2013D4). Overall, our results showed a hippocampal reduction of\u2009~\u200938% (Iba1),\u2009~\u200923% (CD68),\u2009~\u200965% (Cd11b) and\u2009~\u200982% (Cd11c) when comparing Tg2576-PMX205 to Tg2576-vehicle treated mice. The reduction in microglial field area percent was, in all cases, positively correlated with amyloid levels in both regions analyzed (Fig. 1C5\u2013C8 and D5\u2013D8), suggesting that the reduction in microglial coverage in the hippocampus and cortex is a direct response to the reduction in amyloid load in PMX205 treated AD mice. Our results also showed a significant increase in the number of Iba1\u2009+\u2009cells (measured as the number of Iba1\u2009+\u2009cells per mm2) in the hippocampus of Tg2576 vehicle treated mice when compared to WT mice (Fig. 1C9), indicative of an AD-related gliosis. In the cortex of these mice, the number of Iba1\u2009+\u2009cells followed a similar pattern of increase in the Tg2576 (vs WT) but did not reach the statistical significance (Fig. 1D9). Additionally, in both regions analyzed, PMX205 showed a trend towards a decrease of the total number of Iba1\u2009+\u2009cells in AD mice. Our results regarding the number of CD68 and Cd11b positive cells showed no significant differences among any of the experimental groups (Fig. 1C10\u2013C11 and D10\u2013D11). Although no significant changes were found regarding the number of Cd11c\u2009+\u2009cells, it was interesting that Tg2576-PMX205 showed a trend towards increased number of Cd11c\u2009+\u2009cells, when compared to Tg2576-vehicle mice (Fig. 1C12) in the hippocampus. These results matched our findings with single cell RNAseq detailed later in this manuscript.\nTreatment with PMX205 reduced the expression of several microglial activation markers. A\u2013B Representative images of the hippocampus of WT-vehicle (A1), WT-PMX205 (A2), Tg2576-vehicle (A3) and Tg2576-PMX205 (A4) stained with ThioS (cyan), Iba1 (green) and CD68 (red). Inserts A5-A12 shows representative higher magnification pictures of microglial cells surrounding amyloid plaques in the hippocampus of Tg2576 vehicle\/PMX205. B1\u2013B8 Representative images of Cd11b (green) and Cd11c (red) positive microglial cells surrounding A\u00df deposits in the hippocampus of Tg2576-vehicle (B1\u2013B4) or Tg2576-PMX205 (B5-B8). C\u2013D Field Area (%) quantification of microglial markers in the hippocampus (C1\u2013C4) and cortex (D1-D4) of Tg2576 treated with PMX205 when compared to the control group. Microglia showed a positive correlation with amyloid plaques in both, the hippocampus (C5\u2013C8) and cortex (D5\u2013D8) of Tg2576 mice. Quantitative analysis of microglial density (C9\u2013C12; D9\u2013D12) measured as number of Iba1, CD68, Cd11b or Cd11c\u2009+\u2009cells per mm2 in the hippocampus and cortex. Data are shown as Mean\u2009\u00b1\u2009SEM and normalized to control group (WT-vehicle). Statistical analysis used a 2-way ANOVA and Pearson's correlation test. Significance is indicated as *p\u2009<\u20090.05; **p\u2009<\u20090.01; ***p\u2009<\u20090.001 and ****p\u2009<\u20090.0001. Pearson's R2\u2009=\u20090.78 (C5); 0.58 (D5); 0.54 (C6); 0.32 (D6); 0.79 (C7); 0.61 (D7); 0.90 (C8) and 0.76 (D8). 3 sections\/mouse and n\u2009=\u20094\u20135 mice per group. Scale bar: A1\u2013A4: 200 \u00b5m; A5\u2013A6 and B1\u2013B2: 20 \u00b5m\nTo investigate whether blockage of C5a-C5aR1 signaling would have a direct effect on amyloid-\u00df phagocytosis by microglial cells and microglia recruitment around plaques, the amount of amyloid-\u00df that was detected within the microglial lysosomes in the Tg2576-PMX205 mice was compared to Tg2576-vehicle mice (Fig. 2A). No significant changes between the groups were detected. In addition, no differences were found when we assessed microglial engagement around A\u00df plaques when comparing PMX205 treated AD mice to vehicle treated AD mice (Fig. 2B). Taken together, these results suggest that the reduction in the total amount of amyloid plaques by PMX205 is not a direct effect of increased A\u00df phagocytosis by microglial cells. Furthermore, as we previously described before, the reduction in the number of plaques but not in their size, further support an effect of C5aR1 on the initial plaque deposition stages.\nImpact of PMX205 on microglia-plaque interaction in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. A Representative immunohistochemical images of amyloid plaques 6E10: green), microglial cells (Iba1: blue) and microglial lysosomes (CD68: red) in the Tg2576-vehicle (A1-A6) and Tg2576-PMX205 (A7-A12). Imaris 3D-reconstruction images showed a trend towards reduced internalization of Amyloid-\u00df by microglial cells (A6 and A12) in the Tg2576-PMX205 mice when compared to the vehicle treated group. B Representative images of amyloid plaques (6E10: green) and microglial cells (Iba1: blue) in the Tg2576-vehicle (B1-B4) and Tg2576-PMX205 (B7-B10). Tridimensional reconstruction images (B5-B6 and B11-B12) and quantification showed no difference in the engagement of microglial cells around amyloid plaques between the PMX205 treated group and the controls. Data are shown as Mean\u2009\u00b1\u2009SEM and normalized to control group (Tg2576-PMX205). Statistical analysis used a two-tailed t-test. 15 amyloid plaques\/mouse and n\u2009=\u20094\u20135 per group. Scale bar: 10 \u00b5m\nTreatment with a C5aR1 antagonist exerts neuroprotective effects in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease\nGiven our previously reported results, where pharmacological inhibition of C5a-C5aR1 signaling or genetic ablation of C5aR1 significantly rescue memory deficits in two mouse models of Alzheimer's disease [21, 22], we further explored the potential beneficial effect of PMX205 on the appearance of dystrophic neurites (swollen dendrites and\/or swollen axons that appears surrounding neuritic amyloid plaques) and microglial synaptic pruning. Coronal sections from all four experimental groups were stained with ThioS, A\u03b2-OC and Lamp1, to detect both amyloid plaques and dystrophic neurites. As expected, neither ThioS\u2009+\u2009\/OC\u2009+\u2009plaques nor Lamp1\u2009+\u2009dystrophic neurites accumulate in WT mice (images not shown), so WT groups were excluded from the quantification analysis. In contrast, AD mice (Tg2576) showed a strong accumulation of dystrophic neurites surrounding A\u00df plaques within the hippocampus and cortex (Fig. 3A). Interestingly, Lamp1 quantification on the Tg2576-vehicle versus Tg2576-PMX205 reveals a significant reduction of the total amount of dystrophic neurites due to the inhibition of C5aR1 in both regions analyzed (~\u200948% and\u2009~\u200957% reduction in the hippocampus and cortex respectively) (Fig. 3A3 and A6). However, the ratio of dystrophic neurites (FA%) per ThioS\u2009+\u2009plaques (FA%) did not change among the two groups, suggesting that amyloid plaques are eliciting the same toxicity\/damage independently of C5aR1 signaling (Fig. 3A4 and A7). In line with this, we also observed a significant positive correlation of Lamp1 and amyloid plaques in both regions analyzed (Fig. 3A5 and A8).\nTreatment with PMX205 showed a beneficial effect in reducing the dystrophic neurites pathology on the Tg2576 Alzheimer's mice. A Representative images of amyloid plaques (ThioS: green), dystrophic neurites (Lamp1: red) and protofibrillar amyloid species (OC: blue) in the hippocampus of Tg2576 mice treated with vehicle (A1) or PMX205 (A2). Quantitative analysis of Lamp1 showed a significant reduction in the appearance of dystrophic neurites in mice treated with PMX205 in both hippocampus and cortex (A3 and A6). Analysis of the ratio Lamp1\/ThioS showed no difference between vehicle and PMX205 treated mice (A4 and A7). Pearson's correlation test showed a positive correlation of Lamp1 with ThioS\u2009+\u2009plaques in the hippocampus (R2\u2009=\u20090.87; A5) and cortex (R2\u2009=\u20090.71; A8). Data are shown as Mean\u2009\u00b1\u2009SEM and normalized to control group (Tg2576-vehicle). Statistical analysis used a two-tailed t-test and Pearson's correlation test. Significance is indicated as *p\u2009<\u20090.05; **p\u2009<\u20090.01; and ***p\u2009<\u20090.001. n\u2009=\u20094\u20135 per group. Scale bar: A1\u2013A2: 100 \u00b5m\nSynaptic loss is an important hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and best correlates with the cognitive decline detected in Alzheimer's patients [42]. Furthermore, it has been suggested by our lab and others that excessive synapse loss is due to an excessive complement-mediated synaptic pruning [8, 43,44,45,46]. To explore microglial synaptic pruning, we evaluated Iba1 (microglial cells), CD68 (lysosomes) and VGlut1 (pre-synapse) in all four experimental groups by IHC. High resolution images of 15 individual microglial cells per mouse were acquired (Fig. 4) and quantification of the total amount of pre-synaptic puncta (VGlut1\u2009+) and engulfed pre-synapses by microglial cells was carried out. Our results demonstrated a significant loss of VGlut1\u2009+\u2009puncta in CA3 region in the Tg2576-vehicle when compared to WT littermates (Fig. 4A6). Furthermore, when assessing the synaptic engulfment by microglial cells we observed increased engulfment of VGlut1 in the Tg2576-vehicle (vs WT-vehicle) and a significant decrease of microglial synaptic engulfment in the Tg2576-PMX205 when compared to vehicle treated AD mice (Fig. 4A5). Interestingly, the Tg2576-PMX205 mice showed a rescue of the excessive loss of VGlut1 puncta when compared to Tg2576 vehicle treated (Fig. 4A6) in the CA3 region of the hippocampus. These results point to an excessive microglial synaptic pruning, in our Alzheimer's mouse model that could be the main cause of the synaptic loss observed in these mice. These observations correlate with previous results in our lab where we observed that the cognitive deficits in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease were rescued by PMX205 administration[22]. Together, our results demonstrated a neuroprotective and beneficial effect of blocking C5a-C5aR1 signaling in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.\nPharmacological inhibition of C5aR1 rescues VGlut1 loss and reduces synaptic engulfment by microglial cells in the Tg2576 mouse model of AD. A Representative confocal images and tridimensional reconstruction of individual microglial cells (Iba1: gray), pre-synapses (VGlut1: cyan) or internalized pre-synapses (VGlut1: yellow and arrowheads) and microglial lysosomes (CD68: red) in the CA3 hippocampal region of WT and Tg2576 treated with vehicle or PMX205 (A1\u2013A4). Quantitative analysis of the number of pre-synapses internalized by microglial cells revealed a decrease in the synaptic phagocytosis by microglial cells in the Tg2576-PMX205 mice when compared to Tg2576-vehicle (A5). VGlut1 puncta quantification showed a strong reduction of pre-synapses in the Tg2576 mice when compared to WT mice, that was restored in the Tg2576 mice treated with PMX205 vs vehicle treated mice (A6). Data are shown as Mean\u2009\u00b1\u2009SEM and normalized to control group (WT-vehicle). Statistical analysis used a 2-way ANOVA. Significance is indicated as *p\u2009<\u20090.05; and ****p\u2009<\u20090.0001. 15 individual microglial cells\/mouse and n\u2009=\u20094\u20135 per group. Scale bar: A1\u2013A4: 5 \u00b5m\nSingle-cell heterogeneity reveals distinct subpopulations of microglia in the Tg2576 mouse model of AD\nWe analyzed scRNA-seq data from 6,202 cells harvested from cortex and hippocampus of 15-month-old female WT and Tg2576 mice treated with PMX205 or vehicle (water) for 12 weeks (Additional file 3: Fig. S3A and Additional file 4: Sup data. 1). We clustered cells using Seurat (Additional file 3: Fig. S3B) and identified the major populations, including astrocytes, microglia, ependymal cells, endothelial cells, perivascular macrophages, pericytes, OPCs, and oligodendrocytes, based on expression of canonical markers (Fig. 5A). Despite enriching for astrocytes and microglia during scRNA-seq extraction (see Methods), we did not recover the full spectrum of astrocyte subpopulations. We focused subsequent analysis on microglial cells, for which we obtained representative subpopulations. We recovered 10 distinct populations of microglia characterized by expression of canonical marker Csf1r (Fig. 5B and Additional file 5: Sup data 2). We also recovered a subpopulation of perivascular macrophages (PVM), which expressed canonical markers Cd163, Pf4, Cd209f, Cbr2, and Mrc1 (Additional file 3: Fig S3C). Microglial subpopulations express distinct levels of homeostatic gene Tmem119 or disease-associated genes Cst7 and Lpl (Fig. 5B). These results emphasize the complexity and wide range of microglial response to amyloid pathology and PMX205 treatment.\nSingle-cell RNA-seq reveals the complexity of microglial response to amyloid pathology. A UMAP embedding representation of 6,202 single-cells harvested from cortices and hippocampi of 15-month-old female Tg2576 and wild type mice. UMAP is annotated by clusters of major subpopulations recovered. B Distribution of the expression of signature homeostatic microglial genes Csf1r and Tmem119 and disease-associated microglial genes Cst7 and Lpl. C Gene ontology (GO) analyses of top 50 genes enriched in microglial and perivascular macrophage clusters. D Violin plot displays the expression levels of Aif1 (Iba1, left panel) and Itgax (Cd11c, right panel) per subpopulation\nWe used Metascape's multiple gene list feature to perform Gene ontology (GO) analysis of the top 50 markers per microglial cluster. GO analysis revealed that subpopulations 8, 13 and 16 are involved in cell activation, phagosome, and lysosome pathways (Fig. 5C), all of which are enriched in disease associated microglia (DAM) [47, 48]. Expression of Aif1 (Iba1) was consistent across most microglial clusters (Fig. 5D, left panel), with Cx3Cr1, Csfr1 and Tmem119 expression also prominent within these clusters. Expression of Itgax was increased in microglia 16 (Fig. 5D, right panel). Interestingly, microglia 16 showed higher expression of Cst7 and Lpl (Fig. 5B).\nA microglial subpopulation enriched for synaptic pruning genes is reduced with PMX205 treatment\nExamining the contribution of wild type versus Tg2576 cohorts to each group of cells, we observed that clusters 13 and 16 are mainly present in the Tg2576 mice (Fig. 6A). We further investigated the main pathways and biological processes enriched in the top 50 markers of clusters 8, 13, and 16, which showed relevant DAM signature GO terms, (Fig. 6B) and emphasizing that DAM microglia are enriched in the Tg2576 mice compared to WT, as expected in a mouse model of AD. Microglia 8, which express a distinct combination of homeostatic, DAM1 and DAM2 genes (Fig. 6C) is associated with synapse pruning. Notably, cluster 8 is reduced in the hippocampus of Tg2576 mice treated with PMX205, correlating with the reduced engulfment of synapses seen in our model (Fig. 4A5). Our results suggest that PMX205 treatment reduces the activation of a unique microglial subpopulation associated with synapse pruning in the hippocampus of Tg2576 female mice and thus may reduce the neurodegenerative effects via reduction of excessive synapse pruning.\nChanges in microglial identities post PMX205 treatment. Bar plot of the relative proportion of microglial and perivascular macrophage subtypes per genotype and treatment. Each color represents a population of cells. The x-axis contains the tissues, genotypes, and treatments. The first four columns represent hippocampus, and the last four columns represent cortex. The first two columns of each tissue (hippocampus or cortex) represent WT and the last two columns of each tissue represent Tg2576 mice. The '\u2009+\u2009' indicates PMX205-treated mice and '\u2013 ' represents vehicle-treated mice. The y-axis indicates the proportion of microglial and PVM cells from each given cluster. B GO Bubble plot of select top pathways and biological processes enriched in microglial clusters 8, 13 and 16. Circle size represents the number of genes enriched in each GO term. C\u2013D Heatmap of signature homeostatic, DAM1 and DAM2 genes per microglial and PVM clusters. Each row shows the normalized mean expression per cluster. The bright yellow color shows higher expression of the given genes, and the darker blue represents the lower expression of the genes. C Columns are arranged as seen in panel A. Normalized mean expression per tissue, genotype, and treatment (D)\nPMX205 treatment up-regulates DAM2 microglial genes in the Tg2576 mouse model\nMicroglia 13, whose top markers include DAM1 signature genes, such as Lyz2, Trem2, Tyrobp, and Clec7a (Additional file 3: Fig. S3D) are enriched in lysosome, microglial cell activation, and positive regulation of cytokine production GO terms. Microglia 16 overexpress DAM2 genes, such as Lpl, Cst7, Csf1, and Itgax as well as genes such as GRN and Gpnmb that are involved in negative regulation of inflammatory response and negative regulation of neuron death. Both increased neuroinflammation and increased neuronal death can lead to worsening of AD pathology [10, 49,50,51]. Interestingly, the relative proportion of cluster 16 increases in the hippocampus (and cortex) of Tg2576 mice treated with PMX205, compared to vehicle (Fig. 6A). Moreover, the levels of DAM2 genes increase with PMX205 treatment (Fig. 6D). PMX205 treatment also up-regulates homeostatic microglial genes in the WT mice. These findings suggest that PMX205 treatment reduces excessive inflammation and neuronal death in the Tg2576 mice and increases the activation of DAM2.\nApp-CD74 signaling enriched in the Tg2576 mice treated with PMX205 may lead to reduced plaque load post-treatment\nIntercellular communication is critical for response to inflammation, and apoptosis. To elucidate how PMX205 treatment affects microglia-microglia interactions in the Tg2576 mice we used the CellChat package. PMX205 treatment increased the global number of interactions between microglial subpopulations (Fig. 7A). Specifically, it increased the number of interactions within homeostatic microglia (Clusters 3, 5, 6, and 7) (Fig. 7B), as well as increased the signaling sent from homeostatic microglia, from cluster 16 (DAM2-like), and from PVM to all other microglial clusters. Next, we compared the signaling pathways identified by CellChat as significant in the Tg2576 mice treated with PMX205 or vehicle. Signaling pathways colored in coral are enriched in vehicle treated and pathways colored in turquoise are enriched in PMX205 treated mice. Incoming signaling from microglia 8 recovered from vehicle treated Tg2676 mice was enriched in \"PROS\" pathway (Fig. 7C), which corresponds to the ligation of Pros1 to Axl (Fig. 7F) in microglia. Vehicle treated microglia 13 was enriched for CCL pathway, which corresponds to the ligation of Ccl3 to Ccr5 (Figs. 6F and 7D). An excess of Ccl3 has been shown to impair spatial memory in mice [52]. Ccl4 signaling sent from microglia 16 is enriched in PMX205 treated mice. Ccl4 stimulation has led to brain barrier disruption in vivo and in vitro [53], which can lead to increased PVM macrophage infiltration. Interestingly, in the PMX205 treated mice, both microglia 13 and 16 are sources of App signaling, which ligates to Cd74 receptors in PVM macrophages (Fig. 7D\u2013F). The interaction of CD74 and APP has been shown to suppress amyloid beta production in vitro [54]. Our results suggest that PMX205 increase APP-CD74 signaling, which may help reduce the plaque load observed in the initial stages of the pathology in Tg2576 (Additional file 2: Fig. S2 B1\u2013B4 and C1\u2013C4).\nIncreased microglia intercellular signaling in the Tg2576 mice treated with PMX205. A Comparison of the total number of microglia-microglia interactions and interaction strength per condition. B Aggregated cell\u2013cell communication network among signature homeostatic microglial clusters, PVM, disease associated microglial clusters 8, 13 and 16 and other microglia. Thickness of the line is proportional to the number of interactions, which is also displayed. Circle size is proportional to the number of cells in each subpopulation. C\u2013E Comparison of conserved and context specific signaling pathways ranked based on significance per condition. The top signaling pathways colored coral are enriched in vehicle treated Tg2576 mice and the ones colored turquoise are enriched in the PMX205 treated. Microglial clusters 8 (C), 13 (D) and 16 (E) are the sources of signaling to other microglia and PVM. F Communication probabilities mediated by ligand-receptors pairs. Signaling incoming from microglial clusters 8, 13 and 16 to other microglial and PVM subpopulations. Horizontal color bars indicate sources of signaling (top bar), targets (middle bar) and treatment (bottom bar). Vertical color bar indicates probability of interaction. Circle size indicates significance of interaction\nNeuroprotective receptor GPR37L1 signaling is upregulated with PMX205 treatment\nPMX205 treated microglia 16 send Csf1 signaling to all microglia subpopulations, consistent with a DAM2-like signature (Fig. 7F). This subpopulation is also enriched in CD45 signaling pathway (Fig. 7E). CD45 has been shown to be relevant for microglial clearance of oligomeric amyloid beta plaques in AD mouse models [55]. Notably, in the presence of PMX205, microglia 8, 13 and 16 are enriched in the PSAP signaling pathway, which corresponds to the ligation of Psap (prosaposin) to Gpr37l1 (Fig. 7F, turquoise rectangle). Prosaposin activation of receptor Gpr37l1 was found to be neuroprotective and glioprotective [56]. This suggests that PMX205 treatment stimulates prosaposin signaling outgoing from activated microglia, which exerts neuroprotective functions in the Tg2576 mice.\nA role for the complement system during Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis has been extensively demonstrated during the past 20 years by us and many others (reviewed in [29]). However, the specific consequences of C5a-C5aR1 modulation in the Alzheimer's brain is not yet fully understood. The anaphylatoxin C5a is a potent inflammatory effector secreted after the cleavage of C5 as a downstream consequence of complement activation, that promotes chemotaxis and a strong inflammatory response when it binds to its receptor C5aR1 (reviewed in [8]). Up-regulation of the C5a receptor 1 during Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis has been previously described in different mouse models [20, 38]. Our previous studies have demonstrated a beneficial effect of the genetic ablation of C5aR1 in preventing loss of neurite complexity and cognitive behavior in the Arctic mouse model of AD [21]. Further support of a protective role of a C5aR1 antagonist is the rescue of the excessive synaptic loss and decreased AD-like pathology in 2 other mouse models of AD [22] that correlates with memory loss and cognitive decline parameters seen in human AD [42]. We recently described that C5a overexpression accelerated memory deficits while delaying the increase of several inflammatory genes until a later stage of the pathology in the Arctic mice [20]. The latter effect is likely due to the abnormal elevated amounts of C5a (produced under the GFAP promoter) binding to C5aR2, which has been shown to possess anti-inflammatory properties [57], thus pointing to the benefit of specific inhibition of C5aR1 as a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease.\nA\u00df plaques can occur up to 20 years before the detection of cognitive decline in AD patients [58, 59]. However, the mechanism by which amyloid plaques are formed, and more importantly, what is the role of microglial cells in plaque formation\/elimination is still under debate. Studies point to a dual role of microglia in plaque formation and growth. Microglial depletion in the brain of the 5xFAD mouse model of AD at early ages resulted in almost no plaque formation [60], but removal of microglial cells in the aged brain (after plaques have accumulated) protects against synapse and neuronal loss with no effect on A\u00df plaques [61]. On the other hand, in vivo studies by two-photon imaging in the same AD mouse model revealed that microglial death following A\u00df phagocytosis was a major contributor to plaque growth [62]. Moreover, another study showed microglial cells around amyloid plaques phagocytose A\u00df via TAM receptors and convert the amyloid into a much more compacted material, adding to the growth of dense-core amyloid plaques [63]. Reduced levels of microglial cells together with an impairment in A\u00df phagocytosis resulted in lower plaques numbers [63]. These observations corroborate our earlier studies, which showed a significant reduction in several microglial activation markers accompanied by a profound decrease in amyloid plaques when the Tg2576 mouse model of AD was treated with a C5aR1 antagonist. However, here our A\u00df phagocytosis analysis did not reveal any significant changes when PMX205 was administer to the mice. We observed a reduction in the total number of amyloid plaques as well as reduced total A\u00df load, although the average size of the plaques present remained unchanged independently of the presence of C5aR1 antagonist. This suggests that C5a-C5aR1 signaling might influence the initial stage of seeding and formation of the A\u00df plaques but once these deposits are formed, their size keeps increasing with time and disease progression. Further studies are needed to elucidate the exact mechanism by which C5a-C5aR1 signaling influences amyloid plaque deposition during Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. It could be hypothesized that PMX205 might be directly interacting with A\u00df and altering fibrils formation. However, our previous in vitro studies reported no evidence of PMX205 affecting A\u00df fibrilization processes [22]. Additionally, we previously reported a protective effect on neuronal complexity as well as in cognitive function when C5aR1 is genetically ablated in the Arctic48 mouse model [21]. In this model, ablation of C5aR1 did not affect amyloid deposition, likely due to the Arctic48 mutation which is known to accelerate the A\u00df fibrilization process and results in fibrils highly resistant to clearance. This might explain the differences observed in plaque accumulation between the two mouse models [21].\nGiven the striking effect of C5aR1 inhibition on amyloid plaques in the Tg2576 mice, we also assessed the appearance of plaque associated dystrophic neurites. Dystrophic neurites are abnormal neuronal processes that appear associated with amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease brains and can be considered as a sign of neurodegeneration. Recently, several authors hypothesized that microglial cells could form a physical barrier around amyloid plaques to protect from dystrophic neurite formation due to the amyloid toxicity [64, 65]. Here, we reported a decreased in the total number of dystrophic neurites after PMX205 treatment. However, the ratio of dystrophic neurites per plaque did not change in response to C5aR1 inhibition, suggesting that once formed, amyloid plaques exert the same neurotoxicity to the surrounding neurites with or without C5aR1 inhibition. Since we also reported no significant changes in the halo of microglial cells around amyloid plaques in response to C5aR1 antagonist, we could presume that a major beneficial effect in preventing the appearance of dystrophic neurites in response to PMX205 is mainly due to its impact (decrease) in the amount of amyloid pathology in the Tg2576 mouse model of AD.\nSynaptic loss is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease and its correlation with cognitive impairment and memory loss has been well described [42, 66]. In fact, recent evidence suggest that amyloid plaques might not be directly associated with the cognitive deficits observed in human AD patients, and that it is the excessive synaptic pruning\/loss that occurs in the brain of AD patients that better correlates with cognitive impairment [67, 68]. The role of complement- mediated microglial synaptic pruning during neurodegenerative diseases has been the focus of numerous studies during the past decade (reviewed in [8]). Among all the advances in the knowledge of the mechanism driving complement mediated synaptic pruning, we should highlight recent work showing that inhibition of C1q or C3 can successfully reduce the excessive synaptic loss that occurs with AD progression [15, 43]. However, a complete inhibition of the complement cascade might not be a good therapeutic target for AD given the multiple beneficial roles of the upstream components of the complement system. In addition, such inhibition of C1q or C3 would also completely prevent downstream complement activation mediated events. In this manuscript, the treatment with a C5aR1 antagonist in the Tg2576 mouse model of AD significantly reduced the excessive microglial synaptic pruning in the CA3 hippocampal region, which in turn partially rescued the excessive pre-synaptic loss observed in vehicle treated AD mice (compared to WT littermates). These results reinforce findings from our previous work, in which we demonstrated that PMX205 resulted in a protective effect in hippocampal synaptophysin pre-synapses [22]. In addition, by using high resolution confocal microscopy, we were able to image and quantify the number of VGlut1 synapses that were being actively engulfed by individual microglial cells. Furthermore, our scRNA-seq results identified a subset of microglial cells (cluster 8) that seems to be involved in synaptic pruning processes, as per our Gene Ontology results. Interestingly, cluster 8 is downregulated in the hippocampus of Tg2576 animals treated with PMX205. Among the genes involved in this synaptic pruning GO biological process we found C1qa, C1qb, C1qc, Trem2 and C5aR1. Together, these findings suggest not only that C5aR1 could play an important role in the regulation of complement mediated microglial synaptic pruning but also that synaptic engulfment is a specialized function carried out by a small subset of microglial cells. Thus, the decrease in synaptic pruning that we observed is likely one of the mechanisms by which inhibition of C5a-C5aR1 signaling protects against cognitive deficits in AD mice.\nThe important role of microglia in AD pathology is well recognized. However, their molecular heterogeneity and diversity of functions during disease progression are only now being defined. Recent studies support both beneficial, as well as detrimental roles for microglia in Alzheimer's disease [69]. Disease associated microglia have been reported to form two distinct subpopulations, termed DAM1 which overexpress B2m, Tyrobp, and Apoe, as well as DAM2, which overexpress Spp1, Itgax and Axl [70, 71]. Our Gene Ontology analysis revealed that Microglial 16 (considered as a DAM2 subpopulation) is involved in the negative regulation of inflammatory response, involving genes such as Cst7, Ccl3, Ccl4, Grn or Gpnmb, among others. While the specific role of those genes in regulating the inflammatory response is still not clear, Kang et al. suggested that Ccl3 and Ccl4 might be crucial for microglial function in aging and disease, potentially acting through the recruitment of peripheral immune cells [72]. While further analysis is necessary due to low numbers of cells in this cluster, a consistent hypothesis is that Ccl3 and Ccl4 might be attracting PVM macrophages that express CD74 receptors, while detrimental responses due to C5a-C5aR1 would be prevented due to PMX205. As we mentioned above, our CellChat results showed an enhancement of APP-CD74 signaling when PMX205 was administer to Tg2576 mice, which could exert a beneficial effect in reducing the amyloid pathology. Although the mechanism by which APP-CD74 signaling reduces A\u0392 is still not clear, it has been hypothesized that CD74 might alter the trafficking of APP into cellular compartments where APP processing might be reduced [54] or into the lysosomes where it is degraded [73]. Moreover, in a mouse model of AD, the loss of Grn has been shown to increase plaque load and exacerbate cognitive deficits, while its overexpression exerted a protective effect in neuronal loss and spatial memory [74, 75]. Microglia which upregulate Trem2 seem to be crucial to help clear up A\u03b2 plaques [76]. Thus, Trem2 enables protective microglial responses during AD pathogenesis [77]. Our results show that a subtype of microglia that exhibits a DAM-like signature is enriched in the hippocampus of Tg2576 mice following PMX205 treatment. We also observed increased expression of Trem2 post treatment, suggesting that the strong reduction in the number of cortical ThioS\u2009+\u2009plaques we observed is linked to an increase in DAM population with disease mitigating effects.\nProsaposin (PSAP) is a multifunctional protein that regulates lysosomal enzymes intracellularly and also acts as a neuroprotective secreted factor extracellularly [56]. Patients lacking prosaposin presented increase in reactive astrocytes and lack of mature oligodendrocytes and cortical neurons [78, 79]. The Psap-Gpr37l1 signaling has been described to induce production of neurotropic factors by microglia for neuronal recovery [80]. Our single cell signaling inference results suggest that PMX205 treatment increases prosaposin signaling secreted from disease associated microglia targeting other microglial subtypes that express Gpr37l1. Ligation of Psap to Gpr37l1 might be one of the neuroprotective pathways stimulated by PMX205 treatment.\nOur study has some limitations. First, due to the technology we used for single cell RNAseq, we isolated microglial cells and did not analyze possible changes in the astrocytic population. Since it is known that astrocytes also play a key role during Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, our future studies will investigate the potential effect of PMX205 into astrocytic subpopulations. In addition, single cell RNAseq data and the pathways identified by CellChatrequire some valuable spatial information and biochemical analysis that will allow us to further confirm the mechanism by which C5aR1 inhibition alters microglial cells and modify AD progression. Further studies are needed to elucidate the location of the unique subset of microglial cells that seems to be involved in synaptic pruning (identified as cluster 8) and are significantly reduced by PMX205 in the Tg2576 model of AD. Another limitation is that our amyloid phagocytosis analysis was done in fixed tissue and so, we could not evaluate potential lysosomal dysfunction or abnormalities in AD mice. 2-photon in vivo studies can be used to overcome this limitation in future studies. Additionally, since only female mice were used for the present study, possible microglial sex-specific changes in response to PMX205 should be assessed, although genetic ablation of C5aR1 in another mouse model of amyloidosis (Arctic) did not show sex-related effects in behavior, gliosis or gene expression in either the AD characteristics or the effect of a deletion of C5aR1 [17, 21]. Finally, peripheral inflammation certainly can affect the progression of AD-pathology ([81, 82] and reviewed in [83]), and it remains to be seen what the contribution of PMX205 mediated peripheral effects may be. 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This study was made possible in part through access to the Optical Biology Core Facility of the Developmental Biology Center, a shared resource supported by the Cancer Center Support Grant (CA-62203) and Center for Complex Biological Systems Support Grant (GM-076516) at the University of California, Irvine.\nWork was supported by NIA R21 AG061746, R01 AG060148, Larry L. Hillblom postdoctoral fellowship #2021-A-020-FEL (AGA), Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship AARFD-20\u2013677771 (NDS), T32 AG00096 (TJP) and Edythe M. Laudati Memorial Fund.\nAngela Gomez-Arboledas and Klebea Carvalho these authors contributed equally to this work\nDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA\nAngela Gomez-Arboledas, Shu-Hui Chu, Nicole D. Schartz, Purnika Selvan, Tiffany J. Petrisko, Miranda A. Pan & Andrea J. Tenner\nDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA\nKlebea Carvalho, Gabriela Balderrama-Gutierrez, Heidi Yahan Liang & Ali Mortazavi\nDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA\nAndrea J. Tenner\nDepartment of Pathology and Experimental Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA\nAngela Gomez-Arboledas\nKlebea Carvalho\nGabriela Balderrama-Gutierrez\nShu-Hui Chu\nHeidi Yahan Liang\nNicole D. Schartz\nPurnika Selvan\nTiffany J. Petrisko\nMiranda A. Pan\nAli Mortazavi\nAG contributed to experimental design, performed PMX205 treatment, IHC experiments and quantification, analyzed data and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript; KC contributed to experimental design, prepared libraries, analyzed single cell RNA-seq data, and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript; GBG contributed to experimental design, prepared libraries, and assisted with single cell RNA-seq analysis; PS isolated RNA and prepared libraries; NDS isolated RNA and prepared libraries; SHC contributed to mice breeding and generation; HYL prepared and sequenced RNA-seq libraries; TJP contributed to interpretation of results; MAP performed IHC and analyzed data; AM contributed to experimental design, data analysis and manuscript preparation; AJT contributed to experimental design, data analysis and manuscript preparation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.\nCorrespondence to Andrea J. Tenner.\nAll animal procedures were approved by The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of University of California at Irvine and experiments were performed according to the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of laboratory animals.\nThe authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interest to disclose.\nPMX205 treatment of Tg2576 and WT mice. (A) Schematic diagram of experimental design showing that Tg2576 mice and WT littermates were treated or not with 20 \u00b5g\/ml of PMX205 for 12 weeks from 12-15 months of age. (B-C). During the duration of the treatment, mice body weight was recorded every week and no significant changes were observed in any of the experimental groups. Average drinking volume\/week for each mouse showed no significant changes between the PMX205 and the control groups (C). Data shown as Mean \u00b1 SEM. Statistical analysis used a two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test, n = 4-5 per group.\nAmyloid pathology decrease with PMX205 in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. (A) Representative stitched images of brain hemispheres of Tg2576-vehicle (A1) and Tg2576-PMX205 (A2) stained with ThioS, and OC. Inserts (A3-A4) shows higher magnification images of A\u00df deposition in the cortex. (B-C) Quantification of ThioS field area percent (FA%) showed a significant reduction of amyloid burden in the hippocampus (B1) and the cortex (C1). Similarly, A\u03b2-OC FA% is strongly reduced in both regions analyzed (B4 and C4). Quantification of ThioS+ and OC+ number of plaques (B2, C2, B5 and C5) and size of plaques (B3, C3, B6 and C6) revealed a reduction in the total number but not in the size of amyloid deposits. Positive correlation of ThioS FA% and A\u03b2-OC FA% in both, hippocampus (R2 = 0.6), and cortex (R2 = 0.58) (B7 and C7). Data are shown as Mean \u00b1 SEM and normalized to control group (Tg2576-vehicle). Statistical analysis used a two-tailed t-test and Pearson's correlation test. Significance is indicated as * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01 and *** p < 0.001. 3 sections\/mouse and n = 4-5 mice per group. Scale bar: A1-A2: 1000 \u00b5m; A3-A4: 100 \u00b5m.\nAdditional file 3: Supplemental Figure S3.\nSingle-cell RNA-seq of WT and Tg2576 female mice reveals distinct populations of macrophage and microglia (A) Single-cell RNA-seq data collection pipeline. (B) Single-cell RNA-seq data analysis pipeline. (C) Expression of canonical perivascular macrophage markers across subpopulations. (D) Top 17 markers per microglial cluster (logFC >0.25, positive only).\nSingle-cell gene expression levels (counts).\nTop markers per microglial and PVM clusters.\nGomez-Arboledas, A., Carvalho, K., Balderrama-Gutierrez, G. et al. C5aR1 antagonism alters microglial polarization and mitigates disease progression in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. acta neuropathol commun 10, 116 (2022). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s40478-022-01416-6\nC5aR1","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"It's Not Easy Bein' Green: The Psychology of Racism, Environmental Discrimination, and the Argument for Modernizing Equal Protection Analysis\nEdward P. Boyle\nMore than 120 years have passed since the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, making equal protection of the laws a constitutional right for all citizens. Since the Amendment's passage, courts and academics have struggled to define exactly what government actions are prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause. Courts and scholars generally have understood equality to mean that similar groups should be treated similarly. This definition recognizes that differences exist be- tween people and that ensuring that all people are treated equally in spite of these differences would inhibit progress. The United States Supreme Court, however, has not interpreted the Clause to require that the government always treat similar groups similarly due to concerns that this requirement would stymie government activity.' Rather, the Court has said that it will invalidate a government action under the Equal Protection Clause only when the government has displayed unfair and unequal treatment toward an identifiable group and when certain suspicious circumstances indicate the government did not have good reason to do so.\nIn the 1970s, the Court developed the discriminatory intent standard to narrow the class of suspicious circumstances that would invoke the Clause's protection. The intent standard requires plaintiffs to show that the state's act disparately affected them and that the act was motivated by discriminatory intent. Otherwise, the Court would merely examine whether the state had a rational basis for its actions, virtually assuring that the challenge would fail. The discriminatory intent standard is based in part on the idea that racial discrimination is conscious, willful, and morally reprehensible. Current studies of the dynamics of racism, however, demonstrate that this understanding of racial discrimination is incomplete: many people learn racist attitudes early in life and unconsciously use them to process information about their environment and to decide how to act. This type of racism has been described as \"aversive racism.\"' Aversive racists consciously know that racism is wrong, yet their cognitive development essentially has predisposed them to make decisions based on racist beliefs anyway. The result is that aversive racists take conscious steps to avoid racism within themselves, yet their unconscious prejudg- ments still influence their decisions. Actors motivated by aversive racism, therefore, may discriminate against a target racial group without consciously intending to do so.\nAdditionally, scholars now understand that racism may operate on an institutional as well as individual level.\" Institutional racism occurs when the group in power structures its social institutions so as to maintain its dominance over other groups.\nThis Note examines aversive, institutional racism for the purpose of determining whether new understandings about racism require a modification of equal protection analysis. To illustrate the causes and effects of institutional racism, this Note focuses on situations in which a government.body sites an environmental hazard in or near a neighborhood with a high percentage of minority residents. Statistics show that a substantial correlation exists between the racial make-up of a neighborhood and the likelihood that an environmental hazard will be located nearby. Some scholars have termed this phenomenon \"environmental racism,\" even though these instances often lack any evidence of conscious discriminatory intent on the part of the decisionmakers. To a person who believes that conscious intent is a necessary component of racial discrimination, it may seem more likely that economic factors, rather than racial prejudices, motivate decisions to place environmental hazards in minority neighborhoods.' Furthermore, to the extent that racial discrimination could influence these decisions, many states and counties have procedural safeguards to protect neighborhoods chosen to host environmental hazards. This Note will address these arguments and show that they rest on flawed assumptions. In many cases, these economic or procedural protections may be illusory.' If racism does in fact drive the phenomenon that minorities bear a disproportionate share of the risk associated with environmental hazards, the courts should modify the equal protection analysis to prohibit insidious as well as invidious discrimination.\nEdward P. Boyle, It's Not Easy Bein' Green: The Psychology of Racism, Environmental Discrimination, and the Argument for Modernizing Equal Protection Analysis, 46 Vanderbilt Law Review 937 (1993)\nEnvironmental Law Commons","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dr. Kristen Slaoui\nVP, Head of Business Development, Pharma Commercial\nKristen B. Slaoui, PhD is Vice President and Head of Business Development for GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) Pharmaceuticals Commercial Portfolio. She has spent nineteen years with GSK, first in the research labs, where her work in pulmonary disease resulted in the discovery of the long acting muscarinic receptor antagonist in the approved medicines Anoro\u2122 Ellipta\u2122, Incruse\u2122 Ellipta\u2122, and Trelegy\u2122 Ellipta\u2122. She holds multiple patents, has authored more than 40 original peer-reviewed publications, and she has had ongoing roles as a peer reviewer for a dozen established medical journals. Since joining GSK's Business Development teams in 2006, she has held various roles of increasing seniority and has executed more than $30 billion worth of deals and acquisitions, including the $3.6 billion acquisition of Stiefel Laboratories in 2009, participating in the $20+ billion three-part transaction with Novartis in 2015, and the $5.1 bn acquisition of Tesaro in 2018, with transactions covering the pharma R&D, commercial, emerging markets, specialty pharma and consumer spaces. Dr. Slaoui earned Bachelor's degrees in both Biology and Classical Studies from Gettysburg College. She earned her Ph.D. in Physiology from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and completed an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. After her term in Seattle, she accepted a position in Respiratory Drug Discovery at GSK, but continued her commitment to academic research by spending over a decade as an adjunct assistant professor at her alma mater, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.\nBusiness Development and Finance\nHow Can Biopharma Divest to Innovate?\nDr. Arda UralPartner atEY Anil AsnaniVP atLabCorp Marianne de backerVP, Global M&A Operations and Divestitures (Pharmaceuticals Group), Global Infectious Diseases & Vaccines Business Development atJohnson & Johnson Innovation Paris PanayiotopoulosManaging Director atBlackstone Life Sciences Dr. Kristen SlaouiVP, Head of Business Development, Pharma Commercial atGlaxoSmithKline\nSession TracksBusiness Development And Finance","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Having a Parent, Sibling, or Child with Blood Cancer Increases One's Own Risk\nData from largest population study to date help identify at-risk individuals, could inform screening initiatives\n(WASHINGTON, August 8, 2019) \u2014 New data suggest that people who have a parent, sibling, or child with blood cancer have a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with the disease. The study published online today in Blood offers the first evidence that such familial risks exist across the spectrum of hematologic malignancies.\nAge of diagnosis, whether the relative is a parent, sibling, or child, and the number of affected first-degree relatives play a defining role in the relative risk of developing certain blood cancers, according to the study.\n\"This information improves our understanding of the causes of \u2013 and potential inherited predisposition to \u2013 blood cancers and should inform the identification and characterization of genetic risk factors for blood cancer, as well as how we best clinically manage patients and their relatives,\" said Amit Sud, MD, PhD, of The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the study's lead author. \"The results should also encourage conversations among families, clinicians, and patients about familial risk.\"\nWhile earlier studies have demonstrated the increased risk of blood cancers in first-degree relatives of affected individuals, this is the largest and most comprehensive population-based evaluation to date.\nCases with a familial link represented 4.1 percent of all blood cancer diagnoses \u2013 higher than cancers of the nervous system, kidney and pancreas, but lower than those of the breast, colorectum, and prostate, which range from 8 to 15 percent, researchers report. Highest relative risks were seen for certain Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) subtypes, lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, and mantle cell lymphoma. Markedly elevated familial risks were also observed for polycythemia vera, myelodysplasia and essential thrombocythemia.\nWhile there are currently no definitive screening initiatives for blood cancers, a 2016 revision to the World Health Organization classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia recognized familial disease as an essential component of diagnosing certain subsets of blood cancers and underscores the need to further examine and understand familial risk. Developing definitive screening protocols based on evidence is an emerging area of research.\n\"We hope these robust data will be used to inform guidelines on genetic testing and screening. Certainly there are a number of individuals, such as those with a relative diagnosed at a young age and or with more than one affected first-degree relatives, for whom counseling, genetic testing, and surveillance may be appropriate,\" Dr. Sud said.\nThe present analysis drew from 16 million people in the Swedish Family-Cancer Database, ultimately including 153,115 patients with a confirmed blood cancer and 391,131 first-degree relatives, which allowed Dr. Sud and colleagues to fully characterize familial risk across all blood cancer types. For specific blood cancers such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the increase in risk is dependent on the age of the affected relative; whether it is a parent, sibling, or child; and the number of affected first-degree relatives. For example, for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, HL, and CLL, the risk was higher among those who had a sibling with the disease, whereas others blood cancers were more likely to occur if a parent had been diagnosed. Generally, the familial risk was more pronounced when relatives were diagnosed at younger ages. Dr. Sud added that the analysis also has potential implications for the selection of related stem-cell donors used for the treatment of these malignancies.\nIn addition to its size and long follow-up, another strength of the analysis is its use of registry data for which almost all blood cancer cases in the Swedish population had been recorded. Still, researchers say the findings may not be applicable to economically developing countries that tend to have different tumor incidence rates and potentially different environmental and genetic risk factors.\nThe study was conducted as a collaboration between European research institutes: The Institute of Cancer Research in London, the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, and Lund University in Sweden.\nBlood (www.bloodjournal.org), the most cited peer-reviewed publication in the field of hematology, is available weekly in print and online. Blood is a journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) (www.hematology.org), the world's largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatment of blood disorders.\nLeah Enser, American Society of Hematology\nlenser@hematology.org; 202-552-4927\nHaving a Parent, Sibling, or Child with Blood Cancer Incr...\nReport 0 0\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" style=\"max-width: 100%;max-height: 100%; border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/oncologytube.com\/articleEmbed\/28546\/having-a-parent-sibling-or-child-with-blood-cancer-increases-one-s-own-risk?channelName=AnnualCancerMeeting&modestbranding=1&showinfo=1&autoplay=&controls=1&loop=&mute=&t=0&objectFit=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay\" scrolling=\"no\">iFrame is not supported!<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/oncologytube.com\/articleEmbed\/28546\/having-a-parent-sibling-or-child-with-blood-cancer-increases-one-s-own-risk?channelName=AnnualCancerMeeting&modestbranding=1&showinfo=1&autoplay=&controls=1&loop=&mute=&t=0&objectFit=\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/oncologytube.com\/articleEmbed\/28546\/having-a-parent-sibling-or-child-with-blood-cancer-increases-one-s-own-risk?channelName=AnnualCancerMeeting&modestbranding=1&showinfo=1&autoplay=&controls=1&loop=&mute=&t=0&objectFit=\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oncologytube.com\/v\/28546?channelName=AnnualCancerMeeting\"><img src=\"https:\/\/oncologytubecom.cdn.ypt.me\/view\/img\/article.png\">Having a Parent, Sibling, or Child with Blood Cancer Increases One's Own Risk<\/a>\n[url=https:\/\/oncologytube.com\/v\/28546?channelName=AnnualCancerMeeting][img]https:\/\/oncologytubecom.cdn.ypt.me\/view\/img\/article.png[\/img]Having a Parent, Sibling, or Child with Blood Cancer Increases One's Own Risk[\/url]\nAcute Lymphoblastic Leukemia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"MMR and a lack of trust\nI am sick to fucking death of hearing about the MMR jab. Rhetorically Speaking points out that Peter Hitchens, after admitting that he knows fuck all about it, should shut the fuck up.\nDr Crippen has also gone on about how the MMR scare was a total fraud and that Dr Andrew Wakefield is the most evil man alive.\nThe reality is very simple: concerns were raised over the safety of the MMR jab\u2014those concerns were not beyond the realms of possibility.\nThe government said that there was no problem but\u2014and here is the fucking crux of the matter\u2014no one trusts the fucking government on health issues (remember Gummer feeding a beef burger to his daughter?).*\nAnd few people trust doctors either, since their representative bodies have been peddling lie after lie after lie, and still the so-called \"decent ones\" pay their dues to their disgusting, authortarian trade unions.\nWhat should have happened is that the government should have authorised the single jabs: this would have been more expensive but would have avoided the sharp increase in measles rates (costing the NHS more in the long-term). The government expressly refused to pay for this course of action.\nGiven that the government did not allow single jabs, what should have happened is that the doctors who were so concerned about immunisation rates should have lobbied the government to allow the single jabs.\nThey did not do so, because the only thing that doctors' representative bodies are interested in is curtailing our freedoms as regards drink, drugs and cigarettes and they were too busy doing this to give two shits about important things such as herd immunity. Because they are all absolute stinking cunts.\nSo, might I highly recommend that everyone just shut the fuck up and get on trying to immunise as many kids as possible? Thank you.\n* It's worth pointing out that BSE (and TSEs in general) is another area where consensus is fucking everything up. Huge amounts of money are still being poured into the investigation into prions as transmissive agents when, in fact, the transmissive agent is clearly a fucking virus. Laura Manuelidis' research, however, is being starved of cash in favour of a theory that not only makes cock-all sense but which has not been proven in over twenty years of experimentation.\nBecause, unfortunately, most scientists, researchers and politicians are colossal wankers with about as much concern for society (rather than, for instance, their own research budgets) as AIDS**, i.e. they need people to fuck each other to survive. I don't blame them for that but, like Fake Charities, everyone seems to think that these people are somehow immune from self-interest.\n** I have ranted about this before, but it really pisses me off when I see AIDS written as Aids\u2014especially when, in the same article, HIV is entirely capitalised. AIDS is an acronym, you wankers: it stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.\nLabels: fucking stupid little wankstains, low-grade bureaucratic meddling, medical care, mischief-making, really astonishing stupidity, state funding\nIn my humble opinion, the tosser known as Tony Blair refused to tell the public whether his son Leo had separate jabs or the mmr. This gave credibility that there was something more to it and hence the public (quite rightly) thought fuck that why should I believe these wankers.\nHarvey said...\nDear Mr Devil\nI regret to inform you that you are wrong on the single vaccine jab issue. Bulk vaccination of the herd is the most effective way of preventing disease spreading. Infective agents do not - sadly - care about the libertarian views of individuals. They fall however on the sword of mass immunisation.\nApart from this one issue I remain a libertarian and supporter of your blog.\nDr Harvey Smith\nDear Dr Harvey,\nI regret to inform you that the efficacy of the MMR jab is completely by-the-by.\nA single measles jab would be more efficacious than none at all.\nAs it is, we are now faced with a sharp rise in the rate of measles because the government did not authorise single jabs.\nIf the government had cared about herd immunity, they would therefore have authorised the single jab, since this would have avoided the issue of parents not having any jab at all.\nWhich was precisely the point of my post. There is no libertarian argument in here at all.\nP.S. I did not have the MMR, and wentsuffered both measles and mumps although, not so far, rubella.\nIvor Bigot said...\nthose concerns were not beyond the realms of possibility\nOh yes they fucking were. One highly flawed report by a severely compromised individual, which should never have seen the light of day. However the real problem here was the MSM, Ben Goldacre quite rightly refers to their efforts as a hoax, given the sheer level of disregard for blatant facts shown by them.\nI'm not trying to defend the government (heaven forbid), but the Hello generation seem to put far more faith in the redtops than any ministerial pronouncement.\nFor any who want a more thorough disection of the whole sorry episode, I can highly recommend his book \"Bad Science\". which has a whole chapter on this. Excellent for silencing dithering parents ;-)\nGareth said...\nLeaving aside the actual hoo-har over MMR itself - for a Government committed to giving people choices why didn't it make the separate jabs regime available?\nSeparate jabs are better than none but no jabs is what they have encouraged.\nCould it be they had agreed with the supplier or suppliers of the combined jab that the separate jabs would not be provided? I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case.\ncabalamat said...\nconcerns were raised over the safety of the MMR jab\u2014those concerns were not beyond the realms of possibility\nAt the time they were raised that might have been true. It isn't true now.\nThe claim that MMR causes autism has no basis in reality; it is about as intellectually respectable as holocasust denial or creationism.\n\"The claim that MMR causes autism has no basis in reality..\"\nAs the Devil took great pains to point out, that no longer matters.\nThe cat is out of the bag, isn't going back in anytime soon, and all the efforts of the government to cram the MMR down parent's throats is now totally counterproductive, simply further cementing the idea that it's a big conspiracy.\nRegardless of the 'best' approach, they should now throw open the only approach that people will accept.\nInstead, they stick to their guns because they would rather not lose face. So, now whose intellectually respectable?\nJuliaM: As the Devil took great pains to point out, that no longer matters. The cat is out of the bag, isn't going back in anytime soon, and all the efforts of the government to cram the MMR down parent's throats is now totally counterproductive, simply further cementing the idea that it's a big conspiracy.\nSome people think MMR is a big conspiracy. They are wrong, and shouldn't be pandered to.\nI don't care how many people are misinformed this way, because, y'know, science isn't democratic. Reality isn't democratic, either.\nPublic policy should be based on science and reality, regardless of whether that pisses off a few misinformed idiots. Or would you rather that the government made important decisions by consulting their horoscope? After all, lots of people believe in horoscopes.\ncabalamat,\nGoodness gracious, there was me thinking that that was just what the government were doing, using horoscopes. Their doings might make slightly more sense.\nAs to trade unions, I see that the doctors are complaining again, worried they might catch \"swine fever\" so the want protection, ie more money.\nENGLISHMAN said...\nWhen i were a lad,if mumps or measles were diagnosed in any children in the street ,all of the mothers would send thier children round to catch it,thus aquiring an immunity and removing a devastating illness in later life and strengthening the stock,and it did not cost a penny,still we know better now dont we?\nUmbongo said...\ncabalamat\n\"Public policy should be based on science and reality, regardless of whether that pisses off a few misinformed idiots\"\nYou'll be telling us next that climate change - the extent of man's influence on which remains (outside the BBC and the political class) debateable - requires a return to the stone age.\nFlipC said...\nPurely out of curiosity where would you expect the government to locate the large amounts of single vaccines required? Even those private individuals willing to pay had difficulty due to the high demand.\nChalcedon said...\nWhen I was a lad the causative agents of CJDand Kuru were called \"slow viruses\" and had never been isolated. I always thought Pruisner's work was bollocks and that a virus must be around with a genome. This protein folding business never cut it for me. With modern molecular techniques it was only a matter of time. but prions have become a new orthodoxy. I just wish scientists would remain sceptical and not blithely assume the veracity of a good story just because it was a good story.\nOn this matter, you are talking through your arse mate!\n\"Public policy should be based on science and reality, regardless of whether that pisses off a few misinformed idiots. \"\nAnd when it's more than 'a few', and is threatening your herd immunity as a result?\n\"Purely out of curiosity where would you expect the government to locate the large amounts of single vaccines required? Even those private individuals willing to pay had difficulty due to the high demand.\"\nYou mean, if there's a big fat government contract available, they won't make more...?\n\"DK,\nOn this matter, you are talking through your arse mate!\"\nWell, there's nothing like refuting an argument with well-thought-out reason.\nAnd that's nothing like, etc, etc....\n\"Well, there's nothing like refuting an argument with well-thought-out reason.\"\nI have been refuting it for years but its like talking to the wall.\nThe triple MMR is proven to be more effective that single vaccinations. There is no evidence that single vaccines are safer. Which part of that can't you fucking understand!\nPublic health policy is formulated according to the evidence.\nAre you suggesting that we should provide an inferior vaccination service just because of ignorent fuckwits and their erroneous beliefs?\nI hope that is well-thought-out enough for you!\n\"I have been refuting it for years but its like talking to the wall.\"\nDo you ever ask yourself why that should be?\n\"Are you suggesting that we should provide an inferior vaccination service just because of ignorent fuckwits and their erroneous beliefs?\"\nWhat's the alternative, given that it's now affecting your much-vaunted 'herd immunity'?\nHolfordWatch said...\nSingle jabs - Part 1.\nMajor charities have reviewed the issue of single jabs and they recommended that the government should not offer them.\nI would urge interested readers to download and study the Sense Position Statement on the issue of MMR because it also responds to the calls for single jabs.------------\n\"An immunisation strategy can only ever be effective if there is mass uptake, meaning that choice between single vaccines and MMR cannot be part of an effective vaccination programme. One of the difficulties with MMR uptake is that, while the prevalence of measles, mumps and rubella in the UK is low, the incentive to vaccinate can appear less. From the perspective of an individual parent, the risk of their child contracting an infectious disease can seem small compared with the risk of possible (or perceived) adverse reactions to immunisation. However, this is only true if vaccination levels remain high. It is actually the counter-argument to this view that is the rationale for vaccination programmes - that the risk of vaccine damage is extremely low compared with the risk of the ill-effects of contracting the disease.\nAt the same time, low uptake of rubella vaccination could actually have worse consequences than no uptake. If there were no vaccination against rubella, then most people would catch rubella in childhood and would subsequently be immune. A low uptake of vaccination would mean that the virus would still be able to circulate, but that fewer children would become immune in childhood. Outbreaks of rubella would be less common than the epidemics that would occur with no vaccination, and so a cohort of unvaccinated and un-immunised children would increase each year and get older, with the burden of the disease shifting to those who are most at risk. Thus the impact of an outbreak in terms of congenital rubella syndrome births could be greater.\"-----\nSingle jabs, Part 2, cont.\n------\"For MMR vaccination to be effective, uptake needs to be above 95%: this is why boys as well as girls need to be vaccinated. From 1970 to 1988, schoolgirls were vaccinated against rubella, and this did have some success in reducing the number of rubella births. However, the real breakthrough came in 1988 when MMR was introduced for all children. This reduced rubella births by a further 90% - there were 447 congenital rubella births between 1971 and 1980 and 38 between 1991 and 2000\u2026\nThanks to vaccination, rubella damage is now rare. However, this means that many people do not realise how dangerous rubella can be. In the United States, people from the Amish community have exercised their right for their children not to be immunised against rubella. As a result, in 1995, one baby in 50 born to Amish parents was born severely rubella damaged\u2026\nIt has been be argued that even if the Government believes MMR to be safe, they should provide single vaccines as an alternative because then more children would be vaccinated. However, there is absolutely no evidence to support the suggestion that allowing single vaccines would lead to a greater uptake of MMR, and a significant amount of evidence to show that it would have the opposite effect. Single vaccines would be less effective than MMR and there is no evidence that they would be safer. Sense believes that it is unethical to promote six invasive procedures instead of two without sound scientific support, and when there is evidence that such a strategy would have negative effects. [They then give their reasons and some very good, supportive figures.]\u2026\nparents may opt not to vaccinate their children, particularly their sons, against rubella. This would lead to increased risk to pregnant women. Unvaccinated boys can catch rubella and go on to infect pregnant women, including their own mothers. This is exactly what happened before MMR was introduced\u2026.\n[Reprise of what happened the last time single vaccines were offered because of a (groundless) vaccine scare.] In the 1970s, following a decrease in uptake of the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine, single vaccines for pertussis (whooping cough) were offered, with diphtheria and tetanus vaccines given separately. What happened was that over half of parents chose to vaccinate their children without the pertussis component. Coverage fell from 80% to 30%, there were three epidemics of pertussis, thousands of hospital admissions and around a hundred deaths. It took nearly fifteen years for vaccine uptake levels to recover\u2026\n[Sense list of recommendations] The Government should continue to offer MMR and should not make single vaccines available as an alternative.\"----------\nThere are very strong reasons to promote the use of MMR or multivalent vaccines rather than single jabs: Sense makes a good fist of outlining one particularly good case.\nDK wrote: \"The reality is very simple: concerns were raised over the safety of the MMR jab\u2014those concerns were not beyond the realms of possibility.\"\nThey were pretty infeasible. Had people known about: the sexed-up results; the less than random assortment of children; the state of the facilities at Unigenetics; the problems at the Kawashima Labs; Nicholas Chadwick's findings; the opinions of Prof.'s Bustin, Rima, Rust, Simmons and Griffin; the fact that as early as 1992, it was clear to immunologists and microbiologists that Wakefield thought that he had identified the measles virus in various biopsy tissues but they told him that it wasn't - he seems not to have listened to them; the involvement of legal funding; the application for a patent for Wakefield's own vaccine alternative etc. - then Wakefield's results and later publicity-seeking activities would probably not had such an impact.\n\"Do you ever ask yourself why that should be?\"\nIgnorent fuckwits!\n\"it's now affecting your much-vaunted 'herd immunity'?\"\nHow do you mean \"my\" much vaunted. Those not vaccinated benefit from the immunity of those who are vaccinated.\nEnglishman: \"When i were a lad,if mumps or measles were diagnosed in any children in the street ,all of the mothers would send thier children round to catch it,thus aquiring an immunity.\" If that were entirely true, why do you think that parents would have consented to giving their children to the measles vaccine when it was introduced? Even to the point of queuing for it?\nIf we are just trading anecdotes, I have a relative who is deaf because of measles (not that unusual a sequelae). You wouldn't necessarily have met adventitiously deaf or blinded children of her generation because there was no statutory obligation to educate children with disabilities until 1970. Some didn't get an education - others went to special schools where they achieved nothing like their potential.\nSome details changed but let's say that I recently took a history from a woman in her late 50s. She graduated from Cambridge with a 1st class degree in maths a few years ago. I asked her why she had chosen to study late in life. She hadn't been able to attend school much when she was a child because of chronic chest problems following measles and mups - she left without qualifications. Her life might have been very different.\nA man in his 40s - life opportunities restricted by heart murmurs - secondary infection subsequent to mumps.\nUp until comparatively recently, a substantial number of children who died with leukaemia died because they contracted preventable childhood illnesses rather than from the leukaemia as such. Children with some congenital heart defects were more likely to die from preventable childhood illnesses than from the defect itself.\nThese children, even if they couldn't be vaccinated, are the sort who would have benefited from the herd immunity of others being vaccinated.\nI'll post something about the remarkable immunosuppressive impact of measles in another comment.\n\"How do you mean \"my\" much vaunted. Those not vaccinated benefit from the immunity of those who are vaccinated.\"\nUntil there's more of the former and less of the latter....\n\"There are very strong reasons to promote the use of MMR or multivalent vaccines rather than single jabs: Sense makes a good fist of outlining one particularly good case.\"\nAnd when, despite all your 'promoting', people just refuse to trust the medical authorities, what then?\nIs it possible for there to be a better-thought out response to the Sense document that your apparently offhand dismissal of it?\nI doubt that that document is that well-known - I certainly use it in every discussion of single jabs that I come across. Oddly, it does tend to be ignored - or responded to so quickly that I sometimes doubt that it has been read, far less given any consideration (I posted extracts, the original document is lengthy).\nI would direct interested readers to The Expert on Measles, Dr Diane Griffin. Dr Griffin is the editor of the definitive Field's Virology and her status is such that she has contributed the chapter on measles for the last 3 editions. She gave testimony at the Autism Omnibus Hearings in the US. She details the remarkable immunosuppressant effects of the measles virus (see pg. 2738 onwards, Day 11 Autism Omnibus Hearings pdf). It seems that measles not only challenges the immune system itself, it suppresses response to other challenges so most deaths from measles are related to secondary infections.\n\"So there is a period of time which is initiated during this acute phase that children are more susceptible to other infectious diseases. So this is a very clinically important complication or outcome or by-product of measles and all of the data suggests that it's clinically related, as I say paradoxically, to the fact that the immune system is so activated and so engaged in making a response to measles that it is not appropriately positioned to respond to some new challenge that comes along at this same time\u2026 [pg. 2768]\u2026\nSo a number of viruses that are particularly pathogenic, actually, have figured out how to block the interferon response in order to have a better chance of really causing a more severe disease. And wild-type measles seems to be among those viruses that can do that\u2026[pg 2772]\nWe forget in the US what a serious disease [measles] was and why it was such an early target for the development of a vaccine, because the [mortality] is substantial. And the mortality is substantial, even in developed countries. It's less in developed countries but it's substantial. And if everyone gets it, that's a lot.\" [pg. 2797]\nAnd it is generally acknowledged that measles is so contagious that every child with measles infects 15 others (pdf) which rather highlights Dr Griffins' warnings that the no. of children who contract it is so high that even a comparatively low mortality rate can produce a high number of deaths.\nAs No Sleep 'Til Brooklands says:\n----\"I can imagine that in an alternate universe somewhere the NHS has withdrawn the MMR vaccine, citing a 12-subject preliminary study claiming a link to autism, in which the doctor involved reportedly tweaked his results. In that universe, The Mail is running screaming headlines about every subsequent child death from measles, and columnists are suspicious that the decision to withdraw was merely financial, that the NHS and Government have simply decided that letting a few kids die of measles is 'cost-effective'.\"-------\nI think the science here is simple, sufficient and settled.\nIf you do not immunise to m,m or r, then you get an increased rate of infections. If you get infections, you get severe side-effects of infection at a fairly low frequency. In the UK population, \"fairly low frequency\" translates into an awful lot of suffering, disabled kids and deaths. Even though it is stochastic, and even though it happens at low incidence, it is inevitable.\nAs regards single jabs, the practical experience is that people don't complete all three.\nSo DK's view is that a single jab will raise immunisation rates. You know, if a doctor or scientist were to make such a speculative case, on the basis of the complete lack of evidence that DK relies upon, DK might well give them a damn good fisking.\nerr, and that is apart from the problem that you couldn't get enough vaccine for the whole population at short notice.\n\"Is it possible for there to be a better-thought out response to the Sense document that your apparently offhand dismissal of it?\"\nYou are misunderstanding me (I suspect deliberately).\nI have no doubts about the Sense report. But I'm not the target audience you need to convince.\nAnd for every condescending 'Oh, you stupid people!' post you make here and on other threads, you lose more of the audience you are trying to reach.\nThe young parents with kids needing vaccination who see merely hectoring, or threats, rather than anything they can trust.\n\"I think the science here is simple, sufficient and settled.\"\nIt appears that enough people don't believe (or trust) you to make it a growing problem.\nSo, now what?\nHave you ever heard of the Darwin Awards? I have no problem with these people removing their offspring from the gene pool\nSome people here seem to be missing the point, so could I please ask someone in the know \u2014 HolfordWatch? \u2014 a quick question: is the measles single jab (assuming completion, etc.) any less effective in and of itself than the triple vaccine?\nI would assume not \u2014 though I am no expert \u2014 since it would surely be the same strains of virus used?\nthe a&e charge nurse said...\nDevil - as you admit yourself the issue, as you present it, has got NOTHING to do with scientific evidence and everything to do with choice (we'll leave aside traumatising children with needless injections for the moment, or the fact that multiple jabs increase complications associated with sticking needles into muscle: cellulitis, dry abscess, etc).\nThe principle you seem to be advocating is that if pressure groups whinge often enough, and long enough then inferior treatment (more costly, more painful, greater risk of complications, etc) is the order of the day.\nNext you'll be telling us that people with HIV should refuse to use condoms unless they are strawberry flavoured, or people with TB should decline long term antibiotics unless a two week holiday is thrown in to off-set the inconvenience of taking tablets for 6 months.\nBy the way you don't tell us which services should be cut to pay for the neurotic MMR refuseniks not to mention the additional health costs incurred from babies damaged in-utero by rubella virus.\nSaltedSlug said...\nWell based on the historical record of vaccine abstention, when enough of these people's children are deaf, blind, infertile or dead they will re-assess their priorities.\nJuliaM, responding to \"Public policy should be based on science and reality, regardless of whether that pisses off a few misinformed idiots.\":\nClearly loss of herd immunity is a bad hing that ought to be avoided. Parents who don't immunize their children are causing negative externalities on others. The best way, in general, to deal with behaviour that causes negative extetrnalities is to tax it according to the amount of nxternality it produces.\nIn this instance, a simple solution would be to withhold some or all of child benefit payments from parents who don't immunize their children. This would rapidly bring immunization rates up to 99.99%\n\"In this instance, a simple solution would be to withhold some or all of child benefit payments from parents who don't immunize their children.\"\nWe can't seem to do this for criminals, and you are suggesting we do it for people who simply don't believe the government orthodoxy of the day? But who might accept a different (inferior) option?\nCongratulations, you've created a martyr movement. And made the situation worse...\nJuliaM said ......... \"people who simply don't believe the government orthodoxy of the day \".\nSubstitute the phrase 'government orthodoxy of the day' for 'consensus amongst international scientific community' then we might be getting somewhere.\nThis is the problem in a nutshell: a small army of supposedly intelligent people talking absolute crap when they really should know better.\n@JuliaM \"You mean, if there's a big fat government contract available, they won't make more...?\"\nYep as if by magic they'll instantly expand production or change some of the existing MMR producing equipment to produce single jabs in the hopes that the government will maintain a contract for it and the fuss won't just blow over in a few years time.\nThe point about supply and demand is that when it requires substantial change or investment you need to guarantee that the demand will be sustained.\nBesides if that had happened this blog entry would be about how the government is wasting our money on over-priced single jabs when the far cheaper and perfectly safe triple shot is still being made and sold.\nAnd we're back. 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And fuck improvement.\nAn eruption\nThe Amazing Jack Night and the Mystery of Danny Fi...\nIt's the way she tells 'em\nTwo problems, one solution\nMMR (yet again)\nDrugs as a tool\nBluster and bollocks: the Tories on Lisbon\nWhat percentage of our laws are made by the EU?\nNo one expects the Spanish Inquisition in Britain\nFinancial Gain Planning\nPoons\nWhere's the fun...?\nMind what you say\nGood grief indeed...\nBNP: Left-wing party\nPiles of fresh, stinking bullshit\nA British Constitution?\nThrow them all out!\nDeath by a thousand cuts\nIt's your (Blogger's) choice\nLPUK at the polls\nOn gods and goddesses...\nLiveblogging the Cabinet Reshuffle\n100 years ago...\nI am busy doing a server upgrade and, alas, have t...\nThe laughing stock of the world\nThe gulf between politicians and the people\nNo, I should do it...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Stage Review\nIn Israeli Stage's 'The Return,' an encounter resounding with echoes from the past\nBy Don Aucoin Globe Staff,May 8, 2019, 5:49 p.m.\nNael Nacer and Philana Mia star in \"The Return.\"(Anna Olivella)\nAfter an impressive nine-year run powered by indefatigable founder and artistic director Guy Ben-Aharon, Israeli Stage is ringing down the curtain with \"The Return.''\nIt's a fitting finale. Cowritten by Hanna Eady and Edward Mast, \"The Return'' is a taut, politically charged two-hander about a fraught encounter between a Palestinian man (Nael Nacer) and an Israeli woman (Philana Mia) in the front office of an auto repair garage located in Herzliya, Israel.\nAs their painful shared history emerges bit by bit, \"The Return'' underscores the ways that simple one-on-one human relationships are often the principal casualties of unending conflict, while raising wider questions about what such conflicts can do to a nation's soul. Broadly speaking, those have been among the themes that have defined Israeli Stage productions since Ben-Aharon, then just 20, launched the company in November 2010.\nOver the ensuing years, Israeli Stage presented five full productions of works that focused on Israeli culture and politics, all directed by Ben-Aharon (\"Ulysses on Bottles,'' \"Oh God,'' \"Days of Atonement,'' \"The Last Act,'' and \"The Return''), as well as more than two dozen staged readings.\nAs with David J. Miller's steadfast leadership of Zeitgeist Stage Company, which recently closed its doors after nearly 20 years, Ben-Aharon's stewardship of Israeli Stage demonstrated the outsize impact a leader of a small theater company can have if he is driven by a passionate sense of mission. Some of Boston's most high-profile actors were drawn to that mission; among those who performed with Israeli Stage were the late Thomas Derrah, Melinda Lopez, Karen MacDonald, Will Lyman, Obehi Janice, Will LeBow, Maureen Keiller, Remo Airaldi, Nancy E. Carroll, and Ken Cheeseman.\nIn \"The Return,'' Nacer and Mia deliver performances worthy of that illustrious roster. Nacer again demonstrates his mastery at playing men stretched tight by circumstance, at imparting weight and meaning to moments of stillness, and, when the need arises, at going from zero to 60, dramatically speaking. For her part, Mia skillfully works through the layers of a character who starts out aggressively in charge but ends up nearly broken, forced to live with the knowledge that she was betrayed not just by her country but by herself.\nWhen the woman played by Mia first shows up in his garage, Nacer's mechanic stiffens into a guarded, even rigid, formality. It becomes quickly apparent that she's not there just to have work done on her car. Their subsequent conversation is part interrogation, part game of cat-and-mouse.\nShe quizzes him, expressing surprise that \"they let you work on those military vehicles,'' informing him that she has been out of the country for \"quite a while,'' demanding to know whether his name is really Yakov, as he claims, or Avi, as she insists it is. \"It's been 13 years and you have some new name,'' she tells him. \"I don't know if that's real or a joke. Did they make you a new name?'' He professes bafflement and keeps offering to show her his identification card; his struggle to contain himself is palpable.\nBen-Aharon sustains an atmosphere of tension and suspense as subsequent events unfold, maintaining a tight focus on \"The Return's'' two tormented people while also evoking the context of checkpoints and scanners and security cameras within which they are trying to (re)connect. The blank surfaces and sharp geometric planes of Cristina Todesco's bone-white set emphasize the spatial relationship between them and suggest that they are trapped, as if the world is closing in on them (which it indeed proves to be). The stage is suffused in red light (the lighting design is by Jeff Adelberg) during scenic transitions, and a tonal hum created by sound designer David Wilson adds resonant aural punctuation to a crucial scene.\nEven after the truth about the past relationship between the Palestinian and the Israeli comes out, their story isn't over. They both have to cope with further consequences. History isn't done with them yet.\nPlay by Hanna Eady and Edward Mast. Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon. Presented by Israeli Stage. At Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, through May 19. Tickets $25, 617-266-0800, www.israelistage.com\nDon Aucoin can be reached at aucoin@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter@GlobeAucoin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Archive for the 'Adl' Category\n19th Oesterreicher Lecture at Seton Hall\nThis is an excellent opportunity for doubters to come to understand whether the threat of Holocaustolatry within the Church is exaggerated or rather understated here.\n19th Oesterreicher Lecture\nby: Laurie Pine\nThe Rev. Dennis McManus will discuss The Holocaust Matrix: Its Destructive Past and Its Dangerous Future at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 4, at The 19th Monsignor John M. Oesterreicher Memorial Lecture. The program is hosted by The Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies. Sponsored by the Msgr. J. M. Oesterreicher Endowment, the event is free and open to the community. The event will take place at Seton Hall University's Walsh University Library Beck Rooms, 400 South Orange, NJ.\n\"The many-faceted work of the Reverend Dr. Dennis McManus provides a background for his insights into the Shoah (Holocaust) and implications for continuing reflection on this important topic.\" (Father Lawrence Frizzell, Director, The Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies).\nThe Rev. Dennis McManus, Ph.D., teaches at St. John's Seminary in Boston and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is Consultant for Jewish Affairs at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and belongs to the Church Relations Committee of the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum. Since 1997 he has been very active in the Anti-Defamation League\/USCCB joint program in Holocaust Education \"Bearing Witness,\" offered nationally in Catholic dioceses. He is director of the Jan Karski Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Georgetown University. He has contributed to the Cambridge Dictionary of Christian-Jewish Relations (2005) and to Ancient Christian Commentary (InterVarsity Press). His forthcoming book will address the achievements of Pope Benedict XVI with the Jewish community.\nMonsignor Oesterreicher, a European-born Jew who converted to Catholicism at the age of 20, devoted his early years in the priesthood to parish work, ecumenism and peace. During the years of Nazi persecution he combatted Adolph Hitler's glorification of race and hatred for Jews, eventually escaping from the Gestapo in 1938 via Switzerland and Paris and travelling circuitously through Spain and Portugal, finally arriving in the United States in 1940. After serving in several parishes in New York City, he was invited to Seton Hall University in March 1953 and became founding director of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies.\nThe late Monsignor Oesterreicher wrote in The Rediscovery of Judaism (1971), \"True sensitivity sees not only the volcano of evil that erupted in Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Bergen-Belsen, but also the ultimate failure of the greatest poisoner of history; for all his success, he did not triumph. Horrible though it was, the 'Final Solution' was anything but final. Six million Jews died, but the Jewish people lives. What this sentence really means is exemplified by the State of Israel. Here, an ancient people that for almost two thousand years was severed from the soil, that as a whole had not been involved in statecraft, that in the days of Hitler had been defaced in every possible way, was rejuvenated.\"\nThe Advisory Board of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies includes Director Reverend Lawrence E. Frizzell, D.Phil.; Michelle Dahl, Ed. D.;Sister Phyllis Kapuscinski, N.D.S., Ph.D.; M. Therese Liddy, M.A.; Reverend Msgr. Gerard H. McCarren, S.T.D.; Reverend John F. Morley, Ph.D.; Sister Alice Swartz, R.S.M., Ph.D.; and Sister Anita Talar, R.S.M., M.L.S.\nFor more information, contact Reverend Lawrence Frizzell at (973) 761-9751 or Lawrence.Frizzell@shu.edu.\nPosted in Adl, Bearing Witness, Dennis McManus, Georgetown University, John Oesterreicher, Seton Hall, St. John's Seminary, USCCB | 1 Comment \u00bb\nMore Catholic School Teachers to the ADL Guilt Chambers\nU.S. Catholic School Educators Will Visit Holy Land on ADL Mission to Israel\nNew York, NY, July 6, 2012 \u2026 A group of Catholic school educators from 10 states across the country will be traveling to the Holy Land on an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) mission that aims to provide an advance course of study on anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Catholic-Jewish relations.\nThe 19 participants in the nationally acclaimed ADL Bearing Witness Advanced\u2122 program will be traveling in Israel July 11-18, where they will visit Christian and Jewish holy sites and meet with Holocaust survivors, members of the Israeli government, Arab Israelis, Israeli journalists, Catholic dignitaries, Jewish community leaders, interfaith experts and scholars [but no Palestinian Christians].\nThe educators represent middle and high schools in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Illinois and California.\n\"This mission is essential to helping Catholic educators gain a deeper understanding of the historic relationship between the Catholic and Jewish communities and develop the tools needed to teach about the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and modern-day Israel,\" said David Waren, ADL Director of Education. \"Now in its 8th year, the ADL Bearing Witness Advanced program continues to give Catholic educators the opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge of the Jewish state and enhance their appreciation of the country and its history. The educators are then able to bring these experiences and lessons home to their students, fellow educators and communities\" \u2026\nFull artice:\nhttp:\/\/www.adl.org\/PresRele\/ChJew_31\/6344_31.htm\nRabbis Preach Guilt in Catholic Schools\nCatholic School Teachers Programmed to \"Bear Witness\" to Holocaustolatry\nPope Appoints 'Holocaust' Guilt Booster to Council Overseeing Catholic Education\nPosted in Adl, B'nai B'rith, Bearing Witness, Catholic, Holocaust Education | 2 Comments \u00bb\nSacha Baron Cohen's Father: B'nai B'rith UK President, Hillel Director\nUPDATED with further documentation\nSacha Baron Cohen's claim to fame is abusing deceiving and mocking individuals and ethnicities for laughs; videotaping interviews where the subject is made to look foolish. He refuses to say how these oftentimes high-profile interviews are arranged. In 2009, Sky News documented that Baron Cohen deceived a Palestinian Christian into an interview and deceived his viewers to believe that the subject was a hostile Muslim terrorist. The man filed a defamation lawsuit. The 'Anti-Defamation' League of B'nai B'rith was nowhere to be found, however. There's a reason for that.*\nSacha Baron Cohen's father, Gerald Baron Cohen was President of the B'nai B'rith first lodge of England. He also served as a director of the university subversion branch of B'nai B'rith, Hillel (note that one of his companies is listed as \"Ali G Limited.\" \"Ali G\" is one of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters). This rather important piece of information is left out of Sacha Baron Cohen's biographies. Knowing it helps us to better understand his 'humor.'\nFrom: Shemot, The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, December 2010 Vol 18, 3\nFrom: the Jewish Quarterly, Volumes 28-30, Jewish Literary Trust, 1980\nIn light of this information I think it's safe to say that the public 'dialogue' that B'nai B'rith's Abe Foxman recently had with Sacha Baron Cohen regarding his \"Borat\" character was a contrived 'teachable moment.' Others have sensed the protection racket angle to his shtick.\nSacha Baron Cohen has a new movie, \"The Dictator\" in which he has a few laughs at the expense of the victims of the Zionist 'Arab Spring' hostilities.\nB'nai B'rith is a 'Jews'-only masonic organization which, among other things, was founded to impede assimilation of Judaic individuals by disrupting the culture and religion of their host nations while simultaneously building up Judaic culture and religion.\n* I don't imply that the ADL would have otherwise assisted a defamed Palestinian.\nSkull and Bones member, George W. Bush jokes about the lie that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Iraq\nADL Board Member's Grandson Transformed as 'al Qaeda' Agent Threatens 'Islamofascist' Attack on U.S.\nADL of B'nai B'rith Conference on Replacing Calvary with Auschwitz\nB'nai B'rith Canada Director of Government Relations: 'Holocaust Central to New World Order.'\nJPII's Respect for Talmudic Khazars of ADL of B'nai B'rith Based In Mysterious Spiritual Link\nSigmund Freud Was A Member of B'nai B'rith\nFormer B'nai B'rith head admits downloading 9 hours of child pornography for \"education\"\nB'nai B'rith's War Agitator, John Loftus\nWorld Jewish Congress Oligarch Chartered Child-Rape Boat\nThe Judeo-Masonic Tradition of Mocking the Victim\nPosted in Adl, Admiral General Aladeen, Ali G, B'nai B'rith, borat, Bruno, cajolery, Chaim Weizmann, chameleon, Gerald Baron Cohen, Hillel, Masonic Jest, Mocking the Victim, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator | 4 Comments \u00bb\nNeocatechumenal Way Presents Holocaustian Symphony of Homage to Talmudic \"Fathers in the Faith\"\nLiterally every religious claim below is rubbish intended to create false commonality between Jesus, the Bible, the Israelites and today's talmudic 'Jews' where there is in fact complete opposition. Jesus never prayed to \"Hashem,\" a ridiculous, tribal, exclusivist contrivance which translates as \"The Name.\" But this is the kind of madness that one would expect from 'Catholics' who call the rabbis of Talmud and Kabbalah \"fathers in the faith.\"\n'Traditional Catholics' are wont to criticize the Neocatechumenal Way for its liturgical absurdities. Let us see what they have to say (nothing?) about this theologically and symbolically loaded symphony of race exultation in which Jesus' mother is made to cry with 'Jews' of the Talmud (which teaches that her Son deserved to be executed) and \"affirm\" the \"Shema Yisrael\" which for centuries has connotated rejection of Christianity in general and specifically the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and Divinity of Christ.\nDear traditionalist reader, what we have here, consistent with the modern Catholic mockery of Auschwitz replacing Calvary, is Mary crying with 'The Jews' at the foot of the 'gas chambers' instead of crying for Jesus at the foot of the cross. Are you in 'full communion' with this outrageous mockery?\nA Concert of Reconciliation\nCatholic Group Honors Jews in Free Lincoln Center Event\nJonathan Mark \u2013 The Jewish Week\n\u2026 The Neocatechumenal Way was founded in Spain, in large part, to further Catholic spiritual renewal and solidify the relationship with Jews. The group, now with more than 80 seminaries around the world and a major center in Israel's Galilee, is presenting a free symphonic concert in Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall (May 8 at 8 p.m.), billed as a \"musical gift to the Jewish people.\" (Advance registration required, by calling [201] 998-9469).\nThe symphony, entitled \"The Suffering of the Innocents,\" is being presented as an homage and prayer to Holocaust victims in particular, viewed through a Catholic prism of Mary crying and united with Jewish mothers in the concentration camps, affirming \"Shema Yisrael.\" The elaborate piece \u2014 for 100 musicians and 80 choral singers \u2014 was composed by the movement's founder, Kiko Arguello, a painter and theologian, who has stated that his symphony is being offered \"as a bridge of love and reconciliation.\n\"We act according to the last wishes for Pope John Paul II. We remember that the roots of Christianity are in Judaism and that since the beginning, God made Israel the chosen people.\"\nThe concert has been endorsed by representatives of numerous Jewish organizations, including the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League [of B'nai B'rith], the New York Board of Rabbis and the Jewish Community Relations Council, as well as Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, and Haim Gutin of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. After the performance of the symphony, [Papal Knight] Rabbi David Rosen, the AJC's director of interreligious relations, is scheduled to lead a memorial prayer for the victims of the Shoah, prior to a collective recitation of \"Shema.\"\n['Holocaust' Dispensationalist Theologian] Rabbi Irving \"Yitz\" Greenberg told The Jewish Week that The Neocatechumenal Way is \"primarily a lay inspiration group that has done no missionary work and has no missionary interest. They speak about Israel like the Evangelicals do, that the Jews are 'God's people.' And Israel is 'God's Promised Land.' They specialize in a respectful attempt to help Catholics better appreciate the Jewish people and the Jewish religion, as well as raising an awareness of how much the Jews have suffered, including from Christians.\n\"In fact, one of the highlights of their programs, including the one they're about to have in New York, is to get people to chant 'Shema Yisroel, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad,' in Hebrew. Partially it is, for them, the chanting of the prayer that Jesus said, and in part it is a powerful emotional statement about the Jews.\"\nRabbi Greenberg added, \"'The Suffering of the Innocents' addresses the theological problem of suffering, often using Christian imagery, but also refers to the fact that the Jews are the classic example of innocent suffering. And just as God has a special love for the suffering innocent, so should Christians have a love for the Jewish people.\n\"It would be both impressive and a positive Jewish experience for Jews to be\" at the Lincoln Center event, said Rabbi Greenberg. \"And it is important for [the Neocatechumanals] to see that at least the Jewish establishment respects their work.\"\nGiuseppe Gennarini, of the Neocatechumenal leaders in the United States, told The Jewish Week that his movement aims at \"rediscovery, and the first thing we discover in the faith is the Jewish roots, we discover the word of God, we discover Abraham, we discover the Exodus and the Passover. With rediscovery comes love. We are grateful to the Jews for what they have given to us, to help us know God.\"\nHe prefers to think of Jews, not as an \"elder brother,\" as some Christians say, but as a \"parent,\" because in the Bible \"there were so often difficulties between brothers, such as with Esau and Jacob, and Joseph and his brothers. So we say, not brothers, but you are our parent, our father in the faith.\"\nhttp:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/news\/new_york\/concert_reconciliation\nPosted in Adl, AJC, David Rosen, father in the faith, Giuseppe Gennarini, Kiko Arguello, Lincoln Center, NCW, Neocatechumenal Way, Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Shema, The Suffering of the Innocents, WJC | 8 Comments \u00bb\nPope Foxman is Deeply Disturbed\nThe Kvetching Pope, Abe Foxman has issued another of his kvetching edicts, this one titled, \"ADL Deeply Disturbed by Archbishop's Remarks Likening Politicians in Trinidad and Tobago to Jews\":\n\u2026 Port of Spain Archbishop Edward Gilbert was reported to have [likened Trinidad and Tobago politicians to Jews] during a Jubilee Mass held October 24 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church in San Fernando to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Roman Catholic mission there.\n\"The Jews were compassionate and caring for their own, they were compassionate and caring to the people of their nation, to the people of their race, to the people of their ethnic communities. However, that wasn't enough for Jesus. Jesus took that teaching and universalized it,\" Archbishop Gilbert told his congregation, according to a news report. \"In many cases in this country, there are people who love one another, who are compassionate, but they have the mindset of the original Jewish people. They are good to their own \u2026 but they have not universalized the concept of love.\"\nAbraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said the archbishop's statements as reported were \"a disturbing repackaging of ancient anti-Jewish canards and supersessionist beliefs.\"\n\"Archbishop Gilbert devalues Judaism over and against Christianity,\" said Mr. Foxman. \"The false notion that Jews only care about themselves and don't care enough about others is one of the major pillars of classical anti-Semitism.\"\n\"While the Catholic Church has made tremendous strides in countering anti-Jewish notions such as the belief that the advent of Christianity superseded Judaism, Archbishop Gilbert's statements show that he has not internalized the important reforms of Vatican II.\"\nhttp:\/\/www.adl.org\/PresRele\/ASInt_13\/6145_13.htm\nI agree that Pope Foxman is deeply disturbed and I would be happy to illustrate one of the many reasons why.\nAbove we see Pope Foxman in his edict to the Goyim proclaim that it's a damnable \"major pillar of classical anti-Semitism\" to recognize the fact that Judaism is not a universal religion but a tribal religion which teaches its adherents to favor the tribe over outsiders.\nBut over here, in Foxman's inter-office memo to the tribe not meant for Goy eyes to see, Foxman admonishes the tribe to not love universally because to do so is \"Judaism lite\" which \"brushes past the theological significance of acting on behalf of Jews.\"\n\"What I've been critical of is those who have sold Judaism as, 'All you have to do is love universally and that's Judaism,' \" Foxman said. \"It's not\u2014it's ersatz Judaism. It's Judaism lite.\" It also, Foxman added pointedly, has the potential to elevate political action on behalf of others while brushing past the theological significance of acting on behalf of Jews.\nTikkun Olam is a Tribal, not Universal, Concept\nEvidently, Pope Foxman is deeply disturbed because he wants to enforce his tribal racket while defining it a damnable heresy for any outsider to recognize that fact. To paraphrase St. Augustine, by doing so, his madness, not innocence, is manifest.\nI have often marveled at the word-magic I've read in pseudo-scholarly post-graduate volumes as they circle around the white elephant of Judaic tribalism (euphemized as \"particularism\") for hundreds of pages dedicated to mesmerizing the reader into the false belief that Judaism is a universal, progressive, enlightened religion.\nThe deeply disturbing part of it is the deception and browbeating of observers into not acknowledging what is plain before their eyes\u2013that Judaism is the most un-universal religion in existence, if not in history. Every sane person knows it. Everyone who has lived among followers of the rabbis has experienced it. There are individual exceptions among \"Jews,\" but as Foxman says in his inter-office memo, they are not really living according to true Judaism.\nThat this even has to be decoded is a testament to the state of degradation we've descended to. Of course Judaism is tribal; the word plainly means tribe-of-Judah-ism. It's about sustaining the tribe of counterfeit Judah at all costs. It's not about loving and serving God; loving ones non-Judaic neighbor as oneself or any such universal value.\nPray for Pope Foxman that God will relieve him of his deeply disturbed state and that he will cease his attempts to inculcate the same in us. Until he is miraculously healed, tell your friends, family and clergy to ignore the disturbed ravings of the self-chosen Pope Foxman.\nPosted in Abe Foxman, Adl, Archbishop Gilbert, Deception, Jews, Judaism, Port of Spain, Tribalism, Trinidad and Tobago, universal | 4 Comments \u00bb\nBishop Williamson Contra Mundum\nPosted in Adl, Auschwitz, Bishop Fellay, Bishop Williamson, deicide, Eleison Comments, Holocaust, SSPX | 11 Comments \u00bb\nPope Foxman Says SSPX Has No Place in the Church\n\"After Bishop's Latest Anti-Semitic Writings, ADL Says Pius X Society 'Has No Place' In Mainstream Church\"\nPosted in Adl, Chutzpah, megalomania, sticking your nose into other people's business | 12 Comments \u00bb\nA Historical Overview of the 'Holocaust' Racket\nPosted in Adl, Anthony Lawson, B'nai B'rith, delusion, Extortion, Guilt, Judea Declares War on Germany, Lies, Nuremberg Trials, Religion, Rudolf H\u00f6ss, The Holocaust, Tribal Warfare | Leave a Comment \u00bb\nSSPX members, are you ready for the rabbis and their helpers' intensive 'Holocaust' guilt programming? Are you amenable to your children learning that Catholicism \"paved the road to Auschwitz\"? This is what \"communion with Rome\" in Rome's present degraded state entails.\nCardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., has been named a voting member of two Vatican offices that oversee efforts to teach the Catholic faith and that promote relationships with other Christians and with Jews.\nOn Wednesday Pope Benedict XVI named Pittsburgh's former bishop to the Congregation for Clergy and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The latter includes the Vatican's commission for relations with Jews. He will travel to Rome for meetings.\nHis appointment to the Congregation for Clergy surprised no one \u2026 It oversees instruction, ranging from catechisms for children to seminary training. Cardinal Wuerl is the author of several popular catechisms.\n\"I would hope they would ask me to concentrate in the area of catechetics, of teaching the faith. When I was a consultant, it was always the area they asked me to work on,\" he said.\nHe was a bit surprised at his appointment to the Council for Promoting Christian Unity. But non-Catholic friends of his who often work with that office thought it was a brilliant choice \u2026\nRabbi Alvin Berkun of Pittsburgh, a longtime participant in Catholic-Jewish dialogue at the Vatican level, believes his old friend may help prevent future problems [in Catholic-Judaic 'relations'].\n\"It's a great move,\" Rabbi Berkun said. \"He brings a wonderful measure of sensitivity and caring and involvement in these matters. This uses his skills in a wonderful way.\" (\"Cardinal Wuerl appointed to 2 Vatican offices,\" Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 30, 2010)\nhttp:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/10364\/1114317-455.stm#ixzz19c7VGP5P\nCatholic school educators participating in [the ADL program, Bearing Witness] to learn how to teach about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism are helping to build positive relations between Catholics and Jews and all people, Archbishop Donald Wuerl said July 22.\nAddressing participants in the Bearing Witness program, Archbishop Wuerl told the educators they are helping to \"raise the level of awareness (of their students) of our positive relations with our Jewish brothers and sisters.\"\nMore than two dozen Catholic school educators from the Archdiocese of Washington and five other states gathered in Washington last week to participate in the Bearing Witness program. During nearly a week of professional development, the educators not only learned how to teach about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, but they also explored the history of anti-Semitism, Catholic teachings on Jews and Judaism, and contemporary issues of prejudice.\nArchbishop Donald Wuerl said the importance of the program \"is found in both its goal and its accomplishments.\" He said the program helps educators \"build on growing mutual Jewish-Catholic understanding\" \u2026\n[The Bearing Witness program is] jointly sponsored by the [Washington D.C.] archdiocese, the ADL, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.\nParticipation in the program has \u2026 grown. Archdiocesan educators are now joined by their counterparts from throughout Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Delaware, Minnesota and Missouri. For five days, the educators meet in Washington to receive training and resources so that they can share the lessons of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and modern-day prejudice with their students.\nSimilar programs have begun in other parts of the country, and two years ago, the Bearing Witness program was presented with the NCEA's President's Award. In the past the past 14 years, Bearing Witness has trained more than 1,300 Catholic school educators nationwide, impacting 195,000 students across the country. The program is open to Catholic high school and middle teachers of history, religion, social studies, and English, as well as administrators and librarians \u2026\nDuring the [week-long program], Catholic educators ate a traditional sabbath dinner at a synagogue, learned about Jewish beliefs and practices from a rabbi, toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, met with Archbishop Wuerl at the USCCB headquarters and met Holocaust survivor Halina Peabody \u2026\nArchbishop Wuerl, reminding the participants that \"we come out of the Jewish tradition,\" noted that he has long had an interest in \"our religious commonality.\" While he was bishop of Pittsburgh, he started a program where priests and rabbis gathered for \"wonderful and fruitful dialogue.\" Also in that diocese, he invited rabbis to give lectures to Catholic high school students. (\"Archbishop Wuerl says Bearing Witness Holocaust education program builds understanding,\" Richard Szczepanowski, Catholic Standard, July 22, 2010)\nhttp:\/\/www.cathstan.org\/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=4021&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&S=1\nChief Rabbis Ask Pope for Holocaust Studies Requirement in Catholic Schools\nRabbi Abraham Heschel: \"I Want to Attack Their Souls\"\nPosted in Adl, Bearing Witness, c\/jeep, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, commission for relations with Jews, Congregation for Clergy, Pope Benedict XVI, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, USCCB | Leave a Comment \u00bb\nPope Continues to Degrade Papacy via Association with Counterfeit Israel\nThe Pope's moral authority is plummeting to the level of counterfeit Israel's:\nPope Benedict XVI Assures ADL He Will Continue to Raise His Voice Against Anti-Semitism\nNew York, NY, November 3, 2010 \u2026 In an audience at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI today assured top leaders of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that he would continue to raise his voice against anti-Semitism and attempts to isolate the state of Israel \u2026\nMr. Foxman \u2026 asked the pontiff to use the Church's moral authority to help prevent Israel from being made a pariah by its enemies. \"Please do not permit the world to isolate Israel,\" Mr. Foxman said, to which Pope Benedict replied, \"I will be there\" \u2026\nhttp:\/\/www.adl.org\/PresRele\/VaticanJewish_96\/5896_96.htm\n\"Israel\" is a pariah due to its actions. Papal P.R. can't cover that up.\nSurvey: Israel worst brand name in the world\n\"Israel\" Hopes Papal Visit Will Help Polish International Image In Wake of Gaza Massacre\nPalestinian Christians urge Pope to call off May visit to Israel\nWill Benedict's \"Pilgrimage\" Boost \"Israel's\" Image or Destroy His Own?\nPosted in Abe Foxman, Adl, B'nai B'rith, Benedict XVI, brand management, cross marketing, degradation, Israel, Pope | 1 Comment \u00bb\nYou are currently browsing the archives for the Adl category.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Inside the Exxon sting: Aliases, fake oil funds, a payday\nBy Corbin Hiar | 07\/02\/2021 06:45 AM EDT\nGreenpeace activists chained themselves to Exxon Mobil Corp. gas pumps in 2002 as part of the group's long-running campaign against the oil giant. Dang Ngo\/Zuma Press\/Newscom\nIt was a tantalizing opportunity, even for a highly paid energy lobbyist.\nA man claiming to be a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based executive recruiter was looking to hire someone to set up a Washington influence operation for a Middle East fund planning to make \"a big, long-term bet on U.S. oil and gas.\"\nThe job would be to represent the fund and \"make sure their investments are protected from any sort of risk that's coming down the line,\" said the man, who went by Tom James and claimed to be a principal at the firm Harrington Rowe. Potential climate and environmental regulations were the fund's top concerns, he said.\nIs that \"something that sounds vaguely interesting for you?\" asked James, whose online biography listed experience working for the notorious British public relations firm Bell Pottinger and the United Kingdom's Labour Party.\n\"Yes,\" Keith McCoy, one of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s top congressional lobbyists, said during a surreptitiously recorded Zoom call in May. \"No, absolutely.\"\nThere was just one problem: It was all a setup.\nJames and Harrington Rowe appear to be the creation of Unearthed, an investigative project of Greenpeace UK. Over the past two days, the group has posted politically explosive portions of interviews it staged earlier this year with McCoy and Dan Easley, a former Exxon White House lobbyist who now runs federal affairs for the renewable power company Apex Clean Energy.\nThe revelations cast doubt on Exxon's support for the carbon tax climate policy it claims to back and showed how the oil major had worked with the American Petroleum Institute to block regulation of a class of toxic firefighting chemicals it uses at some of its refineries (E&E Daily, July 2).\nMeanwhile, Harrington Rowe's website has gone dark, and the executive search firm's profile has disappeared from LinkedIn. No one by the name of Tom James appears to work at Unearthed either.\nA spokesman for Greenpeace UK provided E&E News with transcripts of the group's interviews with McCoy and Easley but didn't respond to a request for additional details on how it pulled off the elaborate sting. McCoy and Easley didn't reply to interview requests.\nBut the lengthy transcripts provide some clues as to how they were duped.\nThe promise of Middle East oil money seems to have been a key concern for the energy lobbyists.\n\"What's the salary?\" Easley asked at the end of his 30-minute call. When he spoke to the unidentified activist, he had only been working at Apex for two months.\n\"Look, if it's multiples of my current salary, I'm always happy to have a conversation,\" said Easley, who spent over a decade as a Democratic congressional staffer before going to work for Exxon.\nThe undercover activists also promised the lobbyists they could help shape the Middle East investment fund's U.S. footprint. McCoy, for example, asked for more information about the fund's oil and gas holdings and U.S. branding plans.\n\"Look, the strategy is up for grabs,\" the fake recruiter responded. \"I don't know exactly what they'll decide in the end in terms of how to set that up legally. That's way above my head, as you can appreciate, and I'm sure a lot of lawyers are working on all the questions there.\"\nHe added, \"That's something for the team to work on, really. I think that's going to be the most important question for the team to answer immediately.\"\nAt that point, the activist shifted from answering questions to asking them. He and McCoy then talked for another hour and a half.\nKey to McCoy's pitch to the purported headhunter was the lobbyist's experience using trade associations to deflect public outrage and congressional scrutiny away from Exxon.\n\"I spent 12 years at the National Association of Manufacturers, so I know associations,\" he said. On hot-button environmental issues, associations can \"step in and have those conversations and answer those tough questions and be the, for lack of a better term, the whipping boy for some of these members of Congress.\"\nIn the end, the activist thanked McCoy for his time and promised to report back to the Middle East investors he claimed to be recruiting for.\n\"Some of the things that you've told me today will be really, really useful, about helping them understand the sort of things that are very important in terms of how current affairs teams in the U.S. all think, and how they work, and especially how they work in today's climate \u2014 excuse the pun,\" he said.\n\"I enjoyed the conversation,\" McCoy responded. \"This was fun.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Views & Letters\nWhy is There Always a \"However\"\nPosted by Stephen Place | Nov 13, 2018 | Culture, Editorial | 3 |\nAasiya Noreen, aka Asia Bibi, is a Pakistani woman who follows the Christian faith. In 2010, she was convicted of blasphemy after an argument with another woman whilst picking berries and sentenced to death by hanging. She spent the next eight years in solitary confinement on death row. Many campaigns had been started to secure her release including a petition of signatures from 400,000 people. Pope Benedict XVI also called for her release. The case was overturned due to insufficient evidence. She cannot be released though until the case goes through the review process which notoriously can take years to conclude.\nThe overturned conviction raised many problems as Imams claimed she should be hung for the blasphemy was allegedly against the prophet Mohammed. This caused mass protests and some civil unrest, highlighting the case across the world. Minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti and the Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer were assassinated for advocating on her behalf. Muslim cleric Maulana Yousaf offered a reward of 500,000 Pakistan Rupees to anyone who would kill her.\nCalls for this Christian woman to be granted asylum in another country gathered momentum until the Government of Pakistan made an agreement with the Tehreek-Labbaik political party to bar Asia from leaving Pakistan.\nCurrently, the Canadian and Italian Governments are working to get Asia and her family asylum. She remains in Pakistan. HOWEVER. It is widely reported that the British Government has refused Asia asylum on the basis that this act of Christian kindness could cause unrest amongst the Pakistani community already domiciled here in the UK. One can only shake one's head in incredulity at this if it is true.\nWe have received many thousands of often dubious asylum seekers. Many thousands of refugees, too. We could not it seems, find it in our hearts for fear of upsetting a community who follow the religion of peace, to offer a crystal clear case of asylum to a Christian woman and her family so brutally persecuted by the religion of peace in her home country, for the fear that she would not be safe in Great Britain in 2018.\nOn this, the 11th of November it is armistices day, I, among many hundreds of thousands proudly wear my red poppy as a symbol of remembrance to those who made the ultimate sacrifice. The poppy is not a symbol of war. It is red, not to commemorate blood, it is red because that is the colour of the poppies that grow on Flanders field where so many unidentified soldiers lay dead. HOWEVER, this simple symbol, this simple remembrance of what took place has been politicised.\nA group calling themselves the \"peace pledge union\" from New Zealand came up with an idea of a white poppy. This white poppy has on this 100th year since the cessation of the first world war caused much grumbling and hand-wringing. The white poppy is a symbol of pacifism. This is not new; it began in 1926 by the \"no more war movement\". They were first sold in 1933 in this country by the Co-operative Women's Guild.\nThis is the first year that the St George Ambulance service have allowed their volunteers to wear the pacifist poppy. As of November 7th, this year, 119,555 white poppies have been sold, the previous record was 110,000. Many chose to wear the white poppy alongside the red one to reflect war and no more war.\nKeith Vaz MP was supposed to be under investigation by the Parliamentary regulatory bodies for a variety of things since 2016. As a result, he stood down as chair of the Home Affairs committee. These matters include rent boys, bullying members of staff, a clerk called Jenny McCullough who questioned his expenses claim for a trip abroad, drugs and the like. He has been declared \"too ill\" to take part in this investigation yet was seen yesterday 10th November at the Leicestershire football game. He is MP for a Leicestershire constituency.\nHOWEVER, speaker Bercow has blocked a freedom of information request by the BBC into the trips abroad by Vaz. He has used his veto to refuse the journalists the papers they have requested. Bercow argues that the papers should come under the parliamentary privilege, therefore stopping the request going to tribunal.\nAmber Rudd the former Home Secretary appearing on ITV`s Good Morning Britain denied when questioned that the 21,000 cuts to Policing manpower since 2010 have had an impact on the 119 murders in the Capital London this year. HOWEVER, she did lay the blame on drug use and intimated the very weak reasoning that middle-class people are to blame for using drugs in greater quantities.\nThere is also a reasoning for this atrocious level of murder and over 250,000 stabbings being promulgated, and that is that these young people have no support in the community. No teen workers and youth clubs. Well in Windemere, Preston, Tewksbury, Sunderland and many many more towns and cities throughout Great Britain, kids living there have no youth clubs and \u00a330,000 a year salaried ex-gang member acting as youth workers. They are not though on a daily basis disemboweling each other.\nThe suffragettes campaigned throughout the early 1900`s for the enfranchisement of women. After a break from campaigning during WWI, they achieved the vote for women in 1918. A hundred years later on the centenary of that great win the then Home Secretary Amber Rudd was asked to grant pardons for the suffragette women. You would have thought that this would be a right and proper thing to do. The Labour Government during the negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland granted pardons for IRA bombers. HOWEVER, she said \"that could be tricky,\" and they remain unpardoned.\nThere is always a HOWEVER. Many things are wrong with this world. One thing for sure is that they will never be resolved nor put right when we use the word\nPreviousNews review \u2013 Tuesday 13 November 2018\nNextI've Had Enough \u2013 Part I\nStephen Place\nYOUR DAILY BREXIT BETRAYAL \u2013 Friday 17th May 2019\nWATCH: We Will Remember Them\nMike Hookem MEP \u2013 \"Why I fear for the future of UKIP.\"\nPeter Ashcroft\ton November 15, 2018 at 4:14 pm\nMohammed is a human prophet, but not a God. Consequently Asia Bibi cannot be accused of blaspheming against another human being.\nThose hard-line Pakistani Islamist perpetrators of this false accusation against her, should concentrate on punishing the Pakistani 'grooming' gangs here in the U.K.\nRoger Gough\ton November 13, 2018 at 8:44 pm\nWe have been recently told by various experts in the Climate Change industry that we must stop eating meat in order to save the planet. HOWEVER, dogs and cats are fed on meat. How would they survive \u2013 would it only be biscuits for them throughout their lives? 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{"text":"\"We can come together as a force:\" Nashville resident who saw neighbors stop ICE speaks out\nBy our reporters\nReporters for the World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Rosheda Martin, a resident from the working class Hermitage neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee, where residents physically prevented immigration police from snatching one of their neighbors.\nOn July 22, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents entered the neighborhood to detain an immigrant father and his son for deportation. The father and son took refuge in their van, parked in their own driveway, while their neighbors provided them with gas to keep the engine running and air conditioning on, as well as water and sandwiches. After four hours and repeated attempts to lure their targets to come outside, the ICE agents were forced to leave the premises.\nRosheda Martin\nThe incident demonstrated the deep opposition within the working class, motivated by class solidarity and democratic sentiments, to Trump's fascistic assault on immigrants. The mobilization by working class residents also stood in sharp contrast to response from the Democratic Party, which had recently voted to fund Trump's immigration policy to the tune of $4.6 billion.\nRosheda described her reaction to what she saw: \"What I saw was an injustice from the government in a country that basically was built on the backs and sweat of immigrants. Even our forefathers were immigrants. We all started as immigrants is what I'm saying. Basically, anyone that is not a Native American is an immigrant.\"\n\"This is a man that has a family,\" Rosheda pointed out. \"This is a man that is just trying to live and be a productive citizen. This man is living just like I am, from paycheck to paycheck. He's trying to be a good influence to his community, provide a nice home for his son. Isn't that what you all try to do for your families, too? Is that the reason why he has to leave the United States of America?\"\nIn Rosheda's neighborhood, she describes workers \"of different ethnic backgrounds, different colors, different traditions in their families\" all living side by side with one another.\n\"To be exact, the working class is what makes the rich,\" she continued. \"They can't have what they have if we don't go out and work. With us out there working, look how they treat us. I'm an American, but yet I can't get health care. I make too much money to get food stamp assistance, but I need help with groceries. I can't go to the bank and get a loan because I don't have enough credit. Yet still, I'm going out and working every day.\"\n\"It's not about race,\" Rosheda added. \"It's about people that are real people trying to live and survive. We ain't asking for the whole pie, but we want the same piece of pie that you're eating. Quit taking that whole pie and give us a piece, that's all we're asking.\"\nIn the face of increasingly fascistic and flagrant assaults on immigrants, such as last week's unprecedented mass roundup of nearly 700 immigrant workers in Mississippi, it is absolutely crucial that workers take up the struggle to defend their persecuted class brothers and sisters. Such a struggle requires workers to organize independently of the two capitalist political parties, to form their own rank-and-file factory and neighborhood committees, on the basis of a revolutionary socialist program that seeks to unite workers throughout the world.\nOn this, Rosheda states: \"There's a lot of us out here thinking this is just what it is, it's just gonna be this way, it's not gonna change. But we can change it. We can come together as a force. It says 'We the People' of the United States, not we the government. We have got to come together and help one another and educate one another. You gotta educate, wake up.\"\nBritish government rejected visa-free EU touring for musicians to bolster hostile immigration policy\nDetainees on Australia's Christmas Island continue protests against appalling conditions\nUK government accelerates \"hostile environment\" against immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers\nCapitalism and inequality\nBiden pledges to continue Trump's campaign to open schools and businesses\nUkraine begs Europe for coronavirus vaccine\nNavalny arrested in Russia as Biden nominates Victoria Nuland for top State Department position\nTunisian regime deploys army as protests spread 10 years after Arab Spring\nThe global COVID vaccine distribution debacle is mirrored in the US\nYellen takes aggressive stance on China in treasury secretary confirmation hearing\n999 Trump pardons\nRace and Class in America\n999 Oregon set aside funds for black residents in pandemic relief bill\nDemocrats promote \"white privilege\" fiction to block united working class response to fascist coup plot\nDisney's Soul in Denmark: New York Times disapproves of a white actor dubbing a black actor's voice\n999 Racialist narrative on coup\nAmerica's Brutal Society\nTrump administration executes two more death row prisoners in pre-Inauguration Day killing spree\nKilleen, Texas police officer shot and killed unarmed man during mental health call\nMentally ill woman executed as Trump continues federal killing spree\nFascist Wisconsin shooter Rittenhouse posed with Proud Boys and waved \"white power\" sign\n999 Chicago mayor lied about suppressing yet another police violence video","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}